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POLLOCKSVILLE � Commuters who have missed using Island Creek Road (State Road 1004) as a shortcut to U.S. 17 could get it back Monday evening.
POLLOCKSVILLE � Commuters who have missed using Island Creek Road (State Road 1004) as a shortcut to U.S. 17 could get it back Monday evening.
The road, known as Brices Creek Road in Craven County, has been closed to through traffic since June 12 to allow crews to replace a bridge over Island Creek, about 8 miles south of New Bern.
The old bridge was built in 1974. Its replacement was part of a $450 million statewide project to replace or update several N.C. bridges.
Project Manager Myron Meadows of Trader Construction Company of New Bern, contractor for the project, said that, �weather permitting,� the new bridge will open by 5 p.m. Monday.
The new bridge was originally scheduled to open this Friday, but weather has slowed work down.
�Honestly, if we hadn�t had the rain that we�ve had, especially today, we would have had it,� Meadows said.
Tuesday�s rain, including showers at 5 a.m. and noon, caused delays in putting down asphalt on the bridge surface.
DOT�s Assistant Resident Engineer Paul Vorwerk, who is overseeing the project, agreed that rainy weather has been a real bane to the project.
�The weather never cooperates toward the end of a project,� he said. �They kind of got hamstrung because of the asphalt. You can�t pour asphalt when it rains.�
The Island Creek bridge project got off to a slow start, as well, Vorwerk said, when foundation piles had to be replaced.
Based on soil tests, contractors had estimated that 50-foot piles would have to be driven at either end of the bridge for construction. However, the soil turned out to be softer than expected.
�There was no nice limestone layer,� he said. And so work was delayed while 80-foot piles were obtained.
�The plan is to come in and have asphalt on Saturday and do the fine touches on Monday,� Vorwerk said. �We hope to open by 5 o�clock.�
Meadows said his company has worked closely with the state during the project.
�It has been a good relationship with DOT,� he said. �They�ve been a real pleasure to work with.�
And, as to the bridge, �It�s gonna be a good bridge. It�s real nice. It�ll be here for a while.�
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WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With all the scary talk these days about head injuries in football, many are asking where the sport goes from here.
The answer is a new, hour-long documentary, "THE SMARTEST TEAM: Making High School Football Safer", currently airing on many PBS stations around the country through January 2014.
THE SMARTEST TEAM is the brainchild of visionary youth sports safety and parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and draws on knowledge she gained as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and, for the past fourteen years, as publisher of MomsTEAM.com, the acknowledged "pioneer" in youth sports concussion education.
THE SMARTEST TEAM begins where other concussion documentaries leave off. Instead of simply cataloging the dangers of concussions, the documentary shows how a team of world-class concussion experts de Lench brought in from across the country helped a high school football program in rural Oklahoma increase concussion awareness, improve concussion identification and management, and reduce its concussion rate by 75% in a single season.
Six Pillars
THE SMARTEST TEAM offers a blueprint for making football safer through a focus on what de Lench calls the "Six Pillars" of concussion risk management:
1. Education: Educating parents, players, coaches, and health care
professionals on the signs and symptoms of concussion and the long-term
health risks concussions pose if they are not identified early and
managed conservatively;
2. Prevention: Reducing the risk of traumatic brain injury by teaching
"heads up" tackling and blocking, equipping players with properly fitted
helmets, strengthening their necks to better withstand the forces that
cause concussion, reducing the number of hits they sustain, and through
stricter enforcement of rules against helmet-to-helmet contact;
3. Early Identification: Giving sideline personnel, especially certified
athletic trainers, the tools they need to identify athletes with
suspected concussion so they can be quickly removed from play;
4. Conservative Treatment: Providing concussed student-athletes the physical
and cognitive rest they need for their brains to heal and return to the
classroom as soon as possible;
5. Cautious Return to Play: Allowing athletes to return to sports only when
their symptoms have cleared, they can handle a full academic workload,
scores on baseline tests have returned to normal, and they have
successfully completed return to play exercise protocol; and
6. Retirement: Recommending retirement from when continued participation in
football poses an unreasonable risk of permanent brain damage.
Narrated by two-time Super Bowl winner and Big Ten Network announcer, Howard Griffith, "THE SMARTEST TEAM" features a number of leading experts on preventing, identifying and managing head injuries in sports, including:
-- William P. Meehan, III, M.D., Director of the Sports Concussion Clinic
and the Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention at Boston Children's
-- Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, Ph.D., Director of the Sports Concussion Center
of New Jersey;
-- Joseph A. Congeni, M.D., Medical Director, The Sports Medicine Center,
Akron Children's Hospital, and
-- Coach Bobby Hosea of the Train Em' Up Academy and developer of the Head
Free Tackle System.
"THE SMARTEST TEAM shows what can happen when all stakeholders work together to make the sport of football safer, not just for their own kids but for all kids," says de Lench. "More broadly, it charts a path forward, not just to preserve but to strengthen youth and high school football, which plays such an important part in the life of so many communities across America."
About MomsTEAM.com
MomsTeam.com(R) is the premier online youth sports parenting information gateway for America's 90 million sports parents. MomsTEAM's Concussion Center is widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date resources for concussion information on the Internet.
For more information about THE SMARTEST TEAM, including a press kit, please visit www.TheSmartestTeam.com
Video with caption: "THE SMARTEST TEAM: Making High School Football Safer - is a documentary airing from now until mid January 2014 on PBS, about how a team of experts, under the direction of youth sports safety expert Brooke de Lench, working with the football program at in rural Oklahoma, for an entire year, to address the challenges concussions pose to the sport were able to reduce the rate of concussions by 75% in one season." Video available at: http://origin-qps.onstreammedia.com/origin/multivu_archive/PRNA/ENR/FX-NE06412-20131030-1.mp4
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Angel Veza joined the Breakthrough New York family in December as the Middle
School Coordinator for the Manhattan site.
Upon joining the team, Angel was already well-acquainted with the Breakthrough
experience, as she was a Teaching Fellow for three summers in the San
Juan Capistrano and Hong Kong sites during college. After graduating from
Tufts University, she was the Admissions Coordinator at City on a Hill Charter
Public School in Boston. However, she wanted to return to the Breakthrough
"I love the students," she says. "I believe all students should have access to the
tools and resources they need to be successful for college and beyond. Here at
Breakthrough, we provide that accessibility."
She pursued Breakthrough New York because, she points out, it's a unique site.
"Breakthrough New York is an independent non-profit, which allows for more
flexibility, creativity and opportunities. We're able to grow our staff and support
our students not only through middle school but through high school," she says.
A native from Kentucky, she's the first in her family to pursue this career track,
and in her free time enjoys choreographing fights and movement for theater and
performing contemporary dance.


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The * operator in Python is overloaded to allow you do cool things like
a = 'h'*5 # stores 'hhhhh'
So naturally when I needed to initialize a list of lists, I did something like
t = [[]]*3
and expected to get a list with three empty lists. Then here's where I made my error. If you do something like this
you might think you should get
t = [['hi'], [], []].
That would make sense, but what you actually get is
t = [['hi'], ['hi'], ['hi']]
and that can mess up your logic if you're not careful. What I really wanted was the more verbose
t = [[] for i in range(3)].
In retrospect, it makes sense that the * operator just creates more pointers to the object I'm multiplying, not completely new objects. Thus when I change the underlying object, I change all the copies. But still this wasn't entirely intuitive and is a nasty pitfall to watch out for.


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Baked haddock is currently my 7-year-old's favorite meal! That makes me happy because haddock is an excellent source of protein and is packed with vitamins and minerals. For more benefits of haddock, click here.
I try to get fish into our diet at least once a week, so I make this whenever I can find fresh haddock, usually once every couple of weeks. And it couldn't be easier to make! I do use Ritz crackers which isn't the most healthy way to eat it, but I'm just happy to get some fish in our diets and my family loves it this way.
Baked Haddock
- 1 pound haddock, skinned
- 1 egg, beaten
- ½ sleeve ritz crackers (or enough to cover the top of the fish), crushed
- 3-4 Tablespoons butter, cubed
- Rinse Haddock under water, and check to make sure there are no bones.
- Place haddock into 9" x 13" glass baking dish.
- Rub egg over both sides of haddock.
- Coat the top of the haddock evenly with ritz crackers.
- Place cubes of butter on and around haddock.
- Back in a 500° oven for 15 minutes. Enjoy! 🙂


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As well as sponsoring the CCN105 class at Puhinui, Horse & Pony have also come up with some great prizes for the best dressed male and female competitors at the trot ups. This is going to be judged over both Thursday's and Sunday's inspections.
The overall winner will receive a magnum of Veuve Cliquot Champagne (provided they are over 18 of course).
First prize for the best dressed male and best dressed female is a year's subscription to the wonderful NZ Horse & Pony magazine (valued at $78) and also a book voucher worth $100 which can be redeemed at their bookshop.
You can check out how to subscribe and their bookshop catalogue on this link
There will be judges at the event, and they will pick the top five or so competitors who stand out as exceptionally stylish. They will be looking for sensible but smart footwear, at least a pop or splash of colour and a good hat may also get you extra points. Flair not flares are encouraged. A photo gallery of these equestrian fashionistas will go up on the NZ Horse & Pony facebook page at some stage after the final trot up and then voting will open through until Wednesday morning, closing at 10am. The person with the most likes on their photo wins the prizes!


