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4-Color Offset Postcard Printing
Product Options
- Premium Thick Paper
- Lots of Sizes
- Design Online Available
- Downloadable Templates
- Mailing Services Available
- Description
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ASAP Reprographics is your online printing source for high-quality, low-priced custom postcards. Postcards are offset printed in full color on 1 or 2 sides in 13 size options, with 4 paper stocks and 3 coating options to choose from. Finish options include square or rounded corners.
Design online, download our free templates or let us design your postcard for you!.
For postcards printed with our direct mailing service please go to Postcards with Mailing.
- Standard Sizes
- Any Trim Size
Standard Sizes
Our standard sizes, listed below, are the most popular in the industry. Any sizes in blue are EDDM eligible. To learn more about EDDM, see the EDDM page under the "Services" tab.
- 2.75" x 8.5"
- 3.5" x 5.5"
- 4" x 6"
- 4" x 9"
- 4.25" x 5.5"
- 4.25" x 6"
- 5" x 7"
- 5.5" x 8.5"
- 6" x 9"
- 6" x 11"
- 8.5" x 11" (EDDM Eligible)
- 6.5" x 9" (EDDM Eligible)
- 6.5" x 12" (EDDM Eligible)
- 14pt Uncoated Cover
- 14pt Gloss Cover
- 16pt Dull Cover
- Recycled 100# Dull Cover w/Matte Finish
14pt Uncoated Cover
You may be familiar with this type of stock from thick index cards, though the finish is much higher quality.
This is a very versatile stock. The uncoated finish is good when you don't want a slick and shiny look, while the firm 14 Pt. stock folds precisely.
16 Pt Dull Cover
You may be familiar with this type of stock from heavy bookmarks, business cards or other products printed on a semi-rigid card stock.
This is our thickest stock and comes with optional gloss UV or you can special order spot UV coating on 1 or 2 sides. Because of its thickness, it is not ideal for folding unless scored first.
Note: C1S stock tends to dry slower than C2S. If you are placing a rush job, we recommend ordering C2S stock.
Recycled 100# Dull Cover
Our Green Paper
In an effort to expand our green initiative, we came up with the Recycled Dull stocks. Similar to the 16 pt. Dull Cover, the Recycled 100 lb. Dull Cover (thick cover stock) is on of our two recycled stocks for our environmentally friendly customers! (The only difference is in the thickness.) This thick and stiff stock and comes with a smooth matte finish on both sides.
- 4/4 (Full Color Both Sides)
- 4/1 (Full Color Front / B&W Back)
- 4/0 (Full Color Front Side Only)
Full color on both sides of the sheet. This option can reproduce the range of colors you see in a typical photograph out of the standard 4 printing colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Typical examples of this are magazine covers and high-end catalogs.
- UV 1 Side
- UV 2 Sides
- Spot UV
- Explanation of Turnaround Time
- 3-4 Days
- 5-6 Days
Explanation of Turnaround Time
See a quick chart showing turnaround times
Turnaround times begin when the proof is approved. Turnarount time starts next day for proofs approved after 9:00 a.m. (PST). All times are based on standard business days Monday through Friday excluding federal holidays. Please note that turnaround time does not include shipping or mailing time. You may select from available production turnaround times and your preferred shipping time as you place your order. Order cutoff time is 8:30 a.m. (PST).
Our products are the same great quality for every turnaround time we offer.
- Rounded Corners
Rounded Corners
Rounded corners use extra finishing to convert regular square corners into rounded corners. Rounded corners represent 1/4 of a circle. We offer them in 2 sizes. Sizes are described by the radius of the full circle.
If you prefer rounded corners on only 1, 2, or 3 corners, please submit a custom estimate.
- Quantity
- When to choose Offset
- When to choose Digital
- Custom Orders
The quantity available is dependent on the order specifications you choose. To see available quantities, complete all order specifications in the pricing calculator and click on the "Quantity" dropdown menu.
Due to our printing process, we print in specific quantity increments. If you would like an amount not listed in the pricing calculator, you have two options.
- Request a custom estimate for the specific quantity you need
- Order a larger quantity and ask us to ship only what you need
Ordering one of our specified quantities is generally more affordable than a custom estimate. Let us know how many units you would like shipped and we will recycle the excess for you. Simply choose the amount of items you would like recycled under the "shipping" section after placing your order.
For example, if you would like 700 units, you can order 1000 units and let us know you only want 700 shipped. We will responsibly dispose of the extras.
We typically print more than the quantity ordered. Because printing is a manufacturing process, the total finished quantity may vary. We usually ship a few more than you order, but sometimes quantities can vary +/- 5%. Standard industry procedure is to consider this range shipment in full.
When to choose Offset
4-Color Offset Printing is ideal for lower prices on large quantity orders or any time you would like coating on your products.
Almost always, people choose this option when ordering large quantities.
- Get Templates
- Create Your Own Templates
- File Preparation
- File Orientation
- Bleed and Safe Area
- Proofs and File Check
Please Select Template Below:
PDF stands for Portable Document Format. This template can be imported into: InDesign, Quark Express, Illustrator, Corel Draw, and many other content creation programs.
JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group and is a basic raster file format. This template is recommended for Photoshop.
EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript. This template is recommended for advanced Illustrator users only.
For detailed information about advanced file setup, please click here Click Here
- Design Online
- Assisted Design
- Custom Design
- Basic Logo Samples
- Corporate Logo Samples
- How to Use Custom Design Video
- How to Use Design Online Video
Design Online
You can create a personalized design in just a few minutes. Once you click the "Start Your Design" button, you're taken to a huge library of design templates. You can search by specific category or select "generic" for personal use. Making changes to the text, font size and uploading a picture or logo on your chosen template is as easy as using a basic computer program. After you're done making changes, you are able to instantly view an online proof and order it for print.
There are professional design templates for almost any personal and business need.Start Your Design
Assisted Design
If you like one of the Design Online templates but would prefer not to handle the designing yourself, this option is ideal. Simply let us know which template you like and supply the information you would like to appear on your design. We will handle the rest!
Keep in mind that the images on the template will remain the same. Only text can be edited and basic logos added.
There are professional design templates for almost any personal and business need.
Check out all your Design Online template options.Click Here
Custom Design
We create fully custom designs that help represent your company, brand or product in a professional way. Custom Design includes consulting to come up with a concept and design revisions, so you're truly part of the process. You can also add either a basic or corporate custom designed logo to your design.
There are 3 design packages to meet your needs:
1. Full Custom Design:
With this option you get complete, professional custom design for the product of your choosing. This includes consulting to discuss the concept, images, text, and revisions.
2. Full Custom Design plus a Basic Logo
With this option you get the complete design just like Custom Design Option 1 plus a basic logo. Basic logo design consists of a single font with a simple icon. See the examples under the "Logo Samples" tab.
3. Full Custom Design plus a Corporate Logo
With this option you get the complete design just like Custom Design Option 1 plus a corporate logo. Your corporate logo design has no limit to font styles so long as they are in our library. You also get a fully designed graphic to accompany your text. See the examples under the "Logo Samples" tab.
To see Custom Design pricing, number of images and revisions for this product, select "Custom Design" on the dropdown menu in the calculator and click the link underneath the menu.
Keep in mind that this price is estimated and includes limits on the amount of images and revisions that can be made before incurring additional charges. We will notify you prior to performing any services that cost more money.


