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China's first tourism law comes into effect, tourists issued manners guides
By Karla Cripps, CNN • Updated 4th October 2013
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Travel operators in China have a huge new set of rules to follow now that the country's first tourism law is in place.
Approved in April, the 112-article law came into effect October 1 and aims to promote sustained industry growth.
It includes measures to address issues -- mostly in the domestic industry -- such as tourist safety, unfair competition and forced shopping trips, in which agencies offer cheap tours but recoup their costs from commissions in partner shops.
A report by state-run media
claims tour operators in China have hiked their prices as a result.
Hong Kong's Travel Industry Council executive director Joseph Tung Yao-chung told
, a Chinese-language Hong Kong newspaper, that a total of 250 Chinese tourist groups registered to come to Hong Kong on October 1, Hong Kong's National Day, 30% fewer than last year.
However, the hope is that the new law will help the industry regulate itself in the long run.
"Price wars were vicious in the past, while the recent rises are a sort of reasonable return to fair competition," said Wang Yanqi, director of the Research Center of Leisure Economy of China, in a
The tourism law also includes rules on state development planning.
Tour guides and agencies that break the new laws face steep fines of up to RMB 300,000 ($49,000).
Though the new law deals mainly with domestic tourism, there are sections that cover the rights of outbound travelers in their dealings with Chinese tour companies.
ing global criticism
By 2015, 100 million Chinese will travel abroad, according to the UN World Tourism Organization.
In 2012, Chinese overtook Americans and Germans as the world's top tourism spenders, with 83 million people spending a record $102 billion on international tourism.
Coinciding with all that growth has been a surge in criticism of the way Chinese travelers behave while on the road, and it hasn't gone unnoticed in Beijing.
Chinese netizens were outraged when photos surfaced of tourists posing with a dying dolphin in Hainan in June.
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Earlier this year, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang
called on his nation's tourists
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Tourist behavior is even singled out in a couple articles of the new law.
Article 14 states: "Tourists shall observe public order and respect social morality in tourism activities, respect local customs, cultural traditions and religious beliefs, care for tourism resources, protect the ecological environment, and abide by the norms of civilized tourist behaviors."
Chinese tourism: The good, the bad and the backlash
In September, China's National Tourism Administration issued an illustrated 64-page "Guidebook for Civilized Tourism" to instruct citizens on social norms overseas.
The booklet covers everything from reminders to say "please," "thank you," and "excuse me" to specific cultural items such as one that says "In Iran, do not talk about babies' eyes."
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Toilet use:
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Queue jumping
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Yes, the headline is correct. Every year Port Aransas host a major pole vaulting event. Pole vaulters come from all over Texas to spend two days here testing their skills. The event draws college athletes as well as Olympic team members. The whole idea is for the students and athletes to get together and participate in some wholesome, friendly rivalry. This event took place yesterday, and I was certainly glad I went. I hope you enjoy it.
This first photo gives you an idea of the track and the contestants lining up. Also, you can see the number of poles at the ready
Here is a shot of one of the two tracks being used. This also gives you an idea of the spectator base.
This shot was interesting to me since it shows how high the bar is in relation to the size of the athlete. She is just talking off.
Here is a different athlete going over the bar
And then the long way down.
In this shot, you can see a contestant getting ready for her vault.
This young person is an Olympian.
Her starting run shows how every muscle in her body becomes employed.
Here is a shot of the bar.
On the second track, the bar was a little lower. Here an athlete makes it over
Back to the big bar. Here is an athlete who gets tangled in the bar. It is designed, so the athlete does not get tangled.
Of course, the Hot Dog Lady would not miss this event.
I like this next shot because it shows the pole vaulting equivalent to the soccer mom. It takes a trailer to cart those poles.
I love this shot since it shows all these young people getting ready to vault. You can never doubt the future with a picture like this showing their interest.
Here is a final shot of the venue which is one of Port Aransas' parks
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The moral of this story is to make sure you always have your function declarations available wherever you use a function, even if you're sure that you're using the function properly. In libgit2 we access pack files by mapping parts of them, and those mmap windows are stored in a singly-linked list like so:
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instead of simply
w. Interestingly enough, the code didn't break
immediately but gave wrong results a bit later on. I suspected some
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The blown-up image seems to resemble a figure striding among the Martian rocks.
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If you want to survive in the game of sports betting, Football Tips For Todays Games in Most Popular then you have to use effective money management. I recommend that you follow these guidelines at all times.
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This is the third instalment in a series of articles on profitable betting through sensible money management. So far, I have discussed the importance of getting value when you bet, to maximise the returns you achieve when your selections win. In the most recent article you should have learned to keep your stakes in proportion to the size of your betting bank.
Today I want to examine a common mistake that often gets punters into serious trouble – chasing your losses.
