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Nassau, Bahamas and Orlando, Florida
Wednesday, February 25th - Wednesday, March 4th
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Astros at the plate: Geoff Blum drove in Houston's first run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning, plating Lance Berkman. Matt Kata knocked a solo homer off Anthony Clagett in the fifth, and Chris Johnson drove in two more runs with a hit in the eighth. Brian Bogusevic knocked in the game-tying run with an infield hit later in the inning.
Yankees at the plate: The Bombers jumped on Astros starter Mike Hampton immediately, plating three runs in the first inning and one in the second. Angel Berroa knocked a leadoff double in the second and scored on an RBI single by Melky Cabrera. Berroa knocked a solo homer off Russ Ortiz in the fourth.
Astros on the mound: Hampton was slated to throw three innings, but a high pitch count limited him to just two. Hampton yielded four runs on six hits, including an RBI triple by Cabrera that contributed to a three-run first. Jose Valverde struck out two in one inning, and Ortiz allowed one run over three frames.
Yankees on the mound: Chien-Ming Wang pitched two scoreless innings, allowing two hits without a walk or strikeout. Brett Tomko allowed one run in two frames.
Grapefruit League records: Astros 1-4-1; Yankees 2-3-1
Up next: The Yankees will have a different view of Derek Jeter on Tuesday, when they host Team USA in a 12:15 p.m. CT exhibition at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Jeter, the starting shortstop for the American squad in the World Baseball Classic, will face off against fellow Yankee Phil Hughes. Astros starter Roy Oswalt is scheduled to pitch for Team USA.
The Astros will make a three-hour drive to Port Charlotte, Fla., to meet the defending American League champion Rays at 12:05 p.m. Most of the veteran players will stay back and work out at Houston's home field in Kissimmee, Fla., but a familiar face will be on the mound -- right-hander Brandon Backe, who is set to make his second appearance of the Grapefruit League season.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- When he was considered one of the top pitching prospects in the Braves organization, Bruce Chen didn't create the same kind of buzz that surrounds Tommy Hanson every time he steps on the mound.
While helping the Braves claim an 11-2 win over Panama in a World Baseball Classic exhibition game on Tuesday afternoon at Champion Stadium, Hanson further proved why he's considered one of the game's top pitching prospects.
In the first of its three pre-Classic exhibition games, Panama was introduced to the live right arm of Hanson, who allowed one unearned run and two hits in three innings. Each of his three strikeouts came during the first inning.
"I thought he looked really good today," Braves manager Bobby Cox said. "He's fun to watch."
While Hanson stole the early spotlight, Minor League outfielder Jason Heyward showed why he's also considered one of the game's top prospects when he drilled a two-run eighth-inning homer off Panama's Manuel Campos.
Baseball America recently ranked Hanson as the game's fourth-best prospect, and the 19-year-old Heyward was positioned directly behind him in the fifth spot.
Coming back from Tommy John elbow ligament transplant surgery, Chen was charged with four runs and four hits in 1 2/3 innings. The 31-year-old left-hander exited during the middle of a four-run second inning that was capped by Greg Norton's RBI double.
Chen, who pitched in Atlanta from 1998-2000, is scheduled to start on Saturday, when Panama opens the Classic against Puerto Rico. He impressed Cox with his new three-quarter-arm delivery.
"He might do something again," Cox said. "He looked confident out there on the mound. I thought he looked good."
Hanson needed just seven pitches to strike out the first two batters that he faced. After surrendering a two-out single to Angel Chavez, he ended the inning by getting Carlos Lee to look at a fastball on the outside corner.
While facing the Astros in his Grapefruit League debut last week, Hanson also got Lee to look at a called third strike.
Concepcion Rodgriguez, an outfielder in the Braves' farm system, began the third inning with a single off Hanson and later scored when Kelly Johnson made an errant throw while attempting to turn what would have been an inning-ending double play.
Chen, who signed a Minor League contract with the Royals last week, exited after surrendering a second-inning RBI single to Omar Infante. This prompted the entry of Yeliar Castro, a 21-year-old Braves Minor League pitcher, who was charged with one run and two hits in 2 1/3 innings.
"It was good for some of the guys to get out there and see this kind of pitching," Panama catcher Carlos Ruiz said. "We need to get conditioned for the Classic, and these games will help."
On Wednesday night February 25th we stayed at the Radisson Hotel Rochester; cost for the night was $90.29; stayed in room 429.
On Thursday night February 26th we stayed at the Fairfield Inn & Suites Orlando Lake Buena Vista in the Marriott Village; cost for the night was $106.87
On Wednesday night March 3rd we stayed at the Knights Inn - Liverpool; cost for the night as $55.94; stayed in room 203.
Our tickets for the Braves game were Section 107, Row M, Seats 1-2.


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Free software
Many others have done it before, but I would like to write a few words on why I care about free software, and why I think you should as well.
Despite some earlier contacts with computers, I only started to care about them in college (1998), when I was introduced to the internet and linux. As a result, I have always been surrounded by free software and it has been a wonderful learning source for me.
Free and Open-source Software
Free software is a large part of our lives, wether we know about it or not, at least for the huge amounts of web application using it.
I obviously enjoy fiddling with computers. For me, free software provide a unique oppurtunity to have a look at how it works, to change it, and to adapt it to my needs if I want to. Just like science, free software lets us stand on the shoulder of giants. We can use the work of others, fix it, extend it, share it and ultimately be part of it.
This huge freedom is empowering, but it does not mean that it is easy.
Non-free software
A lot of software arround us is not free, some of it is crap, some is of high quality. Sometimes, non-free software is the only way to perform some task, or it is massively more convenient than with the best available free software. I don't like close software, but I don't think we should aim to destroy it, we should only be aware of the restrictions it implies and that it is not the only way.
When using non-free software, we should be aware that we give up some freedom, and decide if it is worth it. For example, I don't care about it for a game as I don't want to change it, and nothing important for me depends on it. I care a lot more for the tools I use for work: I don't want to be locked down because I decided to give up my freedom in exchange for some comfort.
Open formats
Open formats are probably even more important to me than open software. Open formats are not about the software itself, but about our data. If we produce office documents using closed software and closed formats, the result of our work does not belong to us anymore. We can't move away from the closed software without loosing our work. On the other hand, as long as our data is stored using open formats, we can switch to an other software using the same format, or write our own if we want. It may not be easy, but our data is still here, waiting for us.
I believe that any important piece of data should be using open formats. If we enforce this kind of rule, we will always be able to retrieve our own data and closed software will have to improve to keep its customers, instead of relying on lock-in.

