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It's been a good minute since I've posted anything or really participated in anything with the MOHO community. I felt the need for a break for personal reasons. I didn't want this blog to turn into a bitch fest about how my life sucks because this or that. I've always wanted to be able to inspire people and give them hope. Another large problem is that more and more people that I know are aware of this blog. Which at times can make it hard to express my feelings or be completely unfiltered without repercussions.
I've looked for other ways of dealing with my pent up feelings and nothing has really seemed to work for me. If anything I shut myself off emotionally to feeling anything. I've become tired of hurting and tired of aching for the ones that I love who don't love or care for me anymore. I've made multiple mistakes over the past couple of months to try and just escape the feelings I'm trying to avoid feeling. Instead these mistakes just made me feel worse about myself and did not make me any happier. They fed habits and addictions and built up my guilt.
I had actually thought that I made progress in the past couple of months with regards to issues I deal with. I thought I had moved past people, I thought that I was stronger and more stable - and it a sense part of that is true. My doctor upped my dose on my medication and it has definitely been helping with anxiety. He even gave me emergency xanax for highly stressful situations and anxiety attacks. I'm taking my exams in my professor's offices so that I don't have panic attacks in the testing center anymore. I've been diligently doing cardio every day and eating healthy (this one is a lot harder). My body definitely feels a lot better than it has in a long time. But emotionally I'm just as torn up as ever.
There is so much going on with multiple relationships in my life right now. It's been a relief to find that there have been those friendships that have been different because of problems the other person was having... in other words it wasn't my fault. But then there's those relationships that I never thought I would have to live without, but have had to for a while now. I never stopped caring or loving and as much as it hurt, I had to let those I love make their own decisions about their life even if it didn't include me. I mourned for a long time, and it honestly sucked. There hasn't been a day that hasn't gone by that I didn't think about or miss certain people, But I felt I was able to heal and move forward. Then I randomly see them again after months and months and I fall apart. Every memory, feeling, emotion that I ever felt with them comes rushing back and I break down crying in my car. Seeing them, talking to them just makes my heart ache. It longs to feel what once was and aches as it senses the changes and as so casually cruel in the name of being honest words are said. The sad music has come back out, though this time I'm still able to live my life and perform the things that I need to at work and at school.
I've thought a lot about Jane and we've been writing ever since she left (it's been 5 months now). Her letters are always great to receive though she no longer says I love you in them. Part of me is afraid that she sending the friend zone message. If that's the case, I've put all my eggs in one basket and feel like I'm ready to throw my hands up and give up on marriage.
General Conference was this past weekend and deep down a part of me was secretly wishing/hoping that the apostles would come out and say that gay marriage was okay. I'm gotten so tired of trying to live a life that has so much hurt and loneliness in it. The thought of being with a man and having a family for the rest of my life sounds so much more fulfilling.
Thankfully the Lord knew that I needed some oil in my lamp. Traditional marriage was reiterated and reaffirmed. Multiple times it was mentioned along the lines of "God's doctrine does not change, though the world's morals do. God's doctrine is eternal and forever." Elder Richard G. Scott gave a talk in which he said something truly amazing "The Lord sees weakness differently than rebellion. When The Lord speaks of weakness it is always with mercy." The spirit resonated in my chest - something that hasn't happened in a long time. I've been beating myself up with guilt for a long time. The Lord knows that I'm struggling, but he also knows that I AM TRYING.
I got a phone call today that my brother's wife who was pregnant with twins had a miscarriage. My heart broke first for my brother and his wife. They've been through so much and it's taken so long for them to get pregnant. I've been feeling anger towards God and have been asking the question all day, "Hasn't our family been through enough?"
And as I sat listening to conference surrounded by my niece, and two nephews. I felt the love of my savior and the confirmation of my desire to have a family of my own. I will one day.


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The LHC was big news just before it came online, but mostly for the wrong reason: unfounded fears about the Earth being destroyed in a black hole created by the LHC. The news reports should have been about the many profound things the LHC could tell us about how reality is constructed at the fundamental level. The flashy news leads should have focused on how greatly our lives benefit every time we explore the unknown.
One of the first people to set up a homemade particle smasher was Earnest Rutherford, in the first years of the 20th century. He discovered the atomic nucleus, found an explanation for radioactivity, learned how to transmute elements, gave geologists the power to know the age of the Earth, and predicted the neutron. All this, in a wooden university lab without air conditioning.
The LHC is like that, except instead of a pre-WWI college lab, the LHC is more like the most advanced and monumental technological accomplishment in human history, by several metrics (largest machine ever, most combined computing power, most ever Swiss guys carving our Moria-sized vaults beneath the Alps, etc…). The LHC employs several hundred people who are just as smart – and smarter – than Rutherford. All things considered, we're likely to get some good loot out of all that toiling away of the world's best physicists, in the functional equivalent of several dozen Baxter Buildings.
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The Toronto Symphony Orchestra's stroll through a 19th century picture gallery was soaked in primary colours at Roy Thomson Hall on Thursday night. But the bright hues didn't dazzle enough to hide some problems with the concert as a whole.
The main works on the program, which repeats on Saturday, were two big, Russian warhorses: Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2, which he completed in 1901.
This is big, expressive music, meant to be played with the performers' proverbial hearts on sleeves, less concerned with subtleties and more determined to paint a big sonic picture.
While the orchestra and music director Peter Oundjian succeeded in capturing the drama of Pictures at an Exhibition (the version orchestrated by Maurice Ravel in 1922), it could have used a bit more polish in the detail.
The 10-movement suite, bound together by a musical Promenade, sounded a bit thrown together, despite the fact that the orchestra recorded it for its in-house tsoLive label a few seasons ago.
A much bigger problem was the well-worn Rachmaninov Concerto, performed by Korean-born pianist Joyce Yang in her Toronto Symphony début.
The nearly full house gave Yang a long and rousing standing ovation, but to these ears the pianist failed give the work any sense of movement or dramatic arc. We heard episodes, some loud, but most rendered in delicate noodlings at the piano, while Oundjian teased all sorts of superfluous colours and textures out of the orchestra.
I knew there was a problem when I realized how beautiful the violins were sounding during a passage where the piano is supposed to be dominant. Yang's star turn frequently slid into irrelevance as she retreated into a sweet interior world rather than expanding out on a large stage filled with other musicians and a large hall filled with expectant ears.
