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I once had an elderly woman come up to me after a show I did, and yell at me that I was wearing black.
Why are you wearing black?
Black is for widows. Black is for mourning. You're so young - you should be wearing something in color!
I chuckled.
I own more pieces of black clothing than I can count. My entire wardrobe, the majority of my accessories and shoe collection is, in fact, black.
My students are often jarred when I don't wear black - it doesn't seem natural, they'll say. And so, I stick with my black.
. . .
Schuyler and I went on a date night this week. We went to a little speak easy in the middle of Manhattan, and watched an outstanding band play music, and sipped fancy drinks that were far too expensive.
And there, amidst the crowd, was this woman wearing green tights. I'm talking Elphaba green here, folks. Like, really, really green. They matched the pattern of her dress, but for some reason I couldn't stop staring at the green.
(I know this seems insane to be writing about these green tights, so I'm going to take this moment to remind you about my black wardrobe.)
ANYWAY, after I pulled myself away from the tights, I looked at the woman herself - she was dancing. Standing there with her date, swaying to the music, bopping to the beat, she was the living embodiment of that cheesy quote - dance like nobody is watching.
It was phenomenal.
And then I thought of that little lady that told me I wear too much black, and as the green tights whizzed in front of me, I'm wondering if perhaps that little old woman was right.
In the past two weeks I've learned of three different friends who've lost people they love. Young men who had wives and children and families that assumed they'd be around for awhile.
And now they're not.
Now the promises of tomorrow and dreams of the days to come have gone for good - and all the wishes and love will never bring them back.
And I wonder, what will it take for us to stop and slow down and appreciate the minutes that lay before us?
Too often we overlook tiny moments of joy in anticipation of something bigger and better. But really, life is lived in the moments of in-between.
Life can change in an instant, and perhaps we need to spend more time celebrating the in-between. Perhaps it's a date night watching live music with the one you love, perhaps it's sitting curled on your couch watching your favorite TV show.
Perhaps it's a pair of green tights.
Whatever it is - I hope you find it, I hope you cherish it, I hope you treasure those in-betweens, for life is just too short.


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As the only surviving wonder of the ancient world, the Great Pyramid of Giza has rightfully earned its place on bucket lists worldwide. But once you've paid your respects to old Khufu, that's no reason to call it quits with the land of the pharaohs. Egypt is full of other attractions to fill out your Middle Eastern holiday.
While exploring the mysteries of ancient Egypt, you'd be remiss not to make at least a day trip to the coastal city of Alexandria. During the days of Antony and Cleopatra, this critical Mediterranean port was home to a famed lighthouse – one of the now ruined wonders of the ancient world – and one of the largest libraries across the globe. The Lighthouse or Pharos of Alexandria is long gone, but the library has been reconstructed. The modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina combines the old royal library's historic reputation with stunning contemporary architecture. Add a little natural beauty to your visit at Montazah Palace Gardens, a romantic spot full of palm trees swaying in the breeze and phenomenal Mediterranean views.
From the modern glory of the Aswan Dam to the ancient temples of Abu Simbel, Egypt's southern commercial gateway has plenty to offer travelers interested in getting slightly off the beaten path. To get here from Cairo, take the train, hop on a short flight, or for an extra special Egyptian experience, join a felucca sailing tour down the Nile. For the best preserved ruins, head out to Philae Island one evening for the temple's sound and light show. While you're in the south of the country, don't miss the chance to explore the Nubian Village and its fantastic museum. Savor an authentic meal among traditional culture.
Want some serious pharaoh sightings? Head south to Luxor. The Valley of the Kings is home to five hundred years' worth of royal tombs, including Rameses II, Hatshepsut, and the famed boy king Tutankhamun. Be sure to visit with a guide, as tombs open to the public on a rotating basis and you may not be able to see the burial sites you want on your own. Reserve an evening for the Temple of Karnak, Luxor's most popular tourist attraction. Like many temples, it presents an interactive show after dark. Once you've had your fill of the ruins, view some of the antiquities that didn't make their way off with grave robbers at the Luxor Museum.
You'll still run into plenty of tourists in Aswan and Luxor, so if you're serious about getting off the beaten path, head away from the Nile to the eastern resort town of Hurghada. This Red Sea port is a world-renowned scuba diving spot with ample nightlife and a cosmopolitan atmosphere. If you're not a certified diver, you can still have plenty of fun on the water with sailing, wind surfing, snorkeling, and deep sea fishing. If you need to clock in some time indoors, try the city's museum or aquarium.

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This is something special. Done for the apptronica roots compilation, this was the first melody I ever wrote. When I was 14, I got my first keyboard, a Yamaha PSS-130. I listened to Jean Michel Jarre a lot at that time and while playing that melody came to my mind. If you would have told me then, that this melody would be released to the world 28 years later, I would have declared you crazy… Done with Nanostudio, Uploaded with AudioShare app – http://ift.tt/109HeHL
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Antennas modelling and design
Vairamani Thaiyal Nayaki
Date of Issue2016
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Antennas are key components in wireless communication systems. So in this dissertation, we studied various types of antenna's modelling & design deployed with different modelling types and their performances have been calculated in different conditions by using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) Microwave Studio software. Several modelling of antenna has been done to make the study in-depth. Below is the description of antennas for which we have done the modelling and design. Basically horn antennas will operate at microwave frequencies due to this performance of horn antenna reduces. So to achieve the maximum gain here we increase the radius of the cylindrical/conical horn. A parabolic antenna is an antenna that uses a parabolic reflector, a curved surface with the cross-sectional shape of a paraboloid, to direct the radio waves. The horn antenna is placed adjacent to parabolic reflector such that the waves are to be transmitted parallel to cylindrical horn aperture in order to be shifted 180˚ in phase and being reflected back parallel to the main axis. Moreover here we use parabolic reflector antenna to have a high directivity for radio waves. Microstrip or patch antennas are becoming increasingly useful because they can be printed directly onto a circuit board. Microstrip antennas are becoming very widespread within the mobile phone communication systems. Patch antennas are low cost, have a low profile and are easily fabricated. In this dissertation, we will do a deep study on rectangular and circular patch antennas and also the differences between single patch and array of patch antennas. Modelling of patch antenna has been done in the way to increase the gain and directivity.


