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Will it be the new Grom? Maybe not, but it is sure to draw a crowd.
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I'll have to try whan I come back to Italy! It looks great!ReplyDelete
All that Lurisia water and soft drinks look amazing! ;-)ReplyDelete
Pistachio is my meter for ice cream too! it's so delightful when you get the real pistachio flavour but often here, it tastes of almond as they use a cheaper nut mixture :(ReplyDelete
Eataly looks amazing. I can't believe it. Mecca for all things Italian. And they have one in NYC too!!! Nothing beats gelato with milk from Piemonte. And soft serve at that! Genova looks so modern!ReplyDelete
Wow, I would get lost in that store too! Maybe for hours! That is until I left for the gelato! Your little guy is adorable and so are all your photos.ReplyDelete
I'm so jealous of your weekend trips! Definitely sounds like a foodie paradise =)ReplyDelete
Pola - Genova has a lot to offer to tourists
Moomser - yes, we have a soft spot for Lurisia as you know. We end up taking pictures wherever we go (see Florence)
Lorraine - I remember the pistachio I grew up eating in NY...neon green and tasted nothing like pistachio
Nicole - I know, the NYC one is huge and really successful. You will have all the ingredients you need to recreate your Roman recipes. The old port went through a huge restyling a while back so it is a great mix of old and contemporary, exactly what is so often missing here.
Linda - thank you
Peggy - the best thing about Milan is that it is so close to everything: mountains, lakes, sea, hills. France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Croatia. You name it, we can pretty much do it.
Beautiful restaurant , I could easily spend the day there! Love the gelato and the soft serve; in Texas, soft-serve is really big, especially for frozen yogurt shops.ReplyDelete
Soft serve not gelato. I was disappointed when I tried this icecream at Eatly in Florence. The gelateria in Eatly Turin is much, much, much better!ReplyDelete


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Oil-rich Alberta, with fewer than 2 million people, has a problem, if it really is a problem: how to spend $5,000 a minute. This Texas-sized province of Canada has collected some $8 billion from an oil boom in just four years, a tidy nest egg that Premier Peter Lougheed's government is having a difficult time spending.
The wealth is tipping the balance between the often- rival east and west in Canada as well as straining relations between the federal government in Ottawa and the loose confederation of provinces.
Any attempt by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to control Alberta resources or take more of its wealth "would be tantamount to the Boston Tea Party or the first shot at Fort Sumter and would turn every westerner into a separatist," warns Nick Taylor, Albertan leader of Mr. Trudeau's Liberal Party.
With most of Canada's oil wells in his province, Mr. Lougheed plans to redress old western grievances against the Anglo- French "Golden Triangle," the built-up area between Ottawa, Montreal, and Windsor where most Canadians live, using the taxes and royalties imposed by Alberta on the petroleum business.
This economic clout, resulting from higher oil prices, is his political lever against the population clout of the east.
"Alberta is pure OPEC country," says Concordia University professor Fred Knelman in Montreal.
In 1976, the Lougheed government began to bankroll a Heritage Trust Fund using 30 percent of the petroleum tax revenues and royalties. The other 70 percent pays off municipal debts, creating a relatively tax-free economy.
The fund's purpose is to finance the dreams of tomorrow's Albertans and prepare for the day when the oil runs out. But as it is now larger than anyone expected, the fund is perceived as a financial menace by the rest of Canada and an ominous presence in sparsely populated Alberta.
By the end of the decade, the fund could reach $35 billion or even more -- depending on whether Mr. Lougheed can force domestic oil prices near world levels.
The federal government now receives a 9.5 percent of Alberta's oil profits, the province of Alberta about 46 percent, and the oil industry about 44 percent.
Alberta's economic growth was double that of other provinces in the 1970s and will be triple in the 1980s, according to the province's forecast. Between 1972 and 1978, Alberta's percentage of the gross national product rose from 8.2 percent to 12 percent. Business on the Alberta stock exchange more than doubled last year.
Currently receiving some 30,000 immigrants a year, Alberta's population is projected to increase by one-third to 2.8 million people in 1990 -- or about the size of metropolitan Toronto.
Alberta has the highest real estate prices in Canada, almost twice the average of other provinces. Albertans pay 32 percent less taxes than the average Canadian, and their government spends 16 percent more per person than do other provinces. "Obviously there is a considerable fiscal advantage to being an Alberta resident," says economics professor M. L. McMillian of the University of Alberta.
But, asks Don Wilson, editor of Canadian Futures magazine, "How much wealth can one region accumulate before it becomes a sovereign state?"
Like the 13 British colonies in America, a separation movement could possibly erupt in western Canada if Mr. Trudeau continues trying to assert more federal control over the provinces and if a strong pro-separatist leader emerges, such as occurred in Quebec with Rene Levesque in 1976.
A poll earlier this year showed western Canadians say they have more in common with the western United States than the rest of Canada. And following Mr. Trudeau's October plan for a tax on Alberta energy, two Alberta newspaper polls showed close to one-quarter of respondents favored separation from Canada. Mr. Trudeau dismisses such talk as "hysteria."
So far, Mr. Lougheed does not talk of separation. At a recent conference of Canadian premiers, for instance, Prime Minister Trudeau asked rhetorically: "Who speaks for Canada?"
The response from Premier Lougheed: "We all do!"
For the popular Albertan leader, however, the financial fruits of oil are seen simply as a ticket to "buy" the influence Alberta seeks and to broaden the province's economy to someday rival the industrial areas of Ontario and Quebec.
"Alberta is like a rich lady putting $1,000 bills in her socks," says a top oil executive. Each $1 increase for a barrel of oil, plus an energy equivalent price rise of 15 cents for 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas, puts $250 million more a year into Alberta coffers.
The fund is a symbol of Alberta's new oil wealth, but also a target for its critics and a potential political dilemma for the Lougheed government. So far, it has invested more money than it spent. This reflects a deep concern in the once-poor western provinces of not having enough for the future.
"Saving for a rainy day is built into the western Canadian psyche. People here do not want to be treated like a colony [of eastern Canada] again. We had better set aside a savings account for the 1990s and future generations," says Lou Hyndman, Alberta's treasurer.
"This money doesn't belong to this generation. After 15 years, the conventional oil supply will be gone. We are selling a capital asset," he adds.
The Alberta fund has cousins in other newly rich oil nations, such as Mexico. But it hardly compares to the 1979 estimated $125 billion surplus of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Such a large amount of cash has proved embarrassing for Alberta, evoking envy elsewhere in Canada. "It's like the rich man's house down the street. Everyone points at it," says Mr. Hyndman.
In fact, Ontario Premier William Davis and Quebec Liberal Party leader Claude Ryan have said that Alberta's extreme wealth does not serve national interests. They are afraid Mr. Lougheed could link Alberta's commercial loans to capital-hungry provinces with an agreement for higher oil prices. Critics charge that the fund causes a fiscal drag on other provinces, widens the cracks in Canada's confederation, and reduces Ottawa's role as the agent of redistribution of money.
