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Humphreys of Henley delivers the only dedicated concierge service that discerning visitors trust.
We excite and delight our visitors with quintessentially English experiences in the countryside.
Humphreys of Henley delivers the only dedicated concierge service that discerning visitors trust.
Carolyn's Tiger Moth Experience
Our customers share our passion for the countryside
D Marcuse
Thank you so much for organising such a splendid and successful day on Friday last, we and all our guests so much enjoyed the day and experience.
D Marcuse June 2015
J Cunningham
Everything was splendid. We very much appreciate your fast action in setting up the day. Could not have enjoyed ourselves more thanks to you.
J Cunningham June 2016
S Folwell
Thank you for organising a wonderful 4 days. Mike loved the tiger moth flight!
S Folwell July 2016
J Delebo
Thank you for your wonderful service in arranging the dinner cruise to the Waterside Inn and the Midsomer Murder tour. We thoroughly loved the boat ride and the food at the restaurant was out-of-this-world. The tour was perfect, our guide was knowledgeable and entertaining. We will highly recommend you to anyone travelling to the area. Continue Reading
J Delebo October 2016
D Pagliara
It was a wonderful ride, and the rain clouds cleared right before we arrived at the stable. Lots of fun! Thank you.
D Pagliara October 2016
J Delebo
We will highly recommend you to anyone travelling to the area. We appreciate your attention to detail and hopefully will have the opportunity to return to the Chilterns and use your fantastic service again!
J Delebo November 2016
J Delebo
The tour was perfect. Our guide was knowledgeable and entertaining. Gary, our driver, was also a hit with us and added to the experience.
J Delebo November 2016
R Steele
Thank you so much for creating a day that we will never forget. Experiencing so many birds with Dave, we had a day full of joy and great memories. We can't wait to see the pictures.
R Steele November 2016
A Kleber
A job well done! I hope this message brings a smile to your face in knowing your efforts and care had an amazing impact on making lasting memories of our English experience in the country.
A Kleber December 2016
T Gressette
We had the best meal we've had on our trip thus far. Wow! You have taken such good care of us, thank you.
T Gressette May 2017
P Connors
Thank you for our wonderful day, my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it. A special thanks to all of whom superseded our expectations, truly exceptional in every sense. We look forward to using your services again in the future.
P Connors July 2017
Ian Clout
I would recommend you to anyone, your service cannot be faulted
Ian Clout July 2017
C Beck
We had a truly amazing experience! Every detail was attended to and the whole adventure was complete perfection. Many thanks to you for dealing with all of our schedule changes and moving parts.
C Beck July 2017
B Whitley
I wanted to write to let you know how much we enjoyed your arrangements. The experience at Stonor house was extraordinary, quite honestly one of the highlights of our entire trip. The level of personal attention was wonderful, we learned so much about English history but most importantly to us, we did not in the Continue Reading
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1) Know your families! Take every opportunity to know your families … and never assume anything. Don't fall into the trap of thinking all children come from "traditional" families. Be aware of step-parents, adoptive parents, single parents, and other adult guardian situations. When designing brochures, newsletters, etc., consider using generic graphics rather than "two parents, two children."
2) Shared Prayer. At the beginning of the year, designate one of the class sessions for each grade level as "Shared Prayer" with their families. Invite the families to join with their child the last 40 minutes of the session for a prayer service, then refreshments which gives the children/youth a chance to introduce their families to their catechists. Be sure the prayer service involves the families in ritual, e.g. a blessing of one another.
3) Guest teachers. Get to know the skills, interests, and talents of the parents in your program (as well as other parishioners). Often there are many people who have knowledge, interest, skills, service in the world and/or parish ministerial involvement that is directly related to the themes being studied by the children/youth. Invite them to become part of your program as a one-time guest teacher, or even "permanent" helper.
4) Mentoring families. Often, in a large parish, it is difficult to get to know every family and help to make each feel welcome and connected. Invite some of the families that you do know who have been around and active for a while to become "mentoring families." These families could then be paired with new families in the parish/program to help them learn about the practical policies, where things are, who's in charge of what, etc. Even more importantly, they could invite the new family to accompany them to liturgy, to special parish liturgical services, and catechetical program events.
5) Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Parents are the primary educators; the parish is a co-partner with parents:
(Every opportunity/every chance = notes, phone calls, parent newsletters of what's happening, parent conferences, church bulletin, parent resource centers, website, faxes, gatherings, parent bulletin board, emails, open house, family newsletters as well as parent newsletters (ideas of things to do at home), invite parents/families to come to any catechetical session, parent support groups, e-newsletters, postcards, home visits, parish library, parent library, orientation meeting, etc.)
6) Visit families. This may take time, but what benefits it will reap! Let them know you're coming to: perhaps tell them about a new family opportunity the parish is offering, but then ask them how things are for them, what they need from the parish, the catechetical program, and most of all, spend a few moments praying with them – in a simple family way, modeling how every family can pray together. (Don't forget to remember things that are important in a family's life and send a card, make a phone call: a new baby, illness, special anniversary, death, etc.
7) Fun activities. Plan activities where all a family has to do is show up – and, then have a good time (what a great memory of "church"!). Picnics, winter picnics inside on the floor, unbirthday parties, family night at the movies, gatherings for various holidays, holy days, national events (Super Bowl, etc.), pot luck dinners, ice cream socials, family softball games, etc.
8) Home Ideas. Most families want to pray together, develop rituals, and share their faith together. They are always desirous for new ideas and suggestions. Share with them ideas related to the themes their children are studying, the liturgical year, our national holidays and observances, the everyday occurrences of family life, etc. Make them attractive; keep them simple, practical and involving. Use Our Sunday Visitor's Take Out Magazine – an ideal resource for families.
9) Homework for Parents. Involve the parents/families as the children\youth continue their reflection/learning on their catechetical sessions. The children can "interview" their parents, such as, "When do you pray? Who do you pray? Why do you pray?" when the session is on prayer. Periodically, families can be asked to watch a specific TV program, or one of their choosing, and be given a list of questions to analyze the program (or the commercials) according to Gospel values, Jesus' lifestyle, or a specific theme currently being studied.
10. Be positive and affirming. Always show respect for parents and tell them all the good that they are doing. Often our culture doesn't support them; it constantly tells them what they're doing wrong. And although they want/need to keep on learning – and we can help with that – positive affirmation is the best motivation to keep on. Remind them that holiness is already within their family life – God's love and presence is there and shouted in the ways they love, care for, forgive each other, etc. Our role is not to bring God to families; God is already there. We just need to help them become more aware of how much God is there; how close God is; the many ways God is always there.
11. Help parents connect. There used to be front porches. Catholic parents used to live next door to each other. There was such support because a Catholic atmosphere exuded everywhere. Provide times and places for parents to be together to have conversations about parenting and family spirituality. One natural time: while children are in their catechetical sessions (instead of sitting out in their cars).
12. Bring all together to learn. Most things in our culture seem to separate families into their own age groups, for events, for their various functions. Several times a year, host intergenerational learning festivals. One method of structuring these events is through learning centers. Have various centers set up throughout the parish area, each one hosting a different activity related to the theme for which everyone has gathered (Advent, care for creation, sacraments, called to serve, etc.). The ideal is that the learning center activity does not end, but leads to something that can be continued at home, incorporated into family life. At the same time, don't limit these learning festivals just to families with children. Invite singles; couples whose children have grown; grandparents -- the entire parish.
13) Reflection booklets. "Publish" parish Advent/Christmas and/or Lent/Easter booklets with short reflections and things to do for each day of the season. Invite different families from the parish to write the reflection/thing to do for each day. They can be based on the Scripture readings of the day or the designated feast.
14) Invite parents to evaluate for you the effects of the year's program for them and their children, as well as any special programs or events they participate in throughout the year. Questions that might be included:
15) Make a goal for yourself to place a phone call to five parents each month. Ask for their ideas. Listen to their concerns … certainly about the program, but about their own family, the needs of families today, and how today's parish and catechetical program can best support and empower families.
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A custom result processor must implement the GemFire XD ProcedureResultProcessor interface. GemFire XD calls the processor implementation after a client invokes a procedure using the WITH RESULT PROCESSOR clause and begins retrieving results.
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Arduino Uno: A Hands-On Guide for Beginner
Arduino Uno: A Hands-On Guide for Beginner is published by PE Press in December 2015. This book has 88 pages in English, ISBN-13 B019A3B5YM.
Arduino board is a popular board for embedded development. This book helps you to get started with Arduino Uno development. Several scenario samples are provided to accelerate your learning process. The following is highlight topics:
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Summer Jobs at Amigo Centre
Each summer, we seek individuals willing to serve God by working with kids in creation. The most important role for all summer staff is sharing the Gospel of Christ with the campers. Summer staff at Amigo have the opportunity to see the joy in a camper's eyes when they catch their first fish, or have meaningful devotions around the campfire.
Are you interested in joining Amigo Centre Summer Staff 2017? Follow these two simple steps:
1. Click here to apply online
Fill them out and drop both forms in the mail to:
Amigo Centre
26455 Banker Road
Sturgis, MI 49091
Questions? Send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Returning staff fill out this application: Click here.
We will accept applications through March 1st or until we are filled.
Summer Positions May Include:
Counselors - The heart of summer camp. Counselors mentor to and live in cabins with campers. For more information on counselors responsibilities click HERE.
Counselor Aide - Lifeguards, kitchen staff and other leaders around camp. Resource staff live with campers and assist counselors.
Lead counselors - Serve on leadership team and act as a resource for counselors and staff. For more information on Lead counselors responsibilities click HERE.
Activities/Waterfront/Worship/Arts & Crafts/Nature Director - These positions can be mixed and matched in a variety of roles. Serve on leadership team and add to summer programming.
Camp Nurse - Serves on leadership team. Acts a medical resource for campers and staff. Medical background encouraged. For more information on Camp Nurse responsibilities click HERE.
Day Camp Director - Serves on leadership team. Plans and works with staff to run Amigo's Day Camp. For more information on Day Camp Director responsibilities click HERE.


