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H is for Hair because I love to dye my hair fun crazy colors. Hunny kinda hates it, but he loves me the way I am, so that's fine. I spend a lot of time on my hair. I read and do everything I can to keep my hair healthy, I play with color so I do not need to Bleach to often, I deep condition at least once a week, I only shampoo my hair 2 times a week and when I do wash, I wash with cold water. Its a lot of work, but anyone that does this sort of thing will tell you, its worth it. The best part is, once I don't feel like doing it anymore, I can just undo it. Its just hair.
Here is 5 reasons why you should dye your hair fun colors:
- Every time I look in the mirror I smile cause my colorful hair makes me happy.
- It gives you a reason to take care of your hair and yourself a little better.
- Showers are hilarious. Pink was the best. It looked like a pink-splosion in my shower when I washed it! So fun.
- It gives you an inner confidence you didn't know you had. Blue hair? Gotta own that shit.
- When you do something you have always wanted to do, it makes you happy. Its a selfish happy that no one can take away from you. Your not hurting anyone, your not disappointing anyone, your just being you and you are wonderful.
|Currently. Pink with Violet and Blue
Punky Color: Flamigo Pink on new Bleached roots and highlighted the Pink over Turquoise, which made violet.
|Punky Color Turquoise.
Dyed right over Peach-ish Rose Gold
|Punky Color Flamigo Pink with Pravana Violet
(This was done on fully bleached hair)
|Sparks Rose Gold
Turned out Peach-ish / Rose Gold ish
This was done on fully bleached hair
|Galaxy Hair.
Punky Color Atlantic Blue
Pravana Violet
Directly over Manic Panic Voodoo Blue.
|Manic Panic Voodoo Blue
|Blonde and Manic Panic Voodoo Blue
(Right after my wedding. Done by a Pro)
|Bleach Blonde Bride
Done by a Pro.
What I use:
L'Oreal Quick Blue Powder Bleach (Other then roots, I only bleach once every 3 or 4 months, maybe less.)
Shea Moister Intensive Care Hair Masque (I use this as my daily conditioner and deep conditioner)
TRESemme Hair Spray (basically my heat protector as well has hair spray)
Still trying to find a good frizz reducer and shiny stuff. I have the Kevin Murphy Young Again and Not Your Mothers Frizz Reducer right now, cause I got a great price on them, but eh.


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The Hay Festival Bogotá39 list picks the best writers under 40
Like the New Yorker's "20 Under 40," the Hay Festival Bogotá39 list is announced every ten years and is considered a signal of writers to watch in the decade to come. Other honorees include Valeria Luiselli, Samanta Schweblin, and Emiliano Monge, whose novel The Arid Sky will be published by Restless in 2018. The authors will be showcased in a new Hay Festival anthology, Bogotá39-2017, to be published by OneWorld in the UK.
Read more in Publishing Perspectives.
Fonseca was interviewed about his selection by the New York Times Español
"The beauty of these lists, which are always anarchic, is that they force us to imagine secret connections and networks of feeling. I'm certain that this new Bogotá 39 selection will force us to rethink our writing and configure a constellation of poetic similarities and differences among the selections. Instead of the grandiloquent idea of a literary generation, I'd like to think that the list will create a generational will."
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"There's something fundamentally unsettling about Carlos Fonseca's debut novel, Colonel Lágrimas.… Maybe it's the intriguing silence of the Colonel's self-exile in the French Pyrenees; the whiteness of the mornings outside his windows; or the over-the-shoulder, ghostly omniscience of the narrator, who steals glances at the Colonel's project.… I have an inkling the Colonel might not really be crazy at all—if he is, it's only because of his lunacy that he's stumbled onto something monumental."
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Selecting the right colours is not as simple as it may seem. Indeed, the colour that improves productivity depends on the type of work that each person undertakes:
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On Tuesday 5 September 2017, Maddocks hosted a presentation and panel discussion by the Grattan Institute focusing on the topical issue of energy prices – particularly, the fact that prices are rising and mechanisms that can be employed to reduce them. The backdrop for the discussion are the Finkel Review as well as recent reviews of both gas and electricity prices in Victoria and Australia-wide, including recent reviews and studies by each of our panel members – Tony Wood (Energy Program Director, Grattan Institute), Professor John Thwaites (Member of the bipartisan Independent Panel's review into Electricity and Gas retail markets in Victoria and former Deputy Premier of Victoria) and Rosemary Sinclair (CEO, Energy Consumers Australia). The panel discussion was facilitated by Robert Gregory (Partner, Maddocks Lawyers).
Some of the key points emerging from the discussion were:
- Trends in electricity prices: Despite the introduction of competitive retail electricity markets and a downward trend in electricity demand, retail electricity prices are rising. They are outstripping network and wholesale costs and are much higher than retail electricity prices around the world.
- Accessibility of cheaper electricity: Lower cost energy options may be available to consumers but these options are difficult to access, particularly for vulnerable households, due to information complexity, asymmetries and lack of transparency.
- Impact of competition: Competition in electricity retail markets has not delivered lower prices for consumers, nor innovative solutions. Competition has forced retailers to invest heavily in marketing to compete and these costs have been passed on to consumers. Consumers would prefer to have more control over energy consumption and costs but their ability to do so is compromised by low confidence in the market driven, at least in part, by information barriers.
- "Essential" nature of energy: The supply of energy is an essential service, which places consumers in a vulnerable position compared to the supply of other non-essential services.
- Regulatory response: In some jurisdictions around the world, governments have "re-regulated" retail markets to address the failure of competition to deliver real benefits for consumers but it is important to be wary of unintended consequences associated with regulation. The risk of unintended consequences is a particular concern in Australia given the broad range of regulatory changes to the gas and electricity markets that have recently been made or are in the pipeline.
- Role for retailers: Retailers could potentially assume a greater role as customer agents to demand and drive cost reductions in the supply chain and deliver the benefits of competition through lower prices and innovative offers that are valued by customers.
The focus for the discussion was the interest of energy consumers and users – both large and small, in the short and long terms. How this should be achieved is a live issue given the complexity surrounding the regulation and operation of our energy markets and the diversity of retail sector participants and their consumers. The presentations and panel discussion resulted in a number of insights, including that if the industry at all levels, and in particular retailers, don't start limiting cost increases and driving cost reductions, government is likely to act to impose further regulation.


