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This guide gives you an overview of how to create a target collection that you can use to detect and track images within your augmented reality experience.
Wikitude Studio Manager: A browser based tool to convert your images to a wtc file. You can find the tool under: https://targetmanager.wikitude.com. You need your free developer account to log-in. This tool is described in more detail further below.
WTC Editor within Unity Editor: The Wikitude Unity plugin installs a WTC Editor as an extension of the Unity Editor. Unity developers can manage all their targets and target collections directly within Unity Editor. Please consult the Unity documentation for more details.
Targets Enterprise Script: A binary shell script available for Mac OS X and Linux converting images to target collections. Pleases contact Wikitude Sales team for technical requirements and pricing.
The following images describe the relationship between the above mentioned methods and the Wikitude Cloud Recognition Service, which is not the scope of this documentation.
Add new target images to the project either by clicking on Add Targets or drag & drop them on the empty area. Supported file formats include PNG and JPEG. If you are using PNG images, please make sure that it does not contain any transparent pixels, only solid colored images are supported.
When uploading a target the file name is used as target name. It identifies a target in your experience. If the target name is not completely visible, hover over it to reveal the full name or double-click the target to enter edit-mode.
If you add your own target images you need the target name to set them in AR.ImageTrackable.
0 stars: Not suitable for tracking. This target image cannot be tracked because it lacks textured features with high local contrast. Please consider choosing another target image.
2 stars: Good tracking ability. This target image will track well in most conditions.
3 stars: Very good tracking ability. This target image will track very well in most conditions.
AR.TargetCollectionResource WTC (Wikitude Target Collection) file which contains all information of the targets that should be recognized. Enter the project you need the file for and click the WTC icon in the toolbar.
Select the Wikitude SDK version you're using and click Generate to trigger the creation of the WTC file. You will be notified via e-mail once the file is available for download.
Click the Cloud icon in the toolbar for more details.
You may unpublish a project at any time but be aware that this action has an immediate effect on your application(s) making use of the credentials.
Metadata in the 'Edit Target' dialog is solely relevant for Cloud Recognition whereat Physical Height is only relevant for the distanceToTarget feature.
Leave Physical Height empty if you do not use the distanceToTarget feature of AR.ImageTrackable.
The Metadata field is very useful. It allows you to attach JSON data to a target. That way you can define any kind of additional data and react to it dynamically in the SDK to e.g. let a button refer to a details page which is defined in the Metadata JSON.
The Wikitude SDK only requires the actual height of the target image as information. The width of the actual image will be determined automatically.
Wikitude Studio is the universal way to add target height information. The tool allows adding the value of each image. The height information (physical target height) is then stored as part of the Image Target Collection (.wtc) and will be then automatically applied in the SDK.
The WTC Editor included in the Unity Plugin of the Wikitude SDK also includes an option to set the physical target height (Target Height), which then stores the value into the .wtc file.
The object recognition feature in the Wikitude SDK works in a similar way than image recognition. It tries to find and match a pre-created reference in the live camera image. This pre-created reference is called Object Target. Sometimes we refer to it as a map as it is a pre-recorded SLAM map. Starting with version 8.0 of the Wikitude SDK, Object Targets can be created using videos or images (preferred) as source material. The source material is converted into a Wikitude Object Target Collection, which is stored as .wto file.
Use the .wto file in your app project.
In the following chapters, we describe video-based and image-based methods in more detail.
Starting with version 8.0 of the Wikitude SDK, Object Targets can be generated from a set of images, instead of a single video. This approach has several advantages over the video-based conversion. For that, we recommend image-based conversion as the preferred method. It will always produce better results compared to the video-based conversion.
The first step is to collect images from your object. This step is essential, as the source material will determine the quality of your Object Target. In general, it does not matter where the images originate from - either manually taken or generated and rendered in a 3D/CAD software.
Please refer to this guide for a detailed list of recommendations which images to use.
You might have used Studio Manager already when working with Image Targets. Studio Manager is a free web-tool that helps you manage your Targets that are used in combination with the Wikitude SDK.
Upload the set of images you want to use.
When you enter the FoV manually, make sure you enter the horizontal FoV. Vendors tend to show-off their devices with a combined diagonal FoV, which is the largest value. Do not use diagonal FoV but only horizontal FoV.
Automatic detection of FoV value: For image-based conversion the service will try to identify automatically the FoV value of every image that you upload. It is doing so by reading out EXIF data that are stored together with your JPEG images. In case either one of the the following EXIF properties is set correctly, the conversion will use this value, no matter which value you provided in the web interface.
Wait for conversion to be finished. You will also be notified via email once the process has finished.
Studio Manager can also be accessed through a RESTful API. The API is part of the Cloud Recognition Manager API.
Wait for conversion to be finished - the service is performing several runs in the background to find the best possible configuration for your video. The conversion will minimum take 3-times the video run length. So a 50 seconds video will take minimum take nearly 3 minutes to finish. Depending on the current load, this can also take longer. You will be notified via email once the process has finished.


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This house share in Fallowfield, has two rooms available, the rent is £345* for the single bed room and £395* per calendar month for the larger room with a double size bed in it. The rent includes the utility bills & council tax. All rooms are single occupancy only, sorry but no couples, room sharing, pets or children allowed.
There is a fully furnished lounge with TV, DVD & Virgin Fibreoptic Superfast Wifi Internet.
Fitted Kitchen with 2 Fridges & Freezers, Washing Machine, Microwave & Gas Oven, Kettle, Toaster, Pots, Cutlery etc.
Most Rooms have a Double Sized Bed, Wardrobe, Drawer Unit, Shelves, Desk & Chair.
Seating Area at the front & there is a Yard at the Rear.
Fallowfield is a vibrant area popular with young professionals and students a like. A wide selection of local shops (there`s a convenience store next door) and a large Sainsbury Supermarket 5 mins walk away. There are restaurants, bars and takeaways also within a short walking distance. Withington is about 15 mins walk to it`s centre.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


text: Pembrolizumab is a monoclonal antibody against programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1). Previous studies have shown that pembrolizumab is effective in prolonging survival in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a PD1-ligand (PD-L1) tumor proportion score (TPS) of 50% or greater. In this randomized, open-label, phase 3 study, pembrolizumab was investigated for its efficacy in prolonging survival in locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC with a PD-L1 TPS of 1% or greater. Patients were included in the study if they had previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC, expressed PD-L1 as above, had an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance score of 0 or 1, and did not have a sensitizing EGFR mutation or ALK translocation (n=1,274). They were randomized to receive either pembrolizumab (200 mg every 3 weeks for up to 35 cycles) or the investigator’s choice of platinum-based chemotherapy (4-6 cycles). Analysis was performed on three separate groups, those with PD-L1 TPS of 50% or greater, 20% or greater, and 1% or greater. Researchers found that pembrolizumab prolonged overall survival in all three analyses, as compared to chemotherapy, yielding a hazard ratio for death of 0.69 in those with 50% or greater PD-L1 TPS (95% CI 0.56 to 0.85, p=0.0003), 0.77 in those with 20% or greater PD-L1 TPS (95% CI 0.64 to 0.92, p=0.0020), and 0.81 in those with 1% or greater PD-L1 TPS (95% CI 0.71 to 0.93, p=0.0018). Treatment-related adverse events that were grade 3 or higher were significantly less common in the pembrolizumab group (18%), as compared to the chemotherapy group (41%). Similar treatment-related death rates occurred. Investigators therefore concluded that pembrolizumab is an effective first-line therapy in patients with metastatic or locally advanced NSCLC with greater than 1% PD-L1 TPS who do not have other sensitizing mutations or translocations.

