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Land Rover a name of standard, comfort, luxury, and power.
A big vehicle for tough conditions and rough terrains with the magnificent off-road ability is Land Rover. On highways, it runs to its perfection as the smooth track allows it to sparkle to its true potential.
The look is not only gigantic but impressive too so owning this vehicle always desired by many. Being enormous in size surely is to offer a spacious cabin and proper room for seven occupants.
To ensure sleek speed transmissions Land Rover gearboxes are for sale in UK and driving experience would remain up to the desired standards. There was a time when the vehicle was declared the best ever automobile produced by the Land Rover.
The vehicle was first launched in 1989 and has got the required improvements in different areas to keep its stature in the class. It was available at a comparatively low price but with a bigger cargo space than Range Rover.
To transform it into a seven passengers’ vehicle jump seats can be added to the rear at expense of boot space. But in this way, it surpassed the contenders that could manage only five in the cabin.
The vehicle lacked in lavish interior settings as no leather coverings and wooden touches that are seen in other units of this segment.
It is not just luxury and comfort but Land Rover is undoubtedly the best automotive manufacturer in order to offer the latest technologies to its customers. Either it is infotainment system or security, what Land Rover offers is became the trend.
Incontrol apps for iOS and androids like Spotify, choose, my tuner pro and stitcher are one of Land Rover highlights which it provides for its customers’ ease. For travel convenience, Land Rover offers the technology of updated maps like genius maps while for weather awareness ACCU Weather is always there for your help.
Rare seat entertainment system along with dual channel sub-woofer of 380 watts with 12 speakers and 825 watts 16 speakers with surround sound technology makes this SUV is best among the bests.
With the touch pro system, connected navigation with Wifi hotspot and real-time traffic information you are allowed to send endpoints directly from your mobile phone to your Land Rover it also shows you the real-time traffic flow on roads towards your destination. This door to door navigation co-ordination helps you a lot. Moreover, the innovation of intelligent stop and start technology makes Land Rover even smarter.
The latest all four-sided electronic air suspensions offer brilliant control and articulation. While with voice recognition technology you can tune your radio, play, and change songs and make and attend calls without taking eyes off from the road.
This is not all. What else will Land Rover offers in future is also amazing. Autonomous driving, biometric vehicle access and start/stop technology, night vision infrared technology, even better-LED lights are few more future specs and technologies Land Rover are about to offer for its customer’s comfort.
Land Rover was a tremendous success and becomes an icon of the class. That is why the basics were kept in 2004 replacement and also the ability of Land Rover to run on rugged terrains with similar perfection.
There was an increasing competition also witnessed and to sustain the edge over the other kept on progressing was essential. With the advent of luxury SUVs in the segment the segment became more appealing and in recent years sales of these units are showing the steep upward trend.
The new Discovery kept the uniqueness with more a car like a feel in drive and ride. So you would find it a very good choice in an array of options particularly keeping the price in mind.
The 2004 model of the vehicle was even a greater attraction and driving it reveals the true characteristics. It showed an even performance on all types of tracks and that statement was surfaced after a test.
The high performances allowed the experts to give it a badge of champion of all-wheel drive among larger vehicles. Handling and ride comfort was focused and these two qualities made it a reliable big car for a number of purposes.
Height adjustable air suspension is surely a better option than the live-axle suspension of the previous model so the buyers welcomed that alteration. It is a strongly built car and it retained the ladder frame chassis. On the technology front, it made several additions from interior to the driving ability.
The Land Rover diesel engine of 2.7 liters.
With a single touch, it can be guided to change its driving manner from gravel to smooth highway. It is called Terrain Response feature which enables it to give an intelligent response according to nature of the track.
The diesel engine of 2.7 liters can give up to 188 bhp and with that V6 motor, it performed surprisingly well. That new unit was not only refined but also powerful so the previous noisy machine was no more fitted under the bonnet to ruin cabin joy.
It also got six-speed automatic gearbox as standard which allows you to drive this big vehicle with more attention. Interior space has also increased as compared to the outgoing model so it has gained in every single area to impress the buyers.

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By 1951 the fiddle and fiddle music were traditions of Dufferin community life.
The fiddle continued to be the instrument of choice at community dances. Don Messer’s Jubilee was a radio staple and the CKNX Ranch Boys became favourites from the moment television arrived, outshining the popular radio. Every community had its local fiddle star. The popularity of fiddle entertainment in this part of Ontario may help explain why the Fiddle Contest found such a good home in Shelburne; but the success of the fiddle contest involved more than just finding a suitable location.
Another important factor was that the Rotary Club of Shelburne developed and promoted the idea of a Fiddle Contest and worked diligently to see it come to fruition.
The Rotary Club had been contributing to community life since its inception in 1938, fundraising to support community groups, health care, and children’s charities. The fundraising projects they had sponsored were of the usual type –fun-fairs, suppers, sales of various kinds and all the other money-making schemes that were common in the 1930s and ‘40s. The main difficulty with all these projects was always the same; they all required a great deal of work for a small number of people and they never seemed to raise enough money to make the effort worthwhile. Some innovative ideas had been tried, such as a hog-calling contest in 1950, which was extremely popular with the community, but again failed to bring in much money. Another difficulty that had been discussed was that many of the fairs involved games of chance, which, though popular and good fund-raisers, brought criticism from some members.
The idea of a Shelburne Fiddle Contest was introduced by then Shelburne Royal Bank Manager Cliff Mcintosh, who had attended fiddle contests while in Western Canada. He suggested the idea to Shelburne newspaper publisher Fred Claridge, who in tum spoke to one of Dufferin County’s early ‘weekenders’ in Mulmur, Don Fairbairn.
The idea stuck long enough to be given careful consideration. Of course there were those who thought it would never work. The Rotary Club was organized into committees and there has yet to be a committee that agreed on everything! The main objection seemed to be that no one would pay to listen to a bunch of fiddlers playing when you could hear it at home for free! Others wondered who in the world would they find to act as judges and how would they provide prize money? Where would they hold the competition and who would want to enter? Despite some dissent, eventually enough Rotarians supported the idea to carry the day and the first Canadian Open Old Time Fiddlers Contest was on its way.
Most of the men first involved were not only Rotarians, but were also very busy and active men in their communities. And from year one until today, when someone got involved, you automatically got the spouse and kids too! Don Fairbairn had been one of the judges at the hog-calling contest, and was a radio broadcaster with the CBC. His program “Neighbourly News”, was heard on Sunday mornings and highlighted stories of rural activities.
When he heard of the new Rotary project, he was most supportive and suggested that the CBC might be interested in broadcasting the show.
Fairbairn’s support resulted in the CBC’s decision to work with the Shelburne Rotary Club to broadcast the Saturday night finals program and to provide guest artists to fill out the half hour of the broadcast. The CBC’s involvement in the Fiddle Contest certainly contributed to a large degree to the success of the whole venture. Radio was a popular form of entertainment around the world in the 1940’s and ‘50’s and having a live broadcast here at home in Dufferin County was truly exciting.
Hard working as they all were, the Rotarians were not musicians and it was a big job to find people capable of setting out rules and regulations. The fact that many of these regulations are still in force is a credit to those early planners. One of the first decisions made was to hold the event each year on the first weekend after the Civic Holiday in August. The reason why this date was chosen was because the committee and Don Fairbairn set the date of the first contest for August 11, 1951, a date when the CBC had an open half hour in their program schedule. The committee henceforth decided to designate that weekend for the contest.
At the first contest, there was an admission charge for open seating on Friday evening of .75 cents for adults and .35 cents for children. Reserved seats for Saturday night were sold at George Albrecht’s store on Shelburne’s Main Street for $1.00 and .75 cents for seats farther back from the stage. The admission collected by Rotarians contributed towards the rental of the hall, the contestants’ prizes, judges’ fees, and all other miscellaneous costs.
When the first fiddle contest was finally planned and the contestants had gathered together (all 44 of them), few suspected this event would become an annual tradition. That first year, local fiddlers included third place winner Lome Donaldson of Orton, Charlie Dyer of East Garafraxa, Annie Webster from the Maples, and Albert Mews of Mulmur Township.
The old arena, (located where the Shelburne Fire Hall now stands), was the scene of the event for many years, although it was not altogether suitable as a concert venue. If it rained, the noise of the rain on the roof drowned out the sound of the fiddles. Not that the fiddlers cared! They were used to playing in all sorts of conditions, and prided themselves on being able to play through anything. The very first tune played, they say, was “The Victory Breakdown” and as one member of the audience put it, “With that as a beginning, this contest will be a success.” He was a true prophet. Stan McPherson of Amaranth Township recalled driving with his wife and son along the gravel roads to Shelburne in their 1915 Model T to attend the first Fiddle Contest.
A fiddle player himself, McPherson was curious about the event and wanted to see what all the talk was about!
All in all, over one thousand people attended the Friday evening playdowns, and on Saturday, a crowd of approximately 3000 came to hear the eight finalists chosen to play from the play downs on Friday. The event was a tremendous hit. The first Friday night M.C. was Don Steenson, a Rotarian. On Saturday night, Don Fairbairn was M.C., with producer Reid Forsee.
Vince Mountford (born in Mono Township) filled in as M.C. during intermissions and as everyone knows, did not stop at that! Vince served as M.C. for the next 34 years. After the finals on Saturday night, while the judges were making up their minds, the contestants were all invited up on stage for a jamboree, part of the festivities that became special for many guests over the years. And after the winner, Mel Lavigne of Honey Harbour, had been declared, the chairs and benches were pushed back, and the audience began dancing to more toe-tapping music provided by volunteers, many of them contestants.
It was well into the wee hours of the morning before the last notes died away and the tired participants had left for home. The very first Old Time Fiddler’s Contest was over.
All that remained were the hundreds of paper fiddles, designed by John Reid, a local historian and farm equipment dealer.
Some contestants and fans had been attracted to the contest from far and wide across Ontario. Over the years, contestants from every province and territory of Canada, and several American states, have come to Shelburne, not to mention performers from overseas. The first ‘influx’ of the now familiar tourists in the beginning of August had begun, and with them came their stories and their music! The excitement in Shelburne was magic.

