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Amplitube X-Drive Review
Our Verdict and Review Summary
The AmpliTube X-Drive is an extremely versatile distortion modeler, that is particularly strong when it comes to more modern distortion tones that dial in higher gain levels. We love the metal and hard rock presets, and didn't find that it required much tweaking if those are the types of distortion sounds you're looking for.
Remember the Line 6 distortion modeler from way back in the day? It was yellow and had maybe 12 different digital distortion models. The AmpliTube X-Drive is sort of like that, but with a lot more presets and a lot more sounds, with several decades worth of algorithm improvements to lean on.
It's a digital distortion modeler based on the AmpliTube software with 16 total amplifier and distortion pedal emulations, and plenty of variety within each algorithm.
For context, I used the following gear to test this pedal:
- Mesa Rectoverb Amplifier (going into a direct box and a USB audio interface)
- PRS CE 24 electric guitar (2005 model)
- Elixir electric guitar strings
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For this review, I simply unboxed the pedal, hooked it up and tested each existing preset, making minor tweaks along the way.
While you can create a ton of your own presets, I was able to get through roughly 20-30 presets straight out of the box. We'll get into the details of my experience in this full AmpliTube X-Drive review.
The Rest of the X Series
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Listen to the Amplitube X-Drive
Listen to our audio demo of the X-Drive which has no speaking and is an audio-only demonstration of many of the pedal's presets.
Basic Scoring, Pros, and Cons
We found the X-Drive to be particularly strong when it came to higher gain settings, while we were less enthusiastic about the fuzz/octave and lighter distortion tones. Most of the algorithms sound really good, but we were particularly impressed with the modern, metal, and hard rock sounds coming from the X-Drive.
IDEAL FOR: High-gain tones, recording, and all-purpose distortion modeling.
Tone, Sound Quality, and Algorithms
One of the coolest things about the X-Drive is how the presets and banks are already setup, in that they give you a nice progression from soft to heavy distorted tones, often within each series of presets.
For example, you have three Orange models that progress like this:
- Orange 1: Light gain
- Orange 2: Medium gain
- Orange 3: Heavy, high-gain
A lot of the banks, which come in sets of three, give you this progression already dialed into the pedal. For the most part, I didn't feel a need to tweak or change the presets that much.
And as we already mentioned multiple times, it seemed to be the high-gain models that gave the best results.
Most distortion models sound distinctly thick, and bass-heavy.
I even had to dial bass back on several presets, especially when recording.
This makes the X-Drive more accommodating of heavier tones, which I was perfectly happy with. Those looking for bluesier, more subtle distortion settings might have to do some additional tweaking.
I'd loosely grade each category as follows:
- Metal/Hard Rock: A-
- Blues, moderate gain levels: B-
- Fuzz/Octave: C
To be fair, this is my own interpretation of the sounds and is certainly subject to my own gear and setup. But I also think it's fair to say this pedal has some pretty distinct strengths and weaknesses, especially since I tried to just let the presets speak for themselves.
Overall, the sound quality of this pedal is solid, especially given the wide scope of distortion sounds it attempts to cover.
Control and Versatility
The front panel of the X-Drive has a control scheme similar to an amplifier with drive, volume, and a three-band EQ. However, it's important to point out that this is not a preamp or amp replacement pedal.
It's a distortion pedal or digital distortion modeler that's not meant to substitute for an actual preamp and power amp.
Here's a list of all eight knobs on the front panel:
- Parameter (setup)
- Drive (gain control)
- Bass
- Mids
- Treble
- Volume (output)
- Model
- Preset
When you make changes with these knobs, the shift is displayed on the LED screen in numeric form, which is extremely helpful for dialing in more nuanced tone qualities.
The simplest way to navigate the algorithms is to use the preset knob on the right side of the pedal. Turning it will cycle through the factory presets, which covers a variety of all 16 emulations.
If you want to cycle through banks, you can press the left + center button to go down or the right + center button to go up.
Within each bank the three buttons function as three different preset selections.
Again, I didn't really feel the need to tweak anything given the scope of the presets that were already programmed into the banks. However, once I did start playing around with the EQ and the speaker cabs, I found there was plenty of flexibility if I wanted to deviate from any of the presets.
After awhile it gets a bit redundant, because there are only so many different ways distortion can sound.
But I would argue that whether you just want to use the presets or you want to custom-dial your own tone, the X-Drive is perfectly capable of accommodating both approaches.
We should also mention here that the X-Drive supports a couple of external control options:
- MIDI in/out
- Expression pedal control
Depending on how you want to set up your rig, these options can provide additional ways to control the X-Drive. The simplest setup would be some kind of MIDI controller that allows you to bank and cycle through presets more easily.
If you just use the X-Drive pedal, you'll have to switch between banks and then select your preset.
A MIDI controller would essentially take out that middle step.
Good fit for modern distortions?
I've noticed that it's harder to find a good modern distortion pedal than it is to find bluesy or vintage overdrive-style pedals. So I was surprised when I was able to get so many solid metal and hard rock tones out of the X-Drive, even when using non-metal presets like the Orange 3.
To be fair, not all of the high-gain algorithms were appealing to me.
Some of the fuzz settings, particularly when an octaver was added, were just too busy and chaotic.
But for getting that smooth, punchy, and percussive distortion, the X-Drive gives you a lot of real estate to work with.
I should also add that recording these sounds produced good results as well.
While there is certainly some noise to deal with (not surprising at higher gain levels). It was surprisingly quiet, even with the drive knob cranked and the metal presets active.
So I'd argue from personal experience - the X-Drive is a great option for recording metal-style distortion tones.
Good fit for vintage distortions?
On the lighter gain side, the X-Drive still has a lot to offer.
There are plenty of blues-style overdrives, lighter distortions, and even a simple booster that you can use for more mellow tones.
However, it's important to add that digital modelers like this often have trouble with subtle overdrive and breakup that's typically handled by a tube amp. It's more difficult to model and potentially less satisfying than what a real tube amp can produce.
For that reason, we often recommend staying away from digital modelers when it comes to overdrive or vintage distortion sounds.
While some of those sounds are decent in the X-Drive, its strength is on the modern end of the distortion style spectrum.
While there aren't a ton of comparables for the X-Drive, we believe the asking retail of $300 is reasonable and low enough to keep it in the high-value category.
As we mentioned, the most notable comparison that comes to mind is the Line 6 Distortion modeler from years past, which isn't in production anymore.
Here are a few larger-scale distortion pedals that you could use to compare:
- Friedman BE-OD Deluxe Dual Overdrive: $280
- Blackstar Dept. 10 Dual Distortion: $300
- Wampler Gearbox: $270
- JHS Sweet Tea V3 Overdrive: $345
Again, this should not be confused with preamps, which are often lumped in with the distortion pedal category and are typically more expensive.
However we see that compared to the distortion pedal market - the X-Drive is right where we'd expect. Not only that, but it does a lot more than most of its competitors. For example, the Friedman BE-OD is just a dual overdrive, while the X-Drive can produce 16 different types of distortion before you even get to tweaking and cab models.
Now, could you argue that pedals like the BE-OD and the Gearbox sound better? Sure, in some cases.
But when evaluating the value of the X-Drive, we'd have to say that $300 is a perfectly reasonable price point for this stompbox, given how much it can do and how flexible it is.
Final Thoughts & Questions
This was a fun and easy pedal to review.
It gives you a lot of sounds to work with, plenty of variety, and it never really felt like I was retreading sounds or recycling tired distortion tones. Yes, you can only have so many different high gain sounds, but AmpliTube did a good job here of showcasing as many as possible.
We'd recommend it for recording, particularly for high gain and metal distortion contexts where you need a more aggressive tone.
If you have further questions about our AmpliTube X-Drive review, feel free to drop us a line in the comments section below.
I'll jump in and help out as much as possible.
See you there.
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Publication date: 23 Jun 2020
Former senior vice president for advertising and commerce at Google Sridhar Ramaswamy is getting ready to launch a new search engine called Neeva.
After 15 years at Google, Mr. Ramaswamy grew disillusioned with the business he had helped build. Growth was too much of a priority for Google, he said, that came at a heavy cost to its users.
Neeva is set to become a direct competitor to Google. The key difference between these two search engines is that Neeva will have no advertising and be subscription-supported.
Neeva is planned to neither track nor collect information about its users.
At the same time, Neeva's search results will be personalized. Personal files of users will be available to Neeva if users link their Google, Microsoft Office or Dropbox account to the search engine. Neeva will use existing content and data sources: Bing, Apple maps, weather.com, Intrinio. It will also sift through personal files like email and "local" documents. Neeva will "understand" users' contacts, emails from retailers, newsletters, and other information.
Neeva will initially be free. Then, a monthly subscription will cost no more than $10. The price is likely to be brought down over time as more users sign up.
