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The Cyclical Process of Writing
Uvi Poznansky
In any task you undertake, you often hear the advice: start at the beginning, continue down the middle, and finish at the end. Writing is no different. Problem is, as you advance diligently down that path, you may find–to your surprise–that you are getting better, more proficient at your craft. Suddenly the opening of this chapter sounds so much catchier than the previous one; and the ending more powerful. You must constantly re-evaluate and rework previous chapters. So in my opinion, the process of writing is Cyclical. By the time I completed the last chapter of Apart From Love, I knew I had to discard–or at least, rewrite and restructure–the first chapter.
This, then, is the first page of the first chapter, in which Ben is about to return–reluctantly–to his childhood home, and to a contentious relationship with his father:
"About a year ago I sifted through the contents of my suitcase, and was just about to discard a letter, which my father had written to me some time ago. Almost by accident my eye caught the line, I have no one to blame for all this but myself, which I had never noticed before, because it was written in an odd way, as if it were a secret code, almost: upside down, in the bottom margin of the page, with barely a space to allow any breathing.
The words left some impression in my memory. I almost wished he were next to me, so I could not only listen to him, but also record his voice saying that.
I imagined him back home, leaning over his desk, scrawling each letter with the finest of his pens with great care, as if focusing through a thick magnifying glass. The writing was truly minute, as if he had hated giving away even the slightest hint to a riddle I should have been able to solve on my own. I detested him for that. And so, thinking him unable to open his heart to me, I could never bring myself to write back. In hindsight, that may have been a mistake.
Even so, I am only too happy to agree with him: the blame for what happened in our family is his. Entirely his. If not for his actions ten years ago, I would never have run away to Firenze, to Rome, to Tel Aviv. And if not for his actions a couple of weeks ago, this frantic call for me to come back and see him would never have been made.
And so I find myself standing here, on the threshold of where I grew up, feeling utterly awkward. I knock, and a stranger opens the door. The first thing that comes to mind: what is she doing here? The second thing: she is young, much too young for him. The third: her hair. Red."
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Tool Cabinet Supports
Moving the cabinet around to install hinges, shelf supports and doors has become quite a challenge. There isn't a scale nearby, but even before tools are placed inside it's quite hefty. Fortunately there are supports to be built that will fit underneath.
The supports consits of a pair of dovetailed boards with a brace. The dovetail is unique and was fun to make. I admit that I did have some trouble getting the angles correct on the brace and the fit is not as snug as I would like, but there are plenty of lessons in mistakes.Unfortuantely I only have the three photographs that I took while making the parts.
Tool Cabinet Shelves
One would think that with the cabinet almost complete a plan would exist for the shelves. I'm not quite there yet and it seems that until the cabinet has been used for a period of time there may be several iterations. Certainly there needs to be a couple of shelves and at least one for hand planes. Then there is the issue with the saws? Where will they go?
Cabinet Shelf Supports
One of the things that I find most fascinating about being a woodworker is the many differing techniques for accomplishing a task. As usual this Cabinet has a method for installing adjustable table shelves that I have not come across.
It consists of four saw toothed supports. You could make the supports from a couple of boards and then rip them to the correct width. I had parts from an old cabinet so I cut each support to the correct height and width than bolted pairs together. This allowed me to lay out saw and chop the saw tooth and end up with an exact pair. Once laid out it was a surprisingly quick process. I then drilled holes for the screws and attached them to the cabinet sides. I did have to remove the handle from my drill to get the hole placed correctly. The next job is to make the crosspieces which hold the shelves. You can see the one in the picture needed a little more care in measurement but it was a quick job and the adjustment works great.
Until I came across Paul Seller's hanging Tool Cabinet I had not seen his method for installing adjustable shelves. If you have different methods that are unique for shelf installation let me know.
Tool Cabinet Hinges
Purchasing Hinges is something I put off until the last minute. I want to purchase them locally so I can feel their heft and think about how they will fit into my project. Typically I end up on line after being very dissatisfied with what available. The tool Cabinet deserved some quality Brusso Hinges. They are more expensive than the local stores but I appreciate the quality. I've chosen stainless steel Hinges for the cabinet, the contrast to the cherry catches my eye.
Installing hinges is one of the tasks that gives you instant feedback if you do it poorly. Carefully chiseling, than routing out the waste I make mortises for each hinge.
Focusing on one door I carefully install the hinges and make adjustments to center the door. Once both doors are in I carefully plane the center rail until the doors close without binding. The door on the right is carefully chamfered so the two will pass each other. Anyone else have some good hinge sources?
Tool Cabinet Door Panels
Since deciding to have double paneled doors it seems that I have been fighting the two stiles that I made. The cherry decided to split after completing the grooves. In an act of defiance I used them anyway and moved on. Nothing fancy about the panels just planed down the sides to fit the grooves and put them all together. The center stile was no problem and I'll use it in other projects since it seems to really add to the appearance.
Tool Cabinet Door Joinery
With all of my stock dimensioned, the first step is plowing the grooves for the panels. As I have shown in the past I used a clamp to steady each board and used a Veritas plow plane to make the grooves. It only took a couple of hours to get them all done and I had very little trouble. I do like the upgraded plow plane and if you haven't let Veritas make the change I'd go ahead. Although I had little trouble with loosening set, it's nice to have some extremely reassurance.
Cabinet Door Joinery 2
After a couple of days with intermittent rain I noticed a little twist in a couple of the rails so I did my best to plane them straight. That's one of the problems of spreading your project out over many weeks. The doors are held together with mortise and tenon joints and thanks to previous practice on the back my process has improved.
For little extra to the doors I added a stile in the center so tehe doors have divided panels.

