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Yeast is a type of fungi that is available in many varieties and is used to make leavened bread, beer and some wines. Some people have an aversion to this ingredient, although nearly all breads from the grocery store contain yeast. However, there are ways to make bread without it. If you have a yeast allergy or just ran out and don't have time for a trip to the store, you can make your own pita bread without yeast. Pita bread is one of the easier breads to make yeast-less because it normally is dense and does not rise much.
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Stir 3 cups of flour and 1 tsp. of salt together in a mixing bowl. Drizzle warm water into the mixture about ¼ cup at a time while stirring. Stop adding water when the dough is slightly tacky but not sticky. Mix just until the dough is smooth.
Step 2
Knead the dough in the mixing bowl for approximately five minutes.
Step 3
Roll the dough into 12 small, smooth balls, and set them on a pan or plate to rest for 10 minutes. Preheat a skillet, frying pan or griddle over medium-high heat.
Step 4
Use a rolling pin or your hands to roll out the balls one at a time. Each one should spread into a very thin circle, approximately 6 inches in diameter. Add a little butter or vegetable oil to the skillet, and lay one circle flat in the pan for about 90 seconds or until bubbles begin to appear. Flip the pita circle and cook until slightly browned.
Step 5
Stack the cooked pitas with a paper towel in between each one to absorb any excess oil and to keep them from sticking together.


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It's real, not practice
Sometimes people wonder when we actually get to practice the moves we learn in kali in real life. It's not always apparent. But it is there.
It has been interesting these last few weeks that I find the lessons of kali reverberate not just in what I'm teaching in class but in every day life. There are some choices I've made to put me in a certain direction, there are others soon to be made that will test my "eye" for quality. And the consequences for these decisions are very real, they both impact my life and others.
I have to take into account not just the present day but the future and I have to predict the next few years the same way I set up and predict the direction of my opponents. I have to understand the wave that I create from this choice.
I have come to understand the choices or more often than not the non-choices people have made before me. To not act, to not choose, is a choice that more often than not postpones the inevitable to the future, which in this case is my present. The choice doesn't go away, it just makes whoever gets the choice down the line even harder. One of the difficulties of the budget situation is that people want to choose not to choose, to hope someone else will bail them out or grant them forgiveness. Neither is around in any abundance. But what it does is that because individuals at the bottom cannot make the hard decisions, that decision moves up the chain and the farther and farther you are, the larger the blade you need to make a slice.
There is only so much one can do to avoid being cut, but no doubt one will get cut. How deep of a wound do you wish to suffer?
This is where my training and I mean all of my training from the kali to the leadership development to even 6th grade crossing guard captain has brought me to.
I know that change is painful. Mostly because people do not change until it hurts. It being whatever it is they're in now. The other incentive of course is pleasure. They change because the thing they are going to is more pleasurable. But pleasure is difficult to measure once someone is acclimated to the pain of their present state.
I know from kali a delay in decision making, a delay in acting determines how deep is the wound.
I regret I was unable to made these choices earlier and yet I did not fully have the tools to do it. But regret has no place here. The proper choice is both about its decision and its timing. And I have to believe that when I make the decision, when I act will be the proper time for everything to happen.
I imagine in the Year of the Ox, an Ox plowing the rows in a field. I hope that if I keep plowing that by the end of this year I will have a nicely sown field that will give me great harvests in the future. I can only hope.

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There were 7 of us waiting at the stop - a family of four, a couple and myself. I arrived after the couple who were very strange. In fact I was closest to the bus when it pulled up but they ran to get in front of me to get a "better" seat on the empty bus. More on them later... TWO HOURS LATER we were on our way to Ronda...the rest of the time was spent driving along the Costa Del Sol picking up other passengers. Luckily after three hours on the bus and just before we arrived in Ronda we had a 20 minute break. Finally...coffee!!! (and a pee break!) I then came out of my coma and started talking to the lady next to me who was really quite interesting.
Soon we were at the Ronda bus station and our group was split in two which was much better. Off we went on a walking tour.
The old town and new town of Ronda are split by the magnificent gorge known as El Tajo. The gorge is 150 metres (490 feet) deep.
This is the "new" bridge built in 1788.
If you look carefully in between the gorge in the distance you can see one of the "old'' bridges - there are a total of three that go over the gorge.
Established in the 9th century, Ronda is one of the oldest cities in Spain. Ronda means "surrounded by mountains". The old city was established in Islamic times when it was filled with mosques and palaces. It has a colourful history as it was filled with bandits and profiteers. It even has a "bandit" museum - I would have loved to have visited that if I had felt better.
I thought this building's windows were quite striking - no clue what it is.
The Iglesia de Santa Maria la Mayor was originally a mosque but was converted to a Christian church.
The strange couple on the bus were on my walking tour and they kept getting in my way as of course they had to have photos of themselves in front of everything (and no they weren't Japanese).
Did someone say wine tasting?
Next stop was to a shop for wine tasting. Of course they wanted us to buy wine but I think only one person did. I did test three different wines.
This is the oldest bull ring in the country and considered the most dangerous as there is no kind of step for the matadors to fling themselves out of the ring to escape the bull. (aww..gee too bad) It is also the biggest bull ring although only holds 5,000 spectators. Apparently it is a mecca for bull fighting fanatics.
Bull pens
There was a museum as well but I gave it a very quick glance and left. I scurried through the gift shop without stopping on the way to the exit.
There are only three bull fights a year in this ring which is enough as our guide said and I agree.
We then had two hours to look around on our own but I was too tired to do that so sat on a bench for a while people watching and then found a cafe and nibbled on a ham and cheese sandwich. I got back to the bus station early so sat outside and had a cafe con leche and the lady I was sitting with joined me. What a fascinating life she has had with having been a photographer for years including in the Bosnian war which forced her to retire from photography. Now she teaches yoga to athletes to aid their performance. She has lived all over the place. Then she asked what I did. Um. Let's see...worked for the telephone company and then the health district...(snore)
The tour guide (who had all the personality of a rock) told us to sit in the same seats when we went back. Well...four couples didn't and sat in the seats where the strange couple sat (two ahead of me) and he went beserk. My seat mate told him to "chill out mate" and he lost it again. She said to me I'd hate to see him react if anything major went wrong. Anyway he made sure everyone got back to their right seats.
The bus wound its way back up the mountain and then down again to the Costa del Sol and soon we were in Marbella where my seat mate was staying. We were then told we were going on a walking tour of the old town which I was not thrilled to hear as I was so tired. By this time I could barely walk so I limped along behind but at least now I don't have to make a trip there.
I liked the look of these benches even if they would be cold and hard to sit on!!!
