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What about the try to kill Obama on October 27 2008 ?.--18.104.22.168 06:37, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
- http://www.truthout.org/article/threat-kill-obama-downplayed
- http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/obama-assassina.html
- http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/58581/White-supremacist-gang-arrested-over-plot-to-kill-Obama
- http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2008/10/27/index.html
- http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-skinhead1028.artoct28,0,3017277.story
Why do you discriminate Obama´s news (specially, about tries to kill him ?). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.104.22.168 (talk) 06:50, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
See also :
- White supremacist
- Skinhead
- sawn-off shotgun —Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk) 06:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


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Satisfy your chocolate craving with these delicious, easy chocolate crepes filled with strawberries and cream. The perfect breakfast or dessert!
Chocolate Crepes with Strawberries
One of my daughter's favorite breakfast are crepes! Here I took my homemade crepe recipe and added cocoa powder to give them a chocolate flavor. I filled them with strawberries and cream and they came out great.
Helpful Tips
- The batter can be kept in a container for about 4 days. I always make a batch on weekends, then make 2 crepes each morning fresh for Madison which takes just minutes to make.
- You can make the crepes ahead, place on a plate and cover with plastic wrap then reheat a few at a time in the microwave.
- For an added nutritional benefit you can use white whole wheat flour in place of all purpose flour.
- Swap dairy milk with any milk you like.
Chocolate Crepes with Strawberries
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 2 tbsp unsweetened dutch cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 cups 1% milk
- 2 large egg whites
- 1 whole egg
- 1 tsp oil
- butter flavored spray
- 24 medium strawberries, sliced (2 in each crepe)
- 1 1/2 cups fat free cool whip
- 3/4 cup chocolate syrup to serve
- Blend flour, milk, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, eggs and oil until smooth in the blender.
- Heat a large nonstick pan on medium-low flame. When hot, spray with buttered flavored spray to coat bottom of pan.
- Pour 1/4 cup crepe mixture into pan, swirling pan slightly to make crepe thin and smooth. Cook for 1 to 2 minutes or until bottom of crepe is light golden brown.
- Flip; cook 30 seconds to 1 minute or until light golden brown. Repeat with remaining buttered flavored spray and crepe mixture.
- To serve, spoon 2 tbsp whipped cream into center of each crepe.
- Top with strawberries and fold each edge of crepe over filling.
- Sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar and top with 1 tbsp chocolate syrup on each. Serve warm.
- Batter can be refrigerated for up to 2 days.
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Oh hi Destiny 2, ready to take a thousand hours of my life again?
One of the biggest and best games in recent memory finally makes its sequel official. Check out the Destiny 2 reveal trailer!
Wiped the drool off of your face already? After months of speculations and teasers about the sequel, we now finally have word that Destiny 2 is indeed coming in September, September 8 to be exact! We have been teased for a long time, even showing leaked posters about Destiny 2 but all rumors and leaks have been laid to rest as all of this has been confirmed from the official Bungie Site. I've actually spent close to 1,300 hours on Destiny, running raids left and right with my buddies and with strangers from different parts of the world week after week, and it was 1,300 hours of my life that I cannot get back, but they were very good times indeed, and with Destiny 2 looming in the horizon, I am legit scared of how many sleepless nights I'll have to endure once again.
In the trailer, you can see Zavala and Cayde gathering guardians once again in a battle that will pit our combined forces against the Cabal and if you thought that you've faced everything the Cabal had to offer, think again. Talks of a faction called the "Red Guard" looks to be the main baddie in Destiny 2, along with their leader, Gary… No, Ghaul, dammit Cayde. There's so much madness in one trailer and ship battles may be a thing of reality in Destiny 2 but for now, all of this is purely speculative. One of the biggest tidbits actually for this reveal is that Destiny is no longer a console exclusive. You heard that right folks, PC gamers will have their hands full as Destiny 2 will be releasing on the PC as well! There's probably little to no chance of cross-play with consoles ever happening, but who knows what Bungie may pull out of their hats? Apart from the trailer, we're also treated to the collectors edition of the game, which looks absolutely insane!
Not only do you get the game in a smooth collectible steel case, you also get a ton of loot like a Cabal themed booklet, Cabal schematics, collectible postcards, and Cabal military pawns. You also get an exclusive Destiny 2 Frontier Bag that hosts features such as a solar panel USB charger, a paracord, a solar blanket, and much more! Oh and did I mention that you also get an expansion pass for their next 2 expansions that will offer new missions, raids, weapons, and other features? You get all this for a whopping 249$ and preorders can be made soon at the official Bungie Site! Guardians who are on a budget can choose to go the limited edition which features the Cabal inspired box with all inclusions except for the Frontier bag and this will set you back a cool 100$.
Well there you have it folks, Destiny 2 is official and we're just going to throw our money at Bungie once again for this wonderfully superb game. As a fan of the first game, I tell you that I cannot wait for this and I'm going to pre-order the collectors edition as soon as it comes out! Will you be getting the game as well? Let us know your thoughts below!


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From a Maryland Jockey Club release
Local trainers have mapped out plans for a pair of Preakness weekend runners based in Maryland.
Despite watching his 3-year-old colt Bodhisattva finish eighth and last May 16 in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, trainer Jose Corrales said he wouldn't trade the experience for anything.
"The experience? I cannot buy it again," Corrales said. "It was the greatest experience."
Bodhisattva, who went into the Preakness off a victory April 18 in the Federico Tesio, was fifth after the opening quarter mile of the Preakness but steadily dropped back, losing ground at every subsequent call.
"Whatever happened that day with the rain, the lightening, the crowd…you can't prepare for that," Corrales said. "I think my horse just got so distracted. Going into the race, I thought my horse was in the best shape, and best form. Did I expect him to run that badly? No, but you can't control Mother Nature."
Corrales gave credit to jockey Victor Espinoza for not taking winner American Pharoah off the lead. Corrales believes as soon as Bodhisattva got dirt in his face, "he never came back again."
Bodhisattva came out of the Preakness in good shape, Corrales added, and is being pointed toward the $500,000 Ohio Derby at ThistleDown June 9 and the $75,000 Manitoba Derby August 3 at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg.
"I was (in Manitoba) last year and had a really good experience," Corrales said. "A lot of people don't want to take a chance to go to a small place like that."
Talk Show Man Preparing For Summer Campaign
Henry S. Clark Stakes winner Talk Show Man will likely have his first work this weekend since finishing 11th in the Longines Dixie Stakes (G2) on Preakness Day.
The Maryland-bred son of Great Notion, who won the Maryland Million Turf Stakes last year, prompted the pace in the Dixie before fading down the stretch.
"I know we were in a tough spot," said trainer Hamilton Smith. "I'm not saying he would have beaten those horses by any means, but I thought we could have made an earlier move. (Jockey Xavier) Perez had the horse in perfect position on the backside. What I thought he did wrong was sit on him. He should never have let the horses come to him like that. I think he just likes to be a little further off the pace than where he was and make his run."
Smith said he's looking at an allowance race on the turf June 5 at Pimlico. "I might try to give him an easier spot to get his confidence back," he said. "If that (race) doesn't go, maybe a little overnight stakes at Delaware (Park). He can run on either surface. I just think he's a better horse on the turf."


