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I haven't had much time to look at it, but it fails to load some pages when the page-cache is full for some reason, so it probably has to do with the code that kicks out unused pages when the cache is full.
That aside i'm having some problems with loading my pages from disk.
If I schedule pages to be loaded right when i discover i need them, and just keep adding them to the list, i end up with an ever increasing list if i move around fast enough, because the disk IO simply can't keep up.
So i tried a couple of things, one of them being counting how many times i have a reference to each page in my readback buffer, and giving the pages with the highest ammount of references the highest priority.
After all, the more visible it is, the more imporant it is to load!
That helped somewhat, but still caused a lot of pages to be loaded and uploaded which aren't visible, yet might actually kick out pages that would be more likely to be visible soon.
The next thing i tried was to remove all the pages from my scheduler that aren't visible in the current frame, but that caused pages to not get loaded at all while you move your camera.
A couple of things that i'm going to try:
- A CPU side disk cache, i only have one on the GPU at the moment.
- Compression, hoping that'll decrease all these problems simply because loading would be faster and the list wouldn't grow as quickly.
- Using adjacency information. By pre-calculating a bounding box of all the texel area in world-space, i can sort all the pages by how close they are to each other, and perhaps do some analysis on what is likely to be visible soon, and what would be unlikely to be visible soon.
- The source material I'm working with is pretty horrible because it has a lot of decal textures which take up extra pages on the screen, and there are simply too many different pages on the screen at the same time. Building my own CSG preprocessor would allow me to optimize this more easily, as apposed to trying to fix a relatively arbitrary list of triangles with all kinds of materials.
My good friend Volker suggested a couple of things i could try:
- If you know if a page is to be loaded for the current frame, it may be wise to put the higher and lower mip levels of that page in the queue too. (but only if there is nothing else)
- Kick out pages by random instead of last used or least frequently used caching schemes, apparently the worst case is better, so that's worth a shot.
(Obviously no pages should be kicked out that's visible in the current frame)
- Using memory mapped IO.
Volker: "in my tests, mmap io made a difference from 10mb/s to 500mb/s. (using the disk cache)"
My biggest problem is latency though.
So does anyone out there have any good ideas on how to determine which pages should be loaded & which pages should be kicked out?
I'm going to see if I can upload a new video of my test level tonight.


text: What does a chemical engineer do? You can do many things with a degree in chemical engineering. The curriculum is designed to prepare students for a career in the energy industry (oil/gas) or fine chemicals/pharmaceuticals or for graduate schools including medicine or management or patent law. Chemical engineers design, maintain, and operate large scale chemical processes that are used to make almost every man-made thing on this planet. This includes the chemicals and materials for your car, your cell phone, your hot water heater, your skin care lotion, your toothpaste (you name it). Here is a presentation we have used to introduce students to what chemical engineers do - overview of our curriculum and so on A Presentation to the FYE Class What kind of classes do I have to take? Our students take chemistry, physics, mathematics and biology - since these classes are what we call "enabling" sciences for engineering. "Biology" is now widely recognized as an important enabling science since so many of our students will work to develop the next generation pharmaceuticals. Our students take at least one class in biology and some take even more when they choose the "biotech" option as part of their senior elective sequence. Imagine the world without insulin and penicillin - two block buster drugs that are life savers - chemical engineers continue to have critical role in the production of those bio-chemicals Do students get jobs when they graduate? Yes, they do. If you are willing to look all over the country (and possibly even elsewhere), you can get a good job, if you can demonstrate the skills you have acquired during your schooling. While a number of our students do find jobs in the North Alabama area, many have moved away and found good jobs elsewhere. Where do some of your graduates work? 3M, NASA, Army, Merck, Chlorox, Genentech, duPont Kimberly Clark, BP, BASF, Champion Paper, etc etc If I transfer in, how many courses will transfer? There is an articulation agreement and our engineering advisement office can help you with that. Do I need a laptop? You can use one if you have, but we do not require you to have one. UAH maintains a number of laboratories with the software we need to teach you. In some cases, we work out agreements with software vendors to get good academic discounts. Can I CoOp? Yes, you can and we will help you in anyway we can. In Chemical engineering however very few classes are offered more than once a year, so it may take you more than 4 years to graduate. CoOp can be however a good experience and you may want to consider it anyway. Should I CoOp? That is a decision we can help you make. Our department does not mandate that you CoOp. Many of our students have had good experience with CoOp, some of the companies end up hiring them. We have also had many students without CoOp experience who have gone onto good jobs and are doing well. Work experience anywhere can help and it may help you get that first job. This does not mean however that you must have work experience. Many of our good students have found good jobs without CoOp or other work experience. There may be employers who may demand some work experience before they hire you, there are others who will hire you even without such experience if you are who they need then and they see a future. Taking a co-op is only one of many possible ways to enhance your resume during your time at UAH. You should make it a mission to excel in your scholastic activities through a high GPA, enroll in the Honors Program, do an honors project, get involved in undergraduate research, or take additional courses toward a minor or second undergraduate degree. How will I be advised? Once you declare yourself to be a chemical engineer, you will be assigned a faculty member from our department for advisement who will help you through to graduation. You will meet with your advisor every semester. We take a pro-active approach to advisement. Is Chemical Engineering difficult? We believe that it is the toughest curriculum and that our students are the best. We tell our students that what they get out of it will be what they put in - so study as hard as you can and use any/all university resources when you are on campus. Talk to the teachers, ask them for help, work with other students when you can. The future While no one can predict the future, our curriculum is designed to prepare you to solve the problems of tomorrow whatever they may be. Our approach is to help you learn how to solve problems that chemical engineers will be asked to solve. So come, learn and enjoy your time here!

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Dreaming of Spring
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Is that your name??? Anaivilo???
i simply love the skirt. as soon as i saw it i was like thats my type of thing. it seems me and you have a lot pf style similarities.ReplyDelete
oh and to answer your so kind offer of making me the earings during the summer...i would love it.
thank you so much. u truly are the kindest.
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and to answer your so kind offer of making me the key earings in the summer... thank you so much... u are simply put extremely kind. i can not wait to meet u this summer. along with alice and the rest of the girls we will have a blast.
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Madmoazel(sunt praf la franceza), vous est tres jolie et j'aime la fusta:DReplyDelete
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"Statistics is like a high caliber gun, very useful in the right hands but potentially disastrous if misused."
This book will not teach you the mathematics behind statistics. This book is about making you understand what you are doing when you are doing statistics. Thus it is a great complement to a university course where you might learn how to plug in numbers in SPSS or MATLAB and get a p-value but don't really understand the assumptions involved and the potential pitfalls that must be considered.
Though I have studied some statistics at university level this book still provided a fresh valuable perspective on many statistical issues. It also gives examples of many, often costly mistakes scientists made in the past using statistics.
The analogy I used in the title (taken from this book), really captures an important aspect of statistics. If used properly statistics can tell us if a medication, or a certain policy is effective. If used improperly, it can lead to erroneous medical advice with fatal consequences, in the literal sense.
I would recommend this book if you are taking statistics but often don't know what you are really doing or how what you are doing relates to real life issues. Alternatively, this book can also be read by people who don't know any statistics but want to understand what it is all about without having to learn to do the actual math. If you are already an advanced student in statistics and know what you are doing (and know what not to do), then this book might not be for you.


