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Business Travel Programs – Do These Motivators Really Work?
Business travel programs are a unique way to reward executives and workers who go above and beyond the call of everyday business. However, most companies don't offer the trips without desiring something in return. They want trips that comprise business travel programs to motivate employees who take the trips to mirror their great performance in the coming year, with qualifying for the next travel trip serving as a primary motivator for maintaining success.
Lots of companies have anecdotes about how business travel programs motivate performance. However, before you implement a travel program, it's a good idea not to put too much stock in another company's story of success, and look at statistics that provide a broad view of how business travel programs work for companies at large. Below are recent statistics from the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) that point to the success of business travel programs.
Providing non-cash rewards creates revenue increases three times higher than average.
Companies with the best customer retention and sales growth offer travel as a reward.
Travel rewards can increase sales by 18 percent and produce an ROI up to 112 percent.
These statistics are only averages, but they matter a great deal considering how many companies offer incentive travel trips to reward top business performance. The IRF study referenced above also states that nearly 50 percent of U.S. businesses use incentive travel as a performance reward, and that businesses in the U.S. spend $22.5 billion a year on incentive travel trips.
As positive as the statistics above may seem, they are underpinned by something that is essential for experiencing the success they quantify: Planning trips that are highly rewarding from beginning to end. These types of trips are typically facilitated by a company that specializes in planning and executing incentive based trips, such as Incentive Travel Solutions. With us working as your trusted travel planner, you receive the following benefits, among others.
The IRF study also found that incentive travel budgets per person now average as much as $3,440 person. That is a significant amount of money to invest in a trip that doesn't achieve its intended effect of motivating top business performance in the coming year. That's why we recommend that you contact us before plans for your next incentive travel trip are finalized.
At Incentive Travel Solutions, we specialize in helping companies make the most of their business travel programs. To kick off the travel planning process, please call us today at (704) 540-1482, or use our contact form, to schedule a free consultation. We look forward to helping your company plan a trip that is unforgettable for all the right reasons and motivates your workforce to qualify for the next unforgettable trip at year's end. Start planning today!
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Q: Is it possible to trigger a "fake" scroll progmatically in WinForms? Is it possible to trigger a "fake" scroll progmatically in WinForms?
The scenario:
A form with various drawings on it done with System.Drawing (and no scrollbars).
What I would like:

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*Progmatically tell the Form the user has scrolled by 10 pixels to the left.

*The Form moves the existing drawing 10 pixels to the left.

*The Form generates a paint event with a ClipRectangle containing just the right-hand 10 pixels that are now empty.

Is this possible or do I need to handle this myself?

A: You can add a panel to the form that is larger then the form. Keep the scroll bar turned off and manually scroll the panel by setting the value properties of the VerticalScroll and HorizontalScroll properties of the Panel.
Then add your drawing to the panel instead of the form.
 this.panel1.VerticalScroll.Value = 50;
this.panel1.HorizontalScroll.Value = 100;

A: I honestly have no idea whether that would work, but my guess is that if a scrollbar isn't present on the form it wouldn't.
However, I would expect that if you have a PictureBox control that was sized larger than the client area of the form, and you moved it, it would be updated with only the specific clip region.

A: You could try putting the drawing whatever it is in a separate container then just moving the location of the container to a location off the main form. .location = -10,0 for example. This will create the illusion that it moved a certain number of pixels off the screen.  You can also always fire your own repaint event if the location change does not successfully do this.  Other than that you can always owner draw everything.

A: Since you're using System.Drawing you'll need to tell the drawing methods (OnPaint() or where ever you're drawing) to start drawing at an x offset of -10 pixels. Everything you draw would then be offset by that amount.
Shifting the whole drawing left 10 pixels would be cause to invalidate the whole screen region, not just the 10 pixels on the right of the screen. There are a couple of ways you could do this:
1) Set your offset to -= 10 pixels. Invalidate the whole screen by calling Invalidate(). This would force a redraw of the entire screen and, as long as you have coded your offsets correctly, will redraw everything 10 pixels over.
2) Take an in-memory dump of what's on the screen and make an Image out of it. Then redraw that image 10 pixels to the left off the screen. After that, simply Invalidate the right-most 10 pixels.
Method #2 is, in fact, a lot slower than method #1. Redrawing the screen is quite fast if you don't have millions of things you need to draw.

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The 2018–19 National Premier League is the 45th season of the National Premier League, the top division football competition in Jamaica. The season began on 16 September 2018 and will end on 29 April 2019. Portmore United are the defending champions, having won their 6th title last season.

Teams
Sandals South Coast FC and Boys' Town finished 11th and 12th in last season's competition and were relegated to their respective regional Super Leagues, the Western Super League and KSAFA Super League respectively.

At the end of last season, the champions of the four Super Leagues participated in a promotion playoff double round robin tournament. Dunbeholden F.C. and Mount Pleasant Football Academy finished 1st and 2nd after the playoff and were promoted to the National Premier League for this season.

Regular season

Results

Regular Home Games

Additional Home Games

Playoffs

Bracket

Results

Quarterfinals

Mount Pleasant F.A. progresses 3-2 on aggregate.

Cavalier progresses 3-0 on aggregate.

Semifinals
The winners of these ties will qualify for the Caribbean Club Championship.

Portmore United progress 3-2 on aggregate.

Waterhouse progresses 3-0 on aggregate.