The launch date remains unknown. Users can sign up for early access at the Neeva website. Initial users will be able to use Neeva for free until the end of the year.
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In Part One earlier this month, the "direct
appeal" process was defined and briefly - no pun intended -
explained. In this entry, we will now
focus on "direct appeal briefs."
At this level, your appellate attorney should first dissect
your entire case to find any and all errors made by the judge or the prosecutor
(from start to finish). Those errors must then be artfully explained in your
"Appellant's Brief" wherein your lawyer presents separately numbered arguments
(called "Issues" in Kansas or "Points Relied On" in
Missouri). Each argument should begin
with a short sentence or paragraph identifying the premise, i.e.,
"Appellant Jones was denied a fair trial when the trial court refused his
evidence that the prosecution's main witness has been using drugs for over ten
years." The initial premise must
then be followed by a concise statement of just those facts relevant to the
premise. Then the argument, itself,
follows. The argument features a combination
of persuasive and rational propositions, each supported by citation to prior
appellate decisions where previous courts have ruled in the manner being
advocated by your lawyer.
There are no shortcuts to effective legal writing. Appellate advocacy like this is an art. And, it takes an inordinate amount of time,
and much editing.
Sessions, to hone the brief into the best written work
product espousing your position, arguing for your freedom!
Your appellate advocate must lodge legal arguments to convince
the Court of Appeals (a panel of three judges) to send the case back to the
trial level for a new trial, or in some cases, a lower sentence. If the first
appeal is unsuccessful, then your lawyer should press forward to convince the
state supreme court, or in federal cases, the United States Supreme Court, to
accept transfer for another review.
At any point in the "direct appeal" process, if a panel of
judges rules in your favor, the case is transferred back to the trial court for
a new trial or new sentencing. However, if you do not prevail in the "direct
appeal" phase, your case is far from over. The next level up on the pyramid is
called "post-conviction," and will be featured in our next entry.
In the meantime, when seeking an appellate or post-conviction
attorney, do not be afraid to ask for a few writing samples. Take time to read the writing style used by
your lawyer. Choose the lawyer whose
writing seems to best reflect what you want to communicate about your
case. After all, he or she will be your
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Here's Where You Can Watch Every Season Of Reno 911!
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As the show that popularized reality television, it was only a matter of time until "COPS" received the parody treatment, which is exactly what happened when "Reno 911!" aired on Comedy Central starting in 2003. The comedy series follows a group of semi-inept police officers who run into an assortment of colorful characters while keeping locals safe in Reno, Nevada. It proved to be a hit with the channel, helping to draw interest in the early 2000s with the help of other high-profile series like "Chappelle's Show," "The Colbert Report," and "Drawn Together."
The series amassed a huge following during its run, allowing it to last six seasons and receive a theatrical film in the form of "Reno 911!: Miami." After a solid run, it seemed like there wouldn't be any more adventures going on in Reno until it was announced that the show was receiving a revival on the short-lived streaming platform Quibi. With season 8 of "Reno 911!" in the works, now's the perfect time to revisit the show with Lieutenant Jim Dangle (Tom Lennon) in all of his short-shorts glory. Here's how you can watch everything related to the cop comedy before the new season comes out.
HBO Max has most of what you'll need
When most people get in the mood to binge-watch "Reno 911!," they want the original six seasons that aired on Comedy Central. For that, you're going to need a subscription to HBO Max, which has all of those episodes available to watch. All 88 original episodes are there for you to laugh yourself silly, but if you don't feel like getting another subscription, you can purchase a box set of the first six seasons on Amazon for as low as $27.49.
The packaging on the box set may say "Complete Series," but that's because it came out before the show's revival. If you want to watch the Quibi episodes, then you're going to need to head over to The Roku Channel. After Quibi went under, all of its programming moved to The Roku Channel, so you can watch Season 7 there (via Roku Blog). It's also where you'll be able to find Season 8 when it eventually comes out at an unspecified release date.
Then there's the little matter of "Reno 911!: Miami," which you can watch over on Starz. With a Starz subscription, you can watch with any of the various add-ons through Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Philo. Of course, considering that the movie came out nearly 15 years ago, you can just rent it for a more affordable price. Amazon Prime has it available to rent for just $3.99.
While that's sounding like a lot of money, we have a bit of a life hack you can use if you want. Comedy Central has episodes of "Reno 911!" free to watch on its website. You don't even need a cable login, so if you have a "Reno 911!" itch you just have to scratch, it makes for a good workaround.


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Study Dismisses Theory that Radiation Exposure Causes Mesothelioma
When asbestos companies are faced with mesothelioma lawsuits, they frequently defend themselves by trying to cast blame elsewhere. They assert that their asbestos did not cause the illness, and speak of alternative causes for the rare and fatal form of cancer, hoping that juries will be distracted or confused. One of these theories claims that mesothelioma might be caused by low-dose occupational radiation exposure, but a recent study analyzing decades worth of medical records has shut that notion down.
Data Analysis Experts Reviewed Mesothelioma Mortality Within Radiation-Exposed Cohorts
The study, which was conducted by experts from the International Epidemiology Institute and the International Epidemiology Field Station for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, set out to examine the risk of mesothelioma within cohorts of workers who had been monitored for exposure to radiation. These workers included industrial radiographers at shipyards, workers at nuclear power plants, and industrial radiographers who did not work in either of those environments.
All 253,632 of those workers had been regularly monitored for radiation exposure, so a high number of mesothelioma deaths in those with significant radiation exposure would have provided a scientifically-based link between the two. Instead, what they found was that the only statistical increase in mesothelioma deaths in the group was found in those who had worked in asbestos-contaminated environments.
Elevated Mesothelioma Risk Only Found in Work Environments With Asbestos Exposure Potential
In comparing the number of mesothelioma deaths that occurred between radiation-exposed workers in shipyards and nuclear power plants versus radiation-exposed workers in environments not associated with asbestos, the researchers only found increased standardized mortality rates among those working in the same environments where workers had died of asbestosis.
They concluded that the lack of "evidence of a rising trend in mesothelioma mortality with increasing radiation exposure suggests that the mesothelioma (and asbestosis) excess in these workers was due to asbestos exposure in shipyards and power plants and not to occupational low-dose radiation.
Occupational exposure to asbestos is one of the top causes of malignant mesothelioma. If you have been diagnosed with this rare and fatal form of cancer and you need information, contact the Patient Advocates at Mesothelioma.net today at 1-800-692-8608.
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Top 10 Tips on How to Become a Successful Fashion Designer
Fashion designers are creative individuals, having an eye for detail, and a natural flair for fashion. However, although fundamental, besides these, to become a successful fashion designer in the modern world, you would be required to develop many other relevant skills. Here are 10 tips that would help you turn into a successful fashion designer.
Top 10 Tips on How to Become a Successful Fashion Designer
Fashion designers are creative individuals, having an eye for detail, and a natural flair for fashion. However, although fundamental, besides these, to become a successful fashion designer in the modern world, you would be required to develop many other relevant skills. Here are 10 tips that would help you turn into a successful fashion designer.
10 Tips to become a Successful Fashion Designer
Let us come straight to the point! Here are the best 10 tips that would help you achieve success as a fashion designer.
- Attentive towards Everything: One flaw and your work hard work could go down the drain! Yes, it's that competitive. As a fashion designer, you must be attentive towards every little element of your costume, and your work. Demanding clients want everything to be right, and besides, client demands, a detailed approach defines your commitment toward your work.
- Creativity and Innovation: The world wants something every moment. Of course, delivering something new, and that too almost every day, is a challenge. But it isn't impossible either! Creativity and innovation, although are inherent qualities, they stay alive only when you explore new possibilities and improve your thought process.
- Remain a Student: To be successful and to keep winning, you must keep learning. Don't let your experience and expertise fizzle out the learning steam in you. Be open to learning from everything that you see around, and through everyone you come across. This would help you keep improving by the day.
- Comprehending Color, Texture, and Fabric: Fashion designing also demands a logical, scientific and creative understanding of various types of colors, textures and fabrics. For instance, you must be able to figure out which garment would go well with what kind of fabric. Besides, you must also understand various color combinations, to make your creation and talent stand out!
- Communications Skills: Regardless, whether you wish to be a fashion entrepreneur or work as an employee, to be successful at your job, it is important for you to be able to communicate with your peers, associates, clients, and vendors in an effective manner. This would help you deliver better results.
- Imagination Capabilities: Every creation starts with imagination. As a fashion designer, you must be able to imagine, and your imagination, in turn, must translate your idea into reality.
- Business Sense: To be a successful fashion entrepreneur, mere technical expertise would not help. Developing proficiency in other vital areas of business including finance, sales, marketing, operations, administration, along with people management also are important from the viewpoint of business expansion and sustenance.