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What was impressive about this show was the number of individuals that were being sent by local distributors. Many companies sent between 5-10 people so it was just not just the owners and managers at this show – it was also the “worker bees” who do not always get invited to other show. Must also acknowledge, the show did have some feeling of being a regional show, but what a good region to attract. The Midwest is still very distributor strong – there are a LOT of distributors in these states and a ton of them showed up. Prior to the show there was quite a bit of advertising that end users were being invited to the show. I know there were some there but not near the number of them as there were distributor participants. Once again, maybe I did not recognize those individuals to know who they were, and this is where I’d invite some of you to participate and share what you saw.
The traffic at the show was really good. As is usually the case, Day 1 was much more active than Day 2 but there were a lot of big name companies walking the aisles even on Day 2. National VMI distributors sent a lot of people there even on the 2nd day. Quite honestly, I got to spend more time with some people at the show than I am usually able spend at them when I visit. The atmosphere was very casual and the show was a good size to hang out in the aisles without being overcrowded. Again, I’m not sure how many distributors came from the east coast or further west of, let’s say, Indiana, but I can assure you if you sell to any of the large VMI distributors or many of the large catalog houses throughout the country – their people were there!! And that is a great think for the show. If you can attract decision makers then you will certainly attract suppliers.
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Allow me to help you out with identifying your fellow Anericans. The people from Missouri have horns. At least that’s what a fellow from Kansas told me. A Connecticut yankee wears lace underwear. How can you tell? It chafes when they walk. As for us New Yorkers, we have socialization issues, so if you hear an argument or witness a brawl, it’s likely at least one New Yorker is involved. It may even be me.
Thanks for that reporting. I’ll keep all that in mind at the Vegas show.
Excellent summary! Couldn’t agree more. We had many large distributor customers come by the booth. Very happy with the show.
1. At social, people want to network which means the band shouldn’t be so loud as to prevent talking.
2. Be sure to provide enough bartenders so there’s no long lines. Nothing harshes a party mellow than waiting in a line to get a drink after working an 8 hour show.
3. When planning next year’s show, be aware if the other industry events and don’t schedule the show 2 weeks from FastenerTech.
Good points Gary, thanks for sharing the perspective from an industry leader.

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…but it’s a good tired. Two months ago I took over the One Monk Miniatures empire from Sanity Studios. They’d really lost interest and drive in the operation and I’d been a long time supporter of the enterprise and hated seeing it floundering and didn’t want to see it perish. So I bought the assets; website, forum, company blog, downloadable products and many gigs of support material. Naively I thought the operation would be much easier than it turned out to be. Some of that was my own fault for not realizing what I was getting; I thought I was getting a nice house full of cool toys, instead I got an empty lot with boxes of building materials…and the previous owner still had some of the house keys to the non-existent house up until just last week so that I couldn’t entirely move in. All better now.
I re-built the website at onemonk.com (go check it and see what’s broken), put the forum back on it’s feet, and sales are rolling along at a steady trickle though the online vendor outlets. I’ve also got a slew of new models and miniature kits in the work that will start popping up in the next few months, lot’s to do, but at least its fun to do.
Except for the interface at GoDaddy; like swimming through gravel some times. Their tech support is great though.
I haven’t painted anything in a couple of months, there’s a big red demon sitting in my paint area looking mournfully unfinished. Did get in a test game of Harder Than Steel, the beta rules for a possible Ganesha Games sci-fi miniatures wargame, I’ll try to post about that soon. Also went to an Anime Convention and set up a sales booth, didn’t make any money but had a great time.
Yes, that’s the Eagle V Winnebago from the Spaceballs movie on top, very much the crowd favorite and caused many people to stop and look over the rest of my toys.
I still don’t get to paint tonight as birthday season is still ongoing and I need to make a Minecraft style birthday cake for my daughter’s birthday this weekend. Pics of that in a few days. Oh, and Reaper Miniatures has just launched another huge Bones Kickstarter, looks even more amazing than the last one.
This entry was posted in Me, Uncategorized and tagged Miniature wargaming, Reaper Miniatures, Spaceballs on October 3, 2013 by squirmydad.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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Umbra is a 51.30m motor yacht, custom built in 2009 by Damen. This luxury vessel's sophisticated exterior design and engineering are the work of Damen. Her exterior is styled by the Damen team who are also responsible for the entire engineering package.
This support vessel luxury yacht has a steel hull with a aluminium superstructurewith a beam of 9.20m (30'2"ft) and a 3.20m (10'5"ft) draft.
Umbra has a cruising speed of 16.00 knots, max speed of 21.00 knots and a range of 4000.00 nm. from her 172,570.00l. fuel tanks.
Umbra is capable of carrying up to 18 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.
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In an age of global, immediate and dematerialised interactions human intent and actions, communication encoded in electronic social networks constitute a complex challenge for securing personal freedom and guaranteeing criminal repression. Long ago when the Vikings and pirates raiding of communities and hunting of slaves for trade was straightforward and the labour or pleasure enslavement that followed in farms mines or harems was evident, detecting and reproaching the criminal entrepreneurship was not a problem. Ill intentions now set and running in more sophisticated technological settings makes time, location, range and directions almost imperceptible and the commodification and exploitation almost invisible.
The human trafficking and enslavement reconceptualization (2005) began to be conceived and applied originally under a project for enhancing prosecution in a country within a united nations agency. It continued to develop and refine as a lens or prism of understanding for deconstructing the reproaches to this symbiotic crime and contribute to the societal prevention, penal investigation and judicial remedy to the contemporary exploitative phenomenon of humans.
Human Trafficking and Enslavement understood as the reduction for extraction and the act of extraction of value from a person is a process of capture of the personal movement/motion capacity of another human being to create value out of the person’s integrity or capacity for the sake of the controller. It is an analytical approach construed to comprehend and trace with clarity and precision human exploitation in contemporary societies.
The reconceptualization on movement/motion capture is a standalone analytical tool that separates the exploitation reproach from variables of moral, sexual, political or racial factors that are triggers or enablers of exploitation. In doing so it is expected to respond better to both criminal behaviour, cultural discrimination and their interplay. The Human Trafficking and Enslavement reconceptualization also disambiguates the symbiotic penal reproach from that of border control violations or smuggling of migrants and makes the causation of human harm and pain due to human commodification and enslavement irrelevant to national or extranational borders.
Human equality and Human autonomy, dignity is a principle set in most contemporary societies and their legislations and expected social behaviour from both physical/natural and legal/artificial persons. A universal understanding that since 1948 is also an internationally binding obligation to states and societies. It is on such predicate that burden of proof may be inverted to request evidence of due respect and diligence in the theory and praxis of such principle in the penal prosecution of contemporary human trafficking and enslavement cases.
Additionally, approaching the phenomenon as “human movement reduction and capture” for the sake of trade commerce and exploitation of a human being for the creation of economy, saving or surplus of another elevates the importance given by society to the existence of markets, clients and consumers of exploitation-based services, goods and wares.

