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On December 12 the much-anticipated WordPress 3.8 was released.
WordPress 3.8 release highlights include a dashboard makeover as well as a few changes to the core functionality of WordPress.
If you have not upgraded to version 3.7, you might want to just skip that step and directly upgrade to version 3.8. By now this release has been out long enough to give WordPress developers a chance to address any bugs or issues that surface.
Generally, it's a good rule of thumb to wait one week before upgrading to a new release.
1. Plugin Integration
Several popular plugins were integrated into the WordPress core. These core changes are responsible for:
==> Customized color schemes in the dashboard
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==> A simplified widget area
==> Themes area updated which allows keyboard navigation via arrow keys
2. Responsive Dashboard
One of the nicest changes is that the dashboard is now responsive. This is great news for people on the go who need to keep their WordPress sites up to date. Every now and then I've had to work in the dashboard on my smartphone, which has been cumbersome and time-consuming.
3. PHP and Javascript Coding Changes
Additionally, changes are being made to the PHP and JavaScript Coding Standards for those of you who work with the WordPress core.
4. No Turning Back – Yet!
So once you upgrade you can't revert back to the old dashboard. However, I've heard that several plug-ins are in the works to solve this issue. Just be sure to back up your site in case you need to restore it!
5. Possible Issues with Thesis
Several WordPress groups have reported issues with Thesis 2.1 and WordPress 3.8. I am not using Thesis, but I did some poking around and discovered that there is an error in WordPress 3.8 code which should be fixed with version 3.8.1. A Thesis user did report he upgraded to 2.1.6 and tested under WordPress 3.8 and was satisfied with results.
If anyone has other information to share about Thesis, please leave a comment!
Step-by-Step Upgrade Procedure
1. Backup your site including the database and all files prior to upgrading to 3.8.
2. Deactivate your caching plug-in: W3 Total Cache, Quick Cache, or Super Cache.
3. Delete the cache.
4. Update any third-party plugins.
5. Update your theme framework.
6. Update WordPress.
7. Reactivate your caching plugin.
8. Test your site; take a quick tour and make sure everything works okay.
If you don't have automatic updates enabled on your WordPress site, make sure to upgrade to WordPress 3.8.1 Maintenance Release.
Have you upgraded yet? If so, what do you think of WordPress Release 3.8?


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A bit player has a small or unimportant role in something.
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|In this Iron Bowl, the Tide was able to shutout the Tigers 28-0 to close the regular season as SEC champions. In the first, Jerry Brown caught a 17 yard Richard Todd pass to put the Tide up 7-0. Bama scored twice in the third on a pair of Richard Todd runs (33 and 14 yards). Ozzie Newsome ended Alabama's scoring for the day with a 24 yard touchdown reception in the fourth. The 1975 squad finished the season with a record of 11-1, as SEC champions, and with a victory in the Sugar Bowl for Coach Bryant.


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If the accident is relatively minor, then you should exchange information with the other driver – names, phone numbers, and insurance contacts. Should you have a camera on-hand, then it would be wise to document the scene. Also note the location of the incident as well as the current weather conditions.
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Having worked with so many of Ireland's top heritage and visitor attractions I decided to compile a list of some of the things that don't always get the attention they deserve. The best visitor experiences are those where the customer is to the forefront of decisions at every single stage of the journey; from the menu, to what staff wear, to how often toilets are cleaned! A whole host of factors influence a customer to recommend a visit or post a positive review. It's not just the core product. It's a sobering thought that while most of the investment goes into the core product – the building, the exhibition, the tour, the audio visual – it's often the ancillary elements of the experience that are as big an influence on customer satisfaction.
In no particular order…
1. People often remember the café more than the very expensive exhibition
Whether the exhibition cost a few thousand or a few million, it's can be quickly forgotten if the customer has a poor experience in the café. International visitors, in particular, want to try local food and will often spend more in the café than on their admission. Keep the menu short, use local produce and serve it to customers by engaged, enthusiastic staff. It's easy to get a coffee and a muffin in a service station – make sure your café offering is the very best it can be.
2. Hide the wheelie bin
The old cliché; first impressions count. Look at your business as your customer sees it and you'll see it differently. You know that Wednesday is bin day but make sure that a wheelie bin is not the very first thing the customer sees when they arrive. This was my experience at one of Ireland's finest country houses at 3.00 in the afternoon. The rest of the visit was good but the first thing in view for visitors was a row of wheelie bins
3. The customer journey starts long before they arrive
How you (and your staff) handle pre visit telephone and email enquiries will either convert an enquiry to a sale or send the customer elsewhere. I'm often amazed at how badly email enquiries are handled – ranging from no response at all to a curt one liner with a sort of 'take it or leave it' message. When the phone is answered by a friendly voice who genuinely wants to help, the customer journey is off to a great start. When it's not, you'll probably never meet that customer – they'll just go elsewhere.
4. Make it easy for customers to find you
On your website, give written directions as well as a link to Google maps. Not everyone uses a smart phone on holiday – some prefer printed directions. If someone gets lost because you don't made it easy for them to find you, they arrive frazzled and the visit gets off to a bad start.
5. Customer care has a direct effect on profit
To paraphrase Michael O'Leary, being nice to customers doesn't come naturally to him. But Ryanair has increased profits by 66% and they're putting a good chunk of that success down to their "Always Getting Better" customer experience programme. How you treat customers has a phenomenal effect on sales and profit. Who you recruit and how you train them are key business decisions. Remember too that the best form of leadership is showing staff how to deal with customers by your own example.
6. What staff wear
Just like staff choose to wear a smile to work or not, the clothes they choose to wear influence the visitor's experience. If there is no staff uniform, be sure to provide guidelines on what is appropriate. Or better still for heritage attractions, when staff are dressed in character it adds enormously to the authenticity of the visitor experience.
7. Get the visit off to a good start
For self-guiding tours, the customer will have a much better experience if you set the scene and put the story and the site in context. It's not enough to hand a leaflet to the customer and point them towards a door. A brief introduction from staff or a three-minute video will help customers get a sense of what's to come. Then they'll have a better visit and will tell others about it.
None of this is rocket science, but it's the little things that make the difference. Happy customers can be your best sales people, so it pays to put them first.


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4 Bedroom(s)3 Bathroom(s)1 Living/Dining Rooms2 Kitchen(s)
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- Beach: 25 minsGolf: 10 minsMotorway: 10 minsTown: 5 mins
We are pleased to offer this beautiful 4 bedroom Luxury Villa.
Ideally located just South of Alicante and close to the international airport, Aspe is a very Spanish town well situated for easy access to both the North and South Costa Blanca
A lovely 4 bedroom 3 bathroom detached Villa, with large gardens and Satellite tv. The Villa has good outside space with a large private 16 x 8m2 pool, sun terraces and garden area. The beautiful blue flag beaches at La Marina are 25 minutes by car with several championship golf courses just a short drive away. An excellent family property for short lets
Alenda championship Golf Courses within 10 minutes drive from this property.
The unspoilt and beautiful beaches of La Marina and Guardamar are within a 25-minute drive from this property.