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Fresh Ideas in Public Transportation Design and Planning
Since designing our first transit project in 1975, Wendel has completed several hundred transportation projects and initiatives from coast to coast. In the past 10 years alone, we have worked on more than 80 vehicle operations, maintenance, and intermodal facilities across the country; amounting to over one billion dollars in construction value. Our mission is to work with agencies and municipalities of all sizes to improve and modernize their transit and maintenance service. From design and planning to project and construction management, we pull out all the stops—with the direction and support needed to put your transit vision into motion. Our creative and award-winning public transportation planning and design projects are the result of enthusiastic collaboration among our architects, engineers, planners and landscape architects—and of course, our clients.
As the epicenter of innovation in the industry, there's no better place to announce your new and exciting technologies than at APTA's EXPO 2020.
It is the time to reserve your booth! View the EXPO 2020 floor plan now to find your perfect location.

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Obituary - CELLE MARY BASCH
December 1, 2017
Celle M Basch, age 75, of Orlando, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, at her residence. Born in Chicago, on Sept. 2, 1942, she was the daughter of the late Lewis and Roslyn Schenker Weinberg. Celle attended the University of Oklahoma, majoring in Anthropology. She was a woman of many talents, ultimately becoming a successful real estate salesperson, together with her husband, Alan. She and Alan were married on Aug. 4, 1963, in Miami.
Originally settling in Orlando in 1971, they moved frequently, due to Alan's aerospace engineering work, finally settling here following his retirement. The family was formerly long-time members of Congregation of Reform Judaism.
In addition to her husband of over 54 years, Celle is survived by her daughters, Lori (David) Lepow of Palm Harbor, Marci (Mark) Wasserman of Safety Harbor and Julie (David) Hunnes of Tampa; and three grandsons, Jason, Jared and Nathaniel.
A graveside service was held at Congregation of Reform Judaism Cemetery, Gotha, with Rabbi Arnold Siegel of Jewish Family Services officiating. In memory of Celle Basch, and in recognition of her long-time dedication to animal rescue, the family requests contributions to Best Friends Animal Society, 5001 Angel Canyon Road, Kanab UT 84741, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Arrangements entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando. 407-599-1180.


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Defense Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 252.204-7012 requires defense contractors to protect the security of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). The issue now for these businesses is that the technical deadline for compliance with NIST 800-171 was December 31, 2017. So what's a contractor, subcontractor or supplier to do to secure its contracts?
What is 'DFARS'?
NIST 800-171 defines the security requirements for protecting CUI in nonfederal information systems. The DFARS 800-171 document details the needed security measures for each of 110 security requirements that defense contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers must adopt. Meeting the DFARS regulation helps nonfederal contractors and their supply chains to comply with the security requirements laid out in NIST special publication 800-171. Orgs in the defense supply chain are already sending out press releases about their successful compliance, and putting dfars compliance emblems on their websites to show due care and competitive edge.
The publication is tailored to nonfederal systems, so that these organizations know how to transmit, store and process the CUI that the Department of Defense doesn't want compromised.
What Counts as 'DFARS Compliant'? [Read our CASE STUDY on successful DFARS Compliance]
Subsequent guidance from the DoD shows that they understand that some smaller companies are having a hard time with this massive project. Thus, they're allowing these companies to have a POAM (Plan of Action and Mitigations) and SSP (System Security Plan) and show improvement to be 'conformant' for 2018. To demonstrate compliance with NIST SP 800-171, defense contractors must have these two compliiance documents ready for submission with every new and existing contract.
What Are the Concequences for Avoiding NIST 800-171?
If your company is not already in compliance with DFARS 800-171, keep in mind the consequences that can sneak up on you fairly quickly. You will likely be restricted from contracting with the government in the near future unless you ensure compliance or efforts towards compliance with NIST 800-171. Also, because these provisions flow down to subcontractors and supply chain, you'll likely get calls from your customers asking if you and your suppliers or vendors are incompliance with NIST 800-171. Failure to show proof of these compliance documents and progress towards compliance could result in your company losing contracts to competitors or others who are ensuring DFARS compliance.
What is the Fastest Solution to DFARS Compliance?
So what is the fastest method to proving DFARS compliance to your customers this year and moving forward? CyberStrong can export these documents in hours and is the platform within which you'll prove continuous compliance to all your contracts in-house with guarenteed acceptance. Contact us at CyberSaint for free guidance on what your options are and to get more information.


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Redux Posts, or posts about posts, has been a great way to get a "second act" out of viral content. Thanks to a Bill Gassett post and excellent comments espeically from Stephan Hovanian the HOW TO do a redux post is changing.
Instead of creating a new post curate content from reactions, comments and ideas created by the orginal post back into the first post and then re-share on social media. Be sure to use @notify so people who's content you use know you revised the first post with their ideas to give content you've already created a new life without having to write a new post.


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These are highly protective and comfortable for a wearer. Owing to its comprehensive features like durability, excellent grip, comfort-ability and exclusive designs, these are highly appreciated by our customers from all across the world. Thus, we are glad to introduce ourselves as one of the leading Manufacturers, Exporters and Wholesale Tiger Safety Shoes Suppliersfrom Uttar Pradesh, India.


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Rice with coconut milk. A very popular breakfast or lunch dish, this rice has a nice creamy taste and a fragrant aroma. It is best served the traditional way with Ikan Billis Sambal Tumis or Assam Prawns or Chicken curry and sliced cucumbers and hard-boiled eggs.
- Serves 4
Ingredients Edit
- 4 cups rice
- ¼ teaspoons salt
- 5 cups coconut milk
- 2 screw pine leaves, tied into a knot
- 1 cm ginger root, smashed
Directions Edit
- Rinse rice, soak in water for 1 hour.
- Drain.
- In a pot, add rice, coconut milk, salt, ginger root and screwpine leaves.
- Boil on low heat for about 15–20 minutes.
- Fluff up with a fork.
- In rice cooker, mix all the ingredients and cook the same way you would boil rice in a rice cooker.
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Managing Different Types Of Hair
The haircare products display section has more products than a skincare display at a drugstore or a health care store. A study conducted by unilever illustrated that only one third of the world's population uses a hairstyling product daily. Almost ninety percent of the world population are not satisfied about how their locks appear. So what can you do to be satisfied about your tresses? Here is a guide to use the right product for each type of hair.
Fine and straight
- If you have fine hair and you feel like it is losing its volume, you can start using a thickening shampoo and conditioner. L'oreal, garnier, tresemmé and dove are a few globally recognized best haircare products. Lather only on the ends of your hair and rinse it off thoroughly.
- Heat-protecting sprays are perfect to apply after a shower on the ends of your locks. Comb some mousse through to add a little bit of controlled volume.
- Dry shampoo is ideal to add texture, grip, and bulk. Don't forget to wash your hair within a few days.
Thick and straight
- Using styling oil after a shower followed by a dollop of styling cream.
- Shine sprays can help reduce the shine of bulky hair making it look dull.
- Avoid products that will add volume to your strands which
Coiled and twisty
- Use a deep conditioner and only rinse away half of it. The remaining conditioner will help to keep the shape of the curls and glossy look. Don't forget to comb through the conditioner after the shower.
- Use serum or styling oil and twirl your curls with your fingers.
- Do not use sprays as they can cause hot spots within your curls
- Make sure you don't buy unknown buy haircare products online just because it says it can reduce the fizziness. Instead of that you might even lose hair.
- The only way to maintain this type of locks is to control frizz and puffiness. You don't need special styling products. Using a frizz- fighting shampoo and conditioner should be matched with lighter styling products that contain natural oils. You can be sure to have smooth hair if followed through.
- Switch to sulphate-free shampoos which will not result in dry hair. You hair will be well conditioned and the moisture will be locked in.
- Choose water-based conditioners so that they will not fall flat due to not having enough hydration.
- Get your curls wet on the days you don't shampoo. Spread conditioner from the mid-lengths to the end.
Based on the type of locks you possess follow the above guidelines for the perfect hair do.


