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Pallium Canada has launched a new focus on the development of Compassionate Communities (CC) throughout Canada. This initiative was kick-started by the "Mobilizing Your Compassionate Community!" Symposium Pallium Canada hosted on October 28th, as well as an interactive online chat on September 23rd. In introducing the concept of the international CC movement, Pallium Canada will be showcasing and celebrating CC projects happening here in Canada through a series of interviews and blogs. Pallium Canada's pilot CC profile will feature the multifaceted initiatives being undertaken in Windsor, Ontario.The Windsor-Essex project is run by a team of three. Deborah Sattler, Director of the Windsor-Essex Compassionate Community, and two Project Managers, Michael Bennett and Diane Halgbewachs.
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion"
As citizens, we have the power and many of the tools to make our communities stronger and our lives better. In Windsor-Essex, the international Compassionate Community movement is being put into action to increase the happiness and connectedness of everyone in the community, raise quality of life for citizens with life-long care needs, and to reduce the inequitable outcomes experienced by their most vulnerable. In striving to create a community where everyone gets the help they need, their CC initiatives are guided by the vision of "each of us, working together, to make ourselves, our citizens, and our community more well." The initiative extends the reach and value of the programs, services and businesses that already exist in the community by using the strengths and skills of the citizens of Windsor-Essex wisely.
CC initiatives in Windsor-Essex are supported by five pillars (or mini studies). The first pillar is known as the "Neighbourhood Study" and aims to mobilize "neighbours" and youth. The "Neighbourhood Study" examines how people who interact socially can connect to organize and support their own "neighbourhood network." The term "neighbours" extends beyond the people living next door to various community groups, including: youth, faith, multicultural, senior, informal social networks and community volunteers. The "Neighbourhood Study" manifests as a virtual marketplace for the neighbourhood and volunteers. Using existing technology (similar to that of Uber), the "Neighbourhood Study" asks "what are some things you would like help with from your neighbours?" as well as, "what help do you offer?" and "what skills can you offer?" The Study also uses social media channels to make it easier for participants to get to know their neighbours and to watch out and care for one another. This exchange and technological support is designed to make it easier to ask for help in Windsor-Essex.
The second pillar builds off the "Neighbourhood Study" to enhance "Distress Outreach" and act as a safety net for those who are hard to reach. The "Distress Outreach" pillar aims to ensure that those who need help do not fall through the cracks. It introduces those who need help to CC initiatives through a 12 hour phone service provided by the Distress Centre of Windsor-Essex. The phone number will be available to all members of the community to use in times of need. Neighbours, families, citizens, first responders (police, fire, EMS, mental health, etc.) and service agencies are encouraged to use the Distress Centre when they become aware of a distress situation that they cannot deal with directly and it is not clear what to do next. A "situation table" or community case conference can also be organized at Family Services Windsor to determine the most appropriate course of action in response and pool community resources if needed to take the agreed upon action.
The third pillar, the "Care Model Study" involves the formation of a "Citizens' Care Hub." This pillar targets people in their last year of life, with dementia, or who need personal support such as help with eating, dressing and bathing – that is, people who need a high degree of social and practical help as well as medical care to live well. People and their care partners are matched with a community volunteer to get information, coaching, and feedback and to set up their own personal care team to achieve their most important goals. Coaches help participants document their goals and wishes should their condition change, and to navigate informal or volunteer resources, recreational activities, and available programs and services to address identified emotional, practical or social needs. The person owns their information, regularly reports their outcomes, and can share it with their care team through a personalised health record. People using the "Citizens' Care Hub" will no longer enter formal supports as a "blank slate", and all providers can work on the same page around what's most important to the person and family. Tech savvy students are also being engaged to help out with technical support. This is extremely beneficial as it gets youth involved in CC initiatives at a young age.
The fourth pillar of CC initiatives in Windsor-Essex is known as the "Key Informant." This undertaking involved partnering with 65-70 agencies in the Windsor area. Using a user-centred design process, human service agency partners and agency volunteers have agreed to explore how some or all of the outlined pillars can be incorporated or strengthened within their existing daily operations or across their respective sectors. The agencies have agreed to consider how the use of Windsor-Essex's proposed 5P Pathway (predictive, preventative, personalized, participatory and population based) would work within their environments. Agencies are considered key enablers of change and are working to establish their own partnerships to make Windsor-Essex a more caring and efficient community. This CC pillar is conducting terrific qualitative research and has helped with a feasibility study.
The final pillar is "Community Governance" and involves population surveillance and partnerships with all levels of government, including: federal (Veteran's Affairs), provincial (health, social services, education), regional (LHIN), county, and municipal involvement and support. This pillar demonstrates the setup of the "Community Trust" in Windsor-Essex. This multi-level governance structure comprises a coalition of partners that cross all aspects of civic, service and community life who want to build a better future by being a better community. The mission is to build, administer, strengthen and sustain community assets and capital on behalf of citizens to improve collective citizen and community quality of life. Windsor-Essex will aim to achieve a 5P standard of care (predictive, preventative, personalized, participatory and population-based) across the whole community, undertake population and outcome surveillance to narrow equity gap, and optimize assets to make progress on aspirational goals. This pillar is based on a simple but big idea: that communities can work smarter with what they have to improve support for aging and other priority populations and optimize cost/resource use (short-term) building high quality places where people want to live and jobs want to locate (medium-term) to catalyze human development and whole population well-being (longer-term).
If you are involved in a Compassionate Communities project in Canada and would like to be highlighted on the Pallium Canada website, please contact Jordan MacGregor by email at firstname.lastname@example.com to set up an interview!


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Discussion in 'Link Building' started by truf777, Dec 28, 2009.
got some news that tell me the major link wheel is useless
please gimme some info
Yes it works but you have to be a little crafty with it. Don't make it a total wheel & don't close it at the end. Sites don't naturally link like that use some common sense.
Another thing is to do linkwheel around web 2.0 property Squidoo, hubpages etc and only link 1 link from that property to your money page/blog/site whatever and you will get that link juice from that property.
have a diagram that i can copy ?
You have to do a lot more today to make things work and now I just do this ramdomly - seems to be working way better and yep don't close them. Also try and use several acc on the same property and link them with comments or rss
it works but it leaves a huge ass footprint for google to spank your ass shortly in the future once they nail it so dont use it on a site you want to rank long term!
