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This morning I had to finally admit something to myself on my quest of waist invisibility, I'm a yo-yo dieter. There I said it! This admission of guilt came to me after being snowed in the past three days; not being able to go to the gym and trying with all my inner thin strength not to empty my refrigerator into my stomach.
Lucky for me I have a fitness ball, 15lbs dumbbells and a will not to be a fat greasy pig so, I turned my dining room area into workout central. Thank you Skinny-Jesus I didn't gain a pound.
However, that wasn't the only weigh-in I made these few caged in days. Not only am I up and down on the scale I'm the same in my love life. I'm constantly yo-yoing with my feelings on the idea of dating.
More specifically how I'm growing from a person that prefers and thrive off long distance relationships to someone who may actually want to date someone in driving, more so running distance ( to burn off the weight love makes you gain.)
Since the start of my dating life I have proclaimed and enjoyed pursuing men miles away. One factor has been the size of the town I reside in, I am a very private person that doesn't like to disclose who I'm dating with others. It was 3yrs before I introduced my boyfriend to my family and that was after we broke up.
I love my space, I like to know where everything is and not having to follow someone around making sure they aren't disturbing the feng shui of my palacio abode. I can be sometime-y with my affection; just because today we cuddle and had a long engaging conversation doesn't me tomorrow I want to see your face. I can be very attentive and distance in a seven day time span, it has nothing to do with the person I'm dating or my dissipating love but everything to do with me adoring my personal space.
I'm the oldest child; I've always gone off from my family or group of friends and did my own thing. I shop alone, travel alone and prefer to shower alone. I'm very self-sufficient; I found, visited and moved two states away without any family to attended university.
I don't like factoring someone else in my life. We all know a relationship is more than just you; it's someone else's thoughts, emotions and physical being involved. That's a lot to deal with for instance, in the three years I was with my ex he slept over a total of eight times.
I don't like to share my things or myself.
Now single, I'm gaining a desire to want a love interested in close proximity. I don't know if it's me wanting affection, sex or someone to beat when my scale don't read right. I'm not saying I'm ready to move in with anyone, I don't think that will every happen. But with all the guys I meet out of state I quickly grow uninterested.
Some of the reason I like guys out of state is that I know there isn't a strong chance to get serious and I like that. I like being able to change my mind. Though as a guy who claims to "date to find a mate" I may be a walking contradiction.
I know within this digital age we have many mediums to keep in touch howbeit, is that satisfying over the physical? As much as I'm fond of airplane relationships I am growing tired of the monthly rendezvous only to return home to no one to unpack my bags or rub my thighs after overkill on the treadmill.
My biggest problem overall is finally admitting this as well as, wanting this after I ended it with my boyfriend that actually live here. I never thought I would be "that guy" I like not caring and being alone while having a boyfriend. I think the toughest part is admitting I'm changing on account of I spent my entire adult life cultivating the person I am today only to visualize being someone totally different.
What are your self realizations? Are your romantic desires the same today compared to when you first started dating? Do you look for a long distance relationship to avoid commitment?
Chew on that.


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The Thun Gothia entering the Port of Vágur with fuel for the SEV power plant in Vágur.
Nordic Coastal Cultural Festival in Vágur
In July 2016 the annual Nordic Coastal Cultural Festival was held in Vágur, together with the annual Faroese regatta.
The trawler Brestir at Port of Vágur
The trawler Brestir delivering frozen cod at the Port of Vágur.
High activity at the Port of Vágur
Most parts of the quayside was use on the 10th of November 2015, when a seismic ship, a supply ship, two trawlers, a bulk carrier (sand), and a salmon feed carrier, where at quayside.
Pleased with the safe sheltered port
The impressive seismic ship Polar Empress has been at the Port of Vágur since 20th of October 2015. And the norwegian captain, Asmund Fredheim, is pleased to be at a safe sheltered port.
Polar Empress and Sanco Sky at the Port of Vágur
On 20th of October the seismic ship Polar Empress and the research / seismic support vessel Sanco Sky arrived at the Port of Vágur.
Hanseatic at the Port of Vágur
In June 2015 the cruise ship Hanseatic visited the Port of Vágur.
Atlantic Enterprise now with new Rock trawldoors
The canadian trawler Atlantic Enterprise arrived at the Port of Vágur today to collect the new trawldoors from Rock Trawldoors.
M/V Quest at the Port of Vágur
M/V Quest a returning guest at the Port of Vágur.
New brochure about the Port of Vágur
The new brochure about the Port of Vágur is now available on the website in pdf-format.

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Coming to a network near you: Faster Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi has joined a short list of technologies such as USB, x86, HDMI, and PCI to spread successfully across the computing industry and beyond. So what do you do for an encore?
Duh. You get faster. This is the computer industry we're talking about here, after all.
Wi-Fi, the marketing-friendly term for the 802.11 family of wireless networking standards, got its mainstream start with 802.11b with a data-transfer speed of 11 megabits per second. Next came 802.11g at 54Mbps, then the present fastest standard, 802.11n with a top speed of 450Mbps.
But under development now are two new versions: 802.11ac at 1 gigabit per second and 802.11ad at 7 Gbps. Those speeds are good enough to open up a major new market, wireless streaming video, likely in 2012 or 2013.
"We think with the 802.11ac standard, we're looking at very high throughput," said Todd Antes, vice president of marketing for the digital home group at wireless chipset maker Atheros. "It's not as big as going from 802.11g to 802.11n, but it's significant. In entertainment and other places, having gigabit wireless is going to be important."
The promise of 802.11ac and 802.11ad sounds good, but fulfilling it won't necessarily be easy. The standards aren't done yet, and the history of 802.11n shows that getting to a standard can set a standard back by years.
Wi-Fi is showing up in smartphones, cars, TVs, and more. In-Stat forecasts a billion 802.11ac devices will ship in 2015, a huge market.
The broader Wi-Fi spreads, the more complicated it becomes to determine its future. The 802.11 family of standards is developed at the IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Another organization, the Wi-Fi Alliance, got involved 11 years ago, adding the slicker "Wi-Fi" label and conducting certification tests to ensure devices work together–certified more than 10,000 products so far.
More recently, the alliance has been adding a number of higher-level technologies to the 802.11 foundations. Mobile phone carriers have become active in extending Wi-Fi to enable roaming agreements for smartphone users, and three rising Asian mobile powers–Huawei Technologies, LG Electronics, and Samsung Electronics–just became sponsors of the alliance, a higher-level role shared previously shared by 13 tech giants.
What's in the new standards?
802.11ac and 802.11ad each are under development right now. But why mess around with the first if the second will offer 7 times the data-transfer speed?
The answer is that 802.11ad has significantly shorter range because of the physics involved.
802.11b and 802.11g use the 2.4 gigahertz frequency spectrum, a patch of electromagnetic turf it shares with cordless phones, noise from microwave ovens, and various other nuisances. In comparison, 802.11n can use a combination of 2.4GHz and 5GHz.
802.11ac uses 5GHz solely, and 802.11ad uses the much higher 60GHz spectrum, where there's much more room to pack different communication channels side by side.
(Credit: Wilocity)
"What's attractive about 60GHz is there's lots of spectrum available, compared to 2.4GHz or 5 GHz," said Jagdish Rebello a principal analyst for market research firm IHS iSuppli. "You have hundreds of megahertz available. The flip side is signals do not propagate far at all. They're absorbed by water, by air, by walls."
Thus, it looks like 802.11ac is destined to be the successor to mainstream networking access point technology that people use in homes, businesses, and public Wi-Fi hot spots, said Kelly Davis-Felner, marketing director for the Wi-Fi Alliance. (She uses a different label for 802.11ac, VHT, short for very high throughput.)
"It's a big enabler for the digital home," she said. "With 1Gbps for the raw data rate, the benchmark I hear is you can comfortably stream three lightly compressed HD videos at a time."
802.11ad promises video, too–but it's got enough capacity for uncompressed HD video. One organization working on the idea, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) sees the technology as a DisplayPort connector for plugging monitors into computers.
That's part of a broader idea: wireless docking. In that idea, when a person brings a laptop or tablet into a room, it could automatically link wirelessly to large displays and to peripherals such as storage systems.
One start-up, Wilocity, even thinks it can connect PCI Express devices wirelessly with a technology it calls wPCIe (PDF). That could let a tablet or laptop link up with a much more powerful video card for higher-end graphics, for example, or to a USB 3.0 hub to connect to a range of peripherals.
Another reason 802.11ac and 802.11ad get associated with in-home video: they won't do much for most people's connections to the Internet. That's because broadband Internet connections for most people already are well below the 54Mbps of 802.11g. A fast in-home network won't speed up the broadband bottleneck.
