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Build Back Smarter provides home owners and landlords in Christchurch, Selwyn and Waimakariri districts with free, no obligation, expert advice about ways to improve their homes.
Christchurch city councillor, Glenn Livingstone says, "So far we have helped more than 700 home owners better understand how they can improve their health and comfort, and lower household energy bills. It's really easy to do – just book your free appointment online at www. buildbacksmarter.co.nz, or phone the council on 941 8999."
The Build Back Smarter home assessment provides owners with an opportunity to talk with a specialist about a wide range of topics including: insulation, heating, lighting, windows and doors, draft stopping, ventilation, moisture control, water heating and other energy saving ideas.
Homeowners receive a written Healthy Home Improvement Plan that is tailored to their needs and budgets, which provides a prioritised set of recommendations for their home.
St Albans home owner, Melissa Willis, has high praise for her home assessor after booking and receiving her Healthy Home Improvement Plan.
"The assessor was superb," she says. "He went around the house with me, giving me tips and suggestions that were really helpful. I had lots of questions that he could answer on the spot and then he provided a written summary of his recommendations. Anyone with drippy windows, cold bedrooms or high electricity bills will really benefit from this service – and best of all it's totally free."
Build Back Smarter assessor, Blair Magon from Smart Energy Solutions is really pleased to see landlords taking up the Build Back Smarter service. "A warm and dry rental property means less tenant turnover, fewer mould issues and lower maintenance and running costs for both the landlord and tenant.
"I am thrilled the government is considering making insulation mandatory for rental properties. Build Back Smarter can help by providing written evidence that the insulation has been checked or topped-up, and the landlord has undertaken other ways to make the home warmer.
"Many things we recommend are really simple and easy, like draught stopping around windows and doors, switching to LED lights and adjusting the temperature of hotwater cylinders. It's also important to get the basics right, such as avoiding moisture at its source by using a bathroom extractor fan and kitchen rangehood.
"A damp home is hard to heat and leads to mould problems, but this is easily avoided by adequate ventilation and heating."
Glenn Livingstone says the Christchurch City Council is proud to support the Build Back Smarter service along with its partners the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority.
"It is important people can access this reliable, free advice service while they are repairing or renovating their homes. That's why we are providing free entry to the Christchurch Home Show being held April 1-3 at Horncastle Arena."
Glenn encourages anyone thinking about home improvements to come along to the show and book a Build Back Smarter appointment while they are there. Or avoid the rush at the Home Show, get in early and book online today at www.buildbacksmarter.co.nz.
How it works
Build Back Smarter is a free service providing homeowners with face to face advice on making their homes warmer, drier, healthier and cheaper to run.
It provides free, expert advice about home improvements and is particularly relevant for people undertaking earthquake repairs.
You can request a healthy home assessment by telephone or by completing a booking form online. You must choose one of the providers listed:
- Community Energy Action – 0800 438 9276
- Smart Energy Solutions – 0800 888 766
- AirCon NZ – 343 3049 or 0800 161 162
A friendly Build Back Smarter advisor will visit your home and help you prepare a Healthy Home Improvement Plan tailored to your needs and budget.
The advisor will give you practical and specific advice on how to make your home warmer, drier, healthier and cheaper to run.
Should you choose to undertake any recommendations funding support and product discounts may be available (special terms and conditions apply).
Your Healthy Home Improvement Plan will cover:
- Insulation
- Heating
- Ventilation
- Dampness control
- Lighting
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Peter Cooke named Vincent Rampton, the son of the late three-term Gov. Cal Rampton, as his running mate in the 2012 election.
Rampton, an attorney at the firm of Jones Waldo practicing real estate and environmental law, said it is daunting to follow in his father's footsteps.
"I have evaded this decision for 35 years now simply because my father's actual record, to say nothing of his memory which has grown in the minds of many over the years, is pretty intimidating," Rampton said. "I think it's been long enough. There are plenty of people in the state who have no recollection of Cal Rampton and maybe those who do will have another look at someone who [like him] approaches things a little differently."
Rampton said he and Cooke first met several weeks ago to discuss the possibility of teaming up for the gubernatorial bid. He said they agreed on the important issues especially the need to fund education to drive economic growth and he was struck by Cooke's leadership skills.
"We are not feeding the education effort the way we need to. We need to treat our teachers as professionals, because that's what they are. We need to shrink class sizes," he said, adding that that will ensure Utah's economic prosperity.
Cooke is a retired two-star general who commanded the U.S. Army Reserve for the Western region, worked in economic development for the state, and started a business that builds affordable housing.
"What made me decide that this was the time was just listening to General Cooke's ideas about bringing renewed vibrancy to the two-party system and his personal commitment and strength and charisma to bring people together," Rampton said.
Rampton said it reminded him of watching his father's administration and the way he created consensus in what was, even then, a predominantly Republican state.
"It has been increasingly difficult to watch a one-party system deteriorate into a fragment of a one-party system, where large out-of-state interests are dictating policy for the state of Utah," he said.
Michael Lyons, a political science professor at Utah State University, said that lieutenant governor picks rarely make much difference in the election, but the Rampton choice could provide a boost to the Cooke campaign.
"The first rule of electoral politics is establish name recognition, and there is hardly a better name than 'Rampton' in Utah politics," Lyons said. "You run into people all the time who have fond memories of Cal Rampton as governor, so I think it's a shrewd choice."
Vince Rampton graduated from the University of Utah and earned his law degree from Brigham Young University. He is married and has seven children. His wife, Janice Welling, is a cellist and a life-long Republican.
Rampton said several of his kids will be with the family at the state Democratic convention this weekend.
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Creative Writing
The Creative Writing Concentration in the English major: This concentration allows students to pursue creative writing at a high level in the context of advanced literary study. The concentration fosters the study of the history and practice of individual genres and of new hybrid forms. Students are offered the opportunity to work closely with the novelist Amy Bloom; biographer Lisa Cohen; novelist and esayist Hirsh Sawney; and fiction writer and poet Tiphanie Yanique. Recent visiting faculty include such distinguished writers as Andre Aciman, Hilton Als, Liz Brown, Matthew Burnside, Clifford Chase, Tonya Foster, Alan Gilbert, Alex Gilvarry, Susan Howe, Erica Hunt, Porochista Khakpour, Paul LaFarge, Lisa Locascio, Douglas Martin, Salvatore Scibona, Brando Skyhorse, Maria Venegas, Danielle Vogel, Jane Windolf and Matvei Yankelevich. Enrollment in creative writing courses in the English Department is not limited to English majors.
Creative Writing in the College of Letters: Creative writing has long been an important component of the College of Letters curriculum, with an entry-level and an advanced course offered every year and open to students in all majors. COL majors are encouraged to write creative honors theses.
The Writing Certificate: The university's certificate in writing is open to students in any field of study who wish to make writing an area of concentration. Certificate courses include journalism, arts criticism, fiction, poetry, drama, biography, writing on science for non-specialists, and others. In addition to fulfilling the coursework requirements for the certificate, students create a portfolio of their work and present their writing in public. The certificate sponsors a number of courses that carry the WRCT designation. Among recent certificate faculty are novelist Paula Sharp, who taught the senior seminar; and novelist Amy Bloom, the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing.
The Creative Writing Concentration is a competitive program within the English major that is geared toward students who wish to pursue an intensive specialization in creative writing in the context of advanced literary study.
The Creative Writing Concentration supports a rigorous study of contemporary writing practices and their roots, influences, and precursors. Students learn that writing is a practice that involves an ongoing negotiation of the tensions between creativity and discipline, experimentation and structure, critical analysis and textual production.
In addition to meeting the core requirements for the English major, students must complete four courses within the concentration: 1) a Techniques course or an Intermediate Workshop; 2) an Intermediate or Advanced Workshop; 3) an Intermediate or Advanced Workshop; 4) a Special Topics course or other genre-focused course. (An Advanced Workshop may be repeated for credit.) The Intermediate and Advanced Workshops and some Special Topics courses are enrolled by permission of instructor through an application process explained on the course pages in WesMaps.
Students who intend to concentrate in Creative Writing must complete an Intermediate or Advanced Workshop with a grade of B+ or higher. They should also be aware that they are not guaranteed a place in Creative Writing permission of instructor (POI) courses and that admission to the concentration is not guaranteed. A student cannot enroll in more than one Intermediate or Advanced Workshop offered in the same term.
As students pursue the Creative Writing Concentration, they should keep alternative concentrations in mind. Students who have not been able to successfully complete the four courses required for this concentration - or have not fulfilled the grade requirement in an Intermediate or Advanced Workshop - will find that nearly all the courses they have taken will contribute to the Theory and Literary Forms Concentration. Please note that students are free to pursue any of the other concentrations.


