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Selling a boat for the first time
Isobel Smith
After eight years owning their own boat, Ruth and Angus Ross-Thomson have decided to sell, and give us an insight into their experience
We are returning to our cottage in Hampshire to spend a few
years gardening and exploring the UK via campervan. There is a plan to do more
cruising, but not for 10 years – too long to have Do It sitting unused in a south coast
marina. I know I shall shed more than one tear when we sell her, but for a blue
water cruiser to be tied to a marina dock is akin to keeping a wild animal
in a cage.
Preparation for the big sale
We have always maintained Do it in good condition, but wanted to
make sure she looked her absolute best when she hit the market, so preparation
for her sale started in the Caribbean in January, where we had the topsides
professionally re-sprayed. First impressions count.
We knew that we would need a series of photographs when we
advertised Do It online, so spent a sunny day in St Lucia de-cluttering the
boat and taking plenty of pictures from all angles. We are not trying to sell a standard production boat, but
rather the "dream" of a blue water cruiser. The dream looks more tempting with
turquoise water in the background.
Over the course of our circumnavigation we maintained a website,
to which we added a new "For Sale" section detailing the systems &
inventory, and containing all those lovely pictures we had taken. The advantage
of this is that the wider website provides all the "traveller's tales" to tempt
someone to head offshore, but conversely also gives the "warts and all"
accounts of when things go wrong.
With a few days to spare in Antigua, we created two bright
red "For Sale" canvas signs which can be attached to the guard wires or
rigging.
The advertising campaign
On our arrival in the Orkney Isles in mid-July, we were
interviewed by the local BBC radio reporter, which led to the first serious
"expression of interest" from a listener to the show. Radio advertising was one
option we hadn't considered.
Our first thought when deciding where to advertise Do It,
was to place an advert in Yachting Monthly and we opted for the 1/16th
page advert with the online option. The September edition hit the streets on 22 August, so we spent the
following days with the phone always to hand. The October edition generated two
In order to widen the reach of our online advertising, we paid
for a "featured" advert. In the past month, this has generated
two contacts from organisations seeking to advertise Do It in their
publication (for a further fee) and one genuine contact.
When we arrived in Premier Southsea Marina in mid-September,
the staff allocated us a berth with the best advertising potential. We are tied
alongside a dock facing the marina office, and overlooked by the café &
restaurant. The canvas "For Sale" signs were promptly secured, and whilst we
have not attracted a buyer, word of mouth advertising never hurts.
Admitting to ourselves that our online advertising may not find us a buyer, we decided to also engage a broker with the hope of casting the net a little wider.
Options for the future
Whilst at Southampton Boat Show, I spoke with to a company who
offered a "fixed fee" approach to brokering, with an up-front payment to be
listed on their website and linked to many others, followed by a conveyance fee
should they find you a buyer. This is an option we may explore next month if we
have not attracted a buyer.
Check back for updates on how the sale is going.
Ruth and Angus Ross-Thomson
have been keen sailors since they were children and their love of boats is what
brought them together. After eight and a half years of enjoying everything this
steel blue water cruiser has to offer, they've made the tough decision to sell
and spend a few years on dry land here in England.


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By Robert Stanton on May 10, 2012 at 7:32 AM
A mentally disabled man who rode his unicycle naked on the Kemah bridge is being accused of indecent exposure after police say he was distracting drivers and creating a hazard.
Joseph Glynn Farley, 45, was in custody Thursday was to be transferred to the Galveston County Jail on the misdemeanor charge, police said. His bond was set at $1,500.
Kemah Police Chief Greg Rikard said Farley was not intoxicated or impaired when he was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the buff on a bridge on Texas 146 that links Kemah and Seabrook.
"We started getting phone calls," Rikard said. "People were stopping by the police department, saying that a guy was riding naked on the bridge."
Rikard said that officers are familiar with Farley, who lives in the area and often can be seen riding his unicycle. "We haven't had any issues with him until yesterday (Wednesday)," the chief said.
Moments before the bare escapade, patrol officers warned Farley to stay in his lane on the bridge because he was veering into traffic and falling down, Rikard said. "They asked him to stop (riding) for the day. He was compliant, he said ok, and off he went."
"Next thing you know," he said, "he stripped down and went at it in a different direction."
Farley told officers that he liked the way it felt, Rikard said. The cyclist's clothes were found at the foot of the bridge.
Carl Farley, the cyclist's father, said that his son suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and sometimes engages in unusual behavior that until now had been out of public eye. Exacerbating matters, he said, is that his son does not acknowledge his mental condition.
"At the moment, it (the disorder) doesn't have a lot of treatments, especially in my son's case who doesn't believe he's sick," said Carl Farley, 73. What's more, he refuses to take medication or to take part in therapy, he said.
