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There is no doubt outsourcing production and manufacturing can be beneficial, but in today's day and age is it really a good idea?
Here's a look at ten reasons why outsourcing overseas may do more damage to your brand than you expect:
There will always be a problem.
It doesn't matter where you are producing your goods. Unless they are 100% under your control then expect problems. Things are rarely on time and even more so when there are language barrier issues. Expect delays and problems ahead of time and leave wiggle room in your lead times, accordingly.
Quality assurance (QA) issues are abundant.
Their goal is to get paid (and keep as much as possible). There is no long-term plan and they could care less about your vision. Unless you can afford to have someone watch over production full-time; expect mistakes and lots of them. As the old saying goes "you get what you pay for".
You may be indirectly supporting slave labor and unsafe work conditions.
This is especially true when outsourcing production and manufacturing in developing countries. Many of the workers making the products are working in unsafe conditions or work for little pay. This is not uncommon.
In fact, when it comes to consumer electronics reports surveying 39 of the world's biggest tech companies"found that of the big electronic firms like Apple, Microsoft, Sony and Samsung, only Nokia can prove that it pays its factory workers a living wage…" (iDigitalTimes) Not to mention, workers in developing countries are often in or around toxic waste, breathing in harmful chemicals with little to no protection.
Lead times are long and transport is no better.
Time is money. Waiting months for products you could have produced locally for a couple bucks more may not make sense. Waiting a month or two to produce a product and another 30 days for shipping is not ideal if you don't have the resources to support lengthy lead times.
You're not saving as much money as you think.
The per piece price might look good on paper, but by time you consider long lead times, import/brokerage, shipping and other fees you may be spending around the same as it would cost to produce locally (where you can ensure quality and forgo the headache).
You might get ripped off.
Overseas manufacturing frauds and scams are a business reality. You're often just another email address and fraudsters know, just as well as you do, the odds of you jumping on a plane and searching them out is slim to none. While the majority of overseas manufacturers are honest and simply trying to make a living, it still happens all of the time.
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If I would describe Sitges in three words, it would have be Picturesque, cozy and inviting. There really is something special with Sitges. Never heard of the place? I don't blame you. It's not the first place you would visit, at least not if it's your first time in Barcelona. Sitges is a small seaside town, located just 45 km and a 40 min drive south from Barcelona on the coast.
May I dare to say that if you visit the place, you will fall in love with it! I know you will. I did. Sitges is also where I'm based and where I have decided to raise my kids, so it's a place that I truly love.
So, what's so special about Sitges? Why should we consider Sitges instead of Barcelona, or any other coastal town?
It's is beautiful
Sitges is very instagrammable and picturesque in general. It has many romantic nooks and backdrops. You will be amazed by the cute streets, the golden beaches and the white façades. Sitges is many times described as the Spanish Saint Tropez, and also has many similarities with Ibiza.
It's sophisticated
Sitges is a more sophisticated and chic getaway than many other destinations on the Catalan coast. With that said, we have a mix of everything here, but in general the ambience is a little bit more sophisticated than elsewhere. There are also very rich people living in Sitges, and people with their summer residence here.
It's is an actual town
With this, I mean that Sitges actually has locals living there all year around. And don't get me wrong, I know other coastal towns also have that, but Sitges really feels like a proper town with it's own festivities and traditions. This is not a place that will be completely dead during low season. Even though the winter months don't have many tourists, it's still very popular for Barcelona city locals to visit during the weekends.
Sitges has a great, relaxing atmosphere. Being a small town, it really gives you that relaxed, Mediterranean vibe that so many travelers look for. You will se locals stroll around with their kids and friends, have a delicious meal in some of the restaurants just enjoying their company and just be present in the moment.
LGTBQ friendly
It's well known that Barcelona is one of the most LGTBQ friendly destinations in Europe and perhaps the world. The same goes with Sitges. LGTBQ tourism is very important to Sitges, and the town offers night life, beaches and events for the LGTBQ community. You will notice the rainbow flag is present throughout the city.
With that said, let's move on to the actual topic of this blog post, where to stay in Sitges.
Sitges has many hotel options. The smaller hotels will be found in the pedestrian areas, and are from my experience not always top notch. Sitges being a small town, it makes more sense to choose a hotel by the beach, which will give you many better alternatives plus you will be able to enjoy sea views. Here are the hotels that I would recommend, all of them are accessible for buses/coaches, so they are perfect alternatives for your guests so that the bus can pick them up at the door to take them to the wedding venue.
Hotel Meliá Sitges
Large tourist class hotel (4 stars) located in the calm neighborhood Aiguadolç, about a 15 min walk from Sitges center. Great for larger groups. Located 3 min walking from the closest beach. Great pool area.
Hotel ME Sitges Terramar
A modern, newly built hotel located close to Sitges golf course. It's located on the beach. Has a beautiful roof top terrace with 360-views over the town, mountains and the ocean. Walking distance to the city center is around 15 min on the beach boulevard. Great pool area and private beach club.
Hotel Calipolis
Another 4 star tourist class hotel, located on the beach boulevard, but in comparison with the previous two hotels this hotel is located in the center of town. Many rooms with sea views.
Hotel MiM Sitges
Sustainable hotel (partly owned by football player Lionel Messi) with LEED certificate. This is a fairly new built hotel, located just next to Hotel Calipolis (right behind it).
Hotel Casa Vilella
Small, boutique hotel located on the beach boulevard. Classic elegant. Does not have very many rooms, so best to book early.
There are of course more hotels than this, but these are the ones that I recommend!