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What To Do With Extra Coupons
I just wanted to give you a little tip on what you can do with all of those extra coupons that you are holding on to but have no use for.
You can trade them with other, or here is something else you can do:
Become a coupon fairy.
If you're not familiar with the term "coupon fairy", let me explain. Basically a coupon fairy is someone that takes all of their extra coupons and they walk up and down all the aisles of their local stores, leaving coupons on the shelves for other people to find and use.
Let's say you have a coupon for Depends diapers and you don't need that product. Walk down the aisle that carries those Depends diapers and leave the Depends coupons right in front of the product.
Now, the next person who goes to purchase those diapers will see those coupons and will be able to use them on their purchase (a purchase they were going to make anyway).
I definitely encourage this. I think it's a great way to pay it forward with your couponing habits.
Of course, you could always pick up items yourself and donate them, but if you don't have time for that, I suggest being a coupon fairy at least once.
A lot of people who do decide to do this actually bring their coupons out right around when they're going to expire, just so that they don't have to throw them out. This is what I usually do as well.
Please consider giving this a try. If you have coupons that are about to expire, or you just have a bunch of coupons that you don't need, being them with you on your next shopping trip and leave them behind for other shoppers.


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These aren't the best photos... but I snapped some quick one with my phone so I could show you the goods!
{an aluminum strainer, my grandpa used one like this to make jam and jelly}
{locker baskets... double the size of the others I own, less than half the cost!}
{a piece of trim molding - it was only a dollar, I couldn't pass it up}
{my favorite finds of the day... a pair of wooden folding chairs from The Seed Box}
{ps: I had seen The Seed Box's website before going to the market!}
I made a quick trip out of it. I only brought the cash I was willing to spend, walked through each booth quickly, and avoided eye contact, haha. I get uncomfortable when people are trying really hard to sell me something I really have no intention of buying - I just wanted to look! Some booths were good, others not so much. But that's a flea market I suppose!
I was home after an hour, ate breakfast, cleaned up, and went to the Mizzou softball game. The super regionals are being hosted here in Columbia, and Mizzou beat Oregon today. They just have to beat them again tomorrow and Mizzou is headed to the College World Series!
Hopefully I'll sleep in a little tomorrow! I need to use the 3-day weekend to relax a little!


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I suppose this is where movies require suspension of disbelief, by I find it tough to see how Peter Sarsgaard-not-heavily-disguised would have to "ply" a heterosexual female with anything more than his being a clean-shaven Peter Sarsgaard. A full-bearded Sarsgaard might have to ply, but this one? I won't have it.
Friday, October 09, 2009
"[...] plying her with Champagne and cigarettes and airy, high-minded talk."
Posted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy at Friday, October 09, 2009
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6 comments:
- PG said...
Judging by the reviewer's evaluation of Sarsgaard as "reasonably handsome" and "quietly dashing," he's less besotted than you are. At least there doesn't seem to be an obviously less attractive person whom the heroine prefers, which exasperated me about the remake of "Sabrina": crushing on Greg Kinnear and never noticing Harrison Ford? Really?
- Friday, October 09, 2009 1:25:00 PM
- Phoebe said...
I don't see it with Harrison Ford, but can't quite picture Greg Kinnear... but I get the principle of what you're saying, and agree. Inasmuch as conventional attractiveness in movies is a stand-in for the more subjective hotness in everyday life, having an everywoman heroine prefer a less attractive man is a claim that women are moved not by physical attraction but by wealth, sense of humor, all those factors that are important and all, but that without the physical-attraction bit mean 'friends.'
- Friday, October 09, 2009 2:12:00 PM
"Inasmuch as conventional attractiveness in movies is a stand-in for the more subjective hotness in everyday life, having an everywoman heroine prefer a less attractive man is a claim that women are moved not by physical attraction but by wealth, sense of humor, all those factors that are important and all, but that without the physical-attraction bit mean 'friends.'"
This is actually a rather gender-neutral device that many romantic movies use to separate the eventual couple until the final reel.
Having the guy end up preferring the girl next door instead of the sexy babe is just as standard a trope as having the chick end preferring the witty schlub instead of the hunk.
The moral that soul mating is not skin deep is an enduring cinematic storyline, wholly separate from the larger gender issues in current cinema.
- Friday, October 09, 2009 7:03:00 PM
- PG said...
My point with the "Sabrina" remake is that Greg Kinnear is not clearly more physically attractive than Harrison Ford, so positing that a young woman would have a mad crush on the former and never notice the latter is implausible. I was fine with the original, because she was crushing on William Holden and ignoring Humphrey Bogart, but as you say ultimately ends up with the person of good character instead of the pretty face. They nearly screwed that one up too, though, by initially trying to get Cary Grant for the role Bogart ultimately took.
- Friday, October 09, 2009 8:12:00 PM
- Matt said...
Can you ply with cigarettes? That seems odd. He looks sort of normal to me- not a bad looking guy at all, but not that unusual, either. Certainly not someone I'd especially notice, I'd think.
- Friday, October 09, 2009 9:39:00 PM
- Phoebe said...
One can ply with anything, although a nonsmoker would probably not react the hoped-for way with this technique. As for Sarsgaard, my sense is, women see it, men don't, but everything's subjective, plus if he's playing an inappropriate love interest for a teenager, his natural hotness is probably diminished for some viewers. Sarsgaard looks more like a man for a woman than a man a girl would find attractive - a James Franco, say, who even if far too old, still gives off the air of a likely teen heartthrob.
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(Kenneth Branagh directs Richard Madden and Lily James as Romeo and Juliet and Derek Jacobi as Mercutio)
Shakespeare is my fauvorite poet and, besides, I am an opera buff. That's to say that Shakespeare in Opera seems to me an interesting topic.
I've always wondered why there was no mention how, in particular, Verdi wrestled quite successfully in "translating" Shakespeare to opera. Most modern film attempts have met with less than stellar popular success. I also found his ideas rather intriguing as they do often "translate" in another area that fascinates me: namely, music. My wife "hates" going to concert events or listening to recordings that deviate even in the slightest to studio recordings that she is mostly familiar with but I actually like improvisation so long as it doesn't get too carried away from the main theme. Attempts to "update" Shakespeare can be seen as a -- forgive me--bastardization -- of his original concept but if that is what it takes to reach a mass audience--who am I to complain. Well, of course I can "complain" if the production loses what I in my purely narcissistic sense think what the play's about and find the "interpretation" to have missed the boat... but thus far that has been rare. I remember the last production of Othello I saw starring Ruy de Carvalho in 1998 at Teatro D. Maria II. As we were leaving the theater I overheard a woman uttering in disgust to her companion," the producer of that mess should be shot" (said in Portuguese)...believe or not I resisted my inherent urge to "strangle her" ...then again, I guess it is what makes interpretation so much fun...as long as the general ideas don't get lost in the mix...
Others famous composers considered to write operas based on King Lear. Britten was one of them but abandoned the project. Re Lear (King Lear) is an operatic libretto written by Antonio Somma for Giuseppe Verdi. Although the Italian composer considered the project of Re Lear for many years, no music for the opera was ever composed. Instead, German composer Aribert Reimann wrote the opera Lear premiered at the National Theatre Munich on July 1978. And the English composer Alexander Goehr wrote "Promised End" based on Shakespeare's King Lear and first performed by English Touring Opera in 2010.
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Beds of Paradise is where is all began, back in 2009.
We decided to open a shop that was different, as to be honest, standard bed shops make us yawn, with row upon row of beds set in a large shed surrounded by car parks. The last thing you want to do is relax and try a bed with harsh lighting and someone hovering over you!
Beds of Paradise offers a blend of beds and furniture, with interior pieces, gifts and antique lighting that adds a homely feel to your whole experience. We deal with some of the biggest brands in the industry, including Somnus, Sealy, Furmanac and Health Beds, to name just a few.
We are happy to sell you a complete divan bed, a bed base on its own or maybe just a mattress only, whether it be a standard open coil springs, pocket sprung, memory foam, gel, latex or good old fashioned fillings such as wool, silk, cotton and cashmere – we really do have something to suit everyone. We can even have beds and mattresses made in bespoke sizes, so don't let that awkward space put you off.
We also offer a vast range of bed frames including wooden, metal or fabric, as well as a huge selection of headboards to finish the look.
Adjustable beds are a speciality of ours and we have a good selection to offer in store, so whether you need it to aid your mobility or just fancy one for a bit of luxury, pop in to put one to the test. It's worth noting that if you need an adjustable bed for an ongoing disabling health condition, we are able to sell it to you VAT exempt – saving you 20% straight away! They are available in lots of sizes from 2'3″ (very small single) right through to 6′ (superking) wide.
Some say size doesn't matter but when it comes to buying a new bed, we think it makes all the difference! In fact, we believe that the bigger the bed, the better night's sleep you'll get. Single beds are fine for children but we often find that a teenager (or older person) is far more comfortable in a small double bed (often called a three quarter bed). Double beds are okay but again, if there are two people in the bed, you'll have a far better sleep in a king size…and better still in a wonderful super king.
When it comes to bedroom furniture, we can pretty much get what you want, including wardrobes (with hinged doors or sliding wardrobe doors), chest of drawers, dressing tables, bedside cabinets and more! Modern in style, 'French' style, 'shabby chic', traditional…you name it, we'll try to get it. Lots of our bedroom furniture comes ready assembled but we also have some which comes flat-packed, as it's not always easy getting a wardrobe up a staircase!
With deliveries, we come into our own. To start with it's always FREE within a 25 mile radius of Downham Market*. We use two men, so you've no need to worry about having to grab the other end of something. We deliver your purchases to the room of your choice. We assemble divan beds FREE of charge (bed frames and furniture can be assembled for an additional charge) and we'll even take away the rubbish and dispose of your old bed…for FREE, of course! That's not bad is it?
Even if you don't need our expert advice for a bed yet, you can come over and choose a gift or piece for your home – or just nip in for a sherry!
We believe the service you'll receive will be second to none – and we hope to see you very soon.
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I recently joined in a discussion on Twitter about how and why the books of Malcolm Gladwell fill a gap in science outreach. The questions remain open, and popularizing our research results might be a requirement on grant proposals that is left to the occasions in which we are invited to try and explain our findings to a broader public.
Nonetheless, these are valuable questions we should ask ourselves. For that reason, I'm glad to share this Storify here.
Why do you think is there a gap between science outreach and popular writing as by Gladwell?


