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Business 50 West was originally constructed as Highway 50 by the State Highway Department in the late 1920’s as a replacement to Missouri Route 1. The road served as Highway 50 until the mid-1980’s when the current dual lane Highway 50 was constructed as bypass of the Apache Flats area. The area saw continued growth and in the early 1990’s the Cole County Public Works Department widened the road to three lanes in order to add a center turn lane. The area has grown tremendously since then and there was a growing need for an updated roadway complete with curb and gutter; new pavement; drainage inlets and sidewalks. The improvements will be compatible with development that will continue to occur and will serve the area for many years.
Funding for this project came from the County’s 1/2-Cent Sales Tax for Capital Improvements. Infrastructure improvements such as this project and other projects in the County are heavily dependent upon this funding source and are vital for the economic development and growth of the community.

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Our workers are at your service daily in our automated Truckwash to clean your commercial vehicles, caravans or lorries spotlessly and as efficiently and quickly as possible. The Truckwash is also the right address for HACCP interior cleaning. You can save for nice gifts or a free wash each time you avail of the Truckwash.
Our Truckwash is open from Monday to Saturday.
Monday and Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Thursday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday from 8 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
Following last year’s success, we are doing a summer campaign again this year. Take advantage of summer discounts for the commercial vehicle, caravan, camper and coach!
For extra dirty vehicles, we apply a surcharge for additional work and the environment!
Wednesday 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.
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industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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If you’re new to the film industry, it can be confusing to hear someone call for a few “pancakes” well past breakfast time. And what purpose could a box of apples serve those trying to make a movie?
The origin of the term “apple box” is murky, but its modern incarnation is used to describe a standard size wooden box on film sets. They’re a common piece of grip equipment and are used for a wide variety of purposes.
I love the attention to detail over at The Black and Blue. Now could you stand on a half-apple and Hollywood it for me? Thanks.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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A youth seminar opened on May 7, 2017, titled “1917-2017: The Fate of Russia and the Church.” Protopriest Andrei Sommer, led a delegation of young people from the United States, which brought with them the relics of Holy Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Holy Nun Barbara, which will be available for veneration in the city until May 12.
The conference began with a performance by the Men’s Youth Choir of the Russian Church Abroad under the direction of Adrian Fekula.
Fr Andrei delivered a speech titled “100 Years and 10 Years,” in which he talked about the organization and missionary work of youth and shared his experiences. He began his lecture with a quote from the Second All-Diaspora Council of ROCOR, which was held in Sremsky Karlovci, Yugoslavia, in 1938.
The lecture was followed by a series of round-table discussions. The conference was divided into four groups (a fifth was reserved for clergymen), during which the overthrow of the Russian State in 1917 was discussed, along with the challenges of the 20th century, the role of clergymen during the years of persecution, the fate of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors and other matters.

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Quotas and Targets – do they have a place?
In a recent discussion on twitter, triggered by the latest NHMRC funding round outcomes where women continue to be under-represented, the question was asked, ‘are there examples of targets and quotas in relation to funding and grants elsewhere, and do they work?’ Drawing on their local expertise and attendance at the recent Gender Summit in Brussels two colleagues from Europe, Ella Ghosh, The Norwegian Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research and Claartje J. Vinkenburg VU University, Amsterdam provided some information and examples which may be of interest to us here in Australia.
It has also included changes in their processes and the use of unconscious bias training for staff and reviewers.
Ireland is a step ahead of Australia in implementing Athena SWAN, with the first applications occurring in 2015. In contrast to the decision to date to not link funding to accreditation in Australia, funding from the SFI will be dependent on Athena SWAN accreditation. By 2019 SFI require all HEI’s to have attained an Athena Swan Bronze institutional award to be eligible for funding and by 2023 to have attained an Athena Swan Silver institutional award to be eligible for funding.
This is a compelling example of how quotas can be an integral part of a strategy to increase the participation and success of women.
The idea of positions specifically for women are increasingly seen as a way of making more timely progress. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) will recruit 10 new women members in 2017 and a further 6 in 2018 (as reported by Martin Enserink in Science 354 (6314), 815. November 17, 2016). In common with many academies the representation of women is low, at around 13% and difficult to move given the granting of life membership and a large (male) elderly cohort. The idea for special elections came from two male board members and was approved by a 73% majority vote. The regular rounds will meantime continue.


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Risks to the world economy remain to the downside and include sharply weaker global growth and a sudden change to expectations regarding the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate path, Societe Generale warned on Tuesday.
The French bank also said there was still a 30 percent chance of an economic "hard landing" for China, in its quarterly economic outlook.
"The potential for policy errors in China is substantial, and all the more so since a new bubble appears to be building in the property market," Societe Generale analysts, led by Patrick Legland and Michala Marcussen, said in the report.
"The authorities are clearly keen to start recognizing and tackling the mountain of non-performing loans. The approach will be one of trial and error, with the downside risks implied in the name."
A sharper-than-expected deceleration in the world's second-largest economy could reverberate around the world. SocGen termed it a "black swan" — a metaphor for surprise events that severely affect the world.
The bank forecasts China's economy will grow by 6.5 percent in this year, in line with consensus estimates.
SocGen said uncertainty about Europe's political direction was another risk to the world economy. The near-election of a far-right president in Austria this month and the U.K.'s upcoming referendum on leaving the European Union have brought politics in the region into sharper relief.
The bank said there was a 40 percent risk that an unexpected political turn in Europe could double the drag from policy uncertainty on economic growth.
"With a very busy political agenda lined up for the coming quarters, the risk of an event delivering an unexpected outcome remains high, be it the OMT (outright monetary transactions) judgment from the German Constitutional Court on June 21, the U.K. 'Brexit' referendum on June 23, Spanish election on June 26, Italian referendum in October and heading into 2017, elections in France, Germany, Netherlands and possibly Italy," the bank said.
SocGen sees growth in the 19 euro zone countries averaging 1.6 percent in 2016, in line with consensus estimates.
It added that another "black swan" for the economy could be a disorderly re-pricing of market expectations of when the Fed will raise rates again.
Markets are mulling whether the Fed will raise rates in June or July, but SocGen thinks the next hike will not occur until December. It forecasts the central bank will then raise rates by 25 percentage points three times in 2017.
"If the Fed sends too hawkish a message, the risk is that the re-pricing could turn disorderly. On the flip side, too dovish a Fed could see bond markets unnerved by higher inflation readings and an ever tighter labor market," SocGen said.
The French bank sees ongoing policy divergence between the Fed and other major central banks, with the Bank of Japan seen continuing on its current policy path and the European Central Bank expected to taper quantitative easing between March and December 2017.
SocGen added that it had "given up" on the Bank of England raising rates from the record-low of 0.5 percent and that the U.K. central bank's next move would be a cut in 2019.
The French bank added that the risk of a global recession had eased, but that a sharp disappointment to global growth would still pose a major risk to the global economy.
"A prolonged negative market response is the most likely mechanism to take a slowdown to outright recession," it warned.

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Keep up with your overall wellness and day-to-day schedule with help from EndoFlex Vitality. Young Living’s EndoFlex Vitality essential oil uses a base of sesame seed oil and adds our proprietary blend of essential oils for wellness support.
In addition to the popular Spearmint Vitality essential oil, EndoFlex Vitality oil features Sage, Geranium, Myrtle, Nutmeg, and German Chamomile to create a unique blend that may support a healthy lifestyle. Adding this oil to your wellness regimen is as easy as combining it with a refreshing glass of juice or relaxing cup of tea.
Add a drop or two to 2–4 oz. of NingXia Red for a quick shot of this blend.
Combine a drop of oil with a large cup of warm tea or a tall glass of water. If you find a drop overwhelms the flavor, dip a toothpick in the oil and swirl it in your drink.

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Seeking a perfect present for your loved one that will bring a big smile to their face (and their tummy)?
LOOK NO FURTHER! Our gift vouchers with 4 different values £5, £10, £20 and £50 are finally here to satisfy your quest! They are valid at any Maazi Restaurants and can be used for both dining in and takeaway.

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VB or JS scripting is a powerful tool used by administrators to automate administrative tasks. Smart, educated administrator can easily manage 30-50 servers without dropping balls if he uses administrative scripting techniques. I would argue that Linux environment is more flexible for administrative scripting then Windows however syntax might be awkward in Unix shell scripting. Digital Edge wanted to introduce this case study to show how to overcome Windows shortage for automating administrative tasks.
Repeat all started from step 3.
Now the best thing for you is to run this as a service.
So when the server starts up your monitoring would be loaded in the memory.
There are 2 ways of doing it.
1. To run the script as a scheduled task. You can create a scheduled task that fires up when system starts up. You can do it through standard create task facilities clicking on Schedule task drop down on the Schedule tab and selecting "At system startup". 2. More elegant way is to run it as a service.
Windows Resource Kit provides utilities SRVANY and INSTSRV to do that.
However windows service manager can start only a single executable without parameters.
then when you open task manager you can see task foo.exe that represents your foo.vbs running. Lastly, we suggest to use TAIL utility from Windows Resource Kit to monitor you foo.log. Good luck with you administrative scripting.

