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Here are some more pics from my shoot with little Elena out at Waveland. The last time I saw her was she was only 7 weeks old so she didn't remember me at all. It took her a little bit of time to warm up to the camera but once she did it was all smiles, laughs and eating grass. She totally cracked me up, eating various flowers, grass and leaves, her attempts always thwarted by Dad.
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It's been a very exciting week for my best grown up friend, Jacqueline Harvey and me as last Wednesday we learned that Alice-Miranda At School received the YABBA (Young Australian's Best Book Award) in the Younger Readers category in Victoria this year. http://yabba.org.au/2012/11/2012-award-winners/
Today Alice-Miranda At School received an Honour Book Award at the KOALAs (Kids' Own Australian Literature Awards). http://www.koalansw.org.au/2012-awards-day/ Tashi and the Golem by Anna Fienberg and Kim Gamble was announced the winner.
There were so many incredible authors and illustrators on the shortlist, including Andy Griffiths (who won loads of awards at both the YABBAs and KOALAs and is an icon of Australian children's literature), Oliver Phommavanh (who received an Honour Book award in the Older Readers category today) and Chris Morphew who won the YA category at both events for his fabulous Phoenix Files. Belinda Murrell, Deb Abela, Frances Watts, Moya Simons, Duncan Ball, Gabrielle Lord, David Legge were all at the KOALA awards ceremony today with books in the running. And not forgetting Sarah Davis whose gorgeous book with Colin Thompson, Fearless In Love won the Picture Book category in both states too.
Have a great week.
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- Jacqueline Harvey has combined a successful career in education with her love of a good story. She is the author of 14 novels for younger readers and a picture book, THE SOUND OF THE SEA, which was awarded Honour Book in the 2006 Children's Book Council Awards. Her bestselling Alice-Miranda series centres on the life of Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones, a perpetually positive and determined seven year old who takes herself off to boarding school because it appeals to her sense of adventure. The first book in the series, Alice-Miranda At School was released in Australia in February 2010 with Alice-Miranda On Holiday, Alice-Miranda Takes the Lead, Alice-Miranda At Sea, Alice-Miranda In New York, Alice-Miranda Shows the Way and Alice-Miranda In Paris following at six month intervals. Jacqueline is currently contracted to write 12 Alice-Miranda books. She has a new series for younger readers (5-9 year olds) which launched in Australia in September 2012. Jacqueline is contracted to write eight Clementine-Rose books with Random House Australia. For more information go to www.jacquelineharvey.com.au
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Alice-Miranda shows the way by Jacqueline Harvey
Random House, 2012. ISBN: 9781742751177.
Highly recommended for ages 8 and up. As the delightful Alice-Miranda celebrates her eighth birthday, excitement is building for both the girls and the staff of Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy. The village show is about to occur, complete with events for everyone, as well as providing an extra day off of school. Whilst Alice-Miranda and Millie are practicing their horse riding skills, others are completing needle work pieces and perfecting their baking skills. When Evelyn Pepper, the trainer of Rockstar, the Queen's favourite horse, is admitted to hospital, Alice-Miranda becomes involved. Her pony, Bonaparte, is the only thing which can calm Rockstar and encourage him to race, thereby leaving open the Aunty Gee's chances of winning the Queen's Cup. Into the mix, add the carnival people, who are much maligned by the locals and held accountable for anything which goes wrong or missing during their time in the Village.
Harvey has created some eminently likeable characters, almost certainly too good to be true, yet whom one would be happy to class as friends. Similarly, any child reading these books would undoubtedly fall in love with the idea of attending Alice-Miranda's school. The girls seem spend little time in class but many hours on pursuing their own interests. They appear to have a great deal of freedom, allowing them to visit various other people and locations, seemingly without restrictions. As with the other titles in this series, there are some predictable turns of events for older readers, yet younger children may not find this to be the case. The key characters are believable and demonstrate the ability to change and grow. There is the inevitable 'baddie' as well, yet, thanks to the ingenuity of Alice-Miranda, the reader knows that there will always be a happy ending.
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Summer tip #1: The lunch hour tends to be less busy if you're looking to avoid the crowds…
Memorial Day!
11:00 First Flags
1:00 Ready, Set, Play: La Gallinita Ciega
3:00 Japanese Dance Performance! Performers from Hachinohe, Japan have traveled to Maine to perform Enburi (Japanese folk dance and music) for us! The performers are part of the United States Nippon International Friendship Group and their visit is sponsored by the Maine-Aomori Sister-State Advisory Council.
Summer tip #2: Can you see the Memorial Day parade from the Camera Obscura? Try it at 10:30 am!
Pack a picnic!
Rain or shine, bring your picnic lunch to the Museum & Theatre. Check out the brand new picnic tables under the trees in the back yard, or enjoy your picnic lunch in the café.
Summer tip #3: Love air conditioning? Our forced air system brings in fresh air and cools it down…and the shipyard is open when the sun is shining!
Gross motor movement!
Need to get out some summer energy? Come climb the rock wall or play on the pirate ship! Do you have toddlers in need of a safe place to play? We spiced up the Toddler Park with some fresh, age-appropriate toys. Bring your little one to read an Eric Carle book and swim with the new ducks.
Summer tip #4: Kids who move all day will be ready for bed at night!
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Dearest Blog: Yesterday it was off to Marquee Cinemas for the promising double-bill of Disney's Moana and Allied.
Spoiler level here will be mild, nothing you wouldn't know from the trailers. First on my agenda: Moana. A young future chief must travel far from the safety of her island to restore it to health and prosperity.
Dear reader(s): I've got one word to describe Moana, and it is "WOW!" I mean, you know I've got a bunch more words than that, but...WOW. Moana is a beautiful telling of a beautiful story. The art and animation are incredible: majestic scenery, spectacular colors, realistic movement and mannerisms.
A spirited score by Mark Mancina is complimented by lively original tunes from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i. Thanks to filmmakers' detailed attention to the culture and lore of the Pacific islands, the movie boasts a unique and authentic feel, and Moana is a true heroine for our times: smart, strong, and resourceful.
She does not sit around waiting for a handsome prince to turn up with her shoe, but she does learn to accept advice and assistance when she should. Newcomer Auli'i Cravalho turns in an earnest, endearing performance as Moana, and, as the demi-god Maui, an animated Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is equally as charming as the real thing.
Moana is, quite simply, a delight from start to finish. Disney's Moana runs 103 minutes, which includes a depressing little short entitled "Inner Workings." (If you aren't picky about your seat, show up late and avoid that one.) Moana is rated PG for "Peril, some scary images, and brief thematic elements." Moana is perfect.
