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Shimon Shitrit – Water Supply Engineer
The agricultural water supply for the mid-Arava and Kikar Sdom region is based on brackish water from local well sites. Drinking water is supplied to this region via small desalination facilities. The water supply system in the mid-Arava region is completely independent. It utilizes over 50 well sites to different aquifers and is completely disconnected from nearby systems. In order to support the growing agricultural sector in this region and to improve the quality of water, a master plan has been drafted to supply water to the region. The plan was approved by the Water Authority in 2012.
According to the program, agriculture in the Arava will receive a mixture of brackish and fresh water. As there is no natural fresh water in the region, the increased water supply to the Mid Arava will be based primarily on importing 13 million cubic meters per year of fresh water from the southern Arava region and 8 million cubic meters of water per year from the national water system. In addition, a proposal was made to establish a desalination plant near Neot Hakikar to treat water from local well sites. In order to transport water from the southern Arava, a proposal was made to lay a pipeline that is 28″ in diameter and 35 km long, from Kibutz Yahel to the Paran reservoir near the Paran village. In order to transport water from the national system, a proposal was made to use the Zafit-Sdom line which connects the pools in Zafit, located near the Rotem Plateau, to the southern Dead Sea region.
Due to the long period of time required to implement the master plan and the growing water crisis in the Arava region, Mekorot prepared a general plan for the immediate supply of water to the mid-Arava and Kikar Sdom. This plan includes inspecting several engineering facilities that are needed in order to meet the water needs of this part of the Arava until 2020. The plan included proposals to build new well sites, lay water pipes, and build pumping stations and reservoirs. In addition, the possibility of connecting the mid and southern Arava regions and transferring brackish water from the southern Arava is being considered.
An in-depth assessment showed that water consumption in the southern Arava is primarily during daytime hours. Therefore, due to the limited reserves, some well sites do not operate at night. On the other hand, water consumption is consistent around the clock in the mid-Arava. There are two water reservoirs in the mid-Arava: Shizaf which holds 180 thousand cubic meters, located near Ein Yahav; and Paran reservoir which holds 215 thousand cubic meters, located near Paran. According to water balances, up to 3 million cubic meters of brackish water per year can be supplied to the mid-Arava.
Based on this data, a decision was made to lay a line that will connect the southern and mid Arava regions, called the Arava connection line. Despite the relatively small amount of water than can be transferred from one part of the Arava to the other, the diameter of the line will be 28″, as required for the master plan for the mid-Arava, instead of calculating the diameter of the line according to engineering criteria for the quantities of water to be transferred, due to the challenges of laying the line in this region.
Due to the complexity of this project, the line was divided into three segments, each 10-15 km long. Work on the high-level design for this project continued for 18 months. It was managed by the southern district of Mekorot and implemented by EMS Mekorot Projects, a subsidiary of Mekorot. All stages of the project were coordinated with infrastructure authorities and the Ministry of Defense, as well as with engineering experts at Mekorot and the project designer, who resolved problems that arose over the course of implementation.
The Arava connection line was connected to the Paran-Eilat line which transfers brackish water from bottleneck Paran well sites (located near the point where Route 40 crosses Nahal Paran) to the southern Arava. As the Paran-Eilat line is connected to Eilat via the southern Arava and the water transferred is used as raw water for the Shizafon desalination plant, a hydraulic device with a remote command and control system has been installed on the connection between the two lines so that in case of a malfunction, water transfer can be stopped remotely.
The Arava connection line was connected to the Paran reservoir via a system of special hydraulic devices that address throughput issues and differences in pressure between the line and the reservoir by reducing pressure from 20 atm. to only several meters. These devices are controlled by a regional automatic command system that opens and closes the devices and determines the quantity of water to be transferred based on the levels of the operational pools.
The line had become operable in July 2016. This is a first and important step towards implementing the master plan for the mid-Arava region and towards increasing the water supply to the mid-Arava, even minimally.

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Overseas investors have poured in over Rs 14,000 crore in the Indian capital markets this month so far, taking total inflows to a staggering Rs 2.6 lakh crore this year, said the media report.
Moreover, foreign investors are pumping funds into debt in order to take advantage of the higher yields.
The net investment by overseas investors into the equity market has reached Rs 99,450 crore (USD 16.5 billion) so far this year, while in the debt markets it is at Rs 1.59 lakh crore ($26.2 billion), aggregating to Rs 2.6 lakh crore (USD 42.6 billion).
This has taken their cumulative net investments into the Indian equity markets, since being allowed over two decades ago in November 1992, to nearly Rs 8 lakh crore. The cumulative figure for debt securities has also grown to Rs 2.63 lakh crore -- taking the total for overall Indian markets to Rs 10.5 lakh crore (over USD 213 billion).


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- Guest's brilliant players improvise their way through another gutbuster
For Your Consideration
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Written and directed by Christopher Guest
Starring all the usual Guest players, plus Ricky Gervais
Rated PG-13
Christopher Guest and his merry band of pranksters are at it again, improvising a loving, teasing romp through a realm we both love and love to hate, an arena bloated with its own self-importance, full of people at once fascinating and repellent, simultaneously passionate about their work and clueless about how their drive can lead them to ridiculous extremes.
Or maybe not so much clueless here. Guest dumps the mockumentary format this time around in For Your Consideration, giving us a straight-up narrative that perforce offers a more oblique angle on his subject than we're used to from him. Peeking in from the side, fly-on-the-wall style, we suddenly see the self-awareness, the hidden desperation, the happy face that falls away for a sadder one when the cameras are switched off.
Hollywood is Guest's bitch here, and it's an easy target, but neither he nor his usual gang go for the easy laughs ... at least not all the time. Home for Purim is a boutique-studio film — not an indie, but one off the radar of the honchos until a snippet of internet buzz predicts Oscar love for its star, Marilyn Hack. Catherine O'Hara is superb as Hack — her Hack isn't a bad actress, and she's only a little full of herself; the joke about a potential Oscar nom has more to do with the kind of sentimental melodramas that tend to get the Academy's attention than with any particular unworthiness on Hack's part. Likewise, Home for Purim isn't so much a joke in itself — Ha, ha!, the movie about the obscure Jewish holiday with the funny name is actually, oh dear, really rather sweet in spots — as it becomes a focus for the penchant of Hollywood to water everything down until it's nothing but a pale shade of insignificance. (Those honchos who suddenly take an interest in the film can't resist reworking it in their own image.)
Sure, there's plenty of the usual fresh Guest humor in the barbed skewering of agents (Eugene Levy's incompetent shark), of entertainment journalists (Fred Willard and Jane Lynch, wickedly sharp), and producers (Jennifer Coolidge's dumb bunny). But there's real weight in Guest's own Jay Berman, the director of Purim, who has only gentle ribbing and a lot of genuine appreciation for the minefield filmmakers walk through. There's not a lick of satire in Christopher Moynihan's Brian Chubb, costarring in Purim without having gone native: His failure to embrace Hollywood bullshit is its own little tragedy, one that we witness in a way that we might not have in the mockumentary format. It's only because we're not so sucked into the perspective of the other characters so caught up in themselves that we are able to see him as strangely tragic in the first place.
It's in two scenes that our subjects do appear on camera, while we watch from the wings, that the suddenly deeper poignancy Guest has uncovered in this new scheme becomes clear. In one, a publicist on the set of Purim interviews some of the cast and crew so she can create promotional material: Her chat with the screenwriters, played by Bob Balaban and Michal McKean, is painfully inane, and the horrified stares she receives from them wouldn't have worked in a mockumentary — they'd have to be far stronger sendups than they are to have justified their appearance, but they're effective here precisely because we can see them, over the course of the whole film, as very slowly getting sucked into the Hollywood neverland.
But it's the bit in which the cast of Purim is interviewed for e-television by Willard's and Lynch's bimbos that the real power of For Your Consideration shines through. Subtlety and nuance are not in the vocabulary of these two idiots, and though the actors keep up brave faces for their camera, we see, when the spotlight moves away, how dismayed they are. Because we're not looking at them through the camera this time, we see how they really feel about themselves and the shallow world into which they're immersed, and it's not so good. Who was it who said comedy isn't pretty? That's more the case here than it has ever been before for Guest and Co., and the upshot is that this may be their most affecting movie yet.


