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The Yorkshire Volunteers, a Territorial Army Infantry Regiment of the Line, was formed on 1st April 1967 and, being a Regiment formed by the amalgamation of Territorial Army major units, is successor to:
The Humber Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorials)
The West Riding Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorials)
The Sheffield Artillery Volunteers Royal Artillery (Territorials)
3rd Battalion The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire (T.A.)
The Leeds Rifles The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire (T.A.)
4th/5th Battalion The Green Howards (T.A.)
The West Riding Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (T.A.)
The Hallamshire Battalion The York and Lancaster Regiment (T.A.)
The Defence Review of 1966 directed a sweeping cut-back in the size of the Territorial Army. As one result, the Yorkshire Volunteers was formed by the amalgamation of elements of the Territorial Army battalions of Yorkshire's infantry regiments. The Headquarters of the new Regiment was at York and four rifle companies were based at York, Middlesbrough, Halifax and Sheffield. In 1969 a fifth company was formed in Leeds from elements of the Leeds Rifles and the five parent Territorial Army major units were reduced from battalion to cadre strength and placed under the administration of the Yorkshire Volunteers.
In 1971, the 2nd Battalion and 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers were raised by the five infantry cadres together with the cadres of the three remaining Royal Artillery Territorial Army Regiments in the County of York. The two Battalion Headquarters were at York and Huddersfield respectively. The new companies were, in the main, raised upon the detachment locations previously used by the 1st Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers.
A further reorganisation, completed on 1st January 1988, resulted in the formation of a 4th Battalion, but on the 4th April 1992 the 3rd and 4th Battalions amalgamated to become the 3rd/4th Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers with its Headquarters at Sheffield.
The conclusion of the Options for Change review of the Territorial Army saw the introduction of a policy of closer linkage between Territorial Army Battalions and their Regular counterparts. As a result, the Ministry of Defence directed that the Yorkshire Volunteers was to be disbanded and that its constituent Battalions would, in future, separately form part of the Yorkshire Infantry Regiments of the Line.
3rd Battalion The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire
(Yorkshire Volunteers)
(late 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers)
4th/5th Battalion The Green Howards
(Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) (Yorkshire Volunteers)
(late 1st Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers)
3rd Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
(West Riding) (Yorkshire Volunteers)
(late 3rd/4th Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers)
All three Battalions resulting from this reorganisation bore the secondary title Yorkshire Volunteers. The Band, alone, remained; continuing to serve its Territorial Army Battalions and administered by the 3rd Battalion The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire (Yorkshire Volunteers), but still designated The Band of the Yorkshire Volunteers.
The affiliation between Yorkshire Volunteers and HMS Sheffield was maintained by 3rd Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (Yorkshire Volunteers).
On the 25th April 1993, slightly less than a year after the 25th Anniversary Celebrations, a Regimental Parade and Service of Rededication was held in Catterick Garrison to mark the disbandment of the Yorkshire Volunteers, in the presence of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent GCVO, Honorary Colonel Yorkshire Volunteers.
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The TA battalions of the three Yorkshire Infantry Regiments were each reduced, forming part of two multi-badged battalions.
The two remaining Green Howards companies, one in Scarborough, with a detachment in Northallerton, the other in Middlesbrough with a detachment at Coulby Newham were "removed" from Yorkshire and placed into the new Tyne Tees Regiment. The two 3PWO companies, York and Hull, joined with 3DWR companies at Barnsley and Huddersfield, and a re-formed Light Infantry company at Pontefract, in the newly created The East and West Riding Regiment. The Band, which had survived the 1993 "Options for Change" was finally axed with effect from 1st April 1999.
However, following a trend established almost 120 years earlier, the band did not disappear.
Although not following a strict lineage, former Yorkshire Volunteers had remained in a Drill Hall in Rotherham and become 146 Recovery Company REME, and soldiers of 4/5 Green Howards rebadged as 104 (Pioneer) Squadron, Royal Logistics Corps, in Coulby Newham.
It is said that "what goes round, comes round". It is interesting to note that in 1969 when the Leeds Rifles joined the Regiment, they brought with them an Assault Pioneer Platoon, which was "dropped" only a few years later. In 1999, former Yorkshire Volunteers again adopted the role of Pioneers. Some would say they had always been pioneers!
The Yorkshire Volunteers, in 1999, is succeeded by the following:
The East and West Riding Regiment
Imphal Company York, plus
Leeds Rifles Platoon, Leeds
Quebec Company Sutton-on-Hull, plus
a detachment in Beverley
Ypres Company Huddersfield, plus
a platoon in Keighley
Fontenay Company Barnsley, plus
a platoon in Sheffield
Tyne Tees Regiment
A (Green Howards) Coy Scarborough, plus
a detachment in Northallerton
B (Green Howards) Coy Middlesbrough, plus
a detachment in Coulby Newham
REME, 146 Recovery Company
Royal Logistics Corps, 104 Pioneer Squadron
2006 - The Yorkshire Regiment
In April 2006, the two Green Howards companies of Tyne Tees Regiment will merge with East & West Riding Regiment, prior to becoming the 4th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, on the 6th June. This will restore things to much as they were thirty five years ago!
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- Thank the one that nominated you.
- Put up the picture for the One Lovely Blog Award.
- Tell everyone seven things about yourself.
- And nominate seven other people and tell them in their blogs that you nominated them.
Okies. I have already done Rule 1 and Rule 2. Check. Now for the seven things about myself. Hmm. Tricky. But here goes…
1. I'm the crazy aunt everyone warned you about!
2. I love chocolate. Chocolate comes from cocoa which comes out of a tree. That makes it a plant. Therefore, chocolate counts as salad. The end.
3. I think sharks aren't so bad… If a stranger entered my house wearing only a speedo, I would probably attack him too.
4. I have learnt that unless life also hands you water and sugar, your lemonade is gonna suck. For sure.
5. I always, always do good. One good turn…..gets most of the blanket. (guffaw)
6. I have come to realise that the world can be amazing when you're slightly strange. Or different. Because then you're special. Special with a capital 'W' …. W E I R D.
7. Finally… Be someone's crazy aunt. Or uncle. Or grandma. Or, just plain crazy.
Phew. That made me think. A lot. But now you know me. A lot. Big grin.
I now crown the following blogs with the One Lovely Blog Award…
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Managing diabetes is a very difficult process. Every day each sufferer has to monitor their insulin and diet as well as other side effects that come along with diabetes. More often than not, most diabetics have poor foot health which can be affected by their diets. A good balanced diet and diabetic socks can help that individual manage their condition a little better. Diabetes is as much as it is about maintaining a balanced diet, as about proper monitoring of sugar levels periodically. It is only when you know your true sugar level that you can intervene timely to control it. Therefore, in this post, I shall share some juices that could be a part of the diet as well as tools required to monitor your sugar level at home.
You can test your sugar level at home conveniently by way of a blood sugar meter. There are plenty out there. I compared some of them and found Alere G1 blood glucose monitor to be the best. Why? The two biggest reasons are very high accuracy as compared with lab tests & affordability.
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Having tested Alere G1 Glucometer against popular brands such as Accu-Chek Active, One Touch Simple Select & GlucoDr., I can recommend Alere G1 to be the best value for money!