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The living room area is equipped with two sofas, TV and TV unit, coffee table, open fire place and door which leads out to the terrace with table and chairs with view's of the pool and the gardens. The main eating area for many people is outside on the terrace or BBQ area
The kitchen comes fully equipped with washing machine, fridge freezer, dishwasher, oven, hob, micro- wave, kettle, utensils and crockery and cutlery are on hand as you would expect. Dining area for up to 6 adults is provided in the lower level of the kitchen
Master bedroom double bed, bedside cabinets and chest of draws. En-suite with corner bath and shower, WC and wash hand basin.
2nd bedroom is equipped with, two single beds, bedside cabinet and chest of draws.
3rd bedroom is equipped with double bed, bedside cabinet and chest of draws.
4th bedroom is equipped with double bed, bedside cabinet
The main bathroom has a full-size bath, shower, WC and wash hand basin.
2nd En-suite bathroom with bath shower, WC and wash hand basin.
3rd WC and wash hand basin.
16 x 8 m2 swimming pool with roman steps, shower, sun loungers,sitting area with table and chairs B.B.Q area with table and chairs. Sun terrace with table and chairs.
Only a 10 minute walk from the Supermarket and plenty of bars some offering night time entertainment, restaurants and shops in Aspe.


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What a difference a dialer makes. Well, a good one at least…
When Voxco first opened its doors over 25 years ago, we were known as an industry-leading vendor of phone survey center software and hardware. Nothing has changed in those terms since then – Voxco still leads the industry in phone survey systems. But the channel has gone through some dramatic fluctuations since then. Our phone survey system has adapted to keep pace, but the industry itself has evolved to a point where every dollar matters.
New survey call centers aren't opening their doors very often. Those that remain stay very busy and remain an important part of the MR landscape, but their profit structures are changing. Their bottom lines become more fragile as researchers branch out into online and mobile survey solutions, and respondents become harder to reach on the phone.
From twenty-five years' worth of conversations that we have had with clients and other industry thought-leaders, it is clear that productivity is the only metric that truly matters to a phone survey center's profitability. And the cornerstone of maintaining that productivity? A good dialer, which will make or break your ROI.
Dialing Productivity
Phone survey center productivity is essentially evaluated by how quickly the dialer connects interviewers to respondents. Downtime between calls adds up dramatically: if an unproductive dialer adds just 5 extra minutes of interviewer downtime in an hour, a 100-seat call center wastes over 65 hours every day. This simple calculation tells you how essential a productive dialer is to an organization's bottom line.
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Voxco Dialer is designed by researchers, and for researchers. The dialing algorithms are fine-tuned based on ideal research connection speed and realistic drop rates. It's packed with advanced features that are developed with researchers in mind (ability to accept inbound calls, transfer out, direct conference, partial recording, audio playback, and more). There is no other dialer on the market that's more tailored to phone survey organizations.
Dialer Flexibility
But even though the out-of-the-box dialer is designed for research usage, it still further adapts itself to your own call center's reality. It can be used in five different dialing modes that quickly connect calls, regardless of your interviewer methodology. Over time it balances its dialing algorithms based on your own call center's statistics, and pro-actively cleans out-of-service numbers to eliminate time wasted on bad calls. Voxco Dialer is always working behind the scenes to optimize its own productivity to the reality of today's phone survey center.
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Note that quick connections don't matter if the work itself is done in a sloppy way. Unlike most out-of-the-box dialers, Voxco Dialer is packed with real-time monitoring and reporting tools to constantly track project and productivity. Call recording and live audio monitoring let your managers qualitatively evaluate interviews. So you'll know if you're maximizing its potential.
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The party is over in one of Mexico's ritziest resort towns following a government raid – and it may never be the same again.
Tulum, the resort town on Yucatán Peninsula along the Caribbean Sea, has long catered to well-heel pleasure seekers. But last week, about 500 private security guards and Tulum municipal police officers raided the town's Punta Pierda zone forcibly evicting 16 hotels and restaurants, according to Mexico New Daily.
The security forces are to have fired guns into the air and tossed tear gas canisters into crowds when some business owners and patrons resisted.
The chaos is said to have stemmed from an alleged breach of an oral lease contract between business owners and the municipality. However, locals say that the raid, where furniture and personal possessions were seized, was ordered by Quintana Roo Governor Roberto Borge.
"We know well that all this is in response to the sale — with false documents — of several beachfront pieces of land by the governor. Now, before he leaves office, he wants to make sure he doesn't lose what he earned from the sale," one eviction victim said, adding that they had been paying the agreed upon rent all along.
The businesses were given no notice of the eviction.
Town and Country notes that oral rent agreements with hotels and local governments are "the norm, not the exception."


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UK Orphan Works Law Takes Effect: Similar US Law Is Increasingly Unlikely
Posted by David Walker on Monday November 24, 2014 | Copyright/Legal
Posted by David Walker on Monday November 24, 2014 | Copyright/Legal
A controversial "orphan works" law, making it legal under certain conditions to use photos and other creative works belonging to copyright owners who cannot be located, took effect took effect October 29 in the United Kingdom. Efforts to enact a similar law in the US continue to languish.
Orphan works laws reduce the legal risk for publishers, film makers, museums, libraries, universities, and private citizens who want to use copyrighted works, but cannot locate the copyright owners of those works. The laws are intended to make the works available for public benefit, provided users conduct a "diligent search" for the owners before using the works. But photographers, artists, and their trade groups have resisted the laws, fearing they will end up protecting infringers who don't search diligently for copyright owners. Some opponents fear that orphan works laws may even give infringers incentive to turn traceable works into orphan works by stripping away credits and other metadata.
But so far, the new UK law is causing little worry. "I don't think it's going to be a problem for photographers," says David Hoffman of Editorial Photographers UK (EPUK).
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and other US photo trade groups that issued dire warnings two years ago that the UK law would bring about "a firestorm of international litigation" are mostly quiet now. "I think the law they've come out with [in the UK] is pretty reasonable," says Eugene Mopsik, the outgoing executive director of the ASMP.
He adds, "Personally, I'd be shocked if my sister associations weren't agreeable to [a US law like the one] fashioned in UK, with a proviso that some means be put in place for reasonable compensation" when an owner of what was thought to be an orphan work steps forward.
ASMP, Professional Photographers of America (PPA), American Photographic Artists (APA), Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and other US trade groups have staunchly resisted passage of an orphan works law in the US in any form that would be acceptable to libraries, museums, and others who have pushed for such a law. Orphan works bills have so far failed twice in Congress–in 2006 and 2008. An effort initiated by the US Copyright Office to try again has stalled. (More on that shortly.)
Hoffman says the UK law addresses the concerns of copyright owners with extensive guidelines for determining whether a work is "orphaned." The law requires applicants to submit evidence that they satisfied the "diligent search" requirements. (To see those guidelines, visit the website of the British Intellectual Property Office (IPO), the UK equivalent of the US Copyright Office.)
The guidelines, drafted by Hoffman and others representing the interests of copyright holders, are onerous enough to discourage most people from applying to the IPO for an orphan work usage license. "It would be much easier to go to a photo agency to license something else, unless there's a specific picture you really, really want," Hoffman says.
