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psfk in Arts & Culture — Documentary Delves into Lack of Diversity in Tech — By Marnie Kunz on September 10, 2014
'CODE' explores low percentage of women, minorities in computer science A few women – such as Yahoo! president and CEO Marissa Mayer – have climbed to the high ranks of the tech industry, but there is still a long road to gender equality in the field, as the documentary CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap shows. In the 70-minute film, director Robin Hauser Reynolds explores tech industry demographics, probing why there are such low numbers of female computer engineers at tech and social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, Apple and...read more
San Francisco Business Times, "The female Pinterest engineer who pressed tech giants to air embarrassing diversity numbers" — by Patrick Hoge, August 4, 2014
Before the recent wave of big technology companies releasing diversity data, there was a one-woman effort by Tracy Chou, a software engineer at the social bookmarking website Pinterest. She issued a call last fall for hard numbers showing how many women engineers worked at tech companies. That is data that tech companies had kept under wraps despite requests from media and pundits, but Chou got the ball rolling herself by posting numbers for Pinterest, with the approval of the company: It had 11 women engineers out of 89, or 12 percent. .......Read the full article...read more
Mother Jones in Politics — "Welcome Back to Silicon Valley's Biggest Sausage Fest" — By Josh Harkinson, September 9, 2014
The TechCrunch Disrupt conference now underway in San Francisco is arguably the most important annual gathering for tech startups. It's also a notoriously hostile environment for women, as made clear by last year's conference, whose hackathon produced an app called "Titstare," which let the user "take photos of yourself staring at tits," not to mention "Circle Shake," an app that measures how fast guys can masturbate. The TC Disrupt crowd tends to be 80 to 90 percent male, as you might infer from my bathroom-line photo yesterday. Mike Judge lampooned the conference's "brogrammer" vibe in his HBO comedy series, Silicon Valley....Read...read more


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Kickstarter Funded!
We are excited to announce that as of November 28, we have reached (and even surpassed) the $6,000 funding goal on our Kickstarter campaign to raise money to produce our first CD! We are overwhelmed and so grateful for the generosity of all of our backers, particularly, the Triangle Swing Dance Society, who was not only our largest monetary backer, but also pledged the amount that sent us over our $6,000 goal. Thanks to your help and the magic of crowd funding, the Mint Julep Jazz Band is going to record a CD in January!
The other brilliant part of this is that we reached our funding goal in 28 days, which is just under half the amount of time we allotted to meet our goal. This means that the Kickstarter does not officially end until December 30, so if you'd still like to pre-order a CD or support the Kickstarter for other rewards, you have until December 30 to do so. If you'd like to view our Kickstarter, visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laurawindley/mint-julep-jazz-bands-first-cd-durham-on-saturday.
Thanks again! We really couldn't have done it without you!
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The mammoth task that is compiling records, creating proof sheets of the 55 images below and loading award-winning images on CD – all in pursuit of the accreditation EFIAP/Gold – is now finished. After I post it all off tomorrow, all I can do is wait, with bated breath (what is bated breath?), to find out if I have been successful. This will take a few months so, while I'm waiting, let's see what the requirements are for the Platinum level …..
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Jay is many things … an actor, a model, an entrepreneur, a man who makes things happen and a dead pirate captain. This is a small selection from a morning in the studio with Jay, some are composites and some are pretty well straight from the camera, and all are a reminder that you just never know what is going to happen in the next few hours.
Clockwise from the top: Haunted by the Past, Rings On My Fingers, Don't Give Up On Me (with Amanda Sills), Looking Back, What Shall I Knit Next? and Born to Rock.
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… well, there ought to be clowns, no?
Meet Martyn and Mason, admittedly not quite your usual fun-filled entertainers, and perhaps more the stuff of nightmares than likely to raise a chuckle, but – you know – I think they're more likely to stick in your mind than the last time you saw clowns at a circus. Just don't upset them …..


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Reality television isn't known for actually being real, but apparently Storage Wars star Dave Hester is mad that his show is being marketed as such because he's suing producers of the series and its network, A&E, under allegations at the show is a "fraud on the public." According to Deadline, Hester is seeking more than $3.75 million in damages and fees from the network, and he's accusing producers of orchestrating everything in the series, even a cast member's plastic surgery.
From the 14-page complaint:
"Nearly every aspect of the Series is faked, even down to the plastic surgery that one of the female cast members underwent in order to create more "sex appeal" for the show, the cost of which was paid for by Original...Original regularly "salts" the storage lockers that are the subject of the auctions portrayed on the Series with valuable or unusual items to add dramatic effect, even going so far as to stage entire storage units. Original also manipulates the outcome of certain auctions by paying for storage units on behalf of the weaker cast members who lack the both the skill and financial wherewithal to place winning bids."
The complaint also alleges that when Hester complained to producers about the staging of events and informed them it was possibly illegal, producers fired him from the show. He is seeking a jury trial.
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Turisas to Unleash New Album 'Turisas2013′ in September
The Finnish folk metal horde Turisas will release their fourth full-length opus 'Turisas2013' on Sept. 3 via Century Media Records. It will get an August 26 European release.
With 'Turisas2013,' the band deliberately aimed for a more organic sound. Vocalist Mathias "Warlord" Nygard says, "When it comes to the production it's just the opposite of the polished and massive 'Stand Up and Fight.' It's raw and dry and in your face, but still maintaining that Turisas-largeness."
Nygard adds, "People attest to us that we are a great live band and we wanted the album to be based more around that than orchestral massiveness. It's our most varied record to date and even if some of the songs sound very different, I think the common thread is that every single one has a lot of energy to it."
Nygard also produced the album, the majority which was recorded in a remote house outside of Helsinki by Nygard and guitarist Jussi Wickstrom. The mixing and mastering was done by London-based producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost B.C., Primordial).
Turisas are playing several European festivals this summer. They'll also be on tour with Ensiferum, Equilibrium and Suidakra beginning in September.


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☕ Good Wednesday morning.
🏒 Pucks drop tonight as the 82-game NHL season begins. In D.C., the reigning Stanley Cup champion Capitals will raise their banner before playing the Boston Bruins.
1 big thing: Trump's 2020 dreams
President Trump is increasingly fantasizing in public and private about his 2020 campaign, using midterm rallies to talk as excitedly about his own re-election in 2020 as he does about the 2018 races that are just 34 days away.
- Last night in Mississippi, he even promised "we will do a landslide" in 2020, after a razor-thin electoral victory (and substantial popular vote loss) in 2016.
- "Who the hell's gonna beat us? Look! Who's going to beat us?" Trump asked, after amping up his frequent riff about former Vice President Joe Biden as a lightweight he'd love to crush.
A former aide told us: "The greatest moment in Donald Trump's life was when Hillary Clinton called and conceded the 2016 election. Nothing about actually being the president has ever lived up to that."
- "It was the ultimate validation for someone who's been searching for it his whole life," the former aide continued. "That's why he relives it constantly in conversations and during rallies. So it's no surprise that he wants to reach that validation high again, which is why 2020 is never far from his mind."
Behind the scenes, Jonathan Swan reports, Trump has been talking quite a bit about 2020 — not in terms of strategy or tactics, but in a disorganized, riffing way, based on whatever or whomever is in the news.
- The potential candidate he talks about most: Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. "He seems to think she's going to be the nominee," one source said.
- Advisers have told Trump he'd be in great shape if she is.
- Trump has made fun of Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey ("Spartacus") and Sen. Kamala Harris of California after watching the Kavanaugh hearings.
- Trump thinks "Crazy Bernie" Sanders is talented — he respects that the senator from Vermont fires people up and built a movement. The president thinks Bernie tried to do what he did in 2016, but didn't quite get there.
- Trump has mused in private about Mike Bloomberg. At the end of an August interview with Bloomberg News, Trump told the journalists: "Say hello to Michael."
- Trump says Oprah will never run. "Everyone loves her and the minute you run for president, that changes," says Trump — who would know.
Swan reports that if Trump is worried about any candidate in particular, it's not apparent to sources close to him.
- Biden seems to be the potential opponent Trump's staff worries about most.
- Advisers worry he'll steal Trump voters from the Midwest, and cut into the president's dominance among white men and whites without college degrees.
- But Trump genuinely doesn't appear to his aides to be worried about Biden. As onstage, Trump says Biden is a joke — and claims that once the spotlight is on him, "bad stuff" will come out.