"Over the last six-plus years he's steadily gone downhill," Carl Farley said of his son. "He frequently suffers from delusions and loss of contact with reality, which is what the bridge incident illustrates. Oftentimes he doesn't know right from wrong."
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John Baboukis: Connecting with Egypt Through Music
Katherine Pollock
For John Baboukis, AUC professor and director of the music program, music –– and in many ways Egypt –– has always been a part of his life.
"I've always done music," said Baboukis. "I wasn't actually thinking that I was going to do music for a living, but it was always a part of my life. When I went to college, I was going to be an English major, but I kept taking music courses, which is the great thing about liberal arts. I ended up doing a major in [musical] composition."
Developing AUC's Music Program
At AUC, Baboukis has determinedly devoted his time and energy to increasing enthusiasm for the music program. "When I first came to AUC, there were about 120 students taking courses in music every semester, and there was one full-time and four part-time faculty members," said Baboukis. "We now have between 500 and 600 students taking courses every semester."
In addition to this growth in student enrollment numbers, the music program now has a music technology major, which according to Baboukis, is the only one of its kind in the region. "This is very important because Cairo is the center of music in the Arab world," he explained, adding that AUC's music program has also created a boutique major in performance, which attracts high-quality adjunct professors, many of whom come from the Cairo Conservatory.
The professor's aspirations for music at AUC, and in Cairo more broadly, do not stop there. "One student at a time, we are trying to make music more valued as something that goes along with other things, so that I don't get students coming to my office who say they took piano when they were 10, but had to stop when they were 12 because they were preparing for university," Baboukis added. "Rather, music makes you better at other things, which is what I'm constantly telling people."
He also hopes to continue developing courses to better teach students how to read -- and not merely memorize -- music, to see more students playing in the professional orchestra, and to even some day develop a recording label at the University where the orchestra could create music for films and AUC alumni could return to make recordings.
Inspiring Music Beyond the Classroom
Viewing music as a vital part of us that needs to be nourished, Baboukis has led and established several musical performance groups. "One of the nice things about being at AUC is that, since it's a liberal arts college, you can be involved in many different things," he emphasized.
In addition to teaching, Baboukis is the conductor of the Cairo Choral Society, a community chorus affiliated with the University. "When I first came here, the Cairo Choral Society was largely an expatriate chorus," he said. "It is now essentially 50/50 – Egyptians and expats. Many of these Egyptians are former students and friends of former students. This also keeps young people involved, which is great because that's where the energy comes from."
Baboukis is also the founder and co-director of the Lions of Cairo, an early music group that specializes in medieval, renaissance, Arab and Baroque music, as well as Byzantine chant. He is the conductor of the Cairo Festival Orchestra, a professional ensemble that frequently accompanies the Cairo Choral Society, and which is being developed as an ensemble in residence at AUC.
During his sabbatical leave, he also composed a symphony that was premiered by the Cairo Symphony Orchestra.
Music at an Early Age
Following his undergraduate and master's studies, Baboukis obtained his Doctor of Music from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he was the first doctoral student ever to submit an original composition instead of a more traditional dissertation for a degree in choral conducting. Baboukis then went on to teach conducting and direct numerous choral and early music groups at various universities around the United States and Canada. Throughout his life, Baboukis has held a passion for Byzantine chant, which he first encountered as a child while attending a Greek Orthodox church in the United States.
After moving to Egypt, Baboukis began to explore "the strong connections between Arab and Greek music, Byzantine chant, as well as early Western Medieval music." However, it was not only a musical connection he felt with Egypt. A first-generation Greek American himself, Baboukis traces his family lineage back to ancestors who lived in Egypt as Greek Orthodox priests.


Pots and pans used on the cooktop to heat liquidy food can be kashered by hag'alah [boiling]. Not frying pans, though. For pots and pans not used for frying: Clean them first, wait 24 hours, and then heat a pot of boiling water. If the pots are too big to submerge completely in the hag'alah pot of water, use tongs to hold one side of the pot and submerge it partially for about 30 seconds, then turn the pot and continue submerging it, part by part, until the whole pot has been submerged.
If the pot is too big to fit into the kashering pot, you'll make somewhat of a watery mess. Fill the pot to the lip with water and bring to a boil. In the meantime, put a large stone or a brick (cleaned) over another burner so it can heat up. When the water boils, take the hot stone (with tongs!) and drop it into the boiling water. This should cause the water to rise uniformly, spilling over the sides, thereby covering the outside of the pot with boiling water. This is the procedure you can use to create a kashering pot in the first place. You will also need to [again] kasher the kashering pot in this way when you are through doing hag'alah on everything else.
Pressure cookers are similarly kashered through hag'alah, including the rubber gasket. Frying pans that used oil, according to Orthodox ruling, should be kashered by libun kal ["simple purification"]: They should be heated on a burner set over high heat until a piece of paper touching the pan gets singed.