However, in-home networks are getting more important as people rely on external backup systems, stream video or audio across the network, and play video games. Indeed, one big market push for the new Wi-Fi standards will be connecting people using different machines in a multiplayer game.
One potential problem with games linked over Wi-Fi: latency. Even short delays between when a person takes an action and when that player or others register it on a screen can cripple game play.
"Everybody in the industry is sensitive to how important addressing latency is," Davis-Felner said. "People feel strongly that is part of the promise of VHT [802.11ac] and 60GHz [802.11ad]. There's a lot more headroom to address latency effectively…I'm confident it will be better."
Not everyone is so sanguine.
"I believe none of them have solved the latency issue," Rebello said of companies working on the upcoming standards. "In peer-to-peer gaming, you need to have extremely fast response time…from tactile input to screen response. It's not yet a solution ready to be standardized and packaged."
Wi-Fi expanding presence
Wi-Fi is ubiquitous in computing, but it's spreading beyond that market. One of the most obvious areas is smartphones and tablets, but that's not all.
"The growth potential is huge," Rebello said, with 802.11n leading the charge outside Wi-Fi's traditional markets. "We're not just looking at access points and laptops anymore. You look at it going in to TVs–50 percent will have 802.11 by end of 2013. That's a huge market. Then you'll see automotive adopting 802.11n for content distribution. Cameras are slowly taking it up. For tablets, there should be 200 million of them in 2015, each of them with an 802.11 chip. Phones are still huge market. Only a small percentage of phones today shipping with Wi-Fi."
Sharp Electronics exemplifies the trend. It's got 13 Wi-Fi-enabled TVs on the market, with six more to arrive in coming months, said Tony Favia, a senior product manager. But that's with today's technology; Sharp hasn't yet decided whether it's interested in 802.11ac or 802.11ad.
"We are studying both but have made no decisions on how to support each one. We may choose to support one format in some models and the other format in other models, depending on the specific TV's market," Favia said.
No wonder start-ups are interested. Tensorcom is angling for a place in the 60GHz market alongside Wilocity. SiBeam, acquired by Silicon Image for $25.5 million in April, also is working on 60GHz technology for wireless video transmission.
And of course incumbents such as Broadcom, Intel, and Atheros are hard at work on their own next-generation chips.
802.11ac and 802.11ad aren't the only developments. The Wi-Fi Alliance is pushing a number of add-ons.
One important one is Wi-Fi Direct. In today's world, Wi-Fi devices can be access points that provide the network or guests than connect to it. Wi-Fi Direct makes peers out of devices, so that, for example, a camera could connect to a smartphone. In-Stat expects Wi-Fi Direct to be a standard feature with 802.11ac devices.
"Ultimately, we expect Wi-Fi Direct to be successful and that, by 2014, all Wi-Fi devices that ship will be enabled with Wi-Fi Direct, creating a one-stop shop for wireless networking and connectivity," In-Stat analyst Brian O'Rourke said in a May research note.
Standards battles?
Perhaps the biggest question 802.11ac and 802.11ad face is how smoothly they'll be standardized. Companies in the market have been demonstrating their approaches, a move that can be an attempt to steer the standard in a direction favorable to that company's technology. Rebello sees such moves as evidence of "politicking."
But Atheros' Antes doesn't see anything as unpleasant as 802.11n, which languished for years because two camps couldn't agree on a single direction. The Wi-Fi Alliance ended up certifying "Draft N" devices to get the market moving, and in September 2009, 802.11n finally arrived.
802.11ac looks better, Antes said. "There are always politics and standards, but I don't think we're at the same impasse with two completely incompatible approaches," he said. "Everybody's on the same page."


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Reasons Why You Need To Do Electronic Reviews Before Buying Some
The world is today filled with many types of gadgets, and all this can be attributed to the advancements made in the technology field. Electronics are used extensively for entertainment, communication and business purposes. Because there are a lot of options to select from; you can take the bad electronic home if you do not choose correctly. Electronic reviews come in handy to keep you more informed and take a right electronic home. Electronic reviews help you to know which products are safe and those that are not. Electronic reviews are articles done by individuals or firms that have tested and used the devices being reviewed.
Consumer reviews are more helpful because the information is given as it is. Before carrying out research, you may not purchase the appropriate product for yourself. Electronic reviews are of paramount importance, and they help you save money as well as get the best quality available. Purpose to only read reviews that are unbiased. A good electronic review should have the details on functions and design from the moment it was bought. Reading one review will not help, but instead read as many so that you find more information. Do not be in a hurry to get a product and then wish that it performs the right way.
Reviews done by customers are very sincere and it is from this kind of feedback that you can generate an informed decision. You might not have all the time to read all those long electronic reviews and so you can lighten your load by reading the bad and the good. You can also check the ratings of the products and they range from excellent to poor. The use of stars is incorporated in showing the rank of a product. When you are inspired to get a product; you can then get it with confidence.
Some people may however not be sure of what to look for in an electronic review, and the first one is the features. Features are usually different from one product to the other. For one getting a computer system, the focus can be on the speed, type of processor and the operating system. The other feature to look at is the performance of the electronic gadget. The final feature that is included in most reviews is the pricing and it is in ranges. Adequate research on an individual electronic device will save you money and in the long run, lead to a great purchase.


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Right, after finally getting these to display at a reasonable size, here are a few photos I took of the local 5th
November fireworks.
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These were on a 550D with a Helios-44M 58mm (1960's made in USSR manual lens but still the sharpest I have), exposures are about 1.5 to 3 seconds.
Ideally the white van could probably do with editing out, but I'd rather keep clear of anything other than minimal whole image post processing.
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If you weren't able to join us during our live Facebook Q&A session with Dr. Ivana Veljkovic on Monday, August 26, 2013, we have compiled all of the questions about the newest product in the PCA SKIN line into one blog for you. Enjoy!
Question: Did Total Strength Serum replace another PCA SKIN serum?
Answer: No, Total Strength Serum did not replace any other serum in the product line. This is a brand new, full-face anti-aging serum with a host of advanced corrective ingredients to address a multitude of aging concerns.
Question: What are the key ingredients in Total Strength Serum?
- Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38 – a peptide that stimulates collagen I, III and IV; fibronectin; hyaluronic acid; and laminin 5 to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
- Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) – aids in the proliferation of healthy skin cells and improves the appearance of aging skin
- Glycosaminoglycans (GAG) – important hydrating components of the extracellular matrix (ECM) that also provide MMPi action
- Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Juice – a lipid, mineral and fatty acid-rich emollient agent
- Silybum Marianum Extract – a potent antioxidant from milk thistle
- Tocopherol and Tocotrienols – fat-soluble antioxidant vitamins and emollient ingredients
- Sodium Hyaluronate – a naturally occurring GAG with exceptional lubricating qualities; it has the ability to hold 1,000 times its weight in water and plays an important role in skin hydration
Question: Is Total Strength Serum safe for pregnant or lactating patients?
Answer: Yes, Total Strength Serum is safe for patients who are pregnant, trying to become pregnant or who are lactating, though we always recommend patients check with their OB/GYN.
Question: How does Total Strength Serum pair with other PCA SKIN serums?
Answer: Although there are myriad ways to pair Total Strength Serum with other PCA SKIN corrective serums, we have compiled what we feel will provide the most benefits to patients with age-related concerns:
Total Strength Serum + ExLinea® Peptide Smoothing Serum
- Spot treat areas of fine lines and wrinkles with ExLinea®, followed by full-face application of Total Strength Serum, each of which utilize different peptides. For optimal benefits, use this pairing morning and evening.
Total Strength Serum + C-Strength 15% or 20% with 5% Vitamin E
- Apply in combination or layer twice daily to address fine lines and wrinkles, and to promote an even skin tone.
Total Strength Serum + Intensive Age Refining Treatment™: 0.5% pure retinol night
- Apply Total Strength Serum in the morning and combine or layer with Intensive Age Refining Treatment™ in the evening to reduce hyperkeratinization, photodamage and textural variances.
Total Strength Serum + Hydrating Serum
- Pair Total Strength Serum with Hydrating Serum morning and evening for those suffering with dehydrated skin, fine lines and wrinkles.
Question: Will this product be available online and at the upcoming tradeshows?
Answer: Yes, Total Strength Serum is now available for purchase online, by calling in to our Practice Development Group and at all of our upcoming tradeshows.
Question: Can I use Total Strength Serum with PCA SKIN products containing retinol?
Answer: Yes, using Total Strength Serum along with your PCA SKIN retinol products is safe, and will assist in minimizing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Question: Can a patient use Total Strength Serum right up until receiving a peel?
Answer: Yes, using Total Strength Serum right up until the day of a peel is safe. The patient may resume use of their daily care routine after three to five days of using The Post-Procedure Solution, or once the skin returns to baseline.