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Yumiko is responsible for the $52M tourism fund established by the Japanese Government and private financial institutions to develop the sector in regions of Japan. Yumiko was previously Executive Director of GRANVISTA Hotels and Resorts, hotel asset manager at Goldman Sachs Realty, and consultant at Arthur Andersen and KPMG.
Yumiko holds MBA in hospitality from IMHI Cornell / ESSEC, BA from the University of Sacred Heart, and has completed Strategies for Leadership program at IMD.
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Mr Wong, who became the face of the 2014 Hong Kong street protests, had been hoping to speak to Thai students.
But the 19-year-old was detained on arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport and then flown back to Hong Kong.
He said there had been "no explanation for his detention", but activists attributed the decision to intervention from Beijing.
Mr Wong was at the heart of the mass demonstrations against Beijing that brought parts of Hong Kong to a standstill in late 2014.
The protesters were calling for free elections for Hong Kong's leadership. The protests failed to achieve their goal, but several of their leaders have since entered politics.
'Twelve hours'
Mr Wong had been invited by Thai student activist Netiwit Chotipatpaisal to address students at Chulalongkorn University to mark the 40th anniversary of a massacre of students in 1976.
Mr Netiwit had told the South China Morning Post newspaper ahead of the visit that it could inspire Thai students to speak against the military leadership.
But when he arrived in Bangkok in the early hours of Wednesday, Mr Wong was detained.
"They forced me to stay inside the police station and stay in prison for 12 hours," Mr Wong said at a news conference back in Hong Kong.
"When I asked what's the reason for them to detain me at Bangkok, they just say that 'we will not give any explanation'."
Thailand's military leaders, in power since a 2014 coup, denied any role in the detention.
But Mr Netiwit said on Facebook that police told him they had received a letter from China regarding the visit, without providing proof of his claim.
The Nation newspaper also quoted an immigration official as saying a request to blacklist Joshua Wong came from China.
Nathan Law, a fellow Hong Kong protest leader who has since been elected to parliament, told local radio Beijing was worried Mr Wong "would bring (his) influence to other countries".
Hong Kong authorities said they had asked Thailand to respect Mr Wong's rights. China's foreign ministry, meanwhile, said it respected Thailand's immigration control.
Rights groups condemned the move. Amnesty International said it underscored government willingness to suppress freedom of expression and raised serious concerns "about how China is using its influence over Thai authorities".
Thai criticism
Last May, Mr Wong was denied entry to Malaysia where he had been set to take part in talks about democracy in China.
In recent years, Thailand has faced criticism for its co-operation with Beijing.
Last year, Hong Kong publisher Gui Minhai disappeared while on holiday in Thailand.
He later appeared on Chinese state TV, saying he had voluntarily handed himself over to the authorities over a drink-driving fatality years ago.
There was widespread speculation that he had been deported to China at Beijing's request because of his involvement with a publishing house which published material critical of China's leaders.
The UN condemned Thailand last year for deporting two Chinese dissidents it had given refugee status. The men had been in detention for illegal entry and rights group believe they were returned to China.