Of a possible nine Weasleys, Moana gets nine.
Next up: Allied. Espionage and romance with a pair of WWII spies who fall in love and marry in war-torn 1940s Europe. Allied is a suspenseful slow-burner with plenty of twists to keep you guessing.
Marion Cotillard is perfect as a member of the French resistance accused of being a double agent. Her understated performance is sincere and never gives away the is-she-or-isn't-she mystery. Brad Pitt is wooden, as Brad Pitt tends to be, but the movie smartly elects to focus a LOT on his perfect face, as well as him looking dashing in nifty suits, his military uniform, and an Archer-esque black turtleneck.
Wise move there, movie. The suspenseful story is deliberately paced, but never so slow it risks losing your attention. War movies are always unsettling, but Allied mostly lacks the explicit violence and gore common in such films.
Finally, there may come a day when I won't happily pay $7.50 to hear Benny Goodman's Sing Sing Sing in glorious surround-sound, but it is not this day.
Allied clocks in at 124 minutes and is rated R for "violence, some sexuality/nudity, language, and brief drug use." While it isn't likely to bring home the bacon this awards season, Allied is a tense thriller that's well worth your movie dollar.
Of a possible nine Weasleys, Allied gets seven.
Fangirl Points (so many Fangirl Points!): Anton Lesser! Matthew Goode! Lizzy Caplan! Simon McBurney! Jared Harris! Until next time...


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Ms. Nurun Naher Osmani is a retired Senior District and Sessions' Judge. After obtaining LLB and LLM from the University of Dhaka, she joined the Judicial Service of Bangladesh in 1983. After serving as Assistant Judge, Senior Assistant Judge, Sub Judge (at present Joint District and Sessions' Judge) and Additional District and Sessions' Judge in different districts of Bangladesh, she was promoted to the position of District and Sessions' Judge in 2001. she served in that position in Dhaka (Member, Court of Settlement, 2001-2002), Tangail (Special Judge, 2002-2004), Bagerhat (2004-2008) and Pabna (2008-2012). Being a Senior District and Sessions' Judge she served as Member of the Labor Appellate Tribunal from 2012 until her retirement in 2015.
As the Member of the Labor Appellate Tribunal she attended the "Regional Conference and Training Course for Judges and Arbitrators – Asia and Pacific Region" held in Melbourne, Australia in 2012 organized by the International Labor Organization (ILO). In 2013 she attended "Asia Pacific Regional Conference of the International Women Judges' Association" held in Auckland, New Zealand. she also attended different national and international conferences and training courses in Bangladesh.
Ms. Osmani also served as the President of Bangladesh Women Judges' Association (BWJA) for three (3) terms from 2013 to 2015. After retirement from the Judicial Service she has served as a Resource Person on labor law at Judicial Administration Training Institute (JATI). At present she is serving as the Vice-President of the Brahmanbaria District Association and the Organizing Secretary of the Retired Judges' Welfare Association.
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Jaral sucking the blood from her throat gives her the rush of life she craves.
Anjasa believed that vampires were only fantasy, until she's captured by one, and saved by another. The thrill of danger, the rush of arousal, entices her to stay by Jaral's side.
But there's other dangers that the long-lived beauty didn't know about. Vampire hunters. People with unbelievable strength and agility, who only want one thing — Jaral's death.
She's torn between her budding feelings for for a vampire, and her old courtesan habits that are hard to break. She risks everything she has, everything she holds dear, for a night with a man who has two appendages, a promise she doesn't know he won't keep, and secrets darker than she could imagine.
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Her body moved with fluid grace despite the long session, tan flesh holding a bright sheen from the vigorous exercise of the evening. Few women could've kept it up like she had, fewer still could have brought the uppity young lord to two such climactic peaks in one night. Yet she did it with gusto.
The slap of her flesh striking his, her heavy breasts smacking against her chest as she rode the young noble resounded through the little brothel room. It was only outdone by the moans and groans of Loren Faro beneath her, as he voiced his struggles to remain in her luscious body while she pounded his cock, milking it expertly.
"Dam-dammit!" he cursed, "C-cumming!" But she knew that already; she could feel it in the twitch of his shaft inside her. She'd felt it not long ago, after all. She'd taken him through one orgasm and wasn't about to stop as she crested this next one.
"C'mon baby, give it to me," she purred, letting her nails scrape along his chest, raising the other hand up to push back her hair and give him such a lascivious grin.
He was done for. His eyes rolled back and he arched his neck. He bucked wildly and his dick spouted off inside her with violent force. To think, he hadn't even been in the mood for sex when he'd showed up to see her.
She'd taken that as a challenge.
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Dark as the night itself, the tall vampire Jaral made his way through the narrow alleyway. Not on the ground, but positioned two stories up. With unnatural coordination his arms and legs hoisted him up and held him suspended as he watched down below.
Town guards.
They were meeting with some of Zarach's men – no, his men now – and by the looks of things, it was running according to plan. He'd managed to reign in many of Zarach's flunkies in a short time, but one could never be sure if their loyalty was short-burning, he reminded himself.
From beneath his hood he watched, and listened as coin changed hand. Then the contraband.
Everything went according to plan in the dark recesses of the city. Just another discrete night time exchange.
Then the arrows fired. He heard them, whistling towards him, but it wasn't the usual sound. Arrows? That was odd in the city. Why not crossbow bolts? His own curiosity drowned out his frustration at watching his own men fall dead, but… none of the guards. They were running. Had they taken off a moment too soon for coincidence?
He set aside his wondering. There was work to do.
The spry vampire moved nimbly, kicking from one wall to the next as he gained on the cloaked assailants. He'd make sure short work of them; it was hardly sport at all. Yet as he descended, one of them looked up.
His bow looked up as well
He had sensed Jaral's approach… somehow. And aimed true. The tip pierced his torso. The first wound he'd suffered from a mortal in so very long.
It sent him crashing down into the alleyway in a spiraling mess.
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I was going to tell you about what happened last night – but then I got these and I just had to share them with you all. Or maybe just one of them, this is the pig that went for the drive in the Masarati - which is a good reminder to never get into a car with somebody you don't know. Thanks to Carolyn for the picture.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
3 comments:
- The Duck Herder said...
But it does look good.
I can almost smell it......
- July 22, 2009 at 2:07 PM
- Valley View said...
Dont worry Mrs Duck Herder your on my list for the next piggy - I'm on my way out to look for some nettles - they won't turn my tongue black will they???
- July 22, 2009 at 2:57 PM
- The Duck Herder said...
