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This section of eFinancialCareers includes all our accounting and finance jobs. This is a broad area, including finance and accounting jobs within corporates, within private practice firms and the Big Four (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers) and within financial services firms and investment banks.
Within the financial services sector, investment banks hire accountants; so do retail banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, insurance companies and fund managers. Companies in all sectors also recruit accountants to help them manage costs and revenues, calculate profits and losses, plan for the future and calculate their tax liabilities.
Within investment banks, accountants occupy numerous different roles. These include: Product control (accountants monitor profits and losses made on products bought and sold on the trading floor); financial control (accountants analyse the bank's overall performance. They produce month-end, quarterly, half-yearly and annual reports); internal audit (accountants responsible for checking that financial systems and controls within the organization are being complied with); regulatory accounting (accountants ensure that the way the bank reports its financial activity complies with the legal rules and regulations of the countries it trades in) and treasury (accountants structure the bank's financial affairs often working with colleagues in tax so that sufficient cash is available to meet its liabilities).
The vast majority of accounting careers are within the industry and commerce sector. These accountants are divided roughly into two areas. Firstly, Financial Accountants, who produce monthly statements, keep track of financial transactions and meet financial legislation requirements. Secondly, management accountants, who review the operating performance, look at underlying trends, and advise managers. Increasingly, management accountants also interpret and advise on these figures and how they may affect the business. The main management accounting qualification is run by CIMA. More common for financial accountants is the Chartered Accountant (CA) qualification, or an ACCA.
Within the Big Four Accounting firms (PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young), not surprisingly, there are a wide variety of jobs in accounting. These include: auditing (accountants conduct financial reviews of companies), consultancy - also called advisory (accountants offering strategic advice to clients on everything from risk systems to company strategy), forensic accounting (accountants investigating improper practice), insolvency and recovery (accountants working to turn companies around); and tax accountancy (accountants managing the tax liabilities of companies and individuals). Alongside the Big Four is an array of mid-sized and smaller accounting firms which also employ accountants, but typically offer a more restricted range of services.


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Bohemian Handmade Bracelet Set
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A little bit of funk. A little bit of boho. All kinds of fabulous. This Bohemian Handmade Bracelet Set has your name written all over it. The perfect jewelry piece to add some personality to your outfit, this bracelet features Bohemian clay disks in a fun and funky design. Whether you're dressing up for a night out or just want to add a pop of color to your everyday look, this bracelet is sure to do the trick. So go ahead and add a little flavor to your wardrobe with this one-of-a-kind piece.
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One couldn't blame White Rock's Tibor Tusnady for feeling a little flushed these days – after all, he's just become B.C.'s newest millionaire.
Tusnady, a retired pharmacist, won $16.4 million , after matching all six numbers in the April 15 Lotto 6/49 draw. His ticket – purchased at the Elgin Esso on Crescent Road in South Surrey – was the only one in Canada to win the jackpot.
"It's a big, big shock," Tusnady, 63, said during a moving Facebook live interview with BCLC interim president and CEO Greg Moore. "I already warned the bank I'm coming with a big cheque."
Tusnady (pronounced Tush-nady) told BCLC it took some time for him to get a handle on the situation. He was sitting on the toilet at home when he decided to check his 6/49 tickets against the winning numbers.
"I Googled the numbers," he said. "I took my ticket out and checked and just went blank. I tried to take a deep breath, let it register, and went back and checked again and again."
In shock, he waited till the next day to drop the bomb on his wife.
"The next day, after lunch, I held my wife's hand and said, 'Look, I have something to tell you and I don't want anything to change with us,'" Tusnady recounted.
After that, Tusnady shared the good news with relatives across Canada and in Hungary via video meetings.
At first, "nobody believed it," he said.
"Everybody thinks it's a joke."
He claimed the prize via BCLC's alternative prize-claim process.
Tusnady said travel will be on his family's to-do list once the pandemic has passed – and the plane tickets will seat them at the front of the aircraft from now on.
The virtual celebration was BCLC's first.
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Just getting word that a bike belonging to a friend of a friend was stolen last night from in front of the Sheraton Hotel at 7th and Hope Streets, across from Macy's Plaza.
The bike is a black men's Virtue roadster-style, with black tires, black seat, a rear rack and a bent back fender. It was reportedly parked next to a police cruiser when the brazen thief cut the cable lock and took of with the bike.
If you see the bike, don't try to stop the thief yourself; call the police and let them deal with it. Then contact me so I can pass word on to the owner.
Bike theft is one of the few forms of crime on the upswing in Los Angeles, offering thieves the perfect storm of easy opportunity, high reward and low risk.
Protect yourself by using a heavy-duty U-lock any time you're going to be away from your bike for more than a few minutes; as this case shows, most cable locks provide little protection. Record your bike's serial number in a safe place, and keep current photos showing the way it looks now to aid in recovery.
And I strongly recommend signing up for free or low cost bicycle registration from Bike Shepherd or the National Bike Registry.
Then again, if Downtown L.A. had a bike center where riders could securely store their bikes, this theft — and countless others — might never have happened.


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Top 10 Writing Websites for the Elementary ClassroomThere are so many great websites out there for Elementary students that I decided to put together some Top 10 Lists for websites to use in the upcoming school year. For the next few weeks, I'll be posting lists of sites to use for various subjects. And feel free to leave a comment with any additional sites that might help everyone with this week's subject – Writing.
Although I still do quite a bit of writing with my students in regular pencil and paper format with my writing journals (I have on for each Genre and you can download the pack for the whole year at my TPT store.) My students also spend quite a bit of time composing writing in front of the computer. I use these sites as both in class activities and homework assignments. In addition to being great publishing sites, most (not all) of these sites allow other students (and me!) to leave commentary on the student's work, further enhancing the writing process.
1.) Storybird – This website allows students to choose from a variety of art sets and use the images to create online storybooks. I have used this site with Kindergarten through 5th grade, always with success. On a free teacher account, you can have up to 60 students and 3 classes under you. There are paid accounts if you need more than this. Students can order pdf and hard copies of their storybooks as well – for a free. The images the students use help to guide their story and provide ideas for details. My ESL students especially love having the pictures to draw from. The only downfall I have found from this site is that once you choose an art set, you are stuck with it for that story (there are generally 15 – 60 pictures in an art set), and if you can't find the picture you want, you don't have other options. (Find more info on how I use Storybird HERE.)
2.) Edublogs – This website allows you to set up student blogs for free if you set each one up individually. (If you want your class blogs connected, I'm pretty sure you have to pay for a premium account.) Students have access to a wordpress – type format, where they create blogs that are available for all to read. My students shared their blogs with other students in other countries (Bermuda and Wales) this year and swapped comments on the various blogs. It was a great way for them to learn about writing and about other countries. Check out the official blogging project at Global Teacher Connect. (Find more info on how I use Edublogs HERE.)
3.) Kidblog - Simillar to Edublogs, Kidblog allows you to create a blog for each student, but the blogs are not available to the public. Instead, you have a class space, and only students from their class can provide comments on student blogs. This provides more security, but less flexibility when it comes to sharing student work.
4.) Story Jumper – Similar to storybird, Story Jumper allows students to create online storybooks. The program is slightly more primary in appearance than storybird, but it has features storybird does not have, including allowing students to use a variety of clip art and even their own photographs. Students can order a hard copy of their book, but I haven't found anyplace where they can comment on each other's stories.
5.) Voki – While voki is generally thought of us a speech software program (Students design an avatar and record their voices to have the avatar speak.), it can also be a writing tool. Students can type in their writing and the avatar will "read" what they have written exactly as is. This is a great way for students to "hear" their writing read aloud, and has been an especially powerful tool for my ESL students. With Voki, as with most sites, there is a free edition and a premium edition. Free editions require each student to sign up separately, and give you less options on avatar choices.
6.) Little Write Brain – Like storybird and story jumper, Little Write Brain allows students to create online storybooks. However, Little Write Brain allows students to create characters, and gives them multiple "starter stories" that they can then add on to. Little Write Brain does not allow for printed books, but they do allow unlimited e-book creation. There is also nowhere for commentary, that I have seen.
