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No, this collage doesn't quite live up to its billing, but I fancied doing a little update and trying out my new collage-creating-wonder-app. I'm really rather pleased with my first foray into the medium - I thought people must spend hours lining up and cropping their photographs and don't mind admitting I was pretty jealous of their determination and skill set. Turns out... 69p will do it and it's a piece of cake. (Would you look at those borders!)
A mini-glimpse of things that have been keeping me busy (other than revision text books): my new Mango (read: in my head Marant-esque (indulge me)) purchases - a baseball tee and cream knit, both of which I love. My latest obsession: DIY friendship bracelets alongside my Topshop gold spike bracelet, and finally, me looking rather pleased with myself atop a tree stump in Richmond Park wearing my trusty Gap parka and black Hunter wellington boots.
Be warned - there might be one or two more of these collage fellows. They just look so chic!


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Betty White our America’s Grandma Dead
As you may know, our America’s Grandma passed away on New Year’s Eve at the age of 99. She died at home with natural causes.
She would have been 100 in January. But, we could still watch the reruns of The Golden Girls either on syndicated channels, TV Land, or METV, where they show classic shows. While most of the castmates from The Golden Girls and Mary Tyler Moore are already in heaven.

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Media has released a plugin for iSync that adds syncing functionality for over 25 more phones from the likes of
Motorola, Siemens, Nokia and SonyEricsson. Phones such as the v3i, V3C,%uFFFD some in Nokia's N and E series, Siemens'
S series as well as SonyEricsson's W550i and W900i are all iSync tricks up this plugin's sleeve.
Surprisingly, the plugin is a free download, but since I have a phone that already works with iSync as is, I don't have a way to test this out. Mac OS X 10.4.x and iSync 2.x are required. Would any TUAW readers who gave this a go like to sound off?


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Winner of an Apple Design Award 2013!
See the weather like never before - only Yahoo Weather combines stunning photos with accurate forecasts across iPhone and iPad.
Experience the weather - Yahoo Weather’s immersive experience makes checking and sharing the weather inspiring and entertaining.
- Beautiful photos that match your location, time of day, and current weather condition
- Experience weather conditions for rain, snow, fog and extreme heat with animated weather effects
- Detailed weather information and forecasts
- Interactive radar, satellite, heat, and wind maps, plus sunrise/sunset times
- Swipe vertically for detailed weather information and horizontally for favorite locations
- Enable notifications for Severe Weather Alerts (U.S. cities only) by visiting "Settings" in the sidebar
- Submit photos to the app at Project Weather on Flickr
“The app provides forecasts, heat and wind maps and sunrise/sunset times among other features, with the twist that this data is accompanied by full-screen photos from that location, pulled from Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing service.” - The Guardian
What's New in Version 1.7.1
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Does well what it does, but ads intrude.
I downloaded this and liked it. However, the local pictures, taken from Flickr (a good idea), don't necessarily correspond with the current weather conditions; and that's when there is a local picture displayed, rather than a generic picture of sky. Perhaps the pictures weren't meant to represent current conditions, but, on a weather app, they probably should. (This doesn't affect my rating.)
Although I like the app, this is as nothing contrasted with my disappointment that there's no way to remove the ads that intrude on the forecast swipe-up page. I would pay for the app or for an in-app purchase (same thing) not to have them. The irritation is such that I give it one star, regardless of what I think of the app otherwise, and am deleting it.
I don't mind if a developer has ads on an app, but mind very much if they don't include an option to remove them, albeit for a charge.
Excellent - but could be improved!
I really like this app. Love the location photos (although it would be nice if I could simply add my own for locations not covered)
I originally said that it worked better on my Apple Watch than the default weather app - but I've now changed my mind.
I've found that the watch display can take up to TWO MINUTES to update - and bear in mind that you keep having to touch the watch to wake up the display then it is extremely annoying!
I would increase my rating to five stars if it just updated quicker :(
BTW. I really don't see what all the fuss is about regarding the adverts. they appear in a fixed area - which is simply scrolled with the rest of the info. They don't intrude the display area, and don't need quitting before use of the app is allowed. What's the big deal?
Nice app, annoying ads
Really beautiful app, apart from the ads which are annoyingly stuck in the middle of the stream.
Would appreciate it if the app kept the old image for a location so that if a refresh doesn't bring back an image it still shows something. My local location often goes from having an image to having the default non-location based image, which is a shame. I like seeing the images as much as the weather :)
- Category: Weather
- Updated: 27 April 2015
- Version: 1.7.1
- Size: 64.0 MB
- Apple Watch: Yes
- Languages: English, Arabic, Bokmål, Norwegian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Developer: Yahoo! Inc.
- © Copyright (C) 2013, Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimised for iPhone 5, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus.

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The trees are trucked to the Transbay Transit Center in the dead of night.
They’re hoisted by crane 70 feet up onto the quarter-mile-long rooftop City Park that stretches above one of the busiest corridors on the West Coast. A few hours later, thousands of workers from companies like Salesforce and Trulia will be hustling to jobs in the glass towers that line Mission Street.
It’s a little eerie up there at 2 a.m., said Patrick Trollip, who is heading up the tree-planting project for McGuire and Hester, the landscape contractor for the park.
“You are elevated, surrounded by these skyscrapers, yet it is quiet and peaceful and there is no traffic,” Trollip said. “Then all of a sudden these massive trees are lowered onto the roof. I know these trees intimately, but it takes a while to get used to seeing them up there.”
The Transbay Transit Center is set to open late this year and will serve numerous bus lines, including AC Transit, Muni, Golden Gate Transit and Greyhound. It’s still unknown when it might connect to high-speed rail or Caltrain, which will operate the station, how much it will cost to operate, or what shops and restaurants will occupy the 100,000 square feet of retail space.
But what is known is this: Tree by tree, San Francisco’s next significant public open space, a 5.4-acre green rooftop boxed in by towers of glass, is taking shape atop the transit center. And amid all the questions about the future of the transit center, it is the park — with its carefully curated collection of flora — that has the potential to make the project an attraction in the years before the trains arrive.
“This is going to be one of the great parks of San Francisco, and it’s going to be a public space unlike anything else we have,” said Gabriel Metcalf, president of the urban think tank SPUR.
The trees — about 60 have been delivered so far — will eventually number 469.
The oldest trees are 40 years old, and the heaviest weigh 30,000 pounds. For the past 18 months, Trollip and landscape architect Adam Greenspan have scoured 17 nurseries across California and Oregon in search of the perfect specimens.
There are Chinese elms from Rainbow in northern San Diego County, and olive trees from Farmington in San Joaquin County. From Gilroy come island oaks, while Escondido was the source for five or six cork oaks. A Columnar Hornbeam came from a nursery outside Portland, while a rare torpedo-shaped Chilean wine palm was tracked down near San Diego.
Greenspan, a resident of San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle who has designed green spaces around the world, was guided by the trees in his own backyard. Driving down Folsom Street in the Mission late one recent morning, he pointed to the row of Chinese elms growing on both sides of the street — five of them will be planted in the transit center park.
“This is one of my favorite tree streets,” said Greenspan, who is a partner at PWP Landscape Architecture. “I was definitely inspired by Folsom Street.”
The idea for Maytems came from Buena Vista Park, while the inspiration for river birches, with their cinnamon-colored bark, came from Golden Gate Park.
Buying trees is a surprisingly cutthroat business. And it was especially challenging to locate desirable specimens because Apple had been buying trees for its new Cupertino headquarters. When Greenspan and Trollip found a tree they fancied they would “tag it” with a locking yellow tag, to be sure they got it. Eventually all the tagged trees were moved to a nursery in Sunol, where the transbay project team leased 4 acres.
In Sunol, arborists from McGuire and Hester cared for the trees, transferring them to larger boxes when they outgrew the old ones. Some of the trees arrived damaged, and at least one was stressed by a particularly cold night in Sunol.
“We are always checking the trees for wind damage, for damage from hawks and birds of prey that roost on the tips of the branches,” Trollip said.
Once the trees arrive at the rooftop park, they are positioned where they will be planted. Workers are waterproofing the roof and adding a layer of foam that will provide fill underneath the soil.
On a recent morning, Greenspan walked around spray-painting “N” — for north — on tree boxes to indicate which direction the tree should be positioned. He spent 15 minutes studying the five Chinese elms — like those on Folsom Street — that will provide shade in the “picnic meadow.”
“These are important trees,” he said. “And hard to find. Even though you see them around, there are not that many being grown these days.”
First impressions are important, and Greenspan designed the park to accentuate dramatic entrances. People arriving by escalator will land in a grove of Brisbane boxes. Those coming by elevator from the terminal’s Grand Hall will walk into a bamboo forest. The funicular that will whisk visitors from Mission Street will depart from a group of redwoods and arrive in a second grove on the roof.
The park will have signage explaining the various species and which trees are safe for kids to climb, like the Rhus typhina, or staghorn sumac.
“I think there is going to be a tree for everyone,” Greenspan said. “We have grand and stately trees, and we also have weird trees, quirky ones.”
At 1,400 linear feet, the park will have an area dedicated to South African trees, another to Australian. There will be areas for succulents and cacti, a manzanita and chaparral section, a fern garden and an oak meadow. There will be at least one cafe, a children’s play area, an amphitheater and bridges connecting two abutting towers.
“Because it’s long and skinny instead of it being a big forest or a bowl, transbay is something people will experience episodically. So it’s a lot of small gardens rather than one big garden,” Greenspan said. “The idea we had early was to make it sort of a horticultural botanical gallery of plants that are specially suited to this area.”
While it will be eight or nine months before the park opens, downtown workers are already taking notice of the greenery on the roof. Attorney Michael Sullivan, author of “The Trees of San Francisco,” said he was walking to work at First and Howard streets when he saw what looked like a Norfolk Island pine poking into the sky on top of the transit center.
“I thought, ‘Wow, someone has some imagination around tree planting,’” he said. “It will be so great to have a mini botanical garden right downtown where people actually have an opportunity to see the trees, as opposed to a botanical garden you might visit every year or two.”
J.K. Dineen is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: email@example.com