Besides, Alere is a reliable name. It is one of the world's biggest POCT (point-of-care) diagnostic firms. The company offers the comprehensive suite of world class technologies in POCT. Alere is a respected name in field of diagnostics.
With monitoring sorted, let's look at the delicious juices that are also healthy in diabetes.
Green Apple Spinach Cucumber Juice
We all know that eating green leafy vegetables is good for health. Spinach is a super food loaded with iron and calcium. Cucumber has high water content and is rich in fiber. An apple a day keeps the doctor away and Green apples add natural sweetness. So, enjoy this juice with all goodness.
Serves – 2
1 ripe green apple (chopped, core discarded)
1/2 cup fresh spinach leaves (chopped)
1 Cucumber (peeled and chopped)
1 tsp Lemon Juice
Salt – 1/8 tsp
Water – 1 cup
Add all the ingredients in your blender and blitz until smooth.
- 2 tomatoes (chopped)
- 2 carrots (peeled and chopped)
- Ginger – 1 tbsp (grated)
- Celery – 1/2 cup (trimmed and chopped)
- Salt – 1/8 tsp
- Water – 1 cup
- Add all ingredients in your blender and blitz it. Pour the juice into 2 glasses and serve immediately.
******Please check with your dietitian or doctor before including these juices in your regular diet******
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Food truck fad is growing stronger and stronger. So if you've got a niche food segment that you'd like to introduce, don't think twice. Food and beverage, as we learned, is one industry that will constantly bring in customers even when times are bad and as long as you have the right product and the capacity to meet the demands, you've got the potential to grow big. Find a truck, fit in a mobile kitchen, get your licensing and find a hotspot (a mix of educational institutions and office buildings). If you are hiring helpers, make sure they are trained to treat customers well and expand your business via social media. But remember these: Try and not cause traffic by double or triple parking and risk your truck getting towed away and always maintain good hygiene and reasonable pricing
It can be your typical flea market or weekend market scenario. The latest fad is to hold food truck carnivals and considering there are so many options out there, you can actually benefit from this. Start up a brand and gather food trucks to have a weekend food fest or leverage on existing weekend flea markets or car markets and expand them to other states. Your only challenge is to secure an open space to accommodate the crowd and manage traffic consistently to be seen as a responsible organiser.
No, we are not asking you to start a shipping or logistics company – although we are not entirely pushing the idea away! If you've got the money to secure a shipping container or remodel an old one, turn it into a classy looking diner or kiosk. The idea has been trending since 2014 but they are a rare sight here. Should you work close to an industrial area, you can consider tapping into the foreign workers market. Apart from packages food and fruits, you could provide mobile recharge services, money transfer services or Internet services but ensure they are reasonably priced. In fact prices can be lower than the average rate if you are catering to construction workers as they make it for it in terms of numbers.
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Georgia's Edwards announces plans to enter NBA draft
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) Georgia freshman Anthony Edwards announced his plans to enter the NBA draft on Friday.
For his coach, Tom Crean, it was only a matter of when the news would come. He knew his top scorer was ready for the next level.
"It's not like there was any pros or cons to it," Crean said, adding that Edwards' decision was "easy."
"He's pretty much assured he's going to be very, very high in that draft, if not the highest," Crean said.
Edwards' spot in the next NBA draft was expected even before he played his first game for the Bulldogs. Edwards, from Holy Spirit Prep in Atlanta, was one of the nation's top recruits last season. He has been regarded as one of the top draft prospects.
Edwards, a 6-foot-5 guard, led the nation's freshmen with his average of 19.1 points per game. He added 5.2 rebounds.
"His desire to improve, his desire to work was incredible," Crean said. "I think he's got an incredible future."
Edwards announced his decision with a statement on his Twitter feed.
"Georgia will always be my home but I am ready to take my game to the next level and have decided to declare for the 2020 NBA Draft," Edwards wrote. "I hope I've made you all proud but the work is far from finished. Family, friends, teammates, coaches, fans and Georgia, this one's for you. I'm excited for what the future holds and I hope you'll follow along. The next chapter starts now. Let's get it."
Edwards was an often explosive scorer but struggled at times with his long-range shots. He made only 29.4% of his 3-point attempts. Crean noted that Edwards' 72 3-pointers led the team.
Crean expects Edwards will improve in the NBA, especially as he gains more confidence in his shot.
Crean said Edwards' range "is excellent" and said the young guard needs to take his outside shots without hesitation.
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Despite Edwards' scoring leadership, Georgia was only 16-16 overall and 5-13 in the Southeastern Conference.
Another freshman, 6-foot-11 center Rodney Howard, from Ypsilanti, Michigan, plans to transfer. Howard averaged 1.3 points in 24 games, including two starts.
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What I've Learned From Writing Over 300 Sustainability Lifestyle Tips
Every weekday, I share a sustainable lifestyle tip through a community newsletter. This didn't start because I had hundreds of tips up my sleeve, waiting to be shared. I started the newsletter knowing about 50 tips. Over the course of a year, I had to come up with new, creative ways to enable people to help the planet or at least reduce their impact. The process was eye-opening in many ways.
Here are some of the biggest takeaways I have after sharing one year's worth of tips.
Rethink Everything
Before long, I had to start monitoring every little decision I made and action I took throughout the day to find opportunities for better environmental choices that weren't already on every eco blog. As I'm writing this, right now, for example, I can think about if my laptop is 100% charged and therefore I can unplug my charger. I can consider the screen brightness to optimize battery life. I can think about where this laptop came from and if there was a used laptop or one made with components more local to my location. I can look at the table it's resting on and ask what finish it has on it, what woods it's made from, and where the vendor is located. I could go on.
Be Realistic, but Creative
You can't ask too much from people. Once they start to feel like a sustainability tip is beyond them, they can't connect to it. They feel like it's something only extreme activists or "sustainability people" do. I have found that people get most excited about tips that they would have never thought of, but are so damn easy they can't believe they've never thought of them before. "Choose the Lonely Banana", "Turn the Lights of When Leaving a Restaurant Bathroom", "Only Use a Pea-Size Amount of Toothpaste"….
There a Million Ways to Tackle One Environmental Problem
From plastic waste to CO2 emissions, each daunting threat to the environment caused by humans can be broken down into itty bitty decisions we make throughout the day, each different from the next. For example, there is an opportunity to reduce your contribution to methane emissions in the packaging of the product you decide to purchase, in how much food you make, in how much food you eat, in the way you dispose of your tea, in how you prepare your tea...and that's really just the tip of the iceberg. It's better to pick a big environmental issue and master one approach to ending it at a time. Otherwise, you end doing things like forgetting your reusable mug.
People Pick and Choose
There are a few eco all-stars who take an exhaustive approach to sustainable living and incorporate nearly every tip I've shared over the past year or so. I practice nearly everything I suggest and even I slip up or need to work harder at following my own sustainability tip advice. For the most part, though, there are a few tips that stand out to a person, and those are the ones they will adopt. Each person might take to different tips, but there are always a few ideas that really speak to each individual.