The evening opened with a solid piece of Canadian content in appropriately dramatic style: Shenanigan, a 2010 hoedown whirl of symphonic fun by commissioned by the Hamilton Philharmonic from Windsor native Kati Agócs. It's too bad that the whole concert couldn't sustain that initial burst of party energy.


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For the 50th Anniversary of Qatar National Bank, LM Productions teamed up with their associate company Purple Falcon Media, to produce an outstanding celebration ceremony.
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Climate Change Conference (Cop18-21)
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Climate Change Conference (Cop18-21)
- Location: Various Locations
- Type: Climate Change Conference
- Tech Used: Martin Intelligent Lighting, Video Wall Controllers, Pixel Rain Bar, Ventuz Touch Software, V-Box Computers, Iiyama Touch Screens, IntuiFace Touch Software, Yamaha Sound Mixers, D and B Audio Speakers, LG Digital Signage Screens, Benq Touchscreens
- Services: Projection, Exhibitions and Installations, Lasers and Lighting, Content Development
Since the first Climate Change Conference in 2012, LM Productions has been commissioned by Cityneon to create educational and inspiring interactive exhibits to engage visitors.
Travelling to Qatar, Poland, Peru and France over the years, we have used state-of-the-art interactive technology, combined with custom content designed by our in-house team, to engage visitors in an experiential environment.
Ranging from ultra-resolution touchscreens to custom video projection domes, each year has been an opportunity to display content in innovative and exciting ways.
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Embodying the theme, 'Sowing the Seeds of Sustainability, Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Food', LM Productions partnered with Cityneon to design and install ground-breaking solutions to entertain and educate visitors to the Qatar Pavilion.
The 25m StratoSphere was used to great effect in Beijing, China for Michelin's 3 day conference. LM's team worked closely with Michelin's Advertising Agency to help them create a spectacular full dome show based on their current branding and advertising.


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I had two fillings put in on Thursday, and it wasn't a big deal because they were in the front, and I had just had a root canal a few weeks ago. The dental assistant was telling me how much pain meds I could take at the end (Ibuprofen vs. Tylenol), and I said it probably wouldn't be a problem because I didn't take any for the root canal, and I had a Vicodin prescription filled for that. Both times, she gave me four Advil on my way out. It held me fine for the root canal, but I'm having a little more trouble this time around. My jaw still hurts–or rather, my gums–and I'm wondering if I inflamed it by brushing. I didn't brush the first night per my dental assistant's instructions, but I have been brushing since. I also wondered if it was because my dentist injected more numbing gel in my gums than for the root canal, but that doesn't make sense. It might just be normal soreness, but it's rather annoying.
I bring it up because that's my life in general right now. Nothing big or horrific is going on, but I'm feeling a general malaise. It's hard because logically, I know I have no reason to feel this way*, which actually makes it harder to deal with. When things are shitty in my life, I can accept that depression is the way I respond. When things aren't shitty (and they really aren't right now. I have great friends; my relationship with my family is the best it's ever been; I'm writing every day; and I'm also doing taiji every day), what's my excuse? It's one of the problems with being intelligent and more than conversant about psychological concepts–I'm aware where I'm fucking up and how. Usually. We all have our blind spots, and therapy has helped me figure out mine In general, though, I know what's wrong with me, and even know the ways to fix most of the problems; I just don't do them for whatever reasons. Even when I know the reasons, it's frustrating and embarrassing to me.
I feel aimless. There are too many things I want to do, but I just…don't do them. I have a lot of shame about the fact that I'm a lazy bastard, but it's not enough to motivate me to change. I've written before about how I'm my worst enemy, and I can talk myself out of anything by listing all the things that could possibly go wrong. I've been brainstorming podcasts, streaming, live-tweeting, and YouTube ideas, and all of them sound good to me, but have I done them? No, I haven't. I know what I have to do. After all my planning, I have to just pick one and do it. The way I got myself to move to California and get my MA in Writing & Consciousness was by agonizing over it for several months, and then just doing it. It's how I make all my big decisions, actually. My BFF reminded me once about how it looked to her when I got my cats. She said, "I said to _____ (her husband), "Minna just got cats! It's so sudden!"." In thinking about it, though, she realized I'd been talking about it for years before actually doing.
It's weird how my brain works. I'll agonize and obsess over something for days/weeks/months/years. It's all I'll be thinking about until I suddenly get sick of it and then switch into action woman. I wish I could skip the first part and go straight to the latter, but it's not the way I work. I used to get upset about how I worked, but I've just accepted it because getting upset about it doesn't help and it doesn't push me to the second part any faster. It's the same with my work ethics as it were. I always work to the end of a deadline, and I have ever since high school and college. I remember one class I had in college, Psychology Through Biography, in which we were graded on one thing–a paper at the end of the semester. As you can probably tell by the name of the class, the paper was about analyzing a famous person's psyche based on what we read about them. I chose Tina Turner for several reasons, and I would tell myself throughout the semester that I really should start on the paper. I ended up starting the research about a month before the end of the semester, and I wrote the paper in three days or so. Funny story: I was madly working on the paper one day for hours on end in the computer lab. Suddenly, the power went out, and the computer turned off. I hadn't saved in an hour or two (before the days of autosave), and I was devastated to lose so much work. I found out later that there were high school kids visiting the college, and one of them turned the power off as a joke. Had I gotten my hands on that kid, I would not have been responsible. I wrote 75 pages, and I got an A on it. Which did not help my work ethics any.
Another amusing story, also psychology related. I took Neuropsych, and it wasn't my favorite class. I liked the prof, though, and she really liked me. I had a classmate who wanted to study with me before an exam. I don't do group studying, but she wouldn't stop pestering me about it. I finally reluctantly agreed to meet with her the night before the exam. For weeks leading up to the exam, whenever she saw me on campus, she would throw out a question at me related to the exam. 'd shrug and say I didn't know. When we finally got together to study, I did the same thing. SHe asked me questions, and I said I didn't know because I hadn't started studying yet. She gave up in exasperation after about fifteen minutes, and I went back to my dorm. A few hours later, I was ready to study, and I crammed in everything I could in about six hours of studying.
