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Yields 4 servings
Gluten Free Pizza Pasta
10 minPrep Time
20 minCook Time
30 minTotal Time
- 1 box lentil pasta
- 1-2 cups organic marinara sauce
- 1 lbs grass fed beef
- 3 stalks of red chard, stems removed and chopped small
- 1-2 cups chopped tomatoes
- 1/2 TBSP garlic powder
- 3 TBSP basil leaves, chopped
- 1/4 TBSP onion powder
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- Cook pasta according to package instructions.
- While waiting for pasta to cook, brown meat in a skillet. Season meat with garlic and onion powder. Once the meat has started to brown, add chopped chard and tomatoes.
- Simmer for 2-3 minutes and then add remaining seasonings to the skillet.
- When is pasta is done cooking, add to the meat mixture and stir in marinara sauce.
- If dairy is not an issue, serve with parmesan cheese on your pasta.

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Book Details
- 304 Pages
- Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
- Publication Date : March 2002
Trustworthiness of God: Perspectives on the Nature of Scripture
Helm, Paul; Trueman, Carl R.
Product Description:
While few Christian thinkers would question the trustworthiness of God, this topic is key for understanding the divine nature and God's revelation to the world. The Trustworthiness of God offers a comprehensive look at the theme of God's faithfulness, exploring the relationship between the doctrines of God and of Scripture from every possible perspective.
Produced by a group of distinguished international scholars, this book is broad in scope and irenic in approach. J. Gary Millar, Gordon McConville, Craig G. Bartholomew, and P. J. Williams each explore the theme of God's faithfulness as depicted in different portions of the Old Testament. Donald Macleod, Drake Williams, David Peterson, and David Instone-Brewer consider God's trustworthiness in the New Testament, looking in particular at the person of Jesus and the writings of Paul. Gerald Bray, Carl R. Trueman, Timothy Ward, Stephen Williams, Paul Helm, and Sebastian Rehnman each discuss God's trustworthiness from significant theological and philosophical perspectives. Two concluding responses by Colin Gunton and Francis Watson round out the volume by showing the profound relevance of God's faithfulness to the life of the church and personal faith today.
Addressed to a wide readership, this volume offers fresh, at times inspiring, insights into the nature of the God portrayed in the Bible.


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Criminal Law
Craven County & Pamlico County Criminal Defense Lawyer
If you have been arrested for or charged with a crime, do not face the legal system alone. Entrust your case to me, attorney Dan Potter. I have over 16 years of experience defending clients in many different types of criminal law matters. I am committed to my clients, fighting as aggressively as necessary in order to preserve your rights.
Upon being charged with drunk driving or Driving While Impaired (DWI) your license is automatically suspended for 30 days. I can assist you in seeking the retention of driving privileges to get to work or school. I also represent clients at trial or in negotiations with the prosecutor in the case. Penalties for DWI/DUI are getting more strict in North Carolina and throughout the country. It is important to retain an attorney as soon as possible who will protect your rights and advocate for your interests in court. I can help you handle these matters and strive to minimize the impact they have on your future.
I also handle all felony and misdemeanor crimes at the state level, including:
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The goal
Adaptive tutors, which move students at their own pace, are often difficult to understand and effectively utilize. My job was to work on the development of two different dashboards, Luna and Real-Time, which would help teachers make better use of the information from adaptive tutors.
The users
Middle school teachers who used adaptive tutors to supplement their teaching a couple times a week were our primary users. The main challenge with communicating adaptive tutor information was making the data actionable while respecting teachers' autonomy and gaining their trust.
The team
I joined an ongoing research project at CMU's Human Computer Interaction Institute led by graduate HCI students Françeska Xhakaj and Kenneth Holstein, while under the direction of Vincent Aleven and Bruce McLaren.
Final Concept: Luna
This interface was meant to be used by teachers the night after a computer session in order to adjust their lesson plan for the next day.
Class Level: Skills
From this dashboard, a teacher can make quick adjustments to their lecture plan while having an idea of which students may be struggling. The "skills" data has been more visually weighted compared to the "errors" data in order to reflect the varying strength behind their statistical models.
Class Level: Errors
Errors are less actionable for planning lectures and thus are displayed on a problem by problem level. I made an effort to help teachers understand the tutor by including pop-ups with actual student problems (2x+3=10) next to the language used by the tutor (combine unlike terms to make variable).
Individual Level Dashboard
I primarily redesigned the bottom graphic titled, "How fast are students progressing?". Showing direct progress of students over a calendar helps teachers understand the tutor better and what the student experience is like. The filters included for the bottom graphic support either a requested feature by teachers or a current teacher practice.
Final Concept: Real-Time
These interviews were for a different type of dashboard, one which a teacher would use in real time while students were working in the computer lab. This dashboard was in a much earlier stage than Luna.
I designed almost all of the interview materials myself, as well as conducted three interviews. My objective was to understand what needs a dashboard must fulfill in order for a teacher to circulate effectively throughout the class.
Card Sorting
"If you could have any super power to help you teach, what would it be and how would you use it?"
In beginning the interviews with a question about super powers, I intended to frame the interview as being exploratory and build rapport. Moving the teachers expectations towards participatory design with a simple, open-ended question encouraged participation and creativity.
Directed Storytelling
"While drawing on the computer lab seating chart, how did you usually spend your time?"
Given contextual inquiry restrictions due to the time of year (summer), I resorted to directed storytelling. Some teachers had never taken their students to computer labs, so I improvised, asking them to describe how they supervised students working in activity stations.
"What are your gut reactions to the idea behind these hypothetical 'teacher dashboards'?"
Encouraging teachers to respond to the idea, versus focusing on details, was an essential part of the process. Another key was to have intentionally vague scenarios and use teacher's clarifying questions as an opportunity to ask what they would ideally want. Finally, creating scenarios teachers would likely disapprove of was a necessity.
My first step after joining the team was listening to teacher interviews which already occurred, trying to understand how the dashboards related to each other, and mapping how each dashboard might be used in a school week.
Notification Threshold Feature
Given the variability in student performance between classes, schools, and states, I believe it is essential to be able to change the tutor's threshold for notifications, whether for positive or negative student performance.
A notification threshold would also help the dashboard be more accepted by the teacher, if it more closely aligned with their sense of who was doing well vs who was not.
Luna Graphics
Sketches of different graphics and how they were intended to be used was important to my process. My interfaces were designed with the intent of being directly connected to a specific teacher action.
Levels are actually not a necessary part of the tutor or dashboard and exist purely so students and teachers can better understand them. Designing truthful, but user-friendly graphics was a challenge I faced.
In this prototype, "Errors" appear to be more accurate than "Skills" due their higher level of detail. However, the statistical model behind "Skills" is actually much stronger; the visuals of the dashboard needed to actually reflect this difference.
Design Research
Based on teacher interviews and contextual inquiries conducted by my colleagues, I sought to test out potential ways to help minimize "bad teacher behaviors". Addressing these without being overly paternalistic was difficult.
Speed-dating concepts for general teacher preferences proved to be helpful for the Luna dashboard as well. Some of the infographics used, such as the one below, were far too unintuitive.
I think my greatest takeaways from this project were how to manage working on multiple projects at the same time and how to integrate into a team which has already been working on a project.
Vincent Aleven designed these two graphics.
I read literature published on teaching, dashboards, and research methods to better understand how to design dashboards in educational environments. Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few was especially helpful, I adapted many of his principles and a few of his graphics into the Next-Day Dashboard.


