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Lieutenant Gen. William B. Caldwell, IV, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Training Mission Afghanistan commander, right, discusses the difficulties Afghan National Army members face in maintaining a weapon in the dusty, arid climate of the Helmand Province with Ross Kemp, documentarian and star of “Ross Kemp: Extreme World,” left, at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011. Ross Kemp is in country with his Tiger Aspects production team this week to collect footage on the current status of the war in Afghanistan, training for military and police forces and the coalition assistance to help build a sustainable Afghan National Security Force. The documentary is scheduled to air later this year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kat Lynn Justen)
Next month a free Dishonored 2 update will include a New Game + mode and new custom difficulty settings. This is part of what Arkane call the Play Your Way.
If you have difficulty pronouncing the name just remember that Howth rhymes with both.
If you like eating out and if you like seafood then Howth is the place to go. Personally I would recommend Aqua. If you are not interested in the many restaurants and pubs the place still has a lot to offer as it is a popular area for birdwatching and sailing. It is also popular with anglers. Howth is also a popular destination for cyclists and hillwalkers, particularly on weekends.
There are plenty of sea mammals, such as seals in the harbour.
I must admit that I was a bit surprised so see a notice which read as follows: "A person shall not feed a seal from the quayside or from any other place in this port. A person who contravenes this Bye-Law is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine nor exceeding Euro 5,000". Today there were many people feeding the seals and I checked a number of tourist guides (in Easons) and many of them suggest "feeding the seals" in Howth as a recommended activity. No, doubt opinion will be divided on this issue but I feel that the Bye-law is not realistic or practical.
The most famous visitor to Howth may have been King George IV of England, who visited Ireland in 1821 and is chiefly remembered because he staggered off the boat in a highly inebriated state. He did manage to leave his footprints at the point where he stepped ashore on the West Pier.
" Liberal Life" . Author: Aya Sugimoto
Debt of his father . Divorce of parents . More than 25 years since the beginning of the entertainment industry out of necessity in order to be forced to self-reliance at the young as 15 years old, to live . Mother and father to hate each other . Breakup of a family . Attempted suicide . Entering the entertainment industry . Marriage . Divorce . Independence . Feud with the immediate family . Re-examine their own half a lifetime of upheaval , tour de force that is spelled write sincerely .
How did that lead to divorce . Feud with sister and mother . Lonely childhood . Such as company formation . Come raised through episode is revealed for the first time in this book , the figure of women who fight I can not imagine anywhere near " evangelist of the functional and Love" and " incarnation of Eros " , from the image of " actress Sugimoto Aya " .
You do not have to worry and common sense convention a " liberal " , to live freely . Overcoming difficulties , the figure of a woman that you want to live in liberal tough , and , in Indy , supposed to give power to live and courage that not only women of the same generation , to challenge a lot of people .
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
Middletown, CT
Reminds me of a song that just became popular on a show I don't watch... anyone take a guess? www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl_HvEHSlxQ
With the difficulty to find food comes the difficulty to conceive. Between 1981 and 1998 it was observed that the average weight and number of Polar Bear cubs born dropped by 15%.
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A Baby elephant has some difficulty in climbing small bumps
Please listen to the wondeful song of Jordy “C'est dur dur d'être bébé”,too:
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My difficulty in shooting men seems to be behind me right now. That or I just got lucky lately.
At the Craft Fair in Lake City CO I spied Phil here. When I ask if I could take his picture he obliged readily. His wife ask if I thought he looked like John Wayne...perhaps a bit. Phil is a retired farmer fron Sedgwick KS. Thanks Phil.
With the helpof the Strobist DVDs we are getting closer on these underexposed sky images. Not there yet but closer.
Check out the 100 strangers group or the 100 strangers website to see more pictures and people working on the same assignment!
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
After initial difficulty, this up-Sun view shows that Charlie [Duke] has successfully deployed the magnetometer sunshade. The RTG and the [ALSEP] Central Station are in the background. John [Young] is now near the Central Station, possibly doing his last thumper shot.
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All above credit the ALSJ.
I'm having uploading difficulting and inventing a new workflow for the Mac that doesn't involve iPhoto.