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Life is full of challenges, both personally and professionally.
Today's interview in hour two with Amy Cuddy is the perfect example. It took a full year to pin her down, and that's no exaggeration! But Amy was well-worth the wait. I was enchanted with her from the start of our conversation.
Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation?
The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless.
Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret.
By accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence," the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves. Does this sound a bit out there to you? RELAX...Amy breaks it down in a way that resonates.
We don't need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Instead, we need to nudge ourselves, moment by moment, by tweaking our body language, behavior, and mind-set in our day-to-day lives. To get started, consider this: "Listening is crucial to presence...Real listening can't happen unless we have a sincere desire to understand what we're hearing."
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The 12 Steps and Spirituality Sermon Series
Let's be honest, we all struggle with temptations and addictions in some area of our lives (anger, drugs, food, alcohol, work, money, adrenaline, etc). We also all know people who are in recovery or who need to be. In this sermon series we'll learn about the spirituality of embracing recovery from our brokenness, and how God can heal us from the inside out. Each week we'll take one of the Recovery Steps and look at it from a spiritual point of view. If you have friends or loved ones in recovery, this will be a great series to help you understand better what they are going through. It's also a great time to invite friends and family members to church. You know us at New Story – we always welcome everyone. EVERYONE.
This Sunday, March 2, we'll talk about what it means to admit we are wrong, and how at times, saying sorry just isn't enough. We hope to see you at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., or 5 p.m.
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"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" may not hit the tear-down-the-sky heights of the previous two episodes of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, but simply not feeling like a letdown after those two magnificent hours is itself a victory. The grim tale of how the dehumanizing Clinton-era policy on gays in the military destroyed Jeff Trail's dreams and helped place him in Cunanan's crosshairs isn't as stomach-churningly chilling and sad as the show's depiction of the last hours of Lee Miglin and David Madson, to be sure. But the stakes wind up being just as high, as is the cost in wasted human potential and life.
"DADT" is one of the most temporally complex episodes of the series so far, bouncing back and forth in time and between protagonists. In out-of-order fashion, it traces the life of Jeff Trail from the waning days of his career in the military through the night he first meets Andrew to the hours after his murder, with special attention paid to his and David's interactions with Cunanan in the days leading up to their killings. (Andrew has a blowout fight with Jeff and has his marriage proposal rejected by David. There's also a polka bar.) Meanwhile, a side plot chronicles Gianni Versace's decision to come out as gay in the press, with the support of his partner and to the chagrin of his sister.
But with Andrew himself pushed mostly to the margins and no threat of new murders hanging over our heads, it falls to Finn Wittrock to carry the weight of the episode as Jeff, investing the story of how institutionalized homophobia helped lead to his death with the same sense of tragedy and intensity as a serial-killer narrative. It's a testament to his note-perfect casting — he simply has the exact physical and psychological mien of a military man, from the cadence of his voice to the way he walks around in his nondescript civvies — that he pulls it off.
With Wittrock's Jeff as the bedrock, a thematic layering emerges that's even more impressive than the time-shifting storyline. Throughout the episode, Jeff is painted as a parallel figure to both his eventual killer and his killer's most famous victim. The comparison with Versace is as direct as possible: Writer Tom Rob Smith structures the episode by juxtaposing Gianni's triumphant coming-out interview with the Advocate with Jeff's anonymous, silhouetted testimonial in a CBS News special about closeted soldiers and sailors. Both interviews take place in hotels, though Versace's is in the Ritz Carlton while Trail's is in a seedy motel. Both men are also shown talking with their clearly beloved sisters, each of whom is deeply concerned about her respective brother. Donatella advises Gianni not to go through with the Advocate profile (I do wish they'd speak Italian with subtitles in their scenes together — trust your audience, Ryan Murphy! — but whatever), while Jeff's very pregnant sister, herself career military, jokingly issues "a direct order as your commanding officer" for him to finally come out to their parents years after the recording session.
Jeff and Gianni's fates following their respective interviews were as divergent as their accommodations and their sisters, yet Andrew finds something equally infuriating about both. His beef with Versace is obvious enough. The stalker-wall of newspaper and magazine clippings that Andrew maintains, many of them about Gianni's life as an out and proud gay man with his longtime partner Antonio, indicates resentment. Why should this man have it all, while Andrew has to lie about fame and fortune and can't find anyone who loves him back?
Jeff, by contrast, is a crash-and-burn case. The military's discovery that he was gay has left him "a washed-up queer in a shitty job and a shitty condo, bitching about how you could have been somebody," as Andrew cuttingly puts it. "You're not wrong about that," Jeff replies fatalistically — he won't even bother to deny it. Of course, you're not wrong to see shades of Andrew himself in that description, except insofar as he has no job and no condo at all anymore, not even shitty ones.
So Andrew appears to first formulate murderous intent toward his former friend and protégé when he watches a VHS recording. The belief in a cause bothers him. Jeff's stated belief that saving a fellow gay sailor from a vicious beating at the hands of their crewmates gave his own homosexuality away — leading to an attempt to carve away a tattoo that could incriminate him and a failed suicide attempt as well as his eventual discharge — bothers Andrew even more intensely.
It's during this portion of the interview, where a stricken Jeff says "I did a good thing, the bravest thing I've ever done, and I can't tell you how many times I've dreamed about taking that moment back and letting him die, just so people wouldn't know about me," that Andrew, wearing the white hat from Jeff's uniform, points Jeff's gun at the screen, starting to psych himself into the idea of murder.
Watching Jeff's final confrontation with Andrew prior to the murder is painful, then, both because of what he gets right and what he gets wrong. "I don't know what you stand for," he shouts at Cunanan. "I don't know who you are. You're a liar. You have no honor." Correct on all counts — possibly lethally, so if you figure this contrast in their outlook is a big part of what drove Andrew to kill. But when Andrew rightfully points out that he believed in and supported Jeff while his beloved Navy treated him like shit — "I saved you!" — Jeff bitterly retorts "You destroyed me. I wish I'd never walked into that bar. I wish I'd never met you." He says he wants his life back, as if Andrew took it from him, instead of Bill Clinton and Uncle Sam. Andrew does take his life away, eventually, mere hours from that moment in fact. But in a sense, he was just an accessory after the fact. Jeff signed his own death warrant the moment he decided, in the face of society's hatred, that some principles are worth fighting for anyway.
Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) writes about TV for Rolling Stone, Vulture, The New York Times, and anyplace that will have him, really. He and his family live on Long Island.
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Carrie + Kris
Jefferson Underground Wedding and Reception by Oldani Photography
Jefferson Underground / Tower Grove Park
Carrie and Kris chose Jefferson Underground for their ceremony and reception. They came to that decision easily because of their love for their neighborhood. They tried to utilize as many businesses as possible around Cherokee to pay homage to the place they call home.
"First Dance" song ?: Banana Pancakes
Cake: Whisk
Bride's Dress: David's Bridal
Caterer: Roy-El
DJ: Digital Entertainment
Flowers: Flowers & Weeds
Groom / Groomsman's Suits: Men's Warehouse
Hair: Carrie Waller
Makeup: Adrienne Sandusky
Photo Booth: Seriously Photo
Transportation: Slab Party Bus
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Rosalie Abella
Rosalie Silberman Abella
|Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
|Assumed office
October 4, 2004
|Nominated by
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|Preceded by
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|July 1, 1946
Stuttgart, Germany
|Irving Abella
Rosalie Silberman Abella, FRSC (born July 1, 1946) is a Canadian jurist. She was appointed in 2004 to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench.[1]
Early life[edit]
Rosalie Silberman Abella was born in a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany, where her father, a lawyer, was defence counsel for displaced persons in the Allied Zone of Southwest Germany.[2] She moved to Canada with her family in 1950. She attended Oakwood Collegiate Institute and Bathurst Heights Secondary School in Toronto,[3] and then the University of Toronto, where she obtained a B.A. in 1967 and an LL.B in 1970.[4]
Abella was called to the Ontario bar in 1972.[5] She practised civil and family law until 1976, when at the age of 29 she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court (now part of the Ontario Court of Justice), becoming both the youngest and first pregnant judge in Canadian history.[6] She was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992.[5] She has acted as chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Ontario Study into Access to Legal Services by the Disabled and the Ontario Law Reform Commission, and as a member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and of the judicial inquiry into the Donald Marshall, Jr. case. She is considered one of Canada's foremost experts on human rights law, and has taught at McGill Law School in Montreal.
In 2004, Prime Minister Paul Martin appointed Abella to the Supreme Court of Canada. Abella became the first Jewish woman to sit on the court.[7] She is eligible to serve on the Supreme Court until July 1, 2021.
In 1983, Abella was appointed to oversee the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment and in that role, coined the term employment equity,[5] a strategy for reducing barriers in employment faced by women, visible minorities, people with disabilities, and aboriginal peoples. The recommendations of the report were adopted by other countries such as New Zealand, South Africa, and Northern Ireland.[5]
She moderated a televised leaders debate in 1988 between Brian Mulroney (PC), John Turner (Liberal) and Ed Broadbent (NDP).
Honours and personal life[edit]
Abella is the recipient of 37 honorary degrees, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002.[8] She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.[9] In May 2016, she was awarded an honorary degree from Yale University,[10] becoming the first Canadian woman to earn such an honour.[5] She has been a judge of the Giller Prize, and is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in classical piano.
In January 2017, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law's Center for International Human Rights named her the Global Jurist of the Year in 2016 for her lifelong commitment to human rights and international criminal justice.[11] In April 2018, Abella was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Abella is married to historian Irving Abella,[5] and has two sons.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2013.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Text of a speech given by Justice Abella to the Empire Club in Toronto on February 9, 2011, entitled "The World is not Unfolding as it Should: International Justice in Crisis", "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 13, 2011. Retrieved February 4, 2013.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link).
- ^ Nurse, Donna Bailey (2006). "Just "Rosie"". U of T Magazine.
- ^ "The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella". Supreme Court of Canada. April 25, 2016. Archived from the original on October 1, 2016. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f Knelman, Martin (May 23, 2016). "Justice Rosalie Abella first Canadian woman to receive honorary Yale degree". thestar.com. Toronto Star. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
- ^ "The newest justices". CBC News. February 24, 2006. Retrieved October 8, 2007.
- ^ "How Justice Rosalie Abella made Yale law grads cry on the happiest day of their lives". CBC Radio. May 29, 2016. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
- ^ "Golden Jubilee Medal".
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ^ "Honorary degrees awarded to nine outstanding individuals". Yale News. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
- ^ Fine, Sean (January 13, 2017). "Canadian judge Rosalie Abella named Global Jurist of the Year". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
External links[edit]
- CanadaSupremeCourtbio
- http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/parties_leaders/clips/15773/
- Entry on Rosalie Silberman Abella, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
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- Canadian Jews
- Jewish Canadian history
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- German emigrants to Canada
- Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario
- People from Stuttgart
- University of Toronto alumni
- Canadian women judges
- The Royal Conservatory of Music alumni
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Amidst discarded beer bottles and other refuse on a weedy plot of land lies a cemetery on a high point of Libreville over-looking downtown buildings, rambling neighborhoods and the grey-green estuary spilling out into the Atlantic ocean. Recently Steve and I went there to take some photos for a man who is writing a book recounting the lives of the first protestant missionaries to Gabon. The grave stones are scattered somewhat haphazardly in a sad state of neglect. After driving towards downtown Libreville and taking a cratered road that wandered and wound around an adjacent neighborhood we found the mission called "Baraka" which translates to "blessing". Behind the mission building lies the cemetery. It was a sunny hot day with billowy white clouds drifting lazily across a brilliant blue sky, occasional breezes carried up from the sea stirred the sombre air as we walked reverently around the old headstones searching for specific names to photograph for the author.
Many of the simple arched headstones were weather-worn with etched script hard to decipher. Another missionary friend of ours had taken an interest in preserving the stories of these early missionaries. She had come years before us and used a sharpie marker to fill in the script to sharpen the contrast and render the words legible once again. We did the same for the headstone of the one the author was most interested in our photographing. Even in the bright sunlight the chiseled words were lost amidst the rough stone so Steve carefully filled in the words with the sharpie, bringing to clarity the epitaph so long ago carved out by a dear friend of the deceased. The dates on the oldest stones were from the 1820s. One marked the grave of an entire family, husband, wife, and baby, who most-likely from disease, the young missionary couple in their late twenties when they died just days apart. Many of the graves told of lives cut short, barely into their thirties when they breathed their last breath in this foreign place. Their gravestones spoke of their passion to reach this place and love the people here, to shine the light of Christ. It grimly reminded me of when missionaries packed their belongings in coffins. They counted the cost. They knew death awaited them but went forth with the promise of eternal life. Their life was well-spent sharing the gospel of Christ a couple of centuries ago in this very land where I currently live.
As I sat and watched Steve work I thought about what it must have been like for those early missionaries. I could imagine this mission located on a high point with views of the sea, a great location to catch those precious sea breezes to cut through the oppressive, cloying humidity that hangs like a scratchy wet woolen blanket. I could imagine away the crowded buildings and neighborhoods that surrounded and could see the cemetery clean and green. I could imagine the gravestones with etchings sharp and clear. I could imagine the mourners left behind fresh with the grief of losing another teammate. The mounds of red Central African earth piled high as yet another of their team lies beneath never to crack a joke or share in a holiday meal or hold hands in prayer again. As I sat there and contemplated the lives of those who's earthly remains are left in this dirty plot of land I realized I don't really know what hard is. Sure I've said goodbye to many a teammate and felt the loss of their leaving and the loneliness amidst the crowds of people in this foreign place but I've never buried a teammate or carved out their epitaph on a gravestone. What a precious price they paid. I've never seriously feared death or disease. I've lived in relative comfort. It's not the comfort and convenience of home, not by a long-shot, but it's not the dangerous and wild place it once was. I wondered what it would be like to live my life poured out as a drink offering to a spiritually dry and desperate place. I wondered if I would count the high, high cost and board that ship with my belongings packed in a long pine box waving a final goodbye to all my friends and family. Would I have the courage to have children and raise them in a hostile environment? Would I love the people here with my very life?
It really made me examine my life and my commitment here and now. It made me question how deep is my love for the still lost people here. I realized my often grinch-like shrunken heart is needing growth. Please pray for me to love, really love the people here, love them more than my own comfort. I confess my love for comfort is a guiding force in my life. I want to count the cost and find it worth it. Only God can enlarge my heart and He can only enlarge it as I give it to Him. He's a gentleman, never pushy or controlling. I love that about Him but hate that I am so hard-hearted and so stingy with my love. Sometimes I wish He would just make me do the right thing, the loving thing, to take me out of the equation. But He doesn't, He has given me freedom and a mind and body and life, He has given me the Holy Spirit that lives within and speaks wisdom and guidance... when I pay attention.