Re the nettles - just make sure you wilt them at least before you eat them - they cook very quickly - as soon as they wilt the sting is gone......here is my ode to nettles post fyi.......not that I am obsessed or anything. Oh, ok, I am! -
- July 23, 2009 at 5:56 PM
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Morsi Signs Constitution
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signed the new Islamist-drafted constitution into law, after results of the constitutional referendum showed that 63.8 percent of voters approved the document. Opponents said that the constitution was too Islamist and did not offer enough protection to minority groups. But Morsi argued that the constitution offers enough protection for everyone and that the turmoil surrounding the constitution has prevented his government from focusing on the economy. Anxiety over the country's economic situation has led to many taking cash out of banks and hoarding money at home. As a result, authorities recently made it illegal to enter or leave Egypt with more than $10,000 in cash.


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about the One who was (and is) Easter?
We'd like to use this theme of Preparing for Easter to link up those who work with:
- art projects,
- nature projects,
- Montessori methods, &/or
- story-based religious education
All during Lent (from Feb 22 through Apr 7), you can click on the link at the bottom of this post (the blue, Add your link button) to create a link from our party to your blog post. You should then be prompted to give the URL of the specific post you want to include (not the URL for your blog's front page), the title of your entry, and your email address. Then please do add links within your own post to me and to Sheila. Every Wednesday, Sheila and I will each post a party update. Welcome aboard!


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I want to apologize in advance for this crappy map, but it was the only one I could find on the Net. There was a better one years ago but I lost it.
Approach TD right up the middle between the two islands. These raptors have a ridiculous agro radius. Too close to the big island and you get that solo one facing Chess Island. Too close to the small island and you agro the other two.
The small island is extremely easy to handle. Grab some ground on the island north side next to the large island, as far away from the two in front as possible. Your spells should be:
If no SoE, then SoW and lev. I wait until the roamer that spawns on the far side of the island comes around. He will walk right up next to the one on the far left side of the front of the island, check out the waves, and walk away. Once he's gone, I pull the one by the ruined building first, then move out over the water and get the one by the shore. Then I run through the building at the Vicious Raptor, turn, and run back to the other two. Almost every time I will agro him and he charges. Timed right, I snare him right when he's with the other two, so they are bunched up.
Then comes the roamer. If you wait too long, or go too soon, he will be on the far side. Don't be fooled by the static raptor on the far side (lower right on the map). If you agro him then you have 5 raptors to deal with. If you do, root the add, snare it if you can, and when you are done, camp to clear agro. What I do is agro the roamer and run back to the other three, far from them of course, let him charge while they walk from snare. Timed right, you got all four together.
After that it's just a matter of rounding them up and running back and forth across the front of the island. I've never agroed the static one on the back side so he's pretty safe if you stick to the front side. This is the safest of the quads.
The large island is another matter. The way I've done it, and wizards and druids there usually do this too, is we split the island. One person takes both wanderers, the static that's close to the safe spot as marked, and the vicious on the southern part of the island. Then the other person gets the remaining Vicious and the three statics on the far side of the island. Some patience is involved here because you gotta wait for the roamers to come around. If you are careful, you can easily get one roamer, the static and the Vicious while waiting for the second roamer and never agro the other three. Keep your quads on the far side of the island, where the two roamers walk through, and avoid the Druid ring and you should be ok.
Raptors seem to have been upgraded. I left there at level 58 when they were mostly green except for the Vicious. At 60 I went back and saw they were all light blue, so they got a slight bump. Very rarely I'd get a dark blue Vicious. Dinus remains dark blue. Don't be surprised if wizards ask you to deal with Dinus, as his HP are insane and they can't root/rot like we do.


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This past weekend was one to go down in the CKA record books, forecasts were up and down and temperatures dropped almost 20 degrees during Saturday's Boarder-X.
Once the front finally rolled through on Saturday afternoon, it was followed by a blistery 15-25 + knts of wind. The CKA had not yet hosted a Boarder-X this season so with the nice shallow waters of the Gulf the directors and riders decided it was time. The wind shifted, the course was set, and the riders were off.
Multiple kite tangles from sketchy starts and last minute leaps of faith over obstacles and the finish line made the race more than entertaining for the crew of college, local, and tourist spectators.
The Boarder-X wrapped up with the following results and was followed by a short sunset/dusk expression session.
1st Kevin O'Neil (FAU)
2nd Ben Sampson (UCF)
3rd Justice Bentz (UNF)
Sunday morning the initial plan was to hold a wakestyle jam with kickers and sliders at the south Skyway Reststop, this is the best location for due North winds in Saint Petersburg and thanks to an uber low tide from the Full Moon would have been ideal for such a jam. Unfortunately the wind gods didn't cooperate all the way and losses were cut as all wakestyle riders decided to pack up and head to the new cable park in Tampa, McCormick's Cable and Ski Ranch.
Here's the first video recap from the weekend and thanks to all who came out to ride and support.
Recap Video from Event #1 in JAX Beach
look here for further results from event #1


text: Ptrace, Syscall, and PythonMar 10, 2016I was hunting down an obscure interaction between ptrace(2) and what happens when you attach to a process which is in the middle of a syscall. In fact, if you read the ptrace man page there are a lot of options related to how syscalls are handled, and I tried a variety of them (e.g. PTRACE_ATTACH v.s. PTRACE_SEIZE followed by PTRACE_INTERRUPT). I got stumped on this problem for most of today, and eventually went to go write a simple test case that didn't involve the Python interpreter so I could get a better understanding of what was actually happening.Oddly, my simple test case worked totally fine—I had no issues with ptrace() while the program was in a syscall state. In fact, by ptrace() didn't even cause the syscall to EINTR.I eventually figured out what was going on: it's related to some weird magic in the Python interpreter. I would write about it here but I already wrote about the issue in great depth in the GitHub repo. So if you want to read the rest of the story go to eklitzke/ptrace-syscall and check out the README.


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Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) was discovered by Jean Ayres, Ph.D. about 40 years ago. Symptoms of SID in children are often misinterpreted as psychological problems or just plain bad behavior.
Higher cognitive functions including things such as learning and behavior depend upon having normal sensory integration.
As a psychologist, I am sad to say that when I was in graduate school, (1982 - 1987) that this disorder wasn't talked about much. At this time I am often involved with families who have a child with Sensory Integration Disorder.
Imagine, if you will, that for each of your 5 senses, there is a wire of a different color that leads the information form that particular sense, into your brain. For example, for the information that comes in from your eyes, or your visual senses, you might imagine a red wire; and blue one for hearing (auditory), etc.
