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Used 2015 Kia Sorento AWD EX V6 in Bangor, ME
Vehicle Pricing
- Price
- $17,995
Vehicle Details
|Stock #
|Exterior Color
|Ebony Black
|Interior Color
|Gas Mileage
|City:18 Hwy:24
|Automatic 6-Speed
Used 2015 Kia Sorento AWD EX V6
A winning value!! Just Arrived!!! This sweet Sorento, with its grippy AWD, will handle anything mother nature decides to throw at you** This amazing Vehicle would look so much better out doing all the stuff you need it to, instead of sitting here unutilized on our lot Optional equipment includes: Cargo Cover, Mudguards, Cargo Mat
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Extremley Easy
" Thank you so much for everything Jeff Ridley! Out of the last 5 vehicles we have bought through a dealership, this was hands down one the best experiences we have had! Thank you for making it extremely easy and pain free! We will without a doubt be back! "
" 10 out of 10 would recommend. After having an awful experience at another dealership, I was seriously thinking about giving up on trying to find a new car, but after a friend reccomend to check out these guys out and I had the best experience. A huge thanks to Mike Wright for finding the perfect vehicle for my family and I. I have to say I am in love with my new 2016 Kia sportage "
Awesome Folks!
" The whole team I worked with (Ryan, Andy, Chris and Lance) were outstanding!! The Niro is my third Kia (2012 Soul that is waiting for my daughter to turn 16 and a 2016 Sorrento lease), it's hard to go anywhere else for a new vehicle when these folks are awesome! "
Best Dealer Hands Down!
" This is the best dealer hands down. Never felt pressured, had exactly what I wanted, was super responsive to our questions and needs and were where we ended up purchasing from. We were looking for a 2020 Telluride preferably in Dark Moss, black interior, with AWD. They were the last in the state to have exactly that and it had the prestige package as a bonus! We called, got pre approved right away, put our first payment down and drove it off the lot 2 days later. Very efficient, knowledgeable about the product, and pretty transparent and honest. I highly recommend them and especially Ryan. He was great and so responsive with random questions and thorough with explaining everything the car had included. Great place, people, and experience ***** "
Best Dealer Hands Down!
" This is the best dealer hands down. Never felt pressured, had exactly what I wanted, was super responsive to our questions and needs and were where we ended up purchasing from. We were looking for a 2020 Telluride preferably in Dark Moss, black interior, with AWD. They were the last in the state to have exactly that and it had the prestige package as a bonus! We called, got pre approved right away, put our first payment down and drove it off the lot 2 days later. Very efficient, knowledgeable about the product, and pretty transparent and honest. I highly recommend them and especially Ryan. He was great and so responsive with random questions and thorough with explaining everything the car had included. Great place, people, and experience ***** "
Fast & Friendly Service
" Fast, friendly service and the service advisor always explains any issues going on with your vehicle in a way that is easy to understand. "
Amazing Service
" We drove one hundred miles because of the amazing service. "
A1 Service!
" You know that stuff you put on steak? Yeah, A1. That's the service I got here. Most my experience so far has been service related. Until I decided I wanted a Kia Stinger. I went in and was instantly greeted by Shaw. First and foremost, what a wonderful human. By the time I was done I felt genuinely good about my purchase. I went in to ask questions which were all answered and by the end I was in my dream vehicle. Their trade in value was more than fair. I told them exactly what I felt comfortable paying and that'exactly what I ended up paying. I've already been in a few times since purchasing my car and feel like a friend every time I walk in. Shawn is relatively new but let me tell you, he has what car selling is all about. Lance and Andy were also stand up guys. I will recommend all my friends and family here. ** Service side ** From the minute I called, Tammy was very friendly and seemed genuinely interested in my satisfaction. When I arrived, we talked about her ambition to finish school and be a paralegal and so forth. Not just interested in my money but me as a customer. She even held the door for me as I left. Give this girl a raise. This steak is rare! I came in because of a coupon. I've always thought your prices were high.. but I'll come back because of the service I received. "
Very Relaxed
" Very relaxed atmosphere. No pushy salesperson to deal with. "
Big Thanks
" A big thank you to Justin and Mike for the excellent customer service! "
Very Fast & Friendly
" Very fast and friendly service. Always a pleasure to come to you for all my service and repair needs. Thank you. "
" service since. I cannot rave enough about how much good and helpful service means to me. It's a value I won't trade for the world. When I had an issue they fixed it promptly and provided a loaner while my engine was replaced free of charge even though I bought the vehicle used and there wasn't a warranty for that. As someone who doesn't have a lot of money, I chose KIA based on reliability of vehicles knowing that this vehicle may very well have to last me ten-15 years. When the engine failed I was heartbroken. I'd studied vehicles so long and really felt KIA was the way to go so I was disappointed at first. However, it's explained everything to KIA and KIA replaces the engine as they knew it should t have failed when it did. It would have been easy for them to refuse but they didn't! They valued me and it mattered to them that I was a happy customer. This is so important! I will forever recommend KIA 100%. I've had no other issues with my vehicle and any service I've had done at Van Syckle has been done happily and with a smile from all staff. The drinks and snacks in the waiting room are very nice as well. I have nothing but fabulous things to say about KIA and Van Syckle. "
Loving My New Kia
" Loving my new Kia Sorento...Thanks to everyone that helped to make this purchase as easy as possible! :) "
Biggest Thank You!
" I`ve got to give the biggest than you and my deepest appreciation to Kami, Marcus, Jeff and Jeremy!! They went above and beyond for me and helped make it possible for me to be a proud owner of a new car!!! Van Syckle is definitely the only place I`ll ever buy abother vehicle from!!! They are the best!!! I give them 10 stars!!!! "
Easy & Painless Transition
" We purchased a couple months back and we are absolutely loving our 2019 Sorento! Thanks to Mr. Costellos (hoping I spelt his name right!) who made the transition is easy and painless. He is so easy going and doesnt hide any details. Thank you! "
Fast Service
" The service was fast and the staff were very friendly. They even washed my car even though it was raining out they went above and beyond to make me happy after my 3 1/2 hour drive there to get a recall fixed. "
Highly Recommend!
" Highly recommend Van Syckle Kia! I just bought my second vehicle through them. They are very friendly and super easy to work with! I wouldn`t go anywhere else ! :) "
Great Service
" Great service from Van Syckle Kia. "
Courteous & Friendly
" Courteous and friendly service. Short wait and priced fairly. The waiting area was comfortable and well equipped with everything anyone could need. Thank you for sure a great experience! "
Very Helpful
" Everything is very helpful, pleasant and efficient there! "
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Appointment making
Once we thoroughly completely and reliably understand what you want to sell, to whom and why, then (and only then) we can represent you to make appointments on the phone. No,. we'll never know as much as you do about your company, but that's why we make appointments, and you go on them.
The three common outcomes from calls are:
- Appointments for meetings
- Appointments for phone calls
- Requests for information
Why we don't get paid on resultsWe don't ask you to pay us for each appointment we make, you pay us for each hour we work. If companies are paid per appointment made, they are focused on quantity and not quality. In practice some appointments will be cancelled and if you do get there, the prospect either won't be expecting you or will be in a great hurry to get you out. It's not the best way to get sales, it just doesn't work - so that's why we don't do it.
Simply agree with us how many hours a month you want to be invoiced for - then sit back and wait for our results to come in.
Read about the great appointments we makeRead this testimonial about one client's return on investment.
Read this case study of an appointment-making project.
Type of project: Sales Appointment Making
Client: A UK leader in industrial dust extraction equipment and a client since 2002.
Objective: To increase business by targeting manufacturing companies who were extending, renewing or upgrading existing plants, or building new ones.
Business 2 Business action: Working from a database of contacts we made initial research calls, followed up by calls to different sites around the UK, resulting in sales appointments.
Outcome: The client secured three very large and profitable contracts - a result that far surpassed their expectations.
Read this case study of a telemarketing project.Type of project: Database Management and Telemarketing Client: A consultancy specialising in ground investigations, geotechnical advice and design, contamination and risk assessment.
Objective: To exploit an existing customer and prospect database to its full potential in order to generate new business. Business 2 Business action: Our database cleansing and research programme verified customer and prospect records, eradicated duplicates and captured new addresses and contacts. A subsequent telemarketing campaign created a significant number of appointments.
Outcome: With a very high conversion rate from appointments, the client has secured a number of new contracts. The level of repeat business from these is very high; the return on investment has ensured that our business with this client has increased year on year, even through the construction industry downturn.

