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50 Book Challenge: 56-60
Week 45
56. Wintersmith – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
This is a Tiffany Aching book. I didn't care for this one as much as the previous Tiffany books, but I still really enjoyed it. I think the problem with the Tiffany series is that none of the Big Bads have been as compelling as the original big bad, though she's gotten more compelling. It's sort of like Buffy in that way. In fact, I think the Tiffany Aching series would make for good TV.
57. Making Money – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
This is a Moist Von Lipwig book and I really do love Moist, so I enjoyed it. I think the first one was a little better, because there was a lot more conflict inherent in Moist vs. the Patrician. I think this one sort of fell apart towards the end, but it was still very enjoyable.
58. Unseen Academicals – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
This is the last of the Pratchett Discworld audiobooks that I have available to me. There is, I think, one more Discworld book that I don't have on audiobook, that is the next in the Tiffany Aching series. This one was fun and funny and it was nice to go back to the university, which I think hadn't been the focus for a long while. I don't think the wizards can really hold up a whole book, and I think Pratchett agrees with me because he focused just as much on a B plot about 4 young people who were all sort of outsiders. It was quite good. I think he's gotten much better with plotting over the years — his characters have always been spot on, his humor is brilliant, and his writing style catchy and fun, but plot he can be a bit off on.
59. Coraline – Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman
I haven't seen the movie yet. I was surprised by this book, it was somehow lighter than I thought it would be. Neil Gaiman's books are often quite heavy on lore and complicated worlds, but this was very much a book for children with no need, I guess, for the explanations that often come with parallel universes. I didn't honestly like this nearly as much as The Graveyard Book. I think it's definitely suited to younger children, though.
60. Good Omens – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, read by Martin Jarvis
I now own three copies of this book, the hardcover, the paperback, and the audiobook. I have owned two earlier copies of the book which disappeared into the ether when I loaned it out. And I always loan it out knowing it may never return. It's like the Gideons, I kind of want people to keep passing it on because it's such an awesome book. It was interesting listening to this after having listened to so many (37) of Terry Pratchett's other books this year, as well as having read almost all of Neil Gaiman over the years. This book seems to have been entirely written by Terry Pratchett, and entirely plotted by Neil Gaiman. I say this based on the number of times the word "conspiratorially" is used. I have a bad habit of overusing this word so every time I hear it, it grates a little bit, and Sir Pratchett loves it. I wonder if I picked it up from reading this book. Point being, this is one of my favorite books of all time and it was pretty good on audiobook.
50 Book Challenge: 51-55
Working in an office, doing paperwork, so lots of time to listen to audiobooks. I dunno what I'm going to listen to when I'm done with Terry Pratchett. (It's week 41)
51. The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
This is the first of the Tiffany Aching books, which are theoretically young adult books, but are really great reads no matter how old you are. They are related to the witches but about the 9 year old Tiffany Aching, who is good at making cheese. I quite like these. Also, they have the Nac Mac Feegles who are just awesome… their swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers.
52. Monstrous Regiment – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
This is a stand alone book that reminds me a lot of Equal Rites, in terms of the them. Basically it's a group of women fighters and they're all pretending to be men because they want to fight for their own reasons. I enjoyed it, though it was more serious than a lot of the books.
53. A Hat Full of Sky – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
This is the second Tiffany Aching book. I didn't like it as much as the first one. The plot was just less interesting. But it was still a great book.
54. Going Postal – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
I started reading this series because someone I know posts a lot of drawings and thoughts about this book. I felt like I couldn't just read it without knowing the Discworld first, so I got through 33 books so I could get to this one. It was worth it, great book.
55. Thud! – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
I must say that Terry Pratchett does seem to be getting better with age, his books are just cleverly plotted and funny and fun and great. This one was fantastic.
50 Book Challenge: 46 – 50
It's all over! 50 books in 39 weeks. What'll I do now?
46. Right Ho, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
In the last year or so, I watched all of Jeeves and Wooster, starring the delightful Fry and Laurie. It should be noted that I am in love with both Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, and therefore also in love with P.G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is also one of Christopher Hitchens' favorites, so there's that connection as well. I did really enjoy the book, though I must say that I'm not sure I enjoyed it more than watching Jeeves and Wooster. I think it does the show great credit that there was nothing jarring at all about reading the books, I felt like I'd already done so.
47. The Last Hero – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
This was a pretty funny story about a bunch of old heroes trying to bring about the end of the world by "returning fire to the gods" in the form of a giant bomb. It also had Rincewind, Leonard of Quirm, the librarian and the patrician trying to stop them. It was a solid adventure story.
48. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
This is hands down the best book of the Discworld series. It's stand alone and I highly recommend it to anyone who has any interest in Terry Pratchett, fairy tales, young adult fiction, or hilariousness. It's like a cross between the pied piper, the rats of NIMH and Terry Pratchett's general awesomeness. This may be my favorite book I've read all year.
49. Soccernomics – Simon Kuper and Stefan Syzmanski
This book is exactly what you think it is, basically a statistical approach to soccer analyzing what makes a good soccer team, not from the perspective of who is a good player, but what elements it takes for a country to field a good national team. It's really interesting if you're nerdy and like soccer, since it's soccer with a lot of numbers. I enjoyed it.
50. Night Watch – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
I actually stopped listening to the audiobook and read the last third of this book because I wanted to get through it faster. This is a sort of alternate dimension, going into the past story, but I quite liked it because it offered some background on all of the older characters. In particular, it was nice to see the Patrician as a student. I love the patrician. If you like the other books about the watch, then you'll probably like this one, I did.
50 Book Challenge: 41-45
5 Books left!
It is the end of week 37, and I have just finished book 45. I feel like I should continue reviewing books I finish after the fifty, keep counting to see how many I finish, because 50 is now basically inevitable. Maybe my challenge for next year will be to try to finish more than this year, rather than 50.
41. The Atheist's Introduction to the New Testament – Mike Davis
Asimov's New Testament book sits heavily on my shelf, waiting impatiently for me to rally the nerve to throw myself into reading it. I find the Old Testament a lot more interesting than the New Testament, mostly because it's way more mythological and hardcore, and it's more a history of an entire people than just like this one guy.
As a kid, I always thought Jesus was both kinda creepy and really boring — like Ned Flanders. There was just something about the image of this weird hippie guy with long hair always hanging out with kids and lambs that I found unsettling in a "don't get in the van" sort of way. And the New Testament, when I read it, never made that feeling go away. So I'm just sort of predisposed not to be terribly interested in the NT, but I feel like I should be, since I dislike Christianity so much. It just gives me the heebie jeebies.
All of this being my way of saying that I read this because it was way shorter than Asimov's book and I hoped it would make me more interested. It did and it didn't. I find the story of how the NT came to be (eg Bart Ehrman's work) a lot more interesting than anything in the NT, and this book certainly feeds into some of that. It's a very very interesting read, and I'd obviously recommend it to any curious believer. I think this book is a slightly easier read that Bart Ehrman, but not nearly as exhaustively well-informed.
42. Lyra's Oxford – Philip Pullman
This was a short book that was not nearly as good as the books it is a sequel to, His Dark Materials. Basically, it was just way too short and tacked on, very little there.
43. LSAT Logic Games Bible – David Killoran
I really like logic and logic games so I did actually enjoy reading this book and solving the problems in it. But I'm a huge nerd, so I'm not sure that you should just accept that. Unless you're taking the LSAT, obviously, in which case you should like this too.
