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Music has bounced off of the walls of the Historic Church of God on Milton St. in Smithville for over 150 years and once again we will hold our annual Hymn Sing. Norma Trotter and guest musicians will bring some of the historic instruments to life once again. We invite you to join us with your wonderful voices to bring the songs from the churches original hymnals to life once again. This day is to renew memories from the past, welcome Spring to our town with these touching and beautiful songs. The Hymn Sing will take place on Sunday, April 14 at 3 P.M. at the church on N. Milton St. Any donations made to the concert will be use to establish matching fund for Grants that we are applying for for much needed repairs to the Church of God and ten other buildings that the Smithville Community Historical Society own and present to the public that tells the history of our area. The Society exist on donations and also the sale of items made by our volunteer crafts people. We ask you to think about making a donation to support our operations.
The Pioneer Village showcases the pioneer lifestyle with buildings and artifacts dating from 1830 to 1890.
Managed by the not-for-profit Smithville Community Historical Society, the Board of Directors provides governance oversight and resource development and marketing and volunteer services to the Pioneer Village.
The Society has been managed entirely by volunteers since its founding incorporation in 1990.
Membership is an easy way to get involved and help preserve 19th century artifacts, including log cabins in Smithville and an example of the Early American Pioneering lifestyle.
Would you like to be married in the Historic Church of God? Download a REQUEST FOR USE OF BUILDING form and WEDDING INFORMATION SHEET at the link below.


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Also available: 50×30 cm/ 19.6×11.8 inch.
Materials: Printed polymer on linen with foil.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Prepartum dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) nutrition is essential for optimizing the health and performance of dairy cows. Balancing prepartum DCAD diets for transition dairy cows is one of the most effective tools for alleviating hypocalcemia. However, formulating prepartum diets to the optimum DCAD level to lower urine pH between 5.5 and 6.0 and optimize calcium metabolism is a delicate equation. Phibro Animal Health Corp., Quincy, Ill., recently brought industry leaders together to present research and best practices for feeding the ideal DCAD diet to prepartum cows. The goal: share knowledge that could lead to breakthroughs in DCAD formulation and dairy nutrition.
Top dairy nutrition experts participated in Phibro's third DCAD Think Tank. The group, which included veterinarians, researchers and animal nutritionists, spent three days sharing findings related to acid-base physiology, calcium, magnesium and vitamin D metabolism and the interrelationships each of these have with hypocalcemia.
"The fact that so many dairy nutrition experts attended, from as far away as Europe, illustrates the significance of DCAD balancing in optimizing dairy cow health and performance," says Jim Chapman, Ph.D., Dipl. ACAN ACAP, director of research and technical services, Phibro. "The DCAD Think Tank is the latest example of Phibro's ongoing commitment to helping bring forth new research and knowledge around prepartum DCAD nutrition and other factors impacting dairy cow health."
- The company continues to expand its portfolio for Animate, an anionic mineral that helps to optimize calcium metabolism. This helps reduce the negative impact hypocalcemia can have on cow health, milk production and fertility.
- Animate has been formulated to be highly palatable, so it can be fed in a fully acidified program without decreasing dry matter intake.
- In 2017, Phibro opened a 63,000-square-foot facility in Quincy, Illinois, that includes a state-of-the-art product development laboratory.
- The Animate web site, www.animate-dairy.com, houses resources that provide detailed tips for managing negative DCAD programs.
"The DCAD Think Tank created a platform for the free and open exchange of research ideas, allowing us to share challenges associated with managing calcium metabolism in dairy cows," says Dr. Bill Weiss, Ph.D., Dipl. ACAN, professor, Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University. "As an academic researcher, I greatly appreciate hearing from those who work out in the field; it sparks ideas for future research projects."

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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We are within walking distance of Historic Gruene and Texas’ oldest dance hall, Gruene Hall and located across the street from Gruene Lake Village; where you will find shopping, dining, and nightlife.
The Gruene River Inn offers our guests gracious panoramic views that are unmatched in the area. At the Gruene River Inn, all of our guest rooms are all furnished with a queen sized bed, cable TV, a large jacuzzi bath, a gas fireplace, and wireless internet access. Every room is also accompanied by a private balcony that overlooks the Guadalupe River with its cypress-lined banks, beautiful rapids, and its exquisite Texas Hill Country views. A delicious buffet-style breakfast is included with your stay. We serve hot beverages, pastries, cereals and fresh breakfast tacos.
Check out our Gift Shop section where you can purchase a Bucket of Beer, the makings for Mimosas or even champagne and strawberries to enjoy while sitting under the stars next to the beautiful Guadalupe River or on your private balcony.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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Brought in to shake up one of the German capital’s iconic theatres, Chris Dercon aimed to expand its remit and embrace a wider range of art forms. Following his abrupt resignation, Annegret Märten examines for The Stage why his agenda proved unpopular with artists and local residents.
Rapid change at the top of Berlin’s prestigious Volksbühne theatre has gripped and puzzled the German nation. Belgian curator Chris Dercon, who only recently took over from long-time artistic director Frank Castorf, has been forced to resign from his post after only seven months, leaving one of Germany’s most influential stages without creative leadership. The list of whom to blame is embarrassingly long.
Between 1992 and 2017, Castorf and his associates had used the publicly funded building to explore experimental forms of politically charged theatre and redefined what was considered permissible on stage. Finding someone capable of grappling with its cult following and iconic legacy was always going to be challenging. Enter Dercon.
Between 2011 and 2016, Dercon headed the Tate Modern in London, significantly increasing visitor numbers for the gallery. The decision to replace Castorf with Dercon was not popular with regular Volksbühne audiences, staff or ensemble personnel – and especially the Berlin public. Yet the quick resignation was a surprise to even his harshest critics. The reasons for the officially mutually agreed departure are deeply embedded in Berlin politics.
Back in 2015, Castorf had hoped to extend his contract but the then culture senator, social democrat Tim Renner, had other plans. Renner, a former music producer and chairman of Universal Music Germany, had long advocated for what has become known as the ‘Kreativpakt’, an agreement between players within politics, economy and the culture sector for the delivery of a substantial overhaul of working conditions within the German creative industries.
As Berlin’s culture senator, Renner’s vision for the city’s creative sector was for it to play a substantial factor in shaping city development. It seems the Volksbühne was part of this ambition. After two and a half years of negotiation to shift the Volksbühne’s structure and financial investment into new spaces, Renner announced Dercon as Castorf’s successor.
Key to the new directorship would be the development of a theatre representing different art forms, moving away from the established spoken-word format, and the development of Tempelhof, a former airfield in the city centre, into a venue with a capacity of 20,000.
What changed between Renner’s vision of reinvigorating Berlin by remoulding the Volksbühne and Dercon’s premature departure? The short answer is a local election. The long answer: an unsightly public witch-hunt against Dercon in the press and public forums, an occupation of the Volksbühne building, the airport venue proving an unaffordable pipe dream and disappointing audience numbers.
Fuelled by politicians in the run-up to the local senate elections, the threat to the theatre’s ensemble structure gave particular cause for anxiety. An open letter from staff, actors and well-known associated artists expressed concern about the long-established repertoire-theatre model. They believed it was threatened by a curated, festival-like event model, inviting more productions from free groups into the house than it produced. In addition, the relentless personal attacks on Dercon in the German press looked absurdly out of place in a climate of usually temperate cultural discourse.
Dercon and his programme director Marietta Piekenbrock never managed to communicate the merit of their vision for the stage as a laboratory for new formats, in which different art forms could meet and enrich one another. Before Dercon could start working on his first season, attempts to engage with existing audiences were blocked from various sides.
A sustained effort to win over long-term Castorf associate René Pollesch ultimately failed. Pollesch declined invitations for fear of having his artistic freedom stifled under a more controlling artistic leadership. Then an artist-led intervention calling itself Dust to Glitter occupied the Volksbühne just as Dercon and his team were officially due to move in. The protesters were eventually removed by the police.
When the season finally commenced and audience numbers were consistently low, post-election culture senator Klaus Lederer, of socialist party Die Linke, was quick to dispense with Dercon. With Dercon’s departure, the opportunity was lost to overturn some of the patriarchal production structures that had moved into the Volksbühne with Castorf in the 1990s and remain prevalent nationwide.
Dercon’s programme envisioned the theatre as a democratic meeting space, reflecting the changing population of the city, but this was not a change demanded by the population itself. It was thrust upon them through political intervention and resented.
The outgoing artist director, who will still be paid until the end of the season, was not available for comment. However, at the end of April, Dercon gave his view of proceedings at a public event to discuss the systemic crises in European theatre at London’s Goethe-Institut, an organisation that champions German culture abroad.
This wholehearted commitment to his Volksbühne vision makes dealing with the issue particularly delicate.
At the event, Dercon shrewdly analysed the ideological function of the Volksbühne as a projection surface for an idea of Berlin that many currently see threatened.
It is unclear who Dercon means by “we”, as he had himself recently moved to Berlin. But his brand of future-facing optimism was not shared by the locals in a city that visibly wears and sometimes consciously picks at the scars of its turbulent history.
The overheated debates seem to relate directly to the cognitive dissonances in Dercon’s argument about communities. He seems at once aware of theatre’s importance for social cohesion while simultaneously disregarding the existing community structures that the Volksbühne space had fostered. A further problem is his contention that theatre work should support transformative progress within a redeveloping city rather than continue to examine those forces that hope to keep the city’s gentrification at bay.
The Volksbühne was caught in the perfect storm of inconsistent political financial planning, a failure to communicate the new programme and perhaps the nostalgic refusal to accept the reality of modern Berlin. These events demonstrate that cultural spaces have a duty to join the conversation about how society is being transformed. In particular, theatre needs to engage with the question of how it shapes a city. In the UK, when new theatres pop up or when spaces are refurbished, the gentrifying impact of these changes requires critical reflection.
Dercon’s failure in Berlin is likely to discourage those in German theatre who hope to break up old structures that many see as hopelessly hierarchical and financially difficult to sustain. One such reformer, Matthias Lilienthal, is leaving his post at Munich’s Kammerspiele in 2020, after only five years. Already, several names for Dercon’s successor are being floated and the protestors who occupied the building are organising a demonstration during the city’s big theatre festival, Theatertreffen. The debate around the future of the Volksbühne is far from over.
1. Throughout the years, key German theatre makers such as Max Reinhardt, Benno Besson, Heiner Muller and Christoph Schlingensief worked at the Volksbuhne.
2. When founded in 1914, the theatre was designed to provide theatre for the working-class masses. The initial slogan above its door was ‘Kunst dem Volke’, meaning ‘art for the people’.
3. In the 1920s, during the Weimar Republic, director Erwin Piscator established the Volksbuhne as a hotbed for experimental practice.
4. During the Second World War, the theatre was heavily damaged in the bombing of Berlin.
5. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and during the protests of 1989, the Volksbühne was an important space in which dissidents, artists and student protesters came together.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Our bingo card maker software, Bingo Card Printer, includes hundreds of ready-to-use bingo activities and bingo games, including a ready to use set of Subtraction Medium bingo cards.
Select Subtraction (Medium) by clicking it with the mouse (you may need to scroll through the list), then click OK (or simply double click on Subtraction (Medium)).
If you would like to see a bingo game produced using this template, containing 8 bingo cards and a call sheet, please download subtraction-medium-bingo-cards.zip. The ZIP archive also contains the BCP settings file which you can open in Bingo Card Printer to customize the project, as well as a README.TXT containing the License grant and other information.
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industry_corpus2: Gaming


