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A year after their first visit to a parallel universe, Holly and Ben Shepard and friend Everett return to find that much is changed, and the fate of Anglielle is at stake unless Holly can master Water Elemental magic in time to save the Adepts.

While visiting Hawkesbury, England, 11-year-old Holly Shepard, her younger brother, Ben, and new friend, Everett, travel to a parallel universe where she learns that the adventures she has always dreamed of can be messy and dangerous.

While visiting Hawkesbury, England, eleven-year-old Holly Shepard, her younger brother, Ben, and new friend Everett, travel to a parallel universe where she learns that the adventures she has always dreamed of can be messy and dangerous.

This text is designed to develop a greater understanding of the process and context for entrepreneurship within the leisure and tourist industries as well as to provide key concepts. Up-to-date case studies are used throughout the text.

With the recent passage of several initiatives, the Puget Sound region has introduced plans to improve the transit system with the introduction of light rail and bus rapid transit. Within the framework established by these initiatives, this thesis focuses on joint development of a site devoted to transit uses. The dual goal of this thesis was first, to develop a design for a specific site, and second, demonstrate the feasibility of similar transit-related development on similar sites elsewhere in the region. The first step in the development of the thesis was selection of a site. The prerequisites for site selection included: access to two or more modes of transit, include strong ties to the bicycle network, and likely feasibility for redevelopment. After cursory research, four sites were selected for further investigation: the Edmonds Ferry Terminal, the Mukilteo Ferry Terminal, the Aurora Village Transit Center, and the Shoreline Park-and-Ride. This thesis focuses on the Shoreline Park-and-Ride as the design developed on this site is likely adaptable to other suburban sites. The city of Shoreline is undergoing immense change, and has recently approved several master plans that address the pedestrian realm, promote dense development, improve the bicycle network and create green infrastructure plan. The Shoreline Park-and-Ride is located within the purview of these master plans and offers the potential to implement many of the strategies included in the Shoreline planning. This thesis examines the adaptation of the Shoreline park-and-ride into a dense, multi-modal hub for the emerging urban center of Shoreline. This area developed primarily after WW-II as an auto-oriented suburb typical throughout the United States. The primary challenges this thesis addresses have been: to create a transit center that caters users and residents; to promote multi-modal use; to address environmental concerns; to extend the time of use outside of peak transit hours; and to respond in a realistic way to the likely future of locations like this that will rely on bus transit. The major elements include a bus terminal, a parking garage, a bike-and-ride center, and commercial development. The site is located on the south east corner of North 192nd Street and Aurora Avenue. Although it is located on Aurora Avenue, the site is situated adjacent to a fine-grained residential fabric and is in close proximity to the Interurban Trail accessed from N. 192nd Street. The site is approximately 375 feet by 725 feet, with an area of 5.7 acres. The site is currently a paved 400-car parking lot and is basin shaped in section. There is a large change in topography from the rising 24 feet from the north east corner to the south east corner. 75% of the site is covered by impermeable surfaces. With the merging of the Aurora Village Transit Center, the bus terminal would serve 12 Metro and Community Transit bus routes with a current ridership of 4,000 passengers on weekdays. The site introduces natural elements into the starkly paved parking lot, and creates views of these elements from Aurora Avenue. The bus terminal is located at the north end of the site where topography is most level. The parking garage is located in the south portion of the site to take advantage of the grade change which provides an extra level of parking without the need for excavation. The parking garage contains approximately 400 spaces, which maintains the existing surface parking capacity. By spacing these major program elements apart, it creates a pedestrian linkage that can spur activity on the site. The program is divided into smaller buildings with retail, commercial, and office uses that frame the rain garden and provide a linkage from the parking to the bus bays. The buildings create a streetwall along Aurora Avenue with openings to create view access through the site. The linkage between the bus terminal and parking garage has been developed into an arcade to foster activity. The bike-and-ride is located next to the bus terminal to provide ease of mode switching and to connect with the Interurban Trail form North 192nd Street. The program was developed to extend time of use outside peak transit time, and to provide amenities for the neighborhood. The Plaza Level includes the passenger drop-off area, the bus terminal, water play area, and rain garden. The lower arcade opens to the rain garden and provides an area for a farmer's market. The amphitheater would accommodate community activities. The program elements on this level include a small grocery store, a community center with adjacent garden plots, bicycle repair adjacent to the bicycle and ride, and driver's operations center accessed from the bus terminal. The second level contains the upper arcade between the parking garage and bus terminal. This level is primarily retail, but also contains a daycare with adjacent outdoor play area. The upper levels contain office space and a gym. The buildings have vegetated roofs to mediate storm water and the parking garage roof has a photovoltaic array. The proposed development provides 90,000SF of commercial and office space, increases bicycle parking to 220 spaces, and creates 20,00 SF of green roof and 32,000 SF of photovoltaic array, all while maintaining parking capacity and reducing impermeable surface by 5%. This thesis is a specific case study demonstrating one possibility of using existing park-and-ride site for denser levels of development. With the new development master plans, Aurora Avenue will become a more mixed-use street. While this project is designed for this specific site, it can be applicable and could serve as a model in suburban locations where high capacity transit modes, particularly bus transit, are being introduced.

Once the prerogative of country dwellers, game is now found in butchers' shops and supermarkets all over the country. Yet despite this, many people are still apprehensive about cooking this extraordinary versatile, varied and protein-packed meat. In this book Claire Macdonald de-mystifies game cooking, with a wide and varied selection of recipes for pheasant, wild duck, partridge and snipe, woodcock, venison, hare, wild boar and wild salmon. In addition to tips on roasting, she also includes useful information on what combines well with different types of game - lentils, beans, root vegetables, dark green vegetables and mushrooms - and sauces and jellies that make excellent accompaniments. She also shows how game can be combined - game pie, for example, can be composed of pheasant, grouse, a leg of hare or a partridge. Similar recipes include, game pudding with a lemon and thyme suet crust, game stock, game soup, salami of game, game terrine, game with an oatmeal crumble, potted game with walnuts, and game shepherd's pie.

This work links with key curriculum areas (English, Science, History, Food technology, Geography, RE/Citizenship.) Skills covered include: locating information; reading for information, formulating research questions, using a range of resources, analysing and interpreting, presenting information persuasively, organising information, presenting factual knowledge persuasively, note-taking. The book caters for different abilities. It is recommended in the DfES booklet Improve your Library.

We investigate the role of advisers in the transmission of ethically relevant information, a critical aspect of executive decision making in organizations. In our laboratory experiment, advisers are informed about the negative externalities associated with the decision-maker's choices and compete with other advisers. We find that advisers suppress about a quarter of \inconvenient" information. Suppression is not strategic, but based on the advisers' own preferences in the ethical dilemma. On the demand side, a substantial minority of decision makers avoid advisers who transmit inconvenient information (they \shoot the messenger"). Overall, by facilitating assortative matching, a competitive market for advisers efficiently caters to the demand for both information and information avoidance. Decision-makers are less likely to implement their preferred option when they are randomly matched to advisers and there is no scope for assortative matching.

The Oxford Literacy guided reading books for levels 1-30 have been designed for the first three years of school. The books support students by using their language and reflecting their interests, and include words from the Oxford Wordlist, the most up-to-date Australian research. Oxford Literacy caters for guided reading groups within the classroom. The texts and teaching versions allow teachers to work with small groups of students, catering to their identified learning needs across a range of levels within each reading stage.