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Life's Moments are those times in life that we decide to make a special acknowledgment of life changing events. Weddings are celebrations, weddings are ceremonies, however most importantly weddings are a new beginning, a minute in time to be treasured. Having the best Minister is very important.
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- La Cantera Resort and Spa: La Cantera Resort and Spa is in a prime location in the Texas Hill Country north of San Antonio. The resort is close to great shopping at The Shops at La Cantera (which has some of our favorite shopping destinations: Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Ann Taylor, J. Crew, Banana Republic and Loft), Fiesta Texas (there is a shuttle service available to these destinations at no extra charge) and just 20 minutes from the River Walk. La Cantera Resort and Spa has the most beautiful grounds for walking, running and hiking. The property is at the top of one of the rolling hills of Hill Country and has expansive views from just about everywhere! With many dining options, four pools, an on-premises spa (more about that later) and two championship golf courses, we didn't see any reason to leave!
- Primero Cantina: Located by the Resort Pool, this is wonderfully fresh Mexican food and cocktails. We enjoyed lunch on the patio that overlooks the resort pool. Must try: queso fundido, lamb tacos, puffy chicken tacos…and a margarita, of course!
- Sweetfire Kitchen: This is the main dining room at the resort until Signature opens in November. It is very welcoming with an open kitchen and wood-fired oven. There is also a large patio for outdoor seating, which is perfect this time of year! The waiters are very knowledgeable about the menu and wine list, and definitely helped steer us in the right direction on both counts. There were so many intriguing options on the menu we had to go back a second time! Must try: jalepeño quail poppers, seabass and scallops and our husbands highly recommend the cajun ribeye.
- Sire Bar & Bocado Charcuterie: Cocktails on the patio with a cheese and house made charcuterie board is the perfect way to start the evening. The cocktail menu is loaded with all kinds of unique options. We recommend trying the "Aviation"; it's as good as it is pretty!
- Quenche Juicery: Located in the spa we had lunch here on Saturday during our spa day. The menu options are what you might expect at a spa café; fresh, healthy and light. Many of the fruit and vegetable offerings are grown on-site. Unlike most spa cafés, there are options of bubbly or wine and cocktails made with fresh pressed juices. Delicious!
- Henrietta's Market: This is the grab and go option at the resort. We found great coffee drinks and yummy cookies here! Plus, they have homemade ice cream available:)
- Vista Grill: During our cabana day we had cocktails and snacks from Vista Grill, very conveniently located at the Resort Pool. There is a great selection of snacks, sandwiches and salads. Must try: guacamole and the Rose "Mary" cocktail.
- Coming soon: Signature– a new fine dining experience opening November 21.
- Loma De Vida: The Spa at La Cantera Resort, Loma De Vida, is absolutely breathtaking. We spent the whole day on Saturday enjoying the new facilities. You could really spend a whole weekend here, though! The views are spectacular, the women's locker room has beautiful marble, Davines hair products, wonderful rainshowers and the solarium is one of the most relaxing spots we've been! Either before or after treatments, you can choose from a steam shower with Himalayan salt scrub, a saline pool and a Himalayan salt sauna. We each did a HydraFacial, Jean and Katherine did the Loma de Vida Signature massage, Stia did a stress-relief detox massage (with mud!) and we all ended the day with spa-pedicures.
- Sunrise Yoga: The spa offers a free yoga class once a month that is held by the spa pool. We highly recommend participating if the class is on the schedule during your visit. We are no yogi's, but it is still a fun experience and any level can participate! Also, the spa provides muffins, water, coffee and a speciality juice, "gin + juice", after the class!
- Pools: The resort has a Resort Pool, Kids Pool with two slides and the Adults Pool which has an infinity edge overlooking the hill country. At each pool, guests also have the option to rent a cabana which comes equipped with drinks, a butler and the perfect space to lounge!
- Kids Club/Arcade: For kids of all ages, the resort offers an indoor/outdoor area for kids to play. Sounds like the perfect option to drop your kids at kids club and head to the adult pool 😉
- Golf: Our husbands played both courses over the weekend and gave us rave reviews. On Saturday when they played the Palmer Course they saw wild turkey, deer and rabbits!
- Tennis: Tennis court rentals are complimentary (rental fees apply for half/full day). We didn't have a chance to fit in a game this time around!
- Enjoy the outside spaces: We loved sitting outside one evening before dinner and wish that we had done it our first night on the property! It was so peaceful and inviting, with open fire pits and cozy sitting areas available throughout the property. Wild lavender grows everywhere on the property and fragrance is in the air all evening 🙂
Now, for the $250 gift card giveaway and two spa robes! To enter, follow the steps below. Each entry gives you more chances to win. PS: Be sure to tag a friend that needs a spa day on this instagram for an added entry!
$250 gift card to Loma de Vida Spa + two spa robes
Giveaway ends Sunday, October 16th at 11:59 pm. Winner will be announced on bishopandholland.com at 11:00 am CST on Monday, October 17th. Winner has 24 hours to respond before a new winner is selected. Good luck!
Stia, Jean and Katherine
Thank you to La Cantera Resort and Spa for partnering with us to bring you this post!


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Here are photos of my latest piece – a small (12″ x 8″) thank you to a friend. I painted the Chinese calligraphy with ink on fabric, then stiched around the edges. I had to fuse the white fabric to another piece before painting on it. With one layer of fabric the ink ran too much.
The Chinese is : 为人生之艺术 wéi rén shēng zhī yì shù
It means "Art is for Life" My calligraphy teacher showed me how to write it and I have been practicing for a few months. I try to write characters over and over until it feels right or my hand falls asleep!
|"Art for Life," 12″ x 18″, 2011
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|"Art for Life," detail with signature and chop
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(JNS.org) The United Kingdom's Labour Friends of Israel group has invited the newly elected Labour and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to its upcoming conference in order to explain his stance on Israel and the Palestinians.
Corbyn, who has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric and a controversial association with a group run by a Holocaust denier, was elected overwhelmingly as the new leader of the Labour party on Sept 12.
Labour MP Joan Ryan, who chairs the pro-Israel group, says that she wants to open a process of dialogue with the Corbyn over Israel.
"It's the start of a process. What I will do over the coming weeks and months is have open dialogue with the party's new leadership," Ryan told London's Jewish Chronicle.
"The invite is the beginning of that process. It's not a one-off—I've also asked for a meeting with him," added Ryan.
Under former Labour leader Ed Miliband, who is Jewish, the party was behind a move by parliament to urge the British government to recognize Palestinian statehood. Some fear that Corbyn, who has stated he supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, will push for boycotts against Israel.


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A FEW days ago I delivered my first ever workshop!
A 2.5hr blogging workshop bonanza in my home town of Barnsley to an eager, enthusiastic and absolutely lovely group.
During it I chatted about my personal experience as a blogger, how I've made it to the level of 'professional blogger' (by that I mean, I do it professionally as a living) and talked about the importance of creating great content, getting involved with the blogging community and other such things.
I'm still very much getting used to public speaking (this was my fourth go!) and so prior to the workshop I was a little nervous.
However, once in full swing, I absolutely loved it!
It helped that I had a smashing crowd. And a few days on, after receiving a number of kind tweets and emails, I kinda feel like I could conquer the world.
(This is what happens when you push yourself out of your comfort zone, isn't it?!)
But, last night, as I was sat eating my tea, I suddenly thought of all the things that I should never have done as a blogger.
All the mistakes I've made. The stuff I've learnt the hard way.
Because although I'm doing well with this blogging malarkey and as much as there's stuff I do know that works, I've also made some real whoppers of mistakes!
Today, I'm sharing some of them, in the hope, that they may stop you making them yourself.
