Today we had half an hour, and the first five laps were just working on legs, which was brutal as ever. However, I think the intervening days in the pool have paid off, as I can now kick fast and powerfully, and if I remember to arch my back slightly and point my head down, I can actually go quite quickly now.
At the end of the lesson I verified this: tired, I can do 20 metres of freestyle in under 26 seconds (my best time when not totally knackered is 25,so I'm progressing in leaps and bounds now).
We did a couple of laps of arms only, which was also tough, and then some butterfly, which is almost comically difficult. I had the arms all wrong: I was doing some bastardised edition of breaststroke, arms going out wide, when they should have gone straight back and then flared out to return to the front. And apart from the fact that I have to stop every 5 metres to get my breath back, it went better than expected.
Finally, after all that, and after my attempt to sprint for a lap, I tried breaststroke underwater, and I still manage about 10 metres and then have to stop and come up for air. But this feels like a great improvement.
Home now, to read the girls their story and then let my wife put them to bed while I eat jujubes. It's a good life.


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UPDATE: As of November 14, 2018, over $139,000 has been given toward the 2020 Vision project. This amounts to roughly 70% of total funds needed to complete the project.
The 2020 Vision came as we felt God was speaking a word of "hospitality" to us. As we retooled for hospitality, we saw some areas of our facilities that we could make better. For one, we saw a need for an easily recognizable "front door" to the church. We have envisioned an open, bright, modern entrance that will provide a beautiful gathering space for fellowship, groups, Bible studies, and events. Two, we saw a crumbling south parking lot. We are tearing out and replacing that lot. In addition, we saw the need for welcome signs on Summerfield Road to give first-time guest direction to our new entrance as well as designated guest parking spots for them to use. Three, removing what is currently storage rooms for the new entrance augments our need for more storage. So we are extending the south storage to the end of gymnasium with the vision for that to be a part of an administrative wing in the future.
Our vision is to begin construction on this plan to better represent the welcoming and hospitable heart of God in summer of 2020. The estimated cost for the entire project is $200,000. We will begin work at 60% funding. You can be a part of helping us reach that goal by designating a gift to the 2020 fund! You can access that with the "Give" button at the top right of this page.