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A few years ago, our travels took us to Ottawa, Canada, and, on July 1st, we had a chance to join the Canadians for their celebration of Canada’s Independence Day. Lucky for us, the heat waive apparently decided to join the celebration also. It was not welcome, but who was asking?!
As we walked up Wellington street towards the Parliament Hill, there were lots of lemonade stands selling lemonade to the crowd for triple the normal price. While we did not want to pay eight Canadian bucks for a small cup of lemonade, we did not have a choice.
Well, I am not sure if they forgot to put sugar in it or what, the lemonade was very sour, but, believe me, it was still worth eight Canadian bucks!
What I am getting at is that since hot summer days are here, this Sunday I decided to make a refreshingly cool and delicious lemonade.
For the recipe, I went to my always-go-to Martha Stewart website, and I found a recipe for Strawberry Lemonade. It seemed simple enough to make in a few minutes and looked so good. I could almost taste the cool and refreshing juices flowing into my mouth.
The recipe seemed very easy: strawberries, superfine sugar, lemons and seltzer water.
I had sugar, lemons and strawberries, but I did not have seltzer water. So I stopped by few stores, but none of them had seltzer water. Is there any difference between seltzer water and regular club soda?
I was determined to follow the recipe and drove to the nearest have-it-all store - Whole Foods. Interestingly, Whole Foods did not carry seltzer water either.
I gave up and grabbed a bottle of sparkling mineral water, and asked a knowledgeable looking worker if sparkling mineral water is a good substitute for seltzer water. The knowledgeable looking worker exclaimed:"This is much better than seltzer water, and it is in a glass container!"
Well... I admit, I do sometimes buy food or drinks in plastic containers. But not today! Today I will be substituting seltzer water with sparkling mineral water in a glass bottle.
I finally drove home and got all the ingredients out.
I pureed strawberries and sugar, added lemon juice and sparkling mineral water. Done!
Great tip from Martha: to make it easier to squeeze lemons and get their juices flowing, you should roll them on the countertop, applying gentle pressure with the heel of your palm.
... and tasted so refreshingly cool and delicious!
And what's your favorite refreshingly cool drink?

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FZ300 battery charger - DE-A79 or DE-A80?
Just wondering if there is a difference between the two chargers. Received my new DMC FZ300 last week and just noticed that the charger is the DE-A79. Graham H said it came with the DE-A80, so am wondering. Charger seems to work fine with either original Lumix batt and also DSTE replacements.
Re: FZ300 battery charger - DE-A79 or DE-A80?

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Watch Perception Season 2 Episode 10 online via TV Fanatic with over 6 options to watch the Perception S2E10 full episode. Affiliates with free and paid streaming include Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube Purchase, Google Play, and Verizon On Demand.
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This post first appeared on Brendon Harre’s blog and is published with permission.
What would it mean for a city if builders of new housing were able to take trams (or trams big brother trains) to work?
It would mean public transport was built first. It would mean planners and developers had master planned neighbourhoods with rapid transit in mind, before sub-dividers had sprawled into it. It would mean the type of housing, the density of housing, the way the streets are laid out is such that new neighbourhoods maximise the benefit that public transport provides.
This would create neighbourhoods with more houses, more businesses and more activity yet with less cars.
I believe tradies taking public transport to work would be a bellwether indicator of change. It would indicate an end to auto-dependency being the only transport choice. It would mean that more housing type choice is coming.
One of the defining urbanist mental images I have is the result of learning that in Germany it is commonplace to see tradies heading to building sites in new subdivisions using public transport because in Germany public transport is built first.
Bernard is completely correct in his concern that the most popular new vehicle in New Zealand right now is the Ford Ranger and more generally, double-cab utes make up eight of the top 10 new vehicles sold.
Last year New Zealand bought nearly 37,000 double cab utes almost all of which were diesel-burning gas-guzzlers. In New Zealand cars last on average 19 years before they exit the fleet which means that a car someone buys today will lock in emissions until 2037 for that vehicle.
Bernard’s policy analysis is that double cab utes will need to be taxed and more environmentally cleaner vehicles, such as electric vehicles will need to be subsidised. But Bernard thinks this will be politically unpalatable due to the population being obsessed with a kiwi lifestyle of; the boat, the bach, being able to tow a trailer, go to the tip on the weekends, take the jetski somewhere or put the bike racks on….
The question in my mind is New Zealand’s high use of gas guzzling vehicles a result of obsession, or to phrase it more kindly, a cultural preference for driving? If this is the true reason for high automobile use, then as it is causing harm to the planet it will need to be discouraged, with something like new taxes. Alternatively, New Zealand’s high rate of automobile use may be the result of transport choice poverty. In which case the policy implications is less stick and more carrot -in the form of providing more transport and housing choices.
I think the evidence points to poverty of transport choice being more important than the cultural preference for driving.
Light vehicle (under 3,500kg) ownership rates vary quite considerably between New Zealand’s three biggest cities. Christchurch in Canterbury is up around 910 vehicles per 1000 people, Auckland has about 720 and Wellington 650. If preference and ‘kiwi lifestyle’ is the cause of high automobile ownership, then Christchurch should have the highest income (the higher the income the more preferences can be met) and be the mecca city for ‘kiwi lifestyle’. Canterbury though has the lowest income of the three regions and I doubt Wellington and Auckland would agree they have an inferior ‘lifestyle’ compared to Christchurch.
Rather the evidence points to poverty of transport choice being the more important determining factor. The major difference between Christchurch versus Auckland and Wellington is the later two cities have rapid transit services which are competitive with car use and Christchurch does not.
Wellington, for instance, in the last 10–15 years has invested in double tracking, electrification and new rolling stock leading to a 51% increase in rail patronage into the city between 2009 and 2018 and a corresponding decrease in car use.
Germany is an interesting case study. It definitely has a car culture. They make cars, they have high speed autobahns, when you travel through Europe and pass into Germany, it is immediately apparent it is a place that loves cars and loves driving fast.
Yet for every 1000 people in Germany there are only 500–550 cars. In Freiburg it’s 430 cars, and in Vauban it’s below 100.
Freiburg is a city of 220,000 at the edge of the black forest in the south-western corner of Germany, near the French border. 80% of its city centre was destroyed in WW2 yet they rebuilt on the medieval footprint. In the 1950’s and 60’s the city experienced increased car use and expansion into new suburbs. The oil shocks in the 1970s led to a change in direction with a sustained investment in alternative transport modes. The existing tram network expanded to become the backbone for new urban development and the foundation of a vibrant small city.
Vauban is a new district of Freiburg, construction began 20 years ago on a former military base. Car use is highly restricted to just a few locations.
Vauban was conceived with public transit as the central transportation axis. It is only 15 minutes by tram to the centre of Freiburg.
Vauban prioritises its public spaces for people. A lack of cars means children safely have free range to play throughout the district.
Vauban and Freiburg residents appear to have a lifestyle they are happy with. I suspect many kiwis would prefer Freiburg or even Vauban type living to the supposed ‘kiwi double cab ute’ lifestyle.
If Canterbury readers like the ‘tram’ lifestyle then they may be interested in a paper I wrote discussing the options of building rapid transit in advance of housing for Greater Christchurch -titled Christchurch’s Future is a Fat Banana.
Existing heavy rail lines = black lines. Motorways = red lines (including sections currently being extended). Tram-train city centre loop = violet loop. Bus rapid transit spine = green lines. Light rail spoke = light blue line. Distance from city centre to south Prebbleton.
If readers want to influence public authorities to integrate rapid transit investment with new housing for Christchurch then the Greater Christchurch Partnership is receiving submissions on their draft updated Our Space 2018–2048 Greater Christchurch Settlement Pattern document.
Christchurch City Council (one of the partners) have indicated feedback is open from the 31st of October to the 30th November.
Note: Recently I clumsily wrote on twitter that “approaching 100% of builders drive to work in New Zealand”. I got an indignant response indicating when they could many tradies chose other options.
Some people on Twitter thought maybe the explanation for Canterbury’s higher car use rate is due to the metropolitan population of Christchurch being a smaller percentage of regional population in comparison to Wellington i.e. is Canterbury more rural or more spread out than the Wellington region? Does that explain the difference in light vehicle ownership numbers? I don’t think so.
The 2018 figures from Statistics NZ show the Wellington region has a population of 521,500 and Canterbury 624,000. Greater Christchurch’s population is larger than Greater Wellington’s at about 480,000 versus 418,500. So Christchurch’s city population is 77% and Wellington’s is 80% of their respective regions population. The 2018 census will help clarify.
In conclusion Wellington and Christchurch have similar city sizes in relation to their regions population so this factor does not explain why there is such a big difference in car ownership rates.
I believe the obvious reason is that Wellington has commuter rail and Christchurch does not have an equivalent rapid transit system.
Seems very sensible when you put it like that.
Also Wellington is highly topographically constrained which favours PT. Everything from the north is coming down the SH1 & 2 corridors. Christchurch is not far off being a uniform circle.

