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We can't say what charcoal will do but we can say why we're asking the question. Because charcoal influences so many different areas of soil - moisture, nutrients, crop production, and microbial activity - and changes in each regional micro climate -there are unlimited research possibilities.
That's Tom talking to Amanda Zee at Sweet Earth Farm. Tom, his grad student Si, and his research assistant Amanda are all working with Forage to research the charcoal made from the Moxum burns this spring applied to farms in San Juan County.
Over the next three years the University of Washington team will work with Forage, Carson at Rainshadow, Steve and Linnea at Nootka Rose, and 11 other farms in the County to examine the role of biochar in nutrient cycling and uptake by dry beans. This research will explore the potential connection of increased nutrient availability in soil to also increase nutrient density in agronomic crops such as dry beans. If charcoal is building nutrients in soil, that could translate to increasing nutrient density in the food. Could biochar become a new "organic," a way to differentiate quality and enhance price? Don't we all want food with more in it?
And we've already started. Here is the baseline data from the farms on moisture content and bulk density before charcoal was applied. We'll be publishing more results as soil tests come in throughout the summer of 2015.


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Whether you sell ice-lollies, soft serves or 99p flakes, ice cream vans are hugely popular during the summer months, especially when the British summer decides to show up. For several ice cream vendors and entrepreneurs, there is an opportunity to generate some serious revenue and truly make hay whilst the sun shines. So having the right insurance in place is essential to keep your van on the road and avoid any mishaps.
At Be Wiser Business Insurance, we tailor policies specifically to your needs. So if you run a motorized van, catering trailer or mobile cart, we can find an insurance plan to suit you. There is no need to pay for insurance you don't need, which is why we carefully assess the risks involved to provide you with the best quote possible. If you only work during the summer months, we can also provide a temporary policy for a few weeks or months of the year.
Our team of dedicated insurance advisors is based in our head office in Hampshire and they are ready to take your call. Simply call us today on 0333 999 0802 for a no obligation quote. By taking down a few details, we can provide you with a quote there and then and if you complete all the relevant information, you can get covered on the same day too.
We can offer cover for all makes and models of ice cream van, ideal for sole traders, or company vehicles. We also offer fleet insurance if you have several ice cream vans that you are looking to insure. We offer the following levels of cover:
Running a profitable ice cream van business means constantly being on the road and driving through parks, festivals and unsurfaced roads. The last thing you need is for your van to breakdown or have to go to the garage as this means you won't be able to do the rounds.
But with vehicle insurance from Be Wiser, you receive free roadside assistance so for any problems, you can have a professional come fix your van and you can be on the road in no time.
If you are involved in a road accident and your vehicle is in need of repairs or replacements, this can be covered by your insurer rather than having to pay a few hundred or thousand pounds out of your own pocket. You can also insure different parts of the van such as the signs or the music tune you play.
An ice cream truck is likely to run expensive machines such as refrigerators and ice cream makers for soft serves. In the event that these are broken, vandalized or stolen, you will not be able to make or sell your product efficiently. You might find that you suffer a leak and it causes damages to your entire vehicle and all the stock. So putting by this equipment under your policy means that you can claim from your insurer and you will not lose any income.
Similarly, ice cream vendors will always hold lots of stock including ice cream, lollies, cones, toppings and drinks. If these are damaged in a road accident or stolen, it will cost a huge amount to replace them. But provided that you have a clear record of all your purchases, you can get all stock reimbursed by your insurer so you can get your business running again before you know it.
As you are dealing with the general public, you need to have public liability insurance, which covers you for any damage or injuries caused to a member of the public or their property.
For instance, you could have a big sign above your ice cream van which accidently falls one day and injures a customer or damages private property. The victim may wish to demand compensation from you or ask you to replace their property.
You can get up to £10 million worth of public liability cover. The amount you need will be based on the amount of contact you have with the public and the potential damages your business activity can cause.
This type of insurance makes sure that you do not lose your regular income if your business is interrupted i.e your vehicle breaks down, your machines do not work or you lose your stock. You can never be sure if you are going to be the victim of theft and or involved in a road accident but there is nothing worse than losing out on good customers and revenue.
So by keeping a record of your earnings, you will be able to claim from your insurance and get some money back whilst your business is interrupted.
If you hire employees to run your ice cream van, it is a legal requirement to have employers liability insurance. This protects your employees if they suffer injury or damages on the job. This may occur by operating the machinery, heavy lifting or even being involved in a road accident. As an employee, they have the right to demand compensation if injured by your business activity so your employers liability will cover this accordingly.
You may wish to rent out your vehicle to subcontractors and because they are using your vehicle, machinery and brand, your insurance can protect your business and earnings. So if a subcontractor causes damage to your vehicle or a member of the public, this can also be covered under the same policy.
Be Wiser Business Insurance is able to put all this cover under one single policy. No need to worry about having lots of different policies, documents and paying for several different plans – everything is handled under one account to make life simpler.
All ice cream vans in the UK will be required to apply for a street trading license and vendors are advised to speak to their local council about trading in their area.

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Hi everyone,I'm loving today's Party feature by Minted & Vintage(Dessert Stand Rentals).My two most favourite Party themes rolled into one.Tea Party & Vintage Strawberry Shortcake.Aracely put together this gorgeous Tea Party for her little shortcake who turned two.She set up a tea table and other sweet stations under the trees,and it was a great opportunity for some mummy & daughter time,what a great idea.
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Silhouette 1st Birthday Party
Rock Paper Scissors who is one of Greece's best Party stylist.I love the backdrop Silhouette with the pacifier,so cute!!
Event Stylist :Rock Paper Scissors
Cake,cupcakes ,cookies ,cakepops & smash cake by Cakes By Samantha
Photography by :Fiorello Photography
Backdrop , Party Hats & all Paper Pretties :Love Me Do
|Gorgeous Smash Cake by Cakes by Samantha
Cake,cupcakes ,cookies ,cakepops & smash cake by Cakes By Samantha
Photography by :Fiorello Photography
Backdrop , Party Hats & all Paper Pretties :Love Me Do
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Birthday Party Dessert Table
Mon Tresor,i love her Dessert Tables,she has a real knack for colour combinations that always look fantastic,i don't know how she does it! This table was for a 11year old Girl her mum wanted a fresh, beachy feel as their property is located right on the beach. Suzanna kept to hues of blues and greens, with a hint of latte. It looks fantastic!!!
|Gorgeous Tassle Garland by Blush Loves Mint
|Cake pops by M's Cake Pop Shop
|Pretty Cupcakes by Tastee Treats 4u
|Stunning cake by Tastee Treats 4u
|Personalised Chocolate wrappers by Mon Tresor
|Cookies by Tastee Treats 4u
|Sign and all jar labels by Mon Tresor
|Favour Boxes by Mon Tresor
|Cake by Tastee Treats 4u
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Contrast Preview – Cabaret and Film Noir and Shadows Oh My!
Alexandra Mangen / Jul 9th, 2013 No Comments
[adsense250itp]Receiving some early praise for their upcoming platform/puzzler, Compulsion Games previewed a demo of Contrast, their new indie downloadable game at E3 2013. Attendees of E3 had the opportunity to play a demo of Contrast at the Sony and Focus Home booths. Judging by the number of award nominations Contrast garnered, this will be an indie game to look for.
Using style elements from Film Noir, cabaret and Vaudeville, Contrast will center on Didi as the main protagonist and Dawn, 8-year-old Didi's imaginary friend. As Dawn, and with Dawn's unique abilities, players will explore the world of Contrast and help Didi reunite her parents.
Much of the buzz surrounding Contrast centers on Compulsion's use of light and shadow as a mechanism for solving puzzles. Dawn has the ability to become her own shadow at will. In addition, Dawn can traverse other shadows as if they were solid platforms as well as phase through flimsier shadows. Players (as Dawn) will also collect orbs of light which power objects necessary to the solution of puzzles. Light can be manipulated by Dawn in other ways as well. Players will move light sources like spotlights to reveal bits of the environment not visible otherwise.
Set against a 1920's backdrop, the story of Contrast centers on Didi's quest to find her missing mother, a cabaret singer. The trailer for the game indicates that Didi's mother is in trouble with some dangerous people and that her father is absent as well, presumably searching for a way to help his wife. Contrast will examine complex adult issues from an imaginative child's perspective which should make for some interesting plot development. Compulsion heralds the game as a mystery centered around cabaret, live jazz, fairgrounds and illusions. The developers have also stated somewhat enigmatically that the story will cause the player to question what is real and what is not suggesting that there will be more to Didi and Dawn's story than meets the eye.
Contrast will feature an original jazz-based soundtrack with the musical stylings of Laura Ellis. A Femme Fatale jazz-singer who draws her inspiration from Film Noir Vixens, Laura Ellis released her aptly named album, Femme Fatale in 2011. Compulsion seems strongly invested in creating an immersive audio experience in Contrast. In addition to Ellis, Wave Generation, known for their work on Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect has worked with the developer to create the ambiance and interactive audio of Contrast.
For those interested in how the shadow and light mechanics of Contrast will work, the E3 demo of Contrast provided some insight into it's puzzle-based gameplay. In the demo, Dawn must reach a hot-air balloon caught on a billboard. In order to reach the balloon, Dawn uses collected light orbs or "luminaries" to power-on a carousel in a near-by courtyard. With the carousel turned on, Dawn can switch to shadow-mode and scale the shadows of the moving carousel horses as they glide across the walls. Early information suggests that most of the games puzzles will be solved using some combination of light and shadow elements which makes sense as shadows cannot exist without light.
Though it's too early to tell, Contrast may be a contender for some gaming awards this year gathering nominations at E3 from across the gaming industry for Best Platformer, Best Downloadable Game, Best Indie Game and Best of E3.
No official release date has been announced yet though it seems the originally intended release date for PC was May, according to Ellis' website. Contrast is scheduled to be released sometime this year via the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and PC. Compulsion also announced the game will be available for PlayStation 4.
A trailer for Contrast can be viewed below.
tags: Best of E3 , compulsion games , contrast , Film Noir , indie game , Jazz , preview , Vaudeville


