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Australia: Boral Ltd has announced that its profit for the first half of the 2017-2018 fiscal year (from 1 July 2017 – 31 December 2017) rose by 13%. The company benefited from the 2017 acquisition of the US-based building products firm Headwaters Inc. and continued growth in its Australian business.
It reported a net profit of US$136.0m for the six month period, a rise of 12.7% compared to the same period of the 2016 – 2017 fiscal year when it made US$120.7m. Its profit before amortisation and significant items increased by 58% to US$$186.5m.
"These strong results confirm that our transformation strategy is on track," said Chief Executive Mike Kane. "The Headwaters acquisition has helped transform Boral into a construction materials and building products group with a greater geographic reach and improved prospects for growth."
Boral's US business, which was only breaking even in 2015 – 2016, recorded a fourfold rise in earnings, despite adverse impacts from bad weather, including two hurricanes.
Kane also said Boral's Australian arm, its largest divison, was 'exceptionally strong' during the half. Boral reported a 12% rise in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation from that business.
"Higher revenues and earnings were driven by increased spending on infrastructure, in line with our expectations that a large proportion of our work would gradually shift from residential to infrastructure projects, primarily in the eastern states," said Kane.
Pacasmayo sees strong finish to 2017 13 February 2018
Peru: Cementos Pacasmayso has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of and the full year 2017.
In the fourth quarter of 2017, sales volumes of cement, concrete and blocks increased by 7.3%, primarily due to increased sales volumes to the self-construction segment and to a pick up in public sector spending. The company's cement-based earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased by 13.9% to US$32.3m, but consolidated EBITDA decreased by 35.7% due to a write-off in a water-desalination project.
For the full year, sales of cement, concrete and blocks decreased by 0.8%, despite the significant decline in sales volume during the first four months of the year due to the effects of the El Niño. It is important to note that year-on-year sales volume has increased steadily every month, from May 2017 through to the end of the year. Cement EBITDA for the year reached US$114.9m, a decrease of only 2.2%, despite the aforementioned detrimental El Niño effects on both sales and costs.
French cement sector to increase use of wood waste 13 February 2018
France: The French cement industry union (SFIC), plus three other professional organisations, has announced that has committed to increase the amount of wood waste used in France's cement plants. It has committed to increasing the amount used by 90% compared to 2015 by 2020.
90,000t of wood were used as fuel in cement production in 2015. The goal is to use 170,000t in 2020. Four cement plants will act as pilot sites. The wood used must be from the same region as the plant burning it. According to the SFIC, alternative fuels account for 41% of cement fuels used in France.
INC to increase production in March 2018 13 February 2018
Paraguay: Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC) expects to begin March 2018 with a 30% production rise, following the opening of a new mill, according to its president Jorge Mendez. Production will increase to 1.4 million bags per month, from 1.1 million bags per month at present. Its market share will increase to 70%-75%, from 51% at present. This is anticipated to add an extra US$50m to the company's turnover. The new mill is currently 90% complete and has cost the company US$11.5m.
Fujairah Cement earnings down 13 February 2018
UAE: Fujairah Cement Industries Co (FCIC) has reported a decline of 9% in its profits for the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to the same period a year ago. Earnings decreased to about US$2.7m in the fourth quarter of 2017 from US$3.0m in the fourth quarter of 2016.
During the 2017 fiscal year, the cement producer posted a drop of 35% in its profit to US$10.1m compared to US$15.4m in 2015. This was in part due to a 7% decrease in revenue and higher general and administrative expenses, which rose by 29% to US$6.4m.


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The Army Corps of Engineers will soon lose most of its experienced technology staff. It is hoping contractors and technology can fill the void.Wil Berrios expects to lose 75% of his experienced information-technology workers during the next three years. And another 10% in the two years after that.
But he's okay with that.
For Berrios, chief information officer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the coming wave of retirements is something of a blessing in disguise. Those specific figures reflect only the relatively small information-technology staff at the Corps' headquarters, but Berrios expects the same proportion will apply across the Corps' 1,500-person technology staff.
The exodus gives him an opportunity to manage his systems by outsourcing the bulk of the Corps' information-technology services to contractors who win the business by proving they can do the job more efficiently than internal staffers.
Berrios declined to comment on what positions are likely to be outsourced in the future, pending approval of a plan likely to be finalized later this year. That plan will come together during a long, politically charged process. He expects more arcane functionsmaintenance, support of the specialized systems that control dams, waterways and irrigation projectswill remain in the hands of Corps' full-time staffers.
Not that the Corps lacks contractors now. More than half of the approximately $500 million in information-technology servicese-mail and desktop support and custom application developmentthe Corps provides comes from contractors. Much of the Corps' Unix and Windows system administration and network maintenance are handled by outsiders, as well.
The unit is hardly alone. Nearly 50% of all government workers will be eligible for retirement over the next five to seven years, according to Stan Soloway, president of the Professional Services Council in Arlington, Va., a non-profit agency representing contractors and technology vendors who do business with the federal government.
Other government CIOs might want to watch how Berrios has handled the departures. He has steadily expanded the role of contractors in delivering technology services to the Corps, which has 135,000 military and civilian staffers in 51 sites domestically. The services help the Corps build dams, waterways, roads and other national infrastructure, as well as assist in disaster relief.
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I slept fitfully due to myriad animal noises (wild boars and, I think, coyote mainly) - nice to hear, but foreign to my ears normally. At 5am I woke to the loudest chorus of songbirds I've ever heard - quail, chickadee, junco, jays, magpies, sparrows, and who knows what else. By 6, I couldn't stay in bed any longer, so I got up and made Sarah & I coffee. We breakfasted on grape nuts and bagels with cream cheese and lox. I was definitely enjoying the gourmet-ness of this car camping as compared to backpacking! We tidied up camp, drove up the road to the farthest parking area, and started hiking at 8:36, elevation 1,250'.
North Chalone Peak hike:
We headed up the Bear Gulch Trail as we had the previous day. This time we turned right on the High Peaks Trail, then left on the Rim Trail (the reverse of our Thursday route). The blue nightshade and indian warriors looked lovely at this time of day.