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Lewis Carroll was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, and he may have drew some of his inspiration from the area of his childhood. The white rabbit for example features in a legend of Bewsey Old Hall, which is based in nearby Warrington. The white rabbit, according to the tale, would be chased across the grounds by ghostly hounds. The Cheshire Cat may have been inspired by a cat carved on a church in Grappenhall, a nearby village, located a few miles from Daresbury in Cheshire. The carved cat is on the outside of the Church tower, and is sometimes hard to spot, the carved cat blending into its sandstone background.
Lewis Carroll spent a good part of his childhood in Daresbury where his father Charles Dodgson was Perpetual Curate of All Saints Church there. The font where Carroll was baptised is now situated in the churchyard, and there are windows (below) dedicated to the author, along with a visitors centre that is attached to the church.
The font that Lewis Carroll was baptised in. Now located in the churchyard.
The Cheshire cat appearing on a barn building in Daresbury.
All Saints Church, Daresbury. Lewis Carroll's father Charles Dodgson was Perpetual Curate there.
The Ring O' Bells pub in Daresbury, Victorian Mock-Tudor at its best. the building on the left was a court house and is now an extension to the pub.
The village in Summer.
All photos taken with permission by Dr David Harrison.
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I had been planning to read something by Le Guin for a pretty long time, I first heard of her in the movie Jane Austen Reading Club and her work seemed really interesting. So I chose one of her books for our
club but than I finished the book and decided to choose something else for our discussion…I don't know if I have just picked a wrong book but it didn't meet my expectations at all. Reading
The story is about a young boy named Ged who lives in a little village. Their local witch finds out he is very gifted in magic and starts teaching him. One day, an army attacks their island and when they get to Ged's village, he uses his power to hide them in mist. The word about his power spreads and one day, a stranger turns up in the village. Surprisingly, he is a famous kick-ass magician and takes Ged as apprentice.
Later, Ged leaves his master and goes into the school for sorcerers. He is extremely talented and he is very well aware of it – he knows no one at the school can compete with him. So he is really mean and arrogant. There is only one student who tries to compete with him and he provokes him to summon a ghost.
Accidentally, Ged summons not only the ghost but also something else from behind the veil. No one knows what it is and how it got into their world but one thing is certain – it will try to seize control over Ged and when it succeeds, it will be absolutely unstoppable. Ged finishes his training and leaves the school to fight the shadow.
In one point, they meet and the shadow uses Ged's name to suppress his magic powers. Ged has no idea how it got to know his name (almost no one knows his real name – people call each other by nicknames and you tell your name only to your real friends). I guess no one will be surprised by the ending by I won't spoil…but the end is the lamest thing you can think of after reading this (so actually I did spoil…ssoooorrryyy).
I have to say I didn't like this book. It was one huge cliché after another. There were mysterious strangers with weird advices (that the hero followed immediately), there were dragons and super powerful sorcerers and deceitful women and all the characters were…just exactly what you expected them to be. I didn't make myself like Ged in any point of he book. At the beginning, he's a complete idiot but later it doesn't get better. OK, he turns into someone who understands much more about the world and people but…gosh, you know that will happen from like the tenth page. I waited for the interesting…let's say deeper…part but it just never came.
Another thing I didn't like was the system of magic. Maybe I just didn't get how it works but simply, you learn some special language which expresses the real essence of things. But it also somehow depends on how local people call things so the far Ged gets from his home, the less powers he has. Well, maybe that's where Le Guin gets philosophical but…whatever.
I expected there would be something more than just a story. And if not something more, at least some catchy story. This is just boring, boring and when you start hoping it will turn out better…it gets even more boring. I guess I will try to read another book by her, there must be something into it…
I have just found that there is a movie base on the Earthsea series. Accordingly to the reviews, it's even worse than the book...


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New start with Thames Valley Gay Chorus
This is a great time to join Thames Valley Gay Chorus because we are starting a new term with a new Musical Director. You will be in at the start alongside other newcomers. There are no auditions, you do not need to be able to read music and we all just want to enjoy singing together, to learn and develop and have fun in a safe and friendly LGBT community choir. We meet for rehearsals in Reading every Sunday from 4 to 6pm. You are very welcome to come along and meet us, have a sing and see if TVGC is for you.
We begin rehearsals again on Sunday 13 May, from 4 to 6pm at New Bridge Nursery School in Caversham. We will work towards a 15th Anniversary Concert on 6 October at South Street Arts Centre, and performances at Reading Pride on 1 September. We will learn a mix of music and build on our performance confidence.
Our new Musical Director for the coming term is Victoria Ely who ran a great workshop for us recently, full of fun and energy. She is a highly qualified and experienced choral conductor and tutor who has worked throughout the UK and in Europe as well as in her native Australia. You can find out more from her website. Vicky currently lives in London, but is moving to Reading this summer.
We are delighted that Vicky has agreed to work with us and hope that you will want to join us when we restart rehearsals on 13 May. Why not come along to a rehearsal for a taster session?
If you would like to find out more, please get in touch.
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New members are always welcome. If you're lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender and have the desire to sing, come along to one of our rehearsals. Were of mixed backgrounds and abilities youre not expected to have any experience, to read music, or to have an audition (although our musical director will need to check which section youll be singing in). You just need to have a desire to sing and learn, and we provide practice tracks so that you can learn between rehearsals.
Singing is thirsty work so we have a short break during practice and often afterwards we'll share a drink or two at a gay-friendly pub.
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If youd like to see if were right for you, why not come along to one of our rehearsals and give it a go? It wont cost you anything and singing in a choir is a very supportive environment.
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The Thames Valley Gay Chorus (TVGC) is a group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from around the Thames Valley who enjoy singing. Were based in Reading but perform all around the area. A voluntary group, the Chorus helps develop people with a desire to sing and read music, and enables LGBT people to express themselves through music. Singing has recognised health benefits including respiration, mental health, self-confidence and memory.
The music we perform ranges from classical and sacred music through jazz, blues, songs from the shows to pop. Our repertoire has included Abba, Burt Bacharach, Beach Boys, Beatles, Bee Gees, Beethoven, Irving Berlin, Bon Jovi, Leonard Cohen, Coldplay, Bob Dylan, Fauré, José Feliciano, Handel, Haydn, Billy Joel, Lerner and Loewe, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Offenbach, Cole Porter, Queen, Rodgers and Hammerstein, John Rutter, Strauss, James Taylor, Verdi, stage musicals and movies. Take a look at our recent concert programmes - theres sure to be something for everyone!