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- Click here for the original card post with all the supply details. The only change is blue vs. kraft.
- In place of the kraft color, the blues are Paper Source lake and the bitty dot print from Papertrey Ink blueberry sky pattern pack.
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Funny how Mother nature runs all things.
February was way above normal.
Now March is below.
None of this makes sense and we complain every year I know.
But, I am ready for the warm weather and for scenes like this one.
These will be the first flowers we seen in a couple of weeks or so.


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A quick hand drawn and vectored logo for a Turbojugend from Palmerston North.
Some design work I've done
A quick hand drawn and vectored logo for a Turbojugend from Palmerston North.
A logo for Turbojugend Taranaki. Rock on!
You know that song "Angie" by the Rolling Stones? Yeah, this one. I love it. I guess it was only a matter of time until I named a lady after that song.
I usually sing it to guys named Andrew. Especially if they hate being called Andy. I'm good fun like that.
Angie was drafted up at the same time as Doris. Doris may be in the gutter, but Angie is staring at the stars. I put the two ladies together on the front of a hoody. They're partners in crime.
The original quote came from Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan";
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
Obviously I fucked up the quoting verbatim bit and used 'staring' instead of 'looking'. I'm an artist, I can be creative like that. Lol.
If you like Angie on her own, you can purchase the t-shirt here.
For you TJ sailors, the hoody is for sale here
Well, weren't we all about the Turbojugend at this time of year? You'd almost think it was Christmas!
This is a t-shirt design that I worked on in 2012, specifically for Turbojugend Aotearoa U-666. It's something that I started a while ago, and is basically a reworking of the mask face I painted a few years ago. You can look at that here.
This time, I got all fancy and vector-fied it in Adobe Illustrator. Inspiration for this shirt came from the Hinematioro pou that visited the Tairawhiti Museum earlier this year.
Hinematioro was a high-born lady who was alive around the time Captain Cook 'discovered' New Zealand in 1769. There's plenty that has been written about her, follow the link on her name and learn yourself some East Coast history.
I wanted to use pre-European Māori art and use it to tell a story from contemporary times, with plenty of contemporary touches, of course.
I looked at the facial structure of the pou and the lattice-like work around her.
I imagined that the lattice structures were really small manaia working their way around the face, but attached, like hair. Mmmm, writhing hair pieces…
Then I added the Turbojugend peak cap, some makeup and ANA!
There she is. Baleful one-eyed glare and all. I used purples and greens on a navy shirt to get that whole underwater feeling, adding a few highlights to try and mimic the way sunlight bounces off objects in the water.
But what are the manaia getting up to? They look like a bunch of mischief, madness and mayhem…! A bit like the Turbojugend…
So here are the photos. They are all of the shirt itself, there were no prints made of this design. I have included some pictures of Yours Truly wearing the shirt at the Turbonegro gig in Melbourne this year. ROCK!
You can purchase this shirt from my Print Mighty store.
The link is here: http://aotearoa666.printmighty.co.nz/products/turbojugend-aotearoa-u-666-ladies-navy
So, there's this kick ass punk rock band called Turbonegro. They are from Norway. They have a massive fan club, called the Turbojugend. There are many different 'chapters' of Turbojugend around the world.
Here, in New Zealand, there are 3 official Turbojugend. There's Turbojugend Aotearoa U-666, Turbojugend RocknRoll Vagabonds, and Turbojugend Taranaki. If you haven't already twigged by now, I am the President, Glorious Leader, Pacific Princess and Senior Arthole of TJ Aotearoa U-666. We've been doing this for the last 10 years, but the band have been going for a lot longer.
In Hamburg, once a year, there is an intergalactic meetup of various Turbojugend from around the globe. It is called the Weltturbojugendtage (WTJT or World Turbojugend Day) and it is apparently a grand spectacle, involving a hell of a lot of denim and even some mini-golf. If they're lucky, Turbonegro will play a show, like they did at this year's one. And the worldwide Turbojugend members party on, like Wayne. Excellent! After this year's WTJT, many thought it would be the last one before Doomsday.
But it wasn't.
Thanks to Turbonegro announcing an Australian tour earlier this year, El Commandante (aka Janne, of TJ Munster, Aotearoa U-666 and Melbourne, AmbASSador extraordinaire to the Pacific Rim) started co-ordinating the First Ever Australasian WeltTurboJugendDay. This means us gutter snipes down here in the basement finally get a chance to see The Band we've all been yahooing along to. Finally! Just like the CeCe Peniston song!
And Janne asked me to do a poster, for the Turbojugend meetup. He told me to put anything I liked on it. And mentioned something about gay sailors. Then I watched the end of the Olympics ceremony with George Michael (yes, I squealed) and it was all over.
I based the design for the poster on the insignia for the Royal Navy (of which Australia and New Zealand are a part). I changed the crown to the Turbonegro/Turbojugend peak cap, and added plenty of swelling hibiscus in the background. Down the front are some dancing sailors – Andrew, Wayne and Craig, the Sisters of Denim! In the middle, Andrew is in denim ecstasy as he holds a bunch of flowers (poppies – obvious ANZAC reference there!) and is covered in tattoos that relate to just about everything Turbojugend Aotearoa U-666 have achieved, or humped their way through in the last 10 years to get to this point.
And in front of the sailors is a tiger snake. It was either that or some large anchors, but I thought some rudely suggestive phallic imagery was called for. Show us yer tiger snake, ASStralia!
Only 3 A1 posters were made, one is in Janne's hands, one was stolen from Cherry Bar in AC/DC Lane in Melbourne and the other is still hanging in Reverence. I will not be making prints of this poster.
If you would like to get your hands on this, then the best way is to buy a t-shirt from my Print Might store. I am immensely pleased with how the prints have turned out.
Before I left for Australia, I got some pre-orders made and gave each member of Turbonegro a t-shirt each after the Sydney show on Thursday 6th of December, 2012. Thank you for the music!
And yes, they were AWESOME live. Everything I could have hoped for, and a whole lot more on top of that.
You can buy the shirt from here:
And here are the photos! I put in some cell phone snaps of my trip over to Aussie as well.
This is my latest poster commission. It's quite different to anything I've done before. I seem to always get carried away with the details, and as you can see, this poster is no exception.
Do you want the long story? OK then.
At the end of last year, Sal Canzonieri asked me to create a poster for his band, Electric Frankenstein. They are an awesome punk rocknroll band from New Jersey, USA. Electric Frankenstein created their own art book, which featured the best rocknroll poster artists. Sal asked if I would like to be included in the next one. Naturally, I jumped at the chance. Once I'd picked myself up again (jumping was never my natural talent), I started out.
The brief was for a Psychedelic Zombie BBQ fest that they had played at. There were zombie go-go girls with hula hoops, I was asked to add a Frankenstein girl barbequing, and to tie it all together with the band, a rocknroll Frankenstein.
So I came up with a rocknroll Frankenstein at the bottom, while a Frankenstein girl and her zombie mate watch over the BBQ. Which happens to be going on inside Frank's head. The Frankenstein girl is carefully lifting out his (electric) brains, while the blue zombie girl looks on and salivates. Because zombies love brains!
Meanwhile, Frankie isn't bothered by what's going on. That's how tough he is. I bet you he doesn't care what type of smarties he eats first either. And besides, he's got hula hooping zombie girls popping out of his head. Who doesn't have hula hooping zombie girls on their mind?
This poster took quite a while to complete. I had no time constraints and was able to work on it until I was totally satisfied with what I had done. If you can't tell by now, I really enjoyed working on it.
A brief description
"This volume is another brain-frying collection nearly as big as a Marshall stack showing an up-to-the-minute cross-section of today's booming rock poster scene, showcasing hundreds of works by top poster artists from every dive, hellhole, dungeon, and landfill from sea to shining sea, creating a deafening visual tribute to just about every goddamn cool band you can imagine! Get kicked in the eyeballs and give your sensibilities the beating they so richly deserve! Grab this amazingly cool collection of the wildest Rock Art you have ever seen!"
I've got a 2 page spread and you can find me in the index under my real name, Melanie Tahata.
Amazon link:
Mauri Ora!
This is a poster for a gig in Palmerston North. It's tomorrow!
It also happens to be on May the 4th – Intergalactic Star Wars Day.
So I made a homage to Star Wars, while referencing an old Turbojugend Aotearoa U-666 photo.
Go to the gig! The best band in the galaxy are playing!
If you would like a print of this poster, you can purchase one (in all shapes and sizes) from Society 6.
