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I don't want to be part of your chatbox bull****. I don't know you and I don't want to know you.
If I see my name mentioned there again or any or crap the following will happen
I will get an intervention order.
You will lose your firearms license, all your guns bows and knives and you will also be fighting criminal proceeding in Victoria.
There won't be a second warning, and there is nothing to discuss.
nearly piss myself - Chat room comment, carried the bow by the string. HAHAHAHAA
Good hunting Mick and say the same to Pete too. If it wasn't for a lot of garbage I'm dealing with at work, I'd be trying to get away too.
Cheers, Tony
Gday Mick
Yeah all good mate, been doin a bit of hunting this year but not as successful as you by the look of things!?! Take it easy mate and will have to catch up real soon for a beer!
Hey Mick, Not sure when I will be up that way, could be some time.. There is a Amateur beekeeping club on the Goldcoast and normally they don't mind helping out with bee problems.. I don't have their number, maybe google it..I will be talking to someone tomorrow who might now and if I find out will let you know.
How ya been anyway.
Hey mate, thought that was you, I was gonna msg ya to tell ya I've got a new bow. Bought a Bear Motive 6 when we went to Hawaii hence why I'm selling the charge.
GiDay Mick if I wanted to get a R license would you be the guy I would need to talk to????I'm a member a Noth albert and it seems no one can help me there!!!!Is it possible to have a chat with you about this or can you please point me in the right direction Please
cheers Tim West
hey mate, yeah i live out west of Moruya ....been there for 10 years now, born and breed up Robertson NSW way tho. cheers
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by Michael Caruso
When Ken Lovett completed playing and conducting his final service at Chestnut Hill's Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields on Sunday, June 26, the question I was asked most frequently following our story about the milestone in the Local was "What's he going to do now?" The question got me an invitation to Lovett's home on West Mt. Airy Avenue, a summation of those 25 years at St. Martin's and a look into his future endeavors.
Of the future, Lovett said that he was accepting the position as organist for Donald Nally, who is taking over from Mark Anderson as music director of the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. He's also planning to offer private piano lessons in the guesthouse behind his home.
Lovett came to St. Martin's Church after graduation from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Lovett studied organ with Gene Roan, who suggested that he audition for the position of organist and choir director at a small church in Chestnut Hill.
"Gene said he felt that St. Martin's would be perfect for me," Lovett recalled. "He brought me over to the church. I saw it, liked it, applied for the position and got it. It's the only job as an organist and choir director I've ever had."
Lovett, 50, described the St. Martin's congregation as a "community of bright people. That was evident right from the start at the audition."
At the time, St. Martin's mixed choir of men and women was only five years old. Its predecessor was a choir of men and boys, the traditional choral ensemble in Anglican churches all over the world, which trace their foundation back to the Church of England, which split from the Roman Catholic Church in the second half of the 16th century during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1.
When Lovett took over the position of music director, he inherited a paid professional quartet and 11 volunteers. "The volunteers were wonderful and interested in learning new things," Lovett said. "It was an enviable chorus to inherit. The individual volunteer members are not necessarily great solo voices — we have the professional soloists for that — but they're intelligent singers. I've never had to spend time teaching them the notes. I've always been able to work on sound and expression. And I think that the space in the church, itself, works with you to produce the sound."
Lovett recalled with great pleasure the project to renovate and expand the church's small Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ by the Austin Organ Company, which in turn inspired the renovation of the building, bringing it back to its original pristine Gothic Revival beauty. "The organ is now perfect for playing Anglican services. It's not a concert/recital instrument, but it supports the choir and congregation beautifully."
Of disappointments, Lovett spoke of dealing with the financial limitations of a small-to-medium congregation. Of pleasures, he spoke of forming a children's choir that now numbers 19 as well as the revival of Choral Evensong, the Anglican answer to the Latin Vespers of the Roman Church.
The 2011 season of free concerts in Pastorius Park, sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Community Association, came to a glorious finale last Wednesday, July 27, with the West Philadelphia Orchestra. I started writing for the Local in 1986, and this summer season was the first one in quite some time in which every program came off as planned — out-of-doors before an enthusiastic audience that was clearly enjoying itself.
Last week's concert was preceded by a picnic thanking those police officers and firefighters who regularly serve Chestnut Hill.
The West Philadelphia Orchestra is not a symphonic ensemble that performs the classical repertoire of an orchestra, like the Philadelphia Orchestra. Not quite the polar opposite, mind you, but very nearly that different. The West Philadelphia Orchestra is, at its core, a wind band – woodwinds and brass instruments plus percussion – that plays updated versions of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music arranged for its complement of instruments.
Almost all the music the group played last week is music that could be danced to, and probably was at one time or another. All the selections were performed with an engaging rhythmic swing as well as admirable balance and voicing. Individual players took turns soloing, embellishing the basic tunes with highflying displays of technical and tonal virtuosity, pushing against the boundaries of traditional harmonies. Especially intriguing were the forays into jazz, rhythmically and harmonically, that flavored and energized the music.

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|Pollen allergy
Nasal allergies and asthma are similar conditions in different parts of the body.
- As many as 78% of asthma patients have nasal symptoms.
- As many as 38% of nasal allergy patients have asthma.
- Treating the allergic inflammation in the nose may help prevent asthma or reduce asthma severity and lower airway hyper-responsiveness.
Each spring, summer, and fall, tiny particles are released from trees, weeds, and grasses. These particles, known as pollen, hitch rides on currents of air. Although their mission is to fertilize parts of other plants, many never reach their targets. Instead, they enter human noses and throats, triggering a type of seasonal allergic rhinitis called pollen allergy, which many people know as hay fever or rose fever (depending on the season in which the symptoms occur).
In some people with asthma, pollen can trigger their asthma symptoms. However, pollen is not as likely to trigger asthma as indoor culprits, like dust mites, mold, and animal dander.
What is pollen?
Plants produce microscopic round or oval pollen grains to reproduce. In some species, the plant uses the pollen from its own flowers to fertilize itself. Other types must be cross-pollinated; that is, in order for fertilization to take place and seeds to form, pollen must be transferred from the flower of one plant to that of another plant of the same species. Insects do this job for certain flowering plants, while other plants rely on wind transport.
The types of pollen that most commonly cause allergic reactions are produced by the plain-looking plants (trees, grasses, and weeds) that do not have showy flowers. These plants manufacture small, light, dry pollen granules that are custom-made for wind transport. Samples of ragweed pollen have been collected 400 miles out at sea and 2 miles high in the air. Because airborne pollen is carried for long distances, it does little good to rid an area of an offending plant -- the pollen can drift in from many miles away. In addition, most allergenic pollen comes from plants that produce it in huge quantities. A single ragweed plant can generate a million grains of pollen a day.
The chemical makeup of pollen is the basic factor that determines whether it is likely to cause hay fever. For example, pine tree pollen is produced in large amounts by a common tree, which would make it a good candidate for causing allergy. The chemical composition of pine pollen, however, appears to make it less allergenic than other types. Because pine pollen is heavy, it tends to fall straight down and does not scatter. Therefore, it rarely reaches human noses.
