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I have a bit of a strange idea. It seems that we never get to see much for track photos around here, I want to change that.
Meet Rizzo and Ginger. These to buxom young ladies are just dying to get the hell out of So-Cal and go see the world. I'd like to help them do that!
Here's how it's going to work. I'm going to send these lovely ladies to someone here on the board. When they arrive, I want that person to set up some photos on their track, featuring Rizzo and Ginger. Pose them on a favorite car, on a wall, on a rock, whatever. Let your creativity flow! Take them with you to club night at the local track, or take them to your buddies house that has that awesome Carrera track that he's never shown anyone. Let's get these ladies traveling!
This should accomplish a couple things. One, we'll get to see a lot more of your tracks and cars. And two, it will get everyone playing with their cameras and taking pictures. These are all good things!
When you're done photographing the girls, send them on to the person of your choice. Even if they are overseas. I think it would be great to get them to England, Australia, NZ, SA, Germany, wherever! But please, keep track of them! I would like them back someday, Even if that's years from now. As they were a gift to me from Keith (Retro Racer 44) He gave the girls to me un-painted and I painted them up. So let's get the girls traveling and have some fun!
Keep your eye's peeled for them to show up at your door. You never know who's going to get them first!
Once they get to their first destination, we'll start a new thread just for their trip pictures.


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How much time do you spend on social media daily? Weekly?
Is there a correlation between time spent and results?
According to new data, the average user logs 1.72 hours per day on social platforms, which represents about 28 percent of all online activity.
GlobalWebIndex polled 170,000 internet users about their internet habits, and found that average usage times for social media sites rose from 1.66 hours per day in 2013 to 1.72 hours per day last year.
Micro-blogging, which includes Twitter, is also up slightly to 0.81 hours per day, and now accounts for about 13 percent of total time spent online.
A significant 64% of marketers according to Social Media Marketing 2015 Industry Report are using social media for:
- 33% commit 1-5 hrs. per week.
- 25% 6-10 hrs. per week.
- 41% for 11 or more hours weekly.
- Nearly 19% of marketers spend more than 20 hours each week on social media.
Remember the day we started using email and the internet for business? We still had the same hours in the day to incorporate this new technology into the work day. Is social media any different?
In this fast paced tech world, can we afford the luxury of falling behind?
There's a direct relationship between how long marketers have been using social media and their weekly time commitment.
For people just beginning with social media (less than 12 months of experience), 49% spend 5 or fewer
hours per week.
However, of folks who have been doing this for 2 years or longer, at least 68% spend 6 hours or more per week on social media activities.
This chart shows how different-sized businesses invest their time with social media activities.
New research from LinkedIn found that the majority of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are turning to social media for growth.
Roughly 81% of SMBs are using social media, according to a LinkedIn study, and of those that use social, 94% do so for marketing purposes.
Social media is even more important to "hyper growth" companies, or those that self-reported "significant" year over year revenue growth. Of the hyper growth companies surveyed (about 16% of the entire group), 91% said social media helped "increase awareness" of their brand, while 82% said it helped them generate "new leads." Nearly three quarters of the hyper growth companies increased their social media budgets last year.
We know that for SMBs the greatest challenge is attracting and retaining customers.
There's a direct relationship between a marketer's age and the time spent marketing with social media. The younger the marketer, the more time he or she spends on social media.
Notice the green and blue segments taking up a significant portion of the bar in the higher weekly hours below. Of those spending more than 40 hours per week doing social media marketing, 54% are younger than 40.
Visual content is the most powerful tool your brand can use to engage your fans on social media. It allows you to express ideas quickly and effectively, which is a valuable tactic to set your brand apart from the vast amount of written content published online every day.
So which kinds of visual content works best on social media?
The best answer: a variety. Finding clever and creative ways to mix up your visual content will boost your fan interaction and help your build your brand's identity on social.
Your Fans and followers are 44% more likely to engage with content on social media that contains pictures, so be sure you focus a chunk of your effort creating visual content like designs and photographs for these posts.
The use of visuals is a key part of most marketers' plans in 2015, with 72% planning on increasing
their use of visual images.
Are you thinking about adding videos to your social media mix? Do you want to boost your awareness and increase engagement?
Social media networks provide a lot of video options.
From Google+ Hangouts to Twitter's Vine and Facebook's launch of Instagram Video, video is fast becoming an essential part of any business's online marketing strategy.
Over the last few years, online video has proven to be the most engaging and compelling form of content for social media users who watch and share thousands of them every single minute. Every major social network, from Facebook to Pinterest, has recently developed their own native video services and/or promoted video ads.
Video is a large area of focus for marketers. Nearly 3 in 4 plan on increasing their use of videos.
According to Jay Baer of Convince and Convert, the reason why more experienced social media marketers gravitate toward Slideshare is that they eventually recognize that social media is about actions, not eyeballs. The "reach" offered by the larger consumer-oriented platforms is seductive, but if only a tiny percentage of your fans are seeing your posts in those venues, is the reach really reliable?
Slideshare's audience is bigger than you might think, is terrific for lead generation, and is populated by people actively seeking information and resources (not dissimilar from a search engine, in that regard).
- Owned by LinkedIn
- 60 million Slideshare users
- 89% use Slideshare mobile
- 159 million page views monthly
- 20% come directly from Google
- 45% of presentations have between 10-30 slides
And that audience is hungry for information. It's not uncommon to generate significant views and downloads for Slideshare presentations.
Source: Social Media Examiner | Convince and Convert
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"How fast does my Mac need to be?" is a question our readers often ask, and the answer depends on why you want a Mac. The best Mac for video editing, for example, is different to the best Mac for web design. In this feature, we look at common tasks like gaming, music making and programming and determine which Mac for you should buy.
Read next: Apple Mac buyers guide for Spring/Summer 2016
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Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
"With mounting unease over the RHI scheme, fuelled by the revelation that DUP insider, Stephen Brimstone, is a beneficiary there are four questions Mr Brimstone and his party must answer.
- Was he a beneficiary under the domestic or non-domestic scheme?
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(Reuters) - Teen apparel retailer American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO.N) became the latest U.S. retailer to forecast a weaker-than-expected holiday quarter, blaming the deep discounts necessary to boost sales.
Shares of the company fell 10 percent in morning trading after it also posted a 68 percent fall in quarterly profit.
The "three A's" of teen retail, American Eagle, Aeropostale Inc ARO.N and Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF.N), are struggling to attract young shoppers who have shifted allegiance to "fast fashion" chains such as Sweden's H&M, Forever 21 and Inditex's (ITX.MC) Zara, which offer trendier clothes at lower prices.
However, American Eagle has fared a little better than its U.S. peers as it targets a wider age group with more fashionable clothing.
While all three companies forecast weak results holiday season, Jefferies analyst Randal Konik believes American Eagle could beat its own fourth quarter forecast since the company's inventory levels were in "decent shape.
American Eagle on Friday forecast a fourth-quarter profit of 26 cents to 30 cents per share, below analysts' estimates of 39 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The company, which also named a new chief merchandising and design officer for its American Eagle Outfitters brand, forecast a mid single-digit percentage fall in comparable-store sales.
American Eagle said Chad Kessler would head merchandising and design at its American Eagle Outfitters brand from February 3.
Kessler, who started his career Abercrombie & Fitch to launch the Hollister brand in 1999, joins from Urban Outfitters Inc (URBN.O), which has also been faring better than rivals due to its fresher on-fashion styles and attractive pricing.
American Eagle said net profit fell 68 percent to $24.9 million, or 13 cents a share, in the third quarter ended November 2 from $78.6 million, or 39 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, it earned 19 cents per share, in line with analysts' estimates.
Net margins slumped to 2.9 percent from 8.6 percent.
On November 6 the retailer had reported a 6 percent fall in sales in the quarter and a 5 percent fall in comparable-store sales.
