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Il Giulio Cesare fu un transatlantico italiano varato nel 1920, nave gemella del Duilio, utilizzato per rotte transoceaniche in partenza da Genova.

Costruzione
La costruzione del Giulio Cesare iniziò nel 1913 ma venne già sospesa nell'agosto 1914 a causa della prima guerra mondiale. La nave venne poi varata nel 1920 ed inviata a Palermo per l'allestimento, dove arrivò il 12 febbraio 1922. Dell'allestimento si occupò lo Studio Ducrot.

Servizio

Le prove in mare vennero eseguite il 4 marzo 1922 ed il viaggio inaugurale Genova-Buenos Aires partì il 4 maggio 1922 con al comando Mario Isnardi.
L'11 agosto 1922 il Giulio Cesare partì per il primo viaggio sulla linea Genova-New York, dove rimase sino all'agosto 1925, quando venne trasferito sulla linea Genova-Sudamerica.
Nell'ottobre-novembre 1928 furono ristrutturate le aree alberghiere.
Il 9 gennaio 1932 la nave venne trasferita alla Italia di Navigazione insieme al resto della flotta della Navigazione Generale Italiana.
Il 25 marzo 1933 il transatlantico partì per l'ultimo viaggio per il Sudamerica, al termine del quale venne sottoposto ad importanti lavori di ammodernamento e trasformazione per essere utilizzato sulla linea Genova-Città del Capo, con servizio cosiddetto celere. La stazza della nave diminuì a 21.782 t.s.l. ed i passeggeri totali trasportati vennero ridotti a 650, di cui 168 in Classe Lusso, 176 in II Classe e 306 in Classe Turistica. Infine vennero accorciati i fumaioli e la nave venne verniciata di bianco.
Il 4 febbraio 1934 partì per il primo viaggio verso il Sudafrica. Il 2 gennaio 1937 la Giulio Cesare, insieme alla Caio Duilio, venne ceduta al Lloyd Triestino che acquisì la linea per Città del Capo dall'Italia di Navigazione. La Giulio Cesare rimase su tale linea fino al 1939, quando il 31 marzo partì per l'ultima traversata verso Città del Capo.
Dal 20 aprile 1939 fu posta sulla linea Genova-Shanghai, dove rimase fino al 14 ottobre dello stesso anno per poi venire posta in disarmo a Genova.

Nave ospedale

Nel marzo 1942 venne noleggiata dal governo italiano sotto la protezione della Croce Rossa Internazionale per essere utilizzata, in accordo con le autorità britanniche, con tre traversate, per il rimpatrio dei profughi italiani dalle colonie dell'Africa Orientale Italiana insieme alla gemella Duilio e ai transatlantici Vulcania e Saturnia, circumnavigando l'Africa. Le missioni si conclusero a Taranto nell'agosto 1943.

La nave venne trasferita a Trieste, dove il 25 agosto 1944 venne danneggiata da un raid aereo alleato. In seguito un altro raid aereo alleato portò al definitivo affondamento della nave l'11 settembre 1944, in quel momento in disarmo in rada nel Vallone di Zaule.
Nel giugno 1949 il relitto della Giulio Cesare venne recuperato e trainato nel cantiere di San Rocco di Muggia dove venne demolito.

Passeggeri celebri
Il 1º febbraio 1929, a bordo del Giulio Cesare, partirono da Genova alla volta del Sudamerica Giovanni Bergoglio con la moglie Rosa e il figlio ventunenne Mario, rispettivamente nonni e padre di Jorge Mario Bergoglio, l'attuale papa Francesco.

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Voci correlate
 Navigazione Generale Italiana
 Italia - Società di Navigazione
 Caio Duilio (transatlantico)