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- Attack on Titan has sold over 700,000 units worldwide across Vita, PS4 and PC.
- Toukiden 2 has sold over 250,000 units across Asia with the western release still to come.
AoT could continue to sell with the anime still winning fans and a new series next year, while Tecmo will be hoping for a good performance from Toukiden 2 in the west from PlayStation owners still deprived of Monster Hunter.
Most importantly, the company's focus on games sales over its weaker mobile division has seen consistent performance over the last five years, with increasing profits. The poor Japanese release for Berserk might dent that a little, but the overall trend is very good for a company focused on core gaming.


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Really awesome game & concept! 5 stars!!!!!
Really awesome game & concept! 5 stars!!!!!
Nice game, like minimalistic graphics. Wouldn't expect this all to fit into a single megabyte.
On some levels, text is "vibrating" when moving around - that can be fixed by rounding "view" offsets on ActionScript side.
Good game, i like the "simplicity" of it and the grapichs are so retro :D 5/5
the whisps r cool. nice music by the way
i like it but i think u should make alot better games than this i garentee u that u could make a great awsome gam please keep trying :D


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a nosy poem
June 9, 2010
Today is Wednesday. Poetry Wednesday, in fact. And so, without further ado, here is a poem, for you ;-)
Loved, By a Nose
by AGJ
"My love is like a red red rose . . ."
With a corn cob pipe and a button nose?
That can't be right, that's not what I meant:
Don't worry, my darling, this poem's not spent!
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways . . ."
No one can eat just one . . . Lays?
Oh dear, no–most certainly not!
A potato chip? What a ridiculous thought!
Just one more attempt I shall make, one last time–
One more chance to woo with a romantic rhyme:
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;"
With hair shiny black and eyes green & gray,
You make my heart flutter and grow delicate.
With you I am matched, in our profiles it shows:
As we reach for a kiss, but are blocked by a nose!
3 Responses to "a nosy poem"
June 10, 2010 at 1:51 am
Very clever, Anna!! : )
June 10, 2010 at 3:07 am
Very cute! Sometimes a smooshy nose kiss is kind of nice, though.


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Friday night checkin
There is always time to shop.
Lining up for the night ride.
Ready Set Go
Too early to rise.
OK, now we're up.
See. I won!
Last minute tuneup.
No. I don't think so. You go ahead and ride it.
I think this is where I crashed last year.


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MIAMI - Herbert Saffir, an engineer who created the five-category system used to describe hurricane strength and warn millions of an approaching storm's danger, has died. He was 90.
Saffir died Wednesday from complications of surgery, said his son, Richard Saffir.
A structural engineer, Saffir created his scale in 1969 - laying out for the first time what kind of damage could be expected from an approaching hurricane. It has since become the definitive way to describe intensity for storms that form in the Atlantic basin and parts of the Pacific Ocean. Before the scale, hurricanes were simply described as major or minor.
Former National Hurricane Center director Robert H. Simpson, 95, said the system was invaluable in helping him communicate the power of an approaching storm.
"We needed that type of thing desperately at the time," he said in a phone interview Thursday from his Washington, D.C., home.
Speaking in an interview earlier this year, Simpson said he had a hard time before the scale explaining the kinds of damage each storm could cause.
"I couldn't tell the Salvation Army, for example, how much and what materials they should be shipping. The scale gave them a much better handle on that," said Simpson, whose contribution was adding possible storm surge heights for each category.
Saffir was born in New York in 1917. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in civil engineering in 1940 and then served in World War II, later moving to South Florida to become a county engineer.
Because of the area's vulnerability to hurricanes, Saffir quickly became an expert in how hurricane-force winds affect buildings. He helped write and unify building codes in South Florida.
Saffir began working on an intensity scale in 1969 as part of a United Nations project. He had been asked how the U.N. could lessen hurricane damage to low-cost buildings worldwide. To help officials understand the full range of hurricane damage, Saffir proposed rating storms from one through five. Scales for rating earthquake damage were already well known, and Saffir believed hurricanes needed their own system of ranking.
He presented his system to Simpson, who began to use the rankings internally and later for a weather report meant largely for emergency agencies. The scale was so useful, however, others quickly adopted it.
It was later used for public hurricane forecasts, and each man's name was later attached.
Still, Saffir didn't talk about the scale much, his son said. While his mother and sister sometimes got upset when the category system was referred to without Saffir or Simpson's name, "It wouldn't seem to bother him," his son said.
Saffir continued to work as a structural engineer at a Coral Gables office until he went into the hospital four weeks ago, his son said. He also traveled to inspect storm damage, even producing reports on the performance of structures during 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
Despite devoting much of his life to thinking about and preparing buildings for hurricanes, Saffir acknowledged earlier this year that his own home was not completely protected from a storm with hurricane shutters. He had done studies on the glass in the windows and found it was relatively shatterproof, he said. At the same time, he told The Associated Press, "I confess I only have partial shutters."
Saffir's wife, Sarah, preceded him in death. Besides his son, he is survived by a daughter, Barbara Saffir, and a brother, Leonard Saffir. Funeral arrangements were still pending.


