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里斯本已成为欧洲最热门的旅游目的地之一. 我在这里旅行已有五年多了,旅游业蓬勃发展. 为什么会这样呢?里斯本比大多数其他欧洲主要首都便宜, it is gorgeous, it is close to crystal clear beaches, and offers great food and wine. If you're finally going to visit the City of Seven Hills, take a few to check out my Lisbon Airport Guide. It will make your arrival significantly more pleasant.
Getting to Lisbon from the Airport
Let's discuss the multiple ways you can get from Lisbon airport to the city center:
1. Skip taxis: Not all taxi drivers speak English in Lisbon and some who do will make believe they don't so they can go the longer way and tack on a few extra bucks to your ride. Many taxis are old and decrepit. They don't always want to take you to your exact location, and overall, I've not had the best experiences with taxis in Lisboa. Of course, not all taxi drivers are like this, but why take the chance? A taxi will cost you between €15-20
2. Take an Uber: Ubers are great. Even if your driver does not speak English, you can just put in the address of your destination and they'll get you where you need to go. There is one caveat. You can't pick up your Uber where the taxis are parked. Instead, walk to the car rental area – Ubers know to pick up their fares there. An Uber will cost you around €10-15
If you don't already have an international smart phone, and you aren't planning on purchasing a SIM card at the Vodaphone kiosk at Lisbon airport, you can use the airport's free WIFI to procure your Uber. Just keep in mind that the service is only available for 30 minutes and requires you to create an email log-in.
3. Hire a Pickup Company: There are companies you can hire like Welcome Pickups in Lisbon that will not only pick you up, they will work with transfers, they will assist you with things to do, information and a ton more. Check reviews online to find your favorite one.
4. Take the Metro: The metro in Lisbon is easy to take and cheap. I prefer Uber because you'll probably be tired when you arrive, but if you have the stamina, go for a ride on the metro. It's pretty easy and it is CHEAP! A trip on the metro will cost you €1.45
5. Take the AeroBus: Lisbon's Aerobus has two lines that will get you to the city center. A one-way adult ticket costs 欧元3.50.
- Line 1 – Entrecampos, Campo Pequeno, Avenida da República, 萨尔达尼亚, Picoas, Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, Marquês de Pombal, 自由大道, Restauradores, Rossio, Praça do Comércio, Cais do Sodré. Leaves every 20 分钟.
- Line 2 – Entrecampos, Sete Rios, Avenida Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Praça de Espanha, Avenida José Malhoa. Leaves every 40 分钟.
6. Take the City Bus: This should be your last choice. These are the city Carris buses and while they will get you to your destination, they're not the most reliable and have a restriction on luggage sizes. The bus will cost you €1,85 if you pay cash, or €1,45 if you use the Viva Viagem card. If you do decide to take the bus, these are your choices:
- 705 Oriente-Aeroporto-Roma/Areeiro
- 722 Praça de Londres-Aeroporto-Portela
- 744 Marquês-Aeroporto-Moscavide
- 783 Amoreiras-Aeroporto-Portela
- 208 Cais do Sodré and Oriente
7. Rent a Car: Let me be clear. You do not need a car in Lisbon. The metro is outstanding, it's a very walkable city (except for the hills), and Uber is quite reliable. Only rent a car if you are planning to head to Sintra or Setubal or to the Algarve. 话虽如此, there are tons of car rental companies at the airport. Some have their stalls right at the airport, others will have representatives meet you there and then shuttle you over to their offices. Either way, 你可以获得一些不可思议的交易. These are a few of the car rental companies you can rent from:
- Europcar
- Guerin
- Hertz
- Avis
- Budget
- GoldCar
- Enterprise
- Sixt
How Long To Get to the City Center by Car
Lisbon airport is ridiculously close to the city center, about 4 miles to the downtown Lisboa. Here are estimated times on how long it will take you to get to different 里斯本的社区:
Alfama Uber 8-20 min
Cais do Sodré 25-30 min
Marquês de Pombal 20-25 min
Parque das Nações Metro 5-10 min
Rossio 25-30 min
萨尔达尼亚 20-30 min
São Sebastião 20-30 min
How Long to Get to the City Center by Metro
As I mentioned before, the metro is the cheapest way to get to Lisbon proper. The line at the Airport is the red line that goes to São Sebastião. It connects with all other lines, so no matter where you are going, it's pretty easy to get there on maximum 1 transfer.
阿尔法玛 24 min
Cais do Sodré 30 min
Marquês de Pombal 20-25 min
Parque das Nações 5-10 min
Rossio 25-30 min
Saldanha Metro 20 min
São Sebastião Metro 20-25 min
How to Buy A Metro(Viva Viagem) Card
Metro cards in Lisbon are called Viva Viagem Cards. You can purchase them at the ticket machines (they have an option for English on the screen). The card will cost you 0.50€, then you need to add value to the card.
Each person in your party needs to have his or her card. Lisbon is not like NYC where you can swipe people in with your card.
The Viva Viagem card works not just on Lisbon's subways, but also on the yellow Carris buses.
Lisbon Airport Guide – The Terminals
There are two terminals at Lisbon Airport:
- Terminal 1: Arrivals & International departures
- Terminal 2: Low-cost airlines
Have other questions about this Lisbon Airport Guide? Have other questions about Lisbon in general? Leave your question in the comments.


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Previously, Amato founded the Clean Energy Incubator (CEI) at The University of Texas at Austin in 2001. Being the first incubator of its kind, Amato established a successful program for clean energy ventures to accelerate their time to market. At the national level, Amato was involved with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the creation of the Clean Energy Alliance (CEA), a group of leading U.S. business incubators dedicated to providing business and financial services tailored to the needs of the clean energy community. Amato's introduction into the energy industry began as an engineer in the Natural Gas and Gas Products Department (NG&GP) at Conoco Inc. in the early 1990's.
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What an uplifting episode!!! If you're episode-shopping, listen to this one: it's fabulous, if I do say so myself.
First guest is the lovely Anne Sullivan, vegan publicity maven whose firm, Miracle Worker PR, is behind the success of such books as How Not to Die, Farm Sanctuary, and Finding Ultra. With breast cancer in her family, Anne was diagnosed with the disease last year, accepted conventional treatment, and recovered in record time. As a healthy-living vegan, she wants to speak out to others that, yes, we hedge our bets with plant-sourced eating, but when illness strikes we need not feel ashamed, reach out for support, and get the best treatment available.
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"Star Trek" first debuted in 1966 on American television, opening up the world's imagination to concepts such as warp drive, transporters and tractor beam. A gigantic industry of followers was born, debating everything from the nuances of the Klingon language to the exact location of Captain Kirk's birth. But as Msnbc.com reports, scientists may have discovered a practical application for a "Star Trek" inspiration. Physicists have developed a device that may make a form of the tractor beam a reality.
Experts at the Australian National University have created a device that can transport small glass particles one and a half meters across a desk without touching them. These particles are a hundred times the size of a bacterium. The process involves a thin laser, some atmosphere, and a few hot air particles.
The real-life device works through the use of a hollow laser. Glass particles are kept inside a very thin hollow laser light with a dark core. One inside the cool core, the particles are kept in place by laser-heated air. The hot air molecules keep the glass particles in place by pushing them to the center of the laser. Once there, the glass particles can be manipulated "tractor-beam style."
Experts point out that this "beam" could not work in space, as it needs to exist in an atmosphere. This device may be used in biomedical procedures and research, replacing the optical teasers currently used to handle potentially dangerous microorganisms. It would allow microbiologists to remain "hand-free" when dealing with microorganisms they don't want to touch.
