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Latest breweries have a neighborhood feel
The beer industry is no exception when it comes to the ever-growing Buy Local movement. Last year, 76 brewpubs and 174 microbreweries opened in the U.S., putting the current total at nearly 2,000 and signifying the soaring demand for craft beer.
Recently, Brewery Vivant, Harmony Brewing Co. and High Five Co-Op Brewery have entered the Grand Rapids market, and several more are in the planning stages.
Contrary to the culture in other industries, the owners of microbreweries tend to view fellow new guys not as competitors but as colleagues in the larger battle for the beer market volume share.
"Rising tides lift all boats," said Jason Spaulding, co-owner with his wife, Kris, of Brewery Vivant, regarding his feelings toward new faces in the area. Housed in what was formerly the largest funeral home chapel in Grand Rapids, Brewery Vivant has an Old World feel, with communal tables, stained glass windows behind the bar and brews with a distinctive Belgian style.
The Spauldings drew their inspiration by touring breweries in Belgium and other European countries. They were inspired by the longevity of the breweries, some of which had been run by one family for hundreds of years using recipes never written down but simply taught.
The Brewery Vivant business plan includes being sustainability-focused and putting 10 percent of net profits back into the community through local charities.
"Part of our business plan is not to get bigger," said Spaulding. "We decided the maximum size that we wanted to be was 5,000 barrels, and once we reach that, we're going to stop there. We want to be a local brewery and support our hometown first and foremost."
The idea of returning to the time of the neighborhood brewery is a common theme among the new generation of owners. Siblings Barry, Jackson and Heather Van Dyke of Harmony Brewery chose a highly walkable Eastown location and a reasonably priced selection of beers in order to create a diverse and comfortable community space.
"Our idea for this has always been to create a neighborhood hangout — a sort of second living room," said Barry Van Dyke.
Local entrepreneur Dallas McCulloch is in the process of forming what will be the first co-op brewery in the Midwest: High Five. Inspired by Black Star Co-op Pub and Brewery in Austin, Texas, and with the momentum of winning local entrepreneurial competition 5X5 Night, McCulloch and other local beer enthusiasts recently began setting the project in motion.
Though the details are still being fine-tuned, the business model involves a consumer and worker co-op in which patrons have the option of becoming member owners by buying a share in the company. The benefits to becoming a member owner include the ability to vote on High Five business matters and to receive kickbacks based on patronage.
Profits from membership dues will be used to enhance the company and cover member owner benefits. Being a member owner is simply an option and not a requirement of being a customer, he said.
Part of McCulloch's reasoning for this model is his belief in a better way of doing business.
"Democracy in the workplace and as a consumer is just as important as democracy in your political systems," said McCulloch. "No one will ever become a billionaire being in a co-op, but, hopefully, there'll be a lot of people making a decent living."
Collaboration among small breweries has a long history in Grand Rapids. In the early 1900s, six local breweries came together to form Grand Rapids Brewing Co. in order to combat the large conglomerate that had just moved in: Anheuser-Busch.
McCulloch noted that with the rise in popularity of craft beer, large conglomerates are again feeling the pressure from the combined force of small distributors. Large brands are trying to tap into the microbrew consumer base by marketing themselves as craft.
"It used to be that people would go to their local place to get beer because that's where the beer was," said McCulloch. "People are starting to move back to that."


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China's current economic slowdown has no shortage of causes: Europe's financial turmoil, a sputtering recovery in the US and weak domestic investment growth, to name the most commonly cited factors.
Since exports and investment account for 30 percent and 40 percent of China's GDP growth respectively, its economy is particularly vulnerable to weakening external demand and accumulation of non-performing loans caused by excessive and wasteful spending on fixed assets.
However, China's vulnerability to these factors, as serious as they are, is symptomatic of deeper institutional problems. Until these underlying constraints are addressed, talk of a new consumption-based growth model for China, reflected in the government's recently approved 12th Five-Year Plan, can be no more than lip service.
After all, China's major trading partners, international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, and senior Chinese officials themselves have long recognized the structural vulnerabilities caused by excessive investment and low household consumption.
The best-known feature of China's macro-economic imbalances is heavy dependence on exports for growth, which is typically attributed to weak domestic demand: as a middle-income country, China lacks the purchasing power to consume the goods that it produces.
With nearly unlimited access to advanced-country markets, China can tap into global external demand and raise its GDP growth potential, as it has done for the past two decades.
If this view is right, the solution is straightforward: China can correct its imbalances by increasing its citizens' incomes, so that they can consume more, thereby reducing the economy's dependence on exports.
However, there is another explanation for China's excessive export dependence, one that has more to do with the country's poor political and economic institutions.
Specifically, export dependence partly reflects the high degree of difficulty of doing business in China. Official corruption, insecure property rights, stifling regulatory restraints, weak payment discipline, poor logistics and distribution, widespread counterfeiting and vulnerability to other forms of intellectual property theft: All of these obstacles increase transaction costs and make it difficult for entrepreneurs to thrive in domestic markets.
By contrast, if China's private firms sell to Western multinationals, they do not have to worry about getting paid.
They can avoid all of the headaches that they would have encountered at home, because well-established economic institutions and business practices in their export markets protect their interests and greatly reduce transaction costs.
The Chinese economy's institutional weakness is reflected in international survey data. The World Bank publishes an annual review of "the ease of doing business" for 183 countries and sub-national units. In its survey in June last year, China was ranked 91st, behind Mongolia, Albania and Belarus. It is particularly difficult to start a business in China (151st), pay taxes (122nd), obtain construction permits (179th) and get electricity (115th).
Faced with such a hostile environment, Chinese private entrepreneurs have been forced to engage in "institutional arbitrage" — taking advantage of efficient Western economic institutions to expand their business.


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It's almost Halloween! I look forward to this day every year. Halloween memories run strong for me: orange and black jack-o'-lantern buckets, popcorn balls, enough candy to last until Christmas. My first costume was Tweety Bird, one of those vinyl pull-overs, printed with the bird's yellow body, worn with a plastic mask that made me sweat and sweat. Later, I was a witch for a few years and after that, a "bum," or a "punk rocker," which were basically the same costume - old, ripped jeans, a big, baggy top, crazy hair; smudgy cheeks for the "bum," smudgy eyes for the "punk rocker." In college, Halloween was party after party, dorms and ancient walk-up apartments, dark and smoky, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" played on a hundred different stereos.
I haven't outgrown my love for Halloween. I love carving pumpkins and decorating the house (we like a cute, fun Halloween these days, not so much a scary one). And candy - oh, candy. Weeks before the day, we buy our first bag of candy corn. We are snobs: Brach's only! Candy corn is comforting in its sameness - sturdy yellow base, orange in the middle, teeny white wedge on top, familiar vanilla-honey taste. The Bear and I eat it at night, nibbling slowly, joking morbidly about what it does to our bodies. But we can't resist - to me, Halloween is candy corn. Overly sweet and garishly bright, it only appears once a year and it holds strong memories. We had count-the-corn-in-the-jar contests in school, back when you could still hand out candy in a school. The winner got a big handful, but the rest was saved and handed out piecemeal, two or three pieces at a time, over the remainder of the school year. Sometimes it was a prize for learning our spelling words or "times tables" (especially those darn 9's and 7's).
Halloween costumes are on my mind by August. Now that my children are older and I have more time, I try to make their costumes. They can usually wear them for a couple of years, with minor adjustments for growth. I wear a costume too - I'm a black cat every year. I wear a black shirt and black leggings and clip on a black, furry tail. Then I paint on some whiskers and don my black cat-ears headband. Meowwww! My GB and I go together - she's a little gray mouse, all soft and fuzzy in a thick gray sweatshirt with her mouse-ears headband and a black mousy nose and whiskers too. I chase my little gray mouse and eat her up in a hug. My big black spider boy falls prey too. This year, he'll wear a mask with silver glitter and red and blue lights - spooky futuristic spider is watching you!
On Halloween, we wait for that slice of the night just before dusk, late enough but not too late, and then we're off! We leave our glowing jack-o'-lanterns behind on the front walk and we hit the streets in search of Halloween adventure. The streets are full of neighbors. There is pinon smoke in the air; it's cold enough for fires now. We circle the blocks, greeting costumed friends - sometimes we need to guess at who is underneath. We stop to say hello to the couple who serve hot dogs in their driveway. We pet familiar dogs and sneak a peek into foyers and living rooms - kilim rugs, lighted lamps, dinner smells. The streetlights switch on; the space between them feels dark and empty. We hurry through the dark stretches, scurry past dark houses. We feel like we're flying up and down the streets, laughter and sugar carrying us aloft. The western sky fades gradually, blazing pink and orange at the horizon, pinprick stars appearing one by one. City lights sparkle on the black-velvet mesa. Laden with candy, we finish our circuit. There's a crisp breeze at our backs as we turn east and head up the hill toward home.
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A clear moonless sky is forecast for this Sunday night, November 4th - so the Horizons Observatory will be open to the public for stargazing from 6:00-7:30. Don't forget that clocks are set back an hour on Sunday morning.
Please note that the large telescope in the dome will open to the public from 6:00-7:00. At 7:00, the large scope will be used by a student to photograph the Ring Nebula, so it will not be available for public viewing. This event will be canceled in the event of cloudy skies.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Defying Gravity on a BMX
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I wish I had more time to post-process this image. I dismissed the original soft colors and decided to work with tritones, an orange/gray/black combination in fact, using the BW Workflow Pro plugin by Fred Miranda in Photoshop. I would have made it more contrasty but it was late and I could hear my bed calling me from the other room. You know the scene already from a previous post this month so there is no need to resume the BMX topic. In this one I liked the look of those kids on the right, with that mixture of desdainful look and secret admiration towards the skillful fellow so I moved the main subject further to the left on purpose.
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Boys are looking very intensively at him. I think , you could get many interesting face photos from them :)ReplyDelete
Greetings from the middle of snow,
biking is here now an adventure even on usual roads :)
Te quedó fantástica!!ReplyDelete
Lo has congelado en todo lo alto... genial! and like they say in english... Great action photo! ;)
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What better way to end the week than to return to the scene of the crime. Our SUP hero from Monday decided to try "lay down surfing" later in the week, and Frank Booth was there to catch it on film. Reportedly, he wasn't able to get to his feet.
Recap...guy can "surf" if he uses a paddle, but cannot without. I'd say that this speaks volumes about who is flocking to the SUP world.


