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I was caught off guard when the madness of India began before I even left Thailand. I booked my flight to India online with the popular Indian airline called Kingfisher about a week before departure. I was surprised that at that time it seemed like there were a lot of seats available at a very affordable price. When it came time to check in for the flight at Bangkok that seemed to have changed dramatically with big lineups of moustachioed Hindu men. And giant screen TVs as far as the eye could see! I would say well over 50 of the men were each checking in a giant TV and some massive duffel bags of textiles on the side for good measure. I believe what happened is that because the flight was fairly empty some businessman approached the airline or vice versa, and got a sweet deal for a big chunk of tickets. A bunch of guys were then recruited to bring back whatever the most money could be made off of. Unlike Thai people, Indians don't really follow the concept of lineups or queues. They was plenty of jostling, raised voices, even some of the Indian "almost" fights that happen often were there is a lot gesturing and shouting but no one ever throws a punch. The Thai airport security was frazzled in no time. It certainly made check-in and getting luggage after landing a pain in the butt.
My first train in India was on Shatadbi express train from Bangalore to Mysore which I booked myself. Booking a train in India is an overly complicated, time-consuming venture best left to professionals IE travel agents. If you find yourself at the train station booking area trying to procure a ticket the first thing you need to do is get a number from the ticket queuing machine. Now you have fill in ticket request form with your details, train arrival/departure places and times, class of seat, train number, etc as if you know all this information. Now you wait for your number to be called to see an agent. If you filled in the form correctly and have the exact change you should get a ticket, otherwise it may to the back of the line for you. My first try was successful! The Shatadbi express was great with big comfy seats, AC and even a decent little meal. It was only a two hour ride but you have to start somewhere.
I wanted to check out Goa and this trip looked like a good opportunity to investigate the train travel more in depth. I recently watched a movie called Darjeeling Limited about three brothers traveling across India by train and I loved it. Their experience in a clean, private compartment was quite different from me traveling some classes lower. For my night trip out of Mysore, I got class 2A which I think means 2nd class with upper and lower bunks and AC. There is a curtain you can pull across for privacy to your bunk and blocking out light. On my return trip from Goa I could only get class 3A which meant the bunks were three high and they didn't have a privacy curtain, which was not my cup of chai. I boarded the train in Mysore about 8:30PM and about three minutes after sitting down in my seat I saw a couple of cockroaches climb out of the armrest across the aisle, a disheartening start. I guess roaches need to get out and travel too. The bedding is sitting there for you to make up your bed whenever you like. I turned in about 9 as usual on the yogic schedule. The night train was not so bad and it arrived in a city called Hubli around 7am where I had to transfer trains.
On the train from Hubli to Goa the AC seats were fully booked, so I believe I traveled class 3. This was nice in a way because it's less touristy and now I was traveling right amongst the Indians. This ride is a scenic mountainous journey with 14 tunnels along the way! It is very funny going through the tunnels as the people in the lower class cars hoot and holler like crazy as the train enters the darkness. I chatted with my neighbors along the way and one guy gave a lot of good advice on the bus transport I would want to take when we arrived. He suggested it would be easier if I took the train one stop past where my ticket was for, which I had been thinking of doing anyways as it made sense geographically. As I am exiting the station wouldn't you know it there were people actually checking the tickets.. I really was not expecting this and had no smooth talk forthcoming when they saw my ticket was not legit and I got hauled off to the office. The manager there said he had to charge me 100 rupees minimum fine. I groaned as my total ticket was only 108. He then says he really should be charging me 200 Rs but he will let me go with 50Rs. As I pay out the 50 he says ":Actually Sir I should have charged you 350 Rs". It seems it is a highly variable fine system.
I made my way from the train station to the government bus stand only a block or two away. The government bus system is kind of funny because rather than just getting on the bus and paying you have to queue up at a stand and buy a ticket, then get on the bus. I got my ticket and it was off to Panaji, one step closer to my destination in north Goa. Traffic in Goa is terrible and it was particularly bad this day as there had been some tribal demonstration earlier in the day which had traffic really backed up. At Panaji I caught another bus to Mapusa and from there another bus to Anjuna. All these buses were absolutely crammed full and I was so glad I was traveling light on this journey! Between my train being three hours late and all this bus travel time I was going to arrive in Anjuna around 8PM instead of early afternoon which I had planned on. At Mapusa I thought I better call the hotel and let them know I am still coming. Someone eventually answered the phone and said the reception is closed for the night, I would have to call back in the morning. I said "PARDON???". This is not what I wanted to hear after this travel odyssey. The guy eventually said to call back in an hour and the manager would be around to talk to. I called back and the manager said "Of course come, we've been expecting you". What a relief it was to finally arrive at the wonderful Grandpa's Inn.
The auto-rickshaw is the main type of taxi available in Indian cities with a hot climate. It is basically a three-wheeled motorcycle with a square, open-sided cab with a seat in front for driver and a bench seat in back for passengers. The open sides are great because you really get to see what is going on around you and you catch a nice breeze. It can also be handy if you end up piling in four, five maybe six people on the seat meant for three as various body parts can hang out the sides. In Mysore almost all the rickshaws have meters but the drivers are usually rather reluctant to use them. Let the negotiations begin! The drivers were usually decent to deal with and a typical trip would only cost about 30 rupees (70 cents). I really enjoy riding the rickshaws, probably my favourite mode of Indian transport.
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Really like reading others people's blogs. Those V-Stroms look really nice bits of kit.
Looks like another great ride. I'm very envious. Been wanting to do a Death Valley ride this winter myself. Thanks for sharing.
Cool photos of your ride. In the past, I've spent a lot of time in Tonopah and Goldfield. It was one of our field sites back in the late '70s.
John Hill - Thanks for stopping in! I see you guys have been busy setting up custom side by sides...I hope business if good!
Trobairitz - It was sunny but COLD! But, I guess one can't have it all... :) The dark riding part was my least favorite part of the trip.
Paul - I do like the Strom is a nice bike. Lots of wonderful bikes out there these days. Thanks for reading!!
KROD - Winter is the best time (IMHO) to ride Death Valley...it is WAY to hot in the summer for me. I'm certain Vegashotwheeler will host the ride again next New Years if you are interested..
Adrian - Another great one in the books eh? Next....?
Look like a great ride. Thank for sharing your experience.


In June 2018 we wanted to gather views of what life was like at All Saints school. This poster was created using comments that children, parents and staff wrote down and sent in. It confirms how embedded our school values actually are.


Medicare offers many benefits at zero cost to recipients, but many of the 59 million Americans enrolled in Medicare are either not aware of all of the benefits, or are simply not taking full advantage of all of these offered services.
For example, in 2014 only around 14% of Medicare recipients received the free Medicare wellness exam covered under Medicare Part B. This exam, known as the Annual Wellness Visit, or sometimes known as the acronym AWV, is covered at zero cost to recipients.
What's Included in Your Medicare Annual Wellness Visit?
Once you've had Medicare Part B for at least 12 months, you are eligible for a zero cost yearly* Medicare wellness exam. The purpose of this wellness visit is to work with your doctor to identify any risk factors to watch, as well as to develop a plan for staying healthy.
*Keep in mind that the AWV is available every twelve months. For example, if your first AWV is June 2, you cannot recieve your next one until June 2 of the following year. If you make your appointment for June 1, you may not be covered.
During the wellness visit, your doctor, nurse practitioner, or another health care professional will review things like your health history, take measurements such as weight and body mass index (BMI), and will help develop a preventative care plan tailored for you.
Your health care provider may also help you establish a plan for potential risk areas including fall prevention, nutrition, weight loss, and tobacco cessation.
What is not Included in your Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV)?
It is important to know that the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit covers a specific set of wellness services and is different than an annual physical, which is not covered by Medicare. It is also important to note that any additional services performed during your annual wellness exam may result in an additional copay or deductible cost.
For example, Mary is 68 years old and visits her doctor a few days after her birthday, as she does every year for her free Medicare wellness exam. During the visit, Mary mentions that her right foot has been bothering her, and after further examination, her doctor orders a blood test to check for gout.
In this scenario, Mary's wellness visit is still free, but she may pay a copay for the additional foot examination as well as the blood test.
The annual wellness visit is not the same as the yearly physical you may be familiar with. For a typical physical, your healthcare provider will perform a hands-on, head to toes exam including lung, abdominal, and neurological exams.
The Medicare annual wellness visit includes similar assessments but does not include any exams that require the healthcare provider to physically examine you. During your wellness visit, your provider may schedule additional preventative screenings, or may further examine any issues you are having.
One of the main purposes of the annual wellness exam is to identify any potential health risks and develop a plan to manage them. So, you will want to share your family and personal health history with your provider in as much detail as possible.
Medicare Part B also covers some preventative vaccines including yearly Flu shots (Influenza) as well as Pneumococcal and Hepatitis B vaccines.
However, Medicare does not provide maintenance coverage for other vaccines including Shingles, Tetanus (Tdap), and Meningococcal. These vaccines and additional immunizations are typically covered under Part D prescription drug plans.
To ensure you are covered for these vaccines and other prescription medication, you can add a Part D plan to Medicare Parts A and B, or choose a Medicare Advantage plan that includes Part D coverage.
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The WatchMate Vision, XB-8000 and XB-6000 AIS transponders support translations from NMEA 2000 into 0183 and vice versa. Not all sentences are supported though. To-date we have added the sentences that are most useful for navigation purposes and that compliment the transponder's safety features. This summary does not include all the AIS NMEA 2000 PGNs that are also transmit from the transponder.
These are the PGNs handled for 3.03 software. We will continue to expand this functionality and welcome feedback and suggestions for what new sentence translations we should support.
I have an XB-8000. I have connected it to my Raymarine instruments via NMEA 2000 - Seatalk NG. The chartplotter gets AIS data via NMEA 0183. AIS function is currently working fine. I can also see instrument data from the NMEA 2000 port on the WatchMate app.
I have set the XB-8000 to translate the NMEA-2000 data to the NMEA 0183 output. However, the chartplotter is not displaying instrument data such as depth.
I've looked at the NMEA 0183 output stream in the WatchMate app. It's a little hard to follow, but I do not see any DPT output from the XB-8000. But the depth does display correctly on the Watchmate app.
Any suggestions or known issues?


