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Delta 36-725 Table Saw Review
A short review and my thoughts on the Delta 36-725 Table Saw. This is not an all inclusive review but more of a quick look and my thoughts on the saw. I also talk about the Ridgid R4512 that I had to return for a defect. I think this is a solid table saw for the price point. Having a budget of about $500, this saw is the best bang for the buck in my opinion. I ended up paying about $550 for this saw from Lowe's. Thank you for watching. Please support what I do by liking and subscribing. Affiliate links used in this article.
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AMHERST — The Oyster River High School boys soccer team advanced in the Division II tournament with Friday's convincing 3-0 first-round win at No. 8 Souhegan.
The Bobcats (10-6-1) received goals from Ethan Druskat, Aidan Conrad and Stephen Luna. Luna's goal was a header off a cross from Druskat. Sam Smith and Alex Johnson also had assists. Asher Booz had four saves in goal.
OR advances to Sunday's quarterfinals at No. 1 Bedford (16-0-1) at 2 p.m. Bedford beat Coe-Brown in the first round, 3-1. Souhegan finishes at 10-7.
Bedford 3, Coe-Brown 1
BEDFORD — The Coe-Brown boys soccer team fell at No. 1 Bedford in the first round of the Division II tournament Friday, 3-1.
The 16th-seeded Bears (6-11) tied the game at 1-1 in the first half on a goal by Dewey Fanjoy, assisted from Doug Marshall. Bedford (16-0-1) scored twice in the second half to pull away. Beau Pingree made 10 saves for Coe-Brown.
Bedford will host Oyster River in Sunday's quarterfinal round.
Somersworth 22, Fall Mountain 21
SOMERSWORTH — The Somersworth football team rallied for a 22-21 win against Fall Mountain on Friday night.
Somersworth trailed 21-8 going into the final quarter but got a 7-yard touchdown run from Josh Ream and an extra point by Casey Soucie to win it.
Somersworth trailed 13-0 early in the game and 13-8 at halftime. Drew Francoeur scored on a 16-yard run and Soucie ran it in for the 2-point conversion. Soucie himself scored on a 12-yard run and kicked the extra point. Ream ran for 153 yards and Soucie 83. Ream also had 10 tackles.
It was the last game of the regular season for Somersworth, and needs help to return to the Division V tournament.
DOVER — Today's high school volleyball quarterfinal playoff matches are scheduled for 6 p.m. at the home of the higher seed. Some playoff matches have changed their times.
In Division II, Somersworth will play at Windham at 3 p.m., as will Coe-Brown at Gilford; Plymouth at St. Thomas is set for 2 p.m., and Bedford at Oyster River will go at 4 p.m.
In D-III, Nute will play at Winnisquam at 1 p.m. Farmington is still hosting Inter-Lakes at 6 p.m.
High school roundup: Bobcats boys bounce Sabers
AMHERST — The Oyster River High School boys soccer team advanced in the Division II tournament with Friday's convincing 3-0 first-round win at No. 8 Souhegan.


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Hon. Terry M. Mercer (Deputy Leader of the Senate Liberals):
Honourable senators, I did not intend to speak on this matter, but the substance of the motion has driven me to rise.
As the former vice-president of the Adoptive Parents Association of Nova Scotia and one of its founding members, I want to make sure that we put adoption in its proper light.
Yes, forced adoptions are wrong. Yes, the coercion of young women to give up their children is wrong. But there are many thousands and thousands of people in this country whose lives have been changed by adoption. I'm one of those, because in November 1980 I met my son for the first time. He was a month old. Through a Catholic agency in Halifax, my wife and I adopted Michael.
Michael has changed our lives. I'm here today because of that, because it helped focus me for the rest of my life. It gave me a meaning for the rest of my life to work hard to support him, to help him. I'm extremely proud of him. Indeed, crazily, he is in this business as the Executive Director of the Liberal Party of Nova Scotia today. And I know you're all happy about that, too.
The point I want to make is that this is an important report and we should support it. However, we should not lose sight of the fact that adoption is a very good thing. I am very critical of those people who oppose abortion and who don't, at the same time, say adoption is an option. Because if you're going to oppose abortion, you then have to make sure that you give the young women who find themselves in a situation where they're considering an abortion an option to do something very positive, to change the life of not only the child but of the family who adopts the child.
My wife and I have never been happier than we were after we adopted our son, Michael. Well, we are a little happier now because Michael has given us two grandchildren, and as I tell people openly, the best job I have ever had in the world is being a grandfather. It is more fun than anything I have ever done in my life.
When I went home last weekend, after being on the road for seven days, waking up on Sunday morning with my granddaughter saying, "Wake up, granddad," made my trip worthwhile.
However, I want to make sure we get on the record that adoption is a positive thing. How adoptions are referred to in this report is a bad thing. I think that we need to understand that and I want to get that on the record. Adoption can be and is a very positive thing.
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Ice cream anchors more weekend plans than I'd like to admit. This past weekend, it was MilkMade's new tasting room in Carroll Gardens.
MilkMade Ice Cream showed up on my radar last year, when I stumbled onto their drool-inducing Tumblr. Flavors like Coney Island Crunch—malted vanilla pilsner ice cream with a caramel swirl and pretzel bits—made me sad to learn that MilkMade isn't available in stores or in a scoop shop. That's because it's an ice-cream-of-the-month club, a concept that's both brilliant (craft ice cream delivered to your doorstep!) and terrifying (craft ice cream delivered to your doorstep.). Memberships costs $30 a month and gets you two pints, each one a completely new flavor. June 2015 flavors are numbers 131 and 132 (June Gloom and A Midsummer's Night Scream), so if you've been a member since MilkMade's 2009 beginnings, it's possible you've sampled 132 different flavors. Sometimes it pays to be an early adopter.
When E.S. sent me a link with the news that MilkMade was opening it's first ever tasting room in Brooklyn, I promptly put an ice cream field trip on the calendar. As the day approached, we (E.S., and K.C. and I) decided to make the trip part of a craft-themed day: craft ice cream, craft beer, and crafts.
We started with the crafts, at the Renegade Craft Fair Pop-Up in Williamsburg. According to E.S., the crafter among us, RCF is the Cadillac of craft fairs. There were some top-shelf letterpresses, ceramicists, and jewelry makers, but I think the free Magbooth was my favorite thing. I finally stopped by Rough Trade afterward, too.
When we moved on to Carroll Gardens, the walk to MilkMade started feeling very familiar. I realized I had been to the tasting room before… in August 2014, when it was Hay Rosie. According to the helpful lady behind the counter, Hay Rosie had a short-lived but successful run churning out craft ice cream at 204 Sackett Street, and the attention brought the founder, Stef Ferrari, a book deal and TV appearances. It's hard to write and promote a book and run a small-batch artisan ice cream operation at the same time, so Ferrari went on hiatus. Around the same time she closed Hay Rosie's tasting room, MilkMade was looking to open one, so the space didn't stay dark long.