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Welcome to Year 4
Autumn Term Curriculum Information
Autumn term curriculum information is now available on the Year 4 curriculum information tab. Please take a look to find out what we will be learning about this term and how you can support your child at home.
Year 4's phenomenal West End Oliver Twist Production!
Year 4 have had fun making Roman Colosseums out of clay!
Year 4 travelled back in time on their Romans Day!
Y4K's first guitar lesson!
In art, Year 4 are learning about mosaics. We have our own mosaic in our playground. We analysed a mosaic and wrote about in in our art lesson. We will eventually make our own.
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But there was also a very entertaining employee about 18 or 19 years old named Izzy who, despiite a speech impediment and thick glasses, was extremely self-confident and outgoing and really kept the crowd in a good mood. He divided us into two teams and promised he'd bring out 14 cannolis, and would award one to each person who answered a question about Buddy or the show correctly AND raised their hand. We had birthday girl Mary would watches the show all the time. Her question was "What is Buddy's real name?'" She knew it. (Do you?) Cannoli for Mary! She also got a free cupcake for her birthday.
At last we saw Buddy. Okay, not Buddy himself, but his likeness. Isn't he friendly looking?
And then we stood in yet another line, but at least we had cool pictures to look at.
Then came time to place an order. Everything looked so pretty, so yummy, so fattening. And nothing had a price tag because I'm sure that if people had to count both calories and cost at the same time, Buddy wouldn't have as much bread and butter. Besides, I'm sure that all the tourists must be thinking the same thing I was: "I'll probably never get back here, so might as well get everything I want now." So yes, Renee and I started in with the "I'll take one of this and two of that and three small of that and one large that....'
I ended up purchasing a sampling for the family: with a piece of tiramisu, a serving of strawberry covered cheesecake, a vanilla birthday cupcake with chocolate icing, two chocolate covered cannolis, a nut bar, two lemon biscotti, and a crumb cake. Everything tasted good, the cheesecake excellent, but the chocolate cannoli was the best, and I am not normally gaga about that dessert.
While waiting for our orders to be filled (which is an impressive display of self-control under pressure in that tiny, bustling, chaotic shop of cell phone paparazzi), birthday girl Mary got her picture taken with Buddy's sister Madeline and Grace. They are very warm and gracious, just like what you see on TV.
And then there is his sister Mary. She bustled in behind the counter like an entire gaggle of geese and honked out in her annoying New Jersey accent, "Does everyone know who Tim McGraw is? Well, this is his mother. She came to pay us a special visit today. Everyone say hi to Tim's mom." (Hi, Tim's mom.) Then my friend Renee' asked sister Mary if she'd get a picture with daughter Mary.
Well sister Mary ignores her and instead lifts the lanyard she's wearing. It apparently held a backstage pass to the concert that night. In a very "nanna nanna boo boo" voice, she exclaims, "I get to see Tim McGraw's show tonight." She might as well have added, "and you don't, ,so hahahahaha." Renee says later to me, "Isn't she just a little bit old to be acting like that? No wonder Buddy fired her."
Anyway, Renee's daughter Mary got her cake (I missed a picture of it). Vanilla and chocolate layer with purple fondant and flower-power daisies on the top and sides. It's called "Groovy" and tasted amazingly moist and flavorful. Even the fondant tasted so good I didn't realize until it was gone that I'd actually ingested something that usually tasted like sugared wax to me.
We ate lunch at Johnny Rocket's a few blocks away. My poor feet. What a blister I was developing on the pinkies, but thankfully my attitude wasn't starting to blister. My bladder, by contrast, was starting to throw a fit. Two and a half hours is just about its limit. I headed toward signs marked "Restroom" and couldn't help but notice how all the girls all looked adorable sitting at the red diner counter; I wanted to take a picture, but given the circumstances, what I wanted more was to do some de-briefing in the bathroom, and then come back to the table and kick my shoes off, Which I did. Sweet relief in more ways than one.
We ordered burgers, Philly cheese steaks, fries, Cokes, the typical Johnny Rocket's fare. Mary was clearly having a great time, as were all her partymates. A third friend of ours (who had joined us back in the CVS line when we first got there, sat and talked and talked and ate and talked some more. When the food was gone, we still just sat there. When your feet hurt and your back is tired and you're finally in air conditioning, and have washed up in the ladies' room, you kind of just want to sit on your launch pad for another rotation of the sun.
But alas, we decided that since we were so close to being able to see the Statue of Liberty, let's do that next.