The Deathpunkfest 2011 one is up there too.
Nga mihi nunui ki a koutou!
I have recently finished working on the t-shirt designs for the Ka Pai Kaiti Waitangi Day festival. This is a whānau day that has been regularly held for over ten years, in the suburb of Kaiti, which is a part of Turanganui-a-Kiwa. The place where I live and work.
I started donating my time and energy into the t-shirt printing in 2008. What happens is that every year we come up with an idea/whakaaro to promote where we live. I come up with a design, it gets put on to a screen, then I print the shirts during the festival. People can bring their own t-shirts along on the day and give a small koha (a one or two dollar coin) to help cover costs. I got this idea from going to Punkfest in Wellington; nothing like a bit of DIY inspiration!
The whakaaro was to make shirts promoting Kaiti cheap and affordable for whanau (members of the community) who live in the area. So everyone can wear a Kaiti shirt. Before the weekend we print about 30 shirts for the volunteers who work hard to make the day a success.
This year two shirts were designed. The Kaiti Aki shirt and the K.I.N.G.s shirt. There's a bunch of photos on Flickr of people wearing them, and you can look at images over the last month of our little Kaiti Aki as it was created on Webstagram.
And of course there are the pictures I have uploaded here.
Mauri Ora!
To celebrate Deathpunkfest this year, I opened a clothing shop on printmighty. It features my illustrations on T-shirts, hoodys and bags. There's something there for Deathpunk demons and Ghouls in the hood. All the products are printed and shipped by Print Mighty.
The link to the shop is http://aotearoa666.printmighty.co.nz
I will definitely be putting more full colour designs up here during 2012.
Happy shopping!


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When comparing Logic Pro X vs Harrison Mixbus, the Slant community recommends Logic Pro X for most people. In the question"What are the best DAWs? " Logic Pro X is ranked 4th while Harrison Mixbus is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Logic Pro X is:
Good range of high quality synths: analog, FM, wavetable, string modulation, sampler, organ, clarinet, epiano.
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pro High quality instruments and effects
Good range of high quality synths: analog, FM, wavetable, string modulation, sampler, organ, clarinet, epiano.
Pro Cheaper than similar programs
This program costs US$200 and must be bought from the app store.
Pro Comes with 57gb content
The initial download of Logic Pro X gives users 2gb of samples, but the DAW automatically downloads 57gb of samples once the Logic Pro X DAW is installed.
Pro Free corresponding iPad app
In order to allow more control, the Logic Pro X DAW has added a free iPad app called Logic Remote.
Logic Remote is available in several different views, and is capable of MIDI input and parameter adjustment. It comes with a full library and browser. Navigation is easy as well via the navigation bar along the top of the screen.
Many interesting views are available, such as chord strips. This view allows users to play a series of preset chords that are already in the right key. Gestures are supported with this app, so loop speed and other properties can quickly be adjusted.
This app connects to Logic through WiFi, so the app and program should be running on the same network.
Pro Studio standard
If you take music production seriously then one day maybe you'll enter professional studio, where you will most likely find the Logic DAW along with Pro Tools.
Pro Free update from Logic
As of 1/21/2015, Apple has released an update that allows users to upgrade from Logic to Logic Pro X.
Pro Uses minimum amount of CPU
The Logic Pro X DAW is optimized for CPU usage, which makes the DAW more stable.
Pro UI designed for ease of use
The Logic Pro X DAW has made an effort to keep clutter out of the equation so producers can focus on the music.
Pro Allows users to program their own tools
The Logic Pro X DAW lets users make their own effects using with javascript leveraging its Scripter API.
Pro Easy to learn, makes writing easy, and keeps technical in the background
It is easy, intuitive, and easy-to-implement.
Pro Supports expressive MIDI - MPE
Works with new controllers like Seaboard Rise, Linnstrument, Continuum Board, etc.
Pro Does a lot of work for you
Switch in to Alchemy on the synth and you get an intuitive template to adjust wavetables and eq visually, plus various modes and styles. Handy tool
Pro Full external MIDI support
Poly aftertouch, sysex and two modes of controlling external midi instruments.
Pro Many plug-ins
Pro Many instrument
Different kind of instrument all around.
Pro Used by celebrities
This includes: Prodigy - Invaders Must Die (everything except guitars), John Powell - How to train your dragon, other works, and Tycho (until 2011 when he switched to Reaper to finish his album).
Pro Has a great overall sound
Pro Crossplatform
has support for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, for 32 and 64 bit. Works with CoreAudio, ASIO, and ALSA, as well as integrated 3rd party/open source routing software support, I.E. jackd on Windows and Linux.
Pro Proprietary software that contributes to open source
provides features and bugfixes to upstream Ardour project, and also provides a portion of sales revenue to Ardour's development and administrative maintenance.
Pro Based off of Ardour
Modified version of the open source Ardour DAW, with Harrison's proprietary interface and software tweaks
Pro Great/intuitive interface
Many parts of the interface are designed as one function per control for ease and simplicity, and are modeled after physical consoles and mixer controls to further that end
Pro In-Line/Built in analog summing
tube and transistor emulation, based on physical consoles made by Harrison
Con Only compatible with Mac
No Windows or Linux versions are available.
Con No support for 32-bit plugins without 3rd Party Plugin 32 Lives
Con It is next to impossible to organize your mixer channels
There are lots of work arounds, but a straight rearrange the mixing channel would be appreciated.
Con Lags or crashes often
This happens usually when there is a lot going on in the track.
Con Unusable with lots of plugins: stutters and clicks
Con Too big
The app is too big!
Con Rarely updated
Since Apple purchased this software, the updates are rare and none. The latest update was less than great and has forced users to look elsewhere, especially the Pro community.
Con Poor audio editor
Audio editor is a lot less intuitive and accessible than other DAWs
problem inherited from Ardour dev base


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I awoke still not feeling 100%, and being on a late start I had some time to kill. So I set about my correspondence. I have a letter rack into which I put letters (obviously!), and I tend to leave them there until no more will fit, which is when I have a look-see what I've got. And so this morning I thought I'd better see what was in there. A dozen letters. British Telecom invited me to take up their offer of a better broadband. That letter went in the bin, as did the old trot from WyeVale's gardening club
The next letter was from EDF telling me that I was no longer receiving their dual fuel discount because I don't get gas and leccie from them. I was annoyed about this – I'd spoken with EDF about this on 29 April (keeping a blog is useful!!) and they'd assured then me that they had corrected their mistake. Today they told me they had no record of our conversation of six weeks ago, and the nice lady wasted ten minutes reading out her script before ticking her box and putting things back as they were before they'd stuffed it up. Something else they'd stuffed up was my payments for the last year. They'd also sent a letter telling me they'd refunded me loads of money. Fifty quid more than the price of the tent I'm seriously considering. I predict a trip to Camping International over the next few days.
Two more letters from the people who'd given me my car loan reminding me that they still lend money if I still want to borrow the stuff. A letter from the fishing club reminding me to pay my sub. I've already paid that, so why did I keep the letter? And talking of clubs, there was a letter from Brighton Kite Fliers reminding me to pay my dues. I thought I'd paid that ages ago. I hadn't. Woops!
My mobile phone people billed me for two quid for more stuff I'd texted to Twitter. I've stopped that lark. Then yet another letter about the snake club's account. And finally there was a great big letter from the Aspinall foundation offering me a free day out at one of the local zoos. I was quite pleased about this, until I saw that the free day out was two weeks ago. I really should deal with my post more promptly.
Being in a "letters" frame of mind I wrote a letter of complaint to the council:
Mr Mankworthy Z Badger BA Csi FIBMS
Badger Road
Kent Highway Services
Dear Sir or Madam
Re: On-Street Parking In
I wonder if I might make a suggestion…
Outside my house on
With people continually parking against the flow of the traffic, and feeling the need to park exactly outside their house and leaving half a car's length either side of their own car, (rather than considerately), and some vehicles seeming to be randomly abandoned rather than parked, there is a lot of valuable parking space wasted.
Let me give a specific example: For the last fortnight it has only been possible to park five cars in this parking space. Here is a photo of my house – the two cars pictured have not moved in over two weeks, and the space between is too small to park in.
The driver of the blue car has deliberately parked where she has because she always parks against the flow of the traffic, and so feels she needs a large space in which to perform a U-turn when she drives off.
There are other parking bays in
Yours faithfully
I wonder what response that will provoke? None, I suspect. But time will tell – it usually does.
