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Today I had an interesting experience at the dentist’s. I needed an onlay, and there was some drilling to do first. I have a really good dentist. So I wasn’t worried. The procedure is, to first use a numbing agent on the gum, and then there is an injection to prevent pain during drilling. And then it goes on; but those are the important parts right now.
I have been through this a few times, but nothing like what happened today has ever happened before … The numbing agent was put on, for a few minutes, and nothing unusual happened. Then the injection … which did not hurt … but I began to have the strangest feeling, like a torpor and kind of a dull ache creeping down from the injection site at the back of my top right jaw. First I felt a twinge of pain in my neck, just below the back part of the right side of my jaw. It was a very dull pain … 2, on a scale of 10. And then I felt a very slight aching proceeding down the right side of my neck, very slowly.
And it seemed like I could hear nerve cells talking to me. They were saying: I have to hold on! I don’t want to go! Like that!
… and I got worried that maybe there was something about the numbing injection that was killing the nerve cells, because nerve cells cannot regenerate as well as other kinds of cells … Although, I am pretty sure, what with the work of the people in the Lightworker, Wayshower, and Pathfinder community, that there will be new technologies coming in, to allow nerve cells to regenerate. I am pretty sure about that.
But right now, according to Western medical lore, it is difficult for nerve cells to regenerate. So when I heard them upset, and crying out, like little children … just a couple of them … they were crying out that they were afraid they were ‘going under’ … I was worried that the pathway of nerves that apparently goes down along the right side of the neck might be dying, or maybe thought it was dying … or that the body elemental that was in charge of that might be having heart palpitations, you know? … Might actually have become sedated, like the cells there, out of empathy?
Could it perhaps be that the nature of the body cells is Awareness, and that they instinctively dread sedation and anesthesia, as diminution of their affinity with God and with His creation? That our body elementals, and our astral selves, like our body cells, are in tune with the quality of Awareness, or Self-Realization, or Illumination, as well … and perhaps far more so than our mental and physical selves might be?
To continue with the story, I kept waiting. And this leaden feeling, with a very slight, dull pain, in the right side of my neck, continued on down to the base of the right side of my neck.
And then after a while, it skipped down to a little half-moon shaped place under my right forearm, on the chest side (not the arm side). And it ached there for a little while.
And then the dentist came in. He was really good. And all was well: He did a perfect job.
When he drilled the old filling out, I felt like my Soul said: Oh, good! That’s done!
And I felt a certain knowing … that ‘knowing with a certain surety’ … a certain intuition, that it had been a trouble with the filling in the back of my top right jaw … to do with an event in a past lifetime, or in a concurrent incarnation … that had caused plantar fasciitis in my left heel, and a feeling of stiffness in the left side of my body. Is that not something?
How those two things can be related, I do not know. I cannot come up with a theory to cover it, but I can tell you the data: Those are the data, mysterious as they may be.
It has been a while now … it has been a half hour or more. And I have to say that, whatever little beings were upset before … whether they were body cells, or body elementals, or maybe even my astral being (which is very feeling-oriented) … whatever it was, that was the trouble, is now gone.
So it was temporary. I still have feeling in the right side of my neck. I cannot feel much in the right side of my jaw, because of the concentration of anesthetic, right now, but it has improved; it has gotten better. And I have the utmost confidence that, as in all prior circumstances that are similar, it will all work out fine.
So that is it: A mystery!
This entry was posted in 03 – Astral body / emotional body (4D), 09 – Monadic aspect (Awareness), Alternative medicine, Cellular joy - oneness with our body cells, Enlightenment - satori - awakening - illumination - rapture - self-realization, Health - healing, Higher Mental Body, Karma - incarnations - causal reality, Lightworkers - gatekeepers - pathfinders - starseed - wayshowers, Physical body and subtle bodies, Samskaras - karmic miasmic patterning - morphogenetic field distortions, Soul wounding - soul clearing - core star energy, Western medicine and tagged Alternative medicine, anesthetic, astral body, awareness, body cells, Body elementals, cellular joy, dentist, enlightenment, etheric net, healing, health, incarnations, JScambio, karmic miasmic patterning, lightworker, mental body, morphogenetic field distortions, nerve cells, pathfinder, physical body, Plantar Fasciitis, samskaras, self realization, soul wounding, subtle bodies, tooth health, Wayshower, Western medicine on 25 September 2018 by Alice B. Clagett.


text: Congratulations, Kathy Zamata, who retired recently from serving with the Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability. For her next act, she plans to volunteer, plus do some contract work for the state later down the road. Way to go, Kathy!

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Criptiques is the new disability anthology and podcast brought to you by a close friend and confidante of mine, activist and author Caitlin Wood.
In the book, disabled luminaries critique everything from disability justice to body image to class. It's also really, really queer. I asked her how the project turned out to be so gay.
Toshio: Was it weird to you that so many queer authors ended up in a book that wasn't specifically about queerness?
Caitlin: It wasn't weird, just because there are so many queer disabled people out there, and queer crips who are politically engaged or social justice-oriented. It made sense that this would be a project that would speak to them, because it's a space to talk about intersections of disability with lots of different things: queerness, being trans, being a queer crip of color, ableism, etcetera.
What are some of the queer disability pieces/topics in the anthology that you really think people need to be reading?
I was pretty blown away by Alyssa Hillary's piece, "On the Exclusion of Autistic Queers." I don't ever see topics like that addressed in nondisabled queer circles, which like every other community is prone to unchecked ableism. And autism is certainly a hot (and very misunderstood) topic these days.
The neuroqueer movement in autistic and Aspergers communities is so strong and just on it. I've been so impressed by the work and activism going on within it.
I also really love Ibby Grace's essay about being an autistic lesbian mom. I've heard from several people that they sort of fell in love with Ibby after reading it.
Kay Ulanday Barrett wrote a piece on the complexities of being a queer trans person of color, which I was excited to include because it really highlights how many intersections of identity disabled people live. It's not all straight, white dudes in wheelchairs!
A lot of mainstream media turn to nondisabled people (e.g. disability nonprofit execs) for comment on disability-related stories, to speak on behalf of disabled people. As you know well, the same thing happens with queer mainstream representation, especially for the most marginalized, like trans people. The ones that do get to take the microphone tend to be privileged gay men. Was it important to you that this book be all disabled people, all the time?
It was incredibly important to me that this book was written exclusively by disabled writers. Disabled people are so marginalized and it's comical (in a sad way) how often nondisabled people want to speak for us. It's ridiculous. There's a reason the disability rights movement's slogan was "nothing about us without us."
That was certainly inspiration for the book. I wanted disabled authors to write about their own experiences because they're the experts.
In Alyssa Hillary's piece you mentioned earlier, Alyssa interviews someone named Melanie Yergeau, who says the response she gets from a lot of people when talking about her sexuality or disability is: "Either they don't think I'm autistic enough, they don't think I'm queer enough, they don't think I'm asexual enough, they don't think I'm human enough. And on and on."
That made me think of disabled actors, like R.J. Mitte from Breaking Bad, who admit to "cripping it up" -- exaggerating their disability -- in order to be recognizably disabled for mainstream media consumers. I had a friend in high school who tried to develop a lisp so that he'd be more identifiable as gay. How do you feel about people "cripping it up" to avoid what Melanie is talking about?
I think there's several things you're talking about here. 'Cripping it up' for TV/movies is common, mostly because nondisabled viewers often have a hard time understanding the spectrum of disability, i.e., you can be blind but still see, you can use a wheelchair but still walk sometimes, that kind of thing.
But in TV world it's usually a binary, you're either disabled or not and there's absolutely no nuance. Secondly, most of the roles of disabled characters (the handful that actually exist) are played by nondisabled people who don't know what it's actually like to be disabled and shouldn't be given the role in the first place.
I don't have a problem with RJ Mitte cripping it up mainly because he actually is disabled. I have much more of an issue with nondisabled actors doing crip drag -- playing disabled characters when they're not part of the community.
In terms of real life 'cripping it up,' I just don't see that happen really. If anything I see disabled people struggling with internalized ableism and feeling like they should try and 'pass' as nondisabled. There just isn't much privilege that comes with being extra crippy! I think what Melanie was referring to in Alyssa's essay was this sense of not quite fitting into these multiple categories of identity that make up her life.
Everyone has preconceptions about how you're 'supposed' to be if you're a part of X, Y, Z communities and it's just not as clean or simple as we like to pretend it is.
What's next for you and Criptiques?
Criptiques has expanded from a book into a multimedia project, which I'm very excited about. I started a podcast and right now I'm writing for Criptiques on Film, which will be a series of different disability-related videos, including some crip comedy films.
It's important to me to work on projects that show the artistic/funny aspects of being a crip, just because the misperception that disability equals tragedy is still so pervasive.
You can buy Criptiques the book on Amazon and listen to the (free) podcasts here.

