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The capital of Tanzania is dusty and dry and empty half the year. The first president wanted government centered in the geographic heart of the country, but from the look of the place, no one else agreed. Aside from a few statutes scattered around the central business district, the city of Dodoma is nothing but an overgrown market town – major government agencies have long since returned to the coast.
But for three months each year, things change. The place gets jumping. Parliament is in session, and fat rich men arrive from Dar es Salaam in Land Rovers and Mercedes, leaving their families back east and filling the hotels and bars to capacity, drinking and eating and bankrolling the town for another year.
This was my first experience abroad, a month spent in Dodoma with government in session. I was supposed to be filming a promotional video for an African NGO, but my hosts would disappear for days on end, so I spent most of my time drinking in the hotel bar.
It was here that I met Mr. N, a political aide who liked beer almost as much as I did. I was in college at the time, so this was no small feat. We would sit together every night, matching each other bottle for bottle, except that I was drinking East African beer and he refused anything but Heineken, even if it was twice the price and half the size. I asked him why, and he said, "Because I can drink eight of these and not crash the car!"
One night we were three bottles deep, and I started complaining about the war in Iraq. As an American abroad during the second Bush administration this seemed like an easy way to bond with foreigners. I said, "Bush is an idiot," or something to that effect, trenchant criticism, and expected to be met by grunts of agreement. Instead the bar turned silent.
"Bush is a great man," said Mr. N. "He defeated an evil dictator, just as we have done."
He went on to explain the history of Tanzania's invasion of Uganda to topple Idi Amin.
"I was a soldier in this. And spent a night hiding from the Ugandan army in Lake Victoria, treading water with a friend. In the morning my friend was gone, taken by a crocodile."
I couldn't tell if he was joking. Was he joking? He must have been.
"Bush is a great man," he said, "and we love him dearly."
Mr. N started to laugh and grabbed my arm and encouraged me to laugh, but he was not joking.
This exploded my worldview. Mr. N had a voice, his own voice, and not one I could have predicted.
Before I met him, everything I wrote was crap. I take seriously the adage "write what you know," and for a long time I knew nothing. I would write plays set in the suburban parking lots of my mid Atlantic youth with teenagers cursing and drinking beers, listening to songs I liked, and I thought I was saying something unique about America, about the boring realities of post-industrial capitalism, when all I was doing was rewriting the same Eric Bogosian play over and over and over again, amassing rejections letters filled with euphemistic adjectives to describe my work - "muscular," meaning terse and male and predictable.
The thing I didn't know and had to learn was that "write what you know" also means get out there and know more. Years later I would read J.T. Rogers's 2008 Laura Pels Keynote and find a superb distillation of what I was learning to do. "I realized that as a playwright I had to lift my eyes from my navel and look out into the world. I had to start learning more - much more - so that I could tell stories that dig under the surface of peoples and cultures that seem deeply foreign - even scary - to me and find connections between us. To try and understand what those connections mean…our stories are no longer what is driving the world."
It's in this push to know more that I find the best stories. We want new voices in the theater, and often that translates into a search for writers of diverse backgrounds - race, gender, sexuality, nationality - but it should also push those of us - white, male, American - who sit firmly in the empowered class of theater writers to write new stories and learn about people who don't look like us.
I grew up in Washington, D.C. In ninth grade I walked out of biology class to the hill of my high school on South Dakota Avenue and looked out over the city to try to see the Pentagon smoking. A year later we learned to do the "sniper dance" moving our bodies wildly as we walked from building to building to evade the random sniping of John Allen Muhammed and Lee Boyd Malvo. D.C. was a city at war, and it shaped me, but it took East Africa to show me how to do it, to teach me that, as a writer, not only could I approach stories and characters outside my immediate experience, I ought to. If I fail to render these stories accurately – and inevitably I do; whatever your definition of “accuracy,” the creation of a narrative, the shaping of a fictional story, is filled with silences, and I am only one writer with one perspective – I still have to try.
Mr. N's story of treading water in Lake Victoria, of understanding Bush as a killer of despots, was challenging and specific and fresh, exactly the qualities I admire in the storytelling I love best, and exactly the qualities I hope to cultivate in my own work. I will fail in this effort. And I will fail again. But I will always try.

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The Irish. Everyone thinks they know everything about the Irish.
Here is where I want to dispel every assumption about Irish families, but the reality is I can’t.
Yeah, my family loves carbs. Bread, potatoes, you name it. We love it, and we aren’t afraid to admit it.
Wherever my mom’s side holds a family reunion, the location pretty much becomes the third most populated city in South Dakota. We all genuinely try to remember everyone’s name, but it seems like there is a new name to remember every other month. My mother is one of 10 children. Three branches of her family’s tree have more than six children — and counting.
Big families, carbs and Catholicism. That’s the big three. When I’m having an issue, my mom is quick on the draw with the patron saint I can pray to for a resolution.
When you grow up in a big family, I guess it is natural to wonder where the hell all of these people came from.
My mother, Rebecca, is the daughter of Elgin Edward Lemon and Ann Keating.
Elgin died before I was born. I never got to know his side’s story. His grandparents came to America by way of Germany in the mid-1800s and settled in the Midwest. His parents were farmers, he was in the Navy during World War II and, according to my mom, he liked routines. And disliked when they were broken.
Ann was raised in Yankton, South Dakota, where she still lives and where five of her 10 children live. The Keating side of the family is so well documented someone could write a book about them.
I have gotten the best impression of the roots of my family from the stories I have heard about the Keatings. My dad, Jeff Bowden, is from a small, tight-knit family. I haven’t ever gotten to know much about his side outside of my grandparents and my one aunt’s family.
Ann’s paternal grandparents, Edward and Mary Keating, came to America from Ireland in the mid-1800s and met in Wisconsin. They had 14 children; only 10 lived into adulthood. John Laurence was the 14th child born to Edward and Mary. He is my grandmother’s father.
Rumor has it Mary, who was widowed when John was five, had a tough time keeping John in check. He was a big fighter (check fighting Irish off the Irish assumptions list). He only ever attained a fourth grade education, which wasn’t all that uncommon.
John grew up and moved to Yankton, where he began working at his brother Frank’s creamery. Keating Creamery would later be called Keating Dairy, but it started out selling only butter. When milk was added to the list of products, it could officially be called a dairy.
Mary liked Wisconsin because it reminded her of Ireland. Her children working in South Dakota got her to move West in the early 1900s, but she moved back to Wisconsin two years later because the plains weren’t enough like her old country.
My grandma Ann’s mother was Patricia Hart. She was John Keating’s second wife. He had two children with his first wife, who died in 1922 of tuberculosis. John and Patricia had five children together.
Patricia was my great grandmother’s name on her birth certificate, but everyone called her Bob. Her father, Patrick, who had three daughters and a son at the time Patricia was born, wanted to name another son Bob. So he called his daughter Bob.
Patrick was born in Canada. His parents, Cormac and Winifred, both came to Canada from Ireland because it was $10 cheaper than sailing to America.
Patrick moved from a small town in Ontario to Minnesota by way of covered wagon. He married my great-great grandmother Ellen in Minnesota. Ellen’s parents were both born in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Her mother paid her way to America by agreeing to work as a maid for two years in the ship captain’s home in New York.
My great grandmother Patricia was Pat and Ellen Hart’s youngest child.
My great aunt described her mother as “CATHOLIC” — in capital letters. She was a heavy religious influence on her children. One of her children, Larry, became a priest. Another, Ginner, became a nun — Sister Angeline.
Grandmother Ann was influenced by her mother as well. My mother remembers Sundays when my grandparents would lug 10 children to mass. Everyone attended Catholic grade school. Ann played the organ at church.
She learned piano by ear. She is 89 and in the late stages of Alzheimer’s now so she does not play piano. I haven’t even heard her talk in the last five years. Even when she struggled to remember the names of her children though, she could still play piano. You could whistle her a tune and she would be able to play the entire song. It was incredible to see how piano was what she remembered best.
Big families, carbs and Catholicism.
I grew up in a house with six people. We have always been competitive. We stress out our mother with our arguments. But when I need advice, or just need to vent, I have someone to confide in.
My siblings and I give my mom grief when we all get back together and dinner is, like clockwork, pork loin and potatoes. In between the banter at the table, we jokingly ask mom when the menu will be different.
The answer is never — and we’re alright with that.

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Blantyre Community Committee held their AGM last night, 12th April 2019.
Blantyre Community Committee are pictured and listed here in no particular order, Stephen McDade, Aimee Glen, Hazel Krawczyk, Chloe Glen, Paul Veverka, current Chairperson Arlene Green, Barry Watt, Marianne Timmons and Louise Plummer.
This is the current team of enthusiastic volunteers, many of whom bring their own specific talents who organise the entire Gala Weekend and Festive Event for Blantyre. Kindly giving up their time each month to make sure YOU have fun and the events are safe, professionally run and as affordable as possible, the team are solely responsible for raising funds to host these events, something they’ve become accomplished at.