Such charges only confirm Alberta's suspicion of eastern "paternalism."
In Alberta itself, the Lougheed government is under constant pressure to make the fund's benefits more visible. Many Albertans know that each $1 billion in the fund could mean $500 directly into their pockets. But that is not how the money will be spent. Treasurer Hyndman receives thousands of requests from people who want the money spent on some unusual investments.
"We get people advising us to buy the Louvre in Paris or build a canal to the Pacific or buy up an Hawaiian island," says Mr. Hyndman.
Polls show a majority of Albertans say the fund should be spent in the province only. But the fund has been given four purposes by the Lougheed government:
* To make more money by investing it, which so far has been the easiest, politically safest, and most common use of the fund.
* To invest in Alberta companies in order to build up certain industries, such as oil sands and petrochemical plants.
* To finance capital projects such as irrigation, hospitals, parks, and housing.
* To loan the money to other Canadian provinces for energy and industrial development, especially if it helps rather than competes with Alberta's interests.
Alberta's "generosity" to Canada, now measuring over $1 billion in loans, includes a $100 million grain terminal to British Columbia to help landlocked Alberta farmers export their crops and a $200 million for Quebec's giant James Bay hydroelectric project. Mr. Hyndman calls these loans "unifying links with the people of Canada."
Ultimately, the fund could help open oil wells in the Arctic, electrify a British Columbia railway, improve the Alaska Highway, dig coal mines in Nova Scotia, or improve the St. Lawrence Seaway. "That's part of being a partner in this confederation," says Mr. Hyndman.
Who chooses where the money is invested? Premier Lougheed announced at the fund's founding that the legislature would "in essence, control the tap and hold the purse strings." Yet, 80 percent of the fund does not need approval by the legislature, in which 75 of the 79 seats are members of Mr. Lougheed's Conservative Party.
"If General Motors wanted to invest in Calgary, we couldn't ask them to go into the glass bowl of legislative debate for negotiations," says Mr. Hyndman. The Lougheed Cabinet, made up to a large degree of former business and lawyer associates, makes the investments decisions. Hardly any loans are under $1 million. Such investments, as in any business, cannot be made in the light of public scrutiny, says Mr. Hyndman, who says that accountability comes at election time.
Alberta newspapers acknowledge their role as the only power left to question Mr. Lougheed's judgments on setting the course of the province with such a large financial lever.The Calgary Herald has called for a citizen watchdog group to monitor the fund. "It would lessen the prevailing feeling that the fund is run by a remote and exclusive club of powerful men," an editorial said.
But perhaps the most curious aspect of the Heritage Trust Fund is its role in fulfilling Mr. Lougheed's dream of creating a "light industrial" society in Alberta.
A new petrochemical industry fed by one of the largest natural gas pools ever discovered is considered to be the cornerstone of this new society. Alberta could become the world's largest supplier of plastics, anti- freeze, and other petrochemical products. Two plants already have been built, five more are on the line, and a goal of 40 world-scale plants are scheduled for the end of the century.
Keyed to petrochemicals is the building -- almost from scratch -- of a "brain center" of electronics and pharmaceutical companies. "We have no dream of an industrial state. We don't want smokestacks here. We want the best jobs. We want the brain power here. We want the upgrading of our resources here," Mr. Lougheed has said.
Diversifying the Alberta economy, which includes upgrading the beef and wheat farming industries, so far has been difficult. "We just want to establish the climate for risk takers," says Mr. Hyndman. Attracting workers in such industries as electronics may not be easy given Alberta's harsh climate and isolation.
But, for the meantime, Alberta leaders know they can just invest rather than spend the fund, thus keeping the province in the money for another century or more.
"The sun always shines on Alberta," says Premier Lougheed, echoing a description of the British Empire in the 19th century.

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... Zoloft 200mg and starting Brintellix 10 mg.. Is one better than the other ? Zoloft was for anxiety / depression. Nothing being said about anxiety now just major depressive order which apparently Zoloft is not meant for and not working anymore, can you build up an immunity after being on Zolotf for a few years ? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thank You
What is the difference between depression and major depressive disorder ? I was just weaned off?
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I just started this new med last Friday so only a few days just hope it works well
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Any antidepressant can stop working after a while... your body can build up a resistance to it.
Also, sometimes other medications you have can interfere with antidepressants. This is one reason it's important to let all of your health care providers know everthing you're taking.
I've not heard of Brintellix so I don't know how it differs from Zoloft. Just remember that it can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks for a new medication to have its full effect. I hope this new one works well for you! Good luck!
thank you I was not sure if you could build up a tolerance or not. Yes I have a small list which I always carry with me.
Depression vs major depressive disorder is a matter of degree and length of time you have been experiencing the symptoms. We all have blue moods, but these generally go away in a few days. With major depressive disorder the depression lasts longer than a couple of weeks and is on going sometimes accompanied by anxiety. Brintellix is a newer antidepressant which may well do the trick for you. Going to have to give it time to work, 4 - 6 weeks, and you may need a dosage increase during that time to reach therapeutic level for you. We are all different in our responses to these type medications, so it isn't a one size fits all. It is by trial and error that we discover what works for us.
thank you I thought it was something new as I have never heard of this med. I went to my migraine doctor and though the migraines are under control she was very concerned about deep depression. This issue of depression will in time settle itself out, but in the mean I thought I was just depressed. But it has been a long time I have been feeling out of sorts and getting more so. thank you once again
I know that I have major depression because I'm becoming a recluse, not smiling & feeling numb. 10 yrs ago I just had depression because I still had hope & medications that don't work now worked then. For example, Zoloft worked fine & when I took a Ritalin I got in gear. Now Ritalin does nothing & Zoloft is like a sugar pill. Also, I know that mostly everyone feels a lot better than me.
Not really Brintellix is more of an atypical antidepressant and is very potent it acts of 5 serotonin sites and is especially heavy on the serotonin 1A and in my experience (taken them both) it is a lot stronger than Zoloft and at 10mgs you will have less side effects than 200mgs of Zoloft. Give it a couple weeks and then see how you feel
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The EPA held a "Public Workshop to Discuss Management of Underground Injection of Carbon Dioxide for Geologic Sequestration Under the Safe Drinking Water Act" last week. I've talked about this issue before here. This process continues to not get the attention it deserves as it may drastically effect drinking water quality. The workshop is a decent look at part of the 'sausage making' process so here are some random thoughts (the quotes aren't quotes, they're paraphrased but I blockquoted them for clarity).
We can regulate the injection but can't use the Safe Drinking Water Act to regulate indirect risks to drinking water.
Isn't it nice when they just come out and tell you they can't protect drinking water? I find this refreshing. And yes, I RO the drinking water in my house.