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*NEW NEW* Fuse ODG - Only (Official Music Video)
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Here's the official video for the new smash from the pioneer of the New Africa, Fuse ODG.
Just arrived from the motherland, Fuse ODG is back with a fresh new banger for the world entitled 'Only' produced by the one and only Killbeatz
Listen, vibe, enjoy and share
This song was inspired by his travels through the continent..
Na na na na na ey eyy oh eh
Baby gyal give it to me eyy oh eh
Mic check 1 2 3 4 ohhh ey
Killbeatz give it to them eeem oh ey
Only , Only in Africa (x 2)
Gyal come my way ,I need me somebody
You gotta give it to me, You moving like you in a hurry
Gyal come my way ohhh , you're my kinda safari
She move her body like a snake oh , but she got the heart of a lion
Only , Only in Africa (x 4)
Ey ey ey ey eh
Said Im feeling her size
She always Gorilla (Go realer) , fellin her vibe
Twerk pants like a zebra, feeling her stripes
And I'll never be a cheater if you be my wife
Yhhh eyyy
And im feeling her stride, good gyal gone giraffe
When she seem so polite , Gave me a long neck so I gave her a bite Cos she move like an animal
All of the badder bad gyal wanna move their waist , Oohhhh wanna move their waist
All of the goody goody gyal with the sweetest face, Ohhh wanna do the same
Only , Only in Africa (x4)
You remind me of Zimbabwe, I just wanna see your waterfall ahh remind me of Ghana yh, the Gold in you im digging for sure love
You remind me of naija babe , the way your making your moves make me wanna holla
The way that you grinding and smilling I know that you really want it
All of the badder bad gyal wanna move their waist ,
Oohhhh wanna move their waist
All of the goodie goodie gyal with the sweetest face,
Ohhh wanna do the same
Only , Only in Africa (x4)
Its fuse !!!! AY , Mr Hackett yhhhh
It's a worldwide movement, K k k k killbeatz lets go,
Im digging your gold yhh yhh , Im feeling you soul yhh yhh (x4)


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Astronomers Get Rare Peek at Early Stage of Star Formation
Using radio and infrared telescopes, astronomers have obtained a first tantalizing look at a crucial early stage in star formation. The new observations promise to help scientists understand the early stages of a sequence of events through which a giant cloud of gas and dust collapses into dense cores that, in turn, form new stars.
The scientists studied a giant cloud about 770 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus. They used the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to make detailed observations of a clump, containing nearly 100 times the mass of the Sun, within that cloud.
Full Story: http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2012/clumpcores/
Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust
Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The colorful specks — developing stars strung across the image — are rapidly heating up and cooling down, speaking to the turbulent, rough-and-tumble process of reaching full stellar adulthood.
The image can be viewed at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/herschel/multimedia/pia13959.html
The rainbow of colors represents different wavelengths of infrared light captured by both Spitzer and Herschel. Spitzer is designed to see shorter infrared wavelengths than Herschel. By combining their observations, astronomers get a more complete picture of star formation. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer mission for NASA, and also plays an important role in the European Space Agency-led Herschel mission.
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This is part seven of a Let's Play series of Magic 2014 – Duels of the Planeswalkers in campaign mode. In this part we continue our foray into Zendikar and have to survive the Roil, a natural phenomenon unique to the Zendikar plane that is sort of a magical earthquake and storm rolled into one.
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Finally, the jewel is back in the crown of the King Edward Hotel.
Walking into the ornate Crystal Ballroom is like stepping back into a forgotten time. But then, until recently, the Ballroom had all but been forgotten. As an extension of Omni King Edward Hotel's $40 million complete renovation, the restoration of the Crystal Ballroom began in 2015 and was finally complete on April 19, 2017.
From the 1920s to the 1970s, the Crystal Ballroom was home to some of Toronto's most prestigious social functions, including weddings and high-profile galas. And you only have to stand in the center of the grandiose 5,000 square-foot room to understand why.
As with the newly renovated King Edward Hotel, the Crystal Ballroom's restoration was heavily influenced by its original interior, which featured old-world charm enhanced by modern style and luxury. Fully restored are the venue's ornate and intricate crown moldings and the 8-meter-high coffered ceilings. Enormous floor-to-ceiling windows frame breathtaking panoramic views of the surrounding city and Lake Ontario.
The floor of the pre-function space was finished in mosaic tile. There's also a new permanent bar designed to reflect the timeless detailing of the original era. Similarly, the Crystal Ballroom carpet is reminiscent of the early 1920s, but rendered in a contemporary fashion. The wall sconces and the three magnificent chandeliers – from which the Ballroom got its name – have been updated and include ornate crystal elements.
History repeats itself as the return to bygone elegance is finally complete.
The original King Edward Hotel was built in 1903. It wasn't until 1921 that the 17-story tower was added, making the hotel Toronto's first skyscraper and Canada's largest hotel at that time. Perched atop the luxury hotel was the crowning jewel: the magnificent and spacious Crystal Ballroom.
It wasn't long before the venue became the most sought-after destination for high-profile events, becoming the epicenter of Toronto's colorful social scene.
The Crystal Ballroom continued its reign over the city until it was closed in the late 1970s for a variety of reasons, including stricter fire code regulations. Throughout the years, there'd always been talk of restoring the regal space to its former glory, but extensive renovations were required and funding was never available.
That all changed when Omni, on the heels of its $40 million renovation of the King Edward Hotel, invested an additional $6.5 million to restore the Crystal Ballroom, making it again the fully functioning and lively destination that it once was.


