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Centre to fully support Sindh for post-flood rehabilitation: PM
KHAIRPUR: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said the Federal Government would not leave the flood-affected people of Sindh in distress and would continue to take measures to mitigate their sufferings.
The prime minister, during his visit to Pir Guddu and Kot Diji towns of the flood-affected Khairpur district, inspected the post-flood rehabilitation work.
PM Shehbaz, in his address to the flood victims, said the people of Sindh suffered from loss of life and property as the floods had wreaked havoc in the province. The Federal Government, he added, provided the utmost resources to the provincial government to overcome the massive problem.
Under the Benazir Income Support Programme, the Federal Government disbursed Rs 70 billion to the flood victims, he added. Serving the masses and their welfare was the priority of the government, the prime minister said.
Shehbaz Sharif said the rehabilitation and reconstruction work had been completed to a large extent, however, stressed that the de-watering of the inundated areas of Dadu required immediate attention.
He said in the wake of floods, some 20 million people, including nine million children, were in dire need of assistance from the government, and it required billions of rupees to address the challenges of food and medicine.
PM Shehbaz mentioned that Pakistan was facing the brunt of climate change despite minimal contribution to the global carbon emissions.
He lauded the overseas Pakistanis for contributing Rs 2.75 billion donations to the Prime Minister's Flood Relief Fund, which, he said, would be spent transparently for the welfare of flood-hit people.
He assured the flood-struck people that the government would construct houses for their proper accommodation. He also announced the establishment of a campus of COMSATS University in Khairpur.
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The video game landscape is covered in competitive gaming. Shacknews would like to offer an overview of what to watch for this coming weekend. This weekend, Heroes of the Storm rounds out its field for BlizzCon.
For this weekend, Heroes of the Storm rounds out its BlizzCon field and Gears of War esports comes to San Diego.
The Heroes of the Storm regular season has come to a close. With a first place finish in the standings, HeroesHearth Esports advances directly to BlizzCon. This weekend will determine who joins them. The plucky squads of Endemic and LFM Esports will kick off the weekend gauntlet, but whoever emerges victorious will not have an easy road forward.
Sunday's match will be the one to watch, because whoever's still standing between the aforementioned two teams, Team Freedom, and Team Octalysis will have perennial Heroes powerhouse Tempo Storm standing between them and BlizzCon. And with Fan Yang leading the way, Tempo Storm has its sights set high for this year's biggest stage.
Gears of War esports is going on strong, with the latest major tournament touching down on the San Diego shore. There's a hefty $250,000 prize pool up for grabs, as the game's best teams continue showing their mastery of Gears of War 4 en route to the upcoming Gears of War 5.
The Green Wave of OpTic Gaming continues to show its dominance in the world of console shooters. They'll be among the favorites competing this weekend. They sit in a pool with OpTic Mexico and Simplicity, but a tournament like this is particularly unpredictable given the nature of the Open format. On Friday, the field is open to all registered teams, which could potentially open the door for an unknown to turn the entire tournament upside-down.


Yes, bottled water really does cost more than gasoline. So does nearly any common liquid consumers can buy, actually. But there's an unfortunate reality check in this musing: While choosing Aquafina or Perrier over good, clean, cheap tap water is a choice many Americans make, quite a few places elsewhere aren't fortunate enough to have the latter as an option.
In this bizarre economic reality that holds true around much of the globe, safe drinking water is indeed a precious resource and gasoline is easier to come by. It's getting worse, too; UN figures anticipate that 47 percent of the world's population will be living in areas of high water stress in 2030.
Inspired by a project in Lima, Peru, that condensed water from humid air to produce 2500 gallons of clean H2O in a three-month period, a Ford powertrain controls engineer, Doug Martin, sought to do the same on an automotive scale.
The so-called On-The-Go H2O system collects that water from the condenser, pumps it through a 0.1-micron filter, and sends it to a dispenser.
Vehicle air conditioners typically drain the water that condenses during their use out to the pavement. And on warm, humid days it's not an insignificant amount; the system could produce more than a half-gallon of filtered water per hour while the vehicle's air conditioner runs.
Why is this a big deal? Because in some parts of the world, global development has led to some bizarre economic distortions. In portions of Africa, it's not unusual to have cellphones and good data coverage but no reliable electric grid—or a modern car for a household that lacks running water or a septic system.
A system like Martin's, either as a retrofit or as a feature built into vehicles, could provide fresh, potable water to those who don't have ready access to it. It would also be a great backup solution for natural disasters. According to the World Health Organization, basic survival requires about two-thirds of a gallon per day; add basic hygiene to the mix, and that grows toward two gallons.
It's one of many innovative solutions. Some others have included specially designed towers aimed at collecting water as it condenses from daily temperature changes; a unique, fog-harvesting mesh material; and a solar-powered condensation device that could be mounted on a bike.
The Ford project fits right in with the automaker's greater awareness about water issues; the company claims to have reduced its water use per vehicle from 2009 through 2013, and its water strategy adopted last year includes an alignment with the CEO Water Mandate started by the UN Secretary-General in 2007. The automaker has also pledged to share its global water use for its direct operations on both an absolute and per-vehicle basis.
Taking it up to scale, driving a vehicle (or idling it) to top off the drinking water hardly feels like a low-carbon project, but oddly again, it could cost less than buying bottled water. And we applaud Ford's creative thinking on a global resource crisis.


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Good Food Purchasing Policy
One of the best ways to change the food system on a large scale is to change the way the government spends its food dollars.
On October 24, 2012, the City of Los Angeles adopted a Good Food Purchasing Policy. Soon after, Los Angeles Unified School District followed…
Two years later, they have tested the program and made it replicable to places like, oh, the City of Long Beach, let's say!
The Los Angeles Food Policy Council did the heavy lifting — they lead a broad coalition to establish the philosophy, planning and execution for a good food purchasing policy: they have rated over 2,000 farms in the local food-shed on five dimensions: labor practices, sustainability, locality, humaneness and healthiness.
And now, the Los Angeles Food Policy Council is making their procurement databases, accounting practices and program support available to us. In turn, it's our job to work with the City of Long Beach and other large food-buying institutions to establish a good food policy that will "…increase market demand for Good Food, increase access to high-quality healthy food in undeserved communities, and shift production practices by leveraging the purchasing power of major institutions. "
Work closely with the City of Long Beach and Long Beach Unified School District to establish a Good Food Purchasing Policy
Work with the City of Long Beach and the Los Angeles Good Food Policy Council to bring their practices and assets for good food purchasing to Long Beach
What We Need:
Continue to grow support in neighborhoods, organizations and city leaders who will help champion this policy
Tiffany Chen from the Office of Sustainability – City of Long Beach is helping us connect with the Convention Center and departments who may be interested
Connect the LA Food Policy Council with Long Beach Unified School District's Nutrition Services Department to do a baseline assessment of the School District's food purchasing.
Use the baseline assessment to co-create a strategy to adopt and adhere to the Good Food Purchasing Policy
Latest Status:
8/1/14 Met with the Los Angeles Food Policy Council and learned about the Good Food Purchasing Policy and what assets the LAFPC would be able to make available to large food purchasing institutions in Long Beach
8/14/14 Met on the phone with a broader coalition of LAFPC staff to go step-by-step through the implementation process
9/3/14 Reached out to City of LB Sustainaibility Commissioners and Staff about the LAFPC Good Food Purchasing Policy
9/29/14 Met with Eaters, Feeders, and Seeders to educate them on the LAFPC GFFP
11/5/14 Met with Mayor's Office, Councilmember Dee Andrews' Office, Councilmember Rex Richardson's Office, Sustianability and Health Department Staff to discuss the Good Food Purchasing policy. Outcomes are recorded above in "What We Need"
12/3/14 Met with Shawna Stevens from Councilmember Rex Richardson's office to discuss the Good Food Purchasing policy. Stevens said the health of kids and families is a high priority for him,
1/14/15 Met with Broc Coward of Councilmember Suja Lowenthal's office to discuss the Good Food Purchasing policy. Coward suggested we meet with the Department of Parks & Recreation who is distributing over 120,000 meals every summer.
1/30/15 Visited Cabrillo High School's lunch room and student store and spoke with staff about barriers to better food. The lunch room suggested we work with Nutrition Services. We also learned about what's popular and how kids select items.
2/10/15 Learned more about the horrific conditions of labor in farming at a screening and panel of the documentary, "Food Chains"
3/6/15 We received the food procurement dollars expended by the City of Long Beach by Department. We are excited to learn that the Departments of Park, Recreation and Marine and Human and Health Services are the largest purchasers of food.
4/10/15 Met with LBUSD School Boardmember, Megan Kerr, who suggested we meet with Nutrition Services and Boardmember John McGinnis to discuss the Good Food Purchasing policy
4/30/15 Met with LBUSD Nutrition Services to discuss and prepare for our discussion about the Good Food Purchasing Policy. We answered questions regarding other organizatons working on baseline assessments including the Oakland School District and Google's main campus in Silicone Valley.
5/1/15 Met with LBUSD Nutrition Services to discuss the good work they're doing and their openness to work with Long Beach Fresh on an internal baseline assessment with our counterparts in Los Angeles.
5/28/15 LBUSD Nutrition Services took 10 food access community partners on a tour of the centralized food production facility where lots of Long Beach school food is produced.
6/24/15 Met with LBUSD Nutrition Services director and purchasing staff and the Center for Good Food Purchasing, and agreed to move forward in a baseline assessment of food procurement this summer.
6/26/15 Met with RUSD Nutrition Services director Rodney Taylor to learn best practices for good food procurement in schools and potential for the school district to become a food hub.
7/23/15 Established a deadline of October 8th with LBUSD to acquire data from distributors for baseline assessment of food procurement.
2/16/16 Completed a draft internal report on procurement for LBUSD Nutrition Services with the help of their staff and the Center for Good Food Purchasing, set some goals
10/11/16 LBUSD announced new changes to school food, including an effort to cut styrofoam, diversify food options, and begin serving more cut fruits and veggies to students.
11/3/16 LB Fresh contracts a new Good Food Procurement Program coordinator to focus on carrying the efforts forward with more buy-in from City staff and large institutions.
Good Food Policy in Long Beach – One-pager
GFPP Program Overview Slideshow
Executive Order Esablishing LA Food Policy
Good Food Purchasing Pledge (the document signed by institutions which outlines the GFPP commitment)
UW-Madison Case Study Evaluation & Year One Progress Report (co-written by LAFPC)
LBUSD Nutrition Services
Read the latest status, think about how you want to get involved, and contact us.
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Tags: Eaters, Feeders, Seeders


