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A new map of the North East of England reveals a host of hitherto unrecorded boundaries that will variously be hailed as "ace", "champion", "choz", "cushty", "daza" or "mint". Michael Pearce of the University of Sunderland's English department has created a perceptual dialect map of the region with the help of more than 1,600 volunteers from Berwick to Darlington. Users can click on different areas of the map to find out more about the local use of words, phrases and pronunciation. Dr Pearce said: "Depending on where you're from, and also how old you are, you might call your sweets 'bullets', or perhaps you prefer 'kets'? Is where you live your 'hame' or your 'hyem' or even your 'yem'?"
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Road trip to see Statue of Unity – World's tallest statue
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VGP – The National Steering Committee for the Construction of Special Administrative-Economic Units convened a meeting in Ha Noi on July 10 under the chair of its head, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc
The meeting aimed to acquire the instructions from the Politburo and the constructive opinions from veteran officials, National Assembly deputies, experts, scientists, and people nationwide concerning the issue.
The move also aimed to work out appropriate measures to implement the guideline of building special administrative-economic units in line with the Constitution, the Party's resolutions, and the State's laws.
Earlier on June 11, at the fifth session of the 14th National Assembly, over 85% of lawmakers voted to delay the approval of the draft Law on Special Administrative-Economic Units until the legislature's sixth session (late 2018), in order to have more time for consideration and completion./.
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Here is our little baby so far.... :) seeing the baby move inside of me was such an amazing experience. Eric and I couldn't believe how much the baby moved. It opened its mouth, sucked on its fingers, and grabbed its toes. The miracle of life is just so divine. This past week I have felt the baby move a lot. It feels like a little feather is tickling you on the inside . We are just so excited for our little baby!!!!
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20weeks and 3 days, over 1/2 way there!!!!
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19 Weeks, loving maternity clothes, and finally showing :)
So I woke up one morning and "pop" my little baby is finally a baby bump:) I was so excited to go out and buy maternity clothes and take pictures of my belly :)
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As I previously mentioned, there are a plethora of ways to 'fix' thieves (beyond leaving them out of the game entirely). So I'll show case a few, some from other versions of the game, and others from Bloggers or my own ideas.
Ability Matters
As written, B/X D&D and, by extension, ACKS doesn't figure attributes into thief abilities. A quick patch that works both with the core system and several of the options below involves using attribute mods on the thief abilities. This goes back to 1st Ed Advanced D&D so it has pedigree. The downside to it is that it makes attributes MORE important. I've come to realize that the reason you could create PCs back in the OD&D days rolling attributes 3d6 in order is because attributes played a very small roll in character effectiveness. They were nice bonuses to a few aspects of a character, but not mandatory. The main difference between a 9 INT wizard and a 18 INT wizard was the number of languages they knew… that's it. But with Advanced, and every iteration of the game since, we've seen both a steady increase in what abilities do, as well as an increase in the perceived need for high numbers to 'be effective'.
So, if you make abilities matter (which my gut from years of playing the later incarnations of D&D says you should, even though I like having them be less important) realize that unlucky players are further penalized. But, having said that, what's the point of a high dex for a thief if you don't make it count for abilities? Seems like there is little point to it at all (the normal dex bonus works for everyone and while the experience bonus is nice, it's hardly a deal breaker).
Abilities and the skills they modify
Dex: Open Locks, Pick Pockets, Move Silently
Int: Remove Traps and Hide
Wis: Hear Noise
Str: Climb
If you want to create custom classes with elven and gnomish thieves, further you can add:
Elf: +1 to Pick Pockets, -1 Open Locks, +1 Move Silently, +2 Hide in Shadows, +1 Hear Noise
Gnomes: +1 Open Locks, +2 Find/Remove Traps, +1 Move Silently, +1 Hide, +2 Hear Noise, -3 to Climb
Dwarves: +2 Open Locaks, +3 Find/Remove Traps, -2 Climb, -1 Read Language. Also their racial abilities, if many points are spent on Dwarf, gives flat proficiency bonuses, so their scores may be higher even than the above.