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V.20 No.26 | 6/30/2011
Book Review
Mining Trauma for Riches
Pulitzer winner writes sadness-soaked memoir
Thoughts Without Cigarettes
Oscar Hijuelos is known primarily for his novel Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, with which he became the first Latino author to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. (It was later made into the film Mambo Kings, starring not-Cuban actors Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas.) Hijuelos came through Albuquerque in June. If you missed him, his new memoir will keep you company until he returns.


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If some of you don't know, Burger King asked farmers in the Transylvania region of Romania, and the Hmong tribe of Thailand to sample its Whopper alongside McDonalds Big Mac and to decide which tastes best.
Burger King's objective was to "...see how the Whopper would perform in a world that didn't have ad or marketing awareness or any sentimental attachments" to either brand, says Russ Klein, president of global marketing, strategy and innovation at Burger King Holidays.
Bloggers have criticized the ad as tasteless and potentially exploitative. A headline on the blog Stereohyped read: "The Burger King Storms Innocent Villages to Plunder 'Virgins.'
Anyways, I found it funny that Burger King was trying to do this taste test when in reality it does not matter if someone in Thailand or Transylvania likes the Whopper over the Big Mac. Reason being is because their major market is in the US, why does it matter what these people think about it? The campaign would have been more effective if they used this same approach in the US, but blindfolded the individuals and then asked them to decide which one they preferred. All in all, I think the campaign was a flop!
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Red Eye
"Red Eye" was Wes Craven's second attempt to break out of the horror genre. After the fiasco that was "Cursed," who could blame the guy? However, unlike the schmaltzy "Music of the Heart," "Red Eye" was something a little more palatable to his fan base: A thriller, about a strong woman, a menacing man, and just enough political intrigue to keep it squarely out of the horror genre. The high-concept catch? Most of the movie is set in the high-stakes confines of an airplane.
"Red Eye" delights in Hitchcockian games of misdirection. After a fast paced opening credits montage that sets up all the competing plot lines in a clever, visual manner, we are introduced to our heroine. Lisa, a well-respected hotel clerk, is immediately established as someone who can get things done quickly while maintaining a cool head, no matter the situation. While in an airport, waiting to catch a flight back to Florida, she bumps into Jack. The two have a meet cute right out of a romantic comedy. There is an immediate chemistry between them. Jack invites her over to the airport bar, the two trading banter about their favorite drinks. Cillian Murphy's glowing blue eyes, manly stubble, and general handsomeness seems to paint him as the perfect romantic leading man.
The romantic comedy the first act seems to be building towards is slowly subverted. Jack has very casual phone conversation, the viewer unaware of the nefarious events being discussed. Once on the plane, when the story truly gets going, his pleasant veneer begins to strip away, revealing sinister intentions. Lisa at first seems uncertain to believe what he's saying, just like anyone else would. However, Jack doesn't waver, revealing himself as a cold, calculating psychopath. The middle block of "Red Eye" revolves around the rather irresistible concept of two at-odds individuals having intense conversations in a small, stressful location.
"Red Eye" is about something else too. Though it's a topic Craven has frequently floated around, this film finds the director confronting gender relations as a theme for the first time. Casually, early on, Murphy drops a line about men being driven by facts and women being driven by emotion. The film never puts more of a fine point upon the character's sexism, instead letting McAdams' strength and refusal to panic speak as a proper rebuttal. It isn't long before Cillian is lording his male physicality over her, downing her with an unexpected headbutt. Murphy's intensity is frightening during a confrontation in the plane's bathroom, one that implicitly suggests a sexual assault… Something the script makes more blatant. Lisa's strong personality is the direct result of a previous sexual assault. It's an unfortunate example of Rape as Backstory, even if it furthers the picture's themes. There's no reason Lisa needed a violation in her past in order to make her a strong female character. McAdams' strong performance does make this turn a little easier to swallow or at least overlook.
A few physical scuffles aside, Jack's main weapon is his voice. After a brilliant visual reveal, Lisa takes Jack's main weapon away from him. Without delving too deeply into "Men, Women, and Chainsaws" territory, Lisa disabling her male aggressor with a phallic-shaped pen can't be unintentional. Lisa's escape from the plane is helped along by another young girl. While playing into the story's subtext, it's also an example of the fine-tuned screenplay, which nicely sets up many small plot details before paying them of in surprising, creative fashion later on.
Though Murphy and McAdams are the stars of the show, the small supporting cast has its notable members as well. Brian Cox, usually cast as bad guys or spy masters, gets to play a normal guy for once. An early phone conversation quickly sets up the relationship between father and daughter, how one compulsively worries about the other. They are close but both have their quirks. Jayma Mays' gets to play up her wide-eye adorableness as Cynthia, the neurotic hotel clerk working in Lisa's stead. Mays' plays her nervous reactions for decent comedy. I don't have much positive to say about Angela Paton and Laura Johnson's small supporting roles. Either aren't much more then broad stereotypes. Perhaps intentionally, since their characters are credited as Nice Lady and Blonde Woman.
It's easy to nitpick the film's story. Was such an elaborate plot really necessary just to change a hotel room? Cell phone trouble, the favorite dramatic crutch of modern horror/thriller writers, are employed dutifully. A rocket launcher gets an overly dramatic introduction. After such a thrilling finale, the movie's short resolution scene seems a bit underwhelming. And, once again, Marco Beltrami's score is typically noisy and distracting.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Director Report Card: Wes Craven (2005) Part 2
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Labels: director report card, horror movies that actually aren't, pretenious film criticism, wes craven
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- Sean Catlett said...
I remember Zacharus really liking this movie only because the portrayal of the hotel clerk job was frighteningly accurate.
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More than 200 international students come to AIU every year to learn about Japan. Naturally, their knowledge about Japan varies widely. The Japan Studies courses are organized to meet these varied needs by offering a wide range of courses related to Japan and its relationships with the world. Most content courses are offered in English. However, a few are taught in Japanese for international students with advanced Japanese language skills.
The primary objective of the Japan Studies courses is to educate international students to achieve well-rounded familiarity with the language, history, culture, religion, society, literature, politics, business and economics in Japan.
Since Japanese language skills are the gateway to understanding Japan, students are strongly encouraged to enroll in Japanese language courses, although doing so is not mandatory. Japan Studies courses are supplemented by extracurricular activities.
Local events, festivals, and field trips
Immersion Experiences
- Weekend homestays
- Rice planting with farming families
- Visits to elementary schools
- Yuwa town exchange partnership
- Lake Tazawako retreat
- Tazawa ski and mountain retreat
History and Culture Tours
- Sake brewery and noodle factory visit
- Yokote Manga Museum
- Akita myths and legends: Folkloric walking tours
- Restoration of mummies at Kaikoji Temple
- Hiraizumi Temple Trail
- Hiraizumi Kagura
- Namahage of Oga Peninsula
- Kosaka Kabuki
- Takigi Noh
- Kanto Festival
- Kakunodate Festival
- Yuwa Namahage Festival
- Kakunodate Fire Festival
- Yokote Kamakura Festival
As you see from the diagram below, the Japan Studies courses consist of a set of courses from various academic fields that are recommended for international students. You have the liberty of creating "your own Japan Studies" based upon your needs and interests.