People are Really Curious About This Stuff
It's not that people don't care, it's that they don't know where to start. Hearing about climate change and rising sea levels and the rise in the endangerment of species is really overwhelming, but it can be hard to know how to help if you aren't a marine biologist or don't study sustainability in depth. By offering simple ways to help, people feel more connected to the cause and start to feel comfortable asking more questions. One of my favorite things about writing the newsletter is when people reply wanting to know more, or wondering, "but, what about this…?". If they have a good questions about choosing bar soap over body wash, I bet they have even greater ones about the climate change news they read every day.
You Can Make a Difference With Us
I get asked a lot whether or not the small individual tips I recommend really can make a difference. Ironically, the only thing that could stand in the way of the answer to this question being "heck, yes, you can make a difference!", is the willingness of each individual to participate. It's also not just about your direct impact. Each of us can act as a model to other people, showing them a more sustainable way of making everyday choices, and hopefully inspiring them to do the same.


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"According to Greek legend, Poseidon's son Theseus sailed to Crete to slay the monster Minotaur. After his triumphant return to Athens, his ship was preserved as a memorial. As the vessel aged, decaying planks were replaced with new ones; eventually, all the original timber was replaced. Philosophers know the story of Theseus's ship as a classic example of the problem of identity. What was the true identity of the ship, the shape or the wood? A more contemporary example may be found in the form of my first car, a 1966 Ford Mustang with a 289-cubic-inch engine and a speedometer that pegged at 140 m.p.h. As a young man high in testosterone but low in self-control, by the time I sold the car 15 years later there was hardly an original part on it. Nevertheless, my '1966' Mustang was now considered a classic, and I netted a tidy profit. Like Theseus's ship, its essence — its Mustangness — was intact. The analogy holds for human identity. The atoms in my brain and body today are not the same ones I had when I was born. Nevertheless, the patterns of information coded in my DNA and in my neural memories are still those of Michael Shermer. The human essence, the soul, is more than a pile of parts — it is a pattern of information." – Michael ShermerThe idea of a pattern language has been revisited once more by Christopher Alexander in his fourth book, The Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order, which is described as presenting "a new cosmology that arises from the careful study of architecture and art, and above all from the practice of the arts. It is a cosmology which places the I, our experience of self, as the linking stem that unites each individual with the whole, connecting consciousness and matter," and suggests that it is human interpretation (a necessarily contextualized process) that provides us with a sense of identity, not anything inherent within the ever-changing cosmos.
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The last Windows Phone to make an appearance on Sprint retail shelves was also the company's first – and it also hailed from HTC. The Arrive, a side-sliding QWERTY smartphone that made up part of the original Windows Phone 7 rollout back in 2011, has for the past two-and-a-half years represented Sprint's only modern Microsoft offering – a sad state of affairs for fans of Live Tiles on America's third-largest network. So the HTC 8XT, with its modern build, BoomSound speakers, and up-to-date Windows Phone 8 operating system, is a sight for sore eyes. It's bound to be an improvement over the Arrive in almost every way – but is that enough to justify its evocative high-end branding, or should this phone have been called the "8ST" instead? Let's find out.
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Specs & Hardware
In terms of the spec sheet, the 8XT definitely resembles HTC's earlier, less-impressive 8S more than the flagship 8X. A colored accent stripe highlights the capacitive keys at the bottom of the device, which sit below a 4.3-inch LCD screen that's not gonna turn any heads with its WVGA (800×480) resolution. The display's pixel density of 216 ppi isn't the worst around – but it definitely isn't crisp enough to hold up next to the higher-resolution screens of the 8X or Lumia 1020 – and its colors really wash out at certain angles.
The display's ho-hum nature is doubly disappointing, because the hardware surrounding it actually gives off a fairly high-end vibe. The soft-touch paint job feels incredibly smooth and comfortable in the hand, and while the California Blue paint job makes it seem somewhat toylike in photos, in person it looks terrific. The curved back cover nests nicely in the palm, the phone's 9.9mm thickness a perfect match for its 140g mass. HTC's branding is minimal and perfectly set off by the phone's design, the buttons are where we expect them to be, and the camera bezel, though a little alien-looking, bears an attractive metallic finish. The phone pulls off the "beautiful-but-durable" combination very well; it's no wonder HTC has received its share of design awards for its mobile hardware.
Down in engineering, things are a little more commonplace: powering everything is a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (MSM8930) running at 1.4GHz and helped along by a gig of RAM and a paltry 8GB of storage – only 4.9 of which is available to the user on first boot.
Thankfully, there's MicroSD expansion here for media, but the same can't be said for the non-removable 1800mAh lithium-polymer battery, which is embedded below the sliding back cover. Otherwise, it's a pretty tame cocktail of Bluetooth 4.0, Wifi a/b/g/n, NFC, and radios for Sprint's 3G CDMA and 1900MHz 4G LTE; there's nothing terribly special about this phone's spec load.
Here's where we normally follow that up by reminding you that Windows Phone is a very consistent and responsive platform, no matter what specs it's running on. Well, that is indeed normally true – but not, sadly, on the 8XT. Frankly, this phone has some significant performance issues.
To begin with, doing anything while there's a music-streaming app playing in the background is a virtual guarantee of lag and stutter. Try streaming anything from Pandora or Spotify over cellular, even over LTE, and then spend a few minutes in Twitter, or the People hub. Not only will the audio start breaking up, with pops and clicks as though it's an old AM radio, but the phone's UI slows to a crawl, too, with animations grinding to a skittering halt and keypresses not always logging correctly. This seems to happen irrespective of what media app you're using, whether over headphones or speakers, whether Beats is enabled or not. Sometimes it happens when you're not even playing music at all: the phone will just bog down for no apparent reason, only to then go on behaving normally for a few minutes more before doing it again.
While that's the most serious issue, it's sadly not the only one: we've also run into problems on phone calls. We'll save you the jump down to Test Notes and just tell you here that phone call performance is only so-so to begin with, on both sides: callers said we sounded just okay, and to us, people came through a bit muffled. But that's not the issue: the problem is that the 8XT periodically, for no reason, turns the screen on while you're talking, causing your cheek to trigger the speakerphone or conference call toggles, or even hit the end-call key.
If these sound like the kind of issues found on a defective phone, we thought so too – we asked HTC for a replacement demo unit and to the company's credit, it immediately sent one over. We also decided to hold this review while we tested the device over a longer span of time (which also gave us the breathing room we needed to cover the Moto X and LG G2).
Unfortunately, the new phone pretty quickly started displaying the same exact set of symptoms. Thinking we were suffering from the wrath of a poorly coded third-party app, we restored the device to factory settings and installed only a handful of quality apps. The lag and stutter disappeared for a few days, but then ultimately returned. It seems pretty clear the 8XT's software (which is the production release packing the new GDR2 update) is rather undercooked in some areas.
Commenters in various 8XT threads across the web are divided on this matter; it appears some devices out there work well, while others display some of the exact problems we're reporting. It's quite possible these issues are confined to a few bad production batches, of course, but that's not exactly reassuring. From our perspective, this device is very much in need of some software refinement. We reached out to HTC for comment, but the company could give us no official word on when it will update the 8XT.
It's possible (though this is pure speculation on our part) that some of those bugs are coming from HTC's heavier-than-usual customization of Windows Phone. If so, that's a shame, because some of the company's modifications to the platform are actually quite welcome. The camera overhaul is one of them.
