House prices rose by just 1.6% in October and the number of transactions were still 30% lower than the levels seen pre-recession in 2007. According to Nationwide, annual house price growth is the lowest since May 2013 – and it continues to flat line.
The average home has been valued at £214,534. In January 2018 it was £211,756 and in October 2017 it was £211,085.
The chief economist at Nationwide said the housing market has been impacted by a squeeze in household budgets, and wages not rising fast enough to outstrip inflation. What's more, those who are already in properties were unable to move on to another property because they simply could not afford the funding gap.
Other things, such as recent tax changes to second home owners, had also removed a large segment of the market, bringing a cut to the number of properties being purchased as investment properties to rent out.
By contrast, the number of first-time-buyers in the market has recovered – and the number of cash buyers also remains consistent. It is thought that the number of cash buyers were less impacted by the tightening in credit conditions, as well as the deterioration in the labour market conditions which made it more difficult for people to secure a mortgage. Recent years have seen a recovery in the first-time-buyer mark, thanks in part to the introduction of new schemes such as Help-to-Buy.
Experts have said they do not see house prices moving sharply in the near future. Mortgage rates are only rising gradually and unemployment is low. However, consumer confidence is very low. Uncertainty about Brexit is no doubt having an effect on housing demand and that will keep prices low.
If you would like any legal advice relating to a property purchase, contact Downs Solicitors to see how we can help.


The fiction of Walter Dean Myers typically grapples with the gritty issues, and Monster is no exception. Meyers deftly depicts events in the form of a screenplay and the journal entries of the sixteen-year old protagonist Steve Harmon. The young man fecklessly agrees to act as a lookout when young James King and Bobo Evans rob a Harlem drug store, killing its owner. The least guilty of the three, Steve is nonetheless labeled a monster for this terrible crime. However, it is the prison system that seems most at fault in creating monsters. Steve, an aspiring filmmaker, tries to cope with his trial by imagining the events as scenes in a movie. Fortunately for Steve, the court grants him another chance, though King receives a prison sentence. Myers offers a telling critique of the justice system that swallows up young African American men, who are already disadvantaged by society. Monster is intended for young adult readers with the necessary maturity to deal with the raw material of the story.


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Look At The Increasing Popularity Of Casinos And Sports Betting In Major Sporting Events
Only yesterday Arsenal announced a new betting partner. The deal is reportedly for four years and will see the Gunners bear the logo of Sportsbetio, this deal isn't the first in the Premier league though. Sportsbet.io are already the sponsors of West Ham but aside Arsenal and West Ham, the likes of Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Crystal Palace, Everton, Bournemounth, Wolves, Burnley, and the recently relegated duo of Watford and Norwich all have betting partners.
Of the 24 clubs in the championship, 17 of them have a betting partner and according to a 2019 report by the Guardian, Premier league clubs stand to make as much as £349.1m from shirt deals with their different betting partners. Casinos and sports betting companies make up a good amount of the sponsorship money in the Premier league.
Although these deals are more common in football, they are also very common in cricket as well as in boxing. And even though the authorities have been very hostile to sports betting companies and casinos, during the 2019 Ashes, gambling adverts were banned on all live matches but this has not been able to stop sports betting and casinos.
Casinos and sports betting both have their advantages and disadvantages and it is always advisable to bet responsibly which includes only betting money you can afford to lose. Another way to be responsible is to always check for reliable casinos and sports betting companies to sign up with. For instance, companies like these that operate trustworthy casinos and or betting companies are highly regulated and come highly regarded by their customers.
Popular events that attract Lots of Betting
The premier league not only leads the way in global betting sponsorship, it also attracts the most betting money from punters. A recent study by BBC2's Victoria Derbyshire program revealed that as much as 95% of a sample test of 25 televised Premier league matches featured different gambling commercials. It is believed that a single advertising spot on a televised match goes for as much as £35,000.
Another study carried out in 2016 showed that over £150m was spent on TV adverts by the gambling industry. According to Phil Carling who is the managing director of global football for marketing agency Octagon, 7 out of every 10 bets in the UK is on football with the majority going to the Premier league.
Aside from the premier league, the UEFA Champions league is also popular among bettors. The FIFA world cup also attracts a lot of betting money. In 2018, it was estimated that bookmakers made as much as £41.3 billion with the amount of money spent on gambling alone in the UK during the 2018 world cup estimated to be over £2.5 billion which was double of the £1 billion reportedly spent on gambling on the Brazil 2014 world cup in the UK.
Grand National and Cheltenham Festival
In 2019 the Grand national attracted over £400m betting money which is almost thrice the amount the 2015 edition of the yearly horse racing event attracted. We unfortunately do not have the figures for the 2021 grand national as it was held virtual due to the pandemic and betting figures are yet to be released but it is unlikely to be impressive mainly due to the pandemic.
The 2021 Cheltenham festival is the most controversial so far as the event was held during the pandemic which led to an increase in infections. Although the final figures are not yet released, Mirror Ireland claims over €300million was spent during the last Cheltenham festival which is quite impressive considering it was during a pandemic. With attendance and interest in the events understandably lower than it used to be.
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Heading north from Sydney take the F3 which starts at the Pacific Highway from Wahroonga. Take the Gosford exit which is around 60km from the start of the F3.
Down the hill and then about 10km after the F3 exit turn right at the football stadium just over the railway line. Keep an eye out for signs to Erina, or Terrigal. Don't take the turnoff to Avoca.
About 8k from Gosford go through Erina and turn right at the roundabout with roadworks and head towards Terrigal and North Avoca. Take Terrigal Drive about 2-3 km and turn right at the ambulance station to Charles Kay drive.
At the top of the hill turn left into the Scenic Highway. About 2 km then turn right at Tramway Rd. Down the hill you will see Avoca Beach.
Browse through the seaside boutiques, antique and country style furtniture stores or pick up a few bargains and excellent gifts at one of the Central Coast's weekend markets ». There is something for everyone.
Major shopping centres offer a wide range of department and speciality stores. Art and crafts are everywhere on the Central Coast with world class galleries » and charming pottery and craft shops. You'll find a wide range of styles and products from traditional watercolours and sculpture through to locally made pottery.


