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Colts vs Bengals: Winners and Losers from week one
By Chris Blystone@chrisblystone Sep 10, 2018, 9:01am EDT
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Week one is in the books for the Colts, and it left us with a bittersweet taste. On the one hand, there was a lot to be encouraged about in the Colts' first performance of the regular season. However, the Colts ultimately lost a game they could have won.
Let's jump in and take a look at the winners and losers from Colts vs Bengals week one.
Frank Reich's Play Calling
This game was a breath of fresh air after years or watching offenses run by Rob Chudzinski and Pep Hamilton. Seeing personnel set up to succeed and scheming players into positions to get open was a joy to watch. It was clear that there was a comfort level that was created by the play calling, which allowed the offense to run smoothly. That is a major source of encouragement to me, and will only get better with time, and the return of starting left tackle Anthony Castonzo, and starting running back Marlon Mack.
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In just his second year in the league, the undrafted free agent made a big impact for the Colts' secondary. He had 3 tackles and defended a pass, but most importantly, he managed to pick off Andy Dalton early and give the Colts excellent field position. Sure, the offense squandered it by giving the Bengals the ball back not long after, but Moore can be pleased with his contribution. This roster desperately needs guys who can get takeaways, and any contribution will matter down the stretch.
Darius Leonard (and Matthias Farley)
If it seemed like Leonard was in on every defensive play to you, you were not crazy. Leonard was all over the field, making plays and notching a combined 9 tackles as well as recovering a fumble caused by Matthias Farley. Turnovers are huge for this young defense, and the Colts got them in this game. They'll need to be able to do that consistently if they expect to win many games this season.
Margus Hunt
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The Colts' pass rush as a whole was not great. There wasn't consistent pressure on Dalton, and they often go so zoned in on backfield penetration that they lost contain and let Joe Mixon gash them for big yards. However, Margus Hunt was able to make some things happen, collecting 2 sacks, 3 tackles for a loss, and 2 QB hits. As a guy who many, myself included, questioned as a fit for this team, Hunt did a lot to state his case for why be belongs. Hopefully his success can continue.
Grant was a nonfactor during the preseason. He seemed to have no chemistry with Luck and just didn't do anything of note. Not so in yesterday's contest. Grant was 8 of 9 for 59 yards, consistently getting open on short throws and acting as Andrew Luck's security blanket. He got good separation and made catches. His game wasn't spectacular, but the Colts need reliable receivers who can be counted on, and whose name is not T.Y. Hilton. Grant showed that he can be that, and if he can do so going forward, it bodes well for the offense.
Nyheim Hines did not have a good preseason. Frank Reich did the right thing getting him out from under kick return duties, as they did not suit him well. In his role as a pass catching back and a change of pace player, Hines looked solid. In a game where the running backs didn't do much, Luck passed 53 times, Hines looked comfortable, and made important plays with regularity. He showed how he might be used and that he has a significant part to play on this team.
Honorable Mentions: Jordan Wilkins, Eric Ebron, T.Y. Hilton
Look, Jack Doyle is a very good tight end. He isn't a loser overall. But in this game, he was a loser. When you cough up a fumble on what could be a game-winning drive, and that fumble goes for a nail-in-the-coffin touchdown, you're the loser. Do I think Jack played well before that point? Absolutely. He was 7 of 10 for 60 yards. He did the kinds of things you expect him to do. But that fumble was a killer. Doyle will get back to being Doyle, but this one hurt.
Quincy Wilson
I haven't seen the All-22 yet, so I can't speak in entirety on how Wilson played. What I can say, is that the only two plays I saw of him were pretty bad. In the first, he was flagged for pass interference on A.J. Green, a 36-yard penalty that brought the Bengals to the Colts' doorstep. The next was him getting beat in the end zone on a pass to John Ross for a touchdown. He never even attempted to contest the catch. The Colts need Wilson to be better than this. The 2nd round pick from last season was wearing a cast, so perhaps he will play better when he has the use of both hands. Let's hope.
This was not a great game for Hooker. It may have been better or worse than I think, the All-22 will tell more, but he, along with Geathers, committed the cardinal sin of a safety. They got beat deep by A.J. Green for a score. You cannot get beat deep by the team's best receiver, and Hooker did. The Colts need him to make an impact to succeed on defense, and while Green is a top-level receiver, they can't have him getting beat deep and win games. Geathers only gets off the hook being listed here because he was able to force a fumble, but he shares equal blame on this play that led to a momentum shifting score.
That Screen Pass
You know the one. The one that had you throwing your hands up and trying to spot Chud on the sideline somewhere. Reich dialed it up with :19 left in the first half, and it was read and destroyed by linebacker Nick Vigil for a 5-yard loss.
If that didn't leave a strong enough impression, when they ran that exact same play at 1:09 left in the game, they got the exact same result. Vigil reading it all the way and dropping Hines for another 5-yard loss and taking the Colts out of field goal range. I listed Reich's play calling as a winner, and it was. However, this play needs to be stricken from the 2-minute offense.
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Kick off your visit on the 23rd (Mon): admire all the interesting features of Amethyst Mine Lapland.
To see maps, where to stay, and tourist information, refer to the Luosto trip builder tool .
Manama, Bahrain to Luosto is an approximately 17.5-hour flight. The time zone changes from Arabia Standard Time (AST) to Eastern European Time (EET), which is usually a -1 hour difference. Plan for much colder temperatures traveling from Manama in December, with highs in Luosto at -8°C and lows at -17°C. Wrap up your sightseeing by early afternoon on the 23rd (Mon) to allow enough time to drive to Inari.
Start off your visit on the 24th (Tue): go for a walk through Otsamo Fell, see the interesting displays at Siida, and then take in the architecture and atmosphere at Pielpajarvi Wilderness Church.
To find photos and other tourist information, read Inari trip itinerary maker app .
Drive from Luosto to Inari in 3.5 hours. Alternatively, you can take a bus. December in Inari sees daily highs of -7°C and lows of -17°C at night. Cap off your sightseeing on the 24th (Tue) early enough to travel to Levi.
Kick off your visit on the 25th (Wed): glide through natural beauty at Levi Ski Resort.
To find other places to visit, traveler tips, ratings, and other tourist information, refer to the Levi trip planning app .
You can do a combination of shuttle, flight, and bus from Inari to Levi in 2.5 hours. Alternatively, you can drive; or take a bus. December in Levi sees daily highs of -6°C and lows of -15°C at night. Cap off your sightseeing on the 25th (Wed) early enough to go by car to Rovaniemi.
Kick off your visit on the 26th (Thu): find something for the whole family at Santa Claus Village, then see Santa Claus Office, then examine the collection at Christmas House Santa, and finally get engrossed in the history at Arktikum. On the 27th (Fri), you'll have a packed day of sightseeing: make a trip to Lordi's Square, explore the fascinating underground world of Syvasenvaara Fell, and then get in on the family fun at SantaPark - the Home Cavern of Santa Claus.
To find maps, other places to visit, reviews, and other tourist information, you can read our Rovaniemi trip planner .
You can drive from Levi to Rovaniemi in 2.5 hours. Another option is to take a bus. Expect a daytime high around -6°C in December, and nighttime lows around -13°C. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 27th (Fri) to allow time to travel back home.


