I've not minced my words when it comes to the fact that I will always have a big ole' soft spot for my former stomping grounds. Besides the people – my fabulous friends, hysterical co-workers, the curious and strange souls, and even the sweet coffee-cart-man on 48th and Park who had my morning cup ready and waiting every day just the way I like it (large, with a generous tip of cream) – the thing I find most enticing about that great big city is the food.
Being as interested in cooking and eating as I am (yes, I do loathe the term 'foodie' and will continue to avoid it at all costs….**shudder**), I am massively lucky to have ended up in Boulder. For a city that takes up only a small sliver of the size of New York City's giant and jumbled pie, there has been an answer – and an amazing one at that – to every one of my old favorites. Lights out bakeries, small meticulously curated restaurants, white tablecloth service, excellent vegetarian, killer Neapolitan pies, craft breweries, impossibly fresh seafood, and food trucks galore….my little city of one-hundred-thousand does a bang-up-job when it comes head to head in comparison with my old playground – a playground that contains, arguably, some of the best food in the world.
However there are some things that are so unique to a certain place, there is just no amount of re-creation, re-imagination, or re–anything that can be done to properly replicate them, and, to be frank — you wouldn't want to. There are a thousand rotating reasons I will forever have to be excited for trips back to New York, and if I had access to all of each and every one of those things, well….
But there are a few things….a few small, round, crunchy and delightfully chewy things that I am oh-so-happy I can whip up on my own.
When one of aforementioned fabulous friends (Mary) drops a package in the mail that contains a little piece of aforementioned food in mailable format (The Momofuku Milk Bar Cookbook), I am not going to be in any position to refrain from trying to make everything that the outrageously quirky bakery stocks it's shelves with.
Fire up some beachy tunes, grab some meyer lemons, and make ice cream — obvi!!
I've been thoroughly enjoying our weekends in the mountains and must admit that when you live somewhere that you can actually take advantage of all of this snow – it's rather nice. Back in New York, a big snowfall was a week-long-at-least death sentence that meant mucky black sidewalks and the certain demise of the hemlines on all of your pants. Out here in Colorado, that same snow manages to keep it's pristine achromatic hue for more than just the first-freshly-fallen fifteen minutes, and there are actual things to do here which cheerfully center around it. Things that involve being outside, and that are actually fun.
But all the while that I am truly enjoying this Winter, I wince each time I catch a glimpse of my pale legs, and it would be nice to wear a white blouse again….without being mistaken for a friendly little ghost.
Three years ago, my now sister-in-law came over to our itty-bitty twenty-second floor apartment in Greenwich Village to share presents and enjoy an early Christmas dinner with us. In our teeny galley kitchen we were balancing plates and juggling the ingredients for the proper three course holiday meal, that I can still remember as clearly as if it were yesterday.
Back when co-habitating in 'sin' in that very first apartment, when it came to elbow room in the kitchen — we weren't working with much (and even that's being generous). For if you opened the oven door whilst standing in the teeny galley setup, you became trapped inside all of it's steamy minute-square-footage glory, and fuggedabout about opening the fridge or dishwasher if you had kitchen company – the space allowed for operating strictly on a one-in-one-out basis.
Even so, we were not deterred in our mission to host a lovely holiday meal. I had set the cheese plate (carefully curated by moi) teetering out on the living room chest that not only held extra blankets, but moonlighted as our dinner table. I had perfectly balanced the salad bowl atop the toaster oven to stand in waiting until his turn, and had seared the lamb chops that we had splurged on from the local butcher on a grill pan after marinating them in rosemary and garlic. I had baked a lemon cake earlier that afternoon which we nestled amongst bottles of red on top of the fridge, and there was a melange of sweet potatoes and cream simmering on the back corner of the stovetop. All in, I thought a far more sophisticated menu than our set-up alluded to.
Of course nothing can be that perfect when you are twenty-five and still navigating the mostly yet uncharted waters of domesticity – in a shoebox, no less. I, the uber-excited-host, lost track of time while sipping white wine and chatting up our guest, leaving the potatoes to simmer down to something less 'melange' and more 'morose.' I neglected to think about washing and ironing our new linen napkins, leaving them perma-creased and rough enough to take the skin off your chin with one swipe (nevermind that said napkins were light pink – more Easter than Christmas, but a minor detail, no?). And finally halfway through chop-searing, our pesky fire alarm decided to sound off, reminding us for at least ten solid minutes that it was smoky in our tiny abode. As if we couldn't already tell.
However in the end, our little dinner was perfect. Despite the melange making it's way straight to the gar-bage, the lamb chops were perfectly cooked and the cake was light and lemony – I suppose all things considered the main course and dessert are the two most important components at the end of the day anyway. But what really stood out that night was a most curious looking little bag of treats that my future-sister-in-law had brought with her – jagged little toffee-brittle looking cookies that she insisted were very simple to make.
After inhaling no less than 5 extra large pieces (and at least 3 more at the end of the evening while I finished scrubbing aforementioned grill pan) I was completely hooked, and intrigued. What were these things?? From outward appearances I could deduce that there was a cracker – a saltine even – involved as the bottom layer, with a layer of bittersweet chocolate blanketing the top. The middle had some sort of magical salty-sweet caramel holding it all together, that had seeped through and around the crackers, crusting up inside of all of the holes and transforming them into something otherworldly.
After a bit of internet sleuthing, I came upon a recipe on Smitten Kitchen that fit their description perfectly: Chocolate Caramel Crack(ers) where Deb lovingly refers to them as 'crack' both for the crackers, but also for the more sinister and addictive stuff that they liken themselves to as you uncontrollably go back for thirds, fourths — and fifths.
These are soooo sinfully good – they taste like a souped up hybrid of a Twix bar and a Heath bar, but still retain that homemade edge and goodness that any of that store bought junk just can't hold a candle to. One look at the butter and sugar content and undoubtably you will be scrambling for your sneakers and gym pass, but let's just shelve those thoughts until after the holidays, shall we? These cracker/cookies are so, so easy to make with things that most pantries are already stocked with – brown sugar, butter, saltines, and chocolate chips. With something so insanely good coming from something so simple, this is a great recipe to have on hand for impromptu gatherings or holiday cookie parties when you already have too many other things on your plate (late holiday shopper who?) or just want to make something really decadent, really fast.
Make these today – you'll thank me tomorrow!
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line an 11-by-17-inch rimmed baking sheet completely with foil, and then line the base of the foil with parchment paper, cut to fit in the bottom of the pan. The parchment is key, as it will prevent sticking (and this is sticky stuff).
In a medium heavy-duty saucepan, melt the butter and brown sugar together, and stir it over medium heat until it begins to boil. Once it has begun boiling, let it bubble for three more minutes, stirring it well the entire time to prevent burning. It will thicken a bit as it cooks. Remove it from the heat and stir in the salt and vanilla, and then quickly pour the mixture over the crackers or matzo. Spread the mixture quickly over the crackers to cover the entire surface area of crackers. Do this quickly, as it will begin to set and harden quickly.
Bake the caramel-covered crackers for 15 minutes, watching carefully as it will bubble and the corners might darken too quickly and/or burn — reduce the heat if you see this happening.
Remove from oven and immediately cover the baked caramel crackers with chocolate chips. Let it stand five minutes, and then spread the chips evenly across the caramel – they will be melted and it will be surprisingly easy to do so. Sprinkle the surface with a bit of sea salt (but also remember Saltines are already salty & Matzo is not, so use more salt if using Matzo // less if using Saltines, depending on how salty you like things).
Once completely cool (this can be sped up in the fridge, or if you are like me, out on the deck on a cold December Colorado morning), break the sheet up into pieces and store in a ziplock or plastic container in the fridge.
It will keep for at least a week in the fridge.
These are the types of things that keep an adolescent girl up at night, and inevitably I'd be torn.
These days, my dilemmas have thankfully moved past cringe-worthy and clunky-soled shoes; however I still find myself cruising through boutiques and agonizing over frocks for friends weddings or impractical heels for parties. Without fail, after going home and letting the dust settle, I can only ever really remember one or two standouts and know immediately that those are the pieces meant to live in my closet.
Recipes, though not exactly congruent with a frighteningly priced pair of this season's boots, tend to have a similar effect on me: I'll dog-ear cookbooks and magazines and bookmark blogs where I see things I just must make and then……totally forget about them. Except that is, for the few standouts that cut through my recipe fog and into the clear place where they take their place in line. These Vanilla Roasted Pears hold such a distinction, and after drooling onto my mouse whilst reading about them on Smitten Kitchen almost two years ago (!), I am still thinking about them – especially now that pears and all things roasted and vanilla sound just delightful.
It's embarrassing to admit that it took me that long to get my act together and make these. As Deb points out, it's more of an approach and less of a recipe, and involves less effort than watering your plants. (Which, I am also embarrassed to admit, I often forget to do on a weekly basis – withering basil leaves be damned!) Essentially you chuck some peeled and halved pears in a pan with a bit of lemon juice, sugar, butter and half of a fresh vanilla bean – right there how can you go wrong? – and then roast the whole mess until the pears are soft and uniform in texture. The pear juices do this magical thing with the sugar and butter and come out on the other side of the roast having made a thick, luscious, caramelly sauce that I unabashedly and (once again embarrassingly) tried to eat with a spoon directly out of the oven, only to dribble it down my chin and burn myself.
Do not be fooled by the simplicity of these, and do not, please oh please do not overlook them even if you think you might not love pears. In my experience, this preparation takes even the pear skeptic (ahem, le husband) and leaves them reveling in its simple deliciousness. The fact that your house smells a zillion times better than any vanilla candle could ever hope to come close to is just an added bonus, and one that caused even the Puglet to hang around the oven, sniffing expectantly at it's fragrant seams. This is an ideal light dessert for a luncheon but is also special enough for the holidays or dinner parties, when paired with some good ice cream or lightly sweet custard. The leftovers (if you're crazy enough to have any) gussy up plain oatmeal and I also suspect would taste delicious diced up and served with some good cheese.
I followed this recipe pretty much exactly, using some of Deb's advice (coring the pears & splitting the vanilla bean into smaller pieces). It is honestly foolproof – chuck the ingredients in the pan, and in 45 minutes or so you have a house that smells insane and pears flecked with vanilla bubbling in their own caramelized juices. Sally Schneider at The Atlantic recommends to use slightly underripe pears, and I think thats great advice; pick some on the firmer side to avoid any that are mealy or overly sweet.
Preheat oven to 375F. Peel the pears, and halve them vertically through the stem (keep the stem attached to one half of the pear, just for its cute looks – we like cute). Scoop out the seeds with a melon baller or small spoon, and remove the slightly woody core with a paring knife, if you'd like (I like this step, recommended by Deb, not Sally, and simply cut a little 'V' out of the center where the stem/core runs as you can see in the pictures above).
Place the sugar in a small bowl. With a thin, sharp knife, carefully split the vanilla bean lengthwise in half and scrape out the seeds. Stir the seeds into the sugar until the sugar is flecked with the little black seeds.
Arrange the pears in a large baking dish, with the cut-side up. Drizzle the lemon juice evenly over the fruit, then sprinkle evenly with the vanilla sugar. Nestle the vanilla pod among the fruit (again as Deb recommended I split the halves of the bean again into halves, thus making 4 skinny quarter strips – more vanilla goodness to go around). Pour the water into the dish. Dot each pear with some butter.
Roast the pears 30 minutes, brushing them occasionally with the pan juices. Turn the pears over and continue roasting, basting once or twice, until tender and caramelized, 25 to 30 minutes longer (if the pears are small, test for doneness after 35 or 40 minutes of cooking; a paring knife poked into the thickest part of one should meet with no resistance). Be sure to keep an eye on them if the thickened caramelly juices are looking golden brown; the sugar will cause it to burn quickly, and trust me – you want all of that pear caramel to be edible and not burnt. It's outrageous.
Serve the pears warm, with a dollop of whipped cream, a scoop of ice cream (I had some homemade salted caramel ice cream which was *so* good), or a spoonful of mascarpone cheese. The pears will keep, covered and refrigerated, for a couple of days. We chopped up the leftovers and stirred them into oatmeal with a pinch of brown sugar, which was divine.
I paid $9 for a pint of strawberries last weekend.
Yes. You read that right. Ninedollars.
For someone that has always insisted that she's very principled and strong willed when it comes to paying for something that is way, egregiously overpriced – I couldn't help myself! I really hadn't even planned on buying any berries to begin with. It all started while I was strolling through the farmer's market on Saturday looking for some leeks and some fresh fennel to go into a Spring vegetable risotto I planned on making for a dinner party that evening.
Oh, Superbowl, how I love thee. Let me count the ways….
Admittedly my excitement over the matter tends to skew towards one & two above, but still I genuinely enjoy that cozy Sunday night in early February when all of America hunkers down in front of the TV to root for their favorite contender. When my beloved Patriots Ravens (a traitor I know!) are not in the running, the night tends to take on a softer, less intensely fueled attitude. As such was the case this year, we decided to skip the bar and instead have a small group of friends at our place for a mellow evening of eating, drinking, and general merriment.


