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- A $68 million penthouse in Miami could shatter the state's real-estate record.
- The real-estate record in Florida was set by the sale of a $60 million penthouse in 2015, according to The Wall Street Journal.
- The penthouse at Eighty Seven Park will have more than 18,000 square feet of outdoor space, including two infinity pools.
A penthouse in Miami is set to shatter the state's real-estate record.
The penthouse at Eighty Seven Park is 25,000 square feet and was designed to offer the resident 360-degree park, city, and ocean views. The building is located in North Beach and is, according to a press release, 80% sold.
Read more: An $82 million penthouse apartment in NYC's tallest residential building offers 360-degree views of Central Park and the city —but nobody wants to buy it
According to The Wall Street Journal, the real-estate record in Miami is held by a $60 million penthouse in Miami's Faena House condo complex, which hedge-fund exec Ken Griffin purchased in 2015.
If it sells at the asking price of $68 million, the penthouse will join the ranks of other real-estate listings that could set local records, including a $20 million penthouse in Brooklyn and a $45 million San Francisco complex that straddles two hillside lots.
According to the Journal, construction on the building is underway and is expected to be complete by the third quarter of 2019.
Until then, here's a look at some renderings that reveal what the inside of the penthouse will look like:
The building is under construction and, according to a WSJ report, is set to be completed by the third quarter of 2019.
The unfinished building's penthouse, which will be listed at $68 million, is already poised to shatter Florida's real-estate record, which was set by the sale of a $60 million penthouse in 2015.
The penthouse was designed by architect Renzo Piano, who has designed iconic buildings such as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
The apartment complex is about an hour's drive north of the most expensive zip code in Florida, Fisher Island, a 126-acre man-made island that's considered the most millionaire-dense zip code in America.
Source: Google Maps, Business Insider
Eighty Seven Park's location is both part of its appeal and part of its problem: It offers sweeping views of the ocean, but it's also less than 30 minutes outside of Miami Beach, one of the many American cities experts predict could be underwater by 2060 because of rising ocean levels.
Source: Business Insider


text: They say "seeing is believing". We trust our senses tell us what is real.Likewise "hearing is understanding". Our ears can tell us what is real also. So you just have to listen this interview by Molly Kieran! If you do, you will understand what our quest for Wilderness is all about. But, don't take our word for it – listen, for yourself. Click in the icon below to hear this interview, and enjoy!

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- Publisher: Mike Bithell
- Release Date: May 22, 2018
- Also On: Switch
- Summary: First, do no harm. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular comes another experimental short, the next mutation in text-based adventure. In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching.
- Developer: Mike Bithell
- Genre(s): Adventure, Text
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
Positive: 3 out of 7
Mixed: 4 out of 7
Negative: 0 out of 7
May 23, 2018Quarantine Circular is another brilliantly written game that will have you taking up different mind sets to get through it. It is at times charming, upsetting and inspiring and will have you playing it through to it's conclusion in one sitting without you realising.
Sep 10, 2018It is a beautifully crafted game and, at $5.99 USD (current $4.79 to celebrate its release), is well worth every cent. It presents a compelling scenario for thought, infectious to the last moment.
May 25, 2018There are a few issues like the disconnect between the player and the characters or the omission of any challenge, but the story and the way it is told is done exceptionally well. Quarantine Circular is worth every minute of your time.
May 22, 2018Quarantine Circular, while lacking the same focus as Subsurface Circular, is another engaging untangling of science fiction concepts with interesting characters, and it leaves you waiting for the next instalment.
Edge MagazineJun 21, 2018An absorbing reminder of the power of words and how we wield them. [Aug 2018, p.114]
May 29, 2018Quarantine Circular is a mostly well-written sci-fi tale that doesn't succumb to tired tropes or obvious plot contrivances to draw you in. Instead it uses its limited working space to deliver a captivating tale about human nature and our theoretical place within the universe.
games(TM)Jul 14, 2018An engaging, if brief, narrative adventure. [July 2018, p.84]
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"We have worked with WES for over 20 years as they are reliable and always do a first-rate job. No matter how difficult the project is, WES will always go the extra mile to get the job done to the client's complete satisfaction."
Jonathan Stevens, Managing Director, Rudgard City (Builders)
Dara Khera, Managing Director, Work Ltd. (Builder)
"WES have completed various projects of size and complexity for Overbury for the past 15 years. They are able to transfer the project requirements to the construction process professionally and with ease. This is down to the quality of the people who work for WES, from the guys on the site to the office based team who produce all the details for sign off. The fact that WES have worked continually for Overbury for 15 years is an indication that they are always commercially competitive and come highly recommended."
John Penny, Senior Project Manager, Overbury (Builder)
"MountAnvil have worked successfully with WES for the past 6 years. WES are always very professional and deliver to a high standard. A pleasure to work with."
Daniel Morgan, Senior Surveyor, MountAnvil (Builder)


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Structures I
The Structures I exhibition is drawn from a broad body of work by Rowe that explores the structural, expressive, alchemical and chemical qualities of clay.
Early works in this body of work were generated from a series of late-night experiments with clay left over from Rowe's ceramic production techniques. The pieces maintain this open-ness to the freedom of the creative process.
Clay is rolled flat into thick slabs, and hand carved into a series of abstract forms without planning or repetition; each piece is a one-off object and a reflection of a moment in time. The surface glaze treatments are all developed by Rowe to enhance the tonal dialogue with the form. The work is positioned interdependently between the creative disciplines of art, design, architecture and ceramics.
Structures I was exhibited with Hub Furniture in Sydney and Melbourne in May 2016
Photography: Lisa Cohen Photography