- Technological Expertise: The education and application of technology in fashion designing are inevitable. To deliver quick and accurate designs, learning the latest technologies, and keeping up with its pace, is extremely important.
- Awareness about Fashion Trends: Working as a frog in the well would always limit your capabilities and subsequently your success. To be able to cater to consumer demands, you must be attentive enough towards the latest fashion trends and patterns.
- Being a Team Player: Creativity and results come out well when worked out with a team. Being a team player is an important trait of every fashion designer, as it brings out the best results in a quicker and collaborative manner.
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A selection of illustrations from Los Angeles-based illustrator and designer Eric Ross Bernstein's graphic novel, "Parallels," as well as a few additional images from an as yet unpublished project. Exploring fundamental human experiences like love, anxiety, language, and memory, "Parallels" chronicles the travels of an introspective wanderer in search of personal truths in the alternate realities of his parallel selves. Check out more of Bernstein's work below!
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Thank you to CVS for your support and participation in SAVSNET
London Vet Show was a great opportunity to meet practices using SAVSNET. I was really pleased to be able to meet with CVS whose practices have added such valuable data to SAVSNET. CVS's contributions are really helping push veterinary disease surveillance forward, and it was great to hear such positive comments from those participating. Here I am with Steven Barker, Practice Manager of Marske Vets (http://www.marskevets.com/index.html) who are taking part in SAVSNET. Thank you to CVS and all of the practices, veterinary surgeons, nurses, receptionists owners (and their pets!) for your participation and support! You can find out more about CVS here
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The Stag and Pheasant, Mansfield - pub details
Previously called: Chicago Rock Cafe
Address: Unit 4 Clumber Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 1NU [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 21341) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Mansfield (0.8 miles), Mansfield Woodhouse (1.2 miles), Sutton Parkway (4.3 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Live music
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other pubs nearby:
Yates's, Mansfield (0.0 miles), Widow Frost, Mansfield (0.1 miles), Ye Olde White Lion Inn, Mansfield (0.1 miles), Oak, Mansfield (0.1 miles), Market Inn, Mansfield (0.1 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Stag and Pheasant, Mansfield
please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
No longer Chicago, now owned by the Wetherspoons chain under the name of Stag & Pheasant serving up to 3 real ales. Can get busy on weekend evenings when there is a charge to go in but otherwise there is plenty of seating available. . Psycho_Mick - 4 Nov 2011 11:06 |
went for a birthday meal, the one thing i wanted on the menu they didnt have, what pub runs out of chicken? my friends had chille nachos, the chille came out cold, when we informed them, they replaced it with ANOTHER cold portion, the manager said that it must be a problem with the microwave, and gave us our money back...worst birthday ever. tom_stokes - 18 Dec 2009 14:28 |
i used to think this pub was fantasticit was deffinatly the place to go2 years ago.but now,well what can i say the beer is rubbish always warm or flat even both on a really bad day,far to expensive for what you get.the staff are not far from useless dont think could go any slower if there wasnt anyone in and as for the dj i think they must find them the same place they get the staff. in all the whole place needs a new team to liven it up. if your thinking of visiting this place at the weekend then dont save yourself �4 and get another pint next door. anonymous - 12 Sep 2007 18:47 |
great music, great drinks, wednesday night usually have great bands performing. a must for mansfield. lisa - 3 Apr 2005 02:22 |


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When the kids are at school, sometimes the silence echoes off the walls. Usually, I relish in it because I'm able to get more work done. But there are days when the silence aches and I long for the wild days when they were little.
And sometimes I wonder, did I wish those years away? Because they were hard?
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Like when my daughter had the most intense separation anxiety known to humanity. I remember putting her in the highchair and wheeling her to the entrance of the bathroom—so she'd be with me when I peed.
Or when my son was potty training and literally pooped on the family room floor—twice.
How about the stress that would harden in my shoulders when they both desperately needed me at the same time? Their cries would shoot fear through me because I was unsure I'd be able to console them both.
There were days when both kids would refuse to nap, and I received no breaks at all—those days always felt like I was losing the motherhood battle. We'd all end up crying. But did I wish it away?
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The truth is, that yes, there were many moments I wished things were easier. And now, they are. But that doesn't mean that I wouldn't give anything to walk into that life again—just for a few minutes. I desperately wish there was a time machine so I could go back in time to bottle up their squishiness, console their tears, rock them to sleep, inhale that baby smell, and more.
But now, I have silence. Isn't that all I ever wished for?
Of course, I know that I didn't wish it away. I understand that part of motherhood is the ache and emptiness of letting your children catapult themselves into their own independent lives.
The separation anxiety our children once felt as babies, reverses onto the mothers. We're the ones reaching for them, longing for just one more kiss.
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Only, we never realize this until suddenly they don't need us every waking minute anymore.
But that silence, it's always there to remind us.
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This dataset contains code to compute properties of Mode I cracks running in steady state in a triangular lattice. This version of the code was used to prepare graphs for a submission in 2019 to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A in honor of Leonid Slepyan. There a... |


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Haunted Orchard
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In addition, if you want to visit this place on a budget, you can easily hire cheap limos in NJ. You can look deep into the Orchard to see the forgotten Graveyard hidden among the apple trees. This October, things are going to become a little spooky at Demarest Farms.
Brighton Asylum
The haunted attraction, Brighton Asylum, started in 2011. In addition to its annual October attractions, Brighton Asylum offers all year long in limited-themed events in December, March, April, and May. If you want to attend this event with your family, you should hire a stretch limousine service NJ go to your location comfortably. The halls were typically enough to allow safe travel without trying to detract from the unforgettable experience. A flashing light was employed at one part of the walkthrough that you felt used more menacing performers. The stadium is unusually filled on a weeknight, with many people in line, but Halloween is mostly around the door.
Blackout Haunted House
The Blackout Haunted House is a terrible horror movie that is more of an exciting challenge than a spooky house. If you've ever wondered what it's like to be captured against your will or how long it would take you to go crazy, this is the memoir for you. If you want to sit alone in the dark with a sack over your head, Blackout is the sport for you as they run and crawl through a desert of fear-filled people who have been told to do everything they can to destroy someone's spirit.
Participants in Blackout are shaken from their normal lives and inhumane. You can go here if you want to see this terrifying house. For this purpose, you can easily take stretch limousine service NJ for a comfortable ride. Furthermore, if you want to budge–a pleasant ride, you can also take cheap limos in NJ to reach your destination.
Blackout isn't your typical haunted home in the least. No vampires, zombies, or fairies exist. What you carry in with you is frequently the scariest thing inside. You must go here if you want to see and explore this terrible house. You can hire an NJ limousine for this reason. You can also get to your destination in cars limos.
Gateway's Haunted Playhouse in Bellport
Visitors to the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport Village are treated to Broadway-caliber performing arts plays for most of the year. The 500-seat playhouse and the surrounding land are converted into an interactive, artistic haunted house every October. Baker, a member of Actors Union, began teaching at the Gateway Acting School in 2003 after touring in national shows. Baker, a Halloween hobbyist, was the driving force behind creating a haunted home 11 years ago.
A cannibalism hippy colony is looking for more members this year. "You'll go into a place and notice that the floor is moving or that the walls have a specific feel to them." "Lights are flashing, strange odors, and scary water sprinklers," Baker said. While the haunt is geared for those aged 12 and older, smaller children are welcome to visit for a "less terrifying" version during the day. If you want to see this playhouse, you must come here. You can reach your destination by using a stretch limousine service in NJ for this purpose.
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Swedish Fika — A Swedish cultural experience
The Swedish fika culture (Swedish Fika) reminds me of a cross between the way Americans enjoy takeout coffee and the Japanese tea ritual. It has a really lagom and Swedish feel about it.
If you're searching for anything that truly differentiates Sweden's way of life from that of its Scandinavian neighbors, go no further than fika. Fika is connected to the Swedish notion of lagom, which denotes a modest way of living. It is difficult to provide a literal translation.
Lagom is a guideline for Swedish people's lifestyle, behavior, etiquette, and even food. They are neither as cold as the Finns or as busy as the Norwegians; nor are they as laid-back as the inhabitants of Southern Denmark, known as the "Italy of the North." The lagom lifestyle is what distinguishes Sweden as the only country in Northern Europe to provide a unique method to consume coffee – fika.
Aspects of fika
Swedish Fika is not just a place to drink coffee, but it also demonstrates the arts of social etiquette and living life in this tranquil country. It is not as ritualistic as the Japanese art of sipping tea. It differs from the way Americans consume takeout coffee; the industrial pace of life in the US rarely allows time to sit down and enjoy a hot beverage. Fika isn't going to get a Starbucks takeout and drink it while rushing down the street. It's fascinating that Viking descendants could pack so much nuance into such a basic phrase. In this regard, Swedish is similar to Vietnamese.
