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December 5th 2010
Published: December 5th 2010
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"This way to the father and son using binoculars to see a bird that is right in front of them."
Anecdotes II
Well, here is another round of stories and observations I have picked up along the way. I have also found some pictures that sort of matches the spirit of the stories below.
The other kind of travel tips
In the last installment of Anecdotes I was rambling about how useless phrasebooks are. The same goes for travel guides in general. They do try to warn you of strange customs in the country you are visiting, but there are still some akward experiences waiting for you no matter how closely you study them. So here are some very useful tips for you.
Tip #1
I have already mentioned how much I am enjoying massages during my travels. It is the best possible way to relax and get those nasty hours of bus travel out of your body. There are however a few things to remember.
When you want a massage it is important to "empty" yourself beforehand. Particularly a full body massage will press any leftovers out of you and it REALLY ruins the experience if you spew a lot of methane into the face of the young girl or boy who is trying
This is me trying to look cool
to make you as comfortable as possible. If you are lying next to a fat German couple it is downright embarrassing.
Tip #2
I have indeed become a diver. Taking the two PADI courses on Pulau Weh was one of the best things I have done for myself. There are however some problems with the PADI manual for the Open Water Diver course. Some things that could have been more clear. So in case you are going to take the course I will save you from some embarrassment.
First of all there is no mention of what to wear underneath a wet-suit and you may - as I did - find yourself in doubt. Do you go commando? Underwear? A Santa suit? Not a hint can be found in the book.
The answer is that you should wear some rather tight-fitting skimpy swim wear. The kind of stuff that men should not normally wear on a beach and the kind that women should be wearing all the time.
The other problem is the mention of Free Diving. There is even an optional Free Dive included in the course, but I could find no explanation of what
With a group of Thai elite soldiers
I thought we were doing the "Hands on each others shoulders" routine, but no. Just the stupid white guy.
that actually is. Well it is not the same as nude diving even though the photos in the manual are extremely misleading in this respect (I strongly recommend having a look if you have an Open Water manual. There is even a horny guy in the corner looking at a seemingly naked couple and the guy has something "floating" beneath him). My question was answered with an explanation that it it just means diving without Scuba gear. Not without a swimsuit.
Tip #3
Language barriers can be a problem in even the most touristy places. Sometimes you have to resort to a combination of English and sign language and this works perfectly. Most of the time.
I cannot stress the importance of this tip enough. You really want to remember this one, especially if you are a guy.
When using hand signs to ask for a toothpick at a restaurant you have to be very, very careful. If you are sloppy and in the wrong place at the wrong time, the gesture may be mis-interpreted as a request for a blow-job and the ensuing confusion is a nightmare. If you find yourself mysteriously being lead into
Photo war with Soluy
a room in the back that you would wish you had never seen, then you have done it wrong. And the word "toothpick" is already pretty nasty for a Dane.
The Dino Driver
There are a ton of people who have jobs that the rest of us never notice. Often it is because we don't really want to know anything. Like the guy I once sat across from at a very long dinner. We sort of ran out of things to say when he told me that he worked at a crematorium. You simply can't follow up on that. "So, do you like burning corpses?" No, won't do, so I got so perplexed that I sort of ignored him for the rest of the evening. People working in chicken slaughterhouses, with tv-inspection of sewers or Lars Løkkes speech writer all fall into the same category.
Other jobs are best kept hidden since it would ruin the magic. The people at theme parks have always annoyed me. You can see how much they hate their job and there you are trying to have fun. You don't want to be reminded that even the most organized enjoyment becomes very
Kids being silly
tedious after a few days.
And then there are jobs that yes, are hidden as well, but where it becomes even more magical when you actually hear about it. Jobs that you had never thought about, but you are thankful that they exist.
I haven't met the Dino Driver. It was Angie, but she spoke so vividly about him that I just have to share it as well. Dino Driver sounds obscure but it really is pretty straightforward. He drives a giant mechanized dinosaur at url=http://www.dinosaurlive.com/]a show that travels the globe and promises a much more life-like experience than any other Dino shows. And the Dino Driver was proud. He told Angie all the details about how the hydraulic systems and computerized controls enabled him to move the Dino around just like they moved in the ol' days. All primary muscle groups could be controlled. "It is amazing!"
This particular Dino Driver drove a female T-Rex and he had named her "Daisy". I have no idea how you determine the sex of a T-Rex. It would seem a rather dangerous endeavor. Anyway, one of the shows had been cancelled and now he was just doing a bit
A crotch V-sign
V is for Vipassana by the way.
of travelling while the dinos where being shipped to the next location. What a way to see the world. From the inside of a fake dinosaur.
And if you are wondering how a Dino Driver gets into his vehicle it is wonderfully poetic. It turns out that the best place to hide a latch is where a real dinosaur would have had its ass and by squirming up through it he can make his way into the seat. Controlling it like a giant hand puppet through the rectum.
And in case you were wondering which occupation the Dino Driver's girlfriend might have. She is of course a stripper. What else. Better than fiction.
So shortly before you left Europe you broke up with your girlfriend. A necessary step you say. One that you don't regret. But still one that made you quite sad.
So travelling around Southeast Asia should be uncomplicated and you come up with an idea for ensuring that you won't get into real girl-trouble. Just don't bring any condoms. You know yourself well enough to know that this will prevent you from making any really stupid mistakes or getting too attached
Stairs to nowhere
It took a while to get Soluy to pose for this shot.
to anybody along the way. And it works perfectly for a while. You are in fact a bit proud of yourself. Words like "clever" and "brilliant" go through your head whenever you think about this.
That is, until you actually find yourself in a situation where you really need a condom and the place you are stuck in is completely condom-less. The closest thing would be a used bicycle inner tube or some goat intestines. Things that are fairly close and might actually do the job, but they are still not really options. Chewing gum. That is when you start using different words to describe your plan.
Words you would use if someone cut in line in an airport. Words that could describe inventions such as the self-cleaning cat toilet or the "
Stadium Pal
". That part of your vocabulary that fits George W. Bush so well. Those words now go through your head and they are all aimed at yourself.
And it is with these words still going through your head that you a couple of days later find yourself going into the first open pharmacy that you have been able to find. To end the harassment of
And she is kicking again
And again and again and again
self. And you find yourself standing in front of a middle-aged woman and even though you have done this countless times before it never really gets comfortable.
So you ask her: "Do you have any condoms?"
"Condoms, yes", she says and reaches into a glass counter between the two of you. She fumbles around for a while and then drags out a tiny box. It is pink and there is a big strawberry on it. At first you think it's chewing gum but upon further inspection it does on fact say "condoms" on it.
You ask. "Do you have any without strawberry flavor?". In your head you are also asking "Who would buy pink strawberry condoms?" The real question is who on earth would want to wear them.
She says. "You don't want condoms?"
"Sure I do but not with strawberry flavor". She pushes the little pink package a bit closer to you. And you sort of panic a bit. You want as much distance between that strawberry and yourself as possible. To just run. Fears of permanent impotence. Thoughts of future explanations you would have to go through. It is just a weird thing
Angkor tits
Why do I still take photos like this? I'm 36. But the stone cold Angkor "ladies" had fantastic tits.
to say to a girl: "I hope you like jam!"
You are pointing frantically at other boxes in the cabinet and she pulls out a giant red and yellow box that can cure most skin diseases (or at least famine) and you just keep pointing at anything with no fruit on it.
It takes a while, but it gets sorted out. As you leave the store you can hear both yourself and her sighing in relief. You are now the proud owner of two small boxes of "Duo Action Condoms" and you are tempted to just rip one open to figure out what the hell that means. But at least you are no longer the only traveler in Southeast Asia without condoms.
Guru Jokes
After many days at the Vipassana meditation center we were a pretty nice crowd. I mean, we would have laughed at anything. An early Tom Hanks movie might even have been funny. But the only entertainment that we would get was the daily lectures from N. S. Goenka, the teacher of this technique. He did manage to be quite funny at times and then there was this one joke, that I simply
This Dutch guy insisted that I should take this shot. His camera was rubbish though so I took one with my own, just to make him envious.
cannot understand that no-one has either thought of first or at least stolen. The videos we were looking at were 20 years old. But anyway, it goes likes this:
He talks about how beauty is a temporary thing. You may think that your girlfriends hair is amazingly beautiful until she cooks a meal for you and you find one of those hairs in the dish. Then all of a sudden all notions of beauty is forgotten. This was all a build-up for this:
"Then there are people who say that beauty comes from within. Well if beauty comes from within, then I would like to know which hole it comes out from."
It is all in the name
So I met this girl. Drop-dead gorgeous, but she really should keep her mouth shut. I know. It is a terrible thing to say. Just shut up and be pretty, but in this case it was her only real option. Everything that she said was involuntarily funny. Like, how she envied the beggars. Her "theory" about how it was OK to eat pork but not chicken. About how the number 4 was fantastic and 5 was
Useful Monk
They laughed their asses off when they saw that I was taking this shot, but is was just funny to see how they put that monk to work.
downright evil.
It would be wrong of me to reveal her identity. So I am not going to say that she was French, 25 years old and that her original name was Sara. Original name because she had been persuaded by some diabolically humorous numerologist to change her name to "something that would match her personality and unleash her full potential". Her words. Not mine.
I'm pretty sure that I never managed to pronounce the new name correctly. It was something like "Sayruniah" or whatever. The numerologist had told her that this was an aggregate of two ancient words for "insight" and "wisdom". Ancient in what language I asked? She didn't even know. I should have suggested "takenforarideidish". And it would actually have been a perfect name if just the "ancient" word for "lack of" had been put in front of it.
But I was the only one in a group of about ten people who wasn't downright mean to her. Imagine a girl of super-model potential and five horny men still disregarding her completely. She was that clueless. The girls hated her because of her looks and everything she said and since this was my first
Used it before
But is still funny
evening with her I was the only friendly person in town. I am making up for that now, but that meant that she took a liking to me. And kept talking about that fucking name. About how I should also change my name to get one that reflected my name better than just "Jens". About how that would reveal my full potential. So I thought about it for a while and decided to make a funny. It went something like this:
With stunning green eyes staring into mine and a thick French accent:"You know, my friend, you will feel such a change in your life if you got a better name. One that reflects your inner self".
"Well, I am pretty sure that that would be a bad idea. If I got a name that would really reflect who I am, it would just be annoying."
The perfect body asks:"What do you mean?"
"Well, imagine this. I am about to check into a hotel and I head up to the reception:"
Receptionist: "How may I help you Sir?"
Me: "I'm checking in. There should be a reservation"
Receptionist:"What is your name?"
Me:"Selapløeh. My name is Rompoglyh Selapløeh"
After a few seconds the receptionist would go:"How do you spell that Sir?"
Me:"R-O-M-X-P-O-G-L-Ü-H. The X is silent".
Me:"Yes, so are the ones in my last name. It is S-E-L-A-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X there are twenty-four in total X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-P-L-Ô-Ø-E-H-X."
Me:"Yes, Romxpoglüh Selaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxplôøehx. All the x's are silent."
So Saoauriaunia or whatever the hell her name was asked me if that really would be a reflection of who I am. And I just answered:"Well apparently so." I am such a child sometimes. But she seemed to like me even more after that. Clueless.
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August 19, 2008
8-11am: at work, finish and re-read the oral argument of second draft
11am-3pm:at RULE, practice & practice.....practice make you perfect ^^
3pm-5pm: maybe order Pizza to eat before going to fight at moot court competition
5pm-8:30pm: my team is fighting
8:30pm-10pm: packing for a trip to Siem Reap on Sunday to join the International Conference Angkor.
August 20, 2008
8-11am: at work, finish and do some prepare for the conference
11am-5pm: at Barcamp :) hopefully i can enjoy it, and meet all my folks
5pm-9pm/ later: party party.....party make you more younger ^-^
August 21, 2008
9am: get up...and be prepare to SR
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Focus on adding value to the company, and only highlight skills that are going to be relevant to the role you are applying for.
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Anywho, I'm loving this Curly Cute with the larger, playful sentiment. It's very cheery and I'm looking forward to using all the sentiments in the set!
These cards came together very quickly and are very simple. It's the dsp that dresses them up!For Thinking of You, I mixed two printed dp's and accented the edges with the ribbon border punch in Apricot Appeal. The sentiment was stamped in Basic Grey, and I used a corner rounder for the long, oval shape. I used a small scallop punch to add some color to the center of the flower along with a brad. Had I wanted to take more time, I would have used some Apricot Appeal reinker on the Pretties Flower. I hope someone will case this and do that - I'd love to see it!
The Thank You card uses four punches and a quick ribbon treatment. I used the large flower, and large, medium and small scallop punches. The medium scallop punch was then cut at each scallop towards the center to create petals. Easy! Thanks for checking out these quick cards.
I've been working on a set of brayered cards for a friend. Can't wait to finish them and show them to you!
Make it a great week, and thanks for stopping by and following me. I love your comments and visiting your blogs, too!