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Join us if you want to learn how to produce narrative-based audio! We are a series of participatory workshops dedicated to encourage creative, broadcast-quality storytelling.
We will meet Wednesdays (6 – 8pm) and Saturdays (1 – 4pm) from May 2 – May 20 at the Mess Hall.
Come to all sessions or as many as you can.
Saturday, May 16th class moved to Sunday, May 17th, from 5-8pm
We listen, interview, record, write, edit, collaborate, and create sounds together. Our meetings are free & open to the public. Beginners are always welcome.
Digital voice recorders and all other required production equipment supplied by Vocalo.org via its educational outreach program. Vocalo.org exists to support local community [broadcast] participation.
Final pieces presented live at Mess Hall, looped to play on speakers hanging outside Mess Hall 24 / 7 for 1-week post-workshop period, broadcasted by Vocalo (89.5FM) and SAIC Free Radio (http://freeradiosaic.org/), and uploaded to an online Mess Hall profile (www.vocalo.org).
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Stay Sharp, Train Your Brain to Focus
Brain training can help to retain information, recall facts quickly, and sharpen focus.
Brain exercises can help older adults improve reasoning skills and processing speed for 10 years after the training ends, according to a recent federally sponsored study on cognitive training.
Hang on, we are busy exercising our brains all day long, the financial markets are not for slackers.
Even so, but just by adding a few brain daily can help you reap the benefits of brain training.
Below is a list daily things to do daily to sharpen intelligence, as follows:
1. Follow ideas through to various outcomes: Busy people are often plagued with more ideas than time to deal with them in. Make it a habit to do idea exercises come up with 3 possible outcomes for your ideas, even if there is only 1 way you expect it to turn out. Make it a habit to consider alternatives, think
2. Add 10–20 mins of aerobic exercise to your day: Aerobic activity slashes your lifetime risk of Alzheimer's by 50% and your risk of general dementia by 60%, according to the Director of the Seattle Pacific University Brain Center for Applied Learning Research.
3. Engage in stimulating conversation: The art of conversation requires that one think on one's feet, and conversing with someone smarter than you can be a fantastic exercise in quick thinking as well as an opportunity to learn something new. Seek out interesting people and engage them in conversation.
4. Take online courses: You can learn just about anything online. Commit to learning something new daily, make it something useful.
5. Give your brain a break: We cannot be "On" all the time, tune Out and automate redundant tasks that take up time and brain space, forget all unneeded stuff.
6. Practice a hobby: Make sure you do something you love each and every day. If the human brain is constantly bogged down in work, it has no time or space to explore creative, fun ideas and concepts. Hobbies can help sharpen human intelligence.
7. Stop, Look, Listen, Learn: Read reports, listen to podcasts, watch video clips where you can. Switch it up using more of your senses to take in information, and stay engaged to retain more of it.
Science has proved that brain training can make us smarter, and make life better.
Stay tuned…
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This is one of the many canal intersections in Amsterdam, Netherlands just after sunset. This was my favorite section of Amsterdam canals because they were narrow, lined with interesting buildings and house boats, and had cool bridges across them as you see here. The streaks of light in the water are from a boat that passed by while I was taking photos. This is the intersection of Brouwersgracht and Herengracht canals (don't ask me how to pronounce them), just west of Amsterdam Centraal train station in the Jordaan section of Amsterdam. The Herengracht canal is one of the 4 main concentric half-circle canals that circle the center of the city. Brouwersgracht means "brewers' canal," so named because this canal used to have many breweries along it, most of which have now been converted into trendy warehouse apartments.
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Client / Tomkins Commercial and Mica Properties
Location / North Lakes, Queensland
Value / $3 million
Services / Structural Engineering
Total Tools North Lakes is a large bulky goods retail centre comprising of four tenancies on a 6,761m2 block. The Total Tools tenancy spans 1,400m2 with adjoining tenancies at 1,553m2.
As owners of the estate, Mica Properties required a high quality and flexible development that would attract tenants for long term leases. Through the use of a clear floor span over three tenancies, flexible wall arrangements were designed to deliver a structure that is able to be adjusted for specific tenant requirements.
Large window openings to utilise maximum natural light presented a challenge in the design of the structural steel and tilt panels. This was overcome by working closely with the architect to achieve the desired outcome, while keeping the clients budget on track at all times.
Through the thorough documentation of the footings adjacent to an existing boulder retaining wall, we were able to identify and solve risks in the early design development phase which saved our client construction costs and enabled the contractor to remain on program.
By working closely with the mechanical consultant we were able to optimise our roof steel design to accommodate the air conditioning system and provide a structure that delivers the client key success factor of a flexible development.
McVeigh have significant experience in dealing with international steel fabricators. By drawing on upon this experience and working in tandem with the steel fabricator, we were able to deliver a significant cost saving and high quality assured product for Mica Properties.


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Jeanne E Webster-All Rights Reserved
Welcome to my house. It's getting old and shabby, I know. It's not a big house, only five feet and two inches. The roof is a medium brown and grey tweed, blending well with the olive tinted exterior. What really pops are the two deep-blue windows which reflect the distinctive characteristics of the tenant…ME!
Come on in and let's get acquainted.
Howdy! It's nice to meet you. By the way, I just love your house. Really cool roof color. Don't mind my house; it needs a new coat of paint. But I won't be needing it much longer.
Did you know we are made of three separate parts? Yep, we have a body, mind and spirit. We've already compared and sized up the bodily component. Voila, ready or not, here we are! Our houses have a way of standing out, don't they?
It'll be harder for you to see my inner person, my mind and spirit, mainly because they are intangible. So sit down for a spell and listen up; you just might learn a thing or two about me. Maybe I'll learn more about myself too.
A mind is a strange thing. Mysterious and eerie, like a jet plane flying so high in the sky, one cannot see it, only hear it. Sometimes it's occluded by clouds. We'll never figure out all the dynamics of our minds, because they are quite intricate organs. I strive daily to know my inner self. Even the Bible advises us to "know thyself". Easier said than done, right?
My mind is a tool that helps me survive, to understand the world around me. I have learned responsibility and a moral sense of right and wrong. I have free will rights to anything I want to do, but along with this free will comes a conscience, an entity I can't see or hold, yet it is there as certainly as my physical aspects.
I've heard the still small voice of my Creator that bids me love others as He loves me, forgive others as He forgives my sins, and to tell the "good news" to the world. My mind knows His voice and my body obeys His directions.
My spirit is that essence within me that searches the recessed corners of many rooms in my house, making sure that all is well. It's that "finger to finger" touch Michelangelo portrayed in his fresco of Adam reaching out for God. I find it a vital exercise for my physical and mental health to reach up and touch God's hand every day.
Hopefully you have gotten to know me better, and I look forward to peeking inside you one day.
Let's end with an exercise that involves all three aspects of the inner person…prayer. Pray always, earnestly and fervently.
"Take the time to reach up for God; He's reaching down for you. "
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Springfield, Mass. - October 27, 2018 - The Springfield College women's volleyball team clinched the top seed in the upcoming New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship after it downed Emerson in four sets in its regular-season finale on Saturday in Blake Arena. Springfield prevailed by the set scores of 25-27, 25-9, 25-18, 25-22.
With the win, the Pride improved to 22-6, 9-1 in conference play and earned a share of the regular-season title for the eighth time in program history and first since 2015. By virtue of a tiebreaker, and thanks to its four-set victory over MIT on September 11, Springfield earned the top seed in the upcoming NEWMAC Championship for the first time since 2013. The Pride will host a championship semifinal on Thursday at 7 pm in Blake Arena.
Jen Donnelly (Exeter, R.I.) was tremendous in the victory for Springfield as the senior notched a match-high 19 kills at a .366 clip to go along with 15 digs. It also proved to be a historic match for Donnelly, as she became the 11th player in program history to reach the 1,000 career kill plateau. Katie vonKampen (South Setauket, N.Y.) delivered a career-high 18 kills, hitting .577 on the day, while adding a match-high five blocks. Sara Labadorf (Huntersville, N.C.) racked up 50 assists in leading the Pride to a .296 hitting percentage and 59 kills in four sets. Briana Tovar (Tucson, Ariz.) added a match-high 17 digs and three aces.
The setback dropped Emerson to 15-14, 2-8 as the Lions were held to a .089 hitting percentage on the afternoon. Grace Tepper totaled a team-best 10 kills, Moira Brennan handed out 29 assists, Lauren Quan produced 16 digs, and Fara Cohen registered three aces.
After Springfield jumped out to a 4-1 lead to start the match, Emerson would respond with a 7-1 surge to gain an 8-5 cushion. The Pride would whistle for its first timeout at 14-13 following a kill by the Lions, and would answer out of the break with a 6-1 push, getting an ace from Demi Spanos (West Harrison, N.Y.) to earn a 19-15 edge. The visitors pushed back with four-straight points to force the Pride into another timeout, but Springfield would regain a 23-22 edge when vonKampen put a ball away in the middle. However, the Lions used a block and ace out of their final timeout to earn the first of their three set points before Kelly Guerra converted out of the middle for the 27-25 win. Springfield totaled 17 kills in the frame, with five coming off the arm of Camryn Bancroft (Eastport, N.Y.), in a set where there were 15 ties.
Springfield came out focused in the second set, seizing a 6-0 lead after Donnelly bounced an overpass. The frame would be all Springfield, as Bancroft and Donnelly sealed for a stuff on the pin at 16-5 as Emerson burned a timeout. The hosts would eventually take the set, 25-9, as it hit at a .474 clip in the frame, led by seven kills from Donnelly.
Facing a 13-9 deficit in the third, Springfield poured on four-straight points coming out of a timeout as Bancroft put away an overpass to knot the set at 13-all. After Emerson earned a 16-15 lead on a Pride serving error, the hosts rattled off a 10-2 surge to pull away with a 25-18 win. Springfield leaned on vonKampen throughout the burst , and the junior totaled four of her seven third-set kills. Springfield totaled 18 kills in the set, which came at a .310 clip.
In the fourth, a big swing from Spanos allowed the Pride to open up a 7-2 lead, but the visitors answered back to get within 15-14 following an ace. Using a 9-3 surge that was highlighted by aces from Tovar and Ashley Tanner (Manorville, N.Y.), Springfield earned match point at 24-17 following a Donnelly kill. After Emerson responded with five-straight points, Donnelly put the exclamation point on the win with her 19th kill of the night for the 25-22 triumph.