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My name is Georgie and I am a reformed shop-a-holic.
I must say I'm not like I used to be. I used to be very flippant and literally buy everything. I have certainly calmed down as I have become older. Hopefully this post will become a regular series, letting you all see what I have been spending my money on, not just clothes and makeup. Enjoy.
1 – Bumble and Bumble Shampoo
2 – Rimmel Provocalips – Make Your Move
Bombarded with glossy TV ads, I caved. Provocalips got the better of me. I always quite the liked the Apocalips from Rimmel, so when their sister came on the scene, I was intrigued to try. I opted for the shade 730 'Make you Move'. Keep an eye out as a full review will be up soon. 16 hour wear, uuummm I am not convinced.
3 – Tickets for Gone Girl
As soon as I clapped eyes on the trailer I knew I had to see this film. I have had the book for ages, still untouched, mainly as I haven't had the time. Us beauty bloggers, live such busy lives, hey? I saw this film the other night. Tense, filled with twists and drama. AMAZING. A great watch. If you love thrillers, head to your local multiplex. I cannot wait to read the book.
4 – Birkenstock Arizonas
So I did it. After years of thinking of getting a new pair, I bought them. In October. Crazy? No. Sensible? Yes. It took me ages to track these babies down. Nubuck, size 8 – yes I have quite big feet. These are staying nicely boxed away until Spring next year. I am so organised if I do say so myself. Jesus sandals. Great with jeans, great for your feet. I am looking forward to wearing these with a perfect pedi already.
5 – Converse All Stars
And for when I want to cover my soles up. Converse. Comfortable, trendy, cool, iconic, must-have, timeless. That's all I need to say.