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I was a guest today on The Fight Show with Mauro Ranallo. The whole show is worth a listen, but if you don't have time, I'm on starting around 18:00 in. It's just a brief appearance talking about the Showtime bantamweights development. I gotta say, I never thought I'd ever open on a radio show for Lance Storm -- that's not a snide shot at Lance Storm, either. Back when I was 17 and hanging on the edge of my seat during ECW Anarchy Rulz (which Storm opened in a terrific match with Jerry Lynn), you could have never convinced me that 12 years later, Storm would be happily retired from pro wrestling, while I'd be running a boxing blog. I didn't even know what the hell a blog was in 1999.
Anyway, you can listen to the show here. As usual I do my thing where I talk too fast and jumble my brain around. Diehard Bad Left Hookers will recall this tried-and-true tactic from my occasional appearances on other radio shows. Enjoy, and for those wondering if we're still considering a podcast, yes, we are.
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The Baltimore Humane Society is excited to announce Dogfest on October 15 from 11am-4pm.
Dogfest is our largest fundraiser and community event and takes place on our 365-acre property at 1601 Nicodemus Road, Reisterstown, MD 21136. We expect to have 3,000 animal lovers in attendance for this pet-centric day full of games, contests, food and fun.
Dogs will be able to play games with their people or watch as other pups partake in the fun! There will be plenty of activities for the pups, including Simon Says, 20 yard dash, bubble chase, paw painting and fun in the sand. There will be opportunities to try out an agility or lure course, too! Plus, we'll have some doggie demos like Rally-O!
We'll have contests and prizes for: Best Halloween Costume, Best Kisser, Best Dancer, Best Owner/Pet Look-alike, Catch the Treat, Musical Sit and Best Pet Trick.
There will be pet themed arts & crafts, face painting, and a bounce house to engage the kids, pet rescue groups with adoptable animals and loads of vendors and food trucks.
NEW THIS YEAR: Trunk or Treat for both kids and pets!
Ticket Prices:
Individual: $15 / Early bird: $10
Family: $35 / Early bird: $30
Rain date: Sunday, October 16 from 11am-4pm.
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The Draft RTS specify:
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Sexual dimorphism in the acute effects of secondhand smoke on thyroid hormone secretion, inflammatory markers and vascular function.
Experimental evidence for the physiological effects of secondhand smoke (SHS) is limited, although it affects millions of people globally and its prevalence is increasing, despite currently adopted antismoking measures. Also, scarce evidence suggests that the effects of SHS may be more pronounced in men. We conducted a randomized single-blind crossover study to investigate the sex-specific SHS effects in a controlled simulated bar/restaurant environment on gonadal and thyroid hormones, inflammatory cytokines, and vascular function. Twenty-eight (women = 14) nonsmoking adults underwent a 1-h exposure to moderate SHS and a 1-h control trial. Serum and urine cotinine, gonadal and thyroid hormones, inflammatory cytokines, heart rate, and arterial blood pressure were assessed before exposure and immediately after in both trials. Results showed that testosterone (P = 0.019) and progesterone (P < 0.001) in men and 17beta-estradiol (P = 0.001) and progesterone (P < 0.001) in women were significantly decreased after SHS. In men, SHS was accompanied by increased free thyroxine (P < 0.001), triiodothyronine (P = 0.020), and decreased the triiodothyronine-to-free thyroxine ratio (P = 0.033). In women, significant SHS-induced change was observed only in free thyroxine (P = 0.010), with considerable sex variation in free thyroxine and triiodothyronine and a decrease in luteinizing hormone (P = 0.026) and follicle-stimulating hormone (P < 0.001). After SHS, IL-1beta (P = 0.001) and systolic blood pressure (P = 0.040) were increased in men but not women. We concluded that a 1-h SHS exposure at bar/restaurant levels is accompanied by decrements in gonadal hormones in both sexes and marked increases in thyroid hormone secretion, IL-1beta production, and systolic blood pressure in men.Citation
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Encouragement for the Adoption & Parenting Journey
Adoption and subsequent parenting can be an overwhelming and trying journey, one you were never meant to travel alone. trying journey, one you were never meant to travel alone. With this conversational devotional in hand, you will be reminded of the many ways that God travels this journey with you, through every joy (grace, love, peace) and every challenge (jealousy, heartache, doubt). Whether you've been faithfully reading your Bible for your entire life or you haven't been to church since last Christmas, this book is for you. Each chapter includes: -a topic of interest -Scripture from the ESV Bible -a heartfelt, applicable devotion -reflection questions At the end of the book: -journaling space Join the book club at "Adoption Devotional" on Facebook.
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Humanity has known the exploitation of the environment around the world is not tenable. And yet day after day, year after year, decade after decade we haven't taken enough measures to change our behavior. If the corona virus is a message, the meaning is clear. 🌸 Prints available 🌟 Support my cause at Patreon.com/adamsdoyle 😊
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If I Hadn't Met You by Shalini Ranjan is a cocktail of many genres blended in a single story. It is a difficult feat to pull off for any budding author. Did the author manage to get the correct ratio of different flavors in her story? Read on to find out.
The story is about Tisha, whose life takes an unexpected turn on her 18th birthday. Nothing remains the same for her. She entangles in a wild goose chase which she doesn't know will lead her somewhere or nowhere.
The author Shalini Ranjan starts the book with a bang. The story begins with a tragedy leaving behind an eerie feeling of something sinister in cooking. Some supernatural elements and paranormal activities enter the pictures. And I gear up, holding my breath to shrink in fear.
To my horror, all those elements were tossed out of the window when romanticism kicks in. The author tried hard to build mystery with a touch of romance, but all I got was romance dominance with shredded mystery knocking once in a while to make its presence felt.
The story read more like a Bollywood movie script. It lacked the complexity and depth required to pull off multiple genres. The plot lacked creativity, and many scenes went over the top.
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Nevertheless, on the brighter side, the author has a good writing style and good sentence construction that will see you through. A tight layout of the plot with eeriness lurking around and emphasis on subplots to deepen the mystery would have done wonders. However, If I Hadn't Met You might entertain the young and new readers.


