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Le Jeune Road
|West 42nd Avenue / Le Jeune Road
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|Route information
|Maintained by FDOT
|11.735 mi[1] (18.886 km)
Le Jeune Road extends 17.2 miles (27.7 km) total
|1983 (as SR 953) – present
|Major junctions
|South end:
|US 1 in Coral Gables
| SR 836 in Miami
SR 934 in Hialeah
|North end:
|SR 916 in Opa-locka
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Le Jeune Road (pronounced "Luh-JOO-n" Road), also West 42nd Avenue on the greater Miami grid plan, East 8th Avenue in Hialeah, and co-signed State Road 953 (SR 953) from US 1 in Coral Gables to SR 916 in Opa-locka, is a 16.3 miles (26.2 km) long north–south street in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and running a few miles west of central Miami.
Route description
Le Jeune Road/W 42nd Avenue begins at Sunset Drive and Cartagena Plaza (Cartagena Circle) at the edge of the Coral Gables Waterway in the city of Coral Gables, connecting with Sunset Drive/South 72nd Street, Old Cutler Road, Cocoplum Road and Ingraham Highway. LeJeune Road heads northwest for 1.4 miles (2.3 km) as a heavily-wooded residential Coral Gables street. At US 1, LeJeune Road picks up the State Road 953 designation and becomes a four lane road.
SR 953 heads north from US 1, through residential areas, the eastern end of Coral Gables High School and the western end of the Village of Merrick Park mall. SR 953 intersects Bird Road and leaves the campus of Coral Gables High School, entering a pure residential area and remains that way until reaching University Drive. At that point, the east side of the road becomes commercial and the west side is residential until close to the intersection with Coral Way (State Road 972). A few blocks north of Coral Way, it resumes with residential housing on the west side of the road and commercial buildings to the east, still in Coral Gables.
At Zamora Avenue, LeJeune Road divides Coral Gables to the west with unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the east, and enters unincorporated Miami-Dade County just one block north at Mendoza Avenue, becoming purely a residential street again. At Southwest 8th Street (US 41/Tamiami Trail), Le Jeune Road enters the city of Miami, and becomes a divided road, with two lanes in each direction.[2][3]
Le Jeune continues north through Miami, remaining a residential street for six blocks before becoming a commercial road. It continues north through Miami as a commercial street until an interchange with the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836), where the road becomes a divider between the International Links Miami-Melreese golf course to the east and a parking lot to the west. It reenters unincorporated Miami-Dade County after crossing the Tamiami Canal just south of the entrance to Miami International Airport and its interchange with the southern terminus of the Airport Expressway (SR 112). Between SR 953's entrance of the airport and the next major interchange north, State Road 948, it creates the eastern boundary of the airport, with airport related business to the east of LeJeune Road.[2][3]
Just two blocks north of SR 948, SR 953 crosses canal C-6 and crosses US 27 (Okeechobee Road), entering Hialeah as their Southeast 8th Avenue and no longer a divided road. It continues north as a residential street, crossing State Road 944, becoming East 8th Avenue, the easternmost major street in Hialeah, with some commercial business at East 9th Street, State Road 934, East 41st Street and State Road 932. North of East 57th Street, it passes by a truck distribution center to the east, and a park to the west. SR 953 then splits off to the Le Jeune/Douglas Road Expressway Connection, providing nearby access to State Road 924, followed by an intersection with East 65th Street at the south end of Amelia Earhart Park, leaving Hialeah and entering Opa-locka where it is again West 42nd Avenue. North of SR 924, Le Jeune Road is a purely commercial road, servicing truck distribution centers as SR 953 heads towards its northern terminus of State Road 916 (North 135th Street).[2][3]
North of SR 916, Le Jeune Road continues for 0.6 miles (0.97 km), towards a dead-end inside Opa-locka Airport. North of the airport, Northwest 42nd Avenue continues north to a dead end beyond North 204th Street.
According to Joaquin Roy, a highly regarded professor from the University of Miami in his 1989 book "The Streets of Coral Gables"; Le Jeune Road was named after Charles Le Jeune (b. 1878, Belgium) who came to Florida around 1900 and acquired 140 acres (57 ha) of coral rock land on which he used dynamite to create tillable soil, and then cultivated orange, grapefruit and lime groves. The road that was the boundary of his property became known as Le Jeune Road. In 1914, Charles Le Jeune sold his groves to (George) Merrick, developer of Coral Gables, Florida, for $1,700,000. It runs adjacent to the east side and crosses the original entrance/exit to Miami International Airport.
At one point during the 1960s, the entire route was to be upgraded to freeway status, but the plans were cancelled. Several attempts to upgrade LeJeune Road around Miami International Airport have been proposed, with all of them failing.
Prior to 1983, Le Jeune Road was signed as State Road 913 south of North 103rd Street (SR 932); a designation now being applied to the Rickenbacker Causeway approach.
Major intersections
The entire route is in Miami-Dade County.
|Coral Gables
|US 1 (South Dixie Highway / SR 5)
|no left turn from either direction of SR 953 (signs point via Grand Avenue)
|SR 976 (Bird Road / Southwest 40th Street)
|Coral Way / Miracle Mile
|US 41 (Southwest 8th Street / Tamiami Trail / SR 90)
|SR 968 (West Flagler Street)
|SR 836 – Downtown Miami
|Northwest 14th Street (SR 960)
|Northwest 21st Street - Miami International Airport
|interchange; the only direct access to/from Northwest 21st Street is a southbound exit
|Northwest 25th Street - Rental Car Center
|Miami Springs
|SR 112 east to I-95 – Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale
|northbound exit and southbound entrance
|SR 948 (Northwest 36th Street / Doral Boulevard) to SR 826 / I-75
|US 27 (Okeechobee Road / SR 25) to SR 112 east – Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando
|flyover from SR 953 north to US 27 north
|SR 944 (Northwest 54th Street / Hialeah Drive) to I-95
|SR 934 (East 25th Street / Northwest 79th Street) to I-95
|SR 932 (East 49th Street / Northwest 103rd Street)
|To SR 924 / Northwest 42nd / 37th Avenue Connector
|northbound exit and southbound entrance
|To SR 924 / East 65th Street / Northwest 119th Street
|SR 916 (Northwest 135th Street)
|Northern terminus
|1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 FDOT straight line diagrams, accessed March 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Map of State Road 953 (Map). MapQuest, Inc. 2009. Retrieved 2011-03-18.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 General Highway Map Miami-Dade County, Florida (PDF) (Map). Florida Department of Transportation. April 2007. Retrieved 2010-06-25.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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This question was asked on the Rachel and Cary show on Now Radio this evening while I was driving home. I wanted to have my say, but since I was driving could neither call, nor text. Here are my thoughts.
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If we didn't say anything and our child didn't succeed, it would be much easier to say "Hey you gave it your best shot." We could point out that the other contestants were better, and if they wanted to try again, they'd better practice, take lessons, study who moved on, why they moved on, and try to get better.