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If you are keen to start your year off right and really stick to your New Year's resolutions, then read on.
HOWEVER, if you haven't yet watched Martin's video on the 3 biggest mistakes people make with New Year's resolutions, then I suggest you click the link above and watch that first.
Done that? Great.
Now that you have seen what to avoid when MAKING your new years resolutions, the real question is:
How do I stick with my New Year's resolutions so that I can achieve something?
It's the perennial struggle. As Martin talked about in the last video, it is important that you make you goals right in the first place, but its equally as important to know how to make them work for you.
in today's video, Martin talks us through his tips to really set yourself up for success with your resolutions, how do you prioritise, and how do you turn them into habits that become part of your routine for the rest of your life time, not just while your levels of will power hold out.
As always, for those of you who would prefer to read, the video has been transcribed below.
Hi, Martin here from Align chiropractic and this is the second in our series of New Year's resolutions videos.
Last time we went over the biggest mistakes that people make in setting New Year's resolutions,, and today we're going to flip that around and give you some really simple tips that you can use straight away, to make the next year the healthiest year for you.
The most important thing when you're making resolutions to improve your health is, first of all:
Start really, small.
So if you're wanting to get fit and part of that is you're wanting to increase your upper body strength and you are going to do push-ups, you might be able to do 10 the first day, that doesn't mean you can do 20 and 30 and 40 day after day after day.
That sort of radical change can get you hurt, and it will tax your willpower really fast which is no good at all.
If you start really small, the goal on day one is to do one pushup, and if we expand that out you can apply the same thing to running, to going to the gym, to doing any sort of healthy habit; it's easy to succeed.
When you succeeded, when you've successfully been able to do just a very small behavior but you repeat that small, easy to achieve habit day after day, it starts to build a habit.
Habits are the superpower behind successful resolutions.
What I mean by that is a habit doesn't cost you in willpower; you do them automatically.
If your habit in the morning is you get up and have a glass of water, you don't have to force yourself to do it, it happens automatically.
The thing that that derails most resolutions is where we're relying on willpower, doing something that's too big, too ugly, too uncomfortable, that we have to will ourselves to do it day after day, and then we wake up by morning we don't feel like it, and all of a sudden our streak is gone, our lack of willpower has won.
Small resolutions where we're looking for just a little bit of success is much more successful.
It also avoids us injuring ourselves and the general if we're doing a physical exercise, you're looking to increase it by a maximum, not a minimum, a maximum of 10% a week while building a habit.
That keeps it easy to succeed and it gives you your muscles, your ligaments, your tendons and your nervous system time to adapt to a new pattern of behaviour while are you building that habit.
Make it easier to succeed and hard to fail.
So our second thing is:
Pick the most important thing.
We spoke last time of having too many resolutions being a problem.
Just pick one area, one resolution that you're gonna stick to and the most important one. so if your goal was not so much about getting fit but more about losing weight, you've got a choice there, you can either have a resolution where you're going to change some aspect of your eating where you going to eat more vegetables or you're going to eat less sugar or something like that, or you could look to exercise more and all the research shows that if you want to lose weight, for 99% of people actually, diet trumps exercise.
You can't work out past a bad diet.
So, dial in the diet first because then you can build in habits before you try to change too many things.
You also create a really positive domino effect where once you've started eating better you kind of naturally feel like being more active and exercising.
You get this virtuous cycle where you eat better, so you exercise more, and you exercise more, you feel like eating better and so the cycle goes, and you can build a much healthier you with small, incremental and achievable changes.
If you're only able to change one thing, again it taps into this small change makes it easy to succeed, rather than creating this horrible lifestyle that is so alien to you that you want to stop it the moment that you can.
Third point is:
Don't go it alone!
Rather than going solo and trying to do it just on their own willpower and their own resources, If you get a buddy, somebody else who wants to make the same change, or somebody else who will hold you accountable, then it taps into the way that we're wired.
We're wired to be social creatures and you increase your chance of successfully sticking with a resolution if you get a buddy.
Somebody who's going to check in with you once a week to make sure you've done what you've committed to.
You can even ramp it up further, by adding consequences.
One of the the ones that I think is really amazingly successful is that there is research that shows that if you have a negative consequence for if you don't stick to your agreed resolution of eating more vegetables every day or of eating five servings of vegetables every day, you have to make a sizeable donation to an organization that you hate, so for example, if you are a Carlton supporter you have to give a thousand dollars to Collingwood and the way we're wired away from what we don't want more towards what we do want, it's a powerful incentive for people to stick to their resolutions.
The fourth thing is,
If you're getting physical, get a check up.
If you're doing a physical activity, you're doing a fitness oriented New Year's resolution, then I'm going to strongly suggest that you get a checkup.
If you're a client of ours, or you'd like to be a client of ours, give us a call pop in we'll check to make sure that everything's working the way that it should, before you put your body under stresses that it's not used to, and related to that, we see soo many people who have ignored niggles and then end up with a more significant issue down the line.
So if your body is giving you feedback that the new regime is creating a bit of stress for you, don't ignore that, get it dealt with quickly so that you're not derailed by injury in sticking to your resolution.
I hope these videos will set you up for massive success in improving your health in the year ahead, shoot us a message and let us know what you think and what are new changes you're making in the year to come.


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Farm Finance Categories From QuickBooks/
We use QuickBooks accounting software to track our finances. Within QuickBooks the different items that we track are broken down and organized into categories like income, expenses, and payroll.
When you are starting to farm your financial accounting may be simple enough that all you need is a spreadsheet or even a notebook. QuickBooks is just a fancy notebook that helps you keep track of what you are doing with your farm business finances.
When I started using it I had to learn too things:
- It's not as complicated and terrible as I thought
- It's best to not make things too complicated


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At Hell's Gate, you will find Wai Ora Spa. Hell's Gate or Tikitere has been known by the local Maori for over 800 hundred years. It is renowned as a place of healing and revitalizing. Besides its sulphurous waters, its specialty is also in its mud! The mud found at Hell's Gate is very fine (smooth) and it is said to be among the finest in the world. If you are into spa and body mud, you may wish to visit Wai Ora Spa when you are in Rotorua.
Signpost to Wai Ora Spa
Hell's Gate, Rotorua, May 2006
This is not the typical commercial spa with enclosed or private rooms. Instead, it is in the outdoor and each pool is separated by wooden partitions which offer little privacy. No skinny dipping or frolicking in the buff! Bring your swimming trunk/costume if you want to enjoy the mud spa. By the way, while I was seated in the pool, Wai Ora staff came in and put a dipstick into the water to measure water temperature.
Each pool is a rectangular concrete pool which holds the warm muddy water. So where was the mud? Well, I had to scoop (or scrape) it from the bottom of the pool with my fingers! There was not much mud to play with but sufficient to coat all over my body. The mud was easy to spread and felt very smooth. After coating myself, I sat on the pool edge to let the mud dry up. It was very late autumn and the wind was a little chilly. So after a while I was back inside the pool to enjoy the warm water, then coating myself with mud again and letting it dry up.
It would have been better if there was more mud in the pool. The mud in Hell's Gate must be a precious commodity as it is also used in a range of beauty spa products. More in the pool means less products to go around.
When the time came to leave the mud pool, I had to do the unpleasant thing of taking a cold shower to wash off all the mud before heading over to the hot sulphurous pools for a good soak.
The spa was a good experience! I felt really good and relaxed. My skin felt smooth too except that I carried the smell of sulphur for another few more days.
Signboard – Map of Hell's Gate
Hell's Gate, Rotorua, May 2006


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Glenn Close's Teary Acceptance Speech Worth Watching! [VIDEO]
Glenn Closes surprised many when she won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by and Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, but it was her speech that cause her win to go viral. This quote from her speech says it all. "We have to say, 'I can do that and I should be allowed to do that.'"


