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"…a progression should be observed in your fasting, especially if this discipline is new to you and you are unfamiliar with its physical effects. Don't start out with a weeklong water fast! Begin by skipping one meal each day for two to three days and setting aside the money it would have cost to give to the poor. Spend the time praying that you would have used for eating."
The purpose in fasting for God is not about giving up food; it is about removing the obstacles that get in the way of fully focusing on Him. Human beings are conditioned to eat, usually 3 meals a day and snacks. We are so focused on what we are going to eat next, we leave very little room in our minds for thinking about God. Removing the food will free up your mind so you can meditate on God.
Even with these results, one of the concerns with fasting is that people will binge on non-fast days. But the results of two months-long trials, published in 2018 in the journal Food Science & Nutrition, showed that dieters, specifically those following 5:2, didn't binge. "When you impose a two-day 70 percent calorie restriction, what they do on the natural days is eat about 25 percent less," says Harvie, one of the authors of the study and a co-developer of the 5:2 diet. "And that is why the diet is so effective."
Vitousek, the psychologist, has seen this kind of enthusiasm before — and it was for CR. Caloric restriction never reached fasting's popularity, but it had its share of lay followers in the 2000s, when she got a chance to talk with members of a group practicing it. Initially, they were excited and motivated. Then, like most dieters, the majority began to fall away. Some who had done CR for years simply couldn't do it anymore. "You can pretty much take that to the bank," Vitousek says of dieters' waning enthusiasm. "That's why we have these cyclical waves."
Surprisingly, since I've started intermittent fasting I've increased muscle mass (up 10 pounds from 205 to 215), decreased body fat (down 3% from 14% to 11%), increased explosiveness (set a personal best with a clean and jerk of 253 pounds a few months back), and decreased the amount of time I've spent training (down from 7.5 hours per week to 2.5 hours per week).
As far back as the 1930s, scientists have been exploring the benefits of reducing calories by skipping meals. During that time, one American scientist found that significantly reducing calories helped mice live longer, healthier lives. More recently, researches have found the same in fruit flies, roundworms and monkeys. Studies have also shown that decreasing calorie consumption by 30 to 40 percent (regardless of how it's done) can extend life span by a third or more. Plus, there's data to suggest that limiting food intake may reduce the risk of many common diseases. Some believe fasting may also increase the body's responsiveness to insulin, which regulates blood sugar and helps control hunger.
American King James Version×), though other national fast days are mentioned in the Bible. Also, personal fasts are clearly expected of Christ's disciples (Matthew 9:14-15 Matthew 9:14-15 14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but your disciples fast not? 15 And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bridal chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Dr. Michael Mosley, the creator of The Fast Diet, believes that fasting can help with weight loss. For Dr. Mosley, the term fasting does not mean abstaining from all food, but rather limiting food intake and adapting simplified eating patterns to help you lose weight. Below are some of Dr. Mosley's recommendations for a safe fast as well as a few extra Oz-approved tips and tricks.
Fasting in the Ethiopian Church implies abstention from food and drink. No animal products are consumed, including dairy, eggs and meat, and utensils that have touched such products must be washed before touching the strictly vegan foods that are consumed on fast days. During fast periods, Holy Liturgy (Mass) is held at noon (except on Saturdays and Sundays), and because no food can be consumed before communion, it is traditional for people to abstain from food until mass is over (around 2 to 3 in the afternoon). Every Wednesday and Friday are days of fasting because Wednesday is the day that the Lord was condemned and Friday is the day he was crucified (the Wednesdays and Fridays between Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday are an exception as well as when Christmas or Epiphany fall on a Wednesday or a Friday). The fasts that are ordained in the canon of the Church of Ethiopia are:
I'm 65 and I retired recently. I tried this for one week, and I must admit I particularly watched the clock all day long. I was very intergetic, and my depression subsided most of the time. At one week I weight myself, and thought why am I doing this if I'm not losing weight? So I went off and now I feel like I drag most of the day. I'm getting back on…enough said.
Once or twice per week you can have a treat. Remember you will have 600-1000 calories to work with in the main meal. This should make it pretty easy to enjoy some of your favorite foods or go out to a restaurant with friends/family. Just make sure to not go over the calorie budget for the day. If you do end up going over the calorie budget for the day then you can compensate by slightly reducing calories the following days.
Even as God calls us away from evil and toward good,He gives us a choice. So many of the problems we have in our world today are the result of men and women making the wrong choices. They have knowingly and unknowingly chosen what is evil.And the end result is the same for us as it was for Adam and Eve: death and all forms of sin that lead to death (see Rom. 6:23).
The increase in longevity is also clearly associated with a decrease in disease states that would cut your life short, and calorie restriction is associated with a number of health improvements, including reduced visceral fat, reduced inflammation, lower blood pressure, and improved insulin sensitivity,5,6 just to name a few. Earlier research has demonstrated that calorie restriction helps extend the lifespan of animals by improving insulin sensitivity and inhibiting the mTOR pathway.
You can theoretically eat whatever you want when you're on an IF plan (and not in the fasting phase), but if you overdo the carbs, you'll have trouble keeping your blood sugar stable. Refined carbs, in particular, make your blood sugar rise and your insulin spike and crash. So if you're trying to go without food for longer periods and your diet is too carb-heavy, you're going to end up pretty hungry and irritable.
6. Are you hungry all the time? A scale of 1 to 10 is helpful in moments like this. One is ravenous, while 10 is extremely full. What is your number before and after meals? What is your number at moments during the fast? While hunger may be part of a fast given the caloric restriction, it shouldn't be constant, ongoing and terrible. Also, notice portions when eating. If you haven't created the right balance, you might overeat when breaking a fast, which is hard on your digestion and metabolism. Ideally, once acclimated, you'd stay within the 3 to 7 range at all times, 3 when fasting and 7 after meals.
If you have an addictive relationship with food and you struggle with portion control, track your calorie intake in your meals to make sure you're not overeating. If you skip breakfast, you might be so hungry from this that you OVEREAT for lunch and this can lead to weight gain. Again, the important thing here is that with intermittent fasting you're eating fewer calories than normal because you're skipping a meal every day.
But here's something important to note about what we know from science about fasting: Though a lot of the popular interest is in weight loss, many of the key researchers who study fasting aren't focusing on that at all. In fact, many of the studies on fasting come from institutes of aging, like this one, and the researchers behind the studies actually focus on longevity and disease prevention.
In this example, lunch on Monday is your last meal of the day. You then fast until lunch on Tuesday. This schedule has the advantage of allowing you to eat everyday of the week while still reaping the benefits of fasting for 24 hours. It's also less likely that you'll lose weight because you are only cutting out two meals per week. So, if you're looking to bulk up or keep weight on, then this is a great option.
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How It Works: Fast for 14 (women) to 16 (men) hours each day, and then "feed" for the remaining eight to 10 hours. During the fasting period, you consume no calories. However, black coffee, calorie-free sweeteners, diet soda and sugar-free gum are permitted. (A splash of milk in your coffee won't hurt, either.) Most practitioners will find it easiest to fast through the night and into the morning. They usually break the fast roughly six hours after waking up. This schedule is adaptable to any person's lifestyle, but maintaining a consistent feeding window time is important. Otherwise, hormones in the body can get thrown out of whack and make sticking to the program harder, Berkhan says.
