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A Tribute to Ayrton Senna - Saturday, the 17th of May 2014
Salle des Etoiles, Sporting Monte-Carlo, Monaco
In the presence of Viviane Senna, President of the « Instituto Ayrton Senna »
Upon arrival at the Sporting, the guests will discover two LOTUS driven by Ayrton Senna, one at the occasion of his first victory at the Portugal Grand Prix in 1985 and the other that led to his first victory in Monaco in 1987. The McLAREN driven by Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in 1988 will also be there!
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Amidst a decor designed by Pierre Yves Rochon, Le Vistamar plays host to an original concept orchestrated by Chef Benoit Witz.
Amidst the lively atmosphere of the American gaming rooms, this restaurant offers daily specials and a wide choice of salads and pasta dishes you can mix and match as you wish.
Traditional Italian cuisine. Located at the entrance of the gaming halls, overlooking the Place du Casino, décor recreates in minute detail a dining room sleeper in the time of the Belle Epoque.
In the heart of the Hôtel Hermitage enjoy tasty appetizers and exellent champagnes by the glass.
With its unusual design, terrace by the sea, billiards room and DJ, the Blue Gin is a venue you have to visit at least once when in Monaco. The spacious lounge is the perfect place to relax and peruse a highly original drinks menu.
Amber lighting, a Zen attitude, music featuring world-renowned compilations, the "made in Monaco" Buddha Bar is the perfect place to unwind, just around the corner from the busy Place du Casino.
The legendary terrace of the Café de Paris epitomises the very special ambiance of this venue on Place du Casino. Open all year round from breakfast until late at night, it offers a wide range of drinks and exotic cocktails for those who enjoy watching the glamorous world of Monte-Carlo go by.
A restaurant offering Latin American cuisine and Monaco's festive spirit.
A chic venue with a beautiful terrace and magnificent view of the Principality, this is the ideal spot to enjoy fine wines by the glass and a cigar.
Come discover the magnificent panoramic view of the Mediterranean Sea, Port Hercule and the Rock of Monaco from the Crystal Terrace, in a cosy lounge atmosphere.
One of the world's legendary night clubs that has been lighting up Riviera nights for over 30 years.
An elegant ambiance of shiny leather, soft lighting and windows onto the sea awaits you in this mythical bar, which collects vintage wines and spirits.
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This SPA draws inspiration from the inherent harmony in the architecture and ambiance of the Monte-Carlo Beach itself: 80m² dedicated to well-being with three massage rooms, a hammam, and treatment products and programmes by La Prairie.
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There is everything here to keep your kids busy in Monaco during your stay at the 5 star luxury hotel: cookery workshops, music, swimming, etc.
Take advantage of this 25-by-13-metre pool heated at 29°C and filled with seawater taken from a depth of 37 metres and 400 metres out.
The beautiful landscaped gardens feature a magnificent lagoon with cascades, jacuzzis and vast sun terraces.
Come discover Cabanas and its refined cuisine, customised tent service and idyllic beach setting.


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Sunday, November 16, 2014
Heebee Post #1131 - Sky City (Lord Fugue) - Hickory, North Carolina - USA
Scott has outfitted his action packed decorated envelope with some great features: This one boasting of his own ethereal domain, "Sky City".
Yes, okay, I just thought the back side appeared a bit plain, compared to the rest of the work. Can you tell which part I added onto the panel above? Hey, happiness is a choice: Make it!
The "Infinite Gizmatron" takes up a lot of space and time deep inside the mind and delicate machinations of what is known as "Sky City".
Thanks Scott, always super to hear from you old man. I like the Pippi Longstocking striped leotard tentacles! Nice touch. See you in the mail my friend.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Heebee Post #1030 - Cheryl Penn - Durban - KwaZulu Natal - South Africa
She then cuts the work into 6"x4" postcard size cards and sends them out individually, with bits of anecdotal news that is of a peculiar nature and history.
Yes folks, if Bhubezi Mythology is for you, then so is this well known artist. Check her out. Penn Art Works.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Heebee Post #1129 - Larina Lager - Heerenven - Holland - The Netherlands
And check out these ultra cool Netherlands official Postage Stamps!
I always enjoy my heart being lifted by notes similar to the one Lorina included. I don't usually publish notes, they are too personal, But know this dear readers - She is quite enamored with the 4th Dimension and she also would like to receive my previous offer (post # 1128 ) of owning your own "Witch's Passport" just for the asking. That particular postcard was a Halloween Special that folks seemed to like immensely. There are more of the W- P's - If Anybody else would like one - just ask! Thank you for your works and the enthusiasm you displayed in your note to me, really made my day old girl....One Witch's Passport one the way - See ya in the mail.
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text: Statement of Objectives The Mills Learning Commons is a vibrant, user-centered learning facility enhanced by information technology. The facility: integrates scholarly resources, information technology, software, expertise, instruction and study space provides a stimulating learning environment that fosters innovation, develops students' ability to access and organize information to succeed at McMaster...and beyond develops lifelong learners and knowledge workers integrates expert research, writing and technical assistance in a state-of-the-art facility provides a gateway to the Library's wealth of electronic and print resources builds an inclusive community through a shared purpose in discovery and learning is a gathering place for students and researchers enhances McMaster's reputation for innovation, creativity and excellence Background Documents Concept & Feasibility Study Learning Commons Service Model Working Group Final Report Public Space Utilization Study Campus Consultation Service & Design Objectives Owned by Learners: To provide an innovative and stimulating learning environment and make the Library a vibrant extension of the classroom. Services will be designed with learners in mind. Our three main learner communities are: Undergraduate Students, who are: learners: doing assignments, reading, studying, working individually and in groups social creatures technologically savvy teachers: increasing number of upper year undergraduate TA's Graduate Students, who are: learners teachers: some carry heavy teaching responsibilities Faculty, who are: partners in the learning process instrumental in the students' use of libraries experimenting with new forms of teaching Inclusive: To be inclusive by providing group and individual learning spaces, and by embracing universal design principles [ "The design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. (NCSU CUD, 2005)"]. McLay will be designed and configured to facilitate group learning and the Reference Area will be designed and configured as individual study and work space. The working group considered how best to meet the needs of users with visual, physical and learning disabilities. We determined that two types of learning spaces are necessary: open - access to general computers in a large, public space. We propose to meet this need by installing some adaptive programs on all "general" computers and by creating an Adaptive Technology (AT) "Hub" for software/hardware which is too expensive to put on all of the general computers enclosed - students need quiet space if they: have learning disabilities and need to eliminate external distractions, or if they have low vision and need to use a voice-activated program. Students also sometimes need to discuss private issues with a staff person. We will address these needs by providing 3 bookable consultation rooms equipped with "Adaptive Technology Plus" workstations. Collaborative: To design services collaboratively (initially: Mills Reference, Library IT, Centre for Student Development and University Technology Services). To promote collaborative learning. Accommodates the social: To design in recognition of the need for social space. Protects the traditional: To protect contemplative, quiet spaces in the Library. To link e-resources with the wealth of print resources in the Library. Excellent Customer Service: To build innovative, effective customer services which: include both encounter-based transactions (IT & Research Help Desks) and relationship-based services (consultations) provide a new mix of service points: Research & IT Help Desks/ Consultations/Virtual Help give a prominent role to web-based services restructure our service interactions to meet various learning styles replace an aging reference service model in light of developments in learning, communication & information technology address the need for reference AND technical help involve roving (getting out from behind Help Desks) whenever possible provide backup systems for key services (printing) are based on existing customer service standards Learning Enhanced by Information Technology: To develop a technical infrastructure which supports our service objectives. Flexibility for the Future: To plan the renovations to accommodate change. We know that the Commons will bring more people into the library. However, we do not know: how usage patterns and user traffic will flow; how the introduction of productivity software will change usage patterns; how users will remake the space (if permitted) to suit their