Moreover, commercial users cannot use orphan works free-of-charge: They will have to pay license fees to the Intellectual Property Office. The fees would be paid to the copyright holder, should he or she step forward and claim ownership of the orphan work at a later date.
Here in the US, the orphan works bills that died in Congress were similar to the UK law, but had important differences. The US laws also would have required would-be users of orphan works to conduct "diligent searches," with the details of the procedures and guidelines for such searches left for the US Copyright Office to figure out.
But unlike the UK law, which gives the Intellectual Property Office power to set fees for use of orphan works, the US laws would have left it up to users and owners of orphan works–in cases where owners eventually stepped forward–to negotiate a "reasonable" fee for the use. If the parties disagreed, the copyright owner could sue in court for a "reasonable" fee, but not for damages.
Both US bills ran into resistance from copyright owners and their representatives, who considered the proposed laws too complicated and too unfair to creators.
The US Copyright Office has tried in the past two years to revisit the issue, with hopes of reviving orphan works legislation in Congress. That effort appears to be going nowhere. (The Copyright Office did not respond to PDN's calls or emails.)
One reason the effort has stalled is because the Library Copyright Alliance, which had been one of the biggest advocates in the past for an orphan works law, has stopped pushing for it. The reason is because the LCA believes that federal courts have expanded fair use protections to the point where most uses of orphan works by libraries would now qualify as fair use.
The LCA has recently declared that another orphan works bill "is bound to fail" because "there is less agreement now than six years ago both on the existence of a problem and the best approach to solve it" and that "the divisions between different communities may be even deeper now than before."
A number of organizations representing copyright holders have recently told the US Copyright Office they would support an orphan works law, provided it includes caveats. But some of those caveats are unacceptable to many advocates for an orphan works law.
For instance, American Photographic Artists (APA) wants to make users of orphan works subject to actual damages, statutory damages, and attorneys' fees for infringement. With no threat of damages, the APA argues, infringers can strip images of identifying information, call them "orphan works," and avoid penalty.
For advocates of an orphan works law, however, the whole point is to shield good-faith users of orphan works from costly damage awards for infringement.
In addition, ASMP and NPPA are both calling for an orphan works law that provides creators with a "small claims process" where they can enforce their rights in cases where they have disagreements with users of orphan works.
A "small claims process" would make it easier and less costly for photographers to press infringement claims against users of orphan works. But setting up copyright small claims courts would require a separate, significant change in copyright law that raises constitutional issues about legal due process for infringers. And advocates of orphan works laws are highly unlikely to agree to adjudicate disagreements in special courts that give legal advantages to copyright holders.
Mopsik says the call for a small claims copyright court "is something we'd love to see," but wouldn't be a deal killer. He emphasizes that he will soon be stepping down as ASMP executive director, and doesn't know what stance his successor or the ASMP board will take on the issue in the future.
Posted by David Walker on Friday July 27, 2018 | Business, Copyright/Legal
Petitioners claiming to be the legal heirs of photographer Vivian Maier are once again back in court, this time with 300 pages of genealogical evidence to support their claim, according to attorney (and former photographer) David Deal. "There's no doubt" they are blood relations to Maier, asserts Deal, who did most of the research and... More ›
Posted by Kevin Sullivan on Monday July 9, 2018 | Copyright/Legal
Another head scratching decision out of the Eastern District of Virginia has the potential to seriously erode copyright protections afforded photographers. More ›
Posted by David Walker on Monday July 9, 2018 | Copyright/Legal
Following a controversial ruling in a copyright infringement case in Virginia, attorney (and former photographer) David Deal says he is appealing the decision on behalf of photographer Russell Brammer. Brammer sued Violent Hues Productions in 2017 for unauthorized use of a time-lapse photograph of the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. Violent Hues, which organizes... More ›


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Puppy Bowl X: Daiquiri Anticipated To Be Named Most Cuddlable Puppy
Get the skinny on this year's puppy-to-watch!
Some of the key players in Animal Planet's upcoming Puppy Bowl — the 10th annual event, by the way — stopped by Good Morning America on Jan. 27 to show off their skills. And even though anchor Lara Spencer did most of the work, seeing as puppies have no idea what football even is, that didn't stop the pups' appearance from being surprisingly informative.
'Puppy Bowl' Preview: Meet Daiquiri
Lara announced that Daiquiri, which is most definitely not an appropriate name for a dog that's way too young to drink, is anticipated to be this year's MCP. In case you don't know how the Puppy Bowl works, that stands for Most Cuddlable Puppy, which is totally a thing.
Other than his prospects on the field, we know very little about Daiquiri right now, as puppies are famously secretive. However, thanks to the good people at Animal Planet, we do have these stats available:
1. Daiquiri is a Labrador Retriever/Terrier mix.
2. Daiquiri is 16 weeks old.
3. Daiquiri is pretty damn adorable.
Puppy Bowl X airs Feb. 2 at 3 p.m. ET on Animal Planet, and along with the usual cuteness, this year's game also features penguin cheerleaders and an all-kitten half-time show. It's going to be epic. And did I mention that all the players are up for adoption?
HollywoodLifers, will you be watching the Super Bowl this weekend, or will you opt to check out the Puppy Bowl, instead? Will you be flipping back and forth? Which puppy are you rooting for? Honestly, there are so many things worth discussing, so hit up the comments section with your thoughts!
— Andy Swift
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January 11 2017
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Real Estate Value Capture in Transportation
Large structural installations or assets – a stadium, a concert hall, a mall, an entertainment district – tend to increase the value of the land around it, and transportation assets are certainly large structural installations. This corresponding rise in value is no certain thing, but it is high on the probability list.
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Alphabet's Waymo Cuts Cost of Key Self-Driving Sensor by 90%
The technology cited, the one that is become ever less expensive, is Lidar. In the broad sense it is the mapping technology that will make the autonomous vehicle possible. You may have seen an earlier version of the device sitting atop one of the Google cars, an ultra-modern contraption of uncertain purpose to the common citizen. The cost of new technology often drops dramatically as its future use becomes more certain and as research and development dollars are poured into quick advances that can be commercialized; such seems to be the case here.
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Breaking Down the Financial Impact of Self-Driving Cars
The expectations over driverless cars are stratospherically high. For one, there's the fascination with the technology and the presumption of an easier commute: The self-driving car will take us to work while we surf the Internet, read files and review emails. Once it drops us off, it returns home where others in our household can use it -- until it's time to call it to pick us up and take us home again.
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Numbers are beginning to be generated around the topic of self-driving cars, well in advance of there being any significant fleet of self-driving cars on the road. Morgan Stanley and Barclay, two highly-regarded consulting firms, are the latest to take a run at the revenue pluses and minuses, one of them putting the net positive effect (to cities) at half a trillion dollars.
CATA stays persistent with bus rapid transit plan
By many measures, bus rapid transit (BRT) is one of the most useful transportation inventions the world has come up with yet…and the fastest growing. Originating, or at least first taking off in, the large metropolitan areas of South America, specifically Curitiba, Brazil (the first) and Bogota, Colombia (the biggest), the systems have been adopted all over the word...120 cities, 7,000 stations, 30,000 buses, and 27 million passengers a day.