I didn't feel great as I took the exam, but it was essay questions, so I felt better than I would have if it were multiple choice. Give me a chance to explain what I mean rather than think of a reason why every answer could possibly be correct. I thought I probably got a B on the exam, which would have been fair. When the professor gave us back our exams, she said she had never given a 100% in all her years of teaching, but she did for this exam. I wasn't expecting it to be me because I really fudged one question. You probably won't be surprised, dear reader, to find out it was me. I mean, why would I regale you with this tale otherwise, right? The funny part of the story is that my classmate, the one who wanted to study with me, came over and told me she got a B (or C, don't remember which) on the exam, and she started speculating who got the 100%. She named a few people, and I just shrugged my shoulders and said I didn't know. It was funny because she clearly thought that I obviously wasn't the one who got the 100%. Which, valid, given my reaction to her quizzing me up until the night before the exam, but still funny.
The problem is, both of these incidents cemented for me that it's fine to do things at the last minute. More than fine, in fact, but preferable. The problem is, I still agonize about whatever the chore is even while I'm not doing it. I've actually gotten better at doing things in a more timely fashion if they're actual jobs, but less so when it comes to implementing something new. As I said, I've pretty much accepted this about me, but I still don't like it. It would be much better for my mental health if I could do less agonizing if the end result is going to be the same, anyway.
*Sometimes, depression is a valid way to respond to a situation. Not always and not even often, but sometimes it's perfectly understandable.


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September 2, 2013 by fifi + hop
It's officially been a year since we moved to Larchmont. A lot can happen in a year, how true that is. We came here knowing 1 family, and not much about the town except that it had come into our search at the 11th hour, based on a "vibe" I got. Good schools were a mandatory part of our search, of course, but beyond that we really hadn't researched anything about the town. When we drove by the Sound and then into the quaint neighborhoods both by the water and up into "Larchmont Woods", I started to foresee a possible new life forming. I hadn't felt that way in the other towns we were looking at – I was trying, but they just didn't feel right to me. It really was an inner feeling I had when I told my broker "This is it, I don't want to look anywhere else" – in July, when not much was on the rental market anymore. After a mad, sweaty and anxious search, we finally found our rental apartment.
Aaaahhh..out of the city a last – huge sigh of relief. My back-breaking city days with the kids were over, thank god I felt at the time. I had wondered if we had stayed in the city too long. Then the novelty of it all little by little started to brush away, and come the later fall and winter months I wondered what the hell we were doing. Life felt isolating in this still new town where I was trying to make connections – from my car. Not on foot, but inside a vehicle with tinted windows. That was a big adjustment for me. The isolating time I went through here was definitely a difficult one. But one I eventually overcame and have come to love – honestly, I can't imagine walking for miles with the kids anymore. I love having my car, and how much easier it makes my life.
Then, in the dead of winter months, when I get super depressed anyways, I wondered, Is Larchmont the right town for us? My biggest issue, one that I always wondered if it would snag me in the end, was the land factor. Or the lack of land factor. For a while I just couldn't get passed it. Why do all the houses have to be so close to one another, why can't some of them have some land? (Which of course some do, but really, there's not much land here). Why did we move out of the city to a place where we can get no land? It gnawed away at me for a long time, carrying me through the winter, making me wonder if Larchmont wasn't going to work out for us.
I felt this way into Spring, and then, I don't know if it was the warmer months cheering me up or what, but being out and about at the parks and the beach, and seeing so many people I hadn't before, and finally feeling like I was connecting, I came to recognize what a very strong sense of community Larchmont has, kinda like Brooklyn Heights – sort of. Wherever we went, it seemed, my girls knew people and ran into friends from school and camp. This summer we all had a blast, particularly them. Can't lie – me too – hence the no posts for a while. But I had fun, and in this strange way felt very entitled to all the playing, because I had felt so cheated of a real summer for so many years.
Yes, the no land thing bothers me. But what this town has is a close-knit community with phenomenal resources for my kids, and plenty of congregational points for them to run around and be social at the same time. I grew up with land, which I'm nostalgic for, but I did not grow up with instant play dates around me. I love that my girls have a more natural way of running into other people than I did. And I can always get my land after they've gone through school – when I can tell you I will not be paying these bloody taxes anymore! (Assuming we find a house -not an easy feat in this town – our next step in our "move to the burbs"…)
Happy 1st Year Anniversary to Brooklyn to the Burbs!!
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Creative Partnerships: Arts Mentoring and Youth Development
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In both the fields of arts learning and mentoring, there has been extensive work done to independently demonstrate the benefits of each of these practices on youth development. In many cases, the outcomes identified over lap. To date, I have found no research studies that draw a distinct connection between the two. Through the interpretive constructivist and critical inquiry paradigms, I will be exploring arts mentoring. I will demonstrate why it is that when arts and mentoring are combined in the out of school time (OST) arena, these practices create ideal opportunities for youth to develop key 21st century skills (figure 1). I will be focusing my research on urban youth, ages 12-18, from culturally diverse and low-income families. After conducting qualitative research through triangulation of literature review, secondary data analysis, and case study involving participant observation and interview, I synthesized findings and make the case for further research in arts mentoring.


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|We are using modern parallel computers to further our understanding of the physics of plasmas. Plasma physics is a relatively new science. Its physics is rich and full of many unexpected phenomena. Investigating and understanding these phenomena often leads to their practical application. For example, the possibility of spontaneous current generation in fusion plasmas fueled at their center could have a large impact on the practicality of fusion devices. We have found this physical phenomenon in computer modeling, and experimental evidence for it exists. Similar processes go on in space and throughout the universe. l and practical importance.
|PIC Simulation of Shear Alfven Waves by Frank Tsung
|Using a 2+1/2D PIC (Particle-in-Cell)
code with an external antenna, we have been able to successfully launch
an shear Alfven wave on the Appleseed cluster. Although this research is
at an early stage, we believe that Appleseed cluster will provide sufficient
resource to fully study this problem.
These waves are important in both space plasmas and laboratory plasmas, like those studied in the LAPD (LArge Plasma Device) experiment here at UCLA.(below left).
(LAPD image courtesy of Prof. W. Gekelman)
|V.K Decyk, "Simulation of Microscopic Processes in Plasma", Proc. 1987 International Conference on Plasma Physics, Kiev, USSR, April, 1987, ed. A. G. Sitenko [World Scientific, Singapore, 1987], vol II, p. 1075
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Sanctuary at 8:00, 9:30 and 11 a.m.
*Worship times may change on holiday weekends, please be sure to check our events calendar for updated schedule if you are planning to visit around New Year's, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, or Christmas.
Chapel at 6:00 p.m.
Hispanic at 11:00 a.m.
Chinese at 10:30 a.m.
Help direct traffic on Sunday mornings with a friendly smile.