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18/Sep/2015 AFHC Steering Committee is now accepting proposals to be the Convenor and Chair City of AFHC 2018-2010. Please see the details.
8th Global Conference on Health Promotion, Helsinki, Finland, 10-14 June 2013 The Conference Statement; the book "Health in All Policies"
Mayors and representatives pledged for Brisbane Charter for Healthy Cities.
Alliance for Healthy Cities gave awards to 21 cities/organizations and 1 expert for their efforts in the Healthy Cities movement.
WHO Healthy Cities Recognition Ceremony 2012 was held at Brisbane Convention & Exbition Center.
25/Oct/2012 The Fifth Global Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities was officially opened.
A Ten Day International Healthy Cities Forum Program started in Logan and Brisbane, Australia, on October 22, 2012.
The 5th Global Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities will be held in Logan and Brisbane, Australia, October 24-27, 2012.
20/Apr/2011 Japan Chapter of AFHC reported its progress to strengthen community activities locally and with international members of AFHC in 2010.
19/Apr/2011 National Conference of Australian Chapter of AFHC will be held July 2011 at Noosa, Queensland.
15/Apr/2011 AFHC International Conference will be held in Hong Kong, August 2011.
10/Apr/2011 The Secretariat of the Alliance for Healthy Cities started to commit to activities of Public Health Forum to help those communities that are affected by the earthquake and tsunami along the north-eastern coast of Japan, by use of Healthy Cities concept and approach.
The Secretariat of the Alliance for Healthy Cities would like to express our sincere and heart-felt condolences to those who are affected by the earthquake and tsunami along the north-eastern coast of Japan.
Friends from members of the Alliance for Healthy Cities had started to act to help communities to re-construct cities/towns/villages with full of healthy and high quality of lives. Lessons of re-construction of cities prepared for disasters learnt from the coming experiences would be shared with global friends.
The Fourth General Assembly of the Alliance for Healthy Cities was held. The Steering Committee welcomed new members, total membership is now 158.
WHO and AFHC Award Ceremony were conduced in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea.
AFHC awarded 16 cities, four organizations and 1 expert for their effrots in healthy cities movement.
Commitment to Ubiquitous Healthy Cities was declared at Gangnam, Seoul.
Leaders of Healthy Cities gathered at COEX, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, to meet at the 4th Global Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities.
The Alliance for Healthy Cities now consists of 157 members.
City Mayors will gather in Manila to promote "Environmentally Sustainable and Healthy Urban Transport"
Australian Chapter 2nd conference was held, Octr 19-21, 2009, McLaren Vale.
World Health Day 2010 will focus on urbanization and health. The Alliance for Healthy Cities joins this global event and share its experiences with partners worldwide.
Seoungbuk International Conference on Healthy Cities was held, 27-28 Aug, 2009, Seongbuk, Republic of Korea.
World Fair on Municipalities and Health was held, 18-21 Aug, 2009, Argentina.
AFHC International Forum was held, 21-22 July, 2009, Hue, Vietnam.
Australian Chapter held its Healthy Cities Conference in Gold Coast.
Korean cities win awards for their public toilets.
New executive members of AFHC were confirmed.
111 technical papers from 10 countries presented at 3rd Global Conf AFHC.
WHO recognized outstanding works by AFHC members.
15 cities, 1 university and 2 individuals win AFHC Awards for Healthy Cities, 2008.
Ichikawa Declaration for Healthy Cities, declared.
AFHC Mayors Meeting was held in Makuhari.
3rd Global Conf AFHC declared open, by the support of citizens in Ichikawa.
AFHC Report 2008 and AFHC Directory 2008 were released.
Ten new members joined the Alliance, total membership is now 120.
3rd Global Conf AFHC, Ichikawa, Japan, 23-26 Oct 2008, Provisional Program.
Seventeen new members joined the Alliance, total membership is now 110.
3rd Global Conf AFHC, Ichikawa, Japan, 23-26 Oct 2008, call for registration.
Five new members joined the Alliance, total membership is now 93.
Awardees of AFHC Healthy Cities Awards were announced.
Four new members joined the Alliance, total membership is now 88.
Nine new members joined the Alliance, total membership is now 84.
Now AFHC website has a new design.

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My recent article in Social History 40:1, which explored the introduction of ‘All-In’ Wrestling in North America, Europe and the Antipodes brought to light some of the benefits of adopting a transnational approach to historical inquiry. I would like to explain in this post why I chose to explore this ‘sport’ and why I think it is of significance.
A few years ago I published an article on dancing and dance halls in the inter-war years. This was provoked by a curiosity as to what the popular pastimes in these two decades were. It was during the research for this article that I read what to me appeared a rather curious publication called New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review – an antipodean variation of a British publication. Why was it curious? Mainly for the fact that it combined coverage of what I at first regarded as two distinct realms of popular culture ‘News from Hollywood’ and ‘News from the Wrestling World’. I contemplated such an odd combination for some time and came to the view that there was something these two rather odd bedfellows did indeed share – ‘escapism’ from the mundane. As I read more about the wrestling world I began to see that ‘All-In’ wrestling, which emerged at the end of the 1920s in the USA, was a way in which promoters competed with the cinema for an audience; an audience by then in thrall to melodrama with its attendant heroes and villains. American footballers who wanted to keep in shape in the off-season could supplement wages by using their tackling skills in the wrestling ring, and promoters could find stooges to take a fall from a flying tackle. It wasn’t too long before wrestling circuits were put in place linking the USA wrestling scene with the Australian and New Zealand market, but reactions to the new style were not uniform across the Anglo world.
Using the digitialized newspapers provided by the Trove (National Library of Australia) and Papers Past (National Library of New Zealand) a substantial body of evidence was relatively quickly amassed which began to shed light on audience reaction to ‘All-In’ in Australasia. The project really came alive however, when I became aware of the Vern Ross archive held in the Hocken Collections at the University of Otago Dunedin. This archive contains some 55 boxes of material relating to international wrestling and most valuably held two or three boxes containing runs of American and British wrestling publications. It became clear on examining the evidence, that local tastes were a significant variable when it came to the question as to whether this rather wild wrestling style was accepted. Whilst the style was accepted in Australia, it was substantially modified in New Zealand, where popular taste favoured a more ‘scientific’ or cleaner style. The role of the judiciary and the police in New Zealand played a more significant part in ensuring that the wilder ‘All-In’ was prevented from appearing. Thus, New Zealand tended to represent a half-way house between British reactions, where ‘All-In’ was at first treated with caution before being banned in 1938, (so too in South Africa in the same year) and Australian where it was accepted without any real questions being asked. Consequently, the case of wrestling tends to confirm a wider thesis that Australia had (and is?) influenced by American popular culture to a greater extent than in New Zealand, which retains a British sporting culture.
Perhaps one influence in the realm of wrestling which shaped local taste was the extent to which audiences would suspend disbelief in what they were seeing, or put another way ‘believe a lie’. The relatively large Scottish Presbyterian immigrant population might have played a role here, as Scots did wrestle at Caledonian games, but would not have wished to con the crowd by feigning falls and submissions. Another factor in this is the ‘cult’ of the science of exercise that gripped many parts of the world until at least the outbreak of the Second World War. The wrestling magazines depicted to readers how to perform a variety of orthodox wrestling holds. New holds were also developed. If they were seen as legitimate they could make a wrestlers name. (New Zealand wrestler Lofty Blomfield developed the ‘Octopus clamp’ with which he became associated in the 1930s for example). Given this knowledge some audiences wanted to see these holds performed legitimately on the stage and did not want to see burly men simply throwing each other out of the ring, eye-gouging or even setting about the referee. Where wrestling journalism that celebrated scientific wrestling put down roots might have influenced local taste. American promoters could not simply send wrestlers to the antipodes who would flout local taste, as it often led to contract termination and effectively deportation.
The question of what ‘shapes’ local taste is a complex one that I am still pondering. In other games, sporting cultures are also seen to diverge, for example the rejection of the kicking game in the southern hemisphere in relation to rugby union, (particularly in New Zealand where it’s seen as ‘bottling it’), the Australian refusal to use a night-watchman in cricket (a more recent innovation I think?), the fact that only Australians seems fascinated by Aussie Rules football (and really only in the State of Victoria) and even more topically, the way games are run. At the time of writing a furore has broken out over the issue of whether the cricketer Kevin Pietersen should play again for England, which has resulted in accusations of gentlemanly buffoonery within the English Cricket Board from the likes of Piers Morgan and others. Would the Australians get in such a pickle?
Writing transnational history is possible to a greater extent than ever before, because of the digitalization projects of the respective National Libraries around the globe. Students do not need huge grants to undertake this kind of research any more. The transnational approach does not need to be limited to the sporting realm either of course. My 2014 publication Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities examined how successfully or indeed unsuccessfully British imperial culture was projected within the antipodean city. Here too, the Trove and Papers Past projects were an invaluable starting point for the research.
Dr John Griffiths is Senior Lecturer in History at Massey University.
 J. Griffiths, ‘Popular Culture and Modernity: Dancing in New Zealand Society, 1920-1945’, Journal of Social History, 41, 3 (2008), 611-632.
 J. Griffiths, Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