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How Can a Yoga Workout Put a New Lease to Your Life? Posted By : Dana Fischer
Friday, January 15th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Yoga has attained a highly mentionable position in the world of fitness lately. This therapy has got promoted from being a quaint branch of Eastern therapeutics to being something the whole world accepts. But, why is Yoga so popular? How can you benefit from it? These are some questions we need to answer.
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Four FIVE! Pinocchios for Obama on ObamaCare Claims
The Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler evaluates the following statement by Barack Obama:
We've got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.
And gives it the maximum Four Pinocchios. Kessler's conclusion:
What does this mean in terms of evaluating the president's statement? He seems to be falling into the same trap as other Democrats, and some reporters, by assuming that everyone in the Medicaid list is getting health insurance for the first time because of the Affordable Care Act. But that number is nowhere close to 7 million. It could be as low as 1.1 million (Avalere) or as high as 2.6 million (Gaba.) If one wanted to be generous, one could include people coming out of the woodwork, even though they would have been covered under the old law, but no one is really sure what that figure is.
("Coming out of the woodwork" refers to the large number of people who were eligible for Medicaid before but did not realize it.)
In any case, no matter how you slice it, it does not add up to 7 million. It is dismaying that given all of the attention to this issue, the president apparently does not realize that the administration's data are woefully inadequate for boastful assertions of this type.
My, isn't it dismaying that the President has gotten fooled like that! It would be even more "dismaying" if — as I believe — he fully knows that his figures are wrong and is simply telling the American people something he knows not to be true. (I know, it's seems almost impossible to believe from Mr. If You Like You Plan You Can Keep It.)
Also dismaying is that the "Fact Checker," one of the few Big Media types actually busting Obama over his health care misstatements, completely misses the distinction between "access to health care" and "health insurance."
While nobody is going to argue that the uninsured all have access to the best health care available, it is not the case that they are utterly without access — and it's certainly untrue that Medicaid is the cure-all. There is a network of "health care safety net" providers including "emergency departments, community health centers, public hospitals, charitable clinics, and in some communities, teaching and community hospitals" that provide health care to the uninsured. It's not an ideal situation, because these people have health conditions that are aggravated or even caused by a lack of preventative care.
But Medicaid does little to fix that problem. The New York Times explained in November that many doctors are not accepting patients under Medicaid and that this would only get worse with the expansion of the Medicaid rolls. The thrust of the story is that providers of health care to low income people are "already overwhelmed and are unable to take on more low-income patients."
Obama is not telling the truth, and even Glenn Kessler masks the extent of it. Everybody in this room is stupider for having listened to Barack Obama's statements on this. I award him Five Pinocchios, no points, and may God have mercy on his soul.
Thanks to Dana for the Kessler link, and to JD for that video clip.


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Patriot EP Pro 32 GB SDXC/SDHC Card Review
Flash memory has become the key component to each part of our everyday lives. For some of us our smartphones alone use microSD cards just to carry all our extra Angry Bird games and thousands of camera phone pictures. Others of us take for granted our larger memory cards for our cameras when we go on vacations and no longer have to choose which pictures to delete to take some more – jus the ability to look at the pictures we've taken has been a long process of development in the memory world. We're a bit further in the world of technology today and flash memory is a bit more than just a camera card. Today we'll be taking a look at Patriot's newest addition to the family: The Patriot EP Pro.
The Patriot EP Pro is a high performance addition to Patriot Memory's SD card lineup. It was designed specifically for all HD video and photography enthusiasts. As better and better quality imaging becomes more affordable to the average household, the ability to store recordings is moving up too. The ability to capture high quality video at high resolutions is the new demand and perhaps here to meet that demand is Patriot.
The Patriot EP Pro can provide uncanny transfer speed of up to 90MB/s read and 50MB/s write with a capacity up to 128GB; I remember when a 1GB SD card was "huge," these things are getting massive! Because it's an UHS-I card, when used with compatible devices it can go nearly five times as fast as a standard SDHC card – I can hardly imagine the lag time between taking pictures. Heck, with these sizes just talk about the awesome storage solution on the go for my laptop or netbook; especially with UHS compatible devices. It's got speed and capacity – a win-win for memory.
Overall it looks to be a good option for anyone trying to capture high definition video at high resolutions – the way it should be done. Somehow I now have the urge to get a new video camera…
About the Ratings:
So if you don't know a whole lot about Classes and UHS or all that technical jargon – here's a quick synopsis of the two to let you see exactly how significant all these things are. I saved your Google noodle a couple minutes.
Class 10 is a strange rating that has developed over the years to measure speed. When I hear Class 10, it really means nothing more to me than "fast" as I know it is the highest "class." The class speed ratings come in Class 2, 4, 6 and 10; what happened to 8, I don't know. The class ratings represent the minimum expected read and write speeds you should see from the card. Class 10 is 10MB/s, Class 6 is 6MB/s, etc.
UHS Speed is a newer designation available on some SDHC and SDXC cards standing for "Ultra-High Speed." The UHS-I cards support a clock frequency of 100MHz in which a 4-bit transfer can allow 50MB/s. They also support a clock frequency of 208MHz allowing for 104MB/s. There is also a UHS-II designation, which further raises the theoretical data transfer rate to a maximum of 312MB/s (though there aren't any products on the market for this class yet). However, in either case, the theoretical values are only even closely obtained when using UHS host devices – so if your old camera or card reader doesn't support UHS don't expect to see these top speeds.
Closer Look:
The Patriot EP Pro comes in the standard packaging for any regular SD card. The SD card itself is in a protective, plastic, carrying case that is sealed up in a plastic shell and then covered with a decorative cardboard overlay. The front of the package seems to be designed to note three important factor: 1) It's the 32GB EP Pro from Patriot; 2) It is a "PROFESSIONAL" card, and 3) It is a Class 10, UHS-1, super-duper fast card. It's pretty obvious what you are getting from the front of the packaging alone.
The back of the package doesn't really give you a ton of information; and actually all that is in English is: "For use only with SDHC & SDXC compatible devices; 10 Megabytes per second minimum sustained write speed." The rest of the back is covered in the same two phrases in different languages. But don't forget the Facebook and Twitter pages… not that these will tell you much about the product.