A descending hiker told us there was a snake by the trail nearby and we soon came to it - a green striped gopher snake of some sort. While looking at it, we noticed an odd caterpillar on an adjacent rock. We arrived at Bear Gulch Reservoir at 9:11 (1,560'), finding it even prettier in the morning light and calm air. Crossing the dam and walking along the reservoir for a short ways, we came to the Chalone Peak Trail, complete with a sign admonishing hikers to carry water (definitely a good idea, even if it's not very warm!).
Almost immediately we started to see more flowers, large swaths of shooting stars, huge bush poppies and a smattering of indian warrior, combined with the lovely nearby rock formations and farther-away views of the high peaks, this was pretty easy on the eyes! I spotted a sign in the middle of a use trail leading to some cliffs and went off-trail to read it. It warned climbers to stay off of these cliffs because the area's raptors are breeding.
It was warming up, and in this chapparal, there was little shade save for that provided by the periodic rock outcroppings. As we continued up the trail at a steady, but not steep, grade, we saw a very large carrion-eater flying nearby. Was this a condor or a turkey vulture? It was too far away to tell, but it sure was big! At the time we concluded it was a condor, but in retrospect, we're not sure, as the monument has only 6 juveniles and no adults.
Up up up, we soon found that the mountain we'd thought might be Chalone Peak was definitely not, as the real peak (with a summit observation tower) revealed itself in almost exactly the opposite direction (and a good deal higher)! The peak we'd been thinking was Chalone is actually Mount Defiance, a good 600 feet lower. We had lovely views down into Frog Canyon, framed by "Little Pinnacles" on its left. After a few switchbacks and a nice level stretch of trail, we arrived at a stunning overlook atop some rocky outcroppings. We decided this was a fine place to take a break and snack.
From here we had a superior view of the High Peaks, down to Bear Gulch Reservoir, across to Little Pinnacles, and over many valleys and ridges beyond. A few hawks, and a great many vultures, hovered overhead. It was quite peaceful sitting here with Sarah, eating gummy bears and beef jerkey, and absorbing the scenery. After a bit, we picked ourselves up and continued on our way to the summit.
We saw increasing populations of shooting stars interspersed with gold fields and the occasional blue dick and Douglas' Wallflower as we rounded a bend to begin the final approach to the summit. This last section of trail was fairly steep as we joined a maintenance road, climbed over a gate we couldn't figure out how to open (only to see afterwards that it had a pin in its mechanism to keep it in place), and pushed on for the last few hundred yards.
Arriving at the summit at 11:45, we were immediately struck by the large number of Tiger Swallowtail butterflies here, as well as some lovely Sara Orange Tips (both of which were moving too quickly and unpredictably to get any photos of them). The observation tower, which we figured was probably related to the recent introduction of condors to the monument, dominated the summit area. Views were, in a word, excellent! This was one well-appointed summit, with trash cans, an interpretive display describing the sorry state of air quality in the region, and best of all, a bathroom. This was no ordinary peak-top public bathroom, as it had no door, and looked out over the greater Pinnacles area - a fantastic view! Not only that, but it was clean and had plenty of TP - wow! We sat in the shade of the tower and snacked, enjoying the solitude afforded us (we had not seen a single soul beside the one hiker near the trailhead!). So nice was the summit that we spent about 45 minutes there enjoying ourselves. All things must end though, so at 12:24 we headed back down. My only complaint about this hike is it is an out-and-back. As out-and-backs go, you could do a LOT worse, though!
About 1.5 miles down the trail from the summit we started encountering a few more people, first a couple, then a group of three, but that was it until we got back to near the reservoir and saw another couple, the guy with a huge camera setup that made mine look miniscule (which it is not!). We hiked down the Moses Spring Trail, again opposite how we'd travelled on Thursday's hike and saw an intrepid rock climber scaling a vertical wall. Those folks are strong!
The last leg of our return trip went quickly. A funny highlight was a huffing and puffing couple walking up the trail (about 0.5mi from the trailhead) who asked us "how far?" Um, how far to what exactly?!? We came back to the car at 2:20pm, drove to the ranger station to pick up an Audubon Field Guide to Trees, ID'd some flowers in their handy Rolodex-o-flowers and drove back to camp. Back at camp we got more ice and touristy trinkets, relaxed and drank beer.
We took showers and then walked around the previously-closed section of the campground (it's open only on weekends at least early in the season) in search of Russ, the leader of a Bay Area Link Up group of hikers that Sarah had been in touch with the previous week. We found him and the rest of the overnight group at their site and had a beer with them. They seemed like nice folks, which was good, as we were planning on hiking with them on Saturday! There were few of the previous day's birds, probably due to the arrival of a number of campers on Friday evening.
Back at our camp we had a tasty dinner of Chinese fried rice that I'd made on Wednesday before we left, then realized that in our hurry to purge my car of unnecessary stuff, we'd left at home the bag containing my corkscrew. This necessitated a trip back to the BALU folks' site to borrow theirs. We again wrapped up the evening by the campfire.
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Saturday, Oct 17th, 2009
Arms globocorp Lockheed Martin announced today that it has won a $31m contract from the famous Pentagon crazy-ideas bureau, DARPA, to reinvent the internet and make it more suitable for military use. Microsoft will also be involved in the effort.
The main thrust of the effort will be to develop a new Military Network Protocol, which will differ from old hat such as TCP/IP in that it will offer "improved security, dynamic bandwidth allocation, and policy-based prioritization levels at the individual and unit level".
"New network threats and attacks require revolutionary protection concepts," said Lockheed cyber-arsenal chieftain John Mengucci. "Through this project, as well as our cyber Mission Maker initiatives, we are working to enhance cyber security and ensure that warfighters* can fight on despite cyber attacks."
Lockheed will be partnered with Anagran, Juniper Networks, LGS Innovations, Stanford University and – of course – Microsoft in developing the MNP. Apart from that, Lockheed's own Information Systems & Global Services-Defense tentacle will work on amazing new hardware.
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Brookfield survives scare against Bethel
Those factors, combined with a inspired effort by Bethel, almost cost the Bobcats dearly.