This is my last comic before AnthroCon! Meaning I'll have like three or four updates with filler. Sorry about that, but I'll try to sketch up something nice. I might have Heart of it All cross over once or twice, not sure.


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Deep Brain Stimulation: New Hope For Alzheimer?
February 22, 2015 By Michigan Brain & Spine
Alzheimer's disease (AD) could be the next frontier for deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy.
A small phase 1 pilot study showed that some patients with AD who received constant stimulation to the fornix — the principle outflow tract from the hippocampus — had increased hippocampal volume after 1 year.
There was also some evidence that this increased hippocampal volume correlated with cognitive benefit.
Filed Under: Alzheimer Tagged With: Alzheimer
Eye Tests to Detect Alzheimer's Disease
July 17, 2014 By Michigan Brain & Spine
Two novel, noninvasive, and relatively simple eye tests show promise as potential screening tools for early Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Preliminary results from 2 studies presented here at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2014 show that beta-amyloid detected in the eyes significantly correlated with the burden of beta-amyloid in the brain, allowing investigators to accurately identify individuals with AD.
In the first study, researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, used curcumin fluorescence imaging to highlight beta-amyloid in the retina and correlated these results using Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging findings in the brain.
Filed Under: Alzheimer Tagged With: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Gene Effects May Show Up in Infancy
December 9, 2013 By Michigan Brain & Spine
Infants and toddlers with the Alzheimer's disease-associated APOE4 genotype already showed distinctive patterns of brain structure relative to other young children, researchers said.
MRI scans carried out in 60 normally developing children, age 2 to 25 months, who carried the APOE epsilon-4 allele, showed smaller volumes of gray matter and and lower white matter myelin water fraction (MWF) compared with 102 children in the same age range whose APOE genes only include the epsilon-2 and/or epsilon-3 alleles, according to Sean C. L. Deoni, PhD, of Brown University in Providence, R.I., and colleagues.
"While our findings should be considered preliminary, this study demonstrates some of the earliest brain changes associated with the major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease," the researchers wrote online in JAMA Neurology.
Peanut Butter and Alzheimer?
October 12, 2013 By Michigan Brain & Spine
"Could a scoop of peanut butter and a ruler become that elusive test?"
If you treat the elderly, or any member of the growing number of families devastated by Alzheimer's disease, you may be asked some version of that question, as posed by CBS News, in the coming weeks. You can thank media coverage of a study in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Neurological Sciences titled "A Brief Olfactory Test for Alzheimer's Disease."
Here's that brief olfactory test, as the CBS headline suggests: "A container of 14 g of peanut butter was opened, held medially at the bottom of a 30 cm ruler, and moved up 1 cm at a time during the participants' exhale. Upon odor detection, the distance between the subject's nostril and container was measured."
FDA Approves Exelon Patch for Severe Alzheimer's
June 29, 2013 By Michigan Brain & Spine
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved an expanded indication for the rivastigmine transdermal system (Exelon Patch, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation) to include patients with severe disease.
Approval of this new indication for the 13.3 mg/24h dose rivastigmine patch means it can be used across all stages of disease, making it the only transdermal therapy that can be used across all stages of disease, the company notes in a statement. The patch is already approved for patients with mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer's type and for patients with mild to moderate dementia associated with Parkinson's disease.
Filed Under: Alzheimer Tagged With: alzheimers
White Matter Hyperintensities Linked to Alzheimer's Disease
A new study adds to a growing body of evidence pointing to small-vessel cerebrovascular disease as an important contributor to Alzheimer's disease (AD).
The study shows that increased total white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) as seen on MRI independently predicted AD diagnosis, as did the brain amyloid tracer Pittsburgh compound B (PIB) measured by positron emission tomography (PET).
This finding suggests that although amyloidosis is necessary for a diagnosis of AD, it may not be sufficient to cause dementia and that WMH may represent another important pathogenetic factor that contributes to dementia.
"This study, along with a whole line of research that is coming out right now, is clearly highlighting the importance of vascular disease in Alzheimer's disease," said author Adam M. Brickman, PhD, assistant professor of neuropsychology at Columbia University, New York.
Filed Under: Alzheimer
Exercise Decreases Diabetic Neuropathic Pain
Regular exercise reduces the development of painful diabetic neuropathy in animals—apparently related to increased expression of a protective substance called "heat shock protein" 72 (Hsp72), reports an experimental study in the February issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).
The observations add to previous studies suggesting that "progressive exercise training markedly decreased diabetes associated neuropathic pain," write Yu-Wen Chen, PhD, of China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, and colleagues. The link to Hsp72 offers a clue as to how exercise can prevent or slow the development of neuropathy—a major complication of diabetes.
Exercise Reduces Diabetic Nerve Pain in Rats
Neuropathic pain is a common and difficult-to-treat type of pain related to nerve damage—most commonly caused by diabetes. Affecting about half of patients with diabetes, diabetic neuropathy causes symptoms such as numbness, tingling, or pain in the arms and legs. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Alzheimer, Pain Tagged With: nerve pain
Alzheimer's Disease Cases May Triple by 2050
The number of people with Alzheimer's disease is expected to triple in the next 40 years, according to a new study published in the February 6, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
"This increase is due to an aging baby boom generation. It will place a huge burden on society, disabling more people who develop the disease, challenging their caregivers, and straining medical and social safety nets," said co-author Jennifer Weuve, MPH, ScD, assistant professor of medicine, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. "Our study draws attention to an urgent need for more research, treatments and preventive strategies to reduce this epidemic."
For the study, researchers analyzed information from 10,802 African-American and Caucasian people living in Chicago, ages 65 and older, between 1993 and 2011. Participants were interviewed and assessed for dementia every three years. Age, race and level of education were factored into the research. [Read more…]
Deep Brain Stimulation a hope for Alzheimer
January 23, 2013 By Michigan Brain & Spine
'Brain pacemakers' trialled as way of staving off memory loss from Alzheimer's disease
IT HAS the makings of a science fiction movie: Zap someone's brain with mild jolts of electricity to try to stave off the creeping memory loss of Alzheimer's disease.
And it's not easy. Holes are drilled into the patient's skull so tiny wires can be implanted into just the right spot.
A dramatic shift is beginning in the disappointing struggle to find something to slow the damage of this epidemic: The first US experiments with "brain pacemakers" for Alzheimer's are getting under way. Scientists are looking beyond drugs to implants in the hunt for much-needed new treatments. [Read more…]
Inflammation as a New Therapeutic Approach For Alzheimer's Disease
December 27, 2012 By Michigan Brain & Spine
In the next several decades the number of Alzheimer's patients will continue to dramatically increase. Various teams of researchers worldwide are feverishly investigating precisely how the illness develops.
A team of scientists under the guidance of the University of Bonn and University of Massachusetts (USA) and with the participation of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases have discovered a new signaling pathway in mice which is involved in the development of chronic inflammation which causes nerve cells in the brain to malfunction and die off. The results are now being published in the renowned scientific journal "Nature". [Read more…]
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For more information, email Rev. John Zimmerman.
A practical, simple way to be able to give homilies in languages besides your mother tongue.
Addressing a parish community's different cultural and linguistic needs can seem overwhelming. The practical, simple approach offered in this Best Practice helps cut the challenge down to size by streamlining homily preparation in languages where you lack fluency.
After spending time in Guadalajara to learn Spanish, Fr. Zimmerman was named pastor of a parish which needed one weekend Mass in Spanish. He needed to prepare a Sunday homily in a second language without losing the meaning of the original in English.
"Practicing it is important as I learn how to pronounce properly the Spanish words. As a result, our Hispanic parishioners, over 30% of our parish, are not distracted and enjoy the fullness of the liturgy.
"We also are performing more baptisms because we are able to offer the sacrament in Spanish. People come up to me thinking I am proficient in speaking Spanish because of my ability to read the homily in Spanish. However, it is much easier for me to read than it is to hear and translate what Hispanic parishioners are trying to say to me after Mass in Spanish.
The desire to unify the parish as "One Faith, One Family" hastens the impetus for improved bi-lingual Masses.
Imagery in the homily helps make it relevant and applicable to one's current situation.
Marriage retreats & missions need to be bi-lingual for the unity of parish.
Do not assume the English words we use properly translate into another language.
To learn sufficient basics of a foreign language it is not necessary to travel. Many self-teaching programs are available at bookstores and on line (e.g., http://www.pimsleur.com.au/ and http://www.rosettastone.co.uk/.
Find a trustworthy person within the parish or community who speaks Spanish and is knowledgeable of the Catholic faith and vocabulary (check with your diocesan Hispanic Ministry Office if there is no one in your immediate parish). This translator should represent the predominant dialect in the parish as vocabulary can vary from one Hispanic culture to another.
The priest needs to remain faithful to his side: preparing his homily far enough in advance and sending it to his translator on time. The priest should then practice it with someone who will help with pronunciation. Reviewing the homily in English and Spanish helps the priest learn the vocabulary.
Note: epriest.com's Homily Packs also include a brief homily in Spanish each week, including an English translation and a Spanish recording with proper pronunciation.
Rev. John Zimmerman is pastor of Our Lady of Peace.


