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Cadillac announced today that the XT5 - replacement for the SRX crossover - will be making its worldwide debut at the Dubai Motor Show in November. Following this, the new Cadillac crossover will head to the LA Auto Show for its North American debut.
"The XT5 will be the cornerstone of a series of crossovers bearing the 'XT' designation," the automaker said in a statement.
The XT5 has some big shoes to fill as the SRX was Cadillac's most popular model sold worldwide. Previous reports has the SRX using a 2.0T four-cylinder and 3.6L V6 for power, and being available with front or all-wheel drive.
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UPDATE: Here are BOTH parts of the cast press conference from London:
The day has finally arrived!
Catching Fire will have its world premiere tonight in London's Leicester Square. Don't forget, you can watch the proceedings LIVE via Yahoo's stream! Click here to tune in.
Watch this cool video below, showing how the venue was prepped for the premiere, and brief interviews with some of the fans who camped out in advance:
Click here to check out more photos from JustJared.

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Competition entries have now closed, but you can find out all about the competition on this page.
This global open innovation competition is for entrepreneurs, start-ups or growing companies that could change the way finance works and how banks meet their client's needs. That's why we are looking for disruptive ideas.
We believe a healthy financial services industry should be open to transformation through collaborative innovation. UBS's innovation teams around the world are already driving new concepts from ideation through prototyping into development. We're inviting you to join this process by presenting your idea to our teams and then developing it with input and support from UBS.
There are four challenges for you to choose from.
What's in it for the participants?
With a first prize of US$50,000, the competition offers the winners a share of over US$300,000 cash prizes and support, over 300 hours dedicated coaching and mentoring from experienced technology and business leaders, and also a chance to further commercialize and scale their ideas and technologies with help from UBS resources and support.
See our rewards page for more details about the prizes.
Who is eligible to enter?
We're looking for individual entrepreneurs or young companies incorporated on or after 1st January 2010 and with an annual turnover lower than $3m. You should have received less than $10m in total investment and not more advanced than series A or B funding.
Participants should have developed:
- An idea/ concept grounded on innovative/ disruptive technology capabilities applied to banking/ finance
- Or a functional demo or prototype of the product, service or application.
The technology solutions proposed should:
- Be focused directly on banking and financial services
- Or have a demonstrable impact in another sector but with a potential connection or application within the banking and financial industry.
Some other restrictions apply – see the Rules for full details.
Read our official rules
See materials from the launch events here.
Why UBS?
UBS is one of the world's leading banks, specializing in wealth management, asset management and investment banking. In Switzerland it is also the leading retail and commercial bank.
UBS's ambition is to help shape a more open and collaborative financial services industry and to jointly develop new innovative solutions for its clients. We're involved in the Fintech eco-system in our key global locations through initiatives like our lab at Level 39 in London and our Evolve innovation centre in Singapore.
This open approach enables us to embrace the pace of technological change and learn from entrepreneurs about products and services that will not only offer short-term gains but also will have a lasting benefit for our clients, our firm and the industry.
We know it can be hard to navigate the structures of large organizations, especially banks. With UBS's global reach and world-class banking expertise we can provide entrepreneurs and technology start-ups a unique point of entry, giving you the opportunity to test your idea or develop it with our support. We can give you unrivalled access to internal business and technology experts and partners, supported by tailored mentoring and expertise to help you refine your ideas and bring them towards fruition.
Who are we working with?
In line with our commitment to open collaboration with the FinTech and start-up communities worldwide, the UBS Future of Finance Challenge will be delivered in partnership with several leading FinTech accelerators including Level 39, JFDI.Asia and NUS Enterprise @Blk71, as well as the innovation agency 100%Open.


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- Provide a club headed document, signed off by two senior club officials, clarifying the club's wishes for the site to be closed down. Please note: this must be the Secretary, Chairman, President or Treasurer
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Background: On December 3, 2017, the French Church changes the text and translation of the Our Father. French Massgoers now say, "Do not let us enter into temptation," where they used to say, "Do not submit us into temptation." In English, we say, "Lead us not into temptation." When asked about the change, Pope Francis tells an Italian bishop's channel, it should not be lead us into temptation; since ''We fall into temptation. God doesn't push us." To some conservative Catholics, this seems like another example of sweeping modernization of the Church by the most liberal pontiff in Vatican history. Actually it is not. In fact, Vatican II suggested that the text and translation of the Our Father should be changed to "Do not submit us," which is something that English speaking Catholic countries refused to adopt. It is hugely important how Church liturgies are translated from Greek to Latin to local languages.
The Lord's Prayer: The change adopted by the French is consistent with the decision by Pope Francis to decentralize most responsibility for the matter of text and translations to national bishop's conferences. The intent is to come up with something that is authentic to the words of Jesus. Otherwise, we could revert to Aramaic. You might be surprised to learn that the origin of the Our Father is found in a collection of apocryphal and pseudepigraphal literature called The Forgotten Books of Adam and Eve. The books pre-date Jesus by more than 150 years. It is Adams' prayer to God. It is handed down as part of the oral heritage of Judaism and Christianity since before the Great Flood. The Greek word peirasmos is translated by St. Jerome as temptation, or test. The phrase means, "And do not put us to the test," the so-called messianic woes; a period of severe trails before the end of the age - the final test.


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Twiggy remains a fashion icon with any slim young thing who sports short hair and liberal eye shadow inevitably pegged as "Twiggy-like". Here is our selection of some iconic and some hard to find Twiggy images.
Twiggy is Lesley Lawson's nickname. Her style was a product of designer Mr. Leonard imagination. At the age of 17 she got appointment at House of Leonard in Mayfair, when Leonard offered to pay for her pictures if she would model a new style he had in mind. He dyed her hair blonde, and gave her a crop that was even shorter than Vidal Sassoon's daring five-point cut.
The 1966 hair appointment made by Twiggy's agent at the House of Leonard salon was to become one of the most iconic cuts ever. Mr Leonard himself, who at the time had Vidal Sassoon and his signature five-point cut hot on his hairdressing heels, wanted to practice a new shorter, extreme crop.