At a guess, for the new races in the Player's Companion (and I'm just throwing these numbers out based on little knowledge):
Thrassian: -2 to Open Locks, -2 to Find/Remove Traps, +2 Move Silently, +2 Hide in Shadows, +3 Climb
Nobinar: -3 Pickpocket, +1 Read Language, +1 Find/Remove Traps, +1 Move Silently
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I'm very excited, I've made a bloggy friend!
Now stop snickering and think about how awesome this world is. I can make a friend on the other side of the nation, a friend who loves doing this stuff, someone I can learn from and share with! For a stay at home mum of two under the age of 3 – that's more than cool! That's sanity!
Well my bloggy friend Kerrie over at Pretty Lady Baby, is making me a carry along hexie pouch. . .and I'm making her. . .
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The boundless, misty blue steppe. It might begin anywhere, it might end anywhere.
The morning sun's rays of clear light fell aslant into the spring shelter and lit up the whole town. The land dipped down like an open hand and, in the overflowing light, the steam rose up from the cattle in pale blue pillars. Smoke from the ger shaped the sky. It was such a beautiful day.
A man rode out from the ger and headed off clip clop straight towards the south. Where was he going? He went up onto the hill and craned his neck back, gazing about him, surveying the scene through binoculars. And in so doing, it seemed to him that he held in the palm of his hand the outline of the shrubs and feathergrass and the small groups of cattle and hobbled horses and, beyond that, the town.
The world looked blotchy, like a pregnant woman, and where the sundrenched edges of the snow had thawed, there swirled up a gentle white vapor. The rider turned then and skirted the edge of the hill. Maybe he was listening to the voice of the wind.
how my steppe flows by beneath my stirrups…
how my song takes birth at a leisurely trot…
A sky with not even the slightest of clouds. Two birds, flying in small circles. The steppe with not even the slightest of features. The shadows of two birds, flying in small circles. The birds in flight join with the birds of shadow. But is it natural for a steppe without shadow to bring forth song? Who listens to the birds' hearts? It was the sky who listened to the horseman's song, it glistened then, and the steppe calmly took up the tune. One of the birds sat upon the hill, craning its neck to listen. The grass blended itself with the melisma of the melody. The song rang out, and skirted the edge of the hill.
The horseman went on, perhaps he stretched the string of his song over the breadth of the steppe. The song had no end, and he never grew bored of it. Heaven looked on in complete silence, the blue mirror of the sky reflected all these things and it was as though they were being reflected back into the mirror of my heart.
Had this horseman on the steppe within my heart originated from all these moments of eternity as they passed together through the blue mirage of spring?
I rested my head upon the sky and upon blue hills of the steppe, I became enchanted by the sound. Nearby, the horseman was riding off, weaving his melody like a thread. And then silence.
The boundless, misty green steppe. It might begin anywhere, it might end anywhere.
At noon, the sun shone directly overhead, as much upon the flowers as upon the tips of the grasses. The red hot rocks turned a shade of dark lilac, but in the cold water of the well the leather bucket had not an inkling of the fiery heat.
A man came riding from the wintry hills and trotted out trot trot whistling up the gentle freshness he so desired. Where was he going?
The horseman went out among the herds of grazing camels, pushed onwards, and came to the well, where the horses were thronged among the rocks.
Four times he threw down the bucket and tipped the water from the well into the wooden trough, and the thirsty horse gulped it down in one. The man was quite used to this and gave no thought to drawing up the water. The horse had drunk its fill and headed upwind towards the open pastureland. Just then, this man of the steppes drew breath, took up the reins and whistled the horse into action. Take a good drink, he had said. And again he scooped up water in the bucket and deposited it in the trough. He watched as the bucktoothed horse gulped it down, and his warm body craved coolness.
The world was a vague turquoise haze and the horses' hooves threw up a mist of dust. The horseman skirted the edge of the hill at a canter. A familiar melody borne on the breeze soothed his mind.
we'll measure our homeland with the length of our songs…
we'll send our love through the life of our songs…
Star thistles swayed beneath the horseman's stirrups, and butterflies and insects swirled around overhead. Sheep herded together in a mirage, like swans gathered upon a lake, and flocks of birds soared upon the breeze.
