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Is Wealthy Affiliate Worth The Money?
I just got back from the gym today, where I saw a personal trainer giving the basics of some exercises to a lady. I wondered to myself - "How much do these guys make?"
I took it a bit further and looked into how much other industries charge for personal training and support. Below, I've listed a few "Learning" based activities like languages and music, as well as "career" based training.
In essence, WA is a training center where you learn how to do internet marketing. Let's see how it compares to other things that people pay to learn.
Personal Trainer
- Cost Per Hour: $50 per hour
- Training per week: 2-3 sessions
- Cost Per Month: $400
- Guaranteed Results? NO
Guitar Lessons
- Cost Per Hour: $25 per hour
- Lessons per week: 2-3 sessions
- Cost Per Month: $200
- Guaranteed Results? NO
Chinese Lessons
- Cost Per Hour: $50-80 per hour (private), $8-$25 per lesson (online), $220 per 12 hours (Group)
- Lesson per week: 2-3 sessions (contract required, pay even when you don't show!)
- Cost Per Month: $500+
- Guaranteed Results? NO
Truck Driving School
- Cost of Tuition: $5000+
- Yearly Income: $48k
- Guaranteed Work? NO
Culinary School
- Cost of Tuition: $$40-$80k
- Yearly Income: $45k
- Guaranteed Work? NO
"Official" internet marketing Degree
- Online Degree from Full Sail University
- Cost of Tuition: $54k - $77k
- Yearling Income: ???
- Guaranteed work? NO
You might have noticed that I looked into a lot of vocational jobs. Kyle already did a post about how much internet marketing training at university costs and the return on investment. there. That's also quite unbelievable.
I hate to fanboy out on you guys here, listen to this: At Wealthy Affiliate you can get personal, 1-on-1 support from internet marketing experts...an unlimited number of hours of FREE training including with your membership. Did you know that a life coach will charge you $300 per hour?!!!!!!!
Their justification for that price is that it's a highly personalized training. Hm...that sounds a lot like WA!
I have also attended many webinars on how to invest in stocks - the average cost was $100-$150 dollars per webinar. Webinars in WA? 4 per month, included in your membership price.
Wealthy Affiliate
- Cost: $47 per month or $359 per year
- Yearly Income: $0 - $100,000's (You decide)
- Guarantee Results? No
How To Get Results
Whether you are taking guitar lessons or trying to earn as a chef, nothing is guaranteed. If you are learning a new skill, the vast majority of your actual learning time will happen outside of the classroom in your own study time. If the only thing you do is go to your lessons 2x per week, you will not be a good musician or fluent in the language you learn.
And even with a certificate saying you are a certified chef, truck driver, or internet marketer,a well paying job is NOT going to just land in your lap. When you do get a job, you will start at a base pay and work for years just to get a small % raise.
To make the training inside Wealthy Affiliate produce awesome results, and to actually start getting some income from your websites, you have to spend time learning, you have to spend time working, and you have to follow through. You have to do more than the lessons REQUIRE because doing the bare minimum will get bare minimum results.
Is Wealthy Affiliate worth the price? It is if you make it worth it.
$47 per month or $359 per year is an absolute steal for the amount of training and support you get here, no matter how you slice it. The fact that paying $1 per day can teach you how to earn $10,000's per month is insane
Please allow me to add my own 2 cents.
WA is worth every penny I pay for it, in fact, the hosting alone is worth the price on its own. Many people seem to know little about hosting and the headache that goes along with it. Cheap unreliable hosting is the downfall of many and some work themselves tired to create awesome websites, but they never see a first page ranking no matter how much they add posts and do SEO. Remember, some hosting companies host any type of website whether it is bad or not and it includes websites that are associated with spam, malicious programs, adult content, hate speech and so forth. At some point, some of these sites get reported and obviously if too many of them comes from the same host the ranking falls. I am not going to point fingers, but not too long ago a famous online company lost ranking position because members who used their blogging system mainly used it for spam. All the blogs on this system lost ranking even the innocent ones.
WA's hosting have a solid reputation and the websites rank well. By typing "Page one" in the WA search bar you can find many members who accomplished the "impossible" within a relatively short time. Some "popular" home biz programs are even outranked by WA sites.
This is the major reason why I refer my readers to WA, I want them to have a fair change. I know if they follow the training, work hard to create their websites and post frequently they have a good change to become successful. In the past, I promoted a platform that costs $145 each month and provided a blogging platform that was not worth even $1. I saw members working long hours to fill up those blogs and they never saw one page ranking for all their effort.
Bottom line... Focus your energy and time on your website if you are a newbie. If you have limited time, do not waste it on actions that have no beneficial outcome. $47 a month is cheap if you leverage everything WA have to offer and use it to build your business.
WA's solid reputation is a very vital aspect to consider,,,,again its not just about money......integrity....priceless!
I am learning a lot, and finally beginning to absorb what I am learning even though it's taken a while, and I know that while I am here there will be no end to my learning. I have the tools and the teachers to help me succeed and the rest is up to me.
Here in Australia because our dollar is pretty cr*p the $47.00 a month costs me $52 a month Australian, and I don't have a great income, but you know what, I have no problem whatsoever spending that money on everything I get here. It is more than worth it!
Just to find out. I have been a premium member for a year. I am
thinking of taking a break for 6 months. Would I be entitled to the same premium annual membership fee offered to me in the first place when I rejoin after 6 months?
You may be lucky to get a better price when you return depending on special promotions going on at the time.
It reminded me of the coaching I sought out to complete my dissertation for my doctorate. I needed direction on the statistics part so my dissertation chair suggested a coach.
He charged $100.00 per hour and I had to buy 5 hours at a time.
I ended up paying around $1500.00
Colleen aka Blue Coyote
How bad do you want it? What are you willing to do to get it? Are you determined enough to stick with it? I've almost walked away a few times because some days I am so frustrated up to my eyeballs-I don't understand something, etc etc. I used to think that only certain, computer expert, super smart, super lucky members at WA make the real money. The part I know that is true is that the people succeeding are putting forth the effort-more than effort-they keep working on their sites. The work never stops.
I am still here because I want it bad enough and believe it will happen. I also want to support my family by working at home. One of my sons thinks WA is a borderline scam (don't get me started, lol). I am determined to make a living for that reason alone to show him what I see in WA. Some people don't see it because they've been ripped off too many times. My son thinks like that-I am trying to show him what I have really learned here, and there are just some things he can't argue with.
I am just a regular person-not making a living from what I've learned yet, but on the way. The money keeps adding up little by little. I see actual results when I put the work in. I had to wait a few months to even see one legitimate comment on my website, but the results are adding up, little by little. It's fascinating to me to see results.
Imagine someone giving you all the tools and building supplies to build a huge, beautiful house on the ocean or wherever you want. The tools, supplies, and property don't cost you much at all, but the catch is that you have to build it yourself.
My main point is: What are you willing to do to take what you are given and make it work for you?
PS Nathaniell, great post. Thanks for letting me share my feelings-I guess I am just really passionate about this. Hope I didn't get too far off topic and ramble. :P And thanks to WA and for the help I have been given here-I could not do this without the help or getting started for free.
Thank you.
If I didn't keep seeing glimpses that this really works, I wouldn't be so into it. Stubbornness also comes in handy. Lol.