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Within Greece’s 6,000 islands, there are some wonderful villa destinations, not forgetting some incredible places on the mainland, and with so much choice, we understand that knowing where to start can be a little overwhelming…. Corfu, Mykonos, Paros…where to start?
We also understand that the logistics of travelling around Greece can seem a little daunting, even to regular visitors, but we are here to help. Whether this is your first time to Greece, or if you have visited many times, we can offer expert advice and help you choose the perfect place for you. We can put all of your travel plans in place, so all you need to do is relax and pack your suitcase!
We love nothing more to speak on the phone and discuss your requirements so that we can make some recommendations, and we have hundreds of top luxury villas, in hugely diverse destinations throughout Greece, but the following island guides may also provide you with some inspiration for your next luxury holidays in Greece.
Its sublime coastline, laced with long sandy stretches, rocky outcrops and charming little coves.
When it comes to island destinations, Corfu packs it all: exotic beaches, lush green landscapes, exquisite local cuisine and a lively nightlife.
Come summer and the world's rich and famous start descending for their annual pilgrimage to the indisputable queen among Greek islands.
The Cretans are notoriously proud of their island, and for good reason.
Abundant in diversified sceneries, Peloponnese is a blessed land for all seasons and all tastes.
Once the boho alternative to the cosmopolitan lifestyle of Paros, the tiny island of Antiparos has become over the last few years the best kept secret of the world's rich and famous.
A hidden gem nestled in the Peloponnesian coast, and relatively unknown to tourists, Porto Heli has become an exclusive enclave for the world's elite.
When it comes to the many qualities that rank the Greek islands among the world's most sought after holiday destinations, Skiathos ticks all the boxes: glorious weather, sunny beaches with Caribbean-blue waters, a seaside town peppered with restaurants and bars and a vibrant nightlife.
A small paradise just off the Peloponnesian coast that has long been a favourite weekend destination for chic Athenians, Hydra has been blissfully saved from the ravages of mass tourism.
With its steep mountains plunging into the azure sea, Serifos' wild beauty lends it an enchanting, serene quality.
An idyllic haven just a short hop away from the busy city, Kea's natural beauty and cosmopolitan charm has turned it into a hot-spot for Athenian weekenders and sailing lovers.
Whitewashed villages gleaming under the sunlight, spectacular waters that change colour as the sun travels across the bright blue sky, sloping tree-lined mountains….
The Ionian coast extends from the upper end of Peloponnese until the northern borders of the country and is actually the west coast of the continental Greece.
Cosmopolitan and cultured, with gorgeous landscapes and amazingly clear water, Syros buzzes with activity all year round.
Tucked in the Saronic gulf, just 50 miles from the Greek capital, Spetses is an idyllic getaway with a carefree summer vibe, its tree-fringed coastline filled with charming bays and secluded coves.
A granite island rising dramatically out of the Aegean, Amorgos became famous during the late '80s through Luc Besson's “Big Blue” for its spectacular waters and rugged beauty.
Tinos is one of the biggest and more developed islands of the Cyclades, yet it has managed to grow gracefully, its architectural style contrasting with the wild beauty of the landscape.
Samos is a place of rare beauty.
The ultimate luxury of living in perfect harmony with nature, is what makes Lefkada's visitors return to the island time and time again.
Over the years, Ios has gained a reputation as a non-stop party destination for hedonistic youths.

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text: ABSTRACT: With rising education among women across the world, educational hypergamy (women marrying men with higher education) has decreased over the last few decades in both developed and developing countries. While a decrease in hypergamy is often accompanied by increasing homogamy (women marrying men with equal levels of education), our analyses for India, based on the India Human Development Survey, a nationally representative survey, document a surprising rise in hypogamy (women marrying partners with lower education) during the past four decades. Log-linear analyses further reveal that declining hypergamy is largely generated by the rise in education levels while hypogamous marriages continue to increase even after marginal distribution is taken into account. Further multivariate analyses show that highly educated women tend to marry men with lower education but from more privileged families. Moreover, women with non-elite college education (measured as majoring in humanities and social sciences) are increasingly more likely to be involved in hypogamous marriages. We argue that the rise in hypogamous marriage by education paradoxically reflects deep-rooted gender scripts in India, as other salient social boundaries such as caste, religion, and family socioeconomic status, are much more difficult to cross.

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The FOX is presenting Radiohead at UBC’s Thunderbird Stadium on June 24th. Tickets officially go on sale Saturday, May 12th at Ticketmaster for $49.50 plus facility fee and service charge (4 ticket limit). Listen to The FOX to win Free tickets all week! An internet pre-sale will also be available from 9:30am May 10 until 8pm May 11 only through www.cfox.com. Check back for details!
There seems to be some confusion about Butler Field, the location of the Chicago Radiohead show on August 1. Butler Field is in Grant Park, where the soon-to-be-dismantled Petrillo Music Shell is, where the Chicago Jazz Festival (among other things) is held every year. Previous reports of it being at Soldier Field were incorrect.

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A method which can described as “best effort”. When we configure our anti spam appliance to use the option of opportunistic TLS, each time that the anti spam appliance will try to send E-mail message to the internet , our mail system/anti spam will try to verify if the other side supports TLS (START TLS) .
If the destination messaging system supports TLS, our anti spam appliance will send the mail over a secure communication channel using the TLS protocol. if the desitination messaging system doesn’t support TLS it will fall back to un-encrypted communication channel.
Same steps taken while connecting for incoming emails as well . In this environment Iron Port anti spam appliances deliver and receive email.so lets see how to set TLS as Preferred / Opportunistic so that it works smoothly without affecting production emails.
Lets see how to import on the Inbound Emails First.
Choose the certificate click submit and commit.
Now click on the default connector.
Set TLS Support to Preferred .
Easiest way to validate send a email to gmail . It will show you the message was transferred using TLS or unencrypted.
Now lets see how to enable for incoming email.
Now set TLS to Preferred . Submit and Commit.
you can validate on this site.
Now we have enabled Opportunistic TLS on outbound and inbound emails.
It will be used wherever possible.

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What if you could live in a different era?
It�s 1985, and Greta Wells is reeling from the loss of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup of her long-term relationship with Nathan. Greta�s therapist recommends electroconvulsive treatments to help her shake the depression clinging to her like a persistent fog.
The first treatment has a completely unexpected side effect. Greta awakens the next morning in 1918. She is still Greta Wells. Her husband, Nathan, is abroad, fighting in World War I. There is a flu epidemic raging at home. Best of all, Felix is alive and well.
Later that day, the second treatment and her subsequent nights� sleep transport her to yet another version of her life � 1941. This Greta is a devoted wife and mother in a nation on the brink of war.
Greta is suffering from depression in all three eras. In 1918, Greta�s husband is abroad, fighting in the war, and Greta is cheating on him while he�s away. The guilt and longing are nearly too painful to bear. The 1941 Greta is struggling with depression following a car accident that claimed the life of her Aunt Ruth. Greta was driving.
In each era, Greta turns to Dr. Cerletti and his electroshock treatments in an effort to return to herself. In each era, Greta finds that Dr. Cerletti�s treatments open the door to other incarnations of Greta Wells.
As Greta�s cycle of treatments continues, she discovers that the three versions of her life are surprisingly similar. Each Greta faces familiar tensions and difficult choices. Each Greta suffers a loss. Each Greta is struggling to find happiness, not just for herself, but for her loved ones.
The 1985 Greta doesn�t always understand the choices made by her counterparts. Her efforts to fix their problems don�t always work out, and the three Gretas share the responsibility of dealing with the consequences.
With her final treatment looming, the 1985 Greta must make a choice � to return to her own era or seek happiness in an earlier incarnation of her life.
Author Andrew Sean Greer has penned an absolutely captivating tale of lives brimming with possibility and hope. The prose is gentle and almost poetic, and the atmosphere is achingly beautiful.
Greer�s characters are so realistically drawn that I felt as if I were spending time in the company of old friends as I read. The 1985 Greta is a modern girl with modern sensibilities, struggling to find her way through times when women�s choices were limited and their roles more narrowly defined.
�The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells� is an enchanting and insightful read. Through Greta�s eyes, readers are encouraged to consider the �what-ifs� of life in a different era.
Heather Holley-Hall is head of branch services with Alamance County Public Libraries. Contact her at hhhall@alamancelibraries.org or (336) 570-6730.


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The size and type of the place will be also factors. You will want to look at the history within the place make certain there aren’ minor details that might cause trouble, like environmental issues.
A Hong Kong-based colleague referred me to owners. I am very keen to create upon my senior management experience while using United Nations, and am seeking a director-level position with a Island Capital Group bank as head of credit risk management.
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I’ll always remember my first deal given that opened many windows of opportunities for me personally. As I became more etc . knowledgeable about real estate investing, There we were able to venture out into some other things. I am now author of two real estate books and hundreds of articles. Furthermore currently manage a website offers real estate investor training to people that also in order to be scale the wealth pyramid and achieve financial success like my family. My website and books are great ways for me to share what I’ve learned furthermore be instrumental in simple of folks.
For many girls, playing Barbie is an element of a kid. Ruth Handler created Mattel and Barbie from a garage in 1945 and so it can be a Fortune 500 company. She thought it was important to teach girls the value of in well being. She has seen backlash from feminist groups that feel she portrays a harmful communication.
Call them and be aware of that an individual might be a wholesaler and you locate property with big discounted prices that usually need some repairs. Put both of them on your list. Indicates do contract a part property, email it to every one of these folks. Just like swimming. Someone will bite. The more investors you have in information base, the more fish can have for supper.