Now, assuming that your brain was able to notice what color of "wire" the information was coming from, and knew that the red "wire" was information from your eyes, and blue was from your ears, it would be a fairly straightforward process for keeping things figured out. Someone with SID, however, doesn't experience it quite like this.
When someone is dealing with SID, their brain is getting mixed signals. At times, the red "wire "might be visual information; at other times, it might be the blue "wire" that is shuttling the visual data. Then, there may be times when the red "wire" is carrying both visual and auditory information. Can you see how this might be very confusing for the brain to interpret?
This sounds like a rather complex challenge, does it not? One could argue that it is, I suppose, but I've never been one for building a "case" for difficulty. Instead, I prefer to gather evidence for possibility.
In short, when neurofeedback is helpful for those with SID, it's as though neurofeedback is able to teach the brain to start recognizing the "wires" accurately and stop acting "color blind" when it comes to incoming sensory information. And, why shouldn't everyone's brain learn to clearly interpret sensory information?
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It begins with me walking past a parked car. I'll have caught my own reflection in a window and glimpsed something horrible pushing out of my shirt. No, I'll reassure myself. It's just a distortion. It's the shape of cars, isn't it? They bulge in the middle and, when you walk past them, they make you look as if you bulge in the middle – which you don't. So I walk slowly past a squarer vehicle. Like a van. Hm. OK, what about an estate agent's window? Oh no, surely not. Finally, at home, I'll stand in front of my wife's full-length mirror, turn to the side, and lift up my shirt. And there it is, the missile-head of blubber pushing out of my torso. My gut. It's back.
I go through this routine about three times a year before having to diet, miserably, only to start the cycle all over again. By the car window phase, I'll have already been through weeks of denial: my stomach's swollen because I'm hungry; my stomach's swollen because I've just eaten; the tumble dryer's shrinking my trousers again. I'll find myself crossing my arms in the company of slender friends; of sucking myself in near cameras and attractive women. In the perilous naked moments, when undressing for bed, my eyes will fix themselves on the curtains. And the next thing you know, there I am, under that lightbulb, pregnant with shame.
It's not that I'm obese. Most of me, aged 38, is just as it was as at eight. Puny. Until I was in my early 20s, there was barely anything of me at all. Weedy at school, I still recall the despair of the 11-year-old me seeing Sinitta's So Macho video. I knew, as I watched the lady prancing with beefcake, that there wasn't a girl in the world who would kiss me. If you could have told me that, come the 1990s, there'd be Kurt Cobain and then Hedi Slimane, and the desirable shape for a man would change overnight from triangle to stick, I'd have been delighted.
But not for long. Because then I'd have discovered what was going to happen to me in my early 20s. When I moved in with a girlfriend, my diet changed from amphetamines, gin and toast to lager, pasta and Revels. I'll never forget the moment I realised the effect all this was having on my body. After a lifetime of "he's nothing but skin and bone", it felt like an impossible betrayal. I was working in telesales at the time, and had caught my reflection as I walked away from the bathroom mirror. I noticed a pressure, an alien presence, pushing against the inside of my red Pavement T-shirt. I lifted my top, peeked underneath, and found a whole new way to hate myself.
Fifteen years later, I've learned that there's nothing uglier in nature than the naked middle-aged male. Especially white ones who work behind desks. It's the contrast between yellow skin and curling black hair; the sloping shoulder; the sallow buttock; the nubby, ribby little tits, their useless pink nipples rimmed with spider's legs. But it's the gut that sets the whole thing off, adding the comic to the tragic.
In 2000, the UK's bestselling men's magazine was the beery FHM. Today, it's the protein-shakey Men's Health
Male bellies are different. Ours don't have the invitingly soft appearance of female tummies, nor do they sympathetically trace the body's natural lines. They're a swell of grotesque dough that balloons out horizontally. When I've allowed my stomach to expand too much, I find myself grabbing at it, aggressively, as if it's not part of me. And that's actually how it feels. My gut isn't a metaphor for all the times I've lost control of my eating; it's a physical manifestation. It's not a body part, like a leg or an eye; it's a psychological flaw that's been made physical. It's shame that I can touch.
That shame isn't mine alone. In 2000, the UK's bestselling men's magazine was the beery FHM. Today, it's the protein-shakey Men's Health. A significant component of Men's Health's rise was surely their realisation that so many men secretly share my dread of the expanding stomach. Their monthly promise is the ultimate stomach, defined by its abs. I'm sure that many of its first-time readers are where I was, in their early to mid-30s, hitting that critical point of decision. Their bodies are deteriorating. Their systems are slowing. They're running to fat. Will they do something about it? Or give a fatalist shrug and allow themselves to ripen, like brie, into middle age?
I was on holiday when that critical moment came to me. My wife and I were coming to the end of a four-year stay in Australia and enjoying a long-planned road trip in a camper van through the remote tropical north. I didn't understand why, at the time, but we just couldn't get along. The scenery was dazzling, the sun was huge, but, no matter how hard I tried to be pleasant, everything was crotchety and wrong. It was only later that she confessed the reason we kept falling out. She felt resentful of me and embarrassed. I'd put on too much weight. I know how that might sound. My wife should love me for who I am! She shouldn't care if I get a little tubby in the middle! But I accepted what she said, because I felt she was right.
Of course, what we feel and what we believe are often in conflict. I believe that I'm middle-aged, and decaying, so nobody should judge me by the landslide of hairy mush that I store inside my jumper. I believe that our desire for our partners shouldn't dim for any reason related to their appearance, and that I should feel sexually attracted to my wife even if she were to wake up, say, with a fisherman's beard. I believe I have far more important things to think about than my waistline: my failure to have children, for example; my high familial risk of prostate cancer; or my lack of pension and savings, or the total impossibility of my job as a secure long-term career, or the whole world outside my stomach. And yet, sometimes, when it gets really bad, my flab is all I think about.
The only buzz I've experienced from running is the "thank God it's over, now I can have some cheese" one
Another thing I firmly believe is that neither men nor women should be objectified. And yet when I see a beautiful naked body, I'm transported. Am I allowed to admit that? Beauty is not a myth. It applies to all things, no matter how unfair that might feel. If a human eye can fall upon an object, then that object will inevitably generate an automatic response somewhere on the scale between attraction and revulsion. I'm just scared of making people go "urgh".
And that includes my wife. When I realised how much my appearance was affecting my relationship, and my self-esteem, macho man that I am, I did Weight Watchers. You can log your progress online these days, so there are no humiliating weigh-ins in church halls on Wednesday evenings. The people at Weight Watchers have somehow indexed the entire world of food, assessing the protein, fibre, carb and fat content of everything that can be eaten, and have assigned it a points score. If you don't exceed your given points limit, goes the theory, you'll be in calorific deficit. Your gut will go.
