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Easter on the Ocean
The passage is going great! We were sailing using the gennaker and we were going 4, 5, 6 knots. To reach 6 knots by motor, you have to push the motor to 2,000 revolutions per minute. Today, it was getting so windy we had to pull in the gennaker, pull out the jib and main sail. A gennaker is like three time larger than the jib. It is meant to catch lots of wind. If we get high wind speeds with the gennaker, we can lift off the water like a kite surfer! There aren't that many waves right now. There are a few white caps. The waves are 1 or 2 meters high, but we are fine. Thanks goodness it is not 6 meters! My favorite part of a passage is not getting seasick. I have not been seasick yes on this passage! It is also fun to play board games, watch movies, read Big Nate books and have people on board.
Easter on the boat was astonishing! I learned that Easter is not only about bunnies and chocolate, it is also represents Jesus. When his friends and family checked Jesus' tomb, he was gone. So that could mean one things to the Christians, he rose from the dead!!! My dads hid eggs really well, upstairs, downstairs and even in my room. I got 12 packs of different types of noodles, which you may see as only a little bit, but when I looked at them it was a lot to me. I love noodles! I've liked noodles since the first time I ate them. I also got a bag of Smurf shaped white and light blue marshmallows! Hold on a second... "Is that okay if I have a marshmallow now?"
"I'm back!"
I also had a tootsie roll popsicle. I should have had the bubble gum instead, but I wanted to chew it for more than 5 min. It would take hours for the gum to dissolve in my mouth, but it is worth it. My dad said "Don't each too much sweet food or you will get cavities!" Additionally, I got five Kinder Eggs. Kinder Eggs are made of chocolate and inside the egg there is a surprise you get. It can be anything! It could be a donkey, puzzle, anything! It depends what type of egg it is. I got a super prize egg, a big prize! A got a few things like little racing cars, a dinosaur, paints and a puzzle, which took me two minutes to build. And finally, I got a boogie board for Easter. I haven't ridden on a boogie board in a long time. Once we are anchored, I can kick my feet on it behind the boat, because it moves around easily. We should take the dinghy and pull the boogie board full slow and I can kick my feet!
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By Clare Ogilvie
Businesses and workers should already be putting their best foot forward if they want to capitalize on opportunities from the 2010 Winter Games.
"You never know who you are dealing with today and the influence they will have on the business you get at Games time," said Felicity Shankar, an Olympic Games specialist with Javelin Europe, a marketing consultant firm.
"You are now on your Olympic journey."
Shankar, who is based in the UK, will be in Whistler April 17 as part of the Chamber of Commerce speaker series in partnership with the RBC 2010 Legacies Now. (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Her discussion will focus on her experience over the last 11 Olympic Games and will offer suggestions about creating local marketing plans, retail strategies, and making the most of the tourism opportunities.
Businesses often give little consideration, said Shankar, to the fact that the Games bring with it a whole community of service providers. They have already started arriving in Vancouver.
"Increasingly, almost everyday, I get an e-mail from people saying, 'I am already in Vancouver,'" she said.
"As those people move in they obviously start to use the core facilities and the local resources. There are a number of these people you want to touch through your hospitality and agencies and other business."
Shankar recalled an experience at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics where she organized hospitality for her sponsor clients every night at two restaurants she had been taken to on her very first trip to the city.
"I had such a great experience that I wanted every guest of ours that came from overseas to have the same experience, because it was truly (representative of) Greece," said Shankar.
Already 2,200 camera operators, technicians and producers have landed in Vancouver as part of the Olympic Broadcasting Services organization. Over the coming months many more groups will begin to set up a base of operations for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It's important to realize this, said Shankar, because as the clock ticks down those involved with the operations of the Games will look more and more to those with connections to the event and they will draw on the experiences and contacts they have made in the years leading up to the Games.
"That whole Olympic family network is starting to thrive and breath today," she said.
"As the heat goes up and there is more and more that needs to be done in the time-frame you become more and more reliant on other people's experiences and the relationships that they have formed in the local area."
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Acknowledgement of country
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Solve is committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to our society.
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Can you already tell that your child is going to be a fan of flash cars when they get older? Well hold that thought as you can now buy kid versions of a Jaguar and Land Rover right in time for Christmas.
And the battery-operated child-sized replicas won't break the bank either as they're on sale at Aldi, a supermarket no stranger to a much buzzed about bargain.
Its Jaguar replica (£59.99) is white and has red detailing around the rims. It comes with a charger, six rechargeable batteries, and an instruction manual.
Meanwhile, the Land Rover (£74.99) is black and has silver detailing across the front. It also comes with the same accessories as the Jaguar.
Both of the cars are available to pre-order online now , and will go on general sale on Thursday, November 30. However, the toys will only be available to buy online, so keep an eye out on the Aldi website.
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I once had a chance to get up close and personal with a B-17 Flying Fortress at an air show. The B-17 was employed in the daytime bombing of Germany during WWII. Underneath the plane is a ridiculously small plexiglass bubble where the belly gunner sits. My Uncle Ed was a belly gunner. Small wonder, then, that he was an alcoholic.
Flying in these bombers was not a pleasant experience. Aside from the cramped conditions, the lack of oxygen, the below-freezing temperatures, the inability to void your waste products in an expeditious or dignified manner, there would also be encounters with pesky German fighter planes who would hurtle high velocity large caliber lead projectiles at you, and flak - truly evil-looking pieces of sharp-edged shrapnel from exploding anti-aircraft artillery shells.
These artillery shells were designed using a mathematical technique which combined probability theory and operational optimization. You have an explosive shell, and, by scoring the surface, you can control its fragmentation. It will break up into pieces of a certain size. How many pieces do you want? How large should they be? If the pieces are too small, they may not do much damage. If the pieces are big, they will do real harm. But you will have less pieces, and the chance of hitting the plane will be correspondingly less.
This philosophical exercise isn't just theoretical, and it isn't just a horrifyingly cold little academic calculation. Lives are at stake. Blood and treasure are at risk.
So, anyway, yesterday I actually started on something which may develop into an extended theme, namely, simulations and models. A large part of the theme is that most mathematical or computer models, really having only a partial, idealized description of reality (not unlike a philosophical exercise) are silly.
Well, let's briefly talk about philosophical exercise. It requires a certain suspension of disbelief, a degree of let's pretend, a modicum of play. At its best, it is informed, structured speculation, a good form of improvisational comedy, an exercise of the mind. At its worst, it is trite and annoying, a clumsy form of public masturbation, like a Quentin Tarantino movie.