7.) Google Docs – Many teachers use Google Docs for themselves, but don't think to use them with their students. Google Docs can be an easy and efficient way for students to publish pencil and paper writing, or to simply compose new stories. However, Google Docs is even more powerful if you change the privacy settings. If you change the "edit" settings to allow just you and the student to edit – it provides a great commentary method, or could provide a virtual journaling format. If you change the "edit" settings further, you can allow students to all type on a story together, and create collaborative writing. This could also be a great format for peer editing.
8.) Prezi – Although Prezi is technically a "presentation" tool, I also use it quite a bit when it comes to writing. If you are writing speeches for any purpose, or informational or persuasive writing, Prezi is a go-to tool where kids can easily work on separating out their ideas. The arrows in Prezi help with connections or transitions between ideas, and fact that you can adjust the "path" helps kids identify which ideas link to which other ideas. I have had students create Prezi presentations as an "add on" to a paper they have written, and I have had them break up their ideas into a maneuverable Prezi, and then write a paper to go with it – using Prezi more as the brainstorming technique. (Find more info on how I use Prezi here.)
9.) Edmodo – Although Edmodo is technically a digital classroom space, it has provided a great space for my students to work on writing skills. Each time, my students have to "respond" to posts that have to do with what they read, what they learned from videos they watched, what stories they were writing etc. Their responses (think short answer questions), gave them a quick way to practice conventions and grammar on a daily basis. Based on their responses to nightly homework, I shaped grammar and vocabulary mini-lessons. This was especially important for my ESL students who, in addition to responding to nightly homework questions, also spent a lot of time "chatting" and sharing videos in the "chat room" group that I created for that purpose.
10.) Read Write Think – Read Write Think has many printables that teachers use to help students organize writing, but they also have a great resource called Student Interactives. These interactives provide students with interactive organizational tools for various types of writing, including biographies, comparing and contrasting and even poetry. Using these interactives before writing can help students to organize their thoughts.
For more resources to integrate technology into your classroom, check out my Technology Integration Kit.
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I am so totally fuming! My son went to go on his xbox the other day only for a message to appear telling him his console has been banned- Why????
I telephoned support etc.. to ask and they said they could not say as my sons live account is still ok. they told me to go on the forum and report it to which I did and I received the same message as thousands of others on there which is a load of bull!
I want to know what you are going to do to sort this out- my son has not tried to buy or sell an account he has not done any hacking, he has not been rude to anyone and he has totally not broken any rules. No-one appears to be able to tell us the why's or
wherefores. My son's xbox is either unbanned or we arrange for you to refund all monies for both accounts in our house as well as compensating for all monies been spent on games etc... over the years. If you are not willing to do any of this please provide
me with your details names addresses etc... including contacts in the UK if this is the USA so we can commence legal proceedings.
I will look forward to hearing from you very shortly.
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The first time I saw Patty was on the foto here (fifth one) although when Jed sent that foto, neither he nor I could identify it. Ultimately I met Patty and her guardians (She accepts no other terms.) About two years ago I had the good fortune of crewing for a similar tow. Sunday I happened to glance at AIS and saw this blip just west of SeaGate/Norton Point, which told me to mobilize the hot air balloon/photography team**.
As we zoomed in, we caught Patty and tow . . .with West Bank Light in the distance, and …
the Parachute Jump off to port her port.
This has all the appearance of a "Patchogue floating home" coming across
the west end of Jamaica Bay, with its antipodes Breezy Point to the left and Norton Point to the right. For a post I did two years ago about the fascinating but incongruous wildlife in Jamaica Bay, click here.
For you outatowners, Patty and house are traversing the sixth boro, that central previously-unnamed core
of New York City, with its Barren Island-turned-airfield-turned-Barren Island Park and
its distant views of Manhattan cliffs, and its
other 32 islands in Jamaica Bay alone. This too is Brooklyn!
And looking over into Queens and then Long Island, that in the distance is JFK (ex-Idlewild) Airport. After delivering its tow, Patty races
back upriver with a favorable tide.
**Oh . . . I lied about the hot air balloon. A total fabrication . . . a shameless bit of dissembling that was, but it sounds so much more exciting than the prosaic "I hurried to southern Brooklyn for a shot from Gil Hodges Bridge."
The final shot here of Patty in stealth mode trying to blending into April foliage . . . thanks to bowsprite. All others by Will Van Dorp, virtual hot-air balloonist photographer.
Someone asked why Patty has an awning: in addition to commercial tows, she does picnic charters!! A virtual Patty-of-all-trades.


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A sturdy corollary emerges in the wake of the graphic artist Frank Miller's recent diatribe against the Occupy Wall Street movement ("A pack of louts, thieves, and rapists … Wake up, pond scum, America is at war against a ruthless enemy"), available for perusal at frankmillerink.com). That corollary, of which we should be reminded from time to time, is this: popular entertainment from Hollywood is – to greater or lesser extent – propaganda. And Miller has his part in that, thanks to films such as 300 and Sin City.
Perhaps you have had this thought before. Perhaps you have had it often. I can remember politics dawning on me while watching a Steven Seagal vehicle, Under Siege, in 1992. I was in my early 30s. The film was without redeeming merit – there's no other way to put it – and it was about a "ruthless enemy" and the reimposition of the American social order through violence and rugged individualism. Why had I paid hard-earned money for it? Good question. Before Under Siege, I had a tendency to think action films were funny. I had a sort of Brechtian relationship to their awfulness. And I was amused when films themselves recognised the level to which they stooped, as Under Siege assuredly did.
The moment of revelation could have come at any time. It could have come earlier, and it did among my more astute friends. Had I watched any of the later Rocky pictures, for example, or had I watched Rambo, I might have registered that there was little depicted in these frames but feel-good, reactionary message-deployment. But there were, apparently, films too embarrassing for me to see, Rocky IV and Rambo among them. I remember thinking True Lies, the abominable 1994 James Cameron film (featuring Republican governor-to-be Arnold Schwarzenegger), with its big, concluding nuclear blast – the nuclear blast we were meant to want to see – was, well, more than suspect. (I could never again watch a Cameron film without disgust. And that includes the racist, New Age blather of Avatar.) Or what about the expensive and aesthetically pretentious Gladiator (2000), which I still contend is an allegory about George W Bush's candidacy for president, despite the fact that director and principal actor were not US citizens. Is it possible to think of a film such as Gladiator outside of its political subtext? Are Ridley Scott's falling petals, which he seems to like so much that he puts them in his films over and over again, anything more than a way to gussy up the triumph of oligarchy, corporate capital and globalisation?
The types of men (almost always men) who have historically favoured the action film genre, it's safe to say, are often, if not always, politically conservative: Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Mel Gibson, even Clint Eastwood (former Republican mayor of Carmel, California), all proud defenders of a conservative agenda, and/or justifiers of vigilantism. With some of these celebrities, the kneejerk qualities of their politics are self-evident, and in other cases (Eastwood), the reactionary part of their world view is more nuanced. But the brand of politics is the same.
And yet with action films, the moral and political ideas in play are surpassingly easy to spot. What about the entertainment films that came later, during the era of CGI – the big-budget films primarily generated from more imaginary fare, such as the apparently numberless comic book franchises of Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Captain America, et al? In these cases, the moral framework of the product is just as simplistic as in action films, if not more so, and the triumph of the social order is just as violent, and just as relentless, though the films are couched in a sugary glaze of graphics and "wow" moments that distract from ideological branding. The CGI sheen is seductive enough that it's sometimes difficult to divine the message at first. You are too busy being bludgeoned by the sounds and lights. Nevertheless, the message is there. Might is right, the global economy will be restored, America is exceptional, homely people deserve political disenfranchisement, and so on. It bears mentioning that these are films that are in many cases being marketed to children. When I was a kid, you could not gain admission to a film such as Dirty Harry or The French Connection. But an American adolescent can now see Batman in The Dark Knight, rated PG-13, without much difficulty.