I don't think there can be many of us who have not at some time, decided to get back what we just lost by betting a little bigger on the next race. It is sometimes known as progressive staking.
Let's take a simple scenario: you bet £10 on Red Rum, and he loses. What do you do? Perhaps you continue with your selection methods and come up with another pick in the next race – Best Mate. The price is 6/4F
But, rather than putting another £10 bet on Best Mate, you decide to 'chase' your loss from the last race. You add another £7 to your stake so that when Best Mate wins you will pick up an extra £10.50 to recover the bet you lost on Red Rum. Good plan? Could be, after all Best Mate is a sure fire winner, right? May be. May be not!
What happens if Best Mate loses? You are now £27 'in the hole'. But you still have a plan. Your next selection is a dead cert winner at Even money. You place your usual £10 stake plus an extra £27 to cover your losses so far. No need to worry. When this one comes in, you will have re-couped your losses and have a £10 profit to show as well.
Let's take a step back here. You are staking £37 to win a £10 profit. Think about it – you are effectively getting odds of only around 1 to 4 odds-on about a horse that is Even money in the market. That is terrible value!
You may escape this time and your horse may well win. But what if, heaven forbid, your red-hot even money favourite fails to win? After just three bets, you are down to the tune of £64 when your normal stake is just a tenner!
Long losing runs do occur, more frequently than you might think, and even with short-priced selections.
If you spent a day in a casino at the roulette tables, and analysed how many times you witnessed a run of 7 or 8 consecutive 'red' numbers, I would not be at all surprised if you saw this happen four or five times – in a single day. Here we have pretty much a 50/50 bet, even money, that the roulette ball will land in either a red or a black slot. Yet I was amazed to learn that the longest run of the same colour (reported) was THIRTY-NINE consecutive reds!!
Imagine if you were betting on black, and saying to yourself each time "no worries, it's got to be black next time…. Surely?"
But let's go back to the more common occurrence of a losing run of 7 even money bets. We will be betting on the red.
We place a £1 bet on the first spin. It's black. We chase our loss by 'doubling up' and next bet £2. If we were to carry on in this manner, after 6 spins we would be betting £64 to win our original £1
I sincerely hope my point is getting across. By chasing your losses you can very quickly see your stakes climbing to preposterous levels, to win your original, relatively small stake. The risk is way out of proportion compared to the potential reward.
One last example to really ram the point home. The Racing Post runs a tipster competition. All the leading racing journalists are involved, representing the nation's newspapers and horse racing publications. These are experts at tipping horses. Take a look at the results table any day, and see for yourself the longest losing run. Remember, these are the experts.
I looked today, and Racing Post PostData has suffered this season a losing run of twenty-seven. Twenty-seven consecutive losers from an expert tipster! And believe me, he is not on his own, just the worst offender this season so far.
There is an old saying – "Don't throw good money after bad". If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, don't try and make them profitable by throwing more money at them. You may survive with a profit for a while, but this approach is a disaster waiting to happen. Sooner or later you WILL blow your entire bank chasing a disproportionately small profit.
If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, change your system.
Sports Betting Money Management Secrets - 4 Tips
With the explosion of internet betting gone are the days when betting on the like of the NFL, NHL or the NBA are confined to just the outright winner or match handicaps (where the outsider is given a lead in order to make the best more even). As competition within the world of internet betting has mushroomed so has the range of bets offered as they compete to become 'the leading exponent of US sports'. On any match now you can bet on 'over & under' which is betting on whether you reckon the total amount of points scored will be over or under a given number. Wider afield you can go for what the first scoring play will be or even who the Man of the Match award will be given or MVP (Most Valuable Player).
As a result the popularity of US Sports betting has also risen simply due to the fact that there is more for the 'leisure' bettor to get involved with and more enticing odds that those in the two horse race that is one side or the other to win. Whilst there is a huge lobby to restrict internet betting in the US the feeling that the bird has flown the nest is very strong as off-shore operators are queuing up for the business and many have now even listed themselves on the UK stock exchange giving them an immediate credibility.
For those of you with a nervous disposition it's probably worth turning away now as the biggest growth area in betting in the US, outside of the monster that is Poker, is College sports! Yep, I'm afraid bookies will take bets on almost anything if the appetite is there – one was taking bets on how would die in the latest Harry Potter book another on the outcome of the Michael Jackson trial. Is nothing sacred, apparently not? And the NCAAF is no different – but before we judge to harshly, let's not pretend that private underground wagering on the College sports has been massive for years so why not bring it out into the open. For those interested, Florida State and Miami are joint favourites in the ACC Conference Championship.
In the more mainstream fields Indianapolis just head the betting in the NFL over New England for the Superbowl XLI, its hard to split the Detroit Red Wings and the Ottawa Senators (who, with a name like, that should certainly know better than have a bet) in the Stanley Cup and in the MLB World Series its very tight in the betting between the New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.
Well, happy betting as our eyes start to turn away from the World Cup (that's soccer to those who only follow the US stuff) and look forward to a new season of Hockey, Baseball, American Football and Basketball
We hope this helps but visit TheSportsman.com or read the paper, out every day for more tips and hints.