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La meningoencefalitis amebiana primaria (MAP) es una enfermedad poco frecuente del sistema nervioso central causada por la infección de la ameba Naegleria fowleri.

Síntomas
En los 3-7 días después de contraer la infección, los síntomas típicos son la distorsión del sentido del olfato, que progresa rápidamente, incapacidad para oler (con la consiguiente imposibilidad de percibir el sabor de los alimentos) provocado por el consumo por parte del parásito de las células nerviosas del olfato y la consiguiente muerte de estas.

Tras la progresiva multiplicación de los organismos causantes de la infección se habrán consumido en gran medida los bulbos olfativos, y la infección se propaga rápidamente a través de los axones de las células mitrales al resto del cerebro, resultando en la aparición de síntomas cerebrales, incluyendo dolor de cabeza, náuseas, y la rigidez de los músculos del cuello, progresando a vómitos, delirio, convulsiones, y en ocasiones un coma irreversible. La muerte generalmente ocurre dentro de los 14 días de exposición, como resultado de la insuficiencia respiratoria cuando la infección se propaga al tronco cerebral, la destrucción de las células nerviosas autónomas del bulbo raquídeo.

Patogenia
Naegleria fowleri se propaga a través de aguas calientes y estancadas (típicamente durante los meses de verano), y entra en el sistema nervioso central después de la insuflación de agua infectada uniéndose al nervio olfativo.  A continuación, la ameba migra a través de la lámina cribosa hasta el bulbo olfatorio del cerebro,  donde se multiplica en gran medida alimentándose del tejido nervioso.

Causa
Naegleria fowleri es un parásito conocido comúnmente como un tipo de ameba. La infección se produce normalmente durante los meses de verano y los pacientes suelen tener antecedentes de exposición a agua estancada. El organismo prefiere temperaturas superiores a 32 °C como ocurre en las aguas de climas tropicales o en el agua calentada por la actividad geotérmica. El organismo es extremadamente sensible al cloro (<0,5 ppm), por lo que resulta fácil eliminar esta ameba mediante la cloración del agua. La exposición al organismo es muy común debido a su amplia distribución en la naturaleza, pero hasta ahora carece de la capacidad de infectar el cuerpo a través de cualquier método que no sea el contacto directo con el nervio olfativo; además el agua contaminada debe ser profundamente insuflada en las cavidades de los senos para que se produzca la transmisión.

Michael Beach, especialista que trabaja en el Centro para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC según sus siglas en inglés), afirmó en declaraciones a The Associated Press que el uso de clips para la nariz, que impiden la insuflación de agua contaminada, sería una protección eficaz contra la infección MAP.

Epidemiología

La enfermedad es rara y altamente letal. Parte de los casos de este tipo de infección son diagnosticados post mortem, debido a la rapidez con la que avanzan los síntomas y al escaso número de casos que ocurren, lo que dificulta el diagnóstico médico.

Esta forma de infección del sistema nervioso por ameba fue documentado por primera vez en Australia en 1965. En 1966, se reportaron cuatro casos en los EE. UU. En 1968 el organismo causante fue identificado como Naegleria. En 1970, la especie de ameba fue nombrado N.fowleri.

Argentina dio a conocer su primer caso de infección por N. fowleri durante febrero de 2017, cuando un niño de 8 años oriundo de General Arenales, provincia de Buenos Aires, presentó un cuadro clínico típico: fallas respiratorias y hemodinámicas, encefalitis, deterioro progresivo del sensorio, hemiparesia braquiocrural derecha y convulsiones. Falleció dentro de los cinco y siete días desde que iniciaron los síntomas.

En octubre de 1978, una joven que nadó con delfines en un club local de natación, en el restaurado baño romano en Bath, Somerset, contrajo meningitis y murió, lo cual llevó al cierre del lugar durante varios años. Las pruebas mostraron que la ameba N.fowleri estaba presente en el agua.

Ha habido 31 sucesos notificados entre 2003 y 2012 en los Estados Unidos. Aunque la mayoría de los casos han ocurrido en los grandes lagos y ríos, en diciembre de 2011, dos individuos en Luisiana murieron después de inhalar agua del grifo infectada durante el uso de una olla Neti .

A pesar de ser poco frecuente, 8 personas murieron por la infección de N. Fowleri en menos de una semana en el sur de Pakistán en julio de 2012.

En 2018, una niña de 10 años en España sufrió la infección de N. Fowleri al nadar en una piscina en cuya agua se encontraba esta ameba en Torrijos, Toledo (España). En este caso la niña se recuperó milagrosamente.

