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Exciting news from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of State (DOS) this week. The agencies announced that beginning with the visa bulletin effective October 1, 2015, USCIS will accept for filing I-485 applications to adjust status to Permanent Resident according to a separate filing date chart.
How does this new chart work?
This new filing date chart will be published in DOS's Visa Bulletin alongside the usual chart outlining which Priority Dates are current and therefore eligible for adjudication that month. This change applies to both Family Based ("FB") and Employment Based ("EB") immigrant visa cases. The adjudication of all I-485 applications will still be subject to the same per country and per category quotas, and therefore backlogs for those oversubscribed countries and categories.
USCIS and DOS believe that this dual- "Date for Filing"/ "Final Action Date" chart system will make for more accurate calculation of those cases in the pipeline and of the resulting cut-off dates.
What Does This Mean for Me?
If your Priority Date is before the date in the relevant category on the new "Dates for Filing"/ "B" Priority Date Chart, then you will be able to file your I-485 adjustment of status application with USCIS, along with applications for any dependents, travel authorization, and employment authorization. However, processing on your adjustment of status application will not commence until your priority date is on or later than the date listed on the "Application Final Action Date" (Chart A)
For example, beginning October 1, those chargeable to India with approved EB-2 (employment-based, second preference) I-140 petitions and their qualified dependents may file I-485 applications if they have a Priority Date earlier than July 1, 2011, even though adjudication of such an I-485 in October requires a Priority Date earlier than May 1, 2005. See charts A and B, below:
Chart A "Final Action Date" Excerpt from the Department of State website:
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Chart B "Filing Date" Excerpt:
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This new policy should provide some relief to those facing daunting backlogs in the adjustment of status process.
Click here to see the October Visa Bulletin and view the full charts with explanations from the Department of State.


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El Mirador has been one of San Antonio's most beloved Mexican restaurants since 1968. Authentic dishes from Guanajuato and Nuevo Leon have earned kudos from The New York Times, Esquire magazine and the Food Network.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner, El Mirador serves locals and visitors classic cooking that many consider the best Mexican food in a city famous for Mexican food.
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LOUIS VUITTON REVERSED MONOGRAM CAMERA BOX BAGCategories:Louis Vuitton
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the cutest of them all? Well well well, it's the newest Louis Vuitton Reversed Monogram Camera Box Bag!
The perfect feminine day-to-evening small bag companion, this one pairs easily with most looks. With its cute size and overall look, this camera box bag deserves another feature.
Made from Monogram & Monogram reverse canvas exterior with microfiber lining, this latest addition from the Fall/Winter 2016 Collection is our favorite! It features a Toron top handle for easy hand carrying, golden coloured metallic pieces, and a studded top & bottom with metallic brackets.
It features the Signature lock closure that we absolutely love! Its removable adjustable leather strap is also functional and practical. Taking a look inside, it has an inside flat pocket.
Measuring 11 x 15 x 8 (L x H x W) cm and is priced $3950 USD, $4850 AUD, $32500 HKD, ¥465480 JPY
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CELINE EXOTIC CLASSIC BOX BAGCategories:Other Brands
What is the best advice for beginners in designer fashion? Well, stick with the classics. And there is enough reason why – classics are time-tested, they're expensive today but even more expensive in the future, the design matches almost to any occasions,
Now, the Celine Classic Box Bag is unquestionable one of the most classic bag ever existed because it has a long history. Though today's version is updated by Phoebe Philo when she was appointed as the creative director in 2008, but the original elements are still there – like the metal buckle on the front that remind us of 1970's bags.
Everyone loves the Celine Classic Box Bag, but to separate yours from the rest, grab one that is made with exotic leather. We have selected three pieces – one in python, one in galuchat and one in Lizard. So which one is your favorite style?
Celine Classic Box Bag in Lizard is priced around €4800 euro, the Galuchat is priced around €4200 euro, Python is priced around €4000 euro.
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GIVENCHY GALUCHAT PANDORA BOX BAGCategories:Other Brands
Looking for a purse that spells femininity all over it but without going overboard? Well, look no further as Givenchy's Galuchat Pandora Box is just the perfect bag accessory for that no-frills Saturday movie date with your special someone or Sunday wine and cheese moment with your city girl friends. One that perfectly complements your outfit without stealing your overall style, this bag just screams elegance and sophistication in all angles. Made from smooth leather with a chain link shoulder strap, who wouldn't love to brag this bag as you stroll along the busy streets in your chic ensemble?
Okay, let me give you the most basic lowdown about this sleek bag: It has a fold-over flap top with push-lock closure that is ideal for easy access whenever you need to grab your car key or smartphone. It also has a dimension of 7"W x 6.25" H x 4"D, an ideal size to stow your essentials such as wallet, keys, phone, lipstick, and even your small-sized perfume. Oh, did we forget to mention that it comes in a lovable and delightful old rose tone? Yes, say hello to girly girl feelings whenever you use this compact bag! Priced at 4245 euro via Elyse Walker.
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DIOR PINK SATIN EMBROIDERED CD BOX CLUTCH BAGCategories:Other Brands
The new Dior CD Box is going to rock the fashion world. Last time we talked about the single colors in black and pink. Today we're going to present a clutch that's more sophisticated.
READ: Dior CD Box Clutch with Chain
If the evening is too important to fail, you will need a companion that is going to help you stand-out and steal the show. Obviously, your dress and shoes matters, but its always the bag that makes everything perfect – it's the finishing touch.
Covered in the color we love – pink and satin, with sophisticated design, embroidered with sequins, its gorgeous, it's beautiful, it's to-die-for.
Every girl should own at least one of these bags in their wardrobe. These are weapons on standby-mode, always ready for special occasions.
The signature of Dior is put on the side-metal and it comes with a shoulder chain. Measuring 17 x 11.5 x 4.5 cm, price is unknown. Run to the nearest Dior boutique for more information.
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CHANEL CLASSIC QUILTED LUGGAGE BOX FLAP BAGCategories:Other Brands
Oh my, what is this?
We've seen many variations of the Classic Flap Bag – we've seen them in drawstring, bucket and even in packaging tray version. But this is something new and I love it.
Everything you'd expect from the Classic Flap Bag, it's all there (we mean the bag on the top of course) – Quilted, CC logo and the Woven Chain strap. The interior is going to be roomy, so it's certain that you will not be disappointed.
Now for the fun part, Chanel added a luggage box on the bottom of the bag (or a cosmetic case). Though it does make the bag little bit heavier, but isn't it perfect to use as a travel bag. The extra space will help you add more stuff (if you love this), and not only more stuff but also bigger stuff.
You can carry this bag on your shoulder or over your shoulder. We do not know the price or the style code. But we do know it's a new bag from this season, so ask your SA for more information.
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DIOR CD BOX CLUTCH WITH CHAINCategories:Other Brands
I am excited to share with you, a new clutch bag with chain by Dior – The Dior CD Box Clutch Bag. Whether it's a clutch or Wallet on Chain, you will love it anyway because it's a gorgeous mini bag. Sling it around your shoulder on your way to club or diner with friends.
How to describe this bag? Elegant, super-chic, drop-dead-gorgeous? Did I exaggerate the terms? Nah, take a closer look please and let's start with the front.
The craftsmanship is superior, the material is satin – a smooth, glossy fabric that makes everything so luxurious. The front of the clutch appears like a front-flap, you love flaps right? You can see the carefully stitched detailing on the front – everything is so perfect.
Now for more wonders!
When you move to the sides, you will see something magical. It's refined with silver-tone metal and the CD signature (which stands for Christian Dior) is embellished with pink-gold metal. Now, we know how much we love 'pink' gold right?
The sides truly adds the final touch – it reveals itself as a modern shoulder bag while the front is designed with traditional elements from the House of Dior. The interior is attractive as well, as you will find one large compartment to drop all your evening essentials.
The chain is great, but when you one to change the Dior CD Box Bag into a full-time clutch bag, simply remove the chains. It's as easy as that.
Now in two colors – black and pink. At Dior boutique, you might find more shades. Measuring 20 x 13 x 4.5 cm, priced at €1450 euro or £1150 GBP.


