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Lower Long-term Maintenance Costs With Regular Inspections
If you don't know something is broken, how can you fix it? Your property can be better maintained and cost you less in repairs expenses with reliable property management. McKinney rental units are taken care of when owners conduct regular inspections.
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Your Specialized Property Management team can take that weight of property inspections and maintenance off your shoulders. We offer a routine property care inspection assessments to all our clients. Routine checks also increase tenant's trust in you as a landlord. Proactive attention goes a long way in setting the tone for taking care of your home. When you actively seek to maintain your renters will want to take better care of it themselves.
Don't just wait until move-in or move-out day to examine and inspect your rental property. Inspections can cover maintenance needs, seasonal preparations for your rental, lease compliance checks. Consider how these maintenance issues could get out of hand if left unchecked:
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After the recent imprisonment of a former HBOS manager and five others for their roles in a £245m fraud case that stole from hundreds of small businesses, many will be wondering whether they have grounds to claim for these bankers' financial negligence.
The sentences, ranging from three and a half years up to 15 years, were evidence of the serious misconduct that led to many individuals and business being defrauded by a series of loan scams. A number of these instances have been referred to as 'some of the largest and most complex conspiracy fraud cases in recent memory', causing hundreds of millions of pounds worth of losses to the bank's business customers and shareholders.
The trial determined that two of the bank's employees had imposed a firm of so-called turnaround consultants onto many of their small business clients in exchange for a series of cash bribes that were then spent on lavish holidays, parties and other purchases. It was found that these 'consultants' then manipulated their relationship with the bank to pressure hundreds of small business owners into transferring extortionate fees, and in some cases even shares in their companies.
In the words of the presiding judge, these small business owners were left "cheated, defeated and penniless" due to the financial negligence of the convicted individuals. The aftermath of this case has seen MPs speak out and claim that Lloyd's Bank (who did not own HBOS at the time of the offences but now have ownership) should pay compensation to the victims of these fraud cases.
For anyone who feels that they may have been a victim of financial (or other) losses due to the financial negligence committed in this case, or similar cases, it's important to find a negligence Solicitor you can trust. Been Let Down have experience in a range of fraud and financial negligence cases, including banker's negligence, with our experienced legal team featuring those with an extensive understanding and insight into financial law.
There have clearly been many people left with financial losses due to the criminal actions of those recently convicted in this HBOS fraud case. If you believe that you may have been one of the victims in this instance, please get in touch to discuss how Been Let Down can provide you with key legal advice and support.
For a confidential chat that is both free and without obligation, you can contact us today. We will ensure that our Senior Solicitor Mr. Stephen Edwards and his legal team provide you with the initial advice to help you explore whether a potential claim for financial negligence is the best course of action.
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Kansas' Bill Self wants Andrew Wiggins, Joel Embiid to go 1-2 in NBA Draft
The NBA Draft has been a months-long, three-man derby for No. 1. There have been myriad private workouts, and super-secret team interviews, and all the other methods teams use to gather pre-draft intel.
In the end, the Cleveland Cavaliers will have three choices when they select No. 1 overall on June 26: Former Kansas stars Joel Embiid and Andrew Wiggins and Duke phenom Jabari Parker.
Kansas coach Bill Self is admittedly biased, of course, but he's hoping that Embiid, the emerging 7-foot center, and Wiggins, the lithe small forward, go No. 1 and No. 2 — in some order.
"We're selfish," Self said on Tuesday, during a summer Big 12 coaches teleconference. "We want Joel or Andrew to obviously go No. 1."
Self believes that both Embiid and Wiggins can transform into franchise players and perennial All-Stars at the next level. He mentions Embiid's advanced footwork and that Wiggins' skill-set has yet to catch up with his explosive athleticism. He believes both players' games can translate to the NBA game. Just don't ask Self who the Cavaliers should take No. 1.
"I'll be emotional," Self said, "but not such that I'm hoping one guy goes ahead of the other."
During Tuesday's teleconference, Self endorsed both Embiid and Wiggins' pro potential, beginning with Embiid:
"He's got a terrific frame," Self said. "He's a very, very, very good athlete and he's a sponge. And the fact that he's been playing three years and is this advanced is quite remarkable when you really look at the big scheme of things, especially for a big man."
Self, meanwhile, believes Wiggins' game could be even better suited to the more wide-open style in the NBA.
"The game will be open, they'll be less help-side defense," Self said. "It's a little bit harder for teams to load up and basically have one-and-a-half guys guarding the ball in the NBA game. And that's certainly what's happened to him in college."
Self was also asked to compare Wiggins and Parker, the former Duke star who displayed an advanced offensive skillset during his one season of college basketball. Wiggins and Parker both profile as small forwards, but Self sees them as different players at the next level.
"To me, Jabari is much more of an interior player than Andrew, and Andrew is much more of a perimeter player than Jabari," Self said. "They're different."
In simple terms, Self sees Parker as a three-man who can slide down and play the four, while Wiggins is a three-man that could develop into a two.
"Andrew's skillset hasn't caught up to his athletic ability," Self said. "And when it does, and I know he's working hard on it, it's going to set up his game so much better."
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At Ruan Songnaree Restaurant on Sukhumvit 33, each dish on their impressive menu is bursting with those big-hitting sweet, sour and spicy flavours which are all so synonymous with Thai cuisine. Just the way it should be. In the more touristy areas of Bangkok, you'll often find that some places tend to hold back a bit when it comes to seasoning, in a somewhat misguided effort to appease foreign palates. However, at this modern yet authentic Thai restaurant, this is far from the case.
Inside the spacious Ruan Songnaree Restaurant you'll find a tranquil and inviting ambiance; a stark contrast to the hectic Sukhumvit Road just a few metres' walk away. Mood lighting, soothing background music and friendly service all contribute to the pleasant atmosphere. As well as a delivering a successfully authentic (and totally delicious) menu, the restaurant's décor also helps to create that traditional, old-age Siamese feel, with its various Thai art installations, silk tablecloths and warm wooden tones throughout. Ruan Songnaree translates to the house of two elegant ladies, so no prizes for guessing who the co-owners are.