Gas is one of the most unpredictable and challenging budget items to control. We're all at the mercy of fluctuating world markets. Just when you think you have a handle on your gas expenditures, prices jump 50 cents per gallon and there goes the budget. However, there are definitely ways you can save money on gas. In 2016, our household's average monthly gas spend for two cars was $218. In 2017 we brought it down 26% to $162 a month, despite an increase of average gas prices from $2.18 in 2016 to $2.45 last year. If prices had remained at 2016 levels our raw gains would have been more like 32%. As it was, we saved close to $700 on gas in 2017.
The vast majority of your potential gas spending is determined by the car you drive (and, of course, the distance you drive it). At the start of 2017, we planned to give our second car, a 1998 Toyota Camry, to my teenage daughter when she got her license. Our 2011 Honda Accord had shouldered most of our distance travel for 5 years. With close to 200,000 miles on the odometer, it needed to move to its rightful spot as a cart-children-to-their-local-events car. We needed a new primary vehicle. We dallied with a joint midlife crisis convertible – oh Mazda Miata I still mourn for you – but righted the delusion ship and realized we still needed four doors and a back seat for the kids.
Obviously, hybrids got into the discussion, but most were above our price range. We settled on a 2017 Mazda3. Despite being smaller than we are used to (our children are not huge fans of the back seat), we have been thrilled with our choice. The Mazda is zippy and fun to drive, and best of all, incredibly gas efficient. Our Honda Accord gets a respectable 23mpg, while the Mazda3 has gotten 34mpg over its first year of use. This alone represents a 32% decrease in gas outlay each month. That's a game changer in any budget line.
Of course, if we could afford a Tesla, or lived in a walkable place, we would be saving even more on our gas bill. But if your budget is limited, and walking isn't an option where you live, buying a gas efficient car is your best bet to keeping your fuel budget low.
When you are out around town, record the current prices for regular unleaded at every station you see. A 10 cent difference from one station to the next may not seem critical, but that represents a 3%-5% difference overall. If you drive a lot, finding cheap gas will turn into $10-$15 pretty quickly. There are also several online search tools for identifying the best local gas prices. Our favorite, and one that passes the test for accuracy in our area, is provided by Geico. Also, check out the prices of places that may not be near your house, but that you go regularly. The gas station a quarter mile from our favorite poker room consistently has prices lower than our home town. Every time we play, we fill up.
Our closest gas station offers a decent base price and then takes another 10 cents off if you use cash/debit card. The combination of convenience and cash discount makes it our most frequented gas station. Entering the station to pay adds a minute to our trip, but the extra $10 to $15 a month in our bank account makes it worth it.
Be aware of your standard and rotating credit card cash back offers. Most standard cash back offers are 2%-3%, but periodically offers as high as 5% arise. Our Chase card is currently running a three month 5% off gas purchases deal. If we're not paying cash for a discount, we're pulling out the Chase card every time we fill up. Of course, all your gains are lost if you carry balances month-to-month, so pay that card in full!
Our discount grocery store is about 15 minutes from our house; so we stock up on staples when we are already going in that direction. Another location of the same chain is right next to our primary poker venue. When one of use gets knocked out of a tournament, off we go with list hand. We work hard to organize our errand list to minimize our mileage. We figure it can't hurt!
Obviously there is a cost for servicing your car regularly. But if it keeps your car efficient – never mind giving it a longer life – it will be worth it in the end. That does not mean you have to be fanatical. We definitely space servicings beyond manufacturer recommendations. But periodic oil changes, keeping your tires optimally filled, and getting your basic 30,000 mile check-ups should help stretch your gas dollar even further.
Overall, it comes down to this: buy the most gas efficient car that works for you and then work the edges. But don't dismiss the edges, you can slash another 15%-20% off your overall gas spending with consistent attention to the other five items above. These are really the best ways to save money on gas.
Next up: How we saved huge on our Dream Wedding in New Orleans!


Intel claims to have democratised deep learning application development with the launch of its new Movidius Neural Compute Stick. You might remember that Intel acquired machine vision specialist Movidius Technology almost a year ago. This new Compute Stick takes the Movidius name as it packs one of the company's Myriad 2 VPUs (Vision Processing Units).
According to Intel this USB 3.0 connected stick is the "world's first USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained AI accelerator that delivers dedicated deep neural network processing capabilities to a wide range of host devices at the edge". The edge is the point where the deep learning and AI might be applied by a device.
"The Myriad 2 VPU housed inside the Movidius Neural Compute Stick provides powerful, yet efficient performance – more than 100 gigaflops of performance within a 1W power envelope – to run real-time deep neural networks directly from the device," said Remi El-Ouazzane, vice president and general manager of Movidius, an Intel company. "This enables a wide range of AI applications to be deployed offline."
If you are a deep learning developer you will still do the algorithm training on much more powerful equipment. However, these Intel Movidius Neural Compute Sticks will then be able to run the compiled Caffe-based convolutional neural network (CNN) inference app on the Myriad 2 VPU. This brings benefits of latency, power consumption and privacy.
That's not all, the Movidius Neural Compute Stick can behave as a discrete neural network accelerator by adding dedicated deep learning inference capabilities to existing computing platforms, claims Intel. Suggested devices that could use the Movidius Neural Compute Stick AI include drones, roombas, cameras, and robots.
The Movidius Neural Compute Stick is available to purchase through select distributors for MSRP $79. This device will feature in discussions at the conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Honolulu, Hawaii, from 22-25th July.
Is it possible that they will use this stick connected to your PC to use power of YOUR PC for their calculations. So this becomes something like "Trojan Horse"?
I wonder if a few of these daisy chained to a Moose might be able to give it some commonsense? Cyber-Moose time!
So not for Windows folks unless there's an Ubuntu VM handy.
does anyone actually know what this thing does in plain English?


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Saosin är debutalbumet från amerikanska post-hardcore-bandet Saosin. Den släpptes 26 september 2006. En "Limited Edition"-utgåva av albumet släpptes också och den innehöll en titt bakom kulisserna på inspelningen av albumet samt musikvideorna "Bury Your Head" (Saosin EP-versionen) och "Lost Symphonies" (från Translating the Name EP år 2003). Många av spåren är omgjorda versioner av låtar som kan hittas på Saosins demoskivor.

Låtlista
"It's Far Better to Learn" – 3:54
"Sleepers" – 2:51
"It's So Simple" – 2:48
"Voices" – 3:37
"Finding Home" – 3:09
"Follow and Feel" – 3:19
"Come Close" – 3:15
"I Never Wanted To" – 3:29
"Collapse" – 3:15
"You're Not Alone" – 3:58
"Bury Your Head" – 3:34
"Some Sense of Security" – 4:00

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"Let Go Control" – 2:58

 Exklusiv Best Buy Download
"Voices (Akustisk)" – 3:55

 Bonusvideor inkluderade på Limited Edition-utgåvans "Making of" DVD:
 "Bury Your Head (Demoversion)" – 3:29
 "Lost Symphonies (Live från the Glass House)" – 3:00

I populärkultur

 ATV Offroad Fury Pro (2007) - "Sleepers"
 Burnout Dominator (2007) - "Collapse"
 Saw IV Soundtracket (2007) – "Collapse"
 Burnout Paradise (2008) - "Collapse"

Kuriosa
Albumet läckte ut på internet den 13 september, 2006
Det är en atlasbagge på omslaget.
"Sleepers" är den slutgiltiga versionen av "I Wanna Hear Another Fast Song" som fanns med på Saosin EP.
"Follow and Feel" släpptes först på Saosins MySpace-profil under namnet "SHh".
"Come Close" är den slutgiltiga versionen av "I've Become What I've Always Hated".
"I Never Wanted To" är den slutgiltiga versionen av "New Angel" som fanns med på Saosin EP.
En instrumentalversion av "Collapse" läckte ut på internet som en del av Capitol Demos.
"Bury Your Head" var från början med på Saosin EP.

Källor

Musikalbum 2006
Album av Saosin

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O'Rourke's remarks were made after a black American asked the congressman if he supported illegal aliens being given U.S. citizenship despite breaking the country's immigration laws. O'Rourke responded by saying that it is illegal aliens who are working at cotton gins today.
O'Rourke recently said in an interview on CBS The Late Show, that he supported an amnesty for more than three million illegal aliens who were eligible and enrolled for President Obama's DACA program.
"We can free DREAMers from the fear of deportation by making them U.S. citizens today, so they can contribute to their maximum capacity, to their full potential," O'Rourke said.
Mass low-skilled illegal and legal immigration has come at the expense of America's black working and middle-class communities and workers.
Data reported by Breitbart News reveals how studies by economists and researchers find that it is, specifically, underprivileged black American men who suffer the most from the importation of more than 1.5 million low-skilled immigrants every year to the U.S.