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Washington, D.C. – Today at approximately 11:30 a.m., U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) will deliver a floor speech to honor the 65th Infantry Regiment “Borinqueneers,” who will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal this afternoon in the U.S. Capitol.
The floor speech will air on C-SPAN 2 and be live-streamed here.


text: For a very short period in '52 both bridge and neck coils were wound with 42AWG plain enamel, and the Flat 52 set replicates this with a brighter, tighter sounding bridge coil and an open, almost Strat-like neck tone. Utilising the slightly thinner, copper plated steel baseplate introduced in late '51, whilst staying with a flat profile magnet design and deep drawn neck cover, the tone has a defined snap in the bass and authentic, full twang. The Flat '52 is a very unique and versatile Tele® set capable of a vast range of clean and driven vintage tones.

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The club had already celebrated the Winter Hill trespass in 1982 as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the Kinder Scout Trespass. Although Kinder came much later it was far more succesful than the Bolton one.
In 1982, Paul Salveson, had commissioned a play about the Winter Hill trespass which toured the town with the final performance in Belmont following a walk from Halliwell which traced the footsteps of the original trespassers.
So in 1996 it was again decided to organise a celebration for the centenary of the Winter Hill trespass by holding another hike from Halliwell to Belmont.
The walk was a huge success with over a thousand people taking part led by a brass band. Alas, the play, written by Les Smith was not revived though the Octagon youth theatre did sing 'Will you come o' Sunday morning' in the car park of the Black Dog.
Following the death of Tito in 1980 the Balkan region erupted into a series of wars and in 1999 there was a huge problem with Ethnic refugees in Kosovo.
The fate of the refugees touched the hearts of many in the UK and particularly in the North West.
The members of the club rallied to the cause and in a very short time raised enough food and aid to fill a full lorry which joined a historic convoy of aid from Manchester and elsewhere.
In the early 1990s it became obvious that the building needed significant work to keep it in good order.
Since the mid 1990's tens of thousands of pounds has been raised for refurbishment work.
The building has benefited from a restored frontage, new doors, and window and electrical work. New downstairs toilets, a new dining room, disabled access and a host of other improvements.


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We are thrilled to hear from you, and we enjoy reading your comments, even criticisms (they're helpful too!). Regretfully, however, we don't have the staff or the time to reply to every letter we receive. When questions are asked to which we feel a response might be helpful to our readers in general, we usually respond in our Q&A column. We know some will be disappointed at not hearing from us; nevertheless, it’s the only way we can be good stewards of our time and resources and effectively fulfill the ministry to which the Lord has called us.
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text: Note: Good work out. I over did it a bit because my knee started giving up on me at the end of this one. I'm done for the day.


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The Whistling Project chapbooks (2010–). See Project.
Who’s in a Name? (2013). See Project.


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Today we visited Ushuaia, Argentina, a new country, the third of the cruise. I had arranged a local tour guide to show us around and through a company called Tours by Locals, but after trying to contact the guide and getting no response from them I was getting a bit worried that something was wrong, unfortunately I was right. Our guide had gotten the time we were docking wrong, he thought 6am, I had informed him 12pm, so he had booked another tour and was no longer available.
The big problem was that I had arranged this not just for me but my friends as well and this port was one of the highlighted ports of the cruise as there are so many things to do and see. Which is why I did a lot of research on the tours provided by Regent and found, incorrectly, that what was on offer was not that great, so booked a local tour guide. Thankfully, my research was wrong, and what had been reported by a number of people was so far off the mark that the tour we were luckily able to get booked on was one of the best tours I have done. I recommend that the End of the World Train, Tierr del Fuego National Park and the Beagle Channel Tour, it is worth the money!
Just want to say that the customer service provided by Tours by Locals was excellent, they responded to my email about the double booking of our guide within a few hours and arranged a full refund. I intend to use their services the next time I am looking for a local guide. I especially want to mention Jessica Pilon, she is the Customer Support Manager and made sure that everything was sorted with minimal fuss! If you are looking for a local guide, I suggest you check out Tours by Locals, my experience is the exception, not the norm.
Ushuaia is claimed by the locals to be the southern most city in the world (Puerto Willimas in Chile thing that they are the southern most city, but they have a population of less than 3,000, so I don’t believe that they are large enough to be considered a city).
This is the last port a large number vessels who travel to Antarctica and for the yachts who are intending to sail around the “Horn” so it is a busy port. There were 4 cruise ships in port including us, two of which were smaller than us and equipped to visit Antarctica, they have zodiacs to transfer people ashore, another trip to add to the bucket list.
After docking, a little late, we boarded our coach and headed from the port to the Tierr del Fuego National Park via the End of the World Train, driving through the outskirts of Ushuaia.
This another attractive part of the world, and deserves more than a single day to visit and explore, hopefully I will get the opportunity to return as a part of when I drive Pan American Highway as the start / end of it is in the Tierr del Fuego National Park.
After a pleasant drive through the country side a past a couple of golf courses, we arrived that the End of the World Train Station.
This train line was built by the prisoners who were imprisoned by Argentina from 1884 until 1947. The train line was used to transport the prisoners to obtain the raw materials, mainly wood, required to support the Penal Colony. The train line was shutdown in 1952 and then restored / rebuilt in 1994 as a tourist attraction.
After a few minutes to stretch our legs and checkout the custom-built locomotives, we board out train, unfortunately we had to survive in business class, we did not rate first class.
Contrary to some of the reviews I found online, the train is comfortable and nice way to view the countryside. As we traveled up the hill a taped commentary is played providing you with a history of the area and the train.
The views are spectacular. Patagonia is a place that everyone should visit at least once in their lives.
As we cruised down the channel we passed the Malvinas Argentinas International Airport.
The furthest point of our Beagle Channel Tour was the Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse. Unfortunately this is not the End of the World Lighthouse, which is the San Juan de Salvamento Lighthouse, but is still worth the visit.
Once we cruised around the Lighthouse we headed back to the wharf to our home afloat the Mariner.
Today’s tour is one of the highlights of the cruise and even though I was very disappointed that we did not get to go on our private tour, I think that what we did end up doing was better and we were lucky that there was a screw up!!


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I really like Matthew Rhys, but not sure he's Perry Mason. However, I am thrilled that at least the HBO redo will be set in an historical time period. I will reserve judgment until I see the production. This HBO entry is not the courtroom Mason that we know from Raymond Burr on TV. Rather, it's from a time in Mason's life when he was living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator.
HBO's long-in-the-works Perry Mason drama is officially moving forward.
The Americans grad Matthew Rhys has been tapped to star in the limited series, taking over the title role from Robert Downey Jr. The latter will remain on board as an executive producer on the series, which is searching for a director.
Based on the characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, HBO's Perry Mason will follow the character at a time in his life when he is living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator. Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and is suffering the effects of a broken marriage.
Here's the official logline, from HBO: "1932, Los Angeles. While the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression, this city is booming! Oil! Olympic Games! Talking Pictures! Evangelical Fervor! And a child kidnapping gone very, very wrong! Based on characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, this limited series follows the origins of American Fiction’s most legendary criminal defense lawyer, Perry Mason. When the case of the decade breaks down his door, Mason’s relentless pursuit of the truth reveals a fractured city and just maybe, a pathway to redemption for himself."
The character of Perry Mason, a Los Angeles defense attorney, served as the inspiration for the CBS series of the same name. The drama ran from 1957 to 1966 and starred Raymond Burr in the title role.


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Albawings Flight 2B912 connects London, United Kingdom to Tirana, Albania, taking off from London Stansted Airport STN and landing at Tirana International Airport TIA.
The flight distance is 1879 km / 1167 miles and the average flight speed is 626 km/h / 389 mph. In the last 30 days, the average delay of the flight was 0 minutes and the flight was on-time 100% of the times. The average flight time is 3 hours.
This Albawings flight can also be referenced as AWT912, 2B0912, 2B 912, AWT 912.
2B912 Flight Delay Compensation up to 600€!
There was a total of 1 flights connecting London to Tirana, operated by 1 different airlines in the past. At this time there is a total 0 flights connecting London to Tirana, operated by 0 different airlines.