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The reason there is a mound at Pueblo Grande is erosion. Mud from upper story roofs and walls have been eroding away for hundreds of years. Water, wind, and vibrations have been at work to weaken the mound so that, given time, the mound would continue to erode away, lower and lower, until it was merely a bump on the ground. At least they would if efforts were not set in place to preserve the mound as we know it today.
The National Park Service, the City Archaeologist and PGM maintenance staff began stabilization efforts around 1990 to mitigate the effects of vibrations and rainfall. Rock and dirt fill has been placed into the excavated portions of the mounds with the exception of the room at the southwest corner. Dirt has been placed up against the sides of the outer walls, offering support. Mudslinging volunteers come out once a month during the nicer months of the year and re-plaster walls, so erosion damages new mud before it can affect original walls. Trees and shrubs are not allowed on the mound as the roots could cause serious structural damage.
Drains have been installed along the trail on the mound and in specific areas where water was observed to be pooling and causing erosion. The drains were carefully placed in a way that they would not impact the mound itself, but that they would effectively carry water away to where it would not damage the mound structure.
One other cause of erosion and damage is from burrowing creatures such as squirrels or ground squirrels. As much as we love to see these animals while we are out and about, we do need to keep their numbers under control. There are occasions where we will trap these little critters and relocate them to an area where they will not be able to do harm to any archaeology.
We will cover the more about the mudslingers, their support efforts and mound preservation in a later posting. If you would like to be a part of this fun and helpful group, contact the museum for more information on volunteering.
Posted by Dan Gronseth - Park Ranger II


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GZ Industrial Supplies is the distributor of Butterfly Valve in Nigeria. Butterfly Valve is a quarter-turn rotational motion valve, that is used to stop, regulate, and start flow. Butterfly valves are easy and fast to open. A 90° rotation of the handle provides a complete closure or opening of the valve. Large Butterfly valves are usually equipped with a so-called gearbox, where the hand-wheel by gears is connected to the stem. This simplifies the operation of the valve, but at the expense of speed.
Typical applications of Butterfly Valves
A Butterfly valve can be used in many different fluid services and they perform well in slurry applications. The following are some typical applications of Butterfly valves:
- Cooling water, air, gases, fire protection etc.
- Slurry and similar services
- Vacuum service
- High-pressure and high-temperature water and steam services
Advantages of Butterfly Valves
- Compact design requires considerably less space, compared to other valves
- Light in weight
- Quick operation requires less time to open or close
- Available in very large sizes
- Low-pressure drop and high-pressure recovery
Disadvantages of Butterfly Valves
- Throttling service is limited to low differential pressure
- Cavitation and choked flow are two potential concerns
- Disc movement is unguided and affected by flow turbulence
Size Range: 2" – 20" (50mm – 500mm)
Temperature Range:-20°F to 250°F (-29°C to 121°C)
Body Materials: Cast Iron
Disc Materials: Aluminum Bronze, Stainless Steel
Stem Materials: Stainless Steel
Seat Materials: Bonded BUNA-N, Bonded EPDM
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I always found making masculine cards difficult but was quite pleased with the ones I did this year. The card above was made for my father and father-in-law and I must say it was well-received by both of them. Dad was quite surprised to feel the stitching as I had never used a needle before.
Brown, White and Blue Cardstock
For Him - Papermania
Brown thread and needles
PC and printer
Big Shot Ellison Design
Twang Alphabeth
How to:
- Cut a brown square card blank and a slightly smaller white square.
- Cut a piece of patterned paper, following the geometrical shapes and stick to the white card stock.
- Using a sewing needle prick holes 0.5cm apart all around the edges. Thread the needle in holes as shown in the picture
- Cut a rectangular slip of brown card stock measuring about 2.5cm wide. Print the sentiment, cut it in such a way as to leave the brown border visible.
- Die cut the word Dad from blue card stock and assemble everything as shown.
Pricking holes prior to stitching helps to keep the stitching neater. It is also easier to pass the needle through the cardstock. I use a stamping foam mat in order to prepare small pricks prior to the sewing.


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NextVR is a company on the forefront of the virtual reality industry as its goal is to provide a better way to experience sports. In particular, it is focused on improving the live experience.
"We are by a wide margin the most regular broadcaster and operator of live virtual reality," said David Cole, the Co-Founder and CEO of NextVR. "Live is a critical part of how we are building our business and attracting viewers."
So while NextVR has partnered with the NFL for the past two seasons on post-game virtual reality experiences including highlights and also announced on Tuesday a deal with WWE to provide something similar, there could very well be live experiences at NFL games going forward.
NextVR's NFL VR Experiences host Reggie Bush, the former NFL running back, told Digital Trends that the company recently did a live test of an NFL game. After checking with a PR rep, Cole confirmed that test.
"We are extremely happy with how the test went, it has enabled us to be closer to live NFL," Cole said.
Technology advancements are also set to improve the virtual reality viewing experience, and NextVR is known for doing live VR broadcasts of NBA League Pass games, with a schedule of 27 games this season. This year, its VR broadcast technology platform will be expanded to make fans feel even more as if they're really attending the game in person.
Among the new features announced is the progression to Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF). The current VR model only allows the head to move in three degrees and constrains the viewer "as if their head was in a fish bowl." With 6DoF, the viewer wearing a headset is able to move and shift their view depending on the action in front of them.
"If the referee is standing in front of your view from our center court camera, you can shift your body and look around them," Cole said. "That has never been possible in the history of video, to move around in the recorded experience."
6DoF will only be available on VODs to start, but the technology will soon be coming to live viewing, according to Cole.
"This experience is paradigm shifting," he said. "It is a recreation of reality. It is no longer a video experience. It is as important as anything we have done in VR to date."
NextVR will also add augmented reality capability, expanding its platform to support AR devices. The combination of VR and AR creates a mixed reality that allows for a social engagement as the viewer can map the captured experience into the real world.
"An augmented reality device would allow you to see both your current environment and what we have captured," Cole said. "Take the basketball court and put it on the coffee table in front of you. Remap your wall and make it a portal to the NFL."
This ability to merge the physical world with the captured one will begin to be available in mid-2018, according to Cole.
"Most of what will drive adoption in VR has yet to be announced," Cole said. "The goal for us is to be ready with a coffee table NBA game when the devices become available."
As resolution steadily increases in VR products, the quality of the picture has to match that progression. NextVR has enhanced the detail capture capability of its cameras and encoder infrastructure so that content early this year will be in higher resolution.
"The whole industry is shifting towards higher-resolution displays," Cole said. "In the NBA, that allows you to see the face of the player from across the court, or the jersey number from our high cam at an NFL game. For a sports viewer, that is the equivalent of going from standard definition to HD."
As adoption of virtual reality goes up, the price point of virtual reality devices is trending down. That affordability, along with a crazy fast product cycle has the virtual reality world moving at breakneck speeds.
"Resolution is improving, field of view is improving, and the ability to move around freely is improving. All of that has come incredibly fast," Cole said. "If you think you've seen VR, check again."


