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If you live in a flat like me and don't have a garden, having a BBQ can be a bit tricky. And cooking anything in my tiny kitchen in this weather is just swealtering. But I wanted something BBQ-esque. I could smell people having BBQ's in their gardens in the street, and I fancied the flavour of BBQ food all by myself.
That's where my Microwave came to the rescue. Microwave? I hear you cry. Oh yes!
I remember when my parents got their first Microwave. It was probably 1987 ish. My mum had wanted one for AGES and my Dad wouldn't get her one because he said they were a waste of money, but then we went on holiday and stayed in this house and they had one there and Mum was in heaven. Dad found that the quality of his dinners improved a bit as she tried out new recipes (my Mum's idea of dinner is beans on toast..) so I think he knew it would do him good to get her one.
We all own one and they do make our lives easier to some extent, however we use them. I tend to use mine to quickly cook up frozen veg, to heat up a cold cup of tea, or blast something to defrost. What do you use your's for?
And when I'm busy and working in the week and I get home late (and could chew on the sofa), I tend to whack a micro-rice in there and mix it with some veggies or tuna. Job done.
And I'm a big fan of Tilda Micro Rices - I've been a fan of their Coconut rice (OMG it's amazing!) for some time and their rices are all usually gluten free too. They recently bought out a BBQ Limited Edition version and Dhruv Baker who won Masterchef in 2010, put together some recipes that go with it.
I saw he'd done a BBQ salad one with Courgettes, Aubergenes and Halloumi that sounded so easy and delicious I had to try it - OMG it was flipping delicious. The mint and coriander add a real WOW flavour.
And you don't feel so bad about using some 'micro-rice' when it turns out like this - who cares if it's cheap and chic? It's delicious!!


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Over the summer of 2018, we were approached by the founder of Roots Ethiopia, Meghan Walsh, to help provide travel gear to her local field staff. Roots Ethiopia is a 501(c)3 that directly works with communities to provide school sponsorships for children, develops self-help groups for successful small women's businesses, and builds learning resource projects to improve the quality of education in impoverished schools. After speaking with Meghan, we realized that the Discovery Convertible Jacket and the Traveler's Convertible Jacket would best prepare the local Ethiopian staff for the varied weather with the cold, wet season, and even the hot days as they work within the rural villages to support small businesses and schools.
Meghan Walsh wrote the following to explain the reaction of her staff when she surprised them with the Royal Robbins gear.
The weather can be warm, cold, windy, and dry, all in one day. And, because our field staff are local people who live and work in the communities we serve, they have very little access to quality gear. Field gear is their #1 request — shoes, jackets, raincoats, fleece, socks, backpacks, solar chargers. are common requests. And, we try our best to respond to these needs, as they simply cannot fulfill them in their local markets. Even city markets they might access has very little quality gear, and it is so expensive that it is not even possible for our team.


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- No long term contracts, you can discount as much or as little as required within agreed limits. Unlike overdrafts the facility does not need to be renegotiated when increased.
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- Increased cash flow, increasing working capital, eliminating overdrafts, allows bills, taxes to be paid on time.
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- Service / interest charge need to be compared against traditional banking facilities.
- Some types of Invoice Discounting i.e. factoring is disclosed to your customer so you need to have confidence the factoring company is courteous & diplomatic with your customer as you would be.
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Mike Triplett of ESPN.com reports that free agents DE Da'Quan Bowers and TE Chase Coffman will both try out for the Saints this weekend during the team's rookie minicamp.
- Jayson Braddock of ESPN 97.5 Houston first reported that Bowers was visiting with the Saints this week.
- Braddock previously mentioned that Bowers had interest from the Lions and Dolphins, so it appears as though his market could be picking up now that signing veterans no longer counts against compensatory picks
There hasn't been any reported interest in Bowers since free agency got underway close to two months ago.
Bowers, 25, has been a major disappointment ever since the Buccaneers used a second-round pick on him back in 2010. He has missed nine games in the past two years with injuries and has been largely ineffective when healthy.
On top of that, the NFL suspended Bowers two games for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances.
In 2014, Bowers appeared in 11 games and recorded 21 tackles, 1.5 sacks, a fumble recovery and a pass defense for the Buccaneers.
Coffman, 28, is a former third-round pick of the Bengals. He lasted a little over three years in Cincinnati before he later caught on with Falcons in 2012.
Coffman spent two years with the Falcons before he later signed on with the Titans as an unrestricted free agent in August of last year.
In 2014, Coffman appeared in 13 games and recorded six receptions for 64 yards receiving and one touchdown for the Titans.


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Grade 6-9 and P. 6, Mathayom 1-3 students started their day enthusiastically. Teachers provided many interesting drills to promote their abilities in reading and speaking in English language as well as their ability in solving Math problems. The learners had fun doing these tasks. They showed cooperation and competency most of the time.
Morning time G.7-9/M.1-3
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1. Tuesday was Australia day. It's become quite controversial the past few years, lots of name calling and accusations. Frankly I find it quite ridiculous. If you have an Aussie flag you're called a bogan. I don't get it. Firstly, what wrong with being a bogan and secondly, what's wrong with being proud to be Aussie? I'm proud to be Aussie, that doesn't make me a bogan. If I proudly display our flag why should I be labelled a bogan? Makes no sense to me. How about we all get along and stop calling each other names.
2. This is the Aussiest thing I've seen in a long time, love it.
3. Tomorrow my baby starts full time school. I am all sorts of worried about it. Deep breaths.
4. This week I bought a long, almost floor length skirt. I'd forgotten how wonderful it feels to wear a long, flowy skirt.
5. I also chopped my hair to shoulder length and am loving myself sick right now. It's been about ten years since I had short hair, it feels so good. I keep admiring myself in the mirror, hahahaha.


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Hard Water Fishing
I don't know why I thought this would work. Already everything was wrong when I picked her up from her mom's.
It's dark.
It's cold.
I want to go back to bed.
Which she did as soon as we got in the truck. I drove with the radio off, thinking the extra sleep would be a good thing, thinking my own close thoughts about what was cold and dark and worth getting up for.