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Inspector Recommends 28,370 Homes for South Worcestershire
The Inspector who is carrying out an Examination of the South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) has recommended that 28,370 homes need to be built in the area by 2030.
However, he has also said that nearly 5,000 of those homes have in fact already been built – because the Plan covers the period since 2006.
The Inspector's recommended figure is higher than the 23,200 in the Plan that was submitted to the Government last year and a slight increase on the 27,300 proposed by the three partner councils in January this year. However, it is considerably fewer than the 36,000 some developers called for during public hearings in October and March.
It is also 2,200 fewer than would have been required under the old West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy, which the coalition Government abolished shortly after coming to power in 2010.
Councillor Judy Pearce, who chairs the South Worcestershire Joint Advisory Panel that leads work on the SWDP, said:
"We know many people will be unhappy at the level of housing the Inspector has proposed, but the only way we can secure a locally-controlled future for south Worcestershire is to ensure that the Plan gets to the stage where it can be adopted as quickly as possible.
"Once adopted, the SWDP will give the three councils control over where new homes and businesses are built. Without it, we face a future where developers can try to build almost anywhere and our powers to resist their applications would be very limited."
The Inspector, Roger Clews, took into account the requirements of the new National Planning Policy Framework and the recently released National Planning Practice Guidelines in reaching his conclusions, which have today been published at swdevelopmentplan.org
Each of the three councils preparing the Plan - Malvern Hills District Council, Worcester City Council and Wychavon District Council – will be asked in the summer to formally accept the Inspector's recommendation. In preparation for that, work has begun to identify potential sites where the additional homes could be built and to assess other implications of the Inspector's recommendation.
The councils have already told the Inspector that they will continue to follow the strategy of the SWDP, which is to concentrate development in and around existing communities, rather than create new towns and villages. A substantial database of sites already exists from earlier work on the Plan, and more have been proposed by local people, organisations and developers in a recent formal call for sites.
Those sites will all be assessed for a range of factors, including access to infrastructure, transport links and whether they are prone to flooding.
A preferred list of sites will then go to the three councils at their summer meetings.
A six-week consultation will subsequently be launched to give the public the chance to have their say on the new proposals. The consultation will be concluded by the end of September. After that, the Inspector is expected to hold a second stage of his Examination, to consider the proposed new sites and a variety of other vital aspects of the Plan.
These are expected to include policies on affordable housing, transport, flood management and design. It is expected that the SWDP will be adopted by the three councils in 2015.The SWDP will guide south Worcestershire's economic and housing growth over the next 16 years and, when adopted by the three councils, will form the basis for planning decisions across south Worcestershire.
The Plan formally covers the period between 2006 and 2030. That means 4,909 homes that were built between 2006 and 2012 count as part of the 28,370. A further 3,785 new homes that were already being built or had been given planning permission by 2012 also count towards that total.


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The music program cultivates creativity, collaboration, and confidence in each student through hands-on, interactive classes that include singing, instrument-playing, movement, and expressive speech.
All students, Age 3 through Grade 8, attend music classes as part of their standard school curriculum.
Students explore interdisciplinary connections through repertoire that is integrated with their social studies, language arts, and religion curriculums.
Music classes are sequential, spiraling, skills-based lessons that are in-line with the National Association for Music Education's core music standards.
Lessons lead students through the exploration of the basic elements of music including rhythm, melody, harmony, form, timbre, and expressive qualities. Students work with these building blocks in the context of the creative process: imitation, exploration, improvisation, and composition.
Emphasizing respect and cooperation, the music classroom is a safe place to take creative risks with voice, instruments, and movement.
The music program provides formative and summative experiences for the students through multiple performing opportunities throughout the year, including the Grandparents' Day Program, the Christmas Concert, School Masses, the Grades 5 and 6 Portfolio Celebration, and Upper School end-of rotation performances for Montessori and Lower School students.
Performance Opportunities
The music program offers numerous performance opportunities for students who study an instrument outside of their general music classes.
Performance opportunities include:
- Lower School Lunchtime Concert Series,
- Mass Preludes,
- Annual Instrumental Music Showcase, and the
- Arts Celebration Art Gallery Music Concerts.
Extracurricular Music Opportunities
These experiences include:
The Woods Academy Orchestra
- Meets once a week on Fridays as part of our after-school activities program.
- Open to grade 4 through 8 wind and string players who have played for at least one year.
- Study chamber music in small ensembles grouped by ability as well as repertoire for the full orchestra.
- Full Ensemble performs for Christmas Concert and Spring Arts Celebration Kick-off.
- Chamber Ensembles perform throughout the year including prelude music before school Masses.
Beginning Instrument Classes
Upper School Choir
- Open to grade 5 through 8 students who love to sing.
- Meets once a week before school.
- Sings for all school Masses.
- Sings for Christmas Concert and Spring Arts Celebration.
- Adjudicated at Festival of Music at Kings Dominion each spring.


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The group of RHEINZINK small-format tiles is made up of square and diamond zinc tiles. Design solutions can even be found for buildings with complicated geometries thanks to the small size of the individual components. Traditional cladding of gables, roof dormers, chimney stacks or roof edges with these small tiles presents no problem.
The diamond and square tile has been taken one stage further to create the RHEINZINK-Flat Lock Tile. Characterised by a huge visual area / covering surface, it is mainly used for large areas of facade. These tiles offer designers tremendous scope for structuring buildings as they can be installed vertically, horizontally or diagonally in various widths. Variable joint staggering also opens up a wealth of options for designers. Complex structures with convex and concave geometries are equally feasible here.
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You want to get stuff done? You want a real kick in the pants? Invite people over. It's amazing how effective and efficient I can be when I know I have people coming over. If I want to get my house cleaned but I'm lacking the motivation and energy, I pick up the phone and call people over.
And then, as if by magic, my house gets cleaned.
This is also effective at work. Do you have a project that's been lingering around? Something you'd really like to get done but keeps getting pushed aside? I dealt with this by setting up a meeting. I'd invite everyone I needed to review the progress of the plan, or by delegating items, or whatever needed to happen next. Often, that helped move forward and keep my inbox moving.
Part of why this works so well is that we hold ourselves accountable to other people and don't to disappoint them or waste their time. When we know people are coming over, we want to make sure our homes are clean and pleasant for them. When we know people are coming to a meeting we set up, we want to make it worthwhile.
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It's currently untitled, but it's official: filming of the Han Solo Star Wars Story officially began this week at London's Pinewood Studios.
The film is set before the storyline of Star Wars: A New Hope, following the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca, including their early shenanigans with Lando Calrissian.
The film is being co-directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – of LEGO Movie and LEGO Batman Movie fame. Producer credits go to Kathleen Kennedy, Allison Shearmur and Simon Emanuel, with some of the hottest industry talent working behind the scenes, including Director of Photographer Bradford Young, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on last year's Arrival.
There are some big names in the casting list, too. While a full cast list has yet to be announced, Alden Ehrenreich (Jasmine, Beautiful Creatures and Hail, Ceasar!) takes the lead as Han Solo with Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca. Woody Harrelson is to star as Garris Shrike, Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, and both Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke and Thandie Newton are credited with roles yet to be disclosed.
The as-yet untitled Han Solo Star Wars Story is set to release in May 2018, so it's still pretty far, far away... (Sorry.)


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IoT is finally here!
The concept Internet of Things (IoT) is finally here. Now you can see embedded devices everywhere, home automation appliances, your phone!, intelligent cars, smart grids, smart cities… Now is really starting, and the grown is expected to be exponential.
eProsima IoT Success Cases
eProsima provides networking middleware for this kind of applications, such as INDRA Energy InSPEED framework for energy smart grid applications or the INDRA Smart Home Appliances. We support the main mobile operating systems, such as iOS and Android, and many embedded operating systems.
FIWARE IoT Middleware
eProsima is the middleware leader for the FIWARE (Future Internet WARE) European initiative developing the FIWARE Advanced Middleware - KIARA, a middleware designed with IoT in mind. The FIWARE European initiative has created a set of software technologies and tools freely available for the European Startups and entrepreneurs.
The eProsima Advantage
Our engineers provide the insight to select the correct middleware technologies and set up the different parameters to ensure the required Quality of Service (QoS), personalizing the products and creating specific tools if required.