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The artistry of clothing in modern subcultures
As you may know, a good bit of my work as a photographer focuses on models that seem to fall into one of the wider categories of three major subculture. These would be Goth, punk and emo. Well recently, I decided to do a photo shoot with an amazing young lady that also fits into an alternative culture in that she is an avid raver. That being the case, I'll include that into the mix as well.


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Hopefully you've already heard about Zombie Playground, the art-turned-kickstarter-turned-game featuring yet another fresh take on the zombie apocalypse that actually feels fresh. Massive Black's game will pit grade-school kids against the shambling dead.
This gameplay is... well, it's rough, but it's also pre-alpha, and mostly intended to give a sense of the basic game. Unclear whether the current soundtrack is Aesop Rock, but he'll be providing the soundtrack for the final game. Which is very cool.


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Network Working Group F. Templin Request for Comments: 4214 Nokia Category: Experimental T. Gleeson Cisco Systems K.K. M. Talwar D. Thaler Microsoft Corporation October 2005 Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) Status of This Memo This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). IESG Note The content of this RFC was at one time considered by the IETF, and therefore it may resemble a current IETF work in progress or a published IETF work. This RFC is not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard. The IETF disclaims any knowledge of the fitness of this RFC for any purpose, and in particular notes that the decision to publish is not based on IETF review for such things as security, congestion control or inappropriate interaction with deployed protocols. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion. Readers of this RFC should exercise caution in evaluating its value for implementation and deployment. See RFC 3932 for more information. Abstract The Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) connects IPv6 hosts/routers over IPv4 networks. ISATAP views the IPv4 network as a link layer for IPv6 and views other nodes on the network as potential IPv6 hosts/routers. ISATAP supports an automatic tunneling abstraction similar to the Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) model. Templin, et al. Experimental [Page 1] RFC 4214 ISATAP October 2005 1. Introduction This document specifies a simple mechanism called the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) that connects IPv6 hosts/routers over IPv4 networks. Dual-stack (IPv6/IPv4) nodes use ISATAP to automatically tunnel IPv6 packets in IPv4, i.e., ISATAP views the IPv4 network as a link layer for IPv6 and views other nodes on the network as potential IPv6 hosts/routers. ISATAP enables automatic tunneling whether global or private IPv4 addresses are used, and presents a Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) abstraction similar to [RFC2491][RFC2492][RFC2529][RFC3056]. The main objectives of this document are to: 1) describe the domain of applicability, 2) specify addressing requirements, 3) specify automatic tunneling using ISATAP, 4) specify the operation of IPv6 Neighbor Discovery over ISATAP interfaces, and 5) discuss Site Administration, Security, and IANA considerations. 2. Requirements The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL, when they appear in this document, are to be interpreted as described in [BCP14]. This document also uses internal conceptual variables to describe protocol behavior and external variables that an implementation must allow system administrators to change. The specific variable names, how their values change, and how their settings influence protocol behavior are provided in order to demonstrate protocol behavior. An implementation is not required to have them in the exact form described here, as long as its external behavior is consistent with that described in this document. 3. Terminology The terminology of [RFC2460][RFC2461] applies to this document. The following additional terms are defined: ISATAP node: A node that implements the specifications in this document. ISATAP interface: An ISATAP node's Non-Broadcast Multi-Access (NBMA) IPv6 interface, used for automatic tunneling of IPv6 packets in IPv4. Templin, et al. Experimental [Page 2] RFC 4214 ISATAP October 2005 ISATAP interface identifier: An IPv6 interface identifier with an embedded IPv4 address constructed as specified in Section 6.1. ISATAP address: An IPv6 unicast address that matches an on-link prefix on an ISATAP interface of the node, and that includes an ISATAP interface identifier. locator: An IPv4 address-to-interface mapping; i.e., a node's IPv4 address and its associated interface. locator set: A set of locators associated with an ISATAP interface. EachShow full document text


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Has anybody taken on this project? I have a few ideas for a modular system. I think better resualts could be gained by using standalone ADC chips, combined with a modular system, you could just plug in the modules you need!
kg4wsv I2C would be a better candidate. Up to 128 sensors with only two wires.
Hi everyone,I am a biologist from a wildlife research group in Australia. I have next-to-no experience with electronics, but I am wondering whether a novice like me could learn to build a simple GPS datalogger based on Arduino boards (preferably the Arduino Mini) for use in wildlife tracking? I would appreciate comments from the community here as to whether this is something a newbie like me could attempt, and whether anyone might be willing to assist? Obviously any progress made will be posted here for others to use. Look forward to comments.Thanks


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CORE movie at Penn StatePosted by Tom Mrotek on April 15th, 2010
Hi all,
The Penn State Outing Club is bringing the new climbing movie, CORE, to Penn State on April 20th. Come on out to see a great video and mix it up with the Penn State and State College climbing crowd. Please see details below!
From the director of PURE…
CORE goes to the heart of climbing. Join an international cast of the sport's most dedicated athletes as they stick it when it matters most. Shot in 35mm Ultra High Definition, get ready to see every detail of some of the nastiest pieces of rock ever climbed.
A close examination of each character offers perspective beyond just their achievements on the stone. From Helsinki to Hueco, Africa to Italy, the enclosed forests of Tuscany to the vast open space of the American West, this film is a study in the landscapes and lifestyles that define our sport.
Be there, in the moment, as a 5.14 traditional route gets its first ascent. See the mind-bending footage from Livin Large, Nalle Hukkataival's monster 8C. Watch as Fred Nicole polishes off his multi-year project in Switzerland ñ his hardest ever. All these achievements and more are brought to you here in Chuck Fryberger's followup to the hit bouldering flick PURE. These are the moments and the athletes that define our sport, documented here with a unique style that invites the viewer to be part of the experience.
Featured Athletes:
Nalle Hukkataival
Matt Wilder
Fred Nicole
Kilian Fischhuber
Kevin Jorgeson
BJ Tilden
Lucas Preti
Cody Roth
Michele Caminati
Jamie Emerson
Sarah and Steph Marvez
Berni Fiedler
And Many More.
On Location in:
Lander, Wyoming
Colorado, USA
Hueco Tanks, USA
Helsinki Finland
Tuscany, Italy
Rocklands, South Africa
A FULL HD SHOWING WILL BE ON APRIL 20th at 9PM, IN THE HUB AUDITORIUM (PSU CAMPUS)
See the trailer HERE: http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/outing/CORE.html
Tickets are $10 and are now available at Appalachian Outdoors (ask at the register)
Any questions can be directed to Nick Clabbers (email@example.com) or event coordinator Ryan Mullins (email@example.com)