Question: Do I still need to use ExLinea® Peptide Smoothing Serum and C-Strength 15% or 20% with 5% Vitamin E if I use Total Strength Serum?
Answer: Yes, ideally you are pairing Total Strength Serum with ExLinea® Peptide Smoothing Serum, which is used primarily as a spot treatment for areas of laxity, fine lines and wrinkles. Total Strength Serum is indicated for full-face application and contains a completely different peptide. C-Strength 15% or 20% with 5% Vitamin E also pair well with Total Strength Serum due to the added antioxidant and skin evening benefits vitamin C provides.
Question: Who do I sell this product to?
Answer: Total Strength Serum is indicated for patients concerned with laxity, wrinkling and enlarged pores. It can be used as a preventative anti-aging corrective or added to a current anti-aging regimen.
Question: How does this product fit in with other PCA SKIN correctives?
Answer: Total Strength Serum is unlike any other PCA SKIN corrective serum. Its benefits include full-face application, facilitating the synthesis of collagen I, III, IV; fibronectin; hyaluronic acid and laminin-5. Due to the thin, serum-like consistency of this product, it should be applied before gels and creams.
Question: How is epidermal growth factor derived?
Answer: rh-Oligopeptide-1, or epidermal growth factor, is produced in a lab using vector DNA. Vector DNA is a fragment or piece of a signaling molecule that is responsible for producing epidermal growth. The vector DNA is completely identical to the signaling molecule responsible for human epidermal growth factor, but is synthesized and is in no way derived from a human or animal source. The vector DNA is then inserted into bacteria, which is then fed glucose, or sugar. The bacteria act as a "factory," creating exact replicas of the vector DNA signaling epidermal growth. This process maintains efficacy and consistency while also upholding the highest ethical standards.
Question: Is there any new technology in the Total Strength Serum?
Answer: Yes, palmitoyl tripeptide-38 is a next generation peptide that was developed following a new concept in anti-aging. It stimulates multiple dermal components and provides chaperone proteins that organize the components, ensuring they reach maturation.
Question: When would a patient use just the Total Strength Serum?
Answer: Personal preference plays a role, plus the patient looking for just one optimal full-face anti-aging serum.
Question: What are the key ingredients in both Total Strength Serum and ExLinea® Peptide Smoothing Serum?
Answer: The key ingredients in Total Strength Serum include palmitoyl tripeptide-38, a peptide that stimulates collagen, and helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles; and epidermal growth factor (EGF), which improves the appearance of aging skin. In ExLinea® Peptide Smoothing Serum, we use acetyl hexapeptide-8, which works to minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Learn more at pcaskin.com.
Question: Why would someone need to use the C-Strength 20% Vitamin C with 5% Vitamin E and/or the Intensive Age Refining Treatment™: 0.5% pure retinol night in addition to the Total Strength Serum? If someone between the ages of 30-50 were going to limit themselves to one of the three products for wrinkles, which would you recommend?
Answer: Vitamin C is best used in the morning while retinol is for nighttime use only; Total Strength Serum is for AM and PM use. All three products have different mechanisms of action and exert their benefits on different parts of the skin's physiology. These three products are not redundant, but complimentary. Choosing one would be a matter of preference.
Question: Can you explain the difference between the Total Strength Line & Pore Minimizer and the new Total Strength Serum?
Answer: Total Strength Serum utilizes a primary peptide that is the newest generation of peptides, far superior to the peptide in Total Strength Line & Pore Minimizer. Additionally, the base, delivery vehicle and many support ingredients are newly formulated. Those using Total Strength Serum will notice much more dramatic results.
Question: Would you recommend Total Strength Serum for your male clients who currently use the Total Strength Line & Pore Minimizer?
Answer: Yes, Total Strength Serum is an optimal product for both male and female patients alike.
Question: I have a lot of clients who only want to use one serum. Could Total Strength Serum replace Rejuvenating Serum since Total Strength Serum has epidermal growth factor as well?
Answer: It depends on the patient. For younger patients looking for a more preventative serum, Rejuvenating Serum would be a great choice. For more mature patients with more laxity and wrinkling, Total Strength Serum would be a better option.
Question: Should Total Strength Serum be used only at night, or in the AM and PM?
Answer: Total Strength Serum should be used in both the AM and PM for optimal results.
Question: Will Total Strength Serum used in conjunction with ExLinea® Peptide Smoothing Serum produce results comparable to Nerium AD?
Answer: Because Nerium AD is essentially only an antioxidant serum with some moisturizing properties, even Total Strength Serum used alone will deliver much more dramatic, visible results. If used in conjunction with ExLinea®, you can expect even more dramatic outcomes.
Question: Is the new serum beneficial for patients with psoriasis?
Answer: While Total Strength Serum can certainly be used for psoriasis, Hydrating Serum and Body Therapy would be better choices.
Question: How long will the full size serum last?
Answer: The full-size Total Strength Serum will last approximately two months give or take, depending on usage.
Question: Are you no longer selling the Total Strength Line & Pore Minimizer?
Answer: Correct, we have discontinued the men's line Total Strength Line & Pore Minimizer. We are confident that patients who enjoyed that product will find even greater results with Total Strength Serum. All of the benefits patients saw using Total Strength Line & Pore Minimizer are exponentially increased with this new product.
Question: What is the growth factor in Total Strength Serum? How is it derived?
Answer: Total Strength Serum contains rh-Oligopeptide-1, which is a synthetically produced human epidermal growth factor that is identical to the growth factor found in human skin. The "rh" stands for "recombinant human," which indicates the technology used to produce the growth factor. This is the same technology used to produce insulin, for example. This technology allows us to use human growth factor without having to source it from human tissue.
Question: Does Total Strength Serum contain stem cells? What are the three products that do?
Answer: Often stem cells are confused with growth factors. Human stem cells provide growth factors to the skin, while plant stem cells provide protective antioxidant benefits. C-Quench® Antioxidant Serum, Intensive Clarity Treatment™: 0.5% pure retinol night and Rejuvenating Serum contain plant stem cell extracts, while Total Strength Serum and Rejuvenating Serum contain epidermal growth factors (as well as some great antioxidants).
Question: I use Total Strength Serum at night before Intensive Age Refining Treatment™: 0.5% pure retinol night. Am I using it correctly?
Answer: Yes, that's exactly how it should be incorporated into your nightly regimen. For optimal results, use Total Strength Serum during your morning routine as well.
For more information, please contact a member of the PCA SKIN Practice Development Group at 877.PCA.SKIN [722.7546] or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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For the first time, a bar at Barn Dance Festival
The BD Festival in Glendalough returns for its 11th year in March and will include fully licensed bar facilities for the first time.
For the past ten years, the festival has taken place on Good Friday and has operated a BYO (bring your own) policy in relation to alcohol for all ticket holders. But the changing of licensing legislation to lift the Good Friday sale of alcohol ban means revellers will be treated to a fully stocked bar.
Festival promoter Brian McDermott said: 'For the last ten years we have been one of the few events taking place on Good Friday. The festival began as a very small event in 2008 with just 400 people and in 11 years it has grown to 4,000, becoming a firm fixture on the Easter calendar.
'Due to the country's strict licensing laws for Good Friday, we introduced BYO which proved incredibly popular. We will continue to operate this policy.
'However, we welcome the new licensing legislation which means we can provide full bar facilities, which will give festival goers even more choice and enhance their experience and enjoyment.'
The festival takes place on the grounds of Glendalough House, consisting of fifteen hundred acre estate of mountainside, woodlands, pastures, rolling parklands and historic buildings.
Acts confirmed for this year include the legendary Kerri Chandler, one of house music's originators, Belgian house DJ The Magician, for his first 2018 gig on Irish shores, Perc, an internationally touring DJ and live act, label owner and one of the most respected producers in modern electronic music and Boots and Kats, with the distinctive disco and funk duo guaranteed to move the crowd with their eclectic set. Other performers will be DJ collective Fleetmac Wood, 1990s tribute band Smash Hits and Bingo Loco, which is bingo with a difference to include rave rounds, CO2 guns, confetti cannons, conga lines and dance offs.
There will also be a Food Market and a selection of stalls to cater to your every need.
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Summary Role Description
While the "best requirements and designs emerge from self-organizing teams" (Agile Manifesto), the System Architect plays a unique role on our team of Agile Teams. the Agile Release Train , by understanding stakeholder needs, and helping the teams define and implement a technological solution suitable for hosting current and upcoming Features, while conforming to evolving Nonfunctional Requirements . The System Architect works in daily collaboration with the Agile teams, often focusing on design decisions that must be made now to support future features maturing in the Program Backlog. These can include new Architectural Epics and features as well as common governance items such as standard databases, protocols, web services, and nonfunctional requirements such as performance, scalability, regulatory requirements and others. However, as we will describe in the details below, the system architect's role, responsibilities, and the manner in which those responsibilities are fulfilled, must evolve to facilitate the emergence of the truly lean and agile software enterprise.
