text:
Levels can very. I heard CoT ends around lvl 13 due to the structure but it depends on Baldwin
perfect. i was just hoping for at least around 10. no point in aiming for arcane trickster if we were ending around 6 or so.
do you think arcane trickster would be a good addition to the group? still same character (elf, backround, etc) just levels in rogue as well as wizard. i also like the idea of a wizard arcane trickster, little bit different.
|baldwin the merciful
Arcane Trickster is not a bad idea. A little overlap for covering bases so we arn't left hanging in case of an unfortanate death.
Might be better in discussion, but a possible way to help things get moving when Baldwin thinks it is time for main plot stuff is just put up a *Main Plot* title on top of the post. The side adventures are great, but the heart of the AP is the main plot so this can help get us back on track.
If we can get through a book every 3-4 months that would be awesome
Finished the raw details. 2 levels of rogue, 1 in wizard. that gives him cantrips, a familiar (snake, bonus to bluff and it's a sneaky attack when i get grappled), a rogue trick, trapfinding, and a cool subschool in illusion that allows him to hide in crowds. oh also evasion :D. plan on taking 1 more level in rogue (sneak attack goes to 2d6 and get trap sense). then i'll add another 2 of wizard, then prestige.
also helps explain why my sister lia disapproves of me a little. she's more of NG, and a full wizard. she dislikes my sneaky way of doing things.
Goblins not allowed. I think a goblin would have been crazy. I would like to play one someday. Can't help but want to be an alchemist with one.
Yep, but hopefully one can play them in other APs. They pop up a lot in Skull and Shackles
@auvrelth. Base stuff looks good. Rogues are excellent for flanking with our beatsticks(John,Duncan)
|baldwin the merciful
|Andres Saied de Vyre
As an FYI, I will be closing this one by noon.
I want everyone who submitted a character to confirm they are on board with the posting requirements. I undersatnd RL happens and there will be slow days, but its best if we are all on the same page going in.
I am completely on board. I'm heading off to college next week, and i'll only be unavailable for a an hour or two at a time (can probably still sneak on my computer). I'm very excited to get my online gaming started.
|Tevyn de Fonseca
So here is Tevyn's story.
Tevyn de Fonseca a Wind Elemental Sorceror originally from Pezzack in Cheliax. While on a trip to Westcrown four years ago to buy new equipment for his family's farm was pressganged into the Chelaxian Navy at the age of 13 because they needed a cabin boy. The shanghai was perpetuated by a beautiful Lieutenant Lemara Sarini of said navy and powerful house in Cheliax by getting the boy really drunk.
While serving in the navy, he learned the profession of sailing. He had always been a very charismatic boy, where he excelled at playing percussion, whether it be with sticks or his hands. He also discovered he was a sorceror one day after his 14th birthday while at sea in the Fever Sea. He knew if the captain of his ship found out about his abilities, they would never allow him to end his enlistment, of course it was a forced enlistment.
His drumming during his ship's engagements and his ability to play cards endeared him with his fellow sailors and now that his enlistment is finished, he is staying with one eyed Jimmy for the time being before he makes the long trek back to Pezzack to take back the family farm.
Since his enlistment ended he has befriended one barkeeper named Johannes Davenport where he Tevyn plays the drums for all the folk in the bar to earn money.
Known NPCs: Lemara Sarini, noblewoman
One eyed Jimmy; former sailor, rogue fence
Johannes Davenport; Barkeeper of the Fiddling Ape
|baldwin the merciful
I am capable. I have a standard game on Thursday and weekends are hit and miss for me. I should only be unavailable 5 days through October that I know of on weekends unless have to travel.
I am trying to get an AP group together for once or twice a month on Friday nights so my nephew can play. Other than that then I should be around through most afternoons and evenings and maybe even early mornings. If need earlier then just need to know. I am on Central time.
@baldwin about magic items. i'm thinking of having a cloak of elvenkind (+5 on stealth checks, 2500gp) that was my father's before the raiders killed him (sentimental value, but of course still count that against my total wealth). probably just buy basic equipment then keep the rest. is that ok?
sorry forgot to post as Auvrelth
|Tevyn de Fonseca
|Duncan Redhammer
|baldwin the merciful
CampinCarl9127 wrote:@baldwin about magic items. i'm thinking of having a cloak of elvenkind (+5 on stealth checks, 2500gp) that was my father's before the raiders killed him (sentimental value, but of course still count that against my total wealth). probably just buy basic equipment then keep the rest. is that ok?sorry forgot to post as Auvrelth
1,500 is the most for one item at this level, sorry.
I think that 2-5 in non combat situations are fine. If one is off doing some chatting with a NPC, then going slower shouldn't be a problem.(Especially if the posts are flavor scenes between the PC and a PC controlled NPC) if the entire group is gathered, making yourself present should be enough in many situations. Posting will be more of an issue during combat.
|Andres Saied de Vyre
@Baldwin: I understand the level of posting you require, and I feel that I will be able to keep up with it (despite the fact that Fantasy Football will be starting soon)
Andres Saied de Vyre, fourth son of the noble House Saied is complete. I will be posting a fleshed out back story soon.
Mechanically, the concept behind Andres is pretty simple. Via Freebooter's Bane (And next level Freebooter's bond) he will provide melee bonuses to the party. Getting in close he will use his Guisarme to get in close and trip. During large scale fights he can drink a potion of enlarge person to increase his reach, and with Combat Reflexes he can make multiple attacks of opportunity per round.
Auvrelth wrote:1,500 is the most for one item at this level, sorry.CampinCarl9127 wrote:@baldwin about magic items. i'm thinking of having a cloak of elvenkind (+5 on stealth checks, 2500gp) that was my father's before the raiders killed him (sentimental value, but of course still count that against my total wealth). probably just buy basic equipment then keep the rest. is that ok?sorry forgot to post as Auvrelth
Oh that's right! well that's just a small change, no worries. it was more for flavor purposes than anything. as an arcane trickster i can tend to just cast a spell instead of having to buy a bunch of magic items. hmm...how about this. a +1 cloak of resistance (1000gp), and a 1st level pearl of power (also 1000gp)
Okay, here's a not finished quick reworking/editing of another character into a Sunny.
The 'Brawler' type of fighter. Very good a close quarters hand to hand. Plus, at higher levels, she should have a 'fight finishing' trick which will let her take out single foes quickly. (But not lethally)
The character page needs more work, but since I am fast running out of submission time t'is the quickest thing I could do.
|Duncan Redhammer
Must admit to being new to the possibilities of the Magus. Will have to look up that one.
I have a friend developing the 'Staff' Magus as a character in another game. That seems to be doing well.
Much cheers to all.
Edit; And t'is only now I see the PM. :)
An interesting idea, but I think I'll stick with this iteration of Sunny for now.
|Duncan Redhammer
|Andres Saied de Vyre
Background of Andres is done! I love that you guys are up this late.
Born the fourth son to Viggo Saied of House Saied, Andres was raised in luxury on the island of Vyre. Everything was provided for Andres, from tutors and servants to even his own whipping hafling. Despite House Saied owing fealty to House Jeggare, life was good for the young Andres.
Shortly after Andres turned sixteen, his father Conte Viggo Saied died from old age. Inheritance can be a rough thing for a fourth son of a minor house. Andre's eldest brother Ellard assumed the title of Conte. The second eldest Franco was given control of the houses shipping fleet. The third eldest Jaque, was accepted as a acolyte for the Church of Asmodean in Egorian, with "donations" paid to ensure a swift promotion. For Andres however, he was given a commission within the Chelish Navy, and bought the title of Chevalier.
Despite living on an island for most of his life, Shipboard life was an experience that Andres was ill accustomed to. Gone were the days of luxury and leisure. Now the crack of the whip, hard disciple and fear were the watch words of the day. Suddenly the wool was torn away from Andres eyes and he began to see the desperate and pathetic lives that halflings spent living under the yoke of Asmodeus and House Thrune. And it was more than he could bear.
Two years ago when Andres ship the Hand of Thrune was docked in Corentyn the second mate of the Thrune Vayne Ardred killed a Halfling sailor that Andres had befriended. The rest of the senior officers were in the city, enjoying a port call and Andres snapped. He his grief and anger at seeing his friend killed he stabbed Vayne in the gut and left him on the main deck to die. Before he left, he unlocked the rest of the hafling slaves, told them to escape before lighting the Hand of Thrune on fire to cover his escape.
Since then Andres has been on the run moving along the coast, A year ago he reached Westcrown. Hoping that Westcrown was far enough away from Corentyn that he would evade notice; he decided to stop his flight. Since he arrived, he has tried to keep a low profile and settle down. Andres is not sure if the Dottari or House Thrune knows that he started the fire, but he dosen't want to find out.
More recently Andres has learned that a man matching the description of Vayne has been seen around the south docks looking for Andres, and offering a reward for anyone with knowledge of his location.
NPC's and location:
Conte Ellard Saied de Vyre- Brother and Lord of House Saied. (Location: Vyre) (Description: Straight black hair with a stern and remorseless face. Starting to put on weight as he enters his middle years. 44 years old, 5'11)
Demi-Conte Franco Saied de Vyre – Brother and Heir to House Saied. (Location: Vyre) (Description: Brown wavy hair, with a large bulbous nose. Wears glasses and is overweight. 42 years old, 5'6)
Arche-Priest Jaque Saied de Vyre – Brother and Cleric of Asmodeus (Location: Unknown, last seen in Egorian) (Bald, with dark eyebrows and piercing eyes. Since seen last has reportedly been branded with a mark of Asmodeus on his neck. Tall and Gaunt in stature. 36 years old 6'3)
Larko – Male human sailor that Andres has been known to drink with in the past and share a sea stories or two.
Bingo Tealeaf – Male Halfling craftsman and a local contact with the Hafling Underground Railroad, that knows of Andres history in helping hafling slaves. (description: curley blond hair with green eyes. who's hand are constantly covered in ink from his work at the local news bill press, slim, 41 yrs old, 3'6)
Francis Tarker – Elderly Male Human, who is a retired thief, turned inventor. Andres landlord. (description: Long grey hair, blue eyes and walks with a cane that he is fond of gesturing with, 73 yrs old, 5'8.)
Vayne Ardred – Male Human, Officer of the Chelish Navy. Currently hunting Andres. (description: Short black hair, grey eyes, always in uniform. Fit and tall, 33 yrs old, 6'1.)
Okay, swapped a trait for one from the campaign.
Am thinking Sunny works as a surprise bouncer at the river side docks etc.
No idea about contact around there atm. No time at home to rebuild the character completely. Doing it as I can.
Hope Sunny so far at least has people intrigued.
Much cheers to all.
@baldwin Updated Tiasar's history (changed quite a bit). Also included some very interesting NPC's that might give you some fun. On a side note, I hope you don't feel like I'm trying to change your campaign by inventing some NPC's. I included one that already existed as a friend, but I just don't know enough about any of them. I tried to make them both very low profile people who are quirky and interesting. Tell me what think!
I'd love to hear feedback from everyone else as well. Anything i should change or can improve on?
|Tevyn de Fonseca
Just figured I would put a bit of hmmphh into my NPCs.
Lenara Sarini
Lenare is the 32 year old third daughter of the second son of House Sarini. She is a bit too pragmatic and doesn't fit into her family's courtly role as fools. She joined the Chellish Navy at 18 wanting to see the world but soon her charisma and good looks became a recruiting tool for the service which she carried out without question. She was especially fond of recruiting in the colonies and rebel provinces of Cheliax.
Her standing in the service has brought her to the attention of not just the fleet and she has been promoted against her will to Lieutenant Commander and now has to stay in Westcrown.
She has auburn hair and green eyes.
Tevyn hates her but also has a boyhood crush on her.
One-eyed Jimmy or Jimmy d' Anchorsenda
Rogue former sailor(46). Primarily as a fence. Jimmy was born to an Arcadian woman and a minor member of the House of Arionne, who was looking for suitable slaves on the pristine continent but instead had a tumultuous affair with a native woman. Half-breed children among the tribes of Arcadia are shunned as a general rule, especially when coupled with a CHellish nobleman. At 15, Jimmy stowed away on the Arodosian Archipelago, but unknown to him it was a naval vessel. When the crew found him, they made him their cabin boy.
Always lucky with cards and reading people, he was an invaluable asset to the ship's crew until his right eye was burned chemically during a ship to ship melee. Tevyn was able to save his life using his bardish healing magic. The next time they made port was in Westcrown and he lives on his theiving skills and a modest pension for his service.
|Lucrezia Villanova
|baldwin the merciful
This is who I have so far, if I missed someone politely mention it on this thread, it was unintentional:
Tweaker - Rogue -
Lucrezia Villanova - Urban Ranger
Anreas Saied de vyre, Chevalier - Freebooter/Urban Ranger/Skirmisher
Sunny - maritial artist/ninja bouncer
Auvrelth Tiasar- wizard/rogue
Vonzara -sor/rog working towards Arcane Archer.
Tevyn de Fonseca - Wind Elemental Sorceror1/Bard(Drummer)2
Who ever is selected there may be a few slight adjustments with backgrounds/NPCs that will assist with transitioning in to the story. Once selected fine tuning of the character is permitted and encouraged early on to make sure everyone is happy and it's working.
I have my work cut-out.
|baldwin the merciful
About posting requirements, several times a day is usually fine with me. However, I will be moving next month and there will be about a weeks time where I will be limited to posting from my phone, but should still manage a couple of posts a day.
RL happens, so that should not be an issue.
|baldwin the merciful
|Andres Saied de Vyre