needs; how information technology will evolve over the next decade. Milestones & Timeline Date Event December 2003 Planning begins. Library commissions architectural firm of Moffat Kinoshita to produce feasibility study. March 2004 Concept & Feasibility Study submitted to University Librarian. March 2004 Proposal for a Knowledge Commons [working title] presented and supported at meetings of the Arts Library Users Committee, the Science and Engineering Library Users Committee, and the Student Library Advisory Committee. April 2004 University Library Budget Submission 2004/2005 to 2006/2007 includes the proposal for a Commons. May 2004 University Libraries Committee endorses the Knowledge Commons Project as a key initiative in the University Library Plan 2004-2007. August 2004 Formal request to Provost that the "Proposal to Establish a Knowledge Commons" in Mills Memorial Library under the Refining Directions initiative be forwarded for funding consideration. Provost undertakes to take proposal forward. January 2005 Presentation to University Planning Committee includes Commons Project January 2005 Library establishes Service Model Working Group to articulate service objectives for the Commons and to propose innovative, effective service models to meet those objectives. Group conducts site visits, interviews library and campus stakeholders and reviews best practices. March 2005 Library conducts campus-wide consultation on library spaces. Knowledge Commons becomes key focus of consultation. April 7, 2005 Planning & Construction Committee of the Board endorses the Knowledge Commons Project. Funded subject to formal approval by the Board of Governors. May 16, 2005 Knowledge Commons Service Model Working Group submits report to Library Management Group. June 2005 Library staff begin site preparation in Reference Area. June 16, 2005 Knowledge Commons approved by Board of Governors. June 29, 2005 First meeting of the Knowledge Commons Project Review Committee. Decision made to adopt the name "Learning Commons." Sept. 12, 2005 I.T. Help Desk opens for business beside the Research Help Desk on the second floor of Mills. Sept. 12, 2005 Mills Research Help launches Instant Messaging service. September 2005 Lanhack Rankin Inc. appointed as architect. October 28, 2005 Gateway Data/GIS Lab opens. New Services & Partnerships Space/Service Description Assistance/Expertise Research Help Desk Research help, advice and assistance provided in person, by phone, e-mail or chat. I.T. Help Desk Assistance with IT related issues (wireless, accounts, printing, etc.) provided by UTS student consultants and Library IT staff . Research Consultations Reference librarians provide research advice and assistance in the Learning Lab (L218) by appointment. Will be moved to new quarters in Phase II (Summer 2006). Writing/Authoring Help CSD staff provide expert writing/authoring help in the Learning Lab (L218). Will be moved to new quarters in Phase II (Summer 2006). Virtual Help Chat-based help available from Library home page. Hours are: M-F 11am-3pm. Library Services for Students with Disabilities New full-time LSSD Coordinator (Harry Ennis, L218) provides assistance in using Library services and collections to students with disabilities. Library Data Specialist Data Specialist has moved to new space in L-111. Instruction Wong E-Classroom Now available for joint sessions with campus partners (Centre for Student Development, University Technology Services and the Centre for Leadership in Learning). Study Space Study space New study spaces created by windows in the Reference Area. Computers/Software Replacement of existing computers 42 existing computers replaced by 76 state-of-the-art workstations. More stations to come in 2006. Adaptive stations 4 stations with JAWS and Zoomtext available in the 2nd floor corridor outside office of the Coordinator, Library Services for Students with Disabilities. Stations also include all Microsoft Office and data/geo-spatial software. Data/GIS stations Gateway Data/GIS Lab now open with 8 new stations featuring specialized data/GIS software. Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Microsoft Office software now available in the Gateway Data/GIS Lab (1st floor), and on selected stations on the 2nd floor. Furniture New computer tables / chairs Waiting for Architect to select Soft seating in atrium Waiting for Architect to select Equipment Tiger Braille printer, scanner Available in L218 until Phase II (Summer 2006). Microform reading Microfilm, microfiche and microcard readers have been moved from the Mezzanine to the new Microform Reading Room across the hall. Will free up room for collaborative study rooms in Phase II (Summer 2006). Project Teams Learning Commons Project Review Committee Mandate: To oversee the creation of the Learning Commons both as a physical set of spaces and as a collection of services. Chair: Jeffrey Trzeciak (University Librarian) Members: Vivian Lewis, AUL Services Paul Otto, AUL Information Technology Mary Ruth Linkert, Library Administrator Desmond Pouyat, Centre for Student Development John Alley, University Technology Services Erika Kustra, Centre for Leadership in Learning Stephanie Murray, VP Education, MSU Michael Potter, Graducate Students Association George Hough, Faculty Meeting Minutes: June 29, 2005 | August 30 , 2005 | November 30, 2005 | April 19, 2006 Physical Plant Project Management Team Mandate: To oversee the physical construction. Chair: Physical Plant Project Manager Members: architect, contractors, trades people, AUL Services (or other Library member of the Project Review Committee). Library Implementation Team Chair: Vivian Lewis (AUL Services) Members: Made up of three subgroups (see below). Services Group Mandate: To establish in-person and virtual services in the Commons, to facilitate staff training, to inform the Review Committee on issues relating to public and staff spaces. Lead: Barbara McDonald (Mills Reference Services Manager) Members: Jeannie An, Kathy Ball, Elise Hayton, Donna Millard, and Mills Reference Services Staff. I.T. Group Mandate: To address all technical aspects and implications of the infrastructure, equipment and services that will be available. Lead: Paul Otto (AUL Information Technology) Public Relations/ Communications Mandate: To maintain the library web site pages, Daily News postings, create promotional materials, in-library signage, and to facilitate communication with public, staff, potential donors. Lead: Anne Plessl (Library Development Officer) Image Gallery (click a thumbnail to view the gallery of images) Floor Plans & Architect Renderings McLay & Reference "Before" Pictures Library Staff Kick-Off Party (April 27, 2006) <img width="150" height="131" border="0" data-cke-saved-src="http://library.lib.mcmaster.ca/mills/learningcommons/archive/images/constrsept_thumb.jpg" src="http://library.lib.mcmaster.ca/mills/learningcommons/archive/images/constrsept_thumb.jpg" alt=" /> Making Headway! (August 2006) Furniture Arrives! (September 2006)


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From Atlanta, Georgia, USA:
My six and a half year old daughter has never been diagnosed with diabetes, although she frequently (at least once daily, sometimes more) has symptoms of hypoglycemia (headaches, shaking, irritability, crying, paleness around her mouth), can be uncontrollable, and often doesn't even remember when these times occur. I've spoken to the pediatrician a couple of times about my concerns and have tried to keep her eating a healthy diet every two to three hours. Sometimes that can be too long. She has difficulty during exercise, sometimes even after she has had a protein snack a half an hour beforehand. What are the next steps I should take? This has been going on for over two years and is getting worse as she is getting older and more active and involved with sports activities.
I think the first thing would be to confirm your suspicions that this is truly low blood glucose (hypoglycemia). The easiest way to screen for this is by performing home glucose monitoring with a glucose meter usually used by people with diabetes. There are several to choose from. I would advise that you get one that has a memory that can be downloaded to a computer.
I think a referral to a pediatric endocrinologist might be helpful for you. The list of causes of recurrent hypoglycemia is long, fortunately most causes are not life-threatening, and many are easily amenable to simple dietary practices and certain food avoidances (like routinely avoiding "simple" sugars as in frosted cereals, soda, juice) and consuming more complex carbohydrates (potatoes, rice, pasta) and protein. However confoundingly, some causes of hypoglycemia are precipitated by that. Ask your pediatrician for a referral.
[Editor's comment: Also, see Other causes of hypoglycemia at the Diabetes Monitor. WWQ]
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my sister bought a few malongs for me and for the longest time, i haven't done anything with them because a) i don't really wear them b) i really love the fabric and couldn't bear to cut it up...
but i recently whittled down my stash again and found them and was inspired to use them, they're just too pretty to sit in a box. i made one of them into a tiny pocket tank. it's a very easy pattern - the instructions and diagrams are very clear.
i'm so pleased with how it turned out and how it fits. and i actually have enough fabric left over to make a wrap skirt too! bonus! this tank is going to be a great layering addition. looking forward to making more breezy tanks this summer... maybe i should start a new challenge and make tanks on tuesdays!
no. that was a joke. ;)
thanks for stopping by and visiting for a spell!


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I have a serious jeans dilemma: do I get the 29s, or the 30s?
It seems amazing, really, that one inch - or 2.54 centimetres, to be precise - can make such a difference to a pair of jeans, but it does.
