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An update. We arrived in the Jolly Roger RV Resort on the Tuesday, to find that Wednesday and Thursday were Mini Lobster Season.
As I said in my previous this amounts to loads of people coming down here with boats and basically a free for all on Florida Spiny lobsters.
To quote another site “Every July the coastal areas of Florida are flooded with lobster hunters trying to get their share of this year’s bounty when the offical mini lobster season kicks off. There are two Florida Lobster Seasons, the 2 day mini season and the 8 month regular lobster season. The mini lobster season is always the last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday in July. This year the mini season falls on July 26th and 27th. The regular 8 month lobster season is always August 6 through March 31.”.
There is an interesting web site that tells you how to catch them, measure them, quotas etc. here http://floridalobstering.com/ .
We decided to keep well away, plus the two gentleman next door to us promised to show us the lobsters and the end bit of the process the lobster tails (they do not seem to eat anything else but the tails).
So Wednesday we decided as we both got up late to chill after the journey and just do some local shopping for food etc. as on the Tuesday night we had a nice meal at the http://flkeyssteakandlobster.com/welcome/ Steak and Lobster Grill.
So Thursday dawned and we had decided to go to Key West, which is another 60 miles south of Marathon Key. Wow what a journey, Key after Key and bridge after bridge, including one that is 7 miles long.
And then we arrived at Key West a key 2 miles wide by 4 miles long, by Keys standard a large key!! Immediate problem was to find the Trolley Bus tour start point and then some parking, which we found about 400 yds away for $20 all day. That 400 yds walk back in the Florida heat felt like 2 miles!! Got our tickets valid for 2 days, which was lucky as we thought we only needed 1 day, how wrong can you be!!
Took the tour which took about 90 minutes and quickly realised that 1 day was not enough to see everything!!. So we picked a few things to do and started off.
Number 1 was the The Little White House. I will let a photo explain this.
It was used mainly by Harry S Trueman between 1946 and 1952 as an official White House when he was on holiday (vacation in the USA). Many influential pieces of legislation were drafted here and our guide told a lot of what went on when he was in residence. Most of it seems to involve entertaining and playing poker as well as working hard.
I have attached a few photos of our tour on the trolley bus but there are as you could probably guess hundreds of them.
Key Lime Pie shop. Iconic Naval station statue!! Southernmost point.
We then left and made our way back to Marathon where we saw a Florida Keys sunset !!
Next day we went back to Key West to make use of our two day pass. As luck would have it I decided to try the southern route to the Trolley place and recognised a car park that was on the route and FREE!!
It was right next to the West Martello Tower which is run by the Key West Garden Club, http://www.keywestgardenclub.com/ .
It is a lovely tranquil garden that includes a butterfly garden.
We then hopped on the Trolley and got of at Ernest Hemmingway’s house. We lucked out again and got another really good guide around the house, which took about an hour.
Very interesting person, raconteur, drinker, writer, married 4 times!!
Lots of cats that are the 6 toed variety, which are fed by the guides.
Swimming pool cost $20,000 in 1939.
Today (Saturday) we went North, but unfortunately so was everyone else (leaving after mini Lobster Season), so it was extremely slow. We were trying to get to Key Largo but in the end after 2 hours gave up at a place we had seen on the way down with a huge lobster model in the front, and a load of gift shops etc. behind.
Bet you can’t eat that lobster tail.
We also found that Anne has a beach named after her.
As with everywhere here loads of sandy beaches, and miles and miles of clear blue sea.
And we also found a place called Duck Key with an internal canal system and lots of nice looking houses that range from $420,000 upwards!!
Tomorrow Sunday is a chill day, to get everything set up for leaving Monday (where is the time going!!). But more of that in my next post.
A few days to catch up on.
It has been a few days since my last post, so here goes.
Christopher kept his promise and came and saw us on Saturday after his bike ride. He rode most of it with the sole of his cycling shoe gradually becoming more and more detached. He stayed for an hour or two and then went off to finish his gardening jobs.
We then went out to see two local attractions, the Loggerhead sanctuary and the Hobe Sound National Wildlife refuge.
The Loggerhead Sanctuary was very interesting with examples of the various turtles found in the Florida region and also some that are not, but it made a very good exhibit, especially the skeleton of an absolutely huge turtle they found which must have been at least 10ft from head to toe (or back end of shell).
Outside they had various turtles recovering in tanks, a bit like the Seal Sanctuary at Gweek in Cornwall. Most of them seem to have been found after being hit by boats or ingesting fishing line (not good for turtles as messes up their digestive system).
A little one that kept trying to get out!!
Another big one with seaweed on his head, like a comb over!!
Best photo of medium size one.
Unfortunately the main exhibit at the Hobe Sound National Wildlife refuge was closed (seems strange to close at 3pm on a Saturday!!). However, there was this bush that was covered in yellow butterflies, but I am afraid they don’t come out very well on the phones camera.
You can just make out some yellow blobs if you look hard.
Since it was very hot we decided to give the open air nature trail of two miles a miss and returned back so that I could cook the steak we had bought (steak is so cheap in the US).
Next day dawned (Sunday) and it was a bit cooler so put the RV mat out, plus the table and chairs and we sat outside and ate breakfast and relaxed. There was a lovely cool breeze and it great to sit outside.
Anne enjoying the cool breeze.
Notice the matching the paintwork all weather RV mat!! Also the wheels are covered in the wheel protectors.
Later on Christopher brought Scott and Erika, who we first met at Christopher’s and Lilia’s wedding in Mexico, across to see the RV and after a beer we went out to eat at Shrimpers at Hobe Sound.
Each boat is worth $.5m apparently!!
Monday saw me doing various things to the RV. Fixed the windscreen wipers that were set too low and banging on the bodywork. Bought LED stop/night/indicator lights for the back light clusters so everyone knew what I was doing, so I fitted those. Also had to part empty the grey tank as we had a few showers since we had been here and it was full. And at the end of the day Christopher turned up with the propane hose that allowed me to connect the Weber grill to our propane tank, and we tried it out by grilling steak for dinner. We said goodbye to him later on as this was the last time we would see him before setting off to the Florida Keys (or perhaps that should be Quays!!).
Tuesday dawned and for once we got up early as we had a lot of packing up to do before we headed off. All the various things inside the RV had to be stowed so they wouldn’t crash about and break, the black and grey tanks had to be emptied and flushed, and the electricity, water and sewer pipe disconnected. Then slides in, jacks up and roll forward so we could attach the Spark to the towing hitch. and off we went at about 10.30am.
First stop was to get some gas (petrol) and much to my surprise as it was reading half full it only took $80 to fill it up. Then off to I95 for the journey south to the Keys.
As it was after rush hour we got past Miami fairly easily and joined US 1 to take us to the Keys. One thing we have to figure out, is where do you stop in an 35ft RV with a tow car to have a “rest” break. US highways are sadly lacking in Service Areas no wonder they invented the various “pee in a bottle” solutions. In the end I just pulled it into a chevron area off the main carriageway so we could both go to the loo!!
Then the Keys made an appearance. With lack of space US 1 in many places is just a single carriageway road with a concrete divider which had lots of rubber marks on it so obviously people have hit it.
Some of the scenery is spectacular with long bridges over stretches of water (True Lies!!) and some larger bridges over deep water channels.
Arriving at Jolly Roger 197 miles later.
Site is a lot more cramped than JD Park, but then they do not have the space, and there are a lot of people here for the Mini Lobster Season (two days of mayhem apparently when everyone is out in their boats catching lobsters).
Just about got the slides out.
Tested my reversing skills getting between our camp area (concrete pad with table) and the large truck next door, but my guide helped, waving away in the mirrors!!).
So we are here and planning our next 6 days going up and down the Keys as Marathon Key, where we are, is right in the middle.
We need a bigger boat!! How about this one!!
Woke up on our first morning and we both agreed the Queen bed is b****y hard!! So straight on the shopping list was a mattress topper we had seen but decided to wait until we had tried it out!!
Then I tried out the shower, water flow was just about acceptable, but Anne then tried and said that the flow wasn’t enough to wash her hair properly. Well I figured it was the water pump, so I looked at the manual and discovered I had made a mistake. To be honest it was our previous experience of RVing in Canada that caused me to make the mistake. The RV we hired in Canada had a campground water connection, but we weren’t allowed to use it, just the gravity water tank fill and the on-board pump as apparently they had too many hire RVs blowing up water systems with over pressurised mains feeds. Well this “big beast” has a water pressure reducer fitted (keeps it at 40psi max which is what the water system is rated at) and that keeps over pressurised systems in check and allows you to run direct water pressure from the campground with no water pump in use. You only use the water pump when boon docking (camping on the open road or a Walmart car park, yes they allow it!!).
So off went the pump and bingo good pressure throughout the coach except (you guessed it) the shower!! So the next culprit was the shower head. Disconnected it and sure enough the water from the hose was flowing nicely, so what is wrong with shower head? Perhaps it was blocked but on taking it apart all was well. And then I happened to look at the bit that screwed into the pipe and what I saw was a plastic insert with 3 minute holes in it. Great thought I a pressure reducer. No chance this was stuck in as permanent fixture and I can only think it is to help the feed when we are running on the pump. So the next item on the shopping list was a proper shower head!! (Update new shower head is a success).
Next I went outside to fit the wheel covers. Now some off you at this point will be thinking has he gone nuts putting covers on the tyres and wheels, but there is a reason for this. The Florida sun is quite hot (British understatement) and has a high (actually very high) UV reading, and UV light does nasty things to large RV tyres(truck tyres really), like cracking sidewalls causing blowouts. With two new tyres on the front and 4 fairly new tyres on the back axle I wasn’t taking any chances so on went the covers.
Just in time as it happened, as a huge thunderstorm then rolled in and deluged us for an hour. Thunder and lightening in an RV is an experience, as is heavy rain bouncing off the roof, but at least it proved we have no leaks.
After this we spent the afternoon in Walmart and Publix getting our food supplies in as the fridge is now down to the correct temperature and the ice maker is making big chunks of ice!!
When we got back we cooked our first meal in the RV which was an interesting experience but with the vent fan, the cooker vent fan and the air con running we have no lasting smells and it stayed quite cool.
Christopher is arriving early tomorrow as he is mountain biking in the park track for an hour or so. Not too early I hope, as we are retirees after all.
So now to test the new mattress topper.
Well here we are after all the work buying the RV and tow car, plus contents, parked at our first Campground https://www.floridastateparks.org/park/Jonathan-Dickinson .
It is about 10miles up the road from Christopher’s and about 20 miles from Palm Beach RV just in case anything is not working correctly.
After a very hot morning spent sanitising the drinking water tank outside Christopher’s house we loaded the last bits into the RV and hitched up the Spark. Then we set off to arrive at the park at 3pm which was our “check in” time!! After filling out a few extra details with the rangers we got two vehicle passes, one for us and one for Christopher so he could see an RV in the “wild”.
We are on pitch 58 for 5 nights, to do the planned RV “shakedown”, getting used to how everything works, and making sure it all works as it should. While we were at Christopher’s parked up without the jacks out so not level, the fridge decided to throw a wobbly, but it turns out his drive was too steep and the fridge stops working if it is more than 6 degrees out of level. Anne found that out after searching the owners manual, so it was a case of RTFM.
We parked up, levelled out on the hydraulic jacks (the RV dances for about 3-4 minutes until it is satisfied the RV is level), slid the two slides out, attached the surge protection system and the 50amp lead to the electricity supply, attached the water hose to the potable (drinking water to you and me) water supply and filled our fresh water tank, and then put the sewer hose together and attached it to the sewer outlet and the black/grey tank dump valves. All done without a hitch!!
If you look closely at the photo above the first black lead is the 50amp electricity feed, the just visible blue hose is the fresh water feed and the brown hose on the black caterpillar (contraption to allow a gradual fall on the pipe to the outlet so nothing yucky gets stuck in the pipe) is the sewer connection.
We then went to get something to eat and some basic supplies (not to many as the fridge is not at the right temperature for at least 12 hours) and then returned in another thunderstorm. Florida weather is almost as changeable as the weather in the UK!! Christopher then came to see us and to check out the RV life style. First thing he said was it is quiet here and it is until an Air Con unit kicks in!! Sitting a nice balmy 77F (25C) as we have been told not to make it too cool as the hot air hits you as you leave. Leave!! I am staying in here!!
I am typing this in the RV using the AT&T phone as hotspot as there is no WiFi in State Parks.
Tomorrow we will go and get more groceries and start using all the appliances in the RV.
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We decided as the Spark was going to be our lifeline that we ought to get it serviced, so I phoned up the local Chevy dealer and booked it in for a full service, saying that I would wait while it was done (little did I know!!).
The day (Friday) dawned and I turned up at Schumacher’s and was introduced to my “service Consultant”, Tom!! He noted what was required including fitting the “hood” bracket so the hood would stay up (for some reason it was missing) and two extra keys. He then said they would take a look at it and let me know approximate costs!! In the meantime I could sit in the Customer Lounge and enjoy the free coffee and bagels. Had a coffee, gave the bagels a miss, although not everyone did as while I sat there an older lady came in and proceeded to take three complete bagels with cream cheese and wrap them up and put them in her handbag, must have been peckish!!
Anyway an hour later Tom turned up. The Spark’s rear drum brake cylinders both had leaking seals, which had ruined the cylinders so both needed replacing including the brake pipes which were frayed, and we needed new front brake pads on the disk brakes. Other than that and the normal filters and oil, and he advised a transmission oil change as it was long overdue, he said the car was in remarkably “good shape” especially as the last time he could see it had been serviced was 25,000 miles (40,000 miles ago!!). All of this meant they had to order parts and it therefore would not be ready until Monday!! They would supply a free loan car. OK said I and we duly filled out the paperwork, and I was taken out to the loan car. Well I had to laugh!! Here was me driving around in England in 14 year old Passat estate with 220,000 miles on the clock and running the UKPassats web site http://www.ukpassats.co.uk/phpbb/index.php and the loan car was a nearly brand new VW Passat sedan (saloon) with 3,000 miles on the clock and all the toys!! And I had it for the weekend!!
I had also arranged on Friday for the paint guy at Palm Beach RV to fit the new bumper, so I had to ring him and rearrange it for Monday when the new tyres were due to be fitted to the RV.