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Allende, Isabel. Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses.
Hardcover, New York: Harpercollins, 1998. Second Printing. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.
Apicius, Marcus Gavius; Grainger, Sally. Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today.
Illustrated by Andras Kaldor. Softcover, Devon, England: Prospect Books, 2006. Fine with No dust jacket as issued.
Armour and Company Department of Home Economics. Meat: Selection, Preparation and 100 Ways to Serve.
Ephemera, Chicago: Armour and Company, 1934. Good with no dust jacket.
Barnett, Robert (ed.). The Journal of Gastronomy, Volume 7, Number 1 (Winter/Spring 1993).
Softcover, San Francisco: The American Institute of Wine and Food, 1993. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued.
Batchelder, Ann. Attractive Meals Planned Complete: 32 Menus, 72 Recipes; For Breakfasts, Luncheons, Dinners, Sunday Night Suppers, Afternoon Teas, Afternoon and Evening Parties, Out-of-Door Meals, Made-at-the-Table Meals.
Ephemera, Massachusetts: Rumford Chemical Works. Good with no dust jacket.
Brentano, Carroll (ed.); Shaker, Jana; llen, Patricia; Brown, Martha; Jacknis, Ira; Hoffman, Hannah; Nakada, Lynn H.; Parish, Paul; Ruyle, Janet; Wright, David H.; Nash, Carl; Lage, Ann. Chronicle of the University of California: a Journal of University History, Number 8 (Fall 2006). From Field to Table: Agriculture and Gastronomy at the University.
Softcover, Berkeley, CA: Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2006. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued.
Delineator Home Institute. Party Sandwiches.
Ephemera, New York: Delineator Service, 1930. Eighth Edition. Good with no dust jacket.
Garner, Bob. North Carolina Barbecue: Flavored by Time.
Hardcover, Winston-Salem, N.C. John F. Blair, 2002. Fifth Printing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
Gho, Paola; Ruffa, Giovanni. Il Piacere del Vino: Manuale per imparare a bere meglio.
Softcover, Bra, Italy: Slow Food Editore, 2003. Seventh Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket.
Home Economics Department, Kraft-Phenix Cheese Company. Cheese: The Ideal Food, Healthful, Nutritious, Economical. Many Delicious Ways to Serve It.
Ephemera, Chicago: Kraft-Phenix Cheese Company, 1928. Good with no dust jacket.
Indiana Commission on the Aging and Aged. Senior Citizens Cookie Recipes from the 1973 Indiana State Fair.
Soft Cover, Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Commission on the Aging and Aged, 1973. First Edition. Fair with no dust jacket.
Indiana Dairy Auxiliary. Indiana Dairy Auxiliary Dairy Cookbook 1978.
Soft Cover, Indiana: Indiana Dairy Auxiliary, 1978. Very Good with no dust jacket.
J. & J. Coleman. New Salads.
Ephemera, New Brunswick, NJ: J & J Coleman Ltd. 1928. Good with no dust jacket.
Kraft Foods. The World of Cheese: A Guide to the World's Favorite Cheeses.
Ephemera, Chicago: Kraft Foods, 1962. Fifth Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket.
Le Comité Du Festival Gaspesien De Matane Inc. Recettes De Fruits De Mer Publiées Par Festival De La Crevette, Matane 1973.
Softcover, Matane, Quebec: Festival De La Crevette, 1973. Good with no dust jacket.
Lepenies, Wolf. National Humanities Center Newsletter, Volume 12, Number 1 (Fall-Winter 1990-91).
Softcover, Research Triangle Park NC: National Humanities Center, 1990. Very Good with no dust jacket.
Loren, Sophia. In the Kitchen with Love.
Hardcover, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First American Edition. Very Good in Fair dust jacket.
MacKay, L. Gertrude [Lucy]. 197 Ways to Cook Apples.
Softcover, Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. A. Advertising Committee, International Apple Shippers' Association, 1915. Good with no dust jacket.
McLane, Paul E. Spenser's Shepheardes Calender: A Study in Elizabethan Allegory.
Hard Cover, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1961. First Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
Murphy, M'Layne. Historic Virginia Inns: A Cook's Tour (Signed By Author).
Hard Cover, Dallas: Cardinal Productions, 1986. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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text: I have always said that September is the most underrated month in the Lakes Region in New Hampshire. The water is still in the 70's, the sun is strong during the day and, best of all, no one is out on the lake! I have been having a blast up on Merrymeeting offering private lessons to individuals, groups, and families as well as doing a lot of stand up paddling. I found the below article on WMUR this week...it is good to see other people having some fun as well!


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“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.” -David Starr Jordan. Interviewing does not play as pivotal a role in college admissions as it does in employment, but, depending on your student’s prospective institutions, he or she may be doing some interviews.
Getting into College: Then What?
How Important Is the College Essay, Really?
“Timing is everything.” -Tommy Shaw You read my post, Why Juniors Should Visit Colleges on Winter and Spring Break, knowing the importance of February and March break during junior year for campus tours. But despite parents’ best intentions, life being what it is, the campus visits did not happen.


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The Eagles went 26-5 last year and will try to pick up where they left off when the season starts on Friday.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A couple new banners are hanging from the rafters inside the Physical Activities Center for its final year.
That’s because the University of Southern Indiana women’s basketball team is coming off one of its best seasons in program history. The Eagles finished 26-5, won the Great Lakes Valley Conference East Division and made an NCAA Division II tournament appearance.
Rick Stein, entering his 20th season as head coach, has about a dozen banners hanging he can admire and reminisce upon. Maybe USI will be able to continue where it left off and hang more.
He and the Eagles, however, are trying to simply live in the moment.
“You come off a great year and you’re playing for a lot of things – NCAAs, a conference championship,” Stein said. “What I don’t want this group to do is be thinking ahead or looking ahead. When you do that, you generally don’t make it.
USI lost 56.5 percent of its scoring and 46 percent of its rebounding to graduation. Morgan Dahlstrom, Kaydie Grooms and Randa Harshbarger went 89-30 during their career. Grooms is fifth all-time in career points, Dahlstrom is 14th in points and eighth in rebounds and Harshbarger finished second in assists and third in steals.
They were the heart and soul of the team and led the way with constant standout performances.
Grooms has remained at USI as a graduate assistant coach. But she’s done suiting up and the other two are gone. It’s time for different Eagles to step up into larger roles and improve to ensure the program has another successful year.
This is nothing new for Stein, of course.
Alex Davidson and Eschweiler are the lone returning starters and two of four seniors, along with Mikayla Rowan and Milana Matias. Davidson, Rowan and sophomore Emma DeHart were voted as team captains.
There are a few new faces, too. A pair of 6-foot-1 freshmen from Northeast Ohio, Samantha LaPlaca and Ashlynn Brown, and Bowling Green State University sophomore transfer Kennedy Williams have come aboard. Williams is a Marshall (Ill.) High School graduate and broke Grooms’ single-season scoring record.
Stein said there are eight or nine Eagles who could earn starting roles throughout the season. USI is deeper than it has been in recent years. They also wear T-shirts daily that say “Team First” on the front.
“We focus on picking each other up, being there for each other and then not being about ourselves but about the team,” Davidson said.
USI hits the road Friday to open its season against Northwood. The Eagles will play seven games in the first 17 days and will be challenged regularly by quality opponents. The schedule features 26 regional games headlined by bouts with defending national champion Central Missouri and national runner-up Ashland.
The Eagles will need to stay focused if they hope to clinch a third straight 20-win season. They’re up for the challenge and excited to get started.
“I hope we learn a lot from wins and don’t have to learn a lot from losses,” Stein said.


