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Sales Manager - Signage
- Recruiter
- Future Recruitment Ltd
- Location
- Hertfordshire
- Salary
- OTE £45-50K + Phone + Laptop
- Posted
- 18 Jan 2019
- Closes
- 17 Feb 2019
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- Contact
- Catherine Buckley
- Function
- Sales
- Discipline
- Printing, Digital Printing, Screen Printing, Wide Format
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
OTE £45-50K + Phone + Laptop + Car (Negotiable)
Our client is a leading signage & graphics company based in the South East who are currently looking to recruit a Sales Manager.
The Sales Manager is responsible for planning, implementing and directing the sales activities of the company. Mainly focusing on the Leisure Industry; Restaurant, Hotel, Pub, Nightclubs, Cinemas, Theatres. It is key that the Sales Manager defines and achieves long-term goals, builds key customer relationships, identifies business opportunities and maintains an extensive knowledge of current market conditions.
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- Develop a sales strategy to achieve organisation sales goals and revenues
- Business development
- Develop Sales presentation and proposals
- Conduct market research, competitor and customer analysis
- Generate high quality client leads, identify the decision makers and follow up
- Analyse data to identify sales opportunities
- Develop and maintain excellent client relationships
- Create detailed client briefs to ensure effective handover for quoting and project management
- Co-ordinate, record and monitor sales leads, activities and orders
- Represent the company at client meetings, exhibitions and networking events
- Review your own sales performance, aiming to meet or exceed expectations
- Gain a clear understanding of a customer's business and requirements
- Convert leads into active clients and continue to grow their future orders
- Submit weekly progress reports and ensure data is accurate
- Ensure that data is accurately entered and managed within the company's CRM
- Work with marketing resources and promoting the brand
Key Competencies:
- Persuasive and an excellent negotiator
- Networking
- Customer Service
- Sales Planning
- Excellent communication
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- Prospecting skills
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- Commercial awareness and judgment
- Ability to get things done
- Management experience
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Marriage Part 2: Dating
What is dating? Generally in todays society dating is seen as having someone with fuzzy feelings. A date to prom, a nice Valentines day dinner and all those other lovey dovey things. People often talk about wanting to find love and find "the one," which is precisely my point. What dating should be about is finding your future spouse. Not emotions.
Now I realize as a teen, you're probably not ready to get married. Most of you are probably concerned about finding a prom date before marriage. Which is great! I'm not saying you have to be ready to get married before you date. I mean, when I was first interested in guys I certainly wasn't ready to get married. When I met my husband, I was 17, and I wasn't ready to get married. While it's true that he's my first and only relationship, sometimes God doesn't let everyone find their future spouse on their first try. You have to let God be a part of you love life.
So how can you start trying to find you're future spouse? Well I think that first it would be most important to decide if God is even calling you to the married life at all! Maybe this is something you haven't thought about. Maybe you're afraid of the answer, or maybe you simply haven't given it much thought yet, but it's so incredibly important to discern what God is calling you to do. It's a process even I went through, even though I was in a relationship while I was in the process of becoming Catholic. I can't tell you how to discern. Everyones process is a little bit different, but two really important components would be praying to God about it, and talking to a priest if you have any questions or you're feeling called one way or the other. Not only is it important to talk to God and someone who can help you discern the call, but if you are dating someone, it's important to be honest about your discernment process so no one is surprised in the end, and so no one gets hurt. Don't lead anyone on!
So to get back to dating. How exactly do you go about this whole thing to begin with? The first thing I'd like to note is that you might not find your future spouse on your very first try. We're all different people from different walks of life. While I did find my future husband on my first try, I know that it's not the case for everyone. It's important to let God in on this whole process. He loves you, and He has a plan for you. He knows what's best for you, so I can definitely say that prayer is a great way to go. Let God in on your love life. Talk to Him about someone you're interested in or someone you're dating. Pray for your future spouse! God very much wants to be a part of it. Not only that, but having a strong relationship with God is a great way to meet your future spouse. It's also a bit important to be open to who God may bring into your life. It's okay to have an ideal of what you're looking for, but in the case of my husband, I certainly wasn't exactly what he was looking for. I was Agnostic and had a very different way of living than he did and he was looking for someone who would share his faith with him. He did find that someone, he just had to help bring me to it. And last but not least, remember what love really is. Love is not warm fuzzy emotions. Love is wanting the good of another even at ones own expense.


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Last night, two Nashville icons collided as Starlito and Young Buck threw down at a basketball game. While we don't exactly have the entire context, all we can really do is try to piece together a narrative based on what we've got. Immediately after the scuffle, Starlito went and put his side of the story on wax, via the Young Buck diss track "You Should Be Proud."
The track is hardly an all-out assault in the vein or Ether or Shether, opting instead for a more introspective approach. Starlito actually gives props to Buck for his Nashville clout, and fans have been speculating that Lito wouldn't go after Buck unprovoked. However, Starlito does ultimately call Buck a "faggot," so, there's that.
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Antifreeze is coming to Northampton in autumn 2019 and invites applications from like-minded artists to take part in exhibitions throughout the town from 8th October – 4th November.
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A love so sweet, it feels like a sugar rush. But everything that soars so high must crash down eventually… right? Get ready for a romance so electrically written, so compulsively devourable, that you won't be able to look away even as it turns rotten.
In ALWAYS FOREVER MAYBE, one of the most GORGEOUS books of the summer (seriously, look at those colors!), Betts and Aiden's relationship seems to explode out of their first meeting at the candy shop where Betts works. But her best friend doesn't approve. But Jo just doesn't understand, right? That's the role of the jealous best friend in these stories, after all. But Jo sees things that Betts might be looking past. Like how needy Aiden is. How possessive. How controlling.
We read ALWAYS FOREVER MAYBE in a single sitting, and we guarantee you'll devour this tale of toxic love all the same. So scroll down, and start reading!
Chapter 1
It would be easier if he were dead.
I hate myself the second the thought enters my brain. Hate myself for thinking it, and hate even more that it's true.
Of course it's not true.
I swallow against the thickness building in my throat as I hitch my bag up on my shoulder and push toward my locker, ignoring the murmurs, ignoring the stares. I don't care what they're saying. I don't care what anyone thinks. I only care that Aiden—
No. I can't even think his name. I have to focus on putting one foot in front of the other, on moving forward and making it through this minute, this hour, this day. Without him.
I blink to keep my eyeballs from exploding under the pressure of the tears I won't let fall. I breathe in and try to force the sound of screeching tires and crashing metal out of my brain. He's still alive, I remind myself. He might wake up. He might forgive me. It's too many maybes.
"Hey, Betts," someone says. I keep walking. "Bee," she calls again. "That ring you wear—is it from Aiden?"
I stop. Turn. Stare.
Cicily and two of her spirit-squad clones stand in their game-day uniforms of matching skirts and matching smirks, assessing me from head to toe. I don't even know what outfit I pulled on this morning, and I'm certainly not going to look. My fingers fly to the ring on my right hand, shielding it from Cicily's gaze. I can't believe she just asked me that.
I will not give her the satisfaction of watching me disintegrate. "Mm-hmm," I manage.
"Did your parents freak out? Mine would flip," one of the clones says. "You guys seem really cute together, though." She tucks a lock of hair behind one ear and blinks her bovine eyes. It hits me that she's not trying to be cruel.