2. They persisted
Shot: At his rally in Mississippi last night, "Trump for the first time directly mocked Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, ... mocking her for not knowing the answers to questions such as how she had gotten to the high school party where she says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her." (CNN)
- Chaser — Boston Globe's Victoria McGrane: "This year, women politicians are showing their anger in ways that depart starkly from the well-worn rules that said they could not show their emotion lest they seem unbalanced, hysterical, threatening, or otherwise veer from societal expectations for the proper way women should behave."
3. Kavanaugh inspires more Bloomberg spending
"Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City who is considering a 2020 presidential campaign, will give $20 million to the main Democratic Senate super PAC this week," the WashPost's Bob Costa reports.
- Why it matters: "Bloomberg's intervention bolsters the Democrats' Senate chances by infusing significant late-season capital into the Senate Majority PAC, a group that had $29 million on hand at the end of August and has been purchasing advertising in expensive media markets."
- "Bloomberg ... says the emotional national debate over ... Kavanaugh has energized Democratic voters and provides an opening for the party to be more competitive in rallying women and swing voters."
Be smart: A source tells Axios that Mayor Bloomberg intends to be the biggest digital spender in House races this cycle — an eight-figure spend across dozens of districts around the country that employs advanced targeting and multiple creative approaches.
- I'm told that Mike believes that Democrats were outgunned online in 2016. As the founder of an information technology company, he knows Democrats need to do better to win in 2018 — and beyond. He is determined to help make up the spending disparity online between Democrats and Republicans.
Bonus: Mouthful du jour
N.Y. Times Quote of the Day ... White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, speaking to reporters about NAFTA's somewhat less euphonious successor, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA:
- "The North American deal — the U.S.A. — uh, uh — got to get this right — U.S.A.M.C.?"
4. Apple CEO calls for more privacy regulation
Apple CEO Tim Cook told HBO's "Vice News Tonight" that it's time for the government to regulate privacy, even though regulation will be shaped by a Congress that's not particularly tech-savvy:
- "I'm not a pro-regulation kind of person. I believe in the free market deeply ... But I think you have to recognize when the free market doesn't produce the result that's great for society. You have to ask yourself: What do we need to do? And I think some level of government regulation is important to come out of that."
- Separating Apple from Facebook and Google, Cook said: "We're not in the business of building the detailed profile of you ... The way we go into product design, we challenge ourselves to collect as little as possible. And when we have it, we challenge ourselves to encrypt it in the end."
- YouTube.
P.S. ... The International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (that's the international privacy regulators association) announced this morning that Cook will kick off the group's annual conference in Brussels on Oct. 24.
5. Ripple effect: Amazon's $15 wage may help lift pay elsewhere
"After years of sluggish pay gains, the economy may be starting to work for America's low-wage workers," AP's Christopher Rugaber reports:
- "Amazon's announcement [yesterday] that it will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour will intensify pressure on other companies to lift their pay levels."
- "Among the most likely to do so: Amazon's rival retailers and warehouse operators, many of which are facing the prospect of staff shortages as they ramp up for the holiday shopping season."
- "This is going to be a big deal for very low-wage workers," said Ben Zipperer, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute. "It's going to compel other businesses to raise wages as well."
"Amazon's announcement will likely embolden labor activists and unions that have been pressing large fast-food and retail chains to raise pay, provide more reliable work schedules, and allow for union representation."
- "Indeed, shares of retail companies fell sharply ... in a sign that investors expect them to have to raise pay to compete with Amazon."
Go deeper: Axios' Erica Pandey examines the forces behind Amazon's wage hike.
6. First presidential wireless test will come to your phone today
Starting at 2:18 p.m. ET today, federal officials will run the first nationwide test of the wireless emergency alert system, using a type of alert that can only be sent by the president, and that consumers can't turn off, Axios' David McCabe reports:
- The test wireless alert message will be sent with the header "Presidential Alert" and text reading: "THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed." The message will be broadcast for 30 minutes, but phones should only receive it once.
- Starting at 2:20 p.m. on the East Coast, authorities will also test the nation's broadcast emergency alert system, which operates through radio and TV stations.
The presidential alert will be received by all U.S. wireless users who have compatible phones that are turned on and connected to commercial networks run by the major wireless carriers.
- Congress requires that the system be tested every three years. President George W. Bush authorized the alerts in 2006, but none has ever been sent.
7. Trump's inheritance
The N.Y. Times' 14,000-word investigation (eight pages in the paper!) of Trump family "tax dodges in the 1990s" draws on more than 100,000 pages of documents, including public records and "tens of thousands of pages of confidential records":
- "What emerges from this body of evidence is a financial biography of the 45th president fundamentally at odds with the story Mr. Trump has sold in his books, his TV shows and his political life. In Mr. Trump's version of how he got rich, he was the master dealmaker who broke free of his father's 'tiny' outer-borough operation and parlayed a single $1 million loan from his father ('I had to pay him back with interest!') into a $10 billion empire."
- "The Times's investigation ... [offers] the first comprehensive look at the inherited fortune and tax dodges that guaranteed Donald J. Trump a gilded life. ... [I]n every era of Mr. Trump's life, his finances were deeply intertwined with, and dependent on, his father's wealth."
- A hint: "John Walter, a favorite nephew of Fred Trump's, died in January ... He ... was the unofficial keeper of Fred Trump's personal and business papers, his basement crowded with boxes of old Trump financial records."
- 11 takeaways ... Statement from Charles Harder, a lawyer for Trump.
Susanne Craig, one of the three reporters, to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, on how the president has described his financial journey
- "He's spun a fantastical story. ... There's hardly a grain of truth."
- "It's continuing till this day. He's going to get a payment from Starrett City, an investment his father made in 1972. He and his siblings are getting payments into this year. He's been getting payments into the White House from what Fred Trump did."
P.S. Showtime announced "The Family Business: Trump and Taxes," a short film about the story behind The Times' story, from the team that made the docuseries about paper, "The Fourth Estate."
- Premieres Sunday, 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime, after "The Circus."
- See the trailer.
8. Generation Parkland starts college
For last year's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School seniors, "still haunted by the sound of gunshots and screams of their classmates — the start of their college years represents ... a chance to move on," the WashPost's Moriah Balingit and Sarah Larimer report from Florida:
- "But at college campuses across the country, counselors and administrators recognize that many students bring with them untreated trauma, contributing to memory impairment, insomnia, and heightened depression and anxiety."
- "In the past three years, the counseling center at the University of Central Florida [in Orlando] has treated a growing roster of students, said Teresa Michaelson-Chmelir, outreach director for the university's counseling and psychological services."
Context: More than 187,000 U.S. students have been exposed to gun violence at school since the Columbine massacre in 1999, The Post found in March.
9. 🏆 Vanity Fair's New Establishment
Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Radhika Jones announces the 2018 New Establishment List, which "attempts to reconcile the revolutionary fluctuations in the zeitgeist, and contextualize them in a firmament, if only for a fleeting moment":
- 1. Robert Mueller, special counsel
- 2. Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO
- 3. Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO
- 4. Bob Iger, Disney CEO
- 5. Tim Cook, Apple CEO
- 6. Michelle Obama
- 7. Mark Zuckerberg
- 8. Beyoncé
- 17. Ronan Farrow, Jodi Kantor, and Megan Twohey, journalists who brought down Harvey Weinstein
- 23. Steve Burke and Brian Roberts, NBCUniversal CEO and Comcast CEO
- 27. Richard Plepler, HBO CEO
- 31. The Parkland students
- 32. Stephen Colbert
- 44. David Zaslav, Discovery CEO
- 46. The women of Time's Up
- 49. Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective founder
- 52. Jeff Zucker, CNN president
- 55. Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist
- 61. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, WndrCo founder and CEO
- 66. A.G. Sulzberger, New York Times publisher
- 81. "The Podstars" of Crooked Media
- 99. Anonymous, senior Trump administration official and op-ed author
10. 1 🍟 thing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 1 in 3 U.S. adults — about 85 million people — eat fast food on any given day, per AP:
- "It's the first federal study to look at how often adults eat fast food. An earlier study found a similar proportion of children and adolescents ate it on any given day."
- "It's based on a survey of about 10,000 adults over four years."
- "The study did not find a difference between men and women. But higher-income families ate fast food more often than lower-income families."
Why it matters: "Health officials say too much high-calorie fast food can lead to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other health problems."


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In the summer of 2012 what was once a dream became a reality when we claimed our first racehorse on August 9th. This video is of Concert Stage, our very first thoroughbred. In this video you will experience the thrills we captured—from the day we dropped the slip to claim Concert Stage, to the heartbreaking day our first horse was claimed away. It's a period that we will never forget.