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mode, the next pad press will send the PC and return to note mode.
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The principal of Beauchamp College is quoted as saying that the majority of people who are worried about pupil observation of classes are "insecure about their own abilities".
What evidence has he for this assertion? Even if true, is it a bad thing?
The teaching profession is made up of many kinds of people. Some come with an awesome super-confidence that is difficult to sustain in the face of classroom realities. Some begin with very tentative steps but often reach a high standard of practice after being allowed to make mistakes. Many achieve excellence precisely because they constantly challenge their own insecurities.
Good teachers have always been aware of their pupils' perceptive scrutiny and have adjusted their teaching styles to the shifting needs of their charges. But, as in all complex relationships, there are profoundly subtler ways of responding to legitimate pupil concerns than by means of a prematurely empowered panel of judges. Should not education be a dynamic conversation where pupils and teachers exchange opinions but in a context that respects a hierarchy of experience?
Younger teachers, used to being mentored, are often said to be quite comfortable with constant observation. But, if we want high-quality and inspirational teachers, they need the freedom to stretch the boundaries, to try new techniques of teaching and classroom management, for the benefit of those pupils whom we are told are often bored by the formulaic lessons imposed by fear of Ofsted. This freedom is unlikely to come in the model at Beauchamp.
If teaching is ever to be a truly professional pursuit, should not those who lead in schools encourage more independent thinking among their staff? The developing minds of our young cannot be left in the hands of clones with an Ofsted stamp on their foreheads.
Simon McCarthy, Clapton, north-east London.


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The BlueCrest Group is as an innovative, dynamic and energetic team of highly skilled professionals who are inspired to make a difference in peoples lives. Through our pioneering spirit, we shape opportunities into reality by staying close to our clients and providing them with an objective, independent and strategic advice to establish a compelling solution.
Our Team is committed to exceptional performance, uncompromising integrity, honesty, and ethical business practices.
We provide comprehensive strategic services in determining real value in our clients’ businesses.
As our client, you will enjoy a world-class client-experience from owner-entrepreneurs that are passionate about delivering the strongest results on every engagement.
Michael has over 20 years of financial expertise and business understanding, with a tertiary education in Business Management as well as Insurance and Risk Management.
Michael’s insurance and risk management career commenced in 1995, and in 2001 formed his own brokerage before merging with a large national brokerage in 2003. Michael worked on the execution of a wide range of insurance programmes from Solar Energy Farms, Mining to large Property Funds and complex Corporate Programmes.
Michael’s transaction experience is underpinned by his vast network of both local and international clients and business associates, providing an enviable position to leverage a reach that is unique and highly successful for his clients.
Hylton is a qualified accountant and tax practitioner who has been in business for more than 25 years.
Hylton has vast experience and expertise in business commerce and is an invaluable asset to any business owner seeking advice on Tax, Valuations and Business Plans as well as restructuring.
Michael has over 20 years of financial expertise and business understanding, with a tertiary education in Business Management as well as Insurance and Risk Management. Michael’s insurance and risk management career commenced in 1995, and in 2001 formed his own brokerage before merging with a large national brokerage in 2003. Michael worked on the execution of a wide range of insurance programmes from Solar Energy Farms, Mining to large Property Funds and complex Corporate Programmes. Michael’s transaction experience is underpinned by his vast network of both local and international clients and business associates, providing an enviable position to leverage a reach that is unique and highly successful for his clients. Michael is motivated by ambition and tenacious in his approach. He is fastidious about service excellence, always ensuring that his clients enjoy professional service beyond their expectations.
Hylton is a qualified accountant and tax practitioner who has been in business for more than 25 years. Hylton has vast experience and expertise in business commerce and is an invaluable asset to any business owner seeking advice on Tax, Valuations and Business Plans as well as restructuring. Hylton has developed a close network of clients and brings his years of unparalleled business acumen to the BlueCrest Group overseeing a number of facets within the Group.


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49 Which key signature to pick for this chord progression?
43 How can you be sure your teacher-to-be is an accomplished musician?
36 Do I need to learn music theory to play the ukulele?
35 What does this note - B# - mean?
32 Why is the double bass the only instrument in the violin family tuned in fourths?
32 Why is this 4th-note written as two 8th-notes tied together?


text: We were appointed 10 years ago in 2006, together with Blueprint Landscape Architects and VMR, to design a concept for an entomological centre for the Ruimsig Nature Reserve near Roodepoort. The project was an initiative by local enthusiasts, including Mr John Leroy, to establish this project as an educational centre to preserve the Roodepoort Copper, a red listed butterfly species only found in this particular area. The design was inspired by the tectonic qualities of the structure of a butterfly wing. The project was terminated due to lack of funds, but there is a possibility that we now have new sponsors on board and we are very excited about this renewed opportunity.


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When the government enacted new food price increases in the summer of 1980, a wave of labor unrest swept the country. Partly moved by local grievances, the workers of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk went on strike in mid-August. Led by electrician and veteran strike leader Lech Walesa, the strikers occupied the shipyard and issued far-reaching demands for labor reform and greater civil rights. The workers' top priority was establishment of a trade union independent of communist party control and possessing the legal right to strike. Buoyed by a wave of popular support and formally acknowledged by other striking enterprises as their leader, the Gdansk workers held out until the government capitulated. The victorious strikers hailed the Gdansk Agreement of August 31 as a veritable social contract, authorizing citizens to introduce democratic change to the extent possible within the confines of the communist system.
Solidarity, the free national trade union that arose from the nucleus of the Lenin Shipyard strike was unlike anything in the previous experience of Comecon nations. Although primarily a labor movement led and supported by workers and represented by its charismatic chairman Walesa, Solidarity attracted a diverse membership that quickly swelled to 10 million people, or more than one of every four Poles. Because of its size and massive support, the organization assumed the stature of a national reform lobby. Although it disavowed overtly political ambitions, the movement became a de facto vehicle of opposition to the communists, who were demoralized but still in power. With the encouragement of Pope John Paul II, the church gave Solidarity vital material and moral support that further legitimized it in the eyes of the Polish population.
In the sixteen months following its initial strike, Solidarity waged a difficult campaign to realize the letter and spirit of the Gdansk Agreement. This struggle fostered an openness unprecedented in a communist East European society. Although the PZPR ousted Gierek as first secretary and proclaimed its willingness to cooperate with the fledgling union, the ruling party still sought to frustrate its rival and curtail its autonomy in every possible way. In 1980-81, repeated showdowns between Solidarity and the party-state usually were decided by Solidarity's effective strikes. The movement spread from industrial to agricultural enterprises with the founding of Rural Solidarity, which pressured the regime to recognize private farmers as the economic foundation of the country's agricultural sector.
Meanwhile, the persistence of Solidarity prompted furious objections from Moscow and other Comecon members, putting Poland under constant threat of invasion by its Warsaw Pact allies. This was the first time a ruling communist regime had accepted organizations completely beyond the regime's control. It was also the first time an overwhelming majority of the workers under such a regime were openly loyal to an organization fundamentally opposed to everything for which the party stood. In 1981 an estimated 30 percent of PZPR members also belonged to an independent union.
In late 1981, the tide began to turn against the union movement. In the midst of the virtual economic collapse of the country, many Poles lost the enthusiasm that had given Solidarity its initial impetus. The extremely heterogeneous movement developed internal splits over personality and policy. Walesa's moderate wing emphasized nonpolitical goals, assuming that Moscow would never permit Poland to be governed by a group not endorsed by the Warsaw Pact. Walesa sought cooperation with the PZPR to prod the regime into reforms and avoid open confrontation with the Soviet Union. By contrast, the militant wing of Solidarity sought to destabilize the regime and force drastic change through wildcat strikes and demonstrations.
In 1981 the government adopted a harder line against the union, and General Wojciech Jaruzelski, commander in chief of the Polish armed forces, replaced Stanislaw Kania as party leader in October. Jaruzelski's very profession symbolized a tougher approach to the increasingly turbulent political situation. At the end of 1981, the government broke off all negotiations with Solidarity, and tension between the antagonists rose sharply.


