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We circled back onto the midstream LP high-yield trail this week to cover Summit Midstream Partners LP (SMLP), one of many midstream companies we've written articles about.
Profile: Formed in 2012, SMLP provides natural gas, crude oil and produced water-gathering services, primarily via long term, fee-based contracts with its customers in these five unconventional resource basins:
– The Appalachian Basin, which includes the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in West Virginia and Ohio.
– The Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations in North Dakota.
– The Fort Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett Shale formation in Texas.
– The Piceance Basin, which includes the Mesaverde formation as well as the Mancos and Niobrara shale formations in Colorado and Utah.
– The Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado.
SMLP reported its Q3 '17 earnings last week, and the revenue and net income growth were robust year over year:
Revenues, net income and EPU all hit company records, while EBITDA and DCF were down -4% to -5% vs. Q3 '16, but improved sequentially vs. Q2/17:
SMLP has had good revenue growth in its Utica, Williston, Piceance/DJ, and Marcellus segments in 2017:
However, this didn't translate into EBITDA growth in the Ohio, Williston and Barnett segments, where some customers delayed completing new wells in Q1-2 '17. The Ohio segment improved in Q3, but Williston and Barnett still lagged Q3 '16 figures.
Management was upbeat though about Q4 activity thus far for its Williston, Barnett and Utica segments on the Q3 earnings call.
"We have already begun to see completion activity accelerate in the fourth quarter of 2017 from a number of customers across several of our gathering systems, including in the Utica, Williston, and Barnett. We continue to expect that these activities will lead to volume and cash flow growth across these assets throughout the rest of 2017 and into 2018.":
"Total operated natural gas volumes averaged 1.83 bcf a day in the quarter, a new record for the Partnership, and a 2.6% sequential increase over the prior quarter. Gathered volumes for SMLPs Ohio gathering JV Utica averaged 763 million cubic feet a day in the third quarter, up 8% over the second quarter '17."
"This was primarily due to the completion of more than 20 wells across OGC system in July and August. Natural gas throughput on our operated asset was led by the Marcellus segment, which averaged 554 million cubic feet a day in the quarter, our highest quarterly volume ever and a 15% sequential increase over the second quarter '17."
"We are seeing an uptick in drilling and completion activity across our DJ Basin asset as operators experienced assess in drilling the Codell Niobrara formations in the northern extension part of the play. September volumes for this sub-system were up nearly threefold from year ago levels and are approaching our current 20 million a day of processing capacity. These are higher margin volumes and contributed to our sequential segment adjusted EBITDA growth in the overall Piceance/DJ segment.":
(Source: SMLP Q3 '17 Earnings release)
Looking back over the past four quarters shows a similar pattern – revenue and net income grew very well, but EBITDA and DCF not so much. The total distributions coverage fell from 1.27x to 1.16x, which is still a respectable figure, particularly as units grew by 7.69%, and bumped up total distributions by over 9%:
Management has kept the quarterly distribution at $.575 since November 2015. They commented on this on the earnings call, when asked if any distribution hikes might be in the offing:
"A distribution increase just really isn't in the cards currently."
Not very upbeat, but they did point out that, "Since 2014, 32 of the 50 Alerian Index constituents have effectively cut their distribution, either through an outright cut or a merger that resulted in a cut. Summit has not. And in fact, since 2014, we've grown our EBITDA by 12% per year. During that time, our distribution coverage has increased and our leverage metrics have remained constant."
Like many of the LPs we've covered, SMLP pays in a Feb-May-Aug-Nov. cycle. Unit holders receive a K-1 at tax time. You can track SMLP's current price and yield in our High Dividend Stocks By Sector Tables, (in the Basic Materials section).
Note: Investing in LPs and MLPs may present tax complications when done in an IRA. Additionally, since LPs usually make tax-deferred distributions, you'd reap more tax benefits by holding them in a non-IRA account. Please consult your accountant about this issue.
SMLP's distributions/unit coverage got back to a more typical level in Q3, rising from 1.11x to 1.17x, and has averaged 1.17x over the past four quarters:
We just added this March 2018 trade for SMLP to our Covered Calls Table, which tracks over 25 other trades daily. The March $20.00 call strike is at the money, and has a $.90 bid.
This trade includes one quarterly distribution ($.575 most likely) coming in early February. It allows you to hedge your bet with SMLP by taking in the extra $.90 in option premium. But the trade-off is that the $20.00 call is only $.35 above SMLP's $19.65 price/unit.
If your units get assigned before the February ex-dividend date, you'd end up with $1.25, the combo of the $.90 option premium and the $.35 assigned price gain. If they don't get assigned, your income would be $1.48, the $.575 distribution and the $.90 call premium.
SMLP's puts didn't look that attractive at press time, but you can see details for over 25 other trades in our Cash Secured Puts Table.
Debt and Dilution – As with most LPs, which pay out the lion's share of their cash flow, SMLP has to access the equity and capital markets in order to grow. They currently have an at the market unit sales program under which they've issued 763K units in 2017 (but none in Q3 '17) for gross proceeds of $17.7M. Their net debt/EBITDA has risen slightly, from 4.23x to 4.46x over the past four quarters, but they're currently within all of their debt covenants.
Commodity Cycle – Although SMLP's contracts are fee-based, if there's another protracted downturn in energy prices, the finishing of its customers' DUC wells inventory could be pushed out further into the future, which would pressure SMLP's earnings.
Deferred Payment Liability: In addition to its current debt load, SMLP has a deferred payment due in 2020 as a remaining payment due for a 2016 asset drop-down from its Summit Midstream Partners Holdings LLC. Management arranged new financing in Q1 2017, with an eye to preparing for the 2020 payment, which was listed at $508.67M on the balance sheet, as of 9/30/17.
"The Deferred Payment calculation was designed to ensure that, during the deferral period, all of the EBITDA growth and capex development risk associated with the 2016 Drop Down Assets is held by the GP, Summit Investments. The Deferred Payment was structured such that SMLP will ultimately pay a 6.5x multiple of the actual EBITDA generated from the 2016 Drop Down Assets in 2018 and 2019."
"While we remain bullish about the outlook for volume growth for our Utica assets over the next several years, our current outlook for '18 is flatter compared to previous expectations, primarily due to volume growth and associated CapEx projects being delayed to the second half of 2018. This is the primary reason why the undiscounted value of our DPPO decreased in the third quarter and now stands at an estimated $656 million." (Source: Q3 earnings call)
New Developments:
New Preferred Units: Management just announced a new Preferred units offering today, 11/8/17. Normally, preferred offerings start out with a temporary ticker for the first few days, as institutional buyers accumulate them, (often at a price below the liquidation value). You can sometimes buy them under par also, and build in a small potential price gain, along with the yield.
However, Schwab had no ticker as of yet. The prospectus also had no yield data as of yet either, other than to mention that the units could be called in sometime in 2022, but that after 2022, they'd trade at a floating rate. There should be more information coming out over the next few days:
"Summit Midstream Partners, LP, announced today that it has commenced, subject to market conditions, an underwritten public offering of Series A Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units representing limited partner interests in the Partnership. The Partnership intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility and for general partnership purposes." (Source: SMLP site)
"Today, we are announcing an expansion of our existing 20 MMcf/d gathering and processing complex in northern Weld County, Colorado, with the addition of a new 60 MMcf/d processing plant. This $60 million expansion project is designed to support increasing volumes from existing customers. We are encouraged by the increased level of upstream development activity in and around our DJ Basin assets and we expect to place this project in service by the end of 2018. We plan to finance the project with excess distribution coverage and borrowings under our Revolver." (Q3 earnings call)
When asked on the earnings call about new developments with its customer XTO in the Delaware Basin (is a more mature sub-basin in the Greater Permian Basin), management was upbeat. "The opportunity with XTO in the Delaware is large. They've (got) 275,000 acres – they dominate the Northern Delaware from an acreage position. It's contiguous acreage as well too so that always helps. It's in three different blocks of acreage, and we just acquired right of way that basically cuts right through it, and saves us about a year of timing from a permitting standpoint."
Analysts' Price Targets:
SMLP is currently ~18% below analysts' average price target of $24.00.
Curiously, although it has received upward estimate revisions over the past month, actual EPS estimates have only risen for 2017 during this time. However, the estimates for Q4 '17, 2017 and 2018 are all higher than they were 60 days ago:
SMLP has had a rough time of it in 2017, lagging both the Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) and the market.
This updated valuation table includes some other midstream firms we cover on SA – Arc Logistics Partners LP (ARCX), PBF Logistics LP (PBFX), Holly Energy Partners LP (HEP), MPLX LP (MPLX), Green Plains Partners LP (GPP), Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP), Delek Logistics Partners LP (DKL), and Plains All American Partners (PAA).
SMLP has the second-highest yield in the group, at 11.68%, while its 1.17x coverage factor is in line with the group average. At 7.35, its Price/DCF is in the lower tier of valuations, as is its 1.34 price/book valuation:
Management has improved the company's ROA, ROE and operating margin considerably over the past four quarters. Meanwhile, the debt/equity and net debt/EBITDA have both crept up a bit.
SMLP's debt/equity ratio is one of the lower ones in the group, but they'll need to ramp up EBITDA to bring the net debt/EBITDA more in line. The operating margin is above average, but the ROA and ROE are both below group averages:
Debt and Liquidity:
As of September 30, 2017, SMLP had $506.0 million of outstanding debt under its $1.25 billion revolving credit facility and $744.0 million of available borrowing capacity, subject to covenant limits. Based upon the terms of SMLP's revolving credit facility and total outstanding debt of $1.306 billion (inclusive of $800.0 million of senior unsecured notes), SMLP's total leverage ratio and senior secured leverage ratio (as defined in the credit agreement) as of September 30, 2017, were 4.16 to 1.0 and 1.61 to 1.0, respectively.
SMLP redeemed its 7.5% Senior notes in March '17, which left it with no maturities coming due until 2022:
We rate the SMLP common units a hold, but we may pursue a position in the new preferred series, depending upon the final yield structure. As is usually the case, the coverage for the preferreds will be even better than the common units. The long-term story for SMLP seems like it can work out, but we'd still like to see some growth in DCF and EBITDA in coming quarters before committing to the common units.
Preferred issuance by LPs seems to be on the rise in 2017. It makes sense, particularly if the market isn't supporting the common units' price. Issuing lower-yielding preferreds can offer the company a cheaper source of capital than doing a secondary IPO of common units, when their price has been depressed.
All tables furnished by DoubleDividendStocks.com, unless otherwise noted.
Disclaimer: This article was written for informational purposes only, and is not intended as personal investment advice. Articles posted on SA aren't meant to be all-inclusive white papers by any means. Please practice due diligence before investing in any investment vehicle mentioned in this article.
Disclosure: I am/we are long PBFX, MPLX, MMLP.
I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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https://picarto.tv/Shastro He's modeling ponies. Are you a bronie?
Invade it. Do it now.
That is one ass-ugly pink horse.
I want to cum inside pink deformed hourse.
Will UV tiles work with UE4?
Pic unrelated
Post them and I'll tell you.
how the fuck do people get so good at knowing where to cut and what to pull and where to put the supporting edges in hard surface modeling. im watching this guy do and its cobfusing as fuck. i try to replicate it the whole thing goes to shit cuz the geometry is crap
Practice. That's all really.
At some point you've created hundreds of different topologies to solve your modeling problems and you know how different edge flows tend to behave when subdivided.
Git gud at 3d you dumb fuck
i been jumping back and forth between zbrush and max for the past 2 years. sculping is so much simpler to me than hard surface modeling. i still cant get the hang of it. shit sucks, cant even make a simple sword
Blender exports FBX 6.1 and 7.4. It imports FBX 7.4, I think.
My question is what year numbers do these versions correspond to? What year should I export an FBX out of Maya as to import it into Blender with rigging and texturing intact?
Bump, because this is basically all that is in my way when it comes to getting custom assets into SFM. I would just make them in Blender, but I don't know it.
All their videos are a scam right? They don't have something unique everybody else can't do?
Their software just reads massive point cloud raw volumetric data fast as fuck. current gaming pipelines do not use this kind of tech in any form.
But their tech is amazing for people who use a lot of 3d point data. As a result they are actually doing business and will be fine. Maybe one day well see if they decide to go after the game market again.. Maybe in the future with VR.
Rate my comp please
Yea I know we see the polys I will fix it
I also animated the little guy
http://piecode (dot) tk/video/uploads/runningTee3.mp4
Care to post a .obj op?
For such simple shapes you might as well use nurb surfaces. No poly edges.
Does anyone have any idea what these little pins are on my zbrush model when I zoom in? I've been having issues sculpting objects lately and I think whatever's going on here is the problem. I'll sculpt on a relatively low poly object that my computer should be able to handle and my brush starts lagging like it's a huge multi-million poly object.
Any help is appreciated because this is driving me nuts.
I've never used zbrush but aren't those vertex normals?
They look like vertex normals but I don't think they are. I can't move any of the vertices in between them. All I can move is the pins.
Just opened my file back up and when I turn on draw polyframe it looks like this. Alternatively, I can mask polygroup a small part of my model, hide said small part, and start sculpting like normal, but when I unhide the part the laggy sculpting starts up again.
I love Luxrender, I really do, if they made a body pillow with the Lux logo on it, I would fuck it so hard it would stand erect.
However, when I use it in Blender, it is slow.
The main problem is, sometimes I render out a frame and I go do something like take a shower, and I come back and find a gorgeous photorealistic scene, but the software says it is still rendering when it doesn't need to or should be. What do I do?
Pic related, pretty good looking scene but not textured yet.
Note, I have set Luxrender to render internally in Blender
Donate to lux
Ok, I think one of the problems is that Blender won't export to the Luxrender GUI.
It says cannot find Luxrender at path C:/Users/AppData/Local/Temp/Luxrender.exe
however there is no option in Blender to set the Luxrender path.
Luxrender is a progressive renderer. It will continue rendering forever until you tell it to stop or if you set the max samples per pixel or set a specific amount of time you want it to render.
How do I get rid of this red square?
If I try to change the viewport to rendered, only what can be seen inside the square is rendered... Help????
ctrl + alt + b
I'm not super ambitious. How long does it take to achieve the skill with Blender to proficiently make movies with shitty n64 graphics, so I can make movies just like Tawainese News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=259jj-5YgdI
PerfectDark 64 took a crew, of over a hundred, years to make.
The "shittiness" of the graphics came from hardware limitations that masters of the craft took great pains to compensate for which is why the game looks as good as it does.
You're not making your job easier by setting the quality bar lower, and you've picked a completely flawed example of low quality.
Half life was made by 47 people.
How does that make you feel?
and it was also delayed 6 years.
Should I buy a video card now (for example GTX 970) or should I wait for NVIDIA's Pascal cards?
I have saved some money over the past few months to buy a new PC for 3D modeling and game design.
Depends, what do you currently have?
I currently have an HP 110 series
shit pc
its a shit pc, but I will be busy for the next half year so I do not really need a new pc untill next summer
I just want the poke dot pattern and I want to know how to make them in gimp maybe. I though people here would know more
wrong board m80
where then?
Don't open up the board list and look. That'd be too easy
So I made this lowpoly thingy.
When I add a toonline to the gun, it makes something very ugly. I'm just looking for an outline of the gun. How would I go about doing that?
here is the gun with the toonline
The gun is complicated ND the lines have no weight variation. There are options to make the outline thicker than any in lines and to make them taper at the ends.
You can also use a texture to control line weight.
welp, that made the end product a ;lot nicer. Thank you!
I'm not sure if this is against the rules. If it is, please don't ban me, just delete the thread and warn me and I"ll never make another thread like it.
I want to view some models in blender but I have them in the .max format. If anybody could just export them to .obj or .fbx I would greatly appreciate it.
If you can only do two Edna and Sorey would be appreciated. If just one Sorey please.
I normally would not ask a request but it's just opening and exporting the files.
I had already looked and found this, and the problem is it doesn't work unless I initially open it in max.
The link doesn't do anything except bring me to my cloud drive. Nothing listed.
So I'm trying to create basic objects for a game making tutorial in C4D (left), and import it into Unity (Right), but I can't find any way to get Unity to understand the tiling that I want.
I tried to export an FBX from C4D to Unity, but the tiling just won't do the shit it's supposed to in Unity.
I don't want to have to UV map an object like this either, because I want precision, and from my experience with Bodypaint so far, it's a wibbly wobbly trainwreck that's only acceptable for more organic models.
Alright, so I did get it to import properly by exporting a .dae instead.
Any downsides to using different 3D files?
collada was designed to transfer a whole scene's worth of data. If it looks fine on the other end of the import then I wouldn't worry about it.
It worked for a while, but now it does this.
I don't know why this of all things has to be so fucking hard to do.

