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Read a review that it tastes like banana laffy taffy, and I can confirm. Alexa Siweckyj verified owner — March 10, Free pickup Tue, Sep Just another win for Unico! Kellogg shoppers also complained that the cereal has become too sugary. Click here to browse recipes made with PediaSure.
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Tastes amazing — as a shake, in my oat bran, makes the best protein ice cream and bakes soooo good! I love the birthday cupcakes protein powder!!! I have an incredibly sensitive stomach and I have had no issues with this powder.
At first I was a little nervous, because whenever I try out new powders my digestive system goes crazy. This did not happen with this one. And on top of that there is sprinkles?!? I am a very happy girl.
Brittany Hedman verified owner — March 5, Best protein powder out There! I tried a lot of different powders before I came across unico and I will never buy another brand again! Bethany verified owner — March 5, I have ordered Birthday Cake numerous times now. The confetti sprinkles make it especially amazing! Victoria Cashio verified owner — March 5, It mixes easy, tastes great, and is very satisfying. I absolutely love the Birthday Cake flavor!
I dont know if I got a bad batch or why it disagreed with me. Sylvia Gonzalez verified owner — March 5, Never have I had a protein shake as delicious as Unico! Love the vanilla — which I never liked other brands… and the PB chocolate. Finally found my protein shake that works for me and taste amazing—not to mention all the nutrient a protein powder should have!
Tori verified owner — March 5, But luckily my search is over. This protein is absolutely incredible. Unico has definitely earned a loyal customer?? Jeannie verified owner — March 6, The Cupcake one is definitely unique, with its rainbow sprinkles and everything that you see in the protein shake.
It really does taste like a birthday cupcake. The molten chocolate is kinda whatever. Quality is good, powder is super fine and mixes well with water, milk, almond milk, or mixtures of any of these.
This is the best protein powder I have ever tried I have tried a ton of brands. I mix it into not only shakes, but also brownies, French toast, banana bread. Justine verified owner — March 6, I only have one word for apollo protein…YUMM! Justine Major verified owner — March 6, Mell verified owner — March 6, Tastes so good, you forget its protein! By far one of my favorite proteins. The sweet cake taste definitely helps curve my cravings! Add some soy milk, couple ice cubs, a scoop of protein and throw it all in a blender for a tasty treat.
So far, I have tried the molten lava, banana, cupcake, and cinnamon roll flavors. Aside from the amazing flavors, these babies blend like a charm. I just wish that they had more options and availability of the sample packs. Still a fan either way, though! Tastes so good with just water, I mean wow. I got the vanilla ice cream milkshake flavor and it tastes good in oats and in my recipes just as well.
Lorianne Sersen verified owner — March 7, The salted caramel is the best tasting protein powder Ive ever had. Blends well, not chalky. I love knowing the exact ingredients and supporting a US company. Jill B verified owner — March 7, I add the cinnamon bun to my pancakes and use the chocolate peanut butter in shake form. Both are so tasty! Madalyn Dunn — March 7, I love this protein powder! I put it in smoothies and sometimes just mix it with soy milk, and unlike other powders, I enjoy drinking it!
LIZ verified owner — March 7, I purchased the Vanilla Ice Cream flavor. I enjoyed this flavor and found it mixed great with so many different things! Just wish it was a little less expensive, but a great quality protein! The Vanilla Milkshake really tastes like a milkshake!!!!!
The texture of it is so smooth. I mix it with coconut milk, water, and ice! I mix it with almond milk and drink it after my workouts. It is so smooth and tastes delicious. It also keeps me full until lunch I workout in the AM before work.
I have tried getting all my friends to use it because it really is that great! I have never liked protein. If I did use it, it had to be blended into a smoothie. This stuff is soooo good!! Not only can I use this in milk, but water too. I see him sneaking mine all the time now, I will have to get him his own.
Trish Gomez verified owner — March 7, Bought a tub of cinnamon roll. Its good when mixed with vanilla almond milk, but not in water. Although I like my shakes thicker.
Its very good, but not as expected. Its not like cinnamon or anything. Just tastes like cinnamon in milk. Its fills me up for sure.
Elizabeth Arens verified owner — March 8, Caramel squares and cookies n cream are my favorite flavors! Caroline Ryan verified owner — March 8, The Chocolate flavor is my favorite. This protein wow just WOW. I absolutley love all of the flavors. Each time I order protein I order a different flavor. I have yet to be disappointed with this company and their products! And the best protein that I have had that is grass whey and it does last a long time!
Emma verified owner — March 8, The birthday cake is to die for and I use it in so many ways mixed with plain greek yogurt, for my protein french toast, baking. I have tried a TON of other powders. Nothing comes close to taste and results. All the recipes are a huge hit as well. Versatile and great taste. You will not be disappointed.
Carolynn Jones verified owner — March 9, I have tried almost every flavour and was their fail every single one tastes amazing! The quality of the product is always out standing and the customer service is great! Stephanie verified owner — March 9, Hillary Beyerlein verified owner — March 9, This is a great protein shake!
I lift about 5 times a week and this has not let me down with recovery. Will continue to use! Alexa Siweckyj verified owner — March 10, All of the flavors they offer are so smooth going down. Never had an issue with texture. Plus the 24g of protein is a major seller! All of these protein powders are amazing!! My favorite right now is the Birthday Cake, it tastes like cake batter, and is just amazing!!
Kaela — March 13, The flavor is spot on and literally tastes like a vanilla milkshake. I like to have mine 2 ways, with banana, pineapple and cashew milk or with banana, peanut butter, cashew milk and a dash of cinnamon. Add ice for the perfect protein milkshake?. The only protein I will ever purchase! Thanks for making such great products! Mandy Hazen verified owner — March 15, All flavors are amazing. Court verified owner — March 15, The peanut butter chocolate and vanilla are awesome!
Cinnamon Bun is also great as mix in for breakfast foods like oatmeal, pancakes…. Kaitlyn Hoss verified owner — March 15, Apollo is my favorite protein!! It mixes so thick and creamy. Seriously the best protein powder I have ever tried. Not grainy at all, and the taste is out of this world. Totally recommend this to everyone I can. Elizabeth Fairchild verified owner — March 16, Well, I love this protein. Way to go on this one. Samantha Petrone verified owner — March 24, This powder is unlike any other!
I am big on texture and this one mixes so well in a blender bottle with just a few shakes. The flavors are even better than you can imagine and match exactly what they description says. Gina verified owner — March 24, I use it for everything, from making frosting to baking cakes, muffins, breakfast foods. It tastes so good!!!
My other favorite is the Birthday cake! Kelsey verified owner — March 24, Birthday cupcakes is so yummy and chocolate lava tastes like Hersheys chocolate milk! I LOVE this flavor! Working out is my favorite time of day because I look forward to having my protein shake after. I normally blend my shake with a little ice to make it thicker.
I also make my shake with almond milk to make it a little sweeter and its amazing! Love love love this product and will definitely be ordering more! Georgia verified owner — March 27, Alejandra Rodriguez verified owner — March 29, I feel so full and satisfied until the next morning, I work out at 7pm everyday.
Chelsea Hellen — March 30, Lisa Daniel verified owner — March 31, This is by far my favorite protein powder. It has a higher amount of protein per serving than other protein powders on the market, and the taste.
It does not have that chalky taste and smells really good. This protein also tastes good when heated up. I love making a hot protein drink during the cold months with the vanilla protein. We love this protein, my boyfriend is a picky eater or drinker I should say especially when it comes to proteins, he thinks they all taste chalky but this is his and mine favorite tasting stuff.
I also love that it has both fast and slow digesting proteins to keep me fuller and fueled for longer! Hilary verified owner — March 31, CGmom verified owner — April 2, Taste is fantastic, although a little thick. It does seem to have some bloating and gas side effects for me though. I have tried many over the years and finally feel like Ive found one I can stick with.
Mixes well with just water. Also great when added with other stuff to make a smoothie! I love Unico products so much and the chocolate peanut butter did not disappoint! It is hands down the tastiest protein I have ever had, and still has amazing macros! I work out twice a day, so it is really important to me to have a protein I enjoy, and this is it. I have tried so many other brands and none of them come close to Unico! Best protein powder I have ever used, it taste just like a yummy desert, or to me a malt which I love love love ice cream and this is a great substitute!!!
Tanya verified owner — April 3, Lan verified owner — April 4, Amanda Morgan verified owner — April 4, Every flavor is smooth and tastes amazing.. Thank you UNICO for saving those of us with sweet tooths from self destruction via cookies and brownies. This curbs my sweet appetite every. Rae Chartier verified owner — April 4, I seriously cannot live without this stuff! It is just pure, delicious flavor. I take it after workouts or just as a quick meal in a pinch.