Twiggy, born Lesley Hornby, became synonymous with the look of London in the 1960s. A gamine haircut she got at the age of 16 jump-started her career, and eventually the cut, along with her long eyelashes and skinny limbs, led the Daily Express, to declare her the "Face of '66." The rest is history.
Twiggy became a big Biba patron around this time, her look fitted the brand perfectly. She also modeled for Biba catalogues.
Twiggy and Swedish model nicknamed 'Crumb', 1967.
With fellow model and style icon Peggy Moffitt.
with her then boyfriend and manager Justin De Villeneuve, in 1967.
Shot for one of her Vogue covers.
Vogue makes Twiggy the the face of 1960s flower power as their June 1967 cover girl.
Sara Crichton-Stuart and Twiggy, wearing pantsuits by Simon Massey,1966.
1971, with director Ken Russell, on the set of The Boy Friend. It follows that his version of Sandy Wilson's 1950's musical about the 1920's, "The Boy Friend," is not so much an adaptation as almost total transformation — honorable transformation.
In an automat cafeteria, surrounded by fans wearing masks of her own face in New York.
Twiggy and Patrick Macnee from the sixties spy-fi British television series The Avengers.
The images belong to a promo event at Teddington Studios, London in 1967 to show off new designs for The Avengers by Pierre Cardin and Alun Hughes. Patrick MacNee, Diana Rigg, and others posed for Photographer Terry O'Neil.
Twiggi in 1970.


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Another relatively normal day in the Bay today! This is what we want! It may be too late for these eggs, then again it may not. Nevertheless, it is encouraging that 28(10) returned to the nest and did not abandon it altogether. This means that he has bonded with Maya and the nest, and knows what his responsibilities are.
If 28 had not returned to the nest, then it would surely have failed. His reappearance brings with it the last vestiges of hope that one or more of these eggs will hatch. It may be false hope, but we do not yet know. Is it better to keep hoping, and risk disappointment, or is it better not to expect anything, and maybe get a nice surprise? Who knows the answer to that question, however, for me personally, there is no suppressing that little bit of optimism, and I cannot help but hope.
28(10) has returned with a renewed sense of what is expected of him. He brought Maya a fish last night, and he brought her another this morning, at about 07:10. He has taken his turn at incubation, and has been performing this duty as though he has been doing it all his life! As you will see from the photos below, he looks a lot more comfortable on the eggs than he did when they were first laid.
At the moment, 28 has been bringing about one or two fish a day to the nest. At this stage in the season, this is plenty to get them by, as they are not expending much energy. When (or if) there are chicks in the nest, he will need to fish a lot more often, but hopefully his instincts will guide him to do this, as they have been guiding him the right way so far. He is learning fast, and although he had trouble with 33(11) last week, it could have been a lot worse. Just look at who returned the victor, and who has not been seen now for three days.


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You can now hear in full on the BBC's website the first part of Stephen Hawking's 2016 Reith Lecture---"Do Black Holes Have No Hair?" Just above, listen to Hawking's lecture while you follow along with an animated chalkboard on which artist Andrew Park sketches out the key points in helpful images and diagrams. We alerted you to the coming lecture this past Tuesday, and we also pointed you toward the paper Hawking recently posted online, "Soft Hair on Black Holes," co-authored with Malcolm J. Perry and Andrew Strominger. There, Hawking argues that black holes may indeed have "hair," or waves of zero-energy particles that store information previously thought lost.
The article is tough going for anyone without a background in theoretical physics, but Hawking's talk above makes these ideas approachable, without dumbing them down. He has a winning way of communicating with everyday examples and witticisms, and Park's illustrations further help make sense of things. Hawking begins with a brief history of black hole theory, then builds slowly to his thesis: as the BBC puts it, rather than see black holes as "scary, destructive and dark he says if properly understood, they could unlock the deepest secrets of the cosmos."
Hawking is introduced by BBC broadcaster Sue Lawley, who also chairs a question-and-answer session (in the full lecture audio) with a few select Radio 4 listeners whose questions Hawking chose from hundreds submitted to the BBC. Stay tuned for Part Two, which should come online shortly after Tuesday's broadcast.
The short animated video above gives us a tantalizing excerpt from Hawking's second talk. "If you feel you are in a black hole," he says reassuringly, "don't give up. There's a way out." That nice little aside is but one of many colorful ways Hawking has of expressing himself when discussing the theoretical physics of black holes, a subject that could turn deadly serious, and---speaking for myself---incomprehensible. As far as I know, black holes work in the real universe just like they do in Interstellar.
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national awareness and reverence, honoring those Americans who died
while defending our Nation and its values. While we should honor these
heroes every day for the profound contribution they have made to
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Memorial Day.
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of Remembrance" on each Memorial Day. This memorial observance
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honor the struggle to protect our freedoms.
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1) Heat pan and carefully dry roast all of the above ingredients on low flame. Stir once in a while.
2) Once the spices are roasted, turn off the flame and let it cool.
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How Reliable and Effective Security Could Save Your Business
One of the top priorities for any business owner should be to have reliable and effective security in place to protect both employees and inventory at all times. However, there are times when a company is far more prone to a robbery.
Night time is obviously a high risk time. Most burglars think they have an advantage bing covered in the dark and with less personnel present in the building. However, that is what alarm systems are for.
Currently, one out of every seven businesses in operation have an alarm system installed in their facilities, and for good reason. Even just knowing there is an alarm present is sometimes enough to deter robbers. A study which involved interviewing convicted burglars, found that even during impulsive and unplanned robberies, more than 50% of the offen


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Are you looking to increase the amount of people reading your brand's Messenger Broadcasts?
It's common to see higher stats for your brand's first Broadcasts than later ones, as the novelty of brand notifications on Messenger can wear down a bit overtime. However, that drop-off does NOT need to be sharp or certain. Follow these three tips to start (and keep!) sending effective Broadcast campaigns.
