Please take note that the contents of Define Destiny and the remaining sequels are true to the original storyline. I want to clearly point this out to any would be purchasers that this includes point of view (head hopping) errors and the occasional typo. If you want a rollercoaster of a journey into the lives of Catherine & Jace you begin here.
In the late 1990's, when fan-fic was coming into its own via the internet, I started writing the Define Destiny Series. Define Destiny was my first full-length novel for the internet in 1998. The response for the first book, Define Destiny, was so overwhelmingly positive that for the next twelve years I wrote six more stories. The stories in the series are as they appeared on the internet all those years ago. The book edit on Define Destiny was for the initial publication in 2002 and again for the second edition in 2006.
The fourth story in the Define Destiny Series, Actions and Consequences, finds old and new enemies plot the downfall of the bearers of the name Xianthos and their families. Despair, hope, compassion, forgiveness, love, and tragedy are powerful mixes that tests the cornerstones of Catherine and Jace's commitment to each other and those they love.


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Funder Bakke er en bydel i Silkeborg, beliggende 6 km sydvest for centrum. Den grænser til Funder mod sydvest og Lysbro mod nordøst.

Funder Bakke hører til Funder Sogn. Funder Kirke ligger i Funder Kirkeby 5 km vest for Funder Bakke.

Bakken
Vejen Funder Bakke, der tidligere var en del af primærrute 15, er en af Danmarks stejleste bakker at cykle på. Den er 1300 meter lang og stiger 68 højdemeter med en gennemsnitlig stigningsprocent på 5,2.

Historie
Der har været teglværk i området. Midt i 1900-tallet begyndte det at blive bebygget som parcelhuskvarter. Dets veje er opkaldt efter mindre danske øer.

Noter

Eksterne kilder/henvisninger
 SDFE kortviser: Høje målebordsblade 1842-1899 og lave målebordsblade 1901-1971

Bakker i Danmark
Bakke

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Q: A problem from BDMO 2017. If we can write a number as $a^b$ then we call that number LAL number where both $a, b$ is greater than $1.$ Again, the sum of two LAL numbers is a LAL number.
After
which value, every number is a LAL number?

A: There are two ways a number can become LAL.  Either it is a power on its own; or it inherits LAL when it is the sum of two other LAL numbers.
A) $4$ is LAL, so is $4+4, 8+4$, and by induction any multiple of $4$.
B) $9$ is LAL, so is $9+4, 13+4$, and by induction numbers $1$ more than a multiple of $4$.
C) $9+9$ is LAL, so is $18+4, 22+4,$ etc
D) $9+9+9$ is LAL, etc
$A,B,C,D$ cover all numbers greater than $23$.

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Your words begin to fade in this dark night.
Denied of light, you struggle to gain sight.
And steals the lines your hand wants to compose.
You battle to set free your wondrous prose.
Delightful scenes that life has set for you.
When life displayed the paintings you most knew.
Allow your life to deftly guide your hand.
To mock the battle lines of Israel's sons.
He threatened to devour God's holy ones.
For terror stood before them on that day.
That God's own hand would be on full display.
But only with his faith and little stones.
Then used his sling to break Goliath's bones.
The One whose hand arose to break the rod.
An ache that has withdrawn to secret halls.
A saddened heart that cries behind old walls.
And memories begin to slowly fade.
To grant me time before my grave is made.
Distracting me from musing years gone by.
The type that balms, and pain dares to defy.
For I at last have shed my one last tear.
The beauty that was hers in younger years.
When flawless skin awoke to gleeful cheers.
Her slender figure time has cast away.
So feels it is in vain to hide her gray.
For ever since we met her beauty glows.
Still weaken my strong knees down to my toes.
Her beauty moves my heart with love to stir.
To bring to ruin Babylon the Great.
But swift will be the fall from her estate.
As beasts in anger shred her golden gown.
No soul can hope escape when she's thrown down.
But He who sweeps them off with His right hand.
O sinful Babylon, your end is near!
So sip your last red wine, then quake with fear.
Your army waits to hear your battle cry.
While knights dare tread where bishops fight and die.
I hear the snorts of horses close to me.
While you behind your queen now start to flee.
And thrusts his silver lance aside your queen.
A pawn has aimed a blow that was unseen.
A lowly pawn now mates you where you stand.
O, can you hear her? Yonder autumn days?
A siren's voice, as silent steps she takes?
And warns the trees to brace for pearly flakes.
And softly laughs when warmth she steals from me.
She'll hold my face, until spring sets me free.
As she performs her waltzes in the day.
My heart applauds the dazzling white ballet.
She pleads with me, her cold arms not to fear.
As stars afar in burning light arise.
This captivating feeling I so prize.
Her fingers grace my face as if a kiss.
While bashful silence joins me in my bliss.
And sadness lades my heart until tears well.
Forever words of praise, of God to tell.
That One there is who made what I now see.
Plunged mankind into death's hand to enslave.
To slit their throats before they kiss the grave.
With savage acts of wars that blood is shed.
Undo the grip of death the blade has spread.
To mankind while in debt they were immersed.
Through one he loves, for sin to be reversed.
Return and seek the one who breaks the blade.
Your spin is swift, yet balanced in the void.
To show how much the dance it has enjoyed.
For none of them your beauty can deny.
That soaks your ardent tears to wet the sky.
A symphony of hues that dye your gown.
To all that view the glory of your crown.
Then dance again, as all the stars look on.
Its curdling howl is heard for miles around.
Then cast their sobbing leaves upon the ground.
For nature's wrath is not so lightly scorned.
The frightened city now lies unadorned.
As candles lift the veil that darkness brings.
Your arms around me are your regal wings.
And kiss your face, as one last candle burns.
To send their steps away from augured signs.
Their love they have replaced with selfish acts.
They suffer from the pain that darkness stacks.
Restoring life on earth with love precise.
Eternal life of promise, you and me.
On hardy souls of men whose hearts she seeks.
And plays her songs of lust with shapely peaks.
They crave the brew of lust her hand will stir.
And crave the one whose soul to yours has bound.
Her mounds will offer warmth, sweet comfort found.
So know her name, true love to then assure.
As rising tides submerge my years of life.
With fervent lies it seeks to cause me strife.
And serves me only flashes of the past.
Death seeks to wipe away from me at last.
But I will not go down while losing hope!
For love calls out to me yet once again.
Which had me fearing death's unholy reign.
The waves of time don't fear, to life hold fast.
As winter sheds her tears of crystal ice.
But find my steps alone do not suffice.
When many times near death my breath has drawn.
An empty shell, for love has been denied.
While frozen tears the trail proceeds to hide.
But patiently I wait for love sublime.
With crimson lips she drenched in reddish wine.
They line my anxious soul with hurtful sights.
To end the painful thoughts of ceaseless nights.
To lead my wary steps through these dark halls.
While finding my way home before dawn calls.
In search of fleeting love to ask her, why?
In steps delayed to set my mind at ease.
Reviving thoughts of you that I may grieve.
And I with glee enjoyed the water's flow.
Reminding me that time all pain can end.
The soothing touch of new love's calming balm.
And I then softly sung to you a psalm.
As gentle warmth embraced my longing heart.
When cold and icy snow the day turned gray.
Instead a glancing peck she placed on me.
And pranced away to yield to winter's shove.
For days she has before I take my place."
My joy to lady spring's sweet words gave heed.
It spills its rays of light in soft embrace.
"Awaken, please, enjoy the day's full grace!"
Though rays of sun my face caress and kiss.
The sunshine heat my soul does surely miss.
Of warmth that rose in steamy prancing streams.
And shared your warming touch as if in dreams.
Adoring heat was flowing then from you.
Despising angry tears that flow at night.
Recalling times of bounded hearts in flight.
With lips that met to share a tender kiss.
It seemed eternal was their life of bliss.
And beg for hope to grant their woe to die.
The branch of love where tears can gently dry.
Replace despair to find true love's relief.
When grief in bloom of youth was sadly felt.
Obliging one who pain to you once dealt.
Drew anguished cries from my defeated heart.
When words of love he wrote in flowing art.
From caustic words you hurled upon my soul.
And found the warmth of one who made me whole.
And I the path of one who chose to wait.
The urges of the flesh pry at heart's door.
The gates that guard the door down to its core.
Like moths to flames they dance around the heart.
And cause the gates to open wide apart.
If true love holds its guard in a firm stance.
When wanton	cravings seek a moment's glance.
The gates will hold, for strength it will impart.
But why is this in light of seeming hope?
Where life is loved, but men with evil cope.
For men of hate their lives to blindly slay.
Where flash of lights the skin will deftly flay.
Since sadly calls for peace they will forgo.
Where wisdom reigns and peace will soon bestow.
Where hatred dwells and multiplies by ten.
There are various forms of sonnets, but the Shakespearean sonnet is one of my favorites. There are times when poets change the sonnet's iambic rhythm to add variety to the poem by using another meter scheme, like a trochee or dactyl.
A sonnet is usually arranged into three quatrains, with an idea presented in the first quatrain, followed by a change of thought, usually at the 9th line, and then closing with a summarizing couplet.
A Petrarchan sonnet, also known as an Italian sonnet, is divided into two parts, the first part being an octave and the second being a sestet. There is also the Spenserian sonnet, which follows the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet, but with a slightly different rhyming scheme.
To read a poem, click on its thumbnail image.