- Damnoen Saduak Floating Market Tour
- Banyan Tree's Apsara Dinner Cruise
- Vertigo & Moon Bar Rooftop Dining
- Ayutthaya Ancient Capital Tour with River Cruise
- Shangri-La Hotel's Buffet Dinner Cruise
- Bridge on the River Kwai & Historic Railway Tour
- Siam Niramit Dinner Show
- Calypso Bangkok Cabaret Show
- Chao Phraya River Dinner Cruise
- Grand Palace & Emerald Buddha Half-Day Tour
Their Tom Yam Kung (250 baht), a quintessential dish of any Thai dinner party, is extravagantly served in a clay pot over a lit flame. This shrimp, tomato and mushroom soup spares no punches with its initial hit of sourness from the lemongrass and satisfying after kick from its fiery chilies. Their signature Red Chicken Curry, which comes served inside a slice of pumpkin, is as spectacular in sight as it is in taste. A creamy and zesty sauce made from Thai chili paste compliments the soft pumpkin and tender chicken particularly well. The moreish Fried Noodles with Seafood or Raad-Na Talay (220 baht) comes with fresh shrimp and cashew nuts- a great alternative if you're looking for a more extravagant side dish than just plain rice.
For the seafood lovers, be brave and try the melt-in-the-mouth Raw Shrimps with Fish Sauce, or Goong Shae Nam Pla. This increasingly popular Thai appertiser is a little reminiscent of Japanese Sashimi – just the zing here comes from the chili rather than wasabi. The fresh Sea Bass is another highlight, and is served either steamed or fried. We tried the latter, which came with a delightful sweet and sticky tamarind sauce.
The authentic Thai theme at Ruan Songnaree is continued into the desserts with many tried-and-tested classics. Coconut-based sweets are synonymous with Thai cuisine and a great example of this is the sago and black bean in coconut cream for 120 baht. It's a cool, sweet dessert that has jelly-like sago and slightly harder black beans offering pleasing textures, with coconut cream delivering a lasting sweetness. For something even more exotic go for the black sesame dumpling which is packed with bitter sesame, presented in a mouth-tingling ginger tea. It is a rare find in Bangkok and our personal favourite (120 baht).
The small outside terrace is also a great place to sit and watch the world go by as you sip a cocktail, or try one of the many varieties of wines or beers which the restaurant stocks. There's enough tables and chairs for couples or solo-diners too, meaning that you can go alfresco if you don't mind the lack of air-conditioning.
For those looking to give their taste-buds a good work out all whilst enjoying a pleasant, laid back atmosphere, Ruan Songnaree presents a great option. Find it situated about 30 metres up Sukhumvit Soi 33 on the left hand side; it's easy to spot with its large sign and traditional Thai-style roof and exterior décor. The restaurant is easily accessible from Phrom Phong BTS Skytain Station or from Sukhumvit MRT Station (about 10 minutes).
Ruan Songnaree
- Opening Hours: 11:00 – midnight, 7-days a week
- Address: Sukhumvit Soi 33 7/4-5, Bangkok, Thailand
- Tel: +66 (0)2 662 2804
- Website: http://www.ruansongnareebangkok.com/


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In the vein of confessing things I haven't kept up, I haven't gotten back on the horse with the WiiFit. I usually remember as I'm getting ready for bed, well after I should be in bed. It's also very miss (rather than hit) for brushing my teeth and using mouth wash at night before bed. I am getting better at it now that Ben is staying with me.
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FDN Selfcare Reviews
About FDN Selfcare
FDN (Functional Diagnostic Nutrition) Self Care combines functional medicine with "self-test diagnostic labs and a customized health plan" to "take the guess work out of what's going wrong in your body." In other words, you and your personal Health Coach will act as "health detectives" to "discover the root cause and a long-term solution."
FDN Self care was founded by Reed Davis, who bills himself as "one of the most successful and experienced clinicians in the world today." The company is based out of Poway, CA, and is not listed with the Better Business Bureau. However, the program's URL was recently registered in December 2013, though the company's primary URL (functionaldiagnosticnutrition.com), which is tailored more toward Health Coaches, was originally registered in 2008. With this in mind, we were unable to locate any online customer reviews during our research.
How FDN Self Care Works
According to the FDN Self Care website, countless people in America are struggling with endemic problems such as various aches and pains, weight control, energy loss, and more, and finding answers to these problems is often a frustrating process. Because of this, FDN Self Care was developed to bridge the gap "between clinical nutrition and functional medicine," and to help patients rebuild their health instead of becoming stuck in an endless cycle of diagnosing and treating symptoms.
FDN Self Care helps you take control of five personalized components of your health:
- Diet
- Rest
- Exercise
- Supplements
- Stress Reduction
While the company claims that the process isn't necessarily easy, they claim that it does work, and that it occurs over four steps:
- Self Lab Tests – You'll be required to take your own samples and submit them for lab analysis. Once this is complete, the results will be sent to your Health Coach.
- Interpretation Session – You and your Health Coach will go over your results, and read deeper to find out what they mean.
- Health Plan – Your Health Coach will then combine these results, along with your history and goals, to formulate a custom health plan. As such, the company claims to treat the person, not the test results.
- Lifestyle Integration – All that's left to do is implement your plan, which will give you the opportunity to "transform your health."
FDN Self Care claims that by undergoing this "detective work," they can help you get to the root cause of your problems, and help "you rebuild your health and have a great quality of life."
FDN Self Care Pricing & Refund Policy
FDN Self Care claims to offer a free consultation with a certified FDN Health Coach. However, beyond stating that the program isn't free, no additional pricing information is provided.
In order to begin your consultation, you'll need to enter your name, email address, and phone number on company's website, and also fill out a short 12-question questionnaire. While no phone number is listed on the FDN Self Care website, the primary number for Functional Diagnostic Nutrition is 858-842-3266.
- Claims to help you break free from an endless cycle of diagnosis and treating only symptoms.
- Claims to bridge the gap "between clinical nutrition and functional medicine."
- Free consultation.
- Appears to be a very new company.
- Does not provide detailed information about the program on their website.
- No online customer reviews.
Bottom Line:
Before you sign up for FDN Self Care, keep in mind that this segment of the company appears to be very new (URL registered December 2013), and that no online reviews were available as of the time of this writing.