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I thought about just deleting the post, but then I decided that this is more appropriate.
Let me do my disagreement with Archbishop Nikon more better.
I begin with the Kontakion of Pentecost:
When the Most High came down and confused the tongues,The nations, as we know, are still divided, and the task of calling all to unity has fallen to the Church, empowered with the Holy Spirit. But the fact that we are divided doesn't mean that those on the outside are necessarily rebelling against the Cosmos, harmony with God -- they may be following to the best of their understanding -- more or less, and often more than, say, I am, who am supposedly blessed with the Holy Spirit.
He divided the nations;
But when He distributed the tongues of fire,
He called all to unity.
Therefore, with one voice, we glorify the all-holy Spirit!
So how can we give the Good News to people who have grown up not knowing it? If someone comes to me and says, "Everything you think is good is evil. Everyone you thought loved you has deceived you. Let me turn your world upside down and give you a life of dissension and chaos," I'm not going to be much inclined to listen.
Instead we can say, "Everything that you know that is true is True. Everything that you know that is good is Good. Everything that you know that is beautiful is Beautiful. Like everyone who learns and grows, you may have to throw away some fond beliefs on the way to a better understanding of what's True and Good and Beautiful, but you'll count them as dross in light of the greater Truth, Goodness and Beauty that you'll find." Then if we follow it up with deeds of mercy and compassion, we may find some who will listen. Others won't, but as St. Paul says, one plants, another waters, and God gets the harvest.
This is true whether we're talking to Hindus, Moslems, Native Alaskans or 21st-century agnostic skeptics. We owe a gentler touch to people outside the Church than to those within. After all, St. Nicholas punched out the archheretic Arius, not his pagan neighbors.
That's what I should have said about Archbishop Nikon's comments, and not what I did say.