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Archive for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Letter to the editor: Good Shepherd appreciates support
October 28, 2009
To the editor:
We want to thank all of our local citizens who patronize the Good Shepherd Thrift Shop.
Through your support of shopping and donations we are able to strive toward our mission to serve our neighbors in their time of need. We are seeing many new families each week who are facing financial difficulties.
Everyone is welcome to shop and enjoy the bargains at the Thrift Shop. All of our merchandise comes from your donations. Everyone who works at the Thrift Shop is a volunteer. This assures that we can turn all of our revenue back to those who need our help.
We ask you to bring your donations to the Thrift Shop when our store is open. And, please bring only usable items worthy for sale. Some items may not be usable by the Thrift Shop because of limited storage or an excess of similar items, which then need to be hauled away as trash. If items are left outside, they may be damaged by the weather or vandalized, making them unusable and will then have to be hauled away as trash, creating an expense for the Thrift Shop, thus reducing assistance for individuals in need. We are open from 9 a.m. to noon on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturdays. We are closed on Thursdays and Sundays.
Thank you for your continued support!
Good Shepherd Thrift Shop and Food Bank
Jean Pearson, secretary,
Written by Janet Stuke
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Alta Mare is a small bistro located in Miami that specializes in Mediterranean cuisine. Both inside and outside dining maximize the available seats for patrons, and the open kitchen both saves space and enables diners to watch the chefs work their magic. The intimate space also makes it the ideal place to either begin or end a romantic evening.
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This is the most impressive restaurant I've found on Lincoln Road in terms of food quality. We return regularly.
We ordered octopus and grouper both over cooked. Paid too much and should have went for grilled grouper sandwich on ocEan save and save a tin of money
We had not eaten at this restaurant in a long time . We had an early movie and wanted a restaurant close to the Regal cinemas . I had the porcini risotto and my companion had the spaghetti with clams . Both are dishes were tastey and we decided to return again soon
When we first sat we were informed that there was no salmon for the evening. Not a problem. However. I ordered a tuna carpaccio appetizer and turns out they were out of tuna as well. For my meal I was considering the chicken piccata and was then informed the restaurant also had no chicken for the evening. I then decided on a pasta dish and my friend ordered the Chilean sea bass. The entrees took about 20 minutes to arrive after the apps were cleared. The sea bass was a $50 dish and was very sub par so she sent it back. She then ordered the special for the night and the manager offered to give it to her for the price of the sea bass which was nice, seeing as the special price was more than her original order. However, the dish took another 25 minutes to arrive at the table, leaving me to eat my meal alone while she waited for hers to arrive. There was only 1 other table sat in the restaurant and we were puzzled why after so many issues, her food then took so long. I honestly felt bad for the waitress in the whole ordeal. She was very sweet and I could tell that she felt awful for all that was going wrong, she did offer to get us dessert or coffee as compensation for all the problems. The ambiance of the restaurant was beautiful and I think would be a lovely place for a romantic dinner if they were more organized.
Quite enjoyable dinner with delicious preparations. We started with mussels in a great tomato garlic sauce and seared scallops with an awesome saffron cream sauce. The risotto with seafood was perfectly prepared. We also enjoyed the flash fried fish, which was a tasty unique treat. The parpadelle with short ribs was delightful. We enjoyed a nice Chianti Classico which was a bit pricey. Overall, it was a delicious dinner.
It used to be one of our favourite restaurants, however on our most recent visit we realized that the owner and staff changed. The place looks much better but the food was bland. There were a few items on the menu that only after we ordered they informed us they are not available. The octopus was served as a very small dish that was rather tasteless. This was strange to us as it used to be one of the best dishes on the menu. On top of all that they also charged a steep 20% to the bill.
Food was not worth the money .
We were a party of six. Everyone had something different and everyone RAVED about the food. Was a great night. Its not inexpensive but its worth it.
It was a horrible experience. We had a late reservation and they were rushing us to the point of removing plates from the table before we were finished eating. Server was rude with no patience.
What we ended up ordering and eating was very good but there were quite a few items on the menu that were not available. That was annoying.
the chef knows how to prepare fresh fish, and the staff knows how to pace the meal.
the bread is freshly baked, and served with EVOO and balsamic- a plus.
The food was passable, the service was marginal, the first bottle of wine was good. Even after telling our waiter that we wanted a dry, oaky chardonnay, he suggested one that ended up being quite sweet. It was too expensive for the quality of the food.
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We are NYC foodies
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We've been coming for years and will continue every trip
This is one of my favorite neighborhood restaurants. The food is always very good with one exception... the Wahoo Crudo - ridiculously small for $14 and absolutely no flavor. Everthing else as usual was terrific.
We arrived 25 min earlier. Asked to wait 5 min, than asked to sit, than ask to come back in 25 min. Unprofessional, particularly considering that the restaurant had plenty of tables available.
We booked from the website for a New Year's eve dinner. They did not mention that there was a fixed menu for the night, so we reserved the dinner based on the advertised fish menu.
Well, fixed menu available with meat and fish together...and 4-5 other choices out of the new year's eve menu. We should have left then, but after all the trouble we decided to give it a try. Food was good even if below expectation considering the premium price. I am pretty sure that during a regular week it would have been a better experience. Would I give it another try when I am in town? I do not think so.
After making a reservation for Christmas dinner a week ahead of time, and entering a mostly-empty restaurant, we were treated coldly by the hostess, ignored by five waiters, and finally told that they were out of almost everything on the menu. So disappointing! We paid for our cocktail and walked out!
Recently had dinner and unfortunately the quality of the food and the service is not as it used to be...
I wanted tuna and they were out. My yellowtail was so dry as to almost be inedible. My date said his was very good. I never send food back. He said i should have. The staff was very nice. The location is good. I won't return though since there are lots of options in this neighborhood.
They priced wrong and didn't honor. 3 items on menu missing. Poured my own wine. Simply poor. Have been going to this place for years and clearly not under same Managment.
Salads were average, but the fish was excellent. Background music was very irritating and not appropriate for such a good restaurant.
Good food and service. Nice decor and not too noisy. On the expensive side.
There's been a change here and not only in ownership. The restaurant is not up to the same level as we had come to expect. We left here tonight very disappointed.
Service was lacking. Smiling a lot does not count for great service. Food was good though.
Fish was great, everything else was okay.
More tourists spot.
Waiter forgot part of the order.
I try to visit Altamare every time I visit Miami (I live in Chicago). They never disappoint me. We had a tasty salad with Asian pear, grilled octopus with chorizo and faro, Thai mussels, and fresh pasta with shrimp, snow peas and asparagus. The best surprise was the panne cotta, served over a sort of fresh pineapple marmalade. I'll be back.
We picked this based on good feedback on Open Table, and we were not disappointed. The seafood specials all sounded wonderful- it was hard to choose. Everyone at the table enjoyed their food immensely, and having classics like burrata to start with meant there was something for everyone. the service was excellent and friendly. This is a restaurant that deserves one of the prime spots on Lincoln Road- the food is better than what the big splashy places closer to the action offer.
Loved it. Great food and location. Wonderful starting point for a great night.
If your looking for excellent food and don't mind spending a few extra bucks this is the place. Great seafood good drinks and right on Lincoln rd. I liked that it wasn't touristy I can't stand those places. We went with our two children and had a great meal. Order wisely because it could add up.
We had a pleasant early dinner here. The dining room was empty but the bar very active. The atmosphere was nicely nautical. It was unfortunate that the tables outside were on a busy street rather than a waterfront deck. The service was fine. My wife did better with her dinner than I did. She had an excellent burrata with good tomatoes. This was followed by a very good mushroom ravioli. I had the fritto misto which turned out to be a calamari dish with a shrimp and a couple of other things tossed in. The calamari was hardly crispy and I was fairly disappointed. The cobia entree was very good but marred by being served on top of a nice vegtable medley that had not been warmed up. Thus the mixed review. Should we be in the neighborhood (Lincoln Road west of Alton) we would try again but not otherwise make a drive to get there.
While their is a neighborhood feel the food is at a higher level and freshly prepared.
Ceviche and Crudo were good. However, black grouper entree was overcooked, dry and overall lacking in flavor.
I go to a lot of restaurants so I wasn't expecting much but this place impressed me! It's very intimate, quaint, awesome decor. The head chef was in the restaurant greeting customers, the staff was helpful without being pushy, very knowledgeable about the menu but the food... Oh the food tasted like they had a garden outside. The veggies were fresh, the garnish delicious, not overdone, not too salty or peppery just perfect. The seafood... If you like fish this is the place for you! Their fish was absolutely delicious in all the places I've been to I have never tasted fish this fresh! I have told everyone I know and I will be bringing my parents there as they love fresh fish! Awesome job keep it up please! Expensive but so worth it!
nice place , waiters with a lot of personality, and food is amazing kudos to the chef
Food is always en pointe and the staff works together to make your meal a memorable experience. Biscotti served with coffee was an enjoyable surprise. Highly recommended.