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Tuesday was another beautiful blue-sky day in Oxford, and marked the beginning of the normal routine of classes and independent study time for the students. Eva was very excited after her first Law lesson with Ivo, her tutor, where she got a chance to dive into some ethical and moral scenarios, and come up with her own definition for 'right' and 'wrong'.
Saif and Yazeed, who are part of the Young Doctors' Academy, learned how to use their stethoscopes and eagerly practised listening to their tutor's heart rate. They couldn't find it initially, so naturally concluded that he was dead.
In the afternoon, students attended a Resilience Masterclass with Oxford medical students, who taught them techniques for relaxation and stress relief. Favourites included those that required students to focus all their energy into a raisin, and the popping of bubble wrap to relieve tension!
After dinner, everyone was treated to a novel production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The first half of the play was interactive, and required audience members to follow clues around Oxford in order to find the actors in the 'Secret Fairy Garden', where the second half of the play took place. The antics of Puck, the fairy who caused all sorts of trouble for the young lovers, were especially entertaining. Lampl students were particularly excited for the play, and were among the most successful at finding clues. Youssef was selected by the actors to participate in the performance, and was instrumental in finding the 'Secret Fairy Garden'. The warm evening was much enjoyed by all.


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Ok, folks... not my best work, but I whisper that because I don't want Robert to hear that! This is a major WISP. Took me forever! I didn't like the pattern's wording and had to re-word the way I understood. This is also the first project of this kind for me. 'Smaller' projects are not necessarily easier...actually, more difficult when it comes to knitting for me. I felt like I had two left hands throughout this project. I learned many things, so I'm not disappointed nor scared off, so I was actually looking in the book from which Robert came from (he's on the cover!)...to make another bear! Not right now, but for a later time and use some of my left over yarn.
In the meantime, I'm working on my OTHER wisps that I have. I'm behind in my 'project a month' wisp projects, but I'm not feeling discouraged because finishing Robert is so exciting for me. Don't worry, he will not be naked forever...I'm knitting the red vest for him!
Robert has a cute expression and he is a little unsure of himself at that moment, but with time and when my son arrival from Chicago (where his percussion group performed yesterday at THIS ...please scroll down to the 5th picture and you will see his group!!!! ) and when he finds Robert on his bed.....Robert will feel bigger than life!


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A patio is a great place in your garden where you can relax and spend time with family and friends. On summer evenings, this place is perfect for entertaining and unwinding. If you are thinking about creating a patio in your garden, make sure you will find a solution for heating it or the cold evening air will kill your pleasant atmosphere. Nowadays, patio heaters are very popular, so if you want to buy a patio heater you will find a wide variety of models available.
HLDSO-WGTHG by AZ patio heaters
This patio heater is a pyramid-shaped unit which produces heat through 2 quartz tubes. The tubes will create a 2 feet flame which will inspire you with a beautiful light and it will fill the patio with heat. Moreover, the heating radius of the unit is around 5 feet. The heater is powered by a propane tank, which is located at the bottom of the tower. The base of the heater stays cool to the touch, so you don't need to worry about it being a safety hazard for the people around. If you are thinking about buying this heater, you should know that the tank is sold separately. You can buy a propane tank which will provide you with up to 8 hours of heat. The HLDSO-WGTHG by AZ has a wheeled base and you can easy put it near the place you want to be heated.
The Fire Sense commercial patio heater
The Fire Sense comes in an attractive bronze finish. It has a strong construction being made from high-grade stainless steel. Usually, this type of heater is used in restaurants, but you can also use it at home. Moreover, it has a propane tank which the costumers need to purchase separately. The Fire Sense commercial patio heater will help you maintain a warm atmosphere for at least 10 hours. Plenty of people use this type of heater because it comes with a new Piezo ignition feature, for easy lighting up. Furthermore, it's easy to move because it comes with wheels and it's designed with an auto shut off tilt valve.
The Lava Heat Italia EMBER-COP
Due to its beautiful design, plenty of people choose this unit to heat their patio. It has a solid construction made of stainless steel with a copper finish. The Lava Heat Italia EMBER-COP comes with interesting features such as a start electronic igniter and adjustable heat settings. Moreover, is has a Borosilicate glass tube. This way it creates a unique spiral natural flame, adding a touch of romance to your patio. Furthermore, it's a safe unit, due its auto switch off feature, which automatically turns the heater off in case it gets tilted over.


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Places to discover in Paris during your trip
The Viaduc des Arts is located near the Bastille and is home to artistic works from some of Paris' finest, creative talent. Here you'll see various collections, consisting of antique dolls, exceptional jewellery, tapestries, modern furnishings and even robotic models. Tea and coffee is also served in the lower part of the building and salsa rhythms can be enjoyed, while eating lunch or dinner in select restaurants.
The Promenade Plantee formed in 1988, was created by Philippe Mathieux and Jacques Vergely, on what were once railway lines. The railway lines functioned as link from Place de la Bastille, to Varenne-Saint-Maur. Here you will see a large variety of plant species, including hazelnut trees, rosebushes and climbing plants.
Bois de Vincennes is simply not to be missed. This place, originally named Vilcena, is enchanting and somewhat mystical. The Bois de Vincennes is actually a part of what used to be an ancient forest belt, enclosing Lutece. Royals once hunted on these grounds, although it presently serves as a zoo, racecourse, flower park and is home to the Institute of National Sports.
Seasons greetings from the Hotel de Suede
We, at the Hotel de Suede, and our staff members, send you season's greetings and wish you all the very best for the New Year.
It has been a pleasure to serve you and we will be honoured to continue providing you with first-rate services, in 2014, during your stay in Paris.


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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
I could write a novel about this couple... I guess it's fair to mention that if you read this quote much you know I could write a novel about most people. But Tracy isn't most people. In fact, Tracy is quite possibly one of the most unique people I've ever met. Her personality isn't just big, it's explosive. Her confidence is full found in her big smile and loud laugh. This girl is talented, creative, beautiful, and so bold. In fact I can definitely say that for as big of a catch as Tracy is, there aren't many guys I know that could keep up with her. I'm not saying a guy would have to be patient (though I think he probably would), but a guy would have to be bold, confident, strong to be Tracy's counterpart. This is a type A girl who really does command a room and then - with a subtle confidence that is completely evident, and yet wildly understated.. There's Chris. This guy is a stud. He's crisp, strong, smart, and quick but doesn't beg for attention.
When I first met with Tracy about this wedding I was instantly hooked. Her concept and design sense is absolutely on point and when I found out that she was hiring Amanda Reed (Bates-Reed Brides) to bring her ideas to life I couldn't have been more excited. This wedding was gorgeous and so unique. The day itself was pretty a few distinct things. 1. LOUD. This group of friends is so expressive and SO excited about life and I loved every second. 2. LATE. Tracy - for being one of my favorite brides of the year, will undoubtedly be late to her own funeral. This girl is notoriously late BUT don't worry. I planned for it, and it just barely affected the photos. 3. COORDINATED. We go to a few weddings… (Pause for ironic affect). And we dance at a lot of wedding… I can say without a doubt that I'm fairly sure I was the worst dancer in the room at this wedding and it just barely slowed me down. Max and I had a blast with Tracy's friends and from the first step Tracy made down the aisle, to the first tear Chris let go before he saw her… From the first loud hit of bass out of the dj's speakers to the first flower petal thrown at Tracy + Chris on their way through the crowd, I am so flattered to have been the first photographer on her list. So grateful for these friends, and all of the other friends they invited to be a part of this wedding with us! Beautiful flowers, amazing DJ, incredible food, and a perfectly executed wedding!