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This blog is to help the reader understand essentials of Gradle build tool.
Building a software is a craft by itself; build process usually involve a series of task such as picking the right libraries, compiling the source code, package distributed executable, test using automated scripts and report process progress. Each task can be broken down into further activities, for example directing the execution order, resolving dependencies, resource identification and component configuration.
Gradle is the new build automation tool that assists with continuous delivery. Gradle offers flexibility in the ways projects are put together, it optimizes the build in interesting ways and it is extremely customizable. The documentation can be found here. You may find detailed installation instructions here.
Gradle uses Groovy syntax. Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform aimed at improving developer productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your application powerful features.
Gradle includes interesting features such as scripting, DSL (Domain-Specific Language) authoring, run-time and compile-time meta-programming and functional programming features. Thus programming language Groovy is its natural choice. Groovy is concise, readable and expressive syntax, easy to learn for Java developers.
Gradle Build Scripts
Gradle is composed of two components (1) Project and (2) Task. Each Gradle build comprises of one or more projects. A project represent a thing to be done, such as deploying your application to staging or production environments. Each project is made up of one or more tasks. A task represents some atomic piece of work which a build performs. This might be compiling some classes, creating a Java archive, generating Java documentation, or publishing an archive to a repository.
The Gradle works on the principle that every build has two phases (1) The Configuration Phase and (2) The Execution Phase. During the configuration phase, the Gradle kernel will scan at all the configuration details in the build, figures out how the various tasks are laid out, and also the dependencies between tasks in form of a 'Directed Acyclic Graph'. All customization that are specific to a task is done during the execution phase. The execution phase is done as a built-in auto-generated-task or custom specific task directed by the developer.
Defining Tasks and Closures
Let us dive into the basics and syntax soup – assuming you have proper installation and set up done. Say for example, a simple task is defined as below:
task helloWorld { doLast { println 'Hello world.' } }
Here, we have defined a helloWorld task and method doLast. When executed, the task will print the words 'Hello world.' on the console. The println is a Groovy method to print text to the console and is basically a shorthand version of the System.out.println Java method. A task can comprise of any number of methods. Alternatively, we can use the << left shift operator as synonym for the doLast method.
task helloWorld << { println 'Hello world.' }
Gradle support closures. Closures are reusable pieces of code, whose result can be stored in a variable or passed to a method. Closures are represented by a pair of curly parenthesis ( {. . .} ). We can pass one or more parameters to a closure. On instances where there is only one parameter, that parameter can be referred via it. Parameters can also be explicitly named. See the following examples below.
task sometask { doLast { // Using implicit 'it' closure parameter. // The type of 'it' is a Gradle task. println "Running ${it.name}" } }
task sometask { doLast { Task task -> // Using explicit name 'task' as closure parameter. // We also defined the type of the parameter. println "Running ${task.name}" } }
Defining Actions
We can add actions to a task. This is an implementation class from the org.gradle.api.Action interface. Usually an action has one execute method that us invoked when the task is executed. See the simple example below:
task sometask { doFirst( new Action() { void execute(O task) { println "Running ${task.name}" } } ) }
Defining Dependency
We can add task dependencies with the dependsOn method for a task. We can specify a task name as the String value or task object as the argument. We can even specify more than one task name or object to specify multiple task dependencies. The dependency between tasks is lazy. Dependencies can be defined via tasks or closures. We can define a dependency on a task that is defined later in the build script. Gradle will set up all task dependencies during the configuration phase and not during the execution phase. The order of the tasks doesn't matter in the build script. Some examples below
task third(dependsOn: 'second') << { task -> println "Run ${task.name}" } task second(dependsOn: 'first') << { task -> println "Run ${task.name}" } task first << { task -> println "Run ${task.name}" }
Another example. We define a dependency for the second task on all tasks in the project with task names that have the letter f in the task name. For this we use the Groovy method findAll that returns all tasks that apply to the condition we define in the closure: the task name starts with the letter 'f'.
def printTaskName = { task -> println "Run ${task.name}" } task second << printTaskName // We use the dependsOn method // with a closure. second.dependsOn { project.tasks.findAll { task -> task.name.contains 'f' } } task first << printTaskName task beforeSecond << printTaskName
Besides, tasks can be also be organised, task defaults can be specified, tasks can be grouped, additional project/task properties can be defined and certain tasks can be skipped.
Defining the Java Plugin
In Gradle, we have the concept of introducing additional extra functionalities beyond tasks and properties via plugins. we can apply plugins to our project. Also the concept of plugin keeps these extra functionalities decoupled from the core build logic. Gradle ships with plugins that are ready out of the box; it also allows us to write our won. For example, Gradle has a Java plugin. This plugin adds tasks for compiling, testing, and packaging Java source code related to our project.
Dependency Management
Gradle provides control of project dependencies via a manageable 'Dependency Tree'. It also has provisions for designing custom dependencies and declare non-managed dependencies. Gradle can help in producing run time dependency report. The tree structure makes it natural for the tool to dynamic scale into multiple projects avoiding version conflict. Inclusion and exclusion can be well scoped within the branches of the trunk.
Test Support
Gradle supports compilation and execution of tests. It offers testCompile and testRuntime dependency configurations for this purpose. Gradle offers support to JUnit, Test NG and direct test annotations from few other frameworks that can run on JVM. Gradle also helps in producing test reports in XML and HTML formats as configured by the test engineer.
Build and Publish
Any software project is composed of artifacts we may want to publish. Such articles are stored in jar, war or zip file formats. Gradle allows developers to publish their artifacts in a central repository, thereby enabling other developers in the organization to be able to access via intranet or internet.
Concluding Remarks
So here in this blog we have understood the basic syntax of Gradle and composed a simple task using the same. Gradle supports incremental builds. To further the horizon, the next steps of advancement would be to learn to build more complex tasks, multi project composition, dependency management and task graph design.
Pointers from here
Gradle official documentation site: https://gradle.org/docs/
Gradle and Spring Boot: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/
Gradle Essentials Book: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/gradle-essentials
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The night went off without a hitch! Wow I was surprised at how well both girls slept. Looks like my anxiety over longer trips with both of them will be kept at bay. However, I have to mention how much I entirely LOATHE european pillows. They are like fluffy cardboard. Just realllllly bad.
We woke up and realized we forgot our baby carrier. SMOOTH MOVE. I had planned to go to this really cool famous natural bridge but due to poor planning, we realized we wouldn't be able to make it happen this day. (Another time, I desperately hope). I am not well traveled so trip planning is not yet my forte. I hope that changes by the end of these 3 years.
After a very satisfying hotel breakfast, we drove to Downtown Dresden and walked around The Zwinger- Just a big square of famous buildings and museums. A lot of these buildings are black because of the bombings during World War 2- they weren't originally black. It is sobering to think about how much these buildings were able to withstand, and that they have remained through all the tumult this country has been through. We walked around for a few hours and really enjoyed the unique ambiance of that place. I can still never anticipate how much cooler it is to go to a place than it is to see pictures. I'm SOLD on travelling and seeing and learning as much as I can.
We didn't pay for any tours or anything. Truth be told, I married a man who is basically a walking thesaurus/history book/tour guide. I love his commentary more than any other random tour guide, that's for sure.
(My favorite view of Dresden, they had a biking/running path all the way down the side of the river Elbe. Perfection.)
Yeah Lyla- my little european baby who will get to tell people one day that she was born in Germany and has been all over Europe but doesn't remember a lick of it. So these pictures will at least allow her to see all the cool things she got to do :) Lyla probably enjoyed this day more than anyone because she was in my arms all day, which is her version of heaven. (mine too :)
We decided to stop in Prague on the way home from Dresden. After the GPS sent us on a weavy little excursion through a tiny, self-sustained town- and in my head I was thinking that the lady on the GPS had lost her marbles and we would be lost forever- we made it to the place that Jeff called home for two years while he served his mission. It was a long awaited, joyous reunion that I felt so excited to be a part of.
I quickly realized that the sight of Prague is the best instigator of the Jeffrey Perma-smile. Can't say I hate it.
We walked around while jeff told story after story and ended up at one of his favorite restaurants. I have to say that it was my favorite eating out experience since we have moved here. I ordered a meal that didn't have any "european surprise" ingredients, and Jeff was re-acquainted with that big slab of fried cheese that he has always told me about.
After dinner we went to a park that has the most breath-taking look out point. For the first time ever, we asked strangers to take our picture. We both HATE doing that, but made an exception because this view was just unspeakably beautiful. Well turns out the picture does it ZERO justice and the lighting was horrible. But oh well, at least that memory is captured- and I know I'll never forget the feeling I had looking over the city with my beaming husband and two sweet girls. And Prague, lest you think you've gotten rid of us, we WILL be back. :)
Prague castle peaking through the trees.
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Best Employer in the Water and Wastewater Industry
Thank you to all who have nominated their organization for the Best Employer to Work for in the Water and Wastewater industry.
Hunter Crown's annual contest to recognize the best employers in the water and wastewater industry is now OPEN for voting.
Congratulations to all nominees.