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Dear Mr. Noah,
For a man who looks like he's in desperate need of a girlfriend, if only so that someone can finally teach you how to manage your facial hair, are you in any sort of position to call another player "ugly?" Isn't that like a pot calling a kettle… a pot?
I watched your bit on ESPN 1000 on Wednesday, and I have two words for you: grow up.
Are you serious, dude? Are you really going to sit there and call Kevin Garnett names like an 8-year-old? KG's mean. KG just picks on the rookies and "the Euros." KG's not getting a Christmas card. Did KG also steal your lunch money or kick over your Lego castle? While you're at it, why don't you not invite him to your birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's or ban him from your tree-house?
You know why Garnett talks trash? Because it works. It gets players thinking about how much Garnett talks trash instead of thinking about important things, like where to stand to contest the rebound, or whether Garnett is going to post up or go for the 20-footer. You know why Garnett picks on young players? Because they're not mature enough to take trash-talking in stride. You're living proof of all this. You're not playing the Celtics again for almost a month, yet this weighs so heavily on you that all you need is an opening, and then the anti-Garnett floodgates open.
Kevin Garnett was your role model as a kid. Terrific. Truth is, you loved him for his talent. You didn't know anything about his trash-talking, and that's because until the birth of Twitter, what was said on the court stayed on the court. Kevin Garnett allegedly called Charlie Villanueva a "cancer patient," and every ex-NBA athlete came down on Villanueva for Tweeting on-court stuff. Even the greatest players ever said horrible, horrible things on the court. But the rule is: don't share.
You don't think he's a role model anymore? You admitted that you talk trash. Isn't that because your idol, Kevin Garnett, does it? Or do you do it because, like everyone who plays basketball, you learned at a young age that trash-talking is an inextricable part of basketball culture, from the schoolyard to the NBA? Either way, you can only say that KG is worse that others, not that what KG does is inherently objectionable.
You're not a little boy anymore, Noah, nor are you at Florida. It's time you realized: athletes are not now, nor have they ever been, role models. Brett Favre is a pervert. Tiger Woods is a sex-addict. Michael Vick murders dogs. Even Marvin Harrison allegedly shot a gang-banger in North Philadelphia two years ago, then (again allegedly) had his cousin finish the job.
And it's not a current thing either. Micky Mantle was an alcoholic. Ted Williams was a jerk to fans. Ty Cobb had more hate in his blood than hemoglobin. Worshiping an athlete just sets you up to be disappointed. Kevin Garnett was no different then than he is now, you just idolized him because all you could see was his talent. Now you see the whole package, and you don't like it? Tough tamales. It's your own fault for having an unfair expectation. Once you step on the court, you're not a fan anymore, you're an opponent.
This is the pros, dude; if you have a means to (legally) throw your opponent off his game, you use it. Sometimes that means playing extra physically (as the Celtics did against the Magic in last year's playoffs). Sometimes that means switching a defensive match-up to force an unreliable shooter to take the shot. And sometimes that means trash talking. KG wins the player-voted trash-talker of the year award every time, and usually by 90+ percent. If KG can get you to fly off the handle, throw an elbow and get a technical (which the refs today hand out like condoms at a university health center), he's done his hob. He talks trash. Get over it. Or, if you really want to shut him up, get above it.
The bottom line is, you're a 25-year-old making just over $3.1 million. Garnett is 9 years older, and he makes six times as much. He's going to the Hall of Fame, and the fact that he talks trash isn't going to cost him a single vote in his induction. You don't like it? You don't like him? I don't think he cares. So stop being a whiny little bitch, grow a pair of testicles, and just shut the hell up.
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I'm not good at resisting fat quarters – those bundles of cute coordinating fabrics ready-cut for quilters. And I don't even quilt.
The fat quarters at Flying Geese Fabrics in Tustin get me every time. And then they just sit there in my sewing piles waiting for inspiration.
I decided to sew chemical-free, herb-filled dryer sachets that not only are a healthy alternative to dryer sheets, but work as small gifts for friends and family.
You will need: bits of any kind of fabric, a sewing machine (or hand-stitch these while you're watching TV), and herbs from garden.
1. Find a template. I used a square candy can that was 6-by-6 inches to mark out squares on my fabric. Double your fabric first to cut two squares for each sachet.
2. With the right sides of the fabric together, sew 31/2 sides of the sachet pouch with a 3/8 margin – leaving half of a side to fill with herbs.
3. Turn your sachet inside out. Square off the corners with a chopstick. Press with a hot iron.
4. I'm fond of a cover stitch because it makes a nice flange on larger pillows – so this step is optional. Topstitch your sachet 3/8 inch in all around 31/2 sides, leaving your opening free to fill the sachet with herbs.
5. Fill your sachet with lavender, mint, sage, rosemary or whatever scented plants float your boat. Try rose petals! You can dry your herbs first, but I didn't, and you also can mix and match herbs for your own botanical blends.
6. Once filled, sew the opening closed by finishing the topstitching. Then sew the flange edge closed right along the edge.
7. Bundle your sachets in threes and tie with ribbon for gifts.
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#NHS66 10 top tips
There are lots of ways that you can get involved in #NHS66 and make it your own. Here are some suggestions.
I have tweeted all of them recently. If you have a twitter account and you click on the tip it will be able to retweet them. Why not retweet all 10!
The graphics attached to the tweets can be found on the Big Up the NHS web site resource page.
1) Join the #thankyounhs live tweet at noon on the 5th July
2) Put out at least one tweet with the tag #NHS66 every day until July 5th. Tell the whole country why you support the NHS.
3) Advertise your plans for the day in the press. Most local papers are interested in good news stories if you just approach them
4) Submit a poem for the #NHS66 ebook. See web site for details.
5) Recruit a celebrity! Contact as many celebrities as you can and ask then to support the day
6) Organise a party. Any sort of party will do. A couple of mates in the pub perhaps
7) Attend an event. There are lots happening. Just Google #NHS66
8) On the 5th July post your pictures and stories with the tag #NHS66
9) Take #NHS66 outside social media. TALK to your friends and family about it
10) Have fun! Celebrate the NHS! Use the hash tag all day! RT everything that looks good


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We hope this section answers any practical questions you may have about CareFlight's retrieval service, either as a patient, or as a carer or family of a patient.
Do you need an interpreter, special consideration regarding your disability, large print, Easy Read or audio information? If so, please contact us.
While you are in the care of CareFlight we have a duty of care towards you. This means that your well-being is our highest consideration and that all treatment we give must be beneficial.
CareFlight respects and upholds your rights to privacy protection under the Privacy Act 1988 and National Privacy Principles 2014. See our Privacy Statement. We have a Healthcare Policy that outlines the principles followed by our staff and your rights as we provide treatment to you.
For us the patient is always our priority – we follow the principles of Person-Centred Care that places you at the centre of your own care and also considers the needs of your carers and family.
CareFlight has developed PILs, which are leaflets containing specific information about medical conditions and transport requirements linked to our retrieval service. The following leaflets are available:
We are constantly updating these leaflets, so check each time for the latest ones.
