text: COMMUNITY Workskills has a long history of community support. We provide sponsorship to various organisations who work with people to enhance social and employment outcomes. In the past we have provided support and sponsorships to: Community projects School and college students Junior sports people School rock eisteddfods Migrant resources People who are homeless Educational and training projects Medical research Health promotion Breakfast clubs Bridgewater High School Farm Loui's Van Bridgewater PCYC including purchase of a community bus Workskills will continue, and expand, our community involvement to further support our vision of capable, working, prosperous communities. We will establish programs that meet community identified needs and contribute to social inclusion for all members of the communities in which we work. We will keep building community links and look forward to forming collaborative partnerships to develop programs and projects which benefit the people who use our services, and the communities in which they live. Impact Communities An initiative of Workskills Inc, Impact Communities works with community organisations, groups, individuals and families so they are equipped and supported to realise their potential and achieve their goals. Our aim is to address unmet needs in innovative ways with new programs, projects and initiatives that can be implemented by us and others. Visit www.impactcommunities.org.au for more information. Community Liaison We employ a Community Liaison officer to actively work with stakeholders and the community to ensure the individual needs of our clients are being met. The role is to support existing community groups and services that complement Workskills' services while also encouraging the establishment of new programs that meet community needs and add value to services. We welcome partnership arrangements. If you are interested in working with Workskills, please contact our Community Liaison Officer on 03 6262 5400. Workskills will continue, and expand, our community involvement to further support our vision of capable, working, prosperous communities. CONTACT US


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JANE EYRE (1934) Virginia Bruce - Colin Clive
This is the first talking film adaptation of the often filmed Charlotte Bronte classic. Produced on a low budget by Monogram Pictures and directed by the prolific Christy Cabanne with a script by Adele Comandini.
Jane Eyre is an orphan raised by her aunt until she takes the post of governess to the ward of Edward Rochester at Thornfield Hall. Almost immediately Jane is attracted to the intellegent, tormented Rochester, who happens to be twice her age. Things become complicated when Rochester invites the wealthy Lady Blanche Ingram to stay at the Hall.
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Prepare the sauce: Combine heavy cream with garlic and anchovies. Boil this down until it gets thick--approximately 1 hour. (If it seems too thick, thin it out with water, chicken stock or more cream.)
Cut the fillet into scallops and salt evenly on both sides. Allow them to sit for a half hour so that they will drain. After a half hour, dry off the liquid and brush off salt. Nick all around the edges of the fillets with a sharp knife. This allows the fillets to stay flat and cook more evenly.
Heat the clarified butter in a saute pan. Coat fillets with instant or granulated flour, and then saute in clarified butter. The fillets should develop a crunch on the outside.
Lightly steam the spinach and place on a plate. Dry off fillets on a towel and place them on a nest of spinach.
Combine the minced tomatoes and the sherry vinegar and place the mixture on top of the fish.
Drizzle cream sauce on top of the tomato concasse and then drape sauce around the plate.
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Blogmas Day 9: I tried out for a Norwegian Reality Show?!?! Alt For Norge
Hello everyone! My Alt For Norge Audition
So I've been meaning to start this 6 day YouTube series but I might just wait until next month because I don't want it to be rushed and I work until like 8 every night and exhausted. So tonight instead of googling pictures and stuff I'm just gonna type!
So I've told this story to a few people and mentioned it in a status update, but didn't really share the whole story online. But first I'm going to start from the beginning.
I've always been super interested in genealogy. Like, really interested. When I was in elementary school, my parents told me I was descended from a man who signed the declaration of independence. I grew up with this fact but it wasn't until last year that I wanted to prove that that story was real. (Spoiler: It was true. His name is Abraham Clark. Here's a pic. Can you see the resemblance???)
I signed up to make a family tree on Ancestry and got a free 2-week trial to get access to all the records. Now last summer was not a great summer, as I was too late to apply for internships by the time I got home from LA and even though I applied to a bunch of places, I ended up not getting anything. It was ROUGH. So I had all this free time to kill and decided to try to find out as much about my ancestry as I possibly could. It became something of a mix between a crazed need for to go back as far as I possibly could and also just a need for something to chase, a puzzle of sorts, as I had spent the entire summer doing absolutely nothing. Within a span of 2 weeks, I kid you not, I went back nearly 2000 years on one line. It was nuts. Since a large part of my grandfather's side is British, I stumbled upon a royal line that then lead me to so many royal lines that have already been highly documented by Genealogists for hundreds of years. It was mind boggling. There were so many cool ancestors that no one in my family knew we had, some so far back, like Thomas More, who I had watched a film on in my freshman history course in college or Charlemagne, which was actually discovered by me while watching an episode of the genealogy show "Who Do You Think You Are?" on TLC in which Cindy Crawford, whose family is from Minnesota, traced her lineage back to Charlemagne and while they were doing so, I noticed some names on my tree and used screenshots of the show to trace back on my tree. Weirdest thing ever.
Everybody has a story, and some are more interested in learning about their past than others.
A strange twist to this tale happened a few weeks ago when I started trying to find out more about my grandmother's Norwegian side. I got a message on my Ancestry.com account from a man in Norway named Kolbjørn saying that he was my long lost relative. I checked it out and believe that it is true and we started talking about our families history and he invited me to join his family tree on another site. He had done an extensive amount of research on the Norwegian side of my family. it was so cool that through the internet I was able to connect with a living relative in another country.
Literally 2 days after this, I saw a posting for Minnesotans to try out for a reality show based in Norway where Norwegian-Americans go to Norway (sort of like the Amazing Race). I decided "Why not? It would make for a good story"
So I emailed in to get onto the VIP list and then went to the auditions on a Saturday a few weeks back at the Mall of America. I got to the area and there were at least 40 people in line. About 3 minutes after getting to the end they asked if anyone was a VIP. I was the only one that raised my hand and I ducked under the rope thing that they have at movie theaters (and like a klutz knocked it off). I followed the guy to the checkin and passed everyone while they basically gave me death glares (probably not they are all really nice). Myself and another girl got to check in and they gave us something to fill out. After I filled that out I entered another room with maybe another 75 people in it. A few minutes into waiting they asked again if anyone was VIP. It was myself and 3 others, the original girl and a married couple. They put us in these nice leather chairs and we waited for a few minutes. Then they called us over to a woman and a camera. She asked each of us about ourselves and it was filmed and we each got about 2 minutes to respond. And then it was over. If I hadn't signed up as a VIP I would have had to wait for hours and may not even have gotten in. I then had to fill out a super long application online. They said they would let us know in January if we made it past the first round. I thought I did fine but I'm not holding my breath; there were so many people who auditioned.