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Q: Allow only positive decimal numbers Within my Django models I have created a decimal field like this:
price = models.DecimalField(_(u'Price'), decimal_places=2, max_digits=12)

Obviously it makes no sense for the price to be negative or zero.  Is there a way to limit the decimal number to only positive numbers?
Or do I have to capture this using form validation?

A: Use the MinValueValidator.
price = models.DecimalField(_(u'Price'), decimal_places=2, max_digits=12, validators=[MinValueValidator(Decimal('0.01'))])

A: You could do something like this :
# .....
class priceForm(ModelForm):
    price = forms.DecimalField(required=False, max_digits=6, min_value=0)

This, also, is responsible for the validator value of 'price'.

A: In Django 2.2 you can add constraints to a model which will be applied in the migrations as a constraint on the database table:
from decimal   import Decimal
from django.db import models

class Item(models.Model):
    price = models.DecimalField( _(u'Price'), decimal_places=2, max_digits=12 )

    class Meta:
        constraints = [
            models.CheckConstraint(check=models.Q(price__gt=Decimal('0')), name='price_gt_0'),
        ]

Note:

Validation of Constraints
In general constraints are not checked during full_clean(), and do not raise ValidationErrors. Rather you'll get a database integrity error on save().

A: Assuming this is your product model, and you want to add non-negative constraint on price field. You can add the meta constraint on the model:
class Product(models.Model):
    price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=13, decimal_places=2)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    class Meta:
        managed = True
        db_table = 'product'
        constraints = [
            models.CheckConstraint(check=models.Q(price__gte='0'), name='product_price_non_negative'),
        ]

A: *

*Import dependencies

from decimal import Decimal
from django.core.validators import MinValueValidator

*Add validators

price = models.DecimalField(
 decimal_places=2,
 max_digits=12,
 validators=[MinValueValidator(Decimal('0.01'))]
)

A: According to the docs, it seems that there's no way to put something like a database constraint on a field.  The best you can do is add model "validators" which will be called if you call model validation or use a ModelForm.  The validators are skipped if you simply put values into an object and save().
So, you can add validation on the forms or you can add validation to the model which also get run on the form level if you use ModelForm.
From the docs on "How validators are run":

See the form validation for more information on how validators are run
  in forms, and Validating objects for how they're run in models. Note
  that validators will not be run automatically when you save a model,
  but if you are using a ModelForm, it will run your validators on any
  fields that are included in your form. See the ModelForm documentation
  for information on how model validation interacts with forms.

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So long between blogs I didn't realise. I have been putting bits & pieces on my Facebook site but neglecting here. Will amend!
We have been on a friends farm again north of Clare, SA after working in Mintaro for the winter. It's been great to see the changes in the weather over the past couple of months – being from a humid Queensland background B loves the heat whereas I'm more happy with the cooler days, but at least it's a dry heat. The garden on the farm is beautiful (have posted some pics) and is a credit to 'C' who has done a magnificent job over many years to produce such a joy to walk around. The serpents that live in the area in the summer do make it a hazardous duty to weed but that's to be expected.
B has been in charge of artwork installations around the garden, welding & cementing in farm/artsy fartsy structures that 'C' has created. We also have an orphan calf who needs feeding twice a day as her Mumma went to Cow Heaven due to a brain disease.
Grain harvest has just finished here with not many dramas thank goodness (e.g fires – see drone pic) B & I had a day in the 'Big Smoke' and went to the Adelaide 4×4 Show to check out the latest in caravans and everything in relation to 4×4's. It's been 13 years since we've checked out vans and equipment – haven't times & features changed! I thought it was quite 'flash' to have a little washing machine built in to the front of the van, now it's a standard fitting!!
Christmas Day came & went. We enjoyed the company of friends for a big day of food, wine and snore-fest in the early evening!
In between we found ourselves a piece of land not far out of Clare! We do love this area of the Valley and had been looking for a long time and a block with a shed became available. It will be a place to 'change over' for trips as we still intend to travel as long as we're able (especially in the cold winters) We have a few things lined up for 2018 which I'll share in my next post…. hint – BRB!!!!
Have a safe & Happy New Year – bring on 2018!!
Jeda…not sure what she's thinking!
Gave up on sun….chase Wildflowers instead!
Due to some things not working correctly we headed back to Geraldton for a week and stopped in a van park near town. Then we left and re-visited Cliff Head as we like this campsite. The weather beat us again so we left and went inland towards Eneabba again but camped at Lake Indoon. Found a lovely sheltered spot away from the day picnic area.
We spent our time taking walks around the lake and photographing heaps of orchids. We enjoyed cooking up feasts on our fire pig and I practiced my scone making. We only had a short time left on our 'Sun Journey' so we headed to the Wildflower areas we missed last year. Coorow Van Park was our next stay for a couple of nights. We took a drive to Carnamah, Three Springs and Perenjori. We headed towards the Rabbit Proof Fence Road to view more everlastings and they were magnificent. We went to a Talc Mine Lookout, Camel Soak (rock) and back via Latham to view more orchids and wreath flowers at a gravel pit nearby.
We had the Ford booked in for a repair in Perth so we headed to Bindoon again – did I mention they have a great Bakehaus!! After a couple of days we did a final run out to Wongan Hills (where we had a problem with van springs) then to Cadoux, Koorda & Bencubbin. We visited the Pergandes Sheep Yards (all made from granite slabs), Mt Marshall, Trayning, Kellerberin to Shackleton. It boasts the smallest bank in WA and Steves Sculptures. For the night we stopped at Kwolyin Camp, another new camp area with new amenities in a now obsolete town.
Then it was back to the wheatbelt farm to prepare for doing hay harvest and grain at end of September. Due to wet weather it has been delayed for a week, hence me catching up on our travels!
Lake Indoon-Butterfly Orchid, I think?
I can't believe it's been so long since my last blog! Time just flies when you're enjoying the road. Haven't been doing a lot of photography this year (must be having a block) just 'happy snapping' our travels.
I left off when we were in Whyalla SA getting repairs done after doing 'the tracks' and Birdsville. We then went to Arno Bay on the Eyre Peninsula for a week of fishing. Met up with some friends and enjoyed a week of squiding and fishing off the jetty. Then on to a free camp we've been to before, Cowley's Beach with our friends. Only October but it got so cold, happy hour started early and finished late in front of a warming fire. Enjoyed Calamari in panko crumbs for lunch a few days (life can be tough!) and too soon it was time for us to return to Whyalla as 'B' was to have an op at the local hospital. I must say South Australia has brilliant medical services compared to Queensland. Within 2 weeks of fronting up to Whyalla Hospital 'B' had seen a specialist and was booked in for a non-major operation. In Queensland he's still on the waiting list!!
After two weeks of recovery in Whyalla we were chomping at the bit to head off. We decided to meet same friends for a week at Haslam, on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. We had already agreed to return to Clare Valley for 'B' to work Harvest for the same farm as he did seeding, so we had time to fill in. Only took 5 hours drive straight across and we arrived, set up and ready for Happy Hour!
We enjoyed big seafood cook ups in that week. Our friends had some Redclaw they shared, then we had calamari in garlic butter then flathead crumbed. Whilst at Haslam we heard from a lead for a house sitting job near Ceduna and because we weren't that far away we decided to drive up to meet the prospective home owners. They live at Laura Bay, 20klms south of Ceduna. We met and loved the place as soon as we drove up the dirt track. It is in a Conservation Park, which was my only hesitation. But this will test our training with our Bluey, to keep her from wandering or eating baits.
Melbourne Cup fell whilst we were in Haslam and we had a BIG day. We invited surrounding caravanner's for a BYO beverage and snacks lunch whilst watching the big race. The days got hot so we found the best place to cool off was under the jetty with a bev and good friends! Too soon it was time to head east back to the Clare Valley for that four letter word…. 'work'!