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DW’s new English news channel was created for people all over the world who are looking for news and information that supports and inspires them to shape their communities. During the past few months, DW has searched for these local heroes, and at every point we have found and celebrated people who are doing remarkable things and making a difference.
Most recently in Ghana, DW and local broadcaster Joy News organized a “Heromobile”, which is travelling around the capital city Accra with local musicians and went looking for people who stand out, make a difference or work hard for change. DW and Joy News collected and shared their stories taking pictures of the participants and created an atmosphere of celebration.
Earlier this summer in Kenya, DW organized The Local Heroes Journalism Competition, which encouraged young journalists to create a journalism project profiling local heroes making a difference in their communities. The competition drew a lot of interest and promoted quality journalism while giving Kenyan local heroes the recognition they deserve.
In Pakistan last month, speaking engagements in cooperation with local broadcasting partners honored local heroes and let them tell their story. Highlights from Pakistan included Samar Minallah Khan, documentary filmmaker and women’s rights activist who helped make the practice of forced marriage in Pakistan illegal. In Bangladesh, DW has honored Infoladies, who bike hundreds of miles to bring advice and medicine to thousands in remote, impoverished villages. There are currently around 70 Infoladies working mainly with women and girls as well as with disabled and elderly people, connecting them to the rest of the community.
In an online call to action over the summer, DW asked people from anywhere in the world to submit the story of their local hero. Facebook posts on both DW News and 12 websites from DW’s various Asia and Africa departments combined to help draw attention to the new channel and encouraged people to share interesting stories of their local heroes with DW. The campaign was received with a lot of enthusiasm by online users. The various local hero stories complied by the participating DW editorial departments generated over 1 million reactions. The language groups that showed the most interaction with online posts were Dari, English and Bengali.
DW has shown that local heroes come from everywhere and anyone who has a vision and passion can make a difference in their communities – and there are always more stories to tell.
Across Africa from Kenya to Nigeria, a new media-savvy generation is emerging along with a new demand for opportunity, development and quality journalism. By reaching out to individuals, creating new partnerships and actively encouraging media development, DW has created a foundation for success in different African markets, while at the same time giving value back.
By adding value to partnerships and cooperating with local media in different regions, DW can help improve people’s lives with information and help set examples of transparency, legitimacy and professionalism in media.
DW’s international media development organization, DW Akademie, is very active in Africa and has been for over 50 years. DW Akademie’s first international project was a radio training program in Rwanda. Their newest initiative is a recently-signed partnership with Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (AKU-GSMC) in Nairobi, Kenya.
The university is focused on developing media professionals for the Kenyan media market. DW is there to help guide and educate them with world-class standards of journalistic practice. In return, DW will gain valuable insight into the nuances of the local media landscape. The six-year agreement centers on the development of professional education and training standards for communications experts in East Africa. Through exchanging experience, competences and ideas, both sides will benefit. DW gains visibilty in an important media market and the courses at AKU-GSMC can improve and develop with the expertise and experience provided by DW Akademie.
Kenya is one of the quickest growing media markets in Africa and there is a burgeoning interest in media education amongst young Kenyans. The market is growing more competitive and innovative.
DW recently produced a journalism competition for young journalists in Kenya. They were asked to create a journalism project that profiled a local hero in their region. Local heroes are people who make a difference in their communities and help those around them. The competition was organized in cooperation with The Standard Group, which is the largest media company in Kenya. The competition showed how through cooperating with partners, DW can affect the lives of people in African target audiences while gaining valuable partners and a positive local image.
Nigeria is another important market for DW in Africa. DW has been expanding its presence in the region after adding two foreign correspondents last year in Lagos and recently signing a deal with Channels TV, the largest news broadcaster in Nigeria. The deal includes direct DW reports from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange produced exclusively for audiences in Nigeria. This example of coproducing and sharing technical capacity is a model for the future of how DW will provide international quality journalism to local audiences.
Programs like Focus on Africa and Crossroads Generation emphasize individuals who help to set examples and serve as role models. They provide examples that turn away from the image of the continent as only being beset by turmoil and focus on positive actions from a younger generation.
DW will succeed in African markets by working with partners, reaching people where they are, educating media professionals and promoting journalism education. These are all very positive steps with the consistent goal to improve the overall media landscape in African countries.
Smartphones are fast becoming the standard tool for consuming news and information, but for many people in developing and emerging countries, this technology is still out of reach. It is estimated that out of the total 5 billion mobile users worldwide, only 1 billion are using smartphones. The remaining number represents a majority of people in emerging and developing countries who are using 2G or “feature phones” for mobile Internet access.
DW works hard to provide top-quality news and information to people in hard to reach places. In emerging markets such as in Africa, expensive Internet and mobile technology makes smartphones a luxury that few can afford. Most people try to use their feature phones to access valuable social networks and online news which usually demands a higher level of data processing than these devices can provide – but there are some solutions.
A innovative platform called biNu is providing a way for feature phones to efficiently navigate the web. And since June, DW has been cooperating with biNu to provide feature phone users in Africa with easy access to DW’s high-quality online news content.
The biNu app provides high-end functionality by turning feature phones with a basic Internet connection into “virtual smartphones.” It achieves this by using cloud networks to process and compress data from websites allowing the end result to be easily used via a feature phone. The result of using a cloud platform to streamline data is a service that is 10 times faster than a standard mobile browser while requiring 10 times less bandwidth. The displays are simplified and optimized for a feature phone and the most important elements of the website are passed on to the user.
The service already has more than 900,000 users in Africa, mostly located in fast-growing media markets like Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Ghana but also in countries like Zimbabwe and Ethiopia where, because of the difficult political climate, are harder for international media to access.
Even as infrastructure improves, the low cost of feature phones and continually expensive network and Internet access means that many people in these developing countries will continue to use their mobile phones as the primary device for going online. Providing them with easily accessible news, information and social networks is a hugely important task. Through cooperating with biNu, DW can overcome the disparity in international technological standards and provide information that people need on the device that they prefer.

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I have officially decided to make a set of pillows for myself!
They just look so sweet and happy, I can't help myself.
I apologize to hubby in advance. Our bedroom is slowly getting yarn bombed, and my pottery has taken over our bookshelf. My two newest additions are the McCoy Pebble planters. Pink doesn't really match the decor in the room, but it does match the surfboard that has recently made it's way inside.

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WASHINGTON — It was an early sign that this was not an ordinary political rally: The organizers put the crowd estimate at between 10 million and 6 billion.
And on the National Mall, the signs were equally zany. "This is a good sign," said one sign. "I like Ice Cream," said another. And a man dressed as a bear wore a T-shirt reading, "Free Bear Hugs."
The high-spirited crowd numbering in the tens of thousands flocked to what organizers billed as a "comedic call for calm." The turnout clogged highways, and filled subways and buses to the point of overflow.
Much of the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear," put on by "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart and his Comedy Central colleague Stephen Colbert — who poses as an ultraconservative on his "Colbert Report" — resembled a large-scale variety show, with humorous sketches and surprise musical guests such as Kid Rock, Tony Bennett and Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens.
Colbert arrived on stage like a rescued Chilean mine worker, in a capsule from a supposed underground bunker, after Stewart made a show of counting the crowd one by one.
But the three-hour event ended on a serious note when Stewart, in a break from his usual satirical stance, made an impassioned defense of U.S. unity and denounced cable-news depictions of a country riven with animosity.
"The image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false," he said.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Iggy Azalea is doing it all. The Australian-American rapper just finished touring with Rita Ora on Rita's UK leg of her 'Radioactive' tour and now Iggy has signed a deal with Mercury Records in the UK!
Iggy Azalea had a great 2011 and 2012 after she released her mixtape 'Ignorant Art' and her 6-track-EP 'Glory', as well her third mixtape 'Trap Gold'.
With her debut studio album 'The New Classic' dropping in the Spring, Iggy Azalea plans on releasing her first official UK release 'Work' on April 8.
In March Iggy will be hitting the road with legendary rap star, Nas on the European leg of his tour. Already having sold out headline shows across the US and Europe, Iggy is set to take her live show to the next level armed with her signature crisp flow, unrelenting energy, attitude and confidence that excels her years.
Check out the tour dates below and her new single 'Work' out April 8.
"No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami."

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AAPEX has established itself the number-one market for parts and equipment for the automotive industry in the USA and has a large pull in visitors from all over the world. Filled with seminars and live demonstrations, each edition of AAPEX in Las Vegas promises an overview of the developments in the automotive aftermarket, brand recognition and direct orders. When it comes to products, the exhibition displays car paints, care products, tires, tools and workshop accessories.
Accommodation for AAPEX near Sands Expo Convention Center isn't available for long and should be booked at an early stage. Receive special hotel rates during AAPEX 2019 Las Vegas by obtaining the services of ExpoBeds. We have partnerships with properties of all categories across Las Vegas, which enables us to meet our customers' specifications in terms of price, location, amenities, etc. Explore the AAPEX 2019 hotel offers today - contact us and let us know what your accommodation preferences are.
Organiser: William T. Glasgow, Inc.