In Sweden, you can hear, see, and feel the fika atmosphere anywhere and at any time, from luxury cafés in sophisticated city center hotels to little spots in narrow alleyways known only to locals, in homes and offices, from beautiful summer days to gloomy, snowy winters. Fika may be found around every turn.
In Sweden, you may hear, see, and feel the fika vibe at any time and in any place, from luxury cafés in sophisticated city center hotels to little spots in narrow alleyways known only to locals.
If you are welcomed to a Swedish home, you can enjoy fika while eating fragrant pastries prepared by your hosts. You may fika with coworkers during breaks at Swedish enterprises to strengthen your connections, which might be fairly superficial in this country known for its independence. Even a shy guy may set up a date with his lover by inviting her out to fika. The Swedes have several reasons to fika with one another.
History of Fika
From the 17th century forward, coffee was introduced into Northern Europe. It wasn't until the 18th century that it became a popular drink among noblemen and the wealthy. Unfortunately, King Gustav III of Sweden did not like this delectable beverage. He imposed numerous severe restrictions to discourage coffee use, including hefty fees that penalized anyone who ventured to consume coffee. He raided his realm in order to capture coffee-making equipment.
Coffee addicts, on the other hand, were well aware that once they had tried coffee, it was extremely difficult for them to abandon their obsession. Just the smell of coffee in the air would conjure up images of that vein-stretching caffeine high. Nowadays, it's wonderful to walk into a tiny bakery (konditori) in the city center, order a hot cup of black coffee, and wrap your hands around the cup to feel its warmth. It's similar like holding your sweetheart's hand.
Today, fika has become an essential part of Swedish daily life. Apart from the coffee, an intriguing selection of pastries is offered with fika. All are referred to as fikabröd, which translates as "cakes served with fika." The curled kanelbullar waffle is the most popular cake. Kanelbullar is so well-known that the Swedish celebrate Waffle Day on October 4th. Waffles are substituted by lussebullar, which is dried grapes with saffron, during St Lucia's Day in mid-December. Semlor cake, prepared with fresh cream, is offered in April, when Europe is preparing for Lent.
In Vietnam, a buddy of mine from Hanoi was accustomed to drinking Thai Nguyen green tea. She became a fika junkie after six months in Sweden. Even Swedish folks, who have grown up with fika, grin like a kid at a candy store when they talk about fika outside in the summer. They are overjoyed with the simple invitation "Let's fika!"
Further information
+ Return flight tickets between Vietnam and Sweden cost 18 – 21 million VND (US$800 – US$950). If you plan to travel to Sweden or other countries in Northern Europe, you should book tickets in advance because air fares increase in summer.
+ To visit Sweden, you have to change in either Denmark or Finland, then fly to Stockholm or Gothenburg, the two biggest cities in Sweden. If you book tickets with cheap airlines such as Turkish Airlines, you will have to change twice.
+ Swedish currency: krona. 1 krona is equivalent to 3,500 VND. A cup of cappuccino is about 30 – 80 krona.
+ Gothenburg, the second biggest city of Sweden (after Stockholm) is considered the capital of fika culture. If you visit this city, drop by Hurasen cafe at Haga Nygatan 28 to enjoy huge waffles at 50 krona each.
+ When going to a restaurant, remember to greet people by saying "hejhej."Within 5 minutes of entering a restaurant, you will hear this greeting many times from both guests and waiters. When being served coffee, do not forget to say "takk takk," which means "thank you." Local people will be very pleased if you can speak some Swedish!


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Hewlett-Packard Inc. has announced two high-volume multifunction printers that it says can shave 30 per cent off the costs of colour printing, over traditional printers.
The CM8060 and CM 8050 are the first models to use HP's Edgeline Technology, which the company says merges laser and ink-jet expertise to deliver colour quickly and economically.
From its roster of 30 Elite printer partners who sell its existing line of colour MFPs, HP has selected about a dozen to be the initial VARs carrying these models – including NexInnovations and Compugen – although more will be added later.
The units go on sale June 1, but to whet customers' appetites they will be shown off at HP demo sites across the country.
"We know colour is important to customers, especially in the high volume area," said Ryan Dudgeon, HP Canada's category business manager for MPFs. "This is an opportunity to get a printer that can do it all and offer up to 30 per cent colour savings."
Savings are achieved in part by using Edgeline ink jet print heads, which span the width of a page, and in part through offering users three colour print modes: Professional, for best quality; General Office, for internal use; and Colour Accent, for pages that need only a small amount of colour – say a company logo, or up to 10 characters of 10-point text.
The amount of colour allowed in this category is negotiated with the customer and partner.
Typically, in this category of office printer organizations lease the machine and pay an additional per-page charge for monochrome and for colour pages.
Some competitors, HP says, charge a full price for colour even if it's used minimally on a page.
But on these new models, HP says the savings come because pages printed in Colour Accent mode are billed at a monochrome price.
The CM8060 prints 50 pages of colour per minute (ppm) and 60 ppm in monochrome. The CM8050 prints colour at 40 ppm and monochrome at 50 ppm.
HP is also touting the usability of these new models. They include a 10-inch touch screen navigation panel for easy visibility and a menu system that should allow a user to print a page with only three touches of a button.
The screen can also show an instructional video if a user gets stuck. There's even on-screen help for clearing paper jams.
For partners, the new units offer a big opportunity, said Dudgeon, because customers want affordable colour. He said there's a significant number organizations with colour MPFs out there that have slower devices that are not getting their efficiencies," he said. We're going to have a great customer opportunity where they're going to want to move up to a device such as Edgeline."
Organizations that only have monochrome high speed MFPs will also be attracted to these models, he said. Despite the fact that users are in a digital world, "paper is still an integral part of most enterprise organizations," said Peter Grady, vice-president of marketing and channel sales for HP Canada's imaging and printing group.
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The diva dropped in on the Rose family's zoom chat for a musical cameo as part of YouTube's commencement special on Sunday.
Leave it to Mariah Carey to make an already epic moment even more magical! As part of YouTube's Dear Class of 2020 graduation special, the cast of Schitt's Creek reunited -- in character -- to share a special song for teachers and this year's graduating class, and got some very special help from the elusive chanteuse herself.
Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy -- playing their characters Johnny, Moira, David and Alexis -- all came together, via Zoom, to perform Carey's iconic tune "Hero" in honor of the teachers and students dealing with this difficult year.
To help with the tune, they were joined by many of their friends from the small town of Schitt's Creek -- including Twyla (Sarah Levy), Ronnie (Karen Robinson), David's husband Patrick (Noah Reid), Stevie (Emily Hampshire), Jocelyn (Jenn Robertson) and Ray (Rizwan Manji).
As the group crooned the tune -- led primarily by Patrick (considering that Reid is also a professional singer/musician as well as being an actor) -- they were all shocked when Carey herself crashed the Zoom chat to help sing the end of the tune.
"Moira, darling, I hope you didn't mind that I jumped in like that," Carey said, as David appeared to have a complete star-struck meltdown. "You all sounded so good that I had to get in on it."
"I think I'm having a heart attack!" David then yelled at the top of his lungs, before almost hyperventilating.
Carey then shared a heartfelt message to the students watching the Dear Class of 2020 special, and celebrated their impressive achievements, especially considering the monumental challenges facing them this year and in the future.
"To the students who had to deal with this bleak moment, congratulations on this historic accomplishment," Carey said. "To all the students and teachers, you are so appreciated. And I just want to say, Class of 2020, you made it!"
To finish things off, Carey called out David specifically, before singing a few lines of "Always Be My Baby" as her adorable 9-year-old twins -- Moroccan and Monroe -- jumped up onto her lap. David simply passed out and fell to the floor.
The YouTube Originals special, Dear Class of 2020, was filmed over the course of the last several weeks. Its debut was shifted from Saturday to Sunday out of respect and deference to George Floyd's memorial service.
The commencement opened with Lizzo and the New York Philharmonic's performance of "Pomp and Circumstance," as well as remarks from Alicia Keys. Commencement speakers include Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, BTS, former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai, and Malala Yousafzai, among many others.


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"I want to leave my marriage"
If you're at the place where you hear this voice inside your head, be glad for that voice. No one deserves to stay in a relationship that is painful, empty, or hopeless. Quite the opposite, we all deserve to be in a relationship that is nurturing and supportive. Our health, success, and happiness depend on it. To be sure, life is too short and precious to waste away.
"But leaving will cause too much pain"
At the same time, you may care about your partner or your commitment. You may have children, extended family, community, shared history, and financial assets to lose. Perhaps the difficulty and pain of the marriage ending for your partner, children, and family members seems like too big a price. You may wonder what role you played in the unhappiness of your marriage. Finally, you may question: "Have I really done my part to try make it work?"