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"Carry a small pocket sized journal with you to act as a portable grimoire".
Do you have a "normal size" version of it? A lot of people don't. Now-a-days a lot of people keep all this information in their online bookmarks or in separate books in their bookshelves.
So, what about making yourself a grimoire or book of shadows and starting to use it, actively?
Actively and intentionally write a spell for every day, and see if it works, document the results, and make changes, and try to create spells that actually work for you. Note the date and weather and moon phase and astrological information, and any other circumstance that might have magical impact to your spell.
Try to create magical objects like talismans and amulets.
Write down your divinations, and get regular with it.
Experiment with summoning - or communicating - with magical, mystical, mythical beings and entities and record your experiments.
Now, carrying a notebook about your magical observations, ideas and spells you happen to encounter, is not a bad idea, but get a regular size BOS as well, and USE IT.
Based on The Witch of Lupine Hollow: 30 Ways to Live a More Magickal Life Everyday


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Responsible for the effective management and resolution of discrepancies in relation to payments and receipts with clients,. Role involves:
Acting as the first point of contact for Premier clients. Use extensive knowledge of derivatives and the function as a whole to ensure exceptional client service is provided to the firm's high value, or sensitive clients.
Fostering excellent working relationship with internal counterparts (i.e. Desk, Sales team, Trade Support, Confirmations, Legal, Finance). Ability to negotiate effectively with all internal parties to ensure the team receives the necessary support to achieve it's goals.
Uphold the controls and procedures for the team, and highlight any control gaps identified to management to ensure that these are reviewed and addressed as necessary.
Prepare Local and Global MIS for distribution to management.
Post Settlements experience - MANDATORY.
Strong understanding of the end-to-end processes in the Confirmations and Settlements.
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4 - 6 years of relevant experience.
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Young Adult and Middle School students, Welcome! Teachers of these wonderful young people, Welcome! And readers of all ages who enjoy books especially written for middle school and high school students, you are welcome, too. These reviews were originally intended for Maxson Middle School students, but they are open to the world of book lovers. "The world was hers for the reading." Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn "
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Al Capone does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko is on the 8th grade list. I read this book back in November, but never got around to discussing it in my blog. It was both funny and serious at the same time. The setting is during the 1930's, when Al Capone is a prisoner at Alcatraz. Well, curiously enough, the guards and their families really lived on the island of Alcatraz at that time, and this story is about a young man, and how he copes with a sister who has major problems (autisim?) and how he makes friends at his new school. It's a good read, with the family problems, gangsters, and Alcatraz looming in the background.
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hey, i signed up for battle of the books and was wondering when the 8th grade compition will be held.
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SEO has been there for around more than 10 years. During that particular time, it has proved its value as a crucial new marketing discipline, an enormous wealth of training and resources have become available. Not only this, several hundreds of practitioners have put their step forward into running it as a viable profession. In order to be sure, there is lot for learning as tools and techniques rapidly change their way and evolve in a fast manner. For ensuring success, you need to implement details and manage it carefully. This is because it directly relates to basic principles of traditional marketing. By keeping this in mind, it will eventually help you integrating SEO as a core component of your overall marketing strategy and then link it in natural manner with other marketing techniques.
Any marketer can very well tell you that their primary job is achieving three very simple goals while generating new business for company :-
The first is communicating a unique selling proposition to potential customers.
Secondly is establishing credibility for the product, service and brand.
The third is to motivate people for taking a desired action.
All kinds of successful marketing techniques are created around either one or more of such goals. Moreover, most of the marketing disciplines like advertising, PR etc do keep them actively within their sights at all times.
Search marketing must be not being different. But, as it is a relatively new discipline, there is dizzying amount of advice through circulating about it. It isn't always practiced by people having a marketing background. SEO may sometimes lose sight of such goals. Some of the important SEO techniques for keeping the big picture in sight are:-
First is content. Search engines are always on the lookout of content that can do answer their very search query. For performing the job well, a search spider needs to quickly decipher what all your website is about and SEO aids them through highlighting keywords which best describe each page as well as its major topics. For capturing traffic from as broad as reach as possible, SEO encourages thus creates a lot of content, every page is optimized for 2-3 words that potential customers may be on the lookout. More content refers to more keywords being found.
The second is credibility. It is crucial to respect other's voices while selling the products and services. PR professionals which help your brand for getting written about and reviewed by media, you need to understand all. You might have customer testimonials on your website for addition of their credibility in terms of their own words.
The third is call to action. SEO requires your website visitors for taking action. In terms of SEO practitioner, an action needs to take on your website as it measurable and also allows you for tracking and measuring the success of your SEO techniques. A very effective SEO engagement makes sure that each page on your website involves a suggested action for visitors to take and all those actions must be clearly visible and easy to execute.


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If you haven't had Banoffi Pie you are missing out!
This pie was all the rage in Ireland and England a few years ago (around the same time as the Crème Brûlée craze and preceding the Tiramisu and Cupcake trend). It was on every dessert menu in the country, similar to how french pastries have fallen back into vogue these days, especially the delicately scented macaron which comes in an array of colors that make rainbows look sad and dun! (I wrote about them HERE if you are curious, and HERE!).
I will agree wholeheartedly that the name of this cake is a bit corny, like the words "spork" (for fork and spoon), and skort (a word I find utterly ridiculous – combines shorts and skirt, oh, and have you heard of "jeggings"? – too idiotic to explain ) and even Brangelina! As a general rule the latest of these stuck-together words (called portmanteau if you are interested, although you probably already knew that!) are pretty silly. I need to go on a bit here: the word Traduken in the culinary world for example – nothing could be sillier. It is officially a chicken inserted into a duck which is then inserted into a turkey and cooked! It might be delicious and one day I might try making one, but only after I can get over the word itself. Some of these words are quite inventive and it is a fun word game to play, but the one that is near and dear to me is when my mother asked if I could make her a "pignet" ring? Really? "Yes", she said, "it is a signet ring for your pinky finger" We laughed so much about this and it became a real word to us! It is such a trendy thing to do nowadays. I think the word for portmanteau in the food world is "fusion" Okay, I'm done!
So at this point you can guess the ingredients of this pie…BANana and tOFFI (EE)! It is a marvellous combination of sweet stuff and I would love you to give it a try. The toffee can of course be purchased in a pinch but the most fun you can have and an excellent magic trick to show your children is to make it by boiling a can or two of sweetened condensed milk until it turns into toffee right before your eyes. (instructions are in the recipe below).