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Practically speaking, "being you" in your Broadcasts means using your brand's voice to connect with fans in a conversational way. Take a look at your company's internal style guide for inspiration, or harness the personality from your brand's social media, website copy, customer service language, and advertising assets and copy. This will give you a strong compass for finding just the right authentic voice and tone to use in your Broadcasts.
Then ask yourself: what do my fans or customers expect from me? What kinds of punctuation, emojis, colors, attitude, humor, or images have they come to expect from your brand?
And then give it to them (in brief!) in your Broadcasts.
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Have you ever had someone shout "SALE ON T-SHIRTS THIS WEEKEND ONLY!!! 25% OFF!!!" at you in your ear?
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The same could be said for screamy Messenger notifications. Your followers use Facebook Messenger as a conversational medium, and aren't accustomed to loud, alarming push notes. Try turning the volume down on your Broadcasts, and you may find that more of your message gets heard.
As you can see in the example above, you can still convey excitement in your broadcasts without resorting to an all-caps or extra-exclamation-points situation. Consider the ways you might share big news with your friends over text, and employ those same conversational techniques in your broadcasts.
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Your fans, followers, or shoppers on Facebook Messenger are used to actively engaging in the chat experience. So rather than passively announce the "when" and "what" of your weekend sale, include your followers in the experience with some friendly conversation.
Did you know that you can send a convo out to your followers via Broadcast? It's quick, easy, and the engagement rates for Convo-based broadcasts are significantly higher on average compared to general ones.
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Do I need to send this Broadcast to all my fans or is there a way that I can segment my audience?
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today was such a good day.
mum got new glasses, and the manager chose branded frames, and all these expensive lenses. there are so many lenses, but she picked the best (and most expensive ones). rrp, the multifocal glasses cost $889, but she gave a good discount, and after claiming the health fund, there was still a largish gap (compared to going to Asian optometrists with small stores where they have cheaper frames/lenses and not as good quality but no gap) to pay. but still, the gap was less than the actual frames, and the glasses looked so much better than her old ones (which were so, so ugly).
decided to look for new sunnies today. agh, i don't know what to choose! should i choose the cheaper ray ban with polarised lenses, or should i go with the more fashionable (but more expensive) burberry sunnies? the problem is that i have a small face, so the extravagant sunnies don't fit me ): and tbh, big sunnies on small faces don't look good. the shine finish cost $40 more than the matte finish for the ray bans. they're actually not cheap either, but $100 cheaper than the burberry. i love the burberry! except they have a super thin frame with a "cloth" material around it with their signature pattern. they look a bit better on me, but they're not polarised, and i wouldn't go to the beach with them, since it'd get damaged more easily. the cloth thing on the side damages easily...so technically the ray bans are more practical for chucking around (i.e. i won't be super sad if sand touches it etc..). put both on hold, i'll think about it again tmr...
finally got my name badge today!
yay, saw tess today (: tonight was so fun, just chatting (: so glad i made the trek to parra. it took me about 15mins to get into a carpark, since i wanted to find the cinema one, but i kept missing the hidden entrance street from this other street. and thanks guys for walking to my car. defs would have gotten lost. and then when i came out, the car in front of me turned right, but i turned left since it said church st, and i know i needed to get onto, but once i turned, i knew i was on the other end of church st, so did a massive loop to u-turn and go back to the correct direction on church st. also, there was rbt on the other side of the road on windsor rd, outside baulko library, and then those undercover police cars catching speeding cars...
first time going to Coco Cubano, even though unsw has one. the logo reminds me of Thomas Sabo
lemon lime mint iced tea, banana mango iced granita large-$7, citrus berry iced granita, and an iced bounty couverture choc
Dandelion and i had the banana mango. i thought it would be really sweet, but i was surprised since it was a tad bland, probs because they needed to use heaps of ice. tried a bit of Happy Apple's citrus berry. again, wasn't sweet, but a really interesting combo of flavours. Better's bounty did taste like the chocolate, but obviously a much icier version.
Calamari with chilli salt and roasted garlic sauce-$12.90
not chilli at all. quite nice, and i loved the garlic sauce.
mini quesadillas-$11.90, garlic mushrooms-$9.90
the quesadillas were quite delicious, and not spicy. they used large mushrooms instead of button mushrooms like Encasa. definitely not as garlicky as Encasa, and was a bit disappointed, but then again, Encasa is known to produce top notch Spanish food (in sydney) for a decent price. i guess these ones today felt healthier without so much butter/garlic.
beef nachos-$15.90, oven baked eggs-$13.90
nachos were alright. felt like some breakfast food so got some baked eggs. their bread isn't bad, it's just that their baked eggs were smaller. then again, tapas are smaller, and their prices for their baked eggs are cheaper than other places. the chorizo here tasted fattier, and didn't have enough spice, but it was pretty nice overall. like their smashed avo is about $11, whilst the grounds is around $17.
group w/ food! interesting decor around the cafe.
we were going to go san churros for dessert, but i'm so glad we didn't. crossed the road to go to The Chocolate Cafe. always walk past the one in the city, but it always seems empty-ish. the parra one was pretty packed when we went (then again, it's not as big). this place was surprisingly really good, good selection of desserts and not as expensive as other chocolate places!
thanks again Better for the shout (:
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warm dark choc pudding w/ cream-$6.50
so nice and warm. even though it was dark choc, it was quite rich (but not overly sweet), so this was good to share. didn't fully ooze out, but the presentation of the fudgy chocolatey stuff made it look so good, and it was yum
tiramisu icecream-$6
we were all mind blown by this dish, but i think Dandelion was the most in awe, haha. we thought it was tiramisu with ice cream, since on the picture, it had a slice of tiramisu. then we thought it wasn't really worth it having another piece of cake which wasn't that big in terms of serving size. then when the waiter came over, he explained it was tiramisu ice cream shaped in a slice of a cake! and this was soo good. you have the novelty of it and the taste (: not sure if gelatissimo tiramisu is better or this.