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Cannes 2014: 'Grace of Monaco' opening more awkward than regal
Cannes Film Festival opening nights are glitzy affairs, with movies like "The Great Gatsby," "Up" and "Midnight in Paris" premiering to the requisite tuxedoed fanfare in recent years.
On the surface, the same seemed to apply to the kickoff of this year's edition Wednesday night, as Nicole Kidman's much-awaited, somewhat-delayed Grace Kelly biopic, "Grace of Monaco" had its world premiere at a splashy event just a few miles from where the real-life princess' story took place.
Yet the evening had an added element not normally found at Cannes opening nights: awkwardness.
A strange mood hovered over the screening of "Monaco" — or one of its versions, anyway — as the movie premiered to a muted response.
The glam trappings were, of course, everywhere. At the elaborate red-carpet ritual, announcers called out French and American celebrities as hundreds of professional photographers snapped photos and many more amateur ones craned for looks from the surrounding streets.
Festival director Thierry Fremaux greeted the cast and filmmakers and posed for pictures with them, as he does on Cannes red carpets. And an elegant Kidman stood atop the steps of the Palais de Festivals, bedecked in a manner that evoked Kelly herself.
Inside the theater, French actor Lambert Wilson took the stage to greet Kidman and costar Tim Roth, who plays Prince Rainier, as "Princess Nicole and "Prince Tim," even breaking with Cannes politesse to enter the crowd and spontaneously dance with Kidman at her seat. The event was given added heft when the jury — led by Jane Campion and featuring heavyweights such as Nicolas Winding Refn, Gael Garcia Bernal and Sofia Coppola — came out to the stage in the time-honored opening-night Cannes custom, with non-jury member Alfonso Cuaron then emerging and officially declaring the festival open.
But hanging over the screening that followed was the battle between U.S distributor the Weinstein Co. and the French filmmakers, including director Olivier Dahan and producer Pierre-Ange Le Pogam. Harvey Weinstein had last summer rejected a cut submitted by the French filmmakers and instead edited his own version with a different tone and feel, even pulling off the rare move of negotiating for the right to release his cut of the movie in the U.S.
Weinstein wasn't at the screening Wednesday — and that was just the beginning of the strangeness.
It was the version the French preferred that screened Wednesday. And it didn't go especially smoothly. The movie plays as melodramatically as billed, at times going for the overwrought close-up or schmaltzy music to emphasize what's at stake. Some of its transitions also suggested a movie that had been chopped up and reassembled several times. (The movie, incidentally, focuses only somewhat on Kelly and Rainier's relationship, or their respective inner lives, instead choosing to center much of the story on their reactions to a standoff between Rainier and French leader Charles de Gaulle over Monagasque sovereignty.)
More pointedly, Cannes opening-night films tend to generate standing ovations of at least five or six minutes, but the clapping after this one was mostly polite, and it was over after a brief two. A press screening earlier in the day also generated only modest excitement at best.
(Those who've seen it say that Weinstein's version is lighter and more Capraesque, though whether we will ever get the chance to see it is another matter. More on that in a moment.)
The events at the start of the world's most prestigious film festival were the most public example yet of a long-simmering battle. Weinstein and the French filmmakers have been trading salvos for months, with Weinstein's edits prompting Dahan to go on a tirade in the French press in the fall and the French filmmakers retaliating by successfully submitting it as the Cannes opening-night film without consulting Weinstein in January.
The proceedings Wednesday served to offer an important reminder: Though it may be the most public form of a film's unveiling, the hoopla of a red carpet can sometimes serve to conceal the turbulence within.
In Dahan's particular case, concealment may not have been an issue, though: His expression and body language suggested a filmmaker uncomfortable about the state of affairs; he barely smiled and seemed to have a perfunctory air about him.
Weinstein, meanwhile, did not even make the trip to opening night. That offered the rare prospect of Kidman, with whom Weinstein often collaborates, basking in the attention on one of the most important nights of the film year without him.
Making matters more surreal, a representative of the U.S. film mogul issued a statement earlier in the day seeking to explain his absence.
"My wife Georgina and I have been in Jordan visiting two Syrian refugee camps, Al Zaatri yesterday and Azraq today," Weinstein said in the statement. "This was a long planned trip with the UNHCR and our friend Neil Gaimon [sic] to bring attention to the plight of refugees who have been forced to flee Syria and the incredible work of UNHCR." He concluded by offering an obligatory thank you to the producers and financiers, including Dahan and Le Pogam.
The audience reaction to the French version of the film, which opens across Europe in the coming weeks, creates a tantalizing number of possibilities for Weinstein. He could, of course, dump or withhold the French version of "Grace of Monaco," saying that he was delivered a bad film and in turn salvaging some pride, if not dollars.
But Weinstein is spending as much as $4 million on the U.S. rights, making an outright dump hard to imagine. And, in a way, the tepid response could give him an opening to say he has the solution to what ails the film and offer a chance for him to vindicate himself in the battle with Dahan when he releases his own version.
Of course, that's a risky bet: If Weinstein does do that and it doesn't work, he could end up in an even worse position, having made a point of saying he had the better alternative only for the marketplace to rebut the claim. The opening-night awkwardness is over, but the drama may yet linger.
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Attapeu, LaosKirsty Turner
Attapeu is seated in a large valley and surrounded by picturesque mountains. The town is brushed by the Sekong and Sekhamane Rivers, which provide a source of fresh fish and a pretty place to relax in the evening with a beer or two.
Several sites of stunning natural beauty are located just a short distance from Attapeu and both the Dong Ampham Forest and Xepiane Forest are worth the journey. Visitors can also trek along part of the Ho Chi Minh trail and discover the villages of the tribes who follow a traditional way of life that has changes very little over the years.
Attapeu is populated by nine different tribes, namely the Alak, Katang, Kaleum, Katou, Suay, Nge, Lave, Tahoy, Nyajeung. Each of these tribes has their own traditional style of dress and customs and staying a while in Attapeu provides the perfect opportunity to get to learn about these interesting people and their alternative life styles.
There is little traffic in Attapeu and a good way to see all that the area has to offer is simply to walk through the town and surrounding countryside, stopping to talk to the friendly people you pass on the way. There are also tour companies located in the town where you can hire a hire to show you around if you prefer.
The nearby village of Ban Sekhaman is a good place to explore and there is a regular ferry that runs from the pier to the south of Attapeu to take you there. Explore the crumbling wat in this picturesque village and picnic beside the river before heading back to Attapeu.
A good place to indulge in a little retail therapy and pick up a bargain is the traditional local market, and this is also a great place to find a tasty evening meal.