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Tsipras due to detail Greek bailout plan
The countdown is on with the Greek prime minister due to present detailed proposals to secure a bailout deal to creditors on Thursday. Paul Chapman reports.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras returned home after visit to Brussels and Strasbourg in search of emergency funding, pledging to present detailed proposals to creditors on Thursday. Tsipras arrived back in Athens on Wednesday night and went into a meeting with the leader of the opposition To Potami party. Afterwards he said he would be briefing all parties who've agreed to support him. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) GREEK PRIME MINISTER ALEXIS TSIPRAS SAYING: "These are crucial times and it's necessary to provide proper information to the political parties so that there are no misunderstandings. Further to this I think we're proceeding within the framework of what was agreed yesterday and the next hours will be crucial." Euro zone leaders have given Greece until the end of the week to detail far-reaching reform plans that would permit access to funds to pay an overdue IMF loan. The head of the International Monetary Fund is warning Greece has an acute crisis on its hands but says its rules can't be bent to suit Athens. (SOUNDBITE)(English) CHRISTINE LAGARDE, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND SAYING: "Whenever the IMF is involved, it is certainly my view that the IMF has to follow its rules, should not bend the rules and should always be even handed, there can not be any special treatment." Much now rests on what plans Greece puts forward...and how those plans differ from the spending cuts and tax rises rejected by Greek voters in a referendum on July 5th.


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Instead of an awkward, craptastic traipse through down the dark alleys of vintage New Wave videos, this week we'll take a look at an obscure classic from Thomas Dolby's early years.
Prior to the "Blinded Me With Science" debacle, Dolby made some really great electropop - much of which was accompanied by (for their time) cutting edge video and images.
One of those vids was for a track called "Radio Silence".
Chock full of imagery that predates the Steampunk movement by about 20 years, "Radio Silence" also includes a cameo by Lene Lovich, who is a story unto herself.
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Release date: March 22nd 2011
What if you knew exactly when you would die?
Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out.
When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape—to find her twin brother and go home.
But Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. Linden's eccentric father is bent on finding an antidote to the genetic virus that is getting closer to taking his son, even if it means collecting corpses in order to test his experiments. With the help of Gabriel, a servant Rhine is growing dangerously attracted to, Rhine attempts to break free, in the limted time she has left
Salivating, aren't you? And isn't that cover gorgeous?! Some eager fans have already made a fansite for Wither because they loved the book that much. The site is great! Head on over to http://www.thechemicalgardentrilogy.com/ and check it out!! They're also giving away some signed ARC's, so there's an added incentive. Not that you needed one ;)
I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!


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Monday, October 25, 2010
Kiran's Sari-Inspired Wedding Dress, Part 2: East meets West
After more than 30 hours of hand sewing, 6 metres of hand beaded Sari, 5 metres of bright Pink Silk Dupion, 5 metres of blue silk lining, 3 metres of silk organza, and countless pins, threads and patience, I give you... Kiran's Sari Inspired Wedding Dress!
(Above, a photo of the back at the unfinished stage- I still needed to finish the hem and hand applique the sari beading onto the pink silk)
(above, the dress before I had hand appliqued the beading. This is at the 2nd fitting stage)
In August I started to show you the Sari Inspired Wedding Dress I was making for Kiran. Take a look at Part 1 here.
(above, the design at the unfinished stage- before the handsewing hand been started. You can see the over-skirt made from most of the sari)
I have now completed the design, and Kiran's wedding was on during the past weekend, so I can show you all the finished design! I intend to include professional photos from the photographer at the wedding, but until I can get a copy, my little snap shots will have to do!
I am also aiming to create a video of the making of this dress- as there is so much work involved, and photos will not really cut it!
For now, I have included below a few photos that I took during the making of this design. It truly is one of most favourite creations, and I am very proud to share it with you!
Cutting out the pink silk dupion for the dress and overskirt edge, and below: sewing the sari chiffon to the pink silk.
Above, the centre back. I created this beautiful shape, being inspired by the shape of the sari beading. I wanted the centre back to be a focus and create lots of interest. Later on, I decided to place one of the Sari beaded motif's in this area.
Above, unpicking the beading. Every place where there was a seam, or where the beading finished at an edge, I would need to unpick the beading and catch all the loose threads. People don't generally realise that as soon as you include beaded fabric to a design, the time taken to finish it is at least doubled because of this.
Below, the beautiful beaded design of the sari- this part of the sari was appliquéd around the bust area on the corset dress and at the centre back of the train.
A picture of the overskirt before I started to add any of the beaded trim.
Creating the corset which sits inside the dress.
Above, finishing off the inside of the overskirt- the inside must be as neat as the outside!
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At Phipps
Built in 1893 at the height of Pittsburgh's industrial revolution, Phipps Conservatory — a gift to the city from philanthropist Henry W. Phipps — was brought into existence as a sanctuary, a verdant space where smog-weary citizens could find respite from the notorious steel mills and smoke stacks that relentlessly polluted our metropolis. Today, as one of America's greenest public gardens in one of the nation's most livable cities, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens not only carries on this legacy, but continues to evolve far beyond our own founding mission by reimagining and reinventing our campus, and establishing ourselves as an international leader in sustainable architecture and operations.
As part of this evolution and a three-part master plan for expansion that began in the 1990s, we have since built the first LEED® visitor center in a public garden; a tropical forest conservatory celebrated as the most energy-efficient structure of its kind in the world at the time of opening; the first-ever LEED production greenhouse; and the Center for Sustainable Landscapes, a dynamic education, research and administrative facility that is the first building anywhere to achieve four of the globe's highest green building certifications. With these additions, the heritage of our past merges seamlessly with modern sensibilities, making Phipps a true symbol of regeneration and renewal.
Phipps and Climate Change
Our sustainable buildings, operations, research, and educational programming are driven by our position on climate change. Read on to discover what we're doing.
Designed and constructed by Pittsburghers and Pennsylvanians in 2012 to meet the Living Building Challenge™ of the International Living Future Institute™, the CSL is a model of innovation for the world.
Built in 2005 to house a new admissions area, café, gift shop and other amenities, the LEED® Silver Welcome Center is partially situated underground, contributing greatly to its overall energy efficiency.
In this energy-efficient work space, computer-controlled temperature, light levels and humidity allow the maintenance of 16 different climate-controlled environments for growth of a wide variety of plants.
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Today July 6, 2017 marks exactly three years Ghanaian hiplife musician, Theophilus Tagoe otherwise known as Castro in Showbiz and Janet Bandu mysteriously disappeared while on holiday at Ada.
There have been conflicting reports as whether the musician is still alive or died alongside the girlfriend who was riding on the Jet Ski at Ada towards the estuary on the said date.
Black Stars Skipper, Asamoah Gyan who is a close pal to the musician, believes he is no more but said he cannot go ahead and perform his funeral rites simply because the law requires that a missing person can be declared dead after seven years.
According to him, two deities he consulted in the heat of Castro's disappearance all confirmed that the musician was no more.
He is therefore inclined to believe that Castro is dead.
Recounting events surrounding Castro's disappearance, Gyan said: That was the first time they went to Aqua Safari and that in the previous years, they went to Akosombo.
That particular year, the yacht at Akosombo was broken down so they decided to go to Ada. A day before we went to Ada, he [Castro] came to my house and said he was on his way to Kumasi and would not join us.
But whilst we were on our way to Ada, on the Accra-Tema motorway, we received a phone call that "Under" [Castro] wants us to wait for him.
We parked at a fuel station where a crowd gathered to catch a glimpse of me. I later got the inclination it was destined to happen because he was initially not part of the trip.
When we got to Ada, everything went fine. We were to spend three days, but ended up using the Jet Ski on the second day.
Others, who are holding contrary view, believe his disappearance could be linked to a popularity stunt that has gone bad.
A number of colleague musicians are still hopeful Castro will return but when and how remains the mystery puzzle.
In all this, celebrity lawyer Maurice Ampaw wants police to arrest Asamoah Gyan to provide the whereabouts of the msuician though he fell short to give reason for his stance on the matter.
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Saturday, 9 March 2013
Wonderful Washi
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The Nissibi Bridge crosses over the Atatürk Reservoir at the Euphrates River and was built to reduce travel times in this south-eastern region of Turkey. Doka supplies the custom-tailored formwork concept for the demanding shapes of the pylons.
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The Volvo 940 series includes several impressive features.
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The Volvo 960, like every other car or vehicle the company makes, was known for its safety features and reliability.
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Insulating Your Crawlspace Walls
An under-insulated crawlspace can be a significant source of home energy loss. The best crawl space insulation for your home depends on if your crawlspace is conditioned (heated or cooled by a furnace or air conditioner) or unconditioned.
In a vented or unconditioned crawlspace, only the floor is insulated. In a heated crawl with uninsulated pipes or ducts, the walls need to be insulated and a polyethylene vapor retarder installed across the entire floor space of the crawl.
What's your R-value?
Below are the U.S. Department of Energy recommended minimum R-values for your climate zone.
Your Climate Zone: 4
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|R19 to R21
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Choosing the Right Insulation
Fiberglass insulation is sold in roll and batt form; both are available with or without kraft paper facing. Use the guide below to select the best insulation for your project.
Continuous rolls are easy to transport and can be cut to length; great for large areas.
Batts come in pre-cut lengths for faster installation and each package contains more square feet than rolls; ideal for framed cavities.
Faced insulation uses kraft paper vapor barriers to control moisture transmission between walls and floors.
Unfaced insulation does not have a vapor barrier; can be used over existing insulation in the attic, or where moisture control is not needed.
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- First measure and cut small pieces of insulation and fit them snugly into the band joist or the area above the foundation wall.
- For the walls, the insulation should be cut long enough to cover the entire wall and extend 2' along the ground on the floor of the crawlspace. Use furring strips or cap nails to hold the insulation in place by nailing them to the sill.
- After the insulation has been installed, a 4- or 6-mil polyethylene ground cover should be placed over the entire crawl space floor. All joints / seams in the poly should be overlapped a minimum of 6" and sealed. The ground cover should run under the insulation and up the crawl space wall, on all sides, a minimum of 6" and be sealed to the wall.
NOTE: Check your local building codes for requirements in your area.
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- Disposable dust mask
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Day Planner-style organizers became a thing when I was in college. This was just a few years before "Smart Wizards" hit and long before Personal Digital Assistants and smartphones emerged as how people kept track of their contacts, to-do lists and calendars.
If you're under the age of 30, here's what an organizer looks like.
One of my professors (who was a woman in her 70s) wagged her finger at the class and said: "throw away your organizers."
Her point was that you should memorize all your contacts' phone numbers, birthdays, addresses, appointments, to-do items and all the rest. That sounds like crazy talk now, but at the time that's something many people actually did.
Further reading
Her point was that if you rely on an external system for remembering things, your mind would turn to mush and you would lose the capacity to remember such things.
I ignored her advice. But I remembered her reason for it this week when I learned about something called transactive memory.
Transactive memory is when groups share the remembering of things. For example, within a family, when mom is better than everyone else at remembering family birthdays, dad is better at remembering phone numbers and junior is best at remembering events.
And because of this, each family member tries less hard to remember the information they're not best at and works harder to remember their specialty information, essentially distributing the load amongst themselves.
The result is that the task of remembering things is distributed. So when junior needs to recall someone's birthday, he doesn't try to remember. He instead tries to remember where mom is so he can ask.
People in my social networks are talking about transactive memory because of a paper being discussed in tech circles about a study that determined that the smartphones and Google and other sites degrade our memory precisely through this mechanism. Google doesn't publish knowledge, for the most part, but makes those who do instantly accessible. So it's like the whole world is our transactive memory family.
More to the point, the study looked at what the impulse is when people want to remember something. In the case of the college-age me, my first impulse when needing to know an upcoming event would not be to scan my own mind, but to open my day planner.
In my transactive memory family, the impulse would be to ask Junior. For many people now, especially younger people, the impulse is to turn to Google or some other online source instead of even trying to remember.
What's interesting is that the extra step of first thinking about where information can be found online, then—as a last resort—scanning one's own memory increases the amount of time it takes for people to remember things.
So as the time it takes to find things online declines, it also has the unexpected result of making the recalling of knowledge from one's own brain slower.
What appears to be happening in aggregate is that with each passing year, more people are "remembering" information not by scanning their own memories but by scanning the collective online memory.


