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Let's fight against the Aliens to protect our Earth. *Great game for kids AND adults. 13 Unique Units.
- Be careful don't hit the obstacles.
Flappy Fly urgently need your help! There are a lot of flowers which should be collect to improve her health! But you need to avoid collisions with the stones which may damage flappy fly. +++++ Enjoy the game where the tide has been turned around in favour of the dragons. Once 'Kitty' fly, you can not stop playing!Just tap to fly more and more and more.
satisfaction, and happy vibes :). Like free stuff? Game on. It's a crazy day for jungle warfare! Dangers are lurking with every step.
Passover plagues are here in Frogs in the Bed.
Once you get further into the game you may find that you have to upgrade your dragon to gain the additional strength and power to defeat the more powerful knights and other obstacles that will appear.
- Hours of Entertainment. This game is an absolute blast! Features: - Collect points and watch out for evil! - Unlock awesome Helicopters - Never ending gameplay and never ending fun! Download it right now!Features: - Amazing smooth graphic- - Game Center- - Pleasant sound- We upgrade this game all time. Don't Miss Upcoming Update !!!! FEATURES: Facebook support for sharing scores and power up items with your friends.
But Flappy's dream turned to nightmare when forks suddenly appeared above and below.


The Knights of Fire provided the closing night’s fireworks display for the West Wickham Residents’ Association’s fair to mark The Queen’s diamond jubilee at the beginning of June 2012. The display also attracted the attention of the local press. The night was a little misty and it rained during the day but the audience reaction was fantastic.
According to the WWRA’s chairman: “We were delighted with everything that you did. Thank you so much, it was brilliant.”


I am trying to download PDF documents, but keep running into the same error: the pdf will download but only show the file name and file size. If I try to export it shows the file as damaged. I have tried reinstalling the app. No one else in my organization is having this issue. Any suggestions? (see attached photo)
Is this on iOS or Android? What Mattermost mobile app version are you on?
App Version 1.48.2 on my iPad
Same version on my iPhone
Both iOS apps are having issues.
Tapping the message to bring it up on its own page and then tapping the file seemed to reset the system.


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Mitral Valve Disease Study: Dogs
To evaluate the relevance of history and presentation in the evaluation of chronic valve disease in small breed dogs.
All dogs <20kg and older than 8 years with a significant systolic heart murmur. Study will cover a free echocardiogram.
- Dogs with other clinically relevant cardiac diseases (minor tricuspid valve disease will be included).
- Dogs receiving antitussive medications (including corticosteroids, bronchodilators, cough suppressants).
Clients will be responsible for some of the evaluation, but will be given a substantial discount.
The following is provided by the Study at NO CHARGE to clients:
- Echocardiogram (normally $519)
- ECG (normally $147)
- Exam fee ($184)
- Thoracic radiography ($333): would not be repeated if adequate films already acquired
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Posted by Juliette on October 18, 2002 at 19:56:28:I was at a beauty-supply store with a friend who is a hairdresser,
and saw little boxes of henna for only 99 cents, so i bought a couple
of boxes. I didn't expect fabulous results, being only 99 cents. When
we got back to her house, I opened up a box, and there'a a plastic
bag that says, 100% Henna, but the powder is bright red. No twigs,
talc consistency. I was like, this isn't right, and i mixed some
anyway, with lemon and tea. I let it sit a while and put it on my
palm with a bamboo stick. in about a half hour, it just peeled and
fell off. I had a pink stain for about 5 days and it did not oxidize.
I don't know what this stuff is, maybe just red dye?
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Check at about 1:10 in the video above as the FDNY shows a somewhat unique way to handle an automobile fire. The clip above is Part 3 of a citizen’s video as he watched firefighters trial to handle the stubborn fire. The problem, according to the videographer, is that the car was parked on top of a manhole that was burning and exploding. You can hear the small blasts at various points on the video (sounds like a bit of an electrical fire sparking and arcing underground).
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Pittet, D, Hugonnet, S, Harbarth, S, et al.
Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene. Lancet
Muto, CA, Sistrom, MG, Farr, BM. Hand hygiene rates unaffected by installation of dispensers of a rapidly acting hand antiseptic. Am J Infect Control
Pittet, D, Boyce, JM. Revolutionising hand hygiene in health-care settings: guidelines revisited. Lancet Infect Dis
Boyce, JM, Pittet, D, Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee; HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. MMWR Recomm Rep
Taylor, LJ. An evaluation of handwashing techniques—1. Nurs Times
Hayes, RA, Trick, WE, Vernon, MO, et al.
Ring use as a risk factor (RF) for hand colonization in a surgical intensive care unit (SICU). In: Program and abstracts of the 41st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy;December 16-19, 2001; Washington, DC. Abstract K-1333.
Hofer, CB, Gibara, F, Sepulveda, C, et al.
A funny approach to improve hand hygiene. In: Program and abstracts of the 45th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy; December 16-19, 2005; Washington, DC. Abstract K-1175.
Harbarth, S, Pittet, D, Grady, L, Golmann, DA. Compliance with hand hygiene practice in pediatric intensive care. Pediatr Crit Care Med
Waters, V, Larson, E, Wu, F, et al.
Molecular epidemiology of gram-negative bacilli from infected neonates and health care workers' hands in neonatal intensive care units. Clin Infect Dis
Larson, E, McGinley, KJ, Grove, GL, Leyden, JJ, Talbot, GH. Physiologic, microbiologic, and seasonal effects of handwashing on the skin of health care personnel. Am J Infect Control

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Hey there, fellow music lovers!
I’m absolutely buzzing with excitement to share the latest tracks that have been on repeat in my playlist lately! It’s amazing how music has this magical ability to lift our spirits, evoke emotions, and bring people together, right?
So, without further ado, here are some of the recent songs that have been rocking my world:
1. “Lonely at the Top” by Asake
This one is an absolute banger! The infectious beats and catchy lyrics make it impossible for me to sit still. Every time it plays, I can’t help but groove to the rhythm. Asake really burst my head with that song.
2. “Ogaranya” by Adekunle Gold
A soulful tune that tugs at my heartstrings. It’s the kind of song you want to play during a long drive or when you’re just looking to unwind and contemplate life.
3. “Taliban II” by Burna Boy & Byron Messia
This track has an incredible blend of genres, and the Burna Boy & Byron Messia‘s mesmerizing vocals just draw you in. It’s perfect for those moments when you need a little musical escape.
4. “DND” by Bella Shmurda & Lil Kesh
Oh, this one is a total mood lifter! Whenever I listen to it, I can’t help but smile and let go of any worries. It’s like a burst of sunshine on a rainy day. ☀
5. “All my Life” by Lil Durk & J.Cole
This song takes me on a rollercoaster of emotions. The lyrics are so relatable, and the melody is simply enchanting. It’s one of those songs that you can’t help but sing along to.
I’d love to hear what recent gems you’ve discovered too!
What Is That Recent Song(s) You’ve Had On Repeat?
After all, there’s nothing better than discovering new music and expanding our musical horizons!
Let’s keep the music playing and the good vibes flowing!
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Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz created a vision for a national project based on the transference (importación) of a European model and with a clear visual culture of patriarchy, clear in the symbols, style and elements used. This project studies the symbols of power used in his urban reform plan for Mexico City, a policy of “order and progress” that was determined to transform the urban space into one reminiscent of Paris or London, and that set the grounds for the Mexican Revolution, a complex and multifaceted event with particular characteristics that do not compare to the revolutionary processes in Latin America or the rest of the world. Neoclassical, gothic and romanesque symbols including lions, laurels and greek columns invaded the urban landscape with huge architectural projects commissioned to European artists and architects.
This project explores how identities come into collision, creating sculptural pastiches and imagining futures through the construction of a new narrative that plays with historical fictions. The first piece exists in the digital realm, as a virtual installation in which I am building a "stage" based on buildings commissioned by Diaz. The second is a series of fictional fragments of the “ruin” of the National Courthouse, designed by Émile Bénard, whose construction was interrupted by the outbreak of the Revolution and was left unfinished until it became the Monumento a la Revolución in the late 30’s. I am using images of greek fragments that were stolen by the British museum and mixing the motifs with those found in the drawings and plans of the design proposals that were presented for the Courthouse in the late 19th century.
work under construction /// proyecto en construcción
Escenografía para una revolución (Stage for a revolution), 2020
Virtual installation, under development
Escenografía para una revolución , 2020
Instalación virtual, en proceso
A Fragment of the Courthouse, 2020
15 x 13 cm
Un fragmento del Palacio Legislativo
15 x 13 cm

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(Decatur, IL) — Early Thursday morning, just after midnight Decatur Police responded to two separate shootings in the area. The first occurred in the 500 block of West Packard where the 29-year-old male victim was found in the cab of Uhaul truck. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene from gunfire. The victim is not believed to be a Decatur resident.
The second shooting occurred after a 17-year-old male Decatur resident was transported to a local hospital by private vehicle. The victim had suffered injuries from gunfire and those injuries were considered to be life-threatening. The victim was then transferred to a Springfield hospital.
The names of the victims are not being released at this time. The investigation is on-going. Anyone with information about these crimes is encouraged to contact the Decatur Police Department.


