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This is so out of date that we're only keeping it here for those who are still working with older software. Notice though, this post is now Archived.
This guide shows you how to take your PowerPoint Presentation, add audio …and then, turn it into a YouTube video you can share with your subscribers and customers.
Supplies Needed:
- A Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
- A microphone
- Moyea PPT4 Web Converter (to convert PowerPoint files)
- A YouTube account
Step 1: Add Audio to Your PowerPoint Presentation
Of course, you can use a silent PowerPoint Presentation as your video, but it will be much more interesting if you add audio. For this demonstration, we will record our audio into the Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentation.
At the top right corner of the Insert ribbon, you will see the "Sound" option, as shown in the screen print below:
When you click on "Sound" you will see a drop-down menu of options. For this example, we are going to use the "Record Sound" option.
Once you click "Record Sound," a little recording box will appear. You can name the audio clip, and then click the record button:
When you're done, click the stop button, and then click the "OK" button:
The audio recording will automatically be inserted and you'll be able to see it in the middle of the slide, like the one shown in the screen print below:
You can simply drag that little audio recording icon off to the edge of the slide, and re-size it until it is as small as possible. That way, it won't show in your finished video.
Repeat this process for all the slides you wish to add audio to. Be sure to save your presentation with EACH entry.
Step 2: Set Your Slide Running Times
To ensure that each slide runs for the same amount of time in each audio recording, you need to set up the running time for EACH slide.
To get started timing your slides, click on the Slide Show on the PowerPoint ribbon, and choose "Rehearse Timings" as shown in the screen print below:
The slide show will then open …and a little Rehearsal toolbar will appear on the top left corner of your monitor, like the one shown in the screen print below:
The audio recording will begin right away. Press the Pause button when you want that particular slide to stop. See red arrow pointing to the Pause option in the screen print above.
Then click the left-pointing arrow button beside the pause option, TWICE to move to the next slide.
Repeat this process for all the slides. As you go along, you will see a total time for the current slide (to the right of the Pause button in the white box). The total time for the slide show appears on the far right side of the Rehearsal toolbar.
Once you've completed all the slides, you'll see a message like the following screen print:
If you are satisfied, the click the "Yes" button, in order to keep the new settings. Be sure to save your presentation again to keep these settings.
Step 3: Convert Your PowerPoint to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, FLV, MOV 3GP, 3G2, DV, VOB formats
Your are not allowed to upload a PowerPoint file to any YouTube account. So, you have to convert your slide show to a usable format.
NOTE: As of the latest versions of PowerPoint, you can NOW save your PowerPoint files as a video. However, for those of you who have older PowerPoint files that need converting to video, you could use software to do the converting, which is Moyea PPT to Video Converter, noted below the video.
How to Make Video in PowerPoint
You can find out more about the software at: https://download.cnet.com/Moyea-PPT-to-Video-Converter-PowerPoint-to-Video/3000-2075_4-10876579.html. For the ease of this demonstration, I will assume you already have Moyea PPT to Video Converter installed on your computer.
To start the conversion process, open Moyea PPT Converter and click on the "Add" button, to add your video:
Find your PowerPoint Presentation that you want to convert, click on your presentation's title to select it, and then click the "Open" button, as shown in the screen print below:
Now, click the "Start" button, to begin the conversion:
Then, a warning screen will appear. Make sure you follow all of the instructions (circled in red, in the screen print below) and ONLY then, click on the "OK" button.
Now, wait for the process to complete. During the conversion, you will see a prompt like the one shown in the screen print below:
Once your PowerPoint Presentation has finished being converted to video, you will get a prompt like the one shown in the screen print below:
NOTE: Look closely at the prompt above. You can see where the output folder has been saved to, and you could even click (where shown) to the play the video.
Click on the "Finish" button to complete the process.
Voila! You have now created a video using PowerPoint, and you can now upload it to your YouTube account.
TIP: Using the videos in your YouTube account to link to, or embed in your web pages, will gain your website quality backlinks!


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Interview with Thai Spicy, go home. How hard is it to get out of the house with your parents? When the child out of the cabinet, how to adapt to their "sudden" become a gay parents? This episode, let's have a chat with Thai Spicy with his father.
On the set:"The World, It's So Horrible" Interview with Thai Spicy: When I Lie Alone on the toilet floor, I realize how bloody bullying is
Next episode:"Good Love, Can Take You Away" Interview with Tai Spicy: My Life To Be Queen, Not Whose Wife, But Myself
Probably a lot of comrades out of the cabinet experience, are very sudden and at a loss.
Sophomore and third, Tai Spicy was accidentally found by his parents to be gay. A phone call from Nantou's hometown immediately brought The Spicy Call home. Sitting on the passenger, Tai Spicy realized that he had only been there for more than two hours, and could think of what he was going to do, but his head was blank.
Looking out of the window, the degree of urgency is faster than driving. Even if he knew in my heart that there would be this day, it caught him off guard.
Say what? How do you say that? The secret of 20 years in your heart, which only gives you 2 hours to prepare a set of words, seems a bit cruel.
"I decided to tell the truth, and when they accused me, I talked about being bullied in our high school. Tai Spicy claims that it is emotional blackmail, sound negative, but also reflects the comrades to their parents out of the cabinet of the hardships.
"Where are my parents when their children need parental protection?" I am a fall, on their own to climb up the person; What are your responsibilities as parents? 」
The air in the living room condenses, it's the moment of the family revolution, a couple of parents, a gay child. Thai spicy in the past twenty years of the voice of the public, but the family can not catch him for a moment and a half.
"Think about it, I'm really vicious, and my parents should have really hurt me. Thai spicy down the eyelids, I did not ask him after not regret. This family dialogue, estimated that no one did anything wrong, no one can blame anyone.
"My dad spent ten years accepting the subject of being gay" gay parents.
Perhaps not every scene out of the cabinet, are so sabre-rattling, but it is certain that every time out of the cabinet, there is its difficulty.
Dad: "You look like this, All my life efforts in vain." 」
Then my father drove away and didn't go home for two days. And the father dropped that sentence, let Thai spicy impressed, remember so far.
The process of reconciliation is long and painful.
Hurt each other but also hurt each other. In fact, whether gay or straight, family members often do.
On one occasion, the father reflected on what he had done wrong and why he had been born to such a child. Tai Spicy is very direct when said: "You are wrong, you are a very self-centered, very chauvinistic." You look at society as a whole with your patriarchal thinking, so I'm the subject you have to face. 」
Thai spicy to anyone is a straight ball duel, even the family is no exception, so often and father of a head-on conflict.
A big masculine, a comrade, two people in extreme positions, are likely to go from road to a break. But fortunately, the father and son did not ever interact.
Dad's mouth does not say, in fact, bit by bit for the Thai spicy change.
From his 20-year-old exit to his 30-year marriage, dad spent 10 years practicing how to be a gay father and adapt to a new identity, "and to this day, he's still learning." 」
"I think he has a review of himself after every conflict. "Thai chided his head, recalling his past confrontation with his father, "Although he did not see the review process, but every time it happened, he seemed to understand the difference more and more, but also more and more able to put down prejudice." Now he has become a soft man. 」
"What moved me the most was that my dad spent ten years changing himself. 」
On the wedding day, Dad boasted of being beautiful for the first time.
When an originally homophobic father, into the wedding of a gay son, for each other, have a very profound significance.
Remember when my father showed up, it was a little awkward and uncomfortable, refused to lead Thai hot into the field, also do not want to speak, just want to stay quiet. That scene, much like the epitome of these years - far and near, there is something to say but no way to open, the heart has love but do not know how to express.
Father and son, you and I, blood is the inevitable existence of each other's connection, there are similarities, there are water and fire can not be allowed. In this life, we have been practicing coexistence, learning to communicate, slowly polishing the relationship between the two people.
When Thai spicy wearing a wedding dress, slowly walked past his father's side, the father suddenly can not help but feel the mood, no warning will hold him, pat him on the shoulder, instantly let Thai spicy tears more than. Embrace is the warmest body language, you feel the other person's temperature at the same time, found that the original themselves are giving.
"I remember that light was on that side of it. "Thai hot refers to the light in front of the light, laughing that it for him to witness the whole process.
At that time, my father gently in the thai hot ear, squeezed out a sentence: "You are very beautiful." 」
Photo by Ty La
Long so big, Thai spicy only saw his father shed three tears, one of which was at his wedding. And this is the first time that dad used the words "beautiful" to praise Thai spicy.
At the wedding, Dad saw the most authentic Thai for the first time.
Don't know father saw Thai spicy wearing a wedding dress, the mood of why, but this brewing for several years of hugging, has explained everything. Xu has comfort, Xu has heartache, or moved for it, depressed but light, from the eyes.
I love you, I am willing to practice for you, how to be a gay father, your father.
Dad's actions and encouragement to make the whole wedding more complete. Tai Spicy understands that his father has been able to love the real him.
"Dad, thank you, I love you, I want to thank you even more for loving a complete me. 」
you're a native family, but you can care about it
Thai spicy body, there are three tattoos.
The first tattoo, designed by Thai Spicy himself, was tattooed on the right arm. It looks like chemistry, with the initials of the parents and sister-in-law, and an outward-extended space that will be left to future people who will appear in life.
"Actually, that person is a husband, but I know it's good." Thai spicy pointed to the blank. This interpretation is very moving, some love does not have to be engraved, just in the heart.
Keep your family on your skin, and Ithasnity hasn't hesitated for long.
Many of the pain that is difficult to deal with comes from the native family; Our feelings to the family, many times is love and hate, because this is impossible to cut the blood connected, can not wave goodbye to each other's life.
"Well, these names are my family, and they won't change. 」
Tai spicy can now smile and talk, the pain as a cloud of smoke, in fact, with the family through a dialogue and recovery of the road.
"When I was a kid, I hated my dad. And ten years time is enough for an otherwise homophobic father to begin to praise the beauty of his gay son, "Children, don't be underestimating the power of their parents." 」
The other two tattoos are the Thai-bred cat, the nobleman, and a former goldfish.
It's funny, all three tattoos are life. I was thinking, it seems that because these life pulseand and love, enough to make Thai spicy good life.
Our home: there is you by your side, why
Today, in addition to reconciliation with the native family, Tai Spicy also formed a new family. After nearly five years of dating with his husband, he finally entered the auditorium.
Thai spicy is YouTuber and KOL, not afraid of not shy, like to try many different things;
Two people have very different personalities, but each other suck, who did not expect, the original only in the dating software to know the two sides, and finally become the other half of each other's life. Husband accompanied Thai spicy up the mountain, try to meet the Thai spicy want to do;
He and his husband have three cats together: the white cat, the orange cat Poka, the black and white cat such as the one. Watching Tai Spicy feed the cat in the kitchen with her husband, or lovingly holding the cat in your arms, you can see how much he cares about the new family.
Their love, three meals a day, two people four seasons, very simple and very practical.
Although the world is not perfect, society is not very kind, but you have love in your heart, you know how to survive.
This is what Thai Spicy didn't say, but taught us.