We had a good weekend shopping for the RV and chilling as well as trying out the Passat (it was a V6 3.2 litre!!).
Monday dawned and it was due to be a busy day. Pick up the Spark from having a service at the Chevy dealer (and return the loaner VW Passat sedan sigh!!), back to Christopher’s, hitch up the spark to the RV, drive to Palm Beach RV (slowly with the tyres banging away!!), leave it to get the tyres done, and take the Spark to the paint shop to get the new bumper fitted.
What is that saying “the best laid plans of mice and men”!! Waited for the supposedly early call to say the Spark was ready, but by 10 o’clock it hadn’t happened, so I rang the dealer. The Spark wasn’t going to be ready until 11.30am at the earliest as some parts had come in late. So I rang Palm Beach RV to warn them I was going to be late, to be told that the tyre place they used were short of fitters as they had called in sick so could we delay it until Tuesday!! OK that simplified things a bit as now I had to just concentrate on the Spark.
Schumacher’s phoned back dead on 11.30am to say the Spark was ready, so I set off. Saw the Spark sat there ready when I pulled in and Tom said could I complete the loaner paperwork and he would get my bill ready. Completed the paperwork, and went to Tom’s booth. Turned out the bill was slightly less than the initial estimate, but it was still a chunk of money!! 2 keys at $128 each didn’t help as well as an hour’s labour to fit the hood strut bracket (think it would have taken me 2 minutes!!). But it is all worth it as the car was now on a “minor” service schedule and wouldn’t need another service for 5,000 miles.
So got into the Spark and drove it to the paint shop. At least that part went well, all fitted in about 2 hours (they had to recut the new grill to allow the tow receivers to fit through). I then drove back to Christopher’s in a Florida rain storm (it hissed it down for at least 2 hours, but over here they seem used to it with large drainage ditches and huge runoff drains on the roads).
Tuesday dawned and it was time to take the RV back to Palm Beach RV to get the tyres fitted and some paperwork done for the extended Warranty etc.
After a slow drive down, so we didn’t break anything in the partially loaded RV with tyres banging away, we arrived at Palm Beach RV. They have a somewhat narrow entrance to the lot so turning in from the middle lane of the main road was an experience as Americans have a habit of undertaking people even when they have the right turn indicator flashing (thank god for the camera in the mirror, so I had at least 3 ways of checking what was happening)!!
Made it into the lot and handed the keys over and they took it off to the Tyre supplier. The estimate was 2 hours to change to RV tyres, so we should be out of here by 12.30 (!!). Completed all the paperwork and then sat and waited for the RV. 12.30 passed, still no news, and finally at 1.00pm I went and asked if they had heard anything. That rang the tyre fitter and they said it would be ready in about 30 minutes. Well it was actually an hour, before we were driven up there to collect “big beast”. All done, with the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System installed on the new tyres. “RV is round the back in our lot” says the receptionist as she gave me the keys. Well that tested my manoeuvring skills in a 35ft RV. It was parked front in with cars all around it and not a huge space to turn around!! Finally got out after a 10 point turn, without hitting anything (the rear camera is a godsend!!). We had agreed with Palm Beach RV we would test drive it up I95 to Christopher’s and we would let them know the result.
Well all I can say is what a difference two tyres make!! Smooth as silk, no banging and cruised at 55mph no problem, so that sorted that out.
Got back to Christopher’s and Anne made the evening meal (sockeye salmon very nice) and the Christopher and I decided to try out towing the Spark. Hooking it up was fairly easy and it was at this point that Christopher insisted Anne drive the Spark while I did the hitch work, so for the first time since we arrived in the US Anne drove a car!! It all went very well and Christopher and I set off on a trial run. The people at Palm Beach RV said we wouldn’t even notice a 2,000lb car being towed by a 22,000lb RV and that turned out to be true, and the only reason we knew it was there is we could see it in the rear view camera. Christopher decided he needed to test my RV driving skills on narrow roads (for America that is, although they are still wider than a lot of our A roads), and roundabouts (there seem to be a lot in Florida compared to other states I have been in). So after about 10-15 miles and about 10 roundabouts all negotiated with the rain tipping it down, Christopher was happy and asked if he could have a drive. He took us back to his house and luckily it had stopped raining (or so we thought) but as we unhitched the Spark the heavens opened again and we got soaked, but at least it was warm!!
Sorry this is along post, but there was lot to tell, but mission accomplished all vehicles ready to go and we are now booked into the shakedown campground, Jonathan Dickinson State Park from Thursday night for 5 nights to trial everything on the RV https://www.floridastateparks.org/park/Jonathan-Dickinson .
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Anne in the driving seat.
Spark Florida plate turned up.
We got our first official number plate today for the Chevy Spark, and I think someone at the vehicle licensing has a sense of humour, can’t believe it is a coincidence!!
Well it finally happened we picked up the RV!!
Got to Palm Beach RV a little early and we sorted out a couple of payments for some outstanding items, and then we set off on a test drive and lesson on driving. All went well, learnt how to avoid overhanging trees (it is 12ft 6in tall) and that doing a U turn in an RV of this length is not possible (just go around the block!!). Got to remember the rear end swings out as at least 9ft of the coach is beyond the rear wheels!! It was then we noticed a vibration from the front wheel, but more of that later.
Got all that sorted out and then returned to Palm Baech Rv to find that they still hadn’t emptied the black/grey tanks, or filled up the LPG and gas tank. So they emptied the tanks, went to AmeriGas to fill up the LPG tank and then to Racetrack garage to fill up the gas(petrol) tank.
Filling the gas tank was an experience vying with all the other people to get a 35ft bus alongside a pump, but eventually got there. You also can only go to the larger garages as you have to get a 12ft 6in bus under the canopy!! Then we started to fill and fill and fill the tank. Bear in mind it was just under half full when we started, but about 5 minutes later the pump final slowed and clicked off and we had a full tank and 45 gallons extra (US fuel pumps seem to go extremely slowly but luckily they have this nifty catch that allows the pump to carry on working without you having to hold it). Total bill $99 at $2.09 per gallon, which is 3 .78 litres approximately (that is about 45p per litre!!). I have seen it lower that at $1.99 so thank god for low prices!!
All done so we drive back to Christopher’s to drop of the Spark and then he drove us back to Palm Beach RV to finally drive the RV to Christopher’s. We had already mentioned the vibration and they said they would arrange a tech, but I am glad we did as on the drive back up I95 we couldn’t get above 50mph because the vibration got horrendous. Christopher pulled alongside on I95 and he could see the wheel was bouncing, so we backed off to 45mph and drove home. We then looked at the tyres (tires in the US!!) and the nearside had multiple flat spots and the offside had a few less but still had some. So I am back to Palm Beach to tell them we need 2 new front tyres and I am not paying for them ($450 a tyre!!).
We got the RV on the drive and with Christopher’s help and a lot of wooden blocks we got “big beast” (as Anne calls it) level on the auto hydraulic levelling system, so we could run the bedroom and living room slides out. We were hoping to use one of the house 30amp sockets to power the static RV but its not that simple in the US as the house sockets seem to have a different configuration to the RV 30 and 50amp sockets, another thing to ask.
So day ended with us running the RV on the generator, which since it has only got 94 hours use on it is no big deal.
Only a few wooden blocks.
On a level site we shouldn’t have to use any.
“little beast” and “big beast” !!
Today we are starting to put all the “stuff” we have bought into the RV and figure out what we still need and I am back to Palm Beach RV to get the Spark front bumper sorted and tell them about the tyres!!
Onwards and upwards!! In spite of all this we are way ahead of where we expected to be, so hopefully we will be going to our first “shake down” RV campground next week.
I have forgotten to mention one important part of our journey so far and that has been the transfer of money to our US bank account with Citibank.
Some months ago I spotted an article by Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert about the rip off rates that Banks use to transfer money to foreign banks. Investigated this with our bank and found that on average you lost about 6-7 cents per pound when transferring money to the US. Now this meant we would lose quite a substantial amount when we wanted to move money to buy our RV.
Martin in this article http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/foreign-currency-exchange recommended a company called Transferwise. I can but back him up on this as we have used them and to say the least the transactions have been flawless.
Because our bank had a daily transfer limit we had to do it over a few days but having two bank accounts with different UK banks sped up the process. The way is works is you transfer money to Transferwise (we did a small transaction of £100 first to check it all worked), and then Transferwise converts the money and sends it to your nominated foreign account. It works for all of the major currencies and they are gradually adding more.
We always got the top conversion rate as per the market (we lucked out as over the period we did it £ – $ went up to $1.30!!) and Transferwise make their money by taking a small percentage fee on each transaction. We actually saved thousands of dollars by doing this, so I can heartily recommend Transferwise.
Thursday the 6th July dawned and with some trepidation we set of to Palm Beach RV for our training course and to pick up the RV and the Spark with the towing hitch fitted.
Got there after picking up a rather large certified cheque from Citibank and the day started with an introduction to their Finance guy to hand over the cheque and sort out our Warranty and Paint cover.
All completed we waited for the guy who was going to walk us through the RV and introduce us on how to use everything. He turned up and first showed us the Spark with all the towing brackets etc. sticking through the front grill. At first glance all looked great(more of this later).
Then onto the RV. I suppose we should of guessed that we weren’t going to get all we thought we were when he opened up by saying “this is my first time doing this on an RV”. Anne asked if we could video his talk and he said he wasn’t happy with that so Anne got the notebook out and started writing. First came the tour around the outside where we were shown the outdoor entertainment centre, the various storage lockers, the on-board generator and how to start it from the outside, and then the important bits on how to connect to the Black (sewerage), grey(dirty water) and white(drinking water) tanks, and the electrical, TV and cable hook-ups.
First thing we found out was something we already knew but our guide didn’t was that there was a separate black tank for the front bathroom which was connected to the back black tank for dump purposes via a macerator pump. Got that sorted out and then moved on to the front of the vehicle, where he didn’t know how to open the hood (bonnet). Luckily I knew how to do this and had already seen all the important bits (oil fill, radiator top up, washer bottle etc.), so we completed the external tour and moved inside.
Opened up the door and out popped the steps and he took us through the 4 batteries on board (2 engine start, 2 house batteries for running unconnected to power). Next to them he pointed out the external awning controls, and then then the various fuses and breakers that were in the panel next to the switches. Then we introduced to the screen door and the main door locks etc. and finally got out of the Florida heat into the air conditioned interior!!
This is when we discovered that the bits they were supposed to be repairing hadn’t been done! The end of the tow/haul lever was still missing, and the pull that opens the sofa into a bed that was pulled off during our sales tour was still off!!
We proceed on round the coach (will not bore you with the multitude of switches, functions etc. we were introduced to), although there was quite a few things that he was unclear about how they functioned. Finally got to the bottom of most things after asking more questions.
I then noticed an extra pedal next to the automatic pedals and asked what it was and he said it was the parking brake and proceed to show us how it worked. He released the brake and at this point the levelling jacks all automatically closed, a safety feature he had forgotten all about, since you are not supposed to drive off down the road with jacks down!! After a bit of rocking and rolling as we settled onto the wheels he apologised and tried to explain what had happened!!
We then moved onto how the slides worked and said that he would now show us how they retracted. Now I was a bit puzzled by this and said so, since I had read that you should never move the slides unless the vehicle was level on the jacks, which due to his mistake were now closed. Luckily Winnebago had put another safety feature in that stops you operating the slides without being level, so when he pressed the button nothing happened!!
So we found out how the levelling system worked!! First you must turn on the engine to provide pressure for the hydraulics and then you hit the Auto Level button. At this point the jacks come down and the RV goes into a sort of dance at it figures out what jack it needs to get the RV level. After about 3 minutes it declared success and sure enough we had one green light in the middle of the levelling system saying it was level.
Then we could retract the slides!! Which we did by pressing the appropriate buttons, but noting that you must make sure you switch all the lights etc. off at the back of the RV as once the bedroom slide is in the only way to do it is to climb across the bed.
At this point the “instructor” declared it was time for lunch and he would take us through how to attach the Spark to the hitch after lunch.
Anne and I looked at each other and said fine we will go and get lunch as well and meet him back there in an hour. In reality we wanted time to write down what we thought was missing so far and what we still needed to know and get fixed.
Our list was quite long so we decided after lunch to get our main contact Will and explain to him that we were not that happy with what had happened. To give him credit all sorts of people appeared out of the woodwork and we suddenly had access to more experienced people who explained all the outstanding questions (i.e. how did the left/right turn cameras work, obvious when you shown but it was omitted!).
Then we went through the things we thought we had paid for but not been done, black/grey tanks had not been emptied and flushed, LPG was not full, gas tank was half empty and supposed to be full and we weren’t too impressed with external “detailing” (water streaks all over it).
So finally it was agreed that we would leave the RV with them until Wednesday 12th July so they had time to fix all of this and also service the vehicle/generator which had not been done. Ho hum.
Then I was shown how to hitch the Spark up to the RV (it looks tiny at the back of the RV!!), which to be honest was impressive with so many safety features to stop it flying off into the woods if it became disconnected!!
We needed the Spark as the hire car goes back on Sunday 9th and we had promised to take Lilia to Miami airport on Tuesday (going to Mexico) as Christopher starts his training course on Monday and cannot get away. So we parked it in the Customer Parking and drove back to Chris’s to get him so we could pick it up.
We then drove back with Chris and it was then that he noticed that they had damaged the Spark front bumper installing the hitch!! The dealership was closed so we drove back got something to eat, and called it a day.
Next day we went back again to have this investigated and we are getting a new bumper to fix the problem!! Result!!
Other than all above we have been continuing to shop for the RV which if some of you have seen Anne’s Facebook post has not exactly been my favourite bit!!
That’s all for now, probably will leave it until Wednesday to post again when we pick up the RV (hopefully) !!