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Building a car, especially one like the RCR 40, sometimes raises lots of questions. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about the RCR 40 cars. Please contact us if you'd like to see a specific question answered here.
What engines can be fitted?
The kit is designed to fit a wide range of Ford engines, from the 289 to the 7-liter big block. Other engines have been fitted, including one car with a Chevy LS7, but choosing a different engine than the standard means extra fabrication work, and custom headers and exhaust. Most every GT40 replica builder uses a 289, 302, or 351-based engine, as they look good, can make decent power, sound great, and fit best. The small-block Fords can now be punched out to a full 427 CI or 7 liters, to get the same size (but less weight) as the original 7-liter big blocks. For those who want a very modern Ford engine, the Coyote engine can be made to fit with a little work.
What transaxles can be used?
The car was designed to fit a range of transaxles, including the popular ZF series from the Pantera and BMW M1. These are available from RBT Transmissions, and other sources now, setup for the RCR 40. Another option is the T44, though these are hard to find and not popular for a number of reasons. Other transmissions can also be used, including the popular Porsche G50 series.
Call the factory to discuss your preferred transaxle and other options- this is a detailed topic.
Do I need a special shifter?
The kit comes with a shifter that is cable operated like all modern cars, and can be used in either right-hand-drive or left-hand-drive cars, and can be configured as a center or side-shift setup.
What kind of exhaust do I need?
Every Ford-powered RCR 40 needs the iconic "bundle of snakes" exhaust as seen on the originals. These are readily available from RCR for your selected engine package. They can be fabricated in mild steel, or stainless, and with varying muffler and cat options as required. Contact the factory for details, options and a quote for your car when you order. Of course, if you have welding skills, you can make your own, or have an outside source make up a set to meet your specific needs.
What's the difference between the MKI and the MKII cars?
For our purposes, the MKI cars had slightly different bodywork, a different nostril in the front, different tail lights, and snorkels in the rear for brake cooling. Check the internet for pictures of MKIs and MKIIs for more details. The chassis, suspension and interior are the same for the two RCR 40 variants.
Will I melt in the car? I heard GT40s are hot!
The Deluxe kit comes with air conditioning to keep you cool, no matter how hot it gets outside. Given decent sealing, the small cockpit size of a GT40 is easy to cool. And for those cool Fall days, the heater keeps you toasty as well!
What kind of brakes are on the RCR 40?
6-piston Wilwood calipers in the front grab 11.75" NASCAR-style steel rotors. In the rear, the 4-piston version is used. These are great racing brakes that are equally at home on the street, and are easy to rebuild when needed, They have a wide range of pad options from Wilwood and the aftermarket. These are about the biggest brakes that can be fitted under the original 15" wheels.
How authentic is the RCR 40?
The body is created from a mold that was taken from an original car, so it is very accurate. The chassis is a monocoque design like the original, but instead of steel, is fabricated from aluminum for lighter weight, increased rigidity and resistance to corrosion. Likewise, the suspension resembles the original design, including the famous trailing arm design on the rear, but uses billet aluminum hubs and control arms instead of the spindly, weak fabricated steel tube arms of the past.
The RCR cars are pretty authentic, but are improved over the original cars in terms of strength, rigidity, comfort and reliability. If you want absolute authenticity, look at the cars at Gelscoe. Then come back here when you get your breath back after you check the prices there.
Should I order a roll cage? I plan to only drive on the street.
Probably not. A roll cage that is exposed, as most are, isn't a good idea for the street. That's because, even with padding, the cage presents very hard surfaces to hit in an accident. In a race car, the driver is better restrained, and is wearing a helmet designed to mitigate some of these impacts. An unprotected driver on the street who is only belted in is more likely to be injured from contact with the cage.
A cage is a great idea in racing- in fact, it is mandatory. For the street, a hoop (standard in the Deluxe Plus kits) is preferable.
Will I fit in the car? I'm a big guy!
The GT40 is a small car, but we have been able to fit people as large as 6'5" in the RCR40. One way we do that is to add a "Gurney bubble" to the car as an option. For those who don't remember, Dan Gurney was part of the Ford Le Mans effort, and unlike many drivers, was pretty tall. At 6' 4", and with a helmet, he didn't fit in the car, so the team added a sort of bubble to allow him to fit. Here's picture of a car with a Gurney bubble. Note that this one is riveted in, but many are installed with fiberglass resin and body plastic to make the bubble seamless.
What else do I need to complete my RCR 40?
Miscelanious fasteners, adhesives, fluids, terminals, etc.
Please contact the factory to discuss your requirements for any or all of these. While the factory does not sell engines, it sometimes has a supply of transaxles suitable for the RCR 40, and can recommend places to get everything else your car needs.

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text: Sturdy metal locking security box, cunningly disguised as a book to foil potential theft. Realistic cardboard cover and easily settable, 3-digit locking combination. For storing cash, documents and small valuables.


text: The Bandit is catches waves easily and grovels well in small, mushy conditions, but don't think of this board is as a full on groveler. It is a high performance design in a small package. Fast and loose, it flies through fat sections, powers through the pocket, and handles in the barrel. Designed to be ridden 3”-6” shorter than your everyday shortboard and look to break it out in surf anywhere from 2ft to well overhead. The Bandit is one of Eric Arakawa's most versatile models and has pretty much become a quiver staple.


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Vera E. Lanning, 75, of Skillman died Friday, November 23, 2018 at Artis Senior Living of West Windsor. Born in Cranbury, she resided most of her life in Hopewell and Skillman. Vera was Vice President of David G. Lanning Plumbing and Heating Incorporated. She was a member of the Hopewell Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary and St. Matthews Episcopal Church , Pennington . She was an avid gardener , enjoyed traveling, but most of all enjoyed spending time with her family.
Daughter of the late Russel and Esther (Brown) Everett, Sr. she is survived by her loving husband David G. Lanning , son and daughter in law Sean and Lisa Lanning, daughter and son in law Cynthia and Charles Bregenzer, three brothers Russel Everett Jr., Richard Everett, Robert Everett two sister Janice Regan, Elaine Baus, eight grandchildren, Justin, Charlie, Sean, Cameron, Kevin, Kelcie, Kyle, Zachary, two great grandchildren Baylee and Mason.
The funeral service will be held 10 AM on Thursday November 29th 2018 from the Mather Hodge Funeral Home 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton. Burial will follow in the Highland Cemetery, Hopewell. Friends may call on Wednesday November 28th 2018 from 6 to 8 PM at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers memorial contribution may be made to the Hopewell Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary 4 Columbia Avenue Hopewell NJ 08525 or The Alzheimer’s Association.


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In the U.S., at least, studies show that only 11% of the stories in history textbooks are about women. Is this because 50% of the population only contributed to 11% percent of the country’s events?
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Is this because 50% of the population only contributed to 11% percent of the country’s events?
Note, this is talking about the entire history. A history textbook that only covers, oh, about the last century would have a much different proportion. This also does not say that the 50% was not essential in all of history – just that they did things that were not unusual and highly notable.
Example: A detailed history of how Martha kept the family plantation running would be mind-numbing. Yet, George would have found it very difficult, if not impossible, to justify gadding about in the countryside fighting the Redcoats had she not been keeping the home fires burning.
Bringing in reason will avail you naught.
The cause be hopeless; waste not effort.
Tis not an issue of history but of politik.
Gotta love how today’s warped p.c. values are applied atrociously to yesteryear. For those who want unfiltered versions of fairy tales (from Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson et al), check out a podcast called “Tales”. Good stuff from our warped childhood. As dark as you want to be.
Well, it could be that they’ve realized it’s not enough to say things were different in other times and today we’ve evolved beyond such attitudes because people might realize that today’s “universal values” aren’t quite as universal across time. If things were different yesterday, they might be different tomorrow and the future might see these times as poorly as they see the past.
Like I said, perfect story fodder.
Sounds like a job for Winston Smith.
No shortage of volunteers out there.
Yes. The dispute falls on the events that are being studied. The events are indeed male dominated. I’d be interested in what events are being missed.
Don’t like the way people did things in the past? OK.


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13th National Conference IIC 2019 on “India as a Service Economy – Emerging Paradigms”, is scheduled on 7th & 8th February 2019 at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow. The purpose of this conference is to provide a platform for academicians and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities and solutions that promote Services as an engine of growth and find new business and societal value from this burgeoning sector.
The conference will deliberate of various domains of services sector in its four technical sessions. IT-enabled services, financial and telecom services, consultancy and ecommerce and hospitality and health services.
The Conference will witness eminent personalities Dr. Anoop Chandra Pandey, Chief Secretary, Govt. of UP will be the chief guest on this occasion. The other keynote speakers includes Dr. VVLN Shastry, Director, First call India Investment Banking; Awanish Kumar Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary, DG & MD, UP Tourism, Rajat Kumar, CEO, Diligent Media (Zee Group); Shailendra Kumar Mishra, PR Advisor (F&EA), TRAI; Sulabh Agarwal,MD, Financial Services UK & Ireland, Accenture; Avneesh Bhatnagar, VP, Franklin Templeton; Naveen Tandon,Director, AT&T; Shantanu Rooj, Founder CEO, School Guru Eduservices; Pankaj Singh, Director, Supply Chain, Levis; Swetank Singh, VP, IBIS; Vivek Sinha,VP, Business Development,OYO; Abhishek Gupta, Economist,Bloomberg;V.P.Kamath, Group CEO, Pinnacle Cancer Research; Dripto Mukhopadhyay, CEO, Ascension Centre for Research and Analytics; Rahul Mitra, MD & CEO, Margdarshak Financial Services and Anup Pandey, Country Head, OSUM Smart Innovations. The 13th edition of IIC Interdependence, independence and co-creation will be a pathbreaking event in charting out opportunities in service domain.
Ayush Mishra of Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida is graduating with a job in Dubai, offering him a package of 18 lacs. p.a.

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You might joke that Netflix is taking over the world, but to Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky, it is no joke.
In an interview with news service The Rambler, translated by The Moscow Times, Medinsky suggested that the US government is funneling money to exert American power across the globe.
The idea of using “soft power,” and specifically American culture, to further the American political agenda is not a new one. But Medinsky seems to also fundamentally not believe that the Silicon Valley system of venture capital could exist.
That said, if the goal of Netflix is to exert control over Russian minds, it might not be doing a particularly good job. Netflix launched in Russia in January, and research from UBS in April suggested that interest in the service might be lacklustre.


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It was revealed yesterday that, on behalf of Pope Francis (and following the example of Dutch entrepreneur Emile Ratelband, 69), Cardinal Parolin has approached the Argentine Government to reduce the Holy Father’s age on official documents to 45. The Pontiff, who has been 116 ever since his election five years ago, is clearly worried that the precedent of Benedict XVI may lead to further calls for his resignation.
‘We have work to do,‘ explained the Vatican Secretary of State, ‘there are doctrines to be binned and Catechisms to be rewritten: so many projects, so little time.‘ Francis, it seems, who has broken new ground in many ways since his elevation to the See of Peter, is destined to be the first Pope actually to get younger in office.