text:
Refinder won second price! Elsevier announced the Winners of the Apps for Science Challenge!
Elsevier, the world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced the winners of the "Apps for Science" challenge, an international competition challenging software developers to create customized applications that can enhance information search and discovery for researchers. We took part in this challenge and the Refinder-SciVerse application won the second price and USD 10.000!
Our submission to this challenge is an integration of Refinder and SciVerse. Refinder helps scientists to communicate about their research and organize their own collections of related work. When you found the right papers on SciVerse, bring them together with Refinder. Refinder is an intelligent online collaboration tool for teams, it also works on itself. But in combination with SciVerse, scientists can use it to collect papers, research notes, and more information in one place. Once collected, important facts about documents can be added as comments. By using links, related things are connected. When reading an article in SciVerse, an intelligent algorithm automatically searches and suggests relevant collections, topics, documents, or experts from Refinder.
We submitted together with one of our scientific parents, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI. The ideas of Refinder were born at the Knowledge Management Department of the DFKI. In scientific work, collecting and keeping information is a core task. We experienced that individual scientists create information collections and categorize them by topic or project. As a group, researchers do the same. The trick of our "semantic social approach" in Refinder is to let individuals organize their information from different sources in a flexible manner - by topic, project, person or other natural organizing schemes that people usually deploy. This individual freedom given to the individual researcher does not conflict with a group communication, given that a flexible model like Refinder's collections exists.
Winning this competition opens a new market for Refinder: the 15 million users of SciVerse. Together with the USD 10.000 price money, this enables us to take the next steps. The Winners of the top three prizes were determined by a panel of judges comprised of distinguished researchers, engineers, educators and venture capitalists in the field of science, media and technology.
"We at Gnowsis want to thank the judges for their vote for Refinder. We see that our vision and approach of semantic social software appeals to a greater audience. Science is indeed a social endeavour and we will to continue our effort of supporting scientific teams in their research. I also want to thank our CTO Bernhard Schandl and our whole team for making this possible and our partner DFKI for their great support."
Leo Sauermann, CEO
Elsevier has published a statement from Rafael Sidi, Vice President Product Management, Applications Marketplace and Developer Network:
"We thank all the creative developers who answered our call for innovative applications. We are impressed with the ingenuity and innovation displayed in the development of applications for the Apps for Science challenge and are very pleased with the scientific community's engagement in building solutions that would help researchers globally."
The winning apps include productivity and time-saving tools, visualizations of search results or author data and social add-ons enabling collaboration:
- Grand Prize ($15,000): Altmetric, developed by Euan Adie, measures the attention that scientific articles receive via social media and online news sites, then adds the data to ScienceDirect & SciVerse Hub article and search result pages.
- Second Prize ($10,000): Refinder, developed by Bernhard Schandl and Leo Sauermann, adds personal information management and social functions to SciVerse, including the ability to add comments to articles, place multiple papers in a collection and share comments with co-workers.
- Third Prize ($5,000)/Popular Choice Prize ($5,000): iHelp, developed by Mourougane Arumugam, enables researchers to search in their native language and retrieve articles using multi-lingual search.
- Two apps received honorable mentions: the Keyword Optimizer, developed by Scott Fortmann-Roe, helps to find the best set of keywords possible, and ChemDetect, developed by Keming Labs, an app for chemists to quickly scan an article for chemical names and draw full structures.
Elsevier is the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information. They have opened their vast catalog of scientific content and provided APIs that enable developers like us to create apps that improve researcher productivity and workflow. Elsevier's trusted content and meta-data integrates more than 10 million full text articles from over 2,500 journals and 11,000 books as well as over 42 million abstracts, citations and web content covering 18,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Boucheron - Regular
Ouvrier(E) Joaillier(E)
Boucheron - Regular
- France
Job Family Group Description - Industrial Operations: Combines jobs in different industrial processes relating to product development, raw material research, product engineering, production management and quality assurance. Job Family Description -Production: Coordinates production of garments, leather goods, shoes, accessories, jewels and watches. Sub-Job Family Description - Jewellery Manufacturing: Involved in creation and assembly of different jewellery parts. Collaborates with customer service and provides technical support for removal and setting of different types of jewels and components repair.
- Part time
- Europa
- France


text:
The church family of McCall Community
Congregational United Church of Christ gave $761 to the One Great
Hour of Sharing offering.
|McCall community congregational ucc
One Great Hour of Sharing
On Sunday, March 31, the One Great Hour of Sharing mission offering will be received during the morning worship service.
The theme for this year's offering is "More Than We Can Imagine."
It is easy to feel overwhelmed when we look at all the areas of need in God's world: there is hunger, sickness, and injustice in so many communities. It is easy to feel there is nothing we can do to help. We can feel trapped by hopelessness and fear that what little we can do won't have an impact.
But there is hope! Better yet: we are that hope!
As the Apostle Paul writes, "by the power at work within us," God is able to "accomplish abundantly more than we can ask of imagine." (Ephesians 3:20) "We are the agents of transformation that God uses to transfigure this world." (Archbishop Desmond Tutu)
Wishing and dreaming of a better world means nothing if we don't realize that God gives us community to practice love and compassion. We cannot only care for ourselves, but we must also care about those around us, both near and far.
Our gifts become part of a loving legacy in ways we can't foresee. Our gifts become blessings to people we don't know and blesses in ways we can't expect. We can make a difference beyond what we can imagine.
The church family of McCall Community
Congregational United Church of Christ gave $761 to the One Great
Hour of Sharing offering.