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Dashboards - Quality Clouds for ServiceNow
Dashboards display the results of Quality Clouds scans. They present the values for different metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which allow Quality Clouds customers to measure, manage and govern the quality of their SaaS deployments.
For ServiceNow instances, Quality Clouds displays the results of the scans in the following dashboards:
Executive dashboard
This is an executive dashboard, the aim is to give at first sight the quality status of the platform with the Quality Clouds for ServiceNow KPIs.
The dashboard covers the following metrics:
- General: Details of the scan (scan date, target instance).
Total Issues: Total number of issues, excluding warning severity.
- The trend of the number of issues is shown below the number of issues for the currently selected scan
- The number of written-off issues is show below the the number of issues for the currently selected scan
QC Technical debt: KPI that provides an estimate in hours of the development effort needed to solve the issues/violations detected in the platform.
Quality of Cloud (QoC): Health indicator that starts with 100% quality and then it subtracts different % quantities depending on the number of severity issues high / medium / low, the number of SaaS releases behind the last one published by ServiceNow, the number of issues affecting the core functionality, etc. Healthy instances are those ones between 80% and 100% of this indicator.
The trend of the Quality of Cloud is shown below the dial which shows the value of the indicator for the currently selected scan
Total Warnings: Total number of issues detected on an inactive configuration item, or in a commented block of code. Note: warnings do not affect the Technical Debt or Quality of Cloud indicators.
Configuration Elements (CE): An element of configuration in code or a configuration setting. There is an export option available with a full list of issues in a .csv file.
Lines of code scanned: Lines of source code measurement.
Ratios of CEs with issues: Percentage relationship between Configuration Elements with the total number of issues.
The Executive dashboard cover the metrics for apps with issues and affected area (scalability, upgradeability, security, performance, maintainability, manageability). In the below image, notice the numbers in green colour within each widget. These are the results of the average of all the scans in the last quarter, excluding the most and least configured instances (i.e, the extremes).
Application overview dashboard
The app overview dashboard is aimed to provide insights about the quality for each application developed/configured in ServiceNow.
To do that, it covers the following metrics:
- General: Details of the scan (scan date, target instance)
- Total Issues (no Data Privacy): Total number of issues, excluding warning severity.
- Total Technical debt: KPI that provides the number of hours of the development effort needed to solve the issues/violations detected in the platform.
- Quality of Cloud (QoC): Health indicator that starts with 100% quality and then it subtracts different % quantities depending on the number of severity issues high / medium / low, the number of SaaS releases behind the last one published by ServiceNow, the number of issues affecting the core functionality, etc. Healthy instances are those ones between 80% and 100% of this indicator.
- Issues & warnings in selected apps: Total number of issues and warnings detected on an inactive configuration item, or in a commented block of code.
- Warning: When an issue is detected on an inactive configuration item, or in a commented block of code it is considered a Warning. Find below the list of some of the issues raised with severity level 'Warning':
- Any issue of severity High, Medium or Low while detected on an inactive configuration item
- Any issue of severity High, Medium or Low while detected in a commented out line of code
- Warning: When an issue is detected on an inactive configuration item, or in a commented block of code it is considered a Warning. Find below the list of some of the issues raised with severity level 'Warning':
- Configuration of selected apps: List of Configured Elements. Note that all all configured elements are listed, only the ones that are most important and the ones that contain code.
Please find below a drill down by app of some of the additional metrics you can view:
- Number of issues of the app
- Technical debt of the app
- QoC (Quality of Cloud) of the app
- Variation of issues of the app since the last scan
- Number of Configuration Elements (CE) for the app: Configuration Elements are business rules, client scripts, dictionary entries, dictionary entries overrides, email notifications, UI actions, access controls, UI policies and data policies.
- Classification of issues by type
Classification of issues by severity
Classification of issues by impacted area
Detailed list of the issues with information of the SysId to link to the issue in ServiceNow
Instance profiling dashboard
High-level profile view of your instance, which includes all the relevant aggregated KPIs.
The KPIs included in this dashboard are:
- Quality of cloud
- Lines of code scanned - This includes the lines in all the added or modified configuration elements.
- Lines of code in inactive configuration elements are also reported (for scans after November 2018).
- New lines of code - This includes the lines only on configuration elements which have been added to the instance. Modified OOTB elements are not included in this count.
- Lines of code in configuration elements which have been added to the instance, but are marked as inactive, are also reported (for scans after November 2018).
- Configuration elements
- OOTB elements modified
- Number of issues
- Number of warnings
- Information items
- 3 most configured apps
Most configured areas dashboard
When defining the testing strategy or understanding where the effort has been placed, this dashboard gives insights on this topic. It shows the number of configuration elements added or modified by application. It also helps companies to understand where they need more resources and which sort of them (e.g. if we see change management quite configured, we might need SMEs on that area) or which applications might need more maintenance work.
Time machine (evolution dashboard)
A Time Machine report shows the evolution of the quality in the platform.
In this dashboard you can find the following metrics:
- Details of the scan (date, target instance)
Overall summary of tech debt, total number of issues and overall QoC
Evolution of the technical debt over time
Evolution of the QoC over time
Evolution of new functionality over time (new configurations added/deleted)
Evolution of issues dashboard
A report that shows the evolution of the quality in the platform viewed by the number of issues.
In this dashboard you can find the following metrics:
- Details of the scan (date, target instance)
Overall summary of tech debt, total number of issues and overall QoC
Issues introduced over time - it can be drilled-down by app or groups of apps
Team dashboard
The team dashboard is your existing data classified by developers or teams of developers. There are three main tables with an amplitude of information:
- List of items to review by ''Modified by'': a table with information about the developer(s) engagement with each issue type.
- Configuration Elements by type & created by: a table with a list of the developer(s) issued by CE type.
- Configuration Elements created / modified per developer: a filtered table with in-depth information filtered by developer(s).
- Number of Configuration Elements created per Developer (Productivity pie)
- Configuration Elements created over time (timeline)
Code monitor dashboard
The code monitor dashboard is a parallel rendering of two instances. The aim for this dashboard is to draw a comparison between two instances. There is an option to export the data as a .csv file.
Compare issues between scans dashboard
This report allows the comparison of findings across different scans. In successive scans, this dashboard is useful to easily comprehend which areas and best practices have been solved (or where issues have increased).
In this dashboard you can find the following metrics:
- Details of the scan (date, target instance)
Overall summary of tech debt, total number of issues and overall QoC
When selecting two or more dates and the best practices, it shows the graphic with the comparison (issues by type and dates)
Multiple instances comparison dashboard
The multiple instances comparison dashboard for ServiceNow is the perfect command and control panel to ensure that your instances are aligned. This is the ideal tool for a release manager who wishes to manage multiple instances. It contains also information about the configuration elements added into each instance as well as the number of integrations for each of them.
To understand the meaning of each metric, go to the section above about the Application overview dashboard.
Upgradeability dashboard
The upgradeability dashboard is particularly useful to avoid problems during ServiceNow version upgrades. The dashboard shows a list of all Out of the Box elements which have been modified in your instance. These configuration elements may be affected in a future upgrade, in which case it will be necessary to manually review them, and decide on the appropriate action.
By monitoring the information displayed on this dashboard, you can question the need to modify an Out of the Box element as soon as such a modification is performed, rather than having to wait a few months until the next upgrade cycle.
The dashboard is made up of three sections:
This section summarises the number of OOTB modifications detected in the instance. As of Quality Clouds release 22.214.171.124 (September 2018), it also shows how many of the detected OOTB changes will be affected by the Kingston to London upgrade. These should be investigated as priority as they are certain to generate Skipped records when the upgrade is performed.
List of detected Out of the Box changes
This list shows the details of the Out of the Box Configuration Elements which have been modified in the instance. It is possible to filter the list by Configuration Element Type and by the user id of the developer who last modified the Configuration Element.
List of Configuration Elements affected in upcoming upgrades
This list shows the OOTB modifications which will be affected in upcoming upgrades. Note that this list is based on a ServiceNow instance with the following plugins installed. So you may see some skipped records in your instance if it includes plugins not in the above list. Also, Configuration Element types not included in a scan will not be highlighted in this list, but they should be or priority 3 or below, since all the code Configuration Elements are included.
The list contains the following columns:
CE Type: The configuration Element type.
Application: The Service Now plugin which is associated with the Configuration Element.
- CE Name: The name of the Configuration Element.
- Updated By: The id of the developer who last modified the Configuration Element.
- Updated On: The date and time at which the Configuration Element was last modified.
- Update Action: The action which will be performed by the Upgrade. Normally this will be either Update, Delete, or Revert.
- CE Upgrade Priority: The priority which ServiceNow assigns to the change, with 1 being the highest priority and 5 being lowest. This link describes the criteria which ServiceNow use to assign the Upgrade priority based on the Configuration Element Type.
Integrations dashboard
This report lists the web services defined in your instance with the date and developer. It can be used to do housekeeping as well as to understand the configuration when we want to compare with other instances. It contains all SOAP and REST messages defined in the platform.
- SOAP message: Simple Object Access Protocol. It is an XML-based messaging protocol for exchanging information among computers.
- REST message: REST Web Services make use of HTTP protocols as a medium of communication between client and server.
Best Practices analysis dashboard
This dashboard provides you with a comprehensive list of violations by type, which can be filtered by 4 levels of severity issues, Impact Area and specific Best Practices.
Click on an individual Best Practice to display a detailed description of the impact and the recommended actions you should take to fix the issue.
Application Governance dashboard
The Application Governance dashboard monitors the information for every individual set of applications.
Some of the definitions for key metric categories can be appreciated here:
New LoC analyzed: New lines of code are the lines of code added to the instance without considering any OOB (out-of-the-box) changes. The comparison is according to the scan date selected in the box above.
Global scope: this category is the result of scan instance(s) that doesn't apply to a single application.
The different categories of applications listed provide you information about the number of CE and LoC analyzed.
In the Select app section of the dashboard, you can filter through the different applications and view the CE types in a table. Additional information with a list of CEs can be viewed in the last table with an option to export files in .csv format.
Performance dashboard
The performance dashboard aggregates information about the performance related issues in the code together with slow transactions in server and client side. It is used to pin point issues by using static code analysis and data from the ServiceNow transaction tables. The Client Slow transactions is the dataset of 1 month transactions that took longer than 1 second to complete.
Data Privacy dashboard
Area of impact
Affected element
Covered by Quality Clouds
Covered by free scan utility
|Possible PII usage in configuration element
|All CE types
|Only for clients with GDPR add-on enabled
|Possible extra-sensitive PII usage in configuration element
|All CE types
|Only for clients with GDPR add-on enabled
|Possible use of private data
|All CE types
The data privacy dashboard can provide an assemblage of collected or processed personal data for use. In the Data Privacy dashboard you can view the ServiceNow application and view the Affected Element Name by browsing through the following table:
The categories in the table are defined in the following sections:
- ServiceNow Application: List of applications with the issues raised. The applications are any of the functions (communication and movement of data) between the platform and external applications, data sources, and/or services.
- Affected Element Name: A conflicting code factor that is a single part of the application.
- Line Number: Number of the line that you can view the affected element.
- Link to Element: URL linking to the issue.
- Best Practice: Useful principle of recommendations to solve the issue(s).
- Configuration Element Type: Displays of the result of completed scans in your instance by type.
The Data Privacy dashboard covers the following metrics:
- Analysis date: Date of the last systematic examination and evaluation of data or information.
- Lines of code analyzed: Lines of source code measurement evaluated.
- New lines of code: The recent number of new lines of source code measurement.
- CE analyzed: Number of Configuration Elements (CE) evaluated. Configuration Elements are business rules, client scripts, dictionary entries, dictionary entries overrides, email notifications, UI actions, access controls, UI policies and data policies.
- Potential number of PII data: The total number of viable use of PII or Personally Identifiable Information. PII is data that can be used to contact, identify or locate a specific individual, either by itself or combined with other sources that are easily accessed.
Below is a list of PII that can be used to create one rule set for each line in the table:
List of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Field names to look for
PII Type
1 Taxpayer Identification Number (Social Security Number) SSS; social number; taxpayer; security number; Sensitive data 2 Citizenship Number National ID numbers ; Social security number ;ID Number; passport; passport number; IDNumber; Sensitive data 3 Addresses home; address; ZIP code; Post code; Sensitive data 4 Home Phone Phone number; land line; Sensitive data 5 Mobile Phone mobile number; mobile; Sensitive data 6 email; email address; Sensitive data 7
Date of birth
Date of birth; birth date; Sensitive data 8 Place of Birth birthplace; birth place; Sensitive data 9
Business telephone number
Sensitive data 10
Extra-sensitive data 11 Religion Extra-sensitive data 12 Ethnicity Ethnicity Extra-sensitive data 13 Gender gender; males female Extra-sensitive data 14 Visa permits number Visa; visa permit; Extra-sensitive data 15 Driver's license number Driver license; driver licence Sensitive data 16
Vehicle registration plate number
Sensitive data 17
Disability information
disability Extra-sensitive data 18
Sexual orientation
sexual orientation; sex; sexual; Extra-sensitive data 19
Education and employment history
education history; employment history; Sensitive data 20
salary Extra-sensitive data 21
Job position / title
job title; job position; Sensitive data 22 Photos personal picture; photo Sensitive data 23 Political and religious leanings and affiliation religion; politics; politic; political party; Sensitive data 24 Insurance details insurance number; Sensitive data 25 Medical information medical record; medical status; health status; health Extra-sensitive data 26 Criminal record criminal record; criminal data; Extra-sensitive data 27 Credit score / record credit score; credit information; credit card; account number; bank number; Extra-sensitive data 28 Mother maiden name mother maiden name; mother name Sensitive data
The languages covered are English, French, Spanish and German. These tables have the option to export in .csv file.
- Potential use of private data: This is the viable use of information that are not made available to the general public, such as passwords and financial account details. Traffic is kept secure by carving out a virtual private data network with addressing, encryption and authentication features.
- Severity issues: Several topics may trigger severity issues in the calculation (results) of the Quality of Cloud indicator. The different levels of severity issues are calculated on the global count of issues associated with each scan. For more information please click on the URL link about the different levels of severity and what some of the causes may be here.
Catalog Overview dashboard
The Catalog Overview dashboard provides an overview of all the Catalogs configured in the ServiceNow instance. All the main Configuration Element types and issues related to Catalog elements are included in this dashboard.
The main indicators in this dashboard include:
Aggregate Indicators
- Number of Active and Inactive Catalogs.
- Number of Active and Inactive Catalog Items, including a breakdown of items created from the Item Designer tool.
- Number of Active and Inactive Catalog Categories.
- Number of Variables and Variable Sets.
Catalog Item Type Breakdown
A breakdown of all Items by Catalog and Item type is also provided, including again the number of items created from the Item Designer tool. Note: Any Item which is not associated with a Catalog is listed under the "Orphaned Items Catalog", and should be investigated.
Code Element Type Breakdown
The Catalog-specific code elements (Catalog Client Scripts, Catalog UI Policies, Catalog UI Policy Actions, Record Producers and Workflows) are also highlighted in the Overview Dashboard.
Duplicate Variables
Catalog Variables whose names match or are similar are shown, grouped by the first member of the group (using a lexicographic sort on the variable name). Many groups, or groups with a lot of members, indicate that some refactoring could be beneficial, using Catalog Variable Sets.
Any issue detected on a Catalog-specific Configuration Element is also shown in this dashboard.
Catalog Details dashboard
The Catalog Details dashboard provides a detailed view of each of the Catalogs configured in the ServiceNow instance.
The main indicators in this dashboard include:
Maximum Category Depth. This indicates the number of nested Categories present in the selected Catalog. A depth higher than 3 does not contribute to a good user experience, and is highlighted in red.
Catalog Categories. For the selected Catalog, all its categories are shown, including their parent category, and the number of active / inactive items in each category. The use of Item Designer items is also highlighted.
Catalog Items. Each item in the selected Catalog is shown individually. A link is provided so that the definition of the Item can be accessed on the ServiceNow instance.
Cumulative number of Items. This chart shows the cumulative number of items in the selected Catalog, over time.
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Charles Busch's latest work of rarefied lunacy takes comic aim at Hollywood's depiction of nuns. The set of St. Veronica's, cheaply yet inventively designed by B.T. Whitehill, looks like a shoestring high school effort, with sponges standing in for bricks on the pillars of the front gates, and stained-glass windows depicting steaks being grilled and a garden watered. But it's meant to be a run-down parish—think of The Bells of St. Mary's. No matter: the action of this canny satire belies its shabby look. It is sublime nonsense whose pleasures outweigh those of many bigger-budget productions. Busch, an expert on Hollywood melodrama (he's provided authoritative commentary for Warner Brothers DVDs of The Bad Seed and Dead Ringer), slips in references to The Sound of Music, The Trouble with Angels, Agnes of God and even The Da Vinci Code, but there's also a snappy homage to His Girl Friday in a flashback that lets Busch appear in the regular drag he's famous for. If the more beatific moments of the actor's performance as Mother Superior of a bizarre convent don't remind you of Loretta Young, you may connect his occasionally throatier growl to Rosalind Russell (the star of both Trouble and His Girl Friday).
Busch has surrounded himself with equally comic cohorts. Mother Superior's second in command is Sister Acacius, equipped by Julie Halston with a thick New Yawk accent and simmering Sturm und Drang. Whether she's on a tirade about the propensity of young postulant Agnes (Amy Rutberg) to see the face of a saint in stained underwear and perform miracles; listening to the sexual exploits of an old friend (the strapping and lively Jonathan Walker, who doubles as a slouching, nefarious monk); or taking exception to an unprintable phrase that she's misheard from Mother Superior, Halston is a riot.
Mother Superior must contend not only with Agnes and Acacius, but with a visiting nun from the mother house in Berlin. Voiced by Alison Fraser with a thick Germanic accent seemingly filtered through a dying kazoo, the suspicious Sister Walburga, who wears black gloves, radiates menace. Later on Fraser has the opportunity to do an outrageous Irish accent as a slatternly cleaning woman (dressed by Fabio Toblini in a sweater and skirt, with outrageously pendulous breasts; it appears to be the designer's homage to Agnes Moorehead in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, although it makes Moorehead's costume look elegant). The actress is vocally brilliant at both.
The convoluted plot defies explication. Suffice it to say, it involves saving the convent by getting money from a notoriously stingy atheist, Mrs. Morris Levinson; fending off the plot of an evil albino monk with a secret that could shake the foundations of Christianity; and discovering the real parents of not one, but two, orphans. And, of course, there must be an interlude or two for Mother Superior to pick up a guitar and sing a song. At times the plot seems just a bit overburdened, but under Carl Andress's direction, the cast brings a high level of energy and commitment to the proceedings, and the parody never becomes tiresome.
Busch's script gives everyone a plateful of comic opportunities: Walker and Levinson have a scene reading a letter from Sister Acacius in which each gets to do an impression of her. Levinson also plays a young convent student, a boy who endures teasing and bullying from students who call him a faggot, and Mother Superior offers him some indulgent solace.
Though Busch has great affection for the subject matter, he also saves a few juicy comic digs at Catholicism for himself. "A new clinic just opened around the corner, devoted to women's health and reproductive choices," Mother Superior informs an old flame. "We'll see what we can do about that!"