Shares of the company were down 8.5 percent at $15.01 in late morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
The stock has fallen 16 percent in last six months, compared with a 28 percent fall in Abercrombie & Fitch's shares and a more than 36 percent fall in Aeropostale's shares.
Additional reporting by Maria Ajit Thomas; Editing by Savio D'Souza


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The advent of new USB flash drive trends has brought more and more people back to this technology, despite cloud and other storage options giving the USB stick a run for its money. There was once a time when the storage industry thought that people will no longer need to carry these tiny pecks, but manufacturers of USB flash drives have collaborated with vendors to add new features to their offerings, which are complementing the increased speed and capacity of thumb drives.
Apart from the news that USB flash drives are now compatible with most operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.), the following are the latest trends in USB flash drive technology that've gotten owners of different devices excited.
1. Encryption
Did you know that modern flash drives offer encrypted usb memory as well as a custom encrypted PIN that renders the device useless if an adversary tries to access your personal data? Some offerings are seamless, powerful and fast when it comes to encryption, encrypting every file you save on the USB flash drive with AES 256 Bit Encryption. This feature offers ease of use and 100% data protection wherever, whenever, on any computer you connect it to.
2. Anti-virus Protection
USB thumb drives are coming with powerful anti-virus tools that prevent malwares and viruses from entering the drive and making rounds in the devices it is later connected to. This was a much needed feature considering how quickly ransomware and Trojans were spreading from one USB flash drive to a computer to another. The feature has turned the once "always infected" USB flash drive into a portable virus combat kit. The modern versions also remove the need to install an anti-virus software on your PC, as the device's anti-virus software can get the job done.
3. Cloud Backup
While anti-malware tools will protect the device from viruses and other similar threats, they won't do anything to bring back your sensitive information if someone steals your device physically. Encryption would make the information useless, but that won't bring the data to you either, just secure it so that no one conducts identify theft or other similar crimes. However, a feature that was recently added to USB offerings was of cloud backup. Backup begins automatically and data is synced off the thumb drive to the nas device or cloud. And the data stored on the USB drive can be restored from anywhere.
4. Multi-Language Translation Support
In normal usage environment, you'd have to first transfer the files stored on your USB flash drive to your computer, and then open them before you translate any files for specific reasons. You'd also have to download a translation software or go on the internet for the purpose. However, you don't need to do all that with some new models of USB sticks because multi-language support has been added in them. Pre-loaded software supports and translates documents/files in different languages.
Apart from these trends, the design of USB flash drives has also evolved in recent years. New designs include rugged aluminum that makes the device resistant to physical damage. Combined, all the new features secure your data from the outside as well as the inside while being OS independent.


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Why Grass Fed
Why Would You Eat Anything Else?
Grass is the food nature intended for cattle; it is healthy for them and they in turn are healthy for you. Finishing cattle on grass takes longer than a feedlot (which is where supermarket beef comes from), but it is better for the animal, better for you and better for the enrivonment.
Your Health
Our 100% grass fed, grass finished beef is more than delicious. It's a healthy alternative to conventional, grain fed "supermarket" beef. According to a Clemson University Study there are at least ten Health Advantages of Grass-Fed Beef:
- Lower in total fat
- Higher in beta-carotene
- Higher in Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol).
- Higher in B vitamins and riboflavin.
- Higher in the minerals calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
- Higher in total Omega-3s.
- Healthier ratio of Omega-3 to Omega-6 fats.
- Higher in CLA (potent cancer fighting qualities).
- Higher in Vaccenic Acid (which is converted by the body to CLA).
- Lower in saturate fats linked with heart disease.
No hormones, steroids, antibiotics or grains, ever.
Animal Health
Grass is the food nature intended for cattle - not grain. Grain is difficult for ruminants to digest and can literally make the animals sick; thus the use of antibiotics in feedlots or CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation).
Our Aberdeen Angus cattle are raised and finished on our ranch, where they graze rotationally on grass in open pastures in the fresh air and sunshine. They drink our pure, clean mountain water from the glaciers above us. We are committed to a natural and compassionate approach to sustainable ranching.
We do not use antibiotics, hormones, steroids or grains on our animals. Humane treatment results in low stress levels and better health, eliminating any need for antibiotics or other drugs.
Good for the Land
Industrial grain-based CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) or feedlot operations pollute the environment, expose cattle to inhumane conditions, require intensive consumption of fossil fuels and produce much higher levels of environmental pollutants. Feeding cows a diet of grazed grass requires much less fossil fuel and impacts the environment in a more positive manner. Sustainable ranching and management intensive grazing, practiced on our ranch, helps keep cattle, air, land, and water healthy and can actually lower our carbon footprint.
Why Our Beef?
Our Aberdeen Angus cattle come directly from our ranch to you. There is no middleman. We raise the cattle, pack the boxes, make the deliveries and run the store. That is how we control the quality of every piece of grass fed beef that leaves our ranch. While this may seem unusual, it is how ranching used to be before industrialized agriculture took over and the small family farmer was a thing of the past.
Why Aberdeen Angus?
Any breed of cattle can be finished on grass; they just don't all do it well or taste good. You've may have heard the comment about grass fed beef having a "gamey" taste or being "tough as an old shoe." Unfortunately both those statements can be true, not all grass fed beef is created equal. Without the right breed of cattle and plenty of good grass and fresh water for them, the meat is not going to be the best. Our Aberdeen Angus (AKA known as "Lowline Angus") heritage beef has been bred for generations to finish well on grass and taste delicious. Our breeding stock are registered and DNA tested to the original Aberdeen Angus herd to ensure quality and consistency. Aberdeen Angus mature early on nothing but grass, allowing us to harvest when the animal is young and the meat is tender and full of natural flavor. It is the best beef we've ever eaten.


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Aresti Notation Tutorial
|"To the pilots devoted to aviation, who with their ardor, enthusiasm and great dedication, contribued to the graphic representation, to the development and to the present day perfection of artistic flight in the entire world."
–José Luis de Aresti, Sistema Aresti
The story of Sistema Aresti
In Sistema Aresti, first published in 1960, José Luis de Aresti laid out a simple and efficient means by which to describe aerobatic flight. Aresti's fundamental insight was that almost any aerobatic figure can be broken down into a sequence of lines and curves. From this basis, by following a few simple rules he was able to describe the vast majority of aerobatic figures in a way that crossed all boundaries of language and culture.
Aresti notation for the first time provided pilots with a coherent and consistent means of communicating and evaluating aerobatic sequences. The Aresti system was adopted in 1961 by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale as the official means of describing aerobatics.
Aresti basics
- Figures always begin and end in horizontal flight with wings level, either upright or inverted
- The beginning of a figure is indicated by a solid black disc, the end by a perpendicular hashmark
- Figures are numbered in the order in which they are to be flown in the sequence
- Sequences are designed so they will fit inside an aerobatic box when flown
- Lines are drawn either horizontal, on 45°, or on 90° angles
- Upright / positive G flight is indicated by a solid black line
- Inverted / negative G flight is indicated by a dashed red line
- Rolls, snaps and spins are frequently added to lines
- Rolls are indicated by semicircles
- If the semicircle crosses the line of flight, it indicates a full rotation roll
- If the semicircle adjoins the line of flight, it indicates a half rotation roll
- Point rolls are indicated by a numeral next to the roll indicator, i.e. "4" for a 4 point roll, etc.
- Partial rolls are indicated with a fraction, i.e. a quarter roll is noted as "1/4"
- Multiple rolls in the same direction are linked using a line drawn alongside the roll indicators
- A maximum of 2 rolls should be linked
- Super slow glider rolls (also known as "horizon to horizon rolls") are specified by double arrows
IMPORTANT: The direction of roll is not specified – the pilot can roll either direction, unless multiple rolls in opposite directions are indicated. In that case, the pilot can choose to roll either direction for the first roll, but then must roll the opposite direction for the second.