Winner will be announced on September 24th during the WEFECT conference in Chicago, IL.
2019 Nominees
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Aktor is an international highly diversified company focused on Infrastructure, Building, Industrial, MEP, Solar Power Construction, EPC and Concession Contracts, Facility and Project Management. Our vision is to enhance further our role as a worldwide construction group by securing sustainable future development through continuous improvement of services based on our values such as integrity, teamwork, responsibility and transparency.
We are a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental and consulting solutions firm, based in Kansas City, Missouri. Our staff of 5,700 includes engineers, architects, construction professionals, planners, estimators, economists, technicians and scientists, representing virtually all design disciplines. We plan, design, permit, construct and manage facilities all over the world, with one mission in mind: Make our clients successful.
Cogent consists of 10 best-in-class partner companies providing pumping and process equipment solutions for specific vertical markets. — Automatic Engineering, BRI, Catalyst, Fluid Equipment, iME Solutions, Industrial Measurement and Control, Lee Mathews, Vanco, Vandevanter Engineering and Water Technology Group. With more than 200 employees covering 11 states, Cogent's upward trend continues. Cogent earned a spot on the Kansas City Business Journal's list of 150 Top Private Companies for the third year in a row, currently ranking #79 with $90.55 million in revenue for 2017.
Culligan is an American water treatment products company headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois. Culligan specializes in water softeners, water filtration systems and bottled water for residential and office applications. The company currently has over 600 dealers in the United States and Canada and sells its products in more than 90 countries. Its main competitors are a division of Veolia STI: Aquadem, and BWT in Europe.
We develop water solutions for the world. We set the standard in terms of innovation, efficiency, reliability and sustainability. We are a pump company connecting with millions and millions of people every day. Our solutions help our partners and customers move water to where it is supposed to go. Providing drinking water for the smallest villages and the highest skyscrapers, treating and removing wastewater and bringing heat and comfort to the world – or cool it down if needed.
We know just how important water is to daily life. It's somehow involved in everything thing we do, everything we use. When you need it, you expect it to be there — and you expect it to be clean and safe. That's what our skilled teams of experts care about most, and focus on every day. Our customers are our number one priority, and we are proud to deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable water and wastewater services. In Missouri we serve about 1.5 million people.
Moleaer™ (Latin for "tiny air") is the first company to leverage the unique properties of nanobubbles at industrial-scale. To leverage nanobubbles to unlock the full potential of oxygen for water treatment and crop production. We integrate nano-scale materials into proprietary technologies to deliver next-generation solutions for transferring gas into liquids. Our plug-and-play XTB Nanobubble Generator and nanoBoost enhance the performance and modify the functionality of liquids for a wide variety of applications ranging from wastewater treatment to plant growth enhancement.
Nexom is a team of about 50 employees, spread across three offices in the United States and Canada, led by CEO Tom Pokorsky and President Martin Hildebrand, and backed by the strength of XPV Water Partners, a leading investment firm focused on high growth water, related waste and environmental businesses globally. Nexom provides comprehensive answers to nutrients, and on-staff engineers supply consulting engineer clients with final design-ready drawings that maximize the efficacy of Nexom's proprietary technologies.
Sanexen Environmental Services inc. is a contractor in contaminated site remediation and Water Main Rehabilitation. Over the past 30 years, our company has completed contracts totaling more than a billion Canadian dollars in the environmental and water main rehabilitation fields. We have developed a profound expertise as well as technologies adapted to the needs of private corporations and public organizations facing various environmental issues. We rely on the knowledge and experience of a team of more than 450 employees.
We are a nationally recognized full-service engineering, design-build, construction firm. Founded in 1981, our core business includes wastewater treatment, waste-to-energy, construction, and environmental projects. We have 120 professional and technical employees, principally located in two offices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We also have full-time employees in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Detroit, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia and Oakland, California as well as 15 permanent construction tradesmen.
Our mission is improving our clients' energy efficiency, better managing their water and wastewater, and recovering resources from their wastes. We blend skills in operations, engineering and technology with innovative business models, offering a complete range of environmental solutions to meet the challenges of cities, governments, campuses, businesses and industries. At Veolia, we're more than the world's leading provider of environmental solutions - we're dedicated to customized, cost-effective solutions that reflect best practices, environmental protection and a better quality of life.
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東京タワー Tokyo Tower
- Architectures
- Shinagawa / Haneda Area
- Travelko Rating
- Price RangeAdults 900 (JPY)
Children 500 (JPY)
- ClosedOpen Every Day
Maps are rarely carried out with accessing from mainland China.
- District
- Shinagawa / Haneda Area
- Address
- 4-2-8 Shiba Park, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011 Japan
- Category
- Architectures
- Opening Hours
- 9:00-23:00
- Closed
- Open Every Day
- Price Range
- Adults 900 (JPY)
Children 500 (JPY)
- Website
- http://www.tokyotower.co.jp/eng/
- Tel.
- +81-3-3433-5111
Tokyo's Eiffel Tower?? No! 333m high Tokyo's sky landmark!
Open in 1958, enjoy a great view of of the center of Tokyo! If the weather is clear and sunny enough, you may see Mt Fuji from the southwest side of the window.
Usually we use an elevator to go up to 150m high Main Observatory but if you are confident, don't hesitate to take the outside stairs up and down! There are approximately 600 steps to go, open on Saturday, Sunday and national holidays (closed when it rains). Too many steps? Don't worry! Even kindergartners climb around in 15 minutes.
In the observatory, don't miss looking down windows which are see-through and you can clearly see down the foot of Tokyo Tower. Pedestrians and cars can be seen so small from there! Also, find a mystery baseball exhibited at main observatory, which tells you a unique hidden story of Tokyo Tower.
After sunset till midnight, you enjoy beautiful lighting up on it so it is very good idea to see from outside after dark. There is the Shiba park near Tokyo Tower from where you can take good photos. Being in the observatory in the evening offers you great moment to feel metropolitan Tokyo. You will see how large and bright Tokyo is!
Beloved Tokyo monument both day & night
Tokyo Tower was constructed in 1958 for radio & TV broadcasting. This 333 meters high tower was the highest construction in the world when it was built exceeding Eiffel Tower (312m).
There are two observation floors. One is 150m above the ground (¥900 (JPY) for the ticket) and the other one is 250m above (¥1,600 (JPY)). You can enjoy a great view of Tokyo from there and you can see the landmarks of Tokyo such as Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, National Diet Building, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo Sky Tree, Rainbow Bridge, etc. You also can see Tokyo Bay and on clear days you even see Mount Fuji from there!
If you go up, please do not forget to look down the ground from the transparent windows on the floor. It will be an amazing experience!
It is nice to go up to the observation floors, but also beautiful from outside. It is lit up during the night. On weekdays, the colors are orange and white same as the daytime, but they do the special light-up called Diamond-veil for the weekend and some special days.
Now, the highest tower in the world is Tokyo Sky Tree (634m-high) which is also located in Tokyo. It is nice to go up there, but I prefer Tokyo Tower because I can feel more intimacy with Tokyo from its observation floor.
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Other Sightseeing Spots of Tokyo
- Kiddy Land(Harajuku)
- Tsukiji Fish Market(Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market)
- Tokyo Skytree
- Yasukuni Shrine
- Nakamise Shopping Street
- Asakusa Shrine
- Sensoji Temple
- Imperial Palace
- LaQua
- Toyota Mega Web
- Honda Welcome Plaza Aoyama
- LOFT Yurakucho
- Shibuya 109
- Hachiko Statue
- Tokyo Central Railway Station
- Sengakuji
- Kiyosumi Teien
- Yuzawaya (Kamata)
- Sky Bus Tokyo (In front of Mitsubishi Building)
- 100 yen shop Can Do (Seibu Shinjuku PePe)
- Ginza Itoya
- Tokyu Hands Shibuya Store
- Don Quijote Shibuya
- Aqua Park Shinagawa
- Shibuya Crossing
- Daikanyama TSUTAYA Books
- Robot Restaurant
- The National Art Center, Tokyo
- Fukagawa Edo Museum
- Todoroki Valley park
- Ryogoku Kokugikan
- Matsumoto Kiyoshi (Ikebukuro East Exit)
- Omotesando
- Meiji Shrine (Meiji Jingu)
- Ueno Park
- Nezu Museum
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
- Tokyo DisneySea
- Yanaka Ginza
- Zojoji Temple
- Hama Rikyu Gardens
- Kappabashi Street
- Kabukicho
- Takeshita Street
- National Museum of Nature and Science
- Odaiba Kaihin Koen
- Edo-Tokyo Museum
- AkihabaraElectric Town
- Shinjuku Golden Town
- Tokyo Disneyland
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After a couple of years of talking about how the shop needed a freshen up, we took the plunge last week and did it. Took us a few days (and many van-loads shifted into temporary storage), but we emptied it out and gave the store a re-paint.
Walls, floors, ceilings, all white ...
We spent the weekend re-stocking, though. Pretty pleased with the outcome.
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The West Virginia Coal Association, a trade association that represents roughly 95 percent of West Virginia's coal production, endorsed Donald Trump for president on Thursday, five days ahead of the state GOP primary on May 10th.
"Donald Trump has been firm and clear throughout his campaign in his commitment to rebuild America's basic industries – the industries that made this country great – such as coal, steel and manufacturing" said the association's president, Bill Raney, in a published statement. "Trump has said he will reverse the Democratic regulatory assault that has cost the coal industry more than 40 percent of our production and jobs since 2008."
"In contrast, Hillary Clinton's proposals essentially double-down on the job killing Obama policies," Raney added. "West Virginia can't afford that and neither can the nation."
We believe that with the leadership team of Donald Trump in the White House and Bill Cole as Governor, West Virginia will begin to rebuild what we have lost to the Obama War on Coal and also look to the future once again with confidence.
The unanimous decision came during a meeting on Thursday in Charleston, West Virginia. Trump is holding his first rally since being declared the presumptive Republican nominee earlier this week in Charleston on Thursday night.