Maybe the states can do it!
Punting when you're down by 40 rarely saves the game.
Dude for BP:
Very pure CO2 is needed for injection. CO2 is ~15% out of the stack so it will take a lot of energy to purify it.
So we need to produce more energy to clean up the energy we are producing. How's the view from down the rabbit hole? Also, does this remind anyone else of using ethanol for fuel?
Mutiple people:
CO2 wont necessarily contaminate ground water.
Well, I feel better.
Panelist (I think AWWA):
We may need even currently non-potable water in the future (I think he was refering to salty water in the west) and we should be careful about putting CO2 near any areas that might be used in the future.
Didn't you hear the EPA? We can't protect water! It's not like it's a precious resource or anything. Kudos.
Panelists (now using brains):
Speaking of salty water, wont the high pressure injections make salt leach into current water sources making them non-potable?
Other panelists (not using brains; or using them for evil):
You don't know that. Maybe good things, like better water, will be leached in.
Yeah, that's the way it always works. Someone injects some crap into your ground water and you've got better water and less cancer. It's like that hcivokcorB nirE movie.
Everybody (all together now!):
We need more research.
Ooooo. Stunner.
Some other panelist:
Mitigation is actually pretty easy. Just decrease the pressure.
Hey, that's actually some good news. Does it make me too cynical to admit that I don't really believe it can be that easy?
Group discussions:
It seems that some drinking water will be contaminated no matter what.
Um, what about earthquakes
Who takes care of a mess once the injection is done?
I'm going to stop here but to give you an overall sense for what these things are like: Everybody seems to think that there are a lot of reasons for not allowing this to go forward, but the very fact that there is a process almost assuredly means it's going forward in some manner. It's like an avalanche, it's quite possible you could divert it the smallest bit by massive amounts of work, but it's going to the bottom of the hill whether you like it or not. A couple of times people mentioned that someone should weigh the risks of injected CO2 to the risks of keeping it in the air. Although no friend to global warming, it seems pretty stupid to inject it. But it sounds cool, so let's just go with the flow.


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Let's say you are going to get into business or enter into an agreement with someone you trust. Do you need to get it in writing? It is always a good idea to have a written agreement. Writing provides clarity. Even the process of working through what you have agreed to, to the point of reducing it to writing, will help you think more precisely about what you have agreed to do and what the other side has agreed to and to articulate better the terms of the agreement. Learn more about why you need to get it in writing in the video below.
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text: A NewJersey.com article quotes inventor Ray Kurzweil, robotics expert Hans Moravec, and Nanotech engineer K. Eric Drexler on The Matrix Reloaded. Kurzweil expresses his usual optimistic view that we'll be able to do all the good things in The Matrix but none of the bad will happen. Moravec just says that machines are now out-evolving humans and we're done for. Drexler thinks it's mostly nonesense but does raise valid issues.


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oel Hotchkiss was born in 1949 and raised in Sherman, Connecticut. He studied Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY graduating in 1972. After college while working and living in Boston as an Art Director, he began making and filling his apartment with mobiles. He moved to Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area in 1978 to "fully dedicate myself" to his newfound passion of becoming a Mobile Artist. "Creating visually unique, contemporary mobiles for over 30 years has been a passionate and rewarding journey for me artistically. I still love this intriguing sculptural art form that produces "dynamic art in air". I continuously introduce new ideas to my mobiles. I push my creative impulses to pursue innovative approaches resulting in new styles, balancing techniques and uses of materials." The early years of the 1980's in the Bay Area were very "heady" and exciting. Joel commuted daily from Oakland to a Studio called Kinetic Objects in San Rafael where he studied and learned the art of Mobile Making. It's there he taught himself welding techniques and to work with metals, plastics and fabric applications. "I would often travel down across the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco and deliver my mobiles to a Gallery in Ghirardelli Square before returning home to Oakland." For over 30 years now, Joel has designed an extensive line of mobile designs sold in Galleries and Museum Stores nationwide including San Francisco MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum and the National Gallery in Washington, DC. He works with his wife Sandra and 2 Assistants at their Studio/Workshop, now located in West Stockbridge, MA where they also create larger Mobiles for residential and commercial spaces. Joel's art mobiles have been seen in movies and TV productions such as Sneakers with Robert Redford. The Tri-Lumen mobile which appeared in The Witches of Eastwick and the Ascent and Traverse mobiles which were seen in Baby Boom are others.
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VTech MobiGo Giveaway~Ends January 1
The MobiGo Touch Learning System is one of VTech's best sellers for kids ages 3 - 8
With a touch-activated screen and a QWERTY slide-out keyboard, kids get to emulate their parent's gadgets while learning from characters like Shrek, Disney Princesses and Dora. Tap, slide or flick with MobiGo - kids pick the way they play and learn about colors, shapes, spelling, math, logic and more.
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Older kids ( pre teens ) can connect their MobiGo online with a USB cord so that they can upload their high scores to their games, receive awards and download extras. Little ones can do this to you'll just need to help them of course.
As your kids grow you can buy them new cartridges that are for their age group and this also helps them from getting bored. After they learn one gran them another. Cartridges are great to recommend to family members to buy them for the holidays or birthday's.
The sky is the limit with MobiGo and your kids can learn so much and there are many developmental benefits. Letter Names & Phonics, Basic Math Skills, Problem Solving, Science Concepts, Cognitive Development, Visualization Memory, Independent T Play, Creative Play, and even Motor Skills.
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Video - Panta Rei Danseteater 'Lullaby'
Norwegian dance company Panta Rei Danseteater, late last year, conducted a little experiment whereby three dance makers created two pieces with the same name based on the same idea, featuring three male dancers and two musicians, to see what the outcome was.
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A little over 8 months ago DanceUK opened the first of what they hope to be several clinics for professional dancers around the UK.
The first clinic is based within the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London and since opening it has seen over 100 dancers from a wide range of disciplines as well as students and former dancers.
As well as the in-house Consultant Rheumatologist, Dr. Roger Wolman, the clinic also appointed a physiotherapist in September last year to provide additional levels of treatment.
Helen Laws the National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science (NIDMS) Manager from DanceUK told us;
Through the clinic we've seen hip-hop dancers, ballroom dancers, contemporary dancers the occasional ballet dancer. A whole range, [so] we're reaching the people that we wanted to reach.
The knock on effect to the clinics popularity is that the limited resources can quickly become strained;
Ms Laws explained;
I would say that its kind of been overwhelming, it's been hard to try an predict what the demand would be, it was partly reliant on how fast the word would spread. We didn't want to be spending money unnecessarily on people being [at the clinic] who might not be seen so we had to provide a service that was at the lower end of what we wanted to meet.
The downside of that is that we're now getting a bit of a wait time because it has been so popular so that is the thing we need to tackle next.
Despite potential wait times and issues regarding resources professional dancers have been universal in their praise for the service.