There were eight flavors in the freezer case, five of which were described as "favorites"—flavors that MilkMade subscribers kept begging founder Diana Hardeman and her Milkmaids to bring back (there are apparently no repeats among the 132 flavors thus far released). The five favorites are:
- Amagansett Sea Salted Caramel – caramel ice cream with sea salt
- Grady's Manhattan – Grady's cold brew coffee with whiskey
- Fingerlakes PB&J – peanut butter ice cream with a grape jelly swirl
- Rock Rock Rockaway Road: marzipan ice cream with chocolate pieces and marshmallow swirl
- Chinatown Chocolate: chocolate ice cream with Chinese five-spice powder
The three rotating flavors that day (6/20/15) were Blueberry Scratchcake, Fine Vanilla, and Red Velvet Cake.
I opted for the salted caramel (of course) and the PB&J. The texture of the salted caramel was extra soft and melty, smooth, with a rich caramel flavor. I was bowled over until half-way through the scoop, when a mild burn crept up my throat from all the sugar. This is extremely sweet ice cream. I like my ice cream on the rich side, but the sugar level set my teeth on edge.
Unfortunately, the PB&J didn't rate a "one of the best" designation either. The flavor was intensely peanut-buttery, but the texture was grainy with tiny peanut pieces, and the jam swirl was crystallized.
Overall a bit of a disappointment, but worth going at least once if one of the rotating flavors catches your fancy. I think that's what the real appeal of MilkMade's ice cream subscription is: the novelty of the flavors and their limited run (ice cream is the most ephemeral collector's item). Given the variability of the ice creams that MilkMade is turning out, hits and misses are inevitable.
High on sugar, we completed the craft trifecta by grabbing some craft beer (Gun Hill Brewing, Revolution Red Rye) at Buschenschank down the street. I'm ready for another craft-themed weekend soon, possibly anchored by Brooklyn Bell's the Local. This little Crown Heights shop has been making small-batch ice cream since summer 2014, but I had never heard of it until last week. It's next on my list in the eternal search for the best ice cream.
MilkMade Tasting Room
204 Sackett Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231


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Founded in 2014, The Gentleman Studio is a high-class digital transformation agency helping companies and individuals succeed online. We craft digital strategies, brand identities and custom UX designs that stick out from the crowd. We do not believe in the concept of normal. For us, every project is an exception. We dig into our clients' DNA, truly understand their needs, and push them to the next level. Our mission is to shape the companies of the future.
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Pledge for the Planet
That's it.
Today we've used as much from nature as our planet can renew in the whole year and it's only August.
We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester. We must take immediate action and help reverse the trend of overshooting our planet's resources. At the International Secretariat of SCI, we are planning to take a pledge to keep our office meat free! We are already on a mostly veggie based diet, but our decision would mean to keep our office meals, snacks and staff meeting lunches all meat free.
The #pledgefortheplanet campaign has several pledges suggested for you to take part in. Ideas include hosting a vegetarian dinner party, lowering your household energy consumption and reducing your paper waste. Greenpeace has also set up a Say No to Plastic Pledge, to end plastic pollution in our oceans in the next few years. Want to support but don't know where to start? Here are 9 tips for living with less plastic. These may be things that you already do or you may be setting new challenges and pledges for yourself, your community or perhaps workplace, whatever you decide to do, take a photo and add it to the pledge map and share it with us in the comments below, on instagram, facebook or twitter.
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Healthcare is one of society's most vital industries, yet many healthcare organizations are struggling to keep up with technological innovations, namely the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. In this guest post, Ofer Amitai, CEO and co-founder of a company that delivers network access control, visibility, management and policy compliance to ensure networks run […] [MORE]
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Thunder In My Soul – Reviews and Comments
Comments from people the author has never met
- Incredibly beautiful, inspirational, and creative.
- This is really impressive. Beautiful art and meaningful words.
- Wonderful book Norma. You are a digital artist, poet and writer. A very beautiful personal project. Looking forward to reading more!
- Oh man! Exquisite words and accompanied art. Love it.
- This is absolutely beautiful. So beautiful and touching. Thank you Norma Slack. You have spoken to my heart and soul.
Comments from people who know the author
- Beautiful and poignant.
- Really moving and I feel others will also appreciate and relate to it. You should be very proud.
- Your book is amazing.
- This is amazing. I'm in total awe. Thank you for enriching my day.
Reviews from Amazon
- 5 out of 5 – I loved, loved, loved this book of illustrated poems. The writer takes you into her world sharing boldly with you her personal life experiences in such an engaging way. I was able to relate to so many of the feelings and emotions expressed and feel lots of others will too. The format of the book with the writer's explanation prior to each poem, the poem and then the accompanying illustration works beautifully. Despite tackling difficult life events this book is actually uplifting and provides the reader with lots of encouragement and hope, reminding us of the importance of love and family and always finding the courage to follow our dreams.
- 5 out of 5 – A very moving book which expresses the emotions, and life experiences, of the writer through the art of poetry, digital art and writing. The poems are very moving and I was touched by how easily I connected with them through my own life experiences. The artistry of the digital art compliments each of the poems and adds to the emotions of the reader. The writer's 'authors notes' resonate with one and makes one reflect upon their life. A wonderful book which everyone should take time to read, admire and reflect upon. To the writer many thanks for making me stop and consider.
- 5 out of 5 – As with the other reviews, this book resonated with personal experiences that I could relate to & the book was visually enhanced by the digital Art which complemented the poems. The Author's personal notes gave context & passion to the whole ensemble of the poems. A very poignant book which left you with a serene calmness.
- 5 out of 5 – This is a remarkable book. A heartfelt reflection on life, living, caring, loving and loss. It will resonate with many who will see echoes of their own life experience within its pages. The structure is excellent, the reflections and introductions to the poems are considered and thought provoking, the poems are direct, honest, painful even at times, and the art work complements the whole. A real achievement and one that people should find time to absorb. I loved it.
- 5 out of 5 – Beautiful artwork & very well written. Highly recommend it.


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EDF's Fred Krupp on corporate-NGO partnerships
Fred Krupp has guided the Environmental Defense Fund for three decades and is a leading voice on climate change, energy and sustainability, and a champion for harnessing the power of both technology and the marketplace to protect our environment. Through his leadership, EDF has set the bar for corporate-NGO partnerships that move markets and transform industries. In this conversation, we'll look at the state of play, lessons learned and where things will go from here.


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Tec 7 breakfast morning at Ballymena branch
Tec 7 breakfast morning at Ballymena branch
We will be holding a breakfast morning in our Ballymena branch on Wednesday 13th March from 8.30am-11.30am.