So, the situation with my friend has finally been resolved, much to the relief of all of us. Sadly, the outcome is such that it seems I won't be able to see my friend for some time. He has problems that he now needs to work through alone and there is nothing more I can do for him. I know that although he still has a mountain to overcome, his is very relieved that it's finally over. There is no more uncertainty hanging over us.
I'm spending a few days with my family and friends to try and get away from it all for a bit. It's been a very long few months and the last month has been particularly difficult. Everybody involved has been through hell and back and I personally think it's time to let it go. (No, I'm not going to break into song). But I do believe that eventually you have to forgive and move on. We can't change what has happened, so we may as well learn from it and continue as best we can.
Still, we all have responsibilities and things that we have to remain focussed on, even when it's hard. For me, it's my girls who need me to hold everything together for them. They are (as children should be) blissfully unaware of the chaos swirling around them and I will do everything in my power to keep it that way.
I know if my friend was here he would tell me to keep my chin up. That the end is really now in sight and we can begin to put this behind us. He'd say we've been strong for so long, we can go on just a little longer.
So, if you're reading this and you're scared and alone, remember that you never know what the future holds. We just have to keep going, doing the best we can. Don't let your problems define you. Let them shape you into something better than you ever thought you could be.


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Q: How to rewrite TSQL query for use in Microsoft Access 2003: TSQL Convert I'd like to rewrite this query for Microsoft Access 2003:

SELECT t1.PERSONID
       ,t1.CARDEVENTDATE
       ,MIN(t1.CARDEVENTTIME1) AS Intime
       ,MAX(t2.CARDEVENTTIME1) AS Outtime

FROM (   SELECT PERSONID
                , CARDEVENTDATE
                , FUNCTIONKEY
                , CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), SUBSTRING(CARDEVENTTIME, 1, 2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(CARDEVENTTIME, 3, 2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(CARDEVENTTIME, 5, 2), 8)
                 AS CARDEVENTTIME1
         FROM T_CARDEVENT
         WHERE      (FUNCTIONKEY = 'A')) AS t1
         LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT PERSONID
                                 ,CARDEVENTDATE, CARDEVENTDAY, FUNCTIONKEY
                                 ,CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), SUBSTRING(CARDEVENTTIME, 1, 2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(CARDEVENTTIME, 3, 2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(CARDEVENTTIME, 5, 2), 8)
                                  AS CARDEVENTTIME
                      FROM T_CARDEVENT AS T_CARDEVENT_3)
           AS t2
           ON t1.PERSONID = t2.PERSONID
           AND t1.CARDEVENTDATE = t2.CARDEVENTDATE
           GROUP BY t1.PERSONID, t1.CARDEVENTDATE )

The above works in SQL Server, but in Access I've tried to run this query. It produces an error in convert.
How should I modify my query to suit Access 2003? What's the suitable equivalent for TSQL's Convert function in Access 2003?

A: The sample below may suit, if you use SQL Server compatible Syntax.
In t2, you appear to be missing 1 from CARDEVENTTIME, so I added it to give CARDEVENTTIME1. You also appear to have an extra bracket at the end.
SELECT t1.PERSONID
       ,t1.CARDEVENTDATE
       ,MIN(t1.CARDEVENTTIME1) AS Intime
       ,MAX(t2.CARDEVENTTIME1) AS Outtime

FROM (   SELECT PERSONID
                , CARDEVENTDATE
                , FUNCTIONKEY
                , CDate(Mid(CARDEVENTTIME, 1, 2) + ':' + Mid(CARDEVENTTIME, 3, 2) + ':' + Mid(CARDEVENTTIME, 5, 2))
                 AS CARDEVENTTIME1
         FROM T_CARDEVENT
         WHERE      (FUNCTIONKEY = 'A')) AS t1
         LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT PERSONID
                                 ,CARDEVENTDATE, CARDEVENTDAY, FUNCTIONKEY
                                  , CDate(Mid(CARDEVENTTIME, 1, 2) + ':' + Mid(CARDEVENTTIME, 3, 2) + ':' + Mid(CARDEVENTTIME, 5, 2))
                                  AS CARDEVENTTIME1
                      FROM T_CARDEVENT AS T_CARDEVENT_3)
           AS t2
           ON t1.PERSONID = t2.PERSONID
           AND t1.CARDEVENTDATE = t2.CARDEVENTDATE
           GROUP BY t1.PERSONID, t1.CARDEVENTDATE

A: Can you not use the normal Access function Str(...) ?
Update: Dont have Access here to try it, but isn't there a parameter which tells Access to just use the sql as pass throught (without modifying it) ?

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Fannie Mae released its Home Purchase Sentiment Index late last week revealing that housing confidence dipped in March following February's survey high. The survey showed that five of the six components that make up the index were down. The net share of Americans who reported that now is a good time to purchase a home fell by 10 percentage points, while those who feel that now is a good time to sell rose by 9 percentage points. Americans also expressed reduced confidence about the stability of their jobs, while the survey showed that only a small amount of people feel that mortgage rates will decline.
A recent study done by GOBANKINGRATES a personal finance website, revealed that as home prices increase across the U.S., higher salaries are needed to live comfortably in many cities. The survey shows that the most and least expensive markets, and because rent makes up the largest piece of expenses, data from Trulia showed that median prices for each metro as well as the median income earned. The most expensive market is San Francisco at $110,357, while the least expensive is El Pa so,Texas at $40,393.


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package models

import (
	"os"

	sdkIgn "github.com/hyperledger/fabric-sdk-go/test/integration"
	"github.com/op/go-logging"
)

var logger = logging.MustGetLogger("RestServer Models")

var setup *sdkIgn.BaseSetupImpl
var prefix = os.Getenv("GOPATH") + "/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric-sdk-go/test"

func init() {
	setup = sdkIgn.NewBaseSetupImpl(prefix)
	err := setup.InstallAndInstantiateModelCC()
	if err != nil {
		logger.Errorf("InstallAndInstantiateModelCC failed ", err)
		os.Exit(-1)
	}

	ledger = sdkIgn.NewLedger(setup.Chain)
	admin = sdkIgn.NewMember(setup.Client)
}

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View Large Image These beautiful vintage visor clips are made from dies used to produce them during the 1930's-40's. Genuine Pewter - comes on a gift card.Expressly engraved with amazing detail. A true treasure!