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Wall's cramps could get him more rest
Another instance of cramping briefly hindered freshman star John Wall, prompting Kentucky Coach John Calipari to question whether he's over-using his point guard.
"I may have rode him too long in this game trying to get by," Calipari said after UK beat Louisville 71-62 on Saturday.
Wall played 36 minutes, which is only slightly more than his average of 33.3 going into the game. That ranked fourth among all Southeastern Conference players and the most by any freshman.
Calipari said he may strategically substitute Wall out of games prior to television timeouts to maximize his rest time.
Wall said he never had cramps as a high school player, but he did while playing on the AAU circuit. To prevent cramping, he could only think to drink more fluid and eat more bananas before games.
"I'm using a lot of energy, sweating a lot," he said. "I'm playing to a level I thought I could never play at."
Patterson's slam dink
With UK ahead 60-48, Patrick Patterson cruised for a breakaway dunk. One problem: He got the ball no higher than the rim.
Louisville retrieved the loose ball and quickly closed within seven.
Since UK prevailed, Patterson could laugh about his slam dink.
Asked when he knew he'd miss the dunk, Patterson said, "I went up and as soon as the ball hit the rim, I went, 'Uh oh.'"
Patterson said he knew then he'd never live that one down.
Early disappointment
The Louisville party came to Rupp Arena disappointed because there would be no room for its cheerleaders at Saturday's game.
UK spokesman DeWayne Peevy said that UK does not admit visiting teams' cheerleaders to regular-season games.
Besides simply following policy, UK also needed the space, Peevy said.
So, the charming custom of the two rivals' cheerleaders locking arms as the band plays My Old Kentucky Home was not to be.
The cheerleaders swaying together to the state's anthem has added a charming note to many UK-U of L games. The unity of cheerleaders diluted the highly-charged partisanship.
U of L officials noted that UK cheerleaders could have been admitted to any UK-U of L game in Freedom Hall. UK chose not to take its cheerleaders to Freedom Hall last season, Peevy noted.
Until last season, the two cheerleading squads had always united at the UK-U of L game, Louisville spokesman Kenny Klein said.
Harris hits clincher
Ramon Harris applied the clincher. With UK ahead 49-45, he hit a three-pointer from the left corner with 6:12 left.
That shot — from a 15.4-percent shooter from three-point range this season — began an 11-3 run that spelled victory.
Calipari said he had to urge Harris to shoot.
"I told him I have all the confidence in the world (in him)," the UK coach said. "'Shoot the three if it's there. I'm telling you, I watch you every day make them.'
"We needed that one."
'Two-headed monster'
DeMarcus Cousins and Patterson combined for 35 points and 22 rebounds. Cousins led the way with 18 points and 18 rebounds.
That production helped UK enjoy a 40-24 advantage in points from the paint.
"Those guys are like a two-headed monster," said U of L center Terrence Jennings. "You go and box out one, and the other guy is there. They make it very hard to defend inside."
Among the prospects expected to attend the game were Amir Williams, a 6-9 forward from Detroit in the class of 2011 and J.P. Tokoto, a 6-5 player from Menomonee Falls, Wisc., in the class of 2012, according to Scout.com. Rivals.com rates Williams at No. 52 in his class and Tokoto No. 4.
Patterson's 17 points moved him past UK assistant strength coach Scott Padgett (1,252) and Arkansas Coach John Pelphrey (1,257) on the school's scoring list. Patterson has 1,267 points. ... UK came into the game ranked 26th nationally in three-point production (8.6 per game). The Cards made only five of 17.


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Thanks to "good old-fashioned cop shoe leather," four people are in custody in connection with a series of robberies in Fresno and Clovis, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Friday.
In a joint press conference, Mims and Capt. Drew Bessinger, acting Clovis police chief, applauded the efforts of their investigators, specifically sheriff's detective David Barile and Clovis detective Kory Westbury.
Three of the suspects were identified as Cornelio Valencia, 23, Luis Mendez, 19, and Julio Cesar Ramos, 18, all of Fresno. They have been charged with three counts each of robbery, and one count each of burglary. They are being held in the Fresno County Jail.
A fourth suspect, a 17-year-old girl who is accused of using credit cards stolen in one of the robberies to buy food and gasoline, has been charged with burglary, forgery, unlawful use of credit cards and possession of stolen property.
The three men are believed responsible for the robbery of a woman waiting in a drive-through line at a McDonald's restaurant on Kings Canyon Road in southeast Fresno on Aug. 8, and the robbery of another woman about five minutes later on the 4800 block of East Amherst Avenue.
In both cases, investigators said, the victims were robbed of their purses and other property after they were threatened with a gun.
Shortly after the Aug. 8 robberies, investigators said, credit cards taken from one of the victims were used at a Clovis store.
Bessinger said the three men are also believed responsible for the robbery of a woman on Aug. 14 at a church function on the 200 block of Bullard Avenue in Clovis.
In that incident, the victim was with a group of people inside the Central Baptist Church when she was accosted in a hallway by a man who threatened her with a gun and took her purse. The purse contained credit cards, identification, a digital camera, a cell phone and other property.
After a two-month investigation that included interviewing witnesses, checking surveillance tapes and other leads, arrest warrants and search warrants were obtained for the three men, investigators said.
Valencia, an Army reservist and former Army ranger with an honorable discharge, was arrested Oct. 13 at the Presidio military base in Monterey.
Mendez, Ramos and the 17-year-old girl were arrested Tuesday at their respective homes.
Mims said two replica semiautomatic handguns believed to have been used in the robberies have been recovered.
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Christianity / Orientations / Roman Catholic / Eastern Rite /
Armenian Catholic Church
In Lebanon their centre is in Beirut, but the church is spread all over the central parts of the country. In Syria the majority lives in Aleppo. In Iraq they are centred in Baghdad. The Iranian centre is in Esfahan.
The Armenian Catholic Church has retained its identity distinct from the Roman Catholic Church, and the liturgy is performed in Classical Armenian. Today, the leader of the church, the Patriarch of the Catholic Armenians and Katholikos of Cilicia resides in Beirut, Lebanon.
There are 3 archdioceses: Aleppo (Syria), Baghdad (Iraq) and Istanbul (Turkey); 3 dioceses: Alexandria (Egypt), Esfahan (Iran) and Qamishle (Syria).


