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"Visions of the future" was the theme as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert held an "All Hands Call" at Naval Station Mayport March 18.
Before addressing local Sailors, Greenert proudly gave the oath to 16 petty officers who chose to be reenlisted by the CNO during the event. After swearing them in, the CNO greeted each of the Sailors and presented them with coins.
"First, I want to thank all the family members here today," Greenert said. "I want to reassure that we will continue to support the Navy's family programs."
Several hundred gathered at Naval Station Mayport and dozens took to the microphone. Concerns included the increasing length of deployment, healthcare changes, housing assistance, opportunity for advancement and the new sexual assault prevention program. The main focus was around rumors of retirement changes stemming from the Department of Defense recommendations to the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission reviewing military retirement for Congress. The President established the commission to conduct a review of military compensation and retirement systems.
"There is no plan today to change retirement," Greenert said. "If you wear the uniform today, today's retirement system is your retirement system."
Another question on many Sailors in attendance minds was the future of the tuition assistance program. Greenert put those worries to bed when he announced that the Tuition Assistance (TA) program will continue to pay 100 percent of Sailors' tuition and enrollment fees in fiscal year 15 (FY15), This decision modifies a proposal for FY15, which originally included a payment split for TA where the program would pay 75 percent of tuition costs and 25 percent of that would be the responsibility of the Sailor.
"This is important to me because I want an educated Sailor, and I want you to leave with all the certifications you can, so you can get a good job when you leave the Navy and fall right into a career," said Greenert. "We've accelerated your life, as we like to say."
Greenert continued by talking about the future of Mayport and the importance of the development of the Amphibious Ready Group. With USS New York (LPD-21) already homeported at naval Station Mayport and the other two ships, USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) and USS Fort McHenry (LSD-45) slated to arrive as early later on this year.., According to Greenert, the development of Mayport is important for the defense of the East Coast.
"This first phase of the ARG move to Mayport underscores the Navy's commitment to a strategic dispersal of assets; a strategy that your congressman Crenshaw has long advocated on Capitol Hill," he said. "The strategic dispersal of aircraft carriers on the east coast is important. As for the home porting of an aircraft carrier at Naval Station Mayport, we still want to see that come to fruition, but we don't have the money right now. In the meantime, we're almost there to making sure the Mayport facilities are fully aircraft carrier capable."
In closing during a press conference following the All Hands Call, Greenert praised everyone who is a part of the Mayport family.
I want to thank everyone who is a part of what makes this base great," he said. "The community is great, they really embrace us, and this is what makes this such a popular place to be assigned to."


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The Evolution of my Eating ExperimentationMon, Oct 21, 2013
How I currently eat relies heavily on tracking done on two websites:
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After surgery I let myself get up to 182 lbs. I wasn't freaked out by this, I specifically told myself I was going to use surgery as an excuse to get a little fluffy and not give a shit. And 182 lbs on my frame isn't even that fluffy, just put a little icing over my muscles is all.
But I know I wouldn't be able to stay there, the last limited weight class in my sport tops out at 165 lbs. Why that is stupid is a rant for another time, but regardless, I know I won't be competitive in the unlimited category.
|I weighed in at 172 lbs this day. I'm big, but I like to think it's in the right way.
What I've been doing to get down to size is (1) giving myself a small calorie deficit (200-400 calories), (2) making sure I get plenty of protein (~170 g/day), (3) cycling carbs and overall calories.
On days that I'm particularly active, lots of coaching, over an hour of strength training, and/or some CrossFit Football work, I make up the calorie difference by drinking extra protein shakes during the day and eating a bowl of white rice with kimchee and seaweed right before bed.
On days I'm less active, I might have less rice at night, and mess with the caloric deficit through how much Paleo pulled pork I eat midday.
If I have a no-training day I'll forgo the rice and adjust protein shake and pulled pork volumes for an appropriate deficit.
Then I have the "flex day" on Sunday. I'll eat ALL THE FOODS! Usually I don't want that much junk because it just makes me feel gross, but it's nice to allow an beignet or crepe for breakfast or dessert for no reason at all. I think that it's given on Sunday my caloric load is over the expenditure level.
The Journey to Here
Let's start back when I was a martial artist
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For the first time in my life, I was really starting to get the combined importance of calories and macronutrients. When I was a dancer, it was all "eat healthy, eat less, be thin" but as an athlete who wanted to be awesome instead of thin, I had to get more of the story.
|Taking an athlete's approach to nutrition also make me look better in a leotard.
I learned that protein was key to building muscle. Okay, at least one gram per pound body weight, I can do that. Then I learned how carbs can fuel your work and help you recover, but also how too much at once creates a hormonal cascade that can lead to fat retention and energy crashes. Cool, let's go for 150-200 grams of carbs spread through out the day. Calories are energy, and as a female athlete I probably need somewhere in the 2200 to 2600 range. Calculate up the protein and carbs, fill out the rest with fat. Done.
This worked really well for me. I was able to maintain 150 lbs to 155 lbs of bodyweight while competing in the 70kg class for judo. Plus, I had four pack abs. It took a lot of dedication and tracking, but I felt awesome.
When I became a weightlifter, I initially thought I would compete as a 69kg lifter. After all, it's only one kilo less than my judo weight class.
What I didn't anticipate was how my body was going to want to put on mass when I changed from a highly conditioning oriented training regime to a predominantly strength and anaerobic focused one. To try to keep my body weight down, I cut down sugars to only the occasional fruit in my salad, and my calories went way down. After all, I worked in an office. How much did I need? I only calculated out my food to get total protein, the low calories was just too depressing.
When I decided to move up a weight class, and start putting a FULL chicken breast in to my lunchtime salad, not only did my body mass swell (in a good way), my numbers sky rocketed. It took two weeks of eating more to put 5 kilos on my clean and jerk, after being stalled for months.
You'd think I'd get that calories matter.
Things Change as You Get Older
It's hard to tease out pre-surgery how much of my body composition was defined by my diet, by my lackadaisical training routine, and by my general mentality of being SO BURNED OUT OF IT ALL. I tried a lot of things; Paleo, Primal, Carb Back Loading, Carb Nite; and half assed every single one.
Post Surgery
I've talked before about how surgery not only fixed my shoulders, but fixed my mentality. Once it was time to start thinking about competing again, I knew that I had to get back on track. First was Carb Nite, which worked really well at the outset, bringing my body weight down from 182 lbs to 170 lbs in about 5 weeks. I was looking lean, I was feeling strong. But then things just stalled out.
Time to try Carb Back Loading. I read and hear how people feel so much more recovered the next day, they put on muscle faster, can train harder. Talk out there made CBL sound like steroids. So I tried to have mango and sticky rice immediately after my training sessions. I didn't feel any better. I wasn't feeling more recovered. I felt a little bloated and it was kind of a pain in the ass to make sure I ended my training with enough time to gorge on the rice before I had my next client session. I tried for two weeks and gave up.