Instead, Travis Treibt's 1-yard touchdown run with 52 seconds remaining and stout defense allowed the recently-crowned South-West Conference champions to escape with a dramatic 14-7 victory over the
It enabled the Bobcats (10-1) to retain the Gavel-Swanson Trophy, not to mention clinch the No. 1 seed in the Class M state tournament and get a semifinal "home" game against No. 4 Avon Tuesday night at Danbury High. Kickoff is 6:30 p.m. The change in venue is necessary because Brookfield's main field remains under reconstruction and its other field doesn't adhere to CIAC standards for post-season play.
With last week's 28-7 win over Newtown in the SWC final still fresh in their minds, the Bobcats were ripe for an upset, especially on a day when Bethel (6-5) played superb defense.
"The problem was we really let the championship get to our head a little bit. It took an emotional toll," senior center/linebacker Kyle Vacca acknowledged. "But it's a rivalry so you've got to get it up. It's always fun to play in these games."
"Let's face it: Bethel played a helluva football game," Brookfield coach Rich Angarano added. "When you're playing in a rivalry game it doesn't matter what your preparation is. Plus we've won five years in a row. If you're a Bethel kid, you're going to come here with the emotions of taking the trophy and putting it up on the trophy case (if) you beat the SWC champs. They had a nice scheme and they did a nice job up front."
"I thought we played well on defense. To limit them to 14 points -- they were averaging 30 a game -- is a credit to our kids," Bethel coach Chris DeCarlo said. "Offensively we never seemed to get in sync and the turnover at the end kind of hurt us."
The game was tied 7-all when Brookfield senior free safety Scott Benzing intercepted a Matt Witcofsky pass that went off the fingertips of receiver Bill Birdsell . Taking over at their 29-yard line with 2:23 remaining, the Bobcats needed only six plays to cover 71 yards and seize the lead for the first time.
The key plays were consecutive completions from Jordan Burandt to Trevor Treibt , a 21-yarder that put the ball at the Bethel 46 followed by a 42-yarder during which he reversed his field near the sideline and picked up a great block by Matt Snyder. It gave Brookfield a first and goal at the 4.
"I told the coach I wanted the ball," Trevor Treibt said. "Jordan saw me a couple of times (earlier) but he couldn't get it there because of the blitzing. But once it got to me I tried to make some plays. It was a lot of heart from the seniors, the last game on our home field, so they gave it their all."
Twin brother Travis Treibt scored on third and goal from the 1.
On its last possession, the Wildcats moved from its 31 to the Brookfield 26 in seven plays before the Bobcats held on downs.
"They played hard to the bitter end," DeCarlo said.
Bethel was leading 7-0 and looking for more when sophomore cornerback Brian Kelly made an interception at the Brookfield 2. Five plays later, Travis Treibt got loose for a 66-yard scoring run after breaking an attempted tackle at the Brookfield 40 . Nick Cacace 's extra point tied the game with 1:59 left in the third quarter.
Until that possession, the Bobcats had collected only six first downs. Fortunately, their defense came up big throughout the game.
Bethel had first and goal from the 6 early in the second period but failed to score as Vacca threw Alex Almonte for a 9-yard loss and Trevor Treibt sacked the quarterback. It also took over inside Brookfield territory three times (at the 32, 41 and 47), only to come away empty on each occasion.
"We were a little asleep but then once we woke up we were all over the place," Vacca said.
Determined to contain Almonte, the Bobcats held Bethel's dangerous senior halfback to 35 yards on 20 carries.
Almonte's 1-yard run had given the Wildcats a 7-0 advantage with 4:04 remaining in the first half. They benefited from a short field after a 24-yard Brookfield punt from its 2 on third down.
Otherwise, the Bobcats' defense held the fort down until the offense got untracked.
"I'm very proud of the kids," Angarano said. "They did what they had to do. Even though they didn't play their best game they did what they had to do to win."
Bethe (6-5) 0 7 0 0 -- 7
Brookfield (10-1) 0 0 7 7 -- 14
Second quarter
Be -- Alex Almonte 7 run ( Al Romano kick), 4:04
Third quarter
Br -- Travis Treibt 66 run (Nick Cacace kick), 1:59
Fourth quarter
Br -- Travis Treibt 1 run (Cacace kick), :52
BETHEL: Peter Gallaher 11-97, Alex Almonte 20 -35, Matt Witcofsky 10-28, Bill Ramirez 1-5
BROOKFIELD: Travis Treibt 4-58, Jordan Burandt 7-21, David Varela 3-7, Travis Treibt 9-4, Mike Palicz 1-0
BETHEL: Matt Witcofsky 2-10-2-36; Bill Ramirez 0-1-0-0
BROOKFIELD: Jordan Burandt 14-22-1-228
BETHEL: Rob Moravsky 2-36
BROOKFIELD: Trevor Treibt 5-90, Scott Benzing 3-57, Travis Treibt 3-36, Matt Snyder 1 -36, Mike Palicz 1-13, David Varela 1-(minus) 4


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"If a zombie apocalypse broke out in Middle-Earth during the Third Age,
would they overcome Sauron's forces?"
For the purposes of tackling this question we make the following assumptions:
1. That the zombie virus originates in food supplies and is transmitted by bite
2. That zombies move at half-speed and are killed by removing the head
3. That zombies are mindless and immune to the call of the One Ring
4. That all living races, including Elves, Orcs and Men, can become zombies
5. That the Armies of the Dead and the Nazgûl cannot be come zombies
Scenario 1: Outbreak in Hobbiton
Infected grain arrives in the Shire. The Hobbits waste approximately no time in demolishing it, immediately turning a third of Hobbiton into zombies. Caught off guard and with no forewarning to call up defences, the rest of the Hobbits, including Team Frodo, are quickly turned as well. Though wearing the Ring on its chain when he is turned, zombie-Frodo is now immune to its powers and therefore has no inclination to take it anywhere. As Hobbits have basically no inclination to go anywhere anyway, the spread from this point on is slow. One or two Hobbit survivors are able to flee on horseback and warn the Men of Bree, who march back on the green pastures, slay the reanimated halflings and successfully quash the outbreak. But despite the escapees, the halfling race has taken a blow from which it is unlikely to recover; it is expected that Hobbits, of the Shire at least, will be extinct in the next decade or so. Meanwhile the Ring lies dormant at the bottom of a heap of chargrilled Hobbit, waiting for the unfortunate Gandalf to arrive and seek Frodo's remains from those of a thousand identical cremated zombies.