Third-place game

Finals

Top goalscorers

References

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David is an award-winning screenwriter whose love for cinema started at the age of five, when he would recruit his identical twin brother to help him reenact his favorite movie scenes for their parents. David's passion continued with theatre studies in high school, and he ultimately joined the Screen Actors Guild in 2009. After taking a creative writing course in college, David realized he wanted to be a screenwriter. Since then, he has completed nearly two dozen feature length screenplays and television pilots. In 2017, David was selected as an ISA Fast Track Fellow. He has also placed in several of the most prestigious screenwriting competitions, including the Academy Nicholl Fellowships (semi-finalist), Final Draft Big Break (finalist), Page Awards (category Top 20), ScreenCraft (finalist) and Tracking Board (Top 10). David is currently developing a feature pitch for Disney, as well as a feature screenplay with Romark Entertainment.
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David Kushner's pilot BLOODLANDS has been honored as a winner (Top 10) in the STAGE 32 TV Writing Contest 2018.
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On a future Earth where all men and women are unable to reproduce, love-jaded stoner Adam discovers a magical weed that gives the smoker the ability to bear children, and must team up with straight-laced procreation scientist Eve to combat the android forces determined to destroy the plant and the entire human race.
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CONCRETE JUNGLE is a gritty one-hour gangster drama based on the life of Queenie St. Clair, an African-American female mob boss who operated in Harlem during the 1930s. Queenie goes to war with rival mobs, corrupt politicians and violent police officers on her rise to mob boss status, but because of the rampant racism and deterioration of her black community, her true rise is to the heights of freedom fighter.
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Toy exhibit ranges from ray guns to rockets
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
In the early 1930s, children suddenly began asking Santa for a new kind of Christmas gift: space toys, popularized by the first science fiction radio show and fueled by marketing gimmicks. Later, the real-life international space race added to the demand for toy rockets, ray guns, robots and more.
A special "Toys of the Future" exhibit at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum offers a look at a range of space toys. On loan from collector and national award-winning poet Albert Goldbarth of Wichita, the exhibit will remain on display through Sunday, Dec. 31, museum director Eric Cale said.
The exhibit came about when officials at Exploration Place approached the historical museum about hosting a toy exhibit to coincide with the children's science center's staging of the national traveling exhibit "Toytopia," which closes Jan. 1. Both exhibits opened Saturday, Sept. 20.
The popularity of space toys was propelled by several factors, said Amy McKune, curator of collections at The National Toy and Miniatures Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. None was bigger than the fictional character Buck Rogers.
Coming during the Depression, Rogers "captured the general imagination and was a bright spot in a rather difficult time," McKune said.
First appearing in a 1928 novella and then a comic strip series, Buck Rogers eventually became the lead character in his namesake radio show, which debuted in late 1932 on CBS radio. "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" became one of the first programs to use the marketing ploy of a radio premium, which encouraged kids to mail in a proof of purchase of breakfast cereal or some other consumer good to receive a novelty item associated with the program, McKune noted.
By the 1950s, more space adventurers entered the universe; a poster in the "Toys of the Future" exhibit lists some of the other fictional men and women whose travels enthralled the masses.
When the real-life space race between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union took off, so did the sales of space toys and space-themed board games, lunch boxes and other items, McKune noted.
Many of the toys are great examples of tin-plate lithography, or tin-litho, a process in which colorful images were printed on tin plates, cut out and then assembled. By the 1960s, toy-making processes were changed with the introduction of cheaper plastics and safety regulations that ended the making of tin toys.
"Toys of the Future" can be seen during regular museum hours of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Friday and 1to 5 p.m. weekends until Sunday, Dec 31. The museum is closed Mondays and holidays. Museum admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children ages 6-12, and free to those 6 and under and museum members. Receive $2 off if you bring a ticket stub from the "Toytopia" exhibit at Exploration Place.
Contact Amy Geiszler-Jones at alg64@sbcglobal.net


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Sparkassen Munsterland Giro
Stephen Clancy
Joonas Henttala
Charles Planet
Mehdi Benhamouda
Umberto Poli
Rik van IJzendoorn
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Watch Charles Planet recap the 2017 Sparkassen Münsterland Giro, the Team Novo Nordisk's only appearance in Germany this year.
(Photos: ©René Vigneron)
Race: Sparkassen Münsterland Giro
Start/Finish: Wadersloh/Münster, Germany
Distance: 198.7 kilometers
Münster, GERMANY — On Tuesday, Team Novo Nordisk tackled the 12th edition of the Sparkassen Münsterland Giro. The one-day race is traditionally held on Germany's Reunification Day. This year's edition began in Wadersloh and saw four riders escape early into the 198.7-kilometer race.
The quartet was held at a manageable gap throughout the stage and as the chasing peloton closed the gap to mere seconds, Carl Soballa (LKT Team Brandenburg) and Tony Martin (Team Katusha-Alpecin) attacked and stayed off the front until the race reached the three finishing laps around Münster.
With 12 km remaining, the escapees were reeled in with the sprinter's teams fighting for position. The high pace splintered the peloton into dozens of groups around the 4.4-km circuit. Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) took the win with Charles Planet finishing as Team Novo Nordisk's best-placed rider in 44th position.
Stephen Clancy went down in a crash during Tuesday's Sparkassen Münsterland Giro. The Irishman was immediately transported to a local hospital along with a team doctor.
"X-rays confirmed a displaced fracture to Stephen's left clavicle and he will undergo surgery in the morning. With it being so late in the season, Stephen's injury means he will not be able to race again this year and will now focus on his recovery in the off-season," explained Team Novo Nordisk doctor Peter Lagrou.
Charles Planet:
"Today we expected a bunch sprint because it was mostly a flat race. There was a lot of wind, so it was really nervous all day and the crosswinds ended up causing some splits. My form felt good and I got myself into the front group. In the final circuits, the crosswinds forced a small gap between my group and the front group. Over all, I was happy with the day and motivated to carry this form into a block of Asian racing that kicks off next week."
Team Novo Nordisk, the world's first all-diabetes pro cycling team, returns to racing on October 10th at the Tour of Taihu Lake.
Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe): 1st: 4:35:27
Phil Bauhaus (Team Sunweb): 2nd: same time as Bennett
Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) 3rd: same time as Bennett
Team Novo Nordisk Results:
Charles Planet: 44th: 0:14 behind Bennett
Martijn Verschoor: 68th: 0:43 behind Bennett
Umberto Poli: 95th: 1:06 behind Bennett
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After a almost three week home confinement because health issues (first my kid and then me) it's great to take a travel through some hardware stores spread through the city. Yesterday was raining and today was sunny, so was a perfect day to walk. Here's what I bought.
6 mm two flute end mill. The size I most use. I ruin mine when it fell from my table; a small nick in some edge and say good bay to the good finish (I tried to resharpen it by hand… impossible).
2 mm two flute end mill.
3 mm two flute end mill.
8 mm four flute end mill. As I understand two flute end mills works better for aluminum, but I use this size only for face/side milling and finishing, not for roughing.
4mm tap set. I have a set with one 4mm tap. But you always end up requiring the three set. Great Indian quality for the price.
Though usually I bought on eBay from sellers like NorthbayCuttingTools (great seller btw), there's nothing as to look, touch and bought.