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With one shrewd move, French President Emmanuel Macron has displaced German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the leader of the European Union — or at least as the EU's face, voice, and ear to its vital trans-Atlantic partner, President Donald Trump.
Macron has clearly learned, and put his own spin on, the lesson that all world leaders have noted in their dealings with Trump: To get something from this new American leader — whether it's friendship, weapons, concessions, or whatever — you just regard him with respect, slap his back a time or two, in short, treat him the way all too few do in his homeland: as a world leader in his own right.
So, after showing his fangs and a death-grip handshake in his first meeting with Trump at a NATO summit in Brussels in May, Macron invited him to the Bastille Day celebration, to be held Friday. And Trump accepted, in part because the event, he learned, was a gigantic military parade. (Trump loves military parades and in fact wanted one for his inaugural festivities, but the Pentagon turned down the request.)
At their joint press conference, following a working session on Thursday, Macron welcomed Trump as a peer and partner and said their time together had left him "extremely pleased."
Not long ago, Trump dissed Paris, telling a conference of conservatives that a friend of his named Jim, " a very, very substantial guy," had warned him to stay away from the City of Lights because it had allowed in too many radical Islamists. "I don't go there anymore," this mysterious Jim said. "Paris is no longer Paris." (Around the same time, Trump said that Brussels, for the same reason, had turned into a " hellhole.")
At Thursday's news conference, asked about this insult by one of the attending French reporters, Trump shifted gears and described Paris as a "beautiful" city, adding, "It's going to be just fine, because you've got a great president … a tough president … I'm coming back."
Trump also said, "The friendship between our two nations — and ourselves, I might add — are unbreakable." When he said "and ourselves," Trump reached out to touch Macron's shoulder, a gesture that drew Macron's smile but not his reciprocation.
When a reporter asked Macron if he saw their relationship in the same way, the French president defined it in more Cartesian terms. "I never want to comment on who we are," he replied, "but I can tell you," the meal that he and Trump were about to share "will be a dinner between friends because we are the leaders of two countries" with a history of friendship.
Macron may have been amused when, during his opening statement, Trump said, "France is our oldest ally," then — in an apparent departure from text — looked up and said, "A lot of people don't know that." Of course, everyone who knows the slightest thing about the American Revolution — or who has ever heard the soundtrack of Hamilton— knows that.
When Trump says a lot of people don't know something, it usually means that, until he read it in the speech before him, he didn't know it.
The two presidents expressed agreement on most of what they discussed, as the United States and France do have similar interests on many issues, not least counterterrorism. On Syria, Macron said that he no longer requires President Bashar al-Assad's departure as "a prerequisite" for a peace deal or a political settlement.
Trump has taken this position too; in fact, in his final months as President Obama's secretary of state, John Kerry also said, though more grousingly, that Assad could stay in power a while longer, if just to maintain stability.
In the one bit of possible news, Trump said that the cease-fire in southwest Syria, which he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had struck at the G-20 summit, might soon be followed by a cease-fire in another, more violent part of the country, though he did not elaborate. Meanwhile, he boasted, the southwest cease-fire had held now for five days, which he depicted as a long time.
Finally, perhaps without realizing it, Trump threw his son Donald Trump Jr. under a few more wheels of the bus. Asked about the meeting that his son had with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, he said, as he'd told one reporter earlier, "Most people would have taken that meeting," then added, "It's called oppo research," which is common in politics.
Oppo research is indeed common, but as my colleague Dahlia Lithwick recently wrote, it is a crime under federal statutes "for a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value" to a candidate in an American election.
Oppo research, as Trump would be the first to acknowledge, is a thing of value.