I opened the package the simple way; a sharp knife around the edge of the carrying case. I didn't have to worry about hurting the card itself and I always hate cutting apart plastic covered in cardboard, but maybe we can call that one a scissor user error? Either way out of the package it looks like any other SD card in a carry case. It's red and black with an easy to identify front. It reminds you it's your 32GB, Class 10, UHS-I, SDHC card… so when it ends up in a pile with the rest of your cards from over the years – you'll be sure to know you've got the right one.
Out of its little carry case, where it will probably spend the rest of its life (or in use), it's ready to go. The back side of the card looks the same as any other SD card, showing off its shiny, un-scuffed contacts. With it plugged into my new USB 3.0 reader I'm ready for benching. Let's see how well this little guy can do – I hope it's ready to keep up with me.


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The Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) will issue an RFP within the next two months seeking an architect for a planned 540-space parking garage under a new city park at the site of what is now Rash Field on the Inner Harbor's south side.
Andy Frank, BDC's senior vice president, outlined the concept for the garage and park during an August 3 meeting of the GBC Planning and Project Development Committee.
There is a need for parking on the south side of the Inner Harbor and Rash Field is currently "underutilized," Frank said. It is now used primarily for volleyball and as a site for a trapeze school. Public bathrooms there are in disrepair. Part of the site has two trash compactors and is a service and utility area for the city Department of Public Works.
The concept for the project calls for 330,000 square feet of mostly-underground parking, 20,000 square-feet of proposed office space on the west end of the site, new public restrooms, and a park over the top of the garage. The trash compactors would be removed. The garage and park would not obscure the view of the Inner Harbor from Key Highway, Frank said.
While the concept for the parking garage has been fully developed, a detailed concept for the park above it has not, said Frank. He asked the GBC for help "in thinking about a process for developing a world-class park." He said he personally favors creating a children's park on the site.
BDC officials estimate that parking revenue from the facility would pay for its operation and maintenance, and could annually yield up to $300,000 more than expenses.
If the selection of an architect and development of specific designs for the project proceed in a timely manner, construction of the facility could begin as early as fall 2007, said Frank.
BDC PowerPoint presentation of the project concept


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We told you in June that when Tim Burton's plan to make offbeat biopic Ripley's Believe It Or Not was sent back into studio limbo due to money worries that he immediately switched gears and dived into the idea of the musical Sweeney Todd. And that Johnny Depp naturally agreed to play the demon barber.
Sweeney Todd has hung around Hollywood for years, with Warner Bros having grabbed the rights more than 10 years ago and attaching Burton way back then. But when the deals couldn't be worked out, Burton backed off and Warner Bros ditched the idea. DreamWorks snapped it up and hired Gladiator scribe John Logan to bash out a new draft, with Sam Mendes eventually agreeing to direct. But when Mendes put Jarhead first, Todd fell back into limbo. Now events have come full circle, and Tim Burton's back, with Logan still on board as the writer.
Now, with Warner Bros agreeing to share the financing and distribution with DreamWorks, the path has been cleared for Burton and Depp to get to work. The current plan is to start shooting at Pinewood on 5 February, with the studios apparently eager to have the film in cinemas by the end of the year.
Looks like old London Town will be running red with blood next year. We'll buy the pies.


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Rs 3,00,000 crore! Maharashtra's expected debt
Deputy CM Ajit Pawar presented the interim budget yesterday, which states that while there is a steady growth in revenue, the state is unable to keep pace with the growing expenditure
The state's interim budget presented yesterday had nothing to cheer about, with the state's debt expected to cross Rs 3 lakh crore and an expected revenue deficit of Rs 5,417 crore during the next financial year.
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Minister for Finance and Planning Rajendra Mulak, during the second day of budget session at Vidhan Sabha. Pic/Rahul More
The deficit may lead to a hike in state taxes in order to fill the gap between income and expenditure. However, with the upcoming elections, the Democratic Front is most likely to postpone this decision.
Delivering the budget, Finance Minister and Deputy Chief Minister, Ajit Pawar, informed the state assembly that while the state's revenue for 2014-15 is expected to be Rs 1.69 lakh crore, the expenditure is projected to be Rs 1.75 lakh crore. Of this, the allocation for the annual development plan is Rs 51,222 crore, a hike of more than Rs 5,000 crore as compared to last year.
About 62 per cent of the expenditure is on payment of salary, pensions and interest against loans, leaving a measly 38 per cent for the state. The state appears to be heading towards a permanent debt-trap, which will cross the Rs 3 lakh crore mark.
Higher expenditure
The income of the state has seen steady growth. The per capita income (total income divided by the number of people in the state) has increased from Rs 24,035 from the beginning of the last decade, to the present Rs 1.05 lakh. It has also resulted in an increase in the revenue of the state.
However, expenses have increased at a much higher pace, especially against heads such as salaries, interest, natural calamities, subsidies to power consumers, maintenance and repairs of roads, and so on.
Election expenditure expected to make a hole of Rs 912 crore
For the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in April-May, with 48 constituencies, and state elections (with 288 constituencies) in October, the expenditure is set to be Rs 912 crore, according to annual budget figures. The expenses include conducting elections, special allowances to government employees, transportation and other administrative expenses.
Of the total expenditure is for salaries, pensions and interest against loans
Rs 5,417 crore
Revenue deficit during the next financial year
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Kidding Around
Two things reminding me of childhood:
This painting looks just like the slide in my childhood backyard. It shook when you slid down, but for the most part we could never use it because wasps were perpetually building nests beneath it.
In other news, we happen to know two former yo-yo champions. For some reason, I'm disproportionately impressed by this skill. The link takes you to a video of them messing around on the deck of our cabin.
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Valerie Says:
Hurray! Comments are back!
We had a slide we didn't use for that very reason. Maybe they should rename the contraption to "wasp farm."
beyond Says:
comments and feeds are back, yay! i used to love slides as a kid. even though many of them were metallic and would burn our thighs when the weather got hot.
Andrea Says:
I love that painting! This is a timely post for me, I just unveiled a new series of paintings on my website called "Childhood Adventure." Yay for nostalgia!
The Whittler Says:
Umm..yes, completely unrelated, but is that SERIOUSLY YOUR FACE on the Twitter homepage?! I must say, I'm impressed. My eyebrows literally raised when I saw you! I felt like a proud parent. I realize the creepiness of that considering we've never spoken before, but cest la vie with blogging.
cousin Colleen Says:
Yes, that DOES look like the old slide. Remember the aunts running up and down the street waving sparklers on the Fourth of July? Good times.