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Reviews for Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
Eight people become unlikely friends during a hostage situation created by an inept bank robber.In a town in Sweden, a desperate parent turns to bank robbery to help pay the rent. Unfortunately, the target turns out to be a cashless bank, which means that no robbery can take place. In an attempt to flee the police, the would-be perpetrator runs into a nearby apartment building and interrupts an open house, causing the would-be buyers to assume they're being held hostage. After the situation has ended with an absent bank robber and blood on the carpet, a father-and-son police pair work through maddening interviews with the witnesses: the ridiculous realtor; an older couple who renovates and sells apartments in an effort to stay busy; a bickering young couple expecting their first child; a well-off woman interested only in the view from the balcony of a significant bridge in her life; an elderly woman missing her husband as New Years Eve approaches; and, absurdly, an actor dressed as a rabbit hired to disrupt the showing and drive down the apartment price. Backmans latest novel focuses on how a shared event can change the course of multiple peoples lives even in times of deep and ongoing anxiousness. The observer/narrator is winding and given to tangents and, in early moments, might distract a bit too much from the strongly drawn characters. But the story gains energy and sureness as it develops, resulting in moments of insight and connection between its numerous amiable characters.A story with both comedy and heartbreak sure to please Backman fans. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Eight people become unlikely friends during a hostage situation created by an inept bank robber. In a town in Sweden, a desperate parent turns to bank robbery to help pay the rent. Unfortunately, the target turns out to be a cashless bank, which means that no robbery can take place. In an attempt to flee the police, the would-be perpetrator runs into a nearby apartment building and interrupts an open house, causing the would-be buyers to assume they're being held hostage. After the situation has ended with an absent bank robber and blood on the carpet, a father-and-son police pair work through maddening interviews with the witnesses: the ridiculous realtor; an older couple who renovates and sells apartments in an effort to stay busy; a bickering young couple expecting their first child; a well-off woman interested only in the view from the balcony of a significant bridge in her life; an elderly woman missing her husband as New Year's Eve approaches; and, absurdly, an actor dressed as a rabbit hired to disrupt the showing and drive down the apartment price. Backman's latest novel focuses on how a shared event can change the course of multiple people's lives even in times of deep and ongoing anxiousness. The observer/narrator is winding and given to tangents and, in early moments, might distract a bit too much from the strongly drawn characters. But the story gains energy and sureness as it develops, resulting in moments of insight and connection between its numerous amiable characters. A story with both comedy and heartbreak sure to please Backman fans. Copyright © Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.