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Berghaus RG1 2010
The Berghaus RG1 general-purpose waterproof weighs 614g (size L); AQ2 waterproof and breathable fabric; mesh lining for comfort; hood rolls into collar; two large pockets; front zip gets double stormflap. But hood is very basic, without peak or good movement; pocket access is easily obscured by rucksack belts.
The Berghaus RG1 is a low-priced jacket, but the features are not as good as you get on higher-priced jackets.
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Some Experts Urge Eradication of U.S., Russian Smallpox Stocks
Ahead of a major global public health meeting this month, a number of experts are urging Washington and Moscow to destroy their smallpox samples.
The health ministers of countries belonging to the World Health Organization are slated to debate in Geneva, Switzerland, whether the United States and Russia should be called on to eliminate their strains of the live variola virus. U.S. officials argue that the samples should be retained to permit more research on improved smallpox countermeasures. But some outside experts say the material is too dangerous to warrant continued retention, the Associated Press reported on Sunday.
The World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization, has repeatedly delayed establishing a date for when the smallpox strains -- the last known remaining samples in the world of the deadly virus -- should be destroyed. Enhanced versions of the smallpox vaccine are currently being stockpiled. Meanwhile, two antiviral medications for the virus are under development.
"We believe that the smallpox research program is effectively complete and the case for destruction is stronger than ever," said Lim Li Ching, a biosafety expert associated with the Third World Network, which advocates for destroying the smallpox strains in a two-year timeframe.
D.A. Henderson, who previously headed the successful WHO campaign to eradicate smallpox from nature, told AP that retaining live samples is no longer scientifically warranted as the virus' genetic code is already known.
"Let's destroy the virus and be done with it," Henderson said. "We would be better off spending our money in better ways" such as on developing enhanced countermeasures for combating other disease agents that could be used as biological weapons.
Through synthetic biology, the smallpox virus could be manufactured in a laboratory if necessary in order to develop new medical countermeasures, experts say. However, the same technology could be misused by bad actors looking to acquire smallpox for use in an act of biological terrorism.
"Synthetic biology adds a new wrinkle to it," U.S. Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs Jimmy Kolker said in an interview. "We now aren't as sure that our countermeasures are going to be as effective as we'd thought even five years ago."
Ahead of a major global public health meeting this month, a number of experts are urging Washington and Moscow to destroy their smallpox samples.


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Urara-chan (-chan or ちゃん, is a cute way to call someone in Japanese. You add it at the end of someone's name), is a character named after a very cute daughter of a friend of mine.
Here, Urara-chan is at a summer matsuri (festival), in a Japanese yukata (bathrobe, that may look like a kimono to most), and she is just about to bite into that sweet traditional candy apple. I love matsuri in Japan, and couldn't resist painting about one!


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After announcing a production cut in July, the future of Airbus' A380 aircraft was placed under further scrutiny with some even predicting the move could signal the death knell of the program.
Taking into consideration lukewarm airline demand, the latest reduction was unsurprising. Despite the OEM's best efforts, the A380 hasn't proved a hit with carriers, leading to production gradually being reduced in the years since its 2007 entry-into-service with launch customer Singapore Airlines.
Following Airbus' latest decrease, it will produce just one A380 a month come 2018, more than halving the current rate of monthly jets. At present, 13 airlines operate the aircraft: with Etihad, Qatar and Asiana Airlines most recently taking their first A380s back in 2014.
But does the slowdown signify a change in preference for the world's airlines, which driven by economics, are opting for smaller, more fuel efficient aircraft? There is credence in this notion, with rival Boeing also winding down production of its own superjumbo, the iconic 747 which has received just 20 new orders in the past three years.
From September, it will make one of the aircraft every two months, leading to speculation that production could cease for good in 2019 and new versions of the Queen of the Skies will be no more.
But while production on the A380 has slowed down, it remains somewhat unclear at this stage how this will impact on the MRO segment, with some of the aircraft now reaching the age for some of their first heavy D-checks.
The surge in MRO specialists adding A380 capabilities to their arsenal in recent years is unsurprising, especially in regions like the Middle East and Asia-Pacific which are home to high volumes of the aircraft. Firms such as Lufthansa Technik have focused heavily on winning third party work for the A380.
In January 2015, Aviation Week's MRO Prospector estimated carriers will spend about $6.8bn maintaining and modifying the A380 from then until December 2019, with this year's cost set to reach $1.2bn before growing annually in the next three years. Costs are expected to be swallowed up by engine repair costs, followed by components and modifications.
Given some airlines are already talking about taking second hand A380s in the next 10 years, it will doubtlessly be around for a while yet, something that will produce a glut of work regardless of the whether the aircraft is a going concern in the long-term.
Read more about the A380 production cut and its impact on MRO in the upcoming September issue of Inside MRO.


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I just got back from the nursing home, where they took my dad after the hospital.
Actually I stopped by Walmart to get a heating pad, two bottles of castor oil, a package of 5 cloth baby diapers, and a back brace I know won't fit because of my curvy hips. All this to treat the disc that's bulging in my lower back. I coughed it out a couple of days ago when I was still asthmatically getting over the mini-flu, the kind you get when you've had your flu shot and get the flu anyway. But at least it was the mini-flu and not the whole thing.
So to treat the inflammation I am going to soak the baby diapers in warm castor oil, maybe mixed with eucalyptus or some other anti-inflammatory oil, maybe German chamomile, put a sheet of plastic wrap over that so it doesn't stain the heating pad, slap the whole mess on my back, and listen to some soothing music while it works.
I got through yesterday by dosing myself up with the cannabis tincture I have been steeping for the past two weeks. It got rid of the cough and relaxed the spasm in my back enough so I could get through the day without screaming in pain. The stuff is miraculous. Too bad it's illegal in my state. Actually it's a Schedule IV substance in my state, which puts it in the same class as benzodiazepines; in other words, needs a prescription but considered low-risk for abuse. But for some reason, the criminal code and the medical code don't agree. Figures. I consider it medicine and use it as such.
My dad. I can't even wrap my head around it. The brilliant thinker, the blazing torch of a teacher, the maker of achingly beautiful art: now unable to figure out how to use a pencil, unable to understand how to read a phone number, let alone use a phone–how could this happen? Whose idea of a cruel joke is this? It makes me want to run off and kill myself before I have a chance to get so badly off that I can't even figure out how to do it.
I comfort myself by knowing that he's much better off in the nursing home, where compassionate people take care of him. They don't belittle him for dropping crumbs on his clothes–they just put a bib on him and treat him like a normal human being.
They don't scream at him for wetting the bed–they take it for granted that he will, and they check him every two hours at night and change the bed if it's wet, and change his diaper if it's wet, and treat him like a normal human being.
He doesn't ask me who those two sisters are anymore–the nice one who helps him and takes care of him, and the one who gets upset all the time–those two sisters are my mother, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of her personalities. The sweet one that everyone outside the home adores, and the control freak abuser that nobody sees but us–my father and I.
She is spending hours and hours at the nursing home, and making sure that my father and I are never alone together. The look of hatred in her eyes, toward me, is more open than I've ever seen it before. I'm sure that it's because the love between my father and I is so apparent–he knows that each parting might be our last, and we tell each other we love each other and I give him a kiss on top of his bald head.
The last time I kissed my mother was several months ago. She demanded it, saying she was jealous, so I kissed her on the cheek. It's not my fault that I treat her like a poisonous snake–with a long forked stick–because she is liable to strike without warning. Has done, and does, and will do.
At least she finally admitted to letting her own mother die of lactose intolerance. Did you know that people can die of lactose intolerance? Yes, they can. My grandmother had terrible diarrhea from it, and was losing weight. The nursing home she was in did not have a doctor. They had a Physician's Assistant. Pardon me, to any of you who may be P.A.s, but P.A.s do not have the level of education that an M.D. has. Some are excellent clinicians and know when to consult their supervising physician, and some are full of themselves and think they know it all. The one in that nursing home was the latter kind.
So they fed my Nana Ensure, a liquid food substitute that is milk-based. It is full of lactose. So she kept on having more and more diarrhea, and losing more and more weight, and they kept on feeding her more and more lactose-containing substance.
I begged my mother to put Nana in the car and take her to see a gastoententerologist. "She's old," my mother said. "What would they do anyway?"
"They would make a diagnosis and stop the diarrhea," I said. My mother made a face and told me I didn't know what I was talking about. I had only been in medical practice for ten years at the time.
So Nana died of diarrhea, like people die when they have cholera, only more slowly and in terrible pain.
And two weeks ago, before Dad fell again and broke his back and got yet another concussion, she suddenly started saying how guilty she feels that she didn't do more for her mother.
And why this sudden bout of guilt?
My mother has become lactose intolerant herself, and got a little taste of what it feels like to have horrible cramps and have to run to the bathroom every ten minutes, and have your butt burn up because of the acid stools you pass.
But Nana couldn't run to the bathroom anymore. She had her liquid stools in her diaper, and her whole bum burned up from soaking in the acid stools.
So now Dad is in the nursing home, and Mom is acting like a jealous bird protecting her nest. She has always considered me an inconvenience, but now my presence is indispensable, as it has been ever since I flew here from my home in Israel three years ago. She tolerates me only because she needs my help with Dad.
Tomorrow we take Dad to the cardiologist, an hour and a half away by car. We will have to get him into the car, and out of the car. It's generally me who does the heavy lifting, but now I've got a bulging disc, so we will have to have help from others both at the nursing home and at the cardiologist.
I know the nursing home will help get him into the car: it's their job. I also know the cardiology office won't help get him out of the car, for liability reasons. If one of their staff accidentally injured him, the practice would be liable to be sued. So this will be an interesting exercise, since Dad can no longer walk without help.
Things have gotten so out of hand, so out of control, that I don't even know what to say anymore. I just try to "keep it between the ditches," as Dad used to say, when he knew how to talk.