Here's the whole story. I've suddenly got a thing about white jeans. I last wore them in the early '90s and now suddenly, out of the blue, I just have to wear them all over again.
Apart from that indefinable fashion zeitgeist, the thing that turned me white overnight was buying a blue denim jacket of aching coolness. It's like something Jim Morrison would have worn, with an eagle on the back sketched out in small metal studs.
I love it to bits, but then I realised that I can never wear it with normal jeans - for the obvious reason of the Denim Suit (possibly the most-mentioned fashion gaff in this column).
As I wear jeans every day of my life, this was a problem.
So in order to get maximum wear out of my Lizard King jacket, I had to buy non-blue denim jeans.
I did the big trawl and tried on six pairs of white jeans in one store - none of them was right. The problem was, I knew exactly what I wanted: a pair of very slightly off-white jeans in proper diagonal-weave denim, in a slight bootleg cut, sitting relatively low on the rise - but not Sass & Bide low - with a hint of stretch.
In fashion terms, knowing what you want is pretty much a guarantee that you won't find it, but astonishingly I did - from cult US brand Earl. Well, I tell you, they deserve their cult status. They have not one, but at least four different cuts of white jeans this season, plus a maternity option if that's where you're at.
I was initially torn between the classic bootleg and the trendier drainpipe (as worn by Kate Moss et al), but the bootleg won out. The drainpipes were cut lower on the waist, taking them into peak muffin-top zone, and the denim was just too Tom Cruise-teeth white.
But then came the real crunch decision - 29 or 30? I've got until tomorrow morning to decide, when both pairs go back on the rail, and I am changing my mind on an hourly basis.
I was having a bit of a chubby morning when I tried them on and the 30s fitted perfectly. But because I plan to wear them every day, won't there be a loosening? Even the girl in the shop said there would be. But how much loosening?
And where exactly?
I don't like skin-tight jeans but, equally, you don't want a baggy bum, do you?
Right now the 29ers are fine on the thighs, but too tight on the waist. Not impossible strangulation, but definitely a Michelin Woman bulge. But if they give, as I am advised, will they stretch to the perfect size - embracing but not gripping my middle - or just get looser in the rear?
At the moment I am tending towards the 30s - at least I know they fit - but the other thing to consider is the GI diet. I'm going on it the minute I get back from my holiday in a couple of weeks' time.
My friend has lost five kilos with no effort in as many weeks, so I'm bound to drop at least a jeans size. It would be so maddening to find the perfect white jeans, only to have them end up too big.
Then again, it would be equally infuriating if the GI diet doesn't work for me and I have the perfect jeans that I can only wear standing up with the wind from the east.
The obvious solution is to buy a pair in each size. The only problem with that is another size issue: my bank balance.


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This is the ultimate soup for when you're feeling a little punk. Couscous chicken soup is loaded with health-supporting ingredients like ginger, garlic, turmeric, and lemongrass, and its light and cheery flavor is comfort food at its best.
I knew this winter was going to be a tough one when my annual, knock-down-drag-out cold arrived in October. I really hope that I've paid my cold dues for the season, but judging by the red-noses and saggy faces of folks schlepping around the grocery store, looking like death warmed over, cold season has arrived with claws extended.
I don't care if there's science behind it; I don't care if it's a placebo effect of memories from my youth, sipping chicken soup when sick. Can chicken soup can help cure a cold? Well, all I do know is that there's no better comfort food than chicken soup when you're under the weather.
My couscous chicken soup includes health-supporting ingredients like ginger, garlic, lemongrass, turmeric, and a big squeeze of lemon, which also creates a light and bright soup. Comforting and good for you — it's a win-win, whether you're sick or not,
I'm a big fan of pasta in my chicken soup (when I was young, it was chicken and stars), so I always add pearl couscous (instead of noodles) because it's easy to keep on the spoon.
You know what I'm sayin' — you don't want to struggle with your soup and splashy noodles when you're sick.
Use a little couscous for a brothy soup, as in the video at the top; a lot of couscous for a hearty stew, as in the photos. Good stuff.
So delicious, light, and healthy, couscous chicken soup is easy to make, too — you're just a half hour away from a big fragrant pot of soup! Make lots, eat some, freeze some.
Stay healthy, everyone, and eat lots of soup!
Karen xo
- 1 cup chopped onions about 1/2 of a medium
- 3/4 cup sliced leeks about 1 medium, white and light green parts only
- 1/2 cup sliced carrots about 1 medium
- 1/2 cup chopped celery about 2 ribs
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- 1 tablespoon minced lemongrass or paste
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 8 ounces cooked chicken chopped or shredded (rotisserie chicken is great)
- 1 cup pearl couscous
- 1/2 of a lemon
- salt and pepper
- chopped fresh parsley for garnish
Heat one tablespoon of the stock in a 4 to 5 quart Dutch oven or stock pot over medium. When it begins to sizzle, add the onions, leeks, carrots, and celery. Saute until the vegetables are soft, about 6 minutes. Stir in the ginger, lemongrass, and garlic, and heat until aromatic. Sprinkle the turmeric over the vegetables and stir.
Add the stock, chicken, and couscous, and bring to a light boil. Reduce heat to maintain a gentle simmer; cook for 15 minutes. Squeeze the half lemon into the soup, taste, and season with salt and pepper to your liking. Top with parsley before serving.


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Chapter 34: Subconscious changes
Han Shuo and the band of twelve walked south for a full eight days. They met increasingly fiercer magical creatures along the way.
Unicorned charging bulls, enormous lizards, magical wolves that could release wind blades, and flying eagles that could spew out frost. They were handled easily at first and increased in difficulty until the band barely handled them by the skin of their teeth. Everyone felt the increasing pressure.
Everyone started off eating the food that they had brought and started cooking the meat from the magical creatures when all their rations had been eaten.
The magical creatures were increasingly violent, but not all of the flesh was edible. The lizard, for instance, had a strange smell that accompanied its flesh that made it hard to swallow.
But the stronger the magical creature was, the more valuable their carcasses, particularly the ones that could cast simple magics. These creatures would have magical cores within their bodies. These cores were very precious and could be sold for varying high prices according to their level.
The band's haul was uncommon as well. They had obtained four cores from magical creatures over the past couple of days, three from the Windblade Wolf and one from the Frost Eagle.
The cores from magical creatures were divided into six levels. Level 6 cores were the cheapest, while level 1 was the most expensive and basically hard to even catch a glimpse of. These magical cores could be used to create powerful magical weapons and increase a mage's power. Some special ones could even be used to increase a mage's mental strength, thus their prices were incredibly high.
The Windblade Wolf's magical core was ranked at level 5, and could fetch twenty gold at the market, while the Frost Eagle was higher, at level 4, and its market price was 150 gold. Based purely on their haul of magical creature cores, the band had already turned a profit even after subtracting out the fifty golds needed for borrowing the battlesteeds.
Not to mention that apart from their cores, the bodies of these magical creatures were also worth some money. The fur of the Windblade Wolf and the unicorn horn of the charging bull were all valuable items. The value of these items added together had greatly exceeded Fanny and Gene's original expectations.
"Everyone has improved after a few days of training, and you no longer panic when faced with magical creatures. This is the most important thing in actual battle. On top of that, our luck has been quite good. We have gained much from this time's outing. We will allocate the profits out to everyone after we return to the Academy and sell these items." Fanny was in a good mood and she wore a satisfied smile on her face when she spoke softly to the students.
Han Shuo had been coldly observing everything along the way. The unskilled students had gone from panicking when faced with magical creatures to handling them with indifference. Han Shuo had seen it all clearly.
Han Shuo's five senses were much sharper than anyone else's due to training his magical yuan. His early warnings had accomplished much in the later days, but no one could understand why Han Shuo had such perceptive senses. Fanny had even thoroughly checked Han Shuo's body over the past few days, but had turned up empty handed each time.
Fanny was perplexed, but could think of no better way. She could only say that she would employ the school's magical facilities to give Han Shuo a thorough once over after they'd returned to the Academy. After several days of early warnings and cooking mouthwatering meat, Han Shuo's status had subconsciously risen a few grades in this time's outing.