…we're gonna let 'em shine!
…and this pic from way back in my very first post….
Yup, the lamps have migrated. They started in our bedroom, but recently became estranged when a pair of new luminous pals joined the fam. I've been wanting new bedside lamps for quite some time, but just continued to put it off as they were lower priority items.
Then, we visited The Mothership (Ikea).
Darn you, Mothership and all your tempting treats. Love you, though. Really, I do.
Among this plethora of goods were two stainless steel barometer lamps. As soon as I saw them, I knew. They were industrial, but with an Old World-ish feel. Perfect. And at $29.99 a pop, the price was right. So, we adopted them.
And here they are, in action….
They add so much more style than the previous lamps. And functionality-wise they're much better. They provide light, but they don't illuminate the entire room as brightly as their predecessors did, which works well when one of us wants to sleep while the other is reading. So, Ikea once again, rushes in for the win.
As I took pics of our bedroom for this post, I noticed evidence of my recently acquired mixed-metal-bug running rampant throughout the room. I've seen this trend more on Pinterest lately and various design blogs and I really like it. The mix of brass, stainless, and oil-rubbed bronze totally float my boat. All three finishes are scattered throughout our master bedroom (and our living room as well, now that I think about it). And I feel that as long as they're distributed throughout the room in a purposeful way to make it look intentional, it works out okay.


Does Hizb ut-Tahrir Consider the USA "Occupied Islamic Land"?
We remind the Pope of Islam and it greatness in early period of Islam and what followed. We remind him of…the governor of Algeria and the payment of the jizyah by America to the Islamic State in 1795 CE.
Even in its weakest period, it was the Khilafah that compelled America to pay Jizya in an agreement signed on 21st of Safar, 1210 A.H i.e. 5th June, 1795 C.E., according to which it was required to pay 642,000 gold dollars and an annual payment of 12,000 Othmani gold Lira to the Khilafah State- the only agreement which America has ever signed in a language other than its own.
May we also remember the occasion which forced America to pay Jizya to the Khilafah State…America signed an agreement on 21st of Safar, 1210 A.H i.e. 5th June, 1795 C.E with the Khilafah State according to which it was required to pay 642,000 gold dollars and an annual payment of 12,000 Othmani gold Lira to the Khilafah State. Throughout its history, this is the only agreement which America signed in a language other than its own. This signifies the great prestige and position of strength that the Muslims enjoyed under the Khilafah State.
If they did not accept that (i.e. became Muslim), then they would be invited to accept payment of the Jizyah (the tax levied upon non-Muslim citizens of the Islamic State), which would signify that their lands would become part of the Islamic State and the Shar'iah would be applied upon them in their societal affairs and they would enjoy along with the Muslim citizens the Islamic way of life.
Here's a brief introduction to the reality of the Barbary Wars, broadcast when PBS was not nearly as Islamophilic as it is today…(See Vid at web address below, BIP).


Neighbors of the proposed luxury rehab center at Fox Hill, the former MBNA executive retreat on upper Bay View Street in Camden, turned out for a walk-though of the property on Wednesday, September 18, with developers, lawyers and the Camden Planning Board.
A zoning change, which would be specific to this property for the proposed use as a residential rehab facility, is required for the facility to operate and must be approved by a town-wide vote after a public hearing. There is no date scheduled for either.
Neighbors at the walk-through said they oppose, in principle, a zone change that would allow a commercial facility to operate in a residential zone.
The neighbors said they are used to having the road for walking dogs, running, and for kids on skateboards, and view upper Bay View Street primarly as a pedestrian thoroughfare that already has too much traffic.
Under the proposed zoning change, a 12-bed facility operated by McLean Hospital, the psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, would use the existing 16,400-square-foot main residence on the property for client housing. No outpatient services would be allowed. No buildings would be added to the property and no significant alterations to existing buildings would be allowed.
McLean expects to have a staff of 20 people. Since Fox Hill has no cooking or laundry facilities, pre-made meals from area restaurants would be delivered and laundry taken off-site.Truck deliveries would be restricted to regular daytime hours.
The developers, Fox Hill Real Estate, said that traffic would be similar or less than that when MBNA used the property.
Rebecca Sawyer-Fay, who has lived on Lily Pond Drive for 13 years and currently has 10 acres for sale, is concerned that one zone change in the residential zone will lead to another.
"Our concern is once you say yes, how do you say no," said Sawyer-Fay.
Most of the neighbors that attended the walk-through cited increased traffic as their primary concern. Upper Bay View Street is a narrow two-way street that does not have sidewalks for pedestrian use.
"I know a lot of people say we are a bunch of NIMBY's -not in my backyard - but Bay View Street is the backyard for the whole town and even for people out in Lincoln-ville who want a safe place to run or take a walk," said Wynne Phelan, who has lived on the street since 1961.
Several neighbors who oppose the rehab facility said they pay their share to support the neighborhood. Peter Blake said his property taxes on less than a half-acre lot nearby are $23,000 a year.
Under current residential zoning, the 14-acre Fox Hill estate could be subdivided into multiple house lots.
Abutter David Hague said residential development would be preferable, noting there is a place for this type of rehab facility in Camden, but not in an exclusive residential zone.
"Business has its place," he said. "With this kind of money, they could do this anywhere."
The next Camden Planning Board meeting is at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 3, at the Washington Street conference room of the Camden Town Office.


Description: Roaring Lion is one sculpture that gives the concept of a statue new meaning. With its powerfully etched features on textured fine marble, these outdoor lion statues supersede all other animal statues as the most perfect garden ornaments. You can buy one of these famous marble statues at an outdoor sculpture for sale outlet or you can buy marble statues online as marble statues wholesale.


Mondays are for family night. Last evening we were joined by another family, and spent the time eating too much food and singing along with Guitar Man. Unfortunately, it turns out, we're all a little elderly about remembering song lyrics and guitar chords.
No problem. Seems our computer has an excellent memory -- because it knows how to find Chordie, a massive collection of guitar tabs, guitar chords and song lyrics, most of which are submitted by users. Bad Moon Rising, Kokomo, Desperado, Country Roads, Puff, ...are we showing our age?
Should we give it up and learn some Lil Wayne or Three 6 Mafia? Add Jonas Brothers and Rihanna to our play list? Click the Comments link below and suggest your own favorite family night resource.