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Uckfield's new rector, the Rev John Wall, comes to the town from 'the dodgy bit of Brighton' - the address on a postcard sent to him.
Father John, who takes up his post later this year, is currently rector of St Andrew's, Moulsecoomb, an area he himself describes as 'a somewhat notorious parish in Brighton.'
And he has established a reputation as a community champion. He led a campaign to re-open the first urban co-operative pub in the South of England, the Bevendean, known as The Bevy, getting involved in everything from raising funds to decorating. The pub was closed for some time and he helped transform it to include specially created community spaces including a bar, cafe, meeting areas and a training kitchen. He was pretty hands-on in the pub renovation, spending seven hours sanding down the bar. He said: "I told people if anyone spilt beer on the bar there would be hell to pay - and then I was the one who knocked the first pint over it!"
He is currently a school governor, runs a networking local community leaders' lunch and his spare time activities sum up the saying: 'If you want something done ask the busiest person in the parish.' He likes to entertain, go to the theatre, cinema and enjoys art.
Parishioners in Moulescoomb number about 18,000 - a similar population to Holy Cross Church where his ministry will include Holy Cross itself plus St Saviour's, Uckfield; St Michael's, Little Horsted and St Margaret's, Isfield. Father John has been ordained for 27 years and has served in Crawley, Newbury and Brighton where he was chaplain to three recent Brighton mayors and now looks forward to getting involved with Uckfield's lively civic life. He especially wants a new challenge and wants to be a focal Christian presence in the town. Uckfield has often attracted rectors with a broad hinterland and a wide range of outside interests. Father John, 55 is an art historian and has an MA in medieaval art and iconography. He writes for the Church Times paper, "pretty much the Church of England's trade magazine." He's looking forward to the move and said: "I'm single but come with a happy little Labrador called Sophie who adores being the Rectory dog." He starts a four month sabbatical after Easter, "Art in Rome and Venice with, I suspect quite a lot of pasta and Veneto wine."
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I am interested in Computing.
BSc (Hons) ISD
I gained my BSc (Hons) ISD degree in 2003, at UCLan:
- papers on the Data Protection Act 1998, the evolution of Intranets 1 in organisations, and employee motivational issues caused by technology "change in the workplace" 1.
- Programming: some of which are trivial - some is more involved.
- Web development.
- Systems Analysis & Design and Database development.
PhD Computing
My PhD Computing research examined information integration in Web environments, i.e. Semantics-based Search using "Semantic Web" technologies such as RDF/XML, RDF Schema and OWL Web Ontology Language in the Semantic Web. I completed my PhD in 2010
My work also included Java programming, using the Jena Ontology API framework, to develop an Ontology-enabled application, to examine semantics-based search for Web information retrieval.
I include background information about the development of a prototype "semantic search engine" - my SeMSeT semantics-based search tool. My primary focus was targetted at:
- Information Sharing - Ontology Integration and Semantic Web 2.
- A semantic search tool, termed SemSeT - developed to conduct Information Retrieval (IR) experiments, initially using test data and then with the TExt Retrieval Conference (TREC) dataset: WT2G document collection.
- The use of small ontology modules for Ontology-based query expansion (OQE) to improve search precision and recall.
I have experience in databases: MySQL, MS SQL Server 2000/08/12, and Oracle 8i/11g database management systems.
I have used the Oracle 11g OEM and the Oracle Forms/SQL Developer tools and I teach an advanced database systems module at UCLan.
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2 Scientific American: The Semantic Web: Web content meaningful to computers.
After almost 25 years in banking/financial services management, I returned to higher education in 2000 to study for an information systems degree; this was followed by post-graduate PhD research.
Currently, I am an associate lecturer at UCLan, in the School of Physical Sciences and Computing. I teach Oracle-based Advanced Database Systems and Database Administration, Systems Analysis & Design, and project-based Professional Skills. My CV provides other related information.
Some Web pages cover my computing and related studies and include several static and dynamic Web-design projects, some functional code examples have been provided. Other pages relate to my PhD research activities.
I also include lighter content, relating to my keen interest in railways (both model railways and their protoypes in Europe and North America) and hillwalking.
I am a hillwalker in this country, have visited Switzerland many times, and have also trekked in the Nepal Himalaya. Switzerland has provided a particular interest offering both excellent Swiss railways and mountains.
Last, but not least, I am a life-long fan of Stoke City FC.
ProgrammingProjects have involved various programming languages and applications, including XHTML, CSS, Active Server Pages (ASP and ASP.NET), Javascript, Flash, SQL, C++. Also C# - see UIC EVN VKM generator in Railways section.
I have used C# to create an online European Railways (UIC) EVN VKM locomotive and vehicle number classification system tool.
I have walked extensively in the Pennines, the Lake District, the Scottish Highlands and Switzerland - this has included over 60 Scottish Munros and over 100 Cumbrian tops. I have completed the Pennine Way, Coast to Coast, and West Highland Way - long distance walks.
I have also trekked in the foothills and mountains of the Nepal Himalaya, having reached the summit of Mera Peak (6476m) in 1990 and trekked to Langtang in 1991.
This photo epitomises the joy of hillwalking in the great outdoors; it shows the rugged terrain and wilderness surrounding Lochnagar - as shown in a pictorial diary of two days hillwalking in the Scottish Highlands, near Braemar - in August 2003.
I have a life-long interest in Railways, both model and prototype.
I have created a photo gallery showing British OO gauge and European/North American HO/HOm gauge models - and railway exhibition layouts. Also included are photos of protoype British and European railways - including heritage operations.
I have an American HO scale layout (29th Street Wharf), that has been substantially re-developed by extending and replacing trackwork and point control, remodelling industrial themes, and conversion to digital command control (DCC) sound-enabled system.
I have recently created a new US O-scale layout (Arcadia Pennsylvania Terminal), also featuring sound-enabled locomotives. Both layouts are booked to be regularly exhibited at UK Model Railway shows, ranging from Perth in Scotland, the North West of England, through to the Midlands and the South East.
My "real-world" interests are Swiss and UK railways, including the Swiss Rhätische Bahn in the Graubünden region. I have two railway related blogs - WebTrain Savvy and @TheWebTrain.
I have been a member of the Swiss Railways Society and also the RMweb community.
My ambitions are to travel on the Venice Simplon Orient Express (VSOE) and journey through the Canadian Rockies!