Back on the bus and finally into Malaga over an hour later. I got a local bus immediately and once back here I went to bed. Exhausted! Was it worth it? Yes. Would I do it again? No!!!


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Marseille, France's Melting Pot
Marseille is a great city. It's France's second largest city, and it is — by far — the most international city in France, if not in all of Europe until you reach İstanbul.
People have lived in the area for almost 30,000 years, as Marseille has a great location. The city was founded around 600 BC by Greek colonists. After that it was allied with or controlled by the Romans, the Visigoths, and the Frankish kings including, eventually, Charlesmagne. It was incorporated into France in 1481.
As France expanded its international empire, Marseille was the major port connecting the nation to North Africa, southeast Asia, and tropical islands throughout the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the Caribbean. Those colonies have influenced the population and culture of Marseille.
We will see how to travel to Marseille, and some of the things to see and do once you're there.
As for its name, it's Marseille. English speakers sometimes write it with an added s as in Marseilles. I don't know why, as it's pronounced like mar-say, so I'm sticking with how the locals spell it.
Arrival in Marseille
You might arrive in Marseille in the traditional way, in a small boat. If so, the view at the top of this page is what you will see as you enter the Vieux Port, the Old Port at the heart of Marseille. These days, however, you are much more likely to arrive in Marseille by train.
Gare Marseille Saint-Charles is the main train station. In foreground of this picture we see the TGV, the high-speed trains running at 300 kilometers per hour throughout France. The TGV joins Marseille to Paris in just three hours. There are direct TGV lines from Marseille to Lilles in northeastern France and onward to Brussels, to Strasbourg and to Genève.
Regional trains like those in the background below connect to nearby Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon, and beyond. A regional train east through Nice connects to Italian trains at the border, following the Italian coast to the south and beyond.
If you are arriving in Marseille from outside France, then it is probably by air to Marseille's international airport. In that case, a frequent bus runs from the airport to Gare Saint-Michel every 20 minutes, taking 25 minutes to make the trip.
The airport bus uses the modern inter-city bus station in the north wing of the train station, out of view to our left in this view. Nearby cities like Aix-en-Provence are an easy day trip from Marseille.
You still might arrive by ship, Marseille is a busy ferry port. We'll see the ferry port below.
Marseille has been a busy port of entry and exit for France, especially during the greatest extent of the French Empire.
The North African French colonies of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco are directly across the Mediterranean, and Corsica is on the way there. Other French territory down through central Africa could be reached by ships from Marseille leaving the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar.
The French Caribbean islands and colonial territory on the northern coast of South America were on across the Atlantic. Even earlier, French North America was also reached from the port of Marseille.
Once the Suez Canal opened in 1869, the voyage to French Indochina was a little less long.
Colonial expositions in the early 1900s celebrated the diverse French Empire. The poster seen here promises that the 1906 exposition will include 50 official display areas of French colonies, an international section for oceanography and maritime fishing, and panoramas with exotic attractions and reconstructions including the streets of Saigon, an Indochinese theater, Malagasy music, dancers from Timbuktu, Algerian produce and Tunisian souks.
You can see from the poster that the exposition was promoted by Chemins de Fer Paris Lyon Mediterranée. That is, the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean Railway, the primary early 1900s link from Paris to this port.
Let's head out into the city! In the first picture we're looking off the balcony running across the front of the train station.
On the skyline to the left we see Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde, the symbol of Marseille, a dramatic cathedral overlooking the city from its highest point.
The narrow street running nearly straight away from us just to the right of center is the Rue des Petites Maries. It runs straight toward the Old Port from here. We'll go down that way in a bit, but first let's turn to our left and go to the south corner of the station.
A grand staircase leads down from the south corner of Gare Saint-Charles to Boulevard d'Athènes, a major street running north-south. This street changes its name every few blocks, from Boulevard d'Athènes to Boulevard Dugommier, then to Boulevard Garibaldi, and then to Cours Lieutaud.
The staircase is flanked by allegorical statues representing parts of the large French Empire of the early 1900s. These represent the French colonies in Asia.
These represent the colonies in Africa. They're allegorical, things probably weren't so languid in the colonies.
We've reached the end of Boulevard d'Athènes and turned to look back up at Gare Saint-Charles. We will turn back around and go down the hill along Boulevard d'Athènes toward La Canebière, Marseille's main thoroughfare. Boulevard d'Athènes changes its name to Boulevard Dugommier by the time we get a little over half-way there.
The nation of Yugoslavia was formed in 1918 by merging a number of small states and kingdoms with some territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Aleksandar I Karađorđević was the son of King Peter I of Serbia and the former Princess Zorka of Montenegro, he was made King Alexander I of Yugoslavia.
On 9 October 1934, Alexander arrived in Marseille for a state visit to the French Third Republic and meetings with the French foreign minister Louis Barthou. Vlado Chernozemski, a Bulgarian and a member of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, shot the king and his chauffeur as the state procession passed the base of this staircase. This was one of the first assassinations captured on film as Chernozemski happened to be standing very close to a newsreel cameraman. A mounted policeman slashed Chernozemski with his sword, and then the crowd beat him to death.
Providing an example for future conspiracy theories, the newsreel did not capture the precise moment of the assassination. But it was manipulated to give that impression, with three identical gunshot sounds added to the film afterward. Chernozemski really shot over ten rounds, killing or wounding a total of fifteen people.
La Canebière, the main axis of Marseille
La Canebière is a broad avenue leading from a central quarter to the port. Its name is the Provençal word for cannibis. That doesn't mean that all the head shops are located along this boulevard. It used to be lined with makers and sellers of hemp rope supplying the ships docked in the old port at its end.
The inland end of La Canebière is in the Réformés district, named for a "Reformed" Augustine convent that was once here. L'église Saint-Vincent de Paul is better known by the name l'Église des Réformés.
The cathedral was built in the 1850s, but its design is based on the Gothic style of the 13th Century.
As we start down La Canebière we pass another street vendor from Africa. In the background are signs of the southeast Asian parts of the former French empire.
La Canebière is lined by large businesses that have replaced all the rope shops. There are many large banks. The main shopping district is just two to three blocks from the harbor. A tram line runs through the broad pedestrian-only plaza of that shopping district and turns to run east along La Canebière through Réformés.
Along Rue des Petites Maries
Let's go back and drop off our bag. The Vertigo hostel is just across the road from Gare Marseille Saint-Charles, in the first block down the narrow Rue des Petites Maries. It's the yellow building at the right, up the street we're looking at the front of Gare Saint-Charles.
This is a nice place to stay, I have stayed here a couple of times. They have a mix of private and shared rooms.