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ok so here i start my krabi thailand trip.
we departed from air asia airport at 12 pm...
after we have reached krabi, the tour took us to the tiger cave temple..
and then we went to the krabi downtown, and then, night to the krabi night walk street.
its kind a boring there, except for the day where we spend our day at the 4 island.
the water was clear and white,^^
but not many fish to see,
i expect more...
this is the so call taxi in krabi..^^
i like sitting it..
so windy and its cheap...
rm 2 for anyhere and anytime...^^
krabi is really just a small island...
second day...
tour brought us to 4 island...
tup island, poda island, chicken island and the pranang cave.
and then the 3rd day we plan to go elephant trekking..
seriously speaking, my first time riding a giant elephant!!
one mistake.. you will get hurt..
but God bless us.. and we're all safe..^^
its a really good experience riding an elephant..
they are so smart...
the owner will just need to call their name and they practically know how to walk by themself..
smart elephants!
after elephant riding we went to the same restaurant...
eating those same seafood we like!..
craving for it now..^^
the tom yam is so much better then here...
look at baby how happy he is..^^
thank you honey for bringing me to thailand..^^
love you always..
keep smiling.. i like it when you smile..^^
thank you honey for bringing me to thailand..^^
love you always..
keep smiling.. i like it when you smile..^^
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Oh my...I cannot believe it's already October! These first few months of school have flown by and my little blog has been neglected! I've had several ideas for blog posts over the past few weeks, just have not had the time to sit down and get to it. Nevertheless, I would like to share a few ideas with you from my Religion Center. I feel fortunate to be able to have these type of materials available for my students. One of my goals this year was to add new materials to the center to incorporate religious themes along with our literacy and math skills. One of the first activities I added was roll and stack Noah's Ark.
here. I have not had the best luck in sharing with google docs...so I hope it works for you!
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"Poor Wilson horribly cold, could not get off ski for some time," Scott wrote. "Bowers and I practically made camp, and when we got into the tent at last we were all deadly cold. Then temp, now midday down -43° and the wind strong. We must go on, but now the making of every camp must be more difficult and dangerous. It must be near the end, but a pretty merciful end. Poor Oates got it again in the foot. I shudder to think what it will be like to-morrow. It is only with greatest pains rest of us keep off frostbites. No idea there could be temperatures like this at this time of year with such winds. Truly awful outside the tent. Must fight it out to the last biscuit, but can't reduce rations." [1]
[1] R.F. Scott, diary, 14 March, 1912, quoted in Scott's Last Expedition, v.1.
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ATLANTA, Dec. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Facility management (FM) and corporate real estate (CRE) professionals are in increasing demand in China as they will play a central role in the design and planning of the growth of the country's mostly state-owned, national corporations, according new research published by CoreNet Global.
While China's embrace of capitalism has made it the world's second-largest economy, it is still catching up to the developed world's more mature markets in terms of modern office planning and design.
"The government's attention to its strategic emerging industries will result in a larger office worker demographic," thus continuing to fuel the dramatic growth of the Chinese middle class, CoreNet Global's professional journal, LEADER Magazine, reports in its January 2013 edition.
A new approach to FM is emerging in China; one in which strategic building management contributes to a more valuable organization. The role of the facilities manager and the plans in place will become more and more strategic in nature as FM influences all aspects of the workplace. These goals include sustainability, energy efficiency and increased worker productivity.
"Facilities management is a burgeoning industry making inroads across the country," the report states.
One reason is that by the year 2050 China is expected to build as many as 50 new cities that don't exist today. CoreNet Global cites China's current Five Year Plan, which is based on inclusive growth and economic prosperity across a broader segment of the country's 1.3-billion people. This includes China's historically prosperous coastal cities, as well as its more economically challenged interior cities.
According to report author Melissa Securda, Director of Knowledge & Research at CoreNet Global, "A new approach to FM is emerging in China; one in which strategic building management contributes to a more valuable (corporate) organization. The role of facilities managers … will become more and more strategic in nature as FM influences all aspects of the (Chinese) workplace."
China's business evolution "is making larger strides" because CRE, a more strategic version of FM, is driven in large part by multinational corporations that are beginning to instill their best-in-class global management practices across China's vast economic landscape. "Many companies rely on outsourced partners because of the lack of internal expertise," the research shows.
FM is in a catch-up mode in most national and state-owned enterprises, adds Securda, who recently concluded the CoreNet Global study on the ground in China. "Many Chinese companies rely on outsourced partners because of the lack of internal expertise," she reports. "Developing more mature, locally sourced FM leadership in China is essential" for the country's business evolution to progress.
A panel of Chinese facilities managers told Securda that the lack of available, skilled FM talent is the most pressing issue they face. "There are not enough people in the industry," said Allan Fan, Senior Facility Manager, Greater China, for Life Technologies. "But we are eager and want to catch up." He emphasizes the linking of facilities management to company performance, adding that "proper FM management brings enormous value to the organization." One indicator of this change is how "building operations are becoming more significant than the building's initial construction," the research states.
CoreNet Global's findings also show that branding and marketing are two specific ways how facilities managers can help make their companies more globally competitive, because CRE is often an expression of the brand and product lines of the corporate enterprise. Reputation is another way, as China's 80-million-square feet of LEED certified space help to show.
"Premier office space in growing cities will continue to be in high demand as companies expand and emphasize brand and image creation," the research indicates.
A focus on health care, technology and energy will help sustain the country's economic expansion, which could be tempered by a slowing growth in population over the long term.
While "controlled evolution has been a key ingredient to China's transformation," as Securda observes in LEADER Magazine, "access to advanced FM training and exposure to a more collaborative business environment, such as groups like CoreNet Global can deliver, will eventually decrease the impact of traditional cultural influences in the corporate organization."
With more than 7,500 members internationally, CoreNet Global is the world's leading professional association for corporate real estate and workplace executives, service providers, and economic developers.
CONTACT: Richard Kadzis VP, Strategic Communications +1.404.589.3240 email@example.com: CoreNet Global