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As we are all putting the final finishing touches on our projects and polishing up those presentations, I hope that we can all take a minute and reflect on this past term. Writing this blog has forced Nathan and I to travel back, (only ten weeks ago!) to when we first started this grand adventure. Here's a few of our favorite moments from the past term:
1) Mudfights at Sally's Bend. I'm not sure if it was a "fight" or a general free-for-all-get-everybody-as-muddy-as-you-can-fiasco. That was ten weeks ago and I don't remember but either way, it was fun as hell.
2) Midnight paper ball fights in the library. Yeah… Unprovoked massacres of the "Quiet Side" by the "Collaborative Side". And sometimes all out, balls-to-the-wall library wars. And on that note, library climbing, library Olympics, general library adventures, etc. were awesome. Don't worry Sally, we didn't break anything… too badly.
3) The 4th Invertebrates Presentation and Dessert Extravaganza. I remember Reed doing a ridiculous crab dance, some other hooligans performing another dance to Maddona, and an educational video about a new drug craze: The Green Tide. (I've tried it myself, and now I see why this thing could sweep the nation.)
4) Monday night dance parties. Reason? Because we can't party on Thursday because we have finals on Friday.
5) Water balloon massacres on the Bunk House (and other miscellaneous pranks on the bunk house).
6) Annette eating, drinking, and partying with us after the algae section.
7) Donut Wednesdays. Nuff said.
8) Pirate day on the Elakah
9) Hotel party.
10) No Final for Karen's section.
11) TAs playing sand vol with us.


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EPA offers webinar Opportunities -August and September
Analytical Preparedness – Full Scale Exercise Toolkit – August 24, 2017, 1:00 – 2:00 EST
The Analytical Preparedness Full-Scale Exercise (AP-FSE) toolkit is an interactive resource that can help users to plan and conduct exercises that involve the coordination of analytical support. Water utilities, laboratories and other response partners can use the AP-FSE Toolkit to design exercise that meet their objectives. The toolkit includes scenarios and document templates that can be used as is, or tailored to meet their needs. This training will cover:
• How participating in an AP-FSE can increase preparedness
• How the toolkit and its resources can be leveraged to plan and conduct an exercise
• How to coordinate analytical support and further develop relationships with response partners
Register: https://us-epa-ap-fse.eventbrite.com
Decontaminating a Utility After a Contamination Event – September 20, 2017, 1:00-2:00 EST
Water utilities can face major challenges when responding to all-hazards contamination incidents. These challenges can include isolations, treating contaminated water, and decontaminating water utilities as well as the infrastructure needed to enable recovery and return to service. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of an upcoming decontamination tool that will help utilities be prepared prior to an incident. The tool will cover the three phases of remediation: characterization, decontamination and clearance. In addition, the webinar will address how utilities can contain and dispose of large amounts of contaminated water.
Register: https://us-epa-decontamination-strategies.eventbrite.com.
National Preparedness Month
Navigating Your Day Without Water: September 28, 2017 – 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern
A Virtual Exercise in Disaster Preparation. Practice Your Response – Join Us for a Virtual Exercise!
EPA will host a facilitated discussion featuring a water loss emergency scenario. The disaster will disrupt the water services in a fictional community.
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Yes, I do occasionally share from non-Islamic sites, and this recipe looked delicious and well worth sharing, especially as I love Japanese style food and wish I could get the time to try my hand at cooking more often.
Taken form www.foreign2food.com – http://foreign2food.com/2016/03/09/komatsuna-japanese-mustard-spinach-flat-bread/
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Being a father of 2 children. I am always concerned about what my kids are eating. And in today's day and age we have so many artificial this and high sugar that advertised at kids. It's always a a relief when you are able to make some that not only tastes great, but is also healthier tan what they would get from the shops. Here is my recipe for Japanese mustard spinach ( 小松菜 ) flat bread.
Makes around 10 medium size flat breads.
- Half a bunch of Japanese mustard spinach (or regular spinach if you can't find the Japanese version).
- 2 cloves of crushed garlic
- 200 ml of water
- 3 cups of strong white flour
- 2 tsp of baking powder
- 1 tsp of salt
- 3 tsp of dried Oregano
- a few twists of cracked black pepper
1.Take your spinach and garlic and quickly sweat them off in a dry pan, until the Spinach starts to wilt and there is a nice smell of garlic in the air.
2. Addthe spinach, garlic and water into a blender and give it a whiz until you get a nice smooth liquid.
3. In a big bowl add in your flour, salt, dried oregano, baking powder and black pepper. Then slowly add in your spinach liquid and mix until you start to form a ball and it begins to come away from the edges. If you run out of liquid before this happens, don't fret, just add in small amounts of water until you get the correct consistency. Alternatively if you have left over spinach liquid, that's okay too. Just pop it in a container and throw into the fridge or freezer and you can use it as part of a sauce , stew or another dish in the future.
4. Lightly flour your bench and turn the dough out. knead the dough until it has becomes more elastic. Then make a long sausage shape with the dough by rolling it out with two hands. Once your dough is roughly 40 cm in length, mark out 10 equal size pieces using a sharp knife.
5. Place a large frying pan on a medium low heat on your stove top and let it heat up a little. whilst this is happening cut your dough into ten equal size balls.
6. After you have cut out your 10 equal size pieces of dough, grab yourself a rolling pin and roll each one out, making sure to spin the dough consistently so you get a nice even shape and it doesn't stick to your board. If you see this starting to happen add a little extra flour to your work surface and/or rolling pin.
7. Place each rolled out flat bread into the pan (Please make sure it is a dray pan, no oil or butter needed). cook on both sides for 30 seconds to a minute. Keep an eye on your first flat bread. If it is browning quickly then lower the heat a little. You want each side to have slight dark spots, but still have a malleable texture, so you can use them for making wraps!
8. Once you have cooked off each flat bread, let them cool completely on a rack and then you can store them in zip lock bags in the cupboard for a couple of days, or place them in the freezer and then just thaw them when you want to use them. They should keep for up to a week in the freezer.
You can then use them for wraps or cut them into slices and toast them off a little more to use as a snack with dips or cheeses.
If you liked this recipe or any others, don't forget to like this post and be sure to follow my blog to stay up to date with what's happening in the world of Foreign 2 Food!


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Reasons to hire an Agency for PPC Advertising Services
Due to the popularity of online media and decline in the number of people who read printed newspapers and magazines, advertising your products & services on the web through pay per click (PPC) advertising is perhaps the most cost effective ways to adopt. PPC lets you pay only for those ads that are clicked by website users and you get qualified leads to your website as someone who is interested in your product may click on your advertisements while others may ignore it.
Even though PPC campaigns look simple, it is advisable to hire the services of a good PPC advertising agency that is well versed in handling a variety of PPC campaigns. Here are the reasons for choosing a PPC advertising agency:
PPC is always changing
Agency managers have their fingers on the pulse of PPC industry. They are aware of PPC changes and are able to make these quick changes effectively. They also have enough time to devote to learn the nuances of the industry.
Exclusive Focus on PPC
PPC needs constant attention if it has to be done perfectly. PPC management agencies focus on only two tasks – optimizing the accounts and employing the tricks of the trade.
Unlike print advertising, you don't have to follow a standard format to display advertisements. PPC campaigns can be customized at almost every level and this is the reason why advertisers must switch to this methodology. Apart from choosing the text & format of advertisements, you can also choose when & who can see these ads. Campaigns are controlled as per the needs and requirements of the advertiser.
Quick Results
There are many different methods through which a business could be promoted over the internet. But PPC services can deliver quickest results. As soon as the campaign goes live, the advertiser starts receiving queries.
Digital PPC marketing agencies are absolutely transparent and the advertiser knows how the agency is performing. Every company has a different policy for maintaining transparency and one should check it before signing the contract. In PPC campaigning services, a common interface is used that can be accessed by both the advertiser and experts working on making these campaigns cost effective.
Pay per click is the most popular way of advertising on the web that gets you qualified customers. In order to build a strong online brand for your business, you need to hire a professional PPC advertising agency. These services are designed to help you get the best value for money spent on campaigns.