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A girl is born to a mother in a coma – level 1
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Szilvia from Hungary must go to hospital. She has Covid-19. She can't breathe. She is on a ventilator. It is a machine that helps her breathe. Then she is in a coma for many days.
When she comes to hospital, she also gives birth to her daughter. Szilvia can't care for her daughter because she is in a coma. Her husband Jozsef cares for the baby when his wife is in hospital. His wife is very ill. The doctors don't know if she can survive.
After 40 days, Szilvia wakes up. She survives. The doctor says that it is a miracle.
Now, Szilvia is OK. She is at home with her husband and her daughter.
Difficult words: coma (when you sleep for many days), survive (to live after a dangerous situation), miracle (something that many people think is impossible).
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Can We Survive Without Our Wallets with Optus Pay?
It seems that every year we get a step closer to a one-pocket or even no-pocket future. Instead of jagged keys or a bulky wallet dragging us down we now have one device; a smartphone, that can do virtually everything. The gadget can get us into our car or home, communicate with others, maintain our contacts, surf the web, hail an Uber and pay for goods and services all at the touch of a screen or swipe of a chip. Yes, the promise of the future is the promise of unlimited choice and access, minus the clutter.
Here we took up the challenge from Optus to have a preview of our clutter-free destiny, with Optus Pay. It's a contactless payment option powered by Visa payWave that allows prepaid and postpaid Optus customers to make purchases under $100 with the swipe or "tap" of a compatible accessory. Optus Pay is as brilliant as it is effortless, and it brings your wallet and credit cards a little closer to being a thing of the past.
Here's how Optus Pay works. First, you must be an Optus customer, so if you're not get on that ASAP. Then you download the Optus Pay app from the iTunes or Google Play store. Using an Australian bank account, you can deposit up to $500 at one time into your Optus Pay account. Once your account is loaded with cash, you order the accessory you'd like to use to make payments. Feel free to order up to four accessories and manage them all through the Optus Pay app. There are five accessories to choose from and we were lucky enough to try them all out:
1) A payment SIM card compatible with any NFC-ready Android smartphone.
2) A Payment Band (compatible with Android and iPhone) that you can wear like a bracelet.
3) A Payment Sticker you can apply to the back of your smartphone.
4) A Pay Tag you can attach to any wristband or watch up to 2.2. cm wide.
5) SmartCup by frank green, a sustainable travel cup equipped with a built-in payment tag at the bottom.
Once loaded with your accessory and a pre-paid account, you're ready to make purchases at any location that accepts Visa payWave. Purchasing online? Just simply use the Visa Prepaid Debit card details in the Optus Pay app. And that's basically all there is to it–you've now taken one step toward a clutter-less future. Here's the abridged breakdown: download app, load up your account, order free accessory, pay for goods anywhere that accepts Visa payWave.
To get the word out, Optus challenged us to use the Optus Pay accessoriesto go on a shopping spree at our favourite stores and then use the SmartCup afterwards for a coffee break – all without a single card or any cash in sight.
With about $250 at our disposal we set off for the nearest Westfield Shopping Centre in Sydney. Attached to my watch was the Pay Tag, a modest black square that slid on with ease and didn't hinder the watches overall appearance. The "challenge" came at the perfect time as we're training for a triathlon event and needed to get pick up plenty of gear.
To make each purchase we simply waved our chosen accessory over the Eftpos machine and, well, that was about it. The whole process was an absolute breeze; essentially the retail equivalent of waving a key card over a hotel door to gain access.
After the arduous task of finding what we wanted as consumer warriors, we took a coffee break at a local favourite, where we indulged in some cold brew. To pay we waved the SmartCup over a scanner and within seconds we were sucking down that icy cold caffeine.
Ultimately, the only "challenge" in the Optus Pay Challenge was bringing ourselves to label the whole experience a challenge. Otherwise, using the Pay Tag Accessories and the SmartCup couldn't have gone smoother. Each transaction was swift and painstakingly hassle-free. Our pockets had never felt lighter as we shuffled around the Westfield Shopping Centre, that extra jolt of caffeine putting a little bounce in our step.
Needless to say, it was a pleasure using Optus Pay and not just because it gave us an excuse to go shopping. With smart pay options rapidly gaining steam, there might very well come a time where the full spectrum of our daily experience is streamlined into a gadget or two. The result is not a reduction in choice, rather a reduction in clutter, and we look forward to the day when we say goodbye to all our cards and billfolds for good. Thank you, Optus Pay, for allowing us a glimpse into a pocket-free future.
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How the I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS Adaptation Embodies Our Greatest Fears
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Every day I ponder life after college. I try to suppress these thoughts, but they sit in my wooden desk chair as I sleep and gawk at me as I wake up in the morning. Neighbors and middle aged adults I know constantly tell me and everyone like me that things will "work themselves out" and that "everything will be fine." I'm Thinking of Ending Things shows us what happens when those words of affirmation never come to fruition.
Written by Ian Reid in 2016, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is a novel about a young couple, an unnamed narrator and her boyfriend, Jake, as they drive to meet Jake's parents. Charlie Kaufman's film adaptation of the thriller was released in October. Reid's enthralling story and Kaufman's surrealist tendencies coalesced into a film that explores human beings' constant fears of aging and inadequacy; the film's themes will be remembered for decades.
While the film is centered around the unnamed narrator and Jake's car ride to his parent's house, the main story is often interrupted with footage of a janitor. We see the janitor clean the local high school and sit in his supply closet as he watches films and eats. Scenes of his work life are consistently interspersed with the main character's narration, in which she states, "I'm thinking of ending things" over and over again. When the frame quickly shifts from Jake's perspective to the janitor's, we get the feeling that there is an unspoken connection.
Regardless of what is happening, tension layers every scene. From the car ride to meeting Jake's parents, there is an inescapable uneasiness the narrator cannot pin down. When the narrator and Jake stop to get ice cream, they run into the high schoolers that work there, and we cannot help but sense a sort of apprehension as Jake sees them laughing at him. It is a form of high school ostracization that everyone faces, but watching an adult fall victim to it turned the universal experience into something uncanny. As they are leaving, a young, odd girl working at the ice cream stop whispers to the narrator, "You don't have to go forward in time. You can stay here."
On the drive back, Jake stops at the local high school to throw away trash, and he ends up disappearing, forcing the narrator to find him. This is where the janitor, Jake, and the narrator seemingly collide. This is where we see Kaufman employ themes from the musical Oklahoma!, in which he applies the dreamscape essence in a literal way by reenacting the musical's dream ballet sequence. There are two Jakes in this sequence, playing both Jud and Laurey; in other words, he is both the charismatic lead character and the disarming loner. The Jud version of Jake kills Laurey, and everything suddenly comes together: we were not watching a girl meeting her boyfriend's parents for the first time. We were watching a janitor, Jake's thought process, before he killed the charming self he longed to be and his real, stunted self. Jake is trapped within his own surrealist state, dreaming of a life in which he had the confidence to ask a girl out and take her to his parents house. Instead, he is stuck within the confines of high school; there is no way out, and in Jake's eyes, it is too late for a way out. And isn't that everyone's biggest fear? To be immobile, unable to progress through time?
Young people are constantly told "it gets better" without caveats, and perhaps we need more of those, considering our world and its ramifications. When we take into account our witnessing of wildfires and the deterioration of democracy, "it gets better" proves to be more and more of an empty promise we can barely hold onto.
Kaufman's adaptation of I'm Thinking of Ending Things is topical, intelligent, and consistently restless. He employs humanity's greatest fears in two hours without looking back, with the narrator stating, "We're stationary and time passes through us, blowing like cold wind, stealing our heat, leaving us chapped and frozen."


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Luxie in Moody Light
Sometimes as I walk through the house, I find the cats in moody light situations. Like the above photos. This is Luxie sitting on the television table looking out the window. The window faces out into our screened in porch, so it lets in a very filtered light. It's just enough light to be reflected on the white patches of Luxie's fur.
The other area that can create a moody light is our morning planning table. In this case, it's a little later in the day and the sun comes in at a pretty sharp angle. It creates a high contrast light with bright white highlights and dark shadows. Dark Shadows - now I'm thinking about that show. I remember rushing home for school to watch Barnabas Collins every day. It was one of my favorite shows!
This one isn't quite as moody. Metering for the outside light, almost puts Luxie into a silhouette. But there is just enough light in the shadows to pick up some of the browns in her fur.
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Education is a societal function and aims at improvement of the society through developing its individuals. It is, therefore, the most significant and exacting responsibility of any civilized society.
Realization of this core objective and a focused approach to achieve it, forms the bedrock to the edifice of social development and national progress. While the role of every segment of the society in this endeavor is vital, an educational institution acts as the linchpin. Besides providing education, it serves as a forum for the parents, the students, the society and the institution itself to collaborate their efforts for the ultimate common objective; the students' education. Hillcrest remains committed to serving the society and the nation through provision of quality education to its students.
True to its Motto "Soaring to Excellence", Hillcrest promotes excellence and believes in TOTAL DEVELOPMENT of its students. We create every opportunity where the students are engaged in healthy activities for nurturing all the facets of their personality through a scientifically developed day-long academic programme .


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When you're casually shopping the chocolate aisle, it's easy to presume that everything on the shelf in fancy packaging is high quality, but that's not always the case. Just like wine, fancy packaging doesn't always mean what's inside is something you want. However, understanding the product description every bar can be complicated though if you don't know what you're looking for.
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This week Bon Appetit ran an excerpt from Megan Giller's upcoming book "Bean to Bar Chocolate." In it, Giller tells you how to read the packaging when you're shopping for a bar of chocolate and what should make you avoid a bar.
In general, most craft chocolate bars will tell you where the chocolate came from on the front of the label. You'll also see the cocoa percentage, as well as the expiration date. Like most other foods, you want to get the freshest bar you can.
You also want to look at the ingredient list. Giller notes that cocoa beans should always be listed first in the list of ingredients. Phrases like "artisan," "craft," and "handmade" are often used on labels to make things sound fancy, but they don't have legal definitions, so you shouldn't rely on them as a sign of quality.
As for what to avoid. Here are a few of Giller's suggestions:
- Chocolaty – Some confectionary will use unusual phrases like "Chocolaty" or "made with chocolate" to get past minimum cocoa rules. Stay away from these. These phrases may also be used if the bar uses artificial sweeteners, fats other than cocoa butter, or milk substitutes.
- Vanillin – This is a synthetic version of vanilla. you don't want it in your chocolate.
- PGPR – This stands of polyglycerol polyricinoleate, which is used as an emulsifier in low-quality chocolate.
- Product of or Distributed by – These phrases are a good sign that your "craft" chocolate bar is anything but. If something is "Distributed by" then it was likely made by a big conglomerate then rebranded as craft. Likewise, "Product of Switzerland/Belgium etc" typically indicates that a bar was made by a larger company and then sold to the "artisan" brand you're purchasing.
Take a look at the full excerpt, along with an image guide of how to read a chocolate label, in Bon Appetit.