And it's proof that all of us, regardless of what blogging level we are at, are learning as we go and doing the best we can.
I mentioned this in my workshop, how I thought when I first started, that I could just do my blogging thang, pop on social media a bit and all the goodies of the blogging universe would come to me.
But the truth is, when it comes to blogging, you can't just go it alone. You need friends, support, advice and encouragement.
You need to work with other bloggers, collaborate, help them out and bounce ideas of each other.
You need to live and breathe the blogging world, as much as you can. For your own sanity, to keep up to date with developments and just because, it's a brilliant thing to be part of.
Successful bloggers do NOT go it alone. (And neither should you.)
I got the 'blogging bug' very quickly and I loved it! The thrill of people enjoying your work, the feeling of putting something out there into the world and contributing.
As a writer, there's just no comparison really. The joy that having a blog can bring is wonderful.
But I didn't take it seriously.
I didn't work hard enough. I didn't go in there all guns blazing, ready to set the blogging world alight.
For two years or so, I dabbled. I bitted and batted. I would blog for days at a time and then disappear for a few months.
Big mistake. Huge.
Want your blog to reach the lofty heights? Then take it seriously. Because if you don't, you can bet your bottom dollar, no one else will.
We've all done it. I know I'm not alone in this, but blimey, sometimes when I look back at some of my old posts, I could hang my head in shame.
The crap posts. The stuff that doesn't deliver. The pieces I wrote that didn't offer or provide anything of value.
It's tough to churn out regular content of a consistently high standard. Some posts will naturally be better than others. And it takes time to find your blogging feet.
But the key, where possible, is to opt for value. For quality over quantity. For the profound over the shallow.
Give something to people of value and you'll get the return.
Yep, that ol' chestnut.
The blogging community, in the main, is a great place to hangout. A fantastic place to meet new people and make new chums.
But there's also a level of fakery that exists. Of false compliments, of 'pretend-ship', of insincerity.
And I fell for this. I fell for the insincere words of a few people, who weren't looking for genuine friendship, but endorsement and unflinching support.
I gave too much time away. I believed lies and I allowed myself to be swept along by insincerity, even when I knew it was there. I spent more time focusing on helping people with their blogs than I did working on my own stuff.
And I could kick myself now. But it's been a powerful lesson to learn.
Seek genuine people, nurture real friendships slowly and respectfully and don't 'play the game'.
Not often, but there have been times when I've hung back with a post because I've been scared of the reaction or fearful of being judged.
And it never ever pays.
As a writer, as a communicator, as a blogger, it's our duty to share and talk about stuff that other people won't or can't.
That's what I believe. That's why blogs are becoming so successful and much loved. And in my experience, it's always the posts that I'm nervous about, which do really well.
On the world wide web, in which there are millions of blogs, playing it safe will not make you successful or memorable.
But being brave? Being different? Trying something new?
These can lead you to greatness.
Oh, how wrong I was!
Because if there's anything that tests your mettle, it is blogging.
There's a reason so many blogs disappear after being around less than a year and it's because of two things:
- Blogs require LOTS of hard work
- The work NEVER ends
When I first started, I thought writing posts and sharing on social media was enough. But it isn't.
There's always so much to learn. Photography, coding and PR. Marketing, newsletters and working with brands. Finding your voice and creating your own identity.
The work goes on and on.
Successful bloggers know this and make sure they find the time to learn stuff and implement their new skills and knowledge.
When I wrote my first piece in 2012, I had no expectations what would come from my blog.
A few hopes yes, but no expectations.
But when it comes to blogging, really, you should expect things to happen. You should expect for doors to start opening and magic to begin.
You should expect that it will change your life or your business. Otherwise, why on earth would you start? Why should you bother?
Blogging demands the very best from you, continually, so surely it's only right – and necessary – that we all demand the same from IT too?
Many thanks to all the people who came to my workshop this week and made me feel fantastic. What are the biggest mistakes you've made as a blogger?!
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Freelance journalist Anne Kostalas is fascinated by Canadians. She emigrated from Newcastle to Montreal two years ago and blogs about everything, from their excessive consumption of corn on the cob to the dangers of having a massage when you don't speak French, in Dear England, Love Canada.
Here she writes of taking the night train from Montreal to the Gaspé Peninsula, a journey of contrasts which begins in Canada's hippest city and ends in one of the country's most remote and unusual landscapes.
We leave the beautiful people of Montreal about to enjoy a Friday night on the town. As the sun sets behind the mountain, from which the city takes it's name, thousands of hipsters are heading for bars and restaurants in neighbourhoods which have been called the coolest in North America.
Our destination may not be hip but it is one of Canada's best kept secrets. In 18 hours and 647 miles we will be in another world of forests, beaches, cliffs, wildflower meadows and bird sanctuaries. A glance at a map of Canada will reveal our destination – the lobster-claw shaped peninsula sticking out from Quebec into the Gulf of the St Lawrence.
The Gaspé a First Nations' word meaning land's end, is the same size as Belgium but has less than 140,000 inhabitants. It was first populated by Micmac Indians 2,500 years before the first Europeans and Basques, Bretons, English and Acadians have settled here over the centuries. It became known as the birthplace of a nation as this is the spot where Jacques Cartier claimed Canada for the King of France in 1534.
Our train follows a route east along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence river until Mont Joli, a town developed thanks to the Intercolonial Railway in 1900. Then we head south through the Matapédia Valley and skirt the edge of Chaleur Bay arriving in the Gaspé in time for lunch.
But first I cannot contain my childlike excitement at acquainting myself with my cabin, a double with private washroom. I'm confused by the two armchairs which no matter how I fiddle, I cannot make into a bed. The guard tells me not to worry – it will all be done for me during dinner.
In the dining car I fore-go the Montreal smoked meat option and chose the Gaspesian grilled cod and mash served by our cheery Maitre D' who tells us he has worked this route for 35 years, and is an expert at pouring your beer without spilling it as the train lurches.
After dinner we explore the upstairs observation car with its glass-domed roof. Refreshingly they've turned all the lights off, so you feel part of the night as you watch the train snake around bends up ahead and gaze across the shiny metal roofs of the carriages. A moving victory for light pollution. No wonder one of the coach passengers has chosen to sleep here. We try taking pictures of the highway which for a time runs next to the train.
I return to my sleeping quarters to find the chairs I had wrestled with never did turn into a bed. They have now been neatly folded and my bunk has been pulled down from a secret compartment on the wall.
Feeling a little foolish I hop into bed and am at once transfixed by the night-time landscape. I can just make out the mile markers and the names of the towns in the darkness as we head towards one of the wildest parts of Canada. I spot Rimouski, the MicMac Indian name for moose and Trois Pistoles , named after a French sailor lost his silver goblet in the river here. It had been worth three gold coins or pistoles.
We cross the river in the darkness and with no view of the bridge which supports us I feel as if I will be tipped into it from my bed. Then we sneak into the middle of a sleepy village and the blue light of a few late night televisions are visible in the wooden houses.
Against all odds in my rocking cabin, I eventually fall asleep and awake in Matapédia to mist-covered hills, dark forests and a golden river. The rising sun reveals early-bird fishermen, already well ensconced. They take their eyes off their lines for once and turn to watch us pass by.
Back in the dining car for breakfast we study the map and realise that the train has already separated and those destined for Halifax, Nova Scotia have gone on their way as we slept. But we've got all morning until we arrive at our destination of Percé and I cannot wait to get back to my cabin to watch the landscape unfold.
A lone woman walker on a driftwood-covered beach waves at the train and later cormorants battle to hog every available inch of a small rock in the bay. People come to the Gaspé to see the rock at Percé, a majestic limestone stack off the coast, but also to visit the bird colonies at Bonaventure Island and hike the trails at Forillon National Park where the forests seem to tumble into the bay beneath it.