Any tips? What do the pros use to deal with the vast ammount of data digital cameras produce? :p
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
Focus on Eldercare's response to COVID-19
At the purpose when the noxious impacts of COVID-19 showed first in Wuhan, the entire city and therefore the entire of Hubei Province ground to a halt. The lockdown of Wuhan brought remarkable torment and threatening difficulties for several individual occupants therein first focus. Presently, COVID-19 represents those equivalent difficulties for individuals and social welfare frameworks all-inclusive. Especially, it tests our aggregate endeavors to believe one another, particularly the foremost defenseless among us.
As a populace, individuals quite 70 will generally have more fragile insusceptible frameworks and progressively fundamental conditions that obstruct their capacity to battle the infection. They're likewise sure to dwell on bunch day to day environments, nearby people. Floods of COVID-19 passings in nursing homes — first within the Seattle territory, at that time on the brink of Sacramento and now during the country — have underscored this inauspicious reality. Up until now, Californians quite 65 have made up, at any rate, a fourth of the state's affirmed instances of COVID-19.
Be that because it may, guidelines, especially for helping living offices, are unsafely failing to satisfy the expectations in protecting California's older folks from this infection. Luck, Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan on Aging activity, as of now ongoing, presents an opportunity to forcefully address this peril and find how to secure an enormous number of more seasoned Americans.
Helped living focuses are an aid to the Eldercare business and therefore the enormous corporate proprietors that currently command the market. Simultaneously, in any case, an absence of guideline and oversight of staffing levels and capabilities — particularly prerequisites for on-location doctors and much prepared clinical experts — has left the business defenseless against misuse and unfortunate results. One glaring issue that has got to be tended to: helped living focuses are directed by the state Department of Social Services rather than the Department of Public Health.
In any case, it helped to measure maybe a piece of social welfare and clinical consideration conveyance framework, not only a direction for living. Propelled a year ago, Newsom's plan on Aging has framed a warning advisory group, is holding open gatherings and within the fall is planned to offer a 10-year plan which will address issues from lodging and vagrancy to crisis readiness to manhandle and disrespect. The venture has made a "Value Committee" to urge a contribution from a progressively differing gathering of residents and associations, including agents of the crippled network, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities.
Considering the spreading coronavirus general wellbeing emerging, it's basic that the representative's plan on Aging takes on an expansive and genuine open arrangement job. We weren't bothered with elevated level clichés for tending to the wants of the old. We'd like solid arrangements, solid guidelines with implementation teeth and a guarantee to continued oversight.
The Age of COVID-19
Older people who get themselves out of the blue alone without authority over their conditions are at specific hazards for an assortment of serious, even hazardous, physical and psychological well-being conditions, including a subjective decrease. Limitations on the opportunity of development ought to be proportionate and not founded solely on age.
COVID-19, as different irresistible melodies, represents a higher hazard to populaces that live in nearness. This hazard is especially intense in nursing or matured consideration offices, where the infection can spread quickly and has just brought about numerous passings. About 1.5 million older people individuals live in the nursing homes in the US, barring helped living offices and different settings making nearness.
Twenty-three individuals kicked the bucket in a flare-up at an office in Washington State in February and March, and the US Centers for Disease Control detailed 400 additional cases in offices as of April 1. On March 31, wellbeing experts in the Grand East district of France detailed 570 passings of older people in nursing homes.
Older people often end up in nursing homes due to governments' inability to offer adequate social types of assistance for individuals to live freely in the network, approaches that have put millions at included danger of getting the infection as a result of their organization. Governments ought to guarantee the progression of network-based administrations with the goal that individuals don't wind up in organizations without different alternatives.
Expound now on the roles played via care laborers in continuing the lives of the old during that emergency, and who, however dreadful themselves, by and by remain day in and outing inside the bounds of their wards to offer fundamental consideration.
Care supervisor Chang, the woman in charge of the consideration laborers among whom I led my hands-on work, coordinated the change of her ward into a self-sufficient fixed of a unit of care. The passage to her floor is carefully monitored; just fundamental conveyances are permitted, for instance, nourishment and clothing. Since nobody can enter or leave the structure, the flask for the older was transformed into a dozing region for care laborers. Despite the very fact that a lot of consideration laborers have their circle of relatives to require care of, they put that piece of their life under the control of others. Care specialist Lin, whose spouse died at the start of the pandemic, did not have the chance to completely grieve his passing due to incessant understaffing at Sunlight. She came back to figure following the burial service, despite realizing that she not, at now expected to figure at Sunlight to hide her significant other's clinical costs. Lin's arrival says much regarding her promise to her calling, to her colleagues, and to the old she had come to understand so well. My examination with care laborers recommends that it's an enthusiastic association and an awareness of other's expectations that propels them to remain the end of the day in care work. This is often borne out immediately.