This is it?
Pre-dawn, but light enough – it's not that she can't see. Pink-lined shores on a narrow lake. A rough-packed track sliding down onto the ice, and then the world opening into an expanse you can only access in winter – choose a trail, make your own path, quarterback calls the whole game.
This is it.
It's what's under the ice that counts, sweetheart. Wait till we set up. Wait till you get a line in the water.
I would have made a great coach. I don't have to fake the enthusiasm.
Look, Dad – a dog! Is that a lab?
I swing the truck into the ice settlement and the dog promptly lopes over to a Starlite special and disappears inside the tiny trailer. Something unobtainable in a store window, only she is inside looking out.
In or out, I can't get it for her.
Sometimes the game sucks, honey.
Oh. My. God. Football already. Her nose still pressed against the glass. Maybe it will come out again.
She's not really talking to me.
I worm us into the middle of fifteen or so plywood shacks and aluminum-sided mini-trailers – a veritable city. The sports magazines don't call it ice fishing anymore – it's "hard water fishing" now, and there are a lot of weekend anglers. My usual preference is to avoid the crowd, try a spot where there's nothing but me and the frozen lake and my theories of what fish like. This morning I am willing to leech the knowledge of the pack, or at least dress up the experience with the faæ ¤e of what I imagine passes for excitement in her world.
It's easy to set up by myself – I do it all the time. She sits in the truck, trying to conjure up a bar on her cell phone, a digital friend out of the Saturday morning ether. I haul the propane tank off the truck, slide the cantankerous ice-auger out onto the snow, heft the collapsible ice-shed by myself. She doesn't want to get cold and I consider how to call it: burst the princess bubble and get her head in the game, or let us both pretend a little warmth and avoidance can salvage a bad idea.
The shack sets up like a dream. I found it on e-bay, lucked out unbelievably at half the price it would have been at Cabela's. I only dream of buying things at Cabela's. The thought of it – snap, snap, she's done – sustains me through my struggles with the ice auger. It's a pull-start Ice King used by one of my great-great-greats to fish the Inland Sea. Six minutes of fiddling with the choke coaxes the sputtering into a cough that lasts long enough to call it fired up. She doesn't notice, anyway – competence or incompetence all lumped under another boring day with dad, how can this place not have cell phone coverage?
I grin a little about that, as if, somehow, I organized that detail of the master plan.
I drill two neat holes, perfectly spaced for the shack – shards of ice sloping smoothly away like shield volcanoes, calderas breathing gently with the lift of lake water. If she was out here I could point this out – see if, by Grade Nine, science has initiated her into the complexities of pahoehoe and scoria. Or if she's ever heard the baleen grunt of ice expanding and contracting.
There's a lot I don't know about what's inside her head. That arrangement was ironed out in her best interests when she was little more than a baby. I could have fought for more time. Would I be better at parenting if I practised? I don't know – I can spend hours on the lake and not catch a fish.
By the time I level the slope, scoop the ice out of the holes and haul the shed into place, I decide I have let her sit on the bench long enough.
C'mon, princess. Time for team effort – I need help setting up the shack.
I turn off the engine and pocket the keys, having learned one or two parenting tricks somewhere along the way. With one last two-fisted shake she slides the phone into her ripped jeans, and struggles awkwardly into ski pants and jacket. I am pleased to see she has the common sense to dress for cold – I haven't seen this previously – although she still won't touch the moose mitts.
Ugh. They're gross.
They're warm.
They're ripped.
Some things you can't argue.
And they're made of animals.
Well, three cheers for the pipelines. I offer them one last time. You gotta wear the gear if you're going to play the game.
That goes over about as well as you'd expect. She declines comment and drags her ass after me into the limitless excitement of the great outdoors.
Put your hand there and pull up, like this. Hear it snap into place? Now this one. Then we pull this out. This... up – perfect!
How can you not be impressed with the ease of setting up a Yukon Clam Fish Trap? It's even quicker with two.
Come on inside.
She stands in the middle of the shack while I finish. Unmoving while I snap the inside bars into place, stretching the shell tight over the light-weight metal frame, the two of us now sharing the bond of shelter and the accomplishment of teamwork.
I hold up both arms in a touchdown confirmation.
Sweet, eh? You could live in this! I flip the seat backs up, swing them around, and sweep a hand in invitation. Sit down and we'll go over the game plan. Get our heads on the same page. Strategize.
I'm cold.
She sits, her little non-animal-knit gloved hand immediately digging for her jeans pocket. I wait for the running back to expose the ball and then I pick it.
There's no coverage out here, honey – I'll put it in the truck while I get the heater and the tackle.
A diversionary tactic, but it works.
You have a heater?
I have everything. You sit right there and think positive thoughts about fishes and I'll be right back.
Of course her help would make it easier, but sometimes you're the only one with fire in your belly and you gotta carry the team. In five minutes we are both toasty in the shack, the close, black plastic reflecting the warmth of the open propane burner. I tell her how quickly the heater can destroy fishing line, fingers, and clothes, warning her three times. She props her boots dangerously close to the orange glow of the burner and refuses to watch as I poke a mealworm on a T-top, white with red eyes.
Okay. You are ready to go. The coin is flipped, the kickoff is good...
She inches forward on her seat to watch the line feed smoothly down the hole.
It's kind of pretty.
The shack, the ice, the bait, the lure – it's all pretty. She is still peering down the hole.
Like green scallop glass.
Scallopy for sure.
Here, honey. You take it. Bounce it a little now and then. Not too hard.
She bounces it perfectly, incessantly, while I set up my own bait.
Maybe not quite so much, honey.
She stops immediately and doesn't move a millimetre, apparently irritated by my over-coaching. For someone on their first outing, she has outstanding bait and wait tactics. I bite.
Just lift it every now and then. Like this. I pull up my line to illustrate.
She rolls her eyes.
I did that. Nothing happened.
I'm busy baiting my own hook. I want to get it just right.
Nothing's happening now either.