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Continental Divide Facebook Fan Page
We have a fabulous prize for 3 lucky winners, but we're going to make you work for it... To enter you must do both:
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2. Post on the page and tell us something you like about the book...if you read it, you can tell us if you have a favorite scene? Something you want to see in Oceans Apart? If you haven't...why are you looking forward to reading it?
And what's a contest without fantabulous prizes?
We have three (yup 3!) great prizes, for three winners. We'll go in order, the first name drawn selects 1st, second name drawn selects 2nd, and the third name drawn gets the final prize. Not to worry...you're going to love them.
1- Receive a T-shirt or Tote of the winner's choice from our very own Danny Johns' Teez Me Shop - shipped directly to your door.
1- Receive a $25 gift certificate from All Romance eBooks
1- You get to name a character in Oceans Apart AND receive an advanced copy (be a beta reader) at least one week before the public release date.
Okay, those are the rules, the fabulous prizes, winners to be announced on Sunday, April 21. Now, get reading and get posting!
You can also read a fabulous review of Continental Divide at A Bear on Books
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Buying a massage table can be huge investment, and the sheer number of models on the market can become confusing. We've compiled a list of the most commonly asked questions about massage tables to help you find your way through it!
A: The best way to choose a massage table is to take an honest inventory of your requirements, and to make a budget. Armed with these two things, it's easier to narrow down your number of options to a few models. If quite a few massage tables meet your requirements, or if you're hesitating between models that offer different advantages, making a list of priorities and wants can help make your choice clearer. The more precise the list, the better it'll serve you!
Deciding which aspects of a massage table matter to you, however, can be easier said than done, especially if you're not familiar with different types of table on the market, or if you've primarily worked with only one or two models in the past.
A: Massage tables vary considerably in price, according to type and model. Higher end tables can cost in the thousands, and the most bare-boned, simple models – without any accessories – can cost just under two hundred dollars. For portable massage tables, generally, beginner's tables should be between 300 and 500$ without shipping and delivery, and more luxurious models, which will also last longer, should be between 700$ up to 1200$. Extremely high end, specialized models can cost more; stationary massage table prices are similar to the ones for high end portable ones. It's important not to skimp on the price, since a hundred dollars more or less can really make the difference between a massage table that'll last you decades and one that you'll want to replace within a few years.
Electric massage tables vary even more considerably. It's extremely uncommon to find one under a thousand dollars, and simple models tend to start around 1200 to 1500$. Higher end models can easily cost more than 3000$.
A: Most standard sized massage tables are 28 to 30" of width; most massage table sheets and accessories are designed to accommodate these sizes. While massage tables under and over these widths exist, they're uncommon because they do have significant disadvantages, they also have some perks that can make them attractive options to certain types of practitioner.
Wider tables, generally, are less portable, and their extra width means that practitioners will often have to bend over their patients and risk throwing out their backs long term; however, they give practitioners a larger working surface. Narrower tables, on the other hand, are much lighter and give practitioners closer access to their clients' bodies, but they can also be uncomfortable for clients of different sizes, and they don't allow them the range of movements offered by a wider table.
At Lierre, we carry tables ranging from 25" to 30". Our 26"aluminum table and our 25" Lierre Plus A models are particularly popular for their increased portability.
Here are three aspects to consider:
For more information on this subject, consult our blog: https://www.lierremedical.com/blog/whats-the-size-of-your-massage-table/
A: A: The height of the massage table largely depends on the height of practitioner, and the vast majority of massage tables are adjustable, including all of Lierre's models. Our portable tables have a 23" to 33" adjustable height range, or from around 58cm to 83cm, typically suiting anyone from 5' to 6'5". The general rule for adjusting massage table is thatthe height of the table should be near your hip joint. Following this rule, a 155-165 cm (around 5' to 5'4") practitioner will typicallyfind that a massage table set at 65 cm (around 2'1") will suit them best.
When you finish adjusting your table, do not forget to make sure that the knobs are securely tightened.
For more details about how to adjust the height of massage table, please refer to our blog:
A: Usually, there are two different types of weight capacities listed in massage description descriptions: working weight and static weight. Here's a brief explanation of what those two are, and how they can be useful to practitioners.
Working weight: the average dynamic force and pressure that a massage table can withstand without damage, also sometimes called a safe working load (SWL) or a normal working load (NWL). This estimate significantly includes both pressure and weight: though a person up to 300lbs could theoretically lie down on a table with an equal working capacity and shift around slightly without damaging the table, a very physically involved treatment on such a client could add enough pressure to become dangerous. It's therefore important not to interpret working weight as the maximum physical weight of a client, and to always leave a generous margin: consider adding 50 to 100lbs to your clients' highest weight, depending on the intensity of your treatments.
Most portable massage tables have a working weight between 200 and 350lbs, and many of Lierre's tables can withstand up to 450lbs. Some of Earthlite's luxury models have working weights of up to 750lbs, easily accommodating almost every customer, and allowing practitioners to use considerable pressure during treatments without having to worry about safety.
Static weight: Static weight of a massage table is how much weight the table will hold with the weight remaining stationary. The static weight does not mean that you can put that amount of weight on a single spot on the massage table, but rather to the total weight and pressure that can be evenly spread on the surface. Static weight therefore tends to be much higher than working weight, and can range from 1000lbs to 3000lbs. It is always proportional to the working weight, though the ratio can vary: tables with a high static weight capacity will tend to also have a higher working weight capacity.
To learn more on this subject, consult our blog:
A: A typical portable massage table weighs between 28 and 35 lbs; while not insignificant, this amount of weight makes them relatively easy to carry from space to space. Factors such as width and foam density will drive up the weight of a table, and often – though not always! – the heavier models will also be the most luxurious. Some practitioners will find that massage tables on the upper end of this range will become too cumbersome to take with them through public areas, or to carry for longer periods of time. For these practitioners, every pound does matter!
Some portable massage table models have been carefully engineered to weigh less than 28lbs: Lierre offers an extremely lightweight massage table at only 25lbs. Tables that are this light, however, require different materials, and they're commonly made of extremely strong, lightweight aluminium.
A: Traditionally, aluminium massage tables are lighter than wooden ones; however, the gap between these two types has been closing as wooden tables are made to be lighter and lighter, and aluminium tables have become more luxurious. There is a trade-off: light wooden tables will tend to be narrower and have less foam, while aluminium tables of the same weight will tend to be wider, with more luxurious cushioning. Aluminium tables also tend to be slightly more expensive.
A: We choose foam according to three different aspects: foam density, thickness and type.
Higher density foam is more durable and provides more support, while lower density foam will make clients feel as though they're sinking into the table. Lierre's massage tables all have high density foam.
As for thickness, thicker does not necessarily mean better. If you need more support and do not want to the applied pressure to be absorbed by the table, 2 inch standard thick foam will better suit your requirements than 3 inches of soft foam. If your priority is relaxation, and you do not mind thatthe table can absorb pressure, you could either go for 2.5 inch or 3 inch foam massage table. Some of our massage tables (Lierre Classic 28"/30") with 3 inch thick foam are multi-layered, which is more comfortable than standard foam and provides better support: the best of both worlds!
If you want to know more specific models of the table, please read our blog:
A: There are two materials commonly used for massage table upholstery, and both are types of imitation leather: PU leather and PVC.
Polyvinyl chloride, more correctly but unusually poly(vinyl chloride), commonly abbreviated PVC, is the third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer, after polyethylene and polypropylene. While extremely versatile, PVC does not make for particularly good imitation leather, and it tends not to feel very pleasant against the skin. As the cheaper of the two options, however, many lower end tables will have PVC covering as a way to cut costs.
PU leather means Polyurethane leather, and it is the costlier, eco-friendly and more luxurious option of the two. Soft and silky, PU lasts longer than PVC, and it is equally easy to clean and maintain. All of Lierre's tables have PU upholstery.
If you are interested in learning why PU leather will be more suitable for massage table, consult our blog:
A: Accessory choices vary widely, but most practitioners prefer having a head rest base and cushion, as well as a carrying case for portable massage tables. Almost all of Lierre's portable massage tables come with these accessories. To properly protect a massage table, moreover, massage sheets are essential, whether they're disposable or fabric.
Other accessories can help with more specialised forms of treatment. For example, if you frequently treat pregnant clients, you could purchase a body support cushion. Bolsters are also especially useful for massage and more physically involved treatments, and can greatly boost clients' comfort.
Lierre offers other massage table accessories such as table extensions, table warmers, arm rests, etc. If you are interested in learning more about our accessories, you can consult our guide:
A: While a significant investment, electric massage tables provide superior comfort and communicate professionalism. We recommend them for practitioners with a long term clinic space, and especially for those working in industries such as spa work and acupuncture. Lierre offers a wide range of versatile electric massage table for every budget. If you're hesitating, you could also consider a stationary massage table.
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A: Properly taking care of a massage table is key to its longevity. Though massage tables are relatively low maintenance, it's important to periodically inspect nuts and bolts, motors if applicable, hinges and other structural aspects of the table to ensure that they're all stable.
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Vintage Cinema Wedding Stationery Set includes .ai and .eps CS5 compatible print files with 3mm bleed for each of the items below, the artwork features the use of the type on a path tool and vector shapes for easy scaling, an embedded paper texture.jpeg, this image is also supplied in the main .zip file:
Invite: 3.89' x 5.83' / 99mm x 148mm RSVP: 4.13' x 5.83' / 105mm x 148mm Save the Date: 3.34' x 2.16' / 85mm x 55mm Table Numbers: 8.3' x 5.8' / 210mm x 148mm Table Place Names: 5.82' x 3.35' / 148mm x 55mm
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T-Mobile customers can now preregister for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0. The tablet will be available to order beginning July 16, and will come to T-Mobile retail locations on July 23. Users will be able to add the Galaxy Tab 4 to their existing Simple Choice voice plan to get a free 1GB of data per month.
The Galaxy Tab 4 was originally announced in April. Each model has a 1280x800 dispaly, a quad-core, 1.2 GHz CPU, 1.5GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, and runs Android 4.4 KitKat. In addition to the 8-inch model, the Galaxy Tab 4 also comes in 7 and 10.1-inch versions. T-Mobile customers can get the Galaxy Tab 4 for $0 down with monthly payments of $16 for 24 months, for a total cost of $384.
You can preregister for the Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 now on T-Mobile's website. Also be sure to check out our review of the device. Will you be picking up a Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 on T-Mobile? Sound off in the comments below.
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The Santa Clarita location of Macaroni Grill has created an atmosphere of laughter, relaxation and a place of community for 16 whole years. Macaroni Grill was loved and cherished by the city and its citizens. From new-comers to regulars, Macaroni Grill stood out above and beyond all Italian restaurants in the valley due to its amazing customer service, inviting atmosphere and divine food. Unfortunately, on April 18, 2017, Macaroni Grill suddenly and immediately closed down without any further notice. It was a shock to the city, especially the supporters and regulars. We, the citizens of The Santa Clarita Valley demand a reopening of Macaroni Grill to continue its legacy.
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RedLynx struck gold in 2009 with Trials HD, an Xbox Live Arcade-exclusive racing platformer built around the careful balancing of a motorcross bike through a series of physics-managed, reality-bending 2.5D courses. Sure, Excitebike beat Trials to the punch by about 30 years, but the newer game's simplistic mechanics — you're really just managing your speed and using the left analog stick to control forward/backward leans — belie the complex design of the courses you're riding through. This week brings the long-awaited sequel, Trials Evolution, to XBLA, and that title couldn't be more fitting. The new Trials really is an evolution of what we saw previously, with more tracks (and more elaborate ones at that), plus a full-featured track creator and multiplayer features of both the real-time and asynchronous varieties.
The fundamental core that was established in Trials HD hasn't changed in the slightest. Your two trigger buttons are still gas and brake. The left analog stick handles the leans. The trick is to always feather the intentionally over-sensitive controls, gradually manipulating the bike into doing what you want it to. Push too hard in either direction, and you'll crash. Apply too much gas or brake too quickly, and you'll crash. Land at anything other than the correct angle… and yes, you will indeed crash. In truth, there's very little in the game that you can do to avoid crashing, which is why you can also press the B button at any time to instantly zap yourself back to the most recent checkpoint.
Repetition is the key to success in Trials Evolution just like it was in Trials HD. The only way to unlock all of the tracks and bike classes is to score gold and silver medals in most of the events, and the only way to do that is to play each course again and again until you've got the pattern down. Medals are awarded according to the time you clock and how many times you bail, with most tracks dropping your potential medal down from gold after even one fall.
Fortunately, there are more tracks to choose from in Evolution — many more, once you factor in the limitless potential of playing the shared creations of others — and they're all well-designed. They're also set in a range of completely unexpected locations. There's no small number of standard MX-looking environments, but there are many others mixed in that nod to different facets of our culture. One early track sends you wheeling across the beaches of Normandy, circa D-Day. In another, you'll leap out into open air and see your bike silhouetted against a blood-red sky as wolves howl in the distance. In yet another, you'll swear that you're looking at the XBLA game Limbo. And that's because the track is, in fact, modeled after that platformer. For a game with such a simple hook, it's pretty amazing to see the level of spectacle that RedLynx has managed to cram in.
You'll also see another thing while you're playing: your friends' names. Anyone on your friends list who has Trials Evolution and has registered a time on the course you're riding will be represented in your own game as a floating ghost name that denotes their progress through the course. So you're not only racing against the clock, you're also constantly try to push past your friends as they go flying past you.
Beyond that, there are more unusual challenge levels that involve doing things like riding as far as you can on a course with no brakes while your bike constantly accelerates. In another, you're actually piloting a UFO and trying to land it on a series of launch pads. There are tournament challenges as well, multi-course circuits that offer their own medal rewards. As you progress through all of this you'll unlock new bikes and earn cash, which can be spent at the in-game store on various cosmetic items for your riders and his rides.
Then there's the online component. The real-time multiplayer portion of Evolution feels a little bit half-baked, unfortunately. Available for both local and Wi-Fi play, you can compete in a handful of modes against up to three other players. Much like the solo levels, both your completion time and your ability to remain on the bike are being judged. Meaning that it's not always enough to just finish in first if you've crashed your way across the track to get there.
There's more potential in the two track creators, both a Basic Editor that is geared toward building traditional Trials courses, and an Advanced Editor that allows for more out-there concoctions. Neither editor is terribly easy to use — the controls feel like they would fit better with a mouse and a keyboard — but there's a ton of flexibility for those who take the time to sit down and learn them. All track creations can be shared too, which means everyone can benefit from Evolution's UGC features, including those who never set out to build something.
RedLynx has done it again. Trials HD set a standard and this sequel raises the bar. The multiplayer feels like a bit of a misfire, but all of the other pieces fall into place very well. If nothing else, the so-so online play gives the developer yet another facet to improve upon when the inevitable third game is released. Trials Evolution is definitely worth your time, especially with the quick respawn B-button command fostering the ever-addictive "just one more go" mentality that only the most successful games can pull off.
(This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360 on a copy provided by Microsoft Studios)
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Assalamualaikum... may Allah bless me Nurul Balqis Binti Mohd Salleh,ibu(Roslah Binti Ali),kakak n my nephews(rubiatun adawiah Binti Ali, Mohd Raif Rayyan Bin Mohd Razi,Mohd Rafiq Rayyan Bin Mohd Razi),baba(Abdul Hamid Bin Hashim),Mama(ruzifah Binti Ali),Baba(Mohd Salleh Bin Kassim),My siblings,Al-Fatihah to my late grandfather,late grandmother,late great grandmother n grandfather( Ali Bin Othman, Fatimah Binti Abdullah,Sa'amah Binti Puteh, Marzuki Bin Abdullah), my family, my teachers,my best friends,my friends, people who love me and people i love and all Muslimin muslimat....
My trip to Paris, France...
Alhamdulillah, Grande Allah, mio Dio...I got to experience Paris...the life...the excitement, the history, and the food! ^_^
1st day:
arrived in Paris...after check in and put our luggage in the store room (because the hostel only allow us to enter into our room after 4pm... we went around (actually more to wondering around Paris) until we reached Eiffel Tower... MasyaAllah...so nice...but sadly...the road and the sidewalk are full with stinky smell and black chewingum paste...euw..thank Allah i got to study in Karlsruhe, Gemany...which is 10 times cleaner.... and the busy city of Paris...full with cars and motors...im not really comfortable with it... we went back to the hostel to put our luggage in the room and go back to Eiffel tower at 8pm...now we used Metro(Paris short journey train) and make our way to the top of Eiffel Tower...if im not mistaken...it was written that the distance from Eiffel tower to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia is about 10 344km...i miss home so much... T_T we ate crepes (like lempeng..but originaly from France) and go back to the hostel ^_^
2nd day:
we make a trip to Paris Disneyland ^_^ yeah!. Play all the big ride and i bought some sourvenirs for me =P we went back and eat at the Korean restaurant. Go to Paris but eat Korean...lol...because we don't have it in Karlsruhe ^_^ enjoy ddukbokki (rice cake) so much...
3rd day:
we went to Louvre (museum where Monalisa potrait situated) and i understand now why the picture is damn famous...its because...it look really real...like u put a real live women there...the museum is so big and after that we went to Notre Dam (like in the movie hunchback from notre dam)..we didn't go up the tower because we have to climb around 400 steps of stairs..owh no man...hahhaa...then we went to Louvre garden (actually its like go back and forth...cies) but im happy because i gotto play with wooden ship...i rent it for 1euro and sail it using a bamboo stick...^_^ new experienced...i got to give bread to the Doves...they even stay on my hand ^_^... we ate Japanese food because we can't find the seafood restaurant that we wanna go but its worth it ^_^nyaman!!!
4th day:
we went to Le Defence...b4 that we went to one old palace and took some pictures like usual but we forgot to take pictures in Le Defence bcause of sum unavoidable thing happen ^_^ then, we manage to find the seafood restaurant and buy some sourveniers and grab our bag and go back to Karlsruhe ^_^
what i can relate paris with is:
Paris = Stairs! hahhaa...so many freaking stairs!