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506-832-5541 email@example.com Hampton NB
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. (Carly Simon)
It is with great sadness that the family of Beverley Sheppard announces her passing on Monday, January 24, 2022. She was surrounded by her loving family as she entered her heavenly home. After many courageous battles with cancer fought with such grace, she is finally at peace. Beverley was the beloved wife of Bob Sheppard and loving mother to Natasha Burnett-Breau (Kevin), Springfield NB, Jonathan Burnett (Olivia), Hampton NB, Don Burnett (Cheryl), Damascus NB, and Lisa Burnett (Mike), Saint John NB. She is predeceased by her parents Anne Rodgers and Ronald Allen. She is survived by her stepmother Vera Allen.
Beverley adored her grandchildren Madison, Lauren, Jonah, Jack, Katie, Kristen, Jessica, and Sarah.
Beverley often expressed how she felt loved and cared for by her siblings: Sharon Goobie (John), Hank Allen (Brenda), Crena Peters (Peter) and Trevor Allen (Stacey).
Regardless of the hardships that Beverley encountered, her faith was strong enabling her to endure and find blessings in all situations. She often said, "God is good, and he is good all the time". Her faith and her family were the source of her strength and joy. She never missed an opportunity to share that she was, "blessed beyond measures".
Beverley had a prized pair of army boots. She wore them regularly to her chemo sessions to remind her of the warrior she was. Armed with her faith, she was the type of Christian that when her feet hit the floor in the morning, the devil would say, "oh no she is up!" She regularly broke into prayer and loved to blow her shofar, a skill she has passed on to her granddaughter Lauren. These wonderful memories, and the sound of her beautiful laugh, will live on in our hearts forever.
She was an active front row member of Embertide Church in Hampton. She could be seen standing up with hands raised high praising her heavenly Father.
She had a soft spot for stray cats; they always seemed to find their way to her doorsteps. Beverley was never without a cat of her own and her beloved Penny remained with her until the end. She spent many summer days sitting in her chair with a book and a cup of tea while looking out at her lovely garden and watching the birds, especially her favourite cardinals. Beverley had a great sense of humor and enjoyed getting a laugh when she talked about her favorite group of gals, 'the Sussex Tearoom Rug Hookers. She, and members of the group, created beautiful mats and woolen projects. She loved having her fellow hookers over to dye wool in her very own dye kitchen.
Prior to retiring, she worked as a court stenographer and was known as a meticulous hard worker.
Beverley was an adventurous soul who was proud of her 1973 Yamaha motorcycle and loved her rides on Jonathan's Harley. Many great memories were made when she and Bob travelled to Florida, with Ellen, her sister by heart, and her family.
Beverley was always willing to lend a hand whether it was welcoming a new Syrian family into the community or running a foodbank out of her basement. In the last couple of years she became very interested in the history and heritage of Indigenous Peoples. She was particularly saddened by the discovery of the remains of children discovered at former residential schools across Canada. Her last rug hooking project is a tribute to the approximately 6000 Indigenous children who tragically died while attending these schools. Her rug was completed just days before her passing.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Reid's funeral home (506-832-5541), 1063 Main Street, Hampton, NB. Visitation will be held on Friday, February 4, 2022 from 2-4 & 6-8PM from Embertide Church, Hampton, NB. A Celebration of Life will take place on Saturday, February 5, at 11:00am from Embertide Church, Hampton, NB. A private graveside service will be held in the spring at Mosher Hill Cemetery, St. Martins, NB.
Donations in memory of Beverley may be made to St. Mary's (Sitansisk) First Nations Indigenous Peoples "Every Child Matters" program (email – firstname.lastname@example.com) 150 Cliffe Street, Fredericton, NB E3A 0A1 C/O: Every Child Matters, or the charity of the donor's choice. Personal condolences to the family and donations may be made through ReidsFH.com.


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You already know the drill: Eataly Boston opens at Boston's Prudential Center on November 29 (800 Boylston St.) at 4 p.m. It's a three-story playground of Italian food, part of an expanding international group that began in Turin, Italy close to a decade ago. There's retail, grab-and-go, casual dining, full-service dining, cooking classes, and more. You can (and should) wander around with a glass of wine.
The Eataly team — founder Oscar Farinetti, CEO Nicola Farinetti (Oscar's son), and partners Adam Saper, Alex Saper, Joe Bastianich, Lidia Bastianich, and Mario Batali — is very intent on emphasizing that Eataly Boston is not meant to be a cookie-cutter version of Eataly New York or any other Eataly. It's full of locally sourced produce, dairy, and other ingredients, and the layout is different than other locations you may have visited.
Plus, you'll recognize some familiar Boston faces wandering around the 45,000 square feet — chef Barbara Lynch (who is collaborating on a "casual elegant" seafood restaurant at Eataly, Il Pesce), BISq alum Dan Bazzinotti (Eater Boston's 2015 Chef of the Year), Area Four alum Katie Kimble. Lourdes Smith — who quietly shuttered her well-regarded cheese business, Fiore di Nonno, last year — is part of Eataly Boston's mozzarella-making team. There's charcuterie from Waltham-based New England Charcuterie, milk from Crescent Ridge in Sharon, meat sourced by Savenor's, seafood sourced by Wulf's.
There's plenty more to know about Eataly Boston; stay tuned for additional details as the opening date approaches. But for today, here's a sneak peek inside the massive space, where you'll soon be able to stay and eat — or take home everything you need to cook your own Italian feast.
- Eataly Boston Coverage [EBOS]
All photography by Rachel Leah Blumenthal for Eater