Gain understanding and healing as a solution to this dilemma
Couple therapy can be a solution to this dilemma. Before taking the final steps to divorce, it's important to take time to understand what went wrong. It's in your best interest to come to this understanding. The wisest path is often to take the time to heal the unresolved issues and pain. By taking charge and gaining closure for your marital issues, you'll be able to determine whether to stay or leave from a place of confidence and well-being.
You may see a path to move forward in a better and more authentic marriage. Or, you can leave your current relationship without carrying its baggage along. Perhaps more importantly, you can go without leaving your spouse and children baggage to carry forward with them. Children naturally carry any unresolved pain or conflict between their parents into their own futures.
In conclusion, if you are unhappy in your marriage to the point you are considering divorce, take charge of your situation by engaging a couple therapist you can trust. Tell your spouse you are considering divorce. Tell them you'd like to work together to
- understand what went wrong,
- heal the wounds between you, and
- determine if there's hope for a new path together.
Be brutally honest in your work. If you do this, you will be rewarded by either a new and stronger relationship between you, or a clearer path to a brighter future ahead.
Consider, what will help you shift from waffling back and forth, considering divorce, to taking the leap to work together to find a better solution, either way?"
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Monthly Trivia Archives: November 2011
Week of November 27 – Pony Express trivia
November 27, 2011The Pony Express riders traveled between Missouri and California to deliver mail.
The Pony Express ran for 18 months from April 1860 to October 1861.
The Pony Express trail was 1900 miles.
The Pony Express riders were paid $100 a month.
86 men are known to have ridden for the Pony Express during its operation of just over 18 months.
A new rider took over every 75 to 100 miles and horses were replaced approximately every 15 miles.
Approximately 400 horses (thoroughbreds, mustangs, pintos, and Morgan) were purchased for the Pony Express.
The fastest delivery of mail by the Pony Express took 7 days and 17 hours. The message was Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address. The speech was telegraphed to Fort Kearny, Nebraska, taken by Pony Express to Folsom, California, and telegraphed to Sacramento.
In the first weeks of service, each rider carried a sheath knife, a horn, a cavalry rifle and colt revolvers and a Bible. They carried these items for only a week but every pound slowed them down so their equipment was reduced to a single revolver.
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Week of November 20 – Thanksgiving Trivia
November 20, 2011The first Thanksgiving in 1621 lasted for 3 days and there were many more Indians than Pilgrims at the feast. (So many pilgrims died on the journey to the United States).
Deer, codfish and pumpkins were served at the first Thanksgiving. The pilgrims thought that potatoes were poisonous so they didn't use/serve them at the Thanksgiving feast.
Five pilgrim woman survived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
By the 19th century, celebrating Thanksgiving is said to have been the origin having the kiddies table for children to eat.
Felix the cate was the first balloon of the 1927 Macy's Thanksgiving parade.
Only male turkeys gobble. Female turkeys "click."
Baby turkey are called poults.
The dangling skin under a turkey's neck is called a Wattle.
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November 13, 2011Bugs Bunny was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York – Bugs was a known traveler, always taking the wrong turn, he has been in Alburquerque, the Himalyayas and Antarctica.
Pepe Lew Pew, the most romantic skunk in cartoon history, first appeared in January 6, 1945, titled Odor-able-Kitty" What was Pepe's name in the series premiere? – Stinky
Twitty and Slyvester joined forces in 1947.
Twitty was originally named Orson and was pink.
Bugs Bunny was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York – Bugs was a known traveler, always taking the wrong turn, he has been in Alburquerque, the Himalyayas and Antarctica.
Gossamer, an animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes cartoons. The character is a hairy, red monster. His rectangular body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with two hulking arms ending in dirty, clawed fingers. The monster's main trait, however, is bright uncombed red hair.
Daphne is the name of Daffy's wife in some of his cartoons?
One of Elmer Fudd's famous quotes – West and wewaxation at wast!"
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Week of November 6 – Units of measurement
November 6, 2011Furlong – 660 feet
Fortnight – 14 days
Pinch – To add a pinch of something as a cooking ingredient. Use your thumb, index finger and middle finger to grab the spice.
The length of an American football field is 100 yd (91 m). If the end zones are included, it is 120 yd (110 m), but 100 yards is used informally as a unit, to allow easier conversion from formal measurement in feet or yards. It describes the size of a large building or a park, a distance which is not too short, but which one can walk over.
A city block (in most US cities) is between 1/16 and 1/8 mi (100 and 200 m).
The stere is equal to a cubic metre or kilolitre. It is used for firewood, the measure being for the normal stack (including holes).
The weight of an elephant, sometimes more specifically "the weight of an African bull elephant" (about 6 tons), is sometimes used by paleontologists as a unit of weight when describing the weight of large dinosaurs or other extinct creatures.
Jiffy: In computing the jiffy is the duration of one tick of the system timer interrupt. Typically, this time is 0.01 seconds.
Dog Year: A unit of measurement equal to one seventh of a year, or approximately 52 days, is primarily used to approximate the equivalent age of dogs and other animals with similar life spans.
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BlackSea Region Meeting Varna 12.03.07 Chapter 3: Maximising Quality in Life in Coastal Regions 3.2 Adapting to Coastal Risks What must be done to reduce vulnerability of coastal regions to risks of floods and erosion? What further cooperation is needed in the EU to respond adequately to natural disasters? How can shores and coastal waters be better policed to prevent human threats? 3.3. Developing Coastal Tourism What specific measures promoting the sustainable tourism development of coastal regions and islands should be taken at EU level? 3.4. Managing the Land/Sea interface....Given the interaction of coastal and maritime issues across the land-sea interface, an overall EU maritime policy has a major stake in the success of ICZM. Consideration should therefore be given top an EU-wide mechanisms for comparative analysis and an exchange of best practice How can ICZM be successfully implemented? What role can be played by regional centres of maritime excellence?
BlackSea Region Meeting Varna 12.03.07 Chapter 4: Providing the tools to manage our relations with the oceans 3.2 Data at the Service of Multiple Activities...The EU could consider setting up a European Marine Observation and Date Network which would provide a sustainable focus for improving systematic observation (in situ and from space)......Consideration should also be given to setting up European programmes to develop comprehensive mapping of European coastal waters for purposes of spatial planning, security and safety. The mapping of existing and planned activities in the water and on the seabed is essential.... On what lines should a European Atlas of the Seas be developed? How can a European Marine Observation and date Network be set up, maintained and financed in a sustainable basis?...
BlackSea Region Meeting Varna 12.03.07 Chapter 4: Providing the tools to manage our relations with the oceans 3.3 Spatial Planning for a growing Maritime Economy...The Commission believes that a system of spatial planning for maritime activities on the waters under jurisdiction of or controlled by the Member States should be created......It should build on the ecosystem-based approach..but should also deal with licensing, promoting or placing restrictions on maritime activities......A broad debate is needed on the principles should underline such planning......Although individual decisions on activities should be taken at a national or local level, a degree of commonality between the systems is needed to ensure that decisions affecting the same ecosystem or cross-border activities, such as pipeline and shipping routes, are dealt with in a coherent manner.....a future maritime policy has to build on instruments and methods to ensure consistency between land and marine systems in order to avoid duplication of regulations, or the transfer of unsolved land-planning problems to the sea...A common vision of an overall coastal and marine spatial development plan could provide a coherent set of policy objectives and principles...
BlackSea Region Meeting Varna 12.03.07 Chapter 4: Providing the tools to manage our relations with the oceans 3.3 Spatial Planning for a growing Maritime Economy..as economic activity moves further offshore...it will increasingly take place in waters...rights of innocent passage..The EU and its Member States will need to take the lead in ensuring that multilateral rules evolve to allow for reconciling this right with the need for offshore spatial planning What are the principles and mechanisms that should underpin maritime spatial planning systems? How can systems for planning on land and sea be made compatible?
BlackSea Region Meeting Varna 12.03.07 2.a General Description of Spatial Planning system -evolution of spatial planning in the country (short introduction) -agencies of planning (national, regional, local level) -the planning framework (legal basis, planning instruments, types of plans at all levels and their contents) -involvement of public (access to information, public hearings, appeals, etc) -the control of development (planning/building permissions, enforcement of planning control) -land policies related to coastal areas -urban, countryside and transport planning/policies -environmental protection and planning (pollution, waste, EIA, SEA) -conservation of nature and cultural heritage (protected areas, etc) -general introduction on coastal zone planning -general introduction on maritime spatial planning (legal basis, responsibilities, practice, plans, etc.) -assessment of/commentary on advantages and gaps
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The coronavirus pandemic has seen a rapid change in how people shop. It has ushered in many of the changes retail has been facing over the past few years at break-neck speed. But the pace of change is likely to continue.
While analysis of consumers suggests that they have rapidly changed their shopping habits to be much more focussed online and that they will stay that way even as lockdown lifts, their newly found online habits are also shifting rapidly.
eBay has already identified how ecommerce shopping trends have themselves rapidly changed over the lockdown, from week one panic buying, through a new work/life balance and sunny weather in weeks two and three, to DIY and peak-cycling in week four.