The ancient Greeks were very good at coming up with these silly exercises, such as the Ship of Theseus: an exercise in identity, persistence, categorization, that will, for most people who check out the link, suck all the joy, the precious juice of life, right out of your day, cause your eyes to roll into the back of your head, and your head to slam into the edge of your desk and give you a nasty bleeding gash that will require stitches. The ancient Greeks were probably also very good at public masturbation, but I've no real desire to check up on that.
The interesting, or appalling thing, depending upon your point of view, is how often these idealized models inform our day-to-day behavior. Take, for example, the Flak Problem related above. Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prize winning economist, and fucker-up of the Chilean economy (among other things), was one of the first to notice the similarity between portfolio investment strategy and the optimal explosive pattern of anti-aircraft shells. (Not surprising, as he worked on the mathematical modeling of both).
Friedman, and many others, were working under the assumption - now (post-Panic of 2008) pretty much discredited except by a few die-hard lunatic Libertarian idiot types - that the stock market is both efficient and rational. How the fuck they ever managed to delude themselves that this was the case is beyond me, but that is the model.
Of course, anyone who has even the slightest ability of even the most superficial of observations about human - or should it be simian? - behavior, knows that the market is composed of actions produced by irrational choices by irrational dumb, stupid, herd animals motivated by fear and greed. There is, after all, a reason why all the market upsets have been called Panic of this or that year.
The market, as a model, mirrors only coincidentally attributes of the "real" economy. The market is there to be manipulated, and everyone is manipulating the market. If it wasn't for everybody manipulating the market, there wouldn't be a stock market at all.
One of the premises of financial forecasting is that the fluctuations of stock prices are completely random. A statistical analysis of prices by mathematical economists has suggested otherwise, but, as is usual with mathematical conveniences, the modeling of fluctuations as random were "close enough".
Thus flawed and faulty financial equations and instruments were and are used that assume price changes are random. Instruments used that assume that, on average, market behavior rests comfortably under the classic bell curve. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb likes to say, Wall Street ignores "black swans", or "fat tails" (the extreme edges outside of the bell curve behavior, the bubbles and busts) at their peril.
Now, there are still free market apologetics out there who, in a rather pathetic infantile whine, complain the the government should have saved us from ourselves (irony alert), that the SEC watchdog should have curbed this insane and irrational behavior before the party got out of hand.
But this was never the intended purpose of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When the SEC (fortunately or unfortunately the legislation written NOT by mathematical economists, but by lawyers and bankers) was created in 1934, the intent was... how to reassure the public that the stock market was not rigged? (Remember folks, in the 30s, a LOT of financial executives, rather than getting obscenely huge bonuses for fucking up the economy, went to jail). The SEC's mission was "to restore public confidence in the securities market". In other words, how to make the stock market look real?
The answer was stringent new laws aimed, not at the sweaty mob of average Americans, but at the Wall Street Elite, to make sure that never again would their manipulations of their poop-covered dirty birdie fingers soil the clean white linen sheets resting upon great altar of Capitalism.
In other words Securities Police Theater, to borrow the phrase "security theater" from Bruce Schneier. Fake controls on a fake model of a toy economy which does nothing to protect very, very real livelihoods. Not quite a danger to all of us, but certainly an inconvenience. Fun, huh?


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Modeling and characterizing novel pulsed neural networks for real-time applications
Zhuang, Hualiang
Date of Issue2011
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Biologically inspired artificial neural networks have been well researched and found in many applications. In contrast to the conventional artificial neural network models, pulsed neural models can explain some phenomena of information coding with more realistic biological interpretation. In this thesis, we propose and investigate some new models of pulsed neural networks, including pulse-based radial basis function (RBF) network and multi-channel pulse coupled neural network (MPCNN). The proposed neural computation is suitable for full parallelism implementation, which is a salient merit that can be exploited for a multitude of real-time applications. Different from conventional RBF networks, the proposed pulse-based RBF network utilizes the synchronism of temporal pulses generated by model neurons to perform RBF computations. This bio-inspired design is highly advantageous due to its parallelism characteristics. Based on a novel winner neuron selection algorithm, which is designed by employing the rank order of neurons' output pulses, it gives comparable performance when benchmarked with the conventional counterparts in clustering and nonlinear function approximation applications. The rank order based paradigm is also extended to deal with some complex clustering problems such as processing of meshed clusters which is difficult if conventional methods such as k-means and self-organizing map (SOM) are used. As a 2-dimensional (2-D) variant of pulsed neural networks, the proposed MPCNN overcomes the shortcoming of the conventional scalar-based PCNN for processing the multi-spectral images. MPCNN is a multi-spectral image segmentation approach that uses the timing of individual pulse produced by the neurons to determine the distances between pixels' feature vectors and their rank order respectively. Consequently, the fast links can be established among neurons with respect to the spectral feature vectors and spatial proximity of mapped pixels.
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USTV Now Kodi is the easiest and the safest option to stream US channels for Kodi users. When popular Kodi add-ons were dying like flies, USTV Now was a survivor.
It has an enormous library which is why you have to subscribe to USTV Now. It is a legal Kodi add-ons, thus can be found in the Kodi official repository.
In this guide, we discuss how to install USTV Now on Kodi. View our best Kodi addons list for the latest Kodi third-party add-ons for streaming of Movies and TV Shows.
However, to stream any video content on Kodi, you require a Kodi VPN for your online safety. It protects your online activity and keeps you anonymous.
USTV Now is a live TV Addon, view our guide of Kodi Live TV Addons to learn more.
How to Install USTV Now on Kodi Krypton or Higher
Step 1: Launch Kodi Krypton on your system > Select Add-ons menu located vertically on your left-side
Step 2: Here you will need to select Downloads option located at the bottom
Step 3: You will be presented with the list, so select Video Add-ons
Step 4: Now from the long list of add-ons, find and click on USTV Now
Step 5: Hit Install when the icon appears
Step 6: Wait for the add-on to install and then go back to Kodi Home > Click Add-ons > Video Add-ons > Click on USTV Now
Step 7: Once you open USTV Now, it will ask you for Login ID and Password. To subscribe to USTV Now, visit USTV Now website.