Snaps and spins
- Snaps are indicated by equilateral triangles
- Spins are indicated by right triangles
- White colored or "empty" snaps/spins indicate inside/positive G maneuvers
- Red colored or "solid" snaps/spins indicate ouside/negative G maneuvers
- As with rolls, snap or spin triangles which cross the line of flight indicate full rotations, while those which adjoin the line of flight indicate less than full rotations
- Snaps and spins follow the same conventions as rolls for partial, opposite, and linked maneuvers
- As with rolls, the pilot has choice of rotation direction
Loops, humpty bumps and more
- Often found in the center of a sequence
- Rolls and snaps are often added to loops to create more challenging combinations (i.e. Avalanche, etc.)
Turnaround figures
- Used at either end of the aerobatics box to reverse the direction of flight
- Rolls, snaps and spins are often added on the up and/or downlines to create more challenging figures, or to force a crossbox line of flight (see below)
Turns and rolling circles
- Turns and rolling circles can be distinguished from loops by their ovoid shape
- The direction of roll rotation is specified for rolling turns – i.e. rolling to the inside or the outside of the circle
- Can be performed in the center or as a turnaround figure
- Tailslides come in upright / wheels up and inverted / wheels down varieties
- Rolls, snaps and spins are often added on the up and/or downlines to make the figure more challenging
Crossbox figures
- A crossbox figure diverts the line of flight from the main axis to the secondary axis within the aerobatic box
- 1/4 and 3/4 rolls and snaps are most commonly used to initiate a crossbox line of flight
- A figure which initiates a crossbox line of flight is usually connected to another crossbox figure which returns the line of flight to the main axis
Putting it all together
Now that you've learned the basics of Aresti notation, see if you can follow along with the 2006 CIVA Glider Known sequence:
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Forecastle Festival, Kentucky's largest music festival, returns to Louisville July 14-16, 2017. An easy to navigate location with beautiful views of the Ohio River along with diverse exciting lineups makes Forecastle one of our favorite music festival destinations each year. This year is no different as acts like LCD Soundsystem, Weezer, ODESZA, Cage The Elephant, Sturgill Simpson, PJ Harvey, Run The Jewels, Spoon, GRiZ, and Phantogram will perform across 4 stages inside Louisville's Waterfront Park. Festival patrons will also be able to enjoy Forecastle's unique Bourbon Lodge that highlights some of Kentucky's finest spirits while offering a spot to relax and unwind in air conditioning.
We can't wait to return and we're excited to offer one lucky follower a pair of GA passes to Forecastle Festival 2017. Enter the giveaway below and you and a friend could be joining us in Louisville this summer. The contest will run until Monday, May 1st and the winner will be contacted via e-mail.
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palliate — palliation, n. palliator, n. /pal ee ayt /, v.t., palliated, palliating. 1. to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate. 2. to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate. [1540 50; < … Universalium
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palliate — /ˈpælieɪt / (say paleeayt) verb (t) (palliated, palliating) 1. to cause (an offence, etc.) to appear less grave or heinous; extenuate; excuse: *My nephew, not only aiding and abetting those ruffians, but seeking to palliate their crimes! This is… … Australian English dictionary
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Featuring free WiFi throughout the property, Woodville B&B offers accommodation in Bray. Free private parking is available on site. The rooms have a flat-screen TV. Every room is equipped with a private bathroom. A TV with cable channels is offered.
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Out of Africa, always something new.
I suppose every out-of-the-ordinary event could be classified as "once in a lifetime." Since early spring 2014, I have been preparing for a conflict resolution training mission in Rwanda and Kenya, and as family and friends learned of my plans, rarely a conversation passed when those words — "once in a lifetime" — weren't uttered.
Now, I'm back. As I'm writing, I can hardly believe that I've been home for a week. My body clock is slowly resetting. My stomach is adjusting to the absence of anti-malarial medications and non-African cuisine. Transitions are often challenging, but perhaps my most striking mental challenge is finding a new descriptor for the trip.
That's because a voice in my head keeps asking how and when I can return to Africa. Perhaps September 19 through October 1, 2014 was a once in a lifetime experience. Yet, I'm having trouble accepting it as my one and only shot.
An email about eight months ago began this journey, when I was invited to accompany a group of students from Southern Methodist University's graduate program in Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management. My dear friend, Dr. Betty Gilmore, directs that program and sent me this email, dated February 3, 2014:
Would you be interested in going to Rwanda with me in the fall for 8-10 days to do training on peace building etc with indigenous leaders???
A torrent of emails and phone conversations followed. It just so happened the organization that Dr. Gilmore was working through to arrange her trip was African Leadership And Reconciliation Ministries (ALARM), and I was already in conversation with them about possibilities of partnerships between our program at the ACU Duncum Center for Conflict Resolution. In fact, on the day I received that email, I had just scheduled a meeting between ALARM leaders and our academic director, Garry Bailey, and myself.
"Coincidence" is a skeptic's term for "providence." The fact that I was being divinely provided an opportunity to do something unique was apparent to me. How could I turn this down?
Indeed, in the early weeks of talks and planning, every door was opened, and every obstacle was removed. Abilene Christian University administrators quickly embraced the idea and made it possible for me to go, providing both time and financial resources. My wonderful wife, Nancy, was on board, too, and she provided support and understanding.
Over the next few months, I made numerous trips to Dallas to meet with the SMU team. In addition to Dr. Gilmore as faculty and director for the travel course, I was introduced to Robyn Short, Allison Russell, Dan Russell, Aaron Horn, and Malcolm McGuire. We became immersed in intensive sessions to design and prepare for training sessions with multiple and diverse audiences.
Finally on the day before departure, with vaccinations, documentation, and seven duffel bags filled with donations for Congolese refugees, we congratulated ourselves on how smoothly things had gone. And then the email from the airline:
Your flight from Dallas to Amsterdam has been canceled. We are working to reroute you.
Eventually we were reticketed and sent on different flights, but the team was reunited in Amsterdam, and we flew into Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, after more than 24 hours of plane and airport time.
After an opportunity to attend worship on Sunday morning, we ventured downtown to the Kigali Memorial Center — one of several museums dedicated to remembering the genocide of 1994 where almost 1 million children, women, and men were killed in the name of ethnic cleansing. Our team was caught up in the enormity of our thoughts and our grief, even as we walked along the hillside where over 250,000 of the victims were buried.
However, Rwanda is a nation dedicated to reconciliation and rebuilding. The conflict was built on the tension between two tribes, the Tutsis and the Hutus. In a place where revenge and harsh justice could be readily justified, those who have risen to leadership have chosen to set aside those instinctive response mechanisms. Justice is still being done. But forgiveness and reconciliation are an official part of the recipe for rehabilitation and healing. Thus, the national theme, "Rwanda: We are one people!" stands as a call to move forward, even in this difficult time.
Our team was asked to help train several groups in Rwanda. For two days, we trained the security forces of the Kinyinya district. These men and women are the first responders on the streets of the city. Unarmed, they speak of their work as their "walk" through the community. And they walk all night, coordinating services for people in need and resolving conflict wherever they can, without the intervention of the national police or the military.
Dr. Gilmore and I were also asked to offer training on trauma, compassion fatigue, and leadership to the workers and leaders of a refugee camp in the eastern province of Rwanda. The rest of our team was to work with the children of the camp and our gifts of soccer balls, art supplies, and medical supplies were packed with care in the back of our bus. We had been told that the camp of Congolese refugees included about 500 individuals, 150 of them children.
When our bus rolled into the camp, it became evident that the population had grown a bit. We would later learn that almost 6,000 children and 3,000 women were at the camp. The number of men wasn't discussed, but that's a theme in working with Congolese refugees. Most of the adults are women, either widowed or separated from their husbands. Forced to flee in the face of horrific violence and threat, they move to surrounding countries to seek shelter and assistance.