In SAFe, System Architects typically fulfill the following primary responsibilities
- Work with customers, stakeholders, Product Managers and Product Owners to understand and maintain a high level understanding of the current and upcoming requirements for the system
- Understand and communicate the Nonfunctional Requirements for the system
- Evaluate design alternatives, and perform cost benefit analysis
- Develop and maintain whatever models and documentation are necessary to describe how the system does what it is intended to do, including recommended Domain and Use Case Models (see below)
- Define and split architectural Epics into Features for the Program Backlog
- Present the technological Vision for the solution during Release Planning. provide domain models and exemplary use cases that describe larger system behavior, and participate actively and interactively during the planning process
- Serve as a resource to help the teams make appropriate system and component level design decisions during implementation
- Work with Enterprise Architects at the Portfolio Level to establish Architectural Runway in support of upcoming user and business needs
What's Different in Agile: Principles of Agile Architecture
While many of the responsibilities defined above are consistent with those of traditional software development, the manner in which these responsibilities are fulfilled is different. No longer do system architects have the authority to dictate designs to the Agile teams, as doing so would eliminate the empowerment and accountability that is the basis for the agile dynamic. Instead an architect must be an advisor and facilitator to the teams and product owners, mentoring, coaching, guiding and collaborating with them to reach design decisions that are supportive of the current —and near-term future—state of the system. The seven governing Agile Architecture principles are intended to guide enterprises down an agile path.
Implementing Architectural Epics and Features
In the same way that User Stories represent small, value objects that can be implemented incrementally, architectural epics and features behave largely the same way. They are defined, prioritized and implemented independently and incrementally. In addition, teams must do so in the context of continuous product development flow, as the long, waterfall-branch-and-merge strategies for architectural change are a thing of the past. Doing so requires new thinking, tools, and strategies that help make the upcoming work visible, and also provides for staging, prioritizing and analysis of these items before they reach program implementation boundaries. This can be assisted by the implementation of a kanban system for architecture. which is described within SAFe and ASR [1].
Patterns of Incremental Implementation
In addition, actual implementation of the system must assure that the system always runs. or at least at a bare minimum, does so at Program Increment boundaries. In ASR [1] we described three architectural change implementation patterns that can be used to achieve this, which are summarized below.
Pretty big and incremental, the system always runs . In this, the ideal-pure-agile case, architectural work is divided into small value added pieces that are implemented within iterations. thereby assuring that the system is always available at these boundaries, and even more ideally, every day in between.
Big and not entirely incremental, the system takes a short break . Sometimes, the nature of the change and/or the economics makes approach #1 not feasible. In this case, rather than branching, or further subdividing architectural work into smaller pieces (though preferred!), the teams perform major architectural work in the mainline during the PI, during which the system may not be fully functional, but always completing the work in such time as to host the new features on the updated system by the end of that PI.
Really big and not totally incremental, the system runs when needed; do no harm. Failing
that, really big architectural work still has to be done in the mainline in real time, but the teams use whatever scaffolding and stubs are necessary to achieve solution integrity such that the system runs at PI boundaries, but without completion of the entire initiative. In this way, the new architectural elements can be tested with existing and new regression and performance tests, and yet the value features, or the remaining architectural underpinnings, await implementation in future PIs.
Splitting Architectural Backlog Items
No matter the pattern selected, in a manner similar to splitting user stories to fit in sprints, architectural epics and features must also be split to deliver their value in incremental, smaller parts. ASR [1] elaborates eight specific patterns to consider for splitting architectural epics and features, including partitioning by subsystem, component or product. achieving system qualities incrementally. implementing functionality incrementally. using scaffolding. splitting into major/minor effort. doing complex operations first. splitting by variations in data. and using spikes as appropriate .
Recommendations for Agile Modeling
A typical ART can contain a significant number of teams who are collaborating on building a large and complex, enterprise-class system. Doing so incrementally is the art of agile at scale. Doing so incrementally requires the continuous splitting of value items— epics, feature and stories—into smaller and smaller independent objects for incremental implementation. That is all well and good up to a point. However, by the time a small story reaches an iteration, the larger understanding of the system can start to break down. To this end, we recommend agile modeling techniques be used to create context and aid understanding. Specifically, we recommend the development and maintenance of a domain model and use case model for each subject system. While the full scope of these models is outside the scope of the framework, we highlight them here as a pointer to further understanding.
Domain Model. One agile method, Feature-Driven Development (see references [2] and [3]) achieved some popularity for a time. One of the eight best practices of that method was domain modeling. which is the primary container for system architecture concepts. The domain model describes the system from the perspective of the real world objects (people, devices, other systems, other entities) that the system must support. It is used to identify the relevant objects in the system, as well as the static and dynamic elements of system behavior. As such the domain model gives a "big picture" view of the system as a whole, and provides important context for all who implement the system. For this reason, many programs find the development, maintenance and communication of the domain model as an important element of their agile process.
Use Case Model. In ASR [1] and [2], we also described Use Cases and the Use-case Model as highly useful tools to understand the behavior of the system and its interactions with its users, devices and other systems. Cockburn [4] (also a signer of the Agile Manifesto] has applied use cases extensively in the agile context. In addition, Chapter 19 of ASR [1] is dedicated solely to this topic. The use case model provides the context for all the user stories that are implemented individually, as well as elaborating how the features of a system achieve the users larger objectives. It also serves as the requirements model on which the system design can be based. Individual use cases can be used to describe larger end-to-end behavior, and main and alternate success scenarios are a primary mechanism for discovering and implementing user stories.
In our experience, the development, maintenance and communication of these two models can greatly benefit an agile program, as without them, a variety of hidden assumptions can create misunderstandings that exhibit themselves as errors in system design or behavior. A system architect who can develop these models, and can do so in accordance with the agile principles espoused above, will be a real asset to any agile program and will be very well received by the teams who are ultimately responsible for the solution.
Learn More
[1] Leffingwell, Dean. Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise. Addison-Wesley, 2011.chaps. 18, 19.
[2] Leffingwell, Dean. Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises. Addison-Wesley, 2007. chap 16.
[3] Palmer, Steve, and John Felsing. A Practical Guide to Feature-Driven Development. Prentice-Hall, 2002.
[4] Cockburn, Alistair. Writing Effective Use Cases. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
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Episode 21
"I need a small favor," Dr. Foxfire whispered softly. Setting across from her in a dimly lit corner booth of The Rat Hole a gruff man nodded his understanding. Of course the wily she-fox had called him for a favor; she never reached out to him unless there was something she needed. He had known her for many a year, he had even helped scrounge the necessary elements together to make her escape to a quiet sector of space so long ago. You might say surviving in any situation was his specialty. It was one of the little ironies he enjoyed as many a customer came in need of his services to ask in hushed tones amid back alleys for 'the coyote.'
If only they truly knew just how true that moniker really was. Perhaps if they had even a hint of how aptly he had been named. But he was getting distracted again from the matter at hand. The dear doctor had caught wind of something that had ruffled her fur or sparked her curiosity and either was a dangerous thing to toy with in his estimation. "So what has managed to get your tail in a twist this time?" He asked impatiently and took another draw from his almost empty glass.
"Daniel, you know I never call on you arbitrarily," Dr. Foxfire began to explain. "But certain events have transpired that demand I look into them. Things that could threaten to reveal my past and jeopardize a lot of innocent lives. Including your own, I am afraid." She noticed her cautious companion was quick to raise an eyebrow at the proposed danger to him. It was a safe bet to effectively lure him into helping her Dr. Foxfire had always been able to rely on. Daniel may be a shameless scavenger with a notorious reputation for doing just about anything for the right money, but the one thing he held higher than anything else was his own well-being.
"Well, since you put it that way," Daniel declared with a weak cough to clear his throat as he playfully regarded his glass. "I think I am going to need another drink and you are definitely picking up the tab this time." The attempted humor failed to mask the somber seriousness behind his eyes as his full attention turned itself directly towards Dr. Foxfire. "What's up, doc," he finally asked when his second full glass arrived to rest before him. But instead of drinking it, Dr. Foxfire made a mental note of how her old acquaintance merely held it in his hand and rolled it around.
Something about her implied query was worrying him that much she was sure of. Yet if it was the concern of someone involved or just his usual desire for self-preservation she couldn't say. But either way she needed to know the kinds of information that he might have access to. If someone had smuggled something onto Gallu then Daniel Latran would be the one person sure to know.