How to Install USTV Now on Kodi Jarvis or Below
Step 1: Download USTV Now Plugin File and save it on your computer
Step 2: Open Kodi Jarvis > Click on the front menu called System > Then select Add-ons
Step 3: Click on Install from Zip File > Now Navigate the USTV Now Plugin File that you had downloaded in Step 1
Step 4: Once you will upload the file it will start downloading the add-on and will notify you when it is installed
Step 5: Once installed go back to Kodi Home and open the USTV Now add-on
Step 6: It will prompt you to get Login ID and Password which you can get it from USTV Now website
USTV Now Alternatives
USTV Now is a paid Kodi add-on that requires subscription before you can stream anything. However, there are many USTV Now alternatives that are free to stream anything. These includes:
- Tv One Plus Kodi
- Oblivion Streams Kodi
- Viewster Kodi
- Selfless Kodi
- Fox News Kodi
- Supremacy Kodi
- Magic Dragon Kodi
- Covenant Kodi
- Neptune Rising Kodi
USTV Now Repo
The only repository where you can install USTV Now Kodi is the Kodil repository. It is a popular repository that hosts all the fan-favorite add-ons. The only two repositories where USTV now could be found are as follows:
USTV Now Not Working
Problem 1: Failed to Install a Dependency
Failed to Install a Dependency is a critical error that requires your immediate attention. It normally occurs when the repository from which you are trying to install needs updating.
- Solution
Failed to install a dependency error can be fixed by checking on the repository from which you are trying to install USTV Now Kodi add-on. However, we recommend our users to either download the USTV Now Kodi Plugin File, or directly download it from the Kodi official repository.
Problem 2: Could Not Connect to a Repository
Could not connect to repository error occurs due to two reasons. Either the Kodi users have typed the URL of the repository incorrectly, or your internet connection is facing problems.
- Solution
For an easy fix, make sure that you have inserted a slash (/) at the end of the URL for any repository where you are installing USTV Now Kodi add-on. Else, try check on your internet connection before pasting the URL.
The Wrap Up
USTV Now is a Live TV Kodi add-on that features hundreds of USTV channels through a paid subscription on Kodi. It has a wide library that can be accessed in the safest manner possible since it is an official Kodi add-on. So try this guide on how to install USTV Now on Kodi and watch Live US TV Channels.


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Welcome back to school and welcome to the new site. Hope ya'll had a great summa!
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For a Happy Marriage, Choose a Man Your Age
(H/T: Say Whaat, MM)
It is well understood that women have a strong preference for men the same age as themselves, give or take:
Source: Dataclysm, OKCupid data
A recent study of 3,000 married and recently divorced Americans confirms the wisdom of that evolved preference. Megan Garber writes in The Atlantic:
The closer a couple is when it comes to their respective birth years, the greater their chances of avoiding divorce.
…Once you enter large-gap territory—the 20-year difference, the 30-year difference—the odds of divorce are … almost never in your favor.
If your partner happens to be 15 years older or younger than you are, that's not automatically a bad omen: Statistics, of course, are not destiny. But, as predictors, the study's findings stand to reason. Marriage is, above all, about 50-50 partnership; differences in ages also mean differences in life experience and cultural reference points.
Generations may be an invention, but they are meaningful nonetheless. So, with all the necessary caveats about love's vagaries and mysteries, if you want a marriage that lasts, you should probably try to marry someone your own age.
Stats guru Randal S. Olson has once again illustrated the increased divorce risk as age differences between spouses increase:
Another Olson chart worth noting is the increased risk of divorce when spouses have different levels of education:
This is especially relevant in an era when 60% of college students are female. Some who wish to marry may be forced to marry a man with less education.
And finally, the stats show that if you stick it out ten years, your risk of divorce is minimal:
It's interesting, though counterintuitive, that the risk is highest immediately after marrying.
As per usual, correlation not causation blah blah blah.


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Jury Returns Not Guilty!
On February 8, 2015, Michael Duma conducted a jury trial in Johnson County District Court where his client stood charged with criminal damage to property and domestic violence. After careful deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty and Michael's client was discharged from any further criminal liability.


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Ozzy Osbourne's plans to convert a barn on his Buckinghamshire estate have been quashed after the council found evidence of bats.
The Black Sabbath singer planned to convert a barn into a two-bedroom house, but has been refused permission by Chiltern District Council due to "considerable evidence" of bats and owls found on the grounds.
Over 30 years ago, Osbourne famously bit the head off a bat. He wrote about the experience in his memoirs I Am Ozzy.
"For a start, my mouth was instantly full of this warm, gloopy liquid, with the worst aftertaste you could ever imagine. I could feel it staining my teeth and running down my chin. Then the head in my mouth twitched," Osbourne wrote.
The estate reportedly contained droppings and feeding remains of common and soprano pipistrelles and "possibly brown long-eared" bats. The council said that measures needed to be implemented to protect the creatures.
Bats and their roosts are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010.
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Yukon Radical Summer Breeze
Reviewed by Brady White on August 7, 2016 in Summer Guide
The Details
- Brewery: Yukon Brewing Company
- Origin: Whitehorse, YT, CA
- Rated On: August 7, 2016
- Best Before: N/A
- Ideal Temperature: cold to cool
- Style: Radler
- Rating: GREAT !!
The Review
This 650ml bottle pours a hazy, very pale whitish straw colour, with three fingers of puffy, pillowy, and somewhat fizzy bone-white head, which leaves a bit of sloping ice cliff lace around the glass as it lazily drops away.
It smells of carbonated lemonade (there's a difference, I swear), some dark, earthy, and almost soapy floral essence, a weak pale malt graininess, and some further indistinct green forest floor bitterness. The taste is sweet lemonade, some bigger grainy and bready pale maltiness, a more subtle estery floral character, ephemeral yeast, and a still hard to pinpoint earthy and green hoppiness. The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a decent medium weight for a Radler, and generally smooth, with a small airy creaminess awakening as things warm up a tad. It finishes sweet, but in a duly moderated sense – the citrus acridity and purple flower thing seeing to that.
Overall, I'm not sure what is 'radical' about this offering, but it is indeed tasty, refreshing, and quite hot summer patio ready. And leave it to Yukon to eschew the typical bicycle on the label trope by instead depicting what looks like Pam Grier in an old-timey racing car.


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Food is very much the entry point to a country's culture and Food and Travel magazine is the world's leading gastronomic travel title. Published for over 20 years, the magazine is all about the discovery of new places and new friends, and the quest for new foods and new flavours.
All of the editorial is seasonally driven so you know when to go, where to go and what to eat – and as we focus on 'best in class', there's something to suit all budgets. In addition, each issue carries 30+ recipes, with every one of them matched to an ideal wine.
Packed with city guides, in-depth destination reports, activity holidays and hotel reviews plus all the latest news, with a subscription to Food and Travel magazine, you'll be whisked away on a culinary voyage around the world every month.
It's inspirational, beautifully photographed and completely independent and, as a subscriber, you'll gain access to exclusive benefits, such as automatic entry into competitions, discounted tickets to travel and food shows and reader events around the UK.