Professor Andrei Rhode led the team at the Australian National University that developed the laser. As he told reporters, the practical uses for this device are abundant. According to Rhode, "These include, directing and clustering nanoparticles in air, the micro-manipulation of objects, sampling of atmospheric aerosols, and low contamination, non-touch handling of sampling materials. On top of this, the laser beam could be used for the transport of dangerous substances and microbes, in small amounts." Rhode also points out that the device could be used in the assembly of micro machines and electronic components.
No word yet from Rhode and his team on creating a transporter.
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Release Date: 04/11/2017Deborah L. Myers, MD, FACOG, of North Kingstown, a board certified female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgeon and director of the Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, has recently received the Distinguished Surgeon Award at the 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons (SGS).
A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook Medical School, Dr. Myers completed a medical-surgical internship at Rhode Island Hospital and a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants before joining the hospital in 1992. Dr. Myers maintains a particular interest in the therapy of cystitis.
Dr. Myers is vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of Continuing Medical Education at Women & Infants and chair of the promotions committee of the Department of Ob/Gyn at the Warren Alpert Medical School. She is past president of the national American Urogynecologic Society.
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Walking Dead Villain David Morrissey Cast in AMC Pilot — Bad Omen for The Governor?
Resident Walking Dead evildoer David Morrissey has landed the lead role in an AMC pilot, raising questions about his future as The Governor.
The new project, Line of Sight, centers on Lewis Bernt (Morrissey), a National Transportation Safety Board investigator who survives a mysterious plane crash and sets off on an emotionally disorienting quest to discover the accident's cause.
AMC maintains that Morrissey will be able to juggle Sight's pilot shoot with Season 4 of The Walking Dead, telling Deadline, "We are huge fans of David Morrissey and are glad he'll be doing double duty for AMC viewers through his work on The Walking Dead and our pilot for Line Of Sight, both of which are produced in Atlanta."
Of course, if Sight snags a series order, it stands to reason that the Governor's reign of terror would come to an end.
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."
–Mahatma Gandhi
As everywhere, you will find a lot of self-appointed "spiritual leaders", and a very true real spiritual leaders. The difference often is that people in the former group claim to be spiritual leaders, and the leaders in the latter group don't even mention it. They just do it. They just lead. In a spiritual way.
Before we jump into spiritual leadership, let's first recap what spirituality is. I wrote about my thoughts on spirituality a few months ago. In a nutshell, and that's a key element for me, spirituality is not connected to any religion, it's not a belief system, and it's nothing you can read in a book and apply.
Spirituality is an ongoing journey of discovery, experience and learning to get to the core of your soul, to liberate your soul, and to live your soul's purpose. Spirituality builds on the fact that all souls out there are elements of a connected universe, based on the universal principles of love, collaboration, and the law of cause and effect.
Now, when it comes to spiritual leadership, let's discuss a few defining attributes:
Spiritual leadership is never discretionary. Spiritual leadership requires to walk the talk, and it requires a decision. The decision to lead. The decision to act. The decision to take responsibility. The decision to touch as many souls a possible to drive the necessary change to a peaceful world.
Spiritual leadership requires that you have already found your way to your soul's dimensions, that you already live your soul's purpose, that you have already cleared a lot of karmic stuff, wrong perceptions and false beliefs that hindered you so far to walk your talk.
Let me add another thought regarding (false) beliefs: In my experience, the best way is to get rid of ALL beliefs that have been projected on you since birth, such as religious, cultural, and yes, also spiritual beliefs. Because for one simple reason: Beliefs limit your experience in one way or another. So, question every single one, and make a conscious decision whether to get rid of it or not. If you chose to keep a "belief" in your life, it's no longer a belief. Then, it becomes one of your principles you have decided to live by. And that's a huge difference because you brought your consciousness into play. This is just one example for questioning what you experience along your (spiritual) journey.
This is why spiritual leadership requires time to grow; and lots of iterations. But first and foremost, spiritual leadership demands that you walk your spiritual journey first. Furthermore, the knowledge that you will never know everything or you will never know "enough" is another prerequisite. The ability to learn new things, to make new experiences that lead to an adjustment of your teachings is relevant for any leader, but it is a prerequisite to becoming an authentic spiritual leader. Because we are all growing continuously.
There is no such thing as "spiritual management." Souls can be inspired and led, but they cannot be "managed."
When discussing leadership in general, there is often the debate whether there is a difference between management and leadership or not. When it comes to spiritual leadership, there is one thing crystal clear to me: there is no such thing as "spiritual management." Management, mostly defined as optimising and improving processes to make them more efficient and effective is not what could be applied in the field of spiritual growth in any way. There is no such thing as a spiritual "process", as a process how to learn a new language. There is no such thing as five steps to becoming spiritual, and another ten to achieving enlightenment. Whoever tells you "just do this" is not an authentic spiritual leader. Therefore, there is nothing to be "managed." Instead, living beings can only be led along THEIR journey. And each soul has another spiritual journey, by definition, because every living being is a unique individuation of the universe, of the source; you name it. Souls have different soul origins, and souls are dominated by different soul energies. What works for one soul, might not be the right approach for the other one. Therefore, a spiritual leader has to develop the ability to inspire and to lead these souls along THEIR spiritual journey.
In a nutshell, this is what spiritual leadership means to me:
Spiritual leadership is the capability of equipping living beings to live their soul's purpose based on the universal principles of love, collaboration, connectedness, and the law of cause and effect.
Now, let's look at the essential attributes of a spiritual leader.
- Being love: The essence we are all born within our hearts is love. Unconditional love. But for so many souls, love got lost over time, alongside with basic trust. Instead, fear has been developed, and hearts have been closed. You see it all over the place, with human beings and our animal friends. So, a key challenge on each spiritual journey is to remove all blockages that hinder these souls to have access to the love in their hearts again. Spiritual leaders should be very advanced on their own journey to be love. One more thought on this: Being love does not mean that each decision is based on love only. While love should, of course, always be the guiding principle, true leadership also requires, if needed, to make unpleasant decisions to ensuring the best possible outcome for an entire group of students. And that's actually "being love."
- Integrity is based on a certain level of ethical values, such as honesty and truth, principles and the ability to live these values and principles on a daily basis. In other words, integrity is how someone behaves when nobody is watching. For me, it's the foundation of leadership, whether you lead a company, an organisation, or simply yourself. As an example, if you define certain housekeeping rules for your students, and then you break self-defined own rules when situations become difficult, and tough decisions should be made, you put your integrity at risk. This can make or break you in your role as a spiritual leader. In a nutshell, integrity as a spiritual leader is the combination of love and integrity.
- Self-leadership: If you cannot lead yourself, and take the responsibility for your life based on the values and principles you have defined for yourself, how do you want to lead others in any way? Exactly, it won't work. Self-leadership is a mandatory prerequisite to lead others. Spiritual leaders should have a proven track record of driving successful change in their lives.
- Authenticity has a lot to do with stepping out of the crowd, not trying to be a copy of another leader you may admire. It's amazing if you could learn from other excellent leaders, but now is the time to step up. Authenticity requires to be completely you, to live your wisdom and truth, and to lead accordingly. Authenticity means to create your footprints, rather than to follow in someone else's footsteps. This is an essential step in developing own leadership skills, and it's also a critical step for the leader(s) you currently work with. Great leaders will always encourage you to create your footprints. Because that's their ultimate goal: to create new leaders, not new followers.
- Creativity and curiosity: Both attributes belong together. True creativity is an essence that flows through the body of a soul and manifests itself in creative outcomes. Often, creative outcomes require a curious mind that always asks one more question to challenge the current state, or to walk a path nobody has walked before, or to try something new, often by connecting existing dots in another way. Spiritual leaders need both, creative approaches for their teachings, and they have to be curious to learn more about their students and the souls they work with, and ultimately, spiritual leaders should always remain curious about the beauty and the creativity of their own soul.
And yes, there is another one, humour!
