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Part of the stated mission the AI Game Programmers Guild is to document the history of game AI. This is, by its very nature, not only an ongoing task, but a large and daunting one as well. We hope that this project will be informative and educational not only to game AI programmers, but to the game community at-large.
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Each game page will cover a single game or, in certain circumstances, a collection of games. Each page will document the types of AI used, tidbits of information that made them special, descriptions and commentary from the designers and programmers, and source code (if available).
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- Development History - What led up to the development of this AI? Was it based on any existing work? What were the goals?
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The quest doesn't stop there, of course. "One thing we have to understand now is, how do ubiquitin ligases achieve the speeds that they do?" asks Deshaies. "What special mechanisms do they have to enable them to build chains rapidly? And the flip side of the coin: What sets the speed limit? Why can't our ubiquitin ligase work even faster?"
A recent paper published in the journal Cell by Gary Kleiger, a postdoctoral scholar in the Deshaies lab, answered some of these speed-related questions. By measuring the rates at which E2 and E3 interacted with one another, Kleiger was able to demonstrate their unusually fast association—faster than predicted for normal proteins. E2 and E3 use oppositely-charged surfaces to attract each other, thereby speeding up the formation of a functional complex of the two proteins. This helps explain how the rapid sequential additions of ubiquitin described in the Nature paper are possible.
Gaining these kinds of insights into the ubiquitin system is important, Deshaies says, because ubiquitin ligases play a critical role in a number of human diseases, including cancer, due to their role in the regulation of the cell cycle.
"Once we understand these aspects of how ubiquitin ligases work, and what limits their speed, we will be in an excellent position to think about how we might develop drugs that attack the ligase's Achilles' heel, to make its slowest step even slower," he says. "If we can slow down ubiquitin ligases enough, they may become too slow to get their job done—to build chains—in the time available to them to do so. Being able to develop drugs to block their function would open up a new frontier in medicine."
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Just occasionally the lot of the reviewer brings
surprises. Often, like those in life in general they arrive when least
expected and are often those enjoyed best.
I approached this CD with some trepidation. For a start I wondered how
an opera such as Verdi's Otello could be split into highlights
and then I looked at the varied dates of the recordings. Yes, there
are individual items, scenes and arias that can stand alone. As for
highlights of the whole could that truly give the flavour of the composer's
penultimate work, which in its entirety seems seamless - I had my doubts.
Add the fact that the cast was a mélange of singers recorded
over nearly half a century and incorporating recorded sources of acoustic,
electric, mono and stereo forms and I approached my listening assignment
with misgivings, even apprehension, that one of the greatest works of
the lyric theatre might be demeaned or devalued. However, by the arrival
of the conclusion of Niun Mi Tema (Tr.13), I was left nearly
convinced that I had heard the work complete and had barely noticed
any differences in the recorded sound.
Before picking and commenting on individual items, I feel it appropriate
to put Verdi's composition in some perspective. As a composer,
Verdi was always incisive, except perhaps in respect of his non-composition
of an opera based on Shakespeare's play King Lear. Of his
twenty-eight operas, his first fifteen were composed in a period of
ten years between 1839 and 1849, a period he talked about as his 'Years
in the galleys'. After the great middle period trio of Rigoletto,
Il Trovatore and La Traviata, composed between 1851 and
1853, when financially secure, his pace of composition slowed. He had
talked to friends about retirement after the writing of Un Ballo
in Maschera in 1858 his twenty third opera. However, if the fee
and circumstances were right he was tempted, as with LaForza del
Destino for St Petersburg in 1862, Don Carlos for Paris in
1867 and Aida for Cairo in 1871, his twenty-sixth opera.
After the composition of the Requiem in 1874, aged sixty-one,
Verdi entered his most arid compositional period. He travelled widely
in Europe conducting his works, particularly the Requiem. These
trips took him to London, Paris, Cologne and even Austrian Vienna. Everywhere
he was fêted as the leading opera composer of the day and national
honours were bestowed on him. Early in 1879, and for his own amusement,
he composed a Pater Noster for unaccompanied five-part chorus
and an Ave Maria for solo soprano and string orchestra. His long-time
friend the Countess Maffei chided him about his lack of operatic composition
since Aida, by theneight years in the past. Verdi responded
"the account is settled." However, in her salon the
literati of Milan would meet. These luminaries included Ricordi, Verdi's
publisher, the conductor Faccio and Boito, the latter a composer, writer
and sublime opera librettist. Somewhere along the line a plot was hatched
to tempt Verdi to write an opera based on a Shakespearean play, Othello.
When Verdi visited Milan to conduct a charity performance of his Requiem,
Ricordi and Faccio, with the help of a dinner invitation engineered
by Verdi's wife Giuseppina, broached the subject with the great
man. They suggested Boito as librettist and a work based on Shakespeare's
play, a poet the composer revered. The next day Boito was brought to
see Verdi and three days later he returned with a detailed scenario
- quick work unless there had been prior plotting!