text:
Netflix's original movies and TV shows are expanding and gripping their audiences with humor, drama, and action, but one has gone beyond the scope of a just a good show to capture viewer's emotions like none before. Netflix's series Making a Murderer has gained national attention from supporters of both sides of the spectrum.
But while widespread attention has been drawn to the documentary that follows Steven Avery from convicted rapist to exonerated to convicted murderer, a second season isn't yet on the horizon. In a conversation with Us Weekly, the filmmakers, Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, said that they are currently "proactive" about the idea of a possible second season. The filmmakers also told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour that they have been in contact with the convicted murderer since Making a Murderer launched in mid-December.
"We did record those calls with an eye toward including them in any episodes, should there be new episodes," Ricciardi said during the TCA press tour. "But we have not returned to Wisconsin in the past four weeks."
The directors are collecting any possible footage or voice recordings for future seasons if there is, in fact, any.
Moira Demos added during the same press tour, "This story is ongoing. These cases are open. We are ready to follow these. If there are significant developments, we will be there. And we're looking at other stories as well."
The first season of Making a Murderer has garnered the attention of thousands, including the White House, but not everyone feels the same way about the series, which follows Steven Avery through 10 hour-long episodes chronicling Avery's trouble with the Manitowoc county police department.
Avery was convicted of rape and served 18 years before DNA evidence exonerated him. But before Avery could finish off a $36 million dollar lawsuit against the Manitowoc police department, he was arrested and convicted of the murder of Teresa Halbach. He has been serving his sentence since 2007.
Critics of the show say that the entire story wasn't told and that much of the evidence presented in court during Avery's murder trial was edited out of the documentary. The filmmakers said that the point of the show was to highlight how the criminal justice system is working today and not to put Avery back on trial by saying this during the TCA press tour, "This is a documentary," and "We did not set out to convict or exonerate anyone," also adding that the was to "look at the criminal justice system today."
Regardless of the mission of the show, viewers didn't see it that way. Two petitions declaring Avery's innocence and demanding a pardon have garnered thousands of signatures. One of those petitions was sent to the White House even though the Constitution prevents President Barack Obama from taking any such action since Avery was convicted at the state level not the federal.
While the petitions represent those who believe Avery is innocent, a pile on of anti-Making a Murderer critics stormed countless news channels. Nancy Grace (watch the video below to see some of her points) recently joined Fox News, NBC News, and Investigative Discovery in voicing their problems with the popular show. Nancy Grace says that her upcoming show will reveal evidence left out of the show that proves that Steven Avery did, in fact, murder Teresa Halbach.
With the media fighting in the opposite corner of Avery and opposing the documentary's filmmakers, the directors of the series believe the media is repeating the same vicious cycle it did when the same media outlets covered Avery during his trial back in 2006.
The filmmakers said during the TCA press tour that, "I think what we're seeing now is actually history repeating itself. It's now on a national scale that the media are demonizing this man in order to prove his guilt."
Guilty or innocent, if the attention the show has gained causes any new developments in the case, one could speculate that a second season would be on the horizon.
Tell us! Do you think that Making a Murderer will help exonerate Steven Avery and earn a Season 2? Let us know in the comments below.
[Image via Netflix]


text:
We have been posting the ringing out of alarm code 5-5-5 video for close to a year now on our social media pages. We do this for every reported Line of Duty Death in the United States when the USFA sends out an email notification. We were unsure of how this tribute would be seen by our followers. As with everything on social media, it has been met with mixed reviews.
When people ask us the meaning of our name, this video is the simplest explanation, especially to those not in the fire service. It's part of the tradition and respect we at 555 Fitness all hold sacred. It's our way of honoring our brothers and sisters who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Just as our name is meant to be a reminder of our mission. At times, we don't post the bell for a few weeks and we think we are gaining ground. Then a day like today happens, where we have to post it twice.
I said before, that this video and our name has been met with mixed reviews. Our critics say it's too morose, too in your face, too much of a reminder of the sad side of our service. We don't really argue that, however, how are we going to change a problem that is plaguing the fire service, without attacking it head on? We all need to work together to create a positive change, and if the numbers 5-5-5 cause us to unite, then we are on the road to success.
We have also had an extremely positive response to the bell video. Several departments and family members of the fallen have thanked us or paid tribute to their fallen colleagues on our page. One of today's videos had a comment that really struck a cord with me, it read "One of the last days in our fire 2 class…Fritz hung a bell in the back of the classroom for future classes to ring when there is a LODD…never thought we'd be ringing it for him". This act, only echoes the exact sentiment of what 555 Fitness is trying to do. We did not know "Fritz", and he may have never heard of 555 Fitness, however, his actions that day, directly represent the same dedication we have to our mission.
At times, running a Not For Profit, with little to no experience has gotten extremely frustrating for me. Even to the point that I thought this may not even be worth it. Each and every time I get hung up, or we have a setback, or the bank account is not where I would like it to be, fate steps in. Comments like the one above appear, and I know all of our hard work is well worth it. 5-5-5 Firefighter Fitness set out with one goal in mind and some good "ideas" on how to get there. Those "ideas" haven't always worked out, however, our goal stays the same and we will not stop until it is achieved.
Thank you to everyone who has ever commented or shared a story as a tribute on our bell videos. Please know that everyone at 555 Fitness reads them, appreciates them, and appreciates you for sharing a bit about your friend or family member with us.


text:
Supabee for Men
90 caps (1 month supply)
Regular price NZ $49.95
- Ginseng - increases stamina and endurance
- Zinc - vital for prostate protection
Horny Goat Weed - a natural libido enhancer, for virility and to support healthy testosterone levels
"I have been known to burn the candle at both ends and in the middle so finding a product like Supabee for Men by abeeco that helps support my general health, energy and testosterone levels all in an easy to take capsule is a beaut. Not to mention, a good whack of Horny Goat Weed doesn't go a miss too."
- Jay Reeve, Multi-Media Broadcaster
More about Horny Goat Weed Horny Goat Weed has arisen because according to legend, the aphrodisiac qualities were discovered by a Chinese goat herder who noticed the goats mounting behavior increased after they ate the weed...
The main active compound in Horny Goat Weed is icariin. Advanced studies show that icariin helps support the nerves throughout the body, particularly in the genital area.
The use of Horny Goat Weed as a traditional Chinese medicinal herb dates back to 400 A.D. The herb, thought to be one of nature's most powerful herbal aphrodisiacs, is used for boosting libido and treating impotence as well as a rejuvenating tonic (to relieve fatigue).
Note: Horny Goat Weed does not work immediately like the famous little blue pill (for example). Horny Goat Weed is a 'tonic-type' herbal supplement, not a stimulant. In other words, the effects will be noticed over time. Consistent and regular use brings about and maintains erectile rigidity.
Horny Goat Weed is also known as Epimedium, Rowdy Lamb Herb, Bishop's Hat, or Yin Yang Huo.
Take 3 capsules every morning or as professionally advised.
Supabee for Men is recommended for long term use to ignite libido and support overall health and well-being.
Warnings and PrecautionsAlways read the label and use as directed, supplementary to a balanced diet. If symptoms persist see your healthcare professional. This product contains Zinc. Do not exceed 15mg of Zinc per day across all supplements. Store away from heat, light and moisture.
Keep out of reach of children.
Q: Can I take Supabee for Men and Supabee for Energy at the same time?
A: Yes, the recommended dose if used together is 3 x Supabee for Men and 1 x Supabee for Energy.
Q: If someone is allergic to bee stings can they take Supabee? Does pollen cause allergic relations?
A: We are unable to advise on medical issues and recommend you consult with your doctor on allergy issues before taking any supplement. That being said, the venom and the pollen are different. There is no bee venom in bee pollen so most people who are allergic to bee stings can still take bee pollen. However, it is possible that your allergy is to the protein from the bee. If that is the case, then someone who is allergic to the protein in the venom will also be allergic to the protein in the bee pollen as well as honey etc. We would always recommend starting on a low dose if you have any concerns, however as mentioned we are unable to give you a qualified answer and advise you to seek a medical opinion.
New Zealand Orders
We deliver nationwide to street and PO Box addresses via CourierPost. Orders are delivered week days only with target delivery 2-3 working days from receiving your order. Orders placed in the weekends will be processed the following business day. Courier charge is $5.95 for orders under $60. Free courier delivery is offered nationwide for all orders over $60.
International Orders
International shipping charges are calculated automatically when you place an order. Once your delivery country has been selected the various shipping options and charges will be displayed.
Free standard, untracked delivery is offered worldwide for all orders over $60.
- Untracked Airmail | 5-12 business days | $8
- Standard Courier | 2-6 business days | $20
- Express Courier | 1-5 business days | $50
East Asia & North America
- Untracked Airmail | 8-20 business days | $15
- Standard Courier | 2-6 business days | $40
- Express Courier | 1-5 business days | $100
Europe & Rest of World
- Untracked Airmail | 8-20 business days | $17
- Standard Courier | 2-6 business days | $40
- Express Courier | 1-5 business days | $100
All prices quoted are in NZD.
Please note that some delivery options are not available to some destinations. Shipping problems can occur to Italy and Brazil, purchases are at your own risk to these countries. Public holidays and the Christmas period can result in delays.