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One of my last nights in Costa Rica I was lying in bed distraught, despondent and, in a way, delusional. I was beyond upset. There was no logical reason for me to be under the covers at 7:30pm (while in a warm beautiful tropical country in December while my contemporaries were snowed in during a New York blizzard). However, I was sincerely contemplating going to bed and the thought of 12 hours of slumber seemed like a great idea in the pursuit of trying to find a way to ease the pain. I'm aware of the hormonal shift that was naturally occurring in my body at that time and that the decrease in serotonin during this particular time of the month could have been a fair explanation and yet... there was such an overwhelming sadness. Instead of resisting, I dove in. I opened myself to feel all the pain, all the sorrow and it hit me like a weight. Like someone threw me an anchor to catch and I was holding on as it took me to the bottom of the ocean floor. I looked around at what was there. What is this sadness? What is it's essence?
I thought of the most recent book I read called The Diamond in Your Pocket by Gangaji, a western enlightened woman. She says, "Just take a moment, this moment, to let everything go- the search, the denial, the rejecting, the clinging. Let it all go and just for this moment rest in the truth of your being. Then whatever comes after that can be seen and experienced in the context of the sanctuary of beingness."
After a strong wave of peace and surrender came over me, I heard my inner voice encourage me to move. Not to have to change anything, not having to make it different, but just to feel my body move and to feel the life force that animates my body.
I went to my computer and made a quick playlist titled Neosporin. As soon as I started dancing a smile came across my face. I actually have a theory that I've tested on the women that have been to my Qoya classes. I believe that one of the easiest ways to access and embody our own happiness is to move in rhythm. And by happiness, I really mean beingness- where you are at peace and enjoying the present moment you are experiencing. Try and see if it is true for you too.
Here is a quick 2 minute video to feel yourself move in rhythm and notice if you too shall be released. Released from what? Released from whatever is blocking you from receiving all the love, abundance, health and creativity that has it's eye on you. Can we open enough to be present and in the present can we experience our true selves with delight? I believe we can.
The Magic of Rhythm from Rochelle Schieck on Vimeo.
Remember, the main message of Qoya is that through movement we remember. We remember, as women, that we are wise, wild and free. By taking a moment to move, we can tap back into the truth of ourselves and our being. Being wise. Being wild. Being free. Being. Being...Released.
I'm so grateful you're here.
With love, Rochelle
P.S. Thursday Morning Qoya Classes begin 1/13/11 from 9:30-10:45am and Tuesday Night Qoya Classes begin 1/18/11 from 7-8:15pm. Click here to see more details!
P.S.S. The next Qoya Retreat is set for April 16-23, 2011! Click here to see more info on registering for this upcoming adventure!
And just for fun...Nina Simone singing I shall be released. Sending love your way.