When my daughter was three, she played all morning in a broad and shady yard at her preschool. There, she was instructed in the most ingenious way by having free range to climb, run, sing, swing, laugh, cry, fall down and make stuff up. The teachers had spread bag after bag of tiny beads and plastic jewels into the sand, and she and her friends made a treasure hunt of them every day, perfecting the pincer skills necessary to holding a pencil and using scissors, the final summit before kindergarten. The girls hoarded these shiny baubles into collections that were the subject of much intrigue and negotiation between them. A good day meant Georgia came home packing equal parts dirt and dazzle in her filthy pockets.
These days folks send me kind solicitations about the "transition" or "passage" I am going through as the nest empties. "I can't imagine the feelings you must both be going through," or "Let me know how you are handling it," and I am embarrassed because the truth is mostly that I can't wait. It feels the way it does when you are too pregnant and ready to burst. You're not relishing the thought of labor but you can't stand the delay of another day. I tell people that this is all natural and organic and such, that our current relationship is unsustainable because it is hard to share a home with someone who is 1) never home or 2) won't come out of her room. At some point your child can come to feel like a stranger and worse, a squatter.
I've told most people that it reminds me of when she was three, the very age of all those treasure beads. Age three is competent enough to become bossy, as I recall, with none of the sweetening that surfaces at age four. A friend once told me that when her sons were young, her exasperation would reach a pitch where she would think, "If they don't change I'm going to throw them out the window," and right then they would change. In the old days I read books that affirmed this very thing: child development goes through cycles of equilibrium and disequilibrium, ease and difficulty, compliance and rebellion, with the goal that everyone simply gets out alive and with a good probation officer.
It's interesting too that all this is happening in the same month of her birth, an unforgiving August of incinerating heat and astrological omens: lunar eclipses, solar eclipses, and that pesky Mercury gone retrograde. I don't know what any of that means except that the dog got sick, the AC died, the dryer broke, the garden gate collapsed, and the bears are tearing into the garbage cans nightly. Today I was rescued by my trusty appliance repairman who made it out to fix the dryer. It was a simple thing, just a two-bit fuse, but there was a rattle in the drum, probably spare change trapped in the cylinder, so he would open it up and fix that too.
A little bit later he'd finished the job. In front of the dryer he'd swept up a 20-year mound of dust, topped by a myriad tiny jewels once washed out of her preschool pockets. They'd been rattling around all that time, but here they were, freed at last to shine.
Today I walked to Rite Aid, something I've done a few times — okay, exactly twice. On the sidewalk ahead, I could see a bowlegged man shuffling toward me. When he got up close he pointed to the intersection behind me with his cane.
Is that Huntington? he asked.
No, that's Sierra Madre Boulevard.
OK, he said, I just have to cross that street.
Huntington and Sierra Madre boulevards are three miles apart and not in any way like the other. So I wondered for the rest of the afternoon whether he was: 1) following a peculiar exercise regimen, or 2) genuinely disoriented and lost. I didn't look back to see if he made it across the street, nor did I see him on the return walk home, but he stayed with me, that old traveler did.
When I encounter a stranger who tells me something unexpected — the lady in the Whole Foods parking lot who said she loved the shape of my head; Sister Imelda, a nun in full habit on the hiking trail telling me she was collecting souls — I figure they have a message for me. The message is to wake up. After 10,000 or so steps, I realized the man had given me an answer I'd been looking for.
I've been wanting to write a post about how to raise an adult, an activity that's occupying me these last hundred days before my daughter leaves home. But I couldn't, because I don't know how to raise an adult. I was thinking I'd come up with a handy list of steps, like, say, the steps for growing corn. But it turns out growing corn isn't that simple to sum up either. There's the matter of soil, weather, temperature and pests: so many variables, too many unknowns.
When you're a parent, every question you have is how, and every answer is do. All those ages and stages, milestones and thresholds, tests and percentages, transitions and regressions, variables and unknowns. But that's in your head. In real life, to get where you're going you just have to cross the street.
Last week, a vote-by-mail ballot for the city election came addressed to my daughter. I sat beside her as she read the instructions, asked thoughtful questions and filled in the bubbles. Then she signed her name with a signature I'd never seen and wouldn't have recognized. An adult.
If you ever wondered what you are supposed to teach your child, please read this and learn from me.
It was Thursday afternoon about four-thirty. Georgia was racing through her mound of homework before we left for gym practice at five. (Do math, do science, write a poem.) The minutes were ticking.
This is where it gets sticky.
She's finishing gluing drawings into her "Silk Road Journal" (16 pages, front and back, history project due the next day) when she lets out a high shriek. The glue has exploded out the cap from a hard squeeze and blanketed two whole pages. The booklet is a soppy mess. Her artwork is doused. She sobs. I stiffen. She collapses. I look at the clock. And what I think I see is no more time.
I really think that time is up.
How is it that a girl and her mother can get stuck between two pages of the Silk Road Journal? Wedged between the pitiless hours of four and five on a Thursday? Strung between almost-done and starting over? Knotted, tangled and ripped in two?
I don't want to tell you what I told her. About what she didn't do, didn't plan, and didn't finish soon enough. About how little and how late. The cause and the fault. How I couldn't and wouldn't and didn't know how to help. And what did she expect me to do?
Then she turned to me, through her sobs and streaked cheeks, and asked me the one thing that is still so hard for me to do.
Why don't you just be the mom? Why don't you encourage me?
Why can't I just be the mom, and not the taskmaster, the lecturer, the appointments manager, the critic, the cynic, and the know-it-all? What is more important to show her than love? What is there always time for?
All great people, in their profound humility, remember their mothers most. They remember a mother who believed in them. And no matter how late, believed that there was still time. No matter how little, that there was enough. No matter how dismal the prospects, that it was possible. A mother who loved without measure, without schedule and without hurry. A mother who was just the mom.
So we blew off the timetable and moved to the dinner table. I gave her all the room she needed. She spread out and started over, using all the time it took. It went slow, but I encouraged her. She might have learned a lesson about glue, but I learned a lesson that I pray will stick.
When we realize that our child is not the child, then we begin to practice parenthood. It's never too late to for me to grow up and be the mom. In fact, it's time I did.
Originally published on Feb. 27, 2012, proving that it's always time to just be the mom.
Remembering so many mothers on the anniversary of my mother's passing April 13, 2001.
The robe my mother wore was blue, quilted, ankle-length, with three-quarter sleeves. She had other robes during my years at home, but this is the one I remember. I remember that she wore it when she got up every morning to make breakfast, and had it on when she opened my bedroom door in the dark and said, "Time to get up, Karen." I remember her in the robe while we ate our breakfast at the kitchen table—scrambled eggs and toast or cereal and milk—and then we hurriedly got dressed and went to school and her, to work.
My mother did her very best at everything. I would have called her excellent. Our house was small and clean. Sometimes if you looked closely you could see that things were not always so nice. When she wore the blue robe everything seemed warm and safe and reliable. The days began in the same way. There was always breakfast. We were always on time. My mother wasn't sentimental or silly about anything. She was at all times grown up and good.
None of this may have happened the way I tell it except for the blue bathrobe and the feeling of being loved.
There is a lull that opens up between a mother and a daughter. A trench, a sinkhole, a grave and terrible silence. Feelings are overwhelming. Conversation is impossible. Words are dangerous. The truth can seem unbearably close and yet a million miles away.
I saw a plush pink bathrobe hanging in the window of a store in town and I knew I would have to buy it. It was expensive but I didn't care. I took it home and laid it on my daughter's bed so she would see it the minute she got home.
She put on the robe that night. Then she put it on every night. She would say that she was about to take a long bath and if she washed her hair would I dry it? She would tell me that she was going to take a break and Facetime with a friend. Have some tea with honey. Toast before bed. And twice, seeing me, she would smile, come over and embrace me in a plush hug, suddenly so grown up and good, a mother to a child.
None of this may have happened the way I tell it except for the pink bathrobe and the most excellent, unforgettable feeling of being loved.
Yesterday I went to the dry cleaner's in town. I stop by nearly once a week to drop off or pick up a sweater or two, pants or a skirt to be hemmed, my husband's dress shirts. This place has been continuously operating since 1956. The people there know your name and the last four digits of your phone number, which is how they track your order. Truth is, they probably know a whole lot more just by emptying your pockets and letting out your waistbands. These kinds of places are pretty rare these days. And these days, everything rare seems to be getting rarer. I find myself in mourning.
December 22, the counter lady said when she saw me pause over the check I was writing, another piece of obsolescence I still cling to.
It goes by so fast it's scary.
And it's getting more scary.
I could have a conversation like this about everything everywhere all the time. It's all scary. The world is spinning ever faster into extinction. I saw a terrifying documentary on the Discovery Channel. Maybe it's the news: wave after wave of eternal warfare, the eerily weird climate, and the shocking flood of suffering covering every corner of the earth. Maybe it's too much Donald Trump. Or just the time of year: the dark, the chill, the fury, the hurry, the end.
Next week, if you let it, a pause will arrive. Take care that you do not fill it with restless anxiety or dread. Take care that you do not fear what you do not know or have not done. Set no goals. Have no intentions. Make no plans. There is a lesson in these fallow days, a lesson that does not come in frantic motion, but in the soft light of a lengthening day.
I am going to sit quietly and enter the fullness of time. Because I have time.
And soon enough I will see that nothing is wasted, nothing is over, and everything is already here. Fear not! The gate is open, and the gardener is not afraid.


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Biffle Conquers The Samsung Mobile 500
Date: April 14, 2012 Posted By:Category:Uncategorized
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For those of us who "were sticking with the Biff", that fortuitous selection paid dividends quite handsomely Saturday night! There were three players who picked Greg Biffle for the Samsung Mobile500 at the Texas Motor Speedway Saturday night.
Those lucky three players are Jerry, Dawn, and yours truly! We were fortunate enough to grab 47 points for our efforts. By picking Biffle, Jerry has now climbed from the basement into the points lead, moving up 2 spots, surpassing Edie, and leading her by a very slim 5 points. Remember that Jerry had Jeff Gordon for the Daytona 500, and only got 5 lousy points for that race. Therefore, he made up a 42 point deficit, following the Daytona 500, just six races ago. What a surge and change of luck!
The next highest score garnered was 40 points for Matt Keneth's fifth place finish. The lucky players who had Kenseth were Jeremy and Richard. Of these two, only Jeremy was able to better his position in the standings, moving up 2 spots. The next highest score for Saturday night's race was 36 points for Carl Edwards 8th place finish, those points went to both Jim and Jason. Jim lost one spot, however, Jason gained one position in the standings.
The player who moved the most in the standings was Karen, dropping 4 positions after her pick of "Smoke", Tony Stewart, who finished 24th, 2 laps down. The next biggest move in the standings was Dawn, who soared up 3 spots in the standings, she too was "sticking with the Biff"!
The Samsung Mobile 500 saw the sixth different driver to win in the first seven races. "Smoke" is the only driver to win two races so far this season. Additionally, Hendrick Motorsports, and Richard Childress Racing has failed to lead the pack to the checkered flag in 2012, and are win-less! Who would have thought that HMS would be win-less this far into the 2012 season?
Check out the unofficial results of the Samsung Mobile 500.
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We've got 24 hours here, Temper Heart, what should we do?
"Timing is everything here in LA because of the traffic! However the amazing thing about his place is that you can be in the mountains and the beach in the same day. In the morning I would venture out early for breakfast on Larchmont Blvd, the chances of spotting someone of notoriety is big and it happens to be my local! Then I would head to Santa Monica beach to take a stroll along the waterfront. The palm trees and the mini cliffs on the edge of the Pacific are powerful to be near. You could stop in at the Ivy for lunch (book beforehand). For all its fame it really is very quaint and unlike anywhere else you may have been. Afterwards I would make my way back into the city, perhaps do a light hike up to the Hollywood sign from Beechwood Canyon and from there go to Griffith's Observatory for the early evening gaze up to the stars and a spectacular view across the whole of Los Angeles. For the evening, La Poubelle in Franklin Village is lovely little french restaurant to unwind and celebrate your day."