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Will A Business Coach Help You With Your Personal Stuff Too?
The short answer is yes, this Business Coach will. Why? Because you are a human being too and you come with all sorts of stuff attached; a wife, a husband or a partner (sometimes more than one of each!), children, parents, obligations, duties, responsibilities, pets, health challenges, pets and/or partners with health challenges, and so on. All human beings do and in my opinion it is not ideal to even attempt to separate the human part of you from the business part.
Our job together is a find a way to address issues arising and clear out what we can so that you may be happy and fulfilled in both halves of your life. Yin and yang. Without one there will be no healthy other. All work and no play makes Jill a very dull solopreneur.
This thought came up again today. Monday is our busy day in my Club 100 as clients are required to submit a short report picking two stretchy things they will do over and above their normal workload, the two things which will make all the difference to growing their business. And next week you come back and report how you got on. “Dones” are celebrated and shared since the success of one rubs off on another. “Not dones” and “half dones” are explored.
What got in the way? It can be family, or relationships or illness or a combination. Or it can be that you are not prepared to get out of your comfort zone or you just don’t want the things you thought you wanted. All bear examination as, again, it is clearing. Clearing you for take-off in your great little business.
How do I do that? I’m an observer of human behaviour, more so – often – than a participant particularly when it comes to romantic relationships, resolutely and happily single as I am. And whilst not wanting to participate in what most people want, I watch how they do it and I observe patterns of successful behaviour in marriages and relationships, what works and what doesn’t. And I can share that. I am completely without judgement and, of course, I’ve been round the block a bit too and this makes me A Wise Old Bird.
Wait until you trust me enough and we’ll deal with those issues especially if they threaten your business and vice versa. Bring your personal stuff by all means and let’s sort your private life out while you are creating a business to love.
When I first coached in the early days I did hope that people would not want me to coach them about relationships, but personal coaching in this area – romance – is far easier than you could possibly imagine. It requires you (the client) to do only two things to get a new life partner. (1) Get attractive and (2) get out of the house. Honestly, it really is that easy, and I have the client wedding photographs to prove that; just call me Cilla Black. Once you have your new partner, well… that’s when your problems begin.
But all this personal stuff isn’t about relationships per se, it’s about how you feel about them and precisely how you let your feelings (particularly women) get in the way of your productivity when working for yourself, often at home alone. You can lose vast tracts of time if you are upset or angry with no tools for getting rid of your unhelpful emotions.
I have those tools, so bring your whole self to coaching – or not – it’s entirely your choice, but I am fearless when it comes to your feelings.
I have the same opinion as the previous comment. A coach can help you to improve your personal skills and business skills. they have the wide experience in this field. thanks for sharing this information.
When the opportunity arose to introduce this humour at the right time, I used to tell my clients there was a very thin dividing line between Financial Planning and Family Planning. Your position as a very trusted and trustworthy person will mean that clients become friends and friends talk about feelings. And, as you say, you have the wedding photos to prove it.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


text: Ballyclare are one of the UK’s top workwear and protective clothing suppliers. But how best to put their latest Xenon fire fighter kit through its paces? Outpost approached us with their proposition – an intense CrossFit session with athlete and former fire fighter Sam Briggs.


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This event is part of a joint effort on the part of ERA and the European National Safety Authorities to publicise the changes to the European Railways Safety Regulatory structure which will take place when the 4th Railway Package is introduced in member states in the next two years.
In this workshop ERA is delivering presentations on the changes to the 4th Railway Package (4th RP) Changes, SSC and VA processes, ERTMS, the OSS, Route Compatibility and Human and Organisational Factors.
Other presentations will be given by will be given by representatives of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of Hellenic Republic, Railway Administration Executive Agency of Bulgaria.