Auntie Says:
Uuummmm..alright, I did do that Colleen. But only to make happy memories for you "kids". Remember, you weren't that younger than I!! Let's do it again! I don't have a slide but I do have a diving board…and sparklers! And you can cross another off your mighty list Maggie!
sevedra Says:
We just got rid of our backyard palyset for the same waspy issue. What is it with slides and wasps?
I love stumbling across things that remind me of a happy memory. It is like a little bit of internal sunshine. I am glad you got to have that recently.
CityGirl Says:
…and it got so hot that you'd burn the skin off the back of your legs when you wore shorts, so you decided to get the hose and try to make a water slide out of it, until you got caught…that's my memory, anyway!
Maggeh Says:
My mom used to encourage us to drag the hose up to the top and use it as a water slide.
Elanah Says:
Ah, I had one of these slides too. Ours was for our pool, and if the water wasn't working correctly, sometimes we got stuck on the way down…Ours wobbled too. Memories!
Raina Says:
That slide was the best! Remember how fast you would zoom if you exposed your butt cheeks to the slide?
Charity Says:
I love Leah Giberson's work – her Etsy shop has great prints too. Very evocative suburban and industrial looking scenes!


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Four polio workers killed in Quetta attack
Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a van carrying polio workers in Mengalabad adjacent to Eastern Bypass of Quetta.
Four polio workers were killed in the attack and two others were injured in the firing incident, police sources said.
Pakistan is one of three countries in the world where the polio virus is endemic. The other two countries are Afghanistan and Nigeria.
The government's efforts to free the country from the crippling disease have been fiercely resisted by the militants. The vaccination teams have suffered repeated attacks and score of the health workers were killed in these attacks.


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Thursday, February 7, 2008
It's official...
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
My Little Fish Shop
Thank goodness I got these pictures because after our annual apartment inspection and a cleaning of our chimney today, I came home and the shop was on the ground, smooshed and torn. Apparently someone (it's a mystery as to whom) knocked it over and then, as far as I can tell, stepped on it. Repeatedly. I can't bear to post pics of what it looks like now. What makes me so mad is that no one will admit to have done it. I mean, if you step on a small fish shop, you notice right? Why not leave a note, say you're sorry? Accidents happen. But to have them deny it when I KNOW they did it... that is just despicable.
Worst Blogger Ever Award
Made with cotton and linen from a pattern in this book.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Bride to Be
Even though I'm not very bride-y, I have wonderful friends both at work and otherwise that threw me both a wedding shower and bachelorette party. The shower was at work, and it was so very nice, Mike and I were very touched. Among our very kind gifts were a hand-crocheted blanket and JoAnn's & Michael's gift cards! I guess we are officially The Crafty People.
The bachelorette party was a veil-and-phallus-free winery crawl through Clarksburg. We stopped at a couple wineries on the way to the Old Sugar Mill, which is, unsurprisingly, an old sugar mill that houses 5 tasting rooms. After purchasing the best zin I have ever had to go with our lunch of cheese, crackers and fruit, we laughed and tasted our way through the whole building. I had no idea that there were such fabulous wines so close to Sacramento! For all you locals, they're having a Port and Chocolate event this coming weekend, and if you like either of those things, I highly reccomend going.
I just love this (appropriately) blurry photo of us all... Thank you so much ladies! I had SO MUCH FUN!!


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This document describes how to monitor BigQuery resources using Stackdriver Monitoring, including creating charts and alerts for BigQuery metrics.
Before you begin
Before you use Stackdriver Monitoring, ensure that you have the following:
- A Google Cloud Platform account.
- A BigQuery project with billing enabled.
One way to ensure that you have both is to complete the Quickstart Using the Web UI.
If you do not have a Stackdriver account, follow the steps in the Create a Stackdriver Account section of the Stackdriver Setting Up Accounts documentation.
Viewing and creating dashboards, charts, and alerts
Viewing the Stackdriver dashboard
To use Stackdriver to monitor your BigQuery project:
In the Google Cloud Platform Console, select Stackdriver > Monitoring, or use the following button:
Select the name of your project if it is not already selected at the top of the page.
To view BigQuery resources, select Resources > BigQuery:
Selecting BigQuery takes you to the default BigQuery page. On this page you'll see a list of tables, Events and Incident reporting that are user configurable as well as charts of Projects Metrics or Dataset Metrics.
Visualizing Slots Available and Slots Allocated
To visualize the slots available and slots allocated to your project:
Go to the Stackdriver dashboard for BigQuery described in Viewing the Stackdriver dashboard.
On the Stackdriver dashboard for BigQuery, scroll down to the chart named Slot Utilization.
The Slot Utilization chart appears on both the main Stackdriver default dashboard and the Stackdriver dashboard for BigQuery.
Creating a dashboard and chart
Display the metrics collected by Stackdriver Monitoring in your own charts and dashboards:
In the top menu of the Stackdriver Monitoring Console, select Dashboards > Create....
Click Add Chart. You see the Add Chart page:
In the Resource Type menu, select "BigQuery".
In the Metric Type menu, select "Query Time - 50th Percentile". You see the chart data in the Preview section.
Click Save.
Creating an alert
Create an alert by defining a condition and configuring the notification settings.
In the top menu of the Stackdriver Monitoring Console, select Alerting > Create a Policy, which opens the Create new Alerting Policy page.
In the Conditions section, click Add Condition.
The Select Condition Type page offers several types of conditions. For this example, choose Metric Threshold by clicking on its associated Select button.
On the Add Metric Threshold Condition page:
- Set RESOURCE TYPE to "BigQuery".
- Set APPLIES TO to "All".
- Set IF METRIC to "Query Time (50th Percentile)".
- Set THRESHOLD to a number, such as 8.
- Leave all other default values and click Save Condition.
On the Create new Alerting Policy page, click Add Notification to configure your notification settings. You can be notified by email, SMS, and several other options.
You can customize the notification message by clicking the Add Documentation button in the Documentation section.
Finally, name your policy and click Save Policy.
Metrics available for visualization
The following metrics are available, time delayed up to several hours.
|Resource Type
|Scanned Bytes
|Bytes per Minute
|Number of bytes scanned
|Scanned Bytes Billed
|Bytes per Minute
|Number of bytes sent for billing
The Scanned Bytes and Scanned Bytes Billed can differ for a couple reasons.
|Query Time
|Non-cached query execution times (s)
|Slots Allocated
|Number of slots allocated to the project at any given moment. This can
also be thought of as the number of slots being utilized by that project.
