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Hello, comic fans, and welcome to Round One of "Comic Book Idol." I'm your host J. Torres. And just like on TV programs such as "American Idol" and "Pop Stars", the "audition process" for our show proved to be exciting, amusing, and full of surprises. Also, kind of like Oni Press' monthly output.
If you're just tuning in, "Comic Book Idol" is an amateur art competition. It's a five-week, five-round contest in which aspiring comic book artists must complete certain art assignment by a deadline. We have judges who will comment on and critique said artwork, and you, dear reader, will get to vote on which contestants get to move ahead and which need to move along.
Last week, we invited people to post links to their online art samples and virtual portfolios in the official "Comic Book Idol" moderated forum. We received 166 entries. Some good, some… not so good. While others were surprisingly very good for so-called amateur artists. Some of you should expect some calls. But I digress…
166 hopefuls but only ten spots in the competition. Some hearts were bound to be broken, and someone had to do the heartbreaking. That task fell to yours truly, CBR Executive Producer Jonah "Love 'Em And Leave 'Em" Weiland, "Pipeline" columnist Augie "Call Me Daddy" De Blieck, and CBR staff writer Arune "He Makes the Girls' Hearts" Singh. It was up to us to visit all 166+ links and find the ten to compete in this contest. It took each member of this sexy screening committee hours and hours to visit all the links and browse the pages and pages of artwork, write down notes and send out memos, and finally come up with some finalists.
We employed a flawed but serviceable system wherein each of us "nominated" five artists and ranked them in order of preference, from first to fifth. All first place nominations were awarded five points, all second place nominations got four points, third place nominations earned three points, and so on. We ended up with a total of seventeen different nominees handpicked from those 166 hopeful. Out of those seventeen artists, eight of them scored high enough to guarantee them spots in our top ten but… we also ended up with a four-way tie for the last two spots.
To solve this dilemma, we discussed letting all four compete and thought about simply increasing the number of competitors from ten to twelve. But we knew we had to get the okay from our panel of judges, including our guest judges, before changing the line-up like that. After all, the eight judges had only agreed to critique a certain number of artists. Plus, we'd then have to agree upon how to alter the process of elimination with the two extra contestants (eliminate four in the first round? three in the first two rounds? have four finalists in the last round?). We weren't sure if there would be enough time to discuss all the changes to the schedule and get everyone's okay by the end of the day. Mostly, we worried that all of the above might remain unresolved too late in the day to execute any kind of Plan B.
For better or for worse, Plan B involved letting the comic people have their say. We decided to run our first elimination poll one week ahead of schedule, thinking it would be easier, more exciting, and more fun than voting privately amongst ourselves. At least we got two out of three right. Nonetheless, we left it up to the public to break the tie in a 24-hour poll. A lot of people on the message boards, including yours truly, were all: "Pinto! Pinto! Pinto!" And other posters were all: "McSweeney! McSweeney! McSweeny!" But the vocal supporters of those two were out-voted by the quieter Goni and Villalobos contingent. And while Goni led by a comfortable margin the whole time, Villalobos only squeaked by McSweeney… by one vote! And McSweeney actually voted for… Pinto! Oh, my stars and garters! What an upset! The thrill of victory! The agony of defeat! By… one… vote.
Really, folks, it was pretty exciting stuff.
Okay. Maybe you just had to be there.
Anyway, with the tie broken, we added the two people's choices to the eight chosen by the CBR staffers and came up with a very eclectic and somewhat international list of artists.
So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I give you our ten talented "Comic Book Idol" contestants…
Chris Ring (a.k.a. David Frawley)
Elysburg, Pennsylvania
David McDermott
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Fernando Goni
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hector Enrique Sevilla Lujan
Chihuahua, Mexico
Jonathan Hickman
Florence, South Carolina
L. Frank Weber
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Martin Redmond
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Michael J. Flores
New York, New York
Miguel Villalobos
Patrick Scherberger
Glendale, Arizonahttp://albums.photo.epson.com/j/
Congratulations to our ten finalists!
And now it's time to throw these people into the lion's den where Ron Marz (CrossGen Senior Writer and Code 6 Editor), Joe Quesada (artist and Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief), and Jamie S. Rich (writer and Oni Press Editor-in-Chief) await them.
Joining our regular panel of judges as a guest judge this week is cartoonist and "Oddball Comics" columnist Scott Shaw!
So, how does this all work? What are the judges judging? What are the drawers drawing? When will the comic people have their say again?
Contestants, are you paying attention?
Your first assignment is a character design of a Greco-Roman god. This is for no specific "project", it's simply an assignment meant to give you a chance to show us your interpretive skills, your art style, your… thang. Pick a god, any god from the Greco-Roman pantheon, pose 'em, dress 'em, draw 'em how you like. Impress us.