In the intervening seven weeks that bring us to week 11 of the lockdown, these shifts in behaviour will have gone through even more permutations and evolutions as shoppers adapt.
A lot of this change has been dictated by the almost weekly changes in circumstances and the three-week cycle of government review of the situation, but the switch to e- and mcommerce among shoppers is set to be a fluid one even when this is all over.
And that poses a challenge to all retailers. While much of this week's news sees retailers starting to adapt to the new digitally-led retail world – and with many shops set to be closed for at least another two weeks – the need to adapt to rapid changes in customer habits has never been more pressing.
This has a profound impact on how retailers market to their customers. For starters, many of their digital customers are now new ones and that means they may fall into demographics less well understood by any given retailer.
Meanwhile, their existing customer base may be have changed how it wants to shop, what it wants to buy and how it wants to engage. In a webinar Internet Retailing hosted with Red Eye this week, it was revealed that many retailers are seeing, for instance, that customers have more time to engage and want a deeper level of engagement on social media while they have time on their hands.
This means adapting the social and marketing strategy to fit both newbies and regulars who want a different experience to what they had before.
However, as things get back to normal, this will all change again – just how remains to be seen – and it is adapting to this sort of change-and-change-again paradigm that is where retailers need to be more agile than ever.
The good news is that the changes that lockdown and the subsequent slow re-opening of the world has brought is nothing that retailers weren't expecting: nothing new has happened, it has just happened very quickly. But that is a good thing. Now retailers are seeing the need to be digital and omni-channel, the need to be agile and targeted in their engagement and they are starting to see that there are many new ways to sell.


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Denis is a small, classic desert island and lies some 95 kilometres north of Mahé. The 350 acre coral island, which has just one lodge, sits at the edge of the Seychelles Bank which plunges 2,000 feet down into the abyss of the Indian Ocean. The island is almost entirely surrounded by coral reefs, rich in marine life, giving rise to a natural lagoon and gentle, brilliant white, sand beaches. It is the ultimate barefoot getaway and ideal for couples and honeymooners.
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Denis Island resort is on the north western tip of the island, right on the edge of the beach, surrounded by mature casuarina trees and coconut palms. The 25 spacious and secluded cottages are all en-suite and have been stylishly decorated using natural materials and each has a private sea facing verandah. The restaurant serves international and local specialities and is complemented by a well stocked bar and large elegant sitting area. Denis Island has a lovey pool adjacent to the main lodge building, and there is also a library, a shop, and a media room with internet.
Whilst staying at Denis Island, guests can simply relax on the beach and enjoy the world class snorkelling. The resort offers a small, professional and fully equipped dive centre offering excellent diving. Other activities include tennis, bicycles, tours of the farm and fishing.


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After the show "The Handmaid's Tale" debuted, the term "Aunt Lydia" — to describe women who conspire to uphold sexist systems for personal gain — entered the American lexicon, and none too soon. Aunt Lydias have always been with us, of course. They believe it's unlikely that they'll ever see true equality for women in their lifetimes. So rather than fight for a better tomorrow for others, they decide there's a lot to be gained, personally, from complicity. But explaining this complex reality in soundbite-driven American political discourse is always a slog, making "it can't be sexist even if women support it" a disturbingly effective, if incredibly dumb, gambit. It is why sexist men have long employed Aunt Lydias, willing to give a select few women a minor taste of power, so long as they work to keep other women in their place.
The shorthand "Aunt Lydia" was useful to illustrate situations like Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine defending Justice Brett Kavanaugh after accusations of sexual assault, or explain why the anti-choice movement has so many women in it. But for those of us who loved the book long before Ann Dowd's indelible performance as Lydia on the otherwise flawed TV version of "The Handmaid's Tale," the icon of female complicity will always be Serena Joy. In Margaret Atwood's hands, the character is a darkly funny satire of Phyllis Schlafly, the clever and ambitious far-right activist who, in the 70s, realized her only real pathway to power was to become the nation's most prominent anti-feminist. Serena in the novel is Atwood's revenge fantasy on Schlafly. Serena, like Schlafly, rose to power and fame by promoting patriarchy, and her punishment is living in the world she fought so hard to create, where she is shut up in the house, bored and angry, while her husband sleeps with enslaved sex workers.
Her story is also a warning to complicit women: Sexist men will let you have a small amount of power, as long as you cape for an unjust system. But the moment they don't have use for you anymore, you'll get a nasty reminder that they see you like they see all women: as second class. (Schlafly got her own taste of this. Her army of anti-feminist housewives elected Ronald Reagan as president, and she was thanked for her hard work by being laughed out of her request for a position in the administration.)
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All of which is a long way to say that it really should be no surprise that the first head to roll in the sexual harassment scandal in the governor's office of New York does not belong to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the man who is facing an attorney general's report documenting 11 women accusing him of abuses. Cuomo is digging in, determined to survive this through gaslighting and sheer belligerence. Instead, the big resignation news on Monday morning is that of his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, who put out a statement saying "the past two years have been emotionally and mentally trying."
To be clear, DeRosa had it coming. Her name is all over the investigation report released by New York's attorney general, Letitia James. "DeRosa is mentioned by name 187 times — as much as Cuomo," Josh Dawsey of the Washington Post writes, "She is portrayed as a constant force, taking part in an alleged effort to discredit one of his accusers, lining up women and elected officials to defend him and even confronting and chastising the governor about his behavior at one point."
DeRosa is described as going particularly hard after Lindsey Boylan, who was the first woman to accuse Cuomo publicly. DeRosa reportedly demanded Boylan's "full file," with the apparent intent to use the information within to discredit her. DeRosa is also accused of pressuring unrelated government officials to defend Cuomo, spying on other government employees, and trying to kill a story about Cuomo changing promotion rules for state troopers so he could have a specific woman as his bodyguard. That trooper has now accused him of harassment.
It's quickly becoming clear how much Cuomo believes he can use women — and feminist politics — as a shield to hide his own predatory behavior. In his grotesque response to the attorney general report, Cuomo repeatedly leaned on his supposed feminist bona fides, bragging about "all the progress we had made in fighting sexual assault" in his office, highlighting how he brought "in an expert to design a new sexual harassment policy and procedures," and feigning umbrage over female managers being held to a "double standard" of being "maligned and villainized for working long hours or holding people accountable or for being tough."
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Using a woman to do his dirty work is just more of the same. It's not about a sincere commitment to advancing women's careers or men like Cuomo wouldn't be asking their female underlings to do such terrible things to other women in the first place. It's about using women as props, someone to point to as a "I'm no sexist" defense when the truth finally comes out. Media mogul Harvey Weinstein employed the same tricks, publicly supporting women from Meryl Streep to Hillary Clinton, while secretly abusing countless women in private. Donald Trump does it, too, hiding behind female spokespersons like Kellyanne Conway and Kayleigh McEnany, to muddy the waters around his own long history of sexual predation.
Indeed, DeRosa is far from the only woman who Cuomo used in this way. Roberta Kaplan, the chairwoman of the anti-sexual harassment group Time's Up, got involved in Cuomo's defense when the governor leaned on her for advice on how to respond to the allegations. It's a reminder of how complicit women can often tell themselves a story about how it's for the greater good, that the power they are cultivating by siding up to bad men can somehow be used to fight the bigger fight. But Kaplan is also finding out the price, as she too resigned Monday morning — even as Cuomo continues to cling to power.
Women play along with sexist men all too often, because doing so means power. Like Aunt Lydia, they long ago accepted they'll never have male status, but they figure they can achieve some measure of power by being complicit with a sexist system. But DeRosa's situation is a reminder that the power gained from complicity is tenuous and dependent on how much value you offer to men who need women to take fire for them. Once that's gone, complicit women all too often find that power stripped away. They were never respected, not really, any more than the other women they worked so hard to oppress.


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The size of the average bribe has surged by a third as the government's war on corruption faltered this year, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said Wednesday.
Chaika berated senior officials involved in the graft fight, saying their investigators were afflicted by complacency and were failing to build solid cases to prosecute officials suspected of corruption.
"In 2008 and 2009, we saw a significant revival of work in this area, but the results of the activities of law enforcement agencies in the first half of this year confirm complacency and a decrease of effectiveness and quality of work," Chaika said at a meeting of the heads of the law enforcement agencies.
The government has steadily increased the number of investigators targeting corruption, but the number of cases going to trial has stayed about the same, and the rate of acquittals in the first half of 2010 almost doubled compared with the same period last year, Chaika told the meeting, which was also attended by Kremlin chief of staff Alexander Naryshkin.
Prosecutors opened 2,482 corruption cases in the first six months of this year, down from 3,063 in the same period of 2009, according to a report circulated at the meeting.