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Baihao Yinzhen is the Chinese name for this tea, which comes from the form in which the tea leaves are twisted into a thin needle with white hairs.
This is the most exclusive white tea available, that features only the first spring buds of the tea plant. Our silver needle is hand harvested from the unique Fujian Fusing Da Hao-breed.
Use 1gr/100ml to 80º C water, infuse for five minutes.


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Jorge López Ghisoli
More than 25 years as a creative in Advertising, building brands and making consumers love those brands and their products.
EMBA in Creative Leadership at Berlin School / Steinbeis University. Currently writing my final Thesis, focused in the potential impact of the loss of Handwritting in the Creative Processes.
LOLA (Lowe+Partners) Co-Founder, Partner & Executive Creative Director until 2013.
Founder of ENTRETANTO. An experimental company, a lab to develop own and part-owned products or sevices that will shape a new business model based on relationships between brands and the creative industries:
"My expertise is only about connecting brands with consumer hearts. I don't care about the channel, the format, the length or the vehicle. I can create value for a brand. For years, advertising agencies had been paid for their service, not for the value they can create."
ENTRETANTO is already developing some owned/part owned brands:
Like ZUPPA, an "affordable premium" fast food restaurant focused on SOUPS, launched in september 2013. CONSENTIDO Extra Virgin Olive Oil, recently launched with a limited edition online pre-sell of freshly squeezed unfiltered Olive Oil. Rated with an outstanding 7,8/8 and featured in the main gourmet sites and blogs, Consentido reached its objectives 3 weeks after its launching date. DOMINGO VERMUT, SIMPLE GIN, BERRYPICKERS and PITMAN are the result of our Partnership with TWC, a small beverages distribution company.
As a branding and communication consultancy, clients include /M, EQUIPO MALPARTIDA, FOODOO, or AOPE, ESTRELLA FOUNDATION, INSALUS MINERAL WATER, BODEGAS CANOPY, JORGE DREXLER - WARNER MUSIC.
Born and raised in Argentina, Jorge started his career in advertising in the city of Buenos Aires. In 1990 he decided to move to Spain when he was only 23.
During his first phase in Spain, Jorge joined some of the most award winning agencies at that time: Slogan, Contrapunto, Valmorisco and BDDP.
After developing his skills as an art director in those agencies, Jorge was ready to lead an agency. And that is when he co-founded the Madrid office of one of the most prestigious and recognized agencies in Spain: SCPF.
Three years later he joined Cathedral as a partner and Executive Creative Director. He then moved to Euro RSCG as Executive Creative Director and Bassat Ogilvy also as Executive Creative Director.
In January 2007 he co-founded LOLA, (an affiliate of LOWE & Partners Worldwide) a Madrid based agency running global clients such as UNILEVER Ice Creams, OralCare, Deodorants along with local clients like Schweppes group, Heineken group, or Tele5 (TV channel).
In 2009 Jorge became a member of the LOWE WorldWide Creative Council and he has also held the positions of Global Creative Director of Unilever OralCare Brands (Signal, Pepsodent, Zhong Hua, AIM, Mentadent, P/S, CloseUp) and Global Creative Director of Cornetto Ice Cream.
He's been part of many panels and juries in different Ad Festivals. In 2010 we was part of the Press Advertising Jury at Cannes Festival. During all these years, the work he developed for brands such as BMW, IKEA, LAND ROVER, TDH or MOTHERCARE has been recognized and awarded in many different festivals: 12 lions at Cannes, along with other local and international awards including OneShow, El Sol Grand Prix, FIAP Grand Prix, Global EFFIE, etc.
He is a teacher in Advertising at the MIAMI AD SCHOOL and he teaches Calligraphy both to adults and kids. The latter, at Montessori Madrid School under his Caligrafilistico introductory course.
About LOLA
Along with Fernando Vega Olmos, Cristina Abril and Elvio Sánchez, he founded LOLA, a rebirth of LOWE Madrid, once a big office, (circa 150 employees) but in a deep crisis those days. The 4 Partners and the 5 others remaining from the old Lowe started changing name, building and, most important, the focus and ambition.
LOLA was created to become a creative Hub, to manage global Unilever brands, helping LOWE network to deliver High Quality Creative product. In the first 18 months LOLA generated more than 24 Million euros in revenue for the network, winning the Global Ice Cream Business (Magnum, Cornetto and OOH brands), and Soups (KNORR). Regionally, LOLA also won Oral Care (Signal/Pepsodent) and a significant part of the DEO's business (Rexona/Sure)


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|Bell'O International Offers New Home Theater Seating
|Wednesday, 23 August 2006
International, a designer and manufacturer of A/V furniture, provides
the next wave of sophistication for your media room with the ultimate
in home theater seating: the HTS-100. With a contemporary and highly
stylized look, the HTS-100 puts the finishing, luxury touch on the home
theater experience. Most notably, it adds functionality to chic form
via its ability to interlock with other pieces in the Bell'O home
theater furniture collection to create an entire home theater sofa.
The Bell'O HTS-100 chair is designed with the customer's viewing
experience as the primary point of construction. The headrest is
engineered to place the head at the optimal viewing position and
provide the consumer with additional neck support. Created with the
highest quality, hand-selected leather, the HTS-100 is supple to the
touch, yet durable to withstand the normal wear and tear. Additionally,
the chair comes equipped with a compact recline mechanism that requires
only 3'' of space for a full recline, as well as stainless steel cup
holders for full functionality.
To maximize comfort for the whole family, the HTS-100 offers buyers the option to connect to other Bell'O pieces to create a home theater sofa. Reclining and upright chairs, wedge connectors, and under-seat connectors are all available to achieve the look and feel of a mini movie theater in your home.
"Bell'O is constantly looking to enhance the experience of home theater," states Marc Sculler, President of Bell'O International. "The new, chic HTS-100 is the latest addition that provides consumers with the luxury of high style and comfort in one piece of furniture."
This reclining chair retails for $999.
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Six Months and Counting...