Whilst Verdi encouraged Boito to convert his synopsis into verse with
the words: "It will always be good for you, for me, or for
someone else", he would not commit himself to compose. He
was to prevaricate on 'the chocolate theme', as it was called,
for some time. When Ricordi became impatient Giuseppina cautioned, behind
the composer's back, that whilst he liked Boito's verses
he had not as yet clarified his ideas "and without clear
ideas he will decide now, or at any rate later, never to compose again
…leave things, at least for the moment, just as they are, wrapping
the Moor in as great a silence as is possible."Ricordi
took the advice and when Verdi indicated he was ready to revise his
Simon Boccanegra of 1857 he enlisted Boito as librettist. The
composer and his new librettist got on well and the foundations were
laid that brought Otello to magnificent fruition at La Scala
on 5 February 1887. It was Verdi's 27th opera and was
his first wholly new work for the stage for eighteen years. The composer
was then seventy-four years of age and really did think that he had
finished with operatic composition.
Verdi's conception of Otello involved greater and significantly
different orchestral complexity compared to Aida (1871) and Don
Carlos (1867), its immediate operatic predecessors. It marks a major
compositional development. As Budden (Verdi - Master Musicians Series,
Dent, 1985) puts it: "the composer conceived it from the start
in terms of whole acts that proceed from start to finish without interruption."The
drama moves by smooth transition from one event to the next, hence my
doubts expressed above. In his conception Verdi was greatly aided by
Boito's taut libretto that reduced Shakespeare's Othello
by six-sevenths. All this was done without losing its essence: the destruction
of the erstwhile hero by the genie of jealousy aided by the evil machinations
of Iago. Boito dispensed with Shakespeare's Venice act and focused
the whole of the action in Cyprus.
As Budden notes: "the title role in Otello lies well beyond
the scope of the average operatic tenor." It is unequalled
in the Verdi canon in the vocal demands it makes on the eponymous tenor.
In reality the role is beyond some of the very greatest of tenors. In
the latter half of the twentieth century a handful of big voices could
do it a measure of justice on stage. These included Giovanni Zenatello
(Tr.9), Giovanni Martinelli (Tr.13), Ramon Vinay (Trs.3,8), Mario del
Monaco (Trs.1, 10), Jon Vickers (Tr.5) and Placido Domingo whose inclusion
here is precluded by copyright restrictions. All those tenors, with
the inevitable exception of Domingo, feature in this collection. To
them we add the outstanding tenor of the first half of the twentieth
century, Enrico Caruso. He, like his compatriots Bergonzi and Pavarotti,
never sang the role on stage (Tr.4). Caruso's vocal strength,
tone and characterisation in that excerpt make me regret that omission
from his extensive repertoire. A pity that the restricted technology
of the time did not allow for him that which was provided by Decca for
Pavarotti, whose recording of the opera was taken from three concert
The collection opens (Tr.1) with Del Monaco's trumpeting tones
in Esultate as his boat lands from the storm-lashed sea. Taken
from the recording conducted by Karajan in 1960 and with the Vienna
State Opera Chorus in full voice it is fearsome if not subtle. Jon Vickers
in the nearly contemporaneous recording for RCA I find more appealing.
The evil Iago on that recording was Tito Gobbi, who I was privileged
to see on stage. He sings the Credo in this collection, but on
an HMV studio recording issued on 78s as HMV 21071 not the RCA recording
alongside Vickers. His characterisation is biting in intensity if a
little raw in tone and not aided by a touch of distortion. Lawrence
Tibbett, recorded, in New York in 1939 (Trs.2, 6) is more subtle and
covers his tone better.
Meanwhile Ramon Vinay in 1951 is alongside a mature-sounding Desdemona
by Eleanor Steber (Tr.3). Elsewhere the role of Desdemona is Leonie
Rysanek (Tr.5) with Jon Vickers. She was never my favourite in the role.
I much prefer Tebaldi alongside Del Monaco, heard here in a long excerpt
from the end of act three (Tr.10). This again is from the Decca recording
of 1961 conducted by Karajan and enjoys the best sound in the collection.
The great act four demands of the role are met by Rosa Ponselle in the
Willow Song (Tr.11) and Elisabeth Rethberg in the Ave Maria (Tr.12).
It was particularly interesting to listen to both and compare their
tone, diction and characterisation.
I haven't mentioned Toscanini who played in the La Scala orchestra
at the premiere. His 1947 recording of Dio Ti Giocondi from act
three (Tr.8) reflects Iago's machinations to bring Otello to impute
Desdemona's innocence as she pursues Cassio's cause is frightening
in its intensity. Vinay is forceful but not matched by Toscanini favourite
Herva Nelli.
Inevitably the sound quality varies, but Magdalen have done a wonderful
job in mitigating those differences. It is a collection I shall return
to with pleasure from time to time particularly when I get desperate
about the scarcity of voices like these in the present day.
Robert J Farr
Contents List
Una vela .... Esultate .... Vittoria vittoria
Tom Krause; Nello Romanato; Aldo Protti; Athos Cesarini; Mario del Monaco
Vienna Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan
recorded in Sofiensaal Vienna, May 1961
Inaffia L'ugola Brindisi
Lawrence Tibbett; Nicholas Massue; Herman Dreeben
Metropolitan Opera House Chorus & Orchestra/Wilfred Pelletier
recorded in New York, 3 May 1939.