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Hi all,
My most recent hypnosis session featured an extensive robot section with Michelle & ToniLou.
It's a two part video. Part one is heavy on the hypnotic phenomenon, stage suggestions, nudity, hypnopuppets and slavegirls. If you want to see the pair of girls mindless blank and obedient, it's highly recommended.
Part two is heavy on alternate personality play, first we have Michelle thinking she's a vampire mistress slowly enchanting ToniLou, then we make them into an inventor & fembot whilst I try out the fembot's different modes and programming using a soundboard based remote control.
Here's a number of screencaps from the video.
Inventor & Fembot
Demonstrating her capabilities
Realistic hardware
Pose Mode
Off Switch
Mind Blank
There's a trailer (featuring scenes from part one) here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xm7zmn ... eview_sexy
Or on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPGOmUK860
The Part Two Trailer (Featuring the fembot scenes) is here: http://youtu.be/bYy0WjkvgBE
Part One (87 mins) is Available Here: http://store.payloadz.com/details/97428 ... htlou.html
Part Two (55 mins) is Available Here: http://store.payloadz.com/details/97581 ... tlou2.html
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What are we trying to accomplish in life anyway? Why the 13,000 daily articles on LinkedIn about how to be successful?
If You Are Trying to be Normal, DON'T
"If you are trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be." Maya Angelou
I was cleaning out some stuff in my office and came across my MBA commencement program. I had a note next to one of the graduate speaker's names, Crystal Howard, with the quote above because it impacted me.
If you like things in more colloquial terms, "Why fit in when you were born to stand out." Dr. Suess
Be you. Be the most amazing version of you. Stand out. Find out why you are here.
Not Reaching Your Goals? Read This...
A few years ago, I was playing around with my food intake because I was getting migraines more frequently than I cared for (because getting migraines at all is pleasant?). My migraines started when I was 12, at my aunt and uncle's wedding reception. I remember not feeling well so I walked home. On the way home, I had a visual aura and felt nauseous.
The migraines continued in similar fashion for many years and for several of those I took a preventative medicine. It was somewhat effective, yet didn't wipe them out, and I had to wear sunglasses in physics class (and boy did I look hot) since the florescent lights seemed to trigger migraines. The classic pattern for the migraines was 20-30 minutes of visual aura—looks like dancing splotches in my field of vision—followed by intense pain in my head. The next day I would usually start the day with a residual dull ache. Many times I was nauseous.
About 17 years ago, I figured out that if I take 2 ibuprofen at the onset of the visual aura I could short circuit the rest of the process so that all that would happen is a dull headache for the rest of the day or often just a few hours. I was still wasn't happy about getting them as often as I was, so I tried herbal supplements, to no avail. That's when I started playing with my food intake.
I wondered if the migraines had something to do with what I was eating. I know, you're so smart that if you were in my life earlier you would have suggested that when I first started getting them, but you weren't so it wasn't until later that something clicked that it might be food related. Pat yourself on the back for how smart you are and keep reading.
Trying to figure out what was causing them, I stopped eating breakfast, the 'most important meal of the day.' The result? I dropped 15-20 pounds without trying, I felt better, and poof, virtually no migraines.
What?! Skipping the most important meal of the day all these health benefits accrued? How can that be?? Well, a few important things happened. Since I was only eating two meals a day and there was only so much I could stuff in at a time, I was eating about 1600 calories or so (without even tracking it). In other words, I began getting the right amount of calories for my body. Also, something about skipping breakfast must have reset my metabolism, allowing me to process the foods I was eating better so those foods responsible for the migraines were having less effect.
I want you to follow me here – I didn't set a goal to lose the weight. I didn't set a goal to eliminate the migraines since I didn't even know if that was possible. I was simply tired of the migraines and was willing to try things to figure it out. And what I did flew in the face of the so-called experts and the conventional wisdom that we all throw around.
Fast-forward a few years, I was in school as an adult learner with several kids and a full-time job. I didn't have time to workout. Or at least I didn't take the time. The result? Carrying around more weight than I wanted.
Once I was finished with school, I had time to work out and a travel schedule that was amenable to doing so several times a week. In combination with that, I was in a rough emotional spot, had access to a great gym at no cost, and was receiving a per diem for meal expenses when I traveled so anything I didn't spend I got to keep. The combination was potent.
I was eating the right amount of food for what I needed without eating out so I wasn't consuming too many calories and was saving extra money. I was working out 4-5 days a week, cardio and weights. I had time to make the workout as long as I wanted. Since I was in an emotionally tough spot I was working out to work things out mentally and emotionally.
The result? Best shape of my life. Six-pack. Stronger than ever.
Follow me here. I didn't set a goal to get a six-pack. I didn't set a goal to get stronger. I was just trying to use my time wisely and take care of my mind, body, and spirit.
Fast-forward to now, July 2017. I want my six-pack back (I let it go during the divorce and the lead up to it by eating handfuls of Fruit Loops at 11 pm). For 4 years now I've told myself I'm going to get it back. For 4 years I've said hundreds of times, "Today is the day I start," only to find myself eating 600 extra calories after dinner. For 4 summers I've said, "This is the summer I'll get my six-pack back," only to find I still have a little extra padding. For 48 months I've said something like, "By this date I want to have it back," only to find the cookies at the hotel front desk more appealing.
I've set the goal to get my six-pack back dozens of times and I've failed each time. I even wrote it down and told others so I was accountable. Still failure.
What is my point?
Of the 21 millionaires I interviewed, 3 of them consistently operated with goals to become successful. Only 3. Of the 12 Olympians I have interviewed, each has goals during Olympic training, yet not all of them had a goal to become an Olympian.
Goals as we currently understand them don't work for everyone.
I lost weight trying to resolve my migraines. I got a six-pack trying to use my time wisely. I get nowhere trying to lose weight and get my six-pack. 19 entrepreneurs became millionaires not really trying to be.
I'm sharing this because I get so frustrated with the common success literature that claims to have the 'right way' to do everything, including reach your wildest dreams. And goals are almost always a big part of that. What if they weren't though? Not at least in the way we understand them? What if we operated better another way, as the experience of these Olympians, millionaires, and my own path demonstrate?
What do you really want in life? Sure, set that as your ultimate goal and path. But maybe, just maybe, aside from setting SMART goals in a business setting where you have to be aligned on what needs to be done and when, YOU might be like the millionaires, Olympians, and other successful people I've interviewed and you might operate a little better another way.
That other way might be to set an intention and focus and let it guide your decisions. That other way might be as Matt Given put it, following the next logical step. That other way might be to set plans then play your hunches, trusting your gut. Here's the thing; I don't know what way you operate best, but you do. I simply want you to have the truth about my own and others' experience that flies the face of the 'undisputed experts' and conventional wisdom.
What you do with it is up to you...
What I Learned from TED Speaker John Tarnoff
This week I connected with reinvention career coach and TED speaker John Tarnoff to discuss gaining some traction for my books and speaking. I appreciated the wisdom and insight he shared. Here's what I took away from our discussion:
How Millionaires Succeed: Part 4
This is the fourth and final post in a series in which I've shared what entrepreneurial millionaires do to create success. The first post can be found here.
I've pulled out key questions and answers from our interviews to give you a snapshot of their path to success. You can read the full stories and interviews in my book, 21 Questions for 21 Millionaires: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Success.
How Millionaires Succeed: Part 3
This is the third in a series of posts in which I'll be sharing what the entrepreneurial millionaires I interviewed did to create success. The first post can be found here, and you can check out the full stories in my book, 21 Questions for 21 Millionaires: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Success.
How Millionaires Succeed: Part 1
Millionaire Success Story Richard Zuschlag
Confessions from a Real Life Dad
I'm a bad dad. No really, I am.
The other night I was taking the kids to get frozen yogurt before we went to Tye and Marlo's for s'mores. It wasn't until Derek mentioned that he wanted Chinese food that I gave serious consideration to the fact that froyo and s'mores, although delicious and (I can justify) nutritious, may not sustain them like I hoped it would.
We turned around,
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Hello again... sorry this took so long, working bizzare hours this week :( Nik Taylor wrote:> Larry Schelin wrote: > > > I don't understand why you have _bith_ there? > > > > I don't understand why you don't understand. Perhaps it's because I wrote it, and I > > already understand what I mean. Could you explain what confused you? > > If the action occurred 15 minutes ago, why's there a form that means > "one minute ago", and why are there two tense particles? Both "vith" > and "bith"? >I understand... I wasn't thinking as clearly as I should have, let me try again Bimaghah ghengah vith ju mi ghengah ishadzi bith zija Bima-(noun-minute) -ghah (plural suffix-5 or more) ghengah (number- 15) vith (tense marker-past) ju (pronoun) mi (tense marker, present) ghengah (verb-throw) isha-(noun-ball) -dzi(prepositional suffix, at) bith (tense marker, 1 minute ago) zija (noun-dog) What I was thinking, tell me if this makes no sense, is that the first 'vith' can be translated as 'ago'. The 'bith' I wasn't thinking clearly about, it should be 'dith' (one hour ago). Does that make more sense, or do you think it would be better without the 'vith' at all? Joe