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Passengers who fly Southwest Airlines are in for much more freedom when their trip doesn't work out as planned. Travelers who need to change or cancel their plans with Southwest have not had to pay any fees to do so for some time. Even travelers who book a non-refundable fare can cancel; they will simply receive a flight credit rather than a refund. The only downside to this was that the flight credit expired after one year, until now. Southwest announced on Thursday that there would no longer be an expiration date for customer's flight credits, effective immediately.
Flexibility Is King
For Southwest, flexibility for their customers has always been a priority. For years the company has set itself apart by allowing customers to check two bags with no additional fees and allowing passengers to change or cancel their flight up to ten minutes before departure. "Flight credits don't expire aligns with the boldness of a philosophy to give our Customers definitive simplicity and ease in travel, just like Bags fly free, just like No change fees, just like Points don't expire—they're a first-in-our-industry combination of differentiators that only Southwest offers," said Southwest CEO Bob Jordan in a press release.
Flight Credits Don't Expire
The new 'flight credits don't expire' policy was implemented as soon as it was announced. Any flight credits that were not already expired by July 28th, 2022, will be included in the new policy. The airline is going to work on its technology systems later this year in order to remove expiration dates from flight credits completely. Until then, customers will see an expiration date of December 31st, 2040, on their flight credits.
Why The Change?
Southwest has been working on overhauling the passenger experience since its announcement in May that it would be spending two billion dollars on a transformation plan. In May, the airline promised to deliver on several fronts, including:
- Adding fast Wi-Fi to every plane
- Adding charging capabilities to every seat
- Making overhead bins larger
- Introduce their new Wanna Get Away Plus fare category
- Enhance onboard entertainment
- Add new self-service options for customers to use
According to Senior Vice President Ryan Green, the airline never intended to stop there. The company says they are constantly looking for ways to improve on items customers care about most. The flexibility to cancel up to ten minutes before a flight and receive a credit that will never expire is undoubtedly high on the list for most travelers. Life happens, and sometimes things don't go according to plan. Being able to cancel a trip without worrying about monetary loss or expiring credits is a huge stress reliever for many.
Nearly 50% of travelers said that flexible cancellation and rebooking policies were a significant factor in their travel plans for 2022, and Southwest seems to have heard them loud and clear. Southwest is now the only major airline in the United States that offers flight credits with no expiration date. If Covid has proven anything, it's that travelers should always be prepared for plans to change. This newest policy update from Southwest ensures that travelers will have no problems changing plans for any reason.
What It Means For Travelers
To sum it up in one word, flexibility. Southwest was already one of the most flexible airlines in the U.S. to fly when it came to rebooking or canceling, and now they might be the most flexible. Airbnb host canceled on you at the last minute? Now you can cancel your flight without ever losing your credit. Another benefit to credits that never expire is that travelers looking for the best deal can now virtually guarantee they will get it. Notice that the fare went down in price substantially for an upcoming trip? Now you can cancel your flight, rebook at the lower rate, and save your credit indefinitely for a future trip.
Southwest has certainly been listening to customers, and its latest move to get rid of flight credit expirations is just one example of how it aims to continue adding flexibility and simplicity to its business model. Travelers can rest assured knowing their bookings with Southwest offer the best flexibility of any major U.S. airline.
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3) If the convictions are recent, you can consider an Appeal. Technically the time frame is that the appeal needs to be filed within 30 days of conviction. There is a process to apply to file outside of that time frame, but if the convictions are from years ago there would be little or no point spending money to try to appeal them. Any appeal needs to have a basis for challenging either the conviction, or the sentence e.g. the court should not have convicted you, or the court should not have imposed such a harsh penalty. Appeals are also very expense; the cost to hire a Firm in the beginning (before there is a conviction) is in the hundreds, but appeals run in the thousands.
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Estimation of Crop Gross Primary Production (GPP): II. Do Scaled MODIS Vegetation Indices Improve Performance?
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Daily GPP, MODIS, vegetation index, fAPARchl
Satellite remote sensing estimates of gross primary production (GPP) have routinely been made using spectral vegetation indices (VIs) over the past two decades. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), the green band Wide Dynamic Range Vegetation Index (WDRVIgreen), and the green band Chlorophyll Index (CIgreen) have been employed to estimate GPP under the assumption that GPP is proportional to the product of VI and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) (where VI is one of four VIs: NDVI, EVI, WDRVIgreen, or CIgreen). However, the empirical regressions between VI*PAR and GPP measured locally at flux towers do not pass through the origin (i.e., the zero X–Y value for regressions). Therefore they are somewhat difficult to interpret and apply. This study investigates (1) what are the scaling factors and offsets (i.e., regression slopes and intercepts) between the fraction of PAR absorbed by chlorophyll of a canopy (fAPARchl) and the VIs and (2) whether the scaled VIs developed in (1) can eliminate the deficiency and improve the accuracy of GPP estimates. Three AmeriFlux maize and soybean fields were selected for this study, two of which are irrigated and one is rainfed. The four VIs and fAPARchl of the fields were computed with the MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite images. The GPP estimation performance for the scaled VIs was compared to results obtained with the original VIs and evaluated with standard statistics: the coefficient of determination (R2), the root mean square error (RMSE), and the coefficient of variation (CV). Overall, the scaled EVI obtained the best performance. The performance of the scaled NDVI, EVI and WDRVIgreen was improved across sites, crop types and soil/background wetness conditions. The scaled CIgreen did not improve results, compared to the original CIgreen. The scaled green band indices (WDRVIgreen, CIgreen) did not exhibit superior performance to either the scaled EVI or NDVI in estimating crop daily GPP at these agricultural fields. The scaled VIs are more physiologically meaningful than original un-scaled VIs, but scaling factors and offsets may vary across crop types and surface conditions.
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This article appeared in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2015) 200, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.09.003
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Zhang, Qingyuan; Cheng, Yen-Ben; Lyapustin, Alexei I.; Wang, Yujie; Zhang, Xiaoyang; Suyker, Andrew; Verma, Shashi; Shuai, Yanmin; and Middleton, Elizabeth M., "Estimation of Crop Gross Primary Production (GPP): II. Do Scaled MODIS Vegetation Indices Improve Performance?" (2015). GSCE Faculty Publications. 10.
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Update: June 2nd, 2014
Over the weekend, someone snuck in to Apple's presentation dry run, and grabbed a quick video of the new iPhone will look like.
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While Apple gets ready to unveil iOS 8 at the five-day WWDC in San Francisco next week, the first real evidence of the new operating has leaked out.
Jay Yarow, a news editor for Business Insider, tweeted out this picture of a large banner at WWDC14, with an "8" in the center of a water-themed background. Could this be hinting at a potential waterproof Apple device, like the new Galaxy S5?!
Someone's sure to get in trouble for this, as Apple prefers to keep their projects tightly under wrap. That's probably why the security guard in the picture doesn't look all that happy. However, he was able to get a better unobstructed look at it after it was hung up.
Oliur from UltraLinx also posted a pic on his Twitter.
Steve Streza gave MacStories an alternative view of the banner on the ground, which is free of security guards.
Stay tuned next week for the actual unveiling of iOS 8, which we'll be covering extensively.
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L'Illustré is the most popular people magazine in the french speaking part of Switzerland and it essentially provides information about popular personalities and regional events. Being recognized for the quality of images it publishes, L'Illustré asked us to redesign its website with a clear goal in mind – increase the time visitors would spend discovering the content.
With limited time to deliver a fully dynamic style guide, our challenge was to make sure that the visual design would be outstanding enough to embrace the magazine positioning. Few iterations lead us to create a very visual homepage where images are used as core content while keeping the overall experience close to what users expect from a news site.


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Is there a future for entrepreneurship in the current market economy?
On the 3rd of October 2017 our very own Bas van Bavel gave the King Willem 1 lecture. This was for a gathering of senior figures from the corporate world, as well as the royal couple who were brought together for the announcement of the winner of the Koning Willem 1 prize, the national prize…Read more
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Rayo Vallecano 2018/19 Kelme Kits
Rayo Vallecano de Madrid host FC Barcelona in Spanish La Liga action at El Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas on Saturday.
Los Franjirrojos (The Red Sashes) are wearing a three kit collection from Kelme for their return to La Liga follwing a two-year stint in the Segunda División.
Rayo Vallecano's 2018/19 home, away and third kits all use the same v-neck design from Kelme. The home shirt features the club's well-known white base and wide red frontal sash. Its collar, shoulder stripes, sleeve cuffs and waistline are black.
The new away jersey is black with with a red sash and gold detailing. Rayo's third shirt is bright blue with bright green accents. It also bears the club's red sash.
The kits have the Rayo Vallecano crest printed on their right fronts. The home and away jerseys hace "RAYO VALLECANO 1924" printed just above their rear waistlines.
LaLiga 1|2|3 champions last season, Rayo Vallecano currently sit in nineteenth place in Spain's top division of football.