Gia Nella Notte Densa
Eleanor Steber; Ramon Vinay
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera Association/Fausto Cleva -
recorded in New York, 31 Dec 1951
Vanne... Credo in un dio crudel
Tito Gobbi
Philharmonia Orchestra/James Robertson
recorded at Number 1 Studio Abbey Road London, 14 Mar 1950
D'un uom che geme sotto il tuo disdegno ... Ora e per sempre
Leonie Rysanek; Miriam Pirazzini; Jon Vickers; Tito Gobbi
Rome Opera House Orchestra/Tullio Serafin
recorded at the Rome Opera House, 18 July-8 Aug 1960
Era La Notte
Lawrence Tibbett
Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra/Wilfred Pelletier
recorded in New York, 3 May 1939
O mostruosa colpa ... Si per ciel
Enrico Caruso; Titta Ruffo
recorded in New York, 8 Jan 1914
Dio Ti Giocondi O Sposo
Herva Nelli; Ramon Vinay
NBC Symphony Orchestra/Arturo Toscanini
recorded at NBC Studio 8H New York, 6-13 Dec 1947
Dio Mi Potevi Scagliar
Giovanni Zenatello; Bruno Reibold
recorded in Camden New Jersey, 21 Mar 1928
A terra e piangi ... to end of act
Mario del Monaco; Renata Tebaldi; Ana Raquel Satre; Fernando Corena;
Nello Romanato; Aldo Protti; Athos Cesarini
Vienna Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan
recorded in Sofiensaal Vienna, May 1961
Piangea cantando ... salce salce - Willow Song
Rosa Ponselle
recorded in Camden, New Jersey, 23 Jan 1924
Ave Maria
Elisabeth Rethberg
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/Ettore Panizza
recorded New York, 24 Feb 1940
Niun Mi Tema
Giovanni Martinelli; Alessio de Paolis; Nicola Moscona; George Cehanovsky
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/Ettore Panizza
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As expected, Obama was the winner in Vermont, with three electoral votes, while Romney captured Kentucky's eight electoral votes.
Vermont voters also re-elected Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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|Happy Birthday dear Laogong!!!
Yesterday was my hubby's birthday. The day before yesterday, he rewarded himself a set of dvd-karaoke with home theater set to be put in our room with 10 new DVD-karaoke with different songs that he likes.
Yesterday we had our dinner at home inviting my bro's and his families and my sis.. It's all 15 of us altogether plus me inside. We were having steamboat. It was very fun! Loads of foods and lots of fun because it's mixed of people in one house. After having dinner, we were separated into three different groups. One group was singing in the room, one group was children playing with toys, and another one was watching TV show outside.
|Steamboat Birthday dinner at Home Sweet Home :)
So, yesterday, although it was only 15 of us, it's already BIG for me now.
Just for info, yesterday after work, I went to Immigration and apply for citizenship =P
I applied once before but was rejected because I was applying alone and the main reason I was rejected was because my salary was too low.. What a reason!!! :P
And this time, I applied under my hubby's sponsor. I just wondered what the result would be. If this time could be rejected again.. I will never ever apply this again in my life :D
I don't like people look down on another just because they don't have enough education, not enough money, etc. People has equal status in life. So what if my salary was not high as long as I can still live happily the way I live, right? Does money more important than one's happiness??
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But, it actually goes beyond just the music industry. In fact, I'd argue that these models apply to many different industries, including the media business. After doing all those presentations, some of us here at Floor64/Techdirt got to talking about ways that they could be applied to other industries -- and one thing led to another where we began to wonder why we didn't test them out ourselves. So, we looked at the various models and thought about what could we do along those lines. I certainly love the "tiered" models, where there are numerous options of increasing value that people can buy into, and we figured, why not test that out ourselves? It would be a fun experiment and a great learning experience. So... here we are introducing:
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From there we've also got a chance to hang out -- and spend the day with us and some friends. See the magic that is writing a Techdirt post and (much more exciting) have some entertaining discussions myself and with much more interesting folks like Mark Fletcher, Andy Kessler, Rich Skrenta and Eric Goldman. We'll have some meals, we'll hang out at the office, and we'll go out and have some fun as well. Should be a blast.
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s-man necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 130 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
Young modern edge photographer breaking into the pro wedding scene looking to launch biz with a simple yet artistic logo design.
Sherwin Aguinaldo Photography
While my main focus will primarily be on Wedding Photography, I will regularly be taking on assignments related to all aspects of Lifestyle portraiture including maternity, newborns, kids and family.
The following are links to photographers who's style and work have lent much inspiration to mine.
I wish to use the logo on my website/blog, for print marketing materials, and as a watermark for the photographs themselves.
My target audience will include young, leading edge professionals. When a client sees the logo they should think artistic,imaginative, skillfull, fashionable, contemporary....
Vector file so that it is easily resizable and transferrable between the needs indicated in the description.
okay I've decide to go with ONE of 3 styles;
1) see link http://www.logolounge.com/images/20…ourish.jpg - here my "S" or "Sherwin" become part of flourish style design (brought to life with a flourish if you will) The examples are done in an artful way that they don't look too feminine. Note that I do not like the 4th flourish example. I imagined that "B" was an "S" and underneath was simply Sherwin Aguinaldo Photography. I could use that "S" on its own to batch watermark photos and the "S" with "Sherwin Aguinaldo Photography" as the logo on the website, blog, etc.
2) using http://www.jeshderox.com as the inspiration (you need to navigate through the intro) and designs #24 and #54 , I enjoy how the flourish or vintage ornaments surround and frame his name "Jesh de Rox". Again, please use flourishes and ornaments that are NOT feminine in nature such as vines and leaves and florals. If you do these leaves and florals need to be more abstract or geometric in nature
3) I also enjoy where a cool vector symbol is used above my brand name such as #4 , #62 , and #71 . My only concern, are these symbols designed or are they just purchased? I don't have a problem with the fact that they are just downloaded but is it possible that the designs are too common and can be used by other designers for other logos? That would suck if somebody had the same symbol in their logo. Is there any way to put my stamp on it? perhaps build in a "s" or "sa" in the center for example?
