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Jews and gefilte fish have a complicated relationship. Come Passover and the High Holidays, the oft-maligned fish cakes grace many a family feast. As ovals of seasoned ground fish and matzo meal go down the table, many pass, some cringe, the brave try and a token few ask for seconds.
For those who may not be ready to de-bone their own carp but want to know where their fish comes from, Gefilteria is a modern artisanal company cooking with old school methods and ethical sourcing.
Traditionally a slow-cooked peasant solution to enjoying fish on Shabbat, gefilte fish was once stuffed into the skin of a fish (gefullte is German for "stuffed"). Gefilte later shed its (fish) skin, eventually settling on a jelly sheath. After WWII, the fish balls became a canned and jarred commodity (packed with fish jelly), and today you'd be hard pressed to find an American table serving handmade gefilte.
As the Brooklyn-based trio states in their manifesto, "We know that gefilte… is excellent when done right. It comes down to the basics of quality, freshness, care and creativity. Gefilte is not just about your bubbe. It is not about kitsch or a foodie revolution. Gefilte is about reclaiming our time-honored foods and caring how they taste and how they're sourced. It is about serving a dish with pride… taking food traditions seriously and reclaiming the glory of Ashkenazi food—what it has been and what it can be."
Gefilteria looks to Monterey Bay Aquarium to guide their sustainable sourcing. The Kosher-certified, gluten- and jar-free gefilte are pink and white, made with whitefish, pike and salmon (a popular twist on the classic). The whitefish and pike hail from the Great Lakes and the salmon varies by season, but often comes from the Pacific via Wild Edibles.
Any gefilte fan knows that the fish tastes flat without a teaspoon or two of horseradish. Gefilteria's got you covered there too: Their handmade repertoire includes horseradish, naturally fermented pickles and sauerkraut, pickled beets and kvass, a naturally fermented beet tonic. They recommend their loaf-style gefilte sliced thin and topped with their spicy carrot and sweet beet horseradish.
Gefilteria (literally) carts their wares to local markets and festivals, and occasionally opens a pop-up shop. They accept online orders and will deliver for free to one of their NYC pick up points, or for a fee throughout the city. They also deliver to select areas in Long Island, Westchester and New Jersey, plus the Bronx and Staten Island.
They're still taking orders for Yom Kippur, so you can enjoy the new year with gefilte without the guilt… or the "Eh." In fact, this loaf may not make it all the way down the table.
Image courtesy of Gefilteria.


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6 Best towns in Costa Brava
BE APARTMENT offers you the best luxury apartments and the most elegant experience on Costa Brava and various European cities, come and enjoy it with the best luxury apartments!
For an amazing stay on Costa Brava, BE APARTMENT offers you the most elegant Luxury Apartments in various towns of the Coast.
Costa Brava is a coastal area of Catalonia that starts in Blanes and ends up in the French border in Portbou. This coastal Mediterranean strip has an extension of 214 kilometers and it's located in the province of Girona, the northern part of Catalonia. The area is full of magnificent beaches and unique little coves (calas) that make this place an ideal destination for many vacationers, there's no doubt that you will be able to enjoy of a wide range of unique experience in Costa Brava if you decide to visit it during your next holidays. Here we can also find many charming villages that are responsible for the magical atmosphere of this unique region. Let's have a look at the 5 most charming towns of the Costa Brava.
1. Cadaqués, for sure! In Cap the Creus we can find this beautiful fishing village that has inspired artists such as Salvador Dalí, to whom the town pays tribute with a bronze statue. Anyway the town was visited by many other important artists in history such as Duchamp, Picasso or Miró among others. Cadaqués seems to be a perfectly painted picture, with a great bohemian atmosphere, white houses with flowers in the wondows surrounded by an amazing landscape, where the sand, the mountains and the see merge into a wonderful synchronicity difficult to find in other places.
2. Figueres is another town you shouldn't miss when visiting the Costa Brava. It's the capital of a region called Alt Empordà and, just like Cadaqués, it owes much of its popularity to Dalí, as his museum is located in this town. The museum is impressive from the inside and the outside at the same time, its façade is crowned by some gigantic eggs that awake our imagination and desire to see what's inside this magical place.
3. Sant Feliu de Guíxols. This is another beautiful town that we find on our way through the rugged Costa Brava. While still maintaining its fishing tradition, the town has grown in recent years due to a major tourist and commercial activity. Apart from its beaches and coves, its greatest monument is a majestic Benedictine monastery. The building, in Romanesque style, is especially known for the famous door Porta Ferrada, the oldest part of the building, which is from the tenth century. If you fancy hiking or cycling you should take a walk along the greenway enabled on the route of the old carrilet, a narrow and old railway that used to link the town with Girona.
4. L'Escala (Roses). As in the rest of the Costa Brava, the beaches of fine golden sand are the protagonists of L'Escala. This is one of the towns that we can find in the Bay of Roses, together with Roses, Sant Pere Pescador and Castelló d'Empuries. You should definitely visit this bay as it's considered one of the most beautiful bays in the world. The Bay of Roses is considered one of the most beautiful bays in the world. In addition to preserving the charm of the fishing villages of the Mediterranean coast, l'Escala offers much more as we can find the most important Greek archaeological site of Spain just two kilometers away; the ruins of Empúries, which are more than 2000 years old. A nice curiosity is that this place was the landing point of the Olympic flame in Catalonia in 1992, after a long boat trip from Greece.
5. Calella de Palafrugell is an ancient fishing village formed by several coves that still preserve their charm, it is one of the few places on the Costa Brava which still preserves the charm of the villages of the area before the arrival of mass tourism, with narrow streets, steep tiled roofs and some traditional two-floor fishermen's dwellings. This ancient fishing village is on a rocky coastline sprinkled with small coves to the north of the Castell – Cap Roig natural area and ideal for walking or cycling, with the coastal and tourist village of Llafranc to the north. In the summer, the Cap Roig Botanical Gardens hold the Cap Roig Music Festival and also the Cycle of Summer Concerts in the Church of Sant Pere, organised by the Joventuts Musicals de Palafrugell. The annual "Habaneras" meeting, which gathers thousands of people on the beach of Port Bo is one of the best-known events in the area.
6. Palamós is another town worth visiting in Costa Brava, even if it's just for trying its exquisite red prawns, which have made this place famous all over the world. The biological richness of the Costa Brava is probably the main reason for the great quality of these prawns that have been fished in this area since the thirties. Moreover, the village also has a Fishing Museum, ideal for those who want to know more about the fishing tradition of this Mediterranean region.
As you see, there are many special spots and towns to visit in Costa Brava ¿Where are you going to start from? Do not loose the opportunity to enjoy Costa Brava and discouver all its secrets! If you´ve decided to spend few days in the region you can always stay in our Luxury Apartments by BE APARTMENT in different towns of the region, the best luxury apartments in Spain.

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A review of the AMD Radeon R9 390X 8GB 4K Graphics Processing Card
The performance war for building the best 4K and HD gaming GPUs goes on between AMD and Nvidia with the consumer benefit of all sorts of excellent new cards being created on a fairly regular basis. However, in the general balance of victories and defeats, AMD has always seemed to come out at a very slight loss even when it outperforms its Nvidia rival in some specific metric or benchmark. The AMD R9 390X is one more example of this, although it is one excellent performer.
The 390 series of GPUs consists of the R9 390, which we will also be reviewing, and the R9 390X, being reviewed here, and in their qualities and performance, these two cards sit somewhere between the older top single GPU cards of the AMD 290 line and the company's even more powerful new Radeon Fury GPUs which are now also going on sale.
In terms of direct comparison to Nvidia counterparts, the 390x is the rough equivalent of the GTX 980 seeing as how it is basically a overclocked and juiced up version of the now outgoing Radeon 290X Graphics card that also comes with the "Hawaii" processing core technology of its 290X predecessor. It won't be until we get to the truly enhanced AMD Fury X that we get to see truly new processor cores like the "Fiji XT" architecture and a new type of memory called HBM.
So, given this competitive landscape and the technologies at work, how does the 390X stack up against its older GTX 980 counterpart at Nvidia? Quite well, even if it does suffer from some of the common AMD GPU problems involving power consumption, overclocking and heat generation. This is definitely not the best AMD 4K-capable card but it's still an excellent piece of processing technology.