There are all sorts of ways you can make this your own. I would use whatever sweet pastry crust that works for you (mine is below and is as easy…well you know). I have had it with slivered almonds on top but I made it here with whole almonds, or you can omit the nuts altogether for that matter. Also there is an option to drizzle the bananas with a concentrated instant coffee (it's simply a mixture of instant coffee, water and sugar. It is called camp coffee, a throw-back from world war II when things were in short supply and us humans became ingenious at figuring out how our food could still feel "the same"). Well you could do that or sometimes I just add some vanilla extract to my whipping cream and that is delicious too (also small kids seem to like this subtle taste better). The last thing to say is that this whole dessert could be bought and assembled, from the pastry crust to whipped cream from a can, although the idea of cream from a can still repulses me so I would probably end up having to pull out my hand whisk! But if that is all it took to get something as decadent as this onto the table in a hurry I would be willing to do it.
A little of this goes a long way so just one pie can feed a crowd. It is a long weekend in these here United States so why not plan to make this one night to give the weekend a more festive air.
You will need:
for the pastry:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup ground almonds or walnuts
1/2 cup sugar
4 oz unsalted butter (1 stick, 8 tbs)
1 large egg
pinch of salt
Equipment: I used an 11″ fluted pie pan with a removable bottom. this is very handy when dealing with fussy toppings as you can remove the pie without any bother.
For the filling:
1 cup blanched whole almonds
2 cans sweetened condensed milk (14oz each) or a jar of ready-made toffee
5 to 6 ripe bananas (faintly spotty ones)
1 tbs Camp Coffee (mix 1 tbs instant coffee with 1 tsp fine sugar and 2 tbs water) – optional.
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
1 pastry pie crust (recipe below or ready-made)
How to make toffee magically:
This recipe can be used here or the cooked cans can be popped into the pantry (will keep for two months unopened) or the freezer (will keep for 6 months) to be whipped out anytime. There are all sorts of uses for this so boil up as many cans as you like!
Put at least two can of Sweetened Condensed Milk into a big pot and add water until it comes up to the top of the cans. Place on stove top on high and allow to boil. Turn the heat down until the water comes to a constant "tremble" and boil for 4 hours, making sure to keep the water topped up as it boils off. Remove from water, let cans cool before opening and using.
Method for crust:
1 – Mix the flour, ground nuts and sugar in a bowl with a whisk.
Mix dry ingredients for pastry crust
2 – Add the butter and mix it into the flour mixture using your fingertips. Add the egg and a pinch of salt and mix it together gently with a wooden spoon or your hands until it forms a ball.
Add butter, then egg
3 – Flatten into a thick disk and wrap it in cling film or some sort of plastic and place it in the fridge for about 20 or 30 minutes (you will be getting on with the rest of the recipe)
Flatten into a disc and refrigerate in plastic
Preheat the oven to 350*
4 – Run the whole almonds until water until they are wet. place them on a tea towel and pat dry. Place them in a bowl with the confectioners (icing) sugar and stir until the nuts are coated in sugar. Spread out on a baking sheet and place in the oven until they are crispy looking. This will take anywhere from 12 to 18 or so minutes. Turn the almonds every five minutes so they cook with an even crispy-ness. Remove from the oven and let them cool.
Turn the oven up to 450*
5 – Take the pastry crust from the fridge and using a rolling-pin on wax paper roll the pastry out into a large disk (an 11 or 12 inch circle) and line your tart pan, trimming off the excess edges. Prick holes in the bottom of the crust with a fork and then place some wax paper or tin foil over the sides and bottom. Weigh the pastry down with dry beans (or pastry weights if you have them) and bake in the oven for about 12 minutes. Remove the beans and the foil and place back into the oven for another 4 or 5 minutes. Remove and set aside until ready to fill.
6 – While the pastry crust is cooling slice the bananas, whip the cream,(whip with or without vanilla extract), make camp coffee (if using), open cans of toffee.
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Symbiotic relationships, where both parties rely on each other for their survival, are all the rage in nature. It is estimated that 90% of all plants depend on mycorrhizae (a type of symbiosis) to survive.
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Last year, we asked what your mom thought of your own JNC and received both fanfare and eye rolls. Maybe dear ol' mom isn't big on worn seats and 30-plus-year-old bushings. The smell of fuel in the interior might be a bit off-putting, too. So, we ask:
What JNC would your mom actually enjoy driving in?
The most entertaining comment by next Monday will receive a prize. Scroll down to see the winner of last week's QotW, "What's your greatest tale of JNC acquisition?"
For the past week, you've graced our comments section with some amazing finds, like the baja-prepped Honda N600 of Tim Mings; or the unfortunate luck of Dutch 1960, who at least keeps a light heart about the ones that get away. Tyler Roland struck gold early with his first car purchase of an S-Cargo! That's a hard experience to beat, but this time, the tale from Luke who actually got the "give me a call if you want to sell" note to work takes top comment. The fact that the owner got back to you, twice, and that your family is happy to have it in the garage is a great acquisition indeed!
My little '84 Mazda truck was in a wreck and I was looking for a new ride that would fit a growing family. One day I spotted a beige '84 Mazda GLC sedan in a mall parking lot. I peeked in the window and it only had a little over 68k on the odometer. I left a note on the window asking them to contact me if they wanted to sell the car. The lady that owned it did contact me and said she had been thinking about selling it because she was trying to move to Germany; if I remember correctly. Her plans changed and she needed to keep the car. A few months went by and she called me out of the blue and asked if I was still interested in the GLC. Of course I was. She sold me the car for $1,300. I have had it for over eight years now and it has been truly a great little car…some of you might catch that. Unfortunately, a few parking lot dings have been added in that time but so have a lot of modifications. My daughter really likes the car and laughs with excitement when I give it some gas. She named it Cheesey because of the color…it fits.
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Now as Brisbane faces a massive clean up effort, experts begin to speculate on what the flood crisis means for the Australian economy and interest rates specifically. Some say they'll go up and some down, as a result of this tragedy…so who is right?
In two separate articles in the Herald-Sun, economists made contradictory predictions about the fate of inflation and interest rates in the wake of the Queensland floods.
On the one hand, HSBC's Paul Bloxham has increased his inflation forecast, suggesting there will be renewed wages pressure as Queensland rebuilds.
In addition, new data has recently been released that indicates the prices of imported goods are not falling fast enough to counteract inflation, even despite the high Aussie dollar.
