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I just wanted to comment here since I can't on youtube. I think this is an issue that speaks to the majority of moms- I will stand up first too! What really resonated was when you saidReplyDelete
"spiritual skeleton". When I do not let my spirit drink of God, that really is what I am. I also that the taking care of self/putting self first is truly different from a selfish intent to be first, or have my needs above everyone else's. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. I have to take care of me so I can complete what God has given me to do. Thank you for taking time to share with us!Replies
Thank you so much for pointing out the difference. We have to get through this issue as mom so we can really be good moms.Delete
I loved this! Thank you! I am pregnant with baby number 1 (a girl) due in a couple of weeks and have been thinking heavily about what I need to do and should have done pre-pregnancy to make sure that I was in the best shape possible - mentally, spiritually, and physically to be the best Mom that I could be.ReplyDelete
I've read all of the best parenting books, subscribed to all of the best parenting blogs and websites, and taken into account all of the advice that people have shared regarding raising children, but I never (1) lost those last few pounds for optimal health pre-pregnancy, started my home business that would keep me afloat after leaving work FT to be a SAHM, or found what would keep me interested and happy as an extra-curricular (a hobby or craft). It was all about the baby. Now that I have stopped working, it is all about the hubby (until she gets here). He's grinning like a Cheshire cat at the attention he's getting, but in these last few weeks of pregnancy, I'm starting to get that overwhelming sense of "what about me" - hence the emotional breakdown that I had yesterday. ;) I've worked for 9 months to be Super Mom and Super Wife. Prior to, I wanted to be a better version of me. I got off track for that goal...
You reminded me and I know it AINT too late. Thank you.
Good for you! But remember this...you are dealing with pregnancy hormones right now. Melt downs are to be expected, so don't take yourself too seriously until about 4 months AFTER you have the baby. Seriously...:-) Thanks for taking time to share your story. I appreciate your support.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2013 at 5:43 PM
Thanks for this. I am starting to feel like I'm drowning. I have six children and am feeling very unworthy to have all these wonderful children. I know I'm not doing a great job. I am far below my own expectations and have begun to feel like I should not have had so many. Personally, I have always struggled with being organised and as much as I try, I don't make any real improvement. I stay up very late every night, I don't get near enough sleep, school reports are overdue (we homeschool) and my husband is frustrated because of my disorganisation and how that effects everything. So often I try to make so many changes at once but get overwhelmed and end up back were I started. How can I prioritise the changes I need to make in order to make lasting changes?ReplyDelete
I feel like this sometimes. I always trace it back when I decided to put everything on my back all by myself without God. God was for emergencies. I don't have this feeling when I invite God in every step of the way. he helps me organize and focus and realize what things are necessary and what things are a good idea but not His plan.ReplyDelete


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The Cedar and Mshale Present
JUPITER & OKWESS and FENDIKA
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 / Doors 7:00pm / Show 7:30pm
All Ages
$22 Advance / $25 Day of show
This is a standing show with an open floor. General Admission tickets are available online, by phone, at Depth of Field, Electric Fetus, and The Cedar during shows.
Jupiter & Okwess
With their second album Kin Sonic, Jupiter and Okwess transcend the Congo's unexplored musical heritage and dive into a pool of modernity. Jean-Pierre Bokondji, aka "Jupiter," was born on the 16th December 1963, in Kinshasa. From East Berlin (where he grew up) to Kinshasa, from James Brown to the ultra-dominant Congolese rumba style, Jupiter decided to create his own mode of musical expression. Just like the writing of the African philosopher, Zamenga Batukezanga, Jupiter's lyrics focus on the painful past, and how to overcome it. Gathered around Jupiter are the Okwess faithful: Montana (of Staff Benda Bilili) on drums and Yendé on bass, guitarists Eric and Richard and the singer Blaise. This is Jupiter & Okwess' first Minnesota performance.
Fendika, a troupe of the most accomplished azmari musicians and dancers from across Ethiopia, mesmerizes audiences with resonant vocal chants, vibrant stringed instruments, spirited drum rhythms, and spectacular dancing. Drawing deeply from the well of Ethiopia's diverse musical traditions, Fendika's dynamic performance style adds innovative movements and sounds that revitalize the ancient artistic forms to create a new tradition. Led by charismatic dancer Melaku Belay, Fendika's joyful performances encourage audiences to take part in the celebration. This will be Fendika's third time performing at The Cedar.


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Good morning. Here are five political stories to follow today.
1. $1 million
That's how much larger the state's payroll for commissioners and agency chiefs will be going forward. Gov. Mark Dayton announced raises for his cabinet members yesterday, and the political fallout has once again been swift. Republicans say the raises, which are more than 20 percent in some cases, are much bigger than raises most Minnesotans will see this year. Sounds like a campaign talking point to me. (MPR News)
2. Midwest momentum
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders swings through Rochester, Minnesota, this morning (incidentally, President Barack Obama will be in La Crosse, Wisconsin, today), and the stop is part of a larger strategy to court organizers, small donors and lots of media attention. As Politico points out, the Sanders campaign hopes the news trickles back to voters in states that matter most early in the primary. (Politico)
3. "Loud and proud"
Hillary Clinton is going out of her way to court LGBTQ voters, complete with a "Pride" section of her website that sells t-shirts featuring Clinton's face and the words "loud and proud." Count the article from the New York Times that details her efforts as part of a much longer chapter on how Clinton has quickly changed her tune on same-sex marriage. (The New York Times)
4. What's good for Trump is good news for Dems
Donald Trump is surging in the polls despite some offensive remarks about Mexican immigrants. Guess who's happy about that? Democrats, of course. They would be happy to make him the face of the Republican party, which is doing its best to woo Latino voters this election cycle. (The Washington Post)
Twin Cities officials backed $250 million in cuts to the proposed Southwest Corridor light rail line, hoping to rein in the line's ballooning costs and save the project. (MPR News)


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Depreciation can offer significant tax breaks to property investors, yet many fail to take full advantage of the savings available to them.
What type of deductions can I claim?
There are two basic types of depreciation allowances available to investors. Division 43 Capital Works Deductions and Division 40 Plant and Equipment Deductions.
Capital works deduction, also known as the building write-off, refers to the deductions available on your property's structure, including renovations.
Plant and equipment deduction refers to the deductions you can claim for items within your property – things like carpets, blinds, curtains and appliances.
The good news is that while only properties built after 15 September 1987 qualify for both types of deductions, there's no time limit for plant and equipment items – items that can have a big impact on your depreciation. While it's true that most newer buildings will have higher depreciation value due to more recent construction costs, older properties can still offer significant savings to investors.
Does my property qualify for deductions?
Most properties – no matter what the age – qualify for some level of depreciation, which means that the bigger question for investors is if there are enough deductions to justify going through the process of creating a formal depreciation schedule.
It's here that a quantity surveyor can be of help. By asking a few basic questions about your property, a qualified quantity surveyor will be able to identify your building's depreciable items and give you a reasonable indication of the amount of depreciation available. With this information, you can make a more informed decision about whether it's worth paying for a depreciation schedule before you go ahead and do it.
Because many investors rely on guesswork or frequently overlook depreciable items in their properties, it's estimated that up to 70 to 80% fail to maximise their deductions each year.
What about renovations?
As long as your property's an investment property and not used a principal place of residence, you're entitled to claim depreciation on all renovations completed after 15 September 1987 – including renovations made by and paid for by previous owners.
Specifically, you're entitled to claim 40 years' worth of deductions on building renovation costs at a rate of 2.5% per annum, as well as depreciation on plant and equipment items for the period of their useful life span. So, even if you don't qualify for other types of deductions due to the age of your property, more recent upgrades or additions (such as a new kitchen or patio), can significantly change the equation.
Claiming depreciation
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As an investor, maximising your depreciation can help put more money in your pocket at tax time. Since most reputable quantity surveying companies place a money-back guarantee on the value of their services, it pays to call a specialist quantity surveyor and get their advice.