Note: Pans that are coated with Teflon, according to the Orthodox, cannot be kashered; according to Conservative ruling, they can. If the surface is fairly scratched up, which happens with Teflon, the pan should be replaced (as it should be anyway; who knows what's in those flakes of Teflon that might come off into your scrambled eggs?).
You will likely need to get a new set of metal baking pans. Metal pans used for baking must be kashered by libun gamur–that is, heated over an open flame (such as a blowtorch) until they are red hot. This treatment can damage many pans, such as those made from aluminum. If you have heavier pans, they may survive red-hot temperatures, but usually people opt to buy new baking pans. You will also need to scrub off any baked-on residue. As with other items to be kashered, clean the pans and let them rest, unused, for 24 hours.
According to some more lenient rulings, however, you can kasher metal baking pans by placing them in the oven, set at the highest setting, for one hour or let them stay in the oven during the self-cleaning process.


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Pixar's 'Turning Red' Comes Home for Canadian Premiere in Toronto
After having its world premiere March 2 at Disney's El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Pixar's 25th feature film, Turning Red, brought its star power to Toronto on Tuesday night for what can only be described as an epic homecoming. Taking over the five-storey TIFF Bell Lightbox… Read More »Pixar's 'Turning Red' Comes Home for Canadian Premiere in Toronto
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Why Disney Should Build Its Next Park in Toronto
For decades it's been accepted wisdom that North America can only support two Disney theme park resorts—Disneyland and Walt Disney World— one on each side of the continent.
I say it's time for Disney to build a third, and there's only one place to do it: Toronto.
Considering my whereabouts, it's an audaciously self-serving suggestion. But there are some solid reasons for Disney to choose Toronto, besides making me one very happy guy.
To give everyone a geography primer, the actual city of Toronto is surrounded by several large municipalities, each with hundreds of thousands of residents. All told, well over eight million Canadians live within a driving distance of a couple of hours or so.
A little research into population data reveals that, counting only the major metro hubs, about 108 million Americans live within nine hours of Toronto—35 per cent of the U.S. population. That number is expected to grow to 141 million by 2050.
When I started writing this article, the U.S. Northeast was going to be my pick. Disney could easily build the park in New Jersey or Upstate New York and have it be quite successful. But Toronto's location outside of the U.S. is actually a big, counterintuitive plus.
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Disney Cruise Line Highlights Canada Shore Excursions
Speak with anyone who has visited Canada's beautiful Atlantic seaboard and they'll regale you with stories about the magic of nature's wonderland. But the real magic is reserved for the warm and kindness of the areas residents. So, when you're on your Disney cruise to… Read More »Disney Cruise Line Highlights Canada Shore Excursions


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production steps of calcium carbonate
Precipitated calcium carbonate manufacturing process
Precipitated calcium carbonate production process: first burn the limestone and other raw material sections to generate lime (the main component is calcium oxide) and carbon dioxide, then add water to digest the lime to produce lime milk (main component is calcium hydroxide), and then pass the carbon dioxide carbonized lime milk Calcium carbonate precipitates are generated and then prepared by ...
PRODUCTION METHOD OF CALCIUM CARBONATE ...
2018-2-26 Provided is a production method that can easily produce a calcium carbonate porous sintered body. The production method includes the steps of: preparing a dispersion liquid containing calcium carbonate and a gelling agent; adding a foaming agent to ...
Production Steps Of Calcium Carbonate - oc
Production Steps Of Calcium Carbonate: EP2483203A1 - Production of calcium carbonate - A method of producing calcium carbonate from lime comprises the steps of: (i) providing an aqueous solution comprising 10% to 35% by weight of dissolved polyhydroxy compound and 1% to 5% by weight of dissolved calcium hydroxide (expressed as Ca(OH) 2 ) and having a pH of at least 11.5; (ii) treating
Calcium carbonate manufacturing process
Wet production of heavy calcium carbonate can be produced in filler grade and coating grade depending on the process selected. Filler grade heavy calcium carbonate / heavy calcium powder generally can meet the requirements of the product after one grinding. The coated grade heavy calcium carbonate needs to be ground again after grinding.
Production of calcium carbonate - CalciTech Synthetic ...
The calcium carbonate so produced had a mean particle size of 0.5 microns. The particle size distribution as expressed by the ratio d90/d10 was 3.6. The calcium carbonate had a R 457 brightness of 96.9. EXAMPLE 3. This Example describes the production of calcium carbonate particles of a larger size than those produced in Example 1.