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The Battle Cry
There is a darkness in this world that we will never fully explore. A black void where only the purest of light can venture unharmed. Late at night, a young girl prepares to go into this pit. She is a warrior on the battlefield, a vicious soldier covered in the blood of her slain enemies. She has no fear, she knows no bounds, her spirit does not waver. As she takes up arm and shield and marches into battle, a faint cry is heard in the distance. It is not a cry of pain or fear. It is not an alarm or a warning. It is the Word of God whispered one thousand times on her lips. She repeats her words, unceasing, unafraid of what may come. And as she speaks, the darkness lifts, the fog recedes, and the light bursts through.
With just a few words, the soldier has ended the battle before it could even begin. And at the break of dawn, she stands from her position—resting on her knees at the foot of her bed. She is not on a battlefield, she is not armed as a soldier. She is simply a girl who took the time to kneel in prayer and have a word with the Almighty.
For those of you who do not have an imagination, that is how it looks when you pray. An ordinary human being is suddenly transformed into a fighting machine. And with all those weapons and armor, all you have to do is speak and the battle is won. This is what happens when you give Christ a moment of your precious time. But there are 24 hours in a day—that's plenty of time for work, rest, and play—so where does Christ come in?
As someone who works from home, many people think I have all the time in the world. Of course, I do have the luxury of working when I want for however long I want, but that doesn't mean I never find myself getting overwhelmed. Multiple times a day, I take a step back and wonder if I've given enough time to Christ, if I've dedicated enough of myself to the Lord. The answer is always going to be no.
No matter how many times a week I go to church, or how much Christian music I listen to, there will never be enough praise to offer the Lord. But that doesn't mean you can't set goals for yourself. Sunday shouldn't be the only day you're in church. The mornings shouldn't be the only time you pray.
Don't be afraid to take a moment and re-dedicate yourself to Christ. Prayer is the most important part of our faith as Christians because it is direct communication with the Creator of the universe. Surprisingly, something so serious also happens to be very simple.
You don't have to close yourself off in a soundproof, candlelit room to talk to Jesus. Prayer can happen anywhere at any time. As long as your mind is focused on Christ, you will be able to speak to Him whenever you'd like. The beauty in this is that God wants to talk to you. How can you get to know Him if you never spend time with Him?
In this busy, distracting life, how do you make time for the most significant relationship you could ever have? When I first realized the importance of prayer, I would set a specific time to stop everything and spend an hour with my Father. There were times I didn't feel like doing it. Times I didn't want to stop what I was doing. And even times where I fell asleep instead of prayer—it happens to the best of us. But the point I want to make is that I kept doing it. I reached a level in my faith and my relationship with Christ as my Father where I look forward to alone-time with Him.
Now, I've learned that I don't need to wait until a specific time. I can pray all day, every day, no matter where I'm at. I can have a moment with the Lord on my lunch break, when I step into the bathroom, during commercial breaks on television, while driving in my truck, waiting in line at the grocery store. Anywhere at any time.
Even though I get to spend more time with Christ when I drop everything and pray, I personally believe I have the most intimate discussions with the Lord when I'm out or while I'm multitasking. Those are the in-the-moment prayers, where everything is happening right then and there but, somehow, I still have the frame of mind to put it all in God's hands. That's because I've gotten close enough to Christ to know that I don't have to get away to call on Him. God can hear me no matter where I'm at and He has the power to answer in exactly that moment.
Whether you decide to take a break or to pray where you are, always remember this scripture:
"Pray without ceasing." I Thessalonians 5:17 KJV
There is so much meaning in this single verse: a commandment to pray always, encouragement to never give up, instruction on how to pray, and acknowledgement that there is a God who will answer those prayers.
When you've made up your mind to serve Christ fully, that scripture will become your manifesto. Don't just think about your prayer, think about who you are praying to. This verse is a battle cry; the enemy may be pushing you, you might be cornered, but Christ is standing behind you and He will not let you slip and fall. Don't you ever give up.
God bless.