The film 300, directed by Zack Snyder, based on a Frank Miller graphic novel of the same name, is just what you would expect from the heavily freighted right-wing filmic propaganda of the post-9/11 period: the Greeks, from which our own putative democracies are descended, must fight to the death against a vast but incompetent army of Persians (those hordes of the Middle East), who are considered here unworthy of characterisation – in fact, every character in the film is unworthy of characterisation – and the noble Spartans (the Greeks in question) achieve heroism despite their glorious deaths on the field at Thermopylae, by virtue of the moral superiority of their belief system and their unmatched courage. Ruthless enemy! From the Middle East! Heroic, rugged individualists! A big, sentimental score! Lots and lots of blue-screen! Endless amounts of body parts spewing theatrical blood!
It's a barely watchable film, but what from Hollywood these days is not similarly unwatchable, when so many high-profile releases are based on a medium, the comic book, made expressly to engage the attentions of pre- and just post-pubescent boys. At least comic books themselves are so politically dim-witted, so pie-in-the-sky idealistic as to be hard to take seriously. But in the films of this era, the Marvel and DC era of Hollywood, even when the work is not self-evidently shilling for large corporations (with product placement) or militating for a libertarian and oligarchical political status quo (which makes a fine environment for large, multinational corporations), the work is doing nothing at all to oppose these things. Paying your $12.50, these days, is not unlike doing a few lines of cocaine and pretending you don't know about the headless bodies in Juarez.
With this in mind, an honest recognition of cinematic propaganda, we shouldn't be shocked by Frank Miller's comments about Occupy Wall Street. It is naive to be shocked by them. But let's evaluate the particulars of his remarks just the same. Miller tries to repel the OWS message ("Maybe, between bouts of self-pity and all the other tasty titbits of narcissism you've been served up in your sheltered, comfy little worlds, you've heard terms like al-Qaeda and Islamicism") by reminding us that we are at war. This despite the fact that OWS is focused primarily on income inequality, and thus mainly taken up with domestic politics, such that OWS doesn't really take a position on the "ruthless enemy" and doesn't need to. Miller's particular approach, the warmongering approach, is self-evidently reminiscent of the Bush/Cheney years, in which any domestic reversal was followed by an elevated level on the colour-coded risk-assessment wheel. But in this post-Iraq war moment – when the most aggravated conspiracies we seem to have in New York City involve, for example, a lone Dominican guy who advertises his hatred of the government on Facebook and who may have been entrapped by local police – our "ruthless enemy" just doesn't seem quite as numerous as Miller's Persian hordes.
Beyond Bush-Cheney fear-mongering, Miller's further complaint seems to be that people who camped outdoors in Zuccotti Park for two months were not terribly clean. (The Spartans were no doubt tidier in Thermopylae.) But if the crowd of 32,000 who turned up to march in NYC last Thursday – after the "pond scum" had been ejected from the park – are any indication, this hygiene issue is no longer a reliable talking point for Miller (or for Newt Gingrich, the rightwing posterboy of the late 80s who has now entered the race for the Republican presidential noimination). The 32,000 included some professional types, at least one retired police officer and lots of elderly people, many of whom had recently showered. Same thing at UC Davis, and at Berkeley. Those college kids usually have showers in their dorms.
Miller also accuses the OWS protesters of being too technologically savvy. For example, he accuses them of playing Lords of Warcraft. Now, I admit it, I know nothing of multiplayer online role-playing games, nor do I own an iPhone nor an iPad. Nevertheless, I maintain I am correct in imagining that what Miller actually means here is World of Warcraft. This superficial mistake (suggests what should be plain: that Miller wrote his jeremiad quickly, perhaps late at night, when a lack of restraint is often linked with the onset of unconsciousness. He didn't bother to reread it. He therefore overlooks at least one obvious point. Namely, no one is more likely to play World of Warcraft than the kind of adolescent boy who also thinks 300 is quality cinematic product.
Miller's hard-right, pro-military point of view is not only accounted for in his own work, but in the larger project of mainstream Hollywood cinema. American movies, in the main, often agree with Frank Miller, that endless war against a ruthless enemy is good, and military service is good, that killing makes you a man, that capitalism must prevail, that if you would just get a job (preferably a corporate job, for all honest work is corporate) you would quit complaining. American movies say these things, but they are more polite about it, lest they should offend. The kind of comic-book-oriented cinema that has afflicted Hollywood for 10 years now, since Spider-Man, has degraded the cinematic art, and has varnished over what was once a humanist form, so Hollywood can do little but repeat the platitudes of the 1%. And yet Hollywood tries still not to offend.
Does that make American cinema cryptofascist? Is "cryptofascist" a word that you can use in an essay like this? I keep trying to find a space somewhere between "propagandistic" and "cryptofascist" to describe my feelings about Miller's screed. But perhaps it's more accurate to say the following: whatever mainstream Hollywood cinema is now, Frank Miller is part of it. And Frank Miller has done Occupy Wall Street a service by reminding us that our allegedly democratic political system, which increases inequality and decreases class mobility, which is mostly interested in keeping the disenfranchised where they are, requires a mindless, propagandistic (or "cryptofascist") storytelling medium to distract its citizenry. We should be grateful for the reminder. And we might repay the favor by avoiding purchase of tickets to Miller's films.


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Why do networks need SAI?Today in our production networks, we deploy a multitude of vendors across many layers, whether ASIC manufacturers or switch vendors. The reality is that something as basic as getting switches to forward packets requires undifferentiated work - be it basic Access Control List (ACL) rules, managing the Routing Information Base (RIB), programming chips, and managing its Forwarding Information Base (FIB). Even basic routing protocols are now all undifferentiated work. Yet, the underlying complexity of the hardware, and the strict coupling of protocol stack software to the hardware, denies us the freedom to pick and choose the combination of hardware and software that is the best suited for our networking needs. SAI allows software to program many different switch chips without undergoing any changes. This helps us to keep the base router platform simple, consistent, and stable. It also reduces the time to market, and enables the adoption of the latest available hardware easily. It breaks the software-hardware coupling and allows us to cherry pick the best fit of software and hardware on a "need by application" or a "need by network basis". By providing simple, consistent interfaces for applications and protocol stacks that orchestrate and automate cloud services, it helps consume the underlying complex and heterogeneous hardware easily. This helps in shifting our focus to applications that require integrating our network with our cloud. SAI is, therefore, a big step towards open networking software. Additionally, SDKs are APIs commonly written in simple C like functions enabling the applications/protocol stack access to the switching ASIC. However, different switching vendors will have different SDKs serving as a wrapper for their proprietary algorithms. SAI is not just another SDK wrapper but a standardized API. A standardized API allows network hardware vendors to develop innovative hardware architectures to achieve great speeds while keeping the programming interface consistent. As new hardware functions are exposed, hardware vendors can introduce extensions to the API. Revisions to the baseline standard could occur. This would introduce change at the hardware programming level, but this change would be much less frequent than today as it would only be required for functional changes, not simply implementation differences.
Working with the Community to Build SAIStarting off we had three main goals:
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- Demonstrate the ease of implementation of a Layer 3 IP router
- To deploy a SAI implementation in an operator's network.
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All About Eve arose out of Britain's '80s goth rock scene with a unique, folk-rock-influenced take on the style. Former journalist and Gene Loves Jezebel bassist Julianne Regan was encouraged by members of the Mission U.K. to form her own band after singing background vocals on some of their material. She assembled former Aemotti Crii members Tim Bricheno (guitar) and Andy Cousin (bass), plus drummer Mark Price, and sprinkled her songs with references to hippiedom and white-magic mysticism. Their self-titled debut sold well in the U.K. in 1988 and produced the hit "Martha's Harbour." Following the release and tour of their difficult second record Scarlet and Other Stories, Bricheno left the group and subsequently joined Sisters of Mercy.