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A green dragon spirit appeared in the Grande Prairie sky on Chinese New Year's Eve (January 22, 2012) to welcome the Year of Dragon. :D According to the lunar calendar, January 23 in 2012 is Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year, Spring Festival, or the first day of spring).
Happy Chinese New Year!
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Our cleaning team operates from Sutton in South London and are always happy to travel to keep your home clean. We can drive as far as 25 to 30 miles from Sutton. This large radius includes the whole area inside the M25, as well as South London down to Crawley and Horsham. Here's a non-exhaustive list of the areas we cover:
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Luigi's - The Raconteur
"I knew you were coming," Giovanni said as I entered Luigi's, "I knew it." "How?" I asked. "Because," he reminded me, "you wrote on Facebook that you were going to Time Warner Cable." I had exchanged my cable box down the road, and Giovanni, with his laptop set up on one of his tables — never missing a beat — knew I couldn't resist his pizza.
This small shop on a treeless, cheerless stretch of Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, not far from the Greenwood Cemetery, is more than a pizzeria: it is a social parlor where co-owner Giovanni Lanzo holds court with employees and customers all day and evening. Because he is a born storyteller, you may find yourself sticking around for longer than planned. I arrive with extra quarters for the meter — just in case.
He often talks about his father, the restaurant's namesake, who retired in 2000. Topics include Luigi's work ethic, his love for his customers, his no-nonsense approach to business, and his devotion to excellent ingredients.
"You know, it's amazing, so amazing how my father is. He's old-fashioned — that's it. He never did anything wrong. He liked coming to his pizzeria. He came from Italy, so he didn't have a million friends. His friends were the people that came into the store."
In 1998 Luigi's was used as a location in the feature film, "Big Daddy," starring Adam Sandler.
"When they came to film," recalls Giovanni, "the producer was shocked because my father told him that he wasn't going to close the store. They had requested the store, they wanted to shoot it here, and we had worked out a figure. The director said, 'Okay, you're gonna close between 5 and 9.' My father said, 'Close? It's Friday! My customers are coming here every day for 30 years. I'm not gonna close for you. I can't. I don't care if you give me $10,000 for one day. My customers are more important to me.'"
Giovanni pauses and smiles, then adds, "And that's a day I learned something from my father. I said, Wow, all my college, all my years in school never taught me this. My father realized that his customers are what made him — not somebody who comes here once for ten grand. And so the movie people came, and we served our customers through the hallway.
"There's one woman around the corner, Miss McLaughlin. She loves telling the story about how she saw someone from the movie set tell a customer that they couldn't come in. My father overheard this and stopped the whole scene they were filming to bake her a pie and two calzones. She's been getting that same order for over 30 years!
"It's why I like coming here. It's family here. I was born around the corner, so, I'm home. People around me know me since I'm born. They watched me grow up. I'm watching their kids grow up. It's a neighborhood. It's a neighborhood store."
There are many stories, but Giovanni's conversations usually include talk about pizza. "Growing up, I knew that pizza was something for the poor people, something for people to enjoy, you know, a fast meal, but good and healthy — and it wasn't supposed to be expensive. You walk into these places now, it's ridiculous, the prices are just too high. It's how you make pizza. If you make it with your heart it's going to come out good. All the gimmicks, like brick oven. There's bricks in these ovens too," he says, pointing to his pair of 1972 Baker's Pride gas ovens. "It's all about if you love to cook. That's what pizza's about: you cook it, you love making it, it comes out great!"
Because this is his parlor, he plays host and introduces customers to each other: "This is my local haircutter, Alberto. He's the best haircutter you're ever going to meet — a real haircutter with the old fashioned scissors. He comes from Bensonhurst — Bay Parkway — and now lives in Staten Island. They've got great pizza there, but not like this" and, "This is Luciano. He's a new customer. He just started coming in about eight months ago — he's like family now. He even wants my old oil so that he can run his diesel Mercedes. He converted it to bio all by himself. He's got four of them. He hasn't bought gas in six years."
All talk (and occasional bragging) aside, Giovanni takes tremendous pride and care with his pizza. He does not bake rack upon rack of advance pizzas like other places. When a slice pie runs out — that's when he makes another. His crust achieves a perfect duality: when folded, it splits along the bottom, holds together on top, and maintains simultaneous crunch and chew.
I have two favorites: the Supreme and the Grandma. The Supreme, invented by Giovanni together with one of his customers, is a cheese and tomato pie topped with sopressata from a pork store down the street, Italian sausage, green peppers, minced garlic, and a liberal drizzle of homemade green herb olive oil. The sopressata, with its complex spicy flavor, is added only after the pizza is done baking. Its richness balances the green peppers, and all of the toppings are cut small enough so that each bite includes every part.
The Grandma pie, which Giovanni calls "my mother's pie," is an entirely different experience but no less compelling. Fresh mozzarella and thick sauce meld with the pliable upper portion of the crust, while its underside is thin and crispy like an Italian cracker.
I asked Giovanni to summarize his feelings about pizza.
"I love pizza. I can eat it every day. I love making it. I love looking at it. Every pie I make I look at. Look at that square right there: the olive oil, the grated cheese — it's perfect. I could love that all day — all day! Just fill my stomach with it. I just love pizza."
Who: Owner Giovanni Lanzo and his sister, Marissa Lanzo. They have a few employees.
What's there: Round, Square Sicilian, and Square Grandma; whole pie or by the slice. Specialty pies include the Supreme, Lasagne, and fresh mozzarella. Specialty pies and the Grandma get finished with Giovanni's homemade green herb olive oil (he calls it "esto" sauce). Available toppings include: pepperoni, meatball, sausage, spinach, peppers, onions, garlic, esto, anchovies, sun dried tomatoes, eggplant, vodka sauce, and fresh mozzarella. All of Luigi's crusts are excellent.
Where: 686 Fifth Avenue (between 20th & 21st Streets) in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn (some refer to this location as South Slope or Greenwood Heights, but don't use those terms with Giovanni because he insists it's called Sunset Park). Tel. 718-499-3857. R train to Prospect Avenue or 25th Street.
Why go: Go for the pizza and for the dialogue. It's a true pizza-as-bar experience and while it does a steady business all day long, you usually don't have to wait long for your food.
How: Luigi's excellence begins with the dough, which is always made 1-2 days in advance and appears to be wetter than the dough at most typical slice joints. Ask Giovanni about it and though he won't tell you how it's made, he will wax on about its redeeming qualities. (Some customers swear that Luigi's dough is even better on Mondays because it has had an extra day to rise.)
Quote: "A chain is only as good as its weakest link, and Giovanni doesn't have a weakest link." (Jeff Plitt, a longtime writer and editor for the New York Zagat Survey, and a regular customer at Luigi's.)
411: 686 Fifth Avenue (between 20th & 21st Streets) in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn (some refer to this location as South Slope or Greenwood Heights, but don't use those terms with Giovanni because he insists it's called Sunset Park). Tel. 718-499-3857. R train to Prospect Avenue or 25th Street. Map Luigi's. Hours: Mon - Thurs: 11 am - 10 pm; Fri - Sat: 11 am - 12 am; closed Sunday. Luigi's Facebook page.
This story was edited by partner-in-pizza, Chris Artis.


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"Kinderland" children's area: Closed
Toboggan run: Closed
Cosy sit-down restaurant beside the ski slope.
Chrüz mountain restaurant offers table service. Gather your strengths in the restaurant with hearty meals from the kitchen and delicious drinks. The Chrüz team looks forward to spoiling you with the finer things in life. Links to the menus are available in the right navigation menu or beneath the opening times in the mobile version of this website.
The Schneebar (Snow Bar) team loves to conjure up hot or cold après-ski drinks for sun worshippers and après-ski fans.
Chrüz mountain restaurant is on piste no. 20 just below the Chrüz chairlift mountain station. It is easily accessible to skiers, snowboarders and walkers. Those coming on foot can reach the Chrüz restaurant in around 45 minutes from Tannenboden on the winter hiking trail.
The sit-down restaurant has enough space for up to 200 people; the sun-drenched terrace also holds around 180.


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At Aim High we pride ourselves on delivering more than just amazing, high energy martial arts classes. We strive to instill the philosophy and life lessons that shape the future generations. The Intelligent Curriculum is Aim High's planned and thought out way of delivering the information and lessons that are useful both in and out of the dojo.
As you/your child moves through the ranks, regardless of program or style, the Intelligent Curriculum will offer a path of learning that encourages participation and practice beyond the dojo and will surely create lasting change!
The Intelligent Curriculum is broken into 4 areas of focus:
Martial Arts Philosophy / Power Words - The martial arts philosophy is used in every class. Words like respect, courtesy, self-discipline, and more are taught within the martial arts classroom and related to times outside the studio where those skills would be useful. Kids and adults will hear these words and memorize simple definitions that will help to remember when the opportunity presents itself to practice those skills!
Life Skills - Life skills are taught through ongoing lesson plans that are shared across all the programs at Aim High. Four, six, and eight week lesson plans centered around the different aspects of bullying, anger management, healthy eating, and more are taught through the use of flash cards, handouts, and voluntary homework assignments that, when completed, will earn the students something special.
Experiential Training – This is where the rubber really meets the road! Project based leadership training, philanthropy, and altruism are learned through action and that is what Aim High is about, taking action! The activities in this section are designed so that students can actually take what is talked about in the classroom 'out of the dojo and into the world!'
Martial Arts History – Whether studying Taekwondo, Jiu Jitsu, or any other art, wouldn't it be nice to know where it came from and how it was handed down? This section is an ever growing database of info on the various styles taught at Aim High.


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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Tamika and I arrived back on the mountain last night and it's COLD! We're having the coldest day of the year today (- something or other).
Late last night when I was about to go to bed I discovered a present. Mouse droppings! Lots and lots of mouse droppings all over my bed! Yes, not only was our room freezing to the extent that I could see my breath, but a mouse, or mice or rats or who knows decided to use my duvet as a latrine.
So I spent the night curled in a ball wearing layers and layers of clothes with no sheets or comforter.
At least I can say things are pretty much getting back to normal. Oh, it was nice to be home for two weeks.