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The rising problem of impotency amongst men has taken a giant space. The problem of erectile dysfunction has increased a lot these days due to their habits and poor nutrition. Lack of physical work is also an issue. The doctors and researchers all around the world are working solutions to this.
By high effort, one such composition that addresses this problem very well is Tadgra prof 20. It relaxes the muscle and helps in the proper blood flow through the organs. The factors such as obesity, smoking, drinking, etc. have given a major contribution to the outburst of the issue.
What is Tadagra prof 20 mg?
Tadagra is a pill used in the treatment of erectile dysfunction in men over the age of 18 years. The key component of the pill is original tadalafil and uses the same formulation, yet is considered safer to use. The pill is also known as Tadagra professional sublingual and is available under the name of Tadagra prof. The pill has a PDE5 inhibitor that controls the activity of the enzyme and thus gives relief in the problem. It dilates the blood vessels and gives a good flow of blood in the penis giving a good erection.
How to take the pill?
Swallow the whole medicine with water just an hour before the sexual intercourse. The pill is available in the form of gluten capsule. You should take food separately before the pill. Do not crush the pill on consuming.
Tadagra side effect
The side effects are a few those may vary from person to person. They can be seen in the list below:
- Swallowing and breathing problem
If one sees any discomfort for a longer period of time then they must contact the doctor.
You can read Tadagra review online and then buy the tablets online. A stronger version is seen as Tadagra strong 40 and can be chosen as per the demand of the body.


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Sunday takes us to the relic-boxes of small Texas towns, their shops of Sears and Roebuck sewing machine stands, bordello bedframes, and scrap-metal lawn art: a butterfly stakes a Spartan garden with pollen rust. Learning the hard way not to touch even the brass panel of a swinging
In 2014, Dean Young was appointed state poet laureate of Texas. The William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas-Austin, Young has published twelve books of poetry and one volume of prose on the aesthetics of poetry. He has also received numerous awards and honors for his poetry, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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after rereading Cormac McCarthy and taking a 5 mile run through the River Ranch Laughter is also a form of prayer —Kierkegaard Okay then, right here, Lord, in Bandera,
I never knew them all, just hummed and thrummed my fingers with the radio, driving five hundred miles to Austin. Her arms held all the songs I needed. Our boots kept time with fiddles and the charming sobs of blondes, the whine of steel guitars sliding us down in deer-hide chairs when jukebox music was over.


A visual Interface for your IVR that spans across voice, web and mobile channels, to enable an omnichannel customer experience.
Visual IVR Turns This…
Voice IVR’s have inherent limitations, and, let’s face it, your customers don’t love them. Endless menu trees, confusing options, poor voice recognition and limited ability to collect information (Just try entering an email address using touchtones…).
A visual version of your voice IVR. Now your customers simply touch their way through your IVR, with the ability to enter complex data and easily go back and choose different options.
Callers can provide information to the Visual IVR that your current voice IVR is unable to collect, such as complex alpha numeric data. Because your agents get a rich screen pop displaying all the data, you don’t have to ask your customer to repeat information, guaranteeing a much shorter call!
…and a quick implementation
Visual IVR can reuse your existing Voice IVR scripts so you can be up and running in days. And for those looking to shorten call times even further, our business friendly authoring environment lets you create new self service flows, using clicks, not code.
Why Visual IVR
Despite the investment in self service portals, speaking avatars and social media, your customers are still calling you. In fact, industry statistics show only around 20% resolve their issue on their own without calling your contact center. Visual IVR implementations are showing adoption in excess of 60 percent! You can’t afford to ignore the trend.


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Pioma-Odlewnia has at its disposal one of the most fully equipped state of the art industrial laboratories in the country, allowing for both the conducting of analyses and testing of materials used in production processes, as well as offering services for external clients and foundries. The laboratory has implemented a Quality Management System meeting the requirements of PN-EN ISO/IEC 17025: 2005
Analysis of chemical constitution
Scope: ordinary steels and cast carbon steels, low alloy and high alloy; grey, alloy, ductile cast irons.
Equipment: ARL-3460 emission spectrometer, LECO TC 500 oxygen and nitrogen analyser, LECO CS-125 carbon and sulphur analyser.
Scope: static tensile testing determining the R02, Re, Rm, A5, A4, Z, E; Charpy test in a range of temperatures from – 75°C; Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell hardness tests; static bending test.
Equipment: RKP 450 impact tester, ZWICK universal testing machine.
Scope: metallographic macro- and microscopy.
Equipment: NEOPHOT 32R metallographic microscope with the magnification range of 10 – 2000x; EPITYP 2 metallographic microscope with the magnification range of 10 – 2000x; LUCIA image analysis programme.