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An Exercise in Re-MEDIA-tion, Part One
Date June 30, 2015
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The second Make Cycle for CLMOOC kicked off yesterday and we are now plunging out way into the concept of remediation — of considering the ways in which technology and composition strategies change/alter the message of the original media/composition.
Check out the CLMOOC newsletter, done as collective voice in an art museum, as video. The script is the same as the text (see it here) but the brings the ideas alive, particularly when the group finds the right art for the right moment. That's part of the remediation of words, when image and sound inform/change the writing.
Here is a user-friendly concise definition of remediation:
"It is essentially the appropriation of the content of one medium into another." — from The Average Penguin
I am always intrigued by remediation ideas, particularly in this age of digital media, and so I have decided to take a poem I wrote the other day and bring it through some various remediation this week. The origin is a tweet by Jeffrey Keefer, who wrote about a term I had never come across before: liminality. The more he tweeted out about it, the more I found this poem forming. It may be that I am not as deeply informed about liminality as Jeffrey is (in fact, I know that to be true), and I found myself shifting more towards Vygotsky's Zones of Promixal Development.
I won't always be stuck here
in-between,
I'm wiggling my toes
flexing my fingers
stretching my mind
digging my way
into the crawl spaces of liminality
all for the hope that where I've come from
will lead me into the place where I'm going
with only a few more questions as bumps in the road ….
Well, this is not completely true, either. I had a little sticky note that I write the first draft of the poem on. It was a mess. I accidentally tossed it away. You won't see the true origin of the poem, unfortunately — only the first remediation of it as I typed it out.
Then I decided to share the poem out via Twitter, so I turned to one of my favorite writing/style sites called Notegraphy. The site gives your presentation frames for text, and this began my first element of remediation and a question: How would I present my poem so that the style would complement the message of the writing?
It's more difficult than it seems, given a vast amount of choice, and I ended up with this very simple design, tilted a bit on its axis. For me, this tilt seemed to metaphorically represent the heart of the poem — of questioning what it means to be in the middle of learning something — not quite a novice and not quite an expert.
The poem came to look like this, which I mostly liked, except that the design screwed with my line breaks .. which brings to the surface the concept of "agency" of the writer, and how far do we go to force our own vision on what technology does to our vision. Here, I accepted the change, reluctantly. I compromised with technology. It didn't even know or care, of course.
But I do. I still do.
Then I decided to go another step .. of using the Docs Demo: Master's Edition by Google that allows you to write in an experimental Google Doc with some "masters" of writing. What would they do to my poem? And more importantly, how much of my poem was I willing to give up to the unknown media changers? For this, I held on to little, allowing Google's site to do what it would with my words, in the name of the experiment.
They did this:
The end result was my poem looking like this:
I have more ideas brewing for the next few days … will remediate.
Peace (in the mix),
On a Morning Blog Walk in #CLMOOC
With so many social media spaces acting like livewires of sharing and reflecting for the Making Learning Connected MOOC, or CLMOOC, it is easier to forget that a fair number of folks are blogging regularly, too, and that the CLMOOC has a Blog Hub that gathers up blogs in one space.
I decided to spend some time this morning, in the space between Make Cycle One that just ended and Make Cycle Two that will soon launch, to read some blogs from CLMOOC folks and make some comments, and collect some quotes that have had me thinking in new directions. I love the close reading that this kind of activity invokes. It's authentic close reading, not some regimented process that comes from a book by Pearson. I read to seek inspiration, for the words that make me pause. I read to learn.
My blog tour began with Deanna Mascle's post about media and remediation. Her journey into identity issues and how technology and digital media impact how we view and are viewed by the world is a critical component of Connected Learning principles, the very foundations of CLMOOC.
inspired by Deanna Mascle – http://metawriting.deannamascle.com/notable-notes-identity-remediated-via-clmooc/
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful photograph? Week after week, I am inspired by the work of Kim Douillard. I am lucky to have her as a friend in multiple networks. Here, she uses her blog to remind us of how the lens of our cameras might open up different reflective stances. I am one of those who needs that kind of constant reminders, as I am more apt to think in terms of words.
inspired by Kim Douillard — https://thinkingthroughmylens.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/musings/
Maha Bali and I, and some others, have often had conversations around this idea of inclusion/exclusion, and how networked spaces and community ideas open or shut the doors on others. I love that she continues to push at that idea. It's important in online spaces but just as important in our classrooms. Who feels welcomed? Who doesn't?
inspired by Maha Bali — http://blog.mahabali.me/blog/parenting/symbolism-interpretation-and-media/
Kathleen is someone new to me but I love that she is science-orientated and her post about engaging in her first Twitter chat is such a great perspective. She tried something new. She is gearing up to try something new again. That's the CLMOOC ethos. She is also engaged in the Make an Inquiry venture within CLMOOC (me, too) and I am grateful to have her perspectives.
inspired by Kathleen Marie — http://stemforall.weebly.com/blog/turning-inside-out-my-mad-dash-to-change-learn-grow-and-become-a-more-connected-teacher
Jeffrey Keefer has been dipping into poetry this CLMOOC, inspiring others with the concept of liminality … that learning space in between the first step of the novice and the confidence of the expert. It reminds me of Vygotsky and zones of promixal development, and how important it is to navigate forward, even in uncertainty. His quote here is off-kilter because it comes from a poem. I left it because the off-kiltered essence seemed somewhat metaphorical to me.
inspired by Jeffrey Keefer — http://silenceandvoice.com/2015/06/23/make-cycle-one-my-unintroduction/
Barry Geltson was writing about an interaction with a friend, who made a quip about email. It reminded him, as it does me, of our role as teachers to find ways to encourage agency in our students in the wave of digital media.
inspired by Barry Gelston — http://tumblr.mrgelston.com/post/122338649527/makeaninquiry-connected-communities-learning
Like Maha, Susan Watson explores the idea of gateways and access in a post that blew me away with some new thinking of intentional designs in public spaces that have implications for us in digital spaces. The invitation in and who is the host …. we can't ignore these ideas.
inspired by Susan Watson — http://teachingbeyondtropes.blogspot.com/2015/06/dont-sit-on-my-fire-hydrant.html
I think, sometimes, that Sheri Edwards and I surf the same wavelengths. This summer, already, she has been pulling the collaborative threads left and right in the CLMOOC, and I so appreciate it. Her reflections are as interesting as her projects (and she has many)
inspired by Sheri Edwards — http://whatelse.edublogs.org/2015/06/28/clmooc-digilit-random-me/
Michael Buist wrote a very personal post, about vacationing in Maine and the connections to family history. But in the midst of it, he had this line that resonated with me and with CLMOOC — he is bringing us into his experience while also inviting us to make our own.
inspired by Michael Buist – http://buistbabble.tumblr.com/post/122332130405/unmaking-echo-lake-for-clmooc
Thank you to all the bloggers in the CLMOOC Blog Hub. If you blog, add yours, too. The center of the CLMOOC is always YOU and if you blog, then consider opening the doors and invite us in. We promise not to wreck the place. We might remix a few things here and there but we will do it with caring and love.
Peace (in the blogs),
Tracking the Flow of an Impromptu Make
I am not sure I have this completely correct but I am trying to track the flow of a Make project that was completely unscheduled and unscripted in the Making Learning Connected MOOC, and yet, gained traction among some CLMOOC folks (and continues to even now). I also recently got myself a stylus pen and wanted to try it out in my Paper app. It's better than my fingers on the touchpad.
This began with Simon, folding laundry and wishing he had some audio to listen to. As per CLMOOC ethos, he decided to record his own narration and then put out the call to the CLMOOC community, asking folks to make audio and share it out. There is something powerful with voice and podcasting, and even in the very first year of CLMOOC, we were encouraging people to share their voices. Not many did. Simon found a hook that was both open-ended and connected, as indicated by the hashtag of #adhocvoices.
This morning, Simon curated the audio a bit in Soundcloud, and I made this comic after listening to files this morning and reading his own reflective post.
But Terry took it one step further, making the comic into a clickable curated file in Thinglink, with different pieces leading to different audio.
So, I did the "flow chart" at the top of this post — showing the flow, so to speak — of how I saw things unfolding from Simon's initial call for voices, in an ongoing attempt to make as much of our creative work this summer with CLMOOC visible and maybe replicable in some fashion with either other educators or with learners.
The key here is expect the unexpected, and go with the flow. See where things take you. It's that uncharted country off the map that we often talk about in open learning. Leave a few breadcrumbs so we can follow you. One caveat to my own reflection here is that many of those who have participated in this #adhocvoices are familiar folks, and we want the map to get larger, more encompassing of more people.
That might be you.
Peace (in sound),
Book Review: Space Case
Imagine being stuck on a pioneering base on the moon and someone is murdered. The murderer is among you. It sounds like an Agatha Christie novel, doesn't it? And Space Case by Stuart Gibbs plays out a bit like "And Then There Were None …" in that there is a closed setting, a murder and someone can't be trusted.
Gibbs, whose fine sense of humor have been on display in some of his other books for young readers, is in fine form here with Space Case, as pre-teen Dashiell Gibson realizes that the untimely death of a famous scientists on Moon Base Alpha does not add up, and he is determined to get to the cause of the incident.
Gibbs plants plenty of red herrings, a must in this kind of story, and a surprising twist near the end of the novel, and Space Case really captures both the amazing idea of living on the moon and the claustrophobic element of a murderer hiding in plain site. I read this aloud to my son, and he and I both enjoyed the tale.
Peace (on the moon, baby),
Odds and Ends: From Abamao to Zzzzzzzzzzcratching
Frindle: Words from Mr. Hodgson on Vimeo.
I'm still abuzz from this past year's version of the Crazy Collaborative Dictionary Project. What's that, you say? What's a Crazy Collaborative Dictionary? It's part of our annual exploration of the origins of words, with a project in which my sixth graders invent new words and then add them to an ongoing collaborative dictionary.
There are now more than 900 words, from over 12 years worth of students. Siblings are writing with siblings … across time. Think about that for a second. A collaboration across time. And a nutty dictionary emerges as a result, too, that completely engaged my students in the art of vocabulary creation.