Short-term outcome: Gandalf must find a new Ring-bearer or risk the Ring, through him, wielding a power too great and terrible to imagine.
Long-term outcome: Hobbits become extinct; less pipe-weed in the world.
Scenario 2: Outbreak in Moria
The Great Halls of Dwarrowdelf are more or less self-contained with little to prevent the speedy spread of a zombie outbreak. Swiftly and quietly a whole ecosystem is transformed into an undead horde, with neither resistance nor outside awareness.
When the Goblins descend on Moria, they are not expecting this shit.
A horde of Dwarvern zombies quickly becomes a horde of international zombies. When the Fellowship finally arrives, everything is much the same, except that the entrance hall is not so much littered with dead Dwarves as crawling with them. Balin's Tomb goes from skirmish dungeon to full-on boss level, complete with reanimated Lord of Moria. The race to the Bridge of Khazad-dûm runs roughly the same but with twice as many monsters. Frankly, the appearance of the Balrog is something of a relief. They make the bridge, Gandalf falls into shadow (spoiler alert) and Aragorn leads the remaining party out of the undead-infested halls.
Short-term outcome: The story continues as standard, except the Fellowship probably levelled up a bit quicker.
Long-term outcome: Moria becomes a renowned zombie grind for thousands of adventurers to come.
Scenario 3: Outbreak in Lothlorien
The Elves are a sharp bunch. When the first of them start to fall prey to unassumingly green-tinged Lembas, they swiftly conclude the possibility of biological warfare on the part of Sauron. Unwilling to sacrifice their regal dignity to a mindless shambly fate, they quarantine the infected and bolster the security around their borders. Their quick-thinking and swift-acting successfully contain the outbreak, but the arrival of the Fellowship coincides with this heightened security and prevents the party crossing the borders. Frustrated and grief-struck, Aragorn gives in to Boromir's insistence to simply move on and head for Minas Tirith; thus the journey southwards takes place along the banks of Anduin, minus boats, cloaks, supplies and the Phial of Galadriel. Saruman's forces bypass Amon Hen and instead run into the party further north. Having missed their supply stop in Lothlorien, the hungry and exhausted party are no match – all but for Boromir, who, encouraged by the increasing chances of making it to Gondor, takes advantage of the ambush and springs upon Frodo. Leaving the Fellowship to their fate, he walks away alone and alive with the Ring in his hands.
Short-term outcome: Boromir delivers the Ring to Minas Tirith, and immediately proclaims to the city that he will use the weapon of the enemy to overcome Sauron.
Long-term outcome: Sauron quickly locates this highly-publicised weapon and its new bearer, and sends his Nazgûl to eat him.
Scenario 4: Outbreak in Gondor
Denethor is too proud to eat of the same grain as his subjects. He is the first to turn.
Boromir and Faramir arrive at the throneroom for Isildur's Heir dream therapy. Their father is waiting to strike like a coiled undead python. Boromir slays him, but not without suffering a mortal wound. With his dying breath he beseeches two things from his beloved brother: 1) to ride in his stead to Rivendell to seek help and answers from Lord Elrond; 2) to paint the walls of their father's throneroom with his blood. Faramir preserves his brother's honour and dignity by beheading him at the foot of the throne of Gondor, then rides north with all haste, while behind him his people slowly succumb to their zombie fate. He requests a place in the Fellowship, on the initial grounds that the Ring might help reverse the evil which has awoken in Gondor. However, his good-natured little-brotherly mindset helps him to understand the plight of the Ringbearer, and instead of making an attempt on Frodo at Amon Hen, he instead warns the Fellowship to avoid Minas Tirith at all costs.
Short-term outcome: The Fellowship escapes the Uruk-Hai and they cross the Anduin together, cross the Dead Marshes, barrel into Mordor and save the world in brothers-in-arms-y glory.
Long-term outcome: The epidemic of zombies spills out of Gondor, replacing the recently-solved Sauron problem with a brand new undead problem. Sequel trilogy probable.
Scenario 5: Outbreak in Isengard
Luckily for the Hobbits, that infected grain all happened to be contained in the Isengard shipment. It arrives sometime between Amon Hen and the Ents. Poor Gríma Wormtongue has the happy job of poison-testing Saruman's food, so the Wizard himself is safe to sit on his balcony and watch as Man, Orc and Uruk alike slowly sicken, die, then rise again to fill the pits of Isengard with their groaning and biting. Encircled by walls and out of reach (because everyone knows that zombies can't climb), Saruman placates himself with his Palantír and waits for all this to blow over.
That is, of course, until Wormtongue shuffles up behind him teeth-first. It turns out that come zombies, floods or big walking trees, Saruman is probably still going to end up with Wormtongue's knife in his back. (Or teeth in his neck.)
Short-term outcome: The Hobbits arrive home to a lovely homely un-Saruman-ized Hobbiton, removing two or three chapters from Return of the King.
Long-term outcome: Zombies are contained within Isengard's walls and become an interesting tourist attraction.
Scenario 6: Outbreak in Mordor
An Orc falls ill. He is slain instantly for not pulling his weight.
A second Orc falls ill. Slain instantly.
Third. Fourth. Fifth. Slay, slay, slay.
A fighting Uruk-Hai falls ill. No one is sure what to do, so they avoid his heaving body lying prone at the side of the road for a few days until it finally falls still. Then the prone body lurches back to its feet.
Across Mordor more Uruk-Hai have turned, and the Orcs are not strong enough to slay the zombie-Uruks. While they are busy becoming Zuruk-bait, Orcs start to succumb without being routinely beheaded for insubordination. With no grunts to keep them in check, the Mûmakil begin to wreck havoc, smashing towers and bridges and generally causing a scene, until one of them seizes a zombie-Orc as a snack. At the same time, rampaging Trolls with no agenda start fights with Orcs, Uruks, Mûmaks and each other without prejudice, and eventually some zombie or other lands a bite.
Very quickly the legions of Mordor are decimated, and the rest become a full-force multi-cultural fighting zombie horde.