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Why doesn’t the Wirral show off its Viking heritage?
The Wirral Peninsula attracts many tourists, but few are aware of the peninsula’s rich Viking heritage.
The Visit Wirral website celebrates the area’s history and recommends places to visit, such as the Port Sunlight Museum, Birkenhead Priory and the Williamson Art Gallery, but there is little mention of Wirral’s Viking heritage.
Wirral’s Viking history is no secret, and over the years, there have been a number of reports in the media that have drawn attention to the Viking connection, but their reports have not ignited the passion to create a centre to show the Vikings in Wirral. Unlike York with its Jorvik Centre, there is no place in the Wirral that fully celebrates its Viking past.
The major problem in establishing the authenticity of Wirral’s Viking heritage is that the period of the Vikings is commonly known as the ‘Dark Ages’, which reflects the difficulty of researching this period of history. While there have been some finds of Viking artefacts in the Wirral, there are no contemporary documents from the period. This makes the history of Wirral’s Vikings subject to much speculation.
Chester has its Roman Amphitheatre that dramatically shows off Chester’s Roman heritage. Wirral does not have anything of that scale to celebrate its Viking history, but there have been artefacts discovered at Meols, including brooches, weapon fragments and part of a drinking horn. Fragments of a Viking cross were discovered at the locations of Hilbre Island, West Kirby, Woodchurch and Bromborough, and the Hogback Stone at St Bridget’s Church West Kirby dates from the 11th Century.
The Norse Vikings settled in the Wirral in 902AD and were in the area until about 1066AD. The Vikings settled in Northern England, but wanted to push farther south. The defining Battle of Brunaburh is where the Vikings battled the Anglo Saxons who defeated the Vikings and halted their progress towards the South. The Wirral village of Brunanburh (now Bromborough) is thought to have been the site of the battle, but there is no definite proof of this.
There was a large Viking settlement in Meols, which is where the Viking King Canute was thought to have lived. He famously tried to turn back the tide without success. There have been some Viking metalwork items found in Meols as evidence of a settlement.
The suffix ‘-by’ is probably Viking in origin. Areas such as Frankby, Pensby and Raby were places that contained Viking settlements.
In Thingwall, the Vikings formed a type of parliament that met at Cross Hill. Vikings from a wide area were thought to have gathered at there to discuss their political affairs.
Perhaps what is needed to celebrate Wirral’s Viking heritage is to find and display a major Viking artefact. In 2007, there was the exciting prospect of unearthing one: a whole Viking long ship.
In 1938, builders at the Railway Inn at Meols found a fragment of a Viking boat in the pub’s car park. As they did not want their building work interrupted, they reburied the fragment, but not before one of the builders made a sketch of the find. The drawing was largely forgotten until in 1991, when a program on television about the Vikings in Wirral prompted the owner of the drawing and son of the builder who had drawn it, Jon McCrae, to hand it over to the local museum. The drawing remained in the museum, unread and forgotten for over a decade.
In 2007, the Railway Inn made an application to build a new patio on a section of the car park. In the process of dealing with the application, the council noted that there was a record of the presence of the boat and, because of that, ruled that the depth of the patio’s foundations had to be restricted in order not to damage the Viking remains.
Professor Steve Harding, an expert on the Vikings, heard about the boat and organised a ground radar scan of the site. This revealed the remains of a 30×5 foot boat that would have carried dozens of Vikings. He believed that the boat was largely intact and preserved in blue clay. Professor Harding applied for European funds to carry out a full archaeological dig in order to remove the boat and displayed it in a museum. Alternately, he suggested that it could be preserved in the cellar of the pub to allow drinkers to view it whilst enjoying a drink.
Professor Harding failed to raise the money. If he had succeeded, then the display of the boat would have gone a long way to establish the importance of Wirral’s Viking heritage.
Despite Professor Harding’s certainty that he had discovered a Viking boat, not all experts are convinced that the boat dates back to the Vikings. There is no doubt that there is a boat under the pub car park, but there is no proof of its date.
There is no museum in Wirral dedicated to the Vikings. Until one is established, then Wirral’s Viking heritage may not be widely known by the Brutish public. However, there are people and organisations in the Wirral that do try to keep the Viking history alive.
The Wirhalh Skip Felagr is a society that holds living history events that demonstrate mediaeval social customs and crafts. They also perform combat displays that portray battles between Vikings and Anglo Saxons.
In 2014, there were plans to recreate a full-size Viking settlement at Bebington. The group Big Heritage wanted this to be a major tourist attraction rivaling York’s Jorvik Centre, but the attraction has not come to fruition.
What Big Heritage did demonstrate is that there is a lot of interest in Wirral’s Viking history. They showed that what is needed to raise awareness of Viking history in Wirral is to build a major visitor attraction that tells the history of the Wirral Vikings, and encourages visitors and residents to find out more about the area’s rich Viking heritage.

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text: CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Boggy meadows and swales, in neutral or possibly more or less calcareous regions; frequent. June 15-July. The common form, occurring in the larger marshes and along our ponds and lakes (D.); sphagnum meadows along creek above Enfield Falls; Slaterville Swamp; Freeville; McLean Bogs (D.); Chicago Bog; Ludlowville; Canoga Marshes (D.); Lake Como. Newf. and Lab. to Sask. and B.C., southw. to Conn., N.Y., Ill.., Utah, and Calif.; rare on the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

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Caroline Gavin is a Christian Life Coach, Speaker and Author.
Refresh your heart, revive your spirit with Purposeful Pathway: Your Journey with Jesus! This is a forty-day poetic devotional designed to heighten the joy in your journey. May the poetry strengthen your connection with the Lord, deepen your love for Him and fan the flame of the Spirit.
As a Life Coach and the Founder of Purposeful Pathway, Caroline helps others discern their vocational paths, live with purpose and align with God’s Way. The result of coaching is God-centered transformation.
Refresh with her poetry and other reflections at http://Purposeful Pathway.com and sign up for a free newsletter and e-book: Seven Scriptural Steps of Holistic Healing. You can connect with Caroline also via Facebook (http://Facebook.com/PurposefulPathway.com) and Twitter (http://Twitter.com/caroline_gavin).
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Is there a guide for that somewhere?
Yes there is a full guide in post #2 in this thread.
However, I'm not sure how to connect to our server through it. Is there a guide for that somewhere?
Where 1.2.3.4 is your server ip. You should see the TeamSpeak 3 Server Query Greeting message and the rest is the same as with any other telnet client.
First of all: Sorry it this gets asked a lot but in my defense: yes I used the search option in the forum AND google.. but.. it just does not work. I even read the whole doc file and welp.. no luck.
However, feel free to merge my thread.
Soo.. I connect to my server via Putty, login with my serveradmin login and try to change my default port from 9988 to 9987.
My client is running in the background so I hear the server shutting down and my client connecting to [ip]:9988 right after I restart the server, so I assume the change never got saved.
I rly don't get it. Also most of the posts were from between 2008 and 2011.
After that just restart the server.
Welp.. mods, you can close this. I show myself out..
Is there some way change that tcp port? That 10022.
gives for a .ini File entry to change the query SSH Port 10022?