Thank you Nathaniell
I have learn't so much and made loads of friends and colleagues who I can get help from even outside of WA that's worth the ticket price alone never mind the training, hosting etc. If you really think about it we are ripping Kyle and Carson off big time. :)
When I finally start to see some steady results I believe the feeling of accomplishment will be as rewarding as the revenue coming in. Breaking even (covering the cost of WA + Jaaxy + domain costs) is my first goal.
I have been reading all these comments on here and I just had to chime in on this discussion. You are going to have negative people no matter where you go and you just need to ignore these kind of people.
I think WA is worth every penny and plus some. The truth is that WA works and it works really well. In the close to 2 years I have been here I have learned stuff that I thought I would never learn. I paid for the year and I challenged myself to see how long it would take for me to earn my initial investment back.
I TOOK ACTION on the training and worked really hard on my website and kept in constant contact with Kyle and asked for help whenever I needed it. I was able to get my $359 back within 7 months and by month 9 I was hitting $1k a month. Let me add that I'm not the smartest person when it comes to computers or learning and I didn't do that well in school.
So when I say if I can figure this stuff out ANYONE can. If YOU work the business and put the time in you will be rewarded for your hard work. What you get in the starter membership alone, is far more valuable then anything that a GURU will sell you, not to mention everything that premium has to offer. . Thanks again for this post Nathaniell!
I have been here almost one month now.
I have made some money.
I have made a lot of new friends.
I have learned plenty, go figure. (I have been marketing online for well over a decade.) I thought I had a handle on this IM deal.
WA is the real deal.
One of my revenue streams is directly related to what i learned here at WA. Leaving WA would actually cost me a lot more than $47/month.
I do have income from both wa and jaaxy.. more than I pay for these services. I am on the annual plan at WA that renews on Black Friday..so I save even more than most people. I have months that pay me more than the annual fee..
In addition to the wa commission, I have about 20+ websites that I am hosting here.. some are totally dormant..my only cost is the domain name.
A few of the websites are tied to client websites that paid me to help them get started. For these.. Yes, I could certainly move them to a cheap hosting plan and risk my reputation with the experience that usually comes with cheap hosting.. or I could move them to one of the vps accounts I have..
To be honest.. WA hosting at $47 is a far better value than what I get from 2 of the hosting accounts that I pay over $60 a month for. I should be moving all of my websites over here.. There are pros and cons.. to doing that.
I could save over $720/year just cancelling one of those other accounts.. I have not been able to justify the time involved. I will not go into all that here....
Sorry for hijacking your post Nathaniell, I am happy that I found WA and will probably never leave.....
WA hosting didn't work for me. I have documented this a few times but I have a slider on the front page that WA hosting disabled (without warning or explanation I might add, until I asked) and told me it was eating up bandwidth and slowing everything down. The only "advice" I got was to drop the slider.
I switched to a UK host, the site now loads lightning fast, much faster than it ever did on WA even before I had the slider, and the slider itself isn't a problem anymore and works perfectly.
That hosting costs me around $5 a month and has a lot more features such as automated daily backups, website visit stats, one click adding of subdomains, premium e-commerce carts and and a whole raft of other features. With that in mind, the issues I had and the cost I can't rate WA hosting at all.
I would rather lesson the risk and pay much much more for the chance more of a guarantee. Many people think they get a lot for their money? :) You have to imagine how many of the members here will never succeed and you will see why it is dirt cheap!
95 percent of us will fail. Due largely to not being cut out for what it takes to make it. Intelligence, lack of interest, too busy, etc...
Why does everyone go around saying great prices and great instruction. It is all for nothing if you don't succeed. Wasted time gabbing in my book.
Lets either get on with the work, or fall away! :)
Fact is cost for one year here at WA, and the cost for a couple of domain names is dirt cheap compared to the alternatives. Try taking one lesson at a community college. Compare the cost. There are no guarantees here, or in any business that I've ever heard of. Fact is, depending on the type of business, 70-90 percent of new businesses fail. And you have the privilege of taking the chance of losing tens of thousands of dollars, to millions there.
If you want to spend more to lessen the risk and guarantee a better chance of success take a look here. http://www.entrepreneur.com/franchises/lowcost/index.html. Maybe one of those will be better suited to what you think would be a great business to be in. Best wishes on your endeavors.
The price is good, some cannot afford it. Many can afford to spend more. Just saying.
Its chump change for me, and I invest other money into the program in other ways as well. Not that it has helped.
But to sit here all day and talk about whether it is a good price or not, makes little difference in who is going to succeed and who isn't.
right? So why are we? :)
Lets get back to work trying to make the revenue the program says we can make and quit jawing about stats, price, and comparisons to other opportunities.
We are here for a reason, to make money. And its a cheap way to get started. I mentioned that many members pay the money for years and never make it back. That is the problem. Not everyone benefits form the program, making it more important when they lose this monthly program fee. No big deal right, it is not that much money.
If you compare the price of admission to becoming successful its wonderful.
If you compare it to the many here who will never be successful, not so good. Everyone has their own opinion. No one is right, no one is wrong. Who even cares about the membership fee and what you get, as long as it provides a solution to you.
I was only saying I could spend a thousand a month if it would put me to making it back within a year without near as much risk. But that is not going to happen is it. So here I am, still though, spending valuable time and money hoping to be successful one day is all we have.
No guarantees! NONE.
Remember that.
Regardless the price.
This whole blog was written to make wealthy affiliate sound so great. And that is fine. If you succeed.
You generally get what you pay for.
Cheap programs usually don't make you successful. You have to be the one to do that.
If people don't make money and quit, their referrers stop making money as well.
I do not understand where all this conspiracy theory stuff is coming from man.
To myself, WA has been very well worth the money. It's shown me how to do things I had no clue on how to even start, and so much more. When I arrived here, I had been just about ready to give up on my search for any honest answers on how to build a website or make money online. I've been able to do both with what I've learned here.
Plus, I know if I get stuck somewhere down the line, I can always turn for help here to get the answers I need to move forward. I'm glad I found WA, there's nothing that compares, in my opinion. It's made such a difference in my whole life, not just online, but off as well.
Thanks for sharing such an informative post Nathaniell, and best wishes to you :) -Sherry
I believe only 5 percent will ever apply themselves the required hours to become successful. That is why they say 95 percent fail at online marketing. Many of us have the same chance starting out. The ones that fight tooth and nail make it to the too of the ladder like you did, while many thousands of members step off due to various reasons.
You out a lot of time and effort into this.
I would have used it on my website or social network. It's limited here to what it accomplishes.
What does blogging here really accomplish if you only have a domain authority of 1 like me. Worthless?
I know people who have been working at IM for years and never made it. The limiting factor could be an individual's ability to work it out, and we all have different levels of ability. It's not just about time and effort.
In that respect I'm not sure about the value of some of the analogies nathaniell has posted. For example it states that you are not guaranteed to get a job as a truck driver even if you take the course. I would say that you pretty much are.
In fact if you go to the CNN link in the screenshot, it states that there are thousands of trucking jobs unfilled. The pay is quite decent too, (in fact if I lived in the USA I would probably take it, it's a lot better than UK counterparts earn) but obviously the lifestyle won't suit everybody.
I know the article is two years old but it's probably still relevant.
The fact is that by following the coursework on WA there is no guarantee of success. Not everybody here will make it and if you follow the WA bootcamp it is important to realise than only one of you will rank #1 in Google for any given search term and only 10 of you will rank on page one.