Out of the corner of my eye I can see her exaggerated movements. When she was younger, she went through that phase where everything was "why?". At the time, I couldn't imagine anything more annoying.
You know, fishing is all about patience.
I haven't got all day.
Pretend you do.
I can't. I don't have all day.
It dawns on me that she's trying to communicate.
What do you mean?
Derrick is coming at noon to pick me up.
It's not like I'm the quarterback and three receivers open up. It's like three lures suddenly plop in front of my goggle-fish eyes.
Derrick? Who's Derrick? Noon? Does your mother know?
Derrick's my boyfriend. He lives down the lake. He's going to sled out here at noon and pick me up.
How's he going to find you?
I gave him your license number. He'll find me.
I have no idea how to respond to this. Caught flat-footed on the field with a quarterback sneak.
Her line dips a little but she's not paying attention.
I'm going to his place for lunch and then hanging out. You can pick me up on your way home.
I am the outsider on a day she's arranged.
Her line dips violently and she shrieks and lets go and I drop my rod and grab hers before it disappears down the hole on the heels of what is probably one mother of a jackfish.
I reel in, let the line play out when he wants to take it and run. He hammered that hook and he's got lots of fight but in a matter of minutes that wide mouth, those sharp little teeth and predator eyes are rearing angry out of the lake, the rest of him long and sleek, thrashing in the hole like a long, slippery plug. Her eyes are wide.
Wow. I caught that.
Take the rod! – nose up – keep the line tight – up, up!
I make a grab for the pliers and close in on my hook, dancing around the heater and the snapping teeth and my daughter's expectations. Typical damn jackfish, he's got the hook half way down his throat. Greedy bastard. I wrench and twist, and finally I have it back. He's out on the ice now, a foot and a half, a good two pounds, and she drops beside him, knitted glove stroking the slime.
Wow. He's beautiful. Really pretty, Dad.
I give the head a gentle kick, trying to skitter him around so he's facing the hole. He convulses, wild and angry still, master-predator of the depths and helpless. He can't breathe, can't swim, can't restore what he had and took for granted. He flaps himself backwards, unable to fathom that he cannot find freedom with a flick of those torsional muscles.
I boot him gently again and his head hits the hole by accident. My daughter makes a quick grab, but he's in the hole, twisting, gone.
Her little knit gloves are soaked and covered with fish mucous and she's still down on the ice, looking for puppies and birthday presents that come on time.
Why did you let it go?
It's a jackfish, honey. We don't keep those.
I wanted it! It was big – and wild – and pretty! It was my fish! You had no right to let it go.
You were going to clean it?
In a pig's eye. She yanks off her mitts, one at a time, and throws them at me. She misses – I don't even have to duck – and they leave sticky trails in the condensation on the walls.
They're slimy and full of ugly bones. We don't keep those. We don't eat them, so we don't keep them.
You don't! Other people do!
She pulls that out of no knowledge base whatsoever and she is so sure of herself that I'd trade my truck to tell her she's wrong.
Not in this family.
What family? Two people in a stupid shack! I am so out of here when Derrick comes. He's smart and his family lives on this lake and they eat jackfish and catch whatever they want and keep it.
I can tell she's making it up.
It was dying, honey.
Isn't that the whole point?
Queasy and blood-thirsty. Maybe I don't want to know what goes on inside her head.
But now that she's started, she can't stop. Derrick – Derrick – Derrick. She sits beside me while I fish, refusing to drop her line again. Derrick is seventeen. Derrick is cute. Derrick has long black hair, curly hair, down to his shoulders. It's really soft. Derrick wears cool clothes. Derrick has his license and they go on dates to the movies and they are planning a skiing weekend together at Gray Mountain in March.
Noon comes and goes. I haul up two small perch – neither of them keepers – and a walleye barely big enough to fillet. She ignores my fish. I've packed a great lunch – all her favourites – but she won't eat anything, won't even nibble a blue whale. Her conversation dwindles to silence. I open the flap on the door to let out some of the heat that has built up, and the condensation freezes in crystal tears around the doorway.
She stops checking the time in mid-afternoon. I say nothing. What is there to say? We don't keep those, honey? Still, I have to try.
Life is like football, sweetheart.
She looks at me blankly, eyes glazed like the fish at my feet, unable even to muster hatred. So hopeless it defeats me and I want to wrestle Derrick into a faithful boyfriend, pull that jack back up the hole, wipe it off with my bare hands and present it to her on one knee. She looks at me like I am a window.
It's like that jackfish, honey...
I am not making sense.
It's like this...


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[Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series by guest contributor Zoe. It was originally written for the author's Queer/Feminist Application to Art class. Check the blog next week for Part 2!]
Video games are one of the most widespread media in popular culture to date. The depth with which video games are currently embedded within our culture can come as surprising to some, especially since they can be considered the youngest form of media. In addition to the wide variety of age groups and platforms, video games are best known for their range in genre. Despite all of this, there is a pervasive attitude outside of game culture, and sometimes within it, that still does not see video games as a legitimate source of professional work or consumption. Aside from a few exceptions, video games have been widely viewed as childish, or even detrimental to one's health. Yet there are several different types of work that are needed to create video games, including concept artists, level designers, and game directors; these are titles that inherently sound like they incorporate several principles of artistry. Even programmers are expected to innovate and find new ways to encode information as the hardware and software used to contain that information constantly shifts.
For these reasons should the idea of reading video games as queer art be explored; they are queer in the traditional sense, in that they stay true to queer's definition of strange or other by incorporating new brands of innovative storytelling and expression that constantly changes in unexpected ways. In more modern times, video games also directly incorporate queer themes into their storylines with the intention of being made by and for queer audiences. Video games also represent a very clear connection between gender lines and an inherent question of the gender binary.
Before starting to look at video games as queer art, it's important to understand their origins as well as the developmental phases they went through to become what they are today. The first program that was designed to run a game on a computer was OXO – software created by AS Douglass in 1952 as a part of his dissertation at the University of Cambridge. Douglass's creation inspired some other prototype video games, such as Tennis for Two and Spacewar. The first time video games began to resemble what we know them as today was in 1972 when Ralph Baer, often considered the "Father of Video Games" worked with the company Magnavox to create the Odyssey, the first ever video game console. This kicked off the true start of early video game development, with titles such as Pong (1972) by Atari and Space Invaders (1978) following shortly afterwards.