The band regrouped, with the Church mainstay Marty Willson-Piper taking over on guitar. The resulting record, Touched By Jesus, was met with a lukewarm reception, and the band decided on a stylistic change for their next LP. 1994's Ultraviolet got lost in the shuffle, and problems with how the record company percieved the band added to an already stressful situation. A short time later, All About Eve called it a day, with Julianne Regan going on to form Mice, work with Bernard Butler, start the atmospheric Jules et Jim project, and a regular day job.
When it seemed that the band would never be heard from again, old friends the Mission decided to start touring again, and asked Regan if she was interested in opening. This was enough to not only get the band back together but to start touring on their own. After the tour with the Mission, All About Eve embarked on what turned out to be two years worth of acoustic gigs, and in 2000 released the first collection of unplugged highlights, entitled Fairy Light Nights. Fairy Light Nights, Vol. 2 and more acoustic shows appeared in 2001. ~ Chris True & Steve Huey, Rovi
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Good morning readers. Thanks for coming by for a read this morning.
I sat in a Mexican food cafe in Snora the other morning chowing down on a buffet breakfast I hadn't asked ahead of time how much would cost. After all, how much could they charge for a buffet breakfast, anyway?
Well, that's another story. What I was going to say was that the table next to me had five men having breakfast together. Obviously something they did frequently, judging from the conversation. None of them gave off the physical aura of having missed many big breakfasts for a while.
But these were serious, corn fed Texas men wearing cowboy hats and gimme caps with an air of having shiny new pickups with dual wheels out in the parking lot and weighty matters on their minds. Men of substance and strong opinions about what's wrong in this world and how to go about solving it.
Men, I thought as I eavesdropped on them, who wouldn't sit still for someone telling them what kind of Christmas or New Year to have, because these men were capable of figuring it out for themselves.
I learned a lot as I listened to them telling one another things the others weren't listening to while they waited for openings to allow themselves to tell the others things they wouldn't listen to.
But it was all right, because they were all saying pretty much the same things, anyway.
So I waited in a state of fingernail-chewing anticipation to find out whether one of them would slip up and tell the others what kinds of Christmas to have, causing a confrontation, a fist-fight, maybe a gunfight out in the parking lot. I hurried my meal so's if I had to duck under a table I'd have already packed my gut with as much as time allowed.
However, strangely enough, they all stirred the remains of their meals around on their plates, finished off whatever each had to say that the others wouldn't hear, and almost in unison, ordered one another to have a Merry Christmas. No steely eye squints. No, "Don't you tell ME what kind of Christmas to have, Charlie!"
Everyone made allowances, I suppose, for the fact it was breakfast ending and they had serious matters to attend and not enough time to do it. No time for a fist fight before getting on with it. Or maybe they just didn't hear what the others said, as they'd done throughout the meal. Didn't realize someone told them what kind of Christmas to have.
However, after thinking it and talking it over to the cats, I think my own approach is to mildly suggest that you readers have whatever sort of Christmas you want to have. But if you choose not to, it's okay. I'm not insisting.
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CNN's Rene Marsh reports on why the Transportation Department is proposing minimum sound requirements for electric cars.
"I remember way when. The kids (us), would stick a lolly-stick between bike spokes, just to hear a noise."
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Editor's Note: Imagine that there are secrets about video games buried under the soil on which you stand. The mysterious person known as Superannuation wields a shovel; so please step a little to the left and see what Superannuation is digging up just for you...
Ubisoft's Far Cry 3 was originally going to be a rather different game than the odd, paranoia-tinged open-world FPS we have seen of late, according to a listing on the portfolio of the game's original narrative director, Raphael van Lierop.
Van Lierop, who left Ubisoft Montreal towards the end of the game's pre-production in late 2009, suggests the company wanted to break away from the divisive Far Cry 2, and position Far Cry 3 as a "reboot" of the exotic, sandbox shooter franchise from the onset of the game's development. He says he worked with God of War writer Marianne Krawczyk and Lost writer Jesse Alexander to craft "a deep and mature storyline for this open-world action game, incorporating elements of LOST and with a tone inspired by one of [van Lierop's] favourite authors, John LeCarre." Internally, [Far Cry 3] was positioned as 'LOST meets The Constant Gardener'," adds van Lierop.
Le Carre's Constant Gardener is a very curious influence for Far Cry 3—particularly for a game trying to break away from Far Cry 2. While the moral ambiguities and nuances of international relations color much of le Carre's work, The Constant Gardener has a far more clearly defined sense of right and wrong, and that sort of narrative informing Far Cry 3 would have made for an interesting thematic contrast with the Conrad-inspired chaos of its predecessor.
Additionally, Ubisoft was also keen "transmedia IP strategy" for Far Cry 3 at the time, including "multiple short films" that would complement the game's narrative a la Assassin's Creed: Lineage.
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According to a handful of online postings, it appears Disney's Chicago studio Wideload Games is working on a mobile Marvel title for the media giant. Despite an overall strategy shift and general tumult in Disney's interactive unit, there has been nary a word about the Stubbs the Zombie creators since the release of their charming Wii game Guilty Party nearly two years ago.
A senior recruiter at Walt Disney recently posted to a USC Google Group that Wideload is "currently working on a AAA 3D mobile game [with] a Marvel IP." Also, the LinkedIn profile of a software engineer who left Wideload in June mentions that the firm's "AAA mobile game" is "soon-to-be-announced."
Alongside this mobile game, Wideload quietly developed the Marvel XP hub for Playdom's Marvel: Avengers Alliance, and they also have started work on "a prototype for a new title using a popular Disney IP."
A level designer who also left Wideload in June says he began working on this iOS game in July 2010—that nearly two years on an iPhone game, which one might assume either means this is as ambitious as something like Infinity Blade or a complete mess. Given Wideload's somewhat idiosyncratic track record, hopefully it is the former.
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In recent months, Electronic Arts has been hiring for a new PopCap team at the EA Canada Burnaby campus that does not sound very much like anything that has come from PopCap before.
Among the handful of openings was one from April for a 3D animator—something that seems pretty peculiar given PopCap's history as primarily developing 2D games. However, that is nowhere near as baffling as the description of the job in the listing, which mentions that the animator is involved in the synthesis of "gameplay, storytelling and character movement" by making "emotionally believable characters that allow game players to interact with the game, whether photorealistic or stylized, in a realistic and believable fashion."
In addition, the listing states that "The Animator will be involved from idea and prototype creation and the directing of actors and stuntmen during motion capture sessions, to the final stage when animating and implementing the results into the game." Quite curiously they are also desiring candidates with experience developing console games—which is somewhat unusual since PopCap games do not typically start off on consoles.
For most companies, it would not be weird to have any of that among the copy in a job listing, but this is PopCap—the company that created the likes of Peggle, Plants Vs. Zombies, Bejeweled and Zuma, none of which probably utilized any sort of motion capture or relied on emotionally-plausible characters. So whatever PopCap Burnaby is creating probably falls outside those franchises, though some plant motion capture or further characterization of Bjorn the Unicorn would be quite interesting to see.
Perhaps slightly weirder is this listing from around the same time for a multiplayer designer. The designer is tasked with creating multiplayer levels—specifically, "creating extremely fun & polished multiplayer maps." One of the requirements for the job was "Previous experience as a Multiplayer Level Designer on a shipped shooter or action title," and the studio was looking for a candidate with "Experience designing levels where the player has a lot of freedom to manipulate the gameplay space (destruction, construction, modification)." Finally, among the requirements in the world modeler listing is the line "Experience working with a cartoon style and tone."
A cartoony, mechanically-novel and possibly multiplayer-oriented 3D action game for consoles from PopCap does sound potentially interesting.
Also of note: EA Canada's recruiter mentions in her LinkedIn that there are "top secret teams [on the campus] who are working on new Intellectual Properties." Additionally, a few openings for "a new innovative game" at the Burnaby Play4Free team have popped up in the past few weeks.
superannuation is a self-described "internet extraordinaire" residing somewhere in the Pacific Time Zone. He tweets, and can be reached at heyheymayday AT gmail DOT com.
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A panel of college leaders from Pakistan will speak at Johnson County Community College about the role of education in fighting terrorism in their country.