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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Kyle | Chaska Senior Photographer
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Copeland 2 + 2 | Minneapolis Child Photographer
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Hegarty Family | Minneapolis Family Photographer
Beware of long blog post due to a seriously CUTE family.
Can you even stand it? Well, there is MORE!
Love how mom styled the session and brought the lolly pops too. Thanks you guys, it was so fun to hang out. See ya at the rink ;)
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
McCombs Family | Minneapolis Children & Family Photographer
This, like always, was such a fun session at the McCombs home. There were SO MANY awesome images of this beautiful family, it was hard to choose what to blog.
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Mr. Brody | Minneapolis Children's Photographer
I met this little guys mom when he was still in her tummy.... and I've been capturing his photos ever since. I ALWAYS look so forward to seeing them. Brody gave me a run for my money this particular day, as all 18 month old boys do, but has the best personality so I had a blast.
And he has a little brother on the way.... I get to meet him beginning of October!
Thanks for coming Jason, Geri and Brody. I hope you all have recovered from the heat that day and your "minor" injuries :)
xo Paula
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McCombs Teaser | Minneapolis Newborn Photographer
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We've spent the weekend at a hockey tournament for my oldest son, Nikolai... it's not been the best on the side of winning, but the boys have had a blast together and always learn.
This is an inspiring video I found about the power of sports, thought I would share
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Friday, August 13, 2010
for my blog stalker (I mean Geri) | Minneapolis Children's Photography
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More of Baby August (Gus, Auggie, AJ) | Minneapolis Newborn Photographer
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Teaser of Baby August | Minneapolis Newborn Photographer
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
Awesome Family | Minneapolis Family Photographer
Let's start with the CUUUTE Mom and Dad
Even the family dog, Chance, was awesome.
Sweet Rory
Handsome Quinn
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Rev. Brian Warren and his team at CIP are committed to partnering with local churches and ministries to strengthen and support them. Rev. Warren can be booked for speaking engagements across Canada throughout the year when available. However, his schedule fills up very quickly, so for best availability please submit your request well in advance of the date you would like him to attend.
- In order to facilitate the ongoing work of Canada In Prayer, a minimum donation of $3,000.00 is requested for each session/meeting that Rev. Warren prepares for and speaks at (minimum of $10,000.00 for a weekend conference/retreat).
- If not within suitable drivable distance, the host church is responsible for two airfares, one for Rev. Warren and one for a team member that will help with resources, etc. At times, depending on the circumstances, we may ask for airfare for three, but this would be communicated to you in advance.
- The host church is responsible for airport pick-ups and drop-offs and for transporting the team back and forth to the sessions. We organize and book Rev. Warren's travel approximately a month before and then send you an invoice to reimburse our ministry for the travel expenses.
- If overnight stay is required, the church cares for meals and accommodations for Rev. Warren and his team in a local hotel.
- Rev. Warren firmly believes in equipping the Body of Christ and would like to have the option of setting up a table for participants to register for our free monthly electronic Prayer Newsletter.
- Rev. Warren reserves the right to cancel a speaking engagement, with plenty of advance notice, should extreme circumstances require him to do so.
How to Book
Option A: Fill in the Booking Request Form and send to CIP by fax: (905) 319-3413 or email: email@example.com.
Option B: Send an email to email@example.com. Include the following information:
- Name of Church
- Location of Church (include full address)
- Pastor or Leader's Name
- Contact Person's Name
- Contact E-mail address
- Contact Phone Number
- Desired Date of Speaking Engagement
- Type of meeting/event (ie: Men's Breakfast, Sunday service, Prayer Seminar, etc.)
- Purpose, goal, and theme/focus for meeting/event
- Estimated number of attendees
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Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Company Core Values and other Business Management topics.
Building a brand is the most important thing a business can do. However, many businesses get caught up on how to do so. Either they feel it is too expensive, that their product or service should appeal to "everyone", or they don't realize just how interconnected the branding system is.
In building a brand image, the first objective is to define the consumer. Who is your ideal client? What does he do for a living? Where does he socialize? What types of food does he like? Where does he vacation? Does he prefer books, newspapers or magazines? What type of shoes does he wear? All of these seemingly innocent, possibly intrusive questions, are good brand identifiers, however odd they may seem. If you can answer these types of questions about your ideal consumer, you have a good idea of the niche you fill. Remember, niches are not necessarily clear-cut. Sometimes a niche can be very loosely-defined. It does not make it any less useful.
Defining your brand will help you in large ways, as well as small. For example, a person who knows and understands his brand would never doubt the color-scheme and font chosen, and would never use very different advertising from brand peripherals. Take for instance Apple computers: the computers coming off the line now are thin and very light in color with white cables, its ads have white backgrounds with its spokesmen figured prominently and plainly, its packaging is white and thin as possible.
The point here is that one invokes thoughts of the other; the mechanism that does that is BRAND. Whether a business sets out to define its brand on its own, hires a consultant to facilitate this process, or engages a graphic designer to do it for them, Building a BRAND is the most important thing a business can do.
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Pictures of Baby Snow Leopards
Lil Laila Leopard Gets Extra Lovin'
With piercing blue eyes and soft gray fur patterns, Snow Leopards are some of the cutest wild animals out there! Of course, the same holds true for this cub named Laila — She was born on April 10 but her mom died shortly afterwards requiring keepers at the Belgian Planckendael Zoo to raise her by human hands. While looking cuddly at the moment, she'll grow up to be up to 120 pounds with the ability to kill creatures three times her weight.
See more pictures of her zookeeper snuggle time and exhibit romp when you read more.


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Endress+Hauser Provides Head Transmitter for Temperature with FF-912 Diagnostics
Source: ControlGlobal.com
Mar 25, 2014
The task of a head transmitter is the conversion of a weak sensor signal into a stable, standardized output signal. The special advantage of a head transmitter is that it has the closest possible proximity to the measurement point, which leads to a significant improvement with regard to accuracy, EMC properties and signal stability.
Having sold more than 2.5 million temperature transmitters over the last 15 years, including a significant number with the FOUNDATION fieldbus interface, Endress+Hauser is one of the most experienced suppliers. With the iTEMP FF TMT85, a transmitter is now available that provides device diagnostics capabilities according to the FF-912 standard. A plug-on display, assembly and sensor connection options guarantee a wide range of applications. In combination with the approvals for hazardous areas, it ensures safe and precise measurements in different industries.
Device diagnostic information according to FF-912 is increasingly demanded by plant operators, device manufacturers and system vendors alike. It essentially sorts the diagnostic information into four distinct categories. As a result, the user can easily assess the seriousness of an event, and with the additional diagnostic information provided by the device, manage the plant in an even more efficient and reliable way.
For more information, please visit the Endress+Hauser website.


text: Since 1912, First Monday Trade Day began over 100 years ago in Scottsboro, AL. Citizens would gather on the first Monday of each month around the Jackson County courthouse square in downtown Scottsboro to swap wares . The tradition continues. 250 exhibitors, one of the South's oldest and largest trade days that uses the art of bartering, antique shows, crafts and rummage sales. Take a step back in time and enjoy shopping the way your ancestors did. The trade days are held each Saturday through Monday before the first Monday of the month year round.


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Poisons that are dangerous to children don't always have a warning label.
Almost 90 percent of childhood poisonings happen in the home.
Some poisons are everyday items, like household cleaners, medicines and alcohol.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 300 children under 19 are treated in an emergency room every day as a result of being poisoned, and two children die. In fact, statistics show the number of children dying from poisoning has more than doubled since 1999.
But there are steps you can take to avoid poison incidents in children.
1) Keep ALL medications out of reach of children.
- If you have to lock them in a cabinet…do so!
- Be sure to also check your purse/pockets for medications children can find.
2) Check your home for poisoning risks.
- Store ALL cleaning/gardening/household chemicals in locked cabinets
- Do not forget the garage or outside shed! Anti-freeze/petroleum products are poisonous!
- Be sure to empty all drink containers and ashtrays after parties. Alcohol is deadly in small amounts in toddlers.
3) Never underestimate a child's ability to climb and reach things or to remove "child safe" caps.
4) Never transfer substances from their original containers,especially to food or drink containers.
5) Avoid distractions when giving medicines to your child.
- Check the dosage twice.
- Only use the dosing tool that came with the medication — never use a household teaspoon as they are inaccurate.
- Avoid double dosing by communicating with any others who will be medicating your child — write it down.
- Follow package directions for dosing. When in doubt, ask your pediatrician or pharmacist the dosage in amount, concentration, and frequency of dosing.
- Common measurements: 1 teaspoon is 5cc or mls and 1 tablespoon is 15 cc or mls.
- Children rarely, if ever, get a tablespoon of any medication.
6) Be sure to check all other places your child visits for poison risks!
This includes the homes of grandparents, friends, daycares, and Mothers-Day-Out programs.
7) If you feel your child ingested a substance, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 immediately.
No place can be 100 percent safe, but you can follow these tips to decrease your child's risks of poisoning.


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123keytags.com is pleased to announce that we have recently added another software vendor that our keytags are compatible with.
Gym Insight provides software to the fitness industry – and they are also very well versed in 24/7 access hardware, and how it interfaces with the software to allow members to access gyms 24 hours a day.
If you currently own or are considering opening a 24/7 gym, reach out to the folks over at Gym Insight – and let Lawrence know that we sent you!