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With the British pound diving to 30-year lows, plenty of Singaporeans have flocked to money changers in hopes of getting the best rate when buying pounds. It's free and provides an extra layer of security between your credit card and online shopping. Based in: Mountain View, Calif.; prices listed in Canadian dollars and ships to Canada. Best FREE Arkansas Classifieds Sites List For Post Free Advertising In The Local Market. After all, India is known of having some of the best spices in the world that can be used to create some of the best foods in the world, and that's just something that you want in its most authentic form. As a shopper you do not have to wait for the store to open or worry about the closing time because you can do your shopping anytime of the day from anywhere. These are the sites going to rule …Read More


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I've always wanted to eat a university meal. While a lot of meals in the cafeteria inside the university probably won't taste good. The shops surrounding universities often flourish for providing cheap but delicious meals to the hungry students.
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Gungjung Bossam (궁중 보쌈) is one such shop that has flourished beyond any other in the vicinity of Inha University. Come any weekday after 12 and I guarantee a queue of students from the university, made obvious by their varsity jackets. Gungjung Bossam serves only one thing, bossam. Bossam is a pork dish, consisting of belly meat boiled in spices and thinly sliced.
I came at 1130 to beat the lunch hour crowd and you would be seated and served immediately. There is only one dish here, the bossam, which is great because I won't have to be all awkward with my lack of Korean. It's also good to note that this place opens from 11am to 10pm, and is closed 3pm to 5pm to for a break.
Apart from the bossam, naengmyeon (cold noodles) topped with ice, sundubu jigae (spicy tofu stew), the usual pickles like kimchi and a bowl of rice. The pork was the star of the meal, in particular the sauce coating it, where other bossam would be just boiled in spices. The sauce gives it the salt it needs to be perfect wrapped with vegetables or with rice.
The portion was extremely generous and it was one of the best meals I've had so far. Of course, eating in a university town, one can expect the cost to be low. But, I did not expect it to be as low as 6,500 won per person! It actually used to be 6,000 won but I guess they, too, knew that it was too cheap.
I haven't found Seoul to be a particular cheap place to eat, but the cost performance for this one is a real pleasant surprise. It's no wonder this shop is the favorite for the students of the nearby Inha University.


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The major problems we face today with pesticides is its ability to remain in the air, in oceans, in the human body, and is attached to our fruits, vegetables, and meats which we intake. This in turn leads to permanent, serious health problems. Pesticides also harm natural animals, which live in fields, ponds, and other habitats that pesticides are sprayed in.
There are many different types of pesticides, nearly one for every specific type of task. Acaricides for mites, ticks, and spiders, Antimicrobial for bacteria and viruses, attractant which attracts pests for monitoring and killing, avicides for birds, fungicides for fungi, herbicides for weeds, insecticides for insects, molluscicides for snails and slugs, piscicides for fish, predacides for vertebrate predators, repellents to repel pests, rodenticide for rodents, and synergists which improves the performance of another pesticide.
Pesticides are used on 900,000 farms and 70 million households in America. Herbicides are the most popular, as they are used in agriculture and used widely on lawns to control weeds. Although farming consists of 75% use of all herbicides, it has been shown that households use the same amount of herbicides per acre as farmers. Pesticide use became widespread around World War 2, when new, inexpensive chemicals were introduced. Many began to use pesticides casually and profusely, and as a result the pests they were trying to eradicate became genetically immune to the chemicals, while plants and animals that were not targeted were harmed, and pesticides emerged in many unexpected areas.
Reference: ipm.ncsu.edu/safety/factsheets/pestuse
Pesticides and herbicides ruin the soil. Each gram of soil contains one billion microbes, which are destroyed when the chemicals enter the soil. Bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa are all micro-organisms that live within the top layer of soil. These micro-organisms are important to the decomposition in the soil and help recycle organic materials. They also help plants ingest the necessary nutrients needed to keep the plant healthy. Acenaphthene, a certain kind of PAH (Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is the term that defines numerous contaminants), is a chemical that attaches readily to soil. Over time, soil that has been chemically treated will decrease in nitrogen compounds, so more pesticide will be required.
Because of persistent use, pesticides and herbicides are ingrained into our agricultural crops. Nearly all PAHs are difficult to disintegrate with or in water, so PAH is also present in waterways. Thus, with the chemicals in soil and water, the plant's inner structure could become infested by absorbing the chemicals through the soil.
Surface runoff of pesticides into lakes and streams which then lead to the ocean is another issue. Agriculture also plays a large role in contamination; when the soil is tilled every year, rainwater shifts billions of tons of topsoil into waterways. Also many farms use herbicides excessively at unsuitable times such as high precipitation. This not only wastes the herbicides but produces large amounts of pollution which run off into downstreams. A chemical called organochlorine runs off land and into bodies of water, thereby also polluting the seafood supply. Fish are eaten mainly for their important source of fatty acids, but organochlorine becomes stored in the fatty tissue of fish and contaminates it. Another popular pesticide, DDT, is able to genetically change the gender of fish.
Chemicals in pesticides are proven to damage brain cells and the nervous system. One particular chemical, sarin, is able to harm memory, thinking, mood, muscle control, numerous brain functions, and block nerve conduction. Sarin changes the genes of proteins that are crucial to the brain and causes brain cell death in high amounts of exposure. Additionally, sarin alters a membrane that keeps toxic substances away from the brain, genes that help oxygen species from cell damage and control the aging process, and genes that generate growth and stress hormones.
References: truehealth.org, ipm.ncsu.edu
Since pesticides will most likely never be banned in the U.S., we should at most take more precautions and limit our use of pesticides. Another responsible option is to not spray herbicides next to or near widely used roads and public places. Several methods include the natural way of pulling weeds by hand, rotating crops, interplanting different crops together, using natural fertilizers, and insect traps and barriers.


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Blessed to have this amazing couple as my Pastors ! #thankful
We Love our Pastors and family!!!! They have given so much to us, spiritually, emotionally, financially and physically...We are so grateful and honored to serve with them and Jesus!!!#weshowhonor
A few years a go, I do not know if it was just a day for this but I was on facebook and it seemed one after the other post of people giving honor to where honor was due. I have to admit I was a little aggravated yet at the same time....TIRED. After all we had been through and it still seems we often have broken tools to build with. I just want to look up and say...Thank you so much.... Why do we even try! About the time you think your on a new level with a group they start acting like they know so much more than the vision God has given the pastor, when they actually they can not get their own lives together. It just seems to be one fire after another to put out. WELCOME to SMALL church! You scrape, save, give, work, love, spend, please, train, work, work work!!! Today I seemed to come upon that same thing one person after another giving honor to where honor was due......
90% of pastors report working between 55 to 75 hours per week and 50% feel unable to meet the demands of the job.
And 70% of pastors feel grossly underpaid.
Most pastors feel unprepared.
90% feel they are inadequately trained to cope with the ministry demands and 90% of pastors said the ministry was completely different than what they thought it would be like before they entered the ministry.
Many pastors struggle with depression and discouragement.
70% of pastors constantly fight depression and 50% of pastors feel so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other way of making a living.
Wait, this is huge. Let's pause here for a moment.
This means that half of the 1,700 or so pastors who leave the ministry each month have no other way of making a living. Their education and experience is wrapped up solely in the work of the ministry.
So, not only do pastors struggle with their choice to leave ministry, they have to worry about how they are going to feed their families.
Speaking of families, most pastor's families are negatively impacted.
80% believe pastoral ministry has negatively affected their families. 80% of spouses feel the pastor is overworked and feel left out and under-appreciated by church members.
Many pastors are lonely.
70% do not have someone they consider a close friend and 40% report serious conflict with a parishioner at least once a month.
And then there is this:
50% of the ministers starting out will not last 5 years. 1 out of every 10 ministers will actually retire as a minister in some form. And 4,000 new churches begin each year while 7,000 churches close.
"Whether you know it or not, pastors in the church work very hard. They do a lot of things publicly like preaching, teaching, visitation, and leading; but they also do quite a bit behind the scenes like counseling, studying, planning, and praying. Unfortunately, for many pastors, it has become a thankless job.
Let me begin by noting some important reasons to appreciate your pastors. First, there are many biblical mandates to do so. For example, in 1 Thessalonians 5:12, it says, "but we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction." Additionally, Galatians 6:6 tells us "the one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him." Finally in 1 Timothy 5:17, Paul writes, "the elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching." The phrase "all good things" in the Galatians passage and "double honor" in the 1 Timothy passage could even be interpreted as monetary or financial gifts for the pastor.
Pastors need encouragement because of all the pressure and stress that comes with the duties of the ministry. This includes sermon prep, budgeting, setting the vision for the ministry, meetings, training, and last but not least taking care of the congregation members. All this adds up to a lot of hours of stress." Benn Shin


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How to Clean Your Vinyl Records By Hand
Bill Jones
As fans of Vinyl Records, we here at Maplewood Records find ourselves defending the artform more and more as the "Vinyl Revival" spreads. Most of the complaints stem from the quality of the sound; the pops and hisses are said to be a nuisance. While a few pops add to the allure of the medium, a dirty record can vastly affect the sound quality of an LP. That being said, a thorough cleansing of your record is paramount to achieve the proper sound.Read More