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'Top Chef' winner Stephanie Izard to appear at AADL
Patrons should plan to arrive early to this special event as Izard returns to AADL with cooking tips and copies of her new book, "Girl in the Kitchen: How a Top Chef Cooks, Thinks, Shops, Eats And Drinks." This event includes a book-signing, and books will be on sale at the event.
Fan favorite and the first and only woman to win "Top Chef," she is also the chef and owner of the acclaimed Girl & The Goat restaurant in Chicago. She is expected to prepare a sample dish (with audience tastings) and discuss her life and her new book.
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Calm down. It's not a headline from the Sunday red-tops, but an update on where we are with the statue.
With the final clay complete, the entire statue and platform was gingerly scooped up by a forklift and placed in the back of a cavernous juggernaut. With sculptor Martin Jennings driving at the head of the convoy, it made the slow and delicate journey from his studio near Oxford to the foundry in Gloucestershire.
Seeing sunlight bathe the familiar figure for the first time, it brought my illustrious forebear even more to life and the next time daylight hits him, it will be when the wraps are pulled off and he is unveiled to the world in Portsmouth's Guildhall Square.
Martin was on hand to repair the inevitable small cracks and splits caused by the journey and then it was over to the foundry workers to paint the clay with a latex rubber solution. It will pick up every miniscule impression of his brilliant sculpting talent and once dried, a fibre glass layer was added. This becomes the mould, which now awaits the pouring of the bronze and subsequent welding of the statue elements in to the final, magnificently patinated finished piece.
But that's where things stop until we have raised the remaining £60,000 to complete the process.
Donations continue to trickle in from our walk and many of those will be in Euros. Gerry performed Nicholas Nickleby at Kyteler's Inn as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival last week and there was an audible gasp when the audience discovered that no statue exists in the UK. Donations were as generous as the standing ovation, led - perhaps a tad too enthusiastically - by the establishments owner. The fact that she is our sister is beside the point and it was good to have Nicky Flynn (nee Dickens) rallying to the cause.And showing that sibling love was dished out fairly, Nicky had ensured that my blogs were on display around the room for the good folk of Co. Kilkenny to enjoy. It is gratifying to see that we are heading towards 3,000 views from a truly international audience and the feedback has been generous in its praise. To our friends in America, thank you for following the story so far - you stand in the silver medal position behind the UK in terms of reader numbers. Russia takes the bronze (I don't know anyone in Russia, but it's great to know you are so interested in our project) closely followed by Ireland. After that, there is an extraordinary kaleidoscope of countries including Colombia, India, Thailand, Switzerland and Singapore. In total, 22 nations have logged on so far and to all who have taken a look, we are most grateful.
Although this blog was initially conceived to promote and report on our fund-raising walk, it will remain for a little longer thanks to popular demand. The intention is to write an update three or four times a month - either until the statue project is complete, or when I see that our readership has dwindled to one hit from the UK and one from Ireland. Or rather, when I know it's just Gerry and Nicky dutifully following my words...
One thing that strikes me as we continue our fund-raising push is the credit card statements now coming in. They display a clear story of our expenditure and it raises a slightly uncomfortable issue.To walk 94 miles, you need decent kit and buying boots, quick dry trousers, shirts and fleeces plus backpacks and walking poles probably set Gerry and I back to the tune of £500. Then there was the fund raising brochure that needed designing and printing, which adds another £150 to the outlay. Oh, plus the envelopes and stamps to mail it to our data base. KERCHING! That's another £50.
We needed to find overnight accommodation on route and while some establishments offered various levels of discount, none of it was free so there's another £280 that's gone on the credit card - and that was just for kipping and sticking aching feet in to a variety of sinks.
Suppers and a drink or two (we were not exactly Monk-like in our abstinence) means another £180 has flown from the account – walking is thirsty work, after all. The statement also reminds me that we stayed in London on the eve of the walk which meant a £160 hotel room in the West End. Supper in a restaurant during the London Olympics was always going to be costly and it delivered little change from £100. Fifty quid a head for a bowl of pasta and a glass or two of Vino Rosso? Really?We needed to do a couple of site visits for the venues where Gerry performed and a day's driving sucked £70's worth of petrol through the carburettors. Gerry's partner Liz had to deliver his costume and stage props to the venues in Godalming and Rowlands Castle (and collect them again after the applause had died away), so there's another £50 of unleaded to be added to the total.
Chasing up our numerous media contacts probably added £25's worth of calls on our iPhones and having internet access was vital to share these blogs and respond to e-mails, so I estimate another £15 has flown off in to the ether. Then there was the new video camera so I could upload footage to the BBC, and the accounts department at Panasonic are no doubt grateful for the £130 I gave them. Oh and the tripod too, so we could both be in shot, added £30 to the outlay and several more pounds to the weight of my backpack (I carried more media/communications kit than I did change of clothes, which might explain both the sore back and our ripe smelling odours by day five)Not thinking about the monthly statement from VISA, I stupidly forgot to do what used to be the norm on budget ski holidays, where you raid the hotel buffet bar and put together your own packed lunch at the expense of the hotelier. So water, bananas, sandwiches, energy drinks, coffee stops and the occasional cooling ice cream probably added another £50 as we kept fed and watered during our trip.
All of which begs the question 'wouldn't it have been easier to have just written a cheque for £1,690 to the charities?'Well yes, in one sense that would have been the sensible thing to do. But the walk was a catalyst to generate greater awareness of our cause and with a combined media audience totalling over 1,000,000 people, we certainly spread the word. As mentioned earlier, we have 22 lovely countries following developments and with our personal fund-raising total coming in at around £4,000, the investment to speculate has been firmly outstripped by what has been accumulated so far.
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Story by Brad Willis
Over the last two days, Brad Willis has taken Bitter Southerner readers deep into the poker underground of South Carolina. Today, we visit with some Southerners who are among the world's best card players — and look at why their game isn't welcome back home.
Hank Sitton belongs in the South. It's not just his baritone drawl or his ability to spin a yarn that will set bellies to laughing. It's not just his politics or the fact his annual family vacation only requires a ride down to the Carolina coast. It's that he still wants to live here after having a gun pointed at his head for doing what he loves.
He wants to talk — there are stories to tell — but there's business. He's just rushed in from the service department where his manager of 40 years has recently had to retire. There's a file on his desk and a phone call about some tax thing he has to handle. The stories are going to have to wait for the business at hand.
"I'm just glad there is business to do," he says under his breath.
The 63-year-old, third-generation car dealer is a fixture on Greenville's Motor Mile. He's seen the business at its best and its worst. After spending his young years as a restaurateur and nightclub owner, he's made a 26-year career in the car business. He's headed the state auto dealers' association, been recognized by Time magazine, and survived the 2008 economic crisis. He's ready to step back and let somebody else take over the family business.
"I've put in my dues," he says. "This is a six-day-a-week, 12 to 14-hour-a-day business."
But it's more than that. There is another thin manila file on his desk. It's a flight itinerary to somewhere else, somewhere he has to go if he wants to play poker and not get arrested for it.
Sitton grew up playing poker in a friend's attic. Back then, he played the games with the sexy names: Follow the Queen, Guts, and High Chicago. Like the rest of the world, he caught the Texas Hold'em bug in 2003 and went out in search of poker glory.
Poker, like any internationally popular game that keeps score, has databases that break down the biggest winners and where they are from. If you search for South Carolina's most successful live tournament player, Sitton's name comes up. It was going well until 2008 when the nation's economy fell apart. His business suffered with it. He had to lay off 20 percent of his staff.
"It broke my heart," he says.
Sitton left the poker road and stayed home to tend to his business and the remaining employees he loved. It wasn't long before he realized he could play as often as he liked without getting on a plane. The underground Greenville poker scene was as vibrant as any legal gambling city within an eight-hour drive. Better than that, there was something a Southern man can't get enough of.
"It's fellowship with all kinds of diverse people," he says, "from the guy who digs ditches and flips burgers to the guy who works in a bank. Older guys, younger guys, rednecks, businessmen, high society guys. They all played in the same games."
Before long, Sitton was trading chips and stories with the most diverse group of people a man could hope to meet. Color and creed didn't matter. The green felt was one of the few places you'd find guys from the Middle East teaching an old man from South Carolina how to say dirty words in Arabic or Southern Baptists trading jokes with Catholics from south of the border.
Two years after he stopped traveling to play, Sitton sat down with a couple dozen other people for a poker tournament on a January night in 2010. They were only a couple of hours into it when the front glass broke. Chaos took over.
"The whole room was like the food fight scene in 'Animal House,'" he says. "Then I saw all these guys in SWAT gear."
It was the first of the big no-knock poker raids that would happen that year and eventually lead to the bloody one on Pine Knoll drive in November. It was the end of Sitton feeling comfortable at home as a Southern poker player.
"I've still got an empty poker table with boxes stacked up on top of it," he says.
Sitton wasn't the first man to discover his kind wasn't welcome at home. Like the old bartender benediction, in South Carolina the rule is clear: You don't have to stay home, but you can't play here.
Don't come to Phil Collins with a map of the easy roads. He doesn't like it easy. When he was a kid in Aiken, South Carolina, he rolled his eyes at the word searches on restaurant kid's menus. His dad sketched out advanced math problems in the margins to pass the time while they waited on their food. At the University of South Carolina, Collins was an honors graduate. He needed a challenge. He needed competition. He needed something to fire the critical part of his brain. He got accepted to law school, but he passed it up, because he'd found poker. By 2008, he was among the top finishers in Card Player magazine's Online Player of the Year race. He was on his way to being a star.
"Poker combined competing and critical thinking and also offered the chance to win money," Collins said.
He loved South Carolina. He loved the Gamecocks. If some other passion had put its talons in him, he might have been able to be a South Carolinian forever. If he had stayed, he might have been the state's most successful poker player in history.
"South Carolina has no outlet for me to play poker. Not only is it my profession, but it is also my favorite hobby," he said. "Even if I were to pursue another career, I can't help but assume I will be miserable never being able to play poker legally."
Today, when you search Phil Collins' name in those big poker winners' databases, you'll find his combined poker earnings total more than $5 million, but you won't find South Carolina mentioned anywhere. Collins now officially belongs to Henderson, Nevada.
A poker exile from the South, part of Collins aches not just to be home but to help his state's thinking evolve.
"I'm seriously considering returning to South Carolina to attend law school and begin work in politics to fix problems like this one," he said.
If Sitton was the big winner who stayed, and Collins is the big winner who left, Tim Watts might just be the dreamer who stayed in the South a minute too long. He is a man of vice, but you'll never see him with a drink in his hand, a cigarette in his lips, or his nose down in a pile of coke. His weakness, aside from poker, is coffee, almost to a ridiculous extreme. There are countless YouTube videos of him loading up on caffeine before a night at the poker table. He's dreamed of opening a coffee house, but more than that, he dreams of making it as a poker player.
Once convinced he was going to Vegas to be a casino dealer, he found a poker game in Greenville and a talent for pitching cards. Before long, he was making a good living. Players considered him Greenville's best poker dealer.
"It felt like freedom," he said. "I was still kind of trapped to a job, but not really. It was fun. It was adventurous. It felt like I was living off the grid and sort of on the edge of society. All of us thought it was going to last forever."
He made enough money playing and dealing that he went out to Vegas to live for a bit. Eventually, he came back to Greenville where he found he could still stay in the game. That decision landed him on Pine Knoll Drive the night Greenville's poker scene became front-page news. The $100 ticket he got was routine. The emotions afterward were not.
"It was eerie, surreal, and an eye-opening experience," he said. "I really just didn't think that going to an underground poker game was worth it anymore."
So, he did the only thing he could think to do. He's back in Vegas. He hates the dust. He hates the traffic. He misses his mom. He lives in an apartment he hates, but he's playing the game he loves in a place where he is less likely to get shot while doing it. It's the only thing he can imagine himself doing. Nevertheless, he wonders what might have been if he went a different direction.
"Maybe I would've had the time to settle down, meet the right girl, and get married," he said. "Or maybe not. Who knows?"
Sitton has that manila file in his hand. His travel plans for the year are inside. He's going to Palm Beach in 24 hours to play in a legal poker tournament. A plane ticket is the only safe way he can plan to play. He looks around his office.
"The last thing I need is a bunch of SWAT team guys coming in," he says.
He's done what he can to convince lawmakers that it's time to update the state's gambling laws. He spoke before a legislative committee where he decried the absurdity of a state that runs a lottery worth $309 million a year and outlaws friends playing small-stakes poker.
"I'm Rotarian, for God's sake," he told the committee. "I'm the face of home game poker."
The only move the legislature has made on the gambling law in recent years was a 2014 amendment to make it legal for people to play games with cards and dice. That means, after 200 years, it is now legal for South Carolinians to play Monopoly. All betting, however, is still illegal.
Sitton misses sitting across the table from his South Carolina friends so much that he tries to make a new friend every time he sits down in Palm Beach, Las Vegas, or Tunica. He hopes to make a lot more when he returns to the poker tables in other states. As for his itinerary, he's keeping it open-ended.
"I'm not going to book a return flight," he says. "I hope that doesn't flag me with the TSA."


