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BIRTHDAY TRIP Part 2 // Biking the Golden Gate Bridge
Biking across the Golden Gate bridge has been on my bucket list since college, and Taylor helped make it happen by planning a surprise trip for me!
The hardest part is actually getting to the bridge- there's a tall hill you have to go up before getting to the entrance. However, once you get on the bridge, it's a totally freeing experience with the cool, crisp breeze blowing and the Pacific Ocean on either side of you. After admiring the view of San Francisco from the other side of the bridge, it was a downhill bike ride into Sausalito where we stopped by for lunch at Fish. By then, my legs felt like they were filled with lead and were going to snap off if I had to bike any longer, so I was able to convince/beg Taylor to let us cheat a little, and ride the ferry back to the city!
LABELS bay area adventures, biking, birthday, san francisco l l
2 comments:
- itjoycemyheart said... [Reply to comment]
OMG I can't believe you didn't tell me you went and did this too!! I'm so jealous cuz your photos are so beautiful and I wish I had had a good camera or a boyfriend who wanted to take photos during our ride. Looks good and good job! We cheated..and didn't make it to Sausalito we turned around right when we got across!! Kudos to you and Taylor!!
- Thursday, October 23, 2014
- Unknown said... [Reply to comment]
These pictures are beautiful!!
- Monday, October 27, 2014
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"I don't know how much you can do for her…we've tried and the nail polish and makeup just doesn't come off. And then there's her hair…"
I smiled and tried not to reveal how eager I was. "Oh, I have my ways,"
Just another day in the life of a doll enthusiast, am I right?
This TM #27 belonged to a little girl named Lauren, whose doll had definitely been loved (by two previous owners in addition to Lauren)…but was showing the signs of it rather glaringly. Lauren's mom was a little skeptical that anything other than tightening her head and cleaning up her skin was possible, but was willing for me to try.
First things first, I didn't know what the doll's name was. The best that could be coaxed out of her owner was "Ailey", and so I rolled with it. (and, y'know, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, so what's not to like?)
Next, there was the actual cleaning and repairing to be done.
Ailey was very, very dirty. I'm pretty sure she's the filthiest doll I have ever seen, there was just so much dirt, stickiness, and heaven-knows-what-else on her vinyl.
There was lipstick in her mouth and all over her teeth, and some kind of oily makeup residue around her eyes and cheeks. Ailey also had numerous shine marks and scratches in various places on her face.
Her legs had black marks, white marks, sticky brown marks, and roughing around the heels…I think perhaps she bumped into a lot of furniture and maybe even dragged across asphalt.
Her arms were similarly dirty and banged-up, although not quite as much.
There was also a worn, rainbow pedicure on her toes, and I couldn't be sure just how long it had been there.
And finally, there was her hair. Even brushed down, it was super short and uneven. However, I decided to deal with it later and first give her a good cleaning (she was so dirty I was slightly grossed out handling her, after all, we are barely out of flu season).
I started by taking a washcloth, hot water, and dish soap to her face in an attempt to clean off any surface grime. It actually made a big difference, removing a lot of the oily stuff around her eyes and cheeks. (It also helped the lipstick stain on her neck)
A Magic Eraser scrub removed the grease and stickiness on her face, but also revealed that her blush and lip paint had long ago faded.
Ailey's limbs cleaned up very well, too, using a combination of dish soap and Magic Eraser, they revealed that her vinyl was not deeply stained.
Using acetone, a scrubby sponge, and a lot of elbow grease, the nail polish finally came off of her toes (it took about half an hour of me swearing-not-swearing and once yelling, "FUDGE IT ALL!!", but it did happen eventually)
Now it was time to deal with her hair. There was no evening it out, so the wig would have to go. I went through my supplies, and found a Caroline wig that had been straightened, but was in pretty much perfect condition. (like my lovely friend Nina put it, "The doll equivalent of Locks of Love!")
(We then proceeded to make numerous doll charity puns. It was great.)
*skip this bit if you're squeamish about bald dolls*
Making use of my trusty all purpose soup, oatmeal, ice cream, and rewigging tool, otherwise known as a spoon, I pried Ailey's wig off. (I only muttered "D'Arvit!" once this time)
With her wig on, I let the glue dry while I mixed the colors for her face paint.
After a facial and a haircut, Ailey was looking so much better.
I gave Ailey light, natural face paint, trying to match her skin, eye, and hair color. AG is always very, very subtle with the blush, but Ailey has a little more, since she looked very pale and wan without it.
Her hair looks cutest with a little clip on the right or left side. (the underside hadn't quite dried yet, which made it look a little stringy on the right side)
After dressing her for a finishing touch, Ailey was finished!
(Ailey's shirt graphic is from @phoenixphaedrana 's blog, Sky Playground. She's an artist who draws fan arts and utterly adorable sketches, so head on over and give her a follow!)
I'm so happy with the way her hair turned out, it's the perfect color and cut on her. (she reminds me of Emily, but with blonde hair)
Before…and after!
Thoughts on Ailey, spoons, or her t-shirt? Are you excited for summer?


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I know Bill is in love with his new iphone. He bought it online, picked out the plan online. All to avoid speaking French in the store. He just had to make sense of the website (a challenge, really) and read the French.
I dont know if its the translation. But I just got our cell phone bills. He racked up a 222 Euro bill. In one month. 125 Euros of it is for what appears to be web/data roaming. Which he did a fair amount of in Germany. Well, fair amount isnt really correct. Costly amount seems more accurate.
Im not saying he wouldnt have spent that much in a month using an iphone in the US. But it does make you wonder….


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I called her tutor and asked if we can go to the air-conditioned venue today, as she had a fall recently and doctor advised no PE which equates to no perspiration. I'm not saying that she perspires by the rainstorm in tutor's place but I needed a comfortable place for girl since injury is still a little raw.
Tutor was really concerned about her and asked about her. And then she asked me a question, if it was an accident or she was being pushed. I told her it was an accident coz she was in a rush.
After that I thought to myself. Which would be scarier?
The physical accident - push and settle hatred once and for all OR the tormenting mental bully she got over the years??


