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Cruise cabins from 8001 to 8634, of which Inside cabins (categories – IC, ID, IF, IB (midship) and I1 – Family cabin), Oceanview cabins (OA, OC – picture window) and OK – obstructed view), Balcony cabins (BB, BC, BD, B2 (Family cabin) and B1 – aft facing balcony), SF – aft facing Penthouse with Large balcony).
During the ship's 2017 drydock refurbishment, on Deck 8 "Moderno Churrascaria" (Brazilian steakhouse, location midship-aft starboard) was moved to deck 13 (midship).
Blue Lagoon (96 seats, location midship portside, open 24 hours) was a complimentary buffet restaurant for fast food (burgers, Chinese, bacon, snacks). Its space now is occupied by O'Sheehan's Bar & Grill.
O’Sheehan’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill (285 seats) is a 24-hour-open English pub / sports bar serving traditional pub fare and drinks (incl draft beer and specialty coffee). While all the food is complimentary, specialty drinks are a-la-carte priced (incl Lavazza coffee, beer, cocktails). The bar has large TVs for live sporting events, sports memorabilia on the walls, electronic table games, mini bowling lanes, darts, arcades. There are separate menus for breakfast (between 5 – 11 am), lunch and dinner (between 11 am – 5 am), plus late night snacks. Breakfast menu has French toasts (white or whole-wheat bread, whipped butter, maple syrup), cold meats, Bakery Basket (assorted muffins, Danish pastries, croissants), hot oatmeal, Express (scrambled eggs, bacon, hush browns, pastries), Country Platter (eggs, bacon, link sausage, baked beans, sauteed mushrooms), Tortilla Vegetable Wrap, juices (orange, apple, cranberry), hot beverages (fresh-brewed coffee, teas, hot chocolate). Lunch menu has Chicken Wings (buffalo, Texas BBQ, Thai Chili, Jamaican Jerk, all served with celery-blue cheese dip), nachos (bacon, cheddar, jalapenos, cilantro), warm spinach and artichoke dip, fried chicken tenders, Chicken Pot Pie (breast, peas, carrots, cream sauce), soups and salads (incl Caesar and Chef’s), Fish N’ Chips, Burger Bar (prime beef burgers with cheddar, smoked bacon, French fries). Dinner menu offers beef hot dogs (named The Pub, Chicago Style, Coney Island, all served with French fries), Chicken Fajitas (tortillas, quasamole), Irish Favorites (“Shepherd’s Pie” /beef and lamb, “Bangers & Mash” /pork sausages, Fish & Chips), Sandwich Corner (Chipotle Chicken, Grilled Reuben on Rye, Turkey or Roast Beef, Tuna Melt, Honey Smoked Salmon, ), also steaks (prime rib on select evenings). As all-day breakfast are offered House-Made Corned Beef Hash (served with 2 eggs, 1 toast) and made-to-order omelets (ham, bacon, cheddar, onion, tomatoes, peppers, French fries). Among desserts are Chocolate Brownie Sundae, Warm Apple Pie, Vanilla / Strawberry Pound Cake, Fresh Fruit Plate, also Root Beer Float (with ice cream) and Malted Vanilla Shake.


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Volunteers teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to help repair homes in the South Bay.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Volunteers teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to help repair homes in the South Bay.
On a normal day, Shubha Govil is a product management leader at San Jose's Cisco Systems. Today though, she joined 59 other women to do repairs, deck building, painting, maintenance and even some demolition work at a mobile home park under the aegis of Habitat for Humanity East Bay & Silicon Valley. Her volunteer labor is going to have a big impact on the lives of Tim and Valerie Jaggers, whose home at the Westwinds Mobile Home Park has fallen in disrepair because of their physical limitations.
A group of 15 people is busy painting the exterior, replacing a sliding glass door, and repairing termite damage. It was all made possible by the combination of a grant from the City of San Jose and a zero-interest loan administered by Habitat for Humanity.
Habitat for Humanity East Bay & Silicon Valley executive director Janice Jensen says volunteer teams are usually half women and half men, but today is the annual Women's Leadership Build, an opportunity for employees to develop new skills, provide community service, and network. Besides Cisco, the women come from a variety of companies, including Bank of America and Xilinx. Some are first-timers while others, like Shubha, are repeat volunteers.
For the Jaggers, the help they're getting will give them peace of mind, knowing that their mobile home will be in good condition for years to come. They live on a small pension and Social Security. They moved into their home in 1983.

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A new computerized system being tested by the Houston Police Department will make it easier to track stolen vehicles — including the roughly 1,000 taken in the city last month.
Nearly 240 of those were Ford trucks, making them the most popular target for thieves in October.
The Automatic License Plate Recognition System, which includes six cameras that automatically scan the license plate of any vehicle that crosses their path, has been mounted already on several Houston police patrol cars, authorities said.
The information is then fed into a database that will instantly alert the officer if the car is stolen or is connected to another serious incident, such as an Amber Alert, police said. It's a quick and safe tool for officers, HPD officials said.
"Not every car is equipped with it," said Sgt. Michelle Sandoval, an HPD spokeswoman. "But each station has some of these."
The system, called PlateScan by its manufacturer, California-based Civica Software, frees the officer from manually typing the questionable license plate into the car's onboard computer system or asking the dispatcher to make the check.
According to the company's Web site, several California police departments, along with Mesquite's, also have adopted the system.
HPD officials said they are seeking grant funding and donations to upgrade more patrol cars.

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Outsourcing often gets a bad rap, particularly from unions and job hunters, but according to Jacqui Miller, founder of Dynamic Business Outsource Solutions, one of the world’s leading outsource companies with centres based in the Philippines, outsourcing is actually a positive thing to do that helps to accelerate business growth and financial wellbeing.
“I think it’s really important to set the record straight and let people know that outsourcing, or rightsourcing as we call it, is an extremely sensible approach to business growth and operations,” Jacqui said today.
Jacqui Miller knows what she is talking about. Having been involved in founding many start-ups in various industries including hospitality, marketing and travel, Jacqui understands the challenges businesses face when starting up and scaling to enable growth.
“Rightsourcing is about selecting the right or best source of services that suits the business whether it be in-house or using outside third party services that virtually become an extension of your business,” Jacqui added.
“Outsourcing has been around for some time in the business sphere, but has only been available to the big end of town. Now small to medium size business owners can also utilise these services giving their businesses a fighting chance to compete and grow.
“The key to building and growing a small to medium size business or startup is working with the right people and making the most of the limited resources you have. Over the span of my career I’ve seen the positive impact rightsourcing can have on the success of a business, whether it be a large company or small enterprise.
The Diversity ‘The State of Offshoring 2017’ research report identified that while cost pressures are the main factor driving businesses to offshore and offshoring plays a critical role in making businesses more competitive, it also has a positive impact on the economy as it allows businesses to compete globally and grow faster.
The report also states that in many cases, businesses leverage offshore teams to supplement their local employees by removing time-consuming and low-value tasks. Research conducted by leading organisations has identified that employees spend 80% of their time on low-value tasks, whereas they’re only able to spend 20% on the tasks that grow businesses – dealing with client queries, providing a high level of service or working on strategic objectives aligned with organisational goals.
“Businesses that rightsource are more confident financially because tasks that are not required to be done inhouse are undertaken elsewhere for much less cost – meaning the business has more money to invest in other places,” Jacqui added.
“Thanks to technology, rightsourcing is incredibly easy. People can work from anywhere as long as they have access to the internet and most businesses operate with cloud based systems whether they be for communication, accounting, sales, or marketing.
“Many business owners attempt to run all aspects of the business themselves, but this can be difficult if the business is new, the team is small, or the expertise isn’t there. To grow and be successful, you’ve got to share the load, especially with someone who can do it better and faster, and this often means working with experts in the field needed.
“Rightsourcing enables small businesses to compete and grow by reducing wage costs and increasing productivity. It gives businesses, especially start-ups, the two most important aspects needed for success: more time and money.