Oh, it's also a test to see how well you follow direction:
Please limit your paper size to a standard comic board or 11x17" piece of paper. Present your "model sheet" horizontally or vertically, that's your call. But you should try to make the image around 500 pixels wide or larger with a maximum file size of 104k, and you might want to use the "Save For Web" option to help optimize the file size if you're using Photoshop.
As with every art assignment in this contest, and every round of competition, we leave it up to the individual artists to decide whether they want to submit only pencils, ink their work, or go all the way with colored art, once they consider the subject matter, format of the assignment, and the time constraint. Speaking of which…
Your deadline is Monday, August 18 @ noon (EST).
Once you're ready to post your artwork, head on over to the CBI message board and e-mail me that your message is in cue. One of our moderators will eventually approve your post in a thread titled "Round One: [Your Name Here]." This thread will then be open for the judges to view and post comments on your artwork. Fans may also view the art but will not be allowed to post in this thread. There will be a separate thread for comments from the peanut gallery.
The judges have approximately 48 hours to review and rant or rave about your work.
Then on Wednesday, August 20 around noon (EST) we open a 24-hour poll for CBR fans to vote in, and the two artists who end up with the least number of votes will be eliminated while the other eight move on to Round Two and the next art assignment.
One last note to our top ten: I'm hoping to see "American Splendor" tomorrow or Saturday, and go for dim sum with some friends on Sunday. Maybe even hit Toys R Us to pick out presents for a niece and nephew celebrating a birthday soon… What? I just thought that since I know what you're doing this weekend, it was only fair that you knew what I was up to.
Have fun!
Next week: Two will be eliminated. Eight will move on. Artist Darick Robertson is our guest judge and the art assignment will somehow involve his writer on "Wolverine."
Meanwhile, drop by the Open Your Mouth message boards and tell us what you're up to this weekend.
Thank you for your attention.


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One of my favorite things about Halloween that warms my heart is pumpkin carving. I haven't done it in a while but it was one thing I loved to with my mom. And since I'm me, pumpkin spice latte to go with my pumpkin carvings. Mmmm yummy.
Cutting in and scooping out, the slimy slimy pumpkin guts.
AJ's didn't turn out too shabyy either. They wound up being mirror images of each other.

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Bewdley Town Council
Bewdley Harvest Fair returns
Bewdley Town Council
BEWDLEY'S popular Harvest Fair is returning to the town this weekend.
Bewdley Museum and the Jubilee Gardens will be hosting free live music on Saturday (October 7) and Sunday (October 8).
Bewdley musician, Bryn Teeling, will be performing music inspired by the Beatles on Saturday from 12.30pm, while Sunday will see the Worcester Ukulele Band from 12.30pm.
The Bewdley Apple Pie Bake Off will also return on Sunday - where bakers can enter the pies for the chance of winning a fruit and vegetable hamper donated by Bewdley Farm Shop.
Youngsters can take part in harvest themed craft activities which are on offer between 11am and 3.30pm all weekend at the museum, for £4 per person. There is also a traditional apple hunt around the museum and gardens - costing £2 per person, with a prize for everyone who completes it.
There will also be a variety of arts and crafts stalls in the museum, including the resident craft artists 'Made in the Museum'.
Visitors can also take a walking tour of Bewdley Hostelries and Bewdley Brewery from 1pm on Saturday. It starts from the museum's front entrance and lasts around two hours taking in some of the 63 former and existing pubs and beer houses - ending at Bewdley Brewery where there is a chance to try their guest beers. The tour costs £4.50 per person.
Wyre Forest Gallery at Bewdley Museum is also hosting the Bewdley FestivalExhibition - which this year features works by artist Keith Turley and runs until Sunday, October 29.
The ever popular Bewdley Soup Trail will also return on Saturday - with many local eateries involved. Tickets for £5 are available from Bewdley Farm Shop and the Bewdley Tourist Information Centre now.
Premises participating in the Soup Trail include Pomodoro, the Junction, the Mug House, the Cock and Magpie and the Shambles Cafe. The winning soup/chef will win a trophy which will be announced on Sunday and presented by the Mayor of Bewdley outside the Guildhall at 11am.
Councillor Juliet Smith, Wyre Forest District Council's cabinet member for culture, leisure and community protection, said: "There is something for everyone to join in with at the Harvest Fair.
"Bewdley will be buzzing over the weekend and most definitely worth a visit.
"The museum is free to enter and you can enjoy live music and a browse around the exhibition and stalls and there are some paid for activities too.
"It promises to be a great way to celebrate the change in the seasons."
Kyle Daisley, events officer for Bewdley Town council added: "We are so pleased to be working with LSD Promotions and Bewdley Museum on what we hope to be a busy and enjoyable weekend for the town.