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As news that President Trump was pulling out of the Paris climate accord hit at a luncheon for small-business owners in Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday, an already happy crowd suddenly turned euphoric.
"It was like a major win at a football game," said Rick Longenecker, a management consultant who had been among the 50 or so attendees who gathered to trade thoughts amid a rapidly improving local economy.
While multinational corporations such as Disney, Goldman Sachs and IBM have opposed the president's decision to walk away from the international climate agreement, many small companies around the country were cheering him on, embracing the choice as a tough-minded business move that made good on Mr. Trump's commitment to put America's commercial interests first.
This full-throated support from the small-business community comes even as the Trump administration struggles to advance health care legislation and tax reform plans through Congress — and despite the swelling controversy over Mr. Trump's ties to Russia.
In Michigan, Ohio, Missouri and beyond, many small businesses are reporting improved sales and bigger work forces — regardless of what is going on in Washington.
"We've had customers who actually brought business back from Mexico that we haven't done in seven years," said Bill Polacek, president of JWF Industries, a manufacturer in Johnstown, Pa.
While local business leaders, some who were previously interviewed, acknowledged that little has been done by the administration so far in terms of turning promises into law, especially with regard to health care and taxes, most were not yet ready to blame the president.
"There is a new sheriff in town," said Louis M. Soltis, the owner of a company in Toledo that manufactures control panels for large factories. "But the biggest frustration that I have is that there is so much resistance that is keeping him from moving forward."
In the months following Mr. Trump's election victory, as stock markets hit historical highs and companies kept adding jobs, the business community as a whole seemed willing to give the president a chance to follow through on his bold promises to revitalize the economy by cutting taxes and rolling back regulations.
But the move to pull the United States out of an agreement it had previously signed with 195 countries has opened up a fissure between smaller companies and some of the biggest names in business. In the hours after the president's announcement, dozens of companies including General Electric, Facebook and Microsoft voiced their opposition to the decision, and two prominent chief executives resigned from the president's business advisory council.
Many small-business leaders in the Midwest, on the other hand, were largely unfazed.
For those more concerned with their local economies than global greenhouse gas emissions, walking away from the Paris agreement was just another example of a bottom-line business decision made by a president who knows a good deal from a bad one.
"This just heightens the divide between big business and small business," said Jeffrey Korzenik, an investment strategist for Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati who spends much of his time talking to small businesses in the Midwest. "They really have different worldviews."
At the root of this disconnect is a sense that companies that employ up to a few hundred workers — such companies make up 99 percent of businesses in the United States and account for half of its private sector employment — are held to a more onerous standard than their larger peers when it comes to complying with regulations.
At the Toledo luncheon, for example, much of the discussion centered on the fact that the climate treaty is nonbinding. To businessmen who have spent the past 10 years complaining of ceaseless rules and regulations, the very idea that the climate pact lacked teeth was galling.
"When companies here do business with a Ford or a G.M., they sign a contract that is not only binding — in many cases it is pretty harsh," Mr. Longenecker said. "Now we have this deal to prevent a global catastrophe, and it's nonbinding? That is ridiculous. And it makes us think that there is a hidden agenda, that we are just transferring trillions of dollars to China."
To some small business executives, seeing the president talk tough to the Europeans and the Chinese was a reminder of why they voted for him in the first place.
"I think that we're making a very big deal over a molehill," said Dave Griggs, owner of Dave Griggs Flooring America in Columbia, Mo. which employs 16 people. "I think the president is exactly right, we need to certainly renegotiate."
But local business leaders are not without their worries.
Mr. Griggs said that he was concerned about health care, particularly since Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City announced last month that it would pull out of the insurance exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act, potentially affecting many Missouri residents. However, he said he still believed the administration would come through on its promise to replace the Affordable Care Act with something better.
"We've got a Republican Congress, a Republican president; hopefully we can get some initiatives passed," Mr. Griggs said. "I am highly optimistic."
But by and large, local business leaders said they remained supportive of the president and believed the attention on his campaign's ties to Russia was overblown.
John Bagge, 64, who runs a catering company in Kirkland, Wash., with his wife and two daughters, said his business was booming — so much so that this was the first summer he has had to turn away customers in 40 years.
"Until we have the evidence, let's just keep busy making America a better country, growing the economy and putting people back to work, rather than spending so much time arguing back and forth about who's guilty and who's not," he said.
The chief executives of big American companies were less sanguine, and many distanced themselves from Mr. Trump.
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, and Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of Disney, both resigned from the president's economic advisory council on Thursday.
"Climate change is real," Mr. Musk wrote on Twitter. "Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world."
Other big company executives — including the chief executives Douglas McMillon of Walmart and Virginia M. Rometty of IBM — voiced their opposition to the president's decision but said they would remain on the council.
"Disappointed in today's news about the Paris Agreement," Mr. McMillon said in a Facebook post on Thursday. "We think it's important for countries to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
Despite remaining broadly supportive of the president, some businessmen said that the whirlwind of controversies was beginning to raise questions about just how effective this administration could be.
Jim Stouffer, Jr. the president of Catawba Island Club, a local resort in Port Clinton, Ohio, said he supported the decision to leave the Paris agreement, but added that he was growing more uncertain of what the future holds.
"I don't know what his endgame is," he said.


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The first few minutes of Saturday's game at Guilford went OK, but things quickly went downhill.
EMU's basketball women had their second-lowest scoring output of the season in a 68-43 loss in Greensboro, N.C., on Saturday as the Quakers proved the statistics correct as the best defensive team in the ODAC.
The Royals shot just 27.8% in the game, their lowest mark of the year. Guilford is tops in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference in both scoring defense (50.7ppg) and field percentage defense (32.3%).
EMU had won the last 10 regular season meetings between the two teams, with GC last winning a double overtime game in January of 2011.
Eastern Mennonite slides to 10-6 overall and 5-3 in the ODAC. The women are in the three-way tie for fourth, one game behind another three-way tie of Lynchburg, Randolph-Macon and Guilford at 6-2.
The Royals are hoping to get their offense back on track with a pair of home games next week, hosting Virginia Wesleyan Tuesday night at 7:00pm, followed by Emory & Henry on Saturday.
Lindsey Krisak (Alexandria, Va./Thomas A. Edison) helped the women take the first lead in Saturday's game, canning a three pointer in the second minute. They held Guilford to just two points on their first four possessions before things started to come unraveled in the fifth.
TJ Jacobs got inside for a layup with a foul, heading to the free throw line for one toss. She missed it, but after a pair of offensive rebounds, the Quakers got another bucket to wrap up a four-point possession for a 6-3 lead. The Royals, meanwhile, went cold and connected on only two more field goals the rest of the period, trailing 16-8 at the break.
Krisak and Lexi Deffenbaugh (Fishersville, Va./Wilson Memorial) hit back-to-back threes early in the second to get EMU within 18-14, but Guilford responded with an 18-3 run over the next six-plus minutes, blowing open a 36-17 cushion. The lead stood at 43-19 at halftime.
The Royals finally put up a solid offensive frame in the third, scoring 17 points, but could not mount any momentum as GC matched the bucket for bucket. EMU needed a huge second half, but the Quakers narrowly won the last two frames, 25-24.
The home team had a few more rebounds and a few less turnovers, and simply shot better than the Royals, 42% to 28%.
Krisak finished 3-for-6 from outside for a team high nine points. Jess Washington (Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge) grabbed 12 rebounds, but managed only eight points on ten shot attempts. Chrissy Delawder (Broadway, Va./Broadway) had ten boards and six points. Second-leading scorer Myneshia Walker (Freeman, Va./Brunswick) struggled with foul trouble and her shot, ending up scoreless.
Jasmine McBride scored 17 for Guilford to lead all players. Essence Abraham added 12 off the bench. Lauren Ramsey had 14 rebounds and eight points.