Oh god, they don't know. How could they not have heard—
"Is he coming again after school today?" Cicily asks. She winks. Winks.
I think I might vomit. "No," I say. I somehow don't choke on the word.
The third girl twists her necklace around her finger and smiles. "Where did you even meet him? I need to find me a guy like that." The others laugh and the girl adds, "Vroom, vroom." They laugh harder.
I shake her words out of my head. I can't have this conversation. Can't pretend it's okay. Can't pretend he isn't gone. Can't pretend it's not my fault.
I turn around and run.
Chapter 2
I met him in a candy store.
It was a Sunday afternoon in February, near the end of my shift at the Sugar Shack. I'd been working since ten and had a killer headache from the secondhand sugar high gnawing my brain from all sides. Only thirteen more minutes until I could clock out, but those minutes were dragging like a school assembly on the dangers of jaywalking and meth. I was so ready to release my hair from its too-tight ponytail, ditch my apron and the stupid Hey, Sugar visor Mr. Sugarman (yes, really) made us wear, and head out the door. Not that I was eager to rush home for Sunday dinner with my parents. The whole point of this job, besides cash and next year's tuition, was to buy myself more time away from them.
When the bells on the front door jingled, I didn't look up, just kept wiping the grubby fingerprints and streaks of I-don't-even-want-to-know-what off the ice cream case and left the customer care to Lexa. I actually liked cleaning and she actually liked customers, so our shifts always worked out pretty well.
"Welcome to the Sugar Shack!" she chirped at whoever'd walked in.
"Uh, hi," he said. I sprayed another blast of disinfectant across the glass and took a deep sniff. I didn't care if it was killing my brain cells. The sharp tingle of bleach-y chemicals was a welcome change from the candy dust and ice cream air I'd been inhaling all day. It had been a mistake to drink that second root beer on my break earlier, too. I would have killed for some water, three Advil, and a salt lick. "Do you guys have any of those chewy candy frogs?" the customer asked.
"Oh gosh, I'm so sorry," Lexa said. I knew without having to look that she was putting her hand to her chest to hold back the tide of empathy. Even in a freaking candy shop, Lexa was the sweetest thing around. She was like a human kitten, all tiny, wide-eyed, and adorable. If she weren't my best friend's twin brother's girlfriend, I would have had to hate her. "We usually do but we're all out today. Can I help you find something else? We have gummi sharks, gummi worms, gummi dinosaurs, gummi fish…and gummi bears, of course."
"Wow. A whole zoo," the guy said.
Scrub scrub scrub. Working at the Shack was largely thankless, but I did get a weird satisfaction out of cleaning like a maniac. And in a candy-store-slash-ice-cream-shoppe, there were endless sticky, sugar-smeared surfaces to wipe. I spent most of my shift downtimes with a rag in hand. Lexa spent most of hers texting Eric.
"My favorites are the gummi octopi," Lexa offered. "They're tasty and cute, and we have them in three colors."
I gazed at the neon lollipop clock, willing it to tick faster. Eight minutes.
"Yeah, no, it has to be frogs. It's my little sister's birthday. She's going through a frog phase."
I peeked at the guy's back. Tall. Leather jacket. Shaggy haircut. Tight jeans. I wondered if he played drums in a band or only wished that he did. "We have gummi geckos," I said. "You could get some of those and bite their tails off."
He turned around. Our eyes met, and the slow, sure smile he gave wrapped itself around my chest, squeezed out the air, stopped my heart, and changed everything I knew about anything. At least, it felt that way, since for a few seconds I somehow neglected to breathe.
The cute boys who came into the Sugar Shack were usually eight, not eighteen, and they stopped being cute the moment they opened their mouths and started whining for their parents to buy them something. This boy's mouth held a different kind of danger. That smile was delicious.
I steadied myself against the countertop as he solemnly shook his head. "She's too smart. I'd never get away with it."
I didn't believe that for a second. He looked like he could get away with anything.
"How about a candy crown?" Lexa said, breaking the spell. "You know, like a 'kiss enough frogs and you'll find your prince' kind of thing?"
His lashes were unfairly long. Winter had pinked his pale cheeks above the stubble on his perfect jaw. I had never seen a boy look so pretty yet rugged. "She's not into kissing. She studies them. She wants to be a frog scientist."
"A herpetologist," I said, letting my dork flag unfurl. It flapped in the breeze of embarrassment.
But Drummer Boy looked impressed. "Exactly."
"Well, give her time," I said, like some braver, bolder version of myself. "I hear that nerd girls make the best kissers."
He drew back. "She's nine. And my sister."
I tried not to die. "Right. Sorry. I didn't mean—"
"It's okay." That smile again. It was an offer and a challenge, both at once.
He glanced at the name tag pinned to my chest. Despite the ridiculous visor, I was grateful to be in uniform. True, the Sugar Shack apron covered whatever hint of boob might theoretically have been present, but it also made me look like I actually had a waist. And while I had never looked anything but comical in the tops, scarves, or skirts I'd tried on where there was some kind of ruffle involved, somehow the flounce at the hem of this thing just worked on me. It may have been the most flattering piece of clothing I'd worn, and it leveled the playing field at least a little by flattening out Lexa's amazing rack. The apron was the great equalizer. Also, I liked the pockets.
"So, Joanna—"
"Bee, actually. Or Betts." He arched an eyebrow and I nearly growled with envy. I'd always wished one of my eyebrows could do that. "It's a long story," I said.
"Bee." He considered that with a head tilt. "I like it. It fits. It's kind of…cute but sharp. Like a cupcake with thorns."
A shot of pride rushed through me at the weird sort-of compliment. Normally I would bristle at someone I just met acting like he had me all figured out, but this guy—I felt like whatever he wanted me to be, I'd be it.
No. Whatever he wanted me to be, that's what I already was.
It was my turn to speak, but I pressed my lips shut. If I allowed them to open, I might blurt some awful truth like, This feeling reminds me of Ferris wheels or I could stare at your face until sunrise. Our fizz-and-snap, Pop Rocks connection was making me loopy. Silence was far safer.
His mouth twitched in the pause. "I'm Aiden," he said.
"Aiden," I said, trying it out. It felt right. Everything about him felt right. "Nice to meet you."
He held my gaze. "Likewise."
Saying more could be catastrophic. I stared and blinked instead.
He waited. I stared and blinked some more.
"Well, Bee or Betts," he said, pulling on the wool hat he'd been holding, "the frog hunt continues." He looked straight at me. "I'll see you around." It sounded like a promise.
With a quick nod to Lexa, Aiden pushed open the door. "Have a sweet day!" she called after him.
A whoosh of freezing air burst in, and he was gone. I shivered, less from the cold and more from the certainty that everything in my life was about to change. I stood in the space he'd left behind. Endless possibility unrolled at my feet.
Lexa flipped over the sign on the door, so COME ON IN, SUGAR was facing us. She didn't seem to notice the world had shifted. "My turn to close up, right?" she said when I still hadn't moved.
I reached back and yanked at the strings of my apron. I needed to call Jo.
Chapter 3
I stood in the north hallway, unwrapping miles of scarf from around my neck and stuffing them into my locker with the hat, gloves, coat, sweater, and leg warmers I'd just shed. The school was way overheated, as usual, but outside it was nineteen degrees before windchill. Living here on the Niagara Frontier, you learned to layer. It was an art.