"The ever-popular Soup Trial is back tickets can now be purchased from Bewdley Farm Shop or Bewdley Tourist Information Centre.
"We hope many people will support this event."
Anyone who would like a stall in the Museum at the Harvest Fair should email email@example.com.
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Bewdley Town Council
- 01299 400157
- www.bewdleytowncouncil.org
Find Bewdley Town Council
The Guildhall, Load Street, Bewdley, Worcestershire, DY12 2AH
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Government of lndia
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
New Delhi, the 4th January, 2011
Office Memorandum
Subject:- Non-Functional upgradation for Officers of Organized Group 'A' Services in PB-3 and PB-4
A reference is invited to this Department OM of even No. dated 24.04.09 on the above subject. The details of batch of the officers belonging to the Indian Administrative Service who have been posted at the Centre in the various grades of PB-3 and PB4 w.e.f. 01.01.2006 was last circulated in this Department OM of even No. dated 01.07.2010.
2. The details of the IAS officers who have been subsequently posted in the Centre in the various grades as well as the date of posting of the first officer belonging to the batch is annexed. Necessary action may be taken for grant of higher scale for the Officers belonging to batches of Organized Group A Services that are senior by two year or more and have not so far been promoted to that particular grade in accordance with the provisions of
this Department OM of even number dated 24.4.2009.
3. Hindi version will follow.
(Smita Kumar)
Director (Estt. I)
Department of Personnel & Training
No. AB.14017/64/2008-Estt.(RR)
dated the 1st January, 2011
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|Batch of Organized Group 'A' Service to be considered for Non-functional upgradation
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By Belén Carreño
MADRID, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Spanish authorities have rejected granting a building permit to Berkeley Energia to open the European Union's only open-cast uranium mine near Salamanca, a confidential report seen by Reuters showed.
A failure to move ahead with the mine would be a blow for the Australian mining company, which is listed in Britain, Spain and Australia and operates no other projects.
The 12-page report, issued on July 16, is non binding but it makes it politically difficult for the small northwestern village of Retortillo, where the mine is projected to open, to issue the permit.
If the municipality was to disregard the report, it may also pave the way for lawsuits.
Local authorities told Retortillo in the report that the permit sought by Berkeley did not meet legal requirements because the company did not own all the land needed for the project, which also lacked key technical information and had to be first authorised by the central Spanish government.
It was not clear when the report was shared with Berkeley or the municipality since being issued three months ago. Berkeley's Chief Executive Paul Atherley declined to comment on the timing on a call with Reuters.
He reiterated that there were "two outstanding items" that needed to be resolved before Retortillo could give its permission, and that the company had already responded to these.
"We look forward to a response from the CSN (Spanish nuclear authority) and the government on the claims that have been made that they are going to deny the permits for the mine," he said.
Berkeley also said this week that the timing of the licence award remained uncertain, was outside of the company's control and it was unlikely to be received imminently.
Two sources familiar with the matter had told Reuters on Tuesday the Spanish government had decided not to deliver the permits necessary to open the mine. Berkeley shares fell nearly 29 percent before they were suspended from trading.
The price of uranium, used in nuclear power generation, fell heavily following Japan's Fukushima disaster of 2011 and has struggled to recover, but prices have rallied this year.
One Asia-based investor in Berkeley who declined to be named said: "Permit risk on this project has been something that the company has always been upfront about to shareholders."
"Until such time as we hear official confirmation from quoted government sources, we view this as an opportunity to add to our positions to benefit the bull market developing in clean base load power supply." (Reporting by Belen Carreno, additional reporting by Melanie Burton, writing by Julien Toyer Editing by Paul Day and Jane Merriman)


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Welcome to Year 1!
Teacher: Mrs Robson
Teaching Assistant: Miss Beck
Mrs Robson and Miss Beck are happy and excited to welcome you to Year 1 and to our class page!
On our class page, you can find out what we have been up to and what there is to look forward to in the future.
Our topic for Summer 2 is 'Ancient Greece and the Olympics and Present.' We are especially looking forward to our Role Play Travel Agents' opening for business this half term!
Watch this space for photographs and examples of work that we are really proud of.


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Lake Travis ISD officials placed the spotlight on its 2016 teachers of the year, distinguished retires, and—for the first time—recipients of the district's Community Service Award at a dinner held May 12 at the Sonesta Hotel.
"I appreciate that we take a moment to recognize those people who dedicate their life to education," Lake Travis ISD superintendent Dr. Brad Lancaster said.
Teachers of the year are, pictured (left to right): Margit Hennessee, Bee Cave Elementary; Kailey Arrivo, West Cypress Hills Elementary; Katie Haedge, Serene Hills Elementary; Leslie Morton, Lakeway Elementary; Lori Paddock, Lake Pointe Elementary; Lea Bertsch, Lake Travis High School; Erin Russo, Lake Travis Middle School; Aaron Forgey, Lake Travis Elementary/District Elementary Teacher of the Year; and Dr. Lancaster. Not pictured is Marcella Flannigan, Hudson Bend Middle School/District Secondary Teacher of the Year.