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I'm pretty sure I remember Hasbro announcing, some years ago, probably at a BotCon, that they weren't planning on making any more Triple Changers after Classics Astrotrain and Octane/Tankor, largely because they were prohibitively expensive to engineer...Of course, based on Classics Astrotrain and Octane/Tankor, that was a good decision, because the passage of time hadn't radically improved their ability to design such things.
Naturally, a certain section of the fanbase was up in arms... How could Hasbro neglect such characters as Springer? Sure, they've released toys called Springer... and so has the TransFormers Collectors' Club... but they've always had a single alternate mode, making them nothing but contentious 'fakes'.
In the meantime, companies like FansProject announced and then produced the likes of Warbots Defender (AKA Springer) and Assaulter (AKA Broadside), proving that, hey, making triple-changin' robot models wasn't so tough after all. Also during this time, the artists behind the comics published by IDW created some wonderful new designs for our old favourite characters... and so, for their 'Thrilling 30' lineup, Hasbro surprised us all with Voyager class updates for Blitzwing and a very Nick Roche-inspired Springer.
Car Mode:
Triple Changers have always tended to sacrifice at least one mode or another to achieve two passable vehicle modes and a robot mode. G1 Springer basically sacrificed all three. Warbot Defender did an admirable job of updating the G1 model and creating three modes that looked familiar and yet improved upon the original. This model takes a very different tack, seemingly with the intention of throwing familiarity out of the window in favour of delivering three entirely unique modes that actually fit their descriptions. Hence, car mode actually looks like car... Kind of a futuristic, armoured racing car/dune buggy, but it at least has four visible, rolling wheels, and the overall structure of a car. What struck me first about this model is how tidy and believable it is as a car... I mean, look at the 1986 original (Seibertron gallery) and you will see something that could just as easily be a submarine rather than a car.
In some ways, when I look at this car, I see further confirmation that someone at Hasbro/Takara Tomy has a serious Batmobile fetish. Paint this thing black and it'd look like a smaller, sportier version of the Tumbler. It doesn't look remotely military, particularly in comparison to Warbot Defender's ground-based vehicle mode, yet it does look powerful and potentially fast with it.
Naturally, this being Springer, he has to have a garish, acidic colourscheme, and this model doesn't disappoint with it's green roof, yellow bonnet and grey... pretty much everything else. The paintwork is pretty solid, but the colour matching on the yellow is terrible. The patch of the bonnet that's painted is a much brighter, more saturated yellow. The greens are much better-matched, but there's surprisingly little of it in comparison... or, at least, little of it is butted right up against the green plastic, so it's not as obvious that it's a slightly more saturated (and certainly glossier) green. It's actually more noticeable in my photos than it is in real life. One thing I really like in this mode are that the headlights are separate pieces cast in the transparent blue plastic used for his windows, painted over in yellow and stuck on the front.
On the downside, the grey plastic on his sides is largely unpainted - just a single strip of silver on each side - and that the rear end is almost as open and spacious as that of Warbot Defender... And, considering his 'spoilers' stick out so far at the back, it really looks as though something is missing there.
His robot mode weapons can be attached in car mode - the sword is stashed on the underside, cleverly plugging in to helicopter mode's landing gear, while the double-barrelled missile launcher just attaches to the roof to become a rather unlikely and unwieldy cannon. It rotates on its main peg and, thanks to a pinned joint to the base of the weapon, can even tilt up and down a little.
Helicopter Mode:
The weirdest thing about helicopter mode is that going from car mode to helicopter mode is achieved by essentially the same method as with the G1 toy: you shift his arms around a bit and extend his legs. Literally the only other step is moving the cockpit further forward on the nose. Despite this functional similarity to the G1 model, the end result is a pretty fine helicopter. OK, it's not exactly aerodynamic, almost certainly wouldn't actually fly and has some fairly obvious car parts on display... but you can almost believe that this is a triple-changing vehicle. Some of its parts don't fit together exceptionally well - the hinged plate just behind the rotor blades absolutely does not want to plug into the legs on mine - but the overall look of the helicopter is decent from most angles.
I had some trouble with it initially because I didn't realise the tail is meant to be bent down a notch at the 'knees', and the rotor blades will clash with the tail fins if the legs are left straight but, once that was sorted, it was fine.
Naturally the colour scheme is basically the same as car mode but, due to the way things fold up, there's substantially less visible grey. One cool feature is that the lone strips of silver from car mode are repurposed as wing-mounted guns in helicopter mode.
One substantial improvement on the G1 model (other than, y'know, the whole frickin' model) is that helicopter mode actually has landing gear... which are retractable. One is housed in the nose while the other two are on the pale grey section of the tail, None of the wheels are free-rolling, but they're effective for keeping the model off the ground.
This is one of the very few contemporary TransFormers helicopters that has no gearing for the rotor blades but, considering how much transformation is packed into the model, that's no surprise. It's also a welcome omission, since the feature rarely adds anything especially great to a toy. The blades are also far more substantial than those that came with Warbot Defender and, due to the way they're constructed, always remain parallel.
Springer's main weapon, the double-barrelled cannon, plugs in underneath the nose of the chopper and looks pretty menacing, but this comes at the expense of viable undercarriage - there's no molded wheel on the launcher - and it only ever faces forward.
Robot Mode:
Nick Roche's artwork, stylised as it is, doesn't often lend itself to translation into plastic, but his design for Springer has been fairly accurately reproduced here. Given that Springer's vehicle modes are comparatively small for a Voyager, he's also a surprisingly tall robot... but then, he's pretty slender with it - his relatively low mass is distributed vertically in the main. He's broad-shouldered but otherwise quite a lean and lanky robot.
What's really surprising is that the overall design of the model - which parts end up where - is fundamentally the same as the original... it's just much bigger and more impressive. It looks like a robot that transforms into a car and a helicopter, as opposed to a small, awkwardly-shaped brick that would surely live a life of pain. The distribution of colour is much the same as well, albeit with rather more visible green and a complete absence of 'detail' added by stickers (though Reprolabels can help with that, should you so desire). There's not a great deal of paintwork unique to robot mode, which makes it look as though Hasbro have been typically miserly with their paint - the torso has some green an silver paint on either side of the vehicles' nose, there are a couple of splashes of yellow on the groin and a couple of touches of silver on the fronts of the shoulders... that's pretty much it... but, G1-style stickers aside, he doesn't need a lot of paintwork to be Springer.
Naturally, this wouldn't be Springer - sometime leader of the Wreckers - without his trademark sword, and this version is very impressive. It has a proper transformation in itself, with the two rotor blades clipping together securely and the guard pegging into the hilt to prevent the blade spinning in his hand. The double-barrelled cannon seems a little oversized for his robot mode, but it's just about large enough that you can pose him in a similar stance to the box art, hefting his massive cannon with both hands. The missiles fire by way of friction, and the launcher is cleverly rigged to fire one missle at a time, rather than both at once. Just to make things even more fun, Springer's sword can plug into the underside of the cannon, as an unfeasibly long bayonet.
Last, but by no means least, the head sculpt is fantastic. Owing more, again, to the eccentric linework of Nick Roche than to either the G1 toy or animation model, it's a decent size (though it looks a bit too small given the size of the rest of him), nicely painted with pale grey and a couple of touches of yellow, and features excellent light piping for his eyes. The sculpt features his trademark forehead crests and a couple of spiky protrusions out the back, and is far better proportioned than that of Warbot Defender or the G1 model, both of which are far wider than they are deep, making him look oddly two-dimensional. His expression is a bit on the bland side, but you can just imagine that he's looking stern in readiness for his next battle.