We can't all be successful WA promoters because the niche would be flooded and as I say, many people will never get near page 1. The challenge of course is to keep improving until you do but every place you go up the rankings means another WA member goes down.
Many people will do very well out of their WA membership but for many others it just will not work, unless you put together a good website in a relatively untapped niche, simply because we cant all be in the top positions. On that basis, truck driving seems to be a potentially more likely place to earn a guaranteed income.
As a case in point how many members stay on after a year? How many members have genuinely been successful? What percentage? I see very few in the top 100 list now that were here a year ago.
I see a lot of posts all over WA saying how brilliant blogs like this are, but how many of those people have genuinely made decent money and how many ever will? Very few people who HAVE been very successful in internet marketing are seen posting on blogs like this one.
I am convinced I will succeed at this with time and hard work and I will always owe a lot of it to WA when I do, but I also stand by my overall opinion of WA.
You have many good points about truck driving! I made 100 thousand a year, 68k my very first year right out of school.
That money enabled me to buy corvettes, rolex watches, a house or two, but I did not invest it, so it is gone.
Did I feel successful? No, the hours I worked were equal to the 68 in thousand...per week! :(
There is no need to blog about the program and try and bolster members thoughts here. They are already here. If you are going to do this you should add it to your social marketing efforts. I don't know why everyone feels in WA that they need to speak out and help others by being so positive minded about WA when that has nothing to do with whether or not we succeed! geez!
Thanks for your comment! Realistic is where our minds need to be.
You could make good money at a number of things and blow it. I'm not doing it to feel successful, but as a means of obtaining sustainable income that I can continue into later life even with health issues, without having to kill myself physically to achieve it.
I have often stated that I am not a fan of the consistent motivational blogs for example. I'm an engineer, I deal with logic, not possibilities based on positive thought. If my equipment has broken down thinking positively about it isn't going to make it work again.
But, as you said, you are on the way out and it is easy to say what you feel. Me myself, I don't wait til I'm on my way out to speak my mind and everyone here knows that. I'm hated in most groups.
People think I am negative. But the truth is....I'm not. I think logically like you do, without the engineer part. And, I work my ass off here and try to work smart as well. And truth be told, I know it will take about two to three years to be able to pay my own bills using affilaite marketing. problem is, everyone here is under the impression they can do it in a few months! Start making thousands of dollars! :)
We are all different. Some of us will succeed. :)
A negative person would have quit a long time ago after seeing five months worth of full time effort, with thousands in revenue lost. I'm still here fighting and working day in and day out! :)
Send me a pm tell me why you are leaving. What happened?
The analogy isn't perfect, but it makes the point that not everyone will promote WA. Not everyone will choose the same niche. I don't know why it works out that way, but everyone goes down a different path...if you run into heavy competition, you pivot your niche or start over, and find something that works for you.
The whole point of niche marketing is to find YOUR niche. Even within a very high competition niche, you can still find your VOICE. Even within bootcamp, you can still get a lot of rankings. I wrote about it here https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/nathaniell/blog/is-wa-bootcamp-saturated-or-too-competitive If everyone did it, sure the competition landscape would be different. But not everyone does!
If everyone applied themselves to every niche? Not possible! A very tiny number of people do IM, and and even smaller number do it according to WA's training. We are part of an awesome secret here.
How many freaking weight loss and/or fitness blogs are there out there? Yet people still make them, still have an interest in it, and still want to find a voice that speaks to them. All it takes is a few hundred visits per day out of the millions and millions of people online for you to make a few grand out of your site.
You do not have to be the next Mark Zuckerberg to be a success. You basically just need a few hundred visits per day to start making money. And you don't have to make $10k per month to be a success - even just $1k per month would make folks feel like they made it. It's not *that* hard to earn $30 per day online if you apply yourself here.
I do dislike the argument that somehow because of my success it makes me different than everyone. "Your smarter, younger, etc etc, it won't work for everyone". The whole reason why I'm such a WA fanboy is that I am not that smart, and everything I know I learned from WA. Lots of stuff I learned outside WA broke my businesses (Penguin style)
BTW this post was not a rebuttal or response to your post coolcity...I was just thinking about the gym trainer and how much people pay him.
However, 20 years ago in the same scenario I have no doubt I would have had some success by now as I would have spent much more time on it. Sometimes I can't do anything much for days. I need to crack on with it because I'm attacking a major niche which is hard enough as it is - again I knew that when I started so I'm not complaining - but I do need to create more time and in leaving WA, which I don't think can teach me an awful lot more to get me where I need to be, it's mostly about time and effort now, it makes sense not to renew at the end of my annual subscription - today - and utilize the freed up time on building my website to the size it needs to be to compete.
More info is in my own "Goodbye" blog where I have replied to everybody there, and which gives a little more insight but there isn't much more to it than that, there is no hidden agenda. Maybe when your first 12 months is up you might feel the same, maybe not.
With the "Make money" niche though I believe it is different. I believe there ARE too many promoting WA and unless you are smart enough or lucky enough (and I do believe there is an element of luck) to get to the top then you're never going to make it.
Sure there are some who will make a little and that little extra will be enough for them, but many will never achieve their dreams of what they thought they were able to do. With truck driving you KNOW what you are going to earn and so can accept that, there are no ifs and maybes, but I do see your point.
I'm not sure that anyone suggested that your success is down to you being different, if that comes as a result of something I said I apologise, it wasn't intentional, but I can say with near certainty that if you had the problems I had now you would not have been as successful, or it would have taken you much longer. I know how much quicker and easier I could have done this if I had been in the better health and at the age I was 20 years ago.
When I hear it will take two to there years just to start breaking even within the program and making some money above and beyond what we spend and including our time at the computer....I am struck dumb!
That is why people fail here. It takes too many years of believing we are going to make money.
The few money makers here may even be paid by Kyle and CArson to come in and bolster the program! I doubt it though because so many members like me can come along and then they have to listen to both sides of the conversation. Which members here always try to make it sound one sided.
Oh the cost is terrific! :) Sure it is. Until you work the program for years and fail for whatever reason, and then your not going to say the money was worth it, right? :)
I have less time then most and need to see some sort of improvement month after month. At the end of year one, I too will be gone regardless of the price of admission. the admission everyone talks about is a mute point in my opinion. Just someone trying to make WA sound so great. And it is as long as you profit from it....not so much if you aren't.
Like back pain. How great is that when one suffers? Is it worth it? Hell no it is not worth having back pain. Same with a program, if it is painful to you, then no it is not worth the price, not at that point in time.
So everyone has their own opinion on everything and life and this is mine.
I hope the best for you and I hope you can keep your pain levels down. Good luck and keep the faith that our time will not be much longer with the pain we have.
I made money with the Online Entrepreneur Certification for 3 years before even starting to promote WA so you do not have to promote WA or be affiliated with it to make money. You can check my blog history to see proof.
The whole point of this post was not to get people to sign up or stay on. It was to compare to other industries that also do not guarantee results and charge MUCH higher rates.
If you went to the gym to get slim, and after 6 months you told your trainer, "Why am I still fat?", he would say, "What kind of exercises are you doing outside of our training session?"
Results are in YOUR hands as much as they are in the hands of your mentor, regardless of industry.