We had a wonderful dinner. Everything our table had was awesome, fish, meat, sides. Great service.
A friendly place with excellent fresh food on the touristy street in Miami Beach.
The owner is always there to welcome guests. The food is amazing, healthy and well prepared.
It is priced just right. Don't miss dessert.
We plan to return every month of the year for years to come.
Thank you, Altamare.
After I had gone there several times for excellent tapas at the bar and an entrée meal with a small group which was great, I counted it as one of my favorites, enough to reserve a table for Valentine's Day with my girlfriend.
And not to mention it was listed somewhere as having the best seafood in Miami Beach. However that particular night, after the typically great appetizers, both our seafood entrees, although fresh, were lacking much flavor.
I will probably stick to appetizers at the bar there in the future.
The grill octopus w farro is super tasty, healthy, and pretty filling as a main dish. Love it every time!
Great food service good like eating outdoors and people watching after all it is Miami. One of my must stops when in Miami.
Our meal was mostly a selection of mostly happy hour appetizers (we arrived a little before the end of happy hour). With the help of our waitress, we put together delicious and meal of sushi, fish and salads.
Good location. Lively, but not noisy. Half a block from crowds on Lincoln Road Mall.
One of the memorable meals we have had in Miami Beach.


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Vignes, H and Hossaert-Mckey, M and Beaune, D and Fevre, D and Anstett, MC and Borges, Renee M and Kjellberg, F and Chevallier, MH (2006) Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for a monoecious Ficus species, Ficus insipida, and crossspecies amplification among different sections of Ficus. In: Molecular Ecology Notes, 6 (3). pp. 792-795.
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The animal-mediated pollination and seed-dispersal mutualisms of Ficus species give them key roles in tropical ecosystems, but may make them vulnerable to habitat fragmentation. The development of highly polymorphic markers is needed to analyse their genetic diversity and investigate the effects of fragmentation on gene flow. Of thirteen microsatellite loci isolated from Ficus insipida, a monoecious species in French Guiana, eleven were polymorphic (two to six alleles each). High levels of variation were found among loci; expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.151 to 0.715. All markers revealed a broad cross-species affinity when tested in 23 other Ficus species.
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text: Neuwirth – The Outcast & Die Stadt ohne Juden Posted by Ricordi 03 December 2018 On the occasion of her 50th birthday, two large projects by Olga Neuwirth were premiered in November at the Vienna Konzerthaus in the framework of Wien Modern: Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City without Jews), a new film score for the recently restored silent movie by H. K. Breslauer, as well as a revised version of Neuwirth's musicstallation-theatre piece The Outcast. This new production of her homage to Herman Melville pushes the concert-format boundaries with an elaborate multi-screen video installation by the British director Netia Jones. For the premiere at the Vienna Konzerthaus under the baton Ilan Volkov, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra was joined by top-flight soloists including Andrew Watts, Susanne Elmark, Otto Katzameier and the actor Johan Leysen. In March 2019, Melville's bicentenary year, the work will receive its German premiere at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. Olga Neuwirth's music for Die Stadt ohne Juden was premiered by the PHACE ensemble under the direction of Nacho de Paz in a live performance accompanying a screening of the classic film in the main auditorium of the Vienna Konzerthaus. The same forces presented the new work a week later at London's Barbican Centre, with the German premiere taking place at the end of November as part of the Greatest Hits Festival at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie. In the new year, Die Stadt ohne Juden will be given further premieres in Tel Aviv by the Israel Contemporary Players and at the Philharmonie de Paris, presented by Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by Matthias Pintscher. The Outcast, WP at Wien Modern The Outcast (2008-2010/2012) Homage to Herman Melville. A musicstallation-theater Revised version With monologues for Old Melville by Anna Mitgutsch Libretto by Barry Gifford and Olga Neuwirth A co-production between ORF RSO Wien, Wien Modern, Wiener Konzerthaus and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. With the kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. S.Boys S.Ct.T.2Bar.3Act.Chansonnier - Boys Chr.Men Chr - 184.108.40.206 - 184.108.40.206 - 2perc - synth.e-git.acc - 188.8.131.52.4 - el Duration: 90' WP: 14.11.2018, Vienna Performances 14.11.2018 (WP) ORF RSO Wien, Ilan Volkov (cond.); Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna 4.3.2019 (NP) ORF RSO Wien, Ilan Volkov (cond.); Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg Olga Neuwirth at the world premiere of The Outcast (Wien Modern, 2018) Press quotes Neuwirth has written great roles, and singers such as Danish soprano Susanne Elmark as Ishmaela, Otto Katzameier as Captain Ahab, the countertenor Andrew Watts as Queequeg and the boy soprano Joel Beer as Pip took full advantage of them. Neuwirth fully grasps the possibilities offered by solo voices, two choruses, speaking roles and orchestra, piling up powerful and effective music in rising, cresting waves while also interspersing smaller effects – for example, working the strains of an electric guitar through the swelling material or evoking the voice of Klaus Nomi. This is intelligent music, confident in its effects and whetting the appetite for the composer's Orlando, commissioned by the Vienna State Opera and announced for December 2019. Salzburger Nachrichten, 15.11.2018 The music suggests a collage: there are gleaming surfaces of sound underlaying vocal writing of siren-like beauty as well as naturalistic birdsong; the church musical sound of boys' choirs brings an element of innocence. Organ, accordion and electric guitar add dashes of colour and trigger associations. There are comic touches, both discreet (muted trumpets) and knee-slapping (Stayin' Alive). At times the sea is brightly sunny and silvery, at others dark and threatening, even sharply metallic. Der Standard, 19.11.2018 Has the political feminist Olga Neuwirth produced a Gesamtkunstwerk? The critic and film composer Hanns Eisler once polemically asserted that this Wagnerian concept required the audience to leave their brains in the cloakroom. Olga Neuwirth, on the other hand, requires them to think. One should have read the libretto beforehand in order to understand her and gain a real impression from her music-installation in the darkened space – and from the white whale that plunges the ship into the ocean's depths at the end. Falter, November 2018 The Outcast, WP at Wien Modern Score of The Outcast Die Stadt ohne Juden (2017) Musik zum Stummfilm von Hans Karl Breslauer (1924) für verstärktes Ensemble und Zuspielung A production by Wiener Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Barbican Centre, Sinfonieorchester Basel and ZDF/ARTE in cooperation with Wien Modern and Filmarchiv Austria. cl.ssax.tpt.trb.perc.synth.samp.e-git.vla.vc.el Duration: 88' Performances 7.11.2018 (WP) PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Wien Modern – Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna 15.11.2018 (NP) PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Barbican Center London 28.11.2018 (NP) PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Kampnagel K6, Hamburg 5.01.2019 (NP) Israel Contemporary Players, Ilan Volkov (cond.); Cinemateque, Tel Aviv 15.03.2019 (NP) Ensemble intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher (cond.); Philharmonie de Paris 29.03.2019 PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin 24.09.2019 PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Alte Oper Frankfurt 27.10.2019 (NP) Studio for New Music, Igor Dronov (cond.), Karo Kino, Moscow 13.02.2020 Ensemble Klang, Christian Karlsen (cond.); Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam Die Stadt ohne Juden, UK premiere in London Press quotes Neuwirth, herself of Jewish background, dealt with the overall ambiguous and haunting nature of the material through frequently dichotomous music that strove to be "both touching and harsh, warm-hearted and open, amusing and furious, involved and distanced, humorous and sad all at once." In complex combinations of tape and instrumental layers that often meticulously and extensively commented on the film, the Ensemble PHACE brought to life an impressive hybrid of the most diverse musical realities: liturgical hymns met citations from the popular music of the "homeland," the deceptive coziness of which turning into pure horror at any moment. neue musikzeitung, 05.2019 What one experiences on this evening in the concert hall is not a silent film, nor even a silent film with music. From the very first moment, sound and image are amalgamated into a breathing organism. The noises are enough to draw the observer without further ado into this nearly 100-year-old world full of frock coats, hats and dramatic eye make-up. At first, electronics set the whole space vibrating with a deep grumble; in the synagogue service, circling ethereal sounds create the impression of distant, lamenting voices, like a premonition of the horrors to come. Neuwirth virtuosically quotes from various styles: the saxophone alludes to Debussy, the clarinet to shtetl melancholy, and of course Alpine folk music