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Best Fudgy Cocoa Brownies
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These are one of the basic food groups, right?! I made these using vegan butter, canola oil and a gluten free 1:1 flour and they were incredible! The first pan disappeared that same day since my family decided gluten and dairy free tastes delicious. I made a double batch in a 13×9 pan the next day, and those have disappeared as well.
Any time one of my GF and DF creations gets rave reviews from the rest of my family, I know that recipe is a keeper. I baked 25 minutes exactly and did not use parchment, just a good greasing, and they came out super fudgy and did not stick to the pan. Thank you for a great recipe. I've made brownies that I thought tasted good for years, but this one takes the cake (or the brownie)!..
Recipe >> Best Fudgy Cocoa Brownies @ cafedelites.com
Recipe >> Best Fudgy Cocoa Brownies @ cafedelites.com


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Building permits audit coming to council at last
An audit of San Diego's Development Services Department will be reviewed by the City Council on Monday following an unusual delay that underscored a rift between the offices of former Mayor Jerry Sanders and City Auditor Eduardo Luna.
In a meeting of the city's Audit Committee last summer, disagreements were laid bare over Luna's methods on the audit, which found numerous errors in the department's billings for building permits and computer security weaknesses that could put the city at risk of fraud.
Baffled, the committee took the rare move of declining to send the audit on to the full council until the disagreements could be worked out.
Luna and Development Services Director Kelly Broughton soon worked out an agreement over more of the audit's recommendations, including purchasing a replacement to the computer system, which the department developed. Several months were then taken to review the costs and other details of replacing the computer system.
Audit Committee Chairman Kevin Faulconer said new software will not only address the issues raised by the audit, but increase the department's efficiency and help it better serve citizens.
"That's why we do performance audits," Faulconer said. "They are going to go to a more efficient and off-the-shelf tracking system that will be more useful and customer friendly."
According to the city's Information Technology Department, it could take about 18 to 24 months to get the new software up and running after it is purchased. No cost estimate has been published.
Broughton said his department is reviewing its permit fees and will take into account the cost of new software as it considers changes to them. He said he agreed with Luna's recommendation to change one of the current computer system's security controls to reduce the risk of fraud before the new software is installed.
Specifically, the computer system fails to track changes made to permit charges, leaving open the possibility that a staffer could lower a development applicant's bill without leaving a trace.
During the July 2012 meeting, Broughton said Luna threatened him with legal ramifications for failing to cooperate with the audit. Luna had complained that auditor access to department computers was blocked.
Luna acknowledged that he referenced the Municipal Code regarding obstruction of audits.
At the time, Former Councilman Carl DeMaio, who sat on the audit committee, suggested Luna tone down his audits or work with the administration in determining what he should audit as a way of eliminating such disagreements.


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I like playing games with asynchronous multiplayer, but outside of Facebook, there aren't many ways to compete against gaming friends in a non-simultaneous way. Thankfully, Criterion includes that sort of thing in their racing games.
The video here shows the asynchronous multiplayer feature in the next Need For Speed, the first from Criterion. It was demonstrated, as you see here, at publisher EA's Gamescom press conference in Germany.
Criterion's Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit includes simultaneous multiplayer, of course. It would be nuts if a game about police chases didn't.
But I'm all for some long-distance one-upping type of asynchronous multiplayer, too. Criterion used systems like that in their previous racing game, Burnout: Paradise, and it's nice to see they're still exploring the concept.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit ships this fall on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.