Everyone has his/her own theories and ideas about Haunted Houses, and these claims are based on assumptions and clichйs without proofs. However, "real" haunted houses have always existed, as one evidence from Paranormal Story Archives shows, and these houses hide something unusual and mysterious, as "similar haunted houses" from such literary works as "Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson, "Tales of Horror" by Laura Mullen and "Halloween Street" by Steve Rasnic Tem. The role of these houses, as described in many other articles and essays, is not that simple.
This "real" haunting house has some similarities with the houses described by famous writers Shirley Jackson and Laura Mullen. First of all, all these houses terrified people with strange and awful sounds, and made them crazy. Outside they seemed ordinary buildings, but inside they were alive creatures that were invisible to human eyes. The house of Charles Wright Congelier revealed the sobbing and screaming of a woman. And the house in the story of Laura Mullen "Tales of Horror" expressed voices and breath of something: "Voices, voices, out of the walls And the ceiling's and floors. And then nothing stays where you put it (Mullen, p. 11). And then another proof: "There was the muted sound of sobbing and yet THERE WAS NO ONE IN THAT ROOM!" (Mullen, p. 13). In the story of Shirley Jackson strange things also happened in the house: sounds, pounding, and 'hallucinations'.
This description reveals the dark energies of the house and shows the real protagonists of both literary works - the houses, which fulfil their role as Bad Places, the horrific archetypes of any location with a powerful sense of wrongness. With their dark descriptions Jackson and Mullen suggest rather than explain, and frighten more by what they do not say about the houses rather than what they do.
The supernatural occurrences may or may not be directly connected to someone special. In fact, neither the characters nor readers are quite sure of what they experience in Haunting of Hill House and Tales of Horror - but all are profoundly effected by them. For instance, in Tales of Horror readers are really affected by the power of each sentence: "This house has been Lived in, he said, speaking in a low tone but with great intensity, by an extremely Beautiful but utterly evil woman. Yes, yes, I feel that too. This week Workmen are taking the thing apart, stone by stone. Oh this? Just. a little something I found in the ruins. Don't bring it into the house!" (Mullen, p. 12). This description doesn't seem very logic, but it has the power to stir our feelings and emotions.
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Losing a smartphone is a nightmare. Granted, it's a pretty first-world nightmare – not much sleep is being lost in Mogadishu over water-damaged iPhones – but for gadgeteers it means phone calls to the insurance people (on the house phone, which is unplugged at the back of the cupboard), maybe the police, and then waiting two weeks for a council of insurance elders to declare your phone beyond repair, and worthy of replacement. It will also usually cost you about fifty quid on top of your monthly insurance bill. Like we said: nightmare.
And yet it's a pretty common occurrence. According to the British Crime Survey 2010, a quarter of mobile phone owners have had lost their handsets or had them pinched, and of these only 47% were insured. Which is why having the right insurance makes such a big difference when your phone does get pinched (or when you drop it in the bath/sink/loo), as does knowing exactly what you're paying for.
We've put together a guide to what we reckon are the best mobile insurers in the UK; those which offer the most coverage for the least amount of money with the fastest turn-around times, so you're not disconnected long. For brevity's sake we've focussed on the top end of the smartphone market, pestering insurance folks for quotes on the Apple iPhone 4 and the Samsung Galaxy S2 like digital Columbos complete with fake names and, sometimes, accents. Here's what we unearthed during our undercover jaunt through the world of smartphone insurance.
Protect Your Bubble offers one flat rate per handset that's all inclusive, as opposed to differently-priced tiers of mobile phone insurance like the other online-only insurance company we checked out.
£5.99 will protect your iPhone from just about everything that might befall it, including theft, accidental damage (including water damage), hardware failures outside of the manufacturer's warranty and unauthorised calls for £5.99 per month – and that's worldwide cover for 30 days per year. For an extra pound per month, you also get insurance against loss.
If you're phone is broken, Protect Your Bubble will take it off your hands for a poke about under the hood. If it's beyond repair, they'll aim to get you a new one within 48 hours. If it's only partly knackered, they'll fix it up and send it back to you usually within five days. You'll have to pay a £50 excess fee for a broken or stolen phone, while a phone lost to carelessness will bump that up to £75. That'll teach you not to look after your possessions.
As a free extra, signing up to Protect Your Bubble gets you free membership to TagBak for up to three gadgets. TagBak uses an adhesive tag on the back (see what they did there?) of your phone to let anyone who finds your phone help return it to you. On finding a TagBak phone, the finder can go online and contact TagBak, who then pick up the phone and return it to its rightful owner, and give the finder a small reward fee. So provided your phone is lost – and not pinched – there's an even better chance that you'll get your original handset back in one piece, without a five day absence or a £50 excess fee.
Full cover: as above, plus loan phone while they're fixing yours back up.
Insurance2go offers a choice of three different tiers of insurance, depending on how much you want to spend. Obviously, plumping for the cheaper options is a bit of a gamble – saving two quid a month isn't going to make you feel much better if your non-water-damage-insured phone ends up at the bottom of the local pool – but if you're on a super-tight budget the choice might appeal. However, we'd at least try to stretch to the middle option, which covers not only against theft but against unauthorised calls.
Losing a phone is bad enough, but it's easy to forget that unless your insurance specifically covers you for phone calls made after the phone has been taken, you're probably responsible for the cost of any and all calls and data usage the crims make before the phone is barred. Get this.
The unique selling point of the insurance package offered by Insurance2go is the mobile wallet protection. Mobile wallet protection is a pretty forward-thinking inclusion for a mobile insurer, and covers you against ruffians who treat themselves to shopping spree using your NFC-enabled mobile. It's not a massive deal for many people yet, but as NFC takes off (it's already available in some 50,000 shops nationwide, according to the BBC), protection against mobile wallet theft will be huge.
Phones 4U charge separate prices for its insurance depending on whether you buy it online or in store, and the online price falls in line with the online only private insurance companies we've looked at here.
Insurance covers accidental damage, theft and breakdown all around the world, as well as loss on every handset except the iPhone. Phones 4U also offer different deals online to what's available in-store, so if you're going to buy a new mobile from them, it's better all round to purchase both the handset and the insurance from their website.
iPhone users take note again, though, that Phones 4U's policies do not cover Apple smartphones against loss, so scatterbrains beware.
Geek Squad is the Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy's own insurance and technical support team, and they can charge you for any tech-based service you can think of. Need someone to walk you through setting up a games console? That'll be £14.99. Need someone to walk you through the iPhone's five-minute setup process? That'll be £14.99.