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Psalm 19:8
The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
Alexandra Nancy is our youngest granddaughter, who just turned seven months old on February 23rd. While all our granddaughters are quick to smile when happy or amused, Alexandra exudes a constant aura of joy. And one can't help but be captivated by that radiance whenever she is near.
Do you see the happy-every-day joy on her face? The light in her eyes?
For me, to look at Alexandra is to see a glimpse of heaven. Heaven here on earth.
The joy of the Lord manifest.
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Total security is just an illusion
What does the parent of a perfect teenager have in common with a CIO who has a perfectly secure data center? They're both delusional. "No [company] is ever 100% secure," said Jack Phillips, managing partner of The Institute for Applied Network Security in Boston. Phillips spoke to some 200 IT executives at the CIO Decisions Conference 2006 held last week in Carlsbad, Calif. "You cannot eliminate risk altogether."
Just like a parent in denial, a CIO sometimes has to learn the hard way, with news delivered in the middle of the night.
"People are a little more confident than they should be," Phillips said. "They think they're secure until something happens. There's an illusion of security."
When it comes to security, the first thing CIOs have to learn is that no security policy and system can be perfect. However, it is possible to sleep at night knowing your system is "good enough," Phillips said. Total security is just an illusion
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Yet elevators do more than elevate.
In my dreams the elevator also travels horizontally, taking me not only to the floor I want but also to the right area of the building.
In the car, the most confusing buttons are those meant to show 'door open' and 'door close.' These glyphs require focus, and it's a trick figuring them out in time.
And yet don't you hate those people who saunter to the elevator, texting or scanning their phones, while you're holding the door for them, as if their priorities took precedence over all others?
Even if time is not money, it is like money. After investing more than a minute waiting for the elevator, it's like throwing it away to opt for the stairs.
People stopped complaining about elevator music when it morphed into elevator advertising.
This person: he rushes to the elevator as the doors are closing, then holds them open so his straggler friends can wander in.
The walls of my office's elevator car are mirrored, and the lighting reveals every wiry grey hair, every facial hair, every wrinkle, dry patch and blemish. It makes for an interesting trip.
Some decades ago as the world began to go gaga for sensor technology, elevators were summoned with buttons activated by the warmth of the finger. This proved a disaster when a fire broke out, and the heat of the flames delivered the elevator passengers right to the danger.
In case of fire, fire rides the elevator.
This person: the physically fit young man who takes the elevator from the lobby up one floor.
In Germany, it is proper etiquette to say goodbye to the other passengers when you exit the elevator, and to reply in kind to their goodbyes if they exit first.
When the elevator arrives with no one inside, it's like a gift.


