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Complete Alzheimer Scotland's 12 Days of FITMAS this November and December and help make sure nobody faces dementia alone this winter!
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Spend the night sleeping out in your garden or in an unusual spot in your home in support of the Rangers Charity Foundation and their Community Partner Glasgow City Mission!
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This year's Breakfast Plays (New Tracks) return after a successful first run in August, delivered as an audio-only podcast.
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Browse the stalls and bag yourself a bargain at the twice weekly City Markets Bridgeton Cross Retail Market!
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With the help of expert tutors, the Centre for Lifelong Learning at University of Strathclyde have developed an exciting range of classes to help keep you busy this Autumn!
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Join many other businesses in making a BIG difference to a LOT of peoples lives this Christmas by donating the unused cost of your Christmas party to Glasgow's Golden Generation!
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Join Ricefield Arts for their Online Classical Chinese Dance Workshop... the perfect way to exercise and keep fit!
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Have fun discovering Glasgow with a self-guided, heritage walk with a treasure hunt theme from Curious About!
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This Emergency Canine Care course run by Dog First Aid Scotland North has been designed to be delivered through a live interactive session in 3 morning modules starting on 1st December.
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Flowetic Glasgow classes are now online! Dance, tone, stretch & relax... and feel like a dancer at home!
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The French Film Festival UK is the only festival dedicated to French and Francophone cinema and is now in its 28th year!
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With office parties cancelled and mistletoe off the menu this festive season, The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice is aiming to bring some fun-filled Christmas cheer direct into people's homes!
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Glasgow Central Tours offer you the chance to explore behind the scenes of Glasgow's most iconic and busiest landmarks, Central Station!
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This is a 2.5-3 hour tour that will take you around all the main sites of the city, giving you an excellent opportunity to find out about Glasgow's rich history and culture!
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Join Walking Tours In Glasgow for their evening walking tour and discover a very different side to Glasgow!
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Good Move Glasgow run Health Walks right across the city which are suitable for all ages and abilities!
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Hire-a-guide at RSPB Scotland Loch Lomond for an exclusive dawn or dusk goose watching experience!
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Invisible Cities offer friendly walking tours of Glasgow that showcase some of the city's historical landmarks and explore the social projects that make the city what it is!
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Come to Luss to experience the Christmas magic of the Loch Lomond Festive Faerie Trail complete with a new festive mystery to be solved!
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Come and join us at Stirling Distillery as our team take you on a virtual tour and tasting from the comfort of your own home!
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Local artist Lee Robertson has been working on 'Love Letter to Glasgow' an exhibition which was due to be held in Sogo Arts on the Saltmarket, he's now taken his exhibition online!
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The Eastwood District Glasgow Committee of Macmillan Cancer Research are hosting their annual Art Show & Auction online between the 1st November and 13th December.
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Browse the stalls and bag yourself a bargain at the weekly City Markets Mansfield Park Partick Retail Market!
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Visit this online exhibition and celebrate the legacy of architects Andrew McLuckie & Ronald Walker! They designed over 200 buildings in Stirling between 1886 and 1911.
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Join yoga teacher Catherine online for her monthly Yin Yoga sessions, a slower yoga practice which promotes flexibility in the body and resilience in the mind.
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Music Broth are hosting online Ukulele Lessons live on Zoom every Saturday for eight weeks starting on Saturday 24th October as part of the Band Together Project!
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This festive season, there are fifty wonderful pinatas hiding in the windows of the amazing businesses in Shawlands, can you find them all?
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Join NYCOS for their Mini Music Makers Online classes, providing an opportunity for you and your child to make and enjoy music together!
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Check out the new 'taking part' season at Platform Glasgow, on now until December 2020!
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Tramway is delighted to present Traveller', the first exhibition in the UK by multi-disciplinary artist Rajni Perera!
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The RSNO present their first ever Digital Season! Enjoy ten glorious concerts which will be filmed live for you in the RSNO's studio with COVID-19 secure measures in place!
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Santa Claus Is Coming To Town at the Pavilion Theatre Glasgow is a truly magical pantomime with a real Christmas feel-good factor!
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Join Simply Yoga By Laura for her seasonal yoga classes on Zoom and increase your flexibility and feel healthier and fitter with a regular yoga practice from the comfort of your own home!
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This year, major attractions have been cancelled but Christmas has not and Santa is busy and so are his little elves planning a safe socially distanced experience for you and your family!
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The Scotia Gallery welcomes you to a solo photography exhibition featuring an impressive series of macro photography created by Scottish Artist and photographer David Gilliver!
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Walking Tours in Glasgow is now offering a two hour Street Art tour! This mural and modern culture tour will show the beautiful street art pieces scattered around the city of Glasgow!
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Super Market Events is back with the UK's first immersive virtual Christmas Market experience! Shop with over 150 Scottish Independent Brands all from the comfort of your own home!
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The Big Escape is a brand new interactive outdoor experience, played on your smartphone, which will turn Glasgow City Centre into a giant escape game!
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The Christmas Show is always an exciting event in the Compass Gallery calendar, and this year the team have worked hard to take the exhibition online!
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It's the most wonderful time of the year and Drag-Opticon is getting into the festive spirit with a Holiday Special!
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Cyril Gerber Fine Art are thrilled to bring you an array of paintings, drawings and sculptures as part of their annual Winter Show!
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Do you love Glasgow and want to get fit? Then why not try Beat Your Goal's virtual event and get your hands on this stunning medal!
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Join Hot Yoga Glasgow Online for daily virtual classes all suitable for beginners and available to stream straight to your living-room!
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Yoga (Mysore) With Sue is an ashtanga yoga class where you will be taught one-to-one but within a group setting... Mysore style.
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Alzheimer Scotland's Dementia Advisor is now delivering free, interactive and informative online Dementia Friends information sessions throughout East Renfrewshire.
All About Barrhead have teamed up with High Street Safari to create an interactive Christmas story-trail for all the family to enjoy!
Move More is a programme of physical activity, advice and support for people at all stages of the cancer journey, contact the Macmillan East Ren team and find out how to get involved.
Netherlee's Living Advent Calendar is set to create some much needed festive magic for everyone to enjoy in the countdown to Christmas, bringing the community closer together!
I Love Clarkston have teamed up with High Street Safari to create an interactive Christmas story-trail for all the family to enjoy!
With theatre across the country closed this year, family theatre favourites The McDougalls are hosting the biggest and best virtual party of the year - and everyone's invited!
The Scottish Gallery is staging two exhibitions concurrently that look more closely at our natural surroundings - A Family Affair and also Mark Hearld's Menagerie!
Christmas wouldn't be the same without a trip to The Brunton for their fabulous traditional panto and this year it's Aladdin!
Paulin Watches launch a new art exhibition in-store at their Stockbridge location in Edinburgh, celebrating original talent, creativity, and artistry.
Take a journey into the dark side of old Edinburgh's history touring the haunted underground vaults with Auld Reekie Tours!
Following last year's debut event, Beecraigs Festive Forest is back for 2020, bigger, brighter, longer and more spectacular!
Come join us and in this energetic and fun class of Bollywood. Put on your dancing shoes to move on peppy tunes of Indian folk, bhangra, edm and hip hop all in one place.
Join Braid House on Facebook for their fundraising Christmas Fair, selling baked goods, presents for family and friends and even Reindeer dust!
The 1920s was a period of contrasts and this exhibition explores the styles, ideas and events that shaped Scottish art during this influential decade.
The pop up shop for Cards for Good Causes, the U.K.'s largest charity Christmas card retailer, is now open at St John's Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh.
Castle Street Christmas Fair returns in December, providing everyone with something special to buy and enjoy. Not to be missed this year!
Due to Covid-19 we are are unable to perform our normal live auction event in your area therefore we will now offer an online collection at way below the auction estimates.
Explore the sights and sounds of Christmas in this magical after dark experience when it returns to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh!
This December explore The Palace of Holyroodhouse with the help of Holly and Rudy and a special Christmas trail!
Conifox Adventure Park's sell-out Christmas experience returms this December, but with a '2020' twist.
Great fun for all ages, Christmas Search Party is a brand new interactive outdoor experience from the team that brought you Fringe Search Party. All you need is a fully charged mobile phone!
Have fun discovering Edinburgh on this quirky, self-guided, heritage walk with a treasure hunt theme from Curious About!
Let your soul sing with the dazzling multi-award winning Dreamgirls, coming to Edinburgh Playhouse for the first time in 2020!
This Exhibition is a collaboration between the National Trust for Scotland and the City Art Centre and is the first major retrospective of Hornel's art for over 35 years.
The first ever Edinburgh Marathon Festival Virtual Challenge is up and running and you can complete your challenge anytime before 31st December 2020!
Make your evenings merry and bright this festive season with a magical journey to the North Pole and back!
Descend into a world of grave robbery, mystery and malpractice as you embark on a thrilling adventure into Edinburgh's dark past.
This mixed winter exhibition opens at Birch Tree Gallery on 26th November, bringing back joyful memories of white landscapes!
Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club has come up with fun ideas where family Christmas memories can still made during the pandemic, including festive in-room camping and family afternoon tea.
First Bite Junior Youth Theatre is run by Live Drama and is for all 7 - 11 year olds with a love of drama and the performing arts and starts on 17th September!
Round up your pals and get the ball rolling for your next night oot as Fore Play Crazy Golf Edinburgh pop-up has found a new home!
Calling all Elves! Don your loudest Christmas jumper and join us at The Cauldron Edinburgh for a Gingerbread House Decorating activity!
Invisible Cities offer family friendly guided walking tours of Edinburgh that showcase some of the city's historical landmarks and explore the social projects that make the city what it is!
Timed to mark his 70th birthday, this major exhibition by contemporary artist Jock McFadyen displays new and existing paintings, alongside works from City Art Centre's collection of Scottish art.
The Scottish Ornithologists Club is hosting a joint exhibition of paintings, prints and sculptures by three specialist wildlife artists: Robert Greenhalf, Matt Underwood and Anthony Theakston!
Join us this festive season for a Christmas offering unlike any other. Lyceum Christmas Tales is an advent calendar of 12 stories for audiences in Edinburgh and beyond.