"Come on, Dan," Dr. Foxfire implored with her best 'I-am-not-amused' stare. "We both know if someone wants anything to leave or arrive without questions that they talk to you. And there is no way in the entire outer rim that a ship could land here without its passengers or contents undergoing a standard security check. Remember the kinds of things they check for? Dangerous pathogens, illegal goods, wanted criminals and the whole lot; nothing gets off until everything checks out. So I want you to just go right ahead and tell me who would want to transport a feral shifter to Gallu just to release him on its people. Let's part the veil here and now; people are dying and if I don't find some answers the trail just might lead back to us with a whole mad mob behind it. And you don't need me to remind you how quickly such a gathering can jump to conclusion about those of us with furrier dispositions."
Suddenly Daniel's throat was impossibly dry. He knew he never should have taken that job in the first place, it had never felt right to begin with even if the payoff had been a stack of hard coin high enough to make him forget such hesitations. As much as he hated to admit it the foxy doctor had a good point. If a shifter had gone savage and been released on a backwater world like Gallu it would only be a matter of time before word got out. And then anyone even remotely hairier than generally accepted would bare the brunt of the blame. Not to mention the corresponding vengeance of anyone with even a measure of suffered loss.
"Alright, alright," Daniel said simply with both hands held out before him as if he gestured for the whole world to pause for him. He nervously licked at his lips and closed his eyes to try and recall as much of the details as he could manage. Typically he tried to avoid as much of the specifics as he might to preserve his own ability to claim ignorance later. But on occasion he came across a job that even he couldn't completely remain untouched by. And when you were getting paid in the manner that he was it was far too foolish not to keep an eye on the turning gears lest you find yourself crushed by their movements. He really hadn't managed to stay alive and kicking this long in his line of work without learning from his experiences.
"A coded com channel is how I was approached, you know the routine. At first it was just a nameless middleman wanting a meet to offer me a job. Seemed simple enough, but simple often leads to skinned hides so I entered into everything extra wary. The whole matter was altogether hush-hush all the way down to them paying me in hard coin to avoid the issue of traced funds. There was no names, no records just a word to ear arrangement. They wanted me to help ensure a package was safely delivered to Gallu and no questions would be asked along the way to complicate matters. That was it.
Which, I have to admit puzzled me. Usually if someone wants my services it is for the entire deal – including getting whatever it is onto the world and reporting the jobs completion. But this one they just wanted me to make sure it arrived to Gallu orbit, not onto the world itself. So I naturally expected competition, especially with the pay I was receiving. I mean think about it, if they were just paying me so well to do the easy part they must have someone else on site to finish the job that would have to be getting as much or more. And I despise competition."
Daniel definitely did enjoy painting himself in a brighter light, Dr. Foxfire decided. But she needed the condensed version of the tale right now. "Skip to the important bits Dan, before I accidentally forget that you have on occasion done some decent things in your life," she advised. It didn't take an overly clever coyote to see that the doctor was seriously stressed by the situation. So Dan quickly agreed that perhaps it was a good idea to bypass the sweeping strokes and get to the point.
"Long story short, I did my own deductive digging and came up with only one thing. The group that hired me was none other than the Magistrate Council itself," Dan answered and then made his drink vanish in a single swallow. "And now I think it is best if I turn tail to get myself clear of this whole system for a bit. Care to join me doc?"
"No," Dr. Foxfire said absently as she tried to make sense of this new piece of information. "No, I think I still have some work to finish here first." There was someone else out there in the night doing his job as promised and she had agreed to do her best in return. She owed it to Gabriel to stick around to help him. Because if anyone could stop this thing without becoming a monster themselves she had faith that it was that miraculous man.


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Celebrate Change
by Ellie McHale
Prez Obama has four more years. We finally got the autumnal weather we so need. I'm finally finding sturdy footing in this journey of mine.
Today, I couldn't stop listening to one song that put me in the mood for change.
I love this woman and everything she has done and continues to do. Her music is very poignant and is an important addition to any music buff's library.


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Pregnant Wassima was in a bad way when she was brought along to SPANA by her worried owner, Tahiri. Thankfully, our vets in Morocco were on hand to help.
Wassima, which means handsome in Arabic, is a vital member of her family. Without her, Tahiri and his six dependents would have no means of bringing in an income. She not only works on her owner's farm, but also takes produce to and from market and collects water for her family and neighbours – she is absolutely essential.
When Wassima became pregnant, her owner and his wife could not continue to ask so much of her, so they bought a young horse to help. Unfortunately, while pulling a cart with Wassima, the horse became spooked and bolted, dragging poor Wassima in to the path of a car, badly fracturing her jaw in the process.
Thankfully, Tahiri learned about SPANA from a neighbour so, without hesitation, he brought his beloved donkey to our centre in Chemaia.
To relieve Wassima's pain and ensure that the treatment was as effective as possible, SPANA vets gave her painkillers and sedated her immediately. They then cleaned her wound before performing skilled surgery that ensured she was given the best opportunity to heal properly. She was prescribed vital antibiotics and anti-tetanus injections to support her recovery and make sure she didn't suffer any secondary infections.
Because of her injuries, Wassima couldn't eat solid foods at first so SPANA vets made sure she was getting the nutrition she needed through a tube while she recovered. This was especially significant for the safety and healthy growth of her unborn baby, which was an ever-present consideration when treating Wassima.
Because of your kindness, SPANA vets were able to care for Wassima for a full month, guaranteeing her complete recovery before returning her to Tahiri and his family.
Three months later, SPANA vets paid a visit to Tahiri's farm, and were delighted to find that Wassima was not only back to full health, but had given birth to a healthy donkey foal – the whole family had fallen in love with the new addition.
Tahiri, his family and his neighbours were so relieved that their treasured donkey had fully recovered, with Tahiri saying;
It is a miracle that Wassima is still alive amongst us. When that tragic accident happened, I worried that it was the end for her and I was desperate. My neighbour, Brahim, advised me to bring her to SPANA's Chemaia centre. The vets told me they would do their best to save my donkey, and thankfully they could.
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Happy Top Ten Tuesday! Glad this is a freebie because I was sad I missed this awesome topic just a couple weeks ago.
Characters can really make or break a story for me--though there are a few rare occasions where I like a book because I don't like a character.
1. Lee Fiora from Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Lee's passive-aggressive personality turns me off so much--but I couldn't stop watching her sabotage herself.
2. Blue from Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Blue was a big reason I didn't like the book as much as I wanted to. I just didn't connect with her. Her emotions were not convincing to me and it made the whole book droop.
3. Esther from The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein
Esther's passive, insipid attitude is the reason I did not like this book at all.
4. Antigone from Antigone by Sophocles
Ok, I get where Antigone is coming from, but the fact that she was willing to sacrifice her sister's life (not just her own) to bury her brother was not ok.
5. Odysseus from The Odyssey by Homer
I do not understand why anyone likes Odysseus. He is a liar, cheater, and murderer. He sleeps with other women without a second thought, but kills women who do the same. Horrible hypocrite, to say nothing of how callously he treated his men's lives.
6. Aeneas from the Aeneid by Virgil
And while we're on the classics, I'm sorry, but I just can't forgive him for leaving Dido.
7. Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I've written about this before, at length, but Darcy just doesn't reform enough for me and I don't get what's so attractive about him. I JUST DON'T GET IT.
8. Arya from A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
I know I'm in the minority, but I don't particularly like Arya. I can respect her in some ways, but I don't like her bloodthirstiness or how creepy she keeps getting.
9. Pamela from Pamela by Samuel Richardson
I've also written about this before, but the fact that Pamela happily agrees to marry a man who tried really hard to rape her says it all about the depth of my lack of relation to her.
10. Also, I'd write Macbeth, but I'm pretty sure nobody clicks with Macbeth (right?).


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JoannaMay 10, 2017 at 1:12 pm
I actually live very close to the New Forest and I have been there to cycle quite a few times. In the North of the forest, around Stoney Cross, you will also find really tiny ponies which roam free on the fields. The New Forest is full of surprises and serene scenery.
Aarti KamathMay 10, 2017 at 5:14 pm
The place looks beautiful and you seem to have cycled quite a bit! I am guess you had great fun; Lovely pictures! I don't really cycle as much but I have been thinking of doing it in my upcoming trip to Cambodia. Your post just got me all excited to cycle.. hehe 🙂
TendelleMay 10, 2017 at 6:18 pm
Just found your blog for the first time.. Your cycling adventures look amazing! Keep it up & cheers from Amsterdam!
Aysha FrostMay 10, 2017 at 7:42 pm
I love the New Forest, such a beautiful part of the UK! Looks like you had a great time exploring on your bike. That roast dinner looks delicious.
SaloméMay 10, 2017 at 10:39 pm
It looks amazing. It looks like you had a lot of fun. 🙂
LaceyMay 11, 2017 at 1:46 am
Wow! This looks beautiful and sounds like such a great adventure! I love the maps you included! I would love to do something like this! I am feeling motivated after reading this!