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Hummingbird is a microcontroller designed to enable engineering and robotics activities for grades 3-12, that involve the making of robots, kinetic sculptures, and animatronics built out of a combination of kit parts and crafting materials.
Combined with very easy-to-use software environments like Scratch and Snap! Hummingbird provides a great way to introduce students to robotics and engineering with construction materials that they are already familiar with. At the same time, Hummingbird continues to provide new challenges by allowing programming in the Arduino environment, Python, Java, and Processing, and by supporting Raspberry Pi.

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?We do not know whether these products are what they say they are, but we have received a legitimate takedown request and are removing the listings,? Alibaba Group spokesman John Spelich told the Journal, though he declined to comment on the source of the request.
Now why doesn't someone post the pics.
Perhaps this is a bit nerdy, but every time I read about some company/site removing some purported info on an unreleased product I think of Ender?s Game when they discovered the Formics were on Eros by the asteroid disappearing as the Formics hid themselves from view. IOW, this is a confirmation that those case designs are for the next iPad.
That?s one way to kick off 2011.
That tactic has already been done. No sense repeating it.
BTW, why are all you guys browsing AI on New Years Eve? Isn't it party time?
Of course it is nerdy! Don't be afraid to embrace your inner geek! Blizzard did it, and look at what they are now!
But without a mouse, how would I play World of Warcraft? hummm..
History repeating.. iPhone 4 cases taking down... remember ?
The whole thing just really makes me doubt the story. Not the cases, they could be correct even if the interpretation is not. But the claim of some kind of cease and desist demand could be made up. If Apple sites etc are good about anything it is getting their ire up over rejections, 'censorship' etc. So claiming you were hand slapped is a great way to get everyone to talk about you and make them folk to see your next leak before it too is forced down.
Rumors have it that the new iPad with have a teletransporter! Who needs video conferencing when you can instantly transport yourself and talk to the person .. in person! Making telephones obsolete overnight!
I need to read that book again; it's been a few years. I probably read it twenty times between the ages of 13 and 20.
Considering the official announcement regarding the next iPad is mere days away (not official yet but no doubt it will come this month), these reports are much ado about nothing.
Not sure which report claimed there would be a USB port but the one I read (forget where) also claimed the next iPad would be a 7" model with a Retina display.
Considering Jobs only recently made a point of publicly ridiculing the 7" form factor (something about filing the ends of your fingers) clearly a 7" iPad is a no-go. And as for a 7" Retina Display, you've got to be kidding. That much density in such a large screen would involve a screen that in itself would cost far more than the retail price of a current iPad.
The new iPad will likely be so thin that a USB port simply won't fit.
Faster processor, lighter design, maybe 3G standard, better battery life, some sort of camera, certainly for Facetime, maybe for filming. These are all probable. No need for inside information to know that's coming just as you don't need inside info to know it's not going to have a 7" screen etc.
Why? Do you have ANY reason to think this? The last iPad came out in April. The announcement and simultaneous release of the 2nd gen iPad is therefore incredibly likely to be ALSO in April.
iDevices get one update a year, every year, on the year.
FaceTime camera? Sure. 7"? So not happening. And Retina 7? Ha! You're absolutely right.
I don't get what's wrong with all these people. IT ALREADY HAS A USB PORT.
And I hate that emoticon. Drop whatever he's puffing and keep the glasses.
iDevices get one update a year, every year, on the year..
The iDevices running iOS haven?t been getting simultaneous announcements and releases. So fasr we have little precedent with the iPad expect that it was announced in January and released in April. It?s not exactly a pattern, but it is something. The iPhone gets a good lead time, too, but it also comes with the new version of iOS where devs need to ready themselves. The iPod Touch is irrelevant as it?s been following the iPhone after several months with the same basic HW and OS as that year?s iPhone.
It has USB protocol for data but it has no USB ?port?. This is an important distinction.
USB port- YES! Much more versatile- the original iPad is beginning to look more and more like a dinosaur.
The iDevices running iOS haven?t been getting simultaneous announcements and releases.
Sure they have. iPods are announced in September and released the same day. The iPhone is announced at WWDC and released less than a month later (okay, not simultaneous, but at the same time every year). The iPad will be announced and released in April. It was only announced in advance because Apple doesn't make anything else like it. Same with the first iPhone; six month early announcement.
30-pin USB is USB. They won't do it because they don't WANT people having extra storage, et. al.
Has a USB port already.
1) I already stated why the iPod Touch is exempt when the major HW in the iPod Touch have already been out in the iPhone for months.
2) You’ve proved my point with your acknowledgment of both the iPhone and iPad not being announced/demoed and released to market the same day.
3) It’s one thing to say “I think Apple will announced/demo and release to market the next iPad on the same day” but you clearly stated this is how it’s been happening already when that is patently false.
4) If Apple announces and releases the G2 iPad on the same day in April I’ll buy you one.
That is not a "30-pin USB" port, that is Apple’s proprietary and licensable port interface.
... That is not a "30-pin USB" port, that is Apple?s proprietary and licensable port interface.
I'm just assuming here, but I think the original poster's point was merely that the functionality already exists, despite the semantics of port description. Some subset of the pins of Apple's dock connector basically comprise a USB port. You can also buy an Apple branded dongle that allows for a USB port on the bottom of the device.
The issue is the software and whether Apple allows you to use that USB port for this that or the other thing, which would still be the case regardless of whether a physical, recognisable USB port exists on the device.
So ergo and ipso facto, people asking for a USB port on the iPad are indeed "asking for something that's already there" (in a sense) and should instead be asking for Apple to relax the restrictions in the software, not asking for a USB port to be added to the device per se.
2) You?ve proved my point with your acknowledgment of both the iPhone and iPad not being announced/demoed and released to market the same day.
The first iPhone was announced months before availability because there was nothing to cannibalize. All subsequent iPhones have been announced with the previous model either unavailable or for pre-order alongside the previous model, discounted. It stands to reason that the iPad will operate similarly.
USB, camera, hopefully faster CPU, slightly smaller form factor.
Yep I held off on the first gen, but will pre-order this thing when it becomes available.
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Iceland has a special place on our travel bucket list, the top! This island country is my dream travel destination since I was a teenager and my first known Icelandic attraction was Björk. Guess what, I grew up and I discovered that Iceland is even more beautiful than I imagined, and my desire to explore this icy land became bigger and bigger.
The reasons to visit Iceland are countless, the country was listed by CNN as one of the top destinations in 2016 due to its unique natural beauty and culture. There are many places to visit in Iceland and I’m not going to list them all, instead I’m gonna share with you 5 of my favorite Icelandic attractions. Places that will make you want to travel to this icy country right now. Think about going on a Northern lights vacation in Iceland and witness one of the most awe-inspiring landscapes in the world.
The Aurora Borealis is one of the main reasons travelers from all around the world venture themselves in the dark and cold nights of Iceland. But the reward of facing the extreme temperatures and strong winds is the possibility to appreciate the magical dance of the northern lights.
You can watch this natural spectacle on the outskirts of Reykjavík, but the far you go from the city, better the chances you have. If you go towards north more intense and extravagant the lights can get. Westfjords, Borgarnes are perfect places to see the northern lights, even better if it’s really cold or stormy outside.
No doubt this is the most famous attraction in Iceland, and every time you see an Instagram photo of someone soaking in that blue and warm water you have the thought “I want, I need to go there”. I get it, I feel the same!
The beautiful moonish landscape, the color of the water and steam make the Blue Lagoon a must visit attraction in Iceland and it can get pretty packed, but who cares?! Take a dip and enjoy the geothermal spa, this is an experience of a lifetime! If you want to understand more about the volcanic activity and how the blue lagoon was formed, go on a tour and visit the lava fields that surround the lagoon.
Crystal Ice everywhere! One of the most breathtaking places in the world. Skaftafell is located 4 hours away from Reykjavik and it is very important that you don’t tread into ice caves without a licensed tour guide. During winters when the rivers have become rock solid and glaciers have stopped melting it is the best time to go touring inside the ice caves.
A trip to Iceland is not complete without a visit to this magnificent waterfall. During the Golden Circle tour you will pass by the Gullfoss Waterfall and don’t be surprised if you fall in love with this places, nature there is stunning. The water stream is fed by the Langjökull glacier, second largest glacier in Iceland, and the power of water is breathtaking.
Located in the south-west part of Iceland, this 55 km extreme hiking trail is absolutely enthralling. With blizzard and strong winds trying to overcome the hikers at every step, the trail is challenging. The route starts from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valley of Þórsmörk, along the way you will see the black sand deserts, mass of ice, beautiful pastures and much more.
Have we convinced you to travel to Iceland? While writing this post my feet were itching and I even checked the flights to there. But for now, we are only in the travel planning stage. Be aware that Iceland is much more than these five attractions, this is just a tiny part of all the natural beauty you can find there.
The high season in Iceland is during summer time [May to September], with mild temperatures and fully booked hotels. During the summer, the days are longer and it’s a beautiful moment to enjoy the nature and be outside.
The thing is that some attraction as the Northern Lights and the icy caves are not there all year around, and unfortunately you will need to face the winter in Iceland to be able to see and enjoy them. Winter is the off-season, what means cheaper hotels, flights and tours. Plus the possibility to enjoy an extra dose of adrenaline while hunting the northern lights or venturing yourself in the middle of the ice.
Iceland is a small country, to get around you can rent car and go explore it by yourself. Or you can book a tour and visit the waterfalls, geysers, volcanoes and glaciers. Bear in mind that in some National Parks and to visit the Skaftafell ice cave you will need an experienced guide.
Going on a short trip to Iceland? So, maybe go on a tour will make more sense, as you can discover and cover more of the island in a short period.. But if you are a truly explorer and have plenty of time, you can camping in Iceland, enjoy the outdoors life and the beauty that you only find there.
To choose the best time to travel to Iceland and how long you should stay there, will all depend on each type of experience do you want to have. However, doesn’t matter if you travel during summer or winter time, for 3 days or a month, in Iceland you will always have fun.
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Photos credit: Kirkjufellsfoss by iceland.is. The Northern Lights and The Blue Lagoon images copyrights by Moyan Brenn. The Laugavegur Trail by Alexander Hahn.
We spent a fortnight in Iceland a few years ago and loved it. We went in summer, so we didn’t really see the Auroro Borealis, as the days are very long and bright making the nights very short – we saw a hint of colour the very last night. But after a couple of nights in Reykjavik we rented a car and drove around the main ring road. This was wonderful, the landscapes are so amazing. We did visit the blue lagoon but actually we preferred another outdoor lagoon-style bath up in Myvatn.
I really want to visit iceland too! This is a great checklist!
Iceland is our favorite country and we think you should definitely visit! But heading North has nothing to do with how vividly the Northern Lights appear. It has to do with how the sun and atmospheric gases react to each other and it doesn’t matter if you’re in Reykjavík or the Westfjords. The only difference between Reykjavík and the Westfjords is that there is far less light pollution from the city lights, so you can see the Northern Lights easier. Also, the weather is more stable in the North since it isn’t affected by the Atlantic currents like Reykjavík and the South Coast.
Absolutely, the weather and all other conditions must be in line!
It’s hard to choose the best time of the year to visit Iceland, all seasons have their beauty!
What can I say? The more pictures I see of Iceland, the more keener I am to go. Just need to do lots more research, though. We usually take a long break in October and I need to know more about the weather at that time of the year.
I have to agree that Iceland is one of the most beautiful places on earth and it has a special luring effect on travelers because of it. We were lucky enough to see and do all of the things on this list and I would highly recommend the trip to anyone.
These are all great reasons to visit Iceland! The Blue Lagoon * The Northern Lights are right at the top of my list, but I’m afraid that living in Australia, it may be while before I get back to the far north of Europe to see them! I might have to settle for the Southern Lights in Tassie instead!
Iceland is on my list for 2017 too! I have heard nothing but good things about the country. I would love to visit the National Park and the ice cave!
Every time I read blogs about Iceland I discover a new place to visit. This time I learned about Skaftafell and Laugavegur. I’m going to Iceland in two weeks, hoping to see the Northern Lights, but even if I don’t, it will be an amazing trip. Enjoyed your post. Now I’m off to research Skaftafell!
OMG! Enjoy Iceland!! We saw the Northern Lights this year in Finland, it was amazing! I’m sure you gonna have an amazing time!