In addition, the company's website provides very little in-depth information about some very important questions, such as:
- How does the program work?
- How will you achieve wellness?
- What's included in the plan?
- How successful has the program been for other patients?
- How much does the program cost?
In our experience, it's typically not a good sign when a company is purposely vague about the product or service they offer. This, in combination with the lack of customer reviews, would lead us to recommend caution when dealing with FDN Self Care.
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FDN worked for me!
I participated in the FDN self-care program 3 years ago. It literally gave me my life back. I was in and out of the hospital with unexplained stomach pain. hospitalized twice symptoms that looked like an infection but no actual diagnosis.
I spoke with many many doctors who gave me no answers. I was in chronic pain and full of anxiety. My kids needed me, I couldn't work and I hated how small my world had become.
I signed up for FDN and it changed my life. It gave me HOPE. Over a 6 month period of completing tests I addressed hormonal imbalances that my reg doctor said were normal, I cut out foods that were triggering responses. I completed a yeast and parasite cleanse and took what seemed like a million supplements to heal my gut.
At the 3 month mark I was noticeably better and by the 6-month mark I felt like I could finally get back to my life. I continued the program on my own for about a year and 2 years later I am working and living life without the burden of chronic pain.
During the last phone conversation with my coach, I literally broke down in tears because I couldn't believe that this person who had used their gifts and talents would no longer be in my life. She was amazing.
In regards to cost, to do all the tests was about $800 and then there was a fee that paid for 6 months of coaching, I think that was $1500.
By the end, including supplements, I think I spent about $3,000 that year.It was worth every penny!
Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend


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Best Back-to-School Gadgets For Kids Of All Ages
Published On August 20, 2015 | Electronics
School is back in session and it's time to gear up. School supplies have changed with the times and you'll need to set up your kid for success this school year. Shopping for highlighters and backpacks are boring, so check out these back-to-school gadgets that will help kids of all ages.
Elementary School
- Gaming Monitor– Reward your stubborn student for doing their homework with the Alienware OptX AW2210 gaming monitor. This takes Minecraft to a whole new level.
- Laptop- By the upper grades, students will need access to a computer to do school work. Some assignments need students to log onto a site and watch a lesson. You'll want to shop for a slender and lightweight laptop with an all day battery like the MacBook Air.
Middle School
- Alarm Clock- There is nothing worse than trying to wake up a sleeping teen. The iHome Kineta K2 is a Bluetooth speaker alarm will play their favorite music wirelessly from their phone. Give yourself a break and let OMI do the morning wake up call.
- Earphones- On their downtime your child will want to pop in their headphones and listen to some tunes on their way to their next class. Check out the Shure SE115 noise-canceling earphones that will give them the break from the real world they need.
- Backpack- I know, it doesn't seem as exciting to shop for backpacks, but you'll be glad you did when you buy the Airbac backpack. These backpacks have a built-in cushion that rests against the lower back and gives your child the support they need while taking a load off their shoulders.
High School
- Data Storage- Your student will need a few flash drives this school year. Whether they have one for all of their classes or a small flash drive for each subject, this is a must-have device.
- Activity Tracker- Help your child improve their mile time or make sure they're getting in enough exercise during the day with a Fitbit Wireless Activity Tracker. This device will sync all of their data to their Fitbit account.
- SanDisk Connect Stick– Storage devices are a must in college since one of the most frustrating scenarios for your student is to have their laptop crash in the middle of writing a 20-page paper. A storage device also makes it easier you're your student to share their portion of the group work with team mates. Users can wirelessly increase their storage and up to 8 people can stream/share at once.
- Smartpen- Taking notes can be a pain when a professor is zooming through the material. The Livescribe 2 GB Echo Smartpen can transfer handwritten notes to a computer. It also records sound via built-in microphones. Students can set up a recorder while the professor is lecturing so they can take notes at a leisurely pace and ensure they aren't missing anything.
Regardless of what grade your children is in, are they geared up this school year?
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SharePoint 2019 is on the horizon. It's slated to be released in the second half of 2018. Although SharePoint 2016 proved a capable business platform, there is always room for improvement. Let's take a quick look at the features expected in the next iteration of SharePoint.
Microsoft lists the Key Features as:
- Modern Sites, Pages, Lists and Libraries
- Team News
- SharePoint Home
- Communication Sites
- OneDrive Sync Client
- Improved hybrid support and scenarios
- New developer options
- Improved support for business process with PowerApps and Flow
User Interface Improvements
Let's face it. Native SharePoint, though functional, is quite ugly and dated. SharePoint 2019 hopes to rectify this by bringing in UI features from SharePoint online. There is a new home screen where you can find all relevant sites and news in a single location. SharePoint 2019 will have Modern Team and Communication Sites. This is a big improvement over SharePoint 2016. I've been a user of Office 365 for some time, and although it admittedly took me a little while to get used to the Modern UI, I have found the modern Lists and Libraries sleeker and more functional. One of the more interesting features is a Modern Sharing Experience.
Administration Improvements
This is the subject I'm most interested in. Users have either at this point adopted, or chosen not to, SharePoint. Some begrudgingly dive deep in their Enterprise's SharePoint content only when necessary. Others enjoy the sharing, collaborative features SharePoint provides. So, really, administration is key. How easy is it to maintain? What new features, if any, will make SharePoint more manageable.
SMTP authentication when sending emails. The only thing to say about this is: it's about time. If you've ever had to work with relays, you'll understand what I mean.
Workflow Manager 2019. This replaces, obviously Workflow Manager 1.0. So even though PowerApps and Flow Integration are finally happening, Microsoft understands SharePoint workflows are probably here for good… at least for the next couple versions of SharePoint. I'm not really sure what specific features Workflow Manager 2019 brings, but suffice to say based off previous experience it will be a hybrid of a few really useful features, a lot of "why is this here" and some frustration when thinking "why did they remove this feature?"
PowerApps and Flow Integration. There will be deeper integration to allow for process automation using cloud technologies to connect with on-premise data in SharePoint 2019. This is another feature that – if successfully implemented – will make it easier to create more complex automation. The only downside is all the SharePoint Designer Workflow people will have to learn something new.