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What are you Planning After Graduation? Consider These "Gap Year" Alternatives
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If you are graduating from college this year, you might be considering taking a break before going to grad school or starting your career. If you are, think about doing something meaningful as you explore "gap year" alternatives.
According to Wikipedia, the term, "gap year" refers to a "prolonged period (often, but not always, a year) between two life stages. This "gap year" is also known as a "year out", "year off", "deferred year", "bridging year", "overseas experience", "time off" and "time out". Taking this time off is actually very popular in Europe and Australia where young adults are encouraged to take a break after high school and before or after college. Graduates are urged to take on meaningful experiences during this time for personal exploration before moving to the next life stage of career or college.
Your graduation from college this year could offer you the same opportunity. You might be thinking about taking the time off, especially if you are not sure what your next career or higher education step should be.
The question to ponder is whether or not taking the "gap year" off a good thing for you?
The answer of course is - it depends. College graduates should weigh the pros and cons of taking this time off and the long term ramifications on future career choices.
Here are some pros for exploring "Gap Year" alternatives:
1. This break could give graduates the time needed to explore career options.
2. Students may be tired of school and might get diminishing returns from paying for classes and not doing well.
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1. Students may never want to return to college or further their education. This is quite possibly the most common reason for hesitating.
2. Once away from school, graduates lose touch with college professors and others who could encourage further education or guide career direction.
Some US colleges now understand the increasing urge that high school graduates have for the "gap year" and are now getting on board with innovative programs to meet the needs of these college students.
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Opinions about automation in the workplace are slowly changing, based on two different surveys that were recently released. The first, a survey from MIT and Genesys. They interviewed over 550 senior executives about their use of technology for customer experience programs. The other study, from Capgemini, looks at nearly 1,000 organizations and over 50 use cases to identify the benefits of AI. The common insight from the two studies: companies adopting AI and automation technology today are seeing both immediate and long-term benefits from automation.
Yseop has been around for over 10 years now and we've seen the changes of AI and automation technology. We have seen first-hand the benefits of automation for our customers. For example, take our first customer, a large telecom operator in Europe. Before Yseop, they were receiving tens of thousands of claims per month. These claims ranged from simple to complex and replying to these claims could take up to several weeks.
With Yseop, they were able to automatically generate responses to over 30,000 claims per month, saving time and money all while boosting capacity (25%). So, whether that's an executive report, CRM summary, or customized store performance reports, Yseop's technology can help your company to remain competitive.
If you're looking for statistics that help you understand and show some of the benefits from automation, I recommend downloading both studies, they're full of useful figures and helpful tips. Here are just a few highlights of interesting stats from the two studies:
Other top reads from last week:
10 Facts About Jobs in the Future
Slides from the International Monetary Fund/World Bank's Youth Dialogue about the current outlook and perceptions of technology, automation, and the workplace. (Source: Pew Research)
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Professor Toby Walsh talks realistically about AI and automation over the next few years. Very interesting take on the future of self-driving cars. (Source: Guardian)


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Ahh the holidays! I love Christmastime SO much. It's crazy to see how quickly it came upon us this year -- but I'm not complaining! I absolutely love the crisp air, rosemary garnishes everywhere, and the warm winter colors. I had the privilege of working with my home church, Awakening last weekend to help bring to life our vision for our annual Christmas party. My favorite part was that we held it at this amazing warehouse venue in downtown SJ, Forager Tasting Room-- that brick wall in the back?! Swoon! We had an indoor gelato cart, photo booth, dance floor, raffle, and of course - drinks & light bites. I decided to go a more minimal route with the table centerpieces and went with long wreathy garlands (save a buck or two and get these from Trader Joe's) that I cut into shorter pieces, and then added texture with candles and ornaments. Who says ornaments only belong on the tree?!
It was such a fun time for all of us:) Thanks to the talented Oh.Pictures for taking these photos, Cafe Primavera for catering, and my amazing friend/ planning parter Kathryn for helping make all of this come together so seamlessly.


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Having Communion in Groups goes back to the 1st Century (Acts 2:42-46). One could argue that communion is best practiced in a small group because it captures the essence of community through the opportunity of increased intimacy and authenticity. It's a great chance for you to share with your group what God is doing in your life as you examine your heart the week before taking communion. What is communion? Communion is worshiping our Heavenly Father by remembering Christ's death and resurrection. It's reflecting on your relationship with Christ and examining your heart. It provides the opportunity to be honest with God by confessing and repenting of sin.
When should your group have communion? Communion can be done any time in the course of a group, but it might make sense to have it at the end or the beginning of a study. Or consider having communion around an important date for the group (one-year anniversary of the group, group multiplying, holidays, etc.)
Who is communion for? Communion is primarily for those who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior—those who believe that Christ died for their sin and rose to bring them eternal life. However, Communion can also be a great opportunity to share Christ with those that don't know him. It may even provide an opportunity to ask unbelievers how they would feel about trusting Christ.
Keep in mind that some of your group members may not be Christians. If they're uncomfortable with it, it's okay for them not to participate in communion. Be mindful of how to facilitate this tension, and clearly communicate in advance what's going to happen during communion. Stress that you'd still love for them to be there.
Considering different backgrounds: Communion is practiced differently depending on your church background, and most likely your group members are from different backgrounds as well. Have a general conversation with your group several weeks before you do communion to find out their different backgrounds and views. Ask what their thoughts are on communion and about their past experiences.
Do you have any other thoughts about how you've facilitated communion in your group?


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Demons are coming.
The second front in the new Demon war has opened in the Western United States. But the Army is prepared. Row upon row of weapons stand at the ready to push the Horde back to the Hell they come from.
A human strike force, cut off from their command, is in a postion to help. But what sacrifice will battle demand of them as they fight their desperate way towards the portal?
And what of the rest of the world?
Will the paranormals just sit quietly and watch the world burn, or will they step in and help?
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Hello everybody, I have only 3 questions left, i need to break them in 3 posts because they are quite different and I don't want to mix them. So, I am looking forward for some recipes of 300 low-carb healthy dinners. Actually, it is not for me, it is for my friend which is nuts about this diet and he is very furious if he can't follow it so that's why i am asking here – do you have any recommendations about them? Maybe you can advice some useful cookbooks? Thanks!
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This topic describes how to configure OneLogin to provide SSO for MyWebTimesheets using SAML.
Configure OneLogin
Log into OneLogin as an admin and go to Apps > Add Apps.
Search for and select the MyWebTimesheets SAML connector.
The initial Configuration tab appears.
Click Save to add the app to your Company Apps and display additional configuration tabs.
The Info tab appears.
Go to the Parameters tab and map MyWebTimesheets attributes to OneLogin attributes.
In most cases, you should keep the Configured by admin default. For more information, see Setting Credential Configuration Options.
For most implementations, you can accept the default attribute mappings. Ensure that the MyWebTimesheets field Email (NameID) is set to Email.
Click Save.
Go to the SSO tab to obtain the SAML 2.0 Endpoint (HTTP) and the X.509 Certificate file that you will need to setup your MyWebTimesheets SSO settings.
Copy the SAML 2.0 Endpoint (HTTP) value found on the SSO tab.
Obtain the X.509 Certificate by selecting View Details. Then select Download to download the certificate.
- Ensure that SHA256 is selected for the SHA fingerprint.
On the OneLogin Access tab, assign the OneLogin roles that should have access to MyWebTimesheets and provide any app security policy that you want to apply to MyWebTimesheets.
You can also go to Users > All Users to add the app to individual user accounts.
Click Save.
Configure MyWebTimesheets
- Login to MyWebTimesheets.
- Go to System Setup -> Security Management -> Company SAML Settings.
- Click the "Edit" icon.
- Paste the "SAML 2.0 Endpoint (HTTP)" that you copied from OneLogin into the "Login URL" box.
- Open the certificate that you downloaded from OneLogin in any text editor.
- Copy the certificate content and paste it in the certificate text box.
- Set "Is Enable" is set to "Yes". This setting activates the "SAML button" in the login page.
- Click "Save" to save the SAML Settings.
Test the SAML Connection
Test the SAML connection.
Ensure that you have user accounts in both OneLogin and MyWebTimesheets that use the same email as the username.
You can create a test user, or you can use your own account if you choose.
Make sure you are logged out of MyWebTimesheets.
Log into OneLogin as an admin and give the test user access to the MyWebTimesheets app in OneLogin.
Log into OneLogin as the test user.
Click the MyWebTimesheets icon on your OneLogin dashboard.
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The burial ground found in Gorokhovets increases the chances of the city to get on the UNESCO list
According to the scientist, the Finnish burial grounds of the first and second centuries are very rare, and these are the first found in the lower reaches of the river Klyazma. Makarov blieves that the discovery makes Gorokhovets more appealing as a tourist destination and therefore more likely to be included to the UNESCO World Heritage List, because there are no such objects in other historical cities of North-Eastern Russia.
The earthen burial ground was discovered in the summer of 2017 in Lenin Square in the centre of Gorokhovets. Scientists have investigated three burials in which were found, in particular, a celt (a long, thin tool resembling an axe), a spearhead, iron ringed bits, iron knives and buckles, as well as two fibulas made of non-ferrous metal.