The latest update has arrived from "My Boy TM", who is on a fishing trip in southern France. In five days he's reported back on four fish. I would remind my loyal readers of a blog entry of two days ago in which I caught over thirty fish in less than three hours. Mind you, these four fish are all carp, and three of them are over the British record weight that was current when I was his age…


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Guitar is a passion of mine. I often find myself consumed with thoughts regarding different models, gear and the all encompassing search for "The Perfect Tone." This coupled with a desire to create, contribute to a community, and learn how to write better has pushed me to start this site. There also appears to be a few people looking for open, honest(unsponsored) reviews: Is Rob Chapman really reputable? and Is there ANY place to get actual honest reviews?. Both those posts were on the same day.
Anyways, I intend to fund this blog out of pocket.I will sell the gear I decide not to hold onto and use the profits to buy more gear to review. As an added step to keep me honest, I will not sell or advertise selling on this site. This should prevent giving good marks to gear that I do not care for. I already have a few reviews lined up in the future for things that I find to be inadequate or just plain terrible. If I find success with this site I will look for honest and non-invasive ways to make a few dollars. However, my honest opinion comes first as I am keeping my day job.
Oh yeah, and I may rant about bands and other music related things.
More to come.
No agenda, just honest unsponsored articles, reviews, and rants about music.


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26 february 2018
We've entered the era of agile talent!
We recently read an interesting interview on the topic of freelancing and agile talent and how organizations are now employing a mix of freelancers, contractors, consultants, and full-timers. Freelancers and temporary workers are not new, but things are shifting because we're not only talking about seasonal industries anymore. We are talking about all kinds of industries at all levels of the organization.
It's clear that a new generation of workers is on the rise!
Freelancers - let's call them agile talent - are not connected to one single organization as a permanent employee and are doing much more strategic work than some years ago when it was just about operational work or temporary work, replacing a full-time permanent employee.
Agile talent calls for agile HR and agile talent management...
Agile = being able to move quickly and easily. In a business context, agility is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes in productive and cost-effective ways.
Agile is transforming how organizations attract, develop and manage talent.
Not that long ago, it was easy for corporate companies to attract the best talent because everybody dreamed of being employed by them and because they had the budgets to offer te most attractive benefits packages. But this isn't the case anymore. Anno 2018, we've entered an era where corporate vision and mission statements have lost all meaning when it comes to motivating and retaining top talent. Anno 2018 agility and growth play a central role in managing talent.
Managers today are employing agile talent management strategies
that compliment their business goals and purpose to get the job done.
So, let's all register for a training, read some books on agility and agile management and then just roll it out? Of course not!
Agile is not the silver bullet that can solve all your HR problems. You can't just start an agile transformation.
Before embracing agile it is key to first understand what it means and how it really works. Our #dreamteam member Lesley Arens wrote a blogpost on agile management (Dutch) and via this link you can also learn a lot about the principles of agile and how to implement it.
Too many organizations keep using a job-based, bureaucratic talent management approach that doesn't take into account how the world and our workforce has changed.
Talent management has to be reinvented and should be driven by the skills
and competencies the organization needs for long-term growth.
This means Talent management requires more agile solutions that can respond quickly to changing conditions and that take a more individualized approach to evaluating and rewarding performance.
If we demand our workforce to constantly reinvent themselves,
then HR and talent management should do the same, agree?
So, how to embrace agile and where to start?
This article illustrates some of the profound changes companies are making in their talent practices and describes the challenges they face in their transition to agile HR.
Where are we seeing the biggest changes?
1) Performance appraisals:
The first traditional HR practice to go was the annual performance review. As individuals worked on shorter-term projects of various lengths, often run by different leaders and organized around teams, the notion that performance feedback would come once a year, from one boss, didn't make sense anymore. Then again, dropping appraisals without a plan to fill the void of course is a recipe for failure. Better to switch to frequent performance assessments, with a focus on delivering immediate feedback throughout the year so that teams can improve performance in real time, and learn through iteration which are all key agile principles.
2) Coaching:
Companies that are succesfull in implementing agile management invest a lot in sharpening their managers' coaching. Managers go through a "coach" training that's broken into weekly 90-minute videos and "Learning sprints" are brief and spread out so the managers have time to reflect and test-drive new skills on the job. Also peer-to-peer feedback is incorporated.
3) Focus on teams:
Traditional HR is focused on individuals and their goals, their performance, their needs. But as already mentioned in one of my previous #ConnectWithContent articles organizations are becoming more team focused. Teams are creating, executing, and revising their goals and tasks with scrums at the team level, in the moment, to adapt quickly to new information as it comes in. And they take it upon themselves to track their own progress, identify obstacles, assess their leadership, and generate insights about how to improve performance.
4) Compensation:
Pay is changing as well. A simple adaptation to agile work, is to use spot bonuses to recognize contributions when they happen rather than rely solely on end-of-year salary increases. Compensation works best as a motivator when it comes as soon as possible after the desired behavior. Annual merit-based raises are less effective, because too much time goes by. Compensation is also being used to reinforce agile values such as learning and knowledge sharing.
5) Recruiting:
Also recruiting and hiring have become more agile. What to think about cross-functional teams working together on all hiring requisitions. A "head count manager" represents the interests of internal stakeholders who want their positions filled quickly and appropriately. Hiring managers rotate on and off the team, depending on whether they're currently hiring, and a scrum master oversees the process.
6) Learning & development:
"Although helpful for those who have clearly defined needs, offering an online suite of learning modules is a bit like giving a student the key to a library and telling him to figure out what she must know and then go learn it". Better to use data analysis to identify the skills required for particular jobs and for advancement and then suggest to individual employees what kinds of training and future jobs make sense for them, given their experience and interests.
A lot of processes have to change for an organization to move away from a linear planning-based, "waterfall" model towards a more flexible and adaptive solution.
Many HR tasks will become obsolete, as will expertise in those areas. Meanwhile, new tasks are being created.
The rise of Agile HR
The HR function itself will also require reskilling. And the pressure is on, because it's coming from the operating level, which makes it much harder to cling to old talent practices.
In 2012 (!) Josh Bersin allready focused on how HR could contribute towards building agile organizations (read the article). HR, he believed, was one of the business functions with a significant contribution to make towards the organization's agility. For Bersin, Agile principles are key to supporting the kind of continuous learning, continuous talent acquisition, and transparent processes that enable organizations to attract, develop, and engage talent in the twenty-first century.
When applied to HR, Agile principles change the focus from imposing controls and standards to empowering collaboration and innovation. Here are some of the ways in which Agile methodologies influence key areas of HR, We've found them in this article:
- remedial approach vs continuous learning environment
- recruitment mindset vs continuous talent acquisition
- opaque talent processes vs transparent access to talent information
- siloed objectives vs unified mission and values
- implementing systems vs pivoting small initiatives
- HR as system of record vs HR as system of engagement
Reframing HR as an Agile discipline can help HR create a more resilient organization
that's required to navigate the realities of the VUCA vortex.
However, transitioning from a traditional to an Agile HR methodology constitutes a big change. Before putting it in motion, it's important to have the underlying supports in place, such as:
- an organizational culture that prioritizes engagement and trusts its employees
- An HR department that is ready to take on the role of Chief Adaptability officer
- A workforce that is ready to take greater responsibility, and is supported in doing so
- Technologies that make resources widely accessible
The rate of change in what organizations need to do, how well they need to do it and how fast they need to do it, is constantly increasing. The only way to respond to that is to have an agile organization. And the only way to create an agile organization is to attract agile talent and to have talent management practices that create talent agility.
- Want to learn more? Read 'reinventing talent management' by Edward E Lawler
- Need help in attracting agile talent? Or are you looking for experts on agile management and agile HR? Reach out to us.
Have a great week!


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Offre d'emploi
PhD and postdoctoral positions in RNA biology
Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The Pillai laboratory is seeking to recruit one PhD student and two postdoctoral fellows to study the role of RNA modifications in gene expression control.
RNA molecules can be modified by over 150 different chemical marks and their importance in gene regulation is being rapidly uncovered. The N6-methyladenosine (m6A) mark is an abundant internal modification on RNAs and this is highly conserved from yeast to plants and animals. RNA methytransferases "write" this mark on transcripts, and this can be "erased" by demethylases, making it a dynamic regulatory modification. Proteins that can recognise the mark "read" the signal on messages to impact RNA stability, translation, splicing and export.
This interdisciplinary project will also make use of mouse models, protein biochemistry, cell biology and computer methods.