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Lakewood brings back parade tradition
HEBRON – Excitement was in the air last Thursday night. The first Lakewood Homecoming Parade in years stretched all the way from Evans Park to the Ohio 79 overpass at East Main Street.
Seventy-five units answered the call from the Hebron Business Association who organized the parade, bonfire and pep rally. President Beth Walters, Vice President Glenna Jones and Treasurer Sharon Scheidegger were nearly overwhelmed by the response.
Hundreds of students and residents followed the parade
to Evans Park for the pep rally and bonfire. The Marching Lancers won the
Mayor's Spirit Award trophy donated by Pat Miller of HER Real Living and Steve
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The man who has driven the Port of Tyne to record success has triumphed as North East Business Executive of the Year
Nova boosts profits and turnover as it adds to its portfolio of mass participation events across the UK
Brendan Foster welcomed plans to scrap guidelines for pupils to be punished by making them run round school fields
Looking back at some of the region's greatest runners in some of our greatest races over the years
The mastermind behind London's successful Olympics believes that Newcastle would be a credible Commonwealth Games candidate
Lord Coe is the latest in a string of high-profile names to support a North East Commonwealth bid but could it really become reality?
There's just days left to claim your free ticket for the spectacular celebration on September 4 for the Great North Run weekend
The Journal is giving away 10,000 tickets for the event which celebrates the millionth finisher of the Great North Run
Crowds turn out to see the Commonwealth Games' Queen's Baton as it heads through the region
An event, costing in excess of £1m, will celebrate the one millionth finish of the Great North Run in September
The Queen's Baton Relay comes through Newcastle, Gateshead and Northumberland on June 13 ahead of the games in Glasgow
For the eighth year running The Journal is offering the final 100 places in the iconic Great North Run to our readers
North East heroes past and present have been immortalised in Newcastle as bronze plaques have been unveiled
Plaques to twenty North East heroes including Sir Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer and Brendan Foster have been unveiled beside the Gateshead Millennium Bridge
North East athletics legend Brendan Foster is absolutely furious with Education Secretary Michael Gove and his plans to make running a punishment for school pupils
Nineteen people and a band are to be celebrated with plaques on Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides
Former Olympic athlete Brendan Foster enlisted the help of his granddaughter to light up a Northumberland village for the festive season
Standing still is not an option for Great North Run chief Brendan Foster as Mark Douglas found out when he caught up with him
Brendan Foster tells Mark Douglas about the future of the Great North Run as it gets set to make history next year with its millionth competitor
Sales grew by a healthy 9% at Great North Run organiser Nova Marketing after the firm expanded its sporting portfolio, launching two major cycling events
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Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain repair
About the project
After brain injury or stroke, human patients often remain disabled for the rest of their lives because the regenerative capacity of the human brain is very limited. In contrast to humans, zebrafish have the ability to repair their brains after injury. Using a combination of in vivo imaging, gene expression profiling and small molecule screens in the optically transparent zebrafish larva, we are now able to study brain repair in real time in a live and intact organism. We hope that gaining insight into the mechanisms underlying the successful brain repair programme of zebrafish will allow us to harness this knowledge for novel therapeutic approaches to brain injury in humans.
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Albanian Cornbread
Serves 6-8 The cheese and green onion make this cornbread unique. Dense and flavorful, the cornbread makes a great accompaniment to stews. Ingredients: 1-1/2 cups cornmeal 16 ounces cottage cheese 4 eggs 1 cup chopped scallions, plus 1 Tbsp for garnish 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), melted 1/4 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp thyme 4 ounces feta cheese, chunked 1/4 tsp salt Method: 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease an 8″ square casserole. 2. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients (cornmeal, cottage cheese, eggs, scallions, melted butter, paprika, thyme, feta, and salt. 3. Pour into prepared casserole and spread evenly. 4. Bake at 400F until lightly browned and an inserted toothpick comes out clean, about 35 minutes. 5. Garnish with remaining scallions. Serve warm. NOTE: This dish was excellent warm, but dries out quickly. On 3/27/12 I adjusted the recipe for more moisture. The first time we gave the little we had leftover to the birds. After the adjustments, even leftovers were moist and yummy. Adapted from Home Cooking Around the World, by David Ricketts and Mark Thomas Albanian Cornbread Votes: 1 Rating: …Read More


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My thinking behind this outfit was 'if I dress like the sun then Spring will come' (that rhymes).
I think it might have worked as my trusty, full proof iPhone weather app tells me it's sunny all weekend, but freezing so I think I'll pair it with 3 layers of thermals.
Off to Kew Gardens we go!!


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WATCH ABOVE: Authorities in Iceland are warning the airline industry about a possible volcanic eruption that could send ash spewing into the sky – and into the path of planes. CBS' Alphonso Van Marsh reports from London.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Iceland's Meteorological Office is reporting a surge in seismic activity at the restless Bardarbunga volcano, but sees no evidence yet of any eruptions.
Thousands of small earthquakes have rattled the volcano deep beneath the Vatnajokull glacier over the past week. Activity increased Saturday following a lull.
Met Office vulcanologist Melissa Pfeffer says scientists will fly over the glacier Saturday to look for changes on the surface.
READ MORE: Iceland volcano continues to rumble, still threat of eruption
Iceland is keeping its aviation alert at "orange," the second-highest level, amid what the Met calls "heightened levels of unrest."
A 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokul volcano caused international aviation chaos, with more than 100,000 flights cancelled.
Aviation regulators since have reformed policies about flying through ash, so a new eruption would be unlikely to cause that much disruption.


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The mission of the Little Falls Prevention of Domestic Violence Committee (LFPDVC) is to provide our community with the information and support necessary to break the chain of Domestic Violence. As a committee, LFPDVC seeks to promote awareness of Domestic Violence issues through distribution of literature, education programs and presentations at community schools and organizations. Our fund raising and donation based efforts directly benefit survivors of Domestic Violence as well as support the work of sister agencies working on Domestic Violence.
The LFPDVC welcomes all township citizens to participate in this important work of raising awareness and preventing DV within our community and neighboring towns.
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Agromeck Photo Editor Katherine Hoke said:
Georgia did a nice job of photographing the University's insect museum. This photo is effective mainly because of composition. The multicolored butterfly creates a striking break in pattern from the yellow butterflies surrounding it. The two large insects on either side work as framing elements to create leading lines that draw the readers eyes from the bottom to the top of the image. This photo is a wonderful example of when macro shots are appropriate in photojournalism.