Tratamiento
El tratamiento estándar actual es la administración por vía intravenosa de dosis de anfotericina B, un antifúngico que es uno de los pocos tratamientos efectivos para las infecciones sistémicas provocada por parásitos (por ejemplo, leishmaniasis y toxoplasmosis ). La tasa de éxito en el tratamiento de MAP es por lo general bastante malo, ya que por el momento el diagnóstico definitivo de la mayoría de los pacientes se ha producido en la etapa final de la enfermedad, cuando se han destruido un gran número de células en el cerebro. Incluso si el diagnóstico definitivo se efectúa con suficiente antelación, la anfotericina B también causa significativa y permanente toxicidad renal en las dosis necesarias para detener rápidamente el progreso de las amebas a través del cerebro.

La alta tasa de mortalidad de esta enfermedad se atribuye en gran medida a la sintomatología poco característica de la enfermedad en estadio temprano, agravada por la necesidad de cultivo microbiano del líquido cefalorraquídeo para efectuar un positivo diagnóstico. El parásito también demuestra una especialmente rápida propagación en la última etapa a través de los nervios del sistema olfativo a muchas partes del cerebro simultáneamente. Por estas razones, se ha sugerido que los médicos deben darle una variedad de medicamentos antimicrobianos, incluidos los fármacos utilizados para tratar la encefalitis amebiana, antes de que la enfermedad se confirme con el fin de aumentar el número de supervivientes. Sin embargo, la administración de varios de esos fármacos a la vez es a menudo muy peligroso y desagradable para el paciente.

Referencias

https://web.archive.org/web/20150404005302/http://www.epidemiologia.salud.gob.mx/doctos/infoepid/vig_epid_manuales/16_2012_Manual_Meningoencefalitis_vFinal_7nov12.pdf
http://www.nodiagnosticado.es/enfermedades/Meningoencefalitis-amebiana-primaria.htm

Reabre la piscina donde se detectó la «ameba comecerebros» hace dos años
Encefalitis
Enfermedades transmitidas por el agua

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R&D programme's £4.3m backing
Iti Techmedia is investing £4.3million in a research and development programme aimed at reducing mistakes in software design.
The funding body hopes the money will trim common critical errors earlier in the coding process.
The Software Integrity Engineering programme plans to develop technology making it easier to identify and prevent problems before the expensive testing phase or a product reaches the market.
With the complex nature of software coding and development even the tiniest of errors can have serious consequences from computer crashes to the disruption of industrial processes. ITI believes developing innovative software tools in mainstream programming languages, such as Java and C++, could have significant commercial benefits.
At the moment the market for these types of tools is estimated to be worth around £1billion annually but that figure is expected to almost double by 2016.
Terry Hurley, managing director of ITI Techmedia, is keen to work with companies who may have an interest in the R&D programme.
He said: "Our research indicates that there is a clear market need for better solutions to help reduce the number of critical errors in software design.
"Software development is undoubtedly getting mo re complex and sophisticated with increasing pressure to get to market quickly."
Dunfermline-based BitWise plus English firms Mindsheet and Roke Manor Research have been contracted to undertake the initial work.
However, further organisations are likely to be added as the project progresses.
Iti Techmedia is a commercial organisation focused on developing world-class intellectual assets to drive economic growth in Scotland.
Financial servicesGallagher appoints new Scottish managing directorHe is responsible for leading more than 200 colleagues across offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen
New sustainable housing development proposed for Midlothian
PropertyThe 1,000 home neighbourhood could begin construction as early as next year
Fishermen slam 'soul-destroying' decision to end Clyde fishing exemption
Scottish fishingAssociation claims the decision is not based on any the evidence and is politically-motivated
Edinburgh AI firm hires tech veteran as chief operating officer
Science & TechnologyThe software company has also secured £750,000 in seed funding
Ovo reveals plan to cut up to 2,000 jobs as Scottish offices close
EnergyEnergy company also announces a new training academy in Glasgow
£3m support fund set up to help Scots with soaring energy bills
EnergyThe scheme, run by Advice Direct Scotland, will offer payments of up to £500 to clear outstanding debt

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In all honesty this deodorant was a grab and go buy. I was running around Boots scooping up essentials after spontaneously deciding to take a trip to stay at a friends despite not having a stitch to wear or even anything essential as a toothbrush etc. So when I got to the deo section and saw this among all the usual suspects I was pretty surprised and pleased and since I had already heard of PitRock before, I happily scooped it up into my basket. It all worked out really rather nicely!
The deodorant is in a spray form but unlike traditional spray deodorants it isn't in a pressurised air form. Rather it is a spray pump, very much like for a body oil or room spritzer. This means that the formula doesn't come out in a nice misty spray it comes out in spurts of liquid. So instead of having a nice even coating of deodorant the formula tends to hit the skin and as obvious as this sounds, but, it's really wet. So much so that if you spray too much you get a little river running down your pit and down your side! Erm a little bit mank!
Ultimately this means you have to practice to get the right pumping amount, but once you do, you can feel a little bit smug like 'yeah i got it down!' Buuut, then you realise that your perfectly pumped coating of deodorant is still pretty wet (i know, i know) and although it's not running down your sides, it's not really drying rapidly either... now, it's not sticky per se but it doesn't feel like it dries down. They say on the instructions to let it dry for a minute, well a) one minute feels like an eternity when you're standing there like a donk in nothing but your birthday suit or undergarments and b) even a minute isn't long enough. Cue much arm flapping and prancing about in front of heaters or fans.
Pheeew just thinking and typing this makes me feel exhausted.
So, is all this pumping practice and nuddy-pants arms-akimbo dancing for a deodorant worth it? Well, essentially yes it is, if you don't mind being energetic. (Hell, that could be a totally great thing, an easy enjoyable and multi-functional way of getting fit. Although the whole conundrum of exercise = sweat with exercise = drying deodorant to stop sweat is a puzzler to get your mind whirling about).
The fact is that once you have mastered the deodorant application process the result is fantastic, since using this I never have dreaded smells or embarrassing patches and it lasts a super long time, all day and I'd say even into the evening. The issue is that it can only be applied to clean skin and therefore can't be topped up. But thankfully due to the longevity of the formula this so far hasn't been a problem.
The formula doesn't clog or block the pores like an anti-persparent, so my skin doesn't feel suffocated or tight and it has Aloe Vera and Vitamin E, Calendula and Grapefruit extracts to keep your under arms smooth and conditioned.
Best of all is that this formula never leaves white marks or have that fluffy fallout that some deodorants can have.
A factor about this deodorant that I never know whether I like or not is that it is unscented. Now that's great if like me you are funny about scents (there's nothing worse than having a strong scented deodorant that wafts scent and makes me think of my pitts repeatedly throughout the day- is that just me?) but then again maybe it would be nice to have a gentle scent, sometimes a scent can lend to that whole fresh feeling. I'm so fickle.
Now the basic bits. The price is pretty reasonable for 100ml andI reckon it will last me quite a while due to it being so long lasting. I love the packaging- what other deodorant packaging makes it look stylish and cool?
So, take from this what you will, both pros and cons, but ultimately I say if you're not perturbed by a bit of deodorant dancing then this is a great deodorant, that just takes a little bit of practice.
It's so true about the importance of having a little bit of scent! But at the same time, I think it's almost better to stick with an unfragranced deodorant to avoid ANY conflict with a perfume or additional body spray. There's a new deodorant on the block called Native Unearthed Crystal deodorant. It's like Pitrok raw crystal deodorant, but it's the more innovative version with a twist up function and a wide head for application. I just hope it's easier to apply. It's Allergy UK approved to which is a plus!


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Following on from my previous blog posting, here's another piece of superb artwork drawn by artist Bill Nims a while ago in 2011. This was one of the original album cover ideas depicting the instrument panel of the Time Machine. The burnished brass gauges and polished deep mahogany panel on which they are mounted owe their inspiration to the gauges found on steam ships, such as the 'Titanic' which transported passengers across the oceans in unprecendented luxury and style over one hundred years ago. The incredible thing about this picture is that Bill drew it using just my nine year old daughters' felt-tip pens and pastels. Nothing fancy, just kids drawing materials. We then photographed the picture with a digital camera and enhanced it using the 'Gimp' image manipulation program to give it more depth and richness.
You'll have to forgive me as this post is really old news but I've only recently just gotten around to blogging about 'The Time Machine' musical—my old news but it's new news to you. I am very fond of this drawing, although I soon began to realise that the album cover demanded something more exceptional, unique, iconic and photo-realistic—in a word, something more 'challenging' or perhaps 'annoying' for the artist to undertake. More on this in my next post. Anyway please bear with me as I play catchup over the next few posts, giving you yesterday's news, today!