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The following review of Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins appeared originally in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Chess is the game not just of kings but of geniuses. For hundreds of years, it has served as standard and symbol for the pinnacles of human intelligence. Staring at the pieces, lost to the world, the chess master seems a figure of pure thought: brain without body. It’s hardly a surprise, then, that when computer scientists began to contemplate the creation of an artificial intelligence in the middle years of the last century, they adopted the chessboard as their proving ground. To build a machine able to beat a skilled human player would be to fabricate a mind. It was a compelling idea, and to this day it shapes public perceptions of artificial intelligence. But, as the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov argues in his illuminating new memoir Deep Thinking, the theory was flawed from the start. It reflected a series of misperceptions — about chess, about computers, and about the mind.
At the dawn of the computer age, in 1950, the Bell Labs engineer and information scientist Claude Shannon published a paper in Philosophical Magazine called “Programming a Computer for Playing Chess.” The creation of a “tolerably good” computerized chess player, he argued, was not only possible but would have metaphysical consequences. It would force the human race “either to admit the possibility of a mechanized thinking or to further restrict [its] concept of ‘thinking.’” He went on to offer an insight that would prove essential both to the development of chess software and to the pursuit of artificial intelligence in general. A chess program, he wrote, would need to incorporate a search function able to identify possible moves and rank them according to how they would influence the course of the game. He laid out two very different approaches to programming the function. “Type A” would rely on brute force, calculating the relative value of all possible moves as far ahead in the game as the speed of the computer allowed. “Type B” would use intelligence rather than raw power, imbuing the computer with an understanding of the game that would allow it to focus on a small number of attractive moves while ignoring the rest. In essence, a Type B computer would demonstrate the intuition of an experienced human player.
Type B, the intelligence strategy, seemed far more feasible, not least because it fit the scientific zeitgeist. As the public’s fascination with digital computers intensified during the 1950s, the machines began to influence theories about the human mind. Many scientists and philosophers came to assume that the brain must work something like a computer, using its billions of networked neurons to calculate thoughts and perceptions. Through a curious kind of circular logic, this analogy in turn guided the early pursuit of artificial intelligence: if you could figure out the codes that the brain uses in carrying out cognitive tasks, you’d be able to program similar codes into a computer. Not only would the machine play chess like a master, but it would also be able to do pretty much anything else that a human brain can do. In a 1958 paper, the prominent AI researchers Herbert Simon and Allen Newell declared that computers are “machines that think” and, in the near future, “the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied.” With the right programming, a computer would turn sapient.
Particularly fruitful has been the deployment of search algorithms similar to those that powered Deep Blue. If a machine can search millions of options in a matter of milliseconds, ranking each according to how well it fulfills some specified goal, then it can outperform experts in a lot of problem-solving tasks without having to match their experience or insight. More recently, AI programmers have added another brute-force technique to their repertoire: machine learning. In simple terms, machine learning is a statistical method for discovering correlations in past events that can then be used to make predictions about future events. Rather than giving a computer a set of instructions to follow, a programmer feeds the computer many examples of a phenomenon and from those examples the machine deciphers relationships among variables. Whereas most software programs apply rules to data, machine-learning algorithms do the reverse: they distill rules from data, and then apply those rules to make judgments about new situations.
The pragmatic turn in AI research is producing many such breakthroughs, but the shift also highlights the limitations of artificial intelligence. Through brute-force data processing, computers can churn out answers to well-defined questions and forecast how complex events may play out, but they lack the understanding, imagination, and common sense to do what human minds do naturally: turn information into knowledge, think conceptually and metaphorically, and negotiate the world’s flux and uncertainty without a script. Machines remain machines.
That fact hasn’t blunted the public’s enthusiasm for AI fantasies. Along with TV shows and movies featuring scheming computers and bloody-minded robots, we’ve recently seen a slew of earnest nonfiction books with titles like Superintelligence, Smarter Than Us, and Our Final Invention, all suggesting that machines will soon be brainier than we are. The predictions echo those made in the 1950s and 1960s, and, as before, they’re founded on speculation, not fact. Despite monumental advances in hardware and software, computers give no sign of being any nearer to self-awareness, volition, or emotion. Their strength — what Kasparov describes as an “amnesiac’s objectivity” — is also their weakness.
Chess is a grueling sport. It demands stamina, resilience, and an aptitude for psychological warfare. It also requires acute sensory perception. “Move generation seems to involve more visuospatial brain activity than the sort of calculation that goes into solving math problems,” writes Kasparov, drawing on recent neurological experiments. To the chess master, the board’s 64 squares define not just an abstract geometry but an actual terrain. Like figures on a landscape, the pieces form patterns that the master, drawing on years of experience, reads intuitively, often at a glance. Methodical analysis is important, too, but it is carried out as part of a multifaceted and still mysterious thought process involving the body and its senses as well as the brain’s neurons and synapses.
But if computers have become unbeatable at the board, they remain incapable of exhibiting what Kasparov calls “the ineffable nature of human chess.” To Kasparov, this is cause for optimism about the future of humanity. Unlike the eight-by-eight chessboard, the world is an unbounded place without a rigid set of rules, and making sense of it will always require more than mathematical or statistical calculations. The inherent rigidity of computer intelligence leaves plenty of room for humans to exercise their flexible and intuitive intelligence. If we remain vigilant in turning the power of our computers to our own purposes, concludes Kasparov, our machines will not replace us but instead propel us to ever-greater achievements.
*A bit of all-too-human deviousness was also involved in Deep Blue’s win. IBM’s coders, it was later revealed, programmed the computer to display erratic behavior — delaying certain moves, for instance, and rushing others — in an attempt to unsettle Kasparov. Computers may be innocents, but that doesn’t mean their programmers are.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2017 by Nick.

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If the gentlemen would like to share your constructive thoughts on this issue, or a man’s perspective, you are welcome to.
I can’t even begin to count how many women I have heard from over the past 2.5 years who were upset because their men didn’t protect them from extended family during disagreements. I know every situation is different, and I can’t begin to address every possible scenario and there can be many very complex factors involved. So I will only be able to speak in generalities here. But, I thought I would share a few things that may revolutionize how we as women might view this situation as we attempt to examine a masculine perspective. And, as always, I am assuming that you are seeking to live in total submission to Christ and that you are only dating or engaged to a man who desires to live in total submission to Christ.
My understanding is that most men who are anywhere near healthy emotionally/spiritually/mentally are generally glad to provide for, protect and lead their women.
Men tend to have the drive to want to do these things and to be the “hero” in our eyes, especially. God created men to want to be our heroes, to be the “good guys” we can trust, admire, be proud of and respect. Most guys LOVE to see their girlfriend/fiancé happy. Our happiness makes them feel “successful” as men. Our happiness and delight is such a precious gift to our men.
Now the woman is taking a stance of being in competition with her man for power and control instead of looking to him with admiration, honor, respect and cooperation to bless him as her teammate. A man doesn’t generally try to protect, nurture, be affectionate toward, be gentle toward, fawn over or woo his competition.
If a woman takes the masculine stance of taking authority, her guy will generally either fight her for his God-given position (in marriage) or will unplug and become passive and let her take over. But he will not cooperate with her. If he is more prone to being passive, he may eventually just let her do her own thing and let her have the whole job of leading, providing and protecting herself since that is what she has insisted she wants. He may even give up trying to be the leader and man that God calls him to be.
If she is going to take care of herself and she doesn’t want or need him to be her hero and she isn’t willing to follow his leadership, then he assumes she can protect herself and take care of everything herself. If she wants to act like a man, he will let her “be her own man.” He wants to be with a woman who complements him and is his teammate, not someone who acts like a man and acts like his competition. He may feel like there is no role for him if she tries to dominate him.
If a woman takes over and tries to control and disrespect her man, he will be very busy trying to protect himself from her. She is coming at him like an enemy. So the only one he is most concerned about protecting is himself. Why would he protect someone who is doing everything in her power to make his life miserable? He may even feel like she is pretty scary. Those verbal attacks and outbursts of negative emotion, criticism, scolding, lecturing, bossing him around, criticizing him, blasting him, humiliating him, undermining him, arguing with him, complaining about him, telling everyone how little she thinks of him do not attract a man toward his girlfriend or fiancé. This is how “a foolish wife tears down her house with her own hands” Proverbs 14:1.
If a man sees someone else as being in charge, to him, it is very disrespectful for him to rush in to protect that person.
When a wife tries to act like the authority and leader, that repels her husband and she pays the price by losing out on emotional/spiritual/physical intimacy with him. And, even worse, when she expects him to submit to her, she is asking him to emasculate himself and take on a wife’s position of biblical submission in marriage. That is not God’s design. It is actually a good thing that our husbands don’t cooperate with us when we try to take over – it shows that they have backbone and that God designed them to be the leaders in the marriage. If they did everything we told them to do and catered to our every demand, we would actually respect our men LESS, not more. I’m not sure we realize that. But that is exactly what happens when a wife is very strong and dominant and the husband does decide to submit to her. We lose all respect for our husbands and they lose respect for themselves. Then everyone loses.
If a woman is being disrespectful to his family or her family, even if she is treating her guy with honor and respect, he will most likely leave her to her own devices to fix the mess she made. She has stepped out from under his covering and protection if she is provoking discord and fights herself. I know I did this in the past and had to repent to Greg and to extended family members for my disrespect toward them as well. (I was controlling and disrespectful in many of my relationships. Ugh!) God desires us to live in peace with others as far as it depends on us. (Romans 12:18) If we are starting conflicts, divisions, factions, strife, holding on to bitterness/resentment and/or spreading gossip, that means our sinful nature is in control, not God’s Spirit. (Galatians 5:18-21) We need to repent to God and to others if this is the case!
However, in marriage, if a wife has been honoring, respecting, blessing, cooperating with her husband’s authority and he has felt truly loved and genuinely respected for quite some time, and the wife is treating his family or extended family members with respect – most men will, eventually, protect and stand up for their wives and their family IF they believe that there is a real threat against their wives and children. Men don’t always have the same definition of “threat” that we do as women.
If a man has never stood up for himself to his own mother or parents, then a woman may have to be patient as she focuses on obeying God for herself and her guy works up the courage to stand up to family members if necessary. If he doesn’t defend himself, he probably doesn’t have the ability yet to defend her either. Most men will not want to cause a division or chasm in the family and will try to avoid conflict. It would usually have to be a pretty serious situation before a man would decide to cut off contact or issue an ultimatum or speak up about something if he has never done so before. This will take a woman being very tuned in to God’s Spirit to know exactly what to do and what to say with her guy and the extended family involved.
Most husbands don’t want to be in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between their mothers or their wives. Yes, husbands should put their wives first. That is God’s design.(Genesis 2:24) But many times, a wife can influence him much more powerfully by inspiring him to want to protect her and defend her by obeying God’s commands to her as a wife and living in full submission to Christ in the power of His Spirit than she ever could by trying to demand what she wants or give her husband an ultimatum. I believe, as we obey and honor God’s Word for us as wives and as believers in Christ, we may be able to avoid a lot of conflicts so that they don’t even happen in the first place. That is my prayer. But if there is inevitable conflict, and a wife is placing herself under her husband’s authority, leadership, protection and covering – her husband will be most inspired to defend her if necessary.