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Christian boarding schools in Rogersville, Tennessee. Free help finding the best Christian boarding school in Rogersville.
Is your teenager spinning out of control? Looking for a therapeutic boarding school near Rogersville, Tennessee?
There is nothing worse than having your teen spinning out of control, and no worse feeling than the sadness parents experience in the process. It is hard to know what to do and how to react when your adolescent daily reaches new lows in disobedience, dishonesty, and disrespect, and chooses every wrong thing.
Let us help you in researching the best program whether or not it is near Rogersville, Tennessee. We’ve made it our life goal to know all we can about every school, so we can help parents (without cost) find the best possible option for their troubled teen. We want to help parents avoid the same mistake we did.
Now, every day we hear from many frustrated parents in areas like Rogersville, Tennessee, who share how their once normal and happy child has become seriously out of control — just like our son was. They talk about how it has disrupted their family and how they fear for their child’s future and very life. “My child is no longer who she used to be,” is a typical cry from these parents.
If your son or daughter is out of control, he or she needs you to intervene. That’s why you’ve landed on this site, so allow us to be the resource you need to help you find just the right program, hopefully near Rogersville, Tennessee. The downward spiral your teen is on can have tremendous destructive potential with lifelong consequences, or even bring a teen’s life to a quick end. Don’t wait. Act now based on what you know is true — your faith, your own beliefs, and what you know is best for your child.
Give us the opportunity to help you find a Christian boarding school closest to Rogersville, Tennessee that will provide your teen with the help and mentoring he or she needs, and within your budget. We’ve visited most of these programs and we know the personnel there. We know what they are good at, and what they are not so good at. We poll parents who have placed their teen in these programs, so we know how well they have done to help the teen.
Avoid the temptation to put your child in a boarding school nearby Rogersville merely out of convenience (like we did). Rather, find the program that is most likely to help your child, even if it is outside of your state. Give us the chance to tell you about a few of them. Fill in the inquiry form now to begin that process. There is NO CHARGE for this service.
More about Rogersville, Tennessee:Rogersville is a town in Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States. It was settled in 1775 by the grandparents of Davy Crockett and is the second-oldest town in the state. It is named for its founder, Joseph Rogers.
Tennessee’s oldest courthouse, first newspaper, and first post office are each located in Rogersville. Much of the Town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The population living within the town’s corporate limits was 4,240 at the 2000 census; the same census found 11,507 people living within Convert of the town’s center.
Rogersville is the county seat of Hawkins County.GR It is part of the Kingsport–Bristol –Bristol (VA) Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the “Tri-Cities” region.


text: I have an asset Mesh Baker 2 in the asset store that makes it very easy to build atlases and combine meshes (no scripting required). It can even combine materials that use different shaders. It can be used in the editor or at runtime. There is an evaluation version if anyone is interested.


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A Alguns minutos foi veiculado pelo canal Nicolai o vídeo “Every Champion FAKER Has Picked In Pro League of Legends”.
Faker has been the face of League of Legends eSports for over 6 years now. During this time he has been able to win multiple major tournaments including 3 Worlds championships. And with over 600 games played SKT T1, Faker has so far only played with 62 champions. With that I wanted to take a look deeper into his choices and I was able to find what I think are some pretty interesting things.


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Hate, anger and judgment are not born in us. They are instilled in us as children through horrific abuse, often times sexual abuse.
People who are easily angered, Judgmental, And Full of vengeance have been taught to take revenge on anyone different from themselves.
Unfortunately, people who were able to hold on to their Original Love and respect for their fellow human beings, have a hard time understanding and respecting people who react violently.
Consider the person who taught you to hate and to judge. They challenged everyone who didn’t share their own set of morals and opinions and anyone who disagreed was to be reckoned with. They probably used phrases like, “I should kill you.” You may have heard those hateful words directed at you as a child, while you were being abused.
Such hateful derogatory thinking is not mainstream and that’s why people who don’t feel the same hate, and don’t understand the pain you’ve been through, think that you’re behaving vengefully and don’t want to have to confront those types of negative, irrational feelings.
So go and vote for Trump; but don’t interfere with other voters, because they have a right to their feelings of Love and respect for their fellow human beings, no matter their color or creed. Good people have a right to their beliefs, just as you have a right to yours.
This is a democracy and Everyone has a right to vote.
Also, if things don’t go your way on Tuesday – Don’t take your anger to the streets on November 9.
I believe Hillary Clinton has the ability to be the greatest President this country has ever seen.
Rethink your hate, and become part of the process of healing the country. You have it in you. So believe in yourself and be proud of yourself, even though who ever taught you to hate had no pride in themselves, and wrongfully told you you were nothing.
Trump suporters, and Trump himself, have to believe in themselves and break the chains on their minds and hearts put there by their abusers.
Trust that, with Hillary as President, this country will be greater than it’s ever been. Trust in our Democracy. Give Peace a Chance!
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76 (25) BUILDING SCHOOLS FOR THE FUTURE (BSF): INTERIM EVALUATION OF BIDS – The Service Director Learning, Schools and Communities submitted a report seeking approval of the BSF Project Board’s recommendation regarding the two bid teams to be invited to continue in dialogue following interim evaluation of bids.
The procurement plan for BSF in North Lincolnshire was based on the ‘competitive dialogue’ process. This meant that the council would engage in detailed dialogue and negotiation with potential bidders until a preferred bidder was selected. In order to enable focus on the latter stages of the process, it was always planned to reduce the field to only two bidders by evaluating all bids at an interim stage.
An interim assessment bid would look at bids that were not at the final stage for submission. However, the bids were all sufficiently developed and this allowed for a thorough and rigorous evaluation to take place.
Resolved – That the outcome of the evaluation, that Generation Education North Lincolnshire and May Gurney Ltd progress to the next stage of the competitive dialogue, be approved.


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The MAC implementation is based on the DCF (distributed coordination function) protocol specified in section 9.3 of the 802.11-2012 standard. This design does not implement the PCF (point coordination function) in section 9.4 of the standard.
The MAC implementation is based on the DCF (distributed coordination function) protocol specified in section 9.3 of the 802.11-2012 standard. This design does not implement the PCF (point coordination function) in section 9.4 of the standard. It also does not implement the EDCA (enhanced distributed channel access) in section 9.2.4.2 of the standard.
'''RTS/CTS:''' The RTS/CTS access mechanism is fully supported by the reference design.


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I am student of the AIEP professional Institute (AIEP ), at the moment course computer science engineering. Use GNU/Linux since 2000 and GNOME as desktop environment.
I participate in an free/libre software user group (GULIQQ) (only on the mailing list)  . This group shares knowledge and experience on GNU / Linux.
system in php and MYSQL released under the GNU license that allows administracción library under international standards, has communication with the Library of Congress, this project also carries 3 years.
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Generation Next is friendly competition there is no need to be angry about anything that happens here. I'm simply trying to give artist exposure who may not had a chance to get on any platforms before win lose or draw life goes on tomorrow.
With that being said one of the contestants from yesterday's Generation NExt felt slighted, so there is a simple answer to that lets just run back both songs and see who can win tonight.
Golden Child Vs Moka Blast lets see who can win it tonight and come back with Generation NExt next Monday. Vote now for your favorite song.


text: Created for the invitation to the 2005 Presidential Inauguration. Numbered/Paper (N/P) - Giclee Paper Prints limited to an edition of 2500, each hand-signed by the artist. The unframed size is approximately 12" x 16". Each N/P is individually numbered in the series (N/P 1 of 2500, N/P 2 of 2500, etc.).