Annual inflation for 2010 was reported by the TD Securities-Melbourne Institute to be 3.8%, with underlying inflation at 3.2% in the year to December; surpassing the Reserve Bank's target range of 2 to 3%. The higher than expected figure was largely due to significant increases in the cost of fuel, fruit and vegetables, holiday travel and accommodation.
TD Securities analyst Annette Beacher said inflation risks from the Queensland floods were, "firmly tilted to the upside, where the immediate fallout is a likely spike in food price inflation."
Bloxham says food prices will continue to rise in the wake of the disaster with Queensland supplying almost a third of Australia's domestic fruit and vegetable produce.
"Food prices will rise due to the floods…against the backdrop of food markets which were already pretty tight," he observes.
"The more important issue is that, with the labour market already around full employment, additional expenditure on reconstruction and repair will put further upward pressure on wages and thus inflation."
Bloxham predicts that interest rates will be pushed up by 0.75% this year and 100 basis points by the first quarter of 2012 to 5.75%, as the RBA continues to counter inflationary pressures.
That's one side of this contentious debate. However opposing this argument is RBA director Donald McGauchie, who in a separate Herald-Sun article said the floods could have a "substantial" effect on our export income.
While JP Morgan chief economist Stephen Walters has suggested that a rate rise in the near future in the wake of the floods is unlikely.
Initially forecasting an increase from the RBA in February, he says that's now looking less likely; "I don't think the RBA board members are particularly inclined to kick Queensland when they're down with a rate hike."
"Would the US have raised interest rates during Hurricane Katrina? Probably not."
He said although a "spike" in food prices was on the cards due to the destruction of Queensland crops, the RBA would view this as temporary and that the coking coal industry, which produces 50% of global supplies, had "effectively shut down."
Bucking the trend of predicting ups and downs due to the flood crisis is TD Securities' Roland Randall, who claims it will have very little impact on interest rates at all in the big scheme of things.
"While the flooding is very serious and of course the personal tragic cost is very great, when you look at it in terms of its (economic) impact at the national level, it is actually quite small," he said.
Randall notes that Queensland's mining industry and agricultural sectors account for just 3% and less than 0.5% respectively, of Australia's GDP. He adds that the RBA cannot adjust interest rates according to the economy of just one region, but must set monetary policy that is "appropriate for the entire country."
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Immersive walking tour app documents the Spitalfields 'ghetto'
Created in partnership with the Jewish Museum London, Zangwill's Spitalfields portrays the difficulties of working class Jewish life
Nineteenth-century Jewish London is brought to life by an immersive historical app documenting the Spitalfields 'ghetto'.
The walking tour of East London takes users to soup kitchens, schools, and family homes, exploring daily life for poor migrants in the ghetto. It also visits the "festering sewer of lawlessness and vice" around Brick Lane, where gang violence and prostitution reigned.
The app, Zangwill's Spitalfields, was produced by Historian at Queen Mary University of London, Dr. Nadia Valman in partnership with the Jewish Museum London. It uses photographs and first-hand accounts of life in Jewish East London, as well as being heavily influenced by Israel Zangwill's novel 'Children of the Ghetto'.
Zangwill hoped to make the vibrant culture of London's migrant Jews understood by and palatable to outsiders, but 'Children of the Ghetto' nonetheless portrays a conflicted and divided community, at a tumultuous time for European Jews.
App producer and Historian Dr. Nadia Valman highlights that, having fled pogroms and legal restrictions in Eastern Europe during the late 1800s, many Jews were suspicious of outsiders, and lived within self-imposed ghetto gates, disapproving of those who led a freer existence.
Importantly, Valman underlined that while the period covered by the book is "a fascinating chapter in the area's history", "Zangwill's tale of immigrants and their English-born children struggling with new opportunities and new dangers is a story for our time too."
Zangwill's Spitalfields is available on iTunes by clicking here and on Android by clicking here


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Knapp House 2018
Traffic is heavy - ETA now 6:30 to 7:30
Day 5
Even on the last day there's time for some activities ...... Year 6 have left and are on their way home to Chiswick. We are expecting them between 6 and 7 pm.
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A busy day in Devon..... check out that sky!
Miss Essex appears to have had a few goes on the ringo this evening.....
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The Great Ice Cream Debate/
We've made Stewart's Ice Cream converts of every single house guest that we've hosted in Schroon Lake. They all agree that it's addictively good deliciousness is fantastic for the taste buds, but a killer on the waist line.
In fact we almost had to have an intervention with one guest who went there every day (yes Steve Kushner, we are talking about you!). But the one thing we cannot agree on is what's the best flavor. We are happy to report that Stewart's have answered the question for us (The most popular flavor also happens to be my favorite!)
Play the video below to find out where your favorite flavor ranks. What's your favorite? Have you ever had to have a "Stewart's Intervention? Got another favorite area ice cream store?. Share with us in comments.


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Cobra Grenade Thrower
An integral part of the Cobra Viper fire-team, the Frag-Viper can toss high-explosive fragmentation grenades with all the range and accuracy of an M-79 or M-203 RPGL (Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher), but without the noise from the muzzle blast.
The secret lies in the manual hurling basket, based on the cesta used in the Basque sport of Jai Alai. The Frag-Viper cesta is equipped with automatic feed and variable time-fuser with a cable link to the helmet's automatic range-finder.
"A GI Joe armed with a M-203 40mm grenade launcher can manage a firing rate of five rounds-per-minute and as soon as he pops the first round, everybody and his uncle knows where he is. A Frag-Viper, with a fifty round magazine and automatic feeder, can deliver fifteen rounds per minute and you'll never have any idea where they're coming from!"
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Chess to Bring Out the Best From Beginner to Grandmaster
Majestic Chess brings you the best classic chess experience plus the exclusive Chess Adventure for an innovative twist on your favorite board game! A variety of chess challenges make the game of chess completely accessible and provide hours of fun for every player.
Choose Your Challenge
Pick your play mode from player vs computer, computer vs computer learning mode, or the unique Chess Adventure.
World-Class Chess Engine
Play the most powerful and entertaining personal computer chess game from the leading experts in computer chess.
Chess Set Variety
2D and 3D sets with true perspectives and stunning graphics.
24 Computer Opponents
Play against competitors with adjustable settings to fit any planning style.
Unparalleled Teaching Tools
Learn chess with step-by-step tutorials and innovative in-game teaching advice that explains moves, strategies and tactics in detail.