Jo appeared at my side and handed me a baggie. "Kitchen Bitch delivery."
"Mmm, what is it?"
"Oatmeal cookies."
I held them up for inspection.
"No raisins," she said. "What do you think I am?"
I took one out. "You're the best."
"They have pecans, though. Toasted for flavor and chopped up for texture. I might break instead of chop next time."
My mouth was already full. "Whatever you did, they're delicious," I said, one hand at my lips to hold back the crumbs. The cookies were slightly chewy but buttery soft, with a nutty, caramelized aftertaste. One of the 8,400,237 things I was going to miss about Jo next year—was practically already missing in anticipation of being torn apart by college in six months, a near-future that seemed both too imminent and far, far away—was this: her baking. She was truly talented.
"That's why they call me a masterbaker," she said.
I swallowed. "No one masterbakes as vigorously as you do. It's amazing your palms aren't hairier. You'll probably go blind, though."
"Don't worry, that won't stop me from turning up the heat. And beating and churning. Daily," she added.
"Nice." I pulled a cat hair off her shirt and flicked it to the floor.
"Thanks," she said.
I dug my chem notebook out of my locker, shoved my backpack inside, and slammed the door shut. "Ready?"
Jo turned and nearly tripped over OJ, who was kneeling on the floor by the locker next to mine, with her papers spread everywhere. "Whoops! Sorry," Jo said, stepping on one paper then another as she tried to catch her balance and move out of the way.
"Jerk-off," OJ muttered, followed by something unintelligible. I walked away quickly so she wouldn't see me smiling and decide I was laughing at her. OJ definitely wasn't known for her great sense of humor.
Jo was grinning too. She wiggled her eyebrows beneath her straight black bangs. "Do you want to get floats at the Shack later? In case he drops by?" I shook my head and fed my face a consolation cookie. She was only mirroring my excitement from what I'd told her last night, but the morning after my Aiden encounter, that excitement seemed way overblown. So we'd flirted. So what? That didn't mean anything would happen. If he went to my school, I would already know. There were only about 130 kids in each class, and most of us started here in middle school.
I dodged a crying freshman. "Yeah, no." I wanted to find a way to see him again, but I'd feel pathetic if I were sitting there waiting for him to show—which he wouldn't, so, even worse. "I hate being there when I'm not on shift. I start feeling like I should be cleaning things."
"You always feel like you should be cleaning things." She had a point. "So come over after school. Tell your parents we need to study for history. Mention Eric so they'll say yes." My parents adored Eric. They liked Jo, too, but they were suckers for her twin. And they were right: Eric was a Very Nice Boy.
"We do need to study for history," I said.
"Correct. And I need to tell you about my new crush."
"Wait, what? Who?" This was news. Jo's crushes were extremely rare and selective—as opposed to mine, which tended to be frequent but fleeting, cautiously approached, and easily abandoned when no reciprocal interest was shown, which it never was. The primary thing the few guys I'd kissed had in common was they all had crushed on me first. I'd sparked to that interest, to the thrill of being wanted, as much as to the guys themselves. It was one of the million things about my connection with Aiden that felt so completely different: I wanted him as much as I hoped he wanted me. But Jo would never sell herself short the way I had too often done.
She wriggled in her own dramatic pause. "Sydney."
I stopped. "Sydney MacKenna?"
She looked about ready to burst into song and possibly sprout butterfly wings. "Uh-huh."
I touched her sleeve to ground her. "Recently-rumored-to-be-hooking-up-with-Benji-Watts Sydney MacKenna?"
Jo nodded, still beaming. "She's in my math class."
"Whoa." We kept walking. "So you've finally given up on the fox from Robin Hood."
She elbowed me in the gut and I tried not to squawk. "Mmm, the foxy fox. Nah, he's still top of the list. It's not like I'm swearing off guys completely. But I was stalking her a little online last night, and I realized I want to put my face in her face. Like, now. I am smitten."
"Cool. So, what's your plan?"
She shrugged. "I'm gonna wing it and see what happens. You're the one who always needs a plan, not me."
I tried not to flinch, but Jo saw it anyway. She pounced, wrapping me into a bear hug in the middle of the hallway. "Stop it," she lectured. "Fuck what Tyson said. And don't take it as a bad thing. You know I love you exactly the way you are."
I squeezed her back, but the memory of my ex-boyfriend accusing me of being "too uptight" and "incapable of spontaneity"—while also admitting he'd been cheating on me all month—still smarted, weeks later. No, it still raked my gut with its toenails, shredded my dignity with its claws, and punctured my heart with its teeth. Luckily Jo was a human tourniquet. And at least I hadn't slept with him.
"The right guy will appreciate all those things about you too," she said. "And maybe you'll find it's easier to be more relaxed in your next relationship because you won't be dating an unreliable, emotionally abusive shithead."
I squirmed out of the hug. "Okay." I wanted to believe it. "But in my defense, I don't have a plan. Right now. About Aiden. I'm trying to just, like, take it as it comes. If it comes." I was also trying to be realistic. The chances of us running into each other again in a city of 260,000 people were, I had to admit, slim. It would probably only happen if he came back to the Shack to find me, and managed to do so on a day when I was working. More likely he would forget about me, or possibly already had.
"I'm sorry I said it that way. You know I want you to help me strategize."
That part I could do. And I liked feeling needed. "Well, first we should find out if it's true she's got a thing with the quarterback. That seems like crucial information for us to have."
"Right. That's step one. And if it's true, then step two is that I beat him up after school?"
I shook my head. I worried for her about Sydney being both straight and taken, but if she preferred to joke about it, I would follow her lead. "Nope. You challenge him to a duel. It's classier and more romantic. Shows how much you value her. And it's a good excuse to wear a cape."
She wrinkled her nose. "Maybe I could skip the violence and offer her parents a higher dowry. Reverse dowry?"
"It's called a bride price," I said.
She shot me the obligatory you read too much look, then jumped. "I'll outbid him for her on eBay! That's the modern way to get the girl."
"It beats throwing rocks at her window."
We stopped outside the door to my homeroom. Jo leaned against a locker. "Seriously, though. Tell me what you think I should do."
"I will," I said. "But we do need more information."
"All I know about her is she's hot and smart and awesome. She uses black felt micro-tip pens, even for math, and doodles in her notebooks constantly. And she went on that date with Jeremy Packer last year where he took her to the zoo and tried to kiss her in front of the monkey cage, but the monkeys started screaming and pelting him with their poop, so he ran off and left her there, and everyone called him Monkey See, Monkey Doo-Doo for like a month. But that tells you more about him than her, I guess."
"Is that even true?" I asked.
Jo shrugged. "Who cares? It's a great story."
"At least it sets the bar for dates pretty low."
The first bell rang and Jo straightened. "That's my cue," she said. "I'll see you later. Don't cry."
That was my cue. "I'm not crying. My eyeballs are drooling for more oatmeal cookies."
"Good," she called, walking away. "You'll have some. After school. Text your parents!"
I waved at her back and ducked into class.
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Streaming Equipment
Many of you are probably very curious about the various software and hardware that we use to stream. Some of you may be wondering so you can start streaming yourself. There are a lot of various resources out there that will recommend one thing or another. We want to bring the advice and current techniques we have learned into one spot so you don't have to search several different sites to get your answer.