Candidates with prior experience in working with RNA, protein biochemistry, structural biology, mouse genetics or computational biology are invited to apply.
Apply with a brief motivation letter (~300 words) and a CV to : firstname.lastname@example.com
Date Posted: Feb 5, 2019, 9:41 AM
PhD Student and Postdoctoral Positions
PhD Student and Postdoctoral positions are available to work on a project on oncogene-induced DNA replication stress that is being funded by an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant (REPLISTRESS; October 2018-September 2023). The goals of the project are to understand the mechanisms by which oncogenes induce DNA replication stress and to identify the key pathways, whose inhibition leads to synthetic lethality in cells that have oncogene-induced DNA replication stress. The methodology employed utilizes high throughput sequencing to examine nascent DNA replication, transcription and patterns of genomic instability.
Interested candidates can send their CV, unofficial grades from their Bachelor studies and short motivation letter to Thanos Halazonetis
Date Posted: Dec 6, 2018, 3:39 PM
PhD Student and Postdoctoral Positions
Positions are available for talented and highly motivated candidates at the PhD or Post Doc level. Projects involve dissecting the structure, function and regulation of TOR Complexes using structure biology, molecular biology and biophysical approaches including advanced microscopy. Mass spectrometry or electron microscopy or yeast molecular biology experience would also be an asset.
Interested candidates can send their CV and short motivation letter to Robbie Loewith
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Chuck Lorre
Chuck Lorre (/ˈlɔːri/;[1] born Charles Michael Levine; October 18, 1952)[2] is an American television director, writer, producer, and composer. Called the "King of Sitcoms" during the 2010s,[3][4][5][6][7] he has created and produced sitcoms including Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Mike & Molly, Mom, Young Sheldon, The Kominsky Method, and Bob Hearts Abishola. He also served as an executive producer of Roseanne. In 2019, he received his first Golden Globe Award for The Kominsky Method.
Chuck Lorre
Lorre in September 2011
Charles Michael Levine
October 18, 1952
Plainview, New York, U.S.
|Director, Writer, producer, composer
|Years active
Notable work
|Grace Under Fire
Dharma & Greg
Two and a Half Men
The Big Bang Theory
Mike & Molly
Young Sheldon
The Kominsky Method
Bob Hearts Abishola
Early lifeEdit
Chuck Lorre was born Charles Michael Levine on October 18, 1952 in Plainview, New York, to a Jewish family.[8][9] His father, Robert,[10] opened a luncheonette that did poorly, which caused financial problems. After graduating from high school, Lorre attended State University of New York at Potsdam, dropping out after two years to pursue a career as a songwriter.[2] During his two years at college he "majored in rock 'n' roll and pot and minored in LSD". In 2011, he admitted to drinking heavily in his past, telling EW that he "led a dissolute youth until 47". He was in recovery at the time.[11]
He changed his surname from Levine to Lorre at age 26.[1]
After leaving school, Lorre toured across the United States as a guitarist and songwriter.[12] He wrote the song "French Kissin' in the USA," which Deborah Harry later recorded for her 1986 Rockbird album.[12] It became a UK Top 10 hit. In the early 1980s he turned to writing scripts for animated shows, his first project being the DIC version of Heathcliff.[13] Later, Lorre co-wrote the soundtrack to the 1987 television series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Dennis Challen Brown.[14][15][16] In the late 1980s, Lorre shifted into writing for sitcoms, being a writer on the show Roseanne. Though he was fired over irreconcilable creative differences, Lorre's time on Roseanne impressed producers, and led to him creating his first show, Frannie's Turn, but it was cancelled after 5 weeks.[12][17]
Afterwards, Lorre created his second show, Grace Under Fire, starring comedian Brett Butler.[12] It premiered on ABC in 1993, and was nominated at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Lorre's third show was Cybill, starring Cybill Shepherd. The show aired for four seasons on CBS and received critical acclaim, winning a Primetime Emmy Award in 1995 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for co-star Christine Baranski. The show also won two Golden Globe Awards in 1996 for Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy and Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy for Cybill Shepherd.
Dharma & Greg was the fourth show Lorre created, in partnership with Dottie Zicklin (credited as Dottie Dartland), which premiered one year before the end of Cybill in 1997.[2] (Lorre had left Cybill in season two.) The show starred Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as the title characters, whose personalities were complete opposites: Dharma's world view being more spiritual, 'free spirit' type instilled by "hippie" parents, contrasted with Greg's world view of structure, social status requirements, and "white collar duty" instilled by his generations of affluent parents/ancestors.[18] The show earned eight Golden Globe nominations, six Emmy Award nominations, and six Satellite Awards nominations.[19] The show earned Elfman a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 1999.[18]
Following that, Lorre created his fifth show, Two and a Half Men with co-creator Lee Aronsohn. The show focuses on two Harper brothers, Charlie and Alan (Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer). Charlie is a rich, successful Hollywood composer/producer and womanizer who owns a beach house in Malibu. When Alan gets a divorce, he is forced to move into Charlie's house. Alan also has a growing son, Jake (Angus T. Jones), the "half" who comes to visit Charlie and Alan on weekends. Two and a Half Men premiered on CBS in 2003 and became the highest-rated sitcom in America.[2][12] However, CBS put the show on hiatus in 2011 following several incidents of production shutdowns allegedly due to Sheen's serious problems related to drug and alcohol abuse, which culminated in his insulting verbal attacks directed at Lorre during a radio interview.[20][21] Sheen was officially fired from the show, and later filed a $100 million lawsuit against Lorre and Warner Bros. Television for wrongful termination.[22][23] Lorre killed off Sheen's character and hired Ashton Kutcher as his replacement.
Lorre's next show was The Big Bang Theory with co-creator Bill Prady. The show follows two genius physicists with very low social skills who befriend their neighbor, an attractive, outgoing young woman with average intelligence and no college education. Each episode usually focuses on the daily lives of the men and two of their equally socially challenged yet highly brilliant friends, with a dose of absurdity from the relationship with their uneducated, but socially brilliant, neighbor. The two main protagonists, Sheldon and Leonard, are named after the actor and television producer Sheldon Leonard.[24] The show premiered on CBS in 2007 and was the highest rated comedy series in the United States.[12]
Lorre was executive producer of Mike & Molly, created by Mark Roberts, which premiered on CBS in September 2010.[25] His seventh show, created with Gemma Baker and Eddie Gorodetsky, Mom, premiered on CBS on September 23, 2013.[26] On March 13, 2014, CBS announced the second season renewal of Mom. The show has since run for six seasons, with CBS renewing it for two more in 2019.[27]
Vanity cardsEdit
The unique vanity cards for Chuck Lorre Productions have become a "trademark" for Lorre.[28][29] Typically, on the end of every episode of his productions beginning with Dharma & Greg (an Apple Macintosh computer was used for Lorre's production card on Grace Under Fire and Cybill), Lorre includes a different message that usually reads like an editorial, essay, or observation on life. A typical card might include a range of topics as diverse as what the Bee Gees never learned, the cancellation of Dharma & Greg, his support of Barack Obama, the competence of AOL Time Warner management, and the genesis of Two and a Half Men.
The card is shown for only a few seconds at most, so longer messages cannot be read unless recorded and paused, although Lorre now posts the cards on his website. CBS has censored Lorre's vanity cards on several occasions;[30] Lorre posts both the censored and uncensored versions of the cards.
During Charlie Sheen's controversial departure from Two and a Half Men in 2011, Lorre referenced Sheen in several cards.[29] Lorre used the vanity card for the series finale, "Of Course He's Dead", to address the circumstances of Sheen's absence from the episode.
Lorre published a compilation of his vanity cards in a coffee table book titled What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Bitter, released on October 16, 2012.[31] The book takes its title from Vanity Card #1, which first aired following the first episode of Dharma & Greg.[32]
During The Big Bang Theory episode titled "The Hook-Up Reverberation" Vanity card #463 was displayed. Vanity card #463 discussed Lorre's lost or matured angst along with the news that he will stop writing the vanity cards. Vanity card #464 was displayed in the next episode stating it was his last and that he felt like they would not be missed. However, he resumed his cards; Vanity card #493 on March 5, 2015, featured a tribute to the late Leonard Nimoy, who had guest starred on the show as the voice of Sheldon's conscience three years before.[33] In 2017 with the premiere of Disjointed, for the first time since Dharma & Greg premiered in 1997, a new show of Lorre's did not use his traditional Vanity Card. Instead a standard production logo was used. The vanity cards have since reappeared on Lorre's Netflix original series, The Kominsky Method.