The song rang out and he skirted the edge of the next hill. The vast and boundless steppe stretched out, it called to mind the breadth of the Mongol people, was this the singing of an endless, distant journey? And he came upon another horseman. Right in the middle of the steppe, these two horsemen came together, they dismounted and sat cross-legged amidst the flowers. They exchanged snuff-bottles and enquired after one another's health. I suppose that the animals who were observing them did not chat about what was happening in the land nearby or far away. The two horsemen trotted off in opposite directions, as though they would measure the steppe. It was like they were encompassing the land with a string, its faint melody resonating back across the plain. The song rings out. Endless. A human song, or the song of the steppe, or the rhythm of my thoughts or anothers', whatever it may be, I feel myself sinking, sinking down into its single gorgeous melody.
The boundless, misty roseate steppe. It might begin anywhere, it might end anywhere.
Horses were grouped beneath the yellow glacis of the evening skies, and the gentle steps of their dance filled the plains with an intoxicating joy.
In front of the horses, the undulating backs of gazelles filed past. In the rippling autumn couchgrass these waves glistened yellow.
It was dusk, and so the horseman noticed none of these things as he trotted out along the promontary, dismounting finally at the ovoo. In the white light of evening, everything appeared utterly clear, like a shadow cast upon a light-colored cloth. The horseman placed a stone on the ovoo and moved quickly away, as the smiling full moon of midautumn rose to the melody of ancient strings, and the yellowing light covered the face of the lonely steppe. The sun's remaining light melded with the rays of the moon, and such was the luminous clarity of the evening.
the birds return to the ovoo on the pass…
the children return to the place where they were raised…
A line of camels came into view, we might say they had been guided by the lovely melody of the song, and as the nomads came into the place illuminated by the moon, the horseman came to meet them. An image of the steppe. And it was fate too. He stood chewing the fat with the nomads' groom, they wanted to stay overnight, so he helped them unload the carts and hobble the animals and then he went on his way.
He sang his song as he skirted the edge of the next hill. Would this man, who had made his way over the vast steppe, this man riding upon his horse's back, looking up at the moon, that most tranquil of lanterns, would he ever give up his song?
In fact, he covered the vast and infinite steppe singing an extended melody. The breadth of his thoughts had grown and his mind was serene.
The horseman had drunk in the milky white light of evening and had grown indistinct and without form. And yet the salty plain drew in the melodies of blue mist, as though it was the white light which travelled along the horseman's song.
The boundless, misty glistening steppe. It might begin anywhere, it might end anywhere.
Stars are glittering in the sky and illuminating the surface of the snow. The steppe, veiled in nighttime whiteness, sucks in its own light, the tips of the grasses are festooned in hoarfrost, and the flowers' frozen petals hang with crystals.
The horse's hooves scrunch through the snow, and the familiar song of this man of the steppes whitens the silent darkenss of night.
The world at night is soundless, the winter chill has bound up melody, even the mucus in the horse's nose is congealed, everything has taken on a silvery hue. But the snow-white horse carries the song of this man upon his precious back, among the stars.
the song that men sing is not enough…
the steppe the stallion moves across is neverending…
The stars are humming. The ridges of the steppe gleam as though bathed in oil, the horse's thundering hooves were featherlight and beat the frozen tundra like a drum.
The song of winter is polished and clear. The thickest hairs in the man's fur hat rise and fall in swells, it is as though the hoarfrost crystals were following the waves of his song.
He sings his song as he skirts the edge of the next hill. The spring has begun and its song continues without end. The rider of the resonant song travels once around the steppe on the back of his horse and once also the wheel of the four seasons revolves. The horseman skirts the edge of the following hill, everywhere he hears the voices of the watchdogs. And, right then, lit by the frozen lanterns outside in the yard, his horse grows silent, his song's melody grows faint. He dismounts at the hitching-post, shakes the hoarfrost from his fur hat, opens the wooden door of his ger and goes inside. He is greeted by the combined aroma of hot food and tea.
In the ger, they are singing a lullaby.
The vast steppe grows quiet silent and a gloom descends, and the voice upon each flake of snow and upon each blade of grass is indistinct as though with longing.
The time goes flying, flying by,
The time is gone, is gone.
This brumous song of the seasons in my homeland of the steppe, this cursory sketch, is my life's rhythm, my mind's pulse, it's a part of who I am.