Visit us at stand CR21 and take advantage of our special Destinations Show offer. A selection of back issues will also be available.
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SAN FRANCISCO —Twenty-two-unit Specialty's Cafe & Bakery, based here, tried the "do-it-yourself" approach to nutritional analysis of menu items using desktop computer software about three years ago. Things did not turn out well, acknowledged Dawn Saxton, the chain's co-founder and vice president of product development.
"We saw the writing on the wall" about future government mandates to disclose calories and other
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Taking influence from the music, art and architecture of our time, Glorious Gangsta clothing delivers a vision to move the crowds and strive for greatness. Urban street couture meets high-end fashion in this glorious collection. Sharp lines, distressed fabric and on point camo prints are all represented in the designs.
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About Zanzibar Serena Hotel
Flanked by ancient harbours, colourful bazaars and Portuguese forts, the Zanzibar Serena Hotel is in the ideal location, right in the heart of romantic Stone Town. Acting as an opulent oasis of calm, an enchanting haven allowing you escape from the bustle of one Africa's most magical towns, here you will find the serenity you desire from any beach retreat.
Featuring a Swahili style, the rooms and suites are wonderfully designed, cool and shady spaces where you can feel completely at home.
This is ideal for those in need of a little relaxation after a wildlife safari in mainland Africa.


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Family Assessment
Family Assessment is an intensive, brief treatment approach based on the principles of collaborative/therapeutic assessment.
Sometimes looking at the whole system is more effective than focusing on only one of its parts. This philosophy is underlying modern approaches to family therapy. Likewise, it makes sense to assess what is going on in a whole family rather than look at one person in isolation.
Especially when children are involved, we find understanding how the whole family works together (identifying each person's individual style and how they all interact) allows us to better help the child and the parents and often opens up new ways of understanding that we might have missed were we only looking at the child in isolation.
Many parents seek us out for family assessment when they feel like nothing they have tried is working. We take the time to intensively understand every person in your family and work with the whole family to make important changes that can help you move back into better connected peaceful relationship with each other.
Are you ready to try something new and get unstuck in your parenting? Call to set up an appointment to learn how family assessment could be beneficial for your family.
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Finding time for self-care can be challenging, but it's more than worth the effort. I find that self-care gives me reduced muscle tension, less stress, and a calmer disposition. Even just a few minutes of focused down time can be just the trick for easing jittery nerves. Instead of falling prey to the well-worn Netflix-and-zone-out routine every night, I'm trying to take a few nights each week to decompress a bit more intentionally. This means I focus my time on relaxing, being quiet, slowing my mind, and listening to God. This practice may take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour, depending on how much time I have. For me, this time needs to be separate from practices that tend to my physical needs (like yoga, working out, or eating). I find that I look forward to these sessions all day, and truly savor the time. These are a few of my favorite ways to take care of myself in the evenings:
1) Enjoy a cup of tea.
This has become my absolute favorite way to unwind. There is something about sipping a warm cup of herbal tea that calms me every time.
2) Take a hot epsom bath.
A hot bath with Epsom salts can help melt away tension. I love enjoying my bath with yummy-smelling bubbles, a cup of tea, and a good book. If I'm pressed for time, a hot shower can be a good substitute.
3) Use tension with tennis balls.
I seem to hold every ounce of tension in my shoulders and hips, and yoga doesn't take away the tightness every day. Besides my Dharma Yoga Wheel, tennis balls have become my preferred way to roll out knots.
4) Soften the lights and smell yummy things.
One of my favorite purchases last year was my Now Solutions essential oil diffuser. I've enjoyed playing with different aromatic combinations when in need of a little pick-me-up or something soothing. Right now, I'm mostly sniffing the grounding aromas of lavender, clove, and frankincense. When I need something livelier, I toss in a little lemon essential oil.
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The two-week public spat between Lottoland and Zeal Network appears to have come to an end with the news that Zeal shareholders have approved the proposed deal to buy Lotto24. In a statement, Nigel Birrell, CEO of Lottoland, expressed his disappointment in today's decision, and has reiterated his opinion that the transaction is 'value destroying' for the company. He said: …Read More »
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No Delay – Zeal states that vote on Lotto24 takeover must be sanctioned
The governance of Deutsche Borse-listed Zeal Network has this afternoon communicated that no postponement shall be made for its planned shareholder AGM on 19 January, in which corporate investors will vote on whether to approve the firm's planned takeover of German market competitor Lotto24 AG. The regulatory approved transaction has hit industry news headlines this January, as Zeal investor Lottoland …Read More »
Zeal counters Lottoland criticism of Lotto24 takeover
The governance of Zeal Network has responded to yesterday's open letter published by Lottoland CEO, Nigel Birrell urging Zeal shareholders to reject the firm's approved takeover of German competitor Lotto24 AG. Representing Lottoland as a shareholder of Zeal, Birrell questioned the valuation, legitimacy, management and due diligence of a Lotto24 takeover, stating that should the transaction be processed it would …Read More »
ZEAL Network writes down Geonomics investment
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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me: Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4
Today's thoughts from today's verses:
Yesterday, I stepped out of my anonymity a bit by referring to my work as a Hospice Chaplain. I thought I might go a little further in that direction today. In case you don't know me, I am Ken Hart and I have been writing the Devotionals for the last couple of years. In my interaction with Hospice patients, I will often say that God makes our "inner" person more of a priority than our "outer" person. In other words, while it is often the case that he does not remove from us our troubles and their effect on our outer person, it is always the case that he is with us providing peace and comfort to offset the effects of troubles on our inner person.
Today's Scripture speaks to the difference God's presence makes. The Psalmist says that because God is with him he will not fear evil, not even death itself. Death is the ultimate bad thing we face in life, whether it be our own or someone dear to our hearts. For the Hospice patient the shadow of death looms large and increases until the journey through the valley is complete and death opens the way into life eternal in heaven. The journey of death is not easy, but the reality of God's presence and the comfort he provides are sufficient for even this. Psalm 46 begins with these words, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble, therefore, we will not fear" and then later, as if God were speaking, it says, "be still and know that I am God."
Bad things and their effects cause us to turn to God but we must learn to turn to him more for who is than for what we want him to do. The reason this is so important is because the more we are in touch with the fullness of who he is, the more we will be receptive to and in tune with letting him use bad things in our lives for the good of our spiritual welfare. There is no magic button we push to make this happen when we are in the thick of things. It is a process we are committed to so that in the long run we experience the spiritual protection God provides so that our spiritual welfare is assured. The foundation of our spiritual protection is the protection of God's presence. The protection of God's presence is all about making sure we come to know the fullness of who he is so that we readily experience the protection of his grace, his love, his faithfulness, his goodness, and his plan.