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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I was talking to one of my co-ops today about what an Option in Scala is, and it reminded me that I’ve been meaning to blog about option types. Plus Mom has been bugging me for another good coding blog post since I’ve been a little quiet lately. I’ve just been having too much fun writing SNMP4S which no one, I mean NO ONE, not even Mom, will ever use.
So what is Option[T]? There are several ways to think of it. One way is to consider it a Collection[T] just like Set[T] or List[T] but with size/cardinality 0 or 1. That is, it is either empty, or full. You can iterate over it (either zero iterations or one iteration), map over it, reduce it, etc. It is implemented with a small hierarchy of classes. If it is empty, then it is a None. If it is not empty/full, it is a Some[T]. You can certainly see that Option[T] is an abstract base class and None and Some[T] are the only two concrete sub-classes.
val str:Option[String] = map get "key"
It’s basically the same amount of code. It also doesn’t eliminate the possibility of getting a runtime exception. Just as dereferencing null produces a NullPointerException, calling get() on a None throws a NoSuchElementException. I just thought they were taking the null pointer problem and moving it, hence not avoiding Tony Hoare’s “billion-dollar mistake”. I’d love to see languages disallow null pointers altogether, but this wasn’t solving that problem in my mind.
<Scala>Returns: an option value containing the value associated with key in this map, or None if none exists.
The explicit declaration that a type could be undefined is a fantastic idea. The caller of the API is explicitly warned in the code that None is a distinct possibility and any calls that just return T are guaranteed to be legit instances of T (WARNING: Not true for Scala, unfortunately. In order to interop with Java libraries, Scala also has a null. If only Java had gone the option route!). Hence it’s not even possible for the call to return something dereferenceable unless the creator of the API explicitly advertised that possibility. It does in fact just move the null reference problem, but it moves it to the type system which I’m finding more and more is a good idea.