44. The Truth – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
Not to be confused with The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken, of course. I enjoyed this book, it's basically about the invention of/introduction of newspapers to Ankh Morpork, but it was hardly anything to write home about. A solid B. It's basically a stand alone novel, with only bit parts for characters in the city that have featured in other Discworld novels. I didn't particularly care for any of the main characters, which sort of made the whole thing less interesting.
45. Thief of Time – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
I enjoyed this quite a bit. It has one of my favorite Discworld characters, Susan, and touches on some of the same apocalyptic themes as Good Omens. I think this will end up being one of my favorites, one that I may try to read some time again in the future. It involved chocolate saving the day by blowing people up because it was so delicious.
Even with nougat you can have a perfect moment.
Extra: I tried to read Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby and I got about 200 pages into it before being too bored to continue. When faced with the dilemma of finishing it before I had to return it to the library or not… I chose not. My intense disinterest in the history of America after 1865 probably didn't help.
50 Book Challenge: 36-40
Welcome to Week 34, I'm through 40 books, so doing well. Just 10 left to meet my goal.
36. Searching for Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede
This is the second novel in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I find it interesting that the books are all written from a different character's perspective. It's a neat trick, and I think it works particularly well for the children's literature genre. You get to see the characters you love, but since you already know how they think, you get to spend time in other people's head as they go along. Anyway, I highly recommend these books if you like children's lit at all.
37. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
People are very surprised that I never have read this book and never had to in school. Considering I grew up in the south, this is doubly surprising. I moved around a fair amount and I think it was just assigned for one grade in one school district and another in a different one, and so I missed it by switching districts. In any event, I watched the movie this past year at some point and I really enjoyed it, and I'd listened to some NPR stories about its fiftieth anniversary, so I bought it and read it in a night. Fantastic book, and it made me all the more impressed with the movie. I am not generally a fan of Southern Gothic literature, I find it oppressive and kinda icky (I know, technical term) because it's generally so depressing and twisted. It usually makes me want to take a scalding shower and spend the rest of my life in a heavily air-conditioned, sterilized and dehumidified bubble. But I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird, it strangely reminded me of some of the good things about the South, not the least of which is that there are many more Atticuses now than there were then.
38. The Prop 8 Report – David Fleischer
Wow, 500 pages of analysis of the Prop 8 campaigns. It was a lot to read, and I'm sort of including the Prop 8 decision in this too, since I did read that as well. Basically, the lesson I got from this is that we really need to get the word out that gay marriage helps children. The Prop 8 Proponents put out the whole "the children are gonna be destroyed" message and that alone basically lost gays the right to marry. So, how do we educate people that gay marriage helps children? I dunno, but it's really important that we do so. The fact is that there are children being raised by same sex couples and that those children would benefit from their parents being able to marry. So, we should encourage a real discussion about children, because the facts are on our side. And we should stop being surprised that the Anita Bryant tactic of 30 years ago still works.
39. Flim Flam! – James The Amazing Randi
I actually didn't enjoy this book as much as I thought I would. I love Randi, he's a great speaker and an all around cool guy, so I thought I'd enjoy the book. But I just didn't find it all that interesting. The book basically debunks a bunch of different woo things like ESP and UFOs and the Bermuda Triangle — you know, National Enquirer stuff. And, I guess there's a place for that and all, but I find the whole thing rather tedious. To me this is like debunking Cinderella or Superman, I guess there are people out there who believe it, but I tend to think they're people who just need a fairy tale of some kind in their life. Don't get me wrong, I think it's really retarded (it's satire!) for people to believe a lot of that stuff, but so long as they aren't hurting anyone, I don't really care. Like, homeopathy, that's something to rail against. The Bermuda Triangle? I just can't be bothered. Maybe this is why I identify more as an atheist than a skeptic.
40. The Fifth Elephant – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
Stephen Briggs has a much different reading style than Nigel Planer, and I admit I like Planer better. Mostly because I don't like the voices Briggs uses for the watch in this book. He's not bad, not at all, I'm probably just used to Planer. I think all the rest are read by Briggs so I suppose I should get used to him. OK, that aside, I did quite enjoy this book. It's about Vimes, who I like, and it has vampires fighting werewolves. It was strangely not as funny or tongue-in-cheek as most of the Discworld books, it felt like an almost straight detective adventure novel. The plot may be the best constructed of his books so far, though plot has never been the main reason I read his books.
50 Book Challenge: 31-35
It is week 30!
31. Hogfather – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
I saw the BBC version of Hogfather and I loved it and it's a large part of the reason I decided to actually read (listen to) the Discworld series. I love Susan, she's an excellent character. Half Mary Poppins, half Death. I loved this book.
32. Jingo – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
In general, I like the books about the watch, but this one really didn't do it for me. The book is basically satirizing war and nationalism and that sort of behavior, but I just didn't find it that compelling for whatever reason.
33. Last Continent – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
This book is about a continent that is not Australia. I didn't much care for this one either. It's a Rincewind book. The best part was the drag queens.
34. Carpe Jugulum – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
Yay! A witches book. This one had vampires and was pretty fun to read in light of all the modernization of vampires lately. Because these are old world vampires in the old world trying to evolve beyond being subject to people's superstitions. I also really like all the witches.
35. Dealing with Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede
This is a re-read, haven't read this book in ages, but I loved this series as a younger person. I can't recommend them strongly enough. I imagine the rest of the books will appear throughout the year, if I can find them at the library. I like what she does with the series, each of the four books has a different main character, but they interact closely with the characters you already know and love. Third Person Limited FTW!
50 Book Challenge: 26-30
It is the fate of all banisters worth sliding down that there is something nasty waiting at the far end. — Terry Pratchett
We are coming to the end of Week 24/52 and I've read 30/50. I suspect it will be even slower from now on, I may start posting individually when I finish books so I don't forget.
26. Soul Music – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
I wanted to like this book more than I actually did. I quite like the main character, Susan the granddaughter of Death, who eventually becomes a sort of badass Mary Poppins. I liked her character, but the rest of the book was just sort of OK. I've found I don't actually like the Death centered books that much. Anyway, I saw the Hogfather BBC movie and I really enjoyed Susan et al there, so I'm looking forward to getting to it.
27. Interesting Times – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
The return of Rincewind, haven't heard from him in a while. I didn't much care for this book, it wasn't terrible or anything, it just wasn't terribly compelling.
28. Maskerade – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
I think how much you like this book is dependent on your relationship with the Phantom of the Opera, which is to say if you are both familiar and mildly contemptuous of it, while retaining a special place in your heart for it, then you'll very much enjoy this book. I think this is a book you could very easily read independently of the series without losing anything. Have some quotes that will explain this to you.
After you'd known Christine for any length of time, you found yourself fighting a desire to look into her ear to see if you could spot daylight coming the other way.
"Well, basically there are two sorts of opera. There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh, I am dyin', oh, oh, oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely."
29. Asimov's Guide to the Old Testament – Isaac Asimov
Oh my God I finally finished this. It took ages. It's nearly 700 pages of historical analysis of the Old Testament. It's very well written, it's just that some parts of the Old Testament (aka the early bits) are way more interesting than the other parts (the prophets). I really enjoyed what I learned, but after I got through the fun stories it was a bit more difficult. Still, I enjoyed reading the explanations of all the prophecies and how they were related to the history of the local civilizations.