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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Today was my last day at work. I'm feeling very grateful to have had the opportunity to work for FNF / Lawyers Title. To my surprise, they actually asked me to return to work when I come back. Wow, it feels really good to be appreciated. All week people came by to say goodbye and wish me well. Many people gave me gifts and cards. Most of the gifts were travel related, and so thoughtful. Robert Marcos had lunch delivered for our team, and made the whole day feel like a celebration. I was actually blown away, and so sad to say goodbye!
When I first told people about the trip most people asked if I was scared, or what my family thought of the idea. I'm not scared, and my parents thought the idea was great. My brother was a little worried and jokingly asked me to stay in touch daily. I'm not sure why I was surprised that people were so supportive and excited for me.
My Dad also emailed me today. He said the hardest part of a big trip is getting off the dock (he's a sailor), and he is so right.
Now I have to move out of my place, so much to do, so little time!
Newer PostFinally on our way!

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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During the past month, political pundits have not been the only people disagreeing vociferously about how the United States should respond to Bashir Al Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons. International non-governmental organizations — often referred to more simply as INGOs — have also been divided.
As several commenters have noted, human rights and humanitarian INGOs have diverged considerably on the question of what an appropriate international response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria would look like. Some INGOs made public statements denouncing military action in Syria. Others refrained from taking a position or even encouraged the use of force. INGOs have also adopted diverse positions in the broader, and still ongoing, debate about how the international community should address Syria’s pressing humanitarian crisis.
Such disagreements sound familiar to me since I recently read Sarah Stroup’s fascinating new book on INGOs Borders Among Activists: International NGOs in the United States, Britain and France. In the book, Stroup, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, pushes back against the conventional notion that INGOs are forging a sort of “global civil society.” Instead, she notices significant variations in the practices of human rights and humanitarian INGOs. After the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, for example, she describes how American INGOs such as CARE and Human Rights Watch worked with the United States government on aid delivery and post-war reconstruction, whereas European INGOs such as Amnesty International and Médecins Sans Frontières adopted relatively confrontational stances towards the U.S.-led war effort.
Drawing on evidence about the activities of human rights and humanitarian INGOs in many cases beyond just Iraq, Stroup argues that organizations vary significantly in their practices, strategies, and public policy stances because of their different national origins. Although all manner of INGOs end up working overseas in the very same locations, they work differently when they get there because they started off in quite different places. American INGOs are “cooperative professionals,” for example, in contrast to the “establishment radicals” at British INGOs and the “principled protesters” of their French counterparts. Stroup emphasizes several sources of those national differences, including different regulatory environments, social networks, and resources.
Citizens often turn to the statements of prominent INGOs when they are seeking to form their opinions about controversial foreign policy issues. That is especially the case on matters of human rights and humanitarian action, issues on which INGOs are particularly active and, perhaps, credible. Some people looked at INGOs’ various statements on chemical weapons in Syria and saw “a display of irrelevance.” Others may have simply been confused. What is worth appreciating when trying to decode the mixed signals that INGOs are sending is that these organizations — despite their universal-sounding names and missions — hail from different countries and therefore have quite different approaches. In other words, when it comes to transnational organizations’ behaviors, where you stand depends on where you — or, at least, your headquarters — sit.
INGOs’ disagreements about how to respond to the civil war in Syria seem to reflect broader differences within what is sometimes called the “international community.” INGOs such as Save the Children are trying to push world leaders at the United Nations this week for more humanitarian access in Syria. Forging agreement within the international community on what to do in Syria will likely require that moral entrepreneurs recognize and understand what divides them — including various factors related to their national origins.
‘… American INGOs such as CARE and Human Rights Watch worked with the United States government on aid delivery and post-war reconstruction, whereas European INGOs such as Amnesty International and Médecins Sans Frontières adopted relatively confrontational stances towards the U.S.-led war effort. ….
This would seem to indicate that the American INGOs had somehow been colonized by the U.S. government or ruling class, since there was a lot of antipathy for Bush’s military adventures among the American people in general, which, one would think, would have shown up in some organizations of Americans. I wonder if Stroup goes into this subject (which might not be easy to uncover), or merely observes the surface phenomena. Not that the latter is not valuable, for it at least points directly to the former.
Or, in my opinion far more likely, it was that they decided their priority should be on delivering essentials and providing medical attention rather than opposing the military that might impact their ability to do that.
Many Americans were at best (for Bush) uncertain about Iraq and at worst (for Bush) openly against it. I’m pretty sure most of them would still try to focus on aid work in such a situation.
Yeah, I can’t see this as a co-option of American INGOs by government elites, at least beyond the popular-in-2002 idea that removing Saddam Hussein was a just and readily achievable mission. If INGOs wanted to operate within Iraq having a productive relationship with the governing authority (read: US military) was vital.
I am no expert on the matter, but I believe that Médecins Sans Frontières never meaningfully operated in post-invasion Iraq citing danger, a decision that likely had something to do with the group’s perception of the invasion overall.
I was trying to account for the stated difference in behavior between the American and the European organizations.
I have no inside information about any of the organizations mentioned, but a certain amount of backchannel influence and even infiltration hardly seem beyond the realms of possibility.
Also – if you’re interested – the best insider debate on Iraq is between Nicholas de Torrente (MSF USA) and Paul O’Brien (then CARE USA) in the 2004 volume of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. O’Brien makes exactly the argument that Grant and Taylor are making – taking aid from belligerent governments, and cooperating with authorities on the ground, helps relief agencies save more lives.

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Moral of Aesops Fable: "Words may be deeds."
A Trumpeter during a battle ventured too near the enemy and was captured by them.
"I do not fight," said he, "and indeed carry no weapon; I only blow this trumpet, and surely that cannot harm you; then why should you kill me?"
"You may not fight yourself," said the others, "but you encourage and guide your men to the fight."
"The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner" and "The Sick Lion"

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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Green peas should be fresh, young pods, light-green in color, slightly velvety to the touch and well filled with well-developed peas. Pods with immature peas are usually flat, dark green, wilted; over mature pods are swollen, light, wrinkled, and yellowish flecked with gray.
Conventional peas are sprayed for diseases and pests. Organic crops may be washed to remove aphids and mildew aphids, amend the soil with diatomaceous earth to kill off symphylans, and use simple solutions such as baking soda to discourage mildews.
Refrigerate pods and use within 2 days.
Blanch: Water blanch 1 1/2 minutes for small pods; 2 minutes for large pods. Cool, drain and package, leaving 1/2-inch headspace.
Preparation: Select pods when seeds are tender and well-filled. Wash pods. Shell and discard over-mature and immature seeds and those injured by insects. Wash shelled peas.
Blanch: Water blanch 2 minutes. Cool promptly, drain and package, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Seal and freeze.
Also called sugar or Chinese peas. Should be harvested when peas are just barely visible in the pods. To freeze, water blanch in boiling water for 2 minutes.
Should be picked when the pods are round and fully mature, 2 to 3 inches long. To freeze, water blanch in boiling water for 2 to 3 minutes. Cool, drain, package, seal and freeze.
As a guideline, canned peas have a shelf-life of about 2-½ to 3 years from the date of production. This assumes the can isn’t dented or damaged, and the product is stored under normal conditions. After that time, the color, flavor and texture of the food may begin to deteriorate, although the contents would still be safe.


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Select the style, aesthetic feature and the colour and our guide will help you to choose the products best suited to your tastes.
Three styles, three ways of looking at life. Sail through a sea of sensations with our excellent brands.
Hydraulics are in fashion, on both paving and on coating. The Epoque Pearl 60x60 porcelain is a monochrome hydrau-lic, with 5 different pieces. Combining with the Boat pearl 60x60 results in decorated spaces that follow vintage trends recovered by modern architecture.