Switching Springer between modes is more complex that the G1 model (naturally) but substantially less fiddly than Warbot Defender, whose myriad joints became confusing without reference to the instruction booklet. Each mode is pretty solid and convincing, though the side parts of his chest don't like to peg in securely in robot mode and, as mentioned above, the roof plate doesn't like to peg in at all in helicopter mode. Some parts are a bit fiddly - notably connecting the rear wheel section to the car body - but the overall process is fun and rewarding because each of the three modes is so well designed.
All that clever design also shows through in Springer's articulation, not least in the fact that he has waist articulation that is not necessary to his transformation. It is restricted somewhat by the car/helicopter roof on his back, but it doesn't get in the way too much. The arms are surprisingly mobile given the large slabs of car bonnet sticking out of the top, but the only real problem with them is that the elbows don't quite bend 90degrees. I was surprised to see wrist articulation given the way the forearm folds in and out to become the sides of the car and the wings of the helicopter, but it does help make him nice and poseable There's even a small amount of wrist tilt available, due to the jointing there, so he can almost point his sword forward. I've seen some folks complain about his stability and back-heaviness but I've noticed their photos do not show Springer's green heel pieces extended. They may be small, but they make a huge difference to his ability to hold a dramatic pose without falling over backward. At a push, the spoilers/tailfins can be used as heel extensions, but they have to be angled out of true, so they're probably not going to be reliable.
When writing up Warbot Defender, I honestly expected I'd never see another TransFormers triple-changer again. It was a flawed model, but a competent one, and a good substitute for a 'true' Springer toy, considering Hasbro's homages to the G1 character tended to be helicopters (including the Live Convoy repaint packaged with the Noisemaze repaint as Ratbat), while the TransFormers Collectors' Club repainted Exigeyser, an armoured car. Now this model is available (if only on import for the time being), he has usurped Warbot Defender's place on my shelves.
This model is highly recommended, not only as a proper homage to Springer as he appeared in the G1 TV series and, more recently, in the IDW comics, but as a massive improvement on the G1 toy, and proof that Hasbro and Takara Tomy can pleasantly surprise we fans with something that's not only far ahead of our expectations but very firmly in the 'in our wildest dreams' category. Absolutely one of the finest models from the 30th Anniversary, making it a huge shame that Hasbro UK dropped the ball on such an auspicious occasion.
One massive advantage to having picked up the US version - of this and Rhinox - is that I got the 'full' bio and the first proper Tech Specs charts I've seen on a Western TransFormers toy since Generation 1... It's just a shame that the 'full' bio uses more words to say less than the old G1 bios, and that it's not printed alongside the Tech Specs chart with a character portrait, on a 'clip and collect' cutout panel, just like on the old boxes.
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Generations (30th Anniversary) Springer
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It is 102 degrees, the middle of August in Austin, Texas and IT IS HOT! I feel the sweat dripping down the small of my back as I step across the concrete to the edge of the pool. Looking back, I see my friend kicking off his sandals and realize he does not suspect anything unusual. I look out over the clear; inviting, incredibly beautiful water and pause...hesitating because I know what is coming. I turn and quickly push off before I lose my nerve, diving into the water. The crashing sound of the water and bubbles fills my ears as I slip beneath the surface. Almost immediately my body reacts in shock to the icy cold water and I struggle to the surface. It takes everything I can muster to not scream as the astonishing cold envelops my body. Actually it is such a complete jolt that I can only struggle for breath as I try to swim slowly away from the pools edge determined not to make a sound or let on what is happening.
After only a few moments my friend shouts "How's does it feel?" With great effort, I try to appear nonchalant and endeavor to answer in a calm voice "Come on in...the waters fine!" I turn away and try to deal with the intense temperature change from the heat of the day to the chill of the pool and not give away the "surprise"! Slowly treading water I watch as he takes a running jump from the edge of the pool and does a can-opener into the sparkling clear water. In a split second he surfaces in a roar of splashing water and as he flails about begins to shriek and well...he's not making as much noise as you would imagine because he is also gasping for air exactly the same wayI did a few moments earlier! I ahhhhhhh *#@# Oh sh*^%rggghhh ohh Nooooo %*$#* aiejhsgdb @$%%^@ is all he can manage to howl as he thrashes about and attempts to find the edge of the pool and relief from the semi-arctic chill freezing his astonished body! I am laughing as I swim further out to hopefully avoid any immediate retaliation from my friend. After a few moments he calls out and say. You are such a %#*&% but this is starting to feel pretty good! I start laughing and notice that several other nearby swimmers do the same. And so another person is introduced to the icy cold joy of a swim in Barton Springs Pool!
Barton Springs Pool has been a popular attraction for years since it became part of a city park in 1917. In 1929, workers enlarged the irregular-shaped pool to 1,000 feet long by building a concrete lower dam and sidewalks on both banks. In 1932, the city added an upper dam. Over the years the springs has been the site of a flour mill, a source of drinking water for many citizens and a popular location for baptisms, family picnics, social gatherings, musical performances, fishing and swimming.
The City Of Austin Website describes the history of the pool:
"Native Americans called them the Sacred Springs and came there to heal their wounds. Spanish friars believed to be the first European settlers in the Austin area set up three temporary missions at the springs in 1730-31 before they moved to San Antonio. In 1837, William "Uncle Billy" Barton, built his rustic cabin on a tract of land which included the springs. Since he owned several adjoining tracts, the area came to be known as the "Bartons". He named the three springs after his daughters Parthenia, Eliza and Zenobia. The largest spring became known as the main spring at Barton Springs Pool. Another spring feeds the Elks Amphitheater pool that Zilker built near the present day Barton Springs Pool. A third spring bubbles up from the Sunken Garden on the east side of the park."
Swimmers are incredibly loyal and the website talks about one particular fan:
"Beverly Sheffield, who served as director of the Austin Parks and Recreation Department from 1946-1973, swam at Barton Springs for 73 years, longer than any of today's regular swimmers. He began when he was 10 years old and on into his 80s, Sheffield continued to go the pool three days a week, weather permitting until his death."
Barton Springs Pool
Is the fourth largest natural springs in the state. and the crown jewel of Austin, Texas located within the 358 acres of Zilker Park. The pool is over three acres in size and is fed by natural springs that flow nearly 27 MILLION gallons of clear, icy cold water every day. The average temperature is 68 degrees year round (ironically this same chill is perfect for winter lap swimmers in the winter because the water is so much warmer than the air temperature during the colder months.)
But you will not get me in that pool in the winter!
Almost every person who has ever visited the city hears about the pool one way or the other from a native or previous visitor.While working on the post for this blog I spoke with a number of swimmers and sunbathers and most all had been coming here for years but there I did meet a group who were experiencing the pool for the first time. All were amazed at the incomparable beauty because although these pictures are beautiful (some taken my me but the best ones by my associate Tom Coplen) you really have to see and experience it to believe it. Every time I stop by for a swim I still search for words to adequately describe the experience and usually end up falling short.
Oh...I almost forgot, my friend did forgive me while still threatening to maintain the option of getting even with me at a future date. Later when my friend and I are joined by our wives at the pool, he tells me in a hushed tone "Don't say anything, I want to pull the same stunt on my wife" and so it goes on and on.
Come on in...the water's fine!


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Phantasm: The Haunting of Burnwood Manor
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
The small town of Blue Hollow has always been a rather peaceful and uneventful place nestled in the mountains.
Claret, a perpetually listless girl, can no longer maintain her relatively placid lifestyle when strange happenings plague the town.
A pale young man, in his night clothes, is found at the Breezy Inn's doorstep,
a rumour of a phantom walking the streets of town at night and not to mention the peculiar lights and noises emanating from the old Burnwood Manor,
home to an eccentric old man who has been scarcely seen as of late.
With her colourful companions, new and old, Claret is begrudgingly tossed into the fray and must discover the source of the problems before something truly terrible might occur.