Mobile phone insurance is also very pricey, but remains popular as it's the insurance that the Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy will try to flog you when you take out a new contract with them in-store. Insuring a top end Android phone like a Galaxy S2 or and iPhone 4 will cost a whopping £13.99 month and command an excess fee of £60 should your phone break or get pinched. The insurance is tiered, so cheaper phones will cost less to insure, but is reliably more expensive than the private insurers across every phone we looked at.
The Carphone Warehouse say that this extra money covers 24-hour tech support, and also that it pays for quick replacement of your phone should your claim be approved. The representative we spoke to told us that The Carphone Warehouse guarantees a replacement phone the next working day if your claim is lodged by 5pm. We like that feature, but if you're vaguely tech savvy, you maynot need the tech support; we can't think of non-fatal flaws we've experienced that weren't solvable with a bit of old-fashioned Googling. If you really can't stand the idea of being without a phone for more than a day, this might be worth the extra cost, but it's still an expensive way of protecting your mobile.
Three still honour existing insurance policies but no longer offer insurance as a standalone service for their mobile products.
Standard – For £6 a month, their typical insurance policy covers accidental damage, attended theft, loss, up to £25 worth of accessories and worldwide cover with an £25 excess.
Premiere – For £7.50/£10.00 a month (depending on your handset) you receive all of the allowances of the Standard cover plan with the addition of access to a replacement handset whilst abroad. What's more, accessories are bolstered under £200 worth of cover with the same £25 excess.
Premiere for iPhone – For £12.50 a month you receive all the allowances of the Premiere policy for your iPhone with an excess of £60 except in the instance on a second claim or more with respect to loss, at which stage you will be charged £120 per claim.
Depending on the value of your handset, your insurance will be grouped into one of four bands, numbered from 1 to 4 with the least expensive devices falling under Band 1 and the most expensive such as iPhones and the Samsung Galaxy S3 slotting into Band 4. All of Vodafone's insurance packages cover theft, loss, accidental damage, £200 worth of accessory cover, 30 days worth of worldwide cover and covers any user of the device at the time of incident.
Band 1 – Customers pay £4.99 per month with a minimum term of three months before cancellation and an excess of £15 when they make a claim.
Band 2 – Customers pay £6.99 per month with a minimum term of three months before cancellation and an excess of £25 when they make a claim.
Band 3 – Customers pay £9.99 per month with a minimum term of three months before cancellation and an excess of £50 when they make a claim.
Band 4 – Customers pay £12.99 per month with a minimum term of three months before cancellation and an excess of £50 when they make a claim.
Orange Care is the name of the carrier's insurance packages and they've grouped their rates into three bands. Depending on the value of your handsets. All their packages include phone replacement within 24 hours if your device is lost, stolen, damaged or develops a fault, provided you're in the UK at the time.
Group 1 – Customers need to pay £6 a month and fork out a £25 excess when they make a claim.
Group 2 – Customers need to pay £12 a month and fork out a £50 excess when they make a claim.
Group 3 – Customers need to pay £15 a month and fork out a £50 excess when they make a claim.
The magenta network offer the widest range of insurance policies for both PAYG and Pay Monthly customers. PAYG devices are grouped simply by value of the phone with the lowest group covering devices up to the value of £30 and the highest covering up to £250, whilst Pay Monthly devices are classed by groups A, B, C, D, G and I. More details can be found for PAYG handsets on their site (linked below).
Each of these five Pay Monthly insurance groups include worldwide cover, loss, theft, malicious or accidental damage, liquid damage, breakdowns or faults outside of warranty household cover and allow for unlimited claims.
Group A – For £2.99 a month alongside all the existing eventualities mentioned, up to £150 worth of accessories are covered with the excess on your first claim costing £10, or double that if you claim within the first month. Your second claim will also cost £10 or double if you claim within 6 months following your first claim. If you make a third claim or any subsequent claims, expect to pay £30 a time excess.
Group B – For £4.99 a month alongside all the existing eventualities mentioned, up to £200 worth of accessories are covered with the excess on your first claim costing £20, or double that if you claim within the first month. Your second claim will also cost £20 or double if you claim within 6 months following your first claim. If you make a third claim or any subsequent claims, expect to pay £60 a time excess.
Group C – For £6.99 a month alongside all the existing eventualities mentioned, up to £250 worth of accessories are covered with the excess on your first claim costing £25, or double that if you claim within the first month. Your second claim will also cost £25 or double if you claim within 6 months following your first claim. If you make a third claim or any subsequent claims, expect to pay £75 a time excess.
Group D – For £8.99 a month alongside all the existing eventualities mentioned, up to £300 worth of accessories are covered with the excess on your first claim costing £30, or double that if you claim within the first month. Your second claim will also cost £30 or double if you claim within 6 months following your first claim. If you make a third claim or any subsequent claims, expect to pay £90 a time excess.
Group G – For £12.99 a month alongside all the existing eventualities mentioned, up to £300 worth of accessories are covered with the excess on your first claim costing £50, or double that if you claim within the first two months. Your second claim will also cost £50 or double if you claim within 6 months following your first claim. If you make a third claim or any subsequent claims, expect to pay £150 a time excess.
Group I – For £14.99 a month alongside all the existing eventualities mentioned, up to £300 worth of accessories are covered with the excess on your first claim costing £50, or double that if you claim within the first two months. Your second claim will also cost £50 or double if you claim within 6 months following your first claim. If you make a third claim or any subsequent claims, expect to pay £150 a time excess.
Getting mobile insurance from your provider or from the shop where you've just picked up your shiny new handset may sound convenient, but despite what the sales rep told you while you were signing all those forms, you'll end up paying more than you should. Our recommendation: go private.
Of the two private insurance options we looked at, the big differences between Insurance2Go and Protect Your Bubble are the the first offers protection against NFC theft, while the second offers the free TagBak service that could potentially get you your actual phone back and save you the excess charge. Either way, with prices at roughly half what you'd pay with your network provider, over a two year contract going with either will save you upwards of £140, which can go on a nice bottle of wine with which to toast your good sense.
Whichever decision you make, please please please read the details on each company's site, as details – and prices – are likely to change all the time, and we'd hate for you to take out an insurance policy on our recommendation only to find some key detail has changed and left you out of pocket.