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I never would have imagined that medication and spirituality had anything in common.
But a study out of Rush University Medical Center led by chaplain and assistant professor Patricia Murphy, PhD brings new findings that suggest spirituality can act synergistically with medication to produce better patient outcomes.
For instance, spirituality may be a key factor in improving response to medication for patients diagnosed with clinical depression.
Researchers surveyed 136 adults with major depression or bipolar depression before and after 8 weeks of antidepressant medication treatment.
Patients who reported belief in a personal higher power or a higher power concerned with their well-being were more likely to experience an improvement in depressive symptoms after 8 weeks.
What's more, patients who scored in the top 33% for overall religious well-being were 75% more likely to show improvement.
Researchers looked to see if hope was a contributing factor but found that hope had no impact on patient outcomes. Belief in a caring higher power alone seemed to increase chances of improvement.
What this study shows is that medication and spirituality can work together to produce stronger results than medication alone.
The study wasn't randomized or controlled so generalization is limited. On the other hand you can't randomly assign spiritual beliefs. That said, the results are intriguing.
Quite likely, spirituality has the potential to effectively complement and enhance many different types of treatment. That's why we've brought the world's leading spiritual thinkers together for our Spirituality in Healing webinar series.
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There's been a lot of coverage in the news media in the past several years about traumatic brain injuries as they relate to combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
What you may not know is that at TBI can occur to "regular" people, too.
A TBI is caused by trauma and may occur after your head strikes an object, when something penetrates the skull, or as a result of repeated concussions, such as might be experienced in contact sports.
While many TBIs occur as a result of serious motor vehicle crashes, falls, firearms, and assaults are other causes.
Each year more than 1.5 million Americans suffer a TBI, many of them minor. However, between 80,000 to 90,000 people each year are left with long-term effects including paralysis, vision loss, hearing impairment, memory deficits and cognitive behavioral changes. In severely injured patients, death, coma, or a persistent vegetative state may result.
Understanding brain injury
Common injuries include skull factures, contusions, hematomas and hemorrhages.
Skull fractures can affect any part of the cranium, but the top of the head is most often involved. Skull fractures at the base of the skull usually require significant force and can also be associated with neurologic or vascular injury.
Fractures through the temporal bone, which houses the structures of the inner ear, can produce deafness or facial weakness. Depressed or complex open skull fractures, especially those in which the lining of the brain has been breached, may require surgery to repair the deformity.
Small contusions, or bruises, to the brain may cause some functional impairment, but they usually do not require operative treatment.
Instead, drying agents reduce the brain swelling, or surgeons may place a drain within the fluid spaces of the brain (ventricles) to remove excess fluid and monitor pressure.
Patients with a large blood clot on or in the brain may require surgery to alleviate pressure. If the pressure is severe, parts of the brain may place increasing pressure on vital tissues within the skull, a situation that can lead to death.
An epidural hematoma is a collection of blood located underneath the bones of the skull but outside the lining, dura, of the brain. These can result from a skull fracture that damages a cranial artery, causing bleeding in the space. Patients may experience a brief blackout at the time of injury but regain full consciousness thereafter. As the bleeding continues, they can experience a worsening headache, slip into a coma and even die. Prompt surgical care, even for patients with a large EDH, can result in a successful outcome.
A subdural hematoma also lies on the surface of the brain, just underneath the lining. Subdural hematomas often result from a tear or rupture of the veins that run between the brain and the dura. These are more common in older patients because, as we age, our brains shrink, making veins more susceptible to injury.
An intracerebral hemorrhage arises within the substance of the brain. The smallest of these may represent contusions or "bruises," while the largest can tear apart normal brain tissue. Although neurosurgeons cannot repair the damage done by the clot itself, removing the ICH through a craniotomy will relieve pressure on the rest of the brain and prevent herniation.
TBIs can cause many symptoms, depending on their severity and which part of the brain they affect. Possible symptoms include:
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07 Mar National Apprenticeship Week 2019
This year at Platts, we're celebrating National Apprenticeship Week with our 3 apprentices, and 5 'graduate' apprentices (now fully-qualified) who make up our 'almost-60' strong workforce. As we rapidly grow, apprentices are an important and valued part of our HR strategy, and a training avenue Platts will continue to use well into the future.
Why not read more about the experiences of some of our current staff who are completing their apprenticeships below- as reported by Holly Davies (Apprentice Digital Marketing Assistant).
"Here at Platts, we believe that apprenticeships are a great way to help young people get their career off to a great start- gaining knowledge, experience and qualifications, whilst working. Over recent years, Platts have offered apprenticeships to those within our Production, Garage, and Office Teams, meaning that there are several young people learning new skills across the company at any one time.
Apprenticeships mean that the employee can attend college, or work towards a qualification whilst working on the job- which can be greatly beneficial to the individual- as well as the employer, who develops staff with up to date skills and industry knowledge.
Employer of Apprentice of the Year 2018
Apprenticeships have opened many opportunities for those within Platts – and it's not just of benefit to the employees! Platts have given young people the chance to begin their career whilst studying- and in return, employees are making positive changes within their roles.
One of those, is Ross Thedens, who joined Platts early 2018 as an Apprentice Production Operative, studying Warehousing at local college, Coleg Cambria. He's part of the Platts Production Team, who operates 7 days a week, day and night- manufacturing specialist Animal Bedding. Ross' efforts, ideas and innovation recently led to an improvement which increased production by 30%.
The improvements Ross made came about through careful study of the timing of an automated form, fill and seal packing line. Ross found improvements could be made to the speed of which an empty bag was presented to the filling head of the machine, this speeded up production by 15%. After further observation and experimenting with the machines program parameters, Ross found that slowing the speed that the finished product was fed to the filling head would allow the product to flow into the bag faster by not choking the filling head. This resulted in a further increase to production of 15%.
Starting the apprenticeship jumpstarted Ross' career- and has enabled him to become an advocate for knowledge transfer within the company. This demonstrates the commitment that an apprentice can have for the company that they work for and how they, just like other experienced employees, bring their own fresh ideas, fuelling innovation and business growth.
Ross has benefitted from in house training – in addition to his course with local college- Coleg Cambria. The skills he's learned have already benefitted him greatly within his role.
Following a nomination by Management for the Local Chamber of Commerce 'Apprentice of the Year Award'- in November the company celebrated Ross' success alongside colleagues, when he was announced the Winner at the WCNW Annual Awards Evening. Platts are proud to employ the North Wales & West Cheshire Apprentice of the Year 2018!
Not just "Vocational" …
Holly Davies is currently undertaking a Digital Marketing Apprenticeship with the Institute of Digital Marketing and discusses why she feels applying for the role was the best option for her. It was a "no-brainer for her to join the company on an apprenticeship scheme". Here's what she had to say:
"Many young people feel pressured when leaving school to head straight to college, then onto university, as they often feel that this is the only way to find success in a career. This was what I had thought too, until I got offered my current role.
I went straight from school to college, studying subjects which I didn't have a huge amount of interest in, but still got good grades. When the time came around to apply for university, I still wasn't sure on what I wanted to do in the future but still applied for university and had offers from all my choices, including Aberystwyth. With not being sure on the career path I wanted to take, I decided that I would take a year out to consider whether university would be the right choice for me.
After deciding I didn't want to head to university, I began looking for a full-time job that would allow me to gain skills within a different field of work. I initially applied and was interviewed for a Telesales Role but was offered the opportunity to enrol on a Digital Marketing Course- since I already had some relevant skills and knowledge from English and Media Studies.
I jumped at the opportunity and started last November. So far, it has been a fantastic experience and I'm enjoying learning new things. I am currently enrolled with the Digital Marketing Institute and hope to receive my qualification this May. I complete my studying within working hours and from the office, as well as being able to apply this knowledge to my work throughout the day.
I've been able to attend Digital Marketing Events, allowing me to gain understanding of other businesses and how they manage their digital marketing. I think it's great to be able to go and network- getting inspiration from others and making valuable connections.
My apprenticeship has and will lead me to gain the experience I need to grow in my career, as working within the office with my Marketing Manager, and doing my Digital Marketing Course allows me to gain and share the knowledge I'm gaining to those within my work place."
Platts Commercial Services
As the business thrives, new roles are created. In 2016, Platts Commercial Services was born- a HGV Garage and VOSA Approved Testing Facility predominantly to maintain and service Platts' own fleet of 20 vehicles and 140 trailers- and now open for 3rd party work. Half of the Garage Staff are currently enrolled on apprenticeship programmes.
Ethan McDermott is the most recent recruit, joining this February as Fabrication & Welding Apprentice. Studying Level 2 Fabrication and Welding at our partner College, Coleg Cambria. He opted for an apprenticeship role, as it enables him to be able to work, learn and earn at the same time. "It allows young people to get some money behind them and settling into full time work at an earlier age than those who go to University, as well as being able to attend college and learn new skills within the trade" he says.
Ethan attends college weekly on day-release, allowing him to be around others his age and to speak to with any questions or problems, as well gaining the extra knowledge and experiences from those within the trade. So far, his role includes fixing, fabricating and welding any defects on the trailers that go into the garage.
Alex Vine is working towards his Level 2 Qualification in Mechanics. He decided to do an apprenticeship as he already had some mechanical knowledge that he wanted to put it to the test within a working environment. With experience working with cars for several years, he was familiar with mechanics when he first started at Platts. Alex describes his role as inspecting, servicing and carrying out any maintenance on the Platts fleet – and more.
Alex is supervised and mentored by Connor Pugh – who joined Platts 4 years ago as an apprentice himself- and is now fully qualified and managing other staff. This structure allows apprentices to see a clear career path and progression set out in front of them- and inspires commitment.
Alex discusses the new skills he's learned so far, and not only within mechanics. "My communication and teamwork skills have improved greatly, due to the working environment and being taught new skills by both the qualified mechanic I work and my tutor in college." He's looking forward to getting more hands on within his role during the coming months and learning more key skills for his career and hopes to complete his apprenticeship and become a full-time qualified mechanic with Platts.
Experienced Perspective
Rob Wilson, HR & Health and Safety Manager at Platts, describes apprenticeships as being a great way to kick-start youth employment within the community, which results in the direct benefits of delivering on-the-job training and development. Coupled with the cost effectiveness of employing apprentices as opposed to already skilled staff and having access to government apprenticeship grants available makes apprenticeships affordable to growing firms.
"Companies can be confident that employees on apprenticeship programmes are learning modern techniques within the trade, enabling them to use the skills within the work place and educating existing employees with the up-to-date knowledge and new technology. Apprenticeships also provide an opportunity to train customised skill sets- making apprentices flexible to the often uniquely complex needs of an individual business. On a whole, apprenticeships are a 'win-win' for both the employer and apprentice and offer a great opportunity to improve business needs."