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Macau will always have a role to play in Portugal’s relationship with China, as the relationship began with Macau and has become stronger through it, the new Portuguese consul-general told the Plataforma newspaper.
The diplomat, when asked how Portugal could benefit from its inclusion in China’s ‘Belt & Road’ initiative, said that the virtue of the initiative is to be able to develop the existing privileged relationship between the two countries, deepening it in terms of economic relations and human contacts.
“When we talk about economic investments we have to mention the movement of communities from one country to another, and about tourism, because there will certainly be an increase, and it is these flows and human contacts that will help strengthen the bilateral relationship, and Portugal has to take advantage in various fields – economic, commercial, business and tourism and language,” he said.
The beginning of construction of this project could lead the Portuguese community to extend the scope of its intervention and leave Macau to contribute in other cities in the region, where, although there is no significant Portuguese community, economic interests are beginning to emerge.
The consul-general recalled the opening of a Portuguese consulate in Guangzhou in 2018, which will serve to develop further exchange with Macau in terms of companies, law firms and other interests.
He also noted the issue of language, given the interest shown in China, as demonstrated by the number of universities with Portuguese language courses, adding that cities around Macau in Guangdong province will be interested in deepening the relationship and in hiring staff that speak the language so they can do business with the Portuguese-speaking world.

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What’s the next great chapter in your life story going to be? Maybe its finding a place to watch your family grow and flourish. Or living in a classic heritage setting, where historic buildings, charming shops and beautiful scenery are there to greet you every morning. Perhaps you’ve always dreamed of enjoying the best of all worlds — with major urban amenities, charming town atmosphere and peaceful natural spaces all close at hand.
Located in the historic town of Fergus — just minutes from the stunning heritage shops and homes that line the banks of the Grand River — Storybrook is a new planned community brought to you by Tribute Communities and The Sorbara Group. Featuring a wide selection of traditional home designs and an exceptional community setting, you can start your next great story here — Storybrook.
Everyone wants a house that gives them that special warm feeling. The feeling that makes it truly your home. This is what you discover with the wonderful selection of 40’, 50’ detached homes and bungalow townhomes at Storybrook. Designed to reflect the traditional look and feel that is the essence of life in Fergus, you will find that the homes of Storybrook combine all the best modern and classic elements to create exceptional places to live.
With so much to do and see, you can enjoy a new wonderful story every day at Storybrook. Fergus is just one of the fine communities that you can discover in Wellington County. The surrounding area is dotted with countless hidden treasures in communities such as Guelph and Elora — places that offer amazing shopping, top restaurants, charming natural areas, golf and more are all just a short drive away.
Just 20 minutes south of Fergus, the bustling hub of Guelph has all of your big city conveniences and then some. If you’re looking for big name retailers, The Stone Road Mall has over 150 to choose from. The university bound in your family will enjoy The University of Guelph, a world class institution of higher learning — ranked 5th overall in Canada by Maclean’s Magazine.
The nearby Kitchener/Waterloo region is one of the most exciting urban centres in the region. Known as “Silicon Valley North”, Kitchener/Waterloo is home to the Canadian headquarters for many leading international tech companies. Google, Shopify, Blackberry and Huawei all have major offices here. The region also boasts two major universities — Sir Wilfrid Laurier and University of Waterloo — so there’s no shortage of exciting opportunities to discover just a short drive away.
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Oral Maxillofacial Surgery is a specialty which involves diagnosing, operating and treating oral diseases, injuries and defects that involve the functional and visual aspects of the hard and soft tissues of the mouth and jaw. To simplify, the oral and maxillofacial surgeon is the orthopedic surgeon for the face. He or she is an individual who addresses issues that vary from the removal of impacted teeth, to the repair of facial trauma.
What are some reasons to visit an Oral-Maxillofacial Surgeon?
Have teeth replaced by getting dental implants.
Have a jaw, oral, or facial cyst or tumor diagnosed, removed and reconstructed.
Have your jaw aligned with orthognathic surgery.
Have your jaw joint(s) repaired with TMJ surgery.
Have facial reconstruction after cancer surgery.
Having facial bones realigned after trauma.
Have a consultation to determine whether you are a able to have cosmetic surgery.


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sorry, we don’t have any video tutorials. The installation is very simple and it is described here.
Quick user guide can help you to place your first video, for more details see configuration page, and for details on optional parameters look in the FV Flowplayer in the Setting section of your WordPress install.
Hope this helps you to start using our plugin.
Nice plugin but my player’s always autoplay. Even when the value is set to false.
we tested both ways and we haven’t found any problems here. Have you tried to turn off the global autoplay? Or the autoplay=false in the shortcode?


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Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) recover their allowed revenue from customers through distribution use of system (DUoS) charges. The methodologies for calculating these charges are the Extra High Voltage Distribution Charging Methodology (EDCM) for the large, industrial customers connected at the highest voltages, and the Common Distribution Charging Methodology (CDCM) for the remaining customers.
In a letter dated 16 February 2017, Western Power Distribution (WPD) set out the background to an error in the application of the charging methodologies for two of its licence areas for 2017/18, and proposed an approach to correcting the error. WPD sought the most appropriate way to correct the error, proposing that for some EDCM customers it would issue an addendum to correct tariffs for 2017/18 and for the remaining affected customers, it would manually correct the tariffs for 2019/20.
Owing to the consequences of the error, WPD requested four derogations for each licence area. This letter gives consent for the four requested derogations.
Alongside the letter giving consent to the derogations, we have published WPD’s final, consolidated request for the derogations. We have also published a follow-up letter to WPD expressing our disappointment at the error and its consequences, and more details on how we reached our decision to issue the derogations.

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American Iron and Steel Training - Iowa SRF - Registration Open!
Join the Iowa SRF Program and EPA for a comprehensive one-day training on American Iron and Steel requirements.
When: Wednesday, October 28, 2015; 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Who should attend: Consulting engineers, contractors, suppliers, grant administrators, manufacturers, utility staff, and others.
Where: Johnston Public Library, 6700 Merle Hay Road, Johnston, IA or on-line. In-person attendance is encouraged!
For more information, contact Patti Cale-Finnegan, Iowa SRF: patti.cale-finnegan@dnr.iowa.gov.
Co-sponsored by the Iowa SRF and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Municipal Utility Law Workshop - Registration Open!
Register and pay online here. Class size will be limited so register now to reserve your seat.
During October, HMU field employees will don pink hard hats as a visible public reminder and support of breast cancer awareness month.
Pictured are representatives from the HMU electric, gas, water and telecom departments with their pink hard hat.
From left to right: Troy Doonan (Gas/Meter Department), Jacob Jochims (Electric Department), Ryan Eggerss (Water Department) and Ken Holloway (Telecom Department).
OSHA 10-Hour Construction Outreach Courses - Dates Still Available!
Dates for the OSHA 10-Hour Construction Outreach Courses are still available!
This course will explain OSHA's role in worker safety and health, job-site hazard recognition, correction and prevention methods and how to read the OSHA standards. Participants will receive a laminated wallet card from the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA certifying successful completion of this OSHA 10-Hour course. 29 CFR 1926 CFR Book & course material furnished.
Click either link to register.
An extension cord may look harmless but most extension cords are designed to carry 110 volts of electricity and 110 volts can kill. Extension cords are considered by both OSHA and the National Electric Code to be temporary wiring and certain rules apply to their usage. One of the most overlooked of all rules is the requirement to do a visual inspection of the cord before each use.
Extension cords are usually items that get lots of hard usage and are very susceptible to damage. This is one reason that OSHA requires a visual inspection of all flexible cords (including those on power tools) each day or before each use.
Public Natural Gas Week (PNGW) is a nationwide observance that offers the perfect opportunity for you to showcase your public natural gas system and generate enthusiasm about the benefits of public natural gas. This year, PNGW will be celebrated October 4 -10, 2015.
American Public Gas Association (APGA) and IAMU encourages members to celebrate this week by promoting their system through events, social media posts, material distribution, communication, press release, and other publicity methods.


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The response was overwhelming. I got recommendations for everything from music to products, podcasts and places to visit, things I should experience and overall life advice. What was most fascinating to me was how much other people benefited from these recommendations. Most of the recommendations sparked little micro-conversations in the comments where people expressed agreement, discussed similar recommendations, or simply said thank you.
Isn’t it surprising what you can learn from your friends?
In that spirit, I decided to collect all of those fascinating recommendations here so that other people can benefit from them. Please feel free to share anything you’d like to recommend in the comments.
P.S. Thanks to Jonathan Stark for the inspiration for the question!
Thank you for reading my site.


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Ditch the pan and try a plastic bag instead.
This hack for making omelettes involves cooking the eggs in a plastic bag instead of a pan.
All you have to do is bring a large pot of water to a boil, crack your eggs into a large gallon plastic zip bag, shake them, add the ingredients, and then cook the plastic bag in the boiling water for 12-15 minutes.
The result is fluffier eggs that are cooked more evenly throughout.
A restaurant-quality omelette can be hard to achieve — often you end up with runny eggs and ingredients that spill out the side of your omelette.
Fortunately, this hack exists, and it takes pretty much all the skill out of making an omelette.
All you need is a large gallon plastic zip bag and a pot of boiling water.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Meanwhile, c rack your eggs directly into the plastic bag.Shake the bag vigorously until the egg yolks and whites are fully mixed together.
Crack your eggs directly into the bag.
Add your ingredients to the bag.
Add the ingredients into the bag.
Place the bag in the pot of boiling water for 12-15 minutes.
Place the bag into the pot of boiling water.
Roll the omelette out of the bag and enjoy!
This method ensures fluffier eggs that are cooked more evenly throughout.