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I am a mom of one who currently has full/part time, before and after school care openings in a safe, loving dayhome. I have completed the St. John's Ambulance First Aid in Childcare course. I have current criminal record checks.
I provide nutritious snacks and lunch (breakfast if needed). I have a large, bright sunny playroom with a variety of toys for all ages to play. We play outside in the fenced backyard and go to the park. We do crafts, read books, play games, sing and dance! I believe in learning through play, games and interaction. Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day and Halloween will be celebrated in my dayhome.
I decided to open my dayhome to watch my own child grow and mature with the social interaction of other children of all ages. I fully appreciate how difficult and stressful it can be to find the right dayhome since I have been in that situation myself. My goal is to provide all of the children in my care with a safe, clean, loving and home-like environment where they can learn and play. My dayhome has been in operation for four years.
I would love to meet you and your children.


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This week's website of the week goes to Sleep EZzzz. SleepEZzzz promise you a restful, snore-free night with their Adjustable Anti-Snoring Mouthpiece.
Project Manager Lanara started by creating a full width panel website, with large visual imagery and parallax panels.
The website features a colour scheme that is a mixture of calming gradients. These colours are used as accent colours on a white professional background.
The website features a pop up enquiry form in the footer, and social media icons to take you to the social media accounts.
As a one page website, the page needed to be clear, easy to follow and easy to navigate. The navigation includes anchors linked from the menu items, so that people can get to the relevant section that they are interested in reading more about.
The website passes Google's mobile-friendly test with flying colours, meaning that the website is responsive to the device it's being viewed on. When it comes to being found in mobile results, this is a must have.
The website imagery has been carefully selected to be representative of the product being sold. Because the website topic is about a peaceful sleep, most of the images revolve around that theme.
We’re on hand Mon – Fri, 9:00 am – 5:30pm by email or on our standard rate number 02380 633 644. When you buy a small business website from Toolkit Websites, we become your web team, with email and telephone support, and step by step guides.
We include everything a successful business web design needs. Read more on our website design page.
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Ritual, repetition, and reproduction [used to be]...matters of religion; they were practiced in isolated, sacred places. In the modern age, ritual, repetition, and reproduction have become the fate of the entire world, of the entire culture. Everything reproduces itself—capital, commodities, technology, and art.
OPEN CEREMONY / American Idolatry will explore the processes, imagery, and ideologies surrounding the establishment of ceremony, ritual, and idolatry within a contemporary framework. This project will take place in two parts, linked thematically.
Part one — OPEN CEREMONY — will be showcased by Seth Aylmer and Jose Serrano-McClain of the Brooklyn-based Trust Art, a presenter of commissioned artists’ projects and exhibitions in public spaces.
OPEN CEREMONY, beginning in 2011 and moving into early 2012, will be a durational exhibition featuring the artwork of East Village born and bred artist, curator, and creative producer, Legacy Russell. Russell will spend the year intermittently building site-specific installations (“social shrines”) and points of interactive engagement in and around Lower Manhattan.
The project will be broken up into four “rites”, each of which will be gradually released into the public realm over the coming months. Each rite will aim to experiment with a different facet of public worship and remembrance, as inspired by the cultural and social milieu of the East Village and the Lower East Side.
Built into the landscape of the city streets, these works will become part of a social topography, active as vehicles of creative expression and social engagement and therefore open to contribution, alteration, and feedback from the surrounding communities.
The impact of gentrification within these neighborhoods has become a key component of the larger atmosphere and socio-cultural climate therein. Downtown luminaries and old-timers are often faced with a choice to either adapt to the rapidly changing (social, cultural, economic) landscape, or to flee towards “greener pastures”, resulting in many of the original residents leaving Manhattan and sometimes even New York City altogether in the interest of greater sustainability and improved quality of life. Yet, long-time residents are not always provided the luxury of choice; thus the presence the “old” and “new” results in unprecedented physical juxtapositions of individuals hailing from vastly disparate economic, social, and cultural backgrounds, grappling with the challenges presented in coping with co-existence.
The low-income housing projects that rise up from Avenue D — impenetrable brick masses, separating the increasingly gentrified spaces from a scenic view of the newly tailored East River Park — are glaring representations of these differences, integral reminders of communities there and beyond that are rendered invisible in the commercialized re-versioning of the local terrain.
To act in public and open ceremony is a form of “decolonizing” these sites, temporarily flattening the top-down hierarchies that exist within these rubrics with the simple act of using open space as a site for objects of memory, public and private alike. Such expressions of devotion allow a world undergoing and recovering from the trauma of change and displacement to reclaim agency via sovereign action and creative independence.
To process, to mourn, to dialogue about these fissures is a vital part of tending to the social and cultural wounds that are a product of such shifts. OPEN CEREMONY will at once encourage the public to participate in paying homage to those sites and the histories therein and also to take pause in remembrance, providing space to reflect on the past and envision the future.
How do the walls ornamented with graffiti and murals, the wheat-pasted buildings, the telephone poles strung with shoes, the gatherings within community gardens, the spiritual presence of resilient botanicas and santarias, currently act as sites of creative expression by residents, both old and new? How can an artist re-interpret and build upon this existing visual vernacular, thereby integrating into the current harmonies of the landscape itself?
The hope for this project is that it will contribute to an ongoing dialog, building upon the collective consciousness and visual vernacular of two sites undergoing change.
Part two — American Idolatry — will be presented in the Fall of 2011 by Recession Art, a New York-based “art stimulus” organization dedicated to “helping emerging artists show and sell their work while giving collectors of all incomes an opportunity to buy original work”.
Ranging from the memorializing of those lost in 9/11 to that of the late pop icon Michael Jackson, the public in New York has a tradition of participating in collective gatherings and ceremonies — from concerts to shrine-building, complete with paraphernalia, flowers, and pictures. These signs and symbols function as modern-day relics of memory in their presence within private and public realms, building towards a larger lens through which one can play at reconstructing personal perceptions of oneself and ones notions of the world around them.
For seven days American Idolatry will transform the Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn into a house of worship. Throughout the week the public will be invited to view artworks, performances, and partake in evening educational programming, as curated by Legacy Russell and a diverse team of up-and-coming artists, academics, and cultural producers — the future of creative America.
Artists of American Idolatry will make use of physical action, installation, and experimentation to assert spaces of shrine-like religious artifice that, though constructed, will strive to function as “real” sites of idolatry, worship, and remembrance of America and its rich socio-cultural histories. Artists will be asked to reflect on what the notion of “America” and American identity means to them, as influenced by pop culture aesthetic and contemporary politic.
Commissions will be made through an open call for artists of all backgrounds, media, and genre. Reviewed by exhibition curator Legacy Russell and the curatorial board of Recession Art, artists will be selected on the strength of their submitted materials. Whether displayed independently or as part of a greater assemblage, shrines take a multitude of forms, and material objects are socio-cultural unifiers and signifiers—they hold memories, they have the capacity to provoke emotion, and they imbue one with a sense of belonging, a sense of history.
Though never entirely permanent, the presence of these things often trumps their monetary worth, representing triumphs, losses, moments of realization. In claiming them one endows them with some patterned fiction of magic, providing the ordinary action of organizing ones lipsticks, entering a security code to quiet an alarm system, arranging a meal to present to guests, or pinning a photograph to the wall, with an undeniable alchemy. Shrine-building can also assist in orienting oneself politically: putting flags in windows, bumper stickers on cars, and purchasing presidential memorabilia to mark the turn of a particular moment in history. One mirrors these beliefs in physical action, ones body responding in a ritual of routine to the world—kissing the rearview mirror at a stoplight, locking eyes when toasting glasses, blowing out candles, knocking on wood—these actions signify the existence of a ritualized rubric of belief and faith within the otherwise banal everyday. Thus, a shrine and the motions that accompany its presence are not only a portrait of their maker, but also a reflection of the complex global culture surrounding us.
To make art is a version of shrine-building and, to make a shrine, no matter how simple, is to make art—not for profit, but as a gift. It is an act of spinning the banal into the beautiful, the insecure into that which is stable again.
It is an act of patterning the world in an effort to make greater sense of it, making it over as a safe, secure, controllable space, and claiming it as ones own.
Shrine-building materializes, beautifies, and secures the universe that surrounds us, thereby performing symbiotically as public representations of both justice and beauty in a world so frequently sullied and grayed by the aims of commercial capital.
OPEN CEREMONY will be presented throughout 2011 by Trust Art and will feature newly commissioned work by artist Legacy Russell.
American Idolatry will be presented in the Fall of 2011 by Recession Art.
For more information about Trust Art, and updates on OPEN CEREMONY, please visit http://www.trustart.org.
For updates and more information about Recession Art, as well as to learn more about the Fall 2011 open artist call for American Idolatry, please visit http://www.recessionartshows.com.
To learn more about The Invisible Dog Art Center, please visit http://www.theinvisibledog.org.
These exhibitions will be led by artist, curator, and creative producer Legacy Russell (ContactProject.net, The Bruce High Quality Foundation). For more information, please check in at http://www.legacyrussell.com and www.contactproject.net in the coming months.
Legacy Russell is a writer, artist, and curator. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Russell holds a dual-major B.A. with Honors from Macalester College in Art History & Studio Art and English & Creative Writing with a focus in Gender Studies, and an MRes in Art History with Distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual.
Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. Her first book, #GLITCHFEMINISM, is forthcoming from Verso Books.