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Mongabay Series: India's Iconic Landscapes
Five years since Uttarakhand floods: Continued disregard for the environment is an open invitation for more calamities
by Mayank Aggarwal on 15 June 2018
Uttarakhand is home to the fragile mountainous region of the Himalayas and has witnessed a series of natural disasters over the last 20 to 30 years.
In June 2013, Uttarakhand suffered one of its worst natural disasters which claimed the lives of thousands of people and animals. Five years down the line the reasons that caused the disaster and amplified the damage remain as is.
What is alarming is that instead of addressing the causes that led to the disaster or increased its magnitude, the Uttarakhand government is seeking more dilutions to the stringent green laws.
Take a disaster-prone area, add some lax administration and generous helpings of construction projects and voila! What do you get? Uttarakhand, the north Indian hill state which is a perfect recipe for inviting natural disasters.
The disaster-prone hill state has suffered from several natural calamities in succession over the last 20 to 30 years. Between June 14 and 18 2013, Uttarakhand suffered one of the worst natural disasters when widespread heavy rains resulted in floods across the state, claiming thousands of lives and damage worth billions of rupees.
On the fifth anniversary of the disaster,the situation is bleak. Environmentalists of the region stress that no lesson has been learnt from the disaster so far. State authorities are continuing with their massive construction projects in ecologically sensitive areas and are even looking at diluting the stringent rules that are in place to protect these areas.
The main reason behind the disaster was the widespread heavy rains that led to flash floods in all the major river valleys in Uttarakhand. The heavy rains also caused landslides at several locations. According to a report of the National Institute of Disaster Management, the Kedarnath area was the worst affected region, where the heavy rains led to the collapse of Chorabari lake resulting in the release of a large volume of water that caused another flash flood in the Kedarnath town leading to further devastation in downstream areas.
More than nine million people were affected due to the flash floods. The most affected districts were Bageshwar, Chamoli, Pithoragarh, Rudraprayag and Uttarkashi. The region has one of the most important pilgrimage circuits in India.The disaster took place during the peak tourist and the pilgrimage season.
Even a year after the 2013 floods, buildings remain unbuilt at Gaurikund in Uttarakhand. Photo by Kartik Chandramouli / Mongabay.
According to government records, about 6,000 people were killed, found missing or presumed dead, 4,200 villages were affected, 9,200 cattle/livestock were lost and 3,320 houses were fully damaged. The floods left over 170,000 tourists and local inhabitants stranded in the mountain, who were later rescued in the rescue operations.
"It has been five years since the devastating floods occurred but the conditions in Uttarakhand are as they were. The floodplains are being encroached; massive infrastructure projects, mainly large dams, are being carried out in the fragile Himalayan region in the name of development without learning any lessons from the past," said Vimal Bhai of Matu Jan Sangathan, a Uttarakhand based non-governmental organisation.
Despite concerns, dams keep coming up
After the 2013 floods, experts as well as activists, had pointed out that the back-to-back dams on upper reaches of Ganga River and its tributaries like Mandakini, Bhagirathi and Alaknanda in Uttarakhand had intensified the magnitude of the disaster.
Dams in disaster-prone areas are sometimes considered to amplify floods and earthquakes because of impact on the river's course, water levels and ecosystem and poor management which can further worsen the situation.
People of Uttarakhand are quite vocal in protest against dams. Photo by Lingaraj G. J. / Wikimedia Commons.
Following the floods, the Supreme Court of India formed a committee which in April 2014 recommended scrapping of at least 23 hydropower projects to save the ecologically sensitive and fragile mountainous region. Even as the final decision on the case remains pending with the SC, more applications have reached the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), seeking environment clearance for dams and their construction has continued.
"Unabated construction of dams was one of the main reasons that amplified the destruction by 2013 floods but the governments are still following same policies which invited the 2013 disaster. The government of India as well as of Uttarakhand is not interested in improving the situation. The only aim visible is to benefit the contractors. There is no one to take stock of the situation of dam-affected villages. No action has been taken against any company which is constructing dams rather the government is giving them an escape route. The preparedness to deal with any similar extreme event is as bad as it was a few years ago," warned Vimal Bhai.
In June 2016, the Union Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation filed an affidavit in the SC suggesting that certain valleys (in Uttarakhand) must be let untouched and pristine in consideration of the impacts of climate change, loss of biodiversity and for the purpose of the conservation of the origin of the river Ganga.
The affidavit had stated that "existing dams and river water diversions have caused significant damage to the river length and have depleted and deprived the river with its original content thereby compromising the quality of the water downstream".
Another massive infrastructure project that started in the last couple of years is the 900 kilometre long all-weather Chardham highway widening project being built at a cost of Rs. 120 billion (12,000 crores). A case against the project is going on at the National Green Tribunal.
"It is a very unfortunate fact that five years have passed by but the governments have not learnt the invaluable lessons that Kedarnath disaster brought to us which is, not to mess with the already overburdened ecology of the fragile vulnerable hills of Garhwal. Yet we see construction of hydroelectric power projects being done and Chardham road widening projects being carried out," said Mallika Bhanot of Ganga Ahvaan.
"Now even a rail route is being proposed and planned. To add to that, the government is promoting preposterous tourism policies. Instead of healing the wounds of the past, we are bent on giving more in the name of development. This is rapaciousness defined," Bhanot added.
Claims of large-scale development activities inviting more danger are not ill-founded as Uttarakhand has a history of natural disasters where landslides, forest fires, cloudbursts and flash-floods area common phenomenon. But earthquakes have been the most devastating and are unpredictable.
Government officials and local citizens re-erecting a board at Kedarnath. Photo by Kartik Chandramouli / Mongabay.
According to the Uttarakhand government's disaster mitigation and management centre, these disasters are seasonal in nature and strike at a certain period of the year with high frequency.
Since 1990, Uttarakhand has experienced two major earthquakes of magnitude greater than six (categorised as Strong) on the Richter Scale – Uttarkashi (1991) and Chamoli (1999). There have been series of landslides/cloud burst/ flood events too. Malpa (1998), Okhimath (1998), Fata (2001), Gona (2001), Khet Gaon (2002) ,Budhakedar (2002), Bhatwari(2002), Uttarkashi (2003), Amparav (2004), Lambagar (2004), Govindghat (2005), Agastyamuni (2005) Ramolsari (2005) are just to name a few.
Is there still hope?
Earlier this week, the Uttarakhand High Court ordered a halt on all construction activities along river banks, construction of hydropower projects and road construction projects in Uttarakhand, until authorities develop proper muck disposal sites.
The order asked the MoEFCC and Uttarakhand authorities to identify suitable sites, 500 metres away from the river banks, for disposal of muck and excavated material. It cleared that till the muck disposal sites are identified and become operational, all construction activities or widening of roads on the river banks in the state shall remain stayed.
It is a significant order as illegal muck disposal in rivers has been often called out as one of the main culprits in escalating the level of disasters like floods in Uttarakhand, as it raises the level of the riverbed.
The government's disregard for the environment is visible in other aspects as well.
The government now wants to revise the 2012 Bhagirathi Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) notification that declared the 100-kilometre stretch of Bhagirathi River, which is a tributary of Ganga River, from its origin in Gaumukh to Uttarkashi, as an eco-sensitive zone
The notification banned setting up of any new hydroelectric power plants or expansion of existing plants except mini-hydel power projects of up to two-megawatt capacity which would meet the energy needs of the local communities and subject to permission from local village councils (gram sabha).
The Uttarakhand government wants to revise this notification and construct 10 hydropower projects on Bhagirathi river with a total capacity of 82 MW.
Kedarnath region was one of the worst affected due to June 2013 floods. Photo by Sujoy Saha / Wikimedia Commons.
But there seems to be a ray of hope as the government has taken action to tackle disasters by trying to strengthen is disaster management authority.
Recently, it invited interests from companies to engage them for implementation of the integrated geospatial platform, database and applications for disaster risk management in Uttarakhand. The goal of the programme is to rapidly implement a collaborative geospatial platform, integrate real-time and baseline data into the platform and deploy applications on the platform to support the emergency operation centers (EOC) and decision makers involved in disaster management in the state of Uttarakhand.
Environmentalists who have seen the state's downward trajectory in dealing with disasters, are not hopeful and feel that the continued disregard for nature's ways is only going to invite further disasters.
"It was a tragedy that had so many lessons for us to learn. But it seems that we have learnt nothing and we keep on repeating our old mistakes not respecting the fragile nature of the Himalayan ecosystem and not respecting the floodplains requirement of the rivers. We don't even realise that ill-appropriate developmental activities in the Himalayas are going to make us suffer history one again," said Manoj Misra of the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan.
Boys in Rambada watch over where their village once stood. Photo by Kartik Chandramouli / Mongabay.
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What happens when you return a rental car seven months late?
For one thing, the police issue a warrant for your arrest, as one man with an overdue rental car in Pennsylvania recently found out.
According to the Patch.com site for Moon Township, Pa., a man from Pittsburgh picked up a Budget rental car last fall and was scheduled to return it November 20. When did Budget get the car back? Not until early June, after the renter, who'd driven off to Florida, found out police had obtained a warrant for his arrest for felony theft and unauthorized use of an automobile.
Police said the man wracked up nearly $900 in late fees on the vehicle, which given most rental agencies' propensity for charging fees and how severely late the car was returned, sounds surprisingly low.
Indeed, the late fees could have been a lot worse. The renter in question had a monthly rate for the Hyundai Sonata he'd taken to Florida, and the policies and late fees for monthly rentals are different from daily or weekly rentals. Budget's website lists its late fee policies for the typical daily or weekly rental, which includes a 29-minute grace period in which no fees will be assessed. Return that vehicle 30 minutes late, however, and you'll be hit with an hourly charge. If you return it more than 90 minutes late you might as well keep it a whole extra day -- because you'll be charged an extra day regardless. Actually, there's one reason to not keep the car an extra day, and that's a $10/day fee for returning a vehicle more than seven hours late and not calling the agency with a head's up.
Doing some rudimentary math, if the renter now charged by police with theft of leased property had rented by the week rather than the month, he potentially would have been hit with fees of $10 a day -- which over 210 days would add up to $2,100. So, in light of the roughly $900 in fees the renter is now facing, he got off relatively easy. Imagine that: being grateful for a fee of "only" $900.
Besides late fees, and the outside possibility of jail time, there are other reasons travelers should do their best to return rental cars on time. Typically, when a driver returns a rental car late, the agencies charge an outrageous per-day rate. If a weekly rental rate was $300, it wouldn't be uncommon for the agency to charge $80 or even $100 for keeping the vehicle one day beyond the week's agreed-upon period.
Also, if you choose not to return the car on or before your originally scheduled return date, we will place an additional hold on your debit or credit card to cover the additional expected rental charges. Upon your return of the car, the holds will be released, and the actual cost of the rental will be charged. Your bank may take up to two weeks to post the released credit hold to your card. Unfortunately, we cannot be held responsible for any returned checks due to debit card hold processing.
The moral is: It behooves you to return your rental car on time. If that's not possible, contact the agency right away -- before the original return day (and well before the authorities need to get involved). Then, don't simply accept the first rate quoted to you for extending the rental. Try to negotiate. Mention that you're a loyalty program member, say that you've liked the service so far, and that you plan on renting from the company again -- but only if you're not gouged because you're in a jam and need to bring the car back a day late. Most rental agencies won't budge on the fees and rates if you wait until after the original return date has passed. Call them ahead of time, and you've got a much better chance.
While returning a rental car seven months late is unusual, returning a vehicle one or two days late is not. Rental agencies understand this. They also understand that it's bad business to lose a good customer over some unreasonable fees.