Oh, and we podcast the words and definitions, too, preserving the voices of sixth graders.
So, from Abamao (The skill of tripping/falling for no reason and being congratulated for it) to Zzzzzzzzzzcratching (The act of using a zebra leg as a back scratcher), there is an entirely new vocabulary out there.
Peace (in the collaboration),
The CLMOOC Word Map
No reason for doing this other than I wondered how it would come out …
I used Word Map, which is a pretty nifty tech tool, if you use a real word. Hashtags are just confusing for the voices.
Peace (on the map),
Odds and Ends: Stuck Inside a Game Short Story Writing
This was a fine way to end the school year – writing stories and connecting back to a running theme of the year of game design. For the last two weeks of school, students worked on writing a short story in which someone from history was stuck inside a game and the protagonist must go into the game and get them out within 48 hours. Think Jumanji as a mentor text.
My students were really invested in this story writing, working hard for days, right up until the very last day they could write, and because they were using their Google Docs accounts, it will continue for many of them right into the summer. The whole concept here was to use game dynamics as a setting element and plot device for story writing, and since we have been talking, hacking, creating games all year, it tied together some threads for the year.
Peace (in the story),
A Serious Aside on Identity and Representation
I hate to kill the playful mojo of the CLMOOC, which has been streaming in channels in social media spaces around the #untro — or "unintroducing yourself" by mashing up media and glitching images and smashing ideas. But in the midst of all this play, I can't help but think about the headlines and events of the past week, and how identity in the form of flags and race are right now part of the national conversation.
Check out this interview transcript with Kanye West, who made a point a few years ago about the use of the confederate flag. As always, he went farther than he needed to, in order to generate controversy. Still, Kanye had a point — we can try to take media and mediate it for our own message.
"React how you want," West said. "Any energy is good energy. The Confederate flag represented slavery in a way. That's my abstract take on what I know about it, right? So I wrote the song 'New Slaves.' So I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag. It's my flag now." — from http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-kanye-west-confederate-flag-20150623-story.html#page=1
So , how do we make our own messages on where we stand when it comes to equity and fairness, and to get a bit fuzzy with it, peace and love and understanding towards everyone, no matter the race or creed or religion, or color of skin. How do we make a difference when we are not Kanye, with his platform to the world? How can teachers make a difference in their own communities?
At our "end of year" ceremonies for our sixth graders this week, one of the highlighted endeavors from the past year had to do with a Peace Poster art project. This project is overseen by our fantastic art teacher each year and is part of a Lion's Club contest to have students represent peaceful ideas on the canvas. The theme this year was "peace, love and understanding."
Take a look at some of their work:
And take a listen to some of their artist statements:
This brings me back around to the confederate flag issue in South Carolina — the move underfoot to remove the flag from public buildings — and the purposeful killing of those nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist Church, which seems to be rooted in deep racism and violence by the perpetrator. The confederate flag issue makes clear how powerful these media symbols are in culture, how people connect and identify themselves to the world, and how fragile/powerful those connections can be. At the heart of this controversy is identity, as some people see the flag as some landmark of heritage and pride. They use the flag as a cornerstone of their identity. We even see that confederate flag around here, too, in the northeast, in liberal Massachusetts, particularly with high school students who live in some of our more remote hill towns but come into town for the vocational school. I'm trying not to stereotype here. Not every student in the remote foothills are racist and not every student with a confederate flag on their truck bumper is intolerant. But it's hard not to see that and think, really?
I'm not one who sees that flag that way, that it can be some source of pride of culture. It has too much history. I am more on the side of, this confederate flag represents oppression and hate and distrust. It has no place on public buildings. Anywhere. Period.
Is there a way for me, one teacher, to mediate media, as part the CLMOOC Make Cycle, to make a political point about this? To engage in the national conversation from my dining room table in Massachusetts?
I tried a few things these last few days, but all seemed to miss the mark. Either it was too overt or too mean or just ineffective in my ability to craft a message with media. My brand of poking fun through satire … it wasn't working because the issue is bigger than that. I feel like I am failing here to use what I know, and experiment with on a regular basis, to make a point.
I am at a loss.
Luckily, Terry Elliott began a collaborative poem the other day, inviting others in to write stanzas and make a podcast (still unfolding in the mix stage by Terry) about the shooting at the "Mother Emanuel" Church. I felt grateful to be invited, as if maybe I was able to contribute something — a few written words, a few spoken words, some music — that empowered me to take a stand. I felt useful, and part of a community of others, making art to lead to some understanding. It may not resonate on the national stage. Kanye did not contribute to the poem.
But it resonates with us.
Maybe what I most need to do here, as I am doing here with this post, is to return to my students' work on peace as something that will sustain me, and give me hope for change. Maybe what they drew and painted, and what they wrote about, is more than platitudes. Their media has power. Maybe one of my now-former students will change the world. No. Not maybe. Not one. Many of them will change the world. Maybe we all will change the world. Maybe it is in the way we collaborate and interact and seek to understand our differences and similarities — maybe that is what we can do.
Maybe we shape our identities together. Is this the fabric and thread of the first Make Cycle? Maybe we Make a Better World. Let's get started.
Peace (in the think),
Getting All Glitchy With It
It's always exciting when the first Make Cycle of the Making Learning Connected MOOC kicks off, and yesterday, it finally did. The faciliators — two colleagues from the Tar River Writing Project — of the Make Cycle want to do a little twist on how we go about introducing ourselves, by bringing a sort of media mediation into the mix.
They write:
The theme this week is Unmaking Introductions. Let's consider the ways we name, present, and represent ourselves and the boundaries or memberships those introductions create.
Among the suggestions to explore is to slice up and glitch some media. I see the use of intentional glitch as a way to upend our expectations of media, to turn the expected into the unexpected, and maybe find something new in the mix. It's interesting because we often think of a "glitch" as something broken (like in the clip above, where her glitch is later what saves the day). But mistakes and miscues, and the unexpected are what makes life interesting.
So for this activity, I turned to a few apps to help me out, including one called Fragment that does what it sounds like — it takes apart images and reconstructs them back into unusual images. (It was free when I got it.)
I began with a photo of me and my dog. I use the handle/moniker Dogtrax in a lot of social media spaces. It has nothing to do with dogs, although I often make canine-inspired jokes. You can read more about my nickname here, if that interests you. Hey, I do love dogs. (Cats are cool, too, so no hate comments, please). And my dog, Duke .. he is pretty cool. He puts up with a lot from our family. (We feed him, so that helps).
So I took this photo of Duke and I in repose. He seems like he is thinking: Sigh, here we go again:
and made this with Fragment. I was really trying to find a ways to layer our faces in different ways and I love that Duke's nose just hangs out on the edge of the frame on the right:
and then this collage with another app. The bottom right image was done in another app, and it was another image where my eyes look up. That simple movement changes the flow of the collage, don't you think?
and then I used an online site called Image Glitch Experiment suggested by Make Cycle facilitators for creating "glitch" images to make this version. The small bands of color seem to me as if there is a television set going, and the lower half of the screen — all dark — changes the composition of the image, too, giving contrast to the light.
I'll keep exploring how media impacts identity. It's an intriguing topic.
Peace (in the glitch),
Book Review: Letter to a Future Lover
In the end, I just couldn't do it. Essayist Ander Monson asks, requests, even cajoles the reader of his Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries to write in his book, to add the reader's perspective to the writer's notes.
But I just could not bring myself to write inside a book that I had borrowed from the library. It was inter-library loan, for goodness sake, shipped from another library an hour's drive away just to allow me to read it. Writing in the borrowed book seemed to fly in the face of some unwritten contract. Although, if you think about it, a library book has a larger audience. Still. I don't own the book. All I could think about was some imaginary librarian frowning at my marks inside a borrowed book.
Instead, I did the next best thing: I wrote some pieces on sticky notes and stuck them into various pages of Monson's book. It's the same, adding removable notes. But maybe this will start a trend. I even left my Twitter handle on the notes. Maybe my note to a future reader will boomerang right around, and fly back to me with a response, and we will have Ander Monson to thank.
Speaking of Monson and his book, I really loved this collection of essays about reading and books, and the interactions between reader and writer. Monson hooks his ideas around artifacts that has he has found in books and libraries, from notes on an old catalogue filing card to scribbles on the margins to scraps of paper once a bookmark, filled with writing. From there, Monson takes off in free-ranging essay style, examining what reading means to him, and to us.
Interestingly, each piece in this collection was originally left in the books the essays were about. That's the "letter to a future lover" that the title refers to. Can you imagine opening up a book and finding a folded essay by Monson waiting for you? Can you imagine how many of those essays will never get read, ever? Many of the books that he examines are dusty and unread, sitting on the shelves of university libraries for decades. There's something intriguing about that whole notion, right?
This is my note to you, reader, about leaving notes for an unknown reader, inspired by a writer who writes about writing notes to other readers. What will you write?
Peace (going round and round),
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Q: DateTime('now') not modified after sleep() I have following code
$now = new DateTime('now');
$string1 = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
sleep(5);
$now->modify('now');
$string2 = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
sleep(10);
$now->modify('now');
$string3 = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $string1 . '
';
echo $string2 . '
';
echo $string3 . '
';