It's been awhile since we've updated you all on Hand Lettering Co. since it's become our full-time work! We can hardly believe it's been six months since we made the jump and may God receive all the glory for bringing us this far! While there are times of anxiety at the unknown, it has overall been such a great blessing. The primary one has been the opportunity to spend time together as a family. Even though much of the time is spent "working," being able to do it together has brought with it such great joy. Don't get us wrong, there are also times of complete chaos, but the joys prevail! :)
We have also loved the opportunity this change has afforded to invest so much more time and attention into Hand Lettering Co. Before, there was such an overload of all the various things on our minds between two totally different jobs, so being able to focus only on our own business has been a blast. Ideas we've had for a long time are finally coming closer to fruition, and our wheels are constantly spinning with ways to better our products, packaging, and overall mission.
On that note, keep an eye out these next few months as we have some stuff in the pipeline that we are really excited about!
We can't thank you all enough for your encouragement, support, and prayers. You help make this hobby turned family business our dream job!


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welcome to
Rogue One'S kennel
Miniature Schnauzer kennel from Finland. Hope you enjoy my dogs as much as I do.
Miniature Schnauzer kennel from Finland. Hope you enjoy my dogs as much as I do.
I am Niina Rovio. I had my first miniature schnauzer in 2003. She was black, her name was Salli and she was love of my life. A handful, but so dear. My second mini was also black, he was Toby, import from kennel Rezlark from Czech.
Since then I have been involved in showing, breeding, grooming, and especially loving this wonderful breed. I have competed in agility and rally obedience with my dogs. My own kennel name I applied just recently in 2018. Many have asked about "rogue". I tell you the story later, but prefer the one side of the meaning.
Rogue One's is and will be small kennel, breeding at home. There will hopefully be one black and silver litter per year.
If you are interested in having Rogue One's puppy, please contact me.
ILONA is my fun and crazy rally obedience and agility dog. At the moment we are practising new moves for the Rally Champion Class. We try to keep the training and tricks fun like the whole Rally is.
Here is one video of our Open Class competition.
Welcome to Rogue One's kennel. Here are my dogs.


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Lakeridge Winery Half Marathon, 10K & 5K at Lakeridge Winery in Clermont,, FL on January 22, 2017.
Register Now!
When: Sunday, January 22, 2017
Where: Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards, 19239 N. US HWY 27, Clermont, FL 34715
Distances: Half Marathon, 10K & 5K
Course: All distances start and finish with a run through the vineyards. The 5K & 10K courses are out and back on paved and clay roads/trails. The half marathon course is an out and back, partial loop course. The first mile, and the final half mile of the course will take place on the vineyard grounds along a grass trail. All courses will be USATF certified. Click here to view the preliminary course map in PDF format. **Please note the course contains dirt trails. Strollers are not allowed**
Ammenities: Great course, Health & Athlete Fitness Expo, post race party with live entertainment, Unisex Long-Sleeve shirts, finisher medals for all three races, and more. Half marathon finishers also receive a commemorative wine glass. For more information about the Health & Athlete Fitness Expo, please contact email@example.com.
Awards: Awards presented to the top three overall finishers, top masters finisher, and the top three finishers in each age division, male and female, in all three races.
Lodging: Mission Inn Resort and Club, just 15 minutes from the LakeRidge Winery, has extended runners a special rate of $149.00 +tax (plus $16.00 resort fee) per room per night. To take advantage of this great deal, please call 1-800-874-9053 or 352-324-3101 and ask for the special Sommer Sports rate.
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Volunteers: Be part of all the excitement at one of Sommer Sport's events. Whether you have just a couple of hours to spare, or the entire day, your help will make a difference. Grab a bunch of friends, family or co-workers and create a team to staff one of the water stations located along the course. Positions are available to fit any schedule. Click here to learn more!
Event Timetable*:
* Subject to Change
Saturday, January 21, 2017
12:00pm - 5:00pm
Packet Pick-up & Late Registration at Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards
Sunday, January 22, 2017
6:00am - 7:00am
START of Half Marathon
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Many people are confused about the distinction between the watt (W) and volt-amp (VA) measures for UPS load sizing. Many manufacturers of UPS and load equipment add to this confusion by failing to distinguish between these measures.This white paper helps explain the differences between watts and VA and explains how the terms are correctly and incorrectly used in specifying power protection equipment. Download now to understand where a sizing problem can coccur and how to avoid sizing errors.
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Oakland Chiropractic Clinic, your Walled Lake chiropractor, takes great pride in providing the finest evidence based chiropractic care to our patients. Below is a sampling of the different chiropractic services we offer in our office. Whether you are currently suffering pain or are healthy and looking for a place to maintain your vitality, our office offers something for everyone in your family.
Chiropractic Care
We provide advanced spinal adjustments and joint correction utilizing "state of the art" chiropractic techniques including non-surgical spinal decompression, K laser therapy, Drop Table Adjusting, Diversified, Gonstead, Activator, Extremity adjusting, and Cox Flexion Distraction. Never in the history of chiropractic have we been able to provide the level of help and expertise that now exists. These correction methods are safe and more effective than ever before. As a Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Gary Sclabassi has years of training and experience in extremity and spinal adjustment and rehabilitation for babies, kids and adults.
Corrective Exercises
Along with muscle stimulation and K laser therapy to aid in the treatment and healing process, there is nothing more important to achieve complete healing than the use of corrective exercises. Each patient is given specific exercises to help strengthen the supportive muscles in the area of their injury. These exercises can be performed in the comfort of your own home and can improve the effectiveness of your spinal adjustments. In just a few minutes each day will help improve results and speed up the healing process.
Lifestyle Advice
It is often helpful and necessary to "coach" our patients on certain activities they should avoid or do differently to avoid re-injury or getting a new injury. Our goal is to help each patient achieve a fulfilling and happy lifestyle full of the activities they enjoy most. We recognize that each patient is unique with different needs, and our goal is to help them reach true health and wellness as a collaborative effort with our patients.
Functional Medicine
We provide specific recommendations on nutritional supplements, and healthy food choices to enhance our patient´s return to optimal health. Do you know which supplements and vitamins are good for you? Do you know how these supplements and vitamins interact with one another? With trusted products like Standard Process, Biotics, and more, Dr. Gary Sclabassi can provide a nutritional suggestions based on your individual needs. We utilize Food Allergy blood tests, saliva tests to discover the true cause of nutritional imbalances.