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I'm a teacher and hobbyist musician, with an interest for synthesizers and recording in general. Had my first taste of studio technology as a kid, doing volunteer work at a local radio station. Played keyboards in various short-lived bands since my high school days in the late 80's, and borrowed my friend's four-track portastudio as often as he'd allow me. Had a basic understanding of MIDI when introduced to computer-based sequencing on the Amiga. Started learning MIDI for real once I got my own Yamaha SW1000XG and the accompanying XGworks v2 sequencer, and this piece of equipment still holds a special place in my heart.
I've been on the Cakewalk bandwagon since Sonar 3, but also play around with Yamaha's SQ01 from time to time. I'm here to learn, first of all, but I just might be able to dispense with some advice too. Nothing is too technical!


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Is your marriage/relationship more often negative than positive?
Do you feel indifferent towards your spouse/significant other, or sense that s/he feels indifferent to you?
Are you looking for something different from your relationship but can’t even define what?
Do you find yourself dreading being with your spouse/significant other on a regular basis?
Has your spouse/significant other cheated on you?
Do you frequently wonder whether your marriage/relationship is going to make it?
While this is by no means an exhaustive list, a “yes” answer to any of these questions is a good indication that it might be time to seek the help of a couples counselor. Marital therapy can do a lot for a couple, whether the relationship is really on the brink or is just has a few rough spots that need smoothing out. The intervention of a trained and objective professional can make a big difference.
Your couples counselor can help you get down to the root of what the problem in your relationship really is. Often a couple will come into the therapy room with complaints about issues that are really don’t get at the heart of the trouble – like how to squeeze the toothpaste, or what one person or the other said last night. In truth the issue likely runs much deeper, and a marriage therapist can help discover what that is.
Another important way the relationship counselor can help is to teach a couple to communicate about a problem more effectively. Frequently when there are important values at stake people can get very emotional. When couples come to counseling and there is already a lot of anger, hurt, and resentment, it is hard for them to speak productively, i.e., without hurling insults and accusations. A competent couples therapist will see to it that a conversation can happen in which the couple can move beyond this level and actually get to discuss and resolve the issues at hand.
Finally, a marriage counselor can offer guidance on how to go forward in the relationship. While it is not the counselor’s place to suggest to a couple that they should or should not break up, the counselor can propose ideas of what kind of things would help a couple make that decision for themselves, and what kind of behaviors might make the result they decide on more or less likely.
Of course, couple counseling is an intense process that cannot be boiled down to a few bulletpoints; nonetheless, this brief outline will hopefully help you think more clearly about whether it’s time for you to seek relationship counseling and what you might get out of it.
If you are thinking about couples counseling or marital therapy in the Baltimore area (including but not limited to Timonium, Lutherville, Ellicott City, Owings Mills and Towson), please contact us to find out how we can help you.


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Posted 7:38 pm, May 4, 2018, by Vernon Freeman Jr.
STAFFORD, Va. – A Maryland man has been arrested after deputies say he stole two dealer tags from vehicles at a Stafford County car dealership.
The incident occurred on May 3, when a deputy responded to a report of a stolen dealer tag in the parking lot of Manheim Auto Auction, located at 120 Auction Drive.
The victim reported that his Washington D.C. dealer tags were stolen from his vehicle while he was inside the building. Police said the victim arrived at the auto action around 8:45 a.m. and noticed the tags were missing about four hours later when he returned to his vehicle.
After reviewing security footage, the deputy and security manager identified the suspect as 56-year-old Stanley Leon Cooper.
Deputies say Cooper denied stealing any dealer tags and said he was a dealer there to sell a vehicle.
However, the deputy noticed the suspect’s vehicle, a Toyota 4-Runner, matched the license plate observed on the security video.
After obtaining a search warrant, the deputy found the reported stolen tags as well as two Maryland motorcycle tags, a Virginia tag, two Pennsylvania temporary tags, and two West Virginia temporary tags.
Cooper was charged with petit larceny and possession of burglary tools.
He is being held at Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond.


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text: If you have thought to travel to the principality of Andorra, here we give a series you of advice so that your stay in the neighboring country is absolutely pleasant: – The tourist supply in Andorra is than attractive more. During the summer times you can enjoy the rural tourism and multitude of adventure sports. And like no, in winter you can alquilarte an apartment in Andorra and enjoy his more than 150 tracks of ski, divided in five stations: Pas of the House, Soldeu-El Tarter, Pale, Odino and Arinsal – Downtown of Andorra is one of the concurred zones more of the city, so why you do not take advantage of your rent in Andorra and you are going away to know its small adjacent localities like Encamp, Canillo and Ordino. – It remembers that Andorra owns economic prices; so but without becoming is the ideal site to realise purchases crazy since great amount of customs restrictions exists. – Another one of the attractiveness of Andorra, is their spas like the one of Chaldea, a place where you will be able relajarte and olvidarte of the stress of the daily work. – As far as the typical gastronomy of Andorra, one without proving trinxat cannot go away; a specialty of done there with potato, cabbage and bacon, perfect for the months of winter. These are only some advice. Doubtless, the best thing is to take the suitcase, to travel until Andorra and to discover it by one same one; certainly it will surprise to you..


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When it comes to booking hotel stays, travelers have many options, including the hotels’ own websites, online travel agencies (Expedia, Orbitz, Hotels.com, etc.), and aggregator sites, like Kayak and Trivago, which compile results from multiple booking engines and sites.
The sheer number of options can be overwhelming. And adding to the difficulty of making a confident choice, the landscape is in constant flux, with once-trusted names falling by the wayside as shiny new upstarts bring more robust technology and better user interfaces to the space.
For those who find themselves overwhelmed, or just need a refresher on the latest and greatest, Frommer’s newly released “Best and Worst Hotel Booking Websites” survey will help narrow the field.
The alluded-to “battery of tests” appears to have been quite exhaustive. In reading the reviews of the listed sites, it’s clear that Frommer’s considered a host of variables, including the number of hotels and destinations covered, choice filters, sort options, success in locating the lowest price, and so on.
The result is a compilation of booking sites that includes some of the old standbys but also some sites that many travelers will be hearing about for the first time.
Note that most hotels only award loyalty-program points for bookings made on their own websites. That doesn’t make the Frommer’s list irrelevant, however; it’s still worth checking third-party sites to see whether the rate quoted on the hotel site is the lowest available.
Quibbles? Sites that should be on the list but aren’t?
This article first appeared on SmarterTravel.com, where Tim Winship is Editor-at-Large.


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The position is funded by the “Towards Next Generation Embedded Systems: Utilizing Parallelism and Reconfigurability” project, which is a Indo-Swedish Collaboration project funded by Vinnova, Sweden and Department of Science and Technology (DST), India.
validate the design flow with a diverse set of real-world use-cases.
Key-concepts involved to achieve these objectives include: domain specific languages; heterogeneous manycore architectures; and stream processing.
The suitable candidate has recently received, or is expecting to finalize within a few months, a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related fields. Particular strength or experience in parallel computer architectures and parallel programming is very welcome.
Only those who are or have been admitted to third-cycle courses and study programs at a higher education may be appointed to doctoral studentships (The Higher Education Ordinance chapter 5, Section 3).
The duration of the employment is six months starting from 1st January 2018 -30st June.