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Not everyone is interested in a smartphone with a great camera. There actually exist millions of people who only want a smartphone that can do call, text, social media, multimedia player, and lots of gaming. Believe it or not, there are people like us who only want to play games every spare time. That is why the latest Razer phone felt like an answered prayer.
The Razer Phone Hardware
In case you have not learned about the Razer phone yet, it has the majority of most of the popular flagship hardware spec. It has Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, Adreno 540, 8GB of RAM and an impressive 4000mAh battery. It has 64GB of internal and accepts additional memory card of up to 256GB. That is just some of the most worth mentioning things about this phone.
Not-So-Good Camera
Although it does not boast about its camera, it is not bad after all. It is certainly not the one of the best out there but it is decent enough. It sports a dual 12mp rear camera with a f/1.8 aperture. The front cam has 8mp with f/2.0 aperture. Though the primary back camera has a huge aperture sensor, it's output is not on par with the popular flagships. So the camera here will not be the main feature.
The Highlights
One of the features that the Razer phone highlighted was its 120hz refresh rate. That means up to 120fps. This is best for high framerate games but presently there is no game in Play Store that runs on 120hz yet. So it is safe to say that considering the hardware, Razer phone is future-proof for at least three more years.
By far, the Razer phone made a very bold move with regards to the design of this smartphone. You can tell that they really meant a phone for gamers. For one, the front facing speaker is the bezel. It's the loudest and crispiest smartphone ever. And the front placement itself indicates that this is really intended to satisfy the gaming geek in you. It rocks in Dolby Atmos stereo speakers which also THX-certified amplifiers.
Not Bezel-less in 2018?
For those who are wondering about the absence of a bezel-less screen, you have the answer right there. One is because it would be awkward to hold the smartphone in both hands if the screen reaches out to the edge. Two, it is so to put that edge-to-edge blasting front-facing speaker for a crisp audio experience.
Another significant missing feature is the headphone jack. Like most 2017 flagships, it has just the USB type-C for charging, data, and audio input. Otherwise, you can use a Bluetooth headset or speaker. And you will also notice that the fingerprint sensor is placed on the side making it more convenient to unlock the phone when you are holding it,
Currently, it runs on Android 8.1 Nougat but Razer promised to send out the Pie update soon. It has the Nova Prime launcher as its default skin with an almost pure Android experience. No bloatware to negate the whole experience. Just plain Android gaming experience right there.
A final thought.
Although probably most of the people based their choice for smartphone through the quality of the camera, there are people like us who pay little attention to that. There are actually individuals out there who appreciate only features that enhance the gaming experience on a mobile platform. And this latest release from Razer hits the sweet spot for all of us gamers alike.
I don't know about your preferences but between the latest Samsung Galaxy Note 8, Google Pixel 2 XL, the iPhone X, and this Razer phone, I will undoubtedly choose the Razer phone in a heartbeat. I'm just not so much into photography or selfies. I spend most of my time playing games on my smartphone. And this one will certainly be my new daily driver.


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The government faces another six months of economic pain with slower growth but limited scope for further cuts to interest rates, the International Monetary Fund warned last night.
In its latest assessment of the UK economy, the Washington-based IMF predicted the UK economy will come to a near-standstill by the end of this year before showing some recovery in 2009.
The IMF believes interest rates cannot be cut from their current 5% unless a tight hold is kept on pay, taxes rise more than expected or the credit crunch curbs domestic demand. It urged the Bank of England to be ready to raise rates if wage rises put pressure on inflation.
The cheerless forecast comes as the government digests a humiliating defeat in the Crewe and Nantwich byelection. It offers little hope of an improving economy to boost Labour's fortunes.
The IMF made a central projection for GDP growth of 1.75% in 2008 and 2009, below the Treasury's own predictions. In his March budget, the chancellor, Alistair Darling, predicted growth between 1.75% and 2.25% this year and between 2.25% and 2.5% for 2009.
Although those government forecasts already represent a downgrade from Darling's original view last autumn, most City economists fear they are still too high.
The fund does offer some relief to Darling when it says: "The 2008 budget judgement was appropriate as was the commitment to fiscal tightening over the next few years."
While it expects growth to fall to 1% in the fourth quarter of 2008, it expects a recovery through 2009 and for growth to reach 2.5% by the end of the year. This is still below the 3% recorded in 2007.
Its forecasts for 2008 and 2009 are an improvement on the latest prediction in April, when it expected growth of 1.6% for each year.
The IMF noted that its latest forecasts took account of the special liquidity scheme put in place by the Treasury to try to ease funding pressures on banks, and the banks' own capital raising initiatives.
"Underlying these forecasts is the view that risks of a credit squeeze are being less threatening following various actions, including the introduction of the special liquidity scheme and capital raising initiatives by banks, but that conditions nevertheless remain tight as previous strains persist," the IMF said.
It agreed with the Bank of England's assessment that the CPI measure of inflation would remain "well above target" as result of rising commodity prices and the depreciation of sterling.
"The broader economic challenges posed by this outlook are reflected most immediately in monetary policy dilemmas - where risks to the credibility of the inflation targeting regime from sustained overshooting of the inflation target have to be weighed against risks to activity from financial sector and other shocks," the IMF said.
The problems facing the UK were underlined yesterday by Andrew Sentance, a member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee. He warned the economy looks set for a "significant slowdown" and might tip into recession. He told Warwick University's student radio station recession was not the most likely outcome but could not be dismissed.