Officials also recognized several individuals who elected to retire from the school district this year including, pictured (left to right): Alfredo Altares, Transportation; Di Brophy, Lake Travis High School; Patty Cowan, Serene Hills Elementary; Carolyn Crouchet, Lake Pointe Elementary; Marcia England, Lakeway Elementary; Freddie Gilmore, Transportation; and Kay Penrod, Lake Travis High School. Not pictured are Nathan Armstrong, LTMS; Lori Decker, LPE; Laura Gault, LTE; Robin Hartman, LTMS; Caryn Jannasch, HBMS; Rick Lightbown, Maintenance; Anna Moreno, LTE; Jim Ratcliff, Administration; and Judy Whitley, LPE.
Additionally, district officials lauded the work of three community volunteers with the inaugural Lake Travis ISD Community Service Awards.
"The purpose of the Community Service Awards program is to recognize and celebrate volunteers, mentors and business partners who give their time, talents and resources to improve the educational experiences for students of the Lake Travis Independent School District," Holly Morris-Kuentz said, Lake Travis ISD Assistant Superintendent for Human Capital and Community Services. "The program is intended to increase awareness of the importance of parental and community involvement in LTISD."
Sam Crowther was presented with the Mentor Me LT Award in recognition of his dedication to the spirit of mentoring, including regular visits and frequent contact with his students at multiple campuses, the quality of time spent, and the concern and enthusiasm with which he approached the mentor-student relationship. In recognition of the quality time and extraordinary effort contributed towards improving the learning climate at multiple campuses, Suzanne Kelbaugh was honored with the LOVE (Leader in Outstanding Volunteer Efforts) for LT Award. Shane Street, owner/operator of All Star Burger, was presented with the Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award in recognition of his exceptional partnership which positively impacted numerous campuses and student programs across Lake Travis ISD. Pictured (left to right) are: Shane Street, Suzanne Kelbaugh and Sam Crowther.
The event was sponsored by Sonesta Bee Cave and Austin Infiniti.


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Crowdsourcing Mornings: Buddy: Your Family's Companion Robot
This is Crowdsourcing Mornings! This post takes place every weekday morning and highlights one crowdsourcing project I liked from Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or other crowdsourcing websites.
BUDDY is the revolutionary companion robot that improves your everyday life. Open source and easy to use, BUDDY protects your home, entertains your kids, and helps you stay connected with the ones you love. BUDDY can be your personal assistant. It can help patrol your home. It can help you with everyday tasks and chores. It can play with your kids. It can help others communicate with loved ones. And it can do much more!
With BUDDY's friendly appearance and adapted contents for children with autism, the BUDDY "Special Needs" pack uses specialized software and content to help children with autism to learn, communicate, interact and be more autonomous. They're excited to announce that they are now ready to take BUDDY into full production. With your help and support, they can bring BUDDY to homes & schools all around the world and change robotics forever. Your contribution will help them to :
- Launch pre-series production and obtain all the necessary regulatory approvals
- Deliver their SDK (to early developers, so they can get started on building applications from day one)
- Place their first production orders (they are already working with a partner manufacturing company, but they need to know how many BUDDY's they can produce!)
As of July 14th, this project has raised around $190,000 of their $100,000 goal. This project only has 29 days left to raise as much as it can! For a pledge of $549, you will get one BUDDY classic edition robot. For a pledge of $799, you will get one BUDDY special needs robot. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/buddy-your-family-s-companion-robot


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Music News & Reviews
The Jayhawks 'Americana'-ize a British rock icon and travel new 'Roads'
The teaming of Ray Davies and The Jayhawks seems like an unlikely alliance on paper.
Davies, founder of The Kinks, is possibly the most quintessentially British pop star ofany generation while the Minneapolis mainstays of The Jayhawks have been viewed asmotivating spirits behind what is now a sprawling Americana movement.
Davies' most frequent infatuations with this country coincided with a 2013autobiography, a critically lauded 2017 comeback album and a newly released follow-up,all with the blanket title of "Americana" (technically, the current "Act II" record is called"Our Country"). That led him to recruiting The Jayhawks as his primary back-up unit forboth albums and using the autobiography as source material.
What results on "My Country" is a curious journey. The travels are largely relaxed withtwo generations of pop sensibilities settling into the easygoing stride of the doo-wop-ish"Back in the Day," the more plaintive "We Will Get There" and a quietly anthemicupdate of the 1971 Kinks gem "Oklahoma USA."Just when you think things get a little too comfy, though, we get tossed "The Take," ajolting groupie encounter pulled from the younger days of The Kinks. Then, as thejourney heads South to New Orleans, the music broadens beyond The Jayhawks for twobluesy, brassy Crescent City snapshots ("March of the Zombies" and "The Big Weird")that take the subtle joyride that is "Our Country" down a few dark alleys.