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Welcome to The Len Anderson Memorial Bluebird Trail...it's for the birds.
Who Are We? The Len Anderson Memorial Bluebird Trail (formally known as The Clarence Bluebird Trail) is a volunteer effort to further Bluebird conservation by installing nesting boxes and then monitoring them. We have strategically placed 16 nesting boxes at
Here are some plans for building an Eastern Bluebird Nest Box. You can download a copy by clicking the image or this link. Please read the important information below. Important "If you build it, they will come, but your job has
Many of our photographs are from our nest boxes and some are from other photographers. All are copyrighted and required a written request for use.
The winter has been rough this year, but the Bluebirds are still around. The Eastern Bluebirds don't always leave the area for warmer pastures. If they can find sources of food, shelter, and water, they will chill out in your
Since we changed the name of our organization to honor our founder the late Len Anderson, we had to make a few changes to our site. Of course, that meant we also had to change our logo. I was able
It has been an interesting year for our little group of Bluebird lovers. There was lots of activity at our boxes this year. Here are the quick stats of 2018: We were lucky to have 15 Bluebird nesting attempts. Eight
We got a late start with our nest boxes this year due to the crazy weather, but we are busy now. We had to do some extra spring maintenance this year. Some of our boxes were older and damaged. We


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Featured Writer: Kari Langslet
Marriage and...Divorce
Brooklyn freelance stylist and writer Kari Langslet writes about how a Tinder match lead to a romantic elopement and then...divorce.
I feel a little weird writing about marriage, or perhaps "underqualified" is the better adjective? Either way, I was married. It was brief, but it happened. When I first moved to New York, I was absolutely enthralled by the dating scene there. Everyone was on this new Tinder app, even though there were thousands of more than eligible singles right outside your doorstep. Curious about Tinder, ready to start dating in my new home, and also not wanting to be in a committed relationship, I set out on a social experiment to go on 300 Tinder dates in one year. Long story short, I ended up eloping with someone I met on Tinder.
He was Lithuanian and living in Paris, and I'd had about enough of long distance relationships. I told him to quit his job and move in with me for three months at the end of his ESTA. I sold my car so we could have some money until he found a job. After one month, I told him that when the three months were up and he moved back to Paris, we would have to break up. I had been in a long distance relationship before, and it had nearly killed me. He said, "I don't want to break up." I said, "Me neither. Why don't we get married?" I know, I know, not necessarily the smartest decision, but romantic as fuck, right?
All was well at the beginning. Not typically marriage types, we were surprised at how easily we slipped into these "married people" identities. We both worked but made time for each other. We cooked (and by we, I mean me. Boy couldn't even make toast). Our nightly routine was to snuggle up on the couch with my dog, watching "Come Dine With Me" on youtube. Our life wasn't glamorous, but it was ours. It was sweet.
However, this was quickly to change. Our schedules were so different, with me working long days and him working nights at a restaurant. Both of us are socially active, but he started going out with his workmates and friends after every shift, getting completely fucked up on drugs and alcohol. We still had a couple of lazy days a week, but we started arguing more. We spent less time together. On top of that, I hated my job. I hated my job so much that my husband said he would work more and support us while I found a job I loved. I appreciated him for that. I had paid for everything when he first came out here before he had a job, and so it was a way of evening things out monetarily, as well.
He started working more shifts at the restaurant and became manager. He was also working at a gallery during the days, and he became resentful for working so much. If I wanted to see him, I would have to go into the city after-hours and hang out with his friends. When he came home at night, he would verbally abuse me for no reason. I was miserable. I told him over and over during sober discussions that I did not deserve nor tolerate that abuse. He apologized over and over, but nothing changed. I said that all I wanted was two days a week with him: one date night, one at home night, so we could try to repair the relationship. He couldn't even give that to me. Not to mention, I was sitting next to my best friend as she was swiping on Tinder, and his profile popped up. "Active two months ago."
It's not like I could just break up with him. We were married. We were married and sharing a dingy railroad apartment in Brooklyn. This was the reality I had chosen, to be legally joined with this man. After the twentieth argument about the same thing, with nothing changing, I gave myself a mental time frame. "Kari, if at this date you are still having the same argument and nothing is going to change, nothing will change. You are going to get out. You are going to get a divorce."
That day came. Things had gotten so terrible that I had asked him to move out so that maybe we could both reprioritize our relationship and make more time to appreciate each other since we weren't coming home to each other. Maybe we had taken for granted that the other would be at home waiting, no matter the time. Understandably, he was upset; we both were. That night, he ditched work and instead of coming home, he went to a party. He told me to come by, accused me of fucking the Uber driver, and made a scene in front of all of his friends. When he woke up the next day, instead of realizing his drunken mistake, he yelled at me again. That was the last straw. Time was up. I said I wanted a divorce, and filled out the paperwork there and then. We had been married only 10 months.
The next week was one of the most emotional weeks of my life. We agreed to wait to tell our families. Even though he'd been a terrible partner to me, he was also my best friend. I was losing my best friend, my partner in crime. What was my family going to think? How many "I told you so" responses would I get? Is there anyone with whom I feel comfortable enough to cry in their arms that's not him? It was a rollercoaster of ups and downs. We had agreed to stay friends through the divorce process, but it was so emotionally tolling on us both. He called me names, we cried together, we didn't speak, and then we did. As soon as I'd think that we could be friends again, we'd have a terrible argument. Our divorce didn't involve children, home ownership, alimony, or any of that, but it was still so fucking hard. I decided that for my own mental well-being, I would have to cut him off completely. Block him from everything. Not see him. This was almost like breaking up a second time.
I couldn't wait for the divorce to be finalized, I wanted to be free. I had felt so low and shackled down from the whole process. I wanted that weight, that burden, him to be off of my shoulders. On the day that the divorce was finalized, I was sitting at breakfast by the beach in Costa Rica. The email came through from the New York court system as I was eating my avocado toast: disposed. My marriage was disposed. All of those emotions—all the heartache, joy, pitfall, sadness, love, everything—ended in a single word. I felt relief with a tinge of sadness. I sat staring at that word—disposed—for a solid ten minutes before texting my mom and best friend that it was over.
That was five months ago. I'm happier now. I run into him on occasion, or hear about the girls he fucks in Brooklyn, but I don't care. I took some time off from dating to concentrate on myself and my projects, and I am slowly getting back into the dating scene. I downloaded tinder again the other day, but this time I promise not to marry anyone.
Kari Langslet
Website: karilangslet.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kari.langslet
Twitter: @karilangslet