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Kylie Jenner recently gave birth to her first child, a baby girl named Stormi Webster. In the video she released in February to announce baby Stormi's birth, Kylie revealed that the father was Travis Scott, her boyfriend who she had been seeing since April 2017. But some eagle-eyed fans believe that might not be the case.
After photos of Kylie's bodyguard, Tim Chung, surfaced online, people began noticing some serious similarities between baby Stormi and Tim, leading them to suspect that the bodyguard may have done more to Kylie's body than just guard it.
There ARE some similarities between Stormi and Tim that are striking enough for a double take. Their noses, eyes, and skin tone are so alike that it's a little scary. If you don't believe us, just take a look for yourself. Just for comparison, we'll even add a pic of Travis Scott.
We can totally see how these rumors found a footing, but Kylie's team is pushing back against them. A source spoke with TMZ and denied the claims outright, stating "the rumor is just that, a rumor with no basis in fact. Our Kylie sources say it's humanly impossible for Chung to be the dad." Impossible, they say, because there's no way in heck that Kylie and Tim ever got it on. Despite this strong denial, some armchair conspiracy theorists out there aren't letting this scandalous rumor go.
Whatever the case, we'll be following this juicy rumor very closely. Time will tell whether it's true or not and we're willing to wait it out to get to the bottom of this. What do you think? Should Travis Scott demand a paternity test, or are people just reaching for something to hate on Kylie about? Sound off in the comments!


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Hot on the heels of a
demonic monster opening weekend at the box office (to the tune of $34.5 million) for The Devil Inside, the film's writer/director (William Brent Bell) and co-writer (Matthew Peterman) are already preparing to shoot another, currently untitled, "found footage" style horror film.
It's no surprise to hear that the pair is moving fast, especially considering that most box office experts are expecting a major drop-off for The Devil Inside in the coming week - due to negative word of mouth and the unenthusiastic response of the critical community (read our review of The Devil Inside). However, regardless of the film's reception, it managed to do big bucks on a $1 million budget - making the pair an attractive prospect for Hollywood executives.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, CEO of Sierra/Affinity, Nick Meyer had no problem touting the pair's accomplishments - even if The Devil Inside legacy is still up in the air:
"From day one, we have been huge fans of this filmmaking team and the way they have crafted a unique movie-going experience with The Devil Inside. These are filmmakers we know and trust and they bring an original voice and style to our next project that will once again introduce audiences to a new expectaiton of what one can define as a genre film."
Bell and Peterman will, as mentioned, write the film together with Bell once again pulling double-duties as director. The film is set for financing through Sierra/Affinity and the Incentive Filmed Entertainment Fund with Peterman as well as Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) and Morris Paulson (The Devil Inside) producing - and Bell, Peterman, and Paulson's company, Prototype, handling production. The film is set to start work in Romania this April - though no storylines or potential cast members have been revealed at this point.
Admittedly, this new project was just announced but it's hard not to be somewhat suspicious given the lack of concrete details, and Schneider's annualizing of the Paranormal Activity series - not to mention The Devil Inside cliffhanger and decent box office profit. Is it a possibility that, despite Meyer's claims that the new film will set "a new expectaiton of what one can define as a genre film," that the new film could be the no-brainer Devil Inside sequel?
Of course, with all the uncertainty around whether or not audiences would be receptive to a Devil Inside 2, there's always the possibility that the pair is actually preparing a different "found footage" genre experience - hopefully with a better ending this round. A Deadline report indicates that the new Bell/Peterman film will "bring a similar filmmaking style to another classic horror mythology" - though, with so few details to go on, it's possible that the movie's producers are merely trying to muddy the waters a bit and keep people from speculating that the new film is actually just another installment in Hollywood's next big annualized cash grab. We'll likely know more next month - as Sierra/Affinity is expected to sell the project to potential foreign buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin.
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Founded in 1998 Blenheim Chalcot traces its roots back to netdecisions, the internet services group. Already back then we set out to build companies to transform industry sectors. And since then we've become the UK's leading venture builder, with portfolio sales of over £300m, more than 3,000 employees, and a successful track record of over 40 companies. Our approach to transforming industries has always been the same. We identify high growth sectors, typically undergoing some market, technology or regulatory discontinuity, and look to build scalable platforms that satisfy a real customer need. We aim to build profitable companies, with sustainable business models. We don't chase unicorns - we build gazelles."
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The old logo was bland, generic, and communicated nothing whatsoever. To its credit, it wasn't visually offensive in any way. The new logo builds on venture and start-up parlance of business prowess — Gorillas, Gazelles, and Unicorns (yuck, yuck, yuck) — and places its bets on the gazelles, "high-growth company that is increasing its revenues by at least 20% annually for four years or more, starting from a revenue base of at least $1 million" according to Investopedia. The icon is an energetic, single-line drawing with sharp, pointy corners that help make it look like it means business. I like that it's not the typical single-width stroke with curved endings and reminds me of a more elaborate Chicago Bulls logo. The wordmark is okay… perhaps too friendly with those curved spurs in the "l"s, but it's fine and it's well rationalized. The gazelle also comes in a lovely 3D version that highlights its single-line structure and adds some playfulness to how its lines interact. In application, they are using the Spotify colorizing approach of duotones, which always helps unify the brand photography and looks cool by default (with the right color combo). Overall, it's a fitting identity that looks sophisticated with a youthful edge to it to attract those young businesses.


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I been reading rumors online in recent weeks that Snapdragon 810 system-on-chip are having issues with overheating. The latest smartphone to experience such issues are Sony flagship smartphones the Xperia Z3+ and Xperia Z4, both these headsets have different models in the Japanese market. Sony has directly confirmed that both these smartphones can overheat and will solve the issue with a software update.
At a Netherlands test facility they have revealed that the Xperia Z3+ can overheat when using the smartphones camera or gaming on the device which almost always heavily uses the GPU. When this happens the smartphone gets so hot its unbearable to touch,which ever app is the culprit system crashing follows. Prior to shut down, a message appears on the smartphones display with a warning message saying the temperature of the smartphone is too high.
Sony has acknowledged on a Dutch translated website that a promise software update fix will come sometime this Summer. Updates like this usually are time consuming and more than likely will force the Xperia Z3+ and Xperia Z4 to throttle its CPU and GPU.


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Starting your own business is no small task. It requires capital and investments. Depending on the choice of business, the capital and investments can vary greatly. Getting into certain industries can be very expensive as opposed to some others. Most entrepreneurs save up money for their business or even take out large loans which they eventually have to pay back. Therefore, it is quite a risk. Either way, whichever industry you get into, it will require long hours and hard work to get by. The first months to the first years, it is going to be tough so you have to have patience. It is always important you know what you're doing and always confirm things before attempting them.
There are literally thousands of businesses you can choose from. It is usually recommended you get into a business that you are experienced in but in some cases, this is not possible due to the various regulation and complications of certain businesses. Due to this there may be a certain learning curve and you have to adapt yourself. For instances, certain products and services should be marketed in a different manner and the same strategy won't work for everything, therefore explore other marketing avenues such as email marketing services and online marketing. Here's a list of things to know when starting a business.
Research is one of the most important element because you have to research the business as a whole. This would include the industry, the competitors, your product or service, your strength, your weakness and etc. This way, you can have a clear goal based on the research done. Further, you will need to know the advantages and disadvantages of the industry and how to tackle problems in the industry.
Hiring the right people is important because, the people you hire are the ones that are going to run your business and hiring someone because they cost less doesn't mean you're going to benefit. You need to hire the right people for the job and not for their asking salary. The best thing is to find the balance in between.
Just because everything is set and running doesn't mean you're going to get sales. You will have to market your product or service to the market. Each industry has its own way of marketing so it's up to you to find it. Whether it be through an email marketing campaign in Singapore, social media marketing, newspapers or commercials, you have to make sure the advertisement is effective.
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Something else happened while I was going through my archives trying to figure out my April trigger. That moment when you see that before you went into recovery/therapy you were a horrible human being. Which I've realized a long time ago, hence my desire to get help, recovery and therapy. It just hit me again after reading through a few posts. It's hit me a lot this year for some reason and I'm not entirely sure why. I guess it's just part of the healing process and where I'm at. It still stings. Every single time I see those bitter, spitting, hateful words.
I'm not going to make excuses, or try to shirk my responsibility in the matter by blaming my illness. It is what it is. They were awful, which makes my crusade against abuse seem hypocritical in comparison. On the one hand anyway. On the other, it provides a perfect example why bringing awareness to emotional abuse is so important. I never truly displayed any of the classic signs of growing up in an abusive home. I didn't realize I had until I moved out and got away from it. The same way I didn't realize I had 18 years of inappropriate learned behaviors to undo until taking myself to therapy.
It's not an excuse for my poor past behavior, but it is a reason. It's what drives me to stick to my guns no matter how easy it would be to slide back into my old ways. Even so, there are occasions when I do backslide and the monster I work so very hard to tame slips out. Usually at the very worst times, when the stakes are high and I have everything to lose. In my very weakest and worst moments it's always those closest to me that bear the brunt of it too. Which makes it that much more difficult. Knowing that I'm the cause of these painful moments no matter how fleeting for the very same people I cherish with my whole heart. Most of the people I end up hurting, I would sacrifice everything for, but why should they believe that? I mean, I hurt them. Even being aware of my behaviors I continue to do these stupid hurtful things and I rarely realize it until it's too late. Then we have this, where I acknowledge my short comings, make a commitment not to do it again, until the next time when the beast slips out yet again.
I am getting better, able to recognize my most of my mistakes immediately instead of running to denial or taking offense when someone points them out. It has some impact on me, but not the devastation that used to accompany any criticism I received. Yet, it takes SO MUCH WORK. It feels like every social interaction is just draining as I'm constantly reminding myself what to do/say, how to react vs not react and it gets exhausting quickly. Which is weird being an extrovert. I love being around people, but people hate being around me. At least they did. I'm slowly starting to rebuild my social life. Or rather build a healthy social life.
I guess it's no different than anything else in life. Reversing learned behaviors is next to impossible. Not entirely impossible, but pretty damn close. That's really the defining difference between an abuser and survivor of long term abuse. The ability to accept and acknowledge the behavior and willingness to fight like hell to change it.