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If you like "Wonderfalls", then you might enjoy...
Jaye Tyler is a twenty-something care-free loner living in Niagara Falls. Despite graduating college she has chosen to work as a retail clerk in a tourist gift shop in Niagara Falls called Wonderfalls. Her life takes a startling turn after a lion figurine begins talking to her. Despite fearing for her sanity, she decides to do exactly what the statues tells her to do and amazingly her actions begin changing people's lives in unexpected ways.
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Six Feet Under follows the Fisher family, a dysfunctional family from L.A., and their family owned funeral home. This show has serious drama and dark humour melted into one substance of pure awesomeness.
Is Six Feet Under good?
Six Feet Under is a superb TV-Show. It has serious drama, but it is also halleriouse at times. This is one of those TV-Shows that should be a must watch.
Why is Six Feet Under recommended?
Six Feet Under and Wonderfalls both have some similar aspects. They are both odd and out there, but Six Feet Under is realistic has more dark humor and is more depressing.
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Eighteen year old Georgia "George" Lass is a college drop-out and without work. After getting work at a temp agency she gets royally screwed by a space station toilet falling from the sky and straight onto her head. After a brief period as a ghost she is returned to earth to work as a grim reaper. She works with a local team of grim reapers and have to help dead people to free their souls from their body right before they die. They look just like everyone else but as grim reapers they appear physically different to the living than they did when they were alive. Which means they also have to keep a day job to pay the bills.
Is Dead Like Me good?
Dead Like Me is a brilliant TV show with lots of quirky dark humor and witty dialogs. To bad it did not last longer.
Why is Dead Like Me recommended?
Wonderfalls has a very similar feel to Dead Like Me. Both shows are also by Bryan Fuller and Dead Like Me is just as unusually weird and original. a show as Wonderfalls.
Similar to: Dead Like Me
Ned is an not so ordinary pie-maker. He possesses the strange ability to bring the dead to life merely by touching them. Just like it was with King Midas`s Golden Touch, Ned`s touch also has a backside. He has to kill them by touching them again before one minute is up else another innocent person will die. Ned and Emerson, a local PI, uses Ned`s touch to solve murder cases and cash in on the rewards. When one case happens to be the murder of Ned`s childhood crush Chuck he decides to break the rules and let her live.
Is Pushing Daisies good?
Pushing Daisies is a unusual, funny, quirky and clever show. Not only is the story and the humour out there, the visuals are also unusual and strange. This show is not for everybody, but everybody should check it out to see if it is for them. It is absolutely brilliant.
Why is Pushing Daisies recommended?
Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls are both unusual shows with the same kind of quirky humor. Pushing Daisies is definitely worth a try if you like Wonderfalls.
Joan is an ordinary 16-year-old, but that all changes the day that God decides to talk to her. The first time God speaks to her he appears as a cute boy, and he asks her to get a job. Once she's convinced He's really God, she does. Her actions then also affect other around her in a good way. God continues to appear to Joan in a variety of different guises to ask her to do things that mostly make her uncomfortable. But she has learned that some good will always come from it, so she dos it.
Is Joan of Arcadia good?
The theme song this show uses is Joan Osborne's "One of Us". It`s good song and very fitting for this show. This show is actually very good. It`s a show with good but it is far from a preachy boring Christian show like 7th Heaven. Joan of Arcadia is a fun and quirky show.
Why is Joan of Arcadia recommended?
Joan of Arcadia has many similarities to Wonderfalls. They bout are surreal offbeat shows with quirky humor and a touch of the supernatural.
Unbeknownst to Sam, his parents sold his soul to the Devil. The Devil forces him to hunt down evildoers that escaped from Hell and send them back. This is a serious life change for the 21-year-old slacker. Luckily he has the help of his goofball friends.
Is Reaper good?
I know some people liked this show, but I did not. I only finished season one.
Why is Reaper recommended?
Reaper is another show like Wonderfalls with strange misfit characters and strange witty humor.
The Good Place is one of the places where those that have been good during their lives go after they are dead. Michael is the architect of this town and responsible for keeping everything going smoothly and that everyone receives the home of their dream and meet their soul mate on their arrival.. Eleanor finds herself as a new member of the town, but she realizes that there has been a terrible mix-up. She was never especially good during her life, and her new house in The Good Place is not to her taste.
Is The Good Place good?
The Good Place is a whimsical and funny show. I hope they don't kill it to early like they do to so many shows of this nature.
Why is The Good Place recommended?
The Good Place and Wonderfalls are both surreal shows with strange and witty humor.
Veronica Mars is a teenage crime solver with a Private Investigator for a dad. She helps out friend and schoolmates solving small and big problems, for a small fee of course, unless you qualify for a friends and family discount. While she works on these small episodic cases she also works on longer seasonal problems.
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a musical about Billy, A.K.A. Dr. Horrible, and his plans for world domination. He wants to be accepted into the Evil League of Evil and be able to speak to his laundromat crush Penny. The only thing standing in his way is Captain Hammer, Billy's superhero arch-nemesis.
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Welcome to nerd nirvana with stars like Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and evry nerds wet dream, Felicia Day. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a short, quirky, nerdistick masterpiece. You have to watch it.
Agent Pete Lattimer and Agent Myka Bering find themselves transferred to Warehouse 13, a massive, top-secret storage facility in South Dakota. This mysterious warehouse houses every supernatural artifact ever collected by the government. Their new job has them chasing down reports of supernatural activity in search of new artifacts to be safeguarded in the Warehouse
Is Warehouse 13 good?
Warehouse 13 is an entertaining adventure full of fictional and historical objects and gadgets with and without (mostly with) supernatural powers. I really like this TV show.
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Liv Moore, a promising medical student, takes a break from her workaholic life to attend a party. This one choice leads to her becoming a zombie and her life goes through some drastic changes. Liv takes a job at the Coroner's Office to get access to all the brain she needs, and in the process she ends up helping Clive Babineaux, a police officer, solving crime. She tells him that she is a psychic, but the truth is that she gets some of the memories and habits of the people she eats.
Is iZombie good?
I like this show. The main character is witty and cool. Much better than your average CSI type of show.
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Tatsuhiro Satou is a twenty-two-year-old college dropout that has been a hikikomori (shut inn) for close to four years. The isolation has made him paranoid and made him start to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories. His biggest fare is the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) status is the Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai (NHK)—an evil and secret organization dedicated to fostering the spread of hikikomori culture. Welcome to the NHK! follows Tatsuhiro as he battles his inner daemons against, the NHK corporation's plots, and his struggle to get out of his self-imposed isolation.
Is Welcome to the NHK! good?
Welcome to the NHK! is an excellent anime that sometimes is humorous and other times serious and emotionally hard to watch.
Why is Welcome to the NHK! recommended?
Wonderfalls and Welcome to the NHK! both have characters that have kind of shut themself out from the life that is expected of them. They both have humorous elements but at the same time, they handle serious themes.
Maka and Soul students at the Grim Reaper's Death Weapon Meister Academy. Maka is a Meister and Soul is her Weapon. He can turn him self into a Scythe than Maka uses to fight evil beings and collect their souls.
Is Soul Eater good?
Soul Eater is a really good anime. The visual style might be a little quirky to begin with, but you quickly get used to it. If you like Shonen then you should absolutely watch it, but it is still worth a try even if you are not a big fan of Shonen.
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My word, how about that for a spooky piece of synchronicity!? I woke up this morning thinking '…and what shall I do with my morning off before sorting out shopping and kit for our impending Jura trip?' I pondered a little before concluding that 'it's probably about time I wrote something about my trip to Iceland with the boys a few years ago'. I uploaded my pictures of our magnificent five-day walk from Skógar to Landmanalauger and then had a look at the BBC News website. Ouch. What a coincidence. The first two days of our walk had skirted the Eyjafjallajökull glacier, beneath which a volcano that had lain dormant for 200 years spectacularly erupted yesterday, sending torrents of melted glacier water pouring down river valleys and a huge plume of steam and volcanic ash into the atmosphere. The various UK news websites seemed more concerned with the disruption caused to UK airports than the impact the eruption is having in Iceland itself. Seems that the volume of ash in the atmosphere will seriously hamper visibility for flights to and from UK airports. I remember reading somewhere that for months after the 1883 eruption of the volcanic island of Krakatoa – west of Java in Indonesian – the volume of dust in the atmosphere created remarkable sunsets around the globe. Perhaps it's worth keeping an eye on the evening skies in the coming days.
Anyway, August 2006 it was when I set off with Steve, Dan, Paul, Jons and Andy for our much-anticipated trip to the Land of Fire and Ice. Only the week before, I had returned from six weeks of walking the high-level route in the Pyrenees – the HRP (Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne), but I was already itching to get walking again. The other boys are all teachers and they were all looking forward to being somewhere as far away from the classroom as possible and, really, this was the place.
Even from the air Iceland looks more than a little extra-terrestrial, an impression that was reinforced on the bus journey from Reykjavik to Skógar, where we would be camping for the night. I think this impression is chiefly promoted by the combination of highly weather-eroded black volcanic rock and its upholstery of almost hallucinatory iridiscent green mosses, lichens and other vegetation.
Anyway, after a few hours on the bus we arrived at our destination – and what a campsite! We pitched our tents near a small scattering of others a few hundred yards from the mighty, thundering curtain of glacial melt water that is the Skógafoss waterfall. This was all very exciting and after quaffing some of the local firewater, I was making all sorts of outlandish promises to run up the mountain opposite our campsite before breakfast.
Dawn brought me a sore head and I wasn't feeling great as we set of up the path that winds its way up to the pass between Eyjafjallajökull to the west and the hugely massive Mýrdalsjökull to the east. Despite my pounding head and queasy stomach, the magnificent landscape had my full attention. We climbed up alongside Skógafoss and then another fantastic waterfall and then another and another and another and another. And so it continued.
When we had set off the morning was sunny with blue skies and white fluffy clouds. As we gained altitude a fine mist descended to meet us. by the time we had arrived at the unmanned refuge below Fimmvörđuháls it was a real pea-souper.
We took a break while deciding what to do next. It was only the middle of the day and we had plenty of hours of light ahead of us. On the other hand, visibility was very poor and there was a stretch of glacier to cross on our way over the pass. In the end we stayed at the refuge and pottered about the environs. We were joined at the refuge by a rather forlorn looking middle-aged German chap and his bright-eyed ten year-old son. They were a little reticent at first, but they soon relaxed into our company. The man seemed to have some sort of nasty burn injury or similar affecting one hand. He also had the rather worn, lined and ruddy face of a drinker. He was friendly enough in his quiet way and he and his boy seemed fiercely protective of each other. We marvelled that the young lad was undertaking this walk, which was no Sunday stroll, and the father explained that his boy was already a seasoned adventurer, having accompanied him on a trip to Baffin Island the previous year.
The following morning was bright and clear as we left the refuge and crossed the pass, shimmying across a stretch of ice before beginning the long descent to Þórsmörk. The views over to the Eyjafjallajökull were impressive, but nothing could prepare us for what was to come.
Descending a path worn into the volcanic earth we arrived on the magnificent high plateau of Morinsheidi, which gave magnificent views onto both Eyjafjallajökull, Mýrdalsjökull and the Krossa valley by Þórsmörk.
When we eventually made it down to Þórsmörk, we were presented with the issue of how to get across the Krossa river. There appeared to be a bridge some way down the valley, but the had thought we would be able to ford the river with our boots off and trousers rolled up. No chance of that; the water was to deep and fast moving. As we stood pondering our situation at the water's edge, a coach on humungous tyres came chugging along dropped into the river, wobbled about a bit and then lurched out on the far side. Wow. On cue, a huge four-wheel on even huger tyres pulled up and offered us a lift across. I'm not a fan of people using 4WD's to do the shopping and school run, but in this context you could certainly see their utility.
Once across, we continued on our way, soon passing the rather homely and inviting-looking Skagfjordsskali refuge, where dozens of delightfully-formed Scandawegian chicks were hanging out their laundry, the air full of their tinkling laughter. We looked at each other for guidance and with some resignation, continued on our way.
A short while later we arrived at the Markafljot river valley, where we illicitly camped for the night. Wild camping is not allowed on the Skógar to Landmanalauger path, but we were just a short distance from the refuge and we were very careful to leave no trace of our stay. Next morning it was boots off and cross the river valley, which made for a bracing start to the day. Our footbath was followed by a climb up and along the edge of the Markafljot valley as the landscape became evermore unearthly.
Near Sandar, some of the company engaged in a little light cairn-building before we dropped down towards the river again with magnificent views onto Entujökull – a glacial tongue of the Mýrdalsjökull.
We crossed the river on a suspension bridge where it flowed through a steep-sided gorge. Continuing on our way the landscape took a turn for the bleak as low rain clouds rolled in to complete a dismal picture. We soon arrived at the Botnar refuge and campsite and decide to pay the exorbitant fee for a pitch rather than continue on into the forbidding Martian landscape in the rain. The afternoon was taken up with wandering around the nearby river valley before hunkering down damply in our tents for the night.
The morning was overcast, but importantly for our spirits it was dry. The German chap and his boy had stayed at the refuge as well and we set off together after striking camp. After a short distance our horizon was framed by the striking black and iridiscent green form of Hattafell rising up from the Martian plain. Steve knows a good canvas when he sees one and an idea quickly coalesced in his fertile imagination. We were marched out to a level area and Steve had us stand at walking pole length from each other, each holding onto the pole of the person next to them. We then had to shuffle around in a circle for several revolutions et voila!
Our German companions had watched the creation of our piece of environmental art with a mixture of curiosity and bemusement, but they gamely continued along the way with us, pretending that we weren't really completely bonkers. Much of the rest of the day's walk passed through scenery which showed no signs of becoming any more like the pastoral landscapes of the Home Counties than what we had already seen. The route also featured a number of river crossings, with and without the benefit of bridges.
As the dafternoon drew on, so the rain came in again and as we passed the refuge on the shore of the Alftavatn lake, we eschewed the luxuries therein and committed ourselves to the Spartan life under canvas once again. A short distance beyond the Alftavatn refuge we perpetrated our second naughty wild camp of the week at a fine spot near a river valley. The afternoon was passed playing a variation on the theme of 'golf' dreamt up by Dan. It involves spacing walking poles at intervals around the terrain and hurling rocks at them, the object being to hit the'm in as few throws as possible. Sounds rubbish I know, but really it's excellent. Believe me. When we were bored of 'golf' we went for a wander along the splendid river valley and on our return Jons cooked up a marvellous cous-cous and chorizo fandango on the trangia. Never to be forgotten.
The next and final day of our walk dawned wet, wild and windy. Soon after setting off we had something of a climb to tackle and once on the higher ground we were taking something of a battering from the wind and rain. Before long we were all a bit damp, except Andy who was absolutely soggy on account of his very knackered, ahem, waterproofs. It was all very exciting, but I think we would all have taken the sunshine and gentle breeze option had it been available.
The landscape between Alftavatn and Landmannalauger is no less remarkable than that preceding it and there are numerous hissing, frothing, steaming, bubbling, sulphurous fumaroles for added entertainment along the way.
We couldn't really linger to enjoy these thermo- geological marvels, so we battered on and eventually arrived at the Hrafntinnusker refuge. We dripped our damp way into the refuge's kitchen/dining area and proceeded to soggily munch the sad remains of our food to the mild distatste aof a group of suave young Parisians who didn't look as if they'd walked anywhere at all very recently.
We headed off back out into the maelstrom and were soon beginning the long descent to Landmannalauger and journey's end. We stooped to pick up large glassy black lumps of obsidian that were scattered about the place to take home as souvenirs. Not far from the refuge we passed a small memorila to a young Israeli man who had got caught out in a blizzard a year or two before and died such a short distance from safety. This put our dampness in perspective. After a while the weather began to lift and as we were on the final downhill stretch, a rainbow arched over the curious rock formations above Landmannalauger.
On arrival we pitched our tents near the refuge/visitor centre complex and sat around feeling damp and knackered. The last thing I felt like doing was removing my wet clothes to then get into one of Landmannalauger's famous thermal springs. I really had had enough wet for one day and a spring, hot or not, is still wet. All credit to Andy then, the wettest of us all, who marched off to the springs with a purposeful stride. We all caved in and followed him and this really was the best thing to do. The hot springs were wet in an entirely different way and soooooooo soothing. The aches and pains were soon washed away.
Obviously, a gathering of so much prime British manhood in one small hot spring made for something of an eye-catching spectacle. If only those delightful Scandawegian chicks could see us now!
April 15, 2010 at 11:34 pm	 ∞
Now jealousy is such a bad trait but I am now about to shuffle off to bed a very jealous man! Looking at the photos I am suprised that Lord of the Rings was not filmed there. Words don't sum up the place. You see comments in bothy books here about some Scandinavian netball team spending the night, seems like Iceland is the place to put that into reality! (or you hasd spent too much time in the wilds)
Hey James! It's all true. Worth a visit for sure – great in a bongo I'll wager. I'd love to be watching all the volcanic action there at the moment. Jura tomorrow – it's shaping up nicely, I'll let you know when I've posted something. Cheers, have a good weekend!
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Oh yes, and last but not least, The Center for Photographic Arts will have their annual 8×10 Fundraiser beginning in late September. Once again I will be included in the Buy in Now, where you can buy one of my five images off the wall right then instead of taking a chance on a drawing.


