My sister Stephanie bought a variety of fruit trees and has been busily planting them in her Delaware yard.
Bare-root trees are truly amazing. A lot of fruit trees, including apples, pears, and stone fruit, can be dug during dormancy, have the dirt knocked off their roots, have their roots pruned to almost nothing, be shipped across the country, and re-planted – and they'll act like nothing happened in the spring, bursting into beautiful growth.
It's still amazing to me. Trees sleep HARD!
My favorite source for bare root trees is Peaceful Valley in California, AKA Grow Organic. I've never had one of their trees fail on me, and I've planted at least a dozen. Willis Orchards, TyTy Georgia and Gurneys? Not so much. Avoid.
I have to admit, I'm a little jealous of Steph. I love planting trees. And look at that beautiful soil!
My friend and I both each bought a Florida King variety peach tree from Tractor Supply. They just seemed to be begging us to pick one to adopt! I also came home with two hazelnut shrubs, because I just love hazelnuts, and five new berry canes; the canes to be planted on the old compost pile where a Mysore raspberry cane mysteriously sprouted last year (the Mysore cane patch is over 100 feet away). The Florida King and two hazelnut shrubs are in pots next to the front door for now, until I can select a safe(ish) spot for them from the marauding deer that the neighbors love to feed by hand. I also intend to prep a spot for the peach tree by planting mustard and hoeing it in a few times, as I think nematodes got my Tropical Beauty variety peach the other year (no visible damage above ground, and it was watered enough).
Yeah, I perpetually mulched and threw compost and kitchen scraps and mustard plants around the base of my seedling peaches. Nematodes love that Florida sand and those tasty peach roots. Good luck with the new ones.
Maybe you'll get to put one of those deer in the freezer some day.
Hmmm. I'm surprised her soil isn't hard as rock right now. Mine in MO sure is, as it's been a very cold winter (as with just about everywhere in the US).
I'll have to be waiting at least a month or so, I think.
Good point overall about bare-root though. I'll be planting some hazelnut, elderberry, and probably some others this Spring.
She's in about zone 7, thanks to the ocean. Not super cold.
And yeah – get those trees in the ground!
This is the first year I have tried planting bare root, I am praying I didn't go overboard with it! I planted Shinseiki pear, Methley plum, Florida King peach, Hall's Hardy almond, elderberry, and Chickasaw plum. Lord willing my Muscovy ducks I've had for 6 months have taken care of the grasshopper problem that has killed all the other fruit trees I have planted!!


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"Sripada Madhvacarya took his birth at Udupi, which is situated in the South Kanarada district of South India, just west of Sahyadri. This is the chief city of the South Kanarada province and is near the city of Mangalore, which is situated to the south of Udupi. In the city of Udupi is a place called Pajaka-ksetra, where Madhvacarya took his birth in a Sivalli-brahmana dynasty as the son of Madhyageha Bhatta, in the year 1040 Sakabda (A.D. 1119). According to some, he was born in the year 1160 Sakabda (A.D. 1239).
In his childhood Madhvacarya was known as Vasudeva, and there are some wonderful stories surrounding him. It is said that once when his father had piled up many debts, Madhvacarya converted tamarind seeds into actual coins to pay them off. When he was five years old, he was offered the sacred thread. A demon named Maniman lived near his abode in the form of a snake, and at the age of five Madhvacarya killed that snake with the toe of his left foot. When his mother was very much disturbed, he would appear before her in one jump. He was a great scholar even in childhood, and although his father did not agree, he accepted sannyasa at the age of twelve. Upon receiving sannyasa from Acyuta Preksa, he received the name Purnaprajna Tirtha. After traveling all over India, he finally discussed scriptures with Vidyasankara, the exalted leader of Srngeri-matha. Vidyasankara was actually diminished in the presence of Madhvacarya. Accompanied by Satya Tirtha, Madhvacarya went to Badarikasrama. It was there that he met Vyasadeva and explained his commentary on the Bhagavad-gita before him. Thus he became a great scholar by studying before Vyasadeva.
By the time he came to the Ananda-matha from Badarikasrama, Madhvacarya had finished his commentary on the Bhagavad-gita. His companion Satya Tirtha wrote down the entire commentary. When Madhvacarya returned from Badarikasrama, he went to Ganjama, which is on the bank of the river Godavari. There he met with two learned scholars named Sobhana Bhatta and Svami Sastri. Later these scholars became known in the disciplic succession of Madhvacarya as Padmanabha Tirtha and Narahari Tirtha.
When he returned to Udupi, he would sometimes bathe in the ocean. On such an occasion he composed a prayer in five chapters. Once, while sitting beside the sea engrossed in meditation upon Lord Sri Krsna, he saw that a large boat containing goods for Dvaraka was in danger. He gave some signs by which the boat could approach the shore, and it was saved. The owners of the boat wanted to give him a present, and at the time Madhvacarya agreed to take some gopi-candana. He received a big lump of gopi-candana, and as it was being brought to him, it broke apart and revealed a large Deity of Lord Krsna. The Deity had a stick in one hand and a lump of food in the other. As soon as Madhvacarya received the Deity of Krsna in this way, he composed a prayer. The Deity was so heavy that not even thirty people could lift it. Madhvacarya personally brought this Deity to Udupi. Madhvacarya had eight disciples, all of whom took sannyasa from him and became directors of his eight monasteries. Worship of the Lord Krsna Deity is still going on at Udupi according to the plans Madhvacarya established.
Madhvacarya then for the second time visited Badarikasrama. While he was passing through Maharashtra, the local king was digging a big lake for the public benefit. As Madhvacarya passed through that area with his disciples, he was also obliged to help in the excavation. After some time, when Madhvacarya visited the king, he engaged the king in that work and departed with his disciples.
Often in the province of Ganga-pradesa there were fights between Hindus and Muslims. The Hindus were on one bank of the river, and the Muslims on the other. Due to the community tension, no boat was available for crossing the river. The Muslim soldiers were always stopping passengers on the other side, but Madhvacarya did not care for these soldiers. He crossed the river anyway, and when he met the soldiers on the other side, he was brought before the king. The Muslim king was so pleased with him that he wanted to give him a kingdom and some money, but Madhvacarya refused. While walking on the road, he was attacked by some dacoits, but by his bodily strength he killed them all. When his companion Satya Tirtha was attacked by a tiger, Madhvacarya separated them by virtue of his great strength. When he met Vyasadeva, he received from him the salagrama-sila known as Astamurti. After this, he summarized the Mahabharata.
Madhvacarya's devotion to the Lord and his erudite scholarship became known throughout India. Consequently the owners of the Srngeri-matha, established by Sankaracarya, became a little perturbed. At that time the followers of Sankaracarya were afraid of Madhvacarya's rising power, and they began to tease Madhvacarya's disciples in many ways. There was even an attempt to prove that the disciplic succession of Madhvacarya was not in line with Vedic principles. A person named Pundarika Puri, a follower of the Mayavada philosophy of Sankaracarya, came before Madhvacarya to discuss the sastras. It is said that all of Madhvacarya's books were taken away, but later they were found with the help of King Jayasimha, ruler of Kumla. In discussion, Pundarika Puri was defeated by Madhvacarya. A great personality named Trivikramacarya, who was a resident of Visnumangala, became Madhvacarya's disciple, and his son later became Narayanacarya, the composer of Sri Madhva-vijaya. After the death of Trivikramacarya, the younger brother of Narayanacarya took sannyasa and later became known as Visnu Tirtha.
It was reputed that there was no limit to the bodily strength of Purnaprajna, Madhvacarya. There was a person named Kadanjari who was famed for possessing the strength of thirty men. Madhvacarya placed the big toe of his foot upon the ground and asked the man to separate it from the ground, but the great strong man could not do so even after great effort. Srila Madhvacarya passed from this material world at the age of eighty while writing a commentary on the Aitareya Upanisad. For further information about Madhvacarya, one should read Madhva-vijaya, by Narayanacarya.
The acaryas of the Madhva-sampradaya established Udupi as the chief center, and the monastery there was known as Uttararadhi-matha. A list of the different centers of the Madhvacarya-sampradaya can be found at Udupi, and their matha commanders are (1) Visnu Tirtha (Soda-matha), (2) Janardana Tirtha (Krsnapura-matha), (3) Vamana Tirtha (Kanura-matha), (4) Narasimha Tirtha (Adamara-matha), (5) Upendra Tirtha (Puttugi-matha), (6) Rama Tirtha (Sirura-matha), (7) Hrsikesa Tirtha (Palimara-matha), and (8) Aksobhya Tirtha (Pejavara-matha). The disciplic succession of the Madhvacarya-sampradaya is as follows (the dates are those of birth): (1) Hamsa Paramatma; (2) Caturmukha Brahma; (3) Sanakadi; (4) Durvasa; (5) Jnananidhi; (6) Garuda-vahana; (7) Kaivalya Tirtha; (8) Jnanesa Tirtha; (9) para Tirtha; (10) Satyaprajna Tirtha; (11) Prajna Tirtha; (12) Acyuta Preksacarya Tirtha; (13) Sri Madhvacarya, 1040 Saka; (14) Padmanabha, 1120; Narahari, 1127; Madhava, 1136; and Aksobhya 1159; (15) Jaya Tirtha, 1167; (16) Vidyadhiraja, 1190; (17) Kavindra, 1255; (18) Vagisa, 1261; (19) Ramacandra, 1269; (20) Vidyanidhi, 1298; (21) Sri Raghunatha, 1366; (22) Rayuvarya (who spoke with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu), 1424; (23) Raghuttama, 1471; (24) Vedavyasa, 1517; (25) Vidyadhisa, 1541; (26) Vedanidhi, 1553; (27) Satyavrata, 1557; (28) Satyanidhi, 1560; (29) Satyanatha, 1582; (30) Satyabhinava, 1595; (31) Satyapurna, 1628; (32) Satyavijaya, 1648; (33) Satyapriya, 1659; (34) Satyabodha, 1666; (35) Satyasandha, 1705; (36) Satyavara, 1716; (37) Satyadharma, 1719; (38) Satyasankalpa, 1752; (39) Satyasantusta, 1763; (40) Satyaparayana, 1763; (41) Satyakama, 1785; (42) Satyesta, 1793; (43) Satyaparakrama, 1794; (44) Satyadhira, 1801; (45) Satyadhira Tirtha, 1808. (For approximate Christian era dates, add seventy-nine years.)
After the sixteenth acarya (Vidyadhiraja Tirtha), there was another disciplic succession, including Rajendra Tirtha, 1254; Vijayadhvaja; Purusottama; Subrahmanya; and Vyasa Raya, 1470-1520. The nineteenth acarya, Ramacandra Tirtha, had another disciplic succession, including Vibudhendra, 1218; Jitamitra, 1348; Raghunandana; Surendra; Vijendra; Sudhindra; and Raghavendra Tirtha, 1545.
To date, in the Udupi monastery there are another fourteen Madhva-tirtha sannyasis. As stated, Udupi is situated beside the sea in South Kanarada, about thirty-six miles north of Mangalore.
Most of the information in this purport is available from the South Kanada Manual and the Bombay Gazette.
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Why entrepreneurs choose to be in the East Midlands
LDC is showcasing the entrepreneurial East Midlands as part of its Backing Business Ambition tour to uncover Britain's most inspiring businesses
Dan Robinson
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Throughout 2017, LDC - the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group - is searching the entrepreneurial heartlands of England, Scotland and Wales as part of its Backing Business Ambition tour, to uncover and showcase Britain's most inspiring and ambitious businesses. Today, it's the turn of the East Midlands.
The East Midlands is the fastest-growing economy outside of London, home to many bold entrepreneurs and innovative companies.
This is down, in part, to its impressive industrial heritage and the more recent diversification into service sectors, all boosted by its central geographic location and ever-improving transport links.
Many of the entrepreneurs who base their businesses in the region do not believe they could be successful anywhere else. Here, we speak to four of the most ambitious.
From IT outsourcing specialist Agilitas and legal software firm Peppermint Technology, to pram-maker Babystyle and savoury pastry manufacturer Addo Group.
All of these firms embody the entrepreneurial spirit which is helping drive the East Midlands economy.
Babystyle strolls into success
Babystyle created the egg stroller buggy
Innovation now lies at the heart of Babystyle's growth strategy, but this wasn't always its main driver. The pram maker calls Sileby in Leicestershire home, but started its life importing strollers from Sweden.
"After several years, the market changed – and the pram didn't," says managing director Andy Crane. "So, we decided to take control of our destiny."
Ever since 1999, the company has been inventing its own products. "A few years ago, we realised that all the pushchairs were quite angular," Crane says.
"We wanted to create something with sweeping lines that oozed quality."
The company spent over £750,000 ($1m) and two years creating the Egg, which has become an international bestseller.
Babystyle grew 26pc last year to hit a turnover of £14m, and the business is on target to generate £16m in revenues this year. "We've always focused on the UK," says Crane. "But over the last five years, we've been diversifying into export markets. This year we're hoping to reach 40 countries around the world."
Meet Agilitas, the IT specialist's IT specialist
Agilitas provides IT services, ranging from onsite and remote technical support to IT spare parts, for customers across 39 countries
"We've been on a rollercoaster ride," says Agilitas chief executive Shaun Lynn. "We used to be owned by a FTSE 100 plc, following that I led the management buy-out to form Agilitas. We rebranded and set some ambitious targets and are now a fast-growing business looking to scale up."
The Nottingham-based firm provides all kinds of IT services, from onsite and remote technical support to IT spare parts, for customers across 39 countries.
Agilitas helps its customers outsource the IT they don't have the expertise to run in-house.
"We're confident there's a lot more growth in this space," says Lynn. "With us, you can get what you want when you want it".
The business offers its services under a white-label proposition – when its client IBM uses Agilitas, the end user thinks that it's an IBM technician they are dealing with.
Today, the business is 8.5-times the size it was when it became a single entity in 2013. "We're continually increasing our services, recently adding field engineering, and enterprise networking," says Lynn. "We're on track to break through £10m in revenue."
Agilitas is already an international player with a foothold in the US and a growing customer base across the Asia-Pacific region. Lynn adds: "It's been an interesting journey. Within the next five years we could be a £50m turnover business."
A Peppermint-fresh take on legal services
Peppermint Technology builds software for law firms
Arlene Adams came up with the idea for her business, Peppermint Technology , while working for a former employer. She was a dealmaker tasked with acquiring several companies that built software for law firms.
"But I thought the software was backwards," she reveals. "It was old-fashioned and limited the law firms' potential."
Adams also knew that a big legislative change was in the pipeline, which would shake up the legal sector. The Legal Services Act, which came into force in 2012, opened up the industry, allowing non-lawyers to enter the market.
"I started the business to help mid-market law firms survive in a competitive field full of new entrants," says Adams.
Peppermint's software now helps its users deliver a much more efficient and effective service to their clients. But back in 2010, friends and colleagues told Adams she was "mad".
"People told us we could never make it work," she says. The business cost "millions" to build and also leverages the Microsoft Dynamics platform, which adds "billions" in software development nous to the final product, according to Adams.
Today, the Nottingham-based company, which employs 70 people, is expanding beyond the UK for the first time. This will generate double-digit revenue growth, Adams claims. "Our goal is to be the market leader in legal services across the globe."
Vision to value: LDC backs secondary buy-out of Addo Food Group
The Too Good to be Gluten Free pie by Addo Food Group
Earlier this year, LDC backed the secondary buyout of Addo Food Group , the UK's leading chilled savoury pastry producer.
Headquartered in Nottingham, Addo produces more than 287 million packs of own brand and branded chilled savoury pastry products every year. These are supplied to the major supermarkets and other food retailers across the UK.
The business is responsible for some of the nation's best-known and most loved brands including Walls savoury pastry and Pork Farms. It also created the 'Too Good to Be' range which consists of gluten-free sweet and savoury pastry products - the first of its kind. Last year it also introduced 'Tottle' a range of premium pork pies.
LDC's investment will support Addo's continued growth strategy, which will include further investment in product innovation, expansion into new markets through organic growth and potential acquisitions in adjacent markets
Chris Peters, group managing director at Addo Food Group, said: "We are very excited about our partnership with LDC, to help us further unlock the potential we see in the market.
"LDC has really bought into our vision and plan, and the whole Addo management team is looking forward to working with our customers, our employees and our investment partners to deliver the next exciting phase of our growth story over the coming months and years."
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The East Midlands is home to many vibrant industries, writes John Green, the Head of LDC in the East Midlands:
"Sectors such as life sciences and pharmaceuticals have thrived because of Nottingham's BioCity, whereas the region's excellent transport links have bolstered our logistics prowess.
It's part of the reason why courier service Panther Warehousing is thriving. We backed the management buyout of the Northampton-headquartered business last year to drive further growth and invest in its operations, and turnover has doubled to £30m in just over two years.
The advantage of the East Midlands is its central location, which helps it do business with the rest of the UK. Transport links are improving all the time and the government's Midlands Engine strategy is set to drive further growth.
At LDC, we pride ourselves on operating a regional model. Being on the ground means we can respond quickly to firms hungry for investment, and work closely with our portfolio companies when they need support.
Across the Midlands we have invested in more than 25 diverse businesses over the last five years, providing nearly £550m of growth capital. Entrepreneurial spirit is thriving here and we shape our deals, and the support we offer, to suit the management teams with the ambition to grow."
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Q: What does it mean double free detected in tcache 2 while using mpz? I use this program to store a mpz value but when I add a 0 (
400000000000000000000000000000000000000 instead of 40000000000000000000000000000000000000 -> 38 0s instead of 37) I get

free(): double free detected in tcache 2
Aborted (core dumped)

#include <iostream>
#include <gmpxx.h>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

int main(const int argc, const char * const argv[])
{
char *str= (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*1024);
mpz_class l;
l=40000000000000000000000000000000000000_mpz;
mpz_set_str(l.get_mpz_t(), str, 10);
cout<<endl<<str;
return 0;
}

Is there a possibility to store large numbers?
Thank you

A: Your code has undefined behaviour because you are trying to assign l from an uninitialised array str.
I'm guessing you got your functions confused and meant to write the opposite
mpz_get_str(str, 10, l.get_mpz_t());

That code assigns l to str.
Use the following code to work out how big str needs to be
size_t size = mpz_sizeinbase(l.get_mpz_t(), 10) + 2;

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Dragonball Evolution - BULMA!
Dragonball Evolution (The Movie) - Series 01 - Bulma - Bandai 2009
It seems like every time an anime series becomes a certified worldwide success, some genius decides to make a live action version which almost never holds up. Big ones that come to mind are The Last Airbender, Ghost in the Shell, and Alita: Battle Angel. These movies often have mixed reviews, but are usually far less successful than their source material. One of the most universally panned examples is Dragonball: Evolution from 2009 (with a dismal 15% on Rotten Tomatoes). I never saw the movie, but the consensus seems that the story was muddy, the characters weren't engaging, the CGI was inconsistent, and the movie overall was full of lame clichés. The reviews are very entertaining, and they actually make me want to watch it. Bandai had high hopes and pushed out a toy line in 2008 with both 6" and 3.75" figures. The sole female release was a 3.75" Bulma (played by Emmy Rossum). Bulma is the token female typically portrayed as a brilliant scientist and creator. Let's check her out below!
There is a Rite-Aid I frequent and this figure has been hanging in their (meager excuse for a) toy aisle collecting dust with a price tag of $17.99 and a stubborn refusal to be clearanced for 12 years. I'm sure she's still there. But luckily I found her for five bucks in a toy shop this Summer and finally satisfied my compulsion to buy her.
Bulma comes with a Dragonball, a piece of the 7-piece Altar, and the Left arm of the Build-a-Figure Oozaru.
Time for a Comparison Pic!
So it seems I forgot to take all my customary comparison photos. But I did snap this pic of her next to the 2011 3.75" ThunderCats Cheetara, also from Bandai. They both have the same unique hip articulation (angled hip swivels immediately paired with upper thigh swivels). It's simple but effective.
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It is the first federal cabinet posting for Murray, who has represented the riding of Vancouver Quadra since 2008. She placed second behind Trudeau when he overwhelmingly won the Liberal Party's leadership race in 2013.
Murray was previously serving as the parliament secretary to the president of the Treasury Board. She held multiple cabinet roles during her time as a member of British Columbia's Legislative Assembly.
This is the third federal cabinet shuffle in the past three months.
The first was undertaken after Scott Brison resigned as Treasury Board president. In that shuffle in January, Philpott was appointed as Brison's replacement and Jody Wilson-Raybould was moved from attorney general and justice minister to minister of Veterans Affairs. The next cabinet shuffle was triggered by Wilson-Raybould's resignation.
Philpott resigned two weeks ago, saying in a public letter that she had "lost confidence" in the Trudeau government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin controversy.
Philpott cited cabinet solidarity as justification for her decision, saying that she couldn't be expected to defend decisions of the government that she didn't agree with.
"In Canada, the constitutional convention of Cabinet solidarity means, among other things, that ministers are expected to defend all cabinet decisions," Philpott wrote.
Philpott was considered one of Trudeau's most capable ministers and had repeatedly been moved to positions of importance within cabinet. Carla Qualtrough, the minister of Public Service and Procurement, oversaw the Treasury Board as its acting president for two weeks.


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Recently a relative asked me whether or not it was a good idea to accept a job in Kyrgyzstan. I told him that I couldn't see an upside to the offer, but admitted that, this blog notwithstanding, I knew nothing at all about the place. Since then I've meant to conduct a brief Internet search to learn more about the republic. Although I never did get around to it, the new issue of Russian Life has offered me my first glimpse of the area.
Apparently, Kyrgyzstan is home to ethnic diversity (Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Tajiks, and Cossack Russians primarily), religious diversity (Islam and Orthodox Christianity), Communist-era ruins (Lenin statues, Communist-era street names), Mosques and Orthodox churches, various tourist activities (dead goat polo, horse trekking, yurt camping, opera, watersports, mountain climbing), a unique and short-legged horse species (Przewalski's Horse), a spectacular mountain range (Tien Shan), and a beautiful lake, Issy-Kul, which is enormous and never freezes over. The country is as large as Nebraska but almost all of it is over 1500 meters above sea level, according to Russian Life. Historically, the area lay along the Silk Road and was once home to Mongols, Turkic nomads, and Scythian. Russian influence in this former Soviet Republic is not hard to detect, although the editor claims that the ethnic Russian population has already fallen from 22 percent in 1989 to 9 percent today. That influence was initiated by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky, a Russian explorer, geographer, naturalist, Sinophobe, and soldier.
And what of Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyzstan Republic? According to Sophie Ibbotson and Max Lovell-Hoare of Russian Life, the city is home to one fifth of the country as well as Russian and American air force bases. It's also a somewhat gloomy city, filled with ancient cars, slush and ice, and Stalinist-era apartment buildings. Bishkek, formally named Brunze in honor of a local man who became a leading Bolshevik and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, was once home to an ethnic Slavic majority (Russians, Ukrainians, etc.) who helped to modernize the country and integrate its economy with that of the Soviet Union, at great cost to local nomadic traditions of course. In fact, as late as 1991, the authors say that 89 percent of the population voted to remain within a renewed post-Soviet federation. At independence, Bishkek suffered a severe shock when it was cut off from its main trading partners. Overnight, the economy shrank, GDP fell, and professionals and ethnic Europeans fled. Worse, the country soon fell victim to political-ethnic rivalries and one of the worst corruption rankings in the world.
The attacks of September 11 had an immediate impact and Kyrgyzstan and its beleaguered economy. America's military and political presence expanded rapidly, and Russia's own diplomatic and military presence soon followed suit. What is more, America's involvement triggered contact from a host of NGOs and businesses. Since then, the country has been torn by fierce political, ethnic, and Great Power rivalry.
It is my hope that this relative, or his spouse, will in the near future provide Soviet Roulette with more specific reports on the country and the legacy of its Soviet past.
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Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Kasie West, I Love You So Mochi is a delightfully sweet and irrepressibly funny novel from accomplished author Sarah Kuhn.
Kimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement.
She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entire future seems on the verge of falling apart. So when a surprise letter comes in the mail from Kimi's estranged grandparents, inviting her to Kyoto for spring break, she seizes the opportunity to get away from the disaster of her life.
When she arrives in Japan, she's met with a culture both familiar and completely foreign to her. She loses herself in the city's outdoor markets, art installations, and cherry blossom festival -- and meets Akira, a cute aspiring med student who moonlights as a costumed mochi mascot. And what begins as a trip to escape her problems quickly becomes a way for Kimi to learn more about the mother she left behind, and to figure out where her own heart lies.
In I Love You So Mochi, author Sarah Kuhn has penned a delightfully sweet and irrepressibly funny novel that will make you squee at the cute, cringe at the awkward, and show that sometimes you have to lose yourself in something you love to find your Ultimate self.
Sarah Kuhn is on a quest to eat every kind of mochi in the greater Los Angeles area. She is the author of the Heroine Complex series and has penned a variety of comics and short fiction about geeks, aliens, romance, and Barbie (yes, that Barbie). Additionally, Sarah is a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. In her spare time, she thinks way too much about one day adopting a pug and the lasting legacy of Claudia Kishi. A third-generation Japanese American, she lives in LA with her husband and an overflowing closet of vintage treasures. You can find Sarah online at heroinecomplex.com.


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Mancini issues Balotelli warning
Mancini was fuming with Dynamo Kiev's time-wasting tactics as City crashed out of the Europa League on Thursday night, but that fury was matched with the anger Mancini reserved for Balotelli, who was sent off after 36 minutes for a ridiculous challenge on Goran Popov.
"I don't think he will be in the squad," said the Italian as he looked ahead to Sunday's game against Chelsea. "I didn't see the foul properly but I am very disappointed because in a game like this it is very difficult if you pick up a red card, and you can pick up a red card for doing something stupid,"
Right in front of both the referee and his assistant, Balotelli put his studs into the chest of the Dynamo defender, then shoved them into his thigh for good measure.
Mancini added: "The problem for Mario is that he thinks he could be a fantastic player. But when he does something stupid like that, it is difficult for me, difficult for him and difficult for the team."
Although Balotelli's suspension will not kick in until next year, Mancini must wonder how long he can maintain any trust in the 20-year-old, who for all his exceptional ability, at times is an acute liability.
Not that Balotelli was the only subject for Mancini to grumble about. The City boss was incensed by Dynamo's time-wasting tactics.
"Every time they dived and every time the referee saw it," he groaned. "But that is what happens. That is it."
Mancini's complaints were met with a sharp rebuttal from Dynamo coach Yuri Semin.
"It is part of football," he shrugged. "There were some quite serious clashes. It was a tough game out there. That is why the referee gave quite a few yellow cards."
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Pandemic has been on my want list since the day the blurb for it was posted. It's one of those games--like Dune, Khronos, or King of Siam--whose concept alone is enough to get me excited. And that excitement continues after 3 plays.
The components are top notch. The box is super sturdy, perhaps the thickness of Mission: Red Planet, but made of the same materials as more standard boardgames. The cards are thick and coated, but not sticky. They aren't cut as perfectly as playing cards, but they shuffle well enough. The board is smooth, almost glossy, but not plastic feeling. The bits are nice, if a little chunky for the playing surface. But other than setup (all players and a research station in Atlanta), there's rarely too much to handle in one location. I didn't get a look at the insert; it had been discarded before I arrived. I'll try my best to salvage it when I get my copy of the game. My only minor gripe is with the role cards. They all have a dark purple background with a small colored pawn making it a little difficult to tell who's who from across the table.
The system for the spread of diseases and Epidemics is inspired. One card per city in the player deck and the Infection deck: My intuition would have been that this wasn't enough. Putting the discard pile on top of the draw deck after each Epidemic: My intuition would have said this was too likely to leave much of the world untouched. But it all works very well, and keeps the tension high all the way through.
I would describe the infection system as semi-random. Cards are drawn from a shuffled deck, each causing a new disease cube to appear. If a 4th cube of a given color is to be placed, then a cube of that color is placed on each adjacent city instead. This is called an Outbreak and can potentially cause a chain reaction of Outbreaks.
However, at any given time, you do know things. There are 9 cards in the discard pile from the setup. As each card appears, it cannot be drawn again until after the next Epidemic. Once an Epidemic occurs, you know you will be drawing all the cards that were in the discard pile before you draw any new cards. Each Epidemic can only occur in a city whose card has never been drawn before (from the bottom of the deck). So it's a constrained kind of random. You can make plans, even beyond dealing with the current situation.
The 5 player roles (Medic, Scientist, Operations Expert, Researcher, Dispatcher) are all fun to play. In my 3rd game, I was the Dispatcher. His special ability is that he can move other players, and can also move any player to another player. My first thought was that it wouldn't be as fun because you are essentially letting other players do the important and/or fun stuff (treating/curing diseases). So very wrong! Being able to continually put people exactly where they need to be in order to use their respective abilities is a very fun part of the game. In fact, the Dispatcher role may be the one with the most cooperative nature since his use requires the most planning and agreement. I would play that role any time.
I would recommend Pandemic to anyone who doesn't vomit at the sight of wooden cubes. The copy I played tonight had already been played 9 times in its first week. In fact, Z-man sold out the first print run in less than a month! How often does that happen?
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At 12:40 PM, Seth Jaffee said...
I finally saw Pandemic at OrcCon a couple weeks ago, Eric Burgess was running a demo of it. I watched a game, then played a game, and later played another to teach it.
My first reaction to the game was that it was pretty good for a coop game - better than Lord of the Rings, and Shadows over Camelot - for a number of reasons:
* The theme is very strong, and connected to the gameplay. Some people complain that in SoC the card play doesn't feel like you're fighting a dragon or searching for the grail. In Pandemic, it really feels like disease is spreading, and that you're running around the country trying to treat and cure it.
* LotR and SoC have a sort of system, and once a group learns the system, it gets easier to win the game. SoC complicates this with the traitor, but it's still sort of true. In Pandemic there doesn't seem to be a system - the only way to get "better" at the game is to get better at teamwork. This is the first cooperative game I've played where I feel like that is true.
Unfortunately, there was one big downside I initially saw in Pandemic... it suffers from the same problem all cooperative games suffer from. it's solitaire. It's not even multi-player solitaire, just solitaire! To maximize chances of winning, it's in the players' best interest to (a) always reveal all the information they have, and (b) come up with 1 unified course of action. Because any 1 player can come up with a course of action, it's often the case that a single loud or stubborn player basically plays the game, while the rest of the players do nothing. In fact, while I played at OrcCon, a gentleman who had walked up and was watching ended up barking orders to the players.
In Pandemic, you're not supposed to show your cards, but you're allowed to discuss what's in your hand. Since reciting your cards is equivalent to showing them, it makes little sense to hide the information and then reveal it verbally over and over, and we were learning, so we played with our cards face up. This makes it easier for the "alpha gamer" in the group to sort of run the show - I was doing so despite trying not to!
After some discussion on BGG, it occurred to me that the point of the game isn't necessarily to have each player play their own turn separately, but for the group to discuss and come to a consensus as to what that best course of action is, then act accordingly. The problem of course is with the group dynamics of said discussion... which could easily consist of that alpha gamer just saying "do this, we have to do this" a lot.
What was pointed out in the BGG threads was that hiding the information and making people share it verbally might actually make it harder for the Alpha gamer to plan everyone's turn than to really just cooperate. Sure, you could recite your hand every turn, but perhaps it'd be more time effective to use teamwork than to feed information to the decision maker.
this said, I think Pandemic could be a very interesting team game - especially if a time element were introduced. I'd love to play the game with hidden cards, team vs team, with a clock... where the point isn't just to cure the diseases, but to do it fastest. this could work in a single game as well with a countdown timer, where you lose if time on the clock runs out. Alternatively, a group could simply time their games, and see if they can get faster.
I posted something about that in the variant forums on BGG, as well as a way to play competitive Pandemic, where each player plays solitaire with a duplicate deck - another format I think would be fun.
At 11:56 AM, Ryan Walberg said...
What Seth said. If you're going to allow players to tell each other what they're holding, why would you prevent them from disclosing their hands?
It sounds like the best course of play is obvious, no appeal to me.
At 12:27 PM, ekted said...
Maybe it's from inexperience, but at no point except maybe the final winning play in our 2nd game, did I feel that there was only one best choice. Each player had different ideas, and was free to do what they wanted with their character. That's how coop games work. We rarely stated what cards we held other than taking a roll to figure which disease to cure and who should do it, or when we really needed to get somewhere fast.
Ryan: I totally agreed with you at first, however the BGG threads enlightened me to 2 things. First, Matthew Modine mentioned that hiding hands but allowing free verbal disclosure of cards, while functionally equivalent while playing solitaire, actually makes you communicate with your teammates. This may seem like a chore, because you and I want to just be given all the info so we can make a plan, but it actually forces teamwork and cooperation. I have a feeling it'll be too tedious to actually recite all the contents of your hand, and more efficient to just make a strategic plan and trust your teammates to execute their responsibilities on their own, and let you know if they draw something that'll help another teammate.
Second, it's possible that the "best course of play" which is "obvious" to one player, may not be the same course which is "obvious" to another player. And without seeing all the cards, it's not clear what that "best course of play" is to any given player. I think perhaps the idea is that the group is supposed to discuss and figure out what the "best course of play" is. I think maybe hiding the cards will make that come through more than showing them and letting 1 player (each player?) figure out their own "best course."


Fire-brand human rights lawyer, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has been appointed patron of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Okitipupa Branch. The investiture ceremony will take place during the Annual Law Week of the branch on February 1, 2019.
In a letter dated December 14, 2018 and jointly signed by Messrs Omololu Bagbe and Experience Ojubulu, the branch Chairman and Secretary respectively, the branch stated that Adegboruwa was chosen because of the "collective realization for the need to have a strong and highly resourceful backbone for the branch.
Adegboruwa hails from Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State and practices frequently in Okitipupa and other courts in the state.
It is recalled that Adegboruwa was recently appointed chairman of the Justice Sector Programme Commission of the African Bar Association (ABA).


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TV3 to return with Christmas special to rival Late Late Toy Show
RTE's iconic Late Late Toy Show last year was the second most watched programme on Irish telly this century
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Ryan Tubridy pictured withJulia Dempsey (8) from Carlow, left and Cara Hayes (9) from Dublin on the set of last year's Late Late Toy Show (Image: Colin Keegan Collins)
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TV3 is expected to host a Christmas toy show to rival RTE's again this year.
Alan Hughes let slip that Ballymount bosses are preparing for another Christmas cracker and he thinks they're lining him up to present it.
He said: "I got a message from the head of Daytime at TV3 yesterday asking me if I was free at the end of November.
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"There was talk of a Toy Show. I don't know what the story is but I presume they must be looking for me to do it."
RTE's iconic Late Late Toy Show last year was the second most watched programme on Irish telly this century, pulling in more than 360,000 viewers.
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Despite the competition, Hughes insisted he's not worried.
Hughes told The Irish Sun: "That's a huge audience for TV3 and a show with kids and toys is a nice thing to do at Christmas.
"The TV3 Toy Show never aired at the same time as the Late Late Show. We went on a bit earlier before the kids went to bed.
"It's impossible to compete with The Late Late Toy Show because RTE's budget is so huge. They have people working on that show months in advance, that's why it's one of the biggest shows on Irish TV."
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Q: Current time API / Exact time detection via API Today, for the first time, I am trying to get the right time through the API. I don't understand' please help.
I am using the http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/ site to determine the exact time. But I didn't understand how to use it in JAVA and what codes to write. Please send me a snippet of code or codes. I don't know what codes to write. Thank you!

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*If you want to get the current time, you can use the default Java libraries such as java.time for this (see java.time.LocalDateTime or java.LocalTime). Since you're not guaranteed to get the correct time with an API anyway - say the server is overloaded and response takes a long time. See https://mkyong.com/java/java-how-to-get-current-date-time-date-and-calender/

*If your goal is to just learn to send HTTP requests you can do so with the java.net package. See https://www.baeldung.com/java-http-request or https://www.baeldung.com/java-9-http-client if using a more modern version of Java


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Pressler's in the hot seat again
By Jennifer Waters
Gap chief executive has to execute or be fired, some say
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Let the countdown begin.
A handful of analysts are betting promises by Gap Inc. GPS, -0.43% Chief Executive Paul Pressler this week that his three top divisions -- the Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy -- will return to their glory days as must-go destinations for casual, comfortable fashions in the second half of this year are more of the same: empty.
Should he fail to deliver gains in same-store sales and significant operating improvements out of his more than 3,000 retail stores, the analysts think that he should be fired.
"I have to believe that [the board] is laying down the gauntlet for the second half," C.L. King & Associates analyst Mark Montagna said Friday. "If the divisions don't perform in the second half, there will be so much pressure to get rid of him."
In the nearly five years under Pressler's watch, he has done a stunning job of turning around the balance sheet of the company by wiping out huge chunks of debt and building a strong flow of cash.
But the same can't be said for the retail stores, which have seen same-store sales (an important industry measure of receipts rung up at stores open longer than a year) decline or fall flat in 14 of the last 15 months.
On Thursday, Gap turned in a 17% drop in first-quarter sales, hurt by slumping sales and fashion misses. Same-store sales in the quarter tumbled 9%, as results at Old Navy lagged 11%, Banana Republic dropped 5% and Gap's domestic division fell 8%. International comparable-store sales were lower by 11%.See full story.
The biggest problem is traffic. People just aren't coming into the stores because they don't like what they see on the racks.
On the late-day conference call with analysts and investors, Pressler vowed again, nearly verbatim from prior calls, that he and other top executives at the apparel giant "remain confident in our turnaround strategies under way in each of our businesses."
Repeating promises he made in both the third and fourth quarters of the last fiscal year, the chief executive said that the tide would turn in the second half of 2006.
'If the divisions don't perform in the second half, there will be so much pressure to get rid of [CEO Paul Pressler].'
Mark Montagna, C.L. King & Associates
The colors and American-casual style that people have so long associated with Gap would be back and prove popular again, according to Pressler. The missed fashion trends (think embellished denim) are a thing of the past. Advertising will be back in its full, powerful force and Old Navy is even looking for a replacement to the Magic the Dog mascot.
"Across the business, in addition to focusing on product, we are working to drive our traffic," Pressler asserted. He added that "improving the core business [is] clearly our top priority."
A contingent of analysts aren't convinced. "Management has sounded like a broken record for some time, contending that product improvements are on the horizon," independent analyst Jennifer Black said.
"Unfortunately, in quarters past, we have not seen these claims come to fruition," she commented. "We still find all three division's product assortments to be lacking in comparison to most of the competition."
By Black and Montagna's thinking, July will be the first sign of what lies ahead for the important back-to-school and holiday-shopping seasons.
Considering that competing retailers have surged in the last few years -- with new concepts and aggressive expansions coming from Children's Place PLCE, -0.87% and Guess Inc. GES, +1.03% to Men's Wearhouse MW -- many don't believe that the Gap can ever regain its crown as the king of casual.
"They'll probably never get there again, ever," said C.L. King's Montagna.
Another industry watcher, Richard Jaffe of Stifel Nicolaus, wondered on what Gap managers were basing their pledges. "Management ... has a plan; it is executing to that plan and supporting it in every way possible," he wrote in a note to clients.
"Management is giving it its best shot. And management has to, because every season that Gap isn't aggressively regaining market share, it is losing market share, making it that much tougher to come back," Jaffe said. "In apparel retailing, with consumption growing 2% to 4% annually, you either grow or die."
Certainly there are those holding on to hope. "We think management is trying to pull every lever they can to affect a turnaround in the fall season," Bank of America Securities analyst Dana Cohen wrote in a note. She has a buy rating on the stock.
But even Cohen is skeptical: "Either the current team will fix the business in short order, or time will run out and the board will take more dramatic action."
Jennifer Waters
Jennifer Waters is a MarketWatch columnist based in Chicago. Follow her on Twitter @JenWatersMKW.
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Run Club's 3 Year Anniversary!
On Tuesday, August 21, the Grounds Café Run Club celebrated its 3rd anniversary! The group has met up every week, rain or shine, for the past few years. Runners and walkers alike are welcome to attend Run Club, which typically follows a three or six mile loop through the neighborhood. Members have developed lasting friendships and a community all its own within Wendell Falls.
Run Club meets every Tuesday on the Farmhouse Patio at 6:30pm and heads out as a group. And don't rush off when you finish your sweat sesh! Kick back with an ice cold draft and close down Grounds Café with your running buddies. Follow Grounds Café on Instagram and Facebook for updates!


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/ Egypt's New Year Resolution – NYTimes.com
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Egypt's New Year Resolution – NYTimes.com
EGYPT is in turmoil, and many so-called experts have concluded that religion is the cause. It is not.
The source of turmoil is the gap between expectations of speedy change by those who made the people's revolution two years ago and the slow process of building an entirely new society.
Throughout my life I have never seen Egyptians expressing such an intense feeling of national ownership. This is one of the most important rewards of the revolution. The people are thirsty for real democracy after the revolution empowered them to seek their rights.
They may have been patient for 30 years of Hosni Mubarak's reign, yet are impatient with the progress made so far precisely because it is their own expectations they must live up to.
The liberals and protesters are fearful of a return to dictatorship. The Islamists who have suffered for decades from jailings, torture and underground struggle now have the above-ground legitimacy to govern and do not wish to go back to their unfavorable status.
Besides this political divide, there exists the silent majority, the so-called "Kanaba Party," or the couch party, which is sitting and waiting — and will vote when the opportunity arises — for the return of normal life.
One middle-class Egyptian Muslim, Ahmed Mostafa, told me, "A president from the Muslim Brotherhood is fine with me, but he should rule guided by our Islamic values and not in line with his Gamaa ideology." Al Gamaa al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group, is one of Egypt's largest extremist organizations.
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Author: Stephen Ashfield
The History of the WWE Royal Rumble
Post author By Stephen Ashfield
To begin the story of the Royal Rumble, we need really to go back to late 1987 and the continuing rise of the Vince McMahon empire at the expense of anyone who got in his way Standing between Vince and further success was Jim Crockett and the NWA. Starrcade had been their biggest show and not just in arenas but on closed circuit too. The 1987 event was due to be their biggest ever with the show being held in Chicago and a main event between Harley Race and Ric Flair for the NWA Heavyweight Title with over 200 cable companies agreeing to put the show on PPV…
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T3C: The History of WWE SummerSlam
Back in 1988 Vince McMahon's expansion of the World Wrestling Federation was gathering pace. Wrestlemania was well established and the previous year he'd launched The Survivor Series. Now all he needed was a massive event between the two PPVs so on 29th August 1988, Summerslam was born. It's gone on to become the second biggest PPV of the year, so it's time to take a look back at the history of this event and explain amongst many other things, why Inter-Continental Champions have every reason to be very worried when they defend their title at Summerslam…
T3C: The History of WrestleMania
When it's time for Wrestlemania, everything else fades into insignificance. We need escapism in this world, we need great entertainment and to watch great athletes. Wrestlemania is all that and more. In a Three Count special, it's time to look back over the history of the event that changed wrestling forever…
T3C: The Undertaker Never Loses at WrestleMania OK!
The arena goes dark and smoke begins to appear as the druids make their return to WrestleMania. The music that stills sends shivers down our spine echoes around the arena and another opponent of the Phenom awaits his fate. Because you see, The Undertaker never loses at WrestleMania OK! It was at the Survivor Series in 1990 that The Undertaker made his WWE debut and as the latest in a seemingly never-ending conveyor belt of gimmicks arrived, none of us could dare to believe The Deadman would still be at the top of the tree 18 years later…
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It's been a very long road indeed but on October 26th the first ever British National Championship comes to an end. Organised by IPW:UK the semi-finals and final take place at the Great Hall at Bromley Civic Centre. In the top half of the draw Zack Sabre Jr faces Terry Frazier and in the bottom half it's the new All-England Champion Johnny Moss v Dan Head. The All-England title will also be on the line so whoever wins the tournament will hold that title too. I interviewed Johnny Moss about the tournament and his hopes for this Sunday…
Full Preview of RQW No Pain No Gain 2008
No DQ Street Fight 'Rowdy' Ricky Knight and The Zebra Kid v Brett 'The Kraft' Meadows and Martin Stone You can bet your bottom dollar that when these four were deciding who to send Christmas cards to last December their opponents weren't on the list. There's no love lost between these two teams that's for […]
Mick Foley Interview – Part Two
Part two of Stephen Ashfields interview with the Hardcore Legend; Mick Foley


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I hope you all are enjoying this new series as much as I am. I feel it is very important to provide different perspectives on travel because traveling does not fit on specific format. Today, I had the great opportunity to interview Sommer Hill and Saqera Jones who both studied abroad during their sophomore year to Barcelona, Spain.
My first interview is with Sommer Hill. Sommer is currently a Senior at Howard University and majors in Broadcast Journalism. She has previously interned for Angela Rye and currently interns at WUSA where she covers various stories across the DMV area.
Where did to you travel during study abroad semester?
Milan, Paris, Pieties, Rome, Nice, Athens, Santorini, Morocco, Amsterdam, Ivies, and Seville.
How was your experience as a black woman in Europe?
I was often stared at because I wore head-wraps throughout my time there. While I was constantly stared at, I didn't experience oppression I had previously encountered in America. I felt an indescribable sense of freedom that I did not have in America.
Top 3 Things to Bring?
Camera, and walking shoes! There is SO much walking.
What was the biggest lesson you learned about yourself through traveling?
Where was your favorite place to travel and why?
Santorini, Greece! This place was so beautiful and peaceful. I was able to see God's artwork up close and become appreciative of the beauty around me. Pictures didn't even do it justice, everyone must visit!
What was your favorite activity in Barcelona?
Walking!! I walked everywhere. Walking gave the chance to become mindful of my surrounding and interact with the city around me.
Any advice to first time travelers?
Step out of your comfort zone and do things you don't feel comfortable with. Pushing past your comfort zone allows you to become the person you are meant to be. If you're scared to travel alone, GO.
I am very interested in Southeast Asia. I would love to visit Bali and Thailand.
My next interview is with Saqera Jones. Saqera is currently at Senior at Howard University and majors in Sociology. She works in the legal and government lobbying department of Comcast and NBCU on Capital Hill.
What was the biggest challenge you face traveling alone?
My biggest challenge was learning how to navigate in different cities since they all had different metro systems along with city grid systems.
How did you cope with being homesick, if you ever were?
I never really got homesick to be honest. I was around a lot of good people so I was often caught up in that excitement rather than what was going on back home.
Comfy walking shoes, reusable water bottle because the water isn't drinkable everywhere, and a journal so you can document your new experiences.
I learned that I'm very adaptable and prefer to be in countries where the people are very welcoming. I also prefer more authentic/non-touristy areas because thats how you get a real feel for the place. I also learned you have to GO WITH THE FLOW, thing won't go as planned but thats okay, thats how memories are made.
What was your favorite place to travel and why?
Greece because it was so serene and beautiful. Greece was one of the most relaxing places I've ever been to, I felt very at peace.
Don't say no! Try everything, do everything, and don't be afraid to get out of your comfort zone. Try to learn key words in that language before you go.
I would love to travel to Africa and visit South Africa, Kenya, and Senegal.
I studied abroad in Barcelona last semester, and definitely agree with everything they said! I walked almost everywhere and loved exploring. They also made me wish I got to visit Greece during my time in Europe, I've heard amazing things.


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