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Authentic expression; staying close to what is real and sacred @ gemmashouse
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haiku my heart
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i was as surprised as you are to find that this sunday is december first; which begins my favorite collection of postings of the year, a virgin a day. i hope you will join the mary love! i look forward to starting each day in december focusing on love, light and companionship. i always love your place in the mary bouquet!
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Kana Pipeline installed onsite and offsite storm drainage for this new Costco Wholesale store including drainage for their gas station and some storm drain pipeline for their neighbors, McDonalds.
Highlights: This project was unique because Kana Pipeline used concrete with crushed aggregate base (CAB), which was a bi-product of the site's earlier demolition, as part of the backfill on the 4-Pipe 96" CMP drainage basin, thereby recycling the existing resources. Then, Kana used a conveyor belt type process to pour the CAB fill in between the pipelines, and stabilized them in place. In sum, Kana's combined drainage work consisted of approximately 1,500 LF 96-inch Corrugated Metal Pipe (CMP) Detention Drainage Basin System, removal and installation of new catch basins, local depressions; joining an existing reinforced concrete box (RCB) in the street with 18" Reinforced Concrete Pipe (RCP); Also, installed an Oil Water Separator, and Oil Stop Valve in the Manhole at the Gas Station, HDPE drainage pipe line for McDonalds, 6" and 8" PVC SDR 35 pipe, drain boxes, cleanouts, a CDS Storm Water Treatment 20-15 Unit, as well as a CDS PSWC 30-20 Unit, approximately 2,500 LF of combined 12", 18" and 24" HDPE pipe, concrete collars, APWA Manholes, and Roof Drain Connections.


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5-10 fatalities per year in Australia alone, over 100 serious injuries and more than 450 minor. Taxpayer funded research that has been going on for decades totalling millions of dollars is not saving these people and they're not all surfers by any means.
Something needs to be done, the Government needs to step up and protect these people.
I suggest brave men in extra thick double-pluggers are deployed when and wherever storm clouds appear and armed with kites with copper string they should catch and kill the lightning before it can harm any one else.
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The Stokes equations govern key viscous flows, as discussed in Chapter 8. As was the case for the Laplace
equation, numerical approaches are the norm for solving the governing equations in complex geometries, but
analytical solutions to the Stokes equation can be found by considering Green's function solutions to the Stokes
equations. These solutions have mathematical importance because they lead to a convenient series expansion (the
multipolar expansion) that approximates the correct solutions. While the multipolar expansion for the Stokes
equations is a bit more complicated than the multipolar expansion for the Laplace equations, we nonetheless
are able to consider small viscous objects and their hydrodynamic interaction using the multipolar
formulation. These multipolar formulations facilitate calculation of the forces on large numbers of interacting
The Stokes equationswith a point force at the origin can be written as:
where δ() is the Dirac delta function. For an incompressible flow, we also have
As discussed in Chapter 8, the solution to these equations is
and 0 are the Green'sfunctions, respectively, for the velocity and pressure caused by a point force in
Stokes flow. ⋅ is referred to as aStokeslet, and constitutes the monopole of the multipolar expansion
for Stokes flow. The multipole solutions for Stokes flow are also referred to as singular solutions or
fundamental solutions. Figure F.4 shows a Stokeslet and a schematic of the resulting flow pattern.
Figure F.4: Flow induced by a Stokeslet.
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This title is in the unclassified service and in the SUNY Professional Services Negotiating Unit.
The positions in this job family dispense appropriate doses of drugs to inpatients and outpatients as prescribed by a physician; manufacture sterile and non-sterile prescriptions; deliver drug information and instruction to health care professionals based on pharmacological expertise and the interpretation of Pharmacy policy.
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Two postcards from Renaissance Weekend, last week's deeply earnest seaside schmooze for Democrats in Hilton Head, S.C.:
EMMA GOTBAUM, the 5-year-old granddaughter of the New York labor leader VICTOR GOTBAUM, approached HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and confided her career plans. It was one of those what-are-you-going-to-be-when-you-grow-up conversations. ''I'm going to be President,'' Emma said.
''That's great,'' Mrs. Clinton said. ''What are you going to do to become President?''
''I'm going to learn a lot, work very hard and read a lot and send thank you notes to everyone who does nice things for me,'' Emma said. ''And Grandma Carole says I can be President because I have nice table manners.'' (For the record, Emma's four-star review of Emma's etiquette is CAROLE LOUGHEED of Roanoke, Va.)
Another day, another discussion, this time NEWT GINGRICH'S opposition to a ban on so-called soft-money donations, summarized this way: there is not enough money in politics.
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Garnet played on the spring rider in the garden
Amber and Gemma hung out in the tree house
Gerry watched the cooking channel to improve his skill
Lavender has her 5th child Garnet and hopefully last
Soon it is birthday time for the boys, Garnet becames a toddler and Cedric a child, Cedric rolls the night owl trait and Lily is the heir.
Gemma is now a teen and a hopeless romantic.
Gerry teaches Garnet to talk and use the potty
Cedric uses the rocking horse
Lavender wants a child so Young Silas is adopted.
Lavender uses the water slide.
She also cleans the bath.
She achieved her lifetime wish and now Lily will be leading the family


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Thursday, December 20, 2007
More Earning Needed
It just occured to me that I ned to earn more each month than I originally calculated. I have not taken into account that most of the income I receive is through Paypal and they take a fee when I receive a payment. This means that I need to aim higher in ordre to reach my monthly target, probably by a few pounds a day. Perhaps I should be aiming for £30 a day instead of £26 to be on the safe side. This means a new monthly target of a profit of £900. Last month I made £1200 so hopefully I can continue at this pace.
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Amir Alansary
PhD Student
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, UK. My research interests focus on Machine Learning, Medical Imaging and Computer Vision with specific emphasis on 3D medical image analysis including segmentation, motion compensation and super-resolution.
Recent Publications
2016 (2)
- Amir Alansary, Konstantinos Kamnitsas, Alice Davidson, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Martin Rajchl, Christina Malamateniou, Mary Rutherford, Joseph V Hajnal, Ben Glocker, Daniel Rueckert, others, Fast Fully Automatic Segmentation of the Human Placenta from Motion Corrupted MRI, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, pp.589–597, 2016
- Martin Rajchl, Matthew CH Lee, Franklin Schrans, Alice Davidson, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Giacomo Tarroni, Amir Alansary, Ozan Oktay, Bernhard Kainz, Daniel Rueckert, Learning under Distributed Weak Supervision, arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.01100, 2016
2015 (2)
- Bernhard Kainz, Amir Alansary, Christina Malamateniou, Kevin Keraudren, Mary Rutherford, Joseph V Hajnal, Daniel Rueckert, Flexible reconstruction and correction of unpredictable motion from stacks of 2D images, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, pp.555–562, 2015
- Amir Alansary, Matthew Lee, Kevin Keraudren, Bernhard Kainz, Christina Malamateniou, Mary A. Rutherford, Joseph V. Hajnal, Ben Glocker, Daniel Rueckert, Automatic Brain Localization in Fetal MRI Using Superpixel Graphs, ICML Workshop on Machine Learning meets Medical Imaging, volume 9487, pp.13–22, 2015