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If you had time to analyze every call from your marketing, what would you want to know? Would you want to know if marketing channels drive “good” or “bad” phone leads? Would you see if calls from your marketing turn into appointments? Or what percentage go unanswered? DialogAnalytics can show you all this and more. You tell us what you want to learn and DialogAnalytics uses machine-learning technology to get the answers you need to improve your marketing.
Powered by industry-leading technology from Google and Nuance, DialogAnalytics uses artificial intelligence (AI) and custom-built machine-learning algorithms to rapidly analyzes and categorizes your call conversions for amazing insights. It is truly next-generation marketing AI technology that can tell you whatever you wish to learn from calls. And you get the insights you need without having to waste any time or resources listening to recorded calls.
What would you like to learn from calls to improve your marketing? Want to see the marketing sources of calls that resulted in an appointment or sale? Want to know the ads or keywords driving quality sales calls but not conversions? DialogAnalytics makes it easy.
What makes a “good” sales call for your business? Tell us, and DialogAnalytics will tag every call matching your criteria and tell you what drove it. Want to segregate sales calls from support calls? Or see which sources drive first-time callers vs. repeat callers? DialogAnalytics’ AI can do it.
DialogAnalytics’ AI technology can group calls based on if they reached a live person, what was said on the call, or if they went unanswered. Use this data to help your sales teams, franchisees, or call center staff make adjustments and improve performance.


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Like a real cheesecake. 20 cm cheesecake by ibloom. With club squishy surprise you are guaranteed a 35 value in every.
Kawaii shop selling fabrics cute stationery re ment miniatures bento boxes plush toys washi tape and squishies.
Squishy jumbo. Affordable selection of stim toys and fidgets for autistic individuals of all ages including bendeez klixx boinks and tangle. Is a leading us. So realistic and slow rising. Each box contains 4 6 medium to jumbo squishies.
These toys usually sell in stores from 7 25 each. Scented like yummy bread. Vi säljer squishy squishies den nya typen av strippleksaker finns i många olika färger och modeller djur mat grönsaker etc. Buy bunnyscafe licensed bear bread bun squishy.
Importer distributor of light up led toys novelties and gifts. The fun and bubbly character from bubbleezz is a super cute toy for kids who love to. These steam bun squishies are so big and super slow rising. Each month club members receive a box that includes a variety of squishy toys as well as a surprise mini box.
We specialize in the field of glow items including glow. Selling all top major safety tested squishy brands such as ibloom puni maru creamiicandy popularboxeshk pat pat zoo cutie creative chawa and more.


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Do you want a strong solid relationship that is willing to go the distance? Get to know your running shoes! We are incredibly excited to announce that we will be entering a team, for the first time, in the Great Manchester Run on Sunday 19 May 2019.
If you thoroughly enjoyed the Santa Dash and you’re looking for another healthy challenge to step it up a notch, the Great Manchester Run could be perfect for you. It would be great to show our Manchester neighbours some of our Salford spirit!
Discounted entry will be available to all University colleagues and students. You’ll also get your very own A-grade quality branded running shirt. If you want to start your year with a ‘sprint’ in your step and work off all the festive treats, this is for you! There’s no need to fear, The Sports Centre is here - they will be providing fantastic training plans in the New Year for those that want to prep for the event, whether you’re a beginner or a track star. The Sports Centre will also be hosting a handful of female-only classes during January.
Come and run with us! The training in January will allow you to take that much needed headspace you may be craving after the busy festive season draws to a close. The race is for anyone and everyone who wants to give it a try and is open to all abilities. Whether you want to walk, jog, run or do a mixture of all three, join us in January and compete with us as Team Salford in May. Let’s take those smalls steps together.
Got any questions? Read the FAQs.

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CAN'T FIND THE used Chevrolet Camaro VEHICLE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR?
Keyes Chevrolet typically keeps a large stock of used Chevrolet Camaro vehicles to satisfy the needs of our customers in Durand and Eau Claire. In the event you don't see the exact used Chevrolet Camaro vehicle you're looking for in our inventory, please, let us know so we can locate it for you! Keyes Chevrolet has been serving Western Wisconsin and Minnesota since 1946. Let us assist you in your purchase of a used Chevrolet Camaro today!

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In the ANSYS Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM) team, we help our customers to tame product engineering complexity by synchronizing their people, systems, content and processes. We seek a hands-on technical manager who will lead the architecture, design, development, maintenance and support of enterprise software solutions in the Computer-Aided Engineering software application space.
Manages moderate to large--sized software development projects, usually within an assigned product line.
Ensures that appropriate development and corporate methods and procedures are followed. Ensures projects are completed according to product specifications and are properly documented.
Reviews architecture designs and technology selections to ensure appropriateness for current requirements as well as extensibility for future needs.
Facilitates communication upward, outward and within project team including project status and technical information (architecture, design, and implementation objectives).
Manages personnel activities of staff. Mentors and motivates team members.
Participates in staff recruitment, development and education, including product, technical and industry knowledge development, as well as soft skills improvements.
Other duties as assigned, and as needed to deliver on project goals.
Bachelor's or master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field from a reputed university. For those with bachelor's degree, 12 years of software industry experience is required. For those with Master's, 10 years of experience is required.
Professional experience in a role as a software development manager is required.
Excellent ability to manage a team of software professionals and to mentor their career growth, with excellent coaching skills and ability to motivate.
Proven and effective experience in building enterprise software products and leading full stack enterprise software development projects.
In-depth experience in requirements elaboration, research and analysis, project planning, UX design, and quality assurance.
Excellent organizational, leadership, decision-making, and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed organization.
Must be able to travel to France and the United States of America.
Experience in engineering-related software domains like PLM, PDM, CAD, CAE and EDA is a strong plus.
Note : Please visit our Careersite as well and apply for job (jobs.ansys.com).
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a bridge, or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a product where ANSYS software played a critical role in its creation. ANSYS is the global leader in engineering simulation. We help the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination. Join our nearly 3000 professionals in more than 75 strategic locations around the world in making a difference in the world of engineering simulation and product development. Visit www.ansys.com for more information.

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Selecting text on an iPhone can be very frustrating, even with the magnifier tool. Here’s how to use the Hidden Touch Pad on Your iOS Keyboard on 3D Touch enabled devices.
Your smartphone opens up a world of new opportunities, but it does come with some compromises at times. For example, activities you would normally do easily on a PC with a mouse, like selecting and copying text, is not as easy and convenient on a small touch screen device. Apple tried to provide some convenience over the years with a magnifier, which zooms into text, however, if you’re like me, it’s far from perfect.
This is why I’m excited to show you a new iPhone tip for those of you with 3D Touch Support. With 3D Touch, Apple has made it even easier to work with your text on the screen. Here’s how it works!
Using an iPhone 6s or later along with iOS 10, force touch any key, and it transforms the keyboard into a virtual touchpad. You will get even more space and fewer chances of making a mistake when selecting a word and moving your cursor. When done, just release and the keyboard goes back to its original state.
I’m not sure if this works on the iPad since no model of the iPad currently supports 3D Touch. If you own one, give it a try and let us know in the comments. Users with older iPhones will have to settle for the older magnifier.
Everything on an IPhone is hidden or requires you to tap 3 times and stand on your head to find anything let alone change anything.