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John Sununu, who serves on the Congressional Oversight Panel monitoring the government's bailout program, has joined the board of a subsidiary to Bank of New York Mellon — a firm that, in addition to receiving bailout funds, has been hired by the Treasury Department to administer the program.
Given that the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) is charged broadly with assessing how the TARP program is working, in order to help Congress determine whether to continue injecting capital into the financial sector, the arrangement would appear to create a significant conflict of interest for the former New Hampshire GOP senator.
On Wednesday, the investment firm BNY ConvergEx Group announced that Sununu had joined its board of governors. "His experience as a thoughtful leader and champion of innovation makes him an ideal match for ConvergEx's entrepreneurial spirit," said company chairman Joseph Velli of Sununu.
According to its press release, the company is an affiliate of Bank of New York Mellon (BONY). Founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1784, BONY received $3 billion in TARP funds back in October — less than some Wall Street firms, but not chump change.
Just as significantly, it was also picked to be the master custodian for the bailout funds. According to reports, that means it's charged with handling accounting and record-keeping for the program, and even with tracking limits on executive pay at banks that got TARP money.
Sununu was appointed to the COP by GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell in December — a little over a month after he was defeated by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in his bid for reelection to the Senate.
Sununu's conflict, then, appears clear. As a member of the COP, he's in part responsible for evaluating whether taxpayers got a good deal through TARP, and for assessing whether Treasury and the banks are doing enough to track the bailout money, as well as whether banks are using the money to make loans, as they were supposed to. On the broadest level, COP's job is to help Congress figure out whether the TARP program is working as it should, and how to adjust it going forward. It's not hard to see how that responsibility could conflict with his activities as a member of the board of a company that both administers the TARP program, has received funds from it, and could potentially be in line for more.
In his work on the panel so far, Sununu has hardly been an advocate for taking a hard line on the banks. Earlier this month, the COP, which is chaired by Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren, released a report detailing the kinds of far-reaching reforms to bolster the financial regulatory system that the crisis has pointed up the need for. But Sununu and the panel's other Republican, Rep. Jeb Hensarling didn't sign on. Instead, they attached their own alternative report, that recommended an approach to financial regulation that was more friendly to Wall Street, and emphasized the need to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage firms.
No one answered a listed number for Sen. John E. Sununu in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
We've also contacted COP to ask whether Sununu discussed his ties to Bank of New York Mellon with panel staff. And we're hearing there's more to this story … so we'll keep you posted.