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After an exciting conference up in Nottingham, it's time to get back to reality. If you're one of the lucky few who got to go and you're feeling a bit down after all that fun then here's your pick-me-up. Lots of new games and venues, a couple of marriage proposals and, as usual, the weekly blog listing!
This site is always on the look-out for new games or venues that are opening, references in the media or anything else that might be of interest to the readers, so please do send an email if you spot anything of interest. That applies to owners too – feel free to send me your news for inclusion here. Don't be shy!
On to the news
- National
- The big news from last week was obviously the UK Escape Room Industry Conference which took place on Monday. You can find a brief write up on it here but I can tell you that everyone who attended it showered it with praise. Well done Sarah and Simon!
- Red Bull put together a list of 11 "deviously difficult" escape rooms in the UK. I'll leave it to the audience to decide whether they agree.
- North West England
- It's been a while since this site has posted about a marriage proposal but given this one in Breakout Manchester made the BBC local news, it feels worthy of inclusion. I'd love to know how many proposals have now happened in UK escape rooms but I'd guess somewhere north of 100.
- Looks like there will be some sort of escape room attraction at the Manchester Science Festival
- Santa's Naught or Nice List is opening at Lakes Escape
- London
- The briefest of hints in this Building Control Application that there will soon be another escape venue in the capital. The address is just a short walk from Liverpool Street and only a couple of blocks away from Secret Studio but as yet I have no idea what's opening there.
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- The Guest House Escape Rooms have launched their website with two games announced as opening in November. This Leeds-based company have obviously decided that long names are where it's at with the initial rooms entitled "The Extraordinary Study of Professor Wilbanks" and the comparatively brief "The Tarot Room of Madame Virtue".
- South West England
- The much admired Co-decode of Swindon have announced they'll be running a 30 minute Hallowe'en game. Get in quick – it's only open for four days.
- Eureka Escape have been operating in Penzance for a few months but it's obviously been going well as they're now launching just down the road in Truro with the first game entitled Death By Prescription.
- Ireland
- No Escape have launched in Cork. Their first game, Jungle Adventure, opened last week.
- West Midlands
- Escape Reality seem to be continuing their march across the country with a potential new venue in Birmingham
- East Midlands
- Well, why not two marriage proposals…? This time one in Escapologic in Nottingham.
- East of England
- Not to be confused with Escape Rooms Suffolk, Suffolk Escape Room is a new venue located near to Ipswich. Their first game, Area 51, is set to open this week.
- The Panic Room Harlow closed ENIGMA. If you haven't played it… Don't Panic! It'll soon reappear over in Gravesend.
- Madame Curio's Cirque Delirium and The Outlaws of Red Rock opened at new venue Trapp'd Peterborough earlier this month.
- South East England
- Looks like there will be some competition for Exciting Escapes in Basingstoke. Well, if you count a twenty minute church game as competition.
- Get Out Escape Rooms launched their website – no details about games or even location beyond "Kent".
- Escape Box UK is another new mobile game provider but perhaps a little bit more pedigree – the game was developed by the Hungarian company TRAP.
- North East England
- Seems like things have come full circle – HT to Chris Dickson of Ex Exit Games for pointing out that Cluedini are expanding to Darlington. No word yet as to the games but they're suggesting three games to start and two more to follow.
- Blog posts
- The Logic Escapes Me
- Lock Us Up
- Brit of an Escape Habit
- Escape the Review
- Ex Exit Games
- Exit Games UK
- EscapeGameHub
- Immersophenia
That's all I'm aware of. If any of the above is incorrect or if you're aware of other news, significant discounts or competitions, then let me know via email or in the comments below and I'll include updates in the next edition.
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Handmade Home by Amanda Blake Soule
This book + me = LOVE.
Seriously. I love reading the SouleMama blog on a daily basis. I think her blog was one of the first I started following. And this book is like her blog in print form. I love the style and thought that went into all the projects. And I've made quite a few of them over the years.
The premise of the book is similar to ImprovSewing that I reviewed on Monday: reusing old materials to make something new and useful. One thing I appreciate in craft books or cook books is having a little blurb about the project/recipe above the pattern/recipe. Amanda Blake Soule has a way with words that is so powerful and profound but still approachable. That's a good word for Handmade Home: approachable. Everything is handmade, repurposed, and beautiful. Of the six essays Amanda wrote for the book, I think the one that speaks to me the most is Comfortably Worn. I feel like that is my philosophy with materiel goods, well worn and well loved.
So far, I've made the paper-mâché bowls, a towel rug out of the wildest fabric in the world and a purple towel, the pillowcase dress into a shirt for myself, a fiber garland, and the Broadturn bag, which make wonderful library/knitting bags. I want to make almost everything in here! Have I gotten around to it yet? Uh, no. Do I want to? Uh, yes!