industry_corpus2: Programming


text: For years I have been reading the columns of Sandra Henry-Stocker at ITworld.com. A knowledgeable and talented system administrator, she explains here why she has made the switch to gmail. The more I use gmail, the more I rely on it instead of the email program I’ve used for around seven years now. If you haven’t tried it, you should. If for no other reason the spam filtering is spectacular. And you need not give up your old email address to use gmail.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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The author of the New York Times bestseller Island of Lost Girls, Jennifer McMahon returns with Dismantled—a stunning and chilling thriller that further burnishes her reputation as, “One of the brightest new stars of literary suspense” (Los Angeles Times online). Stewart O’Nan, author of Songs for the Missing, calls Dismantled, “A fun, twisty thriller. Expect comparisons to The Secret History.” Readers of Laura Lippman, Tana French, and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones will not be able to shake this breathtaking tale of the dark consequences of a group of college friends’ belief that all things—and people—must be taken apart to be truly understood.
The "New York Times"--Bestselling author of "Island of Lost Girls" presents a chilling work in which the secrets of the past come back to haunt a group of friends in terrifying ways. Calling themselves the Dismantlers, three daring misfits--Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz--spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts of vandalism and plotting elaborate pranks. But everything changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz's death and the others decide to cover it up. Ten years later when a victim of their past pranks commits suicide, a chain of eerie events threatens to engulf Henry, Tess, and their inquisitive nine-year-old daughter, Emma.
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industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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Chimpanzees are considered an endangered species, a condition for which humans are largely responsible. Read on to know more about why chimpanzees have come under threat.
According to some estimates, chimpanzee populations have dropped to one tenth of what they were at the start of the 20th century.
Chimpanzees, commonly called chimps, belong to the Hominidae family. Their biological nomenclature is Pan troglodytes. They belong to the same family as the genera Gorilla (gorillas), Homo (humans) and Pongo (orangutans).
The tropical rainforests of western and central Africa are the most suitable natural habitats for chimpanzees. They are known to have evolved in the same region, the same as us humans. Within the tropical forests, they mainly live in open savanna woodlands, grasslands and rainforests. Bonobos (Pan paniscus), who are closely related to chimpanzees and humans, also live in the same habitat and are similarly affected by the threats faced by the chimps.
Based on the geographical location of their habitat, chimps are categorized into three different subspecies. These include the central chimpanzees (P. troglodytes troglodytes) from central Africa, the western chimpanzees from west-central Africa (P. t. verus) and the eastern chimpanzees from east-central Africa (P. t. schweinfurthii). All three subspecies are in a dire strait and, if not protected, could soon be staring down the barrel of extinction.
Reasons that pose major threats to this endangered species are massive destruction of their natural habitat, capture for the purpose of trading and hunting them down for the consumption of their meat. Let's look at each one briefly.
There was a time when more than one million chimpanzees used to live in the forests of at least 25 countries in Africa. At present the figure has gone down to below 200,000!
This drastic decrease in the number of chimpanzees began in 1960. Now, there are hardly 6 countries in Africa which house healthy populations of chimpanzees. The rest of the continent is largely unable to sustain large populations of these apes.
Growing demands from the neighboring human populations have made calamitous inroads into the chimps' natural habitat. More and more forest land is destroyed by the day, as farms take their place. Roads cut into forests, further increasing harmful human influence on the rainforests, and ever-expanding settlements on the edge of forests constantly push into the jungle, slowly but steadily eradicating neighboring patches of forests.
Continuous loss of habitat is without doubt the single most important reason for the chimpanzees becoming endangered.
Chimps are frequently caught illegally and sold as pets. Young chimps are often pursued due to their adorable appearance and the consequently high price enthusiastic owners are willing to pay for them. However, it is unethical, unsafe, and often illegal to keep them incarcerated in our homes.
Unlike domesticated animals such as dogs or cats, they are wild animals and they need to dwell in their natural environment. If chimpanzees are not treated properly, an adult chimpanzee can easily overpower its owner, causing potentially fatal injuries. Several people have died from chimp attacks, and consequently the "guilty" animal has had to be put down.
Unfortunately, most chimps get caught by their captors before they reach adulthood and thus spend the rest of their lives cooped up in miserable conditions. Conservationists have estimated that although protection for pet chimpanzees is much more efficient nowadays, only one in ten pet chimps is rescued.
This refers not to the chimps' natural predators, but people who live in and around forests. Chimpanzees are prized bushmeat, and are also exported to Western countries such as France and England. It is estimated at least 4000 chimps are killed every year.
Once again, sadly, this refers not to diseases naturally found in the chimps' habitat, but diseases spread by humans. Chimpanzees can catch many diseases from human beings, and many have died from human-borne diseases, particularly the ebola virus.
Several conservationists are trying to spread awareness among people and save these endangered animals from extinction. Chimpanzees are the closest evolutionary relatives of us humans. In fact, the DNA of chimpanzees and humans is about 98% alike! Studying these animals can provide valuable information about our own emergence and development. Sadly, that part of our lineage is slowly being destroyed by our own harmful activities in the pristine habitat of chimps.