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Canadian Olympic Committee president Marcel Aubut's vision and energy are bringing high-performance amateur sports in a very big way back to Montreal, Canada's first Olympic city as host of the 1976 Games.
Canadian Olympic Committee's five-ring beacon on Montreal's sports skyline
The Canadian Olympic Committee's footprint in Montreal is much wider and deeper than it was only a few years ago.
"We were one person in the basement of Olympic Stadium. And we had no window," says Marcel Aubut, the energetic, visionary president of the COC.
Aubut was speaking recently in what he calls the "war room" of the COC's offices, which are still taking shape in prime real estate at 500 René-Lévesque Blvd. W., near the corner of Beaver Hall Hill.
And his description is fitting because it looks like a bomb has hit this room, a glorious mess of paper, flip charts, calendar pages, engineering schematics, Post-it notes and a wall-sized white board covered with ideas and names and numbers.
On July 9, Aubut vows, all will be in order when Olympic House opens its doors with grand fanfare for a day-long, city-wide celebration of high-performance sport.
Canada Olympic Excellence Day will include a high-profile visit by International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, a German team-épée fencing gold medallist at the 1976 Montreal Games who is returning to the city for the first time as head of the IOC.
Bach will be presented with honorary citizenship and the key to the city by Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre in the morning, visit the headquarters of the World Anti-Doping Agency and then give the keynote address at a 2,000-plate fundraising luncheon at the Palais des congrès, a benefit for athletes through the Canadian Olympic Foundation.
From 6:30 p.m., in front of its new Montreal home, the COC will play host to Bach, political and corporate heavyweights, Canadian and world Olympic champions and a curious public for the gala opening of Olympic House with sports demonstrations and multimedia displays under the Future Olympians Festival banner.
The grand finale will feature live music, a performance by a troupe from the Cirque du Soleil, the lighting of a stylized LED Olympic flame at the front door and the illumination of the distinctive Olympic rings on the roof of the 30-storey building, whose face will be used as a giant, skyscraping projection screen for the event.
Many of Canada's great Olympians will be joined by 1976 Montreal gymnastics queen Nadia Comaneci and diver Greg Louganis, 1984 Sarajevo and 1988 Calgary figure-skating champion Katarina Witt, five-time Olympic speed-skating gold medallist Johann Olav Koss, and two-time gymnastics champion Bart Conner, who is Comaneci's husband.
Two sets of rings on the roof, and another installed at street level as a unique photo backdrop for visitors, are a coup for the COC. This will be the first time that the free-standing five interlocking Olympic rings will be permanently displayed in this fashion beyond the headquarters of the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Aubut says they quickly will become a beacon on Montreal's skyline.
The following day, the sports community of the Americas will turn its eyes to the opening of the Pan American Games in Toronto. It is there that the COC has its corporate office with the sports operation running out of Montreal, about 50 employees in each, and the staff here is expected to double.
"Now we have two very efficient major offices," Aubut said, "and where they are represents the reality of this country."
You don't interview this 67-year-old firecracker as much as you absorb the message he delivers in staccato bursts, glowing adjectives used for punctuation, your questions wedged in to fill in the blanks.
This was Aubut's style with the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League's Quebec Nordiques from 1978-95, from team president at age 30 to franchise owner, and as a mover and shaker in international hockey during the 1980s.
On this morning, hard-hats and office staff buzzing around him, Aubut is in fine form, displaying many pages of artist renderings of Olympic House while scribbling notes with a fountain pen on a lined pad, thinking aloud as a business leader, entrepreneur, cheerleader and lawyer — because he is all of those things.
Aubut will for an hour proudly detail the recent growth of the COC, which he came to lead in April 2010 when he began his first term as president, the first francophone so elected to the 68-year-old organization's top post. His second mandate will expire in 2017, at which time a new head must be elected.
While Aubut will leave the organization in robust financial and organizational health, setting a high bar for his successor, Olympic House clearly will be his physical legacy, a state-of-the-art multi-use business centre for Canadian sport that also will offer myriad opportunities for the corporate community.
The Lausanne Room's wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling multimedia technology will immerse anyone inside with the brand being promoted, be it the Olympic movement or the product or service of a company that might book this conference-room space.
In the lobby, to open early next year, will be the Olympic Experience, an area that will take visitors through Canada's rich sports history and offer 10 unique hands-on sport stations that often will be refreshed to keep visitors coming back.
Tied together by ribbons, which Aubut says symbolize those on Olympic medals, the stations will allow users to compete, in a virtual sense, against some of Canada's greatest Olympians, hopefully whetting the appetite of youngsters for high-performance sport and perhaps help broaden the country's talent pool.
Offices of the COC will occupy the panoramic ground floor and the second floor, prime real-estate in downtown Montreal. It's a far cry from the dark basement of Olympic Stadium occupied as recently as 2012, or the Cité du Havre Olympic House, demolished more than a decade ago, that was built as the governing body's offices and modest museum for the Montreal Olympics.
You can add salesman to the many titles of Aubut, who shortly after being elected head of the COC knocked on the door of Quebec's then-premier and former federal sport minister Jean Charest, a longtime friend.
Aubut told Charest that he needed office space to establish a major part of the COC's management in Montreal because the organization was scattered inefficiently between Toronto and Ottawa.
All that Aubut asked for was central downtown space, rent-free, for 20 years.
"Jean said, 'Are you crazy?' " Aubut recalled, laughing. "I told him I needed just two tools: to be in Montreal, Canada's first Olympic city, and free rent for 20 years."
Charest found Aubut government-leased space on the 19th floor of 500 René Lévesque Blvd. W. It was then that Aubut paid a courtesy call to his new landlord to introduce himself as a tenant.
But Georges Gantcheff, whose Cromwell Management real-estate giant owns the address, had a better idea. Gantcheff offered to broker a deal with the government to put the COC on the ground floor, where offices and a retail store selling COC-branded apparel and memorabilia would be visible from the street, and the floor above it.
The ground floor also would give the COC use of a spectacular outdoor terrace shared with neighbouring St. Patrick's Church and a traffic-free street between the two buildings, which could be used for Olympic-related events to engage the population.
"Georges told me: 'I think your cause is one for the youth of this country, to make this a better country,' " Aubut said of the developer.
More than offering the prime space, Gantcheff said he would pay to move the COC in lock, stock and biathlon rifle barrel, and absorb the cost of renovations.
With the federal and provincial governments and the city of Montreal chipping in $8.5 million and the physical space arranged by Gantcheff, Aubut shifted his networking skills into high gear. Soon he had businesses lined up to cover the remaining 45 per cent of a project that began in earnest last autumn.
Of the millions of dollars worth of rent and construction work for Olympic House, not a penny was diverted from programs earmarked for sport.
Approval for use of the previously untouchable Olympic rings, an idea dismissed in 2012 when Aubut broached the subject with then-IOC president Jacques Rogge, came last December in Monaco.
Aubut lobbied aggressively from inside one of new president Thomas Bach's committees. And Aubut's IOC-reform recommendation that access to the Olympic brand be extended for non-commercial use paved the way for the rings to be displayed as they will be in Montreal.
Even the manufacture of the famous symbol has been without cost to the COC; the rings were constructed for free in Edmunston, N.B., by a company of Vancouver billionaire Jim Pattison, a decades-long Aubut friend and former WHA franchise owner.
"Vancouver to Montreal to New Brunswick — a national project!" Aubut crows.
When the construction dust settles, the guests have left town and the Olympic rings are glowing over downtown Montreal, only then might the COC's boss consider how he helped transform Canadian high-performance sport.
"This is something that the sport system will benefit from for years to come," Aubut said. "When I was elected president, I wanted to make a better sport system.
"I wanted to have everybody realize what the Olympic movement is, what it could become, and what it could do for a better Canada."


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Bumblebee (PG-13)
Synopsis: On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Runtime: 01:54
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Pamela Adlon, John Cena, Stephen Schneider, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Jason Drucker, Kenneth Choi, Ricardo Hoyos, Abby Quinn, Rachel Crow
Release Date: December 21st, 2018
* "No passes" indicates that there are no discounts, promotional passes or complimentary passes accepted due to film company restrictions (rain checks are accepted).


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Impact of Swift to iOS apps and iOS developers
At the WWDC 2014 Apple announced that, they are introducing a new programming language called Swift aims to be Objective-C without baggage of C. This was totally unexpected to the developers but there was a big cheer from the audience. At least for more than 20 years Objective-C was used to develop native iOS and OSX apps. Time to time Apple managed to improve the performance of Objective-C and its VVM Compilers, to get maximum performance of the iOS and OSX devices they are manufacturing to the app.
But as some of the developers know, after iOS 7 was introduced most of the apps did not manage to perform well with iOS 7. There were few issues with memory management when developing an app to meet image editing and image processing client requirements. With upcoming iOS 8 , Apple introducing Swift to minimise issues like these and also to maximise the performance of features like generics, iterations, object orientation and memory management. According to apple Swift apps will be faster than Objective-C apps outperforming them by over 93x. This is a significant figure when it comes to dealing with iOS image processing and memory management.
Swift provides many more advantages to the developers by providing easy syntax and code structure. So the developers can get straight to the point. In objective-c even a simple print (NSLog); needs to pass the format validations. But in Swift you can just use println("") without a semicolon. And the playgrounds are another feature provided by Swift. Using playgrounds developers can see the realtime output of the code changes with out running the entire app in the simulator.
Even Swift is clearly more efficient and fast than objective-c, there will be a impact to the developers who is developing native iOS apps already. This is fair because a development language change of a particular product like iOS can turn everything upside down. But if you think of a object oriented programme as the real world and if you can understand the logic of the software which you are targeting to develop or the client is asking you to develop I think any developer can adjust to any Object-Oriented programming language.
We need to adjust and improve ourselves to compete with the fast moving world.