text:
Category Archives: Utter Silliness
My Massage Therapist Bums Me Out
I awoke with a pounding headache, a kid's foot in my face, and a crooked neck. Yet, in a few hours, none of that would matter because I had booked myself in for a massage.
I felt a subtle sense of calm just knowing the sounds of distant crickets and soft breezes would soon envelope me into a Zen-like state. I imagined myself, in a post-massage euphoria, floating out the door, sporting a vibrant, peaceful glow…
So, up went the ponytails and in went the lunches. I then bid my kids adios and peeled out of the school parking lot.
Moments later I was lying, clothes-free, under a clean white sheet; my face awkwardly crammed into the donut-like hole of the massage table. There weren't any audible crickets or breezes but the background music, a combo of didgeridoo and ocean waves, certainly sufficed.
The massage therapist entered the room, sat down on her stool, and began kneading the knots out of my neck. Her hands were strong and skilled. She checked-in to make sure the pressure was okay. I told her it was.
And then, she stood up, slid the stool under the table directly below my protruding face. I gulped down a gag as a harsh aroma emanated from the stool and crept into my nostrils. Survival-mode kicked in and I held my breath; eyes moving from side-to-side for no apparent reason. Should I say something to her? Like, "I was hoping for eucalyptus or lavender, not Eau de Ass Crack." I mean, how would I even broach the topic? Would I say, "Excuse me, but your stool smells like… stool"? Or maybe, "I'm dyin' under here! HELP!"
(I'm sure a simple, "Would you please move the stool?" would have done the trick. But, somehow, I didn't think of it at the time.)
So, what did I do about the situation? Nothing. That's what I did.
Instead of facing the problem, I opted to shallow breathe for the remainder of the treatment while mentally downplaying this attack on my air supply.
Needless to say, I was grateful-as-fuck when the face-in-the hole position finally brought congestion into my sinuses leaving me blissfully incapable of breathing from my nose.
Time. Stood. Still.
And when it was over, I launched myself off the massage table and got dressed. I definitely wasn't floating nor was I sporting a vibrant, peaceful glow. My neck did feel better, though.
I paid the bill, and replied (with a robotic smile) that, "Yes, it had been a great massage!"
I even left a tip because apparently I felt it was mean not to. Yes, I had to endure face to face space with the scent of a bum but I'm sure it was unintentional.
And then, before I could muster up a, "No thank-you!" I'd booked myself in for another appointment with the same person, for the following month. Because, hey, why not?
I got in my car and drove home, with full intentions of cancelling the massage and possibly sending the masseuse an anonymous note to tell her about her butt.
Yet, somehow I felt badly for her.
So, I decided not to cancel or write a note. In fact, the appointment is coming up tomorrow. I figure I'll be better prepared this time. If she slides the stool under the table, I'll just ask her to move it. Right away! I'll tell her I'm claustrophobic or something like that. Because, I certainly can't be the one to tell her that she has a smelly bum. But if I don't, who will?
This post first appeared on BLUNTmoms.
Did you know that Shannon Day and 36 other fab writers have created a book? Well, it's actually a martini guide too. If you like funny, ridiculous, and heartstring-tugging stories of motherhood (+ easy-to-make martini & mocktini recipes) then you'll love Martinis & Motherhood: Tales of Wonder, Woe & WTF?! Available now on Amazon.
30 Annoying Mid-Life Truths
Yo, middle-age! You sure did sneak up on us! And, although we've been expecting you, my girlfriends and I can't help but feel offended by some of the nasty and mean shit you've brought along to the party.
Now, don't get us wrong, we are warriors; ready to take on whatever you toss our way. But we will bitch about it. We must bitch about it because venting and commiserating makes us feel better, damn it!
And, while we're complaining, tweezing, and locating our missing glasses (usually on our heads), we like to pour ourselves a nice glass of red wine. After all, it's good for us, right? With all its antioxidants and "gym-like" effects.
So, why don't you join us for a little wine-sipping bitchfest. We're happy to have you here.
The 30 Most Annoying (& Sometimes Gross) Things About Midlife:
1. Chin hairs,
2. Neck hairs,
3. Goddamn nipple hairs.
4. Sneeze-pees,
5. Missing keys,
6. Muffins tops,
7. And sketchy knees. (Mama's gonna need a 'lil help getting up.)
8. Heartburn, (But I love coffee, wine, and chocolate!)
9. Tweens that turn (into hormonal beasts).
10. Lazy digestive tracts,
11. Sore and aching backs.
12. Temperamental sciatic nerves. (Damn you high heels!)
13. Pick-up lines from creepy pervs,
14. Memory loss,
15. An old wardrobe to toss.
16. Lines and wrinkles,
17. More frequent tinkles. (Hello 2 a.m.)
18. Arms that wave from below.
19. Flashes of heat,
20. Changes of mood.
21. Unexpected comments,
22. Coming across as rude. (Did I just say that?)
23. Blurry menus,
24. Farts that slip out.
25. The writing of lists,
26. A foot that has gout.
27. The need for bifocals,
28. And a weekend away.
29. Midlife can suck it!
30. But it's here to stay. (Until late-life hits and we can make a new, and even more bitch-worthy, list.)
We really could name over a hundred indignities, but we keep our sense of humor intact. Because if we weren't ripping a gut laughing (despite the farting thing) we'd be crying buckets! And they say cry-lines are even worse than laugh-lines.
So, cheers to midlife and its cruel sense of humor!
This post appeared first on BLUNTmoms.
Did you know that Shannon Day and 36 other fab writers have created a book for moms? Well, it's actually a martini guide too! If you like funny, ridiculous, and heartstring-tugging stories of motherhood (+ easy-to-make martini & mocktini recipes) then you'll love Martinis & Motherhood: Tales of Wonder, Woe & WTF?!
Dried Apricots Saved My Ass
Joan rediscovered what it felt like to smile and laugh every day. Not just once a week…
"If you want to visit the loo for a number two, eat dried apricots." – Joan
These simple—yet wise, and oh so powerful—words of wisdom were passed down to me by an elderly friend of the family. She, too, had suffered the traumatic (and sometimes dire) effects of chronic constipation.
She'd known what it felt like to be anal retentive, literally. And she had believed herself to be a grumpy person by nature. But really . . . it was just poo. That uptight sourpuss was actually a peaceful ray of sunshine, stifled by the storm clouds of her predicament. And when Joan realized the power of dried apricots, she rediscovered what it felt like to smile and laugh every day. Not just once a week.
Such a jolly old gal, she is.
Joan is very candid and open, as well. So I chatted with her about my own sufferings in the "shit department" of life. She wasn't at all surprised when I shared with her the details of a 12 day, fecal-free, bender (that happened back in '02). The kids had simply refused to be dropped off at the pool! Instead, they gathered together, to form one giant kid—a kid that eventually, through sweat and tears made its debut with a glute-splashing cannonball of mammoth proportions. This ordeal was like a heads up for me (and not in a turtle head kinda way). Oh no! I had been given a sneak peek into what it would actually feel like to give birth . . .
Years later, in the hours leading up to the delivery of my first baby, I drew strength from my past experiences. If I could survive the mammoth poo of '02, I could do this. And I did!
I'm happy to report that the days of stubborn turds are history now. No longer do I writhe in pain, or pass on seconds because I barely had room for firsts. No way! My digestion knows new joys. And I owe thanks for this, and for the many carefree smiles, to Joan and her dried apricot advice.
*Note* – Some of this is utter BS and some of it is based on truth. It has been written for the purpose of "shits and giggles."
This post originally appeared on the fabulous In The Powder Room.
Hey, you! What's Your Style?
I do it. You do it. Everybody does it. We all poop! Now that the obvious has been stated, let's delve a little deeper and ponder just how we poop. That's right, folks! It's time to get introspective and reflective as we determine our own personal pooping style(s)! You're bound to recognize yourself (and your loved ones) in one or more of the following approaches to deuce dropping and, not only that, you'll learn what your style says about you and how you live your life!
1. Routine Dumper
Every day, like clockwork, your ass has an appointment for its ride on the porcelain bus. You like to be in control of things and your bowel's routine is reflective of your personality. Taking a dump at the same time each day makes you feel like you've got your shit together, so to speak. So much so, that if your poop-routine is somehow foiled, you feel quite unsettled. And, you vow to get your bowels (and your life) back on track.
2. The Announcer
You feel compelled to inform those who live with you (and sometimes even guests) of your intentions to go and do your business. You shout: "I'm going for a poo!" as you head off to the loo. You do it habitually and you're not even sure why you do it. Perhaps you want to ensure your privacy or maybe you just like to keep everyone in the know. The reason is uncertain but you do it and you will continue to announce it. Every. Single. Time.
3. The Reporter
Once you've returned from dropping the kids off at the pool, you give a quick update on how it went. Continue reading
My Husband Hates My Lover….
I've got a new lover in my life.
She's a dress. But, not just any old dress. Long and flowing, she wraps herself around me, gently; like a temperate pool's caress on the booty of a skinny dipper.
Whenever I wear her, I feel fresh and full of life. Her effects, at times, transcend me to places of an almost spiritual nature. I honestly don't think anything could be more feminine and uplifting than she.
Heavenly. She is so damn heavenly. And I feel grateful to have discovered her on a lonely sales rack last month. Continue reading
Farewell Ironing Pile, Hello Joy
They say it takes two to tango and I agree.
I've been there.
I've done the dance.
I've ridden the rollercoaster.
Our relationship brought out the worst in me.
We were not compatible.
We did not click.
In fact, our union was doomed from the start. But, everyone else was dancing the same tango and they weren't complaining. Piles of ironing to do each week was simply part of the UK way of life.
And somehow, even though I was Canadian, my British husband got caught up in the idea of you and I trying to make it work.
I mean, I was the one at home while he was out in the workforce so… you fell into the category of "shit I needed to take care of." But, I kinda resented you, all of you, as you gathered in a pile, waiting for my attention each week.
After a ten year–somewhat surreal–experience; and a move from the UK to Canada, I finally put my foot down!
I said: "Fuck this! T-shirts and jeans do not need to be ironed! I AM CANADIAN (proud and true) and this goes against my roots; my heritage, if you will. We do not iron this stuff, in my homeland!"
I then turned to my husband's dress shirts, with unbreakable will, and said: "You, my pesky friends, are going to the Dry Cleaners!"
Sure, in the UK, people iron everything: jeans, underwear, pillow cases, and towels but we live in Canada now. And here, we don't do that. That's what our big, spacious dryers are for. They do the ironing for us.
So now, we all wear ever-so-slightly wrinkled attire and I take my husband's dress shirts to the cleaners. I mean, it's only $1.87 per shirt to have them cleaned and ironed. And every time I drop the shirts off, I leave with a little extra bounce in my step and a sense of gratefulness in my heart.
No more piles, no more steam, no more annoying comments like: "you've missed an entire strip of fabric."
Nope. No more bullshit.
I am proud to report that our iron is gathering dust these days. (As it should be). And we have settled into our Canadian way of life, because a few wrinkles never hurt anyone but I'm sure a housewife with a hot iron could…
Did you know that Shannon Day and 36 other fab writers have created a book? Well, it's actually a martini guide too. If you like funny, ridiculous, and heartstring-tugging stories of motherhood (+ easy-to-make martini & mocktini recipes) then you'll love Martinis & Motherhood: Tales of Wonder, Woe & WTF?! Available now on Amazon.