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We have done some customization, but you are welcome to do more -- and you should if you have basic HTML and CSS knowledge. Responsive sites can be more difficult to use than fixed-width sites, but if you stick with what our WebTeam has configured, this may not be an issue.
Several themes have easy editing of common items including selected colors, backgrounds and images. These are indicated below as easy edit. Easy edit themes have a plugin that controls the major theme settings.
All themes have "components" which allow the editing of items (such as Chapter Name) which are common to all themes.
City Lights -- Huge image as the home page, one-level menu. This theme has some formatting options that are settable when setting up the theme. For example, you change the big image by uploading it to sitedesign and enabling it using a theme setting. The basic color scheme is dark blue, but all the dark colors are editable. Easy edit.
Monarda -- Same as City Lights except the basic color scheme is dark green, but all the dark colors are editable. Easy edit.
Martin County Blue - One-level menu across the top. Easy to use. This is a variant of the original Ocean theme, but customized for FNPS. Easy edit.
Pure-side-menu -One level menu on the left side. This is a more interesting theme than you might expect. FNPS configuration is basic. If you want to customize the theme, see https://purecss.io/ for more information on the css used for this theme. This might be a hidden gem.
SkrollrGS -- Very different, it scrolls to the side. It does some trickery to do this, basically turning all pages into a single page, so not appropriate for large sites. Should work for most chapters. Menu is fixed on the left side. The calendar and meeting location need to be built into their pages (display source, then add the component code manually -- this theme cannot use the calendar and meeting location layouts. You can build the code into the pages, so don't let this stop you.
SuncoastDrop - responsive, this is a variant of Boom with a multi-level (drop-down) menu and customization for FNPS.  Easy edit.
Verti. Home page has 3 boxes on the home page, plus a big general box below them. It has a multi-level menu. The code for the boxes has to be in components so is not WYSIWYG editable. But the boxes could be used to point to the next meeting, the next field trip, and something else -- but probably each needs to be a sentence and a "go to" button. The top level menu should be limited to 5 items, but dropdowns can extend it indefinitely. Currently working on this to make it more user friendly (easy edit).
Not Mobile Friendly -- these are here only because some chapters have not yet upgraded to mobile friendly. If you are not already in one of these, we strongly recommend using one of the mobile friendly themes.
Snail - simple, fixed width theme, not mobile friendly, easy to use, not mobile friendly, You cannot extend the menu which means you may have to move on to a different template if your menu gets longer.
Menues and themes: Beware any theme that does not allow submenues and also limits the number of items in a single-level menu structure. Single level menues are fine when the number of items is unrestricted. You may have to change themes if you add too many menu items. As delivered, we assume that sub-menues are available (if not available, menu items will show in a strange order, you can change that by editing the pages).
The major header-type images have been moved into a an images subdirectory where you can replace them. sitedesign The images are named by what they are followed by the associated theme. If you plan to change the theme's major images rarely, download the image(s) so that you can see what the dimensions are, create your replacement image, then upload that with the name of the image that you are replacing. If you plan to change one frequently, we can set the theme to read the name of the image from a component.


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Beat other home buyers to the hottest new properties for sale in Lake Country and Kelowna. Simply sign up for our Listings Notification service.

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New, experimental genetic engineering techniques are altering food and other products while racing ahead of regulations. What are the consequences and will they be allowed in organics?
Soon PCC will be offering Sound Consumer articles by email. Every month we’ll round up a mix of our best features, recipes, news bites and letters in an e-newsletter, along with other great content. Sign up.
Some of our favorite meals entail simply piling good ingredients in a bowl. These loose recipes play with different flavors and cuisines but are merely suggestions for ingredients that mingle well. By all means, improvise with whatever you have on hand! It’s hard to go wrong, and there’s no limit to delicious combinations that are easy to prepare — and clean up.
Seed industry consolidation continues. So should our resistance.
Three major megamergers in the seed industry are on the horizon: Bayer and Monsanto, DuPont and Dow, and ChemChina and Syngenta. This means three corporations will own nearly 60 percent of the world’s seed supply. Learn why that’s a problem, and what we as consumers can do to fight back.
Face milks clean skin without soaps and harsh detergents and are gentler than foaming or gel cleansers. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorite brands, why we love them, and how they’re used most effectively.
TDE Mandarins, Pixie Tangerines and Gold Nugget Tangerines are brightening our produce departments this month. Also try a few of our nutritionists’ favorite products: locally made beeswax candles; an organic, Fair Trade chocolate bar with crunchy popped quinoa; a spicy, superbly nutritious turmeric elixir; and more!
Farmers earn 3.5¢ of every dollar spent eating out, and 16¢ of every dollar spent on food eaten at home.
Organic Valley is transitioning to carrageenan-free foods, Oregon’s Coho salmon are facing threats, and President Obama prohibited future oil and gas development in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans before leaving office. Hear all the details, plus more current food and agriculture reports.


text: All the cartridges on this page are guaranteed to work with your HP DeskJet 9600 Ink printer. Remanufactured DeskJet 9600 cartridges are ideal replacements for original HP DeskJet 9600 Ink Cartridges as they are cheaper and come with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. OEM Inkjet cartridges are also available for your HP DeskJet 9600. Choose from colour and black HP DeskJet 9600 cartridges.


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Data has never been such a big focus for exhibition marketing before.
Back in 2015 CEIR published a first groundbreaking study which underlined the importance of big data for B2B trade show marketing. End of 2018 a new study “The Freeman Data Benchmark Study” published by Freeman in partnership with Chief Marketer showed the critical role of big data in today’s exhibition marketing: from developing tactics, messages and campaigns to deciding strategies, securing budgets and how to best achieve targets.
Overall it appeared that 88% of the companies consulted in the survey use their event marketing data to inform wider marketing strategies and make channel and other important tactical decisions. 650 marketing executives from many of the world’s largest companies agreed that everything comes down to ROI. 44 % indicated that total sales over a product/service’s life cycle were their top metric. Generating leads, sales from partners, brand awareness and digital marketing impact are the Top 5 for senior marketing executives.
According to the survey the quality of the data is essential: 77% of event marketers believe that having quality data will increase revenues by at least 10%. “For event marketers, the actionable insights derived from data analytics empower them to not only drive results, justify event and marketing budgets, and improve overall attendee quality and event experiences, but to bring those insights back to the larger marketing strategies. Data is a tool and if your organization is not using it, you’re missing out on reaching and exceeding your potential.” - Skip Cox, Senior Vice-President for research and measurement at Freeman.
Big data is widely used for marketing purposes mainly in the B2C sector: the information relative to customer behavior is easily accessible and ready to use in order to investigate consumers and improve their buying experience. During the last decade and also in the B2B sector, trade shows have been shifting overall from a marketing strategy concentrated on the seller side to a more buyer-centered approach: insights on the kind of customer you attract and should engage is key. The amount of data that can be collected before, during and after an event is huge. So how can you get a full and integrated overview of the behavior of your customers?
Data quality and setting the right KPIs are essential for development!
data and measurement are considered a top priority for 78% of consumer market-focused companies, while only 57% of B-to-B event marketers agree data and measurement are a top priority across the corporation. These findings suggest B-to-B companies are behind in prioritizing data.
58% percent of B-to-B event marketers say analyzing their data effectively is a challenge.
It appears that the problem is mainly data analysis, probably because trade shows have many means to collect data, both at physical events and online: they can therefore provide a huge amount of data, but it may not be of the best quality. It is important to make sure that data is collected accurately and to set KPIs in order to track metrics and improve analysis.
Compare your event data over the years in order to predict future market moves: start collecting seller and buyer data now and set metrics to report.
Ideally start monitoring your buyers already before the show. During the show the focus should be on capturing relevant data for lead generation. Nowadays the amount of technologies that can be used is massive and you should seize it. The better the quality the data you collect, the more you will get out of it later while managing Customer Success or engaging your customers with personalized and interesting content as well as leads that they are expecting you to deliver.