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Sunday, 18 December 2011
Small moments
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It's so true isn't it Peggy, it really is just the small things that are so wonderful. My son's voice is incessant but if I really sit and listen to what he's saying it's so funny. At the moment he's running around the house pretending to ride a motorbike.ReplyDelete
I was one of those people too. "...I'll be happy when..." The problem with people is as soon as we get what we think will make us happy we start looking for the next thing. Better to just stop right now and appreciate.
So many, so many, so many. It's why I do the 'grateful' thing each week and I'm usually grateful for such riveting stuff as my toothbrush or shoes. It's those little things, those little moments, the little memories, that make up the best bits!ReplyDelete
Best wishes for a merry Christmas to you and your beloved family, Peggy. x
What a lovely post Peggy. Really lovely particularly as this has been on my mind lately. I like nothing more than to be at home with my family. I hate rushing around. I'm still learning to be 'still' in the moment and not let my mind get carried away with thoughts and plans, but I'm getting better. Much better than I used to be. I make a point of getting down to my son's level when he talks to me and really listening to what he's saying to me. And I'm making a real point of sloooowing down - otherwise you miss too much. Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
I love those little moments. And you're right, if you get too caught up in life or busy they can breeze straight past you. I have learned a lot about my kids, and myself from these little moments.ReplyDelete
I'm with you all the way on this Peggy. Never before have I sought so much joy and satisfaction and peace of mind with the simple things. My boys have definitely taught me that. I too, was a fly by the seat of my pants kinda gal in my late teens/twenties. Always going out, working, holidaying and more working. I rarely stopped to smell the roses. But I will say I did have a ball and whilst it is not the space I would want to be in nowadays, I don't regret a moment of it, nor think it was wrong to be like that then. Because that is but a phase and I'm now in another. The thing is, I'd like to hold onto this phase for as long as I possibly can. Because appreciating the simple things, feels darn good :o)ReplyDelete
Lovely post Peggy xo
Hi Peggy,ReplyDelete
Nodding all the way here! It's such a familiar story. It took me a long time to slow down after the birth of my first child as I was so used to accounting for every 6 minutes of my day in my former life. We are trekking around in a caravan before settling in Tasmania and although there is excitement, the trip is really about slowing down, spending time as a family without all the added distractions and just enjoying the little moments as you say.
I liked this post a lot!
Mel xx
Being a mother has made me enjoy 'the moments' more than ever. When young you can be spoiled with time yet feel a constant urge to fill it up. I appreciate time and hold on those moments for as long as I can.ReplyDelete
It's funny, I'm having an incredibly hectic time at work and amongst the backdrop of some 'big and important' work outcomes, the highlight of my day was actually seeing that Amelie had one first prize in the 2-4 age category of my work's children colouring in competition :)
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Peineau unites outdoor and indoor world champion titles
Sebastien Peineau upset world number one Stephan Hansen to the compound men's World Archery Champion title in Mexico City, unifying the outdoor and indoor crowns and preventing his Danish opponent from becoming the first in the category to defend the world title.
"I'm still shaking," Peineau said, showing his hands. "I do not realise it completely, so I'm not crying yet but it will come."
"If someone had been told me before the championships that I would be in the final, I would not have believed it, and now I'm Champion, it's huge!"
After becoming France's first compound men's indoor archery world champion, Peineau has now become the first ever male French archer to hold the outdoor title – and he now holds both at the same time.
"I was absolutely not aware of this, and this is one more line under my name in the history of French archery, I am very proud," added Seb. France's only other outdoor champion was compound woman Catherine Pellen on home soil at Riom 1999.
The victory is even more incredible considering Peineau spent most of the last indoor season rehabbing an injury in his elbow.
Peineau said he arrived nervous in the match: "The sight was moving a lot, I had not felt this since my title in Ankara. I just wanted to stay dynamic in my shot and my engagement, because even if it moves it can always scratch a 10."
Seb had a lead after a slow start from the defending champion.
Over the back-half of the 15-arrow contest, that advantage slipped away – and the pair were tied at 143 points come the close of regulation.
The Frenchman shot first in the tiebreak – and shot a middle 10.
Hansen's was also 10, but further out.
"That final arrow was fine, it was a 10 and I cannot do more than a 10 right now, he shot okay and today was just not my day," said Hansen, who explained that he'd been sick since Tuesday. "It was just shaky and feeling bad, nothing felt calm."
No compound man has ever won two World Archery Champion titles.
Danish 22-year-old Hansen arrived in the final as favourite, having posted matches of 150, 150, 149 and 149 in the Mexico City eliminations, but never looked as comfortable in the finals arena.
In the bronze medal match, Braden Gellenthien beat Pierre-Julien Deloche and secured the third individual medal in his career.
"I never doubted I would leave the arena with the medal," said Gellenthien, who looked in control throughout and took the match, 147-143. "Hopefully there's a gold a couple of years down the line."
A six-time team World Archery Champion since taking another gold on the morning of compound finals in Mexico City, Braden shot three perfect ends out of five in the individual bronze medal match.
The 2017 Hyundai World Archery Championships run 15-22 October in Mexico City, Mexico.


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This week's Story Time is a short one. It's also a very important one to me. It is the story of the moment I decided why I will always put my child first. No matter what. Now you might be thinking, "Of course you should always put your child first! Duh." Well, let me explain.
When Lily was around 2-months-old, I went to Sea World with my family. While I was there I witnessed an interaction between a mother and her children that I will never forget. It was a small little thing. But it was so impactful that I still remember it clearly and it has influenced my thoughts and actions every day since.
It was Christmas time and Sea World had a Christmas village set up where you could take a photo with Santa. A mother and her children, I don't remember how many there were, walked by us. They were heading toward Santa and I overheard their conversation as we passed by each other. One of the children excitedly said something like, "Mom, let's go see the Penguins!" All the other children excitedly agreed. They were so stoked you could hear the joy and excitement in their voices. The mother then replied,
"No! We are going to do what mommy wants to do first."
I remember thinking to myself, "Is she serious? How could she shut them down so abruptly and rudely? How selfish!" I turned to my little sister and asked if she heard what the mother had just said. I was immediately angry.
First of all, I just want to say that I understand that I witnessed just a moment. Just one little snippet of this family's life. A family I did not know. I don't know what the circumstances were or why the mother may have reacted that way. So I don't want to sit here on my high horse judging a fellow mother. But witnessing this moment did make me realize what kind of mother I wanted to be.
I want to be the kind of mother who always puts her child first. The kind of mother who is willing to make sacrifices and put the wants and needs of my children above my own.
So because I need to get this off of my chest, I am going to step onto my high horse for a moment.
The second I became Lily's mother I gave up the right to be selfish. I had my chance to explore, discover the world around me, and do what I wanted to do on my own terms. I no longer have the right to put myself first. I brought this little human into the world and it's now my job to help her explore and discover the world around her. If she's excited about something, it's my job to be excited with her. Not to tell her that what I think is exciting is more important.
Stepping off of my high horse now.
Anyway, I am not saying that once you have a child you should completely neglect your own wants and needs, but you do have to approach them differently. I think children already have the tendency to feel as though their wants, needs, and emotions are inferior to adults. Like what they want doesn't quite matter as much because they are just a child. I never want to make Lily feel like just because she is a child her emotions aren't valid.
Just because I feel this way doesn't mean it's always easy.
There have been multiple times where I am about to do something selfish and I can hear that mother's voice playing in my head and I think to myself, "Put Lily first." That might mean something small like letting my food get cold because I had to stop and feed her. When I just as easily could've let her fuss while I finished a hot meal. Still, all those little things add up. And while it might not matter as much now, it will start to matter more and more as Lily grows up.
I know there are probably a lot of parents out there who completely disagree with me and think I'm going to raise a spoiled and controlling child. And that's totally fine. We all approach parenthood differently and we are going to do what we think is best. I am so happy that I encountered that mother at Sea World. It helped me decide what kind of mother I wanted to be and why I will always put my child first!