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Transatlantici italiani
Transatlantici della Italia - Società di Navigazione
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The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) are assessing whether they need to be involved in an investigation
Paige FreshwaterDigital Content Writer
A man shot by Humberside Police officers in Hull this morning remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital this afternoon.
Humberside Police were called to Hessle Road, in Hull, at around 2am following reports of a "man in the street believed to be in possession of a firearm".
A police cordon remains in place this afternoon with Humberside Police officers and crime scene investigators currently working at the scene (Image: Katie Pugh)
A 50 square metre police cordon remains in place this afternoon with Humberside Police officers and crime scene investigators currently working at the scene.
The road between St George's Road and Boulevard is closed, and is expected to stay that way until this evening.
And now Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) are assessing whether they need to be involved in an investigation.
An IOPC spokesman said: "We were notified by Humberside Police about a police shooting in Hull in the early hours of this morning.
"We understand a man was shot by police and is in hospital being treated for serious injuries.
"We have attended the scene at Hessle Road and the police post-incident procedure.
"We are carrying out an assessment to determine whether the IOPC needs to be involved in any investigations."
The man is currently in hospital in critical condition (Image: Katie Pugh)
Deputy chief constable Chris Rowley led a press conference on the shooting at around 2.15pm, saying police officers "have to make very difficult decisions in very difficult circumstances."
He confirmed no other people were injured and the force made a referral to the IOPC.
It was also heard that Humberside Police do not believe this incident was linked to terrorism.
Deputy chief constable Rowley said: "Thank you for your attendance. I will read out a short statement but due to this being a live ongoing incident, I won't be able to invite any questions.
There is currently a scene in place on Hessle Road, Hull, following a police incident in the early hours of this morning (Sunday, 15 December).
"Officers were deployed to the area after a report was received that a man was in the street and believed to be in possession of a firearm.
"The man was shot by police during the incident and is currently in hospital in a critical but stable condition. There were no other injuries sustained by anyone.
Man in critical condition after being shot by Humberside Police in Hull
"A mandatory referral has been made to the Independent Office of Police Conduct.
"We are still in the very early stages of the investigation, however we do not believe this incident to have any terrorism connection or links.
"Our thoughts are with the family of the man and also with those officers who were involved in the incident.
"In incidents like this our officers have to make very difficult decisions in very difficult circumstances.
"I would like to reassure the local community that incidents like this are very rare. We do have officers in the area and if anyone in the area is concerned I would encourage them to speak to one of those officers.
"Additionally, if anyone has any information about the incident please call 101 quoting log 178 of 15/12/19."
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A 7-foot, 10-inch alligator attacked an elderly woman at the Dell Webb retirement community in Lakewood Ranch, Florida over the weekend. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), the woman was bitten as she walked near the edge of a pond around 6 p.m. on the evening of September 3. She survived the incident and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
After the attack, a witness kept an eye on the alligator until a trapper arrived on the scene, who ultimately captured and killed the large gator. According to local news reports, no other alligators were spotted in the immediate vicinity in the moments preceding the attack. The woman is still recovering under medical supervision.
The incident occurred about an hour south of Tampa. It is the latest in a long list of alligator attacks that have occurred in the American South this summer. Another recent attack, which took place back in June in Hilton Head, South Carolina, claimed the life of an 88-year-old woman. The victim of that attack was gardening near her home in a retirement community when she fell into a pond and was killed by an alligator. In July, two alligators attacked and killed an 80-year-old woman on Florida's west coast. Last week, F&S reported on an alligator attack in Florida that left the director of a captive wildlife facility missing a hand and part of his forearm.
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Why does statistics work?
Statistics deals with probability, where even an extremely unlikely event has some chance of happening. What if there's a series of these unlikely events going on for thousands of year. I mean it could happen, there is some chance. For example, what if the entire history of the universe is just an unlikely sequence of events that has absolutely no patterns in it. That means, every statistical model that tries to model reality or data is plain wrong. So why does statistics work at all?
For example, imagine you a flip a coin for millions of years and you only get heads. It is possible. Then you make a statistical model that says the probability of flipping a coin that lands on head is 1. You keep using this model for thousands of years, believing that it's correct. Then, you get 1000 tails in a row all of a sudden. Everybody would be amazed how this is possible. I know this is an unlikely event happening, but the point is that it could happen. Is all of statistics flawed by the survivorship bias? How can we take statistics seriously? Or is statistics rather about trying random things out, and if it works we're happy until it stops working?
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siamiisiamii
@user603 Perhaps - or at least I'd think a candidate for community wiki. As written, I think it falls under several of the "not constructive" items on the vote-to-close-dialog, suggesting it should be closed on that basis, but perhaps siamii can reword it to be a better fit for the Q&A form of stackexchange (making it less of an editorial, and more specific in its questions). I don't think philosophy of statistics questions are necessarily off-limits, but the particular format of these questions concerns me.
– Glen_b
Seein a coin tossed comes so many times heads in the past and than assigning it a probability of 1 is not a statistical model development. You get "statistical model development" wrong. In the example you gave, people would be suprised in two ways when they see that now get tails: 1-) A deviation from historic behaviour 2-) IF they developed a (scientific/mathematical) model that was consistent with earlier common heads and having now 1000 tails is unexpected based on model, they suprise as they model turned out to be wrong. (See next comment pls).
– mami
Your suprise is different. In your example you know a priori that your coin is 50% heads/tails. If the people you mention share this knowledge, why do you suppose that they will develop a model (before seeing 1000 tail) where in their model the probabilities will be 100%-0%??? I guess you create inconsistency yourself in your example and then start being suspicious about statistical analysis.
They don't work. I took statistics in college. First day of class our professor made it very clear, "Statistics can be altered to meet the means of the maker, thus statistics is not a perfect science." I'll never forget that, and if you look at the news, you'll see just how true it is every day.
– SpYk3HH
@SpYk3HH This squarely (and rather naively) confuses a scientific field and its (mis-)applications.
– Did
I have the impression there's a general confusion between probability theory and statistics. The two are of course related, but not identical. Basically, statistics is about existing data, while probability is about prediction. The connection is that if the number of repetitions of a random experiment goes to infinity, the statistics is expected (not guaranteed!) to converge against the probability. That is, if you've assigned the probabilities correctly, the probability that the statistics deviates from the prediction from probability theory goes to zero in the limit of infinite experiments (note however that the probability that you get an exact agreement between probability and statistics goes to zero!). And due to that connection, if we have sufficient statistics, we take the statistics results as probabilities for further predictions, assuming that the statistics closely agrees with the probabilities, because provided that we are not missing any important influence on or regularity of the outcome, it is unlikely that the sufficient statistics deviates significantly from the actual probability.
Now let's look at the example from the question. The coin in question is supposed to be a fair coin. Nevertheless it is assumed that the coin has produced only heads for millions of years. I'll assume it has been tossed frequently during that time (because otherwise, a coin that is thrown once every ten million years and produced heads three times in a row would also fit that description).
So the statistics says that the coin showed 100% heads for very many tosses. There's nothing wrong with that statistics, it tells us the facts.
Based on that statistics, people made a model that this coin is not a fair coin, but actually is a coin that almost certainly produces heads on each toss. If we take as two competing models the model of the coin as a fair one, and the model of a coin as a head-producing one, probability theory tells us that the second one is much more likely to be true than the first one. Note that it doesn't tell us that the second one is true. It just tells us that we most likely get better prediction with that assumption. And for millions of years that was actually true for this coin.
Now that coin suddenly starts to produce tails. And not just one or two, but a thousand in a row. Now, this doesn't invalidate the statistics. The tosses before still are 100% heads. And even including those 1000 heads, the statistics is still damn near at 100% heads. So the heads-only model still works better than the fair coin model. However, the most likely explanation ion that case would be that something affecting the coin changed (although nobody knows what did change), and thus the probabilities of the coin after the change are not the same as the probabilities before. Note that the fair coin assumption still isn't ruled out (it even got slightly less improbable), but it's still very unlikely (because also 1000 tails in a row are a very improbable event for a fair coin).
And BTW, even if the inhabitants of that world were wrong with their model of the coin, for their purposes the wrong model was better than the correct one for millions of years, because during that time their wrong model actually made the correct predictions. Indeed, given that fact, one may actually question whether their model really was "wrong".
"something affecting the coin changed". Why? Nothing has changed. it's just randomness. The probabilities are still the same, which is 1/2. "one may actually question whether their model really was "wrong"" Indeed. The point is that we cannot know the true probabilities, which can be anything. Any model we base on observations might be totally wrong. Their model worked for millions of years, then it stopped working. There's no explanation why it worked or why it stopped working. It's just pure chance. Do the models that WE use now work by chance too?
– siamii
""something affecting the coin changed". Why?" Because that's the reasonable assumption if you see such a behaviour. Remember, the presumption was that the people observing the coin do not know from somewhere else that the coin is indeed fair. "Do the models that WE use now work by chance too?" We never can exclude that possibility. But it is extremeyly unlikely, just as the scenario that you constructed (a fair coin giving only heads in millions of years, then giving 1000 tails in a row) is extremely unlikely. It is much more likely in that case that there's something that determined …
– celtschk
that behaviour (and indeed, there is: It was you who determined it, to provide an example :-)). Nothing about the world is ever 100% certain. But if something is sufficiently unlikely given the evidence, it is reasonable to act as if it wasn't possible.
There are very few things beyond mathematics that involve certainty statements. Even most physics, which many would likely consider the next best thing wrt "purity" is based on numerous observations that are accounted for, warranting the formulation of a hypothesis, after which this hypothesis is tested repeatedly (e.g. by making predictions based on the assumed truth of the hypothesis, and then verifying these predictions).
This is nothing but the scientific method.
Statistics is just a tool (pardon me, Mr Fischer and so many other good folk) that will help you make less errors, or at the least to some extent inform you of how likely it is you've made an error. Not, and to my knowledge never (but I will welcome any nontrivial counterexample), will it lead to absolute truths. Statistics is exactly (in my vision) about deciding how big you will allow your error margin to be (note that setting the heads probability to 1 implies that you are exactly sure of this value). Making the wrong kind of conclusions, but informedly so, is embedded in statistics. Making the wrong kind of conclusion, but wrongly so (turning a high likelihood into an absolute certainty) is human error (or at best, a computational artifact), and doesn't make statistics unuseful or incorrect, just abused.
Did I just write a poem on statistics?
Nick SabbeNick Sabbe
Statistics, in common with most if not all mathematical tools, is a means of constructing models. Any one statistical model is in fact a scientific theory, which makes predictions.
The predictions of statistics are less ironclad, harder to falsify than deterministic models, for exactly the reason you describe. But just because an event is supposed to happen with some tiny non-zero probability, does not mean we should simply shrug when it occurs, just because it's possible. If an event which is meant to have probability 10-100 per year occurs, this is a hint that the model which assigned that probability is (probably) wrong. Sure, that rare event could happen, but it also could happen that we are mistaken, and we are much more often mistaken than once every 10100 years.
In the end, as with any model, a statistical model is only worthwhile to the extent that it is useful. If it does not predict frequencies to within "reasonable" tolerances, it is not likely to be useful. If you have stronger requirements for small tolerances than statistics can provide, that just means you need a model which is not statistical; though perhaps, if you're lucky, such a model might exist.
Does every statistical model make predictions? Can't statistics be just about the past as well? Or how do you justify this claim? I would like it to be true :)
– Kriss
@Kriss: To the extent that what you have is a model, rather than just a list of measured facts that happened at some point, what you have is a claim to knowledge of regularity: that if the same situation were to hold again as what was described by the model, that the probabilities and correlations described by the model would continue to hold true, and were not simply accidents when they occurred in the past.
I know this is an unlikely event happening, but the point is that it could happen.
If the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, then this does happen!
Is all of statistics flawed by the survivorship bias? How can we take statistics seriously? Or is statistics rather about trying random things out, and if it works we're happy until it stops working?
I suggest viewing all math as modeling a possible world. In your hypothetical scenario, one cannot use a static probability to back the coin. Interestingly enough, your hypothetical is virtually identical to a hypothetical discussed in the history of the philosophy of science:
Consider the physical law that F = ma up until 1916, after which General Relativity holds.
There is nothing wrong with this statement, logically. But we greatly dislike discontinuities like this, because they make it hard if not impossible to understand the past. So we do our best to work under the assumption that no fundamental physical laws take this form. This being said, it is possible that fundamental physical constants could change slightly from one part of space to another—perhaps in a continuous fashion. This, we are more likely to be able to understand.
I wonder if you're really asking: Why does reality seem to be rationally understandable?
My claim is that if statistics didn't describe our actual world, that it would not likely be rationally understandable. This has hints of the anthropic principle, given that if the universe weren't rationally understandable, we wouldn't be observing that fact. So, I would suggest a reformulation that is probably too broad for Philosophy.SE: What makes a possible world comprehensible to a mind? It could turn out that only comprehensible worlds can contain minds—that you simply cannot construct a mind within an incomprehensible world. At the very least, you'd have to provide an "island of comprehensibility" where the mind would dwell—probably unsatisfactorily.
Therefore, I say that statistics probably (heh) works necessarily, because you are asking. (!)
labreuerlabreuer
right... i should have read your reply before answering straight to "why reality is rationally understandable" :)
– silkfire
Statistics works within the constraints of the distribution of the underlying population and the information that can be derived and or inferred from it. Mathematics is an abstract logical process. Statistics is primarily concerned with the empirical application of logical relationships. This means that Mathematics lends itself to formal logical tests and Statistics is best suited to Empirical Science both of which are required for the investigations that are deemed to be scientific.
Michael ParkerMichael Parker
In the case of the coin one would discuss the probability of chains occuring and the probability of an individual coin toss seperately as they are two different questions which you shouldn't conflate - experiment and hypothesis design is vital in statistics as you need to understand exactly what you're measuring.
Fundamentally, statistics (since it works on observations) is a question of induction - there are a priori rules, but the application is typically based on the data you to have hand. At this point you could say you are Russell's Inductive Chicken and take a grim view of things but being able to allow for doubt is fundamentally what statistics is about - it is prediction not fact assertion. Induction is a favourite topic of mine, and I can highly recommend reading some 'classic' works on it - Russell and Hume
Steph LockeSteph Locke
Statistics is the formal mathematical apparatus encoding the idea of the necessary, the probable, rare and impossible; plus all the possibilities in between.
But note that not all possibilities can be thus encoded. For example, an alien spaceship orbiting Mars is significantly more probable than a Victorian era teapot orbiting Jupiter.
Mozibur UllahMozibur Ullah
I'm not really sure what you mean by your second paragraph (e.g. how the two sentences relate to each other).
Are you saying that its not significantly more probable that an alien spaceship is orbiting Mars than a Victorian era teapot - and we can't quantify the probabilities of each?
– Mozibur Ullah
You wrote "not all possibilities can be thus encoded". What does it mean to encode a probability? Aside from the difficulty of discovering the probability of these two (or distinguishing them), I do not see why there is any theoretical problem with these events.
Maybe I should say assign? I just mean p=0.01 or p=0.1 etc. I don't think that the probabilities are discoverable, but I can distinguish them, and assert that one is less than the other. There is no problem with understanding what these two events are or what they mean. The theoretical problem here is whether there are quantifiable probabilities that can be assigned. You admit as much by saying 'the difficulty of discovering' them. It appears that you're saying that there are probabilities to these two events we just don't know them. Whereas I'm saying they're not there to be discovered.
So what you're claiming is that probabilities are objectively real phenomena (as opposed to a part of the mathematical models we use to describe phenomena), except that in the case of Jovian Victorian teapots and Martian extrasolar UFOs, the probabilities don't actually exist? I would sooner say that these are phenomena which, to the best of our knowledge, have probability not practically distinguishable from zero, but in principle positive (essentially infinitesimal for the teapot, and simply quite small for the UFO, but no evidence to support a non-zero lower bound in either case).
We can never absolutly define something as true or false since everything is based on previous assumptions which so far can't be disproven as true.
That being said statistics is built on the supposition that the universe isn't just a huge pattern-free coincidence. If it was, then everything explained by statistics would be false and there would be no way for us to know it.
Note: This is my first post on the philosophy site, and english isn't my first lenguage. Please don't kill me.
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The short answer -- no reason. There is no -- and never will be -- a rational explanation of why things don't happen at random.
However, one must have faith.
One must believe that while things don't necessarily happen for a reason,1 there must be, nevertheless, a reason why things happen.2 In other words, one must believe that everything must have had caused by some past event(s) -- if only for one's own existence3 to make any sense at all.
I elaborated on the last point elsewhere, but in short, To Be is to Do, and we must believe that things do not happen at random in order to have any freedom whatsoever, the freedom to do anything at all.
1 "for a reason" as in "leading to some specific outcome"
2 "Through it ["it" as "ὁ Λόγος(Lógos)", "the Reason", also known in those days as "the Divine Spirit", of which every human would get their own personal copy, known in those days as "a human Soul"] all things were made; without it nothing was made that has been [ever] made." -- John 1:3
(not trying to promote Christian (or Hindu, or any other) faith in particular, but merely pointing out that the above is by no means a novel concept)
3 ... and we ourselves do exist -- in fact, our own existence is the only fact we know for sure, a premise otherwise known as "Cartesian doubt"
silkfiresilkfire
I do not see any substantial point or argument about statistics, probability, and prediction here, only zealotry. You do not have to have faith to understand how statistical analysis and prediction works (either it is not the case within certain bounds of uncertainty - alpha-error - that the null hypothesis is false or it is within reasonable certainty false that the null hypothesis is true) and that it works in practice. For all we observe, most events are randomly distributed.
– Philip Klöcking ♦
@Philip Klöcking "For all we observe, most events are randomly distributed" -- like things falling up or down at random? for all you observe?
Come on, you can do better than that. Since "a thing falling up" is oxymoronic and not an event proper since it literally never happens, this attempt of ridicule is poorly chosen.
The first week of April in Berlin being warmer than the last week of February?
Firstly, statistics is about observed events, not events observable according to some thought experiment. Secondly, hasn't been the case in 2003.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC) denounced the introduction of House Joint Resolution 124 today, which would cut the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF) by $6.35 billion over ten years and zero it out entirely for fiscal year 2018.
Importantly, this bill finally provides an additional five years of funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), integral to the health of millions of children across the country. However, in so doing, the U.S. House is poised to use the PPHF as an offset for those costs. The fund currently makes up 12% of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's budget and is a major source of funding for health and prevention activities in local communities and states.
BCHC is a forum for the leaders of America's largest metropolitan health departments to exchange strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of their residents. Collectively, BCHC member jurisdictions directly impact more than 55 million people, or one in six Americans.
"Cutting the Prevention and Public Health Fund would create real setbacks for those on the front lines of protecting American's health, in particular, those addressing ongoing hepatitis A outbreaks and the opioid epidemic. This funding supports those who track and fight infectious diseases, provides for important immunizations, and works to prevent lead poisoning in children," said Chrissie Juliano, Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition.
"We are hopeful the House will refrain from 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' yet again, and urge the Senate to protect this important funding stream for local health departments, whose budgets are already severely strained. It's simply a false choice to say that local health departments must be pitted against community health centers and the Children's Health Insurance Program, which are also vital to families' health. We can and must do better to protect the health of all Americans."
In addition to providing important funding for both Community Health Centers and CHIP, the bill would also fund the Department of Defense through fiscal year 2018 and all other government agencies through January 19, 2018, via a continuing resolution.