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Peasants' Pursuit of Outside Alliances in the Process of Land Reform: A Discussion of Legal Assistance Programmes in Bangladesh and the Philippines (UNRISD, 1999, 40 p.)
SUMMARY/RÉSUMÉ/RESUMEN
I. INTRODUCTION*
Peasants' Need for External Support
Peasants' Legal Needs
Are Lawyers Reliable Allies?
Lawyers' Ability to Assist Peasants
II. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM BANGLADESH AND THE PHILIPPINES
General Overview of Agrarian Reforms and the
Outside alliances and support are crucial to peasants and other marginalized rural groups during the land reform process. Political mobilization, leadership development, organization of land acquisition actions and protests, networking, and influencing the media, political parties and government land policies are important but often beyond the means of peasants without the assistance of more powerful outsiders. Rural groups also benefit from external assistance in the identification of land for redistribution, selection of beneficiaries, acquisition of titles, prevention of eviction of tenants by landowners, improvement in wages for agricultural labourers and negotiation with landowners or government departments. Outside support is similarly critical in resolving land conflicts among the rural poor themselves, as well as across tenurial classes, and in ensuring that the beneficiaries of land reform have access to essential agricultural inputs and support services. In short, the benefits of outside alliance and support are enormous.
In practice, however, landless peasants and other marginalized rural groups can seldom count on the support of outside forces. The landless rely mainly on traditional authorities, religious leaders and elders. A supportive teacher, extension worker or village counsellor can often provide tremendous backing for the peasants' cause, as they tend to have a better knowledge of the functioning of the government bureaucracy and, perhaps land legislation.
The cases from Bangladesh and the Philippines show that legal aid has been critical to the struggle of landless peasants for land. In these two countries, even though legal assistance did not enable the peasants to break the power of landowners, it did help restrain the latter in some cases. Despite the fact that landowning classes were sometimes able to manipulate the legal system to their advantage and were able to pay top price for legal advice, they could not completely ignore the interests of their tenants, the local landless peasants or public opinion. Legal proceedings often went together with complex negotiations with the landless, their representatives or opposing lawyers.
Sufficient land reform legislation exists in both countries; the problem lies in its effective implementation. Lawyers have an important role to play in this regard as well, especially in advocating the interests of the near landless, tenants, agricultural labourers and other marginalized land-seeking rural groups. With their knowledge of national and international legislation and legal covenants, lawyers can work to advocate and sustain an independent judiciary, monitor government policies, signal human rights violations and ensure that land reform legislation is implemented. But it is rare that marginalized groups can retain the services of lawyers, as they are costly and based mainly in urban areas. Furthermore, even among lawyers willing to work for peasants, very few would be fully sensitive to the peasants' cause.
Despite recognition of the usefulness of legal services, provision at the official level has been insufficient in both countries. In the Philippines, the DARAB has protected the interests of a significant number of tenants and landless peasants seeking access to land. This experience is unique and could provide useful lessons for other developing countries promoting land reform. This also demonstrates that state capacity to defend the interests of the landless through regulatory institutions and processes is necessary - in spite of calls by international funding institutions to curtail state involvement in agricultural and economic planning. Demands on agrarian courts are overwhelming even though they deal exclusively with disputes over land acquisition. Of course, the case studies also revealed the tactics of some landlords, who may concoct "diversionary" cases (such as damage to property, acts of violence or theft) so that cases will be tried in criminal courts over which peasants have little influence. Because of a prolonged history of land disputes in the Philippines, a number of Filipino NGOs have given considerable attention to the agrarian question, especially since the fall of the Marcos regime. However, the legal component has tended to remain weak in their overall activities and demands for legal assistance can scarcely be covered. In Mindanao, for example, NGOs have been able to accept approximately one case out of every 10 (personal communication with a CART paralegal activist).
In Bangladesh, the government's recent land reform measures have been limited mainly to the distribution of khas land to the landless. The government has thus avoided the political risks involved in radical land reform (reduction in the land ceiling, progressive land taxation, greater provision of credit and other institutional production support services to the poorer farmers). The government has also managed to evade direct conflicts with the powerful landed classes, and the influence of the latter over the local administrative and judiciary machinery remains staggering. As a result, even redistribution of khas land has been far from smooth. The government of Bangladesh has made no specific provision for agrarian courts that would protect the interests of the landless. Furthermore, few NGOs working in rural areas focus on land reform, and even fewer provide legal services relating to tenurial disputes. Indeed, there is not a single rural development organization in the country with a specific mandate to provide legal assistance to the peasant and landless populations. Nevertheless, the activities of those which have integrated legal assistance into their programme, such as Nijera Kori, have been highly effective.
Ideally, for land reform measures to be more successful, landless groups and peasant organizations should have their own lawyers. Alternatively, a cadre of motivated lawyers should be available to pursue the peasants' cause. Clearly, more lawyers would not automatically mean that more legal aid would be available to the land-aspiring rural poor, but a legal curriculum more sensitive to agrarian problems, land laws and rural poverty could help increase future lawyer's awareness of land disputes and perhaps increase their support of land reform measures. Raising the awareness of school teachers, agricultural extension workers, NGO activists and so forth about land laws and reform initiatives could produce a valuable local pool of paralegals, as these actors constantly interact with the landless and marginalized rural population. Efforts to raise rural people's consciousness through literacy classes, community training programmes and legal education would also have possible results.
Cases in both countries indicated that social mobilization by NGOs, peasant organizations and professional organizations has been more decisive than the supply of legal aid per se. Naturally, this would not have happened if the local populations were not active as well. But it does reveal that social actions surrounding land questions are more effective when the process of mobilizing and empowering the rural poor, as well as the wider public, is combined with the provision of concrete legal tools and support.

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Flip books, sometimes referred to as flick books, have been around for decades. John Barnes Linnett created the first flip book in 1868. Flip books are a primitive form of animation and are fun and easy to make. Learn how you can make really good flip books that will provide hours of entertainment for adults and children alike.
Cut several pieces of paper to match the size of the flip book you want to make. Your flip book can be any size, but the ideal size is around 3"x5". It will be easier to handle at that size.
Draw the first illustration on the first page of your flip book. It can be anything you want it to be, but you should keep it very simple for your first flip book, especially if you're new to drawing. Keep your drawings as close to the upper right-hand corner or right side of your flip book edge paper as possible.
Draw the same image on the next page, altering it slightly to reflect the action you want in your flip book. If you're drawing something as simple as a character running, the first drawing might show your character standing still, while the next drawing would be basically the same drawing, except your character may have one foot raised slightly off the ground.
Add as many pages to your flip book as you want, altering each page to illustrate the next action in your flip book animation. The more slight variations you have in your drawing, the more detailed your animation will be when you "flip" the pages. Check your pages as you add new drawings so you can see the progression as you go, which helps you see how your drawing alterations are going.
Do a run-through when you finish the flip book. Stack your pages in order, first drawing to last, and flip through them quickly. The drawings viewed this way will show the animation you've created. If you like what you have, it's time to bind the flip book. You can do this by gluing or stapling the left edge of your flip book.
Hose, Carl. "How to Make Really Good Flip Books." , https://penandthepad.com/make-really-good-flip-books-4867518.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.
Add color to your drawings for flashier animation. Make your drawings more complex for better animations. Use flip books to advertise your company or product. You can make a more realistic animation using actual photographs.


GROSSE ÎLE, Québec—Row after row of white crosses mark the saddest place in Canada, a cemetery on this island in the St. Lawrence estuary downstream from Quebec City.
Melancholy seems to ooze from the hard soil for this is the burial place of thousands of dreams... the dreams of a people escaping starvation and eviction. In one year alone, more than 5,000 men, women and children died on this island.
Today the island is a National Historic Site, with memorials to the thousands of emigrants, mostly Irish, who died here. And a museum tells the whole tragic story.
Epidemics such as typhus and cholera, which ravaged Europe, were brought to North America on the emigrant ships in the early 19th century. Quebec City was the gateway to Canada — and for many bound for the United States, too — and to stop the spread of disease the colonial authorities established Grosse Île as a quarantine station where emigrants would be examined before landing. That was in 1832.
Its biggest test came in 1847 during the Great Famine in Ireland. Ninety thousand emigrants poured in that summer; six out of seven of them came in the "coffin ships" — so-called because thousands died on the way — from Cork, Limerick, Galway and Belfast.
In the famine years of 1845-1849, the Grosse Île record shows, 7,556 people died here, 5,424 in the year 1847 alone, when the ships brought an unwanted passenger: typhus. Their names are engraved on a Plexiglas wall of an outdoor memorial near what is still called "the Irish Cemetery," in the western corner of the island. Eight of the 11 panels in the wall record the grim toll from '47.
The island was overwhelmed by the massive human cargo that summer. Ships queued up for kilometres to land the healthy, the sick and the dying, and the disinfection units and the hospitals bulged at the seams.
Grosse Île was in use as a quarantine station for 105 years, until 1937, by which time medical advances had made it obsolete. Later it was a government agricultural research station, then in the 1980s it became a National Historic Site, called the Irish Memorial.
Today visitors tour about 30 buildings, such as the disinfection quarters, the three "hotels" where healthy passengers stayed until they got clearance to proceed, the Anglican and Catholic chapels, and the lazaretto (quarantine hospital). Park rangers give guided tours and a trolley takes visitors around the site.


I was very disturbed by the demonstrations at the recent Bele Chere festival and the images being displayed—in poor taste—concerning hot-button issues like abortion, alcohol and gay rights. The images were certainly not [appropriate] for the eyes of children. But I would further argue that such demonstrations pose a serious safety issue for those attending the festival.
City Council needs to come up with a solution to control such demonstrations without infringing upon free-speech rights of all who choose to demonstrate—for whatever reason. But divisive issues and hateful rhetoric, with the addition of disturbing photographs, alcohol and excessive heat, creates a recipe for disaster when a large crowd of very different people are present. Should any of the banter between parties result in physical violence (as it has in the past), people are bound to get hurt: demonstrators, innocent bystanders, police officers.
These demonstrations require a great deal of police attention for fear of escalation, thus pulling officers away from other areas of the festival where they may be needed. Complaints that people personally viewed underage drinking, drug use and indecent exposure have been all over postings on Craig's List this week. These problems would be easier to address if police officers were not disproportionately dealing with public demonstrations.
I understand that the issue of free speech will likely dictate allowing these demonstrations at future Bele Cheres. But I would argue that when free speech infringes upon the rights of others, it is no longer free. These demonstrations take away the rights of others in many ways. As a parent, I should be the one to discuss with my children the implications of alcohol consumption, abortion, religion, homosexuality etc—not those individuals airing their beliefs in public domain. As a parent, I believe it is my right to protect my minor child from emotional, psychological and physical harm. How are my rights and the rights of my children being protected in this situation?
While I have not looked into the legal ramifications of such an action, I assume that such permits would be well within the legal bounds of the city.