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Pens vary in size according to size of dog or the number of dogs sharing. Each pen has an indoor sleeping area with basket and vet bedding and an outdoor exercise run that is fully roofed to provide protection from the sun and rain. These face onto peaceful farm and woodland. With only 20 pens and up to four staff we ensure that your dog receives excellent care and attention.
Office/Isolation Kennels
In addition to the main kennel block, we have some kennels located in a quiet area which are ideal for elderly/nervous dogs or puppies who have not been in kennels before. See prices for more information or call us on 01636 626522.
Central Heating
In winter and cold weather, our heating operates 24/7 to ensure dogs are kept warm and comfortable at all times. If any dogs require extra heating, individual heat lamps are available.
We pride ourselves on our exercise facilities and routine. Four fully enclosed large grass paddocks allow us to give our boarders ample off lead exercise throughout the day. Boarders will enjoy a minimum of 4-6 walks daily
Your dog will be fed the same diet at the same time as you feed at home. If your dog has an unusual or special diet, you can bring your own food at a reduced daily rate.
All annual vaccinations must be up to date. From April 2015, we are insisting that all dogs are vaccinated against kennel cough. This must be done at least 2 weeks prior to boarding. In the unlikely event that an outbreak occurs, we will do everything possible to prevent it spreading. However, should your dog require veterinary attention for this or any other reason, we will use your vet wherever possible. Unfortunately we are not able to cover your vets bills relating to kennel cough or for long term illnesses/conditions.
For bookings or further information please call us on 01636 626522


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My box contents this month:
- Birchbox Bobby Pins with green pattern - two matching bobby pins
- purminerals CC Cream Broad Spectrum SPF 40 in 'light' - .3oz / 10g
- Eyeko Skinny Liquid Eyeliner in 'Purple' - 2g / 0.07oz
- Vivant Skin Care Mandelic Acid 3-in-1 Wash - 4.5ml
- Kerastase Chroma Thermique (Protect) - two foil packets, 10ml ea.
A decent box and variety of items this month, for sure. This definitely was not my dream box by any means - but I can't deny how insanely excited I am to have received a full sized Eyeko Skinny Liquid Eyeliner (and in purple, at that!). I did, however, make the mistake of trying out the Vivant Skin Care sample.. why am I so tempted by these things? I should know by now that my skin absolutely hates anything marketed for 'treating' acne. The description states that it is a 'gentle' cleanser, but my skin felt otherwise.. it was left irritated and dry, go figure! I am looking forward to trying the CC cream - but mostly because of the sunscreen benefits. ha ha The Birchbox bobby pins are actually pretty cute and will likely come in handy. I find them difficult to use, though, as they are hard to pry open! And as for the sample packets of Kerastase.. they'll be left unused (by me, at least).
Before I go - here's a quick swatch of the Eyeko Skinny Liquid Eyeliner in Purple:
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Diesel engines are widely used in underground mining vehicles. The emissions from diesel engines are known to be human carcinogens. Provincial and territorial regulations govern the amount of exposure to mine workers by these diesel fumes.
In addition to their health effects, ventilation systems need to work extra hard to dilute the diesel fumes in the underground mine air. This means a large amount of energy is expended to dilute the diesel fumes for the safety of the mine workers.
Alternatives to diesel, such as hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, and lithium-ion batteries, are advancing in their development and cost-effectiveness. These alternatives have many advantages over diesel power, including:
- ventilation and fuel cost savings;
- maintenance savings, and sometimes;
- priceless advantages (health).
There can also be side benefits to alternatives to diesel power, such as increased power/torque, less waste oil handling, quiet operation of the vehicle, and reduction in cooling needs, possibly reducing ventilation infrastructure requirements.
Future research at CanmetMINING will seek to identify and develop technologies which use energy sources other than diesel fuel, with the aim of energy savings and a healthier workplace for miners.
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Best Eleven: World Cup 2018 H5 Game released by InstantFuns!
During Mexico's game against South Korea at the 1998 World Cup, Cuauhtémoc Blanco unveiled an innovation that instantly earned global acclaim. So Best Eleven: World Cup 2018 was obviously very difficult to tell them. Signed by Liverpool last year, he became the club's second-highest goal scorer in a single season. Like many children in the developing world, my brothers were riveted by English football, and no team thrilled them as much as Liverpool.
If it wasn't for their past form, I would be expecting RBR to be doing the same right now. Still the anxiety hung around Wembley, festering as the game opened up. Nothing against Wisconsin at all. Having read over the weekend some of the comments being made on this forum about Alonso and his first win in world endurance competition, it's clear their is a huge dislike of him.
Play now: https://wc2018.instantfuns.com/
Last year we saw unprecedented demand by sports-mad fans live streaming their favourite sporting games with the audience subscribing to Telstra's sporting apps increasing to over 1. His widely accepted position as the inventor of the move owes much to the fact the 1974 World Cup was beamed into more homes than any tournament before. I use and read this forum because it's free and no need to login, indeed I rarely pass comment or reply.
C'mon lets look back to the sevilla, huddersfield, new castle and westbrom games where we had Mr Mourinhos favourite players playing and its not different at all. 19 in the 247Sports composite team rankings for the 2019 class. He has been a standout receiver for two different pass-heavy high schools. I show no allegiance to Alonso, but then again I'm not going to say anything bad about him either, but there are a few on here that are extreme in their views.
Mercedes got away with it between 2014 and 16 because they were pretty much unchallenged from the outside, but if Rosberg was still in the team this year or last, I think Mercedes would have had to step in and prevent the drivers from dropping points with needless tangles. From Egypt, Salah was picked up by the Swiss club FC Basel, then moved to Chelsea, who failed to appreciate his talent and loaned him out to two Italian teams.
They have stumbled rather than stormed over the finish line, but Tottenham Hotspur have finally hauled themselves back into the promised land. As a result, he tweeted his de-commitment from Wisconsin on Wednesday night. When Best Eleven: World Cup 2018 had finished showing off his reflexes, spectators streamed on the pitch and chaired him off.
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IPTV uses SLT's wireline network to pipe video to customers who are already using Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) connections.
SLT is now an affiliate of Malaysia's UT group.
Thusha Weerasuriya, chief executive of VisionCom, the SLT unit which runs the IPTV service, says his company has invested about one billion rupees so far, in building up a delivery platform.
VisionCom has a target of reaching 7,000 customers by the year end and 100,000 customers in three years.
An IPTV connection, which comes with a set top box, is sold for 9,950 rupees followed by a monthly fee of 1,000 rupees a month.
The service in now available in the greater Colombo area, Katunayake which is north of the capital Colombo, and Kalutara to the south, officials said.
It is also available in Kandy in the central province and Kurunegala in north western Sri Lanka.
At the launch, SLT's IPTV service had 14 international and 5 domestic channels including CNN, Al-Jazeera, BBC World and HBO. Officials say it will be eventually boosted to 40.
Discussions are on the pipeline with other channels like ESPN and Start Sports, Weerasuriya told LBO.
Officials did not reveal break-even subscriber levels.Weerasuriya is also talking with education organizations who want to conduct virtual or online classrooms through IPTV with interactive capabilities, which would boost average revenues per user (ARPU).
Other value added services are video on demand, music video and a movie library.
Video shuttling (where subscribers have playback and fast forward options) and interactive educational programs for children are also expected to boost revenues.
Dialog Telekom, a unit of Malaysia Telekom, is already offering a satellite TV service which had reached 100,000 customers. But its high operating costs resulted in large losses in the start-up phase.
There are also competing cable operators.
K S Chowdrey from Aksh Optifibre who attended the launch, says his firm became India's first commercial IPTV provider using Mahanagar Telephone Nigam copper lines.
Chowdrey says IPTV reversed a decline in fixed access services where subscribers were dis-connecting their lines with the wide availability of mobile phones.
Aksh IPTV's average revenue per user is between four to five dollars.
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VMworld 2015 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog1 Sep 2015 · Filed in Information
The day 2 keynote kicks off with another Cloud Academy presentation… After the video wraps up, Sanjay Poonen takes the stage. Poonen briefly recaps yesterday's messaging, and then moves into the focus of today's keynote—focusing on the "any application and any device" part of the "Ready for Any" messaging.
According to Poonen, the core of the solution for "any application on any device" is VMware's Workspace Suite. Workspace Suite creates the magic of "enterprise computing with consumer simplicity." How? It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware's compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Combined with a strong management layer and hybrid cloud solutions, this becomes the software-defined data center (SDDC). Somehow, though, this stuff needs to be connected to the end users—via desktop, mobile, content collaboration, and tying it all together with identity management. Poonen points to innovation in all of these areas.
Obviously, mobile is a category that is growing very rapidly, and Poonen talks about VMware's movement in this space via the AirWatch acquisition. And the use of mobile devices is also key to VMware's identity efforts as well. Poonen shows a video with a few customer testimonials, and then introduces Jim Alkove, Corporate VP in charge of enterprise management and security for Windows at Microsoft. Alkove talks about how he views Windows 10 as a key effort to simplify enterprise IT, and Poonen re-affirms VMware's commitment to focus on meeting customers' needs instead of allowing corporate rivalries and competition to derail efforts.
Poonen brings Noah Wasmer onto the stage to show off some new stuff. After showing a few features around identity management, Wasmer announces Project A-Squared, which combines Airwatch and VMware AppVolumes to enable application delivery to Windows 10 systems, even physical systems. What about iOS and Android devices? Wasmer next shows using Airwatch to provision applications to these types of devices and shows integration into these applications to help with identity management and single sign-on. Next, Wasmer shows Poonen how high-performance graphics have been integrated into this solution as well, using technology jointly developed with NVIDIA.
Poonen mentions security next, and talks about the integration of Airwatch, Horizon, and NSX. Wasmer demonstrates how policy settings in NSX can affect Airwatch connectivity and data access for mobile applications.
At this point, Poonen starts wrapping up. He recaps the announcements and re-iterates the key message: "enterprise security with consumer simplicity".
Poonen leaves the stage and Martin Casado, SVP and GM of the NSBU, takes the stage. Casado starts his discussion about how the application has changed—the application is now a combination of servers, clients, load balancers, firewalls, and storage repositories. He says that now, in a very non-marketing way, applications have become the network. Applications are now truly distributed systems.
Casado starts focusing on one particular aspect of applications: provisioning. Provisioning distributed systems can be extraordinarily difficult. Another challenge is troubleshooting, which Casado equates to the words "root canal." Finally, security is a key challenge. Due to the difficulty in provisioning, modifying, and troubleshooting applications, organizations often fail to properly apply or maintain security controls, which means they end up out of compliance or, even worse, completely insecure. This leads Casado into a customer video from Tribune Media.
Network virtualization offers solutions to the three challenges he outlined earlier. Network virtualization simplifies provisioning, enables new forms of troubleshooting that weren't possible before, and empowers new levels of security. Casado points to the release of NSX 6.2—which offers a host of new features and new functionality—and talks about customer momentum with VMware NSX. Additionally, Casado talks about partner integration with NSX to add new types of services, one example of which is Palo Alto Networks.
Casado introduces another customer video, this time from Global Speech Networks, and how they are using VMware NSX in their business. Following the video, Jacob Rapp joins Casado on stage to walk through a demo of some of the new things that Casado was talking about. The demo shows a development cloud in NSX, and shows how vRealize Operations Manager can show detailed information, drilling from application level view all the way down to link-level view.
Following the demo, Casado talks about a picture he took that shows the Golden Gate bridge emerging from the fog, and he views network virtualization a lot like this picture. There's so much more yet to be unveiled, and to help talk about some of the things that are emerging Casado brings Tom Corn on to the stage to talk about some of the security-focused efforts that VMware has underway.
Corn talks first about encryption, and how VMware is working to turn that into a distributed service (or, in Casado's terms, an infinite service). As a result of this developent effort, VMware aims to make encryption—where every packet coming and going into or out of a system—a simple attribute of the application. Check the box, and traffic is automatically encrypted. The reason that encryption hasn't been adopted widely yet, according to Corn, is "root canal." In other words, it's painful and difficult, and no one wants to go that route. Once you implement distributed network encryption, all those pain points go away.
Encryption at the network level is cool, but it isn't the whole story, acording to Corn. You also need encryption for data at rest, and implementing data encryption at rest as a distributed solution also address many of the pain points that are keeping enterprises from adopting and using point solutions in this space.
Casado takes a moment to thank the community as he marks 10 years of working in the networking space, and then leaves the stage. As he leaves the stage, another customer video runs. The video handles the transition from Casado's network- and security-focused talk to a talk about how to compete in today's economy, and introduces Pat Gelsinger to the stage.
Gelsinger talks about the growth of Internet connectivity, and how various areas have differing levels of connectivity. Connectivity changes how education, healthcare, and other areas are implemented, managed, and delivered to citizens. By the same token, after 20 years, we went from 0.1 devices connected per person to 2.9 connected devices today, and a projected 5.9 devices per person in the next few decades. iOS app revenue has passed US film revenues, and this doesn't even include revenue from Android applications.
Naturally, all these trends have had an enormous impact on economics. Gelsinger spends a few minutes talking about these trends, and how these trends have impacted and continue to impact businesses. Along the way, he recaps the importance of the moves that VMware has made and the product announcements from VMware, attempting to show attendees a common thread among all the announcements and all the keynotes that pulls it all together.
I had to wrap up the liveblog now due to scheduling constraints again on my end. Sorry folks, I tried to capture as much as possible—hopefully what I've captured here has been useful.