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Bridgeport Elementary School
Bridgeport, New York
2015 National School of Character
Bridgeport Elementary School (BE) is a K-5 school on the edge of Oneida Lake and is a proud member of the Chittenango Central School District. Our school, which started as a dream, has a rich history of family and community support. In the late 1800's, students walked to many one room school houses along NY State Rt. 31. During the 1940's, "The Mothers"™ Club, a group of dedicated local mothers, campaigned for one school in which all K-6 students could come together and receive a quality education. In 1952, their dream became a reality with the opening of our school. From the conception of BE to present time, our families and community strive to continue this dream of educating our students both in academics and strong moral values so that they become productive citizens of the 21st century. Although our school is diverse in regards to our socioeconomic makeup, our community realizes each student has a voice and is important to our school. Our students know they are cared for and supported at school no matter what they may face in their day to day lives. The 11 Principles from CEP are a wonderful resource for us at BE. The process of filling out this application has helped us to articulate and reflect on what we do each day to build a caring school community. Character Education (CE) at BE has been strengthened and we continue to carry on the legacy of "The Mothers"™ Club, ensuring that every student at BE has the quality education of which they once dreamed.
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Penland's Furniture
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Penland's Furniture is located in beautiful Swannanoa, North Carolina. It still continues to be the best furniture store in Western North Carolina. Founded by Oliver and Ruth Penland in 1972, the company got its start as a modest knick knacks and rocking chair store. Under the vision and direction of Penland's owners, Penland's has flourished in becoming one of the highest consumer rated furniture stores in Western North Carolina. Penland's Furniture success is attributed from their vision of "Striving to provide customers with the best furniture at the absolute best price!" For nearly 40 years Penland's has been successful in doing such and so the stream of satisfied customers continues to grow. At Penland's, we are dedicated to our customer's experience to be enjoyable, memorable, unique, and to provide the highest level of customer service possible.
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Bowling Green State University's Lukas Craggs, shown earlier this season against Wilfrid Laurier, earned national honors from NCAA hockey this week. He and the Falcons play an important series at Northern Michigan this weekend.
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BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green State University hockey team has picked a good time to get hot.
The Falcons will take a four-game winning streak into an important Western Collegiate Hockey Association series at Northern Michigan on Friday and Saturday. And BG coach Chris Bergeron said the factors behind his team's recent success are obvious.
"Sports are about momentum and confidence," he said. "Right now we have both, but I believe we have earned both and deserve both."
Bowling Green's recent hot streak came after arguably its most disappointing defeat. The Falcons, ranked No. 14 nationally, looked to burnish their credentials for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament when they hosted Western Michigan at the Slater Family Ice Arena on Dec. 28.
Instead the Falcons gave up four goals in the first 14 minutes of a 5-2 loss.
"We didn't compete at the level of an at-large national playoff team," Bergeron said. "That game got us back into 'game' mode. We had been off for two weeks [for the holidays], and you just can't simulate game mode. ...
"It certainly wasn't the result we were looking for, but we were able to pick ourselves up and not let that result affect anything beyond that night."
From there, Bowling Green rang in the new year with a 6-4 victory over Michigan and a 4-1 win over Michigan Tech to win the Great Lakes Invitational at Detroit's Little Caesars Arena. And that momentum carried over into a WCHA series at Ferris State that began with a four-goal third-period outburst in a 6-3 victory in Saturday's first game.
When asked if the Great Lakes Invitational victories gave his team momentum entering the weekend, Bergeron said, "If you would have asked me before the games at Ferris State, I would have said, 'How can there not be?' We had two really good days of practice after the GLI — and how could you not?
"We had a lot of pucks go into the net in the GLI, and we haven't been a juggernaut all year long. We scored six and four goals in Detroit, and then we scored six the first night at Ferris."
The Falcons finished the weekend with a 3-0 victory over the Bulldogs. That improved BG's season record to 12-6-6 and gave the Falcons 34 points in WCHA play thanks to a 9-2-5-2 mark.
With the sweep of Ferris State, Bowling Green took over sole possession of second place in the WCHA from this week's opponent, Northern Michigan. The Wildcats, who were picked to finish seventh in the 10-team league in the preseason, instead are third with 31 points thanks to a 9-5-2-2 league record and are 11-10-3 overall.
"With this new WCHA playoff style, we know there's a huge difference between second and third place: [It determines whether] second-round games are played at home or on the road," Bergeron said.
Although both teams will have 10 more league games after this weekend, Bergeron said he and his team realize this is an important weekend.
"I know our guys pay attention to [the standings]," he said. "If we want to be a marquee team and be one of the best teams in the WCHA, we have to go through Northern Michigan to do it.
"We're not putting any extra onus on this game, but this weekend matters."
NOTES: Junior forward Joe McKeown has left the BG program. McKeown had one assist in three games this season after posting one goal and three points in 20 games last season. ... Sophomore forward Lukas Craggs was named national "first star of the week" by NCAA Hockey for his play last week. Craggs was named MVP of the Great Lakes Invitational thanks to two goals and three assists in two games, and he added two goals and an assist in the sweep at Ferris State.
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Top Ten TV Shows To Watch This June
In keeping up with our mission to monitor shows and keep you abreast of day to day events, here are the Top ten TV shows to watch this June as compiled by BBC.
I'm Dying Up Here (Credit: Credit: Showtime)
I'm Dying Up HereExploring a golden era in stand-up when many of today's biggest comedians got their start, I'm Dying Up Here details the struggles of making it big in the famous Los Angeles comedy clubs of the 1970s. Based on a non-fiction book and exec produced by Jim Carrey, this dramedy features Melissa Leo as Goldie, a tough-as-nails club owner who runs the place to be for every up-and-coming comic. The next stop for the lucky ones is the holy grail of comedy success – five minutes on Johnny Carson's stage. Premieres 4 June on Showtime (Credit: Showtime)
Orange is the New Black (Credit: Credit: Netflix)
Orange is the New BlackWhen we last saw the show's protagonist Piper Chapman and the inmates of Litchfield, the penitentiary had descended into chaos as a riot broke out after a the shocking death of a much-loved character. Picking up where we left off and set over three days, season five takes us back to that contentious moment in the prison's halls, where decisions made will forever affect those inside, and outside the gates. Premieres 9 June on Netflix (Credit: Netflix)
Orphan Black (Credit: Credit: BBC America)
Orphan BlackThe fate of the clone sisterhood will be revealed in the fifth and final season of the sci-fi thriller starring Tatiana Maslany, Tatiana Maslany, Tatiana Maslany, Tatiana Maslany… and Tatiana Maslany. The show focuses on the character of Sarah Manning, who assumes the identify of a doppelgänger after witnessing her jump to her death. She learns that someone is plotting to kill her and her clone sisters and is now set for an epic conclusion. For the last time – send in the clones! Premieres 10 June on BBC America (Credit: BBC America)
The Loch (Credit: Credit: ITV)
The LochThe haunting shores of Scotland's most famous body of water becomes the atmospheric setting for a six-part drama searching for a real-life monster that lurks within a tight-knit community. When a man is found at the foot of Carn Mohr Mountain and a human heart on Loch Ness's shore, normal life is shattered as the search for a serial killer becomes a matter of life and death for local detective Annie Redford (The Missing's Laura Fraser) who is trying to cope with her first murder case. Premieres 11 June on ITV and 19 June on Acorn TV (Credit: ITV)
Claws (Credit: Credit: TNT)
ClawsClaws follows the rise of five treacherous manicurists working at a Florida salon that launders money for the Dixie Mafia. Niecy Nash stars as diva salon owner Desna, who lives with her autistic brother but dreams of a better life for the two of them and an upscale location for her crew. Can Claws give us the female anti-hero we've been waiting for since Walter White proclaimed "I am the one who knocks"? It won't hurt the association that Breaking Bad's Dean Norris puts his villainous acting chops to the test as Uncle Daddy, a dangerous bisexual crime boss. Premieres 11 June on TNT (Credit: TNT)
Riviera (Credit: Credit: Sky Atlantic)
RivieraJulia Styles, Iwan Rheon and Adrian Lester star in a slick tale giving us a peek into the lives of the filthy rich. Set against the backdrop of the south of France, Styles plays Georgina, the wife of a billionaire philanthropist who dies in a yacht explosion. Soon after, Georgina discovers the man she thought she knew was living something of a double-life. Fans of The Night Manager's beautiful settings and morally dubious characters might just have found their favourite new obsession. Premieres 15 June on Sky Atlantic (Credit: Sky Atlantic)
The Mist (Credit: Credit: Spike)
The MistBased on Stephen King's 1980 chiller, The Mist is another adaptation of the popular tale after Frank Darabont's 2007 big screen version. The series focuses on a small-town family torn apart by a brutal crime, and while they deal with the fallout, an eerie fog rolls in which cuts them off from the world. Should we take on the unknown horrors outside or trust the people locked in with us? We'll have to wait until the weather clears to find out. Premieres 22 June on Spike (Credit: Spike)
Glow (Credit: Credit: Netflix)
GlowIn the mid-80s heyday of professional wrestlers like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, a low-budget cable TV show launched a female wrestling league, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (Glow), featuring actors, models and dancers with big hair, over-the-top gags and body slams. Three decades later, the saga of those women has become a fictionalised comedy-drama series starring Alison Brie (Mad Men) as an out-of-work actress taking on wrestling in a last-ditch effort to keep her career alive. Marc Maron plays the bitter, cocaine-addled B-movie director who begrudgingly takes on Glow in the hope it will finance his dream project. Premieres 23 June on Netflix (Credit: Netflix)
Preacher (Credit: Credit: AMC)
PreacherSeth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's gleefully bloody adaptation of the comic book franchise follows Dominic Cooper as criminal-turned-clergyman Jesse Custer – granted extraordinary powers by a mysterious entity which has taken up residence in his body – as he teams up on a mission to find God with his ex Tulip (Ruth Negga) and his best mate, Irish vagabond vampire Cassidy (Josphen Gilgun). In the second season, expect the action to ramp up as the trio leave Texas behind to go on an epic road trip, into a battle spanning heaven, hell and everywhere in between. Premieres 25 June on AMC and 26 June on Amazon Prime Video (Credit: AMC)
Cardinal (Credit: Credit: Hulu)
CardinalIf you haven't quite found a bleak enough murder-mystery to fill the void left after The Killing, a Canadian adaptation of the first of Giles Blunt's John Cardinal Mysteries series of books might just be up your dimly-lit street. Set in a beautiful winter landscape, Cardinal follows detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) and Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse) as they join forces to hunt down a serial killer in a small Northern Ontario town. Premieres in the UK on 3 June on BBC Four and in the US on 16 June on Hulu (Credit: Hulu).
Don't miss out on these top ten TV shows to watch this June.