isn't far away. Neuwirth's individual style and her refined timbral sensibility remain unmistakable, shining through the film's sometimes ribald humour, where the laughter is likely to stick in the craw of today's viewer. The effect of some of this on us coming from subsequent generations is like slapstick being delivered on a razor's edge, as when the staunchly anti-Semitic Councillor Bernart, played by the unforgettable Hans Moser, attempts to open the garden gate with a cigar while completely inebriated. "The Viennese drinks in order to forget," said Neuwirth the day after the premiere. "And when he forgets, he will also repress a lot. Especially the Nazi past." Hamburger Abendblatt, 2.11.2018 In her artful but never obtrusive new soundtrack for the silent film, Neuwirth establishes a variety of political and cultural connections. She creates a balance between the knowledge of later real-life tragedy that underlies her score's constantly menacing tone, the bitter irony that drives the plot, the unintentional humour that is inherent in the silent-film aesthetic's emotionalism for today's viewers, and the awareness that the ghosts of the past are at this moment more alive than they have been for a long time. The fragility of idyllic middle-class domesticity and the latent aggression of emphatic folk culture, which can turn violent at any time, are unmistakably worked into the composition and were finely realized by the PHACE ensemble under conductor Nacho de Paz. The live sound material was supplemented by audio feeds recalling the Jewish culture nearly wiped out by the Nazis, depicted in the film, for example, in synagogue scenes or as literally resurrected by [the popular Viennese actor] Hans Moser. Tiroler Tageszeitung, 08.11.2018 The Austrian composer uses the PHACE ensemble winds, conducted by Nacho de Paz, in a humorous commentary to the tavern guests' quarrelling. She underscores the drunkards' anti-Semitic outbursts with yodellers. Into the menacingly seething synthesizer carpet, she strategically weaves in sounds that comment on points in the plot – such as when chairs topple down in the tavern and gongs are sounded. Olga Neuwirth imbues the black-and-white film with colour by accompanying scenes of Jewish communal life with oriental sounds and Klezmer music or by her unusual treatment of the instruments. In one instance she has the trumpets literally screaming, then has trumpeters blowing their instruments to suggest the puffing of a steam locomotive. Salzburger Nachrichten, 09.11.2018 Die Stadt ohne Juden, German premiere in Hamburg About the work The film – thought lost but discovered in 2015 in a Parisian flea market and digitally restored thanks to a crowdfunding campaign – is a dramatisation of a bitter satire of antisemitism by a Jewish journalist called Hugo Bettauer. His 1922 novel is set in a contemporary Vienna humbled by defeat in the first world war and collapse of the Habsburg Empire. Inflation and unemployment are soaring and politicians are looking for a scapegoat. "The people," the chancellor announces in the film adaptation, "demand the expulsion of all Jews." And Vienna's 200,000 Jews are forced to emigrate. "One of the most powerful scenes for me is of the Jews walking out of Vienna as it's gathering dusk," says Neuwirth, who is herself Jewish. "When I was writing the score, I had to suppress my rage or else the film would have had music which is just an expression of my fury." Another unbearable scene shows trains loaded with Jews heading off to other European capitals and to Palestine. It's hard not to see these trains as prefiguring other trains that would, within 20 years, take millions of Jews to Nazi death camps. For all that Die Stadt ohne Juden is 94 years old, its revival in 2018 is resonant in an age of rising racist populism. "The parallels are plain: toxic language is begetting hatred, now as then," says Neuwirth. "The chancellor is not initially an antisemite, but when he sees how well hating Jews plays with the masses, he seizes on the plan to throw them out." She recalls what Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi said of the Holocaust: "If it happened once, it can happen again." The Guardian, 13.11.2018 Read the complete interview Die Stadt ohne Juden, UK premiere in London Score of Die Stadt ohne Juden Photos: Markus Sepperer (The Outcast); Mark Allan (Die Stadt ohne Juden, London), Daniel Dittus (Die Stadt ohne Juden, Hamburg)


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Sometimes an army presents an element in an unorthodox way. For example: Dwarfs don't have any cavalry. But what is cavalry? A unit that gets behind enemy lines quickly to attack from the side or rear. Well, that's Miners.
In Eighth Edition some things are turned on their ear. It's like those good-news/bad-news jokes. The bad news is the Cavalry can't stand against Infantry in a head-on battle. The good news is that it's a LOT harder to march block. That means that units can get around behind enemy lines a lot easier. Old things need to be looked at in new ways.
Units need to be looked at not in terms of size but in terms of point cost. With a limited area in the deployment zone, main block units need to weigh in at least 250-350 points. Even consider units that costs 500+ pts. What about a block of 12x Chaos Knights? What about a unit of 50x Phoenix Guard?
This doesn't mean there isn't a role for throwaway units.
I came across this little gem the other day for Warriors of Chaos: Exalted Hero with mark of Tzeentch on Disc. With proper protection he weighs in around 190 points. His role is to take care of gun lines and war machines. This is the WoC answer to no shooting units. Give him a Talisman for a ward save. If you take the 5+ ward save item for 30 pts you can also take the Enchanted Shield (a fave of mine) boosting his armor save to 1+. This guy is a threat to ranged units and he gets in their face really fast.
Let's take a unit of twenty Lothern Sea Guard with bows. Fifteen shots = 10 hits = 3.3 wounds = 0.55 failed saves = 0.266 failed ward saves. In other words it would take about a HUNDRED Sea Guard firing at close range to reliably cause one wound. Even cannon shots can bounce off that ward save.
Remember: Mark of Tzeentch improves the ward save by +1.
The other defensive option is to drop the shield and give the 4+ ward save talisman, which gives him a 3+ net ward save. You can still give him a regular shield. On the net this is probably a better option. It depends on what you're up against.
He delivers four S5 attacks at WS7. That doesn't include the weapon bonus. He can stand his own against Chariots as well, and moreso if attacking from the side. For a sledgehammer army like WoC he's a good disruptor unit. He's a monkey in the works.
Arming with Halberd, Flail or Great Weapon is a subject for another debate. For punching power and if you don't think your combats will go into a third round I recommend the Flail.
And besides, this model looks cool and zips around the board. Fun Factor is high.
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Why You Lose Your Teeth As You Age And How You Can Correct This Problem
Most people assume that losing your teeth in the latter years of your life is normal and just a regular part of aging. To an extent, it is, but you do not have to lose your teeth willingly. In fact, good dental hygiene can help you maintain the longevity of your adult teeth for years to come. To help explain why tooth loss, aging and acceptance are widespread concepts, here are the facts and how you can prevent and treat tooth loss.
Some Aspects of Aging That DO Affect Tooth Loss
If you have diabetes or high blood pressure, both of these can affect tooth loss later in life. This has more to do with the circulation of your blood in and around your teeth than it does with age. (Likewise, problems with your circulatory system unrelated to these two health conditions can also cause tooth loss.) Teeth are living things consisting of nerves, bone marrow and blood vessels. Diabetes and hypertension can weaken or destroy the blood vessels that supply the teeth with needed nutrients, thereby killing them. If you are able to avoid hypertension and diabetes well into old age, then you are capable of keeping most of your original teeth too.
Aspects of Aging That Have Nothing to Do With Tooth Loss
Some people falsely assume that osteoporosis, or lack of bone density, impacts how long you can keep your teeth. This simply is not so and does not apply. However, corrosive foods with sugars, acids and starches do put holes in tooth dentin and in the teeth themselves. Teeth that are in constant need of repair eventually cannot be fixed anymore without a crown or bridge, and that is when you are susceptible to tooth loss. Since this can happen at any age but is only discussed with at length with middle-aged and elderly people, it leads to the misconception that tooth loss of this kind only applies to older people.
When You Do Lose a Tooth or Two
It is nothing to get overly anxious about. You can talk with your dentist as to the possible causes for the tooth loss and he or she can suggest what you can do to prevent any more teeth from loosening or falling out. You can also visit with a prosthodontist, who can supply you with veneers, implant teeth, and dental crowns to replace the missing teeth and protect the teeth you have left. Many dentists, such as the dentists at BayView Dental Arts, provide these services on a convenient schedule and reasonable rates.


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The Radio CJRT plays a different tune than its classic predecessors. New on the scene and not afraid to take a few risks, this snappy low ankle boot features soft leathers and two sets of interchangeable laces. Let's just say if they were a playlist, they'd be the one you listen to on max volume. Tune in, Turn on, and Vog out!