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Perfeqpets Keep it Local as they care for pets
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Perfeq Pets, Sutton, Shop Local, owner Linda Hams, with some of her dogs
LINDA Hams thinks she has one of the best jobs in the world - as the owner of Perfeqpets she spends hours walking around the local countryside with a variety of dogs which she cares for while their owners are at work or away.
"We have a brilliant time," says Linda. "I sometimes walk up to six dogs at a time, I put together dogs that really get on well, so they can play together. But or course I also offer single dog walking for dogs that prefer to be on their own.
"I walk dogs for up to an hour, when their owners are away, at work, or not well enough to give them a really good run."
Linda, Dip CABC, has been training and working with animals for more than 20 years, and she is a qualified animal behaviour counsellor.
She is keen to support the Ely Standard's Keep It Local campaign, and says it is her local knowledge that means she can offer a good service to clients.
"I am currently preparing to put our walking routes on our web site," said Linda, "owners often ask me about where to walk, I know the area well and can always find a suitable walk."
Perfeqpets is prepared to look after any sort of pet. "I am looking after 24 alpacas next year; and I occasionally look after a corn snake and a fire lizard. I even have a new client who has a room full of reptiles."
Linda has two members of staff at Perfeqpets, and between them they offer day care for dogs, dog walking, cat sitting, small animal visits, horse care, and they can even look after animals on small holdings.
Linda added: "I now offer some private behavioural dog training."
The owner of Ned the lurcher, Linda also has two horses and in the past has represented Great Britain in the world Equestrian Games.