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Key Difference – HD vs UHD TV
HD TV stands for High Definition Television and UHD TV stands for Ultra-High Definition Television. The key difference between HD and UHD TV is that, with UHD TV, it is possible to view videos with much higher resolution (i.e. their images will be much sharper).
What is HD TV?
HD TVs have much higher resolutions than their predecessors, the SD TVs (“Standard Definition Television“). Videos on televisions are displayed as a series of images, with each image composed of grids of a large number of pixels. A higher resolution video is one with a larger number of pixels used to make up each frame, making the image much sharper. Resolutions are usually expressed as the number of pixels in a row × number of pixels in a column. The number of pixels in a row has been often used to characterize the resolution of a television, along with the aspect ratio, which refers to the ratio of number of pixels in a column (a vertical array of pixels): number of pixels in a row (a horizontal array of pixels).
HD TVs usually have aspect ratios of 16:9. A typically “good” HD TV has a video format of 1080p; i.e. it has 1080 pixels in each column of pixels. Here, the letter “p” refers to how the images on the screen are refreshed. In this case, p stands for progressive scan, which means the pixels are refreshed one row after the other. This gives a better viewing experience than a television with video format 1080i, which has an interlaced scanning system. Here, half the rows of pixels are refreshed at once, and the other half are refreshed afterward.
What is UHD TV?
A UHD TV has a resolution even higher than HD TV. Typically, UHD TV also has an aspect ratio of 16:9. There are two main types of UHD TV: 4k UHD TV, with images of 3840 × 2160p and 8k UHD TV, with images of 7680 × 4320p. The “4k” here refers to the fact that there are nearly 4000 pixels making up each row. Note that to characterize UHD TVs, the number of pixels in a row is used, rather than the number of pixels in a column, as with SD TV and HD TV.
What is the difference between HD and UHD TV?
Plus points UHD TV over HD TV
From the resolutions, it is clear that a 4k UHD TV has around 8 million pixels in total, whereas a 1080p HD TV has about 2 million. If the size of the screens is similar, this means that the pixel density of the 4k UHD TV is about four times higher than 1080p HD TV. The 8k UHD TV has about 33 million pixels, making them have four times more pixels than even the 4k UHD TVs. The image below shows a comparison of different resolutions of these different types of screens, with the area representing the total number of pixels.
The higher pixel density in UHD TVs helps bring out more details of the images on the screen, making them look richer. This also means that a sharper image can be seen even from relatively further away from the television screen. Also, one could get much closer to a UHD TV screen without having to see the individual pixels.
As of now, a lot of the content broadcast by television channels still not up to the 4k UHD TV standard. This means that the content would not use the UHD TVs’ capabilities optimally. However, there is a growing trend for releasing UHD TV content, with companies such as Netflix and Amazon Instant Video leading the way.
Flipside of UHD TV over HD TV
File Size and File Transfer
One of the flipsides of the UHD TV is that higher quality of images comes with larger sizes. Not only does the storage of UHD TV content take up more space, but in order to transfer data with a high frame rate, the bandwidth of connections also needs to be higher. For instance, HDMI 1.4 cables can only transfer 4k UHD TV videos at a frame rate of about 30 frames per second. The upgraded version, HDMI 2.0, supports transfer rates of up to 60 frames per second.
An obvious disadvantage to UHD TVs is that they are more expensive than their HDTV counterparts. While a 50 inch HDTV typically cost about US$ 500, the 4k UHD TVs could typically cost about US$ 1000.
However, it’s inevitable that UHD TV technology will eventually catch on, much like how HDTV has taken over the traditional SDTV. Eventually, most content may be broadcast on UHD TV, rendering HDTVs incompatible.


Bridgend Ravens 20 RGC 31
RGC head coach Mark Jones was a satisfied man after seeing his side battle through to the WRU National Cup quarter-finals with a hard-fought win against Bridgend Ravens.
The Gogs had triumphed 20-3 at the Brewery Field on the opening day of the Premiership season, and like in that encounter the visitors again were made to work for their victory.
Jones said: “We expected a tough game and we got one. Bridgend Ravens are a good side who have had some good results recently. It was disappointing to give them that try before half time and let them back in the game.”
He added: “The good thing was how we responded at half time and we got those two tries. It then gave us a chance to make a few changes and perhaps that changed the game again. We have come away with the win, and it’s a good win on the road which tees us up for next week away at Aberavon.”
RGC made a bright start with plenty of ball and territory but the Gogs produced a few handling errors.
Bridgend were opting to kick the ball as they looked to get behind the RGC defence, but full-back Afon Bagshaw was comfortable collecting and running it back into attack.
RGC opened the scoring with a penalty after 15 minutes but the home side drew level soon after with a Joseph Scrivens three-pointer.
The away side continued to build some phase play but the mistakes continued with ball in hand.
RGC claimed the first try and it came more from a Bridgend mishap rather than away creation, after Jacob Botica charged down a kick and collected to ball to ground for a touchdown he also converted.
The second try came soon after when Tiaan Loots bounced off the tackles to break through the defence. Botica nudged the extras.
With the points gap RGC had a chance to control the game and try to reduce the errors but the home side were given a gift of a try.
After a messy scrum Efan Jones spun a pass which was intercepted by Scriven who raced from the halfway line to score. He also kicked the conversion.
The home crowd sensed their side was back in the game and the noise levels increased, and on the half time whistle Scrivens closed the gap to 4 points with a penalty.
As RGC headed into the dressing room 17-13 up, they would have been disappointed not have been further ahead.
The away coaches could not have asked for a better response from the players in the second half. Aron Evans went close with a sprint down the line but the try came after Loots smashed through a gap to score, Botica improving with the boot.
Loots was involved again with another attack when he took an intercepted pass and broke away before Carwyn Ap Myrddin was tackled.
Bridgend were then reduced to 14 men when captain Adam O’Driscoll was shown a red for a swinging arm.
The man advantage was used straight away when the pack drove over and hooker Rhys Williams got the score. Botica’s boot hit the conversion for 31-13.
RGC cleared the bench in the second half, which saw Josh Leach join the pack, Cam Davies play scrum-half and Alex Schwarz take on the fly-half role.
The home side were working hard in defence making sure RGC could not find any space, which was working.
It was a case of defence into attack when the Ravens used a kick and chase which nearly ended up with a try, but the referee pulled play back for a knock on.
RGC suffered the same fate after a great break and passing move before Loots’ try was cancelled for a forward pass.
Pressure was growing on the away side and it was no surprise when after being camped in the RGC 22, Jonny Kenny got over to get the touch down for the hosts and Scrivens landed the conversion.
Credit to the home side as they did not drop the intensity and a few RGC supporters were having a nervous glance at the scoreboard.
The game was still in RGC’s favour but player numbers were levelled when captain Maredydd Francis was yellowed in the 70th minute.
The remaining 10 minutes were pretty much played in RGC’s half with Ravens throwing everything at the Gogs defensive line.
In turn, RGC defended superbly and when the full time whistle went there was a sense of relief and exhaustion from the travelling players and staff.
NORTH WALES RUGBY SCENE
NANT Conwy advanced to the semi-finals of the WRU National Plate with a 21-5 home win over St Peters.
But Pwllheli were unable to make it a North Wales double as they went down 34-26 against visitors Abercarn.
Nant started the game well against their Division Two East Central visitors from Cardiff, going close to scoring on three occasions in the first few minutes, but unforced errors and last-ditch defending thwarted their efforts.
In the 29th minute, the travellers conceded a penalty for offside under their own posts enabling Nant to gain the first points through Delwyn Jones.
Within two minutes of the restart the visitors replied with a fine individual try by Luke Thomas on the left wing,
Another conceded penalty for offside saw Jones strike again to make it 6-5 at the interval.
St Peters’ opening gambits in the second half were far more positive and looked dangerous at times.
However, stout defending by the home side ensured no additional
points were scored by the visiting team.
Jones kicked another three points for Nant before a scrum on the five-metre line saw Tom Oliver ground the ball for the first home try.
With St.Peters now chasing the game, things became much more open and enabled Nant to capitalise on spaces created.
Four minutes from time, the victory was sealed when Jack Moriarty scored a magnificent individual try on the left wing, Jones adding the extras.
WRU National Cup second round: Beddau 3 Ebbw Vale 7, Bedwas 14 Merthyr 25, Bridgend 20 RGC 31, Cross Keys 29 Neath 10, Llandovery 27 Bargoed 5, Narberth 19 Carmarthen Quins 52, Pontypridd 34 Newport 29.
WRU National Plate quarter-finals: Nant Conwy 21 St Peters 5, Penallta 20 Nelson 6, Pwllheli 26 Abercarn 34, Ystalyfera 23 Rumney 15.
WRU North Wales Division One: Bethesda 7 Caernarfon 12, COBRA 11 Mold 8, Colwyn Bay 45 Abergele 20, Ruthin 30 Bro Ffestiniog 0.
North Wales Division Two East: Flint 6 Wrexham 67, Llangollen 45 Rhosllanerchrugog 0, Llanidloes 50 Welshpool 0, Shotton Steel 61 Machynlleth 24.
North Wales Division Two West: Bangor 14 Dolgellau 76, Denbigh 59 Harlech 0, Holyhead 12 Rhyl 63, Llangefni 121 Menai Bridge 0.