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Do you enjoy learning new features and easily transition from one codebase to another? Do people often see you as the person who can hop in on anything and deliver great shipping code? We're looking for folks like you. Especially awesome if you've been experimenting or developing in the VR space and understand how to get the best experiences out of the hardware.
You are:
- Quality Driven and Proactive
- Supportive and Collaborative: You know that the best work comes from a team who trusts and respects each other. You strive to collaborate with others and don't care whose ideas win. Best ideas win.
- Flexible and Iterative
- You've shipped a title or two prior: you probably have experience in game engine development, have worked on a variety of features, and are unafraid to 'just look it up'
- Curious and passionate: You read and/or play games most days. You know what's going on in the world of VR and can't wait to talk to others about it.
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- Be a master of C++ and object oriented programming.
- Have experience and be comfortable with a variety of systems features.
- Have a systematic approach to building software piece by piece.
- Excited to dig deep into an engine in order to make feature improvements and enhancements.
- Help push for quality and create usable tools / systems utilizing your knowledge of Unreal Engine 4. Must have 3-6 months experience working with Unreal in a professional environment.
- Be able to assess, prioritize, and estimate features
- Experience doing development for a hardware platform besides PC: Either a game console or mobile
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- Have shipped a game with Unreal Engine 4.
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text: Velvetears 0 Posted January 16, 2009 Also, just had a look on the old forums and uncovered these tidbits.. Code13 According to the Calxis Sector Encyclopedia on the Dark Heresy site, Lycosidae is home to a/the Legio Venator Fortress. (Titan Legion) NerdKing + from the published material so far (and the official word on the old BI forum) the only Astartes presence in the sector is the abandoned Templars base and two Iron Hands dreadnaughts who gaurd a shine on one of the shine worlds (Drusus perhaps? I don't recall off hand)+ Chapters related to the Inquisition could turn up (there's a Deathwatch veteran in the second adventure in "Purge the Unclean") but the don't have a permanent home there+ Fleet based chapters could always "pass through". Not necessarily "canon" but not beyond the realms of imagination Lynata According to the books, the "most elite and dedicated troops in the Calixis Sector" are 50 Adepta Sororitas Sisters of Battle under leadership of Palatine Rhiannon, who are accommodated in a lesser Order Famulous' abbey on Iocanthus. (page 302 of the Core Rulebook) Nash If you want you want is simply to have SMs from a chapter who have "a reason" to be in the Calixis Sector, then one of the 4 which participated to the Angevine Crusade would be the best shots (see the Dark Heresy Timeline pdf)... So, Black Templars, Sons of Medusa, Tigers Argent and Charnel Guard are the most likely to have "something to do" in the Calixis Sector http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/list/6726.page Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The great, big gospel.
Well, I've been stirred up these days as I continue to press through writing a book on social justice with Campbell Roberts. Campbell is a hero of mine - and as I'm reading more of his notes through I'm realizing why. You can't read much on Social Justice with Campbell without running smack into the very heart of the gospel. God's reign - is an infectious Kingdom that advances love, mercy and justice from the inside out... God doesn't just want the oppressed to be free - he wants the oppressor free as well... this concept is larger than our own ability to comprehend it - the gospel is a far greater power and truth than we could ever grasp.
Often I'm tempted to limit the gospel to what I think should happen. I want to bend my knee to tribalism or vengence but the Gospel doesn't allow me to. Jesus doesn't let me stoop to limited salvation - He opens wide His arms and stretches them out as they are nailed to the cross and says, 'father forgive them.. they know not what they do.' and there it is... the whole world redeemed through sacrifice... the curse broken, the oppressed free, the WAY OUT!
I want to live out that gospel... not the small one that I tuck inside my heart and make about my own comfort or personal well-being, but the LARGE one that stands for truth, love and salvation for the WHOLE WORLD. Now the question is how? How do we live out that great, big gospel. The world for God.
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Every summer we (staff, volunteers, resident participants) volunteer at Sunday Parkways!
This gigantic community event promotes healthy active living by opening the city's largest public space - its streets - to those who want to walk, bike, and roll!
As Intersection Superheros we are the most important volunteers at Sunday Parkways, helping neighbors who live directly on the route.
Plan to walk or roll the route yourself? Volunteer for the opposite shift!
Please join Team Giving Tree on one (or all!) of these dates:
May 21, 2017 Southeast Portland Sunday Parkways
June 25, 2017 North Portland Sunday Parkways
July 23, 2017 Northest Portland Sunday Parkways
Sept 24, 2017 Sellwood-Milwaukie Sunday Parkways
Spend the day outside!
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If I do want to use the light-background coloring when printing, should I then temporarily set the frame background to white, print and then switch back? If so how do I dynamically change the background of a window or frame from dark to light (white) and make the font-locking follow correctly as had I restarted emacs with a light background?
Maybe it works with a "theme" ... For example: create a new frame with the buffer or region to print, apply the theme, print, close the frame – and the theme hopefully does not change anything in the other frame(s)!
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I had a great time in Portland, Oregon.
I would say the 2006 O'Reilly Open Source Convention was an eye opener. I got a sampling of the different open source software, technologies and trends out there. A lot of people who have made use of open source in a creative way were present in the conference, whether it is extracting frameworks from their applications and making them open source or using open source software in a creative way.
Various issues (i.e., licensing issues, obstacles to contributing back to open source, etc.) also were made known via panels with representatives from various companies who users of open source like Yahoo!, Google, Six Apart, among others. Fledgling companies (i.e., Laszlo, Alfresco, Green Plum, Digium) which have made open source their business model were there to share their experiences and lessons they learned along the way.
Here are some tidbits of information I have gathered while listening to panels, tutorials and talks. Enjoy!
What does it mean to be open?
In today?s world, free hosted services are increasing in popularity. A sampling of them includes services like Flickr, Yahoo, and Google Mail / Search / Maps. For a lot of us, a lot of these services (i.e., Google Search / Maps / Flickr) have become a necessity. Hence to further open their systems, these hosted services are offering the public APIs with which to access their services. As a developer, you can access these free APIs, however, you don?t even get to see the code. So what does it mean for these services to be open? Is it enough to have APIs that ?magically? work and we treat as black boxes? Being open does not only mean exposing some APIs, it also means having ownership of your data. What happens if you change providers? Let?s say you want to move your pictures from Flickr to Zooomr?
Several movements are in the works like MoveMyData.
Data as the new Intel Inside
With many of the popular website services like Yahoo, Flickr, Delicious, Google, Craigslist, Amazon, Ebay, users are the one who are the key force in making the site the way it is. They contribute and share data. Their contributions form a community and make the website helpful for other people to use. There is this notion that data is the new Intel inside. Tim O?Reilly made a very good point that even if you had the source code of any of these websites, without the data you would not be able to create the same community. You?d be missing your friends in any one of these popular websites.
- Include Microformats
- Creative Commons
New Face of Open Source
Extracting frameworks from commercial products or using open source frameworks for commercial products
* Ruby on Rails
** Ruby based web application framework extracted from Basecamp.com.
* Django
** Pthyon based web application framework extracted from Lawrence.com newspaper site
* Seaside web application framework (SmallTalk)
** Used by DabbleDB
Web 2.0 ? trends under this realm:
* Mash-ups
** Websites that pull data from various sources (e.g., Google Maps, Yahoo)
** Checkout ProgrammableWeb
* Ning (www.ning.com)
** Program and create your own social web application online for free.
Open sourcing software (observations from Yahoo!, Google and Craigslist)
* Contributing to open source
** Blockers:
*** For some organizations like Yahoo! And Google, it is hard to contribute more to the open source community as their software is so specialized and may not be useful to anybody.
*** Making software open requires a lot of extra effort:
**** Cleaning up code:
***** Developers are often ashamed or embarrassed to share their code because of the state it is in. Hence, a lot of time has to be spent to clean it up.
**** Licensing:
***** Choosing a license and making sure the code to be open sourced contains no proprietary code in it takes a lot of extra effort.
** Benefits:
*** Builds the brand
**** Google and Yahoo builds brand recognition for contributing to open source
** Involves providing APIs
* Open source increases friction (due to moving architecture to the web)
** Have to mention license ? for license compliance
** 3kb / page view ? gigabytes per day (for Google)
* Data / Protocols
** Not really open source
* Page views per kilowatt-hour
** With thousands of computers, the price of power becomes an issue
Microsoft and Open Source
* port25.technet.com blog
* open xml / open document format ? found in sourceforge
** Documents created on new versions of Microsoft Office will be based on XML-based file formats.
** Previously documents were created on binary-based file formats
* windows installer ? sourceforge
** The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.
* Microsoft community license
** Sugar CRM is using this license
Asymmetric competition
* Companies with users who contribute content don?t need a lot of employees
** Craigslist is the 7th most trafficked site on the net but only has 19 employees as of 2005.
* user self-service
** getting users to the work for you (through an architecture of participation)
*** works for:
**** Craigslist ? users posts thousands of ads
**** Flickr ? users upload and share pictures
**** Del.icio.us ? users add and share bookmarks
**** Yahoo and Google Search ? mainly indexes web content by people and companies
**** Ebay ? users post auctions of products they want to sell
*** Use open source
**** For example – LAMP ? Linux, Apache, MySQL, Php / Perl
O?Reilly Open Source Radar
Companies featured here were identified by O?Reilly to be promising open source projects / communities and are ?on trend? with the big issues shaping the industry.
* Green Plum
** Business Intelligence / Data warehousing database
** Enhanced open source Postgres SQL database and made it scale by parallelizing work
* Hyperic
** Operations software
** Transformed from proprietary application to open-source
** Enable better support for new and emerging technologies via plug-ins
* Django
** Web application framework for content intensive sites like news sites
** Extracted from a solution for lawrence.com
* Mule Source
** Open Source ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
* Dabble DB
** Data organization web application that works like a spreadsheet
** Based on the open source Smalltalk Seaside web application framework
* Alfresco
** Enterprise Content management (implemented JSR-170)
** Uses open source technologies:
*** Spring
*** Hibernate
*** Lucene
*** MyFaces
*** Based on Aspect-Oriented Programming
* Asterisk
** Open source VoIP Server / PBX
* Ubuntu
** Linux for human beings
** Better and more friendly user interface
Firefox as a Platform ? Conversations with Mike Schroepfer ? VP Engineering for Mozilla
* Client-side session and persistent storage – DOM storage
** Coming out soon
* Javascript
** Increasing influence due to AJAX
** Releasing v1.7 of the language
Lessons from Open Source Businesses
Lesson #1 ? Success is not by association
Lesson #2 ? Friends are nice. Cash is critical. Make both.
Lesson #3 ? Think user community, not developer community.
* Don?t expect a lot of outside help
* You still need a core of dedicated developers to do 90% of the coding
Lesson #4 ? Documentation is worth a lot
* Support calls will go down if you have good documentation
Lesson #5 ? Price cannot be your primary value driver
* Va
lue/performance/innovation should be your sales drivers
* Shift the thinking from PRICE + innovation to INNOVATION + price
* Emphasis should be more on innovation
Lesson #6 ? Be permeable
* Be open, not closed.
Ultimately, open source is not about price, it is about quality.