This isn't a hardware story: the 8XT packs a fairly typical backside-illuminated CMOS sensor (8MP, 1.4um pixel size, F2.0) around back. Rather, it's the software that makes the phone's shooter stand out from the Windows Phone pack.
The viewfinder is essentially a "Windows-ification" of HTC's awesome viewfinder from the One, with many customization options: filters, granular sliders, and special shooting modes like HDR are here, replete with indicators telling you what mode you're shooting in (take notes, Microsoft).
Though it's becoming typical on high-end smartphones, we'd be remiss not to mention HTC's time-saving persistent double-shutter keys for stills and video. That quick-draw video trigger helped us capture this bit of footage of a rapidly-passing train, something we wouldn't have been quick enough to snag had we been using the standard Windows Phone viewfinder:
The video itself is quite nice, and the still-image results aren't bad, either. Colors are typically nice and rich, and with enough light the camera can deliver some pretty fine results outdoors, especially if you make use of the various shooting modes available – and maybe fiddle with a filter or two here and there, just for fun:
Indoors, pictures are a little less impressive, sometimes overexposed, with edges a little blurrier and colors a little more washed-out. A deluxe-edition camera this is not, but for the typical smartphone shooter it should do fine:
Finally, the front-facing camera (a 1.6mp unit) is as usual nothing to write home about:
The 8XT performed well in terms of reception, keeping pace with the Sprint HTC One as we darted to and fro between suburban Greater Boston and rural New York State over the course of a few weeks. Throughput was pretty inconsistent on LTE, jumping from download highs in the low-20Mbps range around midnight to comparatively-sluggish 2Mbps speeds around rush hour, and everywhere in between. Again, voice calls were unremarkable – when we weren't busy accidentally hanging up on people with our cheek, that is.
One of the halo features of the 8XT is BoomSound, HTC's forward-firing speakers paired with Beats Audio. It's the first time such a combination has ever been seen on Windows Phone, and it works brilliantly. Sound is loud and clear, with quite a bit of bass and almost no distortion even at maximum volume. If the screen were a bit bigger, this would be the perfect phone to take in a movie on Netflix – and even as it is, it's a very enjoyable viewing experience thanks to those speakers.
Audio performance over the included earbuds is quite nice, as well – including FM radio listening, which we found surprisingly static-free.
Just keep an eye on your battery when you're blasting that media, though: the lower-capacity pack does indeed result in a pretty spare run-time. With heavy use, we managed to exhaust the power pack in quite a bit less than a day. That's backed up by the benchmarks: at an endurance time of only 01:55:38, the phone scored lower in the WPBench exhaustion test than other devices like the Lumia 1020 (03:17:00), Lumia 920 (02:30:00), and even the Lumia 820 (02:11:00). You probably don't want to leave home without a charger if you're going to be taking the 8XT on a day-long trek.
The Windows Phone ecosystem has been growing steadily, and we were happy to see Nokia's HERE suite, which is a huge value-add as HTC has yet to match Nokia's custom titles in volume or in usefulness. That said, HTC's custom Windows Phone hub adds some nice flair to the homescreen and provides a convenient shortcut to news, weather, and stocks, in addition to an instant visual differentiation from other Windows Phones. Also nice to see: the data-metering and rationing app Data Sense, which we miss on our AT&T Lumia 1020. Of course there's the usual Sprint bloatware here too, which you'll probably want to uninstall considering its poor showing in Windows Store reviews.
+ Attractive hardware design
+ BoomSound lives up to its name
+ Third-party ecosystem improving
+ Camera viewfinder more useful than stock
+ Micro SD expansion
– Stuttery, unreliable UI
– Unremarkable screen, camera hardware
– Battery life sub-par
Pricing and Availability
If you're looking to "amplify your world," the 8XT is available via Sprint for the regular retail price of $399.99, or $99.99 on a two-year contract with the Now Network. You can have any color you want, as long as it's California Blue. It's a shame HTC ditched that Moto X-like customization it had planned for the phone, as that could have gone a long way toward making up for some of the device's flaws.
We want to like the 8XT as much as any other midrange Windows Phone – we really do. Its hardware is beautiful, its camera software is fun, and its BoomSound implementation is even better than the One's. But its software just doesn't measure up. Now, is the 8XT the first phone we've encountered with a laggy or buggy UI? Absolutely not. But as we said on the most recent Pocketnow Weekly podcast, we've come to expect a minimum standard from Windows Phone; if nothing else, you can usually count on phones running the platform to be snappy and reliable, regardless of their specs. So the 8XT's failure to deliver in that area is jarring.
Can you live with the 8XT in its current form? Probably, if you don't listen to much music and don't mind occasionally putting your calls on speakerphone by accident. But those are sacrifices you shouldn't have to make in 2013, especially on Sprint's first new Windows Phone in over two years. A software update would fix all of this -and we hope it does- but we have no way of knowing when HTC will get around to that. If it happens, we'll do our best to circle back and report on the improvements.
If you're considering many carriers, there are plenty of other, better Windows Phones out there that deliver a much more polished experience than the 8XT does. But if you're sticking with Sprint and dead-set on getting yourself a Windows Phone, this device is one of only two choices available to you (Samsung's ATIV S Neo goes on sale this Friday). We won't be sure whether the 8XT is the better of the two options until we review Samsung's offering, but without some software refinement it's not looking good. And we've gotta be honest: considering HTC's track record for quality, that's pretty disappointing.
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Thanks to Jon Rettinger at TechnoBuffalo and the fine folks at TK Tech News for helping to compare/contrast some of our 8XT software issues.


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Dab again[edit]
--Disonyxiated 19:34, 10 June 2007 (EDT)
Ouch, not a fan of this dab either. I would think anyone looking specifically for Northern Ireland would search for that. But, I'll leave it be... --Peterfitzgerald Talk 19:05, 7 June 2007 (EDT)
Why don't we just include the two regions under one main topic..?? (i.e. Ireland (Island) ) I don't think many tourists travelling to Ireland (Island) really view the two states as being entirely different places. --Disonyxiated 19:34, 10 June 2007 (EDT)
Discussion from Republic of Ireland Talk page[edit]
With the caveat of having no clue about the situation, I don't really see much of a rationale above for the current "Republic of Ireland", which seems to fly in the face of Wikitravel's normal "most common name" convention and gets some objections on political grounds too. Would it be thoroughly unacceptable to move it to plain old "Ireland", which is already used on most other language versions and a huge slew of incoming links, and plop in a China/Israel style disclaimerbox that this article is about the bit where they use euros, and you need to mosy over to Northern Ireland for the pound-using bit? Jpatokal 03:17, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
Discussion from Talk:Republic of Ireland[edit]
Extensive discussion copied from Talk:Republic of Ireland:
I dunno, except for the mistake with the UK flag those changes looked a lot to me like an honest attempt to plunge-forward and get an article started. For instance note the way that the person had replaced the fact book with the country template (admittedly it should be the wiki format version). I think I'd rather see the anon users stuff fixed up with the wiki format version of the template and the correct flag, than to do a rollback to the CIA version. I figure we want to encourage folks who really are plunging forward. -- Mark 07:30, 1 Apr 2004 (EST)
Ireland vs. Republic of Ireland[edit]
Hi, just started on Ireland and Northern Ireland, and was wondering if 'Ireland', the name of the country in Europe referring to the 26 counties, could be changed to the 'Republic of Ireland', as 'Ireland' generally means the 32 counties and things could get a little confusing. Also, the first edit to the Ireland page wasn't me, the second one was me (when I was anonymous), in case there was some ambiguity. -- Professorbiscuit
I just discovered this conversation. It was me who messed up the page in the first place and yes it was an honest attempt to start it and yes I went back in later, nervously, to continue. It's much easier now the correct template is there. I'll add more if I can. I've done some on the Cork page too -- ( anonfromCork)
I want to revisit this discussion. I feel the disambiguation page is redundant and this article should be moved to Ireland and move the disambiguation page to Ireland (Disambiguation). Everyone in the UK understands the relationship between Ireland and Northern Ireland, as does everyone in Ireland. I'm sure the majority of Americans do too because I remember, even as a young child, watching video of the Catholics and Protestants clashing and became aware of the turmoil and history of Ireland. So I think a disambiguation of "Ireland" is just foolish as most English speakers will likely know Northern Ireland is independent of Ireland. Thoughts? -- Sapphire • (Talk) • 23:48, 7 June 2007 (EDT)
Usefulness of the Provinces[edit]
I've been working on adding information to the Ireland pages based on my recent trip which included 2 months in Ireland, and I found that using the four Provinces as a seperate page was kind of annoying, and not that useful from a travel guide point of view.