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i'm going to talk about painting and my process for a bit, even though i'm quite sure there's nobody left reading here (except erin, god bless you. hi e!).
i've been working on a very large painting. very large by my standards; lately i most love to paint at 30 x 44 - or 44 x 30, depending on the day - sometimes a little bigger or smaller, but that's the size of my favorite sheet of paper and a size that seems to suit me right now. this painting is twice that size, which is glorious. and challenging.
i've set aside tuesdays and thursdays as my dedicated painting days, and part of wednesdays when i can. this has been my schedule since january and i like it, except that it's thursday at noon and i'm typing rather than painting. tuesday was a terrific painting day - i started another gigantic dyptich and i was loving where it was going until it was time to stop painting and make soup and drive carpool and parent and partner and all of those other bits of life. i did a few things differently on tuesday - i taped the paper differently, i allowed for more drying time, i moved deliberately. i'm learning to be patient. (ha! if anyone who has met me is actually reading this, you're laughing now. i understand.)
so tuesday was terrific and now, not surprisingly, i'm all kinds of tentative about today because i've reached a point where i'm happy with my progress - really happy - and i don't want to ruin things. so i decided to take a break. eat a bowl of soup. look at paintings by david hockney, maira kalman, and louisa matthiasdottir (all three gifts over the years, extra gratitude for that today). and remember the following:
1. "don't be precious about it," wisdom from my first painting teacher.
2. "...how important it is for each of us to simply be who we are. To make what speaks to us. Ignore those little voices that tell us what we should do or how we should be. How boring life would be if everyone were the same!" brilliant words from my friend blair, which i came across serendipitiously this morning.
3. these words by edgar degas via lisa congdon.
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Are You Happy?
Happiness is a Funny Thing, Isn't it? Look back on the past week, and see if you can identify a moment in that week when you can say, "there, right there, I was truly and genuinely happy."
Chances are, if you've had a decent week, you could probably find a handful of moments. Especially seeing as how we just had the epicness of the Winter Holiday Season.
But it's also very possible that this exercise could prove difficult. We might have to really think hard, to try and recall, when was a moment where I was happy? Was I happy this week??
And even if we could come up with a list of, say, half a dozen moments of happiness, we still must then ask the question: okay, then what about the REST of the week? Why wasn't I happy then?
Why does it seem like our moments of genuine happiness are the exception? They are those moments that stand-out, because they aren't our norm?
Happiness is a funny thing.
We are Happy When we are Happy
Christine Carter, PhD, is a sociologist and happiness expert at UC Berkley's Greater Good Science Center. She says this about happiness:
Happiness is a tremendous advantage in a world that values performance and achievement.
On average, happy people are more successful than unhappy people at both work and love. They get better performance reviews, have more prestigious jobs, and earn higher salaries. They are more likely to get married, and once married, they are more satisfied with their marriages.
Happy people also tend to be healthier and live longer... it also turns out that uber-happy people tend to have more friends and be luckier in love.
What is generally agreed upon is this: happiness is preferred to unhappiness.
Happiness is a good thing. If given the choice, the average person would prefer to be happy. We are happy when we are happy.
What is generally not-agreed up on is this: what is it that makes a person happy?
Sure, there are general principles that most people would agree with. For instance, if you are a person of gratitude and appreciation, you're generally more happy. If you're content with what you have, you're generally more happy. If you focus on the positives in life, you're generally more happy. And so on...
But if it were that simple then bookshelves and online shopping carts wouldn't be overflowing with self-help books on "How to Find Happiness."
Happiness is a multi-billion dollar business, when you consider those who are trying to help others become happy and those who themselves are in the pursuit of happiness.
Happiness is a funny thing.
The Way of Love
A while back a friend of mine gave me this little pocket sized book called "The Way of Love," by Anthony De Mello.
De Mello was a Jesuit priest and a psychotherapist who wrote and spoke extensively on spirituality, and "The Way of Love" is a collection of some of his finall thoughts on the ultimate questions regarding love.
In one such chapter, De Mello contemplates this idea of happiness. He opens by saying:
Take a look at the world and see the unhappiness around you and in you. Do you know what causes this unhappiness? You will probably say loneliness or oppression or war or hatred or atheism. And you will be wrong. There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. Because of these false beliefs, you see the world and yourself in a distorted way.
A rather bold claim, isn't it? That there is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head.
In my more conservative-Christian days, I'd read a sentence like that and presume to know where De Mello was going. I'd assume (and nod my head in agreement) that he is about to suggest the importance of correct doctrine. That we are happy when we believe the right things about God and about Jesus. That we are happy when our doctrine is in good order, when we believe in the deity of Jesus, the literal resurrection, the doctrine of justification by faith, the return of Christ, heaven, hell, etc, etc, etc.
However, thankfully that is not the direction that De Mello goes. And honestly, some of the most unhappy people I know are the ones who are consumed with "getting it right." With protecting and defending correct-doctrine. But anyways...
He goes on to say that when we look at ourselves and the world around us, and we see the overwhelming imbalance of unhappiness over happiness, then we should be suspicious of the programming and the beliefs that we all hold in common. And yet, the tricky thing is, we have also been programmed not to suspect or doubt these assumptions. Further, if we are unhappy, we've been trained to blame ourselves and not our programming, not the cultural and inherited ideas and beliefs.
I think it's safe to say that, in reality, most people are so brainwashed that they don't even realize how unhappy they are. "Like the man in a dream who has no idea he is dreaming," says De Mello.
I'm reminded of The Matrix, and how humans are plugged in to the machine and programmed to assume that the world around them is real when of course it is not. And so it is with the false beliefs in our head, and how they make us unhappy, but how we are programmed not to question the beliefs in the first place.
Choose It
As you kick off your new year I wonder if you'd pause today just long enough to ask yourself: what is just ONE potential false belief that has been programmed in to my brain, that is blocking me from being happy?
When I look like "this," I will be happy. When I am with "him/her," I will be happy. When I make just "X" amount more money, I will be happy. When I acquire that house/car/shirt, I will be happy. When I get a new job, I will be happy. When I kick "this" habit, I will be happy. When I get "him/her" out of my life, I will be happy. When I have less debt/bills, I will be happy.
And so on.
My wife got us a piece of art a while back, and it hangs in our house. It says, "We tend to seek happiness, when happiness is a choice."
It isn't always easy. In fact most of the time it's hard, and it takes work.
But you can do it. You can start choosing happiness. Like De Mello says,
"There is not a single moment in your life where you do not have everything you need to be happy."
Happy New Years, everybody.