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Who is better placed to make an emotional connection with a human being — a logo or a person?
My vote is for person. Therefore, Thought Leadership — placing a human face on your business — makes sense to me. People want to connect with people!
Perhaps it's best to retire the term Thought Leadership. I much prefer Executive Social. It sounds warm and organic, not cold and sterile.
Regardless of what we call it, most Thought Leadership in business-to-business (B2B) marketing sounds like it comes from pushy robots. In my latest podcast episode, I share the ingredients of effective B2B Thought Leadership (and help you avoid the robot curse!)*
Download the episode here. Alternatively, listen on Spotify or YouTube below.
– The importance of emotion in B2B marketing (includes acknowledgement of research from Les Binet and Peter Field)
– 2020 Edelman-LinkedIn B2B Thought Leadership Impact Study
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I found myself in this great part of "God's Country" to rest up before a morning TV appearance, near the University, having just driven for many hours.
I walked around and surveyed the area eateries and lucked upon the Indian restaurant Evergreen.
The menu was ambitious and featured dishes both from the North and South. Having just returned from India I was excited to recreate some of the marvelous food I had recently tasted. Boy, what a pleasant surprise that I had found this outpost; the food was authentic and fabulous.
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Cabbage Pakora – cabbage with chick pea dumpling @ $3.95 was outstanding. A good choice is the mixed platter @ $8.95 with an ample selection of Tandoori Specialties!
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Buhari swears in Arase as PSC Chairman, 5 Board members of CCB
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday swore in former Inspector-General of Police Solomon Arase as the new chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Arase's swearing-in preceded the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and came two months after the Senate confirmed him as chairperson of the PSC.
Buhari had forwarded Arase's name to the Senate for confirmation in line with sections 153 (1) and 154 (1) of the constitution as amended.
Arase, 65, who retired in 2016, was the 18th indigenous Inspector-General of Police (from April 2015 to June 2016).
He served in various capacities, including head of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau, the foremost intelligence-gathering unit of the Nigerian police.
The president also swore in five board members of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), namely; Murtala Kankia from Katsina State (North-West), Zephaniah Bulus from Nasarawa State (North Central) and Farouk Umar from Yobe (North East).
Others are Taofik Abdulsalam from Ondo (South West) and Prof. Juwaria Badamasi from Kogi State (North Central).
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Oil Exploration in Kenya to Generate Revenue
Stakeholders from Kenya's oil and gas sector have sounded the alarm on the lopsided attention on proceeds from oil exploration to warn of hidden risks to the fiscal obsession. The cautionary advice comes as both government and its citizenry continue to battle the management of expectations from the impending decision on the full-scale exploration of the country's crude deposits.
Kenya Named Second Biggest Market In Africa By Uber
There are currently 363,000 active Uber users in Kenya, according to the latest statistics released by the company to mark its fourth year of operation in the continent.
South Africa is told to be Uber's biggest market in Africa with 969,000 active riders, while Kenya is second.
East Africa portrays solid monetary development says AfDB report
Economic growth in East Africa is soaring ahead of other regions on the continent at close to 7 percent while the overall outlook for the rest of Africa is cautious, but positive, a report by African Development Bank has observed.
Job creation and ramping up manufacturing will continue to be major priority areas for creating growth and employment across the continent, says AfDB.
Keitt Exporters To Diversify Into Oil
To help mitigate risk and ongoing trading restrictions with China and Taiwan Kenya's Keitt Exporters is exploring potential new opportunities in added value avocado products.
According to sales and marketing manager Grace Thuita The company is looking at processes and machinery to produce avocado oil as a way of gaining further value from the fresh product.


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White Sox "Trades" with EVERY TEAM – AL Central Edition
A long time ago, I was listening to an interview with legendary poker professional Phil Ivey and the interviewer asked the question (paraphrasing) How would you recommend a player learning the game get better the fastest? Phil said something to the effect of (paraphrasing) Buy in to a game at much lower stakes than you would normally play, and then play every single hand for an hour. Try and figure out how you would play all of these different hands in different situations and positions that you are normally taught not to play in. In the spirit of that recommendation from an all-time great, Chorizy and I are going to undertake the exercise of making a White Sox trade with every team in the majors…..this is the AL Central Edition.
Minnesota Twins
108er: BeefLoaf
White Sox send: Zack Collins
White Sox receive: Willians Astudillo
Rationale: You know what, I don't care much for Twins fans….there, I said it and I don't think they deserve to have Willians Astudillo. The flowing locks, the grace….plus, all of you Madrigal fans, Astudillo makes just as much contact as Nicky Stix, but bundled up in a fun, flowing, pre-diabetic package. What's not to love!! In return we give them one of our catchers that we have no intention of using. I can't wait till Moncada is banged up and Astudillo plays 3b for a week and hits .560.
Cleveland Indians
108er: Chorizy-E
White Sox send: Jimmy Lambert, Bryce Bush, Matthew Thompson, Micker Adolfo
White Sox receive: Carlos Carrasco, Roberto Perez
Rationale: Let's be honest, neither team has the balls to do something like this. And this definitely makes Cleveland worse. They would have to be really motivated to get the money off the books for these two guys. But if they did, the Sox would have a hell of top 3 to their rotation.
Kansas City Royals
108er: Chorizy-E
White Sox send: Reynaldo Lopez
White Sox receive: Danny Duffy
Rationale: Somehow Danny Duffy is both the highest paid and oldest player on the Royals roster. Neither seems possible and honestly, ReyLo feels like an overpay. I wanted to go after Merrifield, but judging by previous trade deadlines, Dayton Moore would want one more of my testicles than I'd be willing to give up. So Danny Duffy replace Reynaldo Lopez as our starter that should probably be a reliever and Reynaldo goes to KC and becomes an all-star closer.
Detroit Tigers
108er: BeefLoaf
White Sox send: Seby Zavala
White Sox receive: Miguel Cabrera (plus Cash to pay-off all but $5M per year remaining on his deal), T-shirt canon jeep and a Little Caesar's Guy, which MySoxSummer was too cheap to acquire by tipping an extra $5 the last time he ordered
Rationale: Miggy looks like he's finished the last several years, but maybe joining a good young talented team, and having Jose Abreu right there to kick him in the ass would allow Miggy to provide the old dead cat bounce to conclude his career. Also, since we traded Andrew Vaughn in like half of these other deals, DH is wide open. Wouldn't it be cool if Miggy came here cheaply and became third trimester David Ortiz??