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The King's Ridge Varsity Baseball Team dropped 2 games in the region crossover series against Bowdon HS. Despite home runs by both Will Pittman and Michael Wein, the Tigers lost Game 1 of the 3 game series 7-6 at Bowdon. The Tigers then split the double header the following day, winning the first game 5-1 behind a complete game 9 strike out performance by Jack Ward. The Tigers then went on to lose game 2 of the double header after being unable to hold off a late rally by the Red Devils. Matt Nitkowski turned in 4 and 1/3 innings allowing 2 runs on 3 hits. Carter Buchanan and Will Pittman both collected multiple RBIs for King's Ridge in the loss.


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New Delhi: The Congress Party on Friday lashed out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ram Madhav for his controversial remarks on Aamir Khan and said that such statements reflects that `intolerance` in the government is still prevalent, despite the uproar over the issue in the last few months.
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"The statements by Ram Madhav, RSS and BJP leaders are the reason why people are saying that this is an intolerant government. This statement goes to prove that the government is still not learnt from what it has been doing for last one year," he added.
Madhav had courted controversy yesterday after he said that Aamir should not only preach to an auto-rickshaw driver about India`s prestige but also to his wife.
"It will not work that you preach to an auto wallah how the country`s prestige has to be saved but not tell the same to your own wife," Madhav had said at Delhi`s SGBT Khalsa College.
In November, Aamir had expressed alarm and despondency over the rise in cases displaying intolerance in the last six to eight months.He had said that a sense of `insecurity` and `fear` had seeped deep within society.
"When I go home and talk to Kiran (Aamir`s wife), for the first time she says, `Should we move out of India?`" Khan said.