Among North American plants, weeds are the most prolific producers of allergenic pollen. Ragweed is the major culprit, but others of importance are sagebrush, redroot pigweed, lamb's quarters, Russian thistle (tumbleweed), and English plantain.
Grasses and trees, too, are important sources of allergenic pollens. Although more than 1,000 species of grass grow in North America, only a few produce highly allergenic pollen. These include timothy grass, Kentucky bluegrass, Johnson grass, Bermuda grass, redtop grass, orchard grass, and sweet vernal grass. Trees that produce allergenic pollen include oak, ash, elm, hickory, pecan, box elder, and mountain cedar.
It is common to hear people say that they are allergic to colorful or scented flowers like roses. In fact, only florists, gardeners, and others who have prolonged, close contact with flowers are likely to become sensitized to pollen from these plants. Most people have little contact with the large, heavy, waxy pollen grains of many flowering plants because this type of pollen is not carried by wind but by insects such as butterflies and bees.
"I love springtime, but the pollen drives me up the wall! I start taking my medication as soon as I see buds on the trees."
-- Esther, age 39
When do plants make pollen?
One of the most obvious features of pollen allergy is its seasonal nature -- people experience symptoms only when the pollen grains to which they are allergic are in the air. Each plant has a pollinating period that is more or less the same from year to year. Exactly when a plant starts to pollinate seems to depend on the relative length of night and day -- and therefore on geographical location -- rather than on the weather. (On the other hand, weather conditions during pollination can affect the amount of pollen produced and distributed in a specific year.) Thus, the farther north you go, the later the pollinating period and the later the allergy season.
A pollen count, which is familiar to many people from local weather reports, is a measure of how much pollen is in the air. This count represents the concentration of all the pollen (or of one particular type, like ragweed) in the air in a certain area at a specific time. It is expressed in grains of pollen per square meter of air collected over 24 hours. Pollen counts tend to be highest early in the morning on warm, dry, breezy days and lowest during chilly, wet periods. Although a pollen count is an approximate and fluctuating measure, it is useful as a general guide for when it is advisable to stay indoors and avoid contact with the pollen.
Preventive strategies
- Avoid the outdoors between 5 - 10 a.m. Save outside activities for late afternoon or after a heavy rain, when pollen levels are lower.
- Keep windows in your home and car closed to lower exposure to pollen. To keep cool, use air conditioners and avoid using window and attic fans.
- Be aware that pollen can also be transported indoors on people and pets.
- Dry your clothes in an automatic dryer rather than hanging them outside. Otherwise pollen can collect on clothing and be carried indoors.
Created by the National Institutes of Health. Updated and modified by A.D.A.M., Inc. Illustration copyright A.D.A.M., Inc.
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI). The Allergy Report: Science Based Findings on the Diagnosis & Treatment of Allergic Disorders, 1996-2001. Milwaukee, Wis: American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI); 2001. (2007 updated version available online at www.theallergyreport.com.)
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Reviewed By: Allen J. Blaivas, DO, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine UMDNJ-NJMS, Attending Physician in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Veteran Affairs, VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Previoulsy reviewed by David A. Kaufman, MD, Section Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Bridgeport Hospital-Yale New Haven Health System, and Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. (6/1/2010)


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To give some background - prior to 1982, the management of spent nuclear fuel was the sole province of nuclear generators. In this regard, coupled with the dual expectation that uranium resources would be relatively scarce and that fast "breeder" reactors would be used to create a virtually inexhaustible source of plutonium-based fuels from non-fissile U-238, the nuclear industry began private-sector arrangements toward chemical reprocessing and recovery of uranium and plutonium from spent fuel. (This still leaves the issue of locating a high-level waste repository for the remaining radioactive materials not recycled, however the mass and volume of said materials would be substantially reduced).
This continued until 1976, when President Ford issued a temporary moratorium on civilian reprocessing of spent fuel, followed by President Carter's (infamous) 1977 executive order permanently banning it, based on international nonproliferation concerns. (Reagan would later reverse this order, but the damage by that time had been done). This came just as plans were underway to by Allied General Nuclear Services open a relatively advanced reprocessing facility in Barnwell, South Carolina. Ford's (and subsequently Carter's) executive orders came after $500-700 million had already been committed to the Barnwell facility. It is one of many sobering lessons in the history of the nuclear industry how mercurial shifts in politics can bring about financial ruin when dealing with capital-intensive investments.
Fast-forward to 1982 - faced with a crisis in managing spent fuel brought about by the sudden halt in the domestic reprocessing industry, Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. One of the main provisions of this act is that the federal government assumes the role of locating and constructing a suitable geologic repository for the permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel. (The subsequent 1987 amendments, termed the "Screw Nevada" bill, amended the 1982 Act, short-circuiting the site selection process to designate Yucca Mountain as the sole candidate site, in part due perceived cost savings by narrowing down the site selection process.)
[As an aside, there are two excellent articles I can recommend to those more interested in a full treatment of the history of how we came to where we are today - the first, "The U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere" by James M. Hylko and Dr. Robert Peltier, PE, which focuses more on the chronology of U.S. high-level waste management, and the second, a recent article in The New Atlantis, "Yucca Mountain: A Post-Mortem" by Adam White, which delves more into the politics of Yucca Mountain.]
So I was somewhat distressed to see the waste "subsidy" canard come up this discussion of energy subsides over at Scholars and Rogues. Specifically, a couple of quotes jumped out at me:
The continuing cost of such temporary storage, and the nearly $100 billion needed for "research, construction and operation of the geologic repository over a 150 year period" at Yucca Mountain, is a subsidy for the nuclear industry.
Fifty-five thousand tons of spent fuel rods, with no permanent home in sight, suggest nuclear subsidies will continue. But before Congress, presumably with White House "cooperation," ends any energy subsidy, perhaps they'll take time out from their internecine bickering to actually produce a coherent national energy policy that reflects all available technologies and considers the viability of energy technologies in light of fossil fuel emissions decimating the global climate.Huh? In what universe is an industry tasked with the responsibility of paying for its own waste disposal (particularly after the utter and repeated failure of the federal government to live up to its contractual obligations with utilities) a "subsidy?" Much of the rest of the article contains some risible arguments about subsidies to the nuclear industry (the value of the Price-Anderson Act is a contentious issue, namely because while it does act as a liability backstop for nuclear accidents, not a single dime has ever been paid out under the act; further is the cross-insurance requirement that literally guarantees "an accident anywhere is an accident everywhere"); however, given that I have a day job, I really didn't feel like debating every single claim. Needless to say though, the issue about calling waste management a "subsidy" struck me as profoundly incorrect.
So, in the spirit of Rod Adams, I left a comment, but I decided to share my comment here as well. (Forgive my long-windedness...)
I will leave the debate over some of the "subsidies" you bring up for others, but there is one major issue I must take issue with - you state the cost of spent nuclear fuel storage is a cost borne by taxpayers (i.e., a subsidy). This is most explicitly not true.