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Dental Implants
Dental Implant is an ideal solution for replacement of missing teeth.
Dental implants are surgically fixed substitutes for roots of missing teeth. Embedded in the jawbone, made of a Titanium the most bio compatible material in the world, they act as anchors for a the replacement of a tooth.
Either one tooth can be replaced with a single implant or the entire set of teeth can be replaced with multiple implants.
Dental Implants feels and work similar to natural teeth as they unite with the Jaw bone. Dental implants are never removed and do not require adjacent teeth support, so the neighboring teeth are not trimmed.


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Release Date: 2001 |
tribal filled angst? wut is this?
i'd hoped you'd died somewhere long the line JAV
Album Rating: 4.5Excellent review, spot on to the word, Pos'd.
The recommendations from Cave In and Burst are spot-on too. Both are among my favorite listens.
This needed a review BADLY. You kept your promise about reviewing this.
This record was - among many others - the absolute soundtrack for me during my 1-year service in the Hellenic Army.
Album Rating: 4.5
Album Rating: 4.5Sucks that actual copies are so hard to find over here
Not just with Breach, but with all obscure, yet high-quality bands out there...
Album Rating: 4.0Going to try to get into this band.
Album Rating: 4.5Do it! Do it now!
Album Rating: 4.5omg
amazon.com charges 46 USD for a used copy of Kollapse!
Album Rating: 4.5Pretty much why I haven't bought it.
You can at least get the mp3 album for $10 but I hate the vbr Amazon does.
Album Rating: 4.5This needs more love
Album Rating: 4.0yeah this is cool shit
Album Rating: 4.0what the fuck
Album Rating: 4.5Fuck the what?
Album Rating: 4.0this is good, i like venom better though
Album Rating: 4.5Venom is definitely a more straight forward record.
They're both pretty great though.
Album Rating: 4.0Should bump my rating.
Album Rating: 4.0Bumped it, this rules.
Album Rating: 4.0Triple post.
Needs more love.
Album Rating: 4.5most def
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Welcome to EasySlides!
Looking for EasiSlides? EasiSlides has been rebranded as EasySlides. The current release of the software is still called EasiSlides but from the next version onwards, the software will be called EasySlides! EasiSlides is a FREE Worship Projection Software designed for projecting lyrics and Bible texts, with a video projector, onto a large screen during Christian Worship. Click here to see the Main Features
7th July 2019 – Apologies for the delay in the release of Easyslides 5 Beta 4 and Android Beta 1. There are compatibility issues between the two Beta versions and resolving them is taking more time than planned. The new target release date for both Betas will now be September 2019.
20th March 2019 – Easyslides 5 Beta 4 will be available mid-May 2019. Also pleased to announce that at around the same time, there will be a beta Android version of Easyslides. Please see menu option 5Beta for details.
14th August 2017 – 5 Beta 2 now available for download. Please see menu option 5Beta for details.
29th June 2017 – Please see menu option 5Beta for latest information.
12th June 2017 – Easyslides website has been updated and moved to a new host provider. Just also to confirm that v5.0 Beta 2 will be released before the end of July 2017. Hopefully some of you who helped with the language translation a number of years ago can help with beta 2 translations before it is released. Further information will be published under the menu option 5Beta soon.
18th May 2017 – EasySlides 5.0 Beta 2 will be release sometime in June/July 2017. The Easyslides website will also be revamped along with a new EasySlides forum. More details will be provided over the coming weeks.
17th August 2015 – Work is underway for EasySlides v5. The EasySlides Forum will start again soon but all old forum data and users details will be deleted so as to start the forum afresh. All previous forum users who wish to submit posts will need to re-register once the new forum becomes live.
1st March 2011 – EasiSlides v4 has been download over 80,000 times since December 2007. Thank you for using EasiSlides!
10th December 2007 – EasiSlides v4.0.4 is is available via the Downloads page. Please also check out the EasiSlides Forum for latest developments!


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Fans around the world have been shocked by the news that Lionel Messi said he will be quitting international football.
Argentina lost to Chile in the Copa Centenario Final on Sunday. It was the third final in three years that the Barcelona star has not won. And he says he will not be back for more.
CCTV America's Joel Richards has this report from Buenos Aires.
Messi to quit international football following Argentina's lossFans around the world have been shocked by the news that Lionel Messi said he will be quitting international football.
After the disappointment of losing the World Cup final in 2014, and the Copa America final just last year, Argentina held out hope that the third final in three years would end with a trophy- but it wasn't to be. The Albiceleste lost to Chile on penalties, even Leo Messi missing in the shootout.
"I was telling my teammates just now, I'm thinking a lot but for me the (national) squad is over. That is it. I fought hard. I tried. This is the fourth final I couldn't win. I did everything I could. It hurts me more than anyone but I think it's clear to see it's not for me. I wanted the title with the squad more than any other title, but unfortunately it wasn't meant to be," Messi said.
While Messi has won 26 trophies with his club Barcelona in Spain, including four Champions League, and is the country's all-time top scorer, he has now lost four finals with Argentina's national team.
Reaction to the news of Messi's retirement has been nothing short of shock in Argentina. On social networks the hashtag 'Lio don't leave' has started up and the hope is that he will reverse his decision.
Even being named World's best player five times has not stopped Messi from being compared to another Argentine legend, Diego Maradona, who is idolized for winning the 1986 World Cup, in which two famous goals defeated England, just four years after the Malvinas or Falklands war.
Messi had hinted at his frustration with the Argentina federation during the competition. Now supporters around the world will hope the decision not to play for Argentina is not final.


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Since briefly touring in support of their album Panorama in 2009, not much has been heard from the band. 32 Leaves is a unique breed of music. Haunting melodies and atmospheric vocals fill the voids between energetic guitar riffs and pounding drum beats.
I remember discovering the band in 2006. One of my friends had been completely immersed in listening to their music. I never even gave them a second thought after he'd mentioned them. Another one of my friends let me borrow one of his mix CDs to rip a song. I merely stumbled upon "Your Lies." I couldn't figure out why they sounded familiar.
Suffice to say, I had been missing out on one of the greatest bands I could have ever listened to. By the time I had gotten into them, two years had passed.
32 Leaves released a five track EP titled Fik'shen in 2003. The first three tracks would later make their way onto their first full-length album Welcome To The Fall in 2005. Beginning with "Sudden Change," the album chronicles pensive emotions like no other. "Blood On My Hands" starts with a looming bass, and in comes the spidery guitars, crawling into the skin. "Your Lies" pushes the boundaries on the standard use of drums. "Wide Awake" takes the listener on the journey of a person in an insomniatic state, rendered lucid with fear from an inebriated significant other. Descending from an emotional cocaine high, "Overflow" paints a vivid picture of coming down one step at a time. The lead single from the album, "All Is Numb," follows suit with its predecessor songs in telling vocalist Greg Norris's narrative.
The next two years, 32 Leaves would tour in support of their debut album with Crossfade, Smile Empty Soul, Evans Blue, and similar in sound, 10 Years. They were able to attract Universal Records to sign a deal for their follow-up album Panorama, but it ultimately did not work out. Independently releasing the long-awaited second release, the band toured only minimally.
Panorama takes off from where the previous record left off, but with a slightly different approach. Songs were still thought-provoking, but not nearly as brooding and pensively. Guitars took on a different mix, slightly on the higher side, changing the overall sound of Panorama. The single "Way Beyond" was released as a part of the album. Songs like "Human" and "Protocol" show the evolution of 32 Leaves four years later, and stronger than ever.
32 Leaves is a definite must-have for any rocker's arsenal, especially if they're fans of 10 Years.