Chaika said his own staff shared the blame for the slowdown. "The main reason for this lies in deficiencies at all stages of law enforcement — ineffective operational work, the poor quality of investigations and the absence of a stalwart position by prosecutors," he said, Interfax reported.
The report circulated at the meeting cited Interior Ministry figures as saying the average bribe has risen to 30,500 rubles ($1,015), up from 23,100 rubles ($770) last year.
The findings deal a blow to President Dmitry Medvedev, who has made fighting corruption a hallmark of his presidency.
Naryshkin struck a more upbeat note at the meeting, praising a Medvedev order that requires civil servants to declare their income and some assets. He promised to expand the declarations.
"This year's income statement covers nearly all civil servants. Experience shows that presenting information about incomes is quite an effective preventative measure," Naryshkin said, Interfax reported.
But officials face no penalties for not disclosing their incomes, and several senior politicians have refused to follow Medvedev's order. Also, critics say some who have provided income declarations offered false information.Anti-corruption watchdogs said Chaika's findings were unsurprising and welcomed his honesty.
"I'm glad that it's not only society that sees that real action against real corruption and real corrupt officials is not gaining momentum yet," said Yelena Pamfilova, head of Transparency International's Russia office.
"I don't see any point in income declarations if we have no declarations of expenditures," said Anatoly Golubev, who chairs the nongovernmental Committee to Fight Corruption.
Pamfilova, whose organization ranked Russia 146 out of 180 countries in its corruption perceptions index for 2009, said the increasing acquittal rates might be connected with a lack of protection for whistleblowers.
"You simply cannot go through the whole [prosecution] process based only on information. You need someone to testify in court, to provide some evidence," she said by telephone. "But businesses are afraid to report [corrupt officials] because they fear it will be more difficult for them to operate, and citizens are afraid that they may be subject to retaliatory actions from the officials' colleagues."
Investigators are also hobbled by ambiguity about just who they can go after. "To really get a grip on corruption you have to start to investigate and prosecute senior officials who are sometimes covering for lower level corruption. But that requires a real political signal and political will," Pamfilova said. "At the moment, legislation is slightly confusing on how far law enforcement can go. Can they go against themselves? Can they go against their own colleagues — police people, top political people?"


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Yoga is a fire that once ignites will never stop. The more you practice yoga, the better version of yourself you will be able to find. Once you get immersed in the yoga practice, you will be able to get all the benefits of it. Right from calming your mind to strengthening your body, yoga will bring you umpteen health benefits at various levels. If you want to learn yoga, there is no better option than getting a meditation and yoga package for reaping all the benefits of this sacred art in a budget-friendly manner. Here, we are going to shed light on everything you need to know about joining a meditation and yoga package.
Meditation and Yoga Package: Things You Need to Know
Days of meditation and yoga package
The duration of a yoga package can vary from 3 days to 15 days, however, if you want to have intense yoga training, then you need to spare more than a month. There are various yoga schools in Rishikesh offering 3 to 15 days of meditation and yoga packages to help yoga enthusiasts around the world learn the whole nine yards of yoga. So, you can choose the one that best suits your needs and time availability.
Schedule to be followed
A particular schedule is to be followed by students while joining meditation and yoga sessions. You need to wake up early in the morning, practice various asanas and yoga techniques as guided by your teachers, have proper meals (only vegetarian), have proper rest and sleep, take part in each and every activity, and do a lot more.
For instance:
5:30 am – Wake up
6:00 am – 7:00 am – Mantra Chanting and cleansing
7:15 am – 8:45 am – Yoga Asanas Class
8:45 am – 9:30 – Breakfast
09:30 AM – 10:30 AM – Yoga Philosophy
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM – Alignment and Adjustment
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Karma Yoga
12:30 PM – 01:30 PM – Lunch
01:30 PM – 02:30 PM – Yoga Anatomy and Physiology
02:30 PM – 3:30 PM – Rest Time
03:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Fire Ceremony
04:15 PM – 04:30 PM – Tea/snacks
04:45 PM – 05:45 PM – Yoga asanas
05:45 PM – 06:45 PM – Meditation
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Dinner
8:30 PM – 9:00 PM – Kirtan
09:30 PM – Lights off
Note: This is just an overview of the yoga schedule you need to follow while doing yoga and meditation training.
There can be changes as per the need of the program or package.
Also read: Basic Principles and Guidelines to be Followed While Doing RYT 500
Cost of yoga package
The price tag of yoga packages can also differ as per the days, venue, and other options selected. In general, the cost of yoga packages for 5 days is $450, for 10 days is $750, and for 15 days is $1050. However, there may be changes as per the selection made by you.
Activities to be expected
Apart from learning yoga and meditation, you get time for personal excursions, healing sessions, massage treatments, detoxification, and much more. Also, it depends on the destination you select while booking your yoga package. For instance, if you choose Rishikesh as your destination, you can enjoy a plethora of adventurous activities, enjoy Ganga aarti, visit temples, get to know Indian culture and do a lot more. For those wanting a little more activity while attending a yoga package, there are quite a few mountain waterfall hikes nearby.
Yoga packages are suitable for all and especially for those who want to escape from the hustle and bustle of their hectic lives and looking for finding peace.
So, no matter whether you want to join the meditation and yoga package to get relaxed or recover from an injury, you can book the one that is specially customized as per your body needs and individual requirements. For those who want to renew and refresh their body, mind, and soul by booking a yoga package, we are available to be contacted for discussing which yoga package could be best for you!
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Imagine an airline booking site that didn't list any fares. Instead, it would only disclose and collect fees after boarding. Or pretend that theatergoers reserved Hamilton seats without knowing the cost; ushers would present a bill halfway through the show. Those were the scenarios I contemplated during a recent trip to the Grill, which doesn't list prices online.
As someone who eats out for a living, I don't get surprised too often — especially not at an expensive Midtown power spot — but I almost fell off my bar stool when I learned that a crawfish sausage appetizer, good for six bites, would cost $44, more than a full steak frites elsewhere.
The Grill's owner, Major Food Group, has long obscured its pricing, but they're not the only ones. The sausage incident reminded me of when I dropped by the French-Indonesian Wayan, a venue where most dishes are under $35, and realized that a new menu item I scoped out on the website would run nearly $140 for two. Or there were also those visits I made to the new Milos at Hudson Yards, where price-less menus (among other tricks) can easily send a meal $100 over budget.
Other expensive new restaurants omitting online prices include Hyun, the upscale Korean barbecue establishment specializing in wagyu, and Llama San, the ambitious Peruvian-Japanese hangout that doesn't even post a menu. Looking back further: Ambitious Italian hotspots Misi and Lilia and spendy Mexican establishments Atla and Cosme also suffer from price-free menus.
In an era of online everything, where restaurants detail every new dish and development on social media, it's astonishing that the number of venues without prices on their websites continues to increase. I can't think of another legal business — outside of the U.S. healthcare system — where the consumer doesn't have a specific idea of what they'll spend until they arrive. Logistically the policy doesn't make sense; a restaurant that can afford to print out paper menus can afford to update menus with prices online.
This seems like an easy thing to do to make a diner feel more equipped to go to the restaurant. Hiding the cost prevents consumers from engaging in any type of informed planning, something that's particularly important for upscale venues such as these where people may be saving up for a splurge meal. It also makes it harder to watch for price hikes, like at Cosme, where the duck carnitas has jumped up from $45 to nearly $98 since 2014, and for comparing prices with competitors.
Prices, to be sure, might not be the central concern for someone choosing between a meal at, say, the old world Peter Luger and the more modern Cut by Wolfgang Puck, but it would be nice to ascertain the prices at either without having to call up. For what it's worth, the porterhouse is $150 at Cut, while at Luger the steak is...actually the receptionists aren't picking up over there. Sorry!
Or for tourists who aren't plugged into the city's posh pastrami scene, Katz's would be well served to mention that the overstuffed sandwich runs $24.98 after tax, which might induce a case of sticker shock for folks who aren't accustomed to the city's high-priced sandwiches.
Sometimes prices are not entirely obscured, instead sneakily hidden. Take the Fulton in the Seaport District. Anyone who reads the online menus won't encounter prices next to the lobster noodles or the whole sea bass — at least not at first. Only those who scroll down and download a separate PDF will learn that the noodles are $58 and that the sea bass is, well, it's listed as MP, or market price.
Other restaurants, which shall remain nameless because I've already knocked them multiple times in this column, have actively removed prices from their websites, suggesting a conscious effort to give the consumer less information than before.
Numbers and budgeting aside, menu pricing impacts the emotional experience of dining out. The sensation of sitting down at a nice restaurant, opening the menu, and exclaiming, "holy crap," can be a deeply demoralizing experience. Spending $100 or $200 more than you budgeted for is like getting a ticket for a law you didn't know existed. Or just as embarrassing is having to order only an appetizer or two and skimp on wine, turning what would have been a special occasion into an ad hoc effort in limiting the financial damage.