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Just when you might have thought that the biggest sales are over, I found 32 new discounted apps, including 18 totally FREE! A total NEW savings of $78! There are some great apps in today's list, too, including Learn to read with Pip, PECS Phase III, and Keyword Understanding for SLPs!
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Antonym MATCH is an interactive, educational, fun match game for school age children, adults and lifelong learners. This app would also be beneficial for English Language Learners!
The object of the game is to reveal pairs of Antonyms by turning over the cards.
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Designed by teachers to help enthusiastic parents give their child enjoy learning to read. Mastering reading is the most important skill we ever learn and the Learn to read with Pip programme has been created to help teachers and parents give their children the advantage (and have fun at the same time!).
Spy Sam Reading Book 1 - The big adventure with little words for kids to learn to read
iPad only - $.99 to FREE
Inspired by the regular struggle convincing my 5 year old son to read his books, I set out to create an exciting adventure that we would both enjoy him reading out loud. - Over 80 pages - Simple vocabulary, using many of the first 100 words taught in many primary schools (KS1).
Spy Sam Reading Book 2 - The big adventure with little words for kids to learn to read
iPad only - $.99 to FREE
The big adventure continues with the second book in the Spy Sam series. This is book two of five following the adventures of Spy Sam, Fizz and Jess. The story contains no violence, but envelops the reader in a world of spy plots, gadgets and plans for world domination.
Read with Biff Chip & Kipper. The complete series: All 48 books.
iPad/iPhone - $64.99 to $28.99
Level 1-6: The complete series. 48 interactive eBooks included. Starring the much loved characters from Oxford Reading Tree, Read with Biff, Chip & Kipper complements what children are learning at school and helps parents support their child's development.
PECS Phase III
iPad only - $9.99 to $5.99
Based on research from the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), the PECS™ protocol details a specific discrimination teaching strategy in Phase III. The PECS Phase III app is an invaluable tool that allows you to implement the teaching of Phase III of PECS™ and offers a novel approach to providing new opportunities for learners.
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to $.99
Children will engage in activities like sorting sweet candies, making lollipops, arranging chocolates in a box and more. All games are designed to improve your child's motor skills, spatial intelligence, perception of colours, perception of shapes and to stimulate overall brain activity.
Teacher Tilly - Puzzle for toddlers and preschoolers
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to FREE
Teacher Tilly - Puzzle for toddlers and preschoolers is a unique puzzle app that features over 40 colorful puzzles, several difficulty levels, and the ability to create new puzzles using photographs from your camera roll or photo album.
iPad, iPhone - $.99 to FREE
A tessellation is a pattern made from identical shapes that fit together without any gaps or overlaps. A hexagon is the only regular polygon with more than four sides that can be tiled this way. The object of Tessellation is to chain together as many hexagons as possible.
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Keyword Understanding
iPad only - $11.99 to $5.99
Keyword Understanding is a speech therapy app which targets auditory and reading comprehension of simple and more complex instructions. Keyword Understanding is designed to help children with reduced attention, auditory processing difficulties, receptive language disorder or autism as well as adults with aphasia and cognitive difficulties from stroke.
Literacy Leveler
iPad/iPhone - $4.99 to $0.99
Literacy Leveler™ makes it easy to level children's books in your collection and find books of an appropriate reading level.
• Scan a book's ISBN and see its level.
• Search for a book by title, author, or level.
• Add books to your personal library.
The database focuses on grades K through 8.
iPad only - $1.99 to FREE
Easter has passed, so Lilo and the Easter Bunny family look for the leftover eggs in this animated and interactive story. Lilo is very helpful, but she cannot do it all by herself. Can you help her? Lilo is also very curious about how the Easter Bunnies' have painted these eggs so beautifully.
iPhone, x2 iPad - $.99 to FREE
Mathematical battle is an exciting game about mathematics. Complete all levels, unlock all characters in the game from pupil to professor, discover and take advantage of amazing bonuses. Use the secret ninja weapon! Grab and shoot a lightning! Surprise your friends with your high score!
iPad/iPhone - $4.99 to $.99
After Mrs. Winkle is abducted by aliens, Mr. Winkle is overcome with sadness. His heart fills with melancholy and his feathers turn periwinkle. Determined to rescue his love, Periwinkle envisions a plan. With no time left to waste you must help Periwinkle travel the world, gather his friends, and build a rocket.
iPhone, x2 iPad - $2.99 to $.99
This Quiz is all about history from Ancient world to the latest 2011. Features : 300 plus questions. Lots of research went into each question and we do our best to give you accurate information. Questions from Ancient History, Roman Empire, World War I, World War II, 1950 - 2000, 11 September 2001, 2000- 2010.
David and Goliath (biblical story)
iPad/iPhone - $.99 to FREE
David and Goliath is an interesting and attractive biblical story. It tells the story of a young man who faced a giant. Each frame causes the curiosity of children who are encouraged to read and know what will happen to the characters. With great image and color, the scenery takes the little children and adults for a great adventure.
iPad/iPhone - $.99 to FREE
Sustainability: what is that? tells what happens to Peter from the moment he finds something very different in the way to school. An engaging and educational rich text that at the same time entertains and shows what sustainability has to do with life on the planet.
iPad/iPhone - $.99 to FREE
Board on Noah's Ark and know one of the strongest stories of the Old Testament. On this richly illustrated e-book, children play and stimulate their faith by interacting with biblical characters. The diversity of sounds and animations arouse the curiosity, a taste for reading and encourages creativity.
iPad/iPhone - $.99 to FREE
Learning by playing is a rich experience for the kids. In childhood, the something ludic is an important role in the assimilation of educational content. The story of the "Master Calculus and the family of numbers" is filled with beautiful drawings, lots of color, attractive sounds and easy interactions to practice!
iPad/iPhone - $.99 to FREE
In Moses, the liberator of the Hebrews, the children will learn about the history of the boy Moses, who was adopted by the daughter of Pharaoh of Egypt. From a powerful experience with God, he becomes responsible for emancipation all those people. The Lord would show him what should be done, but often it seemed that God's plan was not working.
The Mouse Who Lived On The Moon
iPad/iPhone - $3.99 to $2.99
As everyone knows, the Moon is made of green cheese. And Gizmo is the mouse that owns it. He has everything a mouse could possibly want—except a friend. Then one day, a strange machine arrives from the blue planet. Thinking the blue planet is made of blue cheese; Gizmo sets off on a mission to retrieve the cheese. But while searching for riches, he ends up finding something even better.
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to FREE
The goal of Project Kids Cards is to learn order and to be able to identify numbers and letters. In the Numbers and Letters sections of Project Kids Cards the goal is to simply identify and be able to recognize different characters. In the Games sections 10 transparent cards are given, complete each game by dragging the correct character to the correct empty box.
Puzzles, matching, coloring, memory, hide-and-seek, dot-to-dot, spot the differences, stickers, mixed animals and a sound picture book… More than 70 activities and numerous surprises that will give your children hours and hours of fun, entertainment and discovery time!
iPhone $1.99 to $.99 iPad $3.99 to $.99
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to $.99
You probably have the correct answer, but will you answer all the questions in Quiz Kids? To find out choose an avatar and play alone or challenge your friends (up to 4 players). Test your knowledge by answering over 400 questions in various fields such as space, nature, movies, history, music, video games and much more.
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to $.99
Vemolo Shapes is an educational game, designed for children up to the age of 6. Learning shapes is an essential part of early years maths education, and is part of the curriculum in the UK and many other countries.
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to $.99
Little Galaxy is a game inspired by a real story of a young scientist, who reached out for his dream to find a new home. We have met this boy and were touched by his story as he lost everyone and everything, we are trying to help him to build functional prototype of jumping space boots so he can start his journey.
The Spelling Cafe Educational App
iPad only - $6.99 to $.99
Thank you for your interest in The Spelling Cafe from Noah's Harbour. This educational, curriculum focused, spelling and reading app for iPad, features stunning illustrations from New York based Chuck Gonzales and supports your child's learning through a series of fun, interactive, fully voiced games.
iPhone, x2 iPad - $.99 to FREE
KIDS PUZZLE - Animal Shapes has the perfect balance between ease of play and mind challenge. Educational is fun with colorful animal shape puzzle! Just slide and snap the colorful puzzle pieces into place to reveal the delightful animals. Kids Shape Puzzle helps children build and practice cognitive skills, visual spatial skills, shape recognition, as well as tactile skills.
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to FREE
BECOME A BETTER WRITER IN MINUTES... NOT YEARS!! ... with this quick, fun and simple reference App! EZCOMMA teaches the correct usage of commas and semicolons for combining sentences, the key to a more developed writing style! This visual App requires only a minimum of effort because EZCOMMA really is just that: EASY!!
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to FREE
Welcome to the Potty Show, where your child is the star! This interactive potty-training app allows children to see potty training success right from the start. Based on proven techniques used by child experts. The Potty Show is brought to you by Preschoology, a children's mobile app company created by a school psychologist and computer engineer.
iPhone, x2 iPad - $49.99 to $23.99
The Social Navigator is a revolutionary social skills app developed to assist children with social and behavioral challenges in adapting their behavior and developing life-long social skills. Use it as both a behavior management device and a teaching tool anytime a child is becoming agitated, or when their behavior begins to conflict with others.
iPad only - $2.99 to $.99
Created by a speech-language pathologist, children increase expressive, receptive, & pragmatic language skills by feeding Maxi, an adorable, hungry monkey, during a highly motivating & interactive game! Utilizing realistic full-color pictures, "Feed Maxi" provides over 80 different food items in five categories.
iPad only - $.99 to FREE
5 in 1 : Incredible value for your child! Early development begins with your child learning matching, puzzles, counting, colors and shapes. This app has them all. WIth bright and vibrant colors, sounds and characters your child will love to explore every game.
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Earth Globe North Pole
THE EARTH FROM SPACE: You are here! This beautiful image of the Earth is a composite of two data images-one of the globe fully illuminated by the Sun, and one of the globe in full darkness, showing only the city lights of inhabited areas. The pair of images, themselves composites of data sets from numerous satellites, were stitched together at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's as part of Earth Observing System's Visible Earth project. Image Credits: Data-AVHRR, NDVI, Seawifs, MODIS, NCEP, DMSP and Sky2000 star catalog; AVHRR and Seawifs texture-Reto Stockli; Visualization-Marit Jentoft-Nils


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A dozen years after Westword did its first profile of Broadway, we returned to this "magnificent thoroughfare" and detailed how Denver's booming economy has affected the road from top to bottom. But there's no development that captures the public's imagination — and anger — more than the pilot bicycle-lane project, Denver Moves Broadway. Says one reader:
With a city as congested as Denver, limiting the amount of street for drivers is crazy. There is also the issue of parking spaces and how the business owners along Broadway are losing business.
Adds Anwar:
Bicyclists don't even use the lane that is there *now.* I'm a cyclist and even I think this a waste for this stretch of Broadway. Most cyclists are so stupid that they ride in the middle of lanes, anyway.
Responds Justin:
I'm a bike commuter, too, and it's true - I see too many of us cruising in traffic without helmets or lights when there are perfectly good bike lanes on the side. A complete route from South Broadway into downtown would be amazing and a big safety improvement, if it's used. I think proper enforcement for a season would change things.
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Plus, it's a pain to turn left off of Broadway now. Cars just sit there idling and backing up traffic waiting for nobody.
Concludes Sean:
Yet this once again will only slow the flow of traffic.
What do you think of the bike lane on Broadway? Should Denver keep it? Move it?