Right around the clock, through daytime, nighttime, morning and evening, and around the year's four seasons, through winter, spring, summer and autumn, and through the four points of the compass, through north, south, east and west, we light the fire in the fourfooted brazier upon the hearth, beneath the four straps holding in place the roofring, and the four thundering hooves of the horses carry the time across our serene steppes and the four lines in every verse of song express the meaning of life.
I'm standing outside, thinking about the world, looking at the the family chest, the boxes and tables and chairs inside the ger, and I'm wondering whether the rhythm of the earth's four seasons gives shape to our lives, or whether in fact it creates them.
The fire's blazing. All the fires are roaring.
...the path of thought is vague,
the ways of books are clear...
...the sky grew further away from the earth and wisdom and power increased....They travelled more and sowed more crops. Some lazy ones secretly stole from others' crops and so theft and other evils increased. As they walked idly about, their lights grew dim and it seemed to be dark, and they became people of shadows. The words of the people of light brought forth good deeds. Words brought forth appearance. In the end, pointed words pierced their bodies. And gentle words softened their harshness. Because goodness increased, people's language repaired their crooked behavior....
...the ways of books are vague,
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Ariz. Shooter Loughner Not Linked to Hate Groups
Sources tell Orr that Loughner was angry with the government and targeted Congresswoman Giffords because she "represented the government" in his eyes, but that his anger was anti-government in general and did not appear to have an ideological bent - right or left.
What Does Jared Lee Loughner Believe?
His rambling and disjointed web postings and writings suggest a man who may have suffered from mental illness, touching on subjects like mind control, illiteracy, and the loss of a gold-base currency.
Special Section: Tragedy in Tucson
Comments from two high school friends, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, paint a picture bolstered by other former classmates and Loughner's own Internet postings: that of a social outcast with nihilistic, almost indecipherable beliefs steeped in mistrust and paranoia.
"If you call me a terrorist then the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem," the 22-year-old wrote Dec. 15 in a wide-ranging screed that was posted in video form and ended with nearly the same question his friends said he posed to Giffords: "What's government if words don't have meaning?"
On Sunday, Loughner was charged in the shootings a day earlier at a political event outside a Tucson supermarket. Aside from the six killed, 14 people were injured. Doctors were optimistic about Giffords' chances for survival.
So far, Loughner hasn't cooperated with authorities and has offered no motivation for the attack, Orr reports. He is due in court later Monday but isn't expected to say much, having invoked his 5th Amendment rights.
Ariz. Shooting Suspect Failed Army Drug Test
Tucson Suspect Jared Loughner Due in Ariz. Court
Criminal Complaint Against Jared Lee Loughner (PDF)
Giffords Doctors: Good News on Bullet Trajectory
Victims of the Tucson Shooting Rampage
Investigators said they carried out a search warrant at Loughner's home and seized a letter addressed to him from Giffords' congressional stationery in which she thanked him for attending a "Congress on your Corner" event at a mall in Tucson in 2007. Saturday's shooting occurred at a similar event.
Other evidence seized from his home included an envelope from a safe with messages such as "I planned ahead," "My assassination" and the name "Giffords" next to what appears to be Loughner's signature. Police say he purchased the Glock pistol used in the attack in November.
Mistrust of government was Loughner's defining conviction, the friends said. He believed the U.S. government was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, and worried that governments were maneuvering to create a unified monetary system ("a New World Order currency" one friend said) so that social elites and bureaucrats could control the rest of the world.
On his YouTube page, he listed among his favorite books "Animal Farm" and "Brave New World" - two novels about how authorities control the masses. Other books in the wide-ranging list included "Mein Kampf," "The Communist Manifesto," "Peter Pan" and Aesop's Fables.
Officials say Loughner did not stalk Giffords and did not have her under any kind of 24/7 surveillance, but maintained a sort of "loose obsession" with her activities. Investigators believe he became more interested in Giffords after her recent re-election.
There is no indication that anyone knew of Loughner's plans for Saturday's shootings, sources tell Orr. The FBI has interviewed a former Loughner roommate who said that sometime between Christmas and New Year's, Loughner showed him the gun that he had purchased. That made the ex-roommate uncomfortable but Loughner made no threats and the meeting was not reported to anyone else.