The R9 390X is based on the "Hawaii" processor design and features the same core configuration as AMD's previous 290X. However, in a quality boost from the somewhat problematic 290X, the new GPUs processor has had its memory doubled to 8GB and the clock speeds of the new 390X have jumped up from 1000 to 1050MHz in the core itself and from 5.00Gbps to 6.00Gbps in the memory. Thus with this, there is a definite power boost from what was offered by the also excellent 290X of the previous generation.
Furthermore, the price of the 390X is, while not low, certainly bold at just $389 and this compares very nicely with the somewhat higher GTX 980 price tag of just over $450,depending on purchase source.
In terms of 4K gaming power, the 390X is a mediocre performer in many ways and will deliver mid-level frame rates only as long as it doesn't get stretched to the limits of maximum detail levels at full 4K resolutions.
AMD has also added some other fine modifications in the 390X that put it a cut above from its 290X cousin. These include an increased bandwidth of 384GB/sec (from the 320GB/sec of the 290X and a superior performance when cooling comes into question. Also, the Radeon 390X offers DirectX12 support along with the rest of the 300 series from AMD
Most importantly on the 390X is it's VRAM though, the 8GB is a very big boost and while it's on par with what's on offer from the Radeon Fury X and the GTX 980 Ti from Nvidia, here you're getting it for a massively reduced price of just $389. This is great and those extra GB provide a fine amount of padding for near future gaming developments in which extra RAM becomes not just good to have but outright necessary.
There are plenty of other solid, more detailed aspects to the AMD Radeon R9 390X but we'll cover those in the specifics of the following sections on benchmark performance and highlights.
4.3 - 15 Reviews
The AMD Radeon R9 390X has plenty of great aspects, and particularly when compared to older GPUs from the same manufacturer or even older Nvidia brands. However, in the current landscape of newer cards, it also doesn't stack up as well as it could. For this while sticking with AMD, you'd need to switch over to something considerably more robust like the new Fury X.
The most fundamental problem with the 390X is that it simply doesn't do enough to surpass the qualities of the older 290X GPU. And the reason for this is simple: The 390X is basically the same card with a few augmentations, for all intents and purposes.
Aside from the massively expanded memory, enhanced core clock speed and improved memory clock speed, the 290X and 390X are identical in all other specs. These include equal 28nm construction, numbers of streaming processors, texture units, ROPs and Compute units along with equal 512-bit memory busses with GDDR5.
What this in effect means is that the problems faced by the 290X in many ways continue with the 390X and this isn't a good thing because the 290X was a particularly hungry consumer of power and known for running very hot when used more intensively.
And the benchmark tests bear this out as we'll see. While the 390X doesn't run as hot as the old 290X did, it certainly gives up its fair share of heat and hitting peaks of 82 to 85 degrees Celsius, which puts its heat generation above that of the Nvidia cards like the 980, 980 Ti or Titan X.
In our final overview opinion, the AMD Radeon R9 390X is a superb GPU for HD gaming and a decent GPU for gaming at 4K and 1440p settings. If you want real performance, you're better off moving up in specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X from Nvidia or the GTX 980 Ti against which the Fury X competes, or, if you want truly maximal performance, go for the Titan X from Nvida or the Radeon R9 295X2 dual GPU-in-single-unit card. However, if you're budgeting on your 4K PC rig but want a taste of real gaming at ultra HD, then yes, the 390X is a really good option for it's very affordable price relative to other serious 4K cards.
• Stream Processors 2816
• Memory Bus Width: 512-bit
• Texture Units: 172
• ROPs: 64
• Core Clock: 1050MHz
• Memory Clock: 6000 MHz GDDR5
• Form Factor: dual slot
• Total Memory Bandwidth: 384 GB/s
• GPU: Hawaii
• Architecture: Hawaii
• Transistors: 6.2B (billion)
• Manufacturing Process: 28nm
• Power Supply: 500 watts
As we'd already explained, the R9 390X is essentially a juiced up version of the 290X and it's main highlight lie in these added specs. Besides them, most of the other characteristics of this card remain identical to or only superficially different from those of the older AMD card.
Thus, the single biggest and most obvious highlight of the 390X is its massively enhanced GDDR5 RAM memory. The 8192MB AMD decided to give this card give it its single biggest source of value and are what's primarily responsible for the card's enhanced performance. It' is in fact largely thanks to the RAM that the 390X outdoes the GTX 980 in certain respects despite the latter's otherwise often superior build.
Then there is the number of transistors. In this the 390X actually stays the same as the 290X with 6200 million transistors but at the same time, both cards thus offer more than the 5200 million of the GTX 980.
Moving on, we also have the benefit of the 390X's superior memory clock of 6GHz. This is another of the performance enhancers on the 390X and it nicely boosts the cards overall memory bandwidth to a very decent 384GB/sec. Furthermore, the MSI Gaming version of the 390X card, which is being sold right now as the main consumer model offers a slight additional enhancement that drags the GDDR5 clock to 6.1GHz. This 6GHz memory clock is the result of AMD moving over to a fast and more efficient Hynix memory module.
Additionally, there is the overclock addition that has been given to the 390X. With this, Nvidia's GTX 980 can finally feel some heat of the kind it didn't feel from the original 290X, which could sometimes overclock but was barely capable of doing so. In the case of the 390X, AMD added an extra 50MHz of overclock and the MSI Gaming version of the GPU upps this just a bit more to a total of 1100MHz.
Finally --and this applies specifically to the MSI Gaming model of the 390X-- heat generation has been reduced thanks to an excellent, powerful heatsink and two powerful cooling fans which work to displace the heat created by 500W of power generation at high running speeds in the 390X. In this regard, the card is a serious improvement from its 290X predecessor, which was known widely for the heavy temperatures it could produce under intensive use.
4.3 - 15 Reviews
Now we get down to the meat of this review and move through some of the key performance benchmarks for the Radeon R9 390X. As you'll see, the card obviously delivers without a hitch on any sort of HD gaming and if you're not interesting in 4K gameplay so much as having absolutely excellent HD play under any conditions with any game without spending over $400 on just a GPU, then the 390X is a perfectly awesome choice.
However, the card obviously also does definitely deliver on 4K frame rates and overall performance, it just doesn't do so with the kind of performance benchmarks that you'd get from Nvidia's higher end cards, AMD's Fury X or the massively powerful Radeon 295X2.
General performance during gameplay
In terms of general performance during gameplay, the 390X does superbly at Full HD. In fact, both it and the directly competing GTX 980 from Nvidia are basically way more than you really need for HD gaming unless you're crazy about enormously high frame rates that reach or exceed 100fps. This is definitely more of a 1440p card (3440 x 1440p, or "quad HD") and a reasonably sound performer at full 4K ultra HD settings so long as detail is kept to a lower level, at least for all but the most demanding games.
What really becomes evident when you use the 390X and compare it to lesser AMD cards or even to the Nvidia GTX 980 is that the added VRAM the manufacturer tossed in here really does make a difference. While neither the 980 nor the 390X seem to easily manage 4K gaming with higher detail at a full 60 frames per second, the 390X shows itself to be faster as the pixel count increases. The large memory bandwidth is a key player in this performance boost.
Power Consumption
Power consumption was a key problem that the Radeon 290X faced as a card (though not as serious a flaw as its heat generation) and the same thing seems to have transferred over to the 390X with its nearly identical fundamental build.
In the case of the MSI build of the 390X, system wattage at idle loads seems to sit at around 109W during idl moments. In comparison, the Nvidia GTX 980 runs at about 99W anf the AMD Raedon 290X manages an equivalent to 390X 109W. Even here we see that the 390X hasn't improved in this regard.
However, if you up the ante and move over to full load power consumption, things really start to look bad according to testing. The 390X ramps its wattage to 490´+ watts while the GTX 980 only boosts its own to 320+ watts. Oddly, even the Radeon 290X manages to keep its wattage below 450 so here the 390X seems to have regressed in quality.
Now if we look at performance per watt at 4K settings, power consumption benchmarks also don't look so good for the 390X. In this regard, the MSI version of the 390X manages 100% performance per watt at 4K UHD resolution. While this seems good at first glance, it underdoes the performance per watt of the Nvidia GTX 980, which can manage a percentage of 216%!
The same occurs under 1440p settings, with the 390X managing 100% performance while the GTX 980 reaches all the way to 220+%. Clearly, in general terms, Nvidia's competitor card is the superior performer here.