text:
Fixed Pull Handles
- ezlok Rounded Bar Pull Handleezlok Rounded Bar Pull Handle is ideal. Is a front fixing oval grip pull handle ...Incl. Tax£14.66 £12.22
- ezlok Stainless Steel Rounded Bar Pull Handleezlok Stainless Steel Rounded Bar Pull Handle. Ideal for allowing ease of access...Incl. Tax£7.64 £6.37
- Pull Handle on Rose RoundedThe Pull Handle on Rose Rounded can also be used as bolt through handle without ...Incl. Tax£28.24 £23.53
- ezlok Pull Handle on Rose RoundThe ezlok Pull Handle on Rose Round Is a stylish pull handle...Incl. Tax£45.97 £38.31
- ezlok D Shaped Pull Handles Bolt Through FixingThe ezlok D Shaped Pull Handles Bolt Through Fixing. If you wish to fix these pu...Incl. Tax£6.18 £5.15
- ezlok Pull HandleThe easylocks pull handle is a round bar pull handle with concealed front fixing...Incl. Tax£8.11 £6.76
Fixed pull handles are special are special types of door handle that can be fitted directly onto the surface of a door in order to open it easily and smoothly. One of the main variations is the bolt through pull handle, which is designed to be used on heavy types of doors. One of the main advantages of this handle is that it does not require a lock or latch and it can be typically found on the doors in office buildings, schools and leisure centres where doors are used frequently and need to be opened quickly.
A wide range of different types of fixed pull handles are available. They are typically made from stainless steel, although brass and other types of metal can also be used to provide a modern and attractive finish. ezlock is one of the most popular manufacturers of fixed pull handles and they produce a large number of different models, including round pull bar handles that come complete with concealed front fixings and D shaped pull bar handles, all of which come complete with all of the fixings that are required to attach the handle directly onto a door. All these and more are offered at easylocks.


text:
Monday Challenge: Longshot vs. 1980s Style Black Cat
The guy with the good luck powers or the woman with the bad luck powers?
Reclaiming the Biff Bam Pow
Probably Longshot, as he's a better fighter, he's superhumanly agile, and because his powers generally seem to be a lot stronger.
On the other hand, Black Cat get recieves serious point for her magnificent cleavage.
This would make a good Fantastic Four story. Their powers meet, and the mix of probabilities would create a tear in the fabric of the universe somewhere in downtown NYC. From there on out, it spreads. Black becomes white, up becomes down, short becomes long. The laws of Physics take a lunch break. The immutable mystical laws of the universe find themselves speechless. Reality folds in on itself, vomits into another dimension, and then calls its mother for a home remedy.
Reed Richards discovers an extremely complex way to undo this, that involves the powers of the each of the Fantastic Four and requires him to reverse the polarity on something.
I would buy this story. It would be at an untold level of cool, just for the concept. Think Kelly's "Golden Perfect" storyline in JLA, only on LSD. *Grins*


text:
link: "https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/az0596/",
url :"//memory.loc.gov/pp/hhhtml/images/hh.gif",
alt:'Image from Prints and Photographs Online Catalog -- The Library of Congress'
link :"//cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/az/az0500/az0596/data/az0596data.pdf",
label:'Small image/gif',
meta: 'pdf version of data pages [198kb]'
Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
Davis Dam, Spanning the Colorado River , Kingman, Mohave County, AZ
- Title: Davis Dam, Spanning the Colorado River , Kingman, Mohave County, AZ
- Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
- Related Names:
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
Utah Construction Company
Davis, Arthur Powell
Laughlin, Don
US Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration , sponsor
- Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
- Medium: Data Page(s): 10
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HAER AZ-77
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: Davis Dam was constructed from 1942 to 1952 as the third and final impoundment of the lower Colorado River by the Bureau of Reclamation. Together with Hoover Dam 67 miles upstream and Park Dam 88 miles upstream, Davis Dam was built to provide flood protection, hydroelectric generation, and water storage for agricultural, industrial, and domestic use in the Southwest. Storage of water behind the dam and the regulation of water flow in the Colorado River below the dam allow the United States to comply with the Mexican Treaty of 1944, particularly annual delivery of 1.5 million acre-feet of water to Mexico in the Colorado River. Davis Dam was the only major dam in which construction included excavation of a new river channel, a portion of which became a through-dam forebay for delivery of water to the power plant and spillway.
- Survey number: HAER AZ-77
- Building/structure dates: 1942-1952 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 2002 Subsequent Work
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
- Bookmark This Record:
The Library of Congress generally does not own rights to material in its collections and, therefore, cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. For further rights information, see "Rights Information" below and the Rights and Restrictions Information page ( http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/rights.html ).
- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HAER AZ-77
- Medium: Data Page(s): 10
If Digital Images Are Displaying
You can download online images yourself. Alternatively, you can purchase copies of various types through Library of Congress Duplication Services.
HABS/HAER/HALS materials have generally been scanned at high resolution that is suitable for most publication purposes (see Digitizing the Collection for further details about the digital images).
- Photographs--All photographs are printed from digital files to preserve the fragile originals.
- Make note of the Call Number and Item Number that appear under the photograph in the multiple-image display (e.g., HAER, NY,52-BRIG,4-2).
- If possible, include a printout of the photograph.
- Drawings--All drawings are printed from digital files to preserve the fragile originals.
- Make note of the Survey Number (e.g., HAER NY - 143) and Sheet Number (e.g., "Sheet 1 of 4"), which appear on the edge of the drawing. (NOTE: These numbers are visible in the Tiff "Reference Image" display.)
- If possible, include a printout of the drawing.
- Data Pages
- Make note of the Call Number in the catalog record.
If Digital Images Are Not Displaying
In the rare case that a digital image for HABS/HAER/HALS documentation is not displaying online, select images for reproduction through one of these methods:
- Visit the Prints & Photographs Reading Room and request to view the group (general information about service in the reading room is available at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/001_ref.html). It is best to contact reference staff in advance (see: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/address.html) to make sure the material is on site. OR
- P&P reading room staff can provide up to 15 quick copies of items per calendar year (many original items in the holdings are too old or fragile to make such copies, but generally HABS/HAER/HALS materials are in good enough condition to be placed on photocopy machines). For assistance, see our Ask a Librarian page OR
- Hire a freelance researcher to do further selection for you (a list of researchers in available at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/013_pic.html).
- You can purchase copies of various types, including quick copies, through Library of Congress Duplication Services (price lists, contact information, and order forms for Library of Congress Duplication Services are available on the Duplication Services Web site):
- Make note of the Call Number listed above.
- Look at the Medium field above. If it lists more than one item:
- The entire group can be ordered as photocopies or high-quality copies.
- All the items in a particular medium (e.g., all drawings, all photographs) can be ordered as photocopies or high-quality copies.
- Call Number: HAER AZ-77
- Medium: Data Page(s): 10
Please use the following steps to determine whether you need to fill out a call slip in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room to view the original item(s). In some cases, a surrogate (substitute image) is available, often in the form of a digital image, a copy print, or microfilm.
Is the item digitized? (A thumbnail (small) image will
be visible on the left.)
Yes, the item is digitized. Please use the digital image in preference to requesting the original. All images can be viewed at a large size when you are in any reading room at the Library of Congress. In some cases, only thumbnail (small) images are available when you are outside the Library of Congress because the item is rights restricted or has not been evaluated for rights restrictions.
As a preservation measure, we generally do not serve an original item when a digital image is available. If you have a compelling reason to see the original, consult with a reference librarian. (Sometimes, the original is simply too fragile to serve. For example, glass and film photographic negatives are particularly subject to damage. They are also easier to see online where they are presented as positive images.)
No, the item is not digitized. Please go to #2.
Do the Access Advisory or Call Number fields above indicate that
a non-digital surrogate exists, such as microfilm or copy prints?
Yes, another surrogate exists. Reference staff can direct you to this surrogate.
No, another surrogate does not exist. Please go to #3.
If you do not see a thumbnail image or a reference to another surrogate, please fill out a call slip in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room. In many cases, the originals can be served in a few minutes. Other materials require appointments for later the same day or in the future. Reference staff can advise you in both how to fill out a call slip and when the item can be served.
To contact Reference staff in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room, please use our Ask A Librarian service or call the reading room between 8:30 and 5:00 at 202-707-6394, and Press 3.