Hybrid Features
Despite Microsoft's best efforts, not all enterprises have moved to the cloud. Conceding this fact one of the major improvements with SharePoint 2019 will be native support for hybrid configurations. Some specific features related to hybrid are: a new SharePoint Hybrid status bar, OneDrive in Office 365 by Default, and "Modern Search." I have yet to read anything from Microsoft what specifically modern search means, but I'm hoping it resolves many issues of search being wonky in current hybrid environments.
I feel the UI improvements will make this seem like a big leap for SharePoint. Ultimately, I don't think SharePoint 2016 brought that much more than SharePoint 2013. Of course, that could be a result of where I've worked, and what implementations I've seen firsthand. But the "modern look" should give SharePoint on-premise a well needed makeover. I'm not so sure the infrastructure features add too much value to most SharePoint implementations. The hybrid feature may be useful. But hybrid is something that has been promised previously, and all former attempts fell short of the mark (my opinion only). Hopefully they get this right, from both an administrative perspective and a user perspective. SharePoint 2019 should please most users with the improved UI. Administrators will probably be fine either way. It just depends on how the migration goes…
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In addition to the 20 questions you should ask at the beginning of a relationship, below are 7 important ways to set the tone when you're in a fresh relationship with someone.
1. A clear "Yes"
Most of us never say yes. We just go along with what is happening and don't speak up unless something bothers us, letting our partner make all kinds of assumptions that have varying degrees of accuracy. One of our friends was telling us a story about the first time his parents met – his mom brought his dad a bottle of Rosé and they shared it with their meal. He assumed she liked Rosé because she brought it so the next time they got together, he gave her a bottle as a gift. They kept bringing each other bottles of Rosé for 10 years until his dad finally said, "you know what? I have to tell you something, I don't like Rosé." "Neither do I," she said. They had a good laugh, and that was that.
Your yes matters, even if it just to basic questions like, "do you want me to drive?" It's important to be clear about your preferences and honest about what you're capable of. Say yes when you mean it, and when you say it, feel it. Saying yes to something can be the best decision we ever make, as can saying no.
2. A clear "No"
You can't say yes if you don't know how to say no. We must be able to say no in our relationships in order to fully say yes. "No" can be a difficult word for many people. Some fear that if they say no, their partner may never ask again, get upset and leave, or check out from the relationship. Some people will have a reaction to hearing the word no, and this is not your fault. To fully be in relationship, we have to be fully ourselves. That involves checking in with ourselves and saying no to things that do not feel right for us at the time.
To prevent your partner from shutting down after a "no," you might also say "yes" to something else, as in, while you let them know that whatever is happening is not your thing, you'd greatly enjoy some other activity. That way, you give them options to keep an experience going while providing them with a better understanding of what you like and don't like.
3. Eating and sleeping patterns
When you start to spend a lot of time with someone, you can lose yourself in their eating patterns and sleep schedule. Usually that's how others can tell when you're getting serious about someone – your weight has changed or you're half asleep at work. It is a really good idea from the get-go to share how much sleep you need and when you wake up as well as how often you need to eat and what foods are good for your body. If your blood sugar gets low and then you get hangry (hungry and angry), you are no use to anyone. It is not your partner's responsibility to keep you fed, unless they love to cook and are happy to make it a priority. It is your responsibility to speak up early before you get too hungry or say when you've had enough. Relationships are maintainable only when your bodily needs and habits are compatible with your partner's.
4. How you like your body to be touched
Each body is different from the next. Learning to communicate how you like touch can be one of the most important ways to get what you want out of your sexual experiences. Do you like to be touched lightly with nails or fingertips, or more firmly with whole hands, grabbing in certain areas, or some combination of different pressures? Maybe you want to be pinched in certain areas, or held, licked, bitten, hair pulled, or caressed.
5. How you want support around your family
Some people are very close with their families, while others are quite distant. Some people really like to hear feedback of how you should deal with your mom, your sister, or your crazy aunt. Other people just want to share how it makes them feel and they do not want feedback. Communicating how you want support around your family matters can save a lot strife and negative feelings.
6. How much alone time you need
It is very normal that one partner needs more alone time than the other partner. Does this mean you are not a fit for each other, maybe. If one person needs to be alone 5 days of the week, and the other feels too disconnected, this relationship might not work out. This is a good thing to communicate about in the beginning of the relationship, how much alone time do you need? This might also change over time, so be aware of your needs.
7. What your time commitment to work is
Letting your partner know how much time and support you need around your work is crucial to everyday happiness. If you are on a track for a promotion and are going to be working long hours, share that with your partner and ask for the support you need around the hard work you are putting in. If you struggle with relationships with co-workers and need time after work to decompress, make sure that you are both in agreement over how long you need to wind down. If you are always sharing the struggles of work with your partner, check in and see if that is ok with them or they feel burdened. Sometimes you might feel overwhelmed and you need to rant to someone other than your partner. This is not because what happened for you was not important, it's just that sometimes people can only hear how terrible the person in the cubicle next to you is so many times.
– Keeley & Nikita
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Faith quotes and Sayings from Faith #FaithQuotes, Quotations about Faith – Top 150 Inspirational Faith quotes confidence, trust, hope by 1quotes.org
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. Author Unknown
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. Josh Billings
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. Joel Osteen
Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer. Author Unknown
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. John Donne
Faith is reason grown courageous. Sherwood Eddy
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Khalil Gibran
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. Iyanla Vanzant
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. Plato
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. E.M. Forster
Faith is spiritualized imagination. Henry Ward Beecher
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J.R.R. Tolkien
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. David S. Muzzey
Faith is a passionate intuition. William Wordsworth
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen. Ralph Marston
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ. Ignatius of Antioch
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. Paul Tillich
Man, I just feel blessed… I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me. Sean Combs
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. Martin Luther
To me faith means not worrying. John Dewey
At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. Robert Brault,
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. Ramona C. Carroll
Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. Madeleine L'Engle
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. Author Unknown
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. Voltaire
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. Khalil Gibran
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Alan Watts
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. George Herbert
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well — even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. B.C. Forbes
A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. Father Mulcahy
Faith makes things possible, not easy. Author Unknown
Doubts are leaks which sink the ship of Faith. James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. Oswald Chambers
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. Martin Luther
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. John Paul Jones
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. T. D. Jakes
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. Oswald Chambers
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Rick Warren
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. Robert Brault
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. Robert Brault
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. Victor Hugo
Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. W. Ralph Ward
There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today. Lois Chartrand
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. Mahalia Jackson
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Khalil Gibran
I live and love in God's peculiar light. Michelangelo
The principle part of faith is patience. George MacDonald
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal
Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies. Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith. Margot Asquith
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. Robert Brault
Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. Lillian Smith
Sunbeams out of the clouds
Faith out of all my doubt.