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How can I write?
How can I add my thoughts, my voice to the discourse this country must have about race and Black and White and brown folks and the miserable state of race relations and violence directed toward us when the atrocities keep coming on with the ferocity of bullets from an assault rifle? How can I propose specific actions or solutions when the atrocities keep piling up faster than I can put pencil to paper (yes, I still write that way).
I am not at a loss for words. I have plenty to say. The words are there. So many thousands of them, colliding against the walls of my skull, competing to get out that I don't know where to start.
I don't want to pour out my sorrow. I don't want to fire out my rage. I want to offer constructive solutions to whatever it is that is causing so many to think it is okay to beat and kill, and taunt, disrespect and ostracize Black people.
Writing is what I do. It is how I make sense of the world but how can I make sense when there is no sense to be made? Writing is how I express the hurt, anger and frustration that builds up inside. It allows me to continue to function in this world when everything else says "all is lost".
But how can I write?
The physical violence across our nation and the violence to my psyche, to the collective psyche, keeps coming so fast I can't breathe. My heart hurts and my brain feels ready to explode.
Michael Brown, 18,vFerguson MO
Tamir Rice, 12, Cleveland, OH
Eric Garner, 43, New York
Freddie Gray, 25, Baltimore MD
Walter Scott, 50, Charleston SC
Rekia Boyd, 22, Chicago, IL
John Crawford, 22, Cleveland OH
These names are spoken so often by so many that they are almost as if a prayer. They did nothing to deserve their deaths. Why G-d? Please G-d, no more. But there are always more. If not at the hands of the police, then at those of deranged vigilantes or avowed racists.
Susie Jackson, 87
The Rev. Daniel Simmons, 74
Ethel Lance, 70
Myra Thompson, 59
Cynthia Hurd, 54
Depayne Middleton Doctor, 49
The Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45
The Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41
Tywanza Sanders, 26
The confessed assassin allegedly told the congregants, "You rape our women, and you're taking over our country," before shooting them. Can somebody, anybody tell me the last time you heard of a 70- or 80-year-old Black woman or even a 74-year-old Black man raping anybody?
I'd ask who goes into churches and murders people in a house of G-d but I've seen it happen before in my lifetime. The cold-blooded murder of nine praying souls is not unthinkable in a country that still lives in the dust from the explosion that took the lives of four little girls in the basement of a Birmingham church basement during the 1960s civil rights era.
Addie Mae Collins, 14
Denise McNair, 11
Carole Robertson, 14
Cynthia Wesley, 14
Every time I sit down to try to write there is another incident and the issue I meant to address fades into the background. I had no sooner sat down to write about a New Orleans police officer who struck a 16-year-old girl in a detention center with a set of four-point restraints when another video pops up. In this one more than 20 Philadelphia cops kicked and beat Tyree Carroll, a 22-year-old Black male, calling him a "piece of shit." The cops originally stopped him for riding his bicycle the wrong way down a one way street.
The police department said officers had probable cause to charge him with assault and said that he deliberately injured himself by hitting his head against the protective shield in the police vehicle after he was arrested for drug possession. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/10/20-philly-cops-beat-him-blame-him-for-injuries-and-charge-him-with-assault.html
Just this this week, as I put the finishing touches on this piece, a family has accused a Mississippi police officer of choking an unarmed Black man to death with a flashlight. An attorney states that the officer pulled 39-year-old Jonathan Sanders from a horse he was exercising in Stonewall and a struggle ensued. The family and the police differ on the details of what actually happened and, so far, there doesn't appear to be video evidence of what occurred. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/10/mississippi-death-unarmed-black-man-jonathan-sanders?CMP=fb_tc
Just this week, in Cobb County, GA a grand jury declined to indict a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man in the back purportedly while he was driving toward them. Officers were tried to serve warrants to Nicholas Thomas, 23, who apparently attempted to flee but was blocked by police cars. http://www.cbs46.com/story/29511972/grand-jury-finds-smyrna-officer-justified-in-nicholas-thomas-shooting, http://rt.com/usa/272884-police-atlanta-shooting-law/
The Guardian newspaper predicts that 1,100 people will die at the hands of the police this year, based on an average of three people a day killed through the end of June or 547 people. The Guardian's project, The Counted, found that Black people are being killed at twice the rate of White or Latino people. Black people are also more likely to be unarmed when they are killed.
These stats don't even include the beatings and shootings that don't end in death.
So here's the thing. I don't want to have to commit anymore names to memory. So could you stop? Please stop. If you can't stop could you just slow down a little?
'Cause I feel the need to write.
Note: I meant to end this with the paragraph above. But before I could finish editing and finalizing the art to go with this piece more than a half dozen more incidents have made their way into the news. Among them: Sandra Bland, 28, reportedly pulled over in Waller County, Texas, on Friday for improperly signaling a lane change and pulled from her car and thrown to the ground hitting her head. She was arrested for assaulting an officer and found dead in her cell Monday, according to the sheriff by suicide. A video was released and posted of a Gardena, CA police shooting of Ricardo Diaz-Zeferino, an innocent unarmed man suspected of stealing a bike. Jonathan Sanders, 39, according to attorneys died "through homicide by manual asphyxiation" when a police officer reportedly applied a chokehold for 20 minutes after Mr. Sanders questioned the officer's handling of another suspect.