Above all they are reassured that their injuries are being evaluated and treated within the context of their job. The clinic staff understand why something that might be a minor annoyance to a non-dancer could turn into a potentially career threatening, long-term injury for a professional dancer.
Ms Laws highlighted the case of the clinics very first patient Andry Operia from London Hip Hop company Zoonation;
"The first person that was seen before we were officially open was Andry from Zoonation and he has been a major success story, He was seen really quickly he was operated on, did his re-gab and he was back performing in their show."
When professional dancers don't have access to such treatment the story is almost always very different. A tale of erratic physiotherapy appointments, expensive treatments, long waits and persistent injuries that often get worse over time.
Most dancers struggle to find treatment from specialists who understand their specific needs.
The research element of the NIDMS is not fully underway as yet, due to a lack of funding, but Ms Laws told us that the research element is still very much part of the overall plan.
Data is being retained to not only monitor the service that is being provided but to evaluate dancers injury treatment and recovery compared to those that do not have access to the clinic itself.
During the first year of operation the clinic is aiming to prove that it can be self sustaining. That is, attract enough use from the dance profession to justify the NHS running a specialist service
Helen Laws explained;
"I talk to the doctor all the time, he's seen over a hundred dancers. To make it self sustainable we needed to see 3.5 new cases per week and we've been getting between 4 and 6 new referrals per week."
Should this continue then a clinic, available to professional dancers, could become a long term possibility with the added benefit of not requiring any additional resources. All the provision would come from existing NHS resources.
The Disgruntled Masses
When the clinic first launched, a story on the BBC News website was accompanied by several angry comments decrying the use of "scarce NHS resources" for such a specialised group of people.
Ms Laws countered such criticism by explaining that dancers would normally not go and see their GP when they were initially injured due the complete lack of confidence that they would be listened to.
"They would have been waiting until it got really bad and then they would have been going to their GP and then it would have been, potentially, a lot more costly.
[There is] no extra cost to the NHS while testing out the effectiveness [of the clinic], dancers are seeing the correct specialist sooner so they get help earlier so it costs less.
The total NHS budget for 2012/2013 will be just shy of £105Billion. A number that is unlikely to be substantially impacted by providing appropriate medical care to a few hundred dancers over a period of twelve months.
Getting Fixed
If you're a professional dancer and need to be seen by the specialists at the clinic in London (although you do not have to be based in London) then you need to be referred by your own GP for treatment. The National Institute For Dance Medicine website has complete details on their website (link below)


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Lougheed Peak 2 Direct by West Bowl 5.4
Lougheed Peak 2 Direct by West Bowl 5.4
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Mt. Lougheed is usually done as a long two day traverse of the 4 peaks with a 5.4 rating. We had heard that there was a direct route up Peak two which is officially the main/highest peak. This had been done by
various people but no route description in any books.
The idea was to go up the valley on the southwest side of the mountain from Spray lakes into the west bowl below peak two and climb the main peak only.
Travel south from Canmore on the Smith Dorien Road (#742) aka the Spray Lakes road.
Peaks One to Four of Lougheed from South
Peak One and Peak Two(on right)
Route is on left side of Peak Two in the bowl between the peaks
We parked beside the creek to South of Spurling Creek at N50.972 W115.317
There were cairns and places to park for 1-2 cars. Travel along left side of creek on small game trails and work up to tree line. Ignore the small creek/drainage that comes in on the left. Continue on up to a large grassy
bench which can be followed to the right around a major buttress and into a
large bowl at end of valley. When coming out stay on the bench until
directly above the ridge you came up to avoid slabs, minor rock bands and
excessive sidehilling. Stay high and enter bowl as you pass a buttress on
your left. On the far righthand side of the bowl is a waterfall down a
syncline which is directly below the main peak. Travel across the bowl to
near waterfall.
View of bowl on NW side of Peak two.
Route Description
A 4600 foot(1400m) day with scrambling up to 5.4
Description based on a climb done in August, 1999.
Route Overview Picture
Above is a series of 30 to 120 ft walls and ledges. To get past the
first wall start 100 yards left of waterfall beside a black wet dripping
watercourse. Take ramp up to left for 100-200 feet and take gullies and minor ramps to get up to next level which is large ledge 40 to 50 feet wide against a 50 ft wall . Traverse back to right and up for 70-100 yards to beside the watercourse and climb up a gulley/chimney to the left up to next ledge.
Note rap station and where the water is running to the right.
Above are 2 more walls . Traverse left for 2-300 feet on smaller and then thin ledges which lead around and up to the next large ledge. come back to right(Note there is rap station farther right close to water course which lines up with the rap station at top of chimney) and up a rubble gulley and small ledgesto a larger ledge which is 60 feet wide and along a 120 foot wall.
Traverse right past dripping water to a major 120 ft chimney which exits out at thetop of the wall and onto major scree and rubble and a view of peak 1(distant) and the main peak. Grind straight up and then scramble up a series of rock ribs to the right which lead over the next wall and onto more rubble which leads up to the col. The other side of the col which is the front NE face is vertical and you can look down to highway 1 and Deadman's Flats and Canmore.
To the right the ridge leads up to NW face of the main peak( 4-500 vertical feet). Bypass small walls to the right or climb over various small weaknesses by moving back and forth across the face. Bad rubbly rock made harder with scattered snow and ice. The face sees little sun and even the recent warm temperatures had not cleared the latest snowfall. Near top climb up a harder 15 ft wall to 10 foot wide ledge/ramp that runs to left up to the NE face. Climb a 20 ft chimney(5.4) and out onto easier ground and onto the top.
Great views of Joffre and Sir Douglas to the South, Assiniboine,
Goodsirs, Temple and all the way to the Wapta Icefields in the North. Long grind up which took 7 and 1/2 hours despite not using the rope.
Retrace the route and downclimb or use rappels. We did rap 3 -4 times and backed up the old pins with slings or a second pin. It took just as long to get down due to poor downclimbing conditions and the long hike out especially the headlamp work down through the trees.
Peak Two from Peak One in spring.
Essential Gear
Helmet, harness, rope and boots.
We carried a reduced set of nuts and tricams and 2 cams(1 and 2 inches) but did not use anything on the way up.
I carried a hammer and 2 knife blades, 2 angles and 2 lost arrows since the route was unknown. Limestone frequently only has thin cracks to work with and the freeze/thaw cycle will loosen existing pins.
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Matching music to the instrument brings pleasure to the players and satisfaction to the composer
According to his own motto, this amiable composer was concerned to make his music match the instruments he composed for. I can only gauge his success by reference to the recorder, but I'd say he did extremely well.
Georg Philip Telemann used to be just a name to me, one of those composers more or less lumped together under the label North German pre-Bach. My first introduction to his music was stressful but convincing. Imagine the scene … a young eighteen-year old answers a small ad. and goes to try his skills against a stranger. He enters a long, panelled room half-filled by a substantial loom and generally overflowing with examples of a severe and active interest in Morris, Dolmetsch and other giants. A small, white-haired figure stirs in an arm-chair.