I spend the next few weeks on Carb Nite until a conversation withe a friend led me to the Calorie Expenditure Calculator above. Turns out that on some days I was around a 1000 calorie deficit! No wonder I felt like my body composition was slipping and my weight wasn't budging!
The rest is history.
What Will I Try Now?
Going forward I plan on doing what I currently do with one added exception. When I'm not focused on making weight for anything, I'll make sure that in addition to my "Sunday Flex-day" I'll have one day during the week where I go over my caloric needs in a typically "clean eating" way. Most likely a Wednesday since it'll be easier to do. I figure that varying my calories during a maintenance phase shouldn't just be about varying the amount of my deficit, but also if there is even a deficit.


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horvagab replied to CaptianEinsteinAlucard's topic in TTB DiscussionI think the Casino showed up in Nythera? Not 100% sure about that.
Yeah.... it could be hilarious, but it is a delicate balance. Something Union, Guild or 10 Thunder related more probably.
I can work with that idea! Not sure what exactly... though I feel a Gremlin could be hilarious there. Buuuut something else might work too
I'm interested also!
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horvagab replied to Nef's topic in Monday PreviewsTheory confirmed. Neverborn are Pokemon. I mean, first Nephilim, then Silurid and now this?
Is there anything likeable about Ramos? {Fluff Question}
horvagab replied to Poreo's topic in The ArcanistsThe stories in Ripples definitely painted the M&SU/Arcanists as a group of thugs (Nellie, Asami). My view on Ramos, which might be incorrect, as I haven't read all of the stories: Ramos is an idealist, in so far as he thinks everyone should have access to magic. That is his end-game. He got inside soulstone mining and created the MS&U cause soulstone = magic, but he will sacrifice that on the Arcanist altar if it gets him closer to his end goal. He likes the Union, and the people involved, but they are just a stepping stone in a larger plan. I figure Ramos is his happiest when he can tinker in his own lab without being bothered, but that's too far away for now.
Picking your allegiance
horvagab replied to Tweak's topic in TOS - DiscussionHordes vs Cult kinda screams "manic high speed action in dynamic terrains! Portals! Tidepools! Explosions! Moar Monsters!" Hm, my 1st faction is probably the Hordes. I like both the Siren and the Frenzy, and in general I like their aesthetic. Plus I like the whole "manage terrain via Tide Pool magic" stuff. I like KE cause... not sure why, but they're cool. Rifle corps seems pretty strong! Abyssinia is also great, and I like the Prince being more of a supportive guy. With a rocket launcher.
Yep, I can totally see that, and I can also see that if a few soulstones have been brought over they can be recharged, or perhaps even more soulstones start popping up? Just kinda looking for interactions/crossover with Malifaux.... though if some Horde-like entity shows up in NB, that's also fun enough for me
I'm not a fan of the Morphling myself.... but am pretty curious what does it actually do. Horomatangi.... I'm curious how it'll interact with the burning man cult stuff.... as well as the Hordes of course. Really liking the Armored Whelks though.
Hm, so I'm curious.... with Abyssinia having access to Soulstones via a temporary breach, I'm kinda curious whether we'll see them show up as a new faction in Malifaux.... or show up in an existing faction?
Really liking how Reinforcement helps the Titan and the Karkinoids. Looking forward to finding out more about the Frenzy though!
Really liking the Glory mechanic... the Horde has a good control over how and when to go into Glory, it just takes some sacrifices. I can totally see killing some minions 1st turn to make Siren into Glory (Whoo, hazardous tide pools!) and then reinforce the next round.
I'm already liking the Hordes, but the Cult less so due to the body horror stuff, that's not my cup of tea. That said, I so want to see a Cult-Hordes match up.... portals and tide pools! Movement shenanigans I also like the Glory mechanic... while the Cult needs to hinder themselves to go Glory, that also means that anyone going up against them needs to debate whether that -2 is worth the chance of glorying someone.... I really like the Stalking Portals... as for the Gorscythe's low armor, who knows what kind of shenanigans it might have? Judging by its multiple heads, I wouldn't be surprised to see it being able to sacrifice something to avoid death.
Abyssinia Image PreviewsCrow Runners look fun, but I'm really curious about the Mechanized Infantry, how do they work, with 2 models.
You know.... Cult is the one Allegiance I'm not that interested in, not a big fan of body horror. But them Stalking Portals Them be awesome.


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I was somewhat of a social butterfly this weekend, which is unusual for me. If I go out more than one night during the weekend then it's a busy weekend for me.
It made me stop and think about my friends, my military and civilian friends, and just friendship in general.
I've never been one of those girls to have tons of friends, I like to have one or two really good friends, and that's it. I don't need to win a popularity contest.
When I moved down to San Diego for college I made friends, they were girls that lived in my dorm and went to college with me. We would go out on the weekends and party or just hang out.
But then I went and got married at 20, and started to realize that I wasn't connecting as much with my college friends. I was a married woman living with my husband, I didn't want to party anymore.
So I started looking for married friends, which turned out to be military wives. Now, I could have a whole post about military wives, they are a crazy bunch of people, but let's just say that I did eventually find some that I clicked with, and I ended up having more military friends then I did civilian friends.
When I started graduate school I wasn't really looking to make tons of friends, I had a pretty set group that I was hanging out with, and Jeremy and I were always doing things on the weekend. But I did make some friends, and when Jeremy deployed this summer we got a lot closer. Now I have a group of girls that I hang out with at least once a weekend.
So, getting back to this current weekend. I went out with a fellow military wife for lunch on Friday, then out with my civilian friends that night. On Saturday I went to a Halloween party hosted by my military friends, then on Sunday watched football with another military wife.
I noticed that when I'm with fellow military wives, we talk about our husbands and the military a lot. It's what we have in common. And I love being able to talk about deployment and duty stations and all the trial and tribulations that come with being married to the military, without having to explain everything. They get it.
But when I'm with my civilian friends, I love that fact that I only talk about me. I'm not Alison, military wife. I'm Alison, student, social worker, country music fanatic, etc. Jeremy almost never comes up in conversation. I talk about school and my work and my clients. Its awesome.
So I guess my conclusion is that I like having both civilian and military friends. I like the balance.
Having friends outside the military has also made me realize that it's important to have friends for myself. When Jeremy is home we typically hang out with people in groups, he knows the guys from work, and I know the wives.
But with my civilian friends, I go out with them alone, Jeremy stays home. And I like that separation, having something that is just mine. Him being gone has really opened my eyes to the fact that I LIKE girls nights. I LIKE going out without him sometimes. I think it's healthy in a relationship, and I plan on keeping it up after he comes home.