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Port Commission to vote on lease renewal for SF Bay Railroad yard
The San Francisco Port Commission will vote Tuesday on whether to approve a five-year lease extension on a 10-acre plot of land rented by the San Francisco Bay Railroad (SFBR). The land is being used for the storage of vehicles and materials, and is also home to 14 beehives that produce honey, as well as a herd of goats that work to keep the rail track area clear.
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Cities and states are often pleased to work closely with the short line rails falling within their span of control, understanding what a big role they play in local and regional economies. Short line railroads account for nearly 30% of the nation's total rail mileage. With more than 550 short line rail companies operating in 49 states, the network of these smaller rail providers pick up or deliver 25% of the nation's total rail cars.
Raise the Roof...Or Make That 'Raise the Bridges'
A subspecialty has emerged in the bridge business, whereby the existing spans are raised a matter of inches, often up to a foot in additional height, just as you might raise the roof of a structure. The intent has nothing to do with the bridges proper but with the traffic flow underneath.
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Real Estate Value Capture in Transportation
Large structural installations or assets – a stadium, a concert hall, a mall, an entertainment district – tend to increase the value of the land around it, and transportation assets are certainly large structural installations. This corresponding rise in value is no certain thing, but it is high on the probability list.
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Smaller Airports Get the Attention of International Carriers
For as long as airlines have been crossing the oceans, airline passengers have had to go to big city airports to catch their overseas flights.
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There is new life for the medium- or small-sized airport. In a time of increased air travel that is only projected to increase they are more and more serving as destinations of their own, with advantages of their own.
The ABC's of Accelerated Bridge Construction
The quick replacement of a bridge seems like a contradiction in terms, these fine structures most often call for months of shut down lanes, detours, end-arounds, and construction dust. But of late bridges are being replaced over the weekend, and sometimes overnight.
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The Hub, an Integral Part of the Transportation Economy
Any network of any size that moves people or goods is composed of both the mode – highways and bridges for instance, or freight rail – and the nodes. The latter is a gathering place that brings people or goods into a central location, concentrates them, sorts them, and then distributes them back out into the system. That is a description that is a little rough around the edges, but it gets the point across. And the word 'hub' is a little warmer than 'node,' so we'll go with the former.
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Those Flowers You're Buying Your Loved One for Valentine's Day, Where do They Come From? You Are Buying Flowers, My Friend, Aren't You?
There is benefit in tracking a single product through the supply chain and seeing what lessons can be learned. The attention of many fine people will turn in a few weeks to the topic of flowers for Valentine's Day. Now where exactly do they come from?
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Uber debuts Movement, a new website offering access to its traffic data
Uber is opening up in an area where it might make sense competitively for it to stay more closed off: The ride-hailing company's new Movement website will offer up access to its data around traffic flow in scores where it operates, intended for use by city planners and researchers looking into ways to improve urban mobility.
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Data acquisition is the bedrock of transportation planning. Perfectly successful firms built a business over the past decades doing little else but transportation studies, and they seldom were lacking for work.
USDOT Signs $1.99B Accord, Closes First of Four New TIFIA Loans for Seattle Light Rail
The U.S. Department of Transportation and Seattle's Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority – known as Sound Transit – signed a $1.99 billion master credit agreement to cover four light rail projects, and the USDOT closed an initial long-term TIFIA loan of $615.3 million under the accord.
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The fine writer is communicating to transportation professionals, and there is an appropriate presumption that the reader knows what TIFIA is...which might not be the case for the reader outside the sector. We shall take a run through it.
Wildlife underpasses in North Idaho see heavy animal traffic
Unaware that they are stars of the reality TV variety these large mammals have adopted these underground passages and thereby extended their range...or more importantly, have simply survived the passage from one side of the highway to the next, and without doing damage to passing humans.
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Rating: 18+ there is mention of sex. Some violence. A lot of booze. I think Capalert would term this a Hard PG13.
Warning: contains reverences to sex, alcohol, het, and femslash. Not to mention mockery, bondage, and nakedness.
Spoilers: ..er... none? Wait! One for Kara, for mid-season two.
Pairings: hooboy. Samantha/Cameron, Samantha/Vala, Samantha/Kara, Kara/Vala, Kara/Cameron, Vala/Cameron.
Notes: I'm sorry. I really did try to keep this gen--or at least flirty--but it's inevitable that my brain is wired that if Sam Carter and Kara Thrace are in the same room together, um, porn happens. Off-screen and possibly non-existent porn, of course.
This is loosely based on a random conversation in surrealphantast's journal a few days back. Um. Yeah. Not quite what I was expecting. (also, speaking of dolls you can play with...)
Danger, Will Robinson by ALC Punk!
It had been one hell of a night, so far. Visiting Captain Kara Thrace was being shown around the town. Colonel Cameron Mitchell was along for the ride. And boy, was it a hell of a ride. With Sam Carter in the lead, and Vala Mal Doran not far behind in the orchestrations, they'd hit three bars. Tequila shots at each, and the last had also included Sam demonstrating a blow-job. Thrace had remarked that she preferred slippery nipples.
Eventually, the entourage had ended up at a motel. The girls had sent Cameron off to procure beer and snacks while they decided what to do with the rest of the night.
Little did he know what they had in store for him. Though he knew Sam Carter, and show have known better.
"You are not playing poker on me!"
"Shut up, Cameron," advised Sam.
In the grand scheme of things, Cameron Mitchell was pretty sure that having three hot women strip him naked was a good thing. The handcuffing him to a bed? Probably also good. The part where they were more interested in mocking each other, getting drunk and throwing popcorn? Not quite so good.
"Oh, Sam, you'll hurt his feelings," admonished Vala Mal Doran. She reached out and patted Cameron's head. "After all, he is a thinking, breathing creature."
Kara Thrace snorted and tossed Vala a bottle of beer. "He's a creature all right."
"Ante up!" Sam said, dealing efficiently, even though Cameron was breathing.
He yelped as the cold cards slapped onto his skin. "Sam!"
"Don't move!"
Vala grabbed for her cards and dumped a pair of earrings onto Cameron's belly button. "I'm in."
Slapping down a cigar, Kara dug her blunt nails into Cam's skin, then smiled sweetly and palmed her cards. "Everyone prepare to hand over your underwear."
"Perhaps I'm not wearing any," Vala suggested.
"Cameron certainly isn't." mocked Sam. She dropped a five into the pot. "I'm in."
How the hell had he gotten himself into this, anyway? Was it because Landry had told him to make the visiting Captain Thrace feel at home? Had it been Vala, with her wide grin? Or had it been Samantha Carter, with her perfectly innocent suggestion that he come along and chaperone them. He should have known better. He'd seen Samantha Carter take down men twice her size and then go get another beer. She didn't need chaperoning. She needed an idiot who would buy them all beer and snacks and then let them chain him to a bed. Naked.
Ok, so maybe it wasn't all bad.