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- • Unawatuna Beach
- • Jungle Beach
- • Mihiripenna Beach
- • Japanese Peace Pagoda
- • Yatagala Raja Maha Viharaya
Things to do near Unawatuna:
- • Handunugoda Tea Museum (6.6 mi/10.6 km from the city centre)
- • Old Dutch Hospital (3.5 mi/5.7 km from the city centre)
- • Historical Mansion (3.6 mi/5.7 km from the city centre)
- • National Maritime Museum (3.7 mi/5.9 km from the city centre)
- • Galle National Museum (3.8 mi/6 km from the city centre)
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The lineup also boasts Rosalía, Kaytranada, Modeselektor, DJ Koze, Jon Hopkins, and more.
Album Reviews
Massive Attack and Aphex Twin to headline Mexico's Ceremonia Festival in 2019
Osheaga reveals 2018 lineup: Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs to headline
Montreal festival also promises The National, James Blake, St. Vincent, Lykke Li, Franz Ferdinand, Blondie, Jenny Lewis, Portugal. the Man, and many more.
Thom Yorke, Gorillaz, and LCD Soundsystem to play Sónar Festival's 25th anniversary in 2018
Barcelona-based event also promises Modeselektor, Cornelius, Bonobo, Goldlink, Wiley, Richie Hawtin, John Talabot, and more.
Roskilde Festival reveals 2017 lineup: Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire, A Tribe Called Quest to headline
Plus: The xx, Lorde, Solange, Justice, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Blink-182, Future Islands, Father John Misty, and more.
Movement 2016 Festival Review: 10 Best Performances
The EDM festival celebrates 10 years of packing Motor City dance floors.
Movement Detroit expands 2016 lineup with Modeselektor, RZA, Tiga, Matthew Dear, more
Other new additions include DaM-FunK, Kill the Noise, Alec Metric, and Claude Young, among others.
Moderat announce new album III, world tour
Nine-track effort slated to drop in April.
Omar Souleyman announces new album, premieres "Enssa El Aatab" — listen
Syrian musician teams up with Modeselektor and Four Tet for upcoming full-length.
New Music: Atoms For Peace – "Other Side" (Stuck Together Remix)
A new track from Thom Yorke's side-project.
Corona Capital 2012 features The Black Keys, My Morning Jacket, New Order
Plus, Franz Ferdinand, Florence + the Machine, Cat Power, and more.
Album Review: Modeselektor – Modeselektion Vol. 2
Modeselektor expand their dance rock reign into darker arenas.
Check Out: Modeselektor feat. Thom Yorke – "All Buttons In"
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Have you noticed the huge pile of flyers that come to your place along with the daily newspaper? Most of the time, it is of some new eatery that opened up in your neighborhood. Sometimes it is a new pizza corner, sometimes for a fried chicken vendor, and sometimes it is just to promote the happy hours of the pub.You may also see Restaurant Flyers.
These flyers had to be designed digitally before they were printed on the paper to distribute. As a designer, here you will find a series of food flyer mockups and templates which you can download and customize for your food client.Check BBQ Flyer Designs also.
Burger Restaurant Flyer Template
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Restaurant Mexican Pizza Flyer Template
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Pizza Promotion Flyer Template
This flyer template is to promote pizza and burger combos. The simple design is by Fatih Akdemir and brilliantly uses a big image for all its concerns and just the price and address of the food joint.
Rich Food Flyer Template
This is an 8.5 x 11 inches sized design which has been optimized for printing at 300 dpi. The design is in CMYK color code and includes a bleed of 0.25 inches. The download is a PSD file which can be edited using photoshop. Download
Watercolor Traditional Food Flyers
Mexican cuisine is all about its spices. Same can be seen in this design with its flaring red chili on the left corner. The layout has been spread nicely to show different food items in the design, including a margarita drink. Download
Healthy Food Flyer Template
This is a PSD download of a fully editable design. The highly organized and layered design is set up at 8.5 x 11 inches including bleed area. The help file includes the information about the free typefaces that have been used in the design.
Realistic Flyer Design For Food
This is a modern Flyer Mockups set perfectly to promote Sunday brunch. There are three different designs which are set in two sizes, US letter and A4. The download can be edited and customized using photoshop. Download
Amazing Retro Food Flyer
These are six different designs, each set to promote a different fast food. If your locality has a new fast food joint, you can pitch this idea to the vendor to promote the food place. These designs can be downloaded as vector graphics from ShutterStock.
Food Advertisement Flyer Design
Burger lovers are definitely going to love this design that makes their mouth water. The PSD file has been set up in US letter size and CMYK color code. It also contains the help file to guide you with the layout and the typefaces used. Download
Stunning Multipurpose Food Flyer
This flyer shows how replacing the entire background with a nice image of the food item being served can make so much impact. The fully layered PSD file can be customized with your personal images via smart objects. Download
Food Promotional Fun Flyer
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This flyer is set in tones of black and white and uses a lot of ornamental decoration to promote the street-food festival. It uses amazing novelty and casual fonts to accentuate the content of the design.
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Month: December 2016
The dash
Jane Austen and the Mistletoe Kiss: A Short Story
This story was commissioned to appear in the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper on December 27th 2004 as part of a tradition of short stories during Christmas week. – Jo Beverly. Click here to read it.
Sweet emblem of returning peace, the heart's full gush and love's release,
Spirits in human fondness flow and greet the pearly mistletoe.
Oh! Happy tricksome time of mirth, giv'n to the stars of sky and earth!
May all the best of feeling know, the custom of the mistletoe.
Married and single, proud and free, yield to the season, trim with glee:
Time will not stay … he cheats us so … A kiss? … 'tis gone … the mistletoe.
The poem above was written in December, 1826, and last line refers to the custom of plucking a berry every time a kiss was stolen beneath the kissing bough. Once the berries…
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Christmas carols Before the Mast
The story above doesn't belong to me, but it is suitable. However, these below are a few known carols adapted during the years for the athmosphere Before the Mast – the Age of Sail RPG (ie interactive swashbuckling adventure story) we are writing together for 6 years and 5 months already:
Christmas in the West Indies
Christmas Season in the West Indies has its charm,
No matter if in the cities of in the pirates' realm.
There is no snow the European mother country to remind,
But it's closer to the athmosphere the Divine Child
Was actually born under the star in the Middle East.
On islands and on ships it's an important feast.
Catholics are building rich scenes of Nativity,
Rhum and punch flow on the throats free,
A good luck coin is hidden in the King's cake –
If yours', then choose your Queen, for party's sake!
Pirates and colonists tonight will toast
With warmest season's greetings BEFORE THE MAST!
I saw three ships
I saw three ships aboard the site
"Before the Mast", "Before the Mast"
I saw three ships ready to fight
In the West Indies at war time.
And who was in those ships all three,
"Before the Mast", "Before the Mast",
And who was in those ships all three,
According to their prior agreement?
Captain Crawford and Raoul were there,
"Before the Mast", "Before the Mast",
And Sharky with his privateers,
In the West Indies at war time.
Pray, wither sailed those ships all three,
"Before the Mast", "Before the Mast",
Pray, wither sailed those ships all three,
In the West Indies at war time?
O they sailed into the straight
"Before the Mast", "Before the Mast",
Wanting the pirate ship to fight,
In the West Indies at war time.
And all the bells on earth shall ring,
"Before the Mast", "Before the Mast",
That gunned down the "Siren" sank,
In the West Indies at war time.
Then let us all rejoice again,
"Before the Mast", "Before the Mast",
That those we love did survive,
In the West Indies at war time.
(The peace is settled already for a while… and all the ships mentioned there got sunk in battles some years ago).
Deck the site
Deck the site with gimps and holly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
For the holidays to be jolly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
We have weddings, fun and contests,
Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
And witty negotiations,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
See the story grow before us,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Strike the keys and join the chorus.
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Follow us and write to measure,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
And you'll surely get a treasure,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Fast away the old plot passes,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Hail the new, ye lads and lasses,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Let's write joyous, all together,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Contests to win, story to further,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Doe, A Deer, A Female Deer: The Spirit of Mother Christmas
Oh wondrous headed doe… Amongst its horns it carries the light of the blessed sun…" Hungarian Christmas Folk Song
Long before Santa charioted his flying steeds across our mythical skies, it was the female reindeer who drew the sleigh of the sun goddess at winter solstice. Today it is her beloved image that adorns Christmas cards and Yule decorations – not Rudolph. Because unlike the male reindeer who sheds his antlers in winter, it is the larger and stronger doe, who retains her horns. And it is she who leads the herds in winter.
It was when we "Christianized" the pagan traditions of winter, that the white bearded man i.e. "Father Christmas" was born. And so today we no longer remember the "Deer Mother" who once flew through winter's longest darkest night with the life-giving light of the sun in her horns.
Cradle of Starlight by Art of Sekhmet
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A Victorian Lady's Christmas Gift Guide
"A merry Christmas, with Love's gifts for the young, Home's comforts for the old, and Heaven's bright hopes for all, is our fervent aspiration."
Godey's Lady's Book, 1854.
An elegantly dressed couple walk arm in arm under an umbrella, 1905.
(Wellcome Images CC BY 4.0)
Shopping for Christmas presents in the Victorian era could be quite tricky, especially if one was a lady choosing a gift for a gentleman. Luckily, newspapers, magazines, and etiquette books of the day were only too happy to offer advice on appropriate gifts for all the men, women, and children in one's life. They also offered advice on such thorny issues as re-gifting gifts and keeping to a Christmas budget. In today's article we look at a few of these recommended Christmas gifts for ladies and gentlemen, as well as at Victorian advice on re-gifting and living within one's means during the holidays.
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The fantastic five NaNoWriMo winners
I think it is very important that NaNoWriMo endeavours made possible for all of us, the people in Bucharest interested in writing and in challenging ourselves to at least 1,667 words daily to meet. Our paths wouldn't have crossed otherwise, given that we come from different generations and academic backgrounds and we are writing in various genres – some of us in Romanian, some of us in English. And I am glad and grateful we have met with this opportunity!
Many thanks to Raluca, our local municipal leader, for organising everything and making it possible! (She is the one who drew the portrait above too). She kept the group united and in permanent communication, so that we keep meeting regularly even when NaNoWriMo isn't eating our souls anymore. Which means that our connections will deepen.
Yes, we are the five winners of a group of initially 8 or more Bucharest fans of writing. And I am missing from this photo below.
You may assume that I was taking it (even if I don't really like appropriating credits which aren't mine, for things someone else had actually done). And I like them portrayed as the castle ladies of a literary tower of dreams… (No, I don't intend to confine them to the tower until they finish the actual novels, though, making them ready for publishing. Because if I did it, I would have to share their fate too…).
Congratulations for having persevered and having won NaNoWriMo! Congratulations for haing a story to tell and the patience and determination to actually tell it. We all know it was not easy, and we all have been there for each other in moments when feeling like giving up, or merely feeling tired and demoralised by the too little progress, or stuck with the plot in a point.
From this photo below, however, I am not missing.
This is a scene at one of our weekly meetings in a cozy tea house, peppered with writing right there and catching up with missing words, as the present laptops may witness, as well as with discussions about writing methods, resources, inspiration sources, about our stories, characters, about publishing our stories when they will be ready and so on.
We have found a way to support each other and to forge new connections. Georgiana and Veronica are already classmates at Uni and writing together their story, so this is an older connection. But just after NaNoWriMo ended, Bianca invited Raluca to a TV show, where I am honoured to have been mentioned too. Another new connection. Bianca is my new friend and beta reader, and I invited her to literary events in my group of mature writers. Raluca told us all about a writing workshop to be organised, and Bianca and I attended it, in order to open up to new literary challenges.
Also I'd mention within the category of the Bucharest NaNoWriMo group that we have also given each other prizes for having won NaNoWriMo. I received, therefore, besides the group portraits above, including the drawn one, a pirate -themed room decoration set,
a pirate polar bear to hang in my Christmas tree, a Christmas card with an inspiring quote…
…and an audio cd with music to listen to while writing. Pirate-themed too, since I am the pirate of the group, Bianca the baby elf, Raluca the immortal mystery queen, while Georgiana is the Devil's daughter and Veronica …just is (given that her novel is titled "I am", definitely otherwise I couldn't make such a statement).
We could and did turn it into a celebration that the official NaNoWriMo, too far from us and focusing more on receiving donations than on anything else, wouldn't have granted. Next year I might be in charge of the trophies, making them even more meaningful than this year – but I loved everything this year too, and we had trophies somewhere too.