Davies' new album, perhaps coincidentally, comes to us on the heels of a new Jayhawksrecord.
In terms of construction, "Back Roads and Abandoned Motels" is something of adeparture. Much of its material consists of songs leader and co-founder Gary Lourispenned through the years with other artists, although all of these recordings are new.In revisiting them, Louris takes a modest step out of the spotlight. In fact, the albumopens not with Louris' expressive high tenor, but with the looser, huskier voice ofkeyboardist Karen Grotberg. Penned originally for "Mother," a 2013 solo album by DixieChick Natalie Maines, the intro tune "Come Cryin' to Me" possesses a pop-soul castcomplete with horns. Similarly, drummer Tim O'Reagan takes over vocal chores on"Gonna Be a Darkness," originally written by Louris and Jakob Dylan for HBO's "TrueCrime" series. This version comes surrounded by delicate acoustics with a touch ofchurchy twang.
Anyone thinking Louris is bowing out can rest assured. He still sings lead on seven of thealbum's 11 tracks, including "Carry You to Safety," one of the two new songs thatconcludes "Back Roads." It's a gentle but majestic sweep of folk-pop assuredness, areminder of the breezy, understated beauty that continues to make The Jayhawks' musicso immensely graceful and inviting.


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My great-uncle was killed in action during World War II on 22 July 1944. He was buried in an individual grave, uncasketed and in a poncho, in Guam No. 2 Cemetery, Plot C, Row 2, Grave 10.
The job of the Effects Quartermaster was to receive and safeguard thousands of' packages of personal property until they could be returned to the owner or forwarded to the Army Effects Bureau for disposition. When a soldier became a casualty (either deceased, hospitalized, captured, interned, or missing), his unit commander collected all personal property, inventoried it, removed government property, and forwarded all the personal items to Q-290, marked with the owner's identification and status. If the owner was deceased, the property was documented and forwarded immediately to Army Effects Bureau for transmission to the next of kin.
The detail involved in receiving, storing, safeguarding, and shipping personal property was immense. Each package was handled separately in order that the name, status, and other pertinent data would be correctly recorded.
These are two different copies of an Order for Shipment that details my great-uncle's personal property that shipped to my great-grandparents. There was one package that contained a water-soaked, moldy and rusty bag. The personal items included a broken rosary and $4.07.
Every ancestor is more than just a name. Every one of them has a story. We are connected genetically, physically, and emotionally. We are who we are because of who they were.
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The biggest factor in road bike comfort are the tires; they provide more compliance than any other part of the bike. Wider tires are better at reducing shocks from cracks, curbs, cobbles and potholes, which is why they are the norm at Paris- Roubaix. Wider tires also have lower rolling resistance, because their shorter contact patch requires less bending by the casing.
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With all aero road bike developments of the past 20 years, the drivetrain was never really tackled. So we did. The worst area aerodynamically is around the BB, with the frame, crank, chainrings, front derailleur, water bottles and rider's legs leaving little room for the air to pass through. A single ring drivetrain eliminates the front derailleur and one chainring, reducing frontal area, creating space for unobstructed airflow and freeing up the design of the seattube to shield the rear wheel even better (no front derailleur mount needed). And with modern cassettes (in particular the special 3T cassette coming soon), you still have all the gears you need.
Think about it, 30 years ago we had 12 gears (2x6) of which only 8 were unique (the rest overlapped). Now we're at 2x11, always assuming that more is better. But did the "improvement" from 2x10 to 2x11 really make that much of a difference? Sometimes more is not better, it's just more; more weight, more drag, more gear overlap and more complexity. So instead of 2x11 with 14 effective gears, a front derailleur, a second ring and a second shift lever, 1x11 gives you the gears you need, the range you need, fewer components, less weight, less drag and less hassle.
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The Sqaero airfoil sections of the seatube arc for a different reason, to perfectly cover the rear tire and reduce the turbulence. Seatpost, headtube, even the seatpost clamp and dropouts are optimized aerodynamically in sometimes unexpected ways based on our real world analysis (for example you may wonder why the area behind the lower headset isn't faired; the answer is simple, because the air doesn't flow horizontally there but spins off the front wheel almost vertically, so a horizontal fairing shape is counterproductive as it blocks the upward airflow).
The Fundi has an ultra short-stack crown, which combines space for 28mm road tires with a lower crown height. This improves stiffness and moves the front wheel closer to the downtube, creating a perfect transition for the airflow. This makes not only the Fundi itself very aero, but also helps the front wheel and frame become more aero.