CarolaMay 11, 2017 at 4:00 am
Oh wow! Your post reminded me again, why I desperately need to explore the South of England. Your pics look amazing, and I'm surprised that even on Bank Holiday it wasn't crowded at all!
Happy continued travels!
Joy GenerosoMay 11, 2017 at 6:12 am
That was cool biking adventure! Unfortunately I don't know how to ride a bicycle. Perhaps will do trekking instead of biking. 🙂
finjaMay 11, 2017 at 9:04 am
Heheh what is that horse doing on the street? 🙂
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DarielMay 11, 2017 at 4:06 pm
Camping, cycling and meeting animals sound like a lot of fun! Love the idea of cycling to explore a new area (or even old area).
Micamyx|SenyoritaMay 20, 2017 at 4:55 pm
I spent my birthday in New Forest two weeks ago and had a blast! I would've loved to do a cycling afternoon, but i don't really bike :/ time to learn!
AudreyMay 21, 2017 at 2:40 am
Thank you for sharing, super useful for the day I need to get out of London! I'm always looking for weekend getaway ideas and even tho I'm not as fit as you are, I enjoy cycling! I just bought a road bike, would you still recommend the New Forest?
AngelaMay 21, 2017 at 11:22 am
Looks like a fun getaway from London. I like the idea that you can get to the bikes with public transportation. Definitely keeping this on the list of day trips from London! Cheers.
Kavey FavelleJuly 5, 2017 at 5:52 pm
The New Forest is such a beautiful part of the country, I can see why you'd really enjoy a bicycle tour around the area. It sounds like the operator does a great job on providing a route map, booking accommodation and making sure you have everything you need on the trip.
Mariella MolestinaJuly 5, 2017 at 8:17 pm
Such a cool experience! I did the same while in Prague and went mountain biking in the outskirts of town. It's a neat way to have a different perspective and experience!! Now I just have to go and do it in The New Forest!
Jill at Reading the BookJuly 5, 2017 at 8:19 pm
The New Forest is really well known in the UK (as I'm sure you know) and is such a beautiful place to go. Especially for the ponies! Sounds like a great place to go cycling as well, and it's great that the rental company kitted you out so well. Looks like you had a proper British weekend! 😉
Elle PollicottJuly 5, 2017 at 8:28 pm
I'm not much a cyclist and I'm way more of a city person, but it looks like you had a great time and I love your pictures!
ashleyJuly 5, 2017 at 8:28 pm
This sounds amazing! I'm going to show my boyfriend this post because he is in love with biking. Maybe we can plan a trip together 🙂 Thanks for the inspo
LucyJuly 5, 2017 at 9:18 pm
Lovely reading your account of the New Forest. I spent a lot of time there as a child as I grew up near by. I have been to Beaulieu many times in the past. Hope you enjoyed it!
MeganJuly 6, 2017 at 1:21 am
What a wonderful way to spend some travel time?! I love the idea of the exercise and fresh air of this, and have one daughter who would just love the wild horses so much. It's looks beautiful. <3
EmilyJuly 6, 2017 at 2:51 am
What a fun adventure! I'm hoping to move to the UK soon, and this looks like a great place to cycle/hike/camp!
Daniela || Ipanema travels toJuly 6, 2017 at 8:56 pm
This is just my type of weekend! I'm not sure if I will happen to go there one day, but it looks like a lovely place.
LincodeJuly 28, 2017 at 11:51 am
This place looks amazing. Thanks for posting.
AdamSeptember 25, 2017 at 3:19 pm
What a fun adventure! This place looks amazing, thank you for sharing!


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For the dough
1 1/4 cups milk - you can use full cream or light or skim
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
45 g softened butter - unsalted (if you add salt) or salted (if you don't) - I use salted
3 cups of bread flour - you can you plain flour, but I haven't so I don't know how they'd turn out.
2 tablespoons of sugar (white, caster, raw)
1 1/4 teaspoons of salt (but not if you used salted butter)
2 teaspoons of dry yeast
Mix this all together to form a soft dough - I bung mine in the bread maker and mix it up on the pizza setting, but if you want to do it by hand, knead until you have a soft, smooth dough - probably will take you about 10 - 15 minutes and then you'll need to let it prove for about 45 minutes. If you use the bread maker, it does all that for you, so when the timer goes off you can roll and fill.
Whilst the dough is rising for the first rise, make the filling which is
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons of cinnamon - you can have more or less depending on your last
90g softened butter.
Mix this altogether to make a soft spread.
When your dough has risen, roll out to a 30cm x 40cm rectangle and spread the filling on it. Roll up and cut into slices about 2cm wide, then place in a baking tray - I get 12 buns and it fills a swiss roll tin nicely.
Let rise till about double - takes about 30/40 minutes depending on the weather.
Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes, I turn half way through as my oven is hotter at the back.
Whilst still warm - ice with a simple icing of icing sugar, a knob of butter and enough milk to make a thick icing - then just plop it on with a spoon and tadah. Gorgeously, gorgeous sticky buns.


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This is an original authentic Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity UCLA T-Shirt from the late 1950's.
This is a used vintage Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity UCLA t-shirt. This is a Champion Processed Sportswear tee from the 1950s... check out the logo on the tag. This light salmon colored shirt is well worn with some pin holes and an interesting horizontal stain along the bottom seam of the tee. The screen printed graphics have some crackling with age. Excellent collectible item for fans of the Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity and of course the Bruins. Go UCLA! A super vintage shirt that is super soft from age and use and ready to tailgate or relax.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African Airways (SAA) on Tuesday announced that it has added additional flights to its network, substantially increasing air services to some of its key African routes.
The national airline said the additional capacity injection is in response to positive market growth.
With immediate effect, SAA has included additional frequencies to Harare (Zimbabwe) and Maputo (Mozambique), with Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo). The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius will follow shortly.
"The strengthening of these routes comes in the wake of positive load factors and increased traffic between the countries," said company SAA CEO Nico Bezuidenhout.
In terms of the new schedules, flights from Johannesburg to Maputo will increase from 17 to 21 per week, to Harare from 18 to 19, to Kinshasa from 6 to 7 and to Mauritius from 9 to 10.
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Brochure Printing Best PracticesJoseph Wu
Organisations, companies, and business often use brochures to promote their products, services, and events. This type of marketing proves to be highly effective in encouraging potential customers to be engaged in the brand. For some time, brochure printing has been widely considered the best option for business marketing because it can showcase the company's values and quality through printed materials.
Brochures are often printed using four-color process and it usually uses higher-quality paper, unlike flyer. Most brochures are colored and it is folded to create more panel which segregates important information appropriately. Company brochures often give an initial impression of the organization's standard and quality.
The most effective printed brochures are done with larger panels because it gives more space for advertisers to deliver a clearer presentation of their agenda. One of the best practices for brochure printing includes having multiple panels or pages of information so that potential clients will get everything they need to know with just this single paper. Advertisers should also consider enhancing the quality of images or logos printed because it will serve as a representation of the business and it reveals the value of the company to potential customers. Brochures should be designed accordingly, meaning it should clearly depict and fulfill its function.
Unlike flyers, more money is typically invested in a brochure because it is printed in a higher standard manner. Another best practice to consider is the suitability of content for the prospective reader and target market. Advertisers should make sure that brochures are visually appealing and easy to read. Brochures can be more effective in boosting popularity and increasing conversion rates if the information is clearly detailed. The best aim of brochure printing should be the ease of communication.
Lastly, companies who send out brochures should ensure that the material with establishing its corporate identity. It should follow a certain style which showcases a skillful balance between image, color and textual information. Brochures are more effective in communicating information economically and effectively if color, choice of imagery and the usage of logos and fonts go hand in hand.
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A breathtaking weekend trip to Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada
Niagara Falls Canada
Family fun trip to Niagara Falls, Ontario
There seems to be great interest in visiting different places in the world and we all can relate in that we all have a wish list of the places we would like to visit one day. We may never have the chance again so when we do have the chance we certainly wish to make the most of it and enjoy the experience. I have been very lucky to visit two places I always wanted to all in the span of a week. I visited in the previous week the beautiful country of France and the cosmopolitan city of Paris and it was a dream come true. It was a business trip but it was a tremendous experience and I feel lucky I had the chance to travel there.
In the following week my wife surprised me with a planned weekend trip to Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada. I have always been impressed with the beauty and the majesty of the falls and always wanted to see it in person. We all feel a need to travel outside of our domain every now and then and get to experience life in other places in the world. It helps us to grow and to learn and it provides us with a new perspective that we don't often get to experience. It is nice to travel and see new things. I can now say I have heard the roar of the rapids leading from the falls close up as I walked with my family on the nature walk and it was quite impressive.