This October, the 185th Oktoberfest descends on the streets of Munich.
The festival lasts almost three weeks and is the world's largest Volksfest, with millions of people visiting from across the world to drink beer.
For the rest of the year this Bavarian city welcomes tourists who visit to enjoy Munich's culture: museums; art galleries; and cuisine. And beer.
Here's a pocket guide of how to experience the best of Munich's culture and make the most of the time you have in this multicultural city.
This city has more than 80 museums, so take your pick. If you're looking for science and technology, then Munich's most famous museum, Deutsches Museum, is for you. It has 35 sections, so if your time is limited, plan in advance to ensure you see the exhibits you're most interested in. If you seek an earthier experience, then head for Kartoffel Museum, perhaps the most unusual museum in the city, dedicated to the humble potato. Eight rooms of tuber-exhibits are on offer, but entry is free.
Munich has its own neighbourhood designed for art. The Kunstareal is where you'll find the highest concentration of art galleries in this city, the largest and most significant of which is the Residenz Museum. If you visit, do not leave without seeing the Antiquarium, completed in 1571 and filled with art and sculpture. The Grottenhof, built of crystal and shells in 1586 houses the 16th century Perseus Fountain. The Schatzkammer (Treasury) fills more than 10 rooms with its valuables, the most recent added in the 19th century to what is one of the most important and valuable collections of its kind in the world.
There are three traditional Bavarian foods you must try while in Munich.
Sauerkraut is a fermented cabbage dish, sometimes flavoured with apples, juniper berries or caraway seeds. It's an acquired taste but the perfect accompaniment to the traditional pork dishes that come from the Bavarian culture.
White sausage or Weisswurst is traditionally made with minced pork bacon and veal. Traditionally, the sausages were made to be eaten within a couple of hours, and Weisswurst are still made fresh every morning.
To complete your meal, try Apfelstrudel. This dish dates from the 17th century, and the recipe calls for grated apple to be flavoured with cinnamon and sweetened with sugar before being encased in pastry. It's best served warm and sprinkled with powdered sugar, in large portions!
Munich loves its beer, and the region produces at least half the nation's beer. Beers here are brewed according to purity laws outlined in 1516, that ensures beer is additive-free and brewed in accordance with ancient Bavarian traditions.
Augustiner Keller is where you'll find Munich's oldest beer garden (biergarten), with more than 100 chestnut trees and 5,000 seats. The restaurant serves traditional cuisine and the garden is where you'll experience traditional socialising.
If you're looking for variety, then Munich's Tap House will spoil you for choice. With more than 200 craft beers, this basement-style bar is true to its philosophy of serving great, unique beer.


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VOCES' reaction on the confirmation of David Bernhardt as Secretary of Interior
With a vote of 56 to 41, the Senate confirmed David Bernhardt as the new secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Given his record advocating for the interests of big oil and gas, mining, and agrobusiness, this is alarming news for climate change, endangered species, public lands and waters, and public health. With this confirmed appointment, the Trump administration locks in yet another unfit leader at the helm of a critical agency in its quest to rollback bedrock environmental protections for the benefit of polluters.
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The External Relations of Nordic Cities: A New Geography in the Making?
The rise of the knowledge economy and the application of new technologies have played central roles in the increased focus on cities, both in policy terms and in spatial research over the past three decades. Globally, a number of cities are considered as nodal points in the emergence and the intersection of different kinds of 'flows', such as capital, commodities, knowledge and information, labour, tourism and cultural symbols. These flows are travelling along infrastructure routes such as roads, railways, airlines and, increasingly, telecommunication linkages. In this light, the emerging network of flows between cities can be useful in learning more about how cities function in economic, social and cultural terms. In addition, it can also help us to imagine a geography of cities that is not only based on distances and place-based indicators such as the number of inhabitants, GDP or infrastructural endowment, but rather on the 'inter-connectivity' of cities, which we will take a closer look at in this issue of Nordregio News.
Considering this, it is not surprising that we can recognise a growing demand for handy information about the relative global reach of a select number of cities. However, at closer inspection we need to realise that to study such flows empirically, and to give robust indications about the external relations of the city at hand, is a challenging task.
In this issue we follow the increasing interest in the external relations of cities in an increasingly globalised world. In the first article The Elusive Question of Global Cities and Cities in Networks, Brita Hermelin from the University of Linköping, discusses the conceptual and theoretical foundations and methodological underpinnings of the major scientific achievements in this direction. She also reflects on current findings from a Nordic perspective as well as their explanatory power.
The second article, Mapping Global Cities and Business Networks from a Nordic Perspective, by Lukas Smas, presents some results from a recent Nordregio-study in which the external relations of four Nordic capital regions have been analysed in national, Norden, European and global contexts. He also draws particular attention to some policy implications, his most notable claim is to focus much more on the city's role and function in such inter-city networks rather than to focus primarily on its place-based assets.
Fredrik Johansson from the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce argues in the final article Overcoming Distance Through Attractiveness that the concept of distance is more and more dispensable for the formulation of regional development strategies. Rather, it is important to identify opportunities to strengthen the region's attractiveness and to deal with the Stockholm's growth potential in a smart manner.
Nordregio News Challenging Urban Geographies The External Relations of Nordic Cities: A New Geography in the Making?


