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FileSystemWatcher Class
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Listens to the file system change notifications and raises events when a directory, or file in a directory, changes.
To browse the .NET Framework source code for this type, see the Reference Source.
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
Initializes a new instance of the FileSystemWatcher class.
Initializes a new instance of the FileSystemWatcher class, given the specified directory to monitor.
|FileSystemWatcher(String, String)
Initializes a new instance of the FileSystemWatcher class, given the specified directory and type of files to monitor.
Gets a value indicating whether the component can raise an event.(Inherited from Component.)
Gets the IContainer that contains the Component.(Inherited from Component.)
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the component is enabled.
Gets or sets the filter string used to determine what files are monitored in a directory.
Gets or sets a value indicating whether subdirectories within the specified path should be monitored.
Gets or sets the size (in bytes) of the internal buffer.
Gets or sets the type of changes to watch for.
Gets or sets the path of the directory to watch.
Gets or sets an ISite for the FileSystemWatcher.(Overrides Component.Site.)
Gets or sets the object used to marshal the event handler calls issued as a result of a directory change.
Begins the initialization of a FileSystemWatcher used on a form or used by another component. The initialization occurs at run time.
Creates an object that contains all the relevant information required to generate a proxy used to communicate with a remote object.(Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Releases the unmanaged resources used by the FileSystemWatcher and optionally releases the managed resources.(Overrides Component.Dispose(Boolean).)
Ends the initialization of a FileSystemWatcher used on a form or used by another component. The initialization occurs at run time.
Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.(Inherited from Object.)
Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance.(Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Obtains a lifetime service object to control the lifetime policy for this instance.(Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Creates a shallow copy of the current MarshalByRefObject object.(Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Raises the Changed event.
Raises the Created event.
Raises the Deleted event.
Raises the Error event.
Raises the Renamed event.
A synchronous method that returns a structure that contains specific information on the change that occurred, given the type of change you want to monitor.
|WaitForChanged(WatcherChangeTypes, Int32)
A synchronous method that returns a structure that contains specific information on the change that occurred, given the type of change you want to monitor and the time (in milliseconds) to wait before timing out.
Occurs when a file or directory in the specified Path is changed.
Occurs when a file or directory in the specified Path is created.
Occurs when a file or directory in the specified Path is deleted.
Occurs when the instance of FileSystemWatcher is unable to continue monitoring changes or when the internal buffer overflows.
Occurs when a file or directory in the specified Path is renamed.
To view the .NET Framework source code for this type, see the Reference Source. You can browse through the source code online, download the reference for offline viewing, and step through the sources (including patches and updates) during debugging; see instructions.
Use FileSystemWatcher to watch for changes in a specified directory. You can watch for changes in files and subdirectories of the specified directory. You can create a component to watch files on a local computer, a network drive, or a remote computer.
To watch for changes in all files, set the Filter property to an empty string ("") or use wildcards ("*.*"). To watch a specific file, set the Filter property to the file name. For example, to watch for changes in the file MyDoc.txt, set the Filter property to "MyDoc.txt". You can also watch for changes in a certain type of file. For example, to watch for changes in text files, set the Filter property to "*.txt".
There are several types of changes you can watch for in a directory or file. For example, you can watch for changes in Attributes, the LastWrite date and time, or the Size of files or directories. This is done by setting the NotifyFilter property to one of the NotifyFilters values. For more information on the type of changes you can watch, see NotifyFilters.
You can watch for renaming, deletion, or creation of files or directories. For example, to watch for renaming of text files, set the Filter property to "*.txt" and call the WaitForChanged method with a Renamed specified for its parameter.
The Windows operating system notifies your component of file changes in a buffer created by the FileSystemWatcher. If there are many changes in a short time, the buffer can overflow. This causes the component to lose track of changes in the directory, and it will only provide blanket notification. Increasing the size of the buffer with the InternalBufferSize property is expensive, as it comes from non-paged memory that cannot be swapped out to disk, so keep the buffer as small yet large enough to not miss any file change events. To avoid a buffer overflow, use the NotifyFilter and IncludeSubdirectories properties so you can filter out unwanted change notifications.
For a list of initial property values for an instance of FileSystemWatcher, see the FileSystemWatcher constructor.
Please note the following when using the FileSystemWatcher class.
Hidden files are not ignored.
In some systems, FileSystemWatcher reports changes to files using the short 8.3 file name format. For example, a change to "LongFileName.LongExtension" could be reported as "LongFil~.Lon".
This class contains a link demand and an inheritance demand at the class level that applies to all members. A SecurityException is thrown when either the immediate caller or the derived class does not have full-trust permission. For details about security demands, see Link Demands.
The maximum size you can set for the InternalBufferSize property for monitoring a directory over the network is 64 KB.
Running FileSystemWatcher on Windows 98 is not supported.
The operating system and FileSystemWatcher object interpret a cut-and-paste action or a move action as a rename action for a folder and its contents. If you cut and paste a folder with files into a folder being watched, the FileSystemWatcher object reports only the folder as new, but not its contents because they are essentially only renamed.
To be notified that the contents of folders have been moved or copied into a watched folder, provide OnChanged and OnRenamed event handler methods as suggested in the following table.
Event Handler
Events Handled
Report changes in file attributes, created files, and deleted files.
List the old and new paths of renamed files and folders, expanding recursively if needed.
Note that several factors can affect which file system change events are raised, as described by the following:
Common file system operations might raise more than one event. For example, when a file is moved from one directory to another, several OnChanged and some OnCreated and OnDeleted events might be raised. Moving a file is a complex operation that consists of multiple simple operations, therefore raising multiple events. Likewise, some applications (for example, antivirus software) might cause additional file system events that are detected by FileSystemWatcher.
The FileSystemWatcher can watch disks as long as they are not switched or removed. The FileSystemWatcher does not raise events for CDs and DVDs, because time stamps and properties cannot change. Remote computers must have one of the required platforms installed for the component to function properly.