Jack :)
I paid for a years' membership and I agree 100% with what nathaniel says. The value of WA is unsurpassed if you are just getting started on the road to internet marketing. In fact it is probably worth much more. My problem is that once you have gone through the training and got up and running it doesn't provide any deeper, more technical help. Time after time, for months now I have found the answers to many of the questions I have had not on here, but on the Wordpress forums or simply by doing a Google search. That's fact, not my opinion.
Try asking a question on anything you can't find covered on WA and you will either get a load of totally irrelevant and pointless answers or somebody will point you towards one of the basic training modules.
As a case in point I watched Jay's live webinar last night and as brilliant as Jay's webinars and videos are, they only show you the basics. I felt that I am a long way past that, perhaps because of a little previous experience, but after watching the webinar for 75 minutes last night I didn't see anything that was advised to anybody that I didn't already know. In most cases I would have advised the same myself. In otherwords it's just basics. As a basic training module to get you started WA is fantastic but beyond that I'm not so sure.
I would like to stress that I have not given up on my project, in fact quite the opposite. I have back problems which leaves me in a lot of pain a lot of the time. What it does rob you of is time. You can not get anything like as much done as you would like to, so that is also part of my reasoning for leaving WA. I had to create more available time for my project and the less time spent here, the more of my limited time I will have to spend on my website.
However my project, which was started mostly with the help of what is taught here at WA continues, I have not given up on it and never will. Once it is successful I will be back here posting blogs like this one.
I wrote this post for the benefit of people asking themselves if WA was worth the money. A lot of folks contact me saying, "Can I pay after I start earning" or "Why is WA so expensive?"...
So the whole point of the post was to say that no matter how you look at it, WA is not "expensive". It might not be for everyone, but it's certainly not under-delivering for the price you pay, not by a longshot.
Out there on the Internet boulevard of broken dreams a person can pay hundreds of dollars just to learn ONE of the many training modules that we have complete access to and oftentimes take for granted.
You know the one's, "Get Facebook Famous - $397" or "SEO Killer Software Get Pos' 1 on Day 1 etc" $497.
We have so much to offer here at WA and your article seriously hi-lights this fact.
With web hosting and community support, well - there's nothing quite like it!
Well done Nathanielle, great post!
Thank you for gathering all that data and putting this together. It puts thing in perspective and makes the decision to come in WA or not a lot clearer.
Like any other 'learning' - it is the learner who converts it into something valuable. Have seen many who went to university who frankly should not have bothered...


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Your loss was an investment or loan (shares or debt) to a private Canadian Corporation i.e. not listed on any publicly traded market;
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Summer has officially begun and we are now just days away from the second Annual Crave Northwest event. Crave is a food and drink celebration held in the Spokane Valley at Centerplace Regional Event Center. This year it will be taking place from the evening of Thursday, July 12th through the afternoon of Sunday, July 15th. Crave is the the region's premier culinary event and one you won't want to miss. Whether you are a culinary aficionado, a dedicated foodie or are just looking for something fun and memorable to do this summer, Crave offers enjoyment for all.
While attending Crave, you will enjoy and experience food from many of your favorite local chefs. Crave also has the honor of having chefs from all around the US participate, there will be over 40 chefs making and presenting incredible food this year, that's a tremendous amount of culinary talent and passion in one location!! Below is a small example of the kinds of mouth-watering foods Crave attendees can expect to eat during the various events: Shrimp and spiced cabbage gyoza with soy-ginger dipping sauce, braised lamb with dill yogurt couscous on microgreens, Summer chicken with lemon harissa and a cucumber, fennel salad and rice pilaf, octopus ceviche, beef tartare and Gai satay. Are you feeling hungry yet?
This year's festivities will kick off with a Seafood bash on Thursday night. This event was a huge hit last year and is sure to be even bigger and better this year, it will be a "luxurious celebration of fresh fish, shellfish and all things seafood." Friday evening attendees will enjoy "global flavors with a vibrant theme" during the Foods from around the World event. The food and drink celebrating will continue into the weekend with a Grand tasting event on Saturday afternoon. Attendees are invited to wander around at their leisure and sample from dozens of food purveyors, wineries, breweries, distilleries and participate in watching 45 minute on stage demos with various chefs. These chef demos are interactive, educational and delicious. Once the demo has concluded you get to sample the food the chef just made. This was definitely one of my favorites aspects of Crave last year!
Saturday's Grand tasting will be followed by the Fire and Smoke event in the evening which will be a" BBQ extravaganza with live cultural entertainment by the Coeur d'Alene tribe". The Crave After Party on Saturday night will conclude the evening and is sure to be one of the hottest parties of the summer. It will feature DJ Unifest with a great dance mix and a fun photo booth to get pictures with all of your friends and favorite chefs. Craft cocktail drinks and small bites will be provided by Le Catering and served throughout the night. This is a 21+ event. The final day of Crave will begin with a Sunday brunch which will feature "family friendly originals and comfortable classics". The grand finale of this fabulous 4 day food and drink event will be another Grand tasting on Sunday afternoon.
One of the additions to Crave this year that I am just thrilled about is the Grand bar which will be featured during the Grand tasting events on both Saturday and Sunday. Renee Cebula will be the "Spirits manager" of Crave. She is a born and raised Spokane local and is owner of Raising the Bar. Renee is a cocktail historian, she tells the stories of America's drinking past and the origins of our drinks. Attendees are invited to hang out at the Grand bar where every 45 minutes a specialty cocktail will be made in order to spotlight the amazing spirits made in the Northwest. Samples of these cocktails will also be passed out to attendees. Additionally, 2 "Crave cocktails" will be paired with each main event during the 4 day celebration.
Tickets for Crave range in price from $5 to $85 with options to bundle also available. Some of the packages include: All events package, Weekend package and Grand tasting package.
Overview of the main events during Crave::
Thursday, July 12th 6-9pm - Seafood Bash
Friday, July 13th 6-9pm Foods from around the World
Saturday, July 14th 1-4pm Grand tasting
Saturday, July 14th 6-9pm Fire & Smoke
Saturday, July 14th 9-11:30pm Crave After party with DJ Unifest
Sunday, July 15th 9am-Noon Brunch
Sunday, July 15th 1-4pm Grand tasting
"CRAVE Northwest benefits Second Harvest Inland Northwest and Spokane Valley Partners. Fighting hunger, feeding hope: Second Harvest brings community resources together to feed people in need through empowerment, education and partnerships. Spokane Valley Partners provides food, clothing and other basic needs to low-income families and offers a helping hand to those making every effort to carve a stronger path to a brighter tomorrow by empowering them to achieve and sustain self-sufficiency."
Well there you have it, I know you are hungry by now and really wanting to attend this memorable food and drink celebration and support some wonderful local organizations. So get your appetite ready, purchase your tickets here and we'll see you next week at Crave!!
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The name 'Nesika' comes from a Chinook word which is communal jargon for 'together' or 'looking after our own'
The story of Nesika has roots on both the East and West Coasts of Canada, dating back to 1973 when Amirault, Haynes, and Associates was established in Nova Scotia. Originally, they only sold life insurance and related products to fishermen and their families. In 1978, Fairway Insurance Services Inc. was incorporated to sell marine insurance due to client demand. Over the years to come, they branched out into Commercial and Personal lines to further satisfy the needs of their clientele.
Nesika was originally started by the Native Fishing Association to insure aboriginal fishing vessels in 1991. In 2005, as the need for an insurance broker who specifically insured First Nations vessel decreased, the company was sold to Fairway Insurance Services Inc. At this time, Nesika Insurance Services had been in operation writing solely commercial fishing vessels for nearly 15 years.