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This is an update to our July 9th post. Now with video.
Things never seem to go as planned. A team of us from the hospice have been planning our annual Remembrance by the River for the last four months. We planned what flowers were to be used for the ceremony, arranged for musicians to come, organized the service, sent out invitations, and even coordinated what we were going to wear. And then I woke up Saturday morning to a sky full of rain clouds. It wasn't raining, but the threat was real. What were we going to do if the rain poured and washed out our outdoor event?
I arrived at the Chesapeake Finish Line Tower about an hour before the event. It wasn't raining, but I quickly saw we had another issue. The deck we were using for our ceremony was crowded with kayakers. I couldn't help but laugh because at last year's event there wasn't a cloud in the sky and there was also no one on the water. Last year it was as if the entire river was reserved for our ceremony. This year, however, it looked like the entire city of OKC came out to row in the rain.
As the service began at 9am the rain started on us. Fortunately, it never turned into anything more than a very light drizzle. During the service two thoughts kept coming to my mind. First was "uncertainty" and the other was "life".
All week long we were watching the weather and unsure as to whether we were going to have to cancel or move the event. We know some people missed the event because of that uncertainty. During the program I just thought "isn't this how life is? We can plan and plan and have everything laid out perfectly, but surprises always seem to show up." Those attending the event were there because of life's uncertainty. Plans had been made and then changed. And now here we were trying to wrap our minds around those unexpected changes.
So why was I thinking so much about life? This event was centered on one thing and that was to give space for hospice staff and the bereaved to pause and remember patients and loved ones. In the middle of this space life was happening all around us. The world did not stop because we were there to have this ceremony. People who wanted to enjoy the river still came to the river. People who wanted to row still came and rowed. I can't think of a better metaphor for what it feels like right after a loss than the army of kayakers doing their thing in the mist of our Remembrance. As much as it feels like the world has stopped spinning, it hasn't. Even though we want it to, it doesn't. But for me, coming together and reflecting with others like this helps me focus on life a bit more and helps me embrace some of the uncertainty that will undoubtedly come.


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While many Millennials face underemployment for the first few years after they graduate from college, there are some occupations in which bright young things with a year or two of experience can expect to earn $85,000 per year.
One of these is technology, of course. Another is the financial sector, where the doldrums induced by the post-crisis recession finally seem to be wearing off.
Recently, some of the biggest banks, such as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Morgan Stanley will increase the pay of junior bankers by 20% to 25%, beginning next year. Citigroup is also considering such a move.
How much is 20%?
A raise of 20% is huge for anyone, particularly for employees that have been on the job for only a short time. Using Goldman Sachs as an example, Bloomberg notes that first-year analysts can make anywhere from $70,000 to $90,000, which means that the lowest paid worker will soon be making closer to $85,000.
That raise affects only the employee's paycheck, which means that bonuses are extra. Although not as robust as they were before the financial crisis, many will receive fairly hefty bonus payouts as well, pushing total compensation well into six-figure territory.
Change is in the air
These compensatory changes come not only as banks begin to regain their own financial footing, but in response to several years of bad press regarding the treatment of its youngest employees.
This spring, big banks began to enforce weekends off for young interns, following a rash of deaths involving overworked newcomers in the previous few months.
Around the same time, Wall Street firms began to realize that the crop of newly minted business school graduates was thinning, making recruiting more difficult. A kinder, gentler financial employment climate was created, where time off and higher pay were two enticements offered to attract the best new talent.
There is good reason to worry: only 31% of Harvard graduates sought jobs on Wall Street over the past couple of years, compared to 47% right before the crisis. As banks licked their wounds in the aftermath, recruiting young talent was put on the back burner. Many Ivy League grads, who would otherwise have flocked to the financial sector, sought work elsewhere.
The new "job of the future"?
Where did those super-achievers go, if not to Wall Street?
Very likely, many went to work for large technology firms. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, financial analyst jobs generally require a bachelor's degree with coursework in similar areas as tech: statistics, mathematics, and engineering. This state of affairs has not gone unnoticed by the big banks, and they are working hard to rectify the situation.
Back in 2012, BLS reported the median pay for a financial analyst as $76,950, with the highest paid bringing home over $148,000 annually, while the lowest-paid made less than $47,000. Even two years ago, growth in this sector was predicted to be faster than average through 2022.
Moving forward, it's a no-brainer that both pay and job growth are set to escalate. For those with the chops to dive into a career with the fabled firms of Wall Street, the future has never looked brighter.