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As a store known for stocking leading brands we are always looking for more to offer our customers. Here we have created a premium brand range of our own, one which could give you the opportunity to enjoy the difference and quality that is equal to or better than the market leading brands, but a lower price.
H&L House brand was launched to offer a better deal to customers. Today, we have developed over 100 products ranging from food to beverage, grocery to household products. We plan to design our range to cover everything from day-to-day essentials an traditional favorites, to delicious Treats and authentic dishes.
This means each time you buy "HON LEE", you can be confident that you are getting premium quality at the best price. H&L is also the first supermarket to introduce house brand products and as at to date with the most number of house brand products in town.
H&L, as a household name, will continue to be synonymous with offering customers "The Best Value Without Compromising Quality".
H&L continuously strives to look out innovative and refreshing ideas and products to keep up with the new age developments. H&L's mission to provide "Best Value", "Quality Products" and "Excellent Service". Besides, the H&L brand is associated with trustworthiness, stability, and progressiveness.


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We have been actively involved in real estate since 1991 as agents, investors, and homeowners. Our firsthand experience buying, rehabbing, selling, managing and renting our own investment properties is a valuable resource for our clients.
We have significant experience with properties in all conditions – from new construction and move-in ready condition to gut rehabs and tear downs. We have worked with both homeowners and investors to buy and sell properties, and we understand the distinct differences in what each
Working with the Weiss Team provides the benefits of working with not only
As our many satisfied past clients will attest, the Weiss Team is truly on your side and will work hard for you! Please feel free to ask for references or check out our testimonials.
We welcome the opportunity to work with you!
The Weiss Team was able to help us through a most challenging and sensitive time in the short sale of our home. They were professional and followed through on their commitment to close our short sale with two banks, helping us navigate through all the issues that can arise out of this type of complicated transaction. We highly recommend the Weiss Team as they were 'big enough to do the job and small enough to care!
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Hang around Real Life long enough and you are bound to hear the phrase, "you gotta meet them where they're at." (Yes, we ended a sentence with a preposition, but frankly, we're not sure how else to say it.)
We don't care what condition you're in when you arrive at Real Life Ministries, but we do care about where you're going. Jesus spent a lot of time pursuing the least and the last and the lost, and we care about the same things Jesus does. So, we're pursuing ways to be a light and meet people right "where they're at." In today's world, that means joining people in the ever expanding world of social media.
So, like us on Facebook, check out our blog, follow us on Twitter, share photos with us on Instagram. Our heart is to connect, encourage, engage in any way we can. In the world of digital relationships, we pray we can make an actual impact in your lives, and introduce real, transparent relationships where people are transformed by the power of Christ.


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Situated a few steps away from the reception, Dokbua restaurant is an all-day restaurant that exhibits the features of creative fusion cuisine paired with top notch service quality and topped with some extraordinary wine choices. The restaurant hosts international breakfast in the early mornings, while the lunch and dinner a la carte menus revolve around Mediterranean and authentic Asian cuisine. The restaurant is capable of accommodating 56 people.
Guests can hold private reception parties, gala dinners, anniversary parties, banqueting hall and several other entertainment features are available at your disposal.
Dokbua Restaurant offers live entertainment every evening that caters to the tastes of the guests' music. Let it be the saxophonist, jazz band, violonist or pianist, our entertainment team boasts off their talent and amuses the guests, which compliments their fine evening.
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A barbaric Wesen ritual is brought to the present and Nick, Hank and Wu are already five steps behind the serial killer. To aid in the investigation, Monroe goes undercover. Meanwhile, Hadrian's Wall's war against Black Claw intensifies as Eve uses her unique skills to interrogate a suspect.