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I just saw this website today. I am a 47 year old male who lost my engineering job 5 years ago. I attempted to make the best of it by reversing roles with my wife until my only daughter reached school age, but have found that despite the large amount of skills that I have accumulated that no-one in the engineering field wants to hire me for any reason.  I am not able to obtain service jobs due to being considered overqualified. I have take some courses to improve my overall skills base, but that has also not changed my situation at all.  I am too young to be considered human garbage.. the main thing affecting me is being made to feel superfluous and worthless… all I am doing with my life is washing dishes for my wife and hoping for a better day. And suicide is never far from my thoughts.


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Spin waves and magnetic anisotropy in ultrathin (111)-oriented cubic films
- The dispersions of dipolar (Damon-Eshbach modes) and exchange dominated spin waves are calculated for in-plane magnetized thin and ultrathin cubic films with (111) crystal orientation and the results are compared with those obtained for the other principal planes. The properties of these magnetic excitations are examined from the point of view of Brillouin light scattering experiments. Attention is paid to study the spin-wave frequency variation as a function of the magnetization direction in the film plane for different film thicknesses. Interface anisotropies and the bulk magnetocrystalline anisotropy are considered in the calculation. A quantitative comparison between an analytical expression obtained in the limit of small film thickness and wave vector and the full numerical calculation is given.
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Breaking News sends 100,000 referrals per day to news sites and social services
Breaking News has just revealed an interesting statistic on how much traffic it drives to news sites and social services. What started out as a Twitter account has since gone on to become a fully fledged news source, with 3.5 million followers on Twitter alone.
According to the blog post, Breaking News sends 100,000 referrals a day to the sites it links to – whether news sites or social services. According to the post, the number combines the Breaking News mobile apps, social accounts, its official website, and partnerships with mainstream media outlets MSN UK and msnbc.com
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If you're a news site, these referrals will be difficult to track. In your analytics software, you'll see the referrals from BreakingNews.com, but you'll be unable to attribute the visits from our mobile apps, social accounts and our distribution partners. In other words, we're probably sending you a lot more traffic than you think.
This announcement is yet another small reminder of the constantly shifting landscape in the field of online journalism, with social media, crowd-sourcing and citizen journalism becoming an increasingly significant part of our daily news consumption.
Breaking News has continued to grow since its launch, adding a curated StumbleUpon channel to its arsenal of tools, which includes accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr – ensuring it reaches the widest audience possible.
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text: Connie Hayes iConnie Hayes is a painter living in Rockland, Maine. She received her M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Rome; her B.F.A. from the Maine College of Art in Portland; and her B.A. from the University of Maine. She received a fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1989. Born in Gardiner, Maine she taught at the Maine College of Art for 10 years, also participating in arts administration there for 15 years, including serving as the interim Dean of Faculty. In 2003 she was awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the Maine College of Art. From 1992-1998 she lived in New York City. Since 1990 she has been painting on location through her Borrowed Views project and developing figurative work in her Rockland Studio. She serves as a member of the board of trustees for the Farnsworth Art Museum.


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The 24th National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference 'No Frills' will focus on three key areas vital to developing the VET system and meeting future skills demand:
- Youth: engaging, inspiring and supporting students to realise their potential
- Pathways: transitioning through education and training into the workforce
- Skills: working with industry and employers to improve education and training
'No Frills' is a well-known annual national conference where researchers and those engaged in the vocational education and training (VET) sector come together to present, discuss and share information about key issues confronting the sector and network in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. The conference also provides professional development opportunities for new and existing researchers.
NCVER is co-hostiong this year's conference with the University of Western Sydney (UWS) and TAFE NSW's Western Sydney and South Western Sydney Institutes.


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New Irrlicht Test Data SourceAlthough Irrlicht now supports the direct import of about 15 3D file formats, one of the problems for Irrlicht users is to choose the right one for them. This week, I started to do something about this, and the first step was to get some test data. Fortunately, I've a new source for realistic real world 3D test data. Details will be announced in the near future, they've been kindly provided by RABCAT Computer Graphics with cool looking game resources.
The original mesh data wasn't in an Irrlicht Engine supported format, so I had to write an importer for this. I quickly hacked down an irrEdit plugin to import it, and this took me only about 15 minutes.
The lighting and shadows were calculated by irrEdit's built-in lightmapper afterwards. The scene contains about 100 different materials and a huge amount of polygons, but irrEdit was able light this within just a few seconds, nice.
I'm not an artist, but I really like the result. More about this soon, but unfortunately not too soon: See next blog post.
seven comments, already:
Wow this looks cool . Ok Niko see you in a week.
leo (link) - 03 08 07 - 13:15
Looks veery nice!
Maybe you should focus on Collada (plus animation import), I'm qutie happ with it, although it really could be clearer in some points of it's official documentation – because the inconstistency leds to various incompatible implementations.
Gauntlet - 03 08 07 - 13:25
Wow! I feel like a fat kid tied to a chair and niko is Stewie from Family Guy rubbing a cookie under my nose saying "You want a cookie…hmmm? You want it?"
The lighting is looking very nice. High-quality art really does your engine justice.
Mack (link) - 03 08 07 - 17:56
i totally agree with you
jens - 04 08 07 - 00:39
This is a dream come true, actually i am working in a videogame project and we are having seriuos problems choosing formats, i want/need a format with a nice blender exporter, suporting animation exporting with tags, support some nice materials and if is posible have the OPTION for export all i a single file, i mean 3d mesh, textures, bones, materials, shaders in a single and beautifull .irr3d file from my blender, of course some people prefer all separated, at least with the option to copy all maps and resources in the destination folder of the exportation. Irrlicht rules, Blender rules, Kerkythea rules and amazing things are waiting for us.
El Master. - 04 08 07 - 17:38
@El Master
Why would you want a single file? This would prevent you from sharing textures/meshes/shaders/bones/etc between objects making your distribution enourmous.