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Hot season has arrived in Mali,*) no question about that, and this is mentioned on all kinds of platforms, such as Facebook and different blogs.
Here is a collection of funny tidbits from some Facebook friends and their friends:
…you don't need a towel, you air-dry in less than a minute.
…you refer to a day that doesn't hit 115F / 46C as a "cool day."
…you stand in the shower with your clothes on so you can have the illusion of cooling as your clothes dry.
…you take cold showers on purpose.
…even the Malians say, "Boy, it's hot."
…you are showering your kids and they scream, "No, it's too hot. Turn on the cold water." You reply, "This IS the cold water!"
…you can bend your candles into any fancy shape you want.
…your clothes feel like they've been freshly ironed when you put them on.
…your ankles sweat.
…corned beef melts on the table before you get to make sandwiches.
…you can fry eggs on your forearm.
…all the expats in Kayes head for the border.
…the only time you are completely dry is immediately after a shower.
from Sharon & friends: You know it's hot season in Mali when… (Facebook status)
Here are some excerpts from Jennifer's blog about her strategies for hot season (to read all of them go here)
WATERBEDS: When waterbeds became popular in the 70s and 80s, someone decided they were the solution to a missionary's problems in hot climates. I remember people telling us we HAD to get one. After all, if you can get a good night's sleep, it goes a long way toward helping one cope with the strains of the day (which is true). …
The problem is that water tries to equalize itself with the air temperature. For a large body of water, like an ocean, the difference remains significant, so you can still have a cool dip in hot weather. But a relatively small body of water, like a mattress, quickly approaches the ambient temperature. Even if the room cools off at night, the warm water is contained in a huge rubber "bottle" which releases heat slowly – a month or more after the end of hot season, but certainly not in a few hours! …
Seemingly, this did not work for her, but it has worked fine for me so far. It certainly contributes to the miracle that I can sleep in a room that has 92-95F /33-35 C. As she explains, you have to cool down the water mattress with soaked towels and fans. Depending on how hot it is, I do this one to three times per day.
SHOWERS: Did you notice how many people in the responses at the beginning referred to showers? Don't be surprised if you come to my house and I answer the door dripping wet – if it's not sweat, then I've just taken a shower fully clothed. It's even more effective if I can sit in front of a fan afterwards. …
SLEEPING OUTSIDE: We might have avoided the waterbed fiasco altogether if we had investigated how the local people tolerate the heat. Quite simply, they move outside to sleep at night. It's even better for those whose houses have a flat, concrete roof to sleep on. …
This was one of the big advantages of living in the village which I miss very much since moving to Bamako. In the village we had a second building with a flat roof where we could sleep on whenever the inside of the house got too hot. The only disadvantage – it is difficult to get down form the roof with all your stuff (mattress, mosquito net, sheets, alarm clock, ..) when you are overtaken by a sand storm. 😉
FANS, SWAMP COOLERS, AND AIR CONDITIONERS: We have lots of fans, but when it gets really hot they just blow hot air. However, they aren't too bad if your clothes are wet. A swamp cooler is an evaporative cooler or humidifier, common in the American southwest, that blows air through water. …
This is the advantage of living in Bamako where we have 220V instead of just 12V like in the village – I can have an air conditioner and the fans are more powerful. The disadvantage is that the air conditioners are not cheap and use a lot of electricity. For this reason I have one only in my office, but not in the rest of the house. My new home came with a swamp cooler but so far it has only cost me a lot of repairs.
SWIMMING: There's a great swimming spot on the river about 10 miles out of town and we enjoy going out there, especially when our kids are home. Not far from there is a rocky area with swimming holes and waterfalls which stay quite cool even in hot season, and we love to explore there as well. During Spring Break we sat on a flat rock under a waterfall which was a fabulous experience. …
VACATION: This is the ultimate solution to Beating the Heat: leave town. We save up all our vacation time and head west to the coast of Senegal for the month of May. Interior Senegal is just as hot as Mali, but the coast is quite pleasant (besides the obvious benefit of being close to our children). And in just 15 days from now, that's what we'll be doing. …
My personal favorite is the 'African Air-conditioner' – similar to Swamp coolers that are based on the principle of evaporative heat loss, the same principle is at work when I cover myself with a wet sheet before going to sleep. Sometimes I have to get up during the night to make the sheet (cloth, pagne) wet again, but in general it helps a lot to cool down the body and sleep well. The same happens when you hang a wet towel around your neck during the day.
10. Working late at the office takes on a whole new significance – Free AC.
9. The Malians finally agree with you when you say it is hot.
8. If you have problems deciding what shirt to wear, no problem. You'll be wearing at least 3 today.
7. A chance to practice your Fahrenheit-Celsius conversion with big numbers like 41 or 46C (106F or 115F).
6. For those of us who have no hot water heaters, we can finally take a hot shower!
5. It's a great time of the year to do swamp cooler maintenance.
4. Everyday household tasks become an extreme sport.
3. Clothes have that wonderful "fresh out of the dryer" feel when you take them out of the closet.
2. The oven is automatically "pre-heated", and hey – most food is already pre-cooked.
1. A daily occasion to regale your facebook friends with complaints about how hot it is (just as they are expressing joy that it is finally getting up to 70F!)
from Tim: Top 10 reasons to love Hot Season in Mali (Facebook note)
*) The question is maybe whether hot season has ever left. This years 'cold season' was everything else than cold, even for Malian standards. Already in February temperatures often felt like hot season.
Nadi and her family in January 2007.
Nadi's foot three years ago (Jan 2007). At this time we did not know what illness she had since more than 15 years. It had gotten so bad, that she rarely left the house because walking was too painful. Over the last years three doctors who saw the photos confirmed that she had Madura foot. Since then it had gotten worse to the point that the pain kept her from eating. She was only skin and bones when she arrived in Bamako in November 2009.
The French doctors who did the amputation remarked how she improved visibly even just a few days after the surgery.
Nadi at the end of January 2010 – the healing of the wound took longer than predicted but in the end it healed well and was "bien matelasser" (well padded) as a colleague of the orthopedic technician remarked. 😉
At the beginning of February 2010 – the orthopedic technician puts a cast on Nadi's stump to make a print of it.
Today was her last day of practice at the technician's office and afterward she went home with two legs. It still needs a lot of practice until the walking with the heavy prosthesis will be smooth but it is wonderful seeing her walk after 20 years of illness.
In a class on Folk Religion we read Paul Hiebert's article on "Traffic Patterns in Seattle and Hyderabad". His comparison between Seattle and Hyderabad made me smile because after having lived in two African countries and visited several others, I knew exactly what he was talking about.
Hiebert writes about the traffic in Hyderabad:
The first impression many Americans have is that Hyderabad traffic has no order. Obviously, this is false. So many people could not travel with so few accidents if there were none. Why, then, do Americans jump to this conclusion?
I am familiar with this kind of frustration when things don't work like we think they should. Even if the official traffic rules in Mali are patterned after a Western example (France), there are often cultural rules that come into the mix.
Global Road Warrior has the following information for business people coming to Mali –Mali: Road Conditions
Driving conditions in the capital of Bamako can be particularly difficult and dangerous. Few traffic signals function regularly, and drivers often do not follow the rules of the road. In particular, the small, green, van-like buses called "bashays" pay no heed to oncoming traffic, and bashay drivers are known to change lanes unexpectedly without looking. Please exercise extreme caution when driving in Bamako.
Over the years of living in Mali and navigating the traffic in Bamako, I discovered the following principles:
When you come to a crossing from a non-priority street, after some time of waiting, you have the right to go, priority or not. This is often indicated by stretching out your palm towards the oncoming traffic on the priority road. When I saw this for the first time, I got really upset. I had priority and this was a violation of the rules. Plus, the person seemed to behave like a policeman but wasn't one, and I thought: "Who the heck does he think he is?!?!" Once I understood the principle, I could see the advantage as I am, too, sometimes coming from a non-priority street, and if it went according to the rules, I might have to wait "until the cows come home."
This leads me to the second principle. Most people in Bamako are more influenced by village life, than town life. Most grew up in a village or have spent a longer time with relatives in a village. Also, this kind of village mentality does not easily change and is passed on to second and third generation of town folk. I know from experience that there are few clearly marked roads in a village or between villages, and even less tarmac roads. So when the rain makes a stretch of road unusable, this is not a huge problem. People just find another way to get around the spot. By the end of the rainy season there are many different ways to get from point A to point B. The paths of cow herds moving up and down the country vary even more. Wherever there is no obstacle, you can go, and when there is an obstacle you just find a new path.
How does this now apply to the traffic in Bamako?
It's simple – you go or drive wherever there is room. If there is a line of cars on the right side of the road, waiting for the traffic light to turn green, and nobody is coming on the left side of the road, you will of course use this "empty space" to circumvent the obstacle. This applies especially to bikes, motorbikes and pus pus (push carts). When you want to go over the Niger river on the new bridge, you will arrive on a kind of cloverleaf intersection / ingress ramp to join a two lane street. During rush hour these two lanes easily turn into four and a half lanes, as cars and motorbikes keep pushing their way in (four with cars, a half one with motorbikes). Amazingly, this does not happen when there is a policeman in sight.