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Items Event Handler Delegate
This API is now obsolete.
Represents the method that will handle the ItemDataBind event of a SelectionList control. For information about how to develop ASP.NET mobile applications, see Mobile Apps & Sites with ASP.NET.
public delegate void LoadItemsEventHandler(System::Object ^ sender, LoadItemsEventArgs ^ e);
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A list control contains a collection of items. These items are of the MobileListItem class. When providing default rendering, the list control represents a MobileListItem by its Text property. In templated rendering, the template can render any desired property of a MobileListItem or associated data-bound object. If an item is data-bound to a MobileListItem object, the ItemDataBind event is raised. At this time, the handler can set properties of the MobileListItem object from arbitrary expressions.
When you create a ListDataBindEventHandler delegate for a SelectionList control, you identify the method that will handle the event. The SelectionList control notifies the handler when an item event is generated. To associate the event with your event handler, add an instance of the delegate to the event. Unless you remove the delegate, the event handler is called whenever the event occurs.
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Dear Brenda Leong, CEO of the BC Securities Commission,
How long will you and the rest of the staff at the BC Securities Commission continue to obstruct justice and aid and abet criminal behavior among public officials?
Your employees made numerous false accusations against myself (Christopher Burke) and my former business partners. This in turn ensured that investors money was not protected, the exact opposite of the supposed role of the BCSC.
Did your employees collude with our lawyers behind our backs to ensure you could charge us with something?
Here is your case against us.
Of course we know all know you and gangs of lawyers will not actually take us to BC Supreme Court to finalize these charges and collect the fines you have levied on us. Why?
Could it be because your employees are all deceptive and lie constantly?
Would you risk the truth coming out in Court? Even if you bought the judge?
How many other Court cases besides this one have you and your cronies had expunged?
What makes you think the BC Securities Commission has the legal right to commit such actions?
Why would the BCSC claim here in its charges against us that we did not do an OM?
Did BCSC officials speak with our lawyers behind our backs to set us up?
Here is the Offering Memorandum we paid our lawyers at Farris Law for.
Why does this once again seem like your employees are acting with deception and manipulation?
Could it be that this is Modus Operandi for the BCSC? Silly question - of course it is.
Would you murder or conspire to have murder committed to protect your racket Brenda?
What about the BCIMC? Would you cover for their crimes and stay silent as they rob British Columbians simply to ensure twenty million dollars of investments held by the BC Securities Commission make money?
One day soon Leong you will face justice for what you have done and allowed to continue under your watch in BC. Perhaps that day will be sooner then you think.. You thought we would go away along time ago but you were wrong..
Christopher Burke
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Despite federal reforms, we're still paying a lot more for less.
Since 2011, the average deductible for single coverage has soared 63 percent.
About 1.3 million fewer people were uninsured the first three months of this year
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New process will give state authority to analyze and report on proposed rate increases
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Hospitals face a record turnover in nurses
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Blame an aging population, rising medical prices and faster economic growth
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A Simple Plan For Investigating Options
Natural Oral Health Tips Microorganisms reside in everyone's mouth and are an invisible enemy. The tiny and nearly invisible mouth microorganisms are a lot like the ones found in the gut and there are good ones and bad ones. A type of good bacteria that is commonly found in the stomach is probiotics and they can help with digestion and health. The bacteria that is unwanted is the type that can cause diseases such as gingivitis, cavities, and plaque issues. One of the most dreaded dental problems is gingivitis as it causes bleeding gums and indicates that the body can become affected if not taken care of. Bad breath is something that no one wants to have as it can be quite embarrassing to have to deal with. Bad breath is often the result of a dental problem that is more serious as sometimes even tooth brushing and mouthwashes can't get rid of it completely. Taking care of any bad bacteria in the mouth is crucial to your body and your teeth as tooth issues can begin affecting the other parts of the body. Bad bacteria can lead to overgrowth and this can cause major concerns with the heart, cause low birth weight in pregnancy, and even lead to diabetes. People that want to improve their health and get rid of some of these microorganisms that are in the body can do so with excellent oral practice and with care to their diet. It would be beneficial to start paying closer attention to the foods and drinks that you consume and making a better effort to have foods with minerals, vitamins, and more organic ingredients. People that want to try natural oral health practices can do so with the advice below. A well-known and widely practiced type of natural oral health is known as oil pulling. The practice of oil pulling is commonly done with an oil that is natural and it is put in the mouth and then swished around like mouthwash. The benefit of this is also that it can be done in a few seconds and easily implemented into your morning grooming and hygiene. Tongue scraping is an excellent way to get rid of nasty bacteria in the mouth for natural oral health and you can do that in a matter of seconds. A tongue scraper can be purchased as there are holistic businesses that sell these natural products for people that want to use these for their health. The third great method for natural oral health is using natural toothpaste for brushing your teeth as there are some out there made of all-natural and organic ingredients. You can even find some natural toothpastes made of a flavor that is good so that you aren't dealing with a bad flavor when trying to brush your teeth.How I Became An Expert on Options


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / July 13, 2018 / MGX Minerals Inc. ("MGX" or the "Company") (CSE: XMG / FKT: 1MG / OTCQB: MGXMF) is pleased to announce it has entered into a Property Option Agreement (the "Agreement") with Belmont Resources (TSX.V: BEA / FKT: L3L1) ("Belmont") to acquire an initial 25% interest in the Kibby Basin, Nevada lithium brine property ("Kibby Basin"), approximately 50km North of Clayton Valley, NV. MGX will fund up to C$300,000 in exploration expenditures, to be used for drilling in the Kibby Basin. The target area is a large well-defined anomaly discovered by a magnetotelluric survey carried out by Belmont in January 2018. The Agreement allows MGX to earn an additional 25% interest in Kibby Basin property by funding an additional C$300,000 in exploration expenditures for drilling at which time the project will become a 50/50 Joint Venture with access to MGX's rapid lithium extraction technology.
MGX has also agreed to acquire four million Units (the "Units") of Belmont at a price of $0.05 per Unit in the form of a non-brokered private placement. Each Unit will consist of one common share of Belmont and one transferable share purchase warrant (a "Warrant"). Each whole warrant will permit the holder to acquire one additional share of the Company at a price of $0.08 in the first year and at $0.10 in the second year after closing. The Common Shares and Warrants are subject to a statutory hold period and subject to the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") approval. Additionally, MGX will be granted warrants to purchase up to 10 million shares of Belmont, at a price of $0.20 per share, exercisable for a period of three (3) years.
Upon exercise of the full option agreement, MGX will become operator and the 50/50 Joint Venture will be formed with Belmont covering further exploration in the Kibby Basin, which may include additional exploration drilling, well testing operations, and extraction plant installation and operation. The Joint Venture will have access to MGX's rapid lithium extraction technology.
About the Kibby Basin Lithium Brine Project
Kibby Basin is located in the western portion of the Great Basin in Nevada. The property covers 2,560 acres located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Kibby Flat is a dry playa and no springs or water sources occur on the Property. Geothermal research by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology ("NvBMG") identified three wells and springs in the region. All three sources indicated near-surface water. Nevada has abundant geothermal resources and NvBMG compilation has outlined areas with potential heat flow, based on surface temperatures of springs, drill hole-water temperatures, geothermal-related geochemical signatures, and associated geologic settings. These areas suggest zones of potential elevated heat flow.
Geologic research of the Kibby Basin has indicated that proximal rhyolitic flows and tuffs surrounding the basin could be a potential source of Li brine in the Kibby Basis Playa. In addition, the Kibby Basin is located within a geothermal cluster at a basin low setting. Regional geophysical signatures in the area reflect similar anomalies comparative to that of Clayton Valley, approximately 50km to the South, location of Abermarle's Silver Peak Mine, the only North American lithium producer.
Figure 1. View from North, South, East, and West of the 3D resistivity values lower than 10 Ohm-m from the 3D MT model.
Petrolithium Technology
MGX's rapid recovery process concentrates lithium, magnesium and other minerals from a variety of brines, including oil and gas wastewater, natural brine and industrial plant wastewater. The process uses a nano-filtration technology that utilizes a proprietary design process currently covered under patent and patent-pending applications.
Qualified Person
Andris Kikauka (P. Geo.), Vice President of Exploration for MGX Minerals, has prepared, reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information in this press release. Mr. Kikauka is a non-independent Qualified Person within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 Standards.


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Sometimes, well most of the time, I have projects filtering through my mind. And most of the time, well some of the time, I write them out and post them on my blog. Should I? If I think long about that question, I hesitate and decide not to post. This is a good thing. I have long been impulsive. Anxious. Dreading myself. Second guessing if I am worth the ink I spill. And spill and spill and spill.
Yes. I become too introspective, too over-the-top dramatic. This post is a prime example of why I am sure others find me contagious. If the sun is shining, most the time you will find me crying in my coffee. My cup neither empty or full. Fate in life, for me, is a cup in my hand waiting to spill. With paper stained, I dread the peering eyes. I really never like the words I have written. My foot tapping. I just want to dance.