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Fisherman accused of fraud in east Austin fishing tournament
Posted: May 25, 2018 / 09:27 PM CDT / Updated: May 25, 2018 / 09:28 PM CDT
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A fisherman who went to great lengths to make his catch look larger than they were was arrested, accused of committing fraud in an east Austin fishing tournament, authorities say.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens were investigating possible bass fishing tournament fraud in Bastrop and Travis counties when they found a fisherman with a "unique sleight of hand."
TPWD says the fisherman, identified as Brent Taylor, 30, of West, Texas, submitted questionable photos of his catch to the tournament on Walter E. Long Lake, also known as Decker Lake.
The catch-and-release kayak fishing tournament used photos of the contestants' catches placed on a measuring board to determine which angler caught the most aggregate inches of bass.
Wardens found a cut tail of a bass in the paddle well of the kayak. While the man initially said he found the cut tail in the reeds and was taking it to shore, he later admitted having used the tail to place over another bass, making the fish look longer in multiple photos.
Charges against the man are pending. A Kayak Angler Tournament Series event was recently held on the lake on April 28.
Austin-Travis County
Austin / 3 hours ago
2021 Girl Scout cookie season officially starts; local troops innovate sales during pandemic
City of Austin wasted thousands of dollars paying for unused pagers, audit finds
Westlake teacher to be honored at inauguration for creative cross country history lessons
About 200 Lake Travis ISD employees get vaccinated for COVID-19
Education / 18 hours ago
More Austin-Travis County News
by Russell Falcon / Jan 20, 2021
HOUSTON (KXAN) — An officer with the Houston Police Department is in FBI custody after his suspected participation in the violent riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
According to the FBI's criminal complaint, agents questioned Richmond, Texas, resident Tam Dinh Pham after he turned himself in. During the interview, Pham said he had been in Washington, D.C., with his wife on a business trip from Jan. 5 to 7 but had not attended the rally in support of now former President Donald Trump.
CHARGED: FBI identifies San Antonio man accused of entering U.S. Capitol during deadly riot
by Harley Tamplin / Jan 20, 2021
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KXAN) — A former loan officer from San Antonio has been arrested in connection with the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.
An FBI investigation found that Matthew Mazzocco, 37, was allegedly among the pro-Trump supporters who entered the building on Jan. 6.
Suspect charged with capital murder after man was found dead in Round Rock
ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — A 28-year-old faces capital murder charges after a man was found shot dead in a Round Rock neighborhood earlier this month.
On Tuesday, Round Rock police said officers arrested Gage Johnston. He is accused of shooting and killing 27-year-old Jerrionn Burleson in the 1600-block of Peachtree Valley Drive on Jan. 9.

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First of 2 videos, had a few clips saved and then a fairly monster session which is mostly in the next video.
Lately I've been streaming a lot more than I have been making videos for YouTube. Mostly this is being caused by a limited amount of time and also that hitting the stream button is far easier than doing a fully published video.


The Greetly receptionist app crashes during the check in process. It is about to take a picture and them - bam - the app shuts down.
Tap the button next to "Camera"
Still not working. Argh. Email us at success@greetly.com.


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Our website empowers investors to fight poverty by funding companies and entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Our crowd has made investments in over 20 countries such as Kenya, Mexico, Moldova, and Indonesia, and many renewable energy companies, mostly in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Lendahand was started in 2013 in the lobby of a hotel in Utrecht. At that time, we were excited when we first raised €10,000 in a single month. Today, we usually raise over €2,500,000 per month, and we expect to continue this steep growth curve. Our crowd has invested a total of €120,000,000. Our next big hairy audacious goal is to reach 1 billion.
Our team currently consists of 26 people. We are a happy and diverse mix of financial professionals, lawyers, marketers, designers, and developers from 12 different countries.
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Embattled Minister Leesa Vlahos is currently acting in Minister Hamilton-Smith's portfolios despite the fact she is incapable of doing her own job.
In a bizarre move by Premier Jay Weatherill, he has appointed Minister Vlahos as Acting Minister for Investment and Trade, Acting Minister for Small Business, Acting Minister for Defence Industries, and Acting Minister for Veterans' Affairs, whilst she is engulfed by the Oakden scandal.
"How on earth is Minister Vlahos expected to take on these additional portfolio responsibilities when she has hopelessly failed to accept her responsibility to patients of the Oakden facility and their families during her time in the Mental Health portfolio?" said Deputy State Liberal Leader Vickie Chapman.
"It is galling that Minister Vlahos would be given these additional responsibilities whilst Minister Hamilton-Smith is overseas, when she has refused to resign over the failings at Oakden, and the Premier has refused to sack her.
"Perhaps it's not surprising to South Australians when one of Mr Weatherill's first utterances on his return from holidays was to praise Minister Vlahos for 'shining a light' on the abuse of our most vulnerable, instead of asking for her resignation.
"It's a sad state of affairs when the standards for ministerial accountability have sunk so low, that an embattled minister is given additional responsibilities instead of being sacked.


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Posted on October 4, 2015 by Wilmington News Journal
Aces wild: Playoffs open with Astros-Yankees, Cubs-Pirates
Local Sports 3
Texas Rangers starting pitcher Cole Hamels, back, is mobbed by his teammates after the final out of the baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. The Rangers clinched the AL West title on the last day of the regular season with the 9-2 win. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez (9) hits a line drive single against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the second inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ralph Freso)
Chicago Cubs players celebrate after a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, in Milwaukee. The Cubs won 3-1. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
The baseball playoffs are set to open Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium when 20-game winner Dallas Keuchel starts for the Houston Astros against New York ace Masahiro Tanaka in the AL wild-card game.
The Chicago Cubs, still trying for their first World Series title since 1908, play at Pittsburgh on Wednesday night in the NL wild-card game. Jake Arrieta led the majors with 22 wins for the Cubs and will pitch against Pirates star Gerrit Cole.
All of the playoff matchups were locked in Sunday on the final day of the regular season.
The Astros-Yankees winner will play at Kansas City in the best-of-five Division Series on Thursday. The same day, AL West champion Texas visits Toronto.
The Division Series in the NL begins Friday with the New York Mets at the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cubs-Pirates winner at St. Louis.
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2015/10/web1_106226981-ddfc830abe1c41b594ec7a5660ccf28c.jpgTexas Rangers starting pitcher Cole Hamels, back, is mobbed by his teammates after the final out of the baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. The Rangers clinched the AL West title on the last day of the regular season with the 9-2 win. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez (9) hits a line drive single against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the second inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ralph Freso)
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2015/10/web1_106226981-9a6264732e7d496993c3df99177886a2.jpgHouston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez (9) hits a line drive single against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the second inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ralph Freso)
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2015/10/web1_106226981-a49ecb829ac94788819e111eef9bf348.jpgChicago Cubs players celebrate after a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, in Milwaukee. The Cubs won 3-1. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Q: Custom view in xml layout I've created my own view by creating a subclass of the SurfaceView class.
However I can't figure out how to add it from the xml layout file. My current main.xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >

<View
    class="com.chainparticles.ChainView"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    />

</LinearLayout>

What have I missed?
Edit
More info
My view looks like this
package com.chainparticles;
public class ChainView extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback {
    public ChainView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        getHolder().addCallback(this);
    }
// Other stuff
}

And it works fine like this:
ChainView cview = new ChainView(this);
setContentView(cview);

But nothing happens when trying to use it from the xml.

A: You want:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>

    <com.chainparticles.ChainView
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
     />
</LinearLayout>

Edit:
After seeing the rest of your code it's probably throwing because you can't call getHolder in the constructor while being inflated. Move that to View#onFinishInflate
So:
@Override
protected void onFinishInflate() {
    getHolder().addCallback(this);
}

If that doesn't work try putting that in an init function that you call in your Activitys onCreate after setContentView.
It was probably working before because when inflating from xml the constructor:
View(Context, AttributeSet) is called instead of View(Context).

A: What you missed in your example was the tag name, it supposed to be "view" (first non-capital) not "View". Although you can put your class name as the tag name most of the time, it's impossible to do that if your class is inner class, because "$" symbol, which is used in Java to reference inner classes is restricted in XML tags.
So, if you want to use inner class in your XML you should write like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>

    <view
      class="com.chainparticles.Foo$InnerClassChainView"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
     />
</LinearLayout>

The thing is that both "view" and "View" tags exist in the schema. "View" tag (started with capital letter) will generate a View class, while "view" tag, when parsed, will examine the class attribute.


One thing is pretty clear based on the big-name players that were working out for the Giants on Tuesday — this is a team that is not particularly thrilled with its current set of pass catchers.
Facing one of the worst pass defenses in the league, Hilton is ready to forget last weekend's loss and get back on track. Given the fact that the Colts average over 40 pass attempts a game, we think he could be a top three WR in Week 12.