The third principle does not only apply to Bamako traffic, but to many other areas of Malian culture. Who gets to go and who has to wait is a matter of negotiation, not of rules. You have to make eye contact and try to discern the other persons intentions, which is often communicated by hand gestures and/or head movements. When I discovered this principle (thanks to a discussion about traffic with Ibrahima), at first I was annoyed. Is it not so much easier and more efficient to follow rules instead of negotiating at every crossing who gets to go? You can go much faster on a priority road, when you know that everybody sticks to the rules and nobody will step or drive into your way who shouldn't. Plus, it is so much less stressful! This is certainly the normal reaction of a Westerner and rather ethnocentric. Interestingly, Hiebert quotes an experience from 1974 in London that showed that traffic lights and marked lanes do not guarantee more effectiveness.
On the other hand, negotiating your position in relationship to others is very much an overarching principle in many areas of life in Mali. So it is only natural to also apply it to the traffic. In a way it is a more people oriented approach, while rules easily diminish other people to objects.
Hiebert calls the two approaches immediate and mediate transactions:
Marked lanes, stop lights, and signs controlling space introduce a particular type of order to traffic, an order based on mediated transactions. In immediate transactions players calculate their moves by observing the actions of the other players. In mediate transactions they calculate their moves not directly on what others are doing, but on their relationship to a third mediating agency (Figure 1).
Hyderabad traffic seems to have a lot of similarity with Bamako traffic. Similar to my remark above, Hiebert also concludes that:
The introduction of mediate transactions tends to standardize and depersonalize interaction. In immediate transactions a player is related directly to other players. …. In mediate transactions a player responds to an impersonal matrix. The result is a measure of standardization and of depersonalization. The difference between the two types of transactions is roughly analogous to that between tennis and golf.
Of course, there are many more aspects that come into play: the fact that the majority of road users is probably illiterate and has not learned in school how to behave in different traffic situations (I am not even sure whether thosse that go to school have had any kind of road safety education or not); people riding a motorbikes do not need a license and therefore had no instruction on traffic rules; most participants have no idea that a truck can't stop as fast as a pedestrian; women have the tendency to cast their eyes down and not look men into the eyes, which some also do when crossing the road; few have heard that it is wise to also keep the road users behind oneself in mind, e.g. when moving to the middle of the road or avoiding an obstacle; there is a patron-client thinking that makes the richer person more responsible than the penniless road user, which means that even if it is not your fault, the one with money gets to pay the bill; Western traffic rules were made for situations were bikes are a minority – in Bamako cars are several times outnumbered by bikes and this creates whole different dynamic.
All of this makes Bamako traffic a challenge for everybody, but even more so for expatriates.
Hiebert, Paul G. "Traffic Patterns in Seattle and Hyderabad." Journal of Anthropological Research 32, no. No. 4 Winter (1976): 326-36.
In Anthropology we learned about the "scenery, machinery, people" approach of most Westerners: we often divide people in these three groups and treat them accordingly.
– The "scenery people" are for example those that we photograph during our vacations. We see them as decoration or objects on display, not as real people. We do not care whether the photo we are taking respects their dignity or not.
– The "machinery people" are those that we expect to function in a certain way, but again we do not see them as real people. For example, the gas station attendant or the cashier. On a good day, we might see them as people and connect in some personal way, but most of the time we treat them as "machinery" not as people.
– The "real people" are the small group we have a relationship with and care about. We see them as people with individual personalities, emotions, opinions, gifts and needs. On bad days we might expect even people in this group to just function and not require any "maintenance": such as the burlesque husband coming home from work in the evening who expects his wife to have a meal ready, as well as the newspaper and the slippers, and be left in peace to watch TV by his children because he is tired. In this case he does not see his wife and children as people and does not treat them as such. They are not allowed to have needs.
Whom we expect to just be "scenery" or function as "machinery" is often culturally defined. And this is where culture shock often comes as a natural result.
– The market person in Africa does not function like a cashier in the West, who just rings up the goods we picked and lets us leave without any personal interaction. No matter how small the purchase, you cannot buy anything on an African market without going through a certain amount of greetings, both on arrival and leave taking. Depending on the country you are in and on the type of good you are buying, you will also need to bargain.
○ I remember a story I once heard of a Westerner who did not have the time on one day to do the required bargaining. He told his friend on the market, "Please for once let's not do it, just ask any price and I will pay it." His African friend was deeply offended, not – as we might expect – happy about the opportunity to ask for more than usually. For him it was a disregard for his dignity as a human. He had been treated as machinery.
– In many African countries there is a strong awareness of hierarchy but despite of it every employee still expects to be greeted by others in the same organization. Not greeting them robs them of their dignity as humans and reduces them to "machinery."
○ The context of greetings is one example where I discovered how contradictory courtesy can be. When I come into the office and see two people talking with each other, it feels very impolite to me as European to interrupt the conversation in order to greet them. But this intuition is wrong in the African context. According to African courtesy it would be impolite to not interrupt and walk by them without greeting them. Or as a friend put it – "treat them as if they were trees" – which again expresses the idea of treating others as humans not as things.
– Requesting permission to take the photo of somebody might seem odd for Westerners but is a good rule of thumb in Africa. People do not like being "scenery" but want to be respected as humans. It might mean that you cannot take a picture if a person does not consent to it.
○ Probably there are also different traditional ideas that come into play of what happens to a person's soul when somebody takes a photo of them. I have rarely heard them stated but only read about these ideas. Even though many things have changed, these ideas might still linger in the back of people's minds.
○ Another complication is the idea that you might make a lot of money with the photo you are taking. Even if this is not the case for most of us, people have heard about this and want a share in your gain. Some will not give you permission to take a photo without a payment. Since I don't have enough money to pay everybody whom I photograph, I usually chose not to take that photo. One market lady however managed to convince me nevertheless: "You are happy about the photo, so why don't you want to give me some happiness, too?"
– Doing everything on your own and alone is unnatural for many people in Africa. Going alone to the market, carrying all your shopping alone, eating alone, staying alone in your room/house, etc. Sharing burdens and joys is an important part of most if not all Africa cultures.
○ Westerners might consider offers to carry their shopping a nuisance. However in African cultures younger people are obliged to honor older people by carrying whatever they have. In return the older person will give a blessing to the younger person. This can be a spoken blessing, in some cases accompanied with spitting (saliva being considered a means of transferring power), or a small coin or other kind of tangible gift. Along the same lines, a market seller feels obliged to send a young person with his customer to help carry the shopping to the car, who then will be expected to give some small token of gratitude to the young helper.
○ The African give and take is not guided by rules of how much to give but by what people have. Many financial requests will be quantified by "whatever you can give." This puts Westerners in a bind, because we are not used to think in these terms and often have so much more than what we find appropriate to give in such a situation. In addition, local people often have wrong ideas of how much we really have, to the point of seriously believing that our financial supplies are unlimited because we can print our own money.
In all these examples, there are people who want to be seen as people and treated as people which is in contradiction to many of our Western habits and laws of efficiency. The Western habit of just saying "Hi!" and walking by clashes with the African understanding of politeness. Africans would probably never consider a time spend with other people a "waste of time." My guess is that there is no single situation in African cultures that allows people to treat others "as if they were trees" – trees that you can pass without greeting, that you can expect to function and give you shade or whose photo you can take without permission. People are always people and want to be treated as such, not as "scenery" or "machinery."
P.S. I know that speaking about "African cultures" or "African" in general is a sweeping generalization that does not do justice to the variety of cultures in Africa. However, I have the impression that the points mentioned above apply to many of them, maybe to all, and possible also to many if not most non-Western cultures.


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Bucks County News Archives
Local News Outlets
All Bucks County non-essential (non 24/7 operations) offices will open 2 hours late tomorrow, January 22, 2014.
All scheduled morning court proceedings will begin at 11 am; afternoon court proceedings remain unchanged.
The Commissioners' Meeting for tomorrow has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.
All offices will remain open through the duration of business hours today, January 21st.


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Domain Name Registration
|In Thailand, there is an organization named Thailand Network Information Center (THNIC) which registers domain names for domestic entities. Domain names registered with THNIC end with ".ac.th" if they are academic institutions, ".co.th" if profit-oriented entities, ".go.th" if government agencies, ".net.th" if network service providers and ".or.th" if miscellaneous (mostly non-profit organizations).
According to THNIC, registration of a domain name does not confer any legal rights to that name and any disputes between parties over the right to use a particular name are to be settled between the parties using normal legal methods. We interpret this as meaning that if the name in dispute is, say, a trademark, the parties must use the trademark law to deal with the dispute.
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baby blanket - leafy sea dragons pink
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We have a soft spot for leafy sea dragons! These cute creatures are so good at blending in and look just like seaweed!
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