The Vertigo certainly has a convenient location! Looking out the window of my room we see the front of Gare Saint-Charles at the end of the block and across the busy street.
The opposite direction leads down the hill along Rue des Petites Maries toward the old port. You can't quite see the water from here, but the hill in the distance is on the diagonally opposite side of the harbor.
There are a few other small reasonably priced hotels at the top end of Rue des Petites Maries. The street is also lined with telephone shops. They sell local SIM cards and also have calling booths. You can easily and cheaply place calls to anywhere in the world from the private booths, paying at the counter when you are finished.
We could go up to the station and take the subway down to the Old Port. You see some subway tickets here. But let's walk on down Rue des Petites Maries.
The back streets are lined with small shops selling a wide range of everyday goods. Or maybe not so everyday, if you aren't from a cosmopolitan place like Marseille.
You have to go to İstanbul to find Marseille's mix of people and the density of capitalism per square foot.
Speaking of densely packed international capitalism, let's go through the markets in the blocks south of La Canebière.
Markets south of La Canebière
Markets fill the quarter south of La Canebière between Boulevard Garibaldi on its east and Rue de Rome on its west. The markets are largely operated by the North African segment of the local population.
Large areas feature produce from all around France, the rest of Europe, and across the Mediterranean in North Africa.
It is important in France to designate the precise source of food products.
It will also be clearly marked if the product meets the strict requirements for labeling as organic, designated in French as Bio., for Biologique.
Not Organique as I would have expected...
Many stores in the area simply extend their operation out onto the sidewalk and the street. Shoes and household goods are available at right here.
Some traffic still moves — quite slowly — through the market area delivering even more goods for sale.
Service with a smile!
There is a large informal fish market every day at the innermost end of the Vieux Port at Quai des Belges. But here is a shop that sells fish in the same district where everything else is being bought and sold.
The literal names of the fish may not be what you expect. For example, Loup de Mer (or Wolf of the Sea) instead of Sea Bass. But, American English and British English use different names for many fish.
The food is certified as halal, meeting all the purity requirements of Islam. Or hallal as the French transliterate the Arabic word.
This sign claims that Moustapha Slimani operates the only halal abbatoir in the region of Provence.
That seems unlikely. About 25% of the population of Marseille is Muslim, there have to be more halal abbatoirs.
About 70% of the population is Roman Catholic, and there are significant Armenian Apostolic Orthodox and Jewish communities. This is the third largest Jewish community in Europe, with 80,000 members. There is even a significant Buddhist community here given the representation of the former Southeast Asian colonies.
We turn the corner and find that we are in the passageway of the vendors of grain, nuts and dried fruit. Nearby is a wide array of olives.
Some of the shops with wide arrays of spices are like Aladdin's cave. This one has nuts and seeds out front, and shelf after shelf of spices inside.
The conical pottery device is a tajine, used for cooking.
Then there is the curious savon noir or black soap, made with linseed oil. Savon noir is a dark brown, nearly black, oily-looking sticky paste. You see it here in the orange bowl at right.
There are many good couscous restaurants specializing in the north African dish. This one is La Goulette, where I have always eaten when in Marseille. It's on Rue Pavillon just off Rue de Rome, just a block or so outside the crowded market streets.
You can eat outside, or in the brightly tiled interior.
You get a bowl of couscous with vegetables and chickpeas plus your choice of chicken, lamb, spicy sausage (merguez), spicy meatballs (kefte), or even more vegetables and chickpeas.
Then there's a bowl with something like spicy tomato soup. You ladle that onto your couscous bowl to your taste.
In the afternoon you might sit at a table outside the Grand Bar Vacon, facing onto a small square where a few narrow streets, one of them Rue Vacon, join together.
Sit down at a small table outside, have an unusually colorful beverage, and watch the world, or at least the French former colonial parts of it, pass by.
Or, you can sit inside another small cafe back in the market district. Better yet, visit multiple ones to compare their atmospheres.
Vieux Port — The Old Port
The city of Marseille was founded as a colony by Greek settlers from Phocaea around 600 BC. They called it Μασσαλία, which we spell Massalia or Massilia. By the mid 300s BC the colony was quite wealthy, establishing the Treasury of Massalia at the major religious center of Delphi back in central Greece. The natural harbor had made this an obvious place to settle and led to the colony's wealth. It was the first Greek settlement given πολίς, that is, polis or city, status in the territory of what is today's France.
The Greeks weren't the first people to live here. Human habitation goes back to Paleolithic times. Those people left paintings and carvings in local caves back in 27,000 to 19,000 BC. The Mediterranean water level was 110-120 meters lower in that ice age time due to the volume of water locked up in ice caps and glaciers. The paintings were only discovered in the Cosquer cave near the Calanque of Morgiou in 1985.
The water level has since risen to the point that the cave's opening is 37 meters below the surface, and from there a tunnel 175 meters long leads inland and upwards until you are above water level within the cave. Any art on the walls within the submerged section, about 80% of the cave, was obliterated.
150 pieces of prehistoric artwork remain. The older ones are 65 hand stencils and related works dating to the Gravettian Era about 27,000 years ago. Then some 8,000 years later in the Solutrean Era, there was a new phase of habitation and decoration. These inhabitants around 19,000 years ago left a number of signs and 177 drawings of animals including bison, ibex, horses, seals, and what look like auks and jellyfish.
More recently but still in prehistoric times, Neolithic people built brick homes in this area around 6,000 BC. These have recently been discovered during some excavations near Gare Saint-Charles.
The Etruscans, Celts and Carthaginians formed an alliance that was pressuring Massalia, so the city allied itself with the expanding Roman Empire. This provided military security and also brought the city into the lucrative Roman trading network. Its excellent port made it the gateway for trade between inland Gaul and Rome.
This trade and travel also led to Massalia being one of the first outposts of Christianity in this part of Europe. Local Provençal tradition, more recently greatly embellished and expanded, says that Mary Magdalen and her brother Lazarus landed here in a boat and personally evangelized the locals.
Here and below we see Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde overlooking the Old Port and the rest of the city.
The Roman Empire slowly crumbled and faded, and here came the Visigoths. They seized this port city.
Frankish kings captured the town from the Visigoths in the middle of the 6th century. It was still in Frankish hands by the time of Charlemagne around 800. He granted the city more power, and it prospered under the Carolingian dynasty and on into the Middle Ages.
As a port city, Marseille was especially susceptible to newly arriving contagious diseases. It was one of the first places in France to be struck by the Black Death, the bubonic plague, which arrived from the east in 1348. Out of a population of about 25,000, about 15,000 died from the plague in 1348!