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Hi all! Today I'm going to give you lovely people a quick guide to how I accidentally made the trees the prettiest thing in my game.
Art is hard. It takes a lot of time. Don't even get me started on animations, tilesets… it's all such a massive timesink, and for us art amateurs, it doesn't ever seem to pay off either.
One pet peeve of mine for a while was background decoration. And by "Background decoration", I'm talking trees and grass. And by "Trees and grass", I mean trees.
Yeah, look at those giant smug amalgamations of bark and leaves. Challenging you with their complex shading requirements. Such jerks…
So how can us mortals hope to compete against such a cruel and mighty foe? Well, anyone who's done programming for Ludum Dare knows that the code will be full of hacky solutions that somehow work. Well guess what! Art has hacky solutions too, and today, I'm going to tell you how I hacked these lovely things together:
Are you ready to learn? You better be, you're about to face the greatest tool of the tree architect.
Behold! This is a grass texture:
How did I make this grass texture? First I chose three greens: a light, a medium, and a dark, . Then I painted it all in the medium shade. Then I drew a lot of small random shapes with the light colour. Then I underlined the shapes in the darker shade, which I did in an intentionally sloppy was, so it looked more varied than what it would've looked like had I underlined it all with the same thickness. Give it a shot, heck if you're feeling uncertain, copy the colours I used! It's surprisingly easy!
So you can use this as your grass. "That's great, Crumpet," I hear you say, "but you said you were going to teach us how to make trees, not grass! Where are the trees?" To this I reply, "What are trees, but grass on sticks?"
I'm not kidding.
The first step is to take your grass texture and delete the middle shade of green. This should leave you with this:
See? Leaves!
It's looking a bit sparse though… Our next step is to clean off some of the leaves from the side. We want our leaves to be round.
If you want, you can also recolour your leaves. You know, so they don't look the same as your grass. I did mine in pink and darker pink because cherry blossoms.
Prepare yourselves, this is where it gets technical. As I said, this tree is sparse, so we must harvest the most advanced technique known to our species.
Copy and paste it onto itself a load, moving it around a bit.
Phew! That was hard… Don't worry, the next step is easier. Use some tool (many pieces of graphic software have this built in) to just apply a 1px wide black outline to the whole thing.
Ta dah! Leaves!
This next bit is probably the only actually challenging part of the process. You need a trunk. Harness all your art skills and draw something that looks kind of like a stream of brown liquid hitting the ground. The top part doesn't need to be good, it'll be covered in leaves, but make some nice roots.
Automatically outline the whole thing in black. Do an inner outline of a darker brown, and make this inner outline thicker on the bottom and right corners. Ignore the top of the tree. Do the shading sloppily (I did this one left handed), it makes it look more detailed.
Throw your leaves on top of it, and ta-dah!
If you want to make more variants, use the same trunk and remake some leaves with the copy paste technique. And that's all it takes to become a master of forestry!
Remember, there are hacky solutions to all problems! Go forth and find them!


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A better approach is negotiation. When the debtor says "Sue Me": or "I Don't Care", we simply tell them that it is our responsibility to report their debt to commercial credit bureaus within 90 days if there is no "valid" dispute and they are unwilling to resolve the debt in a reasonable period. We also point them askzoey.com and www.whycreditmatters.net. We explain that their personal credit and their business credit are almost one in the same. Also, we give them the facts that their credit report is being viewed at least 100 times per year by all of their creditors for behavioral scoring and credit scoring purposes. This approach is less adversarial than the legal approach which the debtor expects and in some cases prefers. The result of our less adversarial and educational approach has been greater cooperation, admission of a problem, better open communication and higher resolutions. Today, a less adversarial approach coupled with real credit education is the right way to resolve a higher percentage of accounts over a shorter period with less cost. It's simple, before a debtor will pay the bill, they must understand it is really in their best interest.
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Most collection accounts placed eminate from small businesses. There are roughly 6 million small businesses in operation today – Eighty-Five percent (85%) generate less than $1,000,000 in annual revenue. These enterprises make up over 95 percent of businesses in the United States and one-fifth of total revenues. Many of these businesses are the ones feeling the most pain in our current economic downturn. For example, one of the areas Access has focused on traditionally is insurance. the insurance industry has seen a significant downturn in commercial lines "earned premium" over the last few years because typically, premiums for things like workers compensation insurance are based on payrolls. most of the business we receive from P&C companies are construction or hospitality related. These industries are clearly having difficulties.
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One of the problems for creditors over the years was that some dishonest business owners would simply open a new bank account and start a new company periodically and let the old company die a slow death. The subtle name change was transparent to their customers, but to creditors it was a problem. They would put the new company in their wife's name, child's name or worse. Since credit for businesses and consumers was widely available, it was easier to get credit within 30 days opening a new bank account. Personal guarantees and social security numbers were not required by the creditor and were not always required as a condition of obtaining credit. In the last few years, this practice is changing rapidly as savvy lenders view small businesses more like consumers. Without credit and business credit cards, small businesses cannot survive.
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The New OSHA Injury and Illness Record-keeping and Reporting Requirements
When is an Employer Free to Deny an Employee's Request For a Leave as an ADA Accommodation?
Providing disability-related leave for an employee is something that employers need to be very careful about. If the leave does not cause undue hardship for the employer, then the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) states that you generally have to grant the leave; however, not for an unlimited period of time. If you do not grant the leave even though it would not cause undue hardship, you could be sued.
What Employers Should Know About Workers' Compensation
Employers know that they must purchase insurance that will provide benefits to anyone under their employment that suffers a work related injury. This law provides protection for both parties; employers don't have to worry about being sued by an employee, and employees get the benefits that they need no matter who was at fault. This is just the first step, however, in protecting yourself and your company from workplace injury and unwanted lawsuits.
6 Questions to Ask When an Employee Requests Medical Leave: Family and Medical Leave Laws
First of all, what is the law dictating the allowance of medical and family leave? The Family and Medical Leave Act was put into place in 1993 to help balance the demands of the workplace and the family or medical needs of employees. An employee is entitled to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for a variety of reasons, but only under certain conditions. It is important for employers to remain vigilant when allowing or turning down an employee's request for leave in order to stay on the safe side of the law and keep the morale of their workplace healthy. Here are the 6 things you should verify as an employer to be sure that you are granting leave to the right people.


text: The GBP/USD pair initially tried to rally during the course of the session on Monday, but then turned back around to form a shooting star. The shooting star of course signifies that perhaps the downward pressure is accelerating even more, and that people are simply coming into the market in order to take advantage of "value" in the US dollar. With this, we believe that the market is going to continue to go down to the 1.40 level given enough time. Any rally at this point in time will be sold as far as we can see, and as a result we have no interest in buying.


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Near Culloden is the city of Inverness. This was where we stayed at when we visited the areas around Culloden. It's an old city, very picturesque and pretty. The one-way streets, though, are rather strange and kinda stressful. I don't know how to describe it. They're one-way, but used as a two-way, but you have to wait your turn. I don't know…
Anyway, we took a stroll around the area the day we left and climbed up to the hill where the Inverness Castle stood. The castle is, unfortunately, not open to the public and is actually currently being used as a courthouse.
One thing I noticed, most of the building and houses in Scotland were built with stone walls or tiny-pebbled roughcast, very different from England where most of the houses and buildings were built with bricks. I likes.
Also worth mentioning, the Scots were some of the friendliest, most helpful and welcoming people I've ever came across, very similar to the Irish. Despite the constant gloomy weather, we haven't came across anyone grumpy or unpleasant. Very refreshing.