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Wilhelm ("Willi") Heidel (Sibiu, 28 februari  1916 – Lohhof, 20 september 2008) was een Roemeens handballer van Duitse afkomst.

Op de Olympische Spelen van 1936 in Berlijn eindigde hij op de vijfde plaats met Roemenië. Heidel speelde drie wedstrijden.

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US President Trump said he will skip this year's White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner and hold a rally instead.
A 63- year-old woman was in for a horrible experience when she tucked into her seafood dinner, which sent her on a visit to an emergency room.
US President Donald Trump and members of the press traded good-natured jokes and barbs on usually not-so-funny matters such as impeachment during the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club and Foundation.
Should Christmas Dinner Be a Guilty Pleasure?
Christmas dinner is probably the most awaited meal of the year, filled with delicious dishes, heartwarming conversations and dazzling centerpiece displays. But have you ever thought that an average person consumes an estimated 6,000 calories feasting and boozing!
The unusual event, which was initially considered an interesting setting for a photoshoot, turned into a happy dinner for pets and their owners.
US First Lady Melania Trump wore a Chinese-style embroidered gown or 'qipao' from Gucci's 2016 collection, which debuted on the runway in Milan in February 2016, for Thursday night's state dinner hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Sitting next to US President Donald Trump at an official function resulted in the wife of Japan's Prime Minister taking extreme action. At the recent G20 summit in Hamburg, Akie Abe sat in silence, for 90 minutes, pretending she could not speak English.
Some people are literally obsessed with having the freshest food possible. And these gourmands from China confirm this.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met up with former US President Barack Obama for a candlelit dinner in Montreal, and to no surprise, the internet is feeling pretty nostalgic for that bromance.