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Please visit www.floydvirginialodging.com
At the Sanctuary
Camping: We have 6 campsites available at the Sanctuary. We offer a bath-house, a fire pit (firewood provided), a sink to wash dishes, picknick tables and a beautiful view. Camping at the Sanctuary is available to workshop participants only. Please read our Camping Rules for all the details.
Fee: $ 15.00 /night.
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In and around the town of Floyd
Floyd Eco-Village – Creekside Camp / floydecovillage.com / 6 minutes / 11 miles
Rocky Knob Campground On the Blue Ridge Parkway/ 26 minutes away/ 17 miles
Chantilly Farm / close by / not sure of availability outside scheduled events
Hotels & Lodges:
Hotel Floyd / in town / beautiful rooms / check out the Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary room, designed by Vivian! / http://www.hotelfloyd.com
Oak Haven Lodge / in town
Bent Mountain Lodge Bed & Breakfast / bentmountainlodgebedandbreakfast.com 20 minutes from Sanctuary/ 14 miles
Floyd Yurt Lodging / 3 minutes from town
Pine Tavern Lodge Rentals / 15 minutes from the Sanctuary
The Cottage on Main / 15 minutes from Sanctuary
Green man Inn / in town
Floyd Eco-Village – Wilderness Cabins / floydecovillage.com / 6 minutes / 11 miles
Stone Barn Inn thestonebarninnfloydvirginia.com Very good 24 minutes from Sanctuary 10 miles
Oakdale Guest Cottage Nice / 11 miles from Floyd, I mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway
Meadows of Dan Cabins For Rv's, Camping and cabins/50 minutes away/34.42 miles
Fairy Stone Park / 44 minutes away / 30 miles/ Has a lake for swimming and boating
Blue Ridge Real Estate blueridgerealestate.net / find cabins for rental
Cabins off the Parkway cabinsofftheparkway.com
Ambrosia Farm Bed & Breakfast ambrosiafarm.net / very good/ rustical/ wonderful people/ they support our work at the Sanctuary/ 23 minutes/ 16 miles
Bella La Vita Inn bellalavitainn.com beautiful/ 19 minutes / 13 miles
Little River Bed & Breakfast little-river-bedandbreakfast.com / 21 minutes/ 14 miles
Stoney Meadow Inn Bed & Breakfast stoneymeadowinn.com 13 minutes/ 7 miles
Mountain Song Inn mountainsonginn.com excellent, but long driving/ 40 minutes/ 26 miles