If multiple FileSystemWatcher objects are watching the same UNC path in Windows XP prior to Service Pack 1, or Windows 2000 SP2 or earlier, then only one of the objects will raise an event. On machines running Windows XP SP1 and newer, Windows 2000 SP3 or newer or Windows Server 2003, all FileSystemWatcher objects will raise the appropriate events.
Note that a FileSystemWatcher may miss an event when the buffer size is exceeded. To avoid missing events, follow these guidelines:
Increase the buffer size by setting the InternalBufferSize property.
Avoid watching files with long file names, because a long file name contributes to filling up the buffer. Consider renaming these files using shorter names.
Keep your event handling code as short as possible.
The following example creates a FileSystemWatcher to watch the directory specified at run time. The component is set to watch for changes in LastWrite and LastAccess time, the creation, deletion, or renaming of text files in the directory. If a file is changed, created, or deleted, the path to the file prints to the console. When a file is renamed, the old and new paths print to the console.
Use the System.Diagnostics and System.IO namespaces for this example.
using System; using System.IO; using System.Security.Permissions; public class Watcher { public static void Main() { Run(); } [PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Demand, Name="FullTrust")] public static void Run() { string[] args = System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs(); // If a directory is not specified, exit program. if(args.Length != 2) { // Display the proper way to call the program. Console.WriteLine("Usage: Watcher.exe (directory)"); return; } // Create a new FileSystemWatcher and set its properties. FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(); watcher.Path = args[1]; /* Watch for changes in LastAccess and LastWrite times, and the renaming of files or directories. */ watcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastAccess | NotifyFilters.LastWrite | NotifyFilters.FileName | NotifyFilters.DirectoryName; // Only watch text files. watcher.Filter = "*.txt"; // Add event handlers. watcher.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged); watcher.Created += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged); watcher.Deleted += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged); watcher.Renamed += new RenamedEventHandler(OnRenamed); // Begin watching. watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true; // Wait for the user to quit the program. Console.WriteLine("Press \'q\' to quit the sample."); while(Console.Read()!='q'); } // Define the event handlers. private static void OnChanged(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e) { // Specify what is done when a file is changed, created, or deleted. Console.WriteLine("File: " + e.FullPath + " " + e.ChangeType); } private static void OnRenamed(object source, RenamedEventArgs e) { // Specify what is done when a file is renamed. Console.WriteLine("File: {0} renamed to {1}", e.OldFullPath, e.FullPath); } }
for calling members of ProcessStartInfo. Demand value: LinkDemand; Named Permission Sets: FullTrust.
For a sample that uses the FileSystemWatcher class, see Using a FileSystemWatcher Component in a Windows Form
for deriving from the ProcessStartInfo class. Demand value: InheritanceDemand; Named Permission Sets: FullTrust.
Available since 1.1
Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.


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It's Kentucky Derby time! Next Saturday marks the 138th run for the roses at Churchill Down in Louisville, Kentucky. I'll be fortunate enough to be there for my first Derby. Hopefully it will be the first of many.
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This post is by Mark Scott Adams, a serial entrepreneur who has started, built and sold six businesses. He is also a full-time Amazon seller, author, speaker and creator of the popular Amazon training course FBA HeadStart.
I spend my days working as a full-time Amazon seller and helping my students private-label their Amazon products in my FBA HeadStart training program.
We cover a variety of questions and topics on a daily basis.
But still the most asked question I get from my students is…
How do I find products to sell on Amazon?
Quite frankly, this is actually a really good question. But the better question is "how do I find the right products and the right market?" The two go hand in hand.
I've seen Amazon sellers who get the market right and not much else, and still make money. I've also seen Amazon sellers who miss the market and get everything else right, and not do so well.
Since both are so important, what if you had a way to significantly better choose your markets and products? A way to score or analyze the numbers so you could see if you should proceed, before you invested time and money into a product?
That's why I created my Amazon Private Label Market and Product Checklist.
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I have put together an easy to follow and use checklist to help you determine if your market and product are viable as an Amazon private label product. It has a scoring system that will tell you if you should move forward with private labeling or keep looking.
You can also get the checklist as a 1-page PDF, with three free training videos.
Now let's break down each line and determine if we're on the right track. Give yourself the number of points for each line if you answer yes, or zero if no, and add your total at the end.
Is the Market Viable?
Make sure a national name brand item doesn't dominate the market
Score: 5
It will be really hard to compete with a national brand. For instance you don't want to sell cameras. Canon and Nikon would crush say for instance Mark's Cameras. But think about categories like kitchen items and any type of accessories where there is no national brand dominance.
The average sales price is between $15 and $60
Score: 5
You want to make sure you have enough margin to pay for marketing. You have to do the same work to sell items that are 50 bucks as you do for items that are 7 bucks. Unless you're Walmart, low profit/high volume is a tough game to win.
The sales rank is under 10,000 for each of the top three items
Score: 4
If you're going sell something you want to make sure there's enough volume to meet your income goals. It does no good to create an item for which there is very little demand.
It depends on the category and time of year but items in the 8,000-10,000 range are selling 4-6 items a day. Ranks from 5,000-8,000 are selling 6-10, ranks from 2,000-5,000 approximately 10-20 a day and under 2000, a gazillion a day.
Do each of the first three products have less than 400 reviews?
Score: 4
Reviews are critical in helping your item rank and extremely important in convincing your potential buyers to choose your product over a competitor.
400 reviews and above are not insurmountable, but it will take time, effort and money.
If multiple items have less than 400 reviews you have an opportunity to overtake them with good marketing.
Do the other products on the first page have less than 100 reviews?
Score: 5
There still is a lot of money to be made from other than the first three positions on the first page. Spot 7 may still be a $1,000-2,000 a month product. Very few people would complain about making this off just one of your products, month after month.