Then last week on Cyber Monday, I decided to finally purchase my Ancestry DNA kit. It was something I've been wanting to do for a while. The technology becomes better and more precise each year, plus it matches your dna to others in the system and you can find long lost relatives. I'm so excited to hear from them in 6-8 weeks! I will be posting a reaction video (if I'm not 100% either Scandinavia or Great Britain I'll be shocked...fingers crossed that there's more variation in myself!) Here's an example I found online below of how the results look
So whether or not I'm going to be a reality star in Norway or if I find out I'm part Russian, Genealogy is a really fun way to discover who you are from where you came from. I highly recommend starting a free trial on ancestry. You have no idea what you'll discover!


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About the Program
The I Have a Dream program was launched in 1981, when founder Eugene Lang returned to his alma mater, PS. 121 in East Harlem, to address the graduating sixth grade class. When he learned that three-quarters of the school's students would probably drop out of school, Lang promised college tuition to every sixth grader who graduated from high school.
The results were truly amazing. 90% of those sixth graders graduated from high school and 60% went to college. This remarkable accomplishment led to the creation of the I Have a Dream Foundation, which consists of 200 affiliates across the United Sates, and one in New Zealand. Within those 200 affiliates, there are 65 current cohorts serving more than 18,000 Dreamers in 30 U.S. cities.
The Miami chapter was founded in 1995 by Stephanie and Jules Trump (no relation to Donald Trump). The foundation adopted the entire second grade class (97 Dreamers) at the Charles R. Drew School in Liberty City. 95 Dreamers reached the twelfth grade, 83 of them graduated in 2005 on time and, 54 graduated college and several are currently enrolled in higher education. In a community where the average income is $11,000, 1 out of 4 children is arrested by the age of 16, teenage pregnancy is prevalent and the graduation rate of less than 25%, the " I Have a Dream" Miami program has helped defy these odds. These Dreamers have proven that just because one is born into poverty, does not mean that one cannot succeed, if only given the opportunity to.
In August of 2007, we started a new class of Dreamers at Hibiscus Elementary School; the class of 2020. We have promised all 97 children the same opportunities as the class of 2005.
I Have A Dream" Foundation is the only not for profit in America that works with lower income children from Kindergarten with unbroken, year round support through College.
What makes this program so effective?
Our program adopts an entire kindergarten class at a low performing school in an economically disadvantaged area. At least 75% of the children in the school must be on a free lunch program for the school to be chosen. Once chosen, we provide tutoring, mentoring, pregnancy and drug prevention programs, college prep classes and counseling to our Dreamers. We have two full time project coordinators, Jonas Severe and Adrienne Anthony, who work closely with our Dreamers and their parents. We also involve their families by showing them how to support their children's academic success.
These Dreamers are provided with year-round (after school and summer) programs of academic enhancement, as well as cultural, social, and recreational activities, throughout their entire educational years; elementary, middle and high school. This continuous motivation and support at an early stage in their lives remains consistent through high school giving them the stability and proper tools that children need and deserve to reach their academic success.
Our Team
Stephanie Trump
Stephanie Trump was born and educated in South Africa. She earned a Bachelor's degree in English, Speech and Drama, as well as a Master's degree in Education. She also has a Certificate in Interior Design from Parsons School of Design in New York City.
In 1974, Stephanie and her husband emigrated from South Africa to the United States, preferring to live in a country without apartheid.
Stephanie's passion is inspiring disadvantaged youth to create and help make their dreams a reality.
The Trump family founded the I Have a Dream Foundation of Miami in 1995 as a way to give back to the Miami community, and to help change the lives of at risk children. They felt that education would make the greatest impact on these children.
The mission of the I Have a Dream Foundation of Miami is to help ensure that these children graduate with literacy and become proud and productive citizens, making their dreams a reality.
The first "I Have A Dream" Foundation Miami's program, started in 1995 with the entire second grade class at Charles R. Drew Middle School in Liberty City. Of 100 Dreamers, 95 reached 12th grade, and 83 of them graduated 12th grade. Today more than 58 of these Dreamers have completed a 2 or 4 year degree, or received a trade school certificate. Several are still completing a degree, and a few are doing post graduate degrees.
Currently the Trumps now sponsor a new group of Dreamers, the class of 2020, from Miami Gardens.
Our Dreamers are currently going into the 10th grade.
Stephanie's efforts also inspired other philanthropists to rise to the occasion and sponsor their own I Have a Dream programs in Miami.
Stephanie resides in Miami with her husband Jules.
Jonas Severe
Jonas Severe serves as the Program Coordinator for "I Have a Dream" Foundation of Miami, Inc. As a Miami native, he attended North Miami Beach Senior High. He's also an alum of Upward Bound at the University of Miami (1999-2003). Jonas later attended Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida, where he earned his degree in Psychology and Education. While attending Florida A&M University, Jonas gained experience with working with students while serving as a volunteer at Ruediger Elementary. Jonas enjoys working out, technology, snorkeling, reading, sports, and spending time with family & friends. His major aspiration for the "I Have a Dream" Foundation is to guide the Dreamers to their high school and college graduation, so they may grow to become healthy, well-rounded, educated adults. Exposing the Dreamers to new activities, like camping, snorkeling, kayaking, and tricking them into learning is the most rewarding part of his job.
Adrienne Anthony
Adrienne Anthony joined the "I Have a Dream" Foundation of Miami, Inc. family as an Interventionist and shortly transitioned into a Program Coordinator. Adrienne relocated from St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands where she attended the University of the Virgin Islands and earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (2010) and obtained a Master's degree in Public Administration (2012). During her collegiate studies, Adrienne was employed by the Upward Bound Program (2007-2011) at the University of the Virgin Islands where she worked with potential first-generation college students from low-income households. Her duties included academic tutoring, SAT/ACT skill building, college prep, and life skills mentoring. Adrienne likes cooking, going to the beach, yoga and meditation, spending time with friends and family; and loves to explore cultures through travel, food and festivities. Her long term mission is to facilitate a holistic approach in guiding the Dreamer's development; with the understanding that each Dreamer is an individual and has the potential to tap into his or her own strengths to achieve success.