Soon I will be doing the same but for now, just a few more minutes to watch as a white bull lies down in a field, a man waters his vegetable patch and later dozens of women put their washing out on the line. It seems we have arrived in the Gaspé on wash day.
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Departures three times per week on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays from Montréal, as well as three departures from Gaspé on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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Innovative Ways to Make Your Website Professional
Don't use too much animation
Having too much of blinking text or excessive graphics can actually distract visitors from your site. The key to good website design is to ensure your pages are clean and focused and help visitors find what they're looking for.
Pop ups are a strict no-no
Pop ups are very irritating, take away from the purpose of the site and in general serve no useful function at all! Great website designing is all about leading the customer to making purchases online, instead of getting them distracted and irritated along the way!
No image backgrounds
You will be surprised to hear this but having an image background on your site can actually send out the wrong signals to customers! Any professional web design strategy will never use such images. They send out an impression that your site lacks quality, is unprofessional and is generally sub-standard.
Organize and categorize
This is one of the most important elements of good quality web design. Products are well categorized and organized to help visitors find what they're looking for easily. You could even have a site map so that visitors are further helped in finding what they need.
Too much clicking can annoy!
Visitors are far more likely to abandon your site if they find that they need to keep clicking on your site to get the information they want. A lot of bad quality website design strategies will use an introductory Flash page that really does not serve any use.
– It is not recognized by search engine robots
– It does not entice visitors too much
– It takes away from the main purpose of the site
Chunk it up!
Putting too much information on a single page is another element of bad web design. Any high quality site will usually break up information into easy to read sections. You can always have hyperlinks to help readers navigate.
Getting to the home page
Sometimes some sites have so much information that on reaching deeper page levels the visitor may not know how to go back to the Home page! So always make sure that as part of a professional web design approach you have a link that says 'Go to Home page'.
Keep it optional
You want visitors to feel like they are in control. Therefore forcing them into visiting a page is always a bad idea. Good website design will always use menus and drop down sections to help visitors pick and choose whichever section they want to visit!
Know the Reasons why Have A Professional Website is Important
Educate and improve consumer relations
A professional website allows the business to provide increased information about the services offered. This information can also include company description, and contacts that improve consumer relations. Increased interaction between the business and consumer, as well as opportunities for feedback, and order placement can greatly enhance confidence and reliance on the services.
Continuous promotion of services
Websites can be accessed at any time of any day, making promotion continuous. Consumers can locate details about the business such as hours of operation, location, prices, and description of services at any time, and without the hassle of costly advertising such as television, and print.
Increase the market and consumers reached
Developing a professional website allows a business to promote beyond conventional markets, expanding cross-country or worldwide for both local and national corporations. These websites also expose the business to a larger amount of potential consumers which increase the target audience.
Conduct market research
Professional websites make it easy to actually monitor the activity, and necessity of the services offered. Businesses can enhance their sites for market research purposes by adding message boards, and feedback applications. Businesses can find out what key search terms help consumers locate their services online. They can also see what aspects of their websites either entice or repel consumers.
Inexpensive and dynamic marketing tool
Professional websites are inexpensive when compared to other forms of advertising, and marketing, such as television, or printed media. Websites are highly effective in promoting services. They allow for a vast amount of information to be displayed while having direct access to information about the consumers utilizing the website. This information allows businesses to change the site according to the needs of the consumer. These alterations can be made easily, and cost effectively with a website. Otherwise, it would be very expensive to reprint advertisements with updated information for redistribution.
Opportunity to generate revenue
There are many more opportunities to generate revenue aside from increasing clientele with an informative website. Businesses can also sell products and services directly from the website. Affiliate products could be recommended through links, and ad space may be sold for display on the website.
A professional website is a necessity for any business that wants to be taken seriously. With a professional website, opportunities to develop a successful business never cease.
Tips to Choose Seo Web Design Company
There are many pros and cons that come with SEO. When the designer is finished completing it you may still find a great deal of structural and design issue that should be revisited. Unless your designer has a great deal of skill when it comes to SE friendly designs, you will be working on a lot of structural issues. The positive side of this issue is that we get to work on the site and the designer won't feel bad when you explain something that needs to be changed.
In another story, when you work with the designer, you will find that the designer will get personally offended when you want to make changes to his structure of your site or he may challenge you about your views on SEO friendly websites. Take for instance the argument that an All Flash Site is more appealing.
The SEO may argue that Flash will not be read properly and will have less spidered content that the search engines will see. The Designer will say that flash is read on Google easily. The SEO will tell them that it doesn't in the same way; you have to maintain that one needs many pages of optimized content and the Flash will not do that. The designer will disagree. However the point remains that the Site needs to be converted.
It is important that the designer understands why it is important to know that conversions are essential, however so is the traffic. The designer will also need to know that if there is no traffic then even 100% conversion will be irrelevant.
However you will sometimes deal with a SEO who knows how important this to the success of the site is. Making the two balance out is a scary task, but when the SEO and the web designer mesh we are talking about an ultimate website. If you have an idea, and it is not working out to be a good solution the web designer may have an idea that will make your site more attractive as well as knowing the problem and helping you with the solution.
Picking a good web designer
The two main things you should consider is that they can build a site that is both attractive and SEO friendly.
Attractive Designs
When you choose a designer you should take a look at their portfolio to see what designs they have made in the past, and get the advice of the people who are in your target audience. It may also be a good idea to see what the leaders in your industry are doing and who designed their sites. Remember just because you like the design, does not mean that it will be good for your target market.
You will also need to know if the designer is good at the conversion optimization skill. You will want to know if they are clear about the best colors to get people to check out your site. They should have done some eye tracking studies which will see how the visitors reacted after visiting the site. You need not be concerned if they don't know all of these things, the information is available so you will know what to look for before you approve the design.
Building an SEO friendly website
This is one of the most important areas that you must address; you will need to have a search engine friendly design if you are going to get the rank you need to be successful. The skilled web designer is going to have a strong knowledge of CSS and will know to put the main formatting into the file. Much too often people are getting a lot of sites with font tags, size tags, and color tags. This process will give the search engines a lot to dig through to find the content that they are looking for. If you have a table based design it needs to be technically sound.
Another thing to be aware of is bad internal links. You will need links on your internal pages to move up on the rank. Most sites try to target certain phrases on the homepage but internal pages will hold specific products and services. To maximize your rank on your internal pages you will need to be found by the spiders and to be associated with the keywords you will need to target.
If your designer uses image and scrip navigation that is okay, because it makes your website more appealing and makes sure that your key pages are being linked to content on the homepage and they can be spidered quickly.
You will sometimes even find some sites that are over optimized. There are designers who will pack in so many keywords that it will be hard to read and it doesn't work for the reader of the site. Your pages need to read like you are writing to your visitor not like you are writing for the search engine. You want your keywords to be in there but you only want a density of about 3% so that it can be read by humans.
How to Pick Relative or Fixed Table Widths?
Whether you choose to use relative or fixed table depend on your content and the amount of control you went over the result. Many Web design prefer fixed table because they can be sure that their view of the content will be the same as the users. The current trend is to provide content in relative table that adapt to different screen resolutions.
You can set relative table widths as percentages in the table WIDTH attribute. If you choose relative table widths, your table resize based on the size of the browser window shows a table with the WIDTH attribute set to 100 percent.
The browser will try to fit the SEO content into the window, wrapping text as necessary. The advantage of using a relative width is that the resulting table is more compatible across different browser window sizes and screen resolutions. The disadvantage is that you have little content can shift from user to user based on browser window sizes.