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -
A Grand Junction man was arrested Sunday night after police said the gun he was handling at a hotel went off, injuring a person in the next room.
Police were called to the Mesa Inn on Horizon Drive around 9 p.m. on a report of shots fired.
They found a man with a gunshot wound to his shoulder. The man told police he was in his motel room when he heard a loud bang and was hit by something, said police spokeswoman Kate Porras.
Officers found a large hole in the wall. When they investigated the occupants of the next room they discovered Zachariah McCullough was handling a large revolver when the gun went off, Porras said.
"The bullet went through the wall. Shrapnel from the blast hit the victim in the adjacent room," Porras said in a news release.
McCullough, 26, was charged with prohibited use of a weapon, illegal discharge of a firearm, reckless endangerment and third-degree assault.
The victim was treated a local hospital and released with minor injuries, Porras said.


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The Third Conference of the Second Presidium of ACETCA was held during 24 and 25 June 2016 in Sydney. Members of ACETCA and VIPs from Australia, China, the USA, Japan, Hong Kong (China SAR), Taiwan, Macau and other regions attended the conference.
On the evening of 24 June 2016, Mr. Joseph Lin, Honorary Chairman, hold a welcoming dinner on Showboat 2 to usher all the guests. All ACETCA members gathered together at the party. Dr. Amen Lee OAM, Mr. Jonathan O’Dea. Mr. Mark Coure and the Hon. Andrew Stoner presented certificates of appointment to 8 new members of the association. During the dinner, Honorary Chairman Joseph Lin gave a speech and wishes ACETCA all the best.
On the morning of 25 June, the Third Conference of the Second Presidium was held at the head office. The conference was hosted by Dr. Ven Tan, Standing Deputy Chairman of ACETCA. Dr. Lam Fai Yuen, Founding Chairman and Life Honorary Chairman, firstly shared his ideas about the association in the past 5 years with all and extended his gratitude to all members for their great supports. He also wishes for a bigger and brighter future for the association.
In the meeting, Dr. Amen Lee presented the report of the association during 2015 and 2016 to showcase the great results that the association achieved. He pointed out that the Chinese New Year Lantern Festival and NSW Harmony Golf Invitational Tournaments were highly emphasized by the Australian Federal Government and NSW State Government. Both of the events have huge significance in the mainstream Australian society. Meanwhile, Dr. Lee provided a blueprint of the direction and goals of the association in 2016 and 2017. He suggested continuing hosting the two events. All members of ACETCA had a round applause to agree with his plan. At the end, Dr. Lee extended his sincere gratitude to all contributed to the association in the past 5 years.
On behalf of Chairman Xue Shuihe, Mr. Xue Chaoxiong delivered a speech to provide great comments of the accomplishment of the association last year and express his expectation of the future development of the association. Honorary Chairmen, Mr. Wang Fuguan, Mr. Xue Shuihua, Mr. Xue Yeguang and the Standing Deputy Chairmen spoke about their opinions about the future development of the association as well. They all wish the association to continue the brand building events to enhance the cultural image and provide a platform for trade exchange between Australia and China. They all hope to work collectively to make the association better.
On the evening of 25 June, 2016 ACETCA Annual Gala Dinner was held at the Star Event Centre. More than 500 guests, including Australian government officials, successful business leaders and Chinese community leaders, attended the dinner. Special guests include Mr. David Coleman MP, Senator Sam Dastyari, Senator Jennifer McAllister, the Hon. Gladys Berejiklian MP, Mr. Jonathan O’Dea MP, Mr. John Sidoti MP, Dr. Geoff Lee MP, Mr. Mark Coure MP, Mr. Matt Kean MP, and the Hon. Ernest Wong MLC, Acting Consul General of P.R. China, Lv Guijun and more.
2016 ACETCA Annual Gala Dinner
The Gala Dinner was started with a magnificent children dance. Dr. Amen Lee OAM, Executive Chairman of ACETCA delivered an opening speech to highlight the missions of the ACECTCA to promote Sino-Australia Economic and Trade Development, promot Sino-Australia Culture and Technology Exchange, promote Sino-Australia Youth Exchange, Nurturing Young Elites, promoting Charity and Social Harmony and promoting Bilateral Relations with Australia and China through Friendship.
Dr. Amen Lee OAM, Executive Chairman of ACETCA, delivered an opening speech
Mr. Joseph Lin, Honorary Chairman of ACETCA, delivered a welcoming speech to thank all for attending the event and expressed that he was very proud to be able to contribute to the association and the friendship between Australia and China.
Mr. Joseph Lin, Honorary Chairman of ACETCA, presented a welcoming speech
Mr. David Coleman MP delivered the congratulatory message from Prime Minister of Australia at the dinner. He mentioned that the relationship between Australia and China has been strengthening recently through trade and people interactions. During the process, ACETCA had great contributions. Acting Consul General Lv Guijun gave the best wishes to the future of ACETCA. Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian, representing NSW Premier, sent her warmest congratulations to the success of the ACETCA Annual Conference at the event. Senator Sam Dastyari, Senator Jennifer McAllister, Mr. Mark Coure MP, and Clr Robert Kok delivered speeches at the event to praise the accomplishment of ACETCA achieve towards the friendship between Australia and China through the years. Also, Professor Huang Xiangmo, representing Sydney Chinese Community has stressed that ACETCA was the model amongst other community associations and sent his congratulations to the successful conference.
Mr. David Coleman MP delivered the congratulatory message from Prime Minister of Australia
Acting Consul General of People’s Republic of China in Sydney, Lv Guijun, delivered a speech
Professor Huang Xiangmo, President of ACPPRC, delivered a speech on behalf of the Chinese Community
During the gala dinner, Mr. Joseph Lin donated to support medical research for University of Technology Sydney on behalf of Lam Fai Yuen Trust and ACETCA. Dr. Amen Lee OAM and Mr. Victor Tian presented the cheque to NSW Rural Fire Service from NSW Harmony Golf Invitational Tournament.
Mr. Joseph Lin donated to support medical research for University of Technology Sydney on behalf of Lam Fai Yuen Trust and ACETCA.
In addition, Dr. Amen Lee OAM, Executive Chairman of Australia China Economics, Trade & Culture Association, signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Mr. Guo Yukun, Executive Chairman of Guangdong General Chamber of Commerce.
ACETCA signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Guangdong General Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Boby Wu, Honorary Chairman of ACETCA, received the flag to host the next Annual Conference