Other than Bach, Bella, and others who continued to be extremely unfriendly towards Han Shuo because of their continued "bad luck" in always getting a piece of disgusting food, the other students no longer ordered Han Shuo around. Some of the students, who were more particular about their food, had even tried becoming more friendly with Han Shuo in hopes of obtaining better food.
"Master Fanny, when can we reach that cemetery of death?" Lisa immediately asked after hearing Fanny's words.
Fanny's brow creased upon hearing this question and she became silent. She sighed gently after a while. "I've only heard that the cemetery of death was once discovered in the deep south of the Dark Forest, but I'm not too certain of its exact location. Our main purpose in traveling to the Dark Forest this time was to teach you the correct method of deploying necromancy magic when faced with danger. Based on our current results, you have all reached this standard.
I don't know the exact whereabouts of the cemetery of death. You might have noticed by now that the magical creatures we are facing are becoming stronger and stronger. If it weren't for the prewarnings that Bryan had been issuing the past couple of days, I think some people would have already gotten injured, but even so, we only made it through by the skin of our teeth when we met that Frost Eagle yesterday. I'm worried that some amongst us will not only be hurt, but some may even die if we continue further. Therefore, I think it's time that we head back."
The students were a bit dumbfounded by Fanny's words, while Gene nodded and spoke, "Indeed. We're just out here for training. The location of the cemetery of death is uncertain, and we don't even know if it truly exists. It's normal for us not to find it. Everyone had personally experienced the situation yesterday. If we continue south, I feel that everyone's lives will be in danger. This time's outing has already reaped rich rewards, so there is no need for taking further risks."
The two teachers had thus spoken. A few of the more cowardly students thought back to the events of the past two days and all nodded their heads in agreement. "Alright, then let's go back to the Academy. The dangers are becoming worse."
"Bach, you coward. How else can rewards be gained if not through risk. If it weren't for yesterday's danger, how could we have gotten that Frost Eagle's core? We should continue further south, perhaps we'd obtain even more valuable items. This way, the other majors won't look down on our necromancy major when we go back to the Academy." Lisa glared at Bach with a contemptuous look, and tilted her head back with sarcasm. She then cast a glance at Han Shuo, who was cooking meat on the side with an indifferent expression. "Bryan, wouldn't you agree?"
Ordinarily, no one paid any attention to Han Shuo, but after his performance over the past couple of days, incredibly enough, the students all stared at Han Shuo after Lisa had spoken. Even Fanny and Gene were the same, as if Han Shuo's decision was quite important.
Han Shuo was involuntarily speechless. He paused, and then smiled honestly. "Taking risks is a given. People haven't been hurt yet. Why don't we continue? Who knows, maybe we'll gain even more rewards!
Fanny gazed at Han Shuo strangely, grew quiet for a moment, and then surprisingly nodded her head. "Alright, since this is the case, then let's continue until someone is hurt. Once that happens, we'll return on our original path."
"Come, come everyone, it's time to eat." Han Shuo laughed lightly and called out. Fanny and Lisa then hurtled forward merrily, dropping their manners as they accepted the two largest pieces of meat that Han Shuo handed over.
In the deep of the night, the cool moonlight spilled over the Dark Forest. A few students were already fast asleep in a few crude tents, while some others struggled against their sleepiness and took up the grave task of standing guard.
Han Shuo slipped away soundlessly by himself, slowly moving away from the students' tents and creeped through the shadows of the towering trees.
Han Shuo's not terribly strong body could be seen through the cracks between the shadows of the the trees. He was as fast and agile as a cheetah, abruptly changing direction with ease as he wove through the trees. He had traveled far away from Fanny and co's tents in the blink of an eye and continued south.
After a while, Han Shuo's body suddenly stopped as he spread his two palms upwards and chanted the words to summon a skeletal warrior. "Souls of the fallen soldiers, heed the dark herald's call and reveal your existence!"
A skinny, inky-black little skeleton wielding a bone dagger abruptly materialized as soon as the incantation was complete. The little skeleton's body was even more dense and darker than before, completely becoming one with the color of the night. It was like an elf of the darkness.
The little skeleton continuously sprang off its feet to follow Han Shuo's high speed dash, but its bones no longer creaked with sound. The seven bone spurs flapped on its back, allowing the little skeleton to speed through the air, like it was hang gliding, as it wove through the forest side by side with Han Shuo.
Two Windblade Wolves suddenly appeared in front of the man and skeleton duo. The two Windblade Wolves were devouring the carcass of a magical creature in the shape of a wild pig. One of them seemed to feel the disturbance in the air as its sharp ears suddenly stood up and its green eyes darted to and fro.
A bone dagger shimmering with a cold, sharp light materialized out of the night. The bone dagger carved a marvelous curve through the thin air and suddenly stabbed towards the wolf, that had been on high alert.
At the same time, a nimble figure suddenly rushed out from the trees of the Dark Forest and made for the other Windblade Wolf. A faint, purple light suddenly flashed in the darkened sky, appearing all the more beautiful and fey.
Two ghastly wails sounded out from the two Windblade Wolves. The bloodthirsty wolves had all been killed before they had a chance to react. One wolf's skull was cleaved straight through with the bone dagger, and the other fell stiffly to the ground with frosty breaths coming out of its mouth.
"Heh heh, another two level five cores!" Han Shuo talked to himself in satisfaction as he withdrew his hand.
On the other side, the little skeleton had already started dressing the valuable Windblade Wolf skin with its bone dagger. Judging from its practiced movement, this wasn't the first time that it had done so.
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Dark Macek is the most menacing, evil, democrat slayer since well.... ever. He is pro life, but he eats babies for breakfast. His inflammatory remarks would make him go to hell, but he fucking designed hell to his liking being Satan's contractor. He is best friends with the devil, but enemies with the anti Christ (our commander in chief). Iraq is looking for WMD's in America (weapons of Metal Destruction), and have been unsuccessful in locating Dark. His father is Ozzy Osbourne, and his mother is Lita Ford. The pregnancy test proved that he would be metal when Lita urinated on a Kenny G CD and it caught fire. He was able to play the riff to crazy train before he could speak. His allergies include emotion and pussy indie rock. He courageously battles day in and day out for the kiss army. Dark vacations at Guantanamo bay and melts detainees faces with his uber-metal riffs.
Dark Macek melted my face for bashing the metalist band ever MEGADETH!!!
Dark Macek bleeds Francium the most metal of all the elements!
Dark Macek bleeds Francium the most metal of all the elements!
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When home buyers are out touring new home possibilities, oftentimes one of the many things running through their minds is how they would decorate their new home. Some people are naturally gifted when it comes to choosing colors and fabrics, while others may be designer disasters. If you need a little design advice when it comes to adding flair to your Augusta new home, we're offering up a few tips from experts who can help you become a pattern pro.
- Three is the magic number. When it comes to mixing and matching, experts say three is the minimum number of patterns to use, while scale is the second most important consideration. Your first pattern should be large-scale since it will dominate the room. The second pattern should be different from the first, contain some of the same colors and be about half as large. The third can be similar to either of the first two with a few of the same colors found in the other patterns.
- Choose companions. When in doubt, rely on companion fabrics that make the matching process a little easier. Fabric companies often create two to four patterns in a particular color palette that are designed to complement each other within the same room.
- Mind the function. Patterns do affect how a room feels. Larger patterns create harmony and pull a space together, while smaller patterns draw attention to specific parts of a room. Additionally, busy patterns raise the room's energy level, while simple patterns promote a sense of serenity.
- Maintain color. Different patterns will always complement each other if they are made from the same set of dyes in the same hue.
- Take care with whites. Make sure your whites are all in the same family. Whether you are choosing cream, bright white or off-white, if the whites don't match, the fabric will stand out and take away from the attractive combinations you intended to create.
Of course, at Keystone Homes we have several design experts on staff who can give you advice on everything from color choices to the other features of your new home.
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Yes.. Feb 14 is still a long way to go!! But who needs a special day to tell someone you love them!! Coz love has no time, no place.. just great taste!! So grab a slice of Domino's cheese burst pizza and use some cheesy lines to express your Love to that special someone!! Or just Order in some Domino's, wrap your arms around your beloved and share a slice of pizza!! Because when you are in love.. Happiness knows no bounds!! And wherever there is happiness.. there must be a Khushiyon ki home delivery!! So while you gorge on those sumptuous Domino's pizzas, come, lets fall in love.. yet again..