Explore the furniture, fashion, textiles, lighting, ceramics, and printed material that defined Mid-Century Modern in this exhibition on now at Dovecot Studios!
MUSTARD is a one-woman show about heartbreak, madness and how condiments are the ultimate coping mechanism, by award-winning playwright & performer Eva O'Connor.
With Christmas just round the corner, LocalMotive Markets is extending the regular Ocean Terminal Market over the festive period and will be brimming with local and Scottish gifts, food, and drinks!
Enjoy an online Pilates workout with Jane from Happy Being! Perfect if you are working from home sitting at a desk all day.
Enjoy a virtual tour of 'Paths to Other Places: Drawing Parallels' and see this fantastic new exhibition by Scottish artist James Cosgrove!
This exhibition is in collaboration with the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation to celebrate what would have been film special effects superstar Ray Harryhausen's 100th birthday year.
This exhibition at Upright Gallery will show artist books on the theme of connections - past, present and future.
Edinburgh's Christmas has teamed up with Forth 1's breakfast elves Boogie and Arlene to bring you Santa's Advent Stories!
Santa and his elves are coming to Dalkeith Country Park to give your kids an unforgettably magical experience this Christmas.
Bring your little ones along to Dobbies Edinburgh for an exciting festive experience at Santa's Grotto!
To celebrate the Year of Coasts and Waters, this small exhibition explores Scotland's diverse sea life and the many threats facing our marine life.
Shielders takes a unique look at the very alien world we now find ourselves in and its impact on those who still find themselves on the inside, looking out.
The Big Escape is a brand new interactive outdoor experience, played on your smartphone, which will turn Edinburgh City Centre into a giant escape game!
Enjoy a 90-minute fully-guided Tour of Chocolate for adults, teens and children aged 6 and over, just off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh's Old Town.
Edinburgh's deepest secret, the Real Mary King's Close is buried deep beneath the Royal Mile... a warren of hidden streets that has remained frozen in time since the 17th Century!
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh is delighted to present a brand new adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen for Christmas.
Immerse yourself in festive cheer and award-winning chocolate at The Chocolatarium - Edinburgh's visitor attraction dedicated to chocolate!
The Traverse Podcast is a series of conversations between Traverse's Co-Artistic Director Designate Debbie Hannan and the most exciting and innovative theatremakers, creatives and cultural figures.
Traverse is delighted to present brand new, specially created, pieces from nine Young Writers online, with performers filming in their own homes under lockdown conditions.
What happens to your digital life after you die? If there was a magic button, would you delete your online existence?
Welcome to one and only webcam circus show, an online family-friendly and interactive circus show performed live on Zoom!
Check out ComputerXplorers SEScotland's online kids computing clubs, the perfect way to learn the latest technologies and develop invaluable tech skills.
YogaBellies Edinburgh North is holding LIVE classes, starting from Wednesday 5th August and bookings are now open!
Everything in the garden's lovely as we explore the wonderful world of wildlife and plants through our colourful and entertaining family-friendly exhibition!
Enjoy drive-in screenings of family favourite Christmas films plus a special flat screen version of Capcom Go! the Apollo Story from NSC Creative at Fife Airport!
Let us take you on an epic adventure! Follow in the footsteps of intrepid explorers to discover exotic lands and fantastic voyages through our hands-on, family friendly exhibition!
Buy some unique and personal gifts for your loved ones at the Kingsgate Christmas Market and help raise money for Marie Curie as well as helping small businesses!
Pregnancy Pilates helps to reduce those aches and pains, keep you active and benefit from some social time with other expectant women.
Bring your little ones along to Dobbies Dunfermline for an exciting festive experience at Santa's Grotto!
Join Sam Mace Wellness for an online weekly Pilates class for the over 60's and strengthen your back and core, rebalance your body and improve posture through re-alignment!
The Magic of Christmas at Carnegie Hall is a wonder-filled, promenade Christmas experience like never before, a unique, sparkling and magical adventure to remember.
Muirhead Outreach Project, a small, wonderful charity in Glenrothes, is holding a virtual Christmas Fair with lots of the usual games to help raise funds!
Jerusalem News by Drama Kirk is a short, fun nativity is suitable for primary school children!
We know how different and difficult this festive season is going to be for all of us... so here's lots of reasons from Discover Lanark why this Christmas in Lanark can still be extra special!
The MS Society Lanarkshire project are running newly diagnosed online sessions, designed to help you understand and self manage your MS symptoms and also speak to others with MS.
You can celebrate the life of someone special and make a difference to the lives of patients and their loved ones this Christmas by supporting St Andrew's Hospice 'Light Up a Life' campaign!
The St Andrew's Hospice Santa Dash is back! Santa and his reindeer may have to socially distance this year but they still need your help in their training for the Big Day!
Tenement Through Time is a new, innovative and interactive exhibition which explores tenement life in New Lanark between 1881-1971!
The Haven are delighted to launch their first event online raffle with funds raised helping to sustain vital support services for those affected by life limiting illness and bereavement.
View contemporary artwork and sculpture by acclaimed and up and coming artists at the Festive Edition of the Art for Erskine Exhibition & Sale!
Johnstone residents without symptoms of Covid19 are being invited to be tested at the only fixed site in Scotland's current mass testing pilot.
For 30 years Paisley Salvation Army has been providing toys for the children of Renfrewshire and again this year they are looking for donations to their Christmas Toy Appeal.
Christmas might be a little different this year but there's still plenty of festive cheer in Paisley town centre with the Christmas Buddie Bear Hunt!
Walk or jog around Paisley and Johnstone's town centres and find all of the hidden Active Communities elves on this festive trail for all the family!
Dress up in your best festive attire and join Active Communities for The Jingle Bell Virtual Run over 12 days in December!
Ho Ho Ho!! ACCORD Hospice are delighted to announce that Santa Claus will be joining them for a series of ZOOM calls this festive season!
Don't miss the Christmas fun at Blair Drummond Safari Park, with drive-thru reserves, safari animals, illuminated dinosaur trail, Christmas market, locally grown trees and Santa fly-by!
Explore our annual Christmas sale of arts and crafts made in Scotland online this year and maybe pick up a Christmas gift or two!
Horizons Stirling, a FREE Stirling based inclusive youth dance company for dancers aged 12 - 19, will be delivering Open Sessions for young people who are interested in joining them.
Planet Cheer, a new Cheerleading and Dance Studio in Stirling, is recruiting new members for their team!
Come along to Greengallery for their Big Christmas Exhibition with loads of original art and unique Christmas presents!
Under The Trees is offering the chance for families to undertake the John Muir Award with them. It's a fantastic outdoor learning award, and is easy to achieve - even under our current situation!


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DailyDirt: You Must Un-Learn What You Have Learned... Really?
from the urls-we-dig-up deptThere is a lot of demand to improve the institutions of education in various ways. Creating an education system in the US seemingly costs a lot, and the results aren't as tangible (or as favorable) as everyone would like it to be. But in order to improve, perhaps we need a closer look at what actually needs to improve. Here are just a few links on how we learn.
- Using an EEG to study how people's brains react to making mistakes could help how to teach kids better or to identify why some kids are having a harder time. Giving an "A for effort" looks like it's a lot more effective than telling students they're smart. [url]
- The literacy program, Helping Early Literacy with Practice Strategies (HELPS), is freely available from a non-profit organization to help improve reading skills for elementary school students. If it doesn't actually work, at least it's cost effective.... [url]
- Psychologists are studying whether or not some students are visual learners or auditory learners. So far, there's no evidence to suggest that there are significantly different learning styles, but that mixing things up does keep student attention better. [url]
- To discover more interesting education-related content, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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The idea of going to Halden and Fredriksten has never left me since I started to make a careful study of the Great Northern war and the Battle of Poltava. This year with the help of my Swedish and Norwegian friends this dream has come true. I got two unique Norwegian guides: Magne Rannestad and Stig Østling. These two men ave turned my trip into something unforgettable.The fortress of Fredriksten was constructed in the 17th century when the fortress at was ceded to Sweden in accordance with the Treaty of Roskilde (1658). The fortress was named after King Fredrik III of Denmark and Norway. There were six attempts taken by Sweden from 1658 till 1814 to take the fortress but the fortress withstanded bravely all sieges. On the evening of 30 November 1718, a bullet killed Karl XII while he inspected the siedge work near the fortress. Nowaday the fortress of Fredriksten is well cared for and attracts tourists from many countries. Magne Rannestad as a head of the Society of the friends of the foretress works hard to maintain this historical monument in a good shape. I was impressed with a very interesting museum of the fortress of Fredriksten showing its history since 17th century till the present day. The tourism infrastructure created since the fortress has stopped to be a military object came as a surprise to me.
Oleg Bezverkhnii and Magne Rannestad near the monument on the place where Karl XII was killed in 1718.
Stig Østling organized for me a guided tour around downtown of Halden that was known as Fredrikshald between 1665 and 1928 and gave me an opportunity to see monuments dedicated to Norwegian campaign of the King Karl XII of 1716 and 1718. Some of these monuments were very difficult to be found in the wild depth of Sweden and Norway.
Stig Østling near the monument erected in 1922 at the end of Galärvägen, where Swedish army moved twelve galleys over land from Skagerrak at Strömstad to Idefjorden. The aim of this operation was to reinforce the Swedish army prior to an attack to the fortress of Fredriksten in 1718.
Stig Østling has been to Poltava a few times and he can speak Russian a bit. In 2016 he visited a place where the King Karl XII crossed Dniper River in 1709 after the Battle of Poltava.
Stig Østling with the flag of Halden inside the reconstructed redoubt on the Poltava Battle field.
From time to time the fortress of Fredriksten hosts the summer theater where the audience can enjoy classic and rock music.
Summer theatre in the fortress of Fredriksten.


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What the check engine light means
That is a signal that the onboard diagnostics system (or OBD II) has detected a malfunction in the vehicle's emissions, ignition or fuel systems. It could be something as simple as a loose gas cap or something as severe as a faulty catalytic converter, so you shouldn't ignore it. All cars and light trucks have onboard diagnostics that are supposed to detect engine-related problems that affect the emissions control systems.