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You can find great deals for shoes online. There are many online retailers that are competing for your business. When shopping online, make sure that you check several coupon websites to see if you can find a coupon code for a certain percent off or free shipping and handling to maximize your savings.
You should wear the same type of socks as usual when you go shopping for a new pair of shoes. Wear some thicker socks if you are shopping for winter shoes during the summer. The thickness of your socks can make a real difference in how a pair of shoe fits.
If you have to wear orthotic devices for your feet, take them with you when you go shopping for a new pair of shoes. Try finding a pair that allows you to comfortably wear your orthotic devices. Get some tips from your orthotist if you are not sure what kind of shoes you should get.
Although high heels are traditionally the sexiest shoes in the stores, be careful when you buy them. They can actually hurt you if you do not know what you are doing. The higher the heel, the harder they are to walk in. Make sure you can are able to walk in the sky-high heels before you buy them.
Get close to a sales associate. If you are not sure where to start looking or what you want, then discussing your sizes, fit, and needs with a sales associate can help you find it quicker. they can help you find your size and something that fits within your budget. If they get to know you after multiple shopping trips, they can also alert you to upcoming sales and discounts.
Consider entering contests at local shoe stores. By entering only smaller contests, your odds are better at winning. If you do end up winning a gift card or pair of shoes, you can save a ton of money. Even if you don't win, at least you'll have fun entering the contests!
No matter how cute a pair of shoes may be, do not purchase them if they do not fit. Some people think that their shoes will eventually stretch to fit their feet comfortable. The truth is that this usually does not happen; the shoes will still be snug after many uses.
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The United States Air Force (USAF) wants to expand an under-development capability that uses existing transport aircraft available to it and its allies in the Western Pacific to fire cruise and air-to-ground missiles in a bid to overwhelm China's military.
The 'Rapid Dragon' is a cheap and easy solution to overcome logistical and technological challenges posed by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).
Over the last few years, the US military has come up with a promising concept of operations to fight a formidable China in the Western Pacific. Beijing commands a home advantage in terms of logistics combined with long-range anti-ship, anti-land, air defense, and hypersonic missile systems.
The Chinese YJ-18 anti-ship cruise missiles (range 540 kilometers) and the PL-15 Beyond Visual Range air-to-air missile (300 kilometers) outrange the US' 240-kilometer range Harpoons and the 161-kilometer AIM 190D.
The DF-21D missile threatens US aircraft carriers. This erodes the US Navy's capacity (or payload) advantage. This is a part of its Anti-Access/Area Denial doctrine that can keep an attacking US naval force at bay without allowing it to get close.
Even wargames conducted by think tanks like the RAND Corporation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) have repeatedly ended in devastating US and Taiwanese defeats, with the former losing its massive aircraft carriers and naval armada.
Having admitted these handicaps, US military leaders attempted to turn things around. The US Marine Corps and US Navy developed the Force Design 2030 Expeditionary Advanced Base of Operations (EABO), Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO), and Ghost Fleet Overlord.
Operating from islands controlled by friendly nations in the South and East China Seas, small, mobile, and hard-to-detect Marine Littoral Combat Regiments can undertake long-range fires on Chinese shipping.
Operating under the US Navy, Unmanned Surface Vessels take the routine load of bigger combatants allowing them to focus on larger air defense, land-attack, anti-ship, and carrier battle group protection roles.
This enables spreading out, getting close, and hitting China inside the A2/AD bubble. With the Rapid Dragon, the USAF can further complicate the Chinese military's targeting priorities by "massing" fires flooding Chinese radars, sensors, and kill chains.
Rapid Dragon Completes The Tri-Service Triad
The Rapid Dragon envisages using workhorse cargo planes and tankers like the C-130J Hercules/MC-130 Commando II and C-17 Globemaster III to release dozens of missiles packed in large 'pellets' from their main doors mid-air like they usually do with other airdrops.
The parachute arrests the pellets carrying missiles, turning vertical while an electronic control box on each pellet releases the missiles one after the other.
An illustrative video by Lockheed Martin shows how the pellets can be 'rolled-on' and 'rolled-off' like any other cargo. An MC-130 will have a pellet with a six-pack missile capacity and a nine-pack one for a C-17.
Assuming that the two planes can accommodate at least three such pellets and there are a minimum of three such planes used for the purpose, anywhere between 54 to 81 JASSM-ERs can be screeching towards Chinese military targets while the USMC, US Navy, and USAF fighter bombers conduct their own separate yet complementing operations.
The 800-kilometer-range JASSM-ER was test-fired from a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber in late August.
Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) chief, Lt Gen Jim Slife, said at an Air and Space Forces Association event on September 7 that they have had a "number of requests from around the globe from partners to integrate and demonstrate that capability on their aircraft."
With several US allies using the MC-17/C-130Js and the C-17s, the pellets can be employed onto the aircraft with little to no modification or "any special crew training," Slife added.
The Rapid Dragon underwent three tests last year as a collaborative effort between the Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office (AFSDPEO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
A July 2021 test passed targeting data to military cargo planes, which was used to program munitions on those planes, further hitting targets. In November that year, an AFSOC crew on an MC-130J received targeting data while in flight, passing it to a palletized simulation cruise missile, which was dropped from the plane and released.
A December 2021 test used a live cruise missile, where target data in the Gulf of Mexico was passed to an MC-130J and loaded onto the palletized missile. The missile deployed and "successfully destroyed its target," the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) said.
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More States following AZ's Lead to Establish Overdose Fatality Review Teams
Overdose fatality reviews allow states to better understand the circumstances surrounding fatal drug overdoses so they can design better interventions. Review teams can uncover the individual and population factors and characteristics of potential overdose victims. Knowing the who, what, when, where, and how of fatal overdoses provides a better sense of the strategies and coordination needed to prevent future overdoses and results in the better allocation of overdose prevention resources and services.
Nine states including AZ have set up teams so far. The Network for Public Health Law provides a good overview of the states that have review teams. Here are some of the laws [OK (HB 2798), RI (S 2577 and H 7697), and VA (SB 399)], DE (HB 211) and our own (HB 2038). The laws establishing fatal overdose reviews often include the entity authorized to create and manage the review team or committee, the membership requirements for teams or committees, the scope of work of the teams or committees, confidentiality and liability protections, and data access authorizations.


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Tate Liverpool: Constellations – Highlights From the Nation's Collection of Modern Art
Venue: Tate Liverpool
Date(s): 1.8.15 - 31.12.16
Time(s): 10:00 - 17:00
Constellations: Highlights From the Nation's Collection of Modern Art
Ongoing until Further Notice.
Tate Liverpool's free collection display Constellations groups together major works from the Tate collection to encourage the exploration of connections between them. At the heart of each grouping is a 'trigger' work that has been selected to originate a variety of correspondences with modern and contemporary art.
These displays explore how particular artworks relate to each other across different times and locations and feature artworks by iconic artists including Sir Peter Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Hepworth, and Grayson Perry.