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Congratulations Ladies!
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Congratulations to these AI Urbandale ladies on running at Drake Relays this weekend!
Sam Strauss (Johnston) ran the following:
4 x 100
4 x 200
4 x 400
4 x 800
*Teams all out placed their seeds and improved on season best times.
Tristyn Paup (DCG) ran the following:
4 x 100
Sarah Frett (DCG) ran the follwoing:
4 x 100
100m Hurdles
*4 x 100 team out placed seed and improved on their season best time.
AI Urbandale athletes, if you ran this weekend please send us pictures. We'd love to put you guys up on our social media and highlight your successes as well!


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Pieter van der Luit
Pieter was born in October 1969 and lives in a small town close to Groningen, in the north of The Netherlands. He started birdwatching around the age of 7 when he noticed a lot of birds he had never seen before during a family walk in the Oostvaardersplassen. After a brief interruption during high school he picked up birding again in 1991, trying to see as many birds as possible in Holland. Since '96 Pieter has been birding abroad as well and since then he has birded all around the world, visiting all 7 continents and countries like Uganda, South Africa, Peru, Argentina, Australia, Svalbard and Costa Rica, resulting in a lifelist of well over 3000 birds.
Pieter also runs Inezia Tours a travel agency for birding and wildlife tours and polar expedition cruises. He has developed birding tours to e.g. Antarctica, the Falklands, Germany, Latvia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Uganda.
Birding in Holland is a wonderful experience and if you want an experienced guide to accompany you, Pieter would be happy to show you the birds of The Netherlands.
Highly recommended.
I recommend him highly.