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Being of Korean heritage, it always delights me when I find another great Korean skin care product to share with you. Today is no exception. I bring you the SKINFOOD EGG WHITE PORE MASK. It feels like you are applying "white clay" to your skin. It's thick and rich, and a little goes a long way with this affordable face mask. It has really shrunken my pores and I don't have any blackheads that you can see. My complexion is smooth and clear.
- A dedicated, pore-refining mask with egg whites that tightens enlarged pores and lessens their appearance, and regulates excessive sebum.
- Egg whites (albumen), is one of nature's highest quality protein sources.
- Contains niacin (Vitamin B3), riboflavin (Vitamin B2), selenium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and a complete amino acid profile.
- Egg whites are a deep cleanser for congested skin. It deeply penetrates pores as it removes pore-clogging oil and dead skin cells along with blackheads.
- Egg white stimulates the growth of collagen cells, improving your skin's elasticity and resilience.
- After cleansing, apply to your face except the eye and mouth area. Wash off with lukewarm water in 10-15 minutes.
I like the SKINFOOD EGG WHITE PORE MASK.
It really cleans your face and gives it that fresh feeling. I recommend this product for those with oily skin and acne as it is really super good at getting the impurities out of your skin, and leaving it smoother. Will you try it? It both affordable (Under $10) and effective.
Thank you for spending time with me today. Please share this blog on social media.
Coming up next on The Badass Writer: The latest in celebrity skincare with Robin McGraw, a book review on Frozen Butterflies and a peek inside Self-Made Cosmetics. Stay with us!
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At electric vehicle fast-charging stations, it is generally recommended to avoid charging beyond similar to 80% State-of-Charge (SOC) since topping-off to full capacity disproportionately increases the charging time. This necessitates studying its long-term impact compared to slower rate charging to full capacity typical of home or residential charging. Here we present the long-term ageing effects on commercial 18650 NMC-LMO/graphite cell cycled between 2.6-4.2 V at three different charging protocols: 1.5 C-rate fast-partial charging ( to 82.5% SOC), 0.5 C-rate slow standard charging without or with a constant-voltage step (to 93% or 100% SOC). Quantitative discharge-curve and postmortem analyses are used to evaluate ageing. The results show that ageing rate increases in the order: fast-partial charging < standard charging < standard charging with constant-voltage period, indicating that higher SOC-range near full capacity is more detrimental to battery life than fast-charging. The capacity fade is totally dominated by cyclable-lithium loss. The similar to 8% NMC-LMO active material loss has negligible impact on the cell capacity fade due to the electrodes excess material in the fresh cell and its moderate loss rate with ageing compared to the cyclable-lithium. Similar ageing modes in terms of capacity fade and impedance rise are found irrespective of the charging protocol.
The development of lithium-ion batteries with higher energy and power density, better safety, and lower cost has significantly contributed to the increased market share of electric vehicles (EVs) in the last decade. However, the expectations of end-users of EVs still require a continuous quest for better performance. One important end-user expectation is the ability of the battery to be charged rapidly, but the durability of lithium-ion batteries could be affected by the fast charging. Hence, detailed investigations are required to understand the extent and mechanism of the degradation for an optimized battery usage and material development.
In order to meet the high energy and power required in EVs, multiple large-format cells are connected in series and in parallel. Such a condition leads to an uneven distribution of temperature, pressure, and current in a cell or among cells that may cause locally inhomogeneous ageing and accelerate the global battery ageing. This thesis investigates the effects of charging rate, charging protocol, and external compression on battery durability. The impacts of inhomogeneities induced by cell design constraint, and uneven compression and temperature distributions are also addressed. The studies are based LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2/graphite cells. Cell housing for a controlled pressure and temperature application was developed. Electrochemical and material characterization techniques were used in the investigation.
The results show that fast charging at a rate equivalent to full charging in 20 minutes (3C rate) or less accelerates battery ageing. The ageing rate is less sensitive to charging rate in a longer charging time, i.e. at 2C and below, where it is determined more by factors such as the extent of full charging. In all cases, the capacity loss is limited by the cyclable lithium loss. External compression of a battery in an optimum range reduces ageing, but compression above or below the optimum range accelerates ageing. Lithium-ion batteries age non-uniformly. Cycling induces an increase in the impedance at the outer radius of curvature of a prismatic cell jellyroll, associated with a loss of contact between the current collector and the electrode coating. An unfavorable current distribution induced by uneven temperature distribution can accelerate battery ageing.


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Blogging Tips For the Fastest Blog on the Racecourse
WordPress Plugins and FireFox Add-Ons
This blog is always a work-in-progress. Since I switched to WordPress, I've become plug-in happy – there are so many WordPress plugins that can enhance a site's performance.
If you're thinking of starting a blog (or perhaps are already an established blogger) and may be wondering whether you should be using Blogger or WordPress – Trisha and Kim from Top Mom Blogger offer a great explanation of the differences.
Should you make the decision to switch to WordPress – be sure to sign up for the WordPress Orientation Classes offered by Kelly McCausey.
I'd like to share a few plug-ins that I've recently added, that make my blog a smooth-running machine (usually.)
1) WordPress Gzip – This is a plugin that essentially compresses and zips the text on your pages. If you're familiar with Microsoft Word, I make use of the "shrink to fit" button quite often when I'm preparing documents. It allows me to fit that last sentence or two onto one page.
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I've found that letting WordPress gzip pages significantly improves performance, typically slashing the size of the text to a fourth. For my home page, that's a 30% reduction of total page size—including images, ads, etc. A 30% reduction in bandwidth is nothing to sniff at.
2) WP Super Cache saves your recently viewed pages, allowing them to be accessed more quickly by readers. There's also the ability for you to manually clear the cache, or to set functions as to when it should be cleared.
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
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3) Link Cloaker – If you monetize your blog and have affiliate links of any type that aren't cloaked, you may be losing out on affiliate commissions. It's happened to me in the past. If you don't cloak your links, they'll show up in the URL whenever someone clicks over to your hop page.
This WordPress plugin is an excellent add-on that not only cloaks your links, but tracks the click-throughs to see how each affiliate link is performing.
Find at: Link Cloaker
4) TTFTitles WordPress plugin enables me to have my own font listed on my post titles. Right now, I'm using the Miama font, which matches the font on the header of Moomette's Magnificents.
This plugin lets you use images to replace the titles of your posts, thus circumventing the problem of guessing what fonts your end-users might have installed.
Eve, from Designing With Eve clued me into this wp plug-in. Eve, a fellow WAHM, has been designing websites since 1998 and has a degree in computer programming and design. She recently opened up her new design services company and will be redesigning my recipe blog for me – Moomettesgram's Favorite Recipes – so watch for my announcement when it's up and running! Be sure to check out Eve's design porfolio!
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5) WiseStamp – Lastly, this isn't a WordPress plugin tip – but be sure to check out the new Fire Fox browser addon that enables you to customize your email signature by adding your social networking buttons, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN and Friendfeed to it!
Hat Tip to: Blogging Basics 101
If you found these tips helpful, please let me know! Happy Blogging!


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Drum Miking 101
Part 1: Single-Microphone Setups
In this series we'll look at how to mike a drumset, starting with a single microphone and adding one each time until we arrive at a complete close-mike configuration. The idea behind the series is to help you fully understand how the placement of the microphones and their distance from the drums affects the overall sound.
You may not think a single mic can do that great a job of capturing a full drumset sound, but you'd be surprised. There are no hard-and-fast rules in drum miking. The bottom line is the final outcome. By starting with just one mic, you can really focus on the acoustic balance of your drumset. Are you getting too much hi-hat in the mix? Maybe you're hitting it too hard. If the tone is dead and lacks sustain, you may need to look at the condition of your drumheads and adjust your tuning. My point is, don't automatically assume that it's a bad microphone or bad mic placement that's preventing you from getting a good sound. It could just be a matter of addressing your touch and dynamics.
There are many options for where to place a single mic to capture an entire drumset, but we'll focus on three positions. If you're not able to record your drums yourself, check out the sample video we've posted at moderndrummer.com. As you're watching, listen for the sonic differences between the three mic positions and how the changes in distance from the drumset affect the attack, tone, and definition. Ask yourself the following questions: Do I get a clear representation of the drumset and a good overall tone? Do I hear the attack of each instrument? Is the sound clearly defined? And are all of the drums and cymbals evenly balanced?
Position 1: Far Room Mic
Our first position is with the microphone placed 10′ in front of the drumset and pointed directly toward the center of the kit. We used a Sony C-48 large-diaphragm condenser, 4.5′ off the ground. Listen through headphones to the sound this position gets. It captures a very good representation of the overall character of the kit and is a good indicator of the tone of your drums. Do you hear a clearly defined sound? If you need super-clean, precise drum tones, this position may not be the best choice. If you're trying to play fast blast beats, the sound from this far away from the kit can get a bit muddy. I like this position for solo work that requires a natural presentation of the instrument.
Position 2: Near Room Mic
Our second position is 5′ in front of the middle of the kit. The representation of the drumset from here is still well balanced, but now we're hearing a little more definition. The lower frequencies are more pronounced, so we have a slightly fuller sound than with the far room position.
Low-frequency information has a hard time getting into any mic. This is because middle and high frequencies are a bit more efficient as they travel through the air. You can still get a nice balance when miking drums from a distance, but the tone thins out the farther from the kit you go.
Position 3: Mono Overhead
Our third position is directly over the drumset and centered on the batter head of the bass drum. This placement allows the microphone to "see" the entire kit. If you use a very large drumset, you may find that you need to raise the microphone in order for it to pick up all of the instruments. This position gives you a well-
defined sound that can be mixed in with other instruments fairly easily. The exception is that now the bass drum is getting a bit lost, but we'll address that issue in a future article.
You could spend days moving a microphone to a lot of different positions in your room to discover many other options, but try using these three as a starting point. If you can't get what you're looking for with one of these, and you're sure that your drums sound good and you're playing with good balance, feel free to experiment with some alternative placements. Next month we'll explore ways to employ stereo miking techniques at different distances, as well as a two-mic mono option. Until then!
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One of my favorite quotes in Jim Blasingame's new book, The Age of the Customer, comes from Blasingame's Law of Business Love, which reads, "It's okay to fall in love with what you do, but it's not okay to fall in love with how you do it".
This IS the age of the customer and businesses cannot rest on the "normal", or "what's always worked". You have to start looking at what the customer wants and even knowing what they want before they do.
Cases in point:
Restaurants – posting daily menus and specials online.
Tire stores – creating a customer contact system to remind them when tires need to be checked, rotated and balanced.
Wholesale suppliers – figure out how to get more customers IN the door to get closer to the end user instead of just dropping merchandise off at their door.
One of my favorite quotes in the book . . . okay, I have more than one . . . is, "Remember, face-to-face is the original social media". You can, and should, demonstrate values and provide added resources online. Build a community. But face-to-face customer networking is still a very powerful tool. Relationship building starts immediately. Depending on the situation or business, when it comes to relationships, it may be lasting or even just long enough for that one interaction.