Since there are some stories attached, I've now got a decent timeline in my head of Syria, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, and anything else ending with ia that I'm forgetting. I guess I'm one of them atheists that likes to be able to know holy texts better'n the religious and since I live where the Judeo-Christians dominate, the Bible is what I like to be able to tear apart.
Also, as a complete political junkie, understanding the very earthly political motivations driving a lot of what is said in the book is very enlightening. I recommend this for anyone looking to be literate in the historical study of the Bible, but who doesn't like boring people. Because, even when the material is dry, Asimov has an enthusiasm and sense of humor that makes it readable. And, at 700 pages, it really is exhaustive. Plus, lots of maps.
30. Feet of Clay – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
I know this list is mostly Terry Pratchett, but the Asimov book took me some weeks and I wouldn't allow myself any other readable books til I got through it. This is the best one of the bunch, I think. I really really like the guards stories, and if you're into Dirty Harry, crime solving, hijinks, or really like Severus Snape, I would recommend the guard books in the Discworld series.
50 Book Challenge: 21-25
21. Godless – Dan Barker
I thought his personal journey from being an Evangelical preacher to being an atheist was really interesting and compelling, but the second half of the book focused on arguments for why he was atheist that were very familiar to me. I think this would be a great book to give to someone who was interested and knew nothing about atheism, particularly because Barker is very sensitive to the Christian mindset.
22. Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
I like the Guards a fair amount, so I enjoyed this story. Not as much as the witch stories, but I love Carrot and Vimes and the Patrician, and they all featured pretty heavily. I was less interested in the parts that were about the impact of a gun on the society. I also love Detritus the Troll. And how British people say Troll.
23. The Beekeeper's Apprentice – Laurie R. King
I had listened the BBC Radio adaptation of this and was really interested in reading the whole book. It's about a girl who becomes Sherlock Holmes apprentice, but it's a fairly adult sort of story. I've only ever read one or two of the Holmes tales, so I don't know how faithful it is, but I enjoyed it enough to finish in a night and start the next one the next day.
24. A Monstrous Regiment of Women – Laurie R. King
I think the first one is a little more compelling than this tale was, but then I'm not really interested in Christian Feminist movements and find them weird. The developing relationship between Russell and Holmes was handled very deftly and quite enjoyable.
25. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – Philip Pullman
This book was a very quick read and I can't say I honestly recommend it. Maybe it'd be more interesting to people who aren't familiar with any biblical scholarship. The premise being that Jesus and Christ were twins, Jesus being the radical and Christ being the realist. It's no Dark Materials.
It's week 22, so I'm ahead of the game. So maybe I'll actually finish the Asimov book. Or I'll do what I did yesterday, and buy another 12 books because now I'm interested in Sherlock Holmes…
Oh, and also halfway there.
50 Book Challenge: 16-20
16. The Ordinary Princess – M.M. Kaye
This is a children's book and a great deal shorter than most of the other books on my reading list. I say it makes up for those Asimov books which are long and dry. Of course, I haven't finished those yet. This is sort of similar to Ella Enchanted. It's about the youngest princess in the family and her fairy godmother grants her the gift of being ordinary, and so she's not as pretty, or blond, or dainty as the other princesses and she runs away and has adventures and falls in love with an ordinary king. Love it 🙂
17. Snow White, Blood Red – Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
This is a collection of stories that are re-tellings of fairy tales, but fairly adult. I read them originally when I was pretty young, 14ish, and it was the first thing I read that was at all naughty and grown-up. There is a retelling of Rapunzel in here that had morphed and grown into something totally different in my mind, it was interesting to go back and read it over a decade later. My mind version is better, by the way.
18. Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
One of my favorites, I love the witches. This is a send up of all fairy tales sort of mashed into one, plus some voodoo and New Orleans style magic. A very fun <del>read</del> <i>listen</i>.
19. Small Gods – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
This one was OK. I found myself having to make a very concerted effort to pay attention. It's not that I didn't like the ideas, and parts of it were quite good. This is set many, many years before the main events of the discworld series, and in that sense it was interesting. But it's basically a buddy movie of a guy and his pet God.
20. Lords and Ladies – Terry Pratchett read by Nigel Planer
Back to the witches yay! This may be my favorite book so far. The story is more fully realized and well-plotted than the others. The characters are just as well done as before, but the story is strictly fantasy, there's no technological invention driving it. It's spoofs Midsummer Night's Dream a bit, and it's basically a reflection on youth, age, and lives not lived. But… it's Terry Pratchett, which is to say it's done so with a lot of jokes, and people who can't be having with that sort of nonsense.
OK, so this is now caught up to where I am. It's week 21, and I am currently reading books 21, 22 and 23, so I'm in a good place. Since there are 52 weeks in a year, there's basically 2 weeks of buffer built in, and I'd like to get to the place where I'm 2 weeks ahead anyway, because it's going to take me a long time to get through both those Asimov books. They're not just long, they're dry!
50 Book Challenge: 11-15
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. — Terry Pratchett
11. Tricks of the Mind – Derren Brown
Amazing book. Derren Brown, and you really should look into him if you're unfamiliar, is sort of the British version of Penn & Teller. I say sort of because his tricks are less illusions and more mentalist, but he is super skeptical and very honest about the fact that it's all tricks. He's also the best cold reader I've ever seen. And I hate that stuff when it's played for serious, but he plays it as memory tricks and intuitivity and he's kind of a dick.
12. Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
I really liked this one, I think if you were just starting the series this would be one you could start with. It stands alone quite well. It delves into a lot of characters that I quite love the Librarian, who is an ape, Vimes, who is Dirty Harry basically, Sybil Ramkin, who is one of those crazy, not terribly attractive, flawed and delightful women characters, and the Patrician, who is evil in an efficient and good sort of way. The Patrician was originally intended to be played by Alan Rickman, in Mr. Pratchett's mind, but was ultimately played by Jeremy Irons. We find that this suits our Gruber sensibilities.
13. Faust Eric – Terry Pratchett, read by Tony Robinson
Didn't really care for this one.
14. Moving Pictures – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
This is a really good one if you're into movies. A lot of what the Discworld books do is introduce modern technology into a magical world, and that technology is based on magical innovation rather than technical innovation. In this one, someone discovers how to magically record moving images, and the rise of Hollywood happens in a few weeks, culminating in the epic film about the civil war "Blown Away". I enjoy all the references to things that are familiar with slightly bizarre names. Banged Grains instead of Popcorn, Clicks instead of Flicks. Also stand alone, if you're a movie person looking to get into the Discworld series, start here.
15. Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer
Not my favorite. I like Death a lot, but there was something less than compelling about his story.


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The Blue Swan Daily brings you a roundup of the most thought-provoking and interesting comments from those industry leaders in the know.
Malaysia Airlines Group CEO Izham Ismail on the airline improving year-on-year performance in 1H2018 and having revenue growth as a key focus for FY2018:
"This will be underpinned by continuous improvement in customer experience, product quality and operational excellence whilst maintaining a productive and competitive cost base". He also reported improvement in the airline's cost base, productivity, IT systems, customer service, engineering supply chain and on time performance.
Deutsche Lufthansa AG CEO Carsten Spohr on capacity constraints at German hubs:
"It is my great fear that we have planned a greater number of flights in German airspace than the current infrastructure can take. Mr Spohr added the German government "has at least assured us that the number of flights at the biggest German airports will not increase, despite the attempt by some airports to still push more flights through".