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Friends of Woodfords Corner is a collaboration of residents, businesses and organizations interested in the revitalization of the Woodfords Corner area in Portland, Maine. There's lots of activity and stakeholders involved, so stay in touch by joining the mailing list, volunteering, or supporting us with good old fashioned dollars.
Woodfords Corner resident Kari Suva believes the millennial cohort has the power to determine the future. She is working with the non-partisan League of Women Voters of Maine (LWVME) to increase voter turnout among millennials.
Did we see you at CornerFEST?
There is a park in Woodfords Corner !


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Maritime-General Information - IRI | International Registries, Inc.
consists only of quality vessels, owned and operated by quality owners and ship managers.
We remain alert for ways to improve upon the maritime program and services as changes occur in the industry and regulatory arena. In order to meet higher expectations, each of our worldwide offices is capable of handling vessel registration, including those under construction, mortgage and financing charter recordation, company incorporation, and servicing clientele.
IRI has 70 years of experience administering maritime and corporate programs.
Decentralized operations provide customers with 24/7 service from 28 worldwide offices.
International lending institutions and shipbuilders have confidence in the RMI vessel registration, documentation, and preferred ship mortgage and financing charter recordation standards and procedures.
The RMI has adopted groundbreaking legislation that permits the registration of a vessel that is still subject to a recorded mortgage in its present country of registry. This legislation provides for the continuation of the preferred status of the mortgage without interruption; thus, the foreign mortgage lien accompanies the vessel into the RMI Registry.
Assistance and technical support are available from our staff of qualified and experienced mariners, naval architects, surveyors, nautical inspectors, marine safety, and environmental protection specialists, shipping company administrators, radio specialists, and casualty investigators.
Inquiries receive prompt responses and owners and operators may communicate directly with the Registry.
A worldwide network of Nautical Inspectors conducts in-port inspections and responds to owner and operator needs. Our inspection and follow-up program supports vessel operation efforts in meeting international standards.
An information network of Marine Safety Advisories is distributed to apprise owners and operators of changes to international shipping regulations, security bulletins, and PSC activities to help avoid unnecessary delays and compliance problems.
The RMI has an active delegation and a permanent representative at the IMO that participates in all of the committee and subcommittee meetings.
IRI’s Maritime Services Group is ISO 9001:2015 certified.

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At BioTools, our specialised solutions cater for key fields within the Life Science and offer tangible beneifts to your research processes and workflow. We are dedicated to improving your experience with your laboratory equipment and have catalouged our products into key fields of the Life Science space to assist you in connecting with specialised products and equipment.
FluidX/Brooks offers the most complete range of cryopreservation storage solutions available. These solutions enables laboratories to provide a guaranteed chain of custody from sampling, to storage and analysis. Boasting a comprehensive range of 2D barcode tubes in numerous sizes and styles, 2D barcode scanning solutions and decapping/recapping systems to support your workflow.

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“Times change, and we change with them”, or so the saying goes. There is clearly some truth in this, especially for those of us who have witnessed the transformation of mobile phones from unwieldy bricks to flashy touchscreen devices; the internet from sluggish and screechy ethernet connections to the wireless Internet of Things; and televisions from cathode-ray antiques to curved, 4k-ready screens.
Retail in particular has undergone some profound changes and many of these are due to attendant technological developments. The experiences of Amazon, which saw it evolve from its foundations as an online bookseller in 1995 to a provider of everything from television shows to groceries, are intimately bound up with technological advance.
Only last month, for example, Amazon opened its first UK supermarket, complete with hundreds of ceiling-mounted cameras and electronic sensors to identify each customer and track the items they select. What’s more, shoppers travel the store swiping their smartphones kitted out with the Amazon Go app.
It is perhaps unsurprising, therefore, that a company as successful and innovative as Amazon has extended its reach beyond supplying goods to customers. In fact, since having launched Amazon Lending in 2011, the business has advanced loans in excess of $3bn to small businesses in the UK, US and Japan, who might otherwise have failed to secure credit from traditional lenders.
Those merchants are suppliers to Amazon, and so the company benefits from hyperlocal merchants with expanding product lines, increasing the breadth of Amazon’s offering as well as its geographic reach. Of course, the loans also generate interest.
This is not an isolated case. Across the globe, fintech – from Monzo’s real-time spending updates to bKash’s mobile payments service for unbanked third-world consumers – is on the advance. And as global retailers and major tech players take advantage of these developments – with Apple, Google, Facebook and Square operating their own payment systems – we need to ask ourselves: is the hegemony of banks under threat?
The fact Amazon, Apple and Google have found a ready market for their forays into the financial services sector should not be wholly surprising. After all, these are companies whose existence depends on being able to quickly react to shifting patterns of consumer demand. Faced with a generation used to getting more and more from fewer and fewer vendors and suppliers, the move makes sense. Importantly, 30 percent of consumers are prepared to bank with the likes of Facebook and Google if the companies offered such services. The dog followed its nose; it wasn’t wagged by its tail.
Clearly there is something of a challenge to traditional institutions; banks have invested heavily in fintech so as not to be left behind. For the time being, however, they can likely breathe easily: Amazon Lending’s figures pale in comparison to the $130bn provided to small banks by JPMorgan Chase in that same time period. With significant cultural and regulatory barriers to overcome, we may be waiting some time for the likes of Amazon to be making serious strides into the financial services sector.
For one, banking rules and regulations are prohibitive and fiendishly complex as they have been formed by banks and their regulators over decades. Look at the recent wrangling and attention paid to the implementation of MiFID II, for example. Furthermore, bankers are experts in their field – accustomed to stringent levels of compliance – while the likes of Amazon and Apple are not subject to anywhere near the same levels of scrutiny and regulation.
They have no demands on the nature and adequacy of their assets. The appropriateness and qualifications of their executive is, other than perhaps those imposed on public companies, limited to the pressures of their investors. Can we really expect them to dive headfirst into legally choppy and potentially costly waters? This would see them compete head-to-head with some of the industry’s most established players for potentially marginal gains.
Yet the landscape may be changing. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is pushing ahead with exploring a form of special purpose national bank charter for fintech companies. Additionally, Brian Knight, Director of the Programme on Financial Regulation and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Centre at George Mason University, has advocated a form of non-depositary charter and a ‘sandbox’ scheme similar to that operated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
There is certainly a groundswell of opinion that the blurring of the lines between consumer-facing retailers and financial institutions should not be dissuaded as the developments are likely to serve in the interests of the consumer. Subject, of course, to appropriate oversight.
Nonetheless, the large, consumer-focused businesses with technology at their core are already engaging in providing financial services and it is not unreasonable to expect this to deepen in the future. After all, in the late 1990s, we all thought our lecturer was mad for suggesting that one day a single device would combine portable audio cassette players, cameras and mobile phones. He was right. How the times have changed.

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We teamed up with Logitech to create great video experiences, combining our intuitive touch screens with the beautifully designed & easy to use video cameras of Logitech.
Logitech is a world leader in video collaboration. They provide ConferenceCams, Webcams, and accessories to video-enable meeting rooms, huddle rooms, and desktops. Simple to deploy, easy to use, and highly affordable, Logitech products deliver razor sharp video and crystal clear audio, and work with all leading video services.
Bring video collaboration to huddle rooms and large conference rooms with Logitech ConferenceCams. Check out MeetUp: it is an all-in-One ConferenceCam with 120° field of view and integrated audio, perfect for small huddle rooms. A perfect match with the i3HUDDLE.


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The future generation of computer genius that will rule the world!!!!
Thread: The future generation of computer genius that will rule the world!!!!
One assumes little Miss L.W. gets the good looks from her mother?
Originally Posted by Elmer B.
I keep telling my husband that, unlike us, children today are born with a mouse in their hands. Melissa is most definitely proof and oh so cute.
There are toy laptops available: Kids Laptops - Best Toy Kids Laptops, Best Laptops For Kids, etc. Once she is teething, something like that may be safer.
I agree 100% All of my children have been playing with computer since diapers and pretty good with them.