The population varied with the waves of arriving plagues, and the prosperity varied with the population and also with the city's status. It was favored by a series of dukes and counts, and given special trading status and fortifications by French kings.
King René led the construction of heavy fortifications of the harbor between 1447 and 1453. The city was then united with Provence in 1481, and all of that was incorporated into the nation of France in 1482.
Marseille was a major naval base for the Franco-Ottoman alliance beginning in 1536, and a French-Turkish fleet was based in this harbor.
There was another major plague in the late 1500s. A century later there was yet another uprising, Marseille has always had a tendency to rebel against the central French government. King Louis XIV himself led his army down here on this occasion, and built two even larger forts at either side of the harbor entrance afterward. Then in 1720 the last (so far) Great Plague of Marseille struck, killing 100,000 people in the city and the surrounding provinces.
In 1792, the local population was enthusiastic about the French Revolution, this being another opportunity for rebellion against the central government.
A group of 500 locals marched all the way to Paris to take part in the revolution, singing a song that came to be known as La Marseillaise and later became the French national anthem.
The Old Port is lined with sidewalk cafés and bars. They are open all day and become especially busy in the early evening.
The distinctive dish of Marseille is bouillabaisse, a soup with assorted fish and shellfish along with vegetables. Many of the restaurants offer walk-in bouillabaisse, but purists maintain that you really have to plan this dish 24 hours in advance for the proper selection and preparation of the seafood. A big tureen of speculative bouillabaisse kept in the kitchen just in case someone asks — that just isn't done.
Two distinctive café snack foods are tapenade, a paste made from capers, chopped olives, olive oil and sometimes anchovies; and anchoïade, a paste of anchovies, garlic, black olives and olive oil. Either might be served with thin strips of pita or with raw vegetables.
Many of the bars have live music in the evenings.
Things eventually quiet down late at night.
The Modern Port of Marseille
Marseille started with a wonderful natural harbor, and it has been further improved over the years. But now the Vieux Port is just for pleasure boats and small fishing boats. Marseille's shipping operations have far outgrown the Vieux Port. It is now France's largest commercial port, and one of the busiest shipping ports on the Mediterranean.
Here we see a small boat leaving the Vieux Port. A long breakwater extends in from the right and ends with a small lighthouse. The sailboat is near the opening to the Mediterranean, just to the left of that light. Then we continue walking ahead and turn to our left, looking out into the Mediterranean.
Around 1510, King Manuel I of Portugal tried to ship a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X, on the theory that the Pope probably didn't own one yet but would like to have one, and so this gift would win lots of papal points for King Manuel and Portugal. However, the rhino carrier wrecked on the Île d'If, visible here just a short distance outside the harbor.
Given that the French King Francis I didn't own a rhinoceros either, and in fact had never even seen one, he traveled down to Marseille to have a look at the beast. All this led to the construction of a fortress on the island, Château d'If.
As a naval defense, Château d'If wasn't much of a success. The forces of the Holy Roman Empire, which never was very holy, Roman, or actually an empire, got past it and besieged Marseille anyway. But Château d'If did serve quite well as a very grim prison, something the French have excelled at even though their prisons are well known mainly for being overthrown multiple times and finally destroyed (the Bastille) or being escaped from in literature (The Count of Monte Cristo from Château d'If, Papillon from Devil's Island).
Meanwhile, stories of the wondrous beast reached Germany, where Albrecht Dürer created a woodcut in 1515. He had only heard stories passed along, with inaccuracies added all along the way. He depicted something looking a little like a dinosaur wearing plate armor.
The woodcut was a hit, though, and it was copied many times over the next three centuries. Versions found their way into textbooks, sculptures in churches, and paintings. Up into the late 1700s this was pretty much what Europeans thought a rhinoceros was.
Here we have turned back to look back into the Vieux Port. There is Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde up on the hill overlooking everything.
On the left shore of the harbor opening is the 17th century Fort Saint-Jean, which incorporates the 12th century Commandry of the Knights Hospitalier of Saint John and the 15th century tower added to that by King René.
The right shore has the Fort of Saint-Nicholas.
Among the most prominent Marseille corporations are CMA CGM, the gigantic container shipping company; COMEX or Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises, a world leader in sub-sea engineering; and SNCM or Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée, a major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries and container shipping in the western Mediterranean.
The new port of Marseille handles about 100 million tons of freight annually. 60% of that is petroleum, making Marseille the largest petroleum port in France and in the Mediterranean, and the third largest in Europe. Marseille is also, logically, France's largest center of petroleum refining. Most of the remaining 40% of cargo is containers.
The Gare Maritime is a large ferry terminal with regular service to several destinations including Corsica, Sardinia, Algeria and Tunisia. Over 800,000 passengers pass through here annually.
That SNCM ferry is docked near an unusual looking church. Let's go over there.
Le Panier Quarter
Nouvelle Cathédrale de la Major is the seat of the Archdiocese of Marseille.
It was built through the second half of the 1800s on the site that had been used for the cathedrals of Marseille since the 5th century.
Its name, Major, is from the Occitan language, a label applied to the church on this spot since the 12th century.
Walking east from the cathedral leads you into the Panier district of Marseille. This district takes its name from panier, French for basket, as this was once the locations of many markets.
The Germans dynamited much of this area during their occupation of France in World War II.
In January, 1943, the Germans organized a large-scale sweep of the area to round up Jewish citizens and ship them to the death camps. This was organized with the active assistance of the Vichy government under the direction of the chief of police, René Bousquet.
The Germans considered this area to be a "terrorist nest" because of its narrow, curving streets. Himmler had ordered that the arrested French citizens were to be shipped first to the concentration camp near Compiègne in Northern France, and then sent to the Drancy internment camp and on east to the extermination camps.
The entire Panier area was searched house by house. 2,000 Marseille residents were sent off to be killed in the German death camps. The area further down the hill, immediately north of the Old Port, was systematically demolished with dynamite.
The Germans announced that almost all of arrested Jews were "criminal scoundrels", and that when they were transferred from the first camp, near Compiègne, to the Drancy internment camp, they were so dirty and infested with fleas that they had to be submitted to a special cleaning process to avoid an epidemic.
Holocaust deniers today continue to make absurd claims that the death camps were really operated in the interest of public health.
Centre de la Vielle Charité in the Panier district is a Baroque church surrounded by multiple levels of balconies.
This has been a barracks, a soldiers' rest home, and then low-cost housing for people who lost their homes when the Germans dynamited most of the district.
Now two museums are located here, the Musée d'Archéologie Mediterranée and the Musée des Arts Africains, Océaniens et Amérindiens.