In 1983 the North American video game market experienced a crash, as it was oversaturated with both consoles and low-quality, poorly produced games. The Japanese game market played a huge role in the recovery of NA's video game scene, securing Nintendo a market in NA, as the releases of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy were exceedingly popular. With video games on the rise again in America, big companies began developing new consoles to compete with Nintendo, as well as the rising trend in PC gaming (Video Game History). As of today, the biggest names in video games are Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft; most third-party publishers endorse games that perform on these platforms.
After knowing all of this, we can start to ask questions. The first, and most significant to this thesis is: are video games art? There are few who could argue that video games include at least some aspect of design. Looking at the credits for any video game, you'll often find several positions that call for several different kinds of artists. For example, the credits for Hollow Knight (2017) list positions for Sound & Music, Figurine Sculptor, Violin, and Vocals (Hollow Knight Credits (Windows)). There is also a main character designer and animator who is a part of the game's development team, Team Cherry (teamcherry.com). After looking at this fairly wide range of talented artists, one might argue that they simply contributed art to the game and that the game is still not art itself.
But beyond this, there are more powerful voices who have recently come forward to assert that video games are on par with modern art. For starters, the Museum of Modern Art is currently housing an exhibit with several video games on display, including the colorful, explorative game Flow (2006) and the unique puzzle platformer Portal (2007) (Antonelli). The MoMA first started acquiring video games for its collection in 2012, the same year the Supreme Court ruled video games as an art form (Tucker). This obviously sparked some controversy from critics, some of whom insinuated that considering video games as artwork would devalue every other piece in the museum (Mulkerin). In an interview, curatorial assistant Michelle Millar Fisher insisted that this attitude towards seeing video games as art is a repetitive rhetoric that critics spew whenever something new catches the interest of museums, and that they are simply "repeating what had been said in the '60s and '70s about Minimalism and Conceptualism." (Mulkerin)


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Cilla Lowen, a Cape Town based screenwriter, has won the Best Script Award at the Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York with her feature film script 'A Mother's Legacy'.
The historical drama tells the story of a woman's struggle to save her Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) brother from exploitation by drug dealers, while she deals with her own secret drinking demons. It's set in Wellington in 1993, at the time of the cessation of the 'Tot System' which caused tension on farms between farmers and their workers.
The topic of FASD is particularly socially relevant as those affected have a set of social behaviours making them vulnerable to criminal exploitation which explains the movie's tagline 'Any mother can create an innocent criminal'.
FASD is the main form of mental disability worldwide and is four times more prevalent than HIV/AIDS.


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Remembering Tom Barker 1885-1967
Missionary to China 1913-51,
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Rewind to Issue #105 of Singletrack Magazine for our racebike grouptest with the BMC Team Elite TE01.
BMC is a Swiss company, well known for its road bike heritage and pioneering approach to using carbon fibre in its bikes. In the UK, the BMC brand mountain bike isn't anything like as common as its road-based brethren, but with retail giant Evans now in charge of sales and distribution in the UK, you should expect to see more of its bikes at races and on the trails from now on.
My first impression of the BMC Team Elite TE01 is that it's a great looking bike. The minimal black and white colour scheme, black componentry and low-slung stance make it look as though it means business. It's definitely not noticeable from first impressions that the frame has suspension built into it.
The suspension is located at the top of the seat stays and comprises a small stack of three elastomers that move on two parallel guide rods. From the outside you can't see any of the technology and it's only when you ride the bike that you notice the small amount (15mm) of movement that the system offers.
Unfortunately when the bike arrived, it suffered a number of minor teething problems – the fork remote lockout didn't work properly, the fork also felt very sluggish and playing around with air pressure and compression/rebound settings didn't improve things all that much. In addition, the BMC carbon seatpost regularly slipped (despite adding extra carbon grip paste and torqueing the binder bolt to maximum) and both brakes appeared to need bleeding, and pumped-up on steep descents.
The cable outers appeared to be slightly too long and rubbed on both the fork crown and the headtube of the bike, resulting in unsightly marks even on the first ride. None of these are big issues and all are likely to be resolved by the bike shop before a bike is issued to a customer, but it was noticeable that the attention to detail that seemed present on the Niner and the Trek was missing on the BMC.
Aside from a few niggles with the set-up, the componentry on the bike was all 'top-drawer'. Full 2×11 Shimano XT M8000 groupset, BMC own-brand carbon bars and seatpost, BMC brand stem and Fizik saddle. Wheels were DT Swiss XR 1501 shod with minimally treaded Continental Race King 2.2 tyres.
The BMC was fitted with bolt-thru wheels front and rear, but the standout feature from the other two bikes was that the rear skewer was a Syntace X-12 model that uses a 5mm Allen key to loosen/tighten it instead of the more common lever. The Syntace axle is much neater looking, is lighter and as long as you have an Allen key to hand, it doesn't take any longer to either remove or refit. The Fizik saddle polarised opinion – it was narrow and lightweight, but appears to arch up in the middle, which suited some riders and not others.
The Continental Race King tyres were superfast and rolled well, but are too stiff with tubes in. They offer only minimal grip in wet conditions and would have been aided by running them tubeless at lower pressures. They also had tiny side knobbles so offered limited grip on contouring trails. During dry conditions this was fine, but when we did some wet weather testing it was noticeable how often the BMC tyres tended to spit traction rather than dig in.
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So, enough about the spec, what about the riding? The short answer is that the BMC is a blast to ride – the lightweight frame and components help the bike get up to speed straight away. The rear suspension did move noticeably when riding. It's more visible to following riders than the system fitted to the Trek, but it's not in the least bit off-putting or distracting. The MTT system seemed to add just enough comfort and compliance to reduce fatigue and increase confidence in dealing with rocky terrain. The only downside was that it easy to forget that the bike wasn't a 'proper' full suspension bike, and to get out of your depth.