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Bing helps Google+L listings soar !
The email is causing quite a confusion as there's very little information and nothing explaining why the business details need to be updated. Business owners have been wondering if it's a scam, but Google has confirmed it's legitimate. Google also started calling businesses ( presumably those who did not update their business information ) I…Read more


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The memory of slavery in a family artifact?
I consider myself truly fortunate to have a range of family "artifacts", though I wish I had more that related to the Civil War era… sigh…
Anyway, for your consideration today, I have, well, let me simply call her "Aunt". I say this, of course, because in the days of slavery, so many slaves were referred to as "Aunt" or "Uncle" ___. Please understand, I don't do this to demean, but rather, I have a hunch that what you see in the photo that follows was referred to as "Aunt ___." I have no idea what my great-great grandmother called "her", but suspect I'm on the right path.
What is it exactly? It is a doorstop, and it dates to sometime before 1930, but I suspect it wasn't created before 1900. I tried to clean it up before the photo, but I need to spend considerable time in doing so as the piece is getting more fragile with age (especially the cloth). I plan on getting a display case for it sometime soon, and thus, I brought it out again today and figured it would be an interesting item for discussion. It's especially interesting when we consider the culture (in relation to slavery) of the Shenandoah Valley as conveyed through the movie Shenandoah (which also happens to be a focus in Kevin's blog yesterday and today) and the impact that slavery had (though not as many slaves lived in the Valley as opposed to the Tidewater region). As you can see, the outside is made of a variety of cloth materials, excepting the broach and eyes, which are made of plastic (the eyes and broach are all made from buttons and the fact that they are plastic would probably help to date it a little better). Hidden underneath is a mason jar, filled with rocks. Regretfully, the mason jar cracked years before I came into possession of this family item, but it still holds-up quite well. No, I don't use it as a doorstop…
As you may have gathered from what I mentioned above, my great-great grandmother made the doorstop. She was born in 1853 and died in 1930, but before your imagination gets the best of you… her family (Painter family) did not own slaves. In fact, I find more Unionists sentiment AND "leave-alone'r" sentiment with her line of the family than I do with any of my other lines. She was from Page County, Virginia and her name was Sarah Ellen Painter, daughter of Noah Painter and Susan Huffman. Two of her mother's brothers were Confederate soldiers, one in the 7th Va. Cav. (part of the Laurel Brigade) and the other in the 33rd Va. Inf. (part of the Stonewall Brigade). In fact, Sarah's husband (James Harvey Mayes, one of my gg grandfathers) was also a Confederate soldier in the 7th Virginia Cavalry and was wounded west of Winchester, Va., in November 1864. Again, none of them owned slaves. So, I'm taking it that this may have been a culturally induced artistic creation. No doubt, she lived in the time of slavery… in fact, she just turned eight in February 1861, and would have been twelve by the end of the war. I just find this piece one of my most fascinating ones, especially for the fact that it shows how slavery touched whites who did not even own slaves. Also, by serving as a doorstop, I wonder if it sent a message describing where, in the social hierarchy, this branch of my Southern family saw blacks, even well after the Civil War. Or was it merely a reflection of what she remembered from her youth?
Hmmm, note the hand on the hip… it looks like Sarah added this to convey something that we might not fully understand today. Truly interesting.
This is also posted in my main blog, Cenantua's Blog.
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Reading your article made me think of a photo of my aunt who passed several years ago.
Why would a young girl in the 1940s have a black baby doll. The photo referenced above was taken in Caribou Maine where there were no black people and they have a strong Acadian culture.