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Tuition and other fees at two-year and four-year institutions rose significantly higher this year compared to the previous academic year, outpacing the slow growth of federal financial aid, according to a recent report released the by College Board.
In its annual report, “Trends in College Pricing 2007,” the College Board revealed that the increases for 2007-2008 were somewhat higher than last year but not as high as previous hikes:
- At public, four-year institutions, in-state tuition and fees average $6,185, or $381 more than last year for a 6.6 percent increase. The average total charges for the current academic school year, including room, board and tuition, is $13, 589, which represents a 5.9 increase over last year.
- Out-of-state students pay $682 more in tuition and fees this year at public four-year institutions than last year, bringing the average up to $16,600 for a 5.5 percent increase. Average total charges are $24,000, a 5.4 percent increase from 2006-07.
- Tuition and fees at a private four-year institution average $23,000, or $1,400 more than last year, a 6.3 percent increase.
- At public two-year institutions, tuition and fees average $2,300, or 4.2 percent higher than last year.
“The average price of college continues to rise more rapidly than the average prices of other goods and services. However, this is not a new phenomenon, but one that has persisted over the entire 30-year period documented,” says Dr. Sandra Baum, senior policy analyst for the College Board and professor at Skidmore College.
Over the past decade, total charges including room, board, tuition and fees rose at an average 2.6 percent per year after inflation at private four-year institutions, and 3.5 percent at public institutions. The increase in total aid only covered about two-thirds of the increase in tuition and fees at private four-year colleges and almost all of the increase in tuition and fees at public four year institutions, not including room, board or any additional cost of attendance.
Dr. David Ward, president of the American Council on Education, was encouraged by College Board’s report, noting that current costs are markedly lower than in 2003. He said, “Despite some slight variation, today’s report shows that the rate of increase in college tuition has remained relatively stable, for the last five years. Still, it is clear from the data on tuition increases at both public and private four-year institutions that more work needs to be done. We hope that state governments — which really set tuition prices at most public colleges and universities — will do their part to reinvest in higher education.”
The report comes as Congress is in the early stages of considering a proposal that could require some colleges with large endowments to spend more of their savings to keep tuition down. Colleges call the idea misguided and say it wouldn’t solve the underlying economic issues explaining the price increases.
Dr. Dallas Martin, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, was less optimistic recognizing the constraints of the federal student aid system on low-income students. “College costs continue to increase at a faster rate than increases in financial aid. This trend is especially harmful to America’s lower income families which increasingly rely on alternative or private education loans which carry high interest rates.”
The College Board also released “Trends in Student Aid 2007.” During the 2006-07 academic year, $131 billion in financial aid was distributed to undergraduate and graduate students in the form of grants from all sources, work-study, federal loans and federal tax credits. This aid made a significant deductions for most students in overall college costs.
The average full-time student enrolled in a public four-year institution received $3,600 financial aid. Meanwhile, the average full-time student attending a private college received about $9,300 in aid and the average student enrolled in a public two-year institution nearly $2,000 in aid.
Many students believe that they will have to pay the “published price” for their college experience, says Baum. As a result, low-income students are often detoured from postsecondary endeavors. However, these “published” prices do not take into account aid that lowers the actual price for many students by thousands of dollars.
Students are not paying the “sticker price” for their college education,” College Board officials reported.
For every institution, the average net price (the published price for tuition minus the average grant aid and tax benefits) that students pay is lower than the published price of tuition. Additionally, net tuition and fees required in 2003-04 a lower percentage of income from low-income families with students enrolled full-time at public two-year and four-year colleges than in 1992-93.
Nearly 60 percent of Pell Grant recipients were independent of their parents. Among dependent recipients of Pell Grants, two-thirds came from families with incomes below $30,000. The average Pell Grant per recipient was $2,494.
Two decades ago, the maximum Pell Grant covered about 52 percent of the average published price for tuition, fees and room and board at a public, four-year institution and 21 percent at a private college. Last year, it covered 32 percent of costs to attend a public four-year college and 13 percent at a private.
To make up for the high tuition and financial aid’s lower buying power, students typically borrow as much as allowed from the federal government, but then turn to private student loans. A decade ago, nonfederal loans accounted for about 6 percent of student aid, but last year they were 24 percent.
The rate of growth in private borrowing slowed last year. But that was at least partly because of new rules allowing graduates students to take out PLUS loans from the federal government, reducing their need for private loans. For undergraduates, private borrowing still rose 12 percent to $14.5 billion.
College Board analysis included distribution information about Academic Competitiveness Grants, approved by Congress by for the 2006-07. The Academic Competitiveness Grants go to selected first year-and second-year Pell Grant recipients who completed a high school curriculum deemed rigorous by the U.S. Department of Education. However, only students enrolled in degree programs are eligible. Those enrolled in certificate program do not reap any of the grant’s benefits.
In the first year of the program, 400,000 students received awards averaging $850, but an estimated 250,000 were excluded.
Also awarded for the first time in 2006-07 were SMART Grants, which go to selected third- and fourth-year Pell Grant recipients majoring in physical life or computer science; engineering; mathematics; technology; or a specified foreign language. In the first year of the program, 80,00 students received awards averaging $3,875.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
© Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.com

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Sat 102° 61°
Remember, I have told you that your worms will die faster from being hot and dry than from being cold and wet. But there is more to the picture than that.
As the temperature rises, the top layer of bedding is harder to keep moist as the moisture evaporates. The delicate balance of moisture in your bedding becomes harder to maintain as you add water to try and keep the top layer moist. Unfortunately, your attempts to keep the top layer moist are creating a wet and soggy condition deeper in the bed. This is serious, as your worms need air and too much water means not enough air.
The other issue with the heat is the worms are not coming up to the top layer to eat. They are remaining dispersed throughout the bed, down where it is moist and cool. This means harvesting worms is more time consuming and labor intensive. Instead of being able to scrape the top of the bed and scoop up handfuls of worms I have to turn the bedding and pull bedding out that has less worms and more bedding.
My worm populations are doing well despite the heat, which has been in the 90’s and 100’s. Hope yours are doing well also.

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Grabbing the kids and heading to higher ground was Port Alberni resident Annette Samuel’s first thought after finally hearing the tsunami warning early Tuesday morning.
Samuel, who lives on Gertrude Street, said she couldn’t hear the sirens inside her home. It took her looking out her window and seeing an unusual amount of cars on the street for the early hour to realize something wasn’t right.
“I ran downstairs and opened my sliding door and finally heard something,” Samuel said. “I turned around and woke up my two kids and their dad and said ‘we need to go now,’ so they got dressed and we left.”
Not knowing a designated evacuation spot, Samuel, her husband and two kids, ages seven and 11, began running up Lathom Road in search of a safety zone.
Once at the top of the road, Samuel began thinking of her next move to get her family to a safer place. She noticed vehicles heading towards Walmart and the old Klitsa School. She told her kids, who were crying and tired, that they would go as far as they could.
“We just stood there for a little while and then noticed a truck stopped nearby and a gentleman inside said ‘do you have a place to go?’ I said no we don’t,” Samuel said.
Samuel said the man took her family into his home, gave them a safe place to stay, fed them breakfast and made coffee and tea.
Samuel was relieved to have found a safe place to stay until the tsunami warning was cancelled but she believes there needs to be better public information available in the occurrence of an emergency and that the warning sirens need to be much louder.
“Even when they do the (siren) testing we hardly hear them here with the speaker behind us unless our windows and door is open,” she said.
There are four siren systems in city limits, one on Kingsway Avenue near the train station, one on Fourth Avenue just off Redford Street, one on Margaret Street near the Kitsuksis Dyke pedestrian bridge and one about half way up the hill on Golden Street.
The Hupacasath First Nation also have a siren just off Compton Street and the Tseshaht First Nation have a siren on their land as well.
City CAO Tim Pley said he does sometimes hear from the public that the sirens are too quiet, but he also hears they are too loud.
“We just replaced all the equipment over the last seven years, we did one per year,” Pley said. “They’re all new with their amplifiers and speakers, they are very loud. Not everybody is going to be awoken by these things you just couldn’t do that without being so loud it would hurt people.”
Pley said the practice siren, that sounds on the first Wednesday of every month, and the sirens that sound in an actual emergency are set at the same volume level.
The practice tone is the sound of a digeridoo, while the emergency siren is an actual siren.


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Kinross Announces Unlawful Work Stoppage at Tasiast
Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX:K)(NYSE: KGC) announced today that employees at the Tasiast mine have initiated an unlawful work stoppage, and mining and processing activity at the site has been temporarily suspended. Management and employee representatives are engaged in discussions aimed at achieving a prompt settlement of certain issues raised by employees and a return to normal operations. The Tasiast mine produced approximately 200,000 gold equivalent ounces in 2011.
© 2017 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

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Discovering and understanding what motivates humans to produce better results has intrigued many researchers. Many researchers have explored the psychophysiological processes that drive our behavior. Here are some recent studies that have used BIOPAC systems to research motivation… Motivation and Pleasure Deficits Undermine the Benefits of Social Affiliation in Psychosis. Blanchard, J. J., Smith, J. […]
Eye tracking technology has come a long way and has enabled researchers to conduct mobile experiments and track participants in real world scenarios. These featured studies demonstrate some of the use cases for mobile eye tracking technology. Here are some recent studies that have used BIOPAC systems for eye tracking research… Drivers’ gaze patterns when resuming […]Read All