Terri Guillemets
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. Susan L. Taylor
God never made a promise that was too good to be true. Dwight L. Moody
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. Javier Bardem
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi
Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. Billy Graham
Faith is Hope with a holier name, hope that knows neither deceit nor death. Ah, how wisely do you speak of the philosophy of belief! It is, indeed, the telescope through which the stars grow large upon our gaze. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. Emmanuel
Faith is the quiet cousin of courage. Judith Hanson Lasater
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal
To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. Robert Brault
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. William Shakespeare
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. Miguel de Unamuno
The love of heaven makes one heavenly. William Shakespeare
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. William James
Faith: not wanting to know what is true. Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. Carter Lindberg
Weave in faith and God will find the thread. Author Unknown
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. Mahalia Jackson
Faith is not about everything turning out okay, faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out. Author Unknown
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. Michael Eric Dyson
A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. Joseph Smith, Jr.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. Mahatma Gandhi
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. Gregory Peck
He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you. Charles Stanley
Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. Paula Abdul
Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you. C.H. Spurgeon
Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. Colette Baron-Reid
Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. Author Unknown
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. Robert Brault
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. Voltaire
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. Tertullian
Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us – even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will. Joseph B. Wirthlin


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On 6:00 AM by Nikki @ NikSnacks in cake, Carrots, easy, healthy, heart healthy, snack, soynut butter 1 comment
Carrot cake is classic; With raisins or without; With coconut or without; with cream cheese frosting or without... all of the options can make a cake lover indecisive. Or really indulgent. So, I've just solved your problem.
|Only 5 ingredients away from cake
I've been seeing energy bites or balls posted on other blogs and I didn't pay much attention a first, until I realized the *I* could make some that taste just like another popular trend, cake balls. I don't understand cake balls but I understand cake and all things yummy. And these definitely qualify. They also qualify as other things as well.
I remember watching my grandma make cakes during the holiday season and I was always intrigued by how she pulled everything together. My favorite part was watching grandma grate carrots and fold them in the spice-filled batter. Sometimes she'd add pineapple or applesauce. She'd use the handheld mixer to cream the butter and sugar and after that, I kinda lost interest. I made sure to visit the kitchen again after the cake was cooled, ready for frosting. I didn't and still don't care for raisins, nuts or coconut in my carrot cake but as long as it's full of dark spices and topped with some kind of sugar, I'm happy. I think you'll be happy with these bites, too.
|Oop! I ate one!
No baking, not much mixing, no cooling--these are non-cook's dream.
My Carrot Cake Energy Bites taste JUST LIKE carrot cake but are chockfull of ingredients made to give you energy. Oats, hemp seeds (flax seeds work just as well), dates, carrots and sunflower seed butter round out these little bundles of joy. Roll them in coconut to finish the beginning of a beautiful snack-ship.
Carrot Cake Energy Bites
Yield 24 bites
5 dates, pitted and chopped
1 cup rolled oats
2 Tablespoons hemp seeds
2 Tablespoons sunflower seed butter
1/4 cup shredded coconut, plus extra for rolling (optional)
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
pinch of salt
1 cup carrots, grated
1. In a large bowl, mix together the oats and hemp seed.
2. Stir in the sunflower butter, 1/4 cup coconut (if using), cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt until well combined. Stir in the grated carrots.
3. Using 2 tablespoons (packed) of the mixture for each bite, roll the mixture into bite-sized balls. Use a small cookie scoop makes this part easier. Spray your hands with cooking spray to prevent the mixture from sticking to your hands.
4. In a shallow bowl fill one with with flaked coconut (if using). Roll the balls in coconut flakes.
5. Place the carrot cake bites on a plate or storage container, cover and refrigerate for 1 hour. Serve.
NOTE: Store the remaining carrot cake bites in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to 1 week.
1 comments:
- Holly @ Woman Tribune said...
I love carrot cake, and this is such a unique take on that flavor. Plus, who couldn't use some serious good-for-you energy!
- April 9, 2016 at 1:41 PM
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- Nikki Miller-Ka is a professional food blogger and food critic based in Winston-Salem. She writes and bites about local and regional restaurant trends, food organizations, food producers and everything culinary on her blog, Nik Snacks (niksnacksonline.com) and her bimonthly Casual Dining column in the Greensboro News & Record. On the weekends, she is a tour guide Taste Carolina Gourmet Food Tours. Miller-Ka was classically trained at Le Cordon Bleu College Of Culinary Arts in Miami and holds degrees in English from East Carolina University. Formerly, she's been a judge for the James Beard Foundation, featured in Southern Living Magazine & New York Magazine, worked an editorial assistant, news reporter and guest blogger for various publications and outlets in the Southeast. She has worked as a catering chef, a pastry chef, a butcher, a baker, and a biscuit-maker. Presently, she resides in Winston-Salem and a proud member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Winston-Salem Jaycees and Girl Scouts of the USA.


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I truly had no idea how dark this year has felt for me. Oh, I've moved along with each crisis, celebration and life event. And yet–I somehow stepped out of a sacred space, immersed more and more into the physical reality that swirled around me. The details don't matter because my focus here is really the journey back into myself. My beloved soul companion Joss Burnel articulated it perfectly in saying that we each have times in our lives where our lives demand much of us and we exist in a different space. But when we come back into the quiet, the serenity, we feel before us a newness of ourselves and an opportunity in which to determine what pieces of our former life we will take forward. There is an energy of discovery in this new way of being that Life Herself has ushered us into.