Ylime verified owner — April 5, After finding your products via several Instagram endorsers, I was initially skeptical as I find most social media endorsements to feel more like a scam with individuals only pushing products for their own financial gain. After reading more about the Apollo Protein Shakes, I decided to give it a try. Nikki verified owner — April 5, Hands down the best tasting protein I have ever taken! My fav flavor is the Molten Chocolate Lava Shake! Hannah Scott verified owner — April 6, By far, the BEST protein powder.
I got the birthday cake flavor and it is amazing. The fact that I only mix it with almond milk and it still tastes amazing, says a lot about it!
Shaina Doll verified owner — April 9, I purchased the chocolate peanut butter protein powder. I have a shake for breakfast every morning and it holds me over until lunch. Bight this product for the first time in the recommendation of a Freiburg. This one, though, is amazing. I tried the chocolate peanut butter and it was great so I decided to try out the birthday cake and OMG!!
It literally tastes like cake batter. It mixes well, the macros are great. The macros are awesome and it tastes very good too. I got the birthday cake flavor, which is a little too sweet for me, but I still like it. I think I will be trying vanilla next time. I highly recommend it! Ashley K verified owner — April 11, Absolutely LOVE the gooey frosted cinnamon roll!
Andrea Green verified owner — April 11, The protein is good with milk or water, which is rare. Overall, great product for drinking and eating! Brooke Harmening verified owner — April 12, You will be too! Nora verified owner — April 15, Aimee verified owner — April 17, Easy to mix,l even with just water. Creamy and not a weird artificial flavor. Courtney verified owner — April 17, Super cute packaging and its delicious!
I am obsessed with Apollo protein powder. I am the type of person that prefers to mix my protein powder with water, so that actually makes the texture and flavor important for me when picking a brand. When I buy anything from Unico, I also buy a couple sample packets of Apollo to have a little variety. Emma Paul verified owner — April 18, Love this protein shake flavors and performance.
My goal has been more toning, but I did gain muscle mass after I started using this in my work out. I bought the birthday cake flavor and its seriously everything I could want in a protein powder. You have a lifelong customer! Katie Almand verified owner — April 19, I absolutely love this protein. Channon Fair verified owner — April 19, The chocolate peanut butter flavor is delicious!
My only concern is the price, I wish it was a little more affordable. Oh and I love the fitness blog-diet and nutrition section of the website! I wish they posted recipes using the protein powders more frequently though. All in all, a great product! Stacy Jantz verified owner — April 19, Ive tried others but I keep coming back because nothing even comes close! Every flavor is perfect. I love how the Molten Chocolate reminds me of Nesquik that I had as a kid, most chocolate protein tastes kinda plain.
So much love for Apollo! Kristen Mohamed verified owner — April 20, I changed it up and bought the new caramel flavor and was not disappointed. This stuff mixes up great in smoothies or just with water. Will never stop buying! Eliana verified owner — April 20, The birthday cake cupcake protein is so good! Would definitely get it again!
Canikah Lockett — April 21, The banana flavor wasnt my favorite. It taste like medicine. I really want to try the vanilla. Also I had gas after drinking this not sure why. Sarah — April 22, I was satisfied with the size of the container, it was reasonably priced.
I definitely recommend this product. I bought the salted Carmel and instantly regretted my decision. It literally has no flavor and is also very gritty like sand. Not impressed in the least bit. So, I tried the cookies and creme protein powder and it is delicious! I have ordered that flavor twice, but this time I tried the chocolate! It is still good, but not as flavorful and not as delicious as the cookies and creme.
It is an average chocolate taste and texture, and I would say that what would make it better would be a richer chocolate flavor! I think that would make it 5 stars! So for me, cookies and creme is a 5 star, and chocolate is more of an average 4. I played it safe and got the Vanilla Milkshake flavor and it was SO yummy!! The consistency is perfect and the taste is amazing!
Allie verified owner — April 24, Estee verified owner — April 24, I even use it to make myself cookie dough.
I got the birthday cake flavor. LOVE my unico protein!! Tried the birthday cake flavor — amazing! This does not have that, and really tastes like birthday cake! The taste is awesome!
Even with just water! Thank you so much for this product! Karie verified owner — April 26, Caramel Flavor tastes just like caramel. The flavor is good. The energy you get is great and you feel full. I absolutely love this protein powder! Samantha Harrell verified owner — April 29, I have tried a lot of different protein powders and this is by far my favoirte. It mixes well with no grit or chalky flavor. The vanilla milkshake is true to its flavore name.
I ordered both the chocolate peanut butter and gooey cinnamon roll and they both taste incredible. Not only does the protein taste amazing, but the ingredients are what really made me look in to this brand. The grass fed whey along with casein make this a great protein shake for any time of the day or post workout.
Cant wait to try more flavors! They actually taste good! Meagan Price verified owner — May 2, Best tasting protein powder ever. Thank you for making such amazing products!!! Sierra Kuckein verified owner — May 2, Tastes so good just with water or in oats or in baking or smoothies….
Crystal Torres — May 3, Brittanyjbecker verified owner — May 4, I have tried both the Salted Caramel and the Birthday Cake and they are incredible! Lindsey verified owner — May 7, Like this protein powder! A little high in carbs compared to others , but tastes great. Also, the scooper seems to be a bit large, measure the powder using a scale to get accurate gram count! I absolutely love this protein powder.
I have tried protein powders before and have never enjoyed the flavor OR the consistency. I ordered the Cookies and Creme flavored one and absolutely love it. Genuinely tastes like a CandC milkshake. The second best part, is how long it leaves me feeling satisfied. I drink it in the morning and I feel satisfied until lunch time which is awesome! Hope verified owner — May 8, Will definitely be buying again. I got chocolate peanut butter and when I mix with a little milk it really tastes like a milkshake!
The frosted cinnamon roll is to die for. I mix this with milk and the texture is smooth and easy to get down. This protein keeps me full for a long period of time. Bailey verified owner — May 10, Sara Bijan verified owner — May 13, Very clean taste and amazing macros. The birthday cake flavor is my favorite!
Ana — May 14, Hunger and craving curbing like no other!! I have the fastest metabolism and am constantly snacking every 3 hours and one scoop with water I swear fills me up for over 5 hours!!! Not to mention the flavor are heavenly! Hunger and craving curbing like no other!
A single scoop keeps me full for up to 5 hours, and I swear I have the fastest metabolism ever! Amazing taste and wide variety of flavors, excited to continue to try more! I feel full, it lasts a long time. It never feels like I am truly replacing a meal. I am enjoying the taste and having what feels like a real meal.
I will continue to purchase this product for a long time. I am incredibly happy with it. The delicious vanilla pure protein powder was very tasty. I loved making banana protein pancakes with it and the flavor was the best protein powder that I have had without that super protein taste. It was very fluffy in the shakes And great quality. I have never been a salted caramel fan but this product is aaamazing!!! I absolutely love it! Shauna verified owner — May 19, I liked the taste of the powder but I was really disappointed in the packaging.
Birthday Cake Cupcake is absolutely delicious!! I blended some frozen strawberries with it and it tasted like homemade cake. I have tried many other protein powders and before ordering from Unico. It gives me everything I need after a tough workout to re-fuel and keep me going until my meal. Laura verified owner — May 22, Alexis Cordivari verified owner — May 23, The flavor is amazing and the powder is very fine so it mixes extremely well with no lumps!
Kathleen verified owner — May 24, Like I enjoy drinking my protein because of this brand. This is one of the best protein powders that i have tried. I purchased the burthday cupcake and it tastes awesome! I will definitely purchase again. I will be trying the other flavors: HP verified owner — May 25, This is seriously one of the best tasting proteins I have tried. I have tried to gooey cinnamon roll and birthday cupcake.
Both are absolutely wonderful! They are a little off putting because they get soggy after a little bit. Kelly OBrien verified owner — May 25, The cinnamon flavor is so darn delicious!!! Andrea verified owner — May 28, Jackie Gutierrez verified owner — May 29, Honestly the best tasting protein I have had in a while.
I definitely recommend anyone to try this. I usually get the vanilla because I like to make different flavored shakes. Low carbs, and tastes so good. My first time really using protein powder… I can tell a difference in my workouts and I LOVE the taste of the cupcake flavor. Nora Lavella verified owner — June 1, Tiggerbear97 verified owner — June 1, Alyssa Gray verified owner — June 2, This is the best protein ever!