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Divided Christendom Is Tragedy
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh | 01 February 2016
I do not have the courage to begin what I have to say to you now with the habitual words 'In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit', because it is more a cry of heaviness of my own soul, which I want to share with you, hoping that God, who shares with us all the pain of the world, all the tragedy of it, shares it also.
We are a divided Christendom; and we do not always realise how tragic that is, because we live on a number of levels. There are few moments when the difficult, at times abstruse doctrines that differentiate us play any role. How often does the primacy of the Pope determine the actions of a Roman Catholic believer in the course of the day? How often does the teaching of the Orthodox Church of the Trinity make a difference to his or her behaviour to one another? How often does such and such a passage from the Scriptures quoted by Calvin and other theologians of the Reformation determine our actions?
We live and act and relate to one another on a quite different level. And this level is either mutual recognition, acceptance, and at best mutual love; or on the contrary estrangement, misunderstanding and at times hatred.
We do not express feelings of hatred now as they were expressed a century ago. But I remember when I was a boy in a primary school in Vienna, how in the first week I was sent by the headmistress, who knew nothing about what Orthodoxy was, first of all to the rabbi — because 'Orthodox' sounded to her like an Old Testamental expression.
He looked at me, asked why I had an uncovered head, and when I replied, 'Because my mother has taught me never to wear a hat in a room because there can be a crucifix or an icon there', he looked at me and said, 'A Christian — in my form? Out of here!'
I was called by the headmistress in the corridor, who recognising me therefore as a Christian, sent me to the Roman Catholic priest. He asked me what I was, and hearing that I was an Orthodox boy he said, 'A heretic in my form? Out!' And this was the end of all the religious education I received.
This does not happen now. But the estrangement remains, to a very great extent. And it remains when we meet in terms of intellection, when we compare formulas, when we compare theological statements. I remember an extraordinary discussion reported about a Greek bishop in the sixteenth century with a Roman theologian. The Roman theologian wanted him to answer his questions in the terms of Thomistic philosophy and theology. And the Greek bishop could not answer them on those terms, because they were alien to him. And he was apparently defeated. And yet he was right; because it was not a competition between two philosophical systems but the proclamation of a living faith.
We are in the same position now. Dividedness has existed among the Christians from the beginning. You remember how Christ's disciples quarrelled: who among them was the greatest? And Christ answered: This child. And what did He see in this child? Purity of heart; purity of mind; an ability to be totally open to love and tenderness and acceptance of the other. The disciples learnt exactly this when the Holy Spirit came upon them, and when they went round preaching the Gospel but not attacking anything or anyone — but only proclaiming that God so loved the world that He had given His Only-begotten Son unto death that the world might be saved.
This is the truth on which we can build our unity. We must become like the child: pure in heart, open to God, open to our neighbour, in simplicity and in love. We cannot, indeed we have no right to reject or turn away from the teaching of our respective communities. But we must ask ourselves how much in this teaching is of God, of the Spirit, and how much is an attempt at expressing in terms of the world, of the philosophies of the time, something which is beyond them.
And also we must learn to approach one another with new eyes. For centuries we have been in competition. We have argued. We have tried to convert one another, to prove to the other that he was wrong and we were right. No.
I remember Professor Zander, one of the great ecumenical theologians of the twentieth century, who wrote in a book called Action and Vision how he sees the rapprochement of believers. He said to begin with, two persons are one. And then they think, they try to understand, they try to formulate their belief. They present that formulation to one another and the other cannot accept it, because he has also done the same, gone the same way, and come to another way of expressing the one truth. And the moment comes when they no longer are one.
They turn away from one another, and as Professor Zander puts it in a very pictorial way they still feel with their backs the shoulders of the other, but they are infinitely far away from each other, because they are looking into another infinity of distance. And then they go away. They become more and more ingrained in what begins to be the only expression of truth acceptable to them. It becomes not only the expression according to their capability of mind. It becomes The Truth. And the other becomes an alien, a heretic, an enemy of God — or simply a stranger who has fallen out of the boat.
Then one day, when they are far away, when bitterness has waned and separatedness becomes painful because there is still in their hearts a love of the other, they ask themselves: what has happened to him since we parted? And they turn round and look, until in the distance they see a figure. It's like a tree, like a statue, like a dead object. But know it is their friend, and they begin to move towards one another; and the nearer they come, the more they recognise one another. And they meet face to face. At that moment they say to one another: in the centuries of separation what have you learnt of God? Of yourself? Of me? And they begin to share — to share their separatedness and beyond it, what they still share of unity in the only God whom they worship.
This is what is happening to us now. There was a moment when we all, in the early centuries, were one. Then earthly wisdom came and divided us. We wanted to express our faith in terms of the philosophies of the time. And then we went astray farther and farther. And we began later to meet each other; at times partly, only.
Bishop Ioann Wendland
I remember forty years ago the first conference of the World Council of Churches at which the Russian Orthodox Church was present. We asked Bishop Ioann Wendland to speak for us a few words of greeting, and the essence of what he said I have not forgotten. He thanked the World Council of Churches for accepting us in spite of the fact that we were so different from them. And he added: We are not bringing to you a new Gospel. We are bringing to you the simplicity which the great minds have forgotten: the simple truth of Christ. We have been unable to live worthily of it. Take from us what we bring, and bear the fruits which we have proved unable to bear.
Isn't it something which each denomination can say to the other? With one provision that we turn to God Himself and say: And yet there is a lot I must repent for, there is a lot I must learn from my neighbour, and it is only together as one body that we will be Thy Church — Thy Church in its entirety, not in separation but in the Holy Spirit — become the place where God, One in the Trinity, is at one with the humanity that has accepted to renounce all worldly wisdom, to know only the wisdom of God.
This is what I believe is the point at which we are. This is what I say from all my heart, although I dare not say that in the name of God Himself, but as a result of a long life, with many mistakes, and joy, the incredible joy of being loved by God, together with all, all the people, all the Creation. Amen.
Sermon at Vespers for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
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Would you like to see this particle made?
I am looking for an appropriate sized particle effect to use with models/props_spytech/rocket003.mdl.
I have tried using rockettrail_doomsday which does not show up in game, and various flamethrower particle effects which are all hilariously tiny compared to the full sized rocket prop.
This particle effect would ideally be usable with other large rocket model parts such as models\props_spytech\rocket002.mdl and models\props_spytech\rocket002_bottom.mdl. As a suggestion, it should take into account the 2 sets of 3 boosters each uses (3 large thrusters with 3 vectoring thrusters) so that the particle can be aligned with the center of props and have the flames match up with the model.