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Chapter Fourteen: The Virtues of Diversification5
November 5, 2014 by Lyn Thorne-Alder
"That's all very well and good, but why aren't you in class?"
Tairiekie had been wondering the same thing. Enrie hadn't exactly talked to her or Saydrie for the last few days. She hadn't been yelling at them, either, but she'd been cool and distant in classes, missing at meals, and hadn't shown up to their stable study sessions at all.
Tairiekie was feeling the loss, and not just because she missed her friend. Enrie was the only one who could explain the Philosophy to her in a way that made sense, and with her absent, Tairiekie had been struggling.
And now, Enrie was standing outside of their Biology class, talking to their Basic Mechanics Instructor. Tairiekie's throat had a lump in it; what if Enrie was telling on her? What if the Instructor thought Taikie's device was as much of an abomination as Enrie had? What if they expelled her? What if they laughed at her?
"I thought you needed to hear this, and I wanted to tell you in private. You don't hold office hours…"
"I do not. I do, however, hold lab hours. Ah, Tairiekie. Do you have information to share as well?"
"Ah, sir?" She didn't miss the way Enrie whipped around to look at her. "Good morning, Instructor Kaatetzie, Enerenarie. No, I don't have any information at the moment." She had a theory, but that wasn't the same as information. "I was looking for my teammates."
"Good morning, Tairiekie. Well I haven't seen Saydrie. Did you have reason to think he'd be here?"
"He'd said he had some thoughts about our most recent homework project, actually. So I was wondering if he'd been by…"
"Does he vanish a lot, this Byittie of yours?"
"Please don't call him that, sir." Enrie took a step forward. "I know it's common practice, but it's generally considered a very large insult by the Bitrani people."
"Ah. My apologies, Enerenarie. Is it common practice for your teammate to go wandering off?"
Enrie seemed to have this handled, so Tairiekie let her continue to answer.
"Saydrie does like his quiet and his privacy. The Bitrani – they aren't as used to living in close quarters as the Calenyena are, and I think the dorms make him uncomfortable."
"And you're quite the expert on Bitrani culture, are you?"
"I've learned a couple things over the years."
"Mm, so I've heard." Now that was interesting, Instructor Kaatetzie being short with Enrie. Someone at all being short with Enrie.
"Instructor?" Now it was Tairiekie's turn to step up and take the conversation back. "He likes small and quiet places. I generally check the cupolas first."
"Is that where you found him?" Enrie shot her a strange look. Tairiekie couldn't quite figure it out.
"I take it you haven't checked this building yet?" The Instructor raised his eyebrows.
"No." She bobbed her head in a half-bow. Best to stay formal for the moment, until she figured out what Enrie was doing. "I have checked Biology and Philosophy, and he wasn't there."
"Well, since you're already aware of the cupola passages, I think I can show you another passage." Instructor Kaatetzie looked, she thought, amused. "This way, if you would, Tairiekie, Enerenarie. We're going up to the second floor."
"Of course, sir." Another bow, and she stole a glance at Enrie, who was, it seemed, stealing a glance right back at her. She shrugged. Shrugging was safe enough, wasn't it?
Enrie shrugged back. So, they were communicating. Now if only she could figure out what they were saying.
And then, much to her surprise, Enrie made a goat face at her – lips pushed out, nose wrinkled, like she was about to eat Tairiekie's braids. Tairiekie stifled a giggle. What was that all about?
Enrie grinned. A smile. A really big smile. What was she supposed to do with that?
Tairikie tried a smile back, a much smaller one, with another little shrug.
"Right this way." They were out of classroom territory and into the upperclassmen's labs. "This is an area I imagine both of you will spend quite a bit of time in, during your later years."
"Ah, sir?" Enrie had been surprised in the middle of making a face at Tairiekie; it took her a second to sound normal again. "Sir, I'm in House Estyaa."
"I know. But every threesome finds its equilibrium, and a good threesome eventually end up sharing their specialties. It's one reason that we ended up instigating this process."
"To dilute the field of specialty?" Enrie was frowning again. Tairiekie found that worried her quite a bit.
"Well, over the last hundred years – I'm not speaking from direct experience, of course."
"Of course." Enrie rolled her eyes at Tairiekie. That was… promising?
"Over the last hundred years, we've found that students had been leaving Edally with too narrow a focus. It was as if their field of study was a mountain passage and they were ignoring everything else, like it was all too high on the hills for them to reach."
"It does seem like the best way to get solid high grades within your concentration." Tairiekie felt like it was the wrong answer, but also like he wanted to her to give that answer for some reason.
"Yes, but what about when you leave the school?"
"When I leave the school, I'd have a very strong education in my chosen career, and be able to go forward knowing I'd learned everything I could from the Academy about, say, being an Engineer. Or a Diplomat."
"But what if you graduated and, three or four years later, decided that you didn't want to be an Engineer?"
"That doesn't happen."
"It did not used to happen, because training for the professions took so long and was so mountain-road-focused; even if one was miserable in one's vocation, there was no real option other than unskilled labor. And we know more than one Edally Academy graduate who ended up doing unskilled labor rather than continue in a field they were unsuited for."
"That sounds horrible." Tairiekie wrinkled her nose.
"It rather does. And, of course, it's our goal and desire that everyone graduate from Edally happy with their field, as well as an expert in it. Your expertise speaks not only of yourself, but of the academy that trained you."
They had been walking down through the labs; now he stopped, looked around, and side-stepped into a side passage. This narrow hallway was tiled all the way up the walls in narrow, flat tiles laid out in a mountain-passage design that seemed very suited to their current conversation. Instructor Kaatetzie stood so that one hand rested on each wall and pushed in two tiles, one with each hand. "But your ability to do more than simply engineer wonderful mechanisms means that not only will you be able to do something else, should you grow miserable with being an Engineer. It also means that you will be able to build better machines."
Enrie coughed. "Because you're looking at them not just through the lens of engineering, but through the lens of, say, Philosophy."
"That's a clever way of looking at the world." She wasn't looking at Instructor Kaatetzie. She was looking at Tairiekie.
"I'm glad you approve." He pushed another pair of tiles, and the mountain swung open, revealing a passageway. "We call this, unsurprisingly, the mountain pass. I thought it was appropriate to the conversation, and if Saydrie is fond of the cupolas, he'll probably like this space as well. Do be sure to shut it when you leave."
"Thank you, Instructor." Tairiekie bowed. "Thanks very much."
Enrie echoed the bow. "Thank you for listening. "
"I do not think it's something you need to concern yourself with, but I do appreciate you bringing it to our attention." The Instructor nodded his head and left them standing in the mountain pass.
"So." Tairiekie looked at Enrie.
"So." Enrie coughed. She wasn't quite looking Tairiekie in the eye. "I still think it's creepy. But I was out of line, and I apologize."
Tairiekie bowed again, this time deep and formal. "There is nothing on our slate."
Enrie giggled. It was a surprising sound coming from her, nervous-sounding, high-pitched and unsure. She bowed just as deeply and even more formally. "Our slate has been washed. Friends?"
"Of course. Now, let's find Saydrie."
"I'm here, I'm here. Are you guys going to send every instructor in the whole place after me?"
He was bustling down the hall, carrying not only his bag but a handful of instruments, a pair of Mechanics Lab goggles pushed back on his head.
"Only if you keep vanishing. Saydrie, what are you doing?"
"Something Instructor Kaasmasik said stuck in my head. You know how he was saying things about it being a still?"
"That was Riensin and Taikie… Tairiekie."
"Yes, sorry. But the Instructor said something similar, too. About how they'd managed to make this much of a mess of things. So I started reading on what happens when you distill aether."
"You found books on that?"
"Well, there's the section of the library that's written in Bitrani, and then another section written in Tabersi. So I went diving in those sections, and I found some interesting things. Some of the stuff related to Social Aetherics, Tairiekie."
"I don't really want to talk about that." She glanced sidelong at Enrie.
Enrie was shaking her head. "It's all right, Taiki… Tairiekie. I know I blew up, and I know it was unfair."
"It was kind of creepy," Tairiekie admitted. "I just wanted to understand."
"Did it help you understand?"
"A little? I think I need more data, but it got me pointed in a direction, and that helped a lot. I've drawn out some diagrams…." She peeked over at Enrie. "If you want to look at them and help me figure out how I'm missing the philosophy part, I'd really appreciate it."
"I'll try." Enrie turned her attention back to Saydrie. "What did you find?"
"I'm not sure, but I think I found out why the machine exploded."
"I thought Tairiekie figured that out. The overflow calve was misplaced."
"That's part of it, but I think I know what they were trying to do."
Tairiekie leaned forward. "They? You mean the ones who blew up the machine? I mean… you don't mean Instructor Talmizhaab, do you?"
"No, no, I don't think he did it. Has anyone seen him, by the way?"
"No. I mean, I've heard people mention him, but mostly in terms of his device, not in terms of, say, 'Instructor Talmizhaab is in the Lab.'"
Tairiekie frowned. "Come to think of it, that's a little strange. Even the Instructors that mostly teach upperclassmen have come around, especially to meet the pupils in their House."
"Maybe he's a code word." Enrie smiled broadly. "You know, like 'give the papers to Healer Kaitrin?'" They both blinked at her. "Like… with spies?"
"Spies?" Saydrie managed.
"Information gatherers. Collectors of data. Covert operatives."
"Who are you going to be covert about? There's only us."
"Well… there's lots of us?"
"If that's what they teach you in Diplomacy, I'm glad I'm in History and Literature."
The last thing they needed was to start fighting again. "You think you know why it exploded?"
"Oh. Oh, yes. Because they were trying to do what you did, I think, Tairiekie, but they made a mistake. Well, technically, I think they were trying to take a machine that had existed for some other purpose and retrofit it to work like your machine. But they didn't know what they were doing, and they added a couple pieces that made the overflow valve… well, not overflow. Like putting a privy in the middle of your house."
"What's a privy?"
"Bathhouse. Sort of. A farm-style bathhouse." Enrie wrinkled her nose.
"That doesn't sound like something you want in the middle of your house."
"Exactly!" Saydrie looked pleased, and then his expression dropped. "But nobody would listen to me. I tried talking to Instructor Pelnyen about it, but he yelled at me and told me to go sit down and read a history book. So I asked instructor Kaasmasik about it, because he's been asking us to look into things, but he got all strange and changed the subject." He brandished a scroll at them. "So I decided to do some research of my own, and that's when I figured out that they were probably trying to do the same thing as you did, Tairiekie."
"How did you… did you see the machine?"
"Oh, yeah." His cheeks colored. "If you go down the end of this passageway…"
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5 comments »
Hmm, now what exactly did Enerenarie think Kaatetzie needed to hear? One would hope, and assume from her reaction later, that it's not Tairiekie's device, but that leaves a whole lot of alternatives. Also, why is Enerenarie constantly using Tairiekie's diminutive and then correcting herself to the full name? Given Enerenarie's background that's got to be significant in some way…
In completely different news, what Saydrie is saying about the instructors reminds me uncomfortably of the Frodleikr incident in that other universe. 😛
"The overflow calve was misplaced." calve -> valve
Healer Kaitrin, eh? 😉
*big grin* Indeed.
Ooooo, I like the fact that they are all learning about engineering, and doing research together.
Oo, a code word.