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If available, see below for a list of known police frequencies for Kona, North Carolina. Or, navigate to another city or town within Mitchell County, to view the local police frequencies.
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Show Plows : Farming: Antique tractors, graders and the like make up Pepe Sanchez’s shrine, admired by equipment aficionados.
Pepe Sanchez’s ranch in the northernmost part of the Santa Monica Mountains is an unofficial landmark of Yerba Buena Road.
Motorists, bicyclists and bikers who climb the steep and winding eight-mile road from the Pacific Coast Highway find Sanchez and his display of antique farm equipment near the summit of Boney Mountain.
Sanchez, a leathery-faced former ranch hand who still looks like a cowboy, exhibits his plows, tractors and graders as a shrine to farming.
About 30 pieces of farm equipment are scattered across his 35-acre ranch, a collection of rusting relics that has grown each year since Sanchez bought the property in 1951. Some of the equipment dates back a half century or more.
Tourists often stop to take pictures.
Colleen Wilhelm, 35, said she stumbled onto the display while on a drive from her home in Hermosa Beach to the National Park Service’s Circle X Ranch near Sanchez’s ranch.
“It looks like it should be named Tractorville,” she said.
The tractor collection includes a boxy Caterpillar, a sleek Farmall Cub and a graceful Minneapolis Moline.
“This is my own museum,” Sanchez said recently, as a sunset cast long shadows across his rolling hillside ranch. “I’ve got graders and plows and disks and planters and mowing machines.”
Sanchez, 66, fell in love with farm equipment when he was just 6, when his Mexican immigrant father taught him how to drive a tractor.
“They’re all my favorites,” he said. “I love them all.”
Leticia Morgan, 26, the youngest of Sanchez’s five children, said she has grown used to the farm equipment. By the time she was 8, she had learned to drive one of the smaller tractors.
“He had me oiling screws when I was little,” she said. “I knew more about tractors than my husband did when I got married.”
Born in a tiny Mexican village, Sanchez arrived at Ventura County’s southern coast in 1925, when his father came to work on a ranch owned by wealthy Los Angeles industrialist Henry Chamberlain.
Sanchez said his father taught him how to drive his first tractor, a model called a Cletrac, about the time that he first started school. He has never been away from machinery since. He still runs a grading business out of his small ranch house.
Unlike the cushioned, air-conditioned equipment of today, his Depression-era tractors were difficult to operate and quick to turn over, Sanchez said.
Every piece of equipment in his collection has a story. One of his favorite tractors is a 1929 Fordson made by the Ford Motor Co. and given to him by a friend. It is the centerpoint of a row of tractors displayed amid weeds in his front yard.
“I seen it as a child working. One day I said, ‘Pete, are you going to do anything with that old Fordson?’ He said, ‘Take it,’ ” Sanchez said. “Most ranchers give them to junkers to use as scrap iron. They’re tired of seeing them.”
In 1965, Sanchez paid $500 to tow another free acquisition, a diesel-powered tractor, from Porterville.
Two tractors have been restored to their original red and yellow, but the rest have rusted after years of exposure. Despite their condition, Sanchez refers to the relics as his jewels.
“A lot of people ask me, ‘Why don’t you paint them?’ “he said. “But I like them that way.”
Fellow tractor enthusiasts have admired the collection from afar.
Jane Wischstadt, a manager at the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum in San Diego County, said she has seen Sanchez’s tractors in photographs passed along by a San Fernando collector.
As with Sanchez, many farmers are too attached to their equipment to give it away, even when it no longer runs, Wischstadt said.
Bob Pfeiler, chairman of the Ventura County Farm Implement Museum, said he is pleased to see that some of the tools of the county’s farming history have survived. Many of the earliest tractors were dismantled or melted down after ranchers donated them to the war effort during the early 1940s.
“We didn’t realize at the time these tractors were antiques,” Pfeiler said.
Sanchez said he wants to set aside his tractors for his children under a provision that they never be sold.
He never wonders how much his collection is worth, he said. And he has never had the tractors appraised.
“To me they’re irreplaceable,” he said.


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Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 23 July, 2008 : - - Hout Bay, Cape Town - - Tomorrow, 24 July 2008, sees the start of the five-week waiting period of the Red Bull Big Wave Africa 2008. During this five-week period, 24 of the best big-wave surfers in the world are going to be in Hout Bay, waiting for the big-wave beast that is Dungeons, to come alive for the event.
The window period closes on the 31 August, giving ample time for a swell of the required height to rumble over the Dungeons reef. Invited surfers have already started arriving in Cape Town, and a few big surfboards have been seen getting carried out of Cape Town International Airport.
Greg Long(USA), Anthony Tashnick(USA) and Dungeons first timer Tyler Smith(USA) are already in the Mother City, and Grant Washburn(USA) and Mark Healey(HAW) arrive today, along with the Durban big-wave riding triumvirate of Grant Baker, Jason Ribbink and John Whittle. Co-contest directors Gary Linden(USA) and Johnny Paarman(SA) are also present and accounted for in Cape Town.
The timing is good, as their arrival is set to coincide with a giant swell on Friday that will definitely see surfers out at Dungeons. Official event surf forecaster Spike is tracking the swell modules for Friday, with conditions looking favourable for a possible practise session.
These 24 invited big-wave surfers are considered to be the best at what they do, and compete in big wave events around the world. Red Bull Big Wave Africa is the second longest running big-wave event in the world behind the Quiksilver Big Wave Invitational event at Waimea Bay in Hawaii. Over the last nine years the contest itself has run three times, in 2000 the contest was won by Sean Holmes(SA), followed by Greg Long(USA) in 2003, and John Whittle(SA) taking the honours in 2006.
There are a number of prizes on hand for when the contest runs this year. First Prize is a cheque for R100,000, good enough incentive to push a surfer onto a big wave. Then there are the Special Awards, consisting of the Sensi Threads Biggest Wave Award valued at R30,000, the Billabong Biggest Tube Award - R10,000, the Von Zipper Deep Throat Award - R5,000, and the DaKine Ikaika Award of R5,000. Good rewards for going for it.
The event has a revamped and tweaked interactive website - redbullbwa.com - which will have a daily blog, fresh images, downloadable videos, as well as the live webcasting portal from the event site when the event runs, enabling interested people from all over the world to watch the contest play out wave-for-wave. Keep your eyes on the event website for all the latest event details and status updates.
# 1 : Dungeons welcoming home Red Bull's Big Wave Africa
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On Tuesday, the President of the United States announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear accord reached by the P5+1 and Iran in 2015. Israel has applauded the American decision while, predictably, European allies have expressed regret.
At CIJA, we have been closely monitoring the evolving situation, starting in 2013, through negotiations that culminated in the signing of the agreement and the ensuing debate about its efficacy. Given Iran’s continued calls for Israel’s destruction, we have always supported diplomacy to block Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb. We have maintained that any agreement must be sufficiently comprehensive to prevent Iran from achieving its nuclear ambitions.
In his presentation following the capture by Israeli intelligence of elements of Iran’s nuclear archive, PM Netanyahu did not state that, in 2018, Iran was doing x, y, or z, and proffer the evidence. What Netanyahu said was that we cannot know what Iran is doing in 2018 because we are not looking in the right places, asking the right questions, or identifying appropriate things to monitor or investigate. One could argue that the very existence of the archive is itself a violation of the spirit of the agreement.
Given Iran’s lies about the state of their nuclear program in 2003, it is reasonable – even prudent – to question their honesty in 2018. That is the real takeaway. The archive obtained by Israeli intelligence offers incontrovertible evidence that what Iran put on the table was not real: the agreement is, therefore, if not null and void, at least in need of careful re-evaluation.
The JCPOA was predicated on implementing a system of inspection that presumed total disclosure by Iran of its nuclear activities. Because Iran lied and did not disclose the full range of its program, the deal lacked the capacity to fully monitor Iran’s behaviour. Compounding this shortfall was Iran’s decision to shift major elements of the program to the military, making them entirely inaccessible to the IAEA. If the initial premise was flawed, then any outcome flowing from it was likewise flawed, which remains the real concern.
Where do we go from here? CIJA’s position has been that the agreement should be improved by strengthening the inspections regime overall, including by allowing access to military aspects of the nuclear program.
We have called on Ottawa to encourage our allies to improve the agreement while maintaining Canada’s sanctions targeting Iran’s ballistic missile programs, to which Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland recommitted in her May 8 statement. All three major Canadian political parties have stated that the success of the nuclear agreement depends on strong verification to ensure Iranian compliance. We continue to urge Canadian leaders from all parties to reaffirm this common-sense consensus to our allies who are party to the P5+1 accord. Regardless of the nuclear accord, the world must not relieve pressure on Iran for its sponsorship of terrorism, regional aggression, and human rights abuses.
As several commentators have observed, despite the U.S. decision, the deal is not yet done. Early signs suggest that other parties in the P5+1 / E3, and Iran, are working to keep the agreement in place.
The decision by the U.S. could create an opportunity to improve the JCPOA, particularly the shortcomings related to inspections and the possible military dimensions. Recent developments, including Iran’s decision to fire 20 missiles at Israel yesterday (another alarming example of military adventurism by the Quds force) also cannot be ignored. Iran’s recent attack on Israel should remind the world of the need to counter Tehran’s dangerous efforts to expand its military presence and impose its hegemonic objectives across the region – including in Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. It should be noted that the U.S. supported Israel’s absolute obligation to defend its citizens yesterday, and Russia tacitly approved through quiet acquiescence. Both powers understand that Israel had no option but to respond to this attack forcefully.
We don’t yet know what these developments mean for Israel or the region. But an agreement that gives the IAEA unobstructed access to all Iran’s nuclear activities, including those now overseen by the Iranian military, combined with other elements that address the possible military dimensions will make Israel and the international community safer.
Many well-meaning observers fail to see the core issue. The premise on which the deal was based was wrong, both because the P5+1 got it wrong and because they received flawed and incomplete information. Some supporters of the JCPOA say: “We implemented the agreement because we don’t trust the Iranians – if we did, we wouldn’t we need the agreement”. This is a reckless response that misses the point.
The discovery of the archive reinforces the long-stated concern that the Iranian regime cannot be trusted. The intelligence in the archive demonstrates the failure of current oversight measures, which were insufficient to locate this damning evidence.
This issue is too important – too consequential – to get wrong. Diplomacy is the preferable route to peace, but the outcome of that diplomacy must be an agreement that addresses the actual situation, not an invented reality put forth by a deceptive Iranian leadership.