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Columbia Lake - Lot 48
Martina Shovar dances at the celebration for Columbia Lake-Lot 48 (Photo by Cole Lord May)
Wedged between the Rocky Mountains and the Purcell Range in southeastern British Columbia, the Rocky Mountain Trench is a flat-bottomed valley carved into existence by the Columbia River. Here, wildlife roams between mountain ranges, birds rest midway on their seasonal migrations and rare plant communities grow.
The Upper Columbia Valley lies at the heart of the trench. The valley maintains an ecological richness that is quickly being eroded in surrounding areas. This is the only stretch of the Columbia River that has been left unaltered by dams. It is also part of the longest uninterrupted wetland in western North America. Unlike many other areas in the world, this region still supports a full suite of large native mammals, such as bear and cougar, elk and deer. The area has been a hot spot of conservation activities over the years, and continues to be a conservation priority.
Wetlands on Columbia Lake - Lot 48 (Photo by NCC)
Located on the east short of Columbia Lake, near the headwaters of the Columbia River — Lot 48 is part of a network of conservation lands and wildlife management areas that spans more than 7,600 hectares (18,500 acres). This protected landscape functions as a critical north-south and east-west wildlife corridor, providing first-class habitat for several rare and endangered species. The native grasslands here represent the largest connected expanse of prime winter range for deer, elk and other grazing animals in the Upper Columbia Valley.
As part of the Pacific flyway, these lands are also important for migratory birds.
Joe Pierre shares the Ktunaxa creation story at Columbia Lake - Lot 48 (Photo by NCC)
The east side of Columbia Lake has great spiritual significance for the Ktunaxa First Nation, whose stories celebrate the area as the site of their Creation.
Historically, Columbia Lake served as a major travel route to the prairies. It was a site for seasonal camps and ceremonial events. The area also provided salmon, game and other food gathering.
Numerous archaeological sites have been documented on the east side of the lake, including one of the main traditional transportation routes through the valley, known as the Spirit Trail.
A group shot from the Lot 48 celebration (Photo by www.kimberleyrae.ca)
Protecting Columbia Lake — Lot 48 from development was a long-standing priority for the conservation community, as well as the Ktunaxa First Nation and other residents of the Upper Columbia Valley. The property was the last remaining parcel that was not designated for conservation on the east side of the lake. Preventing recreational development and further road construction in the area has safeguarded the many natural and cultural values of the whole eastern side of Columbia Lake.
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CodeWarrior Development Studio 10 for Mac was the last edition of the CodeWarrior series of the development environment by Metrowerks for Mac OS and Mac OS X, released shortly after the buyout of Metrowerks by Freescale who turned it to a development environment for its embedded microprocessors only.
As a good-bye gift, price dropped to $99 and it was only available as a download, allowing all former Macintosh developers to update and archive their Mach-O and CFM/ PEF projects, as needed for import in Xcode for moving to the new Intel-based Macintoshes.
CodeWarrior 10 includes PowerPlant, a C++ framework for Mac OS development; also included is PowerPlant X, which allows for Mach-O development.
Later on, the PowerPlant and PowerPlant X C++ class libraries for Mac OS and Mac OS X and Constructor were open-sourced under BSD license by Freescale on SourceForge.
CodeWarrior tools have PowerPlant™ — the most popular C++ framework for Mac OS development. Version 10 also includes PowerPlant X framework for Mach-O development, which allows developers to write native Mac OS X code using Mac OS X supported features.
PowerPlant can be ported to Apples Intel based operating systems. These tools feature the fast compiler and build system available for the Mac platform, with enhanced code generation and build speed improvements in this version.
The debugger includes a breakpoints view window, profile information viewer and trace view window. The IDE project window includes a new tab for creating application packages that enables arbitrary user-specific layout, and allows drag-and-drop copying of any file or folder to the package.
Version 10 includes support for Objective-C: code completion, syntax coloring, search comments and more.
With the purchase of this product, you will receive free technical support for 30 days from date of product activation.
The CodeWarrior IDE has everything you need in one easy-to-use tool suite: an advanced project manager, build system, source-code editor, compilers, linkers, debuggers, class browser, and more. And, for the first time, buy only what you need. CodeWarrior Development Studio for Mac OS v.10 is hosted on Mac OS X and includes the Mac OS X (Mach-O) target.
An optional text based project format that enhances the ability to use version control systems with CodeWarrior.
• PowerPlant, PowerPlant X, and Constructor will be put into open source.
The Download is CodeWarrior Development Studio 10 for Mac - Professional Edition.
I figured out how to restart the 15-day trial!
1. Replace license.dat (located in Metrowerks CodeWarrior x.0/Metrowerks CodeWarrior) with the original file from the installation disc.
2. Open /Library/Application Support/.fiplrc and remove the line corresponding to your CodeWarrior version (either "Pro 9.0" or "Pro 10.0"). Alternately, just remove the file if there's only one line in it.
3. Start CodeWarrior and click "Register Later" to get another 15 days! You will need to quit and re-launch CodeWarrior for the new license to take effect.
Fantastic, I've been interested in Classic Mac Development under Mac OS X (nothing fancy, but I used to make console apps with CW Pro 6 as a kid) and have had CodeWarrior Pro 8 installed under Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.6 recently and those were working great.
The limited crack is a bummer, for sure. Perhaps though it won't be too bad to dance around the eval.
It'd be interesting to find a copy of CodeWarrior Pro 9 as well. I know I had seen 9 and 10 only one other place on the Internet, and that was the BetaArchive, but getting access there is pretty impossible.
I look forward to playing with this during the upcoming weekends! Thanks so much for getting this online.
This is great to have! But unfortunately the included crack only installs an academic/student-level license. This limits projects to 32 files, limited optimization levels, no building libraries/frameworks, etc.
Without the crack it installs a 15 day eval of the full license, but I'm not sure how hard it is to renew/re-create another 15-day license after that expires.
Does anyone have a crack for the full functionality?


On September 14th, 2005, the OCITE Board of Direction opened up a Student Educational Fund. This fund has been established to support students enrolled in an engineering curriculum with an emphasis in the Transportation Engineering field by providing funds to award scholarships, provide money for travel to ITE meetings, and other various student expenses as approved by the Board of Direction.
It is the intent of the OCITE Board of Direction to solicit for donations annually, hold events (example: auction, socials, etc.) that will contribute to the fund, and deposit excess income over the annual budget into the fund.
This year, OCITE is planning to offer one or more academic scholarships to students attending college with a clear degree path for a career in the transportation industry. Scholarships are awarded annually to students who apply with a short application who have distinguished themselves from their peers and who have shown that they have a desire to pursue work in the transportation world.
Scholarships typically become available at the beginning of September and are then awarded at the OCITE Awards Banquet in December.