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Check Advantage Checks Review (2017 Update)
While checks are a bit old school sometimes, especially for business purposes they are the best way to exchange goods and services for payment. Also my rent has to be paid via check (or pay a $5 convenience fee).
However getting checks at your local bank or credit union is usually like buying goods and services at retail. Buying online will get you exactly what you're looking for but at wholesale price.
Not all check ordering services are worth using though, here is my review on check advantage, this way you can find out if they are someone to consider or not.
Who Is Check Advantage?
Check Advantage is an online check ordering service. They opened in 2001 and in that time they have been one of the fastest and error free online check ordering companies. They boast a 99% on time and 99.9% error free record. They offer direct to consumer checks – this allows consumers to buy checks for around half the price when compared to a bank. Their shining difference from the rest is their extremely high quality and plentiful designs. They may be one of the best in the industry, but lets see for ourselves and see if they can stack up.
Check Advantage Customer Service
Customer service is the #1 thing I look for when potentially buying a product or service. For me, if a company is lacking on their customer service I will go to their competitor and let my readers know so they can do the same if they choose.
What I look for in customer service is by the layout of their website, and naturally by their response time if I have a question to ask.
When I first visited their website the first thing I noticed was a large button for a live online chat. The chat was also very quick to respond which is a major help for questions I have. This is also something I havent seen many companies in this industry doing, typically it's just a support ticket system which is slow and annoying – it's definitely a huge plus that they have a functional live chat!
Check advantage's "about us" page is awesome! They have one of the clearest and easiest to read contact form right there so it's hassle free to get in touch. In addition to that and the live chat they also offer: fax, phone, and normal snail mail.
They also clearly state that they have a 99% on time rate and 99.9% error free record, definitely something that sets them from the rest because even though they are so big, they are extremely organized. Being organized is huge – -especially when people are relying on them to get their checks fast so they can continue to run their businesses and personal bills etc.
They have a better business bureau A+ rating. This really helps to build confidence that they take their company and customers seriously.
The only part that I don't like is you have to scroll to the bottom of the page to find their contact page button, it could definitely be more visible.
Check Advantage Designs
One of the more important factors when looking at an online check ordering service company is the number of different designs, and this is where Check Advantage shines above all others. They offer a staggering 2,500+ designs. Many of these you can't find anywhere else as they come straight from their artists. After reviewing a few different online check ordering companies I had begun to notice many of the same designs over and over. This leads me to believe that the other places all buy from the same source.
Check advantage doesn't have the same old stock designs. These are fresh and gorgeous!
Check Advantage Security
Obviously this is the #1 ranking factor when reviewing online check ordering services. If the checks aren't safe and secure with lots of security measures to prevent check washing or other fraud attempts. In addition too the standard check security features which exceed banking regulations. They have a ton of security on their site. Such as they are a google trusted site. Here is what Check Advantage has to say about their checks:
Whether you're looking to protect the finances of your business or your personal accounts, CheckAdvantage provides top-notch security features on every check we print.
Statistics show around 1 out of every 20 adults has been the victim of some sort of identity theft or fraud. We know how important safety is to you, which is why we do everything we can to keep your information and your assets safe.
The security features listed on our personal, laser and 3-per-page business checks include:
(1) MP Logo: Placed next to the signature line, MP stands for microprinting, which is an anti-counterfeiting technique involving text that is too small for the human eye to read.
(2) Padlock Icon: Indicates a minimum of three security features on checks and is a registered trademark of the Check Payment Systems Association (CPSA).
(3) Microprinting: Used on the signature line of our personal checks, the border on our 3-per-page manual business checks, and found on the signature line of our laser business checks.
(4) Invisible Fluorescent Fibers: These special yellow fibers are only visible under an Ultraviolet light.
(5) Security Screen: Printed on the back of each check, text reading "Original Document" and listing security features will not photocopy clearly in order to prevent fraud.
To act as a further safeguard, our personal checks include a security warning, found next to the padlock icon. This tells would-be counterfeiters that the document contains safety features.
For our laser checks and 3-per-page business checks, we fend off counterfeiters in a similar way with a warning band found on the border of each check.
Regardless of whether you're using personal or business checks, CheckAdvantage prints on premium paper to ensure your finances are secure. Features include:
- UV Dull base-sheet: Easy to distinguish from typical printer paper when placed under a UV light.
- SecurLaser: Surface treatment applied to both sides to maximize toner adhesion. Guarantees readability of magnetic ink used to print the MICR line.
- Full Chemical Reactivity: Paper reacts to bleach, acids, and alkalis, as well as polar and non-polar solvents.
Every check we print meets ANSI X9 standards and will be Check 21 compliant.
For even more security, add EZ Shield fraud and identity theft protection to feel completely worry-free. Select this option in your shopping cart during checkout!
How Much Are The Checks from Check Advantage?
This is probably why you are looking to buy checks online as opposed to at your local bank.
While they are still cheaper than most of their competition they are a bit more expensive than Checkworks and Horizon Checks; however they have over 20 times the designs to choose from and they have their own artists. So it's well worth the extra couple (literally) bucks. They charge $13.99 for a regular box of personal checks but offer free shipping. I am not aware of anyone else offering free shipping so this may very well mean they are the cheapest when all said and done.
- Tight Security
- Easy to navigate website
- Fantastic customer service
- Extremely trusted company
- Fantastic return policy.
- When I was reviewing them their website was extremely slow. This was also during the early morning hours long before the busy times. I am not sure if this is common or not but it was very annoying, some pages took over a minute to load. I used pingdom.com to see what they calculated and it was indeed 1 minute flat (I think it just stopped trying) but for some reason it was running the test from Australia when I'm in the United States. Not sure what's going on but i'm sure they will get it straightened out. (It is also December 1 and not 31st.)
Final Verdict on Check Advantage
After thoroughly reviewing them I am extremely impressed. They have an amazing amount of designs to choose from + custom designs. Everything about them speaks excellence! Their only quirk is their slow site speed but I believe that is just a one time deal – perhaps they are doing server work – and I fully recommend them. If you need checks then they are the go to's for it. I know they will make your experience awesome!
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A secondary glazing unit, is a separate pane of glass that sits as an extra layer on the inside of an existing window or door. It is usually used to offer the main window extra protection as well as added insulation from the elements - during the colder months - and extra protection from unwanted noise pollution.
If you are looking to add some extra protection to the windows in your residential or commercial property, then you may want to consider installing secondary glazing units. These consist of a second panel of glass that sits on the inside of your existing windows or doors.
Here at Sussex Glazing Services, we fit a wide range of secondary glazing units. These units are able to be fitted to windows and doors in both residential and commercial properties. They can offer you added insulation from the cold, whilst also helping keep noise pollution down.
Secondary glazing units offer you the perfect piece of added insulation against the cold and extra protection from noise pollution. Here at Sussex Glazing Services we fit these secondary glazing units to standard windows and doors at commercial and residential premises. If you are looking to enhance your home or workplace, then secondary glazing units may well be just what you are after.
Secondary glazing units can be fitted to windows and doors in your home, or commercial property, to offer you more thermal efficiency. If your home is poorly insulated, and you are spending too much on your energy bills then secondary glazing may well be what you require. As well as helping keep the cold air out, secondary glazing will also help prevent against noise pollution.


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_"You make me
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Frankly, bothered. Static-X's opening effort on album proper number four Start A War features the above repeated over and over and over again. Nice olive branch to new listeners, that.
It gets no better: 'I'm The One' scrapes metal against metal while vocalist Wayne Static bleats as if he's getting shafted by a mechanoid donkey (we don't know what he's been through, he tells us; about a million different Pro Tools settings, we tell him), 'Night Terrors' sounds like Korn circa their fourth album decent into critical obscurity (at least the drums sound mighty - new member Nick Oshiro's percussive skills are the sole intentional highlight of Start A War), and 'I Want To Fucking Break It' will have all but the simplest thirteen-year-old 'rebel' ejecting this from CD player, room, house, street,_ existence. _
"This one's for the stupid fuckers!"
Best keep it to yourself then, you stupid fuckers.
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Parkinson's & Neurological Disorders
A home care referral may be appropriate when a client:
- Struggles to complete Activities of Daily Living
- Has difficulty with fine motor skills such as opening bottles or taking medications
- Has self-feeding challenges due to rigidity or coordination
- Has had a fall or is unsteady in gait
- Has loss of balance or difficulty/slowness transferring from sitting to standing position
- Has reduced energy and conservation techniques would be helpful
Benefits of Home Care:
- Timely interventions due to sign and symptom recognition
- Implementation of a treatment plan developed by health care professionals
- Reduced fall risk
- Decreased risk of hospitalization
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This specialized training is provided to our home care team and provides insight into Parkinson's disease and the affects it has on a client's movement, speech, eating, sleep and other daily activities. Our goal is to enhance the quality of life, overall comfort and care of the Parkinson's client.