And to close on a completely different topic. Here is a picture of my Halloween costume. I just had to share because I am super proud of how it came out 🙂 Breakfast at Tiffany's!


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Discussion in 'Community Discussion' started by iGary, Apr 3, 2006.
weak sauce compared to what rolled through chicago last night.
i was out storm chasing for the local NWS office. good times
no funnel clouds though.
*hides behind Gary*
Make sure to unplug your PM from that lightning rod, Gary! Oh, wait, the lightning rod was a metaphor...never mind.
Just watch yourself some good Sean Cody until it's gone, baby.
ouch. my friend was in chicago that week, and i am goin next week. hope its not like that.
I should actually wrap a big piece of foil to it and put it on the roof.
But then that would zap all the aforementioned Cody.
Mmmm....high voltage orgasms...
*falls on floor laughing*
April showers bring flooded basements!
Better check the'ol sub-pump.
Haha! This is very true.
Looks like you're next, Sam.
Haha. Spring storms are always a blessing and a curse...
That band you mentioned? I'm afraid it just hit us.
Yike, sounds painful!
It ain't too bad. The storm blew through here about two hours ago. Well, it arrived at about 7:30 and left around 9. So, it wasn't too bad. But, man it was loud.


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Yesterday I went out for dinner with my mum and I literally had nothing to wear. I ended up wearing a boring, black body con skirt, a white best top and a black cardigan.
I hate leaving the house in such an uninteresting outfit and luckily I found a pair of tights that, I fully,I've never actually worn before...
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Now I'm sure there are many people who would like to call the fashion police on me, but you know what? I felt so happy wearing these tights. I literally couldn't stop staring at my legs and just smiling,
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In a world where the majority of people use their phones to stay connected to their world, the act of navigation has become a part of the same device your checking emails on, while watching youtube videos, and texting pictures of your dad's junk filled garage… while driving. We live in a distraction filled world, there's no denying that. The act of driving has become a Penn and Teller special of balancing a million things at one time. Garmin would like to remove the navigation aspect of those distractions so you can focus on the one thing you should be doing: Driving.
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To celebrate all the things that the new Garmin Drive Series can do, we created a series of fantastical animations of what it can help you avoid. Like aliens. Not James Cameron's "I'm Going to Kill You" aliens, but the cute bug-eyed flying saucer 50's kind.
Dashcam :15 You ever drive behind a truck delivering newspapers that are flying off the bed like they were beads at Mardi Gras? Totally not your fault for hitting that truck… in fact, we'd say the dude probably deserved it. Regardless – Garmin has you covered. We needed to orchestrate the full spot so that we could cut it apart and rebuild :15 spots efficiently. New scenes were added along with new transitions to keep the flow of the spot consistent with its longer form sibling.
Notifications: Garmin Drive taps into your phone to display notifications of all sorts – including that long Honey-Do-List of things you'll get to at some point. This is another example of how we re-orchestrated elements and scenes from the longer form spot to create a shorter :15 cut.
You got a "Honey-Do-List?" We know how that goes, we'll get to it all eventually – trust us. Garmin Drive will help you out by notifying you of those things to do, checking off the boxes as you go. We created a lengthy list of icons to bring that point to life.
All those cards needed a place to go. Here's our accordion rig for our never-ending Honey-Do-List. It let us add cards on the fly, adjust to any revisions, and play with an animated bounce to give the list a little weight as they all slid into the screen of the Garmin Drive.
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Top Ten Worst Pokemon Gym Leaders / Elite Fourmoonwolf
The Top Ten
Wow I called it before I even looked at the list - stoner69
Really, he, or she, as some people say, is a terrible idea! Pink hair, short jeans, neon green. - moonwolf
I beat this guy/gal. WITH MY CHIKORITA. AND JUST MY CHIKORITA. Moral of the story? Don't hate on Chikorita, hate on Bugsy.
Is Bugsy a boy or a girl? Seriously, look at him/her. It doesn't help that he/she specializes in the type with the lowest average base stat total.V 14 Comments
More like, Weakstorm
He just doesn't look right.
Probably the worst looking 4 heavenly kings ever
He is kind of weird. - ShiverfeatherV 2 Comments
A Pidgey and a Pidgeotto. Best. Team. Ever.
His Gym and his Pokemon were GIVEN to him by his OWN Father. Yeah, that's how much he sucks
That gosh darn idiot. He's a fraud. Pidgey. PIDGEY
He sucks so bad he has to spam sand attack and roost to be even decently goodV 3 Comments
She's an old lady who needs to go jump into an active volcano.
The only thing wrong with her is that UGLY cape she wears..YUCK! Why does she even have that ugly thing,anyway? If she only got rid of that ugly cape,then she'd be so much better.
Get a real hairstyle girl.
Uh who oh right the really bad gen 6 gym leaderV 8 Comments
To be honest I forgot all about him after I left his gym... That can't be a good sign...
Chuck is like chucky cheeses! Dumb
He was so hard, I had to use selfdestruct.
Chuck's team is a downgrade from Morty. I mean, a POLIWRATH AND PRIMEAPE? Switch up the Pokémon's name patterns! Also, would it have KILLED HIM to have a Hitmontop?
I'm honestly conflicted about this character; and I'm drawing most of the inspiration from the anime. He's a decent brother and a good friend, but in context of the series, he's the least developed. Oh and if you're facing him in the games, he might as well be down graded to second gym leader position. He sucks as a gym leader and the least developed in the series. - Thifer20
Cute, Handsome, Nerdy, Cool, and motherly in the anime. Coldhearted, neglectful brother in the games. Geez! Just take care of Bonnie like you do in the anime!
We don't yet know how tough Clemont is as a gym leader. So I can't rate him now. - Kiteretsunu
I mean Clemont looks kind of weird, but Bonnie is cute and he is kind of cute. - ShiverfeatherV 7 Comments
Why did you put cilan on duh list he is awesome
What is Cilan doing on this list? I don't get why everyone hates him! - RiverClanRocksV 3 Comments
I don't know if it is just me, but I just can't stand Glacia. I only played Omega Ruby, not the original one, so I don't know if she was better or worse. She was forgettable, and I didn't really like what she said before the battle. Her design is really nothing speical, and she was the number one person in the whole game that I had trouble with beating. My Pokemon were always getting confused, and were always getting frozen. I had to waste 8 revives and over a dozen full restores to finally kill her stupid Froslass. Right when I kill Froslass though, I was like, "Finally... Wait... She has ANOTHER FROSLASS!? DANGET! " I haven't played the original Ruby and Sapphire yet, so I can't say much more but in omega and alpha, I just really hate Glacia.
I thought glacia was elite four...
She just was forgettable, but not as disappointing as Wulfric.