Selected creditsEdit
|Credited as
|Frannie's Turn
|Grace Under Fire
|Dharma & Greg
|Two and a Half Men
|The Big Bang Theory
|Mike & Molly
|Young Sheldon
|The Kominsky Method
|Bob Hearts Abishola[34]
|The United States of Al[35]
Awards and recognitionEdit
Lorre won BMI Television Music Awards in 2004,[36] 2005,[37] 2008[38] and 2009[39] for Two and a Half Men.
On March 12, 2009, Lorre received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.[40]
Three months later, Lorre received an honorary degree from the State University of New York at Potsdam and gave a keynote address at the graduation.[41]
Lorre was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in March 2012.[42][43] In 2019 Lorre received the Golden Globe award for Best comedy television series for his show The Kominsky Method. In 2019, Lorre was awarded the Critic's Choice award for Creative Achievement.
Personal lifeEdit
Lorre was first married to his business partner, Paula Smith, in 1979. The business partnership and marriage were dissolved after 13 years and the birth of their two children.[44]
Lorre was married to actress and former Playboy Playmate Karen Witter for 10 years before their divorce in July 2010.[10][45]
In September 2018 Lorre married his current wife, Arielle Lorre.
He has publicly discussed his decades of struggle with the autoimmune disease ulcerative colitis, as well as depression, worry, and anger/rage. Lorre stated in an interview: "Put me in paradise and I will focus on the one thing that will make me angry." In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he said, "I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about."[46]
- ^ a b "CHUCK LEVINE PRODUCTIONS, #119". May 17, 2004. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Rice, Lynette (December 8, 2006). "It Hurts to Laugh". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 24, 2009.
- ^ Keller, Joel. "How Chuck Lorre, Network Sitcom King, Wound Up on Netflix".
- ^ "Sitcom king Chuck Lorre's wit and wisdom, gathered from the TV screen and put between covers". 24 October 2012.
- ^ "Q&A: Chuck Lorre".
- ^ Schneider, Michael (6 September 2017). "Chuck Lorre on Following Up 'Mom' With a Pot Comedy, and How Making a Single-Camera Comedy Is Torture".
- ^ "King of comedy". 6 February 2011.
- ^ Pilkington, Ed (25 February 2011). "Two and a Half Men axed after rant leaves Sheen looking a proper Charlie". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ Hibberd, James (25 February 2011). "Charlie Sheen decoded: Where 'Chaim Levine' comes from". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ a b Rice, Lynette (January 8, 2007). "Why is Chuck Lorre so angry?". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
- ^ "E! All You Need to Know About Charlie Sheen's Nemesis". March 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f Bissell, Tom (2010-11-29). "A Simple Medium". The New Yorker (December 6, 2010): 34–41. Retrieved February 26, 2011.
- ^ Lorre, Chuck (February 25, 2012). "Chuck Lorre Interview Part 1 of 4 (19:35)" (Interview). Interviewed by Nancy Harrington. Pacific Palisades, CA: Archive of American Television. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
- ^ "Vanity Card #165". chucklorre.com. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
- ^ "Vanity Card #243". chucklorre.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ Chuck Lorre. "MUSIC - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Retrieved 2010-05-19.
- ^ "Frannie's Turn - Full Cast and Credits - 1992". Hollywood.com. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ a b "IMDB Dharma & Greg". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ Keveney, Bill (2013-03-07). "The 'Big Bang' boom propels hit sitcom". USA Today. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- ^ Hinckley, David (February 28, 2011). "Charlie Sheen, Stan Rosenfield cut ties: Long-time publicist quits amid actor's public meltdown". New York Daily News. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
- ^ Carr, David (February 28, 2011). "Insulting Chuck Lorre, Not Abuse, Gets Sheen Sidelined". The New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2011.
- ^ "Charlie Sheen fired from Two and a Half Men TV show". BBC Online. March 7, 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
- ^ "Sacked star Charlie Sheen sues sitcom makers". BBC Online. March 11, 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
- ^ "The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon and Leonard By on". American Profile. July 12, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
- ^ "Mike and Molly". Metacritic. Retrieved March 8, 2011.
- ^ "Chuck Lorre's CBS pilot 'Mom' to get series order". 2013-05-08. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (March 13, 2014). "CBS Renews 'The Good Wife', 'The Millers', 'Two and a Half Men', 'Hawaii Five-0', 'Mom', 'Blue Bloods', 'Elementary' and 11 More". TV by the Numbers (Press release). Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ Lesley Goldberg (October 7, 2014). "Is Chuck Lorre Done With Vanity Cards? Maybe Not". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ^ a b Paige Feigenbaum (February 28, 2011). "EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Sheen: Lawyers Examining Chuck Lorre's Vanity Cards As Legal Fight Looms, Tells 'Men' Creator 'Oops!'". Radar Online. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ^ Malcolm, Shawna (10 March 2009). "Vanity cards let Lorre sound off". Variety. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
- ^ Lorre, Chuck (2012-10-16). What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Bitter: Chuck Lorre: 9781451679755: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN 978-1451679755.
- ^ "CLP - Vanity Card #01". chucklorre.com. 2007-09-24. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
- ^ Patrick Kevin Day (March 6, 2015). "'The Big Bang Theory's' Leonard Nimoy tribute was in the cards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (October 5, 2018). "Chuck Lorre Comedy 'Bob ♡'s Abishola' Starring Billy Gardell Set At CBS With Pilot Production Commitment". Deadline. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (October 10, 2019). "Chuck Lorre Comedy About U.S. Veteran & His Afghan Friend From 'Big Bang' Duo Gets Big CBS Commitment". Deadline. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
- ^ "2004 BMI Film/TV Awards". bmi.com. 12 May 2004. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "2005 BMI Film/TV Awards". bmi.com. 18 May 2005. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "2008 BMI Film/TV Awards". bmi.com. 21 May 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "2009 BMI Film & Television Music Awards Winners". bmi.com. 21 May 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "Chuck Lorre receives star on Hollywood Walk of Fame". Variety. 14 March 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ ""Two and a Half Men" creator Chuck Lorre to speak at SUNY undergrad commencement". The State University of New York at Potsdam. 12 Feb 2009. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "Television Academy to Induct New Hall of Fame Honorees March 1". emmys.com. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "TV Academy Adds Nine To Hall Of Fame". Deadline Hollywood. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "How to Create a Hit Sitcom". chucklorre.com. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
- ^ "All You Need to Know About Charlie Sheen Nemesis Chuck Lorre". E!. March 11, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ^ "Entertainment Weekly". All You Need to Know About Charlie Sheen's Nemesis. March 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
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I'd like to hide the blog title and tagline for a sales page. I know how to hide the menu and the sidebar for specific pages, but not the blog title and tagline.
Also, can I hide the RSS links to posts and comments on certain pages? Can I even hide them completely from the header?


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Seven Network is all set bring Australia's Got Talent in 2019. This is gonna be a 9th season of AGT. It was 2007 when season 1 of AGT was premiered. The stage earned enough publicity, TRP, and reviews in last 12 years. This is one of the reality shows in which every artist wants to participate and each individual doesn't want to miss a single episode of AGT. Moreover, many times it becomes difficult for judges as well as audience too to judge the performances given by participants. We have seen numerous famed celebrities such as Dannii Minohue, Tom Burlinson, and Kelly Osbourne etc. as judges in previous seasons but judges for upcoming season are not disclosed yet but if wish to participate in this show, then here is related information.
Also See: Miss World 2019 Auditions.
Eligibility Criteria for AGT Season 9 Participation
- Your age must be at least 18 years. Possibly, you will be asked for document which proves. For an example: Date of birth certificate or passport.
- In case, your age is less, then parent of legal guardian will have to attend any audition.
- You must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident.
- In case if you are a citizen of any other country excluding Australia or New Zealand, then you must have visa which allows you attend auditions and filming dates and satisfy all publicity requirement requested by the producer or broadcaster.
- Producers reserve all rights. They may change, started, close etc. anything whenever they want.
As you know this stage is open for individuals and group performers, the terms and conditions for bother are slightly different.
Click here to know the eligibility, terms and conditions for individuals.
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Spring Break
Hey all, it's a little bit over a year since I started Gossamer Vintage and it's getting busier and busier. My business grew at a pace I didn't expect but I'm so thankful. I hope to be better in the future, but I still have lots to know and mistakes to learn from.