Calcium carbonate CaCO3 - PubChem
Calcium Carbonate is the carbonic salt of calcium (CaCO3). Calcium carbonate is used therapeutically as a phosphate buffer in hemodialysis, as an antacid in gastric hyperacidity for temporary relief of indigestion and heartburn, and as a calcium
EP2483203A1 - Production of calcium carbonate -
A method of producing calcium carbonate from lime comprises the steps of: (i) providing an aqueous solution comprising 10% to 35% by weight of dissolved polyhydroxy compound and 1% to 5% by weight of dissolved calcium hydroxide (expressed as Ca(OH) 2 ) and having a pH of at least 11.5; (ii) treating the solution prepared in step (i) to remove solids including suspended solids; (iii) dispersing ...
(PDF) Precipitated Calcium carbonate production,
The sources of calcium can be industrial wastes such as: concrete waste (Van der Zee and Zeman 2016), steel production wastes (Teir et al. 2016;Said et al. 2013;Mattila and Zevenhoven 2014), spent ...
(PDF) Production of precipitated calcium carbonate
The aim of this study was to investigate the production of precipitated calcium carbonate from marble wastes. Limestone is used as the source for the production of precipitated calcium carbonate.
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) - Uses, Preparation,
Calcium Carbonate Formula. It is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CaCO 3.; It is a white insoluble powder-like substance which occurs naturally in minerals, chalk, marble, limestone, calcite, shells, pearl, etc.; Medicinally, it is used as an antacid or as a calcium supplement.
calcium carbonate process production - ecopub.be
Precipitated calcium carbonate manufacturing Precipitated calcium carbonate production process: first burn the limestone and other raw material sections to generate lime (the main component is calcium oxide) and carbon dioxide, then add water to digest the lime to produce lime milk (main component is calcium hydroxide), and then pass the carbon dioxide carbonized lime milk Calcium ...
BCCF Calcium Carbonate Calcium Carbonate
Processing and production of industrial fillers based on calcium carbonate UK calcium carbonates are a nationally significant source of raw materials. Commercial calcium carbonate grades, in the form of powders, granules and slurries, are produced in 2 ways: through the extraction and processing of natural ores or synthetically through chemical ...
Calcium Carbonate is the carbonic salt of calcium (CaCO3). Calcium carbonate is used therapeutically as a phosphate buffer in hemodialysis, as an antacid in gastric hyperacidity for temporary relief of indigestion and heartburn, and as a calcium supplement for preventing and treating osteoporosis. (NCI04)
Production of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate from
2014-1-1 Calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) is a substance widely used for various purposes, for example, as a filler and pigment material not only in paper, plastics, rubbers, paints, and inks but also in pharmaceutics, cosmetics, construction materials, and asphalts and as a nutritional supplement in animal foods .Besides the so-called ground calcium carbonate (GCC), which is milled from natural limestone ...
(PDF) PROFILE ON THE PRODUCTION OF CALCIUM
I. SUMMARYThis profile envisages the establishment of a plant for the production of precipitated calcium carbonate and lime with a capacity of 10,000 tons and 5,000 tons per annum respectively.Precipitated calcium carbonate is used as filler and coating pigment in the manufacturing of paper, plastic products and paint while lime widely used in construction industry in the preparation of mortar ...
Calcium carbonate - Essential Chemical Industry
2021-5-6 Calcium carbonate (limestone) is heated to form calcium oxide (quicklime) and carbon dioxide: It is an endothermic reaction and the equilibrium lies far to the left at low temperatures. Only at about 1200 K does the partial pressure of carbon dioxide exceed atmospheric pressure and the decomposition proceeds to completion.
Project Report on CALCIUM CARBONATE -
2020-10-4 * Precipitated Calcium Carbonate * Activated Calcium Carbonate. These two forms of calcium carbonate differ in respect of coating which the former does not have and later has. Both the forms of calcium carbonate are being used in various industries as filler or extender, thus assumes crucial importance in chemical and allied industries.
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of precipitated ...
2014-12-1 1. Introduction. Precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) is widely used as a filler and a pigment in various applications, e.g. in paper, plastics and pharmaceutics (Roskill Information Services, 2012, Stratton, 2012).The main PCC production method is the so-called carbonation process, in which limestone (CaCO 3) is first calcined in a lime kiln to calcium oxide, slaked with water to calcium ...
Effects of Ocean and Coastal Acidification on Marine
B The minerals that animals build their shells out of are calcium carbonate compounds. y releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, humans are rapidly altering the chemistry of the ocean and affecting marine life. The acidity of the ocean has increased by about 25% since before the Industrial Revolution, greater than any other time within the last two million years.
CPM LCA Database - European average production of
This activity describes the average production of sodium carbonate in Germany. The data represent average results for Western European soda production. The sodium carbonate is produced using the Solvay technique. The production process consists of the following steps: 1. brine cleaning, 2. manufacture of the product, 3. lime milk preparation, 4.
Production Process of Precipitated calcium Carbonate ...