Dr. Gilmore (or, as our African friends referred to her "Doktor BET – EE") was wonderful in the training, and the response from the adults was beautiful. Meanwhile, the rest of our team came face to face with bureaucracy as camp officials suddenly cut the time with the children short and refused to allow us to distribute our gifts. More than likely, the decision was in the interest of safety. Our donations wouldn't go very far given the size of the crowds. Although we were disappointed and saddened, in hindsight, the decision to reapply and to allow the camp officials to engineer that distribution seems the most prudent.
Our last two days in Kigali were spent training the professional staff of ALARM Rwanda. These are delightful people with missions in peace and reconciliation, business development, administration of a girls' school, and even the ongoing operation of a coffee plantation that provides jobs and work experience for Rwandans. Our team was blessed in these special moments.
From Kigali, we flew to Nairobi, Kenya to spend four days with the staff and the children at Made in the Streets Ministry (MITS). A marvelous outreach, MITS forms relationships with children living on the streets of Nairobi and then provides opportunities for schooling and trade experience. Almost 100 children were living at their location outside of Nairobi. We provided training for all of the children, plus recent graduates, in conflict resolution and leadership. Dr. Gilmore and Malcolm McGuire spent an afternoon with the MITS staff. While the plight of the kids was somewhat difficult to embrace, the hope and the possibilities from this God-inspired place helped us to see the unbelievable truths of God's promise. God helps us. We help others. It's a divine plan we saw unfolding — even recognizing the way that the children who were being helped were finding their place in the cycle of helping others.
Our hosts, Charles and Darlene Coulson, made certain that we felt welcome. We were treated to a safari at the Kenya National Wildlife preserve. Our driver and guide from MITS, Jackson, did a wonderful job and brought us face to face with a wide assortment of animals. Although we heard the lions early in the morning, we were never able to catch them in a place we could see them. But Jackson balanced our disappointment by giving us the added thrill of a visit to the nearby elephant orphanage.
Throughout our trip, I continued to feel the hope and the desire of these good African people for peace and reconciliation in a world that delivers chaos and strife. I also felt their quest for something beyond what mere humans could bring. For some, perhaps it was a the potential of combined efforts and collaboration — a communal discernment. But for most, and for me, it was a greater understanding that God is the one who delivers us and brings us peace.
"Once in a lifetime" is more than I could have ever asked for. Yet, I find myself wanting to invest more of myself in this journey. Because you see, ex Africa semper aliquid novi. Out of Africa, there is always something new. I was blessed to be on a team with incredible people — all of whom are discovering something new within themselves.


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Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears' dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing in an attempt to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington.
Christopher has an extraordinary brain. He is exceptional at maths but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, detests being touched and distrusts strangers. But now his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that turns his whole world upside down.
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Hubs has been asking for a Christmas sweater for several years, and every year I avoid the topic because I didn't feel inspired to make one. Well just over a week before Christmas and I got a great plan to just go to the store and figure it out, without feeling the creativity.
I headed to Secret Seconds in Missoula, which is one of my favorite spots to find second-hand items, and Hubs found a sweater at was heavy enough to hold up a bunch of Christmas awesomeness. I didn't want to make it too "over the top" and it needed to be washable.
I stumbled upon a basket that gave me my starting point. It was handmade by someone out of fabric and hot glue, which made it easy to pull apart and reuse the pieces for Hubs DIY Christmas Sweater.
Hubs looked through he Christmas section at Secret Seconds but did not really see anything he liked until I pointed out a big basket on the floor under a display table. It was packed full of wood ornament beads. He picked out 8 reindeer and a Sleigh. We could not find a Santa but we did find a super adorable snowman, that needed a new home. With all of our goodies we headed to Joanns Craft Store because we needed to figure out how to attach all of the fun items to the sweater.
I settled on a fabric glue that was temporary until heated by ironing. I also picked up some rather thick button thread and whole bunch of sequins.
Back home I started the project by finding a Santa Clause in our Christmas tubs, and then laying all the pieces out to decide where they would
go before using any glue.
Next I started on the snow, using some leftover felt from a previous project. I just made some curvy cuts to show off some snow-covered hills. The snow stops on the edge seam of the sweater, so from the back this DIY Christmas sweater looks perfectly normal.
After finalizing the placement of trees, and Santa's flying sleigh I glued the snow down following the directions of the glue and then ironed it in place to form the permanent bond. I could have thrown in a simple stitch around the edge to keep it secured extra strong but instead I stitched shiny sequins in place all along the edge for sparkles in the snow.
Next I decorated the tree pillows with sequins and bells, even trees on sweaters need to be decorated at Christmas time.
I attached the Santa portion of the sweater. Mostly, because I did not have a full plan it. I threaded some bells onto ribbon to act as the reigns for Santa's sleigh. They are threaded through each reindeer and the end is glued behind the sleigh. Each reindeer is sewn onto the sweater using button thread. Using big beads is very handy. I also glued the beads tot eh fabric.
Lastly I stitched a lot of snow and sparkle sequins for some extra pizzazz. Hubs loves his sweater. He has plans to wear it 3 days next week. I am really glad it is washable.
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The Ultimate Guide to Free Autodesk Resources
Autodesk Mobile Apps
Our Favorite Autodesk Mobile Apps
Autodesk has been working hard to migrate apps to the cloud and mobile devices. This is a huge departure from their roots as the most successful desktop computing software for CAD. In years past, Autodesk acquired and developed mobile apps at such speed it was tough to track them all in the Apple or Android store. At DevDays in 2013, Autodesk admitted they didn't even know how many mobile apps they had.
A little known fact: The iPad came out in April 2010 and by November, HingePoint was running Autodesk Buzzsaw Apps, on an iPad, using a WebDav API tool.
In fact, it was almost a year later before Autodesk released a Buzzsaw App for the iPad. In 2010, Autodesk was running behind their partners in mobile, but not anymore.
Today, you can find a clean and tidy summary of all the Autodesk Mobile Apps right here!
Apps range from the educational TinkerPlay, to enterprise awesomeness like BIM360 Glue. We encourage you to download and try them for yourself. Below, we overviewed some of our favorites from the app store.
The new mainstream cloud storage, collaboration and 3D viewer from Autodesk. You can view, mark up, edit, comment, and version nearly any CAD, Revit, Navis, PDF or other compatible file. This is the future of Autodesk file storage and project collaboration.
Quickly replacing Buzzsaw, Vault, and other last Generation document management platforms, A360 has a lot to offer in both the Web browser version as well as iPad, iPhone and Android mobile apps. Options exist for individuals and for groups. If you aren't on A360, try it today. Without it, you might get left in the dust!
All you need is an Autodesk ID. It is cheap, easy to use, and a "no brainer". Don't think about it, just sign up. Your clients will love seeing their projects on their phone! Amazing! Sure beats FedEx'ing around drawing sets.
Autodesk is investing heavily in this platform and it will not disappoint now. In fact, it is only going to get better. We think a lot better given the power of the cloud and the WebGL (web graphics library) that makes this all possible.
In fact, we've had clients remark that the phone apps work better than the desktop CAD/Revit Apps. So take a hint. Autodesk is moving off the desktop to the cloud at an alarming pace. This is the future of Autodesk collaboration and file management in the cloud.
A360 Drive
With A360 comes a tool, A360 Drive, that allows you to save files, work offline, and synch them across apps. With many limitations, this tool still shows a lot of promise and we firmly believe that in the near future these generational kinks will be worked out and online mobile collaboration will be the dream we always dreamed in years past.
BIM360 Glue
You haven't seen anything yet! If you liked A360, you'll be blown away by BIM360 Glue. It's HingePoint's favorite app of this generation of software. It is fully featured and the functionality seems to be almost bottomless.
The ability to collaborate, view 3D BIM models, drill into any data attribute, is simply unsurpassed. We can't even begin to get into everything possible here. All we can say is consider migrating your company and clients to BIM360 Glue if you are in the 3D/BIM world. Upload, merge, manage, edit models. It is a new day. Good bye old school Gen 1 online collaboration, a new era has arrived.