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Machineers is a construction puzzle game with quirky robots and wonderful machines. It is your job to repair broken contraptions and build your own mechanical inventions with your toolbox full of gears, belts, cables and plenty of other parts.
Help out the townsfolk by repairing their machines: the DJ machine, a coin-operated crane, and a mechanical arcade machine, and many more. After mastering the skills of a true Machineer, get ready for your next challenge: build yourself a vehicle and drive it to River City!
"Machineers is beautiful." - Kill Screen
"Machineers turns you into a robot repairman, then boggles your brainbox with puzzles." - Pocket Gamer
"Machineers is a charming puzzle game unlike anything before it: you feel like you've learned something valuable every time you solve a puzzle." - Rami Ismail, Vlambeer (Developer of Ridiculous Fishing)
"The soundtrack in Machineers is some of the best tinkering music I've heard in a long time." Daniel Rosenfeld/C418, producer of the music for Minecraft
"I hadn't heard about Machineers until today, but now I'm an abject fan." - David Helgason, Unity
"Machineers is one of the most inventive games I have played." - Lorenzo M.
"I have never paid money for an app before, but for this, I will." - Alexandra Jordan
WINNER of Best Game for Purpose at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Science, 2013
WINNER of Best Student Game at Serious Games Showcase & Challenge, 2012
> 12 beautiful, handcrafted, and challenging puzzle machines
> Puzzle sandbox mode for infinite possibilities to create vehicles
> First of five episodes plays in an amusement park with ferris wheel, miniature train set, arcade and many other fascinating machines.
> Cloud Save: Save your game state across all your devices
Machineers will be released episodically. There are five episodes, or "cities" on the way, and each city contains 12 puzzles. Every episode will let the player build a specific vehicle. Episode one is all about cars. From there, boats, hot air balloons, rocket ships, finally a teleporter.
Episode 1: TIVOLI TOWN *Available NOW*
Episode 2: RIVER CITY *Available in January 2015*
Episode 3: HILLTOP VILLAGE *Available in summer 2015*
Episode 4: THE NIMBUS ISLANDS *Release date TBA*
Episode 5: PLANET H.206 *Release date TBA*
Future episodes will be available via In-App Purchases.
What's New
Minor bug fixes
Require 4.0 and Up & File Size 275mb
how to install
Install Apk
copy the "com.Lohika.Machineers" Folder to SD Card/android/obb
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After weeks and weeks of miserable weather finally got a nice day, up nice and early to spend the day with the car. Started off by mixing BH auto foam (300ml), BH surfex HD (100ml) and BH auto wash (10ml). Rinsed the car with a pressure washer and applied foam mixture through a snow foam lance, left for 10mins until foam mixture ran off and rinsed off the vehicle.
Washed the car using 2BM with Meguiar's Lambswool wash mitt and BH auto wash, rinsed and dried. Applied BH Korrosol to affected areas and tough stains agitated where necessary, washed off and dried with meguiars water magnet drying towel.
Washed wheels using BH auto wheel waited for the product to do its thing agitated where necessary, rinsed wheels and they were left spotless.
With a fresh bucket filled with Meguiar's gold class shampoo soaked the farecla G3 clay mitt, wet the car using a pressure washer, shampoo applied with soft side of mitt and then reversed to carry out the clay, repeated process doing one panel at time until whole car was done including the windows, rinsed and dried.
Although the clay mitt done a decent job the car was not as smooth as I wanted. Went onto clay the car using BH auto clay (Soft) with Meguiar's gold class quick detailer as a lubricant, car now smooth as glass and ready for the next step.
Went round the car using BH cleanser polish doing one panel at a time buffed off now ready for the waxing. Final part of the paintwork protection applied a coat BH finis wax.
Cleaned windows using Meguiar's perfect clarity glass cleaner and protected with a coat of Rain X rain repellent.
Alloys wheels waxed using Meguiar's deep crystal step3 carnauba wax puts a nice shine on the alloys and sealed with Autoglym alloy wheel seal. Finally sprayed on Meguiars hot shine tyre spray to bring the tyres up.
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Like many college players, Jeff Bridich dreamed of a career as a professional baseball player. That dream was never fulfilled, but Bridich found an outlet for his love of the game, first working for Major League Baseball before joining the Colorado Rockies.
Bridich was named the Rockies' senior vice president and general manager in October 2014, a decade after joining the organization.
Like many college players, Jeff Bridich dreamed of a career as a professional baseball player. That dream was never fulfilled, but Bridich found an outlet for his love of the game, first working for Major League Baseball before joining the Colorado Rockies.
Bridich was named the Rockies' senior vice president and general manager in October 2014, a decade after joining the organization.
MLB.com sat down with Bridich at Salt River Fields during the final days of Spring Training to discuss his career, why signing a shortstop/outfielder to be the Rockies' new first baseman was a good idea, and why Nolan Arenado may be one of the game's most anonymous superstars.
MLB.com: You caught and played outfield at Harvard, where you were a captain as a senior. How did your playing experience in college help you as you moved into a front-office career?
Bridich: (Laughs.) The ability to understand struggle and disappointment and having to persevere. Being a very average college player and having to do that at the same time as trying to achieve academically at a very challenging institution, there were a lot of life lessons in there. A lot of good things, too, though. Back then, we had a very good program and we were accustomed to winning a lot. Whether it was winning the league and going on to play in the NCAAs or beating bigger programs, that had become part of who we were at that time period.
Being able to see that and experience that was just important for me. How that translates to the front office, I think a couple different ways. It's funny, we didn't really think about baseball front office back then; the dream was to play. As I look back at it now, some of the things that I learned purely about the game -- and especially about pitching and some of the intricacies of that -- I came from the Midwest and we played a lot of baseball, but we didn't play certainly as much baseball as the guys on the West Coast, the guys down in Texas or the guys down in Florida, so there were a lot of things that I had to learn. I did that in college, and I hope that those things stuck with me in terms of what is important to create winning baseball.
MLB.com: You worked in the Commissioner's Office for four years. Did you think at any point during that time that you might have a career working for Major League Baseball?
Bridich: In four years there, if you're paying attention, you get a pretty good understanding of what that means: life in the Commissioner's Office and the landscape there. Granted, it's changed a lot -- I left at the end of '04 -- over the last 12, 13 years there. It's grown, it's expanded, and in ways, multiplied.
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MLB.com: There's a new guy at the top.
Bridich: Absolutely, a new leader. It's not the same place necessarily that it was back then. The way that I looked at it probably after three years there, I kind of knew that my expectations for myself, my hopes and dreams for myself if I was going to stay in this industry, probably were not going to be able to be met in the Commissioner's Office.
I started to brainstorm. What's the future? Where do I want to live? At that time back then, about to get engaged to be married to my college sweetheart; where did we want to live? Where do we want to raise a family? That certainly played into it, but also career-wise, what's the goal here? Some of it was needing, desiring and feeling a draw towards the competitiveness of baseball, which is kind of tamped down in the Commissioner's Office to a certain degree.
You get an unbelievable broad perspective on the industry, you make a lot of contacts and you meet a lot of people, and you're potentially dealing with a lot of different things, but you don't have that daily ownership, that daily competitive outlet that you do with a club. I felt like I needed that if I was going to try to continue in this industry. Then I was running a parallel course; other guys going elsewhere and then coming into the industry, I was, "If I can't stay in this game, if an opportunity with a club is not in the offing for me, then I am going to go back to school and get an MBA somewhere."
MLB.com: What did you learn most from Dan O'Dowd?
Bridich: We spent a long time together, so there were a lot of things. If you ask me the one thing, I think the scope of the job. The responsibility that you feel to the organization at large, it's not easy. The scope is large. It's a people game and there are a lot of people involved. The more intimate connections you can develop with those people over time or try to maintain over time, it can be key to how well your organization does.
The other thing is Dan was always pushing the envelope, trying to make sure that people weren't sitting on their laurels or being comfortable. He always wanted to try to push you into a zone of uncomfortableness, for lack of a better word, and that was to grow; to grow the organization, to grow you as an individual. I think he did that well.
MLB.com: Did you always envision he would become a big TV star one day?
Bridich: (Laughs.) I can't say that I did. But I can't claim that I have an eye for TV talent.
MLB.com: I read an interview recently where you said you try to learn from the way some NFL teams operate, including your hometown Packers. Paul DePodesta made the jump from baseball to football and has been the chief strategy officer for the Browns for the last 14 or 15 months. Do you think this could become a trend? Or do you think he's a unique case?
Bridich: I don't know. A trend? He's certainly seemingly the first to do it and make that jump. There are a lot of shared skills among the different major sports industries. There are a lot of shared experiences in terms of the types of decisions you have to make, how you have to prepare yourself to make decisions. But there are also a huge host of differences, too. There's a lot of uniqueness when you start to compare the sports industries to each other.
Not speaking for Paul, but I would imagine there was a pretty good learning curve for him, initially. He's an incredibly intelligent human being, so I imagine he equipped himself quite well pretty quickly to some of those things he had to learn. It wouldn't necessarily shock me, but it's tough to say one person is a trend. I think everybody has got their eye to seeing how this goes. The Browns are an interesting case study, anyway, regardless of Paul's involvement or not. They're uniquely situated right now in a lot of different ways to take some huge steps and make a lot of growth. It will be interesting to see what happens.
MLB.com: Do you think Statcast™ is making fans look at the game differently?
Bridich: Probably, but aren't we all? Cable television is changing; everybody is watching games on their phone or their iPads, streaming this, streaming that. Without getting into specifics, just generally the way that people are watching sports now -- it's not just baseball -- is changing. Some of that has to do with the changing landscape of television, some of it has to do with technology advances. The ease of which now we have access to very specific and immediate data points -- in-game, real-time -- it's absolutely changing it.
Some of it is great. Some of it is a lot of fun to watch. When they replay a guy making a diving catch in the gap and they can show you where he started and show you the exact path he took to get to the ball, yeah, it's kind of cool. It's understandable that fans would get excited about those things. It's purely a guess, but I would guess that those sorts of things are here to stay. I don't think they're going to revert back to 1980s grainy television watching baseball, football or basketball. I think those things are here to stay.
MLB.com: You signed Ian Desmond to play first base for a $70 million contract despite the fact that he has never played an inning there before. What made you believe that was a good fit?
Bridich: A few different things. One was just, you brought up the position. Positionally, he was never pushed out of the infield. His opportunity last year for playing time and for a contract on a very good team was the outfield, and he took it and ran with it. In short order, he became their starting center fielder, which is not an easy thing or a simple thing to do. In talking to him about that, in discussing how that all went down and the work that he put into it, it wasn't just some happy accident. The work that he put into it was huge; the belief that he had in himself, that he was going to be able to do it with no problem, go from shortstop to center field, and he did it.
Video: Bridich on decision to add Desmond as first baseman
The way that he talked about first base in that way, the understanding that he had of the importance of the position as it relates to a high-functioning infield, that it's not just some throwaway defensive spot, that his ability to remember the very talented defensive first baseman that he had played with -- and the less-than-talented defensive first basemen that he had played with -- and how that changed how the whole operation worked infield-wise over the course of a long season. There's a lot of other things, as well, that went into it.
There was just a sense of confidence that this was not going to be that big of a deal for this guy and we're going to be fully committed and on the same page together to make sure that he becomes the very best first baseman he can. He's a plus athlete at the age of 30-31; he's a very good athlete, he moves very well, and we felt like his athleticism and his versatility positionally once he did learn the position was going to be a great fit. Right-handed bat, a power bat.
If you look at the last few years of his career, some interesting situations -- going from Washington to Texas, playing different positions -- he still produced offensively. Adding all of that to what we felt was already a very talented offensive and defensive group, was going to be a plus. Now we didn't think he would break his hand being hit by a pitch; it's unfortunate, but all of those things combined, it seemed like a good decision for us.
MLB.com: A team in your position might have surveyed the free-agent landscape, thought about him and said, "We have a shortstop, we have a center fielder," and moved on. Do you often try to think outside the box when looking at players?
Bridich: I think this was a good example of good conversation and good brainstorming with our front office along with Buddy Black, trying to be true to the vision that we had for this team moving forward. We felt like Ian fit that vision as long as certain things, certain conditions were met about making sure the transition for him to first base went well. Commitment to the work involved in the winter time -- everybody; Ian, me, Buddy, our coaches -- and mapping that out, knowing that we were going to have time if we could sign him to create first base for him.
As long as we were going to commit to each other, create a plan and actually execute that plan; if we were going to, for lack of a better term, half-ass it, or any piece of that puzzle was not going to be fully in, then it would have given us major pause. The fact that everybody was fully on board and fully committed to it, we went out and did it. Whether it's out of the box or not, I don't know. We felt like we saw a person, a player and an athlete that was a good fit, and if we could get everybody on the same page and execute this plan, it was going to be a great fit for us.
MLB.com: People who don't watch the Rockies on a regular basis might not realize just how good Nolan Arenado's past two years have been. How much fun has it been for you to watch him blossom into the superstar that he's become?
Bridich: I think it's been just as much fun for us internally here to watch that as it has been for our fans to watch it. There's a great amount of pride for our scouts -- especially our amateur scouts. If you go back and look at his Draft video as a high schooler, you look at it and he's kind of a pudgy guy. There's still some baby fat on there, kind of a unique swing, a unique swing path. He was actually catching at the time; you see him both play third base in that video and catch. Our guys did an incredible job of saying, "OK, if this were to happen, if this were to happen, this guy could be special." For Billy Schmidt to go with a high Draft pick in a high round, "This is the guy. I believe in this guy."
For Nolan and all of our coaches, everybody around Nolan for years, to help him get to where he's at now, it's extremely rewarding. You're right; he has not gotten the same pub or the same notoriety as some other guys across the game. We get spoiled on a daily basis watching Nolan, because there are plays that we've grown so accustomed to him making -- especially defensively -- that are kind of otherworldly. When he doesn't make a routine play, it's like, "What the heck?" But he's a human being and guys make errors. He spoils us that way. That's just how good he is.
MLB.com: I feel like he and Paul Goldschmidt may the two most anonymous Top 5 players or Top 8 players in the league that we've seen in a long time.
Bridich: They're both seemingly understated. They don't get on Twitter, they're not flipping bats; they don't do a lot of things either on or off the field that call attention to themselves. They go out and they play -- and they play their butts off. It's tough to speak for Goldschmidt, but watching him for years in this division, it just seems like the focus is on the field, and that's certainly the case for Nolan. Sometimes that goes unrewarded in terms of publicity or notoriety, but if he isn't one of the top five players in the game, it's tough to imagine who the other five guys are that are better than him.
Mark Feinsand is an executive reporter for MLB.com.