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I am having problems getting multiple VLANs to carry across a bridged point-to-point link. I have a portable building that has no wired infrastructure and have had to run a wireless bridge link from the portable back to a main building. Also, in the portable, I am running wireless instead of cabling the building.
The setup is:
Switch port Fa0/24 connects to Aironet 1310 Bridge #1 port Fa0.
Aironet 1310 Bridge #1 port Dot0 connects wireless link to Aironet 1310 Brige #2 port Dot0 in portable.
Aironet 1310 Bridge #2 port Fa0 connects to Aironet 1242 Access Point port Fa0 in portable.
My configurations are attached.
Bridge #1 is set as the root bridge, and Bridge #2 is set as the non-root bridge. With these configurations, the native VLAN is carried all the way to the Access Point, and from the campus network I can remote manage (and ping) the access point IP address. The problem is when I attached to either of the wireless networks (SSID wav-b6wc1 or wav-b6wc1-voip) no traffic seems to be passed back to the campus network. ie. I cannot get DHCP, and if I hard-set the IP I cannot ping into the campus network.
Can anyone see what is wrong with my configuration as to why the VLANs wouldn't be working.


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Miss Montreal will be the end of October, her first English album. The singer previously made eight albums, which they in the English tongue.
“I’m going in June for three weeks only but write, because I come with a Dutch-language album, somewhere at the end of October”, unveiled the 34-year-old singer, who is actually Sanne Hans is called, in the radio show of Giel Beelen. “Very cool, I’m happy.”
The first single of the singer will probably be at the end of June appear. “I have all fat people are invited and everyone wants. Now that we’re planning.”
In October 2017, brought Hans to her most recent album Again. It is not the first time that she was in the Dutch sings, because previously she released the duets in How Nielson and Take me with Marco Borsato.
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If Clavell Tower was a Hollywood dowager, everyone would want the name of the surgeon. The 178-year-old Dorset folly, dramatically set on a ridge of the Purbeck coast, has just undergone £889,000 worth of serious remedial work — including an 82ft shift inland — and I swear you would never notice a thing.
The approach to Kimmeridge Bay and its sentinel tower has always been one of the loveliest in the country. The road from Wareham turns east onto a ridge of the Purbeck Hills, overlooking the great scoop of rich, wooded land that contains Kimmeridge village and — barely visible in its plantation of mature trees — Smedmore House, the manor at the heart of the local estate.
The road, meanwhile, doubles back through the neat village cottages, with their pudding-basin thatch, and up onto the exposed road crossing the estate to the bay. You round a corner and there it is in the distance: a solid cylinder high on the clifftop, blushing in its new pink render and looking – with a Tuscan colonnade of pale Portland stone circling its base and two matching balustrades farther up — like an up-ended kaleidoscope.
You would have to know the scenery well to realise that Clavell Tower has moved inland and down a bit. The strip of land separating it from the cliff, once wide enough to fit a carriage and four, had dwindled to dangerous proportions. “Nobody knew how long it would take to fall,” says Katherine Oakes, who works for the Landmark Trust, the buildings charity that took on the project in 2006, “but there would have been a time when the contractors would not have been able to work on it safely.”
There is hot competition for the trust’s attentions. It takes on only a few buildings a year, turning them into eccentrically charming holiday homes in order to generate income. But it was intrigued when an approach was made by a group that includes the owner of Smedmore House, the author and scholar Dr Philip Mansel. Clavell Tower was a popular landmark, it had a minor literary pedigree and it represented a huge physical challenge.
Clavell Tower was built between 1830 and 1831 by the Reverend John Richards (who took the name Clavell when he inherited the estate). It was erected, possibly, to celebrate his 70th birthday, but also as a folly for the use of house guests and a useful landmark. Later it was a coastguard lookout and, it’s thought, an observatory, but the Smedmore archives contain all sorts of jolly watercolours and illustrated verses that show it was much used by the family for picnics and pleasure.
There are rich pickings for the trust historian, who is writing a house history. Thomas Hardy was introduced to south Dorset when he fell in love with the coastguard’s daughter, Eliza Bright Nicholls, and courted her on walks along the cliff (he later dumped her for her sister). The Dorset dialect poet William Barnes wrote The Leady’s Tower, later parodied by one of the Smedmore doggerel writers, and PD James set The Black Tower, one of her crime novels, here. Even Bill Bryson, unimpressed by its dumpy looks in Notes from a Small Island, acknowledges that “..somehow Kimmeridge wouldn’t seem Kimmeridge without it”.
By this time, Katherine and I have panted up the steep cliff climb from the bay. We stand at the original tower site — they have left the footings as a palimpsest, a ring of stone now dancing with wildflowers — and survey the rebuilt version below. The first guests arrive next Tuesday and the decorators are at work. A spaniel picks its way around the raw earth, soon to be reseeded with grass, and the faint, cheery sound of Radio 1 floats out of the white-painted, round-arched windows, all set at the cardinal points.
The last time I saw Clavell Tower, I was with my cousin, who was researching the Kimmeridge chapter of his monograph on Purbeck, and we had permission to enter. It was a sad sight. Its complexion was blighted — patches of render had fallen off in the gales that earned it the nickname “The Tower of the Winds”. The cantilevered double staircase of Portland stone that swept up to the first floor entrance had long since collapsed and we couldn’t climb the circular interior stairs because it was too dangerous and the teak floors had rotted away.
That was what faced Doug Brown, of the Wells-based heritage construction company Carrek, two years ago. Even his experience on the White Tower at the Tower of London, the tennis courts at Hampton Court and Truro Cathedral couldn’t help him when it came to dismantling the tower, stone by stone, and its reassembly farther down the hill.
In the end, they made it up as they went along, making use of photogrammetry, an established technique for taking images of a building from numerous angles and flattening them into a plan. “We painted squares on the building in white paint, metre by metre, and carved numbers into the tops of the stones,” says Doug. “Then we put them on numbered pallets. We did have a master list, but it was pretty nerve-racking.”
Despite its apparent quality and symmetry, the tower was built from what was to hand — the honey-coloured lozenges of stone strewn across the beach, with local brick infill around the doors and windows. According to Doug, most of the lintels and windows are of different sizes. New stone came from Combefield Quarries on Portland, partly because the Purbeck beds had neither the height nor the length for the balustrades. The new render is no longer the original Roman cement, but a new mixture containing pre-dyed sand.
“If you add the pink dye in later, it weakens it,” Doug explains. “With this weather it has to be as strong as possible — we ought to know, we’ve been working up here for two years.”
To see the tower rejuvenated is a delight. The basement has become a bathroom and the drum of the Tuscan colonnade makes handy storage. The cantilevered stairs were remade to slender perfection by on-site masons, who worked in a “bankers’ shop” — a sort of covered stage — at the bottom of the hill. The kitchen and bedroom, on the next two floors, await their specially-built curved furniture. On the top, a sitting room with a fireplace is awash with light.
Perhaps it’s time that Bill Bryson visited again: the new-look Clavell Tower could give any Hollywood dowager a run for her money.
- Bookings are now being taken for next spring. The Landmark Trust Handbook costs £11.50, which is refunded on booking.
- Landmark Trust properties include Luttrell’s Tower, overlooking the Solent in Hampshire; Freston Tower, overlooking the River Orwell in Suffolk; and Bath Tower, overlooking the Menai Straits in Caernarvon, North Wales.
- The folly House in the Clouds, Thorpeness, Suffolk (www.houseintheclouds.co.uk), was built by Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie in the 1920s. It sleeps up to 12 and next year it will cost from £500 per night or £2,030 per week.
- The National Trust has two fine tower properties for visiting, rather than staying in: Mussenden Temple, Castlerock, County Londonderry – an 18th-century folly (once a library) built for the Anglican bishop of Derry – and King Alfred’s Tower at Stourhead, Wiltshire (www.nationaltrust.org.uk).