There will be product demonstrations from Tec 7, complimentary breakfast , ballot prizes PLUS lots of special deals which are only valid during the breakfast morning!
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Mike Bloomberg for President? Nope.
It must be a slow news day over at AM New York, a free daily that's handed out around the city's subway and commuter rail stations. Their cover story today is, "Will Mike Run?" The page three headline reads, "Mike's mixed messages: Bloomie says he won't run for prez, but deputy won't let issue die."
A sidebar headlined "Bloomie the underdog" quotes Steven Malanga, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who says Bloomberg doesn't "stand a chance" of getting either party's nomination. I'll say! Although nominally a Republican, Bloomberg is considerably more liberal than most national members of his party. He's the kind of Republican that only New York City could love. With Republicans having won 5 of the last 7, and 7 of the last 10 presidential elections, they have no reason to offer up a moderate like Bloomberg to the national electorate.
Democrats, on the other hand, would love to offer up a moderate like Bloomberg. Indeed, in the current political climate, only a moderate Democrat has any chance of being elected president. In the last forty years, the only Democrats to have won the presidency — Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton — were centrists. But Bloomberg isn't a Democrat. He used to be, but switched parties to run for Mayor of New York. Nobody's going to support a presidential candidate who switches parties back-and-forth, depending on what he's running for. A politician is allowed only one such switch in a lifetime (as Ronald Reagan famously did), and Bloomberg has had his.
Rudy Giuliani, Bloomberg's predecessor, is making serious presidential noises. By Republican standards, Giuliani is slightly more conservative than Bloomberg, but no one that supports abortion rights (as Giuliani does) is conservative enough for the national party. He'd be a compelling candidate if he could manage to get the nomination, but he won't survive the primaries.


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Prevention: Connections Matter
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"That's very personal. And so, we know and we've learned through our pilot work that the having somebody within that sector come and be the presenter and the leader of that work, it just builds engagement all the quicker."
— Liz Cox, executive director, Prevent Child Abuse Iowa
Understanding how adverse childhood experiences, trauma, brain development, and resilience intersect is important to the health outcomes of children and families. Prevention efforts, including the Protective Factors Framework, point to having caring connections as a method to mitigate the negative effects of trauma.
The 'Connections Matter' podcast showcases how a specific training developed by Prevent Child Abuse Iowa serves as a community-based effort to promote and build understanding, trauma-informed communities by tailoring evidence-based training to the following community sectors: early education, education, health care, faith based, and workforce. This podcast focuses on the development of the Connections Matter training, how developers learned the value of having the curricula delivered by community members, and the statewide needs assessment that helped shape the training.
The conversation also provides insight to the state's newly-developed maltreatment prevention strategic plan, and the examples used to help develop the strategy.
'Connections Matter' features insight and perspective from the following contributor:
- Liz Cox, executive director, Prevent Child Abuse Iowa
Runtime: 35:20
Find Related Resources on Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Prevention: Reorganizing Community Collaboratives (podcast)
- Protective Factors Part 1 (podcast)
- Protective Factors Part 2 (podcast)
- Child Maltreatment Prevention: Past, Present, and Future (PDF - 2,150 KB)
- Developing & Sustaining Prevention Programs
- National Child Abuse Prevention Month
- Preventing Child Abuse & Neglect, Evidence-Based Practice
- State Liaison Officers (SLO) for Child Abuse and Neglect
- National Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Organizations
Other Related Resources
- Prevention: Connections Matter Transcript.pdf (149.24 KB)


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Both debit cards (like Maestro cards) and credit cards (MasterCard, American Express, Visa, Diners Club) can be used to get cash at ATMs.
At most banks, a difference is made between withdrawals made at an ATM operated by your bank, and those made at ATMs run by other banks or service providers.
In Switzerland, using your debit card to withdraw money from an ATM belonging to your bank is always free of charge. However, many banks charge you fees of between CHF 1.50 and CHF 2 when you withdraw money at other ATMs.
Some banks, on the other hand, let you make withdrawals at out-of-network ATMs without charging you a fee. The moneyland.ch private account comparison provides detailed cost breakdowns which clearly show debit card ATM fees.
When you make cash withdrawals abroad using a debit card, you pay a fee of between 3 and 5 francs and/or a proportional fee of between 0.25% and 1.5% of the transaction amount. In some cases, like youth accounts, the bank may not charge an ATM transaction fee at all, even outside of Switzerland.
In addition to the fees you pay, you also pay for foreign currency exchanges through exchange rate spreads. These are markups on actual currency exchange rates, and are added by the card issuer.
In every case, getting cash is always much cheaper when you use a debit card rather than a credit card. This applies both in your country of residence and when you travel abroad. You can easily pay twice as much when you use a credit card to get cash at an ATM.
Verdict: Whenever possible, use a debit card to withdraw money, rather than a credit card. Stick to your bank's ATMs for cash withdrawals or better yet, opt for a checking account which doesn't charge fees for out-of-network ATM transactions.
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Mark the date!
Grab your girlfriends and come for a fun time! I am passionate about the Holiday season and what this time of year brings into our homes and to our families. I absolutely love to share this season with others. I thought this workshop would be a fun way for woman to connect and have "girlfriend" time together." We all need something to look forward to!
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Energy drinks plus alcohol a dangerous mix
It isn't unusual for Dr. Mary Claire O'Brien to see drunken college students in the emergency room at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
But the young man she treated in spring 2006 was "more deeply inebriated" than most.
When he recovered from his near coma, she asked him what he had been drinking.
His answer: Alcohol mixed with high-caffeine energy drinks.
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Thank you for how much thought and care you put into our sessions. They were so worthwhile and changed the way I think about speaking. My presentation went great today!! I felt very prepared and confident and the idea was so well received.
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When I was an Associate Curator at the Brooklyn Museum we brought Jackie in. She really opened up the team's mind to new ways of preparing to speak publicly. The fact that we did the work in a group setting allowed us to really learn from one another and see where our stories connect.
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Our team set out to design and prototype a compact electromyography (EMG) device that measures and records electrical signals associated with muscle activity. The EMG device designed in this project begins at the electrode assembly, where input signals from the muscles are amplified. The signal is transmitted to a central signal processing electrical board. The signal enters a filtering stage before being digitized by an analog to digital converter. The microcontroller is responsible for receiving, processing, and sending the digital signal, which is converted from the microcontroller's UART communication to serial USB format and sent to a computer through a USB communication cable. Using MATLAB, the signal data can be transferred into a computer platform to be used in other applications.
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Roleplay was conceived in late 2012 and founded on the New Year's Day of 2013. So, apart from being another list in the ocean of end-of-the-year lists, this annual rewind is also a periodical tribute to our friends, partners, collaborators, employees and clients that every year help make this office broader. Thank you!
Enjoy our Top-10 projects for 2015 in chronological order.