Tom Amirault Sr., one of the founders of the original Amirault, Haynes, and Associates, passed control to the second generation in 2005. Now Keith, Sarah, and Jana Amirault manage the operations of the six East Coast branches of Fairway and provide support to Nesika on the West Coast.
Tom Amirault, President of Nesika Insurance, joined his siblings in the family business in 2010 and brought with him two decades of experience as a commercial fisherman, being a Transport Canada certified master and engineer. Under his guidance Nesika has grown from exclusively serving commercial fishing vessels to a full-service brokerage specializing in insurance for marine and commercial industries. With the support of Fairway Insurance Services we have access to a wide variety of markets and essentially unlimited capacity.
Together, Nesika and Fairway insure over 3,000 vessels and over 10,000 clients on both coasts of Canada. We have been providing our clients with quality service for over 40 years and three generations
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2018 Lifetime Achievement Award
Congratulations to Carole Gaspar
Webster University Emerita Professor of Voice Carole Gaspar is a graduate of Baylor University and Washington University. Her principal teachers were Leslie Chabay and Jennie Tourel.
Throughout her career, she has won many awards including the G.B. Dealy competition, the Irene Jordan scholarship, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra competition, the Southwest and Midwest Regional Metropolitan Opera auditions, the St. Louis Artist Presentation award, the St. Louis Philharmonic competition, and the National Society of Arts and Letters award in Chicago. Following six months of study at the International Opera Studio in Zurich, Switzerland, she performed with the Essen (Germany) Opera Company, making her professional debut as Marcellina in Fidelio. Since joining the Webster faculty in 1975, Professor Gaspar has earned seven diplomas from conservatories in Salzburg, Nice, and Geneva for studies in the poetry and music of the German lied and the French melodie. Her teachers have included Erik Werba, Kim Borg, Dalton Baldwin, and Gerard Souzay.
Professor Gaspar has given numerous, highly acclaimed concerts in the St. Louis area and frequently collaborates with composers in premiering new works for solo voice. With a broad repertoire of 19th and 20th century songs, she has made an intensive study of the works of Brahms, Schoenberg, and other Viennese composers.
She collaborated with Allen Carl Larson in many performances of works for voice and orchestra, and enjoyed an extensive career as a recitalist with pianist Daniel Schene.
She founded and directed the Institute for Advanced Vocal Studies in Paris, France, from 1990 to 2001, a summer program devoted to studies in French classical song and vocal chamber music for emerging young artists taught by an international faculty of specialists in French music, language and literature. The Institute's activities have continued in the U.S.
In 2002, she organized a weeklong workshop devoted to French vocal literature and the writings of Victor Hugo, bringing an international faculty of specialists to St. Louis.
Active as a teacher, adjudicator, and music director in the U.S. and in Europe, her students are recipients of numerous awards. Many hold advanced graduate degrees and artist diplomas from outstanding schools of music, forming a veritable international community of professional performing artists and teachers.


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This e-newsletter is designed to provide a brief update on the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund and the happenings of its grant recipients.
It is our promise that this e-newsletter be brief, interesting and hopefully something that will provide you with ideas and contacts with other organizations around the state. If you wish to have your activity highlighted in this e-newsletter, please contact Renée Bovée, WCTF Program Coordinator.
Re-Dedication of the Trappers Point Overlook, July 12
The Sublette County Historical Society is excited to announce the completion of upgrades to the Trappers Point Overlook. A 50th anniversary re-dedication ceremony will take place on Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 10:00am at Trappers Point. Fur trade historian Jim Hardee will discuss the historic Green River Rendezvous, State Representative Albert Sommers will talk about the Green River Drift, and former Wyoming State Archaeologist Mark Miller will describe the significance of the Trappers Point pronghorn archaeology site. A free bus, sponsored by Sublette BOCES, will leave the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale at 9:30am for those who would prefer not to drive. Registration for the bus is recommended and available online at http://www.subletteboces.com/classes/.
This project restored and reinvented the Trappers Point Overlook monument and signs. The 10-acre site is owned and managed by the Sublette County Historical Society. Trappers Point started in 1968 as a location to overlook a newly established National Landmark, the Upper Green River Rendezvous Grounds, where six mountain man rendezvous were held from 1833-1840. The original dedication took place during Green River Rendezvous Days in July, 1968. Since that time, the location has become more significant, now overlooking two newer National Register of Historic Places sites: the Green River Drift and Trappers Point Archaeology. All three sites are of national significance. After 50 years, the overlook was showing signs of wear. It needed to be modernized while still respecting its own heritage and adding interpretation of the newly designated historic resources.
Because this site is the junction of three major historical activities (Fur Trade Rendezvous, Pronghorn migration archaeology, Green River Drift cattle operations), and has three designations on the National Register, this is a very important and complex historical site. It has received even more national recognition with Wyoming investing in new wildlife migration overpasses and underpasses along US 191 between Pinedale and Bondurant to protect migrating pronghorn and deer. The site is located 5 miles west of Pinedale near the Cora junction with WY 352.
Funding partners for the new signage include the Wyoming Office of Tourism, the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, the Underwood Family Foundation, the Jonah Interagency Office (BLM) and the Sublette County Historic Preservation Board.
The mission of the Sublette County Historical Society is to preserve and interpret the history of the area that is now Sublette County, Wyoming. The vision for the Sublette County Historical Society is to be the center of excellence in the preservation and presentation of the artistic, historic and cultural history of Sublette County, WY. The Society endeavors to place Sublette County, WY in the broader context of Western history through its flagship Museum, The Museum of the Mountain Man, and through the interpretation of the archaeological record of the county.
Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund Awards Over $200,000
The Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund board awarded $215,177 to 28 projects around the state at their recent grant review meeting held in Jackson. This grant round was very competitive with 32 applications seeking over $405,000 in support.
Awards were given to a wide variety of projects, from art and music festivals, artists in residence, concert and theatre equipment, historic preservation, documentary productions, community celebrations and museum collections care. Below is a complete listing of awards by county.