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TV shows can be great sources for travel inspiration.
Often a setting looks so good on camera that you feel compelled to visit it in real life.
The infographic below, created by WhoCanFixMyCar, rounds up eight road trips that will show you multiple iconic landmarks from some of your favorite TV shows.
"Game of Thrones" fans can head to Croatia, while devotees of "The Walking Dead" should try Atlanta, Georgia.
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2019-2020 Online Applications for New Students
Online Applications for the 2020-2021 School Year will be Available on January 7, 2020.
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Updated: LiveZilla – How to download V18.104.22.168/3
Maybe you heard of this amazing piece of software before. Maybe you have even used it. It was a leader in the freeware market for live chat until recently.
The software I am talking about is called LiveZilla.
LiveZilla, like many other groups with the zilla name, was focusing on making a amazing piece of software for free. Just like Mozilla (Firefox) and FileZilla (FTP software), LiveZilla had some issues, but it was free and people were happy to help in way I could. Yes, they offered premium options that some people bought, but apparently that was not enough.
Not all too long ago, LiveZilla took V3.40 and re-named it as v4. that itself isn't a issue, but then they also removed the "Freeware" license model and replaced it with a "Commercial" License. They claimed that they could not develop anymore for free due to no money and they were forced to moved to a pay solution.
This too could have been overlooked, if not for one key factor. They also removed any and all links to old free versions as fast as they could.
Their reason of "we cannot develop anymore due to lack of funds" is no longer valid. After all, the old versions were completed already, there was nothing more to develop. Rather I suspect they did this so you would be forced to buy their new version and pay them 69 GBP per operator.
Speaking of which, you would think they would at least price their software reasonably. 69 GBP per operator isn't so bad - IF they were to host the software on their server. But since the software is on your server, there is no reason why they need to charge per operator.
Most live chat companies host their software on their servers so to charge per operator makes sense - after all it uses more system resources when you have more people on. But when I am hosting it on my server, I am already paying the extra cost.
Back on topic. I figured I would ask LiveZilla why they removed the old version and plead with them to restore it. So I did, and they promptly deleted my topic. Good thing I pulled it up in Google's cache and took a screenshot. See for yourself:
I asked them why they deleted my topic. While they are entitled to delete anything they don't like, it does say something about them as a whole.
Assuming they would censor or delete my new topic, I took a screenshot:
End result: They didn't delete this post, but they did edit it to remove my link to Google's cache.
In the end of the day, LiveZilla has shown me that they are only interested in money and not the end user.
Needless to say, the old version is free and while they won't distribute it anymore, nothing stops me from hosting it myself and linking it here.
Follow the 2 links below to download livezilla 188.8.131.52 full and livezilla 184.108.40.206 client
You only need full to setup and install livezilla on your website. You can use full to answer chats as well.
If you want a smaller install, use the client package. This package allows you to answer chats as normal, but does not allow you to install livezilla on a webserver.
Update: Provided by a reader in the comments, I have 188.8.131.52 hosted here as well. These files have not been verified by me though, so use at your own risk.


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From: firstname.lastname@example.com (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,alt.discrimination,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Biology as sexual destiny
Date: 17 Aug 91 13:14:27 GMT
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
Once again I go into the fallacy of beanbag genetics and stupid Darwinism. You all on soc.motss can kill this now. You've heard it all before.
Okay. Let us say that you have an exact twin brother/sister and that sibling has children. How are those children genetically related to you? They have got exactly 50% of your genes, for sure, maybe more. You are as much genetic parent to your identical twin's children as your twin is.
That is what genetic basis for identical twins is all about. Please remember this.
Okay, now look at your non-twin siblings. Do they share genetic heritage with you? Yep. A lot.
Now there is no "one gene" that causes homosexuality. (Assuming that the genetic determinist theory for homosexuality is true. We are going to assume that it is true here, but before you flame me for this let me tell you that I am perfectly willing to believe that it takes a combination of factors, some genetic and some environmental. I just believe that there is ''some'' genetic component.)
In looking for "homosexual genes" you are likely to find that there are a hundred or more loci to look at, any 54 or so will make you so homosexual that you never, ever, ever, ever, can stand the idea of sex with the opposite sex.
That is to say, historically, homosexuals have never had any problem creating children. Gay men ocassionally had sex with their wives "for the duty of the house" and lesbians were married and had children. The social problems of this belong in another post, but it is clear that inability to engender children is not what makes one homosexual.
It is lack of desire to do so.
So how come the homosexual genes were not bred out of the population? Easy. Assuming that you are homosexual, your siblings carry many of the genes necessary for genetic homosexuality.
Clearly not all of them, or they would choose not to reproduce as you do, but a good chunk.
After all, they got their genes from the same place you did ... your parents.
So their children stand a good chance of being homosexual. Your sibling's mate may bring the right combination of genes to the match.
Okay, all we have to do is demonstate that, from a set of genes "point of view" it is better to have a Gay uncle or Lesbian Aunt than to not have one. And this one can clearly see, if one reads zoological literature. It is seen in Lions, Wolves, and "primitive" human societies -- and no doubt more which I am unaware of.
What do homosexual wolves do. (Lions and Lionesses work in prides. The math is still there, but more complicated.) What they do is hunt and bring prey to their siblings, in general (most wolf packs are related that way), or their more distant relatives, ''and their cubs''.
And in the wolf world, for a cub to survive to maturity it makes an enormous amount of difference if 2 wolves are hunting for you or if 3 are. If you have a homosexual aunt or uncle, you win big time in the harsh world where most wolf cubs do not survive.
So you continue the set of genes, some of which will produce homosexual wolves. If the wolf mortality rate for cubs with 2 feeders is 80%, and the wolf mortality rate for wolves with 3 feeders is only 50%, then this change is extremely adaptive.
(We are only talking about feeding, here. Homosexual wolves also share in guarding the cubs from predators, another big win which is harder to measure.)
So what happens?
More wolves who have homosexual aunts and uncles survive, compared to those that do not. Those homosexual genes get propegated... and how! In the future, these surviving cubs are likely to have a homosexual member, but if they do not, then their cubs are likely to.
And every time a homosexual member is produced, his or her siblings, for whom he hunts and protects, will find having a "Queer Uncle or Auntie" a huge Darwinian advantage.
To propogate genes into the future, requires sex.
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They have shown that the technology can potentially benefit low-vision users, many of whom find the smartphone's built-in zoom feature to be difficult to use due to the loss of context.
"When people with low visual acuity zoom in on their smartphones, they see only a small portion of the screen, and it's difficult for them to navigate around -- they don't know whether the current position is in the center of the screen or in the corner of the screen," said senior author Gang Luo from Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear.
Luo added that this application transfers the image of smartphone screens to Google Glass and allows users to control the portion of the screen they see by moving their heads to scan, which gives them a very good sense of orientation.
In an evaluation of their new technology, the researchers observed two groups of research subjects (one group that used the head-motion Google Glass application and the other using the built-in zoom feature on a smart phone) and measured the time it took for them to complete certain tasks. The researchers showed that the head-based navigation method reduced the average trial time compared to conventional manual scrolling by about 28%.
As next steps for the project, the researchers would like to incorporate more gestures on the Google Glass to interact with smartphones. They would also like to study the effectiveness of head-motion based navigation compared to other commonly-used smartphone accessibility features, such as voice-based navigation.
"Given the current heightened interest in smart glasses, such as Microsoft's Hololens and Epson's Moverio, it is conceivable to think of a smart glass working independently without requiring a paired mobile device in near future," said first author Shrinivas Pundlik. "The concept of head-controlled screen navigation can be useful in such glasses even for people who are not visually impaired."
The study is published online in the journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.