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Eagle Wind Sound, a premiere recording studio that rivals studios found in Nashville and L.A., is hoping to add a feather in the cap of owner PJ Olsson this weekend.
Grammy-nominated chief engineer & lead singer for Alan Parsons, Olsson is part of the engineering group that caught the eye of the Recording Academy members who nominated a remastered edition of the Alan Parsons Project album Eye in the Sky, for a Grammy.
The Recording Academy receives over 20,000 entries per year. Entries are recordings submitted for Grammy consideration. Entries that meet all eligibility requirements are then voted on by the Academy voting members, and the results of that vote are the nominations.
The 61st annual Grammy ceremony will air on CBS this Sunday, February 10th. The technical awards for Best Immersive Audio Album, which Parsons, Olsson and Donnley have been nominated for will be awarded on Saturday, February 9th.
Alan Parsons Project members including Olsson are busy rehearsing new songs for their upcoming tour and a Moody Blues Cruise, so they won’t be able to attend the big event. “It is super exciting to attend the event, but engineering usually just gets a nod, if anything.” Olsson said, “we are busy polishing our new material and really excited to get it out there”.
Eagle Wind Sound, PJ Olsson and Tony Rosacci’s local destination recording studio in downtown Winter Park is offering an interesting professional studio session called, The Studio Experience.
The Studio Experience is Eagle Wind Sound’s newest offering for those that want to “Channel Their Inner Rock Star”. Participants get a feel for what the pros feel as Eagle Wind Sound engineers record their voice over professional tracks.
The experience offers participants the ability to choose from thousands of songs and invite friends and family to watch, hang out or sing along. They can make it a studio party with an entourage, get into the studio and cut a demo or just take home a sweet keepsake. And maybe, just maybe, be discovered.
Tony Rosacci, co-owner of Eagle Wind Studio, said,“This is a great opportunity to experience a professional studio environment.” Rosacci said, “we will put you in front of a high dollar microphone with headphones, turn the lights down low and let you go”. It is something exciting and different. “Whether you are an amateur, journeyman or a rising star, this is a good way to get into a pro studio with professional engineers for little money”.
The Studio Experience starts at $129 for 90 minutes. It’s fun for all ages and groups are welcome.
Eagle Wind Sound will continue to offer “mini concerts” this year, live shows in the studio. On March 2nd, they will be featuring Shovelin’ Stone, a Colorado Duo with roots embedded in the Rocky Mountains, and a sound unhinged in the capital of Texas. The duo has a shared passion for old-timey bluegrass, a sound that brought Makenzie and Zak together. Within heartfelt lyrics and a unique musical composition, the folk sound that projects from these two is not only going to get the audience thinking, but on their feet as well. The road is winding, but one thing is for sure, that with these two at the wheel it’s going to be a wild ride. Tickets are available.
Eagle Wind Studios is located in the heart of downtown Winter Park. To book a session or a seat, call (970) 363-7725, or visit: eaglewindsound.com/the-studio-experience/.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Very tourist like, which I was one to be fair, but I had to include some pictures with me in front of the Eiffel Tower. We're halfway through the Paris posts and I wish I had more time to spend there. It was really nice to be able to explore a new city and I'm very appreciative of my opportunities. I really do believe traveling is one of the best ways of enjoying life. It's a personal preference and not everyone agrees, but that's the beauty of us all being unique individuals.
Im Juni fahre ich auch endlich wieder hin :) Tolle Stadt und wunderbare Bilder!!
Danke Vicky! Wünsche dir viel Spass für Juni, bin sicher es wird traumhaft sein.
Bin total einverstanden, es ist eine sehr schöne Stadt.


text: 1) Cincinnati Model 220-DC-6 220 Ton. Three platen. Two diesets. 2) Cincinnati Model 200-C-6, 200 Ton. Three platen. 3) Cincinnati Model 110-DC-6, 110 Ton. Three platen.

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UAE. Sharjah’s expanding energy mix and the role earmarked for private sector players in driving the sector forward were among the issues explored by Majid Jafar, CEO of Crescent Petroleum, in an interview he gave recently to the global research and consultancy firm Oxford Business Group (OBG).
Jafar told OBG that several of the emirates were looking to the private sector to provide both infrastructure for harnessing untapped sources of power and solutions to help make energy generation and distribution more efficient.
“Although Sharjah and the northern emirates have previously relied on the government for investment and supply, there is an increasing realisation that both further diversification of supplies and different models of generation will be required to meet growing demand, especially from the private sector,” he said.
Jafar added that with challenges relating to the storage, efficiency and reliability of renewables still to be addressed, the UAE’s long-term strategy for broadening its energy mix envisaged a “complementary” combination of hydrocarbons and clean sources.
“Oil and natural gas will continue to be an important part of the domestic energy mix, with the latter playing a particularly important role in electricity generation,” he told OBG.
With oil prices now showing signs of improvement, supported by “unprecedented” levels of cooperation between the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC markets on output levels, Jafar noted, conditions for investors were becoming increasingly attractive.
“Private sector companies can expand their role in the energy sector by providing the investment and technology necessary to tap the new reserves that continue to be essential in the maintenance and growth of current production levels,” he said.
The interview with Jafar will form part of the research for The Report: Sharjah 2018, OBG’s forthcoming publication on the emirate’s economy.
The Report: Sharjah 2018 will provide a comprehensive guide to the many facets of the emirate’s economic environment analysed against a UAE-wide backdrop. The publication will contain a detailed, sector-by-sector guide for investors, alongside contributions from leading stakeholders. The report will be available in print and online.
Oxford Business Group is a global research and consultancy company with a presence in over 30 countries, from the Middle East, Africa and Asia to the Americas. A distinctive and respected provider of on-the-ground intelligence on many of the world’s fastest growing markets, OBG has offices in London, Berlin, Dubai and Istanbul, and a network of local bureaus across the countries in which we operate.
Through its range of products, OBG offers comprehensive and accurate analysis of macroeconomic and sectoral developments, including banking, capital markets, tourism, energy, transport, industry and ICT.