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We are sitting under a fresh blanket of snow, a white Christmas here in the Heartland. I watch the birds out in the yard, pecking away at the food I put out for them, and see them hide behind an old tractor tire to get out of the fierce northern wind. I am reminded of how fortunate I am in this life, and the hardships that I have to bear, seem to almost fade away when I look at their collective plight this cold winter day.
2012 was a pretty rough row to hoe for me, a lot of not so nice stuff happened to me personally in 2012. I lost a couple of really good friends to cancer, lost some more or along the way quite by accident, and my money didn't even slow down when it got to me. Life takes it collective pound of flesh and I bled a little bit. But I came out the other side, 2013 is right around the corner, nothing turns out the way you expect it to anyway.
"If everything went the way we wanted, the way we expected it all to be, that would be awfully boring.
Wouldn't you agree?"
Much too often in 2012 I found myself wanting to steal away to my secret place and lick my wounds. I found myself tiring of this daily fare of mayhem, malfeasance in business and government, war, and violence in this country. I would usually drift back a long ways in time to find the sustenance of hope my soul required, all the way back to the days of my youth, to endless summers, under a hot sun.
I guess we all want to backslide or go back to the time that we affectionately refer to as "The Good Old Days" that mythical time in our lives when things were considerably less stressful and simpler. For my money, I am going to say it was better, at least for me it was.
Life was much slower — Violence in those days was almost unheard of. There was a simple code, if you had a problem with someone, after school you met them in the park and you duked it out. About the worse thing that could happen to you was a bloody nose. I do not every recall anyone shooting anyone or even hearing of such a thing. Disputes were settled quickly and fairly, at the Grove, about 3:30 P.M. after the last bell.
If you were really nasty or outright mean, they usually just locked you up.
Here is the point, nothing has really changed about the accessibility of guns, but the character of the man. Guns are somewhat harder to obtain than they used to be true, but the people who are buying them have changed considerably over the years. America as far as guns has not changed all that much, in 2012 we again attained the status of being the #1 Arms Supplier on the planet. Our lives may have changed, lifestyles radically altered, and the nation as such, became more violent (at least that is what the media coverage would have you to believe) each day.
Who needs or wants anything to do with that?
We no longer start our day in school with a pledge or a prayer, and traffic doesn't back up on Sunday to make it difficult for anyone to get to the alter or our favorite seat in the pew down front. We "claim to be a nation of Christians, but act like pagans" in our day to day lives. Our churches are mainly empty and shallow, almost to the point of being museums. Money is our god and greed is our lifestyle.
The good old days.
On any given day, you could walk through the high school parking lot and observe that half of the vehicles parked there were trucks with the windows down and the doors unlocked. In rural America, most of these trucks carried as standard equipment, an FFA Sticker (Future Farmers Of America or a Wetland/Ducks America Decal in the back window) a gun rack with at least one gun (usually loaded). You didn't have to loop the chain around the spare tire, you didn't need a locking gas cap. People respected your stuff and you did the same. If you got into trouble at school, then you were in BIG TROUBLE at home, before you even got home.
The America I live in now is not even a glimpse of what it used to be and I find that so sad. There are no hero's on our horizons for our youth to admire or emulate, we have no visible good guys left in society to look up to. The argument that is so popular now …. "Is this a great country or what?" …. Is certainly not easy to sell here at home or abroad.
Although my memory regrettably not as sharp as it used to be, sometimes fools me into believing all of this is going to get better. But deep down, I fear it is not. I almost know it is not. I am almost certain. We have become lax (lazy) we do not pay attention to details. We no longer teach our young the basic's of civility. They no longer respect their elders, the flag, authority, or have any kind of accountability to God. All important notions when you wax fondly back to the "Good Old Days."
As we turn another page and head off into a bright new future (at least that is what I am being told awaits us) I have no real idea if the "Good Old Days" were any better at all. But please, please, do not try and convince me that these times we live in now are all that great.
They aint — And I just cannot buy into it.


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Calling all Disney fans! You don't have to brave the lines to satisfy your Dole Whip cravings anymore! It's surprisingly easy to make your own homemade, healthier Dole Whip recipe at home in your blender (not to mention cheaper). Made with frozen pineapple, banana and coconut milk, the taste is a little reminiscent of a piña colada and incredibly delicious for hot summer days. Simply throw the ingredients in your blender for easy homemade Dole Whip that's sure to be healthier than the classic Disney version.
The key to making this perfectly smooth Dole Whip recipe at home is a good blender. The better the blender, the less coconut milk you'll need to achieve a smooth fryo-like consistency. Nonetheless, even if you're not confident in your blender's abilities, a little more coconut milk will blend it all together and taste delicious! Pineapple is still the primary taste, but the banana and coconut milk lend their flavors and give the Dole Whip that smooth, custard-like texture. If you're feeling really daring, quickly move the mixture to a pastry bag with a star tip to create the classic frozen yoghurt shape into your serving glasses. Just beware it does melt quickly!
Here's to make this healthier Disney Dole Whip recipe at home!
Healthier Disney Dole Whip Recipe
Calling all Disney fans! You don't have to brave the lines to satisfy your Dole Whip cravings anymore! It's surprisingly easy to make your own homemade, healthier Dole Whip…
- 20 oz can pineapple, frozen
- 1 banana, frozen
- 3/4 cup coconut milk
Preparation: Open the can of pineapple and drain juice. Pour pineapple chunks into a freezer-safe bag. Peel banana and add to bag. Freeze for at least 4-5 hours until hard.
To make: Combine the frozen pineapple, banana and about 3/4-1 cup coconut milk in a blender and blend until smooth. Add a little more coconut milk if needed to blend properly.
Distribute the Dole Whip between two bowls or glasses and serve immediately.


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The current state of our world's food chain is scary. In case you didn't already know, by year 2050, there will likely be 9 billion people and we'll need to figure out a way to increase our food production by about 70%. This is a huge feat!
At geedunk, we are up for the challenge. Crickets are our leading ingredient but we're doing way more than just that. We highly encourage you do to your own research but here's some quick facts about what we're using:
CRICKETS - the latest delicacy
Michelin star chefs cook with them so don't knock it till you try it. They have a nutty/earthy flavor with a hint of cocoa and are known as "the gateway bug." They are packed with protein, vitamins, and minerals with fiber and all nine essential amino acids your body needs to thrive. The more they are researched, the more people conclude that they are the perfect protein. Besides their impressive nutritional profile, their environmental impact spanks every other source of traditional protein. The numbers are undeniable.
Now, we aren't proposing you stop eating meat entirely because we too enjoy a juicy hamburger, but the quest is to be more conscious of your decisions' impacts and supplement your diet with sustainable options. If everyone did a little, it would add up to a lot. So at geedunk, we say please sir, I want some more… crickets!
ALMONDS - an unrecognized villain
Yes almonds are delicious and have health benefits but 1 almond requires 1.1 gallons of water to produce! California grows 82% of the world's almonds which requires diverting ground and surface water from the aqueduct system for irrigation. The increasing demand for almonds, almond milk, almond butter, and other food bars containing almonds is taking a dangerous toll on California's ecosystem and citizens. Same thing goes for walnuts, which require 4.9 gallons of water to grow one walnut, and pistachios, which require 0.75 gallons to grow a single pistachio.
We don't want MadMax to become our reality so for that reason, geedunk products are totally ALMOND-FREE.
ECO WRAPPERS - the best thing since slide bread
The wrappers of our granola bars, cookies, and croutons are compostable! They're from corn and beets (which is why they sound extra crinkly). So whether or not you compost, these wrappers won't add to the plastic in our landfills.
PALM OIL - the tree of fire
When geedunk's founder was traveling through Malaysia, she had to wear a face mask while outside and local schools were canceled because the smoke from nearby palm-related fires was so bad. to clarify: palm oil comes from a different kind of tree than your coconut-bearing palm tree.
Palm oil makes up 30% of the world's vegetable oil production and this single ingredient is found in 40-50% of household products (ex: lipstick, soaps, ice cream, and snacks). According to the World Wildlife Fund, an area the equivalent size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour to make way for palm oil production. This causes deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses.
We admit, it's not always easy to avoid but don't be lazy, read labels and try to avoid palm oil unless it is Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO). And get geedunk because we are proudly palm-oil free.
HAZELNUTS - the sturdy nut
Besides the fact that they're in everyone's favorite chocolate spread, these nuts are environmentally impressive. So here's some quick facts about hazelnut trees: they use less water. They have an extensive root systems which makes them drought resistant and allows little nitrogen leaching. They're effective against soil erosion and don't need tillage (land preparation requiring machinery). They sequester more carbon from the atmosphere. They're natural biofilters that protect aquatic environments. They can grow on slopes and less desirable farmland. They can produce hazelnuts for over 80 years.
We don't mean to drone on, but we're super excited about deez nuts so find them in select geedunk products.
ACACIA GUM - the desert gold
What is that? It's a natural gum consisting of the hardened sap of various species of the acacia tree. This tree is naturally growing in arid and semi-arid areas like Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Despite those harsh climate conditions, acacia trees enhance crop production because it enhances soil stabilization and fertility through biological nitrogen fixation, and prevents desertification. Another fun fact: the crop is 100% organic, non-GMO, and pesticide free.
Acacia gum contributes to environmental conservation so we love it as a low-sugar binder in our geedunk granola bars.
MORE and BIGGER and BETTER
We'll always be working to find more ways to be environmentally and nutritionally impactful in bigger and better ways. For example, sunflower seeds are pretty to look at and easy on the environment too. We'll keep you updated on our progress and let us know if you have any suggestions!