The educators from the Sukkur Institute of Business Administration are scheduled to speak the evening of Sept. 18 at the Overland Park campus. The U.S. Embassy has provided the Kansas college a grant to work with the Pakistani school.
The event is open to the public and starts at 7 p.m. in the college's Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. A public reception will begin at 6 p.m. in the Nerman Atrium.


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With 30,000km of marked trails, Norway is the true home of cross-country skiing, the original and most effective means of getting yourself across snowbound winter landscapes. And it's easier and less daunting to learn than the more popular downhill variety (well, more popular outside Scandinavia – here, everyone is a cross-country skier from the age of 2).
As your skills develop, you'll soon want to take on more challenging hills (both up and down) and to test yourself a little more – there are different techniques for using cross-country skis on the flat, downhill and uphill.
And once you've mastered the basics, a truly beautiful winter world will open up. Popular ski resorts such as Voss, to the east of Bergen, offer a plethora of cross-country tracks, which snake their way under snow-shrouded forests and round lowland hills, while the Peer Gynt Ski Region, north of Lillehammer, has over 600km of marked trails winding through pine-scented forests, alongside frozen lakes and over huge whaleback mountains.
It may sound blindingly obvious, but try to go in the depths of winter, for in this season the low angle of the midwinter sun creates beautiful pastel shades of lilac, mauve and purple on the deep, expansive folds of hard-packed powder, especially at the start and end of the day.
Ski trails are graded for difficulty and length so you won't bite off more than you can chew, and you'll usually find various ski hütte (huts) along the way, where you can stop for a warming loganberry juice. As your skills develop, you may even want to take on a multiday tour, staying overnight at cosy mountain lodges and discovering the high country of Scandinavia in marvellously traditional fashion.
Most cross-country ski areas offer lessons and have skis and boots available for hire. For more information on Voss, see www.visitvoss.no.
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General relativity contains solutions in which two distant black holes are connected through the interior via a wormhole, or Einstein-Rosen bridge. These solutions can be interpreted as maximally entangled states of two black holes that form a complex EPR pair. We suggest that similar bridges might be present for more general entangled states.
In the case of entangled black holes one can formulate versions of the AMPS(S) paradoxes and resolve them. This suggests possible resolutions of the firewall paradoxes for more general situations.Cool horizons for entangled black holes Juan Maldacena, Leonard Susskind
One of the most enjoyable and inspiring physics papers I have read in recent years is this one by Mark Van Raamsdonk. Building on earlier observations by Maldacena and by Ryu and Takayanagi. Van Raamsdonk proposed that quantum entanglement is the fundamental ingredient underlying spacetime geometry. Since my first encounter with this provocative paper, I have often mused that it might be a Good Thing for someone to take Van Raamsdonk's idea really seriously. Entanglement=Wormholes preskill
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The new 17" MacBook Pro with a unibody construction and an integrated battery feels thinner than the previous version and really looks beautiful. Check out our gallery to see for yourself.
The 17" MacBook Pro is basically a supersized 15" with an Air no battery bottom, which is at the least aesthetically pleasing. But with no battery compartment there is now no way to easily change Ram or Hard drive. So have your #00 Phillips ready.
The unibody construction makes the machine feel much more compact when picking up and overall condenses the already thin casing. It does indeed feel heavier than any other MacBook model but that's to be expected from a 17" casing. The trackpad has also been updated to the same no physical button pad found in the other MacBook models and even though the 17" MacBook Pro is bigger the trackpad has not grown.
The 17" Glossy LCD looks crisp as it did on the previous version but the new black plastic border makes colors pop just as it does on the 15" Pro and 13" MacBook. For some reason apple is only showing the regular glossy LCD model today so we can't yet report on the new anti-glare model.
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A somewhat argumentative person on a social thread stated: "When someone is unfaithful during marriage it is not referred to as fornication, it is adultery. Matthew 19:9 is not talking about unfaithfulness during marriage it's talking about sex before marriage this is the proper context of the verse."
I was somewhat perplexed how anyone could interpret this passage in such a fallacious manner. I found after research that a number of confused individuals do in fact confuse the actual meaning of the passage in Matthew 19:9 which states, "And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.
Sexual immorality is the only basis allowed for divorce, because the act of sexual impropriety negates the bond. Some manuscripts add and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. When a man or woman has sexual relations with another person, the soul tie is broken with the mate, the delicate gold cord of matrimony is severed. It is a spiritual law, where all things in scripture reflect spiritual laws. However, the soul tie can be restored, but it requires both parties to be fully committed to the process.
The interpretation of the verse in Matthew has given occasion to acute controversy, where when the literal Greek is studied, its meaning is revealed. What is here meant by the Greek word used, porneia? Does it bear its usual meaning, or is it equivalent to μοιχεία, "adultery"? These who affirm that the sin of married persons is never expressed by the word porneia, hold that it here signifies ante-nuptial unchastity, which would make the marriage void; post-nuptial transgression would be punished by death, not by divorce. In this view, our Lord would say that no divorce is allowable except where the wife is proved to have been unchaste before marriage. In such a case, the union being void from the first, the man is free to marry again. But there are difficulties in this interpretation. Why, at the end of the verse, is it called adultery to marry the divorced woman, if she was never really and lawfully married? Again, it is not correct to say that porneia denotes solely the sin of unmarried people. All illicit connection is described by this term, and it cannot be limited to one particular kind of transgression.
In Ecclesiasticus 23:23 (Also known as the Book of Sirach)it is used expressly of the sin of an adulteress. We may also remark that metaphorically idolatry is often called by this name, whereas, since Israel is supposed to be married to the Lord, the breaking of this bend by the worship of false gods might more strictly be named adultery. And yet again, there is no proof that the discovery of previous immorality in a wife did ipso facto vitiate the marriage (see Hosea 1:2, etc.). The passages that are thought to bear on this matter are Deuteronomy 22:13-21 and Deuteronomy 24:1-4. In the former there is no question of divorce, - the offender is to be stoned; in the second passage the ground of divorce is "some uncleanness," or some unseemly thing, whether immorality or personal defect is meant cannot be decided, the rival schools taking different sides. But it is quite certain that adultery is not intended, and ante-nuptial unchastity is not even hinted. The interpretation, therefore as provided by the contentious person cannot be maintained.
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It's a Wonderful Life aired on television last weekend—one of its only 1999 broadcasts. Just a few years ago, the movie seemed to be shown on a different channel almost every day throughout the Christmas season. What changed?
U.S. copyright law determines who may distribute, display, or reproduce a film, a book, a drawing—essentially anything "fixed in a permanent medium," as the lawyers like to say. Works not covered by copyrights–including ones with copyrights that have expired and those that never secured this protection—are said to be in the "public domain." These works, like the near-ancient Sherlock Holmes stories and some of Charlie Chaplin's silent films, can be reproduced, broadcast, and sold freely.
It's a Wonderful Life entered the public domain by accident. In 1946, when the movie was filmed, U.S. copyright protection lasted 28 years and could be renewed for another 28 years by filing some paperwork and paying a nominal fee. However, Republic Pictures, the original copyright owner and producer of Wonderful Life, neglected to renew the 1946 copyright in 1974. So, the film entered the public domain. Though a box office flop on release, it became immensely popular on television thanks to repeated showings: Stations programmed it heavily during the holidays, paying no royalties to its producers, and more than 100 distributors sold the movie on tape.
Republic regained control of the lucrative property in 1993 by flexing a new Supreme Court ruling that determined that the holder of a copyright to a story from which a movie was made had certain property rights over the movie itself. Since Republic still owned the copyrighted story behind It's a Wonderful Life and had also purchased exclusive rights to the movie's copyrighted music, it was able to essentially yank the movie out of the public domain: It claimed that since Wonderful Life relied on these copyrighted works, the film could no longer be shown without the studio's blessing. (Technically, the film itself is not copyrighted. One could hypothetically replace the music, rearrange the footage, and sell or show the new product–but no one has done this.) In 1994, Republic * signed a "long-term" deal granting NBC exclusive rights to broadcast the movie, and the network typically does so between one and three times a year.