Weight Watchers is one of the world's most successful diet plans, with more than two million users in 25 countries. When I signed up, I think I sussed out why. You can have a healthy apple for one point, if you fancy it. Or, for the same point, you can eat a deliciously unhealthy caramel marshmallow bar. You can have some tuna in brine for three points. Or a Cadbury's Curly Wurly. How's about lunch? Ten points will get you a brown rice biryani salad. Or a McDonald's chicken sandwich. It didn't seem possible, back in 2007, that it would work. Could I really eat a bag of Wotsits every day and lose weight?
As it turned out, I could. I lost 10 kilos eating junk food. I was hungry quite a lot, but it was worth it. The day I left Sydney, I felt good about my stomach for the first time in more than a decade. Trousers I'd owned for years would fall, still fastened, to my ankles. I could enjoy baths without having to use bubbles to cover the island of mottled paunch. When my wife and I arrived back at Heathrow, into the welcome fuss of our families, it was obvious that our years in Australia had been nothing but a complete success. Why? Because we'd come back thin.
What you're supposed to do, on Weight Watchers, is stay on it for ever. You're allocated a few more points to live off when your diet ends, but for the rest of your days, you're meant to keep measuring out your milk for every cup of tea. That wasn't going to happen. So I took up running, half an hour every weekday and an hour on Saturdays and Sundays.
It worked, for a while. It slowed the gain. But I'll never comprehend people who breathily insist they've become addicted to exercise. Are they telling the truth? Exercise hurts. It's dirty and time-consuming and often cold and wet – unless you go to a gym, in which case it's smelly and expensive. People claim to become hooked on the endorphin buzz. The only buzz I've experienced from running is the "thank God it's over, now I can have some cheese" one.
Just as consuming alcohol is not a response to thirst, two family-size Domino's and a tub of Ben & Jerry's has nothing to do with hunger
Although I've given up the gin and amphetamines, I still have my sources of needy pleasure. Today, it's sugar and fat. I'm addicted to unhealthy food. I gorge on chocolate as I once did on cheap red wine. I eat alone in expensive restaurants as I once drank alone in cheap pubs. And just as consuming alcohol is not a response to thirst, two family-size Domino's and a tub of Ben & Jerry's has nothing to do with hunger. When my wife goes away, I'll treat myself to takeaways and experiment with fattening meals of my own invention – a barbecued pulled pork lasagne; a cider, cheddar and bacon risotto. It's a blitzkrieg of indulgence. I'll stuff it in and stuff it in until I can hate myself no more. Unfortunately, for my gut, that's the kind of assault that no amount of jogging can outrun.
Then, in 2010, there was a disaster. Weight Watchers changed their system. Perhaps to avoid criticism of their surprising one apple = one caramel marshmallow bar equation, they came up with a new algorithm. In essence, the bastards upped the score of everything else just so they could make fruit zero points. I sent many livid emails. No one listened. But after some months nearly passing out on the 5:2, I returned to the mumsy discipline of Weight Watchers. To this day, when using their online "food tracker", I manually score apples one point, just to spite them. Although it's much less enjoyable now, the diet still works. When I emerge from several mean weeks of 10ml doses of semi-skimmed in each mug of tea, I'm never actually flat-bellied, and my face appears unhealthily gaunt. But the crucial zone from belt-buckle to rib is once more looking correct. I am happy. In control. I feel like an adult.
It's an irresistible association, fitness and grown-up-ness. It has its dark corollary in those weekends on the sofa, surrounded by sweet wrappers, sticky-fingered and burping. Those nights on which I might as well be wearing a nappy. And it's at night, invariably, when the binges happen. It's as if the effort of all that impulse-control has become too much. That daylight voice that insists I should be thin and well-mannered and hard-working and have my hair brushed and teeth white and have a pension and security and two little children, healthy and wealthy and wise, has finally broken me. Every mouthful of delicious gunk is another punch to his head.
Two years ago, my relationship with my gut took on a dramatic complication. My wife was appointed editor of Women's Health magazine. She started leaving the house at 6am so she could attend something called Barry's Boot Camp before work. She gave me lists for the supermarket that contained things like kale and agar syrup. Instead of a coffee, in the morning, she'd have a cup of hot water with a slice of lemon. My awareness of my spherical middle became ever more acute. The fitter she became, the fatter I felt.
As my wife thinned and toned, she remained kindly diplomatic in her responses to my expanding state. She has three lines that she uses, on seeing me with my top off, each of which tells me roughly where I am in my boom-and-bust cycle. When I'm fresh from a diet, she'll say (untruthfully), "Not an ounce of fat!" When I'm glumly pinching at three or four inches, it's, "So what? You've got a little tummy." When it's really bad, she gives a flat smile and says, "Don't worry. You'll get rid of it." And then I sulk. Because I don't feel as if I have a choice. To keep myself in some sort of shape, for my wife, is just good manners.
It's not only about her. I'm nearly 40, now. As I've grown older, I've noticed that my response to the human form has changed. These days, I'm as likely to feel sorrow upon seeing physical beauty as I am arousal. I find I don't like being around young people. They remind me of death. But I'm not convinced my war against gut is about resurrecting the ghost of my youth. Neither is it all vanity. With my too-small mouth and my Old Man Steptoe chin, I've never been one for mirrors. Perhaps, then, it's something specific about my age. These are my early middle years. I'm still overwhelmed by all the things I'm losing, and have yet to discover the compensations of age. I hope there are some. I hope I don't care this much about my gut for ever.


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DFC Intelligence is releasing a new forecast on December 3rd in which they predict that the Wii U will reach global lifetime sales of 25 million units, only a quarter of what the Wii has sold, which passed 100 million units worldwide as of this year. These numbers would put the system closer in lifetime sales to the Gamecube, which sold 22 million units during its lifetime. In response to questions about whether it was a right move for Nintendo to release three big holiday titles in the midst of next-gen system launches, analyst David Cole had this to say:
"I think Nintendo is carving out a different audience. I think that being said it is the right strategy. The audience they are going after is not the ones that Sony and Microsoft are going after. Right now they need to go after Nintendo fans first. They should have done that last year but better late than never. So in answer to your question it is the right approach but really Nintendo now is just trying to do as well as the GameCube so they have a base to sell first party software."
Independent analyst Billy Pidgeon agreed and added some two cents of his own.