The crown smoothly transitions into the Sqaero profile of the legs, combining aerodynamics with better stiffness properties. The Fundi supports flat mount disc brakes with the 140/160 mm disc adaptor completely integrated into the fork leg shape. The kinked left leg connects all the relevant points in the most direct way possible, not only a visually striking design but also key to achieving a low weight and a minimal frontal area.
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Great customer service and a very honest and fair trader
- Trading Platform 4/5: nice and clear
- Customer Service 5/5
- Mobile Apps 4/5: doesn't give many options
- Spreads & Pricing 5/5
- Market Range 2/5: limited options in available forex
- Trade Execution Speed 5/5
- Added Value 5/5
(Trading forex weekly with PLUS 500 for under 1 year on a weekly basis)
Its been a great journey with this broker , they have been good to me with all their service , so i'm satisfied with their services and i learnt many thing with this broker
- Trading Platform 5/5
- Customer Service 5/5
- Mobile Apps 4/5 - They don't offer all indicators
- Spreads & Pricing 5/5
- Market Range 5/5
- Trade Execution Speed 5/5
- Added Value 5/5
(Trading forex and commodities with Plus 500 for between 1-2 years on a daily basis)
Plus500 Ltd is listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market. Plus500UK Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 509909).
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Spreads are tight as you would expect you can see a list of spreads and fees here. There is an in-activity if the account isn't used though.
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Plus 500 use dynamic spreads, and are dependent on the individual instrument, liquidity and volatility.
What this means for clients is that if the markets are calm the spreads are tight, if they are volatile then margin and spreads can increase. Which is a good thing really. It protections clients from over leverage and protects the brokers exposure to risk.
Market range and asset coverage from Plus 500.
Coverage is pretty good especially for the main market large-cap stocks in the UK, Europe and the US, plus some Asian shares.
Obviously, they focus more on the major FX pairs commodities and indices. You can see example spreads or search for anything you want to trade in the box below:
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- Easy to use
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- A bit basic for professional traders
- Not HQ'd in the UK
- A new broker that has grown very quickly - some say too quickly...
Plus 500 Trading Platforms Review
They only offer their own in-house platform, no MT4 (you can compare MT4 brokers here if you want it). The platform has everything you need to get started in trading. Nice simple layout and easy to configure settings with a wide range of order types.
You can download a desktop version or trade online or through one of their apps.
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A pretty good trading platform to get you started. It's mainly an online brokerage so if you need to work really big orders for professional trading you may be better off with IG, CMC, ETX Capital or Spreadex but certainly worth of an account.
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To be honest, it's quite lonesome to celebrate Chinese New Year in Los Angeles. It's not a public holiday and there's no festive mood in a non-Chinese city we live in. We've no relatives here and it's pretty much like any normal ordinary mundane day. LUCKILY, FORTUNATELY, THANK GOD, there's church! We attended First United Methodist Church's Chinese New Year celebration! The kids dressed up in traditional Chinese costume, the boys look like kungfu master and Charlotte wore this cute modernized Cheong Sam dress (Qipao), LOL. (They were very excited and insisted to wear it on the next day too, haha)
So there was this huge luncheon banquet and we were delighted with the wide variety of Chinese cuisine, woohoo!! Thank God for the church, we don't feel so lonesome during Chinese new year this year. The kids got a surprise gift too, Ang Pow (red packet) from the adults! It's a red envelope containing $ for the kids - a traditional custom that we practice till this day. They were so curious and kept on asking "what's Ang Pow?" I told them it's $$ to buy toys, LOL.
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So here in the blog we are about to tell you about all the details about Jadayupara cable car at Jatayu Earth's center . Like the ticket rates of having fun at Jadayupara cable car and the process of online booking.
Also read : How to reach Jatayu Nature Park
The cable cars were imported from Switzerland. The total amount invested in the cable car adventure project of jatayu nature park is 40 crore. But don't be scared you can avail the ride at a very nominal charge of just 400 rupees per head .
The Jatayu nature park is one of the growing travel and tourist spot . The Jatayu nature park is also known as the sculpture of women safety and dignity .
The tourism department making the travel spot everyday better by building the new adventure activities for the visitors. Recently the administration launched the new project of Jadayupara cable car in jatayu earth center.
Jadayupara cable car at Jatayu nature park will take you the sculpture which is located at 750 feet from the sea level . And the journey of the cable car will be mind blowing.
Please dont carry the camera if you want to miss the beautiful shotsof never ending greenery scenecic beauty and the western ghats . Total number of sixteen cable cars are been fixed and functional.
Grade 1 equipments are used Jadayupara cable car :
The rocky steepy structure of jatayu nature park is very tough and twisted . A normal ropeway could be dangerous . Keeping the safety and security of tourist and traveller the equipments were imported from a company of switzerland . The rope which is used in cable car is very strong and reliable and can hold up to 512 people at time and resist them well .