"Come in, come in. Shall we start with some Telemann?" The tongue-tied youngster can advance no reason why not. The little old lady hauls out a turned wood music stand probably as old and as certainly as tall as she is, carefully takes a score from the canterbury next to the loom, and announces "I thought we might start with the canonic duets." Youngster, profoundly disconcerted, looks blankly at single line of music and feels like a complete booby.
Be not afeared, gentle reader: things could only get better. The Norn explained the simple principle behind these economically-laid-out duets and soon we were playing away with comfortable fluency, one chasing the other as merrily as jugglers.
Since then I have become acquainted with a great deal more Telemann. His recorder music is just a delight, so well composed for the instrument that it almost forces the fingers to keep up. The flute and recorder concerto is something on my list of unlikely-to-be-realised ambitions: very playable, and such an ear for the fine difference in timbre between the two instruments. Some of his string concerti (viola da gamba, viola, two violas, three violins) were Chris' first introduction to my record collection, and happily he took to them.
Telemann has an ear for sonorities, a memory for snippets of Eastern European folk tunes, and a wicked sense of humour. Try his Alster Overture and prepare for a surprise.


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The Canons of the Synods of Sardica, Carthage, Constantinople, and Carthage Under St. Cyprian, Which Canons Were Received by the Council in Trullo and Ratified by II. Nice.: Canon XXXVI
p. 460 Canon XXXVI. (Greek xxxix.)
That bishops or clergymen are not to be ordained unless they have made all their family Christians.
None shall be ordained bishop, presbyters, or deacons before all the inmates of their houses shall have become Catholic Christians.
Ancient Epitome of Canon XXXVI.
He shall not be ordained who hath not made all his household orthodox.
This canon is Canon xvij. of the Synod of Hippo, a.d. 393.
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Update below: A seventeen-year-old male who fled the scene of a crash that killed a two-year-old boy Sunday night has turned himself in, St. Louis county cops say. Charges are expected later today. Our original coverage of the accident is below.
Police spokesman Randy Vaughn tells Daily RFT that the suspect who fled in an SUV -- which he later abandoned in the city -- showed up to the police department yesterday and confessed, saying that he tried to avoid hitting the boy. He also said, "The reason I left was because I was scared," Vaughn says.
Meanwhile, the family of two-year-old Darion* Griffin is grieving after the Spanish Lake crash left him dead at a hospital shortly after the collision and also injured his seventeen-year-old aunt who tried to rescue him.
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Police yesterday were able to locate the 2013 White Dodge Durango at the 4400 block of Carter Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood. Soon after that, the suspect came in and confessed.
Police officials have not yet identified the suspect or offered details about where he is from or what charges he might face.
Some neighbors witnessed the gruesome crash.
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Meanwhile, the two-year-old's aunt suffered a concussion, bruises and a broken toe, KTVI (Channel 2) reports.
The suspect turned himself in after Griffin's mourning grandmother Alexandria Goree pleaded via the media for the driver responsible for the boy's death to come forward.
Update 2, 1:19 p.m.: County police have just issued charges against the seventeen-year-old suspect, which officials have now identified as Charles Guice, who lives on Nemnich Avenue in north county.
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text: WILLIAM MURPHY, a professor of agronomy at the University of Vermont (UVM) looks out of his office at this hilltop, mountain-framed college campus and shakes his head. "Anyone who would argue that we shouldn't go toward sustainable agriculture has to be a fool because I don't think there's any alternative," he says. "How can there be an alternative? How would anyone work toward a nonsustainable way unless they had a death wish?"Dr. Murphy voices the sentiment of a number of professors, graduate students, and other faculty members who are pushing for a sustainable agriculture program at the University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. In five years, supporters hope to expand what is now mainly research-based projects to a program that would include an undergraduate and graduate curriculum. They want to get more research money, attract greater student interest, and construct a building that would house a sustainable agriculture center. 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Although the movement is slow, the University of Vermont is one of a growing number of colleges and universities around the United States that are incorporating sustainable agriculture into courses or increasing research. At least one college - the University of Maine - offers both an undergraduate and graduate program. Agricultural schools "that want to be around are looking very seriously at sustainable agriculture," says Jerry DeWitt, agricultural extension director at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa."The bandwagon is rolling, and everybody wants to be on it. Those schools that are listening are making some appropriate changes in their research, teaching, and extension programs." The catalyst for this activity was the United States Department of Agriculture's Low Input Sustainable Agriculture (LISA) program. In 1988, Congress appropriated federal funds for sustainable-agriculture research. Each year, this money is divided among four regions of the country. 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On Build Day, we had about 200 dedicated volunteers turn up to make drastic changes to our tired, old school yard! By the day's end, our students had:
-three brand new play structures: one for the kindergarten classes, primary division and junior division!-a brand new outdoor classroom with prayer corner, outdoor stage for dramatic productions and theatrical student performances during recess(!), and a storyteller's chair
-outdoor community gardens and landscaping, including many new trees planted to provide shade, and a wonderful outdoor reading area at the front of our school
-colourful, beautifully painted outdoor murals of flowers and children in motion, mounted in our outdoor classroom and outdoor reading spaces
-newly built and installed soccer nets both in the primary and junior yards
-brand new 10'x12' sandbox in the kindergarten yard
-brand new 10'x12' sandbox in the kindergarten yard
-improved sports fields and long jump pit, and freshly painted bike racks and monkey bars-plus, a brand new, renovated kitchen compliments of Team Depot (Home Depot, Carleton Place)
Thank you to all volunteers who came out that day, including Jesse John of Let Them Be Kids, the Team Depot members, and Dan from Belair Recreation, who supervised the building of our three play structures. You all did a magnificent job!
The photos below show the gorgeous, sunny day God blessed us with on Build Day! Here are some of the amazing results achieved when we all got together to work to improve our students' school experiences:
St. John's new outdoor classroom (prayer corner) and outdoor stage being built on Build Day!
Outdoor reading area with new murals to add some colour, plus the new Primary Division play structure!
Two more play structures! The first is St. John's new Junior play structure and the next photo shows the Kindergarten play structure with our new (very popular!) airplane spring rider!


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PvP is in much better condition than it was during the Dark Reign of Graves And The Evil Undead (feat MPD), and assuming that the upcoming RWL doesn't spoil that too badly, we might look forward to better battles in the queues for the rest of the expansion.
What incentives might Blizzard provide for that, without significant new development?
I have a desert of nearly 4000 battles to cross before the next achievement. I'm not averse to popping in for a few, but there's nothing to concentrate my attention.
Family Familiar is a great success. It popped into my mind to day that a related set of achievements, like:
Magic Mauler: Win 12 PvP pet battles through Find Battle with a full team of unique level 25 Magic pets.
with a suitable wrap-up achievement, would be just the thing.