Today's prayer response from today's thoughts:
Lord, I am so thankful that you are the ultimate Shepherd and therefore sufficient for all that comes my way as your sheep. "Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." I believe you are with me every moment of every day you give me and that someday I will be with you forever in heaven. It is my goal to fear no evil (bad things) by learning to count on you and the fullness of who you are. I can't promise that I will do it perfectly, but I do promise to seek you for it always. Amen!
PS - The next three weeks of Devotionals will consist of "Devotional Highlights" from the past. Therefore, they will not correspond with the Pastor's messages in the way they normally do. I hope you will find these helpful. I will be away on vacation the middle week, but a three week break from writing the Devotionals will make everything much easier for me. God Bless, Ken Hart.
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In the 1980s, the goal was to simply keep patients alive; however, gradually as drug cocktails containing different types of antiretroviral therapy (ART) became the standard of care, HIV became a condition that was not necessarily fatal in and of itself---but required lifelong therapy, including switching medications when the virus became resistant to whatever treatment was being used.
Scientists now have a new vision based on examples of patients who have experienced functional cures, including the young woman in France. Currently, Viiv Healthcare is working on a once-a-month HIV treatment, while NIH researchers are working on an immunotherapy approach to treating HIV and Gilead is already in early clinical trials to evaluate a drug, which flushes our hidden reservoirs of HIV. The goal of this therapy is a definitive cure.
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our really great (new-ish) Christmas Eve tradition—choosing, giving and opening books!/
Our family is still young and we don't have a lot of traditions yet, but one that we borrowed from Kim when Alec and I were newly married is giving and opening books on Christmas Eve.
Kim and I get the job (joy really) of choosing the books for our families, and we hide them away till the night. But those choices are sometimes pretty difficult! Here's what I've bought for this year—I think I did well.
I know, no prizes for guessing who gets what in that lot! Or for guessing what we have planned over the Christmas break! Kim and family will be here and there'll be lots of outdoors-ing going on.
Personally, I can't wait to read Backyard Self-sufficiency. I love Jackie French and have heard great things about it. And I'm excited about the two littlies' books (they're going to be so delighted).
Ivy's getting The Journey Home—Wild and Woolly dig a hole so big they fall through to the North Pole, and it's quite the journey. This was one of my favourite books growing up and I'm so looking forward to sharing it with her (see Kim's review here).
For Angus, a board book—Moo. It's a sweet rhyming book of animal sounds, perfect for our little animal lover.
And the others are for Alec but we'll all benefit and enjoy. Meat Eater is essentially a book of hunting stories that covers lots more—from camping to cooking wild and taking responsibility for what you consume. Free-Camping will be great for planning our camping trips for 2018.
Maybe there's something there that you'll like too but, either way, I can totally recommend the Christmas Eve giving and opening of books. It's a wonderful way to spend the evening before Christmas day. Our family has started counting down, the Advent Calendar is up and decorations on their way.
This will be my last post for the year, I'm a little sad about that, but looking forward to coming back with lots of craft and reviews next year. I hope you have a lovely break, see you in 2018!
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I had such high hopes for today, despite it being Wicked Wednesday (and not in a good way, mind), such visions of glory, lofty ambitions...you get the idea right?
Well, it was a limping disaster. Oh fie!
The ONLY good thing that happened was my discovery of the delights of the Asian-Indian market (NOT Pakistani as I had former--and mistakenly--believed). The shop wasn't fancy, but it was fascinating! Such exotic scents and spices and grains. If I ever need green cardamom pods, a beautiful sari or household Buddha, I know where to go! I did in fact need the cardamom today, as well as whole cloves, and as I didn't want to pay $11 for half a teaspoon, I decided not to get them at Wegman's. Wegman's, you know I love you, truly I do, no one else has that yummy French-Canadian yogurt I could eat like ice cream, but your international foods are overpriced. I got 7 oz of cardamom and whole cloves and I paid, like, $5 for it all! I also got several funny looks while perusing the shelves. It wasn't until I was in the checkout lane and the Indian woman wearing the beautiful sari (I really do think I want one of those) in front of me turned completely around to get a good look at me that I realized I was the only non-Asian person in the store. They must have been wondering what on earth I was doing there!
Once I left the store and my spice buzz wore off, things just went downhill from there. I had decided to make pecan bars for The Viking to share in class tonight. I've never made them before, but they're just like pecan pie in bar form, right? And I make pecan pie twice every year (Thanksgiving and Christmas) because it's The Viking's favorite, right? So it should be a piece of cake, right? Wrong, wrong and more wronger!
Ha! Those stupid bars would not set, not matter how long I fried their little bums. And I had to make a tin foil sling. And I didn't have cooking spray. So I had to butter the tin foil sling. And the whole process just made me want to fling the whole thing on the floor and stamp on it. Then as I'm sliding the stupid pan into the oven I notice that the bars need to cool for two hours before cutting. I was leaving for church in 45 minutes. Great plans for super-wife brownie points dashed to ruins.
So I turned my attention to dinner: the curry and rice, hence the cardamom and cloves. I've made these dishes before, but I guess I'd conveniently forgotten how high-maintenance they are. There's a lot of chopping, dicing and mincing, not to mention stirring and babysitting. Not a good choice for my busiest day of the week, especially when I've already added baking to it.
Long story short, we were 30 minutes late for church, I was a frenzied lunatic of a mess, my kitchen looked even worse, I burned the rice, there wasn't even enough to feed the four of us and I had to leave the bollocky pecan bars at home to bloody cool!
See? Limping. Disaster.
Oh, but there's more.
I got home late, exhausted and sore, looking forward to cutting up a nice, large gooey pecan bar for The Viking. I gently and painstakingly extricated those pesky bars from their aluminum prison. I proudly presented my husband with the ceremonial first piece. I waited until he made the appropriate noises and then happily cut one for myself. I poured a glass of cold milk and dug in...
They were terrible! They were salty! Salt! They tasted like salt! What gives??? There was only a teaspoon of salt in that recipe! I double checked And there wasn't any white sugar in it, so I couldn't have accidentally put salt in by mistake (by the way, Daria did that once when making apple crisp--it was so gaggingly terrible, it was hilarious)! It is going to drive me crazy if I can't figure it out!
There, I think I got it all out. The veg curry was good so I might be able to sleep if I just meditate on that for a while. Yes, I think that's the solution. Veg curry dreams to you all!