"For the bottom line, console launches drive hardware, software and accessories purchases not only for the new hardware but for older hardware as well. Value added bundling, price cuts and highly anticipated new software for older hardware can boost sales of older systems during a fourth quarter retail period with one or more new console launches. Xbox 360 made big gains in hardware and software in 2006 as Wii and PS3 launched, and PS2 made hardware gains and maintained relatively high attach rates in 2005-2006, particularly during Q4 when Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 launches were underway."
One thing that will be interesting to observe this upcoming year is how the PS4 and the Xbox One do after the holidays. This is the first generation where game consoles are launching into a recession, and as gaming hardware and software become harder to afford, will it significantly affect the gaming market? Do you think that Nintendo is taking the right strategy with the Wii U, or is too little too late? With a very solid 2014 lineup, this holiday season may be just what the system needs to regain some of their momentum.


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This was such a nightmare to troubleshoot that I just had to document the process. In my scouring the web, I found many like me experiencing the same woes in setting up their WOL. My whole purpose for doing this was in the interest of saving power. I could put my computer to sleep and still be able to wake it up remotely so I can RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) into it to access my files while away. [EDIT: I recently found this great article on WoWLAN by Andrew vonNagy which details some of the benefits and downsides to using this technology, and provides a nice cost analysis for an organization case study. Check it out if you're interested in the Wireless WOL.]
There are numerous steps to the process, so I'm first going to outline all of them to give you a nice overview of how to get setup. Henceforth I will refer to the Wake-on-Lan capability as WOL. Here is a zipped file with shortcuts to all the Control Panels you'll need for your convenience. It also contains a script for the WOL utility linked at the end of this article. ;)
- WOL ONLY works for Ethernet (i.e. hard-wired) connections, NOT Wireless!
- You must use the MAC address of you Ethernet card.
- Orange bullets relate to enabling WOL feature / services.
- Green bullets relate to the actual routing of the packets to your computer.
- Things you'll need to know about your computer: LAN IP, WAN IP, and MAC address. Real quick, hit Windows key + R and type 'cmd' then enter. In the console type 'ipconfig /all' and enter. Look for your "Ethernet card" and write down its IP (i.e. LAN IP) and MAC address. Then head to whatsmyip.org to get your WAN IP and write it down as well.
- This guide is designed so you don't have to read everything, but only refer to the sections where you're stuck or having issues. The troubleshooting tools at the bottom can help you deduce what is wrong.
- Enable WOL in BIOS (from boot)
- Enable WOL for your Ethernet Card (i.e. NIC)
- Install Windows Feature "Simple TCPIP services"
- Start Service "Simple TCP/IP Service" (enables ports 7 & 9)
- Open UDP for Port 9 in Windows Firewall
- Forward the port on your Router
- Testing / Troubleshooting Tools
Because of all the various motherboards out there, I'm not going to go into how to enable WOL in your BIOS, only know that you need to. However, if your BIOS, like mine, is severely limited in settings and no option is available to enable WOL, it might be safe to assume that it will work by default. My HP laptop has many of the BIOS settings locked for warranty purposes, but despite not having the option available, I am still able to use the feature.
Open "Device Manager" from the control panels or use the link in the zip. Expand "Network Adapters" and find your Ethernet Card. Right-click and open "Properties" then go to the "Advanced" tab. You should see something similar to the following. You want to enable "Wake on Magic Packet" or something similar.
Open "Programs and Features" from the control panels or use the link in the zip. Click "Turn Windows features on or off" over on the sidebar. Scroll down and check "Simple TCPIP services" then click OK to install the feature.
Open "Services" from the "Administrative Tools" control panels or use the link in the zip. Scroll down to the service for which we just installed the feature. Make sure the service is started by clicking the link in the sidebar. Also ensure that the "Startup Type" is set to "Automatic" so that it will run with Windows.
Open "Windows Firewall" from the control panels or use the link in the zip. Only UDP is needed, but you can if you with open the port for TCP as well. This is because UDP is a broadcast packet which can always be received by your NIC, whereas TCP requires the computer to be powered up. This can also be set to limit the IPs which can use the port and other security features to make your computer less vulnerable. These are the easiest settings.
You should see your routers' manual for the details, but here are the basics. Your router IP is almost always 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. Enter your router IP into the address bar in your web browser (Chrome ftw :P) and login to the admin page. Once there, you will find a section called something like "Advanced." What you are looking for is the "Port Forwarding" section. Make sure you forward port 9 to your LAN IP that we got earlier.
You should see your routers' manual for the details, but here are the basics. Your router IP is almost always 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. Enter your router IP into the address bar in your web browser (Chrome ftw :P) and login to the admin page. Once there, you will find a section called something like "Advanced." What you are looking for is the "Port Forwarding" section. Make sure you forward port 9 to your LAN IP that we got earlier.
- wakeonlan.me - Can auto send you magic packets on a schedule though the schedule is messed up. I had to set the schedule time to EST while keeping the timezone set to my timezone. It's quirky, but it works. When you get the schedule set correctly is should tell you how many minutes before it sends the packets at the top. Alternately you can use another computer on your LAN to test it, but be sure to use your computers' WAN IP address to ensure it actually works from outside your LAN.
- Wake-on-LAN Packet sniffer v1.1 (direct download) - This nifty little free tool was incredibly useful when paired with the above site to verify that the magic packets were actually getting through to my computer.
- Wake-on-LAN Utility (direct download) - This is what you'll be using from your remote location to send the magic packet which will wake up your computer. There are other utilities like this available, but I like this one. It's simple. I will also include a batch script in a separate zip which will make your life easier. You'll only have to edit the script to put your computer MAC and WAN IP.
- whatsmyip.org - The indispensable tool for ensuring that your port is open to the outside world. Will only show open TCP ports. Not UDP as is used for WOL.
- Android app with excellent reviews called "Wol Wake on Lan Wan" by Brobble, available on Android Market. (thanks to Emad)
Updated 15-Jan-2012
Fixed broken link to download my script pack. Thanks Anonymous chat user :)


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Bridlington Rovers can claim to be the first team to win a competitive match played on the town's new 4G pitch.
Their Arthur Saunderson Trophy match against Flamborough 2nds on Saturday was played on the artificial turf, just 24 hours after the facility was officially handed over by contractors.
Rovers adapted to the new £600,000 pitch better than their visitors and went on to run out 7-2 winners in the preliminary round tie.
Craig Robinson had the honour of scoring the first goal on the 4G pitch at Bridlington Sports Centre.
Rovers' usual grass pitch at Gypsey Road was still struggling to recover from rain earlier in the week, so the match was switched to the new surface.
Ryan Melles, of The Property Shop Yorkshire, has been project manager for the sports centre, which has transferred from East Riding of Yorkshire Council's ownership to Bridlington Club for Young People.