Freggin sheer cold and her stupid tanky glalie that WILL NOT DIE and both of her retarded froslasses if you don't have a fire rock or fighting type your screwed
She wasn't even that hard. My Skiploom could deal with the rollouts easy because it was female and I used sleep powder and leech seed. In my other gameplay my Gloom beat her clefairy and miltank because I had enough time to use growth a lot during Clefairy's metronomes. And her Clefairy was a much bigger deal than her Miltank. - StarPallete
How dare you I loved her mil tank it made me feel accomplished when I beat her
The Clefairy was more of a problem than the Miltank. You were given tons of chances to block out the Mitank, but Clefairy could even have Sacred Fire!
You hated her Milktank too and you know it...V 6 Comments
When I used wing attack, Bam! Her Roserade fainted. too easy! Train more Gardenia!
Honestly Gardenia, don't show your belly to the trainers. its gross.
Worst hair ever.
Stupid leech seed cherrim
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Not gym leader yet infact in the games she is champion
The worst part about Clair is that you have to go out of your way to do something for her to "prove your worth" when you beat her instead of getting the final badge. At least with Jasmine, there was a sick Pokemon in need of tlc, but Clair just has anger management problems.
Will not give the dang badge! 😤
Aaron uses one of the worst types of Pokemon. And to those who says he's the one with the Lucario, the Aaron we are talking about is in the Elite 4.
I ALWAYS forget about him, because he doesn't really have anything to do with the plot.
Aaron, the one that died with the Lucario? Ya, he was really annoying. I don't know any other Aaron, so..
Aaron isn't a Gym Leader. He's just a special character.V 1 Comment
His abomasnow only has 3 moves. THREE MOVES! - PrinceBlu
Can I ask what the hell Maylene is doing here?
She is a cheater, can you believe that in the anime, Zebstrika dodged Swift from Bianca's Minccinno? An attack that NEVER misses ACTUALLY MISSED. I don't like her and she annoys me in the anime, I don't hate super models but she's got to be the worst. Sorry, guys.
Despite her emolga's, this girl was pretty cool. She is in my top 10 favorites to be honest
Elesa is really irritating in the anime, and her quotes are annoying. PLUS (it's my opinion, I'm not being whiny and judgemental like I used to be) the fact that I just HAPPEN TO HATE SUPERMODELS!
Preety hot and sexy for not being a blondV 3 Comments
Yeah fairy type sucks - stoner69
Uses the worst pokemon type of all time. - pokemonrater
She is WAY worse than morty
In the manga he almost killed Red, and when facing the Masked Man, he almost blew the man and himself up! On purpose! - Thorite_Gem
Hands down one of the lamest gyms puzzles. All you have to is search for two switches in each bin.
His puzzle is so aggravating, but there is also fun to be had with it.
I hate this guy for some reason. Don't know why. - RiverClanRocksV 2 Comments
Why do you hate on Misty? She's so much better than May, Dawn, Lyra, Iris, Serena, and that stuff. KANTO FOREVER!
Just look at her in Electric Tale of Pikachu. A twelve year old. with breasts.
What all hail misty she beat ash in whirl cup
Ugh, she is so bland and boring. Whenever I see her, I want to just punch her face! - NerdyPweepsV 3 Comments
... ? Rude? He called her best product trash, Ash gets 1 for arrogance.
She was so rude to Ash!
Too easy and I beat her with a wartortle
Just look at his eye!
Even though he's a champion, he deserves to be here. he tries to hard to teach the main character, then gets beaten before he even battles! His theme sucks, he team sucks, his anime depiction sucks.
Ho a psycho girl
Hah! She's relying on psychic
But I love Sabrina x(
Sabrina: The WORST gym leader ever! Her gym is ugly and boring, and she has no personality! And in the anime, she's just abusive! Even Lusamine was better than this UGLY bitch! And Sabrina-get a REAL hairstyle and go get a life.
Why Liza? It should be Tate and Liza... Whatever...
They should be first on this list! Why?
Because in one turn, before they could even attack, you can OHKO them with surf.
No. A Gym Leader Battle shouldn't be like that.
And in Emerald, they have Claydol which is still weak to water (surf)!
WHY DO THEY EVEN EXIST?! Not only are they too easy, but they're basically plagiarizing Roxanne!
Liza and her twin Tate, simply put, suck at double battles. The trainers I battled along the way were actually pretty challenging but when I finally got to Liza and Tate, all they had was a Solrock and a Lunatone. And just a Solrock and a Lunatone. No Gardevoirs, no Alakazams, no nothing. And this was the second last gym of Hoenn.
Red ain't no gym leader!
Not a gym leader - pokemonrater
I just randomly picked a book and stairs appeared so...
Firstly her puzzle is sort of pretty hard for the second gym also her lilipup and watchdog are the bane of annoyance with mean look not allowing you to change out Pokemon - Red26473
This gym leader is ridiculously annoying, ESPECIALLY for a only a SECOND GYM leader, once her Herdier is gone, she sends out Watchdog, which will usually use Hypnosis, and spam Retaliate and Leer while you are asleep, Chesto berriers only work the first time you sleep and after that you become utterly useless, taking an entire turn of pain to use another berry or awakening, only to be put to sleep with Hypnosis once again and spammed with Retaliates, if the first dozen times didn't kill you already.
She looks like aunt jemima
Roark was awesome!
Take him off his son skucks not him
Dewott is doomed by Leavanny. Pignite is doomed by dwebble. Servine is doomed by all three.
She sounds like a baby girl who loses against a weedle
Bad team; bland personality; ugly, ridiculous desing both in games and anime (especially anime); had major spotlight compared to her colleagues, and this made me believe she would return in XY sequels as a Champion. We got instead SM, and I waited 2 years for nothing, and felt trolled. She stole other leaders' spotlight for herself (for example: she shouldn't have been the one teaching you Mega Evolution)! I used to like her, and now I hate her so much. She's a literally who, a no one for me. Glad she got forgotten!
He looks like a complete tool. and he swims away during a worldwide disaster!
"The world is doomed! " Marlon doesn't care.
In my opinion, Marlon is the worst. He irritated me so much in the games. His team kind of sucks, if you have Virvolion or Serpirior (however you spell them). And also, remember in Black and White where all the gym leaders helped you out with team plasma in one way or another, this dude doesn't. Okay, he did get them for you but, it doesn't help that he is always like "Oh, but dude, ya gotta think about why your doing dis, just because ther evil, u need to fight em? " Um, yeah! Awhile ago they made a TERRORIST ATTACK IN ONE OF THE CITIES! Oh yeah, I forgot, you didn't know that because your head is in the water all the time being the brainless, selfish person you are... Infact why are you even a gym leader?
...his gym was kind of cool though
Her floslass was so annoying and kept using double team.
I hate his perfect team in the PWT.
EVIL MAMOSWINE OF DOOM STOP FREEZING MY FERALIGATOR AND MY (I know it's weird) XATU YOU EVIL FREEZE OGRE!