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Hiking is popular in Canada and Japan.
It is fun to go with friends or family.
However, we have to remember that mountains are part of nature and weather could abruptly change.
In order to enjoy hiking, I'm going to discuss 7 essential items you should bring with you.
Sunlight on mountain is extremely strong.
They also reduce reflection of sunlight so that you can walk safely.
When it's sunny, your head will be hot without any hats.
Hat can protect you from strong sunlight.
The combination of hats and sunglasses is the best!
You need to drink sufficient water while hiking.
It is better to drink little by little rather than drinking at once.
Try to drink water whenever you stop for a break.
Use towels when you sweat.
You shouldn't leave sweat because it will wet your clothes and cool you down in unpleasant way.
It is also helpful in case of injury.
I personally love to visit river or creek.
Whenever I touch water, I would need a towel.
A tissue is useful to wipe sweat and cover injured part of body.
I feel safe and comfortable to have tissue paper with me whenever I'm out.
You can use this as a garbage bag.
It is nice to have some food on mountains but don't forget to bring garbage back.
Yes, you do have I phone, but it doesn't work on mountains.
Trust me, I've tried but it's basically no service.
Thus it is extremely important to bring a map with you.
You could get lost without any maps.
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Take small steps. Don't stride.
Stride makes you tired easily and may damage your knees and ankles especially when going down.
When you go with others, respect slower individuals and try to walk as same pace as them if possible.
Take your time, get enough breaks and enjoy the air and view!
Needless to say, bring water!
It is extremely important that you have enough water while hiking.
Try to drink little by little because you sweat a lot especially in summer.
Hiking uses a lot of energy. Therefore you should bring some snack or food.
It should be something easy to carry and eat.
Don't forget to bring garbage back.
Hiking is one of the fun activities one can enjoy during summer.
Always be ready and don't get injury or lost.