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Mind Over Meth
The Happoldts: Happily Married at Last
Marriage Devastated by Prescription Drugs
Forgiveness Grips Former Meth Addict
Chris & Debra Hedgcorth: A Meth Marriage
CBN.com -When Chris and Debra Hedgcorth married, they loved to party. But when they were introduced to methamphetamines —their party life carried over into their everyday life.
Debra, a waitress and busy housewife, loved the energy it gave her. "I thought, 'I can organize everything in the house and I can be everywhere all at once,' it seemed."
Chris describes his life on meth. "I felt like I could conquer the world. I could do meth and I could work for, a couple days nonstop and get a lot done at the very first."
But when the meth wore off, it started affecting their marriage. Chris recalls, "It was a disaster. When we had the dope, things were pretty mellow. But when it ran out, it was bad."
Debra recognized a pattern in her behavior. "You see kids, who have tantrums, and they cry and they huddle in the corner. That's how I expressed myself. I was a screamer. I would build Chris up, because I loved him. Then within maybe two minutes, I could tear him down to nothing. And that was the cycle that I took all the time."
Chris remembers the instability in their relationship. "It was like a rollercoaster up and down. On very highs and very lows. There'd be moments when we were getting along really well and, it'd be really low and we'd be cussing each other. I'd be out the door or she'd be out the door, whatever it was. She'd be calling the cops on me."
Debra felt like she couldn't take it anymore. Then memories of her childhood and going to church made her feel better. "When I was 9 years old, I would go to church, I was bused in. The bus would come by and pick me up. So I took off to First Christian Church and in children's church, we sang songs that were pretty, and people smelled good. And, you know, it was just a good place to be. It felt safe."
During a separation from Chris, Debra cried out to God for help. "I poured out my heart to Him and I accepted the fact that it was me that was making this hard. I was rejecting Him. I was rejecting His ways. I was trying to make life about me. I didn't say that perfect prayer of salvation, but I meant every piece of that prayer of salvation. Because it was all about me saying, 'I'm done being who I am, and I'm ready to be everything You tell me I am. And I'll believe You.'"
The first thing she did was call Chris. "I thought she was nuts. I didn't want anything to do with the Lord. I was so dead to that. 'If you're going to do that, I'm done with it.'"
Debra did not give up when she heard Chris' responsel. "Right off the bat I found that the person I wanted to love and trust the most was saying, 'I don't want anything to do with this new you.' But it didn't shake me, because I thought, 'He just needs to know Jesus.' I just kept trying to tell him in a different way."
Debra was persistent and about a year later Chris visited her church. At the end of the service, he went down the aisle to pray. "The day that he went forward, I mean, I knew that it was real. He was giving up. He was giving up everything and he was going to surrender. And I knew it.
"I just told him whatever You want Lord, I'll do it." Chris' surrender was absolute. "I just gave up and I made him Lord at that moment. And man, if there's anything He did that day, He changed me, I mean, He forgave me. I knew at that moment that I was forgiven and I hadn't crossed that line. That it was going to be okay."
While Debra got off meth within 2 weeks of coming to the Lord, it took Chris about 9 months to break free. They soon started rebuilding their marriage.
Their lives were distinctly different after becoming Christians. Debra explains. "For awhile, Chris and I called each other 'my ex-husband' and 'my ex-wife' when we would talk about our past. Because that's what it seemed like. It was a completely different person. Me before Christ, the old Debra, was self-seeking, self-serving. I every day that I woke up, I thought immediately of the things that I needed to do to get what I wanted."
Chris describes his pre-Jesus life. "I think about the old Chris, I was depressed. Wow, I was—I was so down and so—I'd reached the point where I thought, 'Man, I'm going to be like this my whole life. And this is bad.' And I was full of hatred towards my wife. The new Chris understands the Lord's forgiveness."
It's been over 10 years since Chris and Debra got off meth and today they live a life they never dreamed of with their two daughters.
Debra recognizes the work of God in their lives. "We have a union in Christ first and a union together. There's nothing better than that, and we're raising our kids to know Christ, a relationship. That's the biggest blessing in my life."
She concludes, "It is never too late. You have not done the worst thing in the world. If you've done the worst thing that anybody on the face of this earth has done, it's still not too much for Jesus' s blood to wash over you and forgive you. It's never too late."


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Be Fascinated by the Spacious Suites of the Peninsula Paris Hotel ⇒ As far as it is known, Paris's hotel market remains attractive as the French capital continues to lure an increasing number of visitors, especially newly wealthy ones from emerging markets. About 30 million tourists visited Paris last year, with 40 per cent of them coming from overseas. In view of this fact, CovetED Magazine suggests to find out more about The Peninsula Hotel and its suites today.
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The newly opened Peninsula Paris features the city's most expensive suite. Occupying 318 square meters, the Peninsula Suite is the largest one-bedroom suite in Paris. Guests can settle in this spacious suite and enjoy its sumptuous furnishings, including separate bathrooms and dressing rooms.
All rooms and suites showcase classical craftsmanship yet with a taste of timeless and modern aesthetic, artfully combining distinct Parisian influences. Your luxury staying will be supplied with the help of space, perfect soundproofing and excellent beds. Furthermore, the Peninsula Suite artfully combines distinct Parisian influences with a timeless and modern aesthetic.
We may assume that the Peninsula Hotel will instantly jostle for the top spot among Paris' many grand "Palace Hotels". There is plenty of choice in the Peninsula Hotel regarding food and drink as well. With six bars and restaurants, under executive chef Jean-Edern Hurstel, every guest is lucky to taste the most delicious cuisine in France.
To sum up, the Peninsula hotel combines what is arguably the best urban hotel chain on the planet with a city everyone loves to visit. As a great place in Paris, it is one of the best hotels in the world. CovetED hopes you have enjoyed and understood which hotel will provide Parisian luxury in the capital of France. Let us visit Paris. Don't forget to leave us your comment.


I would like to know the meaning of the name "เมธิณี".
I have not found this word in the dictionary.
Usually, Thai names have a meaning.
Does this name not have any meaning?
" 'Maethinee' . . . means 'female philosopher'."


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We're going virtual! The Thailand Competition
on February 19-20 will now be hosted fully online
With the local outbreak numbers soaring higher than ever before, it is best for us to play our part in keeping the virus as contained as we can and refrain from hosting large physical gatherings. We believe it is the right thing to do for the health and safety of our participants, judges, sponsors, and visiting audience.
Don't worry, it is not our first time going online. We will ensure the best experience for all of our participants, and that includes you!
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The competition is Asia's Longest-Running Global Student Startup Competition; all disciplines from around the world, both business and non-business related, are welcome. Join us and compete for cash prizes and a prestigious Royal Trophy.
Our panel of judges comprises of leading investors, entrepreneurs, and business professionals. We will be seeking out the most investor-ready startup ventures based on submitted business plans, live pitches, and venture exhibits.
BBC Thailand now its own Competition!
In 2017, the Thailand Track Round was introduced as a separate competition pathway for teams representing Thai Academic Institutions to have a reserved spot in the Semi-final Round. This year, with restrictive international travel, we decided to keep the Global rounds virtual but to break off the Thailand rounds to be its own standalone competition. And so, BBC Thailand 2021 will be hosted online with its own Semi-final and Final Rounds! The Winner of BBC Thailand 2021 will still be awarded a postion of Semi-finalist in BBC Global 2021, but the competition for the spot will be more hard-fought, with more teams, more rounds, and more judges.
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The start of our recent holiday is something I won't easily forget. We were flying from Brussels to Dublin and from there to San Francisco. We had almost 2 hours at Dublin airport, which is enough to get leisurely through US preclearance and to our gate. But instead of turning left at a certain point and going to the connecting flights, we went straight through the exit and out of the secure area.
Right after we exited, we realized our mistake, but at that point, our only option was to go through the security once again. To pass through the security, you need a boarding pass, and in Brussels, we were told we'd get ours in Dublin. So, we had to go to the check-in first.
At this point, I wasn't stressing. I thought that we had about an hour and a half to get to the gate and that seemed doable. Once we got to the check-in, we asked an assistant at self-service check-in machines for help. And she told us she's not sure we will make it because our gate is closing in just a few minutes. It was at this moment when I went into a full panic mode.
We run to the second floor, went through the security control and run through the airport to the US preclearance only to arrive in a kilometer-long queue of people waiting for TSA security control. I didn't know what is the point until which we had to make it in those 3 minutes everyone at check-in repeatedly mentioned. I was hoping that waiting for TSA means we are good. When I spotted a few people from our flight from Brussels waiting in the same queue, I gained a tiny bit of confidence that we'll make it to San Francisco that day.
After the TSA we still had to scan our passports, had our photos taken and scan our fingerprints at the self-process kiosks and join yet another queue of people waiting to go through US immigration inspection. Anyone who went to the US knows that the line at US immigration is painfully slow. It takes ages to get to an immigration officer who checks your documents and decides whether you are good to go.
As we were waiting, we were painfully aware of the clock ticking. I was checking my watch every two minutes. I was focusing all the energy I had left on the officers to work faster, other people to move quicker and us getting to our gate on time. About 15 minutes before our flight's scheduled departure time, passengers flying to San Francisco were called out. About ten people raised their hands and pushed to the front, where we still had to wait for our turn to talk to the US immigration officer.
We were second to the last to enter the plane. Just 5 minutes after we sat down to our seats in row 35, the plane closed its doors and prepared to take off. As we were fastening our seatbelts I was feeling all kinds of feelings. I was tired, hungry and thirsty and relieved. We made it! We were on the plane, and we were flying to San Francisco to start our two-week holiday.
This certainly wasn't how I imagined our vacation would start. During that hour and a half, when we were explaining, running, feeling angry and frustrated I couldn't imagine a worse start to a holiday. It was certainly our mistake, and we should pay more attention where we are going next time. At that moment it seemed like the worst thing ever, but now, when it's all over, it's becoming a funny story with a happy ending.
After 10 long hours on the plane, we arrived in sunny San Francisco. You can look forward to a post about our time in SF + one zillion pictures in a few days.


I've done this kind of flashback for my last 2 software engineering jobs at ELCA/SecuTix and Doodle, so I'm maintaining the tradition. Albeit with a 4 weeks procrastination delay, as my 100th day at Bestmile was end of May.
I started working at BestMile and now work at Bestmile. A small rebranding happened, the difference is very subtle in the brand name, but we have a much improved corporate website.
I mainly chose to work at Bestmile because of the (vision of the) product and the tech stack. So far, I'm not disappointed. I learned a lot about React, Redux, ES6, git rebase, Semantic UI, Docker. On the product side, well, we are still looking for big customers.
Last time I was looking for a job, I turned down a position last-minute at Liip in Zurich because they paid less than the position I accepted at Doodle. Which was also offering significantly less than my previous job. This time, I chose to put less weight on the salary expectations, but still have a non-negociable lower threshold. Bestmile barely fits that.
Since I joined, the company hired almost a dozen people. I'm a bit scared by the fast growth, but I guess we need a substantial investment into the sales team to get a chance at being sustainable.
Bestmile is a startup because it's still mainly financed by investors, and the product is not yet clearly defined. It is not a startup however if you look at the size and the internal organisation of the company.
Being back on the EPFL campus is weird. My freshman and sophomore years were the shittiest time of my life, and I don't particularly like being reminded of them.
I used to think I was a keyboard geek because I was using my own personal keyboard with a US layout. But this is nothing compared to some of my current colleagues' setup.
Bestmile is the first company I work at that has QA engineers who write end-to-end tests themselves and approve features instead of the product owner.
I'm allowed to work remotely 1 day per week. I usually don't do it because I live close to the office, and I need to get out of my apartment.
In Zurich, I was walking to work because I lived so close to the office. Now I'm biking again, which is awesome. 20–30 minutes of free daily exercise.
We're supposed to work 42.5h/week. During most of my "career" I worked 42h/week, then at Doodle we went down to 40h/week.
The team is diverse in terms of age (I'm not the oldest dev anymore) and origin. At the office in Lausanne, we have people from Switzerland (with a bunch of binationals), France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Iran, Canada, etc. English skills naturally vary a lot, and they are overall a bit worse than at Doodle. We are also, sadly, mostly men.
I got the chance to set up a whole new app from scratch. I set the unit test coverage threshold at 80% and for now we have been able to keep it there.
Overall I'm happy with what I do. I've been working a bit too much on boring CRUD screens though.
I do a lot less actual UI crafting than before, and I miss it a bit. The only new concept I barely touched upon are CSS grids. Our app is targeted at Chrome only, with no intention to have a responsive design. Both are bad decisions we are very well aware of, but we do our best not to paint ourself into a corner.
Like when I started at Doodle, there is currently no designer at Bestmile. But we are looking for one.
It's a bit weird to go from millions of users overall and thousands of concurrent users at Doodle, to virtually no user at all at Bestmile.
Our scrum process is still in the making. The goal is to have 2 weeks sprints culminating in a production release. So far, the system has not been stable enough, so nothing was ever released.


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US$1.33 billion tax cut for Beijing small businesses
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Beijing will further cut taxes for small and micro enterprises by 9 billion yuan (US$1.33 billion) this year, the municipal finance authority said on Feb. 13.
The latest tax cut policy issued by the central government has raised the threshold for value-added tax (VAT) exemption from 30,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan in monthly sales for small-scale taxpayers, and the threshold of 50 percent reduction of income tax from 1,000,000 yuan to 3,000,000 yuan for micro and small businesses, for the period from Jan.1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2021.
Provincial governments are authorized to reduce selected taxes for small-scale taxpayers by no more than 50 percent. These selected taxes are called the "six taxes and two surcharges" in short include the resource tax (excluding water tax), urban maintenance and construction tax, property tax, urban land use tax, stamp duty (excluding stamp duty on securities transactions), farmland occupation tax and educational surcharge, and local surcharge.
Beijing will reduce the "six taxes and two surcharges" by the maximum amount of 50 percent to support the development of small and micro businesses in the city. This preferential tax cut is expected to reduce the tax burden on the city's small and micro businesses by 9 billion yuan and will benefit more than one million taxpayers, according to the municipal finance authority.
Take an enterprise with an annual taxable income of 3 million yuan as an example. Under the previous tax rate of 25 percent, this business would have had to pay an income tax of 750,000 yuan per year. However, under the adjusted policy this business now falls into the category of small and micro enterprises and will only need to pay an income tax of 250,000 yuan per year.
In addition, Beijing will establish a mechanism for quick to make the tax cut policy well known among Beijing's small and micro enterprises. The reasonable appeals and opinions concerning the taxation of small and micro enterprises will be handled promptly and will be completed within five working days of receipt. For cases that cannot be processed within the timeframe, the handling time can be extended to a maximum of 10 working days. For appeals and opinions concerning departments of taxation and levy, the processing time shall be within five working days.


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LOOK: A 3D Whale Shark Billboard, Space Tunnel, Golden Gateway, and Dazzling Light shows take over the Holidays in Manila
by Mommy Anna | Nov 14, 2022 | My Events and Reviews | 0 comments
SM Supermalls celebrates not just joyful, but also fun, immersive, and experiential holidays. This year, we take you to the deep oceans with SM Megamall's first-ever 3D Whale Shark LED billboard, see the Northern Lights at the Aurora Trail of SM City North Edsa, Sparkle at the Light show and Holiday fireworks at SM Mall of Asia, enter the Golden gateway of SM Aura Premier and explore the outer space at the Mega Space Odyssey
NORTH EDSA'S AURORA TRAIL
The illuminating lights of the Aurora Borealis is at the North this Christmas. Walk and indulge in a family-friendly immersive experience at the Aurora trail ascending the giant holiday tree with a magical array of lights, forestry, rein-bears & holiday polar express
MEGA SPACE ODYSSEY & 3D WHALE SHARK
Travel to majestic galaxies in outer space and take photos and videos with your space explorer friends. Experience the first-ever immersive 3D LED tunnel in Manila on October 21 to December 25 at the ground-level Mega Fashion Hall (at the back of the Giant Christmas Tree).
SM Supermalls introduces the new 3D technology along EDSA by screening a hyper-realistic 3D Whale Shark at SM Megamall's LED billboard. Bringing you the first in the Philippines, High-Definition Immersive content at the heart of the bustling metropolis. Netizens are awestruck by a larger-than-life Whale Shark peeking out of a digital billboard spanning over 2,000 square feet. The Mega Whale Shark was first teased on April 27 but customers, tourists, and motorists can catch the short preview every 15 minutes starting April 28 at peak hours from 12nn to 10 pm daily. Watch out for the new 3D content this Christmas. The Philippines has the 2nd largest population of whale shark in the world at over 1,950.
MOA SPARKLE OF LIGHT SHOW AND HOLIDAY FIREWORKS
Feel the Christmas spirit as you watch the brightest and merriest indoor Christmas tree music and lights show. Be in awe as you watch over one hundred thousand lights set to music. Catch the show DAILY, every hour from 10 am to 10 pm until the end of December at the Central Atrium. Enjoy the most awaited and better-than-ever fireworks display at the MOA Complex every Friday and Saturday from November to December 2022. Make sure to experience this magical moment with your families and loved ones.
AURA's GOLDEN GATEWAY and NIGHTS OF DAZZLING LIGHTS
Tucked behind the giant Christmas tree is a golden gemstone-shaped immersive experience. In partnership with global smartphone brand TECNO Mobile, technology and art meet to transport all who enter this enclosure into scenes of an opulent holiday palace and fantastical golden worlds. Simply present PHP 1,000 in single or collected receipts and enter a whole new world filled with glitz and glamour.
The theatrical room isn't the only technological experience the mall has. Equally spectacular is a choreographed light and sound display at SM Aura Premier's Skypark at Level 5. Visitors of the Skypark enter a space with tall tree-like sculptures made of strings of lights. As they go through a forest of lights, a jaw-dropping musical show will enter and excite them. Visitors can stop and enjoy the choreographed audio and visual performance at 7pm on all Sunday nights of December, including December 25 th itself.


The pursuit of timeless memories. The voyage beyond imagination. A discovery of a moment that bend all of the senses. Life and time both flow on a single direction. Time is absolute. But when the fortune change, the mirrors of our younger self start to fade. There's always memories that remain forever.
"Come, let's take a picture together", it maybe a simple phrase today for younger generation before taking a selfie. But ask the elder, how they treasure the memories they have in their younger days. They can talk emotionally and passionately about a simple photo they took together with their friends. We should realise that when we're old someday, every time we feel lonely and in need for companionship, it's this simple memory that keeps us alive.
A picture's worth a thousand words. Take a good look at your old photos. You can clearly see that behind a simple picture there's a lot of story behind it. The beautiful memory that always reside in the corner of your mind. Maybe a picture of your first crush, a silly picture of you trying to dance awkwardly, or a happy moment you spend with your grandparents before they eventually took their last breath. It maybe means nothing to anybody else, but for you it's your chronicle It is one of the things that shaped you now.
A camera is not just a tool for fun, a means to spend your leisure time. But for me it's also something as a way to share happiness amongst myself and my surrounding. To spread the joy to others, and to capture the moment that happen in a micro-fraction time of our life. Before time finally be the champion over our limited memory capacity.
Time is magic, it's a single dimension that rule our life, a single entity that God almighty himself test us with. An element which heaven itself can do nothing about it. For it can do only provide with a single word 'Eternity'.
And it's my passion, to capture the moment, so it won't fade in time. It is my passion, to pursuit the timeless memories.
The world's set in a constant motion. So does our life. This is the section of my daily life. About every interesting thing that may happen in my day, to be able to share my happiness, sorrow, and grieves. This is also a place for me to share some news that I'd think worth to share. And maybe, occasionally, this is also my dedicated space to all my rants, just be prepared. It's just some ordinary people's opinion, in an extraordinary and exciting world.
Dresden, du bist so edel!
It's started as curiousity, and then slowly grew into a habbit, eventually become a passion. To be able to capture an expression of other's face and to share it with somebody else. A person's face has a lot of meaning, and many different expositions. Leonardo da Vinci's Monalisa is the prime example of this case. For hundreds of years, people still wonder what's behind that Lisa Gioconda's vague smile. And this section is dedicated to showcase all the work I've done in my attempt to capture people's mind expressed in their facial gesture.
There's a majestic design that nature has provide us with. For 13 millions years, the universe and the earth we are living, has shaped into something marvelous. Nature has created us a masterpiece that makes every painter, sculptor and art designer feel jealous. And it's a great opportunity to be able to take a beautiful side of the nature. To preserve the natural wonders earth has given us on a digital media. An act of love from the heart to our beautiful world we are living. And this section is a collection of all the picture I've taken on my little adventure outside my office box.
I love travelling, I love to meet new culture and community. And the most important, I love beauty. To be able to meet new people. and as I stated many times before, I love to capture the beauty of all the places I've been to. This section contains all the pictures I've gathered from all the travelling I've done. From capturing the excitement of the journey to reach the specific destination, the photos of all the fun thing we've done, and all beautiful images I've found on my travels. It's a memory for life and to share all the beautiful places I've been going to.
Some people live their life in a fast paced, and they're missing some great moments happening in their surroundings. From a nook of the streets, a corner of a building, sometimes a great thing happens. Occasionally, I walk the streets to hunt these moments. To freeze all the unseen moments of all people might miss when they're racing against time. Those moments are beautiful, so it's my pleasure to share it with anybody else in this gallery, so that people realise that magic is happening without they realise it in their everyday's life.
It's a great feeling to know that somebody else are enjoying your work, and when somebody loves the result of your captured images. What makes me happy is to know that someone else is also appreciating the effort you've put into. I feel happy when someone decided to hire me to capture a glimpse of moment of their life. And it's an honour to me to be able to help them and I'd always try to do my best to satisfy my client and repay all their trust.
I'm open to any collaboration, and if anybody decided to hire me as a photographer, I'll do my utmost to deliver the client's message through my lenses and present it in an image. This section is part of my collection of all the collaboration I've done with my client before.
It's an exciting time to get to know new people on Instagram. The popular photo-sharing app is fun, simple and growing. A place for me to have a direct interaction with all my friends, my co-workers, and my future clients. A daily update about my personal life, my professional relations, and maybe some moments and memories I've captured through my lenses in a day. You can follow my daily routine as an IT professional, a photographer, and as person. I live my life enthusiastically, and I'd like to share that with all people around me.
There's no simple words to express my love in human interaction. To meet a new friend is a thing I treasured.
If there's anything you would like to ask or suggest something, or if you feel like you could me ask for my help in photography just contact me by filling the form below. I'm open to any collaboration. Whether it's a simple guidance and advice in photo-wise topic, a free for coffee, consulting a method or photography technique etc. Just hit me, I would try to do my best in my service.
My name is Tiko, and I am an IT professional, freelance photographer, and creative industrialist based out of Cologne, Germany.
Born on May 6, 1988, I grew up in Jakarta and have been living in Germany since 2007. I've studied at TH Köln with the major Business Computing. After that I sought out unique experiences in the world, preferring to learn about myself and about my abilities to settling down on the first easy thing that came along.
Now working at an eCommerce company, I am known for the energy and vigor with which I approach every project. I am highly knowledgeable when it comes to technology, and I never fail to meet a deadline. I have accrued experience collaborating with international companies and organizations, giving me a cultured worldview that I apply to my photography and to my business dealings.
My photography is known for quality, and as I do with technology, I approach my art with the utmost earnestness, consistently exceeding my clients' expectations.


Like any new mother, Emily is thrilled when her first child, a daughter, is born. The baby, Sadie, is healthy and stunningly beautiful, with snow white hair and fair skin. Even the doctors and nurses can't help a second look at this magical child. But soon a darker current begins to emerge—something is amiss. After three months of testing, Sadie is diagnosed with albinism, a rare genetic condition.
I feel like this year is the happiest I've felt with my reading habits for the longest time. When you step into book blogging it feels as though you must read what everyone else is reading, not because anyone else tells you that but because, naturally, you want to join in when other bloggers are really excited about a book they've been reading. I really tried, but I don't read primarily YA so a lot of the books that are very popular in the book blogging community tend to pass me by. For a while that bugged me, and now it doesn't because all that matters is that I enjoy blogging and I enjoy reading.
This year I've really gotten into non-fiction. For a while I was convinced non-fiction just wasn't my thing. When I was younger I was interested in stories, in fiction, I wasn't interested in reading a memoir. As I got older most of the non-fiction I read I encountered at university, and when you associate non-fiction with essay writing it can be hard to seek out non-fiction purely for enjoyment's sake. Over the past year or so, however, I've really begun to enjoy non-fiction. I love non-fiction centred around history and historical figures - I'm a huge history nerd - but I've also enjoyed reading some literary criticism and memoirs, and recently I read and enjoyed Beyond the Pale.
I had no idea whatsoever that this book existed until I saw Jen Campbell mention it on her YouTube channel and it sounded fascinating. I knew very little about albinism, but I had encountered it a little during my MA while I was researching witchcraft, and the idea of a folklorist exploring the beliefs surrounding albinism and looking into her own family history sounded right up my street.
Emily Urquhart's writing style is very readable. When she's discussing the early stages of her daughter's diagnosis and the different types of albinism there are it could have been easy for me to get lost - I'm not scientifically minded at all - but I was never confused, nor should I have been. This book isn't a science book, it's a memoir and a travel book and criticism all rolled into one, and while albinism is the focus Emily pays so much more attention to the people with albinism than the condition itself. Everyone she meets is treated with such respect and her daughter, Sadie, is just adorable.
There's a real spectrum of beliefs in this book, from the biblical suggestion that Noah had albinism and therefore the condition is associated with being the child of an angel in Christian theology, to the more heartbreaking realities in Tanzania in which people with albinism literally live in fear of their lives. Some of the stories may be a little hard to read but they're worth reading: it's incredibly important that we don't remain ignorant to some of the atrocities that people with albinism are forced to face on a daily basis.
I really enjoyed this book. It satisfied the craving I've had for non-fiction all year, and once again reminded me to continue to broaden my reading habits. The only reason I gave it four stars rather than five was because I was hoping for a little more along the lines of folklore; after a while it seemed to disappear from the narrative completely other than the times in which Emily reminded us she's a folklorist, but I still really enjoyed reading about her trip to Tanzania and her research into her family history.
Super interesting read, I highly recommend it!
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Brief Candles: Thomas Girtin part 2
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), The Abbey Mill, Knaresborough (1801), watercolor, 32.2 x 52.5 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
In the first part of these two articles on the tragically brief life and work of Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), I looked at his work from his initial watercolours of around 1790 to his success – both artistically and commercially – in around 1797.
In 1798, he was again well represented at the Royal Academy, with nine of his watercolours being hung in its annual exhibition. During the late summer, he toured North Wales, making sketches which he then worked up into finished paintings over the winter. He also started to paint beyond the boundaries of the topographical view, as in this atmospheric capriccio among the Roman ruins, Classical Composition (1798-9), after Marco Ricci (1676–1730).
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802) after Marco Ricci (1676–1730), Classical Composition (1798-9), watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, laid paper, mounted on very thick cardboard, 30.5 x 47.8 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
The results of his previous year's visit to North Wales resulted in acclaim of the six watercolours which he showed at the Royal Academy in 1799. However, his hopes of accompanying Lord Elgin to Greece on an archaeological expedition failed. In the end, Elgin employed the Neapolitan watercolour painter Giovanni Battista Lusieri (1755-1821) to document the expedition and its archaeological discoveries.
Girtin's tour that year was to Yorkshire, a far cry from Greece, but which saw him venturing into more transient effects of light, and de-emphasising architectural features.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), Durham Cathedral and Castle (c 1800), watercolor over pencil heightened with gum arabic, 37.5 x 48.9 cm, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA. Wikimedia Commons.
His wonderful view of Durham Cathedral and Castle (c 1800) contains as much detail as his earlier views, but it is better integrated into the whole instead of competing for the viewer's attention.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), Jedburgh Abbey from the South East (1800), watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, cream, moderately textured laid paper, 66 x 79.1 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
The ruined abbey at the centre of his Jedburgh Abbey from the South East (1800) bears only the marks of the brush, not of the pen.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), Ripon Minster, Yorkshire (1800), watercolor with pen in black and brown ink, with scraping over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige, laid paper, 31.4 x 47.6 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
In his Ripon Minster, Yorkshire (1800), it is the features of the river – its bridge, cattle, and a single angler – which steal the gaze, rather than the bulk of the minster behind.
In 1800, he showed his last watercolours at the Royal Academy. He also managed to tour two areas, returning to Yorkshire, where he concentrated his sketching along the River Wharfe. Then in the late summer he went back up to the Scottish borders, before marrying in the autumn.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), The White House at Chelsea (1800), watercolour on paper, 29.8 x 51.4 cm, The Tate Gallery, London, Bequeathed by Mrs Ada Montefiore 1933. Photographic Rights © Tate 2016, CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported), http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/girtin-the-white-house-at-chelsea-n04728
Among the paintings which he completed in 1800 was The White House at Chelsea, which is probably his most famous. Girtin chose to look upstream of the River Thames from a location close to the modern Chelsea Bridge. The landmarks shown include, from the left, Joseph Freeman's windmill (or Red House Mill), a horizontal air mill, the white house close to where Battersea Park is now, Battersea Bridge, and Chelsea Old Church.
For once, buildings are the least significant elements in the painting, which is dominated by the sky, water surface, and the momentary light on the white house.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), Ouse Bridge, York (1800), watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite, with scratching out on medium, beige, rough wove paper, 32.9 x 52.4 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
His paintings from the campaign in Yorkshire were also quite different. Instead of concentrating on cathedrals and other prominent buildings, the River Wharfe was now the centre of his attention. Here, the Ouse Bridge, York (1800) and the small boats using the river are more dominant.
In his The Abbey Mill, Knaresborough (1801), the mill building is a smaller and less prominent part of the painting, with the river and trees more dominant. He has also used significant areas of 'reserved' white space and a drier brush on the rough surface of the paper to depict 'white' water and highlights.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), The Village of Kirkstall, Yorkshire (1801), watercolor with pen in black and brown ink over graphite on beige, moderately thick, moderately textured, wove paper, 31.6 x 48.9 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
Another superb product from his Yorkshire tour the previous year, Girtin's The Village of Kirkstall, Yorkshire (1801) shows an angler fishing from his cart in the ford in a sophisticated composition.
The following year, 1801, Girtin exhibited an oil painting at the Royal Academy, the only oil painting which he appears to have shown. This was met with great acclaim, but has since been lost. He toured Yorkshire for the last time, and then spent the winter of 1801-2 in Paris.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), Sandsend, Yorkshire (1802), watercolor over graphite on moderately textured, laid paper, mounted on very thick, cartridge paper, 31.8 x 53 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
In addition to completing watercolours from his tour in 1801, Girtin spent much of the spring and summer of 1802 producing watercolour studies, and then the final 5.5 x 32.9 metre panoramic painting, for Eidometropolis in London. This was finished by its opening on 2 August 1802, and was a major speculative commitment on Girtin's part.
Unfortunately it does not appear to have been a commercial success, and the panorama has since been lost. Opinion is that, although his studies were made in watercolour (and survive), he painted the panorama itself in oils, whose relative unfamiliarity could only have made the task more difficult. Most such panoramas were painted in tempera.
Following one of his visits to North Yorkshire, Girtin painted Guisborough (Gisborough) Priory in watercolour.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), Guisborough Priory (date not known), watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige, laid paper, 30.3 x 51.1 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
The Yale Center for British Art has an oil painting apparently made from this view, which some believe to have been the only surviving oil painting by Girtin. However others dispute this attribution, considering it too crude to have been painted by him.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), Guisborough Priory (1800-2), oil on canvas, 34.9 x 50.2 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
Over the last year or so, Girtin's health had been troubling him more, and he died, probably of an asthma attack or possibly from a complication of pulmonary tuberculosis, on 9 November 1802, aged 27, just a fortnight after Richard Parkes Bonington was born.
In little more than a decade, Thomas Girtin had mastered the techniques of the 'British' school of watercolour, and had then started to take watercolour beyond that, exploring the effects of light, sophisticated composition, and 'advanced' techniques; this is shown in the pair of paintings of Jedburgh Abbey below, made just seven years apart. These were a great influence over JMW Turner, John Sell Cotman, and other painters of the nineteenth century.
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburghshire (c 1793), watercolor over graphite, and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige, wove mount paper, 24.8 x 29.7 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Wikimedia Commons.
However, Girtin painted almost exclusively landscapes, and almost exclusively in watercolour. Turner's broader training in the Royal Academy Schools enabled him to excel in other genres, and most importantly in oils as much as in watercolour. Most of Turner's best works were created well after Girtin's death, and there is no way of knowing whether Girtin would have been as successful in other genres, or in oils. He was, though, a vital part of the development of painting in Europe in the nineteenth century.
Smith G (2002) Thomas Girtin: the Art of Watercolour, Tate. ISBN 978 1 854 37394 6.
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Home Sports Betting Iditarod: Jessie Royer Leads Midway, First Musher at Ruby, Alaska Checkpoint
Iditarod: Jessie Royer Leads Midway, First Musher at Ruby, Alaska Checkpoint
By Pauly McGuire on March 13, 2020 3 min read
Jessie Royer leads the 2020 Iditarod Alaska sled dog race becoming the first team to reach the Ruby, Alaska checkpoint, which unofficially marks the halfway point at 495 miles into the 975-mile race. With 480 miles to go, the Iditarod is still wide open as it reaches the heady 4 Day, 20 Hour mark since it commenced last Saturday in Anchorage.
2019 Iditarod champ, Pete Kaiser, mushing toward the Nikolai checkpoint on the 2020 Iditarod. (Image: Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)
The first musher into Ruby wins a bonus worth $3,500 and a gourmet meal. Royer snatched up the coveted Ruby prize.
Ruby, nestled along the Yukon River, is an old mining town with a population of 187 people and located 70 miles from the previous checkpoint in Cripple. The difficult terrain during this stretch includes steep hills on the last 35 miles heading into Ruby. The local temperature is currently 5 degrees Fahrenheit.
Jessie Royer and her 14 dogs are among the first three teams to arrive at Ruby. Thomas Waerner (14 dogs) and Aaron Burmeister (12 dogs) arrived approximately 35 minutes behind Royer. Royer departed the previous checkpoint at Cripple approximately 90 minutes ahead of Waerner, who closed the gap on the way to Ruby.
2020 Iditarod Standings
Jessie Royer (14 dogs)**
Thomas Waerner (14)**
Aaron Burnmeister (12)**
Brent Sass (13)**
Richie Diehl (14)
Joar Leifseth Ulsom (13)
Ryan Redington (13)
Wade Marrs (14)
Peter Kaiser (11)
Jason Campeau (12)
** Reached Ruby, AK
The 2018 champion and 2019 runner-up, Joar Leifseth Ulsom, is in sixth place and a few miles outside of Ruby. Ulsom's team currently has 13 dogs.
Last year's champ, Peter Kaiser and his team are in ninth place. Kaiser is down to 11 dogs with a couple in heat that slowed him down. Kaiser is still at least a dozen miles away from arriving in Ruby.
Break Time in Ruby
The lead mushers on the 2020 Iditarod will take a lengthy break in Ruby. Royer's dogs looked tired upon arrival and she had to carry one dog for the last stretch heading into town.
Waerner arrived 35 minutes or so behind Royer. Waerner's dogs looked animated upon arrival, but he also opted to rest for several hours.
Burnmeister, currently in third place, confirmed that his dogs will rest and nap for up to eight hours before it's time to head back on the trail. The next checkpoint in Galena is located 5 miles away.
There is snow forecast for Saturday as the mushers hit the Bearing Sea coast for the second half of the race. This is when the volatility of the weather, particularly the wind and lack of visibility, will pose a major threat to the mushers.
"You never know what the Yukon River will throw at you," said veteran musher Danny Seavey. "A little wind off the river changes everything."
That's why many Iditarod mushers will take the opportunity for a longer rest than usual in Ruby.
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Lance Mackey, a four-time Iditarod champ, is in 17th place. Mackey became the first person to win the Yukon Quest and Iditarod in the same year when he pulled off the double victory in 2007. He won the Iditarod four years in a row between 2007 and 2010.
Mackey, a cannabis connoisseur and former cancer survivor, has taken guff from many other mushers because of his affinity for marijuana. In the past, he consumed cannabis during the Iditarod to help his body heal during the grueling race that could take up to 10 or more days to complete.
His fellow mushers believed the mary jane was a performance-enhancing drug, which contributed to his remarkable stretch of victories. His jealous opponents persuaded Iditarod race officials to list marijuana as a banned substance in 2010. Mackey still won the 2010 Iditarod in a 420-free environment for his four-straight title.
Mackey has come under fire from Iditarod's head vet for his choice to add CBD oil to his dogs' food. CBD oil is not on the list of banned substances for dogs, but its usage is frowned upon in the sled-dog racing community. Mackey is one of two mushers in the 2020 Iditarod that openly administers CBD to their dogs.
"Their recovery time is impressive," Mackey told the Anchorage Daily News.
Mackey feeds human-strength CBD to his dogs. The dogs consume approximately $100 of CBD per day on the trail. He gets the oil for free because he's the pitchman for The High Expedition, a local dispensary in Talkeetna.
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Some Dad's are easy to shop for. Sporting event tickets, coffee or an iTunes gift card can hit the nail right on the head for some. However, there are some Dad's that require much more time to think of creative and unique gifts that dads will love.
I think we can all agree that Dad's are special and deserve a day of gratitude and appreciation and a special gift that suits his interests. So when June 15th rolls around, which is just around the corner, what are you going to get your Dad for Father's Day?
Here are a few Father's Day gift ideas that are aimed to please.
These unique cuff links are repurposed from men's silk neckties. Your Dad will be looking clean and classy with these gems!
This cool gadget will wake him up, track how far he walks as well as measure shots on 18,000 US and Canadian Golf courses.
These fun and playful pens look like some of Dad's greatest tools. They will help remind Dad of the unfinished projects that he has on his honey-do list. Mom will love this as well!
This game is great for taking on the road or in the woods. Being that it's water resistant it will hold up in the elements. It's geared towards all age groups creating hours of fun for all!
Oh the morning fun he will have while cleaning his pearly whites. Nothing says I love you like a stellar toothbrush. For fun, wrap it up with some of his favorite breath mints!
To all the Fathers out there, thank you for all that you do. Happy Father's Day!


Lighthouse Landing of Country Hills has everything from fantastic amenities and an attractive setting, to a variety of floor plans and homes to suit different lifestyles.
Its three-and-a-half storey Cape Cod-themed lighthouse and the 20-acre stormwater retention pond that the project backs onto can easily recognize this distinctive northwest community. This unique feature, along with the surrounding boardwalk and large gazebo, spacious tot-lots for children, and the abundance of park and green-spaces, ensures that Lighthouse Landing is a community that you won't soon forget. In addition to its fantastic setting, Lighthouse Landing has a lot to offer in the way of amenities. Within walking distance to Cardel Place Recreation and Fitness Centre, this great community is also close to the Empire 16 movie theatre, a Superstore, Sobey's and Home Depot, not to mention a large selec-tion of restaurants, shops and other services.


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(Documentary) Movie of the Day: Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl (2022) by Chris Charles Scott III
Amy Ross was a musical savant. Derick Ross was her talented husband, musical partner and spiritual equal. With talent, loving families and adoring fans - they seemingly had it all. But there was a secret Amy was keeping from the outside world, which no amount of love and help from Derrick could resolve. Nowhere Man and A Whiskey Girl is the beautifully tragic love story of Derrick and Amy - and the best band you've never heard of. Link IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21200236/ Link to watch: https://www.popflick.com/movies/documentaries/nowhere-man-and-a-whiskey-girl
(Documentary) Movie of the Day: Alis (2023) by Clare Weiskopf, Nicolas Van Hemelryck
(Documentary) Movie of the Day: Animal (2021) by Cyril Dion
(Documentary) Movie of the Day: Apolonia, Apolonia (2022) by Lea Glob


The first official public lighting of the Appalachian Theatre of the High Country marquee will be Friday evening, December 2, beginning at 4:00 p.m.
Kate Cahow, a volunteer with The Appalachian Theatre of the High Country, says the hope is to leave the marquee lit until 11:00 pm so people can enjoy it as they are shopping, having dinner and just strolling around downtown. The marquee will read "Happy Holidays" on one side and "Christmas Parade, Saturday, 11:00 a.m." on the other.
The marquee will be lighted again Saturday morning about 10:00 a.m. and remain on for the Christmas parade and throughout the day. ATHC volunteers will be out in front of the theatre at 10:30 to sell t-shirts and talk with folks about progress on this historic reconstruction project.