This kid and his top percentage rattata Should be Champion, but that didn't exactly work out.
Not a gym leader but still annoying
Who is Youngster Joey?
TOP PERCENTAGE OF RATTATA!V 1 Comment
No matter who you choose for a Hoenn starter, you can always beat Roxanne. ( Providing they have evolved.). Marshtomp is a Water/Ground type, which completely trumps Rock. Grovyle is a Grass type, which is also super effective. As for Combusken, it learns Double Kick when it evolves so... =I
In anime he was so funny flirting with every girl.
HIT on all the girls!
All about girs
He has a bland personality like a lot of other gym leaders, has an incredibly uninspired and lazily put together team (seriously, how hard would have it been to at least give him a misdreveaus? ) and has so many counters to him that it makes the battle incredibly easy without having to grind levels. Johto had tons of lame gym leaders but Morty is by far the worst of them. - SigmaScott4
Killed all his Pokémon in one hit with sky uppercut
No match for Ash or Alain
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The Documentary Show: Episode 32: Wordplay and Jiu Jitsu vs The World
John and Keith are finally back with the first of all new episodes! One of us made a big mistake, but don't worry we make the most of it. After a trip down the rabbit hole of YouTube Music Videos, we talk about Patrick Creadon's Wordplay about Will Shortz and the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Then, we talk about Dan Lewis's Jiu Jitsu vs The World about Jiu Jitsu of all things.
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On Monday Liam McIntyre received some of the most exciting news of his career, and some of the most difficult: he learned that he had just been cast in the title role in a cable series — but as the replacement for Andy Whitfield in "Spartacus: Blood and Sand."
"It's been the toughest thing," Mr. McIntyre said in a telephone interview from his home in Melbourne, Australia. "Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity. Andy's such a wonderful actor. I don't want to follow that guy, and everybody hurts that he's had to give up the role, myself included."
But the casting of Mr. McIntyre, a little-known Australian actor who will soon be carrying the second season of "Spartacus," was necessitated after it was announced in the fall that Mr. Whitfield, who created the lead character in that hit Starz series about the Roman gladiator who eventually leads a slave rebellion, had had a recurrence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Mr. Whitfield announced his original diagnosis last March, and Starz said in May that it was producing a prequel series, "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," that would not feature his character, a strategy partly intended to give Mr. Whitfield time to recover.
But after Mr. Whitfield learned his cancer had returned, Starz was faced with a difficult decision. "Either we close down the show permanently," said Steven S. DeKnight, the creator and producer of both "Spartacus" series, "and have one season and a prequel stand as a testament to what we had done, or look to find another actor to step into the role of Spartacus."
Mr. DeKnight and his Starz colleagues were particularly encouraged to proceed with recasting the show after receiving an e-mail from Mr. Whitfield that said he wanted to see "Spartacus" continue.
After a few frenzied months of searching, the "Spartacus" producers discovered Mr. McIntyre on an audition tape in which he looked thin and haggard, and hardly seemed to possess the build of a gladiator.
"We needed someone that not only had that gravity and that manliness that the hero requires," Mr. DeKnight said, "but he also had to have a sympathy and a compassion that just radiates."
"The way he delivered everything was spot on," Mr. DeKnight said of Mr. McIntyre, "but he looked like Christian Bale from 'The Fighter.' "
In fact Mr. McIntyre had been working on a thriller called "Frozen Moments" for which the director had asked him to lose a significant amount of weight. (Invoking a different Christian Bale movie, Mr. McIntyre recalled: "When I got this role back in January, the director rung me up, he said: 'Congratulations. Now, have you seen "The Machinist?" ' I was a rake.")
So Mr. DeKnight assigned Mr. McIntyre to a rigorous exercise and workout regime ("gladiator-camp hell, plus 10," as Mr. DeKnight described it) and looked at photographs of the actor's progress every two weeks before the commitment was made this week to hire Mr. McIntyre for the role.
Mr. McIntyre said it is not his intention to try to duplicate Mr. Whitfield's performance when Season 2 of "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," begins production in Auckland, New Zealand, in the spring.
"As an actor, you never try to be someone else," Mr. McIntyre said. "You can't. I honestly think the reason I've got this far and now have got the role — I'd like to think I have the same soul as Spartacus, that Andy brought to it. But I guess it remains to be seen."
Mr. McIntyre added: "Beyond that, Andy's Spartacus is always going to be Andy's Spartacus, and I would never try and emulate that. Or try to be him. I think that should stand alone as his legacy."
Though he and Mr. Whitfield share an agent in Australia, Mr. McIntyre said he had not reached out to his predecessor. "Obviously I'd love to speak to Andy," Mr. McIntyre said. "But he's going through a lot. I don't want to get in the way of that. Whatever it takes to get him well is more important. I send him my love, and I wish him well."
While he keeps Mr. Whitfield in his thoughts, Mr. McIntyre is also slowly starting to think about what the future will hold for him, and what the responsibility of being Spartacus entails.
"All I know is my foreseeable future is living in the gym," Mr. McIntyre said, adding, "they'll tell me when I can start doing the lines and doing the performance. There'll be some acting there eventually, I'm sure."


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The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwifery Association (GRNMA) has asked the younger generation of nurses and midwives to rise with new zest and work extra hard to lift the falling dignity and standards of the profession
Speaking at the 70th-anniversary celebrations of the Cape Coast Nurses and Midwifery Training College last Friday, Mr Krobea said it was important to work to improve standards and change the perceptions of the public against health practitioners.
The occasion was also used to graduate 850 new nurses and midwives for the 2017 and 2018 year groups and also matriculate 216 fresh students into the college.
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Mr Krobea assured the new graduates and students that the association would ensure that no government toys with the allowances of trainee nurses and midwives.
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He stated that the association would stand its ground and ensure that all governments honour the trainee allowances, adding that the association had been very instrumental and negotiated with different governments on the allowances and would ensure that trainees enjoy the allowances "till Jesus Christ comes again."
He noted that the association is committed to ensuring the well-being of all its members and especially support the advancement of their careers both professionally and academically.
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The Deputy Central Regional Minister, Mr Thomas Adjei Baffoe advised health practitioners to adopt more friendly attitudes towards patients.
Empathy and politeness
He said nurses and midwives must have empathy and politeness as core attributes to help erase perceptions, noting that they remain critical in the country's efforts to ensure quality health care delivery for all.
He commended the college's students and staff for their hard work and dedication to work.
Touching on the theme in a speech read for him, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Health, Nana Kwabena Adjei-Mensah said patients expected evidence-based care which he noted was proven to be efficient, effective and safe than opinion-based.
He further advised the nurses and midwives to take advantage of technology to provide improved health care for their patients.
Ethics of profession
The Principal of the College, Hajia Alima Opoku Ahmed advised both graduates and continuing students to be abreast of the ethics of the profession to reduce misconduct and negligence among staff.