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Former educators charged over fatal hike in flooded riverbed
Ex-director and counselor of Bnei Zion academy accused of ignoring repeated weather warnings and refusing to cancel trip during flash flood season, resulting in deaths of 10 teens
By TOI staff	28 October 2019, 5:22 pm 1 Edit
Rescue forces near the scene where 10 young Israelis were swept to their deaths in flash floods in the Tzafit riverbed, near the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)
Two former employees of a pre-military academy who organized a desert hike last year in which 10 teenagers were swept to their deaths by a flash flood were charged Monday over their deaths.
Bnei Zion academy's ex-director Yuval Kahan and ex-counselor Aviv Bardichev were charged in Beersheba District Court with 10 counts each of negligent homicide, which carries a penalty of up to 12 years in prison per count.
Prosecutors also charged the former administrators with causing grievous bodily harm for their role in organizing the ill-advised hike to the Tzafit stream in April 2018.
Both were charged with homicide, despite a police recommendation that Kahan be charged with the lesser crime of manslaughter because he received a less specific weather warning than Bardichev ahead of the trip.
In the indictment, prosecutors said the defendants' "recklessness" and refusal to take precautions caused the deaths of the 10 high school seniors and the injury of two others.
Volunteers from the ZAKA emergency response service transport the bodies of Israeli teenagers killed in a flash flood near the Dead Sea on April 26, 2018. (ZAKA)
According to the charge sheet, Bnei Zion administrators last April insisted on taking a group of 25 students on a hike near the Dead Sea, despite receiving numerous warnings about the severe weather.
Yuval Kahan. (Courtesy: Bnei Zion pre-military academy)
Bardichev is alleged to have changed the route of the trip from the Tze'elim stream to the Tzafit stream despite being warned by a weather forecasting company not to travel in the area due to expected flooding.
Kahan, meanwhile, allegedly knew about the route change but chose to trust Bardichev's judgment, and ignored warnings of heavy rains and severe weather conditions.
In a WhatsApp message ahead of the trip, they assured participants that there was nothing to worry about.
The students were caught in the flooding while hiking in the Tzafit stream, a popular hiking trail along a seasonal riverbed in the southern Dead Sea area.
A composite photo of victims of a flash flood in southern Israel on April 27, 2018. Ilan Bar Shalom (TL), Shani Shamir (TC), Agam Levy (TR), Romi Cohen (ML), Tzur Alfi (MC), Ella Or (MR), Gali Balali (BL), Maayan Barhum (BC), Yael Sadan (BR) (Facebook/courtesy)
Nine teenage girls and one boy were killed when a massive flood swept through the narrow canyon: Shani Shamir, Ella Or, Maayan Barhum, Yael Sadan, Tzur Alfi, Agam Levy, Romi Cohen, Gali Balali, Adi Raanan and Ilan Bar Shalom.
After the indictment was handed down Monday, parents of the teens expressed relief the educators were being charged.
"This is a difficult day — perhaps one of the most difficult — but it is comforting to know that the more serious charges were filed, and neither of them is getting off easy," Ella Or's father Itzik told Hebrew-language media outlets.
"I just hope that the court deals with them fairly during the trial and during sentencing, because this is a tragedy that should have never happened," he said.
Other parents called for an independent commission be set up to investigate the incident and monitor oversight at premilitary academies.
Friends and family mourn near the fresh grave of Ella Or during her funeral in Mishor Adumim on April 27, 2018. Or was one of 10 Israeli teens killed in a flash flood on April 26, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
"We want to change the oversight at the Education and Defense ministries," Romi Cohen's father Ofer said. "The state needs to make this a national priority."
"We have no choice but to accept this indictment as is, and even if the judges hand down the harshest punishment and they go to jail to 10-12 years, that won't placate us," Cohen said.
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Rimšēvičs case: European court says he can return to work
The Court of Justice of the European Union said February 26 it was annulling the decision made by the Latvian authorities to suspend central bank governor Ilmārs Rimšēvičs from his position pending an investigation into allegations he solicited large bribes from banks.
"Latvia has not adduced evidence of the serious misconduct imputed to the governor of its central bank," the court said, and consequently "The Court therefore annuls the decision at issue in so far as it prohibits Mr Rimšēvičs from performing his duties as Governor of the Central Bank of Latvia."
The Latvian central bank chief is also Latvia's official representative on the board of the European Central Bank.
On 19 February 2018, the Korupcijas novēršanas un apkarošanas birojs (Corruption prevention and combatting bureau or KNAB) adopted several measures against Rimšēvičs, Governor of Latvijas Banka (the Central Bank of Latvia), including a prohibition on performing his duties, an obligation to pay a surety and a prohibition on leaving the country without prior authorization while a preliminary criminal investigation concerning acts of bribery and corruption continued.
The court ruling does not concern whether or not Rimšēvičs is guilty or innocent of the bribery charges - merely whether the Latvian authorities were right to suspend him from his job based on the evidence available. And, setting aside some fairly complex legal considerations of precedent that were mulled by the court, it was in this sphere of available evidence that Latvia was found to be lacking.
"Mr Rimšēvičs has maintained before the Court that he has not committed any of the offences of which he is accused and that, like the ECB, he considers that Latvia has not adduced the slightest evidence of those offences. The Court notes that, during the written procedure before it, Latvia did not provide any prima facie evidence of the accusations of bribery which were the basis for the adoption of the decision at issue. In addition, at the hearing, the President of the Court requested the representatives of Latvia to communicate to the Court, within a short period, the documents supporting the decision at issue," the ruling states.
"However, none of the documents produced by Latvia following the hearing contains any evidence capable of establishing the existence of sufficient indications as regards whether the accusations made against Mr Rimšēvičs are well founded. Consequently, the Court holds that Latvia has not established that the relieving of Mr Rimšēvičs from office is based on the existence of sufficient indications that he has engaged in serious misconduct," it adds.
The full ruling is available to read online.
Meanwhile the case against Rimšēvičs continues in Latvia, though it has yet to come to trial. It is now more than a year since the central bank chief was detained by KNAB anti-graft officers and extraordinary accusations began to fly between Rimšēvičs and representatives of Latvia's banks. He maintains his innocence.
Asked abut the ruling after a government meeting, Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš said that he had no problem with the rulings of the European court, but he was concerned that the process in Latvia of getting a senior state official such as Rimšēvičs to court to discover his guilt or innocence had already taken more than a year.
"How can it be that such a legal process can take more than 12 months?" he told journalists, suggesting an increase in the pace of legal procedure would be a general benefit to the country.
Justice Minister Jānis Bordāns took a similar line at a later press briefing saying "we need to look at our system" and the traditions of Latvian jurisprudence - positive and negative - to see if improvements could be made to ensure better alignment with European norms. He also urged journalists to "take a wider view" of the issue rather than seeking to blame any particular individual for the ruling against Latvia.
Prosecutor General Eriks Kalnmeiers railed against journalists' suggestions that he might be culpable for a legal error more strongly, saying "This is not like a detective novel" and insisting that he had not yet had enough time to perform a full analysis of the legal documents issued by the court.
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Katie Bulger picked up the decisive win at No. 3 singles to lift the Tam High girls tennis team to its first win against Dougherty Valley, 4-3 in the North Coast Section Division I playoffs on Thursday.
The No. 5 Red-tailed Hawks pulled off the upset and await the winner between No. 1 Miramonte and No. 9 Berkeley. That match was smoked out and the teams will attempt to play it on Friday.
The D-I finals are tentatively set to take place on Saturday and Santa Rosa High.
Tam (24-4) also got victories from Camilla Tarpey-Schwed and Jamilah Karah at Nos. 1 and 2 singles, respectively and got a crucial win from Annelie Miller and Genevieve Durham at No. 1 doubles.
No. 8 seed Marin Academy fell behind 4-0 against top-seeded Piedmont and the match was discontinued at that point due to concerns about air quality.
Lily Thomson was leading her match in the third set at No. 4 singles for MC (9-8) when play was stopped. Sophie Hyman and Kenya Mahone dropped the first set at No. 1 doubles but were leading in the second set when their match was stopped.
Three Dominican soccer players were named to Pacific West all-conference teams on Thursday. One the women's side, senior forward Michelle Li was placed on the second team while junior goalkeeper Alyssa Ramos was placed on the third team. Senior forward Wilson Briggs followed up his record-setting season on the men's side with his addition to the all-PacWest third team.
Li tied a D-II era Dominican record with seven goals on the season. She added two assists to rank fourth in the conference in both goals and points. In D-II era records, Li leads the Penguins in career goals per game (.34) and is fifth in career points (34).
Ramos finished the season with 72 saves and a 1.08 goals against average. She recorded six shutouts on the season, third most in the PacWest.
Briggs scored a D-II era high 15 goals and 31 points for the Penguins, good for third and fifth in the conference, respectively.
The 2018 Tiburon Mile, the 17th edition of the open water race, will be televised on NBC Bay Area five times this month, with live footage of the race including the finish of the winners — Olympic champion Ferry Weertman and Ashley Twichell, a world champion — as well as interviews. The production will be on TV Nov. 17 (11 p.m.), Nov. 18 (4 p.m.), Nov. 23 (3:30 p.m.), Nov. 27 (11:30 p.m.), and Nov. 29 (7 p.m.).


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Le prix Vauban est un prix décerné par l'association des auditeurs et participants de l'IHEDN (Institut des hautes études de Défense nationale) depuis 1973. Il est attribué chaque année pour récompenser une œuvre, littéraire ou autre, ayant contribué à la promotion, à l'illustration ou au développement de la Défense, notamment dans les domaines militaire, économique, scientifique, diplomatique ou politique.

Les lauréats
 Jean-François Deniau pour l'ensemble de son œuvre
 Patrice Gélinet pour Le Grand Débat et l'ensemble de son œuvre
 Pierre Papon pour son ouvrage Le sixième continent - géopolitique des océans
 Pierre Schoendoerffer pour l'ensemble de son œuvre littéraire et cinématographique
 Emmanuel Hublot pour Valmy, ou la défense de la Nation par les armes.
 l'Établissement cinématographique des armées (ECPAD) pour l'œuvre audiovisuelle sur l'action des gendarmes au Kosovo Des bleus au Kosovo (2001)
 Emmanuel de Richoufftz, pour son ouvrage Pour qui meurt-on ? (2000)
 Jean Delaunay (Général), pour La foudre et le cancer : face à l'atome et à la subversion la guerre se gagne en temps de paix
 Vincent Desportes pour Comprendre la guerre
 Le service de santé des armées pour le musée aménagé au Val de Grâce
 Gérard Chaliand pour l'ensemble de son œuvre (2009)
 Bruno Tertrais pour l'ensemble de son œuvre (2010)
 Philippe Wodka-Gallien - Institut français d'analyse stratégique (2015) pour son livre Essai Nucléaire - La force de frappe française au  : défis, ambitions et stratégie.