text:
From the moment you arrive our sole aim is to make your stay as relaxing and enjoyable as possible. Throughout your time with us you'll enjoy a dedicated personal service – we'll take care of everything down to the smallest detail, leaving you free to experience all that Morzine has to offer. We'll create a bespoke package to suit your requirements and leave no stone unturned to ensure that you have an outstanding experience.
Throughout the booking process and throughout your stay you will receive our full concierge assistance and dedicated personal service.
Hunter Chalets management team will take care of all your in-resort reservations and needs. From booking ski lessons or childcare to arranging exclusive events for your group, we take care of all matters on your behalf whether they are prearranged or last minute.
For further information please refer to our activities information or contact us directly to arrange specific events tailored to your family or group's requirements.
Our team of professional drivers have years of experience and have all passed an external winter conditions driving course. They provide a personal 24 hour in-resort chauffeur service in our fleet of minibus vehicles.
Our vehicles are never more than three years old, have winter tyres, snow chains and all the little extras to ensure your comfort and safety.
Our drivers have a wealth of knowledge on Morzine and are always on hand to offer assistance. They are incredibly efficient and will ensure your skis are in the vehicle first thing in the morning. They can bring your shoes to you later in the day so you can enjoy Morzine's many après bars safe in the knowledge that you can be collected later that evening and even into the early hours of the next morning! We aim to be with you within 15 minutes of your call.
Not all of our chalets are ski in, ski out but our drivers ensure that you are never more than a few minutes from the slopes. On arrival at your preferred lift our drivers will help to organise and carry your skis and introduce you to your instructors where applicable.
Our drivers can chauffeur non-skiers to one of the many excursions and activities around Morzine or simply take them to the restaurant of choice to meet up with the rest of their party.
Exquisite food and wine is integral to the Hunter Chalets service. Our chefs have worked at some of the finest restaurants and hotels in the world and are absolutely passionate about what they do. We offer a dining experience based on fresh, local ingredients, expertly prepared and beautifully presented.
Our chefs prepare delicious breakfasts, afternoon teas, pre-dinner canapés and a fabulous four course dinner six nights a week. If you would prefer to eat in the chalet every night or enjoy lighter meals, our chefs are only too happy to arrange this with you. Similarly they are available before and during your stay to discuss any specific requests or dietary requirements.
At Hunter Chalets we have an excellent selection of complimentary house wines that have been carefully selected to ensure there is something for everyone from European classics to new world favourites from South Africa.
We offer complimentary French Champagne and Italian Prosecco throughout your stay and have a full bar offering favourite and famous spirits. An extensive range of upgrade Wines and Champagnes are also available to pre-order.
The following services and items are not included in our packages. Hunter Chalets can however arrange all of these for you at the time of booking and throughout your holiday whether you are staying in one of our catered or self-catered properties:
Ski passes, flights, airport transfers, spa treatments, connoisseur wines, childcare & babysitting, ski instruction/tuition, equipment hire, in-chalet entertainment, professional chef, host & driver service, activities, excursions and day trips, midweek clean/towel change.


text:
Rimmel Kate Moss Lasting Finish Matte Lipsticks
What is this Product? (What it claims)
Be Iconic - Make the Ordinary Extraordinary
Sumptuously Rich Matte Colour with a sublime comfort.
Ruby Powder enriched formula. - maximum colour intensity with an ultra-comfortable, velvet touch
Intense velvet colour all day!
Made in England
Available in 10 Shades:
Burgundy- Wine: #107
Red: #111
Beige-Brown: #113
Mauve-Rose: #104, 105
Peach-Coral: #109, 110
Pink-Rose: #101, 102, 103
Rimmel Kate Moss Lasting Finish Matte Lipsticks
Exfoliate your lips before application. Apply directly and the lipstick will leave a soft sheen finish. It will become matte in a while, but you can always lightly pat with a tissue for an instant matte look.
Main Ingredients
ISONONYL ISONONANOATE, RICINUS COMMUNIS (CASTOR) SEED OIL, CETYL ETHYLHEXANOATE, KAOLIN, ALUMINUM STARCH OCTENYLSUCCINATE, CANDELILLA CERA/ EUPHORBIA CERIFERA (CANDELILLA) WAX/ CIRE DE CANDELILLA, ETHYLHEXYL PALMITATE, POLYETHYLENE, CERESIN, AQUA/WATER/EAU, SYNTHETIC FLUORPHLOGOPITE, CALCIUM ALUMINUM BOROSILICATE, COPERNICIA CERIFERA CERA/COPERNICIA CERIFERA (CARNAUBA) WAX/CIRE DE CARNAUBA, CAPRYLYL GLYCOL, PARFUM/FRAGRANCE, HDI/TRIMETHYLOL HEXYLLACTONE CROSSPOLYMER, SILICA, TOCOPHEROL, AMETHYST POWDER, DIAMOND POWDER, RUBY POWDER, SAPPHIRE POWDER, TIN OXIDE. [May Contain/Peut Contenir/+/-: MICA, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (CI 77891), IRON OXIDES (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), D&C RED NO. 7 CALCIUM LAKE (CI 15850), FD&C YELLOW NO. 6 ALUMINUM LAKE (CI 15985), D&C RED NO. 6 BARIUM LAKE (CI 15850), FD&C YELLOW NO. 5 ALUMINUM LAKE (CI 19140), D&C RED NO. 27 ALUMINUM LAKE (CI 45410), CARMINE (CI 75470), D&C RED NO. 33 ALUMINUM LAKE (CI 17200), FD&C BLUE NO. 1 ALUMINUM LAKE (CI 42090)].
$7.99 CAD available in Canada as of February 2013
0.14 oz/4g
Rimmel Kate Moss Lasting Finish Matte Lipsticks
It's been a long while since I tried any matte lipsticks because I often find them drying.. as if my lips are not dry enough. However, it's Kate Moss, who can resist that?!
The packaging comes in a cool matte red packaging sign by the supermodel. It comes with a great shade range suitable for many woman.
I was extremely impressed from the swatches because it was very pigmented and was true to the bullet. However the expectations did not keep up as the time passes by. The colour stays for about 3-4 hours for me but the dryness kicks in within 1-2 hours. I tested this out when I was out with my girlfriends - we're a chattery bunch and I needed to reapply every hour.
It glides smoothly on the lips, I couldn't believe I was actually applying on matte lipsticks. Shocked at how it feels, feels creamy at first (only), eventually, it felt dry and my lips began to crack with lines! If I applied lip blam beforehand, it does help a bit.
Good thing though - I didn't find it staining my lips and it doesn't bleed. Overall, somewhat high maintenance as I needed to check the mirror constantly to make sure I'm not cracking. Last note - I did find that I had less of a cracking/drying problem with shade #111.
Overall: ♥♥♥
Product: 3/5 ♥
Packaging: 5/5 ♥
Price: 4/5 ♥


text:
Orillia (Severn) Quarry
Severn Quarry is located on the Carden Plain, north of Orillia. This quarry has been operating since 1999. The Bobcaygeon and Gull River formations are being extracted to supply the local asphalt, concrete, and road construction industry.
We predominately process this high quality resource into concrete and asphalt stones. Limestone products range from large armour stone (5+ tonnes) to Limestone fines.
Limestone's natural beauty and durability make it a popular choice for other markets such as home construction, erosion control, and landscape projects.
The rehabilitation plan for this property is to side slope the walls with overburden and allow the quarry to fill with water for recreational and natural activities.
Orillia (Severn) Quarry
2646 Nichols Line
Orillia, ON L3V 6H3


text:
Consider going old-style this Valentine's day and making a Valentine's card decorated with fabric scraps and sewing notions.
Update the card-making process a bit, though, by using high quality card stock and craft glue to make a truly collectible heirloom card.
What You'll Need:
- 1 sheet of card stock per card
- Craft glue
- 1 three-inch red heart-shaped piece of felt
- 3 or 4 small heart-shaped fabric scraps
- Lace
- Flat buttons
- Iridescent glitter
- Fold the card stock in half to form the card's shape.
- Spread a thin coat of craft glue on the back of the red felt heart, turn it over, and center it on the front of the card.
- Coat the back of the smaller hearts with glue and randomly stick them around the edges of the red felt heart.
- Run a thin bead of glue around each heart you want to add lace to and stick the lace in the glue around the hearts.
- Coat the back of one button and randomly choose a heart to stick it in. Repeat with the other buttons until you are happy with how the card looks.
- Run a thin bead of iridescent glue around the outer edge of the lace and around the perimeter of the card's front, like a border.
- Sprinkle glitter in the fresh line of glue.
- Allow the craft glue to dry completely on the Valentine's card before personalizing a greeting inside the card.


text:
Welcome to SkillDiary!
A blog about training & education for a tourism / marketing career in different countries of the EU and the world.
Start networking with other students, trainees and apprentices from other countries and get insights into their lives. Want to join the project? Just fill out this form.
Sharing experiences
Share your experiences with the world. Tells us what you like/criticise about your education to become a Tourism / Marketing Professional. Get a certificate of attendance after the project ends.
Practicing English
Practice English by participating in our project.
Write your responses, reply to comments and communicate with other participants.
SkillDiary is a project created by beejees.communication, aimed at portraying the differences in education around the world and compare them to the situation in Germany through the means of a small blog. In order to achieve this, we've invited students and trainees from Portugal and Germany (but are open for other countries as well) to join our project. We'll follow them for one year, with a new unique question asked every month. Click here to find out more!
Join SkillDiary
Become part of our community
Want to join our project? Send us your application now.
We'll contact you as soon as possible.


text:
First of all, thanks to God that I am able to present this lecture.
It took long time for me to upload this tutorial. But now, my new lecture is available for download.
With that said, In current lecture I have explained the features of relevant costing. Download link is given below.
Download Link Click here


text:
Adidas Originals Firebird Velour Track Pant in Navy. Slim front hip to ankle with a tried and tested sporting retro look. A brushed velour fabric is teamed up with striped sleeves, tonal branding and a cuffed ankle cut. Match with 116273.
Fabric: This product is 91% polyester / 9% elastane velvet.
Product Care: Machine Wash at 30C. Do not tumble dry.