"There are shrinkage issues," Vala said suddenly. She was eyeing Cameron's lower anatomy.
He blinked, then groaned.
"Maybe it's the cold cards?" Sam suggested.
"Right. That's it. Sam, stop throwing cold cards at Cameron."
"What should I do, warm them up, first?"
Vala grinned widely, "Of course."
"You could stick them down your shirt," Kara pointed out. She leered at the v-neck of Sam's blue t-shirt.
A blush colored Sam's cheeks, but she didn't tell Kara to mind her own business. Cameron might have taken more notice of this if Vala hadn't chosen that moment to throw her cards down--hitting him in several delicate places--and jump up, "I need another beer."
"Bring me one!" Sam called.
"Yes, Colonel!"
"Lush," Kara mocked.
"Am not."
"Are too."
Sam snorted, "I've only had a few drinks--"
"Sam, there was tequila," Cameron piped up from his position. Hey, in for a penny in for a pound, his grandmother used to say. "You know that you and tequila and beer usually equals--OW." He glared at her, wishing he could rub the shoulder she'd just punched, "You afraid I'll give away your dirty secrets, Sam?"
"Tell us anyway," implored Vala, dropping back into her spot and holding out a bottle to Sam.
Kara grabbed it and drank a large swallow before handing it to the other blonde. "Let me guess, she sings off-key in the shower."
"And how," agreed Cameron. "Not to mention the part where she tries to get her tongue to touch her nose and--OW!"
"Sam, stop hitting Cameron, he's defenseless." Vala admonished. She leaned sideways and snagged a pudding cup from the pile.
"He's always defenseless," Sam muttered.
"Well, you are."
"Damn!" Vala flailed at the chocolate pudding that had dribbled off her over-full spoon. Two spots had landed neatly on her neck.
Now, if Cameron had been upright and able, he had a pretty good idea how he would have removed that chocolate--with a napkin. Really.
Kara snorted and casually leaned across Cameron to lick the drops up. Vala shivered and then grabbed Kara's chin, tugging her up and kissing her on the mouth.
'Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day.' Cameron instructed himself, really hoping the mantra would work. Really, if someone had told Cameron he'd be witness to this sort of thing, he would have signed up long ago. Probably.
"Mmm." Kara licked her lips with a smack and settled back down next to Sam. "Tastes good."
Sam elbowed her, "I kiss better."
"And how would I know that?" Kara asked her mildly.
"Seven Minutes in Heaven." Cameron totally deserved the smack Sam delivered; he still winced, though. "C'mon, Sam."
"I'm not that drunk."
"You have to get drunk to want to kiss me, Carter? I'm hurt."
"No! I--" Sam flustered, as far as Cameron was concerned, was the cutest thing ever. She was kind of like a cat with her fur all ruffled from being combed backwards. Except, not small, and not a cat. And not furry.
He shook his head, wondering if he'd had as much to drink as the women had.
"Look, Carter, you wanna prove it, you gotta put your mouth where your money is."
The challenge was something Cameron was sure Sam would pass up. After all, Sam liked guys--didn't she? Hell, he'd been hearing rumors about her and O'Neill for months. So it was a bit of a shock when she turned and kissed Thrace.
It wasn't a quick kiss, either.
Yeah. Cam repeated his mantra, closing his eyes--and opening them again immediately as that really didn't help matters. His imagination was working overtime.
Sam broke the kiss and looked rather satisfied with herself as she turned back and began gathering up the forgotten cards.
"You two, and your adorable Earth customs," Vala said, grinning.
"It's not an Earth custom--"
"I'm not adorable--"
Sam and Kara stopped trying to talk over each other. Instead, they glared at each other.
"I think I need another beer," said Vala. She waved her empty pudding cup, "And maybe another of these."
"We're out," Kara informed her. "Carter here drank the last one."
"Drat." Turning her smile onto Cameron, Vala said sweetly, "Cam, why don't you get me a six-pack?"
"Kinda can't get up, Vala."
"Oh, right." She patted his chest then threw a handful of cards at Sam, "You've got the money, Colonel Carter, would you please do the honors?"
"Yeah? Yes." Nodding, Sam clambered off the bed and headed for the door.
Sticking her cigar in her mouth, Kara got up. "Think I'll go with her."
"You do that. Try not to get arrested," Vala instructed, tone superior. "We can't bail you out, since Sam has all the money, and Cameron's naked." She considered, "He'd probably get thrown in there with you."
"We'll be good," Kara promised sweetly.
Sam rolled her eyes, "You're not good, Thrace. You're evil."
"But I'm damn good at being evil."
Once they'd gone, Cameron found Vala staring at him intently. He shifted, uncomfortable. "What?"
"I'm thinking."
Oh, that didn't sound good. He shifted again, trying to get a little more comfortable. "Oh?"
"If they go off to have sex like I think they're planning, there should be time for me to have sex with you."
"Ah..." Cameron managed.
Vala smiled happily, "You just have to say yes, Cameron."
"And if I say no?"
She turned serious, "I will not force you to have consensual sexual relations with me, Colonel Mitchell." She leaned down and kissed him gently. "But I will be disappointed."
Really. He could have said no. But he was a guy, and she was a girl, and she was hot. Cameron was not an idiot. "I accept, then."
"Good!" Vala clapped and hopped up to begin stripping. "Then, you stay right there while I get the whipped cream and pudding."
Oh, he was in trouble.
Things had returned, relatively, to normal when Kara and Sam returned. Both were slightly flushed, and Sam looked far more relaxed. Cameron was relaxed, too. And sleepy. He waved at them and snuggled closer to Vala, who'd fallen asleep.
Both of them stopped to stare at him, then at Vala. Kara snickered first. "Got busy while we were gone, did we?"
"Oh, don't be so superior, Kara," Vala retorted without opening her eyes, "You've been gone long enough for at least three orgasms. Or is it four?"
Sam was blushing. Cameron eyed her, then decided he so didn't want to know and closed his eyes. "You should sleep."
"There's whipped cream on the bed," Sam observed. "I think I'll take the floor."
Cameron decided he was too tired to blush and waved a free hand at her. "The floor is probably cold."
"I'll be fine."
"And what about me? My ass gets cold easy, Carter." Thrace was almost whining.
Sam sighed and grabbed the comforter, "We can share."
"I'm cold now," Vala informed him, snuggling closer.
"'k." With a yawn, Cameron tugged the remaining blankets around them more firmly and closed his eyes.
The next morning, Cameron was certain his head was going to fall off. The taste in his mouth? Not so good. His arms and shoulders ached, and he was pretty sure his skin was raw from the places Sam, Kara and Vala had slapped cards down. Too much poker. Either that, he decided once he'd realized that there was a very female body snuggled up against him, or the sex had been a bit exhausting.
All three women awoke at once. And Cameron was fascinated and frightened by the sight of three hung over, headachy and pissed-off women fighting over the bathroom. He actually slid off the bed and hid behind it before Vala convinced Sam and Kara the two could share the shower after she was done.
Then he was alone with the two of them.
Sam broke the silence first, "I'm going to go get some aspirin."
"I'll go with you."