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We have updated our terms and conditions. Please confirm you have read our terms and conditions and agree to them, by ticking 'accept terms & conditions'. Then click submit to move onto the booking process.
Disabled Guests: Unfortunately, as a Victorian building with lots of stairs and some narrow corridors, G! Boutique Hotel is not suitable for wheel-chair users or people with other severe mobility limitations.
We regret we cannot accept pets (except for guide-dogs).
Due to the nature of the hotel and the building, we are sorry but we operate an adults-only guest policy.
Cancellation: rooms cancelled later than 15.00 three days prior to arrival will be subject to a cancellation fee equivalent to one night's accommodation. For no-shows guests will be charged to the credit or debit card given at the time of booking for the for the first two nights accommodation (or one night if the booking is for one night only).
Check in/check out: guests may check in after 15.00 on the day of arrival. Check out is before 11.00 on the day of departure. Failure to do so will entitle the Hotel to charge for an additional night. Charges will be at the Hotel’s current room rates which are available on request. Price lists for additional items, such as meals and Room Service, are on display and available on request. Guests must pay all outstanding charges on departure. If an outstanding balance is not settled on departure, payment will be taken with the card used to pay for the room.
Guests may book in advance or on arrival. Rooms are subject to availability and the Hotel reserves the right to refuse any booking.
Full payment is taken on arrival for the whole stay. The hotel reserves the right to pre-authorise all cards prior to arrival. If we are unable to pre-authorise the card for any reason we may take full payment from the card up to 48 HOURS prior to arrival or contact you for alternative card details. Your booking is secured by your credit card details. This then constitutes a contract between you and G! Boutique Hotel.
Reservations comprising of 3 or more rooms are deemed to be Group Bookings and as such are required to pay a 25% non refundable deposit at the time of booking with the balance payable 7 days prior to the date of arrival.
The Hotel reserves the right to refuse a guest entry and accommodation if, on arrival, management reasonably considers that the guest is under the influence of drink or drugs, is unsuitably dressed or is behaving in a threatening, abusive or otherwise unacceptable manner. The Hotel reserves the right to require a guest to leave if he/she is causing a disturbance, annoying other guests or Hotel staff or is behaving in an unacceptable manner.
Guests shall comply with all reasonable rules and procedures in effect at the Hotel, including but not limited to health and safety and security procedures and statutory requirements as to registration. Guests shall not bring their own food or drink into the Hotel for consumption at the Hotel. Guests are allowed guide dogs only. We regret that we are unable to accommodate children under the age of 16.
SMOKING IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED WITHIN THE HOTEL BEDROOMS AND COMMUNAL AREAS. ANY BREACH OF THIS POLICY WILL AUTOMATICALLY RESULT IN A £75 MINIMUM CHARGE BEING MADE (IN RESPECT OF CLEANING ETC) FROM THE CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD SUPPLIED BY THE GUEST AS SECURITY WHEN THE BOOKING IS MADE.
Guests must report any loss of or damage to their property immediately on discovery to the Hotel’s Reception or other appropriate staff members, and shall make themselves available to assist with any reports made by the hotel to the police.
Guests shall not enter areas of the hotel which are indicated as being closed to the public. The Hotel shall not be Responsible for death, personal injury or loss or damage to property suffered by a guest in such areas. The Hotel shall not be liable to a guest for any loss or damage to property caused by the misconduct or negligence of a guest or an act of god, or where the guest remains in exclusive charge of the property concerned. The hotel’s liability for any other loss of or damage to a guest’s property is limited to £50 for any one article or £100 in aggregate, except where, stolen, lost or damaged through the default, neglect or wilful act of the hotel. The hotel shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performing any of its obligations under this agreement if the failure or delay was due to any cause beyond its reasonable control, including (without limitation) war or threat of war, civil or political action or disturbance, riot, natural disaster, fire, epidemic, bad weather, terrorist activity (threatened or actual), military activity, governmental or regulatory action, industrial dispute, act of god, failure of power or machinery, failure of or interruption in externally provided services and utilities, and all similar events outside the hotel’s control. For the avoidance of doubt, the hotel does not exclude its liability for death or personal injury caused by the hotel’s negligence. The hotel is not liable for any loss or damage caused to a guest’s vehicle, unless caused by the hotel’s wilful misconduct. Guests will be liable for any loss, damage or personal injury they may cause at the hotel and the Hotel may claim such sums from Debit or Credit Card details supplied at the time of booking or arrival.
We are a small hotel, so we ask kindly that you respect the other guests that are staying in the hotel.
Please note that if on any occasion you are asked more than once to keep noise levels down, the hotel staff have the right to ask you to leave the premises and £50 will be charged to your card.
For any guests wishing to leave early, the rest of the stay will still be charged as per the cancellation policy and no refund will be offered.
These conditions shall be governed by English law and you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the English courts.


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Minor Footballers Advance In County Championship With Win Over Carrigtwohill.
The Brian Dillons Minor Footballers surmounted the first hurdle in the Rebel Og County Minor (A) Football Championship when they defeated Carrigtwohill, 0-13 to 0-6, at Carrigtwohill,on Wednesday evening ,18th July, 2012.
Although Brian Dillons had seven points to spare at the finish, the final scoreline did not really reflect the correct story of the game. Brian Dillons could and should have won much more comfortably but, for some wayward shooting and were unlucky to strike the woodwork on at least three occasions when the ball seemed destined to finish up in the Carrigtwohill net.
Brian Dillons dominated the proceedings during the opening twenty minutes of the game but,managed to score only four points with Darren McGrath and Michael Peters unlucky to see their goal attempts come back off the crossbar. Encouraged by these let-offs,Carrigtwohill came more into the game in the final ten minutes of the first-half and found themselves only two points behind, 0-4 to 0-2, at the interval.
The opening twelve minutes of the second -half saw Brian Dillons in total control and, with their markmanship much, improved they slotted over six unanswered points to lead by 0-10 to 0-2 before Carrigtwohill got their first score of the half when they put over a pointed free at the end of the third quarter of the game. This score signalled another period of the dominance for the East Cork side and they added another three points ,which left them five points behind as the game entered the ciosing five minutes. However, Brian Dillons finished in style with points from full-forward,Shane Corcoran and a pair from impressive substitute Kieran Delaney which saw their side emerge comfortable winners by a seven point margin.

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 Home▸ Questions Catholics Ask▸ Is it appropriate to speak of “lay ministries”?
Can a layperson be said to “preach”; or should we call what they do—if they do it at all—by some other term?
Believe it or not, this was a matter of heated debate two decades ago. The concern was whether the word “ministry” could be applied to anything done by non-clergy. This same proprietary use of nomenclature affects the realm of preaching and proclamation. Can a layperson be said to “preach”; or should we call what they do—if they do it at all—by some other term?
As a laywoman and catechist of the church, I’m invited to do a lot of things that were once the official domain of priests or religious. Fundamentally I teach; but rarely in a classroom. I give religious instruction as a writer of books, magazine columns, and Scripture commentary. I also make presentations at retreat centers, give diocesan workshops, speak at Catholic conferences, and offer parish missions. It’s when I appear in person that the business gets murky. When I do in person the same things I do in print, what am I doing?
When asked to give a parish mission, for example, it’s expected that the mission leader (traditionally a priest) would preach at the weekend Masses to introduce himself and the themes of the mission to the assembly. When I give missions, some parishes invite me to do this—but are careful to call it something else: a reflection, talk, pious exhortation, or catechetical teaching. I’ve written homiletic reflections that priests use in their preaching for 20 years. But when I deliver these words myself, it isn’t preaching.
Nomenclature first showed its sticky side when I attended the Franciscan School of Theology. Enrolled in the Master of Divinity program, I spent four years surrounded by men studying for the priesthood. They spoke of their context as “being in seminary.” However, when I talked of being in seminary, I learned it was appropriate to say I was in theology school. We sat in the same classrooms, attended the same lectures, and took the same exams. We earned the same degree. But our experience was “ontologically” distinct. That’s a big word meaning the very being or essence of our pursuit was different. In the end, they would be ordained. I would look for work.
It’s in this context that I’m happy to say that, yes, these days, we do have a name for what lay people who work professionally in the church do: lay ecclesial ministry (LEM). It’s a nuanced and delicately controlled term. But it’s a start.