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It's been such a stunning day in Shropshire to mark the end of 2020. I've just returned from a lovely walk with the sun warming my back, despite the temperature being 1 or 2 degrees above freezing and the ground still hard from this morning's frost – a big improvement on the mud that's marked my walks in recent days.
It's been a lovely week doing very little – eating, reading, watching movies – and of course walking.
Yet I've still felt a little guilty – feeling that I should be doing more, that I should be reflecting on the past year, planning 2021. So when a friend offered to gift me her programme on having your best year yet – I jumped at the offer – feeling very excited that I had a structure to follow – carving out time first thing this morning to go through it.
Unfortunately the battery on my laptop was flat – (which surprised me because I used it on mains yesterday so it should have been fully charged). Not to worry, I'd use my phone – I'd be journaling by hand anyway so didn't need the laptop.
Then… the audio wouldn't play on my phone. Again not to worry, somebody else had recommended another resource so I thought I'd do that instead and come back to this one.
I signed up with my email – waited a few minutes for the email with the link to come through – and nothing. 10 minutes later – still nothing.
By this point I was very intrigued – 2 resources I'd tried to access and not been able to.
Time to journal and reflect on what was actually going on here – it felt like something bigger than tech problems.
Through my journaling, I realised that in my head, year end was this big thing. A major time to reflect and welcome in the new. That I needed to go through this big process – review 2020 and set intentions for 2021.
As I wrote it became clear that I'd already set my intentions for 2021:
- My financial goals are set
- 2021 is the year I write my first book – and I know that that will be an incredible journey
- I want to have fun and be in awe of life.
I also realised that I reflect all the time – on an incident that just happened, on my learnings in any day – indeed I've been reflecting on this year in real time throughout the whole year.
I realised that through this whole desire to plan and create this big thing, I was being pulled into the ways other people do things – feeling that I was missing something – a very familiar pattern and thankfully one I experience less and less these days.
I also recognised that it was important for me to mark the end of 2020 – and I already knew how to do that – with:
A Sacred Closing Ceremony
I did this recently at the end of my Sacred Selling Programme with a small group of beautiful souls – and it was incredible. I would use the same questions. And that felt powerful.
We often hear – or tell others "we have all the answers within" – and I really felt that today – yet I needed to go through a process of connecting with others to find those answers within.
Tonight, at some point after sunset I will sit down, light a candle, play some soulful music and answer the questions I wrote a few months ago. Then I'll welcome in the New Year with a lovely meal with my family followed by a short walk at midnight.
If the idea of a Sacred Ceremony to mark the end of 2020 is appealing, these are the questions I'll be asking:
Sacred Reflections 2020
- My greatest gift this year has been…
- The thing that most surprised me about 2020 was….
- I am grateful for the following insights 2020 gave me:
- I am grateful for the following shifts I experienced during 2020:
- What I loved most about this year:
- What challenged me:
- What I'd have done differently with the benefit of hindsight:
- What I'm looking forward to in 2021 is….
Wishing you a beautiful end to 2020 and a very Happy New Year.
Much love,


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Warndu Besoke Gift Wrap. Have your items wrapped with love and lemon myrtle in our custom Indigenous artwork tissue, featuring the artwork of owner Damien Coulthard.
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Akurra at Lake Frome, 2018. Ochre and acrylic on canvas. (pink and white)
Akurra, the Creator and Keeper of the Flinders Ranges, 2018. Ochre and acrylic on canvas (black and white)
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Coulthard's paintings draw on the stories and oral histories of remote South Australia told by his great-grandmother. Using natural ochres gathered with his father from his ancestral Adnyamathanha land, Coulthard creates images of great formal beauty that traverse the topics of creation, landscape, kinship, initiation and food-gathering.
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To maintain Warndu taste we keep smaller quantities on hand of our Australian Natives, it takes us a little while to dry, roast or grind them to make. We aim to send all orders within ten days of receiving them.
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text: At 6:30 PM -0500 2/4/10, Don Zahniser wrote: >At 5:36 PM -0500 2/4/10, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: >>The newton I own was previously owned by another person, and I think it >>knows his handwriting better than mine, as it frequently thinks I am >>writing capital c's, s's, y's, and m's, when I am definitely not. > >You didn't specify, so I'll point out that the Printing HWR setting >does not learn your handwriting. At 6:34 PM -0500 2/4/10, Aaron Brigati wrote: >If you're using the Print recognizer on a 2.x Newton, it doesn't >learn. It's as good as it's going to get from day one. > >Only the Cursive recognizer learns. Just FYI... Those statements are entirely correct except for one trivial exception: The Print recognizer does continuously update it's estimate of your average character height, which helps with case disambiguation, which it sounds like Jeremy is having the most trouble with. However, this adaptation happens on a short time scale, in case people alternate between writing large and small text, so there should be no lingering effect such as Jeremy is experiencing. If you are using the Cursive recognizer you already have good suggestions from Don and Aaron. If you are using the Print recognizer, I can suggest one tidbit that might help... The Print recognizer is (overly, IMO) sensitive to the relative heights and positioning of adjacent characters. So if you are writing the word "cat" and the top of your 'c' is ever so slightly higher than the top of the adjacent 'a', it is (much too) likely to decide you have written "Cat". Knowing this, if you make yourself always write the first letter of a word starting with a lowercase letter just a tiny bit smaller or lower than the other letters, you will be much more likely to get what you want. Another team member developed the geometric context model, and while it was definitely a win overall, I think it still had a few quirks that never quite got ironed out. Sorry about that. - larryy


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There are so many wonderful things to see and do in this historic city, so much in fact that it would be hard to fit everything into one day but we're here to give you an idea of what you can get up to if you're out for a day in Derry! As restrictions are beginning to ease, businesses will be ready to reopen soon, so here are a few suggestions of things to do when they reopen.
Why not kick off your day with a stroll around one of the city's beautiful parks? Located at the end of the Peace Bridge, St. Columb's Park offers stunning views of the city, a quaint little café, a fun park for the kids and much more. With paths going off in different directions, you can make it a quick 10-minute stroll or stay out all day and with the park being so close to the Peace Bridge, you can even pop over to the town and grab yourself a delicious breakfast in one of the city's many restaurants and cafés.
After a morning of stretching your legs and enjoying the outdoors, relax in the afternoon with a little retail therapy or enjoy the rich culture and heritage of the city by visiting one of the museums or going on a walking tour. Foyleside shopping centre and the Richmond centre have everything to meet your shopping needs, whether you're in the market for some new shoes, jewellery, homeware or food, you'll be sure to find it in Derry. There's also lots of amazing little independent stores in the city if you're looking for something really unique. If history is your thing, a visit to the Museum of Free Derry is a must. Immerse yourself in the city's story of its struggle for civil rights, its descent into conflict and the fights against government oppression and with the museum being situated where these events took place, you'll get a real feel for the history that affected so many people. If your legs aren't tired from your morning walk, one of the many city walking tours will be sure to keep you informed and entertained. So whatever you're into, Derry has you covered.
By this point in the day, you're sure to be getting hungry and Derry has a wide range of places to eat, whether you prefer fine dining or traditional pub grub, you'll find something good to fill your belly. Some of our personal favourites include Blackbird, Martha's Vineyard and The Gate Bistro, who all offer great food and equally great cocktails. My mouth is watering just writing this!
Now it's the evening and after a jam-packed day, it's nice to sit down and enjoy some entertainment and there's no better place to do so than at the Millennium Forum, which is one of Ireland's largest purpose-built theatres, conference centres and event spaces. From some of the best musicals in the UK, to the biggest names in comedy, a night at the millennium forum will not disappoint.
After a busy day in Derry you'll be ready to retire to a comfy bed and if you're staying in the city there are plenty of options, whether you'd prefer a quaint little B&B or if you'd like something a bit fancier, there's something for all budgets, so check out some options on our website.
From morning to night, Derry has a range of things to keep you busy and our list is just a few suggestions. So whether you're just visiting or relocating, you'll never be short of things to do. Get in touch and let us know your suggestions of the best places to eat, stay and shop in the city so we can share them with others!