After wandering the Panier for a while, you may want to stop for a while at the Cup of Tea tea house. It's on Rue Caisserie, on your way down out of the hilly back streets, almost to where things open up a little as you enter the area destroyed by the Germans.
They have over fifty very specific varieties of tea, described in great detail. I think that this one was Laotian.
Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde
Notre Dame de la Garde or Our Lady of Protection is at the highest point above Marseille, 162 meters above the Old Port to its south.
Charles II of Anjou ordered in 1302 that beacons were set up along the Mediterranean coast of Provence. This hill was the site of one of those beacons.
A chapel was built on the hill in 1214. A fortification was built here in the early 1500s and a more significant church constructed within. It continued as a church within a fortress until the Revolution in the late 1700s. The religious buildings were shut down and worship stopped in November, 1793. The fortress became a prison for members of the royalty and nobility.
The church was reopened for worship in 1807. The number of worshipers increased significantly, and the fortress chapel was expanded.
In 1850, the priest asked the Ministry of War, which still owned and controlled the fortress, for permission to further enlarge the existing church. Alphonse Henri, comte d'Hautpoul, on his final day on the job as Minister of War, agreed in principle but said that the request was too vague. Come back with details.
The following year, in April 1851, a new request was submitted. This was for an entirely new church, much larger. This came with the support of General Adolphe Niel.
The project was approved. Construction started in 1853. There were problems, both financial and practical, as it was difficult to cut the foundations into the very hard rock at the peak.
The church was finally consecrated in June, 1864.
The views are fantastic. In the first picture we are looking west over Île d'If and the other islands in the Frioul Archipelago. Below, we look over the Old Port and beyond that to the new port complex continuing for kilometers up the coast.
In the second picture we have turned toward our right. The innermost third of the Old Port is barely visible at left, just above the nearby trees.
Below, the long red roof of Gare Saint-Charles is visible if you know what to look for (about 11 o'clock from the cross, to the right and slightly above a row of three large rectangular buildings). The blue and white tourist tram provides one way to get up and down the hill between the Old Port and the basilica.
The interior walls of the church are covered with devotional plaques, thanking Our Lady of Protection for saving the donors from storms, shipwrecks, and other troubles.
Ship models hang from the ceiling, representing ships saved by Mary's intervention and ships that were lost but someone survived.
Above the plaque listing the numerical characteristics of the hill and cathedral, we see a plaque thankful for protection against cholera, one of the recent plagues.
That's right, this is a plague plaque.
Reconnaissance à N.D. de la Garde
qui nous a préservées du choléra
nous et nos familles
Les Dames Télégraphistes
Recognition to Our Lady of Protection
who has saved us and our families
from the cholera
The Lady Telegraphists
There are several plaques commemorating individuals and groups involved in the final fight to eject the German occupiers. The Germans retreated to the basilica and its surroundings, and the battle to finally eject them raged around the peak of the hill.
Brave leader, killed on the field of honor on 7 September 1944 at the head of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Algerian Infantry Regiment, having fought for the liberation of Our Lady of Protection on 26 August 1944 with his brothers in arms of the 7th Algerian Infantry Regiment of the 9th Cavalry and of the Free French Forces.
Another honors the Marseille Volunteers of the African Commandos killed for the liberation of France.
The Coast Road to Cassis and La Ciotat
There is a wonderful drive along the coast roads from Marseille past Cassis to La Ciotat. In places the route winds around the Calanques, the steep and deep rocky canyons extending down to the Mediterranean. If you've seen Transporter 3, it begins and ends in a small calanque.
At the right we are looking west, into the sunset, along the rugged coast toward Marseille. You see the openings of a number of the Calanques as the coast fades into the distant haze.
The route to take is to follow the coast road out of central Marseille near the Vieux Port. It's Corniche Président John F Kennedy within the city and it takes you past the popular beaches.
Then, somewhere around Plages du Prado, turn inland and get on the D 559 highway going first south and then turning east and leading toward Cassis and La Ciotat. That road quickly climbs to an elevation of 365 meters.
The Calanques can be reached from a series of minor roads and hiking paths including GR 98, Grande Randonée 98.
The harbor town of Cassis is back in one of the larger bays, the town is off to the right and not quite visible in the picture above. Just on the other side of the turn-offs to Cassis, turn to the right off the D 559 onto the smaller D 141 road. This high road is signposted as leading over Les Crêtes or The Crests.
Notice the signs at the intersection, the road is closed during inclement weather. This can include the strong mistral wind which could make it quite hazardous to drive this high twisting road with very high drops to either side.
We stopped our sturdy Romanian built Dacia Duster along the way to take in the spectacular views.
The D 141 then descends into La Ciotat, where there are many restaurants along the large and busy waterfront.
The D 559 road appears on this map as the southernmost red road leading from southern Marseille to La Ciotat.
D 141, however, does not appear here.
C Morgiou indicates Calanque Morgiou, where the Cosquer cave paintings from 27,000 to 19,000 BC were discovered.
Happy exploring! Bon voyage!


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Monday, February 1, 2010
Monday Mingle - February 1st 2010
9 comments:
- One Cluttered Brain said...
I hate spiders as well. But i can squish those bad babies!
Thanks for joining even though you were in your nightgown. I probably wouldnt have changed either if it was 130 AM. Now thats dedication.
Thats some spider story!
Houses..I wish you luck in buying your house! Kari is great isn't she?
I love her!
Any-hoo glad U joined again, You look great girl! i love the way you told your story, with such animation...
See ya next week!
- February 1, 2010 at 2:14 AM
- Mevolving said...
I wouldn't get dressed just for a mingle either lol
I love picking a character who gets to make out with a hot guy, that made me laugh.
I'm not a spider fan either they are CREEPY. A spider dropped out of my jeans once as I picked them up to put them on it was HORRIBLE!
How cute that you got litter mates :D I love calling the fish "fish" and the kitten "kitty"! I'm not a snake fan they carry salmonella and my germy side can't handle that LOL
Buying a house has to be so stressful!
- February 1, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Stefany said...
I have a cat named Kitty too. :)
Snakes... eeek! No way could I do that.
Good luck with house buying. I think that is the single-most stressful thing I have ever done.
- February 1, 2010 at 11:03 PM
- Mrs. Fish aka Two Fish said...
I know why you didn't want to get dressed you naughty girl! LMAO Just kidding love! HA HA
I could see you in a movie as Roz from Grease...that is totally you, or Frenchy. HA HA You crack me up with your spiders....man everyone and the spiders. I love you dear.
- February 1, 2010 at 11:09 PM
- Susan (5 Minutes For Mom) said...