He said: "The new pitch is a brilliant facility for Bridlington and we hope the football community will show their support for it.
"It's spot on, state-of-the art and exactly what we were hoping for and I've not heard any negative feedback about the pitch yet."
Funding for the pitch was obtained by the club, the council and the FA.
The centre in Gypsey Road will be the home of the town's two main junior football clubs, Burlington Jackdaws and Bridlington Rangers, who have also worked as part of the team to get the project off the ground.
And teams who had expected to be able to use the pitch from March might get to play on it earlier than planned.
With heavy rain expected in the next 24 hours, the artificial pitch could be pressed into emergency action to get league matches played this weekend, if bookings allow.
"The changing rooms with the 4G pitch are ready too, and they are lovely. I'm sure teams will be keen to come down here and try the new pitch out for training," said Ryan.
Bookings are now being taken for the new surface and the centre has employed a facility manager Jared Jones.
To make a booking, call 07720 822674 or email@example.com
Work inside the centre is progressing well too, withe Bridlington's successful boxing club looking forward to moving in soon.
"The boxing gym is almost ready and that will look very smart when it is finished," added Ryan.
There are also plans for a cafe and a studio to hire out.


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A thrifty and natural life...full of magical crafts, money saving tips and home educating along the way.
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Elderberry Syrup
First we collected our elderberries, we used about 500g in all, make sure you know what you are picking NEVER use berries if you do not know what they are. Once they start to droop or hang they are ripe, we collected a few from several bushes to ensure there where enough left for the wildlife of the area.
The 500g of berries can easily be removed from their stalks for the pot by using a fork. We just covered the berries in water approximately a litre and cooked them for about 20 minutes. Then we put all of the pan contents through a straining bag to remove any berry remains and seeds. At this point measure how much liquid you have and return to the pan to add some sugar, you will need to add about 500g per 500ml if you are using metric measurements, or if you use imperial 1lb of sugar for each pint of liquid you have. Simmer for a further 10 minutes until all of the sugar has been dissolved and you can then bottle it up into your sterilized container.
As you can see it is a very dark purple colour and has a very thick texture like syrup, you need just one tablespoon of this in a glass of water per day or just a teaspoon on it's own, my children love the taste of this. I will add another couple of sites at the bottom here in case you would like to read further on the benefits HERE and HERE
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Such a gorgeous colour! I've bookmarked the links to have a look later, herb & foraging newbie here needing all the info I can get, thanks :)ReplyDelete
thank-you for reading, elder is a very easy one to remember for newbies and so useful / beneficial :)ReplyDelete
I was so glad I wore a purple dress to make this as I managed to dye everything in sight...lol
Darn, forgot AGAIN to collect elderberries.....ReplyDelete
thank-you for reading, if you are lucky you might still get some late ripened ones :)ReplyDelete
lovely! I was brought up on this... my parents made loads of bottles of this and we had it every day :-))ReplyDelete
thank-you for reading, my children seem very keen on this too :)ReplyDelete
i made this for the first time this year, isn't it gorgeous! i'd just like to gaze at the bottles in a row. xReplyDelete
thank-you for reading, it is gorgeous and such a beautiful colour :)ReplyDelete
I didn't make any syrup this year as I made loads last year and we have some left. I love it diluted with hot water, though. It's a great pick me up on a cold day.ReplyDelete
Such a beautiful deep purple, isn't it?
thanks for reading Hannah, it is lovely both taste and colour, it's fascinating to read about all the health benefits too :)ReplyDelete


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By Suzanne Sparrow Watson
2017 was a hard year – friends died, good buddies moved away, and I didn't lose the five pounds I so optimistically recorded on my New Year's resolutions. So when I saw a sign in a gift store that said, "Life is Short. Take the trip. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake.", I took it to heart. In fairness, I've never had an issue with the cake part of the affirmation. In fact, eating cake is right in my wheelhouse. But I'm not a good shopper and my travels are limited to occasional trips with my nieces and our summer road trips. As a life-long knitter I've always dreamed of going to the British Isles or Ireland but year after year I put it off. Until I read that sign. Exactly a year ago this week I asked a few friends if they would like to go on a knitting trip to one of my dream destinations. They all responded a resounding "YES!" So next week we're embarking on a nine day trip to Ireland, which we have dubbed the "Irish Princess Tour".
Why 'Princess?' Because we decided that if we're going to go, we're going to go in style. We are flying from Phoenix to London on a British Air 747 in the Upper Deck. Riding "upstairs" has been on my bucket list for a long time. I recall many years ago flying from San Francisco to New York on a 747 but I was "stuck" in business class down below. This time, I was going to make it to the upper deck or bust! We also decided that we would rather stay in one location rather than constantly pack and re-pack our bags. After all, the weather this time of year is still a bit chilly and rainy so numerous layers, requiring lots of clothing options, are required. We concluded that Killarney is centrally located, has good restaurants, and more importantly, plenty of pubs. So we selected the Killarney Park Hotel, which I discovered after the fact, is the same hotel brother Bob and his wife Linda stayed in when they visited Killarney. Apparently the KPH is a Sparrow tradition!
Once we had our plane and hotel reservations we began to work on what would occupy our time. Here is where another good life lesson was learned. There is a very famous knitwear designer, Carol Feller, who lives in Cork, about an hour away from Killarney. She does many large group classes for the Irish Tourism Board tours and we were a bit disappointed that we could not join in the tour's classes. Mustering up my courage, and on the premise that the worst she could say was "no", I emailed her and asked if we could visit her studio and have a private class for the five of us. She emailed me back within hours to say not only would she do the class, she will come up to our hotel to do it. Armed with my newfound confidence in asking strangers for favors, I emailed a yarn store in Dublin that we're visiting and not only did she respond that she will greet us with tea and biscuits, but that she's arranged for Kieran Foley to give us a private trunk show. Okay, by now most of you have glossed over Carol Feller and Kieran Foley so let me put it in terms you might relate to: it is the knitting equivalent of a golfer getting a lesson from Rory McElroy or Padraig Harrington.
One of the wonderful aspects of this trip is that there is another Type "A" on it! While I arranged the knitting end of things, my friend Patsy worked on many other aspects, most importantly our touring agenda. We knew that big bus tours are not for us – we've all had the experience of people in a group that are so annoying that you spend half your time ducking them. Patsy did some research on Trip Advisor and found Jack at Killarney Taxi and Tours. Jack, it turns out, is a treasure. It's little wonder he gets rave reviews. Not only does he have wonderful recommendations, he acknowledged that we might want to spend a "wee bit of time in the pubs" AND he's taking us to the Skelligs Chocolate Factory. I love this guy already.