Our second implementation of the Orama exhibition booth concept was successfully accomplished by Stefanos Nasopoulos. Thanks to Diego from Atelier Italia for respecting Orama's identity.
Designing an interface to promote a summer resort in the middle of last winter was pure bliss! Big thanks to the Idilli team (Elisa, Konstantinos and Stavros, of course). Excessively developed by Chris Nasikas.
Dioskouri, old-town's historic coffee place/restaurant, is under an extensive rebranding coordinated by the younger generation of owners. We worked closely with Design Pot (architecture & interiors) for an identity redesign including signage, menus and other restaurant consumables. To be continued!
Thank you, Sirtimid for taking over at the right moment. Thank you Nikos Alexopoulos for the right-on-the-spot photo shooting! Thank you Efi, Tina and Sofia for handing us your baby...
Big thanks to our intern from France, Manon Photopoulos, for diving into the greek alphabet for the localisation of our corporate - yet open - font.
We were so glad to meet Vassilis and Manolis from theatre collective Nova Melancholia for a brave update of their web presence. Chris Nasikas did it again!
Huge credit to Stefanos Nasopoulos for leading this demanding product design journey for us and big thanks to George from Orama Minimal Frames for embarking with the same vision. More documentation on this polyester custom hard case coming soon!
This has been our biggest teamwork project so far! Visual id, web strategy, design and coordination was carried out in-house. Chris Nasikas & Panos Karvelas built a smooth e-commerce experience within a website rich with content and media. Panos Economou nailed it with the product-related series of video clips. Dimitris Kolios captured the essence of d.Mod's creations. Nastazia Spyropoulou documented the designs in plan and 3D for the first time. Last but not least, d.Mod's Michalis and Guy pushed everyone enough to get the best they could. We think they got it!
We are happy to collaborate with Athena Research Center / IMIS to give form to important projects such as the all-new Geodata.gov.gr, a centre for public datasets. Thanks to Spiros and Stelios for trusting our eyes.
Open Lab has been roleplay's most ambitious, open-ended and... open project so far. Thanks to the big team involved so far for their contribution. We'll feed you with project images and credit information within the first weeks of 2016.


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On the joy of skinny dipping
It's a truth universally acknowledged that Germans are pretty flexible on the public nudity front. The first country to have its very own nudist movement, Germany is the land of the bodily free. True, it's frowned upon on public transport, but at the busiest beach or most popular inner city spa you're more likely than not in eye shot of a genital or other at all times. Changing from city clothes to a swimsuit isn't the firmly-keeping-eye-contact-with-friend-lest-a-gaze-fall-upon-a-previously-unexposed-portion-of-flesh towel wrestle I'm used to from the English shores I lived on until 10 months ago. Here, it's lightly chatting, taking one's top off, boobs akimbo, to THEN locate a bikini top in one's bag and putting this on before (sometimes yes, sometimes no) covering one's bum with a flailing towel and changing into ones bottoms. And it's wonderful. Incredible but true: to all faces there is indeed a body attached! And it does not, contrary to what magazines and billboards may tell you, go to the gym 6 times a week or arrange itself conveniently for #fitfam poses. Or, as you may also be led to believe, be the sole source of frustration to its owner who is just 3 kg away from the "correct" jeans size. Nope. Here, bodies are who you are, and they're a vehicle with which you enjoy your surroundings. Hence why spas, lakes and nude swimming are so popular here: having a body can actually be quite enjoyable. That is all. The polar opposite of the bikini body, swimming naked is utterly non-sexual: it's a natural state.
I had my first experience of the joys of swimming in my birthday suit this summer. I'd arranged a lake hike one hot summer's Sunday with a friend from uni who grew up in Berlin. The walk led us through a mosquito-laden forest path and included three lakes, all of which can be swum in. When we arrived at the first lake it was an absolute beauty. About the size of half a football field, completely secluded and shared with only two people on the other side, visible as a floating head on the surface of the water and a person reading a newspaper on the banks.
"I think I'll go in nakey," my friend declared, looking around. The thought had genuinely never occurred to me before. But of course! How simple, how totally not a big deal, and how funny and actually slightly rebellious. An awkward naked tiptoe to the water's edge on painful footing later (no Bond babe water entries here, alas) I was blissfully swimming in the buff. Exposed but hidden, I felt vulnerable and empowered, wild and uncatchable. We swam in silence apart from the occasional "this is SO LOVELY", looking around at the little lake, floating on the surface with our ears under the water. No bathing suit to pull up or be squeezed into, just feeling the total luxurious freedom of being underwater. A quick run out and towel off later we were off again, waving to the also naked swimmers on the other side of the water. So perfectly innocent and totally, giddily fun.
Since this enlightening experience it's been somewhat hard to stop me from swimming in lakes when the opportunity presents itself during a walk. During an overnight camping trip to the truly beautiful Grosser Stechlin See in July my friend and I nakey swam in crystal clear waters mid-hike, during the lavender sunset after dinner and in early morning solitude with the sun rising over the distant shores of the lake. Watching trees moving in the wind from the water's cool surface, diving underwater and peeking a murky green beams of light, walking out of the water with goosebumped skin are some of my favourite memories from this endless-seeming summer.
Of course there are times when I prefer to be wearing bathers than not, one of which is when I'm on my own, or indeed when the crowd isn't right. It goes without saying to choose your skinny dipping friends wisely, and not force your naked bum upon colleagues, EVEN IF they are in fact German and would probably be fine with it. But even so, finding a secluded spot by a lake, leaving your clothes at the shore and jumping in has a magic to it. You should try.


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In his immensely readable book, 'Lessons from the Top', BBC presenter Gavin Estler takes a close look at the story telling techniques of those who have made it; from Bill Clinton, to Lady Gaga, Steve Jobs to Angela Merkel. In summary, they're all very good at telling us who they are, their purpose in life and what defines them and their followers as a distinct group.
Estler's analysis got me thinking about the Malcolm Turnbull story – that's the new Prime Minister's personal narrative; the story controlled and projected by Turnbull, as opposed to stories about his life to date. Undoubtedly, the life to date has been remarkable for its breadth and its achievements – journalist, lawyer, business man and technology entrepreneur. Seemingly, rich pickings to answer the 'who am I?' question, or is it? The Prime Minister and his advisors are smart people and to that end, acutely aware of how previous achievements could be misinterpreted by vast swathes of the public; for one man's achievements, read another man's privileged opportunities.
Rather unfairly, such a string of accomplishments could be framed by some as indicative of a restless streak – to put it bluntly, he's not a stayer. Consequently, Mr Turnbull's storytellers would appear to be focussing on the other parts of the process – namely, what defines the leader and his followers and what exactly is their collective purpose. This, in itself, is interesting as it takes us – for the time being – to excitement; more specifically, "the most exciting time to be an Australian" according to the Prime Minister. This presumably means that Mr Turnbull and his cabinet are the men and women who will help the rest of us realise the bounty of such heady days? There's gold in them there hills, son; join us and we'll get rich together.