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October « 2014 « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!
Celebrating Alfred Russel Wallace with … a symposium of only straight white men?
Perhaps rather naively, I didn’t anticipate the amount of publicity our letter regarding the upcoming public Wallace Centennial Celebration would generate. I had hoped to start a discussion about the issues surrounding diversity and safety in STEM that were raised, and I’m glad to say that this has happened. I have had several very thoughtful and productive conversations with the event organizers and I can confidently and emphatically say that issues surrounding diversity and equality are very important to them. In various ways they’ve each shown this commitment, throughout their careers, through concrete actions.
I asked one of the organizers to help summarize the history of the event. Paraphrasing our discussion: In this specific case the original grant submission included women speakers (4 of 8 speakers) but for various reasons they were ultimately not able to participate. The event organizers wanted to host speakers who are not only excellent scientists and speakers but are also knowledgeable about Wallace and his legacy, which led to a narrow set of selection criteria and led to the original publicized lineup. The revised lineup includes two remarkable women, one an historian of science, and the other an evolutionary medicine specialist.
Update, 29 October: It’s been brought to my attention that the list of symposium speakers now includes Soraya de Chadarevian and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, which suggests that the organizers are making some changes.
Update, 25 October: I’ve amended the headline of this post to better reflect, I hope, that what the letter and its signatories object to is not the inclusion of white men on the symposium panel, but the lack of inclusion of similarly accomplished folks from groups that are systematically underrepresented in science. As I note below, the panelists are highly accomplished, and appropriate for the Wallace Centennial—but the panel could include women as well without compromising the prestige or topicality of its membership.
2014 marks a century since the death of Alfred Russel Wallace, who is recognized as co-discoverer, with Charles Darwin, of evolution by natural selection. Appropriately, the University of California Los Angeles is holding a symposium of biologists and natural historians to celebrate Wallace’s life and work. Unfortunately, the panel of speakers chosen for the symposium doesn’t exactly reflect the diversity of humanity, or even humans who are biologists and natural historians. Although there are lots of very accomplished folks on the panel who will likely give interesting talks, they’re all straight (so far as I know) white men. That’s right, the Alfred Russel Wallace Centennial fails the gay bar test pretty spectacularly.
UK Resource Centre for Women in SET recently posted a study that found that only 12% of female late stage PhD students intend to pursue a career in academia. The Guardian does an excellent job summarizing the findings, as well as explaining why this is a terrible thing.

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Kraft Recalls 240,000 Cases Of Macaroni And Cheese Due To Several Metal Shavings Found.
Kraft Foods is recalling 242,000 cases of original flavor Kraft Macaroni and Cheese because some of the boxes contain small pieces of metal.
They were sold throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and in some countries in the Caribbean and South America.
The recall covers 7.25 ounce boxes that were sold individually and in packs of three, four and five.
Kraft Foods Group Inc. says it is aware of eight incidents of consumers finding metal in the boxes, it hasn’t been informed of any injuries. It says consumers should not eat the macaroni and should return it to the store where it was purchased for a full refund.


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Ruth presents How to Get Rid of Melasma posted at Paleo Diet Basics, saying, "Melasma (skin pigmentation) is no fun, and it's difficult to get rid of. But get rid of it I did, using a combination of natural treatments. Find out how!"
Eileen Laird presents Episode 02: Paleo 101 posted at Phoenix Helix, saying, "In the first episode of the Phoenix Helix podcast, we shared real-life examples of what reversing autoimmune disease looks like. Today, I'm joined by paleo expert, Liz Wolfe, to bust the myths and help everyone understand why paleo is a healthy way to live and eat. As always, I'll be filtering all of this information through the lens of autoimmunity."
Meghan Little and Angel Ayala Torres presents Paleo Pancetta Stuffed Mushrooms, A Dinner Party Appetizer posted at Paleo Effect, saying, "Got a lot to do for your next dinner party? Grab the family! Stuffing these mushrooms is so easy, it's the perfect job for kids! Ready in 20 minutes from prep to serve!"
Louise Hendon presents How to Detoxify Your Organs posted at Paleo Living Magazine, saying, "Guest post by Christopher James Clark on how to support and detoxify our organs."
Louise Hendon presents The Quick and Dirty Guide to Corn: Why It’s NOT Healthy or Paleo posted at Paleo Living Magazine, saying, "Is corn healthy? This article examines how nutritious corn is as well as its potential toxicity."
Tarah presents Paleo Road Trip: Packing for Baby, What We Ate...and Wholegrain Mustard White Sweet Potato Salad Recipe posted at What I Gather, saying, "The title says it all! A rundown of how we planned to stick to a healthy, Paleo diet on our recent vacation and a great road trip recipe for sweet potato salad."
Amy Kubal presents The Last Blog Post You Ever Need To Read To Be Successful - (Seriously) posted at Robb Wolf, saying, "If you've been searching for the magic formula to health, weight loss, performance and an optimal life - you're in luck! Here it is!!"
Clare Gravolet presents Cinnamon Apple "Oatmeal" posted at Happy Eater, saying, "I used to love oatmeal. It was so comforting! Now I have a Paleo version for chilly mornings!"
Clare Gravolet presents Apple Pumpkin Pie Smoothie posted at Happy Eater, saying, "Fall weather in Houston involves many 80-90 degree days, so this smoothie recipe is perfect for the warm weather and the Fall season!"

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Marybeth McCaffrey is an attorney with more than two decades of experience in both the private and public sectors. Her work focuses on health integration, long term services and supports, Medicaid, and health technology.
Prior to joining UMass Medical School, McCaffrey served for 18 years in Vermont’s Agency of Human Services where she worked with three departments. At the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, she led health reform and oversaw Vermont’s nationally-distinguished comprehensive systems for people who need long term services and supports by managing the budget, program policy, operations and quality oversight with a large professional and technical staff. At the Department of Children and Families, McCaffrey conducted the implementation of dozens of major national and local initiatives, as well as interdepartmental teams tasked with coordination of programs across multiple agencies. She also served on the National Eligibility Technical Advisory Group (E-TAG) of the National Association of Medicaid Directors from 2004-2009, serving as the Chair from 2006-2009. At the Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services, McCaffrey served as Special Assistant Attorney General, following six years of private litigation practice, and a judicial clerkship with the Vermont Supreme Court.
McCaffrey holds a law degree from Northeastern University School of Law. At Emmanuel College, she earned a bachelor’s degree and certification in music therapy.

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The Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries carried out a locust training session and destroyed three egg-beds earlier this week.
In a statement, the Ministry said the pest abatement exercise was launched by its County Victoria staff on Friday, November 10 and detected three separate Moruga locust (Coscineuta virens) egg-beds in the Tableland area.
These discoveries were as a result of the efforts of a joint team of staff from the Ministry's St Patrick East; Victoria; Nariva / Mayaro and Caroni Counties, who visited each of the three sites as part of their practical locust training session on Tuesday November 14.
The training – which was facilitated by Agricultural Assistant III (with direct responsibility for the Locust Control Programme in County Victoria), Rudy Ramdass – targeted approximately 40 staff involved in the operational elements of locust management inclusive of monitoring, tracking and chemical control.
Ramdass said the egg-bed finds were a positive sign in the Ministry's efforts toward the effective control of locust populations in the area.
"Traditionally, egg beds are much harder to find as they tend to be isolated in highly forested areas and are only revealed after they emerge in the hopper stage."
He said finding the creatures in the egg-bed stage is critical in order to make a significant dent in the locust population.
"During the egg-bed stage, we can potentially kill thousands of locusts per square metre as opposed to hundreds in the emerging and hopping stage and as few as 10 locusts per square metre during the adult stage," he said.
He also noted that because the area was not traditionally a locust-populated site, any proactive measure aimed at limiting the geographical spread of the pest was to be explored and welcomed.
"The locusts are no longer confined to the 10-mile radius between Moruga and Guayaguayare but have traversed and settled as far as 40 feet from their nesting sites, to areas such as but not limited to Tabaquite; Braso; Piparo; Caparo Valley and Tableland," he observed.
Also attending the training exercise were the Ministry's Acting Director of the Regional Administration South (RAS) Division, Dr Michelle Mellowes, and County Agricultural Officer (Victoria) Sati Gangapersad.
To report sightings of the Moruga locust and for additional information on the agricultural pest, please call the Victoria County Agricultural Office in Princes Town at 655-3428/7526/5637.

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“I had a label put on me throughout my entire life that my learning disability would get in the way,” Mercie says.
For a time, it seemed Mercie would live up to that label—she dropped out of high school and made what she describes as poor choices in her life. Then she was referred to Northwest Center Employment Services in Spokane.
Webb introduced Mercie to a mentorship program that provided the opportunity to volunteer at SCRAPS. Now Mercie is back in school and on her way to achieving her dream.
“Thanks to Dianna and Northwest Center, I’m a veterinarian assistant and will graduate from high school next year,” she says.

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5-SARJA 520d Turbo Aut. F11 Touring Bus.
BMW 520 5-SARJA 520d Turbo Aut. F11 Touring Bus.