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Oana Năstase | Fundația C.A.E.S.A.R.
Oana Nastase is currently managing director for Finactiv Communication and for Bucharest Running Club Association (BRCA) as well as consultant for World Bank.
In the last 4 years she had been an entrepreneur and NGO leader; starting with 2015 she became an expert and consultant in communication and corporate affairs for World Bank – Romania office.
Since 2013 she is a mentor within Professional Women Network Association for career and life. Her mentees are middle management career women who are in the moment of challenging their current career and personal life status.
Since 2008, together with Valeria van Groningen, president of BRCA, she has set the basis of mass sports activities with focus on mass street running events; the aim of these endeavors is to develop a healthy life style for urban citizens, civic spirit, community involvement. Currently over 25.000 people from 60 countries are running per year within BRCA events and training programs, over 3.000 sport tourists are coming to Romania, visiting the capital for such events, over 100.000 euro are raised for charity, ecology or humanitarian programs – there are 15 associated and partner NGOs who benefit these mass sport events. 10 sports champions become ambassadors for mass sports and for educational programs – since 4 years, twice per year there were unrolled leadership and motivational programs in Bucharest schools. In 2012 it was established the first volunteering in sports platform in Romania and currently over 1000 volunteers per year are trained and involved in projects and programs.
Bucharest became since 2008 one of the world capitals which is hosting an international marathon. In 2016 there will be 9th edition of Bucharest Marathon, the 5th edition of Bucharest Half Marathon – both members of AIMS and IAAF and applicant for bronze label category worldwide.
Volunteering project of the year, offered within National Volunteers Gala; voluntarinsport.ro by Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Marathon, organized by BRCA, in 2014.

industry_corpus2: Sports


text: This is an important bug fix release. It corrects the problem of excess CPU% usage on many h/w platforms. You can download this version at http://www.w1hkj.com fldigi-4.1.03.tar.gz fldigi-4.1.03_i386.

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Now the mobile Sportozoid application for Windows Phone 7 Mango phones is available.
Please download it, comment and share Your opinions. It's the first version of the application and the next versions are planned.
The map is located in the middle part of the screen - if the location services are active the actual location is presented.
In the bottom part of the screen the "Start" and "Settings" buttons are located..
The icon presents the choosen activity type.
If the icon is active it means that there is data to transmit.
One can choose the language version, login or create the account in the service.
The synchronized and to be synchronized number of the tracks is presented (synchronization starts immediately after the application start if the data connection is available).
At the screen we can choose activity type, setup the visibility, give a short description.
Please download and use !


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industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Remarketing is the repetition tool of PPC and it comes with lots of controls for your strategies and tactics. Visit Amazon and look at cameras and as we all know you will see ads for cameras for days – this is remarketing implemented. If you overdo this you will alienate your prospects but done just right it can create traffic worth talking about.
In February 2012 we published our first article on Remarketing. It remains a good introduction today because the basic building blocks have not changed. Here we will extend that base with the strategies and tactics that have evolved since those early days.
Marketing’s goal is to establish a conversation with a prospect and then manage the conversation for the life of the relationship. The conversation goal is to help them understand the value that your business brings to them. The marketing ecosystem is simply the conversation plan. This conversation consists of many steps with twenty or more individual messaging segments being common. If you think your business goes from hello to a closed sale you do not yet understand the challenge that you face. Driven by the customer’s wants each conversation can be unique although they often share many of the segments.
A “Hello” service is a process that starts a conversation and remarketing uses that to continue the conversation. Remarketing should be thought of in the context of the marketing ecosystem and the purpose of the ecosystem is to start and maintain a conversation with your market. Remarketing does not start a conversation its role is to continue the conversation. Remarketing has to be primed by another traffic source Like any ecosystem discussion you have to look at what feeds this stage and what this stage feeds. Inbound sources to the remarketing commonly include organic traffic, paid search, social media, display.
Remarketing starts with audience building and it’s one of the great strategy debates. The issue is one of balance because you want your audiences to be as big as necessary but no bigger than that. Take this blog article as an example. The purpose of the article is to help you understand an area that we market our expertise in. By sharing our knowledge you get a value and we get permission to have a conversation with you. This is a classic win/win. We have had clients that want to withhold their knowledge from the market because they feared that if they talked about what they do prospects will just do it themselves. In some cases, this is true however those customers are inclined to DIY the service is going to never do business anyway so no real loss.
Remarketing works because your audience has expressed, through their behavior, a commonality with your message. It’s great traffic but often lacks volume. There is a strategy that can improve this. One data element you get back from a remarketing campaign is the placement sites your ad appeared on. Use this to drive a Display Network campaign to pick up the other traffic on that site. If you subscribe to the “Birds of a Feather Flock Together” logic then the others on this site are likely to be just like your remarketing audience. Design into this process a low threshold conversion such as a time on site goal and you can perfect your prospecting with a much larger audience.
Placements extended into the high volume Display Network.
Measure with engagement goal of time on site conversions.
Item 2 in the list above requires the application of some common sense. What you get in automated placements are suspect sites for specific targeting. A quick visit to the site will give you a good idea of the fit of the content to your message. This is a lot of labor but after the first few months, the volume of new sites will drop.
Audiences come in two flavors – wait for it – positive and negative. In Google-speak Positives are called Audiences and Negatives are called an Exclusions. This makes for a very powerful tool when applied to a campaign. One use case for this is a promotion of new material on our website where we want to put this back in front of prior visitors to our site. Once they come back to read the new content we want to stop bothering them so we use a negative audience aka Exclusion to stop the ad delivery.
By setting it up like this you can create any group you want by using positive and negative audiences. If you want just 90-120 days the formula is D-C, want 30-60 days simple B-A. You can do all sorts of creative things with this by designing drip campaigns that flow through this logic.
We like remarketing because it works by building brand recognition with frequency but that is also a risk. Left running at full speed a remarketing campaign can alienate your audience. Use proper cyber-manners and be present but not a pest. The default on this today is 3 impressions per day per ad group but it can be even less than that and still work.
Remarketing often plays a role in brand building and the value there is created by impressions, not clicks. Sometimes you want a weak call to action to increase the impressions and lower the CTR and its relative the spend rate. If you go too far with this Google will not serve up your ad and you will lose market share. A strong call to action will burn up your budget and reduce your impressions. This is a classic balance challenge or what I call a string problem. Pulling on one problem moves to the other end.
https://smsrddev.wpengine.com/remarketing/ – Original Article published Feb 2012.
https://smsrddev.wpengine.com/my-goal-is-to-fail-less/ – Article on the 20 Steps of a Sale.


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Placed in front of a popular cafeteria, the specially designed wooden table allows people to enjoy a coffee without getting off their bikes. Anyone who checks in at the drive-in on Foursquare or Facebook gets a free cup of coffee from the barista. The drive-in concept saves the cyclist from the fuzz of searching for a parking lot, chaining the bike and overall worrying whether the bicycle will be still there after a coffee break (a true, everyday Dutch story).
The so-called Velokafi is part of Zürich’s strategy for transportation infrastructure improvement by the year 2025. The policy-makers aim to reduce the car traffic flow while enhancing pedestrian and cycling alternatives by improving the relevant infrastructure and by launching temporary and catchy interventions, like the Velokafi.
Yesterday I came across a nice project by Jihyun David while strolling around the center of Amsterdam. David transformed the so-called Amsterdammertjes, the famous and ubiquitous posts in the streets of Amsterdam, into a rather comfortable ‘bar’ stool.
Doing research for the upcoming Pop-Up City book, we came across a great ‘Pop-Up City avant la lettre’ project by Jean-Louis Chanéac (1931-1993). In 1971, the French architect installed a parasite bedroom on the façade of a regular modernist residential apartment block in Geneva, Switzerland. Chanéac’s ‘parasitic sucking cells’ are mobile, evolutionary and a complete contrast to the host building’s architectural style in every sense possible.
Is quietness becoming a luxury in urban areas? The Hush City app maps quiet places in cities to help people unwind.