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Bleach 367?
Will "Bleach" Anime Return, and When?
Bleach the anime is rumoured to return in 2019
It is unknown when Bleach Episode English Subbed will air, due to cancellation of the Bleach anime tv series in Japan. So basiclly this makes alot of people.
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By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie Policy , Privacy Policy , and our Terms of Service. It only takes a minute to sign up. I've seen almost all of the Bleach anime at least what's been released dubbed , and I'm now interested in reading the manga. However, when the manga closely follows the anime I've already seen, I tend to get bored quickly. Thus, I'd want to pick up the manga at a point right before the anime began to diverge. Bleach anime ended in March , with the episode
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If you are here reading this article, you probably know everything you need to know about Bleach and want to know only one thing - and that is why Bleach anime ended at episode and will they continue making it. Will Bleach anime return? Bleach manga is ongoing - it has been coming out in Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan since August and is still being published weekly to this day. That means it is already coming out for over 12 years, and as of August , Bleach manga has been compiled into 60 tankobon volumes which can be purchased all at once. Impressive, right?
Forum Settings Episode Information Forums. Anime Series Discussion. Title Discussion. Recent Watched Ignored Search Forum. Hi I watched Bleach long ass time ago and I'm watching the movies and rewatching the anime for the bazillion time and I wonder if episode EVER come to air? Maybe they are just waiting till it end to continue the anime but considering how lame the manga is right now, probably not.
Chat or rant, adult content, spam, insulting other members, show more. Harm to minors, violence or threats, harassment or privacy invasion, impersonation or misrepresentation, fraud or phishing, show more. Yes it did end in TV Tokyo but they moved it over to TV Osaka and will Air the next episode on April 6th I know Japanese can be easily mistranslated but Noriyuki Abe even said there was a translation error but IT will not end and it will re-air episode on April 6th. Update: April 3rd is the correct date information based on T. V Osaka calender and Noriyuki Abe's Twitter. Update 2: Information because people are saying it's ending and i just want them to see said info Go seicho arigato gozaimashita thank you for listening.
When does TV anime Bleach episode come out? It is based on on the manga of the same name written by Tite Kubo. The Bleach anime became popular both on its motherland and in many countries of Europe and America. The given information was confirmed in March by Hiroki Takagi Bleach animation director. I hope you reconsider not airing it. I strongly believe it should continue�. Well the series end with a kick start leading into a new season.
The episodes of Bleach anime series are based on Tite Kubo 's manga series of the same name. The series follows the adventures of a teenager named Ichigo Kurosaki , who can see spirits and becomes a Soul Reaper after assuming the duties of Soul Reaper Rukia Kuchiki. Viz Media obtained the foreign television, home video, and merchandising rights to the Bleach anime from TV Tokyo Corporation and Shueisha on March 15, Cartoon Network began airing Bleach the following evening as part of Adult Swim. Adult Swim stopped broadcasting new episodes of the English adaptation on October 20, , after airing the first 52 episodes of the series. It was replaced with another Viz Media series, Death Note , to provide Studiopolis more time to dub additional episodes of the series. The series returned from hiatus on March 2, , and had returned to hiatus for almost a year after airing episode on November 21,
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Отель The Idol Paradise находится в городе Bhubaneshwar.
The Idol Paradise offers accommodation in Bhubaneshwar. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. A flat-screen TV with cable channels, as well as a computer are provided. Certain rooms include a seating area for your convenience.


Structure located in the Pesaro beach area, 500 meters from the main square where all the events take place summer. In front of the sea, it guarantees a 3-star treatment with the possibility to book the facing sea bath.
Within 200 m. bus stop, bar / restaurant, inhabited area. Within 1 km church, ATM, supermarket, pharmacy. Between 1 and 5 km train station, hospital. Over 10 km airport.
Minimum 3 nights, Compulsory deposit, Beach directly accessible from the hotel.
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Located just 6 km from CBD, a few minutes from Chapel Street, Tequila has quickly grown to become one of the most popular Mexican restaurant in the Melbourne's South Yarra and surrounds.
Tequila's menu contains a wide variety of a la carte options whilst providing patrons with a host of authentic Mexican dishes to cater every taste. Our regulars love us for our exciting starters, traditional dishes and scrumptious deserts. Enjoy the authentic Mexican flavours with a range of delicious tapas and try over 20 different varieties of mescal tequilas.
One person in the whole restaurant at 6pm to serve, run bar etc. He had no idea about any reservations, barely spoke any English and was abrupt to almost a rude level - could have been the language barrier but still. The whole place feels more like a fast food place than a restaurant but prices are restaurant ones. Food pretty meh. Not going back.
Pleasantly surprised by the quality and freshness of the food served and was not smuthered with cheese and sauce for once like other places. We'll be back!
Great place, love the Fish Tacos! Fresh food and lovely flavours. Very vibrant and friendly staff. Definitely visit again.
The food was delicious but the serving sizes too small for my liking - I was still hungry after the main! My 'large' quesadilla wasn't really that large and it was served with very small bowls of rice and beans , guacamole and salsa.


Since I saw this upcycle idea you're seeing here in this post, I've been looking forward to writing about it. The subject is about nature, something that's close to my heart. Design, planet and nature are to me all incorporated in the term 'upcycle design'. So what better way to show this than upcycle design intended for using plants. A few nice examples are Plantation by Alicja Patanowska, Elegant Farm by oopsmark and a small contribution by myself called MilkBasket1. All of these designs aim to bring plants, green, into our living room by means of upcycled objects.
And now I'm adding another fantastic, small, but very friendly upcycle design piece to this green category. It's an upside down Hanging Bottle Vase designed by The Merrythought. This blog was established in 2013 by Caitlin and Manda McGrath and is a Western New York-based lifestyle site devoted to simple living.
If you're like me and like nature and indoor plants, well this upcycle design object might be something for you. Especially because the team from The Merrythought made a great tutorial for this DIY project. There's not a lot you'll need, but it starts with a vintage bottle and plant.
The plants that they use are Air Plants, real name Tillandsia. These plants are called this way because they get the majority of their nutrients from the air. Since a few years they have become quite popular. Why? I think that's because they are quite decorative and they are low-maintenance. Tillandsia are available in many many variaties, colours and sizes and some of the plants even get flowers.
Outside in nature air plants attach themselves to shrubs, trees, rocks or the ground with their roots and are native to the forests, mountains and deserts of Central and South America, the southern United States and the West Indies.
Air plants are perfect for a person who thinks he /she can't grow anything, not even a houseplant. If you're still not convinced if this plant is something for you and want to know more, please visit Air Plant Design Studio. Here you'll find a lot of info and a great variety of air plants. Hope you're just as enthusiastic as I'm about having a go at creating my own hanging bottle vase with an air plant.


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Chapel's hat is an homage to my favorite manga series, One Piece, by Eiichiro Oda. It's a replica of the one worn by the character Nico Robin. Also, the book Chapel's reading is Hereville by Barry Deutsch, one of my favorite graphic novels.
OMG I LOVE the Hereville books! Have you read both of them?
That's a shame! I'm so happy you like One Piece though, oh my god!
Maybe I need a WorkHat... Ace and Robin both have their special hats, after all.
I'm so glad you like One PIece too! If I had to pick a character I'm closest to, it would probably either be Luffy or Robin.
Hereville? When put next to the Smile strip, this strip is proof that Emma/Chapel read all the same graphic novels I read.
Yay! Another Smile and Hereville fan!
I know this sounds out of place-but can anyone tell me what One Piece is?
"One Piece" is a manga series about pirates. I know that might sound a little ridiculous, but it's AMAZING, and incredibly well-written and drawn. It's an adventure story of epic proportions, with parts that'll make you sob and parts that'll make you laugh out loud! The world it's set in is fantastically imaginative, and the characters feel like your best friends. It's got something for everyone (I even have my science teacher hooked on it) and you should really try reading it if you get a chance! It's my absolute, all-time favorite manga series, BAR NONE.
I thought that hat looked familiar... though I really haven't read that in a while.
Oh, we, the old school Anime and Manga (with some Manhwa and Manhua tossed in as well) are here.
I've not yet gotten into manhwa and manhua (recommendations, anyone?) but I love One Piece and a bunch of other old-school titles. Miyazaki and Tezuka have been huge inspirations as well!
YES! On the subject of mangakas, I also love Oda-sensei of One Piece fame.
Recommending: anything by Ken Akamatsu, though it's best if you start at some of his first works and move forward. They seem to build on each other to form the Akamatsuverse. I love them! They are very well thought out.
That's funny...I just spoke to someone at a little lecture I did who liked Tokyo Mew Mew! I HAVE to read it now, clearly.
But it is really awesome!!!!
Oh and I am writing a magical girl manga called Lindy Jewel.
Just put my younger brother under Chapel's hat and you have a realistic representation of how he does his homework.
Oh, good, there are other people with "work hats" out there! Mine is a fez, a la Doctor Who.
My work hat (doubles as my lucky hat) is my official army surplus camo floppy jungle hat. Indianna Jones has his fedora, this is mine.
Oooh, neat! I love military hats.
I have a Travel-hat that I use whenever I go out. Think Gilligan's Hat from Gilligan's Island, but red.
Ha. Ha. HA. Fezzes are kewl!!!! XD!!!
Thank you so much for writing all these Emma. We all really love it!
You're welcome! I'm glad people enjoy my comics!