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BBB's - Best Blogging Buddies! As many of you know, some of the best of friends are made in blogland! Recently, I received some wonderful surprises from just two of those! First is this incredible vintage wool from Stephanie at Loft Creations! She generously fed my wool habit with some of the most gorgeous pieces! On the left is a rich orange, a heathered charcoal and a subtle tan and orange plaid. On the right are gorgeous blues which are a much needed addition to my colors! Thank you Stephanie....you're a great friend!
Another great friend is Mary over at Quilt Hollow! I opened my mail to find this adorable bag and matching pin cushion! Mary - you really made my day! The bag is SO "me" and I can't wait to load it up and carry it proudly! Mr. Squash, who generally doesn't say much about bags, was immediately impressed with Mary's creation! He even remarked that it was the perfect size for me! Thank you so very much, my friend!
On the Squash House front, I would really like to say that we're finally done with all of our projects....but that would be premature! We are getting close, though. Recently the old fence in back came down to make way for a new and much improved version! Here is what it looked like as the new posts were being set on the south side of the house facing the alley.
Here are Ted and Justin - friends, neighbors and contractors as they were tearing down the fence on the west side of the house. This father/son team work hard!
Here is what we like to call the entrance to the Ponderosa so far. Above the top of the fence will be an Asian-inspired lattice of Ted's design which will run the length of the fence. The two large posts on either side of the opening are the beginning of a large trellis and the opening will become an 8-foot wide double gate to the alley. I've already purchased a white and a red eating grape to grow up either side of the trellis. Ted and Justin's dog, Pepper, likes to come over while they're working and play stick. Here she is in a rare, quiet moment!
Oh, and I have a confession...I've been building again! Here are my three raised vegetable beds! The one on the right isn't quite done - I'll finish it later today. They are simple to construct - just screw 2 x 6's into plastic corners, sink with plastic posts, level, and fill! Those bags are a mixture of dirt and compost to fill the beds and my seeds should arrive just in time to plant by Mother's Day! By next year I should have my own compost to amend the soil. We can't wait to eat our fresh veggies! Finally, these three pots were left by the previous owners. I planted them with Wave Petunias, Zinnias, upright Fuschia, bell flower, African Daisies, Creeping Jennies, Bacopa and a few other interesting plants. They don't look like much now, but in a few weeks they'll be ablaze with blooms! Our garage holds a treasure trove of more pots to be filled in the coming months!
I'm doing a bit of sewing - still some secret projects, but will have reveals for you soon!
I finally have most of the components of my studio completed! A little tweaking here and there still needs to be done, but for the most part, I'm quite happy! I had a choice of several different rooms in the Squash House, some were much larger, one was smaller. I'm glad I chose this room as it seems to suit my needs perfectly!
All of the descriptions will be above each photo. First is the view outside the north-facing window! We have four white Dogwoods in the front of our house - each is at least 50 years old! I took this photo right after a good rain and the sun wasn't out yet.
Here are my shades. I went with roller shades and a matching valance for simplicity. The choices were endless so I finally just pointed to something pretty! They roll from a pully on the side rather than handling the shade itself.
Check out the rug I found at Home Depot. It has a similar design to the shades and although you can't tell from the photos, it is nearly the same color as the shades. Mr. Squash was amazed (as was I) that I went with such a light color, but so far it's been easy to keep clean!
Here is a slightly wider angle shot. The quilt on the left is mostly behind the door when it's open.
Just look at the Perfect Caddy! I ordered an insert for small items for the top drawer yesterday. Other than that, it's completely filled with lots of necessities!
Here is my Koala table set up for cutting and sewing. That is the window that looks out on the Dogwood trees. I used both my Sony digital and Mr. Squash's big Canon to take photos. I am surprised at just how hard it is to photograph a room!
Continuing on around the room you now see my desk and the north window. Karen over at Short Story Long took the photo of a ladybug that's on my computer desktop and graciously allowed me to copy and use it! Thanks, Karen, I love it!
Now you can see my design wall. I don't have it affixed to the wall and not sure I will just yet. But it's very functional. It's a piece of insulation board from Home Depot. I attached another piece of Warm and Natural batting to it using double sided carpet tape. The two wicker baskets to the right of my desk hold fabric and other sewing stuff.
This is my green primitive cupboard that I use to store all of my quilting books and other notebooks. The door next to it is the tiny closet and then the door leading out into the hallway.
Check out the inside of the cupboard - stocked full! Do you think I'll ever use all of those quilting books?
This is the inside of the closet. It's filled to the brim with another Bernina for backup when one is in the shop, my embroidery unit, another chest filled with sewing and office supplies, thread and several boxes of blocks I've started for different quilts! It's also where I store my ironing board, and the clothes that need to be ironed. When I'm sewing I set up the ironing board in front of the 56-drawer chest.
Looking in from the hallway. You can see that all I need to do is pivot my chair from my desk to the sewing table. A while back, two of us were in the room cutting a quilt and we seemed to have plenty of room even with the ironing board set up!
So there you have it. Nothing special, really, just a comfortable room in which to have a lot of fun!
Sunday was another day of construction at the Squash House! Christmas before last, Mr. Squash gave me the Hinterberg Perfect Caddy. I decided to wait to put it together until our move here to the Squash House. We were further delayed waiting for warmer weather so we could first put a coat of Minwax on it in the garage where the fumes wouldn't make us loopy! Saturday Mr. Squash spent the day doing just that!
We let the Minwax dry overnight and yesterday I went to work with my trusty drill! Here is just some of it as I was organizing the pieces.
The first drawer went together really well! Hinterberg's directions are impeccable! The wood for the most part is solid oak, all the holes are pre-drilled and they even included a drill bit for the allen wrench! I was just tickled to see that I didn't need to use one of those tiny allen wrenches that destroy my fingers! From there on out everything went together really well!
Here is the base all assembled....now on to the top section and the side bins. I did have a bit of a mishap...I first assembled the base piece on the top - only because I didn't pay close enough attention to the instructions! Thank goodness I figured it out after screwing in only one of the wheels!
And here is the finished Perfect Caddy!! It still needs to off-gas from the Minwax a bit more, so we have it in the dining room for another day or two before it goes to my studio.
This is one of the side views of the bins - two small on top and one extra large bin on the bottom. The other side has two medium bins. It also has locking casters on the bottom so you can either slide it around to meet your needs or park it in place!
Now I have all the components to finish my workspace. I'll be filling up the Perfect Caddy on Wedesday, then next post I'll reveal my Squash House studio!
What you see below is not a function of my camera, or my ability to take an even shot, or even an optical illusion....it is 2 nasty warps on my small Olfa cutting board. My nearly new, larger Olfa mat has the same problem.
I've always used Olfa cutting mats and never had this happen! Last summer I replaced both the large and small mats which were totally worn out, but not warped in the very least. The larger mat warped first, then the small. I interchange them frequently depending on the project. When one of the other are not being used, they are stored flat and never exposed to heat either stored or while being used. Has this happened to you? I wonder since I bought these around the same time if there could have been a bad batch?
So off I went to Joann's today to get a new 24 x 36 mat. I saw these brightly colored Fiskars mats and thought maybe Chicky-Bee would like a new pal since their colors are so similar! Plus I got to use a 50% off coupon! It will be interesting to see if there is any difference in performace - stay tuned!
Other than some gifts, I've done really well this year sticking to trying to use my stash! But for some reason I'm switching my fabric addition for a pattern addiction! Here are a few of my new patterns - all of which will be made using fabric I have in my stash! The two below are from The Cottage at Cardiff Farms. I bought them online here. The pattern on the right is jelly roll friendly and both will be really fun to make!
Mr. Squash bought this Crabapple Hill pattern for me on a recent road trip. As soon as I finish my current project, I will need another stitchery to work on in the evening while watching TV. We both love birds, so Flight of Fancy will make a nice, summer bed quilt - and most of you know how much I enjoy stitching Crabapple Hill patterns!
As promised on my last post, I have a new purchase to show you! Many of you know that I have been using and loving my Oliso iron for about 3 years now. A couple of years ago when at Sew Expo, I stopped at the Oliso booth to tell them how much I loved their iron! I also mentioned that it would be nice to have one that stayed on longer and had a sharper point. Well, out from under the counter came their new prototype! They said it was still in development, but to look for it about a year later!
And here she is (a little later than I had planned, but that's OK)! Meet "Chicky-Bee" as I call her (short for Chiquita Banana, given her color!) I am in LOVE with this new iron! It stays on for 30 minutes, doesn't drip at all (nor did the previous Oliso), is much lighter, has a longer cord and a sharper point!
This and the other versions have what is called "I-Touch Technology" - no need to set it on its end! All you do is touch the handle in the down position, and the little feet on the bottom lift up so you can iron. When you release the handle, the little feet come back out, the iron stays in the down position and will not scorch the fabric or ironing board cover! The controls are easy to see, and the iron fills from the side! And check out the soleplate - lots of steam holes and a sharper point for ironing those small spaces!
I made a rather crude video of Chicky-Bee in action....it's enough to understand how it works!
You can bet I will be spending a lot of time with Chicky-Bee in the near future!