What makes fasting seem so novel is that, with all the diet advice out there, the easiest might be to simply not eat. Of course, fasting isn't the same as starving yourself, which is what many people think when they hear "fasting." And yet, fasting isn't a diet, either. The literal definition of fasting is to abstain from food and drink from a specific period of time; it's been around for thousands of years, as spiritual fasting is a part of many religions. But in this context, I prefer looking at fasting as simply a change in eating patterns.
Studies on every-other-day fasting show mixed results. One published in 2010 in the Nutrition Journal suggested that the technique was effective among a group of obese patients. A group of 16 participants ate only one meal – lunch – every other day, and they were limited to about 500 calories. That's the same amount of calories women consume on the Fast Diet's fasting days. On the days when the study participants were not fasting, they were not constrained to any rules. Over the course of eight weeks, the participants lost an average of 12 3/10 pounds.
Still, it's important to note that the results of intermittent fasting are no better than a calorie-restricting diet. A 2017 study in JAMA showed that alternate-day fasting doesn't produce superior benefits for weight loss than daily calorie restriction, and similar conclusions were drawn in a 2018 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. So if you don't think fasting is right for you, restricting calories works just as well.
Fasting also helps us learn the lessons of the Day of Atonement : forgiveness, reconciliation to God and the need to resist Satan and pray for the time of his removal (Revelation 20:1-3 Revelation 20:1-3 1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Determine the length of your fasting experience, whether this is for 1 meal, 1 day, 3 days or a week (Jesus and Moses fasted for a period of 40 days, but that is no sign that anyone else might do that). You may wish to try a shorter fast, and start slowly at first, if you have not previously fasted. You can also pray and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you how long you should fast.
Fasting is not a way to be forgiven of your sins, but rather a way to grow closer to God after he has already forgiven your sins. For your sins to be forgiven, cry out to God and ask him for forgiveness. Jesus (God) took the punishment for your sins - past present and future. Ask God to forgive you because of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross and realize you cannot save yourself by fasting or any other way. Only God can save you. Salvation is mercy. It is a free, undeserved gift of grace and love. Meditate on that and on the Bible. Read the book of John.
"There is a good evolutionary explanation for the difference in the calorie restriction response when comparing short-lived and long-lived species: famines are seasonal, and a season is a large fraction of a mouse lifespan but a small fraction of a human life span. Thus only the mouse evolves a relatively large plasticity of life span in response to food scarcity."
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A 2018 review of intermittent fasting in obese people showed that reducing calorie intake one to six days per week over at least 12 weeks was effective for reducing body weight on an average of 7 kilograms (15 lb); the results were not different from a simple calorie restricted diet, and the clinical trials reviewed were run mostly on middle-aged women from the US and the UK, limiting interpretation of the results.[21] Intermittent fasting has not been studied in children, the elderly, or underweight people, and could be harmful in these populations.[21][22]
In more recent years, many churches affected by liturgical renewal movements have begun to encourage fasting as part of Lent and sometimes Advent, two penitential seasons of the liturgical year. Members of the Anabaptist movement generally fast in private. The practice is not regulated by ecclesiastic authority.[74] Some other Protestants consider fasting, usually accompanied by prayer, to be an important part of their personal spiritual experience, apart from any liturgical tradition.
How It Works: Warriors-in-training can expect to fast for about 20 hours every day and eat one large meal every night. What you eat and when you eat it within that large meal is also key to this method. The philosophy here is based on feeding the body the nutrients it needs in sync with circadian rhythms and that our species are "nocturnal eaters, inherently programmed for night eating."
BUT I stopped losing weight since last 2 weeks, so I stopped doing IF for last a week and my tummy looks same as before and I gained 3/4 lbs back. I am trying to do IF again but I cannot, because I'm getting constantly hungry. I used to start Fasting at 7pm & & break at 11/12pm next day. But My new job schedule is from 5:30, so its hard for me to wait until noon. I tried a different schedule from 4pm to 8am but I get hungry at night, so it didn't help me either. Please help me.
Time-restricted feeding (TRF) involves eating only during a certain number of hours each day.[6] A common form of TRF involves fasting for 16 hours each day and only eating during the remaining 8 hours, typically on the same schedule each day. A more liberal practice would be 12 hours of fasting and a 12 hour eating window, or a stricter form would be to eat one meal per day, which would involve around 23 hours of fasting per day.[medical citation needed]


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So here is my short list for this year.
There is this tutorial I had bookmarked from last year at Weeds and Wildflowers.
I really liked your blog! It helped me alot… Awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
I love those ideas for Christmas cards. Especially the little boy tied up in the lights :) Thanks for joining the blog hop. I hope that you will consider adding the blog hop to your blog post so others can find some other Christmassy themed posts to read :)
That one with the chalk tree is so cute!
I´m on a Christmas planning mood too! :)
Good luck on getting all three looking your way. A trick a photographer friend gave me was to make them laugh and take the picture "after", the smile coming back from the laugh is absolutely luminous.
I am keen to see your three kids ideas!!! I love a good christmas pic! :)
Love the sidewalk chalk idea. My kids would totally be into that.
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While general aviation traffic is picking up in China these days, there are many other destinations for both business and pleasure within the vast continent of Asia.
Knowing what to expect before you go can make your travel plans much more efficient and enjoyable.
Airport Arrival and Departure Slots are Tight
While access to airports around China is improving, there are still parking issues and limitations on overnight and extended stays – especially at popular destinations.
For northern Asia the news is both good and bad for business jet travel. General aviation travelers will find obtaining slot approvals and parking space in and around Tokyo easier than in other areas. Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai on the other hand, still have significant issues.
According to International Support Providers (ISP) the most significant challenges for GA operations in Asia are securing overnight and long-term parking at certain destinations. Currently, only 1 or 2 requests out of every 50 applications for overnight parking are accepted at Hong Kong International (HKG).
At Singapore Changi (SIN) and Gimpo Intl Seoul South Korea (GMP) it's becoming increasingly difficult to obtain parking for more than 2 days. Executive jets and general aviation operators also run into strict curfews and challenging slot requirements at PEK. These challenges will continue into the foreseeable future until airport infrastructures expand enough to accommodate the growing demand.
Rules and Regulations are Strict
When operating into China's major destinations, landing permit approval is running about 3 business days. However, if you want to fly into a non-published domestic airport you'll need at least a 7-day lead time.
Permits into Indonesia can also take 7 days, even up to 10 for destinations such as Myanmar. And the local CAA is unlikely to be very responsive.
While positive regulatory improvements are being made, such as China eliminating the sponsor letter once required to obtain a landing permit, new regulations are creeping in and creating new challenges. Be aware that permit revisions in this region are not always straight-forward. China for example only allows 2 revisions to an approved permit before you need to apply for a new one. In addition, some airways in China are restricted to locally registered aircraft and commercial airlines.