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At Peace is the second release in New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Ashley's The 'Burg Series.
An image featuring a heart shaped flower petal was chosen as our starting point to continue the series theme. In order to make the image more welcoming and help convey a romantic feel, a richer brown was added, which also accentuates the color of the flower petal. The wood grain texture was extended in order to fill the remaining cover space.


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Team Fariko Impact won big after three days of intense Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer action in the first ever Call of Duty Championship. 32 teams from around the world came together to battle it out, with the ultimate winners here scoring $400,000. Runner-up teams scored anywhere between $25,000, to $200,000.
These guys wouldn't last a second in a Battlefield tournament.
@Donnieboi I play both COD and BF3 I honestly feel like they're both the same when it comes to killing people besides it lagging.


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Finding exotic homes to lust after can be fun. Why limit your real estate envy to properties that actually exist?
What would it be like to own Hogwarts Castle, where Harry Potter learned to be a wizard, and what would it cost to buy it? What about SpongeBob SquarePants' house, or Superman's "Fortress of Solitude?"
Real estate website Movoto determined valuations of what content editor David Cross calls "un-real estate" — properties from television shows, movies or video games. Here are 9 make-believe homes and their real-life prices.
1. Wayne Manor
Value: $32.1 million
The voice-over on the 1960s "Batman" television show described it as "stately Wayne Manor," and a role-playing game from the early 1990s provided the specs behind that description: 42,500 square feet, 11 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, a pool, gym, library, ballroom, game room and gallery.
Cross didn't worry about including the "bat cave" when searching for comparable properties, reasoning that Bruce Wayne might sell his home but would never part with his secret lair. But his valuation is based on the controversial assumption that Gotham City is actually Chicago, not New York.
2. SpongeBob's abode
Value: $76,000
What would you pay for a modest home with a view — of the bottom of the sea?
That's the vista SpongeBob SquarePants enjoys from his residence, which happens to be a pineapple on the ocean's floor. Cross estimates the 238-square-inch home is located in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, where outsiders can't buy property. So the valuation is based on what Movoto's Mortgage Calculator estimates that SpongeBob, a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, could afford.
3. Ghostbusters' firehouse
Value: $15.7 million
Manhattan real estate was cheaper in the 1980s, and paranormal activity in the borough wasn't helping sellers get the best prices. But what would it cost you to buy a "Ghostbusters"-style headquarters today?
Movoto content editor Randy Nelson notes that a character in the 1984 film says the firehouse that serves as the team's headquarters is 9,622.55 square feet. Based on comparable properties in the area, that space would sell for about $1,630 per square foot today.
Movoto estimates that the $15.7 million price tag for the property would buy you about 643 tons of marshmallows — plenty to recreate the movie's gooey finale.
4. Hogwarts Castle
Value: $204.1 million
You can't put a price on magic, but to estimate the value of Great Britain's premier training facility for spell-casters, Cross says that you need three bits of information: Hogwarts' location, its square footage and the price of comparable properties.
The location — Galloway Hills in Scotland — came via an online post. Another Harry Potter fan provided a clue to Hogwarts' size by working out how many students would have attended the wizardry academy.
Cross decided that the whole building must measure about 414,000 square feet and that large homes — including castles — around Galloway Hills go for about $493 per square foot.
5. Fortress of Solitude
Value: $814 trillion
A firm handshake can be a career plus, but if you've got a grip that can turn lumps of coal into diamonds, you can afford a pricey retreat — even if you're just an underpaid reporter moonlighting as an unpaid superhero.
Superman's Fortress of Solitude is indeed expensive, not because of its location, in an Arctic wasteland, but because of its high-end building material: Kryptonian crystals.
Cross says that diamonds would be the best terrestrial stand-in, and he estimates you'd need more than 2 million of them — each the size of the $400 million Cullinan Diamond — for the dome-shaped roof.
6. Yoda's hut
Value: $7,762
Afford it, you can.
Yoda first appears in the Star Wars movie "The Empire Strikes Back," which finds the green Jedi master living in a spartan hut on the water-logged planet Dagobah. Movoto's Nelson wondered what a place like that would cost if it were located in the United States, rather than in a galaxy far, far away.
He decided that swampy Morgan City, La., would be a good stand-in for Dagobah. Yoda's residence was built of mud and the remains of his escape pod. But the average local price per square foot is $86, and Yoda's abode is just over 90 square feet.
7. Tony Stark's mansion
Value: $117.25 million
Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, is a billionaire genius with an ego, so you know he has a nice house.
How nice? Cross says that he based his Movoto assessment on the latest cinematic version of "Iron Man," which had Stark living in a cliff-side mansion in Malibu, Calif. The design of the computer-generated place was based on the work of architect John Lautner, whose 25,000-square-foot Casa Marbrisa was about the right size to be Stark's abode.
The sale of a comparable Malibu mansion yielded $3,750 per square foot, which Cross boosted to $4,690, to account for the view.
8. Fawlty Towers
Value: $9.94 million
After Monty Python, John Cleese starred as a hotel proprietor in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers." Cleese claimed his character was based on a real person, and his establishment was based on a real inn in the seaside town of Torquay, England.
Cross says that he was dying to value the property using the mini-fridge method, which assumes a hotel is worth 10,000 times the price of a soda in the hotel's mini-bar. But Fawlty Towers didn't offer its guests such in-room amenities. So Cross used the room-rate multiplier approach for the hotel, which has 22 guest rooms and a daily rate of 35 pounds, or $46.
9. Spencer Mansion of 'Resident Evil'
Value: $1.75 million
Most visitors to Spencer Mansion back in the 1990s were too busy blasting away at mutants to focus on the property itself — encounters with zombie dogs can shake up your priorities like that.
But Movoto's Nelson, a fan of the original "Resident Evil" video game, wanted to know what its setting would list for on today's market. His research convinced him that Springfield, Mo., was the best real-world stand-in for the game's fictional Raccoon City.
He also found that Spencer Mansion measures 10,125 square feet and that similar mansions in the Springfield area sell for about $173 per square foot.
This article was originally published by By Scot Meyer of SwitchYard Media on MSN Real Estate. See the original article here.


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Happy Days Kennel LLC
Give Rover a
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Give Rover a
vacation too!!
We offer pet boarding and grooming. Happy Day's Kennel is focused on your pet providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction - we will do everything we can to meet your expectations. With such a large facility in East Texas we can offer double runs so your pets can stay together or if you have a large breed it will have plenty of space to be comfortable. We have several groomers on staff with years of experience and they will work with you to make your dog look its best. We have monthly packages that include bathing and grooming so you will always have a standing appointment.
With a variety of offerings to choose from, we're sure you'll be happy working with us. Look around our website and if you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact us.
Special Notice: All residents of South Texas, Louisiana, or surrounding states that have a natural disaster or hurricane evacuation notice we are here to help you. We encourage you to obtain in advance of emergencies a copy of our pet's shot record and fax it to us. We will do everything we can to give your pets a comfortable place to stay while you're displaced. Keep in mind you can stop by our facility and visit and schedule special play times with your pet. We will extend our hours of operation during these times. We are the only kennel recommended by several local hotels due to the exceptional job our staff did during the last hurricane season.
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Regular art classes
Our regular art classes for children designed for young artists from 5 years old. We're working with a wide variety of mediums: pastel, pencils/crayons, oil pastels, watercolours, gouache, and mixed media. With their creativity and love of children, our instructors help your kids to find themselves in arts and help develop art skills. We also can make classes for kids and their parents at the same time (you'll be doing different things, of course). Ask about this option Elena P.
Art classes for adults and teens imply on-going art lessons, where our professionals are assisting you in finishing a project of your choice. You'll be instructed individually and will get a right volume of theory and practice you need to accomplish your project. We work in a variety of styles and media, including oil, acrylic, watercolours, drawing, pastel etc.
Special art courses
Our special courses are for those who prefer to get a knowledge base first and practice them after. If you leave our regular classes with a finished ready-to-hang-on-the-wall painting, here, we're focused more on exercises and learning against practice and creativity.
Our workshops are designed for individuals, who don't know what medium to choose and want to try a variety of them before focusing on anything specific. Nornally, we teach workshops during our regular classes, but for groups of and more we can make a private session.Please read our policy
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In Madrid, you can…
Meet a student from a country you have never visited but would like to go.