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We've all experienced disease firsthand in some way—whether as the common cold or the flu, or in much more serious forms. Although medicines are available for many diseases, God has also mercifully provided our bodies with means of fighting off disease from the inside. We are designed with an immune system to combat pathogens—tiny disease-causing organisms such as bacteria, protozoans, molds, or viruses.
Diseases, which are any condition of the body which interfere with its normal functioning, fall into two categories: infectious and noninfectious. Allergies, congenital or inherited diseases like hemophilia, hormonal diseases like diabetes, and nutritional and psychosomatic diseases are all noninfectious—they are caused by breakdown in the body's systems or functions. Infectious diseases include chicken pox, cold sores, influenza, HIV, and venereal diseases, and are caused by harmful invading microbes. This type of disease is communicable—it can be transferred from one person to another through germs.
Our bodies are provided with protective coatings, chemicals, and filtering systems to protect us from disease. Mucous membranes coat the inside of our noses, trapping alien particles like dust so that they don't enter our bodies. Lysozymes in tears and perspiration kill bacteria by destroying their cell walls, and hydrochloric acid in the stomach kills most of the bacteria that enters it.
Our lymphatic systems keep our cells in the proper fluid balance, absorb fat, and provide immunological defense. Bathing our cells is an interstitial fluid, a clear liquid that flows from the capillaries in our circulatory systems; most of the 'used' fluid is drawn back into the bloodstream and recycled, but about 10% of it goes into the lymphatic system. If we weren't provided with a place for this 10%, our bodies would suffer swelling from the excess fluid.
Once the interstitial fluid enters the lymph vessels, it is called lymph. There is no heart to pump fluid through the lymphatic system like there is in the circulatory system, but the contraction of skeletal muscles propels the lymph through the vessels. Lymph nodes, points along the vessels at which the lymph is cleaned, contain lots of white blood cells, or lymphocytes. These special cells can destroy harmful microbes by phagocytosis—they engulf a microbe and then break it down. Another part of this system are the larger 'cleaning' centers, the lymph organs—the tonsils, spleen (although it filters blood, not lymph), and thymus among them. After the lymph has been carried through the vessels and filtered, it is emptied back into the bloodstream.
Our bodies usually are very effective at self-defense, but sometimes they get diseases which cause the immune system to go haywire. Rheumatoid arthritis is a condition where the body attacks its own tissues, and AIDS is a disease that impairs the functioning of the immune system, so that the body no longer is capable of fighting off other diseases effectively. Also, sometimes our bodies need outside help to effectively defeat an infection—this is where medicine is helpful. It might be useful to think of medicine as the reinforcing army regiment sent to aid or relieve the regiment that has been on the front lines (the immune system), fighting a force that is too superior. Medicines are designed to kill an infection without damaging the body's normal cells.
For more information on the immune system and disease, you might want to look at one of the following books: Diseases and Disorders or Body By Design.


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It turns out that a school massacre is better than any advertising that money can buy. The Hartford Courant reports:
Some gun retailers this week are reporting a spike in store traffic, in excess of the usual holiday rush, in the aftermath of the Newtown murders. Since Friday's shooting, customers have crammed parking lots and thinned out inventories.
Doug Odishoo, owner of Delta Arsenal in Meriden, said, "As soon as this shooting happened on Friday, I almost sold out of everything. Saturday I couldn't keep up with it." He said people walked into his shop, looking at the AR-style guns and saying, "I better get one before I can't."
Resurrected talks of gun control, some shop owners said, are pumping up the market for rifles, especially AR, or assault rifles, like the Bushmaster's civilian version of the military's AR-15 that Adam Lanza used on Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In Worcester, Mass., at Pullman Arms, co-owner Alicia Merritt called the jump in business "dramatic." She said she did $30,000 in business on Monday — up from a usual Monday of about $2,000. Most of her sales, she said, were assault rifles, though she said she was also selling a number of handguns. "People want ARs because people are afraid there will be a ban on assault weapons," Merritt said. Like others, Pullman Arms said it was running low on inventory.
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SpinLock Structure
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Provides a mutual exclusion lock primitive where a thread trying to acquire the lock waits in a loop repeatedly checking until the lock becomes available.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Initializes a new instance of the SpinLock structure with the option to track thread IDs to improve debugging.
Gets whether the lock is currently held by any thread.
Gets whether the lock is held by the current thread.
Gets whether thread ownership tracking is enabled for this instance.
Acquires the lock in a reliable manner, such that even if an exception occurs within the method call, lockTaken can be examined reliably to determine whether the lock was acquired.
Indicates whether this instance and a specified object are equal.(Inherited from ValueType.)
Releases the lock.
Releases the lock.
Returns the hash code for this instance.(Inherited from ValueType.)
Returns the fully qualified type name of this instance.(Inherited from ValueType.)
Attempts to acquire the lock in a reliable manner, such that even if an exception occurs within the method call, lockTaken can be examined reliably to determine whether the lock was acquired.
|TryEnter(Int32, Boolean)
Attempts to acquire the lock in a reliable manner, such that even if an exception occurs within the method call, lockTaken can be examined reliably to determine whether the lock was acquired.
|TryEnter(TimeSpan, Boolean)
Attempts to acquire the lock in a reliable manner, such that even if an exception occurs within the method call, lockTaken can be examined reliably to determine whether the lock was acquired.
For an example of how to use a Spin Lock, see How to: Use SpinLock for Low-Level Synchronization.
Spin locks can be used for leaf-level locks where the object allocation implied by using a Monitor, in size or due to garbage collection pressure, is overly expensive. A spin lock can be useful in to avoid blocking; however, if you expect a significant amount of blocking, you should probably not use spin locks due to excessive spinning. Spinning can be beneficial when locks are fine-grained and large in number (for example, a lock per node in a linked list) and also when lock hold-times are always extremely short. In general, while holding a spin lock, one should avoid any of these actions:
calling anything that itself may block,
holding more than one spin lock at once,
making dynamically dispatched calls (interface and virtuals),
making statically dispatched calls into any code one doesn't own, or
allocating memory.
SpinLock should only be used after you have been determined that doing so will improve an application's performance. It is also important to note that SpinLock is a value type, for performance reasons. For this reason, you must be very careful not to accidentally copy a SpinLock instance, as the two instances (the original and the copy) would then be completely independent of one another, which would likely lead to erroneous behavior of the application. If a SpinLock instance must be passed around, it should be passed by reference rather than by value.
Do not store SpinLock instances in readonly fields.