When several items have less than 100 reviews, it just means you have a pretty good shot at getting on the first page
The market has multiple keywords
Score: 5
Would your buyer search for your item under multiple keywords? The more you have, the better and the higher your sales.
For instance, if you sold cutting boards would some buyers search under chopping boards? By good marketing, you could rank for multiple keywords and significantly increase your sales.
All of the pay per click ads being used
Score: 1
If you see competitors using the side or bottom of the page Amazon PPC ads for extended periods of time, it means they are making money with the ads and there is money to be made in that market
There is no product video on the first page of Google for the main keyword
Score: 3
If you were to create a YouTube channel and put up a few demo videos of your products you could probably get your videos ranked in Google searches. The links in the video would lead to your Amazon product page.
The top 3 keywords combined have over 100k in searches
Score: 5
I recommend Merchant Words to check this. It's just a way to make sure there are enough searches so there will be enough buyers for your product.
Knowledgeable sellers in top listings
Score: 4
This may sound counter-intuitive, but if there are other people making money in the market then you can create a better product, get better pictures and copy, and surpass them in the listings. It validates that there are sales for this particular product.
Can you add value to the product?
Score: 4
Read the negative reviews and see what the customers don't like. Incorporate those improvements into your product. Can you bundle an accessory, can you maybe put two in one package, etc. Anything the customer can see as added value.
Are the products in the market durable?
Score: 5
When products are not durable or easily breakable, like drinking glasses, they tend to break in shipping. People will always blame you instead of Fedex and write 1-star reviews when this happens. Not your fault, but your sales will never be what they could be with those extra negative reviews.
Product is simple to use and won't need an instruction manual
Score: 3
If people don't understand something, they perceive it to be your fault. And they will write one-star reviews. When they misuse the product and it doesn't work correctly, they will blame you and write one-star reviews.
Think of something like a cutting board. No instructions needed really, as opposed to something they have to put together and is electric.
The product leads to reorders
Score: 5
Nice to sell once and then get reorders. Your business will grow each month. Supplements come to mind here.
Can the item be purchased as a gift?
Score: 3
Gift purchasing is huge. If you make your packaging look like a gift item for giftable items your sales will increase dramatically. Some people will buy the item for themselves and then go back and buy for others.
The product is not a commodity and not easily purchased at a big box store
Score: 2
A commodity item like, say a generic cutting board is easily purchased at a variety of stores and many people will buy locally. But if you create a specialty cutting board that has a unique feature like an antibacterial coating, it will be harder to find locally and most shoppers will first look online.
Is the Product Viable?
The product weighs less than a pound
Score: 4
The smaller the item, typically the less its weight. This makes shipping from the supplier much cheaper. It also makes the Amazon fees much less.
The product is small
Score: 4
Hold your hands together. That's about 8 x 8 x 8 inches. Now imagine your item. If it's no bigger than your hands it's probably small enough to get the lowest handling fees from Amazon.
Can you make the product stand out with better packaging?
Score: 5
Packaging is huge. With better packaging not only do you get more sales, but a premium price. You're trying to do something elegant like a jewelry store or a perfume bottle. Not packaging that is designed to hang on a hook in a retail store.
Can you purchase with shipping for less than 20% of the sales price?
Score: 5
Amazon takes usually 15% of you sales price as a sales commission. They will also have a handling fee and packing fee for about $2.50-$3.50 per item and up.
So for say a $15 retail sales price that would be $2.25 for your commission, say $2.5 for you Amazon fees. That leaves $10.25.
Subtract your 20% of for your item and shipping cost ($3) and you have $7.25 which is $15-7.75 =$7.25 profit which is a net profit of 48% (7.25 divided by 15). Not bad while sitting at your home office in pajamas or gym shorts.
You can make an initial purchase of less than 500 units
Score: 4
There is no need to put tons of money into your first order. You want to have enough inventory to cover your sales and promotions until you can reorder and get restocked, but too much inventory can be a profit killer.
Do You Have a Good Amazon Private Label Product?
Now add your points and see if you should proceed or not.
There you have it. My checklist is designed to help you make sure you have an excellent product and market.
You can go to my website and get a 1-page PDF of the checklist to help score your market and product, and I'll also show you some video training that will help you get started.
By the way, no product is ever 100 percent perfect. The checklist can of course be altered. But it's a great guideline to get started.
I and my students have been using this checklist for quite a while now. It will definitely help you refine your search, and prevent you from putting in unprofitable time and effort while creating a product.
Being an Amazon seller is a great place to be. It will be 6 months from now, and 6 years from now.
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For Immediate Release, August 19, 2009
Contact: Jeff Miller, Center for Biological Diversity, (510) 499-9185
Scientists Support Restoration of Sharp Park
Current Golf-course Management Incompatible With Restoring Endangered Species
SAN FRANCISCO— A group of prominent scientists today sent a letter to the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department urging restoration of wetlands habitat at Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica for the benefit of endangered San Francisco garter snakes and California red-legged frogs, and contending that current golf-course management activities are incompatible with restoring healthy populations of these endangered species. The signatories to the letter are biologists, herpetologists, ecologists, and hydrologists with collective expertise regarding wetlands habitats, the endangered species at the site, and amphibians and reptiles.
"Scientists familiar with Sharp Park have made it clear that restoration of the Sharp Park wetlands and surrounding habitat is a superior alternative for the long-term survival of the San Francisco garter snake and California red-legged frog than maintaining the current golf course," said Jeff Miller, conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. "This should put to rest the misguided notion that maintaining the current golf course is somehow compatible with restoring endangered species at this site."
The scientists note that restoration of Sharp Park wetlands and uplands habitats and connectivity with protected adjacent open space is the best option to ensure the long-term survival of the San Francisco garter snake and the California red-legged frog in the area. The scientists cited impacts to the endangered species at the golf course from mowing of greens and fairways, water pumping at a golf-course pond, destruction of gopher burrows that garter snakes and red-legged frogs depend upon, loss of upland habitat needed by the species for hibernation and cover due to vegetation management, and potentially harmful use of pesticides and fertilizers.