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Retire in Legoland
Carmel Fisher
07 October, 2016
I've long had a love affair with retirement villages. They have been great investments, and countless residents have glowingly endorsed the village lifestyle over the years.
Before my first visit to a retirement village, I had preconceived ideas about what 'an old person's home' was going to be like. I knew the village was brand new so the architecture and facilities would be modern. I knew the facilities catered to the needs of residents, with a swimming pool, bowling green, restaurant and lounge bar suggestive of a holiday resort.
I nevertheless expected the facilities would be as much for show (or for visitors) as anything, and that much of a resident's life would revolve around their units or townhouses, which even in the flash villages, were tiny compared to the homes the residents would likely have moved from.
It was only when I arrived and talked with the residents that I realised my preconceptions were off the mark.
It was nothing like an 'old person's home' and the residents' lifestyle — if they chose — was far more holiday resort than lonely life in a tiny room. Admittedly I arrived at happy hour, so residents were playing board games, chatting and catching up with friends with a drink.
It turns out the pool was regularly used, the restaurant hosted events with speakers and presentations covering all manner of subjects, and the bar was always busy at happy hour.
Apparently the ability to watch the construction activity outside was a real treat — the men liked watching the big machinery and the women enjoyed watching the builders and tradesmen in action! The residents told me how meeting up with other residents and observing and feeling part of the wider world was one of the highlights of living in this particular village.
When I recently read about a retirement village makeover in Canada, I initially dismissed it as an "only in America" tale but then thought about my experiences in New Zealand and wondered if it could be a future trend here.
Residents at St Elizabeth village at Hamilton Mountain in Ontario are set to live in a retirement village designed by a theme park company.
Forrec, the creator of Legoland, Universal Studios Florida and Canada's Wonderland, recently agreed to redesign the St Elizabeth village at a cost of $US800 million.
The 114-acre site, currently home to around 900 residents, is going to be transformed into a pastoral mill town, complete with a spinning water wheel, old-time windmill and a population of 3,000.
In speaking to the residents, Forrec president Tony DiFruscio found a desire for a village to be as far away from a 'retirement community' as possible. "The residents don't think of themselves as getting older. They are looking for places that have a buzz of activities".
The Ontario village will follow in the footsteps of other 'luxurious themed resorts' the company has built in Mexico, Singapore and Thailand.
It's easy to dismiss a themed retirement village as gimmicky — a Mickey Mouse concierge anyone? But actually it is not unreasonable that the wave of people around the world looking to retire in a village community might want more than just a collection of buildings and facilities.
I reckon the Forrec mantra of designing "resorts that inspire, excite and differentiate" resonates as well with older people as it does with the young.