I expected to get each line different time. surprisingly the output is like this.
2020-11-27 17:35:05
2020-11-27 17:35:05
2020-11-27 17:35:05

I suspected it is the buffer flush problem so added $string variables but it is still the same. Can anyone explain why it happens? Thanks.
Regards,
Marcin

A: The 'now' parameter is simply ignored. This is also documented in the PHP manual.
When creating with
$now = date_create(); // or new DateTime;

It doesn't matter whether the parameter is "now" or none.
My recommendation: Always recreate the current time with new DateTime.

A: You can use DateTime::add for this, like so:
<?php

$now = new DateTime('now');
$string1 = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
sleep(5);
// DateInterval accepts a formatted period specifier:
// P = Period
// T = Time
// 5 = 5 units
// S = Seconds
$now->add(new DateInterval('PT5S'));
$string2 = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
sleep(10);
$now->add(new DateInterval('PT10S'));
$string3 = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $string1 . '
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echo $string2 . '
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echo $string3 . '
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Q: Angular Library, Watch, and Docker I have an angular library that I build like so:
ng build my-library -- --watch and a dist directory gets generated.
I have a dummy angular app to test my library, in package.json:
docker:start : ng serve --host 0.0.0.0 --poll 1
When I run in my terminal, during development, I run the build in one terminal and the app in another.  As I make changes, the build picks them up, and once the new library is built, the service takes the changes and I see them in the browser.
I'm trying to recreate this in Docker like so:
FROM node:10-alpine

WORKDIR /app

EXPOSE 4200

# Install Angular/CLI to use `ng`
RUN npm install -g @angular/cli

# My Application
COPY ./package*.json ./
RUN npm install

# Build ./dist/my-library
COPY ./ ./
RUN cd ./projects/my-library && npm run build

CMD ["npm","run","docker:start"]

My docker-compose.yml:
version: '3'
services:
  app:
    container_name: 'app'
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
    ports:
      - '4200:4200'
    volumes:
      - /app/node_modules
      - .:/app

I want to be able to run docker-compose up and do development like I do in the multiple terminals.

A: If you want to emulate multiple terminals, you can just run multiple 'services' in docker-compose:
version: '3'
services:
  app:
    container_name: 'app'
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
    ports:
      - '4200:4200'
    volumes:
      - /app/node_modules
      - .:/app
  lib:
    container_name: 'lib'
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
    volumes:
      - /app/node_modules
      - .:/app
    command: sh -c 'ng build my-library -- --watch'

Here is an example of a app/test docker-compose definition that I commonly use:
version: '3.7'
services:
  web:
    image: node:12-alpine
    volumes:
      - .:/src/app:cached
    ports:
      - 4200:4200
    working_dir: /src/app
    command: /bin/sh -c "npm install && npm run start-docker"
  tests:
    image: node:12-alpine
    volumes:
      - .:/src/app:cached
    working_dir: /src/app
    command: /bin/sh -c "npm install && npm run test:watch"


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{
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    struct TextMarkerData _textMarkerData;
}

+ (id)textMarkerWithVisiblePosition:(struct VisiblePosition *)arg1 cache:(struct AXObjectCache *)arg2;
- (id).cxx_construct;
- (id)description;
- (struct VisiblePosition)visiblePosition;
- (id)dataRepresentation;
- (id)initWithData:(id)arg1 accessibilityObject:(struct WebAccessibilityObjectWrapper *)arg2;
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Beanie betrays suspect in liquor store robbery
By NICK BONHAM | nickb@chieftain.com
A distinctive beanie led to the arrest of a man wanted for robbing a South Side liquor store.
A man in a stocking cap marked with a "2002" brandished a knife and stole a 30-pack of Tecate and a bottle of Jagermeister about 9 a.m. Tuesday from Prairie Liquors, 1659 S. Prairie Ave.
An affidavit by Pueblo police Detective Shelly Taylor said the suspect didn't have enough money to pay, brandished a knife at the clerk and walked out with the booze.
On Wednesday, police stopped a man in a "2002" beanie at the Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library. The man was identified as Brian J. Estrada, 23.
In an interview with Taylor, Estrada first denied robbing the store but later admitted to the crime. "He said he was forced to commit the robbery by a gang member, but he didn't know the person's name," the affidavit said.
Estrada told Taylor he was drunk and high on marijuana at the time.
Of the 2700 block of Freedom Avenue, Estrada was arrested on suspicion of aggravated robbery and was being held in Pueblo County jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.
A vacant home in the 1900 block of East Eighth Street caught fire early Tuesday after copper piping and wire was stripped from the basement.
Smoke billowed from boarded windows when police and firefighters arrived at the scene at 1:37 a.m., Cpl. Gil Ladrini said.
A gas line was broken during the theft as was electrical wire. "It appeared that during the attempt to remove copper pipe an electrical conduit was broken and caused the wires to arc which probably ignited the gas in the basement," Ladrini said.
A police report did not list a damage estimate.
METAL THEFT
Two men were arrested Wednesday for stealing a dog kennel and other metal from a vacant house in the 1000 block of East Eighth Street.
The owner called police after he saw two men loading up the dog kennel he built into the back of a Ford Ranger.
The men were identified as Dean C. Dekoevend, 52, and Steve F. Gallegos, 50.
According to an affidavit by officer Lee Medved, the men said they had permission from the owner, who they identified as "Don Johnson," to take scrap metal from the yard and home.
The real owner said he never heard of the Johnson character and didn't know the men taking his property.
Both were arrested on suspicion of second-degree burglary and were being held in jail in lieu of $35,000 bail.
Property worth more than $8,700 was stolen early Wednesday from GFAB, 96 N. Precision Dr.
Suspects cut through a chain-link fence and stole numerous tools from a shop, including a $5,000 traffic control device, Deputy Ryan Landreth said.
Property worth more than $4,300 was stolen Tuesday from the 100 block of Dartmouth Avenue.
Clayton Vandenburg came home at 12:30 p.m. to find his home burglarized. Three televisions including a Sanyo valued at $1,200, a $400 camera, a $950 HP laptop computer and $500 worth of jewelry were among the items stolen.
Officer Matthew Ballard said that suspects appeared to wear gloves because few fingerprints were found.
A 1999 Saturn SL2 was stolen early Tuesday from the 3600 block of Sheffield Lane.
The car was stolen between 7 and 7:10 a.m. while Eric Leal left it running to warm up, officer Jackie Touskie said.
The dark-green four-door has blue floral seat covers and a Jack In The Box head on the antenna.
Valued at $2,000, the car has Colorado license plate 383-NVA.
ROAD BLOCKED
A semi loaded with 5 tons of tires slid off the road late Thursday and blocked both lanes of traffic on Colorado 165, near the Interstate 25 exit to Colorado City.
"He took a left hand turn just past the Days Inn and got his trailer high-centered. It's blocking both lanes of traffic except for a little part we're letting cars go through," Sheriff Kirk Taylor said.
The incident happened about 9:45 p.m. and deputies were awaiting assistance from the Colorado State Patrol.