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Columbus Circle Shooting: What do YOU make of these strange details?
Getaway car used in L.A. man's slaying found in Queens, NYPD says
So far, police said they don't have a clear motive for Monday's shooting and hope the Los Angeles trip will shed more light on his recent activities, sources said.
Woodard played basketball at the exclusive Campbell Hall private high school in Studio City and graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 2003. His stepfather, Rod Wellington, said in an interview Tuesday that Woodard was pursuing a law degree at the University of West Los Angeles School of Law (school officials would not confirm if he was enrolled).
But court records revealed a more complex picture. Woodard has been arrested at least 20 times, according to New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. The arrests include charges of cocaine possession, grand theft and battery against a former spouse.
It was not clear what brought Woodard to New York after he purchased a one-way ticket from California, Kelly said, or where he was going when he left a hotel. Woodard checked into the hotel Sunday and checked out about 1:15 p.m. the next day.
He had told his mother he expected to be home Monday.
So this gentleman flew from Los Angeles to New York with a one-way ticket, checked into a hotel, checked out the next day, went to a specific spot, walked up and down the street at that spot for a while- until he was shot by a man waiting for him, who then calmly got back into his car, drove off afterward.
Any guesses? That's weird, y'all.
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Response to Poll_Blind (Original post)
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 08:56 PM
slackmaster (60,567 posts)
1. I think the guy was responding to a Nigerian advance fee fraud scam
He was walking up and down expecting to meet his Barrister to deliver what was supposed to be some cash but was actually a satchel of dirty laundry, but the gunman was working for the Clique Mob on orders of the Governor who had figured out that the victim was trying to counter-scam him.
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Wed Dec 12, 2012, 08:58 PM
graham4anything (11,464 posts)
2. once again, guns and bullets kill. Without the gun, this person would be alive today.Ban the NRA
Ban the NRA.
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Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:04 PM
petronius (26,108 posts)
3. Well, I've been rewatching The Wire recently, so I have a lot of theories
But yeah, it is really weird. It doesn't sound as though anything was exchanged - it's not as though he was transporting money or drugs or something of value that was stolen - so it seems someone just set him up for murder. One of the LA Times articles said he was thought to be a "promoter" of some kind, so maybe he was lured by a job possibility (which would explain the 1-way ticket)?
Response to petronius (Reply #3)
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:20 PM
Poll_Blind (23,864 posts)
5. I'm wondering if there was some "business" where he was which required someone to...
...fly to New York to "answer" for it. And he was the person who "they" sent.
That's one possibility, anyway. It's very weird.
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Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:17 PM
KT2000 (16,217 posts)
4. hired someone to kill him?
that is about the only thing that makes sense of his actions.
He must want someone to get the life insurance.
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Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:24 PM
Poll_Blind (23,864 posts)
6. I was kind of wondering about that, too. But I figured if he did, he would have...
...had his execution take place somewhere a little more...symbolic?...that just walking on the street. I think he didn't expect to die. And I also think that if he really wanted to have someone execute him (certainly a possibility), that he wouldn't have had to fly across country to do it.
Just my gut reaction, anyway.
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Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:25 PM
Glimmer of Hope (4,570 posts)
7. Have you seen this?
Response to Glimmer of Hope (Reply #7)
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:30 PM
Poll_Blind (23,864 posts)
8. Whoa, no I hadn't.
It doesn't seem to answer anything in specific, but it seems to indicate his murder was a lot more likely than the rest of us. Thanks for the link!