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Robert Asty (1642 – 1681)
The life of Robert Asty seems rather sparse. His father was ejected from the church of England on St. Bartholomew's Day (24th August 1662), and he too stay out of the church from then on.
He then opened a grammar school in 1663 and taught there for the next 10 years. In 1668, Asty married Lydia Sammes, and had 7 children together. Asty would eventually grief over the lost of 3 of his children before his own death in October 14 1681, at the age of thirty-nine. One interesting fact, his second son, John, was actually classmate with Isaac Watts whilst studying together for the ministry, they eventually went to be associated colleagues in the Independent Church.
Here is one of his work:
A Treatise of Rejoicing in the Lord Jesus in All Cases and Conditions – here, html (This looks like an excellent book, I think I might be getting it myself)
Sir Richard Baker (1568 – 1645)
Richard Baker was born in 1568 to a wealthy family, his father was a lawyer and his mother was the daughter of Reginald Scott. At the age of 16, Baker then went Oxford to study law, however he left some time later and went to the continent to acquire languages and experience cultures. He finally went back to Oxford and complete his Masters in 1594.
Baker then married Margert Mainwaring, whereby he became a surety for her family's debt. In 1625, Baker was reported to be a debtor to the crown and was thrown into prison in 1635 where he stayed for the next 10 years until his death.
Richard Baker is well known for his historical writings, such as A Chronicle of the Kings of England.
Here is one of his work:
Meditations and Disquisitions upon Certian Psalms – here, and here (free international shipping), mobi (this is just converted over from the pdf from the format may not be the nicest while in mobi), pdf


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R&B singer Kelly Rowland has teamed with Barcadi and recorded "Summer Dreaming" to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary. Watch the video inside and see Rihanna's latest tattoo.
Under the direction of Annick Wolfer, Kelly Rowland has shot a fun party clip for a remake of "Summer Dreaming" by Kate Yanai. Kelly, who recorded the song in tribute to Barcadi for their 150th anniversary, will release the jam on July 8 during a performance in Berlin. She said,
"The song and its history enthralled me right away. My aim was to record a joyful, colourful, sexy song and give it a bit of soul quality. The collaboration with BACARDÍ was so much fun. We had an awesome time recording the song."
And speaking of the video, she said,
"The story is all about the celebration. It's almost like you're seeing my dream come to life before your eyes and I wake up and I'm like, 'I'm really dreaming!'"
Watch "Summer Dreaming" here:
Watch BTS footage here:
And for ink fans………
Rihanna has added to her body art and got a new tattoo of an Egyptian falcon in the shape of a handgun on her inner right ankle.
So why the falcon? RiRi said, "Falcon: a light that shines in the darkness! Never close their eyes during sleep."
RiRi's ink was done by her regular tattoo artist Bang Bang who runs Bang Bang Tattoos in New York. You feelin' it?
Source: http://theybf.com/2012/06/17/kelly-rowlands-summer-dreaming-video-rihanna-debuts-new-falcon-tattoo
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Available Light Advisory
Stage 2 business MANAGEMENT consultantS
Available Light Advisory focusses on strategic consultancy and business development. Its principal, Richard Miller, is an experienced consultant with 25 years in the film business, including 15 years as a creative industries expert adviser.
Richard Miller
Over the last eighteen years, Richard Miller has conducted over a hundred consulting assignments for companies and public sector bodies around the world. From 2010 to 2018, he was Professor of Film and Creative Economy at the University of Hertfordshire (UH). Prior to this, Richard was an award-winning film producer in New York and London. Previously, he was an investment banker on Wall Street.
Richard's consulting assignments have mostly been in the areas of film and television. They have involved well over a thousand consultations with industry experts and stakeholders. He has also worked in animation, interactive media and music. Particular areas of expertise include business strategy development, international production and coproduction, fiscal incentives and funding for film production and distribution, independent production, film & TV studios, the use of digital media to drive urban regeneration strategies, moving image archives, and training and skills strategy. Clients have included British Film Institute, UK Film Council, Telefilm Canada, Scottish Screen, Scottish Enterprise, Film Finance Corporation of Australia, European Commission, BBC, Channel 4 and many independent film and television production companies.
At UH, Richard ran the Creative Economy Research Centre for five years. He was involved in consulting and research in film, immersive technologies and the creative industries in general. He also taught a highly rated course on The Creative Economy for UH's AMBA accredited executive MBA programme. Previously, Richard was a Visiting Lecturer at Cass Business School for the Film MBA Programme for the two years of the programme's existence. He was a Visiting Tutor at Goldsmiths College, University of London, for three years, Associate Professor at New York University for four years, and has taught at Bucks New University.
Richard developed and produced two critically acclaimed American independent feature films for which he received the credit of Producer. Songcatcher (1998) was written and directed by Maggie Greenwald, and starred Janet McTeer and Aidan Quinn. With his co-producer, Richard was nominated by the American Film Institute as the 2000 "producer to watch". Heavy (1996) was written and directed by James Mangold and starred Liv Tyler, Shelley Winters, Deborah Harry and Pruitt Taylor Vince. Richard was sole Producer for this film. Among their numerous honours, both films were selected for official competition at the Sundance Film Festival, where they both won special jury prizes. In addition, Heavy was selected for the Directors Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. Richard's Associate Producer credits include James Mangold's Copland (1997).
Prior to 1990, Richard was Senior Vice President in the Corporate Finance Department of the New York investment bank Dean Witter Reynolds, and previously Vice President at E.F. Hutton. His areas of expertise included public offerings, private placements and advisory work for clients including AT&T, Texaco and many smaller companies.
Richard possesses an MFA in Film specialising in Producing from Columbia University in New York, an MBA in Finance from McGill University in Montreal and a BA in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University.
Jane Wright
Jane Wright's experience in the feature film industry spans distribution, international sales, production and financing. She began her career in the US independent film production and distribution sector before moving to BBC Worldwide in New York as Vice President of Co-Production and Sales for Drama and Children's television. She made a permanent move to London to work at BBC Films in 1997 where she remained for fourteen years. Jane worked with producers to create and execute production finance strategies on films as diverse as Maybe Baby, Ben Elton's directorial debut; John Crowley's Is Anybody There; Richard Eyre's Iris; and We Need to Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay. Many of the BBC Films titles Jane worked on won critical praise and a vast array of prestigious awards. During 2000/2001 Jane was seconded to The Sales Co. as Acting CEO where she was responsible for successful launch of one of the Cannes Film Festival's top Official Competition films, No Man's Land, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
When Jane took on the role of Managing Director and Executive Producer at BBC Films in 2010, she sat on the Editorial Board of BBC Vision and executive produced Andy De Emmony's West Is West (the sequel to East Is East), Scott Hicks's The Boys Are Back and Stephen Poliakoff's Glorious 39.
Prior to joining the BBC, Jane associate-produced the multiple-award winning Heavy, written and directed by her fellow Columbia Film School graduate, James Mangold (Walk The Line). Jane has an MBA, also from Columbia University, specialising in Media Management and Corporate Finance. Jane was honoured with a Women In Film Award for her contribution to the Industry in 2007.
Jane now works as a consultant, producer and executive producer. Most recently she executive produced Remainder, an adaptation of the Tom McCarthy novel, directed by celebrated artist Omer Fast and Been So Long (an adaptation of Che Walker's hit musical) directed by Tinge Krishnan which has been acquired internationally by Netflix.