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Thanks to Sandra for hosting!
Snuggling down in my favorite chair with a peppermint mocha and a good book.
Two books that I'll be reviewing here soon.
Didn't try anything new last week.
Nothing, but it's time to start getting creative again.
Winter break! Two more weeks of school and work, then two glorious weeks off!
I am tapped out on tips.
I can't seriously pick just one!
Prayer really is the answer.
2 Peter 1:2-3 May God bless you with his special favor and wonderful peace as you come to know Jesus, our God and Lord, better and better. As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness!
mmmmmmmmm peppermint mocha, spare a cup?
thanks for praying for our military, we really appreciate it!


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The Department of Science is an integral and important part of Baba Farid College, Bathinda. For the fullfillment of its teaching, the Department has competent faculty members with the high degree of excellence, which keeps pace with current developments in the field of specialization.
For the overall development of students, the Department has outstanding infrastructure facilities, including well-equipped classrooms and fully furnished Physics & Chemistry labs for providing practical exposure to the students.
Mr. H.L Jasuja is Dean of Science Department and Mr.Harsimran Singh, Mr.Narinder Kumar Singla and Ms. Sukhpinder Kaur are working as co-ordinators of Classes B.Sc-I, B.Sc-II, B.Sc-III respectively. Under their guidance all faculty members are fully dedicated to their work.
The Department organizes a number of activities for the overall development of students like Extension lectures, Quiz contests, Conferences, Educational visits ,Group discussions etc. Projects are given to students in every subject in every semester to create scientific reasoning among students. Special teaching methodologies are also used to make teaching more effective and interesting for students.


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I am a parent, maybe like you, cherishing the moments that my kids are still young and obsessing over making the right decisions for them while I still have some say. Our plan is for them to become young adults who succeed at everything- math, language, science, arts, social skills, teamwork, emotional handling, self-esteem, discipline, drive, and on and on. How do we help make all that happen? Dare I say… music lessons!
I know from the hundreds of students I’ve watched grow and through my own personal experiences that studying music can dramatically affect the path a person chooses in all parts of life. A child taking music lessons develops self-discipline and drive with a practice regimen and short and long-term goals. Adding private lessons on top of school lessons turns your child’s favorite class into the place where they are the star student, encouraging confidence that spreads into everything they do. Hard work turns into acceptance in state and regional ensembles – an ideal way to spend after-school time. Plus, when my kids reach the age when their friends have a bigger influence than I do, I will be grateful that they are in the company of other music kids, stereotyped to have all the qualities I listed above. College acceptances and scholarships soon follow. A whopping 66% of music majors who apply to medical school are admitted – the highest percentage of any group – surpassing even pre-med and science. Musical kids frequently amaze us.
Thank you for being the parent in the audience tonight. You already know all of the invaluable benefits of music. You are raising doctors, writers, scholars, composers, performers, and presidents, for which we music professionals are grateful to take a meaningful part in.
Taken from Olive Tree Music Studio’s advertisement in the New Sussex Synphony’s program.
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The Head of Federal Road Safety Corps Housing Cooperative, Ebenezer Adebisi, has said that the GrandLuvu Project is part of the organisation’s strategic objective for 2018.
This, he disclosed while receiving the duo of Reall’s Director of Investments & Treasury, Patrick Domingos-Tembwa and Quantity Surveyor, Amos Mthembo, alongside the CEO of the Millard Fuller Foundation, Sam Odia and other staff members.
The meeting which took place at the FRSC Housing Cooperative office also had in attendance some staff of the FRSC.
Fielding questions from the FRSC staff present, Odia restated Fuller’s commitment to ensuring that everyone lives in a safe and secure environment.


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Equal rights. The right to vote. The right to dress as we choose, stylish or not. The right to participate in whatever career we choose. Education. Higher education. Managing our own finances. Our own choices.
Absolutely independent if we want to be. We love it.
– lost our right to manage our own lives or voice our own opinions? Husbands, fathers, brothers, or other near or distant relations were the decision makers with no input from us. Financial decisions, housing decisions, schooling decisions.
-were not considered intelligent enough or too delicate for politics, or to vote?
-were a pawn to create an advantageous alliance and were not allowed to choose our own spouse?
-were required to be silent, opinionless arm candy? The only opinions allowed to be voiced are those of our husbands/fathers.
-were not allowed to purchase property on our own, or it reverted to a male relative if our spouse passed away?
-had no right to opinions or decisions about our own healthcare?
This was the reality for our grandmothers, our great grandmothers and their mothers and grandmothers.
Until the 20th century (give or take) history paints a grim and difficult life for women. This was acceptable to many because they didn’t know any other way. The common opinion was that women did not know how to care for themselves or what was good for them, therefore the men in their generations made all decisions for them.
Why wouldn’t we just love it that way? We would be safe and cared for, knowing that someone else is making decisions in your best interest, providing for you and your children financially. In case you missed it, that was sarcasm. Historically, we know that while it worked for some lucky ones, many were oppressed by this system, whether they realized it or not.
I’m a person who pays my own way, and I work hard to do it. I make my own decisions, and even the thought of having no choices or being required to have another person oversee my life and make decisions for me with no right to an opinion is infuriating.
You know those cartoons with a snorting, angry bull with red vision, pawing the dirt, ready to charge? That’s me and a lot of others, men and women, protecting my rights.
We have rights, lots of them. The right to vote for who we want, for whatever position they want. The right to dress as we choose. The right to participate in whatever career we want, or a career we hate for whatever amount we want. College educations. Managing our own finances. Our own healthcare decisions, living life by our own choices.
Absolutely independent if we want to be. The land of the free, we love it.
-did not have our rights to manage our own lives? Our state and government officials were the decision makers. Financial decisions, housing decisions, schooling decisions, healthcare decisions.
-were not considered intelligent enough to make our own opinions about politicians?
-were used as pawns to create an advantageous alliances and were not allowed to say “no” to other country’s demands for fear of offending them?
-were required to be silent and opinion-less? What if the only opinions allowed to be voiced are the major news broadcasters.
-were not allowed to own property, or someone was able to take it away from us?
– were considered unable to care for ourselves or to decide what was good for us or our families?
Why wouldn’t we just love it that way, all safe and cared for, knowing that someone else is making decisions in your best interest, and providing for you and your children financially? Again, note the sarcasm.
Tell me, if this type of control isn’t acceptable for men to impose on women, why would it be acceptable for a government to impose that level of control over its citizens? Why would we knowingly elect officials who support these ideals?
You know those cartoons with a snorting, angry bull with red vision, pawing the dirt, ready to charge? That’s should be you and a lot of others, men and women, protecting our rights.


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Every girl has been heartbroken before. Sad, but true. But that doesn't mean that every girl cant pick themselves up and show the world who they really are.
Make up is directly proportional to insecurity. The more insecure you are, the more make up you have on.
I'm the girl who will put her head on your shoulder, not because she's sleepy, but because she wants to be closer to you.
No. girls don't just want to have fun. We can laugh we can cry, we can come undone. We're so much more than a magazine can't you see? It's a fight with society.
Sometimes a girl has to be like the snow, beautiful, but cold.
Being a girl has many more advantages than drawbacks. A girl is a bundle of surprises, joy, happiness, charm, liveliness and all the good adjectives found in the dictionary. It is the proudest moment for a mother when she gives birth to a girl baby but the baby does not remain a child for ever. “She is a child and then, one morning you wake up, she is a woman and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none” said, Louis L’amour.
Little girls are just angels who haven’t yet spread their wings. There is no end to the fun, frolic, bubbly enthusiasm, love and eagerness expressed by a girl. Man has great love for his wife, certain ambitions for his son but for a daughter, there are no words to describe the emotions and feelings. There are hundreds of quotes on being a girl some of which are the personal experiences and some are the feelings expressed by their dear ones. Send them to your friends and share the feel of being a girl.