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" Christmas Lights " is by Coldplay, the British rock band. In 1996, the group was formed by Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland, initially calling themselves Pectoralz.
Guy Berryman then came on board, and the name became Starfish. The final lineup was completed when Will Champion joined; the name later changed for the third and final time to Coldplay in 1998.
The group released the first single, " Brothers & Sisters " in 1999. Released on vinyl by record label Fierce Panda Records ( a London-based independent record label ), only 1,500 copies were initially available. In the United Kingdom, the song reached a peak of number ninety-two on the UK Singles chart.
Their debut Album, Parachutes, was released by record label Parlophone ( Warner Music Group ) on the 10th of July 2000. Receiving positive reviews from critics, it was a commercial success.
Once released, Parachutes quickly reached the top of the UK Albums Chart in the United Kingdom. Since 2000 the Album has been certified 8× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry ( BPI ) with sales in the region of 2,670,000.
In the United States, it reached a peak of number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 Chart and had since been certified 2x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) with sales of over 2,000,000.
Coldplay won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2002. To date, Coldplay's Albums tally stands at seven studio, four live and six compilation. They have also released thirteen extended plays, forty-six singles, four promotional singles and forty-seven music videos.
In the United Kingdom, combined record sales are over five million, while in the United States the band have sold over 18.2 million Albums and 33.6 million song downloads. Worldwide record sales by the group have exceeded ninety-three million.
" Christmas Lights " was written by Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion. Production for the single was by Coldplay, Rik Simpson and Brian Eno.
Rik is a British multi-Grammy Award-winning record producer, sound engineer, musician and songwriter. He has worked extensively with Coldplay on many of their Albums, including Viva la Vida, Mylo Xyloto, Ghost Stories and A Head Full of Dreams. He has also produced for Jay-Z, Portishead, Kasabian, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and PJ Harvey.
Brian Eno is an English electronic musician, record producer and a music theorist, which is the study of the practices and the possibilities of music. Born in Suffolk, a county in England, on the 15th of May 1948, he is well known as a pioneer in rock, ambient, pop and electronic music. During his successful career, Brian has worked with many artists including David Bowie, Ultravox, Talking Heads and U2.
The song was released on the 1st of December 2010 as a digital download by record labels Parlophone ( Warner Music Group ) and Capitol ( Universal Music Group ), as a stand-alone release, the song doesn't feature on any Album released around that time.
The accompanying music video was directed by Mat Whitecross, the British music and documentary film director. Along with working with Coldplay, Mat has directed music videos for many artists including The Rolling Stones, Take That and Jay-Z.
He has directed many feature films on a wide range of subjects, his first, co-directed with fellow Brit Michael Winterbottom, was The Road to Guantanamo, which won the award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006.
The video features one hundred fans of the band. Also making an appearance are three violin-playing Elvises. They are played by Simon Pegg, the British actor, Phil Harvey, who is known as the fifth member of Coldplay and Tim Crompton, a friend of the band.
Written across the top of the stage is " Credo Elvem Etiam Vivere ", Latin for " I Believe Elvis Yet Lives ". There is some likelihood the Latin phrase is a reference to the three Elvises that appear in the video.
" Christmas Lights " was a commercial success for Coldplay. In the United States, the song debuted and peaked at number twenty-five on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, spending three weeks on the chart there.
It also performed well on other Billboard charts reaching number twelve on the Hot Digital Songs, twenty-two on the Adult Alternative Songs, twenty-eight on the Adult Contemporary and number forty-six on the US Rock Songs.
In the United Kingdom, the song entered the UK Singles Chart on the 11th of December 2010 and reached a peak of number thirteen. It spent three weeks in the Top Twenty and a total of eighteen weeks on the Uk chart.
Coldplay's Christmas tune also charted inside the Top Ten in Belgium ( Flanders ), Belgium ( Wallonia ), Finland, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands and Norway.
BillBoard Hot 100 Highest Chart Position: 25
UK Highest Chart Position: 13
Other Countries Highest Chart Positions: Australia (ARIA) 32, Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) 40, Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) 9, Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) 8, Brazilian Singles Chart (ABPD) 84, Canada (Canadian Hot 100) 18, Denmark (Tracklisten) 10, Finland (Suomen virallinen lista) 3, Germany (Official German Charts) 26, Iceland (RÚV) 4, Italy (FIMI) 2, Latvia (European Hit Radio) 17, Netherlands (Single Top 100) 2, New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) 34, Norway (VG-lista) 8, Poland (OLiS) 23, Slovakia (IFPI) 72, Spain (PROMUSICAE) 14, Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) 25, Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 46
Official Website: Coldplay.com
FaceBook Page: Facebook.com/coldplay
Twitter: Twitter.com/coldplay
Wikipedia Page: Wikipedia.org/ColdplayChristmas Pop, Groups christmas lightschristmas lights coldplaycoldplay


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MO PRO Shifts into High Gear
MO PRO Shifts into High Gear
Get ready for the Missouri Professional Cycling Series, a three-day competitive cycling extravaganza across three STL neighborhoods, starting Friday, May 11.
The LOOP de LOOP Grand Prix kicks off the race weekend, featuring a course through the Delmar Loop, at dusk. A brand-new addition to the weekend, this course features two long straightaways and a slightly uphill finish, with $5,000 in cash prizes awarded to devoted cyclists.
The central attraction of the weekend is Tour de Grove, a full day of competitive cycling and outdoor activities on Saturday, May 12, bringing the skilled cyclists from across the country to experience St. Louis' beauty and splendor firsthand. In addition to being the highest-paying single-day race in Missouri, it is also the only race in the region to appear on the prestigious USA Cycling National Criterium Calendar (NCC), and includes a full day of free events, a 5K run and kids' races and street sprints in the evening.
The final stage of the event is the Dutchtown Classic, a course in one of South St. Louis' fastest-growing communities. The entire weekend promises to bring competitive excitement, fun fitness events and a wealth of professional cycling talent to St. Louis. Register and find more information at tourdegrove.com.
Missouri Professional Cycling Series


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You may find dozens of web alluring hosting offers when you are searching for a reliable and robust web hosting service, but choosing the best is really tricky and time-consuming. Large businesses can afford hundreds and at times thousands of dollars each year on dedicated hosting or virtual private servers (VPS). But small businesses and individuals (freelancers/professionals/bloggers) have limited budget and so, shared hosting is one cost-effective option for them.
When you've a limited budget, finding the best shared hosting is a daunting task. Honestly speaking, the most popular shared hosting services are neither budget friendly, nor they are as efficient as they claim. So, the best way to find web hosting service (especially when you are on tight budget) is to read the fine print, i.e. the web hosting service reviews. But again, when it comes to read the reviews, beware that the review is not a sponsored article. Mostly paid reviews are biased and so are misleading.
This article is also about a web hosting service review and certainly it's not a paid review. We're proudly hosted by DedicatedNode.com, and the purpose of this article is to spread the word about this service to all those small businesses and individuals who are looking for reliable web hosting service on budget.
Let me start with our very own story; we moved to DedicatedNode because the previous host had frequent down time and server was too slow. We found DedicatedNode at Web Hosting Talk Forum, where they were running a promotion and we selected the service based on following criteria:
1- Budget: Yes, this is actually budget friendly. Moreover, the promo code entitled us further discount, which made the package way too budget friendly. I am not sure, if they have the same promotion valid till now or not, but you can always ask them about current offers, the support is extremely efficient (I will discuss it further later).
2- Features: Everything from Disk Space to Bandwidth, cPanel/WHM, Scripts, etc. meets the industry standards.
3- Uptime Guarantee: That was the main reason for us to move the website to new server. Though there's no way to check uptime guarantee of a web hosting service until you use it at first, but let me tell you a trick to know it even before signing up. Check the online support, the faster and more accurately they answer your queries, means the more optimized solutions this company is providing. And yes, for DedicatedNode, it's Thumbs Up!
4- Support: Efficient support is a must for a web hosting company to keep its customers growing, because the company will grow when the customers will grow. In case of their support, it was probably the most professional response we got from a web hosting company so far. Due to old server instability, server migration was way too laborious for the cost of whole order, but still they went beyond the promised service to help us.
If you know your hosting needs well, do check with them; whether you are looking for shared hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private servers or dedicated servers, they have it all!