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You need a reliable wireless network connection to allow your staff and guests to access the network and/or internet using their mobile devices. Often businesses don't have a good, business-class wireless solution, instead relying on systems that were designed for home consumer use.
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text: If you are in the class called working poor you a receive very little if any help from the government while still just being able to "usually pay" the minimal bills. The are caps on what incomes qualifies but they vary states to state with the cost of living. In Northern Delaware my sons friend with a 20K income and two kids is near the maximum income allowed, ad Delawar is not all that cheap a place to live


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Backing up CircleCI Data
This document describes how to back up your CircleCI Enterprise application so that you can recover from accidental or unexpected loss of CircleCI data attached to the Services machine:
- Backing up the Database
- Backing up Object Storage
- Snapshotting on AWS EBS
- Restoring From Backup
- Cleaning up Build Records
Note: If you are running CircleCI in an HA configuration, you must use standard backup mechanisms for the external datastores. See the High Availability document for more information.
Backing up the Database
If you have not configured CircleCI for HA, the best practice for backing up your CircleCI data is to use VM snapshots of the virtual disk acting as the root volume for the Services machine. Backups may be performed without downtime as long the underlying virtual disk supports such an operation as is true with AWS EBS. There is a small risk, that varies by filesystem and distribution, that snapshots taken without a reboot may have some data corruption, but this is rare in practice. If zero downtime backups and robustness in the face of data corruption issues are required, then an HA configuration may be the best solution.
Backing up Object Storage
Build artifacts, output, and caches are generally stored in object storage services like AWS S3. These services are considered highly redundant and are unlikely to require separate backup. An exception is if your instance is setup to store large objects locally on the Services machine, either directly on-disk or on an NFS volume. In this case, you must separately back these files up and ensure they are mounted back to the same location on restore.
Snapshotting on AWS EBS
There are a few features of AWS EBS snapshots that make the backup process quite easy:
To take a manual backup, choose the instance in the EC2 console and select Actions > Image > Create Image.
Select the No reboot option if you want to avoid downtime. An AMI that can be readily launched as a new EC2 instance for restore purposes is created.
It is also possible to automate this process with the AWS API. Subsequent AMIs/snapshots are only as large as the difference (changed blocks) since the last snapshot, such that storage costs are not necessarily larger for more frequent snapshots, see Amazon's EBS snapshot billing document for details.
Restoring From Backup
When restoring testing backups or performing a restore in production, you may need to make a couple of changes on the newly launched instance if its public or private IP addresses have changed:
- Launch a new VM using a previous root-volume backup.
- Ensure that the hostname configured in the settings page at port 8800 reflects the correct address. If this hostname has changed, you will also need to change it in the corresponding GitHub OAuth application settings or create a new OAuth app to test the recovery and log in to the application.
- Update any references to the backed-up instance's public and private IP addresses in
/etc/default/replicated-operatoron Debian/Ubuntu or
/etc/sysconfig/*in RHEL/CentOS to the new IP addresses.
Cleaning up Build Records
While filesystem-level data integrity issues are rare and preventable, there will likely be some data anomalies in a point-in-time backup taken while builds are running on the system. For example, a build that is only half-way finished at backup time may result in missing the latter half of its command output, and it may permanently show that it is in "Running" state in the application.
If you want to clean up any abnormal build records in your database after a recovery, you can delete them by running the following commands on the Services machine replacing the example build URL with an actual URL from your CircleCI application:
$ circleci dev-console
# Wait for console to load
user=> (admin/delete-build "https://my-circleci-hostname.com/gh/your-org/my-project/1234")


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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star
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Sarah Burton, English fashion designer, born 1974 in England. Burton began her fashion career while studying Print Fashion at the Central Saint Martins College in London and working as an intern at Alexander McQueen. After graduation in 1997, she continued working at Alexander McQueen and became the right-hand of its namesake fashion designer. In 2000, Burton was named the head designer for the womenswear label and took over the reins of the British fashion house after Alexander McQueens suicidal death in 2010.
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Marinara Pizza
Marinara pizzas provide a base for other toppings. "Just keep it simple," advises Batali. "Don't try anything too avant-garde, but do experiment with flavors and see what happens."
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- 1/4 cup strained tomatoes, such as Pomi
- 1 Parbaked Pizza Crust
- 1 Tbs. olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
- 1/4 serrano chile, thinly sliced
- 12 fresh marjoram or oregano leaves
Preheat oven to broil. Spread strained tomatoes over Parbaked Pizza Crust, leaving 1/2-inch border. Drizzle olive oil over tomatoes, and scatter with sliced garlic and chile. Broil 7 to 8 minutes, then sprinkle with herb leaves. Cut into 6 slices, and serve.
Nutrition Information
- Serving Size: Makes 1 10-inch pizza
- Calories: 81
- Carbohydrate Content: 10 g
- Fat Content: 4 g
- Protein Content: 2 g
- Sodium Content: 317 mg


text: July 27th, 2014 - Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story screened at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco. The 1400 seat theater was packed, even at 1:30 in the afternoon. Having seen the movie countless times, I was planning on sneaking out for a bite to eat. Our flight was late and we barely made it in time... I was starving. Thankfully, Sandrine convinced me to stick around. I'm not sure whether it was the audiences warm reception or the size of the theater, but it was a very emotional experience. Images I'd labored over on a 23 inch screen only six months prior were no being projected onto a massive 40 foot screen and the audience was getting it. Seeing the Valor crew again as well as a few high school friends made for an awesome afternoon.