Mordor is almost completely sealed, with the Black Gate no longer manned. The outbreak spreads like wildfire, and within a week, all that is left of Sauron's army are shambling around and shuffling into each other and bumping into walls again and again. The Nazgûl pop back to see what the hell's going on – bam, zombie Fell Beasts. And all the while, King Elessar and a host of Men, Elves and assorted Dead warriors are fast becoming an unencumbered pain in Sauron's disembodied neck. Eventually, Sauron makes the best of a bad situation and opens the Black Gate, unleashing tens of millions of zombies onto the Free Peoples.
Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam slip through an empty and desolate Mordor, swiftly outrunning Gollum, and triumphantly slam-dunk the Ring into Mount Doom.
Sadly, Sauron's downfall has no effect on the battle outside except to release the Army of the Dead from Aragorn's control, removing the only thing causing a vague inconvenience to the zombies and leaving an unstoppable force of undead Uruk-Hai, Orcs, Mûmakil, Trolls and Fell Beasts to swarm out over Middle-Earth in all their biting, smashing, trampling, winged horror. There aren't enough Men, Elves or Dwarves to withstand the zombie-Orcs or Uruks – not to mention the backup of zombie-Aragorn and zombie-Free Peoples – and not even Legolas, zombie or otherwise, could decapitate a rampaging zombie-Mûmak. And even if the remaining forces of Middle-Earth did put aside their differences and band together to make one final heroic stand, what good could they do? This shit's just been given wings.
Short-term outcome: Frodo and Sam have a long and lonely walk home.
Long-term outcome: Short-term outcome unlikely to be relevant for long.


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Last I checked, America was not a theocracy. Yes, America is a rather religious nation, and our money says "In God We Trust," but I think there's some stuff in the Constitution about the separation of church and state. Yup, I'm actually pretty darn sure about that. In fact, it's part of the brilliance of the Constitution that the drafters of the Bill of Rights recognized that when the state is involved in religion, religious freedom suffers, so they got the state out of it and explicitly protected religious freedom.
It would be nice if Rick Santorum, Republican primary combatant, blowhard, and nut job, would read the Constitution. While he's at it, he might want to read up on some science, history, and other useful subjects.
"Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator known for his social conservative policies, said that Obama's agenda is 'not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs. It's about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.'"
via Rick Santorum questions Obama's Christian values – Boston.com.
Rick, it shouldn't be about theology at all. And if it were, other people – Obama or anyone else – don't have to share your theology. And they wouldn't be wrong. They'd just have a different opinion.
The concept of opinion – as opposed to fact – is an important one to keep in mind as we consider these issues, because the conflation of opinion and fact appears to be rampant in Santorum. He obviously believes that his views on religion are right. Just flat out right. Not right for him. Nope. Right for all. Far right. His opinion on the matter is fact to him.
He also has claimed that birth control doesn't work and that it harms women. What? I mean, Rick, you don't have to use it if you and your wife don't want to. That's not my business – of course, the corollary to that not being my business is that my choices on the subject aren't your business. But birth control doesn't work? Really? And it harms women? Really? On what authority do you claim that?
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Now, local celeb chef Andrew Zimmern has made it official: He'll open a Chinese restaurant/tiki bar called Lucky Cricket in St. Louis Park later this year.
Poke through Zimmern's website, and you'll note the guy's a real Chinese food fanatic. He goes to Szechuan Spice on Lyndale Avenue weekly. Were he forced to eat just one meal in Minneapolis, it would be Shuang Cheng's steamed walleye.
So it's no surprise that he tells the Strib: "I'm obsessed with Chinese food and culture. It's food that I adore above all others." Given that the TV personality is the host of food-meets-travel shows like Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations and Driven by Food, we'd say he's something of an expert in global fare.
Lucky Cricket is a collab between his aptly named Passport Hospitality and Michael McDermott, who's behind local spots like Randle's and Rojo Mexican Grill. Zimmern tells the Strib folks should expect "fun, authentic Chinese food into a modernized restaurant format," shouting out the dearly departed Nankin as a source of inspiration. Think noodle and dumpling dishes served up in a sharable, small-plate style, along with Chinese barbecue. The tiki bar? That's being supervised by Dean Hurst, a Florida-based cocktail star.
The restaurant could open in in the Shops at West End (1607 West End Blvd.) by October, and it sounds like the St. Louis Park location might not be the only one. Zimmern says the business model is a scalable one, and more Lucky Crickets could be on their way.


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Posted December 13, 2012
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"We've seen a trend this past year where fraudsters who have traditionally attacked larger financial institutions are now working their way down to less protected organizations," said Andreas Baumhof, chief technology officer, ThreatMetrix. "Due to the fact that these Trojans are readily available, fraudsters utilize the same sophisticated Trojans used on banks and financial institutions to attack online retailers, smaller payment processors and government entities. While banks are more familiar with these types of attacks, less sophisticated organizations are less prepared and typically do not have the right tools in place to defend themselves."
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At our local highschool, the Mexican immigrants are refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance. They refuse to stand for the American flag. With their own Mexican flags high in their yards, and displayed from their cars, it's clear to see where there allegiance is.
My thoughts????? If they don't like what America stands for, they should GO BACK HOME.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
At our local highschool, the Mexican immigrants are refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance. They refuse to stand for the American flag. With their own Mexican flags high in their yards, and displayed from their cars, it's clear to see where there allegiance is.
Posted by ConservaChick at 8:04 AM
12 comments:
- Mrs. Darling said...
Oh that is aggravating! And then they want all the rights of an American citizen! Unbelievable.
- November 1, 2007 at 9:42 AM
- javamamma said...
I thought people migrated here (legally or illegally) because they could live a better life, thus could be proud of the nation they live in. I must be wrong, eh? (of course, this isn't every immigrate either)
- November 1, 2007 at 9:45 AM
- Cindy-Still His Girl said...
I'm more amazed that your local high school still stands for the pledge at all! I have a friend who also refused to say it. She says her allegiance is to Christ and nowhere else.
I'm thinking about writing a pledge of allegiance to chocolate.
- November 1, 2007 at 9:53 AM
- Anonymous said...
I bet that they are willing to take govt. hand outs though. It is a sad state of affairs.
- November 1, 2007 at 7:12 PM
- Anonymous said...
I agree completley with your post!!! Amen sister!!
- November 1, 2007 at 10:50 PM
- Gayle @ thewestiecrew said...