The following example shows how to use a SpinLock:
using System; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading; using System.Threading.Tasks; class SpinLockDemo { // Demonstrates: // Default SpinLock construction () // SpinLock.Enter(ref bool) // SpinLock.Exit() static void SpinLockSample1() { SpinLock sl = new SpinLock(); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); // Action taken by each parallel job. // Append to the StringBuilder 10000 times, protecting // access to sb with a SpinLock. Action action = () => { bool gotLock = false; for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { gotLock = false; try { sl.Enter(ref gotLock); sb.Append((i % 10).ToString()); } finally { // Only give up the lock if you actually acquired it if (gotLock) sl.Exit(); } } }; // Invoke 3 concurrent instances of the action above Parallel.Invoke(action, action, action); // Check/Show the results Console.WriteLine("sb.Length = {0} (should be 30000)", sb.Length); Console.WriteLine("number of occurrences of '5' in sb: {0} (should be 3000)", sb.ToString().Where(c => (c == '5')).Count()); } // Demonstrates: // Default SpinLock constructor (tracking thread owner) // SpinLock.Enter(ref bool) // SpinLock.Exit() throwing exception // SpinLock.IsHeld // SpinLock.IsHeldByCurrentThread // SpinLock.IsThreadOwnerTrackingEnabled static void SpinLockSample2() { // Instantiate a SpinLock SpinLock sl = new SpinLock(); // These MRESs help to sequence the two jobs below ManualResetEventSlim mre1 = new ManualResetEventSlim(false); ManualResetEventSlim mre2 = new ManualResetEventSlim(false); bool lockTaken = false; Task taskA = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { try { sl.Enter(ref lockTaken); Console.WriteLine("Task A: entered SpinLock"); mre1.Set(); // Signal Task B to commence with its logic // Wait for Task B to complete its logic // (Normally, you would not want to perform such a potentially // heavyweight operation while holding a SpinLock, but we do it // here to more effectively show off SpinLock properties in // taskB.) mre2.Wait(); } finally { if (lockTaken) sl.Exit(); } }); Task taskB = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { mre1.Wait(); // wait for Task A to signal me Console.WriteLine("Task B: sl.IsHeld = {0} (should be true)", sl.IsHeld); Console.WriteLine("Task B: sl.IsHeldByCurrentThread = {0} (should be false)", sl.IsHeldByCurrentThread); Console.WriteLine("Task B: sl.IsThreadOwnerTrackingEnabled = {0} (should be true)", sl.IsThreadOwnerTrackingEnabled); try { sl.Exit(); Console.WriteLine("Task B: Released sl, should not have been able to!"); } catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine("Task B: sl.Exit resulted in exception, as expected: {0}", e.Message); } mre2.Set(); // Signal Task A to exit the SpinLock }); // Wait for task completion and clean up Task.WaitAll(taskA, taskB); mre1.Dispose(); mre2.Dispose(); } // Demonstrates: // SpinLock constructor(false) -- thread ownership not tracked static void SpinLockSample3() { // Create SpinLock that does not track ownership/threadIDs SpinLock sl = new SpinLock(false); // Used to synchronize with the Task below ManualResetEventSlim mres = new ManualResetEventSlim(false); // We will verify that the Task below runs on a separate thread Console.WriteLine("main thread id = {0}", Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId); // Now enter the SpinLock. Ordinarily, you would not want to spend so // much time holding a SpinLock, but we do it here for the purpose of // demonstrating that a non-ownership-tracking SpinLock can be exited // by a different thread than that which was used to enter it. bool lockTaken = false; sl.Enter(ref lockTaken); // Create a separate Task from which to Exit() the SpinLock Task worker = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { Console.WriteLine("worker task thread id = {0} (should be different than main thread id)", Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId); // Now exit the SpinLock try { sl.Exit(); Console.WriteLine("worker task: successfully exited SpinLock, as expected"); } catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine("worker task: unexpected failure in exiting SpinLock: {0}", e.Message); } // Notify main thread to continue mres.Set(); }); // Do this instead of worker.Wait(), because worker.Wait() could inline the worker Task, // causing it to be run on the same thread. The purpose of this example is to show that // a different thread can exit the SpinLock created (without thread tracking) on your thread. mres.Wait(); // now Wait() on worker and clean up worker.Wait(); mres.Dispose(); } }
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 4.0
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 8.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
All members of SpinLock are thread-safe and may be used from multiple threads concurrently.


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1 room, 2 adults
Campbell House, Penang
106 Lebuh Campbell, Georgetown, Penang, Penang, 10100, Malaysia
Exceptional, kind staff and helpful im organizing private transfers. Unique one of a kind…
Hotel is located in the heart of the old section of Georgetown. This was originally a…
From 959 reviews
Campbell House, Penangfrom $76
- Deluxe Superior
- Deluxe Room
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- Duplex, 1 King Bed
- Room (Opium)
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 11 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- One child (6 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No cribs (infant beds)
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Area shuttle *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
Food and drink
- Free cooked-to-order breakfast daily
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Room service (during limited hours)
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Year Built 1903
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Rooftop terrace
- Library
In the room
Home comforts
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Espresso maker
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
Sleep well
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Turndown service
- Premium bedding
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
Things to enjoy
- Individually decorated
- Individually furnished
Freshen up
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
- Shower only
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
Be entertained
- 32-inch LCD TV
- Cable TV channels
- IPod docking station
- DVD player
Stay connected
- Free WiFi
- Phone
Food and drink
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
Also popular with travelers from the USA
Special features
DiningIL Bacaro - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Campbell House, Penang's small print
Also known as
- Campbell House Hotel
- Campbell House Hotel Penang
- Campbell House Penang
- Campbell House Penang/George Town
This property does not have elevators.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: MYR 2.00 per accommodation, per night
- A tax of MYR 10.00 per accommodation, per night is imposed by the country of Malaysia and collected at the property. Permanent residents and Malaysian nationals are exempt from the tax. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Optional extras
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of MYR 50.00 per vehicle (one-way)
Area shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
What's around Campbell House, Penang
- In Georgetown
- Camera Museum - 6 min walk
- Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi - 9 min walk
- Pinang Peranakan Mansion - 14 min walk
- Fort Cornwallis - 18 min walk
- Wat Chaiya Mangkalaram - 38 min walk
- Kidland Penang - 5 min walk
- Penang Islamic Museum - 5 min walk
Getting around
- Penang (PEN-Penang Intl.) - 27 min drive
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
Recent reviews
Exceptional 9.6 From 115 reviews
This hotel is in a great location for exploring George Town. The staff knows the area well and was able to show us several good restaurants and sights. The breakfast is delicious.
The best place to stay in Penang! A wonderfully comfortable and fun hotel. Excellent service and very comfortable, and luxurious -- in a great part of Georgetown. I wouldn't stay anywhere else.
Really enjoyed my stay here. The breakfast was great and the dinner I had in the restaurant was just as good. The Campbell house is also close to everything in Georgetown.
The campbell house is an amazing place and made our stay in Penang much better than if we had stayed anywhere else. Upon check-in we had a personal consultation with one of the owners, Nadya, about all the best things to do in Penang including restaurants, shops, temples, mansions etc. Each night there is a dessert put in your refridgerator during turn down service from the wonderful Italian restaurant that is part of the hotel, Il Bacaro. This restaurant is delicious and serves a wonderful and complimentary breakfast for guests, as well as delicious dinner and cocktails. Staying at the Campbell House was crucial to my enjoyment of visiting Penang.


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Friday, 20 May 2011
Housing: Starts up, completions down
DCLG released the
latest housing supply figures
yesterday. The news is mixed. Housing starts are up 22% (106,590 in the 12 months to 03/11) but from a very low base. Housing completions are down 7% (105,930). The fall in completions appears to reflect the sharp reduction in starts at the beginning of the recession. These numbers remain depressingly low relative to the number of completions that would be needed if England is to experience slower house price growth in the future.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
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Mr.Linky isn't working right now-I'll put it back up when it starts working again!
Totally Talented Tuesday
Mr.Linky isn't working right now-I'll put it back up when it starts working again!
7 comments:
- J. Leigh Designz said...
Haha! I totally bailed on my Thursday 13! Like the new look! You do it yourself?
- May 25, 2009 at 11:03 PM
- Angela said...
Why are you quitting?! I really enjoy seeing everyone's posts. If you want, I can take over posting the mr. linky.
- May 26, 2009 at 3:10 AM
- Emilie said...
Love the new look! Thanks for Mr Linky Dee! Bummer that you've decided to stop noew that I'm participating but I do understand!
- May 26, 2009 at 7:34 AM
- Abby said...
That stinks, but I understand. There never seemed to be a whole lot of participation. I like the new look! That can be your talent for today!
- May 26, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Tracye said...
I'm sorry you're letting it go!
I wish I had something to post every week... but I don't. This was always something I looked forward to reading.
I still like everything else you post, too!
- May 26, 2009 at 12:56 PM
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I love your new look. I love your blog. Lots of great information on here
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Mister Linky works, you need to use this code:
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Wallis Vore, D.M.A, is a prominent freelance musician in Dayton, Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky. She performs regularly with The Dayton Philharmonic, The Springfield Symphony, and The Blue Ash Symphony. Proficient on auxiliary instruments, she is often called upon to play E-flat and bass clarinet. Formerly an Artist-in-Residence and the Woodwind Coordinator at the Bay View Music Festival in Petoskey, Michigan, she currently spends her summers playing clarinet, bass clarinet, and saxophone at the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre. Dedicated to education, Dr. Vore is the clarinet instructor at the University of Dayton and maintains a full private studio throughout Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Her students perform regularly and often hold high chairs in the All-State ensembles in Kentucky and Ohio, Northern Kentucky Select Band and Wind Ensemble, Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble, and the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. She also directs the clarinet ensemble affiliated with the Tri-State Ensembles organization. Dr. Vore earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts with a cognate in Arts Administration, and Master of Music degree the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and her Bachelor of Music degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her principal teachers include Richie Hawley, Ron Aufmann, Steve Cohen, Ron deKant, and Dr. Charles West.