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Well now, I am an anxious sort. So I gain a point. Never really been a hurrah of being anxious before! A really intelligent person I know is also anxious at times... tho a lot less likely to flap like a headless chicken than I am. They say that the giving a damn caring approach will indeed make you anxious to do well/perform well and complete tasks even with stressful obstacles thrown in the way.
You were an early reader.
Oh darn it. Im not the leftie in my family..... my sister is. And yes, she's smart. Apparently they have linked it to divergent thinking. And the ability to combine two unrelated object together is a sign of intelligence.
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BMO Capital Markets set a $26.00 target price on shares of Kinder Morgan and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Thursday, October 12th. The stock decreased 0.43% or $0.53 during the last trading session, reaching $120.39. About 451,940 shares traded or 7.17% up from the average. Sit Investment Associates Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Kinder Morgan by 237.1% during the fourth quarter. It has underperformed by 35.14% the S&P500.
Arizona State Retirement System decreased its stake in Renaissancere Holdings Ltd (RNR) by 37.88% based on its latest 2017Q3 regulatory filing with the SEC. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 60.57% of the company's stock. The stock decreased 3.10% or $0.56 during the last trading session, reaching $17.5. Cantab Capital Prtnrs Llp holds 12,815 shares or 0.25% of its portfolio. Graco Inc. (NYSE:GGG) has risen 41.79% since February 6, 2017 and is uptrending.
Investors sentiment decreased to 0.77 in 2017 Q3. Its up 0.08, from 1.17 in 2017Q2.
Several other research firms also recently commented on KMI. 69 funds opened positions while 257 raised stakes. Wendell David Incorporated owns 12,851 shares for 0.24% of their portfolio. The other 8 are split, though not evenly, between analysts who think you should buy its stock versus those who think you should sell it.
Chatham Capital Group Inc. lessened its stake in Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE:KMI) or 236,273 shares. (NASDAQ:EXPO). Deutsche Natl Bank Ag accumulated 103,031 shares. Aperio Gru Limited Liability Co holds 0.01% in STORE Capital Corporation (NYSE:STOR) or 42,544 shares. Comerica Securities Inc has invested 0.05% in Kinder Morgan, Inc. Public Employees Retirement Association Of Colorado who had been investing in Exponent Inc for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $1.96B market cap company. A bullish investor could look at KMI's 29.1 reading as a sign that the recent heavy selling is in the process of exhausting itself, and begin to look for entry point opportunities on the buy side. Axa reported 360,512 shares stake. Moreover, Fjarde Ap has 0.19% invested in Kinder Morgan, Inc.
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In this footage Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out about the discrimination passengers face on buses in Montgomery and the malice riders faced on a daily basis. He rebukes the arrest of Rosa Parks citing not giving up a seat is no crime. The injustice was unreal.
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A man of integrity who preached peace. I wish we had more like him today.
A poignant reminder from the past, but there's still work to be done.