Albany County
- Action Resources International, Higher Ground Fair, $7,000
- Laramie Community Foundation, Inc., Touchstone Laramie 2018, $3,069
- Laramie Plains Civic Center Foundation, Inc., Gryphon Theatre Safety and Projector Upgrades, $22,400
- Lincoln Community Center, Inc., Laramie Cinco de Mayo Community Celebration, $1,300
- University of Wyoming Department of Art & Art History, Society for Photographic Education Northwest Chapter Conference, $5,000
Campbell County
- Campbell County Public Land Board (CAM-PLEX), Cirque Zuma Zuma, $10,000
Carbon County
- City of Rawlins, Rawlins Territory 150th Anniversary Celebration, $10,000
Fremont County
- Lander Chamber of Commerce, Inc., Lander LIVE Outdoor Concert Series 2018, $5,000
- Lander Community Concerts Association, 2018-19 Two Concerts, $4,500
- Wyoming PBS Foundation, State of Equality Documentary, $9,000
Hot Springs County
- Gift of the Waters, Inc., 2018 Gift of the Waters Pageant, $2,500
Johnson County
- Museum of the Occidental Hotel, Roof Project, $10,000
Laramie County
- Boulder Community Media/Wyoming Community Media, The Covered Wagon: Silent Cowboy Movies from a Tribal Perspective, $15,500
- City of Cheyenne, Historic Union Pacific Depot Restoration: Windows, $25,000
- Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, Saddle Room Preservation Remodel, $3,639
- Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, Artist Residency at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, $8,000
Natrona County
- Casper Artist's Guild, Inc. (Art 321), Healing Through Art Initiatives, $1,100
- Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, Music Director Search, $10,000
Park County
- City of Cody, Concerts in the Park 2018, $2,500
- Harry Jackson Museum, Year One Accessioning Continuation Staff Support, $9,564
Platte County
- Wyoming State Historical Society, Wind River Tribal History for All, $8,500
Sublette County
- Pinedale Fine Arts Council, Summer Soundcheck Concert Series, $6,000
Teton County
- Art Association of Jackson Hole, Business Skills for Artists, $2,045
- Dancers' Workshop of Jackson Hole, Savion Glover Tap Program at Dancers' Workshop, $10,000
- Jackson Hole Chorale, Two Free December Events, $5,000
- Jackson Hole Public Art, GLOW, $6,000
- Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, Out West Fest, $5,000
- National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States, Collections Care: The Next 30 Years, $7,500


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"A number of years ago I had to take my dog to UC Davis Veterinary Hospital for an operation. I had asked them at the time who they would recommend as a good veternarian in my area for after-care for my dog and also provide good veterinary care for my cats. They stated to me that Dr. Mark Dunlap of Skyway Pet Hospital in Paradise, was in their opinion the best vet around. They also stated that he was one of the best diagnosticians in northern CA. I was living at the time in Chico and decided to move to Paradise. I started bringing in my show cats (Persians) to Dr. Dunlap. I would like to say that Dr. Dunlap and his staff at Skyway Pet Hospital have taken great care of my pets over the years. I have mostly cats now, and I can't say enough what a wonderful job they have done in caring for the needs of my dog and cats."
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Friday, May 29, 2009
My love for PIXAR films has been a tough one. I thought TOY STORY was awesome and then came A BUG'S LIFE and that one didn't do it for me so I was done. TOY STORY 2 came along and I was hooked again, but just only on that series. It wasn't until THE INCREDIBLES that I took the guys at Pixar seriously. CARS was a let down for me, too much of a kid's movie. I really want to take a second look at the one about the rat that wants to be a chef and I still have yet to watch MONSTERS INC. Then came WALL-E, this was the first time in my adult life that a animated movie could very well be a best movie of the year for me. Pixar was starting to make actual films and not just eye candy for kids and parents. This studio is getting the love it very so much deserves from critics, movie geeks, and most importantly moviegoers.
How much did I like UP? I liked it enough to turn around and go see it again in a heartbeat. I have loved adventure movies since birth and UP is one of the coolest I have seen in a gosh darn while! My head is still spinning over this movie. I haven't felt this way towards a movie since KILL BILL VOL.1, that was way back in '03 so I may be missing a movie or two, but that just shows you how much I really liked UP. I need maybe a few days to get my thoughts together. In fear of just rambling gobs and gobs of praise I will sum it together with saying that this movie has it all.
In closing I realize that I don't really need to sell people into seeing UP, it's a Pixar movie and the quality that comes from this studio sells itself. People will see it and like it and say 'yep, another masterpiece from Pixar'. I hate spoilers so this holiday season I will give a more detailed review seeing as this one will no doubt be one of my top ten of 2009!
A+ Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Terminator Salvation
"Terminator" is one of my all time favorite movies. It was also my introduction to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, I couldn't watch "Conan The Barbarian" because of the nudity. Everyone who knows 80's cinema knows why this movie is a classic. In the early 90's "T2: Judgment Day" became all the rage and old fans and a generation of new one's hailed the sequel as the best action science fiction movie of all time. To this day "T2" is still considered the best, I disagree. The popular sequel is an achievement of cinema and a high mark in special effects but just not my favorite. The third installment of the franchise is a very entertaining installment but is just more of the same old same old. It was time for a Terminator movie to be about the future war. With "Terminator Salvation" that time has finally come!
What a rough bumpy road it has been with just weeks before this new movie was to hit theaters across the country. The ugly word of mouth was that it's main star the Dark Knight himself really did not want to play John Conner in the first place. The much talked about leak of the ending raised some eyebrows of shock including my own. It was just days before wide release that world renowned movie geeks were calling it a steaming pile of dog poo. This fan was afraid, very afraid.
The time had come and it was show time at the good ole Springfield 8. From the very start of the film I was having fun, I was finally seeing a Terminator movie that was the future war. Was it as dark and bleak as the glimpses we all saw in the first two films, no, but man this was awesome. The only complaint I have with the movie is that since it's a prequel I lost the sense of suspense of what may happen to these characters. I loved everything else about "Terminator Salvation"! The action is cool and in my opinion the movies hero Marcus Wright was very cool. In still liking what I saw very much, I did think that the last act could have had just a few more T-800's and the scene with everyones favorite Terminator could have been longer too.
"Terminator Salvation" gets a B+ from me! Enjoy!!!!
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Star Trek
Ever since I was a kid I have been a die hard Star Wars fan. I grew up on the trilogy which to this day is still one of my favorite sagas. Another series of movies I grew up one was the Star Trek films. Sadly it is a memory forgotten, but my dad tells me that the family went to see "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" at the drive-in eons ago. Back in the early eighties at the Radio Shack in the Mall I remember watching parts of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn". "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" was the beginning of seeing the rest of the series at the theater, the Tower Theater. Watching these films were really special to me. I had always felt that I was watching the Star Wars that my dad had when he was a kid. Going to a Star Trek movie with my dad is a tradition I will never forget. I never cared much for the original television series or for that matter any of the spin-offs. There was the occasional watching of a few episodes from time to time. In high school I became a casual fan of the next generation series watching episodes at my friends house after school. In short I guess you can say that I am a casual fan, but not enough to call me a Trekkie, I mean Trekker, or whatever the kids are calling them now.
The new movie is great and probably going to be my favorite of the summer this year.
This review is somewhat late seeing that I have already talked to a lot of friends and acquaintances and everyone's reaction seems to be the same, everybody likes the movie and the reboot concept. If you haven't seen the film yet, your in for a treat and I won't spoil a thing. The special effects are amazing, ILM really hit it out of the park with this one. The reboot concept ended up working really well in this new era of a franchise that has been lacking since say part IV. I am in the minority that thought "Star Trek: Nemesis was a good Trek film. With the new film Paramount again has a mega hit franchise on it's hands. Back to the film, the cast is off the charts superb. Everyone shines in the roles that they play. The stand out performance for me was that of Karl Urban as McCoy, I had a feeling that J.J had an ace up his sleeve in casting Karl in a role like that, but I just had to see it to believe it. Eric Bana as the villain was a good choice as well.
The only thing that I thought the film lacked was that it was too short, but honestly that really may be a good thing? Since this review is late, I can't think of anything to add that already been said in reviews already? Next up is "Terminator Salvation" which I am already having a hard time keeping an open mind after hearing a bunch of stuff I have heard about the story so far. I will try to have that review up Thursday evening? In the meantime I may or may not see "Angels & Demons" I am not 100% sold on this one seeing that I thought the first movie was REALLY BORING. A small little science fiction action movie comes to DVD tomorrow called "Outlander" that I have been wanting to see, so you may see a review of that. Go see "Star Trek" if you haven't already! I give the reboot an A+! Enjoy!!!!!