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I’ve been running Dutty’s Official WM6.1 5.2.19209 UC ROM for about a month and a half now, so naturally it was time to see if I could tweak my phone a little more. There have been a few new developments in the ROM Cooking world. The chefs have figured out how to get the keyboard layouts from the new HTC Diamond ROM and put them into the ROMs for the Tilt.
Well I finally got up the courage to mod my AT&T Tilt. I did a bit of reading over at the xda-developers forum. I’m pretty stoked about it because I was able to update the a Windows Mobile 6.1 version. One of the things that I wanted 6.1 for was the possibility to do threaded messaging natively. I have installed Pocket CM Contacts in the past, but it did a couple of things weird I thought.


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At Advanced Thermostats, knowledgeable and experienced personnel will tackle any issue that you may have with your Hunter Thermostat. It is important that the various aspects of the Hunter Thermostat such as the design, procurement, installation, repair and maintenance be handled by technicians in the know. It is the only way you will get the guarantee that your thermostat and other accessories are of top quality and that the level of efficiency you will get will help you to make great savings. With our highly skilled personnel, you will get just the right kind of Hunter Thermostat that will maintain the ideal temperature through cooling and heating. If such services are left in inexperienced hands, so many things will go wrong and you will lose your investment. Advanced Thermostats in Carmel, ME provides HVAC systems in all your thermostat needs, so you can be sure to get full return on your time,effort and money. HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems that ensure your temperature control devices like the Hunter Thermostat performs at par with quality design, repair and replacement of parts.
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Austin Brake Failure Car Accident Lawyer | Colley Firm, P.C.
Brake failure can lead to significant accidents depending on the speed the driver is going when the brakes fail. Even a minor fender bender can cause damage to a vehicle and has the potential to result in serious head or neck injuries. Keeping a car in good repair is the responsibility of the driver.
At the same time, the driver should be able to safely assume that if the car was purchased from a licensed dealer, it is safe to operate. In times when responsibility for the accident is difficult to determine but the medical bills keep piling up, our Austin brake failure car accident lawyers can help.
In some cases, the person who sold the vehicle may bear part of the responsibility for an accident caused by brake failure. Texas Lemon Laws are very specific about the length of time and the number of opportunities that the owner must give the dealer to repair the problem.
There are a few different tests to determine if the dealer is responsible for repairs to a vehicle. One is the serious safety hazard test. If there is a malfunction that is either life threatening or prevents you from controlling or operating the vehicle normally, and you have taken your vehicle to the dealership two or more times to make the repair, you may be eligible for compensation.
The Texas Department of Transportation (DOT) has determined that in 2014 alone, 540 accidents occurred as a result of brake failure in Texas. When that brake failure was combined with speeding or other extreme circumstances, the results were sometimes fatal.
Additionally, a significant portion of car accidents today occur as a result of getting hit from behind. When brake failure is added to the mix, the numbers increase and the injuries become more significant. It's one thing to drive defensively and monitor the traffic around you. It's another thing to try to drive defensively but not be able to do so because your brakes failed.
Accidents that are caused by brake failure are often preventable when the manufacturers and car dealers do their part and ensure that their products are safe to be on the road.
Whether or not the accident was fatal, the issue of compensation still stands. Properly functioning braking systems are of the utmost importance, and someone has to be held responsible when they fail. The injuries that can result from a brake failure accident can be long term and even fatal.
An experienced Austin brake failure car accident lawyer from Colley Firm P.C. can help you determine why a vehicle’s brakes may have failed and who was to blame for their failure.
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Anna Torrens Armstrong, PhD, MPH, MCHES, CPH joined the faculty at the University of South Florida (USF) in the College of Public Health, Department of Community and Family Health, in 2015. She teaches courses in the undergraduate health education minor track. Her research interests include teaching innovation, school-based health services, developmental evaluation and design thinking, collective impact initiatives, military health promotion and resiliency. Anna also serves as adjunct faculty (online) at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Advanced Academic Program, Department of Communication.
Anna has held a variety of professional positions within the field of public health, due to frequent relocations as a military spouse, which have included adjunct faculty work at Davenport University and freelance writing. She most recently served as the Director of Evaluation and Innovation for Building Healthy Futures (BHF), in Omaha, Nebraska, where she oversaw all evaluation efforts, communicating the organizational vision for evaluation into reality for external evaluators, program partners and stakeholders. Anna led organizational decision-making by bridging the gap between theory and practice and translating understanding across various professional silos to help build a collective, collaborative framework for increasing access to healthcare for underserved children. Her work with BHF began in 2013 as a faculty member at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Public Health. Her work included guiding program evaluation projects, determining common measures, and serving as a liaison between the College of Public Health and multiple community partners.
Prior to her work with BHF, Anna served as the Health Promotions Flight Health Educator under the 1st Special Operations Aerospace Medical Squadron at Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Florida. She also held various positions with the American Cancer Society, Florida Division including Director of Childhood Cancer Programs, Residential Night Manager of the Benjamin Mendick Hope Lodge and as an advocacy research assistant.
Anna received her B.A. in International Studies, with a minor in Political Science and a concentration in Communication and Culture from the University of Tampa. She earned her MPH with a concentration in Health Education and Promotion, and her Ph.D. in Public Health in the Department of Community and Family Health at the University of South Florida, College of Public Health. She also has a graduate certificate in Social Marketing in Public Health.
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Kay Huff has many years’ experience consulting in the dental industry. Here is an article originally published in June of 2014. Read her tips on phone etiquette and suggested phrases, and polish your phone skills for a new year.
Every single day I have conversations with my clients about incredible hospitality, a welcoming and positive attitude, creating a high level of engagement, and developing an ear for great listening. I sound like a broken record reviewing the fundamentals with doctors and their teams. I typically have a lot of confidence that folks are “getting” the message. And then we test our progress only to learn there is still so much to learn. Most practices have worked on, and will continue to work on, basic phone skills, as long as their doors are open.
Even though most offices do work on phone policies, they don’t usually take time to listen to how effective phone etiquette actually is. Even if they do, the majority of doctors and team members truly don’t know what an exceptional phone experience can be.