Officials say that Loughner represents, in many ways, the most difficult type of threat to detect -a loner with no serious scriminal record and no history of mental health treatment who was able to obtain a weapon legally.
Loughner also had a bizarre shrine in his back yard, the New York Daily News reported Monday.


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IEEE hopes to standardise e-health communications
Ventures into the chaotic world of personal health apps
The IEEE has set to work on standardisation in the e-health device market, and to help the project, it's signed an agreement with medical research nonprofit the Regenstrief Institute.
The institute is home to a key standard medical dictionary, Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), which is used to exchange health information between different facilities.
The agreement between the IEEE and the Regenstrief Institute is designed to help developers who need to integrate LOINC with devices supporting the IEEE 11073 standards.
IEEE 11073, the standards organisation says, is designed to bring together personal health device information with more traditional medical devices. Giving it a standard dictionary as well as its data communication should make it easier for hospital and healthcare software engineers as well as device makers.
The organisation has also approved a new e-health standard, IEEE 2410-2015, the Biometrics Open Protocol Standard (BOPS).
BOPS, the group says, incorporates "identity assertion, role gathering, multi-level access control, assurance and auditing", and is designed to standardise communications between clients (including smartphone apps), trusted BOPS servers, and the intrusion detection system protecting the server.
The IEEE's announcement is here. ®
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This week in social media, we saw some great, eye-opening campaigns. L'Oreal took us on a journey with their brand Carol's Daughter, while Amy Schumer and Seth Rogan got us pumped up on #EqualPay, and Cricket made the most of their WWE sponsorship. We also had some global campaigns like Dove Canada's #MyBeautyMySay and the new Bridget Jones movie that is already picking up steam in Spain and Latin America.
Plus we talk about what social trends Team Audiense has been reading this week.
L'Oreal & Carol's Daughter
Beauty brand Carol's Daughter, that was taken over by L'Oreal in 2014, has kicked off a social and digital campaign by attracting some star power. Carol's Daughter, which is known for its "multicultural" hair products is focussing on their previous year's campaign #BornAndMade again, and has roped in Orange is the New Black star Dascha Polanco and Grammy-nominated singer Andra Day.
The campaign encourages women to share stories of their own by going on the BornandMade.com website, which also doubles up as a GIF generator. All you need to do is upload a baby and a current image of yourself. It's, no doubt, taken Twitter and Instagram by storm. L'Oreal which saw much brand success last year is trying to maximising Instagram with this campaign as well.
Bud Light Has A Message For Us All
Bud Light is giving us all the right feels. In a new spot with comedians Amy Schumer and Seth Rogan, the beer brand has launched a campaign for Equal Pay. This is part of a larger campaign, #Bud Light Party, which has been executed by Wieden + Kennedy New York, and comes after the ads that celebrate gay marriage and parody politics.
The #BudLightParty believes in equal pay. RT or tweet with #CheersToEqualPay and we'll donate $1 to @CatalystInc pic.twitter.com/iyQIRIx0S0
— Bud Light (@budlight) June 28, 2016
For every share of the hashtag #CheersForEqualPay on social media, Bud Light is going to donate $1 to Catalyst, a charity that promotes equal pay in the workplace.
And as expected, everyone is engaging and doing their bit!
So happy to be partnering with the #BudLightParty to support equal pay for my daughter's future!! #CheersToEqualPay pic.twitter.com/ylFIUmjZkX
— J.P. Rosenbaum (@JP_Rosenbaum) June 27, 2016
Cricket Wireless Makes The Unexpected John Cena Meme Real
As a result of a prank phone call that went viral, over the last year John Cena has been popping up in videos on the Internet when you least expect him (more info). Utilising their sponsorship of WWE, Cricket Wireless have bought the meme to life by allowing fans to be surprised by John Cena (and the trumpets of his theme tune) in real life.
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This entertaining example of brand ambassador content has already racked up well over 2.5 million views on social media, so look out for a #JohnCenaSurprise coming to a social feed near you. For a closer look at the match-winning moves of WWE's social strategy, make your way over here.