Sharp Park Golf Course is owned by the city and county of San Francisco but is located to the south of the city on the coast, in Pacifica. Its ongoing environmental problems are largely due to poor design and unfortunate placement. To create the course in the early 1930s, the Recreation and Park Department dredged and filled areas around a lagoon known as Laguna Salada for 14 months. Not surprisingly, Sharp Park has had problems with flooding and drainage ever since.
In May of 2009 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a Sharp Park restoration planning ordinance, which requires the Recreation and Park Department to develop a plan, schedule, and budget for restoring Sharp Park habitat for the California red-legged frog and the San Francisco garter snake, and to consider whether to transfer the property to, or develop a joint management agreement with, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Pacifica, or San Mateo County. An environmental review process is also underway for San Francisco's Natural Areas Program that will evaluate restoration alternatives for Sharp Park. Numerous conservation groups are advocating for review and selection of a full restoration alternative for Sharp Park.
The Department is reviewing three options for the park: closing the golf course and restoring it to create a natural preserve, keeping it as an 18-hole course while restoring some areas, or cutting the course to nine holes. In July the Recreation and Park Department attempted to appoint an infamous consultant known as a hired gun and advocate for development and anti-environmental interests as a so-called "peer reviewer" of the Sharp Park restoration alternatives, a divisive proposal that was shot down by conservation groups. The Department has missed the July 31 deadline for the alternatives report required by the supervisors' legislation.
"The Recreation and Park Department seems to believe the current golf course should be maintained, even though the scientific consensus is that the golf course and its management activities harm endangered species and are incompatible with their recovery," said Miller. "San Francisco has a golden opportunity to save taxpayers' money, preserve endangered species, and improve recreational access to our coast by choosing a full restoration option."
The operation and mismanagement of the golf course is undermining habitat-restoration work within the nearby Golden Gate National Recreation Area for the garter snake and the frog at adjacent Mori Point. Golf-course operations continue to illegally kill California red-legged frogs by draining and pumping the frog's aquatic habitats, stranding and desiccating frog eggs and killing tadpoles. Extremely rare San Francisco garter snakes have been killed by mowing grass in areas that snakes use for basking.
The Pacifica Planning Commission is considering a proposal to designate the golf course as a historic landmark, a tactic by the city of Pacifica to block any changes at the golf course. Such designation would harm restoration and recovery efforts for the endangered species at Sharp Park and would likely provoke a takings lawsuit by San Francisco and expose Pacifica to millions of dollars in liability. The National Park Service has adopted "no position" on the politically motivated landmark designation since it fails to provide any historic recognition to American Indian and World War II historic elements of the property. The Commission deadlocked on a vote on landmark status in July.
Last September the Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue San Francisco for illegally killing and harming endangered species at Sharp Park in violation of the federal Endangered Species Act. The Center has called on San Francisco to cease harming endangered species, restore wetlands and surrounding uplands habitat for endangered species, and provide more diverse recreational opportunities for the public at the site, including hiking trails and picnicking and camping facilities.
A broad coalition of community and conservation groups support Sharp Park restoration proposals, including the Center for Biological Diversity, Nature in the City, Neighborhood Parks Council, San Francisco Tomorrow, Golden Gate Audubon Society, Sequoia Audubon Society, Pacifica Shorebird Alliance, San Francisco League of Conservation Voters, Yerba Buena Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, Action for Animals, and Transportation for a Livable City.
The scientists that sent the letter are:
Robert Battalio, an engineer and consultant with Philip Williams & Associates, with extensive experience with coastal engineering and restoration of coastal lagoons and estuarine areas;
Peter Baye, Ph.D., a botanist and coastal plant ecologist with 30 years professional experience in applied ecology and botany, and with a career focus on coastal wetlands, dunes, and beaches;
Carlos Davidson, Ph.D., a conservation biologist and ecologist with expertise in conservation ecology and California amphibians, and director and associate professor in the Environmental Studies Program at San Francisco State University;
Robert C. Drewes, Ph.D., a biologist with expertise in herpetological systematics and ecological physiology, and curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences;
Ted Papenfuss, Ph.D., a zoologist with expertise in biogeography and systematics of amphibians and reptiles, and an amphibian and reptile research specialist with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley;
Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., a renowned botanist and president of the Missouri Botanical Garden, with expertise and many years of study on the plants of Central California;
H. Bradley Shaffer, Ph.D., an evolutionary and conservation biologist with expertise in conservation genetics and herpetology, with ongoing research on the California red-legged frog and other declining California amphibians and reptiles, and a professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis;
Todd Steiner, a biologist who conducted an early study of garter snakes and red-legged frogs at Shark Park for San Francisco in the 1990s, and the executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network; and
Samuel S. Sweet, Ph.D., a zoologist with expertise in vertebrate systematics, evolutionary morphology, and herpetology, and a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national nonprofit conservation organization with more than 225,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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The amendment bill has some provisions that could have serious consequences for licence holders and motor vehicle owners across South Africa.
AARTO held public hearings prior to adding amendments to the bill, which is set up to remove habitual traffic offenders from South Africa's roads and highways.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has also reportedly issued a countrywide instruction that all outstanding traffic fines issued in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA) should be cancelled after 18 months if no summons has been issued. This will apply to all South Africans who drive on behalf of companies.
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The bill will implement the points-demerit system
The points-demerit system comes in favour of driving traffic fine revenues for authorities but motorists will be have limited power to defend themselves should they receive a fine. Every driver starts with zero points and will have their licence suspended for three months if they exceed 12 points. The authorities will hold onto the drivers licence if it is suspended. The licence will be cancelled if a driver gets suspended three times.