BIM360 Field
A great app for field reviews, commenting, and getting mobile construction documents on the job site and out of the trailer. Ideal for construction inspections, project management and team work. But oddly enough, the first generation of Field didn't integrate with BIM360 Glue. But we can expect Autodesk to integrate these products in the future.
BIM360 Plan
BIM360 Plan is a project management tool in mobile format. Calendar views, charts
and issues management all included in one mobile tool. For serious PMs, this tool may not impress, but it has a lot of benefits and we love where this tool is heading. We need enterprise construction management tools in the field and this is a great place to start for your team. Check it out.
AutoCAD Mobile
Finally! Unchained from the desktop, client and team members can now view and edit AutoCAD files on a phone! What a new day! Goodbye paper drawing sheets! Pull up all your CAD data on phones, tables, and mark it up, collaborate, view, comment, etc. all from the job site on or on the go.
The best part is it eliminates the need for paper print out; drawings sheets; PDFs to view the CAD drawings with your clients and teams. A real cost savings tool for everyone. If you have CAD data, and we know you all do, download this app today and graduate to the next generation.
Create 3D creatures and solve 3D riddles. We wish we had this when we were youngsters. Try it out with your kids and show them what mommy and daddy do at work.
Buzzsaw for Mobile
The world's largest CAD file storage platform, known as Autodesk Buzzsaw, now has a mobile app. Access your Buzzsaw files from phones and tablets. What else can we say? It's awesome. It is certainly better than the clunky desktop install of Buzzsaw… and the web-based Buzzsaw never really had the features we liked about the desktop version. Now you can relax and access your Buzzsaw files on the go. What's not to like?
To learn more or download these great apps, head to the Autodesk Mobile App Store.


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Savages are from London. Guitarist Gemma Thompson had come up with the name for the band and had been discussing the idea with singer, Jehnny Beth, for almost a year. Thompson says the band's name was derived from books, such as Lord of the Flies, that she read when she was younger. The band was eventually formed in October 2011 and they had their first gig in January 2012[4] supporting rock band British Sea Power. Their manager John Best also manages Sigur Ros. The Observer has said of Savages "it's not exactly sexy, it's not funny and they're not going to be rolling around in mud like the Slits. But it's the closest thing to art that "post-punk"… has offered in a while". The New Musical Express described their performances as "frottage-inducingly intense affairs".
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Recipe: White Bean Chicken Chili
Recipe: White Bean Chicken Chili
- 1/2 c. diced onion
- 1/2 c. diced celery
- 1-2 T. butter and oil (olive or coconut)
- 1 lb. boneless chicken breast or thighs, cut up into bite-sized pieces
- 1-15 oz. can great northern beans, rinsed and drained
- 1-4 oz. can diced green chilis
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 c. organic sour cream
In a large pan, saute onion and celery in butter and oil for a couple of minutes. Add chicken and continue sauteeing until chicken is done and no longer pink inside. Add beans, chilis, salt, pepper. Stir well and heat through. Add sour cream right before serving mixing it in thoroughly.
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The Mid Suffolk Ogden Partnership was launched this academic year with an inter-school competition for Year 11 students held at King Edward's High School in Bury St Edmunds. Five schools entered teams of four students and the students had to solve some practical problems, answer some challenging physics questions, and figure out some impenetrable physics dingbats, among other problems in a circus of activities. The competition ended with a 'university challenge' quiz featuring the two top teams from the earlier rounds.
We have also been holding a series of Isaac Physics masterclasses and have held a Year 9 astronomy evening at Culford. Our next event is a physics-based Key Stage 2 day to be held at the start of Science Week this March.
Setting up the group has involved a number of schools getting together and has not been without workload issues but we hope to continue and expand with more schools joining and offering activities next year.


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Sympathy is extended to Mr Bert Neill, Lisnamandra, Crossdoney on the death of his brother.
Seasonal greetings
Seasonal greetings to the editor and staff and to all readers of this column, may I extend good wishes for a holy happy and enjoyable Christmas.
There is general sadness and disappointment at the decision to close the Cavan night shelter. For more than twenty years, men who for various reasons found themselves with nowhere to rest or have a night's sleep were always welcome to the night shelter where they were assured of a friendly welcome – a warm meal and a comfortable bed. The decision to close the night shelter is difficult to understand as for a quarter of a century this facility provided food and shelter for men who found themselves homeless and who now with long and bitterly cold winter nights are faced with having to sleep outdoors. It is hoped that wiser counsel will intervene and that the doors of the night shelter shall once again re-open and provide shelter for those in need and before the occurrence of a heart breaking tragedy.
Bingo in Ballinagh Community Centre every Tuesday night at 9pm and with Christmas season now with us very valuable prizes are awaiting to be won.
Local stores report a brisk business in the run up to Christmas and with very attractive bargains on offer the coming week is sure to see customers arrive from near and far.
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Croagh Patrick to Ballinagh challenge group 40km cycle will take place on Saturday, December 27th at noon from Ballinagh community centre in aid of Debra Drury Fund. Registration at 11am suggested donation, single cyclist 10 euro family 10 euro. On behalf of our community may I wish the very popular Debra whose mother is a native of this district a speedy recovery and assure her of the prayers and good wishes of everyone in our community for her recovery to good health.
Mr Bobby Jordan
There was widespread sorrow with the news of the death of Mr Bobby Jordan, Carrickacleevan. A quiet friendly and most inoffensive man and always a kind and helpful neighbour. Always interested in helping out with every deserving charity, he was a highly respected friend of young and old and to be seen to the forefront in assisting anyone in need. To his parents, John Robert and Daisy, I extend the sympathy of our community which also extends to his relatives and countless friends. The funeral which was large and representative took place following service in St Patrick's Church, Ballintemple. May his gentle soul rest in peace.
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Use stamps to help Alzheimers Society can be left at reception in the Farnham Arms Hotel, Main St, Cavan.
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On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 08:39 -0400, Greg Forte wrote:Yesterday I added new <failoverdomain>, <resource>, and <service> sections to my cluster.conf (for a failover-able samba service, though I don't think that's relevant). I incremented the version, and ran ccs_tool update and cman_tool version -r.Today I noticed that the only status checks being logged in /var/log/messages were the ones for the smb service on the node running it. Prior to my changes, all status checks were being logged on both nodes. All cluster services were still running properly, but it looks like the status checks on everything but the smb service stopped.After forcing a restart of rgmanager on both nodes, status checks (or at least logging of them) is back to normal.Is this a bug, or am I missing something?It might be a bug, but there's not enough information to tell right now. Did the services remain in the 'started' state, or did one or more get stopped for some reason after the transition?
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PetroChallenge Competition: Oil, Gas Industry, Academia to Hold Competition
The University of Houston is hosting a unique, four-day competition for high school students interested in a career in the oil and gas industry. The competition is designed to simulate situations that an energy industry worker would typically encounter while on the job.
The competition is another way to build student interest in an oil and gas career, while helping the industry to build a pipeline of qualified workers to one day step into the positions vacated by the retiring workers.
During the PetroChallenge competition, which is "a series of educational and competitive events held at schools and universities to develop students' knowledge of the oil and gas industry and their interest in pursuing educational and professional careers in the industry," the students will have an opportunity to study seismic surveys, compete for rigs and do some wheeling and dealing, UH said.
In addition to the University of Houston, which is hosting the event, the sponsors of the completion include the Independent Petroleum Association of America/Petroleum Equipment & Services Association (IPAA/PESA) Energy Education Center, Occidental Petroleum Corporation and Schlumberger Ltd.
"Our students are the only high-school students in the United States who have been doing this, and I think this is year six for us. It gives our students a wonderful insight into the oil and gas industry. It's designed not only to make students thinking about energy careers, but also to see the range of careers, and the application of math and science, the teamwork and negotiation skills, and to make it relevant for them," Anne Ford, executive director, IPAA/PESA Energy Education Center, told Rigzone.