For all of our dynamic overlays we use Streamlabs. With streamlabs we also use Streamlabs OBS which handles combining all of our video and audio sources and pushes them directly to Twitch. Lastly we the Streamlabs Chatbot to integrate chat with various rewards and games for viewers to enjoy during our streams.
WARNING: Currently Streamlabs OBS is in BETA which means that many features may change or break on you during their development process. If this is not something you want to deal with we suggest using OBS instead which was the software we used first.
Logitech C920 HD Webcam
A majority of our cameras are the Logitech c920 HD Webcam, which offers full HD streaming and audio (but we do not use the audio). We use them for our all of our streams. A two of our webcams are the Logitech c922 HD Webcams which are not much different than the c920's. Before either of these we used the Logitech c270 HD Webcam. However it only supplies up to a 720p resolution unlike the other two webcams.
Elgato game capture hd
Very early on when we started recording games for YouTube we picked up the Elgato Game Capture HD and while we include it on this list (because yes we use it) it can be a real nightmare to use when it doesn't want to. However it was the only card at the time that we could find that would support Component inputs (the red, white, and yellow cables you plug into your TV) to allow us to play some of our older consoles. If you are planning to only stream PC games, skip this.
Mackie profx12v2 16-channel compact mixer
Probably our pride and joy, due to our need for seperate audio channels during our Tales from the Tavern streams we use the Mackie ProFX12v2 16-Channel Compact Mixer for nearly all our streams (even if we only need one channel on some). This device lets you take any microphone that uses an XLR cable and mixes it down to USB. Before this behemoth we used the Focusrite Scarlett Solo which does its job if you don't unplug it.
Audio-Technica AT2035
This was our first microphone, the Audio-Technica AT2035, we have enjoyed it so much that we continue to use it for every stream except Tales from the Tavern. It has fantastic audio quality and is worth the purchase if you are a solo streamer.


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The Read Me Project kicks off
As a writer who has just self-published their first novel, I don't want to be forcing my book down people's throats via social media and blog posts ad-nauseam so I wanted to find a fun and creative way to share my book with the world and connect with my audience.
My first thought was, well wouldn't it be cool to just leave copies of my book around the city, tied up with string and with a little sign that said "Read Me" to encourage people to pick up and take home my book to read for free? It was also a bit of a cheeky nod to Alice in Wonderland.
I spent the weekend wrapping up copies of my book, and getting them ready to go. I couldn't wait to get these out into the world.
Then I thought, wouldn't it be great if others did this too? With their books or magazines, or 'zines? Or even if you had a book you'd read and didn't want any more – why not share it with someone else in a fun and engaging way?
The Read Me Project was born from this, and now here I am 6 days into it and the response has been fantastic. It's a real hoot to see my books disappear from where I have left them and also to have people in the Instagram, Facebook and Twitter community messaging me to let me know they picked up a copy of my book or they just missed out on getting one but would love to buy a copy.
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US Gulf of Mexico is poised for continued record crude production
US Gulf crude output is projected to grow from an all-time high of 1.68mn b/d in 2017 to an average of 1.75mn b/d in 2018, and 1.86mn b/d in 2019, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Relatively stable oil prices are aiding the higher production in the US Gulf, along with the timing of developments that were adapted to a lower crude price environment and are now ready to ramp up output.
When Ice Brent and Nymex WTI prices crashed from above $100/bl in the summer of 2014 to around $70/bl in the fall of 2014, many long-term, large-scale deepwater developments were rendered cost-prohibitive. Some early stage projects were canceled altogether while others were redesigned to lower breakeven economics, harnessing cost-savings from sub-sea tiebacks and field expansions, over large-scale standalone projects. Those careful adjustments are starting to payoff.
"We've got some pretty drastic increases in 2018 and 2019 from decisions that were made in 2014 or so," said William Turner, a senior research analyst at Wood Mackenzie.
Beyond 2019 production growth will come from operator commitments to expand production based on stable oil prices, he said. And the profitability of delayed-yet-streamlined projects is already looking more secure, with both WTI and Brent staying above $60/bl this year.
Production is expected to ramp up at Shell's 100,000 b/d Olympus platform, which feeds into the Mars pipeline to Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) storage in Clovelly, Louisiana — the pricing point for medium sour Mars.
The Mars stream will also gain with the May 2018startup of the Shell-operated Kaikias field, which came online a year ahead of schedule and is tied back to the 150,000 b/d-capacity Ursa hub. Mars volumes have already risen this year, increasing to 466,000 b/d in the first-quarter from 449,000 b/d in the previous quarter.
Shell's Stones field is also ramping up. Shell transports a medium-to-heavy sour crude flow from Stones to the coast through a 60,000 b/d floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, called Turritella, with an assessed peak output of 50,000 boe/d.
The Chevron-operated Tahiti field is embarking on a third development phase to add estimated capacity of 125,000 b/d. Crude is transported to the Boxer platform located in Green Canyon Block 19 (GC 19). Ahead of the production increases that are ultimately carried to the Boxer platform, in 2016 a debottlenecking project increased takeaway capacity from the platform by 60pc. From Boxer, crude can flow into pipelines that feed into multiple streams — medium sours Poseidon, Mars, and Southern Green Canyon (SGC) — as well as lighter sours Eugene Island and Bonito.
Hess' 80,000 b/d-capacity Stampede project that came online in January also moves to the Boxer platform, with production expected to continue rising through mid-2019.


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Oct. 6th still lingers as one of the hottest pours our members had ever experienced. Though the fall season was approaching, summer is the season that stayed for this pour. But that obviously didn't stop the strong men and women that were dedicated to the mission of casting iron! UCA Sculpture Club combined forces with the FEmale Foundry, UCA Alumni, University of Kentucky S.C.R.A.P. and student representatives from University of Wisconsin - Whitewater and University of Western Kentucky.
There was scratch block making happening while these young artists ran the iron pour. A Scratch block is a cast iron relief sculpture that is made by mark making in a resin sand block. Both kids and adults were involved in this affair! Their creations ranged from writing their names, to Game of Thrones artworks! Once their scratching is done, UCA Students then poured their work right before their eyes!
UCA and University of Kentucky Students created both sand and ceramic shell molds to be poured! These works ranged from bottle openers, tree nuts, and sculptures that will be finished up to be a true work of art. The furnace, Beaulah (named after Professor Bryan Massey's grandmother) had an extended stack for this pour to allow more metal to be stacked inside. The FEmale Foundry donated the refractory material lined in her new stack. She tapped out about 800 lbs of metal. About 650 lbs of that metal actually went into molds.
The Female Foundry will be taking a hiatus after this pour to ensure that the next one is bigger, better, and hopefully cooler than this one! Keep in touch with us and ask to be a part of our mailing list for future iron pours!
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Review System: Oculus Rift CV1
Price at Time Of Review: £8 ($10)
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Real-time strategy (RTS)
Size: 333.09 MB
Controller System: Gamepad
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi Player: No
Traders of Bargleflab (Oculus Rift)
Intro: Guided (barely) by a condescending financier who alternates between father figure and tormentor, you will issue and continually update orders to a fleet of trading ships in a bid to earn enough wealth to pay back a suspiciously unspecified amount of debt. The game mechanic is relatively simple and each level is a race against time to earn enough wealth to allow you to progress to the next level. You will be forced to think ahead to plan your routes and act in the moment to block the advances of pirates.