Only the Demo is available at present.
It may be a little buggy and there might be some grammatical errors but those will be fixed by the next release.
There is also no music but there will be in the final release.
A story filled with mystery and romance
3 romance-able options [GB]
A journal with suspects and clues*
Randomly generated clues and suspects in every playthrough* **
Original background and character art
6 different endings**
Claret Cordovan:
The protagonist of the story.
She comes across as a rather blunt and unsociable person.
She works for Cerise Marigold as her bookkeeper and on-off cleaner at The Breezy Inn.
She has a lesser known obsession with mystery books and bizarre stories.
A rattled young man, pale in complexion and lacking in wits, who staggers into the Breezy Inn.
As "ghostly" as he seems, he seems to have something spooking him.
Roan Celedon:
The overtly friendly neighbour of Claret. He works several jobs to pay for the medication his ailing little sister.
However, he always makes time to pester Claret every so often for company.
Flint Corvin:
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He sports a rather sardonic demeanour around the few people he interacts with.
A mysterious entity Claret happens upon one unsuspecting day.
Its motives are unclear as it soon follows her around, much to her chagrin.
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The vivacious innkeeper of Breezy Inn and Great-Aunt of Claret.
As amiable as she is, however, she doesn't tolerate unruliness or tardiness.
Mazarin Sterling:
The spritely elder is the proud owner of Burnwood Manor and keeper of many secrets.
His health is rumoured to be fading and has made fewer and fewer public appearances recently.
Tawny Chamois:
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She is rather temperamental when it comes to noisy disruptions while she works on her next bestseller.
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I have finished playing the demo, though, unforunately it was short. It gave me a sweet, short glimpse of the characters and i'm superbly intrigued to get to know all of them. I'm looking forward to the release!
Thank you for playing my demo! I'm sorry it's so short. I've been working on it alone, so progress was very slow and I could only manage a small demo before nanoreno was over. But the finished version will definitely be much longer and more fleshed out now that I don't have any time constraints.


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Unearthly Sleuths
There's a new anthology from JayHenge Publishing, and this one's all about speculative detective fiction! It's called Unearthly Sleuths, and it features two of my stories: The Card and Noise on the Wire. The former appears in OCR is Not the Only Font, my flash fiction anthology from 2012, but the latter is a brand new Alterworld story I've never shared before!
If that sounds like your sort of thing you can grab a copy in ebook or paperback right now! However, the editor has extremely kindly allowed me to offer the ebook as a reward for supporters of Ten Little Astronauts, so if you've pledged for that at the Audio Collection level or above (or the bargain Digital Bundle), you're already due to get a copy when the book is funded!
You might also be interested in Phantasmical Contraptions and Other Errors, also by JayHenge, which has a steampunk theme and features no fewer than three of my flash fiction pieces.


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"Someone breaks in, they never show up. Yet still, they want to come and blackball you and close your business," says Derek Little, owner of an auto shop along Detroit's Livernois Avenue.
He's one of many business owners in Detroit who's faced what he says amounts to harassment from the city's overzealous code enforcement. Amidst a bankruptcy and a fast-dwindling population and tax base, the city has prioritized the task of ensuring that all businesses are in compliance with its codes and permitting. To accomplish this, Mayor David Bing announced in January that he'd assembled a task force to execute Operation Compliance.
Operation Compliance began with the stated goal of shutting down 20 businesses a week. Since its inception, Operation Compliance has resulted in the closure of 383 small businesses, with another 536 in the "process of compliance," according to figures provided to Reason TV by city officials.
But business owners say that Operation Compliance unfairly targets small, struggling businesses in poor areas of town and that the city's maze of regulations is nearly impossible to navigate, with permit fees that are excessive and damaging to businesses running on thin profit margins.
"It is hard to run a business in Detroit. It's taken me three years to get approval for an outside patio," says Larry Mongo, who runs Cafe D'Mongo's Speakeasy a successful bar and restaurant in downtown Detroit.
While Cafe D'Mongo's is now well-established and successful, Mongo says that the inscrutable regulations, frustrating bureaucracy, and rampant corruption among city officials discourages many would-be entrepreneurs from ever pursuing their business ideas in the city.
"What about the person starting out? The reputation that they give their relatives, their cousins, their friends… They say, 'Hey, don't [start a business]. They rob you,'" says Mongo.
Operation Compliance is but one manifestation of a larger problem in Detroit says Michael LaFaive, Director of the Mackinac Center in Michigan. That problem is a local government more focused on collecting revenue and maintaining municipal worker jobs than it is on creating a business-friendly environment.
"Accidentally, the city has created sort of an anarchistic culture in the city, where many entrepreneurs, where many of the smaller retailers and entrepreneurs simply forgo getting the required permits," says LaFaive. "So entrepreneurs have said, 'Look, let them catch me if they can.' Right now, the city has decided, 'We're going to try to catch you, and we're going to put together a special unit to do so.'"
Officials from the city of Detroit did not respond to requests to be interviewed for this story.
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He, like all the teens in town, are "friends" with hundreds of other kids. Kids he doesn't even really know. These "friends" post pictures and videos of their parties gleefully recording every shotgun, every pong game, every blurry eyed drunk face. Idiots. And it's not just the skateboarding, shop class kid. It's the AP honors kid, the going to Harvard kid, the marching band kid.I should probably lodge a protest about the perpetuation of the canard that shop class is for burnouts.
And then a friend who has two teenage daughters warned me that I needed to watch out for the girls now that Jonah got so cute over the summer. She said that I would have to be careful, because girls would start launching themselves in his direction. So, we had lots of talks about all this over the weekend, but would I be a terrible feminist, if I asked the parents of girls to talk with their daughters about this, too? Perhaps teenage girls shouldn't give themselves nicknames on their finsta-accounts that call themselves "hoes."
Another parent in town was so dismayed by his kid's behavior and the general culture of the town that he made his kid drop out of school and join the military. That seems a bit extreme. The parents who put their kids in fancy Catholic schools in the area say that the same problems exist there, too. In fact, the private kids are even worse, because their parents go away to Thailand for two weeks and leave the kids alone in their McMansions with an unlocked liquor cabinet.
As much as we would like, we can't wrap our kids in cotton and lock them in their room until 25. How do you parent properly, when other parents aren't? When other parents buy the booze for the kids? How does a kid make good choices, when he lives in a world where everybody else is making bad choices?
But is anybody surprised, when the aspirational Leave It To Beaver and Father Knows Best give way to reality TV and the tabloid culture, and bad behavior in some circles is transgressiveness or authenticity to be celebrated in other circles, that bad choices become the default?


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Does reading out loud cause you to remember things better?
Life is full of questions. One day I saw my brother learning for the school test and he was reading out loud every answer like I used to do like this and I guess every one of you might be doing at your early ages. I wondered why we need to read out loud. I mean being an adult now we read quietly there is no teacher or parent to tell us to read out loud.
I wondered why educators and relatives always used to say to read out loud whenever you were studying. Or why the song you heard somewhere is stuck into your mind and playing continuously on a loop? Or why the strange names or words or voices just never leaves your brain, it may get lost somewhere for some time but when you think about it or try to remember it BANG! It is there.
Out of my curiosity, I went through the internet to find the answer to all my questions. And science never disappointed me.So here I am sharing the actual reason you used to get scolded at your early childhood to learn in a loud voice as everyone believes it will help in remembering answers better.
So, first of all, what happens when you read out loud?
When we read anything loud, you are more aware of what you are taking in. Your brain, eyes, voice & ears everything is involved. Thus the matter you are taking in get in your memory with the help of all your senses. And one grasps that thing better, and brain memorizes it well. While if you are just reading silently only brain and eyes are involved. You may have noticed while reading we can read out a whole paragraph, and suddenly we realise that we don't know what we have just read, and read that paragraph again. That is the thing. While reading silently, our mind thinks about other things too and doesn't focus on the matter. While reading out loud makes all your senses on one thing, the thing you are reading loud. Thus, you are more focused and learn the matter easily.