DHL Global Forwarding, Freight CEO Tim Scharwath on potentially adding freighter capacity:
"A big peak will bolster interest, and the will to invest – and it is a big investment – in cargo planes for the fleet. But they are a risk, for if the market for air freight capacity drops, you cannot drop these aircraft as easily". Regarding adding a third Boeing 747F to be operated on DHL's behalf by Atlas Air, Mr Scharwath said: "Any discussion of bringing in a third freighter… is not something we are able to talk about now".
SA Express interim CEO Siza Mzimela on the airline would recording a ZAR600 million (USD43.8 million) loss for FY2018/19, but predicts the airline will break even by Apr-2019:
"In order for us to break even we need to fly more aircraft, more often and sweat our assets". Ms Mzimela also commented: "SA Express is critical. It is a feeder airline and so has a very important role to play. We are waiting to see what shape and form the future alignment takes. Normally feeder airlines are a lot more profitable than mainline carriers".
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly stated the airline has no plans to change capacity guidance for 2019, despite a recent decrease in fuel costs. He stated:
"We are prepared for USD100 a barrel oil, but we will certainly be a lot more prosperous at USD50". While the fall in fuel prices will give the airline "more confidence" in making long term business commitments, Mr Kelly said the airline will stick to its 5% capacity growth estimate. He said: "It makes us more confident in committing to fixed delivery schedules with Boeing as we are growing the fleet roughly 20 airplanes a year".


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Mariella Graziano was born in a small village in the South of Italy. She started her carrier at University of Rome La Sapienza, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. It has been most likely the desire of pursuing the understanding of how thinks really work to make her deciding to be an engineer.
Or maybe she was inspired by the Top Gun movie. She is not yet sure about the real reasons, but this is not really important. In 1991 she was selected has one over 25 students to design a space missions under the mentoring of the European Space Agency and important European aerospace companies.
Mariella started her professional career working for a small Italian and technology related company. In 1996 she moved to The Netherlands working for the European Space Agency in the area of system engineering. Later on she moved to Spain working for GMV in the area of mission and space system analysis. Within GMV Mariella assumed different technical and managerial responsibility. In 2007 she has been appointed as Executive Director of a new Business Unit, Space Segment and Robotics.
She is member and chairman of many international association. Among those, Women In Aerospace Europe, IAC Exploration Committee, Planetary Defence Committee, Global Exploration Conference, etc.
She is mother of two fantastic boys, wife of a great man, daughter of great parents. She loves the moon and the mountains, she like all arts, mostly music, painting and sculpture.


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I was unable to use the --reintegration flag when trying to merge between two (parent-child) branches. The following message was produced:
merge --reintegrate https://bigdata.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bigdata/branches/bbb_cleanup /home/resendes/workspace/maven_scaleout/bigdata-core
Trying to use an unsupported feature
svn: Retrieval of mergeinfo unsupported by 'https://bigdata.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bigdata'
Hitting the server URL shows that it's running subversion 1.6.6, so I'm assuming that the problem is due to the fact the actual repo's filesystem is based on an older version of SVN.
A quick search seems to imply that this can be done (easily?) with server-side tools:
We have moved to GIT.
Per the description of the ticket, this can be done with server side tools. An SVN backup needs to be prepare (we do this nightly, but verify that you have a copy and can restore it into a function SVN repo). Then verify the procedure, which is not 100% clear
- the last time I looked at this, there was a disturbing amount of "how do I deal with this" related to this question. A test conversion then needs to be done. If that works, SCN updates need to be suspended (notify the developers list), a new snapshot of SVN taken (current backup), the conversion performed, and then SVN updates restored (test first, then notify the developers list).


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James Morrison: Scotland can 'capitalise' on England's weight of expectation
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|World Cup qualifying: Scotland v England
|Venue: Hampden Park, Glasgow Date: Saturday, 10 June Kick-off: 17:00 BST
|Coverage: Listen on BBC Radio Scotland, live text commentary on BBC Sport website
James Morrison believes Scotland can "capitalise" on England bearing the weight of expectation when the two sides meet at Hampden on Saturday.
England have not lost a qualifying match since 2009, but Morrison insists that record can work in Scotland's favour because they can play with freedom as underdogs.
"They expect to beat everyone, England," Morrison said.
"So maybe there's not that much pressure on us."
Scotland lost 3-0 at Wembley last November, but they won their last outing against Slovenia thanks to a late Chris Martin goal.
That win kept their slim qualifying hopes alive - with eight of the second-placed teams taking part in two-legged play-offs - and Morrison says the mood among the players is optimistic.
"We're very confident," the 31-year-old midfielder said. "It's a game that we need to get a result out of.
"England are favourites, they've had terrific group stages of late. We'll just go about our business and take confidence from playing under pressure against Slovenia.
"We've got a record of putting on a performance against good teams at Hampden, [like] Spain, Germany, so that's another positive that we can take into it. You've got to put the work in, take the chances when they come and have the belief that we can do it.
"We saw in the last home fixture, the [fans] followed us right to the end and if you keep plugging away, it will come. Chris Martin showed that."
Morrison says the players are becoming accustomed to playing an international fixture several weeks after the domestic campaign ended and that fitness and match sharpness will not be an issue.
"Our main focus is to start the week right, have a good week's training, get to know everybody again and go into the game full of confidence and looking forward to it," Morrison added.
"We've had a nice week's rest, so we're all raring to go. It's now back to business.
"It's always a massive fixture, it's always talked about. One of the highlights of my career [was scoring against England at Wembley in 2013], the ultimate buzz, and I'm looking forward to trying to emulate that."


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It was a foreign corporation, meaning it was formed outside of California. In this case, it was formed in Nevada. It registered in California on November 08, 2002.
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Another question I get from a lot of customers is, "how do I coordinate sibling outfits for my boys?"
Whether it's family photos or a holiday shoot, pictures just look so much better with nice, coordinated outfits. But putting together those coordinating outfits for boys can be tough - especially when you are trying to do it from behind a computer!
Luckily, our awesome customers have been sending us their pictures for years, so we have a ton of examples to show you!
Here are some of the most popular ways to coordinate brother outfits for your boys:
1. Identical matching.
The most popular, and easiest, option is to pick an outfit you love and just get it twice!
2. Switch the tie type.
Same suspenders, same tie fabric, but one bowtie and one necktie is another easy option.
Pro tip: many people get the bowtie on the littler shirt and the necktie on the bigger. Since CSD neckties are the same size for all ages, I actually recommend doing bowties on shirts bigger than 4t and smaller than 6m. Those neckties are a little big on newborns and little short on 6 year olds!
This works great for more than 2 boys also. Usually mom will choose to group them and give the boys closest in age the same tie type (i.e. the 2 youngest have neckties and the oldest has a bowtie.)
3. Switch the tie color
Same suspenders, same tie style and pattern but in a different color.
4. Switch the suspender/tie colors.
If the suspenders are red and the tie green on brother #1, do green suspenders and a red tie on brother #2.
5. Same colors, different patterns.
Give both boys the same color suspenders, the same color ties, the same type of ties, but switch the tie patterns. Give one a polka dot and the other a chevron!
This is a great choice for more than two brothers because you can add more fabrics and keep the coordination going.
6. Throw in a cardigan.
If one of your boys fits in sizes Newborn through 24m, you can dress him in a bowtie cardigan. Then your older son can coordinate with the cardigan with suspenders the same color as the cardi, and a bow or necktie in the same pattern as little brother's.
7. Complementary colors.
This is the hardest combination to put together, but can give you some really fancy looking pictures!