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What Is GOBLIN?
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Difficulty Curves & Scaffolding
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November 30, 2015 Keegan
Games employ subtle, often entertaining systems to teach players the necessary skills and to challenge them to master those skills. Zelda games, for example, start off with back story narrative, in which the player learns how to ride their horse, finds their sword and slingshot, and learns how to move, fight, and manage their health. These tutorials scaffold new skills to aid player development. In the first session, we will use these game tutorials as a model to reflect on the mechanics of university courses. Participants will discuss how to structure their courses to aid their students in acquiring general skills to be a good student and the skills particular to the course curriculum.
Difficulty curves are a measure of how quickly the difficulty of a task increases. If a task is trivially easy, students will find it boring. Repeated trivial tasks will be demotivational. If a task is too hard, students will find it frustrating and again demotivating. Game designers apply this theory through an optimized difficulty curve seeking to gradually increase the range of difficulty while allowing for some fluctuation in difficulty of particular tasks. We find this same concept in the psychological theory of flow. If someone is properly challenged, they can enter a flow state in which their concentration and feeling of intrinsic motivation increase. In our workshop we will discuss how single assignments and entire courses can be designed with difficulty curves to increase student motivation and potentially trigger flow states as students learn.
In basketball, championships and especially repeated/dynastic success only come to those teams that are well-built and well-coached. For example, Michael Jordan is widely considered the best basketball player to have ever played. And yet he played at a statistically elite level for six years in the NBA before winning his first title. It was not until his teammate Scottie Pippen developed into a superstar and his coach Phil Jackson got into his second year that the Bulls became one of, if not the most dominant team in NBA history.
Team games emphasize collaboration to complete tasks too large for a single individual. Successful teams are consciously constructed and actively developed with attention given to roles and complimentary skill sets. Great coaches create frameworks that both maximize the current abilities of their players and develop those players by improving their existing skills and adding complimentary skills.
In higher education, we often use discussion groups, study groups, or research groups. However, these groups are often constructed through student choice, random number assignment, or other equally unplanned methods. In applying the lessons from team games, we should think about social, cultural, and intellectual factors when we create groups. We should provide guidance in the types of roles and duties that team members might take on, and we should ensure that these roles and duties are shared equitably and without reaffirming potentially negative social constructs.
In the day-to-day management of the class, students can be required to do homework to prepare for class so that class time can be used for discussions, activities, and projects. For accountability, assessments can be used to measure both the individual students' preparation and the collective groups mastery of the lessons. By shifting from a lecture format, to a more active format, faculty members can focus on facilitating student growth on both the individual and group levels.
Games assume that the player in a novice and present increasingly difficult challenges to assess the gamer's skill level. If a gamer is already familiar with the game mechanics, they will advance rapidly to the point where they are challenged. If they are new to the game mechanics, they can learn in the low stakes introductory levels, slowly mastering the new skills before being challenged by the big obstacles later in the game. One of the most powerful elements of games and what makes them so replayable is that they create this safe place to fail. Whether you're playing a multi-player game like chess or a single player game like the first Mario, you are expected to lose often. By creating a scenario in which you can lose, the game challenges you to learn from your mistakes and to improve controller skills and timing in a game like Mario, or understanding of the concepts, tactics, and strategy of a game like chess. Well designed games use failure to make you want to not only play them but to master them.
In educational settings, failure is most often seen as final and irreparable. An F is the unhappy opposite of an A, and it can cause anxiety and fear. However, by incorporating failure into instruction and using it to challenge students to master the skills and content of the course, we can reduce stress for students. We've already discussed how scaffolding and difficulty curves can be used to ease students into a course. Rather than basing a the grade mix for a class around exams, where failing is final and significantly punitive for the total grade, using quizzes and self-checks that are lower stakes can help students and instructors identify and overcome weaknesses. The gaming concepts of immediate feedback and multiple tries can transform frustrating obstacles into challenges to be iteratively attempted and surmounted.
In the classroom, we often assume that students enter a course with both learning skills and some fundamental knowledge of the course content already established. To extend the metaphor of the game, we might assume that a player has held a controller before and understand the basics of how their gaming system works. However, they have likely not played our game – taken our course. We should thus use low-risk assessments early in the course, challenging the student to recognize their current skill set, and then allowing them to overcome difficulty that we have built into the course. Through constant feedback and by structuring our assessments to allow for low-risk failure, we can help the students learn new skills and new content in a lower anxiety format.
Every game teaches its players skills and content. Beyond learning game mechanics, the story, art, and meta-narrative are full of relevant lessons that applies to its players lives. Minecraft teaches resource management, Portal expands understandings of physics, World of Warcraft requires learning teamwork and interdependency. As players overcome the obstacles in games, they master both skills and game content. Games thus present an opportunity to engage students.
Game-based learning is the practice of using games as a learning tool. The interactivity of games, especially video games, can be used to teach virtually anything—from digital literacies to social skills, art & design to resource management & economics, strategy & teamwork to computer programming. Often, learning objects are used in conjunction with games to provide structure and direction for intended learning.
Some educators are using popular games such as Minecraft to teach geography & programming or Portal to teach physics & language arts. There are also a wide variety of purpose-built educational games to supplement standard courses. Some academics are also using games to collaborate with gamers and further scientific discovery.
The language learning app Duolingo uses game principles to motivate you to learn a language – it started with Spanish and now offer French, German, Russian, Turkish and ten others. The app gives you sets of vocabulary to learn and then provides a variety of well designed assessments to test your knowledge on that vocabulary. As you complete these challenges, you earn experience points and levels, and unlock new challenges (vocabulary sets). You can compete against friends to see who has earned higher levels for an individual language or overall. Meanwhile, behind the scenes the app is using your participation to translate the world wide web word by word into the various languages it offers. This free app teaches you a language and translates the internet, using game mechanics for motivation.
Gamification is the practice of applying game design principles to non-gaming activities. Points, achievements, and badges can be used as extrinsic motivation to reward and archive activity in a broad array of fields. Car companies have gamified efficient driving by providing positive visual reinforcement for fuel efficient driving. The programming communal tool GitHub has gamified coding by developing a color coded visual representation of user activity. A quick glance shows how often and how active any user has been for the last six months and encourages users to stay active. From Boy Scout badges to gold stars in the kindergarten classroom, gamification has long been used in childhood education but is now being consciously and critically applied to university education.
There are many elements of gamification that can be applied individually or in combination to college courses. Grading systems can be reframed from a model in which students start with and try to maintain an A, to one in which students start with 0 points and complete activities to earn points towards their final grade. Faculty can employ badges to recognize students for rising to the challenge and succeeding or even just completing more than the minimum. Difficulty curves, scaffolding, tutorials, and even syllabi (the rule set for your class) are all elements of a course that can be improved by critically applying lessons learned from games.
Pacing – How Games Keep Things Exciting
Social Difficulty Curve – Easing Players into Communication
The Power of Team Learning
Team-Based Learning: Group Work that Works
Puzzle Break – Teamwork and Escape the Room Games
How Games Empower Us – Education: Agency
Managing Failure in Education
Games in Education – How Games Can Improve Our Schools
Gaming can Make a Better World
Learning with Video Games
Gamification – How the Principles of Play Apply to Real Life
Gamifying Education
Gamification to Improve our World
Classroom Game Design
The Future of Creativity and Innovation is Gamification
What is Gamification? A Few Ideas.
Teaching with 3D GameLab: Quest-Based Learning
Overview of types of motivation in video games and their use in player engagement:
Andrew K. Przybylski, C. Scott Rigby, and Richard M. Ryan, "A Motivational Model of Video Game Engagement," Review of General Pyschology 14, no. 2 (2010): 154-166. (direct link)
Review of the scientific studies of scaffolding in science education:
Tzu-Chiang Lin, Ying-Shao Hsu, Shu-Sheng Lin, Maio-Li Changlai, Kun-Yuan Yang, and Ting-Ling Lai, "A Review of Empirical Evidence on Scaffolding for Science Education," International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education 10, no. 2 (April 2012): 437-455. (url, direct link)
Analysis of the implementation and success of scaffolding in a math course:
Smit and Van Eerde , "What Counts as Evidence for the Long-term Realisation of Whole-class Scaffolding?" Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 2, no. 1 (March 2013): 22-31. (url, direct link)
Overview of team building in practice, notable for the appendices that can be adapted and applied for your class:
Barbara Oakley, Richard M. Felder, Rebecca Brent, & Imad Elhajj, "Turning Student Groups into Effective Teams," Journal of Student Centered Learning 2, no. 1 (2004): 9-34. (direct link)
Google Scholar list of further readings on Collaborative Learning.
Teachers' reflections on their own failed implementation of various course assignments and what they learned from those failures:
Richard E. Bond, "Failing Lessons: Tales of Disastrous Assignments," Perspectives on History (January 2013). (url)
Teaching Fails, permanent section of The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy. (url)
Encouraging risk taking and failure in students to promote learning:
Edward Burger, "Teaching to Fail," Inside Higher Ed, August 21, 2012. (url)
Analysis of the definition of failure and its inescapable role in literary composition:
Alison Carr, "In Support of Failure," Composition Forum 27 (Spring 2013). (url)
On different types of failure in pedagogy and how each can be harnessed for improving education:
Brian Croxall and Quinn Warnick, "Failure," in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments, ed. Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers (MLA Commons, 2014), ch. 1. (url)
On applying growth mindset to student assessment and allowing for failure:
Geoff N. Masters, "Towards a growth mindset in assessment," ACER Occasional Essays (2013): 1-5. (url, direct link)
Course assignments that ask students to blog and reflect on their failures in a course:
Mark Sample,"Flogging Reflection," course assignment, 2016. (url)
Dorothea Salo, "Failure Assessment," LIS 644: Digital Trends, Tools, and Debates course syllabus, Summer 2014. (direct link)
Leading author and book in the field of gamification:
James Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). (book review)
Overview article on game-based learning:
Sigmund Tobias, J. Dexter Fletcher, and Alexander P. Wind, "Game-Based Learning" in Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, (Springer 2014), 485-503. (url)
Set of articles on Game-Based Learning from online pedagogy site and community:
"Game-Based Learning," Edutopia. Accessed January 25, 2016. (url)
Sites for two of the most popular game-based learning communities:
MinecraftEdu. Accessed January 25, 2016. (url)
Teach with Portals. Accessed January 25, 2016. (url)
Summary of the implementation of game-based learning in teaching civil engineering:
Martin Ebner, Andreas Holzinger, "Successful implementation of user-centered game based learning in higher education: An example from civil engineering," Computers & Education 49, no. 3 (November 2007): 873-890. (url)
Google Scholar Results for Game-Based Learning
A study of the effectiveness of Duolingo in teaching languages:
Roumen Vesslinov and John Grego, "Duolingo Effectiveness Study," December 2012. (url)
Description of a human behavior and disaster management course built around the idea of surviving a zombie apocalypse:
Ben Winsor, "Even Military and Police Want to Take this College Zombie Survival Course," Business Insider, Oct 21, 2014. (url)
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Type Information: Protologue: Zwackh W., Lich. Exs. 602 (1880) - Psora atrobrunnea var. subfumosa Arnold: Arnold F., Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 26: 486, 1875; type specimen label data: Austria, Tyrolia: Kitzbühler Alpen, Kleiner Rettenstein, am Wege zum Roßgrubkogel, August 1873, F. Arnold (M; n.v.).
Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: Close to Lecidea atrobrunnea; variability of characters insufficiently known. Hertel, Biblioth. Lichenol. 58: 172-173 (1995).
Thallus: Areolate (primarily areolate), continuous throughout or dispersed along the periphery, continuous in the centre; lobes angular or rounded at the front; separate thallus parts.3-.6 mm thick. Thallus Size and Differentiation: Large; main branches basally not constricted to basally constricted. Thallus Outline: Margin concolorous the thallus centre. Upper Surface: Brown, plane to convex; not sorediate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia.
Upper Cortex: Epicortex present. Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution negative to in Lugol's solution positive (weak).
Ascocarps: Soon sessile, slightly constricted to strongly constricted at the base, 5-40 per cm², .8-1.3-(2) mm in diam.. Margin: Not flexuose to slightly flexuose, persistent to excluded, 30-65 µm wide, epruinose. Disk: Plane to weakly convex to strongly convex, black, epruinose, without an umbo. Exciple: Paraplectenchymatous; hyphae 3-5 µm wide; grey; inspersed with crystals. Epithecium: Apical cells green to turquoise, cell pigment reacting with 10% HCl (in H2O), cell pigment HCl+ blue. Hymenium: 45-58 µm high; white or rarely pale green; iodine reaction: Lugol's positive. Subhymenium: 18-35 µm high; white or rarely pale green. Hypothecium: Rarely brownish yellow or brown.
Ascospores: Oblong, (6)-8-10-(12) µm long, (2.8)-3.5-4.6-(5) µm wide; wall not ornamented.
Spot Tests: Medulla: K –, C –, PD – or + deep yellow; ascocarp margin (in section): K –, C – disk: C – hypothecium: K – epihymenium: K –.


This double split-level has just been freshly renovated. A brilliant design for family holidays. Close to the beach and the village.
This double split-level townhouse has just been freshly renovated. It has a north east facing balcony on the central level capturing ocean breezes, the master suite above and two bedrooms, bathroom and laundry on the lower level. A brilliant design for family holidays. Access to the beach is directly accross the road, 1 min from door to ocean floor.
A space for everyone to enjoy, supplemented by a grassy outdoor area and the complex pool. Lock up garage.
Accommodates 6. 1 King, 1 Queen, 1 Singles and 1 trundle.
Includes: Microwave, Dishwasher, Digital smart TV, Ceiling fan in master and living,Washing machine, Dryer, Air conditioning in bedroom one and bedroom three with the trundle. Stainless steel appliances in kitchen, Balcony furniture, Pool in complex of 8.