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UPDATE: Police say they now believe a man found on Simpson Avenue with a gunshot wound last weekend was involved in an Elma shooting, and was not shot in Aberdeen. The 29 year old told police last weekend that he was walking on Simpson Avenue when he heard a pop sound and found that he was shot. Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Deputies are currently investigating a shooting incident in Elma earlier that day.
Police are investigating after a man was apparently shot while walking on Simpson avenue Saturday morning. Det. Weiss tells us they were called just before 6 Saturday morning. A 29 year old Aberdeen man said that while he was walking in the 2000 block of Simpson, near the 7-11, he heard a “pop” sound and realized that he had been shot. The man did not report seeing anyone in the area, he was transported to Grays Harbor Community Hospital.
Anyone with information is asked to call Det. Weiss at the Aberdeen Police Department (360) 533-3180 or the Tip-Line at (360) 538-4450.
Firefighters were called to a house fire in the 1000 block of Marion street in Aberdeen Sunday afternoon. Battalion Chief Bill Mayne said a grease fire escalated quickly on the stovetop around 1:30 Sunday. The family of 2 adults and 4 children evacuated and reported no injuries, but were also displaced by the fire. Mayne estimated damages at over $70-thousand, and said the American Red Cross is assisting the family.
Mayne said when dealing with cooking oil fires use another pan to smother it, or an ABC rated fire extinguisher once everyone else has evacuated.
An Aberdeen home suffered substantial damaged in the living room Saturday, where an overheated extension cord sparked a fire in the 1000 block of East Market. Captain Jr. Streifel said no one was injured, the fire was under control within 15 minutes, reported just after 3 Saturday afternoon.
A total of 17 firefighters responded, 2 engines, 1 ladder truck, 1 EMS, and 2 command vehicles responded. Streifel said damages estimated at about $22-thousand, included fire damage to the living room, and smoke damage throughout the house.
Over 200 attended a meeting at the Rotary Log Pavilion in Aberdeen Thursday night on new flood insurance rate maps, released recently by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Region 10 Engineer Ted Perkins said while the new maps change what is considered “base flood elevation,” they also pinpoint hazard areas. “The flood event that we rate everything on insurance-wise, and floodplain regulation-wise, is what we call a ’1% flood’ sometimes you hear the term 100-year flood, but it’s really a statistical calculation that has a 1 in 100 chance.” Perkins said you should arrange a meeting with the community flood plain manager if you feel your home was wrongly placed on the new maps. – in Aberdeen that person is Public Works Director Malcom Bowie. “I understand that some of this stuff is difficult. That’s why we want you to know what you can do about it.”
Over 200 attended the meeting at the Rotary Log Pavilion Thursday evening in Aberdeen.
Patti Gow is a Farmer’s Agent in Westport, she said they’ve answered a lot of questions about this. “Not only are we dealing with the mapping, but we’re dealing with the Biggert-Waters Reform Act, where if you’re in a special flood hazard [area], if you were pre-firm, and you did not have to get an elevation certificate – you purchased your home before July of 2012, on your renewal you’re going to see an increase in your rate and it’s going to happen every year.”
Barring legislation in the other Washington slowing the process or lessening the blow, the new maps will begin affecting insurance rates within the year, Gow adds. “If your house is above the base flood elevation – a foot above you’re golden, you’re not going to be looking at huge rates. If you’re on a slab at base flood elevation, you can expect higher rates.”
So what is Base Flood Elevation, and where does your house sit? Gow says you’ll need to get a surveyor to tell you that. “After July of 2012, you can’t get flood [insurance] without an elevation certificate if you are in a special flood hazard zone. An elevation certificate is where a surveyor comes out and takes measurements of your property, determines what the base flood elevation is for where your home is sitting, and then he determines where your first floor would be sitting on that.”
You can find new maps on FEMA’s website at hazards.FEMA.gov Find Patti at www.farmersagent.com, or find someone closer to Aberdeen/Hoquiam at www.durney.com
Aberdeen police have arrested the suspect in last week’s shooting, 20 year old Daniel Galeana-Ramirez was found on the South side of Aberdeen Wednesday afternoon. Police Captain John Green tells us they responded to a tip in the 1200 block of Harding road. Aberdeen officers and detectives located the suspects car in the driveway. The home was surrounded while detectives attempted to contact any person inside the home by phone.
At 3:28 P.M. the suspect walked out of the back door and surrendered to the police officers. The suspect was taken into custody without incident. The Aberdeen Regional Crisis Response Team secured the residence. The home is under police control while detectives apply for a search warrant.
Aberdeen Officers were assisted by deputies from the GHSO and officers from Hoquiam PD, and Cosmopolis PD.
The investigation is continuing.
Green said they believe Galeana-Ramirez shot another man Friday night after a confrontation in the 800 block of East 2nd street.
A 19 year old man was treated at Community Hospital for a gun shot wound to his leg, Galeana-Ramirez was living in the 700 block of West 3rd street.
LKA: 700 Block of W. 3rd. Street, Aberdeen, WA
20 Years of age
504, 145 lbs, Brown eyes, Black hair.
Tattoo on left arm
Aberdeen police have issued an arrest warrant for the suspect in last week’s shooting, 20 year old Daniel Galeana-Ramirez is described as 5’4″ 145 pounds, with brown eyes, black hair, and a slender build, he also has a tattoo on his left arm.
Police Captain John Green tells they believe he shot another man Friday night after a confrontation in the 800 block of East 2nd street.
A 19 year old man was treated at Community Hospital for a gun shot wound to his leg, Galeana-Ramirez was living in the 700 block of West 3rd street, if seen, you are asked to call Aberdeen Police at 533-3180, or 911.


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Friday, October 06, 2006
taming of the shrew or what's in a smile
today, police station. car damage. one policeman for 10 people in a line. me tired. the policeman shouting. angry. me silent and soft. my turn. i smile. talk soft. he calms down. i ask politely why is he angry, since he is going to work all day long. he pours his soul out. he is sick. the other colleagues weren't there. i told him, using the same soft voice it's a pitty. suddenly he finds in me a conversation partner. the others at the line astonished. me intrigued. or proud. i tamed the shrew.
me, my smile and my soft voice. my fortune, to be short. for my head is in between all these

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RORY STEWART: A NEW KIND OF TORY
Article first published in the Daily Telegraph by Anna van Praagh on 1 November 2009.
Britain doesn’t make men like Rory Stewart any more. The former diplomat has trekked 6,000 miles across Asia; at 28, wrote a best-selling book, The Places in Between, about the walk; was governor of a province in Iraq at 29; and last year, as well as becoming a Harvard professor, was hailed by Esquire magazine as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century. Brad Pitt has already bought the rights to his biopic. And he’s only 36.
Now the man The New York Times once described as “living one of the most remarkable lives on record” has been selected for the safe Conservative seat of Penrith and the Border (the current MP, David Maclean, is stepping down because of ill-health). News of Stewart’s selection has been universally well-received, even by commentators on the Left: a Guardian columnist, no less, said Stewart was “a guy I’d vote for, whatever his party”.
“I’m absolutely over the moon,” says Stewart of his selection. He is about to fly to Harvard and hand in his resignation before returning to start work on his campaign. He wants to buy a home in the middle of the constituency – the largest in Britain – so that he can reach anywhere within a day by foot. Indeed, he has already spent 10 days walking from his parents’ home in Crieff to Penrith to familiarise himself with the landscape. He is tickled by my suggestion that he might become known as “The Walking MP”.
We meet in a west London café. Dressed in an immaculate suit and silk tie, Stewart is unfailingly polite and mentally spry. He talks at length of his shock and sadness over the expenses scandal. Living in the States amid the heady idealism of the Obama administration, he is struck by how badly it has gone down over there. “They always believed UK politics were squeaky clean. They have been horrified by it all.”
When Stewart met David Cameron and told him he wanted to stand, he was “polite, but neutral. Not particularly supportive. He asked me if I was certain this was what I wanted. He advised me to think it through very carefully.”
Like Cameron, Stewart is an Old Etonian, but he is quick to deny accusations he is joining an old boys’ club. “I wasn’t at school at the same time as anyone in the [shadow] cabinet. I have no network.”
Still, his impressive CV might strike fear into Cameron, whose own contains a comparatively drab seven years in the communications office at Carlton TV. But Stewart, who regrets asking a journalist earlier this year whether she thought he should become prime minister (“I was making a joke”), refuses to be drawn. “It would be unbelievably cheeky of me to presume to rise too quickly.”
Stewart is best known for his epic solo walk. From 2000 to 2002, he took in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and India. “I’m really bad at explaining why I did it,” he says now. “I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.”
The walk included a 400-mile trek in mid-winter from Herat to Kabul in the days after the fall of the Taliban. The experience helped him set up the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a charity that helps regenerate Afghanistan by teaching crafts to locals. His unique insight also means that he is a regular consultant on Afghanistan to Hillary Clinton and the US special envoy Richard Holbrooke. Does he wonder why he is never called upon by the British?
“Ninety per cent of the troops are American,” he shrugs. “They’re the ones who wake up at 2am worrying about whether they’re doing the right thing. Brown’s approach is much more complicated. He’s thinking about how this or that decision will play with the Obama administration, the army, the public, the media.”
It is Stewart’s belief that the Conservatives will find it much easier to deal with the Obama administration. “Brown is seen as a lame duck in the US, and people in Washington aren’t interested in talking to him.”
Once on the back benches, Stewart will argue for a major rethink on intervention. “Rebuilding Afghanistan, even to the level of Pakistan, would take 30 years of huge investment. And why should we commit? Al-Qaeda are internationally focused, educated, middle-class Arabs. They’re not in Afghanistan. The CIA are almost certain Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan. And if it’s poverty we’re worried about, we should be in Africa. We need to step back and take a good look at a map of the world and realise there are more important places to focus on.
“I’m not saying we should withdraw completely from Afghanistan as we did in the 1980s,” he continues, taking a gulp of black coffee, “but neither should we create a massive unstable edifice we can’t afford to maintain. We’re about to create an Afghan army made up of 450,000 troops: this is four times the size of the British
Army and would cost more than $2 or $3 billion a year to maintain. The annual revenue of the Afghan government is $600 million so this would be 500 per cent of their revenue. In Britain we spent 10 per cent on ours, and their population is half the size. And who do you think is going to end up paying for it?”
Stewart speaks elegantly in perfect, to-the-point paragraphs. He once told a former colleague that he added “ums” and “ers” to his speech at school because he was scaring the other children. He speaks Parsi, Dari, Urdu, Nepali, Serbo-Croat, Indonesian, French, Greek and Russian and is, it seems, the closest thing Britain has to a modern-day Lawrence of Arabia. The similarities are not lost on him: Stewart has just made a documentary about Lawrence for the BBC.
At Harvard, where he was director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights, his lectures on “War, States and Intervention” were so popular that students would sit on the floor to hear him expound on anything from the Enlightenment to musings on the philosopher, economist and political theorist John Stuart Mill.
“The students all have experience in war-torn countries, and are all terribly practically-minded. ‘What’s the take-away, Rory?’” he says, in an American accent. “’How can we use this on the ground?’”
Learning on the ground is something Stewart has much experience of. Born in Hong Kong to a former diplomat and his academic wife, Stewart describes his childhood as “idyllic”, a fact for which he credits his father, who is 50 years his senior.
“We lived in London when I was very young and he would wake up at six every morning and teach me fencing in Hyde Park or play pretend Napoleonic battles with me before taking me to school. When my father was posted to Malaysia, we’d take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.”
Stewart has a sister, Fiona, 32, who has Down’s syndrome and to whom he is very close. She has taught him, he says, “that there are many different ways of being”.
After Eton, having impressed the Prince of Wales at a school dinner, he tutored the young Princes. “They were 11 and eight and not very interested. I was a crap teacher: they were on summer holidays and would have preferred shooting rabbits or whatever.”
He then joined the Black Watch for a year. Finding army life “not as interesting or glamorous” as he had hoped, he left to study history and philosophy at Oxford. Fast-tracked through the Foreign Office, he was posted to Indonesia in late 1997, just before the country’s economic collapse.
It is hard not to wonder whether someone so accustomed to such adventure might find life as an MP tedious. Stewart claims he would be suited to constituency work, but tellingly illustrates his argument by describing life not in Penrith but in Afghanistan.
“A couple of weeks ago I was in Kabul. In the morning I was dealing with the deputy ceramics master who had threatened to kill the ceramics master; then I got into a long conversation with some of the villagers about sewage problems. Then in the afternoon I met with some generals from the army and had a conversation with people from the UN about strategy, incorporating what I had learnt from talking to people.”
As for other politicians he admires, he marks out two, both Tories: William Hague (“Very good at listening, has a great understanding of history and a sharp mind”) and Michael Gove (“His educational policy is impressive, exciting and well thought through”).
Apart from political ambitions, Stewart has other, more personal reasons for coming home. “I want to ‘normalise’ myself,” he says, suddenly looking very serious. “I would love to have a family. But that’s jumping the gun.”
He gives a thin smile. “I’d like to find a girlfriend.”
He hasn’t, he says, been in a serious relationship for over seven years. As we leave the café, the mood dims; the subject seems to have wearied him.
“I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I’d like my children to be able to watch them grow.”