The check-engine light (typically a yellow or orange outline of an engine with the word "Check") should come on for a few seconds every time you start the engine with other warning lights. If it stays on, that means there is a problem.
If the check engine light is flashing, that usually indicates a misfire or other serious issue, and it should be dealt with quickly at an auto repair shop. Ignoring a flashing light increases the chances of additional problems, including damaging an expensive catalytic converter (which costs more than $1,000 to replace on some cars).
If it isn't flashing, before rushing to an auto repair shop you should first tighten the gas cap because a loose cap can trigger a warning. See if the light goes off after several engine starts over the next day or so. Replacing a worn gas cap that doesn't fully seal may also solve the problem.
If that doesn't do the trick, an auto technician will need to diagnose the problem by electronically tapping into an OBD II connector under the dashboard to read diagnostic codes that will help isolate what caused the light to go on, such as a bad spark plug or oxygen sensor.
Even if your vehicle seems to be performing well and your mileage isn't dropping, it's a bad idea to just ignore a check-engine light. Something is wrong, and it's likely to get worse. In addition, if you live in an area where vehicles have to pass periodic emissions tests, an activated check-engine light usually means your vehicle will automatically fail.


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What is NmapFE?
It is a graphical front end for nmap security scanner. Because the limited help available from the nmapfe help menu, better you read from nmap manual page first. NmapFE was originally written by Zach Smith (email@example.com). It's now maintained by Fyodor (email@example.com). The newest version of nmap can be obtained from www.insecure.org/nmap/.
If you are not get used to with nmap options, it will be a good alternative.
How to install NmapFE?
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install nmapfe
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Continuing to milk a digital cash cow, iTunes will exclusively issue the Beatles' three "Anthology" packages as remastered downloads on June 14.
Collections of Fab Four alternate takes and unissued material – originally released as a trio of two-CD sets in 1995-96 in conjunction with the "Anthology" TV series and book – will be issued as three iTunes albums (at $29.99) and a comprehensive 155-track digital set ($79.99). Individual tracks will be sold at Apple's premium price of $1.29 each.
Release will mark the digital debuts of the singles "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love," completed by George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Star from 1977 demos by John Lennon and originally issued on the first two "Anthology" volumes.
Pre-orders for the releases began Tuesday.
The Beatles have sold more than 8 million songs and 1.3 million albums on iTunes since group's exclusive online pact with Apple commenced in November.


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How to use ?
Registration and login:
For using the Forum please register: put in a user name, we recommend simply your name or you may use your club member number or both, you choose a password, put in your e-mail, and try to read the security check and type it in. Then you read the Guidelines of the forum (correct use and behaviour on a forum in general). You check the Accept box and submit your registration. The administrator of this forum will then receive a notification of your application and he will check that you are a true Lagonda enthusiast to avoid spammers. After that your account will be activated and you will be able to log in to the forum with user name/password.
Using the forum:
The Lagonda Forum is divided into several categories, like "General", "Search & Find" or a category for each type of car.
Each category has several forums. For example the category "2 Litre" has 2 forums: "Motor" and "Other". We may increase the number of forums later. In each forum you can start a new topic or you can reply to an existing one.
For example if you go to the "2 Litre" category and the forum "Other" (other topics than motor) and you want to contribute to the discussion about the 2L clutch ("topic" started by don courtney), then you click on "Add Reply".
The window for entering your reply will open (the topic off course is the 2L clutch), here you enter your text and you can click on "manage attachments" if you want to attach an image or another file.
The maximum allowed file size is 200 kByte, but please try to keep your images small (with reasonable compression 100kB is often good enough). To attach it you click on "browse" select the file on your computer and by selecting "submit" your file will be uploaded. Now you can close the manage attachment window.
Here you can download a little program to resize your images (needs .NET framework 3.5): http://pictureresize.origo.ethz.ch/download
Don't forget to submit your text contribution.
If you want to start a new topic within "2 Liter", "Other" e.g. about the 2 Litre gearbox, then you go to the 2L category, "Other" topic and click "New Topic".
Now you can give it a title (at least 8 letters) and write your text and attach files, same as in a reply.
Don't be afraid, if you find an error after you posted something, you can edit your post also in the future.
Other usefull functionalities: "Search" allows to search for keywords within the whole Lagonda Forum or in parts of it. In "Members" you find all registered members. From here or from a post you can send a "Private Message" to a forum member. This is like an e-mail, so not open for others to see in the forum. User CP gives you some options to change your personal settings.
Writing of an e-mail address as an image (spam safe, the image can not be easily read by machines):
click on the "letter in an envelope" symbol, this will create [email] [/email] and you have to write the e-mail address in between, e.g. "[email]email@example.com[/email]".
When you preview and later submit your post it will look like this:
What are BB-Codes?
BBcode is an easy way for you to format your posts, just like you would in a word processor. Click the buttons above the content box to add BBcode to the post. An overview how to use the BBcode feature in this forum is below.


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Boker Plus Tomahook Tactical Tomahawk 18.125" Overall, Black SK-5 Carbon Steel, Kydex Sheath - 09BO110
BO09BO110: Boker Plus Tomahook Tactical Tomahawk
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Tomahawks are not limited to just cutting wood, they have a variety of other tactical applications depending on their extra design features. Many can act as a hammer or pry bar since they've got concentrated weight and strength in the head and throughout the handle. Boker Plus manufactures awesome tactical tomahawks designed by well known knife and tool designers from around the world. They do so using top quality materials, high tolerances, all while keeping them at a competitive price point. The full length G10 handles provide superb grip with two hands and the oversized head gives the Tomahook excellent cutting power. This is one tool you'll definitely appreciate having and at just under two pounds in weight, it won't hold you back, much.
Colin Despins, a designer of tactical resources here in the U.S., brings us to this completely new design of a tactical tomahawk. The "Tomahook" design is inspired by the Celts, Vikings and Native Americans, offering a high degree of functionality and versatility. Highly effective as a hatchet, with its wide, sharp edge, it can also be used as a lever, as the top of the ax head is sharpened like a chisel. The Tomahook is also well suited not only as a shovel, but even as a skinning knife with its razor sharp edge. In addition, the handle can be engaged securely behind the cutting edge, making finer cutting tasks possible, and the recess doubles as a hook, for various applications. The back of the ax head has a rounded point of impact, which is ideal as a glass breaker or pounding tool. The recessed G-10 scales not only provide a comfortable and secure grip, almost every point of the tang is usable as a tool. There is even a grip on the ax head to allow safe use as an impact tool. Crafted of SK5 carbon steel with corrosion-resistant coating, this is truly a high class tactical tool with maximum versatility. Includes a specially designed Kydex sheath.
- Cutting Edge: 5.625"
- Blade Steel: SK-5 Carbon Steel, 57-60 HRC
- Thickness: 4.5 mm
- Overall Length: 18.125"
- Handle Material: SK-5 Carbon Steel with Coyote Brown G10 Scales
- Finish: Black Powder Coating
- Sheath Material: Kydex
- Weight: 28.8 oz.
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Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is a principal cause of acute and chronic failure of lung allografts. However, mechanisms mediating this oftentimes fatal complication are poorly understood. Here, we show that Foxp3+ T cells formed aggregates in rejection-free human lung grafts and accumulated within induced bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue (BALT) of tolerant mouse lungs. Using a retransplantation model, we show that selective depletion of graft-resident Foxp3+ T lymphocytes resulted in the generation of donor-specific antibodies (DSA) and AMR, which was associated with complement deposition and destruction of airway epithelium. AMR was dependent on graft infiltration by B and T cells. Depletion of graft-resident Foxp3+ T lymphocytes resulted in prolonged interactions between B and CD4+ T cells within transplanted lungs, which was dependent on CXCR5-CXCL13. Blockade of CXCL13 as well as inhibition of the CD40 ligand and the ICOS ligand suppressed DSA production and prevented AMR. Thus, we have shown that regulatory Foxp3+ T cells residing within BALT of tolerant pulmonary allografts function to suppress B cell activation, a finding that challenges the prevailing view that regulation of humoral responses occurs peripherally. As pulmonary AMR is largely refractory to current immunosuppression, our findings provide a platform for developing therapies that target local immune responses.
Wenjun Li, Jason M. Gauthier, Ryuji Higashikubo, Hsi-Min Hsiao, Satona Tanaka, Linh Vuong, Jon H. Ritter, Alice Y. Tong, Brian W. Wong, Ramsey R. Hachem, Varun Puri, Ankit Bharat, Alexander S. Krupnick, Chyi S. Hsieh, William M. Baldwin III, Francine L. Kelly, Scott M. Palmer, Andrew E. Gelman, Daniel Kreisel
Transplantation with autologous hematopoietic progenitors remains an important consolidation treatment for multiple myeloma (MM) patients and is thought to prolong disease plateau-phase by providing intensive cytoreduction. However, transplantation induces inflammation in the context of profound lymphodepletion that may cause hitherto unexpected immunological effects. We developed preclinical models of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for MM using Vk*MYC myeloma-bearing recipients and donors that were myeloma-naïve or were myeloma-experienced to simulate autologous transplantation. Surprisingly, we demonstrate broad induction of T cell-dependent myeloma control, most efficiently from memory T cells within myeloma-experienced grafts, but also through priming of naïve T cells after BMT. CD8+ T cells from mice with controlled myeloma had a distinct TCR repertoire and higher clonotype overlap relative to myeloma-free BMT recipients. Furthermore, T cell-dependent myeloma control could be adoptively transferred to secondary recipients, and was myeloma clone-specific. Interestingly, donor-derived IL-17A acted directly on myeloma cells expressing the IL-17-receptor to induce a transcriptional landscape that promoted tumor growth and immune escape. Conversely, donor IFNγ secretion and signaling was critical to protective immunity, and was profoundly augmented by CD137 agonists. These data provide new insights into the mechanisms of action of transplantation in myeloma and suggests rational approaches to improving clinical outcome.