Wonderful Life won't re-enter the public domain for quite a while. Congress has repeatedly expanded copyright protections and made them effective retroactively. Most recently, at the behest of Disney and other large media corporations with soon-to-expire copyrights, Congress added 20 years to all existing copyright claims. They now stand at 95 years for copyrights held by corporations. (The copyright protection for individual writers and artists lasts 70 years beyond their deaths.) Thus, showings of Wonderful Life will remain limited well into the 21st century.
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I've sat on this post for almost two weeks, unsure of hitting publish. It's been changed a hundred times. This is becoming quite common with authors I know.
On the heels of publishing a new book, I've dealt with this kind of BS:
I'm talking about a different book going up on the same Thieving site each day. There are a lot of comments on the book links from those who have STOLEN them, and they are happy to have their stolen books.
I don't usually make a big deal out of this other than pulling out hair. I'll handle the site and move on, but suddenly it was as if a NEW thief discovered my books, and went nuts with all of them. Apparently, they caught me in the wrong mood this time.
One of my friends who found her books on the same site, pointed out that all the comments were the same on all the books. HUH? I checked, and yep, the same comments are on all my books, too, word for word. Did they steal the photos for use in fake comments? This sounds like a phishing scam where a person can sign up for the membership then have access to books…stolen books. If this is the case, they get something FREE all right and it isn't usually a STOLEN book.
If the site truly has my books, sure, I can send the site a *DMCA Take Down Notice, which is time consuming when you have multiple books. In fact, I could've written seven chapters for the time it took to write this blog alone after many revisions and deletions. Many.
I suppose I will have to pay big bucks, to hire a service do do takedown notices for me. I'd rather spend time writing instead of chasing thieves–unless it's one sexy hunk of a pirate we all love from a famous movie series. *WINK*
You don't see me freaking upset very often, well, maybe never, and I'm sorry for this rant, but anyone who depends on book sales to survive–to pay bills and eat, which I DO, dammit, understands where I'm coming from.
If you are concerned about this, I advise you to set up alerts to be notified of where your content is popping up on the web. I use Google Alerts. To find out more, go to your search engine and type in Google Alerts.
Disclaimer: No, I'm not making anything by mentioning them. This is what I use, and you can use whatever alert system/site you choose.
- What kind of items should I add to an alert? I can only tell you what I use. You will have to use what fits your particular need.
In my alerts, I use:
- Phrases found in the books.
- Book title.
- Phrases from excerpts.This also alerts me to webpages who use some of my lines without permission. Grrr…
I've seen lines from my book, Howdy, Ma'am, as the title of a blog post. Of course, howdy, ma'am by itself is common, but when they use lines from my book as a quote to go with their blog post titled Howdy, Ma'am–without permission, I might add, and with no acknowledgement, then they are infringing on my copyright.
- Series titles.
- Tags. (Which is how I was notified for some of the recent THEFTS–bull rider for instance.)
- Whatever else fits my need per book.
Yes, I do get some very weird alerts for tags on my Bull Rider Series titles–especially Hey, Cowboy from personal ads. Can you imagine what I get using the keyword "cowboy" during football season? Actually, I like getting these kind of alerts because it isn't about a stolen book. I don't go searching for my stolen books unless I get an alert, because I don't have time.
If you set up alerts like this for whatever capacity in which you are posting creative works, you may be surprised at what you find. Unless you don't want to know, of course. It does tend to raise the blood pressure and increase the heart rate. And, dealing with the whole situation takes up a hell of a lot of time.
I'm done now.
- This law lets copyright owners have their stolen work removed from infringing sites.
I suggest you do your own search for more information. There are too many sites out there providing DMCA information, and I'm not comfortable posting a link to a site I know nothing about.
One site I know of, which is used by many authors to search for their books and issue takedown notices, is Muso. I don't use them as of yet. There are others, so do your research. Also, if using a site such as this, you have the option to check each suspected thief manually instead of letting notices be sent to every alert on your behalf. You surely don't want a book taken down from a site you might've used for promotion, and have allowed the book to be there.
Disclaimer: I am not personally recommending any service or website in particular, and do not receive anything from Muso for mentioning their name. You can send your own DMCA Take Down Notices without the help of any service. Everyone has to do what is best for them. Again, do your own research.
It's a good idea to have a post office box and maybe a separate email for filling out forms such as takedown notices.
I've turned off Sharing buttons for this because I don't want to scream to the world, however, you guys are the world, but you're special and know how hard I work at this business.
Thanks for sitting through my rant. I'm sure it'll be a long time before I blow up again.
Have a great summer.


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Double Bridge Cache – Cool As
Posted by TravellingStrom on June 6, 2012
Mayan Prophecy Countdown
Well, the Hotel Panorama may have a great view of the castle, but at this moment as it underwent a face lift, it was less than impressive looking. But, the big bugger who spent all night protecting the vehicles from wandering gypsies had done a great job and my bike was safe 🙂
It was another cold day, overcast but dry at this stage. I had checked out the weather report and it seems it will be dry until I get near the Black Forest tomorrow. I forgot to mention last night when I entered town, I had heard a screaming noise coming from the bike, and with helmet and ear plugs it must have been loud from out there!!! I pulled over and checked what was going on, I had visions of a busted gearbox or something, but no, what has happened is the lower tool tube on the left side had shifted and pushed the chain guard onto the chain(which is now nice and shiny), then the chain had started on the tube!! I shifted it all back out of the way yesterday, but I am now in need of a new chain guard, the old one is cactus!
Anyway, I headed off south and was basically taking it easy. After some thought about it, I ditched the plan of staying outside Vienna and riding in in the morning rush hour and phoned the same hotel and booked a cheaper room for the night, it was comforting to know I had a bed before I left 😉 At one of the stops I made for a leak I bumped into a fellow rider by the cool name of Richard, well met m8 🙂 He is a pom and was traveling to Poland on a GS650 beemer, and when queried said he bought it because it gets 80mpg, so not a bad choice. Now, Ellie may be interested in this as she has the same bike, this is a factory lowered bike and HAS a center stand installed at the factory, so it can be done. Maybe you can contact BMW and buy the stand aftermarket and install it yourself?
I asked about his gear and he reckons he just rode from England in the rain and was dry, so here is another option, buy a whole new set of gear to stay dry, plus he has ridden it through some deserts and it was fine with the venting and lining removal. Two other fellow riders had given me advice about gear, Mark from the US and Beemerbird from Oz, I respect both riders and their knowledge but each came up with a different solution. Here is Mark Harfenist's thoughts
quote " Ok Richard, I figure you've finally suffered enough. I'm going to tell you how to stay dry on a motorcycle. Go out and buy some cheap (but not TOO cheap) trekking gear: rain jacket, rain pants. Size the jacket to fit under your expensive "waterproof" motorcycling jacket. Be sure to get one with an integrated hood
Size the rainpants to go over your expensive "waterproof" motorcycling pants. Best bet is to get them with full or partial zippered legs. Be sure they've got a fly–some don't.
You'll look and feel stupid, but you'll stay dry. Oh, and for gloves, best you can do is to locate some handlebar muffs–I use a brand called "Hippo Hands" which you can google to get the idea. Good ones are great–cheap ones don't fit and don't work. Your hands will stay dry (as well as warm)
All of this is optional if you're headed someplace warm and/or dry. But if you happen to be headed further north, as you should–Norway is one of the best places on the planet for motorcycling–you'll be glad. The alternative is to continue suffering, and continue berating the manufacturers of all that expensive "waterproof" gear. They don't care." end quote
So that was OK, but then I have Beemerbird saying ditch the oversuit stuff:
quote"Mate, I feel for you in all the rain!!!!
BUT – do get yourself some WATERPROOF riding gear – NOT extra stuff that you have to put on when it rains, which takes up space, too!!! I gave up that sort of useless gear many, many years ago, like when I first started travelling in 2007!!!