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Ride The Rockies has been fortunate enough to experience the hospitality of the following host communities throughout its years: Alamosa, Aspen, Avon, Boulder, Breckenridge, Buena Vista, Cañon City, Carbondale, Castle Rock, Chama, N.M., Colorado Springs, Copper Mountain, Cortez, Craig, Crested Butte, Delta, Denver, Durango, Edwards, Estes Park, Fort Collins, Frisco, Georgetown, Glenwood Springs, Golden, Granby, Grand Lake, Grand Junction, Greeley, Gunnison, Hotchkiss, Idaho Springs, Leadville, Manitou Springs, Montrose, Ouray, Pagosa Springs, Ridgway, Rifle, Salida, Silverton, Steamboat Springs, Telluride, Trinidad, Vail, Walsenburg, Westcliffe and Winter Park.
In 2023 we look forward to revisiting these towns:
Fort Collins – Estes Park – AllensPark – Grand Lake – Gilpin County
Just an hour north of Denver perched just before the Rocky Mountains is where this years Ride The Rockies will start and finish. This vibrant Colorado town is a bicyclist and beer connoisseurs heaven and an incredible place to begin and wrap up our ride. It’s home to Colorado State University, world famous breweries like New Belgium and Odell’s, endless outdoor activities and recreational trails. The downtown area hosts numerous festivals and events throughout the year and offers some of Colorado’s best restaurants!
Our prologue ride and experience will be hosted in this wonderful town and will include a cocktail party at New Belgium, a dinner at The Lincoln Center and a gnarly ride up to the beautiful Horsetooth Reservoir. It will be an experience you will not want to miss out on! Fort Collins is a haven for cyclists, its extensive bike-friendly infrastructure boasts over 280 miles of bike lanes and trails. From the Cache la Poudre River, Horsetooth reservoir, and the overall cycling culture of the Town, we couldn’t be more thrilled to have our rider enjoy this town not once but twice during this years Ride The Rockies.
Find great attractions, food, breweries and more using the links below!
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This charming and popular mountain town sits right in the heart of the Rocky Mountains with breathtaking views. You’ll first see these incredible views from Overlook Ranch at the end of the Day 1 route before heading into Macgregor Ranch. Estes Park offers everything for outdoor enthusiasts, from hiking trails, fishing and boating on Lake Estes, to plenty of open roads for cycling the opportunities are endless. The Park is also known for its wildlife, with opportunities to spot elk, bighorn sheep, and other animals during the summertime months.
You can’t mention Estes Park without shouting out the one and only Stanley Hotel which inspired Stephen King’s novel “The Shining”. We have a limited number of rooms blocked for riders looking to stay at this legendary hotel and there are plenty of other options to experience the hotel if you are staying elsewhere. The Stanley Hotel offers guided tours, ghost tours, a whiskey tasting experience and much more.
There is so much to do in this picturesque town that’s why we are thrilled to have Ride The Rockies here for two nights! With our ride headquarters and camping accommodations hosted at the wonderful Macgregor Ranch riders will be able to enjoy the peacefulness of the park and the spirited amenities of the town all at once. There are plenty of restaurants and places for you, your friends or team to relax and take in what Estes Park is all about!
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Things To Do:
- Cascades Restaurant & Whiskey Lounge https://www.stanleyhotel.com/cascades-restaurant-lounge.html.
- Brunch & Co – breakfast & lunch reservations for groups of up to 15 people https://www.stanleyhotel.com/brunchco.html / (970) 577 – 4104
- The Post Chicken & Beer- private rooms & group reservations available https://www.postchickenandbeer.com/estes-park/ / [email protected]
- Private Tours at The Stanley Hotel – groups of 20 or more / [email protected] or [email protected]
- Private Whiskey Tasting at The Vault- McShan Walker / [email protected]
- Aiden Sinclair’s Underground – Magic Shows HTTPS://WWW.STANLEYHOTEL.COM/AIDENSINCLAIRSUNDERGROUND.HTML
- Kent Mountain Adventure Club – Outdoor Mountain Excursions Dustin – [email protected] 970-586-5990 https://www.stanleyhotel.com/summer.html
- Aspire Spa at the Stanley Hotel – https://www.aspirehotels.com/
- Historic Stanley Estes Park Hotel (stanleyhotel.com)
Macgregor Ranch – Ride Headquarters!
Though not an overnight community we are thrilled our ride is heading to Allenspark, gear up for a tough day of climbing up to the beautiful park! Allenspark named after Alonzo Nelson Allen, is located near Rocky Mountain National Park and Indian Peak Wilderness. With rivers, trails, open bike roads, and stunning views you will see the beauty of it all while covering 3000 feet of elevation. Another great aspect of Allenspark is that it’s home to several conservation organizations that preserve the local environment and sustainable living! The ride will also have an extra ten-mile loop for those looking to extend this day of riding after the hosted lunch with scenic views. This day will be packed with breathtaking views, lots of climbing, and a full experience of Allenspark!
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Along the western edge of Rocky Mountain National Park just after Trail Ridge Road sits the town of Grand Lake. Ride headquarters will sit right on the lake with serene views of the mountains and rays of sunshine coming off the lake. Here riders can enjoy a variety of outdoor activities, like hiking the nearby trails, rent paddle boards and even hop on the boat shuttle that will be provided.
The historic and charming downtown district of Grand Lake is a short few blocks from the finish. Main street is filled with shops, restaurants, and galleries housed in colorful Victorian buildings. One of the town’s most iconic landmarks is the Kauffam House Museum a 19th century hotel that showcases the town’s rich history and culture. We will also be showing the legendary movie “Breaking Away” at the movie theater in town for all riders to join. There will be food trucks, a beer garden, and lawn games too so relax and enjoy what this incredible town has to offer after your tough climb up Trail Ridge Road!
And don’t worry there will be shuttles running from Winter Park to Grand Lake both days of the ride to make your logistic concerns a piece of cake.
Find great information on food, shopping, all kinds of outdoor recreation activities, hiking trails and more linked below.
- Live music, beer garden, lawn games and more at ride headquarters located at Grover Park on the lake front.
- Bands playing (Blood Sugar, Steve Stimmer, Drums in Space).
- Two movie showings of “Breaking Away” at Community House.
- Alternative Health Fair, massages, sound bathing, CBD specialist and more.
- Scavenger hunt for prizes and more special surprises for all riders!
- Use the water taxi!
Things To Do:
This popular ski town in the Rocky Mountains has over 3,000 acres of skiable terrain but is also filled with summer activities and a vibrant busy town. The summer months in Winter Park are jam packed with activities like hiking, fishing, mountain biking, and rafting. There are also plenty of lodging options for Ride The Rockies in Winter Park so make sure to check out our accommodations page!
Winter Park is obviously known for its stunning views and natural landscapes but it also has a very rich cultural scene. The town has several art galleries, the Grand County Historical Association, and Fraser Valley Library. There are also lots of concerts, art shows and theatre productions throughout the year.
Ride headquarter will be hosted at the beautiful Rendezvous Event Center in downtown Winter Park. We will have live music, lawn games, a beer garden, and food trucks. This will be a great time to enjoy the festivities of Ride The Rockies and even pop into town for a bite to eat or shop!
For more information visit:
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Once you finish a tough day of climbing up the legendary Berthoud Pass and down into Idaho Springs a total of 5000′ feet of elevation gain you will enter Central City and Blackhawk! This historical mining town is rich with history dating back to 1859 during the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush and surrounded by more beautiful mountains. In the late 19th century Central City became a hub in Colorado for entertainment, with several theaters, opera houses and other cultural institutions. The Victorian style architecture and feel of this town will feel as if you traveled back in time. The town’s main street has even inspired the main streets at Disney Resorts.
Gilpin County is incredible for outdoor enthusiasts, has plenty of great restaurants, shops and sightseeing for people that travel through. It’s home to several casino resorts in Central City and Blackhawk that host a variety of entertainment options. There are endless ways to explore this town and enjoy the food trucks, music, and a beer garden that will be provided at ride headquarters! Then it’s time to gear up for the ride’s longest day back to Fort Collins.