They'll backtrack from 'excitement' – they have to. It's ephemeral and more importantly, it's the opposite of 'calm' – a trait much sought after in our leaders.
It's an intriguing word to choose; it's evaluative and to that end, subjective. It wasn't, it's assumed, chosen lightly. These are exciting times, but the excitement is largely borne of uncertainty and that's one place the Prime Minister wouldn't go. As I said, he's a business man, and if there's one thing we know, it's that markets hate uncertainty.


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Dec 7 The Salon - Melbourne Recital Centre
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Sandy Evans (Syd), Tripataka (Adrian Sherriff, Jonathan Dimond, Adam King), Sai-Sarangan Ravichandhira
Heart|Rhythm|Love takes the listener on a beautiful, thrilling and dynamic journey, seamlessly interweaving influences from Indian music and jazz in a joyous celebration. This world premiere is written and performed in honour of mridangam virtuoso Guru Kaaraikudi Mani in gratitude for his brilliance, wisdom, inspiration, guidance, generosity and friendship in music and in life. It was composed by Sandy Evans with the assistance of an Australia Council Fellowship.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Ferdinand Piech's iron-fisted rule over Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) helped him build an empire spanning fuel-efficient city cars to 40-tonne trucks, but in the end he overplayed his hand and was forced out before reaching his goal of making VW the world's biggest carmaker.
A grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the sports-car maker who developed the Beetle under a 1934 contract with the Nazis, Piech devoted his life and a 51-year career in the auto industry to making Volkswagen No. 1.
On Saturday, Volkswagen announced the resignation of the 78-year-old patriarch. The announcement ended two weeks of crisis that began when Piech said he had "distanced" himself from Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn.
The comment was seen as an attempt to squelch any chance Winterkorn had of succeeding him as chairman when his contract runs out in 2017. Piech's allies turned against him, leaving him unexpectedly isolated.
In nine years as CEO and 13 years as supervisory board chairman, the balding Austrian led VW's expansion to include 12 brands, 118 plants in 31 countries and 600,000 employees.
He became the oldest-ever chairman of a listed German company and last year was Germany's best paid supervisory board chief, with total compensation from VW of 1.47 million euros ($1.6 million).
Piech took the reins at VW's Audi in 1988 before he joined the parent company and eventually became the CEO.
At Audi, he developed the brand's pioneering Quattro all-wheel drive technology which helped Audi overcome its image as a maker of bland vehicles like the Fox coupe and 100 sedan, paving the way for the Ingolstadt-based manufacturer to rival BMW (BMWG.DE) and Mercedes-Benz (DAIGn.DE) for the world's luxury-market crown.
When he was CEO of Volkswagen, the group bought ultra-luxury nameplates Bugatti, Bentley and Lamborghini and integrated the mass-market Seat and Skoda brands as well as pushing through the launch of the New Beetle, a re-creation of the car his grandfather developed.
But Piech also made disputed decisions such as the development of a flagship sedan, the Phaeton, at a cost of more than 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to take the VW brand upscale.
The Phaeton's lavish plant in Dresden, Germany, operated below capacity for years and the model was withdrawn from the United States in 2006 after failing to meet sales targets.
Piech has fathered 12 children with four women, the last three with his second wife Ursula, a former nanny whom he installed on VW's supervisory board in 2012.
Being a member of the Porsche-Piech clan, which controls 51 percent of Volkswagen voting rights, allowed him to rule with an iron grip, ruthlessly hand-picking and firing executives.
Piech keeps a dagger collection and has professed a fascination with Japanese military tactics in World War Two, according to people who have worked for him.
He pushed out Winterkorn's predecessor Bernd Pischetsrieder, half a year after his contract was extended. Pischetsrieder had pulled the Phaeton from the United States and disagreed with Piech over the use of a holding in truck maker Scania.
"My desire for harmony is limited," he wrote in his book "Auto.Biographie" published in 2002.
In 2009, Piech also axed Porsche boss Wendelin Wiedeking, who had been accused of racking up debt at the sports-car maker by using share options to pile up VW stock.
"Piech is a tactician. He is someone who doesn't give up," a person who knows Piech well told Reuters after the row with Winterkorn flared up.
Piech may now, though, have sped up a development he sought to avert. Analysts say Winterkorn, who worked closely with Piech at Audi in the 1980s, stands a chance of being named to succeed Piech as chairman of the supervisory board, taking the influential job two years sooner than expected.
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3 Best Homestays Amidst Jungle In Kumaon For Digital Nomads
Travelling has become new addiction of today's generation. All of a sudden everything has started surrounding travel. New era has arrived travellers are ditching hotels to experience the real essence of the place by staying with locals. Travellers have found new way of consuming, moving and interacting. Travelling is no more visiting new country, taking picture of monuments or staying in hotel room. Staying with locals is indeed a new experience to feel the energy of the place and observe the diversity of the culture. Being part of their day today life and making new friends. Share personal stories and learning new languages. This is unconventional way of living but a unique way to be close to humanity. An experience that teaches you to stay humble and respect all.
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People are quitting their full time jobs and becoming Nomad Traveller or Digital Nomad. It is a new way to re-invent your freedom and work from remote locations. Singapore, Bali and Thailand have become most popular country among Digital Nomads. But soon India will not be lacking behind as this country offers most amazing beauty of mountains with lesser cost of living. India has homestays with amazing host and they are placed in offbeat locations.
Since 2017, I have turned into Digital Nomad Entrepreneur and exploring places to work from remote location. Kumaon is the best region in Uttarakhand district where you can find best homestays amidst forest. Digital Nomad not only can stay in Kumaon but they can get work as well. Uttarakhand has many opportunities you just need to explore them. My journey of past two years took me to Naina Devi Bird Conservation Reserve in Nainital District. After staying there I had decided to work from there.
1.The Oak Trail Lodge
Walking down the mountain, I could not see anything, clouds covered everything, I walk the lonely path unafraid, trying to find my way, was tired, exhausted when something stirs in me, wind started blowing, taking clouds away, I saw a house painted by forest's fragrance. Something echoes in the air, I sat upon the rock, looking at the house, felt like paradise on earth, took deep breath, started walking again, I got reason to climb the mountain once again.
As I could see my dream house far away on the top of mountain, I call this house dream home, built amidst jungle on the top of mountain, where silence is your companion, and trees, flowers, clouds, birds, are your friends. A sweet home where your heart filled with tranquility, serenity, love and devotion. In the night a soft breeze accompanies the starlit sky, moonlight throws her light to convert this place into the complete heaven. Few days of my life spend like I was living in the dream world somewhere in the mountain.