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i am hungry
i am yearning
i am wanting
an ice cold &
warm in my palm
simpler way
i want to turn the corner,
flip it over & ripen into
a cellular constellation
of trust, of knowing
it's going to be ok
it will be over soon
the last remains of winter are
parked in the spring lot
it's time to shed, shave,
shred the thick & bright rinds
i pick the card letting go
i light a candle
i lay here & listen to the
breath of my vulnerability
this is the beginning of the spring salad series!
i have been LOVING salads!
all combinations, concoctions, dressings and more!
jules go to dressing
rice vinegar
bit of salt
squeeze of sweet citrus
i pour a cap full of flax oil in the bowl
(before anyone gets in there)
then i pour a bit of rice vinegar
bring in the lettuces
add salt and squeeze citrus
whatever you love or have around
left over roast veggies, quinoa, rices
radishes, peas, herbs, cara cara oranges,
carrots, persian cucumbers, goat cheeses,
apples, beets, kales and more...
everything but the kitchen sink
you can follow more of this daily
love fest on instagram
as i discover quick bites on the run
in my every day busy life
love you beautiesxxxx
*flax seed oil*
super medicinal in it's omega fats
great for your skin, hair and nails
cold pressed oil not for heating


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"Studio Redesign" - In The Knerd/
If you follow me on Twitter (@ChrisTheProf), then you may have noticed all the pictures I've been posting up this past weekend. I was so excited when Ashley offered to help me remodel my "studio" -- the place where I do all my podcasting. The picture above shows what the area looked like as I started taking down all the equipment and clearing the place out. We had a couple of reasons for doing this: 1) Ashley could hear everything I said upstairs, so some soundproofing was needed and 2) all my equipment was stuffed onto one or two desks and I needed more space. All of this we accomplished using very simple means and without spending a lot of money.
I had some ideas on what kind of desk I wanted; but looking around I saw that in order to get that I was going to have to spend a decent amount of money. So Ashley came up with an idea of moving the 3 desks we already had in the basement into a "U-shape", which turned out even better than what I had originally wanted:
Here's what the room looked like at the end of the first day:
We decided to barricade off the room from the rest of the basement to improve the sound qualities of my shows, and to give the "studio" a new isolated feel. Here's what it looked like from the outside:
And here are some photos of the completed studio.
The lighting and tiny spaces made it hard to get a good picture, but I'm thinking about making a video soon about how I podcast and in which I'll show off the studio. I'm so excited about this room--it turned out so much better than I had expected. And not only is a great studio, its a great all around "Nerd Cave" for video gaming as well. And I'm not done-- I have so many plans for the room. I want to get prints and artwork from some of my favorite artists around the internet like Scott Johnson (http://www.myextralife.com) and James Kennison (http://www.youremockingmearentyou.com). Down the road a bit, I want to get a smaller TV to hang in the corner and move one of my gaming consoles in here as well. Its going to be so awesome!


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" … I'm going to ask you to SHIFT (Seeking His Information For Transformation) ;0) The enemy would want you to focus on what you lost to rob you of the joy of being thankful for another day. In all things give thanks! It's not option it's a command. Thanksgiving drives the enemy away because he can't stand praise. It is a weapon that allows the enemy to back up off you."
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Waterhouse inspires work not war
St Lucia Road, also called Studio Road, is filled with much history that cannot be learnt from just one visit.
It has a ton of information on many of the recorded favourites, including Cocoa Tea, Dennis Brown, Sizzla and Beenie Man, who have visited the area throughout the years. Based on the role that the community has played, all that's missing is a Waterhouse 'Walk of Fame'.
And, the community is still highly active despite the so-called 'war' happening between the various sections of Waterhouse, especially between Cuba and Moscow.
A view from the main road does not show any original road signs and visitors may get lost if they depend on Google Maps for directions, not because it lacks road names, but Waterhouse spans a big area bordered by Spanish Town Road and Washington Boulevard.
The roads were mostly empty, maybe due to the heavy downpour of rain, but as THE WEEKEND STAR turned on to St Lucia Road, a few residents could be seen outside Miss Muffet's Shop. Here, you can get a serving of done-to-order chicken and chips, hot dog and other knick-knacks, as well as choose from a wide beverage selection.
One resident, who goes by the name Nickiesha, blames the empty streets on war.
"The violence get so populated in our community," she said. "It get bad, out of proportion. It mek it look like a desert."
"The war you hear 'bout only start because the people mek peace then someone get killed, which breaks the peace," said Steve 'Z-Lord' Allen, a promoter of Nipplez Tuesdays.
But if that is the case, why do residents stay in Waterhouse?
"We kinda all right. Especially pon our road, we good. Music-wise, it always nice inna the community. That a di fun, but sometimes it just seems like the violence overshadows it," Nickiesha said.
Residents of St Lucia Road believe that Waterhouse community motto is 'Unity is Strength', and that the vibe will return to normal soon.
Ricky Famous, a selector in the area, has plans to inspire and build the unity by continuing the month-end under-14 sports competitions.
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He continued: "The community has good and bad people, but we are here trying to get everybody back on the same level."
For this reason as well, Z-Lord told THE WEEKEND STAR that "Nipplez Tuesdays, which usually keep at King Jammy's, stop keep; and it is something that usually attracts people far and wide.
"Still, people always come roun' like myself who, at first, travel from Mandeville to link King Jammy's to start a career in music, and instead, after caretaking at the studio, turn into a promoter," he added.


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So... Just because I made it through the Missouri River... and theoretically St Louis is at the confluence... does not mean it is a reasonable task to get from the Mo to the waterfront of St Louis. After 14 damns, I was about to meet my first set of Locks... and first Canal. This is mostly a picture post. It took me a full day to get from my make shift pier of sunken barges around St Louis to the waterfront.
The Confluence of The MO and the Miss. You can even tell that the Miss is so much more a commercial river even at this point. So many barges and boats on the Mississippi only trees and eagles on the Missouri.
The first thing you will see upon entering the Miss is that the whole of the river flows to the right... but this sign tells you that all boats must go left down this canal. On the right is what's called "Chain of Rocks." Basically the left overs of a dam. Of the people I talked to, it was about 50/50 if I could get down the chain of rocks with the Mermaid... I was kind of excited to go through a lock too... This is the last Lock on the Mississippi. So, I went down the canal into the lock.
Like... freaking 9 miles of canal...
Yep... Miles of still straight water.
Eventually you get to this lock at the end of it. I was a little nervous to be honest. It really feels like a place you shouldn't be with a little rowboat. Eventually the lock dude came out... said "Don't bother tying up..." Like it was a totally normal thing for me to be there.
And down we go.
Back into the Mississippi just north of St Louis. First time I see the Arch!
This bridge just north of downtown St Louis is absolutely the most beautiful bridge on the whole system. Iron and Concrete configured in a piece of architecture you could look at for hours and see new things the whole time.
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Thanks to everybody who came out for our mini-sessions on Sunday! Despite the forecast of thunderstorms, we had a beautiful overcast fall day - a photographer's dream! I'm SO glad we didn't have to reschedule again - last week was rained out and I didn't want to have to postpone again. It was so good to see all of you - some repeat clients, and some brand new! I am challenging myself to post one session here every day this week, so stay tuned for your images here, everybody's will be up soon.
My first session was with these three beautiful blonds. They each picked out their own outfits - I love how each of them has their own unique style - LOVE IT! They taught me all about American Girl dolls - somehow my 5 year old daughter hasn't been awakened to this phenomenon yet... Littlest [M] here was such a sprite - her faces crack me up!!! Thanks for coming out!