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October 21 to mid-December 2019
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Haldred Chronicles: Anna is out. 2 years of work and book 4 has at last been released. I am happy with the result and it seems so are my readers! So, after more than a month of resting, what now?
I've already completed one big task, and that was to submit a short story to sci-fi and fantasy publishers Black Library as part of their call for submissions. With the able help of my wife Deborah, who proofread the submission, I sent off the 500-word extract and summary a couple of days ago.
The second big task now sitting on my to-do list is, of course, book 5. I have taken some time to look through my various story ideas and have decided to go with 'Haldred Chronicles: Twig'. This story will concentrate on the Courier-fey, message passing creatures that have been a staple of Haldred Chronicles since the first book. Now, with book 5, readers will learn a little more about these creatures.
I have a few other plans as well that I'll work on when I have time.
I hope to go over my first 3 books and reformat the look of them. Each of them featured slightly different font and paragraph design so I now want to re-edit them so that they are all the same. In addition, I hope to use the re-formatted work to create better-printed copies of the books via Kindle Direct Publishing.
I've also been working on a synopsis of book 3, 'Shade'. Together with a recently completed introduction letter and the first 3 chapters, I hope to use this package as my way to advertise the series to potential publishers and agents.
There is plenty planned for the next few months. I feel like the Easter holidays have allowed me to get back into writing and make my plans for the future of the series.
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Hello there!
Another week, another blogpost! For this week, I decided to do something a little different, but hopefully helpful for those busy days!
I thought it'd be cool to write about how to transform an outfit from day to night! We all know that casual attire is more suited for the day time, and we tend to wear darker colours or dress up a bit for evening events. Hence, I wanted to take one basic outfit and show you how you can change it to work for both day and night!
So, my BIGGEST Style Tip for this is – it all depends on the ACCESSORIES!
It is ALL about the accessories! All you need is your core items and you can manipulate your accessories to make your outfit appropriate for any time of day.
Let's break it down:
This is your standard top and pants that you will style the rest of your outfit around! Just a simple shirt and trousers, that's it!
Now with the accessories, it's important to remember that there will be some that you KEEP and some that you CHANGE, and some that are NEUTRAL.
➖Shoes –> I suggest wearing the same pair of shoes because they are more bulky/heavy to carry around, and sometimes, you just want to be comfortable. So for the shoes, go for something classy and comfy and you'll be good to go!
➖Watch –> Your watch should be versatile and is an essential piece of your outfit, so you want to make sure it's rocking all day long.
➖Hijab –> One of the easiest ways to change up an outfit and make it look different is to wear a different hijab! You can definitely go for something darker for the evening time, or something neutral to keep the outfit calm and classy.
➖'Extra Clothing' –> If your outfit requires a jacket or cardigan for modesty purposes, I say switch it out! This will also largely depend on weather conditions, because it can be cooler at night.
Wearing a different blazer or sweater will totally give your look a new vibe.
These are items that do not really matter if you keep or change, and you can decide based on what works for you!
➖Bag –> For your purse, definitely go for whatever is functional and suits your needs! If you're someone who loves her 'everyday' bag, then stick with it! But hey, I wouldn't be opposed to swapping your purse for a cute clutch either 😉
➖Jewelry –> This also totally depends on your and if you attending a specific event. You can adjust this to your activities for the day/night and go with whatever works 😊
Okay now that we know what we are working with, I can share my outfit!
My basics were some 1) Black Jeans and a 2) Striped T-shirt. Super easy and comfortable as well! These two are definitely my staples.
For my accessories, I kept my 1) Black Boots as my shoes that I basically wear everyday in the winter! I also kept my 2) Fantasia Watch from Zisanzo Watches! I really love this watch because it's really classy, effortless, and timeless! It's very versatile and works with every outfit. It has a neutral leather strap with rose gold accents that really gives the watch a sophisticated look. You can definitely tell that this watch is high quality and designed with a careful eye. It is very simple in design but has a modern look that is sure to please everyone.
If you're looking for a new watch, I'd definitely suggest checking out Zisanzo's collection! Zisanzo has three different watch faces that are their classic looks. They even have a limited edition watch face that is inspired by the Whitchurch clock in the UK! 😱 You can even get different watch straps to diversify your watch game even more! Long Live #WatchWednesday 😏
Also, if you want to get 10% off your order, just enter "hijabiheroes" in the checkout! Yeah, I gotchu! 😏
For the accessories I changed, I wore a 1) Brown hijab during the Day and a Cream one at Night and a 2) Pink cardigan for Day, and a Black Lace Moto Jacket for Night.
For the neutral accessories, I decided to wear a 1) cute 90's inspired mini backpack during the day and then wore a cute bucket bag for the evening look, and for my 2) jewelry, I decided to keep my bracelet but just added a dainty stone necklace for the night time look to tie my outfit together!
Alright, here are both of the outfits!
Don't forget to check out Zisanzo's website and Instagram!
I hope you liked this post and found it helpful!
For more of my outfit pictures and other HH related shenanigans, check out my Instagram and Facebook, and add your email to my mailing list to get new HH posts straight to your email!
Thank you, always ❤
Speak to you sooooon!
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Gilli Allan was born in Kent. Her hobby was writing, but her ambition was to be a commercial artist. After art school she found work as an advertising illustrator.
With marriage and the arrival of her son, a reassessment of priorities was needed. Gilli gave up the stressful world of advertising and although she'd not written since teenage, she decided to 'write a novel'. Even though it was the first she had ever finished, the resulting book quickly found a publisher. Gilli produced the cover artwork. Sadly, after publishing two of her books, the small independent publisher folded.
Now living in Gloucestershire, Gilli joined the RNA. She continued to write unconventional contemporary relationship fiction. Having failed to find a new publisher for her own idiosyncratic 'take' on romance, and with the advent of the e-book revolution, she self-published three books. She was delighted when she was contracted to Accent Press and those books were republished.
Art remains an interest and in recent years, Gilli has taken on various illustration commissions.
The biggest joy and reward in the life of Gilli and her husband Geoff is that their historian son – Thomas Williams – has successfully taken up the writing baton.