It's best to stick to the same Collection and not try to pair things from around the site because a lot of colors may look similar but do not match. Say your family color scheme is mint, navy, and coral. You can do mint suspenders with a coral bowtie for the littlest guy. And then mocha brown suspenders with a navy necktie for your older son. These colors go together beautifully. You can choose the same pattern for the ties or even different ones.
As always, we are here to help! If you just can't picture something we would be glad to snap you some quick pics of ideas to make sure you love your outfits.


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text: Following the resurgence of violence in some parts of Kogi State prior to the forthcoming general election, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp has deployed over 2,500 Officers to flash points in Kogi East, Central and Western Senatorial Districts of the State.The Kogi State Commandant of NSCDC, Commandant Philips Ayodele disclosed this in Lokoja during a sensitization programme on intelligent gathering for officers under his command ahead of the forthcoming general elections.Our Kogi State Correspondent reports that Commandant Ayodele, while reaffirming the mandate of the Corp to protect critical infrastructures in the country, said the command has identified the grey areas and measures have already been put in place to ensure citizens exercise their franchise without intimidation or fears. He said the sensitization programme will help his officers know their rights, collaborate with People and know how to address issues concerning election. "We have been arranging series of lectures in the build up to this election. Violence during election is insignificant. We are aware that some desperate politicians will be recruiting thugs to cause mayhem on election day. This won't be allowed to happen. We have also taken note of the destruction of some party billboard by unknown individuals across the three senatorial district. The Command has placed its officers in strategic areas as any one caught will face the full wrath of the law. Our citizens has the right to choose their leaders who will represent the country interest. NSCDC Kogi State command is synergizing with other Sister Security agencies to see that the menace of violence during the forthcoming polls is nipped in the bud. We can't do it alone. We need information and the cooperation of the general public to achieve a violence free election. Our officers has been warned to be professional in the discharge of their duties. This is part of the reason we have decided to organize this lecture by intimating them on their respective roles on election day and their duties to protect voters who are out to exercise their civic right" he said. He however lauded Governor Yahaya Bello for his "unbiased nature and support towards the success of security agencies in Kogi State". The commandant urged political players to play by the rules of the game as any one found wanting will face the full weight of the law no matter how connected or influential the person might be in the society.Earlier, the head of Intelligence and Investigation, NSCDC, Kogi State Command, Mrs. Mariam Oiza Adeiza said the essence of the lecture is to prepare and refine officers of the command on the challenges that might occur during the election. She reiterates the preparedness of NSCDC towards achieving a violence, free and credible election in Kogi State. > Copyright: Fresh Angle International (www.freshangleng.com) Previous Story Frontier Exploration Gets Underway as President Buhari Flags off Oil Drilling in Gongola Basin Next Story Strange PDP members hijacked Escravos -Warri Pipeline Contract, group petitions Buhari Odimayo Olatunde Frederick graduate of Mass Communication and Kogi State Correspondent of Fresh Angle International Newspaper Read other stories by Odimayo Olatunde Frederick ×


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Ted Rehmann's Hole in One
Ted Rehmann hit a 147-yard hole in one using a 7-iron on the 8th hole at Players Club in Omaha. The ace was reported on May 4, 2019. Witnesses: Steve McMahon, John Bourne.
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text: MACKAZ 1,817 Report post Posted April 7, 2011 ,---Edit 29/10/18--- apologies for distinct lack of pictures, photo hosting site I was using ceased existing, and a majority of pics went with it...... Well guys, after years of saying I was gonna do it, Im ACTUALLY doing it. Bought a 1922 Buick model 45 cowl for $150, its in pretty good nick for its Then got a chassis out of a 1st gen L200 Sport for $90 Cost $140 to redo the lower inner, radius rod, sway bar and sway bar link bushes. Found some shorter springs at the junkyard...freebie Rolling stock are standard Mitsi L200 4wd rims painted gloss red with 225/75/15s on the rear and 185/60/15 fronts. No V8 motorvating this...... Mighty 3.3 and trimatic cost $240out of a 79 VB Commodore, (I thought I was a Ford guy WTF????) Good ol tardme.... While Picking the engine and box up from Auckland the guy produced an ultra rare Lynx 186 manifold complete with 2 matching original 2" SU carbs and brand new filters (surface rust of course....)......Best score so far....$150!!!!!! Will take a pic soon. Reason for the six is its different, cheap to run and cost knaff all. And with a V8 in a 109" wheelbase rod it would look kinda stupid Headers and EH 179 sump and pickup to make a rear bulge pan.... $5 This weekends mish is remove the front, intermediate and deck mounts and throw the engine/box in the frame. Its a big project........ 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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|Albert Bergef
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|Berugefu Hārubāto
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Albert (ベルゲフ Berugefu ) is a non-playable character in Knights in the Nightmare.
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- On Gunther, A Renowned Knight: "I'd like to craft a spear for the Grand Marshal."
- On Alonso, A Skilled Knight: "I fashioned a spear for him the other day."
- On Alonso, A Skilled Knight: "I think a grand spear really suits Alonso."
- On Gene, An Armorer's Son: "His father is a stubborn old smith."
- On Gene, An Armorer's Son: "I'd like to sit down with Gene's father some day."
- On Reinhart, A Renowned Knight: "What kind of spear does a general use?"
- On Gilder, A Courier: "A courier delivered some good metal the other day."
- On Gilder, A Courier: "He did say he would go anywhere I wanted him to."
- On Norberg, A Customer: "I got another spear order, but I'm too busy right now."
- On Freiber, A Knight Father: "A knight made a gift of a spear to his daughter."
- On Fritz, A Courier's Ally: "I hear that courier has a knighted acquaintance."
- "Not very many people are good with a spear."
- "A weapon will fail you if you don't take care of it."
- "If I make more than five a day, quality will suffer."
- "I make weapons, but I specialize in spears."
- "The knights give me orders too. I'm grateful, but..."
- "A customer gave me some material I'm trying out."
- "I can't accept new orders right now. I'm backlogged."
- "A customer gave me some material I'm trying out."
- "Crafting is only the beginning. I repair, too."
- "All weapons wear down over time. Take care of them."
- "Blacksmiths and alchemists are very different trades."
- "Don't assume having a good weapon makes you strong."
- "I can't produce 10,000 weapons for those knights!"
- "A weapon will fail you if you don't take care of it."
- "I don't sell to anyone who doesn't understand."
Using Key Item:Edit
- "Strike while the iron is hot!"
- "I don't remember a day without this hammer..."
- "This hammer is like an extension of my hand."
- "All I've ever needed is this hammer."
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....grocery shopping......
It was an adventure.
First we stopped by Target to pick up a few things... all was well in Target... Next was Publix.
Eli got a full belly so we thought all would be good in Publix. Well, we were wrong. I would like for you to picture this as I attempt to describe it.
I got a regular shopping cart. The Hubs got one of those HUGE ones with the "car" on the end that you push. I have never gotten one of these because they are so big and I can't hardly control a regular size one. Luke seemed to love it though. He really liked pretending to drive the cart. Eli went in the basket part of the "car" shopping cart in his carseat. So, off I go to get groceries while The Hubs and the kids follow me. Shortly, (and I mean less than 5 minutes) into our trip Eli starts screaming so we attempt to hush him with the paci... and after a few failed attempts The Hubs picks him up. So, now the Hubs is trying to follow me, while I shop, holding a baby in one hand and pushing a gigantic shopping cart with the other.