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September 6, 2022
by Carla Hay
Directed by Mejbaur Rahman Sumon
Bengali with subtitles
Culture Representation: Taking place in the Bay of Bengal near Bangladesh, the horror film “Hawa” has a cast of characters from Bangladesh representing the working-class and middle-class.
Culture Clash: After a mysterious woman gets caught in a net from a fishing boat, she is pulled aboard, and strange things start to happen to the fishermen on the boat.
Culture Audience: “Hawa” will appeal primarily to people who don’t mind watching slow-paced horror movies that save the best scenes for the last third of the movie.
The “slow burn” horror movie “Hawa” doesn’t get to its most terrifying moments until the last third of the film, but the long buildup to this terror is worth the wait. “Hawa” has a lot to say about gender dynamics when there’s only one woman in an isolated place with men. The movie takes its time in showing the increasing tension between the all-male team on a fishing boat (they are all fishermen for a living) and the mysterious young woman who literally gets ensnared in one of their nets.
Directed by Mejbaur Rahman Sumon, “Hawa” (which means “the wind” in Bengali) takes place entirely in a remote part of the Bay of Bengal, where the closest nation is Bangladesh. Sumon co-wrote the movie’s screenplay with DurSukorno Shahed Dhiman and Jaheen Faruque Ameen. (“Hawa” was filmed on St. Martin’s Island in the Bay of Bengal.) The movie’s central setting is a mid-sized fishing boat whose below-deck area is equipped with a furnace room, a storage area and some sleeping quarters.
During the fateful trip that’s depicted in this movie, there are eight members of the fishing team, including their captain, who are all men. Except for one brief scene in the movie, when another boat appears, the people on this fishing boat are isolated. It’s mentioned at one point that women aren’t allowed on these fishing trips.
The gender composition in this trip changes one night when they find a young woman caught in one of their nets. At first, she appears to be dead, but she’s actually unconscious. When the woman is brought on board and regains consciousness, she remains mute until a pivotal part of the story.
“Hawa” looks like a movie that could take place in an undetermined decade in the late 20th century or early 21st century. There is no mention of technology, such as the Internet or cell phones, to make contact with people. If the boat has a radio, it’s not seen or used.
About halfway through the movie, it’s revealed that the mystery woman’s name is Gulti (played by Nazifa Tushi). It’s also eventually revealed why Gulti was found in this part of bay that is so far from land and from other boats. Because she does not speak when she is first discovered, and she has no identification, the men decide that they will drop her off at the nearest town when their fishing trip is completed.
In the meantime, the fishermen decide that Gulti will have to do some work on the boat, in order to earn her place. Some of the men on the boat misinterpret Gulti’s silence for weakness. Two of the men try to sexually assault her on separate occasions. Gulti is able to fight them off, but her attackers hold grudges.
The first attempted rape happens when the boat’s domineering, middle-aged and arrogant captain Chaan Manjhi (played by Chanchal Chowdhury) tries to lure Gulti to go with him below deck to the furnace room to have a sexual encounter. He licks his lips lasciviously at her to make it known what his intentions are. As he tries to physically lead Gulti down to the furnace room, she pushes him away.
An enraged Chaan gets physically aggressive with Gulti. He calls her a “fucking whore” and tries to force her into the furnace room. Gulti is able to defend herself by taking a machete and getting Chaan to back off of her during their physical altercation on the deck. He’s so startled, he falls backward into the water and has to be rescued by members of his crew.
For the rest of the trip, Chaan tries to make Gulti as miserable as possible. He’s verbally abusive to her, and he orders her around like a slave. When she brings Chaan a drink, he says that serving him a drink isn’t “real work,” and she has to earn her place on the boat by doing work that’s a lot more physically demanding.
The second time that Gulti is almost raped, the attack comes from a middle-aged crew member named Eja (played by Sumon Anowar), who tries to physically subdue Gulti at the beginning of this sexual assault. Eja’s assault, which is even more prolonged than Chaan’s, involves Eja hitting Gulti, trying to remove her clothes, and grabbing Gulti to try to get her to do what he wants. Gulti successfully defends herself by eventually kicking Eja in the crotch, and he stops attacking her.
Not everyone on the boat wants to hurt Gulti. Most of the men don’t bother her and don’t interact with her much. But there’s one crew member in particular who goes out of his way to be kind to Gulti. He’s a young man named Ibrahim (played by Sariful Razz), nicknamed Iba, and he’s the boat’s friendly mechanic.
Iba is attracted to Gulti, and the feeling appears to be mutual. Iba is also the first person whom Gulti talks to on the boat. Iba and Gulti meet for secret late-night talks in the water. During one of their first conversations, she drops hints that she could be a mermaid.
The biggest flaw of “Hawa” is this 130-minute movie has some unnecessary scenes that drag down the pace of the movie. The first half of the movie is kind of a tedious slog that shows the men on the boat going through various power struggles and disagreements about the work that needs to be done. Early on in the movie, someone tries to steal fish for himself and quickly gets reprimanded for it by Chaan, who rules the boat like a dictator.
The other men on the boat are supporting characters whose personalities don’t leave much of an impression until the last third of the movie. Twin brothers Parkes (played by Rizvi Rizu) and Urkes (played by Shohel Mondol), who are in their 20s, are very close and look like they have a co-dependent relationship. The other crew members, whose ages range from 30s to 40s, are Nagu (played by Nasir Uddin Khan), Mora (played by Mahmud Alam) and Foni (palyed by Mahmud Alam), who have varying degrees of loyalty to Chaan.
“Hawa” has cinematography by Kamrul Hasan Khoshru and Tanveer Ahmed Shovon that effectively immerses viewers into the moods for the daytime and nighttime scenes. During the day, the fishing team is focused on work, but their isolation is still evident, because the boat is usually shown as the only one in the immediate area. At night, the atmosphere becomes more menacing and foreboding for anyone on board the ship.
What’s less realistic choices are in the makeup, costume design and hairstyle for Gulti, who appears in many scenes with perfectly applied makeup, her clothing well-styled, and her hair neatly combed or put up in a bun. Considering that she was found unconscious in the water while tangled in a net, it’s highly unlikely that she would have any makeup or beauty supplies with her, or that there would be any makeup on the boat. Gulti’s dress (the only outfit she has in the movie) sometimes also looks a little too neatly styled, when it should look more worn and tattered, considering everything that she goes through in the movie.
There’s a supernatural aspect to the story that could explain Gulti’s well-kept appearance, so viewers might have to suspend some disbelief when they see Gulti looking like a model on this very unglamorous and dirty boat. The men don’t seem to notice how Gulti manages to look picture-perfect in this rough environment. The men that do notice her physical appearance look at her from the angle of her sex appeal.
The troublemaking members of this fishing team feel more freedom to cause mischief and mayhem at night. And even though Chaan is the captain of the boat, even he can be vulnerable to anyone who has a reason to dislike him. He’s not only cruel to Gulti, but he’s also mean-spirited to members of the crew.
Viewers need patience to sit through the often-tedious first half of “Hawa” before the story gets a lot more interesting. Even though “Hawa” definitely needed tighter editing, the last third of the movie proves that it’s a memorable and suspenseful thriller. And the movie’s last image is haunting and very effective.
Jaaz Multimedia released “Hawa” in select U.S. cinemas on September 2, 2022. The movie was released in Bangladesh on July 29, 2022.