The King of all Chess Games...
Immerse yourself in a world of endless chess adventures. Challenge yourself for hours with multiple play modes. Compete against a variety of opponents to improve your game. Choose your competition, playing style, and favorite chess set - and start the clock! Or teach yourself to play with the unique and exciting Chess Adventure.
Play against any of 24 computer opponents to suite any skill level or style from beginning to Grandmaster.
Improve your chess skills with the help of innovative in-game teaching advice.
Earn your army of chess pieces in story-driven chess challenges. As you succeed, the fog of war will lift to reveal more world to explore!
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Because Mill Hill U3A membership has grown faster than our ability to provide for members' interests, for the time being new applications will only be accepted from persons living in NW7. Please attach a copy of a utility bill or bank statement in your name as proof that you live at an NW7 postcode. Applicants from any otherpostcode will be placed on a waiting list and informed when we are able to accept them.
Membership of Mill Hill U3A runs from 1st April to 31st March the following year. Subs until 31st March 2019 are £1.50 per month or part of a month, and from 1st April 2019 £15.00 per year or part of a year. Please print and complete the application form (see link below on the left), and send it to the address on the form. Don't forget to include a Stamped Addressed Envelope to enable us to post the membership card to you.
If you cannot print the membership application form, use the contact form below to ask us to contact you.
Benefits include:
- Attendance at our monthly meetings
- Join some of the many interest groups on offer
- A regular newsletter
- The national magazine Third Age Matters sent to members 5 times a year
- The educational journal Sources sent 3 times a year
- Social events (when arranged)
The annual subscription covers the cost of room hire for our monthly meetings and the general running of Mill Hill U3A. The only additional charge is likely to be any expenses incurred by the specific interest groups you decide to join.
Everyone involved with running Mill Hill U3A is a volunteer, giving freely of their time and skills for the enjoyment of all its members.
We are always looking for new members who can help to run our very successful U3A: if you have some administrative experience and are good with people, why not come and help us to make our U3A even better?
Notes on completing the application form
This form may be used for either new applications or renewal of current membership. If you can, please print the form on both sides of the paper, because if it is printed on two pages we have to copy page 2 onto the back of page 1.
Please complete all relevant sections, especially the areas highlighted in yellow. If you leave any sections blank we will only have to send the form back to you for completion. Last year about 25% of membership forms were received with one or more incomplete sections.
If you claim a reduction from the full membership fee, please make certain that you enclose a photocopy of proof of your current entitlement to the reduction. Last year about 15% of those claiming a reduction had to wait for membership until they could be persuaded to send us proof of entitlement.
Please do answer the Gift Aid question, even if the answer is NO! If you pay Income Tax on a sum equal to at least the subscription amount, and you answer YES, we can reclaim the tax on that amount to help keep our subscription rates down and it costs you absolutely nothing! In fact, if you are a higher rate taxpayer, it benefits you as well because you can claim back the higher rate tax. Last year more than 5% of members failed to answer the Gift Aid question at all.
If you wish your new Membership Card to be posted to you please enclose a Stamped Addressed Envelope. If you do not, your new card will be retained for you to collect at the next Monthly Speaker's Meeting that you attend. Last year about 10% of members failed to send an SAE.
If you find that you are unable to print the two pages of this form the right way up on both sides of a single sheet of paper, PLEASE DO NOT print the second page on a second sheet of paper. (Especially do not attempt to stick the two sheets of paper together with dollops of bluetack, or Sellotape them together all the way round, or staple them together). Just send a completed first page.
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Download Tarralyn Ramsey - Unconditional Love mp3
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Click on play button to listen high quality(320 Kbps) mp3 of "Tarralyn Ramsey - Unconditional Love". This audio song duration is 3:54 minutes. This song is sing by Tarralyn Ramsey. You can download Tarralyn Ramsey - Unconditional Love high quality audio by clicking on "Download Mp3" button.


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LED Lights for Boats
LED is the next generation of lighting. With its lower power consumption, no heat radiation and better durability comparing to traditional halogen lights, the LED lights are an ideal solution on the board. Combining Lyric Shin group's 30 years experience in electronics products designing and manufacturing and its own knowledge in marine products and markets, YIS Marine introduced its first LED lights series – WaveLED with unique Wave shape design. More marine LED products to be released in the coming years.
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Calgary MG Car Show at Radium June 17th
Each year in June the Calgary MG Car Club calls on all British Car and Bike enthusiasts to join us for BritsBest, our annual celebration of all things automotive and British.
This year's BritsBest Classics celebrates the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the MGC and will have a "picnic" theme. The show field will be set up in small groups of "picnickers", so come with your picnic and settle down to visit with friends old and new. A short fun drive/rally is being planned to fill the time between the show and Saturday evening activities. Friday night will see a return to the Calgary MG Car Club hosted "ice breaker" with light snacks and refreshments offered, and Saturday night offers a rotisserie beef and chicken meal at Crystal Springs Motel, and more time to visit with friends.
Advance Registration will close on May 31st for catering and regalia ordering. Registrations received after that date will still be accepted, but will exclude entrants from catered events and regalia give aways.


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Acer A500
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Android 3.1
Screen:10.1" 1280x800
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USB / WI-FI / Bluetooth / GPS: +/+/+/+
Ramzmery:260x177x13 mm
Opening hours of standby time:6:00 hours:minute
Opening hours of talk time:10 hours
Weight 765 gram
Knight's Tour: Chess Puzzle
The main hero of the game Knight's Tour: Chess Puzzle is a chess figure "Horse", the one that goes by the letter G. Character sets of stories, parables, and other things. Nevertheless, it is extremely useful and indispensable unit in the black-and-white board. This project is necessary to use the talents of cloven-hoofed collect all the coins scattered on the cell locations. Stone is not divided on many movements, but the green has a threshold strength, the same ones grow thorns consuming money and life.
In general, it is not so difficult, but soon will prevent opponents and attacking the character and only then will be very good to work hard to get out of the whole match while completing all the objectives.
100 levels plus 40 additional lead tone in every brain and prepare it for a full-fledged battle for the game of chess.