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This convoluted, flashback-filled melodrama, the first film of director Carl Dreyer, introduces Karl Victor von Sendlingen (Halvard Hoff), President of the Court in his Danish town, as a man haunted by his oath to his father (Elith Pio), never to marry a commoner. Although he falls in love with his niece's governess Hermine Lippert (Betty Kirkebye), he deserts her when she becomes pregnant. Many years later, von Sendlingen discovers that his daughter, Victorine Lippert (Olga Raphael-Linden) is on trial for having murdered her baby. The innocent Victorine, who was herself seduced and abandoned by a nobleman, is condemned to death, but her father is able to commute her sentence. He then frees her from her cell and flees the country with her, resigning his position. When he returns home a few years later, von Sendlingen falls from the ruins of his ancestral castle and perishes. 19/70
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Lubbock Mayor Glen Robertson Suggests Reducing His Staff to Avoid More New Hires
Lubbock's mayor is suggesting alternatives to hiring an additional member to their support staff.
At their meeting last Thursday, the Lubbock City Council voted to hire an executive assistant to the City Council, as well as two new auditors in their Internal Audit Office.
The funds to hire the troika of new employees would come out of extra projected sales tax revenue of $180,000.
Mayor Glen Robertson and District 5 Councilwoman Karen Gibson voted against the measure, offered by District 6 Councilwoman Latrelle Joy.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Robertson said that he has requested that his personal assistant be assigned to the City Council, and that the receptionist should begin helping with his calls and scheduling, eliminating the position of the Mayor's Executive Assistant.
"I cannot in good conscience be a part of adding another position when we do not have enough work for the staff we currently have," Robertson said. "I am hopeful that this will satisfy the council's perceived need for additional help and at the same time not put an extra tax burden on our citizens."


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Well, no longer. Far more courageous these days (I hope you're laughing about my sense of bravery—I certainly am!) I'm ready to give these awesome patterns a try. My first thought is to do a white-on-white dress with the Kaleidoscope patterns for my six-year-old. She'd love it (ok, true, she'd love it even more if it was pink on purple) and she's careful enough with her clothes (provided you strip her down before she goes outside) that it might survive long enough to be passed down to baby Norah.
But maybe I'll do a pillow or blanket with Happy Garden... You know, it's futile to even make plans like this because there are a bunch of patterns to choose from and I'll change my mind while I'm buying the embroidery floss anyway. In any case, I'll keep you posted!
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Rock Lobster!
Yes….it's what appears to be 9 lobsters stuffed into a fresh baked croissant. And that my friends is how you make a lobster roll. I have nothing to compare it to……because nothing else compares. Why go get a wimp of a lobster roll when you can get the alpha male?


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27 ugly truths about retirementBy Alaina Tweddale of GOBankingRates |
Make sure you're not in for a surprise when you retire.
From dealing with unexpected medical costs to supporting adult children, Americans often find themselves facing expenses they weren't anticipating in their golden years. Plus, it's harder to save for retirement today than 50 years ago.
Over half of Americans plan to continue working after they retire mostly due to health and financial reasons, according to a 2017 report by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. A GOBankingRates survey found many Americans think they'll never be able to retire.
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One benefit of standard contracts is that a body of case law builds up on the interpretation of particular forms, with the result that the industry knows how they work, writes Sue Lindsey. The Court of Appeal has recently ironed out a wrinkle in Clause 6.3b of the 1993 revision of the JCT Minor Works form (TFW Printers Ltd v Interserve Project Services Ltd, 27 June 2006).
The clause sets out the optional insurance provision of the employer taking out joint names insurance. The question concerned how long the employer was obliged to maintain the insurance - the clause is silent on the subject.
Shortly after the practical completion of works carried out by Interserve, the building was ooded, and TFW blamed Interserve. Interserve argued that the employer should have maintained the joint names insurance until defects had been made good, and that Clause 6.3b barred TFW's claim.
TFW argued that it was only obliged to maintain joint names insurance up to practical completion, and thus the contractor did not have the benefit of any protection after that date.
The judge at first instance agreed with Interserve, but the Court of Appeal disagreed, finding that the employer's insurance obligation ceased at practical completion. Many reasons were found for interpreting the contract in that way.
The Clause 6.3b obligation relates to 'the Works', and to insuring unfixed materials and goods delivered to the Works.
The Court found that these references related to the work and materials required to bring the project to a finished state, and that it was therefore unlikely that the clause related to an obligation that continued after practical completion.
It was held that there is no contractual mechanism in Clause 6.3b enabling the employer to instruct reinstatement of loss and damage after practical completion. That is because the only mechanism in Clause 6.3b to order such things is a variation instruction. The employer cannot issue variation instructions after practical completion. It did not make sense for the insurance obligation to continue after practical completion but, for the employer, to have no power to give appropriate instructions ensured that losses arose.
Clause 6.3a is the optional provision for joint names insurance taken out by the contractor. The Court decided that obligation ceases upon practical completion, and that there is no good reason why the period of the insurance obligations under Clauses 6.3a and 6.3b should be different.
The judges also considered the commercial common sense behind the clause. The more sensible a particular interpretation, the more likely it will have been what the parties intended when they made the contract. The Court concluded that when possession passes to the employer at practical completion, it makes sense for the employer to bear the risk of damage to the building and its contents from then on. While the contractor may have to return to deal with defects, there may be none.
Thus the contractor's ongoing interest in the building after practical completion is likely to be minor and possibly non-existent. The other consideration in relation to defects is that the contractor is obliged to remedy them at its own cost. That does not square with the contractor having the benefit of insurance cover paid for by the employer during the defects period.
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KENNIS music leading act Jaywon seems to have discovered the power of positive confessions in the career of a recording act. This statement comes from the fact that after the release of his prophesy laden track Oduyi, Jaywon seems to be everywhere doing big shows and gracing covers of magazines.
A few days back, we ran into Jaywon in an Omole Estate studio in Lagos where he had gone to record a new track with Lagos raising rapper Beazy. When we asked what the title of the track will be the two acts wasted no time as they informed us that the song is tagged Maekudi (a word that stands for bureau de change in Hausa). Why such a title we inquired of the two, Jaywon was quick to say, "The truth is this, the world will call you what you call yourself that explains the reason behind the song title".