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Ban The Buckeye For Being Bisexual? We Now Have Hoax No. 3
Published June 18, 2012 at 1:15 PM MDT
Jamie Sabau
Brutus Buckeye, the Ohio State mascot. Does he know?
Heard about the letter to the editor of a newspaper in Ohio demanding that the state find another tree to serve at its symbol because buckeyes are bisexual? It's starting to get some attention on the Web.
Well, it's a real letter to The Courier in Findlay.
But it's also our third hoax in as many blogging weekdays — or in this case, more accurately, a piece of social satire.
We just got off the phone with 67-year-old Jim Flechtner of Findlay, who acknowledges having "something of a local reputation" for his satirical notes to the newspaper.
"I quite often write letters on the issues of religion, evolution and homosexuality," he told us.
In this case, Flechtner was riffing off an item he'd seen in the Courier that said "the Ohio buckeye, Aesculus glabra, bears flowers with both male and female organs on the same tree. It is a monoecious species."
"The buckeye is our state tree and most of us gladly wear the nickname, 'buckeyes,' " Flechtner wrote in his note. "But it is shameful and unacceptable that a bisexual tree should represent us! We are flaunting the Holy Bible!
"I urge everyone to contact their state representative and demand legislation removing the buckeye as our state tree and condemning the use of the term 'buckeye' as a nickname for residents of Ohio.
"Does anyone know if carnations are bisexual?"
The red carnation is Ohio's state flower.
The letter was published June 6, and didn't get much local reaction, Flechtner says. One subsequent letter to the editor "took it seriously. The other three were not quite so sure."
Then, today, Deadspin picked up on it — and wondered if Flechtner might be serious. Shortly after its post, the story got picked up by other sites and blogs that didn't wonder. They assumed he was serious. Huffington Post has weighed its words carefully — signalling it thinks Flechtner was being satirical, but leaving open the possibility that he wasn't.
We were the third news outlet to actually call Flechtner to ask about the letter. He seems bemused and pleased that it's now getting some reaction. Retired form the state Department of Job and Family Services ("welfare," Flechtner says with tongue firmly in cheek), he's got some time to spend talking to reporters if they call.
But he's also got some more satire to compose. Flechtner say's he'll be at it again soon. "I enjoy every time I get responses to my letters," he said. "I'll have more."
Oh, and as for those other hoaxes (we did say you should watch for a third):
-- 'Kindness In America' Memoir Writer Shot Himself.
-- 'Forest Boy' Is A Hoax, Police Say.
NPR News HoaxOhio


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Alexander Fleming (or Alex and his father) did not save Churchill's life twice, or even once. Tracking the origins of a persistent Churchillian myth.
David Lough sheds bright light on the youthful Churchill's hopes and dreams, under the worldly, solicitous, loving influence of his American mother.
"The medical world and Churchill's entourage agreed that Sir Winston's recovery after this fateful episode was spectacular. On 18 August, he presided over a cabinet meeting lasting for nearly three hours. Apparently, none of his close colleagues who knew what had happened could believe he had suffered any new medical problem."
Issues of peace and war: Dewey protested Herbert Hoover's "peripheral" defense strategy in 1950, only to fall back on it, to Churchill's displeasure, two years later.
Brough Scott, who is highly qualified, explores Churchill's long and sometimes significant equestrian life, complete with penetrating observations.
Piecing history together from her mother's letters, Jill Rose shines welcome light on an obscure episode in Churchill's wartime premiership.
In a previously unpublished article, Winston S. Churchill contrasts the tenets of Socialism with the values of free societies.
In Parliament, Churchill generally supported on female suffrage. But he is misrepresented by invented quotations and unjust descriptions of his actual words.
Did Churchill Ever Make Public Criticism of Americans or America?


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Photo Gallery: VOA, RFA Cover Burma's Historic Election
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Washington, D.C. – Burmese voters went to the polls on April 1 and the Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) were there providing wall-to-wall coverage as democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gained a seat in Parliament.
Although she and her National League for Democracy will hold only a fraction of power in parliament, they are expected to be an active opposition to the military-backed government.
VOA and RFA provided broadcast and on-line coverage, including analysis and reaction to the process, the results, and the impact on the nation and its people. The multimedia programming includes election previews, reaction from exiles and other features.
"In a place where approximately one in four adults tune in to broadcasts from RFA and VOA, we know our broadcasts play a vital role providing unbiased coverage of these elections," said Michael Meehan, a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees all U.S. international broadcasting.