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A Go Fund Me account has been set up here to support the O'Connor family –the owners of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana.
It already stands at over $200K.
Why is this kind of gesture important?
Not because thousands of people are saying, "Yeh. We hate gays. We are in favor of discrimination!"
No. Those kind of irrational hate tactics, finding innocent victims and loud mouthed bullying is what the progressive media folks and liberal protesters are doing.
To support this Go Fund Me campaign is exactly how right thinking ordinary Americans should fight back.
No matter what people feel about the gay marriage debate we should all be horrified at the way this ordinary American family have been hounded into hiding, attacked by strangers and had their home and livelihood threatened.
If people are upset by the raging mob they should stand up…not with aggression and anger towards those who are aggressive and angry, but in quiet and generous support to some down home folks who have been wrongfully scapegoated by an increasingly frenzied and unthinking mob.
What should Christians do in the face of such hate?
Reach out to those who are wounded on both sides and offer reconciliation and good will and to do so with a dash of hard work, good humor and forgiveness.
I'm reminded of the Chick-Fil-A day a few years ago, when millions of ordinary Americans didn't take to the streets protesting, raging and being aggressive and angry. They just went over to Chick-Fil-A for their lunch that day, met their neighbors and supported the family in a family based and wholesome way.
We can't all go to Walkerton, Indiana to order a pizza, but we can do the next best thing.
We can pitch a few dollars into the hat to help them out.
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Thomas Cromwell, the Muppets and me
If you're not so much of a big kid as I am, then I apologise in advance for what follows.
But the fact is I love London. I've been painting and decorating all over the city from our Putney offices since 1997, and I continually find out wonderful facts about the place.
What, for instance, would you say is the connection between Thomas Cromwell and the Muppets? That's not a political question.
I found out recently that Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, had a workshop just down the road from us, at Rotherwood Road. Not only that, but the Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson used the same workshop. Thomas Cromwell, meantime, was born just around the corner from us. He's the odd man out as he never succeeded in developing a hit TV puppet show.
If that isn't enough for you, Pierce Brosnan, Grace Jones and Sir Bobby Moore all lived round here as well. What more could you want?
To cap it all, Captain Lawrence Oates, the Antarctic explorer, was born and raised in Putney. When he said "I am just going outside and may be some time" perhaps he was thinking about a trip to Wimbledon.
All of them, however, had obvious good taste and I would have loved to be their decorator, particularly Gerry Anderson's. Who wouldn't want a chance to meet Lady Penelope?
But work calls. It's starting to look like Spring, and perhaps you are thinking of sprucing up the old place. We'll be happy to come and give you a quote, and if you're very lucky I might come round in the new GD Parvin transport (below).
All the best
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Across the country, DSA candidates succeeded in establishing and safeguarding footholds in local governments on election day, 2021. Though DSA candidate and avowed socialist India Walton failed to overcome a D-R team-up in the Buffalo mayoral race, 26 nationally endorsed DSA campaigns were victorious on November 2, including Richie Floyd, the first democratic socialist to win election in Florida, and an entire slate of DSA-endorsed candidates in Minneapolis. You can find a roundup of national victories on Washington Socialist.
These wins are all hyper-local - school boards, city councils. But small wins breathe life into local movements and help tip the scales in favor of organized masses. If Bernie Sanders' loss showed the left anything, it's that local and regional allies are sorely needed if socialists want to contest corporate power at the ballot box.
While sewer socialists had these quiet wins to fuel tempered optimism, Democratic centrists had little to celebrate. Former VA governor Terry McAuliffe failed to produce a positive message to turn out a voter base to surmount a right-wing surge. Though Terry McAuliffe generated more votes than any Democratic gubernatorial candidate in VA history, the campaign's lack of a motivating policy platform failed to generate the enthusiasm necessary to overcome a surge of Republican voters. (In better news, Tidewater DSA endorsed Nadarius Clark won his election over in Richmond, ousting a conservative Democrat, becoming the youngest delegate elected).
Socialists and progressives should be sure to contrast the moderate loss in VA to Democrats' positive performance in — of all places — New Jersey. Over the last four years, New Jersey had swung wildly to the left: legalizing marijuana, expunging criminal records for pot charges, raising the minimum wage, establishing a public bank (!), extending licenses to undocumented immigrants and making community college free for Jersey residents. Voters rewarded Governor Murphy — who was endorsed by Bernie Sanders — with a win, with Murphy's campaign running up highest margins in dense and working-class segments of the state (and Democrats are looking like their majority will be held comfortably in the state house). It's good evidence that Democrats who embrace their base – rather than push them away – are more likely to motivate voters and volunteers to turn out for them.
Metro DC DSA is in the process of considering endorsements for the 2022 cycle. There are nine pending endorsement resolutions – good evidence that our local is seen as a real force in the region by folks looking to take on the system. Two of these pending endorsements are public DSA incumbents: Gabriel Acevero, who is defending his House of Delegates seat in Maryland's District 39, and Oye Owolewa, who is running for reelection as DC's Shadow Representative.
DSA members will vote on these endorsement resolutions in December following debate at the local convention taking place on Saturday, December 11. Members (and..well really anybody) can take a look at endorsement questionnaires, audio Q&As, and the resolutions themselves on the MDC DSA website.


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Useful Gadgets
The Gadgets extension allows for extra user features to be enabled and disabled as the user desires. Some of these features provide different skin layouts, extra editing features, and various other things that can make a beginner to MediaWiki's life easier.
Gadgets can be installed by copying the appropriate files needed to make them work from another wiki to your own, then they can be selected from the preferences menu.
Below will be a list of sites with gadgets most useful to beginning users and where to get them. These gadget may also be exported from this wiki and reused by anyone else.
Note: Not all gadgets will work out of the box, and those listed may not work on all types of wiki setups. There are also included notes on how to make certain gadgets work better or how to avoid some problems getting them to work.
If anyone else knows of gadgets that are useful to MediaWiki beginners, please feel free to list them here
Gadgets from Wikipedia[edit | edit source]
- wikED is an extension that provides a gadget version of the features of the WikiEditor extension (and some features WikiEditor doesn't have). It a good extension to use if you:
- Have a wiki that doesn't have WikiEditor installed or it is not available as an option.
- You don't like the features of WikiEditor for one reason or another
- You prefer the layout and features of wikED over WikiEditor or the default editor interface.
- Navigation Popups is an extension that shows a brief preview of the content behind links (except links to other websites) and provides a popup list of detailed editing options as well. It will also show references and citations if you hover over a link to one. Works quite well with the Cite Extension.
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- AjaxRC: Add checkbox to Special:RecentChanges/Special:Watchlist which toggles automatic refreshing of the page once a minute.
- This gadget is quite useful if you have a tab open to recent changes and don't want to have to refresh it several times in a row. If you have a need to monitor recent changes for one reason or another (on high traffic wikis, this is very useful for administrators), this is a highly recommended gadget.
- If it has one downside, it's that this gadget only works on MediaWiki 1.20 and above.


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Discover Dominican Real Estate in Stunning Punta Cana. If you are looking for full service real estate company in Punta Cana, then you are on the right page, as I am the East coast expert, a Punta Cana trust authority for housing estates that will give you the best favorable choice so please click on the corresponding property type for property sales or rentals.
But Cesar Herrera Guti�rrez, the president and chief executive of Provaltur International, the exclusive affiliate for Christie's International Real Estate in the Dominican Republic, which has this listing, said prices for top luxury homes are stable, and in some cases have begun to rise.
Or if you want to talk to an agent before anything else gets done, you can click the Tools tab and Find an Agent - you get a list of real estate agents in Dominican Republic, all ready to give you top-notch professional advice on house prices and more detailed information about your target area.
The region's foods are served in numerous restaurants and caf�s throughout the cities and towns of the Dominican, so if you are looking for something that is classic Caribbean, the Dominican Republic is the place to be. Visit restaurants like El Conuco, a true hub of Dominican food and a fantastic cultural experience to be had in the country's capital, Santo Domingo.
There is more to buying this type of real estate than the old phrase, "location, location, location." While most condo hotels are located in desirable resort and business area locations, what is most important is a good franchise with a strong reservation system.
2. Punta Cana beaches are Casa de Campo Minitas beach, Miches Beach, Playa, and Costa Esmeralda Beach, El Limon Beach, Nisibon beach, La Vacama beach, Arena Gorda www.dr-luxuryrealestate.com beach, B�varo Beach, Uvero Alto beach, Macao beach, Cortecito Beach, Cabeza de Toro beach, Cabo Enga�o beach, Punta Cana beach, and Cap Cana or Juanillo beach.
So Dominican Republic real estate can truly be a bargain compared to North America or Europe. If you're looking for a Punta Cana vacation rental , you'll be happy to know that all of our homes in the area offer spacious rooms, shaded outdoor areas, and swimming pools.
Punta Cana Hotels for sale and Punta Cana resorts for sale on the East coast, Dominican Republic. Costambar Real Estate is not like other realtors in Beachfront properties for sale in Dominican Republic the Dominican Republic, we are specialised in Costambar, Cofresi and Puerto Plata�real estate�only and don't sell properties all over the Island.
I am looking for property for sale in Dominican Republic. If you're interested in making your real estate dollars go as far as they can, it would be a wise idea to visit the Dominican Republic and let us show you, first-hand, just how far your dollars - and your lifestyle - can truly take you.
But since there is no licensing requirement to sell real estate in the Dominican Republic and most property listings are non-exclusive, you need to be careful while choosing the right realtor. Our office is located in Cabarete, in the north cost of the Dominican Republic.