2013-4-12 The Precipitated Calcium Carbonate Plant offered by us is made by following steps: Process Description The manufacturing of Quick Lime consists of following steps pcc precipitated calcium carbonate production flow sheet and
PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PRECIPITATED
A process for producing precipitated calcium carbonate, including the steps of providing calcium hydroxyde, and carbonating the calcium hydroxyde with carbon dioxyde gas and communicating for a time sufficient to produce a calcium carbonate having at least about a 90 weight percent conversion to calcium carbonate and having a solids concentration of at least about 90 weight percent.
US Patent for Production of calcium carbonate via
2019-9-17 Methods and systems for producing calcium carbonate from calcium hydroxide and carbon dioxide are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for producing calcium carbonate comprises (i) providing a first plurality of particles comprising solid-state calcium hydroxide, and (ii) introducing a gas stream comprising carbon dioxide to the first plurality of particles to produce a
Solvay Process Chemistry Tutorial - AUS-e-TUTE
2019-6-21 Sodium carbonate, Na 2 CO 3, has a number of uses but its most common use is in the production of glass. Since the 1860's, sodium carbonate has been produced using the Solvay Process. The Solvay Process is a continuous process using limestone (CaCO 3 ) to produce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) which reacts with ammonia (NH 3 ) dissolved in brine ...
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Q: Reading jar output from servlet I am running some function form a jar(located under WEB-INF/lib) and I want to read the output(to the console) from my servlet. here is the code:
MsgTranToXML = new MsgTranToXML(); //this is a function inside the jar that prints output

Is this possible? thank's.

A: I assume your function prints its output via System.out.println.
System.out.println means "call the println() method on the static field out of the class System.
This out field is of type PrintStream, and can be reassigned by calling System.setOut() and passing it a new PrintStream of your choice, which you can then use to read the output generated by your function (you may want to take a look at the PipedOutputStream/PipedInputStream classes to achieve that).
Be aware though, that you will also trap the output of every other method that uses System.out.println (including any library you may also use in your application) !

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Rounded pyrite (yellow-white) grains comprise single crystals, grains with poorly crystalline pyrite cores (top centre), framboidal grains (centre bottom right) and recrystallized framboids (centre top right). Many pyrite grains are fractured. Two rounded zoned zircons (light grey, centre) are present. Galena, arsenopyrite, rutile and altered uraninite are also present but cannot be distinguished at this magnification.
Rounded pyrite grains (yellow-white) are heavily fractured and carry pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite inclusions (top left) which cannot be distinguished from each other at this magnification. A rounded chromite (light grey, bottom centre right) has a zircon (dark grey, lower reflectance than chromite, bottom centre) lying between it and the adjacent shattered pyrite. Lying above two small chromite crystals (bottom right) is an extensively altered uraninite grain (diffuse lighter grey patch) containing very fine-grained chalcopyrite and galena (higher reflectance 'spots'). Small rutile crystals (light grey) occur within a pyrite grain or surround it (centre top). Quartz is dark grey.
Rounded pyrite grains (light yellow-white) are heavily fractured (centre) and contain small chalcopyrite (yellow, bottom centre) inclusions. One pyrite grain (top left) comprises recrystallized framboids and above it a rounded detrital grain has an (?)authigenic pyrite overgrowth separated by a thin silicate-rich zone. Uraniferous carbon, also known as thucholite (brown-grey, centre right), contains small square shaped uraninite (light grey) crystals in its centre. The carbon shows faint reflection pleochroism and bireflectance. The carbon is surrounded by a coffinite-rich area (light grey, centre top) enclosing pyrite. Acicular crystals of TiO2 (light grey, bottom centre) form a leucoxene aggregate and have higher reflectance than coffinite and zircon (dark grey, bottom right) which is also fractured. Two euhedral crystals of pyrrhotite (brown-yellow, bottom left) have nucleated upon a detrital pyrite grain.
Pyrite (light yellow, bottom right) has a lower reflectance than arsenopyrite (white, top left, centre right), one grain of which shows reflection pleochroism from pink-white to white (centre right). Both pyrite and arsenopyrite are rounded grains. Two aggregates of fine-grained TiO2 (blue-grey, bottom left and top right) are pseudomorphs after iron-titanium oxide minerals. Quartz is dark grey, softer gangue phases have plucked out.
Pyrite (light yellow) encloses small inclusions of chalcopyrite (yellow, centre right), pyrrhotite (brown, centre left) and a mixed chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite (centre top) inclusion. A small native gold grain (golden yellow, high reflectance, centre right) is also present and has a higher reflectance than chalcopyrite. Quartz is dark grey.
Pyrite (light yellow, right centre) and fractured arsenopyrite (light blue-white, top centre) are cemented by pyrrhotite (brown, bottom centre). A gold grain (golden-yellow, very high reflectance, centre top) is close to a single crystal of a TiO2 mineral (grey, centre top). Other small crystals of pyrite, arsenopyrite and TiO2 occur within pyrrhotite. Quartz (left) has internal reflections. The colour and reflectance of gold in this photomicrograph closely approach its appearance under the microscope.