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ROCHESTER — The Rochester, NH Elks Lodge #1393 announces the annual Most Valuable Student Scholarship Program for high school seniors.
Applications for the Elks National Foundation's 2012 Most Valuable Student contest are available at Spaulding High School, at the Rochester Elks Lodge #1393, online at www.elks.org or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Elks National Foundation.
Any high school senior who is a U.S. citizen is eligible. Male and female students compete separately for identical awards. 500 awards will be given to the tune of $2,296,000..
Applications must be turned in to the Lodge by December 2, 2011. For more info, contact ENF Chairman Norm Gervais at 332-9700 ext. 2 or e-mail at sec1393@metrocast.net .


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One of the most comprehensive shorthand collections known, with an estimated 18,000 books, periodicals, and pamphlets on all aspects of stenography, many thought to be unique. Items date from the sixteenth to the twentieth century and are of all countries and systems in nearly sixty languages and dialects. Works include examples of applied shorthand such as early sermons, trials and speeches printed from shorthand; works by well-known authors (e.g. Dickens; Shakespeare) printed in shorthand; books on the history and bibliography of shorthand; and manuals of various systems of shorthand. Periodical literature comprises 780 titles of the collection (approximately 15%) and provides sources for rapidly changing office practices of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the role that women played in them. About 40 items formerly belonged to the stenographer James Henry Lewis (1786-1853).
Largely put together by the Dickens scholar and shorthand bibliographer William J. Carlton (1886-1973), author of Charles Dickens, Shorthand Writer (1926).
Primarily bequeathed by Carlton, with some later donations from the shorthand teacher Peter Dorey.
Books printed before 1800 are listed on the online catalogue. To gain an overview of these, do a mixed classmark search on [C.S.C.] or an author search on “Carlton, William J.” as former owner. A complete list of the collection is available from Special Collections staff and as PDF files below. Post-1800 books and periodicals are held off-site and require three working days’ notice to be fetched.
Carlton Collection of manuscripts written in and about shorthand from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The archival Carlton Collection includes the Peter Dorey papers of correspondence on shorthand and press cuttings.
‘The Carlton Shorthand Library’, Times Literary Supplement, 22 Apr. 1960, p. 264.

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This will be my first post, so hello fellow picaxe users.
I've just acquired a linkOEM board (http://www.homechip.com/catalog/documents/iButtonLink/LinkOEM_Users_Manual_V1_2.pdf) to interface several one-wire devices to my picaxe project but I'm not having much luck reading from it. Is anybody else using this board at present? If so how are you getting on?
I can succesfully write to the interface as it has handy AUX output that I can toggle on/off via the serial interface. However, if I try to read data back from the board (i.e. query a one-wire device) I don't seem to be getting the kinds of response I'd expect. Performing a search for devices looks good for the first byte of each response (+ for more devices, - for no more devices), but the 64bit byte addresses don't match what I get if I just hook it up directly to the picaxe and use readowsn. Unfortunately the linkOEM doc is a bit thin on details to help me debug this.
If you used a 28X1 you could interface directly to multiple 1-wire devices (owin, owout) without any interfacing module.

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text: The other day I shared some cute Easter baskets and today I'm sharing what to out in those baskets. I like to do a mixture of non-candy and candy items because there is nothing worse then a sugar high kid at church and brunch. I also like to include a gift from us. When I was younger that gift used to be live floppy eared bunnies. My dad built homes for them and it was one of my favorite memories growing up. I grew up in the country where coyotes didn't roam your neighborhood so I think we'll stick to stuffed bunnies instead and maybe a new bathing suit and towel because that's my traditional gift for the kids. I love getting them personalized towels like these cute Pottery Barn Kids ones or if you have a local embroidery shop you can have any towel monogrammed.

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Siddharth is a film inspired by Canadian director Richie Mehta’s (I’ll Follow You Down, 2013) chance encounter in Delhi with a man who asked him for help in finding a place called Dongri. When Mehta asked what Dongri was, the man told him that it’s a place where he thinks his lost son was kidnapped and sent to. Siddharthis Metha’s fictional exploration surrounding the disappearance of twelve-year-old Siddharth after he was sent by his father to work in another village.
Siddharth is a suspenseful and insightful drama that explores the difficulties of life for the poor and undereducated in India. Mehta has successfully crafted a film that gives the viewers a real sense of location and family—he takes you into the Saini family’s world, from living in their very small apartment to working on the busy streets of New Delhi as a chain-wallah (someone who fixes zippers). With bleak reality, Mehta shows Western viewers just how impossible life is. Siddhartha’s father, Mahendra, played by Rajesh Tailang with sensitive honesty and subtly, not only doesn’t own a photograph of his son, but also cannot take time off to search for him without losing money to feed his family. Despite the film’s harsh realities, Mehta successfully stays clear of preaching to the audience and simply allows the film to live and breathe. Regardless of the subjects of child trafficking, family loss, and a desperate world without hope, there is an intelligently crafted sense of optimism. As an alternative to the nutrient vacant, car chase, bang-bang summer blockbusters, Siddharthis a film that is definitely worth checking out and digesting.
Siddharth is currently playing in New York City at Lincoln Plaza Cinema, and will open in Los Angeles on July 11at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, with a national release to follow.

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Featuring a rich array of magnificent artworks from the British Museum and beyond, the book showcases some of the most exquisite works of wood, stone, ceramics, beadwork, textiles and metalwork from Africa – from the Mediterranean coast to the Cape and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
This critical history examines the major themes and accomplishments in African art since 1950, achieving an impressive balance between a critical re-examination of frequently discussed artists, groups and workshops and the introduction of less publicized or more recent works.
It is January, 1978. Groups of nervous, dutiful white conscripts begin their National Service with Rhodesia’s security forces. Ian Smith’s minority regime is in its dying days and negotiations towards majority rule are already under way.
Flowers of the Nation is a novella about self empowerment and taking responsibility. It shatters the myth that impoverishment and blackness go together, showcases the new century’s renaissance man, and provides insight into Aids policy and other issues. In the beautiful Zenaele and her family you will find the compelling reality of today’s South Africa.Sixteen-year-old Zenzele is not prepared to stand by while her father, Sizwe, dies of Aids.


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To summarize, “The Grinch” movie is every bit of the phrase “just okay.” It’s fine for kids, and they will surely get a kick of out some of the jokes, but overall, it felt more and more like a cash grab with every second that went by. There’s nothing new here. If you’ve seen any of the previous Grinch iterations, you know exactly what you’re getting into. This movie takes no chances, and while the film is not bad, it’s just a tad too safe.
In case you weren’t aware of the classic Grinch’s tale, the story is about a green haired man (creature?), played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who lives alone above an idyllic Christmas town called Whoville. Everyone in this town is obsessed with Christmas–that is–everyone but the Grinch who despises it. In order to ruin everyone’s Christmas, he devises a plan to dress up as Santa and steal everyone’s presents on the night of Christmas Eve. Everything will be gone and people will be sad.
If that synopsis was not new to you, it’s because you’ve seen it before. Usually, when Hollywood reboots a movie, they try to make the new one at least slightly different. This one makes no attempt at bringing anything new to the table. It changes very little from the previous animated version, and nearly copies direct shots from the Jim Carrey one. That alone made this movie feel like its sole purpose was to just make money. Sadly, they will achieve their goal, since the movie is projected to open with a staggering 70 million dollars.
Another criticism for the movie is that it never properly or even attempted to establish a relationship between the Grinch and Cindy Lu, a child that co-leads the movie and schemes to get Santa all to herself. The film presents these two characters as the most important to the story and yet (SPOILERS) they only meet face-to-face three times, and one of those times was with the Grinch as Santa Claus. The two main characters hardly knew each other and for most of the movie, they had two entirely different story lines that only came together at the very end. This made the film much less engaging to watch. The movie was very much about the Grinch and his antics, and very little about anything else.
Overall, The Grinch gets a 2.8/5 from me. The story felt empty, and certain plot points were heavily padded to fill the running time. The two main characters barely spoke to each other, and many of the jokes just fell flat. Young kids might like this movie, but if you’re looking for something that can please the whole family, go see anything else.


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Nikke Horrigan, the former coal miner turned fashion designer combines a laid-back vibe with distinct street-luxe sensibility throughout his range of wardrobe staples. Recognising fashion as an extension of one’s self, Horrigan’s latest collection is humble in size while all about timeless designs that won’t break the bank. Comprising just 4 examples, this range of menswear will have you looking your best while convincing others that achieved it effortlessly.
The Schiaparelli linen shirt embraces the European summer. It’s made with soft linen fabric and incredible attention to detail. Ol’ Sport is a striped shirt inspired by the ‘80s. This classic design with an oversized fit is the definition of cool. It’s available in Gold or Blue colourways.
The Black Denim Jeans are an essential component of every wardrobe. Nikke Horrigan’s jeans are cut in a slim fit to ensure comfort and flexibility. Rounding out the current collection is the classic Ball Cap made from grey cotton-twill. Pair it with either the Schiaparelli or Ol’ Sport for a fashion-forward appearance.
What’s surprising is that each item of clothing is priced between $30 and $100. You would typically expect to pay double this for a designer brand. The black denim jeans are just $80 which is competitive with even the largest retailers.
You can snap up any of these designs right now and expect the Nikke Horrigan Winter ’18 collection to drop real soon. Previous collections featured a relaxed aesthetic with lots of plaid. Possibly a homage to Nikke’s time on the tools.
In other fashion news, Mr Porter launches a nautically-inspired collection. Plus we catch up with Suitsupply Vice President Nish de Gruiter to talk about the first Australian store.