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Q: Self-embeddings of uncountable total orders A nice theorem of Dushnik and Miller (from 1940) states that if $(\Omega,\leq)$ is a countable total order, then either

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*there is an element $\omega \in \Omega$ such that $(\Omega \setminus \{\omega\},\leq)$ and $(\Omega,\leq)$ are order isomorphic, or

*there exists an embedding $(\mathbb{Q},\leq_u) \hookrightarrow (\Omega,\leq)$ (with $\leq_u$ the usual order on the rationals).

My question: is there a similar result for uncountable total orders ?

A: I  may be missing something, but it seems to me that the exact same statement holds for all infinite total orders.
Indeed, if $\mathbb Q$ does not embed in $\Omega$, then $\Omega$ is scattered, hence it can be constructed from the singleton order by repeatedly using well-ordered and inverse well-ordered sums. Then we can prove by induction on this construction that once the order is infinite, it satisfies the first clause: if $\Omega=\sum_{\alpha<\gamma}\Omega_\alpha$ is infinite, then either some $\Omega_\alpha$ is already infinite, or not. In the first case, $\Omega_\alpha\simeq\Omega_\alpha\smallsetminus\{x\}$ for some $x\in\Omega_\alpha$ by the induction hypothesis, hence $\Omega\simeq\Omega\smallsetminus\{x\}$ as well. In the second case, $\Omega$ itself is an infinite well order, hence it is isomorphic to itself minus its first element. The argument for inverse well ordered sums is completely analogous.
As YCor pointed out, this argument actually shows a bit more: if $\Omega$ is any infinite total order, then

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*$\mathbb Q$ embeds in $\Omega$, or

*$\Omega$ has a convex subset of type $\omega$ or $\omega^*$.
BTW, I had a look at the Dushnik and Miller paper (Concerning similarity transformations of linearly ordered sets, Bull. AMS 46 (1940), no. 4, pp. 322–326) to see where did countability come from. It turns out they do not state the result formulated in the question at all. Rather, it only implicitly follows from their proof of Theorem 1, which actually states that every countable infinite total order is isomorphic to a proper subset of itself. This statement does not hold for uncountable orders (the paper includes a counterexample).