The whispers are returning, sweet friends. Those heart whispers that allow me to close my eyes and feel the Grace move through–those whispers that indeed allow each one of us to do that in our own unique ways. It's not that we've been disconnected, only that for a period of time our attention and energy were needed elsewhere. It's the ebb and Flow of our lives, though, isn't it? It certainly has been for mine. I'm not sure I can recall a period of time in which so much has occurred in such a short space in my life. And I must admit I did find myself feeling it was absurd for all of this to be in MY life!? How on earth did this come to be? I don't live this way. All those silly, false truths floated their way to the surface. And in reflection I see that I am human as are you–we each have these times in our lives and we are each given the gifts that reveal themselves as the dark veils begin to lift.
Our Sacred Circle gathering today was centered around the following passage from Circle of Stones. Upon reading it, I could sense the relevance to other times in my life, but it wasn't until I sat in the beautiful, sacred circle of women I love that I really felt the truth of the darkness in my life so recently. It didn't the look the way one might expect. I remembered to find consciousness through it. But that's very different from moving into a deeply sacred, soulfully present space. THAT is the space I so love and find myself longing for. And that, my dear friends is the space we share here together. Thank you for bringing your presence into this extraordinary virtual sanctuary that is ours. We revel in the light of Divine Presence, and isn't that, in truth, the space from which even the darkness originates?
From today's event:
"How might your life have been different, if, as a young woman, there had been a place for you, a place where you could go to be among women… a place for you when you had feelings of darkness? And, if there had been another woman, somewhat older, to be with you in your darkness, to be with you until you spoke… spoke out your pain and anger and sorrow.
And, if you had spoken until you had understood the sense of your feelings, how they reflected your own nature, your own deepest nature, crying out of the darkness, struggling to be heard.
And, what if, after that, every time you had feelings of darkness, you knew that the woman would come to be with you? And would sit quietly by as you went into your darkness to listen to your feelings and bring them to birth… So that, over the years, companioned by the woman, you learned to no longer fear your darkness, but to trust it… to trust it as the place where you could meet your own deepest nature and give it voice.
How might your life be different if you could trust your darkness… could trust your own darkness?" ~ Circle of Stones by Judith Duerk


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In 2016 I practiced a new memory keeping ritual that included capturing one second snippets of everyday life and pulling them together with the 1 Second Everyday app. I shared more about it here. More on my WHOLE 2016 year very soon! Excited to share of what came of this very thoughtful and purposeful exercise.
Today I wanted to share a favorite project that I tried that came from this idea to snip together similar small segments of our holiday season this past Christmas. I love this because I get to include more of the moments that seem to fly by with the one second a day approach (moments that are sort of gone in the blink of an eye). This means MORE gingerbread making, more tree decorating, more fireside snuggles. When one snippet doesn't suffice, here's a mini video dedicated to one whole season:
Christmas this year felt as though it came and went pretty quickly. The minute the season began I knew that that would be the feeling all season long and so I tried to extra carefully hold onto the little bits of that seasonal spirit as they came with each special tradition. I know this will happen with lots of holidays over lots of years and this was one more way to slow it down just a teeny tiny bit.
I created this video in collaboration with Pine Mountain because lately we have been using their firelogs in our non-working gas fireplace. More on that to come as well because it has brought back the ritual of fireside family time in a huge way and it's been so wonderful (everything about fireplace fires is pretty awesome, right?). We have been regularly lighting an amazingly fresh smelling balsam firelog from December and now well into January to bring our living room back to the helm of family hang time/game time/snuggle time. Our 1930s fireplace (which we had to convert to just a pretty decoration) is none the wiser and we are accomplishing a safe, practical alternative solution to create some wonderful winter magic.
Here's the skinny on firelogs: Pine Mountain firelogs are built to create a cozy atmosphere and offer all the benefits of a natural wood-burning fire without the cons (burns much cleaner, produces much less off matter and carbon monoxide that ends up in your home/chimney) yet they're still crafted from real American hardwoods, are fast and easy to light and smell amazing. I especially love the American Home Balsam Fir firelog because it's basically a Yankee Candle and smells amazing even when just hanging out by the fireplace in a pretty stack. We choose them because they are the alternative to turning on our gas fireplace which is, in our 1930s home, a serious renovation project and endeavor. It's a 'one day!' project for us right now! I don't often share sponsored posts these days but this was such a natural solution for us to share since we have independently been engaging with our favorite firelogs for the entire winter season and hadn't had an opportunity to follow up on that birch faux screen we added four years ago. I am so happy to share on behalf of this company! Cheers and happy winter, everyone!
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New Winter Hours
Starting today, our new opening hours are changing from noon to 3pm. With the daily hours being:
Loony's Brew
Happy Halloween!!!
Yeah, even though the main Saturday party is over, the true Halloween is still a day away.
If in the proper spirits, come on down for a continued Halloween themed event on Tuesday night.
Making mistakes or so called learning experiences are never fun, the truth hurts, it's ugly, welcome to life, but as we've learned from the phoenix, dying is also a rebirth and can be celebrated for if nothing else, continued survival.
The year to date with the brewery so far has had some amazing successes and tragic failures. Inconsistent would probably be an appropriate description and for anyone that has experienced a less than stellar beer, I deeply apologize. A recap:
The Successes:
The Failures:
We've been wounded, scarred, bruised, but not dead and if anything, will be channeling the energy of these failures to making beers better than ever over winter. Or, as the legend John Belushi, Bluto, declared:
Loony's Brew
As Elton once said, Saturday, Saturday... Yeah, while the official Halloween or Samhain day isn't until Tuesday (we'll do something then too), about a billion trillion songs have declared any real party happens on Saturday, who are we to say different.
Halloween Party & Contest
The once a year chance where everyone can pretend to be someone else at the same time, live or dead no matter. At 10pm we'll have a contest where the top three most insane or well done costumes will get a prize, these being:
See you this Saturday!
Loony's Brew
This Saturday we get a real treat with Lucky Dogs from Big Falls will be gracing the stage, starting at 8pm. As this is the first time they've played here, we're excited for the opportunity and should be a great time.
See you this Saturday!
Loony's Brew
Finally, the new stout is ready, state approved, on tap, and tastes great! A rich, complex stout with a range of caramel malts with hints of chocolate and coffee.
Come down to try it out, pints are $4 and a 64 oz growler refill is $10.