I moved to Virginia about 3 years ago from Georgia and it's always wonderful every time I go back home to visit the family. Having a home business does get a bit lonely and breaks in-between is always good for the mind, body and soul. I love my vintage clothing and all, but I miss having family around...
This time, not only did I get to visit my family, but I got to hang out with friends and also did a couple of photoshoots with some newly acquired pieces. I'm posting a few peaks from my own camera, but the film shot by my friend Serena will be stunning. I cannot wait to see them! Shoot with full credits coming! Thanks to Amy Osaba for flowers and Ginny Branch
I hope you enjoy these!
Sarah Park
April 22 2014
that first dress!! <3
Amy - Chic Vintage Brides
April 14 2014
What a beautiful shoot – and these photos so look professional!
I can't wait to see more and of course should you want somewhere to share your work and shoot, just let me know! :) x
April 03 2014
Oh – I love these! So much fun was had! <3


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~~The Farm Doc Daily out of the University of Illinois last Friday had a post on how much the current Farm Bill has been affected by the lack of a payment cap on PLC payments (especially for peanuts and rice). As most know, ARC payments have a maximum 10% of gross benchmark revenue. If the calculated loss amount exceeds this amount, the payment is capped.
For example, assume DeKalb county in Illinois has benchmark revenue of $800. The maximum ARC payment is $80 (then times 85% times any sequestering reduction). However, if the farmer had elected PLC, then there is no payment limit. Assume his yield is 190 bushels per acre and the corn MYA price ends up at $2.80. In this case, he would be paid 190 X $.9 or $171 more than double the ARC payment.
Most corn and soybean farmers have received ARC payments well in excess of PLC payments from the 2014-2016 crop years, however, peanut and rice farmers have gotten fairly good size PLC payments and it is expected that many wheat farmers will receive a large PLC payment in October of this year.
FarmDoc Daily estimated that if there was a PLC 10% cap on payments, about $1 billion in savings would have resulted so far in this Farm Bill. With the large wheat pay-out in October, I would guess this amount may more than double for the 2016 crop year. However, if the 10% payment cap was eliminated for ARC, then the estimated ARC payments for the 2014 and 2015 crop years would have been substantially higher. They did not estimate this amount, but I would guess it would be well in excess of $1 billion (could be as high as $5 billion).
I am certain that the Farm Bill writers will be debating this topic and the worst case would be if a payment cap is applied to all forms of payments. We will keep you posted.


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Did the pie update and now my phone blows. Camera keeps changing storage locations on it's own. No matter what I choose to set it at. Battery life is down a good 30%. Wont read my SD card half the time. Lost all my contacts and my Email credentials. Have to constantly shut off data and restart it to get anywhere online. Dont do the update if you haven't yet it absolutely Chokes
Sorry to hear this happened to you. As with all updates you are supposed to make sure that all of your data is backed up just in case the update causes your phone to reset any data. Did you already have any of your data backed up?


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senate Bill S5466
2015-2016 Legislative Session
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BILL NUMBER:S5466 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring that information be made available to parents regarding window blind safety PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill would require the information be made available to parents regarding window blind safety and the potential fatal consequences from strangulation posed by window blinds. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 provides for the production of a sufficient number of informational pamphlets to ensure that every pediatrician In the state will be able to provide such pamphlet to parents during a child's six month appointment. Section 2 provides that the pamphlet referenced in section 1 will include information regarding the danger, specifically the risk of strangulation, posed by window blinds to children. Section 3 provides the effective date. JUSTIFICATION: In recent years, there have been a number of tragic stories of young children being strangled to death after becoming
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5466 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E May 14, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring that information be made available to parents regarding window blind safety THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2803-j of the public health law, as amended by chapter 199 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 1. The commissioner shall require that every hospital and birth center shall prepare in printed or photocopied form and distribute at the time of pre-booking directly to each prospective maternity patient and, upon request, to the general public an informational leaflet. Such leaflet shall be designed by the commissioner and shall contain brief defi- nitions of maternity related procedures and practices as specified in subdivision two of this section and such other material as deemed appro- priate by the commissioner. Hospitals and birth centers may also elect to distribute additional explanatory material along with the maternity patients informational leaflet. The commissioner shall make the informa- tion contained in the leaflet available on the department's website AND SHALL CAUSE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF LEAFLETS TO BE PRINTED OR PHOTOCOPIED TO ALLOW EACH PEDIATRIC PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER IN THE STATE TO PROVIDE THE LEAFLET TO PARENTS AT A CHILD'S SIX MONTH APPOINTMENT. S 2. Section 2803-j of the public health law, as amended by chapter 62 of the laws of 1996, is amended by adding a new subdivision 1-d to read as follows: 1-D. THE INFORMATIONAL LEAFLET SHALL ALSO INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARD- ING THE DANGER THAT WINDOW BLINDS POSE TO CHILDREN INCLUDING PROPER INSTALLATION OF BLINDS, EXAMPLES OF CURRENT STANDARDS AND THE POTENTIAL FATAL CONSEQUENCES FROM STRANGULATION POSED BY WINDOW BLINDS. S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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Alice in Winterland
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A chance to win a family ticket to see Alice in Winterland. Just answer the question below!
Alice has been brought up to believe in wonder, but life takes an unexpected turn when her wounded father returns home from the Great War. Confronted with losing her home, she is visited by a White Rabbit who propels her on a quest to save Winterland, a world of ice and imagination, of mad hatters and cruel queens, curious cats and strong-minded dodos, a frozen world inhabited by the mysterious Bandersnatch and the terrible Jabberwock, where only the most intrepid of girls can make the impossible seem possible…
Featuring magically evocative music and strikingly imaginative designs, puppetry and projections, this spectacular new stage production of Lewis Carroll's timeless books takes the audience into a fairy-tale land of wonder and adventure. The production features professional actors alongside members of the Rose Youth Theatre.
Alice In Winterland runs from Thu 7 Dec to Sun 7 Jan at Rose Theatre Kingston, please The Rose Kingston's Website for more details.
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For more information or to book tickets visit The Rose Theatre or contact the box office on 0208 174 0090
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EXCHANGE PLACE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Online bookmaker PointsBet has announced that they have frozen Super Bowl 54 odds for the Cleveland Browns in the wake of last night's trade for Giants wide receiver, Odell Beckham Jr.
The Cleveland Browns, who have also agreed to sign defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson and Linebacker Olivier Vernon this off-season, and picked up star quarterback Baker Mayfield in last year's draft, are now being looked at as a more serious contender for the upcoming NFL season. PointsBet isn't jumping on this bandwagon.
"We've already seen a massive overreaction to this trade," said PointsBet US CEO, Johnny Aitken. "We believe 2020 will be yet another Super Bowl-less season for the Browns, and that's why we're confident enough to issue an odds freeze at 30-1, despite most sportsbooks moving the odds to around 16-1."
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Rod Hunt Illustrates 101 Sites for the Circle LineRod Hunt creates a colorful, new interactive map for the Circle Line. The cruise line is the only one exclusively dedicated to sightseeing. The boat does a full-island circumnavigation of Manhattan and offers magnificent views of the skyline year-round. Hunt created the new 2012-2013 interactive online version and the print version, available in tourist centers and hotels around the city. The map displays the boat's route as well as landmarks such as The Empire State Building, The Statue of Liberty, and Yankee Stadium.
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Been seriously backlogged with tons of work, travels, photos, videos, and… but…you don't care about that. Let's get into the pictures!
Today, we hiked Oyster Dome
stunning views even before you begin the hike
i moss say, it was a pretty beautiful day. lame, pun.
and away we go!
They see me rollin
They hatin
Patrolling they tryin to catch me ridin dirty
i swear i saw a squirrel
i mean, how could one not like hiking?
i think i'm just going to sit on this log right here
let's get the blood flowin'
obligatory head rub
tall f*in' trees
let's stop and stare at this beautiful 1 foot waterfall
they're tiny compared to the trees
when will my reflections
show who i am inside..
ha! take that spider. j/k i hope you caught a fly or something
nature close up looks kind of trippy..not gonna lie.
that rocks.
snow can be over rated
oh, hi d3r
ok, mad props to this 3 legged dog who hiked this trail like a boss
more white stuff
white stuff + tree stump = hard for the camera sensor to properly process photo
who's a good girl?
i was trying to take a pic of this tree but they photobombed the tree..
so many lines
let's all stare this way
hm.. this is beautiful?
was it worth that hike, Kaua'i?
i seriously think that fog sometimes is ghosts flying
the model pose
my right side is the best
trees + snow + dog + hiking = happy hippy times
the road well traveled
why did i take so many pics of the hiking trail?
hurry up… haha j/k ❤
omg, we made it back. the islands look just the same
damn, i'm pretty sick. i just finished a 5 mile hike.