You may have heard about hospital acquired infections (HAIs). CareFlight brings a hospital level of care to you in our retrieval service, and infections (germs) can be transmitted while on your journey with us. CareFlight does transport infectious patients (about 2% of all our missions include transporting infectious patients). We have developed specific protocols based on international best practice when transporting such patients and apply special aircraft specific decontamination processes after each transport. These processes decrease the chance of disease transmission.
As hand hygiene is the single most important factor in reducing transmission of germs, all staff have access to hand rub to help prevent transmission of germs. We recommend that you use it as well: please ask your clinical staff if you cannot see the hand rub available for your use. Bottles of hand rub should be located in all patient care areas of CareFlight including road vehicles, all aircraft and loading/staging areas.
We welcome compliments, comments, concerns and complaints to ensure that we continue to provide high quality care to you and your family. You can raise anything from comments to complaints with the professional delivering your care or, alternatively, provide feedback by contacting us.
Whilst striving to provide you with the highest standards of clinical care, we constantly review the services we provide to you. We report our service delivery against criteria from the national practice standards published by the Australian Commission on Safety & Quality in HealthCare (ACSQHC – www.safetyandquality.gov.au).
Our results for these standards against the 3,713 patients we treated on our missions in 2016 were:
Note: *0.03% medication errors related to one case where the drug amiodarone was mixed with saline rather than dextrose as recommended in the drug prescribing information (amiodarone may precipitate out in saline solutions, dependent upon the duration the mixture is in the bag before being delivered to the patient). In this event the solution was given to the patient before any precipitation occurred. There were no adverse effects on the patient during, or after, the infusion.
We were independently audited against these standards by SAI Global in December 2016 who reported back to the ACSQHC that the standards have been effectively managed with core and developmental action items being satisfactorily met and awarded CareFlight with 6 'met with merits' for our medical governance.


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Regular price $4.49
Formulated with essential vitamins ( Provitamin B5 & Vitamin E) to help revive and protect the hair. It replaces moisture lost to heat styling and conditions damaged hair to reduce breakage. Original Lotion helps to soften and smooth the hair for improved manageability so that it is easier to comb. It provides more styling control for a variety of looks like updos and ponytails; thermal and pressed styles; natural, braid and weave styles. Great for maintaining waves for him or her. Use a dime-sized dose, daily.
Directions: Shake well. Pour a small amount into palm, rub hands together and apply to hair daily or as needed. Comb or styled as desired.


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Ride For Earth helps people plant a tree for every ride they own. Focusing on snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing, wakeboarding, skiing, mountainboarding, sandboarding, other board sports, MTB, BMX, Freestyle MX and more RFE encourages riders to do something good for the environment. By supporting young athletes in following their dreams, RFE shows how being environmentally friendly could be also a lot of fun. RFE believes in transparency and delivers detailed information to its customers about the planting process.
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On May 24, when VoIP provider Vonage went public, its shares dropped from $17 to less than $12, making it the worst public debut in more than two years. (The previous biggest loser, a biotech firm named Lumera, still trades at about half its offering price.) So what happened to Vonage? One theory is that investment bankers, chasing Skype's heady valuation, overpriced the stock. The government, meanwhile, is investigating allegations of naked short selling, and shareholders have named founder Jeffrey Citron in a lawsuit in which they claim the company made false and misleading statements about its financial health leading up to the IPO. (Vonage did not respond to Inc.'s request for comment on these issues.) The blame game aside, what lessons can other growth companies learn from Vonage's IPO woes? Below, some thoughts.
Cash is (really) king
Despite Google's blockbuster IPO, the public markets remain skeptical of flashy tech companies--especially if they are wildly unprofitable, which is the case with Vonage. The company has lost $467 million since its start in 1995. "Cash is king today," says Katrina Ellis, a University of California at Davis finance professor. "Without positive future cash flows, a company won't escape the basics of valuation."
Marketing gimmicks can backfire legally
In the run-up to its offering, Vonage announced that it would set aside 13.5 percent of the 31.25 million IPO shares for its faithful customers at the offering price of $17. With the stock in bad shape, some 10,000 customers have filed suit against Vonage claiming that they were duped. Vonage briefly flirted with repurchasing these shares but has since backed away from that idea.
Venture capitalists are becoming even more impatient to score
In the past, VCs sought returns on their investment within five years. But the five VC firms that owned 30 percent of Vonage--and that are thought to have pushed Vonage to go public--all invested in the past three years, which suggests that the life of a VC investment is getting even shorter.
Public companies are juicy legal targets
About a month after the IPO, telecom provider Verizon sued Vonage over seven alleged patent infringements related to VoIP technology. Verizon acted after Vonage filed technical documents and diagrams with the SEC, which were made public. (Vonage has denied Verizon's allegations.)
The spotlight is on the CEO
Keep an eye on November 21, which marks the end of the 180-day waiting period after which insiders like Citron can sell their shares. "People will be watching for signals that the entrepreneur is selling out," Ellis says. Assuming Citron doesn't sell, can he engineer a comeback? Perhaps. Vonage has a brand name and cash to spend. "An IPO is not an exit," notes Ellis, "it's a beginning."
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I do not take credit for these hints ,but will be happy to introduce these tips to MSD2D Community...Cheers
1. Record and play temporary macro
Ctrl+Shift+R to record a new temporary macro. Press
Ctrl+Shift+R to stop recording.
Ctrl+Shift+P to play the recorded macro.
This works similar to *recording* in vim. If you think you are going to be repeating a set of keyboard keys, then record them once and play them each time after.
2. Multiple copy/pastes
Ctrl+Shift+V cycles through the clipboard ring. You can copy/cut multiple times from one area of code, then go to another area and paste them one after another.
3. Drag and drop code snippets
The Toolbox
(Ctrl+Alt+X) window has multiple tabs. You can drag and drop code onto this window and copy it elsewhere. Some tabs do not allow dropping code into it; those that allow will have the appropriate icon. The General tab works for me.
4. Previous cursor positions
Ctrl+- i.e. Ctrl+Hyphen. This cycles you through the code positions you visited.
Ctrl+Shift+- to navigate in the opposite direction.
5. Incremental search
To incrementally search for text as you type, first press
Ctrl+i. Then type the word you want to search. Hit backspace to clear a character and enter to finish. Pressing F3 after this will work as usual i.e. search for the next occurrence of previous search.
Ctrl+i, Ctrl+i works like F3.
6. Matching brace/comment/region/quote
Ctrl+] takes you the matching brace. It also takes you to the matching comment, region or quote depending on what is at the cursor now.
7. Vertical block selection
Press Alt and then select the area you want with your mouse.
8. Closing/Showing support windows
There are a bunch of necessary/useful windows in the visual studio IDE like Properties (
F4), Solution Explorer (
Ctrl+Alt+L), Output Window (
Ctrl+Alt+O), Task List (
Ctrl+Alt+K) etc. However they take up a lot of space. An easy way around this to use the auto hide feature.