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t’s been two years since Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out. And the 3rd Bunny Day since it was released. So, I thought I would do another take on the event by body painting. The first one I ever did was Zipper with eggs on my face, and this year I decided to do both on my chest instead. I love both looks, but especially love this year since it shows improvement.
We all have things we’re allergic to. Some people are allergic to specific foods or can’t handle certain things (nuts, gluten, lactose, etc.) and then there are those that are allergic to other things (pollen, dust, animals, etc.). I fall into the last group. I’m allergic to bees. Not to a deadly degree, but if I do get stung by them or wasps or get any other kind of bug bite my skin balloons ridiculously. Add on the fact I’m allergic to the medicine commonly given to deal with that swelling, it’s a fun combination. Since Spring is returning, that means bees are going to be coming back. So, I thought it would be fun to body paint them this week.
Some days I cannot believe how far my body painting skills have come for the years. So, I thought I would compare some of my earliest body paints to ones I’ve done more recently that had a similar vibe or theme. Not only has my skill improved but the quality of the photos has as well. It’s something I really love seeing.Some days I cannot believe how far my body painting skills have come for the years. So, I thought I would compare some of my earliest body paints to ones I’ve done more recently that had a similar vibe or theme. Not only has my skill improved but the quality of the photos has as well. It’s something I really love seeing.
Even though I’m not doing goals for 2022, I’m still going to continue with writing out everything I accomplished at the end of each month. Mainly as a diary for myself to look back on everything I managed to do. Ultimately my plan for the year is just to experience new things by playing video games I never have before (a lot of Nintendo games that were on consoles I never had growing up along with others), have fun creatively with art and body painting, and finish writing my novel (without restarting it as I have for the last few years every time I near the ending). On top of that, I think at some point this year I might get another dog, a puppy to be specific, I would like to get one while Pixie still has a pep to her step so she can help train the little one before her elder years. Plus, Pixie ultimately does better when there’s another dog around.
As a way of looking back at 2021, I decided I would kick off the year by doing a body painting that’s a combination of some of my most “loved” looks that I did in 2021. There are a total of nine different looks that went into this: deershroom, elf, split lips, butterfly skull, Captain Marvel, Howl Pendragon from Howl’s Moving Castle, Ursula, Cracked Stone Statue, and Ice Cream. I was a little nervous about how this was going to turn out. I wasn’t exactly going off of a reference short of looking at the body paints that I did for each of these looks. But not one with all of them combined, if you don’t know I can’t visualize things in my head. I don’t think in pictures, so sometimes that makes things interesting when I paint, draw, or do body art. So, while I knew what I was combining, I didn’t know what it would look like. So, I was surprised, to say the least with how much I loved the way this turned out.


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For a century the internal combustion engine has been a primary source of value and innovation in the automotive industry. Today, we are entering a new automotive age, when cars will be differentiated by functionality enabled by semiconductors and electronics.
This shift places semiconductors — the building blocks of a car's internal computing engine — at the heart of a new ICE age in automotive innovation. One with profound implications as the new vehicle ICE will sit at the center of automotive safety, comfort and user experience.
Often talked about in the industry today are four megatrends: electrification, autonomy, connectivity and mobility as a service. What is not discussed or well understood is how each requires dramatically higher semiconductor content in vehicles. Cars are becoming supercomputers.
These computers with their integrated and bespoke software applications increasingly will define a car's value in safety, convenience and infotainment. Instead of thinking about horsepower, consumers likely will be most interested in cars with the best onboard computers and electronic systems.
This shift is forcing an intensifying convergence of the semiconductor and automotive industries, one that we at KPMG believe will result in massive growth for the automotive semiconductor market, taking it from $40 billion this year to $200 billion by 2040.
The road to $200 billion, however, will not be a straight line. It will require new kinds of collaboration models between the players across the supply chain and the integration of new players such as software suppliers. Automakers, parts suppliers and semiconductor companies will face critical choices.
- Should automakers change the way they engage semiconductor companies?
- How should semiconductor companies craft investment and partnership strategies to capitalize on the four megatrends over the coming decades?
- What is the optimal research and development strategy?
- How big a role will mergers and acquisitions play vs. in-house innovation?
These are just a handful of the critical questions facing executives. We believe that the opportunities for automotive semiconductor suppliers and the whole automotive supply chain are great. But the journey from now to a world where electric, autonomous and connected cars are commonplace will require many difficult decisions. Those able to strike the right balance stand poised to lead in the new ICE age.


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The United States contains more than 10,000 “Main” streets. Today, some will hold parades and quaint, quintessential American family gatherings. But no Main Street is quite like Houston’s. For example, Sunday evening, at the annual music festival dubbed Madness on Main, you could have seen a grade-schooler dancing with glow sticks to the inventive electronic sounds of Houston’s LIMB. You could have watched masked stage performers toss bagged spinach (or was it lettuce?) towards the crowd while performance artist Traci Lavois Thiebaud thrilled her audience with unique thoughts, words and sounds. You could have witnessed festival headliner Black Pistol Fire offer a performance so bombastic it may have helped open up the skies for the relentless storms that threatened the event but held off ‘til the last possible moment.
There was a lot to hear with 19 bands playing. Austin’s Sailor Poon was one of 20 originally scheduled to perform, but had to cancel when its drummer dislocated a shoulder while traveling to the event, if the buzz in the building is to be believed. (The band says she’s recovering and they’ll be back in Houston June 30 at White Oak Music Hall.) The Houston Press tried to catch as many of those 19 acts, and all the music fans listening to them, and here are some observations from the day.
If you want to be annoyingly technical about it, this year Madness on Main actually occurred on North Main, relocating to the grounds of White Oak Music Hall for its fourth installment. The event originated a few MetroRail stops south at the so-called Mid-Main venues (Continental Club, Big Top Lounge, etc.), but the new spot seemed to suit festgoers and performers just fine. For one, it provided an early glimpse at whether the event might prove successful attendance-wise. If you arrive to an event at White Oak right when it’s starting, as we did, and you have to park over on Farwood Street when you arrive, as we also did, it’s a good sign.
One thing the new locale did was allow the vibe of the day to flow. Previous MOMs weren’t necessarily disjointed, but at White Oak, if you wanted to, you could step out of the music hall onto its tiered outdoor decks, and hear the bands playing on the Raven Tower stag, as we did with Dem. Outdoors at twilight, with Raven Tower’s bulb lights glowing, the humidity hanging in the air and with trippy visuals backing the group's roots-reggae sound, the moment was pure tropical escapism. You almost had to glance over at the downtown skyline to remember were you were.
This year's fest seemed to draw a sizable crowd. The organizers said they hadn’t yet tallied Sunday's attendance, but the bars were crowded and free seats on Raven Tower’s massive deck were at a premium. If the move bothered music fans, it didn’t show.
The festival gave Houstonians ample opportunity to enjoy one of their favorite pastimes, and not in a low-key way, either. The first act we caught was Ruiners early in the day, looking only slightly out of place playing in a room bathed in sunlight. The crowd rocked out to the band’s guitar assault, daylight be damned. One of the best runs of the day was the five o’clock hour at Raven Tower. It kicked off with the always reliable Mark Drew, breathing orange fire in his Astros jersey, inspiring a sea of bobbing heads both for his own rhymes and those of special guest The Aspiring Me, a.k.a. TAME. Flyger Woods followed and brought an unbridled energy that was exciting to see before the dinner hour. The hour concluded with the funky hip-hop of newcomers the Jax/IV Project. By the time they cleared the stage, our legs needed a respite from dancing, which came courtesy of Traci Lavois Thiebaud.
Thiebaud is Houston’s own noise poet, somewhat reminiscent of Laurie Anderson in her prime. Whether she was making music from a cat toy fashioned into an instrument or looping audience members’ attempts at bird chirps and long burps into a piece, it all just worked, thanks to her poetic musings. It was a perfect follow-up to the furious hour of rap that preceded. Thiebaud and her company of performers brought a bit of madness to Main (okay, okay…North Main).
Around the time Something Fierce served up its post-punk goodness, listeners were dancing like they remembered it was a holiday weekend and they didn’t have to work today. One fellow – we’ll call him Batman, based on his attire – was enthusiastically shaking to the band. Others thrashed to MOTHS, which forged through some technical difficulties to deliver a solid set, or shimmied to Bayou City Funk’s take on the jam band. Special props to the fellow who was actually doing The Running Man in a public establishment in 2017, so moved was he by Soul Creatures’ crisp cover of “Jungle Boogie.” LIMB’s James Templeton provided an interactive dance experience, inviting listeners to crowd in around him so he could feed from their energy.
But perhaps no one tested the crowd's moves more than Kiko Villamizar and his Austin-based group. Billed as “cosmic urban Latino” music, it’s influenced by Villamizar’s Colombian roots and is a spectacle to take in live. A few fans twirled to the music, looking experienced and comfortable. Others seemed gleefully clueless what to do, but danced anyway. Houston loves to dance.
Bayou City fans' allegiance is so strong that White Oak’s downstairs hall was brimming with them as local avatars Gio Chamba and Genesis Blu discussed their style at a fashion panel while out-of-towners Lloronas wailed to a sparse crowd upstairs. The band, which recalls acts like Fea and Houston’s own Giant Kitty, wasn’t deterred by the light attendance and delivered a solid set on its first trip to H-town. Later in the night, with fewer Houston acts to compete with, Austin’s Hector Ward & The Big Time drew a good crowd for its set. The band’s bluesy rock resonated a little more with some of us who heard the Allman Brothers influence in their groove, hard to miss with the news of Gregg Allman’s passing over the weekend. Headliners Black Pistol Fire is a duo that looks and sounds like a full band, using every inch of the stage with frenetic bouncy energy from guitarist/vocalist Kevin McKeown and a blur of hair and drumsticks from animated drummer Eric Owen. The band is ridiculously entertaining and it was good to see Houston recognize talent from outside its city limits.
But even acts who have since relocated in order to grow their brand appreciate their hometown's undying love. That was the theme during Lyric Michelle’s set, one of the festival highlights. The hip-hop artist with arguably the best 2016 album from these parts headed west to California on the heels of its critical success. Back home, she proclaimed her love for the H in song and by wearing a Clutch City tee. She was grateful in mid-song patter, but her set was filled with defiant lyrics and emotion, the keys to her own personal growth and honest music.
While Villamizar was winning over Houstonians in the downstairs hall, Flower Graves — formerly Mikey and the Drags — pulled in their faithful fans upstairs. Front man Miguel Ponce, aka Mikey Drag, was playing his second set of the day, having kicked off all music with surf rockers Phantom Royals hours earlier. Their keys-laden psych/garage rock tunes may have evoked a different time, but we knew where you were. In Houston, on Main Street and appreciating your own.
“You guys enjoying yourselves?” Ponce asked the filled room, which responded with an enthusiastic “Woooo!”
“Me, too,” Mikey said. “It’s a good hang, a good quality hang.”