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Double Chocolate Yum.
(And some gluten-free baking advice.)
I have a new cookie recipe to share today. A cocoa infused cookie studded with semi-sweet chocolate chips. A cookie that tastes like a brownie- if a brownie was slightly crispy and crunchy on the outside, and chewy soft on the inside.
You could say, it's a brownie with a cookie texture.
Karina's Gluten-Free Double Chocolate Chip Cookies - A Vegan and Dairy-Free Recipe
Recipe originally published April 2011 by Karina Allrich.
I used a mild organic cocoa in these chocolate chocolate chip cookies. The cookie's flavor is subtle, like cocoa, with lovely bittersweet bites of dark chocolate chips. The men in the house like these babies straight from the freezer, ice cold.
Whisk together:
1/2 cup GF buckwheat flour or certified gluten-free oat flour
1 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch or potato starch (not potato flour!)
1/3 cup organic cocoa
2 teaspoons xanthan gum
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup organic cane sugar
1/3 cup light brown sugar
Add in:
1/2 cup organic coconut oil or Spectrum Organic Shortening
1 tablespoon bourbon vanilla extract
1/2 cup vanilla rice milk, coconut milk, or almond milk- more as needed
As you beat the dough pay close attention to the consistency. Add more rice milk a tablespoon at a time, and beat to combine, until you achieve a smooth but sturdy cookie dough. I added two more tablespoons of rice milk to my dough.
Add in:
1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 375ºF. Line one or two baking sheets with parchment paper or an Exopat liner.
Stir in the chocolate chips as best you can (the dough is stiff).
Roll a golf ball sized wad of dough between your palms, and place the ball on the lined baking sheet about two inches apart. Repeat this process to make 18-24 balls. Use your palm to press down on the dough and flatten slightly- not too much- unless you like your cookies thin. Press a few extra chocolate chips into the tops of the cookies, if you like.
Bake in the center of a preheated oven for about 15 minutes until the cookies are set. They will still be slightly soft in the center. If you bake two pans at once, rotate the pans half way through baking.
Remove the pans from the oven, and allow the cookies to cool and "set" for a few minutes; then use a thin spatula to move the cookies to a wire rack. The cookies will get crisper as they cool.
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 18-24 cookies
Recipe Source: glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com
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Texture is a big deal in gluten-free baking. It's no secret that giving gluten the boot also means giving texture, stretch, and structure the old heave-ho, right along with it. First timers bite into gluten-free goodies and pause. They chew. Their eyes widen and dart to the side as they search for a word to describe exactly what it is they are chewing. The word most often used to describe something gluten-free? Gummy. Or worse. Hockey pucks. Cardboard. Dirt. Attributes one does not necessarily associate with um, pleasure. With nourishment. With flavor.
Which is why I am here.
It was nearly
Our love affair had been a passionate, tumultuous ride. Thrilling and deliciously seductive. From twirling garlic laden Italian pasta to rustic bread baking, we had nurtured a decades long love affair. Four and a half decades, in fact. And I'm not embarrassed to admit, I was deep into it. Head over heels. And dizzy in denial. Until symptoms could no longer be ignored.
And it turned out I felt better without gluten. Not just better. Transformed.
So I bought a gluten-free cookbook and started baking (and no offense to the wonderful woman who was- literally- a gluten-free pioneer and wrote several best selling gluten-free cookbooks, but). I determined- quite quickly- that white rice flour and starches do not a gourmet treat make.
Truth is, ten years ago, baking gluten-free meant using rice flour and starches, or just plain cornstarch (this was Julia Child's advice). We didn't have the higher protein, whole grain gluten-free choices we have today. Oh, they were there, lurking. Buckwheat flour and almond meal have long, delicious traditions in the old country (I loved the cookbook Fabulous and Flourless). But packaged blends and gluten-free mixes favored cheaper rice flour and starches (and even today, most g-free mixes rely on this old school stand-by, with predictably gummy results). So the cardboard moniker stuck.
And me?
My hopes for baking without gluten deflated like a sad little souffle.
Until Bob's Red Mill brought us whole grain gluten-free grains. Grains with protein and fiber. Grains with nutrition. Grains with flavor. And yes- texture! Milled with artisan care in a gluten-free facility. And no, this is not a sponsored endorsement. This is personal.
By now you should know I'm not the kind of blogger who can be seduced by a coupon offer. Or a free t-shirt. I've been doing this awhile, Darling.
I have an opinion. An informed opinion. Based on thirteen-plus years of gluten-free baking (which ought to be worth more than a coupon or a five dollar sample).
So I tell it like it is.
Readers sometimes ask me for recipe substitutions. These can be grouped into a handful of popular themes:
- I use too many different flours- they want to use one (or a baking mix).
- I use buckwheat flour- they wouldn't touch buckwheat flour like they wouldn't wear Crocs.
- I use sorghum flour- they can't find sorghum flour (for that, I am truly, sympathetically sorry!).
- I use almond meal or coconut flour (fabulous protein and fiber)- and they are allergic (once again, profoundly sorry!).
So they sub. They use rice flour and starches in my recipes. And return to tell me the texture is gummy. Or as dense as cardboard.
Flour choices matter.
And so does execution.
So I thought I'd address this today, and offer some quick, short advice on gluten-free baking- and substitutions.
Truth? Gluten-free baking is more of an art than a science.
What this means- there is no one perfect, exact, preset formula for a gluten-free recipe. And you don't need a scale to measure things in grams.
Without stretchy gluten, flours can be finicky, and far less forgiving.
There is weather, Bubela. You know, humidity. And winter heat dryness. And there is how you store your flours (in the cold fridge- or in the cupboard next to the stove?). Dampish flours need less liquid added. And some g-free flours are super thirsty (coconut flour grabs on to fat and liquid like a parched and greedy camel).
With gluten-free baking, the relationship of dry ingredients to wet is crucial. Even two tablespoons more/or less liquid can make the difference between a gummy center, and a fluffy crumb.
Here's what I do- I add my liquid to the whisked dry ingredients slowly, a little at a time, and beat until it comes to the right consistency. Don't dump all the liquid in at once. Sometimes you need a tablespoon less liquid. Sometimes, a few tablespoons more.
Then there is temperature. The temperature of the ingredients themselves (ice cold eggs?). The ambient temperature of your kitchen (is it drafty and damp, or hot and humid, or do you use air conditioning?). And then, perhaps the most influential of all, there is the temperature of your oven-- which, surprisingly, can actually vary. Not only for those of us using cheap stoves in rental apartments, but also in your shiny newly installed appliance-- it may not be calibrated correctly. This is a big issue for many a reader, by the way). Which is why I recommend using an oven thermometer, and checking your 'preheat' temperature. Temperature influences baking time, big time.
How to judge the right consistency?
Intuition and experience helps. But in general, cake and cupcake batters are slightly thicker than wheat based cake batters. You're not looking for velvety thin ribbons of batter like the old days. I find the best gluten-free cake batters tip toward a muffin batter consistency.
Bread dough and pizza dough is more like muffin batter.
G-free cookie dough is stiff and sturdy and a bit sticky. Roll it into balls with wet or oiled hands.
For baking substitution help (because of course, I know how hard it is to bake gluten-free with allergies- you know I love you, my multi-allergic sisters and brothers, I'm one of you!) please use my post on Baking Substitutions and Help as a guide to subbing problematic ingredients in my recipes.
And for vegans, and non-vegans, I have found my recipes perform well with eggs and without, using an egg substitute. For a powdered egg sub I use Ener-G Egg Replacer- if you use a different one, you may need to adjust starches/liquids. Many readers report good luck using flax seed gel; I have limited expertise with flax, but I do think it adds a nice touch to gluten-free baking. And yes, for dairy and non-dairy, I find it's an easy one-to-one sub. (I must be dairy-free, so I write up recipes that way, but if you prefer using butter and milk in my vegan recipes- that will work just fine; my husband and sons have tried them both ways, with success).
For detailed info on gluten-free flour choices and how to make your own g-free flour blends that don't suck, see my Gluten-Free Baking Tips post.
Finally- to repeat it--- experience counts.
Even our failures bring us one step closer to better results. They teach us. Baking gluten-free is a process. It is not a finite, closed experiment. It is more like jazz than strophic form. Learning an intuitive sense of improvisation is worth the effort.
So, go bake some cookies with whole grain flours and share them with someone you love, okay?


