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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) --You may have noticed a lot of new fad diets popping up online as many come on the market right after the New Year.
But beware: there's no quick fix to weight loss.
Bridget Coyne sticks to a healthy, well-rounded diet now, but admits a few years ago, she got sucked into a diet she saw on Facebook that promised quick weight loss.
"Like, five to seven pounds a week," she said.
She spent $100 for HCG drops, a supplement designed to mimic a hormone that controls hunger.
But along with the drops, she could only eat 500 calories a day of just protein!
"It was a little difficult to say the least," she said.
She did lose weight but felt exhausted. After three weeks, she quit and gained the weight back.
Registered dietitian Ashvini Mashru says that's typical with a restrictive diet. She says beware of a fads that promise a quick fix.
If it claims you're going to lose weight miraculously or effortlessly, "that's something you need to stay away from," Mashru said.
Also avoid any diet that only includes one food or food group, and steer clear of plans that ask you to buy supplements.
And always look for peer-reviewed scientific studies to back up any claims.
Overall, she says working with a professional dietitian is best, and instead of resolving to lose a lot of weight focus on smaller behavioral goals.
"Eating a healthy breakfast, drinking more water, or adding 2 more days of exercise for 30 minutes, packing a healthy lunch," she said.
And be patient. You didn't gain the weight overnight, so you won't lose it overnight.
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The EUKN is located in The Haagsche Zwaan building at the 9th floor, the address Schenkkade 50, 2595 AR in The Hague. There are several ways to reach us:
By train: You can get off the train at The Hague Laan van NOI station, from here The Haagsche Zwaan is within a 7 minute walk. Choose the exit in the direction of the Kiosk shop. When exiting the station you go to the left, then turn right on the Wilhemina van Pruisenweg. Walk straight ahead until you reach the Schenkkade. You turn left to Schenkkade and continue on this road. After a 5 minute walk The Haagsche Zwaan is located on you right hand.
By tram: At train station The Hague Laan van NOI you take Line 3 to The Hague Loosduinen. After two minutes you get off at stop 'Beatrixkwartier'. When leaving the metro station, you are situated at the Princess Beatrixlaan. You go left towards the PostNL building, then turn off to the right to Schenkkade. The Haagsche Zwaan is then located at your right hand side.
By car: From Utrecht (A12), Amsterdam (A4) of Rotterdam (A13) Follow the signs to The Hague and take the third exit to Bezuidenhout. At the traffic lights you go left to Schenkkade and stay at the right lane. The Haagsche Zwaan is the first building on your right hand side. The entrance of the parking garage is immediately after the sign of the building. To reach the garage you sharply turn to the right. From Amsterdam / Leiden (A44 / N44) Follow the signs to The Hague, by continuing the Rijksstraatweg, the Leidsestraatweg and Benoordenhoutseweg. Then go left at Laan van Nieuw-Oost-Indië. After 1,5km go right to Schenkkade. After approximately 650meters The Haagsche Zwaan is the first building on your right hand side. The entrance of the parking garage is immediately after the sign of Haagsche Zwaan. To reach the garage you sharply turn to the right.
Other parking possibilities:
Parking in the neighbourhood/surrounding streets: It is free to park in the neighbourhood from 14:00. Before 14:00 there is street parking standard rate and a max of 2,5 hours before adding new money. You don't have to physically go to throw in coins in the machine any longer. There are parking apps on your smartphone where you can add parking time/money.
World Trade Center (WTC) building parking: Public parking in the WTC building across the street is also possible. The rate is 3 euro per hour.

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Despite public awareness and the social pressure for drivers to make good decisions if they have been consuming alcohol, drunk driving still happens every single day in the United States. Sadly, a habitually drunk driver will get behind the wheel of a car around eighty times before they are caught.
Just recently, a drunk driver caused a serious accident involving four cars and injuring seven people. The 33-year-old driver was speeding down a highway in the westbound lanes in his BMW when he attempted to pass another car and lost control. The BMW crossed over three lanes, hit several other vehicles, and crashed into the guardrail, then flipped over.
Two passengers, a 16-year-old and 34-year-old, that were in the vehicle with the drunk driver died from their injuries. Seven other people were also hurt and taken to the hospital for treatment.
The police have arrested the drunk driver and charged him with manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, aggravated vehicular homicide, driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, and reckless endangerment.
Absolutely nothing can bring back the two people who passed away, but their families may be able to obtain a sense of justice outside of the criminal charges. Personal injury lawsuits can be filed by both the surviving victims and the loved ones of the deceased against the negligent driver, which may provide them with compensation for their losses. This can include medical expenses, lost earnings, physical pain and suffering, loss of companionship, and funeral and burial expenses.
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The May 7 edition of Warrior Connection was a discussion with Becky Hayes a highway - concrete construction union employee who was exposed to DUCRETE a mixture of depleted uranium metal dust and normal concrete components who al of the same serious medical problems as specified by the VA and DOD and as experienced by military and civilian personnel exposed to depleted uranium during combat or other military operations. The Tragedy of DU just never ends.