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August 7, 2014 January 16, 2015 by muchadoboutlove
Temptation: Episode 6
Sometimes, what you thought to be the best solution for your problem turned out to be the worst, yet no one actually knew what would happen next. The space between a fighting couple might tear them apart instead of bringing them closer. Doing something thinking that you can handle it might take the wrong turn when everything you planned falls apart. And then, your happiness does not guarantee that other people will share the bliss.
Se-young wondered what made him change his mind and Suk-hoon said that he wanted to confirm something. Since she couldn't just hire him without any specific reason, Suk-hoon was given the task to find out about the CEO's schedule to prove his skills. Se-young was literally breathless and only after he left she could catch her breath. As for Hong-joo, she realized that her husband had really left the house. At Min-woo's house, his mother was waiting for Roy with excitement and the boy received warm welcome from his grandmother. It's the complete opposite with Min-woo's eldest daughter Yoon-ah, who refused to talk to Roy. Ji-sun didn't want to take the responsibility of coaxing Yoon-ah and told Min-woo to do it. Both Ji-sun and Roy felt awkward around each other but they had no choice since they're going to live under the same roof.
Suk-hoon continued to work hard in order to complete his task while Hong-joo didn't have any clue about his activities. Hong-kyu asked if his sister wasn't afraid of her husband cheating behind her back, but she replied coldly that he could do it even when they're living together. Her father sensed that something was wrong but chose not to delve into the matter for the time being. Se-young was thinking about Suk-hoon when she was summoned back to her house, since Chairman Yoo had found out about Se-jin's shopping spree and the little sister was being punished. Se-jin got tired of being compared with her perfect sister and lashed out, telling Se-young to get married since she found a man she liked. Meanwhile, Min-woo returned home for the day and checked on Roy before trying to make Ji-sun feel better, although his wife was still suspicious of him, probably regarding Hong-joo, who had her own issues to deal with.
Hong-kyu was called out by Se-jin, who had been drinking by herself at the bar. He wanted to retrieve his key but ended up with the drunk lady, who refused to go home since she's the ugly duckling of the house. Hong-kyu could relate to her but didn't admit it and he had to piggyback her to her house. LOL! But then, Se-jin pointed out the direction to Se-young's house and Se-young was surprised to see her sister passed out on a stranger's back. Se-young realized that Hong-kyu was the man in the picture Se-jin showed her before and told him to take care of her sister, but Hong-kyu said that he's not her boyfriend and left in a huff. Hehehe! Se-young sent a text to Suk-hoon, who was still burning the midnight oil and he replied her, but he was soon distracted with Hong-joo's text and left Se-young waiting for his reply.
Roy quickly became the apple of the grandmother's eye, much to the other family members' chagrin. I feel bad for the Yoon-ah somehow..Min-woo was contacted by Suk-hoon, who wanted to secure a deal with him. He initially refused to help him after finding out that Suk-hoon was helping Se-young, but changed his mind to return his favour to Hong-joo. Suk-hoon also found out that Hong-joo had quit the job as a babysitter. Se-young told Se-jin about Hong-kyu who sent her home and Se-jin was shocked to learn that it wasn't her dream. Se-jin apologized for her harsh words on the night before and Se-young told her to clean up her place. Ahh I love this sisterhood bond they had! Se-young received a visitor: Suk-hoon, and unlike her prediction, he actually managed to find out about the CEO's schedule. Min-woo's help came with a price, since he's suddenly interested in finding out more about Suk-hoon and Se-young's relationship. Se-young didn't like that Suk-hoon chose to come clean with Min-woo about his intention in order for him to find out about the schedule, but she gave him another chance to secure an appointment with the CEO.
Hong-joo became jobless after her short stint as a babysitter and tried to contact her nurse friends with the intention of seeking for job openings but she didn't get any. Min-woo reminded her about her salary and she went out to meet him but rejected his invitation to have a meal with him. Hong-joo thought that it would be better if Roy and Ji-sun could be close to each other and chose not to visit the boy at Min-woo's house, since she could understand how hard it was for his wife to raise a child who wasn't her own. Min-woo told her about his meeting with Suk-hoon and she was shaken to hear that her husband was working with Se-young's company. He knew that she had problems with Suk-hoon and offered his support if she needed any. I hope he meant someone like Hong-kyu, who became a reluctant counselor for Se-jin and lent his ears for her whining about Se-young and Mrs Hong, her housekeeper. But then, she avoided him when he asked about his pictures. Heee!