You can set absolute table widths as pixel values in the table WIDTH attribute. Fixed table remain constant regardless of the browser window size. The advantage of using affixed table is that you can gain greater control over the result the user sees. The user's browser size and screen resolution have no affect on the display of the page.
Default spacing values are included in table even when you do not specify values for the table's BORDER, CELL PADDING, or CELL SPACING attributes. Without the default spacing values, the table cells would have no built-in white space between them, and the contents of adjoining cell would run together Depending on the browser, approximately two pixels are reserved for each of these values you can remove the default spacing by explicitly stating a zero value for each attribute.
The HTML table code can get complicated when you add content to your table. Not only do you have to mange all the table tags and attributes, but also the text, images, and links in your cells. One small error in your code can cause unpredictable results in the browser.
You can simplify your table creation and maintenance tasks by writing clean, commented code. If you use plenty of white space in the code, you will find your tables are easier to access and change. Adding comments helps you quickly find the code you went. The various code samples in this chapter demonstrate the use of comments and white space in table code.
Always remove any leading or trailing spaces in your table cell content. In some browsers the extra spaces create white space in the table cell. These spaces cause problems if you are trying to join the contents of adjacent cells. Even though the default spacing has been removed, there still is space between the images.
How to Ensure You Get A Great Web Design?
It is with a great web design that you will be able to create a good impression on your site's visitors. In fact, the success of your website is greatly dependent on how it attracts visitors and how much user friendly it is. It is not enough to just drop and drag pictures for an effective web design, lots of thought and forethought is required to get the perfect design for your website.
The most important point to consider when creating your web design is the concept of your site and what you intend to propagate through the website. All this has to be done before you actually start working on your web design. If your website is to be a personal website, consider how you intend to show your personality and style; and if it is a commercial website, choose the design depending on how you intend to broadcast your products and services. With a lot of forethought, you will be able to choose the right theme for the website, and save lots of headaches.
Use positive points of other websites in your web design
Research to find out what other websites with similar objectives look like and you will get ideas for your web design. Look at websites and keep its positive and negative points in mind so that you can eliminate the negative but use the positive points in your web design.
Once you get an idea of what your web design is to look like, you will have to plan your site. Do this by drawing a sitemap to see how you want your site to work, and which links you intend to use so that the site works as you wish it to work. You save lots of time this way, and give you an idea of your future website.
When creating your web design, remember that it has to be user friendly to be successful on the internet. Lay the site in as clear and a logical manner as possible to ensure that your site is easy to navigate.
Minimum images in the web design facilitate faster downloading of web pages.
If you use tables in your web design, it is better to break your page into a minimum of two tables instead of using a single table. This is because a single table takes longer to download; moreover with two tables, you can have an introduction to your web page in the first table so that visitors don't get impatient with a long wait.
Use minimum images on your web page where each page should be limited to 30kb including text, images and background images but devoid of plug-ins. This ensures that visitors need not wait more than 5 seconds for the page to load. Use navigation bars in your web design to help visitors know where they are in your website.
Last, but not least, don't forget to use Meta tags in your web design as they are recognized by search engines and help in bringing more hits to your website. However, your description should be short and concise and not loaded with keywords to ensure that you have a successful web design.
Web Design Flow
The concept of flow was first introduced (academically) by a psychologist named Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He said there is a state of concentration that can be achieved when attention, motivation and situation are all optimised which come together to result in a large amount of productive effort. The concept of flow is very similar to modern sayings such as "in the zone" or "on a roll".
Getting people into this mental state on a website you are designing is important as it will allow the user to look at your entire site and pick up whatever information you are offering and lead to a more likely conversion whether that be a sale, enquiry or just lasting visit.
Putting flow inside web design is all about making things as easy as possible for a visitor or potential customer and this can be looked at in several ways, goals, efficiency, feedback and discovery.
The first concept of goals is critically important for all websites and especially for retail. The flow of your site should take your user through relevant information and to your goal so deciding what that is should be your first step. After you have decided this you need to set up smaller goals for the user on each page. This could be something as simple as choosing whether to tick a box or as complicated as entering their payment details as long as the goal is clear the flow will be maintained.
Be sure to choose the correct copy for instructions, it should be clear what the person has to do but its easy to come off as sarcastic or condescending when giving orders so make it as friendly as possible. Also I recommend you keep a steady style throughout your copy instead of dotting in and out of formality.
Efficiency is also very important in a sites design. Incorporating basic navigation and optimising your sites performance will keep users from becoming bored with menial tasks such as click through and looking for the right page. As you may already know it's wise to minimise the pages a user has to go through to complete the goal, modern web users get bored and click away very quickly if they have to go through 10 pages of terms before they even start a task.
A good example of efficiency in a page is expandable sections for people to read. Many modern websites use such functions (including Firebox and Dixons). These enable you to have the information ready for an interested user to view but hidden from a user who is not bothered. They could be customer reviews, related accessories, external links or related pages on your site.
Navigation should also be optimised for efficiency. Tajke a look at Amazon and Play's sites. They have a massive amount of products and category pages yet they manage to successfully classify it into sectors and sub categories all of which look the same so users will know where to look immediately.
It's important for someone's flow that they are encouraged, reassured and informed of their situation and success at reaching goals.
If you neglect to provide a user with feedback at some point they will begin to loose interest as the goal no longer seems relevant. The best way to give feedback to a user is to keep them up-to-date on their progress. A great example of this is percentage completion counters on video games. Very often when saving or loading a game you will be informed of how many % you have currently completed, very effective as a focus individual will always aim for 100%. You can do the same thing with forms on your site.
Once a user has achieved the goals you have set them via maximum efficiency then they are going to want new goals and information or again their concentration and flow will be broken. This has become a well targeting area in web 2.0 and many sites have product or information boxes contain "related products" or "latest news about this tag".
You must have new content for users to find and interact with or you will see negative effects on returning visitors and your site will eventually dry out.
There is a lot of work involved in designing for flow but it's a compulsory step in your design process. The best test you can do is to see how fast someone who has not been involved with a site build how easy it is to navigate or what the goals of each specific page are. If they give you positive feedback it's likely your site is accessible in a flow type way.
Web Site Design Rule
Do Not Use Splash Pages
Splash pages are the first page you would see when you hit a web site. They tend to have a nice picture or photo with the words, "Welcome" or "Click Here To Enter." They may look attractive, but functionally, they are empty and a waste. The search engines are looking for solid content on your index page and a splash page doesn't cut the mustard. It also gives your visitors a prime oppotunity to click away. Make that first impression count!
Do Not Use Excession Banner Ads
People have trained themselves to avoid making eye contact with banner ads. If you are advertising on your site, the best advertising to do is in-context link ads. It's more of a pre-sell than a hard sell and will make all the difference.
Create A Simple And Clean Navigation
The simpler, the better. People are coming to your web site for information. They want the solution to their problem answered and want to find it quickly. Avoid flash and drop-down menus. Keep it simple, easy to navigate and easy to get back. A visitor should never, ever be more than 3 clicks away from your Home page.
Have A Clear Indication Of Where Your Visitor Is
As in point 3, it is essential that your visitors feel as if they are in total control of their browsing experience. Always make sure they know exacly where they are and how to get to wherever they want to be. Clear links, site maps, etc are important. If they get lost, they may just abandon ship!
Avoid Using Audio On The Web Site
Background audio and sounds that start automatically when someone enters your site is a killer. Don't do it! Many people get annouyed with something that they can't control. Some people tend to browse at work. If you do feel you need to use audio, put it in a control that the visitor has to push a play button to start and stop.