The competition will be between nearly 400 students from Energy Institute High School, Milby High School, Westside High School and the Young Women's College Preparatory Academy in the Houston Independent School District, as well as Southwest High School in Fort Worth, Texas.
"The students have had to have good grades and to have participated in other activities to even qualify to go to the competition," Ford said, adding that prize money will be awarded. "We mix the teams up wherever possible, so they're forced to work with people they don't know, which is what it's like in the real world."
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Hey everyone,
So I'm in orbit around Kerbin, setting a maneuver to do a fly-by of the Mun, which is set as my target. After deleting a few botched nodes I managed to set one that could work, with some adjustments. I clicked out of the node, and it disappeared. I tried setting another one, and found that I couldn't select any portion of my orbit, nor could I select the Mun to unset it as my target. I was able to select parts of my ship in staging mode (for example, I could run experiments, extend comm devices, etc.)
It first happened last night. Of course, I assumed it was a RAM issue so I closed out, cleared the cache, and went to bed.
This morning, nothing changed until I fully upgraded mission control, assuming my node-setting capabilities were limited. I was able to set nodes again, for a while. Then the same thing happened.
Embracing uncertainty, I went ahead with my fly-by and collected science, and completed the contract. However, I found that after escaping the Mun's SOI, I can't even select any part of my ship! A true nightmare scenario when on a science binge. Luckily, this was fixed by exiting to the main menu and reloading, but the maneuver problem persists.
It's not exactly a game-breaking thing, but a degree of certainty is always nice in a game with such a small margin for error. Plus, it's time-consuming enough without learning the math and doing your own calculations.


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What are Invasive Species?
Any species that are not native to Lake Champlain and may be likely to cause ecological or environmental harm are considered 'invasive species.'
People, animals and natural forces have been moving plants and animals, intentionally or accidentally, from one habitat to another throughout history. Sometimes, introduced species are not a threat to new habitats. If the newcomers have natural predators in their new home they don't significantly upset the ecosystem. Invasive species, however, lack predators in their new habitat and have aggressive growth patterns. If the ecosystem can't keep a newcomer's population controlled. Without natural, ecological controls such as disease and predators, the balance of that ecosystem is tipped. The non-native species out-compete the native plants and wildlife causing the native species to suffer, decline or become extinct. This reduces Lake Champlain's native bio-diversity. Once they've established themselves, these species can be nearly impossible to eliminate.
Some examples of Invasive Species:
- Zebra mussels that entered Lake Champlain around 1993, have proliferated and smothered the native mussels, choked water intake pipes, and sliced swimmers' feet .
- Alewives– first found in the lake in 2003- have become a dominant forage fish. Recent winter kills of alewives have resulted in tons of rotting fish washing ashore after the ice has melted (see picture below). This die-off does seem to have affected the overall lake-wide population of that fish, however.
- Eurasian Milfoil has spread throughout Lake Champlain, affecting both swimmers and boaters. Its cousin Variable-leaved Milfoil was found in 2009 in Missisquoi Bay; it too can become a nuisance.
- Sometimes native species can also get out of balance with the ecosystem. Sea Lampreys are believed to be a native species, but their populations are currently so high that they threaten the survival of other native species, like Lake Trout.
Where are they from?
More than 60 percent of the invasive species (that we know about) have entered by way of canals, especially the Champlain Canal at the southern end of the lake. Many other invasives are ready to join them. The Hudson River (which is connected to Lake Champlain by The Champlain Canal) hosts more than twice the number of exotic species as Lake Champlain; the Great Lakes host nearly four times as many.
Now let's look at some of the current and up-coming threats to Lake Champlain's current ecosystem.
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The steambarge I. N .Foster was held in
port Saturday by the southerly gale.
The government pile driver has been
transferred from Algoma to Manitowoc.
A southerly blow swept the lake Tuesday,
but died out during the night, and Wednesday it was dead calm.
The schooner Ottawa, Capt. Griffith, was
wind-bound in port Saturday. She was flying a Taft and Sherman banner.
The steambarge Edward Buckley is billed
for a docking at the shipyard and will be
docked either today or tomorrow.
Among the passages thru the bay last
evening was the schooner George E. Marsh,
bound north under sail in light trim.
The tug Lorena, Capt. Jim Tufts, arrived
in port last evening with the barge Felicitous, which she brought from Two Rivers.
The tug Arctic of Manitowoc was a visitor
at this port again, Friday, being held here
until Sunday by the SE gale, when she got
away with her stone scow.
The tug Smith has a couple of cargoes of
stone to deliver on the east shore before the
close of the season. One of them goes to
White Lake and the other to Holland.
The tug Torrent started out Friday with
the stone-laden barge Butman, but was
driven back for shelter by the southerly
gale. She got away again the same even-
The steambarge Geo. C. Markham, Capt.
Harry Nelson, had her compass adjusted
Sunday morning while laying in port, the
job being performed by Clarence E. Long,
the expert in this line.
The tug S. M. Fischer and carferry were
r held up here for several hours, Saturday by
the southerly blow. The steambarges Geo. C. Markham and Alice M. Gill were also in port at the same time.
The schooner Defiance sailed thru Monday on her way to the west shore and the
Butcher Boy passed thru under sail during
the blow of Tuesday. She must have had
a fine run down the lake.
The tug Smith left port Saturday morning with the Kellogg and Hurd, but was
driven back for shelter by the heavy south
east gale that sprung up. They did not get
away again until Sunday evening.
Rieboldt & Wolter have had the dirt piled
up by the dredge on the south side of the
shipyard levelled off and the holes filled up,
which gives them a great deal more yard
room and adds much to improving the appearance of the place.
The steamer Winnipeg stopped at the
shipyard this morning, having come from
Green Bay. A wheel, that had been purchased from Rieboldt & Wolter was taken on board and the Winnipeg went to Manitowoc to have it put on, the boxes here being occupied.
The fishing tug Sylvia had a rough time
of it Saturday morning, getting a pretty
good shaking up. She started out to lift
her nets and ran into as heavy a sea as has
been experienced this fall. A big wave
boarded the tug and smashed in one of the
engine room doors. She got back to port
as rapidly as possible without attempting to
lift her twine.
The steamer T. S. Christie, Capt. Peter
Larson, stopped in port Saturday and picked
up the schooner Mowatt, Capt. Kirth, and
towed her to Spraggie, Can. The Mowatt
had cleared from Green Bay for Duluth and
had nearly reached the Straits when she was
driven back by a northerly gale, taking refuge in this bay. While here she received orders to wait for the Christie.
While at Algoma last week the barge Advance had her rudder broken and the upper part of the stern post torn out. She was
laying at the dock partly unloaded when the storm sprung up that caused the waves to
roll into the harbor. The result was that
the Advance was pounded on the bottom.
The rudder becoming loose at the bottom
was swished around by the waves, playing
havoc with the steering gear and wheel, do
ling a couple of hundreds dollars damage.
Capt. Aug. Nelson returned here Saturday from a business trip to Milwaukee in the interest of the automatic steering gear
(attachment which he patented. There was
some improvements to be made on the attachment which he went down to look after. The company organized to promote the sale
and manufacture of this apparatus are making arrangements to install it on the revenue cutter Tuscarora, but should the government boat be laid up it is the intention to put it on the Grand Trunk carferry Milwaukee.
The government lighthouse tender Sumac
was in port Friday morning on one of her
periodical visits. She had on board the new
bell for the Peshtigo reef lightship, which
was placed on that vessel the same afternoon. The article published in this column
last week asking for the substitution of fog
whistle instead of a bell on this craft is most
heartily endorsed by marine men generally
who have occasion to navigate Green bay.
The attention of the lighthouse department
as been called to the matter and there is
no doubt that they will see the wisdom of
baking the change | as soon as it can be
brought about through the regular channels
of business.