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Following the recent firmware update by HP Inc that we reported on last week, which has caused the lock out of many compatible and remanufactured cartridges in a number of HP printers and multifunction devices.
And, in our position, as one of the leading UK suppliers of printing solutions to business and home users, we are pleased to comfirm that our cartridges, used in the affected devices "continue to function correctly".
Many reports of further complaints from the industry and consumers have been recently noted, with HP Inc's EU helpdesk claiming last week, that it was "working on a solution".
Darren Turner, Managing Director of MY Total Office Solutions and Cartridge World East Lancashire, confirmed its cartridges are working in the affected printers, stating: "We can confirm the cartridges that we supply, to be used in direct replacements for HP's 950/951, , 933/932, 934/935 and 970/971 family of cartridges, continue to function correctly".
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Happy Friday!
Things that happened recently:
For nearly 20 years, Sam Barsky has been knitting sweaters of landmarks and taking photos of himself wearing them in front of his inspiration. The New York Times did a profile on him recently, but the real goldmine is his personal site, where you can see all of his photos. I looked at every single one of them—each better than the last—and I can't wait for new ones.
I'm still going through withdrawal after finishing Wild Wild Country, but luckily for me there is always another cult to read about—like this crazy one in Upstate New York. Its leader just got arrested in Mexico last week and extradited back to the U.S. on federal charges of sex trafficking.
On Tuesday, we had second-row seats to this talk with my fantasy best friends Lauren Graham and Mae Whitman at 92Y. Our tickets came with signed copies of Graham's latest book and I've loved both of her previous books so I'm excited to read this one.
Things to do in New York this weekend:
I didn't know that parks had opening weekends, but this weekend is the official opening of Prospect Park. The weather forecast isn't too spring-like, but there's yoga, a scavenger hunt, bird watching and the Smorgasburg food festival.
Saturday is the opening of The City Reliquary's sculpture garden in conjunction with their current exhibition, NYC Trash! Past, Present & Future. The garden features art made entirely of trash, something I've been fascinated by ever since reading this book.
The Urban Park Rangers are hosting a tour of the Little Red Lighthouse on Saturday. I took a tour of the Lighthouse with Open House New York, but tours aren't offered very often.
Things that I've discovered recently:
When my mom and I were at the Mütter Museum, she was telling me that someone once found an envelope of smallpox scabs inside of a library book—I didn't believe her, but I looked it up and found out that it's true! If that doesn't gross you out, you will love this book (but no guarantee it will—or won't—come with an envelope of scabs).
I recently discovered Judee Sill when she randomly came on Spotify. Sill died of a heroin overdose when she was just 39, but not before writing and recording some really incredible songs (she wrote Jesus Was a Crossmaker).
One sign shop in Brooklyn makes all of the signs for all 472 subway stations in New York. I love transit graphics and anything subway-related—there are 1,640 signs in the Times Square station alone!
I have the day off work because of Passover, a perk of working at a Jewish cultural organization. I'm getting frustrated with winter's refusal to leave the city, but I'm trying not to let it get me down. I'd like to get to the Orchid Show soon (maybe Sunday, after diner breakfast), and all I can think of is how warm and summery it is inside of their greenhouses. Saturday we might go check out the Morbid Anatomy pop-up at Green-Wood Cemetery, which is luckily only a few blocks from David's apartment. I just started watching Parenthood again for the ??th time and I'm really loving this book, so I'll probably be spending the rest of my time with both. I hope you have a great weekend!


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If birds are not a friend to the human species, where in all of nature is friendship to be found? Each day come more reports of the dispersal of diseased poultry and fowl, moving from east to west, Asia into Europe, and alarms begin to sound.
The grandeur of winged migration has become a niche for deadly disease. With the threat of avian flu comes a change in the way the flight of birds must strike the human eye.
In describing the conviction that life is good, and that the transcendent sources of all existence are benign, poets have again and again settled on the metaphor of the bird. In Genesis, the Creator ''hovers" over formlessness with, in the phrase of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ''bright wings." The flutterings of the wings themselves evoke the creative breath of God, which is why, in Christian iconography, the Holy Spirit is rendered as a dove.
The author of Deuteronomy, in expressing the benevolence of the Most High, writes, ''Like an eagle watching its nest, hovering over its young, he spreads out his wings to hold him, he supports him on his pinions." Jesus is remembered in Matthew as longing to gather the people ''as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings."
But what if the hen has a virus? The wings can cast a shadow.
In the sagas of plagues and pestilences, the role of the infecting agent has been played, in the past, by creatures that seem somehow suited to such villainy -- rats, fleas, spiders, crawling things. Birds seem of another order, never more so than at the time of year approaching now. When we see a V-shaped flight of migrators, beating from south to north, our hearts will follow in the lift of our eyes. The songs of birds, their wondrous patterns in the air, the astounding calculations that allow whole flocks to move as one creature, the pairing off that invites a romantic anthropomorphism, the defiance of the law of gravity, their simple, uncomplicated goodness -- all of this makes them the harbingers of heaven. If we look up when we want to picture that place of ultimate hope, isn't it because the birds are there already? Why else do we imagine angels with wings?
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But, wondering what infections might be aloft, will we now feel a kind of betrayal? The reports of cases of human infection that have so far occurred include stories of poultry farmers who were vulnerable because they lived so intimately with their birds, especially in the cold when the creatures were brought inside. The required slaughter of birds has been an economic, but also a personal catastrophe for many.
Yet if there is betrayal here, might it go the other way? Birds have given us so many metaphors that we must ask if this threatened malady is not yet another? Abstracting from the actual origins of avian flu, can we recognize, perhaps, a message from the natural world? Health workers are properly rushing to reinforce the great divide that separates the human species from the animal realm, to keep avian flu avian. But hasn't that divide itself become a problem?
In the developed world, the birds we eat come to us wrapped in cellophane, ''processed," by which we mean denatured. Conditioned air, bottled water, screened sun, polluted dirt, changed climate -- we speak of nature as if we are not part of it.
The deep memory of Genesis posits a human dominion over nature, but the banishment from Eden indicates an alienation from it. Today, the so-called environment is discussed as if it is a surrounding bubble, like a space capsule that can be replaced when it is trashed.
Judging from our reckless disregard, we humans seem to imagine that we can have a destiny independent of the earth on which live; even that word ''on" suggests the problem, since the truth is that we humans are the earth. It is more than where we come from, where we go. Indeed, we get our name from ''humus," the word for earth. Did we think we could forget that and not suffer for it?
If the worst case unfolds, and the dreaded transmission mutations occur, avian flu might be taken as nature's revenge for the human despoiling of the planet. The best case will be that this outbreak came as a timely reminder that the health of humanity and the health of nature, including beloved winged creatures, are the same thing.