First, the cost of on-site storage is explicitly paid for by the generating utilities (i.e., under the law, this is their obligation) - not the federal government. Second, per the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, nuclear operators have been required to pay a fee of 1 mil/kWh of nuclear electricity generated (i.e., $1/MWh) to cover the costs of geologic disposal. (Per the NWPA, the federal government assumed the responsibility for permanent geologic disposal - in 1987, this was amended to select the Yucca Mountain site.)
In this time, the federal government has collected nearly $30 billion (including accumulated interest) from the utilities to cover the costs of Yucca, with about $8 billion being spent in site characterization. This most certainly does not look like a subsidy in the conventional sense.
One can argue whether the nuclear waste fee is sufficient to cover future costs - at present, the waste fund accumulates about $750 million per year, and will continue to do so as long as the reactor fleet operates. One could likewise argue with your characterization of "no permanent solution" - geologic disposal, by its very nature, is designed to be a "permanent" solution, namely by placing spent fuel in long-term isolation from humans and the environment. And this is not the only waste disposition strategy available - other strategies, like reprocessing to separate out shorter-lived fission products from still-useful actinides can both substantially reduce waste volume and the overall long-term radioactivity (i.e., the actinides, like Pu and other fissionable heavy metals, are the majority of the "long tail" of radioactivity in spent fuel - nearly all of the rest is gone after around 300 years). However, I would also point out that it was political decisions by the federal government in the 1970s that ended U.S. reprocessing efforts being undertaken by private industry - and thus left the federal government in the role of assuming responsibility for spent fuel disposal.
Overall though, the fact that the nuclear industry is responsible for paying its own way with regards to spent fuel disposal significantly undercuts the argument that this constitutes a "subsidy" in any form.
Meanwhile, what other energy sector requires that hazardous wastes be so methodically isolated from humankind until the end of time? Certainly coal ash has toxic heavy metals (lead and mercury) which never become less toxic, as do older generations of photovoltaic cells. I don't say this to diminish the challenge in responsibly managing nuclear waste, but rather to point out that this is a more universal problem - the only difference is that nuclear is the only sector actually held to account for this negative externality, including paying for the actual costs of permanent disposal.


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Heating system is not as effective as my 2005 CRV. The conservative gas pedal makes me have to "gun it" to get up hills and keep up with traffic. Getting less than 22 mpg when not on highway/ cruise control. Nice size, very low upkeep, nice steering, good visibility and sound system. Got 30 mpg on long road trip using cruise control!!
Honda CR-V Ratings, Reviews and Analysis
Ratings & Reviews
See pros and cons. Reliable transportation in general. Fun to drive? If you go slowly. The faster it gets, the hairier it feels. You can force it to go medium fast but it is not confidence-inspiring. Ungainly styling is ignorable. A front end collision at low speed cost 6100$ to fix. With so many vulnerable components right up front, unprotected, it seems like it was intentionally designed to be expensive to repair! On the plus side, it has decent load space. We inherited this car so the price was right. Thank you grandparents.
This is a solid reliable car! I bought one for both my daughters, too. Stable on the road, good gas mileage and relatively maintenance free. There is plenty of room for four passengers and for their stuff in the back. The on demand all wheel drive has worked flawlessly in the snow.
Liked just about everything except the liars at the dealership. The techs saved me from their clutches and saw that I had the 150 pre-owned inspection and maintenance for real. My third Honda from them but no more.Will try another delaership.
Great Reliability, good gas mileage, handles the road nicely with low center of gravity. AWD kicks in appropriately, anti lock brakes work well, I'm totally considering another CRV in 2015 after 10 years with this vehicle. Only once or twice required towing, once recently for the first blown clutch at 208K miles.


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Unless you have disabled summer while Customizing Your Seasons, summer will be the first season you encounter when loading up a new neighborhood after installing Seasons (or if you create a new neighborhood). For the most part, summer is a good "neutral" season that doesn't change the way you've been playing The Sims 3. For all intents and purposes, you can say that your neighborhoods prior to the Seasons expansion were all in a perpetual, cool summer.
So now we join the Falkons, with brothers Pyro and Pete, and Pete's SimBot Becki in Falkon Towers. It's summer, and we can immediately see that with the new icon by the active Sim's profile picture. (Note that the right icon, which shows the lunar phase, will not appear if you don't have The Sims 3 Supernatural installed.) Mousing over the sun symbol will give us the current season, how long until the next season, and most importantly what the current temperature is.
The symbol itself shows what the current season is as well. The sun represents summer, and given that we're going with default settings, we won't see fall for a week.
Checking the Weather[edit]
It's 68 degrees, but only 8am, so the temperature is sure to rise. Pyro enjoys warm weather but wants to make sure he's dressed for it, so he heads to his modestly large television and interacts with it. A special "Check Weather" command lets him tune into the weather channel and check out the six-day forecast.
Looks like it's going to be a hot few days! The rain on Monday will help keep things pleasant, but Tuesday is going to be pretty nasty. Pyro still has the Bookworm and Couch Potato traits though, so he'll be happy as always with his butt planted on the sofa while soaking up the air conditioning. Even though the forecast can be inaccurate just like reality, Pyro decides that he doesn't want to take any chances.
Remember that all homes are automatically and retroactively climate-controlled, and do not need any additional objects purchased. As long as a Sim is within four walls and under a roof, his temperature will always stabalize with enough time.
Becki will have to stay indoors as well. Being a SimBot, she'll start short-circuiting if she's rained on for too long. As long as she moves quickly (such as the short trip outside to and from the carpool), she'll be all right.
Stay Cool![edit]
Pete however enjoys the outdoors and continues to workout in his sandy training area outside the towers. It isn't long before he draws a neutral moodlet called "Getting Warm" due to his increasing temperature, soon followed by a "Sweating Profusely" debuff as he starts frying.
Note that by the time he got the second debuff, the temperature had already peaked and cooled back down to a nice 72 degrees. As you can see, the temperature generated from activities is also factored into whether Sims draw those debuffs. Pete continued to exercise well past when he should have, which is why he drew the debuff despite the cooling weather.
Pete eventually stops exercising on his own despite no commands to the contrary, and despite the fact that he's not fatigued yet. A Sim's self-preservation instincts will often keep them from suffering any problems relating to the weather, but there is a chance they may stay out longer than they should.
In a worse-case scenario, staying out too long will cause the Sim to suffer sunburn, or even spontaneously combust! It's pretty tough to see one of these scenarios happen, especially if you have weather active, but you'll still want to be wary if your Sims are outdoors for a while.
Summer Festival[edit]
The summer festival, like all festivals, is available from the first day summer starts, though Leisure Day (or at least a day off work) is probably the best time to visit it since you'll be able to spend all day there.
While Pete and Becki continue to do household things, Pyro decides he's has a long couple days of doing nothing productive, so he heads down to the lot. Being that he lives in Riverview, the festival doesn't take place in a park, but rather in a previously abandoned warehouse. Thankfully, all the attractions are still present.