Yes, it is a major handicap to try to win with, say, all Magic. Cue the sound of heads banging against walls.


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Years ago we lived out in the English countryside. The local passenger trains were typically late, and the public address announcer would give the same speech once an hour, "Sorry for our most recent delay- insufficient rolling stock, poor labor relations, insufficient infrastructure expenditure, managerial incompetence, and the possibilty of leaves on the track seem to be the likely culprits today". It always got a laugh...
Welcome to London: Your Luggage Is Missing
Why British Airways Is Worse Than Even U.S. Airlines At Losing (and Finding) Bags
August 21, 2007; Page D1
The strains of the world's aviation system can be seen pretty clearly in Ned Soltz's moldy luggage.
On June 29, his suitcase was lost by British Airways PLC at London's Heathrow Airport on its way to Israel. Mr. Soltz, an Arlington, Texas, rabbi and digital video author, says British Airways often didn't answer baggage-office phones or respond to emails. When the bag finally was delivered to him by FedEx on Aug. 1 -- 15 days after his trip ended -- he says the suitcase was so water-logged that black mold was growing on his clothes and audio-visual equipment.
"It was tremendously stressful because they were so quintessentially unhelpful," he said.
British Airways has been a baggage nightmare for travelers since Christmas last year. Tens of thousands of bags have piled up at Heathrow at various times this summer. British Airways, the world's second-largest airline in international passenger traffic, mishandled 28 bags per 1,000 passengers in the second quarter this year, a rate that is twice as bad as the worst U.S. major airline, US Airways Group Inc. In all, British Airways has lost the bags of more than 550,000 customers in the first half of this year. The airline says it is sorry about customer experiences like Rabbi Soltz's and that its baggage operation is returning to "normal" now, but at Heathrow it is still susceptible to meltdowns when flights are delayed.
A look into the root causes of British Airways baggage problems reveals much about the state of airline dysfunction today. There's finger-pointing between various groups responsible for operations, plus a lack of manpower, aging equipment, jam-packed planes, security hassles and schedules packed too tightly together. Just like airport delays, bumped passengers and other travel problems this year, the British Airways baggage system shows how airlines have made operations so lean and taxed infrastructure so fully that problems compound exponentially for customers.
Traveler beware -- many of the problems likely won't ease until British Airways moves into a new Heathrow terminal in March, or the British government relaxes its security restriction allowing only one carry-on bag, which has sharply increased the volume of checked baggage.
After the alleged liquid-bomb plot was uncovered in August 2006, British authorities limited carry-on baggage to one piece -- period. The rest of the world lets travelers take two bags on board planes, usually one suitcase and one personal bag, like a briefcase or purse. That increased the volume of checked baggage on British Airways by about 15%. Added volume strained a system already overtaxed.
Regis Philbin launched into a rant on his "Live With Regis and Kelly" show last month about how British Airways lost two of his wife's suitcases, and returned one soaking wet. Mr. Philbin told his audience one of his wife's favorite Armani dresses was ruined.
Trudi Behr, a marketing consultant from Los Angeles, says she arrived at British Airways baggage claim area in Heathrow in late July to see luggage stacked 12-feet high. "There were rows and rows of bags," she said. Hers wasn't delivered, and a British Airways representative told her it would be on the next flight out of Rome, where she had been on a business trip.
"I fell for it," said Ms. Behr. She tried to track her bags through British Airways electronic system, but got no updates. She couldn't reach anyone to talk to. Then, 13 days after they were lost, the three bags arrived at her Los Angeles home, one each day for three consecutive days.
Some problems emanate from the airport itself. The Association of European Airlines says the Heathrow baggage system physically failed 10 times during May and June, including power failures and breakdowns in a tunnel of conveyor belts that move bags between British Airways buildings, Terminal 1 and Terminal 4.
Heathrow's owner and operator, BAA Ltd., "is delivering embarrassingly low service levels on everything from security wait-times to baggage delivery and almost everything in-between," Giovanni Bisignani, chief executive of the International Air Transport Association, said earlier this month.
BAA says problems have largely been airline problems, not airport. BAA, which is owned by Grupo Ferrovial of Spain, says it sorts bags for airlines and delivers them to drop points -- after that, it's all up to the airline.
"The airport's baggage system is extremely robust and is coping well since the one-bag rule was introduced in 2006," a BAA spokeswoman said. British Airways says weather has been a major factor -- fog last Christmas, storms this summer. That has meant widespread flight delays -- something the airline's baggage setup hasn't been able to cope with. While passengers run to get on their connecting flights, bags don't move as fast, and British Airways hasn't held airplanes waiting for their bags.
The carrier says there's only enough room in its baggage hall -- where bags for specific flights aggregate and are loaded onto carts -- for the scheduled number of flights each hour. The airline doesn't want planes sitting at gates waiting for bags because it needs the gate for other flights. And it doesn't have room in its baggage hall for delayed flights. Leave a station dedicated too long to a delayed flight and there's no place to put bags that customers are checking for upcoming flights. So it's round 'em up and move 'em out -- whether they get on the right flight or not.
"If the airline holds too many planes at Heathrow, gridlock can develop in terminal areas and taxiways. And it's the same for baggage," said David Noyes, head of British Airways' Heathrow operation. "The whole effect snowballs and it doesn't take long to get gridlock."
Sending customers without their bags only compounds problems because the delayed bags will have to undergo special security screening to fly later without their owners. That takes time and manpower.
Mr. Noyes says British Airways has supplemented the troublesome tunnel with vans and trucks and is in the process of hiring 340 more baggage handlers. The airline has used cargo carriers to ship out delayed bags. And British Airways has changed its schedule to add 15 minutes to its minimum connection times -- now 90 minutes for connections in different terminals and 75 minutes for connections in the same terminal.
In addition, British Airways has been hiring phone staff after realizing it didn't have enough workers to answer customer calls. It used to tell customers to call the baggage office where the bag was lost -- but Heathrow baggage workers were often out looking for bags and rarely answered the phone.
The ultimate solution, Mr. Noyes noted, is the March 27 opening of Terminal 5, which will greatly boost capacity and move 90% of the airline's operations under one roof.
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Tall and stately it stands, its classical facade framed by a forest of trees, its green lawn a plush carpet leading to the portal of Yester. Yester - the Gaelic word for valley - is an 85-room, 17th-century pink sandstone mansion located 18 miles east of Edinburgh in eastern Scotland.
Since 1973 it has been the home ofthe Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti whose opera, "Amahl and the Night Visitors," is today probably the most frequently performed opera in the world. (He's also known as the founder of the two Spoleto festivals, the one in Italy dating from 1958, and the one in Charleston, S.C., from 1977.)
"Why Scotland?" I asked the maestro as he relaxed over an espresso. "After all, you were born in Italy and have lived for over a half-century in the United States."