Low carbs, minimal ingredients.. Jenna verified owner — June 2, Stephanie Cisco verified owner — June 2, I always struggled with finding a good protein that also tastes good. Until I found this! Muriel K verified owner — June 3, I love the birthday cake protein with strawberry! Very cute with sprinkles and all, but the key is it curbs hunger longer than most when using as replacement. Tiffany verified owner — June 4, No chalky taste, no unbearable flavors and goes down smooth!
Meagon verified owner — June 4, Josie Dennis verified owner — June 4, This is hands down the best tasting protein I have found yet. And no after taste which makes it even better. Allison Shinnebarger verified owner — June 4, This one is simply the best! So far, I am loving this!! The taste is amazing, and I definitely feel full afterwards. I already ordered my second round, just to be sure I never run out. Right now I have the birthday cake and the little sprinkles just brighten my day!
Finally a protein worth sipping. I have tried so many different protein powders, and I keep coming back to Unico!! I love adding them into my smoothies they always end up tasting like milkshakes and Apollo makes really good protein waffles as well!! Not gritty at all, I look forward to using my protein every day! This is the most delicious protein out there. Cinnamon roll literally tastes like a dessert.
Egads verified owner — June 7, The chocolate lava and cookies and dream are my fav. The banana pie was also good. Wish they would get samples back in.
I want to try choc peanut butter. Kristin verified owner — June 8, I have to limit myself because the vanilla shake is so good. TraumaQueen verified owner — June 9, Really enjoying this product, looking forward to trying the other flavors and the vegan option. Kindal verified owner — June 9, Vicktorea verified owner — June 11, Chessa leisring verified owner — June 11, This product is phenomenal. I have tried almost every protein powder out there and this is the best tasting and also keeps me feeling full the longest.
It also mixes well and has no chalky texture. The Birthday Cake cupcake flavor is amazing!!! Ashley Cardillo verified owner — June 11, I love this protein! I try to watch how much added sugar is in the supplements I use and there is hardly any added sugar.
My favorite so far is the cinnamon roll one. It tastes like a churro. However, I knew that I needed to start taking protein after the gym so I bought the chocolate lava shake flavor.
So I tried it with milk and it was much better to stomach for me so that may be the way I need to drink it all the time. Other than that, the chocolate flavor itself is good and it did leave me feeling full after a workout and held me until I was home to cook dinner. Lulu — June 12, Almost finished with the banana cream pie flavor, came back here to reorder the same flavor. Read a review that it tastes like banana laffy taffy, and I can confirm.
Also, if you mix it with coconut milk and pineapple orange juice it tastes like a vacation. I was really surprised about how good this tasted for a vegan protein powder. It almost does have a nutty flavor even tho the only nut in it is coconut. Merlin Solares verified owner — June 12, First of all, I love that you have the option to chose vegan. I hope more flavors come out! As someone who was paying out the butt for Shakeology for well over a year, I was so happy to find Unarco!
Great product and tastes amazing! Leah verified owner — June 12, The molten lava chocolate and cinnamon bun protein powders are phenomenal! The cookies and cream tastes just like an Oreo Milkshake! The protein itself is great. The flavor of the Chocolate Peanut Butter, however, is a tad disappointing. I have to dd my own PB2 powder to get the peanut butter flavor. Aside from banana not being quite my cup of tea, the rest are freaking amazing.
It also bakes really well! Kate — June 13, The shakes are smooth, blend well in smoothies and with a blender bottle, and are absolutely delicious! Melissa verified owner — June 13, Allison Born verified owner — June 13, I love how versatile the powders are. I can shake them up with just milk, blend them into smoothies, bake them in food, or even just blend them into protein balls. And I feel great after.
I always have cold coffee in my fridge usually left over from a full pot I made. Samiyah Benjamin verified owner — June 13, Best tasting protein powder ever… Exactly like a vanilla milkshake. I rate this product both thumbs up!!! I love how my protein shakes come out so creamy if I add ice and very flavorful or make my proats super creamy! I was super hesitant to purchase- every company always states that their protein powders are non-chalky, and delicious..
Unico birthday cake protein is exactly as described: You will absolutely NOT regret buying the protein- whatever flavor you choose. I am going to start purchasing more flavors so I can tag them in depending on what I am craving cause.. Nicole Pizza verified owner — June 15, I have tried many of these flavors.
My all time favorite is Cinnamon Roll. This flavor is not too sweet, but delicious, especially when blended with ice and milk in the blender. For sweeter flavors I would choose birthday cake or cookies and cream. None of these proteins have the nasty chalky taste. As far as performance, they keep me satisfied and when used properly I see sufficient gains.
My mom recently ordered the vegan option. Did I mention it not only smells amazing but tastes amazing and I can drink it with just unsweetened almond milk?
Kathryn Gagnon verified owner — June 16, Cookies and cream tastes just like a milkshake just by adding the suggested amount of water! This protein powder is sweet and creamy and mixes like a dream. Sara P verified owner — June 17, Tastes great and mixes very well. Does not taste chalky at all and is a great post workout shake. I will definitely be repurchasing again. Zach Burton verified owner — June 18, I have tried multiple flavors and they are all super tasty. I will be a repeat buyer!
Christan — June 20, I just received the Caramel today. I mixed with 50g of banana and cashew milk. Add a pinch or two of salt and it knocks the flavor out of the park. Tastes like straight caramel sauce!
A Unico protein shake has become a part of my everyday breakfast. Mixes well and is very filling. I have a smile on my face while typing this review; I just finished my morning shake!
I cant wait to try more favors! Cheryce Ward verified owner — June 25, Desiree Hernandez verified owner — June 29, Julie verified owner — July 1, Carrie verified owner — July 6, A lot of different products leave a lot to be desired in the flavor department.
NOT the case with this. Ordered birthday cake cupcake and oh my heck! Would definitely recommend and will be ordering more! Spencer verified owner — July 11, I went out on a whim and ordered the delicious vanilla icecream milkshake flavor and the second it landed on my doorstep I was dumping it into a blender bottle with some almond milk. One sip in and I ran to my social media to tell everyone to stop what they were doing and go out and purchase this product themselves!
This is hands down the smoothest and best tasting protein powder on the planet what used to be a daunting task for me is now something I look forward to waking up and drinking. Not only does it taste great it also keeps me full for hours and as someone who works in emergency medicine that is very important.
Cassie verified owner — July 13, This stuff is good. I have tried four flavors; banana, caramel, cinnamon roll, and chocolate peanut butter, and all of them are amazing in comparison to other protein shakes. The consistency of the powder itself is really light and in a shaker, it froths. Some other protein brands leave a crunchy, unhydrated chalk even after vigorous shaking, but not this one.
The flavor is exactly as promised, it tastes like a cinnamon roll from Cinnabon, covered in icing when it is mixed in water!! The macros are perfect and it makes me so happy to have this flavor again while cutting, without needing a cheat day. I am in love. Crystal Maher verified owner — July 19, This protein powder is soooooooo freaking good!! So, no thank you. Each delicious shake provides 7g protein and 25 vitamins and minerals. Each kid-approved flavor comes in a reclosable bottle — perfect for kids on the go…and on the grow!
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By: B-Side (Two Beers) –
Dinosaur bones, wild(ish) leopards, and Cary Grant with nerd glasses: some things are just very hard to explain. The beauty of Bringing Up Baby, though, is that this film doesn't care; it's too busy having fun to bother with explaining. Chaos reigns, and the only thing you can know for sure is that things move fast.
So it really doesn't matter that the plot of this film revolves around Katherine Hepburn's sharp-nosed socialite and Grant's bumbling paleontologist smuggling an Amazonian jungle cat onto a Connecticut estate, the consequences of which include spending a not insignificant amount of screen time chasing after a terrier, up roofs, or in jail. Just go with it, because while Bringing Up Baby may not be the best example of the screwball genre, it's pretty damn close.
A Toast
Screwball comedies are absurd and mannered both, a meeting of opposites that's confused and crazy until it's true love, silly. The eerily well-trained cats portraying the titular "Baby" whom Susan Vance and David Huxley find themselves charged with are quite hilarious – think Mike Tyson's tiger from The Hangover but with more cuddling and a musical Achilles heel – but the movie's success ultimately rests on the strength of its two leads.
Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn each bring interesting touches to the broadly sketched characters they play. Poor, benighted David is a Type-A academic, inept and aloof, and the film earns the GDP of a small European nation running rings around him, but Grant plays him a little knowingly – as bamboozled as he is, you get the sense he kinda likes it – which saves him from coming off as a complete schmuck. Katherine Hepburn, as well, in cadence and looks often brings an awareness to the flighty Susan, the sense that she knows exactly what she is doing, that wreaking havoc on David's ordered world is infinitely preferable to the pain of letting him go. Grant overcompensates for his character's flaws with a little extra charm, Hepburn grounds hers with instances of vulnerability. When you put the two together, they come off as perfect for each other, each able to be a victim and/or a perp of screwball comedy.