BMC seems to have got the geometry of the TE01 spot on – the ride position is just stretched enough and low enough at the front to feel fast and racey, the super-short chainstays (only 429mm, so 6mm shorter than the Trek and 10mm shorter than the Niner) mean it climbs exceptionally well (even with the minimally treaded tyres) and the MTT system offers enough compliance and comfort to really take the sting out of even the most lumpy trail.
The BMC is a great looking bike, with an impressive level of componentry and technology for your money. Initially it was plagued with quite a number of teething problems, which you wouldn't have expected for a bike at this price point. However, once these issues are ironed out and the tyres either switched out or converted to tubeless, you'd be getting a hell of a lot of bike for your money. The great fit and confident handling mean the BMC is a great choice for the race course – just make sure to get it set up correctly before you head out between the race tapes!
The BMC Team Elite TE01 Specifications:
- Frame // 01 Premium Carbon, Micro Travel Technology (MTT)
- Fork // Fox 32 Float Factory Series, 100mm travel, Remote lockout
- Hubs // DT Swiss XR 1501 Spline ONE
- Rims // DT Swiss XR 1501 Spline ONE
- Tyres // Continental Race King Performance 29×2.2in
- Chainset // Shimano XT M8000 36/26t
- Front mech // Shimano XT M8000
- Rear mech // Shimano XT M8000 GS 11 speed shadow+
- Shifters // Shimano XT M800
- Cassette // Shimano XT M8000, 11-40t 11 speed
- Brakes // Shimano XT with 160mm RT86 rotors
- Stem // BMC Alloy 70mm
- Bars // BMC Carbon720mm
- Seatpost // BMC Carbon
- Saddle // Fizik Tundra M7
- Size tested // Medium
- Sizes available // XS, S, M, L, XL
- Weight // 23lbs (10.4kg)
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|by Olly Townsend for 2 Months
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Photo caption says <25lbs, spec says <23lbs, think that's correct as it's the same as the kg weight? I thought 25lbs didn't seem great when reading through…
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By Yoga Adhola
The debate Mwenda has started raises questions about whether the Luweero war was necessary
In his article, "On the NRM delegates conference" (The Independent, Monday, 01 December 2014 ), Andrew Mwenda has written things which make me reflect on my short membership of the Front for National Salvation (Fronasa), the forerunner of NRM as well as my departure from Fronasa in the mid-70s.
When Idi Amin toppled President Milton Obote in 1971, I was at the University of Nairobi. From Nairobi I did not go back to Uganda; I went to Dar es Salaam where things against Amin were happening. Obote, who was there and Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere had sworn to resist Amin. In Dar es Salaam, I found my contemporaries who had attended the University of Dar es Salaam such as Yoweri Museveni talking a language way beyond my comprehension. The University of Dar es salaam in those days was teeming with left-wing academics and some of the courses had prepared those who had gone there with an ideology which was totally out of reach to those of us who went to the University of Nairobi or Makerere.
I quickly began to work on catching up. I bought and borrowed books, and soon levelled out with the Musevenis. This came when I studied the writings of Jules Régis Debray and Franz Fanon. I came to the view that the ideology Museveni was mouthing was the right one for Uganda. I, therefore, left UPC and joined Fronasa, becoming a member of its Central committee.
However, as I studied further, and particularly when I read "New Theories of Revolution" by Jack Woddis, I came to realise the inadequacies of the theories of Régis Debray and Franz Fanon. At that point I left Fronasa and returned to UPC.
I had come to realise that the ideology that Museveni embraced was infantile and could neither explain the situation in Uganda nor offer solutions. I realised that the position of UPC and Obote reflected the true situation in Uganda. That Obote reflected the objective situation in Uganda is reflected in what Mwenda is saying; that Museveni has over the years gravitated to the same position that Obote held.
Andrew Mwenda wrote: "I am not sure whether he realises that on nearly every single issue that he criticised Obote – tribalism, corruption, "desire" to stay in power etc – (Museveni) has over time tended to gravitate to the same position and worse." The list is much longer than what Mwenda has put out here. We shall run through a few. In an address at the University of Dar es salaam on July 11, 1986, Museveni said: "Instead of producing wealth for the benefit of Africa, we started producing for the benefit of Europe. The Europeans have gone through several revolutions while we have been marking time as we say in the army: we have stood still. We have been independent for twenty five years, so why has this situation persisted? Soon after independence there should have been dramatic change. One factor was the ideological outlook of the independence politicians."
Museveni has now been in power for almost 30 years and the change he was castigating Obote for not carrying out – in eight years – has not occurred.
At the same address Museveni also said: "Point number four is about national independence. If a country is not independent politically, if the leaders cannot make their decisions without being pressured by outside powers, then that nation cannot solve its problems. Whatever solutions you adopt will be solutions in the interests of other forces. We are very conscious of this point because we have been living under leaderships that were subservient to foreign interests." When addressing the 5th anniversary of the NRM on January 26, 1991, Museveni said: "It is for that reason that we asked ourselves the fundamental question–what kind of economy should this country have?" In his book; ` Sowing the Mustard Seed', on page 47 Museveni wrote: "On December 19, 1969 there was an assassination attempt on Obote as he was leaving a UPC conference in Kampala. Amin was present, wearing the UPC colours–that is the way the army behaved in those days-…."
In the very same book on page 40 Museveni wrote: "On top of this, the army became virtually a wing of UPC with army officers wearing UPC colours."
Here Museveni is criticising Obote for getting the army involved in politics. However, whatever Museveni is accusing Obote of is absolutely nothing compared to what happens in Museveni's Uganda today.
On the same page of the same book, Museveni wrote: "Another principled politician of the period was John Kakonge who had been UPC Secretary-General, but he seems either to have been weak-kneed, politically inept, or both, because he had allowed himself to be cowed by Obote's blandishments and intrigues. The whole of the 1960s decade in Uganda's political life was a period of intrigue, culminating in Obote virtually abandoning power to Amin. These intrigues among politicians had so weakened mass movements such as DP and UPC that Amin just picked up the mantle of power from a political leadership emasculated by its own ideological narrowness and its unprincipled conduct of state and political affairs." This statement speaks for itself and so needs no comment.