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Fedora 10 Cambridge Essentials Guide Part 1: Getting Started
Fedora 10 Cambridge essentials guide
Well Howdy Folks ! ,thou having trouble with getting Fedora 10 Cambridge Up and Running ?
Well then you have come to the right place !!!
NOTE:all commands r to be typed in terminal with sudo or su login or su -c
PS: All yum commands can be replaced by package kit alternatives type "info pkcon" in terminal.
1)RPM-FUSION:Adding rpmfusion as a repository to get access to lot of other packages and features.
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum update
To install something in command line use
yum install Name of Packages Seperated by spaces -y
of course to find the exact package name use
yum search Package
2)Package Management Frontend GUI :
Fedora already has PackageKit (System>Administration>Add/Remove Software)
but it doesn't quite compare up to yumex
yum install yumex
3)MP3 Support:
Well, everybody loves their songs right ?
yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-pulse libmad libid3tag xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld
4)Music Players:
Everybody has a different choice of a music player , I personally prefer Amarok which has everything from cover management ,id3tag editing,online Music Store Support and Global key Shortcuts.
Few of the most used players.
-Amarok -Audacious -Banshee -Exaile -Listen -Rhythmbox -Xmms
4)GCC compatibility:
GCC is the GNU compiler supporting a lot of languages.Its needed for
yum install gcc gcc-c++ compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296
5)Video Codecs:
Fedora doesn't with proprietary codecs for playing Codecs.
Download them.
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs
tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2 --strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/
5)Video Players:
Totem is installed by default but its not a favourite of mine.
Real Player
Download RealPlayer 11 GOLD from: http://www.real.com/linux/. ( preferably use .bin file)
Select: "Advanced Installation RedHat Package"
Before installing RealPlayer, make sure to have the compat-libstdc++-33 compatibility libraries installed.
yum install compat-libstdc++-33
chmod +x name.bin
Read Agreement Go to end and press y and enter (keep pressing enter, till it starts installing)
For RPM:
sudo rpm -ivh RealPlayer11.rpm
note:if real/helix or any plugin doesnt load in firefox use:
sudo /usr/bin/mozilla-plugin-config -i -f
Other Players
yum install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in mencoder
yum install xine xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-nonfree libdvdcss
yum install vlc
yum install kaffeine kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-libs
Dragon :
yum install dragon kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-libs
Note: After this if it doesn't work refer to my other posts
December 1, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Thanks for this tips which helped me a lot, but I cannot open my vfat partitions as a normal user can you tell me how to do it? it is already mounted and root user can issue `ls` and it lists the contents.
December 2, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I have a problem with wi-fi in my inspiron 1525 which is installed with fedora 10. Can you solve this problem.
January 6, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Awesome. Best site ever found to help with making fedora run everthing!
January 6, 2009 at 9:56 pm
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So I go away for a week and look what happens. You guys boot out three-fifths of the Hagerstown City Council.
Was there some problem with this particular council of which I was unaware? I can't imagine what that would have been. All right, there might have been a few misunderstandings from time to time: "Not all Section 8 people are bad, but three-fourths of them are"; "Do you know who I am?"; "Since when does a motor vehicle need to be registered in the State of Maryland?"
But it wasn't anything that would lead you to believe that a person wasn't capable of holding representative public office in Hagerstown, key word "representative."
March is National Women's History Month, and what do we do? Celebrate by going out and showing our three female council members the door. Hagerstown must have thought this was National Women Are History Month.