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From time to time we run Reader Polls on a variety of topics ranging from “Biggest Concern Related to Search Marketing?” to the “Strongest Signals of Credibility for a Marketing Agency”. Some of the polls get quite a few votes and some get very few. For example, the “Favorite SEO Podcast” poll received over 500 votes whereas the recent poll about whether Minnesota needs a SEM organization received only 21.
Either this blog has minimal reach in Minnesota, which given how few organized search marketing events there are, may be the case OR Minnesota search marketers are quiet about the topic. Either way, those that sounded off predominantly fell on the side of wanting a locally structured organization in support of SEM.
Here the consensus was no pay for performance but many commenters pointed out that in order for it to work, efforts must be well coordinated and defined.
The addition of SMX and revival of ClickZ events brought many more conference offerings this year. Readers provided lively commentary (25 comments) and felt the increase of regional events will better serve unique interests. At the time of the poll, I think most people were pretty optimistic. That may change once a few post-Danny SES events and more SMX conferences occur.
This poll was actually an article with a survey at the end. The votes went for client testimonials but the comments were definitely in favor of case studies.
Before I started my own company, my employers didn’t send us to any conferences. We had to take vacation time and pay our own way. It’s great to see that 87% of respondents were sent to at least one conference per year on the employer’s dime. Considering the variety of conferences and workshops plus travel and accommodations, sending employees to events is expensive. Just checking hotels for ad:tech in November is showing a staggering $600 minimum per night rate at area hotels.
Tried and true, email is holding it’s own right alongside the up and coming social networking tools. With Twitter’s popularity, I would think this poll might turn out slightly differently if run again. One interesting observation is that many of these tools are used together, so it’s not exactly a mutually exclusive situation, which makes voting on one not that practical. We live and we learn.
This one was a screw up as we omitted travel and kept internet, which is a given. Regardless, it was interesting feedback on the other industries voted on.
The people have spoken and a mix of content types as the winner with practical and informational posts a close second. I was surprised that conference coverage didn’t rate higher since we put out so much of it.
It was surprising not to see San Jose make the top five since the largest SES conference is held there, but then again, there’s a difference between the conference and the city it’s held in.
A tie! I’m looking forward to running this one again with a few more tools. Keyword Discovery made great progress in the past year against WordTracker, but no tool is perfect and I think the services need to realize that customer service might be their biggest differentiation point for retaining clients. Otherwise, a talented up and comer could steal this market share.
We’ve had a bit of disinformation and SEO blogging blunders this year as well as conference presenters giving flat out incorrect information in a few under-promoted situations. Let’s skip the gossipy, schoolyard silliness and grow this industry through happy clients and profitable consulting practices. Anyone with me on that?
Search Engine Land was the clear winner on this one which is a great coup for Danny Sullivan as SEL was fairly new at the time of this poll.
David Brown did a great job promoting this poll and subsequently contributing to the record number of votes to this poll. Overall, WebmasterRadio.FM took the ady with 3 of the top five shows.
A light turnout on this one. I used to spend a lot more time on SEOMash but then Sphinn came along. The interaction options and variety of stories on Sphinn make it an interesting place to consume a variety of SEO/SEM topics.
We have a new monster sized survey (TopRank’s Reader’s Choice Awards for Search Marketing) coming up focusing on search marketing resources ranging from online training programs to SEO tools to social media platforms. We’ll be posting a call for entries the first week of November and running the actual survey for 3 weeks. Results will be tabulated and published the first week of December.
here’s some chatter in favor of a minnesota search association. i think the 21 count indicates a lot of minnesota search people are on the quiet side.


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Duplicate Sales Order pad with 50 pre-printed sets.
Clear and simple sales order sheets with columns for quantity, description, price, amount.
There is no carbon required (NCR)! These sales order pads include 50 duplicate sets of pre-printed perforated paper. Each page consists of a sales order sheet with columns for quantity, description, price and amount. All sheets are serially numbered for ease of record keeping.

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text: The Eagle River Tri is a great race for adults and kids of all abilities and experience. The kids race is an untimed event, with a focus on fun, safety and a rewarding experience for the youth in our community. And if you are not ready to tackle an entire triathlon on your own, there is a team option as well!


text: This session will provide an overview of the free telehealth technical assistance provided by the 14 Telehealth Resource Centers (TRC), funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). There are 2 national TRCs and 12 regional TRCs located across the U.S to provide direct and indirect telehealth technical assistance. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with the HRSA TRC Program Coordinator and many of the TRCs in attendance at HIMSS.

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National Institutes of Statistics need to assess the size of some illegal activities considered as a substantial part of the illegal economy in order to understand their value and impact for society. At European level, it has come to the decision to include illegal activities that produce goods and services in National Accounts. The accounting data provided to the European authorities by each country must include the income generated by the markets of drugs, prostitution and the smuggling of cigarettes and alcohol. Currently, in the GDP, several European National Institute of Statistics estimate the proceeds of illegal drug markets on the demand side (data on the number of consumers and quantities consumed), prostitution on the supply side (data on the number of prostitutes on the market) and cigarette smuggling also on the supply side (data on seizures). In this work, we aim at providing an accurate estimate of the size of these illegal markets. Moreover, we propose a uniform procedure for measuring the flow of illegal proceeds in the GDP. The estimation methodology applies in steps: first we calculate the hidden population of illegal workers in illegal markets of drug, prostitution and smuggling to give a more precise dimension to these markets. To this purpose, we exploit administrative data coming from the Ministry of Justice, recording criminal charges of Public Prosecutor's offices. Due to privacy motivations, we only have soft personal information about the criminals. However, we can consider the administrative source as a list of criminals and by this personal information we are able to count how many times a criminal appears in the list. The main question is how many criminals are missed by the justice system but active in the illegal markets and we provide methodologies to answer to this point.
Latent class models (LCM) are increasingly used to estimate and correct for classification error in categorical register and survey data, without the need for a “gold standard”, error-free data source. To accomplish this, LCMs require multiple measures of the same phenomenon within one data collection wave (“latent structure model”), or over time (“hidden Markov model”), and assume that the errors in these measures are conditionally independent. Unfortunately, this “local independence” assumption is often unrealistic, untestable, and a source of serious bias. However, linking independent sources can solve this problem by making the assumption plausible across sources, while potentially allowing for local dependence within sources. Thus, while an attractive method for the production of more accurate official statistics, this procedure is very complex and time consuming. More specifically, the use of LCM often requires performing linkage between different data sources and re-estimating the model for each new time period. What is more, data linkage might lead to linkage error and subsequently to biased estimates. In our research we investigate the feasibility of using HMMs specifically in the production of labor mobility estimates in the Netherlands using register and survey data. We do so by first looking at the possibility of parameter re-use and then by analyzing model sensitivity to linkage error. The results suggest that the HMMs error estimates are time invariant and, therefore, can be re-used in later time points without the need to re-link the datasets and re-estimate the statistical model. The results also show that linkage error only leads to (substantial) bias in very extreme scenarios and that HMMs, to an extent, can correct for false-positive linkage error. It would be very nice to let this presentation be preceded by Bakker and Zult et al. in the same session. The first paper introduces the topic.
Ontology-based data access (OBDA) is a recent paradigm for addressing data management based on a conceptualization of the domain of interest, called ontology. A system realizing the vision of OBDA is constituted by three layers: the ontology, that provides a high level, formal, logic-based representation of the above mentioned conceptualization; the data source layer, representing the existing data in the various assets of the system; the mapping between the two layers, which is an explicit representation of the relationship between the data sources and the ontology. Most works on OBDA focus on querying data through the ontology. However, recent papers argue that OBDA is a promising tool for assessing the quality of data, especially in the presence of multiple, possibly mutually incoherent data source. For example, with the OBDA approach, checking data consistency reduces to verify whether the data sources contain data contradicting the axioms constituting the ontology. We have experimented the above approach for a current project of Istat, namely the Italian Integrated System of Statistical Registers. We have focused on the domain of population data, and we have built an OWL ontology for modeling basic concepts and relationships of this domain, including persons, families, parental relations, citizenship, locations, etc.. Then, we have considered a core set of population data and we have specified the mappings from such data sets and the ontology. With such a specification at hand, we have used the MASTRO system for OBDA for carrying out several data quality checks, focusing in particular on the consistency dimension. The preliminary results are extremely encouraging, both in terms of effectiveness of the method and in terms of efficiency of the checking procedures, in the sense that the performance of the quality check is not affected by the (usually expensive) task of reasoning over the ontology.
Data integration allows users to have a unified view of data coming from different data sources. However, data sources can be characterized by several types of heterogeneities such as different data models, different data representations and different quality at the level of data instances. As the widely accepted definition of Data Quality is “fitness for purpose”, we pose the question: how is the quality of the source data affected when data are combined to satisfy the integration purpose? In the process of integrating data, problems in the quality of data sources become more evident. These are measured by relevance, accuracy, reliability, timeliness, consistency of the data as well as by the completeness, validation and relevance of the structure of the metadata attached to the data sources. Through the use of practical examples we present the challenges posed by data integration and how data sources are thereby affected.


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The Advantages Of Bathroom Remodeling.
Remodeling is something that may include the change in the appearance of something or even the way something is working in terms of the professionalism. Remodeling may include the changing of the way things are done and being made in some of the ways. Many people do the remodeling for a number of reasons.
In many instances, people have had to remodel so that they can be able to update the equipment to fit the current era that we are living in. This is because, people will always be wanting to be doing things in a seamless manner like the way they are done in this current generation. We are going to look at the reasons why you need to change the appearance of the bathroom. The modernization may also include the changes in the way the energy is being utilized in the building.
The first thing is that you are able to have the modern equipment in your bathroom. Some of the things that are found in some of the bathrooms date a long time back. This is really important so that a person may be able to have the best in terms of the services he is receiving in the bathroom. Some of the equipment may include such things like the showers that are not functioning or even the bathtubs that were used a very long time ago. This important because you are able to have the modern things in the bathroom matching to the rest of the items in the house. A lot of people have been able to do this in their bathrooms.
In order for you to be able to remodel the bathroom, it is good that you consider the aspect of changing the size of the bathroom. A lot of people do not have the bathrooms that are fit for their own comfort. The previous one that they might be using may be small due to the fact that they did not have enough money to build a bigger one. It means that people have to come up with ways to ensure that the bathroom is well built in terms of the size. This is important because a bigger room will give you the comfort that is really required.
You can be able to improve the efficiency of the bathroom. This is the thing to do with the efficient use of the utilities in that given house. There may be leakages of water due to the old piping thus incurring huge bills. The other thing is the energy which people can change to the solar heating instead of the electric one.