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Why do dancers need personal, professional pointe fitting?
For the best experience dancing on pointe, ballet dancers need the expertise of a professional pointe shoe fitter. When dancers are going on pointe as pointe beginners, they need detailed evaluation of their feet and technique. But advanced and professional dancers need personal, professional pointe fitting, too. Several factors made repeated fittings necessary. When dancers understand these factors, they are more likely to return to a professional pointe fitter when they buy pointe shoes. Fit Dancers should reevaluate their pointe model, size and specifications frequently throughout their training and careers. While their feet are still growing, obviously their size will change, but foot size isn't the only factor that affects fit. The shape of the foot usually continues to change after full growth is achieved, requiring new pointe fittings and sometimes an entirely different pointe shoe model. Development in ballet technique often changes a dancer's preferences for pointe model or specifications such as vamp height and shank strength.
Consistency Even when she is sure of what pointe model, size and other specifications she wants to buy, with many brands a dancer cannot be assured that her new pair of pointe shoes will be just like her old pair without a new professional fitting. Russian Pointe pointe shoes are made with outstanding consistency, but because they are individually handmade, it is still possible to find slight variation from one pair to the next.
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Teaching and Troubleshooting An expert pointe fitter can help a dancer refine her fit beyond the dancer's own understanding or resources. Perhaps she doesn't know that a different size, or different padding, spacers or other accessories, could improve fit, support and technique, or even prevent injury. Perhaps a struggle with her ballet technique could be resolved by a change of pointe model. Perhaps she doesn't know why she is experiencing discomfort on pointe, or what options might be available for her to dance more comfortably. Challenges like these are more difficult for the dancer to resolve on her own.
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Borana sponsors a mobile health clinic which visits 12 different locations on a bi-monthly basis. The focus of the mobile clinic is AIDS awareness and family planning, alongside an immunization scheme for babies.
General Medical:
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Other Needs:
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Project #2
Through the Borana Education Support Programme, Borana is now involved in supporting five, local primary schools.
Wall Charts:
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Listed on this page are the specific needs requested by the community project(s) so you can choose exactly what to pack for a purpose and express your gratitude to the local community with the supplies you take them.
Candy and balloons are not on the needs list as they are harmful for the children and the environment for the following reasons:
• Few of the children benefiting from these projects have access to toothpaste, toothbrushes, or a dentist. The candy promotes cavities.
• The balloons once they become deflated are a choking hazard for local wildlife.
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STudy GUIDE
Applies to NSW + National Curriculum
To accompany the film, a study guide has been produced for teachers of late primary school and secondary school across a range of humanities subjects, namely Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE), Studies of Religion and Geography.
One Day for Peace addresses the General Capabilities of (i) Ethical Understanding, (ii) Critical and Creative Thinking as well as (iii) Intercultural Understanding of the Australian National Curriculum.
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Hi Ed, > Greeting to HDF HQ! > > Some questions: > > 1 - If any dimension of a dataset is to be extensible, the dataset > must be chunked, correct? Yes. > 2 - If I have a dataset with one expendables dimension, and several > fixed dimensions, I can create it using a space like this: > > if ((spaceid = H5Screate_simple(var->ndims, dimsize, maxdimsize)) < 0) > BAIL(NC_EHDFERR); > > Where dimsize is an array of initial dimension sizes, and maxdimsize > is an array of max dimension sizes, or -1 for an unlimited dimension. > > The problem I have is this. If I try and create a space with one of > the dimsizes as zero, and the corresponding maxdimsize as -1, HDF5 > hands when I try to close the defined dataset (this seems like a HDF > bug, BTW). > > So I can do it if I start with a dimsize of 1 instead of 0, but this > is not the netcdf way. After defining such a dataset, when I get the > number of records in it, using H5Sget_simple_extent_dims, I get a size > of one along that dimension, even though I haven't written any data to > it yet, because I have to define it as having length of at least one. > > Any comment or help would be appreciated... Hmm, an initial size of 0 should work. Can you send me some test code that fails? I'll address the bug immediately then. Quincey >From owner-netcdf-hdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 04 2003 Nov -0700 09:58:02 Message-ID: <wrxwuagnk9x.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 04 Nov 2003 09:58:02 -0700 From: Ed Hartnett <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: netcdf-hdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: HDF5 hangs... Received: (from majordo@localhost) by unidata.ucar.edu (UCAR/Unidata) id hA4Gw4Ne018587 for netcdf-hdf-out; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 09:58:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from rodney.unidata.ucar.edu (rodney.unidata.ucar.edu [18.104.22.168]) by unidata.ucar.edu (UCAR/Unidata) with ESMTP id hA4Gw2Ob018530 for <netcdf-hdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 09:58:02 -0700 (MST) Organization: UCAR/Unidata Keywords: 200311041658.hA4Gw2Ob018530 Lines: 43 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-netcdf-hdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Precedence: bulk Quincey, I am having a really weird problem. At a certain point in my code, the following code hangs in the H5Dcreate call. This code works a bunch of times, then, at some point (I'm doing lots of other HDF stuff, but not with this file), it hangs. I don't know what the deal is. { hid_t dsid = 0; hid_t typeid1 = H5Tcopy(H5T_NATIVE_CHAR); hid_t plistid1 = H5P_DEFAULT; hid_t spaceid1 = 0; hid_t hdfid = 0; if ((hdfid = H5Fcreate("ccc_test.h5", H5F_ACC_TRUNC, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT)) < 0) return (-1); if ((spaceid1 = H5Screate(H5S_SCALAR)) < 0) return (-1); if ((dsid = H5Dcreate(hdfid, "scaley", H5T_NATIVE_CHAR, spaceid1, plistid1)) < 0) return (-1); if (spaceid1 > 0) H5Sclose(spaceid1); if (hdfid > 0) H5Fclose(hdfid); if (dsid > 0) H5Dclose(dsid); dsid = 0; } When I use Cntl-C to interrupt the program, I get this message: Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. 0x400c997a in malloc_consolidate () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 Somehow there is some malloc issue in H5Dcreate. Are you checking all your malloc returns to see that the memory you are using is really being allocated? I can't reproduce this in a short program (yet), but I'll keep trying... Ed
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What Is Google Business View?
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When potential customers search for your business by name on Google Search, they will see the virtual tour displayed directly on the search results page, instantly setting you apart from the competition. These panoramic images will also be published on Google Maps, Google+ Local and Google Maps for Mobile. With Google Business View a company is always open and ready for action, which can help maximize visibility and take trade to the next level. Your customers can navigate and look around your business and get a feel of the place before they make a decision. The virtual tour will give customers a better sense of the layout, decor and ambience.
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After 3 weeks off from racing, Koens Racing Team will resume action at the race track this Saturday night in Roseburg, Oregon at the Douglas County Speedway in the #28 GTR Simulator Camaro Super Late Model.
Some bad racing luck has hampered the team recently with a blown motor, electrical issues and most recently a bent right front lower control arm causing the handling to be problematic resulting in poor performances. "We know this is a front running car" said Wade Koens driver of the #28 GTR Simulator Camaro. Koens went on to say, " we just need a little good luck and an entire trouble-free race from start to finish. If we get that, then we will be near the front towards the end of the race and in a position to put this GTR Simulator Camaro in victory lane".
Koens also mentioned that during the time away from the track he keeps his reflexes, hand to eye coordination and driving skills sharp by buckling up in his factory-built GTR Simulator at home. "The GTR simulator provides an excellent feel for my real race car, giving me a realistic racing experience without leaving my house". To see the great lineup of GTR Simulators please visit their website at www.gtrsimulator.com and when you order your simulator, please tell them that Koens Racing Team sent you...then you too will be on the fast track to realistic racing! Also visit Wade's personal bio page while viewing the GTR site.


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ROME - A senior Vatican prelate, an agent of the Italian secret service and a financial broker were arrested yesterday in a corruption investigation that's part of a wider probe into Vatican bank transactions.
ROME � A senior Vatican prelate, an agent of the Italian secret service and a financial broker were arrested yesterday in a corruption investigation that�s part of a wider probe into Vatican bank transactions.
The three were charged with fraud and corruption, Rome Prosecutor Nello Rossi said yesterday at a news conference. Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, the former head of a Vatican financial department called APSA, is among the three people taken into custody, he said.
The three men allegedly tried to bring $26 million into Italy from Switzerland in a private jet, Rossi said. The rented plane landed in Locarno, Switzerland, and remained there for several days, he said. The money never left Switzerland because the broker reneged on the deal, the prosecutor said.
Attempts to reach a lawyer for Scarano by phone were not successful. Scarano was suspended more than a month ago from his duties at APSA, a department that oversees the Holy See�s real-estate holdings, �as soon as his superiors were informed that he was under investigation,� Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement published on the Vatican Radio website. � The Holy See has not yet received any request from the competent Italian authorities on the matter, but confirmed its willingness to cooperate fully,� Lombardi said.
The arrests came two days after Pope Francis named a commission to oversee the operations of the Vatican bank. Moneyval, the Council of Europe�s monitoring body for money laundering and terrorism financing, is calling for independent supervision of the bank, which is known as the Institute for the Works of Religion, or IOR.
The Vatican is trying to overcome three decades of scandals at the bank, ranging from the Banco Ambrosiano failure in the 1980s to the freezing of 23 million euros by Italian prosecutors in 2010. As one of his last acts before retiring, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Ernst von Freyberg, a German lawyer and financial adviser, to head the IOR in February.
The Vatican bank oversees about 7.1 billion euros in assets, mostly in bonds and cash. In an interview this month, von Freyberg said he was committed to making the bank more transparent and compliant with international standards.
The �IOR is committed to full cooperation with authorities,� the bank said in an emailed statement yesterday. The bank�s oversight council �has initiated an internal investigation in this matter in line with the zero-tolerance policy� set by von Freyberg, according to the statement.


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Helping Hands
Unusually wet weather in Delhi has left lot of people with stuffy and running noses; I and my Rudra bhai included therein. Although there is no dearth of helping hands but cutest of all is one of my Rudra bhai.......As he saw my running nose, he looked for my hankie and asked- "Behan nosie saaf karoon" (meaning sister-shall I clean your nose).......To which my affirmative response was best coveyed by a slight movement of my face in his direction such that his hands are able to reach my nose. And, his hands did with ease. As I felt that he wasn't fully successful in his cleaning attempt, I instructed-"Jeenu, idhar bhi saaf karo"- pointing at the spot on my nose that I felt was left uncleaned.
Well, this helping hand traffic runs both ways. Like, if I am watching rhymes on youtube, I ensure my parents don't start till Jeenu enters my room. And, our home keeps resonating with that familiar sentence-"Jeenu tauji room main aao, rhymes dekhney" (meaning Jeenu come to tauji's room, we will see rhymes)....or an act of pushing a piece of biscuit inside his mouth with that much familiar two letter sentence-"Jeenu khao" (meaning Jeenu eat this). Actually sepeaking, there are so many incidents like that.....However, none of that gets posted .......Perhaps, they have gotten used to seeing this on regular basis and don't really understand its value! Or, may be it's my papa who always misses out on this as he wants to record our conversations instead of writing about it......Recording never happens and so most of the incident remains unposted!
Well, that reminds me of another incident; we have a photo album which we see every now and then. We can identify most of the faces in that album and one such face is of Gautam chacha- my Ashu chacha's friend. For me his existence was limited to that photo album only until I saw him entering inside our home few days back.......I couldn't believe my eyes and expressions on my face kept asking a question- "how could someone come out of a photo album"........And, as soon as he extended his hands in my direction, I burst into tears....scared; very scared!