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Hispano Suiza was founded in 1904 to use patents developed by the Swiss Engineer Marc Birkigt. The name means 'Spanish-Swiss'. In 1905 unit construction of engine and gearbox was pioneered by Birkigt and this became a feature of all Hispano Suiza vehicles.
The original cars were built at Barcelona and in 1907 a Swiss concern was permitted to manufacture under licence. Later branch factories opened in France and Skoda of Czechoslovakia also made some Hispano Suizas under licence.
The cars were successful on the racing circuit with victories at Boulogne and Mont Ventoux in 1910. and this seems to have set seal to the manufacturer's fame. In 1911 a move had to be made to larger premises on the Sagrera estate and a branch factory was opened at Levalbois-Perret in France. Then, in the spring of 1914, a "manufactory" was built at Bois-Colombes, in the suburbs of Paris, and the Hispano-Suiza took on its French nationality. In the UK prior to 1914, a service depot was maintained at Fulham, and a showroom in Shaftesbury Avenue.
The young King Alfonso XIII of Spain was an early motoring enthusiast and patron of Hispano-Suiza. He was such a fan, in fact, that he is said to have owned 30 of them. The sporting Hispano-Suiza Type 45CR of 1911 was quickly named the Alphonso in his honour.
During the First World War Hispano Suiza concentrated upon aero engines designed by Marc Birkigt which ended up powering over half the French and British aircraft in the conflict. Between the wars HIspano Suiza made money from licensing many of its patents and made large luxurious vehicles in small numbers and armaments like canons for aircraft in large numbers. Just before the Second World War the Spanish arm of the company was effectively taken over by the Nationalists and the French arm of the company was taken over by the French Government.
After the Second World War Hispano did not return to making cars but remained makers of aircraft engines and systems as well as arms until absorbed by SNECMA in 1970.
The model featured in this article is another anonymous 1:43 scale alloy and plastic models being sold by Chinese vendors on eBay. The model is marked C.I.L. on the baseplate but no trace of that being used as a brand name can be found. MAR Online has already looked at two other models in the same series: A Rolls-Royce and an Austin Seven (article one and article two).
The front of the model is impressive with a nice brass effect radiator surround and black core as well as starting handle to the base. The Hispano Suiza wing motif is neatly modelled on the head of the radiator. The brass effect front lights have a silver painted core giving a good impression of period lights.
The model is of the Hispano Suiza Alphonso as stated on the baseplate though it is being sold as a Skoda Hispano Suiza Alphonso. It has nice coachwork lines printed and the horn and levers all fitted to the driver's side.
The Alphonso appeared with considerable variations in the bodywork fitted but the model captures the shape of several shown in photographs on the web and in a car located in America which is pretty much identical apart from black wheels rather than yellow and a missing battery box on the driver's side running boards.
As can be seen inside the jumble of instruments and brass connecting pipes fitted on the dashboard of the real car is not modelled which is a shame as they would have added to the realism of the interior which has a nice brass and wood effect steering wheel and a seat painted to resemble leather and no other details.
Yellow is always a tricky colour. Here the yellow paint on the metal is a close match to the yellow plastic used for the wheels, wings and base including springs. However the amount of plastic used becomes obvious when you look at the model close up but is less obvious when viewed from a few feet away.
There is quite a bit of conjecture that these models were developed for a part work that has never gone ahead. Like the others already reviewed, this is basic but with good outlines.
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We ask our guests to pay 50% deposit 1 month before arrival, if they don't do so after several reminders and messages, there is an option "Request to cancel reservation" you can use. You rely on Booking.com to do the cancellation, but it always worked for me.
Hi Roland, correct this is quiet new and have used it a couple of times, works well.
I'm just wondering why Booking.com can not assist with this ... it is also for their benefit if more bookings come through through Booking.com
We put small handmade soaps in the bathroom labelled with our logo, are often taken home and that way a memory of staying with us.
Creating 'specials' can help - f.i. stay 3 nights and pay only 2 - and this puts you also higher in the search list on Booking.com for your town.


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I've got a bunch of great compilations featuring psychedelia from all over the world so I'll start sharing some of those. It's amazing how many great obscure psychedelic bands existed all over the world in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Click here to listen.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Waterpipes & Dykes - Dutch Psychedelia 1966 - 1972
8 comments:
- jeff said...
hey!, nabbed a couple of singles. "kult" and "apple-glass", pretty cool. as is yer blog. and hit an ad too. hope you can continue on and on...many thanks!
- April 7, 2008 at 8:09 PM
- Jay Beck said...
Awesome! Glad you like the blog. I'm going to try my best and keep it going for a long time. I have so much music that I don't know what to post sometimes. Any requests?
- April 8, 2008 at 11:25 AM
- jeff said...
Thaks for the offer Jay. Actually I've been looking for a paisley/pop lp posted somewhere/anywhere for awhile now. The band is "eyes of mind". LP is titled "tales of the turquoise umbrella". It came out on Voxx in1984 and as far as I know has never been issued on disc. I'm probably looking back on it more fondly than it merits but just maybe you've got the damn thing. Thanks!
- April 8, 2008 at 9:49 PM
- Jay Beck said...
I've never heard of Eyes of Mind so I don't have it. However, I regularly visit a lot of mp3 sites and buy a lot of vinyl so I will be on the lookout for it and let you know if I find it somewhere.
- April 14, 2008 at 7:10 PM
- bearwil said...
Big THX for this album. Peculiar to see that even in those days we where more proud of our dykes than our dikes, even more peculiar that it took us more than 30 years or so to allow gay marriage(:
I' foundd some info for Jeff about Eyes Of Mind:
A spinoff from L.A. psychpunk geniuses Three O'Clock, this band had an even more fey, marvellously twee sound that was so reminiscent of British art pop circa 1967 that we hooked them up with original British production wizard Mark Wirtz (Tomorrow, etc.) who brought all his Abbey Road skills to bear in creating this endlessly wonderful EP, the band's only surviving epitaph. Members included Jamie Phelan (guitar, lead vocals) , Mark Kuhlman (keyboards, harmony vocals), Rick Tracy (bass) and Troy Howell (drums). [5/84] Greg Shaw.
- July 26, 2008 at 4:29 AM
- bearwil said...
I found a very dear memory on this album: Dirty (Underwear) a band I saw regularly playing as Eindhoven's underground pride of the 60's. But what really struck me was that the song was written by Hans Sanders, who became big in Holland, Belgium and Germany as the leader of Bots and was one of my best friends during the last 20 years, but sadly died november last year.
- July 26, 2008 at 4:38 AM
Thank you for this beatiful sixties album, nice to hear.
- December 30, 2009 at 5:35 AM
Can't believe this is still available in 2012! Thanks for the great post!
- March 17, 2012 at 11:50 AM