Please do have a look at the FIRSTGEAR stuff, it is wonderful, and WATERPROOF, which is why a large percentage of the LD riders in USA use it – no stopping to don extra gear when it rains, just keep on riding!
Here: http://www.motorcyclegear.com/street/jackets_and_vests/all_types/first_gear/
The TPG Ranier, on closeout, is what I have, but there are limited sizes left at $232 (less than half price), mostly XXL etc, with one Medium.
The Kathmandu or the Kilimanjaro would be suitable, and waterproof. Or the Teton!!!
Well, as you probably know – I hate heat, but wore my TPG Ranier all the way down through Africa, and in Europe/UK the past two years. And they have the separate inner jacket, which can be worn as a standalone "dress" jacket, too. However, I rarely ever wear the liner/jacket, unless it is pretty cold – like here in Tassie at present!! Sheeesh, it's freezin'! I wanna go overseas into the warmth!
I unzip the front zip (always!!) to get air onto my chest, unless it is freezing or pissing down, when I then zip it up. I also cut off the foldaway helmet hood, as I found it too bulky around my neck.
Personally, I reckon they are the bees knees for travellers like us, as they offer the best protection without having to carry extra w/ps." end quote
So, you can see I have some thinking to do and now Richard threw another set of gear into the ring, HELD made here in Germany. I also recall Anthony's wax motorbike jacket which is a cheaper option and he stayed dry as well, so at least there will be a solution, as to which one I will go for, well, stay tuned folks 🙂
We both headed off in different directions and my next stop was about 20km down the track for a cache, this one was a bit tricky to find as the tree cover in the woods made the GPS co-ordinates very inaccurate, but I eventually located my first Czech cache, although there was nothing interesting about the site to go there, it was just a short trip off the motorway.
I had to be careful at that site as the council workers were clearing the kerbs, but not a major drama to keep out of sight 🙂 Next stop another 20km down the road for a cache called Double Bridge, a slight detour here as it sounded interesting when I did the research yesterday and it was not long before I was on the older bridge under the new one 🙂
Ing. Brázdil & Dr. Ješ' started building the original bridge in 1936, but because of WWII all work on the highway was stopped.
After WWII work on the highway continued, almost the whale bridge was finished, but the government had other priorities and stopped all work on the highway. Construction was abandoned. It became overgrown with vegetation.
In late 60's work on the highway slowly started again. But unfortunately the bridge had been built to outdated specifications. The completed bridge would have been too narrow, too low and possibly too weak. It was decided to build new bridge over the old one.
Nowadays the old bridge is used for local traffic between Horice and Vojslavice and you can use it while visiting the cache.
I had more workers right next to this cache also, but they were working in a storm drain so they could not see me grab the magnetic cache from inside the armco barrier. It was still cold although the cloud cover was breaking up and all the rest of the caches I had loaded on the GPS were well off the track I was on, so I decided to head to Vienna. I arrived in peak hour traffic of course!
But, I was soon booked in and receiving bad news 😦 Apparently it is a public holiday here in Austria tomorrow, which may mean the embassy is closed!!! But as today is Wednesday and they are closed, I cannot call to find out, bugger! But all I can hope for is they are open(as they are not Austrian) and if not, well I will change the plan eh! 🙂 So I headed down the road to have veal sausages and fried potatoes and a beer. I had an early night as for some reason I was tired, maybe the wind and the cold from today. I once again looked at the weather, no change, so I decided right there and then, I will NOT ride the 850km to the Vstrom meeting. I will see what happens at the embassy, then make a decision from that outcome. If I get the visa I will head away but as soon as the riding conditions become too wet and cold, stop and do the remainder the next day. If I have to stay here another day, well, I will sort that out if it happens.
Cheers from Vienna
4 Responses to "Double Bridge Cache – Cool As"
June 7, 2012 at 14:55
+1 on the First Gear Kilimanjaro. I'm on my 3rd – they don't work as well after you've slid down the road in one, though 😉
June 9, 2012 at 19:55
++1 on the First Gear Kilimanjaro. The really nice polar fleece style zip out line is toasty in central European weather or the Pacific Northwest. When you warm up, zip it out. The outer jacket is indeed waterproof. I rode down an interstate highway, in a cold rain during rush hour with lots of spray from other vehicles. I also had on First Gear pants. At the end of the day, a small portion of inner shirt by my overhanging belly was wet (a patch no larger than a papaya).
http://www.motorcyclegear.com is my source (in Texas). Best of luck staying dry.


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Nov. 22, 2013— -- For most pet owners, man's best friend is another member of the family and deserves the best care, but a former veterinarian says that some vets, out to make an extra buck, will pad the bill with unnecessary shots, tests and procedures.
Andrew Jones worked as a veterinarian for 17 years. He left the industry after a dispute with his medical board over marketing issues, and wrote a book called, "Veterinary Secrets: Revealed."
"I'm clearly not making friends within the veterinarian industry, but I feel I'm saying things that need to be said, that aren't being said," Jones said.
As a young veterinarian working at a clinic in British Columbia, Jones said he got an early lesson about upselling after telling a pet owner whose dog had a lump to just monitor it. At the time, Jones said he was fairly certain the dog's lump was a benign fatty tumor, but said the clinic owner quickly clued him in on the effectiveness of using the dreaded "c" word: cancer.
"The practice owner... said, 'no, that's not how you do it... what you need to do is get that dog back in... It's going to be much more profitable for the practice,'" Jones said. "He said that it might be cancer. And it's-- usually the 'c' word, pet owners get really concerned and they say, 'do whatever you need to make sure it's not serious.'"
Throughout his career, Jones said he discovered a dark reality about some veterinarians in the United States and Canada, including himself.
"They feel that pressure of, 'I've got these overhead costs to make,' and that's where your judgment gets caught," he said.
Jones said that, under pressure from bosses, he ordered services that were not needed. He said "no question" he would have been fired if he hadn't done as his bosses asked.
"If I didn't meet this certain target, then yeah, my employment was at threat."
But Jones said even after he owned his own clinic, at times, he continued upselling.
"There are things... that I did as a practice owner, where in hindsight, probably didn't need to be done," he said. "For instance, seeing a dog that has a little bit of tartar... then I might say, 'I think your dog should have a dental cleaning'... It's obviously more profitable for the practice."
To see if other veterinarians pushed unneeded services, as Jones claimed, ABC News conducted an undercover investigation at vet clinics in New York and New Jersey, using two different dogs, Maeby, a 5-year-old mutt, and Honey, a 5-year-old pitbull.
To make sure Maeby and Honey were healthy canines, their owners brought them to Dr. Rebecca Campbell, a well-respected Manhattan veterinarian, for thorough exams. After Campbell gave the dogs a clean bill of health, they were taken to other vet clinics for a routine check-up to see if further tests or treatments were recommended.
Most places found Maeby to be healthy. One New York vet said that except for a "tiny bit of tartar" on her teeth, everything else checked out. But a veterinarian at one New Jersey clinic also noticed that bit of tartar and recommended the pet owner have Maeby come in for an annual teeth cleaning -- for dogs that means it is performed under general anesthesia.
"She could have a lot of worse stuff going on and I'd never see it unless she was under anesthesia," the vet told Maeby's owner.
Then on Maeby's exam report, the vet had indicated she had "dental disease." The cost of that recommended teeth cleaning under general anesthesia was $250.
Jones said animal dental treatments are "the big upsell."
"Very much on the McDonalds' equation of, 'would you like fries with that,'" he said.
The New Jersey vet later told ABC News that she stood by her recommendation, saying that some larger dogs over the age of four can benefit from an annual cleaning and risks posed by anesthesia are minimal.
But, in offering another perspective, Dr. Marty Becker, one of the country's leading experts in veterinary care, said he wouldn't recommend a cleaning "unless [the dog] needed it" and that putting the dog under anesthesia can be dangerous.
"If it does not have periodontal disease, there's no use putting it through the risk of anesthesia," Becker said.
Another big ticket item on vets' bills, Jones said, are vaccination costs, and he said some vets can be quick to push the shots.