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I love my smartphone. It's always with me, and it does pretty much everything I need, or want, it to. It's my connection to people all over the planet thanks to social media, it's my music player, it's my camera, and it's an easy way for me to make sure that I've got a game to play without having to bring any other pieces of technology with me. Sure, sometimes I miss a GameBoy, but the majority of the time my smartphone is more than enough to make me happy.
Throughout most days, I use my phone quite a bit, but I wouldn't say that I use it all the time. If anything, it's for quick moments, like to check Twitter, or to read an email, and then it's back in my pocket or set down on a table. If I'm using my phone on a consistent basis, then it usually means that I'm using it to play music.
The trouble is, most of the things I want to use my phone to do kill the battery.
Actually, they all do.
My mom stayed away from smartphones for awhile, but when she finally came over to the light side, one of the first things she wanted to do was play a bunch of different games. That meant that she was playing whatever stock titles were on her HTC One X out of the box (she wouldn't discover the Google Play Store for a few months), so I'm assuming something like Solitaire.
But one of the things she immediately noticed is that the more she played her games, the faster her phone died. It didn't take long before she realized that if she wanted her phone to make it through a work day, she had to leave the games at home, so to speak. And so that's what she does now -- she only plays Candy Crush when she's home, and now she doesn't use her phone unless she absolutely has to when she's at work.
Essentially, that means she's stopped using her phone just to make sure that it doesn't die in the middle of the day. And, for the record, this is a tactic that's she carried over to her new phone, too (which is something from Samsung, I don't remember what she picked up).
Unless I'm listening to music on my phone, I know that I've started doing the same thing. It's been a slow process, one that's been learned over the years, but I've become accustomed to the fact that if I want to make my phone make it through the day, I've got to minimize my usage of it. So, even if I really want to just hang out on Twitter and see what's going on, I can't do that. I can check it a few times, for a few seconds, here and there, but that's about it.
And games? Well, we all know what happens then. And movies, or smaller videos all do the same thing (though, admittedly, video viewing has gotten drastically better). These awesome media consuming situations are great, and we've got more phones than ever that can really take advantage of it, but our batteries are still so lacking that sometimes using or consuming media just doesn't make it worth it.
I'm curious to know if you're the same way. Have you simply succumbed to the truth of the battery life in our phones? Or have you found a way around it? Keeping your phone plugged in at work to make sure it's always topped off? Let me know.


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My five-year-old son has had type 1 for one and a half years. His A1c has always been good. What medicine should we apply to his insulin injection sites which look like cuts and a rash?
My son also complains about pain in his lower legs. Should I give him vitamin D, calcium tablets, or something else?
I am presuming it's just a couple of scratches and no other rash. I think the most important detail is to be sure the skin is clean before the shot so any scratch doesn't have dirt in it. If it's minor, do nothing more, otherwise, cover it with maybe antibiotic ointment.
We are understanding the need for at least 400 units of vitamin D in children. They do need calcium but, hopefully, the diet - milk, yogurt, etc. - covers that.
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Hey everyone! So this week was good... and bad... but mostly good haha. So last Sunday we were able to baptize J., the brother of I., and V., who is a friend of the Bishop´s kids here. It was an awesome day. So that was my sunday and from Monday to Thursday was just working our tails off getting everything ready for Elder Mazagardi to come. We were hardly able to leave the office which is the worst! But it was all good. Yesterday was good, we had our conference with Elder Mazagardi who is a member of the 70. So the funniest thing happened yesterday. All of the missionaries were getting ready to take a big group picture when Elder Mazagardi walks in. This was the first time I had ever seen this guy. So anyways he starts talking to us and says that after the picture he wanted to shake every one of our hands and he wanted us to tell him our name and where we were from. The direct quote from him was, "I want you all to tell us what city you are from and not just the country. My wife and I know quite a few places, from big cities like New York to little tiny ones like Beaver." I heard that and was like WOOOOOO!!!!! BEAVER!!!! REPRESENT!!!! Everybody that knows me well here busted up. Everybody else was like Beaver? Where the heck is Beaver?? I couldn´t contain myself haha. Literally one of the funniest things that has happened since I´ve been here. And that´s including all the funny drunk people haha. But anyways the rest of the conference was good too ;) It was awesome and I learned a ton. After the conference we got everything cleaned up and came back to our area and left to work last night. It´s kind of a bummer because we have had like no time to visit our investigators or less actives this week so I don´t think we´ll have a baptism tomorrow unless a miracle happens. So this morning I made some bomb American pancakes for me and my comp with some homemade syrup because Brazilian people don´t know what´s good in life so they don´t have syrup. I´m working on converting them to the truth but it´s pretty tough. There´s a lot of them here haha. Anyways, they were super good. They have pancakes here but they aren´t pancakes. They´re more like crepes except they put meat and stuff inside. So this was the first time in my comp's life he´s tried a real pancake and I can tell his mind was blown. Man they blew my own mind, those were the first pancakes I´ve had in 8 months. It´s funny the little things you miss that you never thought you would haha. But that was about it for this week. I hope you all have a great week, I love you all! A igreja é verdadeira!!
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Well now all reality TV show friendships are ruined thanks to Vicki Gunvalson
More than a year after she was caught up in the scandal that was Brooks Ayers (and his fake cancer diagnosis), Vicki Gunvalson still hasn't been able to completely move on.
More: It's impossible for Vicki Gunvalson to escape relationship drama
In a new interview with In Touch Weekly, Gunvalson opened up about what it's like to be a star on The Real Housewives of Orange County and what's in store for her future for the show.
Most important, how is Gunvalson's relationship with the other women on the show now that they all realize she was in on Ayers' cancer scam and turned against her?
"I want peace," is all Gunvalson had to say about the other Housewives, adding that, not surprisingly, she and Shannon Beador still haven't made up. Beador took a real emotional beating from Gunvalson when she was the only one to try to stand by her side while Ayers was faking cancer, and Gunvalson threw her under the bus anyway.
More: Tamra Judge clearly isn't over the Vicki-Brooks saga in new harsh interview
"Shannon and I are not in a good place," Gunvalson said. "She's never going to move on from last season with Brooks and I don't know why she made it about herself."
But what is more surprising is that even her longtime friend, Tamra Judge, is out of the picture now.
"I haven't talked to Tamra in a couple of months. That's typical," she said. "She's a TV friend, nothing more."
Wait. A "TV friend?" If Gunvalson and Judge, who have always appeared to be besties on the show, aren't friends in real life, what does that mean for other reality TV BFFs? Are they all faking it for the cameras? Did Gunvalson just ruin every reality TV friendship for us? Ugh.
Despite all the drama, though, Gunvalson has no plans to leave the show.
"I think my story's not done and I think I inspire a lot of women to take control of their lives," she said.
More: Vicki Gunvalson's new boyfriend's sketchy past isn't your business
Are you surprised to hear the truth about Vicki Gunvalson's friendship with Tamra Judge?
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Carol Wayne: The Mysterious Death Of A Teenage Skating Sensation
So far in Spooktober on Skate Guard, we've had a skating bat and a murder mystery written by a figure skater. Our next chilling story proves that not all stories begin and end with figure skating. In the case of Carol Wayne, her earlier accolades as a talented young skater were eclipsed by her tragic and mysterious death in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico in 1985. As a teenager, Wayne and her sister Nina were plucked from a Chicago rink and offered contracts to tour with the Ice Capades. They were billed as The Wayne Sisters and performed a shadow skating act.