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Widespread outcry over 'wrist tape words' ban
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World Rugby's move to ban wording on players' wrist tape has received widespread criticism – this time from leading administrators after players aired their grievances.
NZ Rugby Players Association boss Rob Nichol told Radio Sport Breakfast that the law change came as a surprise, the details 'buried' in the latest agreement.
"It came apparently through the participation agreement that the teams signed. But it was buried. We certainly weren't across it. New Zealand Rugby, I don't think were across it and the players haven't been consulted or involved in the decision, from our perspective anyway," said Nichol.
"We're just trying to unpack it a bit and work with World Rugby and try and address it."
"I think the whole process that's been around it has been poor," he said. "It hasn't gone out for consultation and that's a big problem. It makes the game and themselves look a bit stupid."
The move was made to align World Rugby with the International Olympic Committee's rules where no slogans, symbols or messages are permitted.
A spokesman for World Rugby's told Stuff.co.nz a common-sense approach had been accepted by all participating teams and the ban covered the world sevens circuit and the Rugby World Cup.
"There has been a significant increase in strapping 'art' or 'messages' on the series in recent seasons, which is impossible to police for inappropriate or political statements by the match officials in the short period of time before entering the field in a sevens environment across multiple matches and in multiple languages," the statement said.
Nichol also expressed dismay at the potential for $1,000 fines for players who fail to comply.
"Even the concept of a fine. World Rugby doesn't have the power to fine our players, so it's comical . . . it's a joke. The whole thing has just been really poorly done."
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88 Tough Facts About Men You Probably Didn't Know
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1Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie grew up in racially segregated Alabama and once unwittingly drank from a whites only fountain. White men confronted his father, who grabbed Richie and ran off. Richie asked his father why he didn't stay and fight. His dad answered, "I had a choice: to be a man or be a father."
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2. A woman (Holly Van Voast) won $40,000 as a settlement from NYC due to police repeatedly arresting her for going topless in public. However, it's perfectly legal for men and women to be topless in NYC
3. In South Korea, men who win Olympic medals do not have to participate in the two-year long mandatory military service.
4. In 2011, two Nepali men (Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsering Sherpa) climbed Mount Everest and then proceeded to paraglide off of the summit, landing 35 km away. They then hiked and kayaked to the Bay of Bengal, winning the pair National Geographic Adventurers of the Year.
5. When scientists first realized that American gay men and Africans in France were both suffering from the same disease (AIDS), French researchers sent over a sample to be tested. But a scientist with a grudge against the French Institute switched out the sample, setting research back years.
6Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi
More than 10 years, 2 disabled men in China, one without arms and the other without sight, have been planting trees together and have so far planted more than 10,000.
7. Our walking speed is affected by whom we're with: men's pace slows down by an average of 7% when walking with female partners they're interested in; women walking together move the slowest; & men walking with male friends moved at speeds faster than either man's preferred walking speed.
8. Paul Revere did not complete his famous ride, he was captured by the British. He was riding with two other men, William Dawes escaped, then fell off his horse. The third man, Dr. Samuel Prescott, was the only one who actually made it to their destination, Concord.
9. Lord Acton's famous quote 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' is immediately followed by 'Great men are almost always bad men'.
10. Hugh Jackman, at 1.90 (6ft 3in), stands 30cm taller than Wolverine, portrayed in the comic as 1.60 (5ft 3in). When they made X-Men (2000) the filmmakers were forced to shoot Jackman at unusual angles or from the waist up to make him appear shorter, and his co-stars wore platform soles.
11Elizabeth Freeman
In 1780, a slave named Elizabeth Freeman essentially ended slavery in Massachusetts by suing for her freedom on the basis that the new state constitution declared that all men are born free and equal.
12. Post-relationship grief affects men, in the long term, more than women.
13. Hugh Jackman accidentally stabbed the Mystique stuntwoman in the arm while filming the first X-Men movie. She looked at the gaping hole in her arm and said 'Yes! I have been stabbed by Wolverine!'
14. David Bowie's first TV appearance was in 1964 at the age of 17, but was not for his music. He was interviewed on the BBC's Tonight show as the founder of 'The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men'.
15. Silas Soule, an abolitionist who, among other accomplishments, was present at the Sandy Creek Massacre where he refused to order his men to fire. He testified at Congress against his commanding officer and was murdered soon after, likely as a result of his testimony.
16Chocolate
In a study on the appeal of chocolate, it took researchers 1 year to find 11 men who don't like chocolate
17. Women are twice as likely to initiate a suicide attempt but Men are four times more likely to succeed.
18. Winston Churchill, along with many of the Royal Navy's highest ranking men, came very close to death after the ship they were on was fired at by a U-boat with 3 torpedoes. All three struck the hull of the ship, but all failed to explode.
19. There is an anime and manga in Japan called Saint Young Men, which is about Jesus and Buddha living as roommates in Tokyo while taking a vacation on Earth and attempting to understand Japanese society.
20. The revolving door was invented because the inventor disliked the social convention of men holding doors for women.
21Sexual intercourse
About 50% of the men ejaculate in under two minutes and the average male expects to have intercourse for 18 minutes.
22. The first deodorant for men was launched in 1935 (decades after the introduction of deodorants for women) because, at the beginning of the 20th century, body odor was not considered a problem for men; it was a part of being masculine.
23. A study found that nearly half of all homeless men had suffered a "traumatic" brain injury, with 87% having sustained the injury prior to becoming homeless
24. In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman (Ruth Coker Burks) single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn't claim them.
25. A ten-year psychological study found that men who kissed their wives before leaving for work, on average lived five years longer, earning 20 to 30% more than peers who left without a kiss.
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Let's start the week off with a local player. Ice Dog Defenseman Trenton Woods takes a shot from deep inside the neutral zone and finds the back of the net to secure the win on Saturday night. This was Woods' second official goal of the weekend, and his third if you count his shootout goal in game two.
And we close this week's I-5 out with another game winner. After both teams were scoreless in the opening period, the Ice Dogs scored the only goal they would have needed on Saturday night in the second. A wide open Matt Koethe takes the spinning pass from Luke Ciolli and fires a shot right past the goaltender's glove to secure the Ice Dog Victory in their Regular Season Finale.


…A best friend is like a good pair of shoes. You know the pair that seem to go with everything, are just so damn comfortable and everytime you wear them your so glad you bought them? In my case i am definitley referring to my black Zara strappy sandals i bought for a mere £29,99 (They are featured endlessly on this blog) and more importantly to a dear dear friend named Madeleine. You may be wondering what this has to do with my outfit post, but here i am pictured on my way to meet said friend for an evening of dinner and drinks.
We hadnt seen eachother for a while but time apart is never an issue whenever we meet. Conversation always flows and i am reminded yet again why we became friends in the first place. We both met up wearing chunky roll neck jumpers both fashioning shades of burgandy and both carrying snakeskin clutch bags! Our similar taste in clothing is scary and amusing at times. Maybe it was a slight lack of judgement on both our parts since we were having dinner at an indian restaurant!?
To finish off i have to comment on the jumper i am wearing, i bought it last week from River Island for a reasonable £39.99. I stumbled upon it on my lunchbreak not expecting to find anything so amazing in such a quick trip. I love how it is two toned and the colour pallette makes it such a versitile piece. I have since found it comes in a monochrome cream and black version too...would it be awful if it also ended up in my wardrobe??