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Today was a bit of a triumph, a laying to rest of old ghosts.
For the first time in my memory, I went for a run (3 miles, if you wish to know details), and actually enjoyed it—all of it.
No doubt it helped that it was a mild spring evening, that I was running around the perimeter of the rather lovely Victoria Park, skirting ponds and a pagoda, ornamental flower beds, the canal with its bright, cheerful rows of narrow boats, expanses of smooth green grass, and passing beneath row upon row of gracious plane trees, alcoves of the old London Bridge (its 1728 incarnation), the whole bathed in slanting rays of that particular golden sunlight peculiar to late evenings and general satisfaction.
But still. I ran, and I enjoyed the stretching, the warm-up, the settling into a rhythm, focusing on my breathing, releasing tension, increasing the spring in my step, the gentle pushing through barriers of fatigue, savouring the breeze on my face and the feeling of steady movement in my limbs, centring thought to one step at a time, and finding the final burst of energy past the Approach Tavern to my own front door.
I can see the Gallic shrug from my sitting room sofa: why is this significant? As a child, I had a particularly spirited PE teacher (now sadly no longer with us) who was, no joke, a former Army drill sergeant. I had childhood asthma, so gym was unfailingly excruciating, with his face often inches from my own, challenging me: ‘Is that all you’ve got, Miss Fredrick?’ Usually it was.
Pressing my failure to achieve deep into my quailing consciousness as I vainly attempted to haul my chin up to the pull-up bar, which might as well have been in Antarctica for all the chance I had to reach it. Or puffing and wheezing through the interminable laps round the block of the now-bulldozed Franklin Middle School to clock up another abysmal time for a mile.
I just couldn’t win. So slowly, without realising, exercise became associated with public ritual humiliation. Now I’m sure that many other girls in my class probably felt similar; I don’t remember asking them, with a teenager’s understandable reticence on such topics as could injure my fragile self-image even further. I also found out, many years later, that this same PE teacher was a disappointed minor-league baseball player. Learning about his crushed dreams did lend me more sympathy for him, but it didn’t remove the scarring of his mocking voice in my ear.
On one level, the damage wasn’t too profound, as a few years later, I joined the school volleyball team, and stayed on it for 5 years. It was a team sport, so the focus wasn’t solely on me. And I found that I hated the ‘star position’—and the pressure—of being a ‘hitter’, the front-row player tasked with ‘spiking’ the ball to complete a play. I far preferred the ‘service’ positions of back-row and setter. And serving itself? I was either lethal or rubbish, the only pattern my unpredictability from game to game. I wish I could say there is no correlation to my later life.
But when I went to Europe during my junior year of high school, there were no team sports I knew how to play, and when I came back, having got out of the habit, I didn’t re-join the team for my senior year. Nor did I play college sports, though they were offered and in some cases quite strong at my university. I play for fun at family reunions and random gatherings, but mostly I keep my competitiveness to the fussball table (where I assure you, I get very heated indeed).
And no, I do NOT go to the gym. For I had developed a lasting antipathy, almost an allergic reaction to gyms, to places where my progress would be visibly measured against another’s. A strange position, one might say, for a professional performer. Perhaps executing one ‘sport’ (for proper singing IS a taxing physical activity) to an Olympian level is enough for me. At any rate, I pass gyms with an internal shudder, quickening my step.
There has been one notable exception. For one season, I joined my parents in solidarity in doing the lead-up programme to the rigorous P90 exercise regime, later switching to the videos of the frighteningly named Insanity series with a friend in London, the two of us jumping and waving our arms about in the mezzanine of the St Barnabas Dalston Mission Hall. Much to my astonishment, I found that I rather enjoyed it. With the aid of a close-up camera shot and a body microphone, the coaches could be encouraging in normal voices, even funny and charming, and I could choose my own level of engagement.
In a true momentary lapse of sanity, I attended precisely one session of a group Insanity fitness class, and it was like being dragged back 25 years, with the teacher yelling out instructions and coming round to each of us, lashing us on to more repetitions, higher, faster, deeper. When I finished, I actually felt physically ill, and absolutely livid: the experience had pressed more internal buttons than a fighter pilot in combat. Never, I vowed through gritted teeth, would I do that again. Ever.
So I’m afraid that all the glossy ads of sweat-gleaming trim girls with kettle bells have no power over my imagination. I would rather go hill-walking for 4 miles, or 8, or 10, getting conversation and great views and proper progression of place and perspective for my pains, go swing dancing for an evening (pure joy), or do yoga.
Or do some singing practice, which, if I’m doing it properly and practicing a big piece, gets my heart rate up to circuit-training levels. It’s true. I once went into an audition, having had a 5-minute brisk walk from the tube station and a 5 minute wait, sang the virtuosic ‘Martner aller Arten’ by Mozart, and came out sweating. And not from nerves. So there you go.
But tonight, tonight, I had fun running, and that is a big deal. I am more a tortoise than a hare, by any standards. My form is probably shocking. I will win no awards for speed or style, and I will probably never run a half-marathon, let alone a marathon. But for the second time in two weeks, I ran 3 miles without walking a step.
And my secret was this: At each new section, I said to myself, ‘You don’t have to keep going; you can walk. It’s okay to stop’. Thus continuing became a continual choice, an exercise of agency in which I could say, ‘I know, but I choose to continue’. Knowing I could stop at any point actually gave me more energy to persevere than if I had doggedly set my goal and pursued it come what may.
For an overachiever often crippled by unreasonable self-expectations, it was an epiphany of epic proportions. I was slow and probably sloppy, but I was happy as Larry (in the memorable if inexplicable British phrase), going at my own pace in the evening twilight, finishing what I’d vaguely decided to achieve if possible, bit by bit.
I am in the middle of reading an excellent book by Emily Ley called Grace not Perfection. Perhaps it is rubbing off. Perhaps tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that, I will try working it into other parts of my life, setting attainable goals, silencing the voices of the past with present truths, giving myself permission to slow down and stop if needs be so that I can enjoy the scenery and the experience along the way.
I need new trainers if I’m to keep this up, symbolism if ever I’ve seen it. I’ll let you know how I get on. If you meet me in the park, puffing along slowly with beatific surprise at my continued forward motion, wave, smile indulgently, shake your head, and say, ‘Well, you never can tell’.


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“Journey From Within” is a one-hour tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which will air on WVXU and WMUB on Saturday, January 17th, at 11pm. The special begins with a song by Sweet Honey in the Rock and then continues with the words of Dr. Maya Angelou. Listeners will also hear from Reverend Adam Clayton Powell and philosopher Cornel West. There are important historical moments from Marian Anderson on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 Civil Rights speech, and the voice of Dr. King.
The Journey From Within is a one-hour tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The special begins with a song by Sweet Honey in the Rock and then continues with the words of Dr. Maya Angelou. Listeners will also hear from Reverend Adam Clayton Powell and philosopher Cornel West. There are important historical moments from Marian Anderson on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 Civil Rights speech, and the voice of Dr. King.

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John and I discussed creating a webpage on the AY website with some basic background information on the situation on the Peninsula to supplement information on our Banner Ad and Public Posters. I would suggest that sometime in early February, a large banner be posted on our Home Page with a link to an internal page containing some of the following info - I think it should include the actual wording and precise results of the referendum questions and some basic background information on why the were asked. Also, a brief outline of CISGI and how the public “ask” for a study never came to pass. This info can be massaged / condensed to provide the reason for the Town Hall and pique people’s interest.
Should the District of Central Saanich petition the Province to fund a cost/benefit analysis of an amalgamation of Central Saanich, North Saanich and Sidney?
Are you in favour of a study, provincially funded, to investigate the feasibility, costs and implications of amalgamating the three municipalities on the Saanich Peninsula of Sidney, Central Saanich and North Saanich?
Are you in favour of a provincially funded study to investigate the feasibility, costs and implications of amalgamating the three municipalities of the Saanich Peninsula?
In 2015, following the respective referendum results, each of the three Councils wrote letters to then Minister of CSCD, Coralee Oakes, asking for support and funding for a Peninsula focused amalgamation study. I have documented the meetings of councils where such correspondence was discussed and motions to send those letters were passed.
Perhaps if you are going to discuss Peninsula amalgamation with Central Saanich Councillor Thompson, he might approach either Councillor Jensen or Mayor Windsor and seek their support to second a motion to follow through on the wishes of the majority of voters in Central Saanich. After all, both Mayor Windsor and Councillor Jensen made the motion for an amalgamation question and voted in favour.
As to Sidney, the Mayor (the Councillor) Price seconded a motion made by Councillor Lougher-Goodey for a Peninsula amalgamation question and they, along with current councillor Chad, voted in favour of a question.
Now that the Capital Integrated Services & Governance Initiative (CISGI) report has clearly not delved into the ramifications and pros and cons of an amalgamation of the three Peninsula municipalities, one would wonder why those individual council members that were on their respective councils prior to the November 2014 elections and who have since supported writing the to Minister asking for Provincial funds for a study, are now no longer interested in moving forward. Perhaps all they need is a nudge. Shellie and I remain committed to aiding you in any way possible and are working towards putting together a Town Hall on the Peninsula in February 2018 and would welcome your participation.