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Austin has long been high on my list of must-see places and after spending 5 days there over New Year's, it's definitely one of my favorite cities. People have always told me that I would love it, and they were right. So many vintage stores, amazing food trucks and restaurants, a river through the center, people watching, and unique neighborhoods. Plus it's a type-lover's paradise! So many photogenic signs.
Some of our closest friends we met while they were biology PHD students here in Arizona. Over the past few years, they've gotten professor positions and are now spread out around the country. Some of them had a conference in Austin right after New Year's and it was decided that it would be the perfect time for a reunion. As much as seeing the city was amazing, nothing could beat catching up with great friends!!
I sure do miss seeing these guys on a regular basis and I wish that so many of my closest friends didn't live so far away! But it's also great to know that some friendships are built to stand the test of time and distance, and it's worth every ounce of effort to stay in touch and plan visits!This entry was posted in travel and tagged Austin, brian, friends, travel. ← Sammy Dress Giveaway! Gift of Thrift- the gifts →
Looks like you guys had such a great time. I've only been to Austin once and it was when I was super little so I hardly remember it. All these photos make me really want to go and check it out again sometime soon!
What a wonderful post Lisa!! I absolutely love how you took pictures of so many different signs, they are awesome and something I admittedly, completely overlooked. also, i'm glad you were well bundled, i don't feel so dumb haha. you look adorable and i love that coat color and extra love how you and your friends stayed in such great touch!
Seems like an amazing trip! Austin looks so fun :D
How fun! I've been wanting to go to Austin for a while. Everyone tells me its like Portland but with hot weather haha. That's super cool that you got to go with a bunch of friends. Sounds like a great trip. And that Gordough's sign is great.
this is my hood! i'm so glad you had a blast. being a native austinite, it'll always be a little silly to me when other people post pictures of places i pass by every day, but it's 500% awesome and other people celebrating my favorite city on the planet makes me so happy! i hope you filled up on lots of queso and breakfast tacos while you were here!
omg, i loved austin when i went! so jealous you got to go!! looks like fun though :))
Amazing!!! Austin is high on my list too. Hoping to be able to go in 2014.
Oh, my! So many awesome signs! And you guys seemed to have had a blast there! I've always wanted to visit Texas; I've only been to Dallas' airport twice, hehe.


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We are always in search of additional volunteers to help fundraise, help at our events and also to assist the station team. If you think you can help out then please contact us, you don't need any experience with lifeboats, just be willing to give us any time you can.
THANK YOU - we look forward to working with you!
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea
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"Hey girl" is a simple salutation that conjures images of a smoldering, pensive Ryan Gosling in the minds of every 20-something girl (and boy) who's followed the megawatt Internet meme since its 2008 inception. Well, the time has come to take that meme and let it soar on the wings of love. Consider this a special gift from us to you on Valentine's Day.
A meme, of course, is a cultural joke or motif that circulates widely via social-networking sites. And given Ryan Gosling's ruggedly handsome face, it's no surprise that the comely actor's likeness continues to turn up on more than a few Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter accounts.
Gems like "Hey girl, don't worry. If I go jewelry shopping for you, I'll bring your BFF to help pick" and "Hey girl, sometimes I get so sad when we can't watch 'Golden Girls' together" have undoubtedly helped secure the "Crazy, Stupid, Love" star's status as the ultimate ladies' man.
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My SUV Maggie is no longer in my life. I guess I already used up the extra "year" that I wanted so I could payoff debts. There was an issue with the her gushing out bucket loads of coolant. My mechanic stated he could look at it and maybe fix it. It was the maybe part of the conversation that sent me over to my local DriveTime to look at vehicles. After testing about six vehicles, I choose the 2007 Chevy Malibu. Which I nicknamed "Estrella" because my down payment equaled the amount of my spending money for my upcoming event. She is loaded with cool extras including heated seats and fuel economy calculator. Huge trunk and is zippy around town.
I am not too upset about moving up my time frame as I still get to set aside savings and freedom account monies. With my raise, I can use that to pay down my debts. So I am not too far off course.


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Mayoral 10507 Faux Fur Polka Dot Hat, Scarf, & Gloves Set, Red
$ 19.97
$ 40.00
How fun is this girls knit hat, gloves, and scarf set? Keep your little girl warm with this winter chill and she will always feel great and look stylish! For school or out on winter stroll to see all the magical lights, this is the perfect gift set!
Faux fur accent puff ball. Soft knit. Antique bronze sewn on beads. 3 PC Set.
10507 Mayoral Faux Fur Polka Dot Hat, Scarf, & Gloves Set, Grey
Knit set should be hand-washed or gentle cycle with laundry bag if possible. Lay flat and reshape to air dry.


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What are your hours?
Sunday-Monday: Closed, Tuesday & Wednesday: 5pm-10pm, Thursday & Friday: 5pm-12am, Saturday: 12pm-12am
Do you allow dogs?
We love dogs, and they are welcome at the brewery. Keep in mind however that our taproom is upstairs which may not be easy for all dogs to maneuver.
What is your parking availability?
There is free street parking on 41st Street, DeSoto, and 40th Street arond the brewery, as well as a small parking off of DeSoto and 40th.
Who distributes your beer?
United Distributors. If you own a bar or restaurant and are interested in having Two Tides on draft contact a United rep.
What beers are currently available?
You can check out the beers we currently have on tap by visiting our What's on Tap page or just and stop by the taproom and see for yourself.
Can I bring my own growler to have filled at the brewery?
Yes. We currently do not have our own growlers for sale but will fill one you bring in.
I really enjoyed (insert beer name here). Is there a way to find out if any bars or restaurants near me have it on tap?
You can shoot us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com or grab some of our cans to go so you can enjoy them at home.
What's the story behind the name Two Tides?
James is a Savannah native and both he and Liz love spending time out on the water. Since there are two tides per day, they thought the name played tribute to the brewery's surroundings and also just sounded pretty cool.
Are your beers kosher?
Can you ship beer to me?
Due to legalities and our demand to supply both our tasting room and surrounding bars and restaurants, we are unable to do so at this time.
Where can I buy your cans?
Cans are only available for purchase at the taproom.
What form of payments do you accept?
We accept cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express.
Are you hiring?
Unfortunately not at this time. As the business continues to grow however we might start looking. You are welcome to send a resumé to email@example.com.
Are children allowed?
Provided they are accompanied and supervised by a responsible adult and are well behaved children are allowed until 9pm Wednesday-Saturday.
Is the brewery wheelchair accessible?
Since the taproom is upstairs we are unable to accommodate in that space. However, accommodations can be made in the brewhouse downstairs. Just give us a call or shoot us an email ahead of time.
I'm a collector. Can you send me your bottles, cans or labels?
We label our bottles and cans post-production and only keep stock of what we need at that time. Should this change, we may decide to add some of our labels to our online store once it's up and running.
Do you do private events? Tours?
Yes. If you are interested in booking space for an event or a group tour, please email email@example.com.
Do you donate beer?
Please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Do you offer food?
We offer a few light snacks on a regular basis but plan to expand to few specialty items, like cheese boards, very soon. We allow any food to be brought in and feel free to have food delivered.
Do you sell your tap handles?
Not at this time, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.
How do I find out what events Two Tides may be involved in near me?
Check out our Facebook page.
How should we contact you with any additional questions?
If you cannot find the answers to any of your questions above or on this site, you may email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Recap of the 2017 Top Florida Beach Bar Award Parties/
September 28, 2017
Another award season is in the books and what a fun summer it was. Jimmy B's Beach Bar finished as the Best Florida Beach Bar and nine other beach bars were given a Top 10 Florida Beach Bar award. A special thanks to LandShark Lager for sponsoring the 2017 award contest. With their help, we were able to truly make this contest bigger and better than ever.
Check out our video recap below for some of the highlights from the 2017 award season.
Congratulations to all of the Top Florida Beach Bar award winners and we're already looking forward to next year's contest! Thanks to everyone who voted and if you haven't visited these Top Florida Beach Bars yet, be sure to stop by and check them out!


text: This year we had the distinct honor of creating the posters for the Citi Concert Series on NBC's TODAY Show. For over twenty years, the biggest names in music have performed on the TODAY Show Plaza in Rockefeller Center and this year we had the privilege of making posters for musical legends such as Christina Aguilera, Carrie Underwood and Aerosmith. The summer lineup this year totaled a staggering 22 performances. The hero image above shows the full lineup and below is a selection of some of our favorite posters from the series.