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Make-way cutesy animals and sugary pop songs -- Chinese mobile phone users can now download film clips of the Korean War and stirring military anthems to celebrate the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
Subscribers to China Unicom, the smaller of the country's two mobile telecom operators, are being offered the service for about $1 a month, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
"I believe it will be popular since we have so many military fans in China," it quoted company official Yu Peng as saying.
"We have more than 300,000 pictures of weapons and military figures in our database along with clips of hundreds of movies, such as 'Battle for Berlin', 'Normandy Invasion' and 'Shang Ganling', a movie about the Korean War," he added.
Customers will also be able to get military news sent straight to their handsets from the army's own newspaper, the report said.
"It's not just about making money. By doing it, we are celebrating the PLA's 80th anniversary," Yu said. "And in the process providing more healthy content through mobile phones."
The anniversary falls on Wednesday.


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In Spanish lottery El Gordo player selects 5 numbers between 1 - 54.
Spanish lottery El Gordo has 9 prize levels.
Jackpot in Spanish lottery El Gordo is won by matching 5 main numbers and 1 bonus numbers. Odds are 1 in 31625100.
Smallest prize in Spanish lottery El Gordo is won by matching 1 bonus numbers. Odds are 1 in 10.

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NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for you youngsters out there) is looking for a partner to help it develop a massively multiplayer online game as part of their ongoing educational mission.
The game would be fun and would enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning.
You have until June 18 to come up with an idea.


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Our Standard Rug Pad provides a non-skid layer between an area rug and your floor, while adding softness underfoot.
Non-skid pad prolongs the life of your rug.
Easily trimmed with household scissors.
Keeps rugs smooth and flat, making vacuuming easier.
Face is 100% recycled post-industrial synthetic fibres, back is a blend of natural and synthetic rubber.
Make sure pad is thoroughly dry before use.
Lay rubber side down on all hard surfaces, and for all area rugs.
Lay rubber side up for wall-to-wall carpeting.


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internet – Is A Fish A Man ?
I was thinking the other day about our internal geographies and the changing relationship these have with the world. In particular, i was musing on the effect of modern forms of transport – and to a lesser extent the effect of the modern media. A few centuries ago most people would have spent almost all their lives in one location which they’d have known very well indeed; their knowledge would have faded away gradually as they moved from this ‘centre of the universe’ until they reached the boundaries of the known.
Of course it wouldn’t have been quite that simple. There would be little irregularities – market towns they made a special journey to perhaps or pilgrimage sites – and there would have existed a vague map of other places too: lands mentioned in the Bible for example (i’m thinking of people in Britain as my example), cities from which luxury items came, the lands of myth and legend.
Still, it was a very different situation to today. Nowadays a person may live in one small district of a town, and know the way to and the location of a shopping complex on the edge of town and a few other locations but be otherwise ignorant of much of the place in which they live. They may commute by train every day passing from one small area of ‘known world’ to another, the one in which they work, through a desert of meaningless place names. How many of us have felt panic when our train breaks down en route and we’re turfed out at some station ‘in the middle of nowhere’? Even when the middle of nowhere is often the middle of somewhere, some district of the city we just don’t happen to know?
But trains have only a mild effect compared to aeroplanes. Consider for a moment those people with holiday homes in Spain or Portugal – or even Florida. Each year they migrate hundreds of miles to these places, even if only for a little while. At both ends of the journey they know precisely where they are. Those two small areas, so distant from one another, are next to one another in their internal geography. One goes from one to the other. The space in between, those miles of sea and land which they fly over, has no reality for them. Indeed, modern planes fly so high that for much of the trip travellers don’t even see the places over which they’re moving.
It’s very strange when you stop to think about it. I live maybe fifty or sixty miles from France. There are people just that distance from me living lives in towns i never see and can’t name. I never go there. Why? Well, in part – and quite a big part – because there’s no quick or easy way to get there. Far easier to get a plane to the other side of Europe or even beyond. The other reason i don’t go is because i imagine i’ve already seen these towns – or more accurately that being so close to me they can’t be sufficiently different from what i already know to make the journey worthwhile. Yet as a child even the south of England seemed like a foreign country. The first time i visited London (as a fourteen year old) i was awed and disoriented – far more so than when i later visited Istanbul or even Dhaka in fact.
It’s all about exposure. And that brings me to the other way in which places can come to feel too familiar to be worth bothering about: the constant exposure to images of them in the media. This is probably why i’ve never visited America. Why go to it and when it comes to me practically every time i turn on the telly? Of course that’s only a little sliver of America, but then, thinking about it, i’ve only ever seen a little sliver of my own country. Still, the illusion of familiarity takes root. The Internet only worsens this. You spend hours chatting to people on another continent, on the other side of the ocean. You live in your global village of far-flung contacts separated only by meaningless ‘uninhabited’ hyperspace.
One day i suppose we’ll be living in ‘virtual worlds’ spread across different planets, perhaps different galaxies. Imagine.


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Home › Juke Magazine November 3,1979. No. 235. The Who, CCR, Black Sabbath, Blondie.
Juke Magazine November 3,1979. No. 235. The Who, CCR, Black Sabbath, Blondie.
An excellent copy with minimal wear & tear. 20pp.


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Thank you for making WOD for Warriors 2018 such a success! Host Gyms and Participants from all across the U.S.A., and the globe, came together on Veterans Day to train fiercely together, challenge each other, conquer an 11-minute AMRAP, and showcase Team Red, White & Blue to veterans in their communities. In total, 225 Host Gyms, from as far away as Afghanistan and Japan to your very own backyard Box, rallied together to complete 482,677 total repetitions! 1,850 total participants, including 600 veterans, registered to take on power cleans, burpees, deadlifts, and pull-ups! Your passion, enthusiasm, and donations surpassed the totals of previous years and brought in just over $60,000!
YOU made this happen and we cannot thank you enough! To put this in perspective, your donations could fund 3 Eagle Leadership Experiences, a three-day intense Eagle learning and growth experience for 25 Eagles Leaders, or fulfill the activation budgets for 12 Team RWB Chapters for an entire year! All of the funds will go directly to Team RWB’s Programs, to help us engage more veterans. WOD for Warriors will be back again in November 2019! Be on the lookout for information on next year as we continue to push ourselves to overcome the seemingly impossible, forge new relationships, and form an affiliation that makes life not just worth living, but brings meaning and value to it.
Team RWB will continue to insist that all veterans have the opportunity to reclaim what was most precious about their military service: an unwavering sense of belonging, born of challenges that show us what each of us is capable of.
Together we can find all that we seek.


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Someone will keep it on a wall forever.
Throughout the ages, there have been some aspiring artists in my family.
Somehow, I’ve become the collector of these paintings, probably because everyone knows I don’t throw anything away. My wife had a great aunt who also painted, and we have at least half a dozen of her canvases.
My grandmother’s sister painted as did one of my dad’s cousins and a couple of my cousins. We have at least two dozen of these things hanging on our walls at home and one at the office. Some are worthy of display while others are displayed, anyway.
Has anyone ever thrown away a framed, original painting? It just seems wrong, doesn’t it?
I’m a bit envious being a creative artist myself, but my canvas is newsprint, and my paint is ink. I’m no Hemingway, but these artists are no Picasso, either. Some of the art is downright awful; we have one that I’m fairly convinced was a paint-by-number.
I know that I’ve written a few things that people have clipped out of the newspaper and saved. But it’s usually because they’re interested in the topic of the article and not the artistry of the prose. A few might even get laminated for longevity, but they all end up stuffed in a drawer or a box or tossed out after a while. But not paintings. Paintings go on the wall.
I don’t know what makes paint sacred, but I hold familial compositions in that same light. And it’s not because they have such personal meaning to me.
In fact, most of these artists are people I never knew. Most are two generations older than me, so I might have met them once or twice, but I was too young to remember. Thus, it’s not like I have fond memories and special relationships with them. That sounds cold, I know, but it’s not unusual; how well did you know your father’s aunts and uncles?
We also don’t keep the paintings because they’re so beautiful. It’s not like we decided that each painting was the perfect thing to brighten up an otherwise dull corner. They live on in our home simply because they have nowhere else to be and I can’t compel myself to dispose of them.
I suppose I could sell them in a yard sale, like I’m ever going to have a yard sale. But actually if I found one at someone else’s rummage sale, I’d probably buy it. I don’t know where I’d put it, but I would have to rescue it.
We don’t have too many photos of our kids and grandkids on the walls because there’s no room. All the space is taken up by mostly mediocre oil paintings made by people we don’t really know.
I’m thinking about taking up painting just so I can leave a legacy, too. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but one amateur still-life will outlive millions of words.
I’m not trying to pat myself on the back, but I’ve had some level of success as a writer. I’ve written more than 1,200 columns, several instructional booklets with at least a half-million copies in print, won a trunk-load of awards and have been published in national magazines and anthologies. And yet, not one line of it is hanging on a wall in our house. Or anyone else’s house, I suspect.
Some years ago, I was sitting at the dining table in my parents’ house and, while doodling in a notebook, sketched a grade-school-quality drawing of my dad. The next time I visited, my mom had it in a frame on the wall. It just goes to show ya.
So I think I’m going to buy myself a canvas and dump a little paint on it. In acouple of minutes, I can have my own Jackson Pollock for posterity.
A lifetime of crafting sentences, making poetry out of prose, is for naught. But two minutes splattering colors on a piece of sailcloth stretched across a wooden frame is a lasting memorial.
© Copyright 2019 by David Porter, who can be reached at porter@ramblinman.us. I can’t paint a picture; I have no place left to hang it.


