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It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the incredible loss of a loving husband, amazing father and gentle grandfather, Ted (Edward) Ciezki who left us too soon at the age of 63.
Ted was born in Sexsmith, AB, the second youngest of 8 children to proud parents Mike & Alice Ciezki. He spent his childhood years on the farm with his brothers John & Tom, school years playing & excelling at numerous sports. It was at a school dance where he met the love of his life Carrie, before moving to Vancouver, eloping to Hawaii and eventually settling down in Sherwood Park, AB to start a family. He worked up North for a year before getting into construction where he spent most of his life, working hard at whatever job he was at.
Ted's greatest love was for his family–semicolon– he was happiest when everyone was together hosting family dinners every Sunday & other get-togethers, from curling bonspiels to the annual Horseshoe tournament. He loved spending time outdoors around the yard, travelling to the mountains and Maui beaches and really anywhere where there was water. He was a proud dad–semicolon– spent many years coaching football & track & there were countless road trips to cheer all of his kids on from soccer, to football to basketball. He loved his grandkids greatly & their favourite memories were of water fights, sleepovers & movies, ice cream and having grandpa there to cheer them on in any of their activities.
Ted will be greatly missed by his wife of 41 years, Carrie–semicolon– his children, Heidi & Cory, Chris & Laurie, Amy & Bob, Matt & Laura–semicolon– as well as his 8 grandchildren Brooke, Brady, Blake, Bodie, Natalya, Aurelia, Sophia & Alyse.
Left also to grieve are Ted's siblings and their spouses, Emily and Ken Small, Betty Unger, Adele Unger, John Ciezki, Tom and Daryl Ciezki–semicolon– mother-in-law Grace Mosenko–semicolon–in laws Cindy Mosenko–semicolon– Randy Housman–semicolon– Dexter Mosenko, Brad Mosenko, Colleen Lindsay, Claris Trydal–semicolon– as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Ted was predeceased by his parents, Mike and Alice–semicolon– brother Richard–semicolon– father-in-law Ivan–semicolon– sister, Helen Gobin–semicolon– brothers-in-law Jim Unger and Maurice Gobin–semicolon– sister-in-law Cheryl Housman–semicolon– and nephew Trevor Housman.
Prayers will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday June 22, 2018 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 13 Brower Drive, Sherwood Park. Father Jim Corrigan will celebrate a Funeral Mass on Saturday, June 23 at 10:30 a.m. at the same location. Interment to follow at Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, 4804 Meridian Street NW, Edmonton.
If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to the Greater Edmonton Animal Rescue Society (GEARS), P.O. Box 69013 Skyview, Edmonton, AB, T6V 1G7.


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Christian Formation
At St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, we believe that Christian formation is a lifelong journey. It is our conviction that God forms us into the people God has created us to be as we study scripture, learn the teachings and traditions of the church, and listen to one another's stories.
Sunday Mornings during the Academic Year
Adults and Teenagers
During the academic year, all ages gather at 9:30 am for Sunday School. Our teenagers and adults gather in the parish hall. Over snacks and coffee, we discuss matters of faith. We always invite newcomers to join us for our lively conversation and learning.
Pre-K through 7th Grade
We have a few different classes in the Early Building for children. Our caring volunteers delight in helping children grow in faith. We would love to welcome more children into the parish. We welcome you to give us a call if you are trying to decide if St. Stephen's could be a good fit for your family.
Intergenerational Learning
On a few special Sundays in the year, our whole parish gathers together for Christian Formation. On Palm Sunday, we enjoy hands-on learning leading up to Holy Week. On the First Sunday of Advent, we prepare Advent Wreathes together.
Lenten Lunches
Guest speakers from outside our area enhance our learning each year when we host luncheons that are open to the community.
Inquirer's Classes
During Lent each year, we host classes to welcome newcomers to our community. Regardless of the time of year, the leadership at St. Stephen's delights in sharing the faith with newcomers anytime.

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Christmas is kind of awesome, what can I say. I realized with a sudden seize of the chest a few minutes ago that it's time for the annual toy purge. It's been a pretty hardcore obsession of mine since I realized kids mean toys, that every year, somewhere between birthday and Christmas, we would go through all of Ro's toys and collect everything she no longer played with, or that I was pretty sick of picking up off the floor, and donate it to a local shelter for families in need. I have a few things in mind for this year that will be on their way out the door in short order, and seem to be on the fence about ditching her Parents Magazine Raise the Roof barn, since she's managed to break off both a window and a door now. Awesome.
Anyway, the barn is thus:
wooden toy that I found at Tuesday Morning for $16.98. WHAT. Right? But on the other hand, my daughter is actually crazy and likes to pull off the wooden slats that make up the roof and throw them. I've given consideration to nailing them on, or in the very least, superglue, but I think she'd get