Carefully add China is often seen as being grimy and unfortunate, thanks to an excellent extension to its nearby hook up with the realistic consideration required by slight, skilled bodies. Chinese consideration laborers are for the foremost part provincial to urban transients or urban specialists laid far away from previous state-claimed processing plants. In any case, direct consideration is intricate. In any case, its unpredictability goes unrecognized, or maybe disregarded by institutional powers that organize benefits and generalize the old as bodies to chip away at, to the disregard of their social-passionate necessities. As is valid with Sunlight, things which might typically undermine the keenness of care laborers, for instance, the absence of institutional acknowledgment for his or her enthusiastic work, are required to be postponed. Care specialists are currently centered around a shared objective: ensuring the gift assistance of the older. COVID-19 propels care laborers to consider what kind of care is required and the way to offer that care. It fills in as a channel through which the elemental beliefs of care are observed. Care is about common human weakness and our intrinsic association. Care laborers at Sunlight, in their aggregate every minute of everyday endeavors to secure the older, typify this ethic through their consideration. May the respectful regard, they hold of the older in their consideration redound on them and everyone consideration laborers overall who are fighting this pandemic on the bleeding edge!
Like the consideration laborers at Sunlight, the laborers in numerous nations are regarded human life so that we cannot be embarrassed to return clean with the leading edge about ourselves. Salute the spearheading staff who salutes our purposeful endeavors to handle the pandemic in numerous settings around the globe, within the daylight, yet additionally to ensure that veterans are appropriately treated, took care of and washed.
We all hope and pray that the coronavirus will soon be controlled and subdued. And that when the crisis is behind us, that we continue the important work of protecting the elderly and other vulnerable segments of our citizenry.
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How Can I Contribute in Times of COVID-19?
Write your testimony about the concequences from the time of Corona virus (COVID-19). Here is a great knowledge base about the effects of the Corona virus. Thank you for your story! article-directory.org/article/717/40/Emergency-Situations...
HEADACHES, COGNITIVE DIFFICULTIES and being ALLERGIC to LIFE
The symptom list states ‘headaches of a different type or greater severity than previously experienced’ – I shall add ‘with bells on’! My ME headaches are concentrated behind my eyes and, apart from the migrainous pain, I also experience double vision almost constantly. Yes, that means I see two of everything (which also means if I’m looking over your left shoulder, I’m probably looking at the wrong one of you!). I also get dizzy spells where the room spins and being absolutely flat is absolutely necessary. I lose my balance when standing or sitting up and sometimes can’t get the right messages to my muscles to get them to move correctly. All these symptoms are common with ME and some people also experience black-outs, paralysis and seizures.
I find bright light stings my eyes (hence the filmstar-cum-vampire look), loud noises echo painfully (hence the excessive shusshing) and even strong smells and tastes cut through my head like a knife (hence… I don’t like curry). I’ve heard these symptoms called being ‘allergic to life’. My difficulties here however can’t compare to those that many Severely Affected people experience. It is not uncommon for these brave patients to spend years in pitch black rooms wearing dark goggles, flinching at even the slightest noise, and unable to even have someone sit with them as it’s too much stimulation.
Related to this, are the cognitive problems- which I personally find so very hard to deal with. I’d like to scream at my ME – “take my legs if you want but don’t take my brain”. Concentration for any length of time is difficult and losing the thread of what you’re trying to say is… common. We experience word-finding difficulties, confusion and poor short term memory.
We also can’t control temperature and have abnormal responses to hot and cold. So if I’m wearing three jumpers on the hottest day of the year, I’m not mad… well, not really.
Link: I would like to share with you the story of Lynn Gilderdale, who tragically passed away a year and a half ago. I was not fortunate enough to ever speak with Lynn, but I do have friends who knew her. Lynn's story demonstrates the true horror of this illness and the incredible strength of some of those stricken with it; if you only read the title, you’ll have done enough: “I've seen patients paralysed, dying AIDS victims, starving children... but I've never seen anyone as ill as Lynn”. www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1093016/Ive-seen-patie...