Open the window you want. Right click on its title and choose Auto Hide. The window will dock in whenever your mouse is not hovering over it.
9. Tab groups - group code editor windows
If you have many source code windows open, you can group them logically using tab groups.
Right click the tab of the code window and choose
New Horizontal Tab Group. This will move the window into a split window allowing you to see both files. You can add more files to this new tab group and also move files back to the previous group by choosing
Move To Previous Tab Group.
10. Track things you have to do with Task List
The Task List window (
Ctrl+Alt+K) allows you to keep track of the things you have to do. Right click on the Task List window and choose
Show Tasks|All to see a list of tasks.
Ctrl+Shift+F12 to cycle through your list of tasks.
By default comments marked with a TODO will appear in the task list.
11. Edit Task List Comment Tokens
You can add your own set of comment tokens (like the TODO comment token).
Tools|Options|Environment|Task List|Comment Tokens and make your changes. You can change the priority appearance of each comment token too.
12. Add Task List Shorcut
Add a shortcut to the task list with
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+H. This will add the current line to the task list.
13. Autocomplete
Ctrl+Space or
Alt+RightArrow to autocomplete the word. Intellisense suggestions may pop up a window if there is more than one possibility.
14. Intellisense suggestions window
Ctrl+Shift+Space to bring up the intellisense suggestions window.
When giving parameters for functions, I often need to to escape the suggestions window to check another part of code. To bring it back I used to delete a comma and then type it again; but this is easier.
15. Word wrap
Ctrl+R Ctrl+R
Tools|Options|Text Editor|All Languages|General|Word Wrap
If you want to set this option for only one language then choose the appropriate language instead of
All Languages.
16. Line numbering
Tools|Options|Text Editor|All Languages|General|Line numbers
If you want to set this option for only one language then choose the appropriate language instead of
All Languages.
17. Customizing Visual Studio's Code Generation Templates
18. Default Shortcut keys
19. Favorites window
Your IDE also functions as a browser. To see your list of favorites press
Ctrl+Alt+F or choose
View|Other Windows|Favorites.
20. Bookmarks
Bookmarks are available through Edit|Bookmarks. Bookmarks allow you to mark places in your code that you would want to come back to.
Create/Remove Bookmark
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+K
Move to next bookmark
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+N
Move to previous bookmark
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+P
Clear all bookmarks
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+L
21. Code Formatting
Autoformat selection
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F
Convert to lower case
Convert to upper case
Comment selection
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C
Uncomment selection
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U
22. Outlining
I like this feature that allows me to hide code that is irrelevant to what I'm currently working on.
Fold/Unfold the current code block
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M
Unfold all
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+L
Stop outlining
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+P
Fold all
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+O
23. Build and Debug
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Embellished Jacket - Zara // Tee - Weekday via Asos // Ridley Skinny Ankle Grazer Jeans - Asos // Boots - Ash // Bag - Chanel
This may be one for the books - the first time I've ever hit lucky in the Zara sales. Normally the site is down, then nothing I actually want is in the sale, or if you go to the store, its full of make up stained items of clothing. Luckily for me, this year I was catching up with work and managed to get on the Zara site at 9.45pm and bought everything which I wanted, prior to the sale starting at 10pm. As soon as I'd seen this embellished jacket on their website, then in magazines and all over Instagram, I needed it in my wardrobe. Now for some reason I was very reluctant to spend £80 on a jacket, however this went to £50 in the sale, Still a tad expensive, however its a thick jacket, and well just look at it.
The jacket had it's first outing at the Benefit Brow Launch up at Debenhams in the Metro Centre and I just love how it dresses a simple tee, jeans and boots combo right up. I actually do feel like Joseph with my technicolour dream coat. I've got a post coming up on all the new Benefit brow products and the launch itself, however in the meantime I'm struggling to find the time to get any new blog photos done. Also I'm thinking about making the switch from blogger to wordpress, so if anyone can let me know what hosting sites they've used for this and how easy they've found the switch - let me know.


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Download Risen WordPress Theme
Risen WordPress Theme is a holy premium church WordPress theme. This theme is developed by StevenGliebe and is available at ThemeForest marketplace to purchase it. The mobile supported theme is specially designed for church and non profit organization. It contains features such as feature rich homepage layout, responsive design, fluid image slider, well organized sermon archive, stylish video and image gallery, event showcasing calender, showcase church staff profiles and multiple church locations, blog section for news and updates, custom post type for sermon to mange multimedia post, 200+ font options, 9 custom widgets, special page templates, theme option panel and much more.
Apart from using it as a church and non profit organization, it can be handy for other multimedia website. The Sermon archive can completely be renamed using theme option. It is ideal for parachurch ministries, charity, NGO, conference and other multimedia showcase website.
Risen WordPress Theme Features :
- Customizable design with responsive structure using CSS3 and HTML5 coding practice
- Featured image slider that automatically resizes according to browser size
- Slideshow supports video, image and text
- Sermon video that supports YouTube and Vimeo videos
- Custom post type to manage sermons, gallery, events, locations and staff
- Well managed sermon archives
- Lightbox enabled photo and video gallery
- Sermon search option for visitor (Search results shows video, audio and text content)
- Search page can be sort out by tags, categories, speaker and dates
- Showcase church events via calender
- Display church staff profiles and an option to send them e-mail
- Customize typography using 200+ Google web fonts
- Write custom intro text
- Featured content boxes on homepage
- Audio player and MP3 music file download option
- 8 custom page templates (Events, sermon or multimedia, gallery, events, staff, blog, contact and location)
- Sermon PDF download and online sermon reading section
- Photo and video gallery with responsive lightbox
- 9 Custom widgets (Categories, Sermon Archive, Recent Sermon, Recent Gallery Item, Recent post, Location, Upcoming Events, Staff, Donation)
- Option to add multiple church locations with Google map
- Built in blog section for news and updates
- Options to showcase multiple church locations
- 19 background image options or an option to upload image and use it as a background
- Easy to customize theme color, background and typography
- 2 alternative skins (Dark and Light)
- Logo and favicon uploader to use custom logo image
- Social media integration (Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Skype, RSS, LinkedIn and many other)
- Google Analytics integration
- Set header image on each page and post detail page
- Set breadcrumb navigation path
- Contact page template which includes reCAPTCHA and multiple recipient support
- WordPress Multisite compatible
- Translation file packed for easy localization (PO file)
- Layered Photoshop file packed for easy design changes
- Child theme support for options style and feature customization
- Image resizing using WordPress native feature
- Theme option panel using Options framework
- 30 page documentation help
- WordPress 3.4.1 version supported
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Sources: Paul Burden, 785-532-5550, firstname.lastname@example.com;
and Gail Shroyer, 785-532-6737, firstname.lastname@example.com
News release prepared by: Katie Mayes, 785-532-6415, firstname.lastname@example.com
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University's bachelor's degree program in elementary education is being honored with the 2010 Distinguished Program in Teacher Education Award from the Association of Teacher Educators.
The honor recognizes high-quality teacher education programs featuring exemplary collaboration between local education agencies and institutions of higher education in program development and administration.