Apparently, shopping required buddies. Cameron wasn't going to ask, though.
With the motel room nominally empty, he made his way to the phone and called the SGC to let them know how things were, and that they'd be heading in sometime later that day. The officer on duty took his message, then randomly transferred him to Daniel. Cameron had no idea why Daniel was still there, but the bastard had gotten out of the night before by claiming to have too much work to do.
"Morning, Jackson."
"Mitchell." There was a pause, then Daniel said, "Keep you up all night, did they? You sound a little... worn out."
"You don't know the half of it," Cameron muttered.
"And I don't want to."
"Yeah, well, how the hell did you convince the general you had work?"
"Because I'm smarter than you, Cameron." Oh. Mockery. Cameron was used to this. "And I know Sam Carter very well."
"Yeah, but do you know what she's like when she's drunk?"
"Mitchell, I've seen Sam do things you wouldn't dream of. And I would never subject myself to them again."
"Listen, Mr. All-wise and--"
"Oh!" Vala grabbed the phone from Mitchell. He'd missed her showing up, he didn't miss the part where she was naked from the shower, though. It gave her enough time to get away from him with the phone. "Hello, Daniel, we missed you last night!"
"We did?"
"Of course we did!" Vala replied, gushing slightly and glaring at Cameron.
He glared back and huffed before beginning the search for his clothing.
"Well, no, Daniel, we didn't let him keep his clothes. Oh. How did you know-- oh!" Vala suddenly laughed, "That's very true. He really is rather gullible."
"Hey! I'm still here!"
"Oh, I wasn't talking about you, Cameron." Vala pulled the phone away and called to him, then went back to the phone, "We weren't, well, at least, I wasn't. Now, Daniel, I've got to ask you--had you ever realized that Colonel Carter is gay?"
Cameron sighed and pulled on his pants. At least he had those, even if he didn't have his underwear, socks, shoes, or shirt. And Sam would kill Vala. Probably.
But he was not going to be there for that. Nope. Like Dr. Jackson, he'd have a mountain of work to do, the next time the women of SG-1 decided they were going to go out.


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Name: Barry Ruhonis
Message: Steve,
I started out with Way Excellent II for my Thorens TD 850.The next order was tender feet under Exposure integrated amp and small fat dots under Quad 22ls replacing spikes on sprung wood floor. Then little gliders under Target 3 shelf which supports amp and separate phono stage which got its own tenderfeet.I also got one stabilizer for amp. All your recommendations have great and each step was great improvement. My Thorens sits on Bright Star sandbox on top of Target rack. Do you think 3 MedicinBalls suspended in sandbox with shelf would be a noticeable improvement for turntable? All your ideas have been right on. Thanks.
Herbie's reply: Probably. Better to use MedicinBalls embedded in the sand and in direct contact with the bottom of the turntable, though, bypassing a shelf between the MedicinBalls and Thorens feet. If using a shelf, you would want to use Tenderfoot isolation feet between the shelf and bottom of the turntable.
Name: Adrian
Message: Hi
Do digital streamers need dampeners? Since the reading is made by a NAS, should the dampeners go to that unit?
Webmaster's reply: Streamers and NAS both have potential for improvement with appropriate isolation and vibration damping.
Name: Landry
Message: Folks, you have no idea what the binding post washer will do for you system. As they direct couple your speaker wire to the speakers in case if you have spades for more current flow and also dampen them for a tighter bass and as one reviewer said it will get rid of the little bit of dust in the whole spectrum. The dust is haze you have that you do not know of until it is gone. If you use banannas which are already direct but will dampen he posts. The best tweek ever. Get them, you will be glad you did.
Name: Ermanno Butteri
Message: Hello Steve, at first thank you for the caulk sample.
I Just received the package regarding my order and I write these lines for telling you the effects I noticed by your two damping instruments I never tried before: Binding post washers and HAL-O JR .
Washers increased control and tightness on bottom end, cleaning meanwhile another bit of dust all over the band. They really work well in damping electromechanical vibration coming back from speakers coils.
HAL-O JR , peraphs for coming at the end of damping treatment of my hifi set, have a little, but still audible effect on the sound, giving another pushing help on the way to musical pleasure.
If I don't go wrong I never saw on web site a damping instrument of yours thought up or suitable or at least adjustable for AC Chords. They ring and rattle under ac current flow, as I tested many times, trying to damp them with my limited stuffs, and so I ask you, if I can do it, because this field seems to be unexplored by you.
Best Regards from Italy.
Webmaster's Reply: Depending on the diameter of AC cords, Teflon HAL-O JR or Teflon HAL-O Mini Jr can be used to effectively reduce cord vibration. For very wide cords, Teflon HAL-O 7 is appropriate. We have several customers using damping instruments intermittently along the length of power cords, about every 6-10 inches.
Perhaps more importantly, to avoid inductance issues, you want to make sure you don't have significant lengths of cords and interconnects running parallel together in very close proximity to each other. Crossing at angles is okay, but not running parallel close together.
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Honda Unveils Self-Driving Car
The Future is Now, and It's an Acura with Lasers on Top
Honda's self-driving car prototype – an Acura RLX sedan – made its first trip to the Motor City recently to appear at the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in Detroit, an annual gathering of engineers and other researchers.
As part of its U.S. debut, the concept car took an eight-mile test drive around the city of Detroit, in which the driver took his hands off the wheel as he entered the highway. Honda's prototype merged into traffic, followed the speed limit, and slowed down to the recommended 35 mph when taking an exit ramp – all by itself.
That thing on top of the car is a beacon that uses laser beams to continually scan its surroundings. GPS technology enables the car to travel on a fixed route and follow posted speed limits, while cameras monitor road markings so that the car can enter, stay in, and exit lanes as needed.
Control is automatically returned to the driver in the case of an emergency – such as another car cutting off the RLX, necessitating quick braking – which is probably going to raise a lot of questions about whether the car or the driver is liable in the case of an accident. The overall goal, though, is to reduce the number of collisions.
"Honda is aiming to eliminate accidents, not just for the driver but for pedestrians and drivers of other cars," said Hironobu Kiryu, the car's chief engineer. Kiryu and his team worked on this prototype for roughly a year in Japan, but it represents the culmination of decades of safety research.
There were rumors that the latest 2015 Acura TLX would feature self-driving capabilities, although those reports turned out to be false. Acura poked fun at the confusion in their huge ad campaign for the newest TLX.
Honda hasn't set an exact release date for this yet, but industry analysts predict self-driving models could be available by 2020, so apparently that old sixties novelty song "In the Year 2525" was right. If you'll recall, one of the verses promised:
"In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you"
Who knew that the machine that eventually devolved us from bipedal creatures into technology-dependant, immobile life-forms would be the Acura RLX sedan?


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Hundreds of local animals are in need of a home.
Indianapolis Animal Care Services is over capacity, again. The shelter has taken in almost 100 cats and dogs this week and adopted out less than a dozen.
A sign on the shelter's door says any surrendered pets have a high risk of being put down.
The shelter posted the same sign on its door in September and had deals all last month to encourage adoptions. However, officials say they just can't keep up with the number of animals that come through their doors.