As of October 15, 2015, foreign registered aircraft operating in Indonesia, either private or charter, can only make one landing. On takeoff they must depart the country. Indonesia is a popular destination with 922 inhabited islands and 600 airports. Now, if you want to island hop, you'll need to depart and reenter the country or travel with one of the local charter operators.
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To accommodate the increase in GA traffic and broad scale travel demands, HKG is looking at adding a 3rd runway and China is considering a second airport south of Beijing. However, these improvements will take many years before operational.
In the meantime operating costs in the region are on the rise. With limited space and increasingly high demand, costs to operate in the region are amongst the highest anywhere. According to Avfuel Account Mgr. David Kang, North Asia is a very expensive environment for business aviation. China may be a communist country but they are cashing-in on the basic law of supply and demand.
In general, the operating environment north of Hong Kong is the most expensive. Flying into SE Asia is generally less expensive.
If you want to fly into Hong Kong, Beijing or Shanghai with your Gulfstream or Global and stay for 2 nights, it'll cost you about $10,000. The price for a quick-turn in Tokyo, $6000 to $7000. Navigation and overflight permits can easily run $4000 and each time you enter China you'll pay a "compensation" fee of about $3000.
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Suspend: Tim Whiten's Spiritual Objects
Entering the Olga Korper gallery is akin to stepping into a sun-drenched church. You push through oversized heavy metal doors into a cavernous skylit space. This is an appropriate venue for exhibiting the idiocratic creations of Tim Whiten, with all their spiritual aura. On display are ten beautifully crafted objects – five wall-mounted and five self-standing. Each is made using primarily natural materials that include glass, wooden branches, leather, shark teeth and human remains.
Book of Light: Containing Poetry from the Heart of God, 2015-2019, handcrafted crystal clear glass, fragments of drawings, oak, 46.5" x 28" x 15"
The centrepiece of the show is a semi-opaque glass coffin titled Who-Man/Amen. I describe it as a coffin not only because it takes the form of one but also because it contains the skeleton of a small person, wrapped carefully in delicate cloth. This can be glanced through two portals of clear glass on top. At first I recoiled at learning that these are real human remains. But this involuntary response immediately led me to wonder about the nature of art itself. Whiten's work induces such questioning. It challenges the very concept of artmaking. Indeed, he is reluctant to characterise himself as an artist, preferring to describe himself as a maker of cultural artefacts.
Who-Man/Amen (detail), 2015-2016, handcrafted crystal clear glass, mixed media with human skeleton, 18.5" x 66.5" x 26.5" (left) and detail of the inside (right)
The human remains were legally procured. I learned that in India in particular there is a vibrant trade in human skeletons because all medical students in the country must invest in a real skeleton. Synthetic copies are deemed inadequate ('Booming Business in Bones', The National, United Arab Emirates, 28 Dec. 2015). But while it is excusable to use real skeletons to ensure proper training of medical doctors, it seems unsavory to treat such remains as a prop in an artwork. I put it in these harsh terms to stress a commonplace attitude toward art. As a rule artists do not make art as a form of devotion, as an expression of deeply held religious beliefs. Any artist who alludes to religiosity usually does so from the outside. Churches sometimes house reliquaries containing the bones of some saint, for example, but when an artist makes a similar object it is normally seen as ersatz – a profane facsimile at best.
What precisely Whiten's own religious beliefs are is not clear. What can be said, however, is that he takes seriously a wide range of beliefs and mythologies across history. For example, another piece in the exhibition is titled Horus Negotiating the Waters. This consists in waxed textile formed in the shape of a boat that is suspended hammock-like at a corner of the gallery. Inside the boat sits a leather-bound human skull. According to Egyptian mythology Horus was the posthumously conceived son of Osiris, who was killed by his brother Seth. Horus was destined to grow up to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle, who was then metamorphised into a boat. And by boat Horus journeyed into the underworld to bring his father back to the world of the living.
Horus Negotiating the Waters, 2016-2017, textiles, leather-covered human skull, 10" x 60" x 18″ (left) and detail of the inside (right)
Whiten understands the making of objects as an essentially spiritual activity, reasoning that since we are God's creations all our work is ultimately toward a divine end (see Claude Meurehg, Art and Theology: Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 2011). As well, he alludes to prehistoric beliefs about object-making based around metallurgy. The arch-metallurgist is the divine smith, who is a shamanic figure in Iron Age societies. The smith has the divine power to hasten by means of fire the development of objects, that were believed otherwise to grow at a glacial rate in the ground. It is these sorts of beliefs, most likely, that Whiten had in mind when creating the piece titled Chasing Cobald. This takes the form of an anvil covered in shards of cobalt blue glass. Miners, in pursuit of arsenic-laced cobalt compounds used to smelt blue glass, equated this substance with mischievous goblins. (Its name derives from the German word Kobold, meaning goblin.)
Chasing Cobald, 2016-2018, glass, wood (ash, basswood, maple), found glass (crushed), 64" x 19" x 19"
Whiten is more shaman than artist. Like the divine smith, he invests his artefacts with a spiritual aura. His work couldn't be characterised as devotional in any straightforward way, but it is certainly informed by a spiritual attitude. He is not merely intellectually curious about a wide range of mythologies, he also lives them through his work. There is, as a result, an honesty to his works. In addition, there is a wonderful poetry in his treatment of natural objects – as for example in his two Hallelujah pieces, each consisting in an object hanging from a lilac tree branch. Over all his work transcends the physical, wrapping itself in tantalising mystery.
Hallelujah II, 2015, handcrafted crystal clear glass, brass fittings, lilac branches, 60" x 84" x 19"
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*Exhibition information: Tim Whiten, Suspend, January 17 – February 16, 2019, Olga Korper Gallery, 17 Morrow Ave, Toronto. Gallery hours: Tue – Sat, 10 am – 6 pm.


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The course aims to demystify Object Orientation and explain the how's and why's in a simple, clear manner. By the end of the course, delegates should be able to describe the main concepts of Object Orientation, the components of Object Technology as well as the advantages and dangers related to the adoption of OT.
Upon completion they will be able to:
- Identify Objects from a problem description.
- Interpret and improve a class diagram.
- Describe the Principal OO techniques.
- Decide if OO is relevant to an application.
- Define the steps of OO analysis and design.
- List the effects of introducing OO into an IT department.
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Back to the Future: The History of the Object
The Hallmarks of an Object
Basic Elements of Object Technology (7 topics)
- The Inversion of the Natural Order
- Encapsulation and Information Hiding
- Messages
- Classes
- Strong Typing and Early Binding
- Polymorphism
- Inheritance
OO Methods (2 topics)
- The Early Methods
- The OO Development Cycle
The UML (Unified Modelling Language) (7 topics)
- Objects
- Associations
- Aggregations
- Conformance and Class Hierarchy
- Inheritance and Class Hierarchy
- Events and State Transitions
- Object Interaction Diagrams
Object Technology Adoption (10 topics)
- Why Go OO
- The Benefits of OT
- Large Scale Organisation
- Malleability
- Robustness and Reliability
- Reuse
- The State of OT
- The OO Programming Languages
- Introducing OT
- The future
Components (2 topics)
- Objects versus Components
- The Component Technologies
A knowledge of the fundamentals of IT is assumed.