Filenames And URLs in a Website
The maximum length of the filename, valid characters and punctuation, and sensitivity to uppercase and lowercase letters all very among operating syste as described.
Case Sensitivity
If you have an image file named picture gift, for example, and you reference that file as the image will display properly on a Macintosh or windows machine.On a UNILX server, however, the image will not load properly windows machine.On a UNLX machine, picture, gif and picture gif are two different files. It is best always to use lowercase letter for all filenames Remember to use lowercase letters in filenames in your HTML.Code as well.
Character Exceptions
Character use also is incompatible between operating systems. For example the filename my stuff.htm is valid on a PC or Macintosh,but not on a UNIX machine because of the space in the filename.If you transfer a web site containing my styff.htm to a UNIX server, the links to the file will not work.
File extensions
Use the correct file extension to identify your file to browser.HTML text files must end in.html or .html. Be careful to add this extension when you are working in Notepad, which defaultsto saving .As you also must correctly specify image file formats in the file extensions.
Solving the filename Dilemma
The best way to overcome the restrictions of case sensitivity, character exceptions, and file extensions is to use the convention specified by the international standards organization for all your files.This convention specifies a maximum of eight letters followed by a period and three-Letter extensions. Allowed characters are letters, numbers,and the under- three-letter file extension if you use the 8.3 file naming convention on your development system, you will have little or no file name problems when you transfer your filed to the Web design server, regardless of the server's operating system. By sticking with this filename format, you ensure that your files will be portable across the greatest number of operating systems. Do not forget to use lowercase characters, and omit special characters from your filenames to ensure compatibility.
Although you may know that URLs are the addresses you type into your browser to access a site,you may not realize that there are two type of URLs:-complete and partial.
Web Design Mistakes
Web Design's Scariest Backgrounds
The background of your website is one aspect that you have control over and you can easily change or alter to suit your client's needs. You must be aware, however, that some backgrounds are simply not attractive at all. Some of these backgrounds that should be avoided at any cost are :
• A completely black background with light or white text superimposed upon it. Even the best web designers in the world have difficulty achieving an appealing look with this type of background. It gives viewers the impression that you are imperious and condescending and does not do anything to encourage readers to stay on your site. Also, some browsers, when used to print a page, also print background color. This could cause complaints from customers who are not happy about the amount of ink they used in order to print a single page.
• A completely black background with dark words. This is an even worse background choice than the previous one because the words simply cannot be seen without great difficulty. In order to read the text, visitors to your site will have to first highlight the text, a task that will quickly irritate them.
• Complicated, tiled images. Fresh web designers often use this from of background because it is convenient and looks good to them. They should also bear in mind, however, that this type of background can dramatically increase the amount of load time for a website.
Web Design's Scariest Text
The main reason people visit your site is that they are interested in the content contained within your website. If they are unable to read your text, then there is nothing for them to stay for. Your web design company definitely does not want visitors to find nothing worth reading on your site, so avoid the following pitfalls:
• Centering all your text. A page with all of its text completely centred is unattractive and difficult to read.
• Overly emphasized text. Some designers bold every other line of text and italicize the rest. This is self-defeating because in attempting to make everything stand out, nothing stands out.
• Flashing text. Although some people find text that constantly disappears and reappears appealing, it is almost impossible to read, defeating the purpose of even having text in the first place. Text is there to be read!
Web Design's Scariest Content
As a web designer, you should never ignore your content. At the end of the day, the content of your web page is what either draws visitors to your site, or drives them away. You should make sure you include interesting and attention-grabbing content and avoid the following mistakes.
• Pages consisting solely of links. Pages where every word is a link on its own do not serve any purpose other than to convince visitors never to return to your site.
• "Funny" content. Including humorous content is risky, at best. Some people may not understand your humor and will need to have it explained to them or, more likely, they will simply leave your site in search of something more interesting that they can actually understand.
Web Design's Scariest Multimedia
Many designers find themselves in love with multimedia and attempt to use it in every project that they undertake. The web design company you work for probably does appreciate your talent with multimedia and, when the situation calls for it, you can showcase your talents to your web design company and your clients. However, designing using multimedia tools is a very time consuming process. You should not let your desire to show off your skills with multimedia compromise the work that you eventually hand in to your clients. You should do your utmost to avoid the following traps:
• Image overload. Images of all forms, including icons, should not be present in large numbers. As a general rule-of-thumb, anything more than two images is overkill.
• Overly large images. The readership of your site will not suffer if your images are not of print quality. Large, high quality images take a long time to load and most readers would not care if you had used a low quality image.
• Embedded audio. Audio streams that play constantly while the page is open are very annoying for visitors who simply want to examine the content of your site. Worse, these audio streams are usually impossible to turn off. If you absolutely must include some form of sound with your web page, you must give your visitors the controls required to turn off the sound if they wish.
The Best Web Design Software
Macromedia's Studio 8 Suite Academic Software Package
Macromedia Dreamweaver
My first choice for HTML editors is Macromedia's Dreamweaver. It has an easy to use, intuitive user interface and state of the art design tools. With a customizable user interface, you can work the way you need to. Although the student software doesn't come with manuals, Dreamweaver has excellent online tutorials.
You can design intricate CSS-based layouts and designs easily with tools that allow for quick selection and control of page and site wide style properties. There is a built in graphics editor that uses Macromedia Fireworks technology. Dreamweaver allows you to develop HTML, XHTML, XML, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, and Macromedia ColdFusion websites.
It has a cross-browser code validation feature that automatically checks tags and CSS rules for compatibility across all the leading browsers and allows you to configure browser preview for multiple browsers.
One of the nicest features is the Property Inspector that enables quick, comprehensive property editing that makes getting it perfect a no-brainer. This is the editor I use to create and maintain all of my web sites. I have used the entire professional and many of the other HTML editors available and can say that Dreamweaver is absolutely the best HTML editor. Since Dreamweaver is taught in most graphic design curriculums, it inclusion in the academic software package is needed.
Macromedia Fireworks
Fireworks is Macromedia's answer to Photoshop and is included in the student software package. Fireworks have all the tools web professional needs to create everything from simple graphical buttons to sophisticated rollover effects. You can import, edit, and integrate all major graphics formats, including vector and bitmap images and easily export Fireworks images to Flash, Dreamweaver, and third-party applications.
Besides all of the normal features you would expect in a professional photo editing program, fireworks includes new interactive design features and the ability to create pop-up menus in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) format without the need for programming. One thing Fireworks does exceptionally well is batch processing. I use Fireworks batch processing all of the time to optimize entire directories of photographs. I can resize and optimize 50 photographs in just a couple of minutes.
Macromedia Flash Pro 8
Flash is the industry leader for creation animation and video movies for streaming over the internet. Flash creates movies with surprising small files sizes. That translates to quick download times and the availability to use flash animation on slower links and mobile devices and comes complete with tools for video creation especially for mobile devices. Flash pro 8 provides everything needed to create great looking videos. Since flash is being used more frequently is essential that it be part of an academic software package.
Macromedia Contribute
Contribute is Macromedia's answer to the problem of content management. It provides the ability to change the content of a website without having to know anything about HTML, but does not need all the expensive software and databases that a regular content management system uses. Contribute allows companies to buy an inexpensive tool that lets them provide content without messing with the design. Contribute is a solution that is custom-made for small to mid-sized companies that don't need all the power of CMS, but would like some of the benefits. Being included in the academic software package will give students an opportunity to see how a very simple CMS system works.
Macromedia FlashPaper
FlashPaper generates compact, fast-opening Flash documents that can be published to any website using Macromedia Contribute, Dreamweaver, or any other HTML tool. FlashPaper creates Flash documents through intuitive Microsoft Office integration and file drag and drop. Create Flash documents that are immediately available cross-platform on any web browser. Compact Flash documents open within a web page, eliminating the need for a separate viewer application. Flash documents can also be incorporated into Flash projects. Adding this to the student software package allows the student to experience using a very handy tool.
Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 Premium Academic Software Package
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is the graphics industry standard and my choice of photo editing software. I have to admit I love Photoshop. You can create original images or modify photos using a wide range of painting, drawing, and retouching tools. You can work the way that's best for you by creating personalized workspace and tool settings and customized keyboard shortcuts.
You can achieve sophisticated results by compositing images, text, and effects on hundreds of layers that you control by grouping into sets, color coding, and locking. You can simulate traditional fine-art techniques with dry and wet brush effects, pastel, charcoal, and more and even use brushes to add special effects such as grass and leaves.
There are tools to improve the color, contrast, and dynamic range of any image, easily remove dust, scratches, blemishes, wrinkles, and other flaws with the Healing Brush. Photoshop can give high quality output by working with the complete raw data files from most major digital camera models. It's great all-around imaging software. Photoshop is taught in all graphic curriculums and had to be included in the student software package.
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is also taught in every school's graphic curriculum and is another essential part of a student software package. It is also an essential tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually in print, on the Web, and in any other medium. When my clients send me a rough pencil drawing of the logo they want for their business, I create the logo in Illustrator then import into Photoshop to get it ready for their web page.
Illustrator has great 3D features, advanced typographical controls, Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) integration and enhanced printing options. Illustrator will help create and efficiently publish your artwork anywhere.
One of the nicest features is the ability to apply live effects without affecting the underlying artwork, so you can edit at any time without starting over. There are blending modes and transparency effects similar to those in Photoshop software but, unlike Photoshop, Illustrator has intuitive tools such as the Pencil, Smooth, Erase, and Pen tools.
Adobe In Design
In Design is the best page layout software available and is the choice of most print design professionals. With the advent of paid subscription totally-digital magazines, it is getting popular for laying out the print like pages of these products.
It can integrate with both Photoshop and Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) file formats and supports the multiple layer capability of Photoshop. It is an all around necessary tool for the professional graphic designer. Although not usually covered in most curriculums, it is a welcome addition to any academic software package,
Adobe Go Live
Go Live is Adobe's answer to Dreamweaver. It has all of the features that you can find in Dreamweaver and is integrated directly into the rest of adobe products. Personally, I prefer Dreamweaver but go live are an excellent HTML editor and complete the suite for a web designer. Although usually on touched in classes, Go Live is welcome addition to any student software package.
Adobe Acrobat
Acrobat is the number one tool used to create the widely used PDF document format. With it's built in security features that can prevent the user from copying or changing the document and the ability to require a password to open the document, acrobat is still one of the leading choices for creating paid e-books. This program is an absolute necessity for a web designer and therefore a welcome addition to the academic software package.


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Options Paper - Regulation of tax agent services provided by financial planners
Home / HomeOn Monday 29 November 2010 Treasury released its Options Paper in respect of the regulation of tax agent services provided by financial planners. This Options Paper has been released after months of debate in relation to the appropriate level of regulation of tax advice provided by financial planners.
Options Paper - Regulation of tax agent services provided by financial planners
03 Dec 2010
The Taxation Institute's position on this issue remains that all tax advice provided to consumers (including where such advice is provided by financial planners) should be provided under the regulation of the Tax Practitioners Board, and with all the protections afforded by the Tax Agent Services Act 2009. .
We received many reports of tax advice provided by financial planners from our members which have bolstered our case on this issue. We thank our members who took the time to provide such detailed information to us.
Submissions to Treasury on the Options Paper are due on or by 25 December 2010. Members that are interested in contributing to the Taxation Institute's submission are encouraged to contact Tax Policy.


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Three Armenian Khatchkars (cross stone) on Sevan peninsula on Lake Sevan.
First photo of the serie from Armenia Shot during my visit to Armenia back in 2004
This is one of the first high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) Shots! HDR is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminance between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques.
This HDR was made using 14 individual shots & shot from the Mar Charbel Church, Lebanon.
I'll post some photos later to make the comparison.
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Dr. Doran, principal of Wootton High School, was found unresponsive in his home on August 19th. He was pronounced dead hours later.
Since then, much of the county has been in mourning.
"This news is shocking to all of us who have known and worked with Dr. Doran during his long, distinguished career in education. Dr. Doran has worked in Montgomery County Public Schools for 18 years and his career in education spans more than four decades. His boundless energy, engaging wit, and unwavering commitment to excelence for his students and staff made him a beloved part of the Wootton and MCPS communities," noted interim superintendent Larry Bowers in a released statement.
Wootton students have also been expressing their grief, many through social media.
"I am at a loss for words knowing I wont get to see that beaming smile everyday in the hallways. It is in these trying times that we must remember not to lose the sense of community, the spirit, the limitless energy, the values that Dr Doran dedicated himself to teaching us since freshman year. Thank you for a wonderful three years and RIP. Wootton Strong," said Sanyukta Deshmukh, a rising senior at Wootton.
"I never feel right writing these things about people who have passed away, mainly because I never knew them and I feel as if I don't have the right to say anything because I didn't know them. But, I talked to him just yesterday. I walked down the hall with him as he went down to unlock a door for me. We talked about our summers and I felt happy that after four years I had a proper conversation with him. He's teased me about making a phone call in the main halls because, as you all know, there's no signal whatsoever there. He's said "Hi" to me and gave me a reassuring smile at the times I felt like breaking down. He was there, on the stage, reassuring our student body that everything will be okay and that we must stay strong through every tragedy passing through Wootton. He was our rock and I'm going to miss his brilliant personality in a place of stress (most of the time). About the picture. I almost deleted it after I took it. Now, I'm happy I didn't. Dr. Doran was playing around and wrestling with the door and the girl on the other side. I didn't know any of them but such humor brought a big smile to my face and I will treasure that memory forever," said Janet Shi, another rising senior.
Prior to serving as the principal of Wootton, Doran had been a teacher for over 30 years. Wootton will hold a memorial for Doran on August 21st.


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Jihadist and Islamist commentators are advocating exploiting the rioting in England, both for stepping up operations and for increasing calls to spread Sharia law. Other jihadist posts are claiming that three Muslims were killed while trying to protect a mosque, portraying the acts as part of the war on Islam and a media cover-up of Muslim deaths.
A spokesman for the England-based International Shariah Movement posted a YouTube video about the riots, noting that they were the failure of democracy and Western values. "In reality, we can see the failure of the British government, we can see the failure of the British police, we can see the failure of the mayor, we can see the failure of the whole system of democracy, because… these are the fruits of democracy," the spokesman said.
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Part 3, Change Things That Don't Matter
For the last two weeks, we have been looking at Matthew 23:13-33 and Five Easy Ways to Wreck Your Life. In the first week, we looked at Matthew 23:13-15 and we saw that that Pharisees were wrecking their lives in that they did not allow God to aim their lives and the changes they thought were needed. Since God did not direct that change, they actually moved AWAY from God instead of towards Him. Jesus criticized them and will us if we do the same thing. Last week, we looked at Matthew 23:16-22 and saw how the Pharisees changed, but always wanted to leave themselves an out, so they could decide if the change was too hard or not. We saw that changing inconsistently can actually be worse that not changing at all because we already feel as though we have been there and done that, but have actually not moved towards God or His will for our lives and we end up paralyzed.