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God Bless This Lovely Land Of Mine Lyrics And Chords
Written by Joseph Denieffe [1833-1910] from The Irish Republican Brotherhood Of America Recorded by Eire Og and the video is Rebel Hearts from Tipperary
[D] God bless this lovely land of mine,
[A] God bless the mountains the [G] hills and the[D]valleys
Some day the sun will cease to [Em] shine,
And I'll [A] desert this [G] lovely land of [D] mine.
This lovely [D] land," the old man [Em] said,
Will be [A] alive when we are [D] dead."
My fathers words still haunt my [Em] mind,
It's [A] God bless this [A7] lovely land of [D] mine.
Through misty eyes, I see my land
I hunger for her future grand
What greater hunger can there be
I hunger still, to see her free
My gallant comrades have passed away,
But with this song I sing today,
I sing my song before I die,
It's God bless this lovely land of mine


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"Jeezus, isn't life beaut." Jim came back from the dunny out the back.
"Just did a ripper of a shit.When your bloody guts falls out. Really satisfying."
"Oh." Crispin wondered if it was appropriate to talk about toilet habits with your next door neigbour.
"Know what I mean?"
"Um." It was a subject Crispin had never really discussed with anyone.
"The wife knows what I mean."
"You talk to your wife about bowel movements?
"Doesn't everyone? She's my best mate."
"Is she?"
"You bet. Bloody love her to bits. Don't you love yours?"
"Well, yes. of course I do."
"Well do you show her you love her?"
"Well, yes of course I do." Crispin thought of the holidays, the jewels, the dinners at Giovannis, the plays the house, the cars.
"I bite Deb's bum."
It sounded like a much cheaper option. "OH."
"She loves it. Calls me 'the predator.'"
"Does she."
'Yeah." Jim gazed into the fire a contented man."
Crispin ruminated on the last words his wife had said to him. "Why don't you just drop dead." In no context could they be called terms of endearment.


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I'm adding continuous integration to an EC2 project at work using Jenkins. The Jenkins machine itself is kept on an EC2 machine - one that might need to be taken offline and brought back on an entirely different EC2 instance at any point. We have a bunch of Puppet manifests allowing us to easily reinstall the software on the EC2 instance, but custom configuration files, like the ones for the jobs I create in Jenkins, would be deleted after the move.
Now, if Jenkins stores what jobs are to be run on it in an XML file or set of XML files somewhere, I could set up a system where those files are committed to the version control server, and then downloaded back to a newly-created server as part of the puppet manifest. Does anyone know where these files are stored? I've tried copying
/var/lib/jenkins/jobs, but that appears to store the output of Jenkins' jobs, not the input.


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Friday, February 03, 2012
Love begins in Winter
There's nothing more cozy than cuddling up on the sofa with a book and a box of chocolates on a chilly Winter day. And it seems I'm not alone in my love of pairing chocolates with a good read. For Valentine's Day this year one of my favorite chocolatiers Richart has combined a big box of chocolates with a book of short stories, from an award-winning writer Simon Von Booy. Even better, there are twelve specific chocolates that pair with passages from the book! The gift is called Love begins in Winter ($75), after the name of the book.
I haven't experienced any of the lovely pairings yet, but I spoke with Benjamin Auzimour in charge of Richart in North America, and he shared one of his favorites:
"Here's an extract that I like, about happiness, to be read while tasting a Petit Richart filled with salted butter caramel coulis, which will enhance the warmth of the feelings created by the scene. We can sense Simon's precise, concise, although almost impressionist style"
"when it started to get dark, Hannah and I left the shop. Bicycles were being wheeled home in the snow. Old women left bricks of cake on one another's doorsteps. The butcher was dressed up like Santa Claus.
Children peered out into the night from upstairs windows. And for several kilometers Hannah and I waded through snowy fields, past old gates and fallen tress, laughing and calling out as our bodies disappeared from view.
The shadows remained.
Gifts from the fallen, not lessening our happiness but guiding it, deepening it, and filling us with the passion we would need to sustain our love in the coming days."
If you don't know Richart chocolates, I highly recommend you try them. Richart not only makes some of the creamiest confections thanks to their intense conching process, but also takes a very thoughtful approach to chocolate called QuintesSense:
1. Knowledge of what you're tasting - background, origins, geography...
2. Sensory analysis
3. "Emotional" analysis - memories, feelings...
4. Finding the overall flavor of this very moment
5. Sharing it with others
They use Venezuelan criollo cocoa beans and make delicate confections using a wide variety of flavors, some that might seem unusual like flowers and herbs but always achieve balance and pure perfection, as far as I'm concerned.


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Alba Hot Springs Resort offers the once-per-year Panchakarma course conducted by professional Ayurveda experts from the United States and Vietnam. Do not miss this ultimate mind-body healing experience in the serene and meditative atmosphere at the foot of Truong Son mountain chain.
Panchakarma has been used for thousands of years as a method for staying healthy, young and vital. Panchakarma comes from the ancient science of Ayurveda which found its birthplace in India. According to Ayurveda, health is defined as the body is clear of toxins, the mind is at peace, emotions are calm and happy, wastes are efficiently eliminated and organs are functioning normally. In a busy, stressful and toxic world, our physical and mental systems accumulate toxins causing deterioration in bodily functioning. This eventually weakens our systems, which opens the door for chronic, degenerative, and non-specific diseases to develop. These can evolve into serious specific diseases, ultimately damaging an individual's health and wellness.
At Alba Hot Springs Resort, the Panchakarma therapy is built on three Ayurveda pillars of health. They are:
- Diagnosis & treatment
- Ayurveda nutrition
- Yoga & spirituality
PANCHAKARMA COURSE 5-days
(Valid from 27 February to 3 March 2017)
- 6-night stay in Alba Hot Springs Resort (including preparation and treatment time)
- Initial Ayurveda assessment and daily monitoring
- Panchakarma treatments: Abyanga (oil massage), Nasya(treatments for the sinus, head and neck area), Shirodhara (treatment that calms the mind), Swedena (steam sauna), Basti (treatment to cleanse and rejuvenate the large intestine)
- Ayurveda nutrition including vegetarian mealsand special teas for detox
- Morning meditation. Morning and Afternoon Yoga Asanaexercises
- Bathing in natural hot springsto help support healing treatments
YOGA RETREAT 2-days
(Valid from 16 to 22 February 2017)
• 01-night stay at Alba Hotsprings Resort
• Morning meditation
• 02 Yoga Asana excises
• 02 vegetarian meals
• Herbal tea or soya milk
• Bathing in natural hot springs to help support healing treatments
- VND 30,075,000*/person (twin sharing)
- VND 40,250,000*/person (single occupancy)
- Timing: The 5-day Panchakarma course will be from 27 February to 3 March 2017
- Guests will arrive to the resort on 26 February 2017 for preparation and will leave the resort before noon on 4 March 2017.
Payment options:
- Cash, Visa, Mastercard, Amex
- Deposit VND 9,000,000 (or USD 400) at time of booking
- Remaining payment shall be made at the arrival to the resort
- No amendment, no cancellation, no refund allowed during the treatment course
Cancellation fee:
- Before 15 November 2016: full refund of deposit
- From 15 November 2016 to 15 February 2/2017: No refund unless there is a replacement
Attention to participants:
- Comfortable clothes for Yoga exercises
- Sandals or slippers for easy move
- Fruits and snacks are not allowed
- Personal Yoga carpet is recommended (if any)
- Limit use of mobile phone during the treatment course
Airport transfer: VND 280,000 (USD 12)/person/way
- VND 1,500,000 */person(twin sharing)
- VND 2,200,000 */person (single occupancy)
- The Yoga Retreat package is designed as an auxiliary product of the Panchakarma course
- The Yoga Retreat package is only valid from 16 to 22 February 2017
- The package can be extended up to 7 days
- The supplement charge will be calculated based on the price for 2-day 1-night Yoga Retreat package
(*)The above prices are quoted net and excluded all F&B expenses out of the Yoga Retreat package as well as other individual charges.
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In the Philippines, we have Local Government Units, who take care of animals that are either picked up from the streets or basically sent to the office for adoption.
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Americans have their own take on gastropubs. Some Bay Area gastropubs, such as La Trappe in San Francisco, match Belgian Trappist ales, saisons and geuzes with traditional Belgian food like moules fritte (mussels and French fries) and chicken Waterzooi, a traditional Belgian chicken stew finished with a light cream sauce and fresh herbs. Meanwhile, Monk's Kettle and Pi Bar eschew geographical and culinary boundaries, complementing their fine selection of Belgian and West Coast beers with everything from burgers and pot pies (at Monk's Kettle) to pizza and pasta (at Pi).
Then there are places like Pig and Whistle on Geary in San Francisco that hew closer to the "classic" British pub tradition, matching a fine assortment of English and American beers with fish and chips, shepherd's pie, and bangers and mash. Although Pig and Whistle's beer selection isn't as extensive as, say, La Trappe's, it is certainly adequate. Among the beers on tap recently were Fullers, Bass, Carlsberg Lager, Boddingtons, Guinness, Newcastle Brown, Spaten Munich, Speakeasy Prohibition, Anchor Steam Beer and Liberty Ale and Boont Amber Ale. Pig and Whistle also featured on tap "special beers": Sierra Nevada's delicious seasonal Celebration Ale and Drake's IPA hand-pumped from a cask.
Pig and Whistle's fish and chips were fresh and perfectly cooked, and not at all greasy, and a delicious match with the lower-carbonation cask Drakes IPA. The shepherd's pie was equally tasty, and even better paired with Sierra's hoppy Celebration IPA.
Pig and Whistle draws its customers primarily from the neighborhood and the inner Richmond District, as well as from students and faculty from the nearby University of San Francisco. As befits a true English pub, Pig and Whistle proudly features English Premiere League football on a couple of flat screen televisions. A pool table also beckons in the back room. Service from the bartender is relaxed yet efficient.
Pig and Whistle opened in 1991, right around the time the British began toying with the gastropub concept. Surrounded by Irish brogues and British accents, with Arsenal struggling to keep up with Chelsea on the telly, it's not hard to imagine yourself in an authentic London pub. With reasonably priced, good-quality food well prepared and beer carefully chosen to complement the grub, Pig and Whistle is a welcome local take on the British-style gastropub idea.