Learn to salsa dance and feel Cuban.
Make a Spanish friend who can't pronounce your name, but is still very nice.
Beat your teacher in a football game.
Welcome event for new students.
Language exchange with native Spaniards.
Football games, teachers vs. students.
Dance classes.
Madrid offers many activities you can organise yourself or with other students from the school. If it's your first time in the city, here's a few pieces of advice and suggestions of what to do in Madrid.
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8.Feb - 2.May 2020
Paris Photo 2016
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Exhibitions > Paris Photo 2016
Paris Photo 2016
For the 20th anniversary of Paris Photo In November 2016 Galerie Julian Sander will present "Troubled Times", a group of photographs which revive the concept of an exhibition that was originally curated by Gerd Sander, father of the gallery owner. This term refers to the desperate relationship of social classes in New York City as seen through the eyes of Louise Faurer, Lisette Model, Weegee and Leon Levinstein. Julian Sander enriches this original concept by creating a narrative that starts in NYC in the early 20th century and continues into contemporary photographs taken in Iraq and Afghanistan and Argentina.
Louise Faurer is known for his vision of the streets of New York. We have a number of vintage prints including a particularly stunning image of Sonny Stitt on stage at Birdland which shows the dangerous balance the African American musician had to exercise during the trouble times in NYC.
Sean Hemmerle's project "Them", shown for the first time in Europe, are depictions of the citizens of 2 war torn countries in the middle east. Human faces which for many people in the western world represent "the enemy" although they are only people trying to make it through their lives.
Jory Hulls schizophrenic found art collages called "Underground Interpretations" show the every changing impact of advertising within the city scape of New York's subway. A form of change that the citizens impact upon the forced visual narrative of their every day lives.
Alfredo Srur, a photographer who has lived inside the troubled worlds he photographs, shows us the daily life of a man living on the edges of existence and legality in the slums of Buenos Aires.
As a particular treat GJS will be presenting a photograph from Xu Yongs "Negative" series which presents a thought provoking look at the conversation between freedom and control. This photograph by Xu Yong has never been seen before, and as such will be shown for the very first time at PP16.
The idea of "Troubled Times" is rooted in the constant challenge we, as citizen of this planet, face in fulfilling justice for both ourselves and our fellow people. Photography is the medium which allows us to consume sights as if they were dreams we have had. As such the medium is destined like no other to impact our ability to both realize, accept and effect change from the status quo. "Troubled Times" takes its place in this process by challenging our understanding of our societal prejudices with works that reflect on a reality that is, and show a reality that
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Since 2009 the company has been providing Karate Instruction.
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By Blythe Gifford
Late on a March evening of 1286, Alexander III, king of Scotland, had already had a full day. He had met with his council in Edinburgh and afterward, they adjourned to a lengthy and "convivial" supper.
As they talked and, presumably, drank, a gale set in. Outside, winds from the north howled across the Firth of Forth, bearing snow. No night for man or beast to venture out.
But the king's new young wife was in Kinghorn Castle, on the east coast of Fife. To get there, he would have to cross the firth in a boat and then ride on horseback to the castle on a cliffside path of uncertain footing. Still, he was determined to sleep in her bed before the night was over.
What mixture of lust, love, bravado, or wine made him so insistent we'll never know. Lust may be the winner, for the chronicles report that after the death of his first wife, "he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise."
The king himself was not old. At forty-four, he was in his prime and had ruled Scotland for thirty six prosperous years. (The illustration is of his coronation.) His tragedy was that he had lost his reportedly beloved wife and all three children. So that night, five months after his latest wedding, there was no immediate male heir to Scotland's throne.
Instead, the nobles, grudgingly, had agreed to his granddaughter, the infant "Maid of Norway" as the heir presumptive. Several of them disliked naming a girl. Others felt their own claims were as good or better, but in the end, they were perhaps persuaded by the fact that Alexander had plenty of time to produce another son and heir.
Did that add any urgency to his desire to bed his bride?
His queen, variously called Yolande or Joleta, twenty-three, was French, and descended from the Capetian dynasty. Her father was a vassal of Edward I of England. I found no description of her, but something drove the king to face a howling gale to be by her side.
He had many opportunities to turn back.
First, the boatman refused to take him across the Firth, but changed his mind not because of a royal order, but because he was called a coward for refusing to sail.
After crossing the water, the king had another chance to change his mind. Those with him urged him to stay at Inverkeithing overnight and ride on to the castle the next day. Again, he refused.
What happened then we don't know exactly. Did he, impatient, ride on alone? Or was he separated from the others by the wind and snow? Somewhere on the treacherous path, his horse must have lost his footing, for the king's body was found the next day, at the bottom of the cliff where he had been thrown, or fallen, from his horse.
Scotland's Golden Age was over. The last of Scotland's Celtic kings, dead.
None of the accounts suggest foul play, and given the state of the succession, there seemed no motive for it.
After his death, there was another chance, even two, for an orderly succession to the Scottish throne. First, his current queen was thought to be pregnant, but that was either a false alarm or the child died before term. Next, as agreed, the Maid of Norway was confirmed as Scotland's monarch, but she died at the age of seven, "seized by an illness at sea," shortly after landing on the Orkney Islands, still owned by Norway. Again, no foul play was suspected. She was in her father's ship and accompanied by Norwegians on the voyage.
Thirteen claimants came forward to take her place.
Edward I of England was invited to determine the rightful inheritor of the Scottish throne. John Balliol, Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and hundreds of years of the Wars of Independence follow.
All because Alexander had no more sense than to stay inside during inclement weather.
Blythe Gifford has written five, 14th century medieval romances for Harlequin Historicals featuring characters born on the wrong side of the royal blanket, most recently HIS BORDER BRIDE in May 2010. The Chicago Tribune called her work "the perfect balance between history and romance." She is working on her next book, which will again be set on the Scottish Borders.


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We make many little choices every day. Do I have time to stop for coffee on the way to work? Should I wash my hair today or tomorrow? Heels or flats? Ranch or vinaigrette? Imagine if someone else made all of these little choices for you. Would you be happy with their selections? Despite these being relatively small, insignificant choices, limiting them would be demoralizing and confining.
It's important to recognize how having a choice affects our clients with communication disorders. Offering a choice between two options provides a valuable communication-partner strategy with our clients of all ages and abilities. Giving our students two choices, for example, encourages them to produce a specific response while providing a direct-language model at the same time.
Kids love the feeling of independence generated by making choices that influence their environment! Presenting them with a simple choice demonstrates the role communication plays in making requests in a concrete, immediate way: "Do you want the bear or the duck? Should we play a game or read a book?"
Giving clients choices creates opportunities to model and expand language. If a child communicates that they want to play with cars, use the opportunity to expand their concept knowledge and expressive vocabulary: "Do you want the big car or the little car? Do you want the red one or the blue one?"
Offering choices can also help set clear expectations when giving instruction. Rather than telling a child to get ready, asking them to make a choice will give them specific direction and a sense of control as they transition: "Do you want to put on your coat or shoes first? Should we walk or run in the hallway?"
These types of choice questions also help students reflect on their behavior, because the choices offered require them to be an active participant in the exchange. Choices also provide support during comprehension tasks: "Was the boy in the story happy or sad?"
In adult populations, giving two choices enables our patients to exercise immediate recall, express preferences and communicate basic needs. Some patients may struggle to respond to open-ended questions because of poor word retrieval. By presenting two options, they can provide an appropriate response while exercising recall: "Do you want to watch TV or listen to music? Do you need your toothbrush or comb?"
Asking ventilator-dependent patients yes or no questions can quickly identify a need: "Are you comfortable? Do you need suction? Do you want to sit up?" In a long-term care facility, the choices of a resident with dementia during meals and activities may get taken for granted because of a modified diet or decreased initiation. Giving residents a simple choice of two options gives them dignity and increases their quality of life: "Would you like iced tea or lemonade with dinner? Do you want ice cream or a brownie for dessert? Do you want clear or pink nail polish?"
Build in success by supplementing verbally presented choices with visuals and simple gestures, such as a yes/no board or holding out a hand for each choice. Remember to ask before assuming a client's preference. Make sure to include wait time for your client to respond. Always respect communicated choices even if a verbal response isn't elicited. Allowing our clients to make choices shows them we respect their desires while supporting important functions of communication.
Kylie Grace Davis, MS, CCC-SLP, works for the Montrose County School District in western Colorado. Her previous clinical experience includes skilled rehabilitation services, mobile modified barium swallow studies and tracheostomy management in long-term acute care hospitals in Denver. firstname.lastname@example.com