Festivals are dependent somewhat on other Sims. Because Pyro gets there at 8:30am, he's alone. To pass the time until others arrive, Pyro jumps in the tanning booth and pays $90 to get a quick spray on tan for his already olive skin tone. Sims can tan even outdoors assuming they stay in the sun long enough (but not too long!), and getting a nice tan draws a buff for a full day. Sadly, this doesn't make him more attractive to the eligible Sim bachelorettes around town.
Pyro heads upstairs in the warehouse and examines one of the few unique objects for summer: a snowcone maker! Items like this are buyable in Buy Mode even out of season, so Pyro decides to get one once he gets home. Still, he doesn't quite need to yet.
As you can see from the screen shot to the right, two manned booths are near the snow cone machine. These booths will redeem festival tickets for some festival-related objects, including a snow cone maker! Of course, what Pyro really has his eyes on are those fireworks.
In order to earn festival tickets, Pyro merely has to do any activity at the festival. Festival tickets are universal, not per-season, so Pyro could save them up for now and redeem them in a different season. Also, they're transferable, so a whole family could pool their tickets together by using the "Give Gift" social interaction.
In the meantime, you can also interact with the vendors to buy food or drinks with Simoleons (though this won't earn you festival tickets). One thing you cannot do with the vendors however is socialize with them. Interacting with the vendors gives a few social interactions in the pie menu, including introductions, but if you issue any of the orders, your Sim will simply stand there dumbly staring at them. It's obviously a bug, but it's unknown whether the vendors should socialize, or whether they shouldn't and the commands were left in anyway.
After eating entirely too many nachos, Pyro heads back downstairs as others start to populate the lot. There's an eating contest outside, so Pyro joins it to earn some festival tickets. After that, he takes a greeting card photo in the photo booth, which can be posted to your Sims 3 wall (as well as Facebook wall or Twitter feed if you have those connected to your game). He also gets his face painted like a lunatic and skates around the roller rink, all of which earns him festival tickets!
There are still more activities outside: he can have a water balloon fight in the arena, which earns him relationship points with all involved. He can also play a little one-on-one soccer at the nearby soccer goal. Winning any event, such as a soccer shootout or the eating competition, yields more festival tickets than a loss, but he'll get a few just for participating.
At the end of the day, Pyro buys some fireworks from the festival vendors with his tickets. He heads home, then proceeds to set one off in his bedroom. The results are predictable, but at least he had fun!
As Leisure Day arrives, Pete decides he wants to have some fun at the festival too. Many of the family's wants (not just festival-related ones) get a purple background, similar to the red background of Mid-Life Crises. These wishes are worth extra Lifetime Points, allowing the family to buy some Lifetime Rewards quicker.


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john royal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Royal Adventures (founded in 1991) specializes in educational travel for groups to Latin America---Mexico, Central America and South America.
We design tours to Latin America - so we are a tour operator rather than a travel agent. Our tours can be general or focus on a specific interest such as wine and food, astronomy, art, natural history etc.
Presently our clients are affinity groups including Alumni Travel , Museum Groups, Environmental Organizations, and CEO (executives of companies) Groups. All our tours are accompanied by a tour director as well as local guides. The affinity group often provides its own expert such as a professor to comment and provide lectures during the trip.
Our tours tend to be on the high end that is to say mostly five star hotels whenever available. Each tour is led by a tour manager. Our clients include many alumni associations from major colleges and universities throughout the United States including many ivy league universities. We are looking to expand that market to small family group or groups of friends or smaller clubs or organizations. We design many unique tours ranging from natural history, cultural, art focused, and scientific (astronomy).
The average ages of our passengers are from 55 to 80 years old. Most are professionals and highly educated. The products are on the upper end of the market. What we are selling is service and worry free travel. Everything is done for the traveler; they need only pack their bags.
We are trying to target a new market in additional to our existing market of museums and alumni associations. The new market is: -- families, friends who want to form their own group whether for a family reunion or just a get together and small clubs and organizations. Royal Adventures handles everything--designs a unique itinerary and opens usual forums such as astronomical observatories, private art collections and museums and visits to schools or other private venues. All tours are led by a knowledgeable tour manager taking the hassle out of travel.
A copy of our existing logo can be had by writing me firstname.lastname@example.com or you can click on my profile and see it but it is very small.
We may wish to expand into areas outside Latin America such as Spain and maybe other locals but right now our company's expertise for the last 18 years has been Latin America.
Our existing logo has the tag line:
Unique Expeditions to Latin America- We are thinking of changing it to:
Exceptional Journeys to Latin America
We want a classy and elegant logo. Due to the price point and services of our private journeys the logo MUST BE ELEGANT.
The logo has to indicate substance and class. It should reproduce easily when photocopied. In other words it should look good both in black and white and in color. It should be no more than 3 colors. Avoid reverse type-i.e. white typeface on dark background as it as a rule does not photocopy well.
The logo must look good in print and on a web site. The logo must serve our existing and new market.
If we like your work you can expect more as we are constantly designing brochures etc. and need design for other materials for our company.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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We are synchronizing tables between two databases (yes, it needs to be done by our software and not by replication etc.)
Both databases are identical with many foreign-key constraints on tables.
Within a transaction we insert rows to various tables. The whole transaction will leave the tables in a state where all constraints are fulfilled.
But it may very well be, that in an intermediate state of the transaction a row gets inserted with a FK of another table that has not been inserted yet.
Is there a way to let SQL Server accept this and only check for violations once the whole transaction is committed?
Thanks for your help!


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Although the University of Tennessee's season came to an end today with a disappointing 5-7 record, the roster has significant NFL talent — talent that now has a choice to make about whether to return to school or turn pro.
At the moment, the juniors on Tennessee's roster say they're unsure whether they'll enter the draft.
Tennessee junior quarterback Tyler Bray might have the best arm of any passer eligible for next year's NFL draft, although there are questions about whether he has the makeup to be a complete NFL quarterback. Tennessee junior receiver Justin Hunter also looks like a likely first-round draft pick, and junior receiver Cordarrelle Patterson and junior right tackle Ja'Wuan James could be first- or second-round picks as well. The Chattanooga news site Nooga.com reports that all four players declined to make a commitment about the draft one way or the other after today's season finale against Kentucky.
Realistically, however, it's hard to see why any of them would stay. Tennessee has fired coach Derek Dooley, and that means Tennessee's juniors have no idea who the coach will be next season, or what kind of offense he might run. All of Tennessee's juniors with NFL potential would seem likely to make the jump now. Even if they're not ready to say so yet.