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Thanks for your interest in supporting Teaching in Higher Ed. Each month, we have expenses for website and podcast hosting, transcript production, podcast editing, and the myriad of other services and tools that it takes to keep the show going. Below are a few ways you can contribute to keeping Teaching in Higher Ed going strong.

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About: Rivets is a result of my fascination with the beauty I find in utilitarian industrial objects like the riveted stanchions in New York subway stations, decorative ironwork in Grand Central terminal and the eloquent construction details of the urban infrastructure of the 19th and early 20th century.
It began its life as die-raised sign typography for a magazine cover assignment, developed further for a book cover about mid-20th century American manufacturing and evolved into a complete font plus four individual components suitable for producing multiple color variations.
The Rivets package is a five font set that allows up to four individual colors to be applied to live type.


text: Compassionate Bay is going full force in lobbying for Assembly Bill 44 (AB 44). AB44 will ban the sale of fur in the state of California. The impact of this bill will be instrumental in setting the legislative stage for the personhood of non human animals to be recognized as a legitimate case. We are undertaking grassroots efforts and state level lobbying to ensure this bill passes in the Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee, Judiciary Committee and finally the California Assembly. Support AB44 by calling your district assembly member to vote yes!

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Currently NeSI users cannot authenticate with Globus using Tuakiri institutional credentials.
Globus provides logins for NeSI users via google and globusID.
Login to a Globus account, via its primary identity or one of its linked identities, implies login to the account’s primary identity and all identities linked to that account’s primary identity. In other words, login to a Globus account potentially grants access to all resources accessible via all identities linked to that Globus account’s primary identity.
If you had a Globus account before February 2016, that account id is now your "globusID".
Your groups and data-shares are associated with your login so you should ensure that your primary identity is the login you will generally use.


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Are you looking for a way to honor a special Veteran in your life this Veteran’s Day?
Unless you have served in the military, it may not occur to you how important Veteran’s Day really is. But, for the estimated 16.5 million Veterans that have exhibited this ultimate act of dedication and commitment, Veteran’s Day won’t likely go unnoticed. And, neither should they.
This is why it’s imperative for those who appreciate the bravery and service of Vets to take time on Veteran’s Day to show them how much they mean to the rest of us.
If you have a special Veteran in your life, let them know they’re appreciated with these Veteran’s Day celebration ideas!
All too often, the Veterans that fight for our country feel that their service is not appropriately acknowledged.
Many of the men and women who have served in the United States military end up living on the streets. In fact, Veterans make up a whopping 12% of the homeless population.
It’s easy to see how they might feel forgotten.
But, this Veteran’s Day, you can do your part to honor the Vets who have given their most valiant effort in maintaining our country’s freedoms.
Here are some Veteran’s Day celebration ideas to help you show them how much they are appreciated.
Few of us can truly imagine the act of serving our country, especially if we haven’t done so ourselves. But, we can all learn from the experiences of those who have served.
Simply reaching out to a special Vet and asking them to share their recollections about their time in the military can mean a lot.
If you are involved with your child’s school, a local chamber of commerce or another organization, you might ask a Veteran to speak to a group about their role. Allowing a Veteran to talk about their military job, day to day activities, and their feelings can make them feel important on this special day.
Many major cities hold their own Veteran’s Day parades or have celebratory traditions to honor this special group of men and women.
Participating in your home town’s Veteran’s Day celebration is one way that you can express your gratitude to not just one Veteran, but all of the Vets in your community.
Our military makes sacrifices without ever expecting anything in return. That’s why when they receive a token of gratitude for their service, it means so much to them.
Most Veterans receive little, if any, thanks for their tour of duty. Even those closest to them often forget the great gift they have given us.
When you make the time and effort to choose something special to commemorate their service, it’s something that they will cherish for the rest of their lives. It gives them a small reminder of your gratitude for years to come.
A patriotic coin is just one example of the many patriotic gifts you might give the special Vet in your life.
However, a commemorative coin tends to be a favorite among givers and receivers alike because it can easily fit in their wallet, or they can display it on their mantle. It can fit in their pocket, offering a gentle reminder that you are thankful as they go throughout the day.
For more info about patriotic coins, check out the Patriotic Challenge Coins website. These coins are not only patriotic, but they are also beautiful, and more affordable than you might imagine.
Veteran’s Day is the perfect time to treat a special Vet (or two) to an honorary lunch. If you can’t schedule a lunchtime meal, breakfast or dinner works, too.
It’s not as much the meal, after all, as it is the act of remembering what they have done for all Americans. This is what they will appreciate most when you extend a Veteran’s Day invitation to buy their lunch.
If your community offers a Veteran’s Day meal, you might round up all of those who have served in your family or neighborhood for a group outing. They will delight in swapping stories with fellow service men and women. And, you will take pleasure in knowing that you made their holiday extra memorable.
It may not seem like much, but waving Old Glory can mean a lot to a Veteran. It shows that you support and appreciate the things that they fought for, and the country in which we live. It gives Vets a sense of pride to see their flag waving, and especially on a day that’s purpose is to honor their sacrifice.
Anyone can create a homemade masterpiece for a Vet, no matter how old or young they might be. And, you can feel sure that a Veteran won’t be able to resist smiling when you present your gift to them.
You can paint or draw a patriotic picture, or you could choose to create a flag using items around the house. Even a homemade card that’s crafted from plain old construction paper will let them know that you are thinking of them on this special day.
There’s no need to spend a lot of money to show your appreciation. A homemade remembrance may cost you nothing, but a gift from the heart always goes a long way to show others you care.
Last but not least, offering a hug is a simple gesture that speaks volumes to those who have served our country in its’ time of need. And, anyone can give a hug.
Whether you have a Vet in your own family, or spot someone wearing their dress blues walking down the street, a hug will let them know you care about them.
On Veteran’s Day, you can get away with hugging a perfect stranger, as long as he or she is a Vet.
But, you don’t have to hug all of the Vets you see on Veteran’s Day. Offering a “thank you” and a firm handshake will also do the trick.
If you’re looking for more Veteran’s Day celebration ideas, or have another special occasion to celebrate, we can help.
Check out this post on how to throw the perfect backyard celebration that everyone will love!


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Spending a lot of time in the salon, using the best products, getting the right amount of beauty nap and what not, all to get healthy skin and look good. But are you sure you are doing everything to keep your skin healthy and flawless.
You love your skin for sure and the best way to show you care is to take proper care of it. How do you do that? Simple, you do three things; cleansing, exfoliating and moisturizing. When you follow this routine diligently, that is when you see the desired changes.
We all know that healthy skin is clean skin. Every time you come back home, wash your face with a good face wash to get rid of all the dirt and oil. As a matter of fact, wash your face with a face wash three times a day, but not more than that. That will wash off all the natural oils from the skin.
Oily skin is not desired, but the skin needs some natural oils. Splash cool water on your face frequently. That will wash away the excess oil on the face, leaving your face clean. Use a mild face wash. Using the harsh ones will make your skin dry, which is not good either.
After cleansing comes moisturizing. After washing the face, the face loses some natural oil. By applying a moisturizer, you will actually balance that loss. Many believe only those with dry skin need moisturizing. That is so wrong. All skin types need this.
Those of you who have oily skin, do not be afraid to use a moisturizer. Make sure you use the ones that are water based. That will keep the skin hydrated without making it oily. You will find moisturizers that are made for oily skin. Use a good brand.
Last but not the least is exfoliating. This is almost similar to cleansing. No matter how much you wash your face, the dead skin cells remain on the surface of the skin. To get rid of them, you need to exfoliate the skin. Wet your skin and then gently massage your face with a facial scrub. Then wash it off. You will get smooth skin. Do this at least twice a week.
These are the basic skin care rules. Follow them and do go to the salon once in a while to pamper your skin. Trust me, it deserves it.