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Watford Riverwell takes shape in 2018
The Watford Riverwell regeneration project started to take shape in 2018, with the completion of many significant milestones. You can read a summary of the progress made in 2018 below.
Construction started on the first Phase of Watford Riverwell at Woodlands, which will provide 95 new homes, including affordable homes, in an attractive woodland setting.
Watford Borough Council approved plans for a new retirement village by Mayfield Villages, delivering 253 properties as part of Phase 2 at Waterside.
Full planning permission was granted by the council for Waterside, to build 408 new homes, including 118 family sized affordable homes, set in 3.5 acres of attractive green spaces along the River Colne, alongside the Mayfield retirement village.
The Marketing Suite on Thomas Sawyer Way opened to the public. Complete with onsite interactive models of Watford Riverwell and an interior-designed 2-bedroom show apartment, the first new 1, 2 and 3-bedroom homes at Woodlands are now on sale.
Community Open Days were held at the Marketing Suite on plans for a new car park on the land to the north of Thomas Sawyer Way. Over 100 people attended the open days and the proposals were positively received by a majority of the public who attended.
The planning application for the new car park was submitted to Watford Borough Council. The car park will provide 1,400 spaces for staff, patients and visitors to Watford General Hospital, opening the land to the north of Thomas Saywer Way for future phases of Watford Riverwell.
River Clean Up
Throughout 2018, the clean up of the River Colne has continued. Over £4 million has been spent removing pollution from the land and restoring the waterways. Since the clean up started, over one tonne of degraded polystyrene has been cleaned from the River; equivalent to over 82,000 disposable plastic cups.
This year promises to be even busier: The first new homes at Woodlands will be completed and occupied, further plans will be brought forward for the Northern Zones and the river clean up will continue. We will keep you updated about what's going on at Watford Riverwell as work continues.
The Marketing Suit is open from 10am to 6pm from Thursday to Monday. You can find more information about the Marketing Suite at www.watfordriverwell.com/contact.
If you have any questions about the project, please do get in touch with us at info@watfordriverwell.com.


Pinery Christmas Trees was formed in 1992 by Norm and Linda Osborne at which time they purchased the retail assets of Pinery Tree Farm. In 1996 their son Mike Osborne joined the Company after graduating from college.
In 1999 they opened their first Pumpkin Station location which has grown to five locations since then. In 2007, the Pinery purchased the assets of Del Mar Christmas Trees which combined made them the largest independent wholesaler and retailer of Christmas Trees in Southern California.
Currently, the Company operates 5 Retail Christmas Tree locations, our Wholesale yard and Commercial Division in Del Mar and 7 Pumpkin Station locations throughout San Diego.


Following is a diagram of some typical pellet vent installations.
This illustration shows how to install a pellet pipe vent in these situations: pellet insert, catherdral ceiling stove installation, masonry chimney relining, attice offset, through-the-wall vertical rise and through-the-wall.
Following is the key for the parts above.
Using the Typical Venting Installation drawings, select the appropriate component parts for your installation.
The inner pipe diameter should match the outlet size of the appliances. For installations that require 4" vent and the appliance has a 3" outlet, use an increaser adapter 3"-4".
Check the appliance manufacturer's installation instructions to confirm which types of vent configurations are permitted (i.e. horizontal, vertical, chimney reline, etc.). Also, check for any venting restrictions such as maximum horizontal run, minimum and maximum vertical rise, maximum offset, etc.
Be fire-safe! Maintain the minimum clearances (air-space) between the vent and nearby combustibles, as specified in the appliance manufacturer's installation instructions. Use proper support and bracing. Follow local building codes and have your venting system inspected.
1" clearance to combustibles in the USA for appliances using pellets, corn, or oil. 1" clearance to combustibles in Canada for oil-burning (type L vent) appliances.
3" clearance to combustibles in Canada for pellet- and corn-burning appliances.
C-UL Listed to UL 641 (MH8381 and MH14420).
ULC Listed to ULC-S609, ULC/ORD-C441 (file #CMH1439 and CMH1440).


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Mamata Roy is an Indian anganwadi worker and former member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.  Between 2011–2016, she served as the representative of the Dhupguri constituency and as a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Personal life
Mamata Roy is a resident of Dhupguri town in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. She received her education from the Bairatiguri High School from where she passed out in 1992 and became an Integrated Child Development Services worker. Roy identifies herself as a communist.

Political career
In the 2007 elections for the municipality of Dhupguri, Roy contested as a candidate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and was elected from ward number 7, polling at 58.92% of the votes cast in her favor.

Before the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, the communist party denied re-nomination for the legislator Laxmi Kanta Roy, two term incumbent from the Dhupguri constituency and instead nominated Roy to contest as the party candidate. Subsequently, she emerged as the winning candidate against her primary opponent, Mina Barman who was the wife of the Trinamool Congress's district head and was therefore was nominated as their candidate. Roy won the election polling at 42.25% of the votes cast in her favor against 39.82% of the votes cast in favor of Barman. During her tenure as the representative of the constituency, she was involved in organising a protest movement launched by the communist party in the Dhupguri area after a teenage girl was raped and murdered. The girl herself had earlier protested against a kangaroo court who had assaulted her farmer father over a equipment renting dispute; the kangaroo court was notably held in the presence of local leaders of the Trinamool Congress. Roy was also involved in raising concerns and agitating against instances of starvation deaths in the tea gardens, and the lack of communication with local bodies and non-appointment of teachers by the state government in local educational institutions.

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, she lost her seat in the legislature to the new Trinamool Congress candidate Mitali Roy, who had contested as an independent candidate in the previous election. In August 2020, Roy testified that she was contacted by the Trinamool Congress and presented with an offer to her supply her with funds to contest the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election as their candidate from the constituency, which she refused. The incident was corroborated by Laxmi Kanta Roy who testified that a similar offer was rejected by him a few days earlier.

References

Living people
West Bengal politicians
Women in West Bengal politics
Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal
Year of birth missing (living people)

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1 event sheet, sounds for multiple levels...Possible?
i have a project with multiple levels (multiple layouts) but only one event sheet for comprehension and simplicity reasons.
I need to play a different background music for every layout, how do i manage to do this with a single event sheet?
I'm not sure if this is the right way but this is just what I think would work. Create a global variable called "levelmusic" or something like that. Each value of that variable will be a level.
Let's say levelmusic=1 means level 1, levelmusic=2 means the player reached level 2 and so on (make sure the initial value of the variable is 1, not zero; otherwise you'll get confused; unless you count your levels, level zero, level 1, level 2 etc.).
player on collision with sprite (or whatever you want to call that), add 1 to levelmusic.


Standing on an idyllic clearing within a nine-acre woodland parcel in the Hudson Valley, the Salt Point House boasts an ethereal beauty that is still strikingly contemporary. Designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners for a New York City couple, this stunningly simple weekend retreat consists of a glass and wood box sandwiched between two rippled silver curtains. Made from perforated stainless steel, the shades not only keep the interiors private but also filter the excess brilliance mediating the home with its luscious surroundings.


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Jon Bon Jovi Headlines Charity Event At The Clubhouse In East Hampton
bySteve Glick
The Clubhouse launched its new world class venue and stage featuring a sold-out crowd for an Intimate performance by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Jon Bon Jovi and friends. Jon performed a myriad of his classics, unreleased songs, and covers from the Beatles to Harry Styles' Watermelon Sugar. A Dead or Alive encore brought the house down. In appreciation of Jon Bon Jovi donating his performance, The Clubhouse contributed a $50,000 gift to Meals on Wheels and Project Most. The event also welcomed thirty local frontline workers in recognition of their efforts supporting the community's COVID-19 response.
(Photo: Rob Rich/www.societyallure.com)
"We are proud to debut our concert season with an entertainment experience that benefits our community. This launch showcases The Clubhouse's commitment to bringing a quality, and a world class source of entertainment accessible to Long Island and The Hamptons," said Matt Rubenstein who has spearheaded this direction. Matt has brought on long-time friend and event & concert expert, Matthew Classens, with plans to keep the same quality and thoughtfulness for all future events
The event also welcomed thirty local frontline workers in recognition of their efforts supporting the community's Covid-19 response
The Clubhouse launched its new world class venue and stage featuring a sold-out crowd for an Intimate performance by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Jon Bon Jovi and friends
Jon performed a myriad of his classics, unreleased songs, and covers from the Beatles' HELP! and Here comes the Sun to Harry Styles' Watermelon Sugar
In appreciation of Jon Bon Jovi donating his performance, The Clubhouse contributed a $50,000 gift to Meals on Wheels and Project Most
Moonglow: An Enchanting Children's Book Book Reading
Community Baking Program To Provide Home-Baked Breads To East End Food Pantries


The Tale of Cho Ung is one of the most widely read and beloved stories of Chosŏn Korea. The anonymously written tale recounts the adventures of protagonist Cho Ung as he fearlessly confronts and overcomes obstacles and grows into a heroic young man. As a child, Ung flees a wicked tyrant who wrongfully killed his father and took advantage of the emperor's death to seize the throne from the young prince. Driven by his passion, righteousness, and sense of duty, he pursues retribution and restores justice.His journey, from its innocent beginnings to his final triumph, unfolds as a complex tapestry of loyalty, honor, retribution, and love interspersed with threads of romance and the supernatural.
This first translation into English of The Tale of Cho Ung offers a glimpse into the vernacular and popular literature of the late Chosŏn period, exemplifying the types of stories and heroes that were favored by its reading public. The tale emphasizes individual affections and ethics between child and parent, husband and wife, subject and ruler, pupil and teacher, yet explores human life in all its complexity, even subtly dissenting against traditional Korean social norms. This unabridged translation draws upon the many surviving editions of the novel, whichvary in length and format. In her introduction, Sookja Cho addresses how the novel evolved and changed over time, while her annotations help to reveal the depths of a text that conveys the richness and complexity of premodern Korean literature and culture.
Sookja Cho is Assistant Professor of Korean in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University.