Slavica Vuckovic, Simone A. Minnie, David Smith, Kate H. Gartlan, Thomas S. Watkins, Kate A. Markey, Pamela Mukhopadhyay, Camille Guillerey, Rachel D. Kuns, Kelly R. Locke, Antonia L. Pritchard, Peter A. Johansson, Antiopi Varelias, Ping Zhang, Nicholas D. Huntington, Nicola Waddell, Marta Chesi, John J. Miles, Mark J. Smyth, Geoffrey R. Hill
The targeted delivery of therapeutic drugs to lymph nodes (LNs) provides an unprecedented opportunity to improve the outcomes of transplantation and immune-mediated diseases. The high endothelial venule is a specialized segment of LN vasculature that uniquely expresses peripheral node addressin (PNAd) molecules. PNAd is recognized by MECA79 mAb. We previously generated a MECA79 mAb–coated microparticle (MP) that carries tacrolimus. Although this MP trafficked to LNs, it demonstrated limited therapeutic efficacy in our transplant model. Here, we have synthesized a nanoparticle (NP) as a carrier of anti-CD3, and optimized the conjugation strategy to coat the NP surface with MECA79 mAb (MECA79-anti-CD3-NP) to enhance LN accumulation. As compared with nonconjugated NPs, a significantly higher quantity of MECA79-NPs accumulated in the draining lymph node (DLN). Many MECA79-NPs underwent internalization by T cells and dendritic cells within the LNs. Short-term treatment of murine cardiac allograft recipients with MECA79-anti-CD3-NP resulted in significantly prolonged allograft survival in comparison with the control groups. Prolonged graft survival following treatment with MECA79-anti-CD3-NP was characterized by a significant increase in intragraft and DLN Treg populations. Treg depletion abrogated the prolongation of heart allograft survival. We believe this targeted approach of drug delivery could redefine the methods of administering immune therapeutics in transplantation.
Baharak Bahmani, Mayuko Uehara, Liwei Jiang, Farideh Ordikhani, Naima Banouni, Takaharu Ichimura, Zhabiz Solhjou, Georg J. Furtmüller, Gerald Brandacher, David Alvarez, Ulrich H. von Andrian, Kenji Uchimura, Qiaobing Xu, Ishaan Vohra, Osman A. Yilmam, Yousef Haik, Jamil Azzi, Vivek Kasinath, Jonathan S. Bromberg, Martina M. McGrath, Reza Abdi
Interrupting T cell costimulatory signals as a strategy to control undesired immune responses, such as occur in autoimmunity or transplantation, has the potential to alleviate many of the unwanted side effects associated with current immunosuppressive therapies. Belatacept, a high-affinity version of CTLA4-Ig that blocks ligand ligation to CD28, has been approved for use in kidney transplant recipients. Despite the long-term benefits associated with its use, such as improved renal function and lower cardiovascular risk, a subset of patients treated with belatacept experience elevated rates of acute T cell–mediated rejection, tempering enthusiasm for its use. Here we demonstrate that costimulation-independent T cell alloreactivity relies on signaling through CD122, the shared IL-2 and IL-15 receptor β-chain. Combined costimulatory and CD122 blockade improved survival of transplanted tissue in mice and nonhuman primates by controlling proliferation and effector function of CD8+ T cells. The high-affinity IL-2 receptor was dispensable for memory CD8+ T cell responses, whereas signaling through CD122 as a component of the high-affinity IL-15 receptor was critical for costimulation-independent memory CD8+ T cell recall, distinguishing specific roles for IL-2 and IL-15 in T cell activation. These studies outline a novel approach for clinical optimization of costimulatory blockade strategies in transplantation by targeting CD122.
David V. Mathews, Ying Dong, Laura B. Higginbotham, Steven C. Kim, Cynthia P. Breeden, Elizabeth A. Stobert, Joseph Jenkins, J. Yun Tso, Christian P. Larsen, Andrew B. Adams
Regulatory T-cells (Treg) are critical for maintaining immune homeostasis. However, current Treg immunotherapies do not optimally treat inflammatory diseases in patients. Understanding the cellular processes that control Treg function may allow for the augmentation of therapeutic efficacy. In contrast to activated conventional T-cells, where protein kinase C-θ (PKC-θ) localizes to the contact-point between T-cells and antigen-presenting cells, in human and mouse Treg, PKC-θ localizes to the opposite end of the cell in the distal pole complex (DPC). Here, using a phosphoproteomic screen, we identified the intermediate filament vimentin as a PKC-θ phospho-target and show that vimentin forms a DPC superstructure on which PKC-θ accumulates. Treatment of mouse Treg with either a clinically relevant PKC-θ inhibitor or vimentin siRNA disrupted vimentin and enhanced Treg metabolic and suppressive activity. Moreover, vimentin-disrupted mouse Treg were significantly better than controls in suppressing alloreactive T-cell priming in graft-versus-host disease, and graft-versus-host disease lethality, using a complete MHC mismatch mouse model of acute graft-versus-host disease (C57BL/6 donor in to BALB/c host). Interestingly, vimentin disruption augmented suppressor function of PKC-θ-deficient mouse Treg. This suggests that enhanced Treg activity after PKC-θ inhibition is secondary to effects on vimentin, not just PKC-θ kinase activity inhibition. Our data demonstrated that vimentin is a key metabolic and functional controller of Treg activity, and provide proof-of-principle that disrupting vimentin is a feasible, translationally relevant method to enhance Treg potency.
Cameron McDonald-Hyman, James T. Muller, Michael Loschi, Govindarajan Thangavelu, Asim Saha, Sudha Kumari, Dawn K. Reichenbach, Michelle J. Smith, Guoan Zhang, Brent H. Koehn, Jiqiang Lin, Jason S. Mitchell, Brian T. Fife, Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Colby J. Feser, Andrew Kemal Kirchmeier, Mark J. Osborn, Keli L. Hippen, Ameeta Kelekar, Jonathan S. Serody, Laurence A. Turka, David H. Munn, Hongbo Chi, Thomas A. Neubert, Michael L. Dustin, Bruce R. Blazar
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract remains the major cause of morbidity and non-relapse mortality after bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The Paneth cell protein, regenerating islet-derived 3-alpha (REG3α), is a biomarker specific for GI GVHD. REG3α serum levels rose in the systematic circulation as GVHD progressively destroyed Paneth cells and reduced GI epithelial barrier function. Paradoxically, GVHD suppressed intestinal REG3γ (the mouse homologue of human REG3α), and the absence of REG3γ in BMT recipients intensified GVHD but did not change the composition of the microbiome. IL-22 administration restored REG3γ production and prevented apoptosis of both intestinal stem cells (ISCs) and Paneth cells, but this protection was completely abrogated in Reg3g−/− mice. In vitro, addition of REG3α reduced the apoptosis of colonic cell lines. Strategies that increase intestinal REG3α/γ to promote crypt regeneration may offer a novel, non-immunosuppressive approach for GVHD and perhaps for other diseases involving the ISC niche such as inflammatory bowel disease.
Dongchang Zhao, Yeung-Hyen Kim, Seihwan Jeong, Joel K. Greenson, Mohammed S. Chaudhry, Matthias Hoepting, Erik R. Anderson, Marcel R.M. van den Brink, Jonathan U. Peled, Antonio L.C. Gomes, Ann E. Slingerland, Michael J. Donovan, Andrew C. Harris, John E. Levine, Umut Özbek, Lora V. Hooper, Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, Aaron M. Ver Heul, Ta-Chiang Liu, Pavan Reddy, James L.M. Ferrara
Controlling graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains a major unmet need in stem cell transplantation, and new, targeted therapies are being actively developed. CD28-CD80/86 costimulation blockade represents a promising strategy, but targeting CD80/CD86 with CTLA4-Ig may be associated with undesired blockade of coinhibitory pathways. In contrast, targeted blockade of CD28 exclusively inhibits T cell costimulation and may more potently prevent GVHD. Here, we investigated FR104, an antagonistic CD28-specific pegylated-Fab′, in the nonhuman primate (NHP) GVHD model and completed a multiparameter interrogation comparing it with CTLA4-Ig, with and without sirolimus, including clinical, histopathologic, flow cytometric, and transcriptomic analyses. We document that FR104 monoprophylaxis and combined prophylaxis with FR104/sirolimus led to enhanced control of effector T cell proliferation and activation compared with the use of CTLA4-Ig or CTLA4-Ig/sirolimus. Importantly, FR104/sirolimus did not lead to a beneficial impact on Treg reconstitution or homeostasis, consistent with control of conventional T cell activation and IL-2 production needed to support Tregs. While FR104/sirolimus had a salutary effect on GVHD-free survival, overall survival was not improved, due to death in the absence of GVHD in several FR104/sirolimus recipients in the setting of sepsis and a paralyzed INF-γ response. These results therefore suggest that effectively deploying CD28 in the clinic will require close scrutiny of both the benefits and risks of extensively abrogating conventional T cell activation after transplant.
Benjamin K. Watkins, Victor Tkachev, Scott N. Furlan, Daniel J. Hunt, Kayla Betz, Alison Yu, Melanie Brown, Nicolas Poirier, Hengqi Betty Zheng, Agne Taraseviciute, Lucrezia Colonna, Caroline Mary, Gilles Blancho, Jean-Paul Soulillou, Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Prachi Sharma, Anapatricia Garcia, Elizabeth Strobert, Kelly Hamby, Aneesah Garrett, Taylor Deane, Bruce R. Blazar, Bernard Vanhove, Leslie S. Kean
Purinergic receptor-7 (P2X7R) signaling controls Th17 and Th1 generation/differentiation, while NOD-like receptor P3 (NLRP3) acts as a Th2 transcriptional factor. Here, we demonstrated the existence of a P2X7R/NLRP3 pathway in T cells that is dysregulated by a P2X7R intracellular region loss-of-function mutation, leading to NLRP3 displacement and to excessive Th17 generation due to abrogation of the NLRP3-mediated Th2 program. This ultimately resulted in poor outcomes in cardiac-transplanted patients carrying the mutant allele, who showed abnormal Th17 generation. Transient NLRP3 silencing in nonmutant T cells or overexpression in mutant T cells normalized the Th profile. Interestingly, IL-17 blockade reduced Th17 skewing of human T cells in vitro and abrogated the severe allograft vasculopathy and abnormal Th17 generation observed in preclinical models in which P2X7R was genetically deleted. This P2X7R intracellular region mutation thus impaired the modulatory effects of P2X7R on NLRP3 expression and function in T cells and led to NLRP3 dysregulation and Th17 skewing, delineating a high-risk group of cardiac-transplanted patients who may benefit from personalized therapy.