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By the same argument, 'vat' refers to vats in the image in vat-English, or something related (electronic impulses or program features), but certainly not to real vats, since the use of 'vat' in vat-English has no causal connection to real vats (apart from the connection that the brains in a vat wouldn't be able to use the word 'vat', if it were not for the presence of one particular vat — the vat they are in; but this connection obtains between the use of every word in vat-English and that one particular vat; it is not a special connection between the use of the particular word 'vat' and vats). Similarly, 'nutrient fluid' refers to a liquid in the image in vat-English, or something related (electronic impulses or program features). It follows that if their 'possible world' is really the actual one, and we are really the brains in a vat, then what we now mean by 'we are brains in a vat' is that we are brains in a vat in the image or something of that kind (if we mean anything at all). But part of the hypothesis that we are brains in a vat is that we aren't brains in a vat in the image (i.e. what we are 'hallucinating' isn't that we are brains in a vat). So, if we are brains in a vat, then the sentence 'We are brains in a vat' says something false (if it says anything). In short, if we are brains in a vat, then 'We are brains in a vat' is false. So it is (necessarily) false. Hilary Putnam, 'Brains in a vat,' Reason, Truth and History, (Cambridge 1981), 14-15.
i) Even though this is a famous science fiction scenario, in the future it may be a realistic scenario:
ii) As an anti-skeptical argument, I don't think Putnam's argument succeeds. The argument, if successful, is counterproductive. It would mean that even if you are a brain in a vat, you won't be in a position to recognize your predicament because you lack the language and concepts to entertain that possibility. But surely that's the non plus ultra of global skepticism.
iii) However, I don't think his argument works at another level. It's true that to recognize your predicament as a brain in a vat, you need an external frame of reference. However, the lab could have a camera trained on the transparent vat, with tubes and wires. That information could be fed into the brain so that a disembodied brain could see itself in the vat, with the neurointerface.
iv) From a Christian standpoint, the source of consciousness is the soul, not the brain. And even if (ex hypothesi) brains were harvested in the womb and deposited in the vat, spending their entire lives in the vat, God could reveal himself directly to the embrained but disembodied soul–just as God intervenes in human history. Take revelatory dreams, where God gets right inside the mind of the dreamer. If need be, God could enter the mind of the embrained but disembodied soul. Bypass the neurointerface. Make himself known from within.


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Hi Peeps,
It's 5+am and I'm awake by my dream..
Oh my gosh, it's actually a nightmare that has been haunting me for the whole night..
Usually, when I had a nightmare, I would call "my ex" to talk about it.. Especially when it involves him.. But now.. Because he's not mine anymore, I'm not entitled to call him at weird timings and I've to kick off the habit of calling him.. So here I am, writing my blog, and searching for the meaning of my dream..
Here goes:
I received a phone call out of nowhere, from some bitch which I dislike.. She called me and told me that she had a "gift" for me and asked me to wait for her at the office..
I didn't bothered to ask her about the contents of the gift and I went over to the office, it was about 1pm++
When I entered the office, I saw my ex , and some other people, but the bitch came late, usually she start work at 1230, but she wasn't in the office…
So while I waited for her in the office, I started chatting with my ex, and later, when the bitch came into the office, my ex started chasing me out of the office.. He kept rushing me and prompting me to leave..
I was very pissed off with him but nevertheless, I waited for the idiotic bitch to settle down and I asked her what she has for me..
Turn out that she gave me a plastic bag (grocery store type) , with one small can of "mian jin", it was some kind of wheat meat, which cost abt 70 cents…
It somehow looked like this:
I was extremely pissed off with her for wasting my time over rubbish~!
Oh gosh!~
Have been trying to get rid of her in my life ever since she stalked me.. First she is the 3rd party, 2nd, she purposely gave me some shitty gift in real life and purposely acting pitiful and asked my ex to tell me about her having a gift for me..
What made me so angry was that, she didn't buy the gift purposely for me, it was like some random thing which cost less than $5 and it was a furry scarf which is not even good enough for being a rag at my home.. Singapore so hot, you think people crazy to wear fur? Further more it's a cheapo crap!
Pls lah, at least when I buy something for you, I meant it with you in mind when I bought it.. Goodness~
I mean… What's wrong with you? You have my number and you can call me or text me anytime, why do you have to force me to come up to find u ? IDIOT!~
Ok , sorry about side tracking.. Anyway, I was pissed off by that bitch because in my dream, she smiled to me so "sweetly" that nobody knows what happened.. It was like a sudden change of face..
Somehow, when I met her outside, I slapped her..
It was kinda scary for me because no matter how angry I was, I'll never resort to violence, because being a victim of violence, I know how it felt..
So yeah, I went to search for the meaning of my dream and it was quite accurate:
To dream that you or someone has two faces or that the faces changes quickly from one person to another, indicates untrustworthiness. You or someone in your life is acting "two-faced".
From: http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamthemes/bodyparts.htm
Then again, I found something about me slapping that bitch:
To dream that you slap someone, suggests that you are harboring some deep anger and repressed rage
From: http://whatdoesmydreammean.net/dreams-about-slap-an-interpretation-of-the-slap-dream/
So in my dream, I repeatedly slapped her, she ran and I chased after her.. Later on, somehow, she got away and she came back with helpers to "fight" back..
So, from whatdoesmydreammean.net it states :
To dream that you participate in a fight, indicates inner turmoil. Some aspect of yourself is in conflict with another aspect of yourself. Perhaps an unresolved or unacknowledged part is fighting for its right to be heard. It may also parallel a fight or struggle that you are going through in your waking life.
Then later on, the bitch called the police and said that I beat her up and she was the helpless one who never fight back.. (well, that's quite typical of her)
I was then arrested by the police LOL
And the meaning of being arrested is :
To dream that you are being arrested, indicates issues of control and restraint. Some aspect of your Self may have been prevented from fully developing.
Well.. And that comes to the end of my nightmare and I woke up shocked..
But thank god it was only a nightmare, and although true, she's ugly, old, stupid and idiotic, I'll never dirty my hands because of her..
Hahaha~ God bless~


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Effective Event Organisation Ideas
Running an event can seem a daunting task, even to those who've been running events for years. To ensure your event runs a smoothly as possible it's important to set clear goals, prepare a schedule, look for partners, find service providers and, in our opinion, manage your ticketing!
Here are a few tips and tricks to ensure that when you plan your next event you can minimise some of that necessary stress and help it go as seamlessly as possible!
Write everything down on paper first
Find yourself a piece of paper and brainstorm down all your goals for the event. By doing this it will help you clarify what the purpose of your event is. Think about why you're creating this event and who you're creating it for.
There are a lot of events out there, from cultural to social to sports events, so you need to work out what makes your event special. What makes your event different from the rest? This will help you to identify your unique selling point (USP).
These elements will offer you guidance with planning your event. They'll act as a signpost to help you avoid going in a different direction that may not benefit your end goal. Having all these goals outlined at such an early stage can also help you in the future when you may potentially approach partners and sponsors. If you have a clear and solid idea of what your goals are it'll make it far easier to communicate that message to others.