waffle wonder-$12.50
i wanted some dessert waffles, since the waffles i had w/ ice cream the other day were those home-machine types, not the more cafe style types. these waffles weren't that big (considering the price is was ok), but it was beautifully presented with vanilla ice cream sandwiched between the waffles. well personally, i've never had waffles stacked like this before. the waffles were chewier than other waffles and was sweeter than i would've liked. i think the waffle shouldn't be as sweet, so you can focus on the chocolate flavour (since we are in the chocolate room). this choc sauce was a bit sweeter than that choc sauce with the pudding. the vanilla ice cream was by far the sweetest thing here. the chocolate is rich, but not sugar-sweet. the vanilla ice cream was just caster and icing sugar like sweet.
i definitely have a big sweet tolerance. tonight's dessert were sweet, but i've had even sweeter things before...sorry for taking pictures of photos of food together. it saves space on my phone, so instead of taking 3 individual photos, i just take one photo of all 3 foods. once i post the photos, i usually delete the individual ones off my phone. yay for food and friends (:


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The NYC Public Schools are closed today, and city parents are expecting the rest of us to feel bad for them. Allow me to rub a little salt in their wounds. My kid went to school today. For once.
And the first thing I did this morning was get on Facebook to write out a thank-you to the snow gods. Happy dance! Listen, New York, I get it. You've been lucky. Today marks only the seventh time since 1978 that the NYC school system has been closed because of winter weather. Now let me explain what life is like for those of us out here in the real world.
The meteorologist starts warning that a storm is coming in. Our kids start war whooping and screaming SNOW DAY at the top of their longs. They refuse to do their homework because "Moooooom, I will have an extra day to do it."
Then comes the scrambling for the phone chain. Because now you have to figure out either: A. Someone to cover your shift at work so you can stay home with the little brats darlings or B. Someone to babysit. When both fail, you turn to your husband for the same conversation you always have:
"Honey, can you take a sick day tomorrow to stay home with the kids?"
"Sorry, honey, big project starts tomorrow. No can do. Why don't you stay home?"
"Because I called in sick LAST week when they were home. That's why. Can't they start that big project without you?"
Big sigh. "Can't your mother do it?"
You know what, forget it. That conversation is going nowhere. So you resort to the most logical and advanced method of solving this. Rock, paper, scissors. The loser goes to bed in a huff. No sex tonight, huh, honey?
Fast forward to the next morning. Your phone will ring at about, oh, 4:53 a.m., just as you finally hit your REM cycle after tossing and turning for four hours over the stress of calling the boss, yet again, for a day off because of snow. "Hello, this is an important message from Blah Blah Blah Central Schools. We're totally screwing you over cancelling school because someone threw an ice cube in the road. Have a nice day!"
Yes, I've heard "have a nice day" and "have a nice weekend." I know they're trying to be polite. I take it as a kick in the ribs (and I told the superintendent about that last week when I ran into him in town. He laughed).
Anyhoo. Half an hour later your actual alarm will go off. But it doesn't matter. You're already wide awake. And so are the kids. Because on a regular school day, they are a bear to pull out of bed. But on a snow day, they are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. And hungry!
"No cereal this morning Mom. You're home, can't you make the pancakes with the chocolate chips? What do you mean you haven't had your coffee yet? Coffee, can we have coffee?"
You will say no, but they will spend the remainder of the day bouncing off the walls as though they actually drank the whole pot on you (maybe that's why there was nothing in the carafe when you hit the bottom of the stairs?). They will alternate between demanding you allow them outside to play in the snow and whining that you actually asked them to carry the bag of ice melt out to the front steps and throw down one measly cup so the UPS man doesn't break his leg and sue you.
You will play every board game in the house and read every book on the top shelf. You will become intimate with the inner workings of every Phineas and Ferb project made this season. And you will collapse, exhausted on the couch.
At which point the phone will ring again. "Hello, this is an important message from Blah-bitty-blah Central School. We are cancelling school again tomorrow. To make up for it, your child will be GOING to school on that one Monday you actually took off from work because it was on the school calendar as a superintendent's conference day. You know, the one filled with all the kids' dentist appointments and sports physicals and trips to see great-granny at the nursing home. Have a nice day!"
So, parents of the NYC Public Schools, my apologies. I just don't give a rats patootie how hard you have it today. Do you?
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The life of David, a divorced man with alcohol problems will be a return of three hundred sixty degrees after receiving a strange call of unknown origin . This fact, trigger a series of events that will change completely the fate of the protagonist. While trying to escape his past , David will be caught in a never-ending nightmare , causing not distinguish what is real from what is not .
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Our ABS allows us to think differently and to offer more services. Our ABS also allows us to be what our clients want us to be — able to provide intelligence, cyber, advisory and legal services seamlessly and without being limited by jurisdiction.
Before acquiring ABS status in 2013, Schillings operated as a traditional law firm, specializing in privacy and defamation and family law. Upon acquiring ABS status, Schillings integrated a cyber-security business and recruited risk management professionals from the management consulting world, transforming itself into a reputation and privacy multidisciplinary practice combining legal services with intelligence gathering, risk consulting and cyber security. Schilling's Chief Operating Officer and partner Christopher Mills is not a lawyer.
2007 was a great year for Schillings. But by 2008, everything had changed. Before, there were a small number of players, everything was in print, and issues rarely expanded outside the borders of the UK. Today, the market is diluted with many new entrants, everything moves very quickly and nothing stays within borders.
We could have stayed a traditional law firm, but opportunities for growth were limited. We could have diversified into other legal sectors, but we did not see a future with that either, because the market is saturated. In the end, the best option we saw was to stick with our core competency of reputation, privacy and family law, but to add non-legal, or what we call 'extra-legal' services. So, knowing that the new rules would soon come into effect, we bought a cyber-security business, and, as soon as we could, we combined it with our legal practice into one entity.