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We sell quality. Our craftsmanship is second to none, and our team is our greatest asset. Their background, passion, and commitment will make your interior design dream a reality. We offer guidance and knowledge from initial conception through to completion to leave you with an innovative and long lasting interior design.
We want to inspire you. The contrast of our work shows our creative vision, and we can guide you to the perfect design. The kitchen is the engine of the home, but we can also help make it the heart and the soul.
Design Interiors was officially founded on January 26th, 1987 when Michael was able to base his newly created kitchen company in Brighton based department store Hanningtons. This was the home of Design Interiors until Hanningtons closed down in 2001. They moved to their Hove showroom shortly after, and two years later opened another shop in Haywards Heath. 14 years down the line in 2017, Design Interiors still operates from these two locations.
I left school and worked for a local joinery company whilst doing an apprenticeship. It was from this young age that I discovered a love for interior design. I love building, and I love woodwork, and this is what inspired me to found Design Interiors. I have lived and worked across Europe, and this mix has helped me stay up-to-date and ahead of many design trends.
Interesting Fact: I once sailed 5000 km across the Atlantic from The Canary Islands to St. Lucia.
Lindsey Brett – PA to Managing Director
I met Michael while walking my dogs along the seafront, and we've been friends ever since! I have great experience and skill set in business development and have a great wealth of knowledge in sales, events, branding and marketing. There is such a high level of skill within Design Interiors, and I feel privileged being surrounded by such creative talent.
Interesting fact: I've travelled the world through my work, including Russia, Thailand, and Indonesia.
Noel FitzGerald – Designer
I have more than 30 years' experience in interior design, and I've been working at Design Interiors for 17 years. It's more like a family to me now, and seeing people happy is always a great feeling. I started working for Design interiors when Michael heard about my work and approached me to come and work with him. I've not looked back since.
Interesting fact: I love camping and often go on holidays with my wife and my dog to some beautiful UK locations.
Sharon Hartley – Designer
I moved to Sussex from the lake district 20 years ago, and I worked designing bespoke replica Georgian and Victorian furniture. I've been with Design Interiors for 12 years now, and variation is the key thing that I enjoy the most. Design Interiors offer so many different materials that each customer will walk away with something bespoke and unique, and I love helping them with that.
Interesting fact: I enjoy motorbiking and often visits different UK locations for mini breaks away. Recently I travelled through Europe on a motorbiking holiday with my husband.
Tim Brown – Designer
I've been working in professional design for 7 years now, and it all stems from my interest in sculpture and fine art. I feel accomplished in having installed nearly 700 bedrooms and 150 kitchens in my time. I love working at Design Interiors as design and installation is my passion. I get to bring my own skill set and creative license to each project, and I take pride in knowing that there's a little bit of me in every design we do.
Interesting fact: I recently restored and re built a vintage vespa.
I studied art & design for four years, and was originally a specialist in large-scale sculptures and installation art. Design is a real passion of mine, and I studied interior design at KLC. I've worked with some famous clients in the past and helped them achieve their dream interior design look. I take a huge amount of pride in seeing customers walk away happy.
Interesting fact: In my life as a sculptor, I made a piece that was commissioned by one of The Beatles.
Dottie Rogers - Head of security
I have worked at Design Interiors for 9 years. I started here when I was a tiny puppy, and I take pride in meeting and greeting everyone who comes to the showroom. You'll never catch me sleeping on the job! I love patrolling the shop and keeping an eye on who is coming and going.
Interesting fact: I sometimes assist Michael with on-site visits by surveying the properties, and especially the gardens!


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Kristen & David's wedding was set against the beautiful AppleFord estate located in Villanova, PA. If you cry easy, well, get your tissue box ready. These two are profoundly in love, and we were honored to be there to create their wedding film. Under a gorgeous late day sun, Kristen & David shared their heartfelt vows. We loved the handcrafted props for the recessional (wedding tip!) and the string lights at the reception provided such a wonderful glow for all of the action of this garden themed wedding.
INZI Wedding Films is a wedding videographer and cinematographer located in NJ, and servicing the New Jersey, Philadelphia, and NYC metro areas.


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Refleks was created in 1993, where the main goal was sport for disabled people and for that we had become members in Estonian Paraolympics and Estonian Unionof Sports fo the Disabled.
In a little time, our group has enlarged with people who are volunteers and want to be part in our doings, so now our group includes mothers who come to play with their babies, unemployed, youth and adults who have suffered violence, young mothers and single parents who's life hasn't been easy on them and children and youth with special needs – so our club is a place where anyone can find something for them.
We have made a tradition to play Santa Claus in winter to "Pääsupesa" children, for children and their parents in children's department in County hospital, which has been a nice suprise for them in last five years.
Our club members started coming together in 1989, when most of them were only children and have grown up. All this time, they have been supported and encouraged by the clubs's founder and president Anne.


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"The 21st Century Digital Writer" with Rainer Bantau and Kathryn McClatchy
Like stampeding elephants, technology is transforming 21st century writing. Join bloggers Rainer Bantau and Kathryn McClatchy for a lively, humorous discussion geared to helping you make your blog standout from the herd.
A Swiss-born German kid from East Texas, Rainer Bantau is living the La Vida Loco in Big D with his wife, Terri, and their furry, four-legged menagerie. Businessman, restaurateur, minister, and Netflix addict, Rainer began writing digitally in 2008. He writes articles for LinkedIn, My Trending Stories, and produces content for The Devotional Guy.
After numerous strokes, Kathryn McClatchy started a new chapter in her life in 2010. Utilizing her previous career experiences in Newspaper, Marketing, Coaching, and Teaching, Kathryn is now coaching writers, teaching workshops, writing mysteries, and enjoying life with her husband, Steve, and service dog, Gizmo. Kathryn has been writing digitally, both personally and professionally, since 2003. You can learn more about her and Gizmo at Unleashing the Next Chapter.
The Writers Guild of Texas presents Guest Speaker / Program meetings on the 3rd Monday of each month in the Basement Program room of the Richardson Public Library. Visitors are welcome to attend.


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Digital Trends
I am a contributing writer for Social Media & Web on Digital Trends. You can see all of my articles here, but here are a few examples of my long-form pieces:
The world of sports has clearly been able to turn metrics into measurable, real-world predictions … so why shouldn't it work for other markets as well? Why not use math to see into music's immediate future? It's happening. Thanks to the rise of online music consumption and the use of social media to discuss musicians, we have a clearer window into music consumption than ever before. Artists looking to break through to mainstream success may need to look no further than the numbers to chart their way to the top. But the question remains: Can something as personal and abstract as music be based on metrics, or does fate still have a hand in it all?
Read the whole article here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/the-beauty-of-data-in-music-discovery-how-to-use-it-to-find-the-next-music-sensation
It's no secret that social media has boosted our desire to make known our every opinion, because these networks give us a voice to broadcast what we love, and what we hate. Or as the case may more often be, who we hate. And celebrities have become the target of so much of our online ire.
But is "celebrihating" really okay? Does that fact that stars have put themselves in the public eye mean it's acceptable for us to tear them new ones on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook?
Read the whole article here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/celebrity-hate-yet-another-social-media-behavior-that-is-completely-out-of-control
You wake up feeling a slight tickle in your throat. You try and shake it off and drink lots of water. After a few hours, it's still there. Instead of calling your mom or making a doctor appointment, you head to the Internet. Today, anyone with a computer and a connection can get online and find a variety of results, ranging from simple sore throat to the more serious, like bronchitis and asthma.
But just because we can doesn't mean we should. In a world where almost everyone is online and can easily find and provide medical solace, is it really, truly a good idea to consider social media and the Web a reliable source of healthcare?
How the Internet & social media are changing healthcare via @digitaltrends: bit.ly/11pasB6— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) April 18, 2013
Read the whole article here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/the-internet-and-healthcare


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Opaline S.r.l., with registered office in Milan, Via Savona 19/tax code and VAT number 08065070966 registered at the Milan Companies House (hereinafter "Opaline") owns and runs the website www.opalineworld.com (hereinafter the "Website") for the online sale of products under the trademark Opaline ® (hereinafter the "Products").
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In the event that the Customer does not agree, in whole or in part, with these Terms and Conditions, please refrain from placing any order and from using the Website.
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Customers shall not use or communicate false or misleading information during the registration procedure and in any further communication with Opaline. Customer are therefore solely responsible for the truthfulness and correctness of the information and data provided to Opaline and undertakes to communicate any related changes to the information or data provided. Customers declare to be at least of 18 years of age.
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Opaline offers through its website offers the sale of high quality Products. Each Product sold through the Web Site is accompanied by an accurate and detailed description of its essential qualities. Opaline does not guarantee that the images and colors of the Products correspond exactly to the actual ones, as they may be modified depending on the type of monitor or internet browser used by Customers.
Customers who intend to purchase the Products will have to follow the instructions on the Web Site by placing an invitation to offer according to art. 1326 of the Italian Civil Code. The contract is concluded at the headquarters of Opaline in Via Savona 19/A, Milan Italy.
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Suuri avaruuspako
(The Great Space Escape)
Format: Board game
Role: Concept/story/copywriting
Website: BoardGameGeek
Suuri avaruuspako (The Great Space Escape) is a board game for 2 to 5 players created in a 25-hour event organized by the Helsinki Library as an experiment in crowdsourcing with the goal of producing a new game for the expanding library collection of board games. In the event, the three dozen participants all collaborated in an ideation session, and were then organized into three areas of responsibility: concept and story, game mechanics, and visual design.
In the concept and story team we were excited about the space race and a retro-futuristic aesthetic that would fit a reimagined cold war where different global superpowers try to scramble their own space programs to escape an inevitable global annihilation. This idea was matched by a card-based resource management game mechanic and a cartoonish visual identity of faded pastel colors.
In the game, players take the roles of global superpowers which have different resource advantages, headed by different character archetypes who can use their special powers to influence the flow of the game. As the players use their resources for more and more advanced space ship parts, they must also try to find out the four launch requirements, which determine how advanced each component must be in order to survive the launch. Finally, to add to the sense of impending doom, each turn begins with drawing an event card which details a turn of events inspired by the history of the cold war. Each event card is accompanied by a quote or a piece of historical cold war trivia, and if the event cards run out, none of the players manage to escape!