Review: It is no secret that I really enjoy strategy games in VR, so when I heard about the Traders of Bargleflab I was instantly looking forward to playing it. You play the role of a "smart-ass" who said they are the best Merchant Guild trader on the high seas. But that is not the high seas of Earth, this is played on a table shaped island that just happens to be floating on the back of a giant space turtle! I'm not sure what the developers of this game were on when they come up with that theming, but I want some!
Gameplay is a pretty simple trading strategy game. You buy wood, pelt, etc from one port and sell it at another for an inflated price. It's how the world goes around and it's how the game is played. But in this game pirates will try and stop you and you have a set time limit to reach the goal amount, so it's a good job there are plenty of ship upgrades to help. To be fair I got the hang of the game the moment I had finished the tutorial and was soon completing the levels. Even if you do finish all the levels in double quick time, you can always up the difficulty level as well.
Verdict: While nothing much to look at, Traders of Bargleflab is a good laugh at times with some truly funny lines coming out of the pirate's mouth. Sadly I don't think it's worth the asking price without a multiplayer mode, but get this game in a sale (provided you enjoy strategy games) and you will find some simple swashbuckling fun here. Just don't expect too much gunpowder bang for your buck.


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A complaint has been filed at the Scottsdale City Clerk's Office alleging practices conducted by advocates of the polarizing Desert EDGE project is in violation of campaign finance regulations.
A campaign finance complaint addressed to City Clerk Carolyn Jagger on May 25 by attorney Roopali H. Desai, on behalf of the Protect Our Preserve political action committee, outlines three alleged violations surrounding practices and an alleged lack of transparency by a group called "Desert EDGE Advocates, and Desert Discovery Center Scottsdale, Inc."
Ms. Jagger confirmed she received the campaign finance complaint in a May 30 phone call, noting the two entities now have 10 days to respond to the complaint.
"So for now, honestly, it's just a matter to see what they have to say," Ms. Jagger said of requesting a response from both parties. "I won't know until I see what they have to say, it would be pure speculation — I have no idea what their answer will be."
In July 2017, Desert Discovery Center Scottsdale unveiled its plans for a proposed desert-appreciation venue envisaged on less than 6 acres just south of the established Gateway trailhead within the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.
The facility includes a series of structures coined "pavilions" and has an asking price of $61.2 million.
The issue of how and if a desert-appreciation venue ought to be built within Preserve limits has drawn a line in the political sand for many Scottsdale residents, local gadflies and elected leaders.
North Scottsdale resident Jason Alexander has founded a political action committee to try and force a public vote on the matter.
The document filed on behalf of Protect Our Preserve PAC, states their complaint is against Desert Discovery Center Scottsdale, Inc. and Desert EDGE Advocates. Specifically, Protect Our Preserve alleges that paid operatives of Desert EDGE and Desert EDGE Advocates have followed individuals circulating initiative petitions.
"When a circulator approaches a prospective petition signer, the assigned paid operative also approaches that signer, attempts to dissuade them from signing, and also presents them with a printed advertisement that asks signers to 'KNOW the FACTS before you sign a petition,'" the filed complaint states.
The three outlined complaints brought by Protect Our Preserve include:
- Not disclosing the words "paid for by" on their solicitation literature;
- Failure to register as a political action committee; and
- Failure to file campaign finance reports.
"Our issue is not that someone is on the other side of this, we expected that," said Mr. Alexander, director of NoDDC and secretary of Protect Our Preserve.
"They've continued to operate how they have for two-plus years — put your name behind it. Show what you're spending money on, what you're trying to represent. Provide contact information and don't be cowardly."
The Desert EDGE Advocates group created Facebook and Twitter pages earlier this year, while mass emails from the entity have surfaced with little contact information available except the same phone number and website as the Desert EDGE. The Desert EDGE Advocates utilize a feature photo with Desert EDGE's official logo and adding the word "Advocates" below.
The letter to Ms. Jagger states that as of May 25, the city's campaign finance database doesn't reflect Desert EDGE Advocates as a political action committee, or the filing of a campaign finance report for ballot measure expenditures.
"We're obviously engaged in an election issue and someone from the opposition is clearly paying circulators to go out, stand near us and hand out fliers," Mr. Alexander explained. "They're not saying who paid for it, they're not organized as a political action committee — all clear violations around Arizona laws."
Mr. Alexander says there is difference between someone's First Amendment right, and what he believes the Desert EDGE Advocates are doing.
"The line you're talking about comes when you start spending money," he said. "If it was just one individual and it was a couple of fliers printed from their office and stood outside, that's fine, that's free speech, but clearly someone's been hired."
Through public records requests Mr. Alexander says he has seen invoices from entities such as web site contractors.
"We see small word changes on a website, receiving invoices from their web contractor, so obviously money has been exchanged," he said.
The Protect Our Preserve efforts to gather enough signatures to force a November ballot initiatives are going swimmingly, Mr. Alexander noted, saying they've passed 30,000 signatures.
"We feel extremely confident," he said of the signature effort. "Come July 5 we'll have the right number of ballot signatures. I think the reality is what has brought the opposition out, is too little too late."
Ms. Jagger says the parties involved in the complaint have until Monday, June 11 to respond.
"Certainly they're not a registered PAC so it's not a complaint against a political committee, it's against entities. I'm not sure what their thinking is on that," Ms. Jagger said. "In my mind it's good to have both sides of the story — there's an allegation, now we'll find out what their side of it is, and then we'll decide."
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I am not related to nor had I ever met Steven Jaffe, one of Atlanta's leading child/adolescent psychiatrists, until our recent interview. I wish I had, as I always tease that in my next life I want a spouse who is a CPA, car mechanic, veterinarian and psychiatrist.
The past four decades, Jaffe has treated thousands of children from his office in Sandy Springs, his professorships at Emory and Morehouse, and his leadership of various addiction programs. His warmth and enthusiasm led him through his training at Johns Hopkins, Albert Einstein, UCLA, Harvard and Emory.
He speaks all over the world, primarily on teenage addiction. Jaffe, a New York native, sports a polished green-stone talisman from New Zealand and a red hamsa bracelet for good fortune. All his bases are covered — except, stylishly, no socks.
MCJ: Why did you select this field?
Dr. Jaffe: Growing up, I spent a lot of time with my younger [by 11 years] brother and knew I wanted to work with children. Also, I was not very good at lab work and found general pediatrics monotonous. I had a wonderful child psychiatry experience and knew that this was where I belonged. A famous genetics professor once posed, "Is what you're doing asking the questions you want to ask?" In child psychiatry I felt I could ask the questions and might even find some answers.
MCJ: Let's get right to it. Is there much more mental illness among children today? I hear of so many diagnoses of ADHD, bipolar disorders or depression that were not on our radar a few years ago.
Dr. Jaffe: Perhaps. Much of the increase may be because the stigma of mental illness has been lifted. Parents, especially Jewish parents, are more concerned with getting their children help. Also, we are better able to diagnose and treat mental problems in children.
MCJ: A lot of doctors get labeled as "pill pushers."