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Award-winning Bay-to-Ridge Trail offers hiking challenge, links to nature
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Palo Alto youth learn to canoe as part of a summer camp last week at the Baylands. Photo by Marjan Sadoughi/Palo Alto Weekly.
A great egret takes flight at the Palo Alto Baylands. Photo by Marjan Sadoughi/Palo Alto Weekly.
Hikers of the Bay-to-Ridge Trail can stroll along Stanford Avenue. Photo by Marjan Sadoughi/Palo Alto Weekly.
A biker travels along North California Avenue, one of the more suburban stretches of the Bay-to-Ridge Trail. Photo by Marjan Sadoughi/Palo Alto Weekly.
Palo Alto campers hunt for plants and animals in Foothills Park last week as part of the city's Wild Life Camp. Photo by Marjan Sadoughi/Palo Alto Weekly.
The Bay-to-Ridge Trail cuts through Foothills Park. Photo by Marjan Sadoughi/Palo Alto Weekly.
Missing only one major link, the long-envisioned Bay-to-Ridge Trail is nearly complete.
On the latest version of the city's Palo Alto Open Space map, the 16-mile trail appears as a long orange line, curving southwest from the Palo Alto Baylands' sailing station through Monte Bello Open Space Preserve in the foothills. Just off the map, the trail extends to the Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve.
On the ground, it is largely unmarked, passing invisibly through places Palo Alto pedestrians already tread — North California Avenue, Stanford Avenue, Old Page Mill Road, the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve and Foothills Park.
In the minds of its supporters, the Bay-to-Ridge Trail represents something even larger. It links the Palo Alto of daily life with the Bay's waters and the west's wooded hills, unimpeded by city boundaries, property ownership or freeways — or by residents-only rules.
It connects the San Francisco Bay Trail and the Ridge Trail, two major efforts to construct Bay-ringing hiking paths.
And someday, that path will continue all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
"It's just very cool to ... walk out of your door and up to the top of Skyline and down to the ocean," Councilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto said. "It's really a beautiful vision."
As mayor last year, Kishimoto presided over a significant milestone for the trail, the completion of links between Los Trancos Open Space Preserve and Foothills Park and between Foothills Park and the Arastradero Preserve. She and Palo Altan Nonette Hanko, a founder and longtime board member of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD), jointly hammered in a 3-foot-long wooden "spike" painted gold at the place the trail through the city's Foothills Park connects with MROSD lands.
Previously, Foothills Park trails didn't connect with anything, on purpose, to protect its status as accessible only to Palo Alto residents.
But in 2005, the City Council had to agree to open Foothills to through hikers to secure $2 million from the California Coastal Conservancy and Santa Clara County to purchase 13-acre Bressler property, which was subsumed into the Arastradero Preserve.
By co-opting a utility road and constructing a new trail, those links were completed in September 2007.
"That's really the lynchpin that created the Bay-to-Ridge," Greg Betts, the city's acting community-services director, said of the connection.
Betts entered the nearly complete trail into a statewide contest this spring. It won, capturing a trail-project merit award at the California State Parks' California Trails and Greenways Conference in May.
"The trail not only links parks and open-space areas with urban neighborhoods as the trail passes from tidal marshlands to redwood forests, there are four nature interpretive centers along the trail route to allow travelers to learn about the ecology of the different plant communities along the way," Betts wrote in the award application.
The history of the trail dates back more than a third of a century. It was conceived by Hanko when she was envisioning creation of the MROSD in 1972, as a spinoff of an earlier trail vision: a trail all around the Bay, envisioned by Mary Gordon, then a member of the Palo Alto Planning Commission.
Frances Brenner, also a commission member, favored the city acquiring the former Arastra Ltd. property. In the mid-1960s, a development firm proposed building 1,776 houses on the land, but the city denied it, rezoned the property and in the mid-1970s was forced to acquire the land in a court decision, for a negotiated price of $7.5 million. The land is now a key link in the Bay-to-Ridge Trail.
Hanko, who still serves on the MROSD board, said the Bay-to-Ridge Trail has been a campaign position every time she faces re-election — although she hasn't had to campaign in recent elections because no one has run against her.
Former MROSD Planner Del Woods actually developed a trail alignment along the periphery of Foothills Park, but it was steep and close to private properties.
Betts, as director of open space and parks, suggested looking at existing trails, and Craig Beckman of the MROSD suggested that the best alignment would be to link to the district's Los Trancos Preserve, near the top of Page Mill Road.
Former Palo Alto City Council members and mayors Judy Kleinberg and Dena Mossar also supported the trail concept.
A county planner, Lisa Killough, was put in charge of trails countywide and was one more catalyst in moving the trail forward, Hanko recalled.
Along the way, the Bay-to-Ridge trail was included in the 1995 Santa Clara County Trails Master Plan.
Trail planning kicked off in earnest following the adoption of Palo Alto's 1998 Comprehensive Plan, which called for the city to "evaluate the design of a Bay-to-Foothills path."
Practicality largely drove the selection of the route, Betts said.
"In one sense, the route is the shortest distance between two spots," he said.
Planners utilized an existing path over U.S. Highway 101 and the California Avenue underpass below the railroad tracks. They tried to connect parks and green space — the trail touches Jordan Middle School, Alexander Peers Park, Jerry Bowden Park and comes close to Donaldina M Cameron Park.
And planners used the four nature centers — Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center, the Junior Museum and Zoo, the straw-bale gateway facility at Pearson-Arastradero and the Daniels Nature Center in the Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve — as anchors, Betts said.
They also used existing trails.
In the built-out areas of Palo Alto, planners aimed for less-busy roadways and wide sidewalks, Betts added.
"Palo Alto itself is still a really beautiful route," he said.
One gap remains in the trail. Between Old Page Mill Road and the Arastradero Preserve, across Interstate 280, the path needs to cross Stanford University land.
Stanford agreed to build the critical link as part of its 2000 General Use permit, in which it agreed to construct two trails.
Known as S-1, or southern trail, the Bay-to-Ridge connector was approved — but is now tied up in the lawsuit challenging the northern Stanford trail proposal along Alpine Road.
"Sometimes it just takes longer to build a trail than it does to build a roadway," Betts said. "Sometimes it just takes a while for pieces to fall into place as it did with the serendipity of the 13-acre Bressler property."
Betts said he only knows of one person who has hiked the length of the trail, although others including Kishimoto have hiked large chunks of it.
"We acknowledge that it's not going to be an ant trail of people," he said.
Anyone eager to hike the trail should prepare carefully. It is long and, as its name suggests, climbs more than 1,400 feet. Most of the trail is unmarked so a map is essential for first-time trail hikers.
Signs through the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve, for example, still state trails end at Foothills Park and once at the boundary, a hiker arrives perpendicular to a road, with no clear indication which way to go.
Click here for the Bay-to-Ridge Trail map.
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on Jul 29, 2008 at 7:32 pm
sally, Midtown
Dear Stanford: Please open the cow tunnel trail to the public. It will have many users and be a great asset to the community. Not only will it complete this fantastic hiking trail, but it will also provide a safe and easy route for bicyclists and pedestrians to access the Arastradero Preserve from Palo Alto and Stanford. The public has been waiting for this link for years. Just do it already. Thank you.
WilliamR
WilliamR, Fairmeadow
How long would it take for an average person to hike the entire distance from the Baylands to Skyline (assuming a detour at Stanford), or how long to do various sections?
Dave Olson
on Jul 30, 2008 at 8:22 am
Dave Olson, Midtown
Depending on exactly what the route was (I'm assuming more or less
up Embarcadero, through the Stanford Campus, up through Arastradero,
Foothill, over to the closed part of Alpine and up to the new
overlook at Clouds Rest Rd just across Skyline from Russian Ridge),
it's about 17-19 miles, and about 2500 to 3000 feet of total vertical
I'm not sure about "an average person", but most people who hike
8-10 miles 2-4 times a month could easily do this in 2 days walking,
and with a bit of effort, in a single day.
For somebody who doesn't hike at all, it's probably 3 to 4 days
walking, in shorter segments.
Of course, this would require a bit of street walking to get to
Stanford, and entering Foothill from Arastradero is still "forbidden"
because of the implementation of "Palo Alto residents-only" for
Foothill, but it's a pretty pleasant route from Stanford on up
to Skyline.
By the way, although the article says there is a connector between Arastradero and Foothill, it was still marked as closed the last time I was up there 3 or 4 months ago. I guess I'll have to go look again...
Norman Beamer
on Jul 30, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Norman Beamer, Crescent Park
A link to a map of the trail would be helpful.
Dave Olson, thanks for the information. It sounds like an interesting trek.
Jocelyn Dong
editor of the Palo Alto Weekly
Jocelyn Dong, editor of the Palo Alto Weekly
Thanks for the suggestion, Norman. A link to the map is now attached to the story, as well as here:
David Sanguinetti
Palo Alto Hills
on Aug 1, 2008 at 4:03 pm
David Sanguinetti, Palo Alto Hills
I am the Operations Manager for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and would like to take the opportunity to clarify the route and time involved once you reach the City of Palo Alto Arastradero Preserve. Once you reach the Arastradero Parking Lot on Arastradero Road, you hike approximately 6-1/4 miles uphill to the Los Trancos Open Space Preserve Parking Lot. Be sure to take in the lovely vistas on the Open Space District's new and beautifully aligned Page Mill Trail. Once you reach the Los Trancos OSP Parking Lot, you can cross Page Mill Road onto Monte Bello Open Space Preserve and follow the Stevens Creek Nature Trail and the Skid Trail up to Skyline Boulevard (approximately 1.8 miles), where you can cross over into the Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve. This will take 3-1/2 to 4 hours total hiking time at the average hiker's pace. If you have further questions regarding the Open Space Preserves, contact the District's Office (650-691-1200) or go online to www.openspace.org.
Howard Maher
Howard Maher, Menlo Park
Hi Dave, My guess about the Arastradero-Foothill connection is that the City doesn't necessarily ADVERTISE that you can hike through, but you probably can.
Tony Pinkham
on Apr 16, 2009 at 11:13 am
Tony Pinkham, Mountain View
There is a provision for out-of-town hikers to pass through Foothills Park while hiking the Bay-to-Ridge trail. They just cannot have Foothills Park as their hike terminus/destination (start or end)--that is, they can go from Arastradero through Foothills Park to Los Trancos Open Space and points beyond. That is a long but beautiful hike.
on Apr 16, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Sarah, Midtown
Are bicycles allowed on this trail? At my age, a 38 mile round trip hike is impractical, but I would love to try it on my bicycle.
Dinesh Desai
on Sep 7, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Dinesh Desai, Los Altos
Last spring, a few of us walked from the Bay to the Ridge and then all the way to the ocean. We took two days and covered approximately 46 miles. An account of our trek and the description of our route is at
Josh Kelly
Barron Park
on Aug 18, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Josh Kelly, Barron Park
Any updates? What's going on with the stanford lawsuit? Is the cow tunnel trail built but just not open? Or still hypothetical? Also can you post a map of what the whole tail will look like when complete?