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Nier Automata gaming director Yoko Taro, is here to announce the awesome news and future events for the Nier Automata community. Nier Automata exceeded expectations from Square Enix and Platnium Games Inc. and the Yoko Taro is pleased and shows his gratitude, check out the video below it is quite amusing yet heartfelt.
Date published: 10/03/18
Written by: Joseph Opoku
Source: (1) Nier Game [Twitter]
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Google search "the best CV construction" and all of the first few are CVs for the building trade. So, I tried "the best CV standard" – 215,000,000 in 0.6 of a second. Probably safe to say then that, errors or chronic nonsense apart, there is no black and white.
When I write LinkedIn profiles for clients, my opening advice is always standard: if the platform's own numbers are to be believed, in 2017 there are roughly 0.5 billion profiles. So, if anyone says, "that must be a paragraph", "that can only be 1 line", "that can't be added", and so on – walk away, its rubbish.
Does the same apply to CVs? Are there so many differences of opinion because there are 215 million+ "right" ways. Of course not. Apart from anything, the figure is for number of entries not number of opinions which differ. But, are there differences of opinion which allow for CV variation – with none of them being wrong? Yes. But are there ground rules which should – must? – apply to every CV? Absolutely.
So, many conflicting recommendations out there. Should you keep it to one page? Do you put a summary at the top? Do you include personal interests and volunteering? This may be your best chance to make a good first impression, so you've got to get it right.
I hope I'm not arrogant enough to call myself a cast-iron expert. That said, I do like to think that 15 years in, and with a healthy LinkedIn, I know a bit about what makes a quality CV.
Clients often ask me, within 5 minutes of my receiving the job, when can I have my CV. They forget I may have other clients. The relevance? Don't think you're going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. You have to think carefully about what to say and how to say it so the employer thinks, "This person can do what I need done". Remember, it's more than a CV, it's a marketing document.
They key is understanding the difference between – but crucially, balancing – perception and content. If the perception, *pre-read* is huge sections, block paragraphs, long sentences – in other words, as I say to clients, the recruiter thinking "he's making me work" – then you could be Neil Armstrong or the Pope, but they won't keep reading. You need to "be them" not think you know what they want and put that in a CV – all that does is tell them you haven't "been them".
Open strongly – you're past the perception, now don't lose the impact:
The first line or 2 are critically important – start with a summary of your expertise. You'll have the opportunity to expand on your experience further down in your CV and in your cover letter. For now, keep it short. I advise clients in advance that they should expect a summary of no more than 2 – 3 lines. Many are flabbergasted to hear this but when they understand the methodology, they understand why.
To my mind, it should consist of a descriptor or job title like, "senior programme manager with 20 years' UK public sector experience, primarily central Government and the NHS". Or "business development executive with 12+ years' experience designing, leading, and implementing a range of £20m+ corporate growth and realignment initiatives, primarily in retail and supply chain"
Get the order right:
If you're switching industries, don't launch into job experience that the recruiter probably won't think is relevant. Possibly add accomplishments right after the opener – it can bridge the experience and the job requirements. That said, this is moot. I prefer the accomplishments to be contextual, placed within a role. To me, it gives the reader a framework. "I worked for X, for 4 years; within that, I did A, B and C; and in that context, I achieved X, Y and Z" But I fully accept there is no right or wrong.
Depending on where accomplishments are placed, if you add it, list your employment history and related experience. Then add any relevant education. Some people want to put their education at the top. That might be appropriate in academia but for a business CV, you should highlight your work experience first, and save your degrees and certifications for the end.
And that ever-popular "skills" section? If you have expertise with a specific type of software, for example, include it in the experience section. And if it's a drop-dead requirement for the job, also include it in the summary at the very top. Again, I feel, moot. I usually have a separate skills section immediately below the summary but it, too, is totally specific – IT tools, languages, supply chain, etc. Not "project management – budget, resource, etc. Everybody has that. Again, "be" the reader.
Be selective:
It's tempting to list every job, accomplishment, volunteer assignment, skill, and degree you've ever had. But don't. A CV is not meant to be comprehensive – as I advise the clients, we need to draw the "CV purpose vs. interview distinction". This applies to volunteer work as well. Only include it as part of your experience — right along with your paid jobs — if it's relevant.
Share accomplishments, not responsibilities – this doesn't conflict with the above; rather, it's about balance. Full of "I managed 10 people", "I ran the office" and so on – boring and banal. But some of that needs to be there, I feel, to provide the framework.
Arguably, 95% of what you talk about should be accomplishments. "I managed a team of 10" doesn't say much. But did everyone in your team earn promotions? Did they exceed their targets? Give tangible, concrete examples. If you're able to attach percentages or £ signs, people will pay even more attention. Numbers are a winner. And, where possible, give £ not just %. Again, context. 12% may be a huge figure to you but the reader doesn't know that. If 12% was £12.4 million, you must include that.
Make it readable:
Stop fiddling with the margins, font, layout – yes, they must be good but the lovely look at the expense of any meaningful content is an absolute no. Any more than 2, debatably 3, pages and it shows that you can't edit. You can supplement what's on the page with links to your work or publications. Some writers feel they shouldn't just include the URL – in fact most writers have never even thought of inserting that; I've done it for years. Tell them in a brief, one-line phrase what's so important about the work you're providing.
And stick to the most common fonts. It's not how fancy it is. It's how clear, clean, and elegant it is in its simplicity. This is also ATS's favourite. It doesn't always like tables, boxes, graphics, etc. Top-down, free-flow, simple is good. Vary the line length and avoid crammed text or paragraphs that look identical. The goal is to include enough white space so that a recruiter wants to keep reading. Arial and Calibri usually go down well; Gothic won't.
Tweak it for each opportunity:
Don't think you can get away with having just one CV. You can have the 1 CV that compellingly articulates the most important information, but you have to alter it for each opportunity. Of course, you may need to write the first version as your template – 90% of it is what you will use each time. But for each subsequent one, you need context. Research the organisation. Talk to someone — or ideally two or three people — who've worked there before, work there now, or otherwise know the organisation. Then tweak it for the position, the industry, etc. What words or experiences do I need to highlight? What can I get rid of because it's not relevant? They don't have to be very different, but they need to do the job for each situation.
Align your LinkedIn profile:
Your LinkedIn profile is sometimes just as important as your CV. If you don't have one, get one immediately. And remember it's not the same as a CV. You also want to tweak the tone. For example, the summary section may be written in the first person. It gives you the opportunity to present yourself as a living, breathing human being. Again, however, all of this is moot – rules – yes; some areas a categoric no – yes.
Principles to Remember:
Start with a short summary of who you are and why you're the right person for the job
Emphasise accomplishments more than responsibilities
Create a new version of your CV for every opportunity
Use clichés — explain what makes you a good candidate in concrete, specific words
Cram text in or use a small font size — it must be readable
Most of my clients and I view the process as a collaboration, not my diktat. That I understand their specifications and steer, and take on their views. But they also understand they've come to me for a reason – because I write CVs, not manage IT infrastructure. If the collaboration and the areas of CV flexibility are handled well, the client has the best chance they can. Whether they use it correctly is a different thing!


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Freedom Insurance Group (FIG) A Hidden Gem?
Possibly An Insurance Jewel
No one seems to have heard of this stock, and sure, its probably not the most exciting story, but we believe at current prices, FIG is not priced to fair value.
To summarise FIG, the Company sells life insurance products through direct channel sales. This means they're able to offer simple and affordable products. These include funeral expenses, accident insurance, life insurance, income protection…
In 2015, FIG acquired Spectrum – a life insurance focused dealer group who utilises indirect sales channels. This we see as very synergistic!
So, why do we think this will be a winner? Well there are a bunch of positive trends going for FIG:
- Australian population in comparison to other developed nations are under-insured
- Australian economy keeps on growing with wealth building equating to more disposable income
- Policy premiums are positively correlated to inflation and Australian inflation has been positive for many years
- Population growth (forecast to grow by 25% to 2025)
- Ageing population and premiums charged tend to increase with age; and
- Prolonged workforce participation with retirement age pushed further and further away.
Not a bad set of positive factors which equate to 10% insurance growth per annum.
Alongside, FIG fundamentally looks very attractive, valuation-wise, and really, you can't fault it's FY17 result or its FY18 outlook, so the weakness we have seen presents a good buying opportunity. We see the weakness due to a negative sentiment associated with the insurance sector, escrowed shares released, and lack of interest in a pretty simple but boring insurance business – which is very competitive.
~$26.9M cash & equivalents, no debt, and the results as below:Based on their FY17 earnings, they are trading on a 9.7x multiple at 65 cents. With a positive outlook, you would think with this level of growth, this story has some potential for a re-rating.
Technically speaking, we'd like to see a stronger support base formed before entering!