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy, along with chiropractic care can to help unlock the door to improved health and well-being. Come relax in our comfortable massage therapy suite. Our talented massage therapist can help alleviate pain and stress that can get in the way of everyday life. Click here for a valuable special offer for new patients.
We offer effective treatment for the following conditions:
- Fibromyalgia
- Personal Injuries
- Auto Accidents
- Herniated Discs
- Mid-back and Rib Pain
- Sports Injuries
- Subluxation
- Arch and Foot Pain
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Rotator Cuff Injuries
- Shoulder Tendonitis
- Bursitis (hip, knee, elbow, shoulder)
- Tennis Elbow
- Pinched Nerves
- Headaches and migraines
- Lower Back Problems
- Neck and Arm Pain
- Spinal Decompression for stenosis, disc herniations and facet syndrome


text: The Tree Top Store and Visitor Center is a one-stop shop for all your Tree Top must-haves. The country store welcomes guests of all ages to browse the array of local gifts such as trinkets, products, candles, signs, and more! During your visit, take a break on our patio! Enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner made by your friends at Tree Top.


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Olivier Giroud believes his Arsenal career is finally ready for take-off after smashing down his goal-scoring mental barrier.
France striker Giroud admits his barren run of going 354 minutes in Gunners colours without finding the net since his summer move has been on his mind.
But his strike on Wednesday, against Coventry in the League Cup, has lifted a "weight off his shoulders".
And now the £11million Frenchman is confident he can not only keep his place in the team but also go on a prolific scoring spree that will justify his big-money switch from Montpellier.
Giroud said: "The feeling is a lot of happiness and relief after this goal which I have been chasing for a long time. For a striker, it's always good to rediscover the road to the net.
"I had already given a decisive pass for the team before but it's not a goal. For a striker it's important for the confidence. I hope there will be many more.
"The fact I hadn't scored played in my head. You shouldn't think about it but those close to me, friends, many people talk to you about it.
"The goal will come soon - they kept telling me. I took it positively with a smile, the need and the determination to get there.
"It lifts the weight off my shoulders, absolutely. That's it now I got the first one.
"This must be the beginning of a beautiful adventure.
"I felt well physically. I wanted to play the whole match but the coach rotated the team. I need to put a string of games together, find my rhythm and continue to score. I am convinced that if I persevere it will come."
Giroud is hoping that breaking his Arsenal duck against League One struglers Coventry will ensure him a starting place for much more prestigious games.
The striker, who has featured in all of the club's big games so far, found it amazing that a League Cup match against lower-division opposition was a sell-out at the Emirates.
But Giroud says the timing could not have been better ahead of a major test against Chelsea that's set to be the priciest Premier League match ever.
And the Frenchman is confident he can lead the attack against the Premier League pace-setters.
Giroud said: "The supporters were behind us and behind me. There were 60,000 spectators for a League Cup match. I find that extraordinary. It's not like that in every stadium.
"Now I need to continue. This is only the beginning.
"Yes, the timing was great as it came just before Chelsea which is a very important game and it gives me confidence. The team also gained a lot of confidence with this victory.
"There were many changes, so certain players could rest for the match against Chelsea.
"What's good is when players who play less are called up they live up to expectations. Now we will think about the League. There is a great match ahead and I hope it will go our way.
"There is a lot of serenity in this team. We don't get carried away. We know this is just the start and that everything goes quickly. We are still unbeaten and that's very good.
"We don't let many in and we are scoring quite a few goals, so it's very good.
"We will face another great team, Chelsea, after a very good match at Manchester City - we could have won there with a bit more ambition.
"It will be interesting to see how the team behaves continue our march forward and remain unbeaten and why not cut the gap from Chelsea to one point.
"The beginning of the season is very positive. We have to appreciate that. But we must continue as it is only the beginning."
Giroud was disappointed to spurn a chance to score a second against Coventry by missing a penalty, but says that incident will not affect his confidence.
He also insists that the sight of two pitch invaders - stripped to just their underwear - did not put him off his spot-kick.
"I have a certain margin of progress, I am convinced of that," added Giroud. "I felt good, it's getting better and better. I think I had a good performance as a sub against City. When I can help the team, I do it.
"I have to continue to progress when I play with my back to goal because I come up against stronger defences. I must improve in front of goal too because you must be more efficient. I work hard on all of those I am confident about what is to come.
"I have a habit of putting penalties in that spot. What happened (the streakers) didn't perturb me. I stayed calm but the keeper went that way early and I should have had a glance at him and changed sides. I will have to work on my pens.
"I have a tendency often to shoot in the same way. The keeper read my run up well. I will have to work on that.
"I didn't drop my performance after that though and I made an assist just after - it's important for me to help others score and be part of the collective.
Yes, I saw the streakers. It was [going on] for a long time and we had to wait. But it didn't disturb me.
"Really, it was the keeper who saved my penalty. In France, this kind of thing doesn't exist because they have barriers [to stop pitch invasions].
"But it's funny."


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Wow! What a Great cause to support! Training everyday people to become heroes!
EVIL: How and why do good people turn evil?
GOOD: How can ordinary people be inspired to act heroically?
These two questions have been challenging me since I was a kid, and finally after many decades, I have discovered answers that I need to share with everyone who might care about these fundamental issues about Human Nature.
Growing up in poverty in the inner city of the South Bronx, New York City, means that I, like all such kids similarly situated everywhere in the world, was surrounded by evil. There were and are always hustlers, guys who make a living by getting good kids to do bad things for a little money, like steal, run drugs, sell their bodies, and worse. Why did some kids give in and start down that slippery slope of evil, while others resisted and stayed on the right side of that line separating good from evil?
As a religious little Catholic kid, I dutifully prayed to God to help me resist such daily temptation and deliver me from evil, it was hard to really count on God having the time to check out what was happening around 1005 E. 151 St. There were wars to attend to, Hitler to be contained, hurricane victims needing help, and Communists to be converted. So I reasoned I had to be more self-reliant and band with buddies I could trust to provide strength in our numbers against those perpetrators of evil. And it worked for some of us.