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Well, here I am back in grey, damp, freezing Britain. It’s getting dark before it’s really got light properly today. The journey home was quite interesting. We took off as scheduled at 7pm, after sitting around the air terminal for over four hours as the military like you there good and early. We started our approach at Brize Norton in Oxfordshire still on time at about 9.45pm (local time), it was a bit misty, but the lights below etc looked pretty clear from my plane window. About 50 feet above the runway, the pilot realized he didn’t fancy it, and aborted the landing. Back up to cruising altitude for a bit, and then an announcement over the speakers that we were re-routing to… Manchester (about 150 miles from Brize). We landed Manchester at around 10.15pm. About 11pm we were told that coaches were being dispatched from Brize, and would be with us in about 3 hours….
Obviously, we’d caught the good folk at Manchester Airport a bit on the hop, so it took them about an hour to get us off the plane. Baggage reclaim was a bit chaotic, with piles of body armour and helmets going round and round, so another hour was spent there. A couple of large coaches arrived c 2.00am, but they were not for us, and eventually eight of us were crammed in to a space bus taxi and headed off to Brize about 2.30am.
So, what am I going to miss about Cyprus (in no particular order)?
The base at Akrotiri is littered with the biggest speed-bumps in the known universe, apparently distributed quite randomly. Suspect I have a compressed spine after 11 days bouncing over these things in the Landie and the long-wheelbase Transit minibus.
Life on the base was comfortable, but driving around the housing estates where the military (and us) lived had quite an odd feel. One of my first impressions led me to name it ‘Stepford’, as in the sci-fi film ‘The Stepford Wives’ because the domestic areas were so uniform. All the houses are identical, and all painted the same colour, beige and cream with blue shutters, and while I’m sure that played a big part, there was a lot more to it than that. There was also very little traffic, and no cars parked on the road as everyone had a drive-way, no litter, no graffiti, no stray dogs or kids hanging around on street-corners or in front of shops, but it was only yesterday that it finally hit me: the demography. Basically, everyone I saw walking around the base in civvies was off-duty military, and hence in excellent physical condition and under 50: no old people, no fat people (children or adults). It’s actually quite strange.
So, that’s it from the blog for this year’s trip. Looking forward to going back next year already, getting trowels into some of the fabulous archaeology we’ve been walking over, and meeting up with the lovely, lovely Op Nightingale crew again. The whole trip, and yesterday in particular, was in many ways for me a quite humbling experience. I hope I managed to steer through it largely with stoicism and good humour. If a paraplegic and a blind bloke could retain their sense of humour throughout out the whole thing, then us able-bodied types didn’t really have any right to start kicking off when things went a bit wrong.
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There’s a real sense that the project is starting to wind down now. The vets had their farewell barbecue up at the monastery site, and tomorrow the chairs, tents etc are due to be collected and packed away. Most of my morning was spent tagging along with Diarmaid, talking to people who can give us the required permissions to take the project to the next level, ie dig some holes before the Dreamer’s Bay sites all fall into the sea, and everything is looking very positive in that regard. The people we need onside appear to be very onside, and we’re taking them out to look at the sites tomorrow. I also spent a large chunk of the morning wrestling with my lap-top in an effort to get email working properly. After a fruitless hour or so I gave up, but have a workaround in place. I can receive in Outlook, but have to send using Yahoo. Have tried numerous fixes, all without success, but it appears that Microsoft Vista is indeed the pile of crap that everyone says it is.
After lunch, more research time. It might have looked like I was lying on a sunbed at the beach reading, but it was research. Honest. I’m certainly feeling a lot more familiar with the pottery than when I got here, and I’m happy that it is indeed all early Byzantine, broadly 5th – 7th century. More accurate dating will have to wait until we start digging. Interestingly, it turns out that a lot of the amphorae that we were getting at the Bay sites also turn up in really large quantities in Egypt, so that would seem to reinforce the suspected link between Dreamer’s Bay and Alexandria. We also suspect very strongly that they may have been making the amphorae on Akrotiri. It’s long been suspected there was a source of the type (LR1, pot-fans) on Cyprus, now all we’ve got to do is find it. Easier said than done, but another thing to think about.
The last hour before sundown was spent with one of our contacts off the base who reckoned he’d found some archaeology near the end of the main runway. We went and took a look, and indeed he had. He’d previously found Roman coins, and there was a steady scatter of Roman pottery and really good quality vessel glass throughout the scrub, but very little roof tile and no real sign of buildings. Odd. It’s very sandy there though as it’s very near the sea-front, so the whole thing may be buried under the sand. As it’s Roman, it’s not really our concern. We’ve probably already got about two centuries worth of digging with the Byzantine sites, so we’ll record the location of the finds, and leave it for somebody else, although we might stick a test-pit in at some point in the future to see how deeply it’s buried so the site can be managed properly in the future. It’s about 400m from a nice beach with a bar if anyone fancies it.
This morning I dragged myself out of my pit at 6 in the morning. Who knew there were two six o’clocks in the day? A very quick breakfast and into the minibus at 6.45am. An insanely early start to the day (for me, anyway), but the day promised to just a little bit special. Diarmaid had managed to arrange us a tour, courtesy of the UN peace-keeping force, of the ‘neutral zone’ in Nicosia. This is basically the area of the city which separates the Greek and Turkish halves of the island. Nicosia, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, is the only divided city in Europe.
After a 90 minute drive we arrived at the UN base, and were met by some lovely blokes from the Mercian Regiment, although they were all wearing the blue berets of the UN, who they were on secondment to, along with Argentinean and Slovakian troops. The Regimental Sergeant Major greeted us all and shook us by the hand. I think he only broke three bones in mine.
Though the security barriers and away we went. We wound our way through the streets of the ‘neutral zone’, now patrolled by the UN, which had basically been preserved pretty much unchanged since the Turkish ‘intervention’ of 1974 (diplomacy prevents it being called an invasion and, given the political upheaval that preceded the Turks coming in, it seems a fair description). Each place we stopped had its own back-story, some grim, some hilarious. There first place we saw had been a school, but became a Turkish strong-hold during some of the fiercest fighting. It’s estimated that around 2000 Turkish troops died defending the place, with the front and sides of the building still riddled with holes from what looked like heavy-calibre machine-guns. It’s now a memorial garden to the fallen over on the Turkish side. For security reasons, we weren’t allowed to photograph in some areas, as the border still has observation points with armed troops in them and they get a bit twitchy if they see people taking pictures.
At the other end of the scale are some of the antics after the cease-fire. There was a wall built by the Turks to seal off a roadway crossing the border. This was to built to an agreed height, and once that height was reached, the UN painted the top line of bricks white. A week or so later, it was noticed that the wall was considerably higher, but the line of white-painted bricks was still at the top. It dawned on the UN that every night since they’d painted the line, the Turks had come along, removed the top row, put on another row of bricks, then put the original painted ones back. The UN finally put a stop to this by painting a line of bricks 10 rows from the top, meaning the Turks would have had to remove 800 bricks to add another row.
Elsewhere, the Turks had fortified a position using old wooden tea-chests with their bases pointing towards the Greek side. This was also illegal under the peace agreement, because if the chests contained earth or concrete, they would count as new fortifications. The Turks claimed they were simply there to stop the Greeks seeing what they considered to be a sensitive area. An agreement was again reached, this time that the Turks would turn the tea-chests around to show that they were empty. Unfortunately, they forgot to include a time-scale in which the Turks had to turn the chests round, so the Turks, once a month, would turn up with a full military band, flags and banners and a senior general, and with great ceremony, one tea-chest would be turned around to face the Greeks. I did ask the young cavalry Lieutenant who was showing us around how they all managed to keep their faces straight when dealing with this sort of thing, but he just half-smiled and shook his head.
As we moved away from what had been the areas of fiercest fighting, we hit an area of what had been shops. In one big department store, one of the counters was still stocked with type-writer ribbons and ink, amongst other things, complete with the original 1974 advertising. We then proceeded down what had been Nicosia’s equivalent of Bond Street before the intervention, including an underground car-park stocked with brand-new cars dating to 1974, all with 40 km on the clock. They’d been driven there from the port in preparation to being placed in the show-room, but never got that far. Above the car-park was a shopping mall, complete with an impromptu museum which the UN troops had put together over the years, including some ancient TV sets.
We then proceeded back to the van, and off for a quick lunch in the UN headquarters, which was what was once the Ledras Palace hotel, in the 1970s the only 5-star hotel on the island, and a regular haunt of Elizabeth Taylor. I doubt she’d recognise it now. Back to the bus, and then to what was for me, the high point of the day: Nicosia International Airport. The airport is in the area which is the main base of the UN in the area, and scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict. It has remained deserted ever since. The terminal itself was only built in 1969, and was state-of-the-art, including such novelties as automatic doors. From the outside, it looks like something out of an episode of Thunderbirds. Inside was like the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. All the original seats in the lounge area were still there, as were the shop fittings the kitchen area, the duty-free shop and some of the original advertising boards, but everything was covered with a thick layer of pigeon droppings. Simply one of the most astonishing things I have ever seen.
After this, we were taken to see a plane that was still sitting on the tarmac, although its engines had been removed, and it was time to go, and back to base just as the sun was going down.
I’ll put a load of pictures of today on my ‘open’ Facebook page, I’d really recommend anyone interested taking a look, I’ve had what can only be described as a once-in-a-lifetime experience today, and the pictures probably do the place far more justice than my prose.
The day started with me, after breakfast, watching a massive, black U2 spy plane taking off from the runway near the Sergeant’s Mess. It’s easy to forget that this idyllic area stuffed with fantastic archaeology is not very far at all, maybe 200km or so, from a war zone, and the base is playing an active role. Everyday we see fighter-bombers taking off and then later landing, sometimes with their pay-loads still attached, sometimes not.
There was a slight change of plan today as Elena, the Cypriot archaeologist who is running the monastery excavation, was unable to come to site today, so Jim-Bob was required to manage proceedings in her absence, meaning our trip to the Dump Site to clean up the possible plunge-pool had to be postponed.
I instead took to the road with Diarmaid and Mark to get some maps and APs (aerial photographs) so we could start plotting the GPS data we’ve been collecting over the last week or so. This is where things got a bit James Bond. We went to [undisclosed location], showed our passes at the gate and then parked up outside [undisclosed location]. We entered the building through a heavily fortified turnstile gate, handed in our camera and phones, passed through another couple of metal doors, and then we were in. The place were we’d arrived was essentially the British Armed Forces map room for the entire planet. If anyone from a platoon going out on patrol to a general planning an invasion wants a map, this it where it comes from. Despite its importance, the actual offices weren’t much bigger than a couple of large cupboards, with lots of central heating ducts running through it. The walls were lined with large, blown-up aerial photos of all sorts of obscure little places, mainly in desert locations, with the buildings marked as to their function. Having watched the U2 take off earlier, I’d guess the source of the pictures.
We headed back through the security barriers, retrieved our phones and my camera, and headed back to base. In the centre of the secure area, there is a large, undeveloped area of scrubland maybe 500m across. The edge of this is marked with yellow concrete bollards which is military-speak for ‘there appears to be something archaeological here, no digging holes or driving tanks through it please’. However nobody had really looked at it pretty much since the base was built, so Diarmaid thought it might be a good idea if we went and had a mooch about to see what was there.
As soon as we stepped onto the scrubland, we started to notice stone and bits of roof-tile, and the further we went, the denser the stone got, until we were walking on pretty much solid rubble and tile. And it just went on and on and on. There were visible wall-lines, and something that was either a baptismal pool or part of a bath-house. There wasn’t much pottery, but what was there seemed very similar to the sort of stuff we’ve been getting down at the water-front sites. The clincher came when we found a very fresh couple of sherds from a Byzantine pottery frying-pan lid, which is almost certainly 5th – 7th century, so the same date as the Dreamer’s Bay sites and the monastery the Vets are digging. A bit more rooting around, and it became clear the whole 500m x 500m area of scrubland was completely solid Byzantine archaeology. By the time Diarmaid had found a piece of a marble column base and I’d got a piece of a decorated glass vessel and a chunk of what looked suspiciously like a marble font, I was beginning to giggle slightly hysterically. We headed back to the Landie and had a bit of a sit-down. The pair of us agree, and I can’t see any other interpretation, that we’ve found the town that goes with the port(s) and the monastery. It’s located mid-way between the two, and is about 0.5km from both. And it’s smack in the middle of the base.
It was now time for lunch. Having found a lost Byzantine city which, even for this project, is not an everyday occurrence, we decided this merited a visit to the base beach-bar. There’s more archaeology to hunt for this afternoon, but, having been both James Bond and Indiana Jones in the same morning, I’m off to soak my aching feet in the briny for a bit.
As it turned out, we didn’t have much to do in the afternoon with the expedition to the Dump Site having been postponed, so lunch at the beach got quite extended. Ah well, them’s the breaks….
Later, we met up with Jim-Bob and Mark and took them for a stroll over what is now known as the City Site at the base. They were as impressed as we were in the morning. J-B told me they’d done a little experiment up on the monastery site today. One of the vets, Karl, who’s something like 90% blind with only pinpoint tunnel vision, was getting a bit bored sieving, so they decided to let him have a go with a trowel on site. Giving the bright sunlight, he was pretty much digging by touch. The result? One immaculately level trowelled area with any stones and bits of tile left in situ.
Tomorrow, we doing a bit of more up-to-date archaeology with a visit to the Green Zone, the abandoned ‘neutral zone’ controlled by the British which separates the Greek and Turkish sides of the island. There’s an entire holiday resort there which has been abandoned intact since 1974, so I’m off to do a bit of urban exploring. There’s also rumours of us getting our hands on a helicopter on Thursday. Fingers crossed.
Last night, I discovered that Brandy Sours in the Sergeant’s Mess bar are 90c each. Oh dear. Let’s just say I was a bit slow getting going this morning.
Today, it was back to Dreamer’s Bay to do a bit more exploring and survey. Our first stop was a hilltop behind the bay, the Dump Site, which was the site of an excavation by an American university which shall remain nameless to protect the guilty. We found it fairly quickly, and ‘hole’ would perhaps be a more accurate description rather than ‘trench’. Phil Harding would have had a fit if he saw the sloping, zig-zag section. Despite the dreadful quality of the ‘excavation’, it’s pretty obvious that what they had half-dug out is the plunge-pool of a bath-house, so it looks like Dreamer’s Bay had either posh ‘retirement villas’, merchant’s houses and/or administrative buildings on the hill behind the port.
Further down, at the bottom of the hill but set back from the bay, there were bits of stone-work poking out in the scrub, and, like at the water-front, a lot of pottery. Significantly, the pottery here looks a lot more domestic than that on the water-front, and we noticed a lot of African Red-Slip Ware, a high-quality table-ware not dissimilar to Samian Ware, but later in date. It looks like we’ve therefore identified a domestic zone set back from the harbour, perhaps where the inns, brothels and hotels etc. were located. Certainly, there wasn’t much Red-Slip Ware down on the waterfront, with the pottery spreads there mainly consisting of lots and lots of Amphora, large transport pots for wine and oil, and what you would expect to find in an area where warehouses and like are located.
I also did a bit of TV this morning in the form of a brief interview with a journalist from British Forces TV. The video should be up on the internet and some point this week, I’ll post a link when it appears. Then back to the mess for lunch. Chicken pie and chips. Just need a nice shady spot for a snooze now, but suspect that’s not going to happen….
Back to Dreamers Bay and more poking about. More and more archaeology is starting to appear. We’ve found more stone buildings, including one wall with wall-plaster still attached sticking out of the ground, and an eroding sand cliff with the slope littered with brick and burnt limestone. Erosion is clearly the main problem here, and not just the cliffs with the tombs on that we were looking at last week. The harbour area site is sat on very soft mudstone and limestone, under which is a layer of extremely hard basalt. Despite being in the Med, the wind can whip the waves up and they break over the basalt and chew away the soft rock above, taking the archaeology with it.
We did a bit more searching at the area at the bottom of the hill back from the site and noted a lot more African Red-Slip Ware and cooking pottery in the form of frying-pan handles, which are very typically Byzantine. Curiously, the dividing line between the industrial area with its spreads of Amphora and the domestic area with the Red-Slip Ware is the track which leads down to the beach. We’re now beginning to suspect that the track that people use to get to the beach may have originally have been of one of the main roads through the Byzantine port!
Tomorrow, we’re going to head back up to the Dump Site, get its location recorded via GPS and tidy up the mess made by the Americans who dug the probable plunge-pool, and maybe straighten out the section and get a photo of it.
It’s the weekend, so time for the digging to stop and a bit of sight-seeing to commence. We loaded everyone into the minibus, and headed off to Paphos. Paphos, nowadays, is a large city and a very popular tourist destination, but has been occupied since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks, and probably earlier. It’s got a very large archaeology park, with the so-called ‘Tombs of the Kings’, which are some very well-preserved Roman rock-cut tombs (not that any kings were buried there), a Roman theatre and some stunning mosaics from some of the rich Roman town-houses. Naturally, with this in mind, we headed straight for the long row of bars and restaurants that line the harbour of the modern town. I’ve actually been on holiday to Paphos in the past and have seen most of the archaeology there, so no problem as far as I was concerned. We bar-hopped for a while then settled down at a nice bar right on the water-front and a bit of laid-back drinking and eating ensued. As the afternoon wore on, Jim-Bob and I were starting to get a bit twitchy as we’d gone an entire half-day without doing any archaeology, and there is a really nice medieval castle on the harbour bar at Paphos, which neither of us had explored. This also coincided with some of the crews’ attention turning to the cocktail menu, so we left them to it and went exploring.
The castle at Paphos probably sums up the medieval history of the island in one structure. The tower was one of two built by the Franks to guard the harbour in 1222, the curtain wall by the Venetians in 1373, and the whole thing was restored by the Ottoman Turks in 1570 after an earthquake. The other tower was damaged by an earthquake and then blown up by the Venetians. The Ottomans handed the castle over to the Brits in 1878, who used it as a salt-store until 1935. It’s a lovely little structure, with some fantastic views across sea and land.
We headed back to the cocktail drinkers and it was getting pretty messy, as they seemed intent on getting through the whole menu, and may well have done. We poured them back into the minibus, and headed off back to base. On return, a few of them disappeared off in the general direction of the American bar. I had a couple of beers and retired for an early night. I’m clearly getting old…..
Up relatively bright and early, and into the minibus again. The cocktail crew were, perhaps unsurprisingly, noticeable by their absence. First stop was the castle of Kolossoi.
This was originally founded in the early 13th century when it was given to the Knights Hospitallers, and rebuilt in 1454, which is the building which stands today. It is basically a square English keep, but sat in southern Cyprus, although was largely residential through its history. It’s a very odd structure in that it looks very out of place, but all becomes clear when you see the long, low structure next to the castle. It looks like a chapel, but is in fact a very-well preserved medieval sugar factory. This area of Cyprus was mentioned by chroniclers as being a famous sugar-growing area, and also famous for sweet wine, so given the astronomical cost and rarity of sugar and the importance of the wine trade in medieval western Europe, one suspects that someone made a great deal of money out of it. I don’t know if there’s any other intact medieval sugar factories in Europe, but if there are, I haven’t seen one. Remarkable.
A quick break for an ice-cream and a fresh orange juice, and away, heading for Kourion, vast Roman city. Now as some of you may know, I’m not a great fan of Roman archaeology, mainly because most of the stuff we find is Britain is a bit rubbish, really, being badly preserved and not that great quality to begin with (although there are exceptions). In the Mediterranean area it’s a different kettle of fish. Kourion is vast and magnificent. It was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in the fourth century, which when you consider the fact that it’s sat on top of a 200-foot-high hill, is pretty mind-boggling. Apparently, the pre-earthquake deposits were covered in 50cm of sand and pebbles. Basically, the wave buried the place with the sea-bed and beach below. Most of the visible remains dates to the rebuild, later 4th – 7th century, and include a virtually intact theatre. There's and acoustic 'sweet spot' in the middle of the stage, marked by a hole, and when one stands on it and talks, the shape of the theatre not only amplifies the voice, but also gives it a very slight reverberation effect at about the same level as a modern vocal microphone. Astonishing.
Interestingly, for us anyway, it seems the city was abandoned in the later 7th century after another earthquake and attacks by Persian pirates, so it seems Kourion, the monastery we’re excavating and the sites we’ve found around Dreamer’s Bay were all abandoned at roughly the same time. This also coincides with Byzantines losing control of Alexandria, and it looks very much like the economy of this stretch of the south Cyprus coast simply collapsed in the late 7th century, and never really recovered until relatively recently. Definitely food for thought.
Talking of food, time for a late lunch, so down to the bottom of the cliffs to the beach and a beach-bar selling the most fantastic and inexpensive seafood. The barbecued octopus was just fabulous. A quick half-hour soaking my tired feet in the lovely warm sea, accompanied by Jim-Bob lying in 6 inches of water and flapping wildly every time a small wave went over him (he can’t swim). Back in the bus, back to base and time for the Sergeant’s Mess and some blogging and a few beers. A really fantastic day. And certainly better than looking at drizzle in Northampton!
As usual, the photos which tie in with this blog are on my Facebook page.
Tomorrow, I’m doing my ‘bloke off the telly’ thing and doing an interview with British Forces TV, and, hopefully, starting to think about the pottery a bit.
Last night, rather than spending the evening in the Sergeant’s Mess, we had a communal meal round at one of the houses, followed by Diarmaid’s Pub Quiz. I was on a team with the two James, with James E now rechristened ‘Jim-Bob’ to avoid confusion (he’s from Suffolk, so it seems appropriate). I’m glad to say our team, “Baldy, Beardie and Big-‘Ead”, was narrowly victorious, and claimed the no-expense-spared-whatsoever prizes (some t-shirts Diarmaid appears to have got from a drinks promotion somewhere). Jim-Bob was very proudly wearing his on site today.
This morning, my first visit to the excavation where most of the crew are working. The site is a small part of an absolutely massive monastery, run by a Cypriot archaeologist, Elana, who is doing a quite remarkable job on a budget of virtually zero. We also had a couple of high-profile military visitors in the form Colonel Roe, commander OPTAG who oversees all the training for service personnel deployed by British Armed Services, and WO1 Rafferty, the Regimental Sergeant Major for OPTAG. Elana gave the three of us a tour of the excavations. The site is huge, with the area which has so far revealed being just one small part of a massive complex which was in its hey-day in the 7th century. She showed us photos of the mind-bogglingly high-quality mosaics which cover most of the excavated area, which sadly (for us) have been temporarily reburied under gravel to stabilize them until they can get a conservation team in and get a roof put over the excavations. A lot of loose tesserae (mosaic tiles) are being found all the time, most of which are absolutely tiny, always a sign of very high quality. They’ve also found loads of very exquisite carved marble which almost certainly came from workshops in Constantinople, and it’s pretty clear from the size of the place and the quality of the finds that this is one of the most important sites in the early Christian world, arguably only behind Constantinople and Jerusalem in its importance.
The site itself is in a natural bowl in the hills, and is very sheltered, so even though the temperature today is probably only in the mid-high 20s, it feels a lot, lot hotter on site. At the end of the tour we were taken to the ‘saloon’, a little cluster of tables and chairs under a tree behind the spoil-heap, and given coffee and lemonade by the two relentlessly cheerful Cypriot ladies who do the finds-washing on site. The amount of finds is simply staggering; the monastery was abandoned sometime in the 640s after a major earthquake, and a some point not long afterwards, the roof collapsed. Consequently, there is a huge amount of roof-tile, every single piece of which has been washed by the cheerful Cypriot ladies, and carefully piled up into a huge, carefully-constructed heap. There isn’t actually much in the way of finds which weren’t part of the original structure, as they’re working in an area which would have been inside the building which during its period of use, and would have been kept spotlessly clean, but they have had coins and pottery out of the foundations and make-up layers which tie-in nicely with the historical evidence. The business end of the church area ("The Martyrium") has a series of five apses, which probably originally contained burial of holy relics and/or saints. Four of these were emptied when the place was abandoned and the relics taken to Constantinople, including a piece of the True Cross, but one was still intact and contained a burial that was either deemed not important enough, or was buried under rubble after the earthquake. The grave had a carved slab over it with a hole in it so people could pour oil in as an offering. It’s a truly awesome site, with about a century or so’s worth of digging left.
Work finished about one, and we all headed off for lunch. The afternoon trip today was to see St Nicolas’s Monastery of the Cats. For reasons which will become clear, we didn’t really get to find out too much about the history of the place, but its name derived from the fact that someone had established it to help rid the island of a plague of snakes. So, into the Landie and off we go. The monastery is a couple of kilometres outside the main gate, so the journey was a short one. We arrived about 2.45pm. The main entrance appeared closed, but the displayed opening times were 2.30pm in summer and 3pm in winter. A side gate was open, so we wandered in there. There was a small church ahead of us, with a definitely open gift shop next to it. One of our party went into the gift shop and asked if the place was open. The lady behind the counter assured him it was, and to let ourselves in and wander around, so we did.
Behind the church was a porticoed walkway typical of the average medieval monastery, and some reasonably well-tended gardens, and as the name of the place suggested, lots and lots of cats, in a bewildering range of size, shapes and colours. The monastery itself appeared to be medieval, but with bits of classical/Byzantine sculpture incorporated into it. I’m guessing that these came from a pile of rubble and bits of wall located in the courtyard in front of the church which looked very archaeological, but that’s about as far as we got as we began to hear very angry shouting coming from the far end of the garden. There then appeared an ancient nun who looked and sounded like a cross between the Mad Cat Lady in “The Simpsons” and Brian’s mother in “Life of Brian”. She was very, very angry with us indeed, and was gesticulating and shouting in Greek (possibly), which none of us speak. A small group of locals had wandered in at this point as well, and they also got the full hair-dryer treatment from her, so it wasn’t just us it would seem. Jim-Bob, James and I slid into the church to have a look and managed to get a few pictures of the beautifully-preserved medieval interior and the icons, before MadCatLadyBrian’sMum found us and began shouting at us, and very pointedly closing and bolting the church doors. We took the hint, and left. Someone went back into the gift shop and asked what was going on, and lady behind the counter just shrugged her shoulders and rolled her eyes. So, we appear to have been thrown out of a monastery, although none of us has the faintest idea why. I reckon one of the cats grassed us up. Still, at least she didn’t throw any at us.
Again, I’ve put the pictures which go with today on my Facebook page.
The weekend should see us going a bit further afield to do some sight-seeing. Unless we all wake up in the morning and find we’ve been turned into cats.
It’s Bonfire Night and I’m sat here in glorious sunshine in shorts and a t-shirt. That’s definitely a first. The world certainly looks a better place than it did this time yesterday, especially after a decent breakfast, a shower, and clean clothes.
We eventually landed two hours late and it was indeed dark. Diarmaid met me at the terminal and it was straight off to the Sergeant’s mess for food and an unspecified number of beers and collapse into bed. Large (500ml) bottles of Keo (the local Eurofizz) are one Euro. God bless the RAF.
We’re lodged in two five-bedroom officer’s houses. The tell-tale signs of archaeologists being present are already here: random clothing and boots scattered around the hall-way, banks of black-boxes with flashing red or green lights plugged into every available wall-socket, stray power leads scattered around the floor, and the fridge contains beer, a bottle of milk, more beer, a box of chocolate biscuits and beer. There’s also a cuddly dinosaur on the living-room table. He seems to be the responsible adult when Diarmaid isn’t around.
Today should consist of a tour of the sites, particularly the probably Roman and possibly Greek and maybe later and-an-outside-chance-of prehistoric harbour. The site is apparently carpeted with pottery, as is often the case with these things, so the first thing we’ve got to do is formulate some sort of sampling strategy as we simply won’t be able to deal with the sheer amount present, unless I can get 20 assistants and live to be 200. There’s a whole series of warehouses there, and apparently rock-cut tombs in the cliff-face, some of which may not be looted. Access is only possible to those if you’re part mountain goat, so I’m leaving that to the young ‘uns, which is everybody else, as it turns out I’m the oldest person on the crew. The epithet ‘Granddad’ is surely only a matter of time….
I’ve already looked at my first piece of pot, the handle of a somewhat under-fired red amphora. Apparently the beach at the site pretty much consists of this rather than sand. Have unpacked the digital microscope and magnifying glass. Pot monkey is go!
Well, we didn’t get the tour of the sites due to a slight case of military paperwork. I needed to get my pass for the base, which is a high security area. To get the pass we had to leave the base and go to the issuing office. We got there, and I didn’t have my passport (duh…) which was back in my room. So then I had to get a temporary pass to get back in to the base to get my passport, which I got and we then returned to the pass office and I got my pass. By this time the sun was getting low, so we decided to head off to Limassol for a bit of a look around. We got there, and it was shut. Half-day closing. Ah well. Back to the Sergeant’s Mess for a Bonfire Night Barbie and a few more of those lovely 1 Euro bottles of Keo.
I’ve also acquired an assistant. His name is Igor. Well, it is now, anyway.