Samantha Eve Morris
Samantha Eve Morris, DBH, LMFT is a Doctor of Behavioral Health Intern at Rub Pediatrics and a Licensed Psychotherapist in private practice. Samantha began her collegiate career at Florida State University and graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology from Barry University. She received her Masters of Science degree in Marriage & Family Therapy from St. Thomas University, graduating Suma Cum Laude with counseling honors. Samantha completed her Doctorate of Behavioral Health degree from Arizona State University and will be concluding her research at Rub Pediatrics in May 2017. As Director of Academic Behavioral Health for the I Have A Dream Foundation Miami, Samantha provides team support to the program coordinators as well as individual and group support for the Dreamers. Samantha's academic experience and skillet as a licensed family therapist provides a strength bases approach to aid the dreamers in achieving their personal, academic and career goals. Samantha believes that every dreamer is capable of reaching their full potential with a strong support system, the right attitude, mindset and guidance. When she's not in the office, hospital or classroom, Samantha can be found traveling, diving, watching sports and adventuring with family and friends. "My involvement with the I Have A Dream Foundation allowed me to connect with like minded individuals and create a systemic approach to enriching the lives of our Dreamers. Working with the Dreamers has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career and I am confident that they will be successful in achieving their goals and contributing great things to our society."
Contact Us
I Have a Dream Foundation of Miami
c/o Stephanie Trump
17749 Collins Avenue, TS40
Sunny Isles Beach, FL, 33160
(305)937 – 7834


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The thought of sitting down to write paralyses me with fear.
Or at least, it's a feeling similar so it's the only thing I have to compare it to. Sitting down to write these blog posts is fine, it's light hearted non-fiction and they're quite short and easily achievable.
But yet, to sit down and write something longer and fictional I seriously procrastinate and my computer stays on, a blank document open on the screen, the cursor blinking whilst I go around the house washing the dishes, tidying my clothes up, wiping down the sides. All the while my computer sits in the corner, silently judging me because I'm not doing what it wants.
So why am I scared to write?
I think of myself as a writer in my head, if there's a section on form titled "hobbies" I will list writing as one of them (along with reading, video games and photography – if you must know!) but I don't actually write – because of this paralysing feeling.
I've tried to write so many novels and have never wound up actually finishing one, I've wrote a feature length film script which I had to do for my final year of University but other than that I haven't wrote anything meaningful in a script form either since leaving University.
Actually since leaving University, where I studied Film & TV Screenwriting with Creative Writing, I've hardly written anything and I left University two and a half years ago.
I think one of the biggest contributors to this fear of writing is the fact I have no self-control and not just with writing, the amount of times I've said the words:
- I'll start exercising Monday
- I'll start dieting Monday
- On Monday I'll sit down and really concentrate on writing something.
- This Monday I'll sit and work out a budget and I'll stick to it and then I'll start saving money so I can buy a new car/laptop/house etc.
The lack of self control is something I'm trying to work on, but again it's hard to work on when there's no self control!
And then on top this lack of self control there's the excuse I use of "not enough time". In my head I say to myself "well I've got a full time job, and I have a girlfriend and I want to play video games, plus I have to look after my blog, I can't possibly find the time to sit and write."
Which I wholeheartedly know is complete and utter bullshit.
There's plenty of single parents out there, with jobs and kids and larger responsibilities than I have and they find the time to write.
I know if I sat down and wrote 1000 words a day of a novel as a bare minimum within 80 days I'd have the first draft of an average length novel. It would actually be less than this because sometimes when writing, the words can just find themselves and 2000 words in an hour can be achievable if you're on a roll.
I even have just under 12k already written with a novel I've been working on called "Come With Me" which I have been sharing excerpts of on this blog, but when I think "Oh I'll write some of my novel today" the blinking cursor appears, the fear sets in and I start cleaning or doing something else. This procrastination feeling, I've never pinned it down to whether I don't like what I am writing or I am just lazy.
I've also got a few ideas for other novels and screenplays I would love to write but having the actual willpower to sit and write them just doesn't exist.
As you can see in this screenshot there's a few novels there that just sit abandoned – most of them are what would have been fantasy novels.
Part of me wonders that if I actually sat and wrote "Come With Me" to completion then it might lift this massive weight off my chest, even if it is a pile of shit, I could say to myself "yes, I am a writer, I have written a novel" and then I could get on with my next one knowing that it is possible and it can be done.
Maybe this is the answer?
The other option I've been dabbling with recently is to just give up the ghost. Stop saying "I'm a writer" even though this is what my degree is in and just focus on working in a career instead of dreaming about making it big as a writer of novels or scripts. This is the most drastic action and I don't think I would follow through with this, I'd always be drawn back to writing, even if it's just poetry. One of the things that helped me through my depression and self-harm was being able to put all the negative emotions into words on a page which I could either save or delete.
No, what I think I would like to do is force myself to finish this novel, get the first one out of my system and then write something shorter. I think short stories would be good for me, they're easier to sit down, think about and write.
But only if I can get the self-control to actually break the paralysing fear. Beat the blinking cursor. Laugh in the fact of an empty page.
Rekindle my love for writing.


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Here I am already nearing the end of week 3 of Insanity MAX:30, and I already blew one of my New Year's resolutions…cursing. Thanks, Shaun T. :)
There are two key concepts included in the MAX:30 program that really stick out in my mind: One is the introduction of the high intensity Tabata type workouts that I will dive into in a later post and the other is your MAX OUT time.
I knew you wrote down your MAX OUT time, which is when you needed to take your first break – but is it really that simple?
What It Means to MAX OUT
According to Shaun T, there are two ways you can MAX OUT:
- When you can no longer keep proper form during an exercise movement.
- When you just need to take a break to catch your breath.
Example #1 You're on the floor, lying on your back with your legs straight out. You lift your legs slightly off the floor while bringing one up to 90° and lifting your upper body off the floor enough to clap your hands underneath your thigh. No problem, right? Yeah, that's what you think when you first start these moves.
Fastforward 30 seconds into the movement, and you find yourself no longer being able to lift your body high enough to reach your arms completely under your thighs to clap. When this occurs, you have officially MAXED OUT for the workout, because you're not performing the move with accurate form. This is the point when you write down your time and get back into it as quickly as possible.
Example #2 The INSANITY MAX:30 at-home workout program is really all about getting into a rhythm while simultaneously giving it all. When the point in the workout comes where you're pushing to your max and you can physically no longer keep up with the workout and you need to take a quick break, you have reached your MAX OUT time.
Is MAXING OUT Bad?
Absolutely not – in fact, MAXING OUT is the main focus of the program. Worried you're too fit to MAX OUT? Don't be, because when you are pushing yourself to your limits physically and mentally, you will MAX OUT. Shaun T even maxes out if that tells you something.
You will want to make sure to go into every MAX:30 workout with the goal of finding and pushing beyond your previous MAX OUT time.
MAXED OUT earlier than the last time you did the workout?