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An environmental policy that advocates sustainability as an important means of managing human activity was introduced to India much later after its independence. With the young independent country focusing on economic development as a means to provide for livelihood, food, water and basic sustenance for its populace, there came a need to focus on the impact of this development on the environment. It is only after the Stockholm Conference in 1972 which resulted in the Declaration on Human Environment, that there was an official pursuit of obligation towards starting the environmental law in India.
Ever since the legislation for environment protection was enacted and the Constitution was amended in 1976 providing for an obligation on the state towards protection and improvement of environment and providing safeguards for forests and wildlife in the country, there has always been a conflict between the environmental regulations and the strive towards development. With the business interests in the "development of the nation" growing, the very existence of the forests, water and wildlife has been threatened. The latest of these threats is from approval granted by the Union Cabinet to the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification, 2018 which seeks to replace the existing CRZ Notification of 2011.
The CRZ Notification, 2011 was issued with a view to ensure livelihood security to the fisher communities and other local communities living in the coastal areas to conserve and protect coastal stretches, its unique environment and its marine area and to promote sustainable development based on scientific principles, taking into account the dangers of natural hazards in the coastal areas and sea level rise due to global warming.
India's coastline runs over 7,500 kilometres. The CRZ Notification includes water area up to 12 nautical miles in the sea and water area of a tidal body such as creek, river, estuaries etc. It notifies no-development zones and prohibits construction activities detriment to the marine environment. It restricts the setting up and expansion of any industry, operations or processes and manufacture or handling or storage or disposal of hazardous substances. Furthermore, activities permissible under the CRZ Notification in the CRZ area are subject to environmental / CRZ clearance. However, there have been various amendments to this notification over years, with an obvious objective to serve the political interests or the interests of the developers and builders.
In April 2018, the draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), 2018, was released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). In spite of receiving large scale representations by the citizens against the proposed draft of 2018, the cabinet seems to have approved the said notification in complete disregard to the voices of the people.
Salient Features:
- No Development Zone Reduced for densely populated areas- There has been the bifurcation of the coastal zones along rural areas based on population density. For CRZ-III (Rural) areas, two separate categories have now been stipulated as below:
(a) CRZ-III A – These are densely populated rural areas with a population density of 2161 per square kilometre as per 2011 Census. Such areas shall have a No Development Zone (NDZ) of 50 meters from the HTL as against 200 meters from the High Tide Line stipulated in the CRZ Notification, 2011. The reduction is made on the ground that densely populated areas have similar characteristics as urban areas.
(b) CRZ-III B – Rural areas with the population density of below 2161 per square kilometre as per 2011 Census. Such areas shall continue to have an NDZ of 200 meters from the HTL.
- Tourism infrastructure permitted in coastal areas- Temporary tourism facilities such as shacks, toilet blocks, change rooms, drinking water facilities etc. have now been permitted in Beaches. Such temporary tourism facilities are also now permissible in the "No Development Zone" (NDZ) of the CRZ-III areas as per the Notification. However, a minimum distance of 10 m from HTL should be maintained for setting up of such facilities.
- As per CRZ, 2011 Notification, for CRZ-II (Urban) areas, Floor Space Index (FSI) or the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) had been frozen as per 1991 Development Control Regulation (DCR) levels. In the CRZ, 2018 Notification, it has been decided to de-freeze the same and permits FSI for construction projects, as prevailing on the date of the new Notification. This will enable redevelopment of these areas to meet the emerging needs.
- Furthermore, the procedure for CRZ clearances has been streamlined. Only such projects/activities, which are located in the CRZ-I (Ecologically Sensitive Areas) and CRZ IV (area covered between Low Tide Line and 12 Nautical Miles seaward) shall be dealt with for CRZ clearance by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The powers for clearances with respect to CRZ-II and III have been delegated at the State level with necessary guidance.
- For islands close to the mainland coast and for all Backwater Islands in the mainland, in wake of space limitations and unique geography of such regions, bringing uniformity in the treatment of such regions, NDZ of 20 m has been stipulated.
- The Notification also contains provisions for defence and strategic projects. The draft also allows for construction of roads and roads on stilts, "by way of reclamation in CRZ-1 areas", only in exceptional cases for "defence, strategic purposes and public utilities," to be recommended by the CZMA and approved by the Ministry. However, it does not explicitly state what strategic projects are.
The press release by the Government stated that "The changes brought about in the CRZ Notification will further add to creating additional opportunities for affordable housing. The new notification will boost tourism in terms of more activities, more infrastructure and more opportunities and will certainly go a long way in creating employment opportunities in various aspects of tourism." It is thus evident that these changes to the CRZ notification are introduced majorly with a view to promoting development with a complete disregard to the possible detriment to the fragile coastal ecology and ignoring the fact that it will displace the local communities and affect the biodiversity.
What is pertinent to note is that by reducing the No Development Zone in some areas to mere 50m from the high tide line, coastal areas have been thrown open to commercial interests like tourism, industrialisation and real estate. The notification states that, on the landward side of such roads in the NDZ, Resorts/hotels and associated tourism facilities shall be permitted. Such permissions for reclamation of land for ecotourism and infrastructure projects makes the fragile ecosystem vulnerable to rapid destruction.
It is known that excessive beach lighting is harmful and distressing to some marine species, like the migrating turtles. The amendment may thus help boost the employment and grow local business, but without strong environmental safeguards, it would seriously damage the fragile ecology. None of these issues are taken into consideration by the state while pushing for promoting the commercial interests.
Furthermore, the de-freezing of the floor space index (FSI), reconstruction of buildings and permit for higher FSI for construction along the coastline will allow for reconstruction of the old buildings along the coastline and would increase the land prices. Such a provision further encourages densification of the population on the coast and also the investment on the coast.
The approved 2018 notification is thus evidently made with an intention to relax norms to appease the development and tourism lobby. The nationwide protests by the fishermen communities speak volumes of the harm that this notification would cause to their livelihood, besides the harm to the ecology.
The challenges related to the conservation of sensitive ecology, the rights of fishing communities and other coastal communities, tourism development, planning and policy remain under constant flux. However, a sustainable solution to all these issues is impossible to be arrived at if the state continues to blatantly ignore the interests of local communities and disregard their voices.