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Rawr Dracula! Vampires! So hot right now, of course we need to revisit the main man behind the bat, the one, the only, Vlad.
Dracula Untold (I promise I won't get into how much I hate "this is the real story" nonsense for fictional stories that keep happening, I swear) wants to talk about how one man came to be the Dracula that people fear today. A real vampire. Not a sparkly boring person. Not a bunch of kids in private school. Just a guy who has standard vampire powers and standard vampire weaknesses.
But before we get into that, in case you didn't know, this is becoming a franchise. Not just vampires. But all the classic Universal monsters. It was originally starting with a 2016 remake of The Mummy, then Wolfman, then eventually a Frankenstein thing, but they tacked this one on too. They are going to bring all the monsters into a movie and have them fight other monsters I guess. And it might fail terribly. And yes, it is a lot like Avengers. But I mean, it might be cool, as long as these movies are good, right?
Well, some bad ass armor could help, but why doesn't it glow and shimmer?
This movie isn't set in the modern day. I already told you it is about Vlad The Impaler (Luke Evans), the real inspiration for Dracula. Not that Vlad in real life was a vampire, it looks like Bram just took his name and hierarchy and ran with it.
Either way, Mr. The Impaler got his name for being a bad ass. He was recruited at a young age in the army and killed killed killed. Now he is a Prince of his own area, Transylvania, and wants to live life in peace. There is also a local vampire in a cave nearby, but ignore him. Either way, some Turks come knocking on his door, asking for the normal payment. But because some of their scouts were found dead, they assumed the Transylvanians came out and killed them. Now they payment is some cash and 1,000 boys to fill their armies. What! No!
So he goes to Mehmed the Conqueror (Dominic Cooper), the Turk leader to appeal to his better nature. Well, he ain't having it, even when he offers up himself instead of the boys. Now they want 1001 boys, with the additional one being his son, Ingeras the Young (Art Parkinson).
Well, shit. What's an Impaler going to do. Sell his soul to the devil for temporary vampire powers to defeat an entire army? Yeah. Thank goodness he knows where Master Vampire the Vampire (Charles Dance) is to get his powers on. As long as he doesn't drink blood in 3 days, they will be temporary. If not, well, full on vampire.
He also should keep it secret. Very Catholic lands here. They don't like Vampires. Maybe his lady, Mirena the Woman (Sarah Gadon) will find some parts of it interesting though.
Also featuring Diarmaid Murtagh as Dumitru the Untitled.
Shit, they also got Patsey from Holy Grail in here?
This might be one of those movies that would be better not seeing the trailer? That is my guess. If I didn't see literally every cool thing a dozen times from trailers, I would have enjoyed the movie more. But Dracula didn't do anything cooler than those few scenes. Namely the bat attack related scenes.
Other than that, it is mostly a poorly acted period movie. We got accents, we got swords, horses, chivalry and more. And just a lot of bad overly dramatic acting.
And if that is what you want in your "NO THIS IS THE TRUE STORY" films, then you might actually love it.
Unfortunately, no matter what happened with this movie, we were getting the next two anyways. Universal is going to make this Monster Avengers thing happen, damn it. Maybe the final outcome will be cool. Maybe the next movies will be good. But this is not the Iron Man of the Monsters universe, unfortunately.


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When women visit me at my Indianapolis plastic surgery for a private consultation about breast implants, they sometimes ask me whether or not they will be able to breastfeed if, in the future, they have children. Before I get to the details, here are some basics. First of all, whether or not she has had implants, not every woman successfully breastfeeds. Secondly, implants themselves don't affect breastfeeding. However, what can affect breastfeeding is nicking or damaging either the nerves and/or the milk ducts in the breasts when making the incision to insert the implant(s).
There are 3 customary locations for a breast implant incision: (A) under the armpit (called a transaxillary incision) (B) under the fold of the breast (called the inframammary fold); or (C) through an incision around the areola. Incisions made under the armpit or the breast generally pose no concern about breastfeeding because they aren't made near the milk ducts or nerves. An incision around the areola, per se, doesn't create a problem either, unless the milk ducts or the nerves are damaged or severed when making the incision.
Here's why: the nerves close to the areola trigger the brain to produce two hormones: oxytocin and prolactin. If the nerves are damaged, the brain may not receive the "signal" to make milk, or perhaps will make milk, but not much. Obviously, if the milk ducts are damaged, milk might be produced but not deliverable to the breast. Women who haven't yet had children often feel better if we agree on an inframammary fold or transaxillary incision, so they don't have to worry about any potentially negative consequences. If you haven't had children yet and are considering implants, be sure that you discuss these issues with me at your consultation in my office, to make sure both of us are in complete agreement about the location of your incisions.
So, the bottom line is that breast implants should not affect the ability to breastfeed or produce milk so long as the incision doesn't nick or damage the nerves or milk ducts. Another reason to choose a plastic surgeon with a great deal of experience!
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Duranta grow and care – shrub to small tree of the genus Duranta also known as Sky Flower, Duranta perennial evergreen used as ornamental plant also grow as bonsai and attract pollinators, can grow in subtropics, mediterranean or tropics climate and growing in hardiness zone 8+.
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Apart from being National Backwards day, January 31 is a big day for world wars and astro-apes, not to mention it's the independence day of Nauru and Street Children's Day in Austria.
An explorer, soldier and sailor – as well as the first ever Republican party candidate for the office of United States president – John C. Frémont was court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
The 13th Amendment to the United States constitution was passed and submitted to the states for ratification, abolishing slavery.
The first large-scale use of poison gas in World War I occurred when Germany bombarded Russian infantry with a type of tear gas during the battle for Bolimów. Fortunately, the gas proved ineffective due to a mixture of the cold weather and unideal wind.
During a campaign for shorter working hours, the Battle of George Square took place between city police and striking workers in Glasgow, Scotland.
The first Scotch Tape began to be marketed by 3M.
The Battle of Stalingrad concluded with German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus and his troops surrendering, ending one of the fiercest battles of World War II.
The first daytime soap opera, These Are My Children, was aired by NBC.
A flood from the North Sea devastates the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, causing over 2,000 deaths.
Explorer 1, the first successful American satellite, detected the Van Allen radiation belt – an astronomical phenomenon in which radiation is accumulated by a planet's electromagnetic field.
The American space program, Project Mercury, put Ham the Chimp into Earth's orbit, making him the first non-human hominid to enter space.
The island nation of Nauru gained its independence from Australia.
A group of American Vietnam veterans in Detroit called the Vietnam Veterans Against the War began the Winter Soldier Investigation, an initiative to publicize war crimes and atrocities committed by Americans and allies during the Vietnam War.
An oil spillage in Molo, Kenya ignited and caused a massive fire, resulting in over 300 casualties.