In the same book Museveni also wrote on page 44: "Without national unity, the different petty bourgeois factions (traditionalists, parvenus, and religionists) were all competing for what were in effect imperialist favours. This relegated the evolution of a national strategy for disengaging from imperialism to the back burner. In fact, people like Obote did not comprehend the workings of imperialism in the neo-colonial phase." If by implication, Museveni's argument means he understood, we remain to ask: how come the person who understood, is not only far from disengaging from imperialism but has become the best ever agent of imperialism in the region?
We should also bear in mind that imperialism overthrew Obote in 1971 and it is imperialism that has substantially kept Museveni in power over these years. They have done so because he is very useful to them. What then is the lesson we get from this debate that Mwenda has begun? In the first place, there should not have been any Luweero war if the results were going to be what Mwenda is talking about; that is Museveni ending up doing what he criticised Obote for. Did we have to have all those people (mark you from both sides) die just so that Museveni would end up doing what he went to war against? Or did Museveni just want to be the President whatever the cost?
Not to blow my own trumpet, but I did realise this more than 30 year ago and that is why I left Fronasa and returned to UPC.
Secondly Museveni keeps boasting of defeating Obote and UPC in the war; however, what defeat is this if Museveni ends up politically in the same camp with Obote? Should we say that Museveni probably won the battle but lost the war?


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Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Inc.CEO John Eckstrom, Board Chair Eric Flowers, and Barbara Garcia of the S.F. Department of Public Health all addressed the crowd of over 100 on Mission Street during today's ribbon cutting event. They emphasized the Center's mission of providing primary care, substance abuse treatment, and mental health counseling all under one roof. Keynote Speaker and former HAFCI employee Carole Migden told of her efforts in Sacramento to try to hammer out a solution to provide health care for everyone in California.
The Integrated Care Center is amazingly large. It looks as if HAFCI will be able to serve lots more people than when Dr. Darryl Inaba (author of the famous Uppers, Downers, [and] All Arounders, we have our copy around here somewhere) was running things. Many will get back on track by taking the first step of entering the doors at 1735 Mission Street near Duboce and 14th Street. We wish HAFCI good luck!
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With gigs at companies like Chanel, Ann Taylor and Elie Tahari, Mona Bijoor saw first-hand the many inefficiencies in the fashion industry. So the Wharton grad set out to solve them. In 2010, Bijoor, 38, launched JOOR, an online wholesale marketplace that connects brands and buyers -- and eliminates the pen and paper transactions that many firms still relied on. JOOR has raised over $20 million in funding and counts major fashion brands like Kate Spade, Diane von Furstenberg and Vera Wang among its users. Constantly on the road, Bijoor is likely hopping from one of JOOR's five offices – in Paris, Australia, Milan, NYC and Los Angeles -- to the next.
JOOR is the leading online global fashion marketplace for wholesale buying. Founded by Mona Bijoor in 2010, JOOR is based in New York City with offices in Milan and Los Angeles.
6 Women Entrepreneurs Share How They Raised VC Funds
If you're a woman trying to raise venture capital, you might start to feel like you're living in a man's world. Research shows women investors only make up 4.4% of the industry, which may be partly to explain why women-led businesses only get 4.2% of venture capital funding. But research also shows that male entrepreneurs are 40% more likely to get VC funding than female founders.
Uncertain About Hiring, Some Companies Try 'Test Drives'
Hiring and retaining employees is a struggle for all sorts of companies, but at smaller ones the stakes can be especially high. "One bad seed can really have an impact on your culture," said Mona Bijoor, founder and chief executive of Joor, a company based in New York that created a wholesale marketplace to connect retailers and brands.
How Fashion Week Accelerates Innovation
The Worlds Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Style
For bringing wholesale fashion into the 21st century. Joor works with a slice of the industry that has been slow to get online. Before, buyers had to make multiple Monday morning phone calls to try to replace sold out inventory. The company has fixed that glitch by putting the communications online and now caters to 40,000 retailers and brand clients, including Diane von Furstenberg, Rag & Bone, and Zappos. Last summer, it secured $15 million in a second round of funding led by Canaan Partners and (surprise!) Condé Nast parent company Advance Publications.


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Actor Tony Monroe (known previously under his real name of Phil Banyard) has appeared on Coronation Street in three roles under the two names:
As Phil Banyard he appeared as a Waiter in July 1980 (when Mike Baldwin wined and dined Hilda Ogden after she won a night out with him in a charity competition) and in February 1982 (when buyer Wilf Stockwell took Elsie Tanner out to dinner).
As Tony Monroe he appeared in November 1999 as an Unemployed Man in the DSS offices who spoke with Les Battersby regarding his interview letter, and he returned to the programme in the summer of 2003 as conman Arnie Scanlan who had ironically met up with Les Battersby again after the pair had shared a cell together in Strangeways Jail.
His other TV and film credits include roles in Boon, Emmerdale, North Square, EastEnders, Heartbeat, Heartlands, Sparkhouse, Flesh and Blood, Clocking Off, Holby City, Fat Friends, The Bill, The Royal and New Street Law. His only other known credit as Phil Banyard is as an unnamed PC in an episode of Juliet Bravo in September 1982.


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Home » Chamber Events » May Calendar » MetroWest MusicFest
Sun, May 20, 02:00pm – 07:00pm
MetroWest Golf Club
2100 S Hiawassee Rd
Orlando, FL 32835
MetroWest Golf Club
2100 S Hiawassee Rd
Orlando, FL 32835
Welcome to the event the most exciting and gifted performers:
National Recording Artist & Saxophonist Will Donato
Liverpool Live! Get ready to dance and sing along as Liverpool brings The Beatles Look, The Sound and The Songs to MetroWest!