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Virtual Databases - Learn about how DV encapsulates your data access as a database.
Models - Learn about how DV represents metadata.
Connectors - Learn about how DV connects to enterprise information systems.
Data Services - Learn about how DV exposes data service.
SOAs - Learn about DV's role in an SOA world.
A virtual database (or VDB) is a container for components used to integrate data from multiple data sources, so that they can be accessed in an integrated manner through a single, uniform API.
A VDB contains models, which define the structural characteristics of data sources, views, and Web services.
There are two types VDBs available.
Dynamic VDB is defined using a simple XML file. This XML file defines the sources it is trying to integrate and then provides access through JDBC where user queries can be written against this VDB using all the sources defined as if they are in single source. Dynamic VDB does not offer view/abstact layers.
Teiid Designer, a Eclipse-based GUI tool can be used to create VDBs. This Eclipse-based tool lets you not only define source models and import metadata and statistics from them, but also allows you to define relational and XML views on top of those sources. This allows you to abstract the structure of the information you expose to and use in your applications from the underlying physical data structures.
The VDB needs to be deployed to a Teiid Server, if there are no errors during deployment and underlying data sources are configured correctly, then VDB will be accessible to your client application. Once VDB is deployed, your VDB can be accessed through JDBC-SQL, SOAP (Web Services), SOAP-SQL, or XQuery.
View models represent the structure and characteristics of abstract structures you want to expose to your applications.
Source models must be associated with a Translator and a Resource Adaptor.
A Translator provides a abstraction layer between Teiid Query Engine and physical data source, that knows how to convert Teiid issued query commands into source specific commands and execute them using the Resource Adaptor. It also have smarts to convert the result data that came from the physical source into a form that Teiid Query engine is expecting.
A Resouce Adaptor provides the connectivity to the physical data source. This also provides way to natively issue commands and gather results. A Resource Adaptor can be a RDBMS data source, Web Service, text file, connection to main frame etc. This is often a JCA Connector.
You can define configuration for Translators and Resource Adaptors in Teiid Designer. Once defined, Translator information along with the JNDI name of the Resource Adaptor is stored with a VDB, so that when a VDB is exchanged, the existing settings can be used.
Typically Resource Adaptor configuration information contains user-ids, passwords, URLs to the physical data sources. This information is not stored with the VDB. These are automatically created by Designer for development purposes, however user need to migrate or create new ones for the production environment themselfs using the provided tools like Admin Console.
VDBs can be tested in Teiid Designer by issuing SQL queries in the SQL Explorer perspective. In this way, you can iterate between defining your integration models and testing them out to see if they are yielding the expected results.
Your VDB must define its Translator and Resource Adapter with all source models in order to be executable.
VDBs are stored in an archive file format, similar to a standard Java JAR format.
Dynamic VDBs are XML files. The schema for the XML file can be found in the Teiid documents.
A model is a representation of a set of information constructs. A familiar model is the relational model, which defines tables composed of columns and containing records of data. Another familiar model is the XML model, which defines hierarchical data sets. In Teiid, models are used to define the entities, and relationships between those entities, required to fully define the integration of information sets so that they may be accessed in a uniform manner using a single API and access protocol.
Source models define the structural and data characteristics of the information contained in data sources. Teiid uses the information in source models to access the information in multiple sources, so that from a user's viewpoint these all appear to be in a single source.
In addition to source models, Teiid provides the ability to define a variety of view models. These can be used to define a layer of abstraction above the physical layer, so that information can be presented to end users and consuming applications in business terms rather than as it is physically stored. These business views can be in a variety of forms: relational, XML, or Web services. Views are defined using transformations between models.
Teiid Designer can be used to model a variety of classes of models. Each of these represent a conceptually different classification of models.
Relational, which model data that can be represented in table – columns and records – form. Relational models can represent structures found in relational databases, spreadsheets, text files, or simple Web services.
XML, which model the basic structures of XML documents. These can be “backed” by XML Schemas. XML models represent nested structures, including recursive hierarchies.
XML Schema, the W3C standard for formally defining the structure and constraints of XML documents, as well as the datatypes defining permissible values in XML documents.
Web Services, which define Web service interfaces, operations, and operation input and output parameters (in the form of XML Schemas).
Model Extensions, for defining property name/value extensions to other model classes.
A Translator provides an abstraction layer between DV Query Engine and physical data source, that knows how to convert DV issued query commands into source specific commands and execute them using the Resource Adaptor.
A Translator also defines the capabilities of a perticular source, like whether it can natively support query joins (inner joins, cross joins etc) or support criteria.
The "Developer's Guide" on how to create a custom Translator that works with your Resource Adaptor.
A instance of resouce adaptor is created by defining a "-ds.xml" file in the JBoss AS. This is same operation that is used to create Data Sources in JBoss AS.
The "Developer's Guide" on how to create a custom Resource Adaptor.
Translator capabilities define what processing each translator/source combination can perform. For example, most relational sources can process joins and unions, whereas when processing delimited text files these operations cannot be performed by the resource adaptor or the "source" (in this case, the file system).
A data service is a standards-based, uniform means of accessing information in a form useful to business applications.
Since data is rarely in a form required by applications and services, and is often not even in a single data source, a key requirement for data services is that they abstract the data from its physical persistence structure, presenting it in a form that is closer to the needs of the using application. This effectively decouples consuming applications from the structure of the underlying data.
Hand-in-hand with abstraction, a federated query engine is required to execute the transformations defining the abstraction layers in an efficient manner, and to expose the abstracted structures through uniform and standard APIs.
Execution environment, to actualize the abstract structures from the underlying data, and expose them through standard APIs. A query engine is a required part of the execution environment, to optimally federate data from multiple disparate sources.
Teiid provides a suite of projects that provide data services to business applications. That is, Teiid provides a means to access integrated data from multiple data sources, through your preferred standards-based API. Teiid provides access to federated information through JDBC (SQL or XQuery), ODBC (SQL or XQuery), and SOAP (Web services).
A more business- or user-centric view of data services is that they are information representations required by business applications. From this perspective, data services are defined and designed by business analysts, modelers, and developers to represent the information structures required by business applications. Often, a key design goal is one of interoperability - the requirement that systems work together seamlessly, including when exchanging data. Teiid provides graphical and other tools for defining these interoperable data services, essentially relational and XML views that can be used by business applications in a semantically-meaningful manner.
These two viewpoints roughly correspond to the Execution and Modeling components of a data services solution, respectively.
Data services are a key part of a service-oriented architecure, or SOA. They provide the necessary interface to data for all business services.
The guiding principles of SOAs are based on lessons well-learned over the brief history of computing, most notably that of decoupling of system components. It is these same principles that motivate the use of data services in an SOA.
Decoupling is the key concept in SOAs and is achieved through abstraction based on service interfaces. Business processes in an SOA represent a formalized, executable form of the actual enterprise's processes, but offer a layer of abstraction above the physical processes, be they automated or manual. Business processes are composed of business services. Just as business processes in an SOA represent an abstraction from their real-world counterparts, so do business services offer an abstraction of actual physical services. Decoupling through abstraction imbues SOAs with immense potential to model business operations independent of the IT infrastructuredu jour.
SOAs, as their name makes clear, are architectures. These architectures, as we've seen, involve business processes composed of business services. Business processes and services both make use of business information, which is likely resident in many different types and instances of databases and files. This information can be exposed to business services using the same service-oriented paradigm - as data services.
Just as business processes and services in an SOA represent abstractions - albeit executable ones - of their real-world counterparts, so too do data services represent an abstraction of underlying enterprise information. Data services expose information to business services in a form and through an interface amenable to those services.
expose integrated information in one or more desired formats, even if the original data are in different formats.
expose information through one or more consistent, standard interfaces, even if the original data are accessed through different interfaces.
a query engine for processing these abstract definitions efficiently, exposing the integrated information through one or more interfaces.