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Some of the world's best known cryptographers veterans of the crypto wars of the 1990s say government access to encryption keys is still a bad idea, but is an issue that will never go away because it's something intelligence agencies crave.
Speaking at RSA 2015's Cryptographer's panel, Whitfield Diffie, who pioneered public-key encryption, says key escrow schemes where government could gain access to encrypted data works mainly to the benefit of government. "They want you to be secure but not against them," he says.
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Ron Rivest, an MIT professor and the R in RSA encryption, says key escrow has problems in that it opens many parties to messages that are encrypted for passage across public networks, not just the U.S. government. Other governments would take advantage of it, too, destroying any real hope of privacy. "This is going to be a house of many doors and many parties and it's just not going to work," Rivest says.
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Key escrow would give the government, under legal rules, the right to access keys from third parties. The idea came up in a different form in the 1990s with the Clipper Chip that would be used by telecom operators to encrypt voice calls, but had a built-in back door.
The NSA has called key escrow a front-door to information it needs to defend the U.S. against terrorists, trying to put a different spin on the idea than is conjured up by the more sinister-sounding back door.
Adi Shamir, a member of the crypto panel who teaches at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and is the S in RSA, says the front-door designation is just semantics. "There's no difference between a back door and a front door. The NSA will just turn your house around," he says.
And multiple agencies within the federal government will have the right to use the same subpoena power to get the keys to crack encrypted data. He says he sees no privacy advantage to taking the secret key and splitting it among many parties who can make use of it separately.
Diffie says crypto systems ought to be made strong enough for the NSA to crack without any help if it needs to but only with great effort - so much work that it can only afford to crack important select traffic, not decrypt everything wholesale. "They can get at individual things but can't do it at scale," he says.
Diffie says if key escrow came into effect, people seeking privacy would encrypt it before it was re-encrypted to cross carrier networks. In that case, if the keys were used on the traffic, they would reveal an encrypted message for which the NSA would not have the key. Diffie says in that case, the government might make such pre-encryption a separate crime.
Ed DiGiorgio, a panelist who has worked both as the NSA's chief of encryption and as its chief encryption breaker, says that this issue keeps coming up and is likely to keep coming up because the NSA and other government agencies believe it is necessary to break all encryption for the purpose of investigating criminals and terrorists.
The panel weighed in on other security issues including chip and PIN technology that embeds a security chip on credit cards to encrypt card data that is shared with merchants at the time of sale. It's used in Europe and Canada and is set to become the standard in the U.S. in October.
Rivest noted that along with chip and PIN, the liability for making up card-holder losses in case of a breach falls to merchants rather than the banks that issue the cards. That makes merchants responsible for implementing best cryptographic practices. That model might be a good one to apply in other areas where losses can be traced to entities that don't follow best practices, he says.
Shamir says chip-and-PIN technology will make credit-card transactions more secure but won't make credit card theft go away, it will just make criminals adapt and attack elsewhere. DiGiorgio agreed. "There will be new attacks and they will come up with them very quickly."
The issue came to the forefront last year when major breaches of credit card information from retailers cropped up over and over. Diffie dismissed chip-and-PIN adoption by U.S. credit card firms as something with "nice visibility they can do in a year of embarrassment."
The group says ransomware poses problems for victims because they can't decrypt their hard drives after attackers have broken in and encrypted them. (Read: Ransomware: Pay it or fight it?)
Rivest noted that the criminals behind popular ransomware use the RSA crypto system he helped invent to lock victims out of their computers unless they pay up. He says cryptography is double-edged and can be used for good or bad, and he feels bad about RSA being used in ransomware. "I feel like a mother whose son has been brainwashed and is off to become a jihadist in Syria."
Shamir said ransomware could spread beyond just PCs as the Internet of Things becomes more pervasive. If someone's smart TV is ransomed, "Would you pay someone in Moldavia to get the service back?" he asks.
He says the security community has "failed miserably" in preparing end users for recognizing spear phishing, which is the most common method ransomware criminals use to attack PCs. He imagined an automated system that analyzed a person's past 1,000 emails and used that analysis to create a test spear-phishing attempt that would help users be more wary.
DiGiorgio says that even if the current extortion model is defeated by backing up data so compromised machines can be reimaged, criminals will have gained access to all the data on the machine from which they will cull something that will present extortion opportunities.


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LONDON–In the 1950s and '60s, when Thailand experienced the bulk of its 19 military coups , a dark joke circulated through the market stalls of Bangkok that the country had three political parties — the army, the navy, and the air force. Last month, it was the army, headed by General Prayuth Chan-ocha, which stepped in on May 20th to declare martial law and then, two days later, a coup d'etat. In one of their first — and most ironic — acts, the military banned a screening of George Orwell's 1984, a dystopian tale about life in a police state. Though a coup is nothing new in the "Land of Smiles," the current situation — exacerbated by the uncertainty surrounding the failing health of Thailand's revered, 86-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej — threatens to tear Thailand apart.
This story — of a factionalized country forcibly welded together through military might — is as old as Thailand itself. Older, in fact. The pattern began some seven centuries ago , when the region's city-states first began jockeying for control of the Mekong and Chao Praya basin. With none able to gain the upper hand for long, the so-called land of Siam — with no borders or defined geographic boundaries — gradually coalesced into a loose collection of ethnically-diverse warring states and kingdoms.