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A new era begins for Tamron as the company famous for its zooms moves into the premium fixed-focal-length lens market. Damien Demolder tests the first, a 45mm fast standard.
We have it in our heads that 50mm is the standard focal length for 35mm format, and it has been for years. The rule is that the length of the diagonal of the frame, of film or sensor, is the focal length with the 'normal' angle of view, and that's what makes our standard focal length. If you have a ruler it'll take you a minute at most to work out that the diagonal of the 35mm frame, and that of a full-frame sensor, is just over 43mm.
So why do we use 50mm as a standard? Well, it doesn't really matter, but the maths does explain why Tamron is touting this unusual focal length as a standard for full-frame users. The company isn't the first, either, as Pentax offers a rather nice 43mm f/1.9, and has done for some time. What makes the Tamron example special, in my eyes at least, is that it's a bit faster than the Pentax and, more importantly, it's a fixed-focal-length lens from a company that has been obsessed with producing zooms for as long as I can remember.
In my youth the Tamron 90mm macro was legendary and it has remained a firm favourite ever since in all its modern incarnations. But the company seemed not to be interested in considering other focal lengths for fixed lenses, preferring to build more and more zooms for the mass market. The change came with the new f/2.8 zooms – the 24-70mm first, followed by the 70-200mm and 15-30mm. These lenses – priced highly and performing accordingly – marked a step change in quality for the company with new designs, new stabilisation and new drive motors, as well as the intention of reaching a new market. I've badgered Tamron myself about fixed focal lengths, as Sigma has gone from strength to strength with its premium optics, and finally it seems the plunge has been taken.
Now two new fixed focal lengths have emerged, the Tamron SP 45mm f/1.8 Di VC USD and the 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD, both of which feature vibration control, an Ultra Silent Drive motor and unusually close minimum focusing distances.
The Tamron SP 45mm f/1.8 Di VC USD uses ten elements in eight groups in its construction, including one low-dispersion element and two moulded-glass aspherics. These are designed to reduce chromatic aberrations and to ensure square objects arrive looking square at the sensor. When used on a full-frame camera we benefit from a 51˚ angle of view, while APS-C sensor cameras will get just 34˚ of the coverage, which will deliver a similar impression to that of a 68mm lens on a full-frame system. With an f/1.8 maximum aperture Tamron can boast that its lens is slightly faster than Pentax's 43mm lens, but it's only just as fast as the average 50mm standard lens, and not as fast as the premium f/1.4 and f/1.2 models that already exist.
Special features that make this lens more remarkable include its nine-bladed iris, which should help to maintain a rounded entrance hole as the aperture is closed down, and a closest focusing distance of 29cm. Canon and Nikon standard lenses use either seven or eight blades in their apertures, and tend to have closest focus distances of 35-45cm. While more aperture blades in an iris is no guarantee of more attractive highlights, I've found it is a significant indicator and really helps when the lens is closed only a stop or two from the maximum setting – which is where the prominence of out-of-focus highlights will be strongest.
Traditionally, image-stabilisation systems have been reserved for longer focal lengths, with the requirement to maintain a steady image more obvious with that greater magnification. Tamron's inclusion of its VC (vibration compensation) system in this short focal length is not to compensate so much for the magnification of the lens, as to allow handheld photography in lower-light conditions without the need to increase noise through higher ISO settings. And that is genuinely useful.
Tamron's answer to Nikon's Silent Wave Motor, Canon's Ultra Sonic Motor and Sigma's Hyper Sonic Motor is its Ultrasonic Silent Drive motor (USD). This, in common with other such systems, aims to shift the focusing elements of the lens quickly and silently so focus can be achieved as fast as possible.


5830's, what mh/s are you getting?
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Re: 5830's, what mh/s are you getting?
Lowered my clock to 958mhz and I went from 304mh/s to 307mh/s.
Small increase but an increase nevertheless.
I got one of those "Xtreme" edition Sapphire 5830s from NewEgg (one of the $109.99 dealies). I think in order for them to be "Xtreme" they have to have really good quality cores to handle the slightly higher clock rate. As a corollary this means they can be pushed to slightly higher OC levels as well. At least I *think* that's what "Xtreme" means. Or it could just all be marketing hype.
I wouldn't go for the Sapphire Xtreme (again)... I have one, and my ASUS DirectCU can clock MUCH better, and stay much cooler than the Sapphire Xtreme.
Also, the ASUS has a much quieter fan than the Sapphire to the point where I'm not exaggerating when I say that my brand new Sapphire is twice as loud as my 10 month old ASUS.
And no, the heat isn't because it's above the ASUS because I swapped them and was getting the same high temps.
Edit: Oh yeah, what Xtoro said too. I'm using AMD GPU Clock Tool to set the MHz, and it automatically pegs the voltage at 1.025 or something like that. I have no control over the voltage with that tool.
Try using TRIXX, works for me on both cards quite well.
I'm currently running 990/300 with 1163mV (stock) and getting 316mh/s.
Still need to modify the kernel to get a few more out of it but I'm going to guess at this point I'll hit 320mh/s no problem and may even be able to go higher.
331Mh/s @ 1025mhz GPU, 360mhz mem, 1180 voltage. Make sure your phatk kernel is up to date because each update made to phatk adds a significant performance boost to your hash rate!
Good luck, and also be careful! Those sound an awful lot like famous last words!
Yea I will I think the highest any one posted was 345 back in july. That was 1080 mhz / 380. I bet you could easily get 350 now if you tried but I definitely wouldn't keep it that high for an extended period.
I'm at 1040/300 and getting 330mh/s. I can still do a few kernel upgrades and I think I can keep increasing the freq.


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FYI Miami: February 1, 2018
Written by Miami Today on January 30, 2018
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FULL TRANSIT REPORT: Miami-Dade commissioners last week directed Mayor Carlos Giménez's office to examine the transit needs within all unincorporated areas of the county. Many incorporated cities supplement the county's transit services with cheaper circulator buses, helping residents connect to county-run transportation. Unincorporated areas rely exclusively on the transit services that the county provides. Commissioner Barbara Jordan's legislation initially only included her District 1, but was expanded to include all unincorporated areas. Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava said she is excited about the study. "I look forward to collaborating with everyone on any and all last- and first-mile opportunities."
GAS TAX TO FUND TRANSIT: While discussing Commissioner Esteban Bovo Jr.'s plan to use Tax Increment Financing to help fund the SMART transportation corridors plan at the Chairman's Policy Council in January, Commissioner Dennis Moss said he would be bringing forward a gas tax for approval. Mr. Moss said "some cities have implemented the additional two pennies for decades now, and in some cases their gas prices are lower than ours." Both Broward and Palm Beach counties have taken advantage of the gas tax, he said, and "a discussion needs to be had because it creates the opportunity for another tool to help fully fund the SMART plan."
ANOTHER TRAUMA CENTER?: A Florida House panel on Monday unanimously approved a bill that would clear a way for Kendall Regional Medical Center to operate a pediatric trauma center by allowing more trauma centers in Miami-Dade and Orlando. The bill would allow the Department of Health to grant seven trauma-center designations now being litigated or contested. Regulation of trauma centers in Florida is governed by laws regulating hospitals as well as rules by the Department of Health. Current law caps trauma centers at 44. The bill would eliminate the cap and define need based on population. The bill would allow a minimum of four trauma centers where population is greater than 2.5 million.
OLD COURTHOUSE PRESERVATION: Come September, Miami-Dade County's Internal Services Department is to present proposals to commissioners on how to move forward with the old courthouse, which is to be reconstructed. At the Chairman's Policy Council, Internal Services Director Tara Smith said the county will be looking for proposals on what to do with the old courthouse, gearing the process toward the historic preservation community: "It's a special building and we expect significant interest."
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The abundance of mountain ranges and the wide stretch of water bodies on all its three sides form numerous tourist destinations. For other caves that are off the beaten track, you may want to contact SAGGAS prior to your arrival to Sagada so you can arrange transport, and be properly advised about the requirements and the road conditions beforehand, as landslides can be fairly common especially during the rainy season.
Sagada was what Baguio City was years ago, and unlike the latter, has a more laidback, quieter, and slower pace of lifestyle with the culture which is steeped in metaphor relatively intact among its Kankanaey populace.
The "Hippie trail" of the 60s and 70s saw thousands of young westerners travelling through the Middle East to India and Nepal. The gaps in accessibility to these transport systems were steadily closing in the later 19th century, while the empire of steam was becoming global.
The traditional attire is usually worn during the Begnas, a festival celebrating the different agricultural cycles, weddings and other important occasions.
Healthy corporate travel demand: It may also be referred to as "draining" when exploring drains "urban spelunking", "urban caving", or "building hacking". Ecotourism Ecotourism is now defined as "responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, and involves interpretation and education".
Here, you would encounter very friendly kids who would pester you in a good, charming way to have their photos taken — however, like everywhere in Sagada — one must request permission from the locals if you want to take a photograph of them some decline for superstitious reasons.
In summer, when the subcontinent is sizzling, there are spectacular retreats amidst the heady beauty of the Himalayas or the lush heights of the Western Ghats with cool trekking trails, tall peaks to conqueror stretches of white water for the adventure seekers.
In international tourism, globalization has not been a one-way process; it has entailed negotiation between hosts and guests. Sun protection and sunglasses. The aristocratic grand tour of cultural sites in FranceGermanyand especially Italy—including those associated with Classical Roman tourism—had its roots in the 16th century.
In this context, travel has a similar definition to tourism, but implies a more purposeful journey. Sneak out from the tourist traffic and head out to the Marlboro country. The museum collection which sits on the second-floor of a building near the town centre is owned by the kind Mrs.
Cultural tourism Cultural tourism is the act of travelling to a place to see that location's cultureincluding the lifestyle of the people in that area, the history of those people, their artarchitecturereligionsand other factors that shaped their way of life.
Beginning in the midth century, the steamship and the railway brought greater comfort and speed and cheaper travel, in part because fewer overnight and intermediate stops were needed. Some travelers miss out on the other sites in Sagada because of the exhaustion from doing the cave connection the previous day.
By the late 19th century, steam navigation and railways were opening tourist destinations from Lapland to New Zealandand the latter opened the first dedicated national tourist office in Tourism being one of the biggest and fastest growing industries globally, its benefits and the challenges, keenly observed by governments affects the economic, socio-cultural, environmental and educational resources of nations.
The earliest package tours to the Mediterranean were by motor coach bus during the s and postwar years. The thrilling and to some, very intimidating drive to Sagada, which can be accessed either via Banawe in Ifugao or Baguio in Benguet is characterized by precision driving through a narrow highway that snakes through the mountains of the region with drops to at least two kilometers deep down into the ravines, rice terraces and lush pine jungles of the Cordilleras.
According to the Glossary of Tourism Terms, jungle tours have become a major component of green tourism in tropical destinations and are a relatively recent phenomenon of Western international tourism.
For most people, Sagada is known for its traditional way of burying the dead — either by stacking the coffins at the opening of a cave like in Lumiang, or by hanging them precipitously from cliffs. After World War IIgovernments became interested in tourism as an invisible import and as a tool of diplomacybut prior to this time international travel agencies took the lead in easing the complexities of tourist journeys.
Not just in Rio de Janeiro have beaches become carnivalesque spaces where the world has been temporarily turned upside down. Best Time to Visit The best time to go to Sagada is during the dry season as landslides can be fairly common during the rainy season.
Sagada is known mostly for its natural attractions- and for a little town, there is plenty to do for the intrepid adventurer.
Beach holidays built on widespread older uses of the beach for health, enjoyment, and religious rites, but it was the British who formalized and commercialized them.
If you are going for cultural kitsch, malls, or fastfood chains, Sagada is not for you. Instead the lighting of candles like in most places in the Philippines, the hill on which the local cemetery is located suddenly glows as locals light little bonfires near the graves of their love ones whom they believe would come and visit them during this time of the year.
That points to more income and more confidence to spend it. Guides from outside Sagada are not allowed, and this is mainly for the protection of the visitors. Rates for guides are the same throughout Sagada and the Municipal Government enforces this.
Spending on recreation, travel, and eating out is up, while spending on many durable goods and staples like clothing is down. Coastal resorts could also be dangerous and challenging.
Driving for 12 hours in treacherous conditions is not an easy thing to do and a comfortable place of rest is very important for the safety of everyone.
Why Not Go Being virtually landlocked, Sagada does not have white sand beaches like the rest of the country. Definitely off-season is the best time to go to avoid the throngs of people who are now ever-increasing.
Modern tourism is an increasingly intensive, commercially organized, business-oriented set of activities whose roots can be found in the industrial and postindustrial West.Travel Articles.
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The country of Honduras is brimming with clear turquoise waters, pristine beaches, lush jungles, breathtaking mountains, and challenging rivers. Tourism: Tourism, the act and process of spending time away from home in pursuit of recreation, relaxation, and pleasure, while making use of the commercial provision of services.
It is a product of modern social arrangements, beginning in western Europe in the 17th century, although it has antecedents in Classical antiquity.
Find in-depth travel and tourism articles written by the world's most experienced team of travel journalists. Adventure travel is a type of niche tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion.
In the United States, adventure tourism has grown in recent decades as tourists seek out-of-the-ordinary or "roads less traveled" vacations, but lack of a clear operational definition has hampered measurement.