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Few foods hold the mystique of the elusive truffle. It is the subject of story-telling dating back at least three thousand years. My sense of awe is a re-echo of multiple re-echos of successful truffle hunts throughout history.
Our hunt begins as we meet Wendy and her dog named Bear. It’s a cliche of a sunny Hawke’s Bay winter’s day out at Sacre Monte Truffles, Puketapu. I’m pleased to go along with local chefs to listen, learn, smell, and taste. Wendy perches on the tailgate of her ute parked at the gate to the Truffiere and tells the tale of how it all began for her and husband Kees. They planted approximately 1800 oak and hazel trees in 1995. A substantial upfront investment of $50 per tree prefaced the ongoing investment of time and care. The roots of the saplings having been inoculated with the spores of black truffle. Leap forward twenty years and, as if by magic, they herald the discovery of their first truffle. Wendy describes the intervening twenty years during which the couple managed soil pH, micronutrients, and grass growth whilst concurrently researching information, mainly from France, in order to create conditions favourable to truffle fruiting. Her story-telling is eloquent and her story engrossing. Who plants and tends a crop for twenty fruitless years I wonder? Who researches information, often contradictory information, from across the globe in the hope of harvesting a fruit that the majority of the local population have never eaten? Who recognises that intuition and feeling for the land are vital cogs in the wheel? There is magic afoot. Wendy and Kees are a special breed of artisan grower. They give so much to the soil and will take so little. Wendy’s passion shines through her eyes and everything she says.
We break from the introduction and walk through the very expensive wooded area. Bear, the dog, seems happy to tag along displaying a relaxed attitude towards his task ahead. He’s in it for the treats. The ground is soft. Kept that way deliberately for the roots and fruits beneath. At the command Bear wanders a short meandering path. He stops, drags a mark in the ground with his paw, then waits assertively for payment for a service rendered. Bear has identified the location of a truffle. Not just any truffle, however, but a ripe truffle. He’s trained to ignore the immature ones. Wendy takes over, she scrapes at the earth with her hand, gathering and smelling small amounts of soil in order to pinpoint the fruit. We are invited to ‘dig in’ and we pick up the scent. As Wendy unearths a fine 180g black winter truffle a special memory is added to my food experiences.
Twenty eight years ago I sat at a table of a restaurant in Tuscany. The waiter grated fresh white truffle over turkey breast in a rich wine, garlic, and cream sauce. As he did this the heat of the dish released the aromas of truffle. A special memory. I love the flavour and have eaten it regularly since both fresh and infused in butter and oil.
Bear goes to work again and discovers three more truffles without much fuss. Bear keeps careful tabs on his reward. Quite rightly reminding Wendy that she hasn’t paid for the last find.
The second truffle unearthed is the black Perigord variety. It has five times the market value of the winter black yet similar flavour and appearance We head back to the ute with our haul. Wendy cleans the truffle, keen to get us to sample the two different varieties.
The flavour not only differs from variety to variety but also from truffle to truffle, intense and musky. Part fungi, certainly. Considering its sought-after flavour and the scarcity of the product the price comes as no great surprise. Between 60 cents to $3 per gramme depending on variety.
Wendy moves the story into the marketing and selling. It’s still early days. They are pioneers. During the season, which runs from June to August, ripe truffles are harvested and sold. As Wendy describes the process of selling, her meticulous attention to detail is evident. Cleaning truffles and taking them to chefs in their kitchen. Slicing a sample for tasting then weighing the chosen fruit at the moment of the sale. Deal done.
The tour is over. Ninety minutes passing very quickly as we lost ourselves in the woods searching for hidden treasures. I’m excited by the pioneering story, the embodiment of Kiwi ingenuity. I’m delighted to have rekindled a very special food memory. Amazed to have seen truffles gathered. The group of chefs is enthused. Minds are further opened. Creative juices flowing as they give thought to how they can create dishes and events around our local truffles. My expectations were high, or so I thought. As it turned out my expectations fell hopelessly short of reality. I had expected to be impressed by a dog with supernatural talents, and I was, but for Wendy and Kees dog training had been one of the easier elements of the operation. The hard part, and this is what has so hugely exceeded my knowledge and expectations, has been the husbandry required to create the right conditions for truffles to grow. A fascinating story, so well told. We have come very close to nature on this tour. We have inhaled the scent of one of the most prized food wonders of the world. We’ve learned that nature can be encouraged to do our bidding but not commanded. Wendy and Kees have coaxed the earth into production over a twenty year courtship. The tour connects us with a special place, and special people in our backyard. It’s uplifting, inspiring, thought-provoking, and reassuring. The truffle is well honored by Sacre Monte.
The couple have plans to introduce the product to more chefs, hence today’s hunt, and to consumers. Truffle hunts are available every Saturday through to 25th August. Tickets through Eventfinda.

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This magic system is intended to be as simple and lightweight as possible while maintaining a good balance between magic users and mundane characters. The meat of the system is to let ones Aspects be the base by which one narrates actions. There are no new skills, stunts, rules or anything else. Just some guidelines on how to narrate the use of magic. The system allows Magic users to blast enemies with fire, shield themselves with force, communicate with demons, see through walls, and most anything else one can envision a magic character doing. At the same time, the range of possible effects and difficulties should match mundane actions to maintain balance.
Magic is diverse and mysterious. No one truly knows the source of magic though there are many theories ranging from the gods, to living things to demons and devils to human will. It is clear, however, that magic is much like versatile tool. Like a Swiss army knife on steroids. It can do almost anything in the right hands and its potential can just as easily be wielded to detriment of others as for the betterment of others. Generally, the use of magic universally requires one to speak magic words and make appropriate gestures. Some spells or rituals benefit from material components, specific timings or other factors.
Narrate the use of your skills with magic flare!
The meat of this system is to take advantage of the broad skills presented in Fate Core and the awesomeness of Aspects. The golden rule is that, when narrating the success or failure of a skill, you base your narration on your characters Aspects. This need not only apply to magical aspects either.
Kale has the aspect "Outlaw Archer" and the Shooting skill at Good. Grilio has the Aspect "Hermatic Wizard" and the shooting skill at Good. Both can attempt to take out the thug in the next zone. A success of Kale's part might be narrated as him shooting the thug with an arrow. A success by Grilio might be narrated as him blasting the thug with a bolt of fire. Neither would narrate their characters as striking the thug with a a large pebble cast by a sling.
Cory has the aspect "Tried and True Detective" and the Investigation skill at Good. Dale has the aspect "Wizard in the Know" and has the Investigation at Good. Both can attempt to discern how many people are behind closed door. A success on Corys' part might be narrated as him counting voices, footsteps and observing shadows that flicker under the door. A success by Dale might be narrated as him casting a quick spell to look through the door and count the number of people he sees. Neither would narate their success in a way that did not jive with their Aspects.
When trying to determine how difficult a task is and how long it takes to complete when a magician uses a skill, just ask your self how hard it would be and how long it would take for a mundane character to do the same thing with that same skill. There you go! Once success or failure occurs, let the magic wielder spice things up as much as they like. The effects, however, are of the same magnitude as would result from the mundane use of the skill.

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No. 223: 8N11 Verano II, 1920, (sH36 "N.N" 1919), sH38 "Snarken"
Note: Listed yard no's diverts from the list included in the book "Johan Anker - linjenes mester" published by Cappelen, Norway.
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It’s a troublesome knock lifestyles for the trendy twentieth century Romeo and Juliet duo, dwelling within the shady sewers of the Motor urban. Husband Darnell “Smoke” Mitchell is a police captain/dirty cop who has reworked the facts room at his eleventh precinct right into a get wealthy quickly scheme. Darnell and his American subsequent best version spouse Passive take the drug global by way of wasteland typhoon. The itching greed of drug cash makes them succumb to their internal weaknesses.
Passive and Smoke have been fortunately married without youngsters and no difficulties until eventually their marriage began getting warmer than a volcanic eruption. yet you recognize what they are saying- funds is sort of a 6th feel and also you can’t utilize the opposite 5 with out it.
query is can they suffer? Can they suffer a continuing, ex-girlfriend from hell and her mob of thirsty, notorious infantrymen who might do whatever for a few profit? Can they undergo hard-time within the pen and wasting one another in the event that they are to get stuck and charged with numerous crimes that have been devoted knowingly and unknowingly? Can their marriage suffer infidelity and disloyalty of the worst varieties possible? Can they undergo being shady and experiencing shadiness? Can they suffer one other shady venture is the final word question?
A humorous, candid examine the start of a promising literary profession introduced remarkably earlyBeing a teenage literary prodigy is tough. Richard Goodman can have a booklet agreement at seventeen, yet his mom and dad don’t admire his reviews, he can’t lose his virginity, and his ego inflates and deflates with each breath.
Infamy, the hugely expected third quantity within the Ice Moon sequence starts with a soul shaking conflict among mild and darkish because it explodes amidst the wooded area. whereas Haden’s existence hangs within the stability, a fact so electrifying is printed ahead of Taylor’s very eyes. they don't seem to be on my own. because the warfare grows nearer, the woodland turns into much more unsettled and shortly Nostovia is compromised, leaving Lee no selection yet to permit the Warrior Wolves to help Haden and Taylor.
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Nowitna possesses more forested lands than most Alaskan refuges, while each spring, the arrival of thousands of migratory songbirds and waterfowl fill the refuge’s 14,000 lakes and ponds with life.
Located near the Native villages of Ruby and Tanana, the refuge protects about three-quarters of the 283-mile Nowitna River, which is a congressionally designated Wild River. Along with 15 other refuges in Alaska, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act established this refuge in 1980.
Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge is characterized by the Yukon and Nowitna Rivers floodplains. But from the air the nearly 2 million-acre preserve appears like a mosaic of wet meadows, oxbow lakes and black spruce muskegs broken up by dense stands of white spruce as well as paper birch, balsam poplar, alders and willows.
The heart of the refuge is the Nowitna River. The main channel of this meandering river is 283 miles long and 223 miles lie within the refuge. The headwaters of the Nowitna are in the Kuskokwim Mountains and from there the river ranges from 150 to 450 feet wide, and has a mild gradient and Class I water before flowing into the Yukon. Along the way this nationally designated Wild and Scenic River passes through an impressive 15-mile canyon with peaks up to 2,100 feet.
Spring flooding brings nutrients into the area’s wetlands, which yields plants that are feasted on by thousands of waterfowl. The grassy margins of ponds and lakes and the many miles of rivers and streams are important breeding habitat for waterfowl, including ducks, geese, swans and cranes. Raptors, including bald eagles, peregrine falcons, northern harriers and both rough-legged and red-tailed hawks, also call this refuge their summer home.
The Nowitna River supports king and chum salmon, northern pike and one of the only three non-migratory populations of sheefish in Alaska. Sometimes called "tarpon of the north," sheefish reach 10 to 15 pounds, and are much sought after trophies with sport anglers. Arctic grayling are in most clear water streams on the refuge while forested lowlands are home to marten, moose, wolves, lynx, wolverine, black and grizzly bear.
River trips are the main method of exploring the refuge with sport fishing, hunting and wildlife photography and viewing the most popular activities. The lush riverbanks provide an important corridor for wildlife, and floating gives visitors up-close experiences with the surrounding nature and wildlife.
The refuge has also become a draw for outdoor photographers, who enjoy the opportunities to photograph wildlife against the refuge’s dramatic backdrop in vivid light of summer. The region is particularly stunning when autumn colors peak in late August or early September, and when northern lights ignite across the winter skies.
There are no trails, roads, public-use cabins or visitor facilities in the refuge.
There are no fees nor are any permits required to visit Nowitna.
Nowitna Refuge is 150 miles west of Fairbanks, connected only by air and river to the rest of Alaska. Refuge headquarters are located in Galena, but Ruby and Tanana are the nearest communities. You can visit the refuge in summer by boat on the Yukon and Nowitna Rivers, or by floatplane, landing on the larger lakes or rivers. Wheel-equipped planes can land on some gravel bars during low water. Galena, Ruby and Tanana have air charter operators. In winter you can reach the refuge by snowmachine or by ski-equipped aircraft. Small planes can land on rivers and larger lakes until ice melts in mid-April.
For more information contact the Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters (907-656-1231, 800-656-1231; nowitna.fws.gov) in Galena.