Heat generation
Heat generation has generally been the biggest problem faced by many recent AMD cards and the R9 390X hasn't escaped this situation completely. The MSI model being sold now has done a lot to reduce heat generation thanks to the dual fans and heavy duty heat sink we mentioned already but overall, this card still runs rather hot.
Average idle temperature seems to sit at something between 48 and 57 degrees Celsius, depending on whose test benchmarks you look at and this temperature, while not terrible is still well above the average 35 – 40 degrees of the Nvidia GTX 980. It's when things move over to full load gaming that the R9 390X really shows its heat problems. It runs at temperatures that seem to range between 78 and 84 degrees.
This isn't nearly as bad as the 93 degree+ temps of the Radeon 290X but it's still worse than the averages for Nvidia's GTX 980 card. Furthermore, if you take into consideration how much MSI's excellent cooling board setup is helping the 390X in not overheating, the card itself doesn't really keep its heat to reasonable levels.
Noise generation
To keep things short and sweet here, the R9 390X is outstanding when it comes to noise generation at idle temperatures. While these figures apply to the MSI model, they can be said to represent the card itself. Basically, under idle conditions, the 390X turns its fans right off (assuming there isn't heat to dissipate) and thus generates absolutely no real sound at all. That's right, zero decibels, compared to the 28 idle decibels of the GTX 980.
When running at full loads, the 390X seems to manage roughly 40 decibels. This is partly thanks to the triple slot cooling of the MSI build, which is quieter than alternative and common dual-slot builds. 40 decibels is roughly the same as what Nvidia's 980 and higher cards also create.
4K gaming on the 390X is a mixed bag sort of experience. On the one hand, this card has definitely been built with 4K resolution in mind but on the other hand it's only a mid-level performer in this regard. The same applies to the GTX 980 and in the case of both cards, they're not what's really ideal for serious gameplay at 4K resolution. For that, you'd be better off with the Radeon R9 295X2, the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X or the Nvidia 980 Ti and Titan X. Make sure you have a 4k monitor thats designed for gaming.
Nonetheless, the 390X does manage some decent fps with 4K resolution. In the following games, it showed the following fps at 1440p and 4K resolution and highest possible detail settings:
Crysis 3 at 1440p: 34 frames per second / Crysis 3 at 4k UHD: 22 frames per second.
Assasins Creed: Unity at 1440p: 26 frames per second / Assassins Creed: Unity at 4k UHD: 22 frames per second.
Battlefield 4 at 1440p: 58 frames per second / Battlefield 4 at 4K UHD: 30 frames per second
Grand Theft Auto V at 1440p: 49 frames per second / Grand Theft Auto V at 4k UHD: 26.4 frames per second.
Essentially, the R9 390X never really comes close to hitting the 55+ fps needed for a 4K GPU to really be called a serious 4K GPU. Furthermore, while we'll save the GTX 980 4K fps benchmarks for a review of that card, the 390X has a tendency to underperform its Nvidia counterpart.
The AMD Radeon R9 390X is currently retailing for a MSRP of $389. This is a great price for a card of this caliber, despite its deficiencies at full-blown 4K gameplay. The Sapphire version (Tri-X OC) will be in stock on July 3rd and with a price of $429.99.
4.3 - 15 Reviews
• One excellent HD and 1440p GPU
• Superbly large VRAM memory
• Great GDDR5 memory bandwidth
• Noise-free when idle
• Excellent cooling setup in MSI version
• Great price for overall specs
• Can't manage 4K at high frame rates
• Runs a little hot considering its cooling system
• Inferior performance to Nvidia GTX 980
For its price, the R9 390X is a great choice and especially worthwhile if you'd like to do your gaming in Full HD at high fps or in 1440p at decent fps. As a 4K GPU, however, this isn't the best card on the market.
4.3 - 15 Reviews
September 29, 2015 at 5:58 am
Hello everyone, will r9 390x crossfire provide a 40+ FPS in 4k at 120hz refresh rate..?
September 29, 2015 at 10:06 am
As a stand-alone GPU, not a chance for high detail gaming on heavier games but in a crossfire config, maybe.. We haven't tried this so I can't say for sure but based on specs, I'd say it's worth a shot and likely. Just make sure your game of choice is crossfire-compatible and you might also instead consider a more 4K-capable single card solution to save on heat generation and motherboard configuration issues. The 390X by itself isn't quite good enough to be called a fully 4K-capable card.
November 11, 2015 at 2:26 am
Hi! I've got 2 Amd Sapphire r9 390x in a Crossfire/sli config. I'm able to play GTA V 4k at 80fps plus. Highest details almost.. I've lowered the AA but Textures and shadows etc are maxed out.
And in black ops 3 I manage 2 play around 120 fps + 1440p
January 10, 2016 at 10:46 am
Hello, ive been doing extensive research on a lot of cards and i have found the MSI R9 390x to be one of the hottest 390x cards out there. The Sapphire Nitro version of the 390x is $404 at time of posting on newegg and has a way better cooling solution. Ive seen multiple benchmarks that put the temps below Nvidias 980. I can only recommend the Sapphire Nitro 390x as it has the best cooling solution ive seen so far. Have a good day everyone.


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Everyone loves dazzling fall photos. They capture the vibrant hues, golden light and fleeting beauty of the season. Expert photographers Byron Dudley and Gary Miller share 10+ tips that will help you take your own fab fall photo!
Some of their favorite spots: aspens at Indian Ford Meadow Preserve, cottonwood colors at Camp Polk Meadow, groves of aspen at Black Butte Ranch, reflections and foliage at Suttle Lake, and vine maples at the Metolius River.
- Take photos at times of day when your shadow is longer than you. "Use the wonderful light of the golden hours before sunset and after dawn whenever possible on sunny days," says Miller.
- Use the weather to your advantage, says Miller: On bright days, avoid shooting mid-day when the light is the harshest. Instead, opt for twilight or dusk. Cloudy days produce even lighting without harsh shadows. Miller loves rainy days: "Rain and moisture make natures colors come to life in a new way. Although I will actually shoot protected in a light drizzle, especially close-up shots, the moment the rain stops can be truly magic especially if sun, dark clouds and rainbows start mixing together. Fantastic light can happen. Be ready to go." Moving, mixed clouds add character and interest in the background. They're great for wider landscape shots.
- Think visually. According to Dudley, "most fine photographs appear first in the mind's eye of the photographer."
- Learn to see a potential photograph both horizontally and vertically, says Dudley. Experiment and shoot shots in different ways and a variety of angles. Try something new.
- Plan ahead. "Good photographs are not made by accident," says Dudley. Scout spots and take mental notes of when the leaves begin to change at certain locations.
- Shoot aspens and fall leaves against blue skies. "Generally keep the sun behind you for the color to really pop," says Miller. But beware of slow shutter speeds, especially in low light or wind—leaves are often moving objects.
- Use a tripod—the one that is in the back of your closet. "With the help of a tripod your photos will turn out crisp—even with longer exposure times," advises Miller.
- Shoot the hues, shoot the huge, shoot the humble, says Miller. "Open your eyes to everything around you big and small—there is great beauty in simplicity." Fall close-ups make great photos.


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Saturday, September 6, 2014
Saturday Morning Sunlight
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26 comments:
- 20 North Ora said...
Pretty picture! We lucked out and have had rain most of the day and temps in the high 60's. It was wonderful. Now, it'll probably be so humid tomorrow that you can't breathe but it's nice today.
- September 6, 2014 at 5:53 PM
- Shenita @ Embellishments by SLR said...
Such a pretty shot, Martina! Same weather here; however, we have a chance of rain for the next few days. Then, there should be a temperature drop on Thursday. Hopefully, it will start to feel like Fall!
- September 6, 2014 at 5:54 PM
- Moni - Zuhaus at Home said...
Indeed pretty morning sunlight…have a beautiful weekend, Martina! We're enjoying some rain and cool fall like temps in the 60's.
- September 6, 2014 at 5:55 PM
- Sunflowers With Smiles said...
So pretty Martina!
- September 6, 2014 at 6:24 PM
- chateau chic said...
Love the sunlight streaming in your windows.
Mary Alice
- September 6, 2014 at 6:56 PM
- Kathy @ Creative Home Expressions said...
It looks so pretty, Martina! We are supposed to get a cool down now for tomorrow and into the week. Of course it will - since they extended the pool being open until the 15th!