Having encountered difficulties earlier in the day whilst heading to Drax, 66749 was rescued by 66710 and was hauled DIT back up to Tyne Dock. Rather than remove it at Tyne Dock, GBRf kept it on the rear of 6b64 Tyne Dock - West Burton, hauled by 66730, allowing it to be removed at Doncaster on the return working thus saving paths for a light engine. It is seen passing Thompson's at Stockton. 10/09/13
Focus on Eldercare's response to COVID-19
At the purpose when the noxious impacts of COVID-19 showed first in Wuhan, the entire city and therefore the entire of Hubei Province ground to a halt. The lockdown of Wuhan brought remarkable torment and threatening difficulties for several individual occupants therein first focus. Presently, COVID-19 represents those equivalent difficulties for individuals and social welfare frameworks all-inclusive. Especially, it tests our aggregate endeavors to believe one another, particularly the foremost defenseless among us.
As a populace, individuals quite 70 will generally have more fragile insusceptible frameworks and progressively fundamental conditions that obstruct their capacity to battle the infection. They're likewise sure to dwell on bunch day to day environments, nearby people. Floods of COVID-19 passings in nursing homes — first within the Seattle territory, at that time on the brink of Sacramento and now during the country — have underscored this inauspicious reality. Up until now, Californians quite 65 have made up, at any rate, a fourth of the state's affirmed instances of COVID-19.
Be that because it may, guidelines, especially for helping living offices, are unsafely failing to satisfy the expectations in protecting California's older folks from this infection. Luck, Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan on Aging activity, as of now ongoing, presents an opportunity to forcefully address this peril and find how to secure an enormous number of more seasoned Americans.
Helped living focuses are an aid to the Eldercare business and therefore the enormous corporate proprietors that currently command the market. Simultaneously, in any case, an absence of guideline and oversight of staffing levels and capabilities — particularly prerequisites for on-location doctors and much prepared clinical experts — has left the business defenseless against misuse and unfortunate results. One glaring issue that has got to be tended to: helped living focuses are directed by the state Department of Social Services rather than the Department of Public Health.
In any case, it helped to measure maybe a piece of social welfare and clinical consideration conveyance framework, not only a direction for living. Propelled a year ago, Newsom's plan on Aging has framed a warning advisory group, is holding open gatherings and within the fall is planned to offer a 10-year plan which will address issues from lodging and vagrancy to crisis readiness to manhandle and disrespect. The venture has made a "Value Committee" to urge a contribution from a progressively differing gathering of residents and associations, including agents of the crippled network, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities.
Considering the spreading coronavirus general wellbeing emerging, it's basic that the representative's plan on Aging takes on an expansive and genuine open arrangement job. We weren't bothered with elevated level clichés for tending to the wants of the old. We'd like solid arrangements, solid guidelines with implementation teeth and a guarantee to continued oversight.
The Age of COVID-19
Older people who get themselves out of the blue alone without authority over their conditions are at specific hazards for an assortment of serious, even hazardous, physical and psychological well-being conditions, including a subjective decrease. Limitations on the opportunity of development ought to be proportionate and not founded solely on age.
COVID-19, as different irresistible melodies, represents a higher hazard to populaces that live in nearness. This hazard is especially intense in nursing or matured consideration offices, where the infection can spread quickly and has just brought about numerous passings. About 1.5 million older people individuals live in the nursing homes in the US, barring helped living offices and different settings making nearness.
Twenty-three individuals kicked the bucket in a flare-up at an office in Washington State in February and March, and the US Centers for Disease Control detailed 400 additional cases in offices as of April 1. On March 31, wellbeing experts in the Grand East district of France detailed 570 passings of older people in nursing homes.
Older people often end up in nursing homes due to governments' inability to offer adequate social types of assistance for individuals to live freely in the network, approaches that have put millions at included danger of getting the infection as a result of their organization. Governments ought to guarantee the progression of network-based administrations with the goal that individuals don't wind up in organizations without different alternatives.
Expound now on the roles played via care laborers in continuing the lives of the old during that emergency, and who, however dreadful themselves, by and by remain day in and outing inside the bounds of their wards to offer fundamental consideration.