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How to Improve Female Vitality
The definition of vitality is, exuberant physical strength or mental vigor. Do you feel the exact opposite of this? You're not alone.
According to a study by the CDC, women were nearly twice as likely as men to often feel very tired or exhausted. It's easy to see why this would be so. As women, we are often caregivers, house cleaners, grocery shoppers (don't forget about nose wiper, meal prepper, teen counselor...), often while being full-time workers at the same time. It's no surprise that we aren't feeling energized and invigorated.
At Kardish, we appreciate all that you do, and we want you to feel your very best while you do it. Here are our top strategies to feel empowered, positive and energized.
Addressing adrenal fatigue
The adrenal glands help us to manage stress but when we are chronically stressed and anxious the adrenals become exhausted. Symptoms of adrenal fatigue/exhaustion are weight gain, difficulty coping with emotions, the need for stimulants like coffee and waking in the middle of the night. A product like ADRENAsmart is designed to support the adrenal glands and improve symptoms.
Getting more of the sunshine vitamin
Vitamin D plays an important role in our mental health, and according to the Canadian Mental Health Association, "about 2 to 3% of Canadians will experience SAD in their lifetime. Another 15% will experience a milder form of SAD". Adding vitamin D to your supplement regime can be a simple step in improving mood and mental wellbeing.
Doing something for you
You can take all the supplements in the world, but they will be of no use if you continue to do everything without taking time for yourself. Your family may think you're super woman, but it's time to recognize that you can't do it all. Learn that it's okay to say no and to take time for yourself. Go get a message, take a trip to the spa or go read a book at your favourite cafe.
Support a whole food diet
Eating a well balanced diet rich in whole foods is important, but sometimes life happens and we struggle to get our 8-10 servings of fruits and vegetables. A multivitamin like New Chapter or MegaFood is made from fruits, vegetables and herbs and complement a nutritious diet.
Improving sleep hygiene
The biggest factor in poor sleep is simply a lack of sleep. We recommend taking the tv out of the bedroom and getting an old fashioned alarm clock instead of using your phone. Keeping electronics out of the bedroom will stop the temptation to scroll through emails or send a quick text. The artificial light from screens can reduce melatonin and excite your brain, which negatively affects our sleep quality. If you need a bit of help with getting to sleep try melatonin or an herbal blend like Flora Sleep Essence.
Keep hydrated all day long
Start each day with a glass of water mixed with lemon juice and maybe even some powdered greens. Water is a vital component of every process within our body. Without enough water our mental focus, digestion and mood would be affected. Keep a reusable water bottle like S'well or jar at your desk and around the house to remind you to drink up. There are even free apps that remind you to get your eight cups a day.
Incorporate gentle exercise
If you are dealing adrenal fatigue, intense exercise may cause symptoms to worsen. Gentle exercise like yin yoga and tai-chi can improve flexibility, support lean muscle mass and decrease stress.
Balance blood sugar levels
Disglycemia is a term that refers to abnormalities in blood sugar levels. Many women deal with blood sugar irregularities on a daily bases; I like to call this "riding the blood sugar roller coaster". Stabilize your blood sugar levels by eating macronutrient-balanced meals and snacks (this means protein, complex carbohydrates and fats). A smoothie with frozen berries, protein powder, chia seeds and coconut milk is a great example.


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11 Funniest "GCal Is Down" Tweets On Your Dash This Morning
If you hadn't already noticed, Google was a little glitchy today — GCal and Hangouts were not working for about an hour, and professional America was freaking the eff out. And while I sympathized with them — GCal helps a lot of people run their lives — I was immediately more interested in the funny things people were tweeting about the situation, than the situation itself. Because personally, I didn't have any plans to screw up or meetings to miss, so I had no idea the calendar was even down. I only ever look at it to figure out my period and well, nature has as way of sending its own notifications for that event.
Twitter is always my favorite place to go when any sort of large-scale fail is occurring. It becomes an opportunity platform for people to show off their humor. And once a subject starts trending and a hashtag starts becoming popular, the comedy show turns into competition and the Twitterverse becomes a place for people to out-smart and out-joke each other. Which in my opinion, is a good place to be. It's also shows how similar we all are — it's like a bonding experience with strangers across the country.
Though the competition was steep, these were my favorite tweets regarding the brief fall of Gcal — an event that our great grandchildren might learn about in school:
Calling It
Like in grade school when the heat wasn't working and everyone got to go home on a technicality, the GCal fail made people more hopeful that their workday might be cut than it did make them upset that their schedules were screwy.
Apocalypse Now
When technology fails us and we start to spark and malfunction like broken robots...
Because we put our lives in the hands of technology and if it drops us, we're rendered incapable. And to think, once upon a time we kept calendars with pens and papers?!
Lost And Delirious
While GCal was down, the secrets of the universe and the plans for the day were held hostage in cyber space.
Just Came To Say Goodbye Love
That crazy feeling when technology fails and your heart breaks...
Because Chaos
How many offices today were literally smoking with chaos today?
At Least A Two Hour Delay
No one's going to be able to focus on anything else for the rest of the day anyway, maybe offices should just send adults home to watch TV in their pajamas for the rest of the day.
Flake And Binge
Now that you've already missed your morning meetings and screwed up your day, you should totally just go home and watch the rest of Orange Is The New Black.
The Limit Does Not Exist!
Moments like this make people really consider big picture existentialism.
Nobody Move
Are we all on the same page? If technology isn't working, neither are we.
If Only...
Ah, yes, that seems about right. Can't forget that 2 p.m. - 8 p.m. nap, it's clutch.
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Pledges of schoolchildren across Derbyshire made at the first Children's Modern Slavery Summit are leading the Diocese of Derby's '40 Days of Good Choices' campaign for Lent.
Listening to stories of how people across the world are exploited growing the food we eat and making the clothes we wear, the children also had an opportunity to learn about modern slavery in the UK, often hidden in plain sight, perhaps in a car wash or nail bar.
As part of the conference, the children were asked what they thought we should do about it?
Their suggestions ranged from personal actions they wanted to take, like hosting a class council on modern slavery, to general advice like buying Fairtrade food.
The pledges they made are a great example to children and adults alike, showing how we can all make better, informed choices about the goods we buy. Do we know who made our clothes or picked our bananas? What conditions they work in?
They also reveal how we all have spheres of influence and people we can talk to in order to raise awareness of the crime of modern slavery. Some children pledged to speak to their parents about what they were buying and ask if they were making the most ethical choices. Others said they would tell more children at school about the issue.
The simplicity of these pledges creates the perfect foundation for a Lent campaign that everyone can get involved in. For more inspiration, follow Diocese of Derby on Twitter or Facebook, or share your own good choices using the hashtags #40GoodChoices #LiveLent.