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The decision was made to change the rules of entry to NZ in February. Photo credit: Getty Images/Newshub.
Travellers to New Zealand will required to pay an international visitor levy and require an Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) from October.
The new ETA visa, similar to the eVisa required to visit the United States, will be required for all visitors from the 60 countries that Aotearoa offers visa waiver entry to.
An ETA will last up to two years and cost NZ$9 for mobile application requests and NZ$12 for web browser requests.
The new International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy also comes into effect in October and will cost NZ$35 and last for the same length of time as the ETA.
Despite similarities, the NZ ETA won't have the long waiting period or high fees that can be associated with some international visas.
Travellers will be required to pay the new levy in conjunction with the new ETA requirement. The levy will be valid for the duration of the traveller's ETA.
Both the ETA and conservation and tourism levy will also be required for those arriving in New Zealand on a cruise ship.


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Cheryl Cole is coming back to the X Factor 2014!
X Faxtor is having a huge switch around with the judges this year. It looks like none of the judges from 2013 will be on the show.
Simon Cowell’s said he’s back and now it’s just been announced that Cheryl Cole will be a judge too!
Cheryl used to be a judge on the show and was one of the reasons Cher Lloyd was discovered and became such a massive star. So she could find some great singers this year.
We’re already excited about X Factor now and Britain’s Got Talent hasn’t even started yet.
Who do you think should judge X Factor alongside Cheryl and Simon? Let us know in the comment box below.


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Prospecting for new customers is a critical part of growing your business, especially when you’re just starting out. For some, that involves putting an ad in the local business directory. For others, it’s sending an email asking people to sign up for your newsletter. But another great way to feed your prospecting pipeline is to offer webinars. Learn why and get some tips on how to create a webinar for your small business.
Think about the last time you heard a good speaker. You were likely left with a sense that this person is an expert on the subject. You developed a sense of trust and would look to that individual for advice. That’s the power that small business owners can harness by offering webinars. Webinars establish you as an authority and when it comes time to purchase, increases the likelihood that prospects will consider you.
In addition to establishing trust, webinars also help you grow your prospecting list. When people sign up for one, they typically supply their contact information. That’s data you can feed into your other marketing efforts.
Need more convincing? One webinar hosting service reported a 35 percent increase in online events for 2016. And they got results. The conversion rate from registration to attendance was 49 percent. Clearly, webinars can deliver interested prospects to your online doorstep.
Think you might want to give webinars a try? Start by focusing on these areas.
Establish your objective – Before jumping in, decide what you want your prospect to do after attending your event. Do you want them to learn more about a product/service? Get to know your brand? Solve a problem they may have? Sign up for your mailing list? Buy your product? Answers to these questions will help determine your approach and how you’ll measure success.
Choose the right topic – Think about what’s in it for the prospect when choosing a topic. What problem can you help them solve? Look to your social media channels to see what people in your target market are talking about. Then present a solution to one of their pain points. This customer-focused approach will help you avoid sounding like a commercial.
Develop an interactive presentation – It’s difficult to hold the attention of an audience when all you do is lecture. So look for ways to involve them in the presentation. One way to do that is stop and pose a question or take a poll. For example, a webinar on organizing your tax records might ask, “How long do you keep old returns?” Questions like that help break up your presentation. They also give you feedback to see if you’re resonating with your audience.
Select your hosting platform – Webinars can be structured using a number of tools, including presentation slides, videos, documents, and internet pages. But you’ll need a hosting service like GoToMeeting, ClickMeeting, or Google Hangouts to connect the audience with your presentation. Most offer a range of options including automated invitation emails, interactive features to communicate with your audience during the webinar, recordings of the session for later use, and metrics. The cost will vary based on the number of people attending. Take a look at this review of the hosting options available.
Craft your sign-up page – Pay attention to the information you ask for in your sign-up. Some sign-ups gather more than just contact information. They might ask information like size of household, educational level, or income bracket. This helps you qualify which prospects are likely to be most interested in your offering. Be selective about what you ask as it may affect response rates. Consider making these fields optional.
Promote the event – Email can be used to invite people to your event. Plan to send a confirmation to people who sign up and reminders to non-responders. Social media platforms like Facebook also allow you to post upcoming events. When people respond, it shows up on their feed where their contacts see it too. That can attract new prospects to your event. Search-engine ads can also help spread the word to new audiences.
Follow-up after the event – Webinars help to grow your prospecting list even after the event is over. Feed prospecting information gathered from attendees into your database. Then you can offer other marketing programs. For example, invite them to sign up for your newsletter or ask them to “Like” your Facebook page. Offer the recorded session as part of your ongoing lead generation efforts. Or repurpose the webinar by turning it into a blog post or white paper.


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A Quiet Place is hands down, the best post-apocalyptic horror flick I’ve watched in recent memory!
I loved the tension; I loved the characters; I loved the very unique narrative; I loved the scary monsters; and I absolutely loved the didn’t-see-that-coming ending.
Horror flicks are no longer scary to me, as almost all have taken to the lazy in-your-face and overt attempts to startle or submerge you in buckets of disturbing gore: that’s provocation, not horror. Gone are the scenes dripping with edge-of-your-seat tension, deftly building up to an earth-shattering crescendo, that hits you with that don’t-know-what’s-coming-next climax at the very end.
I’ve missed those very rare films with the I-can’t-look finale, so that when it’s over your mouth is hanging open as wide as the Grand Canyon, or you’re roaring like your team just won the fricking world championship. Most of these elements have been painfully absent from horror movies in recent years.
A Quiet Place, staring Emilie Blunt and real-life husband (and the director) John Krasinski, masterfully delivers on all of these elements, and so much more.
I’ve written nine novels, and each can certainly be called horror. So I have developed a true love for story craft. My necessities for a really good movie and book now must include a tight and thrilling storyline, rich characters you’ll cheer for, and a conclusion that has at least a little bit of a Sixth-Sense wow-factor. I admit, this is a high bar. But this movie definitely surpasses my tests.
I’ve now watched this film twice. Usually, even with movies I’ve liked, the second time is where I always find the errors and often silliness. There’s no silliness here. This one starts with one of the best first scenes in a flick I can remember. It’s horrible and yet brilliant and it sets the stage for the nail-biting tension that crawls up your spine the rest of the movie, until the masterful end. Hint: watch for the superbly dished out clues to help you answer most of the important why’s you’ll have about a world where humans are pushed to the brink of extinction.
A Quiet Place will leave you breathless, horse from yelling your warnings to “Watch out!” at the characters or cheering them on, and finally you’ll be contemplating this fine movie long after it’s finished. It’s truly the ultimate in the craft of horror or thriller movie making. And I hope Krasinski wins many awards for it. It’s one of my ten favorite horror films of all time and I loved it.
I’m pretty sure you will too.
I, too, asked this movie. The one that got me leaning the lights on most recently, though, was a film titled ‘Hereditary’… Warning, you may be permanently, psychologically, scarred after viewing. Any horror movie that keeps me guessing, had a fresh storyline, and actors who can draw you in on a real world emotional level – yeah, it’s good.
I signed up for your newsletters, and Just finished “Madness,” at least the first book. Two and three will be read as far as I can devour the excellence. I agree with the old rise from the dead to eat brains yada yada is quite unbelievable. What caught my eye the other day was an article titled ” Scientists Given Permission to Resurrect the Dead Using Stem Cells.” Mull that one into your writer’s brain blender!
Thanks Meg in Maine for your comments and thanks for reading Madness. Symptomatic (book #3) is coming out next Monday. So if you pre-ordered it, you’ll see it Sunday/Monday.