For one thing, aside from knowing that County Galway, where I spent most of my time, is in Connacht, and that Northern Ireland is most of Ulster, I have no real idea as to where the boundaries of the provinces are, so just seeing the four of them on the main page wasn't very helpful. And I've already been there.
The other problem I was having with the previous setup was that there was very little to say about each province except what counties and cities were within them, without repeating information that would be more useful on the pages for the counties and cities.
So what I did was move all the names of the counties into the regions list, using the provinces only as secondary headings. Of course the disadvantage is that this makes a 30 lines long list, which is a bit of a pain too.
Anyway, what I'm wondering is what people think of this, which way is better, and is there a better way to show users what parts of the country fall into which provinces without making such a long list? - Neil C 23:54, 10 Aug 2004 (EDT)
I looked through the geographical hierarchy and I can see where you're coming from. The problem in Ireland, more significant than just the short pages in between national and county levels, is that the regional names are rarely, if ever, used, and the names mean nothing to the uninitiated. This makes the Irish situation somewhat different from, for example, the US, where if you say "Mid-west," even if you don't know the country, there is still some geographic meaning.
I was actually hoping someone would have a third option, that would make the provincial breakdown more useful to the traveller without having to make a long list of counties. -Neil C 15:47, 11 Aug 2004 (EDT)
Irish hierarchy revisited[edit]
Well, I see this topic has fermented for a long time. I am sure there must be a better way to do the top-level regions for Ireland—currently we have a region (Ulster) within Ireland that overlaps the entirety of Northern Ireland, which is in a different country. Worst of all, it leads to a disambiguation page! I'll look into this some more. --Peterfitzgerald Talk 19:13, 7 June 2007 (EDT)
Discussion copied from User talk:Peterfitzgerald
Northwest Ireland, Sligo and Letterkenny
These are a few thoughts, if I thought harder about it (which I will do!) I'd possibly change a few of them. I'll come back to this. --The.Q 08:20, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
Does this help, or make it more difficult??!! --The.Q 10:24, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
Hi, I just tried to tidy up the Destinations/ Cities putting 9 in each list as is standard on wikitravel. I tried to base the cities on the great list from The.Q above. I don't mind if they are changed
I would say these should definitely be on the list, as for the rest, five from these trying to distribute them geographically
The Other Destinations is a little more tricky
I think those stand out, then four from the rest;
From the existing list I removed Dundalk (I would say not a highlight of Ireland) *Dromineer(perhaps a little too specialist, I put a mention in on the sailing section of the artcle.) *Carlow (I think can go as well, someone well meaning has elevated the place of Carlow, and though it is a nice town agian it is not a highlight of Ireland)
Anyway feel free to change these around they are just some ideas. Hope it has been useful Meltwaterfalls 08:08, 29 August 2007 (EDT)
"There are many Irish people who will hold visitors in higher esteem if they make the effort to learn and speak some basic Irish phrases, especially in tourist centres and pubs."
as an Irishman in all the times i have seen any foreign visitor attempt to speak Irish it has generally benn met with eith curious amusement or downright disdain (esp. Americans) the main reason for this is the low level of spoken irish in ireland so most irish people will be unable to understand even simple phrases if they are mispronunced (cead mile failte is the most frequently mangled expression), unless i can see some evidence that tourists are encouraged ot speak irish in the gaeltacht I would be in favour of deleting this passage as I and every other Irish person I know would consider any attempt by a tourist to speak irish generally a faux pas and would consider the above statement bad advice and liable in some extreem circumstances to cause trouble . any thoughts ,note I wont change this for some timee to give people time to respond.220.127.116.11 19:59, 17 September 2006 (EDT)
Can we not change the comment on the main page that says no need to speak Irish.Instead you could put 'Using Irish is not necessary but if used will be met with surprise. User: diarmuidh
"However, some native Irish speakers may take offense if you call Irish "Gaelic" as this is the incorrect term and refers to Scottish Gaelic."
--184.108.40.206 16:21, 4 August 2007 (EDT)
External links[edit]
Here are some external links for Ireland that some WikiTravel users added and may be used for reference.
End discussion copied from Talk:Republic of Ireland --Peter Talk 00:03, 12 July 2007 (EDT)
Going a bit too far?[edit]
I think the disclaimer and mutant quickbar that squeezes both UK and RoI info into one is going too far, and I really don't want to see the rest of the article turn into "it's X, except Northern Ireland, where it's Y". This is the only article for the Republic and should focus on the Republic -- stuff specific to Northern Ireland belongs in that article and only that article. Jpatokal 13:09, 12 July 2007 (EDT)
Content delimitation[edit]
We should have a clearer delimitation of the content limits of this article. The way I think I read the rough agreement from preceding discussions, is that this article should cover information relevant to visitors of the island in general, and to visitors to the "Republic of Ireland," as the republic a) covers the majority of the island and b) does not have its own separate article. Content relevant to visitors of specifically Northern Ireland, however, should remain in the Northern Ireland article, for the practical reason that it is a much smaller subdivision of the island, and that anyone visiting Northern Ireland will read that article. This delineation should ideally prevent the article from mutating into a comparison of the two countries.
A couple of practices would IMHO be useful to keep this content organized:
1). Include a disclaimerbox at the top of the article explaining, "This article covers both topics about the island of Ireland in general and topics specific to the 'Republic of Ireland.' Please find information specific to Northern Ireland in its own article."
2). The cities list (which is limited to nine cities, per Wikitravel:Geographical hierarchy) should not include destinations in Northern Ireland.
3). Ditto for the "other destinations" list.