Francesca D'Addio, Andrea Vergani, Luciano Potena, Anna Maestroni, Vera Usuelli, Moufida Ben Nasr, Roberto Bassi, Sara Tezza, Sergio Dellepiane, Basset El Essawy, Maria Iascone, Attilio Iacovoni, Laura Borgese, Kaifeng Liu, Gary Visner, Sirano Dhe-Paganon, Domenico Corradi, Reza Abdi, Randall C. Starling, Franco Folli, Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti, Mohamed H. Sayegh, Peter S. Heeger, Anil Chandraker, Francesco Grigioni, Paolo Fiorina
T cells must migrate in order to encounter antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and to execute their varied functions in immune defense and inflammation. ATP release and autocrine signaling through purinergic receptors contribute to T cell activation at the immune synapse that T cells form with APCs. Here, we show that T cells also require ATP release and purinergic signaling for their migration to APCs. We found that the chemokine SDF-1α triggered mitochondrial ATP production, rapid bursts of ATP release, and increased migration of primary human CD4+ T cells. This process depended on pannexin-1 ATP release channels and autocrine stimulation of P2X4 receptors. SDF-1α stimulation caused localized accumulation of mitochondria with P2X4 receptors near the front of cells, resulting in a feed-forward signaling mechanism that promotes cellular Ca2+ influx and sustains mitochondrial ATP synthesis at levels needed for pseudopod protrusion, T cell polarization, and cell migration. Inhibition of P2X4 receptors blocked the activation and migration of T cells in vitro. In a mouse lung transplant model, P2X4 receptor antagonist treatment prevented the recruitment of T cells into allograft tissue and the rejection of lung transplants. Our findings suggest that P2X4 receptors are therapeutic targets for immunomodulation in transplantation and inflammatory diseases.
Carola Ledderose, Kaifeng Liu, Yutaka Kondo, Christian J. Slubowski, Thomas Dertnig, Sara Denicoló, Mona Arbab, Johannes Hubner, Kirstin Konrad, Mahtab Fakhari, James A. Lederer, Simon C. Robson, Gary A. Visner, Wolfgang G. Junger
Ischemia-reperfusion injury, a form of sterile inflammation, is the leading risk factor for both short-term mortality following pulmonary transplantation and chronic lung allograft dysfunction. While it is well recognized that neutrophils are critical mediators of acute lung injury, processes that guide their entry into pulmonary tissue are not well understood. Here, we found that CCR2+ classical monocytes are necessary and sufficient for mediating extravasation of neutrophils into pulmonary tissue during ischemia-reperfusion injury following hilar clamping or lung transplantation. The classical monocytes were mobilized from the host spleen, and splenectomy attenuated the recruitment of classical monocytes as well as the entry of neutrophils into injured lung tissue, which was associated with improved graft function. Neutrophil extravasation was mediated by MyD88-dependent IL-1β production by graft-infiltrating classical monocytes, which downregulated the expression of the tight junction–associated protein ZO-2 in pulmonary vascular endothelial cells. Thus, we have uncovered a crucial role for classical monocytes, mobilized from the spleen, in mediating neutrophil extravasation, with potential implications for targeting of recipient classical monocytes to ameliorate pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury in the clinic.
Hsi-Min Hsiao, Ramiro Fernandez, Satona Tanaka, Wenjun Li, Jessica H. Spahn, Stephen Chiu, Mahzad Akbarpour, Daniel Ruiz-Perez, Qiang Wu, Cem Turam, Davide Scozzi, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Hannah P. Luehmann, Varun Puri, G.R. Scott Budinger, Alexander S. Krupnick, Alexander V. Misharin, Kory J. Lavine, Yongjian Liu, Andrew E. Gelman, Ankit Bharat, Daniel Kreisel
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It's been five
years since we first surveyed our readers about their favorite restaurants,
destinations and activities. Little did we know this contest would
be as popular as it has become. We have seen the results reported in
other media, we've spied
our certificates hanging in businesses across the state and
noted with pride when recipients tout the honor in their own
marketing materials.
Another thing we
never expected was the consistency of the results. Year after year,
the same establishments have topped their respective categories with
uncanny regularity.
At times, we've wondered if some of the winners were encouraging
their customers to mail in contest forms. We've even joked among
ourselves about restaurants using our entry form as placemats or offering
free dessert with a completed entry. But all kidding aside, we've
always believed our results reflected nothing more than loyal patrons
expressing their true preferences.
And that's
the beauty of this contest. It is not our opinion that matters. The
results aren't
based on advertising or PR campaigns. The winners of this contest receive
recognition because you, the reader, care enough to send in an entry
form in support of restaurants, attractions and destinations you enjoy.
lucky contest participant, Crystal Hornibrook of Kimberling City,
won our drawing for a made-in-Missouri gift basket valued at $500.
But all the other readers who completed our survey share in the satisfaction
of knowing they helped crown "The Best of Rural Missouri" for
this, our contest's
fifth year.
With our utmost appreciation
for your participation, here are your selections:
Dining worth the drive
First: Lambert's Café, Sikeston, (573) 471-4261, and
Ozark, (417) 581-7655.
Second: The Pear Tree, Bevier, (660) 773-6666.
Third: Charley's Buffet, Cole Camp, (660) 668-3806
Apparently, our readers
know what they like to eat. Lambert's Café,
the "Home of the Throwed Roll," has taken first place five
years running. Beside its projectile baked goods, Lambert's earns
kudos for heaping portions of tasty down-home cooking.
The Pear Tree
in Bevier also owns its second-place berth in this category. The steaks
and fried lobster are legendary and the onion rings and salad dressing
can't be beat.
Charley's Buffet
is only open on Friday and Saturday and just for supper. They're
known for their fried chicken but roast beef, ham and other entrees
fill the buffet, too. The breads are homemade and the dessert bar is
packed with as many as 50 items.
Editor's choice: If the drive
is part of the experience, the River's
Edge in Morrison is hard to top, especially if you come from Hermann,
about 15 miles to the east. The ferry ride across the Gasconade River
is memorable but so are the ribs, Cajun-style shrimp and flowerpot
bread served at this laid-back eatery. (573) 294-7207.
First: Johnny's Smoke Stak, Rolla, (573) 364-4838
Second: Hickory Log, Dexter, (573) 624-4950
Third: Chuck Wagon, Warsaw, (660) 438-2503
Johnny's certainly
deserves the customer loyalty award. We figure the buffet is what keeps
Johnny's patrons so satisfied. When faced with such
a smorgasbord there's no reason to go away hungry.
The Hickory Log
is a Missouri institution, known nationwide for its dry-rub ribs. The
restaurant sells about 3,000 pounds of ribs each week at its Dexter
location, but it also ships meat to loyal customers around the nation.
The Chuck Wagon's
motto is "the best I've ever had," a
phrase repeated so often by diners the slogan stuck. Open only Thursday
through Sunday during tourist season, and less in the winter. Editor's
choice: It always surprises us that Kansas City's legendary
smokehouses don't fare better in our contest. We suppose that
just means our readers tend to avoid the big cities. In that spirit
we'll recommend a place close enough for the Rural Missouri
staff to make a lunchtime run. Lutz's BBQ serves ribs and sandwiches
from a small trailer alongside the Lowe's home center in Jefferson
City. What Lutz's lacks in ambiance, it makes up for with delicious
smoked meats and the best fresh fried potato chips you've ever
tasted. (573) 353-4990.
First: The Coffee Pot, Licking, (573) 674-2579
Second: Du Kum Inn, Sullivan, (573) 468-6114
Third: Mel's Country Café, Jefferson City, (573) 893-9115
This is a new category
and one that saw a lot of different nominations, with no clear front
runner. Apparently, people don't venture
far from home for breakfast.
All our winners are
down-home gathering spots where you can learn the latest news around
town served with biscuits and gravy or a plate of eggs.
The Coffee Pot
in Licking earns high marks for its made-from-scratch dishes. Sullivan's
Du Kum Inn is best known for its fried chicken and bread pudding,
but we hear breakfast is pretty good, too. Mel's Country Café in
Jefferson City serves breakfast all day.
Editor's choice: Kay's
Restaurant in Osage Beach serves all-you-can-eat but instead of dipping
into trays of food on a steam table, patrons order another round of food
from the menu. (573) 348-2217.
First: A Slice of Pie, Rolla, (573) 364-6203
Second: The Blue Owl, Kimmswick, (636) 464-3128
Third: Central Dairy, Jefferson City, (573) 635-6148
This year we combined
two previous categories — Best Pie and Best Old-Fashioned
Ice Cream — into a single dessert category. Our readers seem
to prefer pie to ice cream. Given the choice, we like ice cream on
our pie.
A Slice of Pie has
won our Best Pie category three years running. What-ever the filling,
if you can put it between two layers of crust this place probably offers
it. We have one bit of advice for those visiting The Blue Owl in Kimmswick:
Eat dessert first. The heaping meringues and overstuffed pies are not
to be missed. Finally, if you like ice cream there are few better places
to enjoy a cone or cup than Central Dairy's old-fashioned
counter in Jefferson City.
Editor's choice: Sedalia's
Ivy Cottage Tea Room is relatively new but already has established
a reputation for scrumptious desserts. (660) 826-6600.
First: Le Maire's Cajun Catfish, Sedalia, (660) 827-3563
Second: Dowd's Catfish House, Lebanon, (417) 532-1777
Third: Catfish Corner, Columbia, (573) 474-5017
LeMaire's has
always been a favorite of the Rural Missouri staff. We try to stop
there when we're in town for the state fair. Our second and
third place winners likewise offer fried catfish with all the fixin's.
It's simple food but, oh, so good.
Editor's choice: Another
great catch for catfish is Acleda's
Korner Kitchen in Raymondville. Expect down-home cooking served fresh
and hot with old-fashioned sides. (417) 457-6352.