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So is Kurseong a place worth a vacation stay for tourists? We would certainly say yes. Although from the face of it, it looks like a congested township which has grown predominantly along the Hill Cart Road that passes through the mountains. But if you start exploring the spreads of Kurseong, it starts exposing its charm.
The Name Kurseong means "The place of white orchids". So as expected, white orchids grow in abundance in this area. The area is also full of beautiful tea gardens, forests and year round vegetation on the hill slopes. From some parts of Kalimpong, you get magnificent views of Mt. Kanchejunga, Kabru and Jannu, and the meandering rivers Teesta and Mahananda flowing downwards to the lower plains & medows.
The toy train track runs on level with the road. The whistling sound of the steam engine can often be heard from your room and you can come out to see the mini train negotiating its way through the mountains. Overall a very romantic feeling.
Kurseong is located in Darjeeling district and is on National Highway NH 55 (I.e. Hill Cart Road) that originates from Siliguri and goes all the way to Darjeeling. It’s about mid way to Darjeeling and you can easily combine a couple of nights stay here when you plan a vacation in and around Darjeeling. The altitude of Kurseong is moderate 4,864 ft and therefore the climate for most part of the year also remains temperate. However it can get quite cold during the winter.
From Siliguri, the distance to Kurseong is 51kms. From New Jalpaiguri (NJP) station, the distance is about 57 kms and from Bagdogra airport Kurseong is 60kms. From Bagdogra the usual route is via Matigara and Rohini. From NJP and Siliguri, the public transports would usually take the Hill Cart Road unless it’s closed for some reason. It takes about 2 hours to reach Kurseong from both Bagdogra and NJP. Darjeeling is about 33 kms from Kurseong and takes about 1 hour 15 minutes to reach.
Many of you may not be familiar with Kurseong and think this might be another small roadside village on the way to Darjeeling. Well many years back it was actually a small hamlet, but over the years its has grown into a bustling township. Today it’s a subdivision of Darjeeling district. Spread of Kurseong is much more than what it may seem.
And the spread is beyond the township to lovely tea gardens along the mountain slopes, forests with many different flora & fauna, quaint villages and so on. And expectedly, there are many view points, tea estates, temples & churches, museums, as well as famous historic schools that were setup during the British colonial days.
You can easily spend two to three days in Kurseong and remain immersed with its attractions. There are plenty of local taxis available near the station and market area all of who will be willing to take you for local sightseeing tours. There are half day and full day local tours depending on what you want to cover. Talk to a couple of local drivers before you finalize one ... the rates vary and some can and do ask for too much.
This is a lovely view point and a garden on top of a hill. You can actually take the narrow lane next to Kurseong station and walk up to Eagle Craig. It will take about 25 minutes of walk. The view point and the park land is located at the end of the road which is the highest point on this mountain.
A small concrete stairway leads up to the garden above. The garden is full of hedges and flowering plantations. There is also a watch tower on one side of the garden. The views of the mountains on the opposite side and also that of the lower plains from here is awesome. You need a clear day though to get great views.
There is a concrete altar here and a Khukri (traditional Nepali knife) placed on it. It serves as a monument which was constructed by the erstwhile DGHC in memory of the Gorkhas who lost their lives in 1988 agitation in the hills. . Eagle Craig is open on all days from morning till sunset. There is no admission fee.
Kurseong is spread across several hills of mountains. Dow Hill is one of them. A large section of the hill is covered with dense forest and the locals will vouch on the fact that there are leopards in the forest. While no lives have been lost, the leopards seem to be targeting the sheeps and goats. The hill is also famous for its many attractions including forest museum, excellent views, historic schools, parklands etc. Some of the attractions of Dow hill are described below.
Earlier this was known as Deer Park since you could see lot many deers here. However with deforestation, such sights are now rare and hence the change in name. In the adjacent forest there is a large fenced area where you can still see some deers. But venturing into the forest is not allowed, you can only look for the deers from outside the fence and often they can be seen moving around, but not in the park.
Dow Hill park is located on top of Dow Hill. The fenced park itself is quite small. There are hedge and other different kinds of plantations. There is a gazebo in the park where you can sit and relax. There is also a small children playground with swings and slides. The park is open from 10am to 4pm. Closed on Thursdays. A nominal entry fee needs to be paid to enter the park.
It’s a large two-storeyed museum in Dow Hill that stores many exhibits of flora and fauna of the region. It has been recently renovated and restored.
Next to it is the Forest Training School. The museum is open daily.
Close to the Forest Museum in Dow Hill is the Forest Rest House. You can book this rest house through the forest department in Kurseong and stay amidst the nature and surrounded by dense Dhupi forest ... all you can hear is the chirping of the birds.
This is a heritage boarding school on Dow Hill with a lovely colonial architecture. It came up during the British era when Governor Sir Ashley Eden had set up this school in 1879 for children of government officers. Initially it was a small school for boys only. Later the boys section was shifted to Victoria School and it became a girls school. Apart from its attractive architecture, the school is also located in a scenic setting with wonderful view of the Himalayan range and surrounded by lush vegetation. The school runs under the state government and offers a good standard of education.
This is the boys school in Dow Hill which was also set up during the British colonial time. Very well known for its high standard of education and run under the state government, the school has both boarding and day students. Currently there are about 350 students in the school out of which about 200 are boarders.
One of the great features of the school is its large play fields for the students. The play field at the lower level is the largest in Kurseong.
There is a chapel in Victoria School premises just nest to the entrance. It has been lying closed for many years, a clear indication of the fact that there are hardly any Christian students or staff left in the school who require services of the church.
There is a large reservoir in downhill where rain water is stored. It acts as a water source to many areas of Kurseong sub-division. The setting is picturesque as you can see in the picture. The reservoir is surrounded by lush pine and coniferous trees. There is also a picnic area here at an elevated level. The view of the water from here is great.
One of the other hills in Kurseong is Giddapahar. This view point is located few kilometers from the town (takes about 15 minutes by car) along Hill Cart Road towards Siliguri. The view point is accessible by stairway right from the roadside. You will need to enter through a gate and then climb the stairs.
The view of the mountains, the snow peaks (including Kanchenjunga) and the valley is awesome. However it should be a clear day to get good views.
If you look towards the Hill Cart Road below, you can see the road winding down side by side with the toy train track. Giddapahar view point is open daily during the day time and there is no entry fee. You can park the car by the road side.
This is a Hindu temple of goddess Durga. The idol is an ancient carved stone. The temple can be accessed by a stairway from the Hill Cart Road and is located at a higher level from the road. It’s considered very sacred and quite popular with the locals.
This museum is located in Giddapahar area. It was originally a private house purchased in 1922 by Sarat Chandra Bose, the writer and veteran freedom fighter. Later between 1933 to 1935 Sarat Chandra and subsequently Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose were kept here by the British under house captivity.
With lush greenery and gardens all around, the atmosphere is tranquil and serene. It has been now converted into a museum. You can see many original furniture used by Netaji including bed, chairs, tables etc. This is where Subhash Chandra Bose wrote his speech which he delivered as the president of Haripura Congress in 1938. The museum also stores many articles, letters and artifacts that reflect the story of the leader.
This is a sprawling tea estate with lovely gardens on the mountain slopes that produce black, green, white Darjeeling teas. It’s located about 10kms below the Kurseong town and takes about 35 minutes to reach by car. This is usually not a part of standard sightseeing tour. You will need to pay extra to the driver to get there, but it’s worth the money. The estate spans across an area of 350 hectares and employs over 900 workers. It has been operating since the British time of 1850s. You can get wonderful view of Kurseong township from the tea gardens here.
Further down from the tea estate and along steep dirt road through the forested area you will reach the famous and one of the most revered temples. It takes another 20 minutes or so. It feels like a long bumpy ride on a treacherous road. This is a Hindu temple of Lord Shiva. The idol (i.e. the Shiv Linga) is an old dead trunk of a tree. While the temple has many devotees who are mostly garden workers families, the driver mentioned that this temple is a wish fulfilling temple and one who offers prayers, gets blessings of Lord Shiva that helps solve one’s problems in life.
This is one of the most famous tea estates in Darjeeling district. It’s located 3kms from Kurseong town and on Makaibari road. This is one of the oldest tea estates in the district producing some of the finest tea varieties and also one of the first to set up a tea processing factory. Owner Rajah Banerji is also the first in the area to introduce organic farming. With his support, the tea garden workers and their families have extended their homes and now offer homestays for tourists. This is an excellent opportunity to experience tea garden life and the local village culture of Kurseong. You can visit the factory and also the tea gardens below.
This tea estate is owned by the Goodricke Group and is one of the most well known ones that produce fine black, green and white Darjeeling tea from authentic Chinese bushes. The estate was set up by Dr. Charles Graham in 1885. It spans over an area of about 170 hectares. The factory gate is near Kurseong town and on Pankhabari Road. You can visit the factory and observe tea processing.
This is one of the three DHR museums of Darjeeling district which is located in Kurseong station premises. You will need to first visit the station office and buy the entry ticket. A staff will then come with the keys and open the museum room next to the platform. It’s all yours then. What do you see in the DHR museum in Kurseong?
The museum houses many treasures, historical artifacts and exhibits of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, how the toy train was created to overcome the steep mountain gradients, pictures of the loops & engines, and parts of the original rails as well as machinery and accessories used to set up the tracks.
From Kurseong station, you can make a day trip to Darjeeling. One of the best ways to do so is by taking a toy train from Kurseong station. There are two trains every day between Kurseong and Darjeeling. One leaves Kurseong in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Both take about 3 hours to reach Darjeeling and then return. You can also take the train one way (up or down) and use a private or shared taxi the other way for saving time. It only takes little over one hour by taxi between Kurseong and Darjeeling. For Toy Train schedule, train numbers etc, check Toy Train Service and refer to the section under Route #3.