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Studio LOL offers one of the most unique birthday parties in town. A 2.5-hour party at our location includes instruction in fun and upbeat improv games, mealtime, and a performance for family and friends at pick-up. Because parents are required to drop off, the minimum age is 7. Our space and curriculum are best suited for smaller parties. (The maximum number of students is 16, with about 12 students being most ideal.) We take care of the set-up, entertainment, and location. You take care of the invites, food, cake, utensils, and favors. Once the party starts, it's a hands-off experience for the birthday parent, with us providing set-up, jam-packed entertainment, serving of food/drink/cake, and clean-up. You're free to relax in our lobby, stay in class and take pictures, or even drop off and return for the show and cake. (The birthday child and guests will put on an improv comedy show for all parents for the last 45 minutes of the party.) The cost is $395, with a $150 non-refundable deposit due upon booking. Email email@example.com to check availability.
Parents are invited to drop off the kids and take the night off. In the meantime, we transform our studio into a movie theater and host a pizza dinner and a screening of a funny movie, followed by some just-for-fun improv games. Ages 4 and up. $35/child. (Siblings pay half.) The following are welcome: PJs, pillows, blankets, and playdates. Please follow us on social media to keep up with the Movie Night schedule.
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Throughout the years, my photography has been motivated by the excitement of creating an interesting image. If I am walking through the forest or geared up in the studio, I look forward to capturing a moment in time that is meaningful in some way. Being a portrait photographer brings another variable in to the image that makes photography that much more fulfilling. The human face is probably the most identifiable images in the world. The expressions of the face combined with the available light and visual perspective provide infinite possibilities for photography.
With the ability to influence factors such as expression, light, and perspective, I am able to deliver particular images for my clients' needs. Each client is unique with his or her appearance and particular needs for the images. Some people need a professional head shot to convey confidence and credibility. Head shots for modeling, acting, and personal profile all have the power to give you legitimacy and the crucial edge you need in today's competitive world. A quality head shot is a sure way to draw the right attention to you and help realize your goals. With any type of professional head shot, you want to look your very best.
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*Head Shots/portraits - Two outfits, four final, fully edited, high resolution, digital images. $299 plus tax. Each additional look (outfit change) - $50.
*Weddings - Since weddings vary so much from event to event, I like to consult with the wedding party before giving a quote. Generally the fee could be estimated at $500 per hour of event time.
What to expect can you expect on a portrait shoot?
I look forward to all photo shoots. If I am taking pictures of artwork or a sporting event, I really enjoy it. Most of my photography assignments are portraits. There are many styles of portraits, but I find myself mostly shooting headshots.
Headshots are the most popular request, because people need them as a profile photo for a website, public event, or news article. Even though headshots are the most popular, they seem to be the shot that clients feel the most uncomfortable doing. Most clients have never had a headshot before and might be nervous or confused on what to do. It is really quite simple, since I will guide you through the whole process.
The most important thing for you to do is to come ready. Hair, makeup, and clothes are the three things to focus on. Men mainly concentrate on hair and clothing. Come to the photo shoot ready. The final images will show a lot of detail, so grooming the face is important. Before the shoot, take a second look to see if there is unwanted nose hair, eyebrow hair, or ear hair. This will make the editing a lot easier.
I do retouch all of the headshots, to a certain degree. Per request, I can to as little or as much as you want me to do. But normally, I remove things that are temporary or unintended like pimples, out of place hair, and skin discoloration. I normally keep wrinkles in, but do reduce the overall appearance of them during editing. Moles and scars I leave in, unless you want me to remove/reduce them.
What to wear? I leave that up to you. Generally, I recommend something nice and presentable. It can be a t-shirt or a suit and tie. Either way, make sure that the clothing is wrinkle free and and lint free. I think mid tone colors are always nice for portraits. Try to avoid choosing bold patterns such as plaid, stripes, or polka dots. It is also a good idea to avoid graphics and logos on your clothing. I want the focus to be on you and not what you are wearing.
Photo shoots are fun and I will put you in a great frame of mind when we are shooting. The goal is to make you look as good as you can. If you are like me, you can think of times when someone took a casual picture of you and you just hated it. You might also remember a time when you saw a photo of yourself and though it was pretty good. You might have even cropped it and enlarged it to try to use the photo as a profile picture. My goals is to get "the look" that you like most about yourself. I want you to be happy with your image and give you confidence putting that image out there for the world to see. Whether your audience is your fans, employees, or customers, your portrait is very important.
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A round-up of results featuring Tyne Bridge Harriers (updated 26th November 2018, including New York Marathon). Please send Adam Jones an email if your event or result is missing, or you ran a Personal Best during an event. Run Northumberland Big 10M: Sunday 25th November 2018 Norman Woodcock Relays: Saturday 24th November 2018 …
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Results round-up: November 2018
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Results round-up: November 2016
A round-up of results featuring Tyne Bridge Harriers. (updated 27 November 2016) South Shields Monthly Mile: Tuesday 1st November 2016 Norman Woodcock 5M: Saturday 5th November 2016 Leeds Abbey Dash 10K: Sunday 6th November 2016 Guy Fawkes 10 Mile: Sunday 6th November 2016 …
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A round-up of recent race results featuring Tyne Bridge Harriers. ECCA Cross-Country Relays (Mansfield): Saturday 31 October 2015 'A' team – 1:10:48 (Position 54th of 149) 16:35 James Dunce 17:29 Alex Polding 18:02 Paul Turnbull 18:41 Finn Brodie 'B' team – 1:19:46 (Position 115 of 149) 19:21 David Anderson 19:55 Charlie Townsend 19:35 …
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So this is what the first bag looks like, not pretty, but it's helping me to shape the design further, and to understand the contruction, which most people will tell you I'm not great at, so this is a really good learning curve for me.
I'm continuing on with my tasks for 2013, and it's going quite well so far. I do feel I need to burn off some physical energy somehow but it's so cold and frosty outside that I don't fancy doing anything too strenuous. Maybe a walk to the shops later will be on the cards.


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Putin: I want an apology or an offer to make up the damages from the Turks over downed jet
Vladimir Putin has complained that he has received neither an apology from Turkey nor an offer "to make up for the damages" following the downing of a Russian warplane.
The Russian president also said Turkey has not given any assurances that "the culprits of this crime" will be punished.
Previously warm relations between the two countries have soured after Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 on a bombing mission near the Syria border on Tuesday.
Russia insisted that its plane never violated the Turkish airspace as Turkey claimed.
Speaking at the Kremlin, Mr Putin said he regretted the fact that relations between Turkey and Russia have been driven into a stalemate.
His remarks came after Turkey released audio recordings of what it says are the Turkish military's repeated warnings to the pilot of the Russian plane before it was shot down.
The recordings indicate the plane was warned several times that it was approaching Turkey's airspace, and asked to change course.
The series of 10 audio clips were released by the Turkish prime minister's office and sourced to the Turkish Armed Forces.
In the recordings, a voice is heard saying in broken English: "This is Turkish Air Force speaking on guard. You are approaching Turkish airspace. Change your heading south immediately."
Most of the audio is garbled and barely comprehensible but the tone of the voice gets more agitated as the warnings appear to go unnoticed.
The audio that was released only involved Turkish warnings, no replies by a Russian pilot.
It was not clear whether Russian replies were received but not released by the Turkish government, or whether the Russian pilots never replied to - or never heard - the warnings.
One of the Russian pilots was killed by militants in Syria after ejecting from the plane, while his crewmate was rescued by Syrian army commandos. A Russian marine was also killed by the militants during the rescue mission.
Speaking in televised comments from the Russian base in Syria, the surviving navigator of the downed plane, Captain Konstantin Murakhtin, insisted the plane did not enter Turkish airspace "even for a single second".
Russia announced on Wednesday it will deploy long-range air defence missiles to its base in Syria and destroy any target that may threaten its warplanes.
The state-run Ria Novosti news agency quoted its own reporter in Syria as saying that S-400 missiles were delivered on Thursday.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan later hit back at Russia, accusing it of using its fight against Islamic State in Syria as a pretext to target opposition groups in a bid to strengthen Syrian president Bashar Assad.
Without naming Russia openly, Mr Erdogan also challenged the country to prove its accusation that Turkey is buying oil and gas from IS, and called the claims "shameful".
He said Turkey was the country leading the most serious fight against IS, saying it had detained thousands of militants over the past few years.
Mr Erdogan added that Turkey had not specifically targeted Russia when it shot down the plane, saying it was "an automatic response" in line with its rules of engagement.
He said: "Faced with the same violation today, Turkey would give the same response."
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The original Yankees Baby Boom started around 1937 or so, and lasted about five years. These are the fans, many of them retired now, many of them having spawned two (and in some cases three) generations of Yankees fans, who came of age following the Yankees just after World War II ended, just as Joe DiMaggio was returning from the Army, just as the Yankees prepared to unleash the most fearsome dynasty baseball has ever seen.
Until now, that is.
Back then, if you were anywhere between 5 and 10 years old beginning in 1947, the Yankees became almost as much of a sure thing as sunrises, regular Cold War paranoia and Milton Berle. Over the next 18 seasons, the Yankees would play in 15 World Series, winning 10. An 8-year-old kid making his first foray to Yankee Stadium in that summer of '47 would be 26 before the harsh realities of 1965 would rise up and offer unwanted perspective for how the other half of baseball sometimes lived.
"In those years," Leonard Koppett, who worked for both The Post and the New York Times across a long and distinguished newspaper career, once wrote, "It was death, taxes, and the Yankees in October. Those were sure things. Those were the only things anyone ever knew. It was accepted. It was part of life. For better and for worse."
The present incarnation of the Yankees, though, is beginning to make that glorious period seem akin to the sufferings of Cubs fans. Let's use the same standard. Let¹s just talk about future fans who were born between the years of 1984 and 1989. The 8-year-old who made his first trek to Yankee Stadium in 1994, just before the most recent labor strife, saw a Yankees team that would have run away with the American League East, and likely would¹ve played in the World Series.
Well, that 8-year-old is now 24. He (or she) has gone through grade school, through junior high, through high school and college and is now in his or her third year in the work force. Maybe he or she has gotten married and started a family, spawning yet another generation of junior Yankees fans, and is thinking about buying a modest season-ticket plan if things are good at the office.
This is what that fan has known:
Five world championships. Seven pennants. Fourteen postseason berths in 16 years, with the only exceptions being the strike that amputated the end of the Œ94 season and an 89-win season in 2008 that hardly can be termed calamitous. And that¹s just what already has been witnessed. The roster is loaded. The coffers are flush. There is no reason to believe that wide-eyed 8-year-old won¹t experience continued success until he (or she) is well into their 30s. Or 40s.
Is this good for baseball? That is another question, to be pondered on another day, in the pages of another magazine.
The fact is, it is good for that 8-year-old, and for all the kids who came to the Yankees in the years after the team¹s last tour through the desert. It is almost impossible to remember the years 1989 through 1992, when the Yankees went, consecutively, 74-87, 67-95, 71-91 and 76-86.
Fans of a certain age must look at those years and wonder how such egregious typos could be allowed to exist, same as fans of another age probably wondered how the world could have gone so terribly upside-down between 1965 and 1975. The Yankees actually finished in last place? Can you even conceive of that? Can you fathom it? Can it happen again? It could; baseball is supposed to be cyclical that way.
There was a time when the Cubs were the model baseball franchise. There was a time it seemed the Pirates would win 95 games every single year. There was a time when the Mets (and the Giants before them) owned the deed to New York City. It¹s just that this era of Yankee supremacy is so deeply rooted. They have the most stars. They have the most resources. They boast the highest expectations. And can display the highest degree of success.
A century ago, an old New York Giant named Larry Doyle once gushed, "It's great to be young and a Giant!" A hundred years later, that can be so easily paraphrased.
It's great to be young (or old, or somewhere in between) and be a Yankees fan. It's as great as anything in all of baseball.