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Last month, Brenda Benson hung this beautiful, evocative painting in the gallery. It's surprising in its content but it also surprised us because it is such a departure from the folded and cut paper work that we have come to associate with Brenda.
So we asked her about the painting. As it turns out, Brenda completed this painting a number of years ago while working on her Masters Degree. Inspired by the Steampunk Festival in Hannibal a few weeks ago, she "reworked" the painting, adding some elements that are iconic to the steampunk asthetic.
This "reworking" of artwork is not unusual. As skills and interests change, artists may refresh a piece of work that they had previously considered fininshed. They might pull out a piece that never seemed quite right and find a way to improve upon the original work.
We can draw a parallel with how we tend to "rework" or "refresh" ourselves when we feel a need for change and renewal. And maybe, just maybe, many pieces of art, just like ourselves, are never really "done" but rather, always changing, always growing, always evolving, always works in progress.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the third time, President Obama's Affordable Care Act is going before the Supreme Court with the future of health care hanging in the balance. Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments in the King v. Burwell lawsuit with the focus on whether the millions of people who receive tax subsidies to pay for health insurance are doing so illegally.
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This thesis is about knowing in biology in higher education and research. The gene concept is used as an example of knowledge content that is common to both biological research and education. The purpose is to study how knowing about the gene is expressed in different forms of knowledge contexts at the university. This is important to study in order to understand documented learning problems regarding the gene concept but also to better understand the relation between knowledge in research and teaching. Knowledge has to be transformed to become an educational content, a process that is of special interest within the field of Didaktik. The thesis is based on three qualitative case studies. Study I is an analysis of a textbook in biology. The purpose is to examine the content as presented to the students to see how its structure may contribute to the problems students have. How does the gene concept function as a scientific representation and at the same time as an object for learning in a biology college textbook? A phenomenographic approach is used to study implicit variation in gene concept use when the textbook treats different sub disciplines. The results show conceptual differences between them. The different categories of the gene found–as a trait, an information structure, an actor in the cell, a regulator in embryonic development or as a marker for evolutionary change–mean that we deal with different phenomena. The gene as an object is ascribed different functions and furthermore these functions are intermingled in the textbook. Since, in the textbook, these conceptual differences are not articulated, they likely are a source of confusion when learning about genes. Study II examines the gene concept use in a scientific context, as exemplified by five research articles from a scientific journal. Using an adaptation of Hirst's criteria for forms of knowledge, the study characterizes how the scientific contexts for the gene concept use vary. What kinds of different gene concept use in these contexts can be discerned? When comparing the articles, it becomes evident that the gene concept is used to answer different kinds of questions. The meanings of the gene concept are connected to various knowledge projects, their purposes and the methods used. Shifts of methodologies and questions entail a concept that escapes single definitions and "slides around" in meanings. These contextual transformations and associated content leaps are here referred to as epistemic drift. Study III follows an integrative research project in biology. What are the characteristic content conditions for knowledge development? What different ways in using the gene concept can be distinguished? By using the analytic methodology developed in study II, the scientific contexts are categorized according to their knowledge project, methods used and conceptual contexts. The results show that the gene concept meanings and the content vary in focus, are more or less explicitly formulated, or possible to formulate, and consist of different skills. One didactic conclusion is that by being more overt about the conditions for problem solving within a specific subdisciplin (i.e. fruitful questions to ask, knowledge needed to answer them, and methods available), students may be given opportunities to get a broader perspective on what it means to know biology.
At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript.
The purpose of this study is to analyze variations in how the gene concept is used and conceived in different sub-disciplines in biology. An examination of the development of subject matter and the use of the gene concept in a common college biology textbook shows that the gene concept is far from presented in a consistent way. The study describes and categorizes five different gene concepts used in the textbook; the gene as a trait, an information-structure, an actor, a regulator and a marker. These conceptual differences are not dealt with in an explicit manner. This constitutes one of the sources for confusion when learning about genes and genetics.
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I make mistakes. I made one several years ago that I regret. I invested some money in a company. It was an upstart company with a really good idea. I invested time trying to make the company work. I offered creative ideas for the product. I tried to network to help find potential partners.
But, the good idea died. Not for lack of wisdom but for lack of execution.
When I think about that experience, I know that I didn't intend to make a mistake. I considered all the issues I could think of and decided that this was a good use of my resources of time and money. I wanted to make a good decision and I believed that I had.
The problem was, it didn't turn out well. Factors beyond my control had more influence than I thought they would. The decision to publish a product just as the digital world was emerging to forever change the world of information sharing turned out to not be a good decision.
Most people I know don't make mistakes intentionally. Most people I know try to take into account the multiple factors that are at play in any situation and then decide to do what they think is best. Most of the time the decisions are not clear cut. Many times the choices aren't between good and bad, but between better and worse or between good and good.
So, as I reflect on my mistake on my investment, I discover grace inside myself for myself. I would like to undo some things and re-do some things. I cannot. But, I know that I tried to not make the mistake that the decision turned out to be.
And if I can find grace for myself, maybe I can have grace for others who made mistakes. At least I can consider that they didn't intentionally decide to do something that didn't work out as well as they had hoped.