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Friday, May 1, 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Stop! If you have not seen this movie yet you may not want to read what I have to say until you have seen the film. The review you are about to read will contain spoilers, so reader beware. I am not real happy with the movie, so beware of what I may say as well. Continue at your own risk.
"Wolverine" is not a bad movie by any means, it's just not a very good one. Most theaters across the nation had midnight showings so Catchafick went to the ole Springfield 8 to witness the first blockbuster hit of the summer. For months the Internet movie geek community would not shut up about how "Wolverine" was going to suck and that 20th Century Fox is raping many a popular franchises by making awful film adaptations. I will admit that Fox is doing something wrong, so very wrong. All three X-Men movies were for the most part solid, even the much hated X3 which I liked quite a bit. So with a solid franchise like the X-Men, how could Fox mess something like this up? The only thing that I can come up with is that the suits at the studio don't care about making a remarkable film about the most popular mutant of the X-Men. The only thing that they know is that based on the success of three movies, it doesn't really matter how well "Wolverine" does, because they know that we will go ahead and give them are hard earned cash. FOX doesn't make these kind of movies for fans, the fanboy is the minority. The real money comes from the regular movie going public. That's enough FOX hate, on with what I thought about the movie.
My feelings on the movie are this, it's for the most part an okay Wolverine film but a horrible X-Men movie. It has a strong promising start. The characters of Wolverine and Sabertooth are strong and acted very well. I have always liked what Hugh Jackman has done with Wolverine, even in this movie. Liev Schreiber is the dark horse of "Wolverine", every time Victor Creed was on screen I was happy. What makes this origin movie just a so-so movie is that a lot of what happens in the story seems very one dimensional, nothing ever truly seem that bad@$$. Things seemed to happen so matter of fact, and that is a real let down. The tone of the movie is also a mess. Jackman being a Executive Producer said that the character was going to be a lot darker this time around. It seems the finished product got it half right. Stryker's special team do sound like a bunch of mean motor scooters, but the action in this movie is just cartoonish. When Wolverine and or Creed attack people blood is not really anywhere to be seen. Even X2 had some blood when Wolverine was fighting in the mansion?
For the most part I like the beginning and most of the middle and none of the end. My first problem I have is with what Stryker says after Logan who is now the successful unstoppable killing machine Weapon X goes AWOL,(sorry for paraphrasing)"Well, the only thing we can do now is kill him". What? You just got done making the perfect killing machine, how are you going to kill him? It's just that what Stryker said came off really lame sounding. What came next is the worst thing about the movie. The solution someone that works for Stryker came up with is that "...the only thing that can stop him now is if we shoot him in the head with an Adamantium bullet.", lame. What happens next is even worse, they come to the conclusion that the bullet in fact won't kill him, but make him forget how any of this ever happened. Wait a minute, the film just made a big plot hole just now. With how the pieces of his origin are gathered in the first and second X-men movies, it sure seems that it is implied that Logan's memory loss was due to the intense process of grafting Adamantium to his skeleton? Two more things then I am done, I promise. The thing that killed this movie for me the most is Gambit. Let's just say that his mutant power is momentum killer. A fight scene between Wolverine and Gambit occurs in the movie for no real reason except for Logan to hack and slash a fire escape...lame. This whole fight scene just really took me out of the movie. I really didn't care much after that. The climax with Deadpool at the end was just poor. In the end, I realize that I may have had too high of hopes for this movie, but not once do I feel that I have been to hard on it. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" gets a high D+. Enjoy.
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With their bright mix of light and dark shades, these bold pink craft pom poms are a perfect accent for your next project! They're great for girly accessories, Valentine's crafts, and more.
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Zach Anner is obsessed with travel. In Rollin' with Zach, he takes an authentic and often humorous approach to seeing the country. Anner may have cerebral palsy, but that's never stopped him! In every episode, Anner explores a new city and conquers his "top five" list for the destination, traveling from coast to coast. Each episode is filled with humor and emotion, as Anner meets new people, indulges in his favorite treats, and attempts new and exciting experiences he never thought possible! From surfing to sailing, rock climbing to water-skiing, he challenges himself to try the unexpected, and at times - the seemingly impossible. When things don't go as planned, Anner embraces the problem with his sharp sense of humor and a positive attitude, because travel is an adventure and sometimes you just have to "roll with it".
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The crushing strength of concrete, determined by breaking a cube, and often called the cube strength, reaches values of about 3 tons per square inch, that of granite 10 tons per square inch, and that of cast iron from 25 to 60 tons per square inch.
An experimental study of C20, C25, C30, C40, and C50 big mobility concrete cubes that came from laboratory and construction site was completed. Nondestructive testing (NDT) was carried out using impact rebound hammer (IRH) techniques to establish a correlation between the compressive strengths and the rebound number.
The crushing strength of concrete, determined by breaking a cube, and often called the cube strength, reaches values of about 3 tons per square inch, that of granite 10 tons per square inch, and that of cast iron from 25 to 60 tons per square inch.
Crushing Concrete Cube or Cylinder at 28 days | Quality . The crushing of concrete cubes or cylinder samples is required in a construction especially concrete structures. The reason why this is to verify the strength given in the design mix.
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Between alcohol and contemplation, between laughter and heavy silence, between music and fishing; the heavy Ardennes and the steep sea, a bluish climate of melancholy and a mildly euphoric late-night mood. It is in this atmosphere that a band of friends, like a rock band on tour... in an ice truck, makes an initiatory trip to forget the tragic destiny of one of theirs.
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Old Fashioned Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Recipe from The Barefoot Contessa on FoodTV.com
4 very ripe bananas
3/4 cup of sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar lightly packed
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 extra large eggs at room temperature
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon Nielsen-Massey vanilla extract
1 teaspoon of the zest of one orange
2 cups all purpose flour, after sifting
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup of chopped nuts(optional)
Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
Preheat oven to 350. Prepare a 9 inch round cake pan, grease and flour or place a piece of parchment in the bottom and spray the paper and the pan.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, add bananas and sugar and brown sugar, and mix until combined. Add oil, eggs, sour cream and vanilla, and orange zest, then mix until smooth. Add flour, baking soda, and salt and mix until just combined. Add nuts if using. and stir.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes then turn out onto wire rack. Prepare cream cheese frosting and spread on cooled cake.
Cream Cheese Frosting
6 ounces of cream cheese, at room temperature
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
21/2 cups of powdered sugar
1 tablespoon of heavy whipping cream
Mix cream cheese, butter and vanilla extract in a bowl, in a bowl with an electric mixer, slowly add powdered sugar and stir until smooth. Add heavy whipping cream to get the consistency of the frosting that you prefer.
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In the Kitchen: Turkish Poached Eggs
Looking for a fantastic brunch recipe for this weekend? Here it is! Turkish Poached Eggs with Yogurt and Spicy Sage Butter. I was introduced to this recipe by my friend, Leslie, and now, can't seem to stop thinking about it. It is SO good!
- 1 cup Greek yogurt (The recipe actually calls for plain yogurt, but, I highly suggest Greek...)
- 2 large garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter (1/2 stick)
- 12 fresh sage leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon dry crushed red pepper
- 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
- 8 eggs
- warmed pita bread or wheat toast
- Stir yogurt and garlic in small bowl to blend and then season to taste with salt.