This concern continued for much of my life, until, as a research psychologist, I reasoned the best way to understand evil, was to go beyond theological analyses, philosophical discourses and dramatic renditions, to actually "create" evil in order to understand its dynamics from the inside out. My classmate from James Monroe High School in the Bronx, Stanley Milgram, had set a workable agenda for doing so through his pioneering investigation of Obedience to Authority back in 1963. His experimental research at Yale University quantified evil in a novel way: how many volts of electric shock would someone administer to an innocent victim when an authority figure ordered him or her to take such action that went against conscience. His findings shocked the world: The vast majority of participants, ordinary adult citizens, two of every three, went all the way down the 30 switches on the shock generator from an insignificant initial mere 15 volts, increasing incrementally by 15 more volts, until they got to 450 volts. Danger! Potentially lethal!
Although the research participants, acting as Teachers punishing their Learners for their errors — to ostensibly help improve their memory — believed their learner-victim was being shocked from the screams heard over the speakers, the learner was actually a confederate with responses automated.
What is the lesson to be learned here? Bad people will inflict pain on innocent victims when given permission to do so. No.
Most ordinary, even good, people are vulnerable to subtle, pervasive situational forces when they are in new circumstances where usual, habitual ways of behaving are not relevant.
I took that message a step or two further in my 1971 study, known as the Stanford Prison Experiment. Could a situation be created in which normal, healthy, intelligent college students inflict pain on their peers in the absence of any authority commanding their obedience? My "subjects" were two dozen students from all over the country who had just finished summer school in local colleges, chosen from among 75 who had answered an ad for a psychology study of prison life to run for up to two weeks. By random assignment, half became prisoners who lived in our simulated jail 24/7, while the others were guards working each of three eight-hour shifts. The sad sack prisoner uniforms, with their new identity numbers prominently displayed on their smocks, contrasted with the military-style uniforms of the guards who also displayed their various symbols of power. The situation created was a functional simulation of American prisons in many ways; in short, it was an "Evil Barrel" into which we put a bunch of "Good Apples," at least on day one.
We are training ordinary people on how to become everyday heroes by learning how to stand up, speak out and take wise and effective action in the challenging situations they face daily at home, school, business, community and nation.– Dr. Philip Zimbardo
Would an evil place that was populated with only good people dominate and corrupt them, or would humanity win out and keep them decent and caring despite such a situation? Within 36 hours, one of the normal, healthy college students had a severe emotional breakdown and had to be released from his prisoner role. On each of the next five days and nights, other prisoners broke down in similarly disturbing ways. I was forced to terminate this experiment, to shut down my prison after only 6 days; it had spun out of control.
Bad news in this particular contest between good and evil: evil 1, humanity 0.
My situation was a setting where institutionalized evil dominated. Rules, roles, uniforms, policies, group dynamics, arbitrary power differentials — all within a physical context that gave legitimacy to the treatment of other people in dehumanizing ways. This metaphor of powerful guards dominating powerless prisoners is not limited to either my mock prison or real prisons, but can be seen in many settings: traditional marriages, mental hospitals, schools, military and business settings.
So the findings of the Milgram obedience experiments (in its 19 variants), combined with those of the Stanford Prison Experiment, reveal the extent to which human behavior can be situationally influenced, even dominated, in ways that we are reluctant to acknowledge. We all want to believe in the dignity of individual character and free will. That dignity is best served by recognizing our vulnerabilities and learning how to develop our "situational awareness," as a kind of ghetto "Street Smarts," in every context we enter. We can resist such powerful forces only by becoming savvy to the operation of myriad of social-situational forces in our lives, on the "dark side" (as our former VP Dick Cheney reminded us, this was the way we would deal with terrorists).
This allusion leads us to year 2004 and the horrific images of American soldiers, military prison guards, men and women, seen in their own photos torturing and degrading their Iraqi captives in Abu Ghraib Prison. Doing so all while smiling, with high fives all around. Who were these bad apples, disgracing not only the military but America's war effort to bring democracy, freedom and dignity to a people long dominated by a cruel dictator?
For me, I was as shocked as anyone, but I was also hardly surprised, because the visual parallels with my prison study seemed direct. I contended in many media interviews that I believed our soldiers were good apples that someone had put into a very bad barrel in that prison dungeon. I became an expert defense witness for one of those guards, in part to better understand how he and all the other MPs on his night shift on Tier 1-A could have perpetrated such terrible deeds. In that capacity, I had access to all the existing investigative reports and the full collection of the condemning photos. I believe I was able to show, to demonstrate, with a variety of evidence, how Sgt. Chip Frederick, like the other MPs, fell under the spell of a situation that was created by some "Bad Barrel Makers." This was a system of power that mismanaged the prison, combined with a narrow-minded military leadership and a war-focused presidential cabinet. All the MPs received dishonorable discharges, some with long prison sentences, while their officers were never tried. They did not even receive letters of reprimand for their "command complicity" in abuses that went on under their watch for three solid months.
I summarized all that I had learned about this torture center, as well as the first full presentation of the Stanford Prison Experiment in my 2008 book, The Lucifer Effect. That same year, I was invited to present my ideas (worth spreading) at the TED Conference. It was difficult to contain all these ideas into the tight, 18-minute limit that is the TED signature, despite practicing on the main stage earlier. I am a 60-minute academic dude, but I would try my best to squeeze into that slot. But, just as I was racing toward the end, shifting focus and asking the audience how ordinary people can act heroically, the bell sounded with no time on the clock.
I swear that I felt the audience simultaneously hold a collective inhalation. Just then my deus ex machina ascended the stage to tell the audience that he had heard the rehearsal and that what was coming was too important to stop now, so he would violate policy and allow me a few more minutes. With that temporal reprieve from Chris Anderson, TED major domo, the audience exhaled and I raced on for five more minutes with the good news ending: that it was possible to inspire people, especially our youth, to learn how to transform compassion into heroic action. Standing ovation.
Having nearly fainted from hyperventilating for talking faster than I ever had, I was happy just to be standing. Immediately after, many TEDsters encouraged me to develop the hero project more fully, to scale it up, to develop a non-profit, to start a foundation, a business. I even got seed funds from Pam and Pierre Omidyar, eBay founders, to do so, and I did.
I went on from this exhilarating experience to create a San Francisco based non-profit, The Heroic Imagination Project, HIP, please see what we are doing in our social revolution onwww.heroicimagination.org.