All this spider talk from everyone is FREAKING me out. I hate spiders soooo much and had a serious phobia of them when I was a child.
I'm going to have nightmares tonight!
So sweet that your pups were reunited.
Good night and talk soon.
ps My mingle is at http://www.sayitfacetoface.com/conversations/february-1-2010-monday-mingle#replies
- February 2, 2010 at 4:15 AM
- Jennifer-Eighty MPH Mom said...
Hi Jackie! I have missed your mingles!
EWWWWW on the spider in the jeans story - I would completely freak out. I am a little OCD about that, and I always shake out clothes before I put them on. I also check the bed each night by pulling back every layer of bedding!
A snake? Seriously? ugh. No thanks - I'll let you keep the snake.
Good luck with the house hunting - it is so stressful, but will be so worth it.
Thanks for mingling!
- February 2, 2010 at 9:28 PM
- Mandy said...
This is my first mingle, so hello!
That cracks me up about the character you would be, because the very FIRST thing that came to my head was that girl from Pitch Black - mostly so I could be opposite of Vin! He sure is yummy, huh!?! ;)
I loved your vlog. You are so natural and casual. Hope I get to be that relaxed eventually. See you next week!
- February 4, 2010 at 12:13 AM
- Nicole said...
Your spider story cracked me up :-)
Sorry it took me so long to get around to mingling this week. Hope you are having a great week!
- February 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM
- daddybookins said...
SPIDERS!! What a story! No thank you, I'll kindly pass!
You know at 130am I prob. wouldn't even be doing a mingle....none the less get dressed for one....pure dedication! Cheers!
Peas Out!
~daddy b.
- February 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM


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MICHAEL CAISON, PETITIONER,v.PROJECT SUPPORT SERVICES, INC., et al., RESPONDENTS
Argued November 14, 2013.
On Petition for Review from the Office of Administrative Hearings. (DOES-744-12).
Michael Caison, Pro se.
Laura Golden Liff and Adam W. Smith, for respondent, Project Support Services, Inc. Christopher M. Leins was on the brief.
Irvin B. Nathan, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Todd S. Kim, Solicitor General, and Donna M. Murasky, Deputy Solicitor General, filed a statement in lieu of brief, for respondent, the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services.
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Petitioner, Michael Caison, filed a claim for unemployment compensation after he was terminated from employment by respondent, Project Support Services, Inc. (" PSS" or " PSS, Inc." ). His claim was denied by the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (" DOES" ) on the ground that he was an independent contractor and not an employee of PSS. He filed an appeal with the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings (" OAH" ). In this court, he challenges the decision of an OAH Administrative Law Judge (" ALJ" ) that affirmed the claims examiner's determination. For the reasons stated below we vacate OAH's decision and remand this case to OAH for further proceedings consistent with instructions that appear at the end of this opinion.
The record establishes that PSS recruits and provides persons to federal agencies who perform a range of services, including engineering, administrative, contract, and realty services. Some of these individuals are designated by PSS as employees and others are designated as independent contractors.[1]
At the outset of the evidentiary hearing conducted on May 23, 2012, the ALJ announced that the only issue was whether Mr. Caison was an independent contractor. The ALJ further stated that " [b]ecause the burden of proof is on you, Mr. Caison, you will put your testimony on first" and PSS " will have an opportunity for cross-examination."
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Mr. Caison testified that PSS hired him on February 4, 2002, after he submitted " an application, resume, [and] cover letter." He was placed with the federal General Services Administration (" GSA" ) as a realty specialist " under contract to [PSS]." Mr. Caison started as " a W-2 employee, but became . . . an employee with limited benefits," and he was paid at an hourly rate. In early 2006, Lou Hammond, PSS's President, asked him to " consider becoming an independent contractor." That year, he received a W-2 tax form and a 1099 tax form. Thereafter PSS provided him with a 1099 form for tax purposes. After this modification, Mr. Caison stated that his interactions with PSS and GSA did not change, PSS continued to refer to him as an employee, and some real-estate specialists were designated employees while others were designated independent contractors. Mr. Caison maintained that he had been misclassified, and that under the common law, he should have been classified as a PSS employee, because his supervisor was Tony Sterling, the PSS official who terminated Mr. Caison's employment. In addition, Mr. Caison was required " to work core government ...
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Y plc is an investment company that holds a portfolio of fixed income securities. It wishes to reduce its exposure to such securities, and gain exposure to the commercial property market. As a short-term measure, while seeking suitable property investment opportunities, it enters on 15 January 2006 into a property based total return swap. The swap has a notional principal amount of £6 million, and a maturity of 12 months.
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In year ended 30 September 2007, the 'relevant period' is 1 October 2006 to 15 January 2007, when the contract matured. During this period, the index rose from 258.10 at 30 September 2006 to 262.31 at 31 December 2006, a percentage change of 1.63%. (The 15-day lag period between the month end and publication of the monthly figure being ignored.)
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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by rob82, Sep 19, 2010.
Well? Someone here has to know.
Of course they do . Jesus was an alien.
all i know is i'm drunk and i'm going to crawl my ass to bed.
Evidence would help.
Anecdotes from wackos and fuzzy faked pics don't help the case.
I heard you can visit them If you take some DMT.
I'm afraid of Uranus!
I've got to tell you son. Your act is a piece of sh*t
yes, but they only make contact with wackjobs, drunks, and weirdos
Do you mean here on Earth? Unless you are referring to microorganisms, no. We are too far from any other star that could support life. It's doubtful that if any civilizations that may be out there have been able to intercept our electronic signals yet. The AM band doesn't go out in space so only FM signals could be intercepted. So far they may have only reached 10,000 or so stars. That's not very many. I would think it is likely there is some life out the somewhere, but I doubt if we will ever be able to communicate with them. So no. They have never been here, nor will "they" ever come here.
Of course they do. Trillions and trillions of stars out there, and you think life is unique to this planet? To quote that dyke responsible for getting John Lennon murdered, that would be an awful waste of space.
The aliens we see visiting us are just humans from the future.
There's no other explanation why they'd look so much like us, and be so close to us in so many ways.
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What's the point in hosting the World Cup? With the recent outrage at the corruption that was rife (and well-known) at FIFA coming under fire, Sepp Blatter and a lot of his colleagues (14 to be exact) are now facing jail (admittedly while on bail or house arrest in rather more pleasant locations such as … Continue Reading →
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5 Worst Athletes turned Actors
Who is the absolute worst athlete turned actor? What's tougher, winning a gold medal or crying on queue? Well that's up for debate, but there have been plenty of star athletes who have attempted both. Some have succeeded admirably. However, we won't waste our time discussing them. Instead we will take a look at the … Continue Reading →
Wrestling; what's the cost?