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Episode 142 - The Phantom: LIVE! (w/ Eliza Skinner, Ed Brubaker)
Rodney replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?Correction: The Jim Henson Creature Shop didn't make Muppets at this time. The Muppet Workshop did, although they merged in 2004. The Creature Shop was meant to develop more lifelike creatures like the ones in Labyrinth or The Dark Crystal as well as effects. Maybe not surprisingly, on the Muppet wiki, The Phantom is the only credit they have listed for "costume effects." Omission: When during the long line of Phantoms did they decide to use guns? Sure, maybe rudimentary firearm technology existed when the first Phantom came about, but there had to one guy along the line who decided that 2 semi-automatic pistols would be a good aid in his anti-pirate crusade. It's not really established if Phantoms were ever opposed to lethal force. 2nd Omission: If Quill took the Phantom's belt after he killed him, why can he not make the obvious logical conclusion that it's a different guy? Does he think he's a Ghost Who Walks who also magically regenerates leather products.
EPISODE 117 - Theodore Rex: LIVE!
Rodney replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?I've got a theory on the disguise machine, and a few omissions. My theory - If there was a ninja section of town, maybe there were also opera singer, racist mexican, racist scottish, etc. parts of town. You can't tell me that they toymaker's outfit wouldn't have been an exact message for something that came out of that machine. Omissions: We see the 2 elephants running around the complex before they're frozen and it's clearly a mother and baby. So are they the breeding pair or is that baby not going to be frozen and be left to die. Speaking of the freezing - the scientist made a compound such that animals and people can be frozen and unthawed without a problem. Then his plan is to freeze the pairs, and have everyone else die off in an ice age. Why the need to freeze the pairs? Wouldn't they survive the ice age? How long were they going to be frozen for? In scene where they had the clone autopsied, the doctor went on and on about how he sequenced the DNA and was able to uncover that it was marked as property of EDEN. THEN he also points out how a fingernail of the clone is also very obviously marked. If I were a taxpayer for this police department I'd be very unhappy. Lastly, after a movie with the most varying level of threats from the bad guys, it ends with whoopi walking around nonchalantly while 4 or 5 red-eyed clones shoot at her. There was no sense of danger from her at all.
EPISODE 115 — Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
Rodney replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?Omission, sorry if this has been covered but there's so many pages: The DC scene that looked like it was filmed on a Hollywood backlot was filmed in a part of Universal Orlando. They had an open call for extras and made it very clear it was for sharknado, but they couldn't get enough interest. They had to pull in back office (corporate) staff at Universal to fill in. I knew a couple people who were less than thrilled about taking part. Also funny that there was 0 Harry Potter stuff, although there was that interview where they mentioned wanting to get Radcliffe.
EPISODE 356 — Heynong Man
Rodney replied to JulyDiaz's topic in Comedy Bang Bang30 years ago there was no garbage island. Just sayin'.
Episode 90 — Sharknado 2: The Second One
Rodney replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?They mentioned that Richard Kind's character was also the team's manager for 15 years. Was he distracted during every single home game about his last at-bat as a player? And what kind of enclosed stairway, which is clearly itself a fire exit, and is somehow filling with water, would have another sign directing you to a fire escape, that is just a spiral staircase, the most difficult type of stairs to navigate?
Episode 81 — Mortal Kombat
Rodney replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?More points: -Why was Liu the only monk from the temple to come fight? There didn't seem to be any limit to who could go, so why not stack the odds? This is the fate of the world after all. -Why in he first fight with the dreadlocks were he and Liu both given staffs to fight with? In no other fight does this occur. -When our 3 heroes get caught snooping around and are confronted by the strongmen with their faces covered, Liu and Johnny are each confronted by 3 men, Sonya only with 1. So it seems like they were already showing she's not as strong a fighter as the other guys. -I think Paul breezed past it, but the deal between Johnny and Shang Tsung was ridiculous. Johnny wants to challenge Goro (makes sense, he didn't want anyone else to lose and have their souls sucked) and Shang's side of the deal is something like "I can challenge ANYONE at ANYTIME and that will be the ONLY fight that determines who wins the tournament"! And then Raiden is happy Johnny makes that deal because Johnny finally understands Mortal Kombat.
Episode 76 — Fair Game
Rodney replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?I went online to look up the explosion video and instead found a local newspaper article about its filming. (right down the street from where I am now) Knowing where the industry here is now, it's sad to read. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-03-24/news/9503230718_1_film-office-las-olas-boulevard-county-s-film
Episode 49 — App Talk
Rodney replied to admin's topic in improv4humans with Matt BesserI had a similar experience to Matt with those giant lizards. When I first moved to South Florida one was outside my window and no one in the office was as excited as I was. I looked it up and they're called knight anoles, brought in from Cuba. Apparently if it gets too cold they can't take it and will freeze. Sometimes falling out of trees and onto people. I'm dying to see that happen.
It smells like uphotdog in here.
Rodney posted a topic in New Catchphrase SuggestionsIt smells like uphotdog in here.
Episode 117 — Can\'t Never Did Nothing
Rodney replied to admin's topic in Comedy Bang BangScott, please bring back the Entourage recap! It's the final season and I can't keep track of who's longtime patner is dumping him.
Episode 116 — When I Go To Queens...
Rodney replied to admin's topic in Comedy Bang BangScott, he'd said 5 pairs. (I just happened to have relistened to the show this morning)
Who do YOU want to be a guest on WHO CHARTED??
Rodney replied to Kulap's topic in Guest RecommendationsSecond on Richter, Adomian, and Aukerman. Third on Weird Al. I'd also like to hear Adam Scott.
Episode 10 - Fate
Rodney replied to CarolineEAnd's topic in Professor BlastoffI have a weird astrology story to share, which this episode reminded me of. I don't believe in it at all, but every time I remember this it makes me think for a while. A few years ago I was visiting with 3 of my good friends (2 male, 1 female) on a summer break from college. We went out to the beach and one of the guys invited his housemate along. The housemate was really into astrology, and she started asking us our signs as a way to start getting to know us. As it turns out, the 4 of us (not the housemate) were all born within the same 11 day period of the same year (but in 2 different parts of the country). To her, that was an example of astrology's validity because it says sagittariuses get along together well or something. It's not like those are my only friends, so what a weird coincidence that the only time I've ever met someone way into astrology it would be while in the company of those 3 only. (my thought on why sagittaruises get along so well- we can commiserate how growing up, our birthdays are so close to final exams and Christmas that they're barely recognized)
Where's the merch?
Rodney replied to hlvw's topic in Mike DetectiveCan we suggest merch? Cuz I'd love to have a Good One Robot toy for my desk so I can save energy on sarcastic responses to my coworkers. Just press its head and let it speak for me.