text: For The Record: Tattoo Stamps Courtesy of Tattoo Archive:You may have been reading lately about the money problems that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is having. The Post Office has been trying to find ways to cut expenses as well as bring in more money. One of the least popular expense-cutting ideas was to cut Saturday delivery. One idea for raising more money was to allow living people to be honored on U.S. postage stamps. The USPS recently announced that they have ended the long-standing rule that stamps cannot feature people who are living. It is unknown when the dead-only rule was put into effect, but it goes back to at least the 1960s... The Postal Service did make one slip-up along the way when they put an illustration of Lou Jacobs in his clown face on a stamp; perhaps they did not realize that Jacobs was still alive. In a 1981 interview Jacobs had this to say about the stamp. "I remember someone had said in clown alley that they were going to have a clown stamp. I wondered if they would use a real clown or just a made-up clown on the stamp. I sure was surprised when I saw the stamp and they had used a picture of me from an old circus poster." Jacobs said they did not get his permission to put his face on the stamp. Being fans of the circus we could not pass up the chance to show the Lou Jacobs stamp. Tattoo stamps are not as rare as you might think. Islands in the South Pacific where tattooing is part of their culture, often create stamps with all forms of body decoration, including tattooing. New Zealand has probably issued more tattoo stamps than any other country in the world but the list should also include French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Marshall Islands, Samoa, and Tanzania. With this article we have included a few of the latest tattoo stamps to cross our desk. Two of the newest stamps are the man and woman with the great Marquesan designs from French Polynesia. The one from the Philippines shows traditional designs and I think it is the first tattoo stamp from that country. The one from the Belgium Congo shows face painting and goes back to the early 1900s. The Aotearoa or New Zealand stamps are from 2011 and are the most current ones in our collection. Aotearoa has become the most widely known and accepted Maori name for New Zealand. An interesting thing about these new Maori stamps are that they show a much more contemporary idea about the placement of tattoos on the body. The United States is yet to issue a tattoo stamp but with this new ruling we now have a chance to change that. If you have ideas for the first tattoo stamp you can write to: Citizens Stamp Advisory Development, Room #3300, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20260-3501. Tattoo Archive © 2012 This installment of For the Record was featured in Tattoo Artist Magazine issue #30.


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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 — Scientists fixed a glitch that froze the robotic arm of the Opportunity rover and then prepared to dig a narrow trench in the Martian soil, NASA said Saturday.
Scientists hoped the patch of soil, dubbed "Hematite Slope," would prove to be rich in the iron-bearing mineral that typically forms in water.
On Friday, exploration was temporarily delayed after Opportunity failed to properly stow its robotic arm. Engineers sent instructions to the rover that repaired the problem, mission manager Jim Erickson said.
Robot smarter than scientists
The glitch occurred when the rover realized scientists had sent instructions for its robotic arm to perform what could have been an unsafe movement. The rover stopped with its robotic arm extended until scientists revised the commands.
"The rover is sometimes smarter than we are," said Erickson. "The trick is to catch these on the ground and resequence them correctly before we send them up. We believe we're going to be able to prevent that class of problem in the future."
Scientists want Opportunity to dig 4 inches (10 centimeters) or so into the soil, using one of its front wheels to excavate the narrow trench. They hope Opportunity will find minerals that could help reveal whether ancient Mars was wet enough for a long enough time to support life.
Such analysis is a key goal of the mission of Opportunity and its twin rover, Spirit, on the other side of the planet.
Looking at Stone Council and Mimi
NASA planned for Spirit to spend much of the weekend inspecting two rocks, nicknamed "Stone Council" and "Mimi," and the surrounding soil before resuming its trip toward a crater about 1,100 feet away (335 meters).
Scientists were considering how to increase Spirit's driving distance from 85 feet (26 meters) a day to 100 feet (30 meters) a day. One option was to use the panoramic camera to provide images so scientists on the ground could see up to 165 feet (50 meters) ahead.
"Our navigational cameras aren't really good enough to pick out a good route in advance when we're talking about 30, 40 or 50 meters," Erickson said.
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|NEW BRITISH EMPIRE - Evil, Bloody and Genocidal Imperialism
|The essential feature of British imperial method: to blame its crimes on others, and rally its colonial victims, such as the Arabs, against the United States. The core of British imperial method has always been to rule through orchestrating conflict and war, made possible by systematically organizing, funding, protecting, and deploying the most irrational and violent, opposing, sides, of each and every important conflict, anywhere in the world.
New British Empire - Evil, Bloody and Genocidal Imperialism
Commonwealth of Nations with it's British Overseas Territories and Crown DependenciesThe Commonwealth of Nations consists of 53 member states and it is the successor of the British Empire. Queen Elizabeth is the monarch of the Commonwealth of Nations and the Commonwealth realms which consists of 16 member states.
It was once said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire", and the British Overseas Territories still extend to every geographic region of the world, with the Caribbean Overseas Territories in North America, the Falklands in South America, Saint Helena and Dependencies in Africa, Pitcairn in Oceania, Gibraltar in Europe, British Indian Ocean Territory in Asia, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in Antarctica.
The 14 British overseas territories are: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Turks and Caicos Islands. The head of state in the overseas territories is the British monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II.
The Crown Dependencies are possessions of The Crown in Right of the United Kingdom, as opposed to overseas territories or colonies of the United Kingdom. They comprise the Channel Island bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. They are possessions of the British Crown they are not sovereign nations in their own right, and the power to pass legislation affecting the islands rests ultimately with their own legislative assemblies, with the assent of the Crown (Privy Council). (Source: Wikipedia).
Now the British Empire today, contrary to what most people are misled to believe, is still an empire, but of a very special form. It's called the Commonwealth. Most people don't know how the British Empire functions. The British Parliament is a joke. It's an adaptation, a reform of the Monarchy. It does not run the Monarchy. The Queen runs from the top down, through a Privy Council.
Number One on the Privy Council, after the Queen, is a whole lot of other people, about 500. These 500 people run the British Empire, including the apparatus of its old Colonial Office. The Colonial Office was never disbanded. They call it the Overseas Development Office now. The Crown Agents who ran the colonies still function. They operate whole countries around the world.
In the minds of the political, industrial, and intellectual elites of the overwhelming majority of nations of the world today, there exists a deadly dangerous myth: that the British Empire has disappeared from the face of the Earth; and that Great Britain, the United Kingdom, is of little consequence in world affairs. According to this fairy tale, Britain's royal family is a powerless relic of days gone by, collecting its modest pension, fulfilling its ceremonial obligations, and, perhaps, drawing in a few tourist dollars, to justify its upkeep. In the extreme version of this Big Lie, today's Britain is cast in the role of a benign force in world affairs, a "friend of the downtrodden" and "diligent defender of human rights."
The authorship of both of these complementary hoaxes - the demise of the British Empire, and its replacement by the U.S.A. as the new "Great Satan" - is traceable to Britain's own vast propaganda and intelligence apparatus, associated with such institutions as British Broadcasting Corp., Reuters News Service, the Hollinger Corp., the Tavistock Institute, the Mont Pelerin Society, Oxford and Cambridge universities, the British Commonwealth, and His Royal Highness Prince Philip's World Wildlife Fund (WWF, now the World Wide Fund for Nature).
The British Empire is very much alive and well today. Behind closed doors at such locations as Chatham House, the London headquarters of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA), blueprints for the consolidation of one-world empire, drawing upon the resources of the British Commonwealth and the United Nations Organization (UNO), have already been drawn up, and construction is under way.