Part of the experience in visiting some far away places is the method of travel we choose. In some cases we will travel by airplane and in other cases we will travel by car. There is fun in driving to a desired destination and as we find ourselves en-route we tend to view the trip with eagerness, anticipation and excitement. Sometimes we will feel like we are invincible and can drive continuously and other times we will find that we need to stop quite often to accommodate our family. We have to try to find a balance so we can make good time and also enjoy the breaks along the way to rest, eat and refresh ourselves.
Our drive up to Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada was one of the longer drives we have experienced as it was nearly 10 hours as we did make some stops along the way as needed. We have always felt family trips are very important and we try to plan at least one each year. The beauty of our drive to Niagara Falls was we had the experience of travelling through three states and another country to reach our destination and it was beautiful scenery the whole way up to the Niagara Falls region. As we drove the 400 + miles it was a bit long but we were prepared for it and we enjoyed it. The ride started out from our home in Levittown, NY and we drove to the Whitestone bridge and the George Washington bridge to Route 80 which took us into the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. We then wound up back in New York State via the New York State thruway which took us up through Syracuse and eventually up to Niagara Falls where we found a wonderful place to visit. We can view the falls from both the US side and the Canadian side. It was a memorable moment crossing the border into Canada because it was our son's first visit to a foreign country and our first visit outside the US as a family. I have visited Canada before but that was many years ago as a young man before I was married and though that was a fun time in my life it felt good to be in Canada with my family.
As we drove to the border we furnished our passports and other documents verifying our citizenship before we gained entry into Canada. Our son was all excited when we crossed the border and he stated singing the beautiful song O Canada which is one of my favorite country anthems. I hear it played at hockey games and during the Olympics and I enjoy it every-time I hear it played. The song abounds with national pride and it is beautifully written and the music is powerful and emotional and you don't have to be Canadian to enjoy its beauty and charm.
As we reached the hotel we were extremely tired and were happy to be in Canada looking forward to a full day at Niagara Falls on Saturday later in the morning. We left our home in Long Island on Friday evening around 6:00 pm and arrived at out hotel in Ontario, Canada at 4:00 am Saturday morning. We were so tired that it seemed very easy falling asleep. We knew it would be brief though since we had a full day planned and wanted to get out by 9:00 am at the very latest. We were very lucky with the weather as it was a beautiful sunny day and it was cool since we were right by the Falls. My first memory of the falls was the view from the car as a passenger which was breathtaking and extremely beautiful. I was immediately impressed and admired the beauty and the power the falls represent.
As we walked on the avenue overlooking the falls we found many places to take wonderful and memorable pictures. It was something new to experience and I was excited to look at the views with both my wife and son. Grandma came with us and she also enjoyed the beautiful views the falls offered. We were also with friends who made the trip worthwhile as they too travelled from Long Island and spent the weekend viewing the sites with us. To really capture the beauty and the amazing power of the falls I recommend doing the maid of the mist tour and the tours that bring you close to the falls which is a once in a lifetime experience where you get the chance to view the falls from the deck of a boat and you actually ride near them and get to feel the awesome power they harness and you also get to enjoy the refreshing sprays from the falls as you don rain ponchos to help prevent from getting soaked.
As I looked upon the falls I couldn't help but notice all the many tourists travelling from so many far and distant places to experience the majesty of the Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. I was excited to be a part of it with my beautiful family and now I know why so many people love to visit here. We also walked in the town and were drawn to all the different stores and restaurants that lined the avenues and streets. It seemed the day went by so fast as we really enjoyed the many beautiful sites and the wonderful people in Canada. Our son had a great time as he also participated in taking video of our trip both in the car and along the visits to the falls and the town. If we had another couple of days we would have enjoyed the trip further north to Toronto which is about an hour's drive from the falls. As the early evening set in we walked around and settled upon an Italian restaurant where we had an enjoyable dinner and discussed our plans for Sunday morning knowing we would have to start our trip back home before the early afternoon.
As the evening drew to a close we settled in for the night planning to spend the morning in the town for breakfast and some sightseeing before starting the long trip back home. We had a wonderful time in Canada and we were sad to have to leave but we knew that we would make eventual plans to spend another weekend or vacation week in beautiful Ontario, Canada and would welcome it sooner than later. Canada is beautiful and so are its people. O Canada! It is such a wonderful country and one of the most enjoyable places to visit in and spend time with your family. We are happy we had the chance to come here to Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada. I can now proudly say I have been to Montreal, Quebec, Toronto and now Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Edward D. Iannielli III
Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada
Driving in town by Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada
Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada
O Canada
O Canada (French)
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How very nice of you to write about your experience at Niagara Falls! And you were also very kind with your words - thank you.
Living in Toronto, Niagara Falls is "around the corner" so to speak. I have been there many times and I do love The Falls.
I sat there, several times and looked at it and realized how really insignificant I am, as an individual in the grand scheme of things. The Falls keeps going, unaffected by time it seems - it just keeps going, as strong and as magnificent as ever. I love it.
Thank you for coming-by to visit and I am happy you enjoyed your time here. All the best!


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Jerome Goodman had never lied. At Orion Consultancy Services, his office, colleagues have fallen in trouble because of Goodman's truths a number of times. Last month Goodman's daughter, Jessica, was angry on him as he had refused to write a false letter to her school stating that she was sick regarding her absence at school for three days. This cruel world hates people with such ethics and manners.
Orion Consultancy Services' branch manager was changed last week. The last branch manager, Mr. Richard Brown, had faced a situation of extreme shame once. All because of Mr. Goodman. Brown was married, but that did not prevent him from making girlfriends and spending time with them between office hours.
The whole office knew about it: the branch's new deputy manager, an aggressive flirt, was Richard's new bird.
One afternoon, when Richard was spending time with his sweetheart, a phone call came on his office landline. Goodman's chamber was the closest to Brown's, hence he went inside and picked up the phone. "Richard?", it was Mrs. Brown, " No, he's not in the office", "Where's he?" she asked. Jerome did not even give think once before blurting out the truth. The next day while Jerome came in and enquired everyone about who had picked up the call, thank god Jerome wasn't at the office that day or else he would have told the truth, once again. Even if that meant losing his job.
It was few days after that the manager was replaced. The new manager, John Michelle, wasn't of a very good nature either. He was transferred from his last office on the ground of accepting bribes. It wasn't even a week, before which staffs heard rumors that Mr. Michelle had started his bad deeds in this office too.
The police were after John from a long time. One afternoon they lured a client to give Mr. Michelle an amount of money with special serial numbers. As usual, John accepted it. The cops were ready outside. Just as the client walked out they walked in. John was caught red handed. They were taking him out of the office when he asked to go to the wash room. When he did not come out for forty five minutes straight, the policemen brought down the door and found him lying on the floor. His wrist slit with his own razor.
Later that evening the whole office attended Michelle's burial. Parvati Michelle, John's wife, was standing with her seven year old daughter, came up to Jerome. "Mr. Goodman, I have heard you never say lies. Could you tell me one thing?" when Jerome didn't answer, Parvati continued: "Could John really take bribes?", after a long pause Jerome Goodman lifted his head up, took a deep breath and blurted out his first lie,:"No ma'am, never!".
Staffs from the Orion Consultancy Services saw two things for the first time in their life, a wife smiled while her dead husband was being buried and Jerome Goodman had told a lie.


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Crystal Dive, Koh Tao – PADI Divemaster Internship – Jade Allchin
What where you doing before you joined Crystal Dive's team to complete your scuba diving internship on Koh Tao?
Working as a hairdresser for 12 years.
How long have you spent completing your scuba diving internship?
I completed my Emergency first responder and PADI Rescue Diver course in December last year, straight after that I had my Divemaster orientation and began fun diving everyday to get familiar with the dive sites and build up the amount of logged dives I had so that I could start assisting on courses.
In January this year and only 2 weeks into my Divemaster training I had a bad fall and broke a few bones so was out of the water for 6 months. I have recently got back in the water and with the exception of a few days out for a wedding on the mainland I was doing the hair for (another amazing experience), I steamed though my course and finished in 3 weeks!
What was your favourite part of the scuba diving Internship and why?
I've been here so long that it's hard to pin point one part! The prospect of being out of the water for 6 months was horrible so when I was eventually more mobile after my accident I needed something to keep me busy. I was luckily enough to be given a position in the front office at crystal.
Being a loud and very talkative hairdresser, this was perfect for me. I learnt so much being in the office and loved chatting to people from all walks of life. I quickly became part of the crystal family and felt right at home.
For Earth day I organised a big event at Crystal, we invited the local primary school to come for a few hours of arts and crafts and games all to educate them on the environment and keeping our beautiful island clean. I don't know who enjoyed it more, the children, the teachers or all of us big kids at Crystal!