First: Dixon's Chili Parlor, Independence, (816) 861-7308
Second: Casper's, Springfield, (417) 866-9750
Third: P.J.'s Café, Licking, (573) 674-9090
Our first place winner,
Dixon's, has served its signature dry-style
chili to Kansas City area residents since 1919. Casper's serves
an overflowing bowl of hearty chili with onions and cheese piled high.
Chili is not actually on the menu at P.J.'s but is usually served
as a weekend special, often with a grilled cheese sandwich.
choice: We received a surprising number of faxes for Uncle Rooster's
in Seymour. We checked it out while in the area and found a roadside
eatery featuring Chicago-style hot dogs. Rooster's chili was a
highlight to the meal. (417) 935-4120.
Fried Chicken
First: Stroud's, Kansas City (two locations), (816) 454-9600,
(816) 333-2132
Second: Cookin' from Scratch, Newburg, (573) 762-3111
Third: Westphalia Inn, Westphalia, (573) 455-9991
Stroud's, our
first place winner, is a Kansas City institution known across the nation
for its pan-fried chicken and heaping bowls of sides. Cookin' from
Scratch in Newburg took second in our contest last year as well. The
chicken and fixin's at Westphalia Inn are served family-style.
Editor's choice: The Claysville Store, located along the Katy
Trail, between Hartsburg and Jefferson City, has a reputation for some
of the best fried chicken around. It is possible to drive there, but
for the full experience, arrive by bike. (573) 636-8443.
First: Stone Hill Winery, (three locations), 1-800-909-9463
Second: St. James Winery, St. James, (573) 265-6953
Third: Les Bourgeois, Rocheport, (573) 698-3401
The winners in this
category are no surprise, considering they are among the state's
biggest producers, and their products are found in grocery stores across
Stone Hill, our first
place winner deserves much of the credit for revitalizing the state's wine industry in the 1960s and continues
to school the rest of the state's producers on how a winery should
operate. Runner-up St. James is actually Missouri's top wine
producer. Its facilities along Interstate 44 lack some of the charm
of Stone Hill's Hermann location,
but the company offers quality wines for every taste, as well as several
non-alcoholic products. Third-place Les Bourgeois offers a fabulous view
from a bluff overlooking the Missouri River.
Editor's choice: Mount
Pleasant Winery in Augusta earns recognition for its own role in the rebirth
of Missouri's wine industry and for a wide
selection of wines. Their Missouri River Valley scenery isn't bad either.
First: Flat Branch Pub & Brewing, Columbia, (573) 499-0400
Second: Springfield Brewing Company, Springfield, (417) 832-8277
Third: Boulevard Brewing Company, Kansas City, (816) 474-7095
A new category
this year, Best Microbrewery recognizes the popularity of small-scale brewers.
Flat Branch Pub in Columbia sets the standard for a Missouri microbrew house,
offering dozens of ales, beers and ciders brewed on site, plus interesting
lunch and dinner meals.
The brewing equipment
is prominently displayed at Springfield Brewing Company, a microbrewery
launched by the Paul Mueller Company, a Missouri-based supplier of
stainless steel tanks and equipment to the brewing and winemaking industry.
Not surprisingly, the Springfield Brewing Company is one of the most
technologically advanced brewpubs in the world.
With their products
on grocers' shelves throughout the state we're
not sure that Boulevard Brewing Company still qualifies as a microbrewery.
It's pretty good beer, though, and the readers have spoken.
choice: Hermann Brewing Company is the only brewery in a town best known
for wine. Besides producing a variety of small batch beers, brew master
Joe Hoefle also offers Beer School 101, a workshop for would-be home-brewers.
(573) 486-4677.
AgriMissouri Product
First: Burger's Smokehouse, California,
Second: A Taste of the Kingdom, Kingdom City, (573) 592-7373
Third: Memory Lane Dairy, Fordland, (417) 767-2697
Burger's boasts
the nation's largest selection of hickory-smoked
meats, which it sells through a mail order catalog and Web site. A visitor's
center features impressive dioramas depicting the four seasons.
of the Kingdom (as in Kingdom of Callaway) offers a delicious variety
of jellies and sauces, all with a bit of kick from cayenne, jalapeno
or habanero peppers. It's good stuff!
Memory Lane Dairy sells farm fresh milk in glass bottles. You can't
get much more refreshing or wholesome than that!
Editor's choice:
We may be stretching the term AgriMissouri, but we can't
help but appreciate the long-term success of East Wind Nut Butters.
The worker cooperative, operated by members of Tecumseh's East
Wind commune, does a booming business selling all-natural peanut butter,
cashew butter, almond butter and other products on the Internet at
State Park/Historic Site
First: Ha Ha
Tonka State Park, Camdenton, (573) 346-2986
Second: Meramec State
Park, Sullivan, (573) 468-6072
Third: Bennett Springs
State Park, Lebanon, (417) 532-4338
There's a lot
more to Ha Ha Tonka State Park than castle ruins. The 3,600-acre park
south of Lake of the Ozarks also offers towering bluffs, a natural
bridge, caves and 15 miles of trails through a diverse landscape of
woods and savanna. A lot of visitors come to Meramec State Park to
float the river, but other activities include camping, fishing, nature
trails and guided tours of Fisher Cave. A state trout hatchery and
100 million gallons of spring-fed water each day make Bennett Spring
State Park a Mecca for Missouri trout anglers.
Editor's choice:
Since our readers concentrated on state parks, we'll
suggest a state historic site. Few such sites offer as much to see as our
Capitol complex here in Jefferson City. The Capitol building
itself overwhelms visitors with its beauty and there's so much
to see inside. From January through May you can watch the legislature
in action. Otherwise, visit the museums and take the free tour so you
can see the Thomas Hart Benton mural. The nearby Jefferson Landing
site and the State
Supreme Court Building are worth a visit as well.
(573) 751-3475.
First: Old Tyme Apple Festival, Versailles, (573) 378-4401
Second: Oktoberfest, Hermann,
Third: Festival of
the Little Hills, St. Charles, (636) 940-0095
Apple-peeling, nail-driving,
log-sawing, face painting and bubble-gum blowing contests are just
a few of the activities at past Old Tyme Apple Festivals in Versailles.
This year's event, scheduled for Oct. 7, will include
a car cruise, fiddler's contest and parade.
Hermann's Oktoberfest
used to get out of hand, with revelers enjoying the town's wine a
bit too much. These days, the festival, held the first four weekends in
October, is more appropriately focused on celebrating the region's
German heritage.
History comes alive,
Aug. 18-20, as St. Charles celebrates its role in early American settlement
and exploration.
Editor's choice: Marceline's annual Toonfest
recalls Walt Disney's
formative years in northwest Missouri. Besides the usual small town fair
food and entertainment, Toonfest, scheduled for Sept. 15-16, includes
presentations by prominent cartoonists and Walt Disney-related activities.
(660) 376-9258.
Roadside Attraction
First: Elephant
Rocks State Park, Pilot Knob, (573) 546-3454
Second: St. Louis Gateway Arch, St. Louis, 1-877-982-1410
Third: Exotic Animal Paradise, Strafford, (417) 859-2016
We're not sure
the readers really understood what we were looking for with this new
category. When we asked for "oddities and curiosities along
the way," we had in mind the kinds of unexpected places that you
happen across and just have to stop. Instead, the readers chose some
fairly major attractions.
Elephant Rocks State
Park is one of Missouri's
neatest destinations and the Department of Natural Resources should
be commended for making these granite pachyderms enjoyable for all.
An easy walking trail is accessible by the disabled and even features
Braille markings for the blind.
The Gateway Arch
is certainly an attraction and it is along a road. What more can we
say? If you've never
been to the top, shame on you!
Exotic Animal Paradise
is a drive-through park where the animals occasionally come right to
your window to greet you.
Editor's choice: We were thinking of
slices of Americana, such as "The
World's Largest Pecan" in Brunswick or Max, "The
Largest Goose," in Sumner. But as notable as these are, we
nominate the Jim The Wonder Dog Memorial Garden in Marshall. The
local garden club has done an outstanding job creating a lovely
setting to honor Missouri's
most amazing pup. A series of placards around the garden recall
the fascinating tale of this incredible hound.
Most Beautiful Town
First: Hermann
Second: Carthage
Third: St. Charles
Prudence tells us
to take the coward's approach and not comment
too much on this category. Her-mann offers the charm of old Germany
and beautiful vineyards in the hills above town. Carthage has a beautiful
courthouse square and lovely parks. St. Charles boasts a historic
downtown full of restored early 19th-century buildings.
choice: We know better than to go there. No matter where you live
there's few places more beautiful than home.
Place To Stay
First: Big Cedar Lodge, Ridgedale, (417) 335-2777
Second: Tan-Tar-A Resort, Osage Beach, 1-800-826-8272
Third: School House Bed & Breakfast, Rocheport, (573) 698-2022
Seems like our readers
like to stay at upscale places. Big Cedar Lodge is all you'd
expect from Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris — first
class in every way, a lovely setting and rustic but opulent accommodations.
One of the best-known
resorts in the state, Tan-Tar-A has it all, from golf to parasailing.
There's even an indoor water park for the
The perennial winner
in our former "Best Bed and Breakfast" category,
The School House B&B is just the place for couples who don't
need boat docks and tennis courts for entertainment.
Editor's choice:
If you want to get away from it all, head to Wildwood
Springs Lodge in
Steelville. The evening meals are outstanding and the lodge itself is
charming. The rooms lack TVs and telephones and cell phones don't
work here. The lodge's summer and fall concert series features
popular 1970s folk rock entertainers performing in an intimate setting.
(573) 775-2400.
Heroes — sites
of famous Missourians
First: Harry S. Truman
Library & Museum, Independence, 1-800-833-1225
Second: Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal, (573) 221-9010
Third: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Home, Mansfield, (417) 924-7125
You'll learn
about a tumultous time in U.S. history and get a real sense for the
man when you visit the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Now is the
perfect time to go as the 50-foot-long White House in Miniature is
on display through July 9.
You'll get
your fill of Mark Twain with a trip to Hannibal, where period homes
commemorate the author Samuel Clemens' boyhood and recreate the
sights familiar to fictional character Tom Sawyer.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
wrote all of her "Little House" books right
here in Mansfield.
Editor's choice: Visit the Gen.