She appealed for a fence wall around the north campus near the Cape Coast Teaching hospital and for improvement in the road network.
The Omanhene of Owirenkyiman Traditional Area, Ahunabobrem Pra Agyensiam who was the guest of honour called for the provision of infrastructure for the school.
The alumni President, Mrs Peace Honkou Semordzi expressed appreciation to the founders of the school, saying the alumni of the school had developed world-class health professionals contributing to quality health care delivery in Ghana and across the world.


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This is another commissioned order by Jenn. (Click on pic to see it bigger.)
Front. This is the first doll with a different skin tone. I was a bit nervous making him. Hehe...
Left. His outfit was fun to make. Very colorful. :D
Top. Yes, I managed to give him curly hair. Yay!
Right. His shoes are brown, but they look black in the pictures. *flails*


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Tyson Fury has admitted he has taken cocaine in the 'last few months', but revealed he has been struggling with serious depression in that time.
The heavyweight champion reportedly failed a drug test on September 22 taken by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency and has taken to Twitter in the last week to mock the allegations.
Fury gave an wide ranging interview to Rolling Stone magazine in which he explained his depression and insisted he has been the victim of a witch-hunt ever since he dethroned Wladimir Klitschko last year.
The 28-year-old opened up on a range of issues including walking away from boxing and here we break down exactly what he revealed.
On cocaine
'Listen, I've done a lot of things in my life,' Fury told Rolling Stone magazine. 'I've done lots of cocaine.
'Lots of it. Why shouldn't I take cocaine?
'It's my life, isn't it? I can do what I want. Yeah, I have done cocaine.
'Plenty of people have done cocaine as well. What the fuck has that got to do with anything? That ain't a performance-enhancing drug.
'Am I not allowed to have a life now as well? Do they want to take my personal life off me, too?
Fury record
25 fights
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Most recent fight: Fury def. Klitschko via unanimous decision – Nov 2015
'I've not been in a gym for months. I've not been training.
'I've been going through depression. I just don't want to live any more, if you know what I'm saying.
'I've had total enough of it. They've forced me to the breaking edge.
'Never mind cocaine. I just didn't care. I don't want to live any more.
'So cocaine is a little minor thing compared to not wanting to live any more.'
On the witch-hunt
'It's been a witch-hunt ever since I won that world title,' Fury said.
'Ever since I got a bit of fame for doing good there's been a witch-hunt on me because of my background, because of who I am and what I do, there's hatred for travellers and gypsies around the world.
'Especially in the United Kingdom.
'Especially with the British Boxing Board of Control and some of the sanctioning bodies of the world titles.
'From then on, they've tried to get me chucked out of boxing because they cannot tame me, they cannot hire me, I'm not for sale, no one can turn a key in my back, no one can do nothing to stop me.
'So now they're saying I took some cocaine and whatever.'
On depression
'I hope I die every day,' he said.
'And that's a bad thing to say when I've got three children and a lovely wife, isn't it?
'But I don't want to live any more. And if I could take me own life – and I wasn't a Christian – I'd take it in a second.
'I just hope someone kills me before I kill me self.
'I'll have to spend eternity in hell.'
On boxing
'To be honest, yes. I've not been in the gym for months. I've been awol.
'I've been out drinking, anything to get me mind off what's been going on to me.
'You wouldn't understand it if I told you. It's so corrupt. And the real people inside of boxing know what's going on. They know it.
'I don't see a way out, I don't even see a way of living for me, I don't want to live any more.
'It has brought me to the brink of death, that's where I'm at at the moment.
'It is crazy, that's what's going on, but listen, I don't really care.
'They've won. They've got what they wanted. That's it. I'm as fat as pig.
'I'm 285 pounds, 290 pounds. It is what it is. I've been out. I've been an emotional wreck.'
On moving forward
'I stopped it all on the first of the month.
'I'm trying to forget about it all.
'I'm putting boxing behind me, the drinking, the drugs, just getting back in the church and right with God.
'Cause that's all that matters with me. This is me first and last interview.
'I just want time alone with my family, I'm going through a lot of personal demons, I've got demons on me, I'm trying to shake them all off.
'I want a normal life. I don't want to box any more, I don't want it no more.'
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Make America Great Again!
That clever slogan swept our country and Donald J. Trump into our Oval Office.
But then Candidate Trump's message was not just a slogan but five words fronting an action plan.
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And that's why America moved for Mr. Trump.
President Trump's action plan, though constantly under attack and for no other legitimate reasons than just because, is moving forward.
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The Democrats, though abetted by media et al., lost the rigged Presidential election.
They're still losing.
And can't seem to figure out why.
They've concluded their problem is messaging.
Sipping this morning's coffee I read the Democrat's new message. Their official (new) slogan: A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages.
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Big, intrusive, meddling, corrupt, and ineffective government is why the Democrats lost.
Americans, dumb as they can be at times, figured that out.
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What you'll need
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1 Paint your dowel sticks with the white acrylic paint and leave to dry.
2 Inflate as many balloons as you require. Take one balloon and place a piece of tulle over it, gathering it at the bottom of the balloon.
3 Hold the tulle in place then using the scissors, cut the bottom to your desired length. Cut a piece of twine long enough to wrap around your gathered tulle then tie it around the tulle at the base of your balloon.
4 Take a dowel stick and place it inside the tulle at the base of the balloon. Tie in place with another piece of twine. Repeat for as many balloons as required.
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Be radiant this winter…
While winter brings in many happy and joyous feelings, it comes with certain inconveniences like dehydrated, patchy skins and other skin abrasions. To retain moisture and avoid flaky skins use of certain moisturizers and oils are imperative.
We have put together a simple yet effective regime which will retain skin hydration and make you look naturally radiant.
Few drops of olive/coconut/mustard oil in your belly button every day prevents chapped lips. This works because the naval is the epicenter of the body.
Avoid super hot baths. It is rather tempting and feels wonderful to take a super hot bath/shower. But it is a very bad idea. The supreme heat of a hot shower or bath destroys the lipid barriers in the skin, which leads to a loss of moisture.
After a bath, apply a body lotion/cream while the skin is still damp. It helps to seal the moisture. The moisturizer/cream should be enriched with Vitamin A and E.
Moisturize your feet. Feet need stronger moisturizing stuff than the rest of the body. So use lotions that contain petroleum jelly or glycerin. Also use a pumice stone to remove the dead skin cells regularly. This helps the moisturizer to sink in better and faster.
Keep your hands moist, especially in cold, dry weather. The skin on our hands is thinner than the rest of the body which is why they become dry and itchy much quicker than the rest of the body.
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Today is the premiere day of Chicago at Oslo Nye Theater! And our longest - leg member Sandra, is going to be on stage, performing as a Musical Artist this spring! Can´t wait to see you on stage!