Paul Burden, head of K-State's department of elementary education, said that bachelor's graduates in the department have proven K-State's program is among the best.
"After completing our program, graduates must pass two national tests to obtain a teaching license in Kansas," he said. "In the last five years, we have had a 99 percent and 98 percent pass rate on those exams."
To be considered for the national honor, teacher education programs must meet certain quality standards and their students must perform at a high level. In addition, the programs must have well-established professional development programs where teacher candidates receive valuable field experience prior to graduating.
"K-State was among the first universities in the nation to establish a professional development school partnership in 1989," said Gail Shroyer, director of K-State's professional development schools partnerships and professor of elementary education. "Today, we have 1,500 students in our program, all of whom will receive invaluable experience in the classroom at one of our 20 professional development school sites before they graduate."
These real-world opportunities are why U.S. News and World Reports ranked K-State's education program as one of the top 50 education programs in the nation in 2009, Burden said.
In receiving the Association of Teacher Educators honor, K-State joins prestigious teaching programs across the nation including at Michigan State University, Arizona State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Oregon, University of Maryland, University of Arkansas and University of New Mexico.


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It's nearly Christmas, so the 8-bit boys at CineFix have turned their hand to transforming the festive classic Elf into a retro video game.
As always, their work is utterly superb; keep your eyes peeled for an 8-bit Rudolph, Santa, and an epic snowball fight.
If this doesn't make you feel festive (and also make you want to dig out your SNES from the loft during the holidays) after watching this, then we don't know what will.


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Though I see The Walkie Talkie (otherwise known as 20 Fenchurch Street) everyday from my office I had not considered visiting it until I discovered that within the glassy exterior held three stories of plant life with exceptional views.
Being uncharacteristically organised I looked up the average time of the sunset on the evening that we were visiting and reserved our free tickets online for 6pm.
Arriving just before our allotted time, we had our tickets and ID checked before going through metal detectors and then squeezing into a speedy express lift that took us straight to the main foyer, where people were sipping on cocktails.
Instead of joining in with the drinking we thought it was best to take advantage of our botanical surrounds. I have an appreciation for nature but have never been into artificially placed plants, despite this I have to admit the garden was pretty.
Though not particularly enamoured by the greenery the views spanning across the Thames and beyond were spectacular.
One benefit of the ticketing system was that though busy, there was enough room to take in our surroundings without feeling overcrowded.
Heading back down the stairs to The Sky Pod Bar we pondered over the surprisingly averagely priced menu. There was variety of snacks and well presented cocktails on offer however we decided to keep it simple with a large glass of wine.
We took a seat at the back of building, looking down on the Gherkin as the sun faded over London.
Though not a typical 'Garden', The Sky Garden this greenhouse in the sky was a beautiful bar to take in the London sights from a height.
Sky Garden
20 Fenchurch Street, London
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Anna F. has not voted in the 2017 Boston A-List.
This little business makes the best pizza hands down, a serious bonus that they use locally sourced ingredients, have a killer whole wheat crust, an eye on environmental sustainability, excellent prices, fantastic staff and a cozy space (Porter Sq). Love them!
Vote: Gourmet Pizza
Excellent buffet! Not too pricey ($13 or $14) and everything is fresh, hot and tasty. Lots of veg options and attentive service.
Vote: Indian
AMAZING cocktails. Most impressive list I've ever seen.
Vote: Reason to Go out on Wednesday
Anna F. has not cast any votes in the 2017 Boston A-List.


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GLD Australia
Affiliated with AAEGT, GLD Australia is a national online learning community responding to the needs of gifted children and gifted adults with specific learning disability and other learning challenges, and the needs of those who care for, teach and advocate for them, through the sharing of information, research and personal experiences.
GLD Australia is an independent not-for-profit community with a member-owned and member-operated closed Yahoo Group list. GLD Australia has no political or commercial affiliations.
Members of GLD Australia include parents, educators and other professionals dedicated to promoting awareness and understanding of the challenges faced by people who identify as gifted with learning disability (GLD) and related issues, thereby assisting them to benefit from specialised identification and intervention/treatment as early as possible.
Members participate in the community as individuals and support one another without commercial interest.
Participants in GLD Australia represent a very diverse group – from those whose child or student has been formally identified as gifted and/or as having a learning disability or related issue, to those who simply have a "feeling" that the child is not achieving academically as well as they could or should.
You may have seen such individuals referred to internationally as "2e" (twiceexceptional) or "DME" (dual or multiple exceptionality).
Joining GLD Australia is free. Send an email to:
Although there is no fee to join, GLD Australia requests that its members also become and remain financial members of a gifted association or a learning disabilities association as they wish.
This is run on an honour-system, but we're confident that most GLD Australia members will comply with this request and will join whatever existing association they feel best suits their own needs.
GLD Australia members need not join such an association in their own State, and are of course free to choose whichever one most appeals to them. Except for AAEGT, GLD Australia has no special relationship with any gifted or learning disabilities association.
GLD Australia face-to-face meetings:
GLD Australia members who live in the same city, town, local area or regional/remote area are encouraged to hold ad hoc face-to-face meetings if they wish but, because GLD Australia is not an incorporated association and has no insurance, local groups will need to find a venue which does not require a certificate of currency. There are no "rules" regarding the holding, frequency, administration or advertising of such individual GLD Australia gatherings. Participants may appoint a local convenor to call regular meetings and source guest speakers, or they may just agree among themselves to meet in X cafe on Y date. GLD Australia face-to-face meeting groups have already been formed in Sydney and Adelaide. Plans are underway for one to be formed soon in Southeast Queensland.
Other locations round Australia will be announced from time to time on the GLD Australia Yahoo Group.
Questions about any of the above are welcomed, and may be addressed to the GLD Australia national coordinator, Carol Barnes: email@example.com


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You do not have to be a youth worker very long before you'll face some sort of adversity. The adversity can come from a direct report, a parent, a volunteer and it can even come from students. There are some places adversity comes from that hurts more than others and is harder I have Two Truth's I remind myself about adversity, you WILL have adversity and you WILL have to handle it well.
Here are some suggestions as to how we as youth workers can handle moments of adversity directly related to ministry:
Do not react based on emotions:
When we are caught off guard, blindsided or wounded our reactions to people can be hostile, defensive and even full of non-graced filled moments. We do not have to be bullied and we don't have to roll over, but we do need to be cautious with our response. Like it or not we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard of how we react. How we react always has a ripple effect to a larger audience and taking time to process how we should react may radical affect our ministry voice to a larger audience.
Be careful of the voices we listen to;
The voices that bring adversity to us are only one type of voice. Bring people into our life and ministry settings that can be honest & non-biased. Let them speak into the situation or circumstances we are facing and give us some broader perspective. The voice that is coming to us may be coming from a place of frustration, insecurity or even fear but they aren't necessarily a reflection of what should be happening.