These might be the parents of that "Interesting Man" who drinks Dos Equis
Not that we ever spend too long on boring things like feelings. Bringing Up Baby is, for Bill Waterson fans, the filmic equivalent of Calvinball: the circumstances, the allegiances, even the identities of the players, and especially the rules of the game are all in constant flux. The madcap pacing itself becomes a kind of order, and this is where Howard Hawks' decidedly not-showy directorial style really serves the film. Because Hawks makes everything visually seem seamless, and moves his story too quickly and too effortlessly for its causality to be questioned, the audience is simply free to enjoy the insanity of the film's various situations, Grant's game pratfalls, and Hepburn's razor wit.
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Let's get into specifics of that insanity for a minute. Bringing Up Baby is highly regarded now by critics, but it wasn't always so. When the film came out, it was actually slammed for being a little too crazy, the New York Times calling it, "breathless, senseless and terribly, terribly fatiguing." On one score, they're right: the amount of jail-time, cross-dressing, and uncontrollable animals packed into this film's 102 minutes is kind of exhausting. Hawks really doesn't choose to linger on one situation until many of the characters end up arrested for breaking and entering, and the film uses Hepburn in particular to send up the gangster genre. But because the only time the movie slows down is for satire, the chock-a-block pace of the gags can wear down a viewer, particularly on a first viewing when no end appears in sight.
Speaking so fast is stressful, you guys!
The sheer amount of misunderstandings and standoffs with possibly feral leopards don't necessarily weigh the film down or induce migraines, but they do bury, a little, several truly inspired comedy sequences among a whole lot of funny, but not necessarily exceptional, gags. And because neither Grant nor Hepburn is completely the straight-man, the duty necessarily falls to the viewer to absorb every crisis the way a sane person would, which isn't always enjoyably.
However, if you can be patient with it, the film does reward your investment. There's a beauty to the changing dynamics of the extended jail sequence, for instance, which has Hepburn completely in control of a big cat – just until she realizes it isn't her big cat. Bringing Up Baby can change comedic directions on a dime, and following all the zigs and zags can wear on a viewer, for sure. But because the characters' charms remain constant (and constantly crazy), the film never truly wears out its welcome.
As zany and farcical as screwball comedies come, if Bringing Up Baby has a fault, it's that it is too stuffed full of bits and gags. But Grant and Hepburn, at their sharpest and speediest, make the film a ride worth taking.
Drinking Game
Take a Drink: anytime it is obvious that "Baby" is actually stuffed/not actually present within a shot.
Take a Drink: anytime Susan can't take one of David's hints.
Do a Shot: anytime anyone sings, "I don't need anything but love."


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On Lance Gibbs
Beginning this Saturday well known sports commentator Pryor Jonas will start a series of sports features to be published once weekly dealing specifically with past greats from Guyana.
He will start with former Guyana and West Indies off spin bowler Lance Gibbs who once held the world record for Test wickets and also is the first spinner to top the 300-wicket mark.
This is the first of a series of articles featuring the first two greatest cricketers our country has so far produced: Lance Gibbs, Rohan Kanhai. I have mentioned them in order of chronology, not magnitude. For to me, Rohan Kanhai was the greater of the two. Clive Lloyd, though of similar breadth of greatness, was of a much more recent vintage.
Here are three questions for old-timers like myself or for youthful students of the game like yourself. They are posed in order of research necessity. For they will entail some research - unless you are really sharp or, if you are an old-timer, your memory still is tops.
- What is Lance Gibbs' full name?
- When was our first world-record-holder born?
- Whom did he eclipse to become world record holder?
I was glad when this newspaper invited me to write again on sport - gladder still when I was told the reasons. To me, one reason stood out more than all the others multiplied together: namely, helping the down-and-out legitimate old-timer who represented his country in some game or other.
Let's take Bud Parks, for instance. Bud is dead and gone now, but whenever I saw him in the flesh, tall and gaunt, painting road-signs in the heat of the day, I would stop and dismount; I had to. Later, on ascertaining my name - I wouldn't tell him because I knew he'd find out - he'd ask me why. I'd only smile. He could never know why. Never!
If I were to ask you - not you old-timer, but you, young man, once you are forty years or under - if I were to ask you whether you knew that another legitimate great footballer, Lewis "Waterboat" Weithers was still around, do you know what I suspect you would say? Lewis Who?
Forgive me. I have just let my emotion run away with me a little. The rest of this article - there will be several such - will not be about football or boxing, which I love next to soccer, but about cricket - that most wonderful of games when everyone suddenly becomes an authority, perhaps even an expert, once he (today it's very often she) has played the game or read about it a little.
All I'm asking you, in addition to your expertise, is that you be Guyanese also. I'm inviting you to come with me to Bourda - the lovely Bourda sward. It's Gibbs' back yard, you know - for Test cricket, that is - as it was Kanhai's and for me, Sobers'. If you were happy to talk about local first-class cricket also, then I'd have to take you a few blocks further north - to Queenstown, not Bourda, to the DCC, not the GCC.
But let's talk about Test cricket, not Case Cup. And let's go back on Friday 16th and Sunday 19th. The game, like the world, was much more leisurely then. Though the passions remained, the Sabbath was discreetly observed. No one dared play Test cricket on a Sunday a generation ago.
It's the 102nd Test Match that we were engaging in. And it was Gibbs' 24th. The West Indies were opposing Australia. Believe it or not, we beat them by the handsome margin of 212 runs. Here are the bald statistics:
West Indies 355 (Kanhai 89) and 180 Australia 179 (Gibbs 3 for 51) and 144 (Gibbs 6 for 29)
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Although they have always been present in human beings, emotions should not define us. When acting on them, knowledge should mold them in an attempt to find the best response. If this were not the case, how could we explaina fireman risking his life to put out a fire? His emotion, telling him to run the other way, is tempered by the knowledge that he can save other people's lives, overriding his instinct.
Emotional intelligence is the best tool for introducing yourself. This is where the cognitive aspect takes on vital importance. Emotional intelligence will become the factor that sets you apart. The same is true when experience is your way in. If we were all engineers, they would have to search for a differentiating factor in the emotional sphere. If we all had extensive experience, once again, it is our emotional capacities that make us stand out. This is what will eventually make the difference.
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The little girl saw her first polling place and asked,
"What are those?"
"What are voters?"
"They are for elections. They fight and each tries to control
As much of the other side as he can."
The girl held still and studied.
"Do you know… I know something?"
"Yes, what is it you know?
"Sometime they'll give an election and nobody will come." ((Adapted from Sandberg, Carl "The People, Yes."))
Yesterday, I committed a grave heresy in the cult of democracy – I didn't vote. I didn't proceed in a single-file line of patriotic-duty-fulfilling men and women to check in with a computer screen. I didn't translate my hopes and dreams for myself and my society into a series of multiple-choice keystrokes and a paper-receipt. I didn't don the ritualistic sticker to show my friends and co-workers. I didn't come home to sit by the radio and strain to hear my voice amongst the digitized, standardized, equalized, sterilized, numericized hum of hundreds of thousands of other voters. I didn't work out the odds of the significance of my vote while crossing my fingers and hoping to hear my numbers called out my candidate's name called out on the air. But most importantly, I cast in neither my lot nor my tacit approval for the system.
All the same, by staying home, I know that I've now opened myself up to the oft-repeated, rarely supported claim that since I didn't vote, if I don't like the government I get, then I have no right to complain. Others will tell me that I cast a vote by staying home – that it is impossible not to vote in a democracy as silence implies consent. Both objections are often offered, yet are almost never logically defended, and are easily shown to be absurd. In fact, I have chosen to withdraw my consent, and believe that doing so is the most effective, and perhaps the only practical method of exposing the state for what it is, and moving beyond it as a society.
To the claim that by not participating, I have no right to complain – this is nonsensical, and voting is the only social scenario where anyone believes this to be true. If your homeowner's society fell under the influence of deranged arsonists who invited you to decide along with them which house they were going to burn to the ground, and you found this perverse and chose to stay home, would you have any less moral standing to complain when they voted to burn down yours? This isn't a fair parallel, the obvious objection will go, you can't compare a spontaneous collaboration of psychopaths to an established government with legitimate authority.