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High in the snow-capped mountains east of Los Angeles, egg-citement is in the crisp late-winter air.
A bald eagle has laid an egg at a nest on the north side of Big Bear Lake. Located in the Fawnskin area, the nest is closed to the public, but available for live viewing here. Turn up the volume -- you might hear a piercing screech.
The chick is expected to hatch on about April 10.
"Now, for the next 35 or so days, we will see the parents share incubation duties," said Forest Service biologist Robin Eliason. "This regulates the temperature of the egg so the embryo can develop. If all goes well, we should see a hatchling in around April 10. And if things go like last year, we may see a second egg laid later this week."
Closing the nest area gives the eagles the protection they need to take care of the egg. If eagles feel threatened, they might abandon the nest.
The live camera in the San Bernardino National Forest was installed by the group Friends of Big Bear Valley. The new camera installed last summer has better resolution, zooming and 360-degree panning capabilities.
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Viewers will see nesting habits, including feeding times, and sometimes the unexpected. In April of last year, eagle enthusiasts watching the live feed were alarmed when a 10-week-old eagle named Stormy appeared to fall from a nest. The chick was OK after landing on a branch about 20 feet below the nest.
The San Bernardino Mountains have the largest winter population of eagles in Southern California, where mountain lakes and streams offer prime hunting grounds. Ten to 20 eagles can be found in the region during a typical winter. Many migrate north in spring to nest.
Eagles typically share incubation duties, but the male usually does most of the hunting and scavenging. The female handles most of the feeding and brooding.
Newborn eagles are typically about 4 to 5 inches and weigh just a few ounces. But they eat a lot, scarfing down as much food as it can from the adult's beak. By nine weeks, the eagle is nearly full grown and developing the muscles it needs to fly.
The Big Bear egg arrived just a few days before the last bald eagle county of winter in the mountains. The count helps U.S. Forest Service biologists keep track of the area's eagle population.
Just show up at one of the following locations Saturday if you'd like to volunteer.
- Big Bear Lake Area: Meet at 8 a.m. at the Big Bear Discovery Center on North Shore Drive (Highway 38) for orientation. Contact Robin Eliason (email@example.com or 909-382-2832) for more information. Please call 909-382-2832 for cancellation due to winter weather conditions. An outgoing message will be left no later than 6 a.m. on Saturday morning if it has to be canceled due to weather and road conditions. There will also be a free slideshow presentation about bald eagles at 11 a.m. after the count.
- Lake Arrowhead/Lake Gregory Area: Meet at 8 a.m. at the Skyforest Work Center on Highway 18 for orientation. Contact Robin Eliason (firstname.lastname@example.com or 909-382-2832) for more information. Please call 909-382-2832 for cancelation due to winter weather conditions.
- Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area: Plan to meet at the Silverwood Lake's park office on Cleghorn Road. (west of Highway 138) at 8 a.m. for orientation. Contact Mark Wright for more information about volunteering or taking an eagle tour (760-389-2303) between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.; or email: firstname.lastname@example.com).
- Lake Hemet Area: Plan on meeting at the Lake Hemet Grocery Store at 8:30 a.m. for orientation. NOTE: Highway 74 from Hemet and Highway 243 from Banning are currently closed due to storm damage. Participants must use Highway 74 from Anza or Palm Desert.
- Lake Perris State Recreation Area: Meet at the Lake Perris Regional Indian Museum at 8 a.m. for orientation. For more information call Lake Perris SRA at 951-940-5600 or the Lake Perris Regional Indian Museum at 951-940-5657.


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Tux is a food blogger, photographer, dog lover, husband, and…
Make your own taco seasoning to have on had for beautifully flavored tacos or fajitas. Our favorite ingredient may be the cinnamon or that we can adjust the heat to our liking.
By Tux Loerzel
Russell and I tend to eat a lot of ground turkey or grilled chicken tacos, and now that we're trying to eat better they're a great meal we can make after work. There are a lot of small family owned tortilla factories in my neighborhood so we can get our corn tortillas super fresh. A few tortillas filled with some well seasoned lean meat, sautéed onion, and black beans is the perfect quick and easy weeknight meal. Rather than cheese or sour cream, we like ours with a few creamy slices of ripe avocado.
I like to make my own seasoning because we make tacos so often. The store bought stuff is crazy salty and some of it has some really questionable ingredients that I'm not comfortable eating on a regular basis.
This seasoning is not only fresher and much less salty, but you also know exactly what you're putting into it and can customize it to your taste. I like my tacos nice and spicy, so in addition to the chile powder I like to add ground cayenne pepper too. Cinnamon adds a warmth without adding spicy heat, and smoked paprika adds a great warm smokiness. You may think cornstarch is an odd addition to a seasoning blend, but most taco seasoning does have thickening agents in it to help make a nice thick sauce. If you don't like using cornstarch you could substitute arrowroot powder instead or leave it out altogether. It's your party!
Now that you have an amazing taco seasoning blend, make these Grilled Chicken Tacos with Cilantro Pesto and Red Cabbage Slaw.
PrintDIY Taco Spice Blend
- Author: Tux Loerzel
- Yield: makes about 6 ounces, enough for 4 to 6 pounds of meat 1x
Make your own taco seasoning to have on had for beautifully flavored tacos or fajitas. Our favorite ingredient may be the cinnamon or that we can adjust the heat to our liking. adapted from Love & Olive Oil
- 6 tablespoons ground chile powder
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons ground cayenne pepper, optional
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 2 teaspoons fine sea salt
- 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Combine all spices in a small bowl and whisk until evenly distributed. Can be stored in an airtight jar or container for future use. Recipe doubles (or triples, or more) very easily.
- If using ground meat, brown the meat first then add seasoning along with a few tablespoons of water. You'll want about 2 tablespoons of seasoning per pound of ground meat. Stir regularly until meat is fully cooked and sauce is thickened. I like to add a diced small onion while I brown the meat, and a drained can of black beans right at the end. Serve with a squeeze of fresh lime juice.
- You can also use the seasoning as a rub for chicken breast. Sear the chicken breasts until fully cooked and slice thin before adding to tacos.
- Category: Side, Spice, Topping
- Cuisine: Mexican-Inspired
Tux is a food blogger, photographer, dog lover, husband, and avid baker living in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Originally from upstate New York, he inherited his love of cooking and baking from his mother and grandmother. With the encouragement of good friends and several glasses of wine, he began his food writing and blogging adventure in the fall of 2013. Learn more about Tux at his blog Brooklyn Homemaker


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The life settlement industry is getting a lot of welldeserved attention these days, but the focus has been one-sided. Everyone, it seems, is looking for agents and brokers who have clients with unwanted life insurance policies to sell. But let me ask two questions: How many of us have clients over the age of 65, in poor health, with multi-million dollar insurance policies they don't want to keep? Very few, right? But how many of us have clients of all ages with poorly performing investment portfolios – especially those clients nearing retirement age? We all do!
With all the focus directed toward the sale of insurance policies, we may have overlooked the biggest and most obvious: the opportunity for our clients to invest in life settlement policies, just like some large financial institutions have been doing for years.
Here's the secret – life settlements may be a golden parachute for your clients' golden years.
So, why have some large financial institutions quietly been purchasing life settlement policies? Because they obviously recognize the potential for a superior return on investment, with very little risk.
This is what first attracted these savvy institutional investors to life settlements, but they aren't happy to share the secret.
If institutions are jumping headlong into this market, then it's probably worthwhile for individual investors to consider this as an added safeguard for their own portfolios.
With the volatility of the stock market and recent international political instability, many portfolios have suffered a free fall, just at the point where the boomers are approaching retirement. Who isn't ready to explore a new asset class that can help safeguard their life savings?
This is the perfect time to research a more reliable investment vehicle that may offer needed peace of mind for those hoping that they have enough of a nest egg to sustain them. As agents and brokers, we owe it to our clients to investigate whether life settlements might be a key component to fill a void in their portfolios and we receive a nice commission for doing so.
So let's start with the benefits of a life settlement investment:
- Uncorrelated to stock, bond, commodities and real estate markets.
- (This is probably the greatest strength of this new asset class – no matter what happens in the economy, life settlement payouts are unaffected.)
- Not directly affected by interest rates, global economy, or political climate.
- (Not affected by foreign currencies, who's in the White House, or any terrorist threats.)
- Investment assets issued by some of America's largest and most financially stable companies.
- (Life settlement policies are backed by such financial giants as New York Life, Prudential and other highly rated insurers.)
- Provides true portfolio diversification.
- (Life settlements can offer balance and performance to any portfolio.)
Sounds good, doesn't it? But before you jump in, let's explore and evaluate the risks and rewards of the three most common methods of investing in life settlements: bonded life settlements, life settlement funds and direct fractional ownership of a life settlement policy.
Bonded life settlements
This form of investing in life settlements is an asset-backed security that has also been referred to as "death bonds." A bonding company issues a bond to the investor, payable at a specified future date, like any other bond. If the insured lives beyond the date of the bond, the bonding company pays the investor a predetermined amount at that time. A death bond is simply a negative name for the flip side of the coin called "life insurance." In practice, no insurance company has ever marketed a life insurance policy as a death bond, even though it only pays its benefit when the policy holder expires.