- September 6, 2014 at 7:21 PM
- Cindy @ Dwellings-The Heart of Your Home said...
So true Martina, I love the morning sunlight too! Hot here but cooler temps on the way.
- September 6, 2014 at 7:27 PM
- Calypso In The Country said...
So pretty! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
- September 6, 2014 at 8:21 PM
- Marty@A Stroll Thru Life said...
I love your gallery wall and this is such a pretty photo. Great shot.
- September 6, 2014 at 9:05 PM
- ANNE said...
Have a happy weekend Martina!
- September 6, 2014 at 9:23 PM
- Deserae said...
So pretty! Have a great weekend!!!
- September 6, 2014 at 9:45 PM
- Brenda Pruitt said...
Love your gallery wall!
- September 6, 2014 at 9:46 PM
- Kelly said...
Your room does look pretty with the morning sunlight.
- September 6, 2014 at 10:35 PM
- Blondie's Journal said...
I love your gallery wall...makes me want to do one. I have the morning sun, too, but I've never been able to get a good pic!
Jane xxx
- September 7, 2014 at 1:03 AM
- Dawn said...
The room looks just perfect, the green tone in all the items is a brilliant color. I just love it. It is 50 here today.
- September 7, 2014 at 9:06 AM
- Pam@OurAdventuresInHomeImprovement said...
Very pretty! 90 here today too, but no humidity. I'm sure not ready for this to end!
Enjoy your day!
- September 7, 2014 at 9:35 AM
- DD's Cottage said...
I love mooring sun too! Foggy and overcast today here by the beach. Happy Sunday!
- September 7, 2014 at 10:41 AM
- Cynthia said...
I am a fan of morning and late afternoon sun. Beautiful Martina.
- September 7, 2014 at 1:39 PM
- Debbie said...
Lovely photo of a lovely room!
Have a happy evening, Martina.
- September 7, 2014 at 4:25 PM
- Shirley@Housepitality Designs said...
The sun shining through in the morning always starts off my day with a smile...love the way the sun shines through your windows!
- September 7, 2014 at 4:42 PM
- must love junk said...
Such a pretty pic! :)
- September 7, 2014 at 5:13 PM
- NanaDiana said...
Hope you had a wonderful, blessed weekend- xo Diana
- September 7, 2014 at 10:22 PM
- Celestina Marie said...
Hi Martina, your pic is very pretty with the light dancing off your gallery wall. Have a great week.
- September 8, 2014 at 8:06 PM
- Unknown said...
Humidity is not kind to my sweat glands. They are overworked and ready for Fall. To borrow a southern phrase I've heard all my life, "It's hotter than blue blazes!" Your photo, however, looks cool and comfortable!
- September 9, 2014 at 1:11 AM
- Christy @ Our Southern Home said...
Gorgeous shot!!! Your photography is always beautiful! ~Christy
- September 11, 2014 at 8:09 AM
- Babs said...
So pretty and I love your gallery wall.
I would like to make a gallery wall in our family room, and really like how you did yours. Thanks.
- September 15, 2014 at 5:21 PM


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CEO Jeff Bezos has just dropped a juicy piece of news. According to the big man, Amazon's on the verge of launching a new Kindle, and it's going to be a high-end piece.
Heads up readers – all-new, top of the line Kindle almost ready. 8th generation. Details next week.
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Early rumours suggest that the new kid on the block will be a replacement for the Kindle Voyage, Amazon's current flagship eReader. Though it's a fantastic handset, £170 is a bit much for an eReader that's well over a year old. More news is sure to be released in the coming days, and we'll be sure to pounce on it like ravenous eBookworms. [ArsTechnica]


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On April 4, Wesleyan's slam poetry team, WeSLAM, set off to attend the annual College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) at Temple University in Philadelphia, Penn. The team competed against 65 universities and colleges from all around the country, including other NESCAC schools, such as Tufts and Hamilton. In its team selection process, WeSLAM hosts a few preliminary slams here on campus, and those students who qualify then go onto the grand slam. The five people who score the highest at the grand slam become part of the team for that year, traveling to CUPSI as well as other regional competitions.
At last year's CUPSI, held at The University of Chicago-Illinois, there was controversy over the featured poet Marc Smith. Many attendees were offended by Smith's poems, which they deemed racist and sexist, and walked out during his performance, CUPSI team coach Ariel Munczek Edelman '20 recalled. Smith was eventually booed off the stage. After that incident, the organizers of CUPSI announced that the remainder of the weekend would no longer be a competition, and the final teams were not going to be scored. This year's CUPSI was scored, and, according to Edelman, the atmosphere was significantly better.
"It felt pretty different to me," Edelman said. "It felt a lot warmer. I mean, it was quite warm last year, but I think people were making more of an effort to really express a lot of care for people, even if it was people they didn't know particularly well. There was…a lot of committees created after the debacle of finals last year that worked to change the culture of it."
Joy Feinberg '19 has also been to CUPSI before, unlike the rest of the team. She commented on the significantly increased diversity of this year's event.
"I was at the [CUPSI] two years ago," said Feinberg. "It's been really amazing to see how it's evolved and how seriously they take concerns and requests about inclusion. This year, almost everyone in positions of power were people of color, and they were trying really hard to be a lot more inclusive and try and respond."
Though not as dramatic, another important event did happen at CUPSI this year, involving Wellesley College. Wellesley College was one of four teams that made it to the final round, along with NYU, Stanford, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Wellesley poets, while in the finals, repeated some of the poems they had recited in the semi-finals. According to the competition's rules, this is not allowed, and though the poems initially scored well, the scores were later eliminated.
With the exception of Feinberg, all of the members of this year's Wesleyan team were new and had never been to CUPSI before.
"I was a little bit intimidated because it was my first year, and there was a lot of cool people, a ton of talent there, but everyone was really warm and really accepting," said Nicole Adabunu '21. "I felt really accepted there and like I was at home."
Jack Warren '20, another first-time member, agreed.
"I've done slam since freshman fall, and it was one of the first communities I felt at home with on campus," Warren said. "That said, during freshman year, I didn't make it to a second round in our preliminary rounds. So, this was all quite a surprise to get through prelims and to get through the grand slam this year was a lot. CUPSI itself was great."
Before traveling to Temple University for CUPSI, the team met twice a week for four to five hours. They spent time writing poetry, memorizing poetry, and practicing their performances. Edelman worked with the team on performance direction and editing.
"I think that Wesleyan's team, in my experience, has always tried to put up the stories that we want to put up, rather than the stories we think will win," Edelman said. "Which means that we don't always do as well as maybe we could if we really went for a specific niche or performance style, but for me as a coach, it was definitely more important that people are doing the work for themselves, rather than for audience members, which can be hard to differentiate."
Feinberg and Edelman acted as the leaders of WeSLAM this year, as well as WeWrite, a weekly writing workshop where people can get together on campus and free-write. The two also work to bring poets to campus for writing workshops and lectures.
"Something that Ariel and I took really seriously this year is, as two white people, how are we going to create a space that is primarily pushed forward and in support of people of color," said Feinberg. "That is something that we were trying to take really seriously, so going forward with our features for this year, all of our features this year were people of color. The leadership of communities often falls to who has free time and who has resources to devote to it, and that can be very restricting and very hard to access…. We have to make sure that the voices we are elevating are predominantly not represented."
Although Wesleyan's team did not make it to the semifinal round this year, the team spent the remainder of the days hearing and enjoying the poetry from the other teams, as well as exploring Philadelphia. NYU was the winning team this year, but WeSLAM is already looking forward to next year's CUPSI, and the team members offered advice for anyone who is looking to become involved in slam poetry.
"Be prepared to dig deep and access some unpleasant emotions," said Warren. "Trust that you can find catharsis in that, even if it's not immediately apparent, and even if that catharsis takes months and months to get, you can still find it."
"My main tip is to just trust yourself and trust what you're working with," Adabunu added. "There's so much going on in our world, I feel like the world is so cynical and very detached, and I think so long as you trust yourself and you trust the people around you…. The greatest joy you can find in your passion is to know that you're a good person no matter how you do, if you win or if you lose, know that you did your best."
WeSLAM will be performing their poems on April 21 at 7 p.m. in Earth House, followed by a performance by Marwa Helal, an Egyptian American poet, journalist, and activist. The event will be WeSLAM's last feature of the semester.
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Haust, Okkultokrati and Årabrot all had a blast playing Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen this weekend. Thanks to everyone who showed up and made this a memorable trip for us.