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Perhaps, in the fifties and sixties, this was Marlon Brando's waterfront.
However, in the latter part of the 20th century and into this one, the quiet quays east of Yonge Street belonged, mostly, to Redpath Sugar and a handful of smaller operators. In 1998, Loblaws opened one of its new-concept grocery stores, which stood as a symbol of possibility for more than a decade. Then, in 2010, media giant Corus dropped anchor and, soon after, George Brown College with its health sciences building.
No mob bosses, no grit, no one-way tickets to Palookaville.
Today, with more campus buildings in progress or planned, this might very well be George Brown's waterfront by the 2020s.
While most of the attention the college has been getting lately concerns "The Arbour," the 12-storey, mass-timber winner of a design competition for a building to house its School of Computer Technology, (design by Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects), there is something bubbling up at the corner of Lower Jarvis Street and Queens Quay East that is far closer to completion. However, since George Brown's new School of Design sits within Daniels Corporation's currently rising "City of the Arts" complex – which combines residences with arts-based businesses and non-profits – you'd be forgiven for failing to notice.
"George Brown, when it was founded, was based on [Marshall] McLuhan's idea of the city as the classroom, so it was never isolated like York University," says the school's dean, Luigi Ferrara, who currently heads things up at 230 Richmond St. E. "The idea is to be integrated." Mr. Ferrara, in a blue hardhat and well-worn safety boots, stands at tall, west-facing, third-floor windows: "This will be Sugar Beach North," he says, pointing to the imaginary pink umbrellas that will mimic the popular shade-makers across the street. "It's great for us because, being the city college, we never had outdoor space."
As Mr. Ferrara pinballs around the cavernous, raw concrete space – he knows what every square inch of the school's 103,000 square feet is going to contain – he's quick to point out other gathering spaces, such as the Yard, which will sit between the office buildings and residential towers to provide a sort of "living room" to the complex by featuring cafes, restaurants and an art gallery.
And then there's the Orchid, an organically shaped chunk carved right out of the building's south-west corner. Oriented toward the hulking mass of the Redpath refinery, it's a tiny amphitheatre with stepped seating and a dreamy view of sailboats gliding across Lake Ontario. "Let's say you're faculty, you want to take your students outside and talk," Mr. Ferrara says, "or you're having a charrette and people need to break out, come, relax, sit."
Of course there will be plenty of space for serious design work. And students will either be inside "the Bean" or outside of it; really dubbed the Innovation Exchange, this large, bean-shaped enclosure will occupy the middle of both the second and third floors (there are even floor cut-outs to show the bean stretching between levels) and contain everything from an auditorium, the Future Ways of Living Lab, a library, virtual and augmented reality labs, and a Testing and Usability Lab. Outside of the Bean, there will be classrooms, drawing studios, a maker space, and, of course, offices for faculty. Interestingly, industry partners will be on site to actively participate with students. (Hopefully Microsoft Canada president Kevin Peesker, who warned in the Report on Business of a coming "technology tsunami" and that Canada must invest in training or "be left behind," will be one of them).
Since other floors of the building will house architecture firms (Core Architects has announced their relocation here), animation studios such as House of Cool, The Remix Project, which helps marginalized youth enter creative industries, and the Manifesto Festival of Community and Culture, the school hopes to "capitalize on these adjacencies." Mr. Ferrara laughs when he thinks back to his days as an architecture student at the University of Toronto, when he fantasized about designing an architecture school building that would share space with the very firms that would hire its graduates: "Weirdly, this is what we're going to have … it's good positioning for the students."
These well-positioned students, by the way, often come from the families of new Canadians or underprivileged neighbourhoods, since George Brown specializes in outreach, bridging programs and scholarships. Mr. Ferrara's eyes light up as he tells the story of a young woman who was forced to leave high school at 15 to help support her family, who eventually started her own graphic design business. She enrolled in a George Brown program designed to help young entrepreneurs, which would also award $10,000 to whomever could produce the best business model. She won and, rather than putting the winnings into her business, she enrolled at the college full time, since she'd never had tuition money before.
"I wish this was just one student; it's most of our students that have financial aid issues," he says.
With its extra-high ceilings – created especially for the college "because we're used to the loft feeling and we didn't want to lose that," Mr. Ferrara explains – classrooms of glass to allow light to spill into hallways and a floor plan by IBI Group is flexible enough to meet the esoteric needs of creative students and instructors, the new waterfront school seems poised to hit the (future) ground running … or perhaps hit the water sailing?
"Design is all about the future, it's about tomorrow and that's what we're doing," Mr. Ferrara says.
George Brown College has just begun a fundraising campaign for the new School of Design. Most of the spaces mentioned here are available for corporate sponsorship/branding at different levels of financial commitment.


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A curious leak from Microsoft offered a glimpse of life without Windows.
Software Development Times claims to have peeked at internal Microsoft documents about Midori, a prototype operating system that could one day replace Windows. This is not the media's first glance at Midori, but these fresh rumors have analysts again imagining a future of "cloud computing."
For decades, Microsoft's business model has relied on tethering each copy of its operating system to a single computer. The cost of the OS was hidden – rolled into the price of the PC – and there was no easy way of getting your system preferences, desktop layout, or the OS itself off that one machine.
This scheme worked wonders for Microsoft: "Eighty percent of Windows sales are made when a new PC is sold," a Gartner analyst told the BBC.
But as web browsers grow more powerful, the importance of an operating system deflates. Facebook doesn't care if you use a Mac or PC – or a cellphone for that matter. Nor does Google Docs, nor Photoshop Express, nor many of the websites that are increasingly acting like applications. So if browsers are the new operating system, where does that leave Windows?
Midori latches onto the imagined next major step for PCs: cloud computing. Midori would be an Internet-anchored OS. Unlike Vista, which is largely based on older versions of Windows, this will be completely rewritten software.
Even these new rumors offer little insight into the real mechanics of the operation. Who knows what form, name, or relevance it could take? Perhaps future technology will rev so fast that it blows past the "cloud" concept behind Midori.
The official word from Microsoft is equally hazy: "Midori is one of many incubation projects under way at Microsoft. It's simply a matter of being too early in the incubation to talk about it."
The common daydream is that this OS takes up a fraction of your hard-drive space but offers many more features. Your computer wouldn't need much processing power, because number-crunching could be done on a distant machine and the results would beam back to your monitor. This could mean smaller machines (no need to pack so many chips into one box), more communication between PCs and pseudo-PCs (e.g. cellphones and PDAs), and the ability to load your personal desktop from any device (turn on the machine and Midori downloads everything you'd need to feel at home).