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Here, I met a wonderful host Bobby who travelled around the world and settled finally on the top of mountain. I just loved to hear his stories of travelling. He beautifully described how he did his budget travelling! He initially made this house for his personal use where he used to live alone while enjoying the tranquility of surrounding. But later he decided to open for travellers to create some employment and engagement for locals. He has collected marvelous pieces of artifacts and other decorative things from all around the India. His dinning hall gives you the feel like you are living in all the magnificent places of India. Guests are served with delicious local and continental food. This place is best suited for writer, artist, filmmaker, musician, nature's photographers and all the people who love to live with nature.
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"A poet is born amidst cloud in the mountain, listening to the music of nature".These are the best words describe this homestay. Once you enter here, a soothing music passes through your ear that is nothing but a pleasure.
You will be greeted by your host and dost Naresh, his simplicity and love for nature will make you stay there for longer. He is a mountaineer and he worked as guide before setting up his homestay. He knows many secret places in Uttarakhand, they are still untouched by seasonal tourist, and hiking with him will be a treat. When you will hike with him in the morning, feel and hear nature alive. Chirping of birds and sound of leaves on your every steps make your mind relax. There will be a moment, you will feel its better to lost in jungle rather than in the concrete. At least in jungle you can find yourself.
Sundown Cafe
He runs a small Sundown café where you can listen to his music collection. Enjoy herbal tea, watch mesmerising sunset when sky turns into different shades. He himself practices Ayurveda style of living, the food is served on your plate will be local grown organic food. Feel the pleasure of an evening in front of born fire with your host Naresh and watch him play music on his guitar. This place is best for hiker, bird watcher, yoga & meditation practitioner and music lover. If you enjoy loud music then this place is not for you. This is the place where you can live in silence listening to the music of nature.
Move in Souls team will be conducting "Mental Health Workshop" regularly here. To participate in the workshop please check availability every month.
3.Scarlet Jungle Camp
Walking down the road, I fearlessly enter into jungle, where adventure runs wild. I enter into paradise on earth, where I feel peace into the wild. I enter into the lap of Mother Nature, where rich is beauty of wild. I enter into the wonders of God, where I listen to the music of wild. I fearlessly enter into the wilderness, where my heart goes wild. Naina Devi Bird Conservation Reserve is a destination for wildlife lover.
A jungle camp & cottages are set amidst wilderness by Mukesh, who is fond of nature. This is his dream place and he is nurturing it with all love for nature. Here, one can do various activities like hiking, Jungle walk, photography, bird watching or volunteer in organic farms. He has made one dinning hall for guest, organic food served here with Himalayan style. Mukesh along with Kiran runs this cozy homestay. Their simplicity will touch your heart. Kiran is mountaineer and guide who will help you to explore the local villages. Bhrahmstali trek starts few Kilometer away from here. You can enjoy overnight camping there.
This place is best for co-living and "Move in Souls" team is coming up with Volunteer programs here. Stay tuned to our facebook and instagram pages to know the dates.
"Move in Souls" team is trying level best to develop Digital Nomad Hubs in India where all travellers can feel at home. We are learning and transforming, support us and guide us to make these places best for Digital Nomads in India. We believe in community living, world is changing and we are getting ready for it. Our effort is to make world better place to live together. Join the self-discovery travel community. Co-living is the future of the world.
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5 Healthy Foods High in Antioxidants
Keep It Simple!
Antioxidants are compounds produced in your body and found in foods. They help defend your cells from damage caused by potentially harmful molecules known as free radicals. In this video, we're looking at the top 5 foods high in antioxidants.
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Photo: Becky Luigart-Stayner
Choose a bone-in half-ham brined with natural juices. Leaving a thin layer of fat after trimming amps up the flavor and keeps the meat moist.
How to Make It
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350°. Remove skin from ham, and trim fat to 1/4-inch thickness. Make shallow cuts in fat 3/4 inch apart in a diamond pattern.
Step 2
Insert cloves in centers of diamonds. Place ham in a lightly greased 13- x 9-inch pan. Stir together brown sugar and next 3 ingredients; spoon mixture over ham.
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Bake at 350° on lowest oven rack 2 hours and 30 minutes, basting slowly with pan juices every 15 to 20 minutes. Remove ham from oven, and let stand 20 minutes before slicing, basting occasionally with pan juices.


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Optimizing the Canadian Forces Battle Trench for Improved Blast Protection
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- Defence R&D Canada - Suffield, Ralston ALTA (CAN);MARTEC Ltd, Halifax NS (CAN)
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- The design of the standard Canadian Forces two-soldier battle trench has one fighting bay and one protective shelter bay (an adit) in a straight line. This study was conducted to determine the effect of bay size and adit location on personnel vulnerability inside the trench. Numerical analyses were run on straight, L-shaped, and T-shaped designs; bay size and adit location were varied. Personnel vulnerability inside each trench was evaluated using an equivalent Bowen criteria. The numerical results showed that the vulnerability levels in the T-saped trench were usually slightly lower than either the L-shaped or straight trench. Nevertheless, the T-trench hinders communication between soldiers in each bay, requires more excavation than the other designs, and is more complicated to construct. Based on the numerical results, experimental field trials were performed with the straight and L-shaped trenches. Field trials were used to validate the numerical results and to assess the effectiveness of Canadian Forces-issue "Shield Personal Protective" (a.k.a. blast blankets) covering the adit entrances. During some of the field trials, a blast test device was used to simulate a soldier in the adit. Neither the blast blankets nor the blast test device were simulated in the numerical analyses. The numerical results showed that: increasing adit length always resulted in a reduction in vulnerability levels inside the adit, and that the position "kneeling in the firing bay" was safer for p
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- DRDC-SUFFIELD-SL-2006-154 — Scientific Literature
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- 01 Jan 2006
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- 13
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- 526360
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The Advantages That Hiring a Personal Injury Lawyer Brings
An accident will let the truth dawn on you that compensation does not come easy.You may be insured or not insured, but payment never comes easy either way. Apart from the imminent incapacitation to earn a living, there may be many bills to settle.
There are many opportunistic factors that come into play hindering a successful compensation. This will be easily solved if you hire a professional lawyer to help you get compensated. A professional lawyer will effectively level the playing ground.The ignorance of this information is mostly exploited by insurance companies who actively work to frustrate an injured person's claim.It is in such situations that you need a shoulder to lean on, someone who can legally protect you and expose these tactics, maximizing the value of your recovery.In such times, the services of a Personal Injury Lawyer are highly appropriate. Personal injury layers occasion many benefits.
Pone of the things that a personal injury lawyer will readily do is to offer support and also legal guidance. The law happens to be complex, unfathomable, and complicated to any lay person. Again, it is also true that the legal system has never been intuitive. Not being able to hit a deadline or failure to submit correct paperwork can be detrimental to your case.There is also the ignorance concerning what you are entitled to.This ignorance will render you ineffective to negotiate with an insurance company and result in costing you a considerable portion of your entitlement. This calls for a personal injury lawyer who will effectively navigate the way to your compensation without a hitch.