Hong-joo chose to keep everything to herself but her father was sharper and took her out for a glass of beer. Se-young was about to leave her office but she was momentarily distracted by the sight of Suk-hoon focused on his work. She acted nonchalantly when he saw her and made her exit, but not before reminding the flustered Young-chul to have a proper meal with the company card. Just like what Min-woo encountered before, Suk-hoon realized that nothing much was known about the mysterious CEO, except for a family emblem. We go back to Hong-joo, who chose to tell her father about Suk-hoon moving out of the house; however, she pleaded for him not to ask for more details, since she didn't want to trouble him with her problems. He tried to cheer her up with his singing and gave her a piece of advice: nothing could be solved between married couples with living apart and they should talk about their problems. Hear, hear! Between Se-young's new found love and the married couple, my heart leans more on the couple's side for now. Sigh..
The day for the meeting with the important CEO had come and Min-woo left early for the important day. He saw Roy planting the flowers given by Hong-joo before and approached him, while Yoon-ah stared at them with wistful eyes. Awww princess, let me hug you! Se-young's team was also getting ready to approach the CEO and she knew that Dongsung had an advantage over Ajin since they're more experienced in the hotel industry compared to Ajin. Suk-hoon thought that Se-young should join Young-chul and him to meet the said CEO Du since it would help them greatly in securing a meeting even without prior appointment. Hong-joo appeared at Dongsung to meet Suk-hoon but he left his phone behind; instead, she ran into Se-young and saw that Se-young was wearing the shoes she bought back in Hong Kong.
The two women sat down for a cup of coffee per Hong-joo's invitation and Hong-joo insisted that Suk-hoon was working with Dongsung to prove that he could stay loyal to their marriage even with Se-young near him. Se-young came clean that she's falling for him and if he's still in love with Hong-joo, then it would be okay to be honest about her feelings. Hong-joo pointed out that it must be her hobby to take other people's belongings but Se-young set it straight: the shoes was originally hers to begin with. She won't let the second chance to hire Suk-hoon go away and told Hong-joo to stop blaming her. Hong-joo accidentally knocked down her coffee and left stains on her skirt, which might not come off easily just like her affected relationship with Suk-hoon.
Although he knew that Hong-joo called him earlier, Suk-hoon chose to focus on his mission for the time being. Dongsung's team went to the place where Ajin's side was holding their meeting with CEO Du with the hope to meet the CEO. One of the CEO's subordinate seemed uninterested with the long presentation by Ajin. Suk-hoon and Se-young were still waiting for the CEO as the subordinate accidentally knocked down Se-young's notebook and Suk-hoon realized that the man was the real CEO Du after seeing the Du family emblem tattooed on his wrist. They decided to follow after the CEO and reached a remote market. Se-young ended up in Suk-hoon's arms twice and he decided to hold her hand while walking through the marketplace. They were suddenly greeted by a man holding a flashlight pointed at them, asking who they were..
I hope the CEO is not some kind of thug..because that might be life-threatening for these two and even cause problems for Dongsung later.
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3 thoughts on "Temptation: Episode 6"
Thank you for the recapped👄…anticipating the rest…
You're welcome! I'm still catching up with the show ^^
runningmanupdate says:
WOW!!! Thank you sooo much for recap!!! I really catch up with your Temptation Episode Recap!! 🙂


This thing stock? Also, needs more screenshots.
+Good looking, high poly model.
+The handling really is pretty good, top speed is realistic.
-The tail lights are inaccurate. Real FD RX7s have circular tail lights.
-Interior textures could use work, especially the awful looking red stitching on the seat trim.
-The default wheels look too white and not shiny enough.
-Not compatible with the Popup Headlights mod. Please switch the "open" and "closed" rear left door positions and it will be fixed easily.
Overall, not bad. Better than Neos7's RX7 mod but not as good as Erfet's RX7 mod.
@trusheerush The 1993-95 RX-7 had those taillights though.
@jus1029 huh, I stand corrected.
@trusheerush @jus1029 @trusheerush @krashadam thank you all .well i worked on it a lot of times and i have not too much of free time know .i like this car so badly if any body can help me to improve it by giving me a exact pic or guidance i'd would appreciate it. about the popup headlight it was working well with older version of it but i don't know why it is Vice versa in new version!!!
Add the stock spoiler and the interiors from the 1993 version,why current interiors are from the spirit R?
@Neos7 it has the stock spoiler in customer shop u can see it.if you mean that interior that driver is in wrong side i don't like it sorry.
@imik3 what do u mean by distance between the wheels and fenders ? u mean wheel are not big enough?
@trusheerush Although others have replied about the taillights. Apparently you doesn't watch Initial D, the FD there are all the early models (The square taillights).
But I couldn't blame you about it though, because in like, 99% of the movies and games all uses the later models with circular taillights.
How do I install this mod? The instructions are very unclear and i have no idea of where to put what.