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Removal and replacement of industrial/commercial asbestos roofs.
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Sukanto Tanoto is the Founder and Chairman of RGE, a global resources-based manufacturing group of companies with corporate offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Beijing and Nanjing. Mr. Tanoto started his first business more than 50 years ago supplying spare parts to the oil and construction industries. An entrepreneur and visionary, Mr. Tanoto entered the plywood business in 1967. Following this success, he ventured into other resources-based industries such as oil palm, forestry, pulp and paper, and power generation.
Today, RGE is a global group with assets exceeding US$18 billion, a workforce of 60,000 people and manufacturing operations in China, Indonesia and Brazil and sales offices worldwide. The business encompasses four key operational areas: pulp and paper (APRIL – Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Ltd and Asia Symbol), palm oil (Asian Agri and Apical), rayon and specialty pulp (Sateri International and APR) and energy (Pacific Oil & Gas).
Mr. Tanoto strongly believes that a company can only be successful if it is a responsible corporate citizen. Guided by his principle that all business should be conducted in a manner that is good for the community, good for the country, good for the climate, good for the customer and good for the company, Mr. Tanoto ensures that each of his businesses undertakes responsible environmental and social stewardship by embracing and integrating the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) into its business. CSR programs include integrated farming training schemes which have changed thousands of subsistence villagers into self-sufficient and sustainable farmers. Other community development activities include small and medium enterprise programs to help establish businesses, vocational training, community fiber farms and social infrastructure support.
With a strong intellectual curiosity and a firm belief in continuous learning, Mr. Tanoto has not only continued his own education by undertaking management courses at leading business schools, such as INSEAD, Harvard and Wharton, but has also committed to providing educational assistance, in particular to rural communities.
In 1981, he and his family started Tanoto Foundation to help reduce poverty and advance human achievement. Mr. Tanoto is a member of the INSEAD International Council, the Wharton Board of Overseers, the Wharton Executive Board for Asia, and various other educational, community and industry bodies. He is a recipient of the Wharton School Dean’s Medal Award, which recognizes individuals for their contributions to the enlargement of the global economy and to the improvement of lives worldwide. Past recipients of the award include Chiefs of State, Nobel Prize winners, and Chairmen and CEOs of companies.