No worries – that's for sure. There is no cause for concern if this happens, because it almost always will at least once – just make a note of it. I also like to ask myself what the cause of MAXING OUT earlier was. Did I push harder than usual? Did I feel a lack of energy throughout the day?
What Kind of Improvements Should You See?
What you should feel within the first week of following the MAX:30 program is an increase in cardiovascular endurance. I really noticed the warm-ups were not nearly as difficult when beginning the second week.
To give you an idea of what will happen, I'm looking through my own numbers right now. It looks like from workout to workout, I am lasting about three minutes longer each time I do the same workout.
Here are Dan and I's MAX OUT times for the first three Cardio Challenge workouts:
Day 1 – 3:56
Day 7 – 7:56
Day 14 – 10:58
Day 1 – 3:20
Day 7 – 7:01
Day 14 – 8:30
Every MAX:30 workout should be a challenge to better yourself and is not a competition to outlast someone else. Sometimes Dan beats me, and sometimes I beat him. Though trying to outdo him does motivate me. :) So, a workout buddy is always a good thing.
Giving Your Best Every MAX:30 Workout
I never thought I would actually look forward to a high-intensity workout – it's not usually my style. And honestly on some days, I still don't – most often after a very long day of work.
But a funny thing happens when I come home, and Dan has the MAX:30 workout ready to go. I hear the MAX:30 music playing when I walk through the door, I put my workout clothes on, I stretch out and warm-up, get myself mentally ready, and then push play.
It doesn't matter what I feel like when I first start the workout or if I want to quit the first minute in, because within the first couple of minutes, I am totally in the zone and focused on beating my last MAX OUT time! It's definitely the competitive aspect of this program that keeps me engaged. I love to challenge myself in ways I've never done before, so this is just great.
Just remember to go as hard as you can for as long as you can each and every workout. Make the most of each day's workout, and the weeks will take care of themselves. And did I mention you will most likely end up in the best shape of your life?!
How to Track Your Max Out Time Progress
The Insanity MAX:30 package comes with a wall calendar and a page in the MAX OUT guide for writing down your MAX OUT times. Being slightly anal, I wanted a simple and cleaner way to to track my MAX out times on the computer that I could also print out.
So, I created this MAX OUT sheet to journal my times.
Click here to download the pdf version of this Insanity Max:30 time journal
Click here for an editable Google doc – click file > make a copy to edit
Set a Goal to Accomplish in Your 60 Days
This is a little something I added in. Shaun T says you'll have amazing results by the end of the 60 days, and I'm sure we will get them.
But I do like to use goals to measure my success. My goal at the end of 60-days is to be in the best physical shape of my life. I want to be able to run a 5K without thinking I might die.
If you have done or are following the Insanity MAX:30 program, I definitely want to hear how has your MAX OUT time improved?


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June 2016 weekend ride reports
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26 June: Norton Heath to Witham
My Essex spy (Rod) had warned me the day before about severe flooding in Chelmsford. Thunderstorms on Brexit Day had flooded the whole of the Chelmer Valley between Chelmsford and the sea at Maldon. On a day when Essex had voted to cut itself off from the EU across the Channel the flood waters had cut one half of Essex off from the other half. That rather messed up our plans for afternoon tea at Paper Mill Lock, a scenic spot next to the Chelmer navigation, as the teashop was surrounded by murky water. Some rapid re-planning was needed.Jon 26/06/2016
I reckoned the route to Witham should be flood free and we started to enjoy the day as we cruised though Willingale, with its twin churches, Good Easter and The Walthams. The wind was behind us, the sun was coming out, Rod was doing a great job as back marker and there was happy chatting behind me. But the storm had left some debris on the lanes: Steve had to stop near Terling to fix a flat. My rear tyre was also feeling soft, but I preferred to keep pumping it so I could get the group to Witham. It was much easier to fix it while relaxing with a pint in the pub garden. We hadn't used this particular Wetherspoons before, but it was excellent and had a pleasant courtyard garden at the back. The 'Irish' chilli (whatever that is) was especially good.
The route after lunch meant crossing The Chelmer somewhere between Chelmsford and the sea. There aren't many bridges and most are on major A roads or tiny lanes like the one at Paper Mill Lock. But I'd looked at Google Street View and found a wider lane at Hoe Mill, south of Ulting. This was named The Causeway so was bound to be a good place to cross, or so I thought. The lack of traffic as we approached Hoe Mill raised my suspicions. We turned a corner and could see why: the road was completely flooded and we couldn't see how far it extended around the bend. There was a very narrow footbridge at the side, but it was too narrow for Judy's 3-wheeler and she had to turn around and find her own route back. She'd gone when Tim appeared wading through the floods, testing the depth and offering to help carry her Trice across! The transit van stuck in the field next to the road showed how bad the flooding had been.
Once across The Causeway, almost at sea level, we now had to climb to one of the highest points in SE Essex at Danbury. Despite a few delays we were making good time and the democratic vote was not to stop here for tea at the café, but to press on and take our chances at finding somewhere later. Maybe representative democracy is a better system?
It was a lovely ride across Danbury Common and down into Sandon. I spotted some picnic tables set out in St Andrew's churchyard and signs up about a village fete – could this be our lucky day? I enquired and was slightly embarrassed to be told the low tables were for a teddy bears' picnic for the local children. But that was for later and they could do cups of tea and biscuits for the 17 of us. I was frankly amazed when several of our group eschewed this kind offer, fixated as they were on finding coffee and cake! So off we went as far as Great Baddow. No luck at The Glasshouse, nor at Bringy Pine, both closed on Sundays, so Rod led us straight into Chelmsford for the sure bet of a coffee there – trusty Wetherspoons to the rescue again, plus the local ice-cream van.
I had planned to avoid Chelmsford Park, which had been 2 feet deep in floods on Thursday, but the river looked back to normal so we risked following NCR 1 to Writtle and the cycle route was just above the waterline. The direct route into the wind to Blackmore got us back to Norton Heath just after 5 pm, where Judy had also just arrived having found a dry route back. It had been a good 50 mile ride with our friends from Essex.
18 June: Saturday Fun Ride to Emily's
Eight of us met at Jenny's café on Saturday morning, the weather was looking promising but waterproofs were in view as the forecast was undecided. Emergency response vehicles on the way there had overtaken some of us and the crews were on hand doing a great job attending to someone who had fallen down the steps leading to the balcony.