The United Kingdom itself has very little to do with the new British Empire. England, Scotland, Wales, and, especially, Northern Ireland, are today little more than slave plantations and social engineering laboratories, serving the needs of a collection of families, numbering no more than 3,000-5,000 people, who live and work in and around the City of London, a one-mile-square financial and corporate district, which represents the greatest concentration of financial power ever assembled in one location.
These families constitute a financier oligarchy; they are the power behind the Windsor throne. Among their own ranks, these financier oligarchs refer to themselves as the Club of the Isles, after the original "Prince of the Isles" Edward Albert (King Edward VII), the son of Queen Victoria, who orchestrated the Crimean War, the Opium Wars, the Russo-Japanese War, and World War I, to consolidate Britain as the primus inter pares (first among equals) of the European monarchies and feudal families.
The City of London dominates the world's speculative markets. A tightly interlocking group of corporations, involved in raw materials extraction, finance, insurance, transportation, and food production, controls the lion's share of the world market, and exerts virtual "choke point" control over world industry.
"Queen Elizabeth II the largest landowner on Earth."
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth's non ocean surface. She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory...The value of her land holding. £17,600,000,000,000 (approx)...This makes her the richest individual on earth...Her holding is based on the laws of the countries she owns and her land title is valid in all the countries she owns. Her main holdings are Canada, the 2nd largest country on earth, with 2,467 million acres, Australia, the 7th largest country on earth with 1,900 million acres, the Papua New Guinea with114 million acres, New Zealand with 66 million acres and the UK with 60 million acres...(Source: Who Owns the World)
Queen Elizabeth II is the grand-daughter of Queen Victoria
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Queen's Cayman Islands
The islands of the Caribbean have long played a key role in the British Empire's assault against the United States. The Brits set up the offshore banking centers in the Caribbean to pave the way for the explosion of narcotics out of Ibero-America, then used the proceeds from the dope trade to take over the U.S. financial system. The most important of the Caribbean offshore financial centers is the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory run by a royal governor appointed by Queen Elizabeth II. The Caymans are mainly a mail drop and regulation-free zone, a place where hot money is welcome and few questions are asked. Companies register themselves in the Caymans in order to take advantage of the tax breaks, lax regulations, and secrecy provided by the British. It is well known in law enforcement circles that the dope trade would quickly choke on its own cash were not a significant portion of the global financial system devoted to money laundering, and the offshore centers in the Caribbean were set up to facilitate the South American drug trade, and have expanded with it. Overseeing the Caymans financial system are a brace of imperial operatives. The royal governor, Stuart Duncan Jack, is a knighted Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority is run by Timothy Ridley, who was made a knight of the Order of the British Empire. The Center for Economic Growth is run by Richard Rahn, a member of the oligarchic Mont Pelerin Society.
|The British use the UK media for mass psychological warfare. The UK media is carefully manipulated and directed in order to create and mold popular opinion. The center of this mass psychological warfare apparatus is based outside London in the Tavistock Institute.


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Complaints to the local government ombudsman about adult social care in England have more than doubled over the last four years, it has been revealed.
Local government ombudsman Jane Martin said the body received 2,456 complaints and inquiries about adult social care last year, a 13.8% increase since 2012 and a 130% leap compared with 2009.
The majority of complaints, at 86%, were about local authority delivered services while relatively low numbers of complaints were received about private providers, at 218, or 9% of the total.
The complaints included 442 about assessment and care planning, 429 about fees, grants and payments and 406 about residential care.
The local government ombudsman (LGO) resolves individual complaints where people are dissatisfied with the response they have received either from a private care provider or a council.
"All local authorities should review the data on complaints to consider the quality of care and effectiveness of complaint handling in their area," the report said.
"Those scrutinising services need to look at the details behind the numbers.
"Sometimes higher numbers of complaints reflect organisations with an open and mature approach to the concerns of their service users, where feedback is encouraged and actively sought out. Similarly, lower numbers of complaints can indicate that there needs to be a focus upon the accessibility of the complaints process."
The LGO said the 2,456 complaints and inquiries about adult social care amounted to a "small" number in the context of 1.3 million adult social care users. It said 46% of complaints received were upheld.
Anna Bradley, chairwoman of Healthwatch England, said: " It may seem counterintuitive but we should look on the increasing number of complaints as a good thing. It means that more people feel able to make their voices heard when the standard of care they receive from their carer or care home isn't up to scratch.
"Providers of social care services, whether they be local authorities or private companies, need to learn to see complaints as a vital source of information to help them improve and ensure others don't have to suffer the same poor standards in future."
Andrea Sutcliffe, chief inspector of adult social care at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), said: " I welcome today's report which demonstrates how important it is for adult social care services to respond positively to the concerns that may be raised by people using these services or their family and friends.
"When we look at whether services are safe, caring, effective, responsive and well led we will be considering how well complaints are handled and acted upon. This will help to inform our judgment of whether services are outstanding, good, require improvement or inadequate."
A spokesman for the Local Government Association (LGA) said: " Huge efforts have been made by councils to ensure people in care have their voices heard.
"Local government is one of the most trusted parts of the public sector and a rise in complaints can be an indication that local authorities are making it easier for those in care to give feedback, and that people are confident that their council will act on it."
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "Our care services must listen when people raise concerns and take swift action to stamp out poor care.
"We are working to join up the health and social care complaints systems so that issues are dealt with by the right organisation as quickly as possible, and bringing in tougher rules so that staff, at all levels, and the organisation itself are properly held to account.
"We are making it easier for the CQC to prosecute when serious failings occur and we are also introducing a fit and proper persons test for board members of organisations."


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13 Definitions of In
The meaning of the word in, the definition of In:
n. - One who is in office; -- the opposite of out.
n. - A reentrant angle; a nook or corner.
prep. - The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.
prep. - With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air.
prep. - With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light.
prep. - With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army.
prep. - With reference to physical surrounding, personal states, etc., abstractly denoted; as, I am in doubt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear.
prep. - With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor.
prep. - With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God.
prep. - With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life.
adv. - Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house).
adv. - With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband.
v. t. - To inclose; to take in; to harvest.
The word "in" uses 2 letters: I N
No direct anagrams for in found in our database.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after in, or to in in any order:
a - ain ani b - bin nib d - din f - fin g - gin h - hin j - jin k - ink kin l - lin nil m - min nim n - inn o - ion p - nip pin r - rin s - ins sin t - nit tin w - win x - nix y - yin z - zin
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I spent Wednesday in Paris, talking about the importance and effectiveness of foreign aid. My partner in many of those meetings was Bono, who has used his voice so effectively to advocate for development aid and the needs of the poorest people on earth.
By any estimation, my few days in Europe were off to a good start.
We spent the better part of the day meeting with senior French officials, including France's new president, Francois Hollande, his finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius, and their new Development Minister, Pascal Canfin.