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Man who 'flipped' after Tesco queue row and punched worker avoids jail
A vulnerable man who "flipped" when a Tesco Express shop assistant told him he had joined the wrong queue when he finally reached the till has been sentenced for punching one worker in the face and verbally abusing another.
John Robert Millar (37) pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in the Belfast city centre shop.
Millar – who suffers from severe muscular pain – was in the Royal Avenue store on January 3, 2013, when he "flipped'', Belfast Crown Court heard.
Millar, from Boyd Street in the city, was carrying a basket of goods to the express counter, the court was told. But when he was informed by a female member of staff that he was in the wrong queue, Millar verbally abused her and shouted: "I want to speak to the f***ing manager."
A male colleague went to find the duty manager and security staff. But as he brushed past him, Millar punched the Tesco staff member in the face.
As a result, the court heard, the shop worker lost a rear molar tooth.
A defence solicitor said Millar was a vulnerable man who suffers daily muscular pain in his neck and upper body. He said that he had become agitated and his pain increased after queuing up at the express counter only to be told he was in the wrong queue.
Deputy Belfast Recorder Judge Philpott QC said: "He completely over-reacted and his behaviour was aggressive.
"There is no excuse for this type of behaviour.
"When he got to the top of the queue and was told he was not being served, he flipped," said Judge Philpott.
The judge added that although Millar had crossed the custody threshold, she was suspending a nine-month jail term for 18 months.


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With 18 pies on offer there’s something for every type of pizza lover at Astoria’s month-old Tufino Pizzeria Napoletana. The thing that impressed me the most at a recent dinner at Stephen Menna’s new spot though wasn’t the pizza, good as it was. It was the calzone fritto ($12), a gigantic creation that had been deep fried before getting a blast in Tufino’s wood-burning Stefano Ferrara oven.
The blistered golden brown calzone is filled with rich fresh ricotta, fior de latte mozzarella, and prosciutto cotto all livened up with a good dose of black pepper. It eats like the illegimate love child of zeppole and lasagna, proving that everything is better fried.It’s just one of several dolcetti fritti, or fried treats on the menu here. Word on the street is that Tufino plans to add more. I can hardly wait.
Tufino Pizzeria, 36-08 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria, 718-278-4800


How to Install a Hard Drive into a Desktop PC
This guide was developed to instruct users on the proper method to install an PATA based Hard Drive into a desktop computer system. These instructions are valid for any for ATA Drives.
It is a step-by-step instruction guide detailing the individual steps
1. Shut down the computer and unplug the power cable.
2. Remove the computer’s side panel. by removing the screws from the back of the case.
3. Set the jumper. The Jumper is a small plastic and metal plug on the back of the drive located on position No.#3 on the attached Hard Drive image witch it must be set to either “master” or “slave” mode.
Note: Choose the master setting if you’re installing a new operating system on the new hard drive and is going to be used as your main drive. Choose the slave setting if you’re going to use the new drive as an internal storage device secondary to an existing hard drive.
4. Locate a free hard drive bay, then slide the new PATA hard drive into place.
5. Mount the drive in place with the mounting screws that came with the drive.
6. Connect a standard four-prong hard drive power cable from the computer’s power supply to the new hard drive.
7. Connect the computer’s IDE cable to the hard drive. make sure to align the notch.
8. Close the computer’s case, reconnect the power cable, and start the computer. Your computer should recognize the new installed drive on start-up.


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In 2015, I took a six-month sabbatical to travel through Europe, learn French, and study art and history. I stayed in 12 countries as far ranging as Ireland, Finland, Greece, and Spain. In March of that year, I was fortunate enough to be an Artist In Residence at Galerie Huit in Arles, France. On one of my outings, I ventured north towards Avignon and Nimes, to the site of the Roman aqueduct at Pont du Gard. As a history lover, I was thrilled to see the site, and as an artist, I soaked in its lasting aesthetics and ingenuity.
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For gaming enthusiasts, owning a robust machine is a necessity. Yet, what if you could secure a high-performance gaming PC without drilling a hole in your pocket? This article serves as your definitive guide to the top
The Appeal of a Gaming PC Under $300
Gaming preferences vary from one player to another. While some demand a top-of-the-line system with cutting-edge graphics, others seek more wallet-friendly options. For those leaning towards the latter, an affordable gaming PC under $300 is an ideal pick. These systems cater well to casual gamers and offer room for future performance upgrades.
Leading Affordable Gaming PCs Under $300
- HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop
The HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop ranks high among budget-friendly gaming PCs. Despite its modest price, it boasts a potent Intel Core i3 processor, 8GB RAM, and a hefty 1TB HDD storage. It also comes equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card, competent in handling most games at moderate settings.
- Acer Aspire TC-895-UA92
The Acer Aspire TC-895-UA92 is another cost-effective option that doesn’t compromise on performance. It houses an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, and a swift 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD for rapid loading times. Even though it lacks a dedicated graphics card, its embedded Intel UHD Graphics 630 is capable of supporting casual gaming.
- Lenovo IdeaCentre 3
For those with space constraints, the compact Lenovo IdeaCentre 3 is an excellent choice. It includes an AMD Ryzen 3 processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Its AMD Radeon Graphics can efficiently handle light gaming and multimedia operations.
When exploring unbeatable features of the ibuypower y gaming computer, make sure to consider the following key features in an affordable gaming PC:
- Processor: In this price range, you should aim for at least an Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3.
- RAM: A minimum of 8GB RAM is crucial for seamless gameplay.
- Storage: Solid-state drives (SSDs) are faster than traditional hard drives (HDDs). Aim for a minimum of 256GB SSD or 1TB HDD.
- Graphics Card: Integrated graphics cards like Intel UHD Graphics or AMD Radeon Graphics are suitable for casual gamers.
Enhancing Your Gaming PC
A significant benefit of purchasing a budget-friendly gaming PC is the potential for future upgrades. You can begin by enhancing the RAM and storage for improved performance. Eventually, you can install a dedicated graphics card for superior visuals and smoother gameplay.
Securing a top-notch gaming PC under $300 is not as daunting as it may seem. With companies like HP, Acer, and Lenovo providing high-performance machines at reasonable prices, you can indulge in your favorite games without breaking the bank. Don’t forget to weigh key features like the processor, RAM, storage, and graphics card when making your selection. Enjoy your gaming!
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Post-Christmas financial struggles
This makes for sobering reading: one in four people who celebrate Christmas struggle to afford it. According to StepChange Debt Charity, even more people than last year will turn to borrowing to fund the festive season.
We’ve all contributed to an unrealistic ideal of excess, and people are breaking the bank to achieve it. Less than half (45%) of those surveyed by StepChange say they will be able to afford their festive spending this year.
Delving deeper into the issues around why many felt they had to borrow money, 25% said it was due to reduced household income, 16% said the loss of the Universal Credit uplift and 12% as a result of the end of Covid support measures such as furlough.
Many of us might be paid earlier than usual in December due to bank holidays, but then face having to make that money last longer during a period we feel we need to spend to have a good time.
The pressure to provide a day (or more) of unbridled joy and cheer, particularly for those who have been struggling to make ends meet, can result in some serious difficulties after the festive period.
Where can I turn to if I’m struggling financially?
There is plenty of advice about preventative measure you can take to help you plan ahead for Christmas and manage your spending. Check out Citizens Advice’s ten top tips to avoid a Christmas debt hangover and start saving for Christmas 2022.
If you are struggling after Christmas, don’t face it alone. Talk to someone – whether a trusted friend or family member, or seek help from services such as Citizens Advice, Money Advice, or National Debtline. All of them can help you find ways to manage and pay off your debt, and show you ways to achieve a joyful Christmas within your means.
You can also visit Money Helper, which is sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, to find free debt advice service near you.
Remember your mental health too
Financial stresses and mental health can combine to create a vicious cycle according to mental health charity, Mind. This can be exacerbated at Christmas due to the extra costs associated with it.
It can be harder to find financial and mental health support services over Christmas as many reduce their hours or working days to give their employees time off, but there are still places where you can find help if you need it. As well as debt helplines, who can give you impartial and confidential advice, you can also turn to the Samaritans and Give us a Shout if you need someone to talk to.
Even those of us who can afford our Christmas expenses need to take a hard look at ourselves and ask if we really need to be spending so much to enjoy this time of year; it shouldn’t be a holiday of material gain, but one of coming together, community, and cheer.
If you are facing money problems before or after Christmas, it is vital you talk to someone. It can be the first step on your road to recovery, and a problem shared is a problem halved.