Oslo's finest photographer Thomas Dedekam took some killer pictures at the John Dee show, check them out at Puls (featuring a review in Norwegian) and Nö Music (features a review in English).
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Oh, and the new Okkultokrati shirts are up in the Ormeyngel Store. The black ones are all gone except for size small.
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Galaxy Legend game is built around battles, and battles are carried out by fleets consisting of 1..5 commanders on each side. i think this subject has to be explained to novice payers
Commander's attributes
There is a plethora of commanders (ships) available in the game and this number is constantly growing at a breathtaking rate.
Every commander has his particular combination of standard attributes (17 right now in total).
Among those attributes there is one called "accumulator". Every time when ship fires it's own attack, as well as in majority of cases when the ship is hit by opponent fire, the accumulator gains 25 points. Once accumulator is charged to 100 or beyond, the next time when the ship is going to fire it will fire it's special attack.
Special attack is particular to every ship, can be monomer (hits only one target just like regular attack does), multihit (horizontal, vertical, cross, irregular (Seagal and Armoray) or self.
Special attack usually has some side effect that could be useful for your team. Read carefully ship's description for those side effects a special attack could have.
Self special attack is to be found only on some ships. In this case no direct damage to opponent ships is dealt (Octo for instance).
As i said, every commander has a set of 17 attributes (but some of those attributes are equal to 0)
I will try to explain briefly each attribute (also called stat). Later on I'll address battle equations that make uses of all those stats for a complete description.
1. Primary ship attributes (primary stats)
HP (health points) - the amount of damage a ship can sustain before it is removed from the battlefield. Can be improved by armor reshape/hull reshape.
ATK (attack) - the regular attack power of the ship. The regualr damage dealt to an opponent ship is computed based on this attribute. Not available for destroyers.
DEF (defense) - the regular defense ability stat of a ship. When attacked, the DEF amount is deducted from attacker's ATK and what's left will be called regular dealt damage and will be used further to compute exact damage that will be applied to attacked ship.
SATK (Special or Super attack) - ATK stat modifier when a special attack is fired due to accumulator increase to 100 or above. SATK value is added to ATK and determine the final ATK used further in equations.
SDEF (Special or Super defense) - DEF stat modifier when defending agains a super attack. SDEF value is added to DEF and the result is used further in equations.
EATK (Electrical ATK) - this stat was introduced when destroyers were introduced into the game. Accordingly, it has a positive value only for destroyers and is used instead of ATK in battle equations when a Destroyer class Ship attacks.
EDEF (Electrical DEF) - also a stat introduced when destroyer class has been added to the game. It substitutes DEF stat in battle equations when defensive power is computed in case of a destroyer's attack.
SHD (Shield) - a stat particular to Protector class, normally has value 0 for all other classes. SHD act as additional HP for protectors and for this reason is somehow redundant in the whole game mechanics. I suspect that additional HP shields given by different commanders (Dark Asgard, Annika, Lance, Geoffrey) during the battle are added to this parameter by game engine. Intake "damage dealt" is deducted first from SHD stat and if there is more damage, the rest goes to HP. Graphically represented by a bar (for protectors only)
SPD (Speed) - a parameter that determines who will start the firing sequence in a battle. Actual speed of the entire fleet (lieutenants effect included) is determined when a battle starts. The fleet having higher total speed will start the firing sequence, and in case of a tie the first opponent to fire is to be determined by flipping a coin
Right now all base stats except EDEF can be improved by technologies, corresponding equipment and galactonites, coatings (except Shield and Speed), some lieutenants skills (except Shield) or by augmenting the ship.
EDEF can be improved only by spending tech points on corresponding technologies in Research Lab.
Most base stats can be improved further by TSx modules. The bonus added to base stats by TS modules are applied before equipment bonus or galactonites.
ACCUM (Accumulator) - also a base stat that determines if next attack will be a normal one or a Super attack. Super attack is triggered every time when accumulator has a value greater or equal to 100. Accumulator is increased by 25 points every time a ship fires normal attack, and in most cases (exceptions are mentioned in handbook) accumulator is charged by 25 points every time when a ship is hit. Super attack depletes accumulator. Some commanders have Super attacks that could charge with more than 25, could discharge or even deplete target's accumulator.
2. Percentage stats
CRIT (Critical chance) - a parameter used to determine if an attack will be converted to a critical attack.
ANTICRIT (Anti critical chance) - this stat of attacked ship is compared with CRIT stat of the attacker and if it is lower a critical attack may be triggered.
CRIT ATK (Crittical attack damage modifier) - this stat act as a multiplier for computed damage to be dealt if a critical attack is triggered.
PEN (Penetration) - parameter that is evaluated when determining if an attack will pass opponent's defenses or can be blocked. It is compared against it's counterpart stat called Block (see below)
BLOCK - Parameter responsible for ship's capacity to block an attack. If attacker PEN parameter is lower than defender's BLOCK, there is a high chance that the attack will be blocked. If an attack is blocked, the attacked ship gets only 1/2 of computed damage.
HIT (Hit Rate) - This stat determines in conjunction with attacked ship's DODGE the chance to hit the opponent or to miss. Works pretty much like PEN/BLOCK pair.
DODGE - parameter that determines ship's ability to dodge enemy fire. If the chance of dodge is given, the ship will take no damage at all from attack (but also will not charge it's own accumulator on enemy fire)
Percentage attributes can be improved only by galactonites, TS modules starting from TS2 and by some commander's lieutenant skills.
Special note here: all stats except Speed can be altered during a battle by side effects of Supper attacks. Check carefully the Handbook for each ship Super attack description.
Now let's take a look at those battle equations that are involved (thanks to Zein and all old forum contributors to sorting out this subject in this thread)
First of all, let's specify that in every case there are 2 ships involved: I will refer with (1) the attacking ship and with (2) the defending commander.
In Player vs Player battles, the damage dealt = the damage that is subtracted form attacked ship's SHD or HP is computed using one of following formulas:
Basic Attack
ATK1 - DEF2 = Damage Dealt
In the case of regular attacks it is simple: Attacker has ATK, defender has DEF. The bigger the difference between those two (and assuming that ATK1>DEF2) the bigger will be the damage dealt. What happens when ATK1<DEF2??? The answer is simple: normally 0 damage will be dealt to the defender. But for some reasons tap4fun designers decided to substitute 0 with a small positive value (like 21 or 22) so every time when you'll see a ship doing 22 damage you'll know that in fact his Attack power is inferior to defender's DEF stat. Actually, every time when subtraction part of the formula is 0 or lower, it is replaced by this small positive value (otherwise it could lead to a "healing" effect on attacked ship )
Critical Attack
(ATK1 - DEF2) x Crit_Atk1 = Damage Dealt
By comparing Attacker CRIT stat AND defender's ANTICRIT, in cases when Crit is higher and the dice rolls are in your favor the regular attack could be replaced by a more powerful attack called Critical Attack. It is quite simple - the Basic Attack resulting damage is multiplied with Crit_Atk value of the Attacker. Since Crit_Atk parameter is higher than 100%, Critical Attack will deal always more damage than regular attack.
Special Attack
[(ATK1 + SATK1) - (DEF2 + SDEF2)] × ACC1 × Spec_Mod1 = Damage Dealt
With big thanks to the tap4fun dude responsible for commander's description, we have here a mess: S-ATK ship's stat AND the Spec Modifier that refers to the Damage dealt as a result of special attack are noted in description with the same code S-ATK
In this picture below I did separate them (I hope once for all): Spec Mod is in text description while S-ATK is ship stat in the same area with ATK, DEF, E-DEF etc
As you remember, a Special Attack is triggered when Accumulator is greater or equal to 100%. When effective accumulator value is over 100, we call that an OVERCHARGED accumulator as ACC1 value will act also as a multiplier. For a really high overcharged accumulator (let's say 200% or more) that could result in a devastating special attack that will wipe you out from the map (actually that is exactly what happens in some stages of the wormholes kindly designed for us by t4f guys with Dingo-like destroyer or Flagship )
Critical Special Attack
[(ATK1 + SATK1) - (DEF2 + SDEF2)] × Spec_Mod1 × Crit_Atk1 x ACC1 = Damage Dealt
Nothing complicated here as it is the same Special Attack as before but "enriched" with a Critical. Let's call it the worst case possible, as with a good Tekken and an overcharged Accumulator this Critical Special Attack will probably remove affected ships from the battlefield
For the rest of the battle equations (PRIMUS battle and for Regular vs Destroyer sets) please reffer to the original topic that is to be found HERE


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An elderly woman was advised not to return to her Charlestown apartment before her death on Sunday
AN elderly woman found dead on Sunday in her penthouse apartment at Charlestown's Landmark building received an anonymous letter exposing one of the ugliest secrets in the state's apartment building crisis.