Slots are allocated per billing account and multiple projects can share the same reservation of slots.
|Slots Allocated By Job Type
|Number of slots allocated to the project at any given moment separated by
job type.
This can also be thought of as the number of slots being utilized by that
project. Currently, load and export jobs are free operations, and they run in a
public pool of resources.
Slots are allocated per billing account and multiple projects can share the same reservation of slots.
|Slots Available
|Total number of slots available to the project.
If the project shares a reservation of slots with other projects the slots being used by the other projects is not depicted.
|BigQuery Dataset
|Stored Bytes
|Bytes stored in the dataset - For the 100 largest tables in the dataset, bytes stored is displayed for each individual table (by name). Any additional tables in the dataset (beyond the 100 largest) are reported as single sum, and the table name for the summary is an empty string.
|BigQuery Dataset
|Number of Tables in the Dataset
|BigQuery Dataset
|Uploaded Billed Bytes
|Bytes per minute
|Number of bytes uploaded to any table in the dataset that were billed
|BigQuery Dataset
|Uploaded Bytes
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|Number of bytes uploaded to any table in the dataset
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(2012) Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-Associated Tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Strain Predominance, Clustering, and Polyclonal Disease. Journal of clinical microbiology, 50 (8). pp. 2645-50. ISSN 1098-660X
(2011) Polyantigenic Interferon-γ Responses are Associated with Protection from TB Among HIV-Infected Adults with Childhood BCG Immunization. PloS one, 6 (7). e22074. ISSN 1932-6203
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Mr. Chao, as president of USA Cable, oversaw the USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel.
USA's cable group will now become part of its overall entertainment division, which also includes Studios USA and USA Films.
Michael Jackson next week takes over as president-CEO of USA Entertainment. Doug Herzog, president of the USA Network; Bonnie Hammer, president of Sci-Fi Channel; and Patrick Vien, president of USA's Emerging Networks will report to Mr. Jackson.
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Weather in the Southeast this fall and winter is keeping up with the dry part of the typical La Niña pattern. Precipitation across most of the Southeast was "below" or "much below" normal for October-December.
The early wet season of 2010 was typical of La Niña, with rainfall in December 2010 between 200 and 400 percent above normal in much of Queensland, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
In early June 2010, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reported that the ocean and atmosphere conditions across the Pacific were favorable for the development of a La Niña episode.
Mark Eakin, a coral reef specialist and Coordinator of NOAA's Coral ReefWatch program, discusses coral bleaching in the Caribbean in 2010.
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Dmitri Shostakovich, 1967.
Violin Concerto no. 2 in C Minor - III - Adagio-Allegro.
|Dmitri Shostakovich is a brilliant master of texture, composition and construction. Like much modern art that falls in the category of abstract expressionism (think De Kooning, Jackson Pollock) a casual glance at Shostakovich's work leads many to think sloppy, casual, disconnected and disjointed. Shostakovich's work, like the work of those painters, is none of those things. Shostakovich prided himself in his sense of structure and composition, often borrowing themes from the greats that came before him. Indeed, his Violin Concerto No. 2 is profoundly simple and technically sound. It manages to draw on the works of Mahler and Stravinski yet remain remarkably fresh and inventive. Below the surface of the third movement is a strong and complex rondo (think ABACADA pattern). The repeating refrains are divided by expressive episodes that touch on themes such as life, morality, and mortality. All of which were striking put into focus by a heart attack in the year prior to the completion of this concerto. The cadenza in this third movement (starting at the 3:39 mark) is ferocious and prodigiously peculiar. The cadenza is what this piece is all about. Anxiety over the unpredictability of life oozes from the soloist's violin. FInally the movement concludes with a driving, triumphant flourish.
Selected recordings recommended for purchasing:
BBC Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Hope as soloist (Conducted by Shostakovich's son Maxim Shostakovich) version available here.
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Newsflash – A cancellation and a new beginning
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UH Manoa Nursing Dean accepts Kent State positionUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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The Dean of the UH Manoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene — Julie Johnson — has accepted an appointment as Dean at the College of Nursing at Kent State University in Ohio.
"Dean Johnson has made a difference for the university and for the State of Hawaiʻi during her time here," Chancellor Englert said. "She has been especially effective in building community and professional coalitions to support our program here, and I know that senior administrators at our major hospitals have been very impressed with her leadership.
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For every stock that fell on Monday, more than two gained, as investors shrugged off the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting set to begin tomorrow. The attitude of nonchalance that Wall Street seems to exude is misleading, though; even after today's gains, the S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) has fallen more than 1% in December as investors brace for a possible Fed "tapering" move. The S&P 500 did alright for itself today, though, adding 11 points, or 0.6%, to end at 1,786.
As always, not all stocks could escape the wrath of bearish investors, who sold off Safeway (UNKNOWN:SWY.DL) stock to the tune of 2.4%. Shares in the grocer will go ex-dividend tomorrow, which means investors can expect more downward pressure on the stock as short-term traders rid themselves of the risk of the stock while still locking in the next quarterly dividend payment. Safeway just sold 11 of its Chicago-area Dominick's stores to Roundy's, which plans to convert the locations to upscale Mariano's stores. Chicago's Dominick's stores had lost Safeway more than $35 million in the first three quarters of 2013 alone.
Casino gaming equipment company International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) lost 1.6%, which was enough to rank it toward the bottom of the 500-stock index today. There was no market-moving news about International Game Technology, and analyst ratings on the stock don't clear things up, either. Deutsche Bank, for example, bestowed a $22 price target on shares in September, but maintains a hold rating on the stock. If the stock gets to $22, it would mean more than a 28% increase from today's closing levels. It's tough to see how that's a "hold," but then again, Wall Street analysts don't have the best records as investment advisors, so even an all-out endorsement wouldn't mean much here.
Lastly, shares of Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) also dropped 1.6%, which isn't much of a pullback given the stock's 135% gains year to date. Airline stocks have been amazing investments in general this year as consolidation of the industry drove the industry persistently higher. The main catalyst of consolidation, of course, is the American Airlines Group and US Airways merger, which has officially been completed. Even though the merger is in the books, my colleague Adam Levine-Weinberg reminds us that American Airlines' spending tendencies, in contrast to Delta's more conservative fiscal philosophy, could serve to inhibit further gains.