Learn more about this precancerous skin condition and your treatment options.
If you have an actinic keratosis, it's normal to have questions. At Henry Ford Dermatology, we have answers.
Our dermatology specialists will provide the information you need about actinic keratoses, along with a range of treatment options.
An actinic keratosis is a type of skin lesion, or a damaged area of tissue. If you have multiple lesions of this type, we call them actinic keratoses.
These lesions typically result from repeated and prolonged exposure to sunlight. Without treatment, an actinic keratosis can develop into a type of skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma.
Am I at risk for actinic keratoses?
What are the treatment options for an actinic keratosis?
The best way to treat an actinic keratosis is to prevent it before it starts. Because an actinic keratosis is a precancerous lesion, we want to minimize the chance of patients ever developing one.
One of the best ways to lower your risk of an actinic keratosis is to use sunscreens that block both ultraviolet A (UVA) and ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation. People who may be at risk should use these sunscreens daily and limit their exposure to sunlight whenever possible.


Fun on water and land Located on a stunning peninsula in the Okanagan and surrounded by water on three of its four sides, Camp Hatikvah has always had the reputation of being a water-based activity camp. "Our natural surroundings allow us to offer a plethora of waterfront activities, including swimming, waterskiing, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, paddle boarding and more," said camp director Liza Rozen-Delman.
Historically, the waterfront was the most popular place to be at Hatikvah, as a result of the numerous water activities offered, but that changed this summer when the camp unveiled a host of new land-based program options. While still taking advantage of the spectacular weather and waterfront, campers are now equally as engaged on land.
During summer 2014, Camp Hatikvah launched several new programs, including ceramics, drumming, gardening and nature, karate, outdoor adventure, self-defence and volleyball. Camp Hatikvah hired specialists to provide instruction in basketball, dance, fitness, tennis, yoga and various other sports.
Hatikvah has also recently updated its program facilities, adding an archery field, a gaga pit, a baseball diamond and an outdoor garden. Additionally, the camp added a new water jungle gym, all new sailboats and eight new paddleboards.
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Slavery Segregation and Racism: Trusting the Health Care System Ain't Always Easy! An African American Perspective on Bioethics - IV. Violence as a Public Health Issue
*227 IV. Violence as a Public Health Issue
A young Black male's risk of becoming a homicide victim in the United States is one in twenty-seven, compared with one in two-hundred-five for young White males. The risk of becoming a homicide victim for young Black females is four times higher than for young White females in the White community. It is clear that violence in the African American community is a public health issue. However, even as the words public health arise, I have the cloud of the failed federal Violence Initiative to combat.
The Violence Initiative was a proposed federal initiative to combat violence in the inner-city, supposedly by focusing a more efficient effort toward collective policy making. However, the Violence Initiative was based on two disturbing premises. The first was that much of violent behavior in the inner city may have biological or genetic origins. The second premise was that factors of individual vulnerability and predisposition to violent behavior exist--factors that may be detected at an early age. To the African American community, the initiative's intervention and problem-solving policy mandate were to focus on the children of the inner city.
*228 [T]he advent of the federal Violence Initiative threatened the personhood and the voice of African-Americans, and more particularly of African-American children, by fostering biological and reductionist theories of genetic linkage between criminally-violent behavior and inner-city youth. Furthermore, it decontextualized and dehistoricized the idea of violence, and devalued the worth of the African-American child by reinforcing gender and stereotypical concepts of African-American women and men.
The federal Violence Initiative failed because it wanted to focus on the people as the cause of the problem. Yet, a public health approach is warranted if it were to take proactive strategies to counteract the powerful economic and political forces of our society that legitimatize these levels of violence. If we want to reduce violence, we will have to deal with the system that produces violence. Unfortunately, more often than not, a public health approach focuses on the human development in our community. A focus on human development will necessarily be flawed because any actions or behaviors of the black community will be viewed in the historical context in which the American experience with slavery served to legitimize the image of African Americans as unworthy of respect and bodily integrity, and undeserving of psychological well-being. Furthermore, the images of sex and subjugation in the national psyche further legitimized the attempts to link social conditions with genetic deficiencies.
Thus, even though they are free from slavery, Black men and women are bound now by a caste of race and poverty. They are welfare queens, and members of the underclass. They have become mothers and fathers of sons who have been labeled an endangered species, and of daughters who are caught in a cycle of teenage pregnancy. Subsuming and denying the individuality of African-Americans, these images represent inherent and permanent inequality . . . apart from any environmental influence. The social value of African-American children has never been recognized, and now their economic value is recognized as marginal or as having ceased to exist. Black people bear children who, by their very existence, become the tools for their own destruction, the murderers of their own spirits. These children become individuals who are seen as obsolete. African-American men and women in the inner city give birth to disposable children.


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There are no IGCSE Schools in Gandhinagar Currently available in our database. However we have listed below other schools available in the same city.
Kendriya Vidyalaya No 3 Gandhi Nagar is managed by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan. The school is located at Gandhi Nagar.
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Kendriya Vidyalaya Gandhi Nagar is managed by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan. The school is located at Gandhi Nagar.
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CIA's Ground Branch is Training Ukrainian Paramilitaries against Russia. False-Flag Warning
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
On the cover Ground Branch of Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan
Introduction by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Europe
"GB (Ground Branch) officers constituted the main force at Stone and were selected from among the baddest-ass military units—SEALs, Marine Force Recon, Air Force parajumpers, and the Army's Combat Applications Group (formerly known as Delta Force). They wore civilian clothes and were equipped with the most advanced light weaponry on the planet," writes former CIA Case Officer John Smith in his book, "Left of Boom."
According to NBC News, U.S. intelligence indicates Russia has pre-positioned a group of operatives to conduct a "false-flag" operation in eastern Ukraine to justify an invasion of the country, a U.S. official said Friday. The operatives are "trained in urban warfare and in using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces," the official said.
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Instead, as we wrote earlier in the Weapons Lobby 5 investigation, for years NATO has been trying to spark a spark in Ukraine to justify a microwarfare in Donbass aimed at wresting the oil and gas-rich territory now controlled by the breakaway republics from Russian control. of Donetzk and Lugansk.
Therefore, these news articles may be the threatening warning – if not the explicit announcement – of a False-Flag operation by US military intelligence, which has been providing training for Ukrainian special forces for years.
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It is not difficult, in fact, for the US Army which freed the Caliph Al Baghdadi, believed to be a CIA agent and Mossad,from Camp Bucca, allowing him to found ISIS (in the last years of civil war in Syria piloted by Turkey, the second military power NATO), simulating military attacks from the Donbass against Kiev by making them look like Russian intelligence actions. The article below explains how…
by Zach Dorfman ·National Security Correspondent – Yahoo News
The CIA is overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel, according to five former intelligence and national security officials familiar with the initiative. The program, which started in 2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the Southern U.S., according to some of those officials.
The CIA-trained forces could soon play a critical role on Ukraine's eastern border, where Russian troops have massed in what many fear is preparation for an invasion. The U.S. and Russia started security talks earlier this week in Geneva but have failed thus far to reach any concrete agreement.
Ukrainian troops walk in a trench on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near Avdiivka, Donetsk, southeastern Ukraine,
While the covert program, run by paramilitaries working for the CIA's Ground Branch — now officially known as Ground Department — was established by the Obama administration after Russia's invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014, and expanded under the Trump administration, the Biden administration has further augmented it, said a former senior intelligence official in touch with colleagues in government.
By 2015, as part of this expanded anti-Russia effort, CIA Ground Branch paramilitaries also started traveling to the front in eastern Ukraine to advise their counterparts there, according to a half-dozen former officials.
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The multiweek, U.S.-based CIA program has included training in firearms, camouflage techniques, land navigation, tactics like "cover and move," intelligence and other areas, according to former officials.
How to characterize the program is a matter of dispute. The U.S. over three presidents has debated whether to provide military assistance to Ukraine, and how much, with discussions often focusing on whether that help is offensive or defensive in character.
U.S. officials deny that the CIA training program is, or was ever, offensively oriented. "The purpose of the training, and the training that was delivered, was to assist in the collection of intelligence," said a current senior intelligence official.
But just what intelligence support entails, in the paramilitary context, can be ambiguous. And how this training will be applied by the Ukrainians may change rapidly with facts on the ground.
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The program has involved "very specific training on skills that would enhance" the Ukrainians' "ability to push back against the Russians," said the former senior intelligence official.
The training, which has included "tactical stuff," is "going to start looking pretty offensive if Russians invade Ukraine," said the former official.
One person familiar with the program put it more bluntly. "The United States is training an insurgency," said a former CIA official, adding that the program has taught the Ukrainians how "to kill Russians."
The program, which does not appear to have ever been formally aimed at preparing for an insurgency, did include training that could be used for that purpose. Another former agency official described technical aspects of the program, like showing Ukrainians how to maintain secure communications behind enemy lines or in a "hostile intelligence environment" as potential "stay-behind force training."
The current senior intelligence official strongly denied that the program was designed in any way "to assist in an insurgency." "Suggestions that we have trained an armed insurgency in Ukraine are simply false," said Tammy Thorp, a CIA spokesperson.
Going back decades, the CIA has provided limited training to Ukrainian intelligence units to try and shore up an independent Kyiv and prevent Russian subversion, but cooperation "ramped up" after the Crimea invasion, said a former CIA executive.
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The CIA paramilitaries in Ukraine have "a very small footprint," said the former agency executive, and are helping train Ukrainian forces in "potential critical nodes the Russians may focus on" if Moscow seeks to push farther into the country.
Though the agency's paramilitary resources have been otherwise stretched thin in Afghanistan and on other counterterrorism missions, the U.S.-based training program has been a "high priority" for the CIA since its Obama-era inception, said the former senior intelligence official.
The program did not require, or receive, a new presidential finding, which is used to authorize covert action, and has been run under previously existing authorities, according to former officials.
The Trump administration — partially at the urging of Congress — later expanded funding for the initiative, increasing the number of Ukrainian cohorts brought over yearly to the U.S., according to former officials.
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Training forces that could take part in an insurgency is not the same as actively supporting an insurgency if one takes place following a Russian invasion. The Biden administration has reportedly assembled a task force to determine how the CIA and other U.S. agencies could support a Ukrainian insurgency, should Russia launch a large-scale incursion.
"If the Russians invade, those [graduates of the CIA programs] are going to be your militia, your insurgent leaders," said the former senior intelligence official. "We've been training these guys now for eight years. They're really good fighters. That's where the agency's program could have a serious impact."
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Fabio is Director and Editor of Gospa News; a Christian Information Journal.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became deputy director of a local newspaper and specialized in judicial reporting.
For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime.
With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians.
In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence. He is a correspondent from Italy for the French news site Reseau International.
He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator.
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mijj January 15, 2022 at 11:56 am
clearly, the US's greatest desire, as it has been all along, is that Russia invades.
And clearly, Russia has no intention of swallowing the poison pill the US prepared, despite all the urging to do so.
Russia will act to crack the nut where it is most efficient and most effective for Russia. Not where it fulfils US fantasies.