Care supervisor Chang, the woman in charge of the consideration laborers among whom I led my hands-on work, coordinated the change of her ward into a self-sufficient fixed of a unit of care. The passage to her floor is carefully monitored; just fundamental conveyances are permitted, for instance, nourishment and clothing. Since nobody can enter or leave the structure, the flask for the older was transformed into a dozing region for care laborers. Despite the very fact that a lot of consideration laborers have their circle of relatives to require care of, they put that piece of their life under the control of others. Care specialist Lin, whose spouse died at the start of the pandemic, did not have the chance to completely grieve his passing due to incessant understaffing at Sunlight. She came back to figure following the burial service, despite realizing that she not, at now expected to figure at Sunlight to hide her significant other's clinical costs. Lin's arrival says much regarding her promise to her calling, to her colleagues, and to the old she had come to understand so well. My examination with care laborers recommends that it's an enthusiastic association and an awareness of other's expectations that propels them to remain the end of the day in care work. This is often borne out immediately.
Carefully add China is often seen as being grimy and unfortunate, thanks to an excellent extension to its nearby hook up with the realistic consideration required by slight, skilled bodies. Chinese consideration laborers are for the foremost part provincial to urban transients or urban specialists laid far away from previous state-claimed processing plants. In any case, direct consideration is intricate. In any case, its unpredictability goes unrecognized, or maybe disregarded by institutional powers that organize benefits and generalize the old as bodies to chip away at, to the disregard of their social-passionate necessities. As is valid with Sunlight, things which might typically undermine the keenness of care laborers, for instance, the absence of institutional acknowledgment for his or her enthusiastic work, are required to be postponed. Care specialists are currently centered around a shared objective: ensuring the gift assistance of the older. COVID-19 propels care laborers to consider what kind of care is required and the way to offer that care. It fills in as a channel through which the elemental beliefs of care are observed. Care is about common human weakness and our intrinsic association. Care laborers at Sunlight, in their aggregate every minute of everyday endeavors to secure the older, typify this ethic through their consideration. May the respectful regard, they hold of the older in their consideration redound on them and everyone consideration laborers overall who are fighting this pandemic on the bleeding edge!
Like the consideration laborers at Sunlight, the laborers in numerous nations are regarded human life so that we cannot be embarrassed to return clean with the leading edge about ourselves. Salute the spearheading staff who salutes our purposeful endeavors to handle the pandemic in numerous settings around the globe, within the daylight, yet additionally to ensure that veterans are appropriately treated, took care of and washed.
We all hope and pray that the coronavirus will soon be controlled and subdued. And that when the crisis is behind us, that we continue the important work of protecting the elderly and other vulnerable segments of our citizenry.
DONATE paypal.me/pools/c/8obn2hcLVG
How Can I Contribute in Times of COVID-19?
Write your testimony about the concequences from the time of Corona virus (COVID-19). Here is a great knowledge base about the effects of the Corona virus. Thank you for your story! article-directory.org/article/717/40/Emergency-Situations...
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
My niece Brennah attempting to open a Christmas gift on Christmas morning at my sister's house in Tacoma.
Brennah is 7yrs old (DOB March 2000) and was born with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome. While she has some mental and physical difficulties, such as speach limitations, she operates a computer with amazing ease, loves to sing, watch teletubbies, and the Mariners are one of her favorite teams to watch on tv...She exudes confidence in all she does.
When Brennah was younger I'd go visit my sister when I was stressed or depressed and Brennah would hug me and let me hold her, smile and pat my face....she always made me feel better....like a miracle cure! She doesn't usually let me hold her so much now that she's older, but watching her still lifts my spirits, such as when I was watching her open a present on Christmas Day ... it was delightful; she was so very focused on what she was doing.
This photo is entitled, "The Gift".....I am referring to Brennah. :-)
A Photojournalistic Documentation of how Covid-19 has affected the North, and how the North has adapted to overcome these difficulties.
Whilst the Highlands has always been popular with national and international tourists, there has been a massive rise of Scots enjoying a staycation, with camper vans and tents being the popular choice for accommodation as opposed to the hotels and hostels dotted around the North. Also on the rise are those travelling in their own cars, motorbikes, cycling and even 2 former hearses, who camp in tents at the roadside.
With the rise of staycationers, shops and restaurants have been extra vigilant to keep to the governments guidelines by measuring distancing on shop floors, having signs in shop windows to remind visitors to wear a face coverings, some shops limiting the amount of customers in at a time, offering hand sanitiser at the entrance, and many even having artwork of some form thanking the NHS for its hard work.
Not everything is fully open however, but those who can open have had to change how they operate. Tourist destinations that are able to open have had to limit the amount of customers to keep everyone safe, so for many tourists and staycationers they are opting to avoid tourist hotspots and are mostly interacting with activities they can do by themselves, so instead of visiting castles, museums and activity centres, tourists drive to beauty spots, go for walks, and are interacting with the natural landscape more. Instead of tourist hotspots like Eilean Donan Castle being queued out the door, tourists only go as far as the car park, get some photos of the castle, then leave to visit something else.