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We asked our outdoor adventurers to outfit us for some winter thrills.
For our winter adventure series in the Rockies we turned to some of our accomplished outdoor enthusiasts for recommendations about how to suit up and venture into the cold.
This issue, we're in Wyoming with contributor Dina Mishev, who didn't have to stray far from her own Jackson Hole back yard to find good clean winter fun at the Snake River Sporting Club. She has lots of savvy gear recommendations.
"If you tend toward cold hands," she says, "arm yourself with Outdoor Research's Lucent heated sensor mittens, which have touchscreen-compatible leather thumb fingertips, a Gore-Tex insert for waterproof protection, goat-leather palms, and three heat settings. If your hands aren't quite so high-maintenance, go for local company Give'r's all-leather 4-season gloves, which are weatherproof and insulated, and can be customized with hand-branded initials."
From another favorite maker close to her home in the Hole: "Support Jackson-based Stio and rock the company's new Amalia down jacket, which is as stylish as it is warm — sorry guys, it's only for women," Mishev says. "Stio's capri-length Fernos insulated knickers come in men's and women's silhouettes though and, since Jackson Hole is colder than many Rocky Mountain towns, are warmer than traditional base layers but still breathe."
Mishev also likes Black Diamond's new Solution 150 Merino Baselayer crew and bottom, which are made from Australian merino wool and are ultralight, durable, and stretchy, whether you're downhill or Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, or snowmobiling. And she's a fan of Smith's new 4D MAG goggle, which features a proprietary new lens shape that offers a wider overall field of view than most any other goggle out there. "The fact that this goggles' lenses can be easily (and quickly) be swapped out if the light changes is Smith just showing off."
In our February/March issue, Matt Crossman will take us through snow and ice across Colorado. He keeps to the basic time-honored advice to wear wool socks and a wicking base layer, with no cotton anywhere near your skin. For your feet, you might try the Darn Tough Men's Merino Wool Hiker or Fits Medium Hiker Crew. Your tootsies will thank you.
Just in time for spring skiing, Los Angeles-based Jordan Rane returns to his native Canada for some downhill derring-do on Banff 's "Big Three" in our April issue. Rane admits he's not a gearhead but does love his lightweight, breathable, middle-layer Arc'teryx Dallen fleece pullover "and virtually anything else they make."
And because C&I editors always appreciate high- quality gear that's good-looking, durable as all get out, and submersible (!), we're throwing our necessities in Yeti's Panga Backpack 28 and Panga 50 duffel when we head out.
More on Snake River
Soloing at Snake River
Snake River Sporting Club
Photography: Courtesy of Dina Mishev, Arc'Teryx, Bombas, Smith, Yeti
From our January 2020 issue.


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The Atlona AT-UHD-M2C-BAL is an audio converter used to extract and downmix multi-channel LPCM, Dolby®, and DTS® surround sound signals from HDMI sources to balanced analog signals for professional audio systems. The converter provides controls for one- or two-channel mode, volume, mute, bass, and treble via RS-232, TCP/IP, and a web-based GUI. A balanced analog audio output is provided on a 5-pin captive screw connector. The video pass-through design of the AT-UHD-M2C-BAL allows it to be placed anywhere in the signal path where a convenient audio feed to the sound system is required.
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This product is the commercial version of the AT-HD-M2C. In commercial applications where audio is provided by an HDMI source, integrators need an easy solution to extract balanced, +4 dBu, two-channel or monaural audio for professional sound reinforcement systems while maintaining full 4K/UHD video signal integrity for video switching and distribution systems. Integrated control reduces total cost in simple systems potentially eliminating a DSP or other volume control device.
The AT-UHD-M2C-BAL is ideal for use in training or meeting spaces that require audio from PCs or Blu-ray players to be routed to a distributed speaker system. The converter is placed in line between the source and the HDBaseT transmitter or switcher in order to provide a feed to both the sound and video systems.


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Shamarr Allen hails from the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. His influences in jazz, hip-hop, rock, funk, rhythm, blues and country have found him fronting "Shamarr Allen & The Underdawgs" – as lead vocalist and trumpeter, in addition to establishing himself as a stellar solo artist.
Allen has collaborated with many renowned artists around the world such as Willie Nelson, Patti LaBelle, Galatic, Harry Connick Jr, and Lenny Kravitz, to name a few. A sought after artist for global festivals and venues, Allen is also a music composer, writer, and producer. With a scintillating and unique sound, look, and exemplary talents, Shamarr Allen transcends musical boundaries. He is the True Orleans experience and it is a thrill to welcome him to the Colonial Oak Music Park!
Jacksonville (and Colonial Oak) favorites, Lets Ride Brass Band will open the show.
The concert is a ticketed event, and concertgoers can purchase their tickets for only $15.00 through Eventbrite, beginning on August 13th. The Eventbrite link for this event is as follows:


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What exactly is a custom cardboard box? First of all, a custom cardboard box is just an enclosure designed especially for your merchandise. A whole gamut of businesses makes bespoke cardboard boxes especially for their goods, from fine jewelry to sporting equipment. Custom cardboard boxes are also being used as normal packing in most retail stores.
One way to think about these custom boxes is to consider your brand, or at least the image that you want people to have of your brand. Think about the colors, themes and designs that you want associated with your brand. You should also think about the shape and design that will best represent your brand. When it comes to the first impression of your brand, custom boxes can make quite a big impact on people's minds. If you're a new clothing brand, for example, your box could be customized to your particular brand of clothing, making a box that speaks to people about you and your brand.
Of course, the more traditional way to think about these boxes is to consider them for the boxing experience. How important is the actual box itself in the boxing experience? After all, the purpose of a packing box is to protect your merchandise from damage during the unboxing process. So how important is the quality of the packaging material to your brand's success? The answer, of course, depends upon what your brand sells and whether it is worth spending your money on packaging material – but you should definitely consider what custom boxes look like before choosing a particular brand.
Something else to consider when it comes to custom boxes is the actual box itself. Do you need to make sure that the weight and size of your merchandise match up to the dimensions of the custom cardboard box you are using? There are some cases where you might need a larger or smaller box based on the number of items you have. But what if you want a particularly unique box design tool? When it comes to creativity and variety, there is little that can beat a custom cardboard box.
Finally, another thing to consider is the quality of the printing. Will your brand be printed in full color, are you going to have your logo printed or will you choose a simple background image? Perhaps you want something more distinctive like a photograph of your brand or company, printed directly onto the box, or perhaps you want to go with full color stickers. Whatever your decision, the quality of your packaging will impact your brand and its ability to stand out and be memorable, regardless of what your brand sells.
Customized boxes are an excellent way to create brand differentiation. Consider how important it is to your sales process, whether it is for the convenience of the customer or to enhance your brand. For most businesses, it is often the latter. Think about how your customers will benefit from using custom boxes, and work with your design tool to help identify the best box for you. From the size, color, and quantity choices, you have the opportunity to ensure that you get exactly what you need, and will help you to differentiate from your competitors.
Custom boxes are specialized boxes manufactured exclusively by custom boxes maker in such a manner as requested by the clients. These are manufactured in different shapes, styles, designs and model, depending solely upon the specification given by the client. The unique features of the box are added to make it more attractive and appealing. The main purpose for which the box is used entirely depends upon its suitability. For instance, when a box is used for packing electronic goods, it should be strong enough and should also be resistant to pressure. When it is required for shipping parcels, it should be large in size to provide adequate space.
Custom Boxes is preferred over ready-made premium packaging because they offer a variety of features and benefits to the users that cannot be achieved with the former. They not only add to the quality of the product but also provide the user with a unique and aesthetically appealing packaging option, which cannot be found in any other packaging options available in the market. Most of the custom box manufacturers like Packlane, Arka or Refine Packaging offer round-shaped, cylindrical, tapered or expandable boxes in unique shapes and sizes to meet all the diverse needs of the customers.
While designing custom boxes, attention is paid to every small detail from the texture of the material, the color of the outside, shape of the corners and edges, the size of the interior and the logo of the company printed on the box's surface. In addition, premium quality packaging is provided with an additional coating of gloss or matte finish to enhance the overall appearance of the box. This further ensures the durability of the product. The box is provided with a complimentary custom tag for easy identification.
In today's hectic and busy lives, no one wants to waste precious time searching for the right packaging material. Moreover, the increasing use of plastic packaging adds to the burden of the people for the purpose of packaging various commodities. Hence, the introduction of custom boxes for the purpose of packaging depends largely on the requirement of the customer, i.e. whether it is for domestic or commercial purposes and what kind of a container, he prefers to use. The variety of customized boxes available today ranges from cardboard boxes to custom-made paper bags, reusable polythene bags, hardboard envelopes, glassine envelopes, corrugated cartons, and lots more.