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Longtime fans of Dungeons & Dragons recall that The Temple of Elemental Evil, before it was a computer role-playing game, was a popular module for pen-and-paper D&D. In fact, the original version of The Temple of Elemental Evil is the quintessential D&D campaign. It puts a small party of adventurers, skilled in armed and magical combat, deep in a dangerous fortress filled with hundreds of sinister monsters and untold secrets and riches. The adventurers start off relatively weak, but through their trials and tribulations, they can become powerful enough to thwart the evil lurking in the temple's heart. To capture the spirit both of the original campaign and of modern-day pen-and-paper D&D, the developers implemented a turn-based combat system featuring the new 3.5 Edition D&D rules, which gives you a fine level of control over your party–as well as plenty of leisure time to admire the game's great-looking creatures. However, an occasionally cumbersome and obtuse interface and occasionally buggy gameplay do limit this game's appeal mostly to those who don't need an invitation or introduction to the world of Dungeons & Dragons. But these players should be readily willing to overlook the game's problems for the sake of its challenging, strategic battles.
The Temple of Elemental Evil is a single-player-only adventure with a straightforward premise that's mostly an excuse to put you through a lengthy, diverse dungeon crawl. This isn't an epic-scale adventure–most of the game takes place in the titular temple (though, at the beginning, you explore the countryside until you find it), though the temple is a sufficiently huge, multistory affair. Initially, you create a party of up to five characters (or you may choose from pregenerated characters), who begin as neophyte first-level adventurers and can eventually grow to 10th level, which isn't as high up there as some other recent D&D games have allowed you to get. Make no mistake, this is no flaw–Dungeons & Dragons is probably most well balanced, tense, and exciting at the earlier levels, so this game's focus on relatively low-level adventuring leads to many nail-biting battles in which you must take great care to keep your party out of harm's way as best you can. Indeed, starting out, your party is vulnerable even to common thugs, though later on, you'll start to feel quite powerful as your fighters gain multiple attacks per round, your healers become much more useful, and your mages learn to cast damaging area-of-effect spells.
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The Ohio Department of Education's new figures show some districts and charter schools could see graduation rates plummet by as much as 70 percent in some cases because kids won't be able to get 18 points on seven state tests, to achieve a minimum score on a college entrance exam or get an industry credential. Damon Asbury with the Ohio School Boards Association says the state has changed the standards during their time in school, and that could be a reason for poor performance in low-income and minority-dominated schools.
The state superintendent is expected to offer students other graduation options. But lawmakers would have to approve that, and some have indicated they don't want the requirements lowered.


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Q: Python requests.post failed with SSL error I am getting the following error when trying requests.post(url). I am using python 2.7.10. I have tried Custom Http Adapter solution provided in one of the thread but no luck..
       File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 531, in get
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  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 518, in request
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I'm assuming its a Gdk issue. I'm running openSUSE 11.0. I installed rev. 1785 from the Autopackage Archive. Any help is appreciated.
The autopackage version of XaraLX is outdated. There have been so many updates to the wxWidgets and other needed libs since it was released.
Does Suse not have a current build of XaraLX within their repos?
If not, might I suggest making the request to update XaraLX in the Suse forums?
Hi. I'm running ubuntu and I get exactly the same problem when I try to print anything. Sorry i'm a newbie and didn't understand the reply to this post. Could you please explain me the steps to get printing in xaralx working?
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I'm using linux Mint 6, Felicia, ubuntu based. I just found this Xara a few days ago and although I love the facilities and effects, I have the same problem.
It closes when actioning print or print preview.
Not a bug, but basic simple user needs....print what you just spent hours drawing?
who has responsibility for the fix?
XaraLX is essentially abandoned by the Linux developer community.
To my knowledge no one is actively making updates for the program.
Xara put forth a working model but the linux community of developers were not interested in supporting the project's further development.
That's what I do. Works for me.
But which is better for drawing? inkscape or xaralx?
Yeah, the work around is fine, I export as a PNG file to my pictures /graphics and then grab image in Scribus, (also excellent) to be able to print.
But why should I have to do this?
I admire the folks who can turn out these applications, but they ought really to finish the job, or are they becoming just like the other software writers?


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Fischerbach heißen folgende geographische Objekte:

 Fischerbach, Gemeinde und Dorf im Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg
Baulichkeiten:
 Burg Fischerbach, abgegangene Burg in Fischerbach, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg
 Fischerbacher Turm, abgegangene Burg in Fischerbach, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg
Gewässer:
 Fischerbach (Fischa), Quellbach der Fischa in Niederösterreich
 Fischerbach (Kinzig), rechter Zufluss der Kinzig vor Eschau, Gemeinde Fischerbach, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg
 Fischerbach, Zufluss zum Leukbach im Grenzgebiet Saarland–Rheinland-Pfalz
 Fischerbach (Steyr), Bach zur Steyr bei der Stadt Steyr, Oberösterreich
 Fischerbach, Bach in München

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The Drug Prices Control Order (DPCO), 2013, which as estimated by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), has helped patients save over Rs. 15,000cr since its enactment, has been amended by the Drugs (Prices Control) Amendment Order, 2019, by the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers in favor of drug makers, manufacturing new drugs and drugs treating orphan/rare diseases.
Wherein, the Centre will fix and aim to lower prices as per the DPCO in accordance to the market based data available on drugs, the Amending order notified on the 3rd of January 2019, also clarifies that the source of such market-based information shall be the data which is available with pharmaceutical market data specializing companies and in case the Centre needs to validate the data being generated, it may do so by conducting evaluations or surveys.
The Amendment, on NITI Aayog's recommendations has also drawn out certain exceptions to the DPCO, wherein, drug makers who have invented and registered a patent for new drugs, shall be exempted from price control for the first 5 years from the date of their marketing. It also seeks to exempt drugs that treat orphan, i.e. rare diseases. These exemptions are mainly brought in, to allow monetary incentives for manufacturers in the first 5 years of marketing the generic drugs before they start getting licensed to maintain lower costs. Drugs manufactured for rare diseases have always been capital intensive. The manufacturing demands monetary infusion due to its character which is low on demand. Thus, controlling the selling price to lower the same will in turn, have an effect on the manufacturing.
The Amendment Order has come to the forefront once again as a high-level government panel has brought in a myriad of recommendations through a report, the copy of which is with PTI. The recommendations range from granting 'compulsory licensing' to enable Pharma companies to manufacture generic drugs without the permission of the patent holding companies. The recommendations have faced a lot of backlash from multinational pharmaceutical companies. The amendment order does put the price cap recommendation to ease for at least the first 5 years and for drugs treating rare diseases. However, the 'compulsory licensing' bull still runs loose for the Pharmaceutical Companies.
Author: Ms. Niharika Sanadhya , Legal Intern at Global Patent Filing. In case of any queries please contact/write back to us at support@globalpatentfiling.com.