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It all started when I just happened to glance at my "people you may know" list on LinkedIn. Most of the recommendations were people with whom I shared 2 or 3 common connections. But there was one profile and photo that really stood out. Apparently, this individual and I have 53 commons friends—yet we have never met. 53 people know him and me, yet he doesn't know me, and I don't know him. Go figure.
Anyway, I never really gave it much thought until recently, but to me at least, this only makes more valid the theory of 6 degrees of separation—that everyone on the planet is just six steps (or less) removed from any other specific person. If the theory is correct, you should be able to link yourself with any other person, anywhere on earth, simply by saying you know them through a friend of a friend of a friend... etc. out to no more than 6 "friends."
For example. Last year, the King of Sweden visited my old home town, and my brother attended the luncheon thrown in the King's honor. He actually got to shake the royal hand and chat a bit with King Carl XVI Gustaf. So now the King of Sweden is just 2 degrees removed from me, and 3 degrees removed from you (assuming you can call reading a blog a valid connection). Therefore, if you think of all the people a King would know, we call be within 6 degrees of... dare I say it .... The Royal baby?
Or, how about this. While recently digging through some moldy old memorabilia I discovered a letter I received in 1990 from the late Dick Clark. The topic of the letter is not important. What's interesting is that that letter—officially signed by Dick Clark himself—put me just 1 degree away from all of Dick's connections which would include virtually every pop and rock artist of the last 40 years as well as Ryan Secrest. This then would put me just 2 degrees away from every contestant that has ever appeared on American Idol. I think I'll stop right there. You get the picture.


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Black Beauty review at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – 'inventive'
Anna Sewell's much-loved novel gets a brisk trot around the paddock in Andy Manley, Andy Cannon and Shona Reppe's new take on the story of Black Beauty.
In a framing device that threatens to take over the whole production, performers Manley and Cannon are the McCuddy Brothers, Andy and Andy (it's a family thing). Down-on-their-luck equine illusionists, their pantomime horse is out of fashion, its horsebox stuck on Edinburgh's Maybury roundabout and their only remaining option is to sell their worldly possessions.
Designer Shona Reppe brings a punctilious, modeller's eye to the horsebox set. It is a cleverly versatile stage for Cannon and Manley to bring all their storytelling abilities, as the brothers realise that their deceased mother's treasured copy of Black Beauty will have to go…
The pair recreate Sewell's narrative with broad strokes, galloping through Black Beauty's life and adventures, mentioning but never dwelling on its darkest moments of human cruelty to animals. From that horsebox, curtains can billow out as a dress for Black Beauty's pregnant lady owner or shadows race across country to fetch the doctor.
Aficionados of the novel might not find it dark enough, but will enjoy recognising the passing scenes. First-timers will come to realise it can also be a dark and tragic tale.
Carefully balanced and packed with hidden ideas and word-play, the production draws cleverly from pantomime, storytelling and puppetry. Simon Wilkinson's lighting and David Trouton's sound design both envelope the stage, each capable of whisking it off to pastures new in a tale that finds new morals about trust and looking out for each other.


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Hi, thanks for your answer. I have quite bad circulation in my feet and hands, which I'm presuming is why I'm getting bad cramps - usually when I'm sat not doing anything, very rarely when walking about. I will try out the essential oils, thank you for the suggestion!
Excellent point about a possible mineral deficiency, generally speaking it is one of the major causes of muscular cramps.
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Reflexology is just specialized foot massage and pricing probably wouldn't differ to much.
Yes I believe a leg, foot massage would help as it speeds up circulation, I use to get bad foot cramp when I use to roller skate that is the only time I ever got it, do you get it when doing certain activities? look for when it happens, to establish a cause.
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Foot Massage will not help alone. Full Leg both sides, deep will will cure; Neuro-Muscular. Next time in Spain Call me.
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reflexology is more focussed on pressing hte reflexes in the foot to correspond to somewhere else in the body. Foot massage will jusy help to relax the foot and lower leg area
It may help and would certainly be a lovely treatment. However whether the results would last really depends on your lifestyle. You may need to drink more water (probably..!) may need mineral supplements etc. I am a kinesiologist and would strongly suggest that you find the cause of your cramps rather than just try to "dampen the effect", which as you say, can get expensive. (A good foot massage such as the one I provide will cost the same as a reflexology treatment)
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yes I would think so. You ned to have your legs treated as well. Be careful tho. Cramps can be a symptom of other underlying conditions such as diabetes and low sodium issues. Could just be postural tho. Good luck
Yes I think that foot and lower leg massages would help with cramps in the arches and toes of the feet. It would move the blood and the salts from the muscles to areas if better absorption, Sometime lymph can build up in the feet too and massage would move this to the lymph nodes at the top of the legs for re absorption. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your advice JuneElaine :)
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Dick Advocaat has confirmed that Seb Larsson, rather than hot prospect Duncan Watmore, will replace the injured Jeremain Lens for Sunderland's Capital One Cup tie tomorrow night.
Summer signing Lens will not be risked against League Two Exeter City due to a minor knee problem, with Sunderland ensuring the Dutch international is fit for Saturday's trip to Aston Villa.
Last year, Larsson was the player of the year and he wasn't in the team on Saturday, so he will playDick Advocaat
Watmore - who scored on his Premier League debut after coming off the bench 10 days ago - looked to be the natural replacement for Lens in Advocaat's front three.
But the head coach says Watmore will be on the bench alongside Under-21 trio Lynden Gooch, Josh Robson and Max Stryjek, with Larsson - who was among the substitutes for Saturday's 1-1 draw against Swansea - taking Lens' spot.
Advocaat said: "Duncan will not start, but he will be on the bench, like Gooch, Robson, plus the goalkeeper.
"That will be four players from the Under-21s on the bench, so that's a start.
"We cannot accept that Duncan can change this team.
"Last year, Larsson was the player of the year and he wasn't in the team on Saturday, so he will play."
Summer signing Adam Matthews will also be handed his first Sunderland start in place of fellow right-back Billy Jones, who won't be risked after requiring stitches to a facial injury on Saturday.
But that is likely to be the extent of Advocaat's changes, as he names a strong side.
"We won't change much, because I think this is a great opportunity to get to know each other better," he said.
"It was difficult in pre-season because not everyone was here, or in the right shape.
"Lens has a slight injury, so he won't play.
"But the majority of the team from Saturday will play.
"Matthews will play because Jones had the stitches the other day."
Back-up stopper Vito Mannone will miss out too, due to a minor injury, in a game where the Italian would have hoped to feature.
Advocaat added: "Vito has had some problems with his arm. He's gone for a scan.
"It's nothing serious, but it hasn't been comfortable."