Dove Asks women To Define Their Own Beauty
Dove Canada is saying no to stereotypes with #MyBeautyMySay, their latest digital campaign, where they're asking women to define their own standards of beauty. In a 60 sec video, Dove tells us the story of nine women who feel pressured to look a certain way and how they're overcoming it. The campaign has kicked off on both Twitter and Instagram.
Follow the hashtag and know their story!
Shouldn't we all define beauty on our own terms? See how these amazing women stood up for theirs. #MyBeautyMySay https://t.co/6TUpzDE4Ds
— Dove Canada (@DoveCanada) June 28, 2016
#DefinitelyDarcy Or #TotallyJack
Bridget Jones' Baby is coming to town, and Twitter is definitely making sure the whole world has heard of its arrival. Universal pictures have launched a global campaign, in countries including Spain and those in Latin America. Fans are taking the stand by answering the Promoted Tweets whether they're #DefinitelyDarcy or #TotallyJack.
So… are you a Darcy or Jack supporter?
Is Bridget #DefinitelyDarcy or #TotallyJack? Book your tickets now and find out September 16https://t.co/StcLgEAWxHhttps://t.co/izPC7hYL6t
— UniversalPicturesUK (@universaluk) June 28, 2016
What Team Audiense Is Reading:
– Introducing Twitter Dashboard
Twitter have just introduced Twitter Dashboard, a place where businesses can engage with their audience, schedule Tweets to reach them when they're online and get inspired.
– Trinity Mirror's Group Marketing Director on Data
Trinity Mirror's head marketer, Zoe Williams says that uncovering all the data they gather is imperative to their marketing efforts, especially for building one-to-one relationships with their readers and users.
– Audiense and IBM Watson Analyse Australia's Election Hopefuls
Business Insider
IBM Watson and Audiense looked at the Australian election campaign to look at the affinities and personalities of the followers of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten.


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I've seen how social bookmarking and feed aggregators are increasingly being used by internet users. People can aggregate syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, even vlogs in one place for easy use.
Examples of internet social bookmarking tools that can do this are Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious.
I'm interested in how BT's intranet can use this to help people share content on our wiki, blogs, podcasts and RSS feeds with others with similar interests and work areas across all parts of BT.
So which social bookmarking tools could work best on BT's intranet? I would love to find out more from you……!


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The Macquarie Show draws ever closer, like a squadron of Stukas or an oncoming Newcastle Flyer. The exhibition continues to be a fantastic distraction from considerably more important things, as a result today was spent screen printing rather than writing about the Hornby Trains art department during the 1920s and 1930s. The works I am providing focus on Newcastle and its dramatic and tragic maritime history. Among many other examples of public works Macquarie was responsible for initiating the first attempt to build a break wall out to what is now called Nobbys headland. Entering Newcastle harbour continued to be a hugely dangerous task even after the break wall was finished; with resulting shipwrecks still haunting the harbour mouth and local churchyards.
This one is about coal, if that helps…
Macquarie also commissioned the colony's first Lighthouse. This is it.
Newcastle's maritime history is a compelling if often very sad place. I don't think my works capture this quite yet (especially not the one of old Mac giving the thumbs up). Maybe they are interesting enough to make you want to learn a little bit more.I suggest you go and visit the Maritime centre in Honeysuckle, and after that take a trip on the ferry across to Stockton and go for a walk on the break wall. It's worth a look.
If you don't like salt air or going outside give this a read: http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/spalding1/Cawarra%20Wreck.htm
It'll give you a fairly good idea of what I'm talking about.


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The 1988 goal of the Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau is to book 180,000 room nights in local hotels, which is equivalent to $34 million of future convention business and a nice return on the $1 million spent on development money, the bureau president said.
Richard E. Davis said convention bookings will continue to increase thanks to an aggressive sales staff and the fact that Salt Lake City has many attractive features, such as accessibility to a major airport, good convention facilities, plenty of hotel rooms and things to do.Davis spoke Thursday during an update meeting for bureau members and noted that three years ago the bureau was reorganized and became a private non-profit organization. Before the reorganization, Davis said the room bookings averaged 36,000 annually for four years.
In 1985, the first year of the reorganization, more than 100,000 room nights were booked and in 1986 and 1987 more than 160,000 room nights were booked annually.