- Divide the mixture equally among 4 plates, spreading to coat the the center of each plate.
- Melt butter in a heavy saucepan over medium heat, then add the sage, paprika and red pepper and stir just until the butter sizzles; remove from heat and season with salt.
- Add the vinegar to large skillet of simmering water and return the mixture to a simmer.
- Crack the eggs into the simmering water and simmer until the eggs are softly cooked, about 3 minutes.
- Using a slotted spoon or pasta server/fork, remove the eggs from the water, drain briefly and place 2 eggs atop the yogurt on each plate.
- Rewarm the butter mixture, if necessary, and spoon over the eggs.
- Serve immediately with bread.


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Sony Pictures Animation has revealed the official trailer for upcoming Peter Rabbit animated movie that is based on the stories created by Beatrix Potter.
Peter Rabbit, the mischievous and adventurous rabbit that has captured generations of readers will now take on the starring role in his own animated comedy. Peter's feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to heights greater than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door. James Corden voices the Peter Rabbit character and other voices provided by Domhnal Gleeson, Margot Robbie. Elizabeth Debicki and Daisy Ridley.
Peter Rabbit should be in theaters on February 9, 2018 though some promotion material included a date of March 23, 2018.


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The most competent mass market mobile browser to date?
While the launch of a 16GB iPhone (we got the exclusive) is likely to overshadow everything else this week, those not of the Cupertino persuasion also have some consoling news…
'Opera Mobile 9.5' has been announced today and it brings with it a whole bunch of features seen in the incredible Mobile Safari browser on the iPhone as well as a number of nifty tricks all its own.
Starting off with the basics, 9.5 brings full web page rendering with zoom, tabbed browsing and full screen portrait and landscape modes – essentially the minimum needed to compete now in this sector. Touchscreen controls are also there allowing pages to be scrolled around and links clicked by either a finger or stylus. A new faster rendering engine, dubbed 'Presto', also claims to reduce load times significantly.
Where 9.5 begins to strut its own stuff however is in bringing such useful additional core functionality as copying and pasting of text, the saving/sending of images and downloading of files. A password manager can also store a user's sensitive data cutting down on input time – just be sure not to lose your phone…
Lastly, Opera has expanded its Mobile widgets (mini applications) and equipped them with 'Flash Lite 3' meaning access to sites such as Google Maps and YouTube are only a few clicks away.
Opera Mobile 9.5 will be available on all major platforms including Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux (though not the iPhone yet – wait for the SDK) and the first beta release is expected imminently. Still want more? Here's a video demonstration of 9.5 in action.
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After months of negative press surrounding this year's Rio Olympic games - from water pollution to a possible Zika outbreak, to Russia's 119 Athlete drug doping scandal ban, we're now just hours away from the opening ceremony. The excitement is building and this year's athletes are looking fitter, stronger, faster and possibly even better looking than ever.
Keen to get to know them a little better? Here's our list of #topathletes to follow on social media at this year's Olympic games.
Usain Bolt, sprinting - Jamaica
Instagram: @Usainbolt
Twitter: @usainbolt
Why you should follow him:
The Jamaican sprinter needs little introduction. With over 7 million followers on Instagram and twitter, he certainly knows how to entertain. This will likely be Usain's last olympic games and he'll be hoping to bring home another double gold medal to add to his already impressive collection.
Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca, beach volleyball - Brazil
Instagram: @larissaetalitaoficial and @talitavolei
Twitter: @LarissaeTalita
Why you should follow them:
Having ascended to the top of the women's provisional ranking list with a dramatic two-set win over American Olympic medalists April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings. This hot duo are hot favourites to win the gold in Rio.
Bradley Wiggins, cycling - UK
Instagram: @wigginsofficial
Twitter: @officialWIGGINS
Why you should follow him:
The 34-year-old cyclist has four Olympic gold medals, one silver and two bronzes to his name. Wiggins has mastered both the road and velodrome and If he can win another medal at Rio, he'll become the most decorated British Olympian in history.
Ibthaj Muhammad, fencing – USA
Instagram: @IbtihajMuhammad
Twitter: @IbtihajMuhammad
Why you should follow her:
Regardless of whether or not Ibthaj takes home a medal at this years olympics, she'll be making history by being the first muslim woman to represent her country while wearing a hijab.
Mo Farah, distance running - UK
Instagram: @gomofarah
Twitter: @Mo_Farah
Why you should follow him:
Mo Farah produced one of the best distance running performances of all time at the 2008 London olympics, taking home gold in the 5,000-m and 10,000-m. If he can repeat his success in Rio, he'll become one of only 2 people (Lasse Viren being the other at the 1972 -76 olympic games) to ever have won gold twice in both events.
Neymar Jr, football - Brazil
Instagram: @neymarjr
Twitter: @neymarjr
Why you should follow him:
Asides from sporting some rather odd looking hairstyles on the pitch, Barcelona's Neymar Jr is arguably Brazil's best player. Following Brazil's disappointment of Silver at the London 2012 games, The Brazilian captain will be hoping to win gold this year in front of his home crowd!
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Step Away to Step into Life
I have two clients that are a block away from each other in NYC. The walking time between them is measured in seconds and often I can schedule things to allow me to go from one to the other in short order.
But there are times when I have to schedule them on different days, which would be less of an issue if I didn't live an hour away from them.
This past week, I took things to a new level. I visited one client on Tuesday and the other on Wednesday. In between, I flew down to Florida for an early morning talk to over 300 leaders. Including local commutes to and from the airport, my journey from one client to the other, though themselves separated by only one block, exceeded 1900 miles.
Talk about a long walk down the block!
This trip reminded me of the fact that sometimes our biggest, most difficult journeys are over small distances that seem to span miles. Maybe it's a strained relationship at home or at work where, despite physical closeness and easy access to conversation, we seem so far away from those around us. Perhaps the issue is with ourselves, where we cannot access a solution or find a pathway forward despite knowing ourselves better than anyone else.
But because we live our lives the same way, day after day, we fail to see that we can live that much more fully, with greater joy and conviction, than we presently are.
In the heat of the moment it can be hard to become reflective and consider different ways of thinking and acting. Sometimes, the best way to bridge the gap that divides us from our better selves and a more fulfilling life is to step away and take a 30,000-foot view of things.
Here are some questions to consider asking yourself from time to time:
- How are my relationships with those that I most care about? What would make them even better? What's holding me back from enjoying them more?
- What self-doubts and inner gremlins are preventing me from maximizing my potential?
- Is there enough balance between my work and life outside of work? How can I keep from burning the candle at both ends?
- How does my vantage point of the world and the people around me affect my relationships and general sense of happiness?
It has been said that, "If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got." Sometimes, the best way to succeed in life is to take a step back (or a trip away) to reflect and ask the hard questions that can push us to achieve more and live more fully.


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["Buried Treasure" 8x10, sold] They're forecasting snow this weekend for Christmas. I took my two boys (in this painting) on a six-hour marathon of errands yesterday and did all the returns, all the grocery shopping, and all of my last Christmas shopping. Whew! So, I say let it snow ❄ ❄ ❄!! I'll be over here wrapping gifts and getting my house ready to host Christmas Eve dinner on Saturday (my mouth is already watering just thinking of Aunt Christie's prime rib...). It's the most wonderful time of the year, isn't it?