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So what exactly makes a good carer?
The key quality is 'learning to care for you before caring for others'.
For many years I have been very involved in working within the care industry and am very aware of all the bad press that has been dominating the news during this past year (and certainly before as well). My role as a trainer has played a significant part in addressing these awful reports on 'bad care' and I will endeavour to continue to do so in every way I can.
I have huge respect for carers as their job is not an easy one and in my experience the majority do enter this profession because they truly care. There will always be isolated cases in every profession which make us question but we mustn't forget the majority show compassion, patience and go well beyond the call of duty.
I'm sure you've heard of the saying 'How can someone love you if you don't love yourself' well the same applies to caring. If you don't know how to care for yourself how can you truly care for someone else?!!
To make a good cake you need the correct ingredients and when some are missing the cake won't taste as good. So I will share with you what I feel are the key qualities to making a good carer, but before I do that I will tell you why I feel so strongly about this...........
Some years ago after gaining experience from being a Matron in a large residential home for the elderly, I ran a three bedded residential home, I also had a family so there was a lot of juggling involved. To begin with I was full of energy and enthusiasm so my residents were constantly stimulated and totally cared for. After a few years of being constantly on call for 24hours and feeling tired from the constant demand of looking after elderly people who needed lots of attention, my energy levels dropped and without being aware of it, I began to experience 'burn out'. It was only when a concerned friend asked 'what do you do for you?' I realised I didn't do anything for me and had completely forgotten how to look after myself properly. I was then encouraged to take up dancing, an interest I had since childhood but had lost touch with. I also took up offers of help so I could have 'time out'. Very quickly I re- gained energy levels and it was about this time I trained to become a counsellor and then a trainer and decided after discovering the value of looking after myself I wanted to teach others in this profession just how important it is. My residents gained from me looking after myself because I was happier and more energised. I also had more to share with them, such as demonstrating what I had learned from the dance classes, which certainly raised a smile or two especially when they decided to have a go. My outside interests filtered into my work and I no longer felt so isolated.
Another example I will share with you is when I was training hospital staff on 'gaining confidence and self esteem'. When I described how bullying presents in the workplace, one member of the group surprised us all by saying 'everything you are describing is me. I go home and cry myself to sleep because of the way I treat the staff'. I then asked them to fill in a questionnaire about how they looked after themselves. She beckoned me over as they sat quietly doing the exercise and said 'I don't do anything on here and her eyes filled up with tears.' To which I answered 'That's why you treat others the way you do.' You have to learn to treat yourself better first.' She agreed to have individual counselling to sort out her own issues as for the first time she recognised the importance of looking after herself. There are many like her and I expect everyone of you that reads this will either know someone as I have described here or may even recognise some of what I have described in yourself.'
So what qualities make a good carer?
- Someone who shows respect for others and expects respect back.
- Someone who has a good awareness of others needs while also recognising their own needs.
- Someone who applies T.L.C. (Tender Loving Care) to others and also to themselves.
- Someone who naturally has empathy.
- Someone who can say 'No' without feeling guilty when they recognise their health needs outweigh keeping going for others.
- Someone who makes a good team player.
- Someone who can share their knowledge and experience without having to control others.
- Someone who has a good sense of humour and others look forward to working with.
- Someone who is a good organiser, especially when it comes to pacing themselves when working long hours.
- Someone who appreciates and applies the basic needs for looking after themselves: Good nutrition, adequate exercise and fresh air balanced with enough sleep/rest.
- Someone who genuinely loves caring for others and also cares for themselves.
Over the years I have developed a comprehensive training package, incorporating all of the above while addressing the mandatory subjects e.g. Moving & Handling, Health & Safety/Infection Control, Food Awareness, First Aid and Sova.
More recent subjects I have included are: Dementia Awareness, Palliative Care, Epilepsy Awareness, Autism Awareness and Learning Disabilities and many more coming.........................
My trainings incorporate discussion and hands-on experiential learning while informing carers of the correct procedures involved in the roles of their duties.
I am constantly in touch with what the role of a carer is as I often roll up my sleeves and actively do the job myself, so I can train from the heart and not just from facts I've learnt.
Carers enjoy training and here are some of the comments I've received as a result of the sessions I've run:
'I now understand what autism means and had no idea what was going on for these people. I will definitely view them differently from now on.'
'I've really enjoyed learning more about the job I do and how to do it more effectively without always feeling close to 'burn out'.'
'It's been fun learning how to look after myself better and it makes so much sense. I will really apply what I've learnt so I can do my job better.'
'I didn't realise how I treated others but today has made me rethink and I've now learnt some skills that I know my staff will benefit from.'
'I didn't realise that training could be so much fun. I wish we could have more as it makes me more interested in my job.'
Training not only makes carers more competent but also more interested, which means they are more likely to stay........Happy staff means happy atmosphere means happy residents!