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The scandal of international humanitarian aid embezzlement by Polisario leaders continues to make waves, especially in Spain where complaints are being lodged against officials of the Algeria-backed Sahrawi separatist movement.
The latest reaction came from the Spanish civil servants' union "Manos Limpias" or "Clean Hands."
The union lodged a complaint at a Spanish court on Thursday for the embezzlement of € 20 million by leaders of the Polisario and a Spanish association that supports the separatist movement.
All the people mentioned in the complaint are involved in the massive misappropriation of the humanitarian aid initially destined to the Sahrawi population living in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps in Algeria.
Manos Limpias based its complaint on the report published earlier this year by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).
OLAF had actually conducted investigations on the ground that revealed shocking findings about the large-scale diversion of humanitarian aid. The diverted aid granted by various NGOs just between 2003 and 2007 amounted to some € 20 million worth of products and equipment.
The diversions start at the arrival of the aid-loaded cargos in the Algerian port of Oran, the OLAF investigations revealed, with supporting figures. There, Algerian and Polisario officials sort out the goods. The low-quality products are sent to the Tindouf camps and the high quality goods are diverted and sold in Algeria, Mauritania and Mali.
The massive diversions perpetrated over years were possible because of "the overestimation" of the camp population.
Algerian officials put the figure at 155,000 Sahrawis living in the Tindouf camps, but "neither Algeria nor the Polisario Front ever agreed to the holding of a census of the camps populations," insists OLAF which assesses the number at 91,000 on the basis of "satellite pictures and scientific evaluation."


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Over the years, it has struck me as strange how many Christians pursue wealth. Jesus warns that riches make it hard for people to get into heaven (Matt. 19:23) and Paul warns that those who desire to be rich plunge into ruin and destruction (1 Tim. 6:9–10). It's as though we either don't believe it, or we think we'll be the exception to the rule, or we just don't think God's Word could mean what it says. But Paul means what he says — desiring to be rich is deadly. And there's more. The key that unlocks this section of 1 Timothy 6 are these words: "Godliness with contentment is great gain" (v. 6).
What's the protection against these deadly effects of money?
Answer: a heart content in God.
Are you deeply satisfied in God, so that this satisfaction — this contentment — doesn't collapse when God ordains you have much or little? Having little can destroy contentment in God by making us feel he's stingy or uncaring or powerless. And having much can destroy our contentment in God by making us feel he is superfluous, or quite secondary as a helper and treasure.
What's the Secret?
It's no small thing to learn how not to lose our contentment in God. This is what life is for — living to show that he is all-glorious. And this is shown, among other ways, by how he's gloriously sufficient to give us contentment in himself in the best and worst of times. Paul had learned the secret of how to do that:
"I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me." (Phil. 4:11–13)
Paul had learned "to be content." This is the key to the right use of money in 1 Timothy 6:5–10. "I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need" (Phil. 4:12). What was the secret? I think he gives it in the previous chapter: "I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord" (Phil. 3:8).
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Types and Severity of Immunodeficiency Diseases
Disease severity can range from mild to fatal, depending upon what part of the immune system is affected. Immunodeficiency can originate in normal individuals as a consequence of chemotherapy, viral infections (such as AIDS, which is caused by the HIV virus), or as the result of other processes that prevent immune system function. When immunodeficiency occurs in this manner, it is called acquired.
In contrast, immunodeficiency can also be inherited as a genetic mutation that prevents the normal development and function of the immune system. This is called primary immunodeficiency, of which there are three subtypes: mutations that prevent the function of B-lymphocytes (antibody production), those that prevent the function of T-lymphocytes ("invader"
recognition), and those that affect both B- and T-lymphocyte production. The last group is called severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). These patients make none or very few T-lymphocytes, have nonfunctional B-lymphocytes, and may or may not have a type of immune cell called natural killer cells. This combination results in the absence of a functioning immune system from the moment of birth.
SCID is a collection of rare diseases, estimated to occur once in every 80,000 live births. If left untreated it always results in fatal infections within the first two years of life. At first, to prolong life, patients were placed in sterile isolators, away from direct human contact. This gave rise to the name "bubble babies." Currently bone marrow transplantation is available with varying degrees of success. Gene therapy to treat SCID is under development.
Although the first known description of SCID was in 1950, very little progress in understanding the genetic basis for the disease was made until the mid-1990s. SCID patients have a wide range of symptoms that make it difficult to define the number of genes involved. The development of strains of mice that exhibited SCID, either naturally or created by a laboratory technique called gene knockout, greatly enhanced the ability to study human SCID genes and permitted the development of strategies for treatment, such as bone marrow transplantation and gene therapy. Many SCID patients were able to live longer through bone marrow transplants. The study of these patients, combined with the advances from the Human Genome Project, has led to a rapid increase in our knowledge about the genetic cause of SCID. The genes involved in five different SCID diseases were confirmed in late 2001 and are described below.
SCID-X1 (XSCID, XL-SCID). This gene is currently the only known X-linked version of SCID (all other SCID forms identified are autosomal and recessive). SCID-X1 accounts for 46 percent of all SCID cases and exhibits a high spontaneous mutation rate. It is caused by mutations in the gene for the y subunit of the interleukin 2 (IL-2) cytokine receptor. This receptor is part of a critical cytokine signal pathway required early in immune system growth and differentiation. The most famous SCID-X1 patient was David Vetter. Known as the "bubble boy," he lived for twelve years in an isolated environment before dying from an Epstein-Barr virus infection.
ADA-SCID. This occurs in 15 percent of SCID patients. It is due to mutation in the ADA gene on chromosome 20. In the absence of ADA enzyme, accumulation of deoxyATP (a DNA nucleotide) occurs within immune cell precursors. This leads to their death through apoptosis within six months of birth. Unlike other forms of SCID, ADA-SCID patients can be treated through enzyme replacement therapy. Weekly injections of ADA enzyme (stabilized with polyethylene glycol) hinders toxic deoxyATP buildup, reducing apoptosis and permitting some B- and T-lymphocytes to mature. However, bone marrow transplantation provides better immunity if it succeeds.
JAK3 Deficiency. This accounts for 7 percent of SCID patients. This form of SCID maps to the Janus kinase 3 gene on chromosome 19. JAK3 enzyme, a tyrosine kinase, is part of the intracellular signaling pathway (JAK-STAT)
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By Archibald (from Indonesia)
I had heard that Phnom Penh girls were amongst the most attractive in Cambodia and so I took the PSD Express bus down from Siem Reap to check the place out. The 'City of Four Faces' is full of possibilities for adventure, as my short visit was soon to confirm…
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Although new high-rise developments are rapidly changing its skyline and character, Phnom Penh is currently spread out widely with a few large boulevards and classic structures due to the French influence beginning in the 19th century - one street even has the name of Charles De Gaulle.