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Home » Tours » StarWars Tour
The StarWars Tour takes you to the StarWars hotspots in county Kerry! The rugged coastal scenery, crashing waves, impressive Skellig Islands and gloomy skies were the perfect location to film the next chapter of the StarWars saga.
The tour takes you around the famous Ring of Kerry, with focus on the StarWars hotspots that lie off the beaten path. You will travel along narrow mountain and coastal roads on the remote Valentia Island and the beautiful Skellig Ring. Admire the distant views of Skellig Michael, an impressive rocky island that lies 11km off the coast, where part of StarWars was filmed.
Get inspired in the village of Portmagee, where the cast and crew were stationed during the filming. It is from here that the boats and helicopters left to go filming on the island. This colorful fishing village hasn't always been the centre of the galaxy, but it will surely be known now by many StarWars fans. Luke Skywalker (Hamill) even had time to pop into the Moorings Bar in Portmagee to spend time with the locals and learn to pull a pint.
You don't have to travel to a galaxy far away to discover a landscape that is out of this world. Book your StarWars Tour now and enjoy the best of county Kerry, where The Force has awakened!
"Go mbeidh an fórsa leat! — May the force be with you!"
Ring of Kerry, with focus on StarWars Hotspots off the beaten path Valentia Island
Skellig Ring Coastal Drive
- Lunch at the bar where the cast and crew stayed, dined, and were entertained
- Learn to pull a pint of Guinness, just like Luke Skywalker!
- A visit to the Skelligs Experience Centre, where you can learn more about the famous islands
Please note that a boat trip to Skellig Michael cannot be combined with this tour as this takes up too much time, and availability for these boat trips is very limited.
Lunch & pull a pint experience
Lunch at the bar where the cast and crew stayed, dined, and were entertained is highly recommended! Must be prebooked. Food and drinks are not included in the tour rate and are payable on the day.
You can learn to pull a pint of Guinness, just like Luke Skywalker! Fee: €15 per person, including a certificate. And yes, you can drink the pint! Needs to be prebooked.
You Won't Be Disappointed
Even though our GPS sent us to the wrong meeting location and we were terribly late for our tour, Ester immediately made us feel at ease and re-organized our route so we could still see all the sites. She was so friendly and fun and my teenaged nephews - and massive Star Wars fans - were thrilled to get a beautiful view of The Skellig Islands and a tour of Portmagee. I've since recommended Ester and her husband Garritt to friends of mine who are planning a trip to Ireland later this year. Booking with them was the best decision we made on our trip. When we return to Ireland - and we can't wait to do so - we will be giving them a call.
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Had an excellent trip today with Gerrit. He was such a wonderful tour guide and took us to some fantastic places of the beaten path. We had a great lunch and even stopped at The Skellig Chocolate factory to taste chocolate. Gerrit was very informative and stopped for us to take pictures at numerous spots. I highly recommend his services if you want a Wonderful tour.
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Panic Station? Regulators and Lawmakers Mulling Future of Channel 10
The long-struggling television station has only two options left to guarantee its survival: legislation to extend its franchise or the easing of its licensing terms.
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The hot potato called Channel 10 is once again being tossed back and forth between politicians and regulators – and no one wants to be the one left holding it, and bearing responsibility for its fate. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also the acting communications minister, has not expressed a position on the matter of the future of the television station, while the Second Authority for Television and Radio is taking its time and is interested in finding ways to "legalize" the station's problematic situation. The Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, meanwhile, also is in no rush to discuss the matter.
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The Second Authority's governing council will meet this Wednesday for its first discussion on the future of the commercial channel, best known for its news and investigative shows. The Economic Affairs Committee is supposed to meet on the matter a few days later. The people standing on the sidelines and watching, and waiting with their own long list of demands, are the two franchisees of Channel 2: Reshet and Keshet. Also waiting in the wings – and ready to attack any signs of giving in to the television broadcasters – are the organizations representing the independent production side of the business.
Special legislation
After Netanyahu recently decided, in a quite unusual move, to freeze the proposed law that would split up Channel 2 – which also would have allowed the continued operation of Channel 10 by lowering the entry barriers to new competitors – Channel 10 has only two options left to survive and continue broadcasting as of January 1, 2015, when its broadcasting franchise expires.
The first option is special legislation in the Knesset intended solely to grant Channel 10 an extension to its franchise for a year or two, similar to the extensions the channel has received before. While such legislation could come from the government, or as a private member's bill in the Knesset, it is unlikely that such legislation could be passed in the month remaining before the franchise's expiration.
Many think Netanyahu is interested in keeping the television broadcasters weak and subservient, so if he does allow Channel 10 to continue operations, it will only be in a format where its franchise is extended for a year or two at most – and then it will again be at the mercy of the politicians. Netanyahu has put a close Likud confidante, David Sharan – also head of the Prime Minister's Bureau – in charge of communications matters. Sharan is expected to be put in charge of all contacts and seek an agreement with Channel 10.
If a law to extend the franchise does come before the Knesset, the Channel 2 franchisees will not sit on the sidelines any longer. They are expected to demand a long list of better conditions for themselves, including lessening demands for original productions and lowering payments to the state. In particular, they will demand equality with the terms granted to Channel 10, including also extending their franchises – in other words, allowing things to remain the way they are currently until the end of 2019.
The second option open to Channel 10 is receiving various concessions that will allow it to begin operating under the new license system, with a broadcasting license for 15 years. This is definitely the preferred solution for Channel 10 CEO Yossi Varshavsky.
In the past, the station mostly made declarations about the possible entry of new investors. This time, however, it is preparing for continuing operations under the present ownership structure, in which none of the shareholders – Yossi Maiman, who is the controlling owner; and film producer Arnon Milchan – is willing or able to put up more money. The Dutch investor Nina Storms has officially said she is no longer interested in investing, as did another possible investor, who seems to have realized just how dire the situation at Channel 10 is.
The problem is that in order for Channel 10 to receive a license under the new rules, it must show financial strength and stability. Since it does not have a deep-pocketed owner, management is now trying to present a rosy picture – as if the station was financially stable on its own at the moment. In reports to potential investors, Channel 10 has claimed it will show an operating profit of 6 million to 8 million shekels ($1.5 million to $2.1 million) for the fourth quarter of 2014, and has openly declared it is on a firm financial footing.
The change in the financial situation for the long troubled and money-losing channel is the result of both cuts on the spending side and improved revenues. On his return to Channel 10, Varshavsky instituted a series of deep spending cuts, including firing staff and cutting salaries, alongside cutting down the costs of production and canceling expensive productions such as consumer affairs show "Kolbotek."
At the same time, Channel 10 had a number of on-screen successes that increased revenues, along with a consistent rise in ratings for its evening news program. The problem is that advertising revenue is still down, mostly because the media purchasing companies are really the ones funding Channel 10's operation in practice by paying for advertising time in advance – in return for higher fees returned by the station.
Who will postpone the debt payments?
The main battle being fought by Channel 10 is against the Second Authority and its CEO, Shai Babad. Babad, who was behind the law to split up Channel 2 from the beginning, is still a big supporter of the change, despite the blow from Netanyahu. Babad has the support of Avishay Braverman (Labor), the chairman of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee. However, without a communications minister – since Gilad Erdan left to become interior minister – it seems Babad has no partner and the law will remain frozen.
In order for Channel 10 to receive its hoped-for broadcasting license, it must first perform some very tricky legal acrobatics. The Second Authority's legal adviser, Hila Shamir, will be the one who needs to provide the official legal stamp of approval for postponing the station's debts – and other legal issues – and it seems she is unwilling to be pushed into such a position. Firstly, the deadline for requesting a broadcasting license has already passed, and the Second Authority was supposed to have provided an answer by the end of March 2014. However, it has relied instead on a legal opinion allowing it to delay providing the answer until the very end of the year.
Channel 10's biggest violation of its franchise agreement – and licensing terms – is the huge debt it has accrued to the state for its franchise fees – 33 million shekels. In fact, this debt should have led a long time ago to the cancellation of its franchise permit – or, at the very least, to the seizure of the financial guarantees the station put up, based on the 2012 law when Channel 10's franchise was extended.
The Second Authority is considering calling in the station's 45 million shekels in guarantees, which in turn could result in Channel 10's immediate closure. The authority also does not accept the station's position that it is in stable financial shape. In any case, granting Channel 10 a license under such circumstances, with such high debts to the state, is impossible, and even Channel 10 knows it must somehow find the money to pay its debt.
The station also owes another 17 million shekels to film industry investors, though this sum can be put off for a year – if the broadcasting authority agrees. Channel 10 also owes some 12 million shekels for underfunding high-quality programming content, but the station hopes the Second Authority will view this as just a minor infraction and offset it with overinvestment from previous years, which will allow it to delay the payment.
Ultimately, it seems likely that Channel 10 won't shut down and will continue broadcasting. At this stage, though, the hot potato is still being passed around and no one wants to take responsibility for being the one to sign off on the closure of the station – or for saving it through controversial methods. Things are now in the hands of Channel 10's employees, who will soon be forced to venture out and take up the fight for their livelihood.
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Why does Eddie Lampert want to keep Sears alive?
New York (CNN Business) No matter what happens in bankruptcy court, Sears faces a grim future. So why is chairman Eddie Lampert fighting so hard to keep it alive?
But there's probably more to it, experts say.
Lampert, who created the modern Sears with in 2005 when he merged it with Kmart, is not ready to admit defeat.
There's also valuable real estate to consider.
Sears' bankruptcy filing claims that the stores it plans to keep open have been mostly profitable, even when the rest of the company was losing money. One way to interpret the data is that those stores offer better real estate value, and could be sold in the future.
"The thing that makes it a bit more attractive to him, he sees ways to monetize the assets going forward," said Saunders.
If Lampert's $5.2 billion bid to rescue Sears fails — as its creditors want — he has a secondary bid ready to go. Under the alternate plan, Lampert would pay $1.8 billion for just the stores.
Those stores are worth more if Sears remains in business because they can be sold in piecemeal transactions, rather than be put up for sale all at once during a liquidation. That works to Lampert's advantage.
Lampert managed the company since 2005 as if it were a slow-motion liquidation, said Philip Emma, analyst with Debtwire and an expert in retail bankruptcies. He steadily closed hundreds of stores and the spun off assets, such as Land's End and Craftsman tools.
Keeping Sears open means Lampert could continue that strategy.
"He benefits from maintaining the controlled liquidation," said Emma.
Lampert is putting up very little new money as part of this bid.
Of the $1.4 billion of cash included in the bid, $850 million comes from loans other lenders have agreed to put up. The new Sears will owe that money, not Lampert or his hedge fund.
Most of Lampert's contribution comes from forgiving $1.3 billion in secured loans he is owed by Sears.
Over the years Lampert has loaned the company $2.4 billion, most of it backed by hard assets such as real estate.
But those loans are being challenged in court by Sears creditors who allege the deals benefited Lampert and his hedge fund, rather than the company. If Lampert is allowed to use that debt as part of his purchase price, it makes it more difficult to challenge most of those loans.
Lampert denies there was anything wrong with the loans he made to Sears, saying he made them order to try to keep the company alive through rough times.
"All transactions were done in good faith, on fair terms," his hedge fund said.
That debt, and the new cash make up just more than half of the $5.2 billion bid price. The remaining $2 billion comes from promise that Sears will pay off some of its liabilities and debts.
So if the bid is successful, Lampert will again get control of the company, one that he says is worth $5.2 billion, by putting up only a fraction of that amount in cash.