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Given the tone and nature of Trump’s populist presidential campaign, it’s not surprising that the voters’ neurotic traits--fear, lost pride, loss aversion--could have predicted the outcome of the election.
Welcome back. An international study, led by a researcher from Australia’s Queensland University of Technology, examined the psychological factors underlying voting behavior in both the U.S. presidential election and the U.K. vote on Brexit. Bowing to space and focus, I’ll stick with the U.S. election; the methods and results were similar.
Associating politics with the Big Five personality traits--Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism--is nothing new. But the established personality correlates of voting are Openness and Conscientiousness (e.g., conservatives are typically characterized by low openness and high conscientiousness). Linking voting behavior to Neuroticism is new.
General descriptions of Big Five personality traits.
To model the effects of Neuroticism, the researchers used personality data from the Gosling-Potter Internet Project, a noncommercial website on which people can voluntarily complete a questionnaire on socio-demographic variables, personality traits and, since 2003, zip codes.
The study’s sample population, collected between 2003 and 2015, included 3,167,041 respondents from 2,082 counties (nearly 70% of the total), averaging 1,521 respondents per county; the average age was 26 and 64% were female.
The researchers focused on neurotic traits--Neuroticism as the broad trait and Anxiety and Depression as sub-facets. Trait scores were aggregated by county to relate to voting data.
Two types of election data were obtained from open sources: Trump’s share of the two-party 2016 vote and the change in the Republican share of the two-party vote from the previous presidential election, Obama vs Romney in 2012.
In modeling, the researchers attempted to control for factors which might explain voting behavior. For example, to capture the effect of a region’s industrial decline, they included the manufacturing and mining share of employment in 1970. Since racial composition can predict voting, they included the proportion of white inhabitants. For level of education, they added the proportion of the population with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
Demonstrating that Trump’s populist campaign played on voters’ fears, the study found counties high in Neuroticism were more likely to vote for Trump. Neuroticism positively predicted voting behavior in electing Trump and even more so in predicting Trump’s gains over the 2012 election.
Although the effect of Neuroticism was reduced when socioeconomic control factors were added, it still persisted. Similar results were also found for the Neuroticism sub-facets Anxiety and Depression.
The researchers posited that Neuroticism may exert a “sleeper effect” and potentially have a profound impact on the geopolitical landscape with the rise of populism. Questioning whether Neuroticism can be harnessed by any political campaign, they judged that campaigns built on fear and threat are better suited to conservative than liberal campaigns. I suspect that may not be true if Trump runs again.


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Inspector 8 I – Examines sample of paper sheets for defects according to quality control specifications: Measures dimensions of sheet with rule, folds sheet and aligns edges to verify squareness. Weighs sheet and compares weight with specification for kind and grade of paper. Fans stack of sheets to examine sheets for tears, soil, streaks, and shading and notifies supervisor of defects. Discards defective sheets or marks stack for reprocessing. Writes daily test reports.
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When it comes to avoiding spoilers for Game of Thrones, filmmakers are taking no chances for season 8. The story of Game of Thrones started in 1996 when author George R.R. Martin published his book titled A Game Of Thrones, which stands as his first entry in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. His series of novels is what HBO decided to adapt into Game of Thrones which came on the air in 2011.
The show has been running for seven seasons, but Game of Thrones very quickly became one of HBO's most popular TV shows. The series has a truly ensemble cast including actors like Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, and Lena Headey. All of these characters survived the end of season 7, but it is up in the air whether they will survive the eighth and final season. Thankfully, spoilers for the upcoming season haven't leaked yet, which is because HBO is taking special precautions to ensure that doesn't happen.
According to EW, HBO is using new high-tech instruments to make sure drones cannot fly over filming locations called a "Drone Killer". Previously, Game of Thrones has had leaks due to flying drones and even actual photographers. As explained by actress Sophie Turner at New York Comic Con, "If a drone flies above sets, there's a thing that can kill the drones, which is really cool. It creates a field around it and the drones just drop. It's very X-Men." While this new development will no doubt help contain spoilers on the highly anticipated season, the show has still had trouble in the past keeping elements of the plot a secret.
Last August, hackers stole 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO which contained Game of Thrones scripts as well as the cast's personal information. The leak was a big blow to HBO as people were less inclined to tune in if the episodes had been spoiled. The filmmakers behind the newest season seem to not be playing games when it comes to season 8. In addition to this, the Game of Thrones scripts now supposedly vanish after the scenes have been filmed. It was also rumored that the show would film multiple endings, but those rumors have since been debunked by the cast.
Even though Game of Thrones is still quite a ways away, the eighth season is looking to be the biggest one yet (despite being the shortest in number of episodes). After all, this season will feature the biggest battle in Game of Thrones history. The series will also have to effectively tie up each of the characters storylines and finally reveal who will sit atop the Iron Throne. Regardless of what HBO has in store for fans, they are doing everything they can to ensure that this season doesn't get spoiled early.


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Hey man are you coming to MWC round 2 or 3. I might just see you there!
I literally just got done registering. Its gunna be ****** sweeeeeet!! I can't wait to slide it at RA.
You should definitely say hi if you do come. I'll give you a ride.
Man i really wish i could afford entry, but if you come to elko I should be sliding there!
I'll take you up on the ride tho.
So I finally was able to take her out on the street with some of the guys in Risky devil....it was a good day, however I end up being so much more conservative with this than the S13. She feels really good though on the street... this pic is pretty dope.
You have any mods to your steering angle?
so the event was good....i didn't do as well as i hoped though. For some reason I just couldn't find my line for like the whole day. I had a couple good runs, but it wasn't as smooth as I would have hoped. I was runnin out of 2nd gear and at those moments it was like just before I would have thrown it into 3rd but kinda wouldn't have been worth it to just upshift for a split second. whatever, hopefully pics will be out soon though.
Question for RX8 tech's out there:The car also ran into some issues like after 2 hours into it. I started having idling issues. It would idle for a bit but then would like drop down to like 250rpm's and then shoot back up trying to save itself. Sometimes it would just die. The car felt good however when I was driving. Then after a few more runs with these idling issues, the car acted like it had a boost leak and would totally sputter if I tried to give it any gas. We kept looking for where the leak was but never found anything. Then when I was on the drive home, I could barely even touch the throttle or else it would just like loose all its revs, so I could only go like 55 tops on the highway. Then, WITHOUT WARNING.....it all of a sudden was fine. I could boost it and everything. ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHATS WITH THAT?!!? Is there a eletronic shut down mode, or maybe my maf was fucked? maybe one of you rx8 veterans have a couple ideas. I'm gunna really go check it out tomorrow.
^ Engine swap or new car?
Get the **** outta here.....haha I'm in it for the long haul.....its just gunna be a terrible, miserable, exhausting game.
when my old car overheated, it would barely move. and that **** happened a lot, especially during a hot track day. There were times after long times, when the car would randomly die too. and my **** was NA.
WHERE?!?!?! I'm right by Gurnee / Waukegan area man, I definately want to see this car in person!! Not sure if this is a competition only car but we always are having meets around here.
PM me if you want, Ill give you info next time were out. There's a big BBQ/Meet tomorrow for evolvchicago.org (Chicago Rotory Meet Forum). LMK man and the car looks insane!
^^yeah for sure..... let me know when your next meet is. I still gotta check out the car...I've been so busy for the last like 2 weeks, especially on the weekends when Ive planned to clean a couple things up. Plus they have been redoing the street right infront of my driveway for like a full week! the driveway is downhill and there is like a full 2 inch drop onto the road right now, so it would probably **** the front end up when pulling it out.
Saw the toyota drifting a couple weeks ago in Shakopee. Very solid car and driver.
He does professional photography. you guys should check out the drift archive on his website.