As an ABS, we have transformed our business. Today we are international consultants specialising in defending reputation and protecting privacy, as well as international family law. Our professional staff includes lawyers as well as intelligence analysts, risk consultants and cyber security specialists. We are the only business in the world to complement a reputation, privacy and family legal offering with intelligence gathering, risk consulting and cyber security. No other single provider groups these legal and non-legal services together the way we do — typically clients need to work with three or four other organizations to get the same services. Compared to that, we are able to provide both a higher quality as well as seamless service to our clients.
I would say also that previously, as a traditional law firm, we were very much evidence-led. Today we are also intelligence-led. All of this has been made possible through the diversity our ABS status affords us.
Our status as an ABS allows us to do much more than we could if we were not an ABS. It allows us to help our clients in the ways that they really need help. Although we are more than law, law is still important to who we are, in fact it's our USP because we bring legal rigour and legal privilege that other non-legal providers can't.
Because of the wide range of services we offer, our competitive field is large. That being said, we are the only ones that combine those services into a single MDP service offering. We have lawyers working with risk consultants working with intelligence analysts working with cyber security specialists — all on a single team. If we are compared to law firms, we offer a breadth of extra, non-legal services. If we are compared to an intelligence or a risk consulting firm, we can offer legal privilege while they cannot. In sum, no other firm is what we are or does what we do.
Further, because of our heritage as a law firm, our clients are reassured that our work is rigorous and disciplined as well as ethical. This is difficult for firms that do not have their heritage in law to replicate.
Our clients are international businesses and high net-worth individuals. What defines them is that they are global citizens. They have activities and assets in a number of countries, which may or may not include the UK. Our non-legal services are not bound by jurisdiction.
More specifically regarding our individual clients — their main country of residence could be anywhere in the world, and at any given moment, they could be anywhere else in the world: Americas, Far East, Middle East. They are some of the world's most successful individuals, and our work is geared around their private lives.
Currently, I am one of two nonlawyer partners in the firm. The second person is Major General Tim Robinson, who served in the British Army. He brings a highly strategic approach to crisis management and prevention. We are planning that by the end of 2016, we will have a total of seven partners who are lawyers and four partners who are not lawyers (their backgrounds will be in intelligence, risk consulting and/or cyber security). This reflects the diversity of our business. It also reflects where our business is going — the revenue generated by our non-legal staff is growing very quickly, and we expect that soon it will equally match the revenue generated by our legal staff. Our partners are our principal client-facing people. They do not all need to be lawyers. They do all need to be problem-solvers.
In the old days, the partners did client work, business development, supervision, and firm management. Today, many firms have woken up to the fact that you need to bring in experienced, qualified professionals to run areas like finance, marketing, operations — if you want to run a professional organization, those are not just things that you do after-hours or on the weekend. In a corporation, the question would not even be asked — you would naturally have qualified persons with business skills and experience who know how to run a business. The ability to offer partnership to nonlawyers is important in recruiting and retaining the best people. You have to be able to motivate them and reward them. If you want to grow the business, it is important to give them skin in the game.
What we are doing is ground breaking. We are moving very fast, and I find it exhilarating — and fun. We are able to stretch ourselves individually and stretch ourselves as a firm.
Law firms are slow at change. For that reason, even in England and Wales where the regulations permit alternative structures, it is not a surprise that there are still many law firms that do not appear prepared to embrace change — they don't understand innovation is about evolution and survival. In my opinion, in the long term those firms will suffer.
There are, of course, a number of innovative firms who are taking advantage of the regulations in England and Wales to create multidisciplinary structures. Not just in law but in other professional services, in particular the big accounting firms. They have applied for and received ABS licenses, and they are beginning to offer legal services, which will take away work from some law firms. They have existing relationships with their clients that make it easy to cross sell their new legal services.
As a partner at Schillings, even though I am not a lawyer, I am approved and authorised by the SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority) to be a nonlawyer manager.
I think that those who continue to hold onto their opposition to alternative business structures are missing the point. The point is the need to evolve with your clients to better serve their needs and respond to what they want.
Since we became an ABS, our revenue has doubled, and we project that over the next few years our revenue will double again. Our explanation for this is that our ABS allows us to think differently and to offer more services. Our ABS also allows us to be what our clients want us to be — able to provide intelligence, cyber, advisory and legal services seamlessly and without being limited by jurisdiction.
That being said, as happy as we are being an ABS and as much as we enjoy the freedom to innovate beyond legal services, to be truthful, in many ways we've moved on from it. That is, it already feels old news. It's just the way we do business.
Here in the UK, you see less and less the reference to "ABS" and more and more the reference to "new law." All that means is the desire to do something different. And it especially means the desire to stay up to date in this digital, global, interconnected, 24/7 world. What it brings to mind for me is the Charles Darwin quote that goes something along the lines of it not being the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent, that survive — it is those who are most prepared to adapt and evolve.
Our vision for 2020 is to be an international consulting firm that helps successful individuals and leading companies all over the world to enjoy what they have achieved, free from intrusions into their private lives or assaults on their character by defending their rights and freedoms in an age of instant communication and relentless change.
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January is a month of new beginnings, but you should close down December satisfactorily before 2015 turns into 2016.
Your personal and professional calendars may already be getting full for December. You have end-of-year reports and those last-minute sales appointments to try to meet your quota. Your department and/or company may have holiday gatherings, and you've probably arranged seasonal events with family and friends.
Have you put much thought, though, into how you'll put a period at the end of the year with your customers and lay the groundwork for a new sentence in January?
Obviously, Remember Them
If you haven't yet made plans for a holiday mailing, it's time. These days, you have to be sensitive to the fact that people celebrate different types of winter holidays in the U.S. Card designers are well aware of this, and if you're just going to send a card with your signature and a personal note, you can still order them. There are also countless websites and applications that let you design their own. Try to keep your message generic but celebratory, if that makes sense. Or you can just send traditional Christmas cards and assume everyone will understand that that's the dominant December holiday.