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Google has agreed to pay C$100 million a year into a fund to support news organisations in Canada as part of a deal with the government, ending a dispute that led it to threaten to cut links to news from its services.
The C$100 million (US$73.6 million) pact ends a six-month stand-off following the passage of an online news law designed to funnel some of the cash that Google and Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, make from online advertising to bolster the finances of news organisations. The dispute blew up into the biggest conflict between the internet giants and a national government over news subsidies since Australia became the first country to pass a law on the issue in 2021.
Meta suspended links to news stories in Canada earlier this year in protest at the law, and Google threatened to follow suit when the law goes into effect in mid-December unless the government diluted the impact of the legislation.
The search giant dug its heels in against being forced to pay for news links in its services, which it feared would set a precedent that could be applied to other types of online links. Rather than hurting the news companies, the internet giants have always claimed that their links deliver valuable traffic to news sites, with Google claiming its news links are worth C$250 million a year to Canadian publishers.
However, Canada's Online News Act was explicitly aimed at bringing what it called greater "fairness" to payment for online news following a huge shift in the online advertising market to Google and Meta.
Google also objected that the Canadian law would leave it with open-ended financial liability, since it would be forced to negotiate with each publisher individually and would face an arbitration process the company believed would be stacked against it.
In a compromise announced on Wednesday, Pascale St-Onge, minister of Canadian heritage, said that the agreement would "benefit the news sector and allow Google to continue to play an important role in giving Canadians access to reliable news content". Google's payments would be made to a collective fund, she added, ending the need to negotiate with each publisher separately.
Canadian officials estimated earlier this year that the act would require Google to pay C$172 million to publishers. It was unclear on Wednesday whether the final regulations under the act, which are due to be released before it goes into force on December 19th, would still amount to Google paying for carrying links — something the company has strongly objected to.
Meta indicated that the deal with Google would make no difference to its decision to block news links in Canada. "Unlike search engines, we do not proactively pull news from the internet to place in our users' feeds and we have long been clear that the only way we can reasonably comply with the Online News Act is by ending news availability for people in Canada," it said.
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Sven Schneider (neriakX)
I'm an 80s child, born in the early 70s. I listened to a lot of songs on radio before I got my first real home computer, the Commodore C=64.
Since then I'm addicted to compose my own sounds on computers. Started with Chris Hülsbeck's Sound Monitor, then upgraded to Rockmonitor … hunting for all the tight samples (Bad Cats had great ones!.
Luckily I had a friend who was a real genius in eclectronics. He sold me a lot of selfmade Eproms and also a digitizer to sample some stuff with. After that I switched to the famous Commodore Amiga 500, which was a real upgrade and put my sounds on a higher level. I guess I've spent more time on tracking in Pro and Fasttracker 2 than into gaming these days =)
I did many things from then on and got used to some DAWs on PC later liker Cubase, Reason, Renoise, Ableton Live and stuff. Also I released some Techno vinyls with a friend but I never got a full-blood musician. However I'm still very passionate about the old melodies and sounds and I even startet to learn the E-Guitar 😊
I'm glad that I found this site on the interwebs and it just makes my heart glance listening to that old vibes!
Sven aka neriakX.
neriakX (Sven Schneider)
Title | Remixed by | Score | ||||
23/05/2023 | IRockstar ate my Hamster Cracktro | neriakX | 4:36 | AmigaRemix | Leffty | 83% |
03/11/2011 | IREnigma Gun (Extended Mix) | neriakX | 6:01 | AmigaRemix | Eike Steffen | 97% |


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November 10, 2015
K-State men's basketball vs. Maryland-Eastern Shore
Coach Weber and the Wildcats host Maryland-Eastern Shore at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in Bramlage Coliseum for the first regular season game of 2015-16.
A $20 Bramlage Bundle is your ultimate game-day package. It includes a game ticket, a $10 concessions voucher, and a voucher for your choice of souvenir from the K-State Super Store (minimum purchase of two).
Ticket prices:
$20 chair back and cushion
$10 bench and general admission
Order tickets online or call 1-800-221-CATS.


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The Corona Virus Pandemic has been with us for a number of months, with no real signs that it will be fading out soon. While scientists around the World work round the clock for a possible vaccine, the Pandamicc has forced virtually all and sundry to rethink how we work. For a larger number of us, working from home is the best bet, and little wonder while there has been a surge in the adoption of video conferencing apps since the outbreak.
When you are required to attend virtual interviews and meetings with your employees or boss via video chat popular apps like the Hangouts, Skypes, and Zooms easily come to mind. They are also the go-to apps for those hooking up with family and friends, as they are virtually all free apps. Now, to make your video chat or conferencing more interesting, a number of these apps in the past few days have rolled out some interesting features that should spice up your conferencing experiences.
Zoom which bu far is the most popular apps only recently rolled out an update that allows you to hide the cluttered room behind you by way of changing your video conferncing background. With the feature, users can with a few clicks choose from a selection of stock images like the Golden Gate Bridge or a Caribbean beach – or you can upload an image or video from your own device. Now, Microsoft owned Skype has introduced a similar feature that allows you to change your background during video calls.
How to change your background in Skype
Changing your background in Skype is easy, and can be affected with just a few taps of buttons. However, it is recommended you save images to be used locally to your desktop, and for better results, ensure you use images in landscape orientation. There are basically two ways you can change the background in Skype call to a custom image, but it is worth noting that custom backgrounds don't appear to work on the Microsoft Store version of the Skype app. So it is recommended you download the .exe file from the Skype website or use the web version of the service on Windows 10 if you'd like to change your background.
Changing Skype background during a call:
This option allows you to activate or change Skype background when you have already initiated the video call. It is simple and requires only a few steps.
- Open Skype on the web or the latest version of the Skype app for Windows or Mac.
- During a call, hover over the video button or click the More menu.
- Click Choose background effect.
- You can then Blur the room (Windows 10-only), choose an image you previously added, or add a new image.
- Select "add a new image" to upload a custom background to use during a video call.
Changing Skype background before a call:
The second options require you to change the background image even before you initiate the video call, and it is quite simple and straight easy to activate.
- Open Skype on the web or the latest version of the Skype app for Windows or Mac.
- Click your profile picture.
- Click Settings, and then click Audio and Video.
- Under Choose background effect, you can choose an image you previously added or add a new image.


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Valentine's day is always a special time for us females. It's a day where we get pampered by our loved one, and want to feel especially beautiful! It's always hard figuring out what to wear for the occasion, and most of us always opt for the typical go-to-look.... a full red ensemble. But, for those who want to stand out, yet still keep it traditional, here are a couple of ideas.
1. BANK Fashion 'Tnf' Dress
2. Christian Louboutin 'Lady Glitter Slingback' Shoes
3. Alexander McQueen 'Knuckle Duster' clutch
4. Maria Zureta 'Gold Watch Face' necklace
1. Pink Shoulderpad Jacket By Boutique
2. Prada Shoes
3. Marc Jacob 'Westside' Bag
4. Atomic Spike Necklace
5. FUMIKO KAWA Dress
2. Herve Leger 'Khaki V Neck' Dress
3. Yves Saint Laurent 'Slingback' Shoes
4. Fendi 'Cream Canvas Peekaboe' Tote
Happy Valentine's Day!!
collage credit: Polyvore