The spoken item makes more distinct space in your memory as compared to the item we read silently.
Reading aloud is not just limited to strengthen memory, it has many types of effects on our brain.
One who read aloud learn to speak too, as compared to the silent learner who can pronounce a particular word in whichever way he or she wants and no one will judge them. But when you read aloud your mind stays focused on what you're pronouncing is correct or not. You'll try to and want to say that in a right way. And with so many efforts that phrase just stays in your mind. You will remember it every time you'll encounter that word.
That's the benefit of saying words aloud while learning.
You must have seen the kindergarten kids are made to hear stories and poem by their teachers. They don't know how to read, but they remember whatever their teachers teach them. Because their brain grabbed the matter in which they are interested.
Often child is told bedtime stories and sometimes poems by their guardian, and that is a healthy habit. The child will, first of all, generate the habit of listening; he will become more attentive to whatever he'll be listening too means a more focused brain. Apart from that, it will help the child in learning the correct way to say things.
Not just kids we adults also will experience the same. I have heard scenarios where an Indian village boy learned speaking British English just by watching English movies. That's the power of listening.
A person who listens is also a great speaker too.
Reading out loud, all in all, is going to help you memorise stuff for a long term. Many types of researchers are also there if you are looking out for some prove.
Talking about the conclusion, I feel yes reading out loud really helps in remembering things better. Start a habit of reading things aloud and sometimes silent reading. You'll see the difference. Mere reading is fine, like if you're reading a novel or fiction things, it is fine to read them silently, I mean you don't have to give exams for that, and it is just like simple reading.
But yes when it comes to tests exams or anything in which you need to learn things perfectly. Then all the students out there, you have to start studying by reading things aloud. While you'll be reading, you'll not even know that how much you're grooming your brain. You'll be learning to speak and listen better. Also, when you are pronouncing words correctly you'll be keen to learn more, and you will build your vocabulary too.
You'll feel more focused to what you're studying and will understand more precisely. Also by reading out aloud you'll get to know words, and you can further portray them as your own be it in written or orally.
When you start reading aloud, you will relate to words in a much deeper way; you'll understand them better because when you read them a certain kind of action and emotion get attached to the word, a particular way of speaking was build. And that makes you connect with whatever you are learning in a much better way than any other.
I'll suggest all the student or any learner to try learning things while reading them aloud. Hear what you're saying, if it is right or wrong. Hear not just pass the exams but to understand and learn. And while you're reading, work on your speaking and writing and experience the overall grooming of your study patterns and apparently your personality.
You'll be more confident and yes you'll finally learn things and don't cram.
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The Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda (INCM) has launched the issue of a new coin marking the inauguration of the Banco de Portugal's Money Museum. This new purpose-renovated museum is located in the center of Lisbon in the former Church of St. Julian, which was originally built in 1810 and has been in the possession of the Banco de Portugal since 1930. The building went largely unused until now.
The premises blend the original baroque style with modern design and amenities, and have been wholly renovated to accommodate the Bank's immense collection. The displays consist of coins, banknotes, instruments of currency, and bullion that have been organized in various departments and situated over four levels.
Of special interest is the display that includes remnants of the wall of King Dininz. The wall is classified as a national monument and is the only known remnant of Lisbon's medieval wall, which was buried after a cataclysmic earthquake in 1755. The remnants of the King's wall were recently unearthed during the renovation of the building and they are only on display at the new Money Museum.
The renovation is created by the designer Francisco Providência. The museum's floor-plan is based on thematic rooms focusing on such subjects as pre-monetary currency, money throughout the world and its history over the centuries, banknote and coin production, and personal testimonies about the role of money in the lives of ordinary citizens.
The coin, produced in cupro-nickel and silver, is designed by Charters de Almeida with minimalism in mind. The obverse illustrates that the use of money is something we all have in common by depicting a coin held between two fingers during the simple act of exchange. On the reverse, a pattern of three circles are arranged in an uneven row, symbolizing coins moving on an empty space or counter.
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The coin was released on April 19 and is produced in BU (Cupro-nickel) and Proof (sterling silver), which are available to purchase separately. The Bank of Portugal's Money Museum officially opened to the public on April 20. For information on this and other coins offered by the INCM, please visit their Web site. More information on the Bank of Portugal's new Money Museum is available here. International orders are dispatched where applicable.


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How cute is this? I have 26 more to make for a colleague at work, to give to her class at Easter.
To make life a little more difficult for myself, the bag is exactly the same on the other side – yes, I am quite, quite mad!
The idea came to me because I wanted to put four bunnies (from Marks & Spencers) in a bag, but they were all squashed up, and didn't look very pretty!
The card inside the packet measures 3cm x 2.5cm and the flower stickers are left over from Accessorize packs with a bit of doodling.


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I am trying to create and use a Server Action that will populate a 50 Byte Text field when a record is inserted (created) with a GUID as created by the System.GenerateGuid function.
I am attempting to do this through a server action, but I'm missing something basic.
I have tried with an Assign, still no luck.
It might help to tell you than I am C# programmer so I am probably overthinking this. I'm not used to the system doing so much for me.
Any help would be appreciated.
Hey John, how are you?
Could you share your espace so we can take a look at?
João Melo wrote:
Not exactly sure how to share my espace. I have attached the OML file if that helps. I also searched for terms like 'share espace', None of the results covered this topic
But what is the problem exactly?
just guessing here...
everytime you insert a record and you call "generateGUID" it will generate a new GUID.
if you want to have a "session" dependant guid, i would set a session-variable with generateGUID the first time (if empty for example) then use that session-var to insert records.
watching the oml, but you never assign the generateguid to anything?
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I don't understand how to tie generateguid to the record insertion. Where do I do that?"
just before the create-action, you drop the assign block
there you doubleclick on the variable and you choose thw Form-widget (in folder widgets, then record and the attribute in the end)
in the value you place the guid. not sure if it's a function or not.
if it;s a function it's simple
other you call the action before and you the out as such.
see attached screenshot
Thank you so much. This is exactly the information I needed. I wired it up and it is working. Thanks again!


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They Say Your Palm Can Reveal Almost Everything About Your Future, This Freaked Me Out
As you know, palmistry has been an ancient art of divination practiced for millenniums. But today, we are going to reveal to you a simple way to read your own palm so you can start to see into your own future.If you like personality tests like this read about how your finger nail shape affects your personality or how the gem you choose tells you your fate.
Refer to the image to identify the line in your palm when doing your own analysis.
The Heart Line
As you might have guessed, this line is all about your love life. If a person has a short heart line, the person probably doesn't place much importance on romantic relationships. But if the line is long and wavy, that person handles relationships well and with ease. If the line is straight, logic and rationality rule their love life. But a curvy-all-over heart line can indicate lots of lovers.
The Head Line
Connected to your mind, this line represents your intellect. A short line indicates the person is more physical than mental and prefers to release energy through the body. But a long, sturdy line indicates a philosophic thinker. A wavy head line may indicate a short attention span while a straight line shows a realistic thinker.
The Life Line
Perhaps the most famous line, "the line of destiny" represents your character and major life events not the length of your life. Deep, long lines indicate a strong-willed person with a sense of self, while shorter, shallower ones may indicate an easily influenced person. A break in the life line indicates a major life change, not death.
The Fate Line
A deep fate line indicates a person's life may be ruled by destiny whereas a shallow one indicates a person might choose for themselves more. If your fate line has skips it in, destiny or fate may through several life changes at you.