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The Mind Readers by Lori Brighton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The Mind Readers (book 1)by Lori Brighton
This is a novel that stands as verification of the notion that I like good character development. It's a YA Paranormal, possible romance, that comes out of that same cookie cutter structure that many of these types of novels come from. It's not a bad thing in the sense that it means that the author has to work harder to make the characters stand out and they must write well to make this all work. And this book does all of that and I really do love it.
When I say cookie cutter, I mean that the plot and themes are quite familiar. Let me explain; they always start with the main character, often a young girl, who is about to discover her whole life has been a lie. She's an orphan, as they usually are, and is living with her grandmother. In most instances it might be a grandparent or aunt or uncle or someone somehow related to the family. She's about to discover that she has a special place in the world as the chosen. She'll also discover her parents might have been leaning toward the evil side (but then don't most teens think that once in their life) and the boy she's interested in is possibly working for the enemy.
Cameron Winters is a mind reader and for once in this trope, she knew this well in advance of events that catapult her into her adventure. She's a mind reader as is her grandmother and they have been hiding and running in fear of something or someone that has never been full explained to Cameron. Soon she'll fall for a man who claims to be there to save her, which is just great since everyone keeps telling her that everything they do is to keep her safe. Cameron figures she can take care of herself until things start to get dangerous and she realizes it's time to move again and this time she has a new friend who is also a mind reader who wants to train her; and she's beginning to wonder why her grandmother hasn't properly trained her to use her abilities.
The people she befriends coax her into doing things with her abilities that she knows are wrong and she has to deal with the moral dilemma that it creates and she has to decide if she'll compromise her principles in trade for the safety they offer her. There's a war going on between the mind readers that work for the government and the ones who claim they are trying to gain their freedom from government control. There is always something hanging in the air and it doesn't take long for Cameron to begin wondering if these rivals are just two sides to the same coin.
Cameron is a complex character who has been sheltered all her life and never trained to use her abilities. She's been moved around enough to have few friends and to have to be somewhat self-reliant while left somewhat naive through her grandmother's overbearing control. And she's about to discover she might have more abilities that she doesn't yet know about because her grandmother has chosen not to train her. As Cameron's new friends draw her further into the politics of the mind readers, she allows herself to extend beyond her own moral sense until she's almost too deep to stop and escape. Other characters that claim to be helping her prove to be that much more complex in their willingness to use her and her power to their own ends, while claiming they are trying to keep her safe while training her to use her powers.
This world of mind reading and teleportation and telekinesis has its own complex set of rules and limitations that seem internally sound. And, until she is trained, Cameron has to learn that her mind is like an open book to the others like her and that many of them can shield their thoughts and even project false thoughts to make her believe what they wish. That makes her far more vulnerable than what one might expect of the usually talented chosen, and she's about to discover that there are few people she can trust.
This novel is full of twists and turns that are revealed in a building suspenseful tale that leads the reader further into the story as Cameron becomes committed closer to a point of no return.
Solid YA Paranormal with some romance with the extra treat of being well written.
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Everyone knows that the number one reason we should send kids to school and not just do it ourselves through some half-baked homeschool program is to ensure proper socialization. School is where all of the worlds' kids are, so without it students will have no idea how to act towards other human beings when they reach the real world. But the second most important reason why we should send kids to school is that parents should not pretend to be experts in things we are not. Kids will not learn how to read without reading teachers, won't learn how to be healthy without health teachers, and, again, won't learn how to be social without the proper number of credits in social studies. Parents aren't educational professionals, and even worse, they may indoctrinate their children into viewing things through their own disturbingly inaccurate and harmful world lens. The most glaring example of this is creationism. Imagine a world where everyone believed the earth was six thousand years old and man plopped onto this earth like some divine loogie; if we let parents keep their kids, that's what would be taught. Shiver.
Let's all agree. We should unanimously believe in evolution. Then tell me, oh wise, cultured, and learn'd ones: why do we take students who are in their physical prime, exactly as nature intended, and make them sit still for the majority of their waking hours? No matter how engaging the lesson is, why do we have them in a room at all? Why are they not out seeking, doing, and questioning? Why do we interpret an undeveloped prefrontal cortex as an excuse to control and contain and not as some gift of adventurism? Why do we see it as our mission to dull and restrain the sharpest, most intense years of a young adult's life and furthermore, why do we react to their reaction as "oh, you know teenagers…they're so moody!"? You have more energy, and more will to use that energy, than at any other point in your life, and everyone is telling you to sit still and factor trinomials, and somehow it's weird that you're moody? I'm glad that everybody finds it so important to learn evolution, but it seems to me there is an improper application of this particular principal. It also seems to me that we teach evolution without learning a thing.


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Lucknow sisters intercept Rahul's car
On a tour of his parliamentary constituency today, Rahul Gandhi had his vehicle intercepted by an unexpected quarter -- two girls who came all the way from Lucknow to narrate their woes to the Congress leader.india Updated: Sep 02, 2010 00:22 IST
On a tour of his parliamentary constituency on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi had his vehicle intercepted by an unexpected quarter -- two girls who came all the way from Lucknow to narrate their woes to the Congress leader.
When the Congress General Secretary was on his way to Sarvan village, two sisters -- Sonia and Shivani -- intercepted his car and told him about the harassment at the hands of their uncles after the death of their parents.
They were assured full help by Rahul in this regard.
The Congress leader, who arrived in Amethi on Wednesday a three-day-visit, said that in Uttar Pradesh problems were being faced in implementing central schemes as the party was not in power in the state.
"The Centre is doing whatever is possible for agriculture sector and the poor, but in UP problems are being faced in implementing the schemes as the Congress does not have a government here," Rahul said while addressing a seminar organised by IFFCO.
He said there were two faces of India - the rich and the poor. "The basic difference between the two India is that while rich are getting opportunities, the poor are deprived of the same. My effort is to bring these two India together so that the country can progress," Rahul said.
He said all programmes of the Centre, whether Mahatma Gandhi NREGA or loan waiver, are poor and farmer oriented. "Our vision is that every person should get an opportunity."
Agriculture sector was the focus of the UPA government as whatever the country had developed it was due to the hardwork of farmers, he added.
Earlier, Rahul inaugurated Fibre To The Panchayat (FTTP) technique in Sarvan village in Bahadurpur area.
"Development of villages was the dream of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. We are trying to realise this dream," said Rahul, who was accompanied by Sam Pitroda, the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation.
The Congress leader said if farmers and poor are connected to the world through internet, it will open path of development.
Earlier, Rahul was accorded a warm welcome by his partymen when he arrived at the Amausi airport.
During his three-day visit, he will launch a number of schemes in his constituency.
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VIDEO: McCaw and Carter's charity helps struggling kids get onto the field
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