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Opened 5 years ago
Closed 4 years ago
Last modified 4 years ago
#9968 closed bug (fixed)
DeriveAnyClass fails on multi-parameter type classes
|Reported by:
|Owned by:
|osa1, kosmikus
|Operating System:
|Type of failure:
|Test Case:
|deriving/should_compile/T9968, should_fail/T9968a
|Blocked By:
|Related Tickets:
|Differential Rev(s):
|Wiki Page:
When I say
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveAnyClass, MultiParamTypeClasses #-} module Bug where class C a b data X deriving (C Int)
and load that into GHCi, I see this:
*Main> :load "/Users/rae/temp/DeriveAny.hs" [1 of 1] Compiling Bug ( /Users/rae/temp/DeriveAny.hs, interpreted ) Var/Type length mismatch: [b_a2YW] [] Var/Type length mismatch: [b_a2YW] [] Ok, modules loaded: Bug. *Bug> :info C class C a b -- Defined at /Users/rae/temp/DeriveAny.hs:5:1 instance C X -- Defined at /Users/rae/temp/DeriveAny.hs:7:13
It seems my
Int parameter to
C is being dropped. I don't believe I have a debug build in this example, so that debugging output is shipping.
Change History (17)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by
|set to dreixel
|normal → highest
Pedro this looks like your territory. Might you look? It's an outright bug.
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by
|Related Tickets:
|→ #9821
Yes, this is probably related to #9821. I can look into it next week.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by
|highest → high
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by
Simon, could you give me some help with this? I was hoping it would be easy to just reuse the infrastructure for newtype deriving here. Should I follow the structure of the
EarlyDerivSpec generated by the first branch of
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by
comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by
FYI Pedro is actively working on this.
comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by
|7.10.1 → 7.12.1
Moving to the 7.12.1 milestone, as these tickets won't be fixed in time for the 7.10.1 release (unless you, the reader, help write a patch :)
comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by
I managed to get a panic out of this: (this is with GHC 7.10.2)
➜ trac9968 cat Bug.hs {-# LANGUAGE DeriveAnyClass, MultiParamTypeClasses, FunctionalDependencies #-} module Bug where class C a b where showFirst :: (a, b) -> String showSecond :: (a, b) -> String data X deriving (C Bool) main :: IO () main = putStrLn "ok" ➜ trac9968 runhaskell Bug.hs Var/Type length mismatch: [b_alK] [] Var/Type length mismatch: [b_alK] [] Var/Type length mismatch: [b_alK] [] Var/Type length mismatch: [b_alK] [] ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.10.2 for x86_64-unknown-linux): funResultTy forall b_alK. C X b_alK => (X, b_alK) -> String Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
A question about how
deriving syntax supposed to work:
Let's say we have
class C a b data X
as in the example above.
We can do
deriving (C Bool), which implements an instance for
C Bool X but
if I want to derive
C X Bool, is there a way to do that? Currently if I try
to do
deriving (C X Bool) or
deriving (C Bool X) I'm getting this error:
➜ trac9968 runhaskell Bug.hs Bug.hs:10:13: Expected kind 'k0 -> GHC.Prim.Constraint', but 'C Bool X' has kind 'GHC.Prim.Constraint' In the data declaration for 'X'
Which is clear enough but I'm wondering if there are any workarounds to make
deriving (C X Bool) work.
comment:9 Changed 4 years ago by
|osa1 added
comment:10 Changed 4 years ago by
I think it's best to keep the simple rule:
data X = ... deriving (..., c, ...) means to derive
c X (here
c is an application of a class constructor to zero or more types). After all if you want something else like
C X Bool then you can express that with a standalone deriving declaration
deriving instance C X Bool. Or in this case just write an empty instance, it's shorter :)
comment:11 Changed 4 years ago by
|7.12.1 → 8.0.1
Milestone renamed
comment:12 Changed 4 years ago by
|kosmikus added
Adding Andres, the king of generics.
comment:13 Changed 4 years ago by
See also #10938 for another example of this bug
comment:14 Changed 4 years ago by
In af77089/ghc:
comment:15 Changed 4 years ago by
In 8317893/ghc:
comment:16 Changed 4 years ago by
|→ fixed
|new → closed
|Test Case:
|→ deriving/should_compile/T9968, should_fail/T9968a
comment:17 Changed 4 years ago by
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I heard it through the grapevine…that these oatmeal raisin cookies are the best! My oatmeal raisin recipe is another recipe, like the peanut butter cookies, which I lost in the computer glitch; I finally was able to recreate this recipe. Chewy, sweet and chunky with oats and raisins, I hope you enjoy this recipe.
¾ cup Melt
½ cup butter flavored shortening
½ cup sugar
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ½ cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup golden raisins
Cream butter/shortening with brown sugar; add eggs and extract. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon; add oats and combine with creamed mixture just until combined; add raisins and mix together. Place on ungreased baking sheet, flatten slightly and then bake 8-10 minutes or until golden. Cool on pan 1 minute and then finish cooling on cooking racks.


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Does it get any more comforting than this? Eggplant, sautéed in olive oil, Midwestern beef seasoned with cinnamon, béchamel sauce fortified with parmesan and dusted with nutmeg, layered together in the classic Greek dish of moussaka. It's like lasagna but, dare we say, better?
Moussaka is one of our favorite rotating dinner specials at TNG University, and you can always find it on our catering menu!
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I don't want to be one of those mothers who inventories and measures every achievement, but yes, I have been keeping a list. For those of you keeping track at home, like I am, Lu can say 100 words. My criteria for what makes the Official Lucy Vocabulary List:
• She has used the word correctly and repeatedly.
• Proper names and animal sounds are included.
• They have to be understandable by me and at least one other person.
One of her funniest uses of words so far is pointing to people's bellies and saying "Baby." We have been showing her Magpie's pregnant belly to teach her this, but I fear it may backfire in a public place with a non-pregnant person. Never too soon to start embarrassing your parents.
Another time, we were in the car and she was eating chicken nuggets (uh yeah, I feed her fast food in the car, and she watches television, and I feel really bad about, but what are you gonna do?). And I explain, the same way I explain everything I have the energy to explain, "Lucy you're eating chicken. Chic-ken." Her quizzical response: "Bockbock?" I did NOT explain the politics of poultry production, the ethics of eating meat or the current standards for natural and organic. "Yes, Lu, bockbock. Good, huh?"
Ooh! I just thought of two more to add to the list — "wash" and "snack." 102! I will stop keeping this list soon, I swear. Or at least not tell anyone about it.