So has Highland tourism been affected by Covid-19? Yes, where folk are more cautious, shops and restaurants have signage in place requesting patrons wear face coverings, where town centres are quieter than usual, where public toilets have signage, where campsites won’t allow motorhomes unless they have on-board toilets, where almost every lay-by in the evening has someone camping overnight. So whilst it has affected the tourist season it hasn’t stopped tourism, if anything the Highlands are busier than normal due to a massive rise in staycationers, it’s made tourist and locals alike be more careful, where local community councils are making sure there are toilet facilities available or trowels left in camping locations to bury human waste, where hand sanitiser is available at popular tourist destinations, shops and public toilets, where many shops have upgraded their payment options where previously they only accepted cash, many have modernised and installed card payments.
So yes, it’s been affected, but the most notable negative impact is that businesses are losing trade as less folk are spending money in restaurants, shops and tourist hotspots, so whilst there is an increase in visitors to the Highlands, there is a decrease in money being spent.
All in all, the North has been doing a fantastic job with its Covid-19 precautions, they’re taking it seriously and making sure visitors are safe.
I had planned to use a projector and do some live coding, but failed to have a way to connect my new USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 laptop to their old VGA-only projector (I had an HDMI adapter, but that didn’t help). So, live coding (and a lesson on binary) happened with markers and paper.
Australian Tomatis Method
303/ 203-233 New South Head Road Edgecliff NSW 2027 Australia
1300 233 572
info@tomatis.com.au
Here at Tomatis Australia, we are focused on treating some hearing, speech and language problems by restructuring the auditory section of the brain. The aural therapy used to manage auditory processing disorder is called the Tomatis Method. It is a process done by trained and skilled professionals in our company.
The Tomatis Method, also known as Audio-Psycho-Phonology (APP), is introduced in 1947. The technique becomes an alternative solution in treating a variety of hearing ailments. It reached Australia in 1995 through the French-Australian psychologist, Françoise Nicoloff.
From comprehensive autism assessment to one-on-one regular consultation, we make sure that we give you our full support all-throughout the way. Tomatis Australia is committed to helping clients in dealing with ADHD, ADD, Asperger’s Syndrome, Autism, Learning Difficulties, Speech Delay Difficulties, Auditory Processing, Depression, Stress and Personal Development. Our services can help to improve your or your child's speech and language development, academic skills, motor and coordination skills, emotional regulation and much more.
With the topic of helping those with mental difficulties who have somehow fallen through the cracks of our healthcare system currently being in the news, I thought to create a morphing animation from two images of a homeless man in Baltimore that I took several years ago. I don't know what his current situation is.
View from Mt Difficulty winery and restaurant where we had lunch. March 6, 2014 South Island, New Zealand.
Mt Difficulty Wines is located in Bannockburn and the Cellar Door at Mt Difficulty Wines is known as much for its dramatic views of rugged rock and thyme landscapes as it is for its stylish wine and food.
All wines that carry the Mt Difficulty Bannockburn Estate label are subject to two strict criteria: they have to be sourced from vineyards situated in a very specific area – Bannockburn, south of the Kawarau River – and they are to be under the umbrella of the Mt Difficulty management team. The reasons for these self-imposed constraints are that we believe this to be an area with very special qualities for growing grapes, and that the management of the vineyard is reflected in the quality of the ultimate product.
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Sometimes I have difficulty picking which dessert to try on the restaurant menu. But whenever I see this classic combination of salted caramel, peanut butter and chocolate on the dessert menu, the decision becomes fairly simple! Inspired by the countless amazing desserts I've had over the years at restaurants, I decided it was time to make it myself. I don't have that many elements in this dessert, and my plan is to add more textures and forms later on. Nevertheless, this mousse was super easy to make and a delight to eat! Here's how I make it:
Ingredients (makes 3 cocktail glasses):
60 g dark chocolate
2 eggs
4 tablespoon caster sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 tablespoons milk
pinch of salt
2 tablespoon honey roasted peanuts
Method:
1. make the peanut butter layer by melting the peanut butter in the milk in a lightly heated pot, stir and pour to cover the bottom of each cocktail glass
2. melt the chocolate in a bowl over a water bath
3. make the caramel by heating up 2 tablespoons of sugar in a pan with 1 tablespoon of water, once the sugar has caramelized, pour half of it to the melted chocolate and stir thoroughly
4. coat the peanuts with the remaining caramel
5. mix egg yolks with chocolate (let chocolate cool a bit first)
6. whisk egg whites, add caster sugar into egg whites one teaspoon at a time (whisk until it becomes meringue like)
7. add a quarter of the whisked egg whites into the chocolate, mix
8. add the rest of the whisked egg whites, mix
9. pour the chocolate mousse mixture into the cocktail glasses and chill (takes about 3 hours to set)
10. add some caramelized peanuts for topping
11. serve!