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- Morning at 8.30: 1 plate upma or oatmeal + half bowl sprouted grains + 100ml cream-free milk without sugar
- Morning at 10.30: 1 small fruit or 1 cup thin and sugar free buttermilk or lemon water
- Lunch at 1: 2 roti of mixed flour, 1 bowl rice, 1 bowl pulse, 1 bowl yogurt, half cup soybean or cheese vegetable, half bowl green vegetable, one plate salad
- 4 pm: 1 cup tea without sugar + 1-2 less sugar biscuits or toast
- 6 pm: 1 cup soup
- 8.30 pm: 2 roti of mixed flour, 1 bowl rice, 1 bowl pulse, half bowl green vegetable, one plate salad
- 10.30 pm: take 1 cup cream free milk without sugar.
When you feel hungry intake raw vegetables, salad, black tea, soups, thin buttermilk, lemon water. Avoid it: molasses, sugar, honey, sweets, dry fruits. Foods you must avoid!
- Salt: salt is the greatest culprit for diabetics. You get enough salt from vegetables in inorganic form, so reduce the intake of inorganic salt.
- Sugar: sucrose, a table sugar, provides nothing but calories and carbohydrates. Also, you need calcium to digest sucrose. Insufficient sucrose intake might lead to calcium being leached off the bones. Substitute sucrose with natural sugar, like honey, jaggery (gur), etc.
- Fat: excessive fat intake is definitely not a good habit. Try and exclude fried items from your diet totally. But, remember, you must have a small quantity of oil to absorb fat-soluble vitamins, especially vitamin E.
- For non-vegetarians: Try and stop the intake of red meat completely. Try to go in for a vegetarian diet. If you cannot, decrease the consumption of eggs and poultry. You can, however, eat lean fish two to three times a week.
- Whole milk and products: Try to switch to low fat milk and its products like yogurt (curd). Replace high fat cheese with low fat cottage cheese.
- Tea and coffee: Do not have than two cups of the conventional tea or decaffeinated coffee every day. Try to switch to herbal teas.
- White flour and its products: Replace these with whole grains, wholewheat or soya breads and unpolished rice.
- Foods with a high glycemic index: Avoid white rice, potatoes, carrots, breads and banana -- they increase the blood-sugar levels.
Advice for diabetes patient:
- 35-40 minute faster walk every day.
- Diabetic person should eat food between times intervals like take breakfast in morning, lunch, some snakes and dinner.
- Avoid oily food.
- Intake more fiber foods in meals. It increases glucose level gradually in blood and keeps control.
- Do not take fast and also don t go much party.
- Diabetic person should eat food slowly.
Calorific requirement:
- An obese middle aged or elderly patient with mild diabetes 1000 -1600 kcal.
- An elderly diabetic but not over weight 1400 -1800 kcal.
- A young active diabetic 1800 -3000 kcal.
- Daily intake of carbohydrate: 1/10th of total calories approximately 180gm.
- Daily intake of protein: 60gm to 110gm.
- Daily intake of fat: 50gm to 150gm.


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Acne on the face or body can occur as a result of genetic predisposition or during the menstrual cycle, in pregnancy, menopause and as a result of stress or drug consumption. Sebum and bacterial skin buildup can also result in acne. About 20% of people have acne problems after puberty or in adulthood. The consequence of acne can be the ugly scars on the skin that no longer need to be a permanent stigma. The development of modern laser technology and expert knowledge of dermatologists can completely eliminate acne and prevent scarring if you begin to treat the skin in the right way. Acne and impure skin are not just a problem faced by teenagers, but also an increasing number of adults.
Why acne is formed?
The opening of the gingiva is blocked and prevents the release of the game on the surface of the skin. Consequently, there is a mole or comedon, which makes the trapped lice in the gingival canal. The gingival canal can spread to a certain extent until it breaks and the trapped skin penetrates the skin, causing inflammation of the acne. Bacteria do not play an important role in acne development and are not the main goal of acne treatment.
How to prevent the development of acne?
– Diet control: move sugar from food, milk with milky products, pizza, fast food, mayonnaise, carbonated beverages …
– Add nutritional supplements: apple vinegar, zinc, cinnamon, black pepper, turmeric …
– Improve digestion control with probiotics and fiber nutrition
– Regular facial cleansing
– Intake of antioxidants, substances that reduce inflammation
So far acne treatment has been based mostly on antibiotic creams that no longer have the place because the bacteria have become resistant to them and bacteria are not key to the development of acne. Benzyl peroxide and azalic acid are often used although local retinoids have a much better effect. Applying creams is a relatively new product. Systemic antibiotics can only be used briefly and act on the result rather than the cause! Contraception with isotretion (Roaccutan) is the most effective option, but unfortunately, accompanied by numerous side effects. In proven hormonal disorders, essential hormone and insulin regulation is required in insulin resistance. A great novelty in treating acne is the use of lasers that in most cases can replace classic acne therapy with a better result without side effects.
Laser acne treatment
Lasers are a great help in treating acne due to its high efficiency, because it acts on the cause of the acne – a bad gland that is being destroyed. The goal is to reduce the size of the sebaceous gland. It is important to note that the face is never dry. They also have a strong anti-inflammatory effect. On average it is necessary to do 5 acne treatments every three to four weeks. There are numerous lasers that combine for a better effect.
The infrared laser acne treatment uses heat to destroy the sebaceous gland with an anti-inflammatory effect. Because of its great penetration depth, it destroys or reduces the sore gland. They also reduce redness at the site of acne or inflammation. This also reduces the pore size.
Fractional lasers cause microscopic damage under the skin to eradicate the gastric gland. Depending on the effect on the skin, they are divided into ablative lasers that damage the surface of the skin and are unpredictable that do not damage the skin surface. Depending on the type, they have an anti-inflammatory effect, while reducing acne and acne scars. We can say that fractional lasers are the basis for acne treatment because they are most effective in destroying the gastric ulcers.
Pulse dye laser is one of the options for treating acne and primarily for relieving redness caused by inflammation. Most pulse dye lasers are followed by bruises. Wavelength 585 nm is used.
The use of Botox in treating acne is great news because Botox has been shown to have a strong anti-inflammatory effect and is the most effective aid in acne withdrawal.
Plasma acne treatment is a form of matter that we can compare with lightning. The devices that are in the end of the needle-shaped extension are used to release plasma that has a very strong effect on the destruction of the sebaceous gland and an anti-inflammatory effect. There is no spotting or the like, but just a needle-shaped extension is placed above the skin where plasma that destroys the acne and the sebaceous gland is fired. At the same time, it has a strong pore reduction. If want know more details about acne treatment you chek this informative site.


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G31 Sniper Rifle Replica
A replica of classic rifle for combating lightly armored vehicles, so-called "anti-material" rifle.
replica is made mainly from durable polymer, with the exception of
metal engine mechanisms and the outer and internal barrels. This is a
spring-action replica, which means that before each shot it needs to be
reloaded by pulling back the bolt carrier. At the top of the receiver is a long
RIS mounting rail that allows for the attachment of a wide array of
optical sights. The replica is made in a two-fold construction - it
can be disassembled with two simple moves (turn and pull) or put together from two
- the body with hand guard and stock
- the barrel with muzzle brake
When pulling out the barrel it is necessary, however, to slightly pull back the bolt carrier to release it. Such construction makes the replica much easier for transport. The replica features Hop-Up system inside the barrel that provides BBs with a spin, thus increasing their range. Its adjustment is possible only after the barrel has been pulled out of the body.
On the inside, the replica holds up quite well, majority of parts are compatible with that of VSR-10 replicas by Tokyo Marui. Cleaning of the replica is incredibly simple because in order to disassemble it, one only needs to remove several pins from the receiver. All pins feature loops for tactical sling.
The set includes a low-cap, polymer magazine with a capacity of up to 20 BBs.
The set includes:
- replica
- magazine
- User's Manual
- cleaning rod
- magazine speedloader
- set of hex keys
Replika karabinu G31
6 months
|Velocity [FPS]:
It is the spped of bb, while its leaving the innerbarrel of replica. This speed is measured in FPS (Feet Per Second).
1 FPS = 0,3 m/s
1 J = 99 m/s
|Type of fire:
|Lenght [mm]:
The length of the replca is measured between the two most distant points of each other. Different models have several of these values, because of its design allows to increase or decrease it length (eg. folding stock or extended flash hider).
|Inner barrel length [mm]:
|Weight [g]:
This is a value that includes the weight of the replica, magazine and other accessories that are include in set without a battery, charger, cleaning rod, etc., etc.
|Magazine type:
Low-Cap magazine
|Magazine capacity [pcs]:
Hop-Up system is used for overclocking bb during the shot (putting it in rotation), through which, it extends its flight path. Acting laws of physics make that bb lift up, while the gravitational force take it down. Appropriate adjustment of Hop-Up, will compensate for these two factors, which result in long and straight flight for longer distance and be greater focus shot (to improve accuracy).
Yes, adjustable
|Made of:
plastic + metal
|Propulsion / Powered by:
Spring powered