Travel Lines
These "minor" lines can indicate how much desire you have to travel to foreign lands depending on their depth and length. If the travel lines intersect with your life line, this could indicate travel based on your health or that travel affects your health. The longer and deeper these lines are the more desire you have to travel.
Bracelet Lines
Also considered minor lines, there are usually between two and four below your wrist. Generally, the more you have, the longer and better life you'll live. The deeper they are also indicates good fortune and prosperity.What does your palm say about you?


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Blonde Female ShepardAugust 3, 2011
I briefly considered titling this "Sticking My Nose In Where It Doesn't Belong", but I think I have enough features for a while. A lot of people are upset that voters on Facebook picked the blonde Shepard to be BioWare's canon female Shepard.
This is a serious question, why should it matter what the "canon" version is? Especially in a game where you can customize the character to your own liking. If a choice is ultimately up to the player, then canon becomes meaningless. If the Shepard in your game is a black haired, brown eyed woman, or a brown haired, green eyed man, then none of the canon matters. It didn't happen in "your" universe. And it's not like this is something new to BioWare: In Knights of the Old Republic, the canon Revan was male. Did that stop people from making female Revans? Hell no!
And honestly, I think that blonde FemShep is ultimately going to be good for the game, being the most popular option. Just hear me out on this. More people are going to play FemShep that wouldn't normally, and the people already inclined to play FemShep won't just start it up and roll. They're going to customize their character, and that's going to lead to a richer experience for them.
This was the result of a vote taken on Facebook. Anyone who couldn't have guessed that people on Facebook might just choose someone based on looks is not nearly cynical enough about the internet. It's not like the people complaining about blonde female Shepard are completely blameless either. They're viscerally reacting against a blonde because of all the stereotypes related to blondes. Everyone's a hypocrite. I like to think of myself as politically active, and the only thing I've done since 2007 is vote. The people who voted for blonde Shepard voted based on looks, and so did the people who voted for the other Shepards, despite what they might want to tell themselves.
And if you don't think that blondes can kick a little ass, 1980s Samus Aran might just have a little something to say about that.


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We are mere hours away from the Mountains that make Skiers Dream…..
You know the names: Telluride, Vail, Steamboat, Aspen. These are the resorts that skiers live for.
Every autumn, our group of student snow worshippers —unite and engage in a sacred ritual called the Pray for Snow party. Our cultural attache and Anthropologist, Dr. Lin Davis-Stephens, has noted that this ritual often includes beverages and bonfires large enough to be seen from outer space. Here in Kansas, on the Colorado border, we supplicate the snow saints for a solid 500+ inch year; our Canadian friends, well they pray for enough money to buy a ticket and attend Colby College so they can do some real skiing.
Our Pray for Snow folks dress up in their finest hats and plastic Mardi Gras beads, and whoop it up with a bonfire as an offering to the snow gods and dream of sugarplums and early Colorado snowflakes. If you find such tributes inspiring—are those tears in your eyes?—the time is right to start brainstorming your own party to the Gods of Winter.
Costumes are a must. The Snow Gods have to know you mean it. Make everyone wear white, or red, or even red dresses. You'll lure more ladies to your shindig if they hear the entire ski dudes will be clad in red minidresses. Also, be sure to mandate hats—nothing says "I'm a serious athlete, and I'm here to party" like a quality sombrero.
DON'T burn skis. It's very last-season. Try burning larger items instead—like old cars and chicken sheds. Then go inside and turn on some old Greg Stump movies. Made back in '85 when park rats sported real rat-tail mullets, these flicks make amusing references to the passing fad later known as snowboarding.
Finish it right. As all good things must come to an end, you must close the evening properly. DON'T find the only homeowners on the block who can afford a hot tub—yes, the ones who are out of town—and escort your guests there. No matter what you think it's not actually your hot tub; it's not just separated from your house by a fence. Your guests will thank you, the ladies will swoon, and the Snow Gods will smile upon your entire community with plenty o' white stuff if you have fun and don't get arrested.
If the words ski, mountain, resort make you dream, then you've found the right place for a memorable ski holiday.


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Pili Extend as Nanowires to Transfer Electrons. Investigators noted that Geobacter species specifically produced fine, hair-like structures known as pili on one side of the cell during growth on Fe(III) oxide.
Credit or Source: Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. science.energy.gov/ber/
US DOE. 2005. Genomics:GTL Roadmap, DOE/SC-0090, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. (p. 74) (website)
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Star's New CD3 Series Cash Drawers
Star has announced its new 'Tradition' cash drawer series with the release of the CD3-1313 and CD3-1616 cash drawer models. The new cost effective cash drawers integrate seamlessly into any retail or hospitality environment with a standard printer communication interface and bottom exit cable, hidden from the customer's view. With cash till options for both models, the CD3 traditional cash drawers can accommodate to Canadian, United States, and Latin American currency types of 3Bill-5Coin, 4Bill-5Coin for CD3-1313 and 4Bill-8Coin, 5Bill-8Coin for CD3-1616.
Features include a black stainless steel front drawer cover, dual media slots, and a three function lock system. The smooth black coated finish provides a unified appearance and complements the connected POS peripherals for merchants. The dual media slots provide extra storage for checks and large bills. For security, the key lock at front center allows for an easy manual release with a key or an electronic release.


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- This category lists all of the missions in Watch Dogs. For missions in Watch Dogs 2, see here.
There are 40 main missions available in Watch Dogs. The main story missions are unlocked as the story progresses, and side missions can be found around Chicago, or through Aiden's smartphone. There are:
- 9 missions in Act I
- 15 missions in Act II
- 6 missions in Act III
- 7 missions in Act IV
- 2 missions in Act V
None of the missions can be replayed unless the player selects "New Game" in the menu section. Most of the missions are named after a specific quote that a character in that mission says.
Main missions
Act I
A hit was ordered on Aiden Pearce and Damien Brenks after the failed Merlaut Hotel heist, and Maurice Vega was hired to kill Aiden, but ended up killing Lena Pearce, niece of Aiden. One year later, Aiden seeks revenge to find out who ordered the hit on him. During this period, he finds himself reuniting with Nicole and Jackson, and after a call hit Nicole, he aims to trace the source of the caller. He also makes contact with Clara Lille, a DedSec hacker under the name Badboy17, and Lucky Quinn, leader of the Chicago South Club.
There are 9 missions in this act.
- Bottom of the Eighth: Take down Maurice and escape from May Stadium.
- They Can't Hide: Look for a crime as distraction.
- Big Brother: Go to Jackson's party and take down Nicky's crank caller.
- Foresight: Purchase a 416 assault rifle from the Gun Shop.
- Backstage Pass: Locate and hack the guard with the access code, and use the code to reach the CTOS servers inside the Loop district.
- Hacking Contract: Find and kill 2XTheTap before he successfully hacks in. (You can then play online after completing this mission.)
- Backseat Driver: Deliver a fugitive to Lucky Quinn.
- Open Your World: Meet BadBoy17 and hack the laptop and the access point to give access to Clara, and escape the plaza.
- Thanks for the Tip: Reach the caller's signal source, hack the phone, and follow the traced call to Damien.
- Remember: Aiden remembers when he visited Lena's grave with Nicky and his promise.
- Not the Pizza Guy: Infiltrate the rail yard, interrogate the Fixer Boss and escape.
- A Wrench in the Works: Hack Angelo Tucci's niece's phone and kill him before he reaches the prison.
- Dressed in Peels: Get into the prison, intimidate the survivor from the stadium to stop him speaking out, and escape.
Act II
What appears to be a normal revenge turns out to be a ransom from Damien Brenks, after kidnapping Nicky. Damien demands a ransom, by tracing an IP address, and retrieving the data in the IP. He finds himself encountering the Black Viceroys, and the Bunker, the first ctOS test site, and meets Tobias Frewer, a ctOS pioneer. He also sees an auction by Lucky Quinn, which turns out to be a human trafficking ring.