Hope this helps, if I wasn't clear on anything please feel free to message me! I'm going to paste these design amendments into my brief. I apologize from getting away from my original requirements but you amazing designers opened the doors to a whole bunch of new ideas and possibilities! Thank-you again for lending me your talent and imagination!
With respect to the website background colour I am still torn between using the elegant black or going with clean and simple white. While I am open to your colour choice on the logo I would guard against using too many. Remember, clean and simple :)
Having said all that, please feel free to break all the rules if you think you have some wicked design that might blow me away!
Finally, this is not a requirement but if your icon/symbol fits, I may choose to use the icon/symbol on its own to watermark my photos. ie without using the "Sherwin Aguinaldo Photography" part. Ultimately in this case there would be two files a) Sherwin Aguinaldo Photography w/ the iconic or initials based symbol b) just the iconic/initials based symbol.
I don't want anything playful, cute, or cartoonish.
I don't want any clip art images like hearts, brides, and grooms.
Please no camera related icons and mechanisms like aperature rings etc.
Nothing multi-coloured or too busy and chaotic looking
I prefer that you don't use a script font for "Sherwin Aguinaldo Photography" or make it look too feminine.
No letter reflections
Finally, I don't want the monogram/letter based icon to look like I could have done it myself ie pick a font and type "SA"
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My studio is gleeeeeeeaming. Aaah, such a nice feeling. It took me almost two days to clean it out. A massive spring clean. I almost didn't want to use it again, so nice was it to have it in such sparkling order!! But I am about to embark on a new adventure and, along with the buying of shiny new journals and sketchbooks, the studio spring clean is an essential part of the ritual. I recently received an Australia Council grant to make some new work for a solo show next year, and so I am just starting to turn my attention to this, getting ready for the rollercoaster ride that inevitably accompanies the development of new work! I have a starting point, but as always there are a kazillion directions I could go in, so many half formed ideas from the last couple of distracted years, and so many processes and techniques I want to experiment with.
So I've spent the last few weeks madly scribbling down all my ideas and thoughts, trying to sift through it all, distill it down and work out a clearer direction. It's a slow process, especially when you have a two year old vying for your attention and constantly demanding to play dress ups!
Developing new work is a process I both love and hate. It's a process I know so well and yet one I can never take for granted. For me, the thrill and freedom of experimenting and researching and playing goes hand in hand with a kind of anxiety, because the whole way along you never quite know what the outcome will be. There are so many unknowns - and that can be both exciting and unnerving.
Rebecca Solnit writes in her book A Field Guide to Getting Lost (recently recommended to me by Marianne Huhn) that when it comes to discovery "it seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control".
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Kissimmee, near Orlando in Florida, is a great family friendly destination, as it is so near so many of Florida's most famous tourist attractions and theme parks, including Walt Disney World. In addition to these attractions and a glorious sub-tropical climate, the area presents unique opportunities to spot exotic and endangered wildlife. Whether your family are, roller-coaster fanatics or naturalists, or a mixture of both, you will have a packed time in the area, and you can cut down on the expenses by investigating the wide range of villas and holiday rentals on offer.
Kissimmee is within easy reach of Disney World, Sea World Orlando and Universal Studios, but you can also go for lesser known attractions such as Forever Florida, where you can go on safari on horseback or on a coach to spot alligators, black bears and even the incredibly rare Florida panther. Florida is of course also famous for its swamps, so a trip to Boggy Creek is also a perfect day out, you can take a ride in a swamp buggy out to explore the wetlands and see turtles and various exotic birds. These kinds of attractions provide memories which will last a lifetime, and are great for kids. And for a bit of fun, make sure you go to Medieval Times for a dinner show with a difference, as knights joust on horseback. This is an expensive venue, but could be a highpoint of an unforgettable family holiday, and of course you'll be saving a considerable amount of money by renting a villa rather than forking out for a hotel room.
A holiday full of theme parks can be an expensive business with even a small family. But you can make your budget go further by opting to rent a villa, as prices start around £500 a week for villas for up to six people. With air conditioning, pools, broadband and TVs included as standard, you can make yourself completely at home during your stay, and maybe even spend a day in the villa between theme park trips - with the extra space of self-catered accommodation this becomes a real option, whereas in a hotel kids are generally climbing up the walls within twenty minutes! By renting a villa, you can enjoy a low cost holiday in Kissimmee, and probably get to relax a whole lot more!


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Police: Clerk's phone stops bullet during robbery
Man sought after shooting at Winter Park clerk during attempted robbery
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – A gas station clerk suffered minor injuries during an armed robbery after his cellphone blocked a bullet, according to Winter Garden police.
Police said the man went into Hess gas station on the corner of West Colonial Drive and State Road 535 at 4:30 a.m. on Monday and requested the clerk to help him find a beverage.
The man then showed the clerk a revolver and demanded the clerk open the safe. When the clerk tried to open the safe but couldn't, a second clerk tried to open the safe but couldn't, police said.
The robber then left the store and fired a shot on the way out, striking the clerk in the abdomen. Police said the clerk's cellphone blocked the bullet and he was not seriously injured.