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Kosovo's prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, says a land-swap plan floated by the presidents of his own country and Serbia is a dangerous idea that undermines Kosovo's aspirations of NATO and European Union (EU) membership.
Haradinaj also anticipates Russia will meddle in this sensitive issue—just as was the case in 2016, when Russia reportedly attempted to assassinate the prime minister of Montenegro and overthrow the government.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and President Hashim Thaçi of Kosovo are considering a plan that supporters say will ease ethnic tensions and contribute to stability in the Western Balkans. If the plan brings about a lasting settlement between Belgrade and Pristina, it could lead to EU membership for both in the longer term.
In an interview with the New Atlanticist in Washington on September 28, Haradinaj insisted that the land-swap proposal does not advance Kosovo's prospects of EU membership. "The formula of swaps of territories or moving borders is not a ticket to [EU membership]. It is only a delay," Haradinaj said.
The United States and the European Union (EU) must deepen their engagement with the Western Balkans, a region where Russia, Turkey, and wealthy Arab Gulf states have extended their influence and that is considered integral to realizing the idea of a Europe that is whole, free, and at peace, speakers and panelists said at the Atlantic Council on November 29.
One European official described the United States as an invaluable partner in realizing the vision of a whole and free Europe, while a US official affirmed the commitment of US President Donald J. Trump's administration to the Western Balkans.
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Ukraine wants to join the European Union, but the level of support among many EU member states is low or nonexistent. Many are afraid of Russia's reaction and lack a clear understanding of both the climate in post-Euromaidan Ukraine and the country's strong commitment to Western integration.
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In the nearby neighborhood are eight countries—Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Serbia—that had similar traumatic experiences with war and destruction in the 1990s, and that now have seventeen years of reconstruction and pre-accession behind them. They have shared a similar strategic objective of joining the EU and NATO, and some have achieved it: Croatia joined NATO in 2009 and the EU in 2013, for example. Those that are already inside can help the others that are still on their way and facing similar challenges with domestic reform and the EU's enlargement fatigue.
The reform and transition experience of the Balkans matters for Ukraine.
One year ago, in April 2016 when Serbia held snap polls, the BBC ran the headline "Pro-EU Prime Minister Vučić Claims Victory." One year later, after Aleksandar Vučić's resounding win in the presidential election on April 2, the international media has styled him "Putin's Serb ally." Who's right and where is Serbian foreign policy heading?
It is not difficult to answer the first question; Vučić is neither pro-EU nor is he Putin's associate. If being pro-EU is defined as a commitment to reform, the rule of law, and accountable government, Vučić fails the test by a mile. At the same time, Vučić won't align with Moscow but will juggle ties with the East and West to get the best deal from both. Serbia will push forward with its EU membership negotiations and security cooperation with NATO (the Individual Partnership Action Plan signed in 2015 is being implemented), while refusing to join in on Western sanctions on Russia and courting Moscow for economic benefits and military hardware. Belgrade is doing what many EU nations—Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, and Italy, to name a few—wish they were able to do.
For all the uncertainties about the Balkans, one thing stays the same. Every few years, the headline "We Are Heading for War Again" crops up in the Western media. The last time this happened, the 2014 centennial of the First World War inspired pundits to ask whether the world is on the cusp of another European conflict. Now the cause is the isolationist turn in US foreign policy and the election of Donald Trump as president, coupled with Russia's efforts to stir trouble in the former Yugoslavia.
In fact, the Balkans is in no danger of breaking into war anytime soon. Nonetheless, the West's growing disengagement in the area, coupled by the region's stagnation and democratic backsliding, provides an ideal avenue for Russia to subtly gain influence among leaders and the public across the Balkans.
On October 16, just hours before Montenegrins were due to head to the polls, the government made an alarming announcement. It claimed security services had foiled a Russian nationalist attempt to seize control of the parliament and assassinate Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic (who has since resigned).
The Kremlin undoubtedly has an axe to grind with the Montenegrin leader. Djukanovic's support for economic sanctions on Russia over the annexation of Crimea, and his determination to take his country into NATO, have not won him any friends in Moscow. But politics in the Balkans is rarely a straightforward affair.
As critics were quick to point out, the alleged assassination plot came at a convenient moment for Djukanovic and his Democratic Party of Socialists, who had been under pressure from anti-government demonstrators in the build-up to the election. Or as the Democratic Front, Montenegro's main pro-Russian opposition party, put it, the incident was "a cheap, staged and performed vaudeville coup" aimed at scaring voters into maintaining the status quo.
While the claim that a prime minister staged a coup to win an election may seem outlandish, investigative journalists and opposition parties have long accused him of corruption, including vote-rigging, and having ties to organized crime. Djukanovic, who has ruled the country for most of the last two and half decades, was awarded the dubious title of '2015 Man of the Year in Organized Crime' by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Nearly two months on, details of the alleged coup plot remain murky.