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The bill calls for a designated authority to handle and keep records of all violations and infringements. Transport authorities claim that motorist fines will be increased.
Section 21 of the Act will be removed from the bill
The bill previously proposed a combination of harsh punishments for non-compliant offenders, which included seizing the driver's licence, removing the vehicles licence disc and impounding the vehicle in question all at the same time but this section since been removed.
Car owners can also be held liable for violations
If a car owner lends their car to someone or was not the one driving when a offense happens, they will be liable for the fine unless they have gathered all the details of the driver (full name, ID number, residential and business addresses and contact details).
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2013 is already looking up: Vulture has learned that A24 Pictures will be releasing Harmony Korine's cramazing Spring Breakers on March 22 in New York and Los Angeles, followed by a nationwide bow the following week. Need a refresher on the movie? (You should already have this committed to memory, but maybe you're new.) Spring Breakers stars Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine as four bikini-clad teens who turn to a life of crime to finance their spring-break vacation, though things take an even darker turn when the girls get mixed up with James Franco's cornrowed criminal Alien. This is also the movie where a shirtless Franco plays the Britney Spears song "Everytime" on a white piano at the beach as the girls dance around him wearing ski masks and toting shotguns. So, mark your calendars, basically. And here's some further enticement: We've got the U.S. teaser poster for your perusal. It features Vanessa Hudgens, and it's fluorescent as hell. Enjoy!


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Last month I wrote about some guy that people pay thousands of dollars per month to get access to his "network." He had reached out to me because he (incorrectly) thought I worked at Newsweek and wanted to connect one of his clients. Obviously this guy isn't someone you want to be paying to introduce you to people.
Someone I know recently sent me a Facebook message about this very topic. I didn't respond to the first message (I don't check FB messages religiously) and he sent a follow up:
This guy isn't the same buffoon that messaged me about Newsweek. He's a young entrepreneur trying to figure out if he can make money on the side connecting people to investors.
The answer is no.
Not directly anyway. There are still people out there trying to act as finders for investors, asking for a percentage of the amount raised or some other fee. These aren't the kinds of people that we or any other investors we know want to interact with, and we ignore them.
There are so many legitimate ways an entrepreneur can get attention from investors. It all starts with knowing at least one person already in the ecosystem, and all of us take cold calls and emails all the time. Show up in Silicon Valley and you'll make friends quickly, sans a fee. And there are so many channels for first time entrepreneurs to get in front of the right people – Y Combinator and the other incubators, AngelList, etc. If you're the real deal, someone will bite with just a little bit of persistence.
Showing up in Silicon Valley with a paid networker is like going to a holiday party with a prostitute. People are going to figure it out, and the people you want to be hanging out with are going to shun you. Because you're with a hooker.
That doesn't mean you can't leverage your network, though. That's the main point of networking. Bringing quality deals to an investor is valuable, and in some cases you can probably talk your way into advisor shares in the startup (people don't see this as prostitution, for whatever reason). And a young startup just getting attention in Silicon Valley may want to hire you as a consultant outright, either now or later, to help with general marketing and PR.
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At last Tuesday's Wildlife Committee meeting, police chief Dan Watson commented that there was a bit of a communications breakdown over Labor Day weekend when it came to bear complaint response.
Watson, who was out of town over the long weekend, said he is going to call for a conference with members of the U.S. Forest Service (who were not present at the wildlife committee meeting), Department of Fish and Game, as well as Mono County and Mammoth Lakes Police Department, to talk about these jurisdictional issues in the Mammoth area.
Two interfaces between humans and bears became areas of confrontation in the past week: the Labor Day Arts Festival at Sam's Woods, where a man was bitten, and the cabins up in the Lakes Basin where a bear has been rampaging and breaking into cabins looking for food. The bear behavior at Sam's Woods was clearly an accident, as a vendor surprised a bear as the man was walking back to his booth from the porta-potties and the stunned bear bit him. It wasn't a bad bite and the vendor has gone home, saying it was an accident. Police and Steve Searles responded.
Up at the Lakes Basin cabins, folks are not so complacent, as the bear is wreaking havoc with their homes. Nor is it a simple matter of whom to call. The area is in the jurisdiction of the Town of Mammoth Lakes, but the properties are on forest service land. Police can respond, but can discharge only non-lethal rounds.
While the vendors at the arts festival are still at the stage where they think the bears are cute, the people living in the cabins are under siege.
Every fall is different, but bears go where they smell food, and they have exceptional olfactory senses. Both Town and residents have buckled down and kept dumpsters closed and locked against the bears, but it seems the fringes are still prey to our ursine neighbors.
We applaud Chief Watson for his efforts and wonder why such a gathering hasn't been called before to clear up the jurisdictional confusion.
Unsigned editorials reflect the opinion of the Mammoth Times Editorial Board.


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Apple unveiled the new iPad Mini in San Jose's classy California Theater Tuesday and after the ceremony I got a quick hands-on with the new gadget.
Phil Schiller, Apple's vice president of international marketing, claimed during the presentation that this new release isn't just a "shrunken down iPad." Yet, from my quick time with the product, I'd have to say it is.
The iPad was a two-handed device. For some, the iPad Mini will be a one-handed device. And for business-folk and stay-at-home mom's alike, that frees up an extra hand to write on a whiteboard or feed a child. The body of the new model shrinks from 9.5 inches long to 7.87 inches. Diagonally, the new screen is 7.9 inches across from 9.7 inches.
Schiller made a lot of claims how the iPad mini is better than Google's Nexus 7, and just singling out that tablet in particular raised eyebrows. Google, along with Samsung and Microsoft, have come on strong lately in the tablet market and it was clear Apple had taken note of the search giant's offering. He argued that the new iPad's screen is 35 percent bigger than the Nexus 7 (which has a 7-inch diagonal) and after holding the new iPad, I can verify that the device and screen are bigger. I wanted to do a side-by-side with my Nexus 7 tablet but the diligent Apple employees watching our every move during the demos headed me off at the pass.