From this point, you'll be able to define the visual elements of your event and help you shape the tone of the voice you want to give your event.
Create a schedule and budget forecast
This will become the holy grail of your event! Taking the time to plan all the tasks that need to be completed and managed throughout the planning phase until the day of your event can be incredibly beneficial. Always be open to reviewing these throughout the process though.
Some of the things you'll need to plan will include:
- Building your teams
- Looking for partners and service providers
- Creating communication tools
- Choosing and creating your online ticketing tool
- Producing elements of your event
- Looking for speakers or bands
- Safety and other admin and legal steps, etc.
These steps can obviously vary depending on what your event is: you might need more steps or sometimes less. It's important that you cover everything you may need to do in the early stages of event planning so you know what you have ahead of you.
Once you've planned and listed out all your tasks, begin to start organising your event. Event planning is notorious for being full of surprises, both good and bad, so it's important to have a rough idea of a backup plan if not everything goes as expected.
At the same time as creating your planning schedule, you can begin to plan your budget, looking at available funds, forecasted revenue, financial needs, etc. It'll be far easier to begin tackling your budget once you've completed your tasks and expenses and this forecast will be crucial when approaching sponsors, donors and partners.
Contact potential sponsors, partners or benefactors
Usually one of the first tasks in your schedule is to research and secure potential partners, sponsors and benefactors. Their support of your event can be a huge help in terms of financial help, wellbeing and even equipment. It can also be incredibly valuable in terms of exposure.
This process can require a lot of time and energy. The key to this is to define which organisations may be interested. You'll need to look at which ones you can provide benefits to, as well as how they can benefit you. For example, can you provide sponsors with links into the local community or help build up their image and reputation within certain sectors? In return, the potential sponsors can then help by being part of your event planning and the event itself (speaker engagements, product samples, etc.).
Service Providers
When looking for partners and sponsors, you'll also have to start looking for service providers. Obviously, this can differ hugely depending on the needs of your event. Usually, it's common to have contracts with:
- A service provider to ensure health and safety on-site and at entrances (this can sometimes be supplied by the venue)
- A caterer, food supplier or catering company for your teams and guests
- Prior to the event, a platform to manage ticketing or registrations (a service we can provide, click here for more details)
- A technical provider for everything that relates to sound and lighting, internet access, etc.
Many operational roles can be outsourced to service providers. To choose them well, don't hesitate to write a specification note listing your expectations and needs and issue a tender. This will allow you to assess different proposals and prices.
Sell your tickets
As mentioned in the previous step, your ticketing platform is at the heart of your event. To make sure you get great attendance to your event, register to your online ticketing platform and list your event with plenty of time to market your event to make sure you see a high rate of ticket sales and registrations.
Many options are available to support and market your ticketing, such as:
- Creating promotional codes to incentivise your attendees to share or communicate about your event, as well as boost your sales
- Promoting your event on social media with lots of insider information about your event
- Embedding your tickets on your website
- If you use Helm Tickets as your ticketing platform you get featured listings on find.events to help promote your event
Spoil your attendees
The experience you create for your attendees should be your number one priority when developing your event:
- Make sure you remind everyone involved with your event of the essential and useful information ahead of time
- Create a friendly, warm and approachable atmosphere at the event itself
- Establish dedicated spaces to relax and enjoy the event and don't forget about the basics such as toilets, water fountains and access for people with reduced mobility
- Have locations where attendees can seek out additional information depending on the scale of your event. – having easy access to these facilities and short waiting times will improve the attendees experience overall.
Brief, Communicate and Review
Before the main event day, take the time to create a summary of all the necessary information for your attendees but also for anyone that might be involved in your event. Make sure everyone has all the information they need.
Ensure any staff you have can communicate effectively throughout your event. This way both you and them will be able to keep an eye on the progress of the event, track any feedback or handle any possible questions your attendees may have.
Once your event is over, don't forget to get a review from any staff you may have at the event as well as your attendees to discuss what worked well and what you might need to watch out for next time!
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St. Peter's Parish and School hosts their annual East Bake Sale! A 60 year tradition returning with hundreds of baked goods and sweet treats.
The event will be Tuesday, April 16th from 7am until 5pm and Wednesday, April 17th from 7am until 1pm at the St. Peter's Catholic Church Basement, 60 South Mulberry Street, Mansfield, Ohio.
Lunch will be served on both days starting at 11 am and features: Cabbage Rolls, Sloppy Joes, Shredded Chicken sandwiches along with Broccoli and Vegetable Soups.
The parish uses the funds raised from the Easter Bake Sale for the purchase of wine, hosts and other Sacramental items used by the church throughout the year.


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Prince Charles' tour of Cumbria
Live updates
Four people from region invited to royal wedding
Amy Wright and Heather Hall, of the Usual Place Community Cafe in Dumfries, will attend Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's big day on Saturday 19 May.
Kimberley Watkin and Adam Hughes from Carlisle will also be attending, for their work beneath Carlisle Railway Station.
They are one of 1,200 members of public, from across the country, who have been invited to the big day.
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Royal wedding invite for Dumfries charity worker
26-year-old Amy Wright from Annan, of the Usual Place Community Cafe, will attend Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's big day on 19 May.Read the full story ›
Royal wedding invite joy
Two people in our region have been invited to the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Kimberley Watkin and Adam Hughes will represent Carlisle Undercroft at Windsor Castle on Saturday 19 May.
They are one of 1,200 members of public, from across the country, who have been invited to the big day.
In a post on the Carlisle Undercroft Facebook page, the pair wrote:
Our invite recognises the 'strength of our contribution to the local community' and we are humbled and excited to have been chosen to attend."
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'Survival of communities cannot be taken for granted'
The Prince of Wales has praised the Lake District after unveiling a plaque declaring the area a World Heritage Site.Read the full story ›
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Prince Charles helps to celebrate Lake District's status
The Prince of Wales will be guest of honour at a community event today to mark the Lake District receiving World Heritage Site status.Read the full story ›
Countess of Wessex visits Cumbria
The Countess of Wessex is in Cumbria today to carry out a series of royal engagements.
Sophie, the wife of Prince Edward, visited the Westmorland County Agricultural Society this morning.
She will go on to help celebrate the 50th birthday of the charity, Mencap, in Carlisle. Her last engagement will be just outside Penrith, to officially open a music therapy centre provided by The Sunbeams Music Trust.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce engagement
Speaking during a brief photo call, Prince Harry said he knew the American actress was the one he would marry when he first met her.Read the full story ›
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Did you know that Ghalib spent most of his time living in a house in Gali Qasimjan, Ballimaran, Old Delhi.
How to get there?
This is a very popular site in Delhi, One can take a metro (closest station 'Chandni Chowk') or a city bus. Once out of the metro or the bus, it is a 10 to 15 minute walk, but taking a cycle rickshaw is a good choice if you are short of time. It is well known to taxi and auto rickshaw drivers too.


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Welcome back! It's April and another ECIR has just passed, one full of workshops. tutorials, wine tastings, schnitzel, excellent keynote talks, more schnitzel, more great talks. We will bring you the latest ECIR news in this edition of Informer (among many other things).