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Last week, the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, named the former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump”. Mueller may also examine “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation”. He is empowered to “prosecute federal cries arising from the investigation of these matters”.
This is a very big deal, as you surely know if you have recently glanced in the general direction of any newspaper. Defenders of the rule of law had spent months calling for a special counsel. Finally, they got their wish: an special counsel focused on Trump and Russia. Trump responded by fuming and cowering in the White House.
Mueller’s appointment is a good thing. These extraordinary times call for a special counsel, armed with access to the FBI’s investigatory arsenal. If crimes were committed, they must be punished. And given the extent to which the attorney general and his deputy are tainted by impropriety, only a special counsel could credibly oversee the FBI’s probe.
That said, Mueller is no silver bullet. To the contrary, he is limited in ways that will prevent him from answering important questions in an open, timely, and transparent manner. Accordingly, while some have urged that congressional investigations (and calls for impeachment) take a back seat while Mueller works, that is the wrong conclusion. If anything, the appointment of a special counsel confirms the need for a vigorous, bipartisan congressional review of attacks on America’s political order.
The first limitation on Mueller’s inquiry is timing: it will take him 12 to 18 months, if not longer, to conduct an exhaustive investigation. Throughout that process, he will keep his timeline secret. It is absurd to expect the public to sit on its hands indefinitely – possibly through the 2018 midterm elections – waiting to learn whether the president and his staff will be charged with treason, perjury, espionage, obstruction or other crimes. The nation needs answers, and it needs them sooner than Mueller can deliver.
This leads to a second issue: secrecy. If Mueller concludes that nobody should be charged with a crime, departmental custom dictates that he say little more. And if he does bring charges, he might reveal only the information necessary to prosecute those specific cases. In the end, even if he wanted to do so, it would be exceptionally difficult for Mueller to tell the public what he found and how he made his decisions.
Those decisions, moreover, are of a highly particular character, and that raises a third issue. As Leah Litman emphasizes at the Take Care blog: “The jurisdiction of the special counsel is seemingly limited to investigations of criminal law, and applications of criminal law to whatever the facts may be.” Thus, Mueller is not empowered to indict conduct – including evil, abusive, or immoral acts – unless that conduct is specifically covered by the criminal code.
This is not a free pass: there are powerful arguments that Trump has violated federal obstruction of justice laws. But to twist a cliché, when all you have is a hammer, everything either looks like a nail or falls out of focus. Mueller has been tasked with finding criminal acts. If he instead finds shocking abuses of power that do not amount to crimes, his duty is to keep silent. The public, though, has a right to see the full picture.
Yet another limit on Mueller is that he remains bound by justice department policies. This arguably, though not necessarily, includes internal precedent concluding that the president cannot be indicted while in office. It also includes a degree of oversight by Rosenstein – who, as Dan Hemel recently remarked, has not recused himself despite the “fundamental principle that nemo iudex in causa sua: no man should be the judge (or the prosecutor) in his own case”.
Notably, Rosenstein is empowered to request an explanation from Mueller for any decision – and to overrule that decision if he deems it “inappropriate or unwarranted under established [Justice] Department practices”. (In that event, Rosenstein must provide a written explanation to Congress.) It is also possible, though this is contested, that Trump could either repeal the special counsel regulations or order that Mueller be fired.
Finally, Mueller is vulnerable to attacks by Trump. As Reuters has reported, Trump’s lawyers may use conflict of interest laws to stymie Mueller’s probe into Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort. Yes, you heard right: Trump could use conflict rules against his opponents. While irony has flowed freely since Trump took office, rarely has it been so finely distilled.
In addition, Trump has repeatedly denounced Mueller’s “witch-hunt”. As Bob Bauer observes, Trump has thus begun “laying the foundation for moving against the investigation at some point in the future”. Over time, such pressure might dull Mueller’s resolve, or his boldness.
Americans must therefore admit that the special counsel, though vital, cannot be their savior. The view that Mueller is looking into all this, and so we can return to our regularly scheduled programming, is mistaken. Instead, all eyes must now turn to Congress.
The bottom line is simple: our nation faces unprecedented questions about the president’s entanglement with a hostile foreign power – through his senior staff, his official campaign, his private bank account and his troubling reception of their envoy. These questions relate directly to a cyber-attack on the US electoral system and to Trump’s own assault on the rule of law.
In confronting this threat, the public needs a quick, wide-ranging, and transparent investigation far more than it needs years of secrecy, possibly followed by an indictment. For that reason, it needs a governmental actor entrusted with broad powers – from subpoenas to sanctions to impeachment – to serve as its champion. In short, it needs the legislature.
Unlike a special prosecutor, Congress can check and balance (and remove) the president for reasons that transcend the metes and bounds of criminal law. It can consider, all at once, the panoply of Trump’s abuses, from emoluments to the Comey firing to Russian electoral interference. It can render its own judgments on Trump’s motivations, or can determine that no motives would justify Trump’s acts. And it can mix political and legal considerations in assessing which of its powers is properly deployed to defend the constitution in this brave new world.
Perhaps most important, Congress can investigate openly and continuously, so that whatever conclusion it reaches is based on the latest information and a full airing of the evidence. We need to rid the executive branch of abuse, corruption, cover-ups, and foreign influence – and we need to do so in a way that proves to the public (and the world) that our democracy works.
It may be naïve to hope that this Congress will live up to the task that history demands. But the nature of the constitution is to ask great things of fallible men and women. As Benjamin Franklin remarked, the framers gave us “a republic, if you can keep it”. We will soon learn if the American people and their leaders can rise to the challenge.

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Today´s Scripture is one of my favorites. I learned it by heart many years ago without knowing that God would use it to comfort me in the years to come.
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword separate us from the love of Christ? (Romans 8:35) They certainly won´t separate Christ from us, but they may separate us from Christ if we´re not careful.
…God doesn´t love you. If He loved you, He wouldn´t allow you to suffer.
…You are worthless. Not even God cares about you.
…Why should you try? It won´t work.
If you let these lies dig deep into your heart, you may stray away from Christ.
Now think for a moment. Every day things, big and small, discourage us and challenge our faith. Imagine if you were persecuted for being a Christian. Put yourself in the place of the thousands persecuted, forced to abandon their home, incarcerated or killed because they identified themselves with Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Standing firm for Christ in our western culture doesn´t result in torture or death, but it can have negative consequences. Today´s verses are an encouragement for all the Christians around the world who are, in a way or another, persecuted because of their faith.
This requires courage. You need to be brave to pray for those who persecute you. Our human instincts tells us to do exactly the opposite – fight, pay back, revenge. But Jesus calls us to be brave and love back.
Are you in a situation today in which you are, to any extent, persecuted because of your faith? Take heart. Be brave to love back. Remember that the Lord is with you. He is your light and your salvation; He is the stronghold of your life. Remember that, in Christ, you are more than a conqueror. That neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
Week 3 Challenge: This week, be brave and do something that takes courage. Pray for someone who has hurt you. Give to someone in need, even if that means you have to sacrifice in order to give. Live boldly and lovingly share uncompromising truth to someone who God has been pressing on your heart. Speak God’s truth to the discouragement that has been filling your mind. This week, choose to live your life BRAVE!


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Hello travelers, people living out of a vehicle and other awesome folks, here are 10 Ways to Get a good Shower On The Road.
1) At a campground Campground showers vary from one place to the next. Some are excellent, some use solar power so you are out of luck if it’s after dark, and others are not heated at all. Water pressure is also a variable. Some have consistent water pressure while others will only get a weak stream when someone hops in the shower next to you or runs the sink. Campground showers can vary from deluxe with your own private changing room to just a primitive curtain or in rare instances, nothing at all. Some are well kept and impeccably clean and others you get to share with a few spiders and other mystery guests.
2) A community pool is another option. You may have to pay a few bucks to use the pool, but the showers are generally free. And hey, why not go swimming while you’re at it? They usually only accept cash and hours are limited.
3) Get a 5 gallon solar shower These are pretty cheap, usually less than $20 for a simple one, and can be quite useful when you’re roughing it. If you leave it in the sun for a few hours you’ll have a hot shower. If it’s not hot enough, a cup of near boiling water should do the trick. Just don’t burn yourself! If privacy is still a concern, for around $70 you can get a portable privacy shelter, such as the Texsport Deluxe Camp Shower/Shelter Combo. It works great for car camping.
4) The Solo 465 Stainless Steel Sprayer can be used as a medium pressure camp shower. Several people have commented they place it on a stove top burner and heat it up, then pressurize it and then it’s shower time. My friend tried this by pouring hot water into a 2 gallon plastic sprayer tank that he had and it made a great shower. It uses about 40 ounces per minute so that is a 6 minute shower using only two gallons. Another suggestion is to shower with Dawn Direct Foam soap instead of bar soap, then when it’s empty, you can refill it with your own scented soap and distilled water. The foaming soap lather won’t be affected by hard water. And it works for dishes too.
5) Get a day pass to a local fitness club. They usually run just $5 to $10, have really nice showers, and there is no excuse not to get a great workout while you’re at it!
6) Stop at a road house or large gas station such as Flying J, TA or Pilot, and other road trip stops with amenities for travelers and truckers alike. These tend to be some of the nicest showers you can get on the road as you get your own private bathroom with plenty of hot water and water pressure. Plus you get your own sink and toilet. Towels and soap are usually provided though you’re welcome to bring your own supplies. The cost is usually between $5 and $10 USD. If you’re traveling with your significant other, they’re usually willing to let you pay the one fee for a shared room. If you’re a little hard up for cash and feeling brave, you can also try asking a trucker if he or she has an extra shower coupon. Truckers often get free shower coupons when they buy gas and may have an extra to give away (or sell for a buck or two).
7) Visit a friend, relative or make a new acquaintance and ask to use their shower…sure, you might get a funny look, but what are friends for?
8) Try the “It Makes Sense Shower head.” You still need a water supply, but this device will help you save water. You can take a hot shower using very little water which is helpful when you’re on the road, so long as you don’t mind the chill in between the water spray. It has a chain to pull to adjust the flow of the water from a full spray to a trickle while you lather. It’s similar to a navy shower, and great for conserving water.
10) Hotels with swimming pools will sometimes let you use their pool for a small fee, and usually have public showers.
For more ideas, please visit Sandra’s world travel blog at [http://www.ScribbleWorld.com] for money saving travel tips and stories.