"It could have been life ending. So he's very lucky that the cell phone stopped the bullet and he's able to go home," said Lt. Scott Allen of Winter Garden Police Department.
The culprit is described as a black man, 6 feet tall and wearing a dark-colored, hooded sweatshirt and pants, sunglasses, bright yellow traffic vest, and wearing white gloves, police said. the culprit.
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Right now my true identity is that I am a proud mother of two unbelievably precious girls, one is 6 and the other one is 2 years of age. I started blogging after we moved to Belgium from the States in the summer of 2011. I was a high-school teacher in Portland, OR. In addition to my passion for health science, culture, religion, and history, I love writing. For that reason, I wanted to share my unique experiences of living abroad in Europe through blogging. My husband is a fanatic when it comes to traveling. The hassle of making journeys with a stroller, a diaper bag, and baby foods didn't stop us from going around the world. Who doesn't like visiting a new country or learning about a new culture? But making the plans takes a little effort. Hope my posts and pages will help the future travelers to plan their trips better.
The above writing is about three years old when we first moved to Belgium…didn't want to replace it by my current situation. I wanted to leave it there because it was then when I grew my passion for blogging and photography. Now we are back in our home in Oregon. Life is not the same when we used to live here three years ago. Every part of me wants to go back to Europe and see the unseen cultures, places, and heritage of that continent. The best part of being back is being closer to my family and friends. I hope to go back to Europe again and follow our previous footsteps when our girls grow up, want to show them where we once lived, their school, some of the places we went with them and everything else. For now we are exploring our surroundings and our beautiful state of Oregon.
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Now anyone can visit other cities in the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia…Abba is a city in which you can get Snow in the Winter and with Heavy Rain hail as well… Be Warned: Roads gets flooded very quickly in KSA so Please do NOT try to go through any under pass (under Bridge) via car. Riyadh currently has the tallest Building of KSA owns by Prince Talal
very very fascinating!
This is the first time I read this and if i look at the list of blog post's you've made, I pray to God for me to create a sort of the same list.
I hope I'll manage! Though im 14, almost 15 so I'm lucky with the countries I've already visited.
It's a great inspiration though!!!
All the very best with your blog.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Your overseas travels are good for those traveling with diaper bags. Appreciate your educating others!
The photo of you and your kids is lovely: a gorgeous family. I looked at your blog cos you gave a 'Like'to my first ever blog post. And I am so impressed at all the places you have visited with such young children- it can be tough and tiring.But good planning helps a lot. your children are at a lovely age.Actually every age is great.
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I don't know if I'll be lucky like you to travel around the globe. Your blogs might be as close as I can go regarding travels. You are my inspiration for travelling with kids and I admire you for doing that.
My first visit to your blog took me to the Palace of Versailles. Great pictures. I showed them to my daughter who turned 25 today and will be returning to see the Palace within a couple of months. Her dream is to get a job there! Best wishes from the west coast of Canada, Jim.
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Hello there! Due to my husband's work with IMEC, we are moving to Tervuren in a few weeks. My 6year old will attend the International School in Brussels. We should connect and I can grill you for expat advice:) email@example.com. Take care.
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Thanks for the Like. Great travelers think alike!
I came across your site http://journeyaroundtheglobe.com while browsing some travel sites. I must say you are doing a commendable job. I have been following you for quite some time. I am impressed by the initiative you are taking..
I am a blogger & maintain few travel blogs. e.g. OneTravelBloggers, Footloosetraveller.com. At present I am working with OneTravel. Our sites can be useful to one another. So, I offer you to do some partnership.
I have some options for you.
1. I could cover you on my blog and in return I would like a back link for my website from your blog within the content.
2. If you allow guest blogging I would be glad to write a blog post as a guest blogger. Within the post there would be a single link to my website.
3. I am also fine with guest blogging. I will generate an id for you on my blog where you can post as you like and in return you need to link myself from any of your post.
4. We both can do guest blogging for each other where we can add links to our respective websites.
5. On top of giving link from my blog, I can also give you some links from other websites that I am managing.
You may visit our website http://www.onetravel.com. & blog http://onetravelbloggers.com/ http://www.footloosetraveller.com.
Let me know your views soon.
Well done! So proud of you.
You will be our soul guide when we get chance to explore Europe 🙂
Proud of you guys! Carry on this spirit.


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Maranello, 2 March – Maybe itвАЩs because he was born in the same year as the Scuderia Ferrari, maybe itвАЩs because when he met Enzo Ferrari in 1960 they immediately liked each other. One thing is for sure: Gianni Rogliatti was the most competent and the most passionate historian at Ferrari. Gianni, journalist and author of numerous publications, fell in love with Ferrari from afar, in Argentina, where his family had emigrated, when he read about the 125S, the first car built in Maranello bearing the name of the companyвАЩs founder.
He cut out the article and kept it, like he did with so many other documents. He was an extremely prepared historian and a very competent friend of everybody at Ferrari. For the 60th anniversary of the manufacturer from Maranello he had collaborated with numerous employees to create important and extensive technical works including the entire history of the Prancing Horse.
Armed with curiosity, anecdotes and technical details Gianni was a point of reference for those who love Ferrari. For us he was a friend, a loyal and open man everybody loved. We will miss you, Gianni, but you will always be a part of the history of Ferrari.


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Parts of a Cartridge and Caliber
Sometimes you will hear people on a rifle range say, "I'm out of bullets. Please get me some more bullets." Usually, these people don't know that they are asking for the wrong thing. Cartridges go into the chamber of a firearm, while bullets go out the muzzle. A bullet is only one part of a cartridge.