Regarding a personal injury claim, the perpetrator must be proven negligent. It is worth noting that negligent is very hard to prove in a court of law although it seems obvious. A good personal injury lawyer will fully investigate the claim.Such a lawyer will need to launch investigations aimed at unearthing facts so as to hold the negligent party accountable.Many times it is deemed necessary in law to prove a case beyond reasonable doubt, showing a shift of the burden of proof. The proceedings of the case may be hindered if there are no experts who a personal injury lawyer can get with much ease.
All that a client desires is to be well compensated for damages.On the other hand, insurance companies which are usually implicated in such cases want to make money in avoiding the compensation. The best interests of a client are only looked after by a personal injury lawyer.
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Factory Direct Homes61845 S Hwy 97
Sapulpa, OK 74066
Directions & Hours Contact Us
Factory Direct Homes - a Masterpiece partner - of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, is a is family-owned and operated full service manufactured home and mobile home dealership specializing in new homes, used homes and repos. We do manufactured and mobile home installation, pad work, foundations, utility hook ups, septic systems, and so much more.
We sell homes from the Masterpiece Series. Please click here to see some of our most popular floor plans or call us at (928) 241-4663 or come by to see other available floor plans or find out what models we currently have on display here in Sapulpa, Oklahoma!
We also offer in house financing as option and work with over 10 different banks throughout the United States to help you find the right lending source to put you in your new dream home. We have two Palm Harbor homes on display and another one arriving soon! Give us a call at (928) 241-4663 for more information!
*This location is an independent retailer of Palm Harbor Homes. Independent retailers are separately owned and operated and are not agents or representatives of Palm Harbor Homes.
Location and Hours:
West of Tulsa: Take 412 East and take Exit 97 South.
East of Tulsa: Take 412 West and take Exit 97 South.
North of Tulsa: Take 75 South, then 412 West and finally Exit 97S
South of Tulsa: Take 75 North, Go West on Hwy 117 and then North on HWY 97.


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It's likely that you've never heard of vitamin K2, but this little known vitamin can save the life of 2 out of 3 people! With huge benefits including reducing the risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer and osteoporosis, vitamin K2 is arguably the most important dietary supplement out there, especially since it isn't found in sufficient quantities in the Western diet.
Some of the early evidence for the beneficial qualities of vitamin K2 came from Japan, where consumption of natto, a naturally fermented soy product replete with K2, is common in Eastern Japan but not in Western Japan. Researchers started to notice that rates of osteoporosis, diabetes, senile dementia and heart disease were much lower in Eastern Japan compared to Western Japan and certainly far lower than in the US. These measurements were described in published trials. With over 2000 published studies in the last 10 years, scientists have confirmed that the health benefits experienced by the Eastern Japanese, comes from this crucial nutrient – vitamin K2.
The ten-year, 4,800 subject Rotterdam Heart study demonstrated that participants who ingested the greatest quantities of vitamin K2 in their diet experienced a 57% reduction in death from heart disease than people who ingested the least. Even minimal K2 supplementation was found to decrease all-cause mortality by 25%. Without enough K2, undercarboxylated osteocalcin and MPG lead to increased coronary calcification and cardiovascular disease. Over 25 published studies confirm that vitamin K2 can prevent arterial calcification, and that deficiencies are correlated with increased arterial calcification. Returning K2 levels to normal reverses arterial calcification, especially at prescriptive doses.
Dozens of published clinical studies have shown that vitamin K2 halts bone mineral density loss, which is a huge benefit for people with osteopenia and osteoporosis. In fact, supplemental K2 became a first-tier treatment in Japan for osteoporosis. But how does K2 prevent and treat osteoporosis? It is an essential cofactor in the activation of Gla proteins in the bone (osteocalcin) and blood vessels (matrix Gla-protein) which means that K2 is responsible for ensuring that calcium in the diet is deposited safely in the bones and not in the blood vessels.
Over 40 published studies have demonstrated the important role of vitamin K2 against cancer. Vitamin K2 has been shown to induce apoptosis in vitro with leukemia cells, and lower the risk of prostate and liver cancer. The EPIC-Heidelberg study on K2 supplementation and prostate cancer, with 24,340 subjects, found an inverse association between the intake of menaquinones and prostate cancer. Vitamin K2 was calculated to reduce prostate cancer incidence by 30%. In a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients infected with hepatitis B or C, and therefore at much greater risk for developing liver cancer, were given a K2 supplement. Less than 10% of those given the supplement developed liver cancer, whereas the placebo group developed cancer at an astonishing rate of 47%.
The rates of diabetes and prediabetes are skyrocketing! You probably aren't already using vitamin K2 for these patients, but you absolutely should be. Over a dozen published studies have shown that K2 is protective against the development of type 2 diabetes , and what's more, just four weeks of K2 supplementation increased insulin sensitivity. How does this work? The mechanism is still a little bit of a mystery, but it looks like conversion of undercarboxylated osteocalcin to carboxylated osteocalcin (for which K2 is necessary) regulates glucose metabolism, likely through β-cell dysfunction.
So how much K2 would you suggest?
The average daily intake in the West is 15 mcg per day, far below the level required to carboxylate proteins that lead to osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and neurological disease. A 2012 study, which aimed to determine the effective dose of K2, tested a dosing range from 10mcg to 360 mcg. Study authors found that only the two highest dosages (180 and 360 mcg) were sufficient to obtain all the benefits of vitamin K2 and the highest dose was measurably the most beneficial. The 300+ mcg dose would be the most potent dose on the market, and reflects the average consumption of K2 in the Eastern Japanese populations—a dose that has been shown to be very effective in prevention of disease.
Given the fact that nearly everyone in the Western World is subclinically deficient in K2, as was described in a published study, this deficiency has a wide scope of influence on human health and the health and longevity of your patients. Supplementing with the optimum dose is paramount to rescue your patients from years of vitamin K2 deficiency and to reduce their risk of the most common chronic diseases. Supplementation with MegaQuinone, the highest potency vitamin K2 on the market, is an obvious choice!


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Apple IPod
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Understanding the difficult process of working with electronic programs may be acquired by means of particular education. These tiny little computers are really great for individuals who don't need to lug round a big laptop computer with them all the time. Miniaturization development is said to the creation of ever-smaller mechanical, optical, and digital merchandise and gadgets.
You do not need the crimson key unless it's good to reprogram any of the electronics on the bike. Cell Benefit insures PDAs and smartphones. The present has grow to be somewhat of a juggernaut in the electronics business – it is the most important tech trade present in the United States, with over 2,seven hundred exhibitors and attendance of round one hundred forty,000 people.