I'm pretty sure the disclaimerbox would be useful, although I'm not at all certain about points 2 & 3. Does this seem reasonable? And are there any other suggestions? --Peter Talk 19:41, 11 December 2007 (EST)
What happened?[edit]
I remembered this being a good article, but it's in really bad shape right now. Section headers are all over the place, ugly front-linked external links everywhere, ridiculous amounts of information about car rentals—it's a mess! So I add the style tag. --Peter Talk 17:58, 10 September 2008 (EDT)
Rail Travel in Ireland link[edit]
Tried to add a link to Rail travel in Ireland, a relatively new travel topic, but it's appearing in red despite letter for letter accuracy with the target page. Am I doing something wrong with my markup? Thanks Jamesbrownontheroad 05:02, 13 March 2009 (EDT)
Gigantic car rental company table[edit]
Anyone mind if I get rid of this table? We don't use this for any other country article, and it overwhelms the page with information about various companies in such a way that I feel intimidated to even try to read it. All the html is likely off-putting to unversed contributors as well. I'd reduce it to a short list, and reduce all the extensive information in it that could likely be accessed through the agencies' websites. Objections? --Peter Talk 16:04, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
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Sorry, I wasn't aware of a policy regarding the number of cities that can appear in an article. But there is something seriously wrong with an article about Irish tourism that does not mention Killarney once in any part of it. Killarney had been a major tourist destination for over 250 years. It was for a long time the major tourist destination in Ireland, with almost every bus tour going through it. (It lost that mantle to Galway recently I believe). I suggest removing Letterkenny or Limerick. No offence to either place, but both are new to the tourist trail, and particulary Letterkenny is popular with Irish tourists rather than international tourists.--Dmol 16:05, 21 February 2010 (EST)


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Cause & Effects of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Environmental Impact
What is Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill which occurred on March 24, 1989 in Prince William Sound, Alaska, is considered the worst ocean oil spill in the maritime history. The oil spill left behind ravaging effects on the environment, some of which are still seen today. Exxon Valdez was a 987 feet long oil tanker ship that spilled almost 40 million liters of crude oil into the sea water. The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill is known as the most devastating human-caused accident which shook every pillar of the environmental ecosystem.
How did the Oil Spill Occurred?
The oil tanker left one of the Valdez oil terminals in Alaska on 23rd March, 1989 for Long Beach, California. The pilot maneuvered the ship through the Valdez Narrows and then returned the controls to the ship's pilot. After passing all the major icebergs and dangerous areas, the Captain of the ship handed the controls to the third mate and the able seaman. The ship was then put into autopilot. Unfortunately, the ship struck the rocks of Bligh Reef on 24th March, 1989. The "grounding" of the ship ruptured the ship's hull, which lead to the oil spill.
Reasons for the Accident
Investigations say that the accident was an outcome of poor maneuvering. It was also found that the 3rd mate on duty was not given the mandatory 6 hours rest before the starting of his next 12 hour duty. Thus it is possible that stress and excessive workload might have led to inefficient watch-keeping by the 3rd mate. Moreover, though the ship was on autopilot, it was found that the radar was not working since the time ship left the Valdez Terminal. It was also claimed that the master of the ship was under the influence of alcohol and left the watch during maneuvering through critical areas. Thus it was proved that the Exxon Shipping Company couldn't provide an efficient and sufficient crew to the ship, which unfortunately led to the accident.
Environmental Consequences
During the time of accident, Exxon Valdez was carrying 200 million liters of crude oil, out of which it spilled around 40 million liters into the sea. As a result, approximately 1,990 square kilometers of shoreline was badly polluted. Almost 2000 sea otters, 302 harbor seals, and 250,000 birds died in the days that followed the incident. As there was no solid plan with both the state and federal government to deal with such emergency situation, the oil spill reached far-off places before any kind of response process can be started.
Marine and wild lives were the hardest hit by the oil spill. Lives of millions of fishes almost came to a standstill. Some were killed by eating oil contaminated food, while others were starved to death because of the spoiling of plankton and larva on which they were dependent. Moreover, the thick layer of oil on the surface disrupted the whole marine life beneath it. Most of the fishes come to the surface for the zooplankton and larva, which feed on the phytoplankton that takes energy from the sun and converts it into food. The thick oil layer at the top destroyed this phytoplankton and thus the main food source for the fishes. Moreover, millions of young fishes that hatched into the sea were all killed because of the polluted environment.
Wild life was the next worst hit after the marine life. Birds in the number of thousands and otters in hundreds died in the weeks following the oil spill. A specific number of death bodies of birds and animals couldn't be reached as it was difficult to identify the death bodies in the thick oily sludge. Both, birds and sea otters were the most vulnerable beings affected by the oil spill as they don't have any thick protecting layer on their bodies other than the furry surface. When this fur surface gets dirty, they die. This was exactly what led to their death.
Beaches and coastal lines were also greatly affected. The life style of the people of the region completely changed. The fishing industry came to a sudden standstill. Many sea birds and animals were washed to the shore, some in dying condition and other already dead. Some of the species such as harbor seals, pink salmon, mussels, harlequin ducks, and sea otters were suddenly invisible. In total, more than 20 types of birds and animals were affected by the oil spill, whose effect is still observed today in many of them.
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OFF-PLAN PROJECTS IN DUBAI Everything You Need To Know
What is an off-plan propertyAn off-plan property is an unconstructed property purchased directly from a developer or in some cases a first owner. In the case where the buyer is buying directly from the developer at time of purchase the buyer usually pays a 10-20% down payment and signs SPA (Sales Purchase Agreement). Depending on which developer the rest of payments made can and do vary but are usually linked to construction.
Advantages of buying off-plan propertySAVE MONEYBuying an Off-plan property allows investors to get a purchase price at the earliest and lowest possible price. It also allows buyers to choose the very best apartments in a development. This plays a big part in increasing the chances of gaining the maximum return on their investment.SELL BEFORE COMPLETIONBuying an Off-plan property allows investors to get a purchase price at the earliest and lowest possible price. It also allows buyers to choose the very best apartments in a development. This plays a big part in increasing the chances of gaining the maximum return on their investment.LOWER UP-FRONT COSTSPayment plans for off plan property can and do vary from developer to developer. With some developers only requiring a 10% down payment and the rest linked to constructions the outlay required is relatively low.
Potential Risks in buying off-plan propertyDELAYED COMPLETION TIMEDevelopments don't always go to plan and there have been cases of projects being completed after their scheduled completion dates. It is for this reason very important to do your research on the project developer. Look into their track record and ensure any sale agreement signed ensures you are compensated for any such delays.CHANGE IN MARKET CONDITIONSA downward move in property prices can result in the property being worth less than what the buyer has paid. This risk is not limited to off plan properties but can affect them more as they may be harder to liquidate than ready properties.
What guarantee do I have that my development will be completed?To help ensure an off-plan project is completed, RERA has introduced numerous measures which must be met by the developer. One of these stipulates that the developer must own 100 per cent of the land belonging to the project. Along with this the developer must either make a down payment of 20 per cent as bank guarantee, deposit 20 per cent in escrow account, or complete 20 per cent construction before selling off plan. Together with the above measures, RERA requests contractors to submit a 10 per cent performance guarantee.Along with these measures, it's imperative buyers do their own research and look into developers they are considering buying from. We recommend looking the developer's track record as well as reputation.