Wow..how incredibly disrespectful to the nation that they were probably so desperate to get to. :( I'm with you, if you hate us so badly, you know where the border is.
- November 2, 2007 at 4:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
Amen! If people can come here (legally or illegaly) and ask for handouts and to first in line above Americans and be provided with everything shouldn't they be respectful of the country, its flag and its people?!?!
- November 2, 2007 at 9:43 AM
- carrie said...
So sad. I'm in agreement with you...although I do believe Cindy might be on to something...an allegiance to chocolate...hmmmm...
- November 2, 2007 at 10:15 AM
- Halfmoon Girl said...
Canada can be really pathetic in this way. We allow immigrants to push us around too much and try to be overly tolerant of everyone's customs, to the point that we give up our own traditions. That bugs me. I think that one should expect to take on their new country's policies when they immigrate.
- November 2, 2007 at 10:57 AM
- ConservaChick said...
I agree with your comment Halfmoon girl. This morning, I looked at my kid's cereal, and it was in Spanish! That made me angry. Really, do we need to accomodate their unwillingness to learn our language? ~Karlie
- November 2, 2007 at 12:42 PM
- EE said...
I'm with you!!!!
- November 7, 2007 at 5:53 AM
- Stacey said...
This needs to stop and now. I'm very afraid of what's going on right now with our borders in the first place--the only reason they do not stand is because the KNOW we tolerate it. And we do. And I am very afraid of the day that could come and make us wish we could rethink our stance on illegal immigration.
- November 7, 2007 at 11:10 AM


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This article provides information about the social aspects of pre-industrial economic system!
In pre-industrial society, economic system was simple. There was barter system at one time which was subsequently changed and was replaced by coinage. The economic institutions were not well organised as we find today. Pre-industrial society was agricultural – mercantilist society. There was not much economic disparity. Family played a big role in the economic organisation of life.
The pre-industrial society was kinship based. Family was the production-consumption unit. There was no acute form of division of labour. On the whole the economy in pre-industrial society was very simple. The people lived in villages. They had face to face relationships with each other.
Pre-industrial society was kinship based. Village was social structure of kinship. Social relations were confined mostly to the primary group – the family, kins and kindred ones. The kinship character of the society was significant for its cooperative functional character, for the economic support if provided to the dependent and needy.
The economy of the pre-industrial society was deeply linked up with the family system. Society being agricultural, family worked as a production unit. If it were non-agricultural, it managed family business, giving rise to family capitalism. Division of labour was simple and role differentiation indistinguishable.
Stratification in West, except U.S.A., was based on the estate system which was recognised by law and custom. It was social order of recognised inequality. There were broadly speaking three estates; the clergy, the nobility and the third estate (the common peoples, within these too, there existed sub-classifications based on graded inequality. The Western society was an arrangement of classes within classes.
The American society came to consist of the British colonials, the natives and the European emigrants. The colonists, the British who settled here from 1670 to 1776 (the American war of Independence). They generally came from among the non-conformist-religious and political stock of the British. Their historical background, their interaction to the habitat and the hard work that the conditions demanded of them provided the foundations of new society. In the agricultural south, the economy depended on the enslaved Negro service.
The kinship pattern in America never developed the way it has been in Europe. The existing conditions of life, the open vast expanses of the country, absence of restrictive traditions, absence of rigid social control as idealised by conservatism in Europe allowed the whites to develop new society without old mores and values. These coupled with variety of tribals with their varied kinship, the Negro who claimed to have been liberated before emancipation and those who could not trace their origin made American society mobile, estate less and socially democratic.
Of pre-industrial society it is generally believed that it did not permit social mobility. This is not historically true. No matter how stable a society, there is always some opportunity, however, slight, for individual movement through space and up or down the social hierarchy.
Even under feudalism, an exceptional serf might gain acceptance in the household of the lord as servant craftsman, or warrior or he might, and evidently some few did, break from his bondage to the man or and join some marauding gang of independents.
The American background did not permit the class rigidity. Indian caste system provided for the social mobility in terms of endogamous and exogamous marriages. However, individual mobility both spatial and social, seems to have been exception.
The society believed in God and the Bible. People believed profanes and sacred. Church and priest had a role in the society. The people were very conservative. The tradition and custom gave to the society cohesion and cultural homogeneity. Customs and convention of society were respected.
The people lived a very simple life. Their needs and necessities were not very complex. They worked in the spirit of fellow feelings and that of give and take. There were strong social bonds. There was no race for earning more and more wealth.


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Oh, and you'll also need to be in the US to avail yourself of the Modservice magic, but what's a few hundred extra for the plane fare between friends?


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Enabling Education Network Desires Feedback for Website Redesign
[Note to We Can Do readers: For years, people in the field of disability inclusive education have turned to the Enabling Education Network (EENET) for information, resources, and opportunities for debate. EENET has disseminated the following announcement, and is seeking responses by the end of February 2009.]
This year EENET is going to redesign its website. A very kind volunteer in EENET Asia has offered to do all the work for free. So, now we need to get some feedback from people who use the website, so that we can make sure we create a new website that is more useful and user-friendly.
The attached questions may help you give feedback. But please do tell us anything you want about the website — what is good, what is bad and what you would like to see on the website in future.
Please share this request for feedback with anyone else you know who uses the EENET website.
Thanks in advance for any feedback you can give.
Best wishes
EENET website redesign
In 2009 EENET's website – www.eenet.org.uk –– is going to be redesigned and relaunched. This will be the first significant redesign since the website was created in 1997. So it's important that we get it right!
The detailed evaluation of EENET in 2006 told us that there are various aspects of the website that are not user-friendly, and users sometimes find it difficult to locate the information they want from the huge selection available.
We now want to top up the evaluation results with some more recent feedback on what you like and don't like, and what you want to see on the new website.
The following questions are of particular interest to us, but please feel free to send comments about other aspects of the website as well.
Thank you in advance for your help.
1) Organising documents
There are two main options for how we can organise the content on the website:
(a) we could list documents according to type of document (e.g. training manuals, short articles, long reports, etc). Under this option you would see a list of, for instance, all the training manuals available covering all aspects of inclusive education
(b) we could list documents according to inclusive education themes (e.g. gender, working children, disability, refugees, emergencies, etc). With this option you would see all the information available under that theme (you would see a list of all articles, reports, manuals, posters, links to other websites, etc on the theme of, for instance, 'inclusive education and refugees').