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Shadowland: After the Fall #1
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Ah yes, Nothing makes you remember you've just sat through a big event comic than wading through the multiple epilogues that result. This week, "Shadowland: After the Fall" arrives, performing a functionally identical task to "Daredevil# #512. It checks in with Daredevil's supporting cast, explains where Murdock has gone, and introduces the Black Panther as the new protector of Hell's Kitchen. Just as "Daredevil" #512 did. The main difference? Well… there's the title, for one.
In fairness, although this issue covers the same ground as the recent "Daredevil" issue, the fact that it's the same writer means that it at least does so without contradiction, which has been a problem for event codas in the past. This issue follows two characters specifically: Ben Urich, newspaper reporter, and Detective Kurtz, a cop in Hell's Kitchen. Both are attempting to get to the bottom of what happened to Daredevil. The former does so out of concern for Matt, and the latter to bring him to justice. Through their eyes, we get to see exactly what has happened to Hell's Kitchen in the wake of Daredevil's demonic episode, and how the public feels as a result.
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Overall, it's hard to shake the feeling that the contents of this comic are largely redundant, but between the atypical interpolating structure, excellent artwork from both Roberto De La Torre and Marco Checchetto, and inventive, character-specific palettes from Morry Hollowell, it's ultimately a better read than "Daredevil" #512, the comic with which it shares so much, and a more reflective coda to "Shadowland" as a whole.


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Marijuana is one of the most versatile plants on earth. It can be extremely effective to treat mood disorders, including depression, social anxiety, and bipolar disorder. Unfortunately, the United States food and drug administration has determined, without explanation, that there are no viable medical uses for the drug, a finding which has been refuted countless times.
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Other than the accents, the thing that may most differentiate British sci-fi pic "Attack the Block," from its American counterparts is a relative lack of firearms. It was only a few years ago that the British copper began to carry a gun. Clubs were sufficient for generations. Otherwise, American filmmakers could learn something from this contemporary tale of space-alien invasion of Earth.
Like "Cowboys & Aliens," it has elements of a morality tale. It also offers suspense, crime, an unlikely band of street rabble forced to save the planet, and a good deal of understated, classically British, comic relief. It is not, however, a comedy as it is billed. But it does have "coming of age" elements, which actually work.
Title will make little sense to American auds. In UK, a "block" can mean many things. In this case it refers to a subsidized apartment house, what the Brits call a "block" of "council flats." The block is turf to two gangs, a group of teen and pre-teen thugs led by Moses (John Boyega), whose weapon of choice is the knife, and whose mode of transport is the bicycle, and a rather more lethal bunch of drug dealers who are a generation older. The two gangs come into conflict by accident of alien invasion. Auds can guess which gang lives to tell the story.
Pic opens with Sam (Jodie Whittaker, who played opposite Peter O'Toole's Maurice in "Venus" a few years ago) about to be mugged by Moses and his juvenile delinquent gang. The mugging is interrupted by what looks like a meteorite but is in fact a space alien landing on a parked car. It's an ugly thing but not quite as awful as the creatures from "Cowboys & Aliens." Moses and the gang slay the thing and parade it around as if it were a prop.
All well and good until its mates come looking for it. These nasty creatures are eyeless, black, hairy blobs who jump higher than an Olympian, scale tall buildings, and tear the guts out of their human victims.
The attack of the killer blobs leads to a couple of plot twists. First, it brings about an encounter, founded on a misunderstanding, between Moses' gang and the older drug dealers. Second, it puts Moses gang into an almost guerilla mode as they flee to safety in the block's "weed room," a reinforced indoor greenhouse for growing marijuana.
For all his bravado as a delinquent, Moses is not exactly the bravest of guerilla fighters. One of pic's amusing subplots is Moses' coming of age. Another amusing subplot is provided by a couple of small kids, aged seven or eight, who show just what a super soaker can do to nasty space aliens. The main plot, however, as with "Cowboys & Aliens," lies in the alliance between erstwhile enemies in the face of greater danger. Sam joins the teen gang. The girls of the block get involved in fighting the aliens, too. Even the geek, who come in for special bullying by Moses & Co. provides a critical plot twist and is eventually accepted as one of the in-crowd. The plot twist is deceptively simple: It seems, he points out, that the alien slain by Moses is a female. The hairy blobs are males. Moses and Co. have the female pheromones all over them. That is what attracts the hairy blobs. Auds can figure out the rest as Moses steps up to the plate in an action of almost commando precision.
Pic's fall guys are the older drug dealers and the cops. The latter can't seem to get anything right, even a space alien invasion, which they see with their own eyes.
Unusual for British import, "Attack the Block" can be understood by American ears. Sound recording is adequate. Action takes place in one night, which is a money-saving device for filmmakers. An abundance of night cuts the cost of set design. Lensing by Thomas Townend is up to par. Writer-director Joe Cornish helms with a steady hand, and pic is littered with ironic punch lines delivered in deadpan. How English! Kudos to Jonathan Amos for keeping pic down to 88 minutes in the cutting room. Action, which abounds, is convincing, if a tad bloody. Special effects lack the razzle-dazzle a Hollywood effort would offer, but it is not missed. The aliens get their point across without it.
"Attack the Block" is rated R, largely for language and violence. Sex is implicit rather than explicit. The rating is a joke. Today's kids would love it. Pic offers nothing they have not already seen in a video game.
Rated: R for creature violence, drug content and pervasive language
Release Date: 2011-07-29
Screenplay: Joe Cornish
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As well as Spode's famous Christmas Tree pattern, first recorded in 1938, and discussed elsewhere on this blog, Spode produced many designs with a Christmas theme.
Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), is often credited with introducing the Christmas tree into the UK but it seems this much-quoted 'fact' is not quite right and the tradition goes back further. Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of George III (1738-1820), should be the one to be credited. It is recorded by her biographer, Dr John Watkins, that in 1800 at Windsor Castle there was in the middle of the room... an immense tub with a yew tree placed in it, from the branches of which hung bunches of sweetmeats, almonds, and raisins in papers, fruits and toys, most tastefully arranged, and the whole illuminated by small wax candles. After the company had walked around and admired the tree, each child obtained a portion of the sweets which it bore together with a toy and then all returned home, quite delighted.
From the late 1840s Christmas festivities began to assume a different style. And it seems that after the London Illustrated News printed an engraving, depicting showing Queen Victoria and Prince Albert celebrating around a Christmas tree with their children, that the Christmas tree really caught on and the myth of Prince Albert's involvement born.