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5 Best Laptops with LED-Backlit/Illuminated Keyboards: The Next Generation Laptops in 2017
The mammoth growth in technology has led to the dilation and development of computers and laptops. A plethora of new features have got added and with each passing day, technological advancement is witnessed in electronic gadgets. LED-Backlit keyboards are the current trend and it is stupendously eye-catching and practical. A couple of new laptops house backlit keyboards that are available in mid-range of prices.
Top 5 Backlit Keyboard Laptops
This article will give you a brief idea about the laptops with illuminated keyboards that offers unperturbed performance and features apart from the captivating backlighting traits. Here are 5 best laptops with led backlit keyboards mentioned below.
Samsung Series 7 Gamer
The Samsung series 7 gamer is a premium laptop with intel i7 core processor. It is invigorated with staunch Nvidia graphics. It is power-packed with a bright 17.2 inch 1080 pixel display. The magnificent backlit keyboard and ability to adjust the power usage are the most attractive features of Samsung series 7 gamer. It is one of the most preferred backlit keyboard laptops that come with a power regulating options. The eco mode lessens the consumption of power and thus helps to lower keyboard brightness. The backlighting option is turned on by the balanced mode which turns on the speaker on too.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon
This crazy, sleek 14 inch laptop flaunts an impressive screen and island-style keyboard. The full-sized keyboard has perfect key spacing and an excellent up-down travel with two-level backlight. The backlit keys have all the desirable buttons like mute, wi-fi on or off and projector modes. The quick access buttons and other corresponding buttons are also instilled in the keyboard.
Apple MacBook Pro
Apple's new MacBook Pro boasts a sleek aluminum body and a black chiclet style keyboard with backlit feature. It measure about 0.71×14.13×9.73 inches and the keyboard has a medium-firm feel of typing. It has an easy yet attractive layout with optical-drive eject buttons. The power key has been moved to the top right corner instead of having it at the corner. It has a modest sized touch pad and adds to the super smooth backlit keyboard. It is among the elegant and premium segment laptops with backlit keyboard.
HP Spectre x360 Convertible Laptop
Light weight coupled with slim profile and premium aesthetic look define the all new HP Spectre x360 convertible laptop. The keyboard incorporates bright backlit with a sensor which it keeps it from switching the backlight during the day. The keypad is well laid and attractively shaped. It promises a decent travel and its slim look is truly sophisticated. The flat and smooth keyboard with sensor-built backlit functionality makes it among the top few in the backlit keyboard laptops list.
Dell XPS 13
The Dell XPS 13 harbors a compact and attractive design with seamless performance and backlit keyboard. The infinity display of 13 inch with 1080 pixels gives it an exquisite look. The bright backlit keyboard is an additional icing on the cake with its other powerful features like good battery life, bright display and core i7-6500U processor with 16GB of RAM.


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This is the real deal right here. Bimbo's Initiation is the definition of animation: It's insane, something out of your dreams, and beyond anything that could happen in real life. When I watch this cartoon, it reaffirms my opinion that animation is the most limitless medium out there.
In this short, Bimbo (Betty Boop's boyfriend) falls into a manhole only to realize that he's interrupted a cultish ceremony. He's soon under pressure to join the club or face death. This short was eventually apropriated for a Squirrel Nut Zippers video, though I can't say it has the same charm.


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Google updated its Android version tracker on Monday, revealing that the latest version of its mobile operating system — Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich — has more than doubled its installed base over the past month. Unfortunately, that only carries Google's current Android build to a 2.9% share of all devices. Combined with […]Continue Reading →
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June 18 2018
Today I was nervous about not finishing to draw planes. But it turned out I actually drew 3 planes. My friend Parsa drew 3 planes to.
June 19 2018
Today I improved by making a new plane. First me and my friend Parsa made a plane it looked old and not safe. Then we created a newer one that looks like it is from the future and it was safe.
I think I was being a communicator because I was not working on my own plane, me and my friend Parsa were both working on the same plane to finish making the plane and make another plane.
June 20 2018
Today I enjoyed drawing planes and creating planes for my project I made 2 paper airplanes and 1 cardboard air plane.
by the end of the week I want to test out my paper airplanes and see how far they can go. I also want to try to make our cardboard airplane fly and I want to present before it is summer and I also want to make more planes so our presentations will be longer and we will get better grades. We can improve our time managements and work faster. and I really hope I don't be sick. I also hope we will present a good presentation.


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Each person brings her or his own personality to the team, and every new joiner is welcomed warmly. We share a desire to continually improve, and promote a culture of knowledge sharing in which people can talk to their colleagues openly and have healthy discussions, regardless of their position or geographic location.
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Based on client evaluation and that of industry professionals, BCEC received the highest ratings in key performance areas including Overall Experience and Overall Value, in an independently assessed global survey.
Host venue for the successful 2014 G20 Summit, acknowledged as the 'Best Ever', BCEC is Australia's most flexible meetings venue providing unprecedented choice for events of every size including a dedicated boutique event hub, with two auditoria for 400 and 600, speakers' facilities and private boardrooms allowing delegates to 'own 'an entire convention level.
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It's officially the slow-down season. January is when social activity begins to fall off and rightfully so – we all need time to reflect and replenish ourselves. As winter drags on though the cold and darkness can sometimes feel isolating. To cheer yourself back up, round up a few friends and neighbors for a soup night party. Just like big fluffy socks and loose sweaters, there's something about soup that speaks to coziness and comfort. Soup is generally healthy, inexpensive and fairly easy to make. It's also easy to expand recipes for more servings. For all of those reasons and more, soup can be a wonderful way to reconnect with those you care about.
Savvy Soup Party Tips
Keep it potluck style: Call or email a few friends and explain the idea. Ask if they'd like to participate and bring something to the gathering. They could bring salad, good bread, snacks, wine, soup toppings or even more soup. Another fun idea is to ask guests to bring their own soup spoon and bowl.
Make it in advance: The last thing you want to have is soup day stress. Plan ahead and make your soup a few days in advance and reheat it the night of the party. This will make things much easier for you and soup always tastes better a couple of days after it was made.
Offer a couple of options: Whether it's you whose making all of the soup or a couple different friends, be sure to consider your guests eating habits and offer at least two different soups for the evening.
Encourage Comfort: You could have some cozy slippers or fluffy socks on hand for guests as they enter but an easier way might be to encourage them to bring them along and to dress comfortably. Stretch-wear permitted. A soup night party isn't for glamour and dazzle. A soup night party is about communion. It's about catching up and reconnecting with friends.
Keep it fun: To keep the conversation flowing you might try any number of conversation games. You could also just make your own. Check out this website for tons of great questions. Print some off, clip them, and place in a basket. Pass the basket around the room having each guest select one and answer. Another idea might be to ask each guest to bring a book and have a book exchange. Have them all speak about the book they brought and why they enjoyed it.
When hosting a soup night party the most important thing to remember is to keep things stress free and simple. A snug night in with delicious and healthy food, great friends and fun conversation is guaranteed to refresh you and your guests with the resilience to continue on into the remaining days of winter.
This recipe for a hearty chicken and brown rice soup is simple to make and always a hit!
1 medium onion, chopped
3 carrots, peeled and chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 cup uncooked short grain brown rice, rinsed and drained
1 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 tbsp butter
2 bay leaves
½ tsp dried thyme
Salt and pepper to taste
4 chicken thighs
12 cups chicken stock
¼ cup fresh parsley, chopped
Add butter and oil to a large dutch oven and heat over medium. Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper then add to pot and brown on both sides. Remove chicken and set aside. Add the onion, celery and carrots to the pot and cook till onion is translucent and vegetables are slightly cooked. Add in the rice and stir to combine. Add in the garlic and stir to combine. Place chicken and juices back in the pot. Add in the bay leaves, thyme and stock. Bring to a boil, then simmer until chicken is cooked through…about 35-40 minutes. Remove chicken and set aside to cool and continue cooking the soup. Once chicken is cool enough to touch, chop meat and add back into the pot. Discard skin and bones or save for stock. Continue cooking soup until the rice is tender. The longer you cook it, the more the rice will absorb the liquid so just add in additional stock as desired. Remove bay leaves and taste for additional seasoning prior to serving. This amount will serve 6.