"I moved to Scotland for a very simple reason: I wanted to live in a country where silence is not too expensive. You see, in Italy you have to be a millionaire to buy silence. People think composers are looking for music, but what a composer wants most is silence."
The story of how Menotti discovered Yester is an interesting one. "I was born in a 19th-century house on Lake Lugano in Italy, and have always loved living in an old house. But when I first approached the Scottish heritage society, they showed me pictures of ruined old castles. I tried to explain to them I wanted a gracious house for living, not a fortified house.
"They then pointed to a photograph of Yester in a magazine and suggested perhaps it might be the answer. Shortly afterwards they introduced me to the owner. "When I actually saw the house, I thought it was just the most beautiful house I had seen in a long, long time. But when I asked for the price I nearly fainted.
"Fortunately it so happened that the man who owned it was an Australian who loved my music. `I want you to have this house' he told me and took a third off the price, but I still couldn't afford it. I told him that even if he cut the price in half I couldn't handle it. `I tell you what I'll do,' he said. `I will give you ten years to pay for it with no interest. Will you accept it?' Who could say `no' to that?"
A new opera house
Now in his eighth decade, Menotti is active in scouting talent from around the world for his two festivals. Tired of constant jet travel, an idea occurred to the maestro. Why not take the elegant old building that had served originally as a stable (Menotti owns no horses) at Yester and convert it to an opera house?
"I met a youngish architect whose style is neo-classic and asked him if he could make a model of an opera house which could be made out of my stable, a theater which would seat about 450. A short time later I met Prince Charles in Italy, and I mentioned this idea to him and showed him some sketches the architect had drawn. Then I just forgot about it."
One day, Menotti got a call from Buckingham Palace, saying that Prince Charles, who was then in northern Scotland, wanted to talk to him further about the project. The secretary asked if Menotti would go up the next day to see him. What Menotti thought would be a brief meeting and conversation turned into a three-hour discussion.
Prince Charles was enthusiastic about the idea and liked the style of the building, Menotti says. The composer persuaded him to host a fundraising event, which turned into a performance last May of Mozart's little opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus" - written when Mozart was 11 and sung by the 40-member Tolzer Boys Choir from Munich - in the Grand Ballroom of Yester followed by a sit-down dinner for 66 in the banquet hall.
Once the opera house is complete (not even a tentative date has been mentioned yet as there are still substantial sums to be raised) it will mean that the maestro will no longer need to travel so much to audition singers and artists for the two festivals. They can come to Yester and present their recitals and concerts. "It will become a workshop, a school, a theater of research," Menotti proudly emphasizes. "It will help and guide young talent, it will train them and prepare them for performances at my two festivals. It will serve as a springboard for a triple debut: Yester in Scotland, the Festival dei due mondi in Italy and Spoleto USA in South Carolina."
Menotti's record for discovering young talent is remarkable. He helped launch the careers of such then-young artists as Shirley Verrett for whom he specifically staged "Carmen," he introduced the now-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma, as well as first introduced a young dancer named Antonio Gaddes.
Other musical projects
When he's not searching out new talent, Menotti will be working in his new post of artistic director of Rome's Teatro dell'Opera. The composer has just signed a three-year contract, renewable for another three.
In his spare time, he's writing hism emoirs and composing a one-act opera for the Spoleto USA Festival - "The Singing Child" - and a Gloria for a new mass commissioned by the International Peace Foundation. Each section of the mass will be written by a composer from a different country. The mass will be premiered in Assisi, Italy, under the baton of Loren Maazel. Menotti will bring the completed mass to both his festivals.
All in all, the maestro may have found silence in Scotland, but he has surely found music ringing through his head as these creative efforts show.


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Dougherty, an attorney, has made a career in executive health care management. She serves as chief operating officer at Physical Therapy at St. Luke's. She received her Juris Doctor,...


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Taking note of conversations may sound unnecessary, or even plain paranoid, but often proves to be extremely useful. Recalling those conversations word by word is one heck of a superpower.
One thing I've always missed about Facebook is that ability to keep logs of your Facebook chat history. As it is, Facebook only remembers short snippets of some most recent conversations – and only per page and in between sign-offs. Because the user has to be online, this can only ever be used to continue some previous conversations where you left off.
Below is an alternative method to permanently save your Facebook chat history, using browser extensions.
Using A Firefox Add-On Or Google Chrome Extension
Before we head off, let's dispel a common misconception that has already earned these extensions some bad ratings. This technique does not allow you to delve into long lost conversations, prior to the usage of these extensions. Why not? Simple; because Facebook does not keep those around. So unless you can find yourself a time machine, there's no way to recover those.
From the moment you're set up however, these extensions will remember every single word said. And those can be retrieved later on.
Start out by downloading and installing Facebook Chat History Manager as a Firefox add-on or Google Chrome extension. There's still a little work ahead before they're running smoothly, though.
On Google Chrome, go to Window -> Extensions -> [FbCHM] Options, as can be seen in the screenshot above. You're now in the extension's Options pane. On the left, select 'Get Facebook ID'.
On Firefox, go to Tools -> Facebook Chat History Manager -> Get Facebook ID.
After logging into your account and authorizing the Facebook application, you'll be able to view your Facebook ID. This is a number unique to your Facebook account. Copy it to your clipboard; you'll need it in the next step.
On Google Chrome, go to Window -> Extensions -> [FbCHM] Options -> Create Account.
On Firefox, go to Tools -> Facebook Chat History Manager -> Create Account.
Use the previously obtained Facebook ID to create your account. The passwords here do not have to match your Facebook log-in password. It's solely to keep your chat logs safe. Because you'll have to log in later on, and again whenever you want to browse your chat history, an easy to remember login name can speed this up. This is optional though.
After creating your account, the set-up process is complete. The browser extensions will quietly keep track of your Facebook chat history, and allow to access it later on.
The Google Chrome extension will place an icon on your address bar, as can be seen in the screenshot above. Clicking it will prompt you for your username and password, before sending you off to your chat logs.
On Firefox, simply go to Tools -> Facebook Chat History Manager ->View History. Here too, you'll need to enter your account details.
The Facebook chat history viewer isn't very pretty, but does what it's meant to do. On the top bar, you can select a period; on the left, a friend. To view older conversations, select 'previous', or use an input field to jump to a specific page.
If you've got anything to add – whether tips or alternatives – feel free to make use of the comments section below!
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If i install the apps /add on in my desktop and use Facebook on another computer or mobile ,does this work?
This plugin doesn't work anymore. If you use Chrome browser, you can try this extension, I've been saving my chats with it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-chat-downloader/kflkdhmijdgjnlbdkfgdmolcjnflmlhf
Hi , is there anyway of getting the entire facebook chat into my email? Normally only messages when we are in offline only will come to the mail as notification. But i want to get an entire conversation into my Hotmail. Thx
I just want to know, will this work even when i delete some conversations from facebook ?