The ammunition used in a rifle or handgun is called a cartridge (or a metallic cartridge). There are two general types of cartridges available today: centerfire and rimfire.
Many years ago people used a larger number of different rimfire cartridges. The rimfire cartridge gets its name because the primer is in the rim. Rimfire cartridges cannot be reloaded. The most common rimfire cartridge used today is the .22 Long Rifle.
The centerfire cartridge is the most common type of metallic cartridge. The primer is in the (bottom) center of the ammunition. That's why this cartridge is called centerfire. Centerfire cases can be reloaded.
All cartridges—both rimfire and centerfire—have four main parts.
- Case: The case holds the primer, powder, and bullet.
- Primer: The primer compound explodes when struck by the firing pin and ignites the powder.
- Powder: The powder burns and creates gas to push the bullet through the bore and out the muzzle.
- Bullet: The bullet is the part of the cartridge that strikes the target.


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Things have been unsettled with the big chains, a couple of which went under because they had massively over-expanded, but things seem calmer now, though a couple are said to be in trouble. The glory days are over and these are deflationary times, but the salaries offered would still provide for a reasonable lifestyle here. The cushiest jobs are in the universities.
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I received the following in an email from Boston University and thought it was valuable information to share with anyone thinking of taking the BU genealogy certificate course. I have not taken this course myself, but have heard nothing but positive comments from friends who have completed the program.
We recognize that Boston University's online Certificate Program for Genealogical Research is a significant investment of both time and money. So what do you get for your $2695?
Interaction with Boston University's distinguished genealogy faculty
Our Certificate program is taught by exceptional faculty who are world-renowned for their expertise and contributions to the field of genealogy, including Melinde Lutz Byrne, FASG; Tom Jones, CG; Elissa Scalise Powell, CG; and Allison Ryall. As a student in our Certificate program, you will have the opportunity to ask our professors your burning genealogy questions.
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Our program is specially designed to teach you the methodology you will need to prepare for your CG certification.
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Recognizing outstanding leadership in the community
The David W. Preus Leadership Award honors the contribution to civic and religious life by the Rev. Dr. David W. Preus, Bishop emeritus of the American Lutheran Church and volunteer leader in community and educational causes. Through his ecumenical and religious leadership and his commitment to the common good through educational, governmental, and community life, David Preus exemplified servant leadership for the sake of the church and the world.
Past recipients of the award were broadly representative community members recognized for their dedication to servant leadership through non-profit organizations for the betterment of society. In 2009, for the first time in its history, the award was granted to a student of Luther Seminary to recognize and to encourage outstanding leadership. We intend to continue the award in this way, granting it to a student to support a structured experience intended to build understanding and encourage outstanding leadership that expresses itself in service to others. The award is roughly $5,000.
The award presentation and related activities are coordinated by a sponsoring council, which is funded by an endowment raised by friends of Bishop David W. Preus and managed by Luther Seminary. In selecting honorees, the Preus Award Council seeks to follow Robert K. Greenleaf's criterion for servant leadership. In his book, "The servant as Leader," Greenleaf writes that the best way to measure servant leadership is to ask: "Do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?"
Eligibility for award
The David W. Preus Servant Leadership Award provides the opportunity to pursue a 2-3 month servant leadership project. Students eligible for the award need to have at least part-time student status, be enrolled in a first theological degree program of Luther Seminary, and have completed at least one semester of academic work. The successful applicant will designate a project in one of the possible following arenas:
- Servant leadership in civic life
- Global servant leadership
- Servant leadership in ecumenical or interfaith relationships
- Congregational servant leadership
Timeline for award
Applications are due March 6th, 2015. The application form can be downloaded here, or picked up in Student Services, and requires two letters in addition to the proposal. The award will be announced at the beginning of April. The project needs to be completed by the end of Summer 2015, with the reflection report due by September 28, 2015.
Rev. Dr. David W. Preus
David W. Preus joined the Luther Seminary faculty as director of the Global Mission Institute and distinguished visiting professor in 1988, the same year he was named bishop emeritus of The American Lutheran Church (ALC). He retired from his positions at Luther Seminary in 1994.
Preus had served the ALC as vice president in 1968-73 and as president and presiding bishop in 1973-87. Ordained in 1950, Preus served pastorates in Brookings, S.D. (1950-51), Vermillion, S.D. (1952-57), and Minneapolis (1957-73). He was a vice president of the Lutheran World Federation and a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches.
A graduate of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa (1943) and Luther Seminary (1950), Preus has studied at the University of Minnesota Law School, the University of Edinburgh and Union Seminary.
He has been recognized with the Commander's Cross, the royal Norwegian Order of St. Olaf, the St. George's Medal from the Orthodox Church Georgia, the Anti-Defamation League's Torch of Liberty, the Minnesota Religious Hall of fame Award from Temple Israel, St. Thomas Aquinas Medal from St. Thomas University, the Pax Christi Award from St. John's University, and honorary doctorates and distinguished service awards from nine colleges and universities.
Watch "A Towel and Basin Man,"a video portrait of the life and ministry of David W. Preus.


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Seventy-four percent of questionnaire respondents indicated recycling is either Important or Very Important. Residents were asked if they would participate in a City-wide recycling program; 91 percent of respondents answered affirmatively.