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Hope & faith with dedicated treatment can go long way. A 14 year old boy, Aniket (name changed), living in a remote village near Jaipur was brought to Mumbai with a recurrence of blood cancer.
"The Doctors in Jaipur told me my son will die in few days as he had recurrence of blood cancer, which is difficult to cure" said the father. The decision to take my son to Mumbai was not an easy one. Our close relatives who belong to lower middle class family refused to pay for the treatment because they felt spending on a child with dreaded disease like cancer was a waste of money.
Parents met Dr. Shweta Bansal, Paediatrics Hemato-Oncologist who is presently attached to Reliance Foundation Hospital (RFH). On reviewing the child's history & treatment provided in Jaipur, it was concluded that the child is a case of early relapse of acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia- T cell type (a type of blood cancer). The aggressive nature & the early relapse had made the case as 'very high risk disease' with, only treatment option left as chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplant (BMT).
When Dr. Bansal tried to counsel the parents, they simply refused the BMT therapy as it was beyond their means financially. As a doctor it was difficult call, because no literature or published results supports without bone marrow transplant in each cases. In fact, the conventional chemotherapy in reported to be successful only in 10-20% of cases.
The parents were very hopeful & the child said "I will be alright, please start the chemotherapy". The conviction in the voice of the child was very touching, hence instead of refusing the treatment, he was started on high dose intensive chemotherapy procedure.
Treating a child with relapsed leukaemia is a big challenge for any oncologist. Since their immune system is already compromised they are more prone to
infections & other complications. The child was started on chemotherapy based on 'Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia protocol', which is a highly intense protocol.
After first chemotherapy, his white blood cell counts crashed, he also had severe oral ulcers & high fever. However, with continuous monitoring & strict supportive treatment protocols, he overcame this toxicity issue. The most important aspect in leukaemia treatment is, if the patient is able to survive the toxicity, there are high chances that he / she will be cured of the Leukemia.
The child had multiple complications with the chemotherapy drug cycles, but with his will power & perpetual hope, he overcame all of them. Finally the determination of the child & doctors efforts achieved the cure. Yes, our little solider was cured of his disease, Blood Cancer. He is now off therapy & doing well.
The credit also has to be given to referring physician from Jaipur, who could suspect the gravity of the situation & referred the case to Dr. Shweta in Mumbai.
Across India, the Incidence of childhood cancer cases is estimated to be about 50,000- 60,000 per year. With a cure rate as high as 80% for many childhood cancers, doctors say cancer deaths among children can be avoided if treatment is started early & not abandoned.
Cancer is one of the most feared disease. In adults' cancer, surveillance & early detection is possible, but the situation is not the same in childhood cancer cases. The cancer news in a child came with devastating consequences, it not only affects the child, but uproots the entire family.
Several people living in rural parts of India do not know enough about cancer. This lack of awareness results in a number of cancer-related deaths that could be prevented with the help of better information & timely intervention.
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While listening to idle chatter in the boy's dorm one evening, it became clear that one of the senior students had acquired some things from a shop without paying for them.
I quietly spoke to Andrew about what I had heard. He was honest and upfront about what had been taken. It was a wide range of items from a variety of shops.
As we chatted, I realised this was a habit that he had developed over months. He was keen to break the cycle and needed the responsibility of paying back all he had taken. Together we compiled a list of things he had taken and shops he had taken them from.
After assembling the complete list and talking about options with him, I went to chat with the principal. The school could arbitrarily deal with it and expel Andrew. His behaviour warranted that action. However, we felt that there was a better way.
Finally we agreed that two things were required. Firstly, he would sit in my office with me while he called his parents to explain what had happened, and how it would be dealt with. Secondly, he would work the entire six week school holiday to earn enough money to pay back all he owed.
It was a challenging phone call, but one that, to their credit, his parents accepted and supported. He had already planned to work the six week block with his dad in his business. The net outcome of his wages would now be very different!
I transferred at the end of that year and Andrew agreed to send a letter confirming it was all sorted out. I received the letter several months into the new academic year.
I still have that letter today. One that I treasure. The last paragraph captures the value of letting natural consequences take effect. "I would like to again thank you for what you did for me last year. I worked hard last Christmas holidays, earnt the money and paid my dues."
Sometimes we want to protect our children and students from the natural consequences of their choices. However, does that really help them learn from their mistakes? God guarantees forgiveness if we will just ask, but He also says "what you sow – you will reap." Clearly God sees the benefits of working through the consequences of our actions. It would be remiss of us not to take that approach with our students or children. We should provide natural consequences and let them learn from their mistakes.
A powerful statement in the book Education (Ellen White, p. 296) reads, "Let the child and the youth be taught that every mistake, every fault, every difficulty conquered, becomes a steppingstone to better and higher things. It is through such experiences that all who have ever made life worth the living have achieved success."
We need to care enough for our students and children to say "No" at times and point them in a different direction. That is why God could not simply ignore Adam and Eve's sin. That is also why we should not cover up students' mistakes, but use them as a learning experience. Then the student or child can address the issue and grow through the experience. Discipline is not about removing the consequences – but rather learning from them to avoid the same mistake again.
Re-examine your own or your school's discipline guidelines. Identify those designed to promote a change of heart and behaviour through allowing the natural consequences.
What action(s) do you plan to improve in this aspect of redemptive discipline?
Reflect: The goal of discipline is to help the individual make more positive and acceptable behavioural choices through whatever means are effective. Discipline must be personalized, which requires deeper understanding of the student. Keep the goals of discipline in mind – redemptive and constructive. (Choice Theory Presentation, NAD Teacher Convention 2012)
Read: Jim Roy, Soul Shapers: A Better Plan for Parents and Educators
*This is the sixth in a series of ten reflections on important components of redemptive Christian discipline. All the newsletters are available in newsletter format through CIRCLE.adventist.org.
- Part 1: Be a Good Listener
- Part 2: Take the Time to be Fair
- Part 3: Admit When You are Wrong
- Part 4: Treat All the Same – But Differently
- Part 5: Look at the Context
- Part 6: Let the Natural Consequences Reign
- Part 7: Keep Things Simple
- Part 8: Model Repentance
- Part 9: Send Consistent Signals
- Part 10: Accept the Individual, Not the Behavior


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Three Afghani Corrections Students Missing In Southern Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - Three adult students from Afghanistan failed to return from a Colorado Department of Corrections-sponsored trip Saturday night and are considered missing.
"The three students are part of a group from Afghanistan that are correctional staff who are authorized to be in the United States for training," the DOC's Mark Fairbairn told CBS4.
The three planned to travel from the International Correctional Management Training Center in Cañon City to a pre-determined meeting point in Colorado Springs. They were to be picked up there at 7 p.m. but did not show up.
The Department of Corrections' primary concern is the safety of the missing participants as would be the case with any guest in our country," Fairbairn added. He noted the students were in the United States on temporary visas and had been thoroughly vetted by the U.S. State Department prior to arrival.
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Hello, I am a full time firefighter who initially began my drone experience for Public Safety reasons. A few years ago I began to take interest in the many different commercial uses for drones. I have work with home owner insurance companies. I work with an engineering group who designs residential solar systems. I am also certified as a Level I sUAS Infrared Thermographer.
As a new small business owner I have invested in four DJI platforms.
I have the Mavic Air 2 for your quick inspections. I have the Phantom 4 Professional for its amazing photos. The Mavic 2 professional for the versatility of great pictures and amazing video production. And last is my baby, the Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced which produces full radiometric images with its high resolution (640×512) infrared thermal camera.