Of the 48% who say their health care costs have increased, more than one-quarter have decreased their retirement plan contributions.
Thirty-one percent of American workers say that health care is the most important issue in the United States, according to an online survey of 1,518 workers that the Employee Benefit Research Institute conducted last June with the help of Greenwald & Associates. This tops the 21% who identified terrorism as the nation's biggest challenge, the 15% who pointed to the role of the federal government, and the 13% who cited unemployment.
Of the 48% of workers who say that their health care costs have increased, 26% have decreased contributions to their retirement plan, and 43% have decreased their contributions to other savings. More than one-quarter say they have difficulty paying for basic necessities, such as food, heat and housing.
More than one quarter, 27%, have delayed retirement, 19% have dropped other insurance benefits, and 13% have purchased additional insurance to help with expenses.
Sixty percent of American workers say that health insurance is extremely important when considering whether to stay in or choose a new job—topping the 42% who say that a retirement savings plan is extremely important when making such a consideration.
Twenty-five percent say that the health care system is poor, and 30% describe it as fair.
Their outlook about the current health care system is mixed, but it declines looking into the future. For example, 45% are extremely or very confident in their ability to get the health care treatments they need today, but that declines to 34% over the next 10 years and just 26% once they are eligible for Medicare.
Thirty percent are confident they can afford health care without financial hardship, but that declines to 26% over the next 10 years and 23% once they qualify for Medicare.
As for the health insurance they are being offered by their employer, Americans are generally quite optimistic. Fifty percent say they are extremely or very satisfied with their health care plan. Asked whether they are confident that their employer will continue to offer health insurance in the future, 63% say yes.
Forty-nine percent are extremely or very satisfied with the quality of medical care they have received in the past two years.
However, Americans are not happy about the cost of health insurance. A mere 22% are extremely or very satisfied with the cost of their health insurance plan. Forty-eight percent say that their health care costs have increased in the last year.
EBRI's full report on Americans' views on health care can be downloaded here.


Includes all O rings used in the piping on the side of the Grainfather.
Just what I needed to replace damaged O Ring on my Grainfather recirculation pipe.
Are these o-rings compatible with the Robobrew recirculation piping and ball valve?
Some of them are. If you have purchased a Robobrew from us and need a specific seal, please email service@williamsbrewing.com and we can help you with this.


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using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace Javascript.SourceMapper.UnitTests
{
    [TestClass]
    public class Base64VLQConverterTest
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void TestToVlq()
        {
            Assert.AreEqual(2, Base64VLQConverter.toVLQ(1));
            Assert.AreEqual(3, Base64VLQConverter.toVLQ(-1));
            Assert.AreEqual(4, Base64VLQConverter.toVLQ(2));
            Assert.AreEqual(5, Base64VLQConverter.toVLQ(-2));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestFromVlq()
        {
            Assert.AreEqual(1, Base64VLQConverter.fromVLQ(2));
            Assert.AreEqual(-1, Base64VLQConverter.fromVLQ(3));
            Assert.AreEqual(2, Base64VLQConverter.fromVLQ(4));
            Assert.AreEqual(-2, Base64VLQConverter.fromVLQ(5));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestToVlqAndBack()
        {
            for(int i = -1000; i < 1000; i++)
            {
                Assert.AreEqual(i, Base64VLQConverter.fromVLQ(Base64VLQConverter.toVLQ(i)));
            }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestEncodingBase64VLQ()
        {
            Assert.AreEqual("A", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(0));
            Assert.AreEqual("C", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(1));
            Assert.AreEqual("D", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-1));

            Assert.AreEqual("hkh9B", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-1000000));
            Assert.AreEqual("ruyH", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-124133));
            Assert.AreEqual("5iY", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-12332));
            Assert.AreEqual("9qE", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-2222));
            Assert.AreEqual("3iD", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-1579));
            Assert.AreEqual("jE", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-65));
            Assert.AreEqual("zB", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-25));
            Assert.AreEqual("pB", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-20));
            Assert.AreEqual("X", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-11));
            Assert.AreEqual("T", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-9));
            Assert.AreEqual("F", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(-2));
            Assert.AreEqual("O", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(7));
            Assert.AreEqual("e", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(15));
            Assert.AreEqual("uB", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(23));
            Assert.AreEqual("wF", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(88));
            Assert.AreEqual("suC", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(1254));
            Assert.AreEqual("67E", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(2493));
            Assert.AreEqual("+1uB", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(23903));
            Assert.AreEqual("u28H", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(129383));
            Assert.AreEqual("k1mS", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(298322));
            Assert.AreEqual("gkh9B", Base64VLQConverter.Encode(1000000));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestDecodingBase64VLQ()
        {
            Assert.AreEqual(-1000000, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("hkh9B").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-124133, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("ruyH").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-12332, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("5iY").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-2222, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("9qE").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-1579, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("3iD").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-65, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("jE").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-25, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("zB").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-20, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("pB").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-11, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("X").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-9, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("T").Result);
            Assert.AreEqual(-2, Base64VLQConverter.Decode("F").Result);
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Choirs can compete in 9 Categories.
Each choir can take part in maximum 2 categories.
- singers above 18 years minimum 16 singers.
– (no age limits), minimum 20 singers.
15% of the singers can be older or younger than above requirements.
All choirs will get the diploma of successful participation in festival.


Global distribution of threatened amphibian species.
The life cycle of Bd starts with an aquatic spore that burrows into the skin of amphibians.
A researcher swabs the skin of a boreal toad to test for chytrid fungus.
The Boreal Toad Conservation Team includes resource managers from federal and state agencies in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico and scientists from Colorado State University and the U.S. Geological Survey. The team used research on current toad populations to help predict how toads might fare in the future under various possible management actions. It was humbling and exhilarating to see our work used to make decisions that might influence the fate of a species. But we wondered whether "our" science was truly the best available, and whether our team would make the "right" decision – or even have enough information to know which choice was most likely to succeed.
Researchers carefully monitor tadpoles that they have introduced to a site in Rocky Mountain National Park. Eggs are collected from the wild, reared to tadpole age in captivity, and then carried in backpacks filled with water to the reintroduction site.
For example, Bd has recently spread to Madagascar, a mega-biodiversity hotspot with about 300 frog species, nearly all of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Our work could help managers in Madagascar formulate a national monitoring plan and prioritize strategies for conserving amphibian populations.


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#WontBeErased, Won't Be Forgotten, Won't Be Alone [1]
Chase Strangio
On Trans Day of Remembrance [2] the trans community honors our dead. Too many names are read and remembered at vigils around the world marking the deaths of trans people who have been murdered during the year. This year is again on pace to be the deadliest year for transgender people in the United States. As of October, at least 22 trans people were killed [3], almost all of them women of color.
We look at their photos, say their names, light a candle and then, too often, we move on until we add a new name to the list.
Lethal violence against transgender people continues to escalate, but that is only one cause of death in our community. Existing data suggests that the life expectancy for trans women of color in the U.S. is somewhere in the mid-30's [4]. While many lose their lives because of individually perpetrated violence, many more die too soon because of restricted opportunities. Kicked out of homes or schools in their youth, subjected to employment and housing discrimination in adulthood, driven into the criminal legal system, and denied health care, trans people, particularly those of color, often face insurmountable barriers to survival.
Now, we remember our dead against the backdrop of a Trump administration driven to write us out of federal legal protections, eager to erase us. A month ago, The New York Times reported [5] that a memo circulating across multiple federal agencies sought to excise transgender people from protection of the law.
We die because people don't want us to live.
Remembrance is essential, but so too is action. We must, as artist Micah Bazant proclaimed in an adaptation of Mother Jones' famous refrain, "honor our dead and fight like hell for the living."
In this moment of ongoing crisis for our community, here are some concrete actions that can be taken for trans justice and survival.
Education. Since taking office, the Trump administration has argued that trans students should not be protected from discrimination under federal law. While the overwhelming majority of courts disagree and trans people remain protected under federal and constitutional law, trans students continue to face hostile conditions in school, leading many to be pushed out of secondary school altogether. Parents and educators can fight to create inclusive, supportive, and affirming environments for all students by including trans issues in curricula, implementing trans affirming policies [6], and ensuring that no student faces bullying or harassment.
Employment. Last month, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court [7] that federal law prohibiting sex discrimination should not protect transgender workers. Though again, the overwhelming majority of courts disagree, discrimination against trans people persists. Employers and workers can fight to ensure that trans people are supported in the workplace and send a message that we are an essential part of the labor market that deserves the same protections available to all other workers. Check to make sure your workplace has policies prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ people, including by affirmatively covering health care and ensuring access to restrooms for trans workers.
Arrest and Incarceration. Due to discrimination in housing, employment, and education, combined with family rejection, trans people face disproportionately high rates [8] of involvement in the criminal legal system. Upon arrest, trans people are more likely to have bail set, but are less likely to be able to pay bail [9] than cisgender people due to high rates of poverty and isolation from families of origin. Working to end mass incarceration, ending cash bail, and paying cash bail when set are critical steps to take in the fight to protect trans lives.
Immigration. The Trump administration's attacks on immigrants affect many in the trans community who are fleeing violence [10] in their birth countries. In the fight to end unconstitutional restrictions on asylum, including trans immigrants in the conversation is essential, as many face intersecting and compounded discrimination and trauma.
Connection. Connect with, believe, and see trans people. The community is demonized by fear-driven rhetoric that our lives and bodies pose threats to others. Yet we are here, existing and living our truths. Challenge your assumptions about what it means for us to live our truth. Ask yourself how you "really knew" your gender and consider that we, like you, just know who we are.
Creation. There is always more to be done. Watch your state legislatures [11] for attacks on trans people. Disrupt anti-trans jokes or comments at your family holiday. Search your family history for the trans relatives who were erased. Do your research [12]. Take on the burden so we don't always have to.
Trans lives are on the line every day. Today, we remember those we have lost and urge a movement in defense of those who are still with us.
Source URL: https://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/wontbeerased-wont-be-forgotten-wont-be-alone
[1] https://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/wontbeerased-wont-be-forgotten-wont-be-alone
[2] https://www.aclunc.org/blog/trans-remembrance-and-resistance
[3] https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2018/9/19/these-are-trans-people-killed-2018#media-gallery-media-1
[4] http://www.consumerhealthfdn.org/2018/02/05/hidden-inequity-life-expectancy-transgender-women-color/
[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html
[6] https://transequality.org/issues/resources/the-2018-model-school-district-policy-on-transgender-and-gender-nonconforming
[7] https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-workers-not-protected-civil-rights-law-doj-tells-supreme-n924491
[8] https://srlp.org/resources/flow-chart-disproportionate-incarceration/
[9] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chase-strangio/why-bail-reform-should-be-an-lgbt-movement-priority_b_7739166.html
[10] https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/mexico-caravan-lgbtq-migrants-stick-together-safety-n935591
[11] https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/129-anti-lgbtq-state-bills-were-introduced-2017-new-report-n837076
[12] https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2018/10/21/hell-no-memo-7-action-items-protect-trans-and-gnc-people