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We encourage all our visitors to Cambodia to “get their hands dirty” and get involved with the locals to help to build up the villages.
Care 4 Cambodia encourages team members to be hands on, and this may mean a day laboring or helping to keep the village children busy while work is being done.
All work performed by C4C is done under the supervision of locals and this sometimes can be very amusing, Cambodians think it is quiet funny watching us doing the work that they do, with the tools that they use.
We have learnt some very useful skills and also made some wonderful friends through working hands on amongst the locals.
A day out with C4C working can be anything from tarping a house to prevent rain getting in to painting, tiling, plumbing, concreting, rendering, digging holes for toilets and anything else that you can think of.
Also a trip to the local markets to buy the relevant equipment can be a real experience with an amazing variety of tools and goods available, all of a standard we may not be used to at home.
Getting involved with the Villages brings a smile to everyone’s faces and can be a great deal of fun and this is one of the activities that really lets you experience the Cambodian culture.
Tearing down the old school at Light of Hope.
The new School building at Light of Hope.
Painting the first medical room at Harvest of Hope School.
Finishing of the 2nd medical room at Harvest of Hope School.
Renderring the Stairs at Tarshas Legacy Centre.
New toilet, almost as good as the ones at the Hilton.
Covering a damaged house with tarps.
Fixing a house in Siem Reap.
Building the new school at Light of Hope.
Leveling out the driveway at the Pastors House Light of Hope Village.
Solar panels are environmentally friendly and provides power that is a lot more cost effective than electricity.
Wooden benches are made for the community.
Everyone is giving a helping hand.
The new wooden benches ready for the local school.
Solar panels are placed on the roof.

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During our first day at Chicago, my girlfriend insisted we should go for Ed Debevic's for dinner. I never heard of them so i wasn't sure what sort of food they have nor did i have any expectations about them. Plus, i was starving from all the travelling so i thought any food should be good at this point. We managed to find the place not too far from Hard Rock Cafe and from the outside, it looks pretty old school with the colour and design on their building so the first thing i thought was, it could be a retro place.
See the crowd going in? Shows how busy they are!
When we got in, the place was packed so we had to queue a while for our table which surprisingly didn't take too long. While queuing, there were two guys with two young girls in front of us waiting as well. All of a sudden, i heard the hostess shouting saying "Hey! How old are your kids?!" which took me by surprise. My first instinct was maybe it was too loud in there so she had to shout. Then one of the guys replied saying "I don't know, she's not my daughter..." to which the hostess replied even more louder with all the rudeness in the world saying "I don't frickin' care if she's your daughter or not i just wanna know how old is she!!!". Now here i was, feeling awkward cause i think i'm witnessing some horrible customer service in front of me and felt rather awful for the guy but i didn't understand how come he was cool about it and even laughing. My girlfriend on the other hand just smiled and giggled at that so i thought maybe it's a Chicago thing.
A not so happy customer!
After we were shown to our table, our waiter came and asked me to pass something from the table. I honestly thought he wanted the bottle of ketchup to get it refilled or something so i took that and he gave me the most annoyed look and said "Not that...why would i want that?! I want that! *points to something on the table*" I realised there was a signed bill on the table from the previous diners so i quickly handed him that, feeling somewhat embarrassed. He pointed back at me and said "We're not off to a good start here buddy!" and walks off. At this point, i was in between embarrassment and probably anger cause i swear this has got to be the worst place to dine in with such customer service and was complaining to everyone around me at the table. Suddenly, our waiter walked past our table and literally threw some hats on the table without stopping and shouted "Here, put on these stupid hats for me" and continue walking off. I won't lie, i did feel kinda threatened cause i thought if i didn't do what he asked, i might get some "extra ingredient" in my meal so i just put it on and asked the others if it's normal for them to talk this way. My girlfriend finally told me that's how their supposed to treat their customers cause they're known for being rude and people find it funny. It was only then i realised that all this attitude serving was part of their thing and felt a bit more relieved.
After i found out the truth about Ed Debevic's, i managed to play along with it and found it quite funny as well. The waiter came back for our orders and asked for our drinks. Calla always liked to mix her drinks so she ordered her usual "diet and cherry mix"and guess what our waiter said? "Oh, what's the point!?" LOL! When we got to our food part, i got a bit confuse with what cheese i wanted for my turkey burger to which my stupid apologetic side told the waiter "Sorry, i'm not from around here" for making it a bit confusing and he rolled his eyes at me saying "Well, guess what? I'm not from around here as well.." Talk about giving me an attitude...haha! While waiting for our meals, we got treated to a free show which was also a first for me cause it's not your usual live band performance you see in a cafe but this is more of a dance. What dance you asked? If i asked you to think of Coyote Ugly, what's the first image that you'll think of?
This? Girls on bar dancing right?
Ok take that concept but picture the cast of Hairspray dancing instead. Minus the booze, keep the sexual part of it but add a whole handful funny bit to it. What do you get?
I was hesitant to do a video of the dance but since i saw other people doing it, i decide to take a full video of it and i'm glad i got it cause the dude in the middle is absolutely hilarious! Oh and the guy to the left was our waiter.
I did have a fun night here but i don't think i would want to come back randomly to grab a meal here especially not when i've had a bad day. On the other hand, I wonder how hard is it for the staffs to put on a crappy attitude whenever they start a day at work or do the management actually hire those who have natural talents from other restaurants?

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Niceeee thank’s alot for the triple release!!!
Yep, I’m sure now, I do love you, kobato.
Thank you soooo very much for the chapters!
Wow. I started to read it this morning and just finished the 26th.
My brother loves you too!
Thank you so much for the releases and your amazing work.

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This is a very good game but the only problem is that I wish that they should make more levels I have made it to level 15 then it shows a path leading to the next level but a cloud is covering it. I have tried tapping it and nothing happens. I don’t know if this means more levels are coming or not. But I am also reading other posts some are showing levels that are higher than level 15.
I liked it and played to level 25. However it gets very repetitive and the only way to clear certain levels is either to purchase in app hints or to 'earn' them. Made several designs just one or two pieces slightly different from the hinted version and they failed but magically the version they wanted you to pay for works. If you're going to say free play then let me play it for free. If you want to charge then charge. Right now it's just not interesting enough to make me want to purchase a in app hint just for more of the same.
Don’t get me wrong the 7 playable levels I could play were fun and entertaining. But the 8th level is completely impossible. Nothing you do will make a bridge that will hold I’ve tried for about 5 days now and there is nothing that works.
Mechanics are fun, it would be better if the “drive” view you could control as to how fast you travel as the standard can be too aggressive at times.
I like the game. Like I said the first 7 levels were ok. But something needs to be done with the 8th in my opinion.