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In case you weren't part of the 99% who is aware that we were house hunting (until Sean made me stop talking about it), we finally picked a house. The closing was yesterday, and Sean made me wait to announce it until it was a done-done-done deal. I'll have plenty to tell you about on Monday! Until then, here's a glance at the house. I haven't named it yet, but that will come with time. I can't wait to tell you guys about all my DIY projects!
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AM Alert: Brittany Maynard's family returns to Capitol to support aid-in-dying bill
Anticipating political challenges, backers of the controversial aid-in-dying bill are making another visible showing of support as the proposal begins to make its way through the Legislature.
The mother and widower of Brittany Maynard, the Bay Area woman whose death last November reignited interest in end-of-life legislation, are returning to the Capitol today to share testimony from Maynard. The bill, which would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to terminally ill people who want to die, faces its first hearing in the Senate Health Committee.
Dan Diaz, Maynard's widower, will release a video message from Maynard, recorded before her death, during a press conference at 10:30 a.m. in Room 113. Her mother, Deborah Ziegler, will testify and submit a written statement from Maynard during the committee hearing, 1:30 p.m. in Room 4203.
Disability rights advocates and doctors from the group Californians Against Assisted Suicide will also be at the hearing to express their opposition to the bill. Opponents argue that aid-in-dying laws undermine the physician's role as a healer and put vulnerable people in harm's way. The Catholic Church has lobbied heavily against previous efforts on moral grounds.
VIDEO: Silent during the election, lawmakers are now pushing back on Proposition 47, Dan Walters says.
GIRL POWER: California Women in Energy, a new professional organization, is launching its first membership drive with a high-wattage panel discussion, 5:30 p.m. at the California Museum on O Street. State Water Resources Control Board Chair Felicia Marcus, Western States Petroleum Association President Cathy Reheis-Boyd and California Energy Commission member Janea Scott, among others, will share their thoughts on California's energy future.
UNIVERSOLAR: State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León is in Washington, D.C., this week meeting with Obama administration officials, members of Congress and others to discuss California's economic, education and environmental policies. He will serve as the featured speaker at a Center for American Progress event this morning on making solar energy accessible for middle- and low-income households, streaming live at 7 a.m.
SHAKE IT OFF: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will join Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian, D-Sherman Oaks, to introduce AB 428, providing property owners with a 30 percent tax credit to make seismic upgrades to their earthquake-vulnerable buildings, 1 p.m. at the mayor's San Fernando Valley office in Van Nuys.
STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM: What caused California's record-low voter turnout in the November election? A joint session of the Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee and the Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee investigates, 1:30 p.m. in Room 3191 of the Capitol. Elsewhere, the Senate Insurance Committee will consider whether coverage for injuries caused by uninsured or under-insured drivers meets consumers' needs, 1:30 p.m. in Room 112.
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Can't Care - Week of August 8, 2016
Welcome to this week's installment of Can't Care, Moviejawn's weekly roundup of all the entertainment news we just can't care about.
Francis Friel, The Projectionist
Lions and witches and wardrobes, oh shit! They're bringing back that Narnia hit!
These weak-as-hell movies that made tons of money
But I'm here to report that I can't care, honey.
They're stupid and pointless and long as forever
As my co-worker would say, "I'd rather be watching Heathers"
I never could tell if these movies were jokes
On masses of unsuspecting Christian folks
The first three were boring as watching paint dry
And I kind of wish all adaptations would die
Just give us a story that's new, fresh, and cool
Stop making us feel like a bunch of dumb fools
Hollywood squeezes the blood out of books
Cause they think audiences don't know where else they should look
These lions and children and lamp posts and princes
Get covered in gore when the audience winces
At the giant reptilian money-hungry machine
They turn on when they realize their hands aren't so clean
"These books are all classics, and young people love 'em!"
I'm gonna go stick my head in the oven
The Silver Chair one will be weakest of all
As Kicks! would say "Gimme back Bogey! Bacall!"
I'm not saying all of the books are bad
But I've also seen books that are equally rad
Get chewed up and puked onto cinema screens
And each time I say "That's the worst thing I've seen!"
I'm dreaming of Trainspotting, Morvern Callar
Other book adaptations that set a high bar
Don't give me this shit of "Some books can't be done!"
Cause Spewberg's about to drop Ready Player One
Kubrick just made all the books that he liked
But other directors can just take a hike
I'm sick of the remakes and reboots and novels
Just made to line walls of the blood-drinkers' hovels
With Oscars and handshakes and death-stares that say
"Make what we tell you or it'll all go away"
They control the careers of directors they pick
To remake these movies and remake me sick
To film all the stories I've already read
It's enough to make me stick a gun to my head
Narnia is full of this magical stuff
That readers might know isn't just kiddie fluff
It's deeper and weirder than you might remember
I know that I read them one time in September
In junior high wishing they'd just never end
Then I thought "Oh! These should be movies instead!
Movies are better! A language I know!
Come on now Hollywood! Go! Go! Go!"
I got what I asked for
It hardly seems fair
That I could just summon this shit from thin air
That the bloody and gross evil Hollywood kings
Would hear me and say "Give him all of the things.
The movies he wants are the ones we want to.
Just wait, he'll grow up, and his money will, too.
He'll stand in a line, can't believe his good fortune,
That we've given this new cinematic abortion
To a whole generation that just doesn't know
That the money all came from the shadows below
We can just keep on churning out Narnia jawns
Who cares if the wait will always seem long
Two years or five, they'll still come to see 'em
So we can keep paying these actor per diems
These things don't come cheap, but they're guaranteed winners
Who cares if the audience patience grows thinner!"
Well FUCK YOU, ya dorks
I won't do it anymore
I'll come to your castle and break down the door
I know what I like and I don't have to wonder
If one of these things will be weak like the others
It's a factory-sealed brand new Hollywood Dream
Of visions and magic we've already seen
So fuck all this noise
Go 'head, make Silver Chair
But just keep in mind
That you know I can't care.


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After two trading days of decline, leading shares ended in positive territory but Smiths Group missed out on the gains.
The company slid 22p to £13.49 as the prospect of a sale of its medical business, revealed last week, failed to excite investors. Citigroup issued a sell note, saying:
We see Smiths as a decent collection of businesses, but overvalued at present. The news that Smiths is in discussions re the possible sale of its medical business is in our view a positive strategic step for the group. However, we do not see a full break up as likely and we see it as already more than factored in the valuation – we believe that the medical business is valued at around £2.9bn in the current share price (i.e. 14-15 times earnings). Our sum of the parts valuation is at £12.70 with the medical business valued at 12-13 times earnings.