Spring 2015
By Udo Kruschwitz on April 28, 2015
Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling
By Marc Sloan on April 26, 2015
Change is at the heart of a modern Information Retrieval system. Advances in IR interface, personalization and ad display demand models that can intelligently react to users and their context in real time. Many of the current problems in IR research can be attributed to dynamic systems, for instance, in session search or recommender systems. The aim of Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling research is to find IR solutions that are responsive to a changing environment, learn from past interactions and predict future utility. Read more…
Understanding professional use of complex search strategies
By Jon Chamberlain on April 23, 2015
Do you find yourself at work staring at a jumble of text like this:
((((curtiss) NOT (curtis))) OR (((curtiss-* OR ~Curtiss-Wright* OR curtiss NEAR/1 wright*) AND ((model* OR monoplane*) NOT (prototype*)))))
If you are, we suspect you're writing a complex query as part of a sophisticated search strategy and we would like to find out more about what you do.
UXLabs has been granted funding from InnovateUK to investigate the use of complex search strategies in the workplace, with the aim of producing requirements for the design of next generation search tools. By collaborating in this research we can help make creating and refining your complex search queries easier and more efficient.
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Conference Review: ECIR 2015
By Morgan Harvey on April 22, 2015
This year's ECIR conference took place in Austria's majestic, imperial capital city of Vienna. Hosted by the Information and Software Engineering Group at the Technische Universität Wien (the Vienna University of Technology), the conference ran from Sunday the 29th of March until Thursday the 2nd of April. The University itself (and consequently the recommended hotels) is situated just outside of the city centre, allowing attendees to explore the opulent historical heart of the city and indulge in some of the city's world-famous schnitzel. Read more…
ECIR 2015 Industry Day
By John Tait on April 12, 2015
The ECIR Industry Day in 2015 in Vienna followed a new format. Past ECIR Industry Days have generally followed the format of a number of talks, mainly from search majors, in parallel with the final day of the main conference. This year the Industry Day was run after the main conference with the focus being on start ups, smaller niche search companies, and technology.
It was clearly a great success: over 70 people attended at the peak, although numbers did vary in the course of the day. Many people stayed right to the end and there was a lively discussion in the final session. Read more…
Events Spring 2015
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ICAES15: Third International Workshop on Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of context and search.13-16 May 2015. Gwangju, South Korea, https://sites.google.com/site/icaes15/
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This is really worth your money, this version of puffin has no ads, faster service, easier controls, and so much more! I don't regret spending my money on it, because it's worth the price!
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North Korea is only months away from obtaining the capability to hit U.S. territory with a nuclear weapon and must be disarmed, a U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, dismissing Pyonyang's diplomatic thaw with South Korea as a "charm offensive" that fooled no one.
In a diplomatic showdown at a U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, North Korea responded by blaming Washington for escalating confrontation, saying it was deploying nuclear assets including aircraft carriers near the divided peninsula and was considering a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang. Continue reading.


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Vans Announces Beatles Yellow Submarine Collection
Earlier this week, the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' first American appearance was celebrated. The group have been immortalized in several ways. Vans is offering another, unique format: the shoe and clothing company will be launching exclusive shoes using images from The Beatles' Yellow Submarine. Check out a tweet from Vans after the jump. You can buy concert tickets for Warped Tour here. Please follow and like us:Read More


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OPINION: War films are difficult cinematic beasts for filmmakers - do they make their film ultra-realistic, or frame the blood and guts in a pair of rose tinted glasses?
That question takes on more importance when they base their war film on real people experiencing real historical events.
This was the artistic dilemma faced by the makers of new Australian film Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, which is playing as part of the 2019 New Zealand International Film Festival.
It's an impressive film with elements of greatness, but its portrayal of a celebrated New Zealand war hero as an Aussie is very disappointing.
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The film depicts the titular one day battle in August 1966, widely regarded as the great mea culpa of Australian and New Zealand efforts during the Vietnam War.
Danger Close recreates the battle and the men who fought it - mostly young Australian conscripts who haven't learned to shave and their various squabbling commanding officers.
The Aussie troops, most from D or Delta Company, are drawn into a protracted firefight with vastly superior numbers of Viet Cong soldiers, and all hell breaks loose trying to save them from certain death.
Supporting the pinned down Aussies is a New Zealand Artillery regiment, who continuously hold back the Viet Cong advances with devastating high explosive barrages carried out with pinpoint accuracy.
In the real battle, the Kiwi gunners fired over 1100 shells that proved decisive in the Aussie positions not being overrun. They were supported by artillery batteries from Australia and the United States.
Helping the Kiwis make sure they dropped their shells on the Viet Cong and not their own allies were New Zealand artillery observers - who were in forward positions with the troops to relay grid references back to the gunners on radio.
The Aussie soldiers, albeit based on real life participants, are portrayed in the film with all the usual war film tropes.
There is the soon to be married larrikin who used to shoot rabbits instead of the Viet Cong, the frightened lad freshly arrived in Vietnam and convinced he'll soon die, the young rebel Lieutenant who'd rather be playing poker with his men than leading them into battle, and so on.
There are also a smattering of Kiwi support characters.
A physically imposing Māori artillery gunner, Muriwai 'Murray' Watene, is played in the film by Kiwi actor Richard Te Are.
Kiwi artillery officer Ken 'Padre' Deacon is portrayed by Aussie actor Ben Esler, who plays him at times with a slight English accent, but he can always be recognised by the New Zealand badge on his shoulders.
But there is another Kiwi character in Danger Close who was arguably the battle's real hero - Captain Maurice 'Morrie' Stanley.
Stanley, along with two other Kiwis - bombardiers Murray Broomhall and Willie Walker - were attached to D Company as artillery observers, and at times crawled on their bellies just under the hiss of Viet Cong bullets to gain accurate coordinates to relay back to the New Zealand gunners.
Stanley grew up in Napier and joined the New Zealand military in Wellington, before being accepted into the prestigious Duntroon Royal Military Academy in Canberra. He finished his training at Waioru in the central North Island.
Unfortunately, Stanley is portrayed in the film by Australian actor, Aaron Glenane, who speaks in an Australian accent.
This begs the question: what are the filmmakers trying to do here, rewrite history with a twist of Australian, rather than Kiwi heroism?
Why not insert a brief bit of dialogue where it's made clear Stanley is a Kiwi, and not Australian?
Stanley's Australian accent is a lazy and distasteful choice - and dents the film's realism and credibility.
That's not to say the film isn't incredibly realistic at times, with bullets, explosions and soldiers being shot in all the gory detail one expects from a modern war film.
The viewer also gets a real sense of the battle's scale thanks to overhead camera angles and close-up shots of pins on a map, each representing a platoon within the trapped D Company's sector.
The film and battle ends when muscle-bound actor Stephen Peacocke, more used to surfing the beaches in Home and Away, arrives just in the nick of time with his squadron of armoured personnel carriers to blow away the Viet Cong, just as they're about to overrun the besieged Aussies.
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan isn't a bad war film, in fact it's a good one.