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How do I Treat Yellow Toenails?
Yellow toenails are usually caused by a fungus. This fungus gets beneath the toenail and causes the nail to become brittle. In some cases, the toenail will crack and separate from the nail bed. The treatment methods for yellow toenail fungus will depend upon the severity of the infection. An individual who has a history of nail fungus should learn nail-fungus-prevention methods to keep his toenails healthy.
Anti-fungal creams or lotions may be prescribed for toenail infections that are mild or moderate. These creams are rubbed on the affected toenails and the surrounding skin. The anti-fungal creams can keep the fungus from spreading to other toenails. Most of these anti-fungal creams are available only by prescription.
If the anti-fungal creams do not work or if the toenail infection is moderate to severe, oral medications are usually used to treat yellow toenails. These medications must be prescribed by a doctor. An individual who is placed on oral medications to treat a toenail infection must be monitored by his doctor closely to avoid developing dangerous side effects. Oral medications are usually the most effective way to treat yellow toenails.
Nail fungus can return even after successful treatment with oral or topical medications. Sometimes the recurrence of yellow toenails will be the result of a new infection. If the previous toenail infection involved the big toe, the recurrence is most likely coming from the original fungi. It is best to take the necessary steps to prevent yellow toenail fungus from coming back.
Toenail infections that will not go away or infections that keep coming back may need a more drastic treatment. In some cases, the doctor may decide to remove the toenail completely and treat the nail bed and surrounding skin. When the toenail grows back there should be no more problem with yellow toenails.
Individuals who have a problem with yellow toenails must keep their feet dry. Fungi thrives in a warm and moist environment. It is important to wear cotton socks when wearing enclosed shoes. Sandals should be worn in the summer to keep the feet dry. If an individual has yellow toenails and diabetes, good foot care is extremely important to prevent a more severe infection.
Shower shoes must be worn in all public shower rooms or pool areas. Individuals should not share socks or shoes with each other. Pedicures should be performed only in salons that use sterile instruments because nail fungus can live on these pedicure tools. It is important that great care is taken not to injure the toenails. Just one small cut on the toe can allow a nail fungus to enter.
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My friend claims that he treated his yellow, cracked toenails with apple cider vinegar and tea tree oil. Has anyone tried these? Do they really work?
I know that nail fungus is very hard to get rid of. Sometimes it takes several courses of anti-fungal medications to get rid of them because they keep coming back. So I haven't really considered natural remedies. I don't feel like these remedies would be strong enough.
@turquoise-- Toenails usually don't turn yellow unless there is an infection. Are you sure that you don't have fungus? Do you have thick, yellow, flaky toenails? You might want to see your doctor if you haven't yet just to confirm that there is no infection. Because if infection is the cause, no matter what you do, you won't be able to get rid of them without anti-fungal medications.
By the way, do you wear nail polish a lot? Or do you always wear closed shoes? I've heard that those who always wear nail polish or closed shoes will get yellow toenails because the nails aren't getting enough air. Stop wearing nail polish and expose your feet to air as much as possible.
I don't have toenail fungus, I just have yellow toenails. How can I whiten them? They look so ugly and I'm ashamed of showing my feet.


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After the success of the award winning film "The Chop", I couldn't wait to collaborate with Ed Oxley again and shoot the follow up 'The Vain Vagrant'. Here is the press release:
On Friday the 25th of July, Great Rock in collaboration with Magic Rock Brewing present the Vain Vagrant video launch party in a fabulous old Baptist chapel in Hebden Bridge.
Releasing the latest Great Rock video gives us the chance to host a party to remember. Magic Rock will be running a bar with Vain Vagrant Pale Ale on tap and there will be many curiosities from the Great Rock world on display!
If you'd like to come (and you're all welcome!) please let us know. We've gone all modern so you can say yes on our Face book event page http://bit.do/vain-vagrant
Location : http://tinyurl.com/Vain-vagrant-map
The Vain Vagrant is the sequel to the massive hit, "The Chop" http://vimeo.com/79572828 (34k plays on Vimeo and winner of the coveted Golden Helmet Award from the Filmed by Bike film festival in Portland, Oregon). The launch will be the premier with the video going online the following week.
The video sees Ed resurrected from the dead in a most surprising way. He then goes on a surreal journey which includes sartorial elegance, bike porn, gratuitous mountain bike riding, fine ale appreciation and weird scenes of Hebden Bridge.
As well as screening the Vain Vagrant we will show The Chop and In Search of Peaty, the last two Great Rock videos.
We're going to have fabulous Santa Cruz Bicycles to look at and stroke along with the guys from the UK distributor to answer questions like, "where's the engine" and "you could get a car for that." Ed's own bikes will also be on display.
There will be free hair cuts and beard trims by North West Barber Co. who starred in The Chop. The barber's chair will be set in a pop up shop from The Weird and the Wonderful with antlers, butterflies and other natural history delights and odd ball items of taxidermy.
We're also very lucky to have the talented tattooist Richard Lazenby from the Black Anchor Tattoo Sheffield Studio in Sheffield and he will be offering small commemorative tattoos at no cost! Richard might be in the new video tattooing Ed, but that's a secret!
Dr Craig, from underground Hebden Bridge night Duende, will be spinning psychedelic folk and other acoustic delights on vinyl to keep us chilled and inspired.
Ace Canadian bike component company Chromag Bikes will have products on display to drool over.
The cycling clothing boutique Victor and Liberty will be bringing along a host of stylish Vulpine clothing as well as some other select pieces.
Bern UK will have a selection of cool helmets to check out.
Alpine Outdoors, Hebden Bridge's classy outdoor shop, will have outdoor gear porn.
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- 2005 Fun Ford Events Thunder Valley Bristol, Tennessee - True Street Hits The High Banks
2005 Fun Ford Events Thunder Valley Bristol, Tennessee - True Street Hits The High Banks
Fun Ford Gives The Guys A Taste Of Nascar
Thunder Valley in Bristol, Tennessee has always been a favorite destination for drivers on the Fun Ford tour. It's centrally located at a great facility and it always happens at the right time of year. True Street participants received an extra special treat this year as they were able to hit the high banks at the adjacent Nascar track.
Following the 30-mile cruise, the roar of 70-plus Fords filled the air as participants rolled onto the all-concrete surface. With the sound reverberating off of 160,000 empty seats, there were a lot of smiles. There wasn't any racing allowed on the .533 mile concrete oval, no one was spun out, and tempers never flared, but that didn't keep a few drivers from taking the high groove with 36 degrees of banking as they took a couple of laps around the track.
When it was all said and done, there were some memories made that a lot of the other racers and car show participants wished they could have had. It was an experience to remember!
2005 Season ResultsWhat happened in Fun Ford during 2005? More than these few pages can tell. People may only remember the champions, but it's worth the effort to recognize all of the top points finishers in each of the Fun Ford Showdown classes. Here is a brief recap of what happened class by class. You can bet the guys and gals in each of these classes are already working for an even better finish this year.