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I like cooking analogies as they relate to life. They help me see what I am cooking deep in the cavernous kitchen of my heart. Dogen wrote "Instructions To The Cook" which I usually consume in it's slightly soupy watered down form, finding the original just a little too rich for my pea brain. But here's Ed Brown, talking about biscuits. I think we can all get this in it's original, touching form. Why do most of us spend so much time wishing for the "Pillsbury" version of life instead of tasting what's on our plate, in front of us? The answer I think, as Ed points out is that we mostly don't even know we're doing it. The advert media earns it's coin and spends it's full energy convincing us we need something else, something more to be just fine, to be happy. Their livelihood depends on it and often we buy what their selling in a deep way. We become restless and hungry for a life that isn't ours. We reject the burnt corners, the bitter skin, but also miss the tender, sweetness of what is fresh and in front of us.
But without further adieu I will put you in Ed's capable and humourous hands and let you ponder the question, "how are my biscuits?" And if you haven't seen it, his movie "How To Cook Your Life" is a delicious morsel.
"When I first started cooking at Tassajara, I had a problem: I couldn't get my biscuits to come out right. I'd follow the recipe and try variations: milk or water, eggs or no eggs, but nothing worked. I had in mind the "perfect" biscuit and these just didn't measure up. After several failures I got to thinking, "Right compared to what?"
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Growing up I had made two kinds of biscuits: one was from Bisquick and the other was from Pillsbury. For the Bisquik biscuits, you added milk to the mix and then blobbed spoonfuls onto the pan and didn't even need to roll them out. The biscuits from Pillsbury came in a kind of cardboard can. You rapped the can on the corner of the counter and it popped open. Then you twisted the can open more, put the premade biscuits on the pan and baked them. I really liked those Pillsbury biscuits. Isn't that what biscuits should taste like? Mine just weren't coming out the way they were supposed to.
It's wonderful and amazing the ideas we get about what biscuits should taste like or what a life should look like. Compared to what? Canned biscuits from Pillsbury? Leave It To Beaver? And then we often forget where that idea came from or that we even had an idea. Those perfectly good biscuits just aren't right.
People who ate my biscuits could be extolling their virtues and eating one after the other, but for me they were not right. Finally one day that shifting into place occurred. Not "right" compared to what? "Oh, no I've been trying to make canned Pillsbury biscuits. Then the exquisite moment of finally tasting my biscuits without comparing them to some (previously hidden) standard: wheaty, buttery, flaky, earthy, sunny, here. Inconceivably delicious, incomparably alive, present, vibrant. In fact much more satisfying than any memory, much more delicious than any concept.
Those moments when you realize your life as it is, is just fine thank-you, can be so stunning and liberating. Only the insidious comparison to a beautifully prepared, beautifully packaged products make it seem insufficient. The effort to produce life without any dirty bowls, no messy feelings, no depression, no anger is bound to fail- and be endlessly frustrating.
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Sometimes when I was cooking my former partner, Patricia would ask if she could help. My response was not pretty, neat or presentable. The lid comes right off and I would explode: "No!" How could an offer of assistance be so traumatic and irritating. Neither of us could understand why my response was so out of scale, so emotionally reactive. But I suppose it depends on which biscuits you're trying to bake.
I couldn't get it for the longest time. Finally I realized I was trying to make myself Mr Perfect, grown-up man, competent, capable and superbly skilled, performing tasks without needing any help. Someone asking, "Anything I can do?" implied that I need help, that somehow I am not competent, independent and grown-up enough to handle the cooking myself. Ironically the desperate attachment to being the perfect grown-up meant being a moody, emotional infant with strange prickliness. "How could you think such a thing?" I would rage. "You've ruined my perfect biscuits, now leave me alone."
As a Zen student one can spend years trying to make it look right, trying to cover the faults, conceal the messes. Everyone knew what the Bisquik Zen student looked like: calm, buoyant, cheerful, energetic, deep, profound. Our motto as one of my friends says was, "looking good."
We've all done it: tried to look good as a husband, wife, or parent. "Yes I have it all together. I'm not greedy or angry or jealous. You're the one who does those things, and if you didn't do it first, I wouldn't do them either. You started it"
"Don't peak behind my cover," we say, and if you do, keep it to yourself. Well to heck with it I say, wake up and smell the coffee. And how about savouring some cook old fashioned home cooking, the biscuits of the day? - Ed Brown from "The Tassajara Cookbook