Warrior Connection-04.23.17April 24, 2017
The April 23 edition of Warrior Connection was an EXCEPTIONAL AND INFORMATIVE discussion with Gavin P. Smith, Founder and President of Civilian Exposure (civilianexposure.org) that dedicated to unraveling, revealing, and discussing the extent of environmental contamination and resulting health effects caused by military operations and the extensive list of bases that have extensive contamination affecting everybody, animals, and plants and especially the military personnel and their families who lived, worked, played on these contaminated installations. We need to remember that contamination does not stop at the fence line and is a world-wide problem created by us. Clearly God sent us an "angel" in the form of Gavin to help us.
Warrior Connection-03.26.17March 27, 2017
The March 26th edition of Warrior Connection was a discussion about adverse health effects of trichloroethylene "tce" and other toxic exposures at Camp Lejuene and former Chanute AFB in Rantoul Illinois and VA admission - rule for automatic service connection,. .
Warrior Connection-03.20.17March 20, 2017
The Feb 1st edition of Warrior Connection was a discussion with Olle Johansson, associate professor
The Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm
Sweden about serious and ignored adverse health effects resulting from RF - microwave - cell phone computer wifi exposures. Current research verifies that adverse health effects appear at energy levels less than .2 milliwatts per square centimeter.
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The Feb 26 edition was a discussion about health effects of toxic exposures as specified in the attached va report.


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The Wieland-Group is represented by two companies in North America. Wieland Metals, Inc. and Wieland Copper Products, LLC.
Wieland Metals, Inc. produces flat rolled copper and copper alloy strip as a Re-roll Mill and Service Center in Wheeling, IL. This location, along with product and technical support from several global Wieland locations, allows us to offer a unique combination of flexibility, service and value to meet the needs of our diverse customer base.
Wieland Copper Products, LLC is manufacturing semi-finished products for the Plumbing, Industrial and Technical Tube industries.
The wide range of products and alloys, like Titanium as a High-Performance Tube, allows Wieland to offer customized solutions based on the customer's needs.
Extruded and Drawn products, such as copper alloy rods and special profiles, as well as high-end Slide bearings and finished Components, are represented locally by our motivated sales force.
While Wieland has approximately 6,800 employees on a global basis, 600 of them are working in North America at two locations in Pine Hall, NC and Wheeling, IL.
A worldwide network of partners, coupled with a local service approach makes Wieland the perfect partner for global operations as well as niche applications.
Extensive R&D capabilities and investment allow Wieland to be the partner of choice to spearhead new developments.
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All the attractive women in the world have one point alike - flawless and also long lasting younger skin. Yes, it is a global charm secret. In today's world, we have number of elements that age skin. Contamination, excessive sunlight direct exposure, UV rays, poisonous chemicals that we get subjected to on daily basis, cigarette smoking, improper diet as well as food environments, dehydration, stress are a few short of them.
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Why we creating blog? Now some are going to say that they doing blogging for passion, while some says that they are doing blogging for make some decent money from their blog ok. Now when it comes towards to make money from your blog everyone can refer a Google AdSense programme for earning revenue from your blog. Ok It's 100% correct that we can make more money from monetizing Google Ads in your blog, but the problem is that everyone not getting a Google AdSense account approval so what about them? How they can earn money from their blog? So in this post I can share the best 10 alternatives of Google AdSense from which we can make money from our blog. But remember these alternatives are nothing in front of Google AdSense revenue programme, these alternatives for those who are not getting AdSense account for their blog niche as well as for those whose AdSense accounts are banned from Google for doing unusual activity with Google Ads. Let it be today we are going to discuss about best Google AdSense alternative programs, so be honest instead of Google AdSense there are lots of Ad network through them we can generate money from our blog. As I said Google AdSense is best earning program for all time but we can find some other advertising programs similar to Google AdSense that boosts your earning in 2015-2016 year.
Why you are choosing/selecting Google AdSense alternatives?
This cause by one of several reasons like we are not getting approval of AdSense account, your blog niche theme not supported by Google AdSense programme, your blog language won't support AdSense programme, Google Banning your AdSense account for doing unusual activity with their Ads.
Best Top Advertising programs that can be used as alternatives of Google AdSense
#1 Media.net: Alternative For Google AdSense
This advertising program run by Yahoo and Bing Search Engines, it is the best alternative of Google AdSense program in terms of ad types because it provides contextual ad network. It offers customized ad units which will going to feet to your site look as well as best feet to mobile phone and tablet users. You can earn maximum revenue from their high paying ads. You can start generating money after their approval process. Minimum payout threshold is 50$ which will be transferred directly to your account after reaching it.
#2 Infolinks: Alternative For Google AdSense
Infolinks is quite different advertising program than other advertising programs because it doesn't take maximum space in your blog so you can place this ad types also with Google AdSense to make more money from your blog. They are specialises in showing links ads with use of your content also they are providing pop up ads to attract reader towards them. The minimum payout from them is 50$ if we transferred through PayPal and by other transfer threshold is 100$.