Dr. Jaffe: By the time they get to me, they usually have gone through traditional talk therapy, and psychopharmacology might be the best option. I am very much into parents and patients being in an alliance with me. I welcome their research and want them to know as much about the problem as I do. Then we can look at possible treatments.
MCJ: Do you find that Jewish children have more addiction and emotional problems?
Dr. Jaffe: No, I'm not aware of any research that supports that. Jewish parents have always emphasized education. Throughout our history (even if the parents were impoverished), the children were taught to read so they could be knowledgeable of the Torah. Also, thinking and questioning issues of emotional life contributed to Jews being introspective and open to look at psychiatric problems. Conversely, today's kids have enormous pressures. I think it's a tragedy that there is so much emphasis on test performance, which distracts from emotional growth. I would conjecture that this was the nexus of the Atlanta teachers cheating scandal.
MCJ: So my generation's parents were too strict. My peers swung the other way to indulge and be friends with our children. Now my children are striving not to spoil their children.
Dr. Jaffe: We need a balance between love and boundaries. Our teens need to know they are worthy of love, and they need to emotionally connect with their parents. They need limits so they have a face-saving excuse to avoid high-risk situations. When a teenager says, "Trust me," the proper response is "Show me." Saying no can be a loving action. Also, hugs are important.
MCJ: Drugs — why do kids get involved?
Dr. Jaffe: Six percent of high-schoolers smoke marijuana daily. We need to reclassify pot so we can do more research. It definitely is not good for the brain of someone under 23. Kids start to escape stress or follow others using drugs. But above all, teens drink, smoke pot and use drugs because it's fun. Smoking marijuana does impair driving. An alcoholic runs red lights; a pot smoker stops at green lights.
The real epidemic today are opiates — pain pills — especially OxyContin [$50 a pill]. When that habit becomes too expensive, they turn to heroin, which is cheap. Yes, Jewish kids also! For the past few years we have an epidemic of heroin addiction in white middle- and upper-class suburban families. This has resulted in the sharp increase of deaths due to accidental overdose.
A young heroin addict once told me, "It's like an angel comes down and wraps me in a warm blanket."
MCJ: So how do you help them?
Dr. Jaffe: I help direct one of the best substance abuse treatments: the Insight Program. Here teens learn to connect and experience having fun without drugs and alcohol.
MCJ: Why do you think your lectures are in demand? What really is your gift?
Dr. Jaffe: I started out as an anxiety-ridden, introverted child. I sought advice from smarter people and became an overachiever. I wanted to teach and learned to give very informative, humorous talks. Above all, I have been credited for lecturing where my enthusiasm and love of working with teens is apparent.
MCJ: Do you ever get weary of hearing hours of people's dramas and hardships?
Dr. Jaffe: The old joke is "Who listens?" The real answer is no. Every patient I see is unique, and the challenge is how to help them.
MCJ: A 1667 quote from the Earl of Rochester: "Before I was married, I had three theories about raising children. Now I have three children and no theories."


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Do you ever find yourself asking: "Why is it SO LOUD?". Inside your head and out, the noise can become overwhelming before you even realize it. Think about it: When was the last time you sat in complete silence? Those moments are likely few and far between, right? Did you know that the very essence of our beings requires these brief moments of absolute nothingness? Now, you know. But what can you do with that information? How do you find quiet moments when everything about your life is just so busy? That's exactly what we're going to look at.
First, let's look at what "silence" really means.
The dictionary definition of silence is:
"absence of any sound or noise; stillness."
Of course, we're not talking about absolutely silence. You'll always hear something, like the sound of your blood pumping through your veins. That's a natural sound. One that can't be silenced. The idea of silence as it pertains to your health is more in reference to stimulating noise (the television, music, conversation, etc).
In the modern day and age, where exactly are you going to find a total absence of that kind of sound? The fact is, you really can't. Even when you're sitting alone, without the television/music on, there are background sounds outside. Cars driving by. Airplanes flying overhead. There is a constant state of motion within the world, causing a consistent buzz of sound.
What can you do, right?
Before we talk about how to find silence, let's look at why you really need silence in your life.
- Noise is a well-known stress factor
- Noise can trigger the fight/flight/freeze reaction inside every individual
- Noise can increase anxiety
- Noise makes it hard to focus and reduces concentration
- Noise can be a distraction
- Noise can keep your body/mind in an "active" state
The fact is, whenever there is excessive sound, our bodies react by staying alert. That's why the issues mentioned above occur. In order to concentrate, you have to focus. To focus, you have to have complete silence. In order to have complete silence, you have to relax. To relax, you have to have complete silence. Do you see how the cycle finds itself entirely reliant on your ability to drown out the noise around you?
When the world quiets down to a mere white noise, that's when your body starts to slow down. Your stress levels drop. Your mind relaxes. Your body finally rests. There is no anxiety and you can find yourself more focused on the tasks ahead.
Why is it so hard to achieve that level of calmness?
As human beings, we're now conditioned to live in a certain level of anxiety. We need the noise around us to drown out those thoughts of loneliness, depression and utter failure. Without that noise, we would have nothing but our own thinking to keep us company. Sometimes, thinking is the most dangerous thing you can do. Sometimes, silence is nothing more than a nightmare.
But every once in a while, a nightmare is needed to keep you level.
So, how can you find that comfortable silence that your body needs?
There are options, like a retreat off in the middle of nowhere, where the only sound is birds and running water. Not all of us can afford to take that kind of vacation from our lives, though. Many of us wouldn't want to. You simply have to find a way to bring the natural silence to your own home.
- Turn off all your electronics
- Focus on the sound of your body as it's working to keep you alive and healthy
- Drown out the buzz of the world around you
- Find an inner serenity that calms your soul
These are the real tricks to finding silence in the modern age. But, not the only suggestions. The above list targets the things you can do right now and from the comfort of your home. Shutting off "the buzz" of life is hard, though. It's not possible for everyone. For those people, it's crucial to incorporate the buzz of the world around you by:
- Listening to the white noise of traffic from your window/porch/park
- Heading to the park to lay in the soft grass and listen to the birds, or the sound of children laughing and playing in the distance
- Watching the stairs and hearing nothing but the hum of the traffic
- Listening to the rain as it's hitting the window pane
- Sitting beside the ocean (any body of water) and listening the waves slowly making contact with the shore
- Sitting in a forest and listening to the rustling of the wind through the trees or the birds in the distance
- Camping and listening to the roaring fire (or sitting in your living room, if that's an option)
Lastly, you can always download a "white noise" application that plays soothing sounds (like anything mentioned above). It's a last resort, because the idea of silence is to get away from the buzzing of the modern age. Any electronics, despite their use, are a constant buzz. A constant distraction. Try using a method suggested above and leave your cellphone behind.
The idea is simply that you find a way to become more attune with nature and less with technology. Reduce "the buzz" until you no longer hear it, or learn to drown it out with other sounds.
Even if you're tempted to maintain the noise-levels, to reduce thinking and avoid facing yourself alone in the silence, you have to make occasional exceptions. Of course, one of the easiest ways to relax and drown out "the buzz" is laying in the bathtub with classical instrumental in the background. The [soothing feeling of the water aids in your relaxation] and helps you clear your mind.
Really, all that matters is you find inner silence. If your method isn't the same as everyone else, that's fine too. There is no right or wrong way to find silence – but if you don't seek it once in a while, there's a good chance you'll slowly drive yourself insane.