Rick Derringer, Guitarist
Rick Derringer is an American guitarist, vocalist, Grammy Award-winning producer and entertainer. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the McCoys, when he was brought in to record lead vocals for the number one hit single with "Hang On Sloopy". He then turned to blues rock, scoring a 1974 hit with "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo". He has worked extensively with brothers Edgar and Johnny Winter, and with the group Steely Dan. He also worked with "Weird Al" Yankovic, producing Yankovic's Grammy Award-winning songs "Eat It" and "Fat", and with the World Wrestling Federation, penning entrance songs for Hulk Hogan and Demolition.
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A car accident can be a traumatic event. However, in the absence of obvious physical injuries, many accident victims will declare themselves to be fine after a crash, and refuse medical treatment. A head injury may not be immediately evident, especially a concussion. Some first responders in Ontario are being educated on what to look for when assessing injured persons at a crash scene.
New taxes recommended on Toronto real estate purchases
The surging Toronto housing market has some people happy, and others concerned. Supply, demand, foreign buyers -- all these factors have an impact on real estate in Ontario's capital. A committee has issued a report with ideas aimed at curbing the market a bit, and bringing prices back down to Earth.
Young girl killed in drunk driving accident, second badly hurt
Taking all the precautions in the world cannot prevent an accident if someone else refuses to take them, too. Because safe drivers and responsible people are at the mercy of those who choose to ignore common sense, accidents continue to happen. That appears to be what happened when a fatal drunk driving accident occurred in southern Ontario last month.
The devastating impact of brain injury in Ontario
The potential consequences of being in a motor vehicle accident in Ontario are highly varied. One of the most frightening possibilities is suffering a brain injury. Brain injuries can be life altering and expensive to deal with. Unfortunately, statistics show they happen far too often.


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text: Studio 1219 in downtown Port Huron is abuzz with excitement as they have received regional recognition through a nomination in WDIV Local 4's "Vote 4 the Best" contest in the arts and entertainment category. Studio 1219 is a 501 (C) (3) Non-Profit art gallery and educational facility that seeks to promote the emerging and mid-career artists of Michigan while also providing a well-rounded art atmosphere for all ages and economic backgrounds, through art experiences and programs. Gina Panoff, Executive Director of Studio 1219 said by people voting," it will spread the word about the very important arts and culture facility right in Port Huron. Panoff said that, "if the studio won, this would help spread the word about the arts culture, not only in Michigan but also in Port Huron." The studio has over 150 different artists currently displayed and offers a variety of resources to the community. You can vote once per hour, per category until July 14 by visiting www.studio1219.com and clicking on the "Vote 4 the Best" link.


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Polandvision Wiki
They couldn't decide on who would make the third thread so I did it myself.
-This is NOT a chat thread. Keep anything not Polandball or NSball related out.
-Please follow the official conventions for drawing countryballs. Not really something I can enforce, but it'll keep the other posters from lynching you.
-Friendly ribbing and obviously humorous insults are fine; open and pointed attacks on others are not.


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This post contains my personal notes from the book, Trading Beyond the Matrix by Van Tharp.
Van Tharp has a mini version of the book that is available for free. You can get access to this mini e-book here. In this mini e-book, the preface and the first chapter can be accessed in full. You can also access the table of contents here.
The five areas that Tharp talks about in this book are: Tharp Think Concepts, Transforming yourself, Developing a personal business handbook for trading/investing, assessment of your preparation for trading, and understanding your trading mistakes.
Tharp Think is the essential trading and psychological principles of trading the market according to Van Tharp. I have summarised this below:
The four primary rules
1. The first new rule is that trading is as much a profession as any other.
2. The second new rule is that trading reflects human performance just as much as any top athletic endeavour. You must understand that you are responsible for the results you get.
3. The third new rule is that objectives are important. Further more, you achieve your objectives through position sizing strategies.
4. The fourth new rule is that trading/investing is all about probability and reward-to-risk ratios under specific market conditions. When you understand these rules and the market conditions, you can use statistics to predict what your performance will be under similar market conditions in the future.
The four new rules say that great performance is a function of what the market gives you, your system and you.
The six key parts of Tharp Think
1. Learning to trade is hard work, but it can be taught
- Successful trading can be modeled and taught to other people.
- Learning to trade well requires as much work/education as any other profession.
2. Knowing yourself
- You need to find a trading system that fits you.
- In order to accomplish that, you must know yourself: your values, strengths, weaknesses, parts, significant beliefs(spiritual, self, market, system), trading edges and trading weaknesses
- You can only trade your beliefs about the markets, not the markets themselves. Thus, you should know and understand your beliefs and whether or not they are useful.
- System development is 100 percent (1) beliefs, (2) mental states, and (3) mental strategies. Thus it is 100 percent psychology.
- You must know your personal criteria for being able to trade a system with confidence.
3. Mistakes
- A mistake means not following your rules. If you don't have rules, everything you do is a mistake.
- It is much better to trade a lower-scoring SQN system that fits you than a higher-scoring SQN system that doesn't fit you.
- You are responsible for everything that happens to you. When you understand this, you can correct your mistakes. We call this respond-ability.
- Repeating the same mistake over and over again is self-sabotage.
- A trader who makes one mistake in 10 trades is 90 percent efficient; that 10 percent drop in efficiency could be enough to make him/her a losing trader.
4. Objectives and Position Sizing Strategies
- Fifty percent of system development is thinking through and clearly defining a set of written objectives.Those objectives should address your desired gain, your maximum acceptable drawdown, and the relative importance of each.
- You need to design core objectives that fit you.
- There are potentially as many objectives as there are traders.
- You meet your objectives through position sizing strategies.
- The overwhelming majority of your performance is due to your position sizing strategy and your efficiency as a trader.
- You must know your mission/purpose in life and incorporate that into your trading.
- You need to know your financial freedom number (passive income per month less monthly expenses). When it's positive, you are financially free.
5. Probability and reward-to risk assessment
- Never open a position without knowing the initial risk.
- Define your profits and losses as a multiple of your initial risk (R-multiples).
- Limit your losses to 1R or less.
- Make sure your profits on the average are bigger than 1R.