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Rick Sheridan wrote:
Hi Dad,
Chief Justice Rehnquist hasn't been available for work recently.
Can you describe the implications should he be unable to appear in the long term?
What process would ensue in order to fill up his seat on the bench, and in what timeframe?
What changes to the trend of court opinions could be expected if he is replaced, and who could be likely candidates for the job?
Rick is an engineer, one year out of MIT, and working at an aerospace company recently purchased by Boeing, in Orange County. He works on helicopers that don't need pilots. Scary.
Hi, Rick,
Damn! That is SUCH a tall order.
I thought you were writing to thank me for the restaurant recommendation for your friends who are visiting San Francisco, which I provided so promptly earlier today.
I'll give you a thumbnail:
Supreme Court justices, and all Article III federal judges, hold their posts during 'good behavior." U.S. Const., Art III, Sec. 1.
This means that they cannot be removed except by impeachment for some illegal conduct.
Illness is not a violation of the "good behavior" provision.
In the past, when a justice has become so aged, ill, and infirm that they cannot perform, other justices have gone to him and urged him to step down. Usually he doesn't want to go. After all, this is about all he has in life by this point.
When Rehnquist was young, he and the others had this situation arise with Justice William O. Douglas, who had suffered a debilitating stroke and could no longer perform but wouldn't submit. These are strong-minded people, Rick. They make me seem like a nice guy!
The justices agreed not to decide any cases in which Douglas's was the deciding vote; they'd vote to put such cases over until the next term (year).
Justice Byron White thought this illegal, believing that impeachment was the only constitutional remedy.
Now WHR,CJ, is in the hospital bed. Medical reports are pessimistic that he'll survive another year.
The speculation among the conlawprofs conceives various scenarios.
One is that Bush might, in the case of a death or resignation, make an interim appointment on a temporary basis for which Senate approval ("advice and consent") is not required, at least at first.
That would be seen as incredibly bold and perhaps unlikely. I wouldn't put anything past Bush-Cheney-Ashcroft, however, when it comes to not giving up power.
Someone will move up, perhaps Bush's avowed favorite, Thomas, or perhaps Scalia or O'Connor.
In will then come someone else: Al Gonzales? Ted Olson, who won Bush the presidency by outlawyering Gore last time?
No one knows, I think.
If Kerry wins and a vacancy opens, I DNK who Kerry favors, but since you've been working so hard for him amidst the wilds of conservative Orange County, Bush Country, I authorize you to submit my name, posthaste, before I take a better job. Like Blawg-ing...
Rehnquist has said he reserves the right to continue participating in decision-making while confined.
He can do that.
His clerks will bring papers to his home to review and sign.
He can review tapes of oral argument.
If he is out on sick leave, meaning he cannot participate in the decision of a case or cases, the Court is left with an even number, 8 justices. This opens the possibility of a 4:4 split.
In that case, the petitioner fails of obtaining a majority and loses; the lower court ruling stands and the other side wins, 4:4. Makes for weak precedent.
You need at least five votes to make a decision of the Court.
4:4 means little except that petitioner failed to carry his burden, because one doesn't know whether there will be five votes next time the question comes up.
I really think you'd enjoy my class, Rick, and the surrounding ones, someday.
In the meantime, I'm trying to put what I know on the blog...
As far as trends-in-the-Court implications are concerned, this is what the election is about, among a few other things.
More-of-the-Same or New Broom.
In terms of constitutional doctrine, we have a fairly conservative court that does not readily recognize claims of new individual liberty vis-a-vis government.
One more conservative vote on top of Rehnquist's would likely see a woman's constitutional right to choose whether to become a mother go by the boards.
I.e., Roe v. Wade is likely to be further burdened with difficult to meet restrictions, or overruled altogether.
Other people would be controlling one's intimate decisions, the very ones we would most like to be able to make for ourselves, man or woman.
A replacement of the conservative Rehnquist vote with another, single, conservative vote would keep the balance pretty much the same.
The wild card in all this analysis is that the Law of Small Groups would kick in.
The 'Nine Scorpions in a Bottle,' as Holmes, I believe it was, called the justices, have to get along.
Every time there's a new justice, there's a new Court.
So it's hard to predict how the new one would interact the others and how they would influence one another, usually in subtle ways.
They deal with 8,000 petitions for review per year, but accept only 80 or so, lately.
The gradations become exceedingly subtle, making it very difficult to predict trends except so generally that it is almost useless for predicting individual and overall voting in specific cases.
That doesn't prevent attorneys arguing before the Court from trying, however. They pretty much guess whose votes they've got, whose they haven't, and who is up for grabs.
They try to tailor their arguments but are often surprised by the results.
I'm glad you're paying attention to the legal environment.
Engineering is nice, I'm sure, but lawyering!
Now there's an activity.


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The board, created after the Oscar Grant shooting, is seeking any kind of update, both to appease the public and protesters.
Some members of the Citizen Review Board say the lack of information into Hill's shooting has outraged a number of people.
"Has caused arrests, it's caused protests, it's caused damage to property, to BART," said board member Les Mensinger. "The lack of information comes from the San Francisco P.D."
Hill, a transient, was shot by BART police on July 3. SFPD was asked by BART Chief Kenton Rainey to take over the investigation.
"They really, really have been very, very cooperative with us. As I said, we have a great working relationship," said Rainey. "I felt for transparency sake it would be good to have somebody else look at this investigation,"
But now Rainey is getting a directive from this board. They want him to ask SFPD for an update on the investigation.
"What happened, what has happened, what investigative steps have taken place and been completed and what future investigative steps need to be completed," said Rainey.
The Citizen Review Board says they expect some kind of report by their next meeting on Oct. 10.
"He doesn't have to have all the answers, but he has to have some answers," said board president George Perezvelez. "What is the status? What has happened? What do you think is going to happen?"
SFPD has not and is not providing any information, at least not to the media. Still, the chief thinks he can come back to the board with the necessary answers within one month.


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After a short but wonderful three day stay in Paris, Dad and I finally began the last part of the journey to Uganda. We woke up early Friday morning, said goodbye to the 97 degree Paris weather, and hopped on our plane for the next stop, Nairobi, Kenya. After a nine hour flight, we finally landed. It was a layover to remember. We were sitting patiently during our four hour wait in the Nairobi airport, when a young woman in uniform came to the center of the room and calmly, but sternly, told everyone to please exit the building. Most people start running and swiftly walking to the nearest exit. Smoke filled the building. After a little bit of investigation we came to the conclusion that there had been a huge electrical fire at the airport. They sent us to a different terminal and after an extra hour and a half of waiting, we finally got on our plane and arrived in Uganda about 4:00 am. We checked into the Entebbe Airport Guest House and immediately went to sleep for a very short night's rest. Our "night's sleep" ended at 11:00 am but the beds were great, we had a wonderful breakfast, and best of all, we took refreshing showers!
At 3:30 that afternoon, a very kind driver sent from Amani met us and we started our journey from Entebbe to Jinja. All I can say is "Wow!" What an experience! My biggest surprise was that in Uganda people drive on the left side of the road–and traffic is crazy. I felt my life flash before me over and over again due to the fact that every driver weaves between cars and misses head on collisions by about six inches every time. As I looked out my open window, I saw shacks right and left made from scrap metal, people wearing tattered clothes, and I breathed in the scent of burning trash. Just how you picture Uganda, right?
Somehow people tend to leave out the other things I experienced, like the breathtaking views of the mountains, people smiling and laughing, singing and dancing. There is true joy here as well as poverty. It's also a place with fewer of the technological distractions that keep people from interacting.
Africa is so much more than I have ever imagined. It's heaven. It's happiness. It's beautiful. It's home. I'll end this post with a quote I like a lot: "Sometimes the place you're used to is not the place where you belong. You belong where you believe you belong, where is that for you?" – Katende (from the movie, Queen of Katwe).
I have attached a few pictures from the past week. Understandably, Amani asks us not to post pictures of the children through social media, but please know that they are adorable and I have fallen in love with all of them!! I am so thankful for the opportunity to be here! It is better than I dreamed it would be.