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Afterglow (Mamiti Cove) is a beautiful 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath villa nestled in a lush tropical garden overlooking the sea and near to the Sandals Royal Plantation. Built in the early 50's Afterglow, for years one of the most popular villas in Jamaica, is considered a classic Ocho Rios oceanfront villa. After being off the villa market for 3 years, the beautifully refurbished villa is once available to guests and is now known as Mamiti Cove. The villa interior consists of a lovely living room with flat panel TV which open up to the outside with beautiful louvered doors, onto a covered verandah on both the west and sea sides. The sea side of the verandah also acts as the main dining area of the villa affording beautiful water views. The upstairs has three equal sized air conditioned bedrooms with full bathrooms and ceiling fans. Walk in closets, and tasteful decor complete the picture. Two of the bedrooms open onto a lovely second floor covered verandah with outdoor seating. This space looks west out to the ocean and sunsets. Outdoors the villa is surrounded by multiple level terraces. The upper terrace has a swimming pool with a spa hot tub and comfortable lounge chairs. The lower terrace has a small gazebo for shady relaxing by the sea. The villa has its own small private sandy beach and jetty. At high tides the beach functions more as a sandy gentle entry into the sea, but at low tides there is enough beach for sunning and relaxing. Each bedroom features TV, quiet split unit air conditioning, ceiling fans and en-suite bathroom. Afterglow (Mamiti Cove) has an exceptional, experienced staff led by Aldine, the cook, who is legendary in Ocho Rios villa circles. This staff as well as the charms of the villa has built a loyal following of repeat guests over the years. Please note that the villa requires a full 7 night rental all year round except for Xmas/New Years. Accommodations: Master Bedroom Located on the second floor and has a king bed, en-suite bathroom with tub/shower, 26" flat panel television. This bedroom offers views of the Caribbean Sea. The bedroom opens to a verandah with sea and sunset views. Bedroom 2: Located on the second floor and has a queen bed, en-suite bathroom with tub/shower, 26" flat panel television. This bedroom offers views of the beautiful gardens. The bedroom opens to a verandah with sea and sunset views. Bedroom #3: Located up a half flight of stairs and has a queen bed, en-suite bathroom with shower, 36" flat panel television. This bedroom offers views of the Caribbean Sea. Villa Amenities: * 3 air-conditioned bedrooms with ceiling fans * Small private, child-friendly white sand beach during low tides * 4 Televisions, DVD, CD Player * Wireless Internet access * Full staff: cook, housekeeper, laundress and gardener * Swimming pool with spa hot tub * Seaside gazebo * Microwave, blender, barbecue
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In 2016, the number of existing homes sold nationally totaled 5.4 million, exceeding the previous year making 2016 the highest in a decade. So far this year prices are running higher and days on market are lower which is an indication of health demand.
- New Listings decreased 11.2% to 2,227
- Pending Sales increased 21.6% to 1,748
- Closed Sales decreased 5.9% to 897
Source: HAR


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Days Gone is one of the most awaited games on PlayStation 4 which has been in development for a long time, the title first appeared back in 2016 during Sony's press conference. It's an open world game with a huge map which will take you long to just ride around it which has made everyone curious about how long will it take to complete the game, well, apparently not even Sony Bend knows.
According to Sony Bend studio director Chris Reese, Days Gone will offer plenty of action and thrill when the game launches in 2019 and during a recent interview, he revealed that the game is so big that they don't know the 100% playtime by saying:
I don't know yet and we haven't seen anybody finish that yet [laughs]. It's big, it's a lot of time you can spend in that world.'
As we know Days Gone is trying to be unlike any other zombie game so we will have to find out ourselves how long will it take to complete the game.
Well, the game looks quite promising coming from Sony Bend studio which is a new property of Sony which is known for their works Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Syphon Filter games for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable and it's studios most ambitious title ever to date.
As for the main story, Sony Bend revealed in the interview that it will take you around 30 or 35 hours for the golden or narrative path.
Even 30 hours is more than the average of previous AAA games we have seen so far including God Of War which took me around 8 hours to complete the main story.
The game is going to be long and will feature alternate endings which were shown by developers recently and Days Gone to max out PS4 processing power after God Of War.
Days Gone is set to appear at E3 next month and in a big way.
Source: Screenrant


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Design Patterns have grown to become a standard in the field of Software Development ever since the Gang of Four published their book, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software in 1994. However, some people in the field of Computer Science have leveled criticisms towards Design Patterns for a few reasons, even if it is widely accepted that they are tools in the belts of developers at this point.
A legitimate criticism of them seems to be that many of the patterns are heavily language dependent, as some languages have easier work arounds for problems that present themselves in others. Peter Norvig, a director of research at Google, showed that 16 of 23 patterns from the Design Patterns book can be replaced solely by implementing them in Lisp or Dylan rather than C++ (page 9 of this PDF). Part of the argument here is that if languages don't have the same design patterns, then those languages that do have more design patterns are requiring that developers find work arounds for their missing features.
Another issue that many seem bring up is that the emphasis on using design patterns results in developers relying on them too heavily. Similar to the Golden Hammer AntiPattern, once a developer (or team of developers) becomes comfortable with a tool or concept they end up attempting to cram the problems they're given into some implementation that would allow them to use the solution they're comfortable with. In this way, even if Design Patterns are intended with the intention of writing code in good practice, if they're implemented when it isn't necessary it can quickly turn sour.
The idea behind Design Patterns is that, if they are used correctly alongside correct Object Oriented Design principles, the patterns should emerge naturally. If you ever find yourself asking, "How can I use the Singleton Pattern here?", then you're misusing the tool in your tool belt. They are better viewed as teaching methods for successfully upholding good design in complex situations, in a way. If you're writing code and it dawns on you that what you're attempting to write is similar to a pre-existing design pattern, then you have a direction to follow. This article in particular gives a great example of an application of the template pattern, and shows how you'd get there in a natural way as opposed to forcing a pattern on a piece of code.


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Andrea has recently joined our sales team. Andrea's previous position was Assistant Manager at the Cairns RSPCA prior to its recent total rebuild.
Andrea has a diverse range of business skills and thrives to learn new ones at every opportunity she can. She loves Real Estate and has wanted to try her hand at property sales for some time. She will be a great asset to our sales team.
You will be seeing a lot of Andrea, especially on the South side of Cairns.
If you're thinking of selling your home then have a talk to Andrea direct on 0401 383 100


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i was told there would be no math (+ a giveaway!)
Blogging is a pretty glamorous pursuit. Not only does your family groan when they see you taking pictures of the salad, but you gain access to a fascinating underworld of knowledge that you access via your "stats" page. Yes, I have a Stats Page. Pretty soon a badge and a toolbelt will come my way, I can feel it.