Our Pace of Life is important;
When we are trying to save the world, and let's be honest we all get suckered into a place of trying to accomplish everything, we get busy and our priorities get out of line. We need to take a step back & take a breath. We need to breathe in the truth that God is still God and we are not. We need to take in a breath to remind ourselves that business does not equate health. We need to take in a breath and take in a breath often. Taking on adversity when we are stressed and overwhelmed is not a good recipe.
Jesus values us, even if we are in the wrong;
When the adversity we face is because of a mistake we have made it is hard to work through. But even in our own leadership or sinful mistakes Jesus has love and grace ready for us. We can learn, we can grow and we can continue to be transformed by the Holy Spirit.
Adversity will impact us at many points in a ministry year. My prayer is that you have the ability with key people around you to help you walk through it and remain healthy.
Danny Bowers oversees the student ministries at Mission Hills Church in Mission Viejo, California.Follow his blog and catch up with his Tweets, too.


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60 Wall Street
Photo courtesy Johanna Clearfield
We all know Zuccotti Park is where the OWS'ers have been camping, but an article in Business Week tells another story. Apparently many of the organizers have been having their meetings a few blocks away at 60 Wall Street, ironically the headquarters of Deutsche Bank. You can read the 10/26/2011 article by Mark Gimein here:
60 Wall Street: The Real Headquarters Of OWS
The space is large, oppulent and apparently only one of two fully-enclosed indoor spaces in Lower Manhattan, according to the definitive source, 'Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience' by Jerrold S. Kayden. The other space is 180 Maden Lane. It was a surprising discovery the last time I went scouting for pocket parks. My son and I entered on Wall Street into the space that extends clear through to Pine Street.
Seats and movable tables line the perimeter as well as a variety of food options. There is also an escalator to the subway which, I believe, is the number 2 and 3 lines. With its low lighting, marble tiles and columns, it was a welcome respite on a day when the sky was alternately spitting and pouring down rain.
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A Note from Staff Council President Catherine Symans
August 2013
- 07-25-2013
- By Catherine Symans
Greetings! As we prepare for another academic year, Vice President Renee Berteau and I look forward to the opportunity to serve as your Staff Council leadership for the second year of our two-year term. Over the summer, we've been busy working with our Executive Board and the Staff Council Office reviewing last year's accomplishments and planning for the year ahead.
Due to the recent restructuring of some units/divisions effective July 1, 2013, we are holding a special off-cycle nomination and election period in August and September to ensure full representation in Athletics, Diversity & Multicultural Affairs, ETS, President's and Provost's Office, and University Relations & University Communications. Click here to learn more.
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new and returning Staff Council Representatives. We have an outstanding group of dedicated and enthusiastic members and I ask that you take a moment to share any concerns, suggestions or ideas with your unit/division or college Rep(s). They are here to be your voice and represent you. Also, please join me in extending a warm welcome to Provost and Senior Vice President David Rosowsky and his wife Michelle who joined the UVM community on August 1st. We look forward to developing a strong working relationship with the Office of the Provost and look forward to future conversations with Provost Rosowsky.
This academic year will be challenging for many of us as we continue to work towards doing more with less. The University of Vermont is not alone in having to find new ways of managing with limited resources while continuing to provide a quality education for our students. The most valuable resource is our people, the staff, faculty, and students, who make up the UVM community. It is important that we all work together to address the challenges ahead so as to create the best possible environment for all of us and for the future of the University.
Please know that Renee and I are willing to talk to you about any issues or concerns you may have. Enjoy the rest of your summer and we look forward to seeing you around campus!
Catherine Symans
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'Calm' M6 coach driver praised
A coach company at the centre of a security alert on the M6 Toll motorway has praised the actions of its driver.
Armed police stopped the vehicle in Staffordshire on Thursday morning after vapour from a passenger's fake cigarette was reported as suspicious.
Police told the driver to pull over and closed the road for more than four hours while they investigated.
Megabus said the driver, David Myerscough, 38, of Preston, had behaved in a "calm and professional" manner.
Armed officers, troops, firefighters and bomb disposal experts were all called to the scene at Weeford, near Lichfield.
'Agitated passengers'
Megabus said a passenger had contacted police about the incident.
Staffordshire Police said they had received a "genuine report" of vapour escaping from a bag while the coach was near the M6 Toll plaza.
The coach firm said police instructed Mr Myerscough to go through the toll and pull over on to the hard shoulder.
Mr Myerscough said: "Once we pulled over, the police told me to make sure nobody left the bus under any circumstances.
"After a while, we realised that the road beside us had actually been closed and cars had stopped going past us.
"Then we saw the armed response team arrive.
"Just before that, a few passengers had started to get a bit agitated, but when they saw what was happening they calmed down and realised that we were going to have to go with it.
"I was instructed to take the passengers off the bus one by one.
"I had to wait at the front of the bus until the armed police gave me the signal to bring the next passenger off, and I was to tell them not to put their hands in their pockets and just to walk out slowly."
'False alarm'
Forty-eight passengers on the Preston to London service were led off the coach and forced to sit apart in a cordon on the opposite carriageway.
Mr Myerscough added: "Once we were all off the bus we sat on the Tarmac and nobody was allowed to use their phones."
One of the passengers said police had acted in the manner in which he would expect following the limited information that was reported to them.
Andy Gray, who was travelling on the bus with his girlfriend, said: "Arguably the fault lies with the passenger because they over-reacted and called the police instead of telling the driver.
"My only complaint would be the lack of information. It wasn't until we looked at the BBC website when on the other coach that we found out that it had been caused by a fake cigarette."
Staffordshire Police said they acted after receiving a report from a "genuinely concerned member of the public about suspicious activity".
Ian Laing, general manager of Megabus, said safety and security were the top priorities.
He said: "While it later emerged it was a false alarm, we can understand how everyone on the coach must have felt when events were unfolding at the time.
"David followed all of our procedures correctly and kept a calm head, as did the passengers on board."


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Xiapu. Fujian, Dec 2012
I had an opportunity to exhibit 20 pieces of my photographs together with some notable well known photographers in the 4th Photography Festival at Fujian, Xiapu. We also had the opportunity to shoot the coastal on 3 occasions. I was told even you shoot for 10 years in this coastline is never enough to capture the full array of her beauty.
Xiapu has the longest coast line in Fujian and the largest mudflat in China. It is well known for its mudflat aquaculture and offers photographers for its unique coastal scenery. Due to the suitable temperature, Xiapu mudflats are rich in oyster, yellow croakers, kelp and laver. The shimmering rays of sunrise and sunset over the vast coast is breathtaking that gives out different tones and colours throughout the seasons.
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Letter to Representative Lowey expressing NEA's support for H.R. 1156, the Investment in Quality School Leadership Act
July 18, 2007
Dear Representative Lowey:
On behalf of the National Education Association's (NEA) 3.2 million members, we would like to express our support for H.R. 1156, the Investment in Quality School Leadership Act. We thank you for your leadership in introducing this important legislation to make available professional development money for current and prospective superintendents and principals.