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We work in a natural, unobtrusive style, documenting your wedding story, without fuss. Our aim is for you to spend as much time as possible with your guests as possible and to enjoying your day without feeling uncomfortable posing. We won't turn your day into one long photo shoot! The only time we take you away from your guests is for about 20 minutes whilst we create some lovely images of you both. Nothing too formal or posed just some relaxed photos of you both. We mix in with your guests and join in with the day celebrations, making your guests feel comfortable around us. We will still take those formal family group photos. These are pre-arranged by you and we'll enlist your nominated guests to help us organise the family photos, making them quick and painless as possible.
Sky Photography Milton Keynes Wedding Photographers based in Northamptonshire. We shoot wedding photography Warwickshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Included in our packages
Full Coverage
We'll start 2hrs before your ceremony and finish 30mins after your first dance. We can stay longer, just ask.
Beautifully Packaged USB
Containing 700+ fully edited images of your day, no dodgy watermarks or nasty low res tricks!
Emotional Slideshow
Images and music an emotional film of your day. Online ready for sharing with friends and family.
Full Ownership – License and Printing rights
You have full freedom to do what you like with your images.
Your Own Awesome Private Gallery
Share your wonderful images with all your family and friends.
Family & Friends Download Access
With your permission your friends and family can download their favourite images from your day at no extra cost.
Pre Wedding Meetup
We can either meet for coffee or we can arrange a Facetime/Skype meeting.
We don't charge anything more to travel to your wedding within a 50mile radius of Northampton. If you wedding is further then we may need to stay over.
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Bride Preparations
We captured the wedding preparations with 2 photographers and time synced cameras. So when you look back through your images you'll see both sides of your story come together with you getting married.Learn more about the benefits of having 2 Photographers
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With a second photographer we can tell the groom's story too! Whether that's, getting ready, drinks down the pub or just nervously meeting his guest at the venue. By having 2 wedding photographers at your wedding, it gets captured!Learn more about the benefits of having 2 Photographers
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We upload all your edited images to your own set of galleries for you to share with all your family and friends.
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We provide you with your own unique PIN code so you can immediately download high res watermark free images. You can also choose to share the PIN with your guests giving them access to their favourite images too.
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Simple and easy access to all your photos from your day on whatever device you use.
"There isn't more stars to tick so had to settle for 5.Sarah + MattBunkers Barn Milton Keynes
We had our wedding in September at Bunkers Barn.
Simon and Karla are amazing!
I could not ever wished for such nice guys to be part of our day ,you forget that they are photographers and relax in there presents and feel like there just friends taking part in your day.
To many photographers we met in process were overwhelming, these guys are by far Not.
They are supper talented, kind, respectful and just all round blooming nice people that you actually feel sad u will not see again.
Today we received our final piece of our day and once again there attention to detail is just beyond what we could of asked for.
Thank u from the bottom of our hearts for truly capturing our day .x
"Sky Photography covered our wedding at Chicheley Hall this October. Having seen what a wonderful job they did at my brothers wedding we were keen on using them for ours, and they didn't disappoint. They captured some beautiful moments and we are overwhelmed with the amount of amazing photographs we have to choose from. They were lovely to work with and made us feel very comfortable on the day. I would highly recommend them for your future wedding bookings.Gemma + AndrewChicheley Hall Wedding
"Can not express enough how amazing Simon and Karla are. We are so happy with our pictures and truly grateful how amazing and patient they were on the day. Karla even being 37 weeks pregnant but still just getting on with it and working so hard. Both just so easy to be around, thank you so so much!!Mr & Mrs Forde xxxxxFlaxbourne Gardens - Milton Keynes
"What can we say about Simon and Karla, total legends. They have gone above and beyond what we asked and paid for, capturing the day just as we wanted and remembered it. The photos are stunning, and wow was there a lot of photos, we didn't want many formal shots so they wondered around capturing people dancing, chatting and generally having a good time. Both Simon and Karla were great throughout the day, helping out with set up, having some banter with the wedding party and all the guests, and helping calm some nerves. We would 100% without a doubt recommend these guys for any wedding or special occasion. THANKS AGAIN AND MUCH LOVESarah and RossDodford Manor Wedding
The Packages
1 Photographer
- 9 Hrs Full Day Coverage
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2 Photographers
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- Your 700+ Images on USB
- Full Print License
- Meeting in person or via Skype
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Beautiful albums more coverage and engagement shoot
- Engagement Shoot – £249
- Additional Hours: 1 Photographer – £50 p/h 2 Photographers – £100 p/h
- Signing Frame – £149
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It's important to understand a Wedding Album can be ordered at anytime before or after your wedding. In fact on average couples spend 3 to 6 months digesting their images before choosing their album. This allows budgets to recover (a little) from that super wedding day expense.
Perfetto Album Description
From £419
A beautiful and yet durable, lay flat album that offers the largest range of covers and personalisation options. The pages are heavyweight and reassuring. Your images are printed in gloss directly to the page.
Apertura Album Description
From £599
An album of pure indulgence. This album benefits from the thickest pages of all the albums on offer. This is because each photo in your album is framed with a stylish mount. The mount covers the entire page increasing the thickness. This album comes with the genuine leather cover as standard.
Fine Art Album Description
From £479
An album of sheer subtle splendor. No quality is spared producing this album. The paper quality and the rounded album corners are the notable difference here. Using the finest cotton smooth paper, this ensures your photos are reproduced at their vivid best and in such fine detail. The album corners are gently rounded instead of square and there is also the option to have your personalisation debossed on the front of your album. The Fine Art collection also offers heavily discounted downscaled parents albums options.
Memento Parents Album Description
£219 per pair
Very similar to the Perfetto albums but downscaled. Like all the other albums they are lay flat which means photos can be reproduced across the center. The pages are heavy card and offer a great range of separate personalisation options.
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We're super excited to hear all about your day. Whether you're having a DIY wedding in Mums back field, some posh do at some stately home, a relaxed barn wedding or even down the registry office and back to the local for a knees up. We want to be there to capture it!
We do receive many enquiries and book up relatively early for key summer dates. Do get in touch as soon as possible, even if you're not quite ready to book just yet, still say hi!
We are Milton Keynes Wedding Photographers and live in Northamptonshire.
We will happily cover Weddings in: Warwickshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire and Buckinghamshire. We'll travel further too. So if you've got an exciting wedding in the planning, do get in touch.


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Have you finally decided that you might want to start a new career as an ultrasound technician in Westford VT? If you have, you're about to embark on one of the more wonderful occupations in the health care field. However, you're going to require the proper training and there are certainly some awesome ultrasound technician schools near Westford VT. This education and training is going to be the foundation to your success as a diagnostic medical sonographer.You will find tons of different colleges and training programs available for ultrasound technicians. But how do you know which one is likely to be the right one for you? Similar to any other vocation, there are a few really important items you must take into consideration first before signing up for any school and sonography training is no different.