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Associated Estates Declares Common Share Dividend
Dec 04, 2013, 03:11 ET
CLEVELAND, Dec. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Associated Estates Realty Corporation (NYSE,NASDAQ: AEC) announced today that a quarterly dividend of $0.19 per share has been declared on the Company's common shares, payable February 3, 2014 to shareholders of record on January 15, 2014.
Associated Estates is a real estate investment trust and is a member of the S&P 600, Russell 2000, and the MSCI US REIT Indices. The Company is headquartered in Richmond Heights, Ohio. Associated Estates' portfolio consists of 54 apartment communities containing 13,964 units located in ten states. For more information about the Company, please visit its website at AssociatedEstates.com.
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For anyone familiar with the leafy, lockjawed recesses of Coral Gables, the scene this morning at the historic Coral Gables Golf and Country Club -- the polling place for Precinct 608 -- was hardly a surprise. A drive down the tree-canopied Alhambra Circle, on the way to the country club, has for weeks revealed row after row of McCain/Palin signs. Perhaps the only revelations here were: 1) McCain/Palin lawn signs apparently also come in pink, and 2) the number of Obama signs had drastically increased within the past week. (Perhaps these homeowners will soon find themselves slapped with dubious zoning code citations.)
The scene at the polls reflected Coral Gables itself: pale, khaki-clad, about half-posh-Spanish-speaking, and quiet. And not gladly suffering reporters for salacious rags -- pretty much nobody wanted to talk to me. Not even the lone Obama sign-holder. Burn!
The line itself went about halfway down the block -- longish, perhaps, but not much longer than during past major elections. Campaign workers were quiet, too, at least in actual volume. But a gaggle of McCain supporters decided to remind us, in a protest-outside-of-Planned-Parenthood kind of way, about abortion. This meant large posters emblazoned with things such as photos of a fetus's head in a jar. Keep it classy! -- Arielle Castillo
The two lonely Obama signs outside the country club
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Ice cream banana (Musa "Ice Cream") is a lush tropical plant named for its sweet, melt-in-your-mouth fruit. The tree, which reaches heights of 15 to 20 feet at maturity, is distinguished by its big, impressive leaves. Ice cream banana is suitable for growing in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9b through 11. The plant, which grows from underground rhizomes, may freeze to the ground during the winter, but it rebounds in spring as long as long as temperatures don't drop below 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Water Ice Cream banana as often as needed to keep the soil consistently damp throughout the growing season. Provide enough water to saturate the roots, but don't water to the point that the plant stands in water. Soggy soil may cause root rot, especially during cool weather.
Feed Ice Cream banana every other week during warm weather, using a granular fertilizer with a balanced NPK ratio such as 3:1:6. For a young plant which is 1 foot tall, provide 1 cup of fertilizer per month. Increase the amount to 2 cups when the plant reaches 3 feet, and to 3 cups when the plant reaches 5 feet. Continue to add an extra cup of fertilizer for each 2 feet of new growth. Sprinkle the fertilizer on the soil around the plant, and then water deeply.
Prune secondary shoots, leaving only one healthy shoot for each rhizome. Remove new shoots as soon as they appear. Excess shoots decrease growth by drawing the energy from the main shoot.
Allow one secondary shoot to remain on the Ice Cream banana plant when the main shoot is about six to eight months old. As the shoot develops, it will replace the main shoot for the coming year. Cut the main shoot down to about 30 inches after harvest.
Things You Will Need
- Fertilizer with NPK of 3:1:6
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Gloomy times for commercial real estate
Commercial real estate
Shopping centers, office buildings, industrial spaces, hotels and apartments can expect a period of "enveloping gloom" from the recession and credit crunch, according to a report released on Thursday.
Values will plunge, vacancies will rise and rents will decrease across all types of commercial property before the market hits bottom in 2010, according to the "Emerging Trends in Real Estate" forecast from the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Based on interviews with 900 industry leaders, including investors, developers and financiers, the report was released at an Urban Land Institute conference for developers, planners and other real estate professionals taking place this week at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
No quick recovery is in store, the report said. "2010 looks like an unavoidable bloodbath for a multitude of 'zombie' borrowers, investors and lenders," it said. "The shake-out period may extend several years as even some conservative owners with well-underwritten loans from the early 2000s see their equity destroyed."
One flicker of good news was that investors with cash to burn should find some exceptional bargains amid the carnage. Properties may lose 40 to 50 percent of the values they enjoyed at their peak in mid-2007, the report said.
Apartments are likely to be the first sector to recover in sync with the economy, as young people who were forced to move back in with their parents seek their own places as soon as they find jobs, the report said.
Retail is likely to undergo the most wrenching problems. While top-tier malls and infill shopping centers with grocery stores will still attract customers, many struggling malls in secondary markets "will be worthless soon," one person interviewed for the report said.
"It's triage time with retail," said Jonathan Miller, the report's author. "A lot of people will give up on the weaker malls."
Ground-up building is likely to enter suspended animation for the next few years. "Why build anything if you can buy existing real estate so cheaply?" said Stephen Blank, senior resident fellow for real estate finance at the Urban Land Institute.
The report also assessed the relative strength of core urban markets. Washington, D.C. - recession-proof because the federal government eschews layoffs - ranked No. 1 for expected resilience.
San Francisco came in second because of its "multifaceted economy, proximity to high-tech Silicon Valley, and history of bouncing back from corrections," as well as its links to other global capitals and its "brainpower jobs."
Although San Francisco has taken some hard hits in the past year, experts interviewed for the report "feel it will bounce back before other markets," Miller said.


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Destiny Windgem on Apr 12, 2013 wrote:The title says it all. I'm horrible at player vs player. Every time I try, I loose, unless I am battling a wizard under level 10 solo. But I am level 29! Any tips? Destiny Windgem, level 29 diviner
Destiny Windgem on Apr 14, 2013 wrote:Thanks! I got a new spell, and now i'm better at regular battles, so hopefully i will be better at pvp too.
tanda1 on Apr 16, 2013 wrote:Wish it was that easy.PVP is a completely different game than beating the computer controlled creatures on the game.PVPers cheat - every chance they get. But since everything they can do is allowed by KI, it's not really cheating, it's just very poor sportsmanship.PVPers are intelligent and won't just stand there while you boost up or get ready to take them down.
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – Peter Merkel (Ellicott City, Md./Homeschool) placed seventh in the 3,000 to lead McDaniel at the Battleground Relays hosted by Mary Washington in season-opening women's outdoor track and field action on Friday and Saturday.
Merkel finished the Friday event in a time of 9:37.47, ranking sixth on the program's all-time list, to pace the Green Terror at the non-scoring meet. On Saturday, he finished 17th in the 1,500 with a time of 4:25.92.
Gary Smith finished sixth in the 110 hurdles with a Centennial Conference (CC)-qualifying time of 17.57 seconds in the finals, bettering his prelims time by 1.06 seconds.
Smith was also 11th in the 100 with a CC-qualifying time of 11.97.
Jason Stein (Potomac, Md./Thomas S. Wooton) rounded out the track competitors, finishing 30th in the 1,500 (5:08.24).
Kyle Andrews was the lone competitor on the field side, finishing eighth in the shot put (10.14 meters) and 13th in the discus (23.11).
The Green Terror returns to action at the Goucher Invitational on Saturday.
McDaniel Results: 3,000: 7. Peter Merkel 9:37.47; 110 Hurdles Prelims: 6q. Gary Smith 18.63*; 110 Hurdles Finals: 6. Smith 17.57*; 100 Prelims: 11. Smith 11.97*; 1,500: 17. Merkel 4:25.92, 30. Jason Stein 5:08.24; Discus: 13. Kyle Andrews 23.11m (75-10); Shot Put: 8. Andrews 10.14m (33-3 ¼)..


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"He went to rehab. Now what?"
Parents often think that a child will leave treatment fixed. In fact, there are critical steps family members can take to ensure long-term success. Learn how to support your child on his or her recovery journey.
http://continuingcare.drugfree.org created this downloadable PDF guide to help answer those questions.
A Parent's Guide to Your Teen's Recovery from Substance Abuse
Many parents feel uncertain and ill-prepared when their child has completed inpatient or outpatient addiction treatment. You probably have many questions about how to best support your teen's recovery and you may be feeling extra pressure.