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SRJ at AOG
Given the circumstances, the 2020 Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference feels like a lifetime ago.
Nonetheless, last month we attended the event to showcase our latest innovations in inspection, testing and technology.
Assisted by our partners Nexxis and SixDe, we had the opportunity to set up test rigs and provide live demonstrations of SRJ's technology.
The interactive nature of the display helped attendees to understand in some detail our service offerings and the innovative solutions we're delivering to clients.
SRJ Technical Director Dr Paul Eastwood was on hand to assist with demonstrations and answer inquiries in great detail. His knowledge and expertise proved an invaluable asset to the exhibit.
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Samson - AirLine 77 AH7 Fitness Headset System **UDSOLGT**
Samson - AirLine 77 AH7 Fitness Headset System - Trådløst headset system, - specielt designet til Fitness brug. Rækkevidde ca. 90 meter. Kan bruges på flere forskellige kanaler (region dependent). Inkl. AC adaptor og audio kabel. Med dette headset er du fuldstændig fri for batteri-bælte-pakke, da transmitteren sidder implementeret i headsettet. Smart løsning til fitness og andre sports aktiviteter.
AirLine 77 AH7 Fitness Headset System
- Up to 300' (90m) operating range (line-of-sight)
- Available in multiple channels (region dependent)
- AC adapter and 1/4" audio cable included
AH7 Fitness Headset Transmitter
- Fitness headset with mounted micro transmitter (no beltpack or cable required)
- Qe condenser microphone element with bidirectional pickup pattern
- Sweat-resistant mic design for high-energy instructors/performers
- Up to eight hours of battery life using single AAA battery
- Power/Low battery LED indicator
- Internal Power switch
- CR77 Wireless Receiver
- True Diversity design minimizes dropouts
- Mountable half-rack chassis
- 1/4-wave antennas
- Multi-segment audio and RF level LED meters
- Volume and squelch controls
- Balanced XLR output, unbalanced 1/4" output
- Mic/Line level output switch
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The Samson AirLine 77 AH7 Fitness Headset system is a wireless microphone solution designed to meet the specific demands of fitness instructors and active performers. With the unique AH7 micro transmitter mounted to a sweat-resistant Qe fitness headset microphone, you can free yourself completely from cables and beltpacks for a truly exhilarating and motivating experience. This allows you to focus on your class or performance, and not have to worry about your audio.
Move Free
Samson revolutionized wireless with the original AirLine transmitter. Building upon this groundbreaking technology, the AH7 micro transmitter is mounted directly on the headset. This is unique when compared to traditional wireless systems that typically use a beltpack with a wire running from the microphone to the transmitter. The AH7 eliminates these extra components that would be especially cumbersome for a fitness instructor and puts everything you need neatly and comfortably around your head. And the transmitter operates for up to eight hours straight on a single AAA battery.
The Right Mic for Fitness
The AH7 Headset Transmitter is mounted to a lightweight, adjustable headset that fits comfortably around your ears and the back of your head, even through those days when you're teaching back-to-back classes for hours on end. The headset also features the Samson Qe condenser microphone, whose sweat-resistant capsule prevents corrosion from prolonged exposure to moisture. In addition, the mic's bidirectional pickup pattern reduces background noise, minimizes feedback problems and effectively rejects signals not originating directly in front of the mic capsule.
Sound Received
The CR77 True Diversity receiver provides reliable performance with up to 300' (90m) of wireless operation. Its half-rack housing is light enough to throw in your bag, or it can be permanently installed with a rackmount kit (sold separately). The rear panel features balanced XLR and unbalanced 1/4" outputs allowing flexible connection options.
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When it comes to solo vocal libraries (and even choir libraries), you can typically place them along a spectrum of realism vs flexibility. The realistic vocal libraries give you incredible legato functionality and playability but with not much lyrical flexibility (for example, having access to both consonant and vowel sounds to form coherent words). On the other hand the flexible vocal libraries give you tools like syllable and word builders, but often trade off realism in the process.
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Realivox Blue is a library by Realitone, and it definitely falls towards the flexibility end of the spectrum. However, it doesn't necessarily trade off realism. True, it sometimes requires a fair amount of work to make a vocal line sound believable, and it does have technical limitations (which Realitone readily admit). Realivox Blue isn't going to replace live vocalists anytime soon, but it gives us an incredible starting point to compose basic lyrical vocal lines that still sound realistic.
Upon downloading and running the library for the first time, I was very impressed at how well-organized and intuitive the interface was – I didn't even need to look at the documentation or a walkthrough to get started.
The UI allows us to construct phrases syllable by syllable using a combination of starting consonants, connecting vowels and ending consonants. We're also given some flexibility as to how we want each syllable to be sung, via two different legato modes – Vowel and Phrase. Vowel mode spreads the vowel across the notes you play, while Phrase mode moves to the next syllable every time you change note. There's also a Poly mode, which simulates polyphonic legato. It sounds great when writing dense choir lines!
We can also switch between these three legato modes using keyswitches for ultimate control and playability, as well as assign certain phrases to specific keyswitches. The latter is useful for when a tune uses the same sequence of syllables multiple times.
Finally, Realivox Blue gives us options to simulate up to three singers at one time. Combined with the polyphonic legato mode, we can create some really nice-sounding, intimate choir arrangements.
Realitone went to great depths to get the library sounding as realistic as possible. Here's one major example: when someone talks or sings, the sound of the consonants at the beginning of their words will vary depending on the vowel they're leading into – for instance, consonants such as K and S will sound subtly different when they're leading into an 'Eee' compared to if they're leading into an 'Ooo.' To account for this, the folks at Realitone sampled multiple instances of these consonant sounds, but leading into a different vowel each time. Mike Green has a fantastic walkthrough over at the Realitone YouTube Channel which demonstrates this – I highly recommend you check that out.
The developers also recorded vibrato and non-vibrato samples, and assigns the crossfading of these to the modwheel (dynamics are shifted to expression, or CC#11), and the transitions sound very smooth. I've worked with some choir libraries that didn't quite nail the vibrato/non-vibrato transitions, so this was a pleasant surprise.
Tech Specs
- FULL Version of Kontakt 5.2 or later. Realitone actually charges a little extra for a Kontakt Player version, but this is not available at the Audio Plugin Deals store.
- 95 GB available disk space
- Not too much RAM, thankfully
Also Check Out
https://youtu.be/goDHaTz62Fs – Mike Greene's AMAZING Realivox Blue walkthrough
https://youtu.be/L-gxAEKdhh0 – Brian Freeland's in-depth comparison of Realivox Ladies (Another Realitone library) & Sonuscore Lyrical Vocal Phrases


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From "The Golden Age of Cigarette Lighters"--Ira Pilossof & Stuart Schneider, 2004 Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Thorens. 1920s to 1960s
"Swiss made of the highest quality. They are almost in the class of Dunhills. Thorens was a music box maker that began in 1883. Their most sought after lighter models are of the 1920s to 1930s era. The company moved into making record turntables, speakers, and other music items. Their "Standard Original" model was introduced in 1919 and was successful enough to convince the company to continue to manufacture lighters.
of the Dunhill shop was to offer the finest products.
[Dunhil began making] Lighters [in] 1914"
This site has quite a bit of information on lighters
and includes a number from Thorens: http://www.vintagelighterbook.com/html/all_lighters_.html
The Pittsburgh Press Nov. 20, 1949, pg11:
The Vancouver Sun Nov. 7, 1949:
The Youngstown Vindicatgor Jan. 12, 1947:
2008 Thorens publication:
that between 1913 and 1964 Thorens
also manufactured more than 5 million pocket lighters to
help establish the Thorens
In 2007 I spotted this one in an 'antique show'.
Dear Keith,
I hope that my message finds you well and I just wanted to share with you that we have re-launched a small production of Thorens lighters in Switzerland.
To celebrate the more than one century existence of lighters' production, my brothers and I are preparing a publication listing all lighter models including pictures, patent features, descriptions and historical anecdotes.
As an esteemed collector, you will be of course most welcome to join us if you would like to share insights on an item of special interest that you would like to be included in the book (with reference to your collection).
Please tell me if I could provide you with any further information and I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yann Thorens
Authorized officer lighters
Hermann Thorens S. A.
Grand-Rue 80
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Sleepy Eye Mills Co. Barrel Labels - DatingBy Mark Chervenka
Sleepy Eye Milling Co. Barrel Labels - Dating
Advertising and premiums of the Sleepy Eye Milling Company are highly collectible. Although best known for a series of blue and white stoneware premiums, there are many collectibles featuring their famous trademark, the portrait of Old Sleepy Eye, a Sioux chief.
Among the more colorful items are flour barrel labels. Unfortunately, these have been reproduced over the years.
The first barrel label reproductions (Fig. 2) appeared around the 1972 centennial celebration of the town of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota where Sleepy Eye Milling Company was located. Another label reproduction appeared as a hanging die-cut cardboard sign. In addition to these two commercially printed reproductions, there are homemade digital fakes in the market made on home computers.
It is relatively easy to separate the modern reproductions and digital fakes from the originals. Just keep in mind that ALL original barrel labels are stone lithographs. That means original images are made up of irregularly shaped solid patches of color. Reproductions made on modern printing presses have images made up of multicolored dots that appear in a regular formal pattern. Reproductions made on inkjet printers have a fuzzy haze to dots of various sizes.
One of the best tests of printing is to pay particular attention to any lettering. Original stone lithographs have sharp edged solid letters. Inkjet and modern color printing almost always have lettering with jagged or blurred edges.
Another quick test is to use black light. Almost all new paper and cardboard products glow brightly under long wave black light. Original papers made before 1940 rarely glow under black light.
Dating barrels
Sleepy Eye Milling Company was in business from 1883 to 1921. Over the years, the way their flour barrels were made changed. The earliest barrels had hoops made of half-round split hickory (Fig. 6). About 1890, flat milled hickory was used for hoops (Fig. 7). Later, barrel hoops were made of metal.
All the staves (vertical pieces) were always of oak. The barrels shown are the 196 net weight size which carried the 16″ barrel labels.
Be alert for reproduction Sleepy Eye labels on modern liquor barrels and barrels originally containing other products.
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Recycled cabin air and a middle seat don't exactly scream "paradise," but they're worth enduring when the end result really is paradise – and remembering that is one of the keys to enjoying a flight to the Caribbean. The other key? Dressing in a way that's comfortable enough to make the flight bearable and functional enough to wear out of the airport on a humid Caribbean day.
Light, Easy-to-Shed Layers
When the weather's hot at home, it's easy enough to dress in a way that will be comfortable for the entire travel day. Don a pair of shorts, a T-shirt and some sneakers, grab a sweater in case the plane is cold and go. But for travelers leaving a cold place, starting out in warm clothing is important. That's especially true in winter, when delays or cancellations sometimes end up stranding passengers in connection cities without their checked luggage.
Start with a pair of pants or capris in a lightweight fabric like cotton twill. Wide-legged yoga pants or leggings may be comfortable to wear during a flight and thin enough to wear in the sultry Caribbean heat, but they can veer into pajama territory unless they look fairly crisp and the rest of the ensemble is polished.
On top, wear a tank top or T-shirt under a long-sleeved T-shirt or lightweight button-down. Top that with a hooded water-resistant jacket. (In cold weather, the ideal jacket has a removable liner that you can zip in for warmth during the trip but zip out upon landing.) All visitors to the Caribbean should have rain jackets, especially during the rainy season that lasts from June 1 until November 30. Wear it to the airport to save suitcase space and stash it in the overhead compartment during the trip.
A woman may also be comfortable in a sundress, or other casual dress made of stretchy material, worn over tights or leggings and topped with a sweater or jacket. Remove the leggings and layering pieces in the airport bathroom upon arriving in the Caribbean.
Shoes That Work With and Without Socks
No one wants to walk barefoot through airport security, but that's what some unfortunate travelers end up doing while their shoes go through the X-ray screener. (Members of the TSA Precheck program don't have to take off their shoes for screening.) So wear shoes that work with socks, both for screening purposes and because planes are too cold for sandals. A pair of canvas slip-ons or casual walking shoes over thin socks is the perfect choice.
But because the Caribbean is generally quite humid, plan to peel off those socks before leaving the airport.
Handy Accessories
For people who live in the Southeast, getting to the Caribbean may be as easy as taking a 90-minute direct flight. For travelers who have longer journeys involving connections, packing a big fluffy scarf is always useful. Wear it for warmth or ball it up and use it as a pillow.
Pack sunglasses, a brimmed hat, lip balm and a small bottle of sunscreen in your carry-on, along with pajamas and a change of clothes in case your checked bag gets lost.
- If you've ever been trapped in a window seat next to someone who seems to have bathed in perfume, you know how unpleasant strong smells can be on a plane. Skip the cologne and scented lotions before a flight and stick to soap and scented body wash instead.
Writer Bio
Kathryn Walsh has been writing about travel topics for more than 10 years, but has been feeding her inner travel bug for much longer. Her favorite place to visit is Scotland, and her work has appeared on sites including USAToday, AZCentral and Choice Hotels.