text:
Malka Touger is a world-renowned teacher and lecturer. She has authored and co-authored several best-selling books and produced a number of educational videos in both English and Hebrew. She lives in Har Nof, Jerusalem, with her husband, Rabbi Eliyahu Touger, and their children.
© Copyright, all rights reserved. If you enjoyed this article, we encourage you to distribute it further, provided that you comply with Chabad.org's copyright policy.
Browse Book
By Malka Touger
You may also be interested in...
Jewish Children's Animated Adventures


text:
We will be meeting candidates with CI and FS polygraphs on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 between 10a and 3p at the Ritz-Carlton in McLean. Hope to see you there!
Founded in 2005, RadiantBlue Technologies is incorporated in Colorado with offices in Colorado Springs, CO, Chantilly, VA, Melbourne, FL and Tampa, FL. RadiantBlue is an innovative enterprise solution provider. We partner with our customers in the Intelligence Community, DoD, and law enforcement to provide superior performance focused on operational mission impacts. RadiantBlue employees thrive in a culture of emerging mission and technology needs. We strive to solve some of the most complex issues facing our nation's security.
RadiantBlue Technologies
1975 Research Parkway, Suite 315
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80920


text:
Kevin Spacey Says Bankers Are People Too
In the new film "Margin Call," to be released on Oct. 21, Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey plays Sam Rogers, the deeply conflicted trading floor manager at a Wall Street investment firm. The movie, which, despite having a low budget of $3.4 million boasts an all-star ensemble cast including Mr. Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci and Zachary Quinto, zeroes in on a group of executives grappling with the moral price of the actions required to save the firm from collapse: notably, selling off billions in mortgage-backed securities in a single day.
Rogers may be gruff and moody, but unlike some of the business types that Mr. Spacey has played in previous films—like John Williamson in "Glengarry Glen Ross" for example—he's got a heart. Sure, he's probably part of the much-maligned 1%, but Rogers nevertheless needs his job. "He probably doesn't have as much money as he used to, if you break it down: He's divorced from his wife. She got the house. He's living somewhere else," said Mr. Spacey from Ibiza earlier this month, where he was promoting the film. (His character also has a dog with cancer: "I'm paying almost a thousand bucks a day to keep her alive," Rogers reveals in an opening sequence.)
When Mr. Spacey read the script for "Margin Call" last year, he said he saw an opportunity to "personalize and humanize" the people who were being vilified for destroying the global economy. He and the other actors involved in the film liked first-time director J.C. Chandor's screenplay so much that they agreed to take salaries that were "peanuts" compared to what they normally receive, says co-producer Neal Dodson, who is a partner with Mr. Quinto at Before the Door Pictures.


text:
Travel Medicine Basic Course, 08.-15.06.2019, 7 nights ROYAL CLIPPER
Experience the western Mediterranean with the most beautiful harbours in summery temperatures and shallow winds:
- from Cannes (embarkation on 08.06.2019: 16:00 - 18:00) to Rome
- Saturday, Cannes / France • Sunday, St. Margherita / Italy
- Monday, L'lle Rousse, Corsica / France
- Tuesday, eastern Corsica (beach) / France, Bastia (old town)
- Wednesday Portoferraio / Elba / Italy
- Thursday, Porto Vecchino / Corsica / France
- Friday, Porto Cervo / Sardinia, Italy
- Saturday, (disembarkation in Civitavecchia on 15.06.2019: 08:00 - 10:00), Rome / Italy
Travel medicine basic course of the DTG, 32 CME points, course fee only € 749,-
The course teaches (also in english) basic knowledge about:
Health risks associated with travel, especially within tropical countries • Prevention measures • Different aspects on reoccuring illnesses, especially from tropical countries • Flight Travel Medicine
The timeframe is 32 lessons of 45 minutes each. The assignment of the number of hours of the individual topics (timetable) is variable subject to some reasonable changes and some programme alterations with slightly different focus is possible. Content and total hours are not yet available. The basic course consists of four modules, which can be completed in any order and at any time during the trip. Lesson type: Presentations with opportunity for discussion in the given timeframe; the participants will be provided with a workbook, a structure and the most important basic data of the course contents.
Target group: Interested doctors, company doctors, doctors in the public health service or other institutions that wish to carry out travel medicine consultations and vaccinations in a qualified manner.Prerequisite for participation: Approval as a practicing doctor
Degree: Written exam (multiple choice); Upon successful completion, the DTG travel medicine certificate will be issued, otherwise a certificate of attendance only. The certificate entitles the holder to a list "Doctors with DTG certificate travel medicine", which is managed by "Forum Reisen und Medizin e.V." on the frm-web.de website. Staying in the list requires regular training as part of a refresher course once every three years, otherwise the name will be removed from the list after three years.
Travel Medicine Basic Course, 08.-15.06.2019, 7 nights ROYAL CLIPPER
Prices from Cannes to Rom, cruise only
|Owner Suite
p.P. € 4.830,-
|Deluxe Suite
p.P. 4.545,-
|Category 1
p.P. € 3.445,-
p.P. 3.080,-
|Category 3
p.P. € 2.920,-
|Category 4
p.P. 2.755,-
|Category 5
p.P. € 2.515,-
|Category 6
p.P. 2.400,-


text:
Listen: Hudson Mohawke Remixes Paolo Nutini's "Iron Sky"
Check out the gloriously weird fruits of an unexpected collaboration.
We're not going to ask questions and we're just going to bask in this glorious weirdness - for some reason, Hudson Mohawke has remixed what might be your mom's favorite Paolo Nutini song, "Iron Sky." The end product is actually really awesome, with HudMo figuring Nutini's emotional, soaring vocals over a bass-heavy, intense beat. We particularly love that glassy synth trill - you'll see when you press play. It's royally not something you'd hear alongside the rest of Nutini's oeuvre on adult contemporary radio, which is okay by us, though your mom might need some convincing. Check it out.


text:
KwaZulu-Natal's MUST ATTEND
building and construction show
Thank you for attending in 2019.
See you next year! #KZNConstructionExpo
Here are the highlights of the 2019 edition:
Innovative products
Over 60+ brands showcased their products and services at the indoor and outdoor exhibition areas, attendees had the opportunity to discover the latest solutions for all their projects.
Free training workshops
A series of training workshops took place on the expo floor to enable attendees to enhance their professional skills and knowledge. Selected workshops were CPD accredited!
Stakeholder Engagement Forum
The forum was well attended and was designed to connect stakeholders from the public and private sector, the Stakeholder Engagement Forum addressed various topics that is crucial to the KZN construction industry sector.
What our participants had to say about the event
Exhibitor Testimonials
"What a great experience at the KZN Construction Expo over the past two days. Thank you to all who visited our stand and thank you to the organisers dmg events"
"The show was a great marketing opportunity for us to showcase our brick making technologies to the contractors in KZN"
2019 show gallery
Thank you to our key supporters
Key buyers and decision makers from KwaZulu-Natal attended the expo, including:
KZN Department of Human Settlements
Department of Public Works
Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Ethekwini Development Engineerings
Group 5
Johnson Controls
Peri Formwork
Saint-Gobain Construction Products
Stefanutti Stocks
Transnet Engineering
…and many more!


text:
[Estimated read time: 4 minutes]
Nothing hurts quite like a breakup, but it's just a part of life.
Turns out, breakups are a part of doing business, too. Customer attrition, also called customer churn, is a measurement of how many customers stop doing business with you over a given period of time. Of course, losing customers is more than just an emotional matter -- acquiring new customers costs up to seven times as much as retaining your existing ones. To truly understand how much customer churn is affecting your business, you'll need to calculate your customer churn rate, understand how many people are in your customer base, and determine what they are worth to you.
For example, if your average customer spends $1000 in a year, your customer base consists of 10,000 people, and your annual churn rate is 30%, that's $30 million walking out the door every year. Sure, you could find some new customers to help offset this loss, but remember that the cost of acquiring new revenue is significantly higher than keeping your current customers coming back.
So, how do you determine what your churn rate is? Historically, this metric has been used by subscription-based businesses, who have an easier time measuring how many customers have churned. They typically compare the number of subscribers they had at the beginning of the month to the number they had at the end of the month to calculate the percent change in their customer retention.
Yet, even with a metric as simple as subscriber count to work with, there is not a concrete, industry-wide definition of churn rate. In fact, a case accusing Netflix of artificially inflating their retention numbers was thrown out of court for this very reason -- the judge recognized there is more than one way to calculate customer churn.
Now that other types of businesses have begun to use customer churn rate as a key metric, the issue has become even more complex. For instance, how would an e-commerce site know what its customers plan to do in the future?
In industries that don't operate on a subscription basis -- think retailers, CPGs, restaurants, travel brands and the like -- each business must determine what qualifies as a "churn event." For example, let's look at a CPG brand trying to determine how many of their repeat customers have stopped using their hair care products. The brand knows that their repeat customers, on average, make a purchase every 45 days. In this case, any customers who have not made a purchase within that time frame would be classified as "churned." The CPG could repeat this analysis for each of their products to calculate an overall churn rate and better understand their customer retention outlook.
Depending on your brand and products, you may define "churn events" differently. Some companies choose to compare customer churn month to month, quarter to quarter, or year to year. Some measure churn in terms of individual customers lost, while some measure it in terms of revenue. How you decide to calculate customer churn is up to you -- what matters is that you're measuring it.
One caveat: Customer churn is one metric out of many, and it's best to take a holistic view of your customer experience. For more on this topic, check out Are Your Call Center Metrics Lying to You? 4 Questions You Should Be Asking and How to Measure Customer Engagement: The Impact of Service Metrics.
Now that you understand how potentially devastating customer churn could be for your business, it's time to strategize. First, you'll need to understand why customers leave.
Customers may cease doing business with you for a variety of reasons, but the research tells us that customers value the experience more than the product or service itself, and 90% of consumers would actually pay more for a better customer experience (CX). When trying to reduce churn and increase customer retention, improving CX is a great place to start.
The first step to improving your customer experience is defining your service differentiator. Read this whitepaper and take this self-assessment to determine the right course of action for your business. When implementing your strategy to improve customer retention, you'll also need to evaluate whether you have the right people, processes, and technology in place to ensure a great end-to-end customer experience.
Astute Solutions provides the customer engagement software used by some of the world's largest brands. Schedule a personalized demo to see how our tools could help your brand improve the customer experience and increase customer retention.