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What's the deal with this YGK G-soul X3 braid ?
A thoroughly nice Japanese angler recently responded on a Facebook thread of mine that referenced a blog post I wrote recently about braids - see here. This rather kind bloke suggested to me that I simply had to check out this YGK G-soul X3 braid as it was what he uses for his (sea) bass fishing in Japan and he loves the stuff. Well I found out at the T&G show in October that the TronixPro people are now the distributors for YGK lines here in the UK (check here) and I have to say a huge thanks to the very kind person concerned for sending me some of the lines to try out. I have personally never used any YGK lines but once again I take my hat off to a UK company for working to bring another Japanese fishing tackle brand into this country.
Now I have only had a few chucks with this braid in the 20lb breaking strain, but give me some time and I will be able to report back with some proper thoughts. From the off though I am wondering if this is one of those "quiet" products that I wish I had stumbled upon a while ago. Is it ? Time will tell, but it comes highly recommended from Yoji over in Japan and a friend of mine has loaded up with a spool and so far he's loving it for bass fishing around where I live - and believe me, this bloke knows his lure fishing backwards and he fishes a lot more than I do. I also don't want to be battering my 8-strands on the rocks for wrasse as I have done so a bit this year and I am looking for lines that might better suit my various needs.
From my understanding this YGK G-soul X3 is a three strand braid - I've kind of got my head around 4-strands and 8-strand braids, yet here's a braid made up of only 3 strands, and if I am not mistaken then it should offer some pretty good abrasion resistance. For a few years now I have been loving how thin some of these 8-strand braids are, but I understand that lines like this are not going to offer say the same abrasion resistance as something more "substantial" like Power Pro. I also believe that tight lines, fighting fish and sharp rocks are what they are - tough on any line. What I would love to know then is how on earth this 3-strand 20lb "budget" braid (and at under £20 for a 150m spool I have to class it as a budget braid really) manages to be so incredibly thin and also feel so good ? I blogged a while ago about my confusions over things like PE ratings (see here), but it's interesting to notice that the PE rating of the YGK G-soul 3 in the 20lb breaking strain is only 1.2 - accepting of course that a low diameter is not remotely everything, but I do like a thin line that casts well. It might initially feel a little strange going from 8-strand braids to stuff like this, but I want to get back to some of the cheaper braids and see what if anything I end up missing - if you want to have a crack on the 8-strands, then the cheapest ones I know of are the Sunline Momentum 4x4 and the Daiwa Tournament 8-braid. I really like the Sunline in the 20lb breaking strain and the Daiwa in that bright green 25lb, although you could save more money again by buying a 300 metre spool of the Daiwa in 20lb or 30lb and then loading up with 150 metres at a time to get two fills from one spool (the Accudepth 30lb multicolour line is awesome, did me proud in France last week on the boat as indeed it has done me proud plenty of times before) - but how do you measure off 150 yards ? Walk it down the street I suppose or sprint 100m on an athletics track and then turn around and sprint halfway back, but from my reckoning that would make it the cheapest 8-strand braid I have seen here in the UK. And if 150 yards is not enough for your own UK bass fishing then I would gently suggest that you need to locate that thing called a drag on your reel and tighten it up a bit more.
So is this YGK G-soul X3 line going to be a serious find for me and my fishing ? I don't know, but unless I am overlooking something obvious here it does seem to be offering a lot for the money and I am looking forward to giving it a thrash on bass, pollack and wrasse. Are any of you out there using this line already ? Am I missing something bleeding obvious ? All I need now is for this insane weather to start behaving and I can get out and about on my local coastline and see if what some of us feel could happen before about mid-Jan on the bass especially might come true......................


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Starting June 3 through September 2, we'll have one service at 5pm on Saturdays.
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Then a mere thirty minutes later, the fog had lifted from my sleeping brain and the world outside looked shiny and new. Right outside the door of the building I practically walked into a large flatbed truck with the delivery workers standing there measuring up how to unload the gigantic Christmas tree tied down to it. The tree was lying there on its side, waiting patiently to be given its new role. Even lying there sideways this great tree looked majestic and beautiful. It made me anxious to get our own Christmas tree. I know, I know, it's not even Thanksgiving yet but being in a country that doesn't celebrate it, you can't blame me for getting excited when I see all of the Christmas and holidays decorations beginning to be displayed throughout the city.
In Sweden they start hanging all of the Christmas street light and square decorations a few weeks early. But nothing is lit until the first day of Advent. I love that. Watching the decorations gradually going up all around the city builds up my holiday excitement. When my husband grew up they didn't put up Christmas decorations and their Christmas tree until December twenty-third. When I grew up we aimed to put up our tree right after Thanksgiving. Well, in merging our two cultures, we have compromised and we put up a tree around December thirteenth, which is Saint Lucia Day.
But that's for another post. For now I will focus on this lovely new day with it's endless possibilities and the build up of holiday excitement and cheer. When will you put up your Christmas tree?
I love the way the sunlight looks a bit hazy coming through the trees.
Here's a different angle... doesn't this make you want to run out and get your tree immediately?


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Funnily enough I received an assortment of different ciders as Christmas presents, one of which was Snowies Blonde Cider.
This cider is very sweet tasting, probably due to the fact that eating apples have been used to brew. The bottle label indicated 100% triple blend which I imagine relates to the ingredients – the Red Delicious, Granny Smith and Pink Lady Australian apples.
This cider is easy drinking, albeit a little on the sweet side and not too strong at 4.5%. It has a nice cider colour and bouquet. I would probably buy a few bottles but not one for session with the boys.
This cider hails from the Hunter Valley, brewed by wine makers Yarraman.
I have also included a few pictures of my last trip out in the kayak on Sydney Harbour. Launched on Sunday morning, at sun up, from Little Manly, I fished around North Head. There has been a lot of surface fish action over the last few weeks and expectations were high for a good session with the fly rod. As I searched for surface action, I came across came across a school of fish dimpling the surface, thought/hoped it might be king fish but turned out to be large yellow tails or cownanyoung. I managed to quickly catch four, which will be kept in the fridge for a jewfish session on the beach. These fish spewed up some tiny translucent fish which were slightly smaller than the fly I was using, so I was sort of matching the hatch.
Hunted around for something bigger, it was slow going with the odd fish slashing on the surface, but after a bit of padddling around finally caught a couple of bonitos on the same fly that caught the yellowtails. Over the Christmas period the bonito have been prolific in the harbour, seems it may have slowed down for some reason, although the water temperature is still high. The king on a fly mission continues.