The people can't collectively grant moral privileges that they don't themselves possess. But the state certainly does require consenting people to carry out its will, and it appeals to the alleged mandate of its constituency to justify its actions in order to elicit that consent.
Leaving aside the subjective evaluation of which activities – arson, taxation, warfare, imprisonment for victimless crimes, etc. – can be labeled "psychopathic," let's focus on the "established" and "legitimate authority" portions of the statement. As for whether or not the length of existence is an important distinction between the American government and the newly-founded gang of arsonists, let's change the analogy to living within the territory of an established, long-standing, and known mafia racket. Do their victims have any less of a right to complain because they knew the deal, and yet chose to run their businesses there anyways? As for the legitimacy of their authority, much can be and has been said on this topic that can't be easily rehashed here, but for our purposes, we will simply ask from where this authority is derived. The cult of democracy will answer "from the people."
The cult of democracy has plenty of lies at its disposal, and it's easy to dismiss them as a whole. The idea that the government derives its power from the people is one which I used to dismiss, but is also one which I don't think we can afford to. It's not true in the sense that they mean it, of course. The people can't collectively grant moral privileges that they don't themselves possess. But the state certainly does require consenting people to carry out its will, and it appeals to the alleged mandate of its constituency to justify its actions in order to elicit that consent.
Imagine just one psychopathic arsonist invited everyone to vote on whose house to burn down, and everyone else did the reasonable adult thing: stayed home, and warned their children and loved ones to stay the hell away from the crazy man's house? What if instead of granting legitimacy and moral immunity to the crazed arsonist, the community kept an eye on him, and used every means at their disposal to neutralize the threat posed by their dangerous misanthropic neighbor?
What if they gave an election and nobody came? Voters are always telling us non-voters to be practical. Although my primary reasons for not voting are moral (a more detailed post on my moral reasons for not voting will likely follow soon, but for now see "What If You Had to Choose"), I also believe that not voting is unquestionably practical. Without the consent and participation of the masses, the government would share the same fate as the lonely arsonist in our example. He would be seen for the threat that he is, and the community would defend itself accordingly, rather than being dragged into his misdeeds.
But I'm just one man, the obvious objection will go, and no one will ever notice the absence of my vote. First of all, you're actually in very good company. Voter turnout in the US trails well beyond most "established" democracies. In the 2014 mid-terms, the national voter turn-out was less than 36%. ((Fairvote. "Voter Turnout", accessed March 6, 2016)). Simply Google "low voter turn-out" to see how the Cult of Democracy feels about this. They admit that not voting is actually the greatest threat to a democracy. They call voting things like "the expression of our commitment to …this country." ((Salzberg, Sharon http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/voting.html accessed March 6, 2016)) They warn that without a significant voter turn-out, politicians couldn't be argued to have any sort of "mandate" (by which they mean the mythological moral authority garnered from a certain magnitude of votes), and even call for eliminating this very real threat by making voting mandatory. ((Liu, Eric "Should Voting Be Mandatory?" Time. August 21, 2012, accessed March 6, 2016))
In The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy astutely identified withdrawal from the system as the necessary next step in man's progression towards what he called "the Christian Conception of Life," or what I prefer to call simply, "the Kingdom of God." Tolstoy employed the image of a hive of bees "hanging in a cluster to branch" which they know to be only a temporary position, which "must inevitably be changed." Some bees, towards the surface, can fly away. Many others are held down by those above them, unable to fly until those above do. But, in fact, each bee is an individual with its own wings and the ability to force itself free. The bees, like ourselves, are all endowed by our creator with the ability to escape the system, and enter the "Kingdom" way of living. If each bee realized this fact, and each bee that was able began to fly from the branch, others would follow, and still more would follow them, until all the bees found themselves flying free of the branch. So might we too each individually renounce the Statist paradigm and way of living, and instead chose to live in the way of the "Kingdom of God."
If we're ever to leave the branch, we need a few brave bees to lead the way. We can't keep standing on the hive, pinning down those beneath us while we bicker amongst ourselves over potential solutions such as the construction of a bridge from the hive to our destination. We can't move the hive by fighting our way down into the center of it to try to oust the queen. We simply must fly. And someday if enough bees fly away, we won't have to worry about ever convincing the queen to join us. She can do what she wishes, but without the workers, if she refuses to fly, she'll starve anyhow, and of her own accord. Nothing is to be gained by remaining at the hive now. It's time to for us each to fly.


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"The Explanar has succeeded where countless teaching Pro's have failed" - Dave Ley
"Thanks again for sorting the Explanar out for me & my friend Ron - it really is a great piece of kit.
Ron should be used on their advertising because the first time we used it (obviously we didn't read or watch the instructions - we're blokes!) the roller lifted at the top then BANG on the way down. Wet myself at this point and then realised we should watch the instruction DVD!
Anyway the results have been quite dramatic, especially for Ron, who now knows where the left side of the fairway is!
It has taken his fade/slice to a straight/slight draw (which gets him grinning) and you can only imagine the extra distance he has achieved; quite substantial for an old man, sorry Ron.
I have also benefited with extra yardage and a smoother swing, so results all-round.
Once again thanks from me & Ron. The Explanar has succeeded where countless teaching Pro's have failed in curing Ron D James! Cheers."


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So, after a year on the market with Aurora Conspiracy: The Story Didn't End with a Crash... the Epic Journey Began...yikes! (It's okay-we say that too!) and a cover that looked like this...
Okay, yikes again! Who is this guy in the hoodie anyway? We decided it was time to put on a new dress. A dress that was more suitable for our target audience-Young Adult.
We spent what seemed like hundreds of hours going through hundreds of cover designs and are proud to release the new cover and new title for Quest of the Hybrid! It's hard to make drastic changes, but we knew what we had inside the cover was special, and it deserved much more thought and a firm stance with our publisher, who originally chose the cover and title.
So lessons to be learned? Don't rush to market. Don't let someone make you wear a dress that doesn't fit! Change is always an option.
The new book will be available by the end of this week, and I will add the link here once it is posted. Would love to hear from you to see what your thoughts are on the changes we made, or if you have had a similar experience you would like to share.


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The business index of South African tourism is at an all-time low since 2011 because the numbers of visitors have declined due to the new visa regulations of the country. The new visa regulations make it difficult for the international visitors, especially those who are travelling with minors who are under the age of 15, to gain entry into the country itself. The latest index score, which presents a decrease of 16.3 index points from the first quarter of 2015, additionally hit a four-year low for the year 2011. This index is created by the Tourism Business Council of South Africa.
The International Tourism sector in South Africa
The tourism sector of South Africa, which contributes nearly 3% of the total GDP of the country and employs nearly 1.5 million individuals, is performing below expectations because of the new visa regulations which prevent the entry of international visitors to the country. As per the new visa regulations, any individual who is travelling with a minor under the age of 18 is required to show an unabridged birth certificate at South Africa's entry port on top of the normal passport and visa being shown.
Additionally, international visitors also need to apply for a South African visa in person so that the biometric information of the individual, which is obtained via fingerprints, is reliably collected. Via the use of biometric information for visa applications is quite a common practice, however, in the case of South Africa, there are very few visa processing centers in foreign countries and are quite far from the residence place of international visa applicants.
The sign of declination
Grant Thornton which is a consulting and advisory firm presented a study on the impact of the new visa regulations of South Africa on the tourism sector. The result of this study showed that in comparison to the first quarter of 2014, during the first quarter of 2015, South Africa lost nearly 150,000 international tourists and nearly $128 million as a result of direct expenses. Due to the new visa regulations, South Africa is losing from countries like India, China, Taiwan, Nigeria, South Korea, Ghana and Russia. These countries were once the few countries that resulted in the greatest number of tourists who visited South Africa.
Additionally, visitors from 11 of the 12 tourist hotspots showed signs of decline. Only Philippines showed no signs of decline in tourism as the number of international visitors who visited the country remain unchanged.
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London Fashion Week started off yesterday with plenty of fanfare and digital ways to keep up. And since the big debate of the moment is men in kilts, skirts, dresses, what-have-you, J.W. Anderson further challenged the notion of cross-dressing styles with the presentation of his androgynous fall/winter 2013 collection. Men walked down the runway in shorts/skirt hybrids, male halter-tops, and knee length gowns. With Kanye West and A$AP Rocky pushing the draped look forward, it will be interesting to see if the trend catches on in 2013. What do you think? Has the "skirt" trend gone too far?