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The play is set in 1971, a turbulent time in Australia's social history. A young policeman's first day on duty becomes a violent and highly charged initiation into law enforcement, as the rookie cop becomes involved in a case of suspected domestic violence.
Remarkable for its blend of boisterous humour and horrifying violence, the play has acquired a reputation as a classic statement on Australian authoritarianism and is a key work in the study of Australian drama.
Read Van Badham's response to The Removalists in The Unexpected Feminist, a free essay from Currency Press.


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Rooftop Cocktail Bar Pinky's Debuts in Royal Oak With Boozy Popsicles
The super pink restaurant is serving a 3-foot-tall wig made of cotton candy
by Brenna Houck Apr 22, 2019, 5:03pm EDT
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A new, rose-colored cocktail bar Pinky's opened over the weekend in downtown Royal Oak. The bar and restaurant is situated in the former Red Fox Rooftop space above sister restaurant Diamonds Steak & Seafood at 100 S. Main Street.
Pinky's gets its name from a former Detroit restaurant and speakeasy called Pinky's Boulevard Club that was once located near Belle Isle, per a release. The 4,336-square-foot space seats 83 people with 44 seats outside and a 27-seat, year-round patio dining area. The new drinking spot was renovated with help from Ron Rea of Ron and Roman architecture and features an extremely pink, garden-themed look.
Pinky's menu, developed by owner Adam Merkel and culinary director Craig Myrand, includes options like black truffle ramen, short rib wonton tacos, and ricotta gnocchi. For dessert, there's an Instagram baiting statue featuring a 3-foot-tall pink cotton candy wig called the Beauty School Dropout. Novelty drinks are also showcased on the cocktail menu where customers can order a $14 Pinky's ice pop — a glass of sparkling wine garnished with a boozy popsicle.
The lounge is currently open for limited hours, but it's expected to extend hours and add brunch beginning Saturday, May 4. Take a peek at the menu below.
Pinky's is located at 100 S. Main St. on the second floor; open 5 p.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday and 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday; hours will expand on May 4.
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The Distant Hours
A special Sophie Allport Design limited edition of The Distant Hours by Kate Morton; a heart-breaking story of love and loss with a devastating secret at its heart.
Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret.
Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Millderhurst Castle with the Blythe family.
Fifty years later, Edie too is drawn to Milderhurst and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now, the three still live together, the twins nursing Juniper, whose abandonment by her fiancé in 1941 plunged her into madness.
Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst Castle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it . . .
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The Forgotten Garden