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Well, StarGames casino is one of the most popular online casinos out there. It has hundreds of games in store so both beginners and experienced gamblers will find something they feel comfortable to play. Any game can be played both for real money and for 'stars' – it's kind of a currency that allows you to try games for fun instead of betting real money. But note that you won't be able to play games with live-dealers and these 'stars' can't be converted in real money, so however much you win, you can't withdraw it.
Star Games casino is powered by Novomatic and partially it runs on its own software (Evolution Gaming). Novomatic gaming software developer is famous for its iconic gaminator series. Today this company is the largest provider in the world of online gambling and has a few subsidiaries. One of such is the Greentube company that updates the most successful online slot games. Thanks to this company players of StarGames casino can play deluxe versions of such legendary slots like Book of Ra, Lucky Lady's Charm, Columbus and so on.
The range of games at the casino is really wide. All sorts of games are on offer – blackjack, pokers, bingos, baccarat, sic bo, scratches, roulettes, card games, board games, arcades and others. What's important to note is that there's a wide selection of games you can play with live-dealers. But the biggest number of games belongs to StarGames slots. Here you can find 3- and 5-reeles slots, with the number of paylines from 3 to 243. Due to such a variety, players of any experience level will find what to play. Just choose a game you like and play it directly from your browser. No download is required.
The first-deposit bonus is on offer. If you deposit up to €100 you get a 100% cash bonus. What's comfortable is that you can type any amount you want to deposit and the website will show what bonus is waiting for you for that sum. But there are some conditions following which you can get your bonus. You have to play the same amount of games and wager the same amount of money as your bonus contains. For instance, if your bonus is 50, you must play at least 50 games and wager at least 50 euros. Otherwise, this bonus expires.
There's also an invitation bonus: you invite your friends via special page on the website and when each of your friends deposits at least 10 euros (and played 10 games) you're awarded a 10 euros bonus.
Loyal customers are entitled to a bonus program. Playing for real money at StarGames casino you get points. Depending on the number of these points, you get a certain member status which implies different kinds of bonuses.
When you want to make a deposit you go to the 'Shop' page. There you enter the amount of money and your country. Depending on the country you choose you see different banking options. For example, citizens of European countries see Visa, Mastercard, Skrill (Moneybookers), Neteller, Paysafecard and Ukash in the list. Austrians will find EPS (a bank transfer offered from the Bank of Austria) and Paybox on the list apart from the aforementioned options. People choosing Russia will have even more options: Qiwi, moneta.ru, webmoney and yandex.money as well as Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, Skrill (Moneybookers), Paysafecard, Neteller and Ukash.
Note that not all of the methods you find in deposit list will be available for withdrawal. Usually withdrawal takes about 5 days. Minimum amount is 15 euros and maximum is 3000 euros per withdrawal. Anyway, try StarGames free slots at the portal and only then visit the club.
Stargames proved to be quick in responding to emails – in comparison with other casinos it takes Stargames casino from 10 minutes to a couple of days, whereas some other online gambling venues make players wait for days and eventually make them call the phone.
However, when it comes to complaints, StarGames nearly ignores unpleasant questions. The Term and Conditions page says that players will get their complaints responded within 10 days but major gambling forums state that it actually happens very seldom and most often they leave complaining people without any help.

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French Water Partnership » Imagining a +4°c world: what about water ?
Upon the COP24, French Water Partnership produced a short sensitization video to alert decision makers and the general public to the catastrophic impacts of an average warming of 4°C at the end of the century. A futuristic journey through France, Vietnam and the United States of America in the year 2098.
Erik Orsenna, President of Initiatives for the Future of Great Lakes of France, lent his voice to the character of this video. The latter will be officially launched at COP24 on Thursday, December 6th during a side-event on the French Pavilion.
General coordination: French Water Partnership https://www.partenariat-francais-eau…. with the participation of Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers http://www.initiativesrivers.org/ Scenario imagined by the FWP’s water and climate working group with the support of its scientific members.

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'In American politics, it now seems that the war against Iraq must be waged at any price. Arguments no longer count,' writes Süddeutsche Zeitung's Adrian Kreye.
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Mascarpone Caramel Puffs kind stumbled upon me, just because I had a roll of puff pastry in my fridge, Mascarpone and a newly cooked tin of caramel waiting to be used. Little did I know that Puff pastry when cutting out into circles pop up like Choux pastry and allow you to fill them with whatever! I was beside myself. Guess my days as an amateur cook teaches me something new every day.
Melt in your mouth caramel puff pastry puffs with an added zing of Raspberries and creamy white chocolate are up on the menu and your guests won’t even be able to guess the simplicity behind it… Finds the recipe below!
Roll out the puff pastry sheet and cut out round shapes with a cookie cutter or a glass, place on a baking tray, brush over melted butter and let it bake for 10 minutes @180°C.
Mix together the mascarpone and the caramel treat and scoop into a piping bag with a round nozzle.
Make a hole in the puff pastry puffs with the piping bag nozzle and pipe in the filling.
Melt the white chocolate and then dip the puffs in the white chocolate covering the nozzle hole, decorate with the raspberries and eatable golden pastry powder.
6. Place in the fridge till it’s time to serve them.
PS: Be aware not to fill the puffs to ahead of time for they can become soggy.
Surprising delicious puff pastry ideas right here, You can Vary the filling and even go for something savory, like cream cheese and sundried tomatoes!