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More Jihadi attacks in U.S., Man in Body Armor threatens Kiryas Yoel NY- Jewish News Skim Sept 25, Elul 22
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- "Lone Wolf" Jihadi mass attacks SPREAD in the U.S… Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, and now Seattle. In the latest, a Turkish Muslim entered a mall and walked into a Macy's with a rifle. There, the suspect fired multiple times and killed four women and one man. The victims' ages range from "teenager to senior [citizen]." As has become common in these cases, authorities immediately state 'it's not terrorism' and later state 'it's mental illness'. Strangely all these Muslims with mental illness take it out by committing mass murder.
Commentary: Certainly 99.9% of these communities are just your average people trying to make a life and get by. But the violent ideology spread throughout their communities (often funded by Gulf State money) means that when someone has extremists tendencies, the moral and religious ideology is in place to support those tendencies, as is instruction on how to act them out. Boom, instant jihadi. Having now imported a critical mass and having the Internet to feed the worst of this ideology and instructions directly to the extremists, Western Civilization now has brought the barbarians to their own doorstep. Oops.
Now everyone gets to feel like the Jews…where people can turn on your for not being like them and violently attack you at any moment. Welcome to the club Americans.
- Budapest blows up. A huge explosion has rocked the center of the Hungarian capital Budapest sparking fears of a terror attack. At least two people are believed to have been injured. No additional details are available, though this is from over 14 hours ago.
- Man clad in heavy body armor invades Jewish village in upstate New York making terrorism threats. Dressed in body armor, a t-shirt and tan baggy shorts, the man entered Monroe / Kiryat Yoel in upstate New York, started yelling and threatening residents using obscene language, intimidated children, and insisted he was allowed to do so by the first and second amendment. The man claimed to be a member of the extremist anti-government Sovereign Nation during his rants in Kiryas Joel. He was arrested and taken away by police, no one was physically harmed.
- Arab columnist discovers that Arab youth admire Hitler. A Bahraini columnist was shocked to discover that within the Middle East there is a strong admiration by young people for Adolf Hitler. "The girls' admiration of Hitler's personality and their inclination towards powerful [figures] led me to search for [material] on 'Hitler adoration' and fandom, and indeed, I discovered a wide spectrum of young Arabs who love Hitler. Some said they admired him for killing the Jews, but most were enchanted by his strength, determination, and steadfastness. This begs the question: What is behind these young peoples' love of strength? Are they fans of the violence engulfing the region?"
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Neshama September 25, 2016 8:02 PM
Those tan baggy shorts were a dead give-away!


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