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Antarctica is the highest, driest, coldest and most desolate place on earth. The world’s fifth-largest continent, with a total area of approximately 5.5 million square miles, Antarctica is perpetually covered by a sheet of ice, one that covers all but 2.5 percent of its 5.5 million square miles. The mean annual temperature in Antarctica is minus 56 degrees F. Consequently, there is no permanent population on the continent, save for approximately 4,000 researchers that reside there during the summer and 1,000 researchers during the winter. In the area of the Antarctic below 60 degrees south, winters are completely dark, with no sunshine, while during the summer it is perpetually light, with no nighttime at all to speak of.
Penguins, whales, seals, krill (the main food for whales) and other fish species are all plentiful in the Antarctic waters. All of the warm-blooded animals living on the continent and the surrounding waters—whales, seals, sea birds, penguins—rely on thick layers of blubber to insulate them from the cold. The layer of blubber on a Weddell Seal, for example, can be up to 4 inches thick. The only warm-blooded animal that lives on Antarctica during the winter season is the Emperor Penguin. Many people tend to confuse the Antarctic with the Arctic—a northern region known for its native Eskimo people, polar bears, etc. However, in the Antarctic, there are no land mammals whatsoever, nor are there any native people.
Emperor pinguin of Antarctica In the following article we will take a closer look at Antarctica from an economic perspective. Naturally, with no permanent population and virtually uninhabitable conditions, the economic activity on the continent is exceedingly limited. However, there are a few activities that take place in the region that do add some measure of economic value to the world, as well as to the 30+ nations that conduct them. We will also go over the economic history of Antarctica, albeit brief, and explain why many of the activities that make up this history have now been suspended due to environmental concerns.
In terms of economics, there were essentially two activities that dominated Antarctica’s past: Whaling and Sealing. Below we will examine both of these activities a bit more closely, as well as their impact on Antarctica’s bio-system.
The history of whaling in Antarctic waters is a tale of greed and excess; an activity that has been described as being “more like mining than a sustainable fishery.” Once the most profitable species of whales had been hunted to a point of great scarcity, the focus shifted to the next most profitable species until it too was very rare, and then to the next and so on.
Whaling began in the Antarctic waters in the 1800s, with humpback whales being the primary target of most commercial fishing vessels. Within ten years, the humpback species became extremely rare in these waters, and the development of new technologies allowed fishermen to go after the much faster-swimming blue whales. By 1930, nearly 30,000 blue whales had been caught off the coast of Antarctica. By 1940, blue whales also became scarce, and the focus shifted, first to the Fin whales (27,000 caught during the 1940s), followed in order by the sperm whale and Sei whale. When these, too, became endangered, fishermen even went after the smaller Minke whale species.
Fearing that commercial whaling in Antarctica—an activity pursued by many different nations around the world—would eventually lead to extinction of many different whale species and irreversible damage to the ecosystem, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was founded. The IWC was charged with the dubious task of trying to regulate the whaling industry to a position of sustainability, where catches would be balanced by production. In this, however, the commission failed. In fact, the only thing that ultimately drove companies from the business of whaling was a drop in profits—a drop due to a great lack of whales in the region to a point in which there not many left to kill.
The impact of the IWC did come in time, however. In the 1960s, for example, blue whales and humpback whales became fully protected; a level of protection that was then extended to fin and sei whales in the 1970s. Eventually, in 1986, the IWC suspended all commercial whaling whatsoever.
An abandoned whaling boat Today, commercial whaling has all but ceased around the world, although some nations, particularly Japan, continue to catch whales in the name of scientific research: to find out if the time has come to recommence commercial whaling in the Antarctic region. Many of these “scientifically worthy” whales, however, end up in some of Japan’s upscale restaurants, where one whale can often fetch a market price of 1 million dollars or more.
Whales are now protected by the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.
In the 1700s and 1800s, long before the continent of Antarctica was discovered, southern fur seals were almost completely wiped out by commercial ventures from Europe and North America. Fur seal pelts were extremely popular, largely for their dense, short, fibred fur and were often made into ladies winter coats. In pursuit of more of these seals, Captain James Cook voyaged to the island of South Georgia in 1775 and reported that there were large numbers of seals in the region. Within 25 years of being discovered, the summer catch around this island had climbed to over 100,000 seals a year, and by 1822, the southern fur seal was virtually extinct on South Georgia.
Ironically, it was the search for new populations of seals that was ultimately responsible for much of the early exploration of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. One of the very first sightings of the Antarctic continent is credited to Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer who spotted the continent in the summer of 1820. Additionally, the first group to winter in the region was a ten-member crew of the British sealing ship Lord Melville on King George Island, just north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Like whaling, sealing became big business in the waters around Antarctica, and many people feared their dwindling numbers would lead to a disastrous collapse of the region’s bio-system. In response to this, a commission was formed entitled the “Convention for the Conversation of Antarctic Seals” (CCAS). Generally speaking, the CCAS was initiated to curtail the over-exploitation of fur seals and the disastrous effects on seal stocks. The CCAS established rules for commercial sealing, with permissible catch limits for some species, including the Crabeater, Leopard and Weddell seals. A zoning system, which included closed hunting seasons in various areas, was also drawn up, and certain species of fur seal, such as the Ross Seal, were given total protection from sealers.
Since the 1950s, sealing in Antarctica has been closed and the numbers of fur seals is once again flourishing.
Whaling and sealing in Antarctica during the 19 and 20 centuries caused an upset in the continent’s ecosystem that took decades to repair. Their slaughter was driven by economic greed, and had it not been for the respective commissions that were set up to study the effects of these two economic activities they could very well be extinct today in the waters that surround Antarctica. Today, thanks to the Antarctic Treaty, none such economic activities are permitted in Antarctica. The Treaty also states that, on Antarctica itself, no Antarctic bird or land animal can be killed or captured without a permit—granted only for scientific reasons under the terms of the treaty.
In Antarctica, scientific pursuits, and not commercial undertakings, are the primary forms of most human activity. Fishing off the coast and tourism, industries that are both based abroad, comprise the limited economic activity on this desolate continent, while researchers at a few scattered facilities make up Antarctica’s small temporary population. The Antarctic dollar, a mock-up souvenir item sold in the United States and Canada, is not legal tender.
Coal, hydrocarbons, iron ore, platinum, copper, chromium, nickel, gold and other minerals have all been found on and around Antarctica, but they have not been located in large enough quantities to exploit. Even if they had been discovered in great quantities, the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty prohibits nations and individuals from performing large scale extractions and from actively competing for these minerals. In 1998, a compromise agreement was reached to place an indefinite ban on mining—a ban that will not be reviewed again until 2048, further limiting economic development and exploitation.
The largest economic activity of value in Antarctica is the capture and offshore trading of fish. Last year alone, fisheries on the continent reportedly landed nearly 150,000 tons of fish.
The fisheries of Antarctica target three main species: Patagonian and Antarctica Toothfish, Mackerel Icefish, and Krill. The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) determines the recommended catch limits and licensing requirements for all marine species in Antarctica. Despite these protections, unregulated fishing, particularly the overfishing of the Patagonian toothfish (also known as Chilean sea bass), is a serious problem.
The Patagonian toothfish is a prized delicacy in Japan, one that has already been over exploited by the fishing industry. In 1998, it was estimated that the total catch of this species was some 10-fold over the legal catch limit. In that same year, at least eight boats were seized by France and Australia and charged with illegal fishing.
Antarctica seals Tourism has existed in Antarctica since about 1957. Most of this has been small-scale “expedition tourism,” and is currently subject to the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty and Environmental Protocol, but is basically self-regulated by the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators (IAATO). Of course, not all vessels associated with Antarctic tourism are members of IAATO, but IAATO members do account for about 95 percent of the tourist activity. Travel to Antarctica is largely done by small or medium ship, with a focus on specific scenic locations with accessible concentrations of iconic wildlife. An estimated 70,000 tourists, most arriving by commercial ship, visit Antarctica each year—a number that has risen steadily since the beginning of the decade.
Rising tourism in the Antarctic region has led to many environmental concerns and political debate. At issue is how to protect the Antarctic landscape and its biota, while still allowing tourists to visit and experience the continent for themselves. Strict visitor guidelines are now in place to help minimize potential damage, but there continues to be a very real threat of a significant environmental disaster, particularly one caused by a cruise vessel running aground.
No commercial or private aircraft is permitted to land on the continent of Antarctica. Antarctic sightseeing flights, which flew over the country but never landed, operated in places such as Chile, Australia and New Zealand for many years, but these were suspended after the Erebus Tragedy. In 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901, on an over-flight of Antarctica, crashed into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. Today, the only company that offers these types of over-flights to Antarctica is Qantas Airlines of Australia, which resumed the flights in the early 1990s.
As of 2012, approximately 30 countries maintained roughly 70 research stations in Antarctica, 40 of which operate year-round and 30 that are opened only during the Austral summer. Staffing these centers are approximately 4,000 researchers, only 1,000 of whom remain on the continent during the winter. The largest of these stations is the McMurdo station, once the sight of a portable 1.8 MW nuclear power station, erected about halfway up Observation Hill by the United States Navy in 1962. The reactor from this station was eventually shut down ten years later, and shipped back to the U.S. along with 100+ drums of radioactive earth. Following its removal, it took six years before the site was deemed decontaminated enough for unrestrictive use.
Poor waste discharge methods from McMurdo and other smaller facilities in Antarctica have resulted in an intense combination gradient of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Consequently, an extensive cleanup program was initiated at McMurdo Station in 1988. Major rubbish dumps were removed and returned to the USA, dumping along the shoreline was prohibited, and sewage and grey water were required to be discharged at a submerged outfall. This has helped somewhat to counteract the human-caused pollution in Antarctica, although according to the results of a recent study, a significant level of contamination still exists and has the potential to drastically impact life forms on the continent, including the local fish species.