The designs with which we are so familiar today were new at this time but the combination of holly, robins, mistletoe and snow have become a much-loved and indispensable part of British tradition at Christmas.
Spode was possibly one of the first ceramic manufacturers to follow these new trends producing patterns using holly borders entwined with mistletoe and seasonal flowers on serving platters as well as on toilet wares such as ewers and basins. Pre-dating the change to the Christmas styles of today the earliest design with a seasonal feel in the Spode archive dates from about 1811. Pattern number 1575 shows a holly border and a little later, in about 1828, a tile with pattern number B195 is recorded decorated with a border of holly.
Many more patterns with a Christmas/New Year theme begin to be recorded in the Spode pattern books from the late 1840s. Patterns begin to appear in a style with which we are familiar today. An example of one of the early Christmas patterns is a ewer and basin with an embossed holly pattern which was registered as a design with the British Patent Office on 6th December 1849 with registered number 64739. (This registration number is discussed a little further elsewhere on my blog - click here).
A design, after a painting by Harrison Weir of a robin standing on a snow-covered branch, was produced in about 1861. The print of this centre had appeared in the Illustrated London News on December 25th 1858. Four other Christmas designs all using the holly motif, sometimes with mistletoe and a motto, (pattern numbers 8295, D579, D2033 and D2035) were exhibited at the 1862 International Exhibition and illustrated in the Art Journal Catalogue.
By March 2003 I had found nearly 100 Christmas/New Year designs in the pattern books dating from 1848 to 1938 with designs on tableware, giftware, ornamental ware, toilet ware and tiles. A full list of these can be found the in the Spode archive deposited at the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives.
Spode most famous Christmas pattern remains Christmas Tree. Go to my page Spode & Christmas for more of my Christmas links.
More early Christmas tree history can be found here: Jane Austen's World, Number One London, The Royal Windsor Website, Regency History.


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Where to stay in FosdinovoA city welcoming to all, Fosdinovo has a variety of hotels and other lodging options. There are 4 hotels in Fosdinovo and you can shop as many as 718 deals for rooms on Hotels.com, some with discounts of up to 50%. Our room prices start at 20 USD per night and below are the number of hotels by star rating in Fosdinovo as well as in the surrounding area:
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- • Sarzanello Fortress (3.5 mi/5.6 km from the city center)
- • Firmafede Fortress (3.9 mi/6.3 km from the city center)
- • Vallardi Art Gallery (3.9 mi/6.3 km from the city center)
- • Sarzana Cathedral (4 mi/6.4 km from the city center)
- • Cardelli and Fontana Contemporary Art Gallery (4 mi/6.4 km from the city center)
When to visit FosdinovoDo you want to know the ideal time of year to visit? Here are the seasonal norms to help with your planning:
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ekarda provides a multilingual enterprise grade platform for corporations looking to empower any number of employees to send out greeting cards to their customers & contacts. Take a look at some of the case-studies below for more information.
187,976 staff – India's 6th largest public company
Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology, software engineering and outsourcing services with 187,976 employees. Infosys is the second-largest India-based IT services company by 2014 revenues ($42.51 billion), making it India's sixth largest publicly traded company.
By utilising ekarda – Infosys was able to quickly empower thousands of employees across the globe to send corporate eCards in a variety of languages.
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20,000 staff across 150 countries using ekarda
Wolters Kluwer serves legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets. It operates in over 150 countries with employees and customers who speak a myriad of languages. With more than 20,000 staff within their organization from over 50 companies needing to send eCards – Wolters Kluver had a seriously complex issue when it came to empowering their staff to connect with their customers with greeting cards. Wolters Kluver now uses ekarda which enables their staff to send eCards in over 42 languages. The roll-out of ekarda was executed in under one week.
Caltex: Christmas eCards
2000 employees at Caltex using ekarda
Caltex had 2000 employees who needed to send out corporate eCards to their contacts, so the process of getting an environmentally friendly eCard designed and deployed was usually nightmare that involved months of planning and many thousands of dollars.
By utilising ekarda's Business to business eCard software – Caltex was able to empower thousands of employees to send Christmas eCards simply bu using ekarda's Christmas eCard Software.
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With multiple brands and 100s of employees needing to send out Christmas eCards, Fairfax faced an uphill challenge when organising their Christmas Holiday eCards. Fairfax had 6 brands that they needed to cover off and required a customised eCard for each brand.
ekarda worked with Fairfax to create Christmas eCards for The Age, Fairfax Digital, Fairfax Media, Domain, Drive, MyCareer and Commercial Real Estate brands at Fairfax – turning what used to be a nightmare of organisation into an environmentally friendly dream.
The Victoria Racing Club
Home of the Melbourne Cup
ekarda has produced corporate eCards for the VRC 4 years in a row. The VRC's Christmas eCards feature custom eCard designs where artwork templates were provided to the VRC's in-house design team, who went to work creating unique custom Christmas eCard designs suitable for the VRC/Flemington brand.
A large number of staff at the VRC were given access to the ekarda system – a solution that quickly and easily enabled staff across the VRC to send corporate eCards to clients, contractors & fellow staff members.
Heritage Bank
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Heritage Building Society has built a brand with excellent pedigree and chose ekarda to deliver a business to business and consumer eCard that lived up to their lofty requirements.
ekarda developed an entirely new Holiday eCard incorporating images supplied by the client to facilitate a large number of employees sending eCards to their business and corporate contacts and consumers alike.


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I have put together an easy 6 step tutorial that you might like to follow if you are new to textures. Also included with the tutorial is a free texture created by me and used in the the example image here. I would be most grateful if you use the texture if you would credit me and kindly link back to this blog so that others can use it too. Click here to download the zipped file.
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Boy, do I have a lot of things to show you! My internet has been out for a while (again!), so I am quite behind on layouts and show and tell. J But hang in there – I have some freebies, too, including a fun printable of lunchbox notes.
First up is Daily Memories by Adriana's Café. Here are some layouts. I really like the one with my great-grandparents – the paper and lace make it feel so vintage! 🙂
…And the kit….
…And a cluster frame using Daily Memories that you can download here.
Adriana also has September's Our Life in a Year out, too. Check out the kit.