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Far-flung French kick off presidential poll
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Greece braced for most critical election in decades
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Flash floods wreak havoc in Nepal
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New York rapper Adam Yauch passes away
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Tories triumph in London contest
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March 11, 2019 Health information / Innovation / Our people / Patient stories
Connecting patients to interpreters with the push of a button
Posted by Erin Lynch
An innovative interpretation services project is currently being piloted in the IWK Emergency Department. The "LanguageLine Insight App" has been loaded onto an iPad and can connect clinicians who require interpretation services for their patients and families to a network of highly-trained, qualified interpreters at the push of a button.
"We have incorporated this service on a six-month trial basis due to the increased frequency in requests for services," Renette Amirault-Laing, bilingual services coordinator, says. "It's not possible to pre-book interpretation services with an interpreter in the Emergency Department, for obvious reasons. So this tool really comes in handy."
Research shows that face-to-face is best for interpreting, with video conference a close second.
"There are so many non-verbal cues that play such an important part in interpretation services," Amirault-Laing says. "Especially when it comes to complex and confusing medical terms when patients and families are experiencing highly emotional and stressful situations. We want to ensure that we are doing everything we can to make patients feel safe, secure and understood and this app goes a long way to ensuring that."
Amirault-Laing conducted a full week of training to the emergency staff and pickup has been very positive. The iPad is set up at eye level, clinicians punch in an access code and push the language they need and almost instantaneously connect with an interpreter. "Insight" is the only application that is loaded onto the iPad, making it even easier to navigate.
"Not only is this service of great benefit to patients and families, but interpretation services can also provide benefits to the health care system itself, including lower incidents of re-admissions, decreased length of stays, decreased risk of adverse drug events and lower overall costs of care," Amirault-Laing says.
The pilot project will be assessed at the end of the six-month period, with feedback from both staff, patients and families being evaluated. For further information on the LanguageLine Insight video app, please visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuq6fr1I-wk.
Interpretation services for all languages are available throughout the health centre 24/7 and face-to-face using services contracted by the IWK or telephone using RIO Network.
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Q: Downloading a file regularly To help me learn Haskell, I want to write a script for automatically downloading the latest chromium mini_installer.exe every two days and installing it. Any suggestions?  I'm using Windows 7.

A: You can use one of the URL fetching libraries. An example is download-curl.
Then it is as simple as:
import qualified Data.ByteString as B
import Network.Curl.Download

main = do
   bs <- openURI "http://example.com/example.txt"
   case bs of
      Left err -> error err
      Right d  -> B.writeFile "mydata" d

To implement "cron"-like behavior of sleeping for 2 days, you can either use your operating system services, or implement a sleeping mechanism.