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The Nigerian Government has given micro-blogging platform, Twitter a condition for its suspension to be lifted in Nigeria.
Africa Today News. New Yotrk gathered that the condition is that social media platform must ensure it is used ‘responsibly’.
Nigeria’s minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama made this disclosure at a meeting with envoys from the UK, US and other countries on yesterday.
He didn’t commit to any definite timeline when the ban will be reversed.
‘The condition would be responsible use of the social media and that really has to be it.’
‘We are not saying that Twitter is threatening the country or any such thing.
‘Why we have taken this measure is to stop them to be used as platforms for destabilisation and facilitation of criminality or encouragement of criminalities’.
However, Africa Today News, New York learnt that the minister later went on to complain about being misquoted and denied giving a condition to Twitter before lifting the suspension.
In a statement, by Ferdinand Nwoye, spokesperson of the ministry, Onyeama submitted that he was quoted out of context that Twitter operations will be restored, only if the platform can be used responsibly.
‘Contrary to the publications, the Honourable minister was speaking generally about the responsibilities that go with freedom of speech, stating that platforms that have the power to instantly disseminate information among billions of people have the added responsibility to exercise the power responsibly.
‘The Ministry wishes to state categorically that the honourable minister did not give conditions regarding lifting the Twitter suspension’, Nwoye said.
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ByteDance has acquired Red Alert Online developer C4games through its Nuverse subsidiary for an undisclosed fee.
As reported by Reuters, the Chinese company, which owns and operates popular social media platform TikTok, purchased C4games as part of its push into the lucrative mobile games market.
The news comes a few weeks after ByteDance bought Shanghai-based studio Moonton Technology, best known for developing Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
Last year, Bloomberg reported that ByteDance had already purchased a number of development studios along with the exclusive distribution rights to other titles. People "familiar with the matter" told the publication ByteDance intended to target the local and overseas non-casual market, challenging the dominance of Tencent along the way.
"[ByteDance's] massive global user base and investment in gaming could make it a big disruptor in the gaming space this year," said Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad at the time, speaking to Bloomberg.
"[However,] while they may be able to develop a number of hit titles in the China market, we believe it will still be difficult for them to truly challenge Tencent."


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A 34-year-old Rutland man is confessing to starting at least six fires set in trash bins over the last several months.
Police say James Oney was arrested on Wednesday after police received a series of emergency calls reporting a fire at the Frito Lay building.
Oney was spotted near the fires and later located by police.
Rutland police say Oney confessed to starting three trash bin fires yesterday as well as fires earlier this year at the Number One Chinese Restaurant, the Rutland Middle School and at the Italian-American Club.
Most of the fires did little damage, but the May fire at the Italian-American Club spread and did about $75,000 in damage.
Oney was due in court today to answer six arson charges.


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Winter Sleeping bags usually are supposed to preserve you heat and shield you from the chilly. Whereas choosing out the precise one on your particular wants, it’s a must to be good since they’re cumbersome. Just be sure you store round, attempt the totally different sizes and analyze just a few critiques earlier than making your last determination on which one is ideal for winter tenting!
Varieties of sleeping luggage
Some of the necessary components in making a call about which sleeping bag to purchase is determining what local weather you’ll be sleeping in. Sleeping luggage are available in many differing kinds and temperatures, so it’s necessary to determine the local weather you’re going tenting in so that you could purchase a sleeping bag that’s acceptable for that atmosphere.
Beneath are three several types of climates and the way they might be affected by a sleeping bag:
Sizzling climate: Sleeping luggage designed for decent climate are often made with artificial insulation and adjustable temperature settings. This makes them excellent for tenting in areas with scorching summers and delicate winters. The draw back to a majority of these sleeping luggage is that they’ll get fairly heat when crowded collectively, and they won’t be appropriate for chilly climates.
Heat climate: Sleeping luggage designed for heat climate are often made with pure fibers like wool or down. They might have much less insolation than a scorching climate sleeping bag, however they’re excellent for areas with delicate winters and warmer summers. As a result of these sleeping luggage don’t work in addition to artificial warmth insulating supplies in chilly climate, they are usually extra reasonably priced.
Sleeping luggage are available in quite a lot of temperature scores, from these meant for summer season tenting to these designed for winter tenting. It may be laborious to decide on the precise sleeping bag on your journey spot with out understanding what you want it for. Listed below are some recommendations on how you can decide the precise sleeping bag on your wants:
-First, contemplate the local weather the place you’ll be tenting. Some sleeping luggage are made to be extra ventilated and cooling, whereas others are designed to maintain you heat in colder climates.
-Subsequent, contemplate how tough the bottom will probably be. Some sleeping luggage are made with thicker insulation than different fashions, which is finest for areas with softer or rougher surfaces.
-Likewise, contemplate what gear you intend on bringing together with you in your journey. If you’ll be utilizing a hammock or Blunder, then a lightweight weight mannequin could also be extra acceptable than a extra sturdy possibility.
-And at last, just be sure you have sufficient area in your pack to hold your new sleeping bag! Many have sizes starting from single particular person all the way in which as much as queen dimension beds.
When contemplating the perfect sleeping bag on your subsequent out of doors journey, it’s necessary to contemplate the fill energy ranking. Fill energy is a measure of how heat a sleeping bag can preserve you all the way down to its core. The upper the fill energy quantity, the extra insulation the bag could have and the colder it is possible for you to to sleep. For backpacking, an 850 fill energy ranking is good. For tenting in chilly environments, a ranking of 1000 or greater is critical.
Shopping for Information
If you find yourself planning your subsequent out of doors journey, it is very important familiarize your self with the totally different sleeping luggage in the marketplace as a way to make an knowledgeable buy. Sleeping luggage are available in quite a lot of shapes, sizes and temperatures, so it may be troublesome to know which one is best for you. The next information will train you ways to decide on the precise sleeping bag on your out of doors vacation spot.
To start with, it is very important decide what sort of climate you’ll be tenting in. If you’re solely planning on staying in delicate climate areas, an artificial sleeping bag could also be extra acceptable. However, if you’re tenting in colder climates, a down sleeping bag could also be a more sensible choice. Moreover, for those who plan on doing any backpacking or tenting in tough terrain, it is very important get a sleeping bag that has good sturdiness. For instance, if you’re planning on tenting on rocky hillsides or in moist areas, purchase a water-proof sleeping bag.
After you have decided your local weather and Sleeping Bag sort, it’s time to resolve in your dimension. Typically talking, males can purchase an extra- massive sleeping bag whereas girls ought to go for the standard dimension sleeping bag.
If you find yourself deciding which sleeping bag to purchase on your subsequent out of doors journey, be certain that to contemplate just a few key components. Listed below are 4 suggestions that can assist you select the precise sleeping bag on your wants:
-Your Exercise Degree: If you’re spending most of your time sitting or mendacity down, a tender sleeping bag might be a sensible choice. If you’ll be spending a variety of time open air strolling or climbing, you will have a hotter sleeping bag.
-Local weather: Sleeping luggage in chilly climates will probably be thicker and heavier than these utilized in heat climates. As a normal rule, the hotter the local weather, the lighter the sleeping bag you will have.
-Weight and Dimension: An excellent rule of thumb is that every cubic foot (about 0.28 cubic meters) of sleeping area occupies about two kilos (one kilogram). So, if you’re carrying 30 kilos (13 kilograms) in your again whereas tenting, don’t purchase a 30-pound sleeping bag – purchase a 26-pound (12 kilograms) one as an alternative.
-Different Gear: Be sure to additionally contemplate how a lot different gear your sleeping bag will should be appropriate with – similar to garments, sheets and tents.
In case you’re planning an out of doors journey this autumn, be sure you decide the precise sleeping bag. Not all sleeping luggage are created equal, so it’s necessary to search out one that’s designed particularly for the circumstances wherein you’ll be tenting or climbing. Along with contemplating temperature scores and insulation ranges, be certain that to consider the load and compressibility of your chosen sleeping bag. Be sure you evaluate totally different fashions earlier than making a purchase order, as typically one sleeping bag may cost a little extra but additionally pack smaller and lighter than one other mannequin. Pleased tenting!
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