Even being held didn't do much for Eli. He was sleepy and just really wanted to nap but couldn't. So, The Hubs decides he's going to take Eli to the car and leave Luke with me. Ok, so I transfer the few items we had already picked up into the giant cart (that I was so looking forward to steering) and they head to the car. Off Luke and I go to finish grocery shopping.. as fast as we can. So, we shop.. and run into several things along the way. As we are heading to the produce (I should stop here and say that I have a very detailed and precise order in which I grocery shop.. my last two stops are produce and meat, so we were almost finished) I remembered that I didn't have my purse. The Hubs was originally with me.. with a check card.. but now he was in the car. And I was in Publix with a cart full of groceries and a toddler. Oh, and it was raining.. well 'misting' but still, it was wet!
So, I get my produce and my meat and I push the enormous cart over to where the bathrooms are. My logic: I'll leave the cart here and no one will mess with it because they'll think that whoever it belongs to is in the bathroom. So, I carry Luke to the car.. in the mist and get the check card. I leave Luke there and head back in. My plan worked, the cart was still there. So, I go to check out. Me, by myself.. with a gigantic cart.
I was so ready to get out of there! I did mention to the cashier and bagger that I came in with a husband and two children but they had all ended up back in the car.
I didn't purposefully choose the big, humongous cart all by myself.
Sometimes in those stressful moments.. you just have to laugh. And I did... while I pushed the big, gigantic, enormous, huge, green car shopping cart to my car... alone! Luckily, I didn't hit any people or real cars on the way!
This trip wasn't our first... we have all made it before and it worked out okay. But, for some reason today it didn't. It was an interesting few hours to say the least but we survived. Life with two children.... it's an adjustment. It's never boring, to say the least! :)
Friday, October 24, 2008
Today we went
....grocery shopping......
2 comments:
- Xandra@Heart-of-Service said...
I'm laughing with you, because I can remember calling my mom when it was fianlly time for me to get out and go grocery shopping after I had Nathan. I asked her, "Where am I going to put Nathan???" He was still small enough to sit in the seat, and now I needed that spot for the infant car seat.
It's funny how there are SO many little hurdles that have to be jumped when you have that second baby. You never even think about those things before...you're so focused on diapers and feeding and adjusting your routine.
Glad that you have a sense of humor about it!
- October 25, 2008 at 7:27 AM
- Kari Sanchez said...
haha that sounds like an eventful trip, but thankfully hub was there with you to help out! I can just picture all of this occuring, I'm sure you laugh now like I did, but then it wasn't too funny. I'm learning from you what it's like to have 2.
- October 29, 2008 at 12:25 PM


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50 pneumatic type double-ended chamfering machine is controlled by the electric and pneumatic, professional of pipe end face, outside and inside an automatic chamfering, shaving work quickly and accurately, both ends at the same time, a processing, particularly suitable for mass production. It can also be used for bar reprocessing.
Through the left key control, the power indicator light, abrupt stop button, manual switch button, pneumatic pause button, clamping clip button, feed back return button, can pass, manual and loose material such as knife adjustment work, switch to the automatic transmission, boot device can work with the automatic cycle, lined up the workpiece (working process: slope, gravity blanking, automatic clamping fixture cycle (pushing the workpiece center) -- two rotating power head moving fast contact workpiece by buffer to reduce the movement speed chamfer (using buffer purpose not fierce contact artifacts, improve the life of the cutting tools, precision) - rotating power head back - the jig back artifacts by gravity on slope roll-in feeder box - fixture movement back and forth automatic feeding, automatic cycle).
Features of the device:
1.Automatic feed, quick and accurate, save manpower.
2.The special designed feed mechanism is accurate and reliable, and the intermediate transport station can choose the type of the necessary type according to the outer diameter of the pipe.
3.Strong head design, power head and motor drive, head fixed. Growth knife life.
4.Use self-centering fixture to ensure the processing concentricity
5.With the speed of double speed of the shock absorber, it saves working hours, and is easy and easy to adjust and perfect.
6.The whole process touch screen controls PLC, pneumatic automatic control, pneumatic clamping, pneumatic feed, simple and convenient operation.
7.The system is manual, automatic and easy to debug and use
8.End special cutter design, using normalized blade, adjust the knife is simple and convenient, the tube Angle, corner, surface finish in one time, an average of 3 to 10 seconds a (according to the size of the pipe diameter and thickness), fast efficiency.
9.Adapting materials: steel, iron, aluminum, copper, stainless steel, etc.
10.The guide rail in the head of the machine adopts the casting, which improves the precision by grinding the grinding machine.
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A: we are a direct marketing company. Cedar is our trademark. We do pipe processing machinery.
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How much control do you want to bend
How much the thickness
What material
How much is bent
Of course, there are drawings.
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Kids have a great Time at IB Kiwanis/ Port of SD Fishing Derby. Show off Catches and Pose for Camera!
Sep 07, 2015 06:22PM
By Paul Spear
The Kids and Parents who came to the Imperial Beach South Bay Kiwanis/ Port of San Diego Fishing Derby Proudly Show off Their Catches and Pose for Camera in this Photo Derby Display!
Take a look through the Photo Gallery and enjoy kids having a great time!
Photo Credit: IB Photo Happy and Paul Spear
A big "Thank you" goes out to the Port of San Diego. Their contribution to the Event is greatly appreciated. Their support of the Imperial Beach South Bay Kiwanis and the Kids Fishing Derby is greatly appreciated!
Also a "Shout Out" for making the event such a big success has to go out to Kiwanis IB Sha-Ron, the Event Manager and Organizer who spent so much of her time working on planning this event and getting it all to come together and run so well! I was told by Kiwanis Matt Pohl that in the old days they used to get a dozen kids and this year's event had well over 100 kids. Great Job Sha-Ron!
Gifts, Prizes and awards were donated by:
- · Beach Side
- · Twisted Kettle Corn
- · Boys & Girls Club
- · Wildcoast
- · Our Imperial Beach Lifeguards
- · Boca Rio Ink
- · Market to Market
- · Spoonerboards.com
- · Pier Pressure Wear
- Ruth Clingan-
- · Melanie Ellsworth
- · Sea World
- · Seaside Candy- Palm West Reality
- · Evie Ramsier
- · Bibbey's Shell Shop
- · Surf Hut
- · TakumiDesigns24.etsy.com
- · U.S.S. Midway Museum,
- · Dames Day Spa,
- · Don & JoAnn Spicer,
- · Imprtial Beach Little League
- · Imperial Beach Library,
- · Rita Pethel,
- · Paula Winchester,
- · Candy Unger & Tim O'Neal,
- · City of Imperial Beach,
- Beachside Fro-Yo,
- · Cowabunga,
Big Apologies if I happeened to miss and business or individuals who donated gifts.I tried very hard to make sure no one was missed but for such a large event it happens sometimes.
Here are some examples of how the Imperial Beach South Bay Kiwanis support our children and the children of the world.
The group with the most activities helping to supporting others in Imperial Beach has to be the Kiwanis of Imperial Beach. Their focus is helping children locally in Imperial Beach, Rady Children's Hospital and children around the globe. You can always find them out there working to help others! Besides their own projects, you can find them teaming with other groups to help with their events. Their attitude is great and they always find a way to have fun in what they do!
Besides the events like the Fishing Derby, Septemberfest or the Sun and Sea Parade, they work on projects and events for Rady Children's Hospital. Rady's is the largest children's hospital in California and works exclusively on pediatric healthcare. It's associated with UCSD as a teaching hospital for future pediatricians, and it is a research center in conjunction with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and UCSD.