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Limerick FC travel to Cork for FAI Cup semi-final
Eyes on the Prize: The Irish Daily Mail FAI Cup
LIMERICK FC will travel to runaway SSE Airtricity League Premier Division leaders Cork City in the semi-finals of the Irish Daily Mail FAI Cup later this month.
Neil McDonald's Limerick side will face FAI Cup holders Cork on Friday, September 29 in that a game that will be broadcast live on RTE2, kicking off at 7.15pm.
If a replay is required, it will be played at the Markets Field on Monday, October 2.
Limerick secured their place in the last four of the Cup thanks to an excellent 2-1 victory over Galway United at Deacy Park on Friday night with the goals coming from Rodrigo Tosi and Shane Duggan.
Limerick FC's last appeared in an FAI Cup semi-final 23 years ago. The Blues last Cup final appearance ended in a 2-0 defeat to Dundalk in 1977.
Limerick's FAI Cup semi-final showdown with Munster rivals Cork will be the second meeting between the clubs in the space of seven days as they clash at the Markets Field in a crucial SSE Airtricity League Premier Division fixture on Friday, September 22, 7.45pm.
Limerick, hovering just three points above the relegation zone in the Premier Division face a vital trip to the Carlisle Grounds to take on Bray Wanderers this Friday, 7.45pm.
In the other semi-final, Dundalk will come up against Shamrock Rovers on Sunday, October 1 at 4.45pm also live on RTE2
Holders Cork City are hoping to lift the trophy for the fourth time in their history, while Limerick's last win came against Bohemians in 1982.
Dundalk, who have won the competition 10 times overall, have featured in the last two finals, while record winners Shamrock Rovers will be aiming to return to the Aviva Stadium for the first time since 2010.


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About the course
An intensive one-day introduction to designing for emotion. Grounded in the scientific principles of human emotion, this course will teach you how to understand the elements of emotional mapping. Guiding you through bits that will get you to grips with key rules for designing emotional experiences. Applying the emotional spectrum to both physical and digital spaces. The day will be fun and interactive with tasks and games to understand what goes on in the emotional brain. How we can use it to our advantage when designing anything from a website to an exhibition.
It's fun, it's interactive, you will meet interesting people to exchange ideas and experiences, you will analyse your own products or services and leave with some concrete takeaways and guidelines as to how to practice emotional mapping in your industry.
What will you learn?
- The principles of emotional design
- Understanding the differences between feelings and emotions
- Understanding how we value an emotion and how we can use that to design pleasurable experiences
- Designing to our primal emotional responses
- How user centred design is related to emotional design
- The dramatical effect of emotional memory
- Checklist for emotion
- Hands on practical tasks
- How to evaluate for emotion
- Methods to use
- Reviewing existing designs (public or your own)
After completing the training, participants will be able to
- Describe the key principles of emotion and how that changes customer behaviour
- Be able to recognise the ket triggers and patterns for emotional design
- Evaluate the emotional aspects of customer experiences
- How to make an emotional map
What's included?
- Pastries on arrival
- Lunch
- Hot & cold refreshments
- Fresh fruit
- Snacks
- Course materials
- Certificate of completion
About the trainer
Cathy Carr - Consultant
With her background in product design and user research, Cathy has become a prominent and highly respected user experience researcher at Bunnyfoot since joining the company back in 2011.
Some of her most recent clients include: The BBC, CITB, Oxfam and Vodafone.
Cathy has extensive experience interviewing and observing users, from small children to older adults, as they interact with different products, services and systems. This includes moderating participants using common devices such as TVs, websites and apps through to the more complex or unusual like the controls of a laser eye machine. And if that wasn't enough, on top of face to face testing, she's overcome the challenges of remote testing, testing internationally and even testing in other languages!
This makes Cathy perfectly placed to share her passion, stories and insights with the attendees of Bunnyfoot's user testing course.
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Carl Crowe was officially welcomed back to the Berkshire County Cricket Club fold at a special pre-season function at Falkland CC's Wash Common ground last Saturday.
He returns as player-coach following a season with his former county Leicestershire.
"I am delighted to be returning," he said. "I will be supporting the captain (Bjorn Mordt) as much as I can.
"One or two have left since the season before last, but there are good youngsters coming in and so hopefully we can enjoy another successful season."
Crowe was in the Berkshire team that won the Minor Counties Championship in 2008 and were the losing finalists in the KO Cup final.
The spinner succeeds Richard Logan, who finished top of the county's batting and bowling averages last season.
That double achievement earned him the Player of the Year award and all-rounder Logan received the Palmer Cup from chairman Cecil Fright on Saturday.
Team manager David Morris said that releasing Logan was "the hardest decision he has ever had to make regarding the team since he took over as manager."
Morris revealed that Berkshire will have a new wicketkeeper in Todd Hutcheson, who was born in South Africa but now holds a British passport.
Hutcheson played for Oxford in the Home Counties League last season but has now moved into the Ascot area.
Berkshire's squad will also include several 'home grown' youngsters, including Shelvin Gumbs, Gurveer Singh, Jamie Hoddle and Trevor McGeer.
They will all play in at least one of the three warm-up matches against Middlesex's first and second teams, both at Radlett CC, and Gloucestershire at Falkland.
The first of those games is against the senior Middlesex side next Wednesday (March 31).
Morris added: "It is the earliest start we have ever made, but the first-class counties make an early start to their fixtures and are looking for friendlies. We are delighted they have chosen Berkshire."
Allrounder James Morris will skipper the side next Wednesday with neither Bjorn Mordt nor Steve Naylor available.
Berkshire will also be without pace bowler Tom Lambert, who is recovering from a broken right hand, which he suffered during a county net practice.
"I had the plaster taken off last week and I am hoping to be play for Henley against Avorians on May 1," said Lambert.
"As I have missed most of the pre-season, it is probably a bit too early to say when I will be able to play for Berkshire."
In addition to Logan, Berkshire handed out their other annual awards on Saturday.
The Young Player of the Year trophy went to Henley batsman Michael Roberts, while the Eddy Pickford Trophy for the most improved player went to 21-year-old Finchampstead all-rounder Darron Augustus.
Neither could attend the presentations and their trophies were collected by Henley skipper Bjorn Mordt and Finchampstead chairman Neil Doody respectively.


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Original Watercolor and Ink on Paper
these are beautiful...
and i hope you got a chance to paint your heart out today as well...
(this is me waving hello...and hoping that things are bright and beautiful in your world...)
I love these watercolors. Honestly, I am so in awe of my fellow bloggers who seem to be able to sit down and paint or create on a daily basis. I need to get back to that place where I used to do that. You've inspired me to go get some watercolor paper this weekend and play with some paint.
Happy Friday!
I love these...they are so beautiful! Enjoy your painting...I am so thrilled for your gush of creativity!
I LOVE that row boat! Nice job with watercolors Jessie. XXOO
My goodness, you are SO talented! I am in awe!!
Fantastico, Jessie! As usual, you are SO on top of your game.
I, on the other hand, chased my tail for hours ... grrrrrr ... I growl at myself.
My beautiful painting arrive from
you today in all it's gogeous
swirl of turquoise -
I had to make a chai to celebrate -
ohhhhhh it is soooooo beautiful and
it's a HAPPY painting and is perched
right beside my laptop on my desk:)
I can't wait to find another one
of your paintings - you are such
a vivid talent with much
joy in your work:)
These are wonderful. I hope you enjoyed your day alone--that's very special time--glad you're enjoying it!
Beauuuutiful. I especially like Introspection, but they are all good. You inspire me.
These are just beautiful! I love them.
Jessie-- I just love your style-- these paintings are so wonderful!!
These watercolours are gorgeous ... in fact they are just too cute for words. Especially like the boat one.
You are so 'in the zone' at the moment Jessie, 'well done' to you.
Lots of love and happiness to you, from 'across the pond'.