Which option would you prefer and why?
We could design the site so that both options are available, but before we take this more complicated route, we first want to know if one option is a lot more popular than the other!
2) Search facility
The current search facility within the EENET website is using outdated technology and isn't very helpful. To help us improve the search facility, please tell us how you search for items on the EENET website. Do you mostly search for items according to:
- subject area
- a known document title
- country
- name of an organisation/NGO
- a known author name
- other (please specify)
3) Which website section(s) do you find most useful? Why?
4) Which website section(s) do you find least useful? Why?
5) Is there anything about the website that you find particularly confusing or frustrating? If so, how could we overcome this problem?
6) Documents in other languages
We currently have a separate section where users can go directly to a list of documents in other languages (it contains a random selection, as we rely on volunteers to do translations). Should we keep this separate section http://www.eenet.org.uk/other_langs/documents.shtml? Or should we remove this section and simply list any translations next to their English versions?
7) Word, PDF or html
Which format do you prefer / find most convenient for accessing and reading documents? Please explain why you prefer this format.
- Html pages that you read online
- PDF file downloads
- Word file downloads
8) Please tell us about anything else that you think will help us make an EENET website that meets your needs!
If you are not already familiar with it, please explore the EENET website at www.eenet.org.uk. Then, send your responses to the above questions to EENET at firstname.lastname@example.com by the end of February 2009.
I received this announcement via EENET's Eastern Africa email discussion group, which focuses on discussion related to disability inclusion education in Eastern Africa.
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SINGAPORE (SE): Singapore is looking towards a bumper crop of adult baptisms at Easter, as 1,127 people currently taking part in the catechumenate fronted at the rite of election, part of the rite of baptism, so far.
At Christ the King Church, 498 catechumens from a non-Christian background and 68 who are seeking full communion with the Catholic Church recently participated in the rite of election. At the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour another 443 are making preparations.
A rite of election was also held on February 21 in Chinese at the Church of the Holy Trinity with 135 catechumens.
"It is a very big milestone for me and also a time to reflect on my faith journey so far," 56-year-old Roger Loh, told the publication, Catholic News.
Father Erbin Fernandez, the catechetical director for the archdiocese, said that "through our courses, workshops and formation sessions we are encouraging catechetical groups to come together to pray as communities, as well as to work with others in the parish in the areas of evangelisation and discipleship."
Archbishop William Goh said there is a 17 per cent increase in people taking part in the rite of election compared with last year.
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May is normally a holding month in camera shipments following the main push in April. Since April was well below par, May needed to be a strong month to meet the northern hemisphere summer holiday demand. Sadly, on April 16th a series of earthquakes in Kumamoto Prefecture, South Japan caused extensive damage to manufacturing facilities of camera components that would severely diminish camera production. The latest camera shipment figures released today by Cipa give the first indication of the scale of the problem the industry faces.
We will take a look at the market as usual by camera type and geographical zone to get the bigger picture. The DSLRs vs Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Cameras (MILCs) battle will also be addressed as well as the average price for each camera type and zone. Firstly, the overall global picture for May 2016 as reported by the industry body CIPA Japan.
The first point to note is the fall in overall global unit shipments of all types to all zones were down -45.6% when compared to the same month the previous year. That is a huge fall for any industry and is clearly being borne out by the lack of stocks in camera stores across the globe. Not all cameras were affected though so there are some cameras with plenty of stock to sell.
The total value of shipments of all types to all zones was down -39.7% in Yen when compared to the same month the previous year.
One of the effects on the shortfall of camera production is that local markets in Japan and Asia have had a greater share than the European or Americas markets. Whilst this has definitely hurt the latter this may be due to many different reasons such as the camera type, better profit margins or various production issues.
In terms of Total Value of all cameras shipped, Asia has definitely had the lions share of the camera shipments, likely due to it's closer proximity and higher unit value.
No good news here, just down, down and down.
Whilst this is down across all geo-regions at least it is not as far down as the unit shipments due to rising unit values.
So here is the good news, average unit costs continue to improve in all areas, just. We will see where this improvement comes from later in the camera type analysis.
Trends in unit sales are obviously going to suffer but at least when production problems recover it will give a quicker indication of where the bottom of the market lies.
The trend is down in all geo-zones in terms of total value. This may be due to current currency fluctuations, still not good for the overall business.
The average unit price in Yen continues to trend up in all geo-zones. Europe is still buying more low cost cameras where Asia is buying more expensive models.
Despite the drop in unit sales and revenues, the average unit cost is still trending up. This trend has taken a leap upwards with the value of the Yen appreciating last month. The currency wars continue as regions vie to improve their exports by manipulating their currency. Jury out on where the future lie on this one.
The fall in market share for compacts has accelerated as production falters and they lose ground to DSLRs and Mirrorless cameras. Down by another 5% over the last 6 months. DSLRs have gained the most ground as production has probably affected them least. DSLRs up another 3% in the last 6 months and Mirrorless up just 0.5% above the 12 month average.
From a Total Value viewpoint, it is a similar story except the unit value of compact cameras has held up whilst the unit values of DSLRs and Mirrorless have fallen over the last few months.
Year on year comparison for May 2016 shows a huge -53.1% decline in units shipped for Compact cameras. DSLRs see a fall of 30.4%. Mirrorless also showing a fall in units shipped by -41.2%. The big question is will the industry ever recover these losses?
In total value terms the picture is very much similar except Mirrorless have not fallen as much due to higher unit value.
Compact cameras have shown a rise of 5.4% in average unit cost. DSLRs have lost -5.8% in average unit cost. Mirrorless have still shown a healthy rise in total value and a 15.5% rise in average unit cost.
The ongoing trend for unit shipments confirms Compacts are still falling whilst DSLRs and Mirrorless have also been hit by production issues on top of a falling market. The rate at which Compacts are falling has accelerated over the last few months.
Overall revenues have dropped for all camera types but Compact cameras lead the way down.
Average unit values have been rising over this period but with Mirrorless continuing to power ahead. DSLRs and Compact cameras are slipping in unit value.