When people eliminate their electronics which might be at the finish of their life, what matters an incredible deal are environmental concerns and security. Not solely this, you …


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I write these posts generally on the way to work, then reflect on them over the course of the day before the final write up. I realise my ability to screw up even simply spelt words would seem to disprove any such reflection, but nonetheless this is the process. It does mean that at times I can find myself at a loss for a topic - not beng ready to indulge myself in political rants at this point - though by no means ruling it out for the future.
So I am left thinking of the scene in my local Tesco Extra as it occurred to me yesterday. Three figures cramped into a column, framed by the gaudy colours of sweets and crisps on one side - an especially lurid pink glinting from the pork scratchings; whilst from the other side came strip neon that lit the chilled drink cabinet along with the sandwich and snack selection.
One figure faced me from the end of the row, having turned into the aisle, slowly and determinedly ready to complete his shopping. Carrying his basket, his gait compensating for the extra weight that hung from his side, his eyes glanced around seeking a route through the obstacles of other people. A second man stood in contemplation, his eyes scrunched as he peered into the cabinets, assessing the merits and failings of the various meal deals and foodstuffs; whilst the third figure, a tiny woman, fidgeted - debating the crisp arrangement. The three basked in drabness, with greys, browns and beiges broken only with the faded blue of denim, and the fleck of scuffed white trainers.
The whole scene seemed to jump out at me, a Hogarth made real in its deconstruction of the gluttony of everyday life. The aspects of concentration, the extreme grotesque of the bodies, formed into a composition that displayed their preoccupation with the consumer ease around them. This was a tableau of normalcy twisted into a knot, and lit with a corporate glow; both mocking and pitying its marionettes for their taste and their lot.
I witnessed this, envisioning how to capture this play of character and situation, when my mind cruelly panned around, focusing the gaze accusingly on the viewer, who stood, basket in hand, chocolate and cakes within, gawping at shoppers in a Tesco Extra.
At which point I coughed awkwardly, and stepped forward to pay.


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Introducing Theodore Lee Hawthorne! (12/29/10)
Elias loves other children, older, or smaller, he doesn't care, he just loves them (especially sticking his fingers in their eyes and pulling their hair)
His mommy loves babies too! In this picture Theo is 12 hours and 10 minutes old. He is so sweet, we look forward to getting to know him and watching him grow!
Rob and Mo met Andy and I in a small group at our church, Andy and Rob spent the summer building houses 4 lots apart from each other, and are now both fathers of beautiful baby boys just 7 months and 4 days apart. Congrats Rob and Mo!
Rob and Mo visiting us at the hospital when Elias was born
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This is the first edition of GnL Recommend. This is a feature where my girlies (AKA my dogs or reading buddies) recommend a book(s) that they think are worth your time looking into. This feature will be held weekly on Staurdays so keep checking back to see what the girls have come up with for the week.
Laci Recommends:
Synopsis (A review found on Amazon that describes the story pretty well):
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry has been knocking around for more than a decade and is recognized by many as a classic of American Western literature. And no wonder. If you like a good cowboy story; if you're an aficionado of the West, in love with its history and geography; if you want your heart torn out and kicked from Texas to the Teton, then Lonesome Dove is the book you're looking for.
Augustus McRae, Woodrow Call, and Jake Spoon, three has-been Texas Rangers, hatch a half-baked scheme to abandon their dusty lives in the un-town of Lonesome Dove on the Rio Grande, and embark on a cattle drive to the upper reaches of Montana. They depart with two thousand head of re-stolen cattle along with a misbegotten crew of sometime ranch hands, lost and found Irish brothers, green local kids, a Mexican cook who can't, and the town whore Lorena -- with hair of gold even though her heart isn't.
They struggle north to untamed country none of them but Jake has ever seen -- and him a liar. They cross the Neuces, the Colorado, the Red, the Canadian, the Arkansas and up and up, fighting desperados, Comanches, sandstorms, water moccasins, bad food, bad water, bad luck and bad news. Multiple plots weave and braid and separate and double back upon you again like all the streams and rivers descending from the High Plains.
But it is into the strange landscape of the human heart which the reader has been lured. For while this story concerns a pilgrimage to Montana, it is, on another level, a journey in understanding what human life amounts to, balanced as it is between hope and hopelessness, and in the words of Gus McRae, "rich with hardship." It is McMurtry's characters, as much as the route they take, which define this journey. With all their quirkiness, these characters are mind-stickers, all. We're talking Dickens 'n dogies, here. Hamlet on horseback. From the raping, torturing Comanche renegade Blue Duck, so evil as to be devoid of humanity, to the feisty widow who has her way with the the deputy sheriff, a man who finds her "almost as scary as wild pigs", to the tragic young whore Maggie, who asks only to hear her name spoken once by the man she loves, it is a haunting group we travel with.
Snake attack on the Neuces to sneak attack on the Musselshell, Lonesome Dove ropes the reader, drags him through hell and high water, and leaves him feeling that the one certain thing is love, the existence of which is proven only by the size of the hole it blasts in the human heart.
Laci says: Read it! It's one of our favorites and the "movie" is pretty great too. You don't even have to like westerns to like this book. I don't like westerns (I prefer to sleep or plot world domination with my vertically challenged pal, Gus) and I like this book.
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Synopsis (Amazon.com review of the book):
First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact.
It took a little doing but here is what Gus has to say.
Gus says: You woke me for this?!
Jamie says: Yup, you two wanted to contribute to the blog so here it is.
Gus says: GRRRR!
Jamie says: Well what do you want the people to know?
Gus says: I want them to know that I'm tired!
Jamie says: About the book!
Gus says: Well, why didn't you say so?!....they should read it because I said so (I hear that used alot around here and it seems to be very effective). You liked it, right?
Jamie says: Yeah I liked it a lot. Very accurate historically...Makes you rethink who the "savages" really are.
Gus says: Well I liked it a lot too, LOTS of "Team Cuddle" time. If they don't read it I'll sick the "Tall One" on them!
Well there you have it....Until next week, when hopefully Gus is a little more copperative and Laci isn't threatening world domination.
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i went to a few shows on super bowl sunday. found this at super cruise x in garden grove. first i'd heard of it, but was told by two different people that they've done it for ten years now, every super bowl sunday.
almost didn't go, thinking not much would be there, but the guy that gave me a flyer earlier in the week claimed there would be several hundred cars there. and i suppose there was. i got there a couple of hours into it, and stayed less than an hour. only because it was hot and there wasn't a lot of shade on the asphalt were one would want to take pictures from.
this one is a dukes car, parked in front of a business flying a dukes banner, flanked by dukes cars. they're all perfection in their own way. took a couple of shots down low and one at normal level. i like the normal one, but it shows too much of the surrounding industrial buildings and people and cars and other distractions, and this lower one shows off the hood ornament so nicely, and the sheer mirror perfection of the door just makes me happy. ended up flipping a coin to which to post, so here you go.