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Man With Nature
When you have to clean the yard
Spring has sprung and the plants are starting to return
The remains of a harsh winter are left behind
Fallen branches and twigs everywhere
Acorns and leaves cover the ground
I pull out the rake and start to clean and make the yard nice again
The leaves pile after pile accumulate
It is not long before you start cutting the grass
Trimming some branches and getting rid of any debree that could of planted itself in the corner
What an amazing feeling finally seeing the beauty underneath
I feel like life has started over
I can not wait to see all the plants grow
The grass green again
The smells in the air that make beauty dance on my soul
Look around and what have I found
A little flower under here
Clearing away so it can grow
I walk away with the excitement of a job well done
Now I can enjoy more wonders of life under the sun
Beautiful!!! i really envy those people who knows how to write poems... I really struggled hard when i had to make a poem in our school project back then!...
Well now that your job is done is time to sit back, enjoy the sun and just dream on brother
Love this line: "The smells in the air that make beauty dance on my soul." Great one. Thanks for sharing this poem.
Love and peace
Dream on, I love poems and this one is great! It's very different in thought and I love that! I have enjoyed reading your hubs, my friend!
Beautiful! Thanks again DREAM ON!
you are such a happy soul, lovely.


text: Turkey's air force has hit Kurdish targets in northern Iraq after a car bombing struck the Turkish capital, Ankara, killing at least 37 people and wounding more than 70 others. The state-run Anadolu news agency said nine F-16s and two F-4 jets on Monday raided 18 positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), including the Qandil mountains where the group's leadership is based. The retaliation was reported as funerals were held in Ankara for the victims of Sunday's bombing. The air strikes targeted ammunition depots, bunkers and shelters. The Turkish military said the targets were hit "with precision", and a PKK spokesman confirmed the strikes. Talk to Al Jazeera - Davutoglu on ISIL, Syrian refugees, and Ankara bombing Police also carried out raids in the southern city of Adana, detaining suspected PKK members, Anadolu reported. The private Dogan news agency said at least 36 suspects were taken into custody. Fifteen suspected Kurdish fighters were also detained in Istanbul, Anadolu said. Mehmet Muezzinoglu, Turkey's health minister, gave a toll of 37 on Monday but said this included at least one attacker and possibly two. Security officials told Reuters news agency that a female member of PKK was one of two suspected perpetrators. A police source said her severed hand had been found 300 metres from the blast site. The second suspected bomber was a male Turkish citizen with links to PKK, Reuters cited a Turkish security official as saying. There has not been any claim of responsibility for the bombing. Sunday's attack was the second powerful blast to rock Ankara in three weeks. READ MORE: Ankara bombing and the failing Turkish state Witnesses said the blast set vehicles on fire and heavily damaged several buses. The explosion sent burning debris showering down over an area a few hundred metres from the justice and interior ministries, a top courthouse, and the former office of the prime minister. "These attacks, which threaten our country's integrity and our nation's unity and solidarity, do not weaken our resolve in fighting terrorism but bolster our determination," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement. Local broadcasters reported that an Ankara court ordered a ban on access to Facebook, Twitter and other sites in Turkey after images from the car bombing were shared on social media. Sunday's attack, which claimed 37 lives, was the second powerful bombing to strike Ankara in three weeks [Reuters] Sunday's attack comes only three weeks after a suicide car bombing in Ankara targeted buses carrying military personnel, killing 29 people. "We know how and when we will respond," Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's prime minister, told Al Jazeera in an interview, referring to the February attack. "Definitely, those who made this attack against our people will pay the price. But how and when, we will decide. And when it happens, everybody will see that Turkey can respond [to] any challenges and any attack against it." A Kurdish armed group, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), which is an offshoot of the outlawed PKK, claimed responsibility for that attack. TAK says it split from the PKK. There has not been any claim of responsibility for the Ankara bombing as of Monday [Reuters] Turkey has been fighting on multiple fronts. As part of a US-led coalition, it is battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), which has seized territory in neighbouring Syria and Iraq. It is also battling the outlawed PKK in its southeast, where a two-and-a-half-year ceasefire collapsed last July, prompting the worst violence since the 1990s. Turkey sees the unrest in its largely Kurdish southeast as deeply linked to events in northern Syria, where the Kurdish YPG militia had been seizing territory as it fights both ISIL and rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad. READ MORE: Turkish PM - Those who attack 'will pay the price' Turkey fears those gains will stir separatist ambitions among its own Kurds and has long argued that the YPG and PKK have close ideological and operational ties. In its armed campaign in Turkey, the PKK has historically struck directly at the security forces and says it does not target civilians. ISIL has carried out at least four bomb attacks on Turkey since June 2015, including a suicide bombing which killed 10 German tourists in central Istanbul in January. SOURCE: Al Jazeera and agencies Turkey Security Europe ISIS Kurds


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As what I have said before, I am one of the officer in Visayan Ethnocultural Organization here in Guelph. Our goal is to provide humanitarian, social and educational services to all members and affiliates in the community especially through participation with other organizations. Our organization started last year and now we are planning to have a custom lapel pins to be use during our Christmas activities. We plan to order it online and distribute to our members.
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High Cholesterol + Candidate for Back Surgery
I have been under care of Dr. Tyler for four years. When I first got introduced to True Life Wellness, I didn't feel too bad. However, I had routinely suffered with chronic sinus infections, had low back pain, and was told my cholesterol was sky high. After seeing doctors who told me that I needed to have back surgery, and, that I should go on a cholesterol reducing medicine (and take it the rest of my life), I decided to take a different route. Read more…
After doing a lot of praying and talking with friends and family, I was led to Dr. Tyler. Right from the start, I was impressed with Dr. Tyler's approach to wellness. His wealth of knowledge, his passion to educate and help people, and his kind and fun personality made the appointments something to look forward to.
In just three months of adjustments and getting better educated about my posture and my body, my cholesterol dropped 70 points! Within just a few more months I was free of the back pain and back to running – without ANY surgery. Today, I am back to teaching step aerobics classes and have never functioned or felt better!
Over the tenure of my care at True Life Wellness, I have gained much better health – I haven't had a sinus infection or been back to the doctor for any sickness for years!
The entire staff is incredibly kind, thoughtful, informative and fun. I can't imagine you would find a better partner in your health/wellness care than Dr. Tyler and his staff.


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Solarix Networks Limited is formed as one of New Zealand's leading bespoke managed WAN companies. Before this we existed in many guises.
Acquisition of Telco in a Box (TIAB) assets, which sees Solarix enter the access and voice wholesale market through its Kiwitel Brand
Acquisition of Christchurch based Unleash Networks, giving Solarix a strong foothold in the South Island.
Solarix launches into Network as a Service capability with the birth of mysolarix. The customer portal that allows customers to create, manage and view all their solarix services from a central console.


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The definitive TARDIS dress by Sasha Trabane & Andy Coyle.
He's going to ask for MOAR. Here's our roundup of awesome links this week. After clicking through, you will automatically become more awesome. Yay!
Our favorite links from the Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and Pinterest 'verse:
Do you know your Marvel ABCs? (Deviant Art)
We're hosting another Knit & Crochet Night! Come be craftsy with us. (ThinkGeek)
Create your own Doctor Who crack in the universe. Wait... should we really be making these?! (Geek Native)
A familiar bedtime routine. (Chewing Fat)
This Doctor Who wedding cake is fantastic. (That's Nerdalicious)
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na DIY Batgirl tiiights! (My Geekilicious)
Geeky Valentine's Day PDF Cards <3 (ThinkGeek)
"The Time Job," a shiny timey-wimey mash-up. (Tumblr)
May the street art be with you. (Imgur)
Anybody want a shot of Patronum? (Pleated Jeans)
The 10th Doctor & Rose: tablets apart. (Cheezburger)
Spider-Man and Venom: web designers. (I Heart Chaos)
A Little Tolkien Book series: "The Hobbit," an unexpectedly adorable kid's book. (Rosemary Travale)
Nervous about your blind date? Don't worry, we're sure this book will show you a good time! (Storytime with Miss Mollie)
Tauntauns provide both lodging and meals! (Clutzy Cooking)
Legend of Zelda Triforce Lamp would go perfectly next to our Tetris lamp. (Deviant Art)
So... this is a Scottie pinwheel. (YouTube)
Octopizza. We call a tentacle slice! (Instructables)
Amazing Dr. Seuss cake! Almost too pretty to eat. Almost. (Between the Pages)
Forget what page you left off on? Don't worry, the Doctor will help you! (Etsy)
In case you missed it, J.J. Abrams will be directing Star Wars Episode VII. (LA Times)
Mario cake is maaarvelous. (Between the Pages)
Geek parenting FTW. (io9)
Doctor Who becomes legal tender. Say whaaat? (Stuff)
Nerd base is the best base. (Loldwell)
SHETLAND PONIES IN CARDIGANS. 'Nuff said. (Huffington Post)
Hand-carved newel post modeled after a tropical strangler fig tree; we hope they make a tentacle one next! (Tywkiwdbi)
The Princess Bride pregnancy test. (Geekosystem)


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The Guardian Mantis was Vana Sage's trademark ship. It was a unique starfighter of Xi Char design.
An extremely maneuverable three-winged craft, it could brake to a complete stop mid-flight as well as enable a stealth mode. Vana's astromech droid, Mod-3, maintained and repaired the ship while on-board.[2]
It was armed with two laser cannons, a nano missile launcher,[1] and a unique ion encumbrance system. This system launched small ion-enabled "tags", projectiles which attached to enemy vessels and caused an ionization effect which disabled their deflector shields.[2] These tags could also be used as homing beacons for the nano missiles.
Vana Sage was known to have used this ship as early as[3] 32 BBY[4] when she, along with the pirate Nym, and Naboo pilot Rhys Dallows destroyed a droid factory on Eos and attacked a Trade Federation convoy over Naboo, as well as defending a Naboo Resistance base on the planet's surface with Nym.[3] She continued to use this fighter years later and was last seen searching for news of her friend Reti.[5]
- "Single Cell"—Star Wars Tales 7 (Appears in flashback(s))
- Star Wars: Starfighter (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
- "Star Wars Starfighter: Starfighter Aces"—Star Wars Gamer 2
- Starfighter: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
- Star Wars Gamer 5
- The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 "Star Wars Starfighter: Starfighter Aces"—Star Wars Gamer 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Starfighter: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars: Starfighter
- ↑ The New Essential Chronology establishes on page 40 that the Invasion of Naboo happens in 32 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter


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Whilst reading the Reader for this part of the module, in particular the information given on Robert Axelrod and his Game Theory, I was reminded of a network I was involved in that was a game, the name of which I can no longer remember. It was an online adventure game and I used to play it with my best friend. We each had our own character and we had to find each other in the world we had chosen to live in. We could send messages to each other and make alliances with each other and other players. It then meant that we could turn on our allies and destroy them or we could help each other to become better. It was very much an example of succeeding at another's expense or fully cooperating to the point of maximum benefit to all of us. "Tit for Tat" was not a very successful strategy here because there were so many people participating in the game that it would be difficult to find that person again and there were so many people of a much higher level which meant one could not "Tat" them in return for their "Tit". My professional network is much like this game. If we don't cooperate then our job doesn't get done, or the ship doesn't sail, or something dangerous happens. As I demonstrated in my previous blog, there are cases when crew members use other crew members in order to get something extra which damages the bonds of the network and causes a reason to stat "Tit for Tat".
My personal networking is somewhat different. However, my professional network and personal network often overlap. Due to the nature of my job, I mainly communicate via Facebook and a lot of the people I work with are also on my Facebook account because we have become friends. Therefore, I always have to be careful of what I post and what is posted to me on my Facebook wall because something may get back to work that I want to keep private. My social networking is obviously much simpler as I generally use one medium to communicate with friends and colleagues. My networking within Twitter and Instagram is minimal because it is still very new to me and I am still getting used to it. On Facebook, one can be formal or informal depending on what the situation calls for and one must always be careful of how one wants to be perceived by others, as I talked about in a previous blog on the subject of being judged by employers. Someone is always the friend of a friend and that means that whatever one writes has a very high risk of getting back to someone who could either damage or further one's career. Networks via the internet, chat forums, Facebook, Blogs, Wiki's, Wikipedia, Twitter, Instagram, etc., are so vast that they link the entire world together. I have contacts all over the world on my Facebook and through my own contacts I am linked to all of their contacts too. Grace explains the planet of Pandora as "a global network" (Avatar) and that is exactly what the internet is. No matter what websites one uses, we are all involved in this global network.
In relation to learning networks and having read the extracts from George Siemens, Lave and Wenger and Crisp, J. Turner it raised some questions for me. I am curious to know how being introverted affects one's ability to learn through other people's experiences? If one's level of desired affiliation, social needs and connection are low then how does one learn through other's experiences? Does being introverted impair one's learning?
In my place of work, I am generally the most experienced cast member. With 12 contracts in 8 years it is not really surprising! I am 8 years older than when I first started and there are now new dancers arriving in my casts that are on their first job or their first cruise ship experience. I am often asked for help and advice because I have a vast knowledge of my field and they have very little. They learn from my experience and then discover more from their own experience. I have noticed that the new people who do not ask the older are usually a certain type of person, the kind that knows everything already, and has perhaps few friends. On the other hand, people like me, who are older and more experienced, find it difficult at first to connect to new young people because they are not able to understand my way of life because they have never experienced it and I am lost in understanding theirs having not been living onshore since I was 19. Once they have experienced living on a ship for a while it is much less difficult to connect socially with them because they have then also lost their strong connection to life on land. Also, being very experienced does not mean that I cannot continue to learn from their experiences as they may have experienced something that I haven't yet had a connection with, either from myself or from another person. We do not only learn from those that are more experienced than us but also for those who are less experienced. Their view of the situation may be different or something new might have happened to them that has not happened before.
Does living on a ship make connecting to people more difficult? Yes I think that in some ways it does. For example, a lot of my colleagues like television programs and celebrities and songs but when they start talking about them I have not got a clue what the are talking about! They found it unbelievable that I did not know what a Kardasian was and I was amazed that they cared so much about these people! However when they go home for the first time, they experience what I always experience because suddenly all their friends at home are talking about some new celebrity or singing along to a new song and they don't have a clue about it because they haven't heard about it yet due to being on board the ship.
Also there is the struggle to communicate with people. I notice a huge difference in that between my age and younger people. When I left I was using snail mail mostly to talk to my friends back home. It was the cheapest form of communication but it takes time. There was not yet what's app and WiFi was almost non existent! Now it is far easier and cheaper to stay connected with friends onshore because of the improvement in technology. People are in constant knowledge about what everybody else is doing so one is able to have a connection to their everyday life through web 2:0 applications.
Does people's need for privacy prevent networks from expanding?
It must because how can a network function without constant updates and more knowledge. An example, a ship cannot sail without fuel and the ship cannot get fuel without first informing the on shore office that the require fuel and the office then informing the fuel company that the ship needs fuel. Then the fuel company has to inform the fuel truck that they need to deliver fuel then they have to inform the tank that they are delivering fuel for the ship. But all of that is irrelevant if the ship hasn't communicated as to exactly where it needs the fuel to be. If all of that doesn't happen, then the ship won't be sailing and they will have no need for dancers which then puts me out of the job. By keeping the ships need for fuel private, everybody working in these networks will be out of the job and the network has failed.
Does the need to be seen as better than another prevent networks from being mutually beneficial to each other? In terms of dancers, I believe that this is a big issue. We are always competing against each other so letting a girl better than one's self know about a certain audition via a social network could damage one's own chances of getting the job. However, not letting the girl know means that she cannot even attempt to get the job. If only one person knows about an audition then there is no audition and the practice of auditioning becomes useless and the companies have not enough dancers, no performances, no money and eventually there is no company left.
This issue even exists when working in a company. Every dancers has heard the stories of understudies pushing the lead down the stairs or putting glass in their pointe shoes so that they take over as the lead. It benefits the "understudy" in the short run but once it is known that she or he is that kind of a person, everybody else refuses to work with them so ultimately they lose out on the work.
Jealously is a very human emotion but it is one most people try to suppress at all times because it is not only damaging to the person who is causing the jealously but it is damaging to the person who is feeling these emotions; socially, professionally and personally.
Can social networking with one's colleagues cause problems? I have experience of this, luckily it wasn't permanent friction. My previous cast mate and I became friends and were connected by Facebook. She took another contract when I had come home from a different contract for a holiday. She was in rehearsals when she became injured. She was then sent home for a time to recover. On the day she was sent home I received an email for emergency embarkation. I accepted and it appeared on my Facebook that I was going on a certain ship. This girl noticed and asked me why I was going on that ship when there was only her at home from rehearsals and she was suppose to be going back. I did not know at the time the situation because I had been given none of the reasons for this emergency except that there was a problem with one of the girls. It got to the point where she was angry with me for accepting a contract to the point that I had to tell her to take it up with the office if she thought that it was her that had been fired and I had been hired in her place. At that point she realised that this was not my fault and she apologised for getting angry with me. If I had not been connected with her on social media, or if my company had told her she was fired in the first place, then this situation would not have caused friction between my friend and me.
Generally, our community of practice as dancers is beneficial to us all and we use many forms of social media to participate in this network as well as face to face communication. During notes after tech runs we are engaged in our community of practice to improve the shows and learn from each other mistakes. Our reflection after rehearsals, tech runs and shows are all examples of cooperating in a community of practice. We do our best to improve the show as a whole. A quote that my boss always said to us was "you are only as good as you're worst dancer". It was something that stuck so as a dancer I was always trying to make sure I wasn't the worst and to help who ever was. As a dance Captain it was something I repeated to cast members in the hope that they would do the same and I actively tried to encourage the worst to be better and to help them as much as possible to improve. As a Production Manager, I tried to make everyone see that what ever one does reflects on the rest of us so to try to help each other as much as possible so that we worked together as a team and stuck together as a team professionally. I also had to encourage them that we were not isolated, we were part of the entertainment team and also a part of the crew. The community of practice on board a ship is not only limited to the theatre but the the entire ship and we have to participate in it at all times.
I came across a blog whilst I was researching into Professional Networks. The post was written by Jon Bischke. He talks about specific networks being created for specific professionals. As he says, "what doctors want and need - is different from what other professionals want". He then goes on to talk about some other professionals that use different social media networks, other than linkedIn and Facebook, to communicate with other professionals within their community of practice and why they might chose these networks over Facebook and LinkedIn. These other applications have been created to specifically connect like people with like people and have better applications within their network to be used by the target groups.
When will they make a social media network catering just for people in the dance industry? Have we reached our limit with Facebook ,Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn? Would it be better to have one Network specifically catering for the Dance World or is our community so large that we cannot be contained to only one Social Network? Is the lack of a social network specifically designed for the dance industry a reflection of our value to the rest of society?
Book: Essential Social Psychology (2nd Ed)
Authors: Crisp, Richard J. and Turner, Rhiannon N.
Chapter: Chapter 11: Affiliation and attraction
Book: Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation Publication
Authors: Lave, Jean and Wenger, Etienne
Chapter: Chapter 4: Legitimate peripheral participation in communities in practice
Book: The evolution of cooperation
Author: Axelrod, Robert M.
Chapter: Preface
Title: Connectivism: A Learning Theory For The Digital Age
Author: George Siemens
Date: 12.12.2004
Web address: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
Title: The Rise of The "Social Professional" Networks
Author: Jon Bischke (@jonbischke)
Date: 28.06.2014


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Saturday, May 30, 2009
ThankYou & WINNER IS!!!
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Oh my GOODNESS! My husband laughed at me because I screamed so lound when I found out I won. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! This is the first time I have won anything, lol and I really wanted that stunning cuff. Thanks so much for offering such an amazing giveaway!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Hi Kimberly! I know just what you mean, the embroidery and handmade lace seem to be lost arts. I'm so glad you're giving them new life!ReplyDelete
Kim ~ I'm sure you are going to be a fabulous success at this new venture! Your passion for it definitely shows through. So kind of you to mention me in your post...aren't you a lovely girl! (*_*) I'm leaving on Friday for Canada and will be gone for two weeks. I'll be in touch when I get back. Hopefully we can get a sale going! ~Stacy~ReplyDelete
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Hi Kimberyly, like your painting,your textile art is amazing. I went to your website and love what your doing. I hope to see more sizes soon! Keep up the great work.ReplyDelete
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CHERRY HILL, N.J. - The merger between Commerce Bancorp and TD Bank is near.
Toronto-based TD Bank Financial Group � which has branches in New Hampshire � was expected to complete its $8.5 billion purchase of Cherry Hill-based Commerce Bancorp on Monday, creating a chain of branches spanning much of the East Coast.
The deal was announced last year after Commerce ousted founder Vernon Hill as part of a deal with regulators.
The new bank will be known as TD Commerce Bank and will be based in Portland, Maine, where TD's U.S. banking operation is headquartered. Its parent company also runs the second-largest bank in Canada.
TD executives say they will retain Commerce's customer-friendly customs such as Sunday lobby hours and handing out lollipops to children and biscuits to dogs.
TD Bank's purchase of Commerce nearly complete
CHERRY HILL, N.J. - The merger between Commerce Bancorp and TD Bank is near.


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What is the source of Colorado River Water in the Lower Basin?
Most -- about 88 percent -- of the total annual flow of water in the Lower Colorado River Basin originates upstream of Glen Canyon Dam (in northern Arizona) as a result of natural runoff from precipitation and melting snow in the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico. The remaining 12 percent comes from rainfall and inflows into the river from washes and tributaries that enter the river downstream from Glen Canyon Dam.
Once water enters the lower Colorado River mainstream (the main channel of the river, including reservoirs), its use is subject to the"Law of the River." All water taken from the mainstream is accounted for as Colorado River water, whether the water is pumped or diverted directly from the river, or drawn from the mainstream aquifer through underground pumping.
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The Mojo Hotel is located in the suburb of Sea Point, just 5 km from Cape Town's city centre. The beach and Sea Point Promenade is 100 m away and free WiFi is available on-site.
>> Grand Watergate Hotel in Bangkok
The modern rooms feature contemporary décor. Some rooms offer a flat-screen TV and an en suite shower, whilst other rooms have access to a shared bathroom.
There is a 24-hour front desk at Mojo. Guests can explore the surroundings which offer a variety of restaurants and shops. The Sea Point Pavilion swimming pools is a 2-minute walk away.
The hotel also offers bike hire upon request. V&A Waterfront and Long Street is 5 km away, whilst Table Mountain can be reached within 8.5 km. Cape Town International Airport is 31 km from the hotel.
Services and facilities
All Rooms
- Wardrobe/Closet
- Flat-screen TV
- Satellite channels
- Shower
- Toilet
- Towels
- Bathroom
- Linens
- Heating
- Laptop safe
- Air conditioning
- Terrace
- Shared Kitchen
- Pets are not allowed.
- Bicycle Rental (surcharge)
- Beachfront
Food & Drink
- Snack Bar
Free! WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge.
Free! Free private parking is available on site (reservation is needed).
- Airport Shuttle (surcharge)
- Fax/Photocopying
- Laundry
- Car Rental
- Daily Housekeeping
- Tour Desk
- Concierge Service
- Airport Shuttle
- 24-Hour Front Desk
- Family Rooms
- Safe
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Obama Touts Payroll-Tax Cut Compromise
Taking a political victory lap today, President Obama said Congress "did the right thing" by extending the payroll-tax cut and urged lawmakers to "keep going" and act on measures to help the middle class.
"My message to Congress is, don't stop here," the president said at a White House event highlighting the compromise to extend the payroll-tax cut and unemployment insurance. "Keep taking the action that people are calling for to keep this economy growing."
The president urged lawmakers to act on his refinance plan to help underwater homeowners and to make his proposed "Buffett Rule" a reality.
"This may be an election year, but the American people have no patience for gridlock and just a reflexive partisanship and just paying attention to poll numbers and the next election instead of the next generation and what we can do to strengthen opportunity for all Americans," Obama said. "Americans don't have the luxury to put off tough decisions, and neither should we."
The payroll-tax cut was a central piece of the jobs plan Obama put forth in September and the White House described it as the last "must-do" piece of legislation before the election.
Calling it a "big deal," the president today said the legislation, which he will sign into law when it reaches his desk later this week, will help middle-class Americans by providing an extra $40 a week in their paychecks.
"That $40 helps to pay the rent, the groceries, the rising cost of gas, which is on a lot of people's minds right now," Obama said as he stood with Americans who will benefit from the tax cut.
"Congress did the right thing here. They listened to the voice of the American people. Each side made a few compromises. We passed some important reforms to help turn unemployment insurance into re- employment insurance, so that more people get training and the skills they need to get back in a job," the president said.
Republicans, however, have questioned the president's cause for celebration. "It's not a victory when the economy is still so weak that you feel the need to grant a temporary reduction in the payroll tax," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said in a written statement. "It's a victory when this kind of government relief isn't needed at all. That's what we should be rooting for. The fact that the president and his allies in Congress can't see that is all you need to know about their approach to the economy and what they have in store for the future."


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Chris Guggiari-Peel
Chris is a researcher at the University of Exeter where he gained his MSc Degree in Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology. He also runs his own star-up company called Farsight Conservation which shares contemporary Conservation stories through film articles and art.
He has studied Behavioural Ecology of many species including pheasants, giraffes and zebra finches. He also contributes to research on student engagement, sitting on the Steering Group of REACT (Realising engagement through active culture transformation).