The rope was parellel checked before . The towers on which the cables are attached are well tested and can be trusted well . The tower were build using the Europian technology and passed through various security checks and measures .


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MAKES ABOUT 1/2 CUP • PREP TIME: 5 minutes • COOK TIME: Not applicable
A little song, a little dance . . . this is sweet-and-sour doing a delightful tango on the taste buds, with the intense tartness of the pomegranate molasses magnificently mollified by the orange's mellow sweetness. This vinaigrette partners delightfully with just about any salad that happens to sashay its way.
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed orange juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Put the orange juice, lemon zest, lemon juice, pomegranate molasses, salt, and pepper in a small bowl and stir to combine. Slowly pour in the olive oil, whisking all the while, and continue
whisking until smooth. Transfer to a small container with a fitted lid and shake well.
COOK'S NOTE: You can substitute balsamic vinegar if you don't have pomegranate molasses.
STORAGE: Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Reprinted with permission from The Healthy Mind Cookbook Copyright © 2015 by Rebecca Katz with Mat Edelson, Ten Speed Press, a division of the Crown Publishing Group, Berkeley, CA.
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The silence had calcified. What had been an easy quiet before the death of our captors was now a growing weight, a dull ache that spread daily and intensified, infecting most of my limbs. His amnesia was a farce – he knew our path, the identity of our hunter, could guess at our ultimate fate. But the questions might as well have fallen on deaf ears, he deflected them easily enough. Insisting that he was only beginning to remember a few sparse events, he maintained ignorance about all things, all people, our hunter and her employer. Our path, he insisted, was simply his retraced steps as well as he could remember them, with some minor detours to cover our tracks. I threatened to part ways with him, a half-empty threat I faked convincingly. The tiniest mote of fear in his feigned indifference was all the proof I needed. I was accompanying him on some mission and he expected me to follow in ignorance until it was complete.
Through sleepless nights and mostly-sealed eyelids I gathered much. He slept a few hours most nights, but woke just past midnight, unfolded his map and studied it intensely. He would then leave the camp and wander a bit, map still in hand, ensuring he was on the right path. He rarely wandered more than a few hundred yards, marking a tree or leaving a few stones to act as way markers on our journey the next morning. After he had ascertained our route, he returned to our camp and spent the rest of the night translating his book, writing furiously, making shorter work of it than I would have anticipated.
Studying the map one night while he slept, I noticed that there was a very specific artery we were tracing, towards two points, one en route to the other. Both were labeled with symbols from the language scrawled in his book and all over his skin. One symbol was drawn over an existing point, but the one closer to us he must have divined using some calculations I could not put together. There were arcs drawn around it, equations jotted on the side, and it lay at the intersection of the two widest arcs he had made. It took me a bit to understand where we were on the map presently, but once I had, it seemed we were only a few days journey from the first point. It sated my patience – I would soon have answers.
Three nights later, the moon a sliver, we camped out on a small plateau nestled inside the fossilized rib cage of some vast beast, close enough to a tree-sized bone that our existence was almost impossible to note without climbing to our elevation. There was nothing alive as far as I could see in every direction, and yet I knew we'd arrived. The behemoth's fossil was marked on the map adjacent to the old man's symbol.
He never slept that night. Instead, the very moment he was certain I was asleep he gathered his map and book and made his way down the plateau and through the field of tall grasses. I followed from a distance as there was little cover. He walked quickly, with purpose, puffing out his chest a bit and taking in generous draughts of air, attempting to grow in size, bracing himself for whatever he was walking into.
The thick copse of tall, dark trees grew larger and more dense the closer he approached it. By the time he reached the edge it seemed a full forest, sinister, completely devoid of light under the canopy. Before he crossed the threshold the old man opened his book and traced his finger time and again over a few lines somewhere near the end, reciting them to himself until he knew them by heart. Then he took one last careful look around to make sure he was alone, my body pressed firmly against the ground until I was sure I heard his footfall crack a twig underneath. When I arose he had disappeared into the swell of greens. And I followed.
Or so I intended. Lingering at the threshold myself, something arose in me that I hadn't felt in a very long time. A manic suffocation, my body seemed to collapse inward on itself, some new, sharp pain radiating out of my pores as I fell to my knees. Fear. It had been so long. And this was a new strain, feral and threatening. Before I recovered my consciousness I had scampered halfway to our camp, imagining the forest's tendrils biting at my feet, chasing me up the plateau until I was safe in the beast's rib cage once more.