Loony's Brew
If combined, it could be a pint crawl in zombie park? Maybe, probably not... Check out the details of both events below, with Pints for the Park on Thursday and the Zombie Crawl on Saturday.
Pints for the Park
While I've never attended one of these before, we're honored that it's at Loony's Brew this year and hope everyone can make it out, have a good time, and help raise funds for the VNPA in the process.
While the event is free, please register beforehand. Loony's Brew will be also be donating a percentage of the event proceeds to the Voyageurs National Park Association.
The 2017 Zombie Community Pub Crawl Reload
Following the Pints for the Park on Thursday, on Saturday Loony's Brew will be participating in the 2017 Zombie Crawl, with the zombies officially moving through from 5:30-6:30pm, but can come earlier if space is needed to put on your proper zombie ware.
Different prizes will be given out at each location for the best dressed, but to qualify you need to register by getting a wristband for $2 at the Rainy Lake Grill, from which proceeds will be donated to community based Cards for Cancer.
Enjoy the rest of the week and hope to see you this weekend!
November 2019


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Tell us how you really feel.
Imagine opening up the fridge when you come to pick up your share and discover a bunch of other delicious products inside.
What other dairy products would you like to see available locally? What dairy products are you buying now that you would prefer made with our certified organic grassfed milk? Now's your chance to let it all out. This is meant to be a fun exercise; we have our own favorites but want to hear from you, too! If you don't see your favorite listed among the choices, write it in.
Disclaimer: The choices in this poll reflect our taste buds and not necessarily any particular aptitude or infrastructure.


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"Be Useful!" said the Queen of Twitter.
Laura Fitton, Marketing Evangelist at Hubspot shared this bit of advice during our last stop at the inbound marketing firm in Cambridge, MA.
Fitton, also known as @Pistachio, authored Twitter for Dummies and has influenced thought leaders like Guy Kawasaki, Seth Gowdin, Penelope Trunk and others on the benefits of using twitter.
Here are some snippets of wisdom from @Pistachio on tweeting and inbound marketing strategies:
"Influence (was) attract attention to yourself. Influence (is) provide attention and value to others."
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Calling all BBB participants and teacher mentors. Ms. Cahusac will be hosting a special – and optional – BBB Club Meeting next Wednesday, Jan. 18th at lunch in room 806.
A few people have been asking Ms. Cahusac for help with the challenges. Usually this battle is a 100% independent student activity, meaning that you should try your best to follow the instructions in the challenges and when we need help, you are expected to figure out your own methods of problem-solving and finding solutions to what seems puzzling. Both Ms. Cahusac and your mentor teachers are not supposed to help because this is all about what you can do on your own. This is also important to make challenges fair to all participants.
So for this special BBB Club Meeting, I am asking all participants and teacher mentors who are available to please consider attending. There will be some fun activities and maybe even a few surprises. You will need your computer. You might have lots of questions or you might have all the answers – either way we want to see you there! This will be a time for you to help each other and maybe even work on new blogging skills as a group.
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"Everything should be dismantled, the floors should be ripped out, everything here should be removed, everything!" Demyanenko, 78, said in despair because there is no one to help her repair her home.
The village of Nikishyne is just southeast of Debaltseve, a strategic rail hub that Russia-backed rebels pounded with artillery for weeks before finally driving out the Ukrainian government troops in February of last year. The barrage damaged or destroyed nearly every building, and hundreds were killed.
But while work is underway to repair the homes and big apartment buildings in Debaltseve, which had a pre-war population of 25,000, there has been little or no money to spare for the villages around it.
"There is no work being done in the villages," said Alexander Kovalenko, deputy minister of construction and housing in the separatist government of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
"First of all, it is because with the financial resources available to us now, we are unable to carry out work everywhere simultaneously," he told The Associated Press. "We understand that the scale of destruction is much greater than what we are able to cope with having the amount of humanitarian aid we receive now."
Some of the money comes in the form of charitable donations from individuals, "but it is not much," Kovalenko said. "As you understand, primarily it is humanitarian aid from the Russian federation."
A cease-fire agreement signed in Minsk on Feb. 12 during the battle for Debaltseve eventually reduced the fighting, which has now killed more than 9,000 people since April 2014. But skirmishes have continued and there has been little progress in bringing about a political settlement.
Tensions remain over the final status of the rebel Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which now rely heavily on financial support from Russia.
In Debaltseve, workers are clearing out the rubble and rebuilding apartment buildings and private homes. Residents line up for packages of food and other goods, some of it clearly marked as coming from the Russian emergency services.
In nearby villages, however, little is being done.
Svetlana Marchenko, a nurse at the Nikishyne clinic, points to water dripping from the ceiling and flooding the floor.
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on December 1st, 2013 at 10:53:19 AM
f*ck Robert Rodriguez.
on December 1st, 2013 at 11:28:13 AM
@stapes the man should be praisied
on December 1st, 2013 at 11:34:51 AM
Machete 2 was a disaster!
on December 1st, 2013 at 12:09:11 PM
What stapes said. Genius
on December 1st, 2013 at 12:11:29 PM
didnt someone post this two days ago?
on December 1st, 2013 at 1:39:09 PM
anybody remember this?
so did Harvey, till he saw what his hot wife looked like and how much his hookers cost
on December 1st, 2013 at 4:36:35 PM
Methinks most people don't understand both Machete and Machete Kills are pure unabashed satire and not meant as anything more. Take 'em or leave 'em fare.
on December 1st, 2013 at 5:36:45 PM
So is everything Rodriguez does. Which my point.
on December 1st, 2013 at 5:39:22 PM
Well, except for Sin City, which was modestly hailed by fans and critics alike, and even the Spy Kids films are popular enough to warrant several sequels.
At least he's not Paul W. S Anderson, who puts his talentless whore wife into every film like Rob Zombie.
on December 1st, 2013 at 5:47:28 PM
"So is everything Rodriguez does. Which my point."
Yeah, but if you're negative and apathetic enough you, or anyone else for that matter, can say the same thing about any director.
"Kubrick. Meh. f*ck him. I can take him or leave him."
Anyway, looking forward to Sin City 2, which is a film Rob needs to put himself back in the "serious filmmaker" category after years of masturbating to silly, satirical films like Machete and Spy Kids. He's been lazy far too long.
on December 1st, 2013 at 7:33:08 PM
I just think the guy's a no talent hack is all.
on December 1st, 2013 at 7:38:05 PM
But he made Sin City, which took more talent than most people possess.