The Kiwanian "FREE Fishing Derby" is for children up to 16 years old. The Fishing Derby took place Saturday August 23rd at the Pier Plaza. The Kiwanis' turned so many kids' faces into smiles during the Fishing Derby that it was worth going to see that alone! Besides getting to experience fishing, many for the first time, The Kiwanis' had so many prizes for them that every kid went home a winner and a prize!
"SeptemberFest" is one of the Kiwanis major fundraisers. It's a fun night for the adults
to party and socialize with friends. It had music from Ron Kelley's Band, brats and beer. It helps them cover expenses for donations or projects they do.
I can't think of a better place to start talking more about what they've done to help than to start with the "2014 IB Kiwanis of the year". That was awarded to Sha-Ron Cobb. I can't think of a more deserving person! Every time I have been at an event in IB, I have seen Sha-Ron doing something to help others out! If you have lived in Imperial Beach for any amount of time, you probably already know Sha-ron and the giving person she is! Her winning the award for 2014 is well deserved.
Their biggest and most involved effort had to be the 19th Annual "Feed the Kids and Families" event November 24th. The IB Kiwanis had 30 to 40 members who helped out. Their effort made it a big success. They fed around 500 children and their families. Some members helped with gathering food and supplies and other members helped in other ways. The event was held at the Boys and Girls Club of IB with them and other groups contributing greatly.
But sometimes small things turn into a big deal as well! Many Kiwanians painted the exterior of an elderly ladies house and clearing her back yard of overgrown vegetation.
A week before Christmas they "delivered Gift Basket to 5 families". Melanie Ellsworth, Gary Brown, and Ruth Clingan went grocery shopping and loaded their carts with hams, potatoes, stuffing, apples, oranges, vegetables, spaghetti and sauce, beans, cookies and other goodies that became holiday meals for five families.
They packaged the food with other gifts for parents and children that were donated by other Kiwanians such as blankets from Gary Trieschman, toys from Donn Hall, shower gels and lotions for the teenagers, and parents, coloring books for the little ones, donated by Ruth Clingan, and books for all of the children, young and older, donated by Dana Tomlinson. Ms. Ellsworth gave a heap of toys. Dana Tomlinson collected and labeled 3 to 5 books for each of the 15 children in the families that received the Christmas Baskets.
That afternoon and evening they delivered the food and gifts to five grateful families who had been chosen by the Imperial Beach/South Bay Boys and Girls Club as part of its efforts to help families during the holiday season.
The Kiwanis also had a booth at "Christmas comes to IB". Kiwanis with help from the Key Club raised money to fund their various charity programs to help out the needy children of the world. They were out there for 5 or 6 hours selling hot dogs not including all the time it takes to get the equipment all set up and then put it back away.
Another big effort of the IB Kiwanis is working with Schools. They have the "Student of the Month Award" that they give out. The Student of the Month is nominated by his or her teacher. The winner is chosen in recognition of his/her academic excellence, great effort, and willingness to work hard. As Student of the Month, they attend the next Kiwanis meeting with their family, teach and school principal were they receive an award certificate, have their picture taken with their family, teacher, principal and a member of the Kiwanis. They also receive $25 to go into a savings account for college. They donated around 40 books to the SBUSD Elementary to go in their Library for students to read or classes, signed in recognition of those speaking at their Meetings, and Students of the Month.
Additionally, there were other times our club met up and prepared sandwiches for "Sports For Exceptional Athletes", on at least 3 times and also participated in one of the track and field events along with MVHS Key Club in April 2014. Members of the IB Kiwanis club also helped Camp Surf by providing lunch with a BBQ lunch for Sports for exceptional Athletes.
They donate money to support "Project Eliminate". The Eliminate Project: Kiwanis eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) is a global campaign that will save and protect millions of mothers & babies.
They also have 4-5 members help out at MVHS home Football games as ushers, etc. referred to as the "MVHS Chain Gang".
Nine of our members participated on "Red Shoe day" June 26, standing on the corner to help raise funds for Ronald McDonald House for a total of $655.
Members of club, the MVHS Key Club joined in the City in an effort to clean up the beach March 2014.
They donated funds to two Imperial Beach Students to help defer some of their cost to attend Valley Forge, Freedom Foundation.
The Kiwanis honored lifeguards in January for an act of heroism, saving a life of someone pulled out from the ocean in Imperial Beach.
One of the members, who happens to be a firefighter in Imperial Beach, volunteered for the SD Burn Institute at Camp Beyond the Stars last week in July and 1st weekend in August.
May 2014 our club participated at the MMQ event by laying out quarters and making our budgeted donation, while some of our members helped with breakfast at the event and cleaning tables.
As you can see, the Kiwanis of Imperial Beach/South Bay is a very giving group and helps the Imperial Beach community in so many ways; we don't have time to go into lots of details on all of the projects and events the Imperial Beach Kiwanis were involved in. However, it is easy to see why they are "IB's Raising Stars". This is a big group of people who makes a very big difference in our community. We are very fortunate to have them!
The Eliminate Project
The Eliminate Project
Kiwanis' current global campaign for children, The Eliminate Project: Kiwanis eliminating maternal/neonatal tetanus, aims to raise US$110 million and save the lives of a 129 million mothers and their future babies. In partnership with UNICEF, Kiwanis is committing by 2015 to eliminating maternal/neonatal tetanus, a disease that kills one baby every nine minutes. By targeting this disease, Kiwanis will not only save lives but also pave the way for other interventions that will boost maternal health and child survival among the poorest, most underserved women and children in the world.
Announced at the 95th Annual Kiwanis International Convention in June 2010, this project will tap into Kiwanis' global volunteer network and strength in reaching communities and leaders, along with UNICEF's field staff, technical expertise and unbeatable supply chain to wipe out this cruel, centuries-old disease.
During Kiwanis' first global campaign for children, the Worldwide Service Project for IDD, members worked to virtually eliminate iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the world's leading preventable cause of mental retardation, while raising more than US$100 million. Heralded as one of the most successful health initiatives in the world, today those dollars are at work in more than 103 nations—and the number of households consuming iodized salt has jumped from from an estimated 20 percent in 1990 to more than 70 percent, saving developing nations and the world billions of IQ points.


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With a week to go before we leave for the start all eyes are on the weather. There has been snow at Ntsikeni and Rhodes and looking at the forecasts its -1c there at the moment, but clear !!! Tested all the cold weather equipment and clothing this week and I am pleased to say that the booties from the Uk are brilliant and we don't care that we look like dorks, not many people will see us early in the mornings anyhow, but they do keep the feet warm !! Training has not been as good as it could have been. There has been a bike hijacking in my area every weekend for the past Two months, last week six bikers were held up by 7 wankers along the same route that I ride every day. Its been difficult to do long rides and remain safe. Some people have asked about safety along the route of the Freedom Challenge, I always reply that its not a problem, it seems once you get outside of Johannesburg normality is regained and we have never felt threatened along the route. The opposite seems to be the case, people are friendly and really interested in where your going and where your from. A bike seems to be the social leveler, people accept you cos your on a bike and you seem stupid enough to be riding a long way. You will get invited into houses, farms and shops and looked after as a member of their family, its going to be so nice to ride without thinking about who is ahead of you in the bushes.