John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site in Laclede and immerse yourself in the
life of a fascinating Missourian. (660) 963-2525.
Place to Take the Kids
First: Branson, 1-800-296-0463
Second: St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 1-800-966-8877
Third: Worlds of Fun, Kansas City, (816) 454-4545
It doesn't
seem fair that the entire town of Branson takes on individual attractions
around the state. But, there is no place in Missouri that offers as
much fun and entertainment for families as Branson. It's not
just about music shows any more.
The St. Louis Zoo
is a world-class attraction. The River's Edge, an "immersion
exhibit" of animals in recreated natural environments, makes
it more so. World's of Fun offers some of the best roller coasters
in the state.
Editor's choice: In our view, none of the man-made
water parks can compare to nature's version, Johnson's
Shut-Ins State Park. It will be interesting to see how the park faired
following the collapse of Taum Sauk Dam. (573) 546-2450.
Rodeo/ Horse Show
First: American Royal, Kansas City, 1-800-821-5857
Second: Missouri State Fair, Sedalia, 1-800-422-3247
Third: Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel
Rodeo, Sikeston, 1-800-455-2855
Throughout October
and into November, the American Royal is home to everything equine.
There are livestock shows, rodeos and show horse competitions. The
judging and competitions at the Missouri State Fair, Aug. 10-20, are
the highlight of the year for many horse enthusiasts. The Sikeston
Bootheel Rodeo, Aug. 9-12, is a major Pro Rodeo event and features
big name musical entertainment each night.
Editor's choice: The
Huntsville Horse Show, June 30 to July 1, is one of the oldest outdoor
horse shows in the nation. (573) 696-3601.
Trail Ride
First: Cross Country
Trail Ride, Eminence, (573) 226-3492
Second: Katy
Trail State Park, 1-800-334-6946
Third (tie): Bear Creek Trail Ride, Walnut Shade, (417) 337-7708
Third (tie): Glade Top Trail, Rolla, (573) 364-4621
The Eminence trail
rides were our readers' runaway favorites.
We would attend a Cross Country Trail Ride event just for the food,
but horse enthusiasts go to enjoy the beauty of the Mark Twain National
Forest and to take part in these colossal equestrian gatherings.
Horses are only allowed
on the western portion of the Katy Trail, between Calhoun and the state
fairgrounds in Sedalia. Riders must appreciate the access, as it's
a perennial favorite in our contest.
We have a tie for
third place. Bear Creek is a private horse ranch near Branson. Glade
Top Trail passes through a rugged portion of the Mark Twain Forest
near Ava.
Editor's choice: Most trail rides are aimed at experienced
riders. Those who need a little instruction might head to Lake
of the Ozarks State Park, where the park stables offers guided rides for beginners
and experienced riders alike. (573) 348-6670.
First: Lyceum Theatre, Arrow Rock, (660) 837-3311
Second: Fox Theatre, St. Louis, (314) 534-1678
Third: The Shepherd
of the Hills, 1-800-653-6288
Arrow Rock's
Lyceum is a genuine summer stock venue with professional actors working
alongside local talent.
The Fox rightly deserves
its "fabulous" moniker.
You could go just to admire the architecture but while you're
there you might as well take in the shows.
The stage adaptation
of Harold Bell Wright's novel has been running
at the Shepherd of the Hills Theater since 1959, but audiences
never tire of it.
Editor's choice: We tip our hat to the City
of Maples Repertory Theatre in Macon, which first brought professional
theater to this north Missouri town in 2004. This year's line-up
includes four shows from June through July. (660) 385-2924.


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This website has had a long and difficult history with America's Mediocrity, Al Roker, but all of that is forgiven today. He is now an American Hero. Let's just get right to it. From TMZ:
When you undergo gastric bypass surgery, NEVER TRUST A FART — and Al Roker learned that lesson the hard way … at the White House.
Roker — who got his stomach stapled in March 2002 — shared his most embarrassing moment on "Dateline" last night, saying he was covering an event at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave a month after his operation … when he felt the urge to let one rip.
Roker said, "I probably went off and ate something I wasn't supposed to. And as I'm walking to the press room, [I'm thinking] well, I gotta pass a little gas here. I'm walking by myself. Who's gonna know? Only a little something extra came out. I pooped my pants."
Roker said he beelined for the restroom to dump his underwear in the trash — and proceeded to go commando the rest of the day.
#NeverTrustAFart is trending worldwide. "I beelined for the restroom to dump my underwear in the trash and then I proceeded to go commando for the rest of the day." That's how that quote went, right? He said it exactly like that? Some stories you don't want to embellish them or take the scenic route. This reminds me of Nicholas Schmidle's incredible article in the New Yorker last year about the hunt for and assassination of Osama Bin Laden. No bells and whistles. No self-indulgent journalistic flourishes. Just sitting down and reflecting the world back to itself. January 2012: Mark Wahlberg single-handedly stopped 9/11. January 2013: Al Roker poops his pants at the White House. I don't know about you guys, but this makes me excited for ALL OF THE STORIES YET TO BE TOLD! (NEVER TRUST A FART!)


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Studying Off Campus
From Dublin to New Delhi to Drury Lane, the world opens up to you through the study of literature at Augustana.
Our English and journalism students have many study abroad opportunities because our professors are heavily involved in teaching overseas. In past years, our faculty members have taken students on the path that Leopold Bloom walked in Dublin in James Joyce's classic modern novel Ulysses, to sites in London frequented by writers from Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie and to shrines in India central to the Indian epics Ramayana and Bhagavad Gita.
Sioux Falls
Closer to home, Sioux Falls is the cultural center of South Dakota, with many opportunities to participate in readings and other literary activities off campus. Students can take field trips to nearby sites that are prominent in national and regional literature, including South Dakota's Native American reservations.
Off-campus internships are required for at least a semester for all journalism majors and are encouraged for English majors. The department works closely with each student to find the experience that will advance his or her professional goals.
Recent internship locations have included:
Print media:
- San Diego Union Tribune
- Tucson Weekly
- Gillette (Wyoming) News Record
- Sleepy Eye (Minnesota) Herald Dispatch
- Minneapolis-St. Paul magazine
- Experience Life magazine.
Broadcast media:
Government and nonprofit organizations:
- Lutheran News Service (Chicago)
- Families USA (Washington, D.C.)
- Sioux Falls
- American Coalition for Ethanol
- American Cancer Society
- National Kidney Foundation
- Avera McKennan
- Habitat for Humanity
- Home Builders Association
- South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Outdoor Campus
Political offices:
- Senator John Thune (R-SD)
- Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY)
- Representative Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD)
Journalism students also participate in internships organized by the Washington Semester program that have included work with USA Today, WRC-TV in Washington D.C., and the Cox News Service, as well as the nonprofit Coalition on Human Needs. Other interns from our department have worked in Norway, Chile, and the Czech Republic.
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New and improved energy from waste technologies such as advanced gasification are going to be essential if many countries are to address their considerable waste problems. Advanced gasification can reduce the amount of waste going to landfill, as well as maximise the renewable energy produced.
30 August, 2011
Sunlabob, a rural energy provider in Laos (located in Southeast Asia, and surrounded by Thailand, Myanmar, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia) has developed a hybrid mini grid which feeds 105 households with a daily peak load of 8kW.
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A BILLION AND a half people around the world still don't have access to electricity. Could hybrid mini grids be the best way to provide electricity – particularly to rural, often isolated, areas?
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Sorry, marketing mavens -- there's no exact formula for gaining Internet fame
We spoke with people who got famous online and asked for advice on how to handle it
They said: Have a tough skin, don't forget your fans and don't sell out
Editor's Note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and book "Stuff Hipsters Hate." Got a question about etiquette in the digital world? Contact them at firstname.lastname@example.com.
It used to be that your chances of achieving any kind of widespread fame were akin to the proverbial to-your-cranium lightning strike.
Nowadays, the likelihood that 1,000-plus will know your name are about one in a million – in that you can choose one from a million follies or fails that are liable to catapult you into the firmament of fame. Internet fame, that is, which – sorry to say marketing mavens – there's really no exact formula for.
Give a solid gold witness statement, bust out a solid gold speaking voice or work on a solid (extra cancer crispy) gold tan, and you're a solid gold star, baby. For better or worse – when it comes to society and our own fraying mind fibers.
Yup, there are scads of Internet-born stars out there, people who have become revered for everything from liking turtles to getting (allegedly) drunk and singing Queen jams to, you know, actually being good at stuff.
Most of the time, Internet-forged fame is fleeting, as the ADD-addled, magpie mind of the Web is constantly looking for something new and shiny to bat around – and, really, how many times can you watch a baby laugh in slow motion (about three seconds, five to 10 if impaired by a substance of some sort)?
Sometimes, however, if grounded in some sort of actual skill, the proverbial 15 minutes last a little longer, as with the infamous Biebs (for better or worse when it comes to society and our own fraying mind fibers).
Either way, there are tons of folks out there getting rapidly famous for … whatever … which is putting them in immense danger, my friends. Danger of becoming massive tools. As David Bowie once sang, "Fame lets him loose, hard to swallow."
In our never-ending quest to quell the massive epidemic of horrible people being obnoxious on the Internet, we spoke with a few people who achieved Internet fame and asked for their advice on how to best avoid becoming the optimization of Bowie's sexual innuendo-laden phrase.
Here's what they said:
People will hate you, deal with it
Christiaan Van Vuuren's life took a pretty terrible turn back in 2010 when he contracted tuberculosis while on a trip to South Africa – a turn that included 180 days in quarantine. Instead of ugly crying forever and ever whilst in the hospital (as many of us probably would have), Van Vuuren started making comedy rap videos about the experience, which are entirely not as lame as the phrase "comedy rap videos about the experience" would have you believe.
Van Vuuren made a lot of friends and got a lot of support and press for his vids, but he also had his share of trolls. Of their hurtful comments, the comedian – who branched off into making other series after getting out of quarantine – says:
"Don't worry about abusive comments, and it's better not to reply to those ones. There are a lot of people online who just go around verbally bashing whoever they can, and hiding behind their computer screens. It's sad, and weak, but don't fall onto the trap of letting those people affect you."