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Archive for the 'Goodman Fielder' Category
The Bugle Boy of Company F: Creamoata and Sergeant Dan
In Bluebird Foods Ltd, breakfast, Cereal, Champion Flour, Chandler & Co, Charlotte Lilian Lawlor, Cream O' Groats, Creamoata, Doctor's Cream O' Groats, Fleming & Co, Fleming & Gilkinson, Fleming and Company Limited, Fleming Gray and Company, Goodman Fielder, Milk Oaties, Nestlé, Northern Roller Mills (NRM), Oatie-Nuts, Sergeant Dan, Sergeant Dan's Stockfoods Ltd, Snowball Flour, Sweet Heart O' Wheat, Thistle Oatmeal, Thomas Fleming, Uncle Toby's on July 25, 2012 at 10.46
I purchased these scraps of a disintegrating Fleming & Co "Milk Oaties" box from one of my favourite dealers . He always comes with the most incredible stuff – I have no idea where he finds it (and I wouldn't dare to ask). I have only seen one before in the last five years that I can recall – it was whole but faded. Any of the original Fleming boxes usually sell for a competitive price since the chances anyone would keep one for decades is highly unlikely – and means they are rare and desirable examples of early New Zealand packaging.
Anyway, nobody else looking at this would bother, but I could see the potential to patch it back together digitally and restore it and so it was won for a nominal price with no interest at all from other parties. According to my database this design was definitely in production between the years 1938 to 1941 – probably a little earlier, as well as later.
Thomas Fleming (1848-1930) is now considered the major pioneer of the milling industry in New Zealand. His parents arrived to New Zealand from Scotland in 1862 with several children and another on the way.
Although he initially had jobs in other fields, such as gardener and cowboy, – around 1870 whilst visiting his brother in Oamaru on the lower west coast of the South Island, he got a job harvesting, in the wheat industry in nearby Totara.
Late 1950s- early 1960s interpretation of Sergeant Dan from a Happy Families card game set issued by Four Square.
Quickly progressing to working in the company's Kakanui Mill (another source says it was Maheno Valley flourmill, now a well-known heritage building standing as Clark's Mill ), he had the foresight of great opportunity and had subsequently roped his brother in before the year was out to learn the milling trade with plans for great future success.
His vision was true – within three years he had been promoted to manager. In 1875 he left to manage another mill owned by a certain John Murdoch situated in Invercargill, and no more than a year later he found himself – with his new partners, the freshly formed Fleming Gray and Company – the owner of it. Not long passed before not only were they bringing some serious competition to the local industry – but they were also buying up smaller mills for their market share.
Advert from a Self Help Co-op cookbook 1939, showcasing the range of Fleming & Co products of that time.
By 1879 they had purchased their first major mill which was to become the original landmark of the brand. Now known as the "Former Fleming & Co Flour Mill"- it is situated on the corner of Conon and Tyne Streets. His brother in law (Peter Lindsay Gilkison, 1846-1924) joined him in 1882 to form Fleming & Gilkinson. When the mostly wooden structure burned down in 1889 it was rebuilt as a four story brick building with improved technology, such as its own electrical generator to run the more efficient new machinery – while their other major mills in Gore, Winton and Mataura kept up the production load until things were back in order. This building still stands today:
http://www.historic.org.nz/TheRegister/RegisterSearch/RegisterResults.aspx?RID=2463
Fleming & Co Creamoata Oat Mill in Gore, the Fletcher Trust Archive, 9204P-94.
Like the story of many phenomenal industry successes, the entrepreneurial Fleming had a keen interest in innovative technology and marketing – and took many lengthy trips abroad to investigate these aspects. With the completely modernised plant the company was now producing the whitest, finest flour on the market – not mention the most. The combined wood of the building, the heat of the machinery and production as well as the flour dust were a combustible recipe for disaster but out of the flames was borne the cement of Fleming's empire.
By this time, having wiped out all competition – they were the only operating flour mill in the area, having eventually bought out all the others, and shut down many of the smaller ones; and oat production was relegated to Gore where it remained hereon for well over the next century.
In 1902 Fleming bought out Gilkinson who went on to establish Southland Frozen Meat Company – and became Fleming and Company Limited. , consisting of himself, his son-in-law John Rennie, who in his own right was a serious player in the industry as manager of the local branch of the New Zealand Flour Millers' Association; and also William Fleming, (1881-1927), one of his sons.
Fleming's advertisement for the Thistle brand oat products, September 1936.
In 1912 Fleming retired and sold his shares in the firm to his sons Andrew, William (and possibly another son Herbert) Fleming as well as partner and relative Rennie. Because the brand was by now a household name subsequent owners over time wisely kept the Fleming name.
However it's the later, much-photographed lemon-coloured Creamoata Mill that gained iconic status with its mascot emblazoned on the side for all to see. Although the earliest parts of the Gore oat-focussed mill had their foundations in 1893, Fleming extensively rebuilt the newer building emblazoned with the Sergeant Dan character in 1919, probably in relation to their hugely successful new invention Creamoata being released the year previously, and the structure, now known as the "Creamoata Mill Complex", still stands today with a Category I heritage listing.
http://www.historic.org.nz/TheRegister/RegisterSearch/RegisterResults.aspx?RID=7470&m=advanced
Fleming promotion included secreting illustrated, collectible recipe cards in the boxes of Milk Oaties and Sweet Heart O' Wheat, 1933
Creamoata was of course the most famous and successful of all their products, and seems to make its first appearance 1909 – it was a finely ground rolled oats product which produced a creamier variety of porridge – an instant hit for the morning meal. It was supposedly considered the "national breakfast" as claimed on their packaging for decades (debatable – many may say that title is owned by Weet-Bix which was around in Aotearoa almost as long) however over the years Fleming produced and marketed many brands including self-named Fleming wholemeal and white flours, Thistle brand rolled Oats and Oatmeal, Breakfast foods and cereals such as Cream O' Groats, Milk Oaties, Oatie-Nuts and Sweet Heart O' Wheat (a semolina product also popular for desserts), and the Snowball brand wheatmeal and white flours. Doctor's Cream O' Groats was another that was likely a short-lived product of the 1940s.
Creamoata advertisement, Evening Post, March 1933
The origin of Sergeant Dan is apparently well documented. By the early 1900s New Zealand writer Charlotte Lilian Lawlor was working in advertising copy and design. It wasn't until around 1913 when she moved to Auckland to work for agency Chandler & Co, that she was eventually in a position to be handed the Fleming & Co Creamoata account – and seemingly in the very early 1920s came up with the idea of the little character to bolster sales of the product. However as early as 1915 he appears in a newspaper advertisement with one of his signature chirpy poems, so from then on the boy soldier with a big appetite for porridge became the mascot, and was plastered on various merchandise from board games to bowls – of which there is a series of him participating in different types of sports – now highly collectable and the rarer ones going for quite high prices amongst collectors:
"Breakfast tables throughout the nation were presided over by Sergeant Dan, the Creamoata Man. With his digger's hat, he was the picture of what a plate of porridge could do for a kid. And when you got to the bottom, if you had one of the special plates, there was Dan himself, grinning all over."
Front of a Creamoata box circa 1950s with the more human version of Sergeant Dan as a boy scout.
According to the Historic Places Trust, Sergeant Dan is "as well-known an image in popular culture as Buzzy Bee or an Edmonds Baking Powder tin". I don't know if that is true. I don't recall him at all to be honest – and he may possibly be up there in Kiwiana Icons for Baby Boomers but I doubt that generally he would rank into the top ten amongst thongs, pavlovas, fern leaves and the odd brand name food items that would make it in like Tip-Top, for example. However Creamoata per se was well enough known that it was issued as an eighty cent stamp by NZ Post within their "Millenium Series" under a sub-category of six "Food Nostalgia" designs.
The Creamoata Mill Complex today is owned by a new company making stockfoods under the Sergeant Dan mascot.
The last Fleming family members disposed of their interests in the company in 1953 and the business was sold to Northern Roller Mills (NRM) which later became part of Champion, another older mill company going back to at least the 1890s which had become a subsidiary of Wattie's.
An early version of Sergeant Dan, probably in the 1920s not long after Charlotte Lilian Lawlor created him.
I certainly remember Fleming products in the kitchen cupboards at home into at least the late 1970s for morning porridge; in particular packets of Thistle rolled oats – with a Highlander emblazoned on it – I think it was a blue, green, pink and white print on clear cellophane wrapper.
An Australian version of Creamoata signage. Apparently this one in Carlton, Melbourne was painted owner by the new owners of the building not long after this photo was taken.
Production was shifted overseas under the Uncle Toby's brand when Goodman Fielder stepped into the picture and took over from Nestlé in 2006 – up until this time the products had continued to be manufactured domestically in Gore. In late 2008 they confirmed that Creamoata was going to be off the shelves by early 2009 when stock ran down.
Fleming's "Stirring Times" recipe booklet, 1927. Alexander Turnbull Library collection, B-K 879.
The only remnants of the Fleming brand remaining today, besides the mill buildings, is a line of health snack bars under the name which have been marketed since the 1980s – and at this time under the auspices of the Bluebird company.
The tennis version of another well-known Creamoata promotional campaign – there were several Sergeant Dan sports activity plates to collect.
""Now he is a full grown man, But there's still a Sergeant Dan!
Just like Dan in years gone by – Quick of wit, alert and spry!
"I advise," he loves to say, "Some Cweamoata every day!
Creamoata advertisement, probably circa early 1960s, shows Sergeant Dan has disappeared. Ref Eph-C-THORP-03, Alexander Turnbull Library collection.
I'm not sure what era this jingle was from – but the indication of "growing up" probably interprets the period when Sergeant Dan morphed into a more adult, realistic boy scout in the fifties and, then slipped off the packages for good probably sometime by the mid 1960s to be relegated to history. Not entirely though – Sergeant Dan's Stockfoods Ltd now occupies the later factory and make horse and calf food under the branding of the character.
Creamoata eighty cent stamp by NZ Post within their "Millenium Series " under a sub-category of six "Food Nostalgia" designs, issued in 1999.
Bite Size: Blossom Dairy
In Anchor, Butter, cheese, Dairy, Fonterra, Goodman Fielder on August 8, 2011 at 10.46
The Anchor brand was born in 1886 in a dairy factory at Pukekura, created by Henry Reynolds who arrived from Cornwall in 1868. By the 1880s he was dairy farming in the Waikato and established a small dairy factory. The brand name was allegedly inspired by a tattoo on the arm of one of his workers. It has become one of this country's longest-lived and best-known trademarks – for cheese, dried milk and yoghurt products, and even at one point dried fruit and baking powder – as well as the famous butter.
A highly innovative and efficient approach, based on farmer-owned co-operative companies, enabled dairying to grow into New Zealand's most important industry. The production of butter and cheese flourished and by 1920, there were 600 dairy processing factories throughout New Zealand of which approximately 85% were co-operative-based.
The milk brands from the New Zealand Dairy Group, the original long term holders, is now owned by Fonterra, which owns, well- just about every brand that Goodman Fielder doesn't have, it seems. So it's fitting that GF own the butter and cheese brands. Ah, butter and cheese….Fonterra and Goodman Fielder. You know what they say about the lesser of two evils.
Two of these cardboard point-of-sale posters were listed on Trademe last week and I've recreated it from a low res snapshot. I love the strong, clean graphics and bright colours. Anchor is yet another iconic New Zealand brand with a large story which I will no doubt take up again at a later date.
Ain't No Sunshine
In Desserts, Goodman Fielder, Jellies, Jelly Crystals, Sunshine, Tucker on June 3, 2011 at 10.46
Occasionally at IPONZ they will actually post a grainy, low quality scan of the product packaging which has been trademarked, and that is where I grabbed this from and recreated it from scratch.
Sunshine was a long established brand by W.F. Tucker and Co., Ltd, based in Grafton, Auckland. I've found advertisements going back to the mid 1890s for their baking and custard powders under "Tucker's" – although it took a good twenty or more years for the "Sunshine" brand to gradually come into its own. By the early 1900s they are manufacturing jelly crystals, which is what most people remember them for.
"Sunshine" jelly crystals packaging, 1964
Amongst the fourteen delicious jelly flavours on offer from Sunshine by 1917 were "Champagne" as well as "Calves Feet" (ew! I guess aspic meals were all the rage at the time) and their 1919 announcement of their kidney flavour soup declares it a "masterpiece of flavour" (the jury is still out on that one).
By the late teens a serious product expansion was underway and instant milk puddings and soups were added as well as the twee "Fairy", "Splendo", and "Elfin" desserts. Eventually by the 1960s they had branched into instant rice and pasta-based meals, cereals, drinks, canned goods, dressings and spreads – with varying success.
Tucker's "Sunshine" jelly crystals packaging, 1909
Sometime In the mid 1970s Tucker was sold to Bluebird Foods and in turn passed to Goodman Fielder, of which Bluebird was probably already a division. Trademark records from 1974 show that classes of products were split across two companies.
Most people think of "Sunshine" and remember a wobbly gelatin confection on the dessert menu. Baby Boomers will also recall their well-known peanut butter. We were mainly a "Greggs" household so I don't remember "Sunshine" other than for their boxed risotto and milk powder. I was under the assumption that the brand still existed in at least instant rice meals but it seems it is now defunct.
Tucker's "Sunshine" custard powder packaging, 1911
I've got a lot more stuff on "Sunshine" so you can look forward to a couple more posts of packaging recreations in the future.
When Lactose Goes
In cheese, Co-operative Dairy Company of Otago Ltd, Goodman Fielder, Hocken Library and Archives, Huia on May 31, 2011 at 10.46
Sadly, sometimes my attempt to uncover information about a long-lost brand just simply reaches a dead end, before it's even started. Point in case – is this packaged cheese brand. Someone was selling a box on-line a few weeks ago and I have faithfully recreated the carton design as best I can from the blurry snap.
I estimate it's from the late 1940s to late 1950s but it looks like this brand was around for a long time – let's face it – people starting new brands in that era wouldn't exactly consider two extinct birds a state-of-the-art product push.
My best source ended up being an early book by Kiwiana impressario Richard Wolfe, "Well-Made NZ: A Century of Trademarks" published in 1987. I have to say that, while it is inconveniently denoted into grouped themes, and with no real index, or order either numeric or alphabetical to go by – it's actually turned out to be a damn good resource over the years; and this is my second purchase of the same book.
Anyway, this tome told me that the only Huia brand (there were many) that was manufacturing dairy product was The Co-operative Dairy Company of Otago Ltd, Castle Street in Dunedin, and dates the logo to 1926.
The first dairy co-operative was established in Otago in 1871. By 1920, there were 600 dairy processing factories throughout New Zealand of which about 85% were owned co-operatively. the NZ Truth, 13 December 1924 discusses the company in an article quite sarcastic of tone entitled "IS THIS CO-OPERATION OR CAPITALISM?" Well, excuse me.
Fred Waite, (1885–1952, farmer, politician, and historian) was behind the formation of the Co-op and since he really didn't take up dairying until returning from service around 1918, it cannot have existed before then, which cuts it down to around 8 years or less before it is sold off.
I found a registered trademark at the NZ Intellectual Property Office, but like all in their database, it does not give years unfortunately. It is listed under the actual company name first with no trademark, as "revoked "; and then the below logo (I guessed dated mid to late 1920s , I wasn't far off), as "expired" under Goodman Fielder New Zealand Limited. It seems they still own the rights and it sits idle.
Just previous to WWII saw rise in popularity of a recent phenomenon – DIY shopping – in chains like Star Stores, Self Help , and Four Square to name some of the few. I can imagine after the war, with rationing restrictions loosened and an exploding demand for new products, GF took their humble Co-op purchase out of its tin milk cans and greasy paper – turning the brand commercial with processed convenience foods such as this foil wrapped flavoured sandwich spread.
The Alexander Turnbull Library has a butter packaging collection, which contains a Huia wrapper dated 1970-1971 which reads "Huia pure creamery butter. The Co-operative Dairy Co. of Otago Ltd, Dunedin. 1 lb. nett. Also ask for Huia reconstituted cream; it whips – packed in 4 oz & 8 oz tins." It's great an accurate date is provided, but without more of them, it's hard to figure out the story of what happened to this brand as it was clearly passed from one owner to the next – as companies merged and changed hands on a more corporate level. GF rivals Fonterra for its trading and decimation of brands making it nearly impossible to unravel some of these stories.
And that is all. Apart from this – In an interesting turn of events that make a full circle of the brand and history – The Hocken Library and Archives is now housed in the old Otago Co-operative Dairy Company building on Anzac Avenue, North Dunedin after an 8 million dollar refurbishment recently.
Addendum, early May 2014: Since publishing this short article way back when – I've come into a few items regarding Huia cheese, which are posted below. It seems that the packaging had changed around 1960, as evidenced by the adverts below which show a different design in use. So I stand by my estimation of the date I quote above. The packet I originally posted would be from the 1950s – more the later end.
I made several mistakes with the packaging as well as the article (early days!) as noted in the comments section by a number of people. It is, in retrospect, a pretty poor effort with the focus on my recreation work. I am pretty thorough these days, and so usually things are fairly accurate (although people just love to tell you when you have messed it up). However, as far as I recall the information came from a variety of articles on Papers Past and as such contemporary reportage is more accurate than "retelling" by anyone.
That said, I am not really interested in backtracking and completely re-writing/researching this piece all over again because I know what I am like, I will read hundreds of articles and leave no stone unturned until I get the full story – a big job – and the idea is just tiresome right now. We will just have to put it down to being a not very good attempt due to lack of experience at that time and move on.
One important thing to note, which made it confusing to date the original box I posted at the top of the article is – that Goodman Fielder didn't acquire the rights to Huia probably until some time in the 1980s. Occasionally I have to go out on a limb to fill in details when I recreate designs, and since both the Huia logos I have were registered to GF, I put their name on the box. This was wrong, very wrong. All were honest mistakes, I swear.
Some adjustments to the box I originally posted – now with a male Huia at front instead of two females – the latter always have long, arched beaks. I've also corrected the company name.
The Founders Heritage Park in Nelson has this red and brown version of the same box I originally posted, in their their ol' timey general store display. This one circa mid-late 1950s. I have no idea why they produced the exact same product in a different colour variation box. The only thing I can think of is the colours were revised as a step towards the more modern look of the next design which had red in it. Perhaps at this point the long-running blue and yellow seemed a bit old-fashioned.
A Huia pasteurised cheese box top, likely early 1950s. Image courtesy of Mike Davidson collection. This was in a large collection of packaging items dating from the late 1940s through to the early 1970s – but the bulk was compiled between the early 1950s and early 1960s.
Huia Cheese Spread advert, Festival Time magazine, 1962. Image courtesy of Owain Morris Collection.
Huia canned cream and cheese spread advert, unknown Dunedin magazine, 1960. Note the new box design present – nowhere near as attractive as the old one. Image courtesy of Owain Morris Collection.
Addendum, late Oct 2015: The above Huia canned cream lid, probably dates from the 1960s. I don't quite understand how these tins worked; as you see in the early 1960s ad previous, the cream came in a regular machine-sealed, perfectly hygienic can the same as any other product. However later they seemingly changed to this design in which a close-fitting cap slipped over a tin base, seemingly not permanently sealed. Provenance of above image unknown.
The below image shows that further to this at some time the tin had a weird flared lip added (I think the correct description is the unfortunate term 'flange') which doesn't shed any light on how it either opened, let alone stayed shut with perishable liquid in it. Go figure. Maybe someone here can enlighten us on this contraption. This image courtesy of Graeme aka thegrayman at The Oddity, Waikouaiti.
Pigs Sometimes Do Fly
In Goodman Fielder, Kiwi Bacon Company, smallgoods on April 21, 2011 at 10.46
…especially if they're a bird. I happened across this ad on my interweb travels, hilarious and another instant Kiwi classic in my opinion, so I am sharing it here!
Marketed as "the taste of New Zealand", Kiwi bacon is very much an iconic national brand – and the factories were famous country wide for their gigantic statues of the flightless recluse perched on the rooves, a point of reference for many miles around .
Kiwi Bacon Factory roof, Kingsland, photo © Geoffrey H. Short, 1988
There was a significant smallgoods factory at 317 New North Road in the Auckland suburb of Kingsland. The large fibreglass Kiwi and neon sign on the roof of the building was an urban landmark dating from around 1960. There was a time that it rotated, but it had broken down many years before I can remember it in the late 1970's. We could always see the iconic bird from my aunt's house below and I remember it being taken away at the end of the 1980's when the factory closed it's doors – it was a sad day. I believe the death knell was a fire, and the building was later restored to become office for Fairfax Publications.
Image © Gae Rusk, 1983. The author described this as a Kiwi Bacon Factory, in Christchurch. It's been pointed out to me by an observant longwhitekid reader that this was not a factory, just a sign on top of a well-known building. There was a Christchurch branch and factory somewhere as evidenced by a trademark being registered by Kiwi Bacon (Christchurch) Ltd. It looks like that division made Kiwi sausages from the beginning of the sixties until perhaps some time in the nineties. I'll look into it some more, when I revisit this brand in another future post.
The official site states that the brand has been serving New Zealanders since 1932, but clearly before the characteristics were completely crystallized in the pantheon of Kiwiana, the company had already been in existence for some time. Kim Salamonson, the reference and archives librarian at Havelock North library, who also edits the blog for the Landmark Local History Group in Hastings, writes: " Early in the 1900s an uncle of my grandfather's, Mr. Martin, who owned the original Kiwi Bacon Co in Palmerston North, invited my grandfather, and his Family to emigrate to New Zealand , to eventually take over the Kiwi Bacon Co." Milton in the South Island was also a significant factory until the early 1980's, one of the town's main employers along with Bruce Woollen Mills. There were probably several in locations convenient to livestock produce.
Independent for many years, as the registry at The New Zealand Intellectual Property Office attests, Kiwi is currently a division of Goodman Fielder Commercial NZ Ltd (originally famous for their cornflour, it has become over the years a brand snaffler to rival Fonterra – having at one time or another acquired Irvines, Diamond, Frosty Boy, Mainland, Wattie's, Ernest Adams, Hansells, and Bluebird, amongst others).
Kiwi Bacon playing cards were produced for decades as a promotional item and regularly come up on Trademe and Ebay albeit variations – I have a record of several different versions of the design and I will do a post devoted to them later in the year.