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PUEBLO GRANDE MUSEUM BLOG: 7th Annual Native Foods and Craft Fair this weekend!!
7th Annual Native Foods and Craft Fair this weekend!!
Pueblo Grande Museum Staff are working hard to get ready for our 7th Annual Native Foods and Craft Fair on Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fair will feature Native foods and crafts from various local farmers and artists including American Indian communities such as the Salt River Pima Maricopa and the Gila River Communities.
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The Native Foods and Craft Fair will also be a treat for kids with a children’s craft area that focuses on agriculturally related and fall themed crafts. Children will be able to pick a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch and decorate it for the upcoming holiday. For those who enjoy a little competition, we will have a watermelon eating contest for both children and adults! There will also be Frybread taco lunch available for purchase between 10 am and 2 pm.
This event is a great way to get out and enjoy the wonderful fall Arizona weather and pick up a few new things or produce from local growers! See you there!
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A number of you have been mailing to ask how did we manage to fire Jasper the Time travelling cat off into the mists of antiquity. Specifically, you want to know how the Time Machine here at Blather Paranormal Investigations works. And the answer is: just fine thank you.
I could spin you a yarn about how we hitched the giant laser tunnel of criss-crossing lights to create a loop in space (a mini black hole if you like), hooked it up to Daev’s bike and then pedalled very fast. I could also give you the details of how I pitched Jasper into the tunnel with a catapult, but that would be cruel.
However, in the interests of clarity (and also because someone had the unmitigated audacity to suggest the whole thing was a load of crap) we shall explain some of the fundamentals.
Ok. So. Let?s recap on some basics. Thanks to Albert Einstein we know that space and time are one inter-related continuum. What happens in one affects the other. Right? Okey dokey. We also know (thanks to Uncle Albert?s theory of relativity) that the faster you travel, the slower time goes. Groovy.
For example, the poor swine that was stuck up on the Russian space station Mir for what seemed like an eternity, actually jumped something like the guts of ten seconds into the future. This because he was travelling at something like 16,000 miles an hour for a year and a half, his clock was ten seconds out of whack with ours?
Now, according to basic Quantum mechanics, you can?t travel backwards. That?s because we know what happened in the past. And you can?t travel forwards, because there is no machine in the future from which you can emerge. But? you can set up a device whereby you generate a time-shift and open a portal whereby those in the future can send information back to you… geddit?
Which is what happened when we got our time doo-hickey working. I threw the switch, Daev started pedalling and next thing we knew a letter flutters out. We can?t elaborate on precisely what it said (sensitive issues regarding future world order etc) but it let us know that we were on the right track? so to speak.
So, then if this ‘radio to the future’ is plausible, but only allows those ahead of us to communicate back to us from the moment that we activate the machine, then how did we send Jasper backwards? We?re not posing this question to be irritating. We genuinely don?t know how the hell it happened.
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UK - Every farmer and grower with a holding number is being invited to obtain their own free and unique Happerley Passport when Happerley Passports goes live on 19 February.
One of the principle aims is to establish the UK’s first food producer trading network. It has been developed by producers to be entirely free for all UK producers.
Co-Founder, Clifford Freeman explains: “Core to our ethos is a business model free for all producers. Happerley’s future revenue streams are generated from intermediaries and retailers within the network who opt to join their relevant membership, enabling them to be profiled within the Network and promote their membership elsewhere. To do so they will pay an annual fee but also must sign up to a series of commitments relating to transparency and honesty at point-of-sale, as well as a degree of direct farm sourcing.
Co-founder Matthew Rymer adds: “Red Tractor maintains farmer and grower invisibility to the consumer, and it could be argued some of those leading it have a vested interest in keeping it that way. We believe that farmers uniting into a single visible network is one vital element to maintaining a sustainable UK agriculture industry, independent of retail and processor interests.

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Google is protecting Gmail users against hackers by using more encryption.
The tech giant has launched new tools to alert users when email is not encrypted, when a link could be dangerous or when a user may be the target of state-sponsored attacks.
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The improved safety plan also includes stronger protections against rare but egregious state-sponsored attacks, which Google says happen to less than 0.1 percent of all Gmail users.
The warning provides instructions to enable two-factor authentication and set up a security key. The warning can be dismissed or postponed or shown instead of, or in addition to, Google’s existing warnings already in place for suspected government-sponsored attacks.
Google’s latest safety features build upon those the company introduced in February to alert users if a message received wasn’t delivered using encryption or if they were writing a message to someone whose mail service doesn’t support transport layer security (TLS) encryption. Forty-four days after adding the warning, the amount of incoming email delivered through an encrypted connection increased an impressive 25 percent, Google said.
The focus on expanded protection against government-sponsored attacks came while Apple and the FBI were embroiled in a legal fight over the unlocking of an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters involved in the San Bernardino attack that killed 14 people.
The FBI wanted access to data stored on Syed Farook’s phone but Apple refused, accusing the federal government of overstepping personal privacy protections. Apple’s position was strongly shared by Google, Facebook and other tech behemoths.
The FBI eventually withdrew its request because it said an independent third-party stepped forward to help them unlock the phone. Although the legal fight was averted, the FBI has several other cases pending in which it wants to access a smartphone to obtain information.