To top it off, well be spending our last night in Ireland at Dromoland Castle. Yes – a real castle for fake princesses! At the time we made the reservation the exchange rate between the Euro and the dollar was much better. If it keeps climbing at the current pace we may be Princess Dishwashers. Finally, I got my Ancestry DNA results in last week and I'm 20% Irish. More about that after my brother gets his results and we find out if we're really related. In the mean time, for the next couple of weeks, I'm going to be 100% Irish, visiting its wild coasts, singing "Ireland's Call" at a few pubs and paying homage to my ancestors. I'll keep you posted. They do have bail bondsmen in Ireland, don't they?


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So I mentioned elsewhere on the site we had an adventure filled trip back from Salmon on Saturday night. I just finished sending an email saying thanks to KE7KQB a ham radio operator in Oregon. The email explains what happend and how Ham Radio really came though (for me this time). So… I'll just post the email and let it explain.
Just wanted to say a big thanks for you help the other night/morning… My wife (KD7VKY) and I were driving back from Salmon, ID to Boise, had been visiting my parents for Christmas. We've driven those roads millions of times in all sorts of weather and on several occasions have had to stop and help other people who broke down or got stuck. That night the roads weren't especially bad, Banner summit had a foot of snow in the road since it has been plowed and an icy base under that, I was surprised the road was open from the number of avalanches we saw, none really big, but a lot of them. By the time we got down to lowman and turned onto the banks-lowman road, the road was a lot better and were out of the avalanches (so we thought).
About half way between Lowman and Garden Valley we went around a curve and there was a small avalanche on the right side of the road. I moved to the left but not far enough apparently (the stereotypical it happened so fast I'm not 100% sure what happened applies here) the next thing I know is we'd been turned and sent over to the ditch on the right side of the road. Both right wheels were off in the ditch and while I was still had momentum I tried to pull back out of the ditch, but it didn't work. To make maters worse, there had been another avalanche into the ditch and we nosed right into it. When I got out I found the hood of my Ford Ranger was buried in snow, both right side tires were off in the ditch and the road under the left two tires was solid ice.
It was around 10:15pm when this happened. We always call my parents when get to cell service back in Boise, they would have been expecting our call no later than midnight. At this point I figured we'd dig out and still make it to a phone in Garden Valley to call them so they wouldn't be worried or call the police.
I was fairly confident I could get out of it, but it'd take time. We hadn't seen another vehicle since back in Stanley, so I didn't expect to have help anytime soon. I always stress being prepared for anything. I always have food, water, warm clothes and everything needed to survive 72 hours in my truck no matter the season. I also have plenty of tools; shovel, hand winch, saw, tow straps, flashlights etc. "Just in case."
I guess I had been working for over an hour before I decided to turn the radio on and see if I could get anyone. Obviously we were no where near cell coverage. I have an HF radio in my truck but my antenna for it is disassembled for repair at the moment. I had a portable antenna kit that I could have put together if I really needed to. I turned on the 2m rig and tried all the repeaters and simplex. I've got a pretty nice 2m antenna that's served me well in the back country, I'm always amazed what I can get from where. I figured Shaffer Butte was my only chance, from previous experience while driving this road, and it was spotty at best. I knew the Cinnabar machine was out of the question, but tried it anyway, as well as every other memory in my radio, Simplex and even the Shaffer reverse pair. I finally dialed around to the Snowbank repeater surprised to say the least to hear it back. I know I can hit it in other places between Stanley and Boise but I really didn't expect to hit it from here. It had to take at least two bounces to make that path, especially considering I was up against a steep mountain blocking me in that direction. I'm sure the weather helped
It was around 10 or 15 degrees and snowing pretty hard, so I was cold from the weather and hot from all the work… Needless to say I was really happy when I heard you answer my call (not sure if you were on the .62 or if the link was up and you were on the .84). I was still 51% sure I could dig out, but wanted to let someone know where we were and to let my parents know we were ok. Given the number of avalanches we'd seen, I did have a thought in the back of my mind of a larger avalanche coming down the mountain and burying the truck. I know it wasn't the best signal and you had a hard time understanding me, it probably didn't help that I was a tad stressed, but you were great. I can't tell you how reassuring it was once I knew that we had a link to help if we needed it and you had called my parents to tell them know where we were and that we were ok. Just knowing someone knew where we were made an incredible difference.
It still took a LOT longer to dig/winch out than I would have thought. Apparently you gave your phone number to my parents, when you tried to call us for an update, both my wife and I were outside the truck and our new puppy (just picked him up that day) had stepped on the remote mic for the radio and turned it off). Given the lack of radio contact, this is probably when they left 3 messages on each phone we have, plus email and text messages, thinking we may have gotten out without letting them know. As I understand it, this is the point where my parents called the Boise County Sheriff's Office to report us missing in the area to see if anyone could drive out to check on us; The dispatcher told my parents no one was on duty and they didn't want to wake anyone up. (reassuring isn't it?) Wonder if they would have regretted that had another avalanche buried us and they found us dead the next morning?
I don't recall exactly but I guess it was around 2am when we finally got the truck back up onto the road and were able to get word out to you that we were moving again. We stopped in Garden Valley to change into warm clothes and made the rest of the trip uneventful. We did see one other avalanche on the banks-lowman road which had about eight to ten feet of snow across most of the road but were able ease around it. Glad we weren't involved with that one.
Again, I just wanted to say thanks. I've been working in or volunteering with emergency communications since I was 14, but this is the first time my rear end has been the one on the line, and I'm very thankful you were on the other end. It might not have been a life or death emergency at the moment, but who know what could have happened… Having someone know our location could have made the difference had something else gone wrong.
I'd also like to thank the Voice of Idaho Amateur Radio Club tech team as some of the upgrades made to the snowbank repeater in the last few years made it sensitive enough to pick up my weak signal where it wouldn't have in the past.73Zeb PalmerW7ATC/m


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VIENNA (AP) Organizers of a snowboard World Cup in the Austrian resort of Jauerling have called off the two-yearly event after two main sponsors withdrew.
The head of the organizing committee, Alpine skiing great Michaela Dorfmeister, told national broadcaster ORF ''we didn't manage to fully finance'' the two parallel slaloms scheduled for Feb. 13-14.
According to Dorfmeister, ''sponsors are holding back a lot of money for the public viewings'' during football's 2016 European Championship in June and July, as Austria has qualified for the competition for the first time.
The event in Jauerling attracted 5,500 spectators during its first edition in 2012, but had to be moved to another resort because of unfavorable weather two years later.