If you have a little extra money to spend, do have at least your name and phone number printed on a promotional item that can be mass-produced. Calendars and nice pens are good because they're more likely to be kept and seen, but you'd be amazed at the multitude of options you'll have by browsing sites that sell tschotchkes. There's still time.
More to the Point
Rather than just wishing them a happy or merry whatever, you could also make this a more professional "touch." Here are some ideas:
Illustrate that you know who each customer is. This is only realistic, of course, if you don't have a customer list that numbers in the hundreds. Select a product or two that they've ordered during the year and tell them you hope they're still enjoying it/them. If you've struck up personal conversations, pull a comment or two out of your CRM application and let them know that you remember them as individuals, not just names on an obligatory card list.
Thank them for their patronage. Obviously.
Extend a special invitation for an end-of-year discount, shipping upgrade, etc. Especially good if you sell,things that people might buy for gifts. If you can tie this in to their previous purchases, all the better.
Put all of this in a handwritten note. It's such a pleasure to get one of those these days. If you have the time and nice handwriting, give your holiday greeting this personal touch.
Include a teaser for 2016.
You get the idea. Smart, thoughtful holiday mailings will most likely be remembered when it's time to buy.
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The Advocate Tithe for 2017 will be about $16,000.
The Advocate Tithe for 2016 was distributed as follows:
The IFC $2000
Orange Justice United $1500
The Episcopal Farmworker Ministry $1000
Coalition for Peace with Justice $500
Compass Center $1000
NC Interfaith Power and Light $500
Johnson Service Corps $1000
The Autism Society of North Carolina $500
Club Nova $1000
The Pee Wee Homes (C/o The Advocate) $2000
The Community of the Franciscan Way $1000
The Jackson Center $500
Nancy Murray for Iyad Burnat $200
Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina $1000
Chapel Hill Service League Christmas House $250
The IFC Community House Christmas $260
Vicar's discretionary fund $1790 Total Advocate Tithe in 2016 = $16,000
- An Application for Support from the Advocate Tithe is posted below for those who would like to request support from the Advocate — whether that support be in the form of volunteer labor or logistical help, advocacy work, financial assistance, or other support from the church.
- Completed forms may be sent to the church at: The Advocate Church Office <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
- Proposals will be evaluated by how closely they match the Advocate's Core Values (Compassion, Justice, and Transformation) as well as the priorities for giving and involvement identified by the congregation.
Decisions about supporting proposals are made by consensus among those present at meetings of the Community Engagement Facilitators. All proposals for financial or other support will be reviewed and approved on the basis of their fulfillment of our core values.
In our decisions about how to engage with the community around us, we prefer to:
- Support projects that give voice to people who are marginalized and have very little voice.
- Provide not only financial support, but also the time and talent of members of the congregation.
- Support projects in which members of the congregation are already involved.
- Support projects and organizations that are accountable, sustainable, and willing to teach us about their outcomes.
- Support projects and organizations that are willing to send representatives to visit and help educate the congregation about their issues of concern.
- Support groups that promote change, as well as those that meet direct needs.
- 10% of our Tithe grants are given in the spirit of the Millennium Development Goals, usually supporting a ministry overseas.


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Health Care Disparities, Dr. King and a Meeting Long Ago
Jan 13, 2012, 11:00 AM, Posted by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA
In March 1966, only two years before he would be assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. uttered what I consider one of his most profound statements.
"Of all the forms of inequality," he said, "injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
The quotation is never far from my mind. It embodies so much of the work we do at the Foundation—to narrow and then eliminate disparities in health care access, to improve the health of all Americans. But especially every January, as the holiday to honor the civil rights leader again comes around, his words seem to resonate even more. And they mix once again with some very personal memories.
I met Dr. King once. I was 7 years old, and he was in Seattle for the first and last time in his life. After speaking to a big crowd downtown, he and a group of ministers and friends went out to dinner and then came to my house. My mother, a native of Atlanta, had known Martin from childhood. His father had married my parents and buried my grandparents. And now he sat in our living room, and I got to say hello. It was a scene, and a moment, you just don't forget.
Nearly half a century later, I believe Dr. King would be both cautiously hopeful and deeply distressed over our nation's health and health care. He would support the significant changes under way to improve access and quality in our health care system, but he would not minimize the significant inequities that endure between Whites and other racial and ethnic groups.
He would urge us all to work harder and push farther to bring about justice in health care. And so we shall.
This commentary originally appeared on the RWJF Human Capital Blog. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors.


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Reliable and cost-effective demolition projects in Rovaniemi
Lapin Metallikierrätys Oy, specialized in metal collection, also carries out versatile demolition projects. We are located in Rovaniemi, but we carry out demolition projects in all of Northern Finland.
We are able to carry out demolition projects in their entirety from beginning to end. Demolished material is sorted and transported according to the schedule agreed upon with the customer. Large demolition projects, such as switchyards, machines and high-rise buildings, are handled with ease as well.
Demolition work is carried out in large halls with powerful equipment
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Greetings from Finland!
First I want to thank Chookyblue,
that you allowed me to join AGAIN this inspiring group!
I AM happy and I promise to stay on track this year...
In January I decided to make two thread catchers, because I don't now need a shoe bag.
I really enjoyed to plan small changes for these baskets...
and you SAL girls give me an extra boost!
I found the cute appliqued rose pattern from Natalie's book. I also wanted to try a decorative stitch on the border as many of us has done. And finally I figured a use for the pastel-coloured hexagons.
It's amazing how many splendid and different version of the thread catcher I have seen here.
This SAL year will be terrific!!!
And I'm ready for the next month...
See You again in February!!!
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2-year-old dies at NOBTS preschool center
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- A 2-year-old child died Jan. 11 while eating lunch at the Early Learning Center at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
NOBTS President Chuck Kelley said the seminary community is saddened by the death and called on members of the immediate community and the larger Southern Baptist community to pray for the child's family and all those affected by the death.