The route I had chosen was the opposite way around to the last time I led this ride. As we were setting off to leave we picked up another rider, Sue from Edgware, who had just made it on time and soon we were wending our way towards Lemsford. The traffic was quite busy especially on Marford Road, but we all made it across and enjoyed a lovely zip down into Lemsford. We ascended Digswell Hill without any problems to take the turn off for Ayot Green and performed a lovely wiggle through the lanes as we travelled along the Ayot St Peter road. We avoided the ford towards Codicote and trekked then along to Kimpton Mill, taking a sneaky right here and introducing everyone to a rather sharp ascent up to the Whitwell road. Soon we were making good progress towards Whitwell and Emily's. Whitwell looked great all decked out in bunting for their village day and it really had that quintessential English feel to it.
At the café it was pleasing to note that the only customers were cyclists and it was really pleasant sitting outside chatting the world away.
On the route back we took the road by the BIG white house, I have no idea what this road is called but it cuts very nicely through the countryside and leads directly to Kimpton without having to go up Horn Hill. Halfway along this road we had to navigate our bikes and a trike over a closed farm gate, but it was nothing we couldn't handle.
It's a nice climb up Ballslough hill that takes us to Lower Gustard Wood; we meandered our way to Wheathampstead, and enjoyed the long drop down into the ancient village. We made quick work of the lanes that surround this village and were soon on our way back to Hatfield. The last hill I had for them to climb was Tower Hill that led to a nice drop running down beside Symondshyde woods. Not long after we headed into the back of Hatfield and back to the start.
It was great mornings ride out enjoyed by all.
Our next Saturday ride in on 9th July - hope to see you then.
Neil 18/06/2016
12 June: Hertford to Wadesmill
This was the day for the Queen's birthday picnic in the Mall, so of course it rained. However, five of us showing true British pluck (stupidity) left the start in Hertford bound for Bishops Stortford for elevenses and then on to Saffron Walden for lunch.
Apart from the rain it was a nice ride through quiet lanes via Wareside to end up in Bishops Stortford, the final approach to the cafe being down a road of lovely old houses near the centre. Here we reviewed the ride plan. Going on a further 15 or so miles in the rain to Saffron Walden only to have to come back that distance didn't now seem quite so appealing. So we decided to dispense with that and instead put in a large loop initially going a little north and then swinging round to head south to Puckeridge for lunch, which would mean a shorter ride back.
In fairness the rain was now more intermittent and we plodded on stopping somewhere in a bus shelter to look at the map. Here we spoke to a lone cyclist going the other way who said he was going to York, so we wished him well, thankful that we only had to get back to Hertford. Reaching Puckeridge we found the pub was not to our liking as they only did expensive full lunches. So we decided to ignore the rain and press on down the old A10 to Wadesmill, where we remembered there was a pub we had used before. This was more to our taste as they did 2 lunches for the price of one.
After this it was back to Hertford, which made a ride of about 40 miles, rather than the 70 odd previously planned, although others had further to go back to St Albans. So, despite the fact it had been somewhat wet, a day's ride in the country is better than staying indoors.
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05 June: St Albans to Naphill
Our select group felt distinctly under-dressed standing at the war memorial in St Albans. At least the racing boys weren't there to witness our wimpish shivering, as the café opposite had claimed the pavement with an array of outside tables and chairs where they usually gather. Like us the café was expecting the promised warm, sunny day, but it was cold with low cloud as we set off down the hill towards the River Ver.
One advantage of letting Steve H lead a ride into the Chilterns is that hills are definitely on the menu and there would be no shortage today. Very scenic they were too, although the need to concentrate hard on some of the steep narrow lanes didn't leave much time for sight seeing.
The lanes were virtually deserted as we swept though Bedmond, Bovingdon and Belsize and we were thoroughly warmed up after the ascent of Stony Hill into Little Chalfont. Ozzy's Café was a welcome break with fast service, although a smattering of Polish might have been useful when trying to order lemon tea (as we discussed whether to Brexit or not to Brexit).
The sun finally broke through on the next leg and it was a lovely route in the sunshine as we climbed up and down through Winchmore Hill, Penn Street and Great Kingshill and suddenly we'd arrived at Naphill and the award winning Wheel pub with its over-friendly pub dog.
More hills followed after lunch as we crossed the grain of The Chilterns with beautiful scenery all the way to Chesham. After tea at Poppins we split up with some heading for North London and others returning to St Albans. It had been a marvellous route.
Jon 05/06/2016
04 June: Fun Ride to Shenley Park
A wonderful group of riders with happy, smiling faces met at Morrison's for the second fun ride this month. Along with many new faces were some familiar returning riders, a lovely sign that things are being done right. We also welcomed Dominic, a disabled rider who had a specially adapted wheelchair bicycle. We also had a rider who had only just taken up the cycling life (3 weeks ago).
We started with a gentle meander down the Alban Way, then through the estates, over Watling Street and up over to the Watford Road. It was here that the ride proved to be a little beyond Dominic's reach and he had to bow out. He did an amazing job just getting to where we left him with his partner. The rest of us pootled up to Chiswell Green and made our way to Park Street.
We swung through Bricket Wood and had a lovely journey along Drop Lane. I had a really relaxed and happy chatty bunch with me and this was making for a pleasant journey. We soon made Watling Street again and just as quickly left it at Harper lane. This is quite a busy part of the ride, but everyone did extremely well and we didn't hold up any traffic. We opted out of going up Black Lion Hill and instead took the road around the estate, which to me seems just as challenging. Upon arriving at our break it became apparent that one of our number had to bow out due to a sprained wrist, a lift duly arrived for her and I popped her bike into the back of a VW.
Soon we were back on our way again, we lost two of our number on the way home as we were very close to their homes. Working our way back to St Albans via London Colney and the lovely Rectory Lane. It was a great morning's ride out. Some of the 5 miles to fabulous ladies joined us and we all had a great time.
Many thanks to Sue (Sunday regular) for being a very patient back marker.
Neil 04/06/2016
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From a young age, I've been a voracious reader. I read science. I read history. I read fantasy and science fiction. Given these genres, I also became an enthusiastic viewer of maps. Particularly in fantasy, maps served as frontispieces highlighting the tall cities, ominous bogs, or mysterious islands central to the plot. These landmarks should have captivated me, and they did; however, what interested me more was the nondescript repetition of trees or hills that filled the gaps between important places. The edges. It was like the cartographer had stopped for a sandwich and never quite gotten around to asking the locals what was over on those moors. Or maybe got knocked out by bandits and woke up on the other side of the forest and, well, do I really want to go back and see what's in there? Nah, probably not safe. Here be dragons. Here be edges.
What wonders hid or skittered beneath the forest fastness on Tolkien's map of Wilderland? What lived in the shade of those dark spots just south of the River Running?