Everyone loves wrestling, right? No? Okay, this may get a little dry. Wrestling is great, but it gets a bad rep due to it being 'fake'. I totally understand if you've never seen a wrestling match, and all you know it isn't, technically, a sport. However, people who have watched it and still don't see … Continue Reading →
How to Start a Streetwear Brand
Wanting to start a streetwear brand? Well, it has never been easier. Easy access to design software, quick turnaround times at printers, relatively low overheads and the ability to sell easily online have all contributed to a boom in new fashion brands popping up all over the country. However, this also means that it has become … Continue Reading →
Tactical Super Frugal Food Solutions
Living frugal – enjoyment is allowed! Frugal living doesn't necessarily mean Spartan living. There is a subtle difference here. The latter refers to a style of living where comfort and luxury are out of the equation. With frugal living, they remain in the equation – but only for special occasions, and never involving a situation … Continue Reading →
Tackling a sale, for the sale-shy
Here at Spend It Like Beckham, at the moment it is just me, Chris So, I thought it would be good to get in a guest post from elsewhere, and I thought it would be even better if this particular guest post was written by someone of the female persuasion. Women like football and money … Continue Reading →


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I grew up in KL.
Just like many of you, I grew up in Kuala Lumpur. I lived in Petaling Jaya and I studied in Kuala Lumpur, even before the rise of the LDP. I remember when I was a young boy, cycling with my good friend Jit Han, around our taman in Kelana Jaya. That's where many of my schoolmates and childhood friends lived. Some of them lived in Sungai Way, which has no connection with Sungei Wang. It was a New Village, part of the resettlement programme carried out under the British colonial rulers to destroy the communist party in pre-Merdeka Malaya. Today, Sungai Way is a bustling, albeit slightly cramped, suburb in Kuala Lumpur.
We went to a school called Seaport.
But there is no SM Seaport now. Its name has been changed, just like many other names in the Klang Valley. Street names get rejuggled and revamped to genuflect to some great person. Old street names are forgotten, without so much as a blink of an eye. It's now called SM Sri Permata.
During my schooling days, I used to get teased a bit about the name, Seaport.
"Where are you from?" "Seaport." "Which port?" "The one after A-port and B-port." "Ha ha, very funny."
One lady told me that during her day, they used to say that Seaport is between Seapark and the port. (Seapark is SM Taman SEA.)
I used to go to libraries...
It's no secret that I was a bookworm. I gave the real bookworms a run for their money. I was a member of three libraries, aside from the school library.
First there was the British Council Library. It sat atop a hill, nearby Methodist Girls School, or MGS as they called it. (Some called it "Monkey Girls School", but that was just people being mean.) There were books aplenty, and more: Videos, music, and periodicals. The library even got rid of old stuff from time to time, and I managed to snap up some out-of-print books with torn covers for a good price.
Then there was Pustaka Peringatan, which was next to the Dataran Merdeka, before Dataran Merdeka was submerged in a freak storm that resulted in a flash flood. After that flash flood, the small shopping mall at Dataran Merdeka closed up. But it's opened again in recent years. The library occupied a different building then, only two storeys high. Today there's a different building, about 4 storeys high. And it's also next door to Dataran Merdeka.
I used to visit the British Council Library and the Pustaka Peringatan together. They were nearby each other. The two libraries were good enough, as I could borrow 4 books from British Council Library and 3 books from Pustaka Peringatan.
Then there was the National Library, on Jalan Tun Razak. I used to be a member as well, but as a student I was forced to take the Mini Bus from Bangkok Bank to Jalan Pahang. I would stop at Tawakal Hospital, walk across the road, and keep walking down Jalan Tun Razak up to the blue building. But it was too much hassle, and I didn't go that often.
However, those days I just loved reading and I would borrow about ten books a week. Then I would go home and spend the evenings after dinner all the way up to 2 or 3 in the morning, just reading novels and self-improvement books.
And then things changed
I grew up, graduated from secondary school. People stopped teasing me about the rash of pimples that I had on my face, and I went to university. And the mini buses disappeared from public transportation along their glamorous moniker "BMW" (Bas Mini Wilayah), but reappeared as school buses. And the British Council Library closed. And life went on.
So that's my very simple introduction.
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There is an uneasy calm at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Medical students in 400-Level, 500-Level, and 600-Level marched on the university last Wednesday in demonstration of lopsided allocation of hostel rooms. The protesters moved from Shika area and blocked the main gate of the university.
The demonstration, which started at 9am, lasted for three hours. The students accused the management of insensitivity, saying the authorities did not maintain the tradition of allocating the Aliyu Mustapha Hostel only to medical students. Students of Geology were mixed with the medical students to occupy the medical hall, a move the medical students considered as lack of respect.
Addressing the protesters, Dr Y. Ahmed, Deputy Dean Students' Affairs, told the students to remain calm. The Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Prof A. S. Bakari, assured them that the management was looking into their plight, which would result to the Vice-Chancellor meeting the students personally later.
The students carried placards, which read: "If you don't treat your doctors well, who will?", "Aliyu Mustapha Hostel is for medical students", "If you want to live with medical students, study medicine".
The protesters demanded an apology from the Students' Representative Council (SRC) of the Students' Union, who came to Shika to insult them.


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Im new BTW!
I have 2 Tamababies!!! I got 1 from the Matchmaker (talk about good looking!) And another 1 from a Tamagotchi I brought today and there called Harry & Daisy LOL!!! So 1's in the 2nd gen. and the others in the 1st (1 was brought a week later) So hopefully when these become adults they will have more Tamababies
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Congratulations! *hands you a bottle of champaigne (sp?)* Welcome to Tamatalk!
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*confuzed* Wait a sec, do you mean you have two tama's on the same screen????
I apoligize for my newbieness :/
I apoligize for my newbieness :/


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If the tongue is a fire
have I been playing with matches?
If the pen is mightier than the sword,
can my keyboard become
a submachine gun?
An insidious weapon
of mass misdirection
in a lukewarm war of words,
the battle of 'you', me & my psyche
a publicly displayed unexploded grenade
for which the Publish button makes an innocent pin.
As a rule I might try
to keep my powder dry
not pepper the page with little word bullets
just to feel their power.
But sometimes my forest of fiction
could act as flimsy camouflage
for 26 little white snipers,
and if something triggers me,
my fingers gather their ammunition,
and I find myself fighting
with my writing
and not for my King
but more for Satan's whim,
Like the wretched mercenary I am.
So what do I do?