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Author: Julie Murphy
Publisher: Harper Collins/ Balzer & Bray
Publication Date: March 18, 2014
What if you'd been living your life as if you were dying—only to find out that you had your whole future ahead of you?
When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is grim. To maximize the time she does have, she vows to spend her final months righting wrongs—however she sees fit. She convinces her friend Harvey, whom she knows has always had feelings for her, to help her with a crazy bucket list that's as much about revenge (humiliating her ex-boyfriend and getting back at her arch nemesis) as it is about hope (doing something unexpectedly kind for a stranger and reliving some childhood memories). But just when Alice's scores are settled, she goes into remission.
Now Alice is forced to face the consequences of all that she's said and done, as well as her true feelings for Harvey. But has she done irreparable damage to the people around her, and to the one person who matters most?
Julie Murphy's SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY is a fearless and moving tour de force about love, life, and facing your own mortality.
Alice has already accepted her fate. A sixteen year old diagnosed with leukemia, this isn't some miracle waiting to happen. The very thing that's supposed to be curing her is killing her. When her parents decide it's time to stop the chemo, Alice knows they just pulled the plug. She's going to die. With the help of her best friend, Harvey, who's had a crush on her since they were little, she gets revenge on her homophobic ex boyfriend who messed with one of her classmates and an arch nemesis of hers since she was a kid, relives some childhood memories, and tries some things she's never done before. Just as Alice decides she's done making marks, she goes into remission. Bam. Now, Alice has to go back and face all the horrible things she's done, all while trying to deal with her conflicted feelings about Harvey.
Alice is a brat. She's mean, and vengeful, and deeply flawed, and selfish and uses Harvey. Actually, she treats him like a dog. And I think that's why I liked her so much. Don't get me wrong, she's horrible, but she seems so realistic, you can't help but sympathize with her. I've actually never read a book told by a mean girl, and I only hope they all have the same second thoughts as Alice, even if they brush them aside. Harvey is SO much more likeable, but honestly, I didn't like him that much. Even though Alice treats him like a dog, Harvey lets her, even when he doesn't want to. She always manages to pull him back. His lack of...self control(?) really bothered me. I do kinda get where he's coming from though. Alice treats him like a yo-yo, bringing him in and letting him feel like there is something between them, and then pushing him away, leaving him stranded. I felt bad for him, but it was more like an "Oh, poor you, boo hoo, now deal with it." than actually sympathizing with him.
I really did like how not only did the story alternate between Alice and Harvey, but also between the past and present. Some people might not like that though, so watch out. There is a lot of cussing in this book, so not for younger kids. Overall, Side Effects May Vary is a great, not cliché cancer story that won't make you sob your eyes out.


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Have I told you we have a new addition in our family? A dog. Now I am NOT a dog person, as you may know. But….he has grown on me, and everyone in our family. Maybe it was time. After juggling the births and infant-hood of five children maybe we were all ready for a new addition and the chaos of a puppy. He is a Hungarian Vizsla. He has a gorgeous caramel coloured coat and his name is Bono, after the U2 lead. He is primary cared for by my boy. But we all play with him, feed and walk him.
He has been with us for a few months now and is able to cope with the short trip to the beach. So his presence has made our weekends away much more active.
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Adults often think it's too late for them to get their teeth straightened. Not so! Just about anybody with healthy teeth and gums can have their teeth straightened. In fact, our Surrey dentists consider Invisalign to be an ideal treatment option for adults. Here are a few reasons why.
Although most people associate orthodontic treatment with children and teenagers, more and more adults are choosing to get their teeth straightened these days.
A big part of the reason for this is the availability of lower profile orthodontic treatment options that aren't as obvious visally as traditional metal braces are.
When it comes to orthodontic treatment, adults are often put off by the idea of wearing metal braces because they can't really be hidden, and can create a youthful look that is not necessarily compatible with the professional appearance they want to maintain in the workplace.
There are also certain social pressures to consider; potential adults orthodontic patients feel they would be self-conscious wearing traditional braces in social settings.
The fact remains, though, that straight teeth are a very important part of your oral health, and orthodontic treatment should not be avoided simply because of aesthetic concerns. This is especially true now that orthodontic treatment options like Invisalign are available.
How Invisalign Helps
Invisalign is a series of clear plastic aligners that straighten teeth just like metal braces do. The important difference is that they are clear, meaning that they are very difficult to see, and indeed almost invisible, when worn.
Invisalign aligners can also be removed to eat, and to brush and floss teeth, which makes them a very convenient option for adulst who don't want to take on big changes to their diets or routines.
This aspect makes Invisalign a great choice for adults who are concerned about aesthetics.


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Cummins Uses Clean Technologies to Help Major Global Cities Reduce Pollution and Improve the Environment
Global power and technology leader Cummins Inc., (NYSE: CMI) today announced it is joining three other global manufacturers as part of an initiative to help 20 large cities around the world address air quality standards and combat climate change. Cummins and the other manufacturers have committed to making it easier for these major cities to purchase buses equipped with low-emissions technologies.
Global power and technology leader Cummins Inc., (NYSE: CMI) today announced it is joining three other global manufacturers as part of an initiative to help 20 large cities around the world address air quality standards and combat climate change. Cummins and the other manufacturers have committed to making it easier for these major cities to purchase buses equipped with low-emissions technologies.
"We are thrilled to be part of this initiative with great partners who are committed to doing the right thing for our customers and the environment," said Antonio Leitao, Vice President, Europe Area Business Organization, Cummins Inc. "Cummins is the global leader in low-emissions technologies and, as always, we want to help bring the cleanest and best-performing engines and technologies to cities around the globe."
Cummins offers the broadest portfolio of products to meet every emissions standard anywhere in the world. The company's range of products for buses include diesel and natural gas options and it has pledged to begin producing electric powertrains for buses by 2019. Cummins is also the global leader in aftertreatment products that have reduced criteria pollutants by 99 percent during the past several decades.
The company is the top bus engine supplier in the world, shipping engines to more than 140 countries and transporting more than two billion passengers daily thanks to its unparalleled global support network. Cummins produced almost 48,000 clean diesel and natural gas engines in 2016 and now powers nine of every 10 buses in North America.
Nearly all of the cities benefitting from this partnership are in countries that do not have rigorous emissions regulations and do not require the sale of soot-free buses today, including: Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Dhaka, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Lagos, Lima, Manila, Mexico City, Nairobi, Santiago, Sao Paulo, and Sydney. These cities have also committed to ensuring that low-sulfur fuel is made available and that customers and fleets prioritize the purchase of clean-bus technology in order to help manufacturers meet their commitment.
"I welcome the commitment of these bus manufacturers to make cleaner, safer engine technologies available to millions of citizens in the global south," said C40 Executive Director, Mark Watts. "This is yet another example of cities and the private sector working together to tackle the most urgent challenges that we face."
Soot-free is defined as including any engine that meets Euro VI norms first established in Europe or EPA 2010 norms first established in the United States, in addition to any diesel engine with a diesel particulate filter, gas-powered engine, or a dedicated electric drive engine. Further reductions in climate impacts of soot-free buses are achievable with low-carbon fuels and engines that deliver the lowest lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions.
Cummins Inc., a global power leader, is a corporation of complementary business segments that design, manufacture, distribute and service a broad portfolio of power solutions. The company's products range from diesel, natural gas, electric and hybrid powertrains and powertrain-related components including filtration, aftertreatment, turbochargers, fuel systems, controls systems, air handling systems, automated transmissions, electric power generation systems, batteries, electrified power systems, hydrogen generation and fuel cell products. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), since its founding in 1919, Cummins employs approximately 61,600 people committed to powering a more prosperous world through three global corporate responsibility priorities critical to healthy communities: education, environment and equality of opportunity. Cummins serves its customers online, through a network of company-owned and independent distributor locations, and through thousands of dealer locations worldwide and earned about $2.3 billion on sales of $23.6 billion in 2019. See how Cummins is powering a world that's always on by accessing news releases and more information at https://www.cummins.com/always-on.