What hidden creeks or dry rocky outcroppings dotted the archipelago on LeGuin's Earthsea map?
What chatty animals dwelt under the yellow and green checkered woodland on Baynes' Narnia map?
Or lived and farmed the land along the River Moss north and west of Redwall Abbey?
Overall, I would have rather sailed the unmarked river than explore the fire mountain of Salamandastron. I would have rather rambled along the largely un-described river valleys south of Hobbiton than visit Minas Tirith. Even today, the unlabeled forests southwest of Bald Mountain on this map of the excellent Witcher 3 do more for me than massive, beautifully realized Novigrad to the north.
Edges were, and are, interesting. But why?
An Ode to Edges
In part, the edges were often those areas that most resembled the places I knew well. I had never seen a mountain, never seen an abbey, never beheld a thousand islands scattered over the ocean like sea-glass on the sand. But I had seen the dappled play of sunlight on the muddy river in summer. I had played in the sea of tiger lilies that filled the woodland floor south of my house. I had seen the big old stones from ancient watermills half-buried in a hundred years of forest growth. These ordinary, mundane places were the sites where I invented kingdoms and myths. I grew up with a deeply felt certainty that an army of run-of-the-mill tree symbols promised adventures greater than did all the cities and magical realms.
But if I could imagine adventures in these ordinary edge places, the inverse was also true. The edges were doorways to the fantastic. The tales of Bilbo, Ged, or Martin the Warrior were sacrosanct, and I never felt like I could project myself into those stories without departing from the narrative the author intended. I didn't want to be the forgotten fifteenth member of Thorin's Company. I didn't want to be Ged's unmentioned BFF. However, I could imagine that I were a curious local in one of those edge spaces, glimpsing Thorin's Company ascending into the Misty Mountains. I could imagine bumping into Ged on a nondescript street in Havnor. And so I loved maps because they were filled with edges that let me imagine myself into stories.
The World Without Maps or Edges
Of course, Pratchett's world turns all of this upside down. As Anne has occasionally reminded me, Pratchett gave us a way to think about maps right in beginning, with The Colour of Magic:
"You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs."
—Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
So no maps. No blank spaces. We have already gone beyond the edge of the map, but somehow the beyond ends up being right here in our own familiar places. Both Thief of Time and Troll Bridge dig into this concept, exploring the way that the wildest, most lawless beings end up circumscribed within a mundane world:
"Death looked down at the world. Timelessness had reached the Rim now, and was expanding into the universe at the speed of light. The Discworld was a sculpture in crystal.
Not an apocalypse. There had always been plenty of those—small apocalypses, not the full shilling at all, fake apocalypses: apocryphal apocalypses. Most of them had been back in the old days, when the world as in 'end of the world' was often objectively no wider than a few villages and a clearing in the forest.
And those little worlds had ended. But there had always been somewhere else. There had been the horizon, to start with. The fleeing refugees would find that the world was bigger than they'd thought. A few villages in a clearing? Hah, how could they have been so stupid! Now they knew it was a whole island! Of course, there was that horizon again…
The world had run out of horizons."
—Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Small apocalypses use up the world, always pushing the edge of the unknown back. But Pratchett calls these apocalypses false, and that seems like a clue to understanding his world.
I've talked about this tendency before. Whereas many fiction writers invite us to mourn for the decline of magic, Pratchett resists that reading (even though this is pretty much what happens between our introduction to the world in The Colour of Magic and—unless things really get weird in the three hundred pages after Raising Steam—our farewell in The Shepherd's Crown). Yet I don't feel disappointed, at least up through Thief of Time.
By Pratchett's own statement, we started this journey already beyond the edge of the known world. While traveling further beyond with Rincewind, we discovered that what's out there is pretty much the same as what's here. That's a very Pratchettian ideal, that people everywhere are basically the same—same good, same bad, same indifferent—and whatever their cultural and racial differences you can expect similar from them. Here Be Dragons is just a way of dressing up I Don't Know. Meanwhile, under speculatively drawn forests and in noncommittally sketched hills, people get on with their lives.
"When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalised in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don't Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool."
—Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
The story of Discworld writ large is all about the clash of known with unknown, civilized with uncivilized (that is, from the point of view of the "civilized"). It's about the tension between reconciling with, and resisting, change and assimilation. How do you reconcile magic with the clacks? How much resilience to change do you need to show if you're a dwarf in the big city, far from home and tradition? In another writer's hands, this could seem uncomfortably like colonization, and at times it sort of does. But it's clear that Pratchett is well aware of this, as these tensions become the morally ambiguous backbone of stories like The Fifth Elephant, Thud!, Snuff, and Raising Steam.
Chaos and Castles
In its own way, Thief of Time is rife with the tension between reconciliation and resistance. All kinds of things cross over the edge from the wild and supernatural into the tame and ordinary. Pratchett observes that Chaos is "Kaos with his hair combed and a tie on," which in turn becomes Ronnie Soak, milk man. Godlike anthropomorphic personifications like War now have families. The child of Time is either a thief or a clock-maker. The heir to the House of Death is a schoolteacher. A cosmic being falls in love with chocolate. And in the wider context these characters subsist in a world in which magic-slinging, throat-cutting wizards would now rather stay at home, thank you, while clacks send messages flickering across the lands. This should be disappointing. Do we really want to find that the fantastic has become ordinary? Do we really want the whole world to be mapped?
But in Pratchett's hands, it doesn't feel disappointing. At the end of Thief of Time, Ronnie becomes Chaos again, and he tells Death that he'll be keeping the milk round even though he'll be rejoins Death, War, and the others as one of the Five Horsemen. This is the funny thing about Pratchett. Because the world at every level is mostly just the same humdrum, inane game, it ultimately collapses together with relative ease and not too much loss. More often than not, Discworld (especially later on) is really about whittling down puzzle pieces just enough for them to fit together. Everyone loses a little, but no one loses all. Everyone gains the benefit of the whole. The final trajectory of this world is toward reconciliation.
This is why the Discworld doesn't need maps. It doesn't have edges. And when we do get maps, they're either pretty disposable (see featured image) or often just serve to send us further into the already-sketched world, not further out:
I don't care if I get to see the big castle at center right, but I'd love to explore those woods in the middle, in between the little hamlets. In the final picture, the wild world and the settled world are the same place.
To a guy who was once a kid who built imaginary castles in the lilies under the weedy trees in the twilight in the summer, this seems about right.


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Anne Hathaway had us very nervous this week after she was caught in a riptide in Hawaii.
The Oscar-winning actress panicked and screamed for help after a rip current reportedly pulled her under water while she was taking a dip in Oahu. Luckily, a surfer was nearby and helped her to shore where her husband Adam Shulman waited. She allegedly cut her foot, and Shulman tended to her wounds.