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Hi friends! Would you like to fly to Europe but not break the bank?! Flight tickets can be sky high but I have picked up a few tips on how to get the best prices on airfare.
As you may or may not know I have been living abroad in Paris for about 10 months now. I have been lucky enough to fly from my sunny state of California several times within the past few years. I have since fine-tuned my ticket search/ purchase methodology.
When I want to plan a trip, I hover around a few sites until I’m ready to set things in motion (immediately). This method is tried and true for me and I know it will yield the same results for you!
I have been a true Groupon Getaways believer for almost a year now. I used a similar Groupon Getaway for a family vacation to London & Paris last year. For around $900 you will have roundtrip airfare, hotel accommodations with daily breakfast. Some of the packages offer an upgrade option where you can update your accommodations (which is not particularly necessary) but also you can update to include the Sightseeing Pass which is heavenly when you have so little time to see so everything. The Sightseeing Pass usually includes a bus tour, which seems cheesy but it is the quickest way to see the city. Also, it comes with a booklet that has a mind-blowing amount of activities for you to do that are included in your package. These activities include museums, wine tastings, shows, free snacks and so much more!
This is most definitely my favorite way to travel!
Scott’s Cheap Flights is REVOLUTIONARY. The site was created by the worldly Scott Keyes, and is an email subscription list that keeps you in the loop with outrageously low airfare. Sure, the onslaught of emails can be overwhelming at times, but when you are ready to travel it’s something you can look forward to. I have used Scotts Cheap Flights on numerous occasions but most notably for a New Year’s trip Canada in 2015.
Something to look out for is that Scotts Flights only leave from major cities. In these emails, you can expect up to 10 or so departure cities but with dangerously low prices.
Scotts Cheap Flights currently serves the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, all of Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and itineraries in Africa coming soon.
Student Universe is another great database for (you guessed it) students. You have to be a student to purchase the tickets but that is nothing a quick sign up to your local community college can’t fix.
When searching for flights (on any platform) try checking prices for the entire month. The cheapest day to fly out will most likely be a little bit before and or after your intended departure/return date.
I used Student Universe to fly from California to Prague for under $700 last January!
Matrix ITA Software was officially acquired by Google in 2011. This was my original travel ticket go-to. At times the prices can be less than ideal but if and when you plan far enough in advance this can be truly helpful. I use the Matrix to travel within the states but I also used it for a New Year’s trip to Ireland in 2016.
If you choose to book through the Matrix you must copy the itinerary and use the Book With Matrix site. This is because the software simply displays the prices and itineraries. It does not allow you to book directly.
Cards that allow you to accrue airline miles can be a real help! The Chase Visa Sapphire card is said to be the best of the best according to Forbes and Value Penguin. It offers a sign-up bonus of 50,000 which is approximately $1,155 in points for your travel use.
I personally use my Air Alaska Visa Signature card perks to arrange connecting flights in the states when needed. If the cheapest option is to fly out of New York then I use my Air Alaska points to arrange it.
You can also apply for one of their cards that offer a companion pass which allows you to bring a plus one for a rate of $150 or less.
Of course, Skyscanner is a natural must do, given the site’s option of allowing users to set email alerts for the lowest prices.
Also the typical recommendations for Kayak, AAA, Hotels.com, and Hotwire are still very much valid, but the sites listed above have yet to let me down.
Also, keep in mind that traveling during the off-season is also best.
Did these recommendations work for you? If so please share this post and spread the good word. Also. let me know what you think in the comments below.
This is really valuable information, thank you for sharing! I’d never thought of using Groupon for travel, but I’m definitely going to keep it in mind for next time.
Thank you so much! Also yes, most definitely check it out! You truly get so much for the price.
#2 is certainly interesting! I might give it a go and see how well it overlaps with my travel plans! Thanks!
Hi Teja! You will be amazed at how low the airfare can be if you sign up.
Great point Lauren! I will definitely add those!
Great list of place to check for flights! We too love to travel during low season to try and get the best price possible.
Scotts cheap flights are my absolute FAVORITE! I haven’t heard of all of these though, so this post is super useful. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
Hi Amanda! Scotts Cheap Flights for the win, right? The Groupon Getaways are most definitely worth checking out.
Great tips!!! It’s always pretty difficult to find cheap tickets to Europe from where I’m from – the Philippines. Theyre usually so expensive! I’ll have to check out Matrix because the most of the time I just search through Skyscanner or Expedia.
Hi Johna! I didn’t know that tickets to Europe from the Philippines were so expensive. I really hope the Matrix works for you.
Hi Ashfina! I am so glad you liked the tips! I would love to meet up when you come to Paris!
Just signed up for Scott’s Cheap Flights — that’s a great tip! I also use Fly Almost Free, which is similar. I’ve gotten $300 round-trips to Paris from DC!
Hi Carrie. $300?! Now that is a game changer!!!


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We developed an iconic yet flexible design for the fair, an annual event that draws international audiences to Randall’s Island. Originally intended for a single occasion, the design was so well received by the organizers and the public that it has been used again each year.
The design is a case study in innovative approaches to project constraints. The project required a quick turnaround for concept development and construction within a tight budget. These constraints are integral to the final design. Working with the limited vocabulary of a pre-fabricated rental structure provoked inventiveness in design. To address the fair’s high density of content, the design introduces variety through a series of angled voids along the 1,500-foot structure. The wedges make room for visitor amenities while bending the otherwise straight tent into a meandering, supple shape.
Set on Randall’s Island Park, the week-long event is an experiment in ephemeral placemaking: a flexible and open space for contemporary art in a natural context. The winding form of the tent echoes that of the shoreline, re-establishing a connection to the landscape. Its curves create a sculpture garden at one point, and wrap behind foliage to make way for a deck and food trucks at another. The lightweight tent fabric aids in creating a diffused light ideal for the display of art. The modularity of the tent allows the fair organizers to quickly assemble and reconfigure the space year after year.


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If there’s one thing the IT industry is spectacularly good at, it is producing buzzwords. Marketing executives – even management gurus – look enviously over their shoulders at our industry’s propensity to churn out a seemingly inexhaustible supply of new acronyms and expressions. We over use them in PowerPoint, extolling the virtues of the latest X and how it will mean Y to Z and to all of Z’s customers. Meanwhile our audiences wearily roll their eyes upwards at each new piece of jargon!
So, after an endless diatribe of Private Clouds, Public Clouds and Hybrid Clouds, does anybody have the energy for Personal Clouds? And when we learn it is rooted in consumer IT – itself the most crowded territory for industry jargon (think ‘Mobile’, ‘Post PC’, ‘BYOD’, ‘User Experience’ – it never stops) – we’re reaching for the off switch. Why should we care? Perhaps more to the point, why should I risk antagonising you by writing a blog on the subject?
I could start by explaining the idea of the Personal Cloud is gaining traction across the IT industry. Gartner, for example, were predicting last month that Personal Cloud would replace the PC by 2014. Or that a cursory search of Google Trends shows the term first appearing in web searches as recently as June 2011, and growing rapidly ever since. But hype of course is no justification of something’s worth in itself. Worse, it’s so often accompanied by the array of contradictory definitions that seem to meet every new piece of IT terminology. The important thing is to look at what is actually happening out there. Because whatever words we want to use, whatever charts we want to draw, an important development is taking place.
For me there are two parts to this.
One is that we now have an unprecedented range of consumer utilities at our disposal to enable our – for want of a better phrase – personal productivity. All the things that you need to do in your daily life – communicate, write, find things out, calculate, plan and schedule, collaborate and share – are enabled by software. And these days you are quite likely to go online for your software because, let’s face it, apps are as cheap as chips and very often they are free. When consumed in this way, the set of utilities starts to resemble a virtual space which exists somewhere ‘out there’. This is where the term Personal Cloud may start to seem relevant. Moreover, this is perhaps the first truly consumerized set of software with real consumer product DNA. It is pure B2C, whereas MS Office and its ilk have their heritage in B2B – even when they have been sold to the C.
Second is to consider this in the context of mobile devices. It is fair to say that if you use a PC you are probably happy to use a workspace that is fixed and licensed to that machine. Traditionally, that has been provided for you by your company. More than likely you have created a similar environment on a home PC – maybe the software was cheaper than the corporate version but nonetheless what you bought came in a cardboard box wrapped in cellophane. Its code is now firmly attached to the hard disk – as is the information you have created from it. Mobile changes everything. You probably don’t need me to argue that with a mobile device, online, consumer software makes the most sense. But here’s the thing. The real value of Personal Cloud is not about your first mobile device, it’s about your second, and your third. As you add more devices – a smartphone here, a media tablet there, so it becomes more beneficial to you that your software and personal information are virtualised and accessible. DropBox and Apple’s iCloud are enjoying huge popularity as people realise how much easier it is to have a consistent experience across their devices. Of course you also have come to realise you need – and expect – the same experience across all of your computers – home and work.
Lurking behind all this, like a troublesome and unwelcome party guest, is a profound implication for the way that businesses deliver end user computing to their employees. Because now you’ve got your personal devices synced, isn’t it time you also synced your work stuff? And if you already have a virtual workspace, which by the way you can access at work, why would you need your employer to provide you with an alternative, possibly inferior one? And would you use it?
There is already strong impetus in the enterprise for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and no doubt you will be familiar with the arguments. The use of mobile in the workplace is a disruptive force and is being viewed by the enterprise, albeit with suspicion, as mostly harmless. But the argument for Personal Cloud is slightly different. Devices are as varied as they are disposable. Their useful life expectancy is falling. No one device will define what’s personal to us. It will be our own personal experience – the set of information and applications that we use – that will become the footprint that defines us and persists with us. This is what Personal Cloud has the potential to deliver.
Personal Cloud is therefore likely to overtake mobile as the number one headache for CIOs. Consumer technology has a Trojan Horse feel about it. It sits outside the enterprise walls, gathering a lot of attention, as suspicious IT functions ready themselves to accept the seemingly harmless gift. But as we all know, it wasn’t a big hollow wooden horse that did for the Trojans. It was its payload of Greek warriors, led by Odysseus, who crept out in the dead of night and opened up all the city gates to break a ten year deadlock. Likewise, Personal Cloud will be carried into the enterprise on mobile devices. It will change the way enterprises deliver end-user computing for good.
At this time of year there are many articles and posts that provide insightful, amusing and thought provoking summaries of the year nearly completed. The fact that I have read a number of excellent reviews of 2010 has helpfully discouraged me from trying to compete. That said I cannot resist some personal observations on how I experienced 2010.
2010 was the year where we went from talking about the potential of cloud computing to seeing that future state take shape in the market. Regardless of your position on solution maturity I doubt many would argue that cloud computing has not arrived and has had no impact on corporate IT strategy. However, it is not cloud computing that stands as my key inflection point in 2010; that is reserved for the moment that the penny dropped for me on the closely related force of IT consumerisation.
My moment of clarity arrived during Fujitsu’s VISIT 2010 event held in Munich during November. I’d just walked around the exhibition hall with three client CIOs and moved through the whole range of Fujitsu activities from our endpoint products to our server and storage technologies to cloud computing offerings, our extensive partner ecosystem, right through to our research activities under the strategic intent of human centric computing to enable an intelligent networked society.
I was asked by one of the CIOs which of the areas we’d just seen were having the most impact on my internal IT strategy; after some thought and the sound of a penny dropping I replied none of those as such but rather the change in expectations of my IT delivery. Two of the CIOs looked at me as if I were slightly deranged whilst (luckily!) the third nodded and agreed with me. Over a coffee we convinced ourselves that the key challenge is not technology aspects such as device proliferation, or the shadow IT landscape funded by credit cards, nor even social media finding a way into the enterprise. We decided that the key disruptor is actually the one of expecting choice and an increasing demand to apply the market dynamics of the consumer marketplace to the corporate world. This brings with it an expectation that using corporate IT should be “pleasurable”, “exciting”, “immediate” and dare I say “cool”; a customer experience as opposed to user experience.
At the start of the year many people including me were using the term “Generation Y” to encapsulate a set of behaviours and expectations that we asserted were generational. Today I still argue that the characteristics attributed to Generation Y exist but now believe that that many of them are not restricted to a given generation. Indeed if I look at my weekly barometer of demand (see my earlier post about IT consumerisation) I know enough of the names in my mailbox demanding iPad connectivity, Android access to corporate systems, adoption of services like DropBox, access to social media sites to know that the majority are actually Baby Boomers or Generation X.
The tension created the moment you attempt to reflect consumer arena expectations and demands in your corporate IT strategy is perplexing. You rapidly find yourself becoming at best the voice of caution, at worst the voice listing all the reasons why not, despite the benefit that could accrue to the organisation. Balancing risk against benefit is a key part of the CIO role but unsurprisingly I find the role much more rewarding when able to operate as the Chief Innovation Officer. There is a strong temptation in the face of escalating demand for which you lack funding, quite apart from the information assurance implications or indeed those relating to the operational cost management, to simply say “no, because” and forget all of your consultative customer centric training in how to respond to challenging demands!
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This week I attended the Symantec Vision conference in Barcelona and also took part in a panel discussion on cloud computing at their CIO Engage event. The content I heard at both events resonated strongly with me. It was relevant to both my internal role at Fujitsu as Chief Information Officer (CIO) and also my market facing guise as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) trying to ensure that our market offerings are relevant and evolving aligned to the demands from our clients and the market in general. Indeed it was at the Symantec CIO Engage that I was also effectively “outed” in responding to a question put to the panel as having a third role within the organisation, that of Chief Security Officer (CSO). The intertwining of all three role perspectives I guess in retrospective was inevitable given the breadth and nature of Symantec’s product range, combined with the pervasive market dynamic force of cloud computing.
The question with which every CIO I met during the week was grappling can be summed up as “how do I access the business benefit promised by cloud computing at an acceptable level of risk and return to my company”. My proposition on the panel was that CIOs fundamentally know how to manage this market inflection point and that the disciplined approach was far from new and scary. The crux of the matter being what corporate IPR should be exposed to obtain the desired business outcomes to an appropriate level of risk and financial return whilst ensuring that all the data implications were guided by the trinity of security, privacy and residency.
A group of CIOs with extensive off-shoring experience ended up concluding over a drink or two one night that we knew how to handle this challenge. Our conclusion was that our experience of managing the arrival and maturation of the off-shoring dynamic which is common place in the market today placed us in a good position to do navigate our companies through the cloud.
One area where there was universal agreement, was that we need to evolve new solutions, technology, process and procedure around updating our data management capabilities to reflect the flexibility and associated risks of cloud computing. There was specific focus from all on how we ensure that data is appropriately processed, stored and transmitted as part of the move (at a rate on which none of us could agree!) towards business process orchestration in the cloud and its far reaching implications. There was agreement that some of our existing strategies in the security arena of creating layered defences from different vendor toolsets to avoid the “too many eggs in one basket” management of risk were probably not sustainable moving forwards. The example I raised with the group (in case someone had a neat solution for me!) was my having an estate of endpoints all nicely encrypted with one vendor’s toolset represented a barrier to my implementing a sophisticated Data Leakage Protection (DLP) solution provided by another; the DLP toolset cannot interrogated my encryption solution and if it could well arguably that would see me with a different immediate challenge entirely! To me it is clear that the technology company that can help us manage data as it is processed/transits multiple clouds whilst providing the many levels of assurance required depending on the data entity value is going to have a queue of customers; you’ll not be at all surprised wearing my CTO hat that I am actively engaged in the Fujitsu Group response to that challenge and opportunity!