"We basically just have a huge need for space right now," says Kristen Lee, spokesperson for Indianapolis Animal Care Services. "We have over 500 animals in the facility so it makes it hard to have any sort of space to keep the animals healthy, keep our cats healthy and continue to take in animals."
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HCM CITY — Experts have urged policymakers to create a dedicated website that would include information about businesses that sell unsafe food.
The call to publicly identify businesses that violate food-safety guidelines comes at a time when the number of food-poisoning cases has increased dramatically.
Dr Nguyen Khac Hung, head of the Institute of Psychology and Law Education, said such a list should be based on information from various agencies as well as quality and safety standards established for each product chain in the market.
Hung spoke at a workshop about food safety and hygiene held in HCM City last Friday.
He urged consumers to learn more about food safety through newspapers, the internet, TV and radio.
He said the media played an essential role in informing readers about food-safety issues.
Phan Xuan Thao, head of the HCM City Sub-Department of Animal Health, urged the media to not only alert the public about violations but also provide consumers with further information about prestigious companies and their high-quality products.
Thao said businesses that strictly comply with food-safety regulations should also be identified by city agencies.
He also recommended that laws on food-safety standards be amended or changed to include stiffer penalties for violators.
Phan Thi Viet Thu, head of the city's Office of Complaint Resolution for Consumers, told Viet Nam News that the law only required that ingredients or country of origin be listed on product labels.
However, it does not require companies to include warnings about possible harm that could be caused by certain ingredients to people with allergies or diseases such as diabetes.
"It is really the corporate social responsibility of businesses to protect customer rights," Thu said.
"We have received so many complaints from customers about poor-quality products, but most of the cases have not been solved satisfactorily since consumers lack detailed evidence that a particular product could cause harm," she added. "What we are trying to do is to reconcile the differences between companies and consumers."
Thu recommended that companies include all information about the products not only to gain the trust of customers but also to protect themselves.
In addition, participants also agreed that the packing and design of the products should be clearly presented with all information about the companies and their products.
"The most important thing is that we should raise the awareness of the entire community about food safety and hygiene standards," Hung said.
According to the Ministry of Health, more than 1,000 food poisoning cases occurred nationwide from 2004 to 2009, killing 298 people.
Last year, 142 food poisoning cases occurred nationwide, causing 25 deaths and leaving more than 3,560 people hospitalised.
The ministry said the number of poisoning cases involving chemical substances was increasing rapidly and had become more difficult to control.
The seminar was held to increase consumer awareness about food safety and to help producers learn more about consumer demand so they can improve the quality of their products, especially in a time of severe competition. — VNS


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Cucumber Mint Sugar Scrub – So easy to make, and a great way to soften and revive dry, sluggish skin!
Hi! It's Kara from Creations by Kara with a DIY recipe for all-natural sugar scrub that you will love! I don't know about you, but during the winter months, my skin gets dry, itchy, and dull looking. I started using sugar scrub a couple weeks ago, and it has made a huge difference in the way my skin looks and feels!
I've made other sugar scrubs before, but this time I decided to try adding cucumber. It's full of antioxidants, and is very soothing to the skin. There's a reason why people are always placing slices of cucumbers on their puffy eyes! I figured if it's good for the eyes, it's gotta be good for the rest of your skin as well. :)
I also added some peppermint essential oil to the sugar scrub. I love the invigorating scent, and I think peppermint goes just perfectly with the green color of the cucumbers. This cucumber mint sugar scrub is a new favorite!
This sugar scrub is so easy to make, you can whip up a batch in about 5 minutes. I store mine in the refrigerator, and it thickens up quite a bit. But don't worry, it works just fine. If you want, you can take it out a few minutes before you want to use it so it will soften up a bit. I usually just scoop about a tablespoon into a small plastic bowl and take it into the shower in the morning. It's a refreshing way to start the day!
Cucumber Mint Sugar Scrub recipe
Yield: 1 cup
- 1/4 cucumber, unpeeled (about 4 slices)
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 2 Tbsp coconut oil, softened
- 8-10 drops peppermint essential oil
Puree cucumber till all the skin is in tiny flecks. Add the sugar and coconut oil and blend till oil is absorbed. Stir in peppermint oil. Store in an airtight container.
Because of the fresh cucumber, it is best to store this sugar scrub in the refrigerator. I just scoop out what I'll need into a little plastic bowl a few minutes before I'm going to use it.
I can't even tell you how fabulous this stuff smells. And I know you'll love the way it makes your skin feel! One word of caution – the oil can make the shower floor a tad bit slippery, so be careful not to slip. (No bustin' out the dance moves!)
Thanks Kara!
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16 comments on "Cucumber Mint Sugar Scrub"
This looks amazing! I am going to have to make this for myself this week! I can't wait to try it!
This is probably a dumb question but is this for your face or body?
Nice! I'll try this recipe.
Thanks for sharing this recipe for homemade skin scrub. Will definitely give this a try.
Love a great scrub and cucumber and mint is always a winning scent combo. Thanks!
Thanks so much for this recipe.
How long does it usually keep for?
can i use Epsom salt instead of sugar?
Wondering if I can use fresh mint??
Hi! If I were to make the scrub now, do you think it would stay fresh until Christmas time?
What size mason jars did you use? I'm trying to do this for a bigger group of people and want to make sure they have enough scrub to use!


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ISLAMABAD (Staff Report) – Torrential rains triggered landslides and house collapse incidents in different areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, leaving at least 11 people dead during the past 24 hours.
Following the second spell of unrelenting rains in various parts of AJK, the cross-LoC trade and travel on Muzaffarabad-Srinagar route remained suspended for the fourth consecutive day due to landslides, officials confirmed.
Locals said a huge boulder flattened one house, after a rockfall hit around half a dozen houses in Sarli Sacha Sharqi village, some 41 kilometres northwest of here late on Friday night.
As a result, all residents of the house including family head Ghulam Hussain, his wife and four children were buried alive, the Dawn reported.
The residents launched a rescue operation amid heavy rains and thunders and recovered one of his children alive. However, the rest could not survive.
Rescuers were later joined by civil and military officials and four bodies were recovered. The body of Hussain's wife was yet to be recovered.
In the southern Bagh district, Khalid Hussain and his wife Shaheen were trapped inside their house in Ochar Mohalla along with a daughter, after landsiding in the outskirts of Bagh city.
Rescuers recovered the young girl alive, but the couple did not survive.
Also in Bagh city, some 150 shops were partially inundated after water level dangerously rose in Hudda Bari Nullah.
In Palla Chaudhriyan village of Haveli district, an isolated portion of a house caved in, killing Zaibunnisa, 26, and her infant daughter. Another daughter was seriously injured.
In Chaffar village of Poonch district, a 3-room house of Abdul Hamid Minhas caved in, leaving his wife Nasrin Akhtar, 45, and daughter Habiba Hamid, 12, dead.
Police said rains had blocked most of the city arteries and concerned officials were clearing them for vehicular and pedestrian movement.