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ONE FUNNEL AWAY CHALLENGE RETURNS! One Funnel Away Challenge Review
>>Register Here for the One Funnel Away Challenge<<
If you are a marketer and attempt to offer your product each and every day, then you might know it's just like a war. You do not know exactly what you have to do and you unexpectedly eliminate everything… 30 days summit was created for you. One Funnel Away Challenge Review
30 Days Summit is just one of the huge events about online marketing that help you take action and comprehend what you have to do in the next 30 days step by step from zero.
The occasion includes 30 pros and extremely limited FREE tickets has been providing away in these days. Now, the question is: Are you next?
Led by Trainer Russell Brunson and Coaches Stephen Larsen and Julie Stoian, One Funnel Away Challenge is a series of training videos added to the 30 days summit in September this year.
After some success in the event, Russell Brunson made a decision to start One Funnel Away Challenge .
This is your last chance this season to have the ability to own 30 Days Hardcover Book & One Funnel Away Challenge video training. This can be a tool to guide you step by step to construct a detailed online business on a daily basis.
Including 30 different notions from 30 well-known entrepreneurs will help you to have great ideas to grow your business.
Over the following 30 days, you'll learn a great deal of different business-growth models in the interview show that you signed up for.
That's the FIRST 30 days…
But that is NOT wherever your journey ends…
So, If you do not:
- Know how or what funnel will probably work for THEM specifically…
- Have anybody to hold you accountable to do it.
By the end, you're going to learn how to handle it all!
This is a set of videos that guide you step by step how to create a successful sales funnel.
the funnel earnings successful?
In my personal point of view, a successful sales funnel needs to generate cash, make a gain. Is this the ultimate goal of a business person?
In fact, since you see, building a sales funnel isn't simple. It consists of a more Intricate procedure sequence:
- Trademark
- Hook, Story, Offer
- Design landing page
- Scenario funnel
- A / B test
- Launch
For each and every such module, you need to spend at least tens of thousands of dollars to master this understanding. On the other hand, the understanding is fragmented online.
For this reason, you will feel overwhelmed, don't know where to begin and how.
One Funnel Away challenge supply the video training together with step-by-step checklists made within 5 weeks can help you to best all of these skills from mindset to certain practices. One Funnel Away Challenge Review
Then, it will help you launch your Funnel.
>>Register Here for the One Funnel Away Challenge<<
Below are the 30 experts that share their knowledge.
This are some of the top experts in the world, when it comes to business and Clickfunnels.
Anyone can join this One Funnel Away Challenge who are in business such as…
- Coaching/Consulting,
- Real Estate,
- Chiropractor,
- E-commerce,
- B2B Lead Generation,
- Make Money Online Niche,
- Digital Agency
- Local Small Businesses
- Blogging,
- Information Products,
- Health and Fitness,
- Supplements,
- Services
- Affiliate Marketing,
- Dentists etc..
Even this One Funnel Away Challenge is also for those who are only getting started in Online Business.
Like I said above, it's made in a manner that if you're a beginner or don't have any prior experience then you can join One Funnel Away Challenge Training.
IS THE ONE FUNNEL AWAY CHALLENGE WORTH IT? One Funnel Away Challenge Review
It is the very best, online training I've ever had. Russell's books — Dot.com and especially Expert Secrets is inspirational. Everything he writes about is deep, meaningful, descriptive, and instructional. When he discusses the"Greatest Show on Earth" of P.T.Barnum along with the books HE wrote, where Russell actually found books Barnum had composed about the public domain website Russell's face just lights up and I could sense his enthusiasm for composing and teaching, and most of all creating a difference in the lives of many others.
He is a father of 5 kids and he is instructing them a compassionate business mindset early on. Do I sound like a groupie? No, I simply admire what he is created and performing — you know a lot from folks like Russell who do not dish out bullshit to create a buck. Stay away from these — you can tell.
I understand more about funnels than I ever did and so wanted to know, and now I really do. This challenge was not just about building a funnel but what is required in preparation a single, the psychology of sales and potential customers, and your/mine duty in creating a system that is visually straightforward and congruent to possible customers.
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Gospel Communities are small groups that gather weekly to help people grow in gospel depth, church family health and missional engagement by sharing life together, praying for one another and discovering God together. – (Acts 2:42 – 47; Hebrews 10:23 – 25; 1Corinthians 15:1 – 4; John 20:21)
Our gospel communities meet in homes or public gathering spaces like coffee shops or restaurants and all of them are lead by members of The Well who possess the gifts, experience, commitment and passion for leading a gospel community.
Our gospel communities utilize a gospel community study guide that is based upon the sermon from that previous Sunday. We believe this will help to apply the preaching ministry of The Well to individuals at a more personal level in the context of relational community.


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"HANDS in the Kitchen" Nutrition Education
We're thrilled that Chef Robin hosts our "HANDS in the Kitchen" workshops. She offers cooking suggestions and lots of education about all of the great fresh food that we can include in our own menus. And it's always lovely to share food together at the end of each class. Workshops are FREE to anyone 50 years or older thanks to funding from HANDS and Vermont Community Garden Network among others.
The series includes cooking hints, nutrition tips, how to shop on a budget, cooking for one, and taste-testing. There's a different theme each week so we always leave with great tips.
"HANDS in the Dirt" Gardening Program
Last summer, we had garden sites at Canal Street Veterans Housing in Winooski, Ethan Allen Residence in the New North End of Burlington, and St. Joseph's Home in Burlington. We also offered some support to Heineberg Senior Housing in the New North End in Burlington. We're very happy to partner with Committee on Temporary Shelter, gardening expert Charlie Nardozzi, and Vermont Community Garden Network to bring programming to each of these locations. Very special thanks to Red Wagon Plants for all of the gorgeous plants. If additional funding comes our way, we can grow to even more sites in 2018!
Please check out this video in which Todd Bowling is the star. This is at the St. Michael's College veterans garden site in 2016.
Holiday Dinner
For the 14th year, we helped to provide a non-denominational meal delivery throughout Chittenden County as well as a shared sitdown dinner on Christmas Day. We partnered with Age Well, Burlington School Food Project, Michelle Charron, Elks Club, and Temple Sinai among hundreds of volunteers and businesses.
Some years ago, Age Well (formerly Champlain Valley Agency on Aging) requested that we take over their Christmas Day meal delivery program as well. This year, we prepared and delivered about 400 meals to older Vermonters. In addition, we collaborated with the Elks Club to help provide a delightful sit-down dinner for 300 seniors and their families. Each person received a wrapped giftbag which, in many cases, was the only gift that a senior received during the holiday season.
We depend on volunteers and businesses to provide donations for the meals and giftbags, wrap gifts, make the meals, staff the sit-down dinner, donate money, and deliver meals. On behalf of older Vermonters, of whom 7,800 experience some form of food insecurity according to 2013 Hunger Free Vermont statistics, thank you so much for your generosity in lending a hand!
We'll be offering meals again on Christmas Day this year.
HANDS was fortunate enough to be contacted by NPR's StoryCorps in the summer of 2016. Megan Humphrey interviewed Charlie Auer, of "Charlie's Boathouse" fame, about food long ago in Burlington. Please sit back, relax, and listen to Charlie's delightful stories.