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In the opening paragraph of their paper, the authors write that "assumptions about an increase in extreme flood events due to an intensified hydrological cycle caused by global warming are still under discussion and must be better verified," while noting that some historical flood records indicate that "flood frequencies were higher during colder periods (Knox, 1993; Glaser and Stangl, 2004), challenging the hypothesis of a correlation between the frequency of extreme floods and a warmer climate." Thus, they decided to further explore the relationship between level of warmth and degree of flooding as it may have manifested itself in southern Germany over the past 450 years.
Working in Lake Ammersee in southern Germany (48°00'N, 11°07'E), which is fed primarily by the River Ammer, Czymzik et al. retrieved two sediment cores from the deepest part of the lake in June of 2007 that they analyzed via what they describe as "a novel methodological approach that combines microfacies analyses, high-resolution element scanning (µ-XRF), stable isotope data from bulk carbonate samples (δ13Ccarb, δ18Ocarb), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses (Brauer et al., 2009)."
The six scientists determined that the flood frequency distribution over the entire 450-year time series "is not stationary but reveals maxima for colder periods of the Little Ice Age when solar activity was reduced," while reporting that "similar observations have been made in historical flood time series of the River Main, located approximately 200 km north of Ammersee (Glaser and Stangl, 2004), pointing to a wider regional significance of this finding."
As time marches on and as ever more studies of this nature are conducted in Europe and elsewhere, it is becoming ever more clear that the climate-alarmist assumption -- as Czymzik et al. describe it -- of "an increase in extreme flood events due to an intensified hydrological cycle caused by global warming" is simply not correct. In fact, it appears to be 180 degrees out of phase with reality in a substantial majority of the studies that have been conducted to date.

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A credit card is nice to have in an emergency, when making reservations and while on vacation. Need to buy something but your wallet is empty of cash? This is not an issue. Pay with your credit card, and there is no problem. Are you attempting to build a good credit score? The process can be simple with a credit card. Check out the advice in this article for some hand credit card tips and tricks.
Know how closing a credit card will affect you before you do it. Many times, closing an account leaves a negative mark on your credit record, and should be avoided, even if you do not plan to ever use the account again. It is important that you keep your oldest bank cards open, as they account for your credit history.
Many people misuse their charge cards. Although it’s understandable to be in debt under special circumstances, most people abuse this and get mixed up in payments that are unaffordable. One of the best things you can do is pay your balances off each month. By doing this, you can access credit, keep out of debt and improve your credit rating.
You want to try and avoid the fee for going over your limit just as much as late fees. Both are usually pretty high, and both can affect your credit report. Carefully watch that you do not exceed your credit limit.
Make sure you completely understand credit card terms before you sign up for the card. It is possible to discover rates that are higher than you expected. To ensure you understand the credit card’s terms, take the time to read the fine print.
As you can tell, charge cards may be used for many things. From purchasing groceries to simply raising one’s own credit score, it’s evident that there are a range of uses for bank cards. Factor in the information here when you think about how you will use your credit cards in the future.
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As junior midfielder Sammie James squares herself up for a 40-yard free kick within the 12th minute mark of Friday night’s game against CSUF (11-2-1), no one knows the significance of what an early goal would mean for the ‘Eaters. If the ball propels high enough, it would surely sail straight into a tight space that sits between the crossbar and over the fingertips of Titan goalie Jennifer Stuart, energizing the ‘Eaters with a nice cushion over a team that is currently in first place of the Big West Conference. James takes a step forward and swiftly lifts her foot up, presumably aiming for that tight space.
James’ foot connects with the ball, which seemingly sits in the air for a bit before kissing the crossbar, where it pinballs in — then out. The referees do not signal a goal; the crowd protests; the game resumes; the Titans go up by one and then two; the ‘Eaters retaliate with one of their own, but without James’ goal, the game is over.
Eight days after falling to CSUN (9-5-1), the UC Irvine women’s soccer team (5-8-1) dropped their second consecutive loss of the season, first at home, at the hands of the defending champions, CSUF, on Friday night. With the loss, UCI is now 0-3 against the Titans in their last three meetings.
In the first half, fans were treated to a steady back and forth that ended at 0-0. The ‘Eaters began with an aggressive defensive mindset, holding CSUF, a team known to dismantle their opponents by jumping out early, to a total of three shot attempts. Heading into the game, Titans’ senior forwards Christina Burkenroad and Rebecca Wilson had proven to be a deadly two-punch combo in the Big West Conference, having put up a combined nine game-winners for the season off of 98 shot attempts, which is half of the Titans’ team total at 196. In the first half, the ‘Eaters had managed to shut out Burkenroad and Wilson, forcing them to go scoreless in the period, while limiting them to a combined three shots for the game.
Offensively, UCI had nearly identical numbers to CSUF, matching their shot attempts with nine. Sophomore midfielder Alex Karlowitsch, senior forward Claudia Lopez, and James had found the mark with a shot on goal a piece.
As evenly matched as the game seemed to be, it was not until the 57th minute mark that the importance of James’ near goal was fully realized. Burkenroad and Wilson had shaken their cold streak and would not be denied touches any longer. 12 minutes into the second half, Wilson catapulted a through ball up ahead to Burkenroad who slipped down the left wing and barreled in the first goal of the night.
Following the goal, UCI had lost a bit of composure and seemingly took shots in an act of desperation. Despite taking seven shots in the second half, five more than they had taken in the first, only one of those seven shots had been on goal.
As the ‘Eaters frantically searched for an equalizer offensively, they began to scatter defensively which allowed CSUF to capitalize on their newfound momentum. Behind the Titans’ driving force were two familiar names. Six minutes after scoring CSUF’s first goal, Burkenroad, whose name seemingly can’t go without Wilson, bypassed a UCI defender, which forced senior goalie Corey Tobin to step far out to meet her. With Wilson trailing close behind, Burkenroad cleanly dished the ball to Wilson whose subsequent shot pierced the back of the net, giving the ‘Eaters a 2-0 deficit.
With the game seemingly over, Karlowitsch managed to instill a bit of life back into the Anteater Stadium. In the 89th minute mark with only 56 seconds to go, sophomore Grayson Galbraith pushed a lengthy through ball forward toward Karlowitsch, who met Stuart and slipped one home to cut the Titans’ lead to one. While some cheered for the ‘Eaters’ effort, others could not help but continue to murmur about James’ shot.
UCI will be back at the Anteater Stadium to face off against rivals Long Beach State on Sunday before heading out on a three game road trip that will start in Cal Poly and end in Hawai’i.


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The least known of the Dutch Windward trio, Statia. It has one of the most distinctive profiles of any island in the Caribbean. From a flat central plain the land rises rather abruptly at the hilly north end to 965ft/294m and drops almost directly into the sea. The south end is dominated by the silhouette of The Quill, the crater of an extinct volcano. The leeward side has limestone cliffs and some beach between the hills that fall to the sea. On the windward side the north and south ends are connected by a wide, 2-mi/3.2-km arc of golden-gray sand beach along the ledge of an ancient lava flow. Good trails with numbered signposts lead to rain forests and elfin wookland on the crater rim and down into the vegetation-smothered interior.
Offshore, layers of history lie undisturbed among the corals. The island is haunted by its curious past. In the late eighteenth century, at the time of the American Revolution, this small island was one of the richest free ports in the Americas. But on November 16, 1776, its heyday came to an abrupt end after its Dutch garrison at Fort Oranje became the first foreign port to salute a ship flying the American flag after the United States had declared its independence. The gesture enraged the British, who retaliated by capturing Oranjestad. Once in control, they lured 150 merchant ships into the harbor, confiscated their cargoes, sacked and burned the town, and destroyed the harbor's breakwater.
The deluxe rooms (9) are situated around the swimming pool in cottages existing of two or three individual rooms.
The efficiences (2) are equipped with a kitchenette.