According to Met officials, the fresh rain spell might continue till late Saturday. It can cause flash flooding in upper areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar and Mardan), Fata, Rawalpindi division, Islamabad and Azad Kashmir.
Incidents of landslides and avalanches in hilly areas of KP, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir are highly likely during this period.


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|The sessions will be held from 10.00 - 13.00 and from 15.00 - 18.00.
|The draft agenda can be accessed here.
|A reception hosted by the Government of Nigeria and Switzerland will take place on Monday, 22 August from 18:15 to 20:00 for all CSP2 participants. The invitation can be found here.
|The Conference will be conducted in English, and simultaneous interpretation will be available in French and Spanish.


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Croquembouches - Cinq Pièces pour le piano - Œuvres de jeunesse inédites
Esse quam videri (être plutôt que paraître) fut sa devise. Grand Prix de Rome en 1913, compositeur indépendant au raffinement si typiquement français, dans la lignée de Chabrier et de Ravel, Claude Delvincourt (1888-1954) fut aussi un pédagogue visionnaire, dont le charisme et l'altruisme permirent de réformer l'enseignement de la musique en France.
Esse quam videri (to be rather than seem to be) was his motto. Grand Prix de Rome in 1913; an independent composer with typical French refinement in the line of Chabrier and Ravel; Claude Delvincourt (1888-1954) was a visionary teacher whose charisma and altruism led to the reform of music teaching in France.
Eliot Lawson (violon), Samuel Magill (violoncelle), Diane Andersen (piano)
Sonate pour violon et piano - Sonate pour violoncelle et piano Sérénade - Humoresque – Nocturne – Romance
Paul Paray (1886-1979) affirma très tôt son goût pour la composition, à la Maîtrise de la Cathédrale de Rouen puis au Conservatoire de Paris, où il fut l'élève de Xavier Leroux et Georges Caussade. Il obtint le Grand Prix de Rome en 1911. Sa carrière de chef d'orchestre se développa brillamment à partir de 1920, au point d'occulter partiellement ses travaux de compositeur. Son invention mélodique et son raffinement harmonique prolongent la tradition de l'école française.
Paul Paray (1886-1979) very early confirmed his taste for composition, first with the choirs of the Cathedral of Rouen, then at the Paris Conservatory of Music, where he was the pupil of Xavier Leroux and Georges Caussade. He obtained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1911. His career as a orchestra conductor progressed brilliantly after 1920, to the point that it partly eclipsed his work as a composer. The inventive quality of his melodies and the refinement of his harmonies are well aligned with the French school tradition.
Against that, Azur has significantly better recorded sound, and overall superior players. Not that Tanau, Deleury, or Perrone have anything to be ashamed of; they are quite good. But while Tanau is almost on a par with Lawson on the violin, when it comes to the cello the difference between Deleury and Magill is that between a skilled professional and a world-class artist (Magill's opulent tone is positively seductive), and Andersen likewise outclasses Perrone at the piano. (...)
Enthustiatically recommended.
(James A. Altena, Fanfare)
Eliot Lawson et Diane Andersen
Danceries - Sonate pour violon et piano
Contemplation - Sonate de jeunesse inédite
Disponible sur Amazon, cdbaby.com et iTunes Store.
Disponible sur Amazon et iTunes Store.
Disponible sur Cypres Records, sur Amazon et iTunes Store.
avec l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège sous la direction de Pierre Bartholomée
Disponible sur Amazon et iTunes Store.
A phenomenal disc of chamber music by Adolphe Biarent." "Thrilling"... "dazzling"... "brilliant"...
Disponible sur Amazon et iTunes Store.
Better than an interpreter enclosed in a repertoire of the past, Diane Andersen has the capacity of observing from "the balcony" a piece like this Sonata by d'Indy and taking the dimension of it. Andersen plays all this very naturally, things seem evident, and God knows which kind of lucidity and musical experience this work require for being dominated.
Diane Andersen plays this sonata not only with a great instrumental mastery but brings to life what is "behind the notes", which is at the very end the only justification of an interpretation.
avec l'Ensemble Joseph Jongen.
Disponible sur Amazon et iTunes Store.
Joseph Jongen: L'Intégrale pour piano, vol. 1
avec l'Ensemble Joseph Jongen.
Disponible sur Amazon et iTunes Store.
Joseph Jongen: L'Intégrale pour piano, vol. 2
avec l'Ensemble Joseph Jongen.
Disponible sur Amazon et iTunes Store.
Diane Andersen plays beautifully throughout... This second volume is a pure joy from the first to the last, and a 'must' for all admirers of Jongen's music.
Alexandre Tansman: Mazurkas
Alexandre Tansman: Oeuvre pour deux pianos
avec Daniel Blumenthal.
Diane Andersen, Danel Quartet, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle, dir. Hans Rothman
Disponible sur Amazon.
Please do not be scared off by the initial paragraph, dear reader; this is a wonderful disc.(...)
His two concertos bear a relationship similar to Brahms's pair: the First more superficially virtuosic but the Second even more difficult to realize successfully. Put bluntly, there are at least as many notes in the Piano Symphony as in the Concerto, but they are not as loud.
Toch's op. 38 makes a stunning first impression, but over repeated hearings, op. 61 proves the more interesting work. Its opening Allegro presents a Bach-like theme that seems destined for contrapuntal treatment, but the piano's entrance turns it into pure Shostakovich—as usual, Toch was preceding his "influences." Another Toch characteristic is that his music sounds classically formal, yet one listens in vain for any hint of conventional structures; he seemed to emit music so naturally that no one has ever penetrated whatever tricks or secrets he used to hold it together. All four movements, Allegro, Lebhaft, Adagio, and Cyclus Variablis—Allegro molto, radiate good humor. The curiously named finale goes off in all directions, including a few passages of high-voltage virtuosity, yet it never loses coherence. This is a delightful piece.(...)
Diane Andersen performs a wide variety of standard and offbeat repertoire; she has been especially celebrated for her recordings of Bartók, both solo and with violinist André Gertler.
She is a marvel here, playing as if she had lived with both Toch works for decades, relishing every turn and finding complete satisfaction in every corner. The Quintet is more successful here than in two earlier recordings by the composer or one by Andre Previn, whose American Art Quartet emphasized the anguished elements in the piece; the Danel Quartet—an excellent ensemble which has also recorded the complete Shostakovich quartets—is very much in synch with Andersen in realizing its multi-hued qualities.
(James H. North, Fanfare)
Bartók: 14 Bagatelles, 4 Dirges, Improvisations, Sonate
Disponible sur Amazon.
C'est vraiment l'interprétation de Bartók qui correspond par l'esprit et la technique à celle de Bartók. (...) En tout cas, je trouve le vôtre le meilleur que je connaisse et que je recommanderai à tout le monde comme le plus fidèle à Bartók. (...) Croyez à mon enthousiasme et à mes sincères félicitations.
It is really the interpretation of Bartók that best matches Bartók's spirit and technique. (...) Anyway, I find yours the best that I know and I will recommend it to everyone as the most faithful to Bartók. (...) Trust my enthusiasm and my sincere congratulations.
Voir la lettre de Denijs Dille