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Football season is here! We love college football in our house. The Nebraska Cornhuskers are our team. It's a tradition for any Husker fan to gather with friends and family to watch the games on television. I do keep track of the score and players, but I also enjoy dressing up our family in our favorite game day gear.
We've got the perfect Football Onesie for your boy to show off his team pride. This is the perfect casual look for a day at home watching football. From front to back, this onesie is designed to resemble an actual football used to play this wonderful game. I love it! This is always a big hit at football gatherings. It is available in 0-3 mos, 3-6 mos, 6-12 months.


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RAS Statements: PJSC "Quadra – Power Generation's" 2015 Revenue Has Grown 1.1% against Previous Period
PJSC "Quadra – Power Generation" has published statements based on the 2015 performance in accordance with Russian Accounting Standards (RAS). The statements show that the revenue of PJSC "Quadra – Power Generation" for the year ended amounted to RUR 42.1 billion, which is 1.1% more than in 2014 (RUR 41.6 billion).
At the same time, the total assets amounted to RUR 66.2 billion, which is RUR 1.1 billion, or 1.6% lower than this indicator at the beginning of the reporting period.
The sales cost decreased by 4.8% to RUR 37.0 billion (2014: RUR 38.8 billion.). Cost savings are associated with a reduction in fuel costs due to the decline in production of electricity and heat energy.
The sales profit increased to RUR 3.8 billion (2014: RUR 1.4 billion).
The net loss for 12 months of 2015 amounted to RUR 4.4 billion (2014: this figure amounted to RUR 3.9 billion). The loss increase is mainly due to an increase in allowance for doubtful receivables.
The total liabilities of PJSC "Quadra – Power Generation" at 31 December 2015 were RUR 39.1 billion (2014: RUR 35.8 billion). The debt growth is mainly due to an increase in accounts payable.


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Is the perfect vinegar to give a fruit punch to your dishes.
Only fresh pulp of ripe Italian Peaches is used to prepare this thick vinegar that has a crisp and light taste with a pleasant acidic finish.
Perfect for marinades to chicken ,pork and grilled meats. It pairs perfect on a spinach salad or fish like soles and cods. Add as a 'secret' ingredient to your Bellini Cocktail.


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Mangalore, Sep 12, 2014: Temperatures in the city maybe soaring, but at Snow World it is raining snow! Experience snowfall and feel the scorching heat melt away at Karavali Utsav Ground in Mangalore.
The first ever special amusement park 'Snow World' was launched on September 11 at National Consumer Fair at Karavali Utsav Ground in Mangalore. Citizens of the port city were jubiliant to experience the "snow" amidst rain and sunshine.
Peter from Bangalore the innovator stated that the snow is real, only the procedure of production is artificial. It has no impact on health and is hygienic, snow is changed regularly. Peter along with his 35 strong team perfected the concept of snow world and executed it in Mangalore at short notice to the amusement of several people.
Some of the special features are : Ice Walk, Snow Fall, Kids Dancing Area, Water Falls, Ice Pond, Ice Cave, Photography corner, special major display, Special sound and light effect are created to wow the young and old.
The 45 day long National Consumer Fair comprising more than 200 stalls and 25 amusement rides displays home appliances, health and fitness equipment, furniture, designer sofa sets, handlooms, handicrafts, dress materials, footwear, books, toys, gifts, stationary and food products.
The expo also has an amusement section with artificial boating lake, break dance, dragon train, Italian tora-tora, jumping frog, dashing car, aeroplane, titanic, horse merry-go-grounds, fish merry-go-grounds and many more. Manjunath and Shashidhar from Nisarga Publicity were present at the launch ceremony.


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Auburn-based Orion has been awarded Boeing's Performance Excellence Award (BPEA) for the eighth year in a row.
Boeing issues its BPEA annually to recognize suppliers that have achieved superior performance. This year, Orion is one of only 414 suppliers worldwide to achieve the award. Orion is also the recipient of the 2011, 2015, and 2016 Boeing Global Supplier of the Year award.
Orion is an award-winning social enterprise with a mission of helping those with obstacles to employment, such as learning disabilities, low-income and mental health challenges. Orion uses operations in its aerospace manufacturing division and its Contact Center Services division as platforms to teach people job skills through a combination of classroom instruction and paid training, including mentoring and internship programs.
Orion is a leader in the manufacturing, painting and finishing of precision metal fabrication parts and in the production of wire harness/cable assemblies for the aerospace and defense industries.
Orion uses operations in its aerospace manufacturing division, a certified AS9100 tier one supplier delivering millions of parts in 2017 to Top Tier OEMs, as a platform to teach people job skills through a combination of classroom instruction and on-the-job training, including mentoring and internship programs.
The company's manufacturing capabilities have grown to include sheet metal fabrication, complex machined parts, hydraulic assembly, metal finishing and cable/wire harness assembly, serving a broad customer base in commercial aerospace, general aviation and defense.
Orion partners with federal, state, county and local agencies, providing training opportunities and job placement services to individuals in the community.
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My friend and fellow teacher Dave Shoemaker loves to create lists. Usually they are satirical and humorous but sometimes they contain life altering wisdom. Here's Dave's advise list for today's graduating seniors. Us old farts could learn a little from it as well.
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Angela Leitch was appointed Chief Executive in June 2011 and took up her post on 14 September 2011.
Angela joined East Lothian from Clackmannanshire Council, where she held the post of Chief Executive from February 2009. Prior to this role, Angela was Head of Service with the City of Edinburgh Council, responsible for city-wide services and the development of an innovative new neighbourhood management and governance arrangement.
Angela joined the city council from West Lothian Council where she headed up their corporate support services and change management programmes, developing new models of service delivery in conjunction with partner organisations such as health and the police.
Angela has over 25 years experience in local government having started her career in human resource management and then gaining experience in a range of services, taking up increasingly senior roles at the same time.