L'Daijohnique Lee said she's been so fearful since she was beaten last week in Deep Ellum, she has had to sleep in hotels.
Lee spoke out Monday as outrage continued to swell over the brutal attack captured on a viral video. She said she's still recovering. Her black eye has faded in the days since the attack, but after three trips to the emergency room, she said a doctor recommended she see a facial surgeon and neurological specialist to continue treatment for a concussion and swollen jaw.
On Monday, civil rights activists, domestic violence survivors, clergy and protesters rushed to her side, calling on officials to upgrade the charges against her alleged attacker, Austin Shuffield.
Lee and the protesters say they're upset that Shuffield, a former bartender at High & Tight, is now out of jail after posting a $2,000 bond.
Efforts to reach Shuffield on Monday were unsuccessful.
Protesters who showed up Monday at Dallas City Hall said they felt Shuffield received lesser charges because he's white.
The protest occurred at the end of the Public Safety & Criminal Justice committee meeting after chairman Adam McGough asked officials to stay to listen to the concerns from black clergy and activists.
According to police records, the March 21 assault occurred after Shuffield and Lee got into a dispute in a parking lot in the 2800 block of Elm Street, near Crowdus Street. The argument turned physical and Shuffield reportedly slapped the woman's phone out of her hand as she tried to call 911.
Shuffield told a police officer that he was acting in self-defense after the woman started hitting him, the arrest warrant states.
The video shows Lee pushed Shuffield, who then retaliated with a series of punches to her face.
Shuffield, 30, has been charged with two Class A misdemeanors for assault causing bodily injury and interference with an emergency call, according to arrest records. He also received a Class C misdemeanor citation for public intoxication.
More than a dozen protesters asked police officials at the meeting to consider felony charges against Shuffield. Activist Dominique Alexander called the current charges against Shuffield insufficient. The group also asked for the council to look into possible racial discrimination in the city's entertainment districts.
Lelani Russell, a domestic violence survivor who spoke at the City Council meeting, said the police let Shuffield off easy.
"Had it been a white woman and a black man, we would not be having this conversation," she said.
A spokesman with the Dallas Police Department said that the investigation is still ongoing.
He said the protesters were saying, "your life matters, what happened to you matters."
A group of faith leaders will host another news conference about the case Tuesday.
Merritt said Lee was the victim of a hate crime, alleging Shuffield called her a racial slur and accused her of using cocaine. The attorney said he intends to file a civil rights lawsuit against Shuffield and High & Tight Barbershop, alleging that Shuffield's history of violent and racist social media posts should have prevented the bar from hiring him.
High & Tight should also be held liable if Shuffield had been drinking while working that night, Merritt said. But the bar's owner Braxton Martin said Shuffield was not working that night.
Martin also said he fired Shuffield upon seeing video of the incident, and is planning a fundraising event for Lee.