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The reappearance of the Oceans Camilla's mother was, followed later marriage to a businessman Alfay Rauf on June 10, 2003. However, their marriage tip of the problem, since the father Rauf, Nurman Diah revealed that children born Rahma at the time, not the fruit of the marriage with his son.
In the midst of his family's circumstances, relationships and Rauf Rahma increasingly involved in the case of taper after a fight at Blowfish,Jamsostek tower, Sunday (4 / 11) morning at 02.30. Rahma claimed seven attacked by her husband's friends. Rahma result should be treated in hospital.
As a result of the beating incident, Rahma sued her husband for divorce, Rauf on November 12, 2007. And on February 13, 2008, bearing the official Rahma widowhood. While child custody, Raisya, was under the care Rahma, because Raisya not the biological son of Rauf.
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Written by Avital Borisovsky
Since the founding in 1915 of Christ the Saviour Russian Orthodox church in Toronto, the city's first Russian Orthodox parish, Orthodox churches have had a central place in the life of many Russian Torontonians. Among them, Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church, on the corner of Henry and Cecil Streets south-east of College Street and Spadina Avenue, has become a landmark.
With its domed roof and crosses typical of Orthodox churches, Holy Trinity stands out in downtown Toronto. Constructed as Beth Jacob Synagogue and completed in 1922, it was purchased by its current congregation in 1966. Like the earlier conversion of the former Holy Blossom Synagogue on Bond Street into St. George's Greek Orthodox Church, Holy Trinity's congregation adapted the building's architecture and transformed it to suit its needs, adorning it with rich Orthodox iconography. A living centre of faith, language, and art, Holy Trinity is equally a community centre that hosts gatherings associated with weddings, baptisms and funerals. Like many other faith centres in Toronto, Holy Trinity is a striking visual representation of Toronto's diversity and a vital heritage structure on the landscape.
The history of Holy Trinity goes back to the late 1940s, when Russian refugees from the Second World War, already living throughout Europe, began immigrating to Canada. A number settled in Toronto. These new immigrants chose to form their own congregation. Alexandra Furlani became one of the first members of the church as a teenager, and remains a leader of the congregation today. After moving from Germany to England and then to Canada in 1949, Ms Furlani was 16 when she settled in Toronto with her family. Shortly thereafter, the Furlani family, along with a Russian Orthodox priest, recently arrived as a fellow refugee, joined with others to begin a new Russian Orthodox Church. The small group met first in a home on Spadina Avenue at Queen Street, then soon after rented a space on Parliament Street at Gerrard Street. From here, the congregation moved in 1950 back to its former Queen and Spadina neighbourhood to rent space in the United Church of Canada's Church of All Nations.
Regular services were offered on Saturday evenings, Sunday mornings and during the week. In a short period of time and through word of mouth, the number of worshippers grew, and the centre of a community, around which all facets of life would revolve, was born. During the same period, a second Russian Orthodox priest arrived in Toronto and began engaging youth and involving them with the church. His work attracted a group of young people who would remain committed to the church throughout their lives.
Ms Furlani remembers that the financial situation of the congregation was a serious challenge as most new Russian Orthodox immigrants to the city had very little money. Yet the community was determined and united, and worked together toward their goal of acquiring their own dedicated church building. In 1953, they opened a new church, built by their own hands, on Richmond Street at Berkeley Street. Continuing to grow, in 1966 the congregation acquired the former Beth Jacob Synagogue on Henry Street. It was renovated, and officially opened as The Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church in 1969.
What started as off as a small group of about 10 members in 1949 has now grown into a parish of 240 families who attend services every week. Aside from traditional Orthodox rites, Holy Trinity also hosts many other activities. As soon as the church was bought in 1966, Ms Furlani and other women from the church, calling themselves "the sisterhood," began preparing meals on Sundays for all worshippers. This tradition of communal meals came from a time when many Russians were coming home from working in the factories, and it was helpful for them to come to the church to have an evening meal. In addition to these meals, Holy Trinity holds a school for the children on Saturdays, and a bazaar in November, where members bring items to sell, and all proceeds go to needy convents and monasteries around the world.
Many members of Holy Trinity are also members of the Russian Canadian Cultural Aid Society (RCCAS), a Toronto cultural group that organizes events for the community and has a long history of providing settlement support for Russian immigrants. The RCCAS was started by a number of the same people who founded the church, and the organization gave church members the opportunity to hold dances and music concerts which were not allowed to take place in Holy Trinity. In 2011, the congregation purchased a house next door to be used by youth taking classes and priests delivering lectures.
Proud of its landmark heritage building, the congregation has recently invested in its restoration. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church remains committed to its original purpose – to provide a space for members of the faith to stay in touch with their historical roots and to express their faith in the city they now call home.
Interview with Alexandra Furlani, August, 2012
Vladimir Handera, 'The Russian Orthodox Church in Toronto', Polyphony (Summer, 1984), Pg. 83-85.
Heritage Toronto is pleased to acknowledge the support of the Government of Ontario, through the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, for this project.