From a global perspective, the inability to supply the market requirements due to production issues masks where we are with this falling market. The longer term effects of the shortages may be that the market shows a upturn once these issues are sorted. On the other hand these losses may simply never be recovered.
The obvious favoring of local markets to the detriment of Europe and America, although understandable, may not be a particularly wise move.
Production for June is set to be down another 27% so don't look for a solution anytime soon.
Mirrorless cameras have obviously suffered more from production issues than DSLRs but still average cost rises whereas DSLRs unit value continue to fall. DSLRs still outsell Mirrorless by 2.8 to 1.


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Wednesday 26th October, 2016 – the uber late edition!
Well folks, this is going to be the last regular blog for a while. I've kept going writing about my journey in Canberra throughout weekends away and visits out of Canberra that somehow related to our stay in Canberra, but now we're headed to New Zealand for 10 days on a trip planned well before we knew about Canberra. And I'm not at all sure how much internet I'll have as we travel. If I can, I'll absolutely let you know what we're up to, otherwise I'll pick up where I'm leaving off with Canberra days when we get back. The only dilemma: should I keep numbering the days as they pass, or pause until we get back? Still undecided…any ideas?
Aaaahhhh wifi! I've been dying to finish this blog today the 27th but the airport wifi signal was appallingly weak, my phone wouldn't let me use the Maccas good wifi because it decided it wasn't safe and I couldn't override it, and neither plane had wifi! Yes I'm here safe and sound in New Zealand but that's tomorrow's news.
I've been meaning to get the car serviced for a while. Like a month. It's overdue in kilometres, and by date. Of course I put it off until the very last minute when hubby realised that we need it tonight to drive to Sydney to catch a plane overseas! Luckily yesterday I found a place that would fit me in today so I had an early-for-me-right-now start before 8am to drop the car off at 8am. At the same time I needed to hit the bike shop for disk brake spacers that hubby needed for deconstructing his bike into a proper bike bag piece of luggage to take with us. So check and check, 2 jobs down before 8.30am! Kicking goals. Now I have to walk home! It's not far but you know, it's walking. Not always my first love. I walk home along Lonsdale Street, the hip eating out venue with lots of nice restuarants then through the beautiful lines of trees in Haig Park, over the hill and home. This park has cement paths around it and through it but everywhere there are tracks cut through the grass into the dirt going wherever! Do that many people not want to walk by the squares?
Now onto packing day for our New Zealand trip.
I won a 5 (read 3) day cycling tour for 2 people from the tour group that ran the 7 (read 5) day tour that I did with Wheel Women earlier this year in April. Why the edit? I'm just a teensy bit more than tired of the arrangements being misrepresented by the individual from the tour company that I've been dealing with since I found out that I'd won this tour. 5 days? Okay technically yes, but dinner on the night before the tour hardly makes one day and ditto for breakfast on the day after the last day of tour. I'm calling it 3 days. Grrr. I've had not a little annoyance and anxiety with this person today, and since June!! From 1) not booking us the new direct flights to New Zealand from Canberra because we won the tour and weren't actually paying for it and they were expensive, oh and the T&C's back them up, to 2) having to pay for our Napier to Christchurch transfer on the way home because we aren't paying for the tour and had changed the New Zealand exit point from Auckland (even though they would have paid it if we went back to Auckland!), and 3) most annoyingly, after saying they would book the flights in June, July and August, they finally booked them 12 days before we flew out! So much for forward planning for our planned catch ups with friends!
I hadn't intended on it, but yet another reminder from him that we weren't paying for the tour and therefore should settle with grace for whatever he saw fit to organise for us and be grateful saw me start the process of "feedback" a little earlier than intended! Then I got "what if" anxiety: did I say too much, did I say it too soon, would there be repercussions, but seriously he was out of line but was I too? Have I really "misunderstood" as often as he is suggesting? A giant lump in my throat all day because of this that I couldn't get rid of! Onto the packing, do something to soothe your anxiety by ticking of your list. 3 sets of bike clothes, helmet, bike shoes, casual clothes, smart clothes for eating out, etc etc. All packed in half of my suitcase ready for hubby to put in his stuff. I still had a few things left over to pack but I figured I'd wait for him. Then I decided to do a cull. Out go the sneakers, I'll wear my bike shoes on the tour then when we meet up afterwards with friends in Christchurch I'll wear my casual shoes. One down. Don't need my tripod, I never use it at home so doubt I'll use it on holidays. Etc. Out went anything I couldn't absolutely justify; trimming the fat. Turned out hubby only needed a tiny bit of my suitcase, but that's okay, room for souvenirs!
So up before 8am, jobs ticked off, anxiety, packing, that bloke!! I knew he could be disorganised but we are now amazed that his business survives! I felt exhausted so looked at my phone; only 12pm! Bad luck, back to bed. I'm waiting on a call from the society of hospital pharmacists on a continuing professional development (CPD) deadline issue, and they ended up waking me up after an hour, but that was about right. A phone call to say I needed to head down to Canberra Centre to pick up hubby's contact lenses. I was meant to ride down, but when we went to ride down the street to get tea last night, my front wheel had a flat even though it had just been in the car! Not wanting to change it in a hurry, I stuck it in the apartment and meant to change it this morning but you know! I bought a new spare tube though; does that count for something? So Uber it is! By this stage the tour operator stress is behind me; now I'm fretting about getting my CPD record printed and posted before we head away. I know, so old-fashioned! Hubby reminded me that I can print screen it into paint and save it as a Word document then email it! In the middle of a stress event, changing your thinking process is difficult. You have been going around and around in circles, and have more or less worn a path into the grass; you're kind of rutted into the path. Stepping up out of it isn't easy, so every time is a victory! I managed to squash the no I couldn't possibly and say I'd think about it, and a while later I accepted it as the new approach. Aaahhh anxiety! A wander around the mall near Canberra showed some of the dirtier seedier side of Canberra city; don't think I'll be back around there. Needed another nap later on to recover from all that.
Picked up the car and paid 4 times the usual service amount! Got my CPD sorted largely by hubby doing it! Got the bike bag, suitcases, hand luggage in the car and bike on the roof and drove off into the most gorgeously vivid strongly colored bright pink and deep orange sunset that I can ever remember seeing! Our snaps just don't compare! And off we drive to Sydney!