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After 2018, Duquette Will Likely Be the Third Winningest GM in Orioles History
Effectively, the Orioles have installed thirteen different "General Managers". That number pops up to fourteen if we so choose to count the Mike Flanagan/Jim Bettie design as its own separate entity. Below is the ranking of General Managers by total wins.
Years Wins Losses Pct
Hank Peters 1976-1987 1036 845 .551
Lee MacPhail 1959-1965 612 506 .547
Roland Hemond 1988-1995 592 634 .483
Harry Dalton 1966-1971 582 383 .603
Dan Duquette 2012-2017 519 453 .534
Frank Cashen 1972-1975 358 279 .562
Mike Flanagan 2003-2007 293 355 .452
Paul Richards 1955-1958 276 337 .450
Andy MacPhail 2008-2011 267 380 .413
Pat Gillick 1996-1998 265 221 .545
Syd Thrift 2000-2002 204 281 .421
Frank Wren 1999 78 84 .481
Art Ehlers 1954 54 100 .351
Currently, Duquette sits fifth all time for total wins (6th if you wish to look at winning percentage, 4th as games played as general manager). He is 63 wins behind Harry Dalton and 73 behind Roland Hemond. It would take a pretty catastrophic season for him to remain in fifth and it is like that 2018 will end with him sitting in third. With a playoff season or an extension, Duquette would pass MacPhail for second place in the next year to year and a half. As it is he is about four to five to seven years away from Hank Peters.
Needless to say, Duquette has overseen one of the more successful periods in the history of the Orioles franchise. He has succeeded under the ownership of Peter Angelos where other respectable executives like Roland Hemond, Frank Wren, Jim Beattie, and Andy Macphail have failed. Maybe he is not the answer long term, but it is remarkable how successful he has been in a job that few people thought it was possible to be successful in.
As Duquette enters his final contract year, many have called for him to be sent off into the sunset. This is a rather common thought even though we know he is a wanted commodity as evidenced by the Blue Jays' interest a few years back. Areas in which he is dinged include a lack of international amateur spending, which is something that no Orioles GM has done since Pat Gillick. That makes it seem like a franchise issue instead of a GM issue. He is hit for diddly daddling in the free agent market, but studies have indicated how waited out the market gets you a better price point. While the Orioles have spent lavishly, much of that spend has been caught up in arbitration contracts and the owner's contract proclivities (see: Chris Davis).
The main area of weakness for Duquette has been him gutting the minors. He was willing to get rid of fringe prospects, which has put the club in a starting pitching depth crunch the past couple years as a few of their starters fell apart. The minors in general came in from being buoyed by several high draft picks and little depth to one of simply little depth as the club became more competitive and Duquette felt free to sign free agents that resulted in the loss of draft picks. However, the club, even though restricted predominantly to the domestic market, has done well to find talent deeper in the draft on the position side. It has made what was a glaring issue into something that is now more or less sub-par.
As it stands, I still think Duquette has not shown a talent at rebuilding a franchise and it feels like the franchise is on the threshold of a rebuild. That said, he has had lots of success here and elsewhere under a wide range of limitations. He has also shown to be successful with the Orioles, which is something no one had been able to do in the 15 years before his tenure.
With all of that in mind, I think the wisest move for this franchise would be to extend Duquette for another five years and see how well he can restock the cabinet.
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I may be mis-remembering, but I believe that when Dan Duquette was the Red Sox GM he declared his belief that the draft and Latin American amateur markets were overpriced and inefficient. He acted on this belief by increasingly signing Asian, mainly Korean, amateurs, with no significant success. I think it likely that the Orioles' lack of interest in Latin America is at least reinforced by Duquette's personal beliefs.
And in Montreal he was a champion of it. I think market inefficiencies change with time and he thought the Asian market could be better exploited. He failed in that. It may well be a reason why Angelos liked him. But to somehow put it on Duquette for 20 years of ignoring the Latin American market seems off to me. Duquette's beliefs probably do not matter at all.
I think saying "Duquette's beliefs probably do not matter at all" is an overstatement. Duquette certainly hasn't been an enthusiastic, public advocate for increased efforts in Latin America. I also agree that there's a lot of interaction - the Orioles probably wouldn't have hired a GM who was an enthusiastic advocate of LATAM investment.
I confess that I am generally not favorably disposed to Dan Duquette and would prefer to not see him extended.
Jon, I love reading your articles, but I have never disagreed with you more, and I have never read an article of yours with less supporting commentary.
It is completely accurate that Dan shows neither direction nor philosophy, he makes wildly unwise personnel decisions, and he has shown no ability to evaluate pitching. One need only look at his major moves over the last several years.
It is significant that he was out of baseball for so long. Many have said that no one would work for PA except Dan, and whether that is true or not, it is certainly true that no one wanted Dan except PA.
There is no justification to extend him.
MacPhail did nothing with Baltimore.
His group is active in Philly.
Intent matters little if you simply are not allowed to do much.
I can provide counter examples for each point. You are protesting too much.
"mis-remembering"? That's what Roidger Clemons said!
Let me be more exact.
What I want in a GM is someone who is familiar with all metrics, is comfortable with all metrics, and is able to utilize his resources to reasonably consider those metrics. Second, I want him to be able to deal with communication issues within the organization. Finally, I want him to consider talent from all potential sources.
Duquette has not done all of these. He has a mixed record for most of it. However, the main issue is being able to work within the constraints that Angelos has placed on the organization. Only one GM besides Duquette has had success and that was Gillick when Angelos supported the highest payroll in all of baseball.
That ability to work within such a system should not be ignored. MacPhail was a good baseball man. So was Beattie. So was Wren. These guys were established and ready and they all did not put decent teams together working under the constraints of the current ownership.
Is Duquette my ideal choice? Absolutely not. But, I would say ignoring the reality of the situation is more likely to bring back a terrible front office when currently the one the club has functions and does some things kind of well. Team have emulated aspects of the Duquette operation. We are talking about a team that led the way (slightly behind the Pirates) in shifting. A team that led the way with launch angles. A team that led the way in delaying FA signings. These things have to be acknowledged and these things should be considered when trying to figure out if the next GM can do things this well under the constraints placed on the franchise by the owner.
Delaying FA signings is BAD.
It merely ensures that the desirable players are gone. What can possibly be the point of "waiting out the market" if the market doesn't wait?
If a player is worth X, he's going to sign for pretty close to X. It makes no sense, as we have repeatedly seen, to wait for the cost of a desirable player to go down, because somebody will pay the higher price.
Then, rather than do nothing because all the desirable players are gone, we repeatedly sign players, who are not worth even a fraction of their contract. That cannot possibly be a good idea, because the evidence is far too strong to the contrary.
Dan's actions are so contradictory that it is unlikely that they reflect any parameters set by ownership. If you're going to build through the draft, you don't trade away draft picks, if money is an issue, you don't give out $55 or $22 million contracts to bad pitchers. There are tons of examples. If management were cheap, everything would reflect that, and if management were profligate, everything would reflect that as well.
Dan appears to have no sabermetrics skill at all.
The success that the team has enjoyed could have been greater if not for Dan's bad moves. The average season Gonzalez gave the White Sox instead of the Gallardo fiasco might have been the difference in winning the division.
Dan has no sense of defense. He signed Alvarez and willingly forced Trumbo into the outfield. No one with the slightest interest in defense or knowledge of stats would have done that. Was Dan directed to sign Alvarez? I can't imagine that he was.
I largely reject the constraints argument simply because Dans moves are so contradictory.
And the bulk of the success is almost certainly due to Buck working well with the players he is given rather than Dan wisely choosing those players.
Dan has hung around several years, but it certainly seems that his moves have largely hindered rather than helped the win total.
You are arguing against the actions of every GM in delaying signings. You are willfully ignoring Duquette's use of analytics and that he was actually one of the first to try to implement them decades ago.
You are engaging in hyperbole here.
Jon I respect you greatly but I respectfully doubt that. I don't know every single one of Dans moves, but I know most of them, and most of those are illogical, contradictory and badly thought out.
He has not demonstrated at any time any consistent plan either long term or short term.
He has had some good moves and I don't deny that at all, but in toto, he doesn't seem to know what he is doing.
No hyperbole. I've given concrete examples.
I am not sure what to say other than the record is mixed and I think you refuse to accept that Angelos puts constraints on GMs. That Duquette has somehow experienced success while others have not should say something. Duquette has overseen several solid years after taking a job refused by many and thought to be a hopeless case.
Do you see how strange your absolute case is in light of that?
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I usually agree with most of what Jon writes, but if it were my decision to make, I wouldn't extend Duquette's contract.
There are plenty of young, energetic and highly informed assistant GMs with other organizations that would take the job.
I'll concede---as Jon has already said---that Duquette has worked within the constraints imposed upon him by Peter Angelos.
But Angelos most likely doesn't have much time left to live and the Orioles have to start thinking about the inevitable rebuild.
And as Jon said: there's no indication he's the man for the task, having given away young talent for rentals. He's not young either.
Unless we end up with somebody like the aptly named Thrift, IMHO the O's should give some young gun a chance to see if he can restock the team and make it competitive again in 3-4 years. Hopefully, this person can work well with Showalter.
If his tenure ends after 2018, I'll thank Dan for the great moves he's made---such as signing Nelson Cruz on the cheap---and curse him for the bad ones (e.g., signing Gallardo).
Be like Luhnow.
HE is a guy to extend.
Dan, not so much...
Luhnow gave up MLB depth to acquire a mid to backend arm. Pirates got a high median outcome return which sets them up well for future post season runs.
I think it worked out well for everyone. It won't if Cole's straight fastball loses velocity or if he remains a 2016/7 Cole. Or if the Astros see injuries. Pirates get hurt if Cole's 2015 season was real or if all their guys crap out.
Do you need me to write something for tomorrow?
I am uncertain of any time we will need you to write anything. Thanks for the offer though.
Elisabeth, what does this mean: "Do you need me to write something for tomorrow?"
Everything you see written on this site is done for free. We do this for fun. Please don't make this not fun.
We can't know for sure what is going on with PA. Yet, we know the core of the 2012-17 team came mainly through Andy MacPhail's trades. We know that DD has annually waited for the FA market to develop, then say he was "shocked" at how the market developed. His job is to at least occasionally know where the market is likely to go. (rule of thumb: Make your highest estimates, then increase those by at least 50%) He's overpaid for many of his moves (Ubaldo), largely because he's competing with a few other teams who are also desperate to sign someone. He's brought in pitchers with poor mechanics based on a half-season of success. The farm system has been atrocious. Even his best move (signing N Cruz) backfired into one of his worst moves (not re-signing Nelson Cruz). My primary complaint against PA is that DD hasn't been shown the door already.
Let us also remember, Duquette brought in Wei Yin Chen, Nate McLouth, extended Adam Jones to a friendly contract, turn Guthrie in Jason Hammel and Matt Lindstrom who was turned into a pivotal September and October by Joe Saunders, who turned Britton into a reliever, who signed Miguel Gonzalez out of the Mexican Leagues, who struck some gold with Steve Pearce, some silver with Danny Valencia and Pedro Alvarez, who got a year and a half of solid performance out of Bud Norris, who signed Nelson Cruz, got crazy performance out of David Lough / Alejandro de Aza / Delmon Young, dealt for Andrew Miller, found Brad Brach, a good year of Hyun Soo Kim, a good year of Mark Trumbo, stellar Michael Bourn play, converted Mychal Givens back to the mound, Welington Castillo, Trey Mancini, Austin Hays, Chance Sisco, Tim Beckham, and some players I have forgotten in this moment.
If you are going to give MacPhail credit for what he did and ignore what he did not do, it seems you have to really consider what Duquette did with the core MacPhail wound up creating. It also seems incredibly bizarre not to acknowledge how much of a failure the grow the arms philosophy was and how terrible Joe Jordan did in the draft. That left Duquette with a terrible situation.
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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I figured it was time to share my plans for our menu. To be completely honest, my advance planning self has been thinking about it for months. I had the menu practically all ironed out quite a long time ago, but made finishing touches only recently. I was able to try out a few dishes that are new to me and made some changes where necessary to round out our meal.
– The number of guests and desired amount of leftovers. We are actually a fairly small group, but we take our leftovers very seriously around here. I planned accordingly.
– Dietary needs of guests. I had a few dietary restrictions (and picky eaters!) to work with, so I made sure to include items that I knew would be okay for certain allergies, etc. I wanted to make sure that there would be plenty to choose from for everyone attending, regardless of their restrictions.
– A balanced menu. As much as I love my carbs, I wanted to make sure there were plenty of vegetables and other dishes to round out the menu.
– Items that can be made in advance. Like a lot of folks, I'll be working through Wednesday, so it was important to me to have some dishes that I could make in advance (or at least do some prep work for in advance). This way I can spread out some of the preparations on my evenings after work, which gives me more time the day of to spend with family.
To give credit where credit is due – while I'll be handling the bulk of our Thanksgiving meal, the turkey is my husband's thing. He's even made it a few times when we've traveled for the holiday, so it's completely his domain. He's trying out a different brine this year, so I'm excited to see how that turns out. I'm happy to assist as needed : ) I also want to give a shout-out to my mother-in-law, who will be making her awesome apple pie and likely some cookies as well. More cookies is always a good thing in my book.
Along with planning the menu for Thanksgiving, I've also been busy getting our house ready for guests.
While my favorite part of this aspect is putting up fun festive decorations, there are other parts that are not as fun. Like making sure the house is clean. Oh right, that. We've been tidying up, putting things away and doing some general organizing. When it gets a little closer to Thanksgiving, we'll also be giving the house a good cleaning. We've also had to do some general maintenance, like installing a new water heater. Sigh, that was just my attempt to complain a little more about that costly repair. But I guess we do need hot water.
If you are like me and have family or friends staying with you, then it's also a good idea to start getting the guest bedroom (or wherever they will be sleeping) ready. Same goes for the guest bathroom. When we visited my sister-in-law several months ago she put together an awesome little basket with some travel sized toiletries, magazines, etc. I thought this was a great idea and plan to do the same for them. Excuse to buy some magazines? I'll take it.
Finally, in addition to planning our Thanksgiving day menu, I have also put together a list of other meals / grocery items for the days that we have our family staying with us. I'd rather get it all done at once (and in advance) rather than having to worry about running out at the last minute to make sure we have milk for breakfast, etc.
So, that's it. I hope you are all having fun getting ready for the holiday and that your planning is going well. It'll be here before we know it.
I admire your planning skills! I had a well-planned Thanksgiving last year too, but in the last 2 weeks we have been moving to a new place, so I wasn't able to plan much. We just bought cornish game hens yesterday – that's going to be my plan for Thanksgiving this year :). I haven't even made a single Thanksgiving dish this month yet – too busy packing and unpacking :).
This is so helpful – it's always nice to see how others think through planning for the holiday – especially since you're so organized! Gorgeous decorations.
Thanks : ) My husband says I'm a little too organized but I like it that way. lol.