First a little update about Scruffy.
She is doing really good. The infection is gone and Scruffy is feeling great. She runs and barks around the yard, goes on longer walks, eats and drinks well, and seems to be a totally happy dog again.
I called the vet yesterday, to cancel the surgery. We had it planned but if Scruffy would be good again, the vet rather didn't do any surgery on her for now.
I'm so glad to have my happy dog again. She has spread out cancer, so she isn't healthy. But right now she has no pain and is comfortable, which the vet and I agreed on that that would be the main thing with Scruffy. Keeping her comfortable and without pain.
When I went back to the cabin Monday, I came to the corner where I am close to my driveway entrance, and noticed one of the foxes that lives in a den on my land. It was just walking on the road, then looked at the truck, ignored it totally, went into the ditch to try to catch a mouse or something, and was completely relaxed with me being there, and even talking to him to hurry up a bit, so I could pass and drive home.
I thought this was very funny. So I made a video after I made some pictures. I had to drive very slow, as the fox wasn't in a hurry, not even with me following him on its heels, with the camera in one hand sticking out of the window. Hahaha!
Wednesday I went to Regina to pick up siding for the cabin. Sheri drove me and took her horse trailer where the long pieces would fit in.
The siding looked great. Not a bad deal for 120 dollars for siding that will cover 700 square feet.
The seller had more coming and he said he would be able to get it delivered to Yorkton for me if I was interested. I said I was interested. For that price I don't mind to get some extra to do the little shed I'm building.
Sheri and I went to do some shopping while we were in Regina. It was so nice to see the big stores with so much choice.
Sometimes we stop and have a break for a iced cappuccino and something to eat.
Going back we enjoyed a beautiful sunset. I made a picture but it isn't as clear as it was in real.
When we got back near home, driving on the grid road in the dark, we saw a couple of deer and a baby deer. They all jumped over a fence in the ditch, but the baby couldn't find a low spot to jump. It took a while, then finally it found one and hopped over to join mom and the others.
A little bit later Sheri had to stop to let a family of seven raccoons cross the road. Amazing! The last one that went into the ditch, stopped to look at us. So funny!
I took a bunch of potatoes out of the garden, dried them and put them away. Soon I will have to get everything out of the ground and prepare the gardens for winter.
I did lots of 'manure meditation' the last few days. I just spread it around, like harrowing by hand. The little pasture is almost done. Arena, small pen and the temporary grazing area are all finished.
Polly caught a little bird for me. She put it down for me and I picked it up. It was still alive so I put it high up the rain barrel that is covered and just left it there to rest and recover from the shock.
When I looked at it later, it was laying on its back. I felt sad it didn't make it. I tried to pick it up to dispose from it, when it started to flap the wings real fast and off he went! Whew! He DID make it! YAY!. I was very happy. I always tell my cats, don't catch birds. But cats are cats.
Hunter also catches birds. They even catch squirrels. But every day I have to clean up dead mice , voles and moles etc. So they also do the good work.
And here is a video where I worked again with Freya (and Flicka) on the agility curtain with clicker training of course.
It was really warm yesterday with 26 C in the afternoon, and I started with washing and scrubbing the vinyl siding. That is a lot of work. Wow. But it does look much better once cleaned. Of course it is used siding, so it won't be as shiny as new siding. But I don't care. I'm very happy with it. It will take another full water tank to wash the rest. I can't wait for it to be done and hopefully it can be put up sometime soon.
It will look so nice!
It's officially fall! Autumn is here. And it's beautiful. All leaves are changing colours, the weather gives a little night frost so now and then and the air seems to smell just different. Friday I went to the vet again with Scruffy. She is doing much better right now. The vet said to wait and see how she is doing the coming week. If she's doing good, no surgery. If bad, there will be surgery done on Monday to take out the tumour. Because of her age the vet rather don't do surgery if not needed. So I hope Scruffy keeps doing well. She's doing great on our walks again, is happy and eats and drinks well. I made a new grazing area. I got cheap step in posts and made a large grazing area, all alongside the pasture fence.Horses love it of course. My mowing machines. Hahaha. Twice this week there was around 6 pm rain, sunshine and rainbows. It was so beautiful and a joy to watch. I made a grey water system with some gutters I still had laying around. I just put the gutter on the deck going to the ground, where I dug a hole the size of a bucket, so it will fit all the water I throw out. Now I don't have to walk down the stairs to empty the bucket. Until it freezes day and night, I can use this. So handy! I rode Flicka on Saturday and Sunday. She is such a great horse. It was lots of fun. After I worked with Freya on the curtain again, and she did wonderful. Always so much fun to spend time with the horses. In the evening I was invited by Sheri to come and roast some hotdogs above the fire for supper. It was a great evening. Lots of laughs, good food and a great fire. Thanks Sheri. It was fun! Sunday morning I finished the floor insulation under the cabin. Not easy, but it went much faster then I thought. I have lots of insulation left over so I can use that for something else. Insulation is always good for something. Hahaha. I'm very happy it's done, with winter getting closer. Another task done! YAY!
Quiet Days & Fall Colours.
This week I was mostly busy with caring for Scruffy. We would only go for short walks, like letting the horses in or out the grazing area. She would throw up a lot when she drank a lot at once or when she got too excited. So I had to make sure she stayed calm, had not too much water in her bowl and fill it up all the time with tiny bits, to make sure she wouldn't slobber everything up at once. With her food she started to have trouble, like coughing. So I added a little water in her dry food. That way she got liquid plus she liked it better and eats it with no problem this way. Yesterday evening Scruffy seemed really sick again, could hardly walk, then she slept all evening and night, and was good in the morning. Just to be sure I will take her to the vet anyway. It's real up and down with her.
Paul's basketball team won 3rd place. YAY! Congrats boys!
Sunday I had a nice lunch with Carol and Keith, our organic farmer. Keith had a great tip for me. During winter, throw all grey water in a deep hole, where it can freeze and pile up into a huge block of ice. By the time it's Spring, I have a huge block of ice, where I can put food on top in buckets etc, to keep it cool. What a wonderful idea! So....the hole I dug out before to keep food cool in, I'm going to use it for dumping grey water during winter. Once it will melt, it will drain easy into the sandy soil. Thanks for a great lunch Carol. Really enjoyed it.
In the afternoon David came over for a visit. We had a chat and he gave me a really nice gazebo. So now I can enjoy time outside without being bothered by mosquitos, flies and wasps etc. It was great to see David again and catch up. Thanks David for a great visit and for the present! Very happy with it!
The weather was cooled off and with the changing of the leaf colours, it really starts to look and feel like fall. I love the fall. It's nice to lit the wood stove in the evening or early morning, heat up water and food on the stove, and when going for a walk, everything smells so nice outside. Mushrooms are popping up everywhere, so I took some pictures of course. Geese are flying over the yard all the time. I love their sound. I can just feel their excitement for their trip to the south.
Talking about trips...when I went with Sheri to Kamsack this week, we noticed a mule deer in the ditch. I could take some nice photo's. When I went to the well before I also could make some nice photo's of the D tour I had to make, because they were working on one of the roads. Sometimes D tours are the best.
The last few days were quiet stressful.
Thursday morning my dog Scruffy went with me for a short walk, to let the horses into the grazing area. She was running ahead, all happy, and when I walked back, she ran ahead again. Later that morning I put the horses back into the pasture and Scruffy went with me, but seemed slow to me. Not running ahead so fast. When I walked back, it took a while before she was back at the cabin, and looked tired. I had to go away to assist Carol with a senior afternoon with horses, so I let her in the cabin, with food and water like usual. She had a drink but didn't touched her food yet. Which is fine, she had a good breakfast.
When I came back early in the evening, Scruffy was very ill. She was all shaking, her ears were very hot to the touch, and she could hardly walk. I knew right away I had to get her to a vet. After calling and texting with Paul, Carol and Sheri, Sheri offered to bring me to a vet. ( I have troubled night vision and can not drive in the dark)We decided to go to the vet in Roblin in Manitoba. She seems to be one of the best around here so worth the one and a half hour drive. The vet checked Scruffy and her temperature was 41 C. Very high fever. She thought that Scruffy was dealing with a huge infection, maybe in the uterus and gave her 2 needles, antibiotics and pain killers. Scruffy didn't even blink. After talking it over we decided it would be better for Scruffy to stay at the clinic for the night, so the vet would be able to take X rays first thing in the morning, to see what is going on. The next morning I went to Carol to assist for a team day retreat. At 9 am I called the vet, and I was glad to hear that Scruffy was much better, and bouncing around again. But of course the infection wasn't better yet. I could pick her up just before 5 Manitoba time, which is one hour ahead of Saskatchewan. Sheri was so kind to drive me to the vet again, to pick up Scruffy. Thanks Sheri! Really very kind of you.
The vet showed me the X ray where it shows a tumour in the abdomen. Before we went into the truck again, I had a good walk with Scruffy around the clinic, and Scruffy loved that. The trip back Scruffy was resting on the back seat. She is such a great traveler. For now Scruffy stays on antibiotics and pain killers but I am going to take her back again. One of her breasts has a tumour too, and it doesn't look so good. Scruffy is licking it a lot, and it seems sore. Better to get the vet to look at it. Lets all hope for the best for dear Scruffy. I would love to have her for many more years, but I don't want her to suffer of course. So we will see what the next step will be.
Yesterday Paul came over to help me put down the last part of osb sheets on the floor in the cabin. It was a warm day, and in no time we had the pieces measured , cut, laid down and screwed. It's great to have a floor that doesn't go down halfway. We had my home made soup for lunch. Before Paul came arrived, I had the soup all ready, with lots of veggies and sausage in it this time. Thanks Paul for all your work. As always a wonderful helper.
Cat House, Horses & Frost.
Saturday evening just before it got dark, I noticed my horses running around, galloping and Flicka was bucking away. Freya stood still after a minute, but Flicka went on and on. She is one of those horses that gets hyper when something is up and it takes her a little longer to calm down again. I walked over right away to see what made them spook. Everything seemed fine though, but it got too dark to check the fence in the woods, so that had to wait until morning. As soon I was at the fence line, Flicka came galloping towards me and stopped at the fence. I petted her and talked to her, and she calmed down. Freya also walked over and she was fine. When I checked the fence in the morning, it was all fine. So maybe Flicka got stung by a wasp or bee, what can make a horse going wild of course. I didn't see any bumps though. But I was happy they were both fine. Because of rain the night before, the grass was wet and my feet were soaked when I got back from the fence check. Hahaha! Have to get boots here! But it was a really nice walk.
I put insulation around two sides of the cat house. I have a new cooler and I used the old foam ones, two inches thick, for the insulation. I cut all sides and with bottom and top, I had plenty of material to do two sides. I put the foam inside a garbage bag, and then stapled it onto the cat house. It already makes a big difference, and Taz loves it. She was inside the cat house as soon I was done. Hahaha. I will make a plastic cover in the front this week too, so the sun can still give heat, but the cold wind stays out, and it gives them a spot to sit in the sun in front of the cat house.
Monday afternoon my hoof trimmer Katelyn came to do my horses. I was very happy with their behaviour. They were very willing and Katelyn was done in no time. It is so much easier and safer for a trimmer/farrier when a horse is cooperative. Working regular with them does pay off. It was chilly outside, but when we went into the cabin, it was a toasty 26 C in there. Hahaha, I still have to get a better feel of when to stop putting wood in the stove. Even though it's a little fire, it still heats up fast in the cabin. We had a nice visit with some ice tea and a piece of apple-chocolate pie I had made in the morning.
When they left, Paul just arrived. He stayed for supper. I made a Dutch dish, called rauwe andijvie stamppot. It's raw endive mixed in with fine chopped raw onions and mashed potatoes. Served with a nice gravy and a sausage. It was SO good! The endive and potatoes came from my garden, so that makes it double tasty of course. For dessert we had apple chocolate pie too. We had a great visit, talked and laughed a lot. Paul was happy to see the dog and cats again. He misses them of course. It was a great visit. After Paul left I cleaned up but saved the dishes for the next morning. I went to bed early as I was exhausted. Hahaha.
Tuesday was well day again. It was a beautiful trip and I enjoyed the scenery. Once back I filled up my bottles and then the water bowl of the horses. Cleaned the bowl first, as it really needed a good scrub. With the water that was left, I washed the truck again. It always get dusty from the grid roads so it doesn't harm to wash it. I don't need water anymore for the gardens. I have lots in the rain barrels behind the cabin so no garbage cans to fill. Growing season is almost done anyway.
In the afternoon I picked all the Amish beans and Red Scarlet Runner beans. The coming night there would come frost so I thought it was better to get them in a box in the white shelter to dry. I also covered the melon plant that is growing so well and has 4 melons on it of a nice size. They need to grow more though, and with the beautiful weather that is coming the rest of the week, I don't want the plant to die now. I was happy I did cover it, as in the morning there was frost right on top of that tarp. My windshield was covered in ice too.
Ah, Fall. Why not wait another month? Hahahaha.
Gardens, Colouring & Grazing Area.
The seeds of the Spinach and Celery were all dried in the white shelter and I have put them in foam cups. Then changed my mind and made envelopes so it's easier to store in my plastic seed boxes. I will have lots to grow next Spring.
I also did my first vegetable harvest and made a big pan of the most delicious vegetable soup ever. I put in potatoes, parsnip, swish chard, red and purple carrots, onions, my only beet and young red scarlet runner beans. I still had tomatoes and green pepper in the cooler, and added that too. Put in lots of different herbs, pepper and salt, and yummy! In no time it was smelling SO great in the cabin. No better way to get a homey feel to the cabin as the smell of fresh vegetable soup. It tasted as wonderful as it smelled.
The melons are growing really well. Maybe with some luck I can harvest them. Soon I will have to harvest the potatoes and parsnips, and the corn too. Night frost isn't far away now we're in September.
Because it was quiet warm lately, I didn't do too much. Just relaxing once my chores were done. I did a lot of drawing and colouring mandela's. So much fun to do. Mean time I listen to my favourite music on cd's or the radio, or I listen to howling coyotes outside. On Thursday I bought a cooler. My little foam coolers started to crumble and this one is a real good one. It supposed to keep ice for 5 days and so far it still has ice in it, and now it is Saturday. It's also easier to handle then the little coolers. I can still use my underground cooler of course, for when I have no room for certain things that I don't use daily.
I also went to the well this week and everything is filled up again. It's always nice to have the bowl of the horses cleaned out again and filled up with fresh water.
Yesterday I moved the grazing area up again. There was so much grass and weeds there, a waste to leave it. Well, the horses were really excited when going in and walked all alongside the fence line and then started to graze. I let them in there for an hour, then took them back in the pasture. it is a lot of grass there, so I want them to eat it not all at once.
Last night I went to bed early and when I woke up at 4.45 am, it was still pitch black outside. Hm...I forgot how we get shorter days now. The good thing was that I could watch the beautiful sunrise while having my coffee on the deck. This morning I saw the little fox sleeping. It was so cute! I didn't go for my evening walks for a while now, because of the awful mosquitos. It was unbearable to walk during sunset. Even with spray on, I would be covered in no time. So I skipped the walks for a while, enduring the sad looks from dog and cats while they would wait for me to go. Aw, it's hard to see those hopeful faces. It's cooled off quiet a bit now, so the evening walks can hopefully be picked up again.
Funny Animals, Mushrooms & Mandela's.
Last Tuesday I was watching Dizzy playing with something, and the dog was right there, all alert and curious. I knew there must be a mouse and yes, Dizzy caught a mouse. The mouse was still alive, and when it tried to run away, Scruffy grabbed it and threw it a few times up in the air and slammed her paws on it. It was gone in no time, which was good. I don't like it how long cats take to kill something. But it was funny though. Dizzy was laying lazy in the shade, while Scruffy did her job. Hahaha! But of course, poor mouse. There are just way too many in the yard and I need to get rid of them. I asked them friendly to leave, find another place to live, but they didn't go. So yeah.....that is it then.
So I'm colouring Mandela's and it is SO much fun! I got some water paint, and it is really nice to work with that. Colouring and creating Mandela's is very peaceful and relaxing. To make my own Mandela, I use anything I can find in the cabin to draw the lines. It makes it very personal! I used my coffee can, sugar glass, small bowls or big ceramic pots etc. Amazing what a beautiful forms they give when used one after another.
Sunday I went to the well. On my way I noticed lots of crows on the road and on my way back I noticed the red tailed Hawk. I stopped the truck and got out to catch a picture. He just flew off when I clicked. It gave a nice photo. While filling up the water bowl of the horses, I noticed a huge mushroom just outside the pasture fence alongside the trees. I walked over and took pictures, and discovered more mushrooms. One is very poisonous and the other is edible. The third one I have no idea. Didn't look that one up yet. But I don't dare to gather mushrooms for edible use. I don't want to mix them up and get killed by a fungi. Hahaha! Soon I regret it that I walked over to the wood side of the fence. Wow, I was covered in mosquito's within seconds! Even with my Off spray on! I'm so happy I got a good working horse fly wipe. They don't have to suffer from the bugs and can have quiet tails while grazing or resting. Now the dragonflies are gone, the mosquito's are horrible. Also I don't see the swallows anymore or the Eastern Phoebes. They use to eat lots of those bugs. To be honest...I can't wait for the first good night frost. That will help to get rid of them.
Sunday afternoon the lumber guy came over to tell me he can't do my siding. He has no time. A terrible bummer! What to do now?? It's getting to winter already and now I have to find siding and someone to put it up. Oh dear. I need to colour another few Mandela's to get this problem solved.
I bought a second hand fire pit. It looks the same as the little BBQ I have, but this one is way bigger and instead of BBQing, I can use it as a little fire pit. I just need some concrete blocks to put it on and make a tiny patio around it. I'm always careful when it comes to fire.
I counted out that I use 110 liter of water in 5 days. That water I use for : coffee and tea, ice tea, drinking water, dog and cat water, dishes, cleaning with a damp cloth, brushing teeth two or three times a day and sponge bath each night. Not bad at all I think! I don't 'nibble ' on my use of water really much. I just be aware I don't miss-use it. Of course, my toilet bucket doesn't use water neither. That is a huge water saver right there. I did not count in laundry as I still do that in my house in town. But I suppose that would add another 20, maybe 40 liters , per week. Once my laminate is on, I will probably also wash the floors once a week, so ad another 10 liters for that. But still....all in all, not bad.
We did had some rain on Monday morning, which was great for the gardens of course. My melons need lots of water to grow faster. And they really do grow very fast! I went to Yorkton in the afternoon and asked my neighbour Sheri to come along. It was lots of fun and I got some info for siding. Still looking around more though. I did get also some more craft supplies like markers and colour pencils and good paper. So much fun to look around the art and craft section at the store. I got some 2 X 4's, a special saw for my circular saw to cut concrete with and a concrete sheet. We ate some Texan food and had a nice milkshake on our way back. So yummi! It was a very nice afternoon and as soon I got back at the cabin, I unloaded my stuff and then enjoyed the rest of my milkshake on the deck, watching another beautiful sunset.
This morning I was busy on the deck when I noticed a deer, grazing next to the little pasture where the horses were grazing too. Scruffy was laying on the deck and was barking at the cats or something, but the deer didn't even look up. I got my camera, and took a few pictures. Then Scruffy must have smelled the deer because she ran off the stairs and towards the deer, barking loud. The deer looked up calmly, wondering what all the fuss was about. Scruffy ran closer towards the deer, when this one just turned around and in a slow trot disappeared in the woods. Scruffy followed it a little but but soon returned to the yard. It's just not her thing to follow deer. She likes birds, when they fly. On the ground she doesn't care about them neither. Hahaha.