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One of the issues that affect many residents of Lewisham Central and users of Ladywell Pool is the devilish pedestrian crossing at the bottom of Courthill Road at the junction with Lewisham High Street. Recently a very serious accident took place there and a woman was run over by a car, she was badly hurt but fortunately survived. Do we have to wait for a fatality before a pedestrial traffic light is provided?
Here's a video I took a few months ago, it shows how in absence of a traffic light for pedestrians it's actually near impossible to cross in safety. Cars can come at you from 4 different directions and as it happens most people have only two eyes. I've been crossing that road most days for about 11 years and I still don't know which way to look.
About halfway through the video there is a window of about 20 seconds where it is possible to cross, only that without traffic light one cannot know if it is safe or not and for how long, maybe cars are not coming from some direction not because traffic lights are holding them but because there aren't cars from there in that moment. With so many possible ways to have incoming traffic it's very difficult to understand that and it does happen that just as you start crossing someone speeds in front of you, you just cannot know, you can't see their traffic light.
Then just as the traffic restarts a woman wants to cross, notice how at first she is unsure about when to start crossing, and then after she starts crossing and reaches the middle of the road cars start to move, but again she cannot know if they're going straight or turning into Courthill Road so she has a moment of hesitation and waits in the middle of the road with cars running near her until she finally finds the moment to cross the second half of the road.
It's crazy, that's the normal way to cross Courthill Road.
A few months ago me and Libdem Councillors Chris Maines, Andrew Milton and Dave Edgerton went to City Hall and delivered to Mayor Boris a 600 signatures strong petition asking him to give us the traffic light we need. The petition sheets were handed in by Caroline Pidgeon AM who is the Libdem Chair of the Transport Committee of the GLA.
We were then told by TfL that they were studying possible solutions but since a few months have passed and I haven't heard anything about it I just sent another email to TfL asking for an update and I'll post here any reply I receive.
You can do the same by emailing to email@example.com and in case you have not done so yet you can add your name to our online petition, the more people sign it the bigger the pressure we can put on TfL.
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10 Reasons why giving time to your passion is important
Everyone can gain from following their passion and, if you can make your passion pay, then that is even better! So, whether you want your passion to become a full time occupation or simply a part time hobby, here are ten reasons why following your passion is so very important:
1. It is more important than money
Sadly, money does make the world go round, and we all have to earn living somehow. If you are in a job you hate and you get a chance to get paid for your passion, then jump at that chance and your life will be far more fulfilling. If that is not possible, then make sure that you leave enough spare time to do the things that you love.
2. It won't feel like a chore
Even when your passion involves hard work, it won't feel like it. When you are enjoying what you are doing, time passes more quickly and the sense of satisfaction that you will gain will make all the effort worthwhile.
3. It will boost your confidence
When you give your all to your passion, it will give you a huge boost of self-confidence. Following a dream, and achieving it, is something that you will be able to be really proud about.
4. It will be something that you want to do
We do enough things because we have to, so here's your chance to do something that you want to do for a change. Many of us work, just because we need the money, but when you work on your passion, it's because that is your choice.
5. It will make you stronger
It might be exhausting, but you will definitely give your passion everything that you have. It will teach you how to overcome difficulties and how to go the extra mile, because, when you are truly passionate about something, nothing will stand on your way.
6. You will want to get up in the mornings
Being passionate about something gives you a reason to get up early and go to bed late. Even if you can't follow your passion every day of the week, at least, you know that it's only a few days before the weekend, and then you can.
7. It teaches you to be more self-disciplined
When something ceases to be a chore and it becomes a passion instead, then you will be far more motivated to succeed. When you are doing a job that you hate, you just want the day to end, but when you are following your passion, you want to get the job done, so you will become more efficient and self-disciplined.
8. Life is too short not to follow your passion
Life is far too short to spend it all doing things that you hate. It's important that you spend your time doing the things that you love and the things that you care about. If you don't, you may well regret it later.
9. We spend too much time just working for money
For most of us, we spend much of our lives working, so if you can make your job something that you really enjoy, then you are spending that time in a far more satisfying way. If all we do is work to make ends meet, and little else in between, then life can become a really mundane affair.
10. Because you can!
Don't spend your life, saying 'if only' or 'I wish', make a plan, today, of how you are going to follow your passion. If you want to change your career, then do it! You may have to take risks, you may have to go to evening classes, but the end result of truly being happy will be well worth the effort.
Stay happy!


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State inspection focuses on not just one, but three programs – and all pass with flying colors
(Benson) – It's always an impressive accomplishment when an Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) inspection focusing on one area of operations at the Apache Generating Station finds no deficiencies.
It's a lot better than impressive when an inspection focusing on three areas of operations comes to the same conclusion.
"No Deficiencies" was the conclusion July 29 after an ADEQ inspector examined every aspect of three critical systems at Apache station:
- the Aquifer Protection Permit (APP), covering the entire pond containment infrastructure and onsite landfills
- the Arizona Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (AZPDES), a multi-sector general permit covering how the facility monitors and prevents pollutants from getting into storm water runoff
- The Potable Drinking Water System (PDWS), the system of one well and infrastructure that supplies drinking water to the entire facility
Mike Nelson, director of power production, and Chris Determan, senior environmental specialist, were onsite for the inspections. Determan escorted the ADEQ inspector during the inspection.
The APP inspection looks at every aspect of the pond containment system, said Michelle Freeark, director of safety and environmental services.
"The inspection checks whether we've had any discharge from the ponds, it looks to make sure the dikes are intact and there are no erosion issues. It looks at the condition of the spillways, whether we're maintaining the required three-foot freeboard (level of the ponds), and to make sure we're managing the vegetation," Freeark said.
The inspection takes in the monitoring wells to ensure sampling data doesn't show any leakage from the ponds to groundwater, and to make sure the wells are operating as they should.
"They look at the conveyance system to make sure there are no leaks involved with how we sluice everything from the plant to the containment facilities. Every aspect of the operation is inspected," Freeark said.
Freeark points out there are daily, weekly and monthly inspections by Staff as well as annual inspections by ADEQ and Arizona Department of Water Resources staff.
The PDWS inspection ensures there is a safe source of drinking water throughout the plant, and the inspection look at the well, the pressure tank, all the pipes, the pumps, and the chlorination system. "It's an overview of everything to make sure we're operating the drinking water system effectively and safely," Nelson said.
The AZPDES inspection determines if there are any pollutants leaving the site due to storm water runoff, and that involves an extensive system as well; everything from retention and diversion ditches and channels to drains and pipes that handle runoff, as well as areas where runoff could flow offsite.
"We not only have to make sure we're not putting any pollutants into storm water runoff, we have to also ensure nothing is impeding the ability of storm water to flow across or off the site," Determan said.
Of course, no job is finished until the paperwork is done, and in this case the inspection looks at every piece of paperwork to make sure it's being done correctly.
"This is a tremendous effort put forth by many employees who are committed to being good stewards and who want to ensure our operations have minimal impact on the environment," said Nelson.
"Having them inspect three separate programs of this scope and magnitude and having no noted deficiencies – that's significant and something we all should be proud of," said Freeark.
In addition to Nelson and Determan, who escorted prepped for the inspection and escorted the inspector through the facilities, the following employees are also recognized for their efforts in ensuring a "no deficiencies" inspection: Jerry Ellis, Danny Tapia , Toby Smith, Rick Sherman, Jon Mc Commas, Larry Gill, David Reynolds, Pete Hargis, Keith Jacobs, Bill Wells, Cody Malboeuf and Dan Daggett.