#3 Chitika: Alternative For Google AdSense
Mostly chitika is best for showing relevant ads in your blog content so maximum possibility to get more clicks from your blog readers on your ads. And it is Click per Cost (CPC) based advertising program so you can make more money by placing chitika ads on your blog. They can provide editable ads like search targeted Ads, Local Ads as well as Mobile Ads, its PPC rates aren't good as google adsense but it can be used as adsense alternative. Minimum payout by paypal is 10$ and by cheque is 50$.
#4 Ayboll: Alternative For Google AdSense
If you are looking for native ads therefore Ayboll is the best advertising program. It is not as good as adsense but can be used as alternative of it. It will be easy to get started with Ayboll advertising program. It is giving high paying ads to earn more revenue from your blog. You can place these ads in sidebar to earn more revenue from it. Their minimum payout threshold is 100$ if you reached to it then payment is done via bank transfer.
#5 Viglink: Alternative For Google AdSense
It is an SEO friendly ad program run by viglink, if you are running a fashion, business and deals related blog then this is the best opportunity for you, viglink ad program is the one which creates your content into affiliate links which gives a chance to you to get more money from your blog. Suppose your article related to the Apple macbook then viglink creates apple macbook article into affiliate link of that product, if reader/visitor make purchase of that product then think, what will be the payout?
#6 Adversal: Alternative For Google AdSense
It is best advertising program with great click through rates (CTR), it supports many languages so mainly anybody can apply for it but you need minimum 50000 page views to get approval from them. It takes 3 to 4 days to get approval your site. Minimum payout threshold is 20$ and payout is done by Paypal at the end of the month.
#7 RevenueHits: Alternative For Google AdSense
Revenuehits are performance based ad network which help publisher to earn more revenue from them. Use your ads around whole week to get better result in revenue. It provides banner ads, Sliders, Pop-under button and more. The minimum payout threshold is 20$.
#8 Bidvertiser: Alternative For Google AdSense
Didn't get AdSense approved or Google banned your AdSense account for doing unusual activity with your ads, don't worry bidvertiser is the best alternative to Google AdSense, it is based on pay per click ad (PPC). It based on bidding system the highest bidder can be advertise on your blog. Initially the earning is low but after that you will start with bang. It offers text ads, Banner ads, Slider ads etc. Minimum payout threshold is 10$ and if you want cheque then 50$ is compulsory.
#9 Adengage: Alternative For Google AdSense
Adengage is also advertising program in which you can serve ads in your blog but In this case the publishers can sell direct ads. Many of advertising programs doesn't allow adult content to monetise blog with ads, but here by using adengage you can monetise your adult content too. You will get approval of adengage ad account if you have a minimum of 1000 hits per day on your blog or web. The minimum payout is 50$ to get created.
#10 Skimlinks: Alternative For Google AdSense
It is similar to viglink it will convert your outbound links into affiliate links. If you have ecommerce blog then this is the best advertise program. Depending on your sales the payment will be going to done. You can choose as an AdSense alternative.
Final Verdict from Reviewer:
Above mentioned advertising programmes are used as alternative of Google AdSense programme. I selected them for you by reviewing them on internet. So select the advertising programme depend on their revenue status and minimum paying threshold. If you have questions on your mind then feel free to ask me by commenting below thank you, keep visiting.


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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Theatre Critics Association has announced the nominees for the second annual Berkshire Theatre Awards, known colloquially as The Berkies. The purpose of the BTCA and the Berkshire Theatre Awards is to promote and celebrate the quality and diversity of theater in the greater Berkshire region. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Nov. 6 on the St. Germain Stage in the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center at Barrington Stage in Pittsfield. Limited reservations are available by calling 413-822-7384.
This year, 80 nominees in 20 categories were culled from the 381 votes of critics who covered productions at theaters in four
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — More than 50 area artists are joining their creative forces to make 100 hand-painted ceramic mugs in support of the Berkshire Immigrant Center. The project, Vessels for Change, will culminate in a celebration at Bright Ideas Brewing on the Mass MOCA campus in North Adams on Wednesday, Nov. 15, from 7-9 p.m. For a $100 donation to the Berkshire Immigrant Center donors will receive a one-of-a-kind handmade mug, locally brewed beer and a celebration. To make a donation and reserve a mug, visit the website. Ceramic artist Stephanie Boyd, one of the event organizers, was inspired after a recent mini-fundraiser she held on Facebook shortly after the events at
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BECKET, Mass. — After celebrating its record-breaking 85th anniversary season, Jacob's Pillow announces new, expanded fall, winter and spring programming as a main component of Vision '22, a strategic approach to the Pillow's transformation into a year-round center for dance research and development and a civic partner in our region. Highlights include the launch of the Pillow Lab and the In Process Series, a series of 12 customized artist residencies open to an intimate, invited audience; year-round events consisting of convenings, social dances, Pillow Pop-Up performances and community programming; and co-presentations with Berkshire County cultural partners including


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First a little bit of history of the Park Heights neighborhood. This neighborhood came up from the 1920s to the 1940s as Jews continued to migrate Northwest from East Baltimore. Park Heights just like Edmondson Village was a streetcar suburb. Park Heights thrived as a middle class Jewish community until the mid 1960s. As blacks migrated from the same slums as their Jewish cohort white flight in sued and by 1970 the neighborhood was almost entirely black. Edmondson Village has always been thought of as the poster child for block busting and complete racial turnover. In fact Park Heights did it in roughly half the time of Edmondson Village. Edmondson Village's turnover took 10 years (1955-1965) while Park Heights was 5 (1965-1970). Not only was Park Height's racial turnover quicker than Edmondson Village but it also decayed quicker. This my have little to do with the neighborhood itself. Since Edmondson Village changed earlier than Park Heights which gave it the ability to thrive as a black community. By the time Park Heights changed urban America was decaying faster than ever. The rise of the Black Panthers, The Building of interstate highways, public housing high rises, the MLK Jr. riots accelerated urban decay nationwide in the late 1960s through the 1970s. One thing that Park Heights always had in its favor was and is the Pimlico racecourse, home of the Preakness. But could the crown and jewel of the Park Heights community be holding it back? Read on and you may in for a shock.......