I recommend you ask this on MakeUseOf Answers,
thanks for the answer;-))) , but , for example , in august 15 i remember tha i have spoken with 7 friends and it shows just the chat with the one of them.why this happens ????and also one last question , is it possible to delete one person from the friend list??not just the dialog with him but also the person.thank you veeeeeeeeeeeryyyy much for your time!!!!!:-))))))
can anyone help me with the friend list???it shows just the chat with one of my friends ..how can i add more friends to the list so i can see my chat with them??
New friends will appear automatically when you start chatting with them. :-)
I recommend you ask this on MakeUseOf Answers,
Hi nola,
Are you using Chrome or Firefox? Can you tell me what you're seeing?
this was working great
dont know why this not working now!
reloaded and tried everything to get this working again
does anyone know why it's not working
this was working great
dont know why this not working now!
reloaded and tried everything to get this working again
does anyone know why it's not working
Hi nola,
Are you using Chrome or Firefox? Can you tell me what you're seeing?
It's an excellent product, but a desktop Facebook client product such as Chit Chat or Digsby does this for you so you don't have to look up your Facebook ID.
It's an excellent product, but a desktop Facebook client product such as Chit Chat or Digsby does this for you so you don't have to look up your Facebook ID.
That's right. This product is first and foremost for people who want to use the website's chat interface and still keep records of their conversations.
The above plugin works fine, however there are many desktop Facebook clientschat clients like Chit Chat and Digsby that will let you use Facebook chat from your desktop and then save your chat history for you automatically which are browser independent. Moreover, they are easier to use than having to look up your profile ID.
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Can you explain a bit about the backdrop and time of which Derry Girls is set….
It's set during the troubles in Ireland in the 90's and what's really interesting is, that like a lot of people that have suffered, one of the way you cope with suffering is through humour. I think that for Irish people to undermine whatever trauma they are experiencing by trying to laugh at it is part of our natural response. What I am excited about is how people in England will see it. The strength of the comic writing in the piece means that it should transcend the situation that it is set in. I think it will go down very well in Northern Ireland and I think it will go down well in southern Ireland . As soon as they send me a sample episode of this I was like "jeez this is brilliant" the writing is so sharp, the girls are fantastically sarcastic and funny. It was a no-brainer for me to do it.
What can you tell me about your character?
So my character is a southerner, married into a very strong northern household and I am hated by my father-in-law who transfers some of the abandonment issues on to me as a "soft southerner" meaning that the life of the southern Irish hasn't been as traumatic as the northern Irish, therefore they are a lot tougher so I have supposedly come from this soft southern background into this wild northern Irish family.
What did you think about how Lisa McGee captured this particular moment in time?
In any kind of troubled situation humour exists. It's part of some people's natural response. You can imagine parts of the East End in London were economically deprived but the sense of humour there is sharp. You could say the same thing about parts of Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, the list goes on. The sense of humour is so strong and that transfers so obviously to Northern Ireland, where you have armies – sounds daft now as we are 20 years out of it – but there were army checkpoints everywhere around the north. Soldiers were walking the streets, soldiers were being shot. But to be able to focus on ordinary family dynamics in a really funny way, in that situation, it's a fantastic thing to be able to do.
Do you think today's teenagers will be shocked when they see that kind of environment and the girls just going around being typically self-centred?
Yes, I mean they are flirting with the soldiers! To come from a background that is being marshalled by an army and the girls are going out flirting with them because they're in a uniform and are all young and fit, it's an irrepressible life force or something! It's one of those sitcoms where the social background of it is like "wow, if you can pull this off, well done". With a lot of sitcoms now the social backgrounds are quite bland and ordinary a lot of it is middle-class and is all charm but this has got some real teeth to it.
Did you enjoy filming in Derry & Belfast?
I loved it! I haven't done a sitcom or any acting for over 20 years, as I spent all my time working on stand up by myself, and I loved being on set. Michael Lennox is a fantastic director, I loved doing take after take, I could have stayed there for months doing it! I also loved the process of being on set, and working with up to 20/30 people – technical crew, practical crew, the producers, cast, camera people – I loved it.
Obviously you're very well known for stand up, how does filming something like this differ?
It's different because it's a shared experience; just the camaraderie of it is huge. The hours as well, you might be told your car is getting you at 6.30am in the morning, I mean usually I am only just getting home from a stand up gig at 4am. It's a complete change of pace, but also you get that feeling of satisfaction at the end of the day's work, going back to the hotel and collapsing on to your bed and just watching a bit of telly.
The young cast are obviously all rising stars, is it nice working with new talent? Did you ever give them any advice?
They would know automatically not to seek any advice from me! They looked at me and thought "Lets avoid him, he's troubled enough!" A good few of them come from a drama school background so they have technique down already. But it was fantastic to be beside their energy. I got just as much of a kick out of working with Ian McElhinney, who played my father in law, he is one of the best screen actors around at the moment. And then Tara [Lynne O'Neill] and Kathy [Kiera Clarke] who played my wife and my sister-in-law. I had real difficulty with laughing during the scenes, myself and Kathy had to come to an arrangement after the first week that we were no longer able to make eye contact with each other, her character is so ridiculous and she pulls it off so realistically that I just wasn't able to look at her without giggling. I swear to God, I had awful problems with laughing, cold sweat of anticipation. They are all phenomenally talented people; it was a real education for me.
How do the Derry Girls school days in Ireland compare to your own?
I guess the school that I went to wouldn't have been as ferociously religious as the school that the girls went to. At that time in Ireland, when I was at school in the 80's, the catholic church was beginning to loosen its grip on things so these scenes that I was in based on the school the girls seemed to be under a heavier thumb than I was.
Are you still in touch with your school friends?
Oh god yeah. My school friends now live all around the country so when I am gigging I often get a text from one of them and we hook up for a drink afterwards, and you never laugh as much as you do when you're in school. And the stricter the school the more you laugh, our headmaster was strict, not religious, but strict and so I laughed a lot. I still have those strong relationships with the fellas that I went to school with.
Has the series made you feel nostalgic for your life back then?
Not really, but I am very proud of it as an Irish story and for the first time for people to see the troubles on screen in a way that shows the spirit of the people was bigger than the situation that they were in. I don't think that you have to belong to any particular tradition to understand that it's just the human resources of just laughing, at the end of the day that's what keeps us together is laughing really.
There is obviously a fantastic list of music from the show, have you been digging out all your old albums and listening to them?
In terms of music appreciation I have tragic taste. I missed all the craic in the 90's – I missed The Stone Roses, The Happy Monday's, Blur - I just missed everything. I was into Folk music; I am only getting into The Smiths now! During the 90's I was listening to Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, if something is culturally popular I tend to avoid it until it's passed its sell by date and then can explore it at my own pace. My musical taste is backwards!
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