"Our hearts are overwhelmed with sadness in the loss of one so young. May all of us join together in praying for God's grace, comfort and strength to minister to this family and all of those affected by this tragic loss," Kelley said.
The seminary has mobilized grief counselors to speak with staff members, parents and children at the ELC.
The seminary's Early Learning Center is a licensed child care center through the Louisiana Department of Education, currently enrolling 76 children between the ages of six weeks and age 4.
The ELC opened in 1952 to provide a preschool setting for campus children and to offer a practical setting for training for students in the seminary's childhood religious education program. At the time, it was only available to the children of seminary students, faculty and staff. The center now cares for children from the surrounding community as well as those with a direct connection to the seminary.


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If you are attracted to an exciting international career reporting on global finance, are passionate about consumer affairs, or interested in investigating money stories this is the programme for you. Most students don't have any background in finance but are interested in working as financial journalists. The programme also attracts working journalists who want to specialise in financial journalism, and graduates with a background in the financial sector who want to work as journalists. We welcome applications from UK/EU graduates and non-EU graduates with good English skills.
The MA in Financial Journalism is unique in its international reach and includes the chance for overseas travel. The course teaches the skills needed for financial journalism. Supported by the Marjorie Deane Foundation the course aims to develop the professional skills and knowledge needed to work in a multimedia environment.
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On 5/25/15, I dreamed I and a couple others were playing a game of war with fake rifles. We were playing a fun game of war running through the yard. Then I didn't have my rifle and had to wrestle two kids from their toy rifles before they would fake shoot me with them.
One of the kids I knew. His name is Nehemiah. So I managed to thrust their guns away from them with my arm and then proceeded to fun wrestle Nehemiah to the ground to fake choke him, but suddenly, real blood started rapidly flowing out of his entire head, neck and chest area. Then we stopped in shock, as the fun game of war, by our surprise, turned to blood.
The lyrics of the song American Woman, by the Guess Who, were playing throughout this dream. So when I woke up I was singing these words, which I believe are the key to understanding the dream.
"American Woman, get away from me-hee.
I don't need your war machine.
I don't need your ghetto scene.
Colored lights can hypnotize,
Sparkle someone else's eyes….
Gotta go gotta get away,
Now go go go, gonna leave you woman,
Gonna leave you woman,
Bye bye bye bye….you're no good for me,
I'm no good for you,
Gonna look you right in the eye,
Tell ya what I'm gonna do,
You know I'm gonna leave,
You know I'm gonna go,
I'm gonna leave you woman."
When I awoke, I thought it was just a fluke of a dream, but hours later, in prayer, still remembering the details of the dream, God began to give me interpretation.
The game of war with rifles represents a real war that is coming. America is going to turn from fun and games to rapid blood in war.
American culture is consumed with fun and games, but the fun game of war is soon going to end in terrible horror. The fun is going to turn to blood. The sudden shock we were experiencing is prophetic as the American people won't believe what's happening to them until the blood begins to flow. This is a warning to America that the game of war is gonna turn real on American soil with civil war leading into WW3.
The boy Nehemiah, whom I was choking the blood out of, also represented the prophet of restoration to Israel, but we as a nation are choking the blood out of Nehemiah, what could have been the restoration of our nation. We are like Israel, belittling God's prophets, choking the blood out of them. So too, will the blood of America spill in war because we have chosen fun, pleasure and ignore-ance over the safety of the knowledge of God and His correction.
This is also a message to parents that if we don't leave this nation and get out, if we don't leave the "American Woman", some of our children's blood is going to be choked out of them from the war coming, after economic collapse and civil war, when the WW3 prophecies of invasion come. (note, economic crash is different than economic collapse. Discern the difference)
We must prepare to leave the "American Woman", before the totality of the collapse comes. Otherwise, our children will die in this land by the hand of war. To God, we are seen as playing games, but in a short time, real blood is going to flow and many children in this nation are going to die. Get in prayer now and ask God what you are to do to leave the American Woman or at least hunker down in a very rural hidden off the grid land in the middle parts of the country with supplies.
This is real people! WW3 is coming to American Soil and God has backed this message through this very strong testimony. We are without excuse for not believing!
Father Yah, help us to make plans to leave the country at the right time, or get to a safe place! Help us to realize, if we are in Christ, then we ultimately win, but you prefer the better, for us to live and continue to bear witness of your kingdom to come. You will raise us in glory, but we need a place of safety! Help us prepare that in Jesus mighty name! Amen
In Christ, Weather
Author: Bill Weather
Bill Weather is a teacher, worship leader, college campus evangelist,
saved out of the Grateful Dead in 1987, by hearing the audible voice
of Christ. In 2010, Bill was severely tested by the enemy with a false
prophecy, but soon after, was rewarded with over 50 dreams and visions
at his web site, Qwakeup.org, to prepare whosoever would have ears to hear. Bill is now pursuing a Joseph type ministry in these last days for ministering to missions and missionaries.
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text: Features October 2015 Issue Your Vor is History The FAA loves GPS. It's precise, reliable and best of all, somebody else pays for it. This lets the FAA get rid of now-unneeded ground-based navaids and their approaches. By Fred Simonds The only reason for VORs is for airways and instrument approaches. With GPS navigation taking over, it's difficult to cost-justify ground-based navigation sources like VORs, many of which are nearing the end of their lives. T and Q routes are popping up, reducing the need for VOR-based airways, and many of us would prefer to fly a GPS-based approach than all the other types. Face it: GPS is in; VORs are out. A few years ago, the FAA wanted to axe half the VORs, but users have collectively pushed back. The current plan is to trim the 967 existing VORs by 300, in three phases of 100 each by 2025. But, it's a chicken-or-the-egg thing. They can't get rid of the VORs until they get rid of the airways and the approaches. GPS-direct navigation is common already. So, eliminating airways should be reasonably simple. That leaves approaches as the limitation and the short-term solution. So, for now, the FAA's focus is on eliminating ground-based approaches. To continue reading this article you must be a paid subscriber. Subscribe to IFR Magazine Get the next year of IFR Magazine for just $19.97. Get access to all articles published online. Features, reviews, lesson, quizzes - get it all. That's a savings of more than $14 off the regular rate. Or double your savings and subscribe for 14 issues for just $39.94. Subscribe Get IFR Digital Get 12 months of IFR DIGITAL for just $34. You get unlimited access to everything on the site including each monthly issue as a PDF. Subscribe Subscriber Log In E-Mail Address: Password: Login Forgot your password? Click Here. Already subscribe but haven't registered for all the benefits of the website? Click here.