Tricks:
When folding the chocolate with the egg whites, make sure you use a large spoon and actually "fold" rather than mix, as you want to retain as much of the air in the egg whites (from the whisking) as possible to aerate and lighten the mousse.
My other recipes:
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
Tanah Datar, Indonesia -
Pacu Jawi jockey difficulty controlling cattle out of control and ran into the audience which fears.
The annual Cow Race tradition in muddy rice fields to celebrate the of harvest season in West Sumatra, Indonesia known as Pacu Jawi.
This year took place in Simabur Village, Tanah Datar region participated by 300 pairs of cow from 4 districts, Pariangan, Lima Kaum, Rambatan, and Sungai Tarub. The Pacu Jawi or Cow Race as it translates, is an incredible cultural event originating from Tanah Datar region, West Sumatra in Indonesia. This traditional Indonesian event has been around for hundreds of years and was originally an activity undertaken by the farmers after the harvest season for leisure as well as a means of entertainment for local people and thanksgiving ritual before start planting season.
The jockey rides a pair of cows, holding on to their tails, along 100 meters muddy soaked track in rice field barefoot balancing on a wooden plank names Papik. Papik used to plowing the rice fields. The cow running about 30 km/hours. In order to force the cows to run faster, they would bite on the cow's tail on purpose without using the whip. The two cows are loosely tie together making it that much harder to maintain a long consistent run in Papik Pacu Jawi. This creates some fun and hilarious moments, for instance, two cows would run in different directions splitting the jockey in half. The jockey fall flat on his face in the dirty and muddy water followed by a thunderous claps and cheers from spectators.
Pacu jawi knows no winners since the most important aspect is about happines and showcasing the cows. However, good performers, especially the cow, will be rewarded with a marvelous price in the market.
The Pacu Jawi culture could be additional economic alternative for people who raise cattle for the race.
"I hope this Pacu Jawi culture can contribute to the cow ranchers economics," said Khairul Fahmi, Director of Pacu Jawi Sport, before opening race Pacu Jawi 2013. The economic potential is also expressed by Mr. Pakimarajo (71), the cow owner, that explained the price of a cow who ever win the Pacu Jawi could reach USD $ 4000. According to Pakimarajo, the price is still higher if the cow couple is often achieve to win the Pacu Jawi.
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem . . .
-Emmet Fox
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
If you have difficulty pronouncing the name just remember that Howth rhymes with both.
If you like eating out and if you like seafood then Howth is the place to go. Personally I would recommend Aqua. If you are not interested in the many restaurants and pubs the place still has a lot to offer as it is a popular area for birdwatching and sailing. It is also popular with anglers. Howth is also a popular destination for cyclists and hillwalkers, particularly on weekends.
There are plenty of sea mammals, such as seals in the harbour.
I must admit that I was a bit surprised so see a notice which read as follows: "A person shall not feed a seal from the quayside or from any other place in this port. A person who contravenes this Bye-Law is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine nor exceeding Euro 5,000". Today there were many people feeding the seals and I checked a number of tourist guides (in Easons) and many of them suggest "feeding the seals" in Howth as a recommended activity.
The most famous visitor to Howth may have been King George IV of England, who visited Ireland in 1821 and is chiefly remembered because he staggered off the boat in a highly inebriated state. He did manage to leave his footprints at the point where he stepped ashore on the West Pier.
“If you try to run away from your shadow, you will simply collapse due to exhaustion. Instead, face the difficulties of life through love and faith. Remember that you are never alone on this journey. The Divine is always with you. Allow Her to hold your hand.”—Amma, “108 Quotes on Faith”
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
Le Cyclop - Milly-la-Forêt, France - Artists: Jean Tinguely & Niki de Saint Phalle and friends.