Every year, pet owners are reminded that their animals are due for their annual vaccinations, but what many vets apparently fail to disclose is that, according to the latest guidelines from the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), some of the vaccines only need to be given once every three years.
According to the AAHA, an annual revaccination "booster," which includes multiple vaccines, is commonly recommended and most state and local laws mandate an annual rabies vaccine. But for other viral diseases, such as canine distemper virus (CDV) and canine parvovirus (CDV-2), the AAHA guidelines say that after dogs receive their 1-year-old booster vaccinations, then vaccines for those viral diseases can be administered every three or more years.
"A lot of people are still into giving them every year," Becker said. "But that is not the recommended protocol by the American Veterinary Medical Association."
It's important to note that vaccine guidelines differ for puppies, dogs with diagnosed immune or vitamin deficiencies and animals who have been in shelters or boarding facilities.
To find out what some vets recommend for vaccines, ABC News went undercover with Honey, the pitbull, who was up-to-date on her shots.
But at a New York clinic, the vet ordered Honey, who had the distemper vaccine two years ago, a new round of shots without asking about Honey's vaccination status, and then told Honey's owner that distemper was "typically an annual vaccine."
The New York clinic later told ABC News that a vet's individual judgment is just as important as the AAHA guidelines.
At another clinic, Honey was also told she had "dental disease" and was recommended for a $300 teeth cleaning under general anesthesia. That clinic didn't respond to ABC News' request for comment.
In the end, both undercover dog owners could have incurred hundreds of dollars for potentially unnecessary treatments.
When asked about upselling allegations in the industry, the American Veterinary Medical Association said in a statement to ABC News that its up to pet owners to decide whether to follow a vet's recommendations.
Jones said the majority of vets are ethical and try to do the right thing. Still, he cautioned pet owners to walk into their vet clinics with eyes wide open.
"One thing they should keep in mind is knowing that they're not going to be a veterinarian clinic, they're going to a business ... which is there to make a profit," he said. "You have, obviously, ultimate control over your dog or cat ... take charge of your own pet's health."


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No. 12 FSU takes commanding win over BC
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Criticized for conservative
play calling after blowing a 16-point lead last week, Florida State
went to the air from the get-go Saturday and didn't let
EJ Manuel threw for a career-high 439 yards and
four touchdowns and kicker Dustin Hopkins became the Atlantic Coast
Conference's career scoring leader as the 12th-ranked Seminoles
rebounded from their first loss of the season with a 51-7 victory over
Boston College.
Manuel, who completed 27 of 34 passes
before leaving early in the fourth quarter with a 48-7 lead, had little
to say afterward, though he was quite happy.
"I was
ready to go," Manuel said. "We made sure everybody came back with a
Florida State (6-1, 3-1 ACC) didn't waste any
time shaking off last week's 17-16 loss at North Carolina State,
rolling to a 28-0 lead midway through the second quarter before Boston
College (1-5, 0-3) scored its touchdown on Chase Rettig's 18-yard pass
to Bobby Swigert.
"Some teams can't bounce back,"
said Florida State running back James Wilder Jr., who caught two of
Manuel's scoring throws. "We just made sure we didn't have that taste in
our mouth anymore."
"I thought our kids did a great
job all week of putting that last game behind them," Florida State coach
Jimbo Fisher said. "Not letting it drag on. We executed very
And that was exactly what Boston College coach
Frank Spaziani had feared coming into the
"They got annoyed that they got a little
conservative last week and they weren't about to do that," Spaziani
said. "They were going to attack and they were in an attack mode right
from the beginning."
Manuel threw six straight passes
on the opening 99-yard drive without once going to the run. He passed
for 295 yards and three touchdowns in the first half
Boston College drove to the Florida State
1-yard line one on the opening drive of the game, but couldn't score,
stopped twice only inches from the goal line.
don't know if that's going to be a difference in the game, but it
certainly sets a little different tone," Spaziani
It didn't take the Seminoles long to get to the
other end.
Kenny Shaw raced 77 yards with a Manuel
pass to cap Florida State's drive. Shaw caught the pass near midfield
and outran two BC defenders down the left sideline for the touchdown. He
had two catches for 125 yards and teammate Rodney Smith had nine
receptions for 108 yards and has now caught at least one pass in 32
straight games.
Kelvin Benjamin also caught a scoring
pass and Lonnie Pryor had two touchdowns on short
Florida State added 201 yards rushing. Devonta
Freeman had 70 and Chris Thompson ran for 68.
passed the previous league scoring record of 393 points with a 51-yard
field goal that gave the Seminoles a 31-7 halftime
"I didn't know until after it happened,"
Hopkins said. "I'm just humbled by the whole
Hopkins boosted his career total to 402
points and now stands fifth on the NCAA scoring list. He also erased a
pair of Florida State career marks that stood for 25 years, both
previously held by Derrick Schmidt. Hopkins' 75 field goals are five shy
of the ACC mark held by former Maryland kicker Nick Novak, who was the
league's previous scoring leader.
Rettig, who came
into the game averaging 306.2 yards passing, managed 122 against the
ACC's top defense.
"It wasn't what we wanted, but we
were just trying to stay in it," Rettig said. "They made plays and we
didn't make enough."
Andre Williams ran for 104 yards
on 20 carries for the Eagles, who are at Georgia Tech next
Florida State visits longtime nemesis Miami
next weekend.
And the Seminoles players have no
plans to take the Hurricanes the least bit
"You're always seven days away from being
humbled," Florida State's Lamarcus Joyner said. "Each game is going to
be a one game season."


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Snakes on a Plane! That Are Actually Laser-Wielding Robots!
Why tiny, wriggling machines could be the future of airplane repair
A jet plane's engine has around 100 sensors that track things like air pressure, temperature, and vibration as it propels its cargo over the Earth. Machines on the ground, via diagnostic algorithms, are constantly monitoring the data delivered by those sensors to ensure that the cargo makes it back safely. This process is, though complicated, fairly straightforward -- until, that is, the engine's health analysis detects a problem. What if a bird strike damages a fan, or some errant piece of debris cripples a compressor blade?
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Engineers at firms like Rolls-Royce and General Electric are developing devices that will be specialized to find and then repair problems in plane engines. And they are being referred to -- mostly if not completely unironically -- as "snake robots." The viperoid machines, planned for a July 2014 release, would be about half an inch in diameter. They'd be bolted to an engine but controlled by a technician, who would guide them through the engine's insides as they beam back images. The whole process would be, a Rolls-Royce executive said, a bit like telesurgery.
As New Scientist put it, because somebody had to: "Just sometimes, snakes on a plane can be a good thing."
Actually, they could be a very good thing. Currently, engines' diagnostic work is done with a borescope, a fiber-optic instrument that's basically a machine-targeted version of our medical endoscope. A technician inserts the borescope into one of several centimeter-wide ports that stud the surface of an engine; from there, he or she can examine the engine from the inside, troubleshooting accordingly. The problem with this method, however, is that it requires its own kind of specialization. Rolls-Royce, for example, New Scientist notes, monitors 14,000 engines flown by 500 airlines on 4,000 aircraft worldwide. Borescope operation being a specific skill, there simply aren't enough technicians who are knowledgeable about using the device to do the kind of regular-but-haphazard diagnostic work that safe air travel requires.
The other problem -- and arguably the bigger problem -- is that once an issue is detected, technicians usually have little choice but to disassemble the engine to make the needed repair. This requires whole planes to be taken out of commission, which in turn can cost airlines millions of dollars.
Wriggling robots, controlled by human technicians, could mitigate those challenges. The devices -- currently under wraps pending patent filings -- would carry not only cameras, but also UV lasers (to make the edges of blade fractures fluoresce) and a grinding tool to sand down things like damaged compressor blades. And they would be able to survive, it not operate within, the 3,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures at running engines' core. For all this, though, robotic snakes face a decidedly low-tech challenge: gravity. Slithering robots, robotics pioneer Rob Buckingham noted, are meant to do more than crawl on the ground. And the longer the snake, the more likely it is to droop at its end.