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Brent Hutchings
Brent Hutchings '84 is the majority owner and CEO of North River Boats, a manufacturer of recreational, commercial and government boats in Roseburg, Oregon. In 2017, North River Boats became an employee-owned company through the implementation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
Brent served as President and CEO of Pacific Coast Packaging Corp. (PCPC) a packaging manufacturing company in Fresno, CA, from 1994-2003. He acquired PCPC in 1994 with a group of private investors and sold the business to a NYSE-traded strategic buyer in 2003.
Following that sale, he lived in New Zealand with his wife Chrys and three young children for a year, returning to Portland in 2005. From 2006 to 2009, he invested in, joined the board, and became Chief Operating Officer of Avamere, a $275 million regional senior care company.
Brent received his BA in English and Natural Science from Lewis & Clark College. Following working in sales at IBM from 1984-1989, he obtained his MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in 1991. In addition to his service over the years on several for-profit and nonprofit boards, Brent enjoys tennis, fly-fishing, and the occasional mentoring of Lewis & Clark students. Brent is on Lewis & Clark's Board of Trustees.
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Decorative items are artefacts which are extremely supportive in enhancing the overall interior of your place. We humans have been using various types of decorative items for ages to decorate our surroundings. Aprodz offers décor artefacts like mirrors and vases. More are in line to come. If you have different creative ideas of décor items, contact Aprodz for the same.


"We have requested more security from the government of India and the Uttar Pradesh government," said Abdou Ibrahim, senior adviser, Association of African Students (AASI) following an attack on four students from Africa in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
He added that the students from Africa will "finish their studies, but never return to India".
Ibrahim assessed that "India will lose connect with Africa. The continuity will be lost".
He said that boy who five African students were accused of kidnapping had come back home. "The accusations were absolutely false. They have been wrongly accused of selling drugs," he said.
This is not the first time that Africans have been attacked in India.
In May 2016, over a dozen African nationals were attacked in Rajpkhurd village of Chhatarpur, South Delhi. Locals objected to the "free lifestyle" of these men and women who stayed in the area.
In February 2016, a mob attacked the 21-year-old woman as she drove with friends in Bengaluru, beating her, tearing off her shirt and setting the car ablaze. The attack was an apparent revenge for a fatal road accident in which a Sudanese man had allegedly run over a woman less than an hour before.
Somnath Bharti, a former law minister of Delhi, Bharti was accused in 2014 of harassing African women after he led a vigilante mob that accused them of being prostitutes.
In 2013, a Nigerian national was killed by a mob in Goa. State minister Dayanand Mandrekar called Nigerians a "cancer".


I bought these, the coolest Doc Martens made since the original black 10 holes I started out with (and am wearing right now actually). They remind me of Tron, french design (I assume the "Pierre" in the name helps with this), a Clockwork Orange, and a host of other cool things. A work of art.


Police Ten 7 is a New Zealand produced show about the experiences of the New Zealand police force. Join Rob Lemoto for a closer look at crime in New Zealand and the Kiwis who end up on the wrong side of the law.
Central to Police Ten 7's success is the weekly appeal to viewers. They may have unwittingly witnessed a crime or may know the whereabouts of a wanted criminal. These calls to POLICE TEN 7 have led directly to hundreds of arrests.


Former Head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine Vasyl Tsushko will participate in the elections for Odesa mayor, his press service reported on Monday.
On March 30, Tsushko submitted documents to the Central Election Commission for his registration as a presidential candidate.
Snap presidential elections and the elections of 27 mayors will be held in Ukraine on May 25, 2014.


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Juraj Baraković (Plemići, Rtina kraj Zadra, 1548. – Rim, 1. kolovoza 1628.) hrvatski je renesansni pjesnik iz Zadra.

Životopis

Barakovićev život oskudno je istražen. Većinu je podataka o sebi iznio sam autor u svojim djelima, a poslije su ih nadopunili njegovi biografi s nekoliko oskudnih podataka. Prema autobiografskim podacima pjesnik je rođen 1548. godine u okolici grada Zadra, u selu Plemići, Rtina, na posjedu svojih roditelja. Iako često spominje svoje plemićko podrijetlo, kritičari njegova života i rada sumnjaju u istinitost tih tvrdnji zbog tendencije naših renesansnih pisaca da traže korijene svojih početaka u dalekoj prošlosti, čak i u antici.

Elementarnu i humanističku školu završio je u Zadru, a visoke škole u Italiji. Baraković se školovao za svećenika, dobro je poznavao klasične pisce i talijansku renesansnu književnost, kao i hrvatske renesansne književnike.

U arhivima se prvi put spominje kao klerik 1564. godine, a zatim kao svećenik 1586. godine. Desetak je godina službovao kao župnik u Novigradu, a kao kanonik je 1602. godine, iz dosad neutvrđenih razloga, protjeran u Šibenik i lišen crkvenih činova. Podaci koji su nam poznati prije njegova izgona u Šibenik govore nam kako je pjesnik 1582. godine tiskao svoju prvu pjesmu uz Budinićeve prijevode psalama, da je 1606. nakanio tiskati Jarulu, a 1613. je An'jelu Justinijanoviću povjerio Vilu Slovinku za tiskanje.

Prvi put se u arhivima spominje kao klerik 1564, a zatim, mnogo kasnije, kao svećenik 1586. Desetak je godina službovao kao župnik u Novigradu, da kao kanonik, negdje na prijelomu stoljeća, iz dosad neutvrđenih razloga, bude protjeran u Šibenik i lišen crkvenih činova. Tu je ostao do 1613, a možda i duže. Životni put završio je u Rimu gdje mu je šibenski prijatelj I. T. Mrnavić podigao ploču u crkvi Sv. Jeronima s nekoliko podataka o životu. Prema njima, pjesnikov daleki predak Bartul istaknuo se na dvoru kralja Bele, sâm Juraj je u ratu protiv Turaka bio ranjen u prsa, njegovao je »ilirske muze« do 80. godine života, a umro je za trećeg hodočašća u Rimu.