It's depiction of the Vietnam War comes from a refreshing Antipodean angle, and is a welcome different taste to the smorgasbord of American Vietnam fodder that invaded our television screens and theatres in the 1980s.
My only wish is that it's depiction of Kiwi war heroes was just as satisfying and engaging as the Australians it portrays.
Morrie Stanley, who passed away in Auckland in 2010, would most likely have agreed.


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Driver Training
The 0.6-mile Andersen RacePark karting track provides the ideal learning ground for future racing champions, most of whom begin their racing careers in karting.
How to Get Started in Racing
Most professional race car drivers started out in some form of karting, and for some people (especially younger people) it becomes the natural first step in the pursuit of a professional career. But karting is also a great learning tool, as it offers high-performance vehicles and close competition at relatively low costs. There's no better way to start experiencing the thrill and satisfaction of racing.
Teaching people to race is our primary goal. We offer many ways to learn, including private coaching for those who want individual attention.
Getting Started with Kids (under age 16)
Karting offers many different options for kids. Of course, as a child grows they'll need to keep moving up into bigger and faster classes. Our instructors are available to work with parents and kids to choose the best kart for each age group.
Minor Licensing for Drivers aged between 15 and 5:
If your child is interested in karting and is under 5 feet tall, we offer a private 1 on 1 course with everything included! Your child will register with the front desk, go over the flag and track rules, get fitted to a kart and safety gear. Our instructor will then go over gas/brake drills, turning exercises, and finish the course with time on the 13-turn race course. Class takes 90 minutes from start to finish and we do require reservations in advance. Cost: $125 per driver
If your child is 5 feet tall or taller, we offer a group class on Wednesday nights from 6:30-8:30 pm. Your child will register with the front desk, go over the flag and track rules, and be fitted to a kart/safety gear. From their drivers will join our instructor on-track for 3 sessions on track, and 2 classroom sessions in-between each on-track session. Reservations are highly recommended.Cost: $100 per driver
One-on-One Coaching: Our instructors all have racing experience (karting and formula cars), and they will concentrate on improving your speed, consistency and overall skill levels. Track Time: 30 minutes Price: $145
Driver Clinics:
The clinics are an excellent way to get coaching from our instructors cost effectively. With a minimum of 3 drivers required, instructors will work with the group as a whole, providing feedback in and around all of the on track sessions. The aim: Improve speed, consistency and overall skill.
Track Time: 30 minutes Price: $100 per driver
Drivers 15 years old with Learners Permit may run a Evaluation Session with a Instructor to establish proficiency- $50 per driver (by appointment)
Competition Speed Schools:
If you've got the bug from the Birel N35 karts, and you want to see what real speed is all about, then look no further than our 2 Stroke Competition Karts. Our schools are run in half day increments, and with the Andersen Racing Team overseeing the kart prep and driver coaching, drivers will receive a true insight into what it takes to be a professional race car driver. Whether you're an aspiring race car driver, a corporate group or simple enthusiasts, the Competition Karting School will provide you with speed and adrenaline. All drivers will be treated like professionals and put through similar programs to what our race team drivers undergo. Price: $450 +tax, per driver.
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N35 Rental Karting for 2 hours. Lapping sessions, altered track configurations and more. Members Price: $50+ tax / Regular Price: $75 + tax
Professional Racing:
The Andersen staff offers extensive instruction, including private coaching and the opportunity to train and compete as part of a professional team. Team members work with young karting drivers to improve their race craft so they have a solid foundation for their racing career.
From the karting ranks, drivers can move through the entire the Road to Indy, which is owned and managed by Andersen Promotions. The Road to Indy presented by Cooper Tires takes a young driver seamlessly from karting into the NTT IndyCar Series through the three steps that comprise the ladder system: the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship, Indy Pro 2000 Presented by Cooper Tires and Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires.


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Dec 14, 2011
Soup's Snake Pit
We finally finished our albino boa's snake pit pimp palace.
We converted a rarely used table top in the middle of our office to a snake pit. It turned out a bit better than we thought it would.
Dec 14, 2011
Tony Hawk's New Game Featuring SoupGraphix Skateboard Design
Check out this trailer for Tony Hawk's new video game featuring SoupGraphix's deck design graphic.
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Dec 08, 2011
Watch as Ken Block takes to the streets of Los Angeles.
SoupGraphix was asked to create the story boards for Ken Block's new "Behind the Scenes" video. There are a few similarities from what we illustrated and what actually made the cut but some of it's still in there. Take a look:
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Nov 07, 2011
Check out our work that was published in "Inside the World of Board Graphics" This is a pretty cool 220 page hardback book filled with a ton of inspiration.
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Aug 04, 2011
Soup Visits Agenda Tradeshow & The US Open of Surfing
Soup visits the Agenda tradeshow in Los Angeles. Lots to see and not enough time to see it all. Here's a taste of what we saw.
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What are the things you should take into account as you buy cars? Take into account that this is a big investment, and for this reason, you should choose the right one. A great deal of people tend to choose the glitz, the engine, the look and other car features. It is highly recommended that you make an informed decision by means of opening your mind to the things regarding the car.
1. Car history. When purchasing used cars for sale nj, this can be somewhat hard for you because it involved gambling. You can place the likelihoods on your side by way of opening your mind to the things that the car have undergone and all of its history. This information would include the number of previous owners the used car already has, its maintenance history, if there are any mechanical failures, and if the car became a part of any accidents.
2. Make sure that the odometer of the used car has not been meddles. Just look at the consoles to see if there are any marks or if it is loose. On the whole, these are usually the signs you will see on a tampered odometer. In addition, be sure that you look for any service stickers inside the car or under the hood. Usually the stickers has the present readings and you can compare and contrast it against the present read.
3. Equitable mileage. The listed prices for used car would suggest that equitable mileage must run to about 12000 miles in a year. And for used car that have a higher mileage or has a poor condition, then the sale price must be lower. Learn how to buy used cars with these steps in http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-buy-a-used-car/.
4. Be certain not to engage in used cars with 'as is' agreement. Be certain that you have read all the documents even the fine prints before you place your signature on it. Be sure to agree with a warranty of at least 30 days because you don't know what to expect in driving a used car. By means of signing an 'as is' agreement, the very second that you drive the used car and there is something unwanted that happened with it, then you will be the one accountable for it.
5. Don't share. Make sure that you don't share the information regarding the dealer number of your car dealer. This is not just recommended.
6. Shop around for used cars. Make sure that you don't buy the first used car that you see. Keep in mind that there are just a lot of used cars in the market that are sold and that will fit your style and budget. Buy here pay here nj!


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Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you get a shared web hosting package from us, you'll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is really easy – once you sign in, you'll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you'll see an "Whois Privacy Protection" logo, which will inform you whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.
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In case you want to conceal the contact details associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any moment later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be enabled with several clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel's Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered with us will be listed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support the service by simply clicking the "Whois Privacy Protection" button on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the same manner, you can also renew the service or turn it off – if you'd like to transfer a domain name to another registrar company and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.