The schooner Georgia L. Wrenn, Captain O'Brien, was on the boxes at the shipyard
the latter part of last week, during which
she had the bottom thoroughly calked and
searched. This was the first trip of the
Wrenn for the season, and it will also be
her last. She was on her way to Manistique where she will remain until the skipper can get a cargo of Christmas trees.
The evergreens are gathered in the vicinity
and conveyed to Manistique by rail and
otherwise. They are here loaded onto the
vessel and taken to Chicago. Here they are.
assorted and trimmed before being placed
on the market, where they are sold for 25c
to $2, depending on their size.
The stern-wheel river boat Grand was
brought over to the shipyard Sundays from
Menominee. The boat will be given a thorough bottom calking and some minor repairs. This craft and a sister ship, the Rapids, were formerly used on the Grand river,
carrying passengers between Grand Rapids
and Grand Haven, Mich. They were purchased by a Menominee man, who intended
to use them on the west shore, but for some
reason this was abandoned. The owner has
practically sold the steamers to parties in
Alabama where they, are to be used in the
excursion business. The only drawback to
the sale is the question of delivery, the long
run making the question of fuel supply a
difficult problem for this type of boat.
Capt. C. B. Packard of the steambarge I. N. Foster reports that the southwesterly
blow which swept over the lake about two
weeks ago did much damage to the three
last cribs sunk at the entrance to the harbor
of Ludington, Mich. A large amount of
stone that had been thrown in to anchor the
cribs was washed out by the enormous seas
that swept over them, and the structures
themselves put out of plumb, although fastened by hundreds of 36-inch steel belts that had been driven through three sets of
square timbers. These were bent and
twisted and the fabric hogged so much that
it will require a great deal of work and out
lay of money to put it back in shape again'
Captain Packard says that the effect of a
south wester is more severe at Ludington
and other east shore port than from any
other quarter.
The steambarge Mathew Wilson, Capt.
Chas. E. McClure, was docked at the shipyard Monday for repairs to the bottom, having been one of the smoke and fog victims
last month. She stranded on Horseshoe
island, entrance to Niagara river, on the
night of September 21st, while bound from
Boyne City, Mich., to Tonawanda with a
cargo of maple lumber. She was only delayed about four hours, being released by a couple of tugs. It was found on examination on the boxes that the steamer had suffered considerable more damage than was
anticipated. The forefoot was gone and 15
or 20 feet of the keel, besides several planks
were so badly chewed up that they had to
be replaced with new. The damage will
aggregate fully $500 or more. It might be
mentioned in passing that the cargo on the
Wilson at the time was exceptionally valuable, being rated at $15,000. The Wilson will get out today.
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Sumptuous Greek Salad!
Ugh! Salad is boring. How can one possibly subsist on leaves that contain mostly water? I personally cannot!
To add insult to injury, in most restaurants designer salads are ridiculously overpriced. And what's more, with all the extra flavourings – dressings, candied pecans, crispy tortilla strips, etc, the salad ends up containing more calories than a cheese burger!
Greek salad is different! It's sumptuous. It's peppery, salty with olives & full of garlic. In short, it's tasty & surprisingly filling.
And it's so easily made at home!
- 1 large – Cucumber (quartered & sliced)
- 2 medium – Vine Grown Tomatoes (chopped)
- 1 medium – Pepper, red, orange or yellow (chopped)
- 1/4 medium – Red Onion (sliced)
- 1/4 medium – purple cabbage (sliced)
- 12 large – Olives, black or green (sliced)
- 1 cloves – Garlic (crushed in garlic press, then sliced)
- Grind liberally – Black Pepper
- 1/2 – Lemon
- Liberal pour – Olive oil
- 2 tsp – Basil (fresh if you can get it)
- 2 tsp – Oregano (fresh if you can get it)
- As desired – Feta Cheese
Preparation Instructions:
- Chop up cucumber, tomato, pepper, onion & cabbage into bite sized pieces. Or chop to a size that you desire.
- Half & slice up the olives.
- Crush & slice the garlic.
- Add the above to a casserole dish (that owns an accompanying lid) & combine thoroughly.
- Grind pepper liberally over the vegetables & stir.
- Squeeze half a lemon over the salad & stir.
- Pour enough olive oil to cover mixture, but not enough to pool at bottom & stir once more.
Serving Instructions:
- Scoop out into a beautiful bowl!
- Add basil & oregano to taste.
- Add feta or goat's cheese or the cheese of your choice.
Light a candle. Pour yourself a glass of wine. And enjoy this sumptuous salad!
Keep your Greek Salad in a casserole dish with a lid that seals moderately well. This way your salad will last in the fridge for at least three days.
This Is The Best Salad You Can Keep On Hand
This salad is amazing because:
- It has no leaves, so it will keep for much longer.
- Cutting the vegetables into bite-sized chunks saves time.
- It can be used as a base salad for many different dishes.
There Are Multiple Ways to Change Up This Salad
For variety to your Greek Salad add:
- Beans
- Brown rice
- Barley
- Cheddar, feta, brie, goat's cheese or blue cheese
- Salmon, prawns or other seafood
- Beef or chicken
- Eggs
Organic ingredients are preferable for both taste & nutrient value. Hopefully it's both available & affordable in your area.
Do you have ideas on how to make your Greek Salad unique? Please share with us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
– LEONG Orthopaedic Health
If you like this article, please share it!
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i was wondering if they would date non-indian guys... i know many indian people have different religions and speak many different languages, and many only date within their cultures
But i was wondering they wouldn't mind dating a guy who isn't indian
I have nice olive skin, brown eyes and brown hair :)
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But yeah many also date non-indians also.
But each individual is different so you never know. depends on the girl.
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Sony, mover and shaker in the camera business (and producer of what seems to be every other sensor sold), has shocked the world by reporting it's third straight year of losses in its imaging division.
In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, Sony's imaging division lost $1.29 billion or 2% versus the previous year. This comes as quite a shock to many that see Sony as one of the true innovators in a very conservative industry.
At a press conference, Sony PR Director Mavica Vaio said, "Due to continued losses in the imaging division, Sony has no choice but to cancel or postpone a whole slew of products that we currently have in our development pipeline. This unfortunately includes a dizzying array of fast prime and zoom lenses for the Alpha lens mount."
"Originally, we had planned to launch a full catalog of fast primes and zooms for APS-C and Full Frame this summer, each a complete lineup optimized for their sensor size and with SteadyShot optical image stabilization on each lens and worth 3-4 stops. The primes were all faster than F1.8 and the zooms were all F2.0 constant aperture. All lenses had metal barrels, aperture rings, long throw helicoids, aspherical elements, and metal lens hoods. But our current financial situation makes these products unfeasible at the moment, and until our financial situation improves, we have to put these plans on the shelf."
"Fortunately, we still have the green light on a number of exciting new Sony products that you'll see in a short while. This includes four new variable-aperture kit zooms, six new lens mounts, and twelve new bodies. Two of the new lens mounts will not, at launch, have any compatible lenses, but we hear that freelensing is a thing now, so we'll encourage photographers to 'make.believe' that they actually have a functional lens."
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Traveling Luck for Wilson Yacht Club, New York, United States
Where is Wilson Yacht Club?What's around Wilson Yacht Club?