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By By Ernest Thompson
Directed by Steve Shaw
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
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Unless you're the type of person who likes to write everything themselves, chances are you'll have a lot of dependencies in your code on classes from external frameworks. These don't often fit within your personal (or company's) API guidelines or architecture. You also can't apply dependency inversion as easily as with your own classes.
Since in Swift you can extend any type (including types from other frameworks) with whichever methods or computed variables you please, controlling external types is easy.
The approach I use for this is wrapping the external classes into a protocol I control. It boils down to extending the external class to conform to one of your protocols.
One thing that's important to keep in mind is that the extension should have as little logic as possible, since you probably won't be testing your mocks.
In a way, wrapping classes in protocols is like making a burrito. The protocol extension is the tortilla, and the external class are all the delicious ingredients in the tortilla. You want the tortilla to be as thin as possible, while still providing a manageable structure that you can work with.
The principle of dependency inversion is fairly simple — make your dependencies instances of protocols (or interfaces in other languages), not concrete implementations. This makes your code more modular, more testable and easier to refactor.
The trouble is, how do you wrangle an external class into conforming to a protocol. Well, there are two approaches to this: the submissive and the dominant approach.
Let's take a look at those two approaches with a concrete example: NSUserDefaults.
NSUserDefaults' main API are the objectForKey(:)](https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSUserDefaults_Class/#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSUserDefaults/objectForKey:) and [setObject(:forKey:) methods. This is what we will make mockable.
The submissive approach is to make your protocol the same as the external class's API.
These methods have the exact same signature as the methods in NSUserDefaults. Then, it is simply a matter of extending NSUserDefaults to conform to our protocol.
And now we can have an instance of MyUserDefaults as our dependency, instead of NSUserDefaults. *Which means *we can easily mock the user's preferences.
Our UserService can take any MyUserDefaults instance, so we can mock whatever data we want in our unit tests, to see if it performs as we intend.
However sometimes you don't want the look and feel of external methods' signatures polluting your code.
The dominant approach is where you make the external class conform to your own API. You know best how your code should look like. There's no reason to compromise because of some outdated (or just plain badly designed) API.
The main principle is the same — declare a protocol, and make the external class conform to that protocol.
Let's say we want to access the user's preferences via a subscript, just like a dictionary. Adding custom subscripts is easy to do in Swift. We'll just create a protocol with a subscript.
Then we'll extend NSUserDefaults to conform to our new protocol.
Now we have made NSUserDefaults conform to our own API standards, and we can write better code because of that.
This is all well and good with NSUserDefaults, which works with types from Foundation or the Swift Standard Library. But sometimes external methods take external types as parameters.
*Alamofire *is a widely used networking library, and networking is one of those things we mock a lot. Mocking your networking layer provides several advantages. You no longer wait for requests to finish (which means your tests run faster). You also have total control over whether the request should fail or not, so you are able to test both the happy and not-so-happy code-paths.
You'll notice only two of the five parameters are a standard type. The other three (Method, URLStringConvertible and ParameterEncoding) are all types defined within the Alamofire framework. This means that in order to call this method, we have to import Alamofire into our file, which renders our mocks useless.
So far, I have not come up with a good solution for this. The best I could think of was to declare my own types, and convert them to Alamofire's in the protocol extension.
Here we have created copies of Alamofire's Method and ParameterEncoding types. Then we declared a new protocol which has a similar method to Alamofire, but one that takes our own types instead of Alamofire's.
Now we'll make Alamofire conform to our Networking protocol.
As you can see, this is pretty tedious to write, but it's also fairly mechanical. Perhaps with the introduction of better reflection in Swift 4, things like this could be automated.
If you have a better solution for this, please don't hesitate to write a response. And if you liked the article, press the Recommend button below!