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This was an occasion that called for one of my favorite breakfasts-- FRITATTA! I think of fritatta as more of a technique than a recipe; like an omelette, once you get the basic idea, the possibilities are endless. Fritattas
-- essentially a crustless quiche-- are easy to make, keep well in the fridge, and are a great way to use up ingredients, but there are some basic guidelines that are important to follow.
First, it's important to understand the main ingredient: eggs. When I was in culinary school, Chef Marco Ilaria(my favorite instructor) taught us that eggs are delicate, and meant to be treated gently. Even though it's possible to scramble eggs in less than a minute (over very high heat), the finished product is going to be tough and dry. Eggs should never be tough and dry. Properly cooked eggs are a thing of beauty. They should be silky, fluffy, and moist. Is there any greater egg turn-off than the brown, leathery crust that you get from super hot short-order griddles? Yuck. Be gentle with your eggs. Lower the heat. And for goodness sake, settle down with that whisk. They only need to be stirred a few strokes beyond the point of breaking the yolks.
Secondly, and this applies to both omelettes and fritattas, cook your accoutrement. When vegetables, and greens, and breakfast meats cook they release liquid, and that is not going to improve your fritatta. Saute your mushrooms, wilt your spinach, steam your broccoli, fry your sausage, and then, give it a minute to drain or steam off excess moisture. Cooked vegetables are also going to complement the overall texture of the dish.
Thirdly, season well. Eggs love salt and pepper. The right amount will take your fritatta from ordinary to eggstraordinary (sorry...had to). Remember to account for added salt content from cheeses like Feta or Parmesan. All I'm sayin' is even if it just gets sprinkled on at the table, don't forget the salt.
Below is the recipe for our Windfall Fritatta. How did I come up with it? I went through the drawers of my fridge. Potato, onion, and egg are always a great combo, but the sky's the limit. Here are a few other ideas to get your wheels turning:
- Roasted Red Pepper, Zucchini, Goat Cheese, Shallot, and Fresh Rosemary
- Broccoli Cheddar with or without Ham
- Prosciutto, Peas, and Parmesan
- Bacon, Mushroom, Spinach, and Swiss Cheese
Windfall Fritatta
What to make when a pallet of eggs falls off a truck in front of your house.
- 8 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 1 medium Yukon Gold potato, halved and very thinly sliced (1/8 inch)
- 1/2 sweet yellow onion (like Walla Walla), sliced longitudinally
- 1 cup sliced button mushrooms
- 2 cups chopped fresh spinach
- 4 ounces crumbled feta cheese
- 2 tablespoons finely minced fresh chives
- salt and pepper, to taste
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Crack the eggs into a small mixing bowl and whisk gently to break the yolks. Set aside.
In an oven-proof skillet (*see note), about 8 inches in diameter, heat the butter and olive oil over medium heat. Once the butter has melted add the potato and onion, season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Add sliced mushrooms and continue to cook until potatoes are just becoming tender. Add the spinach and cook, stirring, until wilted, about 1 minute.Turn the burner to off. Add the eggs, and another sprinkle of salt and pepper. Stir lightly to evenly distribute all ingredients. Sprinkle evenly with feta and chives. Place in preheated oven and bake 20 minutes or until the middle is set (no longer liquid).
*Note: Cast iron and fritatta are the best of friends, but any oven proof skillet will do. If you don't have one, don't worry. You can also use a similar-sized casserole, souffle, or baking dish. Just keep an eye on it as the cooking time will need to be adjusted.


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This morning around 12:32am, officers in District 11 responded to a radio call for shots fired and a person shot at 156 Washington Street. On arrival officers discovered two victims suffering from gunshot wounds. Chucuma Omar Browning, 17, of Dorchester, was transported to Boston Medical Center and pronounced. Victim #2, whose identification will not be released because it is a witness to the homicide, was transported to Brigham and Women's Hospital where it's injuries were considered non-life threatening.Boston Police Homicide detectives are investigating this death and ask anyone with information to contact the Homicide Unit at 617-343-4470 or to remain anonymous call the Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS.


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Ah, the bureaucrat, the most exclusive rank.
So, I want to show you the powers of a bureaucrat.
A bureaucrat has the same powers as the Founder. They can promote other users to bureaucrat.
There are several reasons why there is a 99.99% chance that the rank might not even be GIVEN:
- It can be a very dangerous rank.
- Bureaucrats can promote other users to be bureaucrats, this can be bad news as users who don't meet the criteria can abuse their powers.
I'm sorry, I just don't want the Wiki to meet the same fate as Ellie's Chat Club Wikia, bureaucrats promoting new bureaucrats and the new bureaucrats taking over the Wiki.
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I recently received a fancy new GPS fitness watch from TomTom. I have wanted one for ages and so it worked out brilliantly when TomTom offered to send me one to try out. When I am on it fitness wise, I don't mind admitting I get a little obsessed, I like to track my activity and have been doing so thus far, the old fashioned way of recording the classes I've been to and the runs I've been on in a notebook. My diet can get a bit rubbish if I don't rein myself in so when I'm focussing on a fitness goal I try and keep a food diary to help me keep an eye on what I'm eating.
Writing everything down is all well and good, but up until now I've had no means of monitoring physical output. The TomTom Spark has enabled me to keep track of activity as well as calories used and it also monitors sleep (massive eye opener if you'll pardon the pun!) as well as having other useful functions.
TomTom Spark Cardio + Music functions
- 3GB Music storage
- built in heart rate monitor
- 24/7 activity tracking
- Multisport mode: run, bike, swim, treadmill, gym, freestyle
- GPS tracking
TomTom Spark Cardio + Music features
- goal setting
- automatic sleep tracking
- audio performance feedback
- 5 heart rate training zones
- wireless syncing
- water resistant to 50M
- customisable straps
- ultra slim design
Wireless Bluetooth headphones and music
The TomTom Spark Cardio + Music can be bought with wireless bluetooth headphones that are preloaded with a Running Trax mix by Ministry of Sound. It has a 3GB music storage capacity which means you can load all of your music direct from iTunes or Windows Media Player (hello Elton John, how I love listening to you whilst running up hills-I'm still standing?!) This is a massive bonus for me because I have an iPhone 6 plus, it's too big to fit in an arm strap and who wants to go running with their phone in hand? I for one find it near on impossible to exercise without music so was delighted to discover that the TomTom has that covered. I've never used wireless headphones before but these are like a revelation for me. They are so light and comfortable and it's really something else not having to put up with headphone wires flapping about while you're exercising. I will never, ever go back to my previous headphones.
Setting up
It's easy to get started with the TomTom Spark all you do is remove the black watch part of the TomTom from the rubber strap and plug it in. Go to the TomTom get started web page and follow the simple instructions to set the watch up. Setting up the wireless headphones is just as easy and is a case of pressing a button on the headphones and a button on the watch. They will automatically pair and you're good to go!
Heart rate monitor
The watch has a built-in heart rate monitor which measures your heart rate on your wrist. Only heart rate can measure the intensity of your workout, without the watch I would try and judge by feeling how much effort I was putting into exercising but I had no way of keeping track of progress the reality is, as it happens quite different from the effort I *thought* I was putting in. By using a heart rate monitor you can keep an eye on what your heart rate is doing in real time. I've never used a chest band before but can imagine they might feel uncomfortable whereas there is no discomfort from wearing the TomTom watch, I even sleep in mine!
You can track your activity in real time by glancing down at the watch to see pace and distance etc, you can then plug in the watch and upload your stats to TomTom MySports where there is a breakdown of everything with charts to show progress and the results from your training. You can see screenshots below from two runs in the same place, I can clearly see (although I am still a bit rubbish at running) comparing these two I was definitely faster and more efficient on the second run. This sort of information is valuable for me to be able to effectively track my goals and to be able to see it in front of me is a brilliant tool in spurring me on to continue with training and watch myself progressing.
First run
Second run
Also really interesting to see what my heart rate was doing in comparison to my pace:
And another handy chart to show which zones my heart rate was working to, was a bit disappointed to see that I was only in the fat burning zone for a very short time on my run and gives me the impetus to work harder on subsequent runs!
Sleep tracking
Coming onto sleep: I knew I was not getting enough but wow, I really wasn't getting hardly any sleep at all. According to the watch the first week I wore it I was getting between 4 and 5 hours sleep a night! Now of course I know what time I go to bed and what time I have to get up in the morning, but with Rose waking in the early hours almost every night it was wrecking havoc with my sleeping pattern. Since having the watch I've made a conscious effort to 'clock up' 6-7 hours sleep a night. I've been doing this by going to bed earlier. I know it sounds a pretty obvious solution, before I must have been taking a really long time to actually fall asleep this is probably down to my brain not switching off properly because I was working into the wee hours, Seeing the amount of sleep I was getting, in black and white in front of me has really spurred me on to taking action to get more of it!
24/7 activity tracking
If you wear your watch all the time like I do, you will be able to monitor your activity 24/7 which means you can capture steps taken, distance, active minutes (a really good one to keep an eye on if you're not exercising that day/week) and calories burnt. The watch will allow you to track all sports; run, bike, swim, treadmill, gym and freestyle and there is, as you would expect, a stopwatch too. The pedometer is really handy and will tell you how many steps you've taken a day, my target being 10,000 which remarkably I regularly exceed often doubling to 20,000. It's amazing just how many steps you actually take on a busy day, but can get to the point where you are obsessively checking if you've taken enough that day!
GPS tracking will tell you exactly how far you've run, what your time was, distance, speed and pace as well as your heart rate zones. The TomTom Spark has everything you need to track and monitor activity, live and on the go.
I absolutely love the TomTom Spark Cardio + Music and couldn't be without it, for me it is completely essential to keep track of activity and help me focus on my fitness goals. I am so impressed with it I'll be buying one for Mr T for his birthday because he's really jealous of mine!
A fantastic bit of tech that comes highly recommended from me.
*I was gifted the TomTom watch as consideration for a feature on the blog. All thoughts and opinions my own.


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