But the size is really the only difference — and again, not dismissing the importance. Otherwise, and according to Apple's official specs, this is a shrunken iPad, despite Schiller's claims. It runs on an A5 dual core processor and has 1024X768 screen resolution like the iPad 2; it has 1.2 megapixel photos and 1080p HD video recording like the new iPad with retina display.
The swiping, organization of apps and feel are all the same, otherwise.
From a usage standpoint, I can only really compare with my Nexus 7, which runs on the Android operating system. I use it easily with one hand while doing everything from cooking to watching football, and very much endorse the device. Though the Mini iPad is a bit bigger, folks should enjoy this more manageable tablet around the house or at work.


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AFG Alice 4-in-1 Crib and Grace 3-Drawer Changer, Espresso
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Forsan netters advance to regional finals
ODESSA — Forsan High School's Kyle Stevenson and Sydney Holdampf are one win away from a trip to the state tennis tournament.Stevenson and Holdampf, both juniors at FHS, each recorded two victories Wednesday to reach the boys' and girls' singles semifinal round, respectively, at the Region I-2A tennis tournament at Ratliff Stadium Tennis Complex.Stevenson opened tournament play be defeating Cody Asbury of Ingram Tom Moore, 6-3, 6-1. He then knocked off Ricardo Chavez of Dimmitt, 6-0, 6-0 to reach the semifinals, where he'll face Jesse Guerra of Tornillo at 8:30 a.m. today.A win over Guerra will put Stevenson in the singles championship match against either Tyson Turnbow of Muleshoe or Stefan Wilson of Ozona and guarantee him a spot in the University Interscholastic League state tennis tournament next month (the top two finishers qualify for the state meet).Holdampf opened girls' singles play with a 6-0, 6-0 whitewash of Jessica Pinon of Spearman, then bested Evelyn Godinez of Tornillo, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 in the quarterfinal round. She faced Lauren Zackett of Comfort in the semifinals.If he qualifies, it will mark Stevenson's second straight trip to the state tournament, while Holdampf is seeking her first berth at the state meet.In other results from the Region I-2A tennis tournament:• Coahoma's boys' doubles team of Aaron Gonzales and Jason Martinez were defeated in the quarterfiinal round of the tournament. They opened play with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Houston Casco and Josh Raiford of San Saba before falling short against the Wall duo of J.J. Cestero and Brice Conoly, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.• The Forsan girls' doubles team of Cheyenne Galloway and Rachael Haggard lost their opening round match against Tarah Crosby and Joannah Crosby of San Saba, 6-1, 6-1.• Stanton High School's boys' doubles team of Tyler Fulton and Grayson Gray lost their first-round match to Joe Torres and Justin Gannaway of Childress, 7-6, 7-6.• Both Stanton mixed doubles teams also lost in the first round. Josh Powell and Ashton Snellgrove fell to Garrett Nichols and Devin Wilde of Wall, 6-2, 6-4, while SHS' Tim Anderson and Whitney Brantley fell to Taylor Abercrombie and Sarah Crawford of Tuscola Jim Ned, 6-0, 6-3.Region II-1Atennis tournamentABILENE — Mixed doubles teams from Garden City and Grady assured themselves spots in the state tennis tournament by reaching the mixed doubles finals at the Region II-1A tennis tournament at the Rose Park Tennis Center Wednesday.Aaron Long and Taylor Hughes of Garden City will face the Grady duo of Shane Teague and Kelly Cook in today's regional championship.Grady boys' singles player John Ramirez also earned a trip to the state meet by reaching today's finals, as did the boys' doubles team of Johan Wiebe and Anibal Medina.Garden City's boys' double duo of Brett Chudej and Josh Colunga lost their semifinal match, but will play for third place — and the possibility of a play-back match — today.Garden City's other regional qualifier, the girls' doubles team of Cathy and Rachel Hirt, lost in the quarterfinal round Wednesday.


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Shorty-Chic Scarf
Added Sep 30, 2009
Toronto, Canada
This scarf was made from a pair of grey wool trousers, destined for the charity bin. I decided to re-purpose the garment into as many new items as possible.
For this project, I used the better part of one trouser leg. I lined the back with some soft brushed cotton fabric featuring a lovely botanical print in an Autumn colour palette. Ruffles were added (of course!) to the ends of the scarf. I used three buttons from the original garments waistband to embellish the edge and to give it what I think is a more distinguished look.
It is on the shorter side for a scarf, but it is perfect for my fitted jackets, when I don't want to have excessive bulk tucked in at my chest. Though, I would not want to ever tuck it in and hide the super-girlie ruffle action!
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Grey wool flannel, brushed cotton, thread, buttons
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Oct 18, 2009, 12.18 AMby flightlessbird
Love, love, love this. . . will have to make something similar. Tnx for the great idea.
Oct 9, 2009, 05.05 AMby chloenixon16gmailcom
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Oct 2, 2009, 05.39 PMby jayn
woooowwww loing it i want one might have to steal partners trousers
Oct 1, 2009, 08.35 PMby milkyway
what a great ideaaaaaaaaa is lovely
Oct 1, 2009, 07.34 AMby thecuriouskiwi
Wow, very funky and chic, I love it. What a great use of a thrifty find and those buttons are wonderful. I'll have to keep your fantastic idea in mind for when winter rolls around next year :)
Sep 30, 2009, 07.06 AMby looby-lou-1
that is beautiful – love the ruffles :-)
Sep 30, 2009, 05.16 AMby allygally
I love this, what a great idea!
Sep 30, 2009, 03.16 AMby ink
This scarf is truly chic! HELLO fellow Torontonian ! (I miss Toronto dearly and Canada!) Your scarf is really, really, beautiful. Looks so rich like a well worn leather couch is what I first thought of when I saw it. So I was doubly thrilled to see that it was a pair of wool trousers! I love this, and I love those buttons. Are the buttons common or did you get them somewhere special——The buttons are perfect for your creation. Great job!