Most bone tumors are benign, not malignant, and they can develop in any bone without the likelihood of spreading to somewhere else in the body. Most bone tumors develop in the bigger bones, such as the upper arm (humerus), thighbone (femur), pelvis, and shinbone (tibia) with only a few originating in other sites, such as the spine.
Benign bone tumors are greatly influenced by hormones, which stimulate growth. So for that reason, the majority of bone tumors develop in children and adolescents under 20 years old. Many benign tumors stop growing when bones stop growing in length, which is ages 14 to 16 in girls and 16 to 19 in boys.
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Benign bone tumors form near the ends of long bones where there is active growth. While they never metastasize, they might recur in the same area where they were removed. Benign bone tumors occur most often in children because they are still growing and bone growths are affected by growth hormones. Once children reach a certain age and stop growing, the tumors typically stop developing too.
Osteochondroma – The most common benign bone tumor and likely to develop in individuals younger than 20. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons reports this type accounts for approximately 35 to 40 percent of all benign bone tumors.
Giant Cell Tumor– Typically develops in the leg.
Osteoid Osteoma– Develops in the long bones and commonly diagnosed in adolescents.
Osteoblastoma– Originates in the spine and long bones predominantly in young adults. Characteristics of being large, aggressive and painful.
Enchondroma– Often develops in the bones of the hand and feet without manifesting any symptoms. Most hand growths are enchondromas.
Non-Ossifying Fibroma Unicameral – Solitary bone cyst that develops in the leg usually affecting children and adolescents.
Bone tumors diagnosed as benign won't spread to other parts of the body nor become malignant, but it is best to treat them. The tumor will likely grow and conceivably place pressure on healthy bone tissue, leading to a more serious condition. An orthopedic surgeon like Dr. Allison, with expertise in musculoskeletal systems, would recommend examining the tumor to confirm whether it is harming surrounding bone or tissue. In cases where the tumor is causing damage, Dr. Allison might recommend removing the tumor with surgery.
Learn more about benign bone tumors from WebMD.
A lump or swelling can be the first sign of a benign tumor with ongoing or increasing aching or pain in the region of the tumor. Sometimes, these growths are found only after a weakened bone is fractured by a growing tumor.
The most common symptom is a dull ache in the affected bone, which gradually changes from an occasional discomfort to a severe and constant pain. It's best to consult an orthopedic oncologist like Dr. Allison when symptoms are less severe and before prolonged pain actually sets in.
The type of tumor, its location, size and growth as well as the age and health of the patient all affect treatment decisions. Most benign tumors respond very well to surgical removal with less than a 5% likelihood of recurrence.
Some tumors stop growing when a young patient is near maturity. Others are discovered at the time of a fracture or through chance. At the time of diagnosis, it is critical to confirm whether the tumor is benign or malignant and treat it appropriately.
Dr. Allison is an expert in the techniques most suited for removing benign tumors. He ensures there is minimal trauma to surrounding normal tissues through minimally invasive techniques and performs the most advanced bone grafting methods to ensure regeneration of new healthy bone. Dr. Allison provides his patients with the best possible outcome enabling them to return to full mobility.
Dr. Daniel C. Allison offers the expertise of an orthopedic oncologist and is uniquely qualified to treat musculoskeletal structures affected by benign or malignant tumors. Dr. Allison is renowned for leading limb preservation multi-disciplinary teams in integrated treatment plans unique to each patient. Call today to schedule a personal consultation at (310) 730-8008 or fill out the online contact form to connect to a Los Angeles orthopedic specialist.
Next, please read about malignant bone tumors.


@Kathy Morris: Thanks, Kathy. Fixed the text.
Nice work. FYI- there are actually four people in this image.
Four bronze ware craftsmen are at work in the workshop of Noboru Nogawa (能川登) in Kyoto, founded in 1825 (Bunsei 8). Nogawa acted both as a manufacturer and dealer and ran a very popular shop on 35 Shijo Otabicho, as well as showrooms in the Kyoto Hotel and the Miyako Hotel, the city's most exclusive hotels. Although there is surprisingly little documentation on the company, it appears to have been well-known at the time. It exhibited at several large overseas exhibitions between 1893 (Meiji 26) and 1910 (Meiji 43) and the Kyoto shop was listed in A Handbook for Travellers in Japan written by the famous British Japanologist Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850–1935) and telecommunications specialist William B. Mason (1853-1923). First published in 1889 (Meiji 22), this was for decades the most authoritative English language guide on Japan.
In advertising, the company introduced itself as "a manufacturer of bronze and fine art wares," which included garden items, birds, animals, human figures, Buddhas, gongs and bells, vases, lanterns and small pieces. Nogawa also sold cloisonné ware, damascene works, ivory carving, lacquer ware, pearls, prints and Satsuma ware.1 The image on the left shows a Buddha statue that was recently sold at auction and came with a receipt from the Nogawa company. These kind of items were very much loved by foreign visitors who bought trunk loads of them.
Because of the lack of documentation, until recently Nogawa metalwork was identified as being from the Hattori Co. It was only during the early 2000s that experts discovered that the distinctive mark they had believed as belonging to Hattori, was actually Nogawa's trade-mark. It features the stylized hiragana character no (の) with three vertical lines in the background signifying the kanji character for river (川, kawa, or gawa in compounds). This is effectively pronounced as Nogawa.2 This new discovery meant a drastic evaluation of Nogawa's small but productive workshop. Undoubtedly, as a result more Nogawa pieces will be discovered in the future.
It is truly fascinating to realize that all over the world are beautiful items bearing this mark —a mark often probably even unknown to the current owner— and that they were all made in the small workshop shown in the above photograph, maybe even by one of these four men.
1 Schneider, Fredic T (Winter 2004). Meiji Japan's Hattori Co. no more. N. Nogawa Bronze Company and its Mark., Daruma, Japanese Art & Antiques Magazine, Issue 40: 46-47.
You can also licence this image online: 71005-0005 @ MeijiShowa.com.
The N. Nogawa shop at the same address was still in operation as late as November 1935. A British tourist picked up a card from the store in that month.
Thanks, Michael. I have also seen N. Nogawa receipts for the 1930s. I haven't seen anything yet from after the 30s, though.
Do you recall anything about the Buddha figure you posted an image of? I have a similar one that was brought by my family from Japan in the 1930s. They lived in Kobe and I had always thought it was from there, but appears identical to the photograph.
Unfortunately Buddha statues are outside my area of expertise, so I highly recommend contacting someone with knowledge of them. Incidentally, Buddha statues like these are not really rare; having a contemporary invoice or receipt can make a big difference.
You're welcome, Mike. I just had a look at the photo that you shot of your Buddha statue. It is a beautiful minimalist shot; I love how you angled your shot and how you included the tree trunk. It actually looks like it is a huge statue on a mountain.
I see that you are based in London, Ontario. Spent a month in the Waterloo-Kitchener area in 2000, and also visited London at the time. Really loved it there.
Thanks for your help I found a Nogawa vase in a dump 38 years ago.
Hello…literally today I found a miniature bronze vase with 3 cranes standing in water with a few reeds that bears the makers mark as shown above for $1.25. How can I find out if it is real?
I am afraid that I don't know where you can find an appraiser familiar with Nogawa's work. You could try contacting Kogire-kai.