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The red-billed chough became extinct in Jersey around 1900. This exciting programme of habitat restoration on the Island's coastline will once again provide these wonderful birds with a suitable home.
Latest news │ Monthly reports │ Seen a chough?
- To return the red-billed chough to its former home
- To highlight the coastland restoration work
- To become a flagship and focus for the state of the natural environment in Jersey.
Jersey's north coast farmland is epitomised by small sloping fields running down to the cliffs' edge. This area is often wild and can never have been easy to farm productively. However, in it's heyday with un-intensive farming techniques and numerous hedges, shrubby areas between the fields and sheep grazed grasslands it must have been a haven for many species of farmland birds. Sadly, the area entered a steep decline in fortunes as these forms of farming became less profitable. The abandoned fields were quickly overrun by bracken and the dense stands of this fern offer little feeding opportunity for birds. Accordingly many species once common in these fields have declined and several have died out altogether. The yellowhammer Emberiza citronella was common between Grève de Lecq and Bouley Bay as recently as the 1980s. Now it is extinct here, its distinctive song a little bit of bread and no cheese no longer heard. The last pair was recorded in 2005. Similarly, turtle dove Streptopelia turtur, skylark Alauda arvensis and stonechat Saxicola rubecula have declined and may be lost soon while meadow pipit Anthus pratensis and linnet Carduelis cannabina, once widespread, now only thrive at only a handful of protected sites.
The highly charismatic red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, with its striking long red bill and distinctive shrill call feeds on insects such as craneflies in farmland often close to the people and domestic animals that live there too. Historical numbers in Jersey are unknown, but, once found on several areas of the Island's coastline, the chough became extinct by 1900. A similar pattern of extinction was recorded in all the other Channel Islands and the last attempted breeding may have been in Guernsey in 1929. Today the nearest colonies of chough to Jersey are in Brittany where there are around 50 pairs and in Cornwall, where the species is doing well since naturally recolonising in 2001, and on the Gower Peninsula and Pembrokeshire in west Wales. There are less than 500 pairs of this rare bird in all of the UK and the Isle of Man.
Read red-billed chough factsheet
Choughs feed particularly on maritime grassland throughout the breeding season and here and on dune grassland, winter stubbles and arable lands between summer and winter. These grasslands, close to the sea are maintained by wind exposure, salt deposition and through sheep grazing. The chough likes to nest on sea cliffs but may at times use old buildings on the coast. Flocks can be seen wheeling over the sea, their high calls carrying on the wind, or probing the ground for insects on the clifftops.
What are we doing?
All may not be lost for our clifftop birds including the chough: innovative schemes will return them to our island as flagships of an improving environment and an increased understanding of the benefit of this to all islanders. Areas of the north coast will be actively managed to remove the bracken and former farming practices will be encouraged for the benefit of wildlife. With sufficient areas of former farmland restored, choughs will be re-established using birds reared for this purpose at Durrell's headquarters in Trinity and at Paradise Park in Cornwall.
Captive breeding
Up to five breeding pairs of choughs are managed at Durrell where they can be seen all year. In pairs during the breeding season, all birds will be flocked together in a large aviary for the rest of the year.
Release into the wild
Birds are being released at a site on Jersey's north coast and, initially provided with supplementary food and nest sites, closely monitored as they once again become established in Jersey. Trial releases began in August 2013.
After their release, the choughs will be followed closely to see where they chose to go in Jersey and to check how they are faring. All birds will be given coloured rings so the individuals can all be identified and all will be carrying sophisticated electronics to tell us where they go and to detail their daily activities. A full time chough manager will work closely with the birds from before their release and will follow them closely as they adapt to the wild.
See how the birds are doing (link to latest news)
Habitat management
A range of different techniques will used to restore the land and these will continue even after the first choughs have been begun to fly over our coast again.
See our projects for bracken clearance and livestock grazing


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Marketing Sherpa has formally announced their latest Search Marketing Benchmark Guide for 2008 with over 270 pages of fact filled goodness. For both in-house marketers and SEM agencies alike, this guide provides up to date insight into essential search marketing industry trends. Of particular interest to me was the special report on the challenges of bringing SEM in house. The trend is to continue using outsourced help with search marketing for part, not all of campaign implementation.
Also of interest was that the PPC and SEO disparity in budgets continues: Search marketers are spending about one-fifth as much on their SEO efforts compared to paid search
Other nuggets you'll find in this year's report include:
- Expected Search Spending for 2008 – It's going up but not for the reasons you'd expect
- How Search ROI Stacks Up Against Other Tactics – Guess which tactic BEATS search marketing?
- Difficulty in SEM Staffing Rated by Job Function – SEO specialists are hard/good to find
- A New Way to Evaluate Clicks and Click Fraud – Can you say, "probability"?
The guide makes some ambitious promises including:
- Gain the power to set your PPC and SEO budgets for the coming year that make sense for your search marketing.
- Forecast results – including clicks, conversions and costs – more accurately. (Also includes practical tips on measurement.)
- Select which SEM tests you should conduct to improve results for your current campaigns and which ones may not be worth the time or effort.
- Defend your search marketing plans to your CEO (or to clients if you're an agency.)
- Train new staff more easily.
The survey was conducted during June and July 2007 with 2,475 marketers who conduct or supervise search marketing for their own companies. There's more information on the guide at the Marketing Sherpa web site and Search Engine Land posted this article by Research Director Stefan Tournquist on the challenges of bringing search in-house.


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Marandola D (1), Raschi A (2)
(1) Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie per l'Ambiente e il Territorio – S.T.A.T.;
(2) IBIMET, CNR, Firenze
Collocazione: c7.7.38 – Tipo Comunicazione: Poster
7° Congresso SISEF
Sessione 7: "Poster"
Contatto: Danilo Marandola (email@example.com)
Abstract: In the last decades, interest in tourism has been growing in rural and remote areas. Tourism has been seen as an agent for rural economic regeneration and as a way for fostering conservation of natural resources. Among the different types of tourism, nature-based tourism has largely increased its importance in recent years, even if it is a potential source of conflicts, for nature conservation and socio-economical-cultural balances. To avoid these conflicts, research energy should be channelled into practical ways of assisting all forms of tourism to develop in a perspective of sustainability. Endogenous development processes have to be supported through the valorisation of local knowledge (skills, culture) as well as through the direct participation by local actors to the design of the local development strategies. This poster summarise a research experience carried out in a rural area of mid-southern Italian Apennine. The research, developed in the frame of a wider research program, aims to investigate, in a perspective of tourism-based development, the role that local communities and natural resources (i.e. Natura2000 sites) can play to strengthen the local tourism supply. The research is set up in Fortore-Tammaro, a rural inner area of Benevento province where, in the most recent years, investments for the valorisation of local food and rural culture were expected to give impulse to the local economy and tourism. So far the results did not correspond to the expectations, maybe for a short-sighted approach adopted by the policy makers. As a matter of fact the area (about 900 square kilometres) hosts several Natura2000 sites (for more than 90 square kilometres), but few actions have been carried out to convert this important asset in a concrete contribution to nature based tourism development. The surveys, on the one hand, show that visitors' expectations are related not only to food, but also to nature and landscape. On the other hand, instead, Semi Structured Interviews and Focus Groups highlight that local community have scarce knowledge of the potentialities of the territory and of visitors' demand. Natura2000 sites, for instance, result completely unknown to tourism entrepreneurs and local associations, even they both consider "natural resources" a strength point of the territory. These first results have the potentiality to represent a useful tool for local decision makers in the perspective of promoting development and tourism. They suggest, actually, the importance to involve local communities in information and dissemination processes, to foster bottom-up strategies and to increase the value of the natural resources in a local development perspective.
Citazione: Marandola D , Raschi A (2009). Natural resources and sustainable development in a local perspective: The case study of Natura2000 sites in a rural area of Italian Apennines . 7° Congresso Nazionale SISEF, Isernia – Pesche (IS), 29 Set – 03 Ott 2009, Contributo no. #c7.7.38