Mar cheiliúradh ar Seachtain na Gaeilge, tá ROSG an-bhródúil a shraith ceannródach nua, Scéal na Gaeilge, a thabhairt chuig an scáileán. Dhá chlár faisnéise is ea Scéal na Gaeilge a leanann aistear na teanga ó thús ama go dtí an lá atá inniu ann. Tríd meascán míreanna beochan, cúlraí scáthlán glas agus taifeadadh ag láithreacha stairiúla, nochtann an tsraith seo stair na Gaeilge le radharc spraíúil ar na scéalta stairiúla agus miotasacha a bhaineann léi. Físiúil, úr agus bríomhar, tá Scéal na Gaeilge curtha i láthair agus scríofa ag Alan Titley, stiúrtha ag Diarmuid Goggins agus léirithe ag Ciarán Ó Cofaigh do ROSG.
Go minic ní bhíonn tuiscint cheart ag daoine ar céard í an Ghaeilge, céard as a dtagann sí ná cé a labhair í. Ní thuigeann siad gurb í an Ghaeilge an teanga a labhair Cú Chulainn, Naomh Pádraig, Brian Ború, Macbeth agus Dónal Ó Conaill.
Ba í teanga muintir na hÉireann í leis na mílte bliain agus d'fhan sí mar phríomh theanga na tíre go haimsir an Ghorta Mhóir. I ngan fhios don chuid is mó de dhaonra na tíre, is í an Ghaeilge a labhair a muintir féin go dtí le cúpla glúin anuas.
Tabharfaidh Scéal na Gaeilge ar aistear spraíúil, fuinniúil, oideachasúil thú, agus muid ar thuras tríd oidhreacht cultúrtha na hÉireann. Is iad ROSG, atá lonnaithe i gConamara, an comhlacht a thug na léiriúchán iomráitigh Cré na Cille agus Na Cloigne dúinn. Craolfar Scéal na Gaeilge ar TG4 ar an 17ú Márta ag 20:30 leis an dara chlár ag craoladh ag 20:30 ar an 19ú Márta 2012.
Tá Scéal na Gaeilge maoinithe ag TG4, An BAI agus Foras na Gaeilge.
Seo blas beag den chláir..


Along with the normal array of cosmetics a woman uses, there are also many products to prepare the face for makeup. Primer is a pre-foundation product designed for smoothing fine lines, and is now considered as an essential part of every woman's makeup routine.
A primer prepares the "canvas" of the face for cosmetics. Foundation goes on more smoothly and evenly, as does blush, eyeshadow, and many other cosmetic products, if the lines are first smoothed out somewhat. Although the smoothing is temporary, it can last throughout the day. I've tried a couple of different primers myself, and while some are not that helpful, some other brands make it possible for your makeup to last the entire day, visibly reducing the size of pores and making your face look fresh and natural.