But aside from the incident, the pair seemed to be enjoying their Hawaiian getaway and basked in the sun all week.
Also soaking up the sun was Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who has posted photos from her vacation on Instagram. The model and actress shared dozens of bikini pictures as she relaxed in Hawaii with boyfriend Jason Statham.
But while Hathaway and Huntington-Whiteley were taking in the warm weather, some celebrities were on the East Coast, feeling the freezing effects of the polar vortex. Vanessa Hudgens took to Instagram to prove it's never too cold for an outdoor science experiment as she threw a cup of boiling water into the frigid hair. Believe it or not, the water froze instantly.
As usual though, the stars who call Los Angeles home enjoyed pleasant temperatures, and even stepped out on the red carpet for the People's Choice Awards. Justin Timberlake, Ellen DeGeneres, Britney Spears, Kaley Cuoco, Sandra Bullock and more attended the event, which kicked off awards show season in Hollywood.
That's right, get ready for the Golden Globe Awards -- with a little Tina Fey and Amy Poehler action -- on Sunday (Jan. 12).
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If you are an Indian and unfortunately in your mid or late 20s you must have been surely mentally, emotionally, psychologically and publicly harassed by your parents, by your relatives, by your married cousins and also even by your sick fun loving friends to get married asap as if the world is going to come down on your head if you wont get married.
A Hyderabad-based online dating portal www.quackquack.in launched a campaign titled Happily Single.The campaign highlighted the reasons singles were given to get married. The reasons were written on blackboards and the people who gave them posed with the blackboard which you can see below. This campaign went viral, obviously it would have as we have so many harassed singles in India who could relate to it.
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Your challenge is to come up with a creative way of learning any times table.
If you wish, I am happy for you to work in pairs. How will you make sure we can all learn the times table you have chosen? Remember actions and patterns were involved with learning the 17 times table from this morning's lesson. Good Luck!
Please be ready to share your work with the class on Friday 3rd July.


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We don't know about you, but this is definitely not what we had for breakfast. In fact, the granola bar we scarfed on the bus ride to work would probably quiver with fear (and then crumple up with shame) in the presence of this beast: The Billionaire Benedict. It seems that being a billionaire has more perks than private jets — it means it's A-OK to poach your eggs in Champagne before noon, thank you very much. The White Elephant hotel's Brant Point Grill (50 Easton Street, Nantucket, 508.325.1320) plays host to this indulgent grande dame of brunch, and they're not above letting her show off a little. Perched atop a sturdy crisscross of potato hash — representing society's underlings, we imagine — it starts with a lightly toasted English muffin, which of course signifies the old-money royal bloodline. You like sausage in the morning? This lady calls for two four-ounce filets mignons. Next, all good days begin with a little bacon, right? In the homes of serfs, they do — make it a lobster claw, garçon. This is all topped off with that softly sweet Champagne-poached egg number we mentioned before, which demands a garnish. Chives? She adjusts her mink coat and scrunches her nose. Better make it sturgeon caviar. Then, because whipped cream is for wimps, comes a dainty dollop of crème fraîche. According to food and beverage director Jonathan Ruppert, the restaurant sells about one a month, with a price tag of $100. We bet you were guessing a whole lot higher, right? Chump change!
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By Monika Prell
José Joaquín Rojas, winner of the first stage of the Vuelta a Murcia, is very happy about his victory. "A victory in your region is like two. It's a success that has a special worth because we are here in my region." He dedicated the victory to his brother Mariano, who also was a professional cyclist before passing away in 1996.
Rojas explains that "the sprint was easy because of the falls. I had a lot of luck, but you have to recognise that my team was one of the most active teams today, and it was not an easy day due to the wind."
The 21 year-old Caisse d'Epargne rider presented his goals to todociclismo.com. "We are having a great season start with the victories of Luis León Sánchez in Mallorca, [Iván] Gutiérrez in the Tour Méditerranéen and [Alejandro] Valverde in Valencia. In Murcia we will give it all to maintain the run of luck of this first phase of the season, and in my region it's me who wants the victory."
In the crashed that occurred 500 meters to go were also some Spaniards, like David Herrero (Karpin-Galicia) and Aitor Galdos and Iñaki Flores (both Euskaltel-Euskadi), who all had to abandon the five-day race. Isasi is reported to have a fractured left collarbone.
The race continues today with stage 2, from Totana to Fortuna.


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|Doctor Psycho
|Real name
|Cyril Psycho
|Wonder Woman v1 #5 (July 1943)
|Created by
|William Moulton Marston
|Ectokinesis, Enhanced Intellect
Cyril Psycho is the first enemy of Wonder Woman to go by Doctor Psycho.
Doctor Psycho first appears as a colleague of the Duke of Deception. The God of War, enraged that women were gaining power in Earth society and potentially threatening his ability to engulf the world in war, ordered Deception to discredit women. Deception called upon Doctor Psycho to set about eliminating women from the war effort.
Doctor Psycho was revealed in flashback to have been a medical student who was frequently humiliated by his peers. He discovered that his fiancee Marva Jane Gray was in love with college athletic champion Ben Bradley. Bradley removed his rival for Marva's affections by staging a robbery of $125,000 worth of radium from the college lab and hunching down in disguise so that Marva would think she saw her diminutive fiance as the culprit.
Convicted on the basis of Marva's testimony, Psycho seethed behind bars for years, planning his revenge while developing a psychopathic hatred of all women. Upon his release, he tortured and killed Bradley, who falsely confessed that Marva was his willing accomplice. Psycho then kidnapped and tortured Marva, hypnotically compelling her to marry him, and then subjecting her to daily occult experiments.
Learning that he could use Marva as a medium for summoning ectoplasm he could use at will to fashion and animate human forms around his own misshapen body, he created a new career for himself as an occultist and sham psychic who developed a following of millions.
At Deception's urging, he used his fame as an occultist to campaign for eliminating women from the war effort by creating an ectoplasmic form purporting to be the spirit of George Washington, claiming that women were hindering the war effort. He also disguised himself as Colonel Darnell of military intelligence to frame female staff of military intelligence for espionage.
With the aid of Steve Trevor and the Holliday College girls, Wonder Woman disrupted his plot but was forced to let him go, unable to prove any of his crimes in a court of law. Psycho fixated his pathological hatred of women into fantasies of revenge against Wonder Woman.
Freed from Psycho's influence, Marva joined the WAACs and helped Wonder Woman expose Nazi saboteur Stoffer, who had disguised himself as General Scott.