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The Night Markets run on a Wednesday night through the summer season and are a great place to take the whole family. There are 101 (well I don't know how many exactly - I didn't count) food stalls with a wide variety of foods to suit a range of tastes. There is also a Sangria Bar, cocktails and the most delicious desserts.
Whilst all this tantalising food is grabbing your attention there are also lots of arty, crafty stalls to look at and bands playing. The atmosphere is amazing but it gets crowded early - so get in earlier if you would like time to grab a table to enjoy all this delicious stuff.
The Night Markets are still on until Feb 27th so get out there and experience all that Melbourne has to offer.


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will Finance. Owner may divide. Please call for a showing. Priced to sell at around $5,000.00 per acre. Don
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Make Time For Prayer
(This article is taken from the 1/12/07 issue of The Sword of the Lord, written by the former editor, Dr. Curtis Hutson. The Christian's prayer life is often their biggest challenge; prayerfully this could be a help to all of us.)
Prayer is the one thing that Christians are commanded to do without ceasing. We are not told to sing without ceasing or to go to church without ceasing or the read the Bible without ceasing, but "pray without ceasing." (II Thess. 5:17)
The scripture also says in Luke 18:1, "men ought always to pray, and not to faint."
Dr. John R. Rice said, "All your failures are prayer failures;" then he quoted James 4:2, "ye have not, because ye ask not."
A. J. Gordon said, "There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing more you can do until you pray."
Prayer is God's appointed way of getting things. He said in Matthew 7:7, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."
Prayer is God's appointed way to fullness of joy. He said in John 16:24, "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full."
Prayer is God's appointed way to obtain forgiveness and cleansing. I John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Prayer is God's appointed way to obtain victory over anxiety. Philippians 4:6-7 says, "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
Prayer is also God's appointed way of expressing praise and gratitude. II Corinthians 9:11 says, "Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. "
When we pray, God may not do everything we ask Him to do; but if we don't pray, we don't even give Him a chance. So pray about things that seem utterly imposssible; it may surprise you what God will do.
Remember the possibilities of prayer exceed your ability to ask or think. Ephesians 3:20 gives the assurance that God "is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think."
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making some changes in my diet added a spirulina,protein shake 110 cal 14 g carb with milk 190 cals. had it at lunch with egg, some meat wanted to see if yesterday's addition continues to make my spastic colon feel better.
Well same as yesterday the change is making me feel lots better more energy, no more pain. Have increased fluid intake too. After I had the shake I could feel the change. It has fiber in it too, of course. Stevia in it dried blueberries high in antioxidants. Not as good as an icecream but I can get used to using it.
I called my friend darlene, and she giggled when I told her I feel better.
She suspects I have gut disbyosis, or gut leak leaky gut something like that. I told her I feel the difference in not just no pain but in the breaths too . like eating a peppermint pattie. lol with blueberries …hahah
Today I spoke to Kristen Hinze from Fb what a pleasure. Last Night it was fb pal Holly Naim. I am so blessed with good friends.
I shared with Kristen that I did not feel comfy speaking on her page anymore since one of the stalking queens followed me there.
She had noticed the person and her negativity too. I told her I would in box her and still be her friend no matter what. Kristen is a wonderful gal, so like Ruth Rowe, Rev Penny and Mary Law to throw a few of my pals in the mix.
I love my fb friends like they are family. Some may say that I get too attached, but thats good. God has blessed me with wonderful friends. I may not have physically been in their presence, but they are in my heart.
I love hearing how well they are doing. Clarissa ,Laura,Jerry,Peter,Paul, Heather, each adds so much to my life. My pal Sarah in England needs prayers for healing. Sarah Wilkinson , you are a love.Dolores Mader a dear friend, needs prayers for healing from Liver cancer.Maureen Cumby and Alan Edwards also need prayers for health. Donna Malley B,and Kristen Hinze need them as well. So pray for each one and each other please.
I hope you each get to know each other and meet jon pearlstone aka firstname.lastname@example.com Eet Metabolic memory is my weight loss buddy, he has a blog here too. Met him on FB.
So many wonderful people on a weight loss journey, Nat,Shannah, Chauna,Kristin,Kristen h,Virginia Curtis, Christine Casanova, Terrea,lindy,and so many more to make a few known to you all are amazing friends.
Make sure you tell those you love that you love them.
Let me know what you are doing to make you feel good,feel special.
I love you
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AH, Miss Patyi, we all love you too! Such a loving, clear, calming influence you have been. No matter how crazy my life, FB, stalkers have become you are always the voice of reason.
Keep up the awesome work on your new regime. I am so very proud of you for taking the bull by the horns and walking the walk!
Let me know if i can help in any way!