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Olly Murs: Simon Cowell 'sexy' with beard
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- 19 September 2015
Olly Murs has admitted he thinks his 'X Factor' boss Simon Cowell looks "sexy" with his new beard
Olly Murs thinks Simon Cowell looks "sexy" with a beard.
The music mogul has been sporting a more rugged look and the 'Troublemaker' singer and his 'X Factor' co-host Caroline Flack think he looks much better with facial hair.
Asked who they fancy most on 'X Factor', Olly said: "Simon with a beard, he gets my vote. How much sexier is Simon with a beard?"
Caroline added: "Really sexy. It made me go 'whoa' when I saw it."
Olly also confessed to getting starstruck when he met David Beckham because he has always "fancied" the sportsman and his wife Victoria and even used to carry a picture of them everywhere.
He told heat magazine: "I don't get starstruck by other celebrities. For me, it's when I go to football games and see some of the players who are legends. I've been a huge fan of David Beckham since I had a picture of him and Posh in my wallet.
"I was a huge fan of the Spice Girls, so I fancied Beckham and I fancied Victoria. Well, not fancied him - I wanted to be him and I wanted to be Victoria. I mean fancied Victoria.
"So when they got together, I was like a huge fan-girling fan. When I met him, it was great. He's such a lovely guy - we were chatting away like we were mates."


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Lou Dobbs Joins Fox Business Network
Former CNN host had hinted at a career in politics after final November broadcast.
Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has signed a multi-year deal with Fox Business Network, executive VP Kevin Magee announced Wednesday.
Dobbs will develop and host a new daily program set to premiere in first quarter 2011. He'll also appear as an analyst and commentator across FBN programs.
In a statement, Dobbs said he is "excited" and "privileged to join the great team that Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes and [FBN managing editor] Neil Cavuto have put together."
Dobbs left CNN last November after clashing with former CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein over the opinionated format of Dobbs' show, particularly the hosts commentary on illegal immigrants and President Obama's birth certificate.
At the time, Dobbs hinted that he may enter politics saying on his final CNN broadcast "some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to…engage in constructive problem-solving as well as contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day and to continue to do so in the most honest and direct language possible."
But many observers expected him to end up at Fox's news operation. And he never did retreat from the media spotlight. Dobbs has continued to host his radio program, and he is expected to do so when he joins FBN, said the Los Angeles Times. He also recently made a cameo appearance along with Democratic operative Joe Trippi on CBS' The Good Wife.
FBN, which launched about three years ago, is currently in a little over 50 million homes, far less than business news ratings leader CNBC. FBN features multiple former CNBC anchors on its air including Liz Claman, Charles Gasparino and most recently Dennis Kneale.


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Do you want perfect pecks? Buns of steel? Or, do you quite simply just want to get in shape this summer without having to trek down to the gym and pay a monthly membership? If so, why not grab a copy of Zumba Fitness for your 360 from any of the stores that make up The Game Group, all you'll have to do is part with £26.99, which'll save you almost £3 on the next best offer coming in from Simply Games. Do bear in mind though that you'll need a Kinect sensor bar in order to play the game.


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About SWIFFT
SWIFFT the State Wide Integrated Flora and Fauna Teams is a network and an initiative supported by Federation University Australia, the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, Zoos Victoria, the Ballarat Environment Network and the Victorian Department of Environment Land Water and Planning.
SWIFFT comprises a wide diversity of interests such as Landcare, Conservation and Field Naturalists groups together with members of the community, including farmers and landholders who share an interest in nature conservation. SWIFFT also has involvement with environmental consultants, Local Government, Tertiary Institutions conservation agencies and organisations such as Trust for Nature, Greening Australia, Catchment Management Authorities, Parks Victoria, and the Department of Environment Land Water and Planning.
SWIFFT is about maintaining, developing and sharing knowledge and skills within Victorian communities for the protection and management of threatened species and biodiversity conservation. Science – Information - Community
SWIFFT area
SWIFFT (State Wide Integrated Flora & Fauna Teams) covers all of Victoria. Information on threatened species and nature conservation projects is being collated for all regions of Victoria and because SWIFFT is a concept there are no fixed boundaries as such.
SWIFFT agenda
SWIFFT has an open and inclusive agenda which includes:
- Be open to people involved or interested in protecting threatened species or communities.
- Be inclusive and supportive of current and proposed initiatives for protecting threatened species and communities.
- Promote and foster mutual benefit.
- Encourage the documentation of existing knowledge.
- Be a learning network.
- The members of the SWIFFT own SWIFFT.
- Remain free of obligation and cost.…….
Who's in on it
Rather, who is not in on it? SWIFFT is open to anyone or any organisation that has an interest in threatened species & communities, in fact the more people involved the more SWIFFT will achieve.
Contributions are welcome .
SWIFFT web site
The SWIFFT web site is being transitioned from the SWIFFT wiki site hosted by BIRD. This transition will build new pages into SWIFFT but during this process links will be made back to the old wiki site as necessary.
Contributions to SWIFFT are actively sought, please see Get Involved.
The SWIFFT web site has received valuable support from Federation University Australia, the Department of Environment and Primary Industries, and the Ballarat Environment Network.
During 2013 -2017 Federation University Australia, Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) has provided valuable support to assist the SWIFFT in advancing 'Citizen Science' in relation to threatened species and biodiversity conservation.
SWIFFT acknowledges the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust in providing valuable support to Federation University Australia, enabling expansion of the SWIFFT web site and development of Visualising Victoria's Biodiversity.
SWIFFT welcomes support from Zoos Victoria – Fighting Extinction. Restoring viable populations of 21 species unique to south-eastern Australia which are on the brink of extinction. Zoos Victoria undertakes captive breeding and reintroduction. They also support recovery teams and raise public awareness to address threatening processes.
SWIFFT video conferences
SWIFFT video conferences are supported by the Department of Environment Land Water and Planning through planning video conferences, hosting video conference venues and providing technical support.
You may like to attend a SWIFFT video conference meeting which are held four times a year, each with a different theme. Participants gather at any one of the numerous video link locations across Victoria. It is also possible to arrange telephone (audio) links to these conferences on a limited basis. Participants have included local government conservation officers, interested persons from environmental groups, Parks Victoria and DEPI staff involved with managing threatened species.
As the SWIFFT becomes more widely known and used it will provide greater opportunity for involvement, expand networking and information sharing across all land and water managers and the broader community.
See: SWIFFT video conferencing
Visualising Victoria's Biodiversity (VVB)
Visualising Victoria's Biodiversity is a partner site to SWIFFT. The VVB is being developed by the Centre for eResearch & Digital Innovation (CeRDI), Federation University - Australia and focuses on presenting data in a spatial context.
The VVB can be used to view and assemble an extensive range of spatial resources together, allowing people to visualise and explore data for decisions, conservation planning or discovering more about the environment.
VVB talk to SWIFFT video conference.
How did SWIFFT begin?
SWIFFT had its origins in 2003 when meetings were held with representatives of the Leigh Catchment Group , the Ballarat Environment Network, the Corangamite CMA, Local Government representatives, the Department of Primary Industry and the Department of Sustainability and Environment to talk about revegetation issues in the Leigh Catchment. Coming out of these meetings there was recognition that there was a need to share information about threatened species in the SW Region. On 1 December 2003 a meeting was held in Ballarat attended by TFN/LCG/DSE/DPI/BEN and CCMA the main focus of which was to " Develop a joint integrated project including Threatened Species protection with community links". Early in the following year a "Concept Paper" was developed and a meeting was held on 17 March 2004 to discuss the idea of a network for Threatened species covering the whole of SW Victoria. Support for the idea ensured that there was a follow up meeting at Lake Bolac on 27 May 2004 to discuss a name for the network, development of a communication strategy and a calender of events and potential participation in a new web initiative hosted by BEN - the "Wiki " - later to be referred to as the BIRD wiki. The network "SWIFFT" was "born" and held its first quarterly video conference hook up on Thursday 14 October 2004.
Annual reports are found in Reports and findings.
Contributions to SWIFFT are actively sought, please see Get Involved.
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Hooray! The acceleration paper was published in Phys. Rev. D a couple of days ago.
I was quite pleased with how this one turned out – it's a nice clarification, I think. Tim had the idea of using the blueshift in collapsing regions to mimic acceleration in the Hubble diagram, which is pretty cool in itself. It was also good to find a concrete example of the link between acceleration of the average and acceleration in the Hubble diagram that Syksy Rasanen has discussed in a couple of papers (see our discussion for references).
Of course, we're not claiming that "dark energy is backreaction" or anything nearly as strong as that, but I think it does extend the backreaction debate a little. The papers by Ishibashi, Green, and Wald, which seem to show that inhomogeneities on small scales don't affect the background evolution much, suggest that backreaction effects can't have any bearing on dark energy. I suppose our paper responds to theirs by saying "yes, perhaps they can't dynamically, but what about non-linear optical effects?"
Philip Bull, Timothy Clifton (2012). Local and non-local measures of acceleration in cosmology. Phys. Rev. D: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.103512