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Sep 30, 2009, 03.33 AMby littlepinkbutton
Hello ink!
Warm greetings, my fellow Toronto-gal! I hope things are well in South Carolina.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I truly appreciate them. This was a fun project for me to take on and I really enjoyed making this. Now I seem to be looking at every old garment twice (Do I really still need that? Am I going to wear that again?).
The buttons actually came with the trousers. There were 6 in total with one extra sewn into the lining of one of the legs. I love them too. I just had to use them, they look so vintage and chic. I will note that I have seen similar (though not exact) buttons at a few local fabric stores here in Toronto. I also came across a few at an antique mall.
Sep 30, 2009, 03.13 AMby knt831
Very cute! I like this a lot. What else have you made out of those pants??
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Release Date: 1997
Platform: PC, PSX
Note: Review was originally posted September 21, 1999
I should say at the very top of this review that Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (Circle of Blood in the US) is my all-time favorite game. It simply enchanted me from the very first moment with its beautiful animation, entertaining dialog, and killer story. Well, after falling in love with Circle of Blood, you can imagine how eager I was to get my hands on this sequel to it. The verdict? Well, the short answer is that I was not overwhelmed but not disappointed, either. Smoking Mirror is a worthy follow-up to a superior game.
Like the first Broken Sword, the format of this game is high-quality 2D animation. In other words, yes, it's a third-person cartoon game. But don't let you put that off. Like the first game, these are beautiful cartoons indeed.
The game begins in Paris again, with our hero George and his maybe girlfriend Nico visiting a mysterious archaeologist. Not surprisingly, things go very wrong very quickly, and George is off on another globe-trotting adventure.
The gameplay is a bit streamlined from the first game. There are fewer opportunities to choose among different locations to visit next. After leaving Paris, the game is strictly linear. I know linearity has a bad reputation in adventure games, but I am one gamer who prefers and really appreciates linearity. In each sequence of this entertaining game, you figure out clear and concise goals that you must accomplish in order to move the story forward.
That having been said, I'm going to contradict myself a bit and say that Smoking Mirror suffers a bit from this loss of complexity. In the first section of Circle of Blood, you gradually had more and more available locations to choose from as you run around Paris. This added a fun strategy element to the game: "Okay ... where do I go next? The museum? The Hotel? Nico's apartment?"
Time to Make a Boat out of a Paper Clip!
Instead of traditional puzzles, like picking locks or fiddling with levers, the puzzles in Smoking Mirror are more of the McGuyver type. An example from one of my favorite scenes, which takes place in a sinister Marseilles dock warehouse: "How can I block the electric eye of the elevator to keep the bad guys away and get to the hydraulic pallet to lift the statue on the pallet up to where I can hook it to the block and tackle with the rope so I can use the statue to crash through the locked wooden door so we can escape?" Now, this kind of challenge is Big Time fun for this adventure gamer, believe me!
In another sequence, you have to figure out how to sneak aboard a tightly guarded barge without getting shot by thugs. This is really, really fun stuff, the kind that makes you look up at the clock and say, "Uh, wow, does that clock really say 3 a.m.? Oops."
True Two-Character Action
One extremely nice new development in the gameplay is that through much of the second half of the game, you play George and Nico separately. Each character is off on his or her own thread of the adventure, and you have to gradually work out the obstacles in order to get the two stories to dovetail back together. I found Nico to be rather passive in the first game, and consequently this was a very welcome element.
The interface is simple, nonintrusive, and easy to use.
Is this second Broken Sword better than the first? No, it's not. It's not quite as good as the first game. But, as Circle of Blood is a masterpiece, second-best is very good indeed.
A Roller Coaster Story
One way this game falls a bit short is that the story seems a bit rushed and confused. The main villain is so far in the background that he's almost invisible.
The hand-painted backgrounds are consistently stunningly beautiful, and the almost-full-screen play area is a welcome relief after recent painful experiences I've had with inexcusably small playing screens in other games. The whole look of the game is reminiscent of a high-quality animated film. The music is also evocative, subtle and effective.
Final Grade: C
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SVGA with 1 MB
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Kelly Layman
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Statement by State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan Regarding Disability History and Awareness Events (October)
State education officials K-20 gather Monday with stakeholders at kick-off
"I have more than 9,000 reasons to be excited for this time of reflection and awareness, because that"s right about how many students with disabilities seek services at our 11 state universities out of more than 300,000 a year. There are even more young adults who attend our institutions and who have attained complete independence and do not need special services – some of those students, in fact, have been assisted during the past 15 years by the System"s partnership with and administration of the Theodore R. and Vivian M. Johnson Scholarship Fund, which has provided more than $6 million in need-based aid to students with disabilities."
Johnson Scholarship recipients who have graduated in 2010 to date from a state university have earned degrees in mathematics, electrical engineering, hospitality management, music, social work, education and health administration. The Johnson Scholarships are administered through the Florida Board of Governors Foundation, Inc.
At the event Monday will be information from several state universities as to their specific services for students with disabilities. The State University System"s exhibit table also will include information and application forms for the next annual Johnson Scholarships awards.
The first two weeks of October were designated in Florida law as Disability History and Awareness Instruction Weeks beginning in 2008. The law encourages the DOE"s school districts to provide disability history and awareness instruction to expand students" knowledge, understanding, and awareness of individuals with disabilities, the history of disability education and the disability rights movement.
There also will be a performance at the Monday event by the 2009 Very Special Arts Florida young soloist Erin Cheeseborough of Tallahassee.