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Written by Mary Kate Alfieri
Big Ben, Oxford Circus, my Oyster card- these are just a few of my favorite things in London that over the past four months I've come to love. I've seen so many sights and done so many awesome things, it's hard for me to pick my best experiences and squeeze them into just three days - but this is what I think is the best of the best of London:
Although I never went inside Buckingham Palace, (I did take tours of Windsor Castle and Dublin Castle - and to me, all castles basically look the same) one thing I definitely suggest is going to see the changing of the guards outside the Queen's "pad". Although all the pomp is put on for show and it isn't really the only time the guards change, it's still a great thing to see - these red expressionless men with their furry black hats are quintessential icons of England. Plus, the exterior of Buckingham Palace is pretty impressive. The guards ceremony takes place on the even dates of the week at 11:30 - but crowds are heavy by 11:15 so I'd aim to get there before then.
After that, take a walk across the street to St. James's Park, which was my personal favorite. It's smaller than the more popular Regent's Park and Hyde Park but it's just as beautiful and very quaint. It's a great place to people watch - sitting on the benches near the pond or picnic on the green grass. The animals are friendly and very used to people - I've even seen people successfully palm feed a squirrel - however, the motivation for that is beyond me. Cross over the bridge and delicious gelato from a little stand awaits you.
With just a little walk you can meet up with the Thames. If you hang over the rail to look at the water it's actually not very clean- but from a distance, it has been known to sparkle radiantly in the sun. You can hop on one of Thames Boat Cruises and in less than a half hour, you'll be Greenwich. It's only a few pounds for a one way journey, and once you get there, everything is free! The architecture on the water is beautiful and you'll pass by some very well-known buildings like the National Theatre, the Tate Modern and Shakespeare's Globe. (I've heard plays at Shakespeare's Globe are fantastic- however they only are in season until the first weekend in October, which is why I didn't get to go.)
When you get off the boat in Greenwich, follow the crowds of people up the somewhat steep hill to the Prime Meridian and Royal Observatory. You may huff a little getting up there, but I promise the views from the top are worth it. Put a leg on each side of the Prime Meridian and you'll get the rare chance to be in two places at once- the eastern and western hemisphere (a great photo opportunity)! The Royal Observatory gives you even better views, and there are planetarium shows and other exhibitions depending on when you go. There's a cute little tea and pastry shop at the top of the hill if the walking has made you hungry - it was delicious!
Head back to central London on the boat, but this time instead of alighting at Westminster, get off at Tower Bridge. You'll know when you're there - this bridge is different than the rest with its magnificent castle-like columns and baby blue decorating and it's right in front of the Tower of London. You can grace the walkways between the towers for a fee, but just walking across it on the pedestrian ways next to the cars was always sufficient for me. Between Tower Bridge and Westminster, there are many restaurants, and up until about the middle of October, you can sit outside - the overhead heaters are really warm! One of the nicest meals I had in London was sitting outside at night. I could see the whole river lit up as well as the everything around it- Big Ben, the Parliament Buildings and the London Eye. It looks like a postcard - you really have to see the River Thames at night.
Now that you've seen many of London's most famous attractions by the water, I suggest spending some time shopping - there's no better place to shop than in London. Harrods is an attraction within itself, and it's one of those things that you just have to see. It's huge, enormous really, and even though I've been there five or six times, I haven't even been to half the departments. My personal favorite is the Pet Kingdom, where they actually sell animals. There have only even been a couple of puppies and kitties when I've been there, and they're always sleeping but there are also hamsters, bunnies and ferrets. What might even be cooler are all the accessories you can get for your animal - talk about spoiling your pet! On the bottom floor is the most expensive cafeteria I've ever seen, with whole rooms for hot foods that you can eat onsite, but also butchers and fishmongers selling groceries to take home. The bakery smells delicious every time I walk by. As you're leaving, you're allowed to admire all the expensive handbags and scarves on the ground floor. The entire building feels like you're in some sort of palace - this is definitely no J.C Pennys or Primark!
Take the tube to Oxford Street where some serious quid can be spent. Some favorites include Top Shop, Zara, and Selfridges. Just like Fifth Avenue in New York City, there are tons of shops with the potential to keep you busy for hours. Just a few stops down from the Oxford Street tube is my favorite London museum- the British Museum.
The one thing I'd say about this before you go is you must understand you can't get it done in one day- it's impossible. The museum itself is free, but there are lots of donation boxes scattered around if you feel compelled to contribute after going through. When you enter the museum, make sure you grab a map, it will make it easier to pick and choose what exhibitions you want to see. Most of the museum is segregated by country or region and are filled with incredible artifacts from all different time periods. You could literally spend all weekend here and not run out of things to look at. London might be great for shopping, but its well know for partying! Probably the most famous area, Piccadilly Circus is hopping once night falls. Bright lights and digitally animated display boards adorn the buildings in the center, and nightclubs are literally everywhere. The cover charge will be high and the dance floors crowded, but a night out in Piccadilly is a lot of fun.
Start your last morning here with a ride on the London Eye. You go around once and the ride lasts for about a half hour - it's pretty cool to see the entire city from above. By now you might even be able to recognize a few things you've been to?
Assuming it's a Friday or Saturday when you come down, make your way to Borough Market- but make sure you snap a picture of Big Ben in the daylight first. Borough Market is a food lover's dream - and there are tons of samples of cheeses and breads and jams to try while you're walking about. You can grab some food while you're walking, like grilled cheese and onion toasties or a sausage sandwich with all the fixings. You can also buy any type of poultry, mutton, venison, and beef imaginable that the locals take home for dinner. Fresh organic veggies and fruits are also on sale amongst the cakes, pastries and other treats... Yummmm - my mouth is watering just writing this!
And a visit to London wouldn't be complete without a trip to a theater in the West End, now would it. There are so many great shows that are currently playing. I saw Wicked and The Lion King, which are both classics and executed phenomenally. You can buy the tickets online in advance, which is what I would suggest if you're going with a few people and you all want to sit together. If you're alone or with just one other person, you might be able to get them at Leicester Square's Half Price Ticket Booth on the day for a lot less than face value. Before the show, have an early dinner in Covent Garden. It's a really great area to just walk around in. If it's a weekend, there will be street performers entertaining you and there are lots of vendors that are usually selling handmade jewelry and paintings, scarves and souvenirs. After the show, having a cup of tea, or a pint of bitter will immerse you deeper in British traditions.
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I totally understand the M rated problem. That's why I mostly stick with Nintendo. Their games are usually rated pretty good. And as for games I like, I'd say I enjoy playing Nes games like Blaster Master, The Immortal, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Castlevania 1-3. I also like VVVVVV and Cave Story.Good games are hard to find these days because almost three fourths of them are rated M. Also, they dont supply hardly any games for older systems anymore. Nintendo has a big problam with that. I purchased a DSi about two to three years ago and I couldnt find a single game at walmart for it. All their gamese that you can find new are all for the 3DS. It can get annoying, even T games are hard to find.
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Here is close up of Lily - I of course had to glitter her wings! I am a glitter girl after all!
And a little bit o' news- I had my big variance meeting last night for the extension we are putting on for my in-laws and much to our relief- everything was approved!!!!! We are so grateful and can finally get ready to start having all the construction begin.
Blog candy contest update- thanks to everyone who voted in my card contest. The voting will close on Friday and I will announce the winner on Saturday!! There is still time to check it out!
Have a great day- off to get the kids!