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Case Studies
Joanne - One Space, Your Place
01 August 2017
Joanne, lives in Southwick, Sunderland. Has a husband, and 4 children: Two of her daughters have disabilities, they are aged 15yr and 17yr old. Joanne started to access the therapy sessions in January 2017. She regularly visits one of our Grace House therapists. Joanne said the therapist make her feel extremely comfortable and relaxed, and that she had a lovely personality.read more


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Being The Only Reader Within Your 'Non-Reading' Friend Group/
More than once I have finished an amazing book that has caused so many emotions and the only thing I want to do is go running to someone - anyone - and talk to them about it. Seems just about normal; us readers like to do this when a book marks us but, believe it or not, it isn't normal to everybody. Weird, right? I mean I certainly can go on and on about said book, rambling about how certain characters got on my nerves, while other ones were so kick-ass or how I did not see that insane plot twist coming or how what that character did brought me to tears, but it's just not the same when no one knows what you're talking about. Sure, gossiping about the new couple in the class is entertaining sometimes, but theorising about which ship is going to be end-game by the end of the series is much more fun. I love my friends and all, but things go down when they start saying things like "It's just a book, get over it" or ask questions such as "why do you care so much about these characters? They aren't real." Oh no, you did not just go there... These are my babies, how dare you talk about them like that Urghh, as if! (Sorry, I just watched Clueless again). Now, I know you might be thinking why don't I just tell them to read the book and then everything's good. I actually have and I honestly thought that would work, you know. I mean, they discover a whole new world thanks to me and I become the best friend ever and on top of that, I finally get to share all my feelings and theories. Everyone wins! But no. They would put every single excuse to not read a freaking book. Oh well, you know what they say: "Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry." - Tessa Gray, Clockwork Angel.
A little side note: don't take this rant too seriously. It definitely does happen sometimes but I don't get half as angry as it may seem. Actually, I am kind of grateful for the lack of readers in my group because thanks to them, I have discovered book blogging and this amazing magazine for which I write to you now! I guess things do happen for a reason. Please feel free to leave a comment down below or send me a message via Instagram or Twitter.


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Nope, am not offering anything for sale ! Just giving you a gist of how a lot of my Diwali holidays were spent. Other than doing what I had to do, I got time to catch up on lots of movies (including a rewatch of Chak De India and many other movies) and a TV show !
First of all I will speak of the TV show which I watched all 3 seasons of ! Yup, all pretty much continuously.
Entourage, HBO's TV series. HBO does come with some beauties. As the name says the series is all about the entourage of a star or celebrity ! in this case there is Vincent Chase(Adrian Grenier) a hot newly discovered star with his entourage made up of E or Eric (Kevin Connoly) who's also his manager, Johhny Drama (Kevin Dillion) who's also his half brother, Turtle (Jerry Ferrara), the very verbose Ari Gould (Jeremy Piven) and Shaun (Debi Mazar) who handles his PR. All in all The Entourage is made of an interesting set of individuals who keep you grinning from ear to ear. Mark Wahlberg is the Executive producer of this series.
The series takes you into the inside working of the business in Hollywood, the star trappings, the deals, the movers and shakers. You have a host of actual stars playing themselves throughout the series and thats what makes this series interesting and a step above other 'inside-story' kind of series or movies.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this TV series because-Its cool, its got nice background scores, its funny and its got great performances. My favorite characters are E, Drama and Ari ! Watch this series and you will know why !
This movie has been much talked about in India prior to its release. Primarily due to the fact that this movie had the king- Shahrukh Khan and the hot debutante Deepika, releasing on the same day as the Sony promoted Saawariya, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and also starring two debutantes.
I haven't watched Saawariya and nor do I plan to !
I watched Om Shanti Om along with a houseful multiplex theater and I wasn't disappointed at all. I absolutely enjoyed the movie. yes, it could have been a tad shorter and the screenplay swifter in the 2nd half, but then I had a great time.
The story begins in the 70s with Om Prakash Makhija (Sharukh Khan) a junior artiste who is in love with the star Shantipriya (Deepika Padukone) and who dreams of becoming a star. He has his loyal friend Pappu (Shreyas Talpade) who is content being a junior artiste. there is the famous producer Mukesh mehra (Arjun Rampal) A chance encounter allows Om to begin a friendship with Shantipriya. Do things change ? Does Shantipriya know of Om's desire. Well, this story does not have a happy ending. The first half is hilarious and you really are amused by the whole 70s settings and the entertaining cliches (including a young Sooraj Bharjatiya, wearing a 'friend' cap,copying lines etc).
The 2nd half of the movie is set in the modern day and you have Om Kapoor (Shahrukh Khan), a starchild and a star and yes, you guessed right, a reincarnation of the old Om Prakash Makhija who now has to take revenge (just Like Karma, the famous reincarnation drama in hindi cinema). In fact, the movie begins with a tribute to Karma. There are multiple references to movies of the 70s as well. The modern day sequences are again entertaining and the Filmfare Awards sequence is absolutely hilarious with real life stars acting in it. Shahrukh Khan has the courage to laugh at himself with display of his repetitive roles and cinema (a thing of the past I surely believe). The Akshay Kumar sequence is hilarious to the core and he is absolutely entertaining, the short while that he is on screen. The tale of reincarnation and revenge has a twist too, although not entirely unpredictable ! Shahrukh Khan is absolutely brilliant and all his mannerisms only add to the role he plays ! There is the now famous song with about 30 stars in it and that song is a treat to watch not only for the stars but for the choreography which is so well done ! All the main characters put in good performances. Deepika is so unbelievably good lookinga and does extremely well !
Farah Khan does a good job of story and direction after Main Hoon Na and sticks to the pattern of establishing a base peppered with comedy in the first half with the serious action and climax in the 2nd half. Some intelligent and awesome product placement really spruces up the presentation of this movie ! All those marketers and media buyers can surely learn a thing or two !
Basically paisa vasool ! After Chak De India, Shahrukh is among my favorite Indian film stars. This movie does one thing and does it well-Entertains ! A must watch for anyone who watches Hindi movies. Yes, if it was a tad shorter, the movie would have been a few notches higher.


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The Adventure Contest Island is the first season in the "The Adventure Contest" series.
Summary Edit
20 contestants compete in a challenging contest to win one million gold coins, hosted by Gingerbread Pen, and co-hosted by Chef Gingerbread. Who will survive the challenges and go home with the one million gold coin prize?
Contestants Edit
There are two teams which consist of 10 contestants each; The Two-Headed Ducks, and the Snowmen.
Two-Headed Ducks Edit
Snowmen Edit
NOTE: None of the characters are related to eachother in this series.
Episodes Edit
Elimination Table Edit
- 20th Place - Cinamon Bun - Voted Off - Reason: His dumbness caused his team to lose.