France plays a critical role in encouraging the European Union to keep its commitments to overseas development assistance programs, particularly in the face of Europe's economic difficulties. Its own commitment to foreign aid is a tremendous example to other donor countries. That was the context for our meetings.
President Hollande was clear that he remains committed to aid, and that he is an advocate for both the effectiveness of foreign aid when it is carefully done, and the responsibility developed countries have in working with the developing world. France has a remarkable history of support for Africa and for its assistance efforts around the world, with organizations like Médecins sans Frontières. The President also spoke about how aid can benefit both the recipient and donor countries.
France's finance minister Pierre Moscovici made this point last month when he noted that Europe's growth over the next 20 years will depend heavily on Africa's growth and development. Ensuring that all Africans have a chance for a better future is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do from an economic standpoint.
We had a good exchange about getting the most out of every Euro of aid. I'm a big advocate for the incredible impact that investments in vaccines can achieve, and was very happy to hear the President specifically call out France's commitment to staying involved with the Global Fund, which provides funding for programs to fight AIDS, TB, and malaria. France should be particularly proud in their leadership with the Global Fund. Their help is making a real difference in millions of lives around the world.
Support from leaders like President Hollande is critical to preserving those life-saving investments in aid and explaining why staying true to the EU goal of devoting .7% of national budgets to foreign aid is the right course.
Bono was very persuasive about the impact foreign aid is having, as well as the devastating consequences withdrawing it could have on poor countries, particularly in Africa.
I was really pleased with our meetings. They took place in spectacular surroundings (the Élysée Palace is a stunning example of French style and decoration). But the focus was on the poor, on both sides of the table. And that made for a very good first day in Europe.


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The magical lands of Gaela are on the brink of temple wars when Tryn Bistoria finds herself trapped in the caves of Corsanon. As she and her familiar escape, a terrible power is unleashed. On a distant Earth, Janis the 'techno-witch' must hide Jarrod before ASSIST destroys him. But as they flee to Gaela, Jarrod and a stray Lupin disappear. Janis' daughter Ruby searches, but can she do what must be done for all to survive?
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Book # 3 Quantum Enchantment – Journey by Night
A fast-paced story of fantasy and occult adventure, astrology and martial arts …
Desperation leads Nellion Paree to the forbidden spell … but she accidentally awakens a power that could destroy the many-worlds forever. Rosette and her familiar Drayco return to Corsanon to face an invasion. They soon join the temple cats and shape-shifting wolves to make a final stand against their enemies.
On a future Earth, Kreshkali uncovers a portal built by the allied states. Now the survival of both worlds is in her hands … but the only way out is straight through the armies of ASSIST.
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#1 Quantum Enchantment – The Spell of Rosette
Rosette is a child of two worlds: Gaela, steeped in magic, and Earth choked with failing technology. The key to their survival is literally in her blood, a spell passed down the family line to preserve the one they're sworn to protect. Unaware of her lineage, Rosette runs scared when her family is murdered. She takes refuge with Nell, a shape-shifting high priestess of the ancient blood, who teaches her the arts of witchcraft, stars and sword. Shadowed by the fabled Kreshkali, Rosette and the temple cat, Drayco, find themselves little more than a step ahead of those who will do anything to control the portal that links the many-worlds.
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Book # 2 Quantum Enchantment – Arrows of Time
When a time portal spins Rosette and Jarrod off in different directions, she is caught in a loop of repeating events. A strange bard helps her find a way back home, but everything has changed … Jarrod is missing, her mentor is a child, and women are forbidden to carry swords. While Kreshkali leads the survivors on Earth, Rosette and her temple cat, Drayco, turn to the future for help. But which one? Time is their only hope, and it′s playing tricks …
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Book # 3 of Quantum Enchantment – Strange Attractors
. . . brings the events begun in THE SPELL OF ROSETTE to a dramatic and gripping end. Corsanon′s warriors are a vanished race, defeated in the temple wars long ago … or so Rosette thought. She changes her mind when the portal drops her in the middle of an armed legion. Before she and Drayco can escape, Teg is injured and the Sword Master imprisoned. Unknown to all, the corridors hide their greatest threat, weaving magic so tight that even Kreshkali can't see it. A battle ensues and the fabric of the many-worlds starts to unravel. Only one of the Richter blood can put things right, but which descendant will use the spell?
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My humor piece, "When Children Try to Write Adult Fiction" is now up at Points in Case.
My humor piece, "How to Race Pigeons Professionally in Your Living Room" is now live at Slackjaw. [Content Note: This is satire, not actual advice.]
My humor piece, "Best-Selling Items from the M.R. James Collectibles Catalogue" is now available in the Infinite Lives: Short Tales of Longevity (print and ebook) anthology from Third Flatiron Publishing . The full Table of Contents is here.
My humor piece, "Birth Control for the Modern Age" is now up at Lady Pieces.
My non-fiction article, "What Women in Science are Really Wearing These Days (Contrary to What Most 'Women in STEM' Posters Would Have You Believe Are Always Lab Coats) OR Things That I Have Actually Worn as an Actual Scientist Doing Actual Science" is now up at Defenestration Magazine.
I'm very pleased to announce that I have won a Dishonorable Mention in the 2019 Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest. A complete list of the 2019 winners and dishonorable mentions is here.
I'm delighted to announce that I won an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest for my poem "Contingency Plans." A complete list of winners is here.
My article, "Open Letter to the Picture of the Tomato and Cucumber Salad on my Box of Frozen Breaded Fish Fillets" is up at Pickle Fork.
My article, "TLDR Classic Literature" is up at Queen Mob's Teahouse. [Content Note: swearing. Also insults some beloved classics.]
I am thrilled to announce that my short story, "The Dormer Trees" is a finalist for the 2019 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. The full announcement and list of finalists is here.
My humor piece, "Top Five Asexual Positions" is online at Little Old Lady Comedy.
My humor piece, "Take the 2nd Annual IQ Smartass Quiz for a Chance to Win a Free Termite!" is now online at Slackjaw.
"Cow Key" is up at McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
My short story, "The River Road, She Rides" was published in the Winter 2019 issue of The New Quarterly.
My instructional article, "Baking for Sadists" is now up at Points in Case. [Content Note: swearing]
My short story "Malleus, Incus, Stapes" was published by Dark Moon Books in the anthology The Five Senses of Horror edited by Eric J. Guignard.
My short story, "A Fish Story" is now available in the Funny Fantasy anthology, edited by Alex Shvartsman and published by UFO Publishing.
The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Volume 1 anthology, edited by Robert N. Stephenson and including my story, "Coxley's Black Divine", is available for free here at Smashwords and here at Amazon.
My novelette, "The Stone Man" has been reprinted in the May 2015 issue of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination.
My first-ever piece of narrative non-fiction, "The Dog Days of India", was published in May in Sick! Curious Tales of Pests and Parasites We Share with Animals. The essay is about my experiences evaluating a rabies control program in India.
Tales of the Unanticipated Issue #31 is now out, featuring my short story, "The Humanization of Cheese."