This week, we should begin by reading Matthew 23:23-24. In these passages, Jesus criticizes the Pharisees for changing things that don't matter so that they can feel like they are righteous. They were tithing (or giving ten percent) of everything that they owned, all the way down to what grew on their plants for spices. While there is certainly nothing inherently evil about tithing, as a matter of fact, Abram tithed all the way back in Genesis 14, Jacob does so in Genesis 28, it is commanded in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and is even expanded upon in Paul's writings to the Corinthians. It is certainly proper for a believer to want to return to God, according to how he or she has been prospered. This is good stewardship. This is proper worship. This is submission to God's sovereignty and Christ's Lordship over one's life; however, the Pharisees, like many people today, thought that was all that was required. They thought that they could just "write the check" and consider their "debt" to God paid and they were free to live the rest of their lives however they wanted.
The problem Jesus brought up with the Pharisees, about this practice, is that the Christian life is not about some checklist of works to be performed in order to earn or remain in God's good graces. Ephesians 2 tells us that salvation is by grace, through faith, and not of works. It is not about going to church, prayer, Bible study, baptism, confirmation, tithing, avoiding alcohol, obeying the government or how many people you lead to Christ. All of these things may be an outworking of our faith, but they are not the means to it.
So, what IS important? Simply what Jesus said the Pharisees lacked. They had not had a change of heart, so they substituted other changes in its place and thought they should "count". Many of are like that about change in our lives. We think we should just pray more. Forget the fact that I have a hurt in my heart that I am not willing to forgive. I just need to pray more. Or I need to read the Bible more. Forget that I have not stopped to figure out how to obey what I have read. I am changing. Isn't that enough? I need to invite more people to church. That's it. That will take care of making me acceptable to God. My pastor will be happy. Forget the fact that I don't serve or give to my church, if I invite people, I am giving my time. That's enough for God to be pleased, right?
Wrong. Jesus wants us to do these things, but because we have been changed. He wants us to WANT to spend time with Him because we are filled up with love for Him. He wants us to WANT to pray because we are so committed to Him that we cannot go on without it. He wants us to WANT tithe because we are so involved in what He is doing in our church that we see this as an extension of worship and as a natural part of gratitude from what we are so filled up with. As He said, we should not neglect the heart for the hands, but neither should we neglect the hands for the heart.
Want to wreck your life? Spend all your time changing things that don't matter and you will run out of gas and all that effort will turn into a hypocrisy that drives you further from God than you started. Instead, let's draw near to God and simply change the things He directs and let's stick with Him and it for the long haul.
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Everett Community College is launching its new small business accelerator program this month intended to help guide business owners to better profits.
The school will hold an informational session on the program from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday at its Corporate and Continuing Education Center, 2333 Seaway Blvd., in Everett and will hold another Sept. 8 from 6 to 7 p.m. in the same place.
The program will take 10 months, involve 50 hours of instruction and one-on-one coaching and cost $1,200.
The school offers to teach the latest strategies to grow and improve a business, increase market share and customer loyalty, maximize return on your time and money and explain ways to grow the business more quickly. It's looking for 20 businesses in existence for at least three years.
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Paul Izon Reyes is overwhelmed with nostalgia every time he talks about Rufo's Famous Tapa (or simply Rufo's). As a student at the International School Manila, he used to frequent Rufo's maiden branch in Makati City located right in front of the campus. Read More
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The police go in hard on travel insurance fraud
We join one of many dawn raids that lead to more than a dozen arrests nationwide
IT WAS a grey, drizzly Wednesday morning when I found myself waiting outside Holloway police station in north London about to take part in a dawn raid designed to crack down on travel insurance fraud.
Along with officers from the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (Ifed) of the City of London police, the aim was to catch alleged fraudsters who had submitted claims that were suspected to be either exaggerated or made up.
A series of raids happened across the UK as part of Operation Tenoroon. Eleven suspects thought to be involved in travel insurance scams ranging in value from £500 to more than £14,000 were arrested by about 70 officers in total, with the City of London officers assisted by the unit's Economic Crime Directorate…


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Court tosses ex-cop's manslaughter charge
The officer did not act recklessly, says panel
By Dareh Gregorian
The New York Post
BRONX, N.Y. — The manslaughter conviction of a former cop in the shooting of an unarmed drunken driver in The Bronx was thrown out by an appeals court yesterday, and now he wants his job back.
A judge had found Rafael Lora guilty of second-degree manslaughter in the death of Fermin Arzu on the night of May 17, 2007, ruling that the off-duty cop "had acted with a reckless mental state."
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St Cecilia's Roman Catholic church was the first Catholic parish in Wyoming County, NY. Father John Neumann was the inspiration to the twenty plus members to build a church. The first church was built on the land donated by the Pochel and Loreaux family (where the south cemetery is located) in about 1830 to 1840. This was a log church, which soon became too small for the Belgians, Luxembourgers, French and Germans. The second church was of wooden construction.And in 1889/1890, a stone church was built at that site, at a cost of about $13,000. The stone was quarried from less than a mile away at the Almeter farm. The stone blocks were hauled by horse and wagons to the site and cut there. Most of the work was volunteer, and men of talent went to work - Constant Daniel, Peter Gabel, Almeters, Georges, Kehls, Jacoby, Dominesey, Jungers to name a few. The church is still called St Cecilia's , but with the merging of parishes, the parish is called Fr John Neumann Roman Catholic parish.
The original table that Fr Neumann used to say mass on, pray from and preach to the crowd, is now housed in the closed school house. Fr John Neumann has been canonized a saint, and there has been a dedication to name the church and place a bronze statue of him in the gardens there.
The nuns ran the school back then and lived there as well. They had a residence on the third floor.
There were several sheds built in 1915/1916 to house the horses and buggies in bad weather. According to an old East Aurora newspaper, there could be as many as 100 horse teams there on a Sunday for church services.I`m sure there was not enough room for all of them in the sheds.The churchgoers needed to get there early for that.
The church bells are the original bells that rang for services. The only update is that there was an electric starter installed instead of the hand pulled clappers.
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The summer concert season is heating up…
Artists heading into KC include Phish, The Avett Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Van Halen, Chicago, the Doobie Brothers, Taj Mahal, Pat Green, M83, and many, many more.
And despite the few curmudgeonly commenters that think otherwise, for my money there's still no better way to see a show than outside underneath the stars.
To that end the Crossroads has the first offering of the season this weekend, with a gritty double billing of Shooter Jennings and Cody Canada & the Departed (more on them after the jump).
On to the picks!…
Thursday, April 26th
Glen Campbell @ the Uptown Theater in KC
Where to begin? Recently honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Campbell has really done it all. He played guitar on one of the greatest albums ever, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, and toured with the band in Brian Wilson's place in 1964-65. He was buddies with Charlton Heston, John Wayne and Ronald Reagan. He has released more than 70 albums in his 50 plus year musical career, garnering 9 Grammys and countless other awards.
Yep, he's been there and done, well, more than all of us combined probably.
But if you want to see Glen Campbell perform live this might be your last chance. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in the summer of 2011 and is calling his current string of shows the Goodbye Tour. The word is that although he now needs teleprompters and some help from his family (three of his kids are in his touring band), his pipes and talent are still there. And his latest recording, 2010's hauntingly titled Ghost on the Canvas has received mostly positive reviews.
"He may be 75 and a frail ghost of his former hell-raising self," writes the BBC's Martin Aston, "but vocally Campbell still sounds surefooted, hitting wistful, golden notes."
Electric Guest @ The Granada in Lawrence
"Is it honest homage or is it pastiche?" asked The Guardian's Paul Lester. "Who knows: but this hipster take on cheese could be the next big thing."
Whatever it is, this Cali duo has been getting some major hype, due mostly to the fact that Danger Mouse produced their only album, Mondo, which is a crystalline funky soul-pop falsetto journey ala Mayer Hawthorne but more electronic. And their single, This Head I Hold has been getting heavy airplay on hipster-friendly stations like 96.5 the Buzz.