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Berlin Schönefeld airport was opened on 15 October 1934 in order to support the nearby Henschel aircraft plant, which, by the end of the Second World War, had produced over 14,000 aircraft.
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Last night I had the pleasure of watching 'UP', Pixar's 10th animated film. Being a HUGE Pixar fan, I couldn't wait to see the newest cinematic treat, in 3-D nonetheless. I had to blog about it since I feel it is truly the best Pixar film to date.
Besides it's fantastic can't believe your eyes digital animation, the story-line really cinched it for me. The film combines a bittersweet coming of age story with unexpected friendships and surprising adventures along the way.
The movie plot was completely original and seemed light-hearted enough for kids, but also somewhat dark with many adult themes (aging, loss, separation and unfinished promises). There is a very memorable montage towards the beginning that is so poignant, I literally started to well up.
There are many very funny moments but overall, this picture really stands on its own and is hard to compare to its Pixar predecessors. Go see it!


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Abstract: The triad is a combination of a group of elements that may be studied by scholars in different disciplines. A scientist may probe the secrets which are contained within its chemical compounds; a musician may extricate from it different tonal chords. Aspiring to be neither scientist nor musician, I shall utilize this unique configuration in the context of our concerns at this institute. As an educator in the field of librarianship, I perceive the individual who engages in library service for children as a 3-dimensional configuration. Within the framework of a triad, it will be necessary to focus attention on three closely related elements that will influence the structuring of any profile of a children's librarian. These three elements are: (1) to have knowledge of the total environment that may affect children or be affected by children, (2) to have a knowledge of children with their singular commonalities and disparities and of their world with its dichotomous patterns, and (3) to have a knowledge of the philosophy, organization and program of service that will make library service to children an integral part of the total structure of the public library.
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It's no secret that Michigan and Purdue have prioritized Vince Edwards at the combo forward position. The 6-foot-7 forward demonstrated why both John Beilein and Matt Painter want him so badly at the 2013 Bill Hensley Memorial Run-n-Slam Classic in Fort Wayne over the weekend.
Edwards was critical in helping his All Ohio Red squad take home the 17U Championship in a loaded field. He can do a little bit of everything at the combo forward spot and improved as the weekend wore on.
Edwards had 22 points in All Ohio Red's semifinal win over Spiece and he added ten in the championship victory over Team Thad.
While it was a statement weekend on the court for Edwards and All Ohio Red, not much has changed in his recruitment. This summer is more about moving close to a decision than attracting additional suitors for the Middletown, Ohio native. He knows the two schools he's most comfortable with – Purdue and Michigan – he just doesn't know how to differentiate the two.
Purdue has been recruiting Edwards throughout his high school career. They offered him in Fall of 2011 and were considered the leader in his recruitment for a majority of the last two years.
Michigan is the new school in the chase. The Wolverines jumped into the recruitment last April and have tracked the 6-foot-7 forwards progress closely over the last year. Edwards finally visited Michigan for its game against Indiana and received a scholarship offer from John Beilein.
The visit was enough to even up the recruitment.
Deciphering between the two schools is difficult because he sees so many similarities between both coaches.
Edwards elaborated on his decision on Friday evening during a video interview with the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. While Edwards's decision will come down to comfort, that hasn't helped him find differences between both programs.
Edwards is in no rush to make a decision, emphasizing the importance of making the right choice rather than the quick choice, but both Matt Painter and John Beilein would love to cross off the combo forward position on their wish list with a commitment.


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Poultney Area St. David's Society hosts dinner
Poultney Area St. David's Society held its 29th annual St. David's Day dinner Feb. 26 in the Slate Valley in Granville, N.Y. It was an enjoyable, waited dinner and fellowship gathering which was followed by the society's program, "Bring Something Welsh" show and tell. The show and tell began with presentations by members and guests after the dinner. Then everyone went across the village to the Slate Valley Museum site where staff gave a private show and tell presentation about many Welsh heritage items in its collection. This included many Welsh love spoons which were hand-crafted by the late William W. Williams, a Welsh and English-speaking member of the society and life-long valley resident. Interesting recent additions to the collection were presented by Krista Rupe, Director, which included many clothing items which date between 1880 and 1920. Light refreshments afterwards was enjoyed by everyone.
Officers were elected/re-elected at the dinner event. The society's officers are in the attached photograph and include, left to right:
Standing: Ken Williams, director; Nancy Williams, director, Nia Davies Demiray, 2nd vice-president; Tom Hughes, president; Barbara Hughes Stephenson (not related to Tom), co-treasurer; Marilyn Roberts Duke, treasurer; Una Jean Roberts Capman (not related to Marilyn), director; Shirley J. Scott, Director; Janice B. Edwards, secretary; and seated: Helen Thomas Jones, founding co-president and Lorraine Jones (not Jones relatives), director. Officers missing from the group image include: Carol J. Denniston, director; Hayden Morris, vice-president; Emmett Thomas, director; and Phyllis Thomas, director. All of the officers, with exception of Nia, are Slate Valley Welsh heritage descendants. Nia, who was born in Abersytwyth, Wales, is newly elected 2nd vice president. Barbara is newly elected Co-Treasurer.
Virginia Ransom of Hudson Falls, N.Y., the society's newest member, was introduced. She is a descendant of the "Glyn Williams" clan who were founders of Poultney's historic Welsh Male Choir. Her show and tell presentation was about them.
Also, guests Hugh and Colby Roberts were introduced to the society. Hugh was born in Anglesey, Wales. Hugh is a Veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry, having emigrated to America after 9/11 and enlisted. Residents in Poultney, they are working on college degree studies. Hugh and Secretary Janice are comparing family notes, as Hugh is from a very very small village on Anglesey that Janice's Taid's family also originate from.
Society members were reminded about the Gymanfa Ganu event the society will sponsor in June at Federated Church of Castleton, Vt.; and members were encouraged to think about and share ideas with the board for events to be organized for 2018, the society's 30th anniversary year.
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St. David's Society officers smile for a picture at the St. David's Society annual dinner this weekend in Granville, N.Y.
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