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Jean Mackenzie Putnam, D. D. S. - One of the leading professional women of Columbus is Doctor Putnam, dentist,
with offices at 206 East State Street. She was born at Athens, Ohio, the daughter of George I. and Ida (Lamb) Putnam.
George I. Putnam, retired, is a native of Ohio. He was born at Marietta, December 28, 1858, and until his retirement
was numbered among the successful merchants of Marietta. His wife is the daughter of Alexander and Abigail Lamb,
natives of Athens, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Putnam were born five children: Harriet, a teacher in the public schools
of Denver, Colorado; Susan, married William Clark, who is associated with the Curtiss Airplane Company, Chicago;
Dorothy, a teacher in the public schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Israel, who is identified with the Stearns Company,
bonds and securities, New York City; and Jean Mackenzie, the subject of this sketch.
Jean Mackenzie Putnam received her early education in the public schools of Athens and in 1907 entered Ohio University,
from which she received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1911. She then came to Columbus where she was associated
with the dental practice of Dr. W. I. Jones as assistant. She entered the College of Dentistry, Ohio State University,
in 1914, and received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1918. She has since engaged in private practice
and is recognized as a specialist in children's dental work.
Doctor Putnam is a member of Central Presbyterian Church, Women's Republican Club, and Zonta Club. She is identified
with the Interstate Association of Anaesthetists.
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George Bailey: If Potter gets a hold of this Building and Loan, there'll never be another decent house built in this town. He's already got charge of the bank. He's got the bus line. He got the department stores, and now he's after us. Why? Well, it's very simple. Because we're cuttin' in on his business, that's why. And because he wants to keep you livin' in his slums and paying the kind of rent he decides.
It's a Wonderful Life 1946
Brett Maverick: You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time and those are very good odds. My old pappy said that.
Maverick, Shady Deal at Sunny Acres 1958
Four days ago I talked about the differences between 2010 and 2018, Three days ago I spoke about how the MSM is launching a TET offensive against the GOP trying to scare them, today I'm going to offer a strategy for the GOP.
The real problem they are facing is one of media noise and short memories. The tough times under Obama are over a year in the past and the worries of the economy that had been in the forefront of people's minds and worries are gone, replaced by the noise generated by the MSM coverage of the investigations, the noise of the Stormy Daniels stuff and the noise of every single attack on the administration the GOP needs a message that not only cuts though the noise but reminds the people of the difference between the eight years of Obama Administration and the Trump administration. This can be done by a simple theme summed up in three simple lines:
If you like your Tax Cut you can keep your Tax Cut
If you like your Bonus you can keep your Bonus
If you like your Job you can keep your Job
This is the perfect meme for several reasons:
In one stroke it contrasts the prosperity of the Trump years with the troubles of the Obama years. It reminds them of the tax cuts and bonus' that the Democrats called crumbs and of the manufacturing jobs that have come back that Obama and the Democrats insisted that we had to resign ourselves to losing. It generates memories like the Jimmy Stewart Speech to stockholders in It's a Wonderful Life:
Joe, you had one of those Potter houses, didn't you? Well, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten what he charged you for that broken-down shack? Here, Ed. You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, and you couldn't make your payments. Well, you didn't lose your house, did you? You think Potter would have let you keep it?
This hopeful theme cuts though the noise in a format that shows the Democrat for what it is, a message based on generating unfounded panic for the sake of power. Stewart again
Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's pickin' up some bargains.
I suspect the Trump move in Syria, in contrast to Obama's words without deeds provided some clarity, this argument would augment it.
This is a simple message, that can be delivered by anyone, an incumbent running for re-election whose faced the voters many times, a green newcomer running for office for the very first time. Either one can deliver this line and make it stick. Now picture it in the hands of a master communicator like President Trump who can deliver it before the cameras and the press, in speeches in front of tens of thousands and in tweets and re-tweets to be seen by millions completely bypassing the press and the left.
In one stroke this changes the argument both justifying the GOP control of the government while forcing the Democrats to justify risking the good economy for the sake of Trump hatred. Do the Democrats deliver have an answer to a message of jobs, bonus' and prosperity besides "Trump sucks"?
President Trump is the type of man who knows a winning message when he sees it. He's the type to pick up this banner and charge forward, the question is will GOP candidates have the wits and courage to ignore the MSM offensive and charge with him?
A final note, the: "If you like your job you can keep your job" line was suggested by a reader. The other two I derived from it. I'm ashamed I didn't think of it first.
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EWaste Autopsy
Ewaste Autopsy
This interactive installation was commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) as part of the Sustainable Living Festival in 2014.
Have you ever wondered why there are no organ donor programs for dead laptops? In this interactive installation, members of the public were invited to join sustainability provocateur Leyla Acaroglu and her team of dead stuff dissections in a live autopsy of computer paraphernalia generated by National Gallery of Victoria, in a critical dissection of modern consumerism that also explored what lies hidden within the everyday things that fill our lives. What do you do with your e-waste?
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If they shipped this in a less gender-specific version I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Wearable devices are part of a new model of computer networking — what people are calling the personal cloud. The personal cloud will include both general-purpose and single-purpose devices. Apple is pursuing the general-purpose vision with the upcoming Apple Watch. Ringly is pursuing the single-purpose vision. There will be successful companies in both categories.


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Series- Tempest Series # 1
By-Michelle Mankin
Publication Date-October 3th, 2013
Genre-New Adult
Kindle- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FLG5KPS
Seattle rock band Tempest.
Two years is a long time.
Too long to keep on remembering.
Not nearly long enough to forget.
In trouble with nowhere else to go songstress Lace Lowell seeks
refuge with the band during their stop in New York City. It's a risky move for
her because they are both there, two impossibly good looking men whose lives are
inseparably entwined with hers. One who bruised her heart and one who smashed it into pieces.
Warren "War" Jinkins, the mercurial lead singer of Tempest, has
always had a thing for Lace. But then again so does his best friend and band mate.
Bryan "Bullet" Jackson, the sinfully handsome tat-sleeved lead
guitarist, has a bad boy reputation befitting his nickname. For the past two
years Bullet's had a rule with the groupies: one time, never twice, leave 'em
satisfied, but always leave 'em.
Two guys, one woman, and a host of dark secrets all together within
the tight confines of a tour bus as the group travels cross country.
Can the past be forgotten and buried?
Will friendships prevail?
Or will the three of them succumb to seductive impulses too addictive to resist?
** Irresistible Refrain is a gritty rock and roll tale intended for mature readers seventeen and up.
Contains sexual situations, strong language, and drug use. **
I seriously contemplated telling her right then and there that she
was the only woman that had ever been important to me when I heard the door
slide open behind us.
"Guys it's four fucking a.m." Voice gruff with disapproval, War's
appearance brought our intimate predawn reunion to an end. Looking wan and
strung out, the lead singer of Tempest shuffled into view wearing a pair of red
boxers and scratched his bare chest. "Come on back to bed, babe." He held out
his hand to her while shooting me an irritated glance.
She patted my knee and I took the cue to scoot out of the booth
ahead of her so she could exit.
War threw a proprietary arm around her shoulders as soon as her
bare feet hit the floor. "Night, Loser."
"Night, Asshole."
War gave me the finger before he closed the door.
I stared at it for a long time. Nothing had fucking changed. Twenty
thousand people screaming my name during my guitar solo at the Garden, plus two
twins, but none of that mattered to me. Not when my best friend had the woman
I'd always wanted.
self-proclaimed giant…inside her own mind.
For many years, she toiled in the insurance industry as an
underwriter. Somehow, the boredom didn't kill her, and the hours of looking at
facts and figures provided ample time for her mind to wander.
Love Evolution, Love Revolution, and the latest novel, Love Resolution are rock 'n
roll romances. The first is based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the second on
Much Ado About Nothing, and the third on The Tempest.
The first three books in the Black Cat Records series combine the plot underpinnings of the famous playwright
with the drama, excitement, and the indisputable sexiness of the rock 'n roll industry.
When she is not putting her daydreams down on paper, you can find
Michelle traveling the world with her family. Sometimes for real and sometimes
just for pretend as she takes the children to school and back.
Goodreads- http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5835506.Michelle_Mankin
Website- http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5835506.Michelle_Mankin
Blog- http://www.michellemankin.com/blog.php
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michelle-Mankin/233503403414065?fref=ts
Twitter- https://twitter.com/MichelleMankin
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Just a few days ago, the humble city of Mt. Shasta was distinguished by TripAdvisor for winning the Readers' Choice Award for Most Charming Ski Town. It beat out other contenders such as Pagosa Springs, Colorado, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Whitefish Montana, and other notable hubs for winter activity. The town is situated perfectly at the base of California's 5th tallest Mountain, and is quaint and inviting.
We rounded up some of the best photos of the city and surrounding areas to give non-locals a glimpse of just what winter life is like in the area.
In an interview with News10, Suzanne Mendenhall is credited with organizing the social media push that helped sway the vote in the town's favor. "With everything going on right now in the country, I thought this would be a fun way to get our community together and involved and win something just… to do something" she is quoted as saying.
Also on the TripAdvisor website was a featured review of the city: "We greatly enjoyed our stay in a beautiful chalet in a quiet Mount Shasta neighborhood. It was well-kept, stocked, and cozy for our family of three."
In addition, the blogger Hike Mt. Shasta posted this photo after the most recent snows and wrote "I love the peace and quiet that comes with a snow storm"
And finally, we found a photo from a time when Mt. Shasta was just as charming - 1950.
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I recently pitched my first article proposal to Cracked.com. While preliminary feedback was positive, consensus was that my article was more of an editorial than an enumeration of particular facts. I did cite facts to support my opinions, but Cracked wants facts only without any personal commentary — at least from me, as established writers seem to have free license on that site.
I wouldn't even bother with Cracked except for the potential to receive some money if any of my articles are accepted for publication. Rather than box away this original draft into storage, I hereby present it in unedited form:


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When I take the time to get my nose out of admin work and look up I have to be very careful, because I get very sidetracked very quickly and then suddenly nobody knows when they're working, we run out of toner and no events get planned - all because some new gorgeous book arrived that I just have to look at. Here are some of those books.
I have a penchant for the hilarious and weird. These books hit that nerve right in the funny bone and have kept me laughing all through out this tyrant of a year.
|Almost Completely Baxter - Glen Baxter (New York Review of Books)
|What is Obscenity? : The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and her P***y - Rokudenashiko (Koyama Press)
|Adult Contemporary - Bendik Kaltenborn (Drawn & Quarterly)
This was released at the end of 2015 but I'm sneaking it in because it killed me. I laughed so much reading it that I knew I had to sing it's praises somewhere. The pictured strip is exactly how the cooking goes at my house and I'm sorry, I know it's illegible, you'll just have to come get your own copy.
|Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists - Jessica Campbell (Koyama Press)
Iza' Ballad - Magda Szabo (New York Review of Books)
A Little Life -Hanya Yanagihara(Anchor)
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories - Lucia Berlin (Picador)
Okay so not all of these three are going to make you bawl your eyes out. But A Little Life will. I loved crying over this book so much I push it on everyone. I also love channelling that feeling of heartbreak whenever I want to feel sad. Who knew that 4 male friendships could be so moving.
Iza's Ballad is the second book to be translated into English from the original Hungarian and all I can think is : why the heck did it take so long?!? This second book rivals the first, The Door, in terms of weaving a story of misunderstanding and good intentions. I love the mother-daughter dichotomy and all the good will that goes terribly, terribly wrong.
A Manual for Cleaning Women is probably the least sad in the three, but melancholy enough in tone to merit it's place on my sad shelf. This is another book where you are forced to wonder how the author missed being honoured for her literary genius when she was still among us.
|Stranger Music - Leonard Cohen (McClelland & Stewart)
Speaking of heartbreak, the news of Leonard Cohen passing hit me in the gut. I loved reading his poetry out loud with my best friends when I was younger, so much so that it was like part of my youth had died with him. He perfectly mastered heartbreak and hilarity - my two favourite things.
|Hot Dog Taste Test - Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn & Quarterly)
Mooncop - Tom Gauld ( Drawn & Quarterly)
Big Kids - Michael Deforge (Drawn & Quarterly)
|S'Enfuir - Guy Delisle (Dargaud)
L'Arabe du Futur - Riad Sattouf (Allary Éditions)
Coquelicots d'Irak - Lewis Trondheim | Brigiqtte Findakly (Pow Pow Press)
Nunavik - Michel Hellman (Pow Pow Press)
|The Nosyhood - Tim Lahan (McSweeney's)
The Pancake King - Seymour Chwast | Phyllis La Farge (Princeton Architectural Press)
Une Patate À Vélo - Elise Gravel (La Courte Échelle)
|Louis Parmi les Spectres - Isabelle Arsenault | Fanny Britt (Les Éditions la Pastèque)
Please Open This Book! - Adam Lehrhaupt | Matthew Forsythe (Simon and Schuster)
|Tough Guys (have feelings too) and My Dad Used to Be so Cool - Keith Negley (Flying Eye Books)
I was only going to put in My Dad Used to Be so Cool, but honestly I love both of these books. I love all the girl power books out there (see some of them here) but it's nice to see something for the little boys that need to know it's okay to have feelings and to be caring.
Here are the other staff picks of all of the amazing team here at little ol'librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
Julie // Helen // Daphné // Henrika // Benjamin // Alyssa // Kate // Lucie // Saelan
Here are the other staff picks of all of the amazing team here at little ol'librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
Julie // Helen // Daphné // Henrika // Benjamin // Alyssa // Kate // Lucie // Saelan


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Music appreciation is one of those areas that gets pushed to last place (or sometimes no place at all) in many homeschools.
Over the past year I have tried to help families incorporate BEAUTIFUL music into their days.
Super Quiet UnInterrupted Listening Time (SQUILT) is a music appreciation curriculum that is designed to make teaching music easy, fun, and meaningful.
Each SQUILT volume consists of 10 lessons. Each lesson highlights a piece of music and includes all information you will need to learn about that piece in depth. It includes notebooking pages, supplemental listening links, and fun activities. The best thing?
All you need to complete a SQUILT lesson is an internet connection and basic school supplies.
Currently, two volumes are available: Baroque Era and Classical Era. These volumes can easily coincide with your homeschool history studies. Or, you can choose to use them as a stand alone curriculum.
The Romanic Era volume is coming soon -- very soon!
To find out more, and to take advantage of the special winter sale, visit the SQUILT website. Here you can view lesson samples, read testimonials, and hopefully have all of your questions answered.
Both volumes of SQUILT are on sale for 30% off the list price - but just for ONE WEEK. {Use the code WINTER at checkout for the discount to apply.} This makes each volume $6.29... that's just 62 cents per lesson!
What's stopping you from studying great music with your kids? Give SQUILT a try!


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North America · USA · Kapaa
Islander On The Beach #151
440 Aleka Place, Kapaa.
0.9 km from City Center.
North America · USA · Kapaa
0.9 km from City Center.
Islander On The Beach #151 is located in Kapaa, 2.1 km from Lydgate State Park, 6 km from Kealia Beach, as well as 2.9 km from Kapaa Shopping Center. The accommodation has free WiFi. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchenette with a microwave and a fridge, and 1 bathroom with a hot tub. The apartment offers an outdoor pool. There is a barbecue at this property and guests can go cycling nearby. Opaekaa Falls is 3.9 km from Islander On The Beach #151, while Kuilau Ridge Trailhead is 12 km from the property.
We speak your language! Native language: EN. Islander On The Beach #151 has been welcoming guests since February 20, 2019 at TodayTourism.com hotel booking website.
GPS coordinates: 22.05229, -159.32828. You can easily find us with the GPS navigation device by entering our GPS coordinates. Simply type in the coordinates in Decimal degrees, separating the latitude and longitude with a comma or space.Plan Your Route to the Apartments with Google Maps
The most expensive accommodation in this neighborhood is: Islander On The Beach #151 ( 165US$ = 165 US$). The cheapest accommodation in this neighborhood is: Islander On The Beach #151 (165US$ = 165 US$)
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You can write a special request after your booking is complete! Special requests cannot be guaranteed - but the Islander On The Beach #151 will do its best to meet your needs.
|WiFi is available in the hotel rooms and is free of charge.
|Free private parking is possible on site (reservation is not needed).
|Pets are not allowed.
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|All children are welcome. Up to two children under 16 years stay free of charge when using existing beds. There is no capacity for extra beds in the room.
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Hello, Design Department here!
We often have visitors at Roadtrip Nation HQ, and the most common question we get during tours of the office is how we come up with our ideas. While we don't have step-by-step guidelines of how to generate an idea, what we can say has been helpful is having a constant running image/inspiration collection to refer to for projects.
We geek out on following designers on Twitter, design blogs, design newsletters, and Facebook accounts. We share our finds with one another in a variety of ways—such as emailing screenshots, sharing a pin on Pinterest, or file sharing on Skype for images. We have now decided to aggregate all of these pieces into one streamlined space—Gimme Bar!
Gimme Bar describes itself as:
"Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Gimme Bar doesn't just keep bookmarks; it stores items in your personal library in the cloud. You can even back things up to Dropbox. Take the content that you've been saving and tell a story about yourself or the world. Gimme Bar collections make great Wishlists, Favorites, Inspiration, Research"
We are really excited about being able to access this anywhere. The tagging capabilities it offers are awesome, but mostly, we're excited about being able to have all of our collective favorites in one account.
Here is a quick glimpse into how the interface looks:
Follow us: https://gimmebar.com/loves/roadtripnation


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It is always a pleasure to do session work with the Max Steiner Orchestra. This is a Vienna-based Orchestra which performs film & video game music for recording sessions and live performances.
At the end of August, the full-sized orchestra bundled into MuTH – the Concert Hall of 'Wiener Sängerknaben' to record a Piano Concerto and a Symphony by Chinese composer Tian Huang.
After 16-hours of recording over two days, we laid down the tracks!