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It's finals week. My initial reaction is to cringe. Forget that some classes effectively differentiate on this one exam. Forget that the reward of an entire quarter's worth of effort may hinge upon a couple hours. Heck, you can even forget the fact that you'll be studying ridiculous amounts of time just to combat the cascading effects of relative grading. I think I cringe because I won't be in class learning interesting ideas and working with some of the best friends I've come to know and respect.
Take, for instance, my financial statement analysis class; group work was a considerable portion of the curriculum. Besides learning a great deal about how financial analysts approach stock valuation (fascinating stuff, in my opinion), I was able to learn with some of the best minds the accounting program attracted this year. I cannot say enough to express how impressed and lucky I was to work with them. Professor Van Buskirk truly wants students to understand the material and it's reflected in his actions and teaching style. Finally, the multifarious backgrounds of the students in the class (accountants were in the minority) added value and insight to the study. I will genuinely miss the dividends I receive from my undoubtedly meager contributions to this class.
For those of you who are future MAcc buckeyes, you will no doubt have the pleasure of getting to learn from Professor Arya in his required (rightfully so) accounting foundations class. I'm sure most share my sentiments when I state that the class expands the student's understanding to new horizons. The class also involves a good deal of group work and I was able to once again glean far more than I could impart. My group members were reliable and always had a spring in their step.
Finals week takes that away. My greatest consolation is that after a week of (spring) breaking, I will have the opportunity to do it all over again. Here's to wishful thinking!


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Multnomah Friends IMIrJ Sanctuary Cohort is sponsoring a "clothing sort" on behalf of the Friends of Seasonal and Service Workers (FSSW). FSSW is an all-volunteer organization that is "dedicated to materially assisting seasonal, farm and service workers struggling for collective solutions to their poverty conditions through their own independent, community–backed organizing efforts."
FSSW receives many boxes of donated clothing from Columbia Sportswear, which need to be sorted and labeled for a back-to-school distribution in Washington County.
We need many volunteers to make this a success. FSSW folks will train us in specific sorting procedures. Ideally, volunteers will spend the entire afternoon in this effort, but we realize that is not possible for all, so 2-hour shifts can be accommodated. Middle and high school students are welcome to participate.
Please RSVP to Ann Dudley, firstname.lastname@example.com or 503-736-9331. Let Ann know if you can commit to the entire afternoon, the 1:00-3:00 pm shift, or the 3:00-5:00 pm shift. Thank you!


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This meetup's meant for current and future users of 3D printers, as a chance to share knowledge and tips. There's no admission. Definitely bring any projects or creations you'd like to share.
We'll start with a few 5 minute presentations by some local users:
* "My Path to 3D Printing and Lessons Learned" by Zachary Sherman
* "Minecraft and 3D Printing" by Eric Haines
* "Local Recycled Filament" by Adam Proctor, aka Atom Jaay
[We're hoping to also get Formlabs to give a quick talk or demo about whatever their big announcement is: http://formlabs.com/stories/big-news/, but of course I won't know what it is until September 22.]
These will be followed by any informal announcements anyone would like to make: describing a project, asking for help, letting people know of a great resource.
We then break up for socializing and demos, with snacks (none 3D printed, yet) and sodas.
7 pm - arrive
7:15 - talks and announcements
7:45 - let the schmoozing and demos commence!
8:00 - optional Artisan's Asylum tour; worthwhile if you've never been here before
9:00 - time to leave and do great things
See http://artisansasylum.com/directions/ for directions and parking. You can park for free in the Dane Street lot.
By the way, Artisan's Asylum has just begun a Fall Speaker Series; give it a look here: https://artisansasylum.com/speaker-series/


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In 'Whose Body' published a year before Lindberg's record-breaking flight, Lord Peter flies as a passenger across the Atlantic with vital information to save his elder brother from being hanged for murder. Other novels tackle the plight of men shell-shocked in the war, the role of advertising in the modern world and most importantly the education of women and their place in society. Harriet refuses to marry Lord Peter because she owes him her life, she's scrupulously moral and she's an independent woman. She's loth to abandon that status even for the man she loves and a title. It is only in 'Gaudy Night' – my favourite of the novels that they eventually get engaged. Dorothy Sayers manages to tease us with the sexual tension between the two of them for several of the books.
Sayers herself was a pioneer in a number of respects. She was one of the first women to be educated to degree level at Oxford – although she couldn't collect her degree until five years after graduating. She was an exact contemporary of Vera Brittain and bears some resemblance to Sarah Burton the independent minded heroine of the novel 'South Riding' by her other contemporary Winifred Holtby. When Sayers worked for Blackwell's in Oxford, her boss likened her to 'a race horse drawing a cart' meaning her talents were wasted there, although it's an unfortunate comparison. Certainly her intellect was formidable and she didn't hide it.
Somewhat unusually for a vicar's daughter from Hertfordshire, Sayers had a number of lovers before she was married. In 1924 she gave birth to an illegitimate baby and arranged for him to be brought up by a cousin who did genteel fostering. The existence of her son John was the big secret of her life and although she told her husband when she later married she never revealed the truth to her parents.
She had a formidable appetite for work both in her writing – detective stories, translations, plays, journalism and poetry, and at the time she was in paid employment - with the advertising agency S. H Benson, where she was responsible for the famous toucan in the early Guinness advertisements.
I can't resist the final scene in 'Gaudy Night'
She stood still: and he stopped perforce and turned towards her. She laid both hands upon the fronts of his gown, looking into his face while she searched for the word that should carry her over the last difficult breach.
It was he who found it for her. With a gesture of submission he bared his head and stood gravely, the square cap dangling in his hand.
'Placet magistra?'
I know it's not to everyone's taste but that makes my toes curl (in a good way).
I've made a sweet omelette, something deeply, deeply unfashionable these days. It was the means by which Harriet's lover was poisoned in 'Strong Poison' but Lord Peter of course proves her innocence . The Wimsey novels are a bit dated in a fictional detective world now characterised by the likes of Lisbeth Salander, but they are well written and intelligently plotted. Give them a go if you haven't already.
Sweet Omelette
Per person
Two eggs, strawberry jam, icing sugar, butter.
Separate the eggs and whisk the whites until stiff peaks are formed. Beat the yolks and fold together. Heat the pan until really hot and drop in a knob of butter, when it has melted but before it is brown, tip in the egg mixture and turn down the heat. Leave it to cook gently - you can flash it under a hot grill if you wish. When the omelette is almost cooked, drop on a good dessertspoon of jam. Fold the omelette over and serve on a hot plate, sprinkle with icing sugar. Eat immediately. Do not add arsenic.
'Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust
And thou, my mind aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust,
Whatever fades, but fading pleasures brings.'
By Sir Philip Sydney (1554-1586) Chapter XI heading 'Gaudy Night'.