Having a Stats Page makes me want to call up Lincoln Moses, my statistics professor in college. He looked like Santa, and behaved a lot like one might hope of same. At the school I attended from grades 5-12, the math classes were divided, not into "A" and "B" or "I" and "II" or "Tomohawks" and "Mohawks" but into sections called "Regulars" and "Specials." Just to save us trouble figuring out what the section names might indicate about us. But despite my checkered and very Regular career in mathematics up to the point where I took Lincoln Moses' Statistics 101 class (at the last possible moment prior to graduation in order to fulfill the math requirement), despite all the remedial numerical classroom experiences I had been subjected to since I scored so low on the math section of the bubble test I took at the age of 9 that they had to call in a specialist to interpret the alarming results, which, when adjusted for the fact that in my panic I seemed to have shifted all my answers either one column to the left or one row to the south, indicated that I was only in the 30th percentile (phew!), and not, as the first scoring seemed to indicate, too low to measure--despite all that, I signed up to take Professor Moses' class for a grade. I could have signed up to take it P/NC, (officially "pass/no credit," but known to students as "pass/no clue") but I did not. Do not look to me for an explanation. I do not have one. But St. Nick called me in to his office right as the deadline for changing one's mind about classes was about to glimmer off into history. In a friendly way, he urged me to reconsider. "We have a phrase in statistics," he said, in our chat about how a career in mathematics and allied professions was not likely on my radar, "'Close enough for government work,' we say, when we aren't looking for too specific a measurement."
Point taken. Squeaked my way to a "P" on that one. It was a long quarter for all of us.
But now I have a stats page. Ha! Guess I showed him. Except, true to form, I don't really know what anything on it means. It tells me about "referring sites" and "referring URLs." It doesn't say what the hell the difference between those two things is. If my nice friend Alana
, her website might show up as a referring site, and it might show up as a referring URL. Or both. But the numbers will not match, or add up to anything familiar. One of my referring sites, I am told, is "AirportCigarettes.com," which is kind of alarming. One of the keyword searches that led someone to me, it seems, was "typo render in blender." I pretty much only look at the pageviews now, but even those can be confusing and I won't bore you with just how confusing except to say that they are counted both by day and by post and those numbers never add up either, even if I only (ever) post no more than once per day. What I just noticed, though, is that since I began this little enterprise, one measure of something seems to have hit, as of today, a number a little over 10,000. This could mean any number of things. Maybe AirportCigarettes is involved. But it seems like it's worth a little party.
photo here and below by lovely middle daughter
It's been a funky season here. Warm, dry winter and rogue late frost and ongoing drought do not add up to a big harvest of anything other than zucchini. Last year was a boom year so we can't really complain. And there are still the blackberries! Some years picking blackberries is like shoplifting in a jewelry store (albeit one guarded by angry cats): each berry a glistening stunner worthy of a platinum setting. Thanks to the dry conditions, the berries this year are kind of small, but they are still plentiful enough, and plenty delicious, and we've been jamming.
I am not going to try to lure you into canning by telling you how to do it; if you are already canning, then you know the counting and re-counting of your jars as they march proudly across the counter after the steam clears has nothing to do with poor math skills or with not knowing the tally. If you are not yet a canner, there are many people more informed than yours truly who can talk you through the doorway (see below). Look them up. Fear not the canning pot.
hmm...anything low enough for me to reach?
But I will taunt you with a jar of blackberry jam, if you will come out of the shadows and leave me a little story about any old jammy thing. Have you made jam, this year or ever? What kind? Did some beloved adult in your youth make jam? Are you a little afraid of the prospect of doing it yourself?
On August 1, I'll select a name randomly from the comments on this post--provided there are more than 20 of them, as I think we don't want to repeat the whole
--and wing the winner a little jar.
Meantime, here is a little set of links to some jammin jam sites:
and a few Beyond The Toast ideas for how to use the jam in your life during a heatwave:
Yogurt & Strawberry (but why limit yourself) Jam Popsicles
(these involve ginger--yum--and get layered for beauty; the link takes you to the translated site, I hope, or you can cook it in


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Sales Tax License Renewals
Sales Tax License Renewals
All Colorado sales tax licenses will expire on December 31, 2019. A sales tax license is used for the collection and filing of Colorado and local sales taxes.
- Renewed licenses will be valid for a two-year period that began January 1, 2018. Each physical location must have its own license and pay a $16 renewal fee. If you recently applied for and received your sales tax license, you still must renew for the new two-year period.
- Before renewing, verify your open locations through Revenue Online:
- Access "Business Location Rates" in Revenue Online under "View Sales Rates and Taxes."
- Enter your sales tax Colorado Account Number (CAN) to view all of your open locations/sites.
- Close any locations/sites that are no longer open. To close a site in a jurisdiction where you no longer sell, rent or lease, send an email requesting a site closure to email@example.com and include the following information:
- account number and site (XXXXXXXX-XXXX)
- final date business was transacted within that jurisdiction
- the name and contact information of the person requesting the closure
Renew Online
- Sales Tax License Renewals may be completed through Revenue Online. Make sure you log into to your account. You must login to renew the license. Simply making a payment will not renew the license. If you have not created a Login ID, create one before you need to renew. Log into your Revenue Online account:
- Click on "License Renewal" under the Accounts heading.
- Select "12/31/19" and follow the prompts to renew your license(s).
- You can pay for each license ($16) through e-check or credit card. Using Revenue Online will also provide you with an email confirmation and a list of sites you renewed. There is no need to send the paper renewal application if you renew through Revenue Online.
- You may also renew through Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). Paying your license renewal by EFT fulfills the requirement of filing a license renewal application. Visit the EFT webpage to renew.
Paper Renewals
- You may also renew using the paper form DR 0594. Remember to send in your payment and include your CAN and the words "sales tax renewal" on the check or money order.


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John Lewis
Top national fitness trainer John Lewis, also known has Bad Ass Vegan, is recognized not only for his body sculpting and contouring regimes but also living a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle. Known for catering to a diverse group of individuals, Lewis's services are highly sought after as he masterfully creates and develops personalized, unique and healthy nutrition plans. It is not surprising then, that given his unique abilities he has attracted clients from various industries including actors, models, and business professionals of all ages (can you say who he has worked with). Lewis strives to educate his clients on living and maintaining a healthy lifestyle and takes great pride in transforming individuals physically, mentally and spiritually. After all, it is said, that 60 percent of one's success is based on how one feels about themselves.


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Have you guys noticed how WWE allows only one "bitch" per episode? The trend started a few weeks ago, and has remained consistent on both Raw and Smackdown ever since. To sum it up, one superstar is allowed to call another a bitch – but only once – per episode. The segment that is usually "the chosen one" is emotionally driven – and partially fact-based. For example, last night on Smackdown Maryse called Nikki Bella a bitch. This was a good use of their one "bitch" because – according to Total Divas (it is very difficult separating real from fake) – Maryse and Nikki Bella have real issues with each other. WWE has been doing a tremendous job using the superstars' real lives in storyline. For example, Natalya and Carmella bringing up the fact that John refuses to marry Nikki. When some aspect of what they're saying is real, the superstars perform the storyline better. They can easily tap into their real emotions, and the fans can feel that. At that heightened moment of real emotion, a superstar throws the word "bitch" into the conversation, taking the exchange to the next level, and taking fans back in time to an era that is very much missed.
Basically, WWE's goal with the one "bitch" per episode, is to try to make this current era less PG, which has been a known problem for fans of the attitude era for quite a while. WWE needs to broaden its audience: it should not just appeal to children.
WWE is not ready to go rated R again – but they may be trying to test the waters in an attempt to go PG-13. In my opinion, this is a step in the right direction, but the WWE cannot and should not attempt to please everyone. Its success has come from being unapologetically risqué.


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