As you know, addressing the shortage of experienced administrators is critical in helping implement rigorous learning standards. Improving student achievement requires quality leadership at all levels. Professional development and ongoing supports are essential to ensuring this quality leadership.
As such, we are pleased that your bill would provide grants to establish professional development programs, allow for ongoing professional development, and encourage recruitment and retention of administrators.
Your bill demonstrates an appreciation for the important role of school principals and superintendents in maximizing academic achievement and facilitating student learning. We thank you again for your leadership on this issue and look forward to continuing to work with you in support of great public schools for every child.
Diane Shust, Director of Government Relations
Randall Moody, Manager of Federal Advocacy


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Friday, May 6, 2011
The Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, and other assorted bank regulators, decided to increase the risk-adverseness of banks by imposing on them capital requirements based on officially perceived risk, among other as perceived by some few officially appointed risk-perceivers, the credit rating agencies.
And, naturally, if when doing so one favors the financing of houses, public debt and whatever has managed to temporarily hustle up a good credit rating, and discriminate against all of what is officially perceived as "risky", like small businesses and entrepreneurs, one will, naturally, end up with a lot of houses, dangerously excessive lending to what is triple-A rated, a huge public debt, and very few jobs which, to create, requires a lot of risk-taking.
How sad the regulators did not listen to Pope John Paul II when he said "Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."


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"You used to go to this school right?" The auntie suddenly asked me when I was buying food from her.
I politely smiled. I chuckled a little and replied "Yes. But now I'm in university, not in this school anymore. You still remember me?"
"Of course. You wear the hijab, if God wills it, I'll remember you." She continued on saying "You look thinner. Are you stress?"
I do not know if I looked thin because I was wearing my clothes instead of my mum's (I usually just wear her stuff which might be the reason why I looked a bit more 'heavier'. Heh) but I didn't argue and just smiled back and nodded back at her.
She advised me "Don't be stress and do a lot of zikr! (remembrance of Allah)"
"Please make dua for me, Auntie."
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"You made me do it."
It's an idea that you get used to. Your wrongness will always be measured by the degree of the response. There's no definition in actions or words, nor any great amassing of evidence. Just a number of bruises to count, each one showing the world how utterly wrong you are.
After the blows there will be silence. Then follows sadness and shame at what you drove a good person to do. There will be sighing, and those who stood to one side, wringing their hands, will tell you not to do "anything else to provoke him" (they mean to be helpful). There will be a few days – I can't remember how many it used to be – when the good person won't acknowledge you at all. You will feel hard done to (a little), but soon you see there is no point in having such feelings. People will not pity you when you are merely the cause of their shame.
You will resolve not to cause the bruises again but you forget what started it. You remember the tipping point, when you realised "this will happen and I can't stop it, no matter what I say or do" (pursed lips are always the giveaway; the lower lip recedes and it is the point of no return). If only you knew how you got there you would stop it , every time, but you don't so you can't. Obviously, you know this already, it will happen again.
"You made me do it."
This phrase will stay with you for decades, telling you that whatever seems to be, is not. You will be frightened of people and things. You won't trust your perceptions. You will apologise too much, then apologise for apologising. People will think you weak, but you will have an aggression that only comes out when you are drunk. You will lash out and then afterwards you will tell yourself "they made me do it" (only you will know that they did not).
Occasionally, when you are very close to someone (which is rare), you will tell them about your past. Then they will say something like "ah yes, I always thought there'd be something like that with you". You will not think this a flattering comment. You are relieved to be believed but also dismayed to find that the scars are so obvious. You had hoped you were better than that.
When I write about abuse, either physical or mental, I do not do so lightly. I don't think that it is a game, nor a judicial dispute in which one person will be proven absolutely, unquestionably right. It is neither a debate nor a competition. It is as a process of harm, harm that comes from harm, endlessly multiplying, until you can't find where it begins. You might try to carve up the layers, sculpting the harm into something that makes sense, but you will not achieve it. The message will still be nothing more than "you made me do it".
Some people might tell you that abuse is a language. You have to learn it and once you understand you will not be hurt. Or that your abuse serves a purpose, absorbing the pain of those worse off than you. Or they might tell you that what you consider abuse is not abuse; on the contrary, it is your very presence that does the most harm. You will think it polite to bear all this in mind. It feels reassuringly familiar. But ultimately this is because it comes back to the same idea: "you made me do it." Some small part of you might suspect that this isn't true, but that would be arrogant, wouldn't it?
Perhaps. Or it might be a step towards personhood and kindness. Perhaps there is some space in which self-assertion is not a process of de-personalising the abuser. There is a need for the recognition of harm, online as much as in "real" life. There is a need for anger, too, but it can be hard not to misdirect it. We find ourselves yelling at each other in an echo chamber, then blaming one another for our own raised voices.
It's taken me a long time to reach a point where I will not return to "you made me do it". I am tired of long silences in which I doubt my reality and then hit out. I am not willing to engage in tangled dialogues which pull me back to a place I don't want to be. I am not the measure of what other people do to me, and nor are you the measure of the harm done to you. Even so, an alternative reality – one which involves assessing human worth by things other than bruises – isn't always as easy to find as you'd think.


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posted by Prutha Soman, last updated on December 2nd, 2016 at 2:56 pm
After the whole pool fiasco, Nitibha and Lopamudra talk to Priyanka and apologize. Priyanka on the other hand is not at all in a mood to forgive them. She continues to blame them for pulling her into the pool and her getting hurt. Nitibha tries to clarify that it was all unintentional and that they want to apologize. At that time Priyanka refuses to accept the apology.
Later on Swami Om also gets involved into the matter and that leads to another fight between him and Lopamudra.
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Build pictures on request.
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I would make sweet love to that truck while whispering innocent yet demoralizing phrases into it's exhaust.
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How it began:
Moved the engine forward five inches so firewall modifications weren't necessary:
2002 Frame and 1973 Frame side by side:
Front cab mount relocation:
A SuperDuty regular cab's wheelbase is four inches longer than an older pickup; fixed that:
Initial cab-on-frame:
Mmmmm. Hydroboost:
Sitting pretty:
Wiring. What I DIDN'T use and what I ended up with:
Here comes the REAL fun!!!:
SuperDuty core support, fan, and radiator grafted into the original header panel as well as custom intercooler (OEM wouldn't fit behind grille) :
Driving (I had a few hundred miles on it at this point):
Bodywork, primer, and paint:
More to follow. Interior, etc. I have to take those pictures this morning. I can't leave well enough alone so I have put in a few extra things.
Oh, I forgot to mention that yesterday I installed a VHAE9J2 PCM in it as well (just like the white 2000) just because I can......although both of them can be switched to any E99-03 PCM within less than a minute without any other changes.
This one will get 100% nozzles on the AD injectors one of these days.
I also forgot to say that everything works except the air conditioning (no room for the condenser); the cruise control, the ESOF, etc.
I can't stop staring. Bill had to come mop up the drool. That has to be one of the sexiest trucks I've ever, EVER seen. Insanely impressive, Cody!