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 Edition from Prime Books is now out. My short story, "Malleus, Incus, Stapes" appears in this anthology alongside stories by Tim Powers, Tanith Lee, George R.R. Martin, and other brilliant writers. The full Table of Contents is here.
I will be teaching a fiction workshop at 7PM on Wednesday April 6th, 2011 at the main branch of the Guelph Public Library. The topic is "Busting the Myths of Publishing". You do not need to register. Everyone is welcome.
Barbara Martin has reviewed Animythical Tales here.
I will be teaching a workshop on Story Structure at 7PM on Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 at the main branch of the Guelph Public Library. There is no need to register and anyone is welcome to attend.
Jon Fear at The Record has reviewed Animythical Tales here.
Tangent online has given Animythical Tales a glowing review here.
My short story, "Malleus, Incus, Stapes" is online at Fantasy Magazine. You can read it here.
On October 28th (4:30-6:00) 2011 I will be at the University of Guelph McLaughlin Library for their Campus Author Recognition Program Ceremony. Animythical Tales will be one of the featured books.
On October 16th, 2010 I will be at The Downtown Bookstore in Owen Sound, Ontario for their "independents day" event signing copies of Animythical Tales
I have a short essay about Alan Garner's The Owl Service at The Mark News here.
Rich Horton reviews the Belong anthology, and has some nice things to say about my novelette, "Song of the Blackbird".
My short story collection, Animythical Tales, was published in 2010 by Fantastic Books, an imprint of Gray Rabbit Publishing.
The collection contains ten short stories (seven previously published in such venues as Realms of Fantasy, Fantasy Magazine, and Writers of the Future XXII). One of the stories was named the Regional Winner (for Canada & the Caribbean) in the 2007-2008 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Another placed third in the 2005 Writers of the Future Contest, and a third won a Black Quill Award (Editor's Choice: Best Dark Scribble category). The Introduction is by World Fantasy Award-winning editor, Forrest Aguirre.
To see the Table of Contents, along with a brief description of each story and its publication history, click here.
Animythical Tales is now available online at: Chapters, Barnes & Noble, and Powell's.
Reviews of Animythical Tales:
Jon Fear at The Record says: "From playful fairytales to dark dramas and just plain amusing fantasy yarns, Sarah Totton offers something for everyone in Animythical Tales."
Tangent Online says: "Even when set in what is ostensibly the 'real' world, Totton's writing is gifted with this intangible but lovely quality of transformative fantasia that reminds one of a child's imagination and perspective (both dark and light), lensed through an adult's language."
Yagiz Erkan reviewed Animythical Tales at Speculative Book Review here. He says of the stories, "They are surreal and dark, and some of them stay in a corner of your mind for quite some time."
Michele Lee at Dark Scribe Magazine says, "The stories in Animythical Tales are lyrical and off-beat, betraying a near trademark British precision evocative of masters like Ramsey Campbell." The full review is here.
Peter Tennant reviews Animythical Tales in Black Static Issue #18. In part, he says, "ten stories by Totton, each one of them distinguished by a fresh and idiosyncratic approach to fiction, often sinister in tone, challenging intellectually, and informed by a keen sense of humour….If you need proof that modern fantasy is about more than emo vampires and boy magicians, then Totton provides it in spades, with a collection that should appeal equally to readers of horror, science fiction and fantasy."
Tyson Mauermann reviews Animythical Tales at State of the Review here. In part he says, "Every story in the collection is terrific and nearly every one of them has a twist."
The lovely Chris Howard has given Animythical Tales a glowing review on his blog The Stuff As Dreams Are Made On. He says of the stories: "They're beautiful in their own way, each of them. Some are beautiful in their desperation, some beautiful because of the melancholy portrayed, some because they leave a tear in your eye in the end and take your breath away in the last few sentences."
Simon Petrie at the Australian webzine Specusphere says about Animythical Tales: "If you're looking for a collection of straightforward and pleasantly dependable fantasy stories, then you would have picked up the wrong book in this case. Totton's prose is challenging, confronting, elusive and darkly allegorical, redolent with themes of loss, yearning, and incomprehensible otherness."
Rick Kleffel at The Agony Column has this to say about Animythical Tales: "There's an almost festive feel to this collection even though many of the stories are chilling or disturbing. Totton knows that some readers at least, like to be disturbed. Her unusual take on the world is bracing and entertaining." Full review is here (scroll down).
The Midwest Book Review calls Animythical Tales "Entertaining, clever, and thought provoking." Full review here (scroll down).
Lois Henderson reviews Animythical Tales over at Book Pleasures.
The first review for Animythical Tales, is up at The 1% Club here.
My flash fiction piece, "If You Enjoyed This Story…" published in Tales of the Unanticipated #30 has received a very favorable review on the Fantastic Reviews Blog here.
My short story, "Malleus, Incus, Stapes" has been accepted for publication by Fantasy Magazine. Editor Sean Wallace cryptically alludes to the story in his blog here.
The folks at Writers of the Future give my short story collection Animythical Tales a shout-out here (scroll down to the April 12th entry). My short story, "The Bone Fisher's Apprentice" in Animythical Tales won third place in the 2005 Writers of the Future Contest. Writers of the Future is a contest for new and emerging short story writers of speculative fiction. More information about the contest is here.
My short story, "Match Point" published in the hardcover anthology Love Stories: A Literary Companion to Tennis received a glowing review at The Book Foxes blog.
My short story, "Flatrock Sunners" just received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2. "Flatrock Sunners" appears in my short story collection Animythical Tales and also recently won a Black Quill Award.
My novelette, "Song of the Blackbird" appeared in the Australian anthology Belong (edited by Russell B. Farr), released on April 1st 2010.
My short story, "Flatrock Sunners" has won a Black Quill Award (Editor's Choice, Dark Scribble Category). Thank-you to everyone who nominated and voted for my story. "Flatrock Sunners" will be appearing in my collection. More on the Black Quill Award winners here.
My short story, "Choke Point" was published in Fantasy Magazine on December 28th, 2009.
Fantastic Books will be publishing my short story collection, Animythical Tales in 2010. Aquisitions Editor, Douglas Cohen reported the news on his blog here.
My short-short story, "If You Enjoyed This Story…" will be published in Tales of the Unanticipated Issue #30 coming out in April 2010.
My short story, "Flatrock Sunners" appeared in Black Static Issue #12 in August.


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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – An increase in hiring helped lower unemployment rates in 37 U.S. states last month, the latest indication that the job market is slowly healing.
Unemployment rates are now below 7 percent in 23 of the 50 states. According to the Labor Department, rates rose in seven states in October and were unchanged in six.
South Carolina's rate fell from 9.1 percent to 8.6 percent, the biggest drop. The state gained 7,300 jobs, mostly in hotels, restaurants, education and health care, and government. Alaska and Wisconsin recorded the next biggest declines.
Nationwide, the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9 percent in October. But it has declined a full point in the past year. Employers added 171,000 jobs and hiring was stronger in August and September than first estimated.