Vila Slovinka, dovršena u Šibeniku najkasnije 1613, ostvaruje se na dvije razine, a na objema je u središtu pažnje grad Zadar. Na prvoj (I–VII), u susretu pjesnika s Vilom Slovinkom, riječ je o zadarskoj prošlosti, o postanku slovinskog naroda i jezika. Na drugoj razini, u susretu s poklisarom livanjskog bega, govori se o tadašnjem Zadru i posljedicama dugotrajne tuđinske vladavine zbog koje Zadrani »vas nauk od skule« promijeniše u »rimski«. U spjevu se naziru i pjesnikove nesuglasice s određenim porodicama u Zadru, možda s onima koje su imale kakve veze s njegovim izgonom iz grada. U svoje djelo unio je B. i neke metričke i strofičke novine: »zučnopojke« (osmerački soneti u funkciji strofe), »osmoretke« (dvanaesteračke oktave), »poluretke« (osmerački katreni) »i pisni skupne« (niz dvanaesteračkih distiha). U posljednjem djelu, u Dragi, rapskoj pastirici, prikazuju se znamenitosti i ljepote otoka i grada Raba s umetnutom pripoviješću o Kalifrontovoj silnoj ljubavi prema pastirici Dragi, koja završava »prijetvorom« ovidijevskog tipa. — Vilu Slovinku stariji su istraživači držali nejedinstvenim djelom. Novija proučavanja pokazuju da je riječ o novom načinu komponiranja (F. Švelec). Po kompoziciji (spajanje fantazijskog s realnim) i stilu (bujna metaforika) djelo pokazuje crte manirizma (N. Kulumbić).

Umro je u Rimu 1628. godine, za vrijeme svog trećeg hodočašća. Pokopan je u crkvi sv. Jeronima, gdje mu je prijatelj Ivan Tomko Mrnavić postavio nadgrobnu ploču s epitafom iz kojeg saznajemo o starini Barakovićeva podrijetla i o njegovu sudjelovanju u borbi protiv Turaka.

Djela

Poznata su mu djela Vila Slovinka, Jarula i Draga, rapska pastirica, a pripisuju mu se još neka djela. U zadarskom kalendaru Il Rammentatore dalmatino (za 1868.) navodi se da je Baraković pisao životopis Cicerona na talijanskom i životopis sv. Jeronima na hrvatskom jeziku, gramatiku "ilirskog" jezika, navodno tiskanu 1614. godine, i povijest "naroda dalmatinskog i hrvatskog" koju je tiskao pjesnikov nećak Marko Baraković. Pridaje mu se i pohvalnica Čestitom Zadru gradu (uz Budinićev prijevod Psalama Davidovih, Rim 1582.). Odnedavna mu se pripisuje i dio rukopisne zbirke propovijedi na hrvatskom (kupljene 1966. u Londonu i pohranjene u Nacionalnoj i sveučilišnoj knjižnici u Zagrebu). Barakovićevim se smatra dio rukopisa na kraju: himna Zadru, koja se u osnovi podudara s himnom Zadru u V. "petju" Vile Slovinke.

Napisao je više djela (Jarula, Mleci 1618. – prepričano Sveto pismo Starog i Novog zavjeta; Draga, rapska pastirica), ali ostao je u književnosti zapamćen po jednom djelu: kao pjesnik velikog spjeva u 13 pjevanja Vila Slovinka (1613.).

Bibliografija

 Vila Slovinka
 Jarula
 Draga, rapska pastirica

Hrvatski pjesnici
Životopisi, Zadar
Renesansni književnici


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require 'spec_helper'

describe RuboCop::Cop::Style::Blocks do
  subject(:cop) { described_class.new }

  it 'accepts a multiline block with do-end' do
    inspect_source(cop, ['each do |x|',
                         'end'])
    expect(cop.offenses).to be_empty
  end

  it 'registers an offense for a single line block with do-end' do
    inspect_source(cop, 'each do |x| end')
    expect(cop.messages)
      .to eq(['Prefer {...} over do...end for single-line blocks.'])
  end

  it 'accepts a single line block with braces' do
    inspect_source(cop, 'each { |x| }')
    expect(cop.offenses).to be_empty
  end

  it 'auto-corrects do and end for single line blocks to { and }' do
    new_source = autocorrect_source(cop, 'block do |x| end')
    expect(new_source).to eq('block { |x| }')
  end

  it 'does not auto-correct do-end if {} would change the meaning' do
    src = "s.subspec 'Subspec' do |sp| end"
    new_source = autocorrect_source(cop, src)
    expect(new_source).to eq(src)
  end

  it 'does not auto-correct {} if do-end would change the meaning' do
    src = ['foo :bar, :baz, qux: lambda { |a|',
           '  bar a',
           '}'].join("\n")
    new_source = autocorrect_source(cop, src)
    expect(new_source).to eq(src)
  end

  context 'when there are braces around a multi-line block' do
    it 'registers an offense in the simple case' do
      inspect_source(cop, ['each { |x|',
                           '}'])
      expect(cop.messages)
        .to eq(['Avoid using {...} for multi-line blocks.'])
    end

    it 'accepts braces if do-end would change the meaning' do
      src = ['scope :foo, lambda { |f|',
             '  where(condition: "value")',
             '}',
             '',
             'expect { something }.to raise_error(ErrorClass) { |error|',
             '  # ...',
             '}',
             '',
             'expect { x }.to change {',
             '  Counter.count',
             '}.from(0).to(1)']
      inspect_source(cop, src)
      expect(cop.offenses).to be_empty
    end

    it 'registers an offense for braces if do-end would not change ' \
       'the meaning' do
      src = ['scope :foo, (lambda { |f|',
             '  where(condition: "value")',
             '})',
             '',
             'expect { something }.to(raise_error(ErrorClass) { |error|',
             '  # ...',
             '})']
      inspect_source(cop, src)
      expect(cop.offenses.size).to eq(2)
    end

    it 'can handle special method names such as []= and done?' do
      src = ['h2[k2] = Hash.new { |h3,k3|',
             '  h3[k3] = 0',
             '}',
             '',
             'x = done? list.reject { |e|',
             '  e.nil?',
             '}']
      inspect_source(cop, src)
      expect(cop.messages)
        .to eq(['Avoid using {...} for multi-line blocks.'])
    end

    it 'auto-corrects { and } to do and end' do
      source = <<-END.strip_indent
        each{ |x|
          some_method
          other_method
        }
      END

      expected_source = <<-END.strip_indent
        each do |x|
          some_method
          other_method
        end
      END

      new_source = autocorrect_source(cop, source)
      expect(new_source).to eq(expected_source)
    end

    it 'does not auto-correct {} if do-end would introduce a syntax error' do
      src = ['my_method :arg1, arg2: proc {',
             '  something',
             '}, arg3: :another_value'].join("\n")
      new_source = autocorrect_source(cop, src)
      expect(new_source).to eq(src)
    end
  end
end

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Priority will be given to paid, registered members. $5 discount for Gold Coast Wargamers membership on the day for attendees.
Contact me for payment and entry details, either via PM or email on terry.mo@mortgagechoice.com.au.
4 rounds will be played with the first round being random draws. Games will be 1,000 points with army choices from all available army books. New edition Vampire Counts rules will be in effect, if they are released and a book is made available for perusal throughout the day. Storm of Chaos will be allowed provided the parent army book is still legal. Other variant lists will require TO approval.
For all rules queries, GW and Direwolf FAQs will be used to reach a resolution. If you have a query relevant to your army that is not expressly answered by GW or Direwolf, please PM me to request a ruling prior to the event.
Prizes are based on full attendance, and will be scaled back accordingly with fewer players. All prizes will be cash.
Please contact me either via PM or e-mail (terry.mo@mortgagechoice.com.au) with your name, contact e-mail and army list prior to the day. Payment before the event is preferred, and if there are more than 20 players attending, priority will be given to paid entries. Contact me for payment details.
Well, that's it. Hope to see a few new faces to the Gold Coast!
Got contact details for the TO on this one?
Who do we make payment to?
Are prizes actually cash or are they GW product to that value?
Oops .. my bad Kind of important details to miss.
Contact me via PM for any enquiries and payment details. Payments by direct deposit or on any Gold Coast Wargamers club day or Veteran's Night between now and March 2 (13/2, 24/2 or 27/2). Payment on the day is fine as well, but we can't guarantee a spot. Cheque and Money Order is available, but must be received at least one week beforehand to give it time to clear. Contact me for direct deposit details.
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To get to the club from Brisbane, just exit the Pacific Highway at Helensvale (South) exit, and you'll find yourself on Brisbane Road (the main road on the map below, heading east off the highway). Easier to turn in at Captain Cook and left at Kendor, since we're at the back of the lot facing Brisbane Road and there's a traffic island stopping anyone from turning in directly.