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Posts Tagged 'Charity CEO'
Hibbs Lupus Trust Raises £125,000
Press Release from The Hibbs Lupus Trust: Founder, John Hibbs, launched the Hibbs Lupus Trust in 2011 in a bid to raise awareness of lupus and to set up a network for the people the disease affects having supported his sister through her diagnosis three years earlier. Over 15,000 people across the UK live with lupus which…Read More
Top Charity CEOs
I'm really pleased to have been recognised as one of the Guardian's Top 30 Social CEOs today! It's a great accolade to be recognised alongside other charity leaders from Diabetes UK and Parkinson's UK. Thank you to all who voted and thank you for your continued support of our work at The Hibbs Lupus Trust!…Read More


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Beachfront homes collapse amid heavy surf along North Carolina's Outer Banks
And officials worry additional homes in the area may collapse as large swells continue to pound the Outer Banks due to a strong and stubborn storm system swirling offshore.
RODANTHE, N.C. -- Heavy surf from the Atlantic Ocean claimed two homes along North Carolina's Outer Banks Tuesday.
An unoccupied home in Rodanthe fell into the surf during the morning hours, according to officials with Cape Hatteras National Seashore National Park. A second unoccupied home collapsed a short time later, NPS officials said.
And officials worry additional homes in the area may collapse as large swells continue to pound the Outer Banks due to a strong and stubborn storm system swirling offshore.
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The storm's relentless onshore winds have brought large, breaking waves of 10-15 feet, pushing ocean flood waters inland 2-4 feet above ground level, overwhelming some sand dunes and causing closures of Highway 12 along parts of the Outer Banks.
Coastal Flood Warnings and High Surf Advisories remain in effect all the way into Thursday with the stalled system offshore. "This is a long duration event with conditions peaking through Wednesday," National Weather Service forecasters wrote. "Low lying property including homes, businesses, and some critical infrastructure will be inundated."
Those two homes are not the first to fall victim to the Atlantic. A home four houses down fell into the surf in February, according to the National Park Service. The homeowner, neighbors and volunteers have spent the past few months cleaning up that debris. Now officials have closed the beach area near the collapsed home to protect the public from new debris hazards.
North Carolina property records show the collapsed homes were built in 1980 and 1985, and many homes along that stretch of beach have been there 30 years or more. But beach erosion over the years has brought the Atlantic to their front door.
"Unfortunately, there may be more houses that collapse onto Seashore beaches in the near future," David Hallac, superintendent, National Parks of Eastern North Carolina, wrote in a release to the press. "We proactively reached out to homeowners along Ocean Drive in Rodanthe after the first house collapse and recommended that actions be taken to prevent collapse and impacts to Cape Hatteras National Seashore."


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Dog Family
Sometimes my humans yell at me to move,
But I keep wagging my tail.
Sometimes my humans want me to stop licking,
But I keep smothering them with kisses.
Sometimes my humans don't want to hear me talk,
But I continue to tell them about my day.
For I am not the family dog.
They are the dog family.
I am their favorite puppy to spoil
With cuddles and treats and walks,
All because I am so cute, so happy, and so sweet.
They don't know what they would do without me
To uplift them on their bad days;
I don't know what I would do without them
To give me a home, a life, and a meaning every day.
I am not just a dog.
I am a source of happiness, of care and of love for my humans,
But I am only those things because they are a source of the same for me.


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Anthony Smare
Investor, entrepreneur, lawyer, geologist, social entrepreneur and ecosystem builder, Anthony is passionate about the role that entrepreneurship and innovation in developing countries can empower local changemakers to catalyze and accelerate inclusive development in their countries.
Anthony chairs Papua New Guinea's largest superannuation fund, Nambawan Super (~US$3B), and Paradise Foods Ltd, a food conglomerate. Founder of leadership non-profit The Kumul Foundation Inc in 1999 and in 2014 founded the Pacific island's region entrepreneurship and incubator programme Kumul GameChangers identifying, training and accelerating entrepreneurs and startups from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands and other countries in the region.
Through the Kumul Foundation Inc, Anthony has initiated other programmes including school-based micro-entrepreneurship programme ASPIRE in 2017 and also set up in 2018 the PNG Startup Hub, Papua New Guinea's first co-working space providing free work space, internet, and access to tax, legal, finance and business advice to young innovative startup entrepreneurs. Anthony was named in 2014 by the World Economic Forum to its Forum of Young Global Leaders. Attained degrees in Law and Geology from Queensland University of Technology, and in 2010 was named the University's outstanding young alumnus.