When can I sell my off-plan property?Numerous measures have been put in place to ensure the Dubai market is a stable and secure market to invest in. One of these measures has a direct impact on buyers who look to sell their off-plan property before completion. Dubai's largest developer Emaar Properties now requires owners to have 40% of their off-plan property paid off before it can be sold to a new owner. This figure of 40% does vary from developer to developer so it's important to check with each developer.Once the minim repayment threshold has been met the process of selling an off-plan property is very similar to selling a ready property. Buyers and seller agree to price and terms, sign contracts and apply for NOC where the new buyer is registered with the developer and ultimately takes over all the outstanding payments once transfer is complete. It is also worth nothing that contrary to popular belief the new buyer is responsible for the 4% DLD Transfer Fee regardless of the fact this has already been paid by the first buyer.
Guide To Buying Off-plan Property In Dubai
See our comprehensive guide to buying off-plan property in Dubai. Being prepared and knowing your objective from the outset will ensure you buy exactly the right off-plan property.
What are your reasons for buying?Will you be buying an off plan property for purely investment purposes or will this be somewhere you would like to make your home?Certain off-plan developments are more suited to investors whilst others are more fitting for end users. Being clear on your buying purpose will help narrow down your options and tailer your approach.
Decide on the on the area and type of property you wantWith a host of off plan options out there its searching for your off plan property can be quiet overwhelming. To help avoid this its beneficial to have a shortlist of preferred areas as well an idea as to the type of property desired i.e. apartment, villa etc.
Know who you are buying fromDo your research and ensure you are familiar with the developer you're buying from. Find out about their track record and reputation. Past projects are always a good indicator of what you can expect.
Know the Project/DevelopmentTake time to learn about and know about the development you are buying in. It's important to be familiar with the project you are considering as well as the overallmaster development. Important factors to consider when deciding if a development is right for you are:
Most developers these days will provide mock-up apartments along with extensive marketing material. These go a long way to answer most of these questions and mean buyer have a very good sense of what they are buying.
Know exactly what you are buyingOnce you have decided which development you wish to buy in the next step is to decide on which unit you wish to buy.Pay close attention to:
Understanding these factors will ensure you get what you paid for as well as the view you paid for.
Read your contract carefullyMake sure you understand what you are signing before signing. It is important you are fully aware of your obligations as well as the obligations of the developer. We recommend getting professional advice and leaving no stone unturned
Buy and Budget CorrectlyBuying off-plan property does not require full payment up front but rather staggered payments which are usually linked to construction. To avoid surprises ensure you are aware of your payment plan obligations and in a position to meet these as required
Know the area and its potentialWhen buying off-plan property it's crucial to consider more than just the unit and the actual development you are buying in. Research the area you are considering in and ensure its somewhere you should buy. This is even more important for projects for new and developing communities. Factors to take into consideration are:
All the above-mentioned factors need be taken into equation and will play a huge part in the value of your property upon completion
Have an exit strategy and a contingency planWhether your off-plan purchase is purely and investment or somewhere you will live in its important you have a contingency plan and an exit strategy. Should you need to sell it is crucial to know when doing so is permitted as well as the associated costs.
For InvestorsMake sure you understand what you are signing before signing. It is important you are fully aware of your obligations as well as the obligations of the developer. We recommend getting professional advice and leaving no stone unturned
How to Sell an Off-Plan Property in Dubai
If you are thinking of selling your off-plan property:Whether your off-plan purchase is purely and investment or somewhere you will live in its important you have a contingency plan and an exit strategy. Should you need to sell it is crucial to know when doing so is permitted as well as the associated costs.
In short, depending on whether your off-plan property is complete or incomplete, you need to have the following paperwork:
Nature of projects planned for the area and completion estimates
General Status of Selling Off Plan Property in DubaiNowadays, investors in Dubai are facing more restrictions on reselling their original off-plan properties. Some real estate development companies like Emaar and Nakheel allow re-sale only after the original purchaser has paid a substantial amount of the sales price; which can be almost 40%-50% of the price. Some other companies such as Damac do not place any restrictions on re-sales. Therefore, investors should choose a developer that offers conditions convenient to their selling plan
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One more state court has decided that the equivalent of a life sentence without the possibility of parole is unconstitutional for juvenile offenders.
The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled last week that "a 99-year sentence [is] the functional equivalent of life. These sentences rely on the U.S. Supreme Court precedent barring almost all death-in-prison sentences for children.


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Each first year student who is interested in this program will be paired up with an upper classman mentor to help guide them through the academic process, social life, stuff from roommate issues and then curricular activities on campus.
This will make the students feel like they belong.
The main focus for this program is the undecided A&S students. They are the highest rate of transfers so they pair them with students not in the College of Arts and Sciences so they have more options.
This program is not required but highly encouraged for students having a difficult time adjusting and making friends. Bryson Owens, President of the Student Government Association, says connecting with different UHart students whose been through their first year with transitional issues can really help you feel like you belong.


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We recently discovered a major bit of significant errata in the Earthdawn Companion regarding knacks. This includes missing rules text, as well as a tag that applies to some knacks.
The tag is "Standard Effects". It means the normal usage and results for the talent apply, with the knack providing an enhanced or bonus effect. In many cases the rules text makes this obvious, but it should have been included for clarity. If a knack is not marked with "Standard Effects" the knack replaces the normal usage for the talent.
Standard Effects applies to the following knacks:
* Acrobatic Recovery
* Control the Tempo
* Forsee Aggression
* Take the Hit
* Mobile Interference
* Against the Horror
* Other Sense
* Savage Limbs
* Spider Climb
* Accompaniment
* Telling the Tale
* Astral Survey
* Cold Case
* Efficient Armor Forging
* Efficient Weapon Forging
* Improvised Weapon
* Improved Improvised Weapon
* Flare
* Point-Bank Shot
* Precise Shot
* Claw Riposte
* Astral Stealth
* Traceless Stride
* Throw Anything
* Glide
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I am looking at getting some new wading boots, and want to know if anyone has experience with Cabelas Ultralight Wading Boots?
I am looking at getting some new wading boots, and want to know if anyone has experience with Cabelas Ultralight Wading Boots?
I'd say that this would be a good question to put out on a website Cabelas is gracious enough to provide and administrate.
I purchased a pair of there ultralight studded boots a really like them.
I own and have owned some Cabela's equipment, including a pair of their wading boots at one time. *Some of their gear has been ok, some hasn't. *None of their branded items have been exceptional. *In particular, I have not been impressed with their rods or wading boots. *I own a pair of their waders and a chest pack that appear to be fairly good. *Most of the Cabela's wading boots I've seen have fallen apart after a single season of light use, including my own and the ones owned by some friends. *I agree with smiling dog about the Chota brand. *Don't buy the Cabela's brand just because they're inexpensive and convenient. *I fell into that trap a lot as a beginning fly fisher. *It's better to get good quality material. *You can still find quality and bargains if you take the time to look. *Chota has an Abrams Creek boot that is very light, of great quality, and inexpensive (I think around $50). *LRO carries this boot, and I suggest you look there even if you don't get that particular boot. *They will give you good advice that you can't get from Cabela's. *A friend of mine bought a pair there early this year, and I've been so impressed with them that I plan to get a pair later this year.
BTW, I respect a site that allows honest evaluation of a competitor's products. *If someone was placing Cabela's ads on the board, then I would object. *But I think LRO's service and quality products will stand up to the test. And in this case it may even be beneficial to them to have this question posed as it may direct customers toward them if the posts so far are any indication.