John Austin's book "More Of Hollywood's Unsolved Mysteries" shares in Carol's own words the story of her time as a figure skater: "During a polio scare many years before her death, Mrs. Wayne thought not polio germs could live in an ice rink. 'Such logic,' laughed Carol, resulted in years of ice skating lessons. 'Our grandmother made all of our clothes. We were never in fashion. We were Chinese one year, Pilgrims another, Japanese the following year. We did shadow skating, and because we were tall and had long legs and stupid ponytails, we were offered a professional contract when we were 15 and 16. Yes,' she sighed, '... neither of us finished high school. Yes,' she repeated, '...zip education!' For three years the 'nerd' Wayne sisters - Carol's expression for them - did their 42-city tour with the Ice Capades - that is, until Carol's big accident. Exhibiting a five-inch scar on her knee, Carol explained, 'Sometimes, people would unconsciously, or perhaps on purpose, throw pennies that would stick on the ice and make you fall down. It was,' she laughed '... a very unforgiving sport. When your blades hit something that wasn't meant to be, you crashed...' Like Carol did. Carol later returned to the Ice Capades to finish the tour, but it was the end of the Wayne Sisters skating career. 'When you train for something so young and become good at it as we did, you never know if that's what you were meant to do in the scheme of things of life, or if it was just because it was someone else's idea. We missed a childhood of growing up, dating, junior and senior proms and all those goodies,' she observed solemnly."
Carol on "Love American Style"
After Carol's skating career ended abruptly with injury, her and Nina got jobs as topless showgirls at
Folies Bergère in Las Vegas. They both travelled on their days off to Hollywood and auditioned for television and film roles. Carol found success in the glamorous world of show business, appearing on episodes of "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" and "I, Spy". In 1968, she appeared alongside Peter Sellers in the film "The Party" in the role of June Warren. Although she also made many appearances on The Red Skelton show, Wayne's biggest claim to fame was her role as The Matinée Lady on The Tonight Show in Johnny Carson's "Art Fern's Tea Time Movie" comedy sketches. After Wayne was replaced by Danuta Wesley, Carol's career started to dwindle and her on screen appearances were limited mostly to game shows like "Hollywood Squares" and a D list 1984 film (which would be her last) called "Heartbreakers". That same year, she filed for bankruptcy and posed in Playboy magazine. By 1984, Wayne was on her third marriage, had a son... and by all accounts, a pretty bad drug habit. Apparently Richard Pryor (who was friends with Carol) had even offered to pay for Carol's rehab, but like Amy Winehouse, it appears the answer was "no, no, no".
The circumstances surrounding her death are a bit blurry at best. We do know that she was involved with a man named Ed Durston and that they had checked into a rather posh Mexican hotel (despite her bankruptcy). On January 10, 1985, the couple checked out late and missed their flight back to the U.S. When they returned to the hotel after missing their flight, they were told there was no room at the inn and were pointed towards a less upscale hotel that had rooms. Apparently Carol wasn't interested in staying there, the couple got in a fight and Carol stormed off to take a walk on the beach. When she didn't show up in their new hotel room that night, Durston checked out and left her luggage at the airport under the impression that she would probably come by to claim it. She never did. Her fully clothed and bloated body was found in the shallow Santiago Bay three days later by a fisherman. She couldn't swim and apparently didn't like to go near the water, so the fact her body was found in shallow water was even more suspicious. Leaving many to speculate that he had come on the trip to clean up her act, no alcohol or drugs were found in her system when an autopsy was performed. Her death was eventually ruled as accidental but theories as to whether it had really been murder, suicide, an overdose or a simple case of drowning were all out there. Adding fuel to the conspiracy theories, Durston was also present in the apartment of Diane Linkletter (daughter of TV personality Art Linkletter) on the morning of her 1969 apparent suicide. Durston was however never reported to be officially a suspect in either case. U.S. Consular William LaCoque said in 1990: "Carol Wayne's death is unsolved, certainly... But I don't think it was a drowning. A drowning, yes, of course, but there is much more to it than that."
Although the stories of Wayne's fall that ended her skating career parallels in many ways her fall from grace and tragic death, the fact that her story to this day still intrigues so many is a reminder to us all that no matter what twists and turns our lives may take, our stories can and will always be remembered.
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Chip designer ARM Holdings beat second-quarter expectations helped by demand for its latest processors and graphics technology.
In the first set of results since Simon Segars took over as chief executive from Warren East on July 1, the Cambridge-based company reported pre-tax profit of £86.6m on revenue up 26 per cent £171.2m, both ahead of forecasts.
ARM has outpaced the wider semiconductor market for the past five years or so, helped by the dominance of its processor architecture in smartphones and tablet computers.
There had been some signs of softness at the top end of the smartphone market, marked by weaker than expected sales of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone, but Apple came to the rescue comfortably beating forecasts for iPhone sales yesterday (see other story).
Finance Director Tim Score said today that he expects the smartphone market to remain strong, though the 50 per cent-plus growth rates of recent years are easing down.
But ARM does not rely on the top end of the market, Score said. "All smartphones contain more ARM technology than less sophisticated phones and therefore generate higher royalties."
ARM said its partners signed 25 licences for its technology in the quarter, including five for its latest Cortex-A designs and seven for its Mali graphics technology.
Processor design licensing revenue rose 34 per cent year on year to £56.9m, comfortably beating market expectations. Analysts at Liberum expected 18.7 per cent growth.
The company has been increasing its share of the graphics processing market, and yesterday Samsung said it had selected Mali for its latest high-end processor, ousting rival Imagination Technologies.
Royalties from chips shipped by partners, such as Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, reported a quarter in arrears, rose 26 per cent year-on-year to £77.7m, broadly in line with expectations.
ARM reiterated its guidance for full-year revenue to at least meet market expectations and Score said he expects analyst consensus to rise after the second-quarter results.
Analysts expected the company to report pre-tax profit of £82.5m on revenue of £165m for the quarter, according to a company-supplied consensus.


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Every now and then we get emails, or comments on the blog, from people who are trying to remember a book title based on fragments of information about: the story, characters, or cover. Often it's a book from their childhood and they can only remember a few details. If you have been in this situation it is very frustrating but all hope is not lost. I've got a few tips for you.
To start I'm going to assume that you have already tried plugging the info you know into BookFinder.com, this is one of the instances where keyword search is useful. Author and title are more accurate but keyword is a bit more of a catch all.
This is great if you can remember a bit of the title, or another key detail but when all you can remember is that "there's this cute puppy that's lost his mittens, and the story is set at Christmas" a little more help is in order.
Rely on the kindness of strangers:
Several of our bookselling partners have areas of their websites dedicated to this exact problem. AbeBooks BookSleuth, Amazon's Askville, and Barnes & Noble Book Clubs: Lost Books are all good places to start. These are simple forums where other users play name that book. AbeBooks also has a similar feature called GiftSleuth where you can enter likes and dislikes of friends and family and readers can all blurt out book suggestions which they think might be appropriate for future birthdays and what not. This however is a different kettle of fish.
Internet Search Engine:
If you happen to know a detail that is unique about the book: a quote, a main characters name, or a key detail you can plug this information into your favourite search engine and could possibly be rewarded. Since Google started scanning books this has become even more powerful. You can also do a similar type of search on Amazon itself.
Seek professional help:
When in doubt seek professional help, and by this I mean you local independent bookseller. Booksellers hang around thousands of books every day for years on end and in doing so they tend to pick up a few tidbits here and there. Depending on how much you actually remember about the book (and the booksellers specialty) these literary angels can often pull off miraculous feats; librarians, also VERY helpful.
If anyone else has some good tips feel free to post them in the comments section and I will try and add some more to this post as we come up with other good ideas.
Happy hunting.


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We at Jefferson State Community College, along with the Boy Scouts of America, are excited to offer an informative and fun learning experience for high school students like you interested in the field of hospitality and culinary arts.
Exploring is a part of the Learning for Life career education program for young men and women in high school. The Boy Scouts of America began this program to not only educate young people about career opportunities, but also to teach them about making ethical choices in order to achieve their full potential as individuals. Therefore, we will not only be chopping, cooking and baking; we will also be dining with proper etiquette, setting goals, and delving into conflict resolution.
We hope you are as excited about this opportunity as we are and we invite you to always feel free to call or email us outside of class sessions with questions or concerns. We look forward to getting to know you and teaching you about the exciting field of Culinary Arts.
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