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This exciting and structured course is the Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level 2 Award and is intended as vocational training in product knowledge for those employed in the drinks industry who have little previous knowledge of the broad range of alcoholic beverages available. The qualification is suitable wherever a good level of product knowledge is required to underpin job skills and competencies.The course is also appropriate for those not employed in the drinks industry but who have a serious interest in wine, and wish to broaden their knowledge in a structured way. This qualification has full accreditation from the UK Government's Qualifications & Curriculum Authority as a Level 2 Vocational Qualification.
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Michelle Lee, a fact checker with the Washington Post, just posted a long and, to my mind, highly political column. Her column, read carefully, undermines Presidential candidate Ben Carson's absolutely correct claim, made in announcing his candidacy, that the true measure of U.S. fiscal debt is not the $13 trillion our government reports as its debt. Instead, our true debt is over $200 trillion. Obviously, most of this true debt has been kept off the books by our politicians.
In this column, I'm going to defend Dr. Carson's statement. But I want to point out that I don't know Dr. Carson. I have never spoken with him. And I don't yet know enough about Dr. Carson's positions to have a view about his overall suitability for President. I am, however, impressed that out of the gate he is talking about the right measure of our nation's fiscal condition.
I spoke at length to Michelle Lee prior to her writing her column. She told me she was a fact checker. But when fact checking turns into disguised political commentary, there's a problem. Fact checkers are supposed to check the facts with experts. When it comes to economics, the experts are PhD economists, not political organizations or people, without real economics training, parading as economists, both of which she quotes in undermining Dr. Carson's credibility.
Now let me turn to the substance. In referring to $211 trillion in unfunded mandates, Dr. Carson was referencing my calculation of the U.S. fiscal gap. As I explained in a NY Times op ed, the U.S. fiscal gap is $210 trillion. So Dr. Carson was off by $1 trillion – by less than one half of one percent.
Dr. Carson referenced $211 trillion as the size of "unfunded mandates." Michelle Lee correctly points out that Dr. Carson was referencing the U.S. fiscal gap, not the present value of mandatory spending. What she knew (because I told her), but failed to say, is that the present value of mandatory spending is far larger than $210 trillion because the fiscal gap is a net, not a gross number.
Michelle Lee is not a PhD economist. Nor is Bruce Barlett, whose truly absurd statement about the debt being an asset she quotes. Yes, it's an asset, but it's an asset that young and future generations must pay off. Social Security benefits are also an asset to their recipients, but again, they must be paid off by people who aren't getting the benefits.
Michelle Lee apparently takes Bruce Bartell's views more seriously than the views of 17 Nobel Laureates in economics and over 1200 PhD economists from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, Penn, and lesser known universities and colleges around the country. Each of these economists has endorsed The Inform Act, a bi-partisan bill that requires the CBO, GAO, and OMB to do infinite horizon fiscal gap accounting on a routine and ongoing basis.


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Rugby Player Ruptures Testicle During Game and Keeps Playing
There are some pretty roughneck athletes out there, capable of withstanding some rather fierce beat-downs without showing many signs of pain. None are as tough as superstar Rugby champion Paul Wood who sustained a ruptured testicle over the weekend and finished out the game.
During Saturday's Super League Grand Final, the Warrington forward intercepted an evil knee blast to his groin, causing one of his testicles to literally explode - an injury that should have put him out for the rest of the game - one that would have put most of us out a lot longer than that.
However, the 31-year-old maniac did not act as if the injury deterred his focus at all, refusing to come in off the field for treatment and instead, pressed on to lead his team into a 26-18 victory against Leeds. After conducting several post-game interviews (making no mention of his injury), Wood was transported to a local hospital where his testicle was surgically removed.
The next morning he tweeted, "Ruptured my right testicle, got a knee 1 minute into the second half, had to have it removed," followed by an afternoon post that stated, "Just coming out the hospital to go home... Seriously feel like I've left something?"
It appears as if this sort of testicular tragedy happens often in the game of rugby: In 2004, St. Helens forward Chris Flannery played nearly an entire game with a torn testicle.
We are going to stick to watching this vicious sport on television down at the local tavern. After all, we are not aware of any man that has ruptured his nuts on a bar stool.


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APS spokeswoman Monica Armenta said school officials uncovered the plot because one of the students was showing suicidal tendencies. The student revealed the plan during a counseling session Thursday morning.
"They had intentions on shooting up the school and then committing suicide," Armenta said.
Armenta said Friday a police report shows they planned to begin shooting during third period on Dec. 12 and then kill themselves.
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We made our owl after the directions found at Enchanted Learning, but we made some changes. We used small paper plates instead of regular sized plates. We also added lots of texture to ours. Here are more specifics:
starlings chittering, and the jays creaming. Every time there seemed to be some
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You'll have to read the book to find out if Owl ever gets some rest. This is a great read aloud story and my boys loved repeating all the animal sounds with me as I read throughout the book.
One stormy night, a lost and lonely owl walks into a farmyard looking for a
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