It's the show I've always thought about putting together and can now finally make happen. Two comic legends, two completely different senses of humor together on one stage with yours truly leading the way. Gilbert Gottfried, Uncle Floyd and myself. Saturday April 20 at the Broadway Theatre in Pittman. Get your tickets here. I hope to see you there.
Gilbert Gottfried has made numerous memorable appearances on Comedy Central Roasts and the Comedy Central series, The Burn with Jeff Ross. Gottfried's Fifty Shades of Grey reading (College Humor) received over 5 million views on YouTube. Gilbert has been a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with Seth Meyers, @Midnight with Chris Hardwick and numerous appearances on The Howard Stern Show. He also has had a recurring role on Law and Order SVU as TARU tech Leo Gerber. As a famed comics comic, Gottfried puts aside political correctness for his live performance and fires an onslaught of jokes that know no boundaries. Stephen King said of Gottfried, "More than a national treasure, he's a secret weapon."
"Uncle Floyd" Vivino has been making people laugh with his vaudeville throwback jokes and songs since his long running TV show which aired from 1974-1998. Among his many movie and television credits are playing opposite Robin Williams in "Good Morning Vietnam" and a recurring role on the Cosby Show." In more than 40 years in show business Floyd has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for various charities and causes.
When Steve Trevelise is not talking Jersey on New Jersey 101.5 or sports on 94 WIP, he's cracking people up at theatres, clubs and casinos across the Delaware Valley. Among the many people Steve has opened for include, Artie Lange, Pat Cooper, Robert Klein, Louis Anderson and the late Bill Hicks and Richard Jeni.
Don't miss this ONE NIGHT ONLY event filled with undeniable talent and hilarious humor!


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Selena Gomez calls out "tasteless" TV kidney transplant joke
A joke on 'The Good Fight' took aim at the artist's 2017 kidney transplant
By Ella Kemp
Selena Gomez (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Global Citizen VAX LIVE)
Selena Gomez has criticised a joke on The Good Fight about her kidney transplant.
Hitting back at a scene in the CBS legal drama, in which several characters discuss jokes they think might be too controversial, including one taking aim at Gomez's 2017 kidney transplant, the actor and singer called it "tasteless".
READ MORE: Selena Gomez – 'Revelación' EP review: love and self-confidence abound
"I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently," Gomez said on Twitter about the episode.
"I hope in the next writer's room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it's called out immediately and doesn't make it on air."
I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently. I hope in the next writer's room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it's called out immediately and doesn't make it on air.
— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) August 3, 2021
She went on to write: "My fans always have my back. LOVE YOU," before then sharing a link to encourage users to sign up to become organ donors.
Gomez shared the news that she had received a kidney transplant from her friend Francia Raisa in 2017 following years of organ damage that was caused by the autoimmune disease lupus, which she was diagnosed with between 2012 and 2014.
The actress and singer's most recent music release was the Spanish-language EP 'Revelación'. In a four-star review of the record, NME wrote: "Though musically dissimilar to her 2020 full-length album 'Rare' (a slick collection of dance-pop earworms that coupled electronic whirs and glittering production with liberating lyrics), 'Revelación' retains the confidence that shone through on her last record."
Next up, Gomez will be starring in murder mystery comedy Only Murders in the Building alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short. You can watch the first trailer for the Hulu/Disney+ series here.


Our favorite and most popular style, this is a super comfy easy to wear style with just the right amount of spin. The cut of this dress never fails to showcase beautiful wax prints. And this one is stunning! Smallest sizes come with matching bloomers.


A Toast To The Season!
As you all know, Halloween is the official start to the holidays... even though the merchants like to jump straight to the big finish by displaying their Christmas goods mid-October. Why not just keep it out all year long? Are there really people out there who aren't aware of Christmas' coming without this visual reminder? I love Christmas. It's my favorite. Against the strong protest of my husband, I listen to Christmas music all year long. Not non-stop, mind you. But when one pops up on my iPod shuffle mode, I sing along with gusto. It makes me happy and wistful.
Carols aside... I also happen to love Halloween and Thanksgiving. Halloween gets it's due attention because kids love dressing up and getting the candy handout. Thanksgiving, on the other hand, tends to get the shun. Is it because children don't often dream of potatos and yams? Or, giant turkeys wearing pilgrim attire? Have we failed in our parental duties by not teaching them how important it is to be thankful? Maybe. I'm sure they see Thanksgiving as a day they have to get gussied up and spend the day with extended family they don't often see. All the while trying to live up to their parent's expectations of being polite and proper. No one wants to go sit in the car during dinner. And what child really wouldn't prefer a piece of chocolate cake vs. pumkin pie?
Thanksgiving is obviously something you just can't appreciate until you're an adult. All my family is in Utah so having the big family feast is not going to happen. I will, gratefully, have my youngest here and he's a big eater. I'm looking forward to that. But, as we sit down to gorge ourselves to the point of popping, we'll certainly feel the absence of the rest of the family. Our thoughts will be with them right up until the nap sets in.
Pink Dragons, Shipwrecks and Freebie!
We've had a crisis in the family this week. Ashley, the Mother of my 4 year old granddaughter, Payton, called in a panic. She said there had been a sad mishap while driving on the freeway. The car window was down and Payton, who was in the back in her carseat, was playing with her pink dragon, Lonnie, when it suddenly dawned on her that Lonnie might want to be set free. Lonnie is one of those mystical dragons with the tiny, little wings on her back. Makes sense, I suppose, that if those giant bumblebees can carry the load, a mystical, pink dragon could as well? Payton gives Lonnie a good hoist. Out the window she goes with Payton squealing, "Fly free Lonnie!" It didn't take her more than two seconds to realize the consequence of that move and that's when the world fell apart. She was inconsolable. "Lonnie is my best friend." "I miss Lonnie." "I want Lonnie back."
Payton is by no means a spoiled, temperamental child. She's really very sweet and loving. A little bossy now and then but she's a good soul so we all try to accommodate her. Unfortunately, Lonnie is a 2008 Webkinz release meaning you won't find a replacement in the stores. Grandma to the rescue! I found one on Amazon and had it shipped pronto. To soothe the broken heart in the meantime, we told Payton that Lonnie had flown to my house all the way to Michigan and she was very tired. She would come home after a few days rest. All is well. For now anyway.
Moving on... The Captain and I took a little day trip earlier this week to the upper peninsula. We went to the Tahquemenon Falls and Whitefish Point. It wasn't raining when we left but as soon as we arrived at the T. Falls parking lot, the skies opened up and really let us have it. Don't you just love those little glove-box sized umbrellas? We were prepared with one a piece so our day was not to be spoiled by wet, sticky clothes.
After the Falls and a little lunch, we headed to the Point. This area has the sad misfortune of having the most shipwrecks of any other point. It's said to be haunted. We concluded our tour in the boathouse where a gentleman from the Arther M. Anderson was answering questions. The A.M.A. was 7 miles behind the Edmund Fitzgerald when it went down in the '60s. He said the waves were 30' high. We're talking Lake Superior here folks, not the ocean. Imagine! Anyway, the boats were in radio contact with each other because the E. Fitzgerald had reported some problems and they were taking on water. The last transmission from the E. Fitzgerald was the Captain saying, "We're holding our own." Two minutes later, it dropped off the A.M.A.s radar. Ten minutes later the storm broke and the waves settled. The A.M.A. never saw any signs of the E. Fitzgerald.
Just as the gentleman was wrapping up his story, the fog horn started to blow. I thought this must be for affect but the fog had actually rolled in and you could no longer see the water. Have you ever heard a fog horn in real life? It's a sad, eerie sound. If anything could pull ghosts from the water, that sound could for sure. It was an interesting day.
Now on to lighter fare... I have a wordart freebie for you (as seen in the photo)! Click on the title of this post to go to my 4shared account to download. Photo was taken at the Tahquemenon Falls Park when the rain had slowed down a bit. Enjoy!
We flew out of Salt Lake City on the 28th of June. When we arrived at The Bellagio, the check-in lines seemed to be a bit long. So we decided to check our bags with the bellhop and run around for a bit and do some gambling. Six hours later we finally drag ourselves back to the registration desk. Well, this turned out to be a very good move because they had apparently filled all the rooms they had blocked for the $90 rate. Can you say "Free Upgrade"? We got a $500/night suite with a foyer, living room, 3 baths, 4 large flat screen TV's. It even had a doorbell and buttons on the wall to open/close the curtains. Fun! And you don't just get the typical soap/shampoos/conditioners. They also give you hairspray, bath gel, toothbrushes, razors, loofahs, slippers, box of chocolates, etc. It was "suite" indeed! I slept like a queen- the beds were "mmmm mm". Next day we had spa appointments. An hour massage and then four hours spent lounging in the saunas and pools. Fruits and drinks complimentary. It was delightful. So relaxing. We didn't win much as far as the gambling goes but felt we hit the jackpot regardless. Had such a great time.
I spent the entire month of July boating, swimming and golfing with family and friends. I had my granddaughter two different times for 5 days each (sans her parents). She was such a joy- kept the Captain pretty busy! He's her "favorite Grandpa" but he reminds me he works very hard to earn that title. LOL! They're so cute together.
I did a lot of baking too. Our neighbors knocked on our door as they were leaving town and told us to help ourselves to their raspberry bushes. They wouldn't be back for two weeks and the birds and deer would just eat them. We went over for five straight days and loaded up. These were gorgeous, large berries! I baked 3 raspberry coffee cakes and 2 pies. I also made raspberry vinegar, syrup and pancakes; sent a few quarts home with family; and had enough leftover to freeze about 3 quarts. I hope they invite us over again next year! :) Or did we make pigs of ourselves?
I had a little run-away last week. One of my best girlfriends, Cathy, invited me down to enjoy a few days with her and her four year old, Will. Her hubby was out of town on business and since I'd been sitting inside watching it rain for so long, I decided Why Not! I love it here in our cabin at Bear Lake but, I tell ya, the walls had started closing in. So heading off to the big city sounded like just the prescription I needed.
I left early Weds. morning, buckled behind the wheel of our big red truck, and set out on my nearly two hour drive. This is exciting for me in itself because since my hubby retired, I don't get to drive all that often. We always go everywhere together and he, being the man, just usually drives. Needless to say, cruising the curvey canyon and hitting the freeway at 80 mph all by my lonesome makes me feel sixteen again! The trip was off to a great start.
By the time I arrived, Cathy had gotten Will off to daycare and we had the world by the tail. Oh what to do?! The choices were endless. After a bit of breakfast, we decided to hit the matinee- since it's raining at her house too. We hit the fancy new theatre in downtown Ogden and saw The Hangover. Hilarious! And Bradley Cooper is pretty dang easy on the eyes. :) After the movie, we hit The Grist Mill for a slice of fresh High Five bread. We didn't need any lunch after the huge bucket of popcorn we consumed at the show.
Then it was time to hit the shopping mall. It's what girl's do. The day was turning out to be pretty fantastic. The sun had even decided to shine. Cathy took me in to one of her favorite stores and proceeded to take on the roll of fashion coordinator. She's throwing jeans at me left and right, along with funky tops to be layered (she has a great sense of style) and then, sitting patiently in a chair as I stroll out to model, she gives me her semi-professional advice. I haven't had that kind of attention since my Mom took me back-to-school shopping for 8th grade. I loved it! I found some jeans that I thought looked pretty good (Cath agreed) plus a few other things and $200+ later we left the store. Um, I don't usually plunk down that kind of scratch. Well, not since I retired anyway. But I was feeling all right about it. Empowered in a way! Yea, after twenty days of sitting in the rain, I deserved it. I owed it to myself! Am I right, ladies?! Woohoooo.
Well, to make a long story short and sum up the first day, we picked Will up from daycare, took a nice long stroll around the neighborhood, reunited a lost dog with it's owner, and had a lovely dinner at a new italian restaurant. It was a great day.
The next morning included coffee on the back patio overlooking Cathy's "Better Homes & Gardens" yard (yes, she even has a creek that runs through it) and homemade pumpkin chocolate chip cookies baked especially for me. I felt loved. The rain hit again about noon and we ended up bailing out her basement window wells. It was quite a storm.
I headed out of town about 2:00 pm feeling relaxed, refreshed and rejuvenated. It was as if I had spent a fortune at a day spa- but they don't send you home with cookies! Bonus! Thank you, Cathy! And thank you, Will, for sharing your Mom with me. And to all of you out there, make time for your friends. You just don't know how much they might be needing to hear from you.