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So long as the GOP stays loyal to President Trump, its prospects on the electoral map will be sharply restricted.
In last week’s election, the bill came due on the defining bet placed by congressional Republicans during the Donald Trump era.
In the election, the consequences of that decision became clear. The general trend in midterm elections is that voters’ decisions, for both the House and the Senate, increasingly correspond with their attitudes about the president. But the 2018 results raised that long-term trajectory to a new peak.
In the midterms of 2006, 2010, and 2014, between 84 and 87 percent of voters who approved of the president’s job performance voted for his party’s candidate in their local House race, according to exit polls. Last week, 88 percent of Trump approvers said they backed Republicans for the House, according to results from the Edison Research exit poll, which was conducted for the National Election Pool and published on the CNN website.
Likewise, in those previous three midterm exit polls, between 82 and 84 percent of voters who disapproved of the president voted against his party’s candidates for the House. But on Tuesday, that number soared: Fully 90 percent of Trump disapprovers said they voted for Democrats for the lower chamber. That was the worst performance for the president’s party among disapproving voters since Ronald Reagan in 1982.
Read: Trump is about to get a rude awakening.
Political strategists in both parties generally consider it easier for senators to establish an independent identity from the president. But attitudes about Trump were a powerful force in those races, too. Exit polls were conducted for 21 Senate contests in which a Republican faced a Democrat. Democrats won at least 90 percent of voters who disapproved of Trump in 15 of those 21 contests, and up to 89 percent in five more. Scandal-tarred New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was the only Democratic candidate to win a smaller share of voters who disapproved of Trump, at 79 percent.
Meanwhile, Republicans carried at least 90 percent of Trump approvers in seven of the 21 Senate races, and between 80 and 89 percent in 13 others. Joe Manchin in West Virginia was the only Democrat to hold his Republican opponent to less than 80 percent of Trump supporters.
The power of these relationships shaped the outcome in both chambers. In total, the tightened connection between votes for Congress and attitudes about Trump was a negative for Republicans because significantly more voters disapproved of him (54 percent) than approved (45 percent) in the national House exit poll.
That support also powered the Republican Senate victories in the preponderantly white and blue-collar heartland states of Indiana, Missouri, and North Dakota. Huge margins among working-class whites also keyed the apparent GOP wins in the Florida and Georgia governor’s races, and in Florida’s close Senate race. The biggest exceptions to this pattern were two folksy Democrats, Manchin in West Virginia and Jon Tester in Montana, and the populist Sherrod Brown in Ohio, who each won in predominantly blue-collar states where a majority of voters said they approved of Trump’s performance.
On the other side of the ledger, almost exactly three-fifths of whites with a four-year-college degree or more disapproved of Trump, as did just over 70 percent of nonwhites. That gale-force rejection powered the sweeping Democratic gains in white-collar and diverse metropolitan House districts across the country. Democrats swept away Republicans clinging to House seats in otherwise blue metropolitan areas in and around New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Northern Virginia, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Denver, Tucson, Seattle, and the northern exurbs of Los Angeles.
The recoil from Trump extended even to many of the metro areas where the GOP had maintained an advantage in recent years. Republicans lost House seats in Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, California’s Orange County, and possibly Salt Lake City. For Republican members in both varieties of suburbs, occasional votes against party positions or tepid and intermittent public quibbles with Trump’s behavior could not mollify voters dismayed by the GOP’s overall subservience to his leadership.
The same dynamics were evident in statewide contests. In Senate and governor’s races, Democrats scored decisive victories in suburban counties that have moved toward them in recent years, from Arapahoe and Jefferson Counties in Colorado; to Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks, and Chester Counties in Pennsylvania; to Oakland County in Michigan; to Hillsborough and Orange Counties in Florida. But as in the House races, the collapse also extended to places that had functioned as the GOP’s last outposts inside metro America.
Trump in 2016 carried only 13 of the nation’s 100 largest counties, according to data compiled for me by the Pew Research Center. But last week, about half of that already modest group shifted toward Democrats in statewide races. Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its surrounding suburbs in Arizona, was the largest county that Trump won. But as of Tuesday night, it provided the Democrat Kyrsten Sinema a decisive margin of about 40,000 votes in her Senate victory over the Republican Martha McSally.
Tarrant County in Texas, which includes Fort Worth, was the second-largest county that Trump carried. But last week, it narrowly backed the Democrat Beto O’Rourke over the Republican Ted Cruz. Among the other large counties that Trump took in 2016, Suffolk (New York), Pinellas and Duval (Florida), Macomb (Michigan), and Oklahoma (in Oklahoma) all broke for Democrats in governor and/or Senate races.
The surge toward Democrats in Harris County was so strong that the party elected a slate of candidates to posts across the government, including 17 African American women to county judgeships and a 27-year-old Latina who had never held public office to the job of the county’s chief executive. Democrats also won a majority on the county commission.
And O’Rourke extended his gains beyond core urban counties to win surrounding suburban areas, including the counties of Fort Bend (near Houston) and Williamson and Hayes (outside Austin). Obama lost all three in 2012 and Hillary Clinton lost the latter two in 2016; she carried Fort Bend only narrowly. Democrats still face an uphill climb in Texas, but by consolidating their advantages in its largest urban centers in the O’Rourke race, they have established a foundation from which to plausibly contest the state for the first time since the early 1990s.
Even with the GOP’s net gain in the Senate, these patterns represent a heavy price to Republicans for the choice congressional leaders made to bind the party to Trump. Paul Ryan, who had been among the most openly skeptical of Trump during the 2016 election, sublimated any private doubts to a posture of public deference and a policy of legislative cooperation. Now Ryan leaves Washington as the architect of the GOP’s biggest loss of House seats in any election since Watergate.
Kevin McCarthy, who House Republicans selected Wednesday to replace Ryan as their leader, pressured his fellow California Republicans to stand with Trump on key votes. As of now, Republicans have already lost four of their California House seats; as the vote counts continue, they are highly likely to lose a fifth (Mimi Walters’s seat in Orange County), and could surrender a sixth (the open Orange County seat vacated by Ed Royce). Even a seventh loss (for Representative David Valadao in the Central Valley) remains possible, though not probable at this point. After following McCarthy’s lead, California Republicans will emerge from the midterm elections holding no more than 10, and possibly as few as seven, of the state’s 53 congressional seats. It appears that no Republican will capture even 40 percent of the vote in any statewide California election either.
These reversals don’t mean Trump can’t win in 2020. Midterm elections have not consistently predicted presidential results two years later. Big midterm losses for the president’s party in 1958, 1966, 1974, 1978, and 2006 did foreshadow a shift in control of the White House in the next presidential contest. But Dwight Eisenhower in 1954, Ronald Reagan in 1982, Bill Clinton in 1994, and Barack Obama in 2010 all recovered from significant losses in their first midterms to win reelection with margins that ranged from comfortable (Clinton and Obama) to overwhelming (Eisenhower and Reagan).
In this election, Democrats demonstrated renewed strength by winning Senate and governor’s races in the three Rust Belt states that keyed Trump’s victory: Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. And they sent a clear message that Republicans in 2020 can’t entirely count on the emerging Sun Belt battlegrounds of Georgia, Arizona, and Texas. North Carolina, where Republicans lead by about 80,000 ballots in the total House popular vote, also remains highly competitive, if leaning slightly toward the GOP.
But Trump is likely to be a much stronger competitor in the big three midwestern states than the Republicans who were on the ballot last week. And while Democrats don’t necessarily need to win Ohio or Florida in 2020, last week’s results offered them more reason for concern than optimism in those states, which have been the past quarter century’s most fiercely contested swing states. Ohio, at least, is unlikely to again draw the huge investment of time and money from Democrats that it has in the past.
Whatever it augurs for Trump’s own chances, though, the 2018 results underscored how he has truncated the opportunities for congressional Republicans. So long as the party is defined by his racially infused nationalism, it will be a strong competitor in states and House districts dominated by older, blue-collar, and evangelical white voters. But at the same time, the party seems guaranteed to struggle in suburban areas. It will also face growing challenges in Sun Belt states from Democrats who can mobilize an urbanized coalition of Millennials, minorities, and college-educated whites. This year, those voters elected to the Senate Sinema in Arizona and Jacky Rosen in Nevada. And they allowed O’Rourke in Texas and Stacey Abrams in the Georgia governor’s race to run more competitively than any Democrat had in those states for decades. That same formula in 2020 could threaten Republican Senate seats in Colorado, North Carolina, Arizona, and possibly Texas.
Over the past two years, Republicans up and down the ballot could have tried to establish an identity divorced from Trump. Instead, led by Ryan and Mitch McConnell, they sent voters an unmistakable signal that they would not act in any meaningful way to restrain, or even to oversee, him. In 2018, voters in turn sent Republicans an equally unmistakable signal: that their fate is now inextricably bound to the volatile president they have embraced as their leader.


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