After reviewing data collected through the Residential Recycling Questionnaire, the Monticello City Council directed City Administrative staff to begin a recycling program with the stipulation that it not increase residents' utility bills or City expenses.
Based on the Council's direction and questionnaire data, Monticello's recycling program will initially accept five different recyclables: tin, aluminum, #1 plastic, newspaper, and clear glass.
The City is in the process of putting final touches on the recycling collection bins and completing other last minute tasks before recyclables will be accepted.
The City plans to locate recycling bins – where residents can drop off separated recyclables – at the Southeast Utah Welcome Center (216 South Main) and expects to begin accepting designated recyclables in September.
Look for more information about participating in the Monticello Recycling Program in future issues of the San Juan Record.


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Telecom Lab
Telecommunications services provided via satellite have become part of our daily life; television, telephones and the Internet are just a few of the more obvious examples. New ways of using satellite telecommunications are constantly emerging and a small office of ESA's Telecommunications Department has been set up at ESRIN to nurture projects trying to develop new applications.
Called today the ESRIN Telecom Lab, it was established at ESRIN in 2000. Its job: to support European companies and institutions developing new space applications by providing easier access to essential - but expensive - space telecommunications infrastructure. Among the innovative undertakings assisted to date are projects for telemedicine, tele-education, tele-tourism, e-commerce and support for civil protection authorities in Italy and France.
Small and medium-sized companies in particular can benefit from ESRIN's telecommunication services. The on-site facilities provide projects funded under ARTES, ESA's Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme, with controlled access to a laboratory area with uplink facilities, while members of the small telecommunication's team at ESRIN are on hand to offer their support.
All this gives companies easy access to complex and expensive infrastructure when they are struggling to handle the transition phase from development to pilot operations, freeing up both time and money to concentrate on developing and marketing their core business.
Organising workshops and demonstrations at ESRIN is another way of providing assistance. This gives ESA an opportunity to present and demonstrate the benefits of telecommunications applications, facilitate links between developers of specific applications and potential users, and foster the exchange of ideas. ESA's support helps companies enter the market by bringing new applications to the attention of potential users and ensuring applications meet user's requirements.
ESRIN's facilities provide access to telecommunication satellites along with good connections to the internet and academic networks. They consist of:
- 7 Ku-band (two transportable) and one C-band uplink station
- 10 MHz on Sesat 1 satellite capacity
- various equipment, including modems and several DVB-IP satellite gateway
Within ESA these facilities are also used to support a number of Earth Observation projects for the exploitation of satellite data, including calls on the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters. Another example is the Tiger Initiative to use space technology to improve the management of water resources, particularly in Africa.
EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, benefits from the telecommunications service at ESRIN, and support is also being given to pilot projects under an ESA-EC programme designed to reduce the digital divide between developed and developing countries.


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Quite a few roads in the Santa Cruz Mountains are named after people. Here are a few and some details:
Mountain Charlie Road. This narrow, twisty road straddling Hwy 17 is named after Charles Henry McKiernan. The toll road was purchased by Santa Cruz County in 1878. This earliest immigrant settler of the Santa Cruz Mountains survived a grizzly bear attack in 1854.
Schultheis Road. Named for John Martin Schultheis. I ride this mostly dirt road regularly between Redwood Lodge Road and Summit Road.
Page Mill Road. Named after William Page, who established a sawmill on Peters Creek in 1867.
Haskins Hill (Pescadero Road at Sam McDonald County Park). Named after Aaron Haskins, who built a shingle mill nearby in 1875.
Graham Hill Road (between Felton and Santa Cruz) was named for Isaac Graham, who owned this toll road in the 1860s-70s until it became a public thoroughfare.
Wurr Road (at Loma Mar). Named for Henry Wurr, a shingle mill operator originally from Germany.
Highland Way. Extending from the end of Summit Road to Eureka Canyon Road, I don't know exactly how it came to be named, but there is an interesting coincidence here. It could be called Highland because the road is in high country. It could also be named for one M.C. Hyland.
He was the foreman on the ill-fated night of Feb. 12, 1877, when a terrific explosion killed at least a dozen workers who were building the Wrights tunnel on the South Pacific Coast Railroad. It's just off Summit Road near Highland Way.


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The Office of Fiscal Administration provides fiscal services to the Agency including purchasing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, grants administration, budgeting, economic analysis and audit coordination. The office also publishes Sewer and Water Rate Surveys that show residential rates for these services throughout Ohio.
Most invoices issued by Ohio EPA may be paid through our online eBusiness Center with a credit card or by debiting your bank account through the Automated Clearing House (ACH). Payments will appear on your statement with identifiable merchant names based on the type of service provided. read more...
The Economic Analysis Unit annually surveys sewer and water rates charged by Ohio cities, villages and special districts during the prior calendar year. Annual rates are calculated for residential customers within municipal limits given an assumed monthly water consumption level of 7,756 gallons (or 1,037 cubic feet) per household. Rate calculations do not include charges levied through income or property taxes.
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Community News
5K, 10K runs added to Tour de Cypress
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- Published on 24 January 2012
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
A 5K and a 10K run were added this week to the annual Tour de Cypress bike ride. Now athletes can ride any of the four routes in the morning and run in the afternoon. This will be the eighth year for the bike ride. The April 21 event features four bike rides of 10, 30, 45 and 62.5 miles. For more information, see the Jan. 19 edition of the Optic-Herald.