"Don't play the defenceless little old lady while you are stabbing everyone here in the heart. As if our and your levies are not high enough," said the letter in February, 2018 before the woman was forced to move out of her apartment in August for more than six months, while defects described as "dangerous and in need of urgent attention" were addressed.
The Landmark's 59 residential apartment owners were levied thousands of dollars each for the repairs and the cost of a $650 a week temporary unit where the woman lived until February when the work was completed.
She reluctantly returned after the letter warned "I'm living in hope that when you do move out you consider your options about coming back".
"If I was you I would use this time to look for another place to live. You are so not capable of adjusting to strata living," the letter said.
The woman, in her 70s, was found dead on Sunday after failing to answer phone calls or attend church. A cause of death is yet to be determined.
The letter and minutes of the Landmark's strata annual meeting in November, where residents discussed the issue and voted on a motion to condemn harassing, offensive or menacing letters, revealed the "terrible internal conflicts" when apartment residents are left with the bill for defective buildings, NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge said.
"Where there's no insurance because of government regulation and the developer has gone because of liquidated companies, the enormous financial pressures left with strata committees and residents can create terrible internal conflicts where people can suffer very real oppression," he said.
Mr Shoebridge included the operation of strata committees in terms of reference for a parliamentary inquiry he will chair after controversial building defect cases in Sydney, including residents of the new Opal Tower at Sydney's Olympic Park being forced to leave their units on Christmas Eve.
While the Sydney cases had grabbed the headlines, the Landmark represented the long-standing nature of problems facing apartment residents because of shoddy building and NSW laws that increasingly benefited developers and failed consumers, said Mr Shoebridge, who visited the Landmark in February.
The parliamentary inquiry will include examining how strata committees respond to building defects discovered in common property, including protections offered for all strata owners in disputes that impact only a minority of strata owners.
Mr Shoebridge said he included the strata question in the terms of reference because of the Landmark, and after meeting with penthouse unit owner Aidan Ellis, a neighbour of the elderly woman who died on Sunday.
Mr Shoebridge was shocked but not surprised by the anonymous letter to the woman after his office was overwhelmed by calls and emails from people wanting to make submissions to the inquiry.
"We're now at the end of a long cycle where the profits have been taken, developers have walked away, serious defects are apparent and strata committees and residents are forced to come together to clean up the mess," Mr Shoebridge said.
"A feature of this issue has been the conspiracy of silence by residents and strata committees because if someone blows the whistle, everybody's property values fall and the whistleblower is blamed."
Mr Ellis has been shunned and strongly criticised by some Landmark residents after first raising the building's long-standing and serious building defects with the Newcastle Herald in March, 2018, and attempting to have the strata committee removed. A NSW tribunal in February, 2018 found the strata committee had breached a section of legislation by failing to repair "clear" and "significant" defects, but it declined to replace the committee with a strata manager.
The anonymous letter to his elderly neighbour, one of two sent to her in 2018 that were tabled at the strata annual general meeting in November, greatly distressed the woman before she was forced to leave her home for repairs and after she returned.
"She was frightened about how she would be treated. It's like being sent to coventry. I can take it but it's very distressing to think about what she went through in the final months before she died, simply because the work that should have been done years ago was finally done," Mr Ellis said.
Minutes of the annual general meeting confirm the extent of the building's problems and the impact on residents, with $700,000 in special fees levied on residents for rectification work in June and December, 2017, and another $200,000 in early 2019.
The minutes show money spent so far only covers work on common areas and the two penthouse units, with further reports expected on "how to address the issues remaining in the building".
The minutes described the work on the penthouse level as "urgent".
"None of the doors and windows on this level meet Australian Standards, the James Hardie wall cladding is incorrectly installed allowing water ingress, standard insulation is lacking in walls and ceilings and the decks and balustrades have serious decay and corrosion issues," the minutes said in an explanatory note under the heading "Defects".
"All these issues have been deemed dangerous and in need of urgent attention by at least three different engineers.
"While they are not addressed there will continue to be insurance issues because the building is not considered 'structurally sound or watertight' and people trying to sell their units will continue to have difficulty because all these issues and their consequent special levies must be listed in any Strata Searches.
"Obviously it would be more efficient to complete all work on the areas on Level 9 simultaneously, however since the work has commenced with one unit at a time we suggest this method continue until all common areas are rectified."
In a statement to the Newcastle Herald in March, 2018 Landmark builder/developer Peter Durbin said he "participated in discussions with the owners" about repairs to the building that won a NSW Master Builders Association excellence in construction award in 2009 on completion.
But "the ambit of the claim being pressed by the owners was such that (his company) Nelson Bay Building could not continue to meet the expense associated with responding to it, and the company therefore entered into liquidation," Mr Durbin said.
Nelson Bay Building was wound up by Mr Durbin, as sole director, in October, 2017 and a liquidator was appointed. In his statement Mr Durbin confirmed the creditors were other companies owned by him that were owed $128,000.
"The owed monies are effectively to myself and companies I operate," he said.
He confirmed unit owners could not make home warranty insurance claims because the residential part of the Landmark building is above the three-storey minimum where apartments are not covered by the insurance under NSW legislation.


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PLATEaU State Governor Simon Bako Lalong has urged farmers to take advantage of the Federal Government's policy to boost agricultural production and facilitate the diversification of the economy.
Lalong stated this at the Northern Agricultural Summit in Jos.
He lauded the theme of the summit which was: "Harnessing the successes of the agricultural sector in Northern Nigeria and Plateau State." He said it will definitely contribute towards sustainable agricultural production, not just in the North but the nation at large.
Lalong said: "The theme of this year's summit is apt and timely, especially when viewed against the backdrop of our commitment to addressing the critical issues of food security and economic diversification and the commercialisation of agriculture in Northern Nigeria and Nigeria in general.
"It is delightful to also note that this conference has in attendance the academia, including crop and livestock farmers and technocrats from the various ministries of agriculture in the north. This hopefully underscores the significance of the summit, with a very strong belief that the quality of discussions will continue to assist us in attaining our set objectives of national food production, security and poverty alleviation.
"Since we assumed office in May 2015, we have spent considerable time and energy reviewing the challenges that had in the past prevented the emergence of Nigeria as the bread basket of Africa, given our enormous resources. The immediate answer was that majority of our farmers were small holders with average holdings of one hectare or less.
"However, further probe into these revealed that our agriculture is characterised by some critical issues, such as subsistence farming methods; poorly fertile soils due to low fertiliser usage per hectare; inadequate access to the right quality farm input; low technology application; bad agronomy practices; poor road rural network and other vital infrastructure; high prevalence of crop and livestock diseases; and inadequate research and low uptake or utilisation of research results, and so on.
"This list is by no means exhaustive, but it provided us with the scenario on ground of which Plateau State is not an exception. The next challenge for us then was how far we could go in an effort to address these critical issues. With due sense of modesty, let me state that within the over three years of being in office, we have re-modelled, supported and enhanced some of our crucial agricultural projects and programmes. Currently, we are sustaining this through harnessing agro-enterprises, where we possess near absolute comparative advantage and collaboration with individuals, firms, and agencies that are professionally reputable.
"It is necessary for me to reel out some of our laudable achievements in the agricultural sector which includes the Potato Seedling Multiplication Project.
''In view of the recent increased incidence in potato blight disease, farmers have continued to record decline in yields, government sought the assistance of the federal ministry of agriculture and rural development in procuring 10 metric tons of a blight resistant variety of potato called the Mirabella from the Republic of Germany.
"The project has since been inaugurated in Kwall, Bassa Local Government Area and foundation seeds distributed to farmers by the supervising consultant. The yield from the multiplication units have been sold to farmers for planting. The government had initially targeted 2,500 farmers and all have benefited from this improved variety.''