In June this year Koh Tao hosted it's annual Save Koh Tao Festival and I was asked to make the costumes for Crystal's entry in the Mr and Mrs Koh Tao competition. In the days leading up to it, staff and interns were all helping me collect and cut up cardboard and plastic bottles to make two costumes made entirely from recycled materials. We didn't win but it was great having the whole crystal family get involved and celebrate such a great cause!
My favourite diving part was assisting with a rescue course and doing the hell dive. I had to act like a bad diver and the student had to spot what I was doing wrong and correct me.
I put my mask on upside down, took my regulator out my mouth and swapped it for my snorkel, took off my fins, tried to put sand in my pockets, bouncing along the sand, pretended to ride the other Divemaster's tank, take off their fins and made the students task really difficult.
I loved it and was laughing the whole time I was doing it!
What was your least favourite part and why?
The exams! I have never been good when it comes to exams. The minute someone puts a test in front of me my mind goes blank and I forget everything. But I studied for the first time in my life and passed with flying colours.
Who was your favourite Instructor and why?
A totally unfair question! All the instructors here are awesome and so different to each other.
The first is Manu. When I chose my mentor I hadn't been here long so idn't know all the instructors but I can remember saying "I want the big Mexican dude". Manu is an absolute boss. He's tough which is what I wanted from my mentor and I learnt so much from him but he is also one of the kindest people I know, would do anything for anyone and can always put a smile on your face.
The 2nd is Kiwi. Kiwi has been at crystal for 10 years! Although he doesn't officially mentor people because he is always so busy in his man cave fixing all the equipment we use, he took me under his wing right from the start. Kiwi is like a dad to everyone, he will kick us into shape, tell us if something we did is wrong but always take the time to explain why and the banter with Kiwi is great. This guy is a crystal legend – but don't tell him I said that!
As a qualified PADI Divemaster what are you future plans with regards to scuba?
I miss being in the office at Crystal so the thing I want most is to work on the Divemaster team here. As soon as I can save some money I will do the PADI Instructor course with Crystal. In the 8 months I've been here I have seen a lot of people become instructors and the training from Bob, Justin and Suki is second to none. I had never planned to become an instructor but Diving is so addictive.
I loved assisting on courses and now want to be the one teaching. The feeling you get helping someone to overcome their fears and learn new things is unlike any other and I'm such a people person that this really is the perfect job for me!
And what about Koh Tao?
From the minute you walk off that boat at the pier you get goose bumps and know straightaway that Koh Tao is unlike any other place. The locals here are really friendly and will go out of their way to help you. They are always keen to help you learn some basic Thai words to help you get by.
The island is so beautiful and has some of the best sunsets I've ever seen. The dive community here is huge and everyone helps each other.
And your favourite restaurant on Koh Tao?
It's got to be without question be Zest! I call them every morning on my way to crystal so that when I arrive to go on the morning dive, they bring me the best fruit, yoghurt, muesli or multigrain toast and latte on the island!
Also when you're bored of too much Thai food, these guys make the absolute BEST Cesar salad!
How did you spend your non diving days on Koh Tao?
At one of Crystal's pools, swimming and working on my tan or at one of the white sandy beaches here like freedom beach, climbing up and jumping off the huge rock at Tanote Bay, snorkeling at Shark Bay in the hope of spotting a turtle or a baby black tip shark, sharing a jug of sangria with friend at Maya beach club or lazing in my hammock at my bunglow on the beach.
Where are you heading next?
Once I am PADI Instructor I'll be able to find work in some other amazing parts of the world but for now I can't imagine leaving Crystal Dive or Koh Tao. At least not anytime soon!
Why leave when I have already found paradise?


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I cannot emphasize this enough. Some people, very few now-a-days, may never use photoshop, but as you are reading a blog, you are likely to be writing one, or commenting on one soon. That funny/bad photo you deleted? "Hell, it would have been perfect for…"
The first photo I admit has been hanging around for years and I found now use for it, until now that is.
The second photo has been used a few times on some sites about the ongoing droughts in parts of South Africa. I still have plans to use it in some photoart when I get the chance.
Some of the photos in this series are going to be poor quality, as they were taken with a cell phone camera, and not a very good cell phone at that! We all get those moments when we curse the fact that our camera is not with us. Or living in South Africa, it has been stolen! They are here just to show "looking from a different angle."
A person can have the best equipment money can buy, and get a high quality, mega pixel, in focus shot every time, no problem. But then the composition can be lousy, no matter how interesting the subject is, and if the shot is not pleasing to the eye, is a snapshot, nothing more, nothing less.
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I'm more than halfway done with the first pass on my short story; it's taken a slight detour, but it actually makes sense (takes care of one plot point as to why Bella, my MC, hesitated to get her family to safety earlier...). Besides, I'm of the opinion to write straight through the first time around and revise later. (There'll be plenty of that, you can be sure.)
What else? Hmm. Just finished the second book in Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series, Living Dead in Dallas. Icky in parts, but fun. The MC, Sookie Stackhouse, cracks me up. (It's in first person, BTW.) And I love the little in-jokes Ms. Harris throws into the mix. For instance, Sookie's vampire, Bill, is shipped in his coffin by Anubis Air (as vampires are now part of the mainstream in U.S. society) to Dallas. Anubis was the jackal-headed Egyptian god of the dead. I know, eyeball rolling time; but I thought it was a good choice by Ms. Harris. And the only reason I got it is because I'm taking an audio course from The Teaching Company on Ancient Egypt. Really fascinating stuff. Try to pick it up whenever it's on sale.
One last thing: The demise of Miss Snark's blog. Boo hoo! No, really, boo hoo! I hadn't looked over there for a little while due to personal stuff, but I start reading it again (without posting) and, all of a sudden, she has post where I can't leave any comments! WTF? So I scrolled down a bit...and that's when I found the post saying she couldn't do the blog anymore. She was putting a lotta work into it, helping those of us who want to be legitimately published, but doing it with her brand of snark (which I really liked).
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NPS MedicineWise and American Express Openair Cinemas (AMEX OAC) have announced the first-place winners of 'Preserve the Power' – a national short film competition to raise awareness about the global threat of antibiotic resistance.
Entrants were tasked with creating a 30-second short film to win their share of $10,000, with first-place prizes awarded to talent across two categories: Australians under 18 and over the age of 18 years old.
Announced at the AMEX OAC location at Bondi Beach, 'Keep the bugs outta the club' took out the top prize for the 18+ category. The film features a man who is rejected from entering a pharmacy based on his overuse of antibiotics.
The judges were also impressed by 'Therapeutic', which took out first-place for the under-18 category. The film features a couple representing an antibiotic and a bacterial infection having a therapy session.
The winning films can be viewed on the NPS MedicineWise YouTube channel:
The brief
Create a 30-second short film to help people understand antibiotic resistance.
Be creative: films can explore any genre, be it horror, comedy, documentary, musical or drama as long as the message is relayed in line with the NPS MedicineWise Antibiotics, explained and/or Antibiotic resistance: the facts.
Be passionate: tell a story that gets to the heart of this global health threat.
Be informed: read more about the key messages as well as see the need to know facts for inspiration.
$10,000 in prize money was up for grabs!
- 1st Prize under 18s: $5,000
- 1st Prize over 18s: $5,000
As well as receiving the cash prize of $5,000, the two winners will also have their films promoted to local media and NPS MedicineWise social platforms.


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Lick-Your-Plate-Clean Good
ground turkey
cooked kidney beans
lime juice
tomato sauce (the kind found next to the tomato paste on the grocery shelf, not spaghetti sauce - although actually, spaghetti sauce might work too, if it's a vegetarian style)
barbecue sauce (a sweet type)
garlic powder (not garlic salt, but ground dried garlic)
cheddar cheese (sharpness to taste - I used medium sharp, but extra-sharp would also have been tasty)
fresh spinach leaves, washed
One serving:
Grate or dice one ounce of cheddar cheese, set aside.
Brown about four ounces of ground turkey, in a patty or loose, liberally sprinkling with lime juice while cooking.
Heat two thirds of a cup of kidney beans to piping hot. In a medium bowl, combine the beans, a tablespoon of butter, a quarter cup of tomato sauce, two tablespoons of barbecue sauce, and a half teaspoon of garlic powder (or more for garlic lovers such as myself - I actually used a full teaspoon). Mix well.
While still warm, spread the bean and tomato sauce mixture on a dinner plate. Crumble or spread the hot turkey on top, and then sprinkle on another teaspoon or two of lime juice. Add the cheese.
On top of the cheese, spread a half cup of sauerkraut, and then a cup and a half of fresh spinach leaves.
Holy Hannah, that's good eating !
It also helps to prevent flu, scurvy, heart disease, and cancer, but in this case those are secondary benefits.