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Jul 30 Wanderlist Discover: Skopje, Macedonia
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Wanderlist Discover: Skopje, Macedonia
Skopje is a melting pot of many identities and tags. Once a historic city at the heart of the Balkan region, with 2000 year traditional roots, it gradually underwent a complete change of image thanks to a controversial, nationalistic project led by one of the former Prime Minsters of the country. As a result, today Skopje is a city is filled with towering marble statues and mega fountains, as well as the Old Bazaar and other monuments that pay tribute to its multi-cultural heritage. Skopje continues to remain the political, economic and cultural centre of the country, and fiercely protects its prized cultural heritage. Take a walk around the town and its outskirts to explore the local fortress, the archaeological sites and the beauty of the caves and other natural spots around the city. Its a great place to visit for a couple of days, and is also perfect as a base camp for exploring other towns in the nearby Balkan region.
A COUPLE OF ACTIVITIES YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS
The Millennium Cross : Located on the top of the Vodno Mountain, the highest point in Skopje, the Millennium Cross is a memorial to 2000 years of Christianity in Macedonia. It was built on a spot known as "Krstovar" or the Place of the Cross, since the time of the Ottoman Empire. There is a restaurant and a souvenir shop near the cross, and the area gives you a bird's eye view of the Skopje town.
The Old Bazaar : The second largest bazaar in the Balkan regions, second only to the one in Istanbul, the Old Bazaar is a protected national landmark. It is documented to have existed as far back as in the 12th century, and has survived several earthquakes, wars and other disasters, and been recontructed several times. Today, it represents the only standing multi-cultural monument, with a heritage that spans different civilizations.
A Visit to the Mother Teresa Memorial House : The most famous child of Skopje, and Macedonia, Mother Teresa has a Memorial House dedicated to her and her life. It is located where the old Catholic Church used to stand, and where Gonxha Bijaxhiu, as Mother Teresa, was known in her childhood, was baptized.
Mother Teresa Memorial House
Best Time To Go: May to October
The best time to visit is from May through to October, when the weather is the warmest and the driest, although sometimes the temperatures can get to be too hot for comfort. Stay hydrated and remain indoors at such times. The evenings may be quite cool during this period. So bring lightweight clothing for the summer months, with warmer wear for the evenings.
Where in the world:
Skopje is the capital of the land-locked country of Republic of Macedonia, one of the many successor states of the former Yugoslavia. Macedonia shares its borders with Kosovo, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania.
Fun Fact: The Matka Canyon is a deep gorge about 15 kms south-west of Skopje. The scenery is absolutely wonderful, with rocky mountains and mesmerising green water. It has several medieval building, including churches, monasteries and even a fortress, and is a perfect place for adventure activities such a hiking, rock-climbing or kayaking.
Language : Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, some English
Currency : Macedonian Denar (MKD); 1 USD = 50 MKD
How to Get Around : The local bus network is quite vast and efficient, and covers a majority of the city. In addition to the public buses (red coloured buses), there are also private buses (all colours other than red) that run on the streets, where you pay the driver directly. You can also take local taxis around town. Just make sure you take a taxi with a visible taxi meter, and the driver turns on the meter, and does not expect a fixed price.
The Discover Series by Wanderlist
Discover less explored destinations & places that have never been on your travel radar with our Discover Series. Every week we will share a beautiful underrated city you should add to your travel bucket list.
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Wanderlist Discover: Pattaya, Thailand
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The changes to Demonic Gateway will either make the Green Fire quest a lot easier; or a lot harder.
Warlocks should be a little happier now about the Kil'jaeden's Cunning change. They are still allowing the most used channel spell while moving, but it will hurt during 20% when you should be casting Drain Soul (as affliction at least).
I knew they'd backtrack on that whole nerf to Kil'jaeden's Cunning and likely apply it only to certain abilities. The shift was too extreme from one end of the spectrum to the other especially for destro locks who need to hardcast everything.
So much for no plans to take Bestial Wrath off Readiness.
And oh good, Mages do even more damage now.
If this is a negative change, meaning RNG only players role here, this will make ferals completely useless in arenas. When you know you're about to get off a finisher, you know to call out clones. With this, either fix the tooltip to be more specific in what blizzard is changing about it, or get rid of it.
Every class now Buffed, except for Warlocks who they are nerfing to death in spite of the Warlock guy they hated and fired over a Blizz a few weeks ago.
Why do you remove the 15% dmg reduction on Moonkin form? Balance doesn't even have anything shielding except for barkskin, which is still kinda weak ;_; !
Also, this new sacred shield is more or less the original ret spec one isn't it?
Up from? Did you mean the other way around?
Maybe it's because a 35% cap is better than a 40% cap (for you), since now you can only take 35% of your health from one hit rather than 40%.
They state nothing about the Kanrethed fight (for Warlocks' green fire) , but state that they are nerfing Demonic gateway to 60 seconds up from 15. The fight is hard enough as it is.
Again PvE Hunters suffer greatly because of whinging PvPers .
Why must they try to fix things that are not broken. Warlocks are fine just the way they are right now in 5.3 in my opinion. I am okay with small changes, but i am not seeing anything good so far for 5.4.