Davis said the 1987 production was slowed somewhat because the staff spent some time trying to relocate 92 conventions and conventioneers booked into the soon-to-be-closing Westin Hotel Utah to other hotels. Davis said they were able to save 87 of the conventions.
A future goal of the bureau is to book 250,000 room nights in one year, but that goal will be reached only after five years of aggressive selling because some of the conventions are booked several years in advance.
"One of the great things about Salt Lake is that the people who live here have a great deal of pride in their city and they want to share it with their peers from around the country," Davis said. He encouraged bureau members to try and hold their national conventions in Salt Lake City.
Davis said a 1986 study showed that 10.6 million people visited Utah, which is pretty impressive until one realizes that Nevada, Colorado and Arizona, Utah's chief tourism competitors, each had more than double the number of visitors that same year.
In comparison to those states, Utah ranks above them in friendliness of the people, scenic beauty and the quality of food and restaurants. In accommodations, Utah's rating is comparable to the other states, but in entertainment Utah falls behind and in the availability of liquor Utah falls way short of the other states, Davis said in reviewing the results of several studies.


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Occasional Overdraft Protection Sweep (OOPS!) is a service designed to protect you from overdraft fees and returned checks.
- Automatically transfers available money from your savings, money market, or another checking account in $50 increments to avoid a negative balance
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Latitude: 51.8835 / 51°53'0"N
Longitude: -1.3038 / 1°18'13"W
OS Eastings: 448015
OS Northings: 220773
OS Grid: SP480207
Mapcode National: GBR 7W0.TD5
Mapcode Global: VHCX1.CX2J
Entry Name: No 15 and No 17, Well Cottage
Listing Date: 27 July 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1052897
English Heritage Legacy ID: 253049
Location: Tackley, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, OX5
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Tackley
Built-Up Area: Tackley
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Tackley
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
SP4820 (South-east side)
6/63 No.15 and No.17 (Well Cottage)
Semi-detached cottages. No.17 to right is dated 1739, with C19 alterations and
additions. Limestone rubble. C20 cement tile roof; brick right end stack.
Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; one-window range. Small one-light casement on
left. Blocked former doorway on left has casement inserted. Small one-light
window to left. C19 two-light casements have horizontal glazing bars. Datestone
has initials TMM. Lean-to addition on right has C20 half-glazed door. All
openings have painted wood lintels. No.15 to left is probably mid/late C18.
Part-glazed door on right is recessed beneath painted wood lintel. Casements, of
3-lights to ground floor and 2-lights above, have horizontal glazing bars. Right
range has stone flat arch to ground floor; other windows have painted wood
lintels. Interiors not inspected.
Listing NGR: SP4801520773
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Olive Garden Alfredo Dipping Sauce
Jamie sent in this one too.
One of my favorite things at the Olive Garden is the
dipping sauce you can get for their breadsticks. I
L-O-V-E this stuff! So I looked up a copy cat recipe
on-line. This is pretty darn close.
2 cups heavy cream
1/8 tsp minced garlic
1/2 cup butter
1/8 tsp pepper
1/4-1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
Add all ingredients in medium sauce pan. Let simmer
12 minutes.
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It took us close to two hours to trudge up the mountain, a trek that the villagers accomplish in less than quarter of an hour, we were told by an amused lot of local know-alls. But for city-bred slouches like us, it took some serious heaving and climbing to make it to the top where the syahi devi temple sat resplendent in a pool of sunlight.
In Sitlakhet in Uttarakhand, this temple is a must-see. It was first built by the Katyur kings who ruled over the Kumaon region (now a part of Uttarakhand) sometime between 800 and 1100 AD and then rebuilt by the Chand kings and further improved upon by subsequent rulers from the Gorkha dynasty.
At the temple, Pandit Kailashnath Goswami, showed us around before telling us the story of the devi of the Katyur kings and hence Katyani devi. She was the goddess of the kings (syahi is how the local people pronounced shahi which in Hindi means royal), he says. My amateur etymological experiments are immediately crushed to dust. I had imagined syahi, the Hindi word for ink, was used as an epithet because the original devi at the temple is a dark goddess. Later another idol was installed, a white marbled goddess. Today the mandir has two goddesses – one white and one black with a Ganesh idol in the middle.