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Ballad singer Jung Seung Hwan makes a wintery return with his single album My Christmas Wish, which consists of a title track of the same name as well as a self-written track "Hello, goodbye winter". Both tracks are emotional ballads that are perfect for the season, and wonderfully showcase Jung's warm voice.
"My Christmas Wish" features lyrics by IU, and was composed by Jae-hwi, a powerful collaboration that happened last December for Jung's "The Snowman", which also had considerable success on the music charts. Similarly, "My Christmas Wish", with its wistful lyrics and charming melody, is a lovely release, matched with an artistic music video by VISUALSFROM.
The lyrics speak of comparing memories with a past lover to the winter season, filled with transience and sadness that just makes you want to curl up. Longing is mixed with the frustration of missed opportunities, and an endless string of "If only"s that hinder the progress of this particular couple. In its bridge, however, there is a change of perspective as the protagonist finally gathers up his Christmas courage. There is no more waiting for that perfect day, today is beautiful enough for that Christmas confession to be made, even though it is not snowing and is such an ordinary day.
Even though it's not snowing, it's beautiful enough
It's an ordinary day, that's why I want to remember it more
This story is portrayed through both the song as well as the MV. In terms of instrumentation, there is a gradual build-up towards that emotional outburst in the bridge, and the clear contrast between the quiet opening of the song to that almost-triumphant part of the song is stunning. Jung's soft, tender but strong voice works well with this composition and his amazing voice control is evident here.
In the MV, this contrast is highlighted through the use of repetition, where certain iconic scenes were deliberately repeated to show how the protagonist's (played by Jung himself) reaction has changed. For instance, the shots of snow softly falling outside a particular cafe, and of the two main characters walking side by side, play both at the beginning of the MV and towards its end, after the bridge of the song. Rather than sitting in the cafe and bidding his time, as he did for most of the MV, the protagonist finally decides to confess and begins to run towards his lover, ending the MV on a hopeful note. The scene becomes sweeter when paired with the final lyrics of the song, "my winter, please be all my seasons", which makes such a simple but earnest confession.
The MV takes place mostly in an aesthetic cafe, interspersed with artistic shots of coffee making and film developing. Its outdoor scenes are also scenic and beautiful, capturing the very best of the winter season. The warm glow underlying the entire MV adds nostalgia and coziness to the ballad, conveying the same hope that its lyrics have.
On the surface, this MV seems boring, with nothing much apart from cafe scenes and walks by the ocean. Its simplicity is fitting, however. Beyond the grandeur that Christmas and Christmas confessions seem to have, magic actually comes from the mundane, everyday moments of companionship that the two lovers spend together. The lyrics describe these precious moments poignantly as well, with simple events like sitting together on the bus taking on extra significance when love comes into the picture. The protagonist comes to a similar conclusion as he develops his film, realising that what he has been capturing are the small moments of bliss that they have had together — of her at work, of them taking a walk together, of the winter they have shared. When he finally begins to run to his lover, it is these photographs (and memories) that he brings along with him.
Jung Seung Hwan never disappoints, and "My Christmas Wish" is no exception. The return of this successful composer-lyricist-singer trio is a pleasant surprise, and I can only hope for more of these collaborations. IU's lyrics are always so masterfully written, and she manages to elevate the smallest parts of daily life into something so magical and significant, as evidenced by this song. To Jung's credit, he has an innate ability to internalise the music and lyrics of each song he sings and make it his own, complete with his raw emotions and personal stories. He has been displaying this since his K-pop Star days, and continues to do it now. As a balladeer and a singer-songwriter, he shows immense potential and I cannot wait to see what he will do next.
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In addition to the disposal of the red light cameras and the associated costs of their removal, Mayor Parker and City Council now need to work out the details for Prop 1, which created the dedicated fund for streets and drainage and will impose a fee on property owners to pay for it. How much, and who doesn't have to pay, is still up in the air.
City Council members, who are listening to a chorus of local school officials, church leaders and nonprofit groups, appear to have no appetite to impose the fee on those institutions, many of which are traditionally exempt from taxes.
Yet if that view prevails, it would set up a situation in which property owners will likely be forced to pay more than they were assured by proponents of the campaign. Voters passed Proposition 1, a 20-year, $8 billion spending plan to shore up Houston's infrastructure and reduce flooding problems, with 51 percent of the vote. Supporters said frequently on the campaign trail that the average drainage fee for a Houston homeowner would be about $5 a month. That figure was based on the assumption that no one would be exempt from paying.
"The citizens will say, "They lied to us,' " said City Councilman C.O. Bradford, who opposed Proposition 1 because the city failed to adopt an ordinance before the vote detailing how the proposal would be implemented.
As Parker spends the coming months preparing that "implementation" ordinance, council members and some community leaders indicated a willingness to keep an open mind, although many seemed unlikely to support applying the fee to those key groups.
I have sympathy for HISD and the churches, but I don't recall anyone arguing that they deserved to be exempted from the water rate hike that Council passed earlier this year. I understand their position, but I see this as being analogous to that. They'll get the same benefit that the rest of us will from the street and drainage improvements that this fee will fund, so I believe it is appropriate for them to contribute to that fund.
Now that doesn't mean there isn't room to work with them on this. One possibility I've heard is for the fees that HISD pays to be applied directly to projects around HISD schools. Another possibility that occurs to me, which I think would be a win all around, is to create a fund that would offer rebates to properties with large impermeable parking lots, such as churches, for taking steps to make those large parking lots less impermeable. See the Low Impact Development document that the RUDH people put out for some suggestions. This mirrors the approach that Council took for apartment owners to help them mitigate the cost of the water rate hike for themselves and their tenants, in that it encouraged them to minimize their impact and will reimburse them for doing so. I would strongly support such a step by Council.


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Seth Meyers Skewers Republicans With Perfect Taylor Swift Lyric
Seth Meyers on Wednesday said conservatives' meltdown over Taylor Swift is "easily their most deranged."
"Allow me to quote a Taylor Swift lyric when I say, 'You people are out of your fucking minds,'" joked the "Late Night" comedian who later clarified it wasn't a Swift lyric but "Seth's version."
Republicans have "somehow spun themselves into an elaborate conspiracy theory where mysterious forces are manufacturing her fame in order to set up an endorsement of Joe Biden," noted Meyers. "Because only a grand conspiracy would explain why she might prefer Joe Biden over a man who everyday behaves worse than any man in a Taylor Swift song, which is saying a lot," he sarcastically added.
Meyers also ripped Fox News' Brian Kilmeade for warning Swift to "stay out" of endorsing Biden, as she did in 2020.
"Now, let's see. Whose instincts do we think are sharper?" Meyers asked. "The 12-time Grammy-winning artist who has sold over 200 million records, staged the highest-grossing concert series of all time, produced and distributed her own record-breaking concert movie, and was Time's Person of the Year or the dingus whose main talent is staring blankly at the camera every morning like a sock with button eyes?"
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Supported by the City of Brampton in partnership with Bike Brampton, the Ontario By Bike Network will be hosting a free webinar workshop, tailored for businesses in Brampton and area, on September 16, 2021.
The informative one hour webinar workshop will offer tourism businesses and organizations key insights in how to become certified as a bicycle friendly location through the Ontario By Bike Network and reach the growing cycling market in Ontario. Workshop highlights will also include information on cycle tourism product, cycling in Brampton and local cycling developments, demographic and trip planning characteristics of cycle tourists, as well as what services and amenities will attract cyclists to local businesses.
"We are excited to reach out to Brampton businesses and share how they can be a part of the Ontario By Bike Network. This year and related to the pandemic, the growth and interest in cycling has hit a new high level. Not only are more residents cycling, but so too are visitors travelling with bikes. This webinar workshop is a great way for tourism related businesses to find out how to attract and welcome this growing customer base to their location," says Ontario By Bike / Transportation Options' Executive Director, Louisa Mursell.
Launched in 2010, the Ontario By Bike Network is currently active in 42 regions across Ontario and has seen over 3,350 attendees register for their workshop and webinar series. Ontario By Bike certifies businesses and locations, who meet the criteria, for free under the following categories: accommodations, food service providers, tourist attractions, business areas and other bicycle-related businesses. With over 1,500 Ontario By Bike businesses already participating in the program, businesses in Brampton can join this provincial network, allowing them to connect with the increasing number of cycle tourists and local cyclists across Ontario.
Brampton has a tremendous opportunity with the growing network of cycling infrastructure and off-road trails. Additionally, its proximity to nearby longer distance cycling routes and trails plus offering a hub of services that cyclists can use, whether on day or multi-day trips, makes the city an attractive destination for cycle tourists. As we look forward, now is perfect time to find out more about this market, the opportunities and how Brampton can become better positioned to welcome and benefit from the increasing number of cyclists.
The webinar workshop is open to the public, owners, managers and/or staff of accommodations, cafes, restaurants, tourist attractions, bike shops and other cycling-related businesses and stakeholders are encouraged to attend.
Webinar Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021
Webinar Time: 10am to 11am
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Webinar access and login information will be provided in advance as well as phone option. GoToMeeting will be the webinar platform used.
- Ontario By Bike Network currently has over 1,500 certified bicycle-friendly participating locations in 42 regions across Ontario.
- To date, over 3,350 attendees have registered for workshops and webinars hosted by Ontario By Bike.
- The Ontario By Bike Network is already established in Brampton, Peel Region and adjacent jurisdictions. www.ontariobybike.ca/peel
- Cycling and cycle tourism are growing markets.
- Exploring Ontario by bike is becoming an increasingly popular touring option for cycle tourists from Ontario, Quebec, and as travel resumes cyclists from USA and international origins.
- The Network and workshops will help businesses attract more cyclists.
- Ontario By Bike workshops are free to attend.
- More facts and stats on cycle tourism in Ontario are available at: transportationoptions.org/ontarioresearch
The Ontario By Bike Network is a project of Transportation Options, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering sustainable mobility and tourism solutions across Ontario. For more information, visit www.transportationoptions.org. Other successful Transportation Options' projects include the Bike Train Initiative (www.biketrain.ca) and Parkbus (www.parkbus.ca).
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and the improvement of the "search" function for some sites would help too.lately, i checked on one of my associates work, her new image accepted last week.guess what? can't find it... using the most obvious keywords.instead, all i see are pages of single contributors clogging up the first 10 pageswith images that do not even feature the relevant keywords.then on page 15, or so, aha! her images at last.it's a mean unjust situation that a site would allow such an abuse of flooding one contributor's images in preference to others who do not have perharps tons of irrelevant images.would a buyer notice that and get tired of looking?sure, wouldn't you? and the one who does no spamming suffers.where's the justification in all this?
Contributor will keep uploading even if their return rate continue to decline. Better image quality from the uptick in rejection rates.
Quote from: shutterdrop on January 03, 2009, 08:51Contributor will keep uploading even if their return rate continue to decline. Better image quality from the uptick in rejection rates.Well, I don't know about that. I've seen many people drop X agency because it doesn't return well enough, and even a few people who have stopped submitting altogether.
Yes there will be a weeding out of non pro imagery, prices will increase and so will the demands on the suppliers, which is a good thing! there are far too many "hangers-on" jumping on the gravy-train, ( no harm meant) but it is.
I think during 2009 we will see a few Micros crashing, the rest will belong to Getty. For better or worse?
good point hoi ha,as well as the fact that 25 cents a pop may sounds silly to someone living in N.Am or UK, you'd be tempted to forget micro stock and simply go out to squeegee cars at the traffic lights but to others where the standard of living is much much lower, getting a cheque for 50 bucks each month is like getting a decent job. the supply will not dry up , coming from those countries.
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Peter Kafka in All Things D, says Time Inc. has been unable to get Apple to let it sell and manage subscriptions for its iPad apps — much to Time Inc.'s surprise.
Last month, the publisher was set to launch a subscription version of its Sports Illustrated iPad app, where consumers would download the magazines via Apple's iTunes, but would pay Time Inc. directly. But Apple rejected the app at the last minute, forcing the Time Warner unit to sell single copies, using iTunes as a middleman, multiple sources tell me.
Since then, Time Inc. executives "have been going nuts", trying to figure out how to get Apple to approve a subscription plan. One of the more desperate suggestions, which apparently didn't get traction: Pulling the publisher's apps out of the iTunes store altogether.
Subscriptions, whether they're for ink-and-paper magazines or their digital editions, are a big deal for Time Inc. and every other magazine publisher. They value them in part because they provide recurring revenue, but primarily because they provide a treasure trove of data.
No other magazine publisher has approval sell their own iTunes app subscriptions, either, says Kafka. But Apple and Steve Jobs had made a point of reaching out to Time Inc. executives and editors before the iPad's launch, and encouraged them to build digital editions for the platform.
Newspapers are in more trouble than magazines. Only 56 percent of Internet users say newspapers are an important or very important source of information, while 68 percent picked television and 78 percent picked the Internet.
Should newspapers put up paywalls? Pro-paywallers, like Rupert Murdoch, say absolutely! Newspapers must charge for costly reporting in order to survive! Anti-paywallers argue that papers can't afford to shut out the open and free web.
Google and Apple are developing tablet ads that know your preferences. That makes on-line ads more valuable. Subscription revenue – it is hoped – will cover the other 40% of the revenue — as in print. Print production and distribution eats up about 30% of publication costs.
Some 70 socioeconomic categories (like savvy singles), are defined by data companies like Acxiom and Intellidyn. Everyone from marketers to politicians use clusters.
Now the multi-billion dollar data mining industry taking target marketing into a New Frontier. Every time you swipe a rewards card at a store, that data goes somewhere to get analyzed. Marketplace's Stacey Vanek-Smith takes a look.
Cluster analysis takes a statistical approach. Documents are read and words are tracked in relation to other words.
Every time you search the Internet, you punch something into your mobile phone or you write on someone's Facebook wall, there's a giant industry right behind you sucking up all that data and using it to figure out how to sell you something.
The National Center for Data Mining is a center of the University of Illinois at Chicago, established in 1998 to serve as a resource for research, standards development, and outreach for high performance and distributed data mining and predictive modeling.
In their seminal 1970 book, Cluster Analysis, co-authors Daniel Bailey and William Tryon had applied the technique to four decades of U.S. census data. Products like Claritas's PRIZM, Strategic Mapping's ClusterPLUS 2000, NDS/Equifax's MicroVision, and CACI's ACORN use data from the decennial census and other sources to separate the nation's neighborhoods into clusters, with 50-100 subgroups.
Recorded Future scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents. The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing the company.
Facebook isn't trying to become the central site for the web; it's putting itself onto all sites. Facebook has 500 million monthly active users, and over 1 million websites have integrated Facebook functionality.
Any newspaper interested in relevance can now offer a $149 Android Tablet or a $139 Kindle for $99 with a one-year subscription (at $12.95/month). iPad ads reportedly generate 5 times the revenue of web ads. Subscriptions bring in stable cash flow.
If that's not a business, I don't know what is.
I've been a WiMAX fanboy for one reason — cellular providers can kill this baby.