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Our is packed by stretch film packing and wooden box outside as customer's requirement, or nuke packed.
Our plastic recycling machine is used to recycle kind of waste plastic,such as waste plastic bages,pipes, PP and PE film. The whole crushing and recycling line include big-bore crusher,washer,conveyor belt,blanking machine, granulator,cuterthe and so on.
1) High degree of automation, assembly line requires only two employees.
2) 20% energy saving than the same machine on the market.
3) Enhance the yield 30% than the same machine on the market.
Sichuan Yazhijiang Plastics Industry co. ltd , located in Ziyang " capital of China's energy-saving", covering an area of 80,000 square meter ,was established by dr. Jiang Ma in 1995.the size of the corporate is in the leading position. Over 20 years research and development, is becoming a professional supplier devoted to the designing & production of plastic machine and plastic product .The company is set foot in the area of plastic recycling machine, plastic product ,industrial estates , Financing Guarantee ,international trade ,recycling resourses, etc. The company is a leading manufacturer of plastic machine and plastic product, with research and development center in Sichuan .and is a synthetical enterprise group which combine with production and selling . engineer and senior engineer have occupied 31.2%of total member in the company, while 62.8% staffs had received college education .The company possess eight branches including the technological development centers, ChongQing Yazhijiang Plastic Industry co.ltd Ziyang Huili recycling resourses co.ltd ,sichuan Haili trading co.ltd, Sichuan tianyun financial guarantee coo.ltd. etc .
Our PP PE ABS two stage water cooling plastic recycling machine with CE and ISO certificate is packed by stretch film packing and wooden box outside as customer's requirement, or nuke packed.