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Now hows about this beauty...and how's about them pumps...and hows about that 3 dimensional window with the endless possibility to absorb a postcard from your most recent romantic adventure (get out of here)!!! Details, details, details ... take time...and beings we all have a lil time on our hands, the Maestro has been dialing it in. The first to arrive of the Spring 2020 B.T.W. Coyote Series Originals is now gorgeously framed ( we all know ... frames matter), photographed and resting peacefully in the House o' Blue ... ready to rock your wall ... that perfect spot oooh sooo needing a lil love! Just saying...and that's all I have to say about that! ENJOY! PS - please spread the word! ... See MoreSee Less
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Hey Gang! Even in these troubled times, the Coyote Series Maestro, Markus Pierson, hasn't rested. He has worked feverishly the past several weeks, finishing the many paintings planned for our Annual Soiree (that wasn't). He then outdid himself by sneaking in a painting created especially for this unprecedented time in history ... thinking particularly of those who do not want to forget. In addition, we collaborated, as we often do, and wholeheartedly agreed on an unheard of price point so most everyone could enjoy ... then kickin some of that to the Salvation Army's Homeless Division (Blue Coyotes' Fave). Frame well my friends and display proudly! Please share this post and message me if interested. And for crying out loud ... as the ol' Sergeant used to say in the opening scene of Hill Street Blues ... BE SAFE OUT THERE! ... See MoreSee Less
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L'Oréal USA to Exceed Carbon Emission Reduction Goals Through Two Major Solar Energy Projects in Kentucky and ArkansasCommitments
Company Will Meet 100 Percent Renewable Electricity Goals for U.S. Manufacturing, Achieve 80 Percent CO2 Reduction Through Two of the Largest Statewide Solar Commercial Projects
NEW YORK, September 20, 2016 – L'Oréal USA today announced it will exceed its carbon emission reduction goals and build two large-scale solar projects at the company's manufacturing facilities in North Little Rock, Arkansas and Florence, Kentucky as part of its global sustainability strategy Sharing Beauty with All.
The two projects – among the largest in each state – represent an acceleration of the company's original goals to reduce its CO2 emissions by 60 percent from its 2005 baseline. L'Oréal USA will achieve an 80 percent reduction, and plans to achieve 100 percent renewable electricity for its manufacturing in the United States through the projects and the purchase of additional, locally-sourced renewable energy certificates (RECs). The project in Florence will be the largest commercial solar array in Kentucky and the project in North Little Rock will be the third largest commercial array in Arkansas.
"Reducing our CO2 emissions by 80% and achieving 100% renewable electricity for our U.S. manufacturing is a major milestone for L'Oréal USA," said Fréderic Rozé, CEO of L'Oréal Americas. "The achievement is a testament to our passionate, creative and innovative teams who have pushed us to go beyond our original ambitions. We are committed to being a sustainability leader in the United States and are proud of the progress we have made."
The Florence plant, in partnership with Scenic Hill Solar, will house the largest commercial solar array in Kentucky at 1.5 MW. Construction of the Florence project will start in late 2016 and will consist of approximately 5,000 solar panels. The array is projected to cut CO2 emissions in Kentucky by approximately 1,195 metric tons per year, equivalent to eliminating over 2.8 million miles traveled by passenger cars per year, according to EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
The 687,000 sq. ft. plant, where haircare products are made for the Garnier, L'Oréal Paris, Matrix, and Redken brands, is the company's largest manufacturing site in the U.S. and its largest worldwide by tonnage of products produced. L'Oréal USA has been operational in Kentucky for more than 25 years and now has over 400 employees.
"With this project, our facility becomes an emblem of sustainable manufacturing" said Eric Wolff, L'Oréal's Florence Plant Manager. "We're proud to be leading the way for commercial renewable energies in Kentucky."
The North Little Rock plant, also in partnership with Scenic Hill Solar, will house a 1.2 MW array that will be the third largest commercial solar array and the fourth largest solar project in Arkansas. The 4,000 solar panel installation in North Little Rock is scheduled to be operational by mid-2017 and will reduce carbon emissions in Arkansas by 1,326 metric tons per year, equivalent to eliminating nearly 3.2 million miles traveled by passenger cars per year, according to EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. L'Oréal first installed a solar array at its North Little Rock plant in 2012, which now supplies the equivalent of 100 percent of its outdoor lighting needs (18,000 kWh/year).
The 446,691 sq. ft. factory has operated in the state for over four decades, and is home to cosmetics production for brands including Maybelline, L'Oréal Paris, Essie and Lancôme. L'Oréal is the fourth largest industrial employer in the Greater Little Rock area and this plant has nearly 500 employees.
"We are very excited to continue on our site's sustainability journey" said Eric Fox, L'Oréal's North Little Rock Plant Manager. "This next phase of our on-site solar installation not only paves the way for expanded low-carbon manufacturing, but also can serve as a catalyst for continued investment in renewable energy technology in the Natural State."
"We are delighted to partner with L'Oréal, a demonstrated sustainability leader, and help them to simultaneously meet their bold goals for clean, renewable energy and reduce their electricity costs," said Bill Halter, CEO of Scenic Hill Solar. "We commend L'Oréal on their continued global leadership in sustainability and are honored to partner with them."
Nationwide, L'Oréal USA has been a long-time leader in solar energy, having been named as one of the top 25 companies for U.S. solar capacity by the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA). The company's commitment to solar began in 2011 with an installation at its Piscataway, New Jersey manufacturing facility. With today's announcement, L'Oréal USA will now boast 16 solar installations across the country generating a total of 13.5 MW of energy.
In addition, L'Oréal USA has been an Energy Star Partner with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 1996 and recently joined the EPA's Green Power Partnership. The company was awarded the "Star of Energy Efficiency" award by the Alliance to Save Energy in 2015, and became a member of the U.S. Department of Energy's Better Buildings, Better Plants Partnership that same year. The company was also a signee of the White House American Business Act on Climate Pledge in 2015 and the CERES Climate Declaration in 2013.
For more information on the L'Oréal USA's sustainability program and its Sharing Beauty with All objectives, commitments and achievements, please visit www.sharingbeautywithall.com.
About L'Oréal USA
L'Oréal USA is the largest subsidiary of the L'Oréal Group, the world's leading beauty company. L'Oréal USA manages a portfolio of more than 30 iconic beauty brands, including Garnier, Giorgio Armani Beauty, Kérastase, Lancôme, La Roche-Posay, L'Oréal Paris and Yves Saint Laurent Beauté. L'Oréal USA also serves as the international hub for the product development and marketing strategy for L'Oréal's 15 American brands: Baxter of California, Carol's Daughter, Clarisonic, Dermablend, Essie, Kiehl's, Matrix, Maybelline New York, Mizani, NYX Professional Makeup, Ralph Lauren Fragrances, Redken, Softsheen-Carson, SkinCeuticals and Urban Decay. Generating more than $6 billion in sales annually, L'Oréal USA is committed to growth through sustainable innovation, driven by the company's Sharing Beauty with All ambition for sustainable development across the Group's value chain. The company is headquartered in New York City, employs more than 10,000 people, and operates administrative, research, manufacturing and distribution facilities across 13 states, including Arkansas, California, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas and Washington. For more information, visit www.lorealusa.com or follow on Twitter @LOrealUSA.