Recommended Ultrasound Technician Schools Near Westford VT
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Here is a list of five things you should consider prior to selecting any ultrasound technician training program.
The first thing you need to understand is the school's accreditation. This is necessary as you need to make certain you are getting the best possible training . Every single sonography technician training program really should be accredited by the CAAHEP or an equivalent accrediting organization in your area.
The next detail to consider concerning your ultrasound technician training program is its focus. Some colleges put greater focus on the best ways to be employed in a medical-related setting, while some focus more on understanding the actual technology of sonography.
Clinical Training
Another very important factor you might want to consider is the practical learning experience. This is your real training , and this is where you can expect to actually be instructed how to use your ultrasound machinery. A number of schools commit significantly more time on your clinical experience compared to others. If your school is not spending major time with practical teaching, you might want to ask why. Generally in most States you need to possess a minimum amount of clinical hours logged prior to being eligible to apply for licensing.
Class Size
Something else you should think about is your class size. The size of your class may vary from school to school . Be certain to find out how small the classes are at the school you will end up going to as this should give you a clearer idea of how much one-on-one instruction you can expect.
Graduation Rate
The last item you will want to consider before buying an ultrasound technician training program is the success rate of the school you're considering. You should find out how many people graduate from the training program, what their comments were, and exactly how many of them have actually moved on to become ultrasound techs.
Ready to Make a Decision ?
Going over these important steps before choosing any ultrasound technician school will help make your final decision much easier and make it easier to become the highest quality sonographer you can possibly be. After your selection is made its now time to get ready for the path that lies in front of you, just what exactly should you anticipate during your sonography training?
Ultrasound Technician Training Expectations
Ultrasound technician training consists of instructing future sonographers the right way to monitor and understand different health conditions with the use of sound wave technology to capture images of bodily organs and human tissue. There are a lot of accredited institutions that offer this type of training courses, which includes clinical, laboratory and classroom instruction.
Technicians allocate the majority of their time in school working on the abilities required to operate and take care of ultrasound equipment . This enables them to produce medical images with the use of ultrasound procedures. In most cases, employers require techs to have obtained instruction from accredited schools in addition to having taken and passed the test set by the ARDMS (American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers).
Those employed in this career will have to be knowledgeable in human anatomy, medical jargon as well as patient assessment. Outstanding communication skills will also be preferred so that you can ease any concerns or apprehension a patient might have as they go through technical procedures. An eye for high quality imagery in addition to skills in selecting and analyzing images are also usually preferred.
Formal Education
Formal training will be received by signing up for a training program offered by ultrasound technician training programs, universities and colleges. The majority of hopeful ultrasound technicians prefer to register for 2-year associate's programs, however bachelor programs are also offered. Hopefuls have to possess a high school diploma with coursework having been completed in math, standard sciences as well as health.
Associate of Science in Ultrasound Technology
An Associate of Science in Ultrasound Technology training program concentrates on training students in the use of medical imaging machines, as a way to discover different health conditions as well as the treatments which should be applied . This specific diagnostic medical sonography training degree calls for quite a few hours spent in nearby health care facilities, hands-on training in classroom labs and in-class lectures . Typically , the topics of patient treatment procedures, medical ethics, anatomy, common physics and acoustic physics, are taught. Additional classes in abdominal scanning, vascular technology and obstetrics , can also be available.
Bachelor of Science in Diagnostic Ultrasound Technology
Traditionally, this degree requires 4 to 5 years to complete, and offers an in-depth study of a variety of ultrasound specialties that are necessary for graduates to be employed as researchers, administrators or shift supervisors. Training in gynecological, obstetrics and abdominal ultrasound procedures is provided through clinical internships and class room teaching. With a B.S. degree you will be in the upper half of all sonographers in terms of education and according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median salary for Diagnostic Medical Sonographers is over $65,000.
Job Experience
While the completion of an ultrasound technician training program is enough to find entry-level jobs in the field, five years of ultrasound experience is essential for better paying careers that come with further responsibility, for instance administration and management positions.
Certification & Licensing
Ultrasound Technicians do not need to be certified ; however, the vast majority of companies would prefer to hire technicians that possess certificates from a certifying association, such as the ARMDS. The reason being certification provides evidence that an individual has the abilities and know-how required to work effectively and efficiently.
Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
Individuals trying to obtain a RDMS certificate will have to pass the certifying test set by the ARDMS . When the test is passed, a specific number of units in continuing education needs to be completed, so that you can maintain your certification. This form of ultrasound technician training might cover various specialties, including abdominal, nervous system or breast imaging.
Ultrasound Technician Training in Westford, VT reviewed by Kevin TORRES on June 30.
Great site for info on Sonography
Thank You for creating such a great site. I was able to locate info about the ultrasound programs in my city and located one that is perfect for my situation. I've now started my training and can't wait to become an Ultrasound Technician.


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Monday marked 19 years of me being on Earth and it was such a brilliant day. My birthday always gives me a chance to reflect on what I've done over the past year and what I want to do in the next. All the dreams and hopes that i have, How I want to make the next year I have around to be one of the best ones possible. It's always a time that I get to spend with my family and relax. So, here's what I got up to.
The MorningI always open my presents from my parents and my sister in the morning. So, even though I didn't really have to wake up early, my sister and mam had to head into work by half eight and I was awake anyway. So after a full english breakfast, I sat down to open my cards and presents from them. I knew what my parents had gotten me since I had asked them for something specific. I was dying to get a Canon Legria Cam-corder and was so excited to open it up! It's gorgeous and I'm so excited to start using it My sister's present took a while for me to unwrap. After opening at least six layers of wrapping paper I was face with an envelope, The card had a scratch and reveal at the front of it for me to find out what my present was, I screamed as soon as it said that I was going to see Hamilton in West End. I'm such a massive Hamilton fan and I go on about the musical non-stop (see what I did there). So, it's a dream come true to be able to go and see it on stage.
Dinner With My FamilyThe day was a little more quiet than the morning. My mam and sister were in work, although my sister did come back early to spend time with me. Dad was pottering around the house as well. In the end, I spent some time talking to a couple of my friends and watching a few films. Once my mam had come home we headed into Cardiff for my meal at Wahaca. I love this place so much. It has such a relaxed atmosphere and the food was lush. It was the perfect evening. After we came home, I got to blow out my candles on the most amazing salted caramel cake! 19 feels like such a weird age to me. It's my last year of being a teenager, the year that I start university and it all seems a little crazy. I'm looking forward to whatever this year brings to me though. 18 was a brilliant year and it bought me so many things that I'll look back on and cherish. Here's to my 19th year bringing me just as much happiness.
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