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Caps – Hobo Outdoor Co.
Our Hobo cap features our logo on a white background with a black raised border. It's a simple and clean design that won't make you a better fisherman or a better hunter. It's a great cap and the design is embroidered with high quality materials. The Heather/White color combination really looks great. This cap features an adjustable snapback that fits most. This cap looks great whether you are running trotlines for catfish or are chasing elk in the mountains.
Hobo Outdoor Co. tidbit: The Mekong catfish can reach over eight feet in length and 646lbs. The banjo catfish is less than half an inch long. Catfish can live up to 20 years old depending on the species.
We like to think that our Full Semi-Automatic Chicken cap is on the edge of business casual. Our FSAC cap pairs nicely with shorts or pants. It's a great cap and the design is embroidered with high quality materials. The Heather/White color combination really looks great. This cap features an adjustable snapback that fits most. This cap looks great whether you are in the hen house or at the range.
Hobo Outdoor Co. tidbit: Don't wear a tank top and flip flops to a job interview.
So realistically, this would be a cowboy cap not a cowboy hat. It really doesn't matter to us what you call it. It's a great cap and the design is embroidered with high quality materials. The Heather/Black color combination really looks great. This cap features an adjustable snapback that fits most. This cap looks great whether you are turning wrenches on your 4X4 or working cows.
Hobo Outdoor Co. tidbit: Until the Spanish arrived there wasn't a single cow in America. Early attempts to domesticate the American Bison didn't work out well. They could jump six feet high and run up to 40mph.