There are 15 missions in this act.
- Hold On, Kiddo: Find and save Jackson before the Fixers reach him.
- Tools of the Trade: Buy some crafting components.
- Breakable Things: Search Racine Boat Restoration, and kill Robert Racine.
- Collateral: Defend Clara from the Fixers.
- One Foot in the Grave: Track down Tobias Frewer and speak to him.
- A Blank Spot There-ish: Power up the Bunker.
- Jury-Rigged: Disable the security terminals.
- Grandma's Bulldog: Track the source of an IP address.
- Not a Job for Tyrone: Tail Bedbug and save Gary "Rabbit" Diggs.
- Uninvited: Ambush Iraq's men.
- Breadcrumbs: Retrieve information from the auction briefcase.
- Stare into the Abyss: Eliminate Nicholas Crispin.
- A Risky Bid: Attend Lucky Quinn's auction, and scan Iraq's dog tags.
- Role Model: Find Jackson.
- Planting a Bug: Guide Bedbug into Iraq's server room.
- Way Off the Grid: Search for Raymond Kenney.
Act III
The data retrieved from Rossi-Fremont is locked by an encryption made by Raymond Kenney, the creator of ctOS, and Aiden and Clara must find him in order to decrypt it. Upon encountering Kenney, under the name of "T-Bone", Kenney reaches out to Aiden as a whistleblower of Blume to wipe his data about him, in order to help Aiden decrypt the data. After helping out Kenney with the wipeout, Aiden storms in to Rossi-Fremont and retrieve all the data, and kills Iraq. Aiden also encounters Damien, who demands access to ctOS in exchange for T-Bone's whereabouts.
There are 6 missions in this act.
- Hope is a Sad Thing: Track down Raymond Kenney, who goes by the name "T-Bone".
- A Pit of Paranoia: Identify the two Blume security chiefs.
- Unstoppable Force: Take out the convoy before it reaches Blume.
- The Future is in Blume: Infiltrate Blume and upload T-Bone's virus.
- For the Portfolio: Protect T-Bone and escape Pawnee.
- By Any Means Necessary: Download Iraq's server data, and kill Iraq.
Act IV
While decrypting the data, which contains blackmail on all Chicago citizens, an unknown hacker deletes all the data, leaving Aiden without the ransom to save Nicky. Damien threatens Aiden by displaying news reports about him, attracting the police and the public. Aiden retrieves the data from Defalt, a professional hacker under the name JB Marcowicz and rescues Nicky to safety. Fearing for the safety of his family, Aiden evacuates Nicky and Jackson out of Chicago, and kills Quinn, the one who ordered the hit one year ago on Aiden and Damien.
There are 7 missions in this act.
- Someone's Knocking: Trace the hacker.
- In Plain Sight: Take out the fixer and escape the police.
- The Rat's Lair: Lead T-Bone to safety.
- The Defalt Condition: Find and take out Defalt.
- Little Sister: Lead Nicky to safety.
- Ghosts of the Past: Drive Nicky and Jackson out of town.
- No Turning Back: Chase and kill Quinn, and race to save Clara.
Act V
Since the data is no use since Nicky is saved, Aiden gives it all away to the public, revealing secrets on the death of Rose Washington, because of Mayor Rushmore. Damien is infuriated about this, and challenges Aiden in a citywide destruction using ctOS. In retaliation, Aiden shuts down ctOS with T-Bone, plunging the city in a blackout, and kills Damien, and injures Jordi after a brief encounter. The player can also choose to spare or execute Maurice at the end of this act.
There are only 2 missions in this act.
- Sometimes You Still Lose: Shut down the ctOS, and kill Damien Brenks.
- Guys Like Us : Walk away or shoot Maurice.
Side missions
Fixer Contracts
- Armored Pursuit
- Bandwidth Exceeded
- Bootlegged
- Buffering
- Connection Interrupted
- Data Leech
- Deadly Loop
- Deception
- Deliverance
- Delivery Man
- Derailed
- Distraction
- Double Vision
- Escape Artist
- Gateway Timeout
- Ghost Trail
- Grand Triathlon
- Hard Shoulder
- Hot Property
- In the Spotlight
- Industry Standards
- Lap of Luxury
- Members Only
- Misguided
- Muscle Memory
- Muscle Out
- Number Crunch
- Parker Square Rally
- Pickup and Run
- Pier Pressure
- Playing it Safe
- Raid
- Railroaded
- Ridge Rider
- Road Soldier
- Rogue Data
- Scenic Retreat
- Showroom Condition
- Straight and Narrow
- The Badlands
- The Hunter
- Tracked
- Trials and Tribulations
- Under Construction
- Urban Exploration
- Wild Ride
Gang Hideouts
Gang Hideouts are missions that require Aiden to take down a specific target inside a hideout.
- Street Cleaning
- Two For One
- The Tower
- Union Dues
- Packing
- Port Authority
- Swap Meet
- Compliments for the Cook
- Gone in a Flash
- No Parking
- The Low Road
- Burning Bridges
- Decapitated
- Out of the Woodwork
- Beached
Criminal Convoys
Criminal Convoys require Aiden to eliminate or take down (non-lethal) a target along a specific route before it reaches its destination.
- Downtown
- Caught in the Loop
- Requiescat In Pace
- The Quick Fix
- The Beast
- Militia Mile
- Toll Bridge
- Parker Pursuit
- Into the Pit
- Lord of the Wards
- Made Men
- No Rules
- Dockwork
- Excessive Force
- Long Division
- Chasing Shadows
- Juggernaut
- Small Town Justice
CTOS Control Centers
Unlocking Control Centers are essential to access the Profiler and progress the story.
- Mad Mile ctOS Control Center
- Brandon Docks ctOS Control Center
- The Wards ctOS Control Center
- Pawnee ctOS Control Center
DLC missions
Signature Shot
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When it comes to the purchase of security gates, doors, grills and windows, the company you buy from really matters. If the company has been known for faulty products, you will risk getting faulty products too. It is this reason that makes it important for you to be very vigilant when choosing a brand to purchase from. In this post, we shall look at the key qualities you should consider when searching for a good brand to buy security gates or doors from.
With experience comes wisdom, wisdom to do things in a unique way. The newer companies might entice you with low prices but you should never forget what you are looking for; guarantee. The only place to get guarantee is with a company that has been in business for decades. This means it has perfected its art and will give you perfect security products that will give you the much deserved peace of mind.
Choosing a company based solely on experience can be misleading. There are many companies that have been around for years but the quality of their products is still questionable. With that said, take a close look at the reputation of the company. What are the former clients saying? Are the grills from the company reputable or their competitor does it better? Online reviews, recommendations from friends and the Better Business Bureau will help you counter the reputation of a brand.
Range of products
Once you have verified the reputation of the brand, it is time to look at the range of products available. The only way you can be able to find the best deals when it comes to security gates and doors is by comparing. If the company has a shallow selection of gates and doors, you will be disadvantaged because you will not have many options. A company with a huge selection is the best because it gives you options.
Ability to order custom made
In addition to having a range of products to choose from, it is important to work with a company that can take your unique orders. This is important especially if you want something unique. If the ironworks company does not take such orders, you will be disadvantaged.
Offers installation
Another very important thing to consider in a company is whether it offers installation services or not. Though the security doors come ready for installation, it is always good to get professional installation services. If the company does not offer these services, it means you will have to ask around for a good mason or you will have to install the door yourself. The downside is that you might not be able to do it properly.
Terms of service
Lastly, you need to look at the terms of service. Does the security gate come with a warranty and for how long? If the door is faulty, will the company take it back? Take time to review the contract before you sign along the dotted lines.


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