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Bright Eyes blowing out his candles
Dad and the three kids, plus baby cousin
Presents: he got lots of dressing up outfits, including a B1 camouflage, plus the all-important Buzz Lightyear.
Lunch! What did he eat? A cracker and vegemite, a few slices of ham, orange juice and a piece of gluten free cake. Actually, no, just the icing off the top...


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Verkefni (Project): Pink Linen Underdress
I've had this fairly large piece of pink linen sitting in my fabric stash for years now. I've never really been one to go crazy over the colour pink, but it was linen – which, along with wool, is one of the top fabrics for constructing viking period clothing from, and when I purchased it (off of another person, rather than at a fabric store), the seller mentioned that the colour is one of the shades you can get out of an almost-exhausted dyebath of madder root. Ok, what the heck, I figured, and I could always overdye it later.
Years later, I'm finally getting around to using the fabric, and I'm finding that the colour has actually grown on me. I'm still not sure what colour I'm going to put with it in the form of an apron dress – my navy blue one will look fine, but I'm a little bit concerned that my grass green wool one will make me look a little bit like an easter egg.
In terms of the research behind underdresses, I'm actually putting together a separate research page on the reasoning behind the style of dress I'm constructing, etc., and this series of posts tagged with "pink underdress" will stick more to this actual dress I'm constructing. I'm using the rectangular construction principles for this dress, working with a piece of fabric that is 60 inches wide. I pulled out another underdress I've made in the past to use in helping measure, as well. Now I know that in the Viking period, the common measurement for a piece of fabric was the "Ell" – in fact Vaðmál, which is wool cloth of a certain standard quality that was woven to be two ells wide, was a form of currency in Iceland. This leads me to believe that most, if not all, looms, were probably built to accommodate the weaving of fabric that was at least this width, though I have read of looms that were much wider and required two people to weave on them. The ell was originally the same length of a cubit, which was the distance between a man's elbow and the tip of his middle finger, or 18 inches. This would mean the looms were built to weave fabric that was at least 36″ wide. This also happens to be the same length as a yard, which is the standard unit for fabric measurement in the US. Fabric in the US and Canada comes in a variety of widths, and being that I am a much larger than average woman trying to construct clothing using traditional techniques, this will allow me to make things without having to do extra piecing of my fabric. I do already have to make concessions to the standard design of a rectangular construction dress to accommodate my size and build.
Here is the basic layout I use for my underdresses:
The main body of the dress is two rectangles – in this case, they're each 30″ wide (half the width of the fabric), and to get the length, I usually just hold the fabric up to myself and take my shoulder to floor length and then add an inch or two for seams and hemming. With the way I'm built, 30″ is quite wide for my shoulders, but I need the width everywhere else, so I usually end up with dropped shoulders on my dresses, and I'm ok with that, I like the room to move.
The sleeves are cut as rectangles to start – and in this case, I'm again using the width of the fabric as one of my base measurements. I cut a piece long enough accommodate my bicep at its widest part, plus a couple of inches for seams and movement room, and used the width of the fabric for the other measurement. I then folded the piece in half width-wise, so that each sleeve pieces is 30″ x the length. I will trim the pieces later to get the angle from the top of the sleeve to the wrist.
The side gores (the triangles shown on the diagram) will be added later, once I have everything but the sides and hem done. They will be long triangles of fabric added in to the side seams to make the dress big enough to go over my hips and drape nicely, but not big enough to make the dress too loose. At this point it's looking like I will have enough of the fabric to make myself either a tunic blouse or sundress from the remainder, and I'm really hoping that's the case.
I've started stitching the dress together in hopes of having it ready for Winter War, which is two weeks from today. I'm using threads pulled from the edge of the rest of the fabric to stitch it with, and stitching it entirely by hand with what is believed to be period stitch techniques. Unfortunately using the same exact thread to stitch with is making it almost impossible to see my stitches in photos, which means for my next post, which will be about period stitch techniques, I'm going to have to make up some sample bits using contrasting thread.


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Roma have become the first Italian club to agree an 'exclusive content partnership' with Twitter.
A statement on Roma's official website confirmed 'exclusive live games, match previews, player interviews, squad training as well as classic moments from the club's archives' will be made available on the club's English Twitter account.
Simone Tomassetti, Twitter's Head of Sports Partnerships in Southern Europe, said: "We are proud to have signed this deal with AS Roma, a partner who communicates in an innovative way.
"Providing a wide offer, with videos and contents in the field of entertainment, news and sport is very important for Twitter and the partnership with AS Roma fits perfectly in this direction."
"Francesco Calvo, Chief Revenue Officer at Roma, added: "Roma's innovative and award-winning social media strategy has been widely hailed as a 'game-changer' in the world of sport and we're delighted to have become the first club in Italy to enter into this kind of commercial partnership with Twitter.
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I'm quite a fan of Brandon Sanderson's work. He's a rarity in the world of fantasy writers: someone willing to write fantasy and not feel compelled to give characters pointed ears and have them reenact famous battles. Brandon Sanderson actually writes fantasy where warfare might happen, but it's only a small part of the intricate worlds he creates.
Though it was his second major fantasy work, Sanderson's Mistborn novels are the only gap in my reading. I read The Final Empire last year on a trip to Texas and, with the release of The Alloy of Law looming closer, I decided to finish reading this initial trilogy, picking up with The Well of Ascension.
A year has passed and Luthadel, capitol of the Final Empire, still remains in the hands of our heroes, led by the Mistborn Vin (a Mistborn is basically someone who has metal-based kung fu magic) and her love, Elend Venture, who is now king. It doesn't take long for assassins to strike, especially in the form of a new rival Mistborn, Zane, and several Mistings (like Mistborn, but only have one power). This is all a prelude to invasion, as jealous nobles have finally organized and are seeking political power and the Final Empires riches.
Outside the city, Vin's former servant, Sazed is trying to teach basic skills to communities of former slaves. He's abruptly drawn away from his duties and soon finds an engraving, discussing the fabled Hero of Ages. Soon after, he encounters an army of giant monsters ready to march on Luthadel as well, bringing the invading forces up to three.
The Well of Ascension is filled with action and amazing things–monsters so big their skins can't hold them, shapeshifters who eat the people (or dogs) they mean to emulate. It's a book filled with honest romantic complications, political power stuggles and a sense of the epic.
That's one of the key differences between The Well of Ascension and its predecessor. The Final Empire managed to have great scope, even though it rarely left Luthadel. The Well of Ascension leaves Luthadel frequently, has much more tangible enemies, yet feels so much smaller. That's not entirely a bad thing, since so many second books try to be bigger and badder than the original, only to fall flat on their faces.
For me, there's actually only one point where the story doesn't work. In locating the Well of Ascension itself, Vin abruptly declares that they're looking in the wrong place and tells the others where they need to go. She's given no clues on this and doesn't state a reason for her decision until the very end of the book. All the same, the moment feels forced and it's a key movement in the plot. Otherwise, great book, one you should check out if you're a fan of Brandon Sanderson's works.