Tim arrives in Jo'burg tomorrow and we will spend the next couple of days making sure we have everything and then pack, and as said before un-pack and take out half the stuff and re-pack. The Wellness Centre Gym in Fourways has kindly offered the use of the spinning studio for us to ease our legs until we leave, thanks Wayde. We need to say thanks to 32GI who have kindly given us product to test and use for the duration of the race, I have been using it for a while but not over this long a period so it will be interesting to see how well we preform on it, their results from the Comrades Marathon were very good. Power Monkey and Magic light have been real stars with help in regards to solar power charging and lights for the bike, its been a challenge to come up with equipment that works over long periods and that is not too heavy.
I will give apologies now for all the spelling mistakes in all the bloggs from the race, I have discovered that I can update the blogg from my Iphone, I have also discovered that I need a big screen to see what the hell I am doing, so sorry .
A big thank you to everyone that has donated to our BackaBuddy fund raising, we are at R3250.00 at the moment and although we have a long way to go to reach our target we are off to a great start. Thank you.
Next Blogg from the start, its come round quick !!!!


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It's now officially autumn, and the weather certainly isn't letting us forget it! Thursday nature class was cancelled today because Ms. Carol and her daughter Daphne were sick. We were going to a nature preserve on the Truckee river. We really haven't done any writing on Tuesday yet, we're still feeling out the curriculum and trying to settle into a groove.
For now this blog is going to be a lot of nature journaling until I get a chance to write. I'm working right now on Sully and Wren's adventures, so I might put a page up for that…
Here are some of the pictures I didn't put on instagram, because I try not to spam my friend's feeds too much : )
Riley was obsessed with catching grasshoppers.
We hiked around Spooner Lake, and afterwards we went to Truckee Meaadows to sketch. Ms. Carol had to be in front to set the pace because everyone had been walking too fast and not enjoying the nature :D
The wasps were crazy because they were disbanded for the year and were hungry. They went wasp after our food, and some even were crawling all over Serena's eyes and in her mouth for moisture! It frosted up there so they won't bother us again. (Lillie and Riley)
Spooner Lake is gorgeous!


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1487 - The Battle of Stoke, the last great battle fought on English soil, brings an end to the War of the Roses between the houses of York and Lancaster.
1779 - Spain declares war on Britain, and siege of Gibraltar opens.
1869 - Charles Sturt, the English explorer who led several expeditions into the interior of Australia, dies.
1903 - Ford Motor Co is incorporated in the United States.
1917 - The First All-Russian Congress of the Soviets is convened.
1932 - A ban on Nazi storm troopers in Germany is lifted.
1941 - President Franklin D Roosevelt orders the closure by July 10 of all German consulates in the US.
1942 - HMAS Nestor is bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean north of Tobruk.
1943 - Comedian Charlie Chaplin, aged 54, marries his fourth wife, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, in California.
1948 - The first plane hijacking takes place when Chinese bandits attempt to take over a flight from Macao to Hong Kong, causing the plane to crash; the bandit's leader is the sole survivor.
1961 - Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in France while in Paris with the Kirov ballet.
1963 - The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, is launched into orbit from a base in the Soviet Union.
1963 - Modern Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, resigns as prime minister.
1971 - The US Senate votes against a plan calling for a total American troop withdrawal from Vietnam by end of year.
1974 - The first Beer Can Regatta is held in Darwin's harbour.
1976 - Thousands of Soweto school children revolt against the South African government's plans to enforce Afrikaans as the language for instruction in black schools, setting off months of unrest in which 600 black people die.
1980 - The High Court of Australia building in Canberra is opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
1992 - US President George Bush welcomes Russian President Boris Yeltsin to a Washington summit where they agree to slash strategic weapons arsenals by about two-thirds by 2003.
1995 - The world's seven richest industrial countries endorse the creation of an international bailout fund to rescue countries on the verge of bankruptcy.
1997 - The IRA kills two police officers in Northern Ireland, and in response the British government calls off all further contact with Sinn Fein, the IRA's political arm.
1999 - Amnesty International singles out the US for human rights abuses for the continued use of the death penalty, particularly against people who committed crimes before they were 18.
2008 - Hundreds of Taliban fighters take over several villages in southern Afghanistan just outside the region's largest city, and NATO and Afghan forces redeploy to meet the threat.
2009 - Declaring North Korea a "grave threat" to the world, President Barack Obama pledges the US and its allies will aggressively enforce fresh international penalties against the nuclear-armed nation.
2010 - Defying UN sanctions over its nuclear program, Iran promises to expand its atomic research.
2011 - Victoria's chief police commissioner Simon Overland resigns hours after the state ombudsman found he was responsible for releasing misleading crime statistics before the last state election.
2012 - Fairfax Media outlines a major restructure and redundancies for 1900 employees.
2014 - The commander of Iran's elite Quds Force helps Iraq's military and Shiite militias gear up to fight the Sunni Islamic State insurgents advancing across the country, a sign of Tehran's deepening involvement in Iraq.
2015 - A 21-year-old white gunman kills nine people during a prayer meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
2016 - British MP Jo Cox dies in hospital after being shot in her constituency in northern England. The attack leaves the UK in shock and campaigning for the EU referendum a week later is suspended.
2018 - At least 17 people are killed in a stampede at a nightclub in Caracas, Venezuela.
2019 - The Korean film Parasite, about a lower-class family who con their way into a wealthy household, wins Sydney Film Festival's main award.
Today's Birthdays:
King Edward I of England (1239-1307); Geronimo, Apache Indian leader (1829-1909); King Gustavus V of Sweden (1858-1950); Stan Laurel, British comedian (1890-1965); Jean Peugeot, French car manufacturer (1896-1966); Charles Perkins, Australian Aboriginal activist and bureaucrat (1936-2000); Erich Segal, US author (1937-2010); Joyce Carol Oates, US author (1938-); Roberto Duran, Panamanian boxing champion (1951-); Peter Sterling, Australian rugby league footballer (1960-); Jan Zelezny, Czech javelin thrower (1966-); Jurgen Klopp, German soccer manager (1967-); Tupac Shakur, US rapper (1971-1996); Olivia Hack, US actress (1983-); Phil Mickelson, American golfer (1970-).
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"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today." - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, in a speech in Bonn in 1981. On June 16, 1977, the Supreme Soviet elected Brezhnev to the post of Soviet head of state, to replace Nikolai Podgorny.


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Pat Shea, who is a former director of the Bureau of Land Management during the Clinton Administration, Randy Parker, who is the CEO of the Utah Farm Bureau, and John Harja the director of public lands under the governor's office. Who should manage the access to public lands in Utah, should it be managed more at the local level, or is it better that it the federal government makes those decisions.
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County Seat Episode 32 – Take Back Utah Rally
Land issues have been a controversial topic in Utah going all the way back to statehood in 1896. Who controls, or who should control the land in Utah? The federal government actually controls 2/3rds of the land in Utah but this includes military installations, Indian reservations, national parks, national forests, and 23 million acres that is controlled by the Bureau of Land Management.
In recent years there have been movements that have sprung up to reclaim this land for state control. The sagebrush rebellion in the 1980's and in the last couple of years there has been Take Back Utah, which is coming up soon, so what is take back Utah? Malia Bascom has the story.


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James Murray from Impractical Jokers joins the Geek Show
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The Geek Show hosts, Art Eddy and Patrick Quinn talk with the one and only James Murray aka Murr from Impractical Jokers to talk about his new book, The Brink, Impractical Jokers and more!
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Jean-Paul Mosquera Q for Murr: You seem to love Horror. What is your current favorite horror movie(s) or series to watch?
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