Get in the UN to inspect the troops
Or just full on decommission?
Save my arms for righteous causes
Or just wave a pixel white flag?
Then with the remorse must come
the painstaking minesweeping
of pointed point-making
and barbed wire lines.
But there is always some damage
that cannot be undone
and the wise will know that all of those
who wield their words as weapons
will live to eat them
just as they who live by the sword
will fall upon the same.
So that's why I hereby swear
to hammer my words into a ploughshare
so that they who come to harvest here
may reap in joy
and that poppies may grow from this page.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Nov 2007 21:36 UTC, submitted by Coldfirex
SkyOS build 6814 has been released. Among its new features are streaming support, system-wide spell checking, the Mozilla embedded Gecko engine (which is used to create a few applications like a Wikipedia reader), an updated Viewer (file manager), a new theme engine, and more.
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RE[3]: Closed source / Proprietary?
by Al2001 on Tue 27th Nov 2007 12:49 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Closed source / Proprietary?"
I don't need to code for the project to see that Gecko is a port, but alas maybe you didn't know that.
My comment was a response to the accusation earlier that ideas could be stolen by linux, it said nothing whatsoever about the legality of SkyOS source.
Try to make a point in future please, simple one line flames don't cut it.


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Morecambe Police have launched a bicycle crime prevention initiative in the area.
The bike security initiative will be held on several dates at various locations in the Morecambe district with the aim of promoting the importance of taking proper bicycle security measures following a rise in bicycle thefts in the area in recent months.
As part of this, Neighbourhood Policing Teams will be offering free bicycle-marking to members of the public.
Bike marking kits have been purchased in partnership with Lancashire County Council's Sustainable Travel Department, and will allow the public to have their bikes marked with a permanent, unique reference number, which can then be registered with Bike Register (www.BikeRegister.com).
This is a scheme used by all UK police forces that allows them to search for outstanding stolen bicycles by their serial number nationwide. Members of the public who have their bikes marked utilising this scheme will receive an email from BikeRegister letting them know they are 'live' on the system and can then log in, print off a log book and record relevant information on the system.
The bike security initiative will take place on the following dates at locations across Morecambe:
Heysham Library Sat 10 January 10am-1pm
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In re JOSEPH BAKER. DECEASED.
I, Joseph Baker, of Marystown being of sound memory and mind do declare this to be my last Will and testament; hereby revoking all former wills and Testamentary dispositions heretofore at any time made by me. I give, devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate of every kind and description and whereever situate unto my wife, Ellen Baker, to be hers during her natural life and at the death of my said wife the property hereby devised or bequeathed to her aforesaid shall go to my children to be equally divided amongst them after her death.
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This was a really fun project to make. It can double up as a card on a gift, the gift itself or a mini album because there is plenty of room to add baby pictures on and in it.
I cut all of the items with my cricut and layered each element in and then tied it all together with ribbons as well (these are baby themed but any "theme" would work, think new house, graduations, any kind of gift giving opportunity).
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I was a HUGE My So Called Life fan, I even wrote a letter to ABC begging them not to cancel the show...in fact, my eighth grade teacher was such a big fan, she made us all write a letter asking them not to cancel the show! For the past few years, I have waited patiently for them to re-release the DVDs and finally they did so I have been watching them via Netflix. They only aired 19 episodes so I am down to the last disk, I don't want it to end! This was, like, the best show EVER! This show perfectly captured what it was like to be a teenager.
This is one of my favorite scenes, it has to be one of the best moments in tv history, almost as good as when Ben told Felicity that "it was his turn."
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
4 comments:
- Melissa said...
Such a good scene!!!! I miss that show too :)
- April 16, 2008 at 12:44 PM
- ElegantSnobbery said...
LOL, I was such a My So Called Life addict in 8th grade, too!!! I also had a MSCL marathon about two years ago, when I found the DVD series at the library.
That show will always be fantastic.
- April 17, 2008 at 12:03 AM
- Cicada Studio said...
Best show EVER!!
- April 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM
- rifferaff said...
soooo gooood. i remember that scene from when i first watched it.
- April 25, 2008 at 4:28 PM
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This Sporting Mod: TF2's Great Class Dash
If you thought our second Canabalt-like game of the day had little hope of competing with a game about a robot unicorn. You'd be wrong. But if you thought our second Canabalt-like game of the day had little hope of competing with a game with an Erasure soundtrack, you'd be right. The Great Class Dash may stumble on the music front, but it's an ace little puzzle-platformer, and it's also the prettiest Team Fortress 2 – for which it is a mod – has ever been.
Out goes the high-speed shooting's gone, in comes high-speed problem solving. Your character auto-runs to the right at all times, and as in Canabalt et al it's your job to steer him out of the way of deadly obstacles. Jump, Scout! Wait, no! Switch to the Heavy and smash through that wall instead. No, wait! Become a Sniper to scare away that scary snake. Wait, no! Jump, Scout!
The key challenge is remember which key transforms you to which class so that you can deal with whatever fail condition is impending, and increasingly to immediately switch to another class afterwards. It's very cute, and very pretty – and also a very early build, which is why the jumping's a bit off and characters occasionally get stuck in the floor. It's a lovely demonstration of how excellent the TF2 artstyle and universe is, and it's yours for 70-odd megawotsits.
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The PCI Card provides a single field selectable port for your PC. It can easily be configured as RS-232, -422, or -485 supporting asynchronous data rates up to 460 kbps.
The low profile card (IC972C-R2) slides into any standard PCI slot making it ideal for field use. Configure it as RS-232 for standard serial COM-port requirements to connect modems, printers or plotters. Use RS-422 mode for long-distance connections up to 1200 meter that require noise immunity and high data integrity. The card works seamlessly with your standard operating system's serial driver. FIFO schemes up to 128 bytes are supported for isochronous data rates up to speed of the supplied clock.
Except for IC974C, the cards feature opto-isolation thwarts ground loops.
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IC978C also: 921.6 kbps (burst)
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Interface —
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"These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy: neutrino astronomy." -John Bahcall
From the Hubble expansion of the Universe to isotropy and homogeneity to the light elements to the leftover radiation glow to the formation of large-scale structure in the Universe, the Big Bang is by far the most successful scientific description of the Universe of all-time.
Even with the add-ons of dark matter, dark energy and inflation, the Big Bang still thrives, accounting for all of those phenomena and leading to observable predictions that have since been verified. But there's one thing it's predicted that we haven't been able to test: a cosmic background of low-energy, relic neutrinos. We know they need to be there if the Big Bang is correct, but we don't know how to successfully detect them.
Go read the whole story of the Big Bang's last great prediction!