text: The Art of the WordPress Startup: Part 3 Joshua StrebelJanuary 22, 2014March 7, 2019 aStartup Pricing 101This post is part 3 of a series on how to launch your startup on WordPress. Last time I talked in-depth about a common question first-time founders have (how they should deal with competitors), and this week we'll answer another one startup founders often have:How do I figure out what price to charge for my product?So there are a few approaches often discussed in the blogosphere that you can take here. One approach is to use your "gut", but that doesn't make much sense, as you'll typically over or under value your product one way or another and sell yourself short. How can you sell yourself short if you over value/price your product? We'll get to that in a minute.Another is to take a look at your competition and price yours somewhat close to their closest offering. But this will likely fall short as well. Why? Because your product will be perceived differently by the end user due to a number of factors. Maybe your design is better and hence your perceived value is higher. Maybe you've been featured in a ton of major publications and hence your homepage has the icons of all the major hot spots in your field, so you've established better social proof than your competitor and can therefore charge slightly more. Maybe your reputation on Twitter sucks and you can't charge nearly as much because of that. The possibilities are endless.The point is there are a ton of factors that determine perceived value to a potential customer and you are likely not a perfect clone of your closest competitor, so you will each be able to extract different prices, even if your products are very similar (we'll assume your startup built on top of WordPress is not selling a pure commodity like petroleum). So what does that leave us with? Economic theory.Remember that economics 101 class you skipped in college that had the subtitle "Intro to Microeconomics"? Whoops. Probably should've have shown up for that one. Oh well, I'll save you taking night classes at community and bring you up to speed. It was one of my majors in undergrad and I did pretty well in it, so you're in good hands. If you're saying to yourself "I know what he's going to say… supply & demand, I already know that" then you're off base. Economics is more complicated than that. That's why they offer a Nobel Prize in it.When most people think of economics they think of what's called macroeconomics. It deals with the general economy, with topics such as GDP, inflation, unemployment, international trade and more. It also deals with supply and demand but not in the way we're worried about. What we want to try and understand here is price elasticity of demand, which is the measure of responsiveness of the quantity demanded for a good/service to a change in its price. Did I catch a niner in there? Say what?To make things less intimidating, let's first define a few key terms we'll be using:Price = What you're charging for your product or service. This is the price you'll be showing on your landing page and what customers will see on their credit card statements. Forget about profit and costs for the moment. We're only concerned right now with figuring out how to find the price that will maximize our revenue/sales.Elasticity = How changing one economic variable (in our case price) affects others (in our case quantity demanded, aka how many units you'll sell).Ceteris Paribus = Translated from latin as "with other things the same". In other words, keeping all else equal or unchanged. Why is this important? Because if you're going to test how different price points affect the amount of units you'll sell, you can't be changing other variables. In other words, don't redesign your landing page the same day you try a new price point. You won't be able to determine if the increase or decrease in sales was due to your change in price or design.Law of Demand = States that as the price of a product increases, the quantity demanded will be reduced. Conversely, as the price of a product decreases, the quantity demanded will be increased. There are only 2 types of products that violate this law, Veblen and Giffen goods. An example of a Veblen good would be the Bugatti Veyron. Because it costs over a million dollars, more people want them because they're harder to come by. Think extreme status symbol luxury products. An example of a Giffen good would be rice. As the price of this cheap staple food rises, people can no longer afford to consume more expensive non-staple foods alongside it (think Chicken/Beef/Pork/Seafood), so they end up buying more of it (in this case rice). Picture the dad in a household in rural Mongolia saying something along the lines of "Rice has gotten so expensive that we're no longer going to have rice & chicken for dinner, we're just going to have rice."**The pricing discussion here assumes your startup built on top of WordPress isn't selling Bugattis and/or rice. You're selling normal products which aren't Veblen or Giffen goods, and hence adhere to the law of demand.Alfred Marshall = The baller/shot-caller who came up with all this price elasticity of demand stuff. Had the Nobel Prize in economics been around back in his day, he probably would have locked it up around 1890.Okay, so now that we understand the basics of economics, what do we do with this newfound information? It's pretty simple. We want to find what's called Optimal Pricing, which means finding the price that maximizes your revenue. If you clicked over and started sweating when you saw all those scary equations, you're probably not alone. So let's do this in baby steps.Get the full 20 part series: "Art of the WordPress Startup" as an E-book.Get it!Step 1: Make an estimate of the price elasticity of your product.All we want to do here is figure out how sensitive our customers are to price changes in our product. At one end of the spectrum you have products with high elasticity, meaning consumers are very sensitive to price changes, and at the other end you have products with low elasticity which are sometimes referred to as inelastic. Let's look at an example for each end of the spectrum, keeping in mind that most products fall somewhere in between.Pizza is considered very elastic, meaning if you jack up the price you'll sell a lot less. Here's what the graph of price elasticity looks like for a slice of pizza. Notice the angle of the line is about 45 degrees…So if the pizza shop owner tries to charge $3 per slice, they'll only sell 1 slice, so revenue is $3. If they only charge $1, they'll sell 9 slices and revenue will be $9. But neither of those prices maximizes revenue. In this case, the optimum price is between $1.50 and $1.75 a slice. Both yield the highest overall revenue at $10.50 (7 slices sold at $1.50 provides the same revenue as 6 slices sold at $1.75). Here at Pagely, we're in the web hosting business, where customers are pretty price sensitive (high elasticity) according to research, since we're likely in the "mature" phase.Gasoline on the other hand is considered inelastic, meaning if you jack up the price you'll sell almost the same amount. That's because people still need it. Here's what the graph of price elasticity looks like for a gallon of gas. Notice the line is much steeper here…Notice that if the station owner charges $1.10/gallon, they're going to sell a little over 5 gallons. If they jack it up to $1.90 (nearly double), they're still going to sell 4 gallons. Now look back at the pizza graph above and figure out what happens to that poor soul if they try the same trick. Their demand plummets and they sell way less. That's why sales of things like gasoline and medications remain pretty steady in a recession, whereas non-essentials like spa services and expensive restaurants watch their sales tank. People need some things more than others. Another inelastic product would be public transit fares. If NYC raises the ticket prices, people will still buy them because oftentimes they have no other way to get to work.Here are the revenues derived at each price point for our gas station owner:$2.50/gallon x 3 gallons = $7.50$2.40/gallon x 3.25 gallons = $7.80$2.30/gallon x 3.4 gallons = $7.82$2.20/gallon x 3.6 gallons = $7.92$1.90/gallon x 4 gallons = $7.60$1.30/gallon x 5 gallons = $6.50$1/gallon x 5.5 gallons = $5.50*Station owner maximizes their revenue with a price of approximately $2.20 per gallon.Now that you understand price elasticity of various products, you can probably make an estimate of which side of the spectrum your product falls. Do people absolutely need it? Will a change in price affect the number of units you sell by much? We don't need to do any fancy equations here or solve for the actual coefficient, but we should understand how our potential customers will react to price changes and set our expectations accordingly.Like this content? Meet Pagely.Step 2: Now it's time to do some real-world experimentation and testing.The best thing to do here is to first run some A/B tests with a tool like Optimizely and figure out which type of landing page works best, given whatever prices you have set initially. So maybe design/layout A converts at 10% and design/layout B converts at 5%, so we know A is better and we now just want to figure out what price will maximize our revenue using design/layout A which we have decent confidence in. If you're further along in your startup and have already done A/B testing, then that's good news.Remember that term we defined above, ceteris paribus? This is where it comes into play. If you're going to experiment with different price points to see which one maximizes revenue, you need to try and make sure you're only playing with one variable at a time (in this case price). As you test various price points on your landing page, make sure you are keeping all else constant in your business as much as possible. That means no layout or design changes while testing, no pursuit of major press coverage, and no fiddling with your AdWords budget and bidding. Ideally you want to isolate as much as possible. Otherwise you'll be confusing correlation with causation.So take a period of X months (depending on how much traffic you get) and try adjusting your price for statistically significant periods of time. In other words, if your website gets 1000 visitors a day, you can likely get some good test data in a week at a certain price point. If your site gets 10 visitors a day, you may need to test for weeks or months at a certain price point to feel confident in your data. While testing various price points, take notes of any events that happen. Did some blogger happen to write about you during a particular week that was beyond your control and might have spiked your sales? Make a note of it so you remember to consider it when analyzing your data. If you have a subscription driven business, use something like Recurly to track your stats in greater detail so you know you're using accurate data in the event your admin dashboard/tracking is less than awesome.What else can I do to maximize my revenue besides finding the optimal price?Make your product as inelastic as possible, meaning customers will be unable to live without it, so you can charge more without killing demand. Google and Apple have done this by creating entire ecosystems that revolve around their products. Are you an Apple user and have spent a ton of time building up your iTunes library and have finally gotten iCloud backup just the way you want it? Apple has just made their product more inelastic because you're still going to want the next iPhone even if they jack up the price. In other words, make it so your customers cannot survive without your product/service. Here you are increasing the "stickiness" and "switching costs" of your service.If you're running a SaaS, like so many do, offer different types of plans at different price points that appeal to a variety of users. Let them pick which one suits them best. If Pagely only had one plan, we'd probably see a dip in signups. How many plans do you need? Most startups tend to go with a number between 2 and 5, and it varies by industry. Figure out how many customer "types" you have and then create a corresponding plan for each one.January 22, 2014March 7, 2019 WordPress for Business business design hosting how to saas sales startups wordpress Author Joshua Strebel I work on the interwebs and am CEO and co-founder of Pagely the Managed WordPress Hosting company. Father of 2 small boys and husband to an amazing woman. 2 Comments Tyler Jan-23-2014 This series would be great as an ebook. Sean O'Brien Jan-23-2014 Good point. Man if I had more free time right now I definitely would.