Building materials group Wolseley was the leading faller, down 212p to £31.45. The company reported a 7.9% rise in third quarter trading profits to £150m, with good growth in the US and UK. But investors took more notice of Europe, where its business continues to suffer from the continuing economic crisis. Sales in France fell by 9.2% on a like for like basis due to weak residential construction, and by 4.6% in central Europe. Analyst Andy Brown at Panmure Gordon issued a sell note, saying:
Steady progress from Wolseley with a continuing good performance from the US being partially offset by tough conditions in Europe. Cost control and market share gains remain a feature, contributing to stable margins. While investors will focus on US housing we believe that there is a lot of good news already in the share price; take profit, sell.
The medium term attraction of North America remains in place so any price weakness will prompt us to revisit our recommendation.
Overall though the FTSE 100 finished 33.46 points higher at 6558.58, as markets took heart from talk that the US Federal Reserve was unlikely to end its bond buying programme in the immediate future.
GKN climbed 15.1p to 313.4p after UBS raised its target price from 275p to 350p. The bank said:
The acquisitions of Getrag and Volvo Aero have transformed GKN's Driveline and Aerospace divisions and strengthened GKN's strategic position in both of its key markets – aerospace and autos – in our view. We believe those changes, together with GKN's continued focus on efficient cost and cash management, have put GKN in a better position strategically and operationally..
The integration of acquisitions, the weakness in auto production in Europe, and the loss of a large aerospace contract have so far masked these changes. As we progress through 2013 and into 2014, we expect to see a gradual improvement in the performance of GKN's businesses that will reflect the transformation.
But AstraZeneca dipped 10.5p to £33.43 as the pharmaceuticals group returned the rights to commercialise rheumatoid arthritis drug fostamatnib to US group Rigel, ending development of one of its few late-stage experimental treatments. Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said:
This isn't a major surprise to us given managment's non-committal stance on their first quarter conference call, but it's a negative nonetheless given this was one of their potential blockbuster products only three months ago at their analyst day. Removal of this product from our model will see 4% downside to 2021 earnings per share and 3% to the discounted cash flow.
Among the mid-caps, defence group Cobham closed 13.2p lower at 272.9p on talk of an institutional investor selling a stake of 3.6%, or 39.1m shares. The shares were said to be being offered by UBS to institutions at between 273.5p a share and Monday night's close of 286p.
But Rentokil Initial rose 2.3p to 90.75p on reports of a possible offer for its office maintenance business.
US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice is considering buying the Rentokil division and merging it with Balfour Beatty's rival operation, according to the Financial Times.
Talks are already being held on the plan, the report said, with a valuation of a higher than expected £400m put on the Rentokil business. Balfour finished 4.4p lower at 228.1p.
Finally specialist electronics group Acal finished unchanged at 220p.
Full year profits dipped from £2.7m to £2m excluding a £5m loss after the sale of its UK parts business. But it increased its gross margin by 0.8 percentage points to 31% and gained market share in Europe, where chief executive Nick Jefferies is now seeing signs of recovery. It has raised its full year dividend by 6% to reflect the pickup in trading. Jefferies said:
Europe is stabilising although it won't be a high growth area any time soon. The UK is definitely getting better but the US is most likely to recovery quickly. As long as there are no more big shocks, I think we are on a steady path to recovery.
Acal also cut costs, including changing incentive schemes in Europe so that bonuses are not paid automatically but only when profits are improving.
The figures do not include any contribution from the recent acquisition of French group Myrra for an initial €9.5m. Its first two months since its purchase in April have seen orders up 8% on last year, and Jefferies plans to move some of Acal's production currently done by sub-contractors in China into Myrra's plant in the country.
Further acquisitions are likely, with the company looking at the US and Asia as well as Europe.
Its new web platform was successfully launched in the UK and is being rolled out across Europe, although Google's indexing of the pages is taking longer than expected. Jefferies said:
Within a month of launching in the UK, we saw twice the volume on the UK site than in Europe. It is sending the right signals, we are building a brand.
In a buy note Henry Carver at Peel Hunt said:
The finals were slightly ahead of expectations and current trading is starting to show signs of a pick-up in the electronics market. Whilst we remain cautious given the ongoing weakness in European macro, we are confident that this momentum will continue into 2014.
Acal is the only pan-European specialist supplier of niche electronic products and is in a strong position to consolidate and extend its leadership in that market via acquisitions and organic growth. With increased scale will come higher quality of earnings and improving margins.


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The Rush Effect – we begin a new series on learning to listen and discover how to allow the voice of God to break through the noise surrounding you. We begin by exploring the Rush Effect and finding that "The Holy Hush Breaks Through the Rush…"
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Amega Wand – Is It A Placebo?
Click the title above, then you will see a video (top right of page --->) about whether the Amega Wand is just a placebo. Many people are quite rightly sceptical. We are all tired of being sold to, marketed to, and told that every opportunity and product is better than the next, right! So this video is what I feel about that topic. For me, it … [Read more...]
Relinquishing Your Addiction to Emotionalism Is The Price You Have To Pay
Well you don't have to pay anything if you don't want to, but to find peace, that's the price tag. Looking back at the personal journey I have travelled since I was a teenager, I can see certain cross-roads that I was faced with. Like Nemo in the Matrix faced with the red and blue pills, or Alice in Wonderland thinking about whether to … [Read more...]
More About The Economic Meltdown To Come (And Some Hope!)
You know I hardly watch the news at all these days. Somehow you hear what's going on through people telling you, or the occasional radio in the car. But tonight, I did watch, and it gave rise to this blog post. This blog is two-fold. Firstly to support some previous blogs by adding today's news in which UK PM David Cameron is talking about … [Read more...]
Zeitgeist Addendum – It's Time For A New Social System. (Free 2-Hour Documentary Film. My Must-Watch Recommendation.)
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The Secret To Happiness In One Line…
I'm going to tell you the secret of happiness, and the answer to all those myriad questions about how to be happy in life, what is happiness, where you can find happiness, what will make you happy, why you aren't happy, what you need to be happy, etc etc. And I'm going to tell it you right here, right now.... The real truth of life in this … [Read more...]