Brogan will participate in a kick-off event Monday, Oct. 4, at 11 a.m. with host, Dept. of Education Commissioner, Dr. Eric Smith, and other state education officials, in the Turlington Building lobby, 325 W. Gaines St., Tallahassee. The event will have refreshments sponsored by Florida Developmental Disabilities Council. Exhibit tables include the Clearinghouse Information Center, Florida Division of Career and Adult Education, Division of Blind Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Division of Florida Colleges, and the State University System, as well as Family Café, Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology, Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources System Center, Florida Developmental Disabilities Council, Florida Disabled Outdoors Association, Florida Youth Council, Project Transition Education Network and VSA Florida, the state organization on disability and arts.
For more information on Monday"s event, contact Kathy Burton at 850-245-0478 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Question In women who are overweight and binge eat, is a non-dieting intervention as effective as a behavioural dieting intervention?
Randomised controlled trial with follow up at 6 and 18 months.
Texas, USA.
219 women between 25–50 years of age (mean age 40 y, 85% white) who responded to media advertisements and were 14–41 kg overweight; scored >20 on the Binge Eating Scale (BES); had no history of diabetes, cardiovascular, or gastrointestinal diseases; had no purging behaviour within the previous 6 months; were not pregnant or breast feeding; had physician clearance for a walking regimen; were not enrolled in another weight loss programme; and did not smoke.
Women were allocated to dieting treatment (DT) (n=79), non-dieting treatment (NDT) (n=78), or to a waiting list control (WLC) group (n=62). Participants in the 2 treatment groups attended 24 weekly 1 hour group sessions led by a psychotherapist and a dietitian and 26 biweekly maintenance classes led by a dietitian only. DT focused on self control methods to regulate eating and exercise patterns and included instruction on ways to reduce fat intake to 40 g/day and a home based walking regimen (4–5 h/wk). NDT was based on a philosophy that a history of diet failure and binge eating is associated with a dysfunctional set of cognitions and attitudes that affect the development of healthy lifestyle patterns. An initial psychotherapeutic phase addressed the psychology of being obese in a culture that values thinness, as well as self esteem and body issues. The aim was to ensure that new eating and exercise patterns were perceived as positive lifestyle changes to improve health and energy rather than punitive burdens associated with obesity. Goals included a gradual reduction in dietary fat and a self regulated home based walking programme. The WLC group was assessed at baseline and 6 months, but received no other contact.
Main outcome measures
Weight, eating dyscontrol (BES), and physical activity (7 d recall method) were assessed in all groups after treatment (6 mo) and in the 2 intervention groups at 18 months.
Main results
At 6 months, the DT group had lost 0.57 kg, whereas the NDT group had gained 1.35 kg (p<0.04), but neither were significantly different from the WLC group (p=0.26 and p=0.70, respectively). The DT and NDT groups had similar reductions in binge eating scores (p=0.27), and both of these reductions were greater than for the WLC group (p<0.001). At 18 months, the DT and NDT groups had similar weight gains of >1 kg above baseline (p=0.85), similar net decreases in BES scores from baseline (p=0.66), and maintained increases in exercise (2.09 kJ/kg/d [0.50 kcal/kg/d] and 3.01 kJ/kg/d [0.72 kcal/kg/d], respectively). Intention to treat analyses showed similar results.
In women who were obese and were binge eaters, neither a non-dieting nor a dieting intervention resulted in weight loss at 6 months when compared with a waiting list control group; both interventions reduced binge eating. At 18 months, the 2 treatment groups had similar weight gains and decreases in binge eating scores, and both maintained modest increases in exercise.
The problem of weight reduction using psychotherapeutic and dietary interventions is complex and poorly understood. Although many dietary weight loss interventions target healthy eating and behavioural strategies, this study by Goodrick et al is unique because the investigators developed an intervention targeted at the psychological issues of obesity, binge eating, and weight loss attempts. At the core of this intervention was psychotherapeutic counselling that included binge/diet cycling, desensitisation to body thinness, and self and body acceptance strategies.
The participants were predominantly white and well educated (24% had college degrees and 65% had some college). Because obesity affects more minority women, particularly women of low socioeconomic status, the application of these findings to other groups, especially those who are most vulnerable to this health problem, is limited. The 2 intervention groups were not entirely distinct; both were encouraged to exercise, received instruction in low fat eating strategies, and were given the opportunity to explore the psychology of obesity as a stigma in American culture. It would have been interesting to see the effect of a "walking alone" intervention. Recording of actual binge episodes could have strengthened the study.
The results of this study provide interesting, although limited, information for clinicians in primary care settings who care for overweight and obese women. The interventions focused not only on health promotion targeted towards appropriate intake of dietary fats and exercise but also on the stigma that overweight and obese women experience in our society. Although no differences were found in the outcomes of the 2 interventions, nurses in ambulatory clinical settings can learn from this study's methods and results. Too few clinicians recognise the complexity of issues surrounding weight management. This study emphasises the psychotherapeutic aspects of weight management and informs clinicians of the need to more fully explore multiple strategies of weight management techniques beyond basic diet and exercise counselling.
Sources of funding: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and American Heart Association and its Puerto Rican Affiliate.
For correspondence: Dr G K Goodrick, Behavioral Medicine Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, 6535 Fannin, Mailstop F-700, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Fax +1 713 798 4888.
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This weekend is all about adventure, just for you and your friends! Grab your adventurers and head for an exciting night safari in Munnar, through the forests of Chinnar! Exult in a wonderful experience with your close friends and let the thrill of discovering wildlife and exotic animals in a beautiful environment blow your mind away! Enjoy every minute of your holidays as you drive through the wonderful expanse of Munnar! A Jeep safari to the Chinnar Wild Life Sanctuary or Top Station through the road gives you a lifetime's chance to spot exotic wildlife creatures like elephant, bison, spotted deer, hanuman monkeys, tigers, panthers etc in their natural habitat. Let your senses and happiness go in the fun and excitement of an amazing safari in Munnar and revel in the wide and thick expanse of dark green treasures in the hills of the place!
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