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This report—requested by the Department of State—is designed to answer the question: How will water problems (shortages, poor water quality, or floods) impact US national security interests over the next 30 years? We selected 2040 as the endpoint of our research to consider longer-term impacts from growing populations, climate change, and continued economic development. However, we sometimes cite specific time frames (e.g., 2030, 2025) when reporting is based on these dates. For the Key Judgments, we emphasize impacts that will occur within the next 10 years. We provide an introductory discussion of the global water picture, but we do not do a comprehensive analysis of the entire global water landscape. For the core classified analysis—a National Intelligence Estimate—we focused on a finite number of states that are strategically important to the United States and transboundary issues from a selected set of water basins (Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Mekong, Jordan, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Amu Darya). We judge that these examples are sufficient to illustrate the intersections between water challenges and US national security. Assumptions: We assume that water management technologies will mature along present rates and that no far-reaching improvements will develop and be deployed over the next 30 years. In addition, for several states, we assume that present water policies—pricing and investments in infrastructure—are unlikely to change significantly. Cultural norms often drive water policies and will continue to do so despite recent political upheavals. Finally, we assume that states with a large and growing economic capacity continue to make infrastructure investments and apply technologies to address their water challenges.
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My mother's cousin, Eunice, came for an overnight a few days ago, including a visit to my house in an alumni reunion weekend at her alma mater, Mt. Holyoke class of 1956. Eunice and her mother have been the family historians, compiling genealogy records that reach back into the distant past. She brought along photos to share, as well as a "Birthday" book of her mother's – a small volume, received as a gift in 1916, but recording birth dates of family members covering about a century. It was strange to see my own birthday recorded here – another thread in the family tapestry.
Feng Shui takes care to acknowledge the importance of the past. Within the Bagua map, a grid resembling a tic-tac-toe board which is laid over the floor plan of a space and used to adjust its energy, there is a section, or gua, devoted to ancestors, family of origin, teachers and mentors. Called Thunder, and found in the middle left section of the bagua, this gua represents the vitality of life that is the feeling of early spring. Our parents gave us life; and they, in turn, were given life in a chain which reaches back to the far depths of the past. In the springtime we feel the full force of this impulse toward life, which after a long winter can be as shocking as a clap of thunder.
Eunice also brought along some stems from her garden – lovely white Siberian irises. These plants are thriving in her garden at home in Scarsdale, New York, and have spread down along a hillside in her backyard. The original plants came from the garden of her Aunt Mildred, in North Adams, MA – my great-aunt, whom I never met. I've been using my close-up lens to try to capture the beauty of these gorgeous blossoms – and realizing that the past might be as close as my ability to focus on it.


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The dish: If you're looking to step up the typical canned cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving, Alton Brown offers this nice, simple version of the classic. Made with fresh cranberries, honey, and orange and cranberry juice, this sauce is destined to be dumped over accompanying dishes.
The difficulty: Surprisingly, another easy Alton recipe. No complaints from me. Start by thoroughly washing the cranberries and making sure there are no softies in the mix. If so, toss them. Just get your juices and honey boiling for a few minutes and then add the cranberries. Check back every few minutes and give the mixture a good stir. Remove from heat and then place in a mold of your choice. Transfer the mold to the fridge and you're done. I left my cranberry sauce in overnight and plated the next morning. There was absolutely nothing difficult or time-consuming about this recipe. Start to finish, the entire thing was done in 20 minutes.
The presentation: Have some fun with this one. I did. I spooned my mixture into a muffin pan. This makes for individualized portions and enhances the overall presentation. Also, consider adding some fresh orange zest, as well as some uncooked cranberries. The zest adds another color to the dish and the cranberries add a little visual pop to the plate. A long, white plate will also allow the cranberry sauce to really stand out.
The slim down: Alton does it again with another tasty dish that's easy on the waistline. I wouldn't touch this one. It's not bogged down with sugar, and the honey provides a natural low-calorie sweetness.
The tips: I suggest using the muffin tin and adding the zest. I got these little nuggets from reader comments on the link. The sauce never quite molded like I expected, but this didn't detract from the taste or appearance. The zest not only looked great, but provided an extra flavorful punch to the sauce. I also used ¾ cup of honey, instead of the recommended one cup. Also, you may want to consider making this a day or two before Thanksgiving. It's just one less thing to worry about.
The verdict: Another week, and another Alton hit. This recipe isn't much more difficult than popping open a can, and it's far better. The cranberry flavor overpowered the honey and orange flavors, but if you add the zest it will certainly bump up that orange component. The tartness and sweetness levels were just right for a Thanksgiving plate, and the gelatinous consistency was where it needed to be.
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Are you not a fan of cranberry sauce? Try this recipe below, discovered by my wife via the Nancy Drew Cookbook in her elementary school days. We make it every year, and it's always popular.
Spiced Cherry Relish
2 cans of cherries (in water) ½ cup white vinegar 3 cups sugar ½ tsp cloves ½ tsp allspice
Put cherries in a pot. Combine with vinegar, sugar, cloves, and allspice. Cook over low heat for 3-4 hours. When syrup thickens, the relish is ready.


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That probably sounds weird, but fuck you this was a large part of growing up for me. I'm sure there's a few people from the old days who still lurk here every now and then for a similar reason. (Hi Oza.)
I just felt like sharing that little factoid. My steam hasn't changed over the years if any of you want to catch up for some reason. Could be fun. Being older has made me more sentimental.
Also just for funzies, and to finally answer the fabled question: "Who is Snarf?" Have a shitty selfie I sent to my Boyfriend. Also peeps that guessed I was a stupid kid get a gold star--trophy pending--because I'm 23. I would have put this in the correct thread, but fuck that, nobody has posted there in years and I'm not into necrophilia.


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Bet that headline gave you a bit of a start, didn't it?
The best thing about Steam is how many chances you get to get your game noticed (and maybe eventually purchased) by potential gamers and customers. I mean, Steam highlights new releases on its front page, the community features means that it's easy for great games to go viral, Steam sales are an easy way to break into many users' libraries. And then there are the free to play weekends, where Steam effectively lets you make your game free to play for all players for a limited period- after which, if they like your game, they'll have to buy it to continue playing it.
Not that a game like ARMA 3, which is one of the more popular PC games these days, with its uber realistic take on war shooters, needs extra publicity, but hey, it never hurts, does it? So, if you've always heard of the ARMA games, but for some reason have never jumped in- maybe you weren't sure if the games were for you, and didn't want to buy something you weren't sure you'd like. Or hey, maybe you just didn't know if your PC would even run it- then good news, you get to play it for free to decide for yourself what the deal is.
And if you do want to buy ARMA 3, it is available for for 50% off until 10AM Pacific on Monday October 27, bringing the price down to £18 ($30).
So yep. Good time to be an ARMA player right now.
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Government says the fuel price remains unchanged despite the importation of cheap fuel from Saudi Arabia.
Minister of Energy Mathews Nkhuwa said despite the arrival of the commodity from the Arabian kingdom, it will not result in the reduction of fuel pump price in the country.
Mr. Nkhuwa explained that the K 20 million fuel consignment coming from Saudi Arabia is far much less because the country uses one billion kwacha on fuel per month.
ZANIS reports the Energy minister to have disclosed during an interview today that the essential commodity from Saudi Arabia will get on the market as it is already refined.
"This consignment will not see a reduction in the pump price its far much less.
"The country uses one billion kwacha worth of fuel per month so this K 20 Million is not adequate but may be in the long run it may result in the reduction of the pump price.
"The fuel will not go through Indeni Oil Refinery because it's a finished product so it can go straight to the filling station," he said.
Mr. Nkhuwa further explained that the fuel comprise Petrol and Diesel, adding that it will take some time for the whole consignment to reach the country.
The ship carrying fuel from Saudi Arabia will dock at the port of Dar es salaam tomorrow Wednesday August 1st , 2018 after which pumping fuel from the ship will start on 10th August.
The commodity will then be pumped into the Zambian storage tanks in Tanzania and later on transported to Zambia using the trucks.
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This will be a series posted randomly over the next month.
Writing Heroes in the Night has been based on three major points- extensive interviewing, field work, and research. Interviewing is pretty self explanatory. I've spoken to as many RLSHs (and assorted personnel ) as much as I've could. I've done interviews by e-mail, instant message, phone, and of course the most preferred method- in person. That ties in with field work which would be joining RLSHs out on the street, not only to observe, but to participate when I can.