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Debbie registered to become an organ donor.
William plays in the school band.
Florian didn't come to the table to sit with the others.
Jess thinks that he's always right.
I shouldn't have gone to see Antony.
Christofer rarely comes home so early.
How did your date with Dustin go?
I thought Tuan was a nice guy.
Sean would never do what you claim he did.
Bruce did his own research.
Real lived to be 97 years old.
Jerry is afraid of his own shadow.
Ricardo lent me three books.
Antonella is old enough to take care of himself.
I wonder what's happened to Owen.
Amedeo didn't take off his shirt.
Tran went outside to discover what all the commotion was about.
Marla says he only drinks one beer a day.
Venkata could not believe that Perry liked eating spinach as a child -- until the day that politeness forced her to try her grandmother's spinach. From then on, she had a new favorite dish!
Tuan sat at his desk, deep in thought.
Julian certainly didn't deserve the punishment he received.
Avery threw Lloyd a life preserver.
Tell me why you didn't ask Thuan.
Vishal is too young to apply for the job.
Eddie has helped me so much.
Milner might change his mind.
As soon as Ann got Jean-Pierre alone, he started kissing her.
Cathy hasn't been on speaking terms with Antonio for years.
One of those men is Wilson.
Suwandi went to Boston by bus.
Amanda is good at finding good bargains.


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The Australian Design Centre is again hosting a pop-up studio as part of the Australian Ceramics Open Studios 2019. In the past two years at this popular event we have been joined by ceramicists Gillian Hodes, Janine Flew and Roy Chandra (Snow Monkey Pottery) who have shared their knowledge and showcased ceramic techniques.
For the 2019 pop-up studio we're looking for one emerging or established ceramicist who does not have their own suitable space but would like the opportunity to meet with the public and share their work on Saturday 17 August, 10am-4pm at our gallery in Darlinghurst.
To be considered for this event, please complete the expression of interest form below including CV, brief description of your work, images, any relevant websites/social media links and list the materials/equipment you'll be bringing or need on the day.
The successful participant must have public liability insurance and be able to supply a certificate of currency with their submission.
Please submit your EOI by completing this form by 5pm, Monday 13 May. If you have any further questions, please email kylie@australiandesigncentre.com or call 02 9361 4555. We look forward to receiving your submission.
Image (bottom):Roy Chandra, Spotty Bottles. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.


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Q: JS RegExp.test() not working? I have the following code and I'm not sure why both tests are not passing. I think it is because of "/" characters in URL. Could someone please help me figure out how to escape them?
var myURL = "/late-model/products/air-management";

// Test String.match()
if(myURL.match(/late-model/gi)) {
    jQuery("#pass").append("String.match() passed!<br>");
}

// Test RegExp.test()
var regex = new RegExp(myURL, "gi");
var keyword = "late-model";
if(regex.test(keyword)) {
    jQuery("#pass").append("RegExp.test() passed!");
}

Available at jsFiddle.net.

A: Might you have the pattern and the test string reversed in the second test?
var keyword = "late-model";
var regex = new RegExp(keyword, "gi");
if(regex.test(myURL)) {
    jQuery("#pass").append("RegExp.test() passed!");
}

http://jsfiddle.net/a2s6vqgs/1/

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