Try finding one guy on the street who could make Sin City. Just one.
Compared to the great directors, no. Compared to the hacks, like Ratner and Anderson, yes.
It's all relative.
on December 1st, 2013 at 7:38:40 PM
And Desperado.
Forgot that gem.
on December 1st, 2013 at 7:39:14 PM
My bother says Robert Rodriguez has more talent than anyone on here, that's for sure.
on December 1st, 2013 at 7:40:57 PM
Not a fan of Rob myself, just saying.
on December 1st, 2013 at 8:44:06 PM
better be on HBO.
on December 1st, 2013 at 9:18:36 PM
I grew up reading sin city, I give Rodriguez props for efforts, sin city wouldnt have been adapted without him. I must have sin city at least five times in theaters. But in the end, these days at least, I just find the film overrated. The only part I enjoy mow is the brief scene directed by Tarantino.
on December 2nd, 2013 at 1:16:11 AM
Saw Robert Rodriguez speak a couple months ago. At the very least you have to appreciate the doors he's opened for different genres and actors. George Clooney got his first significant cinematic push with From Dusk Till Dawn. Rodriguez helped show studios not every action film needs a bloated budget. Sin City is probably the only flick filmed with CGI backdrops that I don't immediately disdain.
He definitely needs to get more creative and ambitious again though. Its been a while.
on December 2nd, 2013 at 3:48:21 AM
Desperado never gets old, It's just a really fun movie.
on December 2nd, 2013 at 6:26:31 AM
Don't forget From Dusk Til Dawn. A classic. Rodriguez I feel just makes movies he wants to make and I can respect that. But it's true that it's important he reminds the true fans of film that he has real 'talent' for film-making.
On a side note "The Mist" was, IMO, a seriously underrated film and I am curious how they would make a TV Series work... Never read the book so I guess my opinion on the movie is more or less "uneducated" in relation to the source material. Regardless if anyone is privy to the actual story how would a TV Series work??
on December 3rd, 2013 at 9:05:53 PM
Id argue quite vigorously that sin city was more of a product of frank millers involvement than RR. I too also feel RR is a hack with limited talent that gets blown out of proportion.
Id compare him to the guy that rides the bench on a high powered NBA team. Guys like jordan and byrd run the show and score all the points and the little guy just fills in for brief moments to allow them to catch his breath.
RR greatly benifets from the talent around him. I honestly believe any director with moderate experience and talent could have made sin city with millers help
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Estimate the total industry wide sales of lipstick in the U.S.
Estimate the total industry wide sales of lipstick in the U.S.
[Pop US] * [% Female] * [% use makeup] * [% use lipstick] * [# of lipsticks they own] * [1/avg lifetime before finished or stop using] * [$ per lipstick]
300m people * 50% female * about 60% would use make up * 70% use lipstick * average of 3 lipsticks they own * 1/1 per year as last long * $10 = ~ 1.9B USD per year in sales for consumers.
We can then extrapolate and add in another ~10-20% to account for business use such as make up artists, perhaps males, etc. Giving us between 2-2.5B USD per year.
If too low, perhaps the price I set per piece is wrong, but something you can check with interviewer.
Hey, Thanks for sharing. I agree that we have to account for % that use makeup and the addition of another 10 to 20% in the end. However, don't you think that 3 lipsticks per woman is actually low and that if used continually it would take less than a year to finish a lipstick? — Sahil on Sep 22, 2017 (edited)
This is how I solved it.
Clarifying questions:
( NO OF UNITS SOLD ANNUALLY IS PROBLEMATIC - will cover that later )
US population: 320 million
Average Life expectancy : 80 million
I believe as per the question we are suppose to find the market size in terms of number of units sold. ( not annually; however I will mention the method to solve it annually )
No of woman in USA belonging to every age group = 320 million / ( 80 * 2) = 2 million woman in every age group.
Assuming that only women of the age 16 and above use make up we have a 130 million woman who use make up.
Age Average No of lipsticks / woman Group Population No of Lipsticks
16 to 25 10 2 million * 10 2 million*10*10
26 to 35 8 2 million * 10 2 million*10*6
36 to 60 6 2 million * 25 2 million*25*6
61 to 80 4 2 million * 20 2 millino*20*4
Total of the last Column = 820 million lipsticks.
Now if we were trying to find the annual number of lipsticks sold in the US then things get tricky.
If a person just uses one lipstick then the answer is simple :
Total market size / time it takes to finish the lipstick
However in reality women have multiple lipstick options and they dont constantly use one lipstick. Therefore, the time it takes to finish one lipstick increases significantly. Assuming that women apply the different color of lipsticks they own one after the other on different days , that every single women purchased her entire collection on the same day ( that is all lipsticks owned by a single women have the same starting point) , that all lipsticks are of the same size and that it takes roughly 3 months to finish one lipstick. We can estimate how long it would take one women to finish her entire collection.
Once we know that for each group we can then calculate the weighted average of the time taken. This way we will have just one timeline for the entire female population. Then we use
No of lipsticks sold per year =
Total market share / weighted average time taken to finish the lipstick.
NOTE: I am not sure of my final Solution. These are just my estimates.
If you find a mistake in my solution or would liek to further discuss the solutuion please do let me know.
1. How many people use lipsticks?
a) Women + Men
# of women = 320 M * 50% = 160 M
# of men = 320 M * 50% = 160 M
b) Women + Men who use lipsticks
160 M * 80% + 160 M * 10% = 144 M (here I assume 80% of US women and 10% of men use lipsticks)
2. How many lipsticks do these people buy?
I divide lipstick consumers into three tiers
a) 40% buy 3 lipsticks per year
b) 40% buy 2 lipsticks per year
c) 20% buy 1 lipstic per year
***alternatively, it is porbably also fine to just assume the average number of lipsticks bought per person per year (as a side note, people do not necessarily wait till one lipstick to use up to buy new ones so no need to consider this factor)
3. How much does one lipstick cost?
assume average cost per lipstick is $20 dollars
Therefore, the sale of lipsticks in the US per year equals
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