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Dartmouth CS alumna Rachael Rhee '16, who is now a 1st Lt. in the US Army, is the lead designer in building the user interface for a community-based platform for the Army and Department of Defense's data workforce called COEUS. COEUS is a central virtual location for users to gather for the optimization of sharing algorithms, uniformly stored and organized for accessibility.
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SQUATTERTOWN production log – #4
The following are thoughts, memories and background information on the shooting period of SQUATTERTOWN. I try to structure them by using each shooting day as one blog entry, but the stories might deviate a little. So when you think the text makes no sense please feel free to comment/contact me. This production log is another piece to our large SQUATTERTOWN universe and I hope you like it. But be aware, the text holds several spoilers!
Day 5
The second day of principal photography started early again. There was only sufficient daylight from 8:30am to 5pm and we had 3 different locations to cover that day. First up, an industrial building roof in To Kwa Wan. I was told one of the INFERNAL AFFAIRS films had been shot on that roof too, so it seems quite prominent. The building is actually not very high, compared to the other locations but got a stunning view on the old Kai Tak Airport area as well as the skyline of East Kowloon. However, as great as this setting looks in the camera it created particular light changes difficulties for the cameramen. We had to balance everything from a sunrise to a foggy morning. Hence, I was trying to shoot all scenes as chronological as possible. This roof also got another stunning visual aspect, a huge advertising billboard standing right in the middle. Somehow the setting evoked memories of the legendary billboard fight showdown in HIGHLANDER.
Since we were shooting the showdown scene of webisode #4 a great deal of practical blood effects as well as a jumping/running stunts had to be managed in time. Ken Law, the actor of the BAD is a professional martial artist and stunt man. He created a complex stunt scene of the jump on the spot as what I had in mind turn out looking boring on camera. The scene was the first confrontation of the GOOD and the BAD. The GOOD was supposed to advance with his knife, trying to stab the BAD. The BAD dodges and jumps over his knife. Now this sounds simple and I thought it would be, but it was not. We ended up shooting Ken jumping from a 2m high position of the giant billboard onto the hard concrete floor with a roll. I had loads of concerns at that moment, fearing Ken would injure himself. This whole situation felt so Hong Kong film like: tough stunts by the actor himself, no safety, no double, no special effect. Eventually Ken jumped four times and the footage looked very good. It actually reminded me of the flying swordsman jumps in the old Shaw Brother films.
Next scene before lunch was the back alley setting, which was about one block from our morning location. Here, the script also demanded for a short fighting scene. A scene that again sounded simple but required specific choreography. Once more, Ken came up with a quick solution that would give good physical action as well as suitable angles for the cameras to capture it. However, this back alley location was on street level and we were not shooting in secret on some roof anymore. After all we were about to shoot a scene were two guys try to stab, kick and hit each other. So that draws certain attention and I knew that there were a couple of policemen patrolling the street leading to this alley. Hence, we set up a lookout post with one from the team who would signal us whenever someone comes along.
Everything turned out well without any disturbance, only we overran our schedule, for the first time. The alley scenes turned out more time consuming than I expected. After a quick lunch in one of the nearby restaurants we drove to the last location of the day, the 3 housing blocks in Shek Kip Mei we went before on Day 1 back in December 2010. This day was an extremely windy one, giving us a hard time with ever changing light situations. We had times of full bright sun light as well as dark cloudy spots. This situation is most apparent during the GARDENER scene in webisode #4. Due to logistic and personal schedules of the actors we could not shoot chronological in Shek Kip Mei. Hence you will clearly see a big difference from shot to shot within this scene.
As we started setting up the GARDENER scene that involved the longest dialog scene within all four webisodes the two owners of the roof garden we wanted to shoot at showed up. First we feared they shoo us away and we needed to improvise but it turned out they were extremely friendly and excited about our project. While we went on shooting they even brought up from their apartment a plate with fruits and nuts, just for us. It was amazing. As we wrapped this shooting day it was close to 5pm. Another resident came up on the roof and brought his Husky dog out to play. Some crew member fell in love with it 😉


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HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY to a lil joy in my life, Julia! In honor of the birthday gal I decided to make an almond joy bar 🙂
- In a blender add 1C unsweetened shredded coconut – blend until it resembles flour, remove & set aside
- In the same blender add 2C unsweetened shredded coconut & blend on high speed till it resembles butter (sort of). This sounds weird and I was skeptical, but it really does turn into a sticky, buttery consistency!
- Once you have 'butter' consistency add 1/2C coconut nectar, 1/2t salt, 1T vanilla, 4T almond butter & 6T water to the blender
- Process til smooth & then add coconut flour from step #1 – blend
- Pour mixture into bowl & add: 1C chopped dark chocolate, 1C chopped raw almonds & 1/2C unsweetened shredded coconut – mix with hands
- Spread out on parchment lined pan into a rectangle 1/2inch thick
- Stick in fridge til firm (about an hour)
Cut these babies up & serve! If you are making & want to store stick in tupperware, layer with parchment paper & pop in freezer.Nutritional Info Per Serving (Serves 16): 175 calories – 12 grams of fat – 14 carbs – 3 grams of protein
Continue reading for original recipe & ingredient list…
Ingredient List for Almond Joy Bar:
- 3.5C unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1/2C coconut nectar
- 4T almond butter
- 1C raw almonds (chopped)
- 1C dark chocolate (chopped)
- 1T vanilla
- salt
Click here for original recipe.