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VIDEO: Carwow's 360 degree BMW 7 Series review
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October 7, 2016 / 1 minutes read
We recently showed you a video review of the brand-new BMW 7 Series, by Mat Watson of Carwow. The review was mostly positive, showing off the 7 Series' blend of luxury and technology. The latter is the most important part of the new 7 Series, as it was BMW's main focal point. The Bavarians wanted the new 7er to be as technologically impressive as possible and it's exactly that.
So for this new video, Watson actually gives you a first-hand tour of all of the 7 Series' impressive tech. With a 360 degree view from the center of the car, Watson is able to put you right inside the cabin with him. By clicking on the screen and dragging, you can rotate the camera a complete 360 degrees and even up or down. It allows you to look at and see absolutely anything you want and it's a really cool feature.
Because of this, you can see everything he does. It helps give you a better understanding of how the car's tech works, by being able to actually watch him to everything. It's really cool to see.
What's even more impressive is when he remotely drives the car. As we know, the new 7 Series has a remote parking feature which allows drivers to exit the car and actually remotely drive it forwards or backwards. The function is to either enter or exit a very tight parking space where the doors wouldn't normally be able to open. In the video, he does this with you still inside the car. And because you can move the camera view anywhere you'd like, you know there's no trickery going on.
It's a pretty cool video and if you really want to see what the 7 Series is capable of, technology-wise, it's worth a watch.
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5 responses to "VIDEO: Carwow's 360 degree BMW 7 Series review"
Kaisuke971 says:
If you watch this video, please do it on phone (if you don't have a VR thingy). Not really worth it on computer.
Stole Nasev says:
This is also a good review for this series : http://www.carsdistrict.com/can-bmw-7-series-outperform-mercedes-s-class/