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Besides the ESOF controller in the vent, the low-reading tachometer, ratchet shifter, and bucket seats with cupholders in the center console, it looks pretty stock. Yeah, no radio either.
All of the instrumentation works (I used a Dakota Digital VSS-to-cable speedometer drive that works flawlessly) and since there was no room for the windshield washer reservoir anymore I used the washer button as the TCS (OD off) button. Believe it or not, although the steering wheel is from a 1981 van (had to have a resume button that the 78-79 pickups didn't have), all of the button resistances are identical to the 2002 vehicles. The only thing I didn't have was a 12v constant (two wires vs. three) so the "ON" button is remotely mounted.
The tricky part was welding a 1973 fuel sending unit to the 2002 mount in the tank. The resistances are WAY different!
Very cool stuff there, Cody. I must say though, you have WAAAAAAAAAY too much time on your hands. LOL
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From the Cotswolds to Cornwall, everyone seems to be enjoying their holidays right here in the UK, yet one UK destination often overlooked is Northern Ireland. Merely a hop across the water, Belfast city is bustling with shops and beautiful architecture, and is mere minutes away from the Giant's Causeway and some of the most beautiful scenery the UK has to offer.
Just a 5-minute drive from the city's airport is the five star Culloden Estate and Spa – a luxury hotel offering countryside solace, beautiful bedrooms, fine dining and a heavenly spa, moments away from the city.
The hotel has attracted its fair share of celebrity guests, from Michael Douglas to Sir Cliff Richard and Robbie Williams to David Beckham, and given the secluded location and relaxing atmosphere it's easy to see why.
Originally built for the Bishops of Down, this luxurious historic property was once a palace and still sits on over 12 acres today. The Bishops of Down certainly picked a heavenly spot, on a slope with views overlooking Belfast Lough and the hills beyond. Although The Culloden is grand, the service really couldn't be warmer or friendlier.
When we landed at Belfast airport (after the shortest flight imaginable – I hardly even opened my magazine!), we rented a car and drove down the road to the hotel. The hotel is so close we almost missed the exit, yet it doesn't feel close to the airport as it's surrounded by woods and has beautiful views over the lake and hills.
The interiors are very 'old-school' and traditional (there's even a chess set in the lounge!), but the bedrooms are more modernized and have been tastefully designed.
Our room was enormous, with a separate seating, dining and TV area and a modern open gas fire.
The marble bathroom had a walk-in monsoon shower and a huge tub to soak your worries away. The best bit of all was by far the super-king-size 'King Koil' bed, an enormous bed with a 'cloud' mattress that feels like you're sleeping in the clouds!
For those wishing to get outdoors, Northern Ireland's East Coast is breathtaking. Wanting to make the most of our visit to Northern Ireland, we drove along the coast through picturesque towns and villages to the Carrick Rope Bridge and the iconic Giant's Causeway.
A long but beautiful trip through stunning countryside and with breathtaking views – definitely worth doing!
We got back to the hotel just in time to pop in to their lovely spa before dinner. There's a fully-kitted out modern gym for fitness fanatics, and a large swimming pool to relax, but the spa is definitely the highlight, with plenty of treatment rooms as well as relaxation rooms with sink-into beds, fluffy bathrobes and piles of magazines. I booked in a muscle-soothing massage and was taken to the pre-treatment suite where a thick gown, loungers and a cool glass of cucumber water awaited me. After a few minutes I was taken into a treatment room where I picked out the oils and lay face down, the stiffness eased out of my shoulders and all the knots in my back slowly unraveled. Half an hour in the post-treatment room eased me back to reality and ready for dinner.
The hotel offers fine dining in their elegant Mitre Restaurant, but they also offer a more relaxed and informal brasserie-style dining option at The Cultra Inn – a pub and bistro restaurant in the hotel grounds.
The menu offers a wide range from burgers, stews and curries to steaks and fish dishes, and I ordered a hearty butternut squash and goat's cheese salad, whilst my guest ordered the steak and the Cultra's signature Causeway chips. The food was lovely, the atmosphere was warm and cosy and the wine was excellent, and all-in-all it was just how gastro pubs should be.
After one of the best night's sleep I've ever had (and a well-deserved lie-in), we went down to breakfast – a more formal affair with crisp white table linens, a breakfast buffet with meats, cheeses and pastries and an à-la-carte menu offering everything from eggs Benedict to a full Irish breakfast.
After breakfast we dropped the car back off at the airport, flew back to London and were back home by lunchtime. It's amazing to think that it's such a quick, easy and painless journey – I can't recommend Northern Ireland and The Culloden Estate and Spa enough!


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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has faulted attempt by the federal government to regulate hotels, restaurants and event centres in the state, noting that the attempt violates the decision of the Supreme Court and 1999 Constitution.
Ambode has equally faulted the formula for sharing Value Added Tax (VAT) among states of the federation, though the federal government allocated 50 per cent of it somewhere else contrary to the ideals and spirit of true federalism.
He rejected the practice at a public forum he addressed on Tuesday, noting that attempts by the federal government to regulate hotels and restaurants was an anomaly that should be addressed accordingly.
In 2013, the federal government had challenged the power and right of the Lagos State Government at the Supreme Court "to make laws on tourism, specifically where the National Assembly had already legislated on the same issue through the NTDC Act."
Specifically, the federal government then asked the Supreme Court to declare null and void the Lagos State Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption Law, 2009; Hotel Licensing Law, 1983 and Hotel Licensing (Amendment), all of which were enacted by the State House of Assembly.
In its decision, however, the apex court rejected the prayers of the federal government, noting that the constitutional powers of the federal government "are expressly limited to tourism traffic in Nigeria in line with Item 60(d) of Part I of Second Schedule to the 1999 Constitution.
Contrary to the decision of the apex court, the Senate initiated a process to repeal the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) Act, 2004 and replace it with the Nigerian Tourism Development Authority (NTDA) Bill, 2017 if it eventually sails through.
At the public forum, Ambode lamented the initiation of the NTDA Bill 2017 which he said, was an attempts by the federal government to regulate hotels, restaurants and event centres contrary to the decision of the Supreme Court.
He explained that the Lagos State House of Assembly enacted the Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption Law, which the Supreme Court ruled, was accordingly passed into law in consonance with the 1999 Constitution.
Despite the existence of Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption Law, the governor lamented that there were still attempts from the central government to regulate hotels and entertainment centres in the state.
He said: "We enacted a law. Somebody says he wants to enact another law that regulates hotels inside Lagos State. Is it not because of the roads that they put hotel there? These things are purely under residual list. It is within our jurisdiction."
The governor explained that undue interference in local matters "makes devolution of power imperative. That is what devolution of power is saying. If these things are on residual list, let local government and states deal with them.
"That is all that we are asking for. It is not that we will generate Value Added Tax (VAT) here and somebody will be sharing 50 per cent of the VAT somewhere else. Obviously, that is the whole idea behind this agitation for true federalism, devolution of powers and the need to use it to liberate ourselves so that we can get more prosperous; so that our people can be more comfortable."
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