"I ain't rich, But Lord I'm free" - Amarillo By Morning, George Strait
Pay a little extra and get some Chotas from LRO. I have a pair of the Cabela's and use them occasionally, but the Chotas are my favorites.


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This coming Friday, August 5th, we'll be screening at the Vickers Theatre in Three Oaks, MI. I've been lucky enough to watch a film there several years back. It's near my friend's cottage and it's one of the coolest little theaters around, and we're thrilled to show B and E there. Kelley Maher and I (and maybe Ashley Nath) will have a Q and A after the screening and I believe there's a little wine and cheese reception after as well. Do yourself a favor and check out the Vickers website to see pictures of this little gem and to get more information. Click here.
The following morning I'll be driving with Ashley to Tipton, Iowa to attend the Hardacre Film Festival. I just found out that we won the runner up jury award too! Pictures from past festivals look really neat and we'll be staying at local bed and breakfast and taking it all in.And we got a good review from the Little Village Magazine. Go to page 24 here to check it out.
Excited about both events. The Vickers is less than 2 hours from Chicago! And even closer to South Bend, IN. It would be amazing to have a good crowd there (and in Iowa!)
Stay tuned for more exciting information.


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Last month we went to Auckland for a night (husband to work, me to hang out with my cousin). As usual I did a whole heap of Facebook stalking and advice seeking about where to eat long before we left Hamilton. And that's how I found my way to Mondays. Based in New North Road, down … Continue reading Mondays
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Glutey tales: Lila's story
We all remember what it's like to be a teenager. The stresses of trying to fit in while also trying to find your own place in the world ...If you were given a choice of timing, I don't think many people would choose to be a teenager when they were diagnosed with coeliac disease. But … Continue reading Glutey tales: Lila's story
Fish Punk
I've mentioned before how much I LOOOOOOVEEE hot chips. MMMM ... But they're kind of hard to find, which is odd since potatoes are gluten-free. The problem however is two-fold: cross-contamination from gluteny products in the cooking oil, and chips that are more than just potato and oil (e.g. flavourings and coatings).Recently while driving home from … Continue reading Fish Punk
Glutey tales: Barbara's story
Coeliac disease has been around a looooong time, it's not a new disease. There are even reports of coeliac disease dating back to Roman times. Yup, 2000 years ago.Even so, we're still I believe very much at the beginnings of our understanding of coeliac disease, and it's lesser medically-accepted buddy gluten intolerance.I've been on a … Continue reading Glutey tales: Barbara's story
Why does my tummy still hurt?
I'm going to be real here. A lot of coeliacs I know, still have stomach problems despite being on a strictly gluten-free diet. There seems to be this story out there that once you cut out gluten, everything will be okay. You'll suddenly be healthy, happy and have more energy than you can shake a stick at. For … Continue reading Why does my tummy still hurt?
What the hell is that smell? (umm …)
I once had a boss who after exiting the bathroom made the comment "Geez, can't some people just put a bung in it until they get home?"Yup, someone had done a real stinker in there. And it wasn't me ... this time.An IBS friend and I were cracking up about this recently, because clearly my … Continue reading What the hell is that smell? (umm …)
These are a few of my favourite things: Kitchen edition
Yup, I made a video. My second one actually. This one is all about some awesome kitcheny things that are super handy for people with food allergies.


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We only had one chance to visit a true local market while in Tanzania. That's one of the hazards of group travel; you don't get to set any of the agenda. On our second day, we stopped at a roadside "flea market" selling food, clothing, tools - well, you name it. The market was next to a banana market where local women were bringing their crops to consolidate and sell.
Buyers were taking a careful look at quality.
We moved on through the banana market and into the nearby marketplace. We were quite a sight. Nineteen white folks bunched together, mostly with cameras. We drew looks that seemed to be a mixture of curiosity and, "What in the hell...?"
Once we were inside, Linda took a look at the grains and beans from the friendly ladies offering them.
This lady is probably with her daughter who seemed camera-shy. She later gave me a half-smile.
This must be one of the places to buy those peanuts that we were being served. I should have bought a machete to bring back for the cabin. If I had known this was the only chance I would get to buy one, I would have.
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I have used wall stickers in my little one's bedroom since she was a baby. This is mainly down to the fact I wasn't sure how I wanted it decorated! This way it makes it much easier to change the decor without all the expense! I keep it plain white and use the wall stickers to create a feature.
Wilko have plenty of these lovely wall stickers in for bargain prices. They start from just £3 and you can get over 40 stickers for this price in plenty of different designs!
These are a godsend if you are in rented accommodation and aren't allowed to decorate. These self adhesive wall stickers can be repositioned during their application and are easy to remove without leaving marks. There are plenty of new in designs to choose from:
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Is YOur board lazy?
Directors should be involved and prepared
Boards can have Directors with stellar credentials. The directors maybe be diverse in background (or not) and have fabulous skills and experience. In theory and on paper, the Board is first rate. But in practice, its it failing. Directors are not coming prepared to meetings; they are not reading materials in advance; they are not calling before the meeting to ask the CEO, CFO or GC questions on major issues. They are not keeping up to date on Company press releases or products or new business lines. And by "they" I do not necessarily mean the whole Board. It only takes one or two Directors to start the Board down the slippery slope to institutionalized laziness. Laziness can be contagious. Even with the brightest, most experienced professionals. Directors temper their own behavior (consciously, or more often unconsciously) off the behavior of others in the groups they frequent. So, if one or two Directors come to meetings noticeably unprepared, not only does it make the Board meeting less productive that one time, but it leaves an impression on the other Directors. A well run Board or proactive Chairman will take those Directors aside immediately and inform them that being unprepared is unacceptable. Almost better not to attend than to come unprepared to a meeting. One Director's behavior can affect the entire Boards' behavior and culture, not just at that particular meeting, but at subsequent meetings as well. Laziness, like a weed, must be quickly quashed, lest it spread among the other members of the Board and ruin the harvest.
Some laziness is not blatant or obvious, but to us who have sat in hundreds of Board meetings, we see the signs. When directors bury their noses in the Board binder of materials when they arrive, it means they did not read the materials beforehand. As a Board secretary, I always knew those Directors would be useless at the meeting. In fact, whatever that director said would probably be a waste of time – a non-sequitur, meant to highlight his or her intelligence or skill, but contributing nothing to the matter at hand. The unprepared Directors often were those who spoke a lot at the meetings; more interested in getting their voice heard or asserting their own points of view than taking time to understand the details of the matter. Staff or executives who spent days preparing the meeting materials, would then need to reiterate all the information to those Directors who did not prepare. In many instances, the staff is not given the opportunity to educate those lazy directors – and poor, uniformed decisions were made. Failure or less than optimal outcomes are the result.
Directors – be prepared! Not only will you fail the Company and its shareholders by indulging in laziness, but you risk personal liability. You are a fiduciary! You have a Duty of Care! A critical part of that is being informed and prepared. Do it or resign.
Chairman – Observe. Who asks questions or makes statements just to talk? Who asks questions that show they did not read the material? Take those Directors aside immediately after the meeting (if circumstances call for it, take a break during the meeting) and discuss the behavior.
There is a great discussion Directors' responsibilities in The Private Company Board of Directors Book. Click here for more information.