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Florida Airport Workers Fight for Respect and Justice
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On September 1st, G2 and Eulen workers at FLL are on strike over unfair labor practices. These workers have stood up for a living wage and have been met with threats and intimidation.
Over 39 private contractors–employing more than 1,500 workers– provide crucial passenger, ramp, and cargo services at Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport. These services include non-TSA security officers, cabin and terminal cleaners, wheelchair attendants, baggage handlers, sky caps, gate agents, fuelers, and other cargo and ramp workers.
Given the critical infrastructure nature of the airports, every service worker's job has a security implication. These airport workers provide crucial assistance to the traveling public, such as the safe and reliable wheelchair assistance for disabled and infirm passengers.. Yet, these workers are subjected to unconscionably low wages with unaffordable health care and a lack of employment benefits such as paid sick days. The workers are rallying, marching and organizing for fair wages, affordable benefits and respect.


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Team expansion and Friday night forays
Hi folks,
It's been a busy two weeks since our last update! We've got new recruits on board at Team Cosm, our Friday night playtests at Gatekeeper Games are up and running, and we're putting together a community event to create some great new characters for the world of Crucible.
We do have an apology to make: due to unforeseen circumstances, we were unable to showcase Crucible at GaymerX San Jose. We're still keen to demo the game for supporters in the USA, but in the meantime Aussie backers can look forward to our booth at GaymerX in Sydney in February.
Team update
Our new Cosm Games recruits will be supporting the development team as we produce the game that you've all so kindly helped support. We had a meet and greet with them last Monday and would like to show them off to you as well. Please join us in welcoming:
Ben Mellor, IT guru and code cruncher extraordinaire, is the new backbone of our website awesomeness and a sounding board for all tech-related queries.
Emma Hespa Mann, a park ranger and bird nerd who moonlights as a fantasy writer, will be combining her two passions to bring the Crucible-scholar's Notebook to life.
Karthik 'K2' Nair is a business analyst with manic energy levels and optimism. K2 will be working on community development, operations and marketing.
Friday Night Gaming
The first two sessions of playtesting at Gatekeeper Games have been fantastic. The gamers who attended have already amazed and inspired us with the perspectives and twists they've brought to our world.
Big shout outs to Diz, Luke, Paul, Claire, Amey, James, Keith and Damon, who have come up with truly brilliant new characters and Legacies. We've seen an Akrasi assassin who harvests their victim's highest potential, a Ïakshai gossip monger who can hear things said near water, and a Skirr fop who quad-wields rapiers and confuses people with witty banter, just to name a few.
If you're in Melbourne and would like to be part of the playtest, please don't be shy. We'd love to meet you! The sessions don't run along a fixed plotline, so there's always room for new people to join.
And finally, more details about our community event will be coming up this week, so stay tuned here and at our Facebook for all the news.
Lumen's light bathe us,


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Explorer's Sextant by Matthew Berge (late Ramsden) c. 1800
Full miniature sextant signed Berge London late Ramsden, numbered 1554 on the rear, with silver scales, vernier and scale reflector and five coloured filters. This is contained in a fitted mahogany box, (missing lock) with three telescopes, one extendable, and a screw-on eyepiece with a rotatable turret consisting of three red filters of increasing strength and one clear, fitting each of the telescopes together with a adjustable magnifying lens on an arm for reading the vernier scale plus a wood and brass screw-in handle. The decades preceding and after 1800 have been called the great age of exploration and miniature sextants were made as a light weight GPS of the period for travelling, navigation and map making. This sextant complete with its box weighs just 587 grams and is only 5.5" (14 cm) across the widest point of the box. I have seen other miniature sextants, but never one so comprehensive, as fine and as early as this example. Despite its size this is a very serious instrument. Matthew Berge was the 'head man' in Jesse Ramsden's large workshop at 199 Piccadilly, London, which he inherited along with Jesse Ramsden's dividing engine in 1800. This latter was invented and built in the 1770s by Jesse Ramsden and made possible for the first time in history, really accurate dividing of circular arcs thereby creating a new class of highly accurate scientific instruments for astronomers, surveyors etc. (As a result Ramsden's workshop held the Admiralty contract to divide the scales of all navigational instruments, regardless of the maker, used by the British navy in his workshop). When Berge ingherited the business on Ramsden's death he first signed his name on the instruments he manufactured followed by the words "late Ramsden" to indicate continuity and quality before changing to signing his name only subsequently. This dates this sextant between 1800 to circa 1802. Condiotion: the mirrors are in generally excellent condition for the age of the instrument though there are a couple of thin dark lines across the larger mirror at the apex of the instrument (caused by scratching on the rear?) the smaller half silvered glass is in good condition. All filters are present original and unbroken. Original lacqer is lacking. All working parts function correctly with no repairs or defects. The wood case is in good condition though there is some evidence of minor repairs. To the best of my knowledge every part and screw of this instrument is original. Box diamensions 5.5" (14 cm) x 4.25" (11 cm) x 2" (5 cm)
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I recently recieved a letter from a gentleman from Plano, Texas. The following is the content of the letter (see the photo): I hope that you enjoy this as much as I did. Thank you Mr. McLendon from Texas!!
To the Principal of Amelia Elementary,
Enclosed are many free nice stamps from around the world. They are interesting, beautiful and fun to collect. They can be used for "show and tell" or as a teaching tool for your teachers.
Each stamp tells a story about art, famous events, geography, history, military, music, nations, people, science and sports. Please tell me if you want or need more.
Vaya con dios,
Mr. McLendon
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This MP3 is a question and answer session on calling and gifts with Rev. Bill Hyer, Rev. Don Young, and Rev. Fred Hartley, III. It was recorded at our 2017 iGNITE Conference: Your Calling held in Atlanta, GA. The audio collection of all 8 sessions from this conference is available by download (MP3 file format) or by ordering the CD set (click here). Each MP3 session can be downloaded up to 3 times. You will receive a link to download the file via email when you complete your checkout.


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Slowly we are unpacking in our new home, but we are functional and started seeing clients.
We are in the process of scheduling some discussion groups, classes, and movie nights.
In the meantime, I am offering a special on Rapid Reframing, a service I usually offer for $49. Rapid Reframing is a way of accessing your subconscious mind to change limiting beliefs into empowering beliefs. Often, we don't even know what the limiting belief IS, but this particular technique gets to the bottom of it, and switches it up into a new perspective, which changes everything! People love it because it's quick, easy, fun, and it lasts!
For a limited time – in fact, for the rest of this month of August, I will be offering this amazingly enduring session for only $25. Call to schedule an appointment today. You can call me (Linda) directly at 480-442-5755.


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NE Brazil (eg. Cumbuco)?Murvalous wrote:Looking to go Kite surfing with the girlfriend in December (Early to mid)
Some pre requisites:
• Needs to be some flat water as I am beginner/Intermediate and want to work on technique and hate being stuck with only huge waves!
• Hot – So that's Europe out!
• We will be there about 10 days, ill kite 5-6 and probably half days so we need other stuff to do, she is happy chilling on the beach while I kite but then we want to do other things too.
So I am guessing somewhere in Brazil or Caribbean? She doesn't fancy Africa of Philippines.
So any ideas on locations (not just country so I can look up flights), recommendations or "don't got there" advice?


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Bonifacio: Corsica's Gibraltar
Despite its fairy-tale looks, there's more to Corsica than drawbridges and cobblestone streets.
Forget Fat: Skinny-Tire Cycling in Moab
Try the road in this slickrock Mecca.
Chasing Snakes: Northwestern Nevada's Wild Lands
Do some reptile searching of your own. Rattlers, gopher snakes and lizards abound in Nevada's backcountry.
A Walk on the Wild Side: Malaysia's Taman Negara
Head into the Malaysian rainforest to see the plants, animals and people who call this region home.
Over the Edge: Canyoneering in Zion National Park
Zion National Park draws thousands of climbers each year. Here's why.
Secluded, Casual, Primitive: Mexico's Las Majahuitas
Adobe casitas nestled in the jungle and linked by sand paths serve as the home base for outdoor adventures — snorkeling, swimming, kayaking and guided hikes.
Walking Through Lava
Volcanic chimneys and lava caves make this American National Monument more than just a barren landscape.
Cascade Mountain Range: How I Awakened a Sleeping Volcano
While visiting the Cascade Range Mountains in Washington state, I met Mount St. Helens' unpredictable nature up close.