For tourists there are sightseeing opportunities, such as the Royal Palace, Independence Monument, and Wat Phnom which has a great view of the city and the Mekong River. Not far away are reminders of the terrible days during the 1970's when Pol Pot, the evil dictator of the Khmer Rouge depopulated the city and sent many of the Khmer people and especially the doctors and professionals to their deaths. I wasn't here for such things though, the lure of Cambodian girls was on my mind…
From the central bus depot I flagged a tuk tuk (Asian taxi) to take me to my hotel; along the route we passed a few hostess bars with pretty Phnom Penh girls standing outside or seated by the entrance calling out to pedestrians to come inside. I took note of the location of a few of them for a later visit…
My driver let me and my well-travelled backpack off at my destination and I checked into the guesthouse. I took a private room for 15 dollars, dormitory rooms are available for those on a tight budget, but I wanted some privacy since I wanted the company of a lady.
In the early evening I set out to eat at a nice restaurant, with the intention of seeking out some Phnom Penh girls later on, and got talking to an American over dinner. Delicately I raised the topic of where to meet ladies.
"Do I just pop into a bar to find a companion for the night?" I ventured.
"It's not quite that straightforward," said my new friend, as he went on to explain some of the differences amongst bars, hostess bars, night clubs, KTVs (karaoke bars) and gay bars. "There are massage parlors and brothels, but be careful in brothels as some girls could be underage and you don't want to get charged back in your country as a pedophile. Probably stay away from karaoke clubs, as they are mostly local or Japanese and prices can be higher, and you might not find a suitable girl there. I recommend hostess bars."
Off I went in the direction of the hostess bars I'd taken note of earlier. Along the way I saw many attractive Phnom Penh girls outside of bars trying to lure guys to come in for a drink and a chat. I ventured into one and noted that it had a pool table, some loud music playing, and a well-stocked bar. Tables for two or three were spread around. I sat at one near the wall where I could view the social intercourse and compare the girls.
Soon after, an attractive lady came over to take my drink order, a draft of Angkor was my request. My waitress was tall, with a curvy body, enhanced by a low cut blouse and tight fitting jeans. She nudged close to my leg and asked if she could sit down for a while. Being pleased with her appearance and pleasant smile I agreed.
"My name is Dana, I work her three months now. Where are you from?"
"I live in America... on the west coast" I replied.
"I love Hollywood movies, you look like an actor."
"Really, I am not that good at acting" I replied, being a bit flattered. "Do you want a house-drink?"
"Yes, dear, "she said, "then I can stay with you longer." She motioned for a drink.
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We sat together for perhaps half an hour with small talk and questions. Sometimes our hands touched. I noticed that she liked to touch my leg.
"Do you want to go with me" asked Dana. "I have a room close by?"
"Maybe," I said. "What is your best rate?"
"Only 50 bucks and 10 for the bar-fine," whispered Dana as she nuzzled against my ear.
"Sorry," I said. "I am retired, that is a bit much, can we work out a deal?'
"Okay then," she replied, "Let's hurry dear."
I paid for the drinks and the bar-fine and off we went into the cooler night air holding hands. As we walked down the busy street my level of excitement rose. I knew that Dana was the perfect girl to end my day with, and she did not disappoint…
Having spent the day touring some sights in Phnom Penh, and since I had booked a ticket on a river boat down the Mekong River to Vietnam, I thought a quiet evening was in order. So why not just explore the area near my guesthouse. Some street snacks seemed to fit the need for nourishment. A draft or two of Angkor beer at a nearby bar was fine. I was not intending to entertain any Phnom Penh girls. Well maybe idle chat with a cute one if she approached me. I would buy her a house-drink and see what would transpire.
On the edge of a square I noticed a large building that appeared to be a dance hall. Young people kept arriving. Outside were a few well-dressed young Phnom Penh girls. I saw no expats around so I just observed.
While sitting nearby I noticed a couple of pretty young girls of about 20 years walking about the area. What were they looking for? Were they freelancers? Maybe it was only food as they went about snacking on some street food.
A tall slim one with long black hair came near and said, "Hello, sir." I nodded and said, "Hello, miss, how are you tonight?" She came and squeezed herself in next to me. We did introductions, she called herself Kanya and she came from the countryside about 10 miles away. "Where do you stay?" she asked. I pointed across the square. Her eyes opened wide. "Nice, so close for us." she muttered. I did not reply.
I noticed an older women operating a food stall watching us with interest, as if wondering what a 60 year old man would see in Phnom Penh girls 40 years his junior. I thought I would test her interest. I placed my hand firmly on her thigh but she did not move away. I put an arm about her waist and looked into her face. She smiled sweetly. "Let's go to my place", I said. I took her hand and we crossed the street. I took the side entrance to escape the staff at the front desk and led Kanya into my room. It had a basic double bed with an adjoining bath. There was a small fan, a side table, and a locker. My backpack was outside being too big to fit.
After a quick shower I hopped into bed with this lovely lady. There was a light sheet available but Kanya was happy to partly cover herself with a towel. All night we snuggled and we slept little even after sexual interludes.
Too soon I heard the desk staff knock at my door. "Boat to Vietnam," he said. "What the hell! Get me a later boat!" I called out motioning to Kanya to be quiet. We stayed in bed for another hour before showering and going out to have breakfast.
Around the corner was a fast food joint with western food akin to McDonald's." I would like to try the western food." she said. I had my eggs and some bacon. She bit into a big burger with French fries. A few older couples at neighbouring tables looked askance at the old guy and the young woman. I suppose they disapproved.
After paying the bill we went outside. It was time to part. I gave Kanya some American money and a quick kiss. She hailed a motorbike and set off to her village, I assume. I returned to my guest house with amazing memories of two nights with Phnom Penh girls.
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BRIDLINGTON Town Council are hoping to replace warped and damaged plaques on the town's war memorial with sturdy granite – but may face a battle to do so.
The Town Council have been in discussions with East Riding of Yorkshire Council since last year, after councillors complained about the memorial's poor state of repair.
Now East Riding council have given town councillors three options – provide a new memorial within the existing garden with a paved approach and seat, renew the existing bronze plaques, or to replace the bronze with mahogany granite.
At the town council's December meeting, councillors agreed that the third option, replacing the plaques with granite, was the best option – but the War Memorial Trust, who advise on the protection and conservation of war memorials, could stand in their way.