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Leading video game streamers are reportedly being offered in excess of $50,000 (£39,400) an hour to promote games for major publishers.
A recent Wall Street Journal report (subscription required) claims top influencers have been paid $50,000 per hour to stream games on Twitch, while other sources suggest the figure could be significantly higher.
Omeed Dariani, CEO of the Online Performers Group, which manages streamers, told Kotaku: “We had one offer from a AAA publisher that was $60K per hour for two hours. The broadcaster declined it—and the publisher came back with a ‘blank check’ offer, which was still declined.”
Battle royale shooter Apex Legends launched with a streamer-led marketing campaign in February. Notably, Reuters claims publisher EA paid Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins $1 million to stream the game to over 13 million Twitch followers and tweet about it.
Weekly Apex Legends Twitch viewership hours peaked at 40 million shortly after release – a record high for the streaming platform – and helped the game build a massive, even problematically large player base in a short space of time.
“Your game being top on Twitch is worth a lot now,” Adam Lieb, CEO of marketing firm Gamesight, told Kotaku. Had EA invested the money it spent on Twitch influencers on traditional advertising “on Twitch or IGN… it would not have made as big of an impact”, he suggested.

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Review Fix chats with Composer Brian Ralston, who discusses his creative process behind the score of “Being Rose.” Breaking down what the process meant to him, as well as his goals for the future, Ralston lets us know why the film is a special one.
About Being Rose:
The dramatic love story, written and directed by Rod McCall, stars Cybill Shepherd, James
Brolin and Pam Grier. “Being Rose” follows the story of a widowed ex-cop (Shepherd) who
discovers that she may have a life threatening illness and decides to go on a solo road trip in a
motorized wheelchair. On her journey, Rose meets and falls in love with a charming cowboy,
Max (Brolin), who has to come to a crossroads of his own. Rose soon discovers more than just
the simple beauty of New Mexico.
Review Fix: What makes the music of New Mexico unique?
Brian Ralston: Having lived in Tucson, Arizona during my undergraduate college years at the University of Arizona, I definitely feel a connection with the desert southwest. Like its neighboring state of Arizona, New Mexico has a very spiritual quality to it. The cultural influences of the state are very much rooted in the Native American tribes from the region. Director Rod McCall is a long-time resident of New Mexico and all of his films are effectively a love letter to the state. Being Rose was entirely shot in New Mexico. In the film’s score…there were really two separate score approaches needed to underscore Rose’s (Cybill Shepherd) journey. One is her love story with the cowboy/rancher Max (James Brolin). For that music we definitely chose to be in a more country-western feel. But the other aspect of the score was underscoring Rose’s more spiritual journey towards the end of her life as she is battling a serious illness. And for that we chose to infuse Native American music and instruments into those cues of the score. Effectively, nature and the land were calling Rose “home” at the end of her life’s journey. Thus, this aspect of New Mexico’s Native culture was uniquely chosen to underscore that spiritual journey for Rose.
Review Fix: How did you prepare to score this film?
Ralston: As I previously mentioned, having lived in that area of the country for nearly a decade of my life, intimately knowing the musical influences of the region was something I felt very comfortable with. Some of my first demo cues for the film were stylistically Native American music and those musical ideas remained in the film throughout the post process. Much of the film’s temp score during the editing process consisted of my demo cues not composed to picture at the time. I had also scored another film previously, Crooked Arrows, that also used Native American instruments in its score, so I felt very comfortable in writing music with those instruments and textures in mind.
Review Fix: What was the process like compared to other films you’ve worked on?
Ralston: This was a unique process in that I was introduced to the director Rod McCall by the executive producer on the film, J. Todd Harris, and we seemed to hit it off right away. While I did create some MIDI mockup demos cues for the film…it did not really feel like an audition. It just organically felt like I began working on the score right away after a simple phone call. Whatever it was that Todd told Rod when he recommended me, I am very grateful. This was the first time I had really scored a project remotely another state away from the director. I flew out to New
Mexico for the spotting session in person and we devised a process for me to put up cues online for Rod to preview and comment on throughout the scoring process here in Los Angeles. That was a relatively new experience for me in that I tend to want to be in the room watching the director react to listening to my cues for the first time. There is so much one can learn from body language and from watching their reactions than just from a carefully crafted email of comments. I did not have the luxury of seeing Rod’s gut reactions upon his first listen to cues on this film. But eventually I felt like we were on the same page stylistically and soon he was giving me a great amount of creative freedom to write what I wanted for a scene.
Review Fix: How did you feel the first time you saw the completed film?
Ralston: Completed with my score and everything? I felt like we did what we set out to do. Rose’s journey to me feels real and at times spiritual and profound. At the film festivals we screened at, there are a few scenes where there was not a dry eye in the theater and those are the times when I know we nailed it for its target, baby-boomer audience.
Review Fix: What do you think your score adds that someone else couldn’t?
Ralston: That is a hard question to really answer. I am sure there are lots of talented composers who would have brought what they do best to this film. And in their own style and their own voice would have “nailed it.” For me…I am a melody person. I long for memorable, simple melodies that have the audience leaving the theater humming the theme. (That is what I use to do growing up in 80s and 90s.) Or when they hear the theme later on a soundtrack album, they are instantly brought back in their minds to re-living the movie or scenes over again. I feel we have a strong melody and theme for Rose, especially in “The Journey Begins” track and have developed and built on that throughout the score in cues like “Falling In Love” and “I Am Not Letting You Go.” Films that have strong melodic content in their scores tend to be more memorable in my opinion. I encourage my director colleagues to embrace unique, simple and memorable melodies and themes in their scores. The last decade or so has seen a trend where scores have tended to lack strong themes and melody out of fear of artificially influencing the audience’s emotional response to a scene. But isn’t that what we are setting out to do? The entire film is crafted to evoke emotional response. We shoot a scene in a specific way for effect. We color it in a specific way for effect. We edit it and choose our close-up shots and our establishing shots in a specific way to take the viewer on a 2-hour journey that we want them to take. While music playing under a scene is certainly not something that happens in real life, movies are not real life. They are real life escapes. They are art and craft. And music is certainly the one universal language we all understand and appreciate across cultures and language barriers. I fully acknowledge there are certainly ways to ineffectively use music wrong and too much. But in my opinion…memorable melodies, unique orchestrations and proper spotting and placement of how the music score is used is what elevates a film to a whole other level of cinematic bliss.
Review Fix: Any lessons learned through this creation for you?
Ralston: With the exception of some programmed synth textures in the score, most all of the score is performed live by 5 people. This was a great lesson in “less is more.” We did not want the score to sound too heavy or big. The film is intimate. Many scenes are just Rose and Max together on screen. A big orchestra would have felt too heavy. And I think with a much smaller ensemble focused around a handful of amazing solo musicians on their instruments shows that even with a small number of people, you can have a big huge sound. Recording in Los Angeles with Belinda Broughton as our Solo Violinist, Andrew Synowiec on all guitars, Chris Bleth on all Native Winds, Deane Ogden on drums and myself on all keyboards and synths allowed us to have an amazing performed score logistically on a budget that was quite reasonable for a smaller indie produced film.
Review Fix: What’s next?
Ralston: I am actually producing and scoring a Horror film called “Is Someone There?” The writer/director is a long-time colleague of mine, Tim Garrick, and Benicio Del Toro is one of our executive producers. Right now, we have just finished a short film that will play on the festival circuit in 2019. The short is a 15-minute chunk out of what would be the first act of the eventual feature, but it does stand on its own as well. And this short film is not like usual short films one sees at festivals. It has the look and polish of a top Hollywood feature. We have a professional crew at every stage and even recorded my score with a full orchestra at the Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage in Burbank, CA. As a producer on the film, my responsibilities have exploded a bit beyond just music department tasks, so this has been keeping me busy these days, but we are very excited to bring it to the world and hopefully soon, get the feature version of the film funded and greenlit as well. And as always, there are a couple other film projects I am excited to be scoring in 2019 as well.
Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?
Ralston: I just invite folks to check out the film, currently on most iVOD platforms as well as Amazon Prime video and Apple iTunes. We also currently have a digital copy of the score for sale released by Notefornote Music at most all of the digital retailers, but we are also working on a limited tangible CD version of the score as well in the next couple months. I am proud of what we have put together and honored to be working with Bryon Davis at Notefornote music on getting the score out there for folks to be able to listen to it.