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So, more shopping today. We went to Tempo, the big supermarket near Ada Ciganlija, Belgrade's Lake, and did a big shop! On the way to Dragan's mum's place, we stopped at her local 'pijac' (open air market) called Vidikovac and bought yet more delicious food.
Baka Dana (Grandma Dana), Dragan's mum, loves 'čvarci' (homemade pork scratchings) so we bought a huge bag for her. Dragan loves them too, but they're not my cup of tea. He was relieved, there's more for the two of them. We also bought some 'pita sa višnjama' (sour cherry pie with filo pastry), which was cooked in a round metal pan on hot coals. I took a photo of the pies cooking on the coals, which surprised the people working there.
There is also a tiled indoor section of the pijac, which has stalls selling cheese, 'kajmak' (fermented milk butter), smoked meat and pastry. Filo pastry is a speciality here and still made by hand by some people. We bought fresh filo pastry and plan to make 'pita sa jabukama' (apple pie). The lady selling the filo had a large photo of Putin on the wall and said we can only buy from her if we like Russia! Her son is living and working in Siberia.
Dragan has a relative who has a farm 40 miles away in a village where his father was born, who brings cheese and kajmak to sell at the pijac every Sunday. I have fond memories of a visit to that village when Aleks was a baby and Dragan's parents used to spend summers on a small plot of land there. That particular summer was hot and I wandered off and started picking peppers from the veg patch on the plot. I only knew the toungue twister but had never picked a 'peck of peppers' in my life. The peppers were big, deep red and lush. When I snapped them from their stalks it was a great feeling. I couldn't stop! Dragan found me and said 'um darling, they're not our peppers! A cousin is growing them here.' For a split second I thought I could try and stick them all back on again, I didn't want to upset my new parents-in-law! It all turned out fine and we ate some with BBQd meat later on.
Going back to Dragan's relative, she sells cheese at the pijac at weekends (she's 72). She kissed all 3 of us on the cheek 3 times and said 'oh lutko' (which means 'doll') to Aleks and gave him a cuddle. The cheese is all artisan, known as mladi (literally young - meaning mild) or stari (literally old – meaning mature). She tried to give Dragan some cheese to take home and for his mother, but he managed to evade her – this time. Dragan is very fond of her and promised to go and visit the family in the village. No more pepper picking though!
We bought a mountain of smoked beef and pork, which is deeply smokey, salty and dark. Wonderful for breakfast with 'paradajz' (tomato) and olive oil from the Dalmatian Coast.
It's very refreshing being the only tourist in Vidikovac Pijac. But to keep the prices down, I keep stum when we are buying goods from the stalls, because my English accent would invite higher prices.
A big day in Aleks's life – today he went to school for the first time in Serbia. It was an early start 7.50am and his teacher met all 3 of us at the main entrance. She is very sweet and phoned us at 7.30am to say that she had been thinking about Aleks all weekend and how best to help him settle in. Dragan and I were very impressed with this. She only speaks a little bit of English and used Google translate to prepare some maths questions for Aleks.
In the foyer there is a large painting of Sveti Sava, the patron saint of education, by the stairs watching over the children. Children were arriving with their coats and backpacks, but they don't have to wear uniform, which Aleks definitely approves of.
The school has an unusual name by British standards – 'The School of the Defenders of Belgrade'. OK so we need to go carefully here, this does not mean that the school kids are the defenders of Belgrade! The school is right next to a park, which commemorates the fallen Serbian and Russian soldiers who liberated Belgrade toward the end of WW2. It is merely its location next to the park and cemetery of fallen liberators, which gives the school its name. With the propaganda that we were fed about Eastern Bloc countries by the West, this School's name sounds strange to the Western ear.
Aleks had 4 lessons; PE, Maths, Serbian and 'čuvari prirode' (nature studies). Each class is 45 minutes long and there is a 5 minute break between classes. Halfway through the morning, there is a 25 minute break when Aleks had a sandwich and played football with his new friends.
Dragan and I picked him up at 12.30 and the class were with their teacher in the playground, playing a version of 'stuck in the mud' called 'Jurke'. Aleks really enjoyed his first day at school and coped really well. He was chuffed to make some friends too.
Whilst Aleks was at school, Dragan and I stole some time together and went for a walk through the city. It was cold, windy and sunny. The air is dry, unlike Exeter, which is usually murky and grey.
So, Dragan and I walked to Palilulska Pijaca (permanent farmer's market, one of many in the city) near our flat, had a little mosey and then wondered past St Marks Church and its small neighbour, the Russian Church. I was chatting to Dragan in English as a tall young man in jeans and a leather jacket turned to talk to me. He said, 'where are you from?' with a Serbian accent and I said 'England'. He said 'this is the Russian Church' and I said 'oh yes I know my husband is from Belgrade'. He instantly dropped into Serbian and apologised. Dragan reassured him and then said to him, 'I know you from somewhere, are you an actor?'
It out turned he was Miloš Biković, one of the main actors in the Serbian film Montevideo. Naturally I ended up having my photo taken with him!
On a tragic note, in that area, are the remains of the Serbian TV station that was bombed in 1999 by Nato. I took a few photos, the whole of one side of the building was blown off and a sink is still attached forlornly to the wall. 16 people were killed when the building was bombed.


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Hoffman does it by a split second
DNS Sports sprinter Nolan Hoffman edged Ryan Harris by a split second to bag yet another 106km Herald Continental Cycle Tour victory at Pollok Beach in Summerstrand on Su n d ay. It took a couple of minutes for the winner to be announced as race officials decided the 2019 champion after Hoffman and Harris crossed the finish line neck-and-neck in two hours, 32 minutes and 14 s e co n d s .
Gustav Basson was third and credited with the same t i m e. Hoffman, 32, said the 2019 race was probably the hardest he had ever done. "If you were thinking of giving up then you had lost the race already," the multiple former champion said. "I just had to put my head down and hope the guy in front of me was holding the wh e e l . "Fortunately, I managed to stay with Clint Hendricks because I know he is a strong rider in the crosswinds. "It worked out well." Despite the win, the Capetonian said he was not 100% his best in terms of fitness, but it was just a matter of sharpening the pencil as all the work had been done. "I am happy with the way I was on the hills and the climbing," Hoffman said. "That is a positive and it was a boost in the right direction for the upcoming races." Reflecting on the race, Hoffman said: "It looked like it was going to rain in the beginning and then the mist just cleared and it was a sunny day. "About 20km into the race
there was no wind, nothing. Then all of a sudden it just came out of nowhere and it was blowing the guys to the side on the road. "PE never seems to disappoint – it can be rainy and then all of a sudden the sun is out and then the wind blows. "But that makes for really good cycling conditions and it makes the race exciting. "You always have to concen - trate on what you need to do. "If you are too far back and m i ss a breakaway, you can lose out. "I didn't dare look back even once because when we came into the last kilometre, I
only saw 10 guys that were left in the group. That happened in a matter of 500m." Tiffany Keep, 18, made a memorable debut by b e at i n g Nelson Mandela Bay's Anriette Schoeman to take the women's t i t l e. The KwaZulu-Natal rider
finished the race in 3:09:56, followed by Schoeman in 3:09:57. Third place went to Frances Janse van Rensburg, also in a time of 3:09:57. The Varsity College student has vowed to come back to defend her title in 2020. Asked what she had done right to win the race, Keep said: "I think I raced cleverly. "In the past, I used to sit in the front the whole way because I come from a mountain bike background and that is really the only tactic I know. "I think I applied a bit more of a tactical approach to this race today. "It was my first attempt at it.
and I am very happy with how it went. "I really didn't know what to expect because I have never raced in this part of the country b e f o r e. "It was actually very nice for me to have a change of scenery and I really enjoyed racing along the coastline of PE with a good bunch of girls. "I am super stoked that my sprint paid off and I was able to cross the line first. "I'll try my best to be back next year. I really enjoyed the race and I only have good things to say about this event. "I'll definitely recommend it to everyone back home."


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004: Music in Your Home with Elizabeth Brechtel
In This Episode:
-Elizabeth's memories associated with music.
-How Elizabeth shares music with her children and how she incorporates music into her family life.
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-Give Me Jesus, sung by Elizabeth's daughter.
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