Research started with reading RLSH MySpace pages and websites and reading all the articles and watching any video I could find online. I also began reading anything I thought might establish "mood"- mostly comic books and graphic novels, as well as some studies of comic books and philosophy (there are a couple of books that explore the psychology of Batman, for instance) and studies of groups that might be in the same family tree, even if it was just to conclude they had nothing in common with RLSH.
Of course one of the most sensational historic finds was by a group of RLSH working together who uncovered How to be a Superhero, a 1980 book by Night Rider. I wrote about that book in an entry HERE.
The book refers to self proclaimed "real life superheroes" Night Rider, Ms. Mystery, and Phantom Avenger. However unless something else is recovered or one of these individuals comes forward publicly to reveal more info, their story starts and stops within the book covers of How to be a Superhero. A fourth person mentioned in the book- Curtis Sliwa- on the other hand, is well documented to this day. He formed the Guardian Angels, now more or less a "mainstream" organization that has been recognized by New York mayors, presidents, and world leaders.
But there was one more mentioned in that book- The Fox. It turned out that there were quite a few online articles on the wily Fox, and one of them mentioned that he had published an autobiography. A search on Amazon turned up a few copies, so I excitedly added one to the shopping cart, and I'm glad I did.
The book is titled Raising Kane: The Fox Chronicles, By "Ray Fox"and was published by Kindred Spirits Press in 1999, and not a moment too soon- The Fox died at age 70 two years later in 2001.
The Fox operated in Aurora, Illinois (not too far from Chicago) and his name is dually clever- he main mission was protecting the Fox River from pollution. "Zorro" is Spanish for fox, and there is a comparison to be made there. To understand the Fox's mission more clearly, here is an excerpt from the book:
So what have I done? Essentially I've diddled with, or messed with the Law. Not once, but many, many times; deliberately and premeditatedly. More sorrowfully than rancorously.
Just what did I do to the Law? Depends on who you talk to. Some will say I broke hell out of it. That I am a dangerous, evil, lawbreaker. A formidable enemy of the Law. Others have said that I bent it just a tad. Very minor. Justifiable civil disobedience, a necessary gadfly. Who's law? Mankind's?...Maybe. Natural Law?...Never. Lots of people have lots of opinions.
Over the last twenty-nine years, I've capped smokestacks, plugged sewers, and hung signs. (I've) distributed broadsides, defaced products, and dumped sewage and rotten fish in corporate offices. I have also deposited, hung, sailed, and poured (yes poured), more dead skunks in more unusual places than anyone I know of. I'm probably the only person in North America who considers a road killed skunk to be a natural resource.
Some of my little wars were one raid affairs, and some lasted off and on for several years. I won some, lost some, and some were rained out.
Was The Fox a real life superhero? That would depend very much on an individual's opinion. The Fox admits as much in this passage:
One thing for sure, along the way, I've collected an impressive list of names. Among them, but not limited to: Zorro, Asshole, Hero, Kook, Robin Hood, Screwball, Folk Hero, and Eco-terrorist. Sometimes the names were used in the same sentence that was questioning my ancestry ; which goes to prove you can't please all of the people all of the time.
Much to my surprise, (in many languages and in many countries), considerable ink has been used to editorialize, report, teach, defend, discuss, and fictionalize the things that were done. I have been praised, vilified, emulated, harassed, admired, hated, and loved. About the only thing I haven't been, is ignored.
The Fox began his actions in March 1969. His first target was against a soap company that was dumping industrial waste into the Fox River. Readers should understand that in 1969 what few anti-pollution laws existed were very primitive. The Fox explains:
Illinois did not yet have an Environmental Protection Agency and Washington was just organizing theirs. Essentially what we had was a group of ineffectual local, state, and federal entities who really couldn't enforce the environmental laws; even if those people who were responsible for enforcing what laws we had wanted to. Locally, we had a severe pollution problem and local authority was looking out the window.
The Fox explains the effects of the waste on the river:
The gilled animals were wiped out first. Dragonfly larvae, crustaceans, fingernail clams, tadpoles, and bass fingerlings' bodies floated, decayed, and stank on the water. The adult amphibians and lung breathing animals were the last to go. Atleast they could crawl out of the liquid garbage for a breath of air, but eventually, they, too, returned to the only home they knew; to be killed by the lethal soup that would envelope them and add their bodies to the bloated rottenness that covered the water surface.
Clouds of oily soot belched from its boiler house stacks and a variety of aromas generated by steam-heated fats and oils, some of which were rancid, wafted through the air. The neighbors had a double barreled problem; air as well as water pollution.
While going for a walk, The Fox finds a family of ducks dying is the soapy sludge, and vows that the soap factory is his enemy, and curses them. The Fox:
"You greedy bastards. You ignorant, greedy bastards!" I rasped through clenched teeth.
After talking with a friend, he gets the idea to jam the sewer pipe so that the waste backs up back into the factory. Although he is determined, he also has doubts and finds himself puking before the mission, something that will happen frequently before future mission. The Fox writes:
But what if my actions caused somebody to get hurt, or even killed? I sank to my hands and knees at this last thought and threw up. I could never live with myself if that happened.
The company unplugged the sewer and continued business. The Fox felt his passion deepening:
For the first time in my life, I was beginning to feel myself slipping away from the legions of law abiding citizens and into the realm of those who felt a gut driven need to follow another set of laws. Maybe those of a higher set than statutory law. In other words, if one of us (the company) was going to break laws against polluting the environment, there were now two of us making the rules by which we would abide.
He continued his attacks on the sewer pipe. He always left a note signed FOX, with a cartoon fox face drawn in the "O." One note read:
What God has wrought, we must preserve and protect, not desecrate for the sake of profit. –FOX
The Fox soon diversified to other companies polluting the area. He went after a aluminum refinery owner he nicknamed "Bob Rotten" with dead skunks, hung huge signs and banners, distributed flyers, and began to make some superhero comic like connections. He became friends with a politician working for the State Sanitary Water Board, who joined him on several missions. A couple of disgruntled police officers, sick of their overbearing boss, also became friends. They left messages tipping The Fox off when the trail on him was hot or when there was a stake out in an empty cola bottle near a tree.
Despite these warnings, The Fox had to run from police at least three times, once running through the freezing Fox River in February, once through the dark woods, and once after hanging a poster of a political cartoon in Chicago. He was almost hit by a bus during his escape.
He also developed a ongoing friendship with Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Ryoko after he took a direct action by dumping industrial waste and the animals it had killed on the carpet of the company's reception room*. He called Ryoko for the first of many times. The Fox recalled the phone call:
"I just dumped fifty pounds of rotten fish, birds and sewage on the floor of the executive offices of American Reduction, inc., of Gary, Indiana." I replied.
There was silence for a few seconds.
"You did WHAT?"
Among the many other actions The Fox carried out were chaining and locking shut an asphalt plant and holding a mock funeral for the Fox River in 1971. He also orchestrated an effort that mailed out 10,000 day glo stickers that read "(soap company) pollutes our air, kills our water –The Fox." The stickers were mailed out with instructions for people to go to their local stores on the same day and stick the stickers to the company's products, but one of the products and mail the label with the sticker to the company, demanding an explanation.
After his death, The Fox was cremated and his ashes spread over the Fox River, the river he had spent 30 plus years fighting for.
*To show what a classy guy he was, The Fox was concerned that he had scared the receptionist at the company with his sewage spilling so he had a bouquet of flowers delivered. It had a card that apologized if he had scared or upset her,and that he had nothing against her, but was angry at her boss's company.


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On behalf of Texas A&M University-Texarkana, we would like to formally invite you to our fifth annual on campus Counselor Luncheon. This will provide an excellent opportunity for counselors to receive updated information on the academic programs offered at the university, as well as the enrollment process, scholarships available, admissions procedures, and the financial aid process.We will also highlight our new Recreation Center & Academic building as well as new developments and achievements in our degree programs. To show our excitement about the luncheon we will be having a drawing for (6) $8,000 dollar scholarship vouchers!! Your school must be in attendance to partipcate.
As a member of The Texas A&M University System, Texas A&M University-Texarkana is a comprehensive regional University that provides students with academically challenging, engaging, and rewarding educational experiences through quality teaching, scholarship, student support services, co-curricular programming, research, and service. Through the personal attention of our faculty and staff, students are afforded the opportunity to acquire the knowledge, abilities, and skills to become leaders in their chosen profession and to prepare for the opportunities of serving in a global environment.
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