Psycho was eventually imprisoned but escaped by faking his own death, kidnapping Marva and then his former secretary, Joan White, to use as mediums for his ectoplasmic power. He attempted to court Etta Candy in a disguise, but his cover was blown by Etta's suitor Oscar Sweetgulper and he was returned to prison.
In the Golden Age, Psycho's brother Ironsides was a brilliant geologist who was also a villain.
Powers and Abilities
Psycho is a skilled telepath, and uses psionic powers to traumatize and terrify those who stand in his way. He was a hypnotist who used his victims to draw ectoplasm into the physical world, which he shaped into various beings and disguises.


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Ok, I must be on a food kick right now … sorry. But I absolutely love to cook and bake, especially if the presentation is fun. And THIS is fun.
See, there's this website, www.tablespoon.com, and it's ah-maz-ing. They have the most unique, original and FUN recipes ever. Everything is extremely creative, fun to make and always a crowd pleaser. Too cute not to share!
I am talking about Double Rainbow Cake Jell-O Shots, of course! (Yes, this is the adult version.)
This recipe caught my eye for multiple reasons:
A. One word – rainbow. First of all, who doesn't love rainbows? They are beautiful, colorful, fun and HAPPY. And these Jell-O shots are happy (and will make you feel happy, too!)
B. What social gathering is complete without Jell-O shots?
C. Everything is better when you add color and a little fun!
So go ahead, give them a try. I'm sure all the guys would just LOVE them for football tailgates and parties …. (well, they might not admit it). You could even change around the colors to coordinate with your favorite sports team!
*Instead of frosting, try Cool Whip or Whipped Cream. It's a little lighter and easier to work with.
Get the recipe HERE.


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Nov 27, 2005 @ 5:18 PM
Here's another
flash game
for your enjoyment.
My best so far is
dcormier says:
Posted: Nov 27, 2005 @ 5:22 PM
rnewhouse says:
1833 -- but it's sheer luck. I have no idea what I did to make it happen.
Posted: Nov 27, 2005 @ 5:21 PM
Aesopian says:
You should have posted this months ago when I was getting 3000+.
Posted: Nov 27, 2005 @ 11:26 PM
ss13 says:
I tried this enough times and eventually got
, but, like rnewhouse, it took me ZERO skill. Interesting game though.
Posted: Nov 27, 2005 @ 8:55 PM
dcormier says:
I tried making patterns to get better scores. Didn't help much.
Posted: Nov 28, 2005 @ 8:55 PM
rnewhouse says:
I tried making patterns too, and I could get a sense that there is probably some setup you can do that will make them all roll over endlessly, but I decided it would take too much time and effort to figure it out. Like lining up a bazillion dominoes for that one glorious fall-down.
But, it does have some entertainment value, for those times when you just gotta play some sort of flash game and you don't want a whole lot of thinking going on.
Posted: Nov 28, 2005 @ 9:24 PM
Wirehead says:
I think the whole thing is fascinating - it's like watching a fractal render in super slo-mo. The various patterns that resolve themselves out of chaos are pretty neat. One time I ended up with... well, basically the chain reaction had painted itself into the MIDDLE. The spheres on all four sides of it were turned away so that it eventually had nowhere left to go. It looked like a deliberately constructed pattern.
The effects of staring at the things moving for a long time also reminds me of Fractint running on a certain Pentium 90 in 2 East in about March of 1995..
Posted: Nov 29, 2005 @ 1:06 PM
peterman says:
I also tried making a repeating pattern with no luck. I got it to do some neat back-and-forth for a bit, but it eventually dried up.
It reminds me of
where there are self-repeating patterns and such, but with a different kind of symmetry.
It crashed my machine. Some kind of infinite loop, I think - it hadn't completely refreshed the final fade-out of the last trail, then my cpu maxed and my machine was totally unresponsive.
Posted: Nov 29, 2005 @ 3:46 PM
peterman says:
I feel obligated to retract my machine-crash accusation. Today my machine crashed in the same way, but without this game or any other flash running.
May have been something else the other day, too. Like Windows.
Posted: Dec 1, 2005 @ 4:30 PM
subash says:
me enjoying ,me a guy of nepal and wanna ,more fren
Posted: Dec 2, 2005 @ 5:43 PM
Wirehead says:
Come again?
Posted: Dec 3, 2005 @ 12:44 PM
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Spectroscopy is but one type of analysis I regularly perform. Below is a description of several of the techniques and the information each technique provides.
Spectroscopy involves the measurements of quantities as a function of frequencies or wavelengths, including how energy interacts with matter. These interactions provide information as to the identity and quantity of the composition of the matter.
Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS or EDX)
EDS is used to evaluate the elemental composition of materials within a scanning electron microscope (SEM), exciting the sample with X-rays, and then measuring the energy levels of X-rays emitted, which are specific to each element.
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy
FTIR spectroscopy is a technique in which infrared energy is used to excite fundamental vibrational and associated rotational-vibrational modes of molecules in the mid-infrared, approximately 4000 to 400 cm-1. These vibrational modes correspond to molecular structures. Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) is a technique used with FTIR, which allows liquid and solid samples to be studied directly without further preparation. In ATR-FTIR, an infrared beam is directed through an optically dense crystal at a certain angle and internally reflects through the crystal, producing evanescent waves. When the crystal is pressed against an infrared active material, the infrared radiation from the evanescent waves penetrates typically 1 to 4 micrometers into the sample.
Ultraviolet/Visible (UV/Vis) Spectroscopy
UV/Vis is used to measure electronic transitions of molecules in the ultraviolet to visible spectrum, approximately 180 to 800 nm. These transitions correspond to chemical structures which determine to amount of light energy absorbed, transmitted, and reflected, and can be used to characterize certain compounds and optical properties of materials.
X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectrometry
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) is used to identify composition and plating thickness for elements ranging from titanium (Ti, element 22) to uranium (U, element 92). By bombarding a sample with high energy X-rays, secondary (or fluorescent) X-rays can be emitted which are characteristic of the atoms present in the sample.


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Does he/she swim? Our (late) Monty just adored water; Bok not so keen.
Zoe loves the water! She rushes in very happily to get sticks etc. However since I am a wass and don't swim very often myself, I've never found out if she would actually go in further than the edge. I suspect she would follow me a long way in.
A very moody first shot.
Yes Adrian, a tropical low was coming. It was over in a day and now the sun is shining again.


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Challenges and Opportunities in Using Residual Newborn Screening Samples for Translational Research: Workshop Summary
Olson, Steve and Berger, Adam C., rapporteurs
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Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2010. 67 p.
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