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Skooling dun diffrant wiv speshul gest Simone Padur
Going to school. How much did you enjoy it? Did you even feel like you had a choice? How much fun did you have while you were in lessons? Or was fun something you only had during breaktimes and not while you were sitting behind a desk?
There has to be another way to engage children with education right? But what is it? Does it even exist?
Join us as we get to play again with Simone Padur who, as well as being an Access Consciousness Facilitator, is a teacher with a different point of view about teaching; it should be fun!
She turns crazy wall climbing kindergarten classes into excited learning enthusiasts and give hope to teens to know that they can change the world.
"How?" do you ask?
By using the tools of Access Consciousness® in her classroom daily; through asking questions to empower kids to know what they know and being in allowance of whomever they might choose to be.
Alun's website: http://alun-jones.com/
Tamara's website: http://www.accessinfinitebeing.com/


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Estuary: The School Holidays are now in full swing and they couldn't have been timed better! Even though the weather has been a little tough, the fishing has been very good. The estuary in particular has been a standout of late, Flathead seem to be absolutely everywhere and can be easily caught using Whitebait, Mullet, Pilchards, Prawns or practically any sort of soft plastic lure you can think of! Whiting have been fairly consistent as well, the Sandies have been plentiful up on the sand flats and their smaller cousins have been schooled up in their thousands throughout most of the deeper channels of the estuary. Blue Swimmer Crabs have been thick down around green point and behind Wallis Island, Mud Crabs have been a little on the slow side but definitely worth chasing up the tributaries. For those wishing to chase something a little bigger, the break walls are holding nice Kingfish and Mulloway which can be targeted with lures or bait fairly easily.
Beach and Rock: Strong NE winds can play havoc with our local beaches and they definitely have over the past week. Water temps dropped considerably earlier in the week and this, as well as the fact that most beaches were inundated with red weed, meant that the action along our beaches was fairly slow. However, those that have persisted and found the cleaner gutters have managed some nice Tailor, Bream and the odd Flathead. Yesterday (Thursday) we saw a much better water temperature and this southerly wind should only improve that as well as water clarity, in turn this should mean the beaches will be back to their summery best in no time at all! I haven't heard too much at all from the local rocks this week. The one report I did receive was fairly promising, a local angler made the most of the rough seas and 'pot holed' his way along the rocks to the south using fresh Cunji and managed to find one nice 3kg Black Drummer along with a handful of Bream. This nice southerly breeze should see some nice warm water push in from out wider and there could be anything coming in with it, that first early season Tuna can't be too far away!
Offshore: On the few mornings that have been nice to get out, the boats that have gone have had some great fishing action offshore. Teraglin are still fairly numerous on most reefs and you should be able to hit your 5 fish bag limit fairly easily, particularly if you are out before the sun rises or after it sets. Snapper have also been really good on the deeper reefs with a lot of anglers finding nice 2-3kg fish on a fairly regular basis. Small Mahi Mahi are plentiful out there at the moment with the odd 8-10kg fish amongst them. With a nice Southerly blow forecast for the next couple of days it will be well worth a look for a marlin or possibly even a Mackerel (there has been a few sneaky ones caught off Port Macquarie already)!
Luke Austin.
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Jul 4, 2009
Happy 4th. of July!
Happy 4th. Everyone! Hoping your day is full of fun and family and good friends! I'm heading off today to spend the day with my entire family! I'm quite excited about it. The past years have been spent on the West Coast in the Puget Sound with my father-in-law. Not a bad way to spend the 4th., but I have missed my family outings on the 4th. A day in Catonsville with crabs, the parade that consists of a ton of Boumi Temple floats, bands, little cars and Arabian knights! Then its back to more food off the grill and then the fireworks! My contribution is the pasta salad. OK, I have to admit this...I've never made pasta salad..hence my morning project...I think I did a pretty good job ...penne pasta,cucumbers, red pepper, cherry tomatoes, red onion, fresh basil from my potted plant and some Newman's Italian dressing.
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Welcome back to Spring Affair!
For those of you who missed out previously, Spring Affair is a wine tour in McLaren Vale over the October long weekend – Think of Sea & Vines with warmer weather and loads of sunshine!
Premium wine, idyllic location, delicious food, fun people and great music. What more could you want?
Sunday, 1st of October 2017
Depart 9.45am from the Seven Stars.
Tickets $75 per head and available to purchase using the form below.
- Entry to Coriole, Maxwell and Paxton wineries (Exact order TBA)
- Premium coaches to and from McLaren Vale thanks to Kanga Coaches
- Light pre-departure finger food breakfast at the Stars
- Souvenir Spiegelau wine glass
Tickets will be available to purchase from this page at 9am Tuesday the 8th of August.
Large group bookings please email firstname.lastname@example.com


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The MIDI (skirt or dress)
NOTE: I don't have links for where I found these pictures, but feel free to use https://www.google.ca/imghp?hl=en&tab=ii to find where I got these... They come from all around the web...
The pencil midi (and stripes, another great trend)
The flowy midi
The denim midi
Midi skirt with buttons (full-button skirts, another great thing)
The midi dress (again, LOVE the stripes)
The peasant midi (I doubt this look is trendy, but it sure is cute!)
High-waisted midi, and pleated too!
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When you first start having sex with somebody, you never discuss what you like and don't like. You just try stuff, and the other person either goes, 'Ooh yeah,' or they go, 'Hey, don't do that!'
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Franchises for Sale in Saunders County, NE
Discover business opportunities, in or around Saunders County, with well-established brands, who are looking for people like you to help them grow.
As of the 2010 United States Census, Saunders County, located in the Cornhusker State, had a total population of 20,867 people. This makes Saunders County the sixty-third-most populated city in the state of NE.


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Breaking news! David Cameron resigns as UK's Prime Minister following UK vote to leave the EU
Cameron's voice broke as he spoke outside Downing Street this morning with his wife Samantha in tears next to him. "We should aim to have a new prime minister in place by the start of the Conservative Party conference in October," he told the media after the country voted to leave the European Union.
The Brexit campaign officially passed the winning post in the EU referendum at around 6am today, triggering a political earthquake and panic in the markets. Nigel Farage earlier declared it to be 'independence day' and a 'victory for real people' as the Leave campaign racked up votes across England and Wales - defying the verdict of London, Scotland and most of the big cities.
The Pound - which soared in value earlier after Nigel Farage admitted he thought Brexit had lost - has nose-dived against US dollar to its lowest level for 31 years. And more than £100billion was wiped off the FTSE 100 within minutes as markets opened on Friday as Britain's decision caused turmoil across global exchanges.
Source: UK Daily MailWatch: David Cameron fights back the tears as he announces his resignationhttps://t.co/N7H5RGRl0p— Sky News (@SkyNews)June 24, 2016


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But this year's set was different. Taylor seemed more relaxed playing his own; he joked and talked with the audience as he introduced each song and even sang a medley of different version of 'Happy Birthday' for the birthday people in the audience. He put soul into "I Will Come to You' and 'Save Me' - songs which I usually find too boyband-like for my liking. Performed with just voice and piano on a tropical beach, both songs acquired a depth I'd never perceived before. (I will still skip the original versions).
If you are ever in doubt that Hanson 'listens' to their fans, this should convince you once and for all: 'Breaktown' is constantly mentioned on the forums (alongside other rarely played songs like 'World on Fire'). It felt like a special gift to all of us there, and I truly hope that the band will post a video of the performance on the website for those who could not be in Jamaica.
The set started with "Chasing Down My Dreams" a little played track from the 2012 'No Sleep For Banditos' EP - (incidentally, the first physical CD of Hanson music I ever owned). It sounded better live than in the EP, in part because I find Zac's peculiar enunciation of 'chasing/chess-ing' in the recorded version really distracting. The next song, however, was what I'd been hoping for. A couple of days earlier during tie dye, after asking Isaac to play "Deeper" I'd also asked Zac if there was any chance of him playing "Fire on the Mountain" that week. He said "sure" without any hesitation, but...three days had passed and quite frankly, I didn't expect him to remember. But then I heard those first notes, followed by "somebody asked for this song": yes, it was "Fire on the Mountain".
"I'd kind of like to talk about what this song is about but it's like way too deep for the beach" Zac said, proceeding to actually delve into what the song is about (life, basically - you can watch the entire performance here)
One thing that became clear at this BTTI is that even Hanson have favourite songs: for the third year in a row Zac sang 'Bittersweet' - a song dedicated to his wife Kate. It's a sweet, moving song which however belongs in the 'can't listen to' category for me because of its lyrics:
Looking forward to growing old and watching you turn grey
And if you don't mind I would like to go first
Because without you I wouldn't live a day