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Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello has joined forces with hip-hop stars Madchild, White Noize, Eric Wainaina and Kool Keith for the single Hello.
Okay it might not be the most metal thing we've ever heard but Tom Morello has stamped his mark all over this – including a trademark solo around 3:07.
Hello is out worldwide today with all proceeds going to Hope Runs – a charity that uses running to empower Kenyan AIDS orphans with the tools of education, social entrepreneurship and personal health. Get it from iTunes here.


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Key Colocation Market Trends to Look Out For
When the pandemic started, many businesses leaped at the opportunity to ensure their businesses remained reliable and connected while their employees worked remotely. Now that we are in a post-pandemic world, the remnants of the work-from-home environment have further accelerated the colocation market's growth. Here are four key colocation market trends to watch out for.
Digital Transformation
The work-from-home environment from the past year expedited the need for technology to meet new business requests. Colocation assisted companies in meeting these changing demands and provided them with a workable solution to allow employees to work efficiently during times of uncertainty.
Remote Work
Many companies are choosing to continue remote workdays or are going remote full-time. Colocation offers these businesses the optimal tools to stay connected, reliable, and secure by co-locating their IT infrastructure to a state-of-the-art data center like Whitelabel ITSolutions. With data centers, businesses can rent out space for their privately-owned servers and computing hardware. The data center provides high bandwidth, 99.99% uptime, cooling, and 24/7 security to ensure your mission-critical workload continues undisturbed.
The importance of sustainability has grown in 2021 as companies pledge to reduce their carbon footprint. Colocation is a green solution, utilizing renewable energy sources and advanced cooling systems operated with smart sensors to optimize airflow throughout the building. This helps reduce carbon footprints and furthers the company's mission to protect the environment.
Edge Computing
A huge opportunity for data centers to take advantage of is edge computing. Implementing edge architectures throughout a colocation facility that involves hybrid cloud frameworks will allow them to capture companies that host their workloads in the public cloud or on-site.
Businesses that partner with a colocation facility that supports edge computing for hybrid frameworks—such as Outposts and Azure Stacks—will benefit from ultra-low latency and highly secure data privacy opportunities.
Colocation Solutions for Your Business
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Ogmore by Sea Church
'A local church for a global community'
Coffee and Cake
Monday 11.00 am
Join us every Monday at the church during term time to meet together for coffee and homemade cake.
This is open to everyone of all ages; we even have a play corner for babies and small children, so come along
Coffee and Cake are free although any donations will be given to TEAR Fund.
Why not come along, join old friends and make new ones? All welcome!
The new programme will be available from September 24th. The theme will be 'AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS'.
The morning of September 26th is given over to the MacMillan Coffee Morning so please join us to
support this worthy cause. There is also the opportunity to Bring and Buy Cakes! NOT TO BE MISSED.......
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Whether you're new to the bao game or have been hip to the adorable, craveable, pillowy hug of a sandwich for a while now, there's always room for some bao inspiration, fusion, adaptation and general appreciation. Take it from Morrison Living Chef Matthew Juarez: "We serve residents with a variety of backgrounds and experiences," he says. "In talking with them every day, some have traveled around the world and lived in other cultures and others have never stepped foot outside of Texas."
Chefs can use bao buns to play to their audience perfectly, as in Juarez's pork-and-apple bao. "This is a popular and well-known combination," he says. "So, to use ingredients residents know in a different way can open them up to trying different and unique dishes." For bao success, his advice is "be as creative as you want to be but keep your ingredients simple and fresh."
The versatile bao can be savory or sweet, and as you'll see, can fit into any daypart (don't miss Bama Dining's bao breakfast dog). And bao can be switched up with lots of items, including tortillas (see Chef Brad Sanford's al pastor bao). Read on for bao-spiration, plus ideas on what to serve with bao buns.
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Through October 23rd, Target is offering 20% off select LEGO Advent Calendars – both in-stores and online. Just add the calendar to your cart to see the instant savings.
While these discounted advent calendars don't qualify for the Target toy coupon available this week, it's rare we see discounts on them until after the holidays, so now's the time to grab these deals while you can!


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University of Washington's Population Health Facility (PHF) in Seattle establishes a new type of venue for interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. The new building seeks to advance the university's health initiative through an idea laboratory and collaboration incubator.
Tucked into a sloping site along the western edge of the university's central campus, the building will open to the neighborhood and the university via entry points on each façade. A multistory, street-level foyer wrapped in glass will adjoin an open terraced passageway that works its way through the building, further integrating it with campus circulation.
The 26,941-m2 (290,000-sf) building is envisioned as a hybrid facility.
Floors three through eight will be dedicated to research, with a variety of office types including open work stations, group work areas, conference and instructional spaces, and computer labs—all derived from a set of four activity-based, scaleable modules. Reflecting changes in headcount and activity, the modules are designed to morph in size and function with furnishings helping to define each space. Research floors will eschew typical corridors and employ periodically spaced open nodes where tenants can come together for interdisciplinary collaboration.
The expressive west side of the building will be composed of 1-m (3-ft) deep vertical glass fins to create a dynamic façade facing the university's future innovation district. The fins will vary in overall length to modulate the massing of the concrete-framed building, while also minimizing heat gain and glare and maximizing lighting and views.
The north and south ends of the building highlight user collaboration, offering framed, unobstructed glimpses into the interior. The east side of the building will feature subtle, 203-mm (8-in.) deep aluminum fins, providing continuity with the west side of the building while responding to its specific environmental conditions and solar load. Stacked basalt will wrap the building's lower level. Circulation towers will be constructed using precast concrete panels.
Led by design-build collaborators Miller Hull and Lease Crutcher Lewis, the project is being developed using an integrated design-build (IDB) delivery method, a process that encourages teams to embrace elements of integrated project delivery as well as lean design and construction—techniques developed to create efficiency while maximizing value and minimizing waste.
The facility is targeting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification and Fitwel certification. Construction completion is expected for 2020.


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Game Recaps Archive (2020)
Ospreys Hire Lisa Elledge to Helm Women's Soccer
MEDFORD – The Rogue Community College Ospreys Women's Soccer program has hired its second coach in program history. Lisa Elledge has been hired as the program enters its sixth season. She joins a program that fell one point shy of playoffs last season and will look to help the program take the next step.
Elledge has spent the past 3 years as the assistant coach for Women's Soccer at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, OR.
Elledge arrived at Southern Oregon University in 2013 via Bella Vista High in Fair Oaks, California as a student-athlete. A standout midfielder, she was a three-year starter tallying seven goals and seven assists in her career. As a senior on SOU's first-ever Cascade Conference title team, she received All-CCC honorable mention. She was also a three-year member of the Academic All-CCC team.
She earned her bachelor's degree from SOU in Health and Physical Education and immediately became the assistant coach for Women's Soccer under Jenni Rosenberg. During her time as the assistant the program became nationally ranked for the first time, entering the national tournament, and making it to the second round.
"We are excited to bring on Lisa. She is a rising talent that is highly respected and comes well recommended from her peers," said Athletic Director Darren Van Lehn, "we are looking forward to her style of soccer and the guidance she can give our student-athletes."
Elledge brings a fresh and exciting energy to a women's soccer program entering its sixth season. She is looking to uphold the standards and character of the program and bring it to the next level.
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