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|Activities and Rentals
|About Cuatro Casas
San Pedro Martir National Park
Cuatro Casas Hostel is located right next to the turn-off to San Pedro Martir National Park, one of the best-known Protected Areas in Baja. This park comprises 250 square miles of pine-oak forest with miles of hiking and biking trails, rare and unique wildlife, and Mexico's National Astronomical Observatory. The highest point in Baja California, called Picacho del Diablo looms at 10,157 ft. Several canyons also extend to the east, complete with cliffs and waterfalls. Indigenous petroglyphs and pictographs can also be found throughout these areas.
Hiking, climbing & bouldering, and mountain-biking are common activities within San Pedro Martir National Park. There are cabins for rent with beds and outside showers from the National Park administration, and camping is permitted in the park. One recommended area for camping is called Vallecitos, which is 24 km NW of the first park entrance, along the Observatory road.
Boards and Bikes
We've long been known as a prime surf spot. Whether you're a pro surfer or just starting out, you should come check out the awesome break right in front of our hostel. Even if you'd just prefer lounging on the sand, this is the perfect place to be. We'll keep your belongings safe while you check out as many miles of wide beach as you wish, and your cozy bed will be waiting when you paddle in for the night.
Additionally, Cuatro Casas has its own custom-made "Showbowl" where you can show off your talent on a different kind of board! And if you'd rather spin your mountain bike wheels, we can point you off along one of the numerous trails that surround the hostel. Rentals are available.
Whale Watching
Gray Whales pass right by Cuatro Casas Hostel during their migration, the longest of any animal on Earth. Starting in late December, you can catch them both on their way South (December - January) in the winter and North in the spring (February - March). They come to the lagoons of Baja California each year to birth their calves in the warm Southern waters. Mothers with their new calves are often the last to leave in late March and early April.
Watch these awe-inspiring animals right from our deck as they breach and blow air and water up into the atmosphere in tall jets, or we can help you hire a boat to take you out to visit them up close. Experiencing these whales' passage through our waters is truly remarkable. Come see for yourself!
Events and Group Rates
We book many events each year, including surf events, skating events, and off-road motorcycling events. If you're looking to book an event, just let us know and we'll help arrange all the details.
Cuatro Casas Hostel can be rented out to groups. The upstairs portion of the Hostel can hold a maximum of 20 people and can be rented for $300 USD per night. The lower portion of the Hostel can be rented separately for $110 USD per night and holds a maximum of 7 people. Both units have their own bathrooms and kitchens.
Group meals can also be arranged for an additional price. Please fill out a bed request or sent us an email with the details of your group's requirements.
Fishing in the area from Punta Colonet (just North of us) to Isla San Martin (just South of us) has been described as fantastic, if not downright ludicrous. The many near-shore reefs are home to a great diversity of fish. We have contacts with local fisherman from here to San Quintin who can take you out to fish for yellowtail and white sea bass, ling and rock cod, and red snapper, just to name a few. You can also launch your own boat in nearby San Quintin, a friendly fishing village to the South of Cuatro Casas.
If you're coming down to fish, chat with us in advance so that we can set up the right arrangements for you! During lobster season, we regularly cook up fresh lobster and other seafood right here in the hostel. It's too good to pass up!
We have friends in many places! We can help you turn your Baja trip into a long and exciting adventure by connecting you up with a couple of our fellow Baja-connoisseurs.
The good people over at Baja Trek will take care of your transportation. They run their ecologically-friendly vehicles on organized trips of varying lengths and destinations, in addition to organizing charter treks and shuttles. Cuatro Casas Hostel is a regular stop on their itineraries. If you and your friends need a ride down from San Diego, if you want to
travel with a community of open-minded and environmentally/socially-responsible folk, or if you just want to kick back and let someone else do the planning, these are the guys to call! Check out their Trek Schedule to see what they're up to next.
Guadalupe Canyon Hot Springs is a beautiful palm oasis in the middle of the Northern Baja desert. Where we've got salt-water waves lapping at our toes, they've got naturally clear and hot springs gushing forth from between granite rocks. You can head there for a change of scenery on
your way back North. They offer camp sites, each with a private hot tub and shade structure, as well as a grill and picnic table. In your spare time, you can hike up to see petroglyphs left by indigenous tribes, or jump into several naturally-occuring cool pools nested between the canyon rocks. If you need a shuttle up there, just let us know!


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coaching is an investment in you
You deserve to experience coaching as a service, to see results, and to be empowered and encouraged to shape your career, your life, your contribution.
Karen gives you Client-Centric Coaching.
As a successful cybersecurity executive at the peak of my C-level career, I navigated huge company goals, family and life surprises, and elder-care responsibilities. I learned what worked and what didn't for me but I didn't understand why until I pursued training that helped me understand the impact of loss, trauma, and disappointment.
You want to deliver on your commitments, and you have a lot of them. I did too. This is some of what you'll get when you work with me as a private client or as a group coaching participant: