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Bali Yoga Retreats
Rejuvenation on A Bali wellness retreat Awaits You
It's not just a yoga retreat paradise; it's paradise, period. Bali is an island of natural, cultural, and spiritual wonders. And what better way for you to experience its mystical magic than on an unforgettable Bali yoga retreat adventure.
Our Bali rejuvenation retreats allow you to fully immerse yourself in the culture and beauty of this amazing place – all while deepening your yoga practice. You'll tour Bali by bike, by surf, through yoga and on foot as you journey and experience every facet of this unique paradise.
Go beyond basic yoga retreats in Bali as you dine with locals, visit out of the way temples and bike backroads and beautiful green terraces. You'll journey from verdant hillsides to the beautiful blue ocean, catching all the beautiful temples in between.
Your luxury Bali yoga retreat will wrap you in all things cultural, beautiful, rejuvenating, and fun. Welcome to beauty. Welcome to enrichment. Welcome to Bali.
Yoga Retreat Adventure Duration: 8 Days / 7 Nights • Starting at $2995 per person
What's included
- Yoga most days (as listed in the itinerary)
- Luxury Balinese yoga retreat locations in Ubud and on the coast
- Guided Bali bike tour
- Immersion in the cultural daily offering ritual & lunch with a local family
- Guided exploration of Bali's historic & ancient temples and shrines
- Special visit to Tanah Lot Temple
- Two days of surfing lessons and hang ten time
- All meals both on property and while on excursion
- Transfers to and from Denpasar airport (on arrival and departure days)
- Free wi-fi
- Yoga mats and props
What's not included
- International airfare to Denpasar (DPS)
- Entrance visa
- Travel insurance (recommended)
- Optional excursions
- Souvenirs and items of a personal nature
Our Bali yoga vacation will encompass two very different areas of the island but we'll be staying in luxury all the way. Our Ubud accommodations are setback in multiple acres of beautiful green hillsides and each villa has stunning views from their private veranda. Our beach location in north Kuta keeps the chilled-out luxury going with spacious rooms and a private pool for each room.
Our Bali yoga retreat is a full itinerary designed to give you the immersive experience of living for a week on this beautiful island. You'll dine with local families, bike the backroads and soak up all the natural and cultural wonders Bali offers along the way.
You will receive a detailed itinerary specific to your departure, but below is an outline of what you can expect. Please remember that we may need to swap things out due to Mother Nature or to accommodate a new option so yogi flexibility is appreciated.
Day One
- Welcome to Bali!
- After passing through customs please look for your driver and off you go to our yoga retreat home in Ubud
- An evening de-plane yoga class will introduce you to your fellow yogi travelers
- Enjoy a welcome group dinner
Day Two
- Early morning yoga
- We'll drive to Kintamani for breakfast and ooh and ahh at the views of Mt. Batur in the distance
- After breakfast we'll hop on our mountain bikes and peddle downhill through local villages and beautiful scenery
- Along the way we'll stop in with a family for lunch and jump into the flow of their day
- After lunch we will head to a Balinese plantation to see how locals live outside of the tourist centers
- Dig into the cultural and medicinal purposes of local plants, the coffee growing process and the spices and fruits in Balinese cooking
- Sample the fruits, herbal teas and the unusually produced and highly sought after Coffee Luwak
- Heading back in the late afternoon for our evening yoga class
- Enjoy a relaxed dinner and beautiful nighttime lights
Day Three
- Early morning yoga
- Today is a journey back in time visiting some of Bali's most sacred temples and shrines. We will explore:
- Goa Gajah (the Elephant Cave), Yeh Pulu, Tempak Siring, Gunung Kawi and the holy spring-water temple of Tirta Empul
- Lunch will be out in town today
- Evening yoga tonight will help you absorb the days sightseeing and exploration
- Group dinner and evening free time to swim, chill and relax
Day Four
- A little sleep in with morning vinyasa to get you going and breakfast
- This morning you can enjoy some relax time at our stunning resort, enjoy a hike on property, book a massage, relax in the pool (you get the idea)
- This afternoon we'll dip into Balinese Hindu culture as you learn how to make a Balinese offering called a Canang
- Once created, each Canang can be offered at the temple
- Evening yoga
- Group dinner
Day Five
- Early morning yoga
- After breakfast we'll pack up and say goodbye to Ubud
- Journeying by bus out to the coast we will stop at Tanah Lot Temple, one of Bali's most spectacular sites and among the most photographed temples in the world
- Arriving at the coast you'll have time to unwind and swim in your private pool or explore
- Early evening yoga – tonight to the smell of salty ocean air
- Group dinner on property
Day Six
- Morning yoga and breakfast
- Today it's time to hit the beach and hit the waves on a Bali surf day!
- We've got your cowabunga ready – surfing lessons are included for all beginners and, for you surf pros, hop on a board and take in the best of Bali surf
- Your surf lesson will teach you positioning, paddling, an understanding of the surf and how to catch a wave on shore before you all head out
- Heading back in the late afternoon for our evening yoga class
- Enjoy a relaxed dinner and beautiful nighttime lights
Day Seven
- Morning yoga to put you in the mood for another beach day
- After breakfast you can head back out to the beach for another Bali surf lesson (we'll really get you surfing!) or you can decide to stroll the beach, swim and relax today
- If you've had enough beach time you can stroll the seaside village or do more poolside relaxing on property
- Tonight is our last yoga session and we'll finish up the week with a lovely class and closing circle
- Our final group dinner and adventure wrap up
Day Eight
- Morning vittles prior to departure
- Your morning will be at your leisure, depending on your flight time
- Transfer back to Denpasar airport for your flight home or onwards
- Selamat Jalan!
There are no proper words to describe my Bali adventure. I keep using the word amazing, but it just doesn't seem appropriate. I was able to fully immerse myself with the culture, and explore the island with ease. I feel truly blessed to have experienced this adventure, especially with Melissa. I can't wait to book my next Travel Yogi adventure!!
Surfing was the best activity I have done in a long time! Very thoughtfully planned out. The ease of communication was very appreciated and helpful. Can't wait for my next trip with Melissa and The Travel Yogi!
Great first experience with The Travel Yogi … This trip was exactly what I needed!
The retreat was amazing. Thank you to you and your team for selecting such a beautiful location in Bali for yoga, rest and relaxation, and exploration.
Thanks again for your work!


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Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, Da Brat, Carl Thomas, Mos Def, Lucy Pearl, and Master P will be among the hip-hop luminaries turning up in San Francisco next month for this year's version of the annual KMEL All-Star Summer Jam.
Jermaine Dupri, 504 Boyz, Kurupt, Next, Torrey Carter, and Ideal are also slated for the annual radio station-sponsored show, which this year is set for August 12 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Tickets for the show are going for $35 and $58.50 with proceeds benefiting Peace On The Streets, an organization dedicated to preserving peace in the San Francisco area.
The KMEL show is now in its 14th year and has drawn acts like Sisqo, Destiny's Child, Puff Daddy, Busta Rhymes, Faith Evans, Tyrese, Monica, Kelly Price, Q-Tip, and Ginuwine in past years.

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Las Vegas shooting survivors host Chandler benefit concert for victims
Chandler residents are joining together to support victims of the Las Vegas shooting by hosting a benefit concert from noon-7 p.m. Saturday at Tom Ryan's country bar at 70 W. Warner Road, Chandler.
Hayley Boult and her boyfriend Joel Maze were with friends attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, where 58 people were killed andnearly 500 were injured in a mass shooting Sunday night.
"Our whole drive home on Monday, I wished we could do something to help the victims and families," Boult said. "You don't expect something like that when you're going to a country music concert. You don't expect you're not going to come home."
'Something to help'
After arriving home, Maze partnered with Eddie Smith, who runs Chandler Country, a Facebook group that promotes local country music, to organize a benefit for the victims.
"It's almost surreal knowing that at any moment myself or a band or just a crowd of fans could be at a show and something like this could happen," Smith said. "The best moment was getting messages back from everyone saying that were OK."
Saturday's event will feature local country music acts, food trucks, raffles and a silent auction to raise money for the Las Vegas Victim's Fund.
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Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak set up a GoFundMe campaign for the fund and nearly 75,000 people had donated $9.2 million by Thursday morning.
The local benefit will feature two indoor stages as well as acoustic performances on the patio. The bar has a capacity of 200, not including the patio, and is expecting to see patrons coming in and out all day, said Julie Bohner, assistant manager at Tom Ryan's.
"We'll definitely accommodate whoever comes and hopefully raise a lot of money for the victims," Bohner said. "We're not just a country bar, we're part of a community."
Maze, who is a local country musician, will perform at the event with his group, Southern Country.
'No safe feeling'
Boult had purchased tickets to the Route 91 festival as an early birthday present to Maze.
Maze recalls Boult standing on a wooden barrel to get a better view of the show. Later, as bullets rained down on them, Maze threw himself on top of his girlfriend, pulling the barrel over him as a shield.
"I know that a couple men who died were shielding their wives or girlfriends," Boult said. "That stands out to me because my boyfriend did the exact same thing."
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Maze remembers countless people carrying the wounded and piling them into vehicles to take them to safety.
"I think that speaks for something in the country community," Maze said. "We're blue-collar people but we try to help."
In the aftermath of the shooting, the couple moved from casino to casino, sheltering down for hours with other concertgoers.
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"For about a three-hour stretch there was not much room to breathe," Maze said. "There was no safe feeling of 'We're out of there.' Nobody knew what was going on."
While the couple is understandably anxious about returning to Las Vegas any time soon, they are committed to doing whatever they can in their local community to help victims of the tragedy.
Banding together
The couple has partnered with Facebook group Living Chandler, which has over 46,000 members, and Pride Group, a special event management company, to raise awareness about the benefit.
The event will include a blood donation center for residents to donate.
They are still looking for vendors and businesses to supply items for the silent auction, according to Tia Coates, a moderator for Living Chandler.
"We want to send as much relief as possible to the victims," she said.
Boult asks that those unable to attend the event donate directly through Sisolak's GoFundMe campaign.
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Hello everyone I hope that everybody is doing well. I am writing this post to request my character to be on a LOA (leave of abstense). I promise that I will make up something in the story that will make sense for the sudden disaperance, however, the real reason is that for the last 4 months, I have had countless interviews for Attorney's Firms and have been doing a lot of legal writing. I though that I would be able to balance everything including time for this RP, however given the fact that I have not able to get even to the site, I would like to request a LOA. I apologize for the inconvinience that this might create to certain people. Hoefully I will become active in a couple of more months. If you need to contact me, I will pay attention to e-mail and will respond accordingly. Thank you for your consideration.
I though that every class is given some skills that correlates to their class, and the person can choose a personality skill Like Military Training - if you character was in the military he gets a bonus on certain things Educated Man - Wise Wealthy Once they pass lv. 1 they can custimize their skills, but the class system are just recomended. This way if you want to SEED, you can try and do it, but I will try and make it as Hard as I can and the rewards not good enought to not encorage it, and also with the mobile suits stats SEED has only a certain effect, the same with new type ability you can take those however you are sacrificing other feats. The idea is that you don't have to SEED or be a newtype in order to be good, you can be a regular pilot and be really good at piloting and not have special abilities. I mean if the admin wants I can write a formal proposal to them explaining in greater details and write more examples But this is an idea and is all subject to change, however I think the mobile suit should have stats (because they are mechanical) and their stats could be boosted by their character, hence experience pilot would be able to fly a Zaku almost at the same level as someone piloting a Gouff because he is more experience, but this should affect the way we RP minimally However character stats I don't like because it would minize the people that understand their stats and would severly limit their actions. Now that I think about it more certain skills might not avalable to the regular memebers and given to the Mod, (like Wing Commander, or cutimizeable mobile suits, Faction Flag) feats or skills that explains why they can be in charge or a squad. I don't know just bouncing around ideas...have to hear if the big cheese like this idea
Hi Y'all
Aures Convicio replied to kikyo109's topic in IntroductionsWelcome to Advent Destiny, I am sure that you will find the faction that you want to join soon. And I hope you have fun in the site....BTW just to let you know NOVA, Kingdom of Scandinavia will give you a FREE bed for your RP character to sleep in and not to mention that your character will also gets a uniform and our showers are better than the holiday inn express... , no one has offered you a bed in RP before that is how cool we are.
(Duel) Alex Victorioso vs. Train Heartnet
Aures Convicio replied to Aures Convicio's topic in The ColiseumOOC: I know you are probably mad at the asteroid belt idea, however it may be unlikely but a plan like that could work, F=MA, in my case I believe that is A= F/M so the accelation should equal the force divided by the mass which means every time an asteroid hits another the increase mass would reduce it speeds, since the force of the beam rifle is unknown I assumed that it was high, but it a lot of small asteroids where hit they would move all over the area for a couple of seconds then slow down again (which is actually was a plan to lure you there), but you did two attacks on me in one round. You have to let me the opportunity to dodge or accept damage for the first 4 beam shots and then you can fly in and shoot another two. I will integrate both attacks on this post but please dont attack me twice in the same round unless for specific reason. Also please don't write the location of my MS, you place me in the post outside the asteroid belt, this can be partly on my post because I was not specific whether I remain on the asteroid belt. However, this is the combat zone (asteroid belt), please assume that I am in the asteoid belt unless I write otherwise, don't place my suits on a place that I don't mention because I really din't want to leave the asteroid belt, don't worry about that either I will incorporate this also in my post. If you have a problem or question you can either OOC me or PM and I would be happy to sort it out also the ref can make a call which I would be happy to obey. Just in case I am not mad at you, this is partly my fault because I haven't fought a Gundam duel in 2 years. So I will try to be more presise. Another question is the Ref is supposed to evaluate what happens in every roundor we just continue until there is a dispute? I ask since I got hit he should get points for it. IC: As Alex left the pilot the area of the asteroid plan, he headed to open space. Putting his thrusters to 75% Alex headed out, it would take a couple of seconds for the mess to clear up, since the chain reaction was only as powerful as his beam and the angle of deflection for the beam. In a couple of seconds he heard a small beep on the side. Alex noticed that his opponent was firing at him. This guy wants to play. The first four shots cleared the way for Aegis to move quickly in his direction. Alex looks at the shots and managed to dodge three of them, but since they were fired in quick sequence he was not skillful enough to dodge all of them, one of the beam scrapped Strikes leg. Alex checked the damage report and apparently he lost control on everything that was below the knee of the Gundam. Oi Oi Oi, apparently I got hit, better take this guy more seriously let stop maneuvering around. Alex turned off his thrusters and used his left thrusters on full speed. He managed to turned around Strike and face his opponent. Alex tried to back off from his opponent. Before he could think of something to do, the Aegis Gundam fired two more shots in close range to Strike. Given the fact that Strike turned around the shield was able to absorb the first shot. However, the second shot hit Strike on the edge of Strikes weapons (right) shoulder. Alex hit the damage screened and noticed that the damage was to his coolant valve. If Alex moved Strike shoulder a lot it would eventually become inoperable. Alex noticed that after that attacks his opponent, stop heading towards him. Not thinking twice Alex turn his thrusters to maximum. Noticing that there was nothing but space behind him Alex quickly tried to outflank his opponent by heading to Aegis right. Alex was able to shot a beam shot towards Aegis direction, heading to the middle of the Asteroid belt.
[Destiny League S01] Zoids vs Psycho
Aures Convicio replied to Valiant's topic in The ColiseumOOC: Alex Victorioso, MBF-M1 M1 Astray.
Earth Alliance Uniforms
Aures Convicio replied to Darkness's topic in General DiscussionsI actually think is random assigment of whatever matches their color....this is my theory, however this is not 100% consistent with the series, this is what make sense for me. Theory number I Those pink and blue are for un elisted personel....which would explain why they got them when they were volunteers in the military and why the extended in the series get them too since they can't be *officially* part of the military. However this is not consisted with the secound half of the series when they all officially get ranks and get in the EA and they don't switch to white. I think the animators became more lazy and screwed consistensy. Also I base this that in Stargazer Sven (sp) had a blue uniform and phantom pain was not an "official" part of the EA. White- Regular Enlisted officers in the EA. The thing here that bug me was Ramius had red on he shoulder while everyone had black. The only explanation that I can think of is that Ramious is infantry rather than the navy of EA. So red shoulder pads means you are in the EA army, which is inconsistent when ZAFT shoots at tanks and EA sholdiers comes out with their hands up. Black - Secret Ops or "Special" Branch in the military Theory II - Just plug in the ZAFT uniforms....is just whatver the person in charge wants to give you really the uniforms dosen't mean anything the red coats thing would never happen in a military...I mean is a big sign saying I am an elite soldiers in ZAFT, sniper please kill the guy that is wearing RED....screw all the green ones. Theory III The Blue and Pink are for non comission officers. This means everyone that does not hold the rank of Ensign or above. However, when the Archanger takes off in episode 2 one of the person was a petty officer I believe (please correct me because I have not seen the show in 2 years) which goes against this theory. Also once they reach Earth Kira gets promoted to Lt. and he still wears the Blue...so this is inconsistent with this theory The White are reserved for actual officers, The Black (Neo) - is just he is soo cool that he deserves his own uniform....
Alex noticed that he made a remark about liking his shirt more. For the sake of peace he let him wear what he wanted. Alex looked at the young officer as he pointed his right hand to the door and mentioned "After you Sir Alex, you know this place inside out". Alex looks Mr. Langer in the eyes and noticed a smile. Alex though to himself is probably fake, but it doesn't matter he would not waste his time on petty issue like those. Alex lead the way to the elevator and showed his roommate where the most critical sections of the base are located. *** At the end of the tour Alex lead Mr. Langer to the shopping area of the base. "Mr. Langer, I believe that I have finished my duty here, however before I leave". Alex walked in to the store and came back with a full dress white shirt. The dress shirt was from the finest quality and it had a price tag of $200.00. "Whether you like it or not Mr. Langer you are an officer in the Kingdom of Scandinavia, I would not allow you to disgrace this institution. Furthermore, if we are going to be roommates I suggest you look more official…you never know when" Right as Alex was finishing his statement two teenage girls ran in to Alex yelling "Sir Alex….do you want to take a picture with me?". Alex turned around looked at the girls and said "Sure, excuse me for a second". Alex posed with the two young girls as they took pictures with him. One of the girls look at the other and said "This is so cool! We got to see Sir Alex here in the base, this is such a great day…just look at him he is soo mature and cool, who is this other guy…ohh he is probably his servant". Alex interrupted the girls "Excuse me ma'am, this is not a servant, he is my roommate Mr. Langer…he is a soldier in the Kingdom just like me, he fight to uphold the ideals of the Kingdom he is a brave soldier"…the girl looked at Mr. Langer and said "Ohh really it must be a privilege to be together with Sir Alex one of the few Knight of the Kingdom…I have his biography…" As the girl talked to Mr. Langer, Alex wrist communicator turn on. Alex saluted Mr. Langer and said "Please, Excuse me, Mr. Langer". Alex walked to the public communicator and said "Alex Victorioso ID 24340415" The computer mention "voice and If verification accepted". The commander on the screen pop up and said "Sir Alex Victorioso, I have a new assignment for you and Mr. Langer, I believe that you studied at Orb's Universities right?" Alex nodded and mentioned "Yes, Sir". The commander responded "You are to meet with the Orb forces when they reach the Kingdom of Scandinavia they are showing a new prototype of suit…you are to welcome them and review the suit". Alex looked at the commander though the screen and said "Commander, are you sure you need BOTH of us for this?, I mean I can take care of it myself, no need to drag someone else on this assignment"…Alex waited for the commander response.
Suggest an award
Aures Convicio replied to Valiant's topic in Feedback & SuggestionsI like the voting system You can also have factions awards given by the faction leader given to the character and intrgrate them to the storyline...like Medal of Courage - Given to a pilot when he risk their life and goes above and beyond Medal of Humanity (or some crap like that) - given to people that support humane causes I think you get the picture each faction should have x awards and give them to their faction memebers for actions that they have done during the battle. This way it encourages people to stay to earn medals and promotion in their faction.
I like Kaizer ideas, but there has to be several explanations, for example in battery power how would the battery work, I mean you have x rounds with your battery and then for every X shots you loose one round of battery? With characters I am not a big fan of the D&D character stats idea. The difference here than in D&D is that in D&D you have to roll for everything (they are exeptions, but that is pretty much the general rule). The problem with this system is that it would limit the character's development from a writing standpoint. For example if a skimmed in intelligence and I came up with this plan to place beam rifles on the top of a montain, then attach a small remote on the enemy MS and lure them to the range of the beam rifles (which can be done with today's thecnology, I imagine in the Gundam Universe is pretty simple)....can my character think of that plan? How do you know if I am smart enought to think something like that. The problem with stats is that sometimes people can't play with a different level of knowledge than the character in game. Also a stats system with out rolling puts some people in a severe disadvantage, they might be dummer in character, and not quick enough plus you have to add the fact that the suit is not as good too. I understand that you want to implement a system where people can potential SEED, and use Dragoon, but stats systems are better left for actual dice rollling where the stats is not the only determining factor. If something like this would happen, I would like more a feat systems. As you level up you gain more feats, wihch could translate to character development better. (ex. feat one - Newtype 1 powers- means whatever something very weak) when I level up X numbers of levels I have the option of taking Newtype 2 or Officer Training (means you can control your squad of NPC in actual battle) or Tactics ....that way mechanics can take the mechanics feats suchs as MS repair, Ship Repair and ultimately be a good enough mechanic that they can boost the stats of MS and ships... For either system to work you need to create clases to guide people if your character is a mechanic these are the mechanics ability scores or feats that we recomend or it brings automatically. Means if you choose Capital Ship Officer Class you start with Officer Trainig, and is recomended that you take Tactics....or in a ability score system have high charisma and intelligence and wisom so peopel are more likely to follow orders. While a Pilot might start with MA Piloting, proficient in light weapons or have high dex and int, Mechanics would start with MS/MA Repair and Ship Repair. Now the beuty of the feat system is that people might actually have the chance to pick feats from other clases...let's say you want to be independent from mechinics you might grab you own feat to repair MS/MA so you can fix basic problems, however you scafice from taking another feat that might potentially make you a better pilot. The feats systems puts a limit on skills that you might know, to avoid a person that might be a mechanic, pilot, politian, officer which you can do...but you won't be any good in any one of them. Another problem that I see with the ability scores are the natural vs. coordinators...to be realistic coordinators should get more ability scores in almost every category than a natural. Unless you are a extended and then you can pilot better. How to balance races and make them realistical to the series might be a problem with ability scores, since there is no rolling involved As for ships and how they work, I would say they work like MS their basic stats determines evrtything, but if people in the ship have feats or bonuses to improve the ship. Their stats increase...for example let's take Minerva Red against Minverva White....They both theoretically should move the same rate and have the same firepower, but in Minerva rate you have a mechanic with the feat of Work under presure (I am making this up in the fly) which means for this exercise means that under attack of in a battle he increase the durability of the ship by 2, while the White side has a captain that has manuvering tactics which means that the captain know more manuvers than the standard captain so they add 2 in their dodge bonus, but if their mechanics have the work under pressure feat then the white also gets a plus 2 in durability. However feats means nothing if not use properly in battle. The stats are there to avoid random ship from EA outrunning a Minerva class vessel from Zaft...I mean it can't happen. This could work for MS, I mean Ginn should not beat Strike Freedom in thrusters, but it can use other weapons such as terrain to their advatage and make the battle closer. Like I mention like 5 times in this post the problem with stats is that it inhibits the character from doing stuff, like bluff their way out, or outthink a smarter oponent. Let' me know if you guys like this system and I hope this post makes sense, However I would be more than happy to make the basic system and the Mod and add and subtract feats, the classes that I would recoment Pilot (self explanatory) Mechanic (self explanatory) Ground Soldier (Infantry men) Special Forces (a hybrid of infantry men and pilot) Medical (Doctor, good for a ship and heal characters injuries) Singer or artist (hey!!! celebrities exist in the Gundam World, now that lacus is gone E can claim back all the gossip) Politian (Plot device characters, also good to formulate grand stategies) Ship Officer (Captain of Ship) Paladin (just kidding) Feel free to tell me of classes and possible hybrids...please not hybrids are not supposed to be more powerful than a straigh up class)
(Duel) Alex Victorioso vs. Train Heartnet
Aures Convicio replied to Aures Convicio's topic in The ColiseumRight after his response Alex waited a couple of seconds reading his sensors. The sensors didn't detect anything. "Strange, he is not moving?" Alex started thinking of all the situation, tuning on the camera and circulating all the angles Alex memorized the location and probable trajectory of the asteroid in the nearby. Strangely one of the asteroids changes their orbit slightly. The advantage of fighting in a asteroid belt is that if you look carefully if something moves out of sequence then something or someone moved it. As the radar didn't register, the probability the opponent is going to outflank him. "Let' see how good this kid is". As Alex was muttering those words to himself, he heard a broadcast coming right behind him saying "You know very well that i will not surrender... and if you want to live, i would suggest turning around.". Alex smiled the kid was honorable to say the least, a fight between two gentleman seems to be the fight that Alex likes. Alex responded "Congratulations!! You successfully outflanked me, but you should be more aware of your surroundings, the defense always have the advantage of ground position…and here is the charge for this lesson of strategy…and also a lesson of basic trigonometry". Alex aimed his beam rifle to the side of the asteroid. And shot the asteroid. By his calculation the asteroid started a chain of rocks breaking and hitting each other. Turning the thrusters to maximum Alex dodged the one rock that he had to in order leave while leaving a mess of collisions of asteroids to his opponent. "Even though he has phases shift armor every rock that hits his mobile suit drains his power…let see how good of a pilot he is"
OOC: Sorry two bussness trips in one weekend...don't ask me how I do it where do you want the KoS to post when you come officially come to KoS.
Should we be doing anything in KoS?
Alex sat on the engineering section of the base trying to improve his calibration with the interface with the OP system. Although for Alex this was not crucial, for the military it was very important. For the last three days Alex has been improving his interface, but all that he was able to achieve was 1% improvement. Somehow, the OP system is not very compatible with Alex, but he was still capable in fighting with a suit the only problem is that his reaction time is slower than the average pilot. At noon, Alex was interrupted in his work. All of the sudden his computer screen flashed incoming call. Sir Alex turned on the call. The image of the commander of the base flashed in front of Alex screen. Alex stopped all the typing and proceeded to salute the commander saying, "Sir Alex Victorioso, reporting to your call as requested". The commander proceeded to salute the young officer "Sir Alex Victorioso, I have received a request to fix your water heater correct?". Alex nodded and said "That is correct sir!". The Commander smiled and said "Due to peacetime cuts we won't be able to fix the water heater, instead I am assigning you to new quarters" Alex nodded as he understood the predicament "You are assigned now to room 102, with a roommate Rob Langer, he just arrived to the base you are ordered to show him around the base". As soon as Alex heard the situation he yelled "WHAT?!?!, Commander there must be a mistake…I mean a roommate!!!!" The Commander looked at Alex in the monitor and said "Nope no mistake, this is an order". Alex: You can't be serious!!!!! Show him around too!!!! Are you sure I can stay in my old room" Commander: No is against regulation, besides you haven't been able to socialize anybody…for a political figure you need to socialize more. And Alex once more this is not a request this is an order, understood?" Alex: Yes sir. As the conversation finished, Alex slammed his face to the monitor. "AHHHH, why does this have to happen to me…what happens if the person is a cheerful…worse yet maybe he is dump…I should join ZAFT coordinators are at least smart enough to leave me alone….cheesh…the price of loyalty". Alex a little bit mad walked to room 102. Using his new key he opened the door. He noticed someone lying on the bed. Using his professional tone of voice Alex mentioned "Mr. Langer I presume…my name is Sir Alex Victorioso….please address me as Sir, since it is my title. I am sure this is going to be a good "bonding" experience…however, I actually don't care as long as you don't say anything stupid we should get along fine. I am also instructed to show you around the base, however there were no order to be your buddy….as long as you keep to your things and don't intervene on my things we should get along" Alex looked at his new roommate he was hearing a standard uniform however; he noticed that he had a cheap undershirt. "I assume that you need shopping for new clothes because that shirt is hideous, better cover it with the uniform".
(Duel) Alex Victorioso vs. Train Heartnet
Aures Convicio replied to Aures Convicio's topic in The ColiseumAlex was never an experienced combatant; however, he one thing was apparent to him. Time appeared to be in a standstill. For Alex it seemed that time was almost in a standstill. What it seemed to be an half hour was actually ten minutes. Ten minutes that Alex stood behind an Asteroid, he saw a small bleep in the system. It seemed to him that his opponent entered the opposite side of the asteroid. Because of all of the debris and movement in the area it was hard to calculate his trajectory. Grabbing the controls of the Strike Gundam, Alex began to think moves ahead. "Let's see on the opposite sides, if I go full speed he would be able to easily tell where I was, hence losing my stealth advantage and opening myself for a surprise attack." Not thinking that he wanted to defeat himself, Alex though to do something more interesting. Opening the international aid broadcast channel Alex did a bold move. "This is Alex Victorioso of the Kingdom of Scandinavia transmitting to unknown pilot for enemy mobile suit. If you surrender now, I am more than willing to give you proper treatment. This is your final warning". As Alex closed the signal, he understood the possibility of the enemy pilot surrendering are slim. But that was not the point, the point was to let him know where he was. As soon Alex finished the broadcast, he used his air thruster, to do a low energy maneuver behind another asteroid in the opposite direction of his persecution of his opponent. "Let's see what he does, run to target, shoot at target, try a surprise maneuver or do nothing, this should be interesting what the enemy pilot does….good way to judge his character". Alex thought to himself.
Yeah, I might do that. To bad about the peace treaty....however according to Gundam SEED rules 1. No one in Strike dies...is the safest Gundam in the word 2. If you have someone with pink hair in charge, you are allowed to break treaties and put whatever you want in your military....now who has pink hair to put in in charge of NOVA....


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|Messiah Lutheran Church
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Whether you happen to be a Cubs or White Sox fan, depending on your age, you probably have memories of Harry Carey enthusiastically singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the 7th inning stretch. And if the visitors were ahead in the game, Harry would typically make a plea to the home team's offense: "Let's get some runs!" during them to go on a rally and win the game!
The summer months are typically times where church members take a "stretch" from the usual routines of life, in keeping with Jesus' words to his disciples "to come away and rest for awhile" (see Mark 6:31). Consequently, September is viewed as the "Rallying" month in the life of the church, where members are reminded to get back to the task at hand.
Assured that the gates of hell will not prevail against use (see Matthew 16:18), we rally together for the sake of the Kingdom of God. Nourished by God's Word and Sacraments, we use our time, treasures, and talents to overcome any obstacles that are hindering God's work from being done at Messiah.
Just as players will do all that is possible to rally their team on to victory, so we prayerfully consider how we might contribute to the God's mission at Messiah. We are not motivated by an out-of-tune singing broadcaster wearing thick, dark-framed glasses, but by the love of our Savior, who suffered and died on a cross in order that we might be on the winning team over sin, death, and the devil. As Romans 8:37 promises, "We are more than conquerors through Christ who loved us"!
And when we happen to see signs of victory in the life of Messiah, we keep in mind that our achievements are not due to a "Holy Cow" but are accomplished by the Holy Spirit. "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty" (Zechariah 4:6).
Now, "Let's get some runs!!!!" Let's rally together as God's people using our time, treasures, and talents for a crown of glory that will last forever! (see 1 Corinthians 9:25).
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Dabur Project
VVISM, Hyderabad
Sub-"The Availability and visibility analysis of Shampoo market in Bhubaneswar with special reference to Dabur Vatika Shampoo."
Table of Contents
* Acknowledgement
* Executive Summary
* Introduction
- FMCG Industry
* Hair care Shampoo Industry In India
* Company Profile of Dabur
* Objectives of Study
* Scope and Limitations
* Research Methodology
* Data Analysis and Interpretation
* Findings
* Suggestions
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Annexure-Questionnaire
FMCG refers to consumer non-durable goods required for daily or frequent use. Typically, a consumer buys these goods at least once a month. FMCG industry, alternatively called as CPG (Consumer packaged goods) industry primarily deals with the production, distribution and marketing of consumer packaged goods. The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) is those consumables which are normally consumed by the consumers at a regular interval. Some of the prime activities of FMCG industry are selling, marketing, financing, purchasing, etc. The industry also engaged in operations, supply chain, production and general management.
Typical Characteristics of FMCG products
* Individual products are of small value. But, all FMCG products put together account for a significant part of the consumer's budget. * The consumer keeps limited inventory of these products and prefers to purchase them frequently, as and when required. * Many of these products are perishable.
* The consumer spends little time on the purchase decision. Rarely do he / she look for technical specifications (in contrast to industrial goods). * Brand loyalties or recommendations of reliable retailer / dealer drive purchase decision. * Trial of a new product i.e. brand switching is often induced by heavy advertisement, recommendations of the retailer or neighbors / friends. * These products cater to necessities, comforts as well as luxuries. * They meet the demands of the entire cross section of population. * Price and income elasticity of demand varies across products and consumers. The Indian FMCG sector is the fourth largest sector in the economy with a total market size in excess of US$ 13.1 billion. It has a strong MNC presence and is characterized by a well established distribution network, intense competition between the organized and unorganized segments and low operational cost. Availability of key raw materials, cheaper labor costs and presence across the entire value chain gives India a competitive advantage. The FMCG market is set to treble from US$ 11.6 billion in 2003 to US$ 33.4 billion in 2015. Penetration level as well as per capita consumption in most product categories like jams, toothpaste, skin care, hair wash etc in India is low indicating the untapped market potential. Burgeoning Indian population, particularly the middle class and the rural segments, presents an opportunity to makers of branded products to convert consumers to branded products. Growth is also likely to come from consumer 'upgrading' in the matured product categories.
FMCG Sector is expected to grow by over 60% by 2010. That will translate into an annual growth of 10% over a 5-year period. It has been estimated that FMCG sector will rise from around Rs 56,500 crores in 2005 to Rs 92,100 crores in 2010. Hair care, household care, male grooming, female hygiene, and the chocolates and confectionery categories are estimated to be the fastest growing segments, says an HSBC report. Though the sector witnessed a slower growth in 2002-2004, it has been able to make a fine recovery since then.
FMCG Category and products
Household Care:
* Fabric wash (laundry soaps and synthetic detergents)
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"The story goes that a Joker God became bored and killed seven random people, only to bring them back immediately before any could be the wiser- but with a twist. The world they are brought back into is a mere copy of their old world created with the sole intention of being a playing field. The only way back to their old life, to be genuinely alive again with the true people they care about, is to win a god's game."
This is the story presented in the WIP Horror/Drama visual novel, Seven Players. Featuring minigames involving playing an actual card game as well, the game is driven by text and interactions from the player. You get a route per character, with different results based on interactions, and learn about the cast as they pitch against each other to achieve the goal of "Life." There's seven players, and an eighth character who seems responsibly for it all...The Joker God, perhaps?
Game's Current Screenshots
There will be detailed information regarding the game's progress at the "Other" section of this post. However, for now, The Game's Progress is:
CGs: 11% complete
Soundtrack/Music: 40% complete
Length: N/A, but rather long
Rating: Rate Pending - contains graphic gore, blood, and language
Platforms: PC and Mac
Sprites: 0% (Placeholders 100%)
Backgrounds: 11%
The characters are listed below, with a tidbit of information about each. Please note the images are mostly placeholders - errors are to be updated in the final version. EDIT 2/14/18: I'm working on updating the placeholders now! Still placeholders, but you know.
Obi Tazu
Player 1 of the game - a college student, the creator of the game "Seven Players."
Ueto Mitsunari
Player 2 of the game - a freelance painter, of French and Japanese descent.
Deguchi Taki
Player 3 of the game - owner of a family restaurant, works out regularly
Hakino Uchi
Player 4 of the game - shepherd on the outskirts of the city. Shares her mother's name, "Uchino", but is called Uchi.
Hakino Uchino
Player 5 of the game - Policewoman, and Uchi's mother.
Adachi Kei
Player 6 of the game - Employee at Merc's antique shop, and brother of Obi's roommate. Loves anime.
Player 7 of the game - owner of the antique shop Kei works at - a poet, and a boss with a cruel streak.
Mysterious "referee" of the game - full identity unknown
My name is Pandrena, and my tumblr can be found at http://pandrena.tumblr.com Meanwhile, the devblog for this game can be found at http://sevenplayers.tumblr.com This game was originally for RPG Maker, but has long since moved to Ren'Py. I look to share the game's current progress in this thread - maybe let people see and be interested. I've been on this forum before, but never for long, as my projects never properly got off the ground! Now, however, this project has been in works about a year and a half, with the "and a half" being in Ren'Py.
It's uncertain whether I'll make the game commercial - it's too early to see, I believe, though I put as much effort into it as I can regardless of my decision. Despite how long I've worked on it, however, there's little to see, but lots to plan and create. I do have enough to provide a demo soon, though, and I've had some people playtest recently. There may be voice acting, but it is not to be implemented until further into production. The game is horror, and features gore. The story itself also revolves around death, so you know...A warning for that as well.
I'm not sure what to present for starting a conversation, as I'm familiar with making visual novels - not so much advertising/sharing their progress. However! Thoughts on what you see, suggestions for what I can add to the game or this post, those are all very welcome to hear. Thank you for reading!


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Big Plans, Obstacles for Mozilla Thunderbird
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- With more than 170 million users, Mozilla's Firefox Web browser is one of the most successful open source projects ever. It's a success that Mozilla is trying to replicate with its Thunderbird e-mail project -- although it has its work cut out for it, as its supporters readily admit.
In a session here at the OSCON conference, David Asher, CEO of Mozilla's messaging subsidiary, detailed the enhancements attendees can expect to see in Thunderbird 3, which is slated for an alpha release in coming days, followed by a beta due in September.
But Asher was also painfully candid about the deficiencies that Thunderbird 3 will still have, and solicited developers for assistance to help Mozilla grow market share.
"We're trying to get the biggest growth of active users over the long term," he said. "It's not about press mentions or short-term spikes -- this is a marathon and not a sprint."
Firefox and Thunderbird both originated in the 2003 breakup of the original Mozilla Suite, which contained both e-mail and browser functionality.
Since then, Thunderbird has achieved only a fraction of Firefox's uptake, however. Asher estimated that the e-mail application's user base could number as high as 10 million, although he said he doesn't have a precise figure.
To help Thunderbird's chances, Mozilla in February formed its Mozilla Messaging subsidiary. Behind its creation had been the concern that Mozilla, preoccupied with Firefox, has not devoted enough focus to Thunderbird.
Now, with a separate company concentrating purely on messaging, Asher and Mozilla are hoping that Thunderbird one day might enjoy the same sort of success as Firefox.
One of the keys to Thunderbird's growth is to learn from Firefox, Asher said. In large part, that means adopting a similar approach to thinking deeply and continually about the user experience.
As a result, a key improvement in the upcoming Thunderbird 3 release will be user-facing enhancements.
The Thunderbird project is also undergoing a shift in how it's being developed, according to Dan Mosedale, chief architect for Thunderbird 3, who joined Asher on stage.
Historically, Thunderbird has been built on a large, monolithic codebase that was often difficult to deal with, he said. With Thunderbird 3, the project is now being split up into many sub-modules, which makes the project more modular and perhaps more likely to encourage wider participation in specific areas of functionality.
Mosedale also explained that Thunderbird 3 places a greater emphasis on JavaScript than before, with a new API intended to make it easier for developers to extend the client's functionality.
Calendar integration -- a key feature found in Microsoft's popular Outlook client that Thunderbird has lacked -- is another large item that Thunderbird developer are working on, he added.
Obstacles ahead
While Thunderbird 3 will include a number of such improvements, Asher noted that there are still areas lacking. Among them is RSS integration, a feature that still needs a lot of work, he said.
He admitted that Thunderbird's existing development team so far just hasn't had the time to devote attention to it.
Another area that Asher sees in need of help is instant messaging integration, which would add users' status and availability information into Thunderbird.
"We don't have any expertise on hand for that," he said.
But some of the project's major needs aren't software features at all.
For one thing, Thunderbird lacks a concerted community marketing effort that could help drive adoption and participation.
"We need something like SpreadFirefox," Asher said, referring to the community-driven marketing site for Mozilla that kicked off in 2004. Since then, SpreadFirefox has spearheaded events like the recent Firefox 3 download world record.
Asher also has an operational issue for Thunderbird that he's going to have to solve. While Mozilla itself has little difficult making money through Firefox, the same can't be said yet for Thunderbird.
Mozilla Messaging was originally funded by a $3 million investment from Mozilla. Beyond that Thunderbird doesn't have a source of revenue, he conceded.
"We also need an idea of how to make money so I can pay people," Asher said.


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So I first saw this YouTube spot in a post on How Advertising Spoiled Me. Apparently e-mailed to Arvind by BPN, Inc in Portland, it's spreading by interesting means (I'm writing about it, and you're reading about it… which in and of itself is interesting). Take a look at the comment banter at the YouTube page for some more interesting thoughts on the matter.
Personally, I find it kind of amusing. While admittedly a bit South Park-ish in animation style, there's something kind of funny about Gert Boyle as an animated character. and about penguin's humping. Do penguins even do that? I'm not sure, and I'm not sure I really want to know. Also interesting is that the video is posted under the profile of "ChairmanGert" adding another interesting PR level into the video. Regardless, it's some interesting stuff, especially for Columbia Sportswear. I'm curious to see how it ultimately pans out for everyone.
The ultimate question remains: Where does one purchase a spray bottle of penguin pheromone?


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There's just too much to do today.
I know that, wherever you are right now, you're probably disagreeing with me. After all, you're thinking, it's Spring Break, and that means that you're slacking your ass off like all of the other buffoons who don't own massive LEGO cities like I do. You're all wrong. There's so much to do, what with building factories that don't manufacture anything, houses that don't house anybody, and City Halls that don't govern anything, that I've been having trouble doing the modicum of homework my teachers gave to me so I wouldn't forget about any of them, ever, throughout my entire Spring Break. In fact, I just got started on it yesterday. Those who say that procrastination is bad have obviously not seen my Cave House.
Oh, yes. Cave houses are all the rage, especially in Afghanistan, and I felt that my Architecture class was desperately in need of one of these "houses of the cave", so to speak. Not that it's made of cave or anything, it's just built in the mouth of Carlsbad Caverns:
Basically, Carlsbad Caverns, a.k.a. "The
Vagina Anus of New Mexico", is cold and uninhabitable, which is similar to Hillary Clinton. Also like Hillary Clinton, Carlsbad Caverns is beloved by women. Unlike Hillary Clinton, however, men also like Carlsbad Caverns, not because it is sexually attractive, but because it is like a challenge, in which one false step could lead to your slipping off of the guardrailed path and being impaled on a stalagmite. Especially if you're a midget.
Anyway, I designed my building either to be built at the mouth of the cave or inside the cave. I'm still debating which, because it would change the story. I can either make it so that a young boy decides to enter into the cave and winds up getting lost because of the "impenetrable darkness of the ca
vaginaanus, which will surely kill all those who attempt to penetrate." In this case, the young boy would find the cave not unlike Michael Jackson: terrifying, similar to a forty-year-old woman in both looks and smell, and creepily quiet. When morning would come, light would come into the cave, and, like Michael Jackson's latest plastic surgery, would make everything lighter and even creepier, because then he could see all the stalactites and stalagmites and it would appear that everything was about to fall right off of Jackson's face.
This scenario sounds really cool in practice. It's certainly cooler than my other idea, which is to inhabitate the cave with bat-people who can fly and eat mosquitos. In this scenario, nuclear war has killed or mutated the human race, and those left behind must live in caves to thwart the evil atomic fuminess. My building would be their home and worship place. They would worship the sun, which they would call "Swastika", in respect of the Jews.
I am still waiting for my Friend-Who-Is-A-Girl to call me, because she is apparently sick and can't talk or else she just hates me. In the meantime, I'd like to show you to our next place of the lulz:
No, seriously, it's more furry shit:
Recently, Luigiian Aerospace Command detected an increase in the level of furry hatred in several sectors, specifically, StumbleUpon [here], FurAffinity [here], and the website of noted incestual conservative Jay Naylor's Better Days [here]. (Use StumbleUpon's "Reviews of this Page" feature to see fur hate.) Furry hatred levels at David Hopkins' Jack [here] remain high for March 2008. LAC detected an increase in the level of scientology hatred here and here, but declined to begin retaliatory measures because, frankly, scientology scares the shit out of Luigiian Aerospace Command.
Let it be known from here on out that this site neither applauds nor condemns the actions of those who either hate or love the fur. However, this site does like the lulz, and there is nothing funnier than indulging in an Internet flame war with retards. There are lots of places you can go to start massive trolling wars throughout the Internet for great justice. They are as follows:
- Encyclopedia Dramatica (the place for Internet drama): http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com
- Fur Affinity (the place for furries): http://www.furaffinity.net
- Something Awful (the place for aspie furry haters): http://www.somethingawful.com
I can see the light and the heat, and I definitely want to touch the light I see in your eyes, but not like Michael Jackson. So troll the fuck out of everybody on these sites, but only if you're old enough to know what I'm talking about, and only if you're serious about this. Otherwise, you'll just look like a dumb pussy, and The Luigiian disowns all those who try to follow the lulzy way and fail. I will not take the fall for your screwups.
In the meantime, you know what to do. The resolution to a thousand endless searches, the doorway to a thousand churches, is in your eyes. Peter Gabriel sends you on this quest.
May the lulz be with you. And watch out for Michael Jackson.


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Eight Bells: Michael Deland
Published on January 11th, 2019
Michael R. Deland, a hard-charging EPA official who spearheaded the effort to clean up Boston Harbor in the 1980s, died Jan. 8 due to complications from pneumonia at a hospital in Wareham, Mass. He was 77.
A lawyer and ardent champion of the environment, Deland later became a nationally recognized advocate for people with disabilities, such as himself.
He became the New England regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1983, adopting an approach that sometimes seemed at odds with the pro-business policies of the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Deland challenged polluters, local governments and the Army Corps of Engineers as he directed cleanup efforts throughout the Northeast.
Deland blocked an attempt to build a cargo terminal on sensitive wetlands on an island off the Maine coast. He fought the Rhode Island governor and business leaders who wanted to build a reservoir that would have flooded thousands of acres of forests and wetlands.
He overruled the Army Corps of Engineers, which had granted permission to developers to build a mall on 32 acres of wetlands in Massachusetts. When the developers said they would create an artificial wetlands nearby, Deland rejected the idea.
Deland won perhaps his greatest environmental victory in 1988, when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts agreed to pay civil fines of $425,000 and to contribute $2 million to fund various cleanup projects in Boston Harbor.
A competitive sailor for much of his life, Deland was active in the Shields Class, winning the National Championship in 1980 and 1987.
Rumored to be a leading candidate for EPA director after George H.W. Bush was elected president in 1988, Deland was instead nominated to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He was Bush's top in-house adviser on the environment and coordinated policies among various agencies.
In his first year in the job, Deland warned of the dangers of global warming, noting that "we've simply got to ratchet back" the country's reliance on fossil fuels. On the whole, however, his environmental record in the Bush administration came under attack by onetime allies, who accused him of turning away from ideals he had previously espoused.
When Bush lost the 1992 presidential election to Bill Clinton, Deland became an executive with American Flywheel Systems, a company developing alternative energy sources.
Michael Reeves Deland was born Dec. 13, 1941, in Boston. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother supported various environmental and philanthropic efforts.
He graduated from Harvard in 1963, then served two years in the Navy before receiving his law degree from Boston College in 1969. He was an assistant to the president of the University of Massachusetts before joining the EPA's legal team in 1971. He worked for an environmental consulting firm in Boston from 1976 to 1983.
He was chairman and chief executive of the National Organization on Disability until retiring in 2007, when he moved from Washington to Marion, Mass.
Beginning in the 1960s, Deland had difficulties with walking and mobility. He used crutches at first before switching to a wheelchair in the 1980s, when he was an EPA official.
"To fulfill the demands of that job, I had to be mobile," he told the Boston College Law School magazine in 1998. "So I accepted being in the wheelchair, but that also meant that I lost strength faster in the muscles of my legs."
The source of his progressive disability was not diagnosed until the 1980s, when a cyst was found in his spinal cord.
In 1995, Deland was named board chairman of the National Organization on Disability and became a major fundraiser for the advocacy group. He soon learned that a memorial to Roosevelt, then under construction near the Mall, was designed to include three sculptures — but none of the president in a wheelchair.
"It's a blatant historical distortion," Deland said in 1996. "For the 49 million Americans who have disabilities, there is no greater role model than FDR. It would be unconscionable if schoolchildren were to go through that memorial and not know that he led the nation from a wheelchair."
Deland rallied support from several former presidents, leading historians and eight of Roosevelt's grandchildren. He threatened to lead a protest when the memorial was dedicated in 1997. Finally, a life-size statue showing the four-term president seated in a wheelchair was unveiled in 2001.
Deland was present to observe what he called his "most lasting achievement."
Survivors include his wife of 45 years, the former Jane Slocum of Marion; a son, Michael Stanton Deland of Malibu, Calif.; twin daughters Melissa Reeves Deland of West Roxbury, Mass., and Holly Louise Deland of Santa Monica, Calif.; a brother; a sister; and three granddaughters.
Source: The Washington Post


text: Review of the Surface Book 3 for Developers May 14, '20 Comments [25] Posted in Reviews Sponsored By I was offered a Surface Book 3 to use as a loaner over the the last 5 weeks. I did a short video teaser on Twitter where I beat on the device with a pretty ridiculous benchmark - running Visual Studio 2019 while running Gears of War and Ubuntu under WSL and Windows Terminal. I have fun. ;) Hey they loaned me a @surface book 3! So...I threw EVERYTHING at it...Visual Studio, Gears of War, Ubuntu/WSL2/Windows...*all at the same time* because why not? LOL (review very soon) pic.twitter.com/FmgGCBUGuR— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) May 14, 2020 Size and Weight My daily driver has been a Surface Book 2 since 2017. The new Surface Book 3 is the exact size (23mm thick as a laptop) and weight (3.38 and 4.2 lbs.) as the SB2. I have had to add a small sticker to one otherwise I'd get them confused. The display resolutions are 3000×2000 for the 13.5-inch model and 3240×2160 for the 15-inch one that I have. I prefer a 15" laptop. I don't know how you 13" people do it. Basically if you are a Surface Book 2 user the size and weight are the same. The Surface Book 3 is considerably more power in the same size machine. CPU and Memory They gave me an i7-1065G7 CPU to test. It bursts happily over 3.5 Ghz (see the compiling screenshot below) and in my average usage hangs out in the 2 to 1.8 range with no fan on. I regularly run Visual Studio 2019, VS Code, Teams, Edge (new Edge, the Chromium one), Ubuntu via WSL2, Docker Desktop (the WSL2 one), Gmail and Outlook as PWAs, as well as Adobe Premiere and Audition and other parts of the Creative Suite. Memory usually sits around 14-18 gigs unless I'm rendering something big. It's a 10th gen Intel chip and as the Surface Book 3 can detach the base from the screen, it's both a laptop and tablet. I gleaned from Anandatech that TDP is between 10 and 25W (usually 15W) depends on what is needed, and it shifts frequencies very fast. This is evident in the great battery life when doing things like writing this blog post or writing in Edge or Word (basically forever) versus playing a AAA game or running a long compile, building containers, or rendering a video in Premiere (several hours). FLIP THE SCREEN AROUND? You can also when docked even reverse the screen! Whatever do you mean? It's actually awesome if you want an external keyboard. All this phrased differently? It's fast, quickly, when it needs to be but it's constantly changing the clock to maximize power/thermals/battery. SSD - Size and Speed The device I was loaned has a Toshiba KXG60PNV2T04 Hard Drive 2TB NVMe M.2 that's MASSIVE. I'm used to 512G or maaybe a 1TB drive in a Laptop. I'm getting used to never having to worry about space. Definitely 1TB minimum these days if you want to play games AND do development. I ran a CrystalBenchmark on the SSD and it did 3.2GB/s sequential reads! Sweet. I feel like the disk is not the bottleneck with my development compile tests below. When I consulted with the Surface team last year during the conception of the Surface Book 3 I pushed them for faster SSDs and I feel that they delivered with this 2TB SSD. GPU - Gaming and Tensorflow The 13.5-inch model now comes with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q GPU with 4GB of GDDR5 memory in its Core i7 variant, while the 15-inch unit features a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q with 6GB of GDDR6 memory. When running the Gears 5 Benchmark while plugged in (from the Extras menu, Benchmark) is has no issues with the default settings doing 60fps for 90% of the benchmark with a few dips into the 57 range depending what's on screen. It's not a gaming machine, per se, but it does have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti so I'm basically able to 1080p 60fps AAA games. I've played Destiny 2, Gears of War 5, and Call of Duty Modern Warfare on default settings at 60 fps without issue. The fan does turn on but it's very manageable. I like that whenever we get back into hotels I'll be able to play some games and develop on the same machine. The 15" also includes an Xbox Wireless Adapter so I just paired my controller with it directly. I was also able to run Tensorflow with CUDA on the laptop under Windows and it worked great. I ran a model against some video footage from my dashcam and 5.1 gigs of video RAM was used immediately and the CUDA engine on the 1660Ti is visible working in Taskman. The commercial SKU has an NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 that is apparently even more tuned for CUDA work. Developer Performance When I built my Intel i9 Ultimate Desktop 3.0 machine and others, I like to do compile tests to get a sense of how much you can throw at machine. I like big project compiles because they are a combination of a lot of disk access and a lot of parallel CPU work. However, some projects do have a theoretical maximum compile speed because of the way the dependences flesh out. I like to use Orchard Core for benchmarks. Orchard Core is a fully-featured CMS with 143 projects loaded into Visual Studio. MSBUILD and .NET Core supports both parallel and incremental builds. A warm build of Orchard Core on IRONHEART my i9 desktop takes just under 10 seconds. My 6 year old Surface Pro 3 builds it warm in 62 seconds. A totally cold build (after a dotnet clean) on IRONHEART takes 33.3 seconds. My Surface Pro 3 builds it cold in 2.4 minutes. I'll do the same build on both my Surface Book 2 and this new Surface Book 3 to compare. I've excluded the source folders from Defender as well as msbuild.exe and dotnet.exe. I've also turned off the Indexer. A cold build (after a dotnet clean) on this Surface Book 3 takes 46 seconds. A warm build is 16.1 seconds A cold build (after a dotnet clean) on my Surface Book 2 takes 115 seconds. It's WAY faster than my Surface Book 2 which has been my daily driver when mobile for nearly 3 years! Benchmarks are all relative and there's raw throughput, there's combination benchmarks, and all kinds of things that can "make a chart." I just do benchmarks that show if I can do a thing I did before, faster. You can also test various guesses if you have them by adding parameters to dotnet.exe. For example, perhaps you're thinking that 143 projects is thrashing to disk so you want to control how many CPUs are used. This has 4 physical cores and 8 logical, so we could try pulling back a littledotnet build /maxcpucount:4 The result with Orchard Core is the same, so there is likely a theoretical max as to how fast this can build today. If you really want to go nuts, try dotnet build -v diag And dig through ALL the timing info! Webcam Quality Might be odd to add this as its own section but we're all using our webcams constantly right now. I was particularly impressed with the front-facing webcam. A lot of webcams are 720p with mediocre white balance. I do a lot of video calls so I notice this stuff. The SB3 has a 1080p front camera for video and decent light pickup. When using the Camera app you can do up to 5MP (2560x1920) which is cool. Here's a pic from today. Ports and Power and Sound and Wi-Fi The Surface Book 3 has just one USB-C port on the right side and two USB 3.1 Gen 2s on the left. I'd have liked one additional USB-C so I could project on stage and still have one additional USB-C available...but I don't know what for. I just want one more port. That said, the NEW Surface Dock 2 adds FOUR USB-C ports, so it's not a big deal. It was theoretically possible to pull more power on the SB2 than its power supply could offer. While I never had an issue with that, I've been told by some Destiny 2 players and serious media renderers that it could happen. With the SB3 they upped the power supply with 65W for the base 13.5-inch version and a full 127W for the 15-inch SKUs so that's not an issue any more. I have only two Macs for development and I have no Thunderbolt devices or need for an eGPU so I may not be the ideal Thunderbolt consumer. I haven't needed it yet. Some folks have said that it's a bummer the SB3 doesn't have it but it hasn't been an issue or sticking point for any of my devices today. With the new Surface Dock 2 (below) I have a single cable to plug in that gives me two 4k monitors at 60Hz, lots of power, 4 USB-C ports all via the Dock Connector. I also want to touch on sound. There is a fan inside the device and if it gets hot it will run. If I'm doing 1080p 60fps in Call of Duty WarZone you can likely hear the fan. It comes and goes and while it's audible when the fan is on, when the CPU is not maxed out (during 70% of my work day) the Surface Book 3 is absolutely silent, even when running the monitors. The fan comes on with the CPU is bursting hard over 3Ghz and/or the GPU is on full blast. One other thing, the Surface Book 3 has Wi-Fi 6 even though I don't! I have a Ubnt network and no Wi-Fi 6 mesh points. I haven't had ANY issues with the Wi-Fi on this device over Ubnt mesh points. When copying a 60 gig video file over Wi-Fi from my Synology NAS I see sustained 280 megabit speeds. The New Surface Dock - Coming May 26th I'm also testing a pre-release Surface Dock 2. I suspect they wanted me to test it with the Surface Book 3...BUT! I just plugged in every Surface I have to see what would happen. My wife has a Surface Laptop 2 she got herself, one son has my 6 year old old Surface Pro 3 while the other has a Surface Go he got with his allowance. (We purchased these over the last few years.) As such we have three existing Surface Docks (original) - One in the kids' study/playroom, one in the Kitchen as a generalized docking station for anyone to drop in to, and one in my office assigned me by work. We use these individual Surfaces (varying ages, sizes, and powers) along with my work-assigned Surface Book 2 plus this loaner Surface Book 3, so it's kind of a diverse household from a purely Surface perspective. My first thought was - can I use all these devices with the new Dock? Stuff just works with a few caveats for older stuff like my Surface Pro 3. RANDOM NOTE: What happens when you plug a Surface Pro 3 (released in 2014) into a Surface Dock 2? Nothing, but it does get power. However, the original Surface Dock is great and still runs 4096 x 2160 @30Hz or 2960 x 1440 @60Hz via mini DisplayPort so the Pro 3 is still going strong 6 years out and the kids like it. So this Surface Dock 2 replaces the original Dock my office. The Surface Dock 2 has 2x front-facing USB-C ports (I use these for two 4k monitors) 2x rear-facing USB-C ports 2x rear-facing USB-A 3.2 (10Gbps) ports 1x Gigabit Ethernet port 1x 3.5mm audio in/out port Kensington lock slot - I've never used this First, that's a lot of USB-C. I'm not there yet with the USB-C lifestyle, but I did pick up two USB-C to full-size DisplayPort cables at Amazon and I can happily report that I can run both my 4k monitors at 60hz plus run the main Surface Book 3 panel. The new Dock and its power supply can push 120 watts of power to the Surface with a total of 199 watts everything connected to the dock. I've got a few USB-C memory sticks and one USB-C external hard drive, plus the Logitech Brio is USB 3, so 6 total ports is fine with 4 free after the two monitors. I also Gigabit wired the whole house so I use the Ethernet port quite happily. Initially I care about one thing - my 4k monitors. Using the USB-C to DisplayPort cables I plugged the dock into two Dell P2715Q 4ks and they work! I preferred using the direct cables rather than any adapters, but I also tested a USB-C to HDMI 2.0 adapter I got in 2018 with some other Dell monitors in the house and that worked with the Surface Book 3 as it had previously with the Book 2. SURPRISE NOTE: How does the super-thin Surface Pro X do when plugged into a Surface Dock 2? Amazing. It runs two 4k monitors at 60 Hz. I don't know why I was shocked, it's listed on the support page. It's a brand new device, but it's also the size and weight of an iPad so I was surprised. It's a pretty amazing little device - I'll do another post on just the ARM-based Surface Pro X another time. One final thing about the new Dock. The cable is longer! The first dock had a cable that was about 6" too short and now it's not. It's the little things and in this case, a big thing that makes a Dock that much nicer to use. Conclusion All in all, I'm very happy with this Surface Book 3 having been an existing Surface Book 2 user. It's basically 40-50% faster, the video card is surprisingly capable. The SSD is way faster at the top end. It's a clear upgrade over what I had before, and when paired with the Surface Dock 2 and two 4k monitors it's a capable developer box for road warriors or home office warriors like myself. Sponsor: Have you tried developing in Rider yet? This fast and feature-rich cross-platform IDE improves your code for .NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Xamarin, and Unity applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux. « Windows PowerToys FancyZones is the esse... | Blog Home | Developing on Docker with the new and im... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. 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Here in Vancouver, we've gone from wearing winter coats and boots to shorts and flip flops literally overnight. Summer has arrived. In.. April..
And what could be more fitting for warm weather than this traditional favourite summertime dish with a twist. You may want to give your tired old coleslaw recipes a kick to the curb after trying this stepped up Asian inspired version. Nutritionally dense, light and fresh, tangy and sweet, with just a tsp of oil, this makes a perfectly healthy and delicious lunch or side dish. Whip this up in 10 minutes and it stays crisp and flavourful in the fridge for about 3 days. The dressing is phenomenal and is super tasty on a bed of greens as well.
Add your shredded cabbage, broccoli slaw with carrots, and cooked edamame to a large bowl. In a small dish, mix your tamari, powdered ginger, sesame oil, maple syrup, lime juice, salt and red pepper flakes (if using). Pour the sauce over the bowl of mixed veggies and toss. Sprinkle on the sesame seeds and green onions. Serve on individual plates. Add more sesame seeds and or green onions if desired.
Adapted from Bader, Beth. "Asian Slaw". The Cleaner Plate Club.
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- ½ large head of Red cabbage, sliced thinly
- 4 cups broccoli slaw (prepackaged or make your own with a mix of peeled broccoli stalks and carrots)
- 2 cups cooked edamame (cooled)
- 1½ tbsp tamari or soy sauce
- ¼ tsp powdered ginger
- 1 tsp toasted sesame oil
- 2 tsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lime juice
- ¼ tsp salt
- pinch of red pepper flakes (optional)
- 3 green onions sliced thinly
- 2 tbsp roasted sesame seeds
- Add your shredded cabbage, broccoli slaw and cooked edamame to a large bowl.
- In a small dish, mix your tamari, powdered ginger, sesame oil, maple syrup, lime juice, salt and red pepper flakes (if using).
- Pour the sauce over the bowl of mixed veggies and toss.
- Sprinkle on the sesame seeds and green onions.
- Serve!


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Neil Redfearn leaves Liverpool FC Women
Neil Redfearn has left his role as head coach of Liverpool FC Women, having resigned with immediate effect.
The club would like to thank Neil for his work in rebuilding the squad ahead of the 2018-19 season and wish him the best of luck for the future.
Former Liverpool goalkeeper Chris Kirkland, who joined the Women's backroom team as goalkeeping coach in the summer, will take charge of the side as caretaker-manager, supported by assistant manager Vicky Jepson.
The focus of the coaching staff and players is now on Sunday's Continental Tyres Cup fixture against Durham Women FC.


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The Tulare County Democratic Central Committee is the local unit of the California Democratic Party. Our mission is to foster and promote the progressive ideas of the Democratic Party.
Our main functions are registering voters, getting out the vote as well as training and promoting candidates to run for local office.
We encourage you to get involved with one of the many Democratic Clubs in the county. On the clubs page you will find links and information about the various clubs.
There is strength in unity. Together we can work to improve our communities.
Check the calendar for upcoming meetings and events.


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A multitude of events take place outdoors. Here are some questions to help you plan to perfection. The focus is on the logistical elements.
Think of an outdoor event and inevitably (especially in the UK) we will look at the sky and imagine what impact the weather could have on our event. Whilst this is an important factor it should not be the only one on your checklist.
An outdoor event is a different proposition to indoor events and here are some questions that you can use as prompts to help ensure that your event is a successful one.
Our questions and comments are very generic as there are a huge number of events of all shapes and sizes that take place outdoors. However, here are some base line questions:
Weather Questions
Will the weather have any impact? Some events will carry on despite the conditions.
If the weather could have a detrimental impact what can you do to reduce any potential losses?
Remember also it is not just the difficulty of having a drenched audience but all the logistical issues that run alongside. Moving vehicles and equipment from the site without damaging the ground can be of equal concern.
The wind can impact just as much as rain and some concerts have been cancelled as the sound has just literally blown away the sound in a different direction.
In many instances even if your event is cancelled you will still have to pay Contractors and refund tickets. Insurance may be available but do talk to your insurance advisor or broker for their specialist advice.
People Questions
Can the venue be accessed easily and simply or are you making unnecessary demands of people? Do they have far to walk and is it straightforward?
Will people be easily able to find their cars at the end of the event? What can you do to help ease the traffic flow out of the event at the end?
Have you arranged adequate stewarding into and from the event?
If using volunteers have you trained them to be able to deal with all eventualities?
Is the car parking area on a solid surface or could it become unusable due to water logging and cause damage to the land?
What First Aid provision have you arranged? Do you need ambulances, fire protection and Police in attendance?
Has the Local Authority placed any requirements on you for successful fulfilment of your event. Sometimes they will require evidence of your insurance before allowing your event to take place.
Have you signed all the necessary licences and paperwork?
When it comes to disrupting traffic and closing roads, have you taken the required action that the Local Authorities require? This is especially important if you are organising a Parade, Carnival or similar event.
Have you arranged sufficient security to keep people from harm?
Have you checked the insurance covers from your Sub Contractors or other suppliers and are their policies current and relevant. This is a task that you would be well advised to involve your insurance broker, company or advisor to help you.
If your event includes bouncy castles, inflatables and fairground rides have you made sure that the operators have insurance. If they don't, should you be using them? If something goes wrong it is more than your reputation that will suffer.
Equipment Questions
Do you need fencing, generators, portable toilets etc?
If so who is responsible for their security and insurance?
Have your confirmed overnight security if needed?
Can the kit be delivered easily to the location?
Have your confirmed the delivery and collection times for the equipment to enable you to make adequate staffing arrangements?
There will always be new challenges from unexpected sources, whether they are of political, legislative or come from the changing mood of people. Keep reviewing your risks often and you should stand a good chance of making sure your outdoor event is planned to perfection.
See Also
Risking the Weather for your Event