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Web app generator
Yeoman generator that scaffolds out a front-end web app using gulp for the build process
🚧 There is a pre-release version of this generator, you can install it by running npm install --global generator-webapp@next
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Please see our gulpfile for up to date information on what we support.
- enable ES2015 features using Babel
- CSS Autoprefixing
- Built-in preview server with BrowserSync
- Automagically compile Sass with libsass
- Automagically lint your scripts
- Map compiled CSS to source stylesheets with source maps
- Awesome image optimization
For more information on what this generator can do for you, take a look at the gulp plugins used in our package.json
Keep in mind that libsass is feature-wise not fully compatible with Ruby Sass. Check out this curated list of incompatibilities to find out which features are missing.
If your favorite feature is missing and you really need Ruby Sass, you can always switch to gulp-ruby-sass and update the styles
task in gulpfile accordingly.
Getting Started
- Install:
npm install --global yo gulp-cli generator-webapp
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yo webapp
to scaffold your webapp - Run
npm start
to preview and watch for changes - Run
npm start -- --port=8080
to preview and watch for changes in port8080
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npm install --save <package>
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npm run serve:test
to run the tests in the browser - Run
npm run serve:test -- --port=8085
to run the tests in the browser in port8085
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npm run build
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npm run serve:dist
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npm run serve:dist -- --port=5000
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Lender Agrees to $1.5M Fine for Violating N.Y. Cybersecurity Regulation
March 10, 2021
A lender headquartered in Maine agreed to a $1.5 million fine for violating several provisions of New York's cybersecurity regulations after an employee's email account was compromised due to a phishing attack. Read on to learn what this consent order means to companies that are licensed to operate in New York.
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Transform your kids bedroom into a place where they want to be, with kids décor that stimulates the mind and the senses.
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Playroom and bedroom themes for kids
Decorating a child's bedroom with the right kids' furniture can be a rich, rewarding and creative experience, not to mention a bonding opportunity for you and your child. Given there's no limit on what you can do when it comes to kids room décor, you may decide to start with a theme and then build up all the kids accessories and decorator items to bring that theme to life.
- Great themes are created by:
Consulting with your child - in order for the theme to work, they need to love it just as much, or more, than you. - Plotting out the elements of the theme before you buy - for example, what colours are appropriate for the theme? What kids décor items - like rugs and play mats - can be easily matched to the theme? How will you bring the theme into the different dimensions of the room (walls, floor, tables and cabinets, even the ceiling for an outer space theme, perhaps)?
- Landing on the items that will enhance the theme without costing you an arm and a leg - for instance, putting a blue canopy over a kids bed, and then pinning felt fish designs to it, creates an instant underwater or ocean theme without doing much else.
- Always incorporating sensible storage solutions so the theme doesn't get lost under mess.
Top decorations for every kids playroom or bedroom
Wall art
If the walls of your child's bedroom are painted nicely but they are a little empty, wall decals are a simple yet effective manner to make the bedroom walls interesting. Another benefit of using decals is they are easily removed. So, once your child outgrows the decals, you can easily replace them without having to redecorate (or repaint!) all the walls.
Other wall art could come in the form of framed prints, wall hangings, canvasses or dream catchers.
Lights and lamps
Using ambient light can be both a playful and soothing tactic for enticing kids into bed at night. Some lights throw patterns on the walls, or they move, or they come in novel shapes (like zoo animals). Most kids' lights double as nightlights for those who may be a little afraid of the dark.
It's not unusual for children to have favourite blankets when they're young, so it's worthwhile choosing one from high-quality, natural fibres to regulate their body heat across the seasons. Kids blankets can also come with popular characters printed on them, such as The Wiggles and Bluey & Bingo. You might want to match them with curtain fabrics or ready-made curtains especially for kids.
By introducing an analog clock with a clock face into your children's room, you'll not only help them learn to be punctual but also teach them how to tell the time.
Photo frames
Ensuring your child has photo frames in their playroom or bedroom is an easy way to surround them with family and love, even when they're in the room alone, and start creating happy memories for them. Photo frames can also be used to display their own art.
Find the right kids playroom and bedroom decorations at Spotlight
Ready to buy? Shop through our range of kids bedroom accessories and kids decorator items online. Alternatively, head into a Spotlight store to see what's available and speak with one of our friendly customer service team who'll be happy to answer your questions.


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Lipinki Forest District is located in the south-western part of Lubuskie Province and borders on Germany. Lipinki Forest District is one of 20 Forest Districts managed by Regional Directorate of the State Forests in Zielona Góra.
It is located within the boundaries of two Forest Natural Areas of the mixed forests zone: Greater Poland-Pomeranian (Wielkopolsko-Pomorska) and Silesian (Śląska). The Forest District is located within the area of Middle Polish Glaciation, in Mazovia-Podlasie Stadial.
In terms of geomorphology Lipinki Forest District is located within the area of Silesian-Lusatian Lowlands and Middle-Polish Lowlands.


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"Enermax is one of the better known names in the power supply industry, but does their Enermax Galaxy DXX have what it takes to pass muster? Built to a different specification for dual 300 watt video cards??? I don't think you can buy those….yet."Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Ultra X-Pro 600W Energy Efficient PSU @ BCCHardware
- Ultra X-Pro & X-Finity Power Supplies Review @ OCIA
- Just how much power do you really need? @ DH
- AcBel 500-watt LCD Power Supply with Software Monitoring @ TweakTown
- Apex SL-8600 EPS 600W PSU Review @ Rbmods
- NZXT Precise PRC-1000 (1000W PSU) @ Bjorn3D
- Antec EarthWatts 500W Power Supply Review @ Virtual-Hideout
- Ultra X-Finity 800W PSU Action @ BCCHardware
- Mushkin HP-580AP Modular 580W PSU Review @ Benchmark Reviews
- Seasonic S12-500HM 500W PSU Review @ Technic3D
A PSU for the next generation of graphics cards
Enermax has redesigned their Galaxy series, with the release of the new SGalaxy DXX 1000W PSU. [H]ard|OCP takes a look at this PSU, with 5 12V rails at a combined 900W and 75A. If that wasn't enough to impress them, the fact that the advertised efficiency rating was not exaggerated did.


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Actress Priyanka Chopra has been named the world's sexiest Asian woman for a record-breaking fifth time and dethroned Deepika Padukone, who topped the globally renowned list in UK based newspaper Eastern Eye in 2016.
This rounds off another dream year for the actress, which saw her make incredible strides internationally with the release of debut Hollywood feature Baywatch, as well as winning another People's Choice Award for her acclaimed TV serial Quantico and signing further high profile films in the west.
The A-list star also continued to make giant strides as a producer and managed to consolidate her position as one of the hottest Indian stars on social media, surpassing 20 million followers on Instagram. "I cannot actually take credit for this at all. Full credit should be given to my genetics and your optics! Thank you Eastern Eye and to everyone who voted for me to be Asia's Sexiest Woman, for what I'm told is a record breaking number of times! I feel grateful and am humbled. Consistency is key," said Priyanka Chopra.
Now in its 14th year, the longest running list of its kind is based on millions of votes sent in by fans around the world, media coverage, impact and heat generated across various social media platforms. The mass interest in the 2017 edition of the list was such that it was trending on Twitter across different countries including India during the voting process. Eastern Eye's award-winning Entertainment editor Asjad Nazir, who founded the list and puts it together annually, said: "Priyanka Chopra has become an incredible international ambassador for India and is smashing through glass ceilings all over the world. Apart from being courageous enough to fly into the unknown professionally, she has also done a lot of work for social causes, become a strong symbol for girl power and is making a young generation have big dreams. She is the perfect mix of beauty, brains, bravery and a kind hear".
Small screen beauty Nia Sharma came in second and held onto her position as the sexiest television star on the list. Up one place from last year, the talented actress was thrilled to be second behind her inspiration. "I dare to dream of reaching where Priyanka Chopra is one day. But seeing my name next to her in the list is no less a dream and struck me with a frenzied happiness. What my fans have done, I can't pay them back in words. They make me feel confident and I feel I exist because of them. Yes it's a TV girl who is weird, fierce, bizarre, wannabe or whatever names they call her. I owe my fans this joy and want to share it with them despite not being able to digest the development," said Nia Sharma.
Last year's winner Deepika Padukone fell two places as she came in third, whilst the crown princess of Bollywood Alia Bhatt secured fourth ahead of popular Pakistani star Mahira Khan who took fifth place in the list. The rest of the top 10 was Drashti Dhami (6), Katrina Kaif (7), Shraddha Kapoor (8), Gauahar Khan (9) and Rubina Dilaik (10).
The highest place newcomer and youngest on the list is 19-year-old television actress Shivangi Joshi (16), who has made an incredible impact on hit TV serial Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. The oldest on the list is 54-year-old Sridevi (49), who is one of two editor's choices on the 2017 list. The other editor's choice is Pakistani singer Momina Mustehsan (37), who has emerged from the male dominated music industry in Pakistan having made a massive impact and opening a debate about important social causes. "Momina has a heavenly voice and looks to match, but more than that she has opened up debate on important issues like woman empowerment, cyber bullying and mental illness. She is making a mark in a male dominated music industry, but is also becoming a strong symbol of girl power in Pakistan," said Asjad.
Other names on the 2017 list include Niti Taylor (11), Sonam Kapoor (12), Sanaya Irani (13), Jennifer Winget (14), Esha Gupta (17), Krystle DSouza (21), Charli XCX (24), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (26), Erica Fernandes (28), Jacqueline Fernandez (30), Athiya Shetty (32), Humaima Malick (33), Anushka Shetty (42) and Anushka Sharma (44).
The complete 50 Sexiest Asian Women list for 2017 is published in Eastern Eye newspaper on December 8 and the list of 50 Sexiest Asian men is released on December 15.