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Meet Peter, Janet and Jack, Barbara, Pam, Colin and George. Together they are The Secret Seven - ready to solve any mystery, any time!
Thieves, intruders, missing people, mysterious fires, kidnappings - there is always something to investigate for the Secret Seven society, who meet in their special shed and find problems to solve.
This box set contains the complete set of Secret Seven Stories!
Enid Blyton died in 1968 but remains one of the best-known and best-loved writers of children's stories. She is consistently voted a children's favourite in author polls. She has over 600 children's books to her credit, including the Famous Five series, the Secret Seven series, the Naughtiest Girl series - all Hodder - and the Malory Towers and St Clare's series.
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All bible translations represent decisions about what the original text was (based on manuscripts) and what the original text was intended to convey in the original culture (the meaning). A multitude of translations in modern languages confronts a bible student with numerous alternatives. These have been compiled in English using the ESV as a base text. This:
- Highlights words and phrases where there are viable alternate translations
- Allows the reader to choose an alternative to be displayed.
To use Manuscripts and Meanings:
- Choose Manuscripts and Meanings from the Display menu on the STEP toolbar.
- Clicking on a highlight text segment to display the alternatives.
- Click the alternative meaning that you wish to see displayed in your personal version.
- The personal alternatives will display in their own color.
The Manuscripts and Meanings displayed are the results of a long arduous scholarly process. They are important for knowing how the Bible could possibly be translated differently.
Different meanings are due to different translation styles or the ambiguity of the original word. They are marked as follows (more details here):
- Or: - an alternate possible meaning of the original language; e.g. "expanse" Or: "dome"
- Lit.: - a more literal translation of the original language; e.g. "expanse" Lit: "beaten surface"
- Means: - a more idiomatic translation of the original language; e.g. "expanse" Means: "vastness"
- KJV: - traditional translation in 17th C English, e.g. "expanse" KJV: "firmament"
- Like: - puns or phonetic ambiguity, e.g. "Adam" Sounds like: "man".
Different manuscripts give evidence about the original Hebrew and Greek text. Scholars have studied these for hundreds of years and there is broad consensus about the conclusions. The specific conclusions by the committees set up by the United Bible Society (UBS) are marked as:
- Probable: - The version which probably represents the oldest Hebrew text, according to the UBS Hebrew OT committee convened and recorded by D. Barthélemy.
- Possible: - A version which the committee deemed possible but less likely to be original.
OT Manuscript differences have support from various sources (more details here):
- Hebrew - (i.e. Masoretic) This is always the reading of the Leningrad codex that examplifies other manuscripts. When other Hebrew sources are noted elsewhere, this is labelled as "most Hebrew".
- some Hebrew - old Hebrew manuscripts that differ from the Leningrad codex, including:
- Qumran - Hebrew texts placed in caves in the Judean desert, about 200-0 BC
- Geniza - Hebrew texts stored in a Cairo Synagogue about 900-1100 CE
- Samaritan - a separate tradition of the Pentateuch preserved by Samaritans
- Aramaic - (i.e. Targums) Translations of Hebrew manuscripts from about 0-600 CE
- Syriac - (a.k.a. Peshitta) Translations of Hebrew manuscripts from about 200 BC - 200 CE
- Greek - (i.e. Old Greek & Septuagint) Translation of Hebrew manuscripts about 200-100 BC
- Latin - (i.e. Vulgate & Old Latin) Translations of Hebrew manuscripts from 0-400 CE
- Scribes - Notes by scribes from margins of Hebrew manuscripts or ancient tradtions (i.e. Qere & Tiqqune & Itture etc; more details here)
- theory - a reasonable conjecture which does not yet have any manuscript support
If any manuscript in a group (eg 'Greek') gives support to an alternate reading, this is noted, though individual manuscripts are not named. This means that sometimes the same group may support more than one reading because manuscripts in the same group may differ. When manuscripts support the Hebrew of the Leningrad Masoretic text, this is not normally noted, because at least some manuscripts in all language groups support the standard text in almost every case.
All variants in Barthélemy's UBS survey are included in the Hebrew text, and a subset of these are included in the ESV Manuscripts and Meanings. This committee considered all the possibilities which make a difference to the translation of the text.
NT Manuscript differences come from thousands of surviving Greek manuscripts in various forms and ancient translations as follows (more details here):
- p1, p2 etc. - Papyri (i.e. written on papyrus). 85 of which originate before 500 AD
- 01, 02 etc. - Uncials (i.e. written all upper case, on parchment). 74 originate before 500 AD
- 1, 2 etc. - Minuscule (i.e. written mostly in lower case). None originate before 500 AD
- L1, L2 etc. - Lectionaries (i.e. daily readings). 2 originate before 500 AD
- Q1, Q2 etc - Quotations mainly from church Fathers. 215 sources originate before 500 AD
- Lt - (i.e. Old Latin). Translations of Greek manuscripts. 15 originate before 500 AD
- Vg - (i.e. Jerome's Vulgate). Translation from Greek by Jerome about 400 AD
- Cp - (i.e. Coptic). Translation into a popular language of Egypt in 3rd or 4th century
- Sy - (i.e. Peshitta). Translation into Syriac in the 4th century
- Ar - (i.e. Armenian). Translation in the 5th century based on Syriac manuscripts
- Gg - (i.e. Georgian). Translation in the 5th century probably based on Armenian.
They are also marked according to the conclusions in two types of modern editions:
- Maj - (i.e. Majority Text). An edition based on Byzantine manuscripts from 6th to 15th century
- UBS - (i.e. UBS 3/4/5 & NA 27/28 Text). Editions based primarily on the earliest manuscripts.
All variants in the apparatus of UBS 3rd to 5th editions are included. This apparatus aims to list all variants which make a difference to the translation of the text. All witnesses originating before 500 AD are listed when they lend clear support to one variant over another.
OT: 1st pass is finished and is now being second-edited.
NT: 1st pass is finishing
Project Director: David Instone-Brewer
Annotations Editor (i.e. primary author): Galen Goldsmith
Technical contributors: Charles L. Echols, Phil Church, Clayton Bartholomew
Second-Editors: Anna Smirnova, Lawrence Miles, Emma Hill, Coby Ingram , Dale Brueggemann

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Icelandic Architecture and Religion
This church is an incredible example of Icelandic architecture and religion. Throughout our travels we came across many churches in the Westfjords and the northern drive. It was not often, at least in September, that the churches would be open. When they were open, we were always amazed at the beautiful colors and architectureal details inside an often simple exterior. The Church at the Skógar Museum was every bit and more of what we hoped for.
The old curches we frequently saw were simple in that they were rectangular with three windows on each side (four if the church was a bigger one) and a peak in the front over the door. This church was no exception. As we walked in, it was like entering another world. This church was perhaps the most colorful and ornate of all of the places we had visisted. Being under care of a museum has its benefits as well as far as upkeep goes. The first thing we noticed was the purple peaked ceiling with the lighter purple cross beams. The pews were a rouge color and the walls were a bluish green. The wood that was left bare was carved or shaped and varnished to protect the natural beauty.
A trip up to the balcony through the narrow stairwell was rewarded with a bird's eye view of the whole church as well as a peek into the structural beams holding the roof up. From here, I recognised the candle holders on the wall as matching a set in the Skógar Folk Museum next door.

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