At least Major Food Group, the largest collection of restaurants with this nonsense policy, is making a change. When I reached out to co-owner Jeff Zalaznick about the nature of my piece, he said he agreed with my concerns and said the group would finally start publishing prices online by the end of the month. (It's worth nothing that this site, and our slew of commenters, have criticized this aspect about MFG in the past). The group runs 12 venues in New York, two in Vegas, two in Tel Aviv, and one in Hong Kong. Only one, the Polynesian, has online menu prices.
Indeed, for the following collection of coveted venues, adding prices would do something simple that they claim they want to do: be more hospitable.
List of Restaurants Withouts Online Menu Prices
- Every Major Food Group Restaurant (Dirty French, the Grill, Carbone, etc.)
- Cosme
- Atla
- Wayan
- Wolfgang's
- Peter Luger
- Milos
- The Fulton
- Hyun
- P.J. Clarke's
- Llama San
- Misi
- Lilia
- Cut by Wolfgang Puck
- Katz's


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- Peptide DYRMHEKLWVPDC, corresponding to amino acid residues 131-143 of mouse GABRQ (Accession Q9JLF1). Extracellular, N-terminus.
- Western blot analysis of rat brain membrane (lanes 1 and 4), mouse brain membrane (lanes 2 and 5) and Human CCF-STGI brain astrocytoma cell lysate (lanes 3 and 6):1-3. Anti-GABA(A) θ Receptor (GABRQ) (extracellular) Antibody (#AGA-018), (1:500).
4-6. Anti-GABA(A) θ Receptor (GABRQ) (extracellular) Antibody, preincubated with GABA(A) θ Receptor/GABRQ (extracellular) Blocking Peptide (#BLP-GA018).
- Expression of of GABA(A) θ receptor in rat hypothalamusImmunohistochemical staining of rat hypothalamus using Anti-GABA(A) θ Receptor (GABRQ) (extracellular) Antibody (#AGA-018). A. GABRQ staining (red) is detected in the mammillary nucleus which is part of the posterior hypothalamus (arrows demarcate nucleus border). B. Nuclear staining using DAPI as the counterstain (blue). C. Merge images of A and B.
- Expression of GABA(A) θ receptor in rat PC12 cellsCell surface detection of GABRQ in intact living rat Pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells. A. Extracellular staining of cells using Anti-GABA(A) θ Receptor (GABRQ) (extracellular) Antibody (#AGA-018), (1:50), (red). B. Merge of A with the live view of the cell.
- Hevers, W. and Luddens, H. (1998) Mol. Neurobiol. 18, 35.
- Barnard, E.A. et al. (1998) Pharmacol. Rev. 50, 291.
- Sieghart, W. and Sperk, G. (2002) Curr. Top. Med. Chem. 2, 795.
- Wisden, W. et al. (1992) J. Neurosci. 12, 1040.
- Bonnert, T.P. et al. (1999) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96, 9891.
- Pinna, G. et al. (2006) Psychopharmacology (Berl) 186, 362.
The A-type receptors for γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA(A)) mediate the majority of fast inhibitory transmission in the mammalian central nervous system. Many clinically important drugs including benzodiazepines, barbiturates and general anesthetics act as positive allosteric modulators of this receptor1. GABA(A) receptors are pentameric ligand-gated ion-channels, composed of subunits from many subunit classes: α1-α6, β1-β4, γ1-γ4, δ, ε , θ, π and ρ1-ρ32. The arrangement of subunits around the channel is probably γβαβα counter-clockwise when viewed from the extracellular space, ε and π subunits can replace the γ and δ subunit within the pentamer, whereas the θ subunit could replace a β subunit3.
The localized expression of this subunit is consistent with the fact that all GABA(A) receptor subunit genes have distinct expression patterns in the brain3. The θ subunit has been reported to be strongly expressed in the striatum and has been localized to the locus ceruleus4.
Impairment of the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) signaling system is believed to partially account for behavioral and cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia and mood disorders5. Reduction of GABA(A) mediated signal transmission has also been associated with anxiety, panic, impaired learning and memory6.
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Alomone Labs is pleased to offer a highly specific antibody directed against an extracellular epitope of mouse γ-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit θ. Anti-GABA(A) θ Receptor (GABRQ) (extracellular) Antibody (#AGA-018) can be used in western blot, immunohistochemistry and live cell imaging applications. It has been designed to recognize GABRQ from rat, mouse and human samples.


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Construction boom: supporting worksite safety
Construction boom: supporting worksite safety
With construction in the UK going from strength to strength and 50,000 new homes being built this year,
the economic outlook for the industry is looking extremely positive. Here, Emily Hardy, Marketing Manager of Brigade Electronics UK, explains why worksite safety for the industry has never been more important. |
As the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry is expected to form an important part of the country's economic recovery, with house building playing a key role. The government has announced it plans to 'build, build' build' and hopes to reach their goal of completing 300,000 new homes a year by the middle of the decade. However, statistics show that construction is still one of the most hazardous occupations with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reporting 40 workplace fatalities in construction in 2019/2020. Non-fatal injuries are also a real risk. Accidents often involve heavy machinery and vehicles, which have numerous blind spots that limit operators' visibility, and greatly increase the danger of collision with those working on the ground. With the number of construction sites increasing, more people than ever will be working with, and around, construction vehicles and mobile machinery. It is vital that every precaution is taken to prioritise the safety of all those on site. The introduction of commercial vehicle safety systems, such as cameras, alarms, sensors and vehicle CCTV, have revolutionised the driver and operator experience. These include Brigade's best-selling Backeye®360, which provides a real-time 360 degree surround view of a vehicle in a single image. This system provides the driver with instant visibility of the numerous blind spots found on large vehicles, allowing operators to quickly see and react to hazards on the ground. This is especially useful on construction sites where drivers are regularly required to perform low-speed manoeuvres in challenging situations. Providing another layer of protection for those working in close proximity to heavy vehicles, the brand-new ZoneSafe® RFID Detection System uses detection tags worn by workers on foot which communicate with vehicle mounted antennas. Simultaneous alerts warn both ground workers and vehicle operators of each other's approach, allowing drivers and those on foot to work together safely. Reversing vehicles present a significant risk to construction workers. HSE statistics reveal that nearly a quarter of all deaths involving vehicles at work occur while reversing. Currently, "beep beep" style reversing alarms are still used widely around the world. However, white sound reversing alarms provide a much safer alternative. These alarms emit a multi frequency "shh-shh" sound which is more easily detectable by pedestrians and ground workers, allowing them to easily locate where and in what direction a vehicle is reversing – even while wearing ear defenders or working in noisy conditions. As the country prepares for a building boom, construction companies should ensure that worksite safety remains the top priority for everyone concerned. While technology alone will not solve this issue, it will certainly go a long way towards mitigating hazards and preventing deaths and injuries. |


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Murfreesboro Fire & Rescue Department's District 7, Ladder 9, and Engine 1 responded to a water rescue call around 11:30 am Saturday.
Crews were told that a woman was kayaking, her boat filled with water, and she was holding on to a tree limb somewhere on the Stones River along the 1500 block of Broad Street.
Rescuers/Firefighters Logan Gill and Josh Jackson located the victim. Jackson waded over to her and was able to get her safely to the shoreline.
Little did the victim, Camille Jones, know that her brother-in-law, Gill, was a part of the rescue efforts.
"My husband, father-in-law, and I just decided that we would take a Saturday kayaking trip," said Jones. "I never imagined it turning out like this."
Jones says they put in on Searcy Street and had no issue, until the current got stronger on down the river. The current pushed her kayak into a tree. She saw an opening for her to exit, but before she knew it, her boat was filling with water. "Luckily, I was in a grove and was able to stand to wait on rescuers."
Jones credits her husband Scott for thinking ahead and using his phone to access their location via Google Maps before calling 9-1-1.
When Jones realized that her brother-in-law was one of the rescuers, she was somewhat embarrassed. "I'm never going to live this down," she joked.
Another interesting twist to the story is that the kayak actually belonged to Gill's wife Rachel.
"I'm sure Logan will be talking about this for a while at family gatherings," said Jones. "Fortunately," she laughed, "the only casualties today were two water bottles."
MFRD Special Event Team Members Captain/Shift Inspector Clay Walls and Firefighters John Fisher and Matt Welcome were at Uncle Dave Macon Days when the call came in. They took used the department's Polaris Ranger to respond to the scene quickly.
"Everything just happened to work out for the best in this situation," said Captain Walls. "We are very happy about the favorable outcome, even if there will be a little laughter at Mrs. Jones' expense." Walls also praised Jackson for a job well done.