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Our online catalogue and web site is working pretty well now. I have established a monthly update for most of the catalogue, and this also is working well. I regret that I have still not been able to master photographs for the catalogue - the operation just requires more time than I have available. Most of the faulty links have been eliminated.
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St. Nicholas Car park is a 554 space long stay car park with 23 spaces for the disabled at the south end of Great Yarmouth seafront, just opposite Pleasure Beach Gardens.
Charges apply in all spaces. Closed over winter. 2 metre height limit.
Opening details
Open all day in Summer from April - October from 9am until 9pm (11pm on summer fireworks nights).
Closed in Winter
Closed in Winter
(open 1 April to 31 October) 8am to 9pm
Up to 4 hours - cost £5.50
Over 4 hours cost £8.50
Winter - closed.
2 metre height restriction.
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On arrival in Great Yarmouth, follow signs for the seafront. At the seafront, turn right at the mini roundabout and follow the seafront down Maritime Parade, Go straight over at the mini roundabout in front of Wellington Pier. After the roundabout, get into the right hand lane and turn right into the car park.
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A warm welcome awaits you at Melbourne Parish Church
We are part of the Melbourne group of parishes,
serving the villages in the Melbourne, Smisby, Stanton and Ticknall area.
We are a lively and developing church in the context of a small rural town.
Our priorities are worship, children's work, music, bellringing and fellowship.
We have an historic building which is open every day.
Why not check out our Welcome Video?
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by Namadeva Acharya
A saying from the Vedas claims that "Speech is the essence of humanity." All of what humanity thinks and ultimately becomes is determined by the expression of ideas and actions through speech and its derivative, writing. Everything, the Vedas maintain, comes into being through speech. Ideas remain unactualized until they are created through the power of speech. Similarly, The New Testament, Gospel of John, starts "In the beginning was The Word. And the Word was with God and the Word was God..."
In mainstream Vedic practices, most Buddhist techniques and classical Hinduism, mantra is viewed as a necessity for spiritual advancement and high attainment. In The Kalachakra Tantra, by the Dalai Lama and Jeffrey Hopkins, the Dalai Lama states, "Therefore, without depending upon mantra...Buddhahood cannot be attained."
Clearly, there is a reason why such widely divergent sources of religious wisdom as the Vedas, the New Testament and the Dalai Lama speak in common ideas. Here are some important ideas about mantra which will enable you to begin a practical understanding of what mantra is and what it can do.
Definition #1: Mantras are energy-based sounds.
Saying any word produces an actual physical vibration. Over time, if we know what the effect of that vibration is, then the word may come to have meaning associated with the effect of saying that vibration or word. This is one level of energy basis for words.
Another level is intent. If the actual physical vibration is coupled with a mental intention, the vibration then contains an additional mental component which influences the result of saying it. The sound is the carrier wave and the intent is overlaid upon the wave form, just as a colored gel influences the appearance and effect of a white light.
In either instance, the word is based upon energy. Nowhere is this idea more true than for Sanskrit mantra. For although there is a general meaning which comes to be associated with mantras, the only lasting definition is the result or effect of saying the mantra.
Definition #2: Mantras create thought-energy waves.
The human consciousness is really a collection of states of consciousness which distributively exist throughout the physical and subtle bodies. Each organ has a primitive consciousness of its own. That primitive consciousness allows it to perform functions specific to it. Then come the various systems. The cardio-vascular system, the reproductive system and other systems have various organs or body parts working at slightly different stages of a single process. Like the organs, there is a primitive consciousness also associated with each system. And these are just within the physical body. Similar functions and states of consciousness exist within the subtle body as well. So individual organ consciousness is overlaid by system consciousness, overlaid again by subtle body counterparts and consciousness, and so ad infinitum.
The ego with its self-defined "I" ness assumes a pre-eminent state among the subtle din of random, semi-conscious thoughts which pulse through our organism. And of course, our organism can "pick up" the vibration of other organisms nearby. The result is that there are myriad vibrations riding in and through the subconscious mind at any given time.
Mantras start a powerful vibration which corresponds to both a specific spiritual energy frequency and a state of consciousness in seed form. Over time, the mantra process begins to override all of the other smaller vibrations, which eventually become absorbed by the mantra. After a length of time which varies from individual to individual, the great wave of the mantra stills all other vibrations. Ultimately, the mantra produces a state where the organism vibrates at the rate completely in tune with the energy and spiritual state represented by and contained within the mantra.
At this point, a change of state occurs in the organism. The organism becomes subtly different. Just as a laser is light which is coherent in a new way, the person who becomes one with the state produced by the mantra is also coherent in a way which did not exist prior to the conscious undertaking of repetition of the mantra.
Definition #3: Mantras are tools of power and tools for power.
They are formidable. They are ancient. They work. The word "mantra" is derived from two Sanskrit words. The first is "manas" or "mind," which provides the "man" syllable. The second syllable is drawn from the Sanskrit word "trai" meaning to "protect" or to "free from." Therefore, the word mantra in its most literal sense means "to free from the mind." Mantra is, at its core, a tool used by the mind which eventually frees one from the vagaries of the mind.
But the journey from mantra to freedom is a wondrous one. The mind expands, deepens and widens and eventually dips into the essence of cosmic existence. On its journey, the mind comes to understand much about the essence of the vibration of things. And knowledge, as we all know, is power. In the case of mantra, this power is tangible and wieldable.
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