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Journal Articles
Improving ASL fingerspelling comprehension in L2 learners with explicit phonetic instruction. Language Teaching Research. pp. 1-19. DOI: 10.1177/1362168818886988
Establishment of a phonemic clustering system for American Sign Language. Sign Language Studies. Volume 14, Number 1, Fall 2013
Kinship in Mongolian Sign Language. Sign Language Studies. Volume 11, Number 4, Summer 2011, pp. 594-605
Conference Proceedings
Exploring factors that contribute to successful fingerspelling comprehension. In Proceedings from Lexicon at Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC `14); 1905-1910. Reykjavík, Iceland, May 2014
Linking an ID-gloss database of ASL with child language corpora. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon at Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC `12); 57-62. Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012
Sources of variation in Mongolian Sign Language. In Proceedings from SALSA XX: Languages and Societies in Contact Lawrence, Aimee, Stout, Tammi and Chatterjee, Anindita (eds). Volume 55, pp. 33-42
Book Reviews
Formational Units in Sign Languages, Rachel Channon & Harry van der Hulst (eds). Sign Language & Linguistics. Volume 15, Number 2, 2013, pp. 271-276.
Extended Abstracts
Calculating Frequency of Occurrence of ASL Handshapes In LSA 2013 Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts, pp. 1-4
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Three Reasons Behind Everyone's Quest for Google's AMP'd Invent
With Google's mobile responsiveness project rolling out barely 15 months ago; it has in the same vein announced how big it's Mobile Amplified Pages Project would follow. Google insists the newly launched amplified pages project was inspired by the patronage and love the world has for small computing mobile devices like smartphones, tablets and pads etc.
Not only was Google's Mobile Amplified Pages targeted at mobile users who would consistently want to surf the internet, search websites, conduct researches and virtually wants to do everything online from their mobile phones. But also to assist business owners, websites/blog owners get their contents for read on the devices of mobile users with ease.
Amplified pages is undoubtedly a project to reshape and bridge the gap between website contents and mobile targeted audience view. For instance; some of the reasons while it still bags the support of millions of users includes:
Search time reduced
Undoubtedly, users and web surfers will now find it easier to browse and perform other important activities over the internet without having to wait for minutes for the websites to load. Prior to the coming of Google's mobile responsiveness algorithm project on April 2015. Google had carefully pointed out those few challenges mobile device users undergo in the quest to seek information from online. Citing slow search and load time as principal causes.
Now with the Amplified pages, load time will even be shortened by 5 to 6 times as it is on the responsive pages. Thus a faster browsing experience.
Result Filter
Search results will likewise be bolstered in in the same hand. With Google amplified pages, search results will not only perform an intensive digging before serving the relevant results. But will intuitively serve results for only pages that has been amplified to give mobile searchers a fast, smart and quick experience. Results are not likely going to change in any case, but would be based on a website's readiness to serve its contents to mobile audiences.
Saves Data and Promotes Businesses
The amplified Google's invent wouldn't have gone a long way without taking into consideration, the business or entrepreneurial aspect of it. For business owners who are focused on reaching out online and social media customers, the amplified pages would do a lot more to help your website contents served to the right audience. For example, it helps increase website content readership. A lot of website visitors are actually obsessed with fast browsing and none wants to sit for minutes waiting for you website to finish loading in its heftiness. They'd simply jump to the next available option and may never come back. But with the amplified platform, you're sure of each website click you get.


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I am all for bowling as a fun way to spend an evening, especially with gambling afterwards, because that is how I earn my paycheck. But at the same time, I am firmly of the opinion that when you come bowling, you should leave your ukelele at home.
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On my granny's garden, there is an old table. Lichens and moss are growing all over it. The table looks kind of abandoned, and that's what gives it a mysterious (and magical) look. Some time ago, I drew magical symbols on it (pentacle, heptagram and triquetra). Today, I've created a triquetra symbol out of herbs. I used echinacea, sage and lavender. There's a picture below.
It's nothing special, I just wanted to show you this garden altar and maybe give you an idea to make your own. 🙂


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Every week I compile a list of the noteworthy news (Buzz) from my week of reading. I like to balance news with commentary, but it has to be really valuable for my readers (Brilliance). This week I'm adding Blogging to the mix. We'll see if it becomes a permanent addition, but this week it was necessary. The links that follow are to sites and blogs that I read on a regular basis - consider them recommended reading for you too. Or you can just come back here each week for a taste of what stuck out to me.
It's been a while, so I'm glad to be back sharing the latest and greatest of the world of social media with you. There's a lot that's gone on in the last few weeks that the B&B has been on hiatus, but I'm going to stick to the past week. Not that it wasn't important. I just don't want this post to take 6 hours to write or read. :)
Pinterest announced something this week that many are excited about - the ability to choose your board cover. However, I think this has limited usefulness. The fact is, most people will visit your Pinterest profile once. The day they go to follow your board(s). That doesn't mean it's not nice. Being able to customize is just one more way you can reinforce your visual identity.
If you're looking to learn more about how your Pinterest efforts are being received, you might want to check out Pinerly. It's an analytics tool specifically for Pinterest.
By far, the biggest news this week is Facebook's acquisition of Instagram for the bargain basement price of $1 billion. There's been a bit of backlash over the purchase, with some Instagram users vowing they'll delete their accounts over privacy concerns. This stems from the fact that Facebook will have access to a wealth of location data stored on Instagram with photos. The supposed backlash didn't stop Instagram's growth - it became the #1 app on the app store for the first time after the announcement. I usually avoid mentioning this type of story here because it's not at the stage where it's going to affect user experience or impact engagement. But it's certainly good to be aware.
Google+ rolled out a new interface design that's really quite nice!* There are giant avatars now and a cover photo. It's quite a different feel than what you see with Facebook. Many would argue (and I can't disagree) that the Google+ single column beats out Facebook's double-column timeline. It is easier to read. Have you checked it out yet?
*It's interesting to note that there's been talk here and there this week that people are seeing larger profile pictures on Facebook Timeline. This is clearly a direct response to the Google+ design update. It seems intermittent so far - I've been looking all week and only spotted it for the first time on a live page just today. However, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if we're about to see our first change to the Timeline design. Oh yes, just six weeks after we all scrambled to publish our timelines, we'll have to make sure the new profile picture size doesn't mess it all up again.
I rarely add Seth Godin's posts to the Brilliance section, because that just wouldn't be fair. When is there not some brilliance in them? I couldn't not add this one. It gives a framework for taking in criticism/complaints and deciding how seriously to take them. When you're using social media, those things are inevitable. Putting the proper perspective on them can save so much stress. Besides, as my dad would say, "Everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if they're wrong."
"If you want to be charismatic, your mind can't wander while you're one-on-one with a customer or colleague." Do you struggle with this? I have and I'm going to check out this book. As a business owner, I know I owe it to my clients in particular to be fully present when I'm with them.
Ask anyone why it's important for businesses and organizations to participate in social media and invariably "being where your customer/client/members are" is on the list. It's become necessary for social media to be part of any comprehensive marketing/public relations/communications strategy. So, it's noteworthy when an organization decides to pull the plug on their social media channels.
I added this section this week for one reason. Mitch Joel wrote about his process and challenged others to follow suit. The result has been a very interesting peek into the minds of many of my favorite bloggers. Perhaps sometime Lara and I will share our individual blogging process with you as well.
Chris Penn was the first blogger I saw respond to Mitch's challenge. Chris' blog always teaches me new ways to look at data. The man is brilliant. Reading about his process was a treat.
Mark Schaefer's was the next post I got to see. I'm a little in awe of the fact that Mark writes everything for the week on Sundays. I barely have time to put this post together lately!
I also need to learn how to be more like Jason Falls and write, self-edit and cue my posts in 30 minutes. I've spent as long as 6 hours on a blog post. If I counted the reading time I spend each week for this post, we'd be up to double-digits.
I'll keep an eye out for more of these posts over the coming week. I hope it's a good one for you!


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The Relationship Between Process and Manufacturing Plant Performance: a Goal Programming Data Envelopement Analysis Approach
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There are three interrelated objectives in a manufacturing facility that are important for the planning and control of a technology comprised of serial production processes. These objectives include plant effectiveness, process effectiveness and a production line-balance between consecutive stages. Plant effectiveness is the degree to which the facility meets its pre-determined plant-level targets. Process effectiveness is the degree to which the production processes meets their pre-determined resource (input) and output targets. The concept of balance exemplifies the degree to which the serial processes exhibit bottlenecks. In this research, all the above three objectives are modeled using a serial-manufacturing goal-programming (SMGP) approach. The results obtained from the SMGP approach are used in conjunction with the traditional DEA analysis to evaluate the overall performance of the plant. This approach is applied to a printed circuit board manufacturing firm for which data has been accumulated for a two-year period.
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text: High School Library March 01, 2009 in Bigger Than Yesterday My mother, who is very anxious for Jackson to start looking at colleges, was very happy to see this image today. One time last week when Stephie and I were at her desk, Jackson came over and said, "hi". The fact that is the only thing Jackson has said in English so far seems moot.