And this is coming from a dude who was stuck in quarantine with a terrifying disease. We think you can suck it up if some basement dweller doesn't dig your stirring shot-by-shot remake of "The Hunger Games." (Exemption if someone posts an embarrassing video of you online without your consent – in that case, seek legal counsel/therapy.)
Don't forget your fans
Now to the other, brighter side of the coin: the people who actually like what you do. The band Walk Off the Earth specifically highlighted this contingent when we asked for its sage advice – quite rightly, as it blew up this year.
For those who don't have a YouTube, Walk Off the Earth is an Ontario-based band that shot to Internet stardom last winter for this five-person, one-guitar rendition of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" (aka the only Gotye cover that really matters). The video garnered the band 134 million views and 500,000-plus new fans on Facebook as well as a contract with Columbia Records.
The band obviously existed before it covered Gotye – it had about 20,000 fans on Facebook before then, a solid base – which is why multi-instrumentalist Gianni Luminati warns fellow new-famers not to forget them.
"Stay in touch with your fans, know who they are, and ask their advice," he says. "Always keep them involved with your project and make them part of it." Perhaps a six-person, one-guitar cover is in the mix, then?
Don't sell out
If you tell a joke once, it's funny (hopefully). Tell it again, and sure, we'll probably laugh out of pity or something. Tell it 100 times in 100 slightly different ways and slap a price tag on it and beg us to buy it, and we'll tell you to eff off.
Mike Bridavsky could have gone down many different paths when his cat, Lil Bub, became an Internet sensation due to her adorably mutated mien. (We'll just embed an image here for your edification and amusement.)
He could have blindly milked that beast (not literally) for everything it was worth like many a greedy owner of a viral animal or child, or he could be smart about how he chose to parlay that fame.
"I thought about this very hard, and realized that it was an opportunity to create a platform for things I cared about (adopting, spaying and neutering pets). It allowed me to create jobs for my close and talented friends (photographers, designers, filmmakers, print makers, etc). It was a way to raise money and generate awareness about animal care, it could bring joy to thousands of people around the world and at the same time it could turn a silly picture of a cat into a substantial and sustainable presence on the Internet," Bridavsky says.
Yes, he does sell Bub merch (designed and created by his friends who get a cut of the cash), but a percentage of those profits are donated to animal-centric organizations.
"Also, I don't accept every opportunity that I am presented with," Bridavsky asserts. "For example, a kid's lip gloss company wanted to use Bub for a poster/ad campaign. Bub doesn't have anything to do with lip gloss, so I declined."


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America's best known sports car - the Chevrolet Corvette - is not coming to Australia after all.
Despite reports suggesting a right-hand-drive version would be developed for the first time in decades, a senior GM executive ended any chance of the Corvette officially heading to Australia, emphatically denying the V8-powered two-door would be sold here.
"I'm telling you there is no plan," said General Motors' president of international operations and the vice president of global manufacturing, Tim Lee.
"We have no plan to put a right-hand-drive under that bonnet. It would be a significant engineering task."
The strong denial at the 2013 Detroit motor show came less than 24 hours after a report quoting GM CEO Dan Akerson as saying "yes" when asked if there would be a right-hand-drive version of the Corvette.
Lee suggested Akerson may have been "giving an exhortation" when talking about a Corvette for Australia.
"I recognise what my boss said, I recognise what [the Corvette chief engineer] said, I'm telling you as the operating guy in charge there is no plan."
After further questioning Lee tried to end the speculation.
"This is a non-story from my point of view. You guys write what you want to write, I really don't give a shit, but it is not in the mainstream plan."
He also said the new seventh generation Corvette hadn't been designed and engineered with right-hand-drive production in mind.
"I would say it's not package protected (designed to be right-hand-drive capable), I would say if we chose to make it a right-hand-drive ultimately we could do that, it would be a huge resource allocation decision, we haven't made that decision.
"There is no engineering execution, there is no plan. If the CEO said tomorrow that he wants us to do that it would take us years to get it done."
Lee also said bringing the Corvette to Australia would lead to a significant branding question as to what to call the car, with Chevrolet Gm's mainstream brand internationally and in the United States but Holden fulfilling that role in Australia.
"The Corvette is a Chevrolet, we don't sell Chevrolets in Australia, we sell Holdens," said Lee before saying that if there was an executive vote on whether the Corvette should be badged as a Holden "my vote would be unequivocally no way".
He also ruled out replacing the Holden brand with Chevrolet.
"Holden is the Australian car company and we're pretty proud of it, so why would we mess around with it?"
The Corvette is not alone in not being engineered for right-hand-drive, with the SRT Viper also a left-hand-drive-only proposition.
Top end, low volume supercars from the likes of Porsche, Ferrari and Lamborghini are also generally only produced with the steering wheel on the left.
It all comes down to numbers.
Low volume sports cars often struggle to reach the volume necessary to justify the significant investment in engineering the car with the steering wheel on the opposite side.
The task is made even more challenging because the UK and Japan - countries that drive on the same side of the road as Australia - allow left-hand-drive cars to be registered and driven, whereas Australia doesn't.
For more car reviews, video and news download the free Drive app. It updates every Friday with seven pages of fresh content from the Drive team.


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JOSEPH ẒARFATI (so called because he belonged to the French synagogue):(Redirected from ANDREA DE MONTI.)
Convert to Christianity and missionary to the Jews at Rome; died before 1597. He accepted Christianity in 1552, taking the name of Andrea (Filippo?) di Monti (more correctly del Monte) in honor of Julius III. He was born in Fez, and hence is sometimes called "Joseph Moro." Beginning with 1576, he delivered sermons having for their object the conversion of the Jews, which the latter were compelled to attend. He also wrote, in Italian, works against the Jews,as "Confusione dei Giudei," which he published in Hebrew under the title
Margulies believes him to be identical with the Joseph Moro mentioned by Joseph ha-Kohen ("'Emek ha-Bakah," pp. 111, 119) as having on the Day of Atonement, 1558, forced his way into the synagogue at Recanati with a crucifix in his hand, which he placed in the Ark. Joseph ha-Kohen says that Ẓarfati's Christian name was "Filippo," which name he may have taken in addition to "Andrea."
- Berliner, Censur und Confiscation, p. 4;
- idem, Gesch. der Juden in Rom, ii. 2, pp. 8 et seq.;
- Vogelstein and Rieger, Gesch. der Juden in Rom, ii. 172;
- Monatsschrift, 1898, p. 466;
- R. E. J. ix. 86, xxx. 260;
- Popper, Censorship of Hebrew Books, pp. 40, 41, 62, 72;
- S. H. Margulies, in Berliner Festschrift, pp. 267 et seq.


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Justin Bieber in trouble over party
Going to one of Justin Bieber's parties could cost someone $3 million if they feel chatty.
Bieber apparently had a Gatsby party Friday at his Calabasas home, where he required guests and staff to sign a confidentiality agreement stating they couldn't tweet, text, phone, Facebook, record, write or otherwise send communications regarding what went down inside.
The contract stated if they did, they would forfeit $3 million, which according to the New York Post, was a discount compared to the $5 million sanction Bieber has required at other parties.
The Post reported that the police were called three times for noise complaints and - no, really - it was reported that a strong smell of marijuana leaked through the open door.
Not the Mary J. The Maui wowie. The skunk bud. The grass. The weed. The reefer. The
One of the neighbors who supposedly called the coppers around 1 a.m., was reportedly the same guy whom Bieber allegedly spat at during an argument in March. Police were also supposedly called two more times, at 3 a.m. and 5:30 a.m.
The Beebs reportedly had more than 100 guests, including Snoop Lion, which could explain the funny smells. You know, the ganja, the wacky tobacky, the chronic, the dope, the green monster
Anyway, police apparently are pursuing disturbing the peace charges against Bieber.


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The Wayne County Housing Authority provides housing options for low-income individuals and families. They typically operate at the county or local level to offer low-income rental housing, rental assistance programs, and other housing options for people who meet the eligibility requirements in Wayne County, Kentucky. Some Housing Authorities own and manage apartments and single-family homes, while others focus on rental assistance programs. Wayne County Housing Authorities provide information on applying for low-income housing, the income eligibility requirements, and living in Housing Authority properties. They also accept and process applications and handle low-income housing complaints. The Housing Authority website provides information about Wayne County low-income housing.
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A report in Britain's Daily Telegraph on Thursday that the Singapore Exchange (SGX) was in talks to buy the London Stock Exchange (LSE) was denied by the former on Friday. Last week the two exchanges reached an agreement to allow customers to trade blue-chip stocks on both platforms.
Reuters reported Friday that the Telegraph had posted its report about a potential 7.2 billion-pound ($11.3 billion) merger on its website Thursday. LSE shares Friday were below the takeover price cited in the article, indicating that markets placed little credence in the report.
On Friday SGE issued a statement that said in part, "SGX has not engaged in talks with the LSE on a potential merger. However, we are open to collaborations and partnerships which may benefit our shareholders and the company."
SGX and LSE had teamed up to try to buy the largest metals exchange in the world, the London Metal Exchange, just last month, although in that transaction Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing emerged victorious.
Magnus Boecker, head of SGX, said in the report that further partnerships were not out of the question, although rather than mergers and acquisitions, they were more likely to be in the arena of "products and services."
He was quoted saying, "Hopefully we can do more between London and SGX, like I can see us doing more with NYSE Euronext and [Deutsche Boerse's] Eurex and Nasdaq."
Regulators and investors alike have forestalled a number of merger efforts recently, and should such a merger effort have emerged, it would have been likely to go down to defeat.
In February the European Commission (EC) forbade the $7.4 billion mega-merger of NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse, citing concerns over competition. Last year, both LSE and SGX failed in takeover attempts, the former in a planned 2.3 billion-pound merger with Canada's TMX Group after shareholder opposition and the latter in a proposed $7.8 billion merger with the Australian Exchange that was stopped by the Australian government.
Dominique Cerutti, president and deputy chief executive of NYSE Euronext, commented that smaller transactions were more likely to succeed in the current climate.
He was quoted saying, "Consolidation among exchanges makes sense but there are major barriers to these deals. Consolidation, however, will continue at a smaller scale through regional deals or strategic transactions to consolidate asset classes."


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