In the sleepy village of Milly-la-Forêt, France, lies a monstrous, whimsical monument called Le Cyclop. Measuring 22 metres high, the unusual sculpture took 30 years to complete by Swiss artist Jean Tinguely. With the help of his wife Niki de Saint Phalle and various friends Arman, César, Marcel Duchamp, and JR Soto, the husband and wife team resurrected the piece out of a chaos of 300 tons of industrial debris - metal, concrete, ceramic mosaic, stones - mirrors and a waterfall. Visitors are invited to explore the complexity of the piece via a network of staircases and catwalks. Owned by the French state since 1991 upon Tinguely's death, Le Cyclop has been described as both "enchanting and nightmarish" to upkeep. Apart from vandals and the hostility of the weather, the wheels alone cost a lot to maintain, and it has given the state much difficulty, especially for a sculpture whose purpose, said Tinguely, was to one day disappear.
The huge body-less Head, glittering with mirrors, with a single eye, a mouth from which water trickles onto a toboggan tongue, and an ear weighing a ton, houses in its midst a surprising world where spectators are invited to follow a maze-like itinerary to discover varied and complementary works, acoustic sculptures, a small automatic theatre and, where the brain would be, some tremendous machinery with scrap-iron gears, as intriguing as they are eclectic. This extremely rich opus encompasses four art movements: Dada, Nouveau Réalisme (new realism), Kinetic Art and Art brut. With Le Cyclop, Jean Tinguely wanted to create a non-standard construction, exceptional in size, artistic complexity and technical ingeniousness, as well as being unusually sited in the Forest of Milly. But “The Head” is, above all else, the outcome of a collective venture, forged from bonds of friendship, a utopia produced over many years by a “team of crazy sculptors” gathered about the personality of Jean Tinguely.
In 1969, the Cyclop project got under way in the Forest of Milly. Jean Tinguely knew that to complete his Head project, the only way was to finance the works himself; that way, he could be free to work as he wished. No architect would be involved in the construction and the artists alone gradually built this sculpture, with Herculean courage, strength and tenaciousness. It took ten years of labour to erect Le Cyclop, and fifteen more years before everyone’s contributions were installed. Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle funded the project together. In 1987, to guarantee its protection and preservation, they decided to donate Le Cyclop to the French state. In 1991, when Jean Tinguely died, Niki de Saint Phalle took it upon herself to complete the sculpture by paying for the final works, fully respecting her partner’s ideas. In May 1994, Le Cyclop was inaugurated by François Mitterrand, President of the Republic, and opened to the public. Niki de Saint Phalle then decided that Le Cyclop was finished and that no work could be added to it from then on.
As I had difficulty finding a location with an unobstructed view I missed the arrival of the winner at the finish line by about ten minutes. In case you don't know here are the results:
Geoffrey Ndungu won the Dublin City Marathon for the second year running in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 9 seconds. The time was outside last year's course record time of 2:08.33.
Paul Pollock from Belfast was the first Irish man home in ninth place in 2:16.30, ahead of Sean Hehir who finished in 2:17.50.
Magdalene Mukunzi was the first woman home in a time of 2:30.46 which was outside the course record of 2:26.13. Maria McCambridge was the first Irish woman through the finishing line in 2:35.28.
Luke Jones from Wales won the wheelchair section.
A total of 14,300 people registered for this year's race which was without a major sponsor for the first time in 20 years.
Due to financial difficulties, Alfa Romeo stopped racing in 1933 (Alfa's own version of the story is that the marque had already proved itself) and sold off its racing division to Enzo Ferrari, who established his own racing team, 'Scuderia Ferrari'.
The legendary racing driver Louis Chiron took part in the 1933 Le Mans race for Scuderia in this car, which has bodywork designed by Touring. The regulations for participating touring cars specified that they had to be fitted with a windshield, mudguards, a silencer, lighting, a horn and four seats. Needless to say, everything was kept to a minimum in order to limit the weight. The rear seats, for example, aren't really usable. The car weighs just over 1,000 kilograms. Note the fin at the rear, an important step towards the streamlining of racing cars.
The 2.3 litre, eight-cylinder engine introduced by Alfa Romeo in 1931 was in fact made up of two four-cylinder blocks one behind the other, with an ingenious gear mechanism that drove the camshafts as well as the compressor. The cylinder capacity was increased to 2.6 litres for this Le Mans version.