Wikipedia near Wilson Yacht Club
Where to stay near Wilson Yacht Club
The timezone in Wilson Yacht Club is America/Iqaluit
Sunrise at 08:42 and Sunset at 18:11. It's light
Latitude. 43.3136°, Longitude. -78.8375° , Elevation. 80m
Weather near Wilson Yacht Club; Report from Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls International Airport, NY 29km away
Weather :
Temperature: 3°C / 37°F
Wind: 20.7km/h West/Southwest gusting to 28.8km/h
Cloud: Sky Clear
Weather :
Temperature: 3°C / 37°F
Wind: 20.7km/h West/Southwest gusting to 28.8km/h
Cloud: Sky Clear
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Geographic features & Photographs around Wilson Yacht Club, in New York, United States
- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Sunset Beach (0.6km)
- Wilson (1.2km)
- Roosevelt Beach (2.2km)
- Coolidge Beach (3km)
- Hopkins Beach (5.1km)
- Elberta (7.2km)
- Uneeda Beach (8.3km)
- South Wilson (9.7km)
- Burt (11.8km)
- Ransomville (12km)
- East Wilson (12.1km)
- Olcott (12.1km)
- Newfane (12.6km)
- Harrison Grove (13.1km)
- North Ridge (13.3km)
- Molyneaux Corners (14.1km)
- Porter Center (14.3km)
- Streeters Corners (14.6km)
- Warrens Corners (15km)
- Local Feature;
- A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Wilson Yacht Club (0km)
- Tuscarora Park (0.2km)
- Clark Marina (0.5km)
- Pierhead Light 2 (0.8km)
- Daisy Barn Campground (3.5km)
- Filmore Chapel (8.1km)
- Camp Tebele (11.2km)
- Newfane Marina (11.9km)
- cemetery;
- a burial place or ground.
- Greenwood Cemetery (0.4km)
- Halsted Cemetery (8.4km)
- West Lake Road Cemetery (11.3km)
- Lakeview Cemetery (12km)
- North Ridge Cemetery (13.4km)
- Budd Cemetery (14.4km)
- Saint Charles Cemetery (15.4km)
- Corwin Cemetery (15.4km)
- church;
- a building for public Christian worship.
- Concordia Church (10km)
- East Wilson Church (10.8km)
- Advent Church (11.6km)
- Saint Andrews Church (11.6km)
- Saint Peters Church (13.2km)
- Saint Bridgets Church (14.9km)
- Saint Johns Church (15km)
- airport;
- a place where aircraft regularly land and take off, with runways, navigational aids, and major facilities for the commercial handling of passengers and cargo.
- Hollands International Field (9.1km)
- Olcott-Newfane Airport (10.4km)
- Palmer Airport (10.7km)
- Hibbards Airport (11.6km)
- Cambria Airport (13.1km)
Accommodation around Wilson Yacht Club
- stream;
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- East Branch Twelvemile Creek (0.6km)
- Twelvemile Creek (1.6km)
- Hopkins Creek (9.1km)
- Eighteenmile Creek (11.8km)
- Sixmile Creek (12.1km)
- school;
- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Marks School (1.9km)
- Olcott School (12.5km)
- District School (12.7km)
- Central School (13.9km)
- administrative division;
- an administrative division of a country, undifferentiated as to administrative level.
- Wilson, Town of (5.9km)
- Newfane, Town of (13.7km)
- Porter, Town of (14.8km)
- bay;
- a coastal indentation between two capes or headlands, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
- Tuscarora Bay (0.3km)
- park;
- an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Krull Park (12.5km)
Wikipedia entries close to
Wilson Yacht Club
- Wilson-Tuscarora State Park city city o
- Olcott, New York city city o
- Ransomville, New York city city o
- Newfane (CDP), New York city city o
- Four Mile Creek State Park city city o
- Youngstown, New York city city o
- Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima church
- Fort Niagara State Park city city o
- Fort Niagara landmark fortress
- Fort George (Kanada) landmark fortress
- Lockport (city), New York city city o
- Joseph Davis State Park city city o
- Niagara-on-the-Lake city city i
- Barker, Niagara County, New York city city o
- South Lockport, New York city city o
- Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park city city o
Airports close to Wilson Yacht Club
Niagara falls international(IAG), Niagara falls, Usa (29km)
Buffalo niagara international(BUF), Buffalo, Usa (50km)
City centre(YTZ), Toronto, Canada (67.2km)
Downsview(YZD), Toronto, Canada (81.9km)
Buttonville muni(YKZ), Toronto, Canada (87.7km)


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What's worse than an Iranian bomb? An Iranian almost-bomb
By Gary Gambill, National Post
For all of their sharp disagreements over the particulars of foreign policy, everyone in Washington seems to agree on one thing — that the overarching objective of American policy toward Iran should be, as President Barack Obama frequently intones, to "prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon."
They've got it wrong. The primary objective of American policy must be a sweeping degradation of Iran's nuclear industrial infrastructure, preferably by diplomatic means, even if the resolute pursuit of this goal provokes Iran into rashly attempting the construction of a bomb — indeed, especially if it does so.
Bear in mind that Iran hasn't been rushing to build a bomb. Rather, it has been working steadily to increase its breakout capacity — the ability to successfully produce a nuclear weapon on short notice, if it made a mad dash to do so. According to the latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has accumulated 7,154 kg of under-5% low-enriched uranium (LEU) and 196 kg of near-20% medium enriched uranium (MEU), altogether enough to build six or seven bombs if enriched further to weapons grade (i.e., about 90%). With over 18,000 centrifuges installed at the Natanz and Fordow facilities, Iran's breakout time is currently four to six weeks — which is to say, that is how long it would take to produce a sufficient quantity of weapons grade uranium (WGU) for its first bomb, according to an October 24 reportby the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), plus whatever extra time is needed to construct a serviceable explosive device.
Iran's paramount goal is to inch as close as possible to the finish line without triggering a military response, then reach a permanent settlement with the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany) that preserves as much of its breakout capacity as possible in exchange for an end to sanctions that have hobbled its economy.
Achieving an internationally-legitimized nuclear threshold status has immense strategic advantages for the Islamic Republic, above and beyond the ability to rapidly weaponize at a few months' notice: Fear of provoking Tehran to cross this final threshold likely will discourage the international community from slapping on future sanctions for sponsoring terrorism, bloody proxy interventions in the region (including Syria), human rights violations, and Iran's various other rogue-state activities. And Iranian threshold status is just as bad as a bomb in instigating a regional nuclear arms race.
Phase one of this strategy had largely run its course by the time Iran began secretly negotiating with Obama administration officials in 2013, and Iran's enrichment efforts had slowed considerably. Moving substantially closer to the nuclear goal line (e.g., by accumulating sufficient MEU to build a bomb without having to enrich LEU all the way up to weapons grade) would have …read more
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HAPPINESS is…NEOM's newest candle
Well hello Happiness! NEOM's newest candle launches this week, just in time for spring. Or rather "candles", because Happiness (as in real life) comes in big doses (a three-wick home candle, £37.50 with a burn time of 55 hrs) and mini doses (a cute candle that loves travelling, £13).
NEOM have blended essential oils of "happy" flowers and fruit – White Neroli, Mimosa & Lemon – with 100% natural vegetable wax (goodbye toxins and black smoke!) and poured the resulting deliciousness into a three-wick candle, then wrapped it in a spring-has-finally-arrived box.
There are four main notes here: White Neroli (balancing, healing, uplifting), Mimosa (sweet and summery) and Lemon (fresh and sparkling) plus a sprikling of green grass to create a scent that "captures the awakening of spring".
Happiness is delicate, floral, zesty and just a little bit cheeky. It's longer days, bluer skies, sunnier days, spring showers. It's the first brave crocuses after the snow…fresh spring mornings and 'lighter longer' evenings. It's "smile, spring is around the corner".
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Who doesn't love ramen?
In today's Hawaii's Kitchen, we're in for a treat! Agu Ramen Owner Chef Hisashi Uehara and Chef Tim show us how to make their kotteri tonkotsu ramen.
The tonkotsu broth is cooked daily for over 18 hours and the ramen is served with traditional thin noodles that are prepared al dente to absorb just the right amount of the flavorful, rich and creamy broth.
Each bowl is then topped with fresh house-made char sui, aji, tamago, crunchy menma, fresh negi and sesame seeds.
Agu Ramen Bistro has 2 locations, in Ward Centre and on Isenberg Street.
For more information, visit www.aguramen.com.