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Hoodrats know a lot about Wonder Bread and I'm one of them. Wonder Bread is one of my first memories of being a child. I grew up on Wonder Bread but today I wonder what the fuck does Wonder Bread mean? Listen, I'm just tripping because I don't know how Vicky Dillard and I are going to share the same stage? I'll admit, her audience is a hundred times greater than my audience. The good news for me is that Vicky and I have the same audience, i.e., Hoodrats. Vicky and I make being a Hoodrat chic and trust me, ain't nothing wrong with making a yearly $ix-figure income doing something you love doing, betraying others. I ain't mad at Vicky, she's an excellent role model for Hoodrats. Hoodrats need love too!
If a Hoodrat like me knows that a $30 Federal minimum wage law is an idea whose time has come, then you know everything is going to be alright. We're in good hands. C'mon, did it ever occur to you that President Obama set Trump up?
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The doors into the world of a person living in poverty in Nova Scotia opened wide for nearly 120 fourth year Rankin School of Nursing students on Sept. 27 as senior Community Health nursing students stepped into Mount St. Bernard's Chapel classroom and into the persona of someone living on the edge.
The Rankin School of Nursing teamed with the United Way Halifax to offer the simulation experience called Living on the Edge as a required course in the curriculum that finishes this year.
The intent is to help student participants and future nurses see the world from a different perspective that haven't experienced poverty before, says Rankin School Assistant Director Dr. Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine.
"They will spend an hour experiencing one month living on the edge of poverty in a simulated environment through role playing, where each student takes on an assigned role a family member or a community service provider," Dr. Sheppard-LeMoine says.
"Most of the participants will be assigned a role in a scenario as part of a family unit or as a single person and they are given the task to get through the month using the resources they have."
"It's what it's like to live on the brink of poverty," says Daniel Blacquiere, donor engagement officer with the United Way Halifax, and one of the facilitators.
"It showcases the reality that people face."
Mr. Blacquiere says the experience is designed to build empathy and understanding of what it's like to live in poverty in Nova Scotia, and also to work towards helping close that gap.
Poverty, he says, can affect anyone. Sometimes it is easy to recognize, sometimes not. Many people, he says, are living one paycheque, one circumstance, away from financial crisis. It's something that can happen to anyone.
"It's a really good learning experience," says Dr. Sheppard-LeMoine. "It's a creative way to make it real."
Mr. Blacquiere says the United of Way Halifax has been offering the simulation experience, which started in Missouri, to businesses and universities for the last three years. All the data has been updated to reflect Nova Scotia, he says.
"It's designed to be a little uncomfortable, a little stressed. The debrief, that's when we see the aha moment. It's really powerful."
Offering the experience to nursing students is such a perfect fit, he says. In their careers, nurses will often deal with people who face these issues.
"A stroke of bad luck could put anyone over the edge," says facilitator Lisa Buchanan, United Way Halifax development research officer.
"Imagine yourself in the shoes of the folks who may experience this."


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The opening scene looks like a New Yorker cover, one of those great Art Deco drawings that make you want to slurp up the city like ice cream or sip it languidly like a bathtub-gin martini with olives. Impressionistic shapes in pale, pale colors pretend to be the Manhattan skyline. Singers and dancers in neutral 1920s dresses, cloches and men's wear are uniform enough to be figures on a travel poster, bouncy enough to be naughty.
In the Paper Mill Playhouse's new production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie," which is exactly what it ought to be and not a thing more, young Millie Dillmount (a lovely Laurie Veldheer) has that kind of hunger. Fresh off the bus from Salina, Kan., Millie trades in her long, unfortunate, blue-checked dress (which looks as if it came from the closet of another Kansan, Dorothy Gale) for above-the-knee flapper chic, and sets off to be a thoroughly modern young woman.
It is 1922, after all, and Millie's strange version of feminism entails setting out to get a job that offers a wealthy, unmarried boss whom she can marry and live with wealthily ever after. None of that old-fashioned love stuff for this determined New Woman.
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" began as a 1967 film written by Richard Morris, with Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore as the ingénues. Mr. Morris and Dick Scanlan revised it for the stage (with some new music by Jeanine Tesori) more than a decade ago. It opened on Broadway in 2002, made Sutton Foster (in the title role) a star and won six Tony Awards, including best musical. It does not really need a plot, but it has one.
Millie checks into the Priscilla Hotel for Women in Manhattan and finds a job at Secure Trust Insurance, run by the dashing, unmarried Trevor Graydon (Burke Moses). He prizes her job skills but sees her as one of the guys, which was not the plan. Once in a while, Millie does go out with Jimmy Smith (Jeff Kready), the clean-cut youngster who takes jobs for a time because they're fun and then quits and moves on. But she hates him.
Back at the hotel, the cheongsam-wearing owner, Mrs. Meers (Lenora Nemetz), seems increasingly suspect. Why do pretty young occupants keep disappearing? Why does Mrs. Meers invite any new hotel guest who admits to having no family into her back room for funny green tea, right after she has sympathetically announced, "So sad to be all alone in the world!" in the planet's worst Chinese accent?
These goings-on do not bode well for Millie's new best friend, Miss Dorothy Brown (Ashley Kate Adams), a California blonde with a Southern-debutante accent and Blanche DuBois's old wardrobe. Miss Dorothy — and all fans of this show know that she insists on being called that — mentions early on that she is an orphan.
So there is a crime ring to uncover, romantic complications, family secrets and, as it turns out, big money at stake.
No matter. The lightweight joys of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" are the music, especially the rousing title number, and the refreshingly consequence-free world it creates. In this between-the-wars, before-the-crash New York, even the "white slave" trade seems innocent. (Of course, we never see the women who have been shipped off to Hong Kong at work.)
The worst things that can happen to a group of sweet young things who get sloppy-drunk at a speakeasy are that they will begin to dance funny, in the most delicious ways, thanks to Denis Jones's elating choreography. Even when the bar is raided, the arrests just result in police photos that a modeling agency would be proud of, and a picturesque overnight in jail.
Speaking of picturesque, there are times when looking at Michael Schweikardt's scenic design seems like taking a tour of heaven. Just when you think he has outdone himself with big-city elegance, he brings on Muzzy Von Hossmere's impossibly glamorous penthouse living room, with its view of a starry Manhattan sky as its fourth wall.
Directed expertly by Mark S. Hoebee, the story is well played, well sung and well danced by a sterling cast, leads and supporting players alike.
Both Brenda Braxton as Muzzy and Ms. Nemetz as Mrs. Meers have some fabulous moments. Mr. Moses is disarmingly comic as Graydon. And Jessica Sheridan is precious as Miss Flannery — the older, more robust stenographic supervisor surrounded by skinny young typists with better love lives than her own. "Forget About the Boy," Act II's sparkling opening number, wouldn't be half as much fun without her.


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...then what's your problem? Full of joy and confident enough to bash Yogi and his burnt calculator? Go read my comments on the US Dollar, use that ammo against me, it might hurt more than golden feathers.
...is gold up tonight?
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Venezuela's embattled President Nicolás Maduro may have bought himself some time on Wednesday when he raised gasoline prices and devalued the bolivar, but the South American country's problems will likely worsen in the coming weeks unless he does something more.
For his part, Maduro defended the measures as being necessary to save the economy, which is expected to contract eight percent this year after a ten percent drop last year. Maduro blamed the crisis on flagging oil prices and a concerted effort by his country's business elite to wreck his socialist revolution. Whatever the reason for the economic problems, his critics were outraged. "Venezuelans woke up poorer this morning with the president's actions last night," Deputy Rafael Guzmán said during an emergency session in the country's National Assembly. "Why should the poorest Venezuelans have to pay?"
The 60-fold increase might be shocking, but even now, Venezuela's gasoline will remain the cheapest in the world. "It's still cheaper than water," Felipe Romero, a 38-year-old carpenter in the central industrial city of La Victoria, told me as he waited to fill up his tank. "But I used to be able to fill my car up for less than four bolivars. Now it's going to cost me 240 bolivars." By comparison, a beer costs 300 bolivars ($30 at the official rate, or $0.29 at the black market rate) and a loaf of bread 120 bolivars ($12 at the official rate, $0.11 at the black market rate). In other words, gasoline is still a relative bargain.
Maduro's move came just days after he fired his
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