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Haha not to worry, I have another copy on blue vinyl (from the Deluxe box) signed by Kevin Parker :) This is an extra one that I've had laying around for no reason. Someone else needs to take it off my hands and enjoy it!
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text: This project brought to fruition one of the desired goals of SVA Architects: to emphasize performing arts venues as community centerpieces. The 650-seat Performing Arts Center at West Covina High School features a full fly loft and orchestra pit that provides a state-of-the-art facility for their drama, dance and music/chorale programs. A full scene shop, dressing rooms, and prop/costume storage supports the main theater as well as the black box theater. Additional related instructional spaces include an acoustically treated music/choral room, television broadcast studio, and video editing lab. This new venue will prove vital to the educational lives of the West Covina students and to the community as a whole.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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The Umbrella Community Arts Center seeks an energetic and highly innovative professional to round out our team and to fill the open full-time position of Director of Development. The successful candidate will assume a leadership role in all aspects of our fundraising efforts.
The Umbrella is growing and expanding; attracting more and more people to the Arts through our five programs. Our Arts Education program registers over 1,600 students per year. 1,300 people participate in our Arts & Environment celebrations, and last year we sold 16,000 tickets to Performing Arts events. In addition, Open Studio weekends, which celebrate our 56 studio artists, bring in over 2,000 community members, and we are proud to have over 275 volunteers who contributed over 3,500 hours of service last year.
Our annual giving goals are projected to increase over the next five years as we grow programs and continue to work towards a major renovation and reconstruction of our space. We are in the midst of a major capital campaign and have successfully achieved 60% of the goal through gifts and pledges.
The selected candidate can expect the full support of the Board and staff. S/He will be working most closely with the Executive Director and Development Committee Chair, and will supervise a Director of Annual Giving and a Development Associate.
Working with Board and Staff, capital campaign responsibilities to include donor relations, prospect research, and solicitation planning.
Work with the Development Committee and others to identify, cultivate, and solicit individuals, private foundations, government, and corporate sources, including sponsorships for various programs.
Annual budgeting for Development office.
Ensure accurate and up-to-date tracking of annual giving and campaign information and goals; provide progress reports on a regular basis.
Integrate Capital Campaign activities with Annual Appeal and other fundraising events to achieve a successful campaign.
Support the work of relevant Board committees and other staff and artists to plan, promote, and execute a variety of special events designed to attract contributions or raise the organization’s profile and/or expand fundraising capacity.
Proficiency in use of Raiser’s Edge and Microsoft Office software.
Availability to attend early morning and evening events as required.


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text: Spacious Two Plus One Bedroom Unit. Large Kitchen, Living And Dining Room. Oversized Master Bedroom Features A Walk-In Closet And Stunning Views. Large Balcony. Well Maintained Condo Building With Great Amenities Include Exercise Room, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Party Room And 24Hr Security, And Great Location. Minutes To Downtown And Dvp, Transit, Shopping, Park, Community Cntr. Its A Must See! Move In Condition!

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Classic Auto-Fill Foil Balloon Inflator is Great for Ad Specialty & Retail Accounts! Never pop a foil balloon again! Automatically fills all size foil balloons to correct pressure and size. Includes ribbon cutter, pressure gauge and hand-tight connection. Tank is not included.
Great for Ad Specialty & Retail Accounts!
Never pop a foil balloon again! Automatically fills all size foil balloons to correct pressure and size. Includes ribbon cutter, pressure gauge and hand-tight connection.
Place the neck of the foil onto the Auto-Fill Foil Outlet to begin inflating. Automatically inflates foils to the correct pressure and size.
Automatically fills all size foil balloons to the correct pressure and size.
• Manually inflates all sizes foil balloons to the correct pressure and size.
Excellent little foil balloon inflator – good craftsmanship and worked well on our foil balloons.


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Last night at SDCC, the 2013 Eisner Award winners were announced. Among the winners were two Secret Identity favorites that received some well deserved recognition.
Becky Cloonan won "Best Single Issue/One-Shot" for her fantastic indie comic The Mire. It's an amazing book that I reviewed on the show back when it first hit ComiXology. You can also go back to issue #464 of Secret Identity to hear the interview I did with Becky at last year's Boston Comic Con. You can also grab The Mire on ComiXology here.
Another Secret Identity favorite, Chris Samnee was recognized in the "Best Penciller/Inker" category (along with David Aja of Hawkeye) for his word on both Daredevil and The Rocketeer. You can hear us rave about Samnee's art pretty much weekly on SI. He is on our short list for people we've yet to interview but really want to get on the show.
On a sad note, Secret Identity did not take home the award in the "Best Comics Related Periodical/Journalism" category, on account of the fact that we were not nominated and never have been. There's always next year!
You can see the full list of this year's winners over on CBR's Robot Six blog. Congrats to everyone!
Both these two artists are outstanding. I love Aja too. Really great choices this year.


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Rands Farm is a 17th-century farmhouse with 19th-century extensions and frontage. It remained a farm after Shipton was enclosed by private Act of Parliament of 1745, when all other farms in Shipton were replaced by enclosure farms in the fields. Its present name comes from the family which occupied it in the second half of the 19th century; it does not seem to have had a permanent name before then. It is now set back from the road but would been right on it before the turnpike was realigned in the 1830s. See the Shipton section for more information. It has been part of the Swanbourne Estate since 1897.
After his death the tenancy passed to his son-in-law John Bull.
Valuable Yorkshire Cows, Horses, Sheep, Pigs, Hay, and Keeping.
COMPRISING 32 in-calf, new-milch, and barren Cows, two-year-old cart Colt, a nag Horse, rising four Years old, by Abomelique; 45 Leicester Ewes, 25 shearhog Sheep, and three Rams; five fat Hogs, five Porkers, and 14 store Pigs; about 100 Tons of prime meadow Hay, and about 100 Acres of fresh Keeping, till the 25th of March, 1818.
Two Months’ Credit will be given for the Hay and Keeping, with the usual Conditions.
Edwin, Thomas, occupier of Lands in his own occupation.
Lot 13 A valuable dairy and milk farm known as Rands ... The farm house contains 2 sitting rooms, kitchen, pantry, Dairy, Churn House, Cellar, Wash House and 6 bed rooms. The buildings near the house, which are chiefly brick built and slated, are conveniently arranged round a large fold yard. The northern block consists of a 5-bay open cattle shed, loose box and a 2-bay open stock shed. The eastern block - a box for 4 head, cow house for 6, and another range for 10 head. The southern block - a 5-bay open cart shed, wood house, 8 pigsties, boiling house etc. The western block -stable for 4 horses, nag stable for 2 with loft over and a large barn … 174 a 3r 31 p … let to Mr G.A. Monk on a yearly (Lady Day) tenancy, at a rent of £216 per annum.
1982	D.F. Walker moved to Corkett's Farm. Rands Farm ceased to be a working farm and the land was absorbed by the Fremantle Estate.