Friday, April 27th
Weston Bluegrass Festival
Now in its second year, the Weston Bluegrass Festival features mostly local-ish bands at the New Deal Tobacco Warehouse in Weston, MO. Headliners include Dumptruck Butterlips, the wandering gypsy soul-grass act that's been getting plenty of regional attention lately, as well as Deadman Flats, Tyler Gregory, Ashes to Immortality, and a bunch more.
I hear that local bluegrass hounds Barnyard Beer will be on hand with their wares to quench the parched masses, and of course there will be plenty of great local food vendors as well.
And the price tag couldn't be more affordable at just $26 for Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday, though if you want to camp onsite that's going for $16 per night. There are multiple pass combos, so if you're interested check it all out right here: http://www.westonbluegrass.com/preorder-tickets/
Saturday, April 28th
Shooter Jennings, Cody Canada & the Departed @ Crossroads in KC
This outdoor show at the Crossroads features a couple of country rock stalwarts who are currently making the rounds on their Magical Misdemeanor Tour. Everyone knows Shooter – he's the son of legend Waylon Jennings. Shooter's latest album Family Man came out earlier this year, and it's definitely a return to his country roots after he dabbled in a decidedly un-country sound with his prior effort, Black Ribbons.
Probably not as familiar, though are Cody Canada & the Departed. Cody was a founding member of Cross Canadian Ragweed and his new band's initial release, This Indian Land, is a tribute to Oklahoma songwriters that inspired him like JJ Cale, Leon Russell, and other red dirt legends. Recently, American Songwriter's Caine O'Rear caught up with Cody for some insight into dirt that is red.
"Red Dirt to me fits into the older style of country, Merle, Willie etc.," said Cody. "The thing about Red Dirt is it can be soul, rock, folk, country. It's really about the honesty of the lyrics, nothing fake about it." Of his band's pairing with Shooter Jennings, Cody was bullish, saying, "We're a perfect pairing – we believe in the same purpose: make good non-bullshit music and travel and deliver it. Lots of new original songs on this tour. Getting fired up for our first original album."
Real Estate @ the Bottleneck in Lawrence
Alright indie rock scenesters, this one is for you. Band signed to Domino Records? Check. Pitchfork's Best New Music of 2011? Check. Band T-shirts that look like the kind of thing that Brett from Flight of the Conchords would wear? C'mon, it's just too easy.
But despite whatever distaste (or not) that you may have for the online pretentious music rating machine, Real Estate's latest album Days, is pretty fucking good in a jangly, echoey, layered guitar sort of way. You dig?
They're rolling into Larryville hot off playing Coachella, so this might be the last time for a while to catch these guys somewhere as intimate as the Bottleneck.
Arthur Dodge & the Horsefeathers @ the Replay in Lawrence
I never miss a chance to catch the grizzled Lawrence troubadour Arthur Dodge, especially when he has his full band in tow. They play country-roots-folk songs, with keyboards, cigarettes, and cheap beer leading the way.
For those not familiar, I suggest giving Dodge's 2004 release Room #4 a listen for such gems as Hustlin' California and Gates. The album is a swanky, dirty, blues ride with clever lyrics and tight songwriting that sets it apart from many imitators.


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San Diego PD Officers Kill Man in SWAT Standoff
SAN DIEGO - Officers today shot and killed an apparently suicidal man after he pointed a rifle at officers during a SWAT standoff in Oak Park, police said.
Officers responded to a call at about 9 p.m. yesterday about a man armed with a rifle and threatening suicide at a residence in the 2200 block of Haniman Drive, said San Diego police Lt. Dave Rohowits.
When the man refused to come out, a SWAT team surrounded the residence and negotiators were called in, Rohowits said.
The standoff came to an end at about 1 a.m. today when police shot and killed the man after he emerged from the residence with a rifle and "leveled it at SWAT officers," Rohowits said.
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|Reviews for My Real Unreal Friend
| xxxDreamingflowerxxx chapter 3 . 8/21/2012
TT Poor Rosette and Joshua. I am sure they'll feel very lonely from now on. Well at least Chrono can try and cheer Rosette up.
| xxxDreamingflowerxxx chapter 2 . 8/21/2012
Aww well at least Joshua and Rosette are still together. Rosette would feel super lonely is Joshua was adopted, even thoug Chrono is with her.
| xxxDreamingflowerxxx chapter 1 . 8/21/2012
How cute. I wonder if Chrono is a ghost. It's kinda sad that Rosette is treated as an outcast.
| RYNO chapter 42 . 5/3/2011
Hey Lotus. This is a really good fanfic; Chrono Crusade is one of my favorites and you've gotten the banter down really well.
Couple things though. One is to increase the amount of imagery you have; just saying what the background just generally looks like can greatly increase the quality of your story.
The second is TO GET YOUR REAR IN GEAR AND GET THIS STORY UPDATED! Geez, it's been half a year since you updated! I wanna see what happens next!
Eh-hem... anyway, good job.
| nekoneko423 chapter 42 . 4/2/2011
i hope you update soon!it has taken a few days to read but so far its been worth it~
| hikaru76 chapter 1 . 1/19/2011
I think a lot of your stories are awesome and this one is one of my favorites! I caught a few minor errors but they didn't slow me down. Can't wait to read the rest!
| ranchiki chapter 1 . 11/22/2010
Omg i loooooooooooove this story actually in general i love you youre a wonderful author i never get bored of your stories im so glad that you updated keep up the good work!
| Alice chapter 42 . 11/14/2010
Whew, you finally updated (',')
I'm really curious about what that woman did. After all, Chrono said that he experienced non-physical pain...
| Midnight Blackbird chapter 42 . 11/14/2010
you finally updated
yay, I must say, I'm a big fan of the story!
the chapter was great, got me kind worried... poor Mary, she didn't deserve the grudge
keeping my eyes on the story
| Shadow-chan93 chapter 42 . 11/13/2010
D: *hits woman with baguette*
Doesn't look good for Mary and Chrno now D:
Will Mary burn on the pyre? she is a "witch" after all.
| L chapter 4 . 5/26/2010
Why are you so hard on Rosette? That frist Family was obusly loded, a threed child would have been no trubble for them, so why did,t thay? Is there problem with perfetness in that family? And what was with that other cuple that adoped her? These where Verey questionable people, so why is it that were able to adoped her at all? I don't konw area this taks place in but shrlly ther must have been some suspicion about them. I meen look at how you discribed them, and they where just aloud to adobed with backgroud checks or anything? Whats up with that?
| MechaUltimaZero chapter 8 . 3/3/2010
Yes, this is a fairly good chapter. Very believable.
You can blink now. -_-
| MechaUltimaZero chapter 6 . 3/3/2010
Nah, I like this chapter. Rosette's beginning to go a bit back to her normal state, I think.
| MechaUltimaZero chapter 2 . 3/3/2010
Sadly, I've only read volumes 3 and 7 of the manga (it's all the more I could get hold of) but I fell in love with Chrono Crusade after reading just three pages! Anyhow, I like this fic, and I look forward to the rest of it.
| Shadow-chan93 chapter 41 . 2/18/2010
aha, was war das denn für ne Prüfung?
Sowas wie ne Mature-Prüfung, die einen jungen zu einem erwachsenen Dämon macht?
und woher weiß sie, dass andere ihn suchen? er hats ihr doch noch nicht gesagt... und auch das mit 'er ist zu schwach' das hat er ihr auch nicht gesagt...
Spannend! schreib schnell weiter!
she came back with another clean cloth which was clean
ach ne, das saubere Tuch ist sauber XD