text:
Site links
OFFOFFOFF Home
About OFFOFFOFF
Contact us
Get our newsletter:
Search the site:
Art section
Art main page
Art archive
Art listings
Current art
Marcia Hafif: Glaze Paintings
Lara Hoke/Dave Mitri
Tie Ying: State Power
Derek Walcott: Another Life
Complete archive, 1999-present
Carla Accardi
Richard Baker: Recent Paintings
In Their Minds
Katherine Bernhardt
Frederic Bruly Bouabre
Louise Bourgeois: Ode � L'Oubli
Luigi Cazzaniga
Aaron Cobbett
Sue Coe: Bully: Master of the Global Merry- Go- Round and Recent Aquisitions
The Color Imperative
Mariana Cook
Marti Cormand: Paintings
Pamela Crimmins
D'Amelio Terras summer show
The Depthography Group
Martha Diamond: From Three Decades
domesticArrivals: Miami-New York Connection
Drop Out
Julie Evans: Swish of the Yak Tail Fly-Whisk
The Family Business
Tony Feher
Leon Ferrari: Politiscripts
Walton Ford: Bitter Gulfs
Tim Gardner
Deborah Garwood: Paris at Spring Equinox, 2004: Parc des Buttes Chaumont
Tsibi Geva: After
Suzanne Hadorn
Wendy Hirschberg: Incident: No. 47
Anish Kapoor: Whiteout
Kim Keever
Ruth Kligman: Demons The Light
Glenn Ligon: Colored
Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition:
Grace Markman
Jonas Mekas: Fragments of Paradise
Ana Mendieta: Earth Body / Filmworks and Drawings
Melissa Meyer: Recent Paintings
Richard Mock: Matching Two Points in History
Monsoon Wedding
Takashi Murakami: Mushrooms
Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design
Out of Our Element
Pat Passlof
Neo Rauch: Renegaten
Nancy Rexroth: Iowa
Scott Prior
Jim Shaw
Keith Sonnier
Speaking With Hands
Subterranean Russian Art
Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation
Cindy Tower: "Clutter Paintings"
Heide Trepanier
Unbroken: Photography Subjects Speak Out
Madeline Weinrib
Rebecca Welz: Steel Kites
Chrystal Woodson
Charles Yuen: Psychographic
Complete archive, 1999-present
Fields of conflict
Like a bird on (barbed) wire, Tsibi Geva's paintings call to a place of peace in a land of struggle.
One of the first impressions, when confronted with Tsibi Geva's recent paintings, is of their chaotic and seductive beauty. This appearance of chaos is laboriously and carefully constructed, represented by layers of painterly accumulation, reflecting Geva's immersion in symbols of cultural disruption. The images that Geva chooses to disassemble and re-imagine are common yet potent, inexorably linking the Israeli and Palestinian territories: the Keffiyeh, sometimes resembling the chain link fence, and the Balata. Reduced to their simplest terms, the Keffiyeh is fraught with historical import: a headscarf worn by Palestinians and associated with the Intifada, but that was also worn by an earlier generation of Jewish fighters during Israel's struggle for independence. The Balata is a common ceramic tile (i.e.,terrazzo) used in Jewish settlements and throughout Israel, often installed by Arab workers, and also the name of a Palestinian refugee camp. For Geva, the abstract potential of these objects has led to variations that investigate the inherent ambiguity within each, as well as their utilitarian use as grid and embellishment.
Works by:
Tsibi Geva
January 18 - February 17, 2005
Annina Nosei
530 W 22nd St.
New York NY
Hours: Tue-Sat: 11-6
Phone: (212) 741-8695
Geva is able to focus on how these simplified constructs can have unexpected, associative power; they are ubiquitous and yet overlooked or ignored. For many years, he has used the images as either formal or decorative elements in his work as a means of constructing abstract space, either as a flat grid pattern, or as fragments scattered across a painterly field.
Geva has also worked with found objects such as old tires, attaching them to a wall in a grid pattern, at once disarming and surrounding the viewer with the suggestion of violence (i.e., the tires used to set fires by children during the Intifada). Resolution is acheived through repetition and, by extension, unanimity. The artist also painted a flat grid, derived from the Keffiyeh pattern, on a wall underneath a Jerusalem soccer stadium, next to Hebrew graffiti that criticized Yitzhak Rabin. This combination of detritus and discontent appealed to Geva's ironic sense of historical moment and randomness. In several recent paintings Geva has incorporated earth colored fragments that resemble shards of terracotta pottery; they suggest centuries of history exploding into oblivion, some steeped in the color of blood. In another work, a single charred flower somehow stands defiantly against a heavily pigmented white wall, an image of dogged survival.
How does an Israeli artist (or Palestinian artist, for that matter) make paintings today that in any tangible way reflect the complicated and devastating reality of political, cultural and social upheaval that currently engulfs this tiny area of the Middle East? Geva has developed a compelling iconography that speaks to the difficulty of creating visual equivalents for a social dynamic that is both ancient in its heritage and its conflicts. For Geva, can there be a sense of hope within his work, for the present and the future? There is the point where and when his paintings take over, and their dynamism and subtle color can actually transcend the banality of his mundane starting point. Ultimately there is a hopefulness emanating from these paintings, a belief that through experiment and reorganization the beauty of the land and culture can emerge from this seemingly endless chaos; like one of Geva's humorous little birds, perched on a flower or barbed wire, waiting for a favorable wind.
Reader comments on Tsibi Geva: After:
Dr Sidney Rosenblum
, Oct 3, 2005
Tsibi Geva
Bubba Johnson
, Jan 3, 2009
joseph corbitt
, Oct 12, 2011
Post a comment on "Tsibi Geva: After"


text:
Cars and Coffee®
Welcome to the Official site for the Cars and Coffee® Community. This site is dedicated to all car enthusiasts.
Registering for this site is easy. Just fill in the fields below, and we'll get a new account set up for you in no time.
This field can be seen by: Only Me Change


text:
Our Story
The Zambartas story is one of following a dream and the pursuit of a deeply held passion for wine. In 2006, Akis Zambartas established the family winery in the Krasochoria Wine Region of Cyprus. Gifted with enormous passion and a long experience in winemaking, he challenged the established wisdom by focusing on making world class Cypriot wines. The story took off further when Marcos decided to pursue his father as a winemaker and went on to study winemaking in Australia. He came back in 2008, with great dedication and new knowledge. Since then Zambartas has become on of the leading wineries in Cyprus and dedicated itself to sustainable viticulture and winemaking, with great emphasis on the local Cypriot varieties.


text:
Perhaps surprisingly, well surprising to me anyway, Radio Ham's often travel to remote, uninhabited Scottish islands (and others) in pursuit of their pastime. 'Ham' is an informal term for an amateur radio operator, and, by extension, "ham radio" refers to amateur radio in general. I managed to catch up with Col, leader of a group who had just been to the Flannan Isles, with their aim to make the Flannans an "island on the air" for ham radio enthusiasts around the world. I asked Col some questions about the islands he has previously visited and about his time visiting the Flannan Islands.
Of the islands that you have visited, what has been the most difficult island to get to?
Without doubt it would be Eilean Mor, Flannan Isles. Although I have visited St Kilda too, and that is further out to sea, there is a good jetty on Hirta – the same can't be said for the Flannans.
What are the greatest challenges to accessing remote islands?
Sea state, tides and weather can determine whether you achieve a landing or not. Another challenge is overcoming bodies or powers that be who say they have Scotland's heritage at heart, but can be difficult and obtuse to deal with if it involves accessing some remote islands.
What is your favourite island/islands and why?
The Flannans group was a pleasure to visit and stay three days, but for sheer beauty, landscape and views, it would be the St Kilda archipelago. Some people say it is their most favourite place in the world – I can see why.
Are there any islands that you have not managed to get to, that you would like to visit?
Rockall. I haven't visited it yet, but would like to, with a landing if possible too. In 2007 I made enquiries to try get out there, but the cost was prohibitive at the time. (For more information on Rockall, read my article 'Island Man' about Andy Strangeway who is looking to land on Rockall).
You have recently visited the Flannan Isles, what were your experiences on these islands?
The Flannans were nothing like the portrayed image people have of the disappearing lighthouse keepers; a place of darkness and high seas. I was a little sunburnt when there, although the weather did change rapidly at times from calm to fog to windy in minutes. The birdlife is pretty good, with surprisingly very few Skua's present, unlike neighbouring Hirta. There are Puffins all over too. To me the most impressive part of The Flannans is seeing them from the sea. The main aim of being there was make the Flannans an "island on the air" for ham radio enthusiasts around the world. The group I was part of managed to make over 8000 radio contacts in just a little under 3 days.
What is the next challenge for you and your team?
A hectic six days, to be spent on the company of fellow radio amateur operators, who all reside in different parts of Europe. Our website explains in full detail our plans. Although mostly radio jargon is evident, you can still get the jist of the journey.
Where can I find more information about your activities?
On our aforementioned website. I don't personally have a website detailing my island activities. However, each island visited has had operating ham radio equipment in mind. From Arran to Kerrera to Flannans or to St Kilda – a small radio transmitter and antenna always accompany me!
So, if anyone is interested in radio ham's and islands being 'on the air' tune in to see the latest "island on the air".
Photo's of the Flannan Islands courtesy of vincentf4bkv from France.
The Flannan isles are famous for the Lighthouse mystery that happenned at the turn of the 20th century. You can also click to the Flannan Isles page on the Remote islands section of the site.


text:
Connecticut Association of Municipal Attorneys
The Connecticut Association of Municipal Attorneys (CAMA) was formed to unite all municipal attorneys located within the state of Connecticut. The goal of CAMA is to find solutions for problems that affect municipal attorneys. The attorneys get together to advocate positions that advance the local governments interests.
LegalMatch maintains an extensive attorney network in Connecticut. A free online service, LegalMatch allows qualified Connecticut attorneys to review individual cases that have been posted to the LegalMatch system. Distinct from referral services offered by Connecticut bar associations, LegalMatch provides potential clients with uniquely in-depth attorney profiles.
Members of CAMA represent over two thirds of the state�s cities. CAMA has such a strong membership because of the benefits it provides for its members. CAMA provides networking events, seminars, and a lawyer referral service as part of its membership benefits.
Contact the Connecticut Association of Municipal Attorneys
P.O. Box 1833
New Haven, CT 06508
Fax: 203-562-6314