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Gather all the blocks and jump over the slime then jump down.
Jump over the slime and get the sand block then jump over to the second wood block.
Jump right and get the wood blocks.
Jump left and destroy the Iron block when the slime is near.
Place another Pointing-Shape then destroy them.As you are falling down keep running right to get the chest.
Then just jump up to go to the next stage.
Gather the blocks and proceed.
Watch out for the falling lava.
The lava will burn the wood.
Run up and go gather the other blocks.
Place a Straight-Shape with two wood blocks on the left and two Grey blocks on the right.
Gather and run down and go right.
Place a Straight-Shape then destroy them.
Gather the wood block to the left then place a Square-Shape with two stone on the left and two wood on the right.
Then run up and over then go to the next stage.

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Reeder Custom Guns - I don't think I could have done that. No. I know I couldn't.
I don't think I could have done that. No. I know I couldn't.


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Introduction: Nozawa Holidays has been established in the traditional ski town of Nozawa Onsen for over 20 Years. We have a great international team taking care of our guests from all over the world. We run accommodation, ski school, rental shop, café and tours. Looking for genki and hard working people to join our fun team in this beautiful Village.
Need to be happy, organized and enjoy taking care of people. Also be able to shovel snow we get a lot of it!
Pay varies depending on the position but good rates and benefits.
Preference is given to Japanese Speakers and people with Working Visa for Japan.
Rosters are generally for 6 days a week of 7 hours a day with shifts varying but total of 42 hours per week.
We are very busy during the season so looking for hard working fun people to join our team.


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GURPS Supers is a tabletop roleplaying game about superheroes. It contains templates for the 21 most common superhero archetypes to expedite character creation, and offers guidance for game masters. It is meant for use with the GURPS Basic Set and GURPS Powers.
A high priority in the Fourth Edition of GURPS was to make the system run smoothly for high-powered campaigns. Earlier editions of this book, intended for use with the Third Edition GURPS rules, were criticized by fans. But the current edition has been well-received. And with the introduction of simplified rules for super strength in Pyramid #3/83, a major complaint about the current edition has been answered.


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End of the year draw is close and Wargaming would like to celebrate the holiday season with an unique event. We created a special contest to rejoice the New Year with you and to thank all of our players with tons of prizes.
It does not matter if you are a beginner or a well experienced Commander; everyone has the chance to win. What really matters is the experience you have gained, not the amount of battles you have won.
Each day there will be several mice, headphones and mouse pads to be won!
The event starts 23.12.2011 and lasts until 28.12.2011.
You can participate in all categories every day, at the same time, but only one prize will be awarded per player. However, you can still post screenshots to increase your chances of winning a laptop.
We will give away prizes every day – by participating every day you will increase your chances of winning.
Winners will be announced every day – should you win multiple prizes you will only receive the highest one.
Every participant who made at least one valid entry in any category will be included in the final random raffle draw to win a laptop – the winners of laptops will be announced at the end of the event. Every valid entry gives you one extra chance for a laptop, up to 18 entries (6 days and 3 Categories).
Participation in all three categories will increase your chances of winning a laptop.
Every participant has to take a garage screenshot which shows the time, date and achievements of a battle, and then post it on our forums (one screenshots in total per a contest entry).
Only Standard Battle are valid entries.
All participants are considered equal, whether they have a premium account or not. Premium account owners’ experience bonus will be counted towards their final experience score.
It’s up to each player whether they want to play their first day battle with doubled experience. Only the base amount of experience (without the multiplier) will be considered.
There will be one criterion to participate and another to choose winners out of all participants.
To participate in the commander’s competition you need to have 500 exp points and at least one of the achievements, e.g. Sniper, Top Gun, Steel Wall etc.
The winners will be chosen according to the amount of experienced gained.
So for every category there will be 4 commanders who will win prizes based on their amount of earned experience, the highest amount wins the best prize, etc.
Everyone can participate in the random raffle. All you have to do is post screenshots of your daily battles where you have earned more than 500 experience points.
Only one entry per category thread is allowed!
We will give out 24 prizes per day in total: 12 prizes for experienced commanders and 12 prizes through a random raffle system.
There will be 3 threads in the Contests Section (one for each category); in these threads you can post your garage screenshots with time, date and battle achievements to participate.
Each thread will be open from 11:00 to 23:00 CET (10:00 – 22:00 GMT). Players can make only one post in each category thread but they can edit their post later during the day until 23:00 CET. For instance, in the Commander Competition: you post your first screenshots with your achievements and the amount of experience gained at 11:00 and in the evening you have a better battle and would like to use the stats from that battle. So you just edit your post from 11:00 and update it with the latest screenshots. Only screenshots taken between 00:00 and 23:00 CET (23:00 previous day and 22:00 GMT) will be considered to enter the competition.
At 23:00 CET we will close the 3 threads for the day and start to check the results from the Commander Competition, as soon as we have the 12 winners, we will take all other participants and throw them into a big raffle where the winners will be randomly selected by computer.
After 6 days in this contest we will take all participants (commanders and all others) and throw them into one big random raffle for the 3 big main prizes, “the WoT Laptops”.
We will record the draw and post winners’ names plus the draw video on EU WoT portal within the first two weeks of January.


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Surface tension is the tension of the surface film of a liquid caused by the attraction of the particles in the surface layer by the bulk of the liquid.
The cohesive forces between molecules in a liquid are shared with all neighboring molecules.
Surface tension is important because fluid surface tension is the tangential force that keeps a fluid together at the air/fluid interface.
A beach ball floating on water is a great example of surface tension.
Surface tension allows light objects to float on water. For example, when a water dome was made in the petri dish, paper clips were able to float on the water surface. Due to the great attraction between liquid molecules, surface tension is created.

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Mulled wine, or Glüehwein as it is called in Austria and Germany is an easy and delicious drink prepared by heating Hillier Creek Estates Pino Noir together with aromatic spices and citruses.
This drink is most often associated with cold weather or the Christmas season, but we love it year round. Such a great way to relax, sip and reflect upon the day – no matter what the weather!
If you don’t have to drive anywhere, try it with a shot of brandy. Guaranteed to warm you up on a chilly night!
Glühwein is best when prepared and garnished with whole spices, however ground spices work just fine but do not strain as cleanly.
Heat up wine mixture almost to boiling point, then turn heat off.
Strain spices and pour hot mulled wine into mugs or heatproof glasses, garnish and enjoy!


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Computer vision technology is one of the more remarkable AI applications. It actually helped spark the current AI revolution in 2012, when researchers used a deep neural network to radically improve the ability to recognize and classify objects in images. Since then, neural nets have surpassed even human abilities in many areas.
Companies are now investing billions of dollars in computer vision research and product development. We’re seeing companies like IBM and Pinterest driving innovative use cases in computer vision applications. These include security cases, like detecting human faces with startling accuracy, even from lamp-posts as they speed down the highway in their cars; to ecommerce, where retail companies can let you search for a pair of jeans your favorite celebrity was wearing — simply by uploading an image.

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Koffre uses a single data file named "passwords.pas" just save this file to get all your basic passwords.
Depending on your version of windows and your configuration file is in a different directory.
To find your data file must be sought in windows explorer.


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With a stream of platinum selling albums, Opshop have firmly lodged themselves into NZ’s musical lexicon with popular singles such as ‘One Day’, ‘No Ordinary Thing’, and ‘Maybe’.
Greg Johnson is a first class composer, wordsmith and entertainer. With numerous Tui awards under his belt, and the winner of the coveted Silver Scroll songwriter's award, he has repeatedly embedded his songs into the hearts of New Zealanders.
Dukes are a five-piece rock band from Christchurch. With 2 fantastic albums already, their Top 10 single "Vampires" continues to collect awards.


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Favourite things to do. Sit and read with a cup of coffee. It was a darn hot day yesterday so ice latte it is. #currentlyreading #Zeroes by @scott_westerfeld. Fav person currently, Anon.
Honored to be alongside @lostucanesdetijuana during @pandora 1 Billion Streams presentation !