Inside the temple, Goswami tells us, a 'shuddh' puja happens and the offerings are all vegetarian. The dark goddess accepts animal sacrifices and until quite recently, goats were sacrificed here. The sacrifice was done at an altar, just a few steps away from the main temple, in the same courtyard, under a tree where there is another idol of the dark Katyani devi. This is the original idol that the Katyur kings are said to have installed.
The story goes that the Katyurs moved in large groups, never less than 9 lakh people at a time, Goswami says. The walked all day and set up camps at night and the local people say that all the work they did, building temples, digging wells and such other things was during the night. And the Syahi Devi temple, it was built in one night, they say.
After the Katyur dynasty had been replaced by the Chand dynasty the temple fell into disuse and people soon forgot about the devi. One day, one of the Chand kings came to the hill where the temple stands today. He liked the place and set up camp with his family and attendants.
As the evening light began to dim and the people were about to retire for the night, they saw a large eagle-like bird swoop down into the camp. It seemed to appear out of nowhere, as if the skies had shaped it out of itself. They watched in amazement but before they could even move, the bird had dived in and plucked the eyes off one of the children. Aghast the people ran helter-skelter and hid, but the next evening, the story repeated itself. And when the bird did this evening after evening, they begged their king for help. The king was miserable but he did not know what to do.
One night, as the king drifted into a disturbed sleep, the bird came to him in a dream. "I am none other than the goddess who lives in the hills," she said. "I want food, your people are not giving me any food and so I have had to do this. Give me a place to stay and make sure that the people offer me their respect and ensure that I have enough to eat always," she added. She also pointed the king towards a hillock in the distance where she said, he would find her idol.
The next morning, the king wasted no time in gathering his people and walking up the hill, right to the top where he found the idol, just as the bird had said he would. And his men built the temple where the devi lives till this day. Interestingly Katyani devi idol inside the temple has its eyes painted in gold.
Story Collected by: Arundhuti Dasgupta and Shaiontoni Bose
Story Told by: Pandit, Kailashnath Goswami, priest at the Syahi Devi Mandir
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Small decisions can add up to either big savings or bigger costs in the hospital design process, according to an article on the Healthcare Finance News website.
With the average cost of a new hospital ranging from $1.5 million to $2 million per bed, it is increasingly important to executive leadership to achieve the most cost-effective building design possible, the article said.
"There is increased emphasis on operational planning integrated with facility planning with the goal of 'smarter' real estate/facilities assets and building less facility with increased throughput/efficiencies," Fred Campobasso, managing director, Navigant Healthcare Real Estate, said in the article.
Campobasso said he believes "the intersection of retail and healthcare will steadily increase in order to maximize accessibility, reduce costs and improve the patient experience."
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 05, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Otonomy, Inc. (NASDAQ:OTIC), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapeutics for diseases and disorders of the ear, today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of approximately $100 million of its common stock. All shares of common stock to be sold in the offering will be offered by Otonomy. In addition, Otonomy expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional approximately $15 million of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.
BofA Merrill Lynch, Cowen and Company and Piper Jaffray are acting as joint book-running managers of the proposed offering. Sanford C. Bernstein and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey are acting as co-managers. The offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.
A shelf registration statement (File No. 333-206752) was previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 3, 2015 and became effective on September 14, 2015. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of the offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to these securities may also be obtained by contacting one of the following: BofA Merrill Lynch, 222 Broadway, New York, NY 10038, Attn: Prospectus Department, or by email at email@example.com; Cowen and Company, LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY, 11717, Attn: Prospectus Department; or Piper Jaffray & Co., 800 Nicollet Mall, Suite 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, or by telephone at 800-747-3924, or by email at email@example.com. The final terms of the offering will be disclosed in a final prospectus supplement to be filed with the SEC.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.
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Your Shirt. Your Character. Customize Your Style With PrintWarcraft
Immortalize your World of Warcraft character by wearing one of PrintWarcraft.com's new custom t-shirts. Build your shirt from scratch or choose from 19 pre-set poses, your character's name, guild name, and expansion logos. Choose from PrintWarcraft assortment of t-shirt styles, including both slim and regular fit for men, and regular and fitted for women in various colors.
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