I went hybrid with this one and made some fun printable notes – 8 of them, actually – that can be slipped into school or work lunches. I had so much fun with them that I just might have some next month with another of Adriana's kits, except with a Halloween theme. (Hint, hint!) Here's a peek at some of them.
And here's a look at the notes in the download. (Click on image for larger view.)
Download the printable lunch notes here, then just print them out on 8.5 x 11 paper, cut them and stick them in lunches. Most of the notes are generic, but there are a couple school ones, too. In the download some blank ones are also included so you can customize the notes. Here are some other ideas and tips for notes:
- Print out and pre-cut several notes at one time so they're ready to grab and go on a busy morning.
- Write a Bible verse to encourage or inspire.
- Add a knock-knock joke. What kid doesn't love these?
- Is there a test coming up? A project at work? A deadline? Add a quote or Bible verse to let them know you're thinking of them….
- Save all those random toys from party bags and Happy Meals and throw them in every once in a while, or pop in some stickers for a fun surprise.
- Write a personal note on pre-printed notes every now and then.
- Have Daddy write notes every now and then for the kids, too.
- …And don't forget Daddy! Have your kids draw a picture on a note for his lunch.
All of Adriana's kits can be picked up at Scraps-n-Pieces or Stuff to Scrap.


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Llandudno & The Calendar Girls
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A wonderful four day break as we take in the delights of Llandudno & the North Wales Coast along with included admission to the Calendar Girls. After a stretch on the glitzy west end stage earning five star reviews and hearty recommendations, the ladies from Yorkshire are baring all as they set off on a UK tour. Based on the smash hit comedy of 2003, Take That's Gary Barlow has teamed up with the original writer to present a laugh out loud show full of music, hi-jinks and tasteful nudes. Not without its teary moments, this musical is fast becoming a classic and promises to stay with you long after you leave the theatre.
PLEASE NOTE: Price is per person and based on two people sharing a twin/double room. Single room supplements and upgrades are not included.
What's Included?
• Coach travel throughout
• Reserved seating throughout your break
• Three nights dinner, bed and breakfast at the Grand Hotel, Llandudno
• All bedrooms with en-suite facilities
• Sparkling cabaret entertainment each evening
• Inclusive excursion taking in the sights of Snowdonia and Betws-y-Coed
• Included admission to the Calendar Girls at Venue Cymru.
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For a blooming good theatre break, don't miss Gary Barlow's hit musical the Calendar Girls on its debut UK tour in 2018.
Penned by the Take That star alongside lifelong friend and co-writer of the original hit film, Tim Firth, follow the tale of a group of ladies from Yorkshire who strip off in aid of charity and take the world by storm.
A real life-affirming story, this emotional and hilarious production will have you crying and laughing in equal measures, polished off with great musical and the odd cheeky joke! What's not to love?
Since making the transition from a hit 2003 film to the stage, Calendar Girls has received five-star reviews with critics in the West End. See for yourself why Calendar Girls is an eye-watering smash hit by booking a Showtime break with National Holidays.
Wales' largest resort with the attractions to match - so whether you fancy a ride in the UK's only cable hauled tramway to the top of the Great Orme, standing majestically over Llandudno's bay, or perhaps a stroll down the longest pier in Wales with its traditional stalls and entertainment, Llandudno is the perfect coach trip destination and offers a great time for all ages at any time of year.
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Participants were responsible for all travel costs, as well as the $100 registration fee (due after being accepted). The institute covered all other expenses:
- All lodging and meals from the evening of Sunday, June 15 to the morning of Thursday, July 3,
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- Accepted applicants who were practicing Chinese teachers (at any level) were required to send in a video clip (at least 10 minutes in length) showing them accomplishing one instructional objective, such as teaching a grammar point or cultural concept.
- All participants were required to bring a laptop. Participants who did not own a laptop borrowed or rented one for the duration of the institute.


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"Released when "The Donnas" were still in elementary school, this sounds like what you would expect their debut to sound like. Raw, sloppy, and still pretty good. It's no "Hungry For Stink", but it's worth a listen for the "L7" fan. "Bite the Wax Tadpole" sounds like something from "Smell the Magic", and "Lets Rock Tonight" is just as good. My favorite by far is "Metal Stampede". One of my favorite "L7" songs. The rest is good, but not great. Die-hards should get this, casual fans go directly to "Bricks are Heavy"."
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"This record is so bad that founding members Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner have completely disowned it and have retired it from their live shows. The record is hampered by the inept and lackluster drumming of Roy Koutsky, who was soon thrown out of the band for his unprofessional attitude. The material lacks any sort of focus or originality, and the only positive comment I can make is that the band's progress since then has been tremendous."
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Erica Anderson | Minneapolis, MN | 09/06/2004
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"I was a big L7 fan back in the early to mid '90s. While everyone was into Nirvana and Pearl Jam, I was into L7. I felt that L7 was vastly superior to Nirvana and Pearl Jam. I bought everything L7-related that I could get my grubby hands on. Before drummer Dee Plakas joined the band, L7 actually had a male drummer (as if that would make any difference since the production on this cd was awful). I eventually bought their self-titled debut album. I have to admit that this was not the band's best album. Brett Gurewitz's production was less than stellar. Their sound on this album was pretty bad. The songs on the cd were not nearly as catchy as what I heard on "Smell the Magic" and "Bricks Are Heavy". Nevertheless there were some songs that I did like on this album like "Cat-O'Nine-Tails" and "Metal Stampede". The self-titled debut album by L7 may not be their best work but I have heard much worse music by other artists/bands than this album."


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Deadline Day
The trade deadline has come and gone, and the M's have made no moves. Which I'm totally fine with.
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July 31st, 2006 4:56 pm
Mark Lowe is a relief pitcher, not a starter.
Odd for you to say that, Jason, when Dave suggested possibly trying him as a starter in 2007.
I actually was sort of surprised at how easily the USSM crew packed it in on Q13 last night. I'm not ready to say "no†about the M's being in the playoffs yet. Ask me in a month.
I'm just happy, honestly, that the M's have about a 20% chance of winning the division, and it's the last day of July. I'm not too bullish about them pulling off, but there's hope this year that hasn't been there in a couple of years.
Churchill on
July 31st, 2006 5:30 pm
Why is it odd, because Dave has a different view of Lowe than the Mariners do?
I'd try it, too, but that doesn't mean Seattle will.
All of the player development people prefer him in the bullpen, and as late as this spring training, so does Rafael Chaves.
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