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Never be caught short again
FREE dog poo bag dispensers
Christine Drake and Jack, her border collie, will never be caught short and risk a £100 penalty, thanks to Boston Big Local and Boston Borough Council.
Christine is pictured being handed a free dog poo bag dispenser by Richard Tory, chairman of Boston Big Local (BBL), left, and Cllr Michael Brookes, Boston Borough Council's portfolio holder for waste services.
BBL has made 500 of the handy dispensers, which all come with a full roll of dog poo bags, available for free. The handy dispensers can be reloaded with rolls of bags which can be bought locally, and have a handy clip to attach to dog leads. So pet owners can always be sure of being fully equipped every time they go for "walkies" with their dog.
Pet owners can pick up one of the dispensers for free from the council's main reception in West Street. They will also be handed out to dog walkers by the council's environmental enforcement officers.
This latest initiative to encourage dog walkers to clean up after their pets follows new rules introduced by the council which means those who cannot produce a dog poo bag could face a £100 penalty charge.
Mr Tory said: "There are many obvious reasons why people should clean up after their dogs and this initiative fits one of Boston Big Local's themes of helping make the local environment more attractive.
"There's nothing attractive about a pile of dog mess left where people can see it and, worse, step into it."
Cllr Brookes added: "I am grateful for this assistance from Boston Big Local. This is a simple way to be sure anyone walking a dog can be equipped to clean up after their pet. The dispenser means they cannot be caught without a bag and, displayed on their dog's lead, they provide a very public assurance that they have the intention to do the right thing. And then there's the no small matter of not ending up with a £100 bill to pay."
Christine said: "I always make sure I have bags with me when I walk Jack. But these dispensers, attached to your dog's lead, makes sure you never go out and forget to take a bag. You can be sure you always have plenty to hand... and sometimes you need more than one!"
Fines for failing to clean up after a dog, allowing a dog into an enclosed children's play area or refusing to put a dangerous or nuisance dog on a lead have all now been set at £100.
Public consultation showed that 90 per cent were in favour of it being an offence for dog walkers not to carry a bag or the means at all times to clean up after their dog. And 74 per cent agreed the fine should be £100.
Well done Jack, and well done Christine, as she makes a "deposit" in the Central Park dog poo bin on behalf of her faithful border collie.


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T-20 Championship of Surat Builders
Cricket is not only a mode of entertainment, but a measure that is used to cater other needs as well. Like for a cause or charity event or to decide who the best amongst all is and sometimes to raise funds for building the office of Surat Builders Association.
Builders across Surat, part of Gujarat, are planning to organize a T-20 match among 6 pre divided zones. An auction was held for selecting each of these teams from 6 different zones on October 11, 2009 during an annual general meet of the association.
Jolly Group's Tushar Ghelani bought the Athwa Presidency Team from Athwa zone for Rs.11.70 lakh. Katargam Kings was financed by Vasant Gajera of Laxmi Group for Rs10 lakh. Gautam Patel and Tarun Raval shelled out Rs 6 lakh for Limbayat Leopards. Rander Royals was acquired by Alpesh Kotadia and Vinod Ravani. Rs4.51 lakh were spent on Udhna Champions by Raghuveer and Rameshwar groups and Rajhans and Mitul groups spent Rs4.25 lakh on Varachha Lions.
Tarun Raval is the president of Surat Builders Association, who announced that the association was able to collect of Rs. 41 lakh from this auctioning. More funds will be generated by selling the rights of T-20 Championship. The league will be held between December 18 and 20 at Sarita Sagar Complex, Adajan.
Upcoming Trade Center of The Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry is a prospect space to build the association's office. The president of the Chamber, Mr. Nilesh Mandlewala is also ready to look into the matter if it officially comes on his working desk.


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Muisc&Fahion: Florence Welch
This month for the column Music&Fashion the spotlight shine on one of the most talented and interesting artists of the contemporary music scene. Fire red hair, languid look (almost melanchonic) and an enchanting voice. Just a few strokes, few shades, are enough to describe Florence Welch, vocalist of the Florence + The Machine the band with which she has climbed the pinnacle of success in just four years.
This month for the column Music&Fashion the spotlight shine on one of the most talented and interesting artists of the contemporary music scene. Fire red hair, languid look (almost melanchonic) and an enchanting voice. Just a few strokes, few shades, are enough to describe Florence Welch, vocalist of the Florence + The Machine the band with which she has climbed the pinnacle of success in just four years.
Her career starts in 2009, year of publication of Lungs that, thanks to a sound that goes from indie to alternative rock, passing by soul, blues and slowcore, she gets the first place in the raking of best-selling albums in the UK, whose songs are used as soundtrack to several succesful movies and TV series. You've got the love, Drumming and Cosmic Love conquer international charts. Since that moment has been a continuous rise. After the success of Lungs she released Cerimonials in 2010, anticipated by the single Shake it out, that saw the collaboration of Karl Lagerfeld who drew the cover. Is interesting observe her in her music videos. She moves in front of the camera with grce and ease, giving immediately a display of her passion for fashion. In Rabbit heart, for example, she looks amazing in the shoes of a nymph, while dancing and feasting in a surreal wood Alice in Wonderland style... or again, in Haevy in your arms she is ipnotic wrapped in dark and gothic atmospheres...
Elegant and feminine, unconventionally beautiful, Florence is not only a talented singer, she also has a great sense of style that surely has not gone unnoticed by glossy fashion magazines and designers, who contend her among photoshoot and fashion shows (do you rember her walking hand in hand with Karl Lagerfeld after Chanel's show S/S 2012?), and that made her one of the coolest fashion icon of the moment, also thanks to a personal style that mixes retro suggestions, vintage pieces, pret-à-porter and haute couture and the describe as a <<mix between the Lady of Shalott and Ophelia>>.
Also thanks to a body that nothing has to envy to a model's body, Florence is the emblem of that effortless glamour that goes normally from romantic to boho chic mood, playing with grace and style, for an always trendy and cool result.
Her clothes perfectly reflect her personality, characterized by many facets, each with its own specific characteristics. The main elements of her style are:
- tailoring: with a huge passion for Givenchy, Valentino and Chanel, of which she has been named ambassador by kaiser Karl in person, Florence often choses clothes characterized by unusual cuts, precious fabrics that emphasize shapes and volumes, and games of transparences that give a sensual and mysterious allure to her looks;
- white: with all its shades it plays an important role in many of her outfits. The non-color par excellence, surely not easy to wear, is often bravely chosen accompanied by nude shades that are perfectly suitable with her red hair;
- prints: optical, cachemere or floral, she wear them as long as they remind 70's style that she likes so much;
- accessories: rings and long necklaces are the last gems of her outftis, worn with grace and ease;
- makeup: lips are almost always red like the color of her hair and the shades of her music, so particular thank to use of instrumets like harp, which sound becomes a key element of this band.
I like her style so much because it's so eclectic and versatile, surely never obvious or trivial. Is like sha has two souls in her: the first one is delicate and ethereal, almost angelic, the second is darker and is not afraid to show off its sensuality. Here a short selection pf her best looks.
What do you think about?