"The council have been in discussions with East Riding Council and the War Memorial Trust for quite some time," said Coun Shelagh Finlay, who represents the south ward on both Bridlington Town and East Riding councils, at the meeting.
"The drawback of providing a new memorial at the site is that any services that are held use the main memorial as the focal point.
"By renewing the existing side elevation bronze plaques we can include any new names on the plaque, but this option reduces the flexibility to add further names without recasting the bronzes. It will also possibly attract metal theft which has been a problem elsewhere in the country.
"If we replace the side elevation bronze plaques with a mahogany granite, it allows flexibility to add further inscriptions and is not prone to metal thefts.
"However, it does detract from the historic nature of the memorial and the War Memorial Trust have indicated that they intend to attempt to have the memorial listed to prevent this approach."
Further discussions are taking place between the town council, East Riding council and the War Memorial Trust.
Emma Nelson, conservation officer at the War Memorial Trust, said that the trust believes it is important to respect choices made by the loved ones of those remembered on memorials.
"The historic integrity of a memorial should be respected and the same materials used where possible.
"There is also an aesthetic impact on the memorial as a whole and adding an alternative material may negatively impact the appearance of the memorial.
"Using alternatives to metal may speed up the process of decay or weathering and materials may have been interacting chemically for many years and suddenly changing this combination may have a negative effect on what remains causing the memorials to decay at greater speed."
Ms Nelson said that the trust understands people fear theft but said that "replacing with an inferior substitute can feel like letting the criminals win".
l What do you think? With the threat of metal theft rising, and the poor state of the current bronze plaques, are the town council left with no other option? Send us your letters by post to 3 Prospect Street, Bridlington, YO15 2AE or by email to firstname.lastname@example.com


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APLO-332?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13724438#comment-13724438 ] Christian Posta commented on APLO-332: -------------------------------------- I've added your suggestion with svn commit r1508628 Can you try the latest nightly snapshot and report back whether this is fixed? > Apollo not starting with cygwin under windows7 > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: APLO-332 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APLO-332 > Project: ActiveMQ Apollo > Issue Type: Bug > Components: apollo-cli > Affects Versions: 1.6 > Environment: windows 7 32bit + cygwin + Java 1.7 > Reporter: Francesco Di Tolla > Priority: Blocker > > the commands: "apollo" or "apollo create broker" fail with the error > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.activemq.apollo.cli.Apollo > the problem seems to be related to the fact the $BOOTDIRS argument is passed as unix path. > To fix this I modified by hand, in my istallation, the bin/apollo script adding > BOOTDIRS=`cygpath --path --windows "$BOOTDIRS"` > in the if block for cygwin and it seems to work correctly. > The "apollo create broker" command creates a script APOLLO_BASE/bin/apollo-broker.cmd, and no unix-like apollo-broker script, which I created by hand. > When $APOLLO_HOME/bin/apollo is called from the apollo-broker script,it fails again since the APOLLO_BASE is set. > This happens cause of the setting: > BOOTDIRS="${APOLLO_BASE}/lib\;${BOOTDIRS}" > wich is no convertet properly by cygpath. > To fix it I changed again the definition of BOOTDIRS in the same place as above, i.e. in the block for cygwin, as follows: > BOOTDIRS=`cygpath --path --windows "${APOLLO_BASE}/lib\:${APOLLO_HOME}/lib"` > . -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Students & Parents
Every member of the Sam Baiker community has rights and responsibilities that enable members of the community to coexist, and to realise his or her goals.
Teaching Methodology
Activity-based teaching is the basis of academic methodology at Sam Baiker. Extensive use is made of audio-visual techniques, charts, models, games, etc.
Please make sure that your application is complete when you submit it. We are unable to process incomplete applications.
Our Vision
We, the community of The Sam Baiker American School, aim at providing a high level of education that is catered for students who are considered to be the future leaders with cultural beliefs, a strong sense of identity and who are inquisitive productive long life learners. !
Our Mission
We, the community of The Sam Baiker American School, aim at providing a high level of education that is catered for students who are considered to be the future leaders with cultural beliefs, a strong sense of identity and who are inquisitive productive long life learners. !
Our Philosophy
We believe each student is an intellectual, emotional, social and physical being with special interests and abilities engaged in the pursuit of life-long learning.
- Classrooms are built & equipped according to grade level requirements.
- The space, desks, chairs, boards are all organized to fulfill the school goal of a perfect education.
- Teachers always prepare their classes before school starts. Classes are usually prepared in a classified way such as subject divided boards and special seating.
Courts and fields
As outdoor campus facilities the school has the main courts:
The mission of the MNS library is to provide students and staff with equitable and timely access to information and to develop the skills needed for lifelong learning.
Use of the Library:
MNS students of all stages visit the library weekly or biweekly to read for personal leisure or to do research work under the supervision of professional librarians. Students are always encouraged rather than compelled to read. They also have the opportunity to visit the library during breaks or any other free time they have. The library provides a scheme of work based on an Information Literacy curriculum which helps students and teachers to become proficient at accessing, evaluating and using information.
Library Working Hours:.
- During school year: From 7:30am. Till 2:45pm.each day.
- During the summer vacation: From July to September.
Resources and Facilities:
- There are two fully equipped libraries at MNS – one for the elementary Stage and the other for middle and high stages.
- The Library resources cover various subject areas for both the National as well as British Divisions. The resources include approximately 15 000 books; English, Arabic, French and German); videos audio tapes and CDs; periodicals and current magazines.
- The library is computerized and uses the "ALIS" system for circulation and management purposes.
- There are 15 networked computers with internet access.
- CD-ROM drives include educational and fun filled programs for elementary stage as well as information filled reference titles for the middle and high school.
- The library is well equipped with audio visual aids.
Library Code of Conduct:
In order for all library users to make use of all facilities and resources and to enjoy spending time in the library, it is imperative that each and every individual uses all materials responsibly by:
- returning them on time for others to be able to borrow them
- putting them back where they belong
- keeping them in good condition
- taking turns
- sharing library space
- Keeping absolutely silent so that all others can read, find information, or study.
Our Chemistry, Physics and Biology laboratories are fully-equipped to meet the needs of different syllabi. The Chemistry laboratory is stocked with all chemicals needed for experiments and hands-on activities. To ensure maximum safety of both students and teachers the laboratory is provided with a fume cupboard used in case of experiments that release irritating gases. The physics and biology laboratories are supplied with various instruments, microscopes, stocks of slide sand equipment needed where every student has the opportunity to conduct experiments in accordance with the national syllabi.


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