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50 Stats & Facts About Live Streaming Video in 2019
Posted August 13, 2019 | Category: Replay Media Catcher, Stream & Save, YouTube.
Chances are, if you've been online anytime within the past decade, you'll have seen that video streaming is everywhere. In fact, even within the last few years, streaming online has taken internet users to some pretty incredible places — whether in business, sports, or just for personal use, online streaming is being devoured by users like never before.
Now, with the introduction of live streaming video, the reach of online video is exploding like never before. People are turning to live streaming to catch their favorite events in real time, from hotly anticipated World Cup matches, to the Royal Wedding, to real-time reaction videos to online gaming, and so much more.
People are tuning in online to catch the best live streams, and it's only going to get more popular. In 2019 online, YouTube has seen a 100% increase in live stream viewers from just the year before, and this is one trend that shows no signs of slowing.
In fact, we've rounded up the hottest stats and facts about this trend that is off the charts to give you an inside look at what's trending this year in the live streaming universe; what's hot, what's on its way out, and what millions of online users swear by to make sure they've got the best streams that everyone wants.
Ready to take a numerical look at 50 of the hottest facts and stats about live streaming video in 2019? Check them out…
Live streaming by the numbers:
100M internet users watch online video every day.
Compared to last year, 47% of live streaming video viewers are watching their videos live online.
20% of all Facebook videos are now live.
Facebook Live videos are watched at a rate of 3x longer than videos that have been pre-recorded.
By 2020, live streaming is expected to account for 82% of all internet traffic.
By 2025, the online streaming industry is expected to reach a value of an estimated $124.6 billion.
Got kids? If you live in a household with children, the chances of your willingness to pay for live streaming service jumps by 70%.
Live content has an emotional engagement rate of 25% with viewers, compared with on-demand viewing, with a rate of 17%.
Facebook Watch now attracts 140 million daily viewers in 2019. This number has doubled in just under 6 months.
Viewers spend 8 times longer watching live videos than videos on-demand.
67% of viewers say that video quality is the most important factor when watching a livestream broadcast in general.
90% of viewers say that video quality is the most important aspect of Facebook Live videos.
The average number of mobile YouTube video views per day is 1,000,000,000.
78% of online audiences are watching video regularly on Facebook Live.
Are you not entertained? Here's a breakdown of users' leisure time with online streaming in numbers:
Behind-the-scenes content is in demand… 87% of audiences would prefer to watch online to watching on TV if they can get a closer look behind the curtains of their favorite shows and content.
67% of audiences who watched a livestream for an event actually purchased a ticket to a similar event the next time it happened.
When asked, 45% of live video audiences said they would pay for live, on-demand or exclusive from a favorite performer, team, or speaker.
Compelling content is the primary motivator for 43% of viewers when viewing live videos online.
YouTube has over a billion users, with 80% of its views coming from outside of the US.
Not just fun and games… Live streaming a great tool for marketing and business, too:
87% of businesses now use video as a marketing tool… An increase from 63% in 2017 and 81% in 2018.
79% of customers say that a brand's video has convinced them to buy an app or software.
Companies that use video benefit from an increase of 41% in search traffic.
40% of consumers say that video increases their chances of purchasing a product from their mobile device.
For 74% of millennials, video is an important decision-making factor when they are comparison shopping online.
When it comes to content marketing, 80% of consumers say they prefer watching live videos from a brand than reading a blog.
35% of marketers are using live video to reach potential clients.
Going live on Facebook produces 6 times more interactions than traditional pre-recorded video.
Live streaming gets social:
The most watched video on Facebook live is called "Chewbacca Mom" a 2016 video with over 1.75 million views in 2019 alone.
Compared with text and images alone, videos on social media generate 1200% shares.
Top news stories make up 56% of most-watched live content.
Nearly half of Americans say they prefer to get their news online vs. watching it on TV.
More than half of adults in the U.S. (68%!) say they get their news via social media at least occasionally.
Here are just a few stats on live streaming in sports:
63% of sports fans are happy to pay for for an exclusively all-sports channel.
56% of fans who are interested in streaming sports would pay more for online streaming than for traditional TV channels.
80% of women describe themselves as sports fans, and say they are willing to pay up to 50% more for over-the-top sports content.
65% of millennials and younger viewers are viewing sports content on a mobile device.
Facebook has signed an exclusive deal to show every La Liga game for the next three seasons to over 348 million of its users in Asia.
The eSports industry is estimated to soon be worth $1 billion.
World Cup 2018 was one of the most popular live streaming events of the year, with a peak of 7.9 million concurrent plays.
How are the gamers going live?
At the moment of this publication, there are 1,321,988 live viewers on Twitch.
There were a total 916,860,960 hours watched on Twitch in the month of July this year alone.
Twitch enjoys more than 1,253,497 average weekly visitors, each spending an average of 95 minutes watching live gaming.
Since the start of 2019, Twitch viewers have watched more than 402 billion minutes of content.
82% of Twitch users say sponsorships are good for the gaming industry.
The most popular game streamer on Twitch is Ninja with 15 million followers and 479 million channel views.
Other Fun Facts:
96% of people have watched an explainer video to learn more about a service or product.
The average time spent watching video onmobile is 2.8 minutes for video on demand, while the average for livestreams is 3.5 minutes.
The average time spent watching live stream video on a tablet is 7.1 minutes.
2019 is on track to becoming a record year for online video traffic, with four-fifths of global Internet traffic regularly tuning in to watch.
In the US alone, online video is estimated to be responsible for 85% of domestic internet traffic.
Video quality matters! 23% of people who have been presented a live streaming experience with poor quality video would hesitate before making a purchase from that brand.
With all that in mind, it's great to know that Replay Media Capture is here to help you to stay ahead of the curve of every live streaming trend online, and from nearly any streaming site you can think of, and capture beautiful, high-quality recordings in the process. Make sure you're set up with our state of the art software, to keep you ahead of any live streaming trends, ensuring that you've got great quality recordings of all your most hotly anticipated livestreams–this year or in the years to come.
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Express Lanyards UK are one of the UK's leading suppliers over off the shelf plain and pre-printed lanyards. We have over 10 years experience designing, manufacturing & distributing lanyards, so you can be sure that you are dealing with a long established company with a wealth of product knowledge and experience.
We aim to reply to all enquiries on the same working day, provide competitive pricing on like for like products, product samples to prospective customers, and if you have a tight deadline, we will do everything in our power to help you meet that deadline.
If you have any comments or feedback regarding our company, website, service or anything else, please do let us know. We welcome all feedback as a chance to provide you with an even better service.
We are part of the Promos Central group of promotional products websites, supplying a huge range of quality promotional products to customers across the UK, mainland Europe and beyond for over 10 years.
We are proud to be a living wage employer.
The Living Wage is set independently and is designed to ensure a fair day's work receives a fair day's pay.
We have developed mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers over a period of many years which helps us to ensure that all our products are high quality and manufactured in a way which reflects our values.
We dont compromise on the quality of our products. Your satisfaction is our main concern and we believe that customer loyalty and repeat business is best served by supplying a top quality product at the best possible price.
We hope to welcome you back to Express Lanyards UK as a happy repeat customer time and time again.
A selection of customers of Express Lanyards UK and our other Promos Central promotional products sites.
Express Lanyards are part of the Promos Central group of promotional products websites, supplying a huge range of quality promotional products to customers across the UK, mainland Europe and beyond.
Why not take a look at some of our other great promotional products sites below!
Mousemats are still on of the widely used and top performing promotional products.
Make sure your brand is proudly displayed on the desks of your customers, staff or prospective customers.
Mugs & Coasters are your promotional drinkware specialists.
We offer a broad selection of brandable mugs from earthenware through to fine bone china - and always with a great custom printed coaster to match.
The sister site to Lanyard UK, Lanyards Shop offers a huge range of lanyards, ID cardholders, PVC wallets, clips and other accessories, all available to buy online.
Sports Promos offer a wide range of great promotional products all with a sport or exercise theme.
These great promotional items are great for sports centres and gyms, clubs and teams as well as for raising awareness of charity sporting events.
Our bespoke Brandow counter display systems allow for changable counter top displays for fast moving environments such as fashion retail or food and beverage businesses where point of sale material changes regularly.
Counter Mats are customised point of sale mats made in the UK.
Customised desk mats are a great way to ensure your brand or message is taking up the most promotional real estate on your customers desks.
We've got a great range on offer with something to suit any budget.
Lanyard UK are the UK's Lanyard Experts with over a decade in the business.
Choose from a wide selection of custom printed company lanyards with an option to suit every budget and well as a great range of plain and off the shelf pre-printed lanyards and ID badge holders.
The Fidget Promos team specialise in supplying a great selection of custom printed or branded fidget products including popular fidget spinners, fidget rollers, stress balls and loads of other executive toys and puzzles.
All offer great value, high impact brand exposure as well as being really popular as promotional giveaways or gifts.
Rubber Brand UK are the rubber product specialists!
Our team are experts in rubber labels, rubber keyrings, rubber coasters, rubber bag & luggage tags, rubber ad-loop keyrings, rubber slap braclets and rubber wrist bands - all make for a great choice of promotional product.


The Wilson Fire District was founded in 1908 along with funds to buy a thirty-foot extension ladder, one dozen ten-quart pails, one fire ax, and 150 feet of rope. The equipment was housed in a utility shed at the Wilson Brick Yard, whose kiln was responsible for half of all fires in town. The old alarm system involved ringing the bell in the Congregational Church or someone running down the street yelling "fire". In 1926, property for this fire station was purchased from the Christensen & Rand farms, and the building, designed in an English Tudor style, was dedicated in 1930. © Windsor Historical Society.


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STUNTS, STARS & LEGENDS - April 2017
Hal Needham
Needham was born in Memphis,Tennessee and raised in Arkansas and Missouri. He served in the Army as a paratrooper during the Korean War, worked as a treetopper and was a billboard model for Viceroy Cigarettes while beginning a career in Hollywood as a movie stuntman.
His first break came as a stunt double for Richard Boone in "Have Gun -Will Travel". He trained under John Wayne's stunt double Chuck Roberson and became one of the top stuntmen of the 1960s on such films as "How the West Was Won", "The Bridge at Remagen" "McLintock", "The War Lord" and "Little Man". He doubled for Clint Walker and Burt Reynolds. Needham moved into stunt coordinating and directing second unit action, while designing and introducing air bags and other innovative equipment.
In 1971, he and fellow stuntmen Glenn Wilder and Ronnie Rondell formed Stunts Unlimited. He wrote a screenplay titled "Smokey and the Bandit" and his friend Reynolds offered him the chance to direct. It was a huge success and the two followed it with "Hooper","The Cannonball Run," and "Stroker Ace".
In his youth, Boone had attended the San Diego Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad,California. There, he was introduced to the theatre.
After the war, Boone was summoned to Hollywood, where he was given a seven-year contract with Fox.
In 1950, he made his screen debut as a Marine officer in "Halls of Montezuma".
His television series, "Have Gun -Will Travel", made him a national star.
Boone starred in three movies with John Wayne: "The Alamo", "Big Jake" and "The Shootist".
He was the voice actor for the dragon Smaug in the 1977 animated film of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit". He and his family eventually moved to Hawaii.
If interested in learning more about the Hall of Fame, please contact John Hagner (Founder) at 435 260-2160.
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Hall of Fame website: www.stuntmen.org
John Hagner (Founder) is also the Artist of the Stars.
His Celebrity Portrait Drawings are available at telephone 435-259-7000,
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