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Almond Tree Preschool provides early care and education to children ages 2 years to 5 years old in a nurturing environment that supports each child’s development and fosters their self-esteem.
"Our daughter has grown leaps and bounds in a few short months. Wonderful community, creative and hardworking teachers, and a safe warm space to learn and grow. We couldn't be happier with our choice."
"We love, love, love Almond Tree and everybody there! We started to send our 2 year old daughter there when we moved to the neighborhood and could not have found a better place. Thank you for helping us raise our children in such a fun way!"

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Westbury Village Club, home to the Westbury Gun and Football Clubs, has been serving Westbury and the surrounding villages for over a hundred years. With the hospitality you can only dream of in this day and age, you will always get a warm welcome.
If you play pool, darts or just want to watch the large screen TV, this is the place to be. Various events are scheduled throughout the year and bingo is held once a month – everyone is welcome.
Memberships are £5 per year and £1 for Senior Citizens. By becoming a member, you have the added advantage of a cheaper-than-pub priced bar.
We are usually only open on weekends unless there is a Pool Match.
The Village club is available to hire and is run by a committee on a volunteer basis. Please contact Jenny Taylor on 01280 700266 if you would like to book the village club. Please note: One of the CIU rules is that as the club is a private members club it can’t be hired out to non members.
Please visit the Westbury Village Club website for event dates or keep an eye on the Club notice board.


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9.00am - 5.30pm AEDT Monday - Friday.
Closed for public holidays in South Australia.
By appointment only for travel trade, please note we don't conduct face to face booking consultations.
Flat Beds is a part of the Complex Travel group and is a member of AFTA and is proudly ATAS accredited.


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A squint occurs when the muscles which move the eyes (the extraocular muscles) don't work together properly. There may be a misalignment of the eyes (one eye is at an angle when the person looks straight ahead) or a lack of coordination.
As the eyes point in slightly different directions, the brain cannot combine the views from each eye to produce a sharp 3D image.
Two common types of squint are 'convergent' (or crossed-eyes) where one or both eyes turn inward, and 'divergent' (or walleye) where one or both eyes turn outward.
If you're worried about your child having a squint, it's best to consult your optician or GP.
Find out more about children's eyecare.


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With an average age of nearly 50, we have a wealth of knowledge and experience to be able to service and repair your vehicle to a high standard. We are the one stop shop for all your vehicle needs. This includes MOT, tyres, smart paint repairs and air conditiong re-gas and repairs. At Smile Servicing and Repairs, we have a passion for the work we do, and only ever use the highest quality parts, products, and treatments. But we know motoring is expensive and most of our customers would rather spend their hard earned money on something else so with that in mind we keep our prices to a minimum as much as possible.
Walked in the garage today and explained a warning msg had come up on my car and it didn’t feel right. They looked at it straight away. Told me the issue and cost to repair within 10 minutes. Work was completed within 1.5 hrs. Really friendly people, excellent service at good price ????????


text: The CHEEKIEST book of the year!Ages 2+ Wobbly bum. Cute bum. thunder bum. Skinny bum. Can't get through the door bum. Hairy bum. Potty bum. Flat bum. Runaway bum. tickety-boo, princess bum. Horsey bum. Saddle bum. Mum's bum. Dad's bum Grandpa's bum Granny's bum. Naughty little boy's bum...A hilarious picture book which celebrates bottoms of all types, shapes and sizes!

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It is just starting to be an exciting time of the year at the Tile Addict desk as the world’s leading tile manufacturers offer a sneak peek of what they will be launching at this year’s Cersaie exhibition in Bologna.
First out of the block this year was Ariana, and if this a foretaste of innovations to come, I’m optimistic. Ariana’s first pre-Cersaie missive also suggests that wood-effect tiles still have some way to run. In Bologna, Ariana are promising to show where the natural appeal of wood meets contemporary design trends to create a warm, elegant look.
Essential will be initially available in a palette of four contemporary yet timeless colours, that brings charm and elegance to floors and walls. Almond, Beige, Oak and Grey are stylish tones designed to open up new potential for material and colour combinations. The Ariana Mix&Style philosophy continues to expand its aesthetic potential thanks to the range of single-calibre rectified modular sizes and the new geometric decorative solutions, which are ideal for experimenting with constantly new and original compositions and patterns.
Essential is produced using Ariana’s most advanced ceramic technologies – Wide and Auto-levelling – and comes in two formats: 200 by 1,200 and what is billed as an exclusive 260 by 2,000mm. Cut from Wide ceramic panels, Essential planks are produced using a new pressing system that uses a dry raw material compaction process to create surfaces with extraordinary technical qualities. The size and mere 7mm thickness of the planks, together with the exceptional elasticity of the Auto-levelling body, is said to allow the planks to bond perfectly to the substrate and create a uniformly flat surface.

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