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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Seth Mitchell and Chazz Witherspoon let it all hang out before Mitchell rallied for a third-round knockout in a tremendous slugfest Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall on the undercard of the rematch between light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson.
The fight between college graduates was filled with fireworks from the outset, but it did not look like Mitchell -- widely hailed as America's best heavyweight prospect -- would make it out of the first round.
Witherspoon had him in terrible trouble, as he backed Mitchell up and was teeing off with right hands. Mitchell's legs were shaky and he nearly went down, but he survived the round in a somewhat stunning scene.
Witherspoon was so dominant in the round that it would not have been a surprise had any of the judges given it to him 10-8. He landed 24 of 39 power shots, according to CompuBox statistics.
But Mitchell, a former Michigan State linebacker who has been a pro fighter for only four years, came storming back.
He abused Witherspoon to the body in the second round and rocked him with a right hand, and then poured it on even more in the third.
Mitchell dropped Witherspoon with a left hook early in the third, but Witherspoon survived to continue the action-packed round. Eventually, though, Mitchell landed numerous hard shots that forced Witherspoon to sag into the ropes. Referee Randy Neumann at first began to count because the ropes held Witherspoon up, but he decided to call off the fight at 2 minutes, 31 seconds with Witherspoon in no shape to continue.
Mitchell (25-0-1, 19 KOs) closed the show by outlanding Witherspoon 51-11 in power shots in the second and third rounds.
"I've been working on my right hand. I was countering him and hitting him with the right," Mitchell said. "I knew he was coming to fight. I'm gonna be honest: I was a little nervous for this fight. He had a lot of experience, and I know in the heavyweight division it only takes one shot. I saw it in his eyes he was coming for me.
"But I never stopped using my body shots. They were slowing him down, and he had no defense for my body shots."
Witherspoon (30-3, 22 KOs), 30, of Paulsboro, N.J., blamed himself for getting wild and head hunting after he rocked Mitchell in the first round.
"I got a little excited after I had him hurting," said Witherspoon, a cousin of former two-time heavyweight titlist Tim Witherspoon. "I never got back to fighting smart. He dealt with adversity great. I was fighting a stupid fight after I got him hurt and I was just looking for the knockout. He has great athletic ability."
Mitchell, 29, of Brandywine, Md., knew going into the fight that an exciting performance would move him closer to a world title shot against heavyweight champion brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko. The Klitschkos, who fight primarily in Germany, have expressed interest in returning to the U.S. to defend their titles. To do that, the Klitschkos obviously want an American opponent, and they have mentioned Mitchell as a possible challenger.
First, Mitchell is expected to return to action June 30 in Washington, D.C. One name Golden Boy, his promoter, is discussing as a possible opponent is former title challenger Michael Grant.
Porter cruises in ring return
Akron, Ohio, junior middleweight Shawn Porter (19-0, 14 KOs), one of boxing's top prospects, returned from a 14-month layoff to score a sixth-round knockout of 39-year-old journeyman Patrick Thompson (18-18-1, 8 KOs) of Chicago in their scheduled eight-rounder.
Porter, a standout amateur who just missed making the 2008 U.S. Olympic team, was on the fast track but was knocked off course in a contract dispute with promoter Prize Fight. Making his return, Porter, 24, was welcomed back to the ring in rude fashion by Thompson, who opened a cut over his left eye in the first round.
But Porter -- who gained some notoriety in recent years as a key sparring partner for superstar Manny Pacquiao -- regrouped and handled his business. He was much faster and sharper than Thompson.
Porter was cruising when the fight came to a sudden end in the sixth round. Porter staggered Thompson with a left hand, and referee David Fields stepped in to stop it at 1 minute, 39 seconds during the follow-up assault.
• Lightweight prospect "Baby Face" Mike Faragon (17-0, 8 KOs) of Syracuse, N.Y., easily outpointed Sergio Rivera (16-9-2, 10 KOs) of Mexico in a quick-paced eight-rounder. Faragon, 24, who has a fan-friendly style, outclassed the 30-year-old Rivera, boxing circles around him and landing a lot of shots, including many hard right hands. In the end, he was the obvious winner, 79-73, 79-73, 78-72.
• Light heavyweight Lavarn Harvell (10-0, 5 KOs) thrashed Tony Pietrantonio (7-9, 6 KOs) en route to a massive third-round knockout. Harvell, of Atlantic City, dropped Pietrantonio, of Sharon, Pa., in the first round with a right hand to the chin. Harvell pounded on him for the rest of the fight until landing a flush combination that knocked him out cold 31 seconds into the third round. Pietrantonio hit his head on the edge of the mat and was down for several minutes receiving medical attention before making it to his feet.
• Junior middleweight Julian Williams (9-0-1, 4 KOs) of Philadelphia outpointed Hector Rosario (7-2-2, 5 KOs) of Puerto Rico on scores of 79-73, 79-73, 78-74. Although Rosario landed his share of punches, Williams outworked him throughout the bout.
• Toronto junior middleweight Phil Lo Greco (23-0, 12 KOs), who recently signed with Golden Boy Promotions, survived a first-round knockdown to soundly outbox Hector Orozco (5-11) of Minneapolis en route to a unanimous decision. Lo Greco wasn't hurt badly by a flash knockdown and cruised to a 59-54, 58-55, 58-55 decision in the first fight of the card.


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The Centre is also a local non-statutory provider for training in value based education, global citizenship, the Rights of the Child, P4C (Philosophy for Children), Persona Dolls, Fair Trade in Schools and Global School Partnerships. We work inclusively with community groups, teachers, governors, educational NGOs, Local Authorities and children, young people and senior citizens.


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Set 20 km from Barcelona and 46 km from Lloret de Mar, Apartment Bellavista offers accommodation in Premiá de Mar. Guests benefit from terrace and a shared outdoor pool.
The apartment has 3 bedrooms and the living room opens into a large terrace. The kitchen has a dishwasher and an oven. Towels and bed linen are featured at Apartment Bellavista. Other facilities at Apartment Bellavista include a barbecue.
Santa Susanna is 32 km from Apartment Bellavista, while Calella is 28 km from the propert...y. Barcelona El Prat Airport is 33 km away.
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