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Burger King Japan has announced its latest addition to the menu—a beef burger with black buns, cheese and sauce.
The black buns and cheese of the burger are actually made with bamboo charcoal and the sauce is mixed with squid ink to create the color.
There are two types of black burgers, the 'Black Pearl' is a simplified version with just a beef patty and sauce while the 'Black Diamond' includes vegetables.
Both burgers will be available for a limited time from 19 September 2014 at $4.50 onward.


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If you're a Falcons fan, it's impossible not to salivate a little at the thought of adding an impact player with the #6 pick. If things go awry or the Falcons simply determine that their best course of action would be to add more picks, however, they may move down.
While I'm on record, repeatedly saying to anyone who will listen that this is the least likely outcome for the Falcons, it's still a possibility. We would be fools not to examine some of the possible targets for the Falcons in that event. To that end, I've drawn up some scenarios with the help of Rodrell Green, Falcons fan and trade-down advocate. Here's three scenarios he and I discussed, and in every single one we're assuming the Falcons walk away with at least a 2014 second rounder in return.
Scenario #1: From #6 to #13
We all talk about trading up with the St. Louis Rams, but what if the Falcons chose to move down? The Rams have two first round picks, and they may be tempted to move up and chase a Sammy Watkins or a quarterback, depending on how the draft unfolds.
If the Falcons move down to #13, there are several players they could be targeting. Taylor Lewan, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, or Anthony Barr could still be available there for the Falcons to take a swing at. Depending on which direction they elected to go in with the first pick, their second rounders could go toward a pass rusher (Jeremiah Attaochu, for example) and a safety (Calvin Pryor, the always popular Jimmie Ward), or perhaps a tackle (Jack Mewhort?) They could even choose to invest in a high-flying tight end like Jace Amaro. Basically, this option gives the Falcons a ton of flexibility, but means they're taking a risk that one of the top-tier players they might covet would not be available at #13.
While #13 is logical, there's reason to believe the Falcons could get some kind of package out of Detroit at #10 and other teams, assuming impact players at left on the board at #6.
Scenario #2: The Trade Down, Then The Trade Up
This scenario assumes something similar to the first one. The Falcons trade down, they pick up another second round pick, everyone's happy. In this case, though, the Falcons use one of those seconds and another pick to move back up into the first and select another player.
This might be the best way for the Falcons to get, say, Calvin Pryor and Eric Ebron, if those were the target. Both could go in the teens, and the end result is that the Falcons walk away with two first round picks, a second and whatever's left after they make the trade back up. If there are a couple of players the Falcons are particularly interested in, this scenario could yield both. Again, though, they'd have to be certain the moving around wouldn't result in them whiffing on players they prize.
Scenario #3: The Cleveland Browns
In this scenario, the Falcons would trade down into the 20's from #6, trying to amass a ton of picks in the process. At this point, you're conceding several players who probably feature prominently on the team's big board, in hopes that you can repeatedly hit with the volume of picks you're given.
I have to consider this the least likely option by default, but there's no denying the Falcons could pick up a lot of lottery tickets along the way.
Now, are the Falcons going to pick up a second this year by trading down? That remains to be seen, given how many teams are likely to trade down. But if it does happen, the Falcons have a chance to set themselves up for a very nice haul in this year's draft.
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) company Sheraton Hotels & Resorts said it has expanded its North America portfolio with the strategic conversion of a resort in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Sheraton Bay Point Resort, which was recently acquired by Bay Point Fund 8, LLC, an entity of CAI Investments, LLC, will undergo an extensive USD30 million renovation and repositioning project before opening in mid-2016 under the continued management of Crescent Hotels & Resorts.
This new signing contributes to the brand´s goal of adding 150 new Sheraton properties worldwide by 2020, just one of several initiatives currently underway as part of Sheraton 2020, an all-encompassing plan designed to make Sheraton the global hotel brand of choice, everywhere.
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