- Never take a trade unless the reward-to-risk ratio of that trade is at least 2:1 and perhaps even 3:1.
- Your trading system is a distribution of R-multiples.
- When you understand #6, you should be able to hear/see a description of a system and know the kind of R-multiple distribution it would generate.
- The mean of that distribution is the expectancy, and it tells you what you'll make on the average trade. It should be a positive number.
- The mean, standard deviation, and number of trades determine the SQN score for your system.
- Your SQN score tells you how easy it will be to meet your objectives using position sizing strategies. Other than that, your system has nothing to do with meeting your objectives.
- Systems are usually named after their setups, which are usually based on some attempt to predict future prices. Prediction has nothing to do with trading well.
- System performance has to do with controlling risk and managing the position through your exits.
6. Systems and Market Type
- There are at least six different market types. You should understand how your system will perform in each of them. 1 . Bull volatile 2. Bull quiet 3. Sideways volatile 4. Sideways quiet 5. Bear quiet (almost doesn't exist) 6. Bear volatile.
- It's easy to design a Holy Grail system (one with a high System Quality Number score) for any one market type listed above.
- It's insane to expect that trading system to work in all market types.
- The biggest mistake people make is to try to design one system to fit all markets.
- You should only trade your system in the market type for which it was designed.
- Good traders understand the big picture, know how to measure it, and become aware when the situation changes.
- Media and academia know none of this and will not teach it to you.
- For each market type, you need a large sample size to estimate what the population is for that system.
- You also need to do Monte Carlo simulations with your system's R-multiples to get a better idea of what to expect in the future. This will work if the sample you draw from is similar to the population.
The psychological rules of Tharp Think
- You are responsible for everything that happens to you. When you understand this, you can correct your mistakes. We call this "respondability."
- When you are not committed, you tend to run into obstacles and do a dance with them instead of going around them and moving on to your committed goal.
- If you are not committed to doing the necessary work on yourself and on your trading, you will not succeed.
- Do what you love. If that doesn't include trading, you should not be a trader.
- You are a crowd inside, and that crowd is who you think you are.
- Parts have good intentions, but they start doing their own thing and cause conflict.
- You can eliminate that conflict through parts negotiation or TfM( transformational meditation).
- You must understand your identity and spiritual beliefs and determine whether or not they're useful.
- You can change any belief that isn't useful simply by understanding that it isn't useful— unless that belief has stored charge in it.
- If the belief has stored charge in it, you need to remove the charge through feeling release.
- You need to continually monitor and work on yourself to trade well.
- When you discover a major issue blocking you, you need to know how to solve the issue and avoid doing a dance with it.
- Your internal guidance is your best friend. Learn to use it.
- But don't mistake "into wishing" for intuition.
The 12 tasks of trading are:
- Self-analysis to determine if you are okay to trade.
- Mental rehearsal to prevent mistakes.
- Daily focus to point you toward your goals.
- Developing a low-risk idea( which is done way before the trading starts)
- Stalking, moving down to a shorter time frame to lower the risk even more.
- Action that requires commitment and no thought.
- Monitoring to keep the risk low.
- Aborting if the trade goes against you.
- Taking profits when the reason for the trade ends.
- A daily debriefing to monitor and prevent future mistakes.
- Being grateful for whatever went right.
- Doing a periodic review to make sure everything is working.
Tharp also talks a lot about transformation and this part of the book is almost spiritual. Apart from the Tharp psychological principles which I have discussed above, the other important concepts according to me were as follows:
1. The relationship between beliefs and experience can be seen and understood through the figure below:
2. There is also a belief hierarchy which is as follows:
- Spiritual belief: Your overall philosophy in life and how the universe is organised.
- Identity belief: Who a person thinks he or she is and what they think is one's mission in life.
- Value belief: What we think is important to us
- Capability belief: What you believe you can or cannot do.
- Behavioural belief: Your beliefs about your behaviour
- Environmental beliefs: Your beliefs regarding what is and your attempts to organize observations about the world.
3. How to change beliefs using the belief examination paradigm:
- Recognise the belief.
- Is it a deliberately chosen belief or did someone give it to me? Who gave it to me?
- What does this belief get me into? What happens when I have this belief?
- What does this belief get me out of? Who would I be without this belief?
- Is this belief useful?
- If the belief is not useful, you can change it , if the belief does not have any charge( like fear, anger or negative emotion). If it has a charge, you have to release the charge before you can change the belief.
4. Everything has the meaning you give it.
5. Accepting our feelings, our creations and understanding oneness of everything leads to peace.
6. We are all a crowd of conflicting parts and resolving this is essential for peace.
7. In transformational meditation(TfM), we offer all our parts to our spiritual self and ask them to be integrated with it. If they do not want to be integrated, we discard them.
8. The nine steps to mastering oneself are:
- Learn that you are a crowd inside.
- Get 25 to 30 identity-level beliefs from each part.
- Do a belief examination paradigm on each of your beliefs.
- Learn about projection and your shadow self.
- Work on the charge through feeling release exercises like those in the Sedona Method. The main thing is to really feel the feelings and then they will dissolve.
- Do a life review and list the beliefs that come up, examine them and release non useful beliefs.
- Make a list of your problems and find the root cause( beliefs and feelings)
- Get in touch with your internal guidance.
- Work to eliminate parts, or at least get them to work together with you.
9. The ultimate aim is to transform our consciousness. Some levels of consciousness are shown in the figure below:
10. The transformational model is shown in the figure below:
11. Seven key lessons to do things effectively:
- Take personal responsibility.
- Deal with thoughts, emotions and actions on a regular basis.
- Know that your thoughts are not yours.
- Trust your inner guidance.
- Understand that the world is perfect.
- Know your purpose
- Reinvent yourself
The rest of the areas can be accessed through the following documents:
- Develop a personal business handbook for trading and investing: This can be accessed here.
- Assess your preparation for trading: The checklist for this can be accessed here.
- Recommended books for further reading can be accessed here.
- Key words used by Van Tharp and their meanings can be found here.
- The reference notes also contain valuable material and references for further study. You can access it here.