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As with every K&N kit, when you bolt-on a K&N 57i Performance Induction Kit, you will notice the difference the next time you drive your vehicle. K&N 57i Performance Induction Kits are a great way and in many cases the only way to maximize airflow and engine performance. They will replace the factory air box providing both High-Flow air filter technology and a larger air filter size. This winning combination will increase horsepower and sound great too.
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14 Salads That Satisfy
Roasted Tofu and Citrus Artichoke Salad
Try this recipe: Roasted Tofu and Citrus Artichoke Salad
Artichokes may not pack as much protein as tofu, but they're still a surprisingly good source to keep you fuller longer.
Ingredients: extra-firm tofu, artichoke hearts, extra-virgin olive oil, black pepper, kosher salt, fennel, pink grapefruit, honey, radicchio, navel oranges, pine nuts, fresh chives
Calories: 496
White Bean and Lentil Tabbouleh
Try this recipe: White Bean and Lentil Tabbouleh
Lentils are a superfood that should be a staple of any healthy diet, and in this salad they join tuna for a major helping of protein.
Ingredients: green lentils, extra-virgin olive oil, lemon juice, kosher salt, black pepper, parsley, fresh mint, red onion, cannellini beans, cherry tomatoes, tuna
Calories: 483
Roasted Carrot and Chickpea Salad
Try this recipe: Roasted Carrot and Chickpea Salad
This salad is bursting with both color and flavor, and it boasts a tangy yogurt-based dressing to tie it all together.
Ingredients: carrots, chickpeas, extra-virgin olive oil, black pepper, kosher salt, sweet peas, Greek yogurt, lemon juice, granulated sugar, kalamata olives, sunflower seeds, parsley
Calories: 529
Broccoli and Miso Quinoa Salad
Try this recipe: Broccoli and Miso Quinoa Salad
With quinoa, tempeh, and broccoli making the base of this salad, it's chock full of vegan protein sources.
Ingredients: red quinoa, kosher salt, green cabbage, watermelon radishes, broccoli florets, lime juice, miso, sesame oil, tempeh, roasted salted peanuts, garlic
Calories: 532
Avocado and Watercress Salad
Try this recipe: Avocado and Watercress Salad
This tasty salad is all about texture—from creamy avocado to to crunchy pistachios—not to mention the the complex flavors.
Ingredients: extra-virgin olive oil, tarragon, honey, kosher salt, watercress, edamame, hard-cooked eggs, avocados, grape tomatoes, green olives, pistachios
Calories: 472
Steak and Feta Salad
Try this recipe: Steak and Feta Salad
Mint, oregano, and basil could all be picked from a home herb garden for maximum freshness. But even if you don't have a green thumb, this salad is a great way to use up extra fresh herbs before htey wilt in your fridge.
Ingredients: fresh mint, lemon, extra-virgin olive oil, fresh oregano, feta cheese, flank steak, black pepper, kosher salt, baby spinach, cucumber, fresh basil
Calories: 444
More than just greens
Adobo-Marinated Grass-Fed Flank Steak With Spinach Salad
Filling grass-fed beef is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and tastes fantastic with this cilantro and citrus marinade.
Ingredients: Steak, orange juice, lime juice, adobo seasoning, cilantro, garlic, corn, olive oil, jícama, spinach, roasted red peppers, avocado, queso fresco
Calories: 386
Try this recipe: Adobo-Marinated Grass-Fed Flank Steak With Spinach Salad
Pizza Panzanella Salad
Ingredients: Italian cheese–flavored pizza crust, romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, red onions, kalamata olives, cucumbers, navy beans, roasted red peppers, feta cheese, red wine vinegar, dried dill, fennel seeds, extra-virgin olive oil
Calories: 336
Try this recipe: Pizza Panzanella Salad
Moroccan Lamb Salad With Carrots and Mint
Ingredients: Lean lamb loin chops, garlic, Greek-style yogurt, lemon juice, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, carrots, fresh mint, golden raisins, scallions
Calories: 227
Try this recipe: Moroccan Lamb Salad With Carrots and Mint
Chicken Salad With Potatoes and Arugula
Ingredients: New potatoes, chicken breasts, olive oil, white wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, arugula, tarragon, Parmesan cheese
Calories: 369
Try this recipe: Chicken Salad With Potatoes and Arugula
Grilled-Vegetable Salad With Lentils
Ingredients: Dried lentils, bay leaf, red onion, walnuts, olive oil, red wine vinegar, herbes de Provence, garlic, asparagus, zucchini, yellow, orange, and red bell pepper, eggplant, thyme
Calories: 404
Try this recipe: Grilled-Vegetable Salad with Lentils
Lobster and Corn Salad With Tarragon Vinaigrette
Ingredients: Champagne or white wine vinegar, lemon juice, shallots, tarragon, olive oil, corn, lobster meat, chives
Calories: 290
Try this recipe: Lobster and Corn Salad With Tarragon Vinaigrette
Black Bean–Quinoa Salad With Basil-Lemon Dressing
Ingredients: Quinoa, vegetable broth, firm tofu, olive oil, basil, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, sugar, lemon rind, garlic, lima beans, tomatoes, green onions, carrots, black beans
Calories: 232
Try this recipe: Black Bean–Quinoa Salad With Basil-Lemon Dressing
Spanish-Style Tuna and Potato Salad
Ingredients: Red potatoes, green beans, cherry tomatoes, shallots, paprika, red pepper, albacore tuna, olive oil, sherry vinegar, romaine lettuce
Calories: 239
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A vast section of the counter was given over to every type of sweet and chocolate bar you could imagine, stretching back in tiers so high that you couldn't even reach the biggest bars of chocolate at the back. The shelves behind the counter in the window were filled with rows of large jars full of loose sweets like Lemon Sherbets, Cola Cubes and Everton Mints, and a set of scales to weigh them out with.
Perhaps my favourite though were the drums of penny sweets, which were lined up on the counter top waiting for children to come in from the village school two doors away and buy them at home time. You could say that sweets formed a large part of my childhood and I am still partial to a Fruit Salad chew or a packet of Love Hearts here and there.
A few weeks ago while I was at BlogOnMOSI I got chatting to the people at the Swizzles Matlow stand, no doubt enticed by the marvellous display of confectionery they had there too (which was a bit like the Mothership calling me). They had all my favourites including the humble drumstick and the double lolly (a couple of these came home in my handbag) and some new things that I hadn't seen before - sweets have certainly moved on recently and I went away having found a new favourite in the form of Drumstick flavoured Squashies!
Yes, you read that right. A sweet that is flavoured like a drumstick lolly and is soft and chewy and really rather moreish.
It is a good job that they come in such generous sized bags. They are perfect for
stuffing in your face before anyone else does sharing *ahem*.
Needless to say that the samples I brought back with me didn't last very long and so I was really chuffed when Swizzles Matlow sent us a few more to try.
Squashies don't just come in classic Drumstick lolly flavour but also in new Drumstick Bubblegum or Sour Cherry and Apple flavour. Both of these were a real hit with my brood.
|I'll be honest. The Love Hearts Squashies may have* been eaten
before I could take a picture of them. Oops. *were
Other flavours include Refreshers (remember them?), Love Hearts (they are really yummy too and are like a fruity alternative to the more traditional version), and Double Lolly flavour. We all had our favourites after trying them all. I really like that Swizzles has revived these traditional sweets and made them into something new and exciting for another generation of children (and grown-ups!) to enjoy.
|See, I told you I was sharing.
As well as producing all these amazing new sweets, Swizzles Matlow currently have a campaign running called Sweet Memories. To take part they are asking fans to either go to their website: www.swizzels.com/sweetmemories and share their sweet related memory (via either a picture or 500 words) or simply share them on social media with the hashtag #sweetmemories.
Here is my Sweet Memories picture from my BlogOn haul:
Although my real Sweet Memory will always be my Mum and Dad's shop.
You can follow Swizzles Matlow on Facebook and Twitter to join in the fun there, and of course you can always just go and buy a packet of Squashies and create some Sweet Memories of your own at home too!
Although my real Sweet Memory will always be my Mum and Dad's shop.
You can follow Swizzles Matlow on Facebook and Twitter to join in the fun there, and of course you can always just go and buy a packet of Squashies and create some Sweet Memories of your own at home too!
Disclaimer: We were sent a selection of Swizzles Matlow Squashies for the purpose of this post. All words and opinions are our own.


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Interview with UofM's Penny Hardaway
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — "Penny Mania" is real and it is happening in Memphis.
Former UofM standout and NBA star Penny Hardaway is the new head coach of the Tigers basketball team.
The man of the hour talked with WREG's Alex Coleman and Marybeth Conley on Live at 9 on Wednesday.


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Martin Bros. Recipes
Kickin' Chicken Sandwich
Keywords: Sandwiches & Wraps, Poultry
Added: May 20, 2016
1 each Tyson Marinated Butterflied Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast (972750)
1 each Baker Boy Sliced Focaccia Square (342864)
1 oz French's Frank's® RedHot® Sauce (560770)
1 each Pepper Jack Cheese Slice (900010)
1 oz C.H. Robinson Shredded Lettuce – 1/4 in (360700)
2 each Bix Tomato Slices (348109)
2 each McCain Anchor® Poppers™ Cream Cheese Breaded Stuffed Jalapeños (961810), prepared
1 oz Chipotle Mayo (see recipe)
1 qt Ventura Classic Gourmet® Select Extra Heavy Mayonnaise (631390)
7 oz Roland Chipotle Peppers in Adobo Sauce (561180)
2 tsp Lassonde Ruby Kist® Lemon Juice (733070)
1. Grill chicken.
2. Toast bun.
3. Brush grilled chicken with hot sauce.
4. Blend Chipotle Mayo ingredients together in food processor.
5. Build sandwich.
6. Serve with McCain Moore's® Vidalia® Battered Onion Rings (946610) – 6 oz.
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To celebrate the release of Devil May Cry HD Collection on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, Capcom has announced a Devil May Cry collaboration for Monster Hunter: World.
The collaboration, due out "later this year," will enable players to craft a weapon described as a "devious combination of the Force Edge and Alastor from the Devil May Cry series."
Here is a description of the collaboration, via Capcom Unity:
You'll get to fight hellish foes in Monster Hunter: World to earn this devious combination of the Force Edge and Alastor. In Monster Hunter, that weapon falls in the Charge Blade category, and typically features a hefty shield that, when combined with its matching sword, can turn into a massive axe. As you can see, we're putting a bit of a DMC twist to the formula and leaving the shield out of the picture altogether (you'll still be able to guard though) and instead of a sword turning into an axe, you'll get a Force Edge that turns into a massive Alastor. I, for one, cannot wait to wield one of these and slash a Deviljho in the face… to see if it cries. Please stay tuned for more information on when this content will be available. It will be available to all Monster Hunter: World players; you just need to complete the right Event Quest when the time comes.
Monster Hunter: World is available now worldwide for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (the Xbox One version is only available in North America and Europe). A PC version is due out this fall.
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