I lay there in a trampled, leaky state until he returned near sunrise. He was at once limping slightly and completely reinvigorated, the energy emanating from his nourished frame palpable. The smile he wore was a lion's. Was there blood at the edge of his lips? Was it running from his fingernails? The darkness might have created the inky blots, or the embellishing moon. Yet it stayed with me as I fell into a cramped sleep, the dull taste of iron the last thing I remembered.
I slept extinguished but awoke as fire, white-hot, watching him putter around the camp for only a moment before I attacked him, bringing him to the floor, my dagger to his throat. He struggled, spoke nonsense, feigned innocence. I waited patiently for him to speak truth, reading his jaw for specks of blood. The fear in his eyes was real enough.
"There is one left now." His resignation deflated him, but anger moved erratically under his skin. "I need to find the last one before I am no more. I don't know how much time I have remaining, and there is still a long way to go. I know not who she is or exactly where, only when. And that when is quickly expiring.I travel faster with you, am safer with a companion, but neither matters any more because now we are both being hunted by an old evil and separating is death."
His body tensed and then finally released as he surrendered the last bit.
"I am the Ark." He pointed to the symbols on his body. "I am to summon them all to a safe pocket of time and space. But it must be all of them. And there are few safe pockets left."
The sounds of locusts rose and fell.
"That is all I can speak of this until I myself know more."
Stunned by his surrender of words I dropped my dagger, rolled off him and gently helped him sit up, taking in what he said. After some time he spoke quietly. "I have almost finished translating my book. Come, I will read you of some of them. I will tell you of a few more of the sisters."
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I am very happy to announce that both DegreeArt and The Hornshaw Gallery approached me earlier this year and I accepted their offers of representation. DegreeArt is a veteran online selling platform which also holds exhibitions in their Bethnal Green physical space, among other initiatives. The Hornshaw Gallery is a younger organisation, also with a dynamic programme. My work on their websites can be seen here and here.
I had the satisfaction of selling four pieces through DegreeArt earlier in the year.


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The Ring
For you grooms, choosing THE RING can feel like you are rowing a holey canoe in a hurricane without any oars. Don't worry; I won't let you sink. You are fighting the battle of trying to find a perfect example of your love and devotion while knowing her exact style and the fairytale ring of her dreams. Here a few tricks to keep the boat afloat:
• Bring a few pieces of her favorite jewelry with you to the jewelers. It gives a sense of her taste and, if you grab a ring, her ring size. If you can't take a ring with you, gently push one into a bar of soap (Go Super Secret Spy). This is a great way to compare for ring sizing. Just remember to rinse the ring before putting it back.
• Snap a few pictures of her in some of her favorite outfits. It will help you answer the jeweler's questions of whether she is fashion forward, more classic, vintage or modern. In this case, a picture really is worth a thousand words.
• Traditional vs. non-traditional can also be confusing. A diamond isn't necessarily your only option. Many brides now prefer a colored gemstone, be it a birthstone or just a color that best sets off her skin tone and hair color, as the centerpiece of her setting. Which brings me to -
• Enlist some help. Every girl has someone that will thrive on helping you make her the happiest woman in the world. Friends will help you with the cut and color questions.
• Lastly, don't go crazy over the 4 C's! (Cut, Clarity, Color and Carat) These are your dollars, stick to the budget. You will get the bling for your buck.
Ladies Popping the Question
Ladies out there hoping to pop the question to your potential grooms, you are not alone. More women are stepping up to the plate and feeling the pressure to make that perfect proposal. To ring or not to ring is not your only question. Though many do propose with a ring (And ladies, don't feel awkward looking for an engagement ring. Many jewelers carry men's engagement rings.), not all women go for the bling.
Ladies are opting for an "engagement gesture" with their proposal. Consider a memento that signifies his style and his importance to you. In one woman's personal account of her proposal, she decided to gift a multi-tool to her groom to express his handiness and many roles to her. She also had a jeweler put a wing on the handle (because she put a "wing" on it!) TOO CUTE! You can get creative: a watch to represent your time together (past, present and future); a key (to your heart or to symbolize that he is your home). Make it about him and who he is as the man in your life. The best part? There are no rules! You are only bound by your love and devotion, so have fun with it.
Now that you have the what and who, lastly, the where and how.
Location, location, location isn't just for real estate. The proposal is an memory that lasts a lifetime. It becomes a piece of your history, a story of the couple you have become, your love and future. Epic or intimate, make it personal. It can be where you first kiss, or where you met. It can be at baseball game of the team you both love or her favorite pizza place, but about you is key.
So many people will love to help out with this, just ask. If you love to go to the theatre together, ask the stage manager at a show if you can propose there. Disney fans, just ask a cast member, they love to make magic. Snowy cabins with cozy fires for the winter lovers. A stick and the beach is pretty low tech and super romantic. On a flight, or at dinner. Write it on a plate, put the ring in an ornament, sing her a song, just Go For It. Yes! is just 4 words away.


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