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Landlords in San Diego are taxpayers just like nearly every other adult in the metropolitan area. This is tax season and many property owners are sitting down with their tax accountants to prepare the necessary paperwork. This time can be one full of considerable stress. Accurate figures on rental income and expenses are obviously important. Landlords may need to file returns in several municipalities.
Data Must Be Correct
The greatest danger is not the penalties for the wrong figures. Tax returns that are inaccurate may cause the landlord to endure future audits. Property management companies in San Diego have the task of supplying reliable information on the preceding year's business. AltaVista Properties will furnish accurate records for clients.
We Take Advantage of Software
Manual addition and subtraction is risky business and the same goes for storing records in a shoebox. The potential for human error is significant and physically stored information can be lost or accidentally destroyed. Alta Vista Properties relies on software. We record the financial data and then store the statistics in computer files that are safe from hacking.
Our recordkeeping capacity allows us to provide:
Monthly bill payment services.
Disbursement of monthly income through direct deposit or by mail, whichever the client wants.
Monthly and year-end statements.
Those monthly and year-end statements, can be added to the documentation necessary to file accurate tax returns. We can customize the financial reports so that a client with property in multiple locations can successfully complete tax forms for all the municipalities.
Customizing financial reports is a service Alta Vista Properties provides that is quite important. Landlords may need specific information on rental units to satisfy the needs of lending institutions. Planning for the coming year can require all types of reports. We can give these to our clients and they can better decide how to chart their financial course.
Clients Can Get the Reports
Access to all reports is very easy. We allow clients to have a portal on our website. Any landlord can access required or requested financial reports online. It doesn't matter what time of day or night they need the material. It is there for them to use.
Alta Vista Properties is a property management company committed to excellent service. We offer several services that make owning rental property more convenient. We can screen potential residents, market vacant properties, take care of repair work, and see to it that all activity is compliant with the law. We are one of the leaders in property management in San Diego.
Please Check Our References
All our services work together to achieve a single goal: peace of mind. An Alta Vista Properties client does not have to stay up nights wondering if everything is all right. We have provided service to landlords in San Diego for many years and we will be doing this for many years to come. We encourage prospective clients to look at our record. If they talk to current residents of property we manage or our existing clients, they will hear about our fair treatment and efficient service.
A review of our record with The Better Business Bureau and consumer review websites will only confirm that Alta Vista Properties is an excellent property management company in the San Diego Metropolitan area. Taxes don't have to be a horror story for any client. We have the information ready to be delivered and will respond to a request for it. Taxes can be filed in confidence, knowing that all the information is without error.
Please do inquire at any time about our property management services. We can be reached at 858-274-3600 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. We look forward to hearing from you and answering your questions


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I'd like to thank, Tatess for noticing my blog enough to give me this award :-)Thank you so much dear. Now, it is time for me to pass it on to at least 15 persons whose blogs impresses me much.
These are the rules:
1.Post the award on your blog
2.Link the person who has given you the award
3.Pass the award to other 15 blogs you've discovered
4.Let these 15 people know that you've given them an award.
Here they are:
1. chubskulit, 2. Mommy Liz, 3. MelCole, 4. Willa, 5. Clarissa


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Our Liquid Rubber Waterproof Sealant is our main waterproofing product. It is a paint-like substance that can be easily applied to most common surfaces to create a reliable waterproof layer and protective coating. Our Waterproof Sealant is only available in black. Henry Ford would be proud!
We have two Topcoat products. We recommend one of these are always applied over the top of our Waterproof Sealant to improve durability and increase longevity. Our Textured Coating contains a textured substance in the product to provide a gritted, non-slip finish. Our Smooth Coating provides a smooth, semi gloss finish. These Topcoats are designed to provide protection against New Zealand's harsh UV rays and are available in a range of colours.
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6X6 is a fiction cafe event where readers can connect with new and exciting writers in our region!
You free tickets are available direct from City Central Library.
For writers: We have several submissions already for the Winter 6X6 event so get your skates on! Deadline is 14th November. This is your chance to showcase work to our wonderful reading audience!


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Located at the junction of highways A20 and A62, our 3-star establishment has numerous advantages whether you are here for a business trip or seminar or simply touring the region.
Our modern hotel is located in the Midi-Pyrénées region, in a zone extending from the Gorges de l'Aveyron, to the Lot, the Causses du Quercy and the Gers.
Hotel Kyriad Montauban is about a mile and a half from the city center, 28 miles from the Toulouse-Mérignac Airport and 3 miles from the Montauban-Ville-Bourbon SNCF train station. It is located near a shopping area and just over 2 and a half miles from the international golf course. It is an ideal starting point to discover the city and visit Tarn-et-Garonne or the Ingres Museum. Our hotel is also a great place to stay while shopping in the many boutiques of the Aussonne shopping area and for taking advantage of a break at the movie theater or to go bowling or karting.
Our recently renovated hotel is a pleasant environment for business and leisure clientele alike: we have a wooded park, contemporary decor, restaurant with terrace, rooms with all the modern amenities and 2 fully equipped meeting rooms.
Take time for a break at the hotel bar or lounge with a newspaper or magazine from our kiosk. There is a Wi-Fi area available at all times, and free private parking. We offer warm hospitality 24 hours a day with a multilingual staff (French, English, Spanish) and a night watchman.
Whether you are here for a business stopover, family vacation or seminar, Hotel-Restaurant Kyriad Montauban will meet all your expectations with our charming rooms, (single, double, triple or quadruple). We also have 2 specially adapted rooms to comfortable accommodate people with reduced mobility. A good night sleep is assured with our new quality bedding.
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Iron Man: Armored Adventures - Fun With Lasers
Children'sRepeatClosed Captions AvailableRated: G21 mins
6:50am Saturday, February 09 2013
Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Episode 16 - Fun With Lasers
Series Synopsis
Tony Stark is geared for high-speed flight, high-tech battles and high-octane adventure! He is Iron Man.
Episode Synopsis
Episode 16 - Fun With Lasers
The Living Laser is back and more dangerous than ever. He's increased his power, taken control of a space station, and has the world in his grasp... but he can't think of anything to do with it.
Previous Episode Synopsis
Episode 14 - Man And Iron Man
Mister Fix is back, and this time he's equipped Whiplash with a virus designed to destroy Iron Man's armour from the inside out.
Future Episodes
- 5:35pm Monday, February 04 (R)
- 5:35pm Tuesday, February 05 (R)
- 8:05pm Tuesday, February 05 (R)
- 5:35pm Wednesday, February 06 (R)
- 5:35pm Thursday, February 07 (R)
- 5:35pm Friday, February 08 (R)
- 6:50am Saturday, February 09 (R)
- 5:35pm Monday, February 11 (R)