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The new development on the former Pimilico will have Northern Parkway frontage. Opposite what is currently the Pimlico racetrack is the Glen/Mount Washington neighborhood. There is very little development in Glen and Mount Washington that actually faces Northern Parkway but for very good reason. During the interstate planning and building era neighborhoods used limited access parkways to try to distance themselves from decaying neighborhoods. But with the new mixed use development I'm proposing I would like to see this swath of land developed as another mixed use development to compliment its counterpart to the south. One thing that is one the other side of Northern Parkway is the soon to be former Pimlico Middle School. This represents even more available land on this side of Northern Parkway.
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Further down Northern Parkway is the Seton Business Park. It's all to obvious that this was built in the 1970s and today it's one of the ugliest Business Parks in Central Maryland. Redevelopment will transform this eyesore to an Office Park that will give Canton Crossing a run for its money.
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Lastly I'd like to focus on social issues. Until now all I've talked about is physical redevelopment. Most importantly Park Heights has the one of the highest occurance of HIV and AIDS in the country, a large contributer to this is not sexual but dirty needles. It's no secret that drug addiction including herion is a major problem. One solution that I'm advocating is the needle exchange program. This is very controversial because critics say that it encourages drug use. I personally do not encourgae drug use and neither do the majority of politicians who are in favor of this. Needle exchange is the lesser ofd two evils,although it does nothing for the drug epidemic it does a lot to slow down the AIDS epidemic. It's the same people who turn their noses at the needle exchange program who try to stop condom give aways at high schools because it encourages teen sex. Condoms just like clean needles stop the spread of AIDS and teen pregnancy. Now that I've got babies on the brain I'd like to talk about the infant mortality rate. Park Heights has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. This has a lot to do with the environment their mothers are exposed to. Mothers don't have access to health care, fresh healthy food and are more likely to addicts which in turn makes their baby an addict. With the exception of addiction the health of the mother and the rest of the population can be solved almost exclusively by the physical redevelopment aspect. Physical redevelopment can usher better services like better grocery stores, free clinics, and WIC centers. Now lets talk education, the elementary schools score relatively well considering their city schools but are still pretty terrible. I did a post a while back on school construction so refer to that when it comes the school buildings themselves. When it comes to test scores and the high drop out rate I got nothing.
Education woes aside I think we can say goodbye to Pimlico and Park Heights as we know them and they won't be missed.


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Meanwhile, the girls took a little trip to the grocery store to get gifts, cards and supplies for a birthday cake! I loved the little kid size grocery carts for Victoria! PRECIOUS!
Wait, how did those get in there?? Oh...those are Victoria's!! WhOOpS!!! :)
That's more like it...a bug zapper, a lighter and batteries. LOL!
We headed over to JA's house one last time to help out on little odd and end jobs that needed to be done. Dad and Victoria worked on the windows. He taught her exactly what to do.
And she is a quick learner!..
Victoria wanted to head back home with us...And I don't think Tye would have minded too much if she would have been able to. He would have appreciated the extra company in the back seat.


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Have you ever made a beautiful chart in OpenOffice.org suite and wanted to publish it eg. on your website? Unfortunately, Calc doesn't have this option by default (and I'm too lazy to search if there is any plugin which can do it). But you can export your charts using OpenOffice.org Drawing application – just follow those steps (tested using OOo version 3.1.1):
1. Select the chart placed in OpenOffice.org Calc and copy it (Ctrt+C).
2. Open OpenOffice.org Drawing application.
3. Paste the copied chart (Ctrl+V).
4. From the File menu, select the Export option.
5. Choose the output format (JPEG) and filename. If you want the output image to be cropped to chart size, simply tick the Selection box.
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Sunday, March 8, 2015
Tokyo Family Photography: Kate, Joe, and Elizabeth
After I photographed this beautiful family the other day, it officially feels like early spring has come to Tokyo! Kate, Joe, and sweet baby Elizabeth were just fantastic to work with, despite the chilly temperatures and sporadic sprinkling of rain that afternoon. Kate and Joe were so kind and attentive, and Elizabeth so patiently gifted us with an amazing array of expressions! It seems that early blossoms have started popping up around the city, and due to the rain that day, we were lucky enough to enjoy the view without any crowds - quite a rarity in Tokyo! Thank you so much for this heartwarming shoot :)
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Sit down, kid and listen up. The world doesn't need your novel. It really doesn't. In fact it could not care less is you publish it or not. The World does NOT give a rats ass, okay? Sorry to burst your little bubble there but NaNoWriMo is lying their ass off to you with their propaganda. Why not? They make money. I still want to see an accounting of where their cash we donate goes. Along with receipts.
Anyway, back to writing. Now if you do understand the fact the world doesn't give a shit [go look at the Amazon Slush Pile], you have a good basis. Also you need to understand you aren't Stephen King, Gore Vidal, Neil Gaiman, Micheal Connelly, Jude Deveraux or Harper Lee. Hell, you ain't even Robert Leslie Bellem.
Got that? Good.
Next understand the rules. There are rules you know? Just like any job and unless you are a very lucky little dimwit, you have to obey them. There are lucky dimwits out there. But the chances of you writing the next great soft porn trilogy are pretty slim even if you do write fan fiction.
Rule number one: Put your ass in the chair every day come hell, high water or any other job you have. No one is going to make room for your special little snowflake "I don't have time to write" crap. Either you do or you don't. If you don't, stop reading here. You don't want to be a writer. There are famous writers who went to work at 5 a.m. and worked until 3 p.m. then came home. Ate supper. Spent a couple hours with the wife and kids and by 8 p.m. their ass was in their chair writing until 11 p.m. or midnight then they went to bed and started again. They wanted to be writers. And they didn't use excuses. You have to make some hard choices. You don't get to have it all when you start. It's Big Rich Texas or writing. Make your choice. I can tell you that your TV show/Movie/Internet isn't going to get you the NYT Best Seller list. But it's your choice, Snowflake. Choose wisely.
Rule number two: LEARN TO WRITE. Yep, you heard me. Learn to write. Unlike NaNoWriMo's crap, you don't just sit down, write, edit and send it off. You have to know how to write. You have to understand story arc, pacing, and a whole bunch of other terms and how to use them to your advantage. Or you end up with… well… crap. Your story is pure mush. Now that may be okay if you write porn passing as erotica. I mean it isn't that hard to write about Johnny's trip to the zoo where he gets laid by 5 studs who are zoo workers and not put a plot in there when 25,000 words of your 33,000 word story is sex scenes [really bad sex scenes from what I've read so far in these books] but if you want to actually write? Learn how to write.
How without going to school? Read the writers who SELL who write books about writing. Find websites like Stephen Cannell's site with his Writing Seminar and read. Hey for 9.99 Kindle Unlimited offers access to unlimited writing books. If you want to find what's good, go look at Writer's Digest, The Writer and Poets & Writers for the books they offer and the writers who wrote them. You will find a lot of them in unlimited. And read those magazine. If the cost looks prohibited, go to Barnes and Noble then to their Nook magazines and find them. The monthly price is wonderful! Dirt Cheap. Also check out the Brooklyn Public Library. For 50 bucks for a year, you get access to more writing books [and others]. It's like a big candy store.
Rule number three: Practice, Practice and Practice then realize you have a lot more work. I won't lie to you. It takes a lot of practice to write a good book that sells. It's a lot of words. There are lots of things you need to do that those articles and books will teach you and in the end? There is no guarantee that you will sell. There are flukes like dimwits who can't write who have runaway best sellers from something they wrote for their TV show club or Saturday afternoon cartoon group. John Kennedy Toole never saw his book published.
The other work is editing. For God's sake, EDIT. You won't be in the situation an author was in last night when I was reading their book and laughing. At them. Why? Because their mistakes were silly and grade school. She was either stupid or she didn't give a shit about her reader. "I new it was time to leave before I loosed the watch." {I think she meant "I knew it was time to leave before I lost the watch."} By the 15th mistake in the same book, I was laughing at her. Mainly because she claimed to have been born in America. English had to be her second language and she wasn't proficient in it. Seriously? You do NOT want your readers laughing at you.
Rule number 4: Do not run your mouth off when you leave shit in your book like the above author. Do not run around in your special little snowflake circle and post on Facebook, forums or Twitter how much you hate pirates because they are keeping you from earning money when you don't give a rats ass enough about your readers to edit your damn books from new to knew. IF you plan on using the Special Snowflake Method [no education about writing, no editing your book, can barely speakie English…] DO NOT bitch about someone stealing your book because you aren't making money. Take a look at your behavior. It might just be because your books show: no education about writing, no editing your book, can barely speakie English… Show some professionalism.
It ain't easy. And you need to decide what you want to do. If you want to do this for a living? You need to understand that the one thing NaNoWriMo does get right is for this to be your living so you can quit your day job you MUST write at least 50,000 words a month. You aren't Stephen King. You don't get paid for less.
If you do all these things, you may end up being a writer. Or you may not. It's the breaks, kid.


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With Mother's Day around the corner, we thought it would be fun to catch up with the amazing, mother-daughter design team behind Phillips House, Lisa Phillips Frankel and Danielle Frankel. As it turns out, these ladies not only work seamlessly together on the creation of their feminine, wearable and ever-expanding collection of jewelry, they also get inspired together throughout their hometown of Miami, Florida! Join us as these savvy and stylish ladies give us a tour of their stomping grounds!
The family has been going to their beach club in Fisher Island since Danielle was a little girl. It is secluded and represents pure relaxation in a beautiful setting. It's also a family oriented place where time seems to slow down and where it's not about the latest fashion or technology. It gives a great sense of perspective considering it is the same sand and ocean that people have been enjoying for hundreds of years. The natural elements are beautiful and the designers like to carry that natural beauty in their work.
Their favorite time to go to the Lincoln Road Antique Fair is first thing in the morning, when it's not crowded and they can view each booth thoroughly. This location carries everything from interesting pieces of furniture and estate jewelry to cool shoe clips and belt buckles. It's the type of location that's fun and unique and occurs every second Sunday year-round, except for the summer. The Phillips House Wildflower collection was vaguely inspired from the antique fair, not because of the specific designs, but because of the feeling and the attitude of the place. They wanted people to have the same feeling that they would get if they were shopping for a vintage brooch. The booths here are very specific and specialized. For example, there is one booth that has a thousand cufflinks of various designs – some architectural, some feminine, and another booth that carries all old paper such as magazine cut outs and old advertisements.
For a higher-end shopping experience, the ladies love The Webster. Its highly curated selection of high end designer clothes make it feel as if a stylist has come in and hand-picked the best pieces. When they need something to wear for an event, this is the first place they go. The buyer for the shop has similar tastes to Lisa and Danielle, so it's almost as everything had been selected just for them!
The dynamic duo also enjoys shopping at the shops at Bal Harbour. The beautiful ponds with fish and turtles, lush greenery and a fantastic, family style Italian restaurant with a warm and welcoming staff have made this a family destination for years!
One of the perks of living in Miami is being able to enjoy the outdoors. Kyaking in and around the Mangroves–protected trees in Florida that also protect the shoreline–is a great way to check out from the stresses of work life. It also allows the designers to appreciate the amazing plays on natural color and light.
The Room in South Beach is a tiny bar/lounge that serves beer and wine. It also served as the first-date-spot Danielle went with her now husband! It only seats around 10 people but it's been around forever, and it's a great place to unwind.
The Mandolin is an intimate Greek restaurant with great food, amazing aesthetics, and a fabulous outdoor seating area. The ladies love coming here either with friends, or on date nights!
With all of the food, fashion and nature that surrounds them, it's no wonder that Lisa and Danielle appear to be having so much fun! Thank you ladies for sharing with us and Happy Mother's Day!


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Santa thinks he is becoming old-fashioned so he decides to "improve" himself by going on a diet, doing exercises, changing his hair color, and changing his suit in an effort to look stylish and become a trendsetter. Much to his surprise, he finds himself rejected by the children who did not like his new look.
Children will surely be delighted by this book, and will have something to say whether they like Santa's new look or not.
This is a good book to read if you want your kids to do the following activities in class:
1. COMPARE and CONTRAST the new Santa with the Old Santa.
2. Identify Santa's Character Traits
3. Write a letter to Santa. You can find a number of Santa templates to use along with this book. The links below, from eventstocelebrate.net and Sheila Melton via teacherspayteachers.com provide a number of templates for this activity.:
Letter to Santa writing template 1
Winter Holiday Activities Freebie
I hope you will have a chance to find this book in your library. Your kids will surely enjoy this book!
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A memorial to King Edward VII in Tower Hamlets, paid for by Jewish residents, has been desecrated with raw meat in what appears to be an anti-Semitic attack.
The drinking fountain and statue in Whitechapel, East London was attacked with raw chicken and slabs of red meat on Thursday evening. Jewish residents donated the memorial in honour of King Edward VII after the Boer war.
The inscription on the sculpture, designed by sculptor William Silver Frith, reads: "In grateful and loyal memory of Edward VII, Rex et Imperator, Erected by subscriptions raised by Jewish inhabitants of East London, 1911."
Local resident Lauren Justice saw the vandalism of the Whitechapel Road war memorial on her way to work. She took pictures and posted them on Twitter alerting the council to the apparently anti-Semitic incident on Thursday morning.
@TowerHamletsNow tried calling but not able to get through. Is it possible to get this cleaned asap. in Whitechapel pic.twitter.com/7xg8IvW2cw
— Lauren Justice (@itsme_LaurenJ) August 20, 2015
The Evening Standard newspaper reports her saying: "I was just coming into Whitechapel for work this morning – usually I do not see the memorial because it is concealed by market stalls, but today it was just covered in meat.
"I just think it is disgusting. It is a memorial. I do not know if they think it is funny or what, but it cannot be allowed to stay up like that. I find it offensive."
When asked by the newspaper whether she thought the vandalism was anti-Semitic, she said: "That is the impression it gives."
The Council has said it will arrange for the memorial to be cleaned up.
At the end of the 19th century the borough had one of the largest Jewish populations in the UK. Tower Hamlets today is the only local authority in the UK where the Muslim population is the largest single religious group, and 43 per cent of residents were born outside the UK.
Between 2010 and 2015, the borough was controlled by the country's first Muslim mayor, Lutfur Rahman. However the election result was found null and void on the 23rd of April after he was found personally guilty of corrupt, illegal practices, undue religious influence and electoral fraud.


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2007 Helix Aspersa
Columbia Valley
Technical Information
71% Chardonnay
29% Viognier
Stainless Steel
Bottled June 2007
Residule Sugar 2.9 g/100ml
pH 3.34
Total acidity .60 g/100 ml
Cases Produced 418
Tasting Notes
This bottle is your invitation to the sweetest Hawaiian Luau this side of the Pacific. Start your feast off with a little honey drizzled barbecued pineapple, red Anjou pears and cantaloupe. There's a little savory citronella wafting on the breeze, and a Cabana boy dilivery of spicey orange zest and ice tea.


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Justin Bieber stunned revelers at Los Angeles hotspot 1OAK in West Hollywood on Saturday night (30Jan16) with an impromptu concert.
The pop star hit the stage and sang What Do You Mean? before teaming up for a performance with pal Tyga.
Stunned by the reaction of the largely 20-something crowd, Bieber asked, "How many people thought you would like Justin Bieber?"
He wasn't the only chart star serving up an unexpected concert in Los Angeles on Saturday - Rihanna gave an impromptu karaoke performance of Mary J. Blige's Not Gon' Cry hours earlier at Miguel's Wildheart Motel.
She then teamed up with Miguel for a rendition of My Girl by the Temptations.


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Satya Nadella - The New Face Of Microsoft
He gets excited about new things… he buys more books than he can read… he signs up for more online courses than he can actually finish… but what drives him the most is to be able to watch people do great things and learn new concepts. That's Satya Nadella for you, Microsoft's new CEO who succeeds Steve Ballmer - and is currently the most talked about tech executive in the whole world.
Much has been said and written about Nadella ever since his name was announced as the third CEO of Microsoft in its four-decade history. The 46-year old India born techie, who has been with Microsoft for over 22 years and was leading the Cloud and Enterprise division.
Bill Gates who now takes on the role of technology advisor believes that there is no better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella at present. "Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product innovation and growth," says Gates in a statement.
Experts believe with his potential, what he could bring to Microsoft's table and the tech world at large can be huge. We bring to you a compilation of some unique facts on Satya Nadella – the new face of Microsoft.
Read: The Man And His Mission@Microsoft - Satya Nadella Demystified
The Journey for knowledge
Nadella was born in Hyderabad (AP) India, in a Telugu family to an IAS officer, B. N. Yugandhar, who was a top bureaucrat in the rural development ministry when Narasimha Rao was the prime minister. Satya attended the Hyderabad Public School in Begumpet. In a recent media interview with ET, Yugandhar said delightedly, "I am proud of my son and I wish him all the best!"
After completing school, he started his journey to seek greater knowledge. Nadella went to Manipal in Karnataka to pursue a bachelor of engineering in Electronics and Communication degree from Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) Mangalore University, Manipal, Karnataka. After moving to the US, Nadella earned an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Unlike most people who get carried away by career and success, Satya still keeps in touch with his school friends. His friends often see him as very passionate, friendly and driven person.
In an interview with TOI, his classmate, M Chandrasekhar, former CEO of an IT firm in the city recalls, "He was very friendly and jovial. He was also a bright student. We studied together for about five years and there was not one single person who had issues with him in class."
Nadella always have the knack of building things. "Computer science was what I wanted to pursue. But the subject was not available in the University. And so electronic engineering was a great way for me to go discover what turned out to become a passion," he says.
The other passion he is Cricket. Nadella played cricket when younger, which he now cites as one of his hobbies. "I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career," he says in an interview.
Following his extensive education, Nadella went to Sun Microsystems where he was a member of the technology staff. He quit Sun in 1992 to join Microsoft and quickly rose through the ranks, growing Microsoft's internet ventures along the way.
From Bing Master to Cloud Guru
Nadella worked as the senior vice-president of research and development (R&D) for the Online Services Division and vice-president of the Microsoft Business Division. Later, he was made the president of Microsoft's $19 billion Server and Tools Business and led a transformation of the company's business and technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services.
Though Nadella's career focused the business side of Microsoft, he's also worked on some offerings used in the consumer space, like the Bing search engine.
He has been credited for helping bring Microsoft's database, Windows Server and developer tools to its Azure cloud - some of the most thriving areas. . The revenue from Cloud Services grew to $20.3 billion in June 2013 from $16.6 billion when he took over in 2011. According to Bloomberg, Nadella's 2013 base salary is nearly $700,000, for a total compensation, with stock bonuses, of $7.6 million.
Nadella played a huge role in Microsoft's transition to cloud computing. In an interview with Gigaom, he points out, "Cloud is perhaps the most secular growth engine out there because it scales with a number of devices, and it scales with a number of apps, so it scales with the users and their devices and their apps."
With devices and apps needing more compute and more storage, cloud is the one thing you can bet on… and that there is going to be more cloud, explains Nadella.
The down-to-earth CEO
The age of larger-than-life tech founders is over, say many. Low-key and humble, Nadella is every bit different from Ballmer. With over two decades of experience with Microsoft, serving under both Bill Gates and Ballmer, Nadella has built and managed growing sectors at Microsoft. Naturally comparisons will be drawn with the former CEO Steve Ballmer, who according to Bloomberg is 'loud' when compared to the new CEO who is thought as personable and more diplomatic.
David Yoffie, a professor at Harvard Business School elucidates, Ballmer's aggressive salesmanship during the boom days of the personal-computer industry exemplified how Microsoft became the world's most valuable company. Now the software maker needs a new approach to catch-up in areas including tablets, smartphones and cloud services. Yoffie believes Nadella's obviously a deep technologist, and he's going to bring that back to a Microsoft that hasn't had it in the CEO office for years.
When asked why he wanted to become CEO of Microsoft, Nadella said the company was central to applying human potential to a world becoming more rapidly software-driven. He says he felt "honoured, humbled and excited" to be CEO. "We have tremendous opportunity, and that's inspiring. But to seize it, we must move faster, focus and continue to transform. I see a big part of my job as accelerating our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
"Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionised the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honoured to have been chosen to lead the company."
Even though he maintains a low profile, Quartz's Leo Mirani believes Nadella is not exactly a hermit. "When Nadella was already known to be a leading CEO candidate — but his focus on unglamorous-but-important products for business use means he shows up at public events less often than colleagues like Joe Belfiore of the Windows Phone team." He also doesn't have a penchant for Tweeting.
The Master plan
According to some, Nadella being a Cloud computing expert and Cloud is an area Microsoft has gained popularity with enterprise customers for its Azure platform remains a positive point. But the challenge lies beyond the cloud as mobile remains an area of concern.
Microsoft has faced a gradually decline in its PC-centric Windows and Office business and needs to challenge Apple and Google in the new realm of mobile computing, believe experts, something which is a huge challenge for the new CEO. Therefore, how Nadella will help in the mobile revival is something that needs to be watched out.
"I would advise him (Nadella) to take a fresh look at mobile, or bring in some talent who really understands the space," said David Smith, an analyst at tech research firm Gartner in his blog.
Read: Microsoft's Dream Team For A Mobile Cloud-First World
Straight out of a Fairytale
Just like a dream career which anyone would aspire for, Nadella also had a fairytale wedding. He married his childhood sweetheart and daughter of his father's IAS batchmate, K.R. Venugopal Anupama Nadella, whom he had met in his high school in Hyderabad. In 1992, the couple tied the knot, as TOI reports how a simple family affair in New Delhi eventually ended up becoming a talking point, thanks to an illustrious guest who decided to turn up at the venue uninvited - It was the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao. "They (the families) had planned a simple event without fanfare. But Rao found out about it and gatecrashed. He even scolded them (his two prized secretaries) for not inviting him," recalls Anupama's cousin Dinesh S Sastry in the report.
The couple have been married for 22 years and has three children — two daughters and one son. The Nadella family lives in Bellevue, Washington at present.
On his new appointment, Sastry tweets: "Satya Nadella and Anupama are very compassionate people and their families have done so much for the poor thru the UN and Indian PMO…"
Nadella's love for American and Indian poetry is also something that has become a talk of the industry, apart from his love for sports and reading.
Nadella sure has a big task in hand bringing Microsoft back at the right growth track. Experts believe, he has the Nokia handset unit to grow and make Windows Phone a serious contender, continue growing the Xbox unit's place in the living room, keep refining Windows 8 and Windows 9 to make attractive to customers, and grow the cloud services and enterprise business.
As a proud father Yugandhar recalls,"Satya worked very hard for the last 22 years at Microsoft to reach where he is today. I think Satya deserved what he has achieved so far and I can only wish him success in all his endeavors."
Satya Nadella is surely an inspiration to all budding tech professionals and the industry. while we continue to track his growth record and that of Microsoft's, we too wish the India-born technology leader all the best in his forthcoming endeavors!
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We can work with you face to face, telephone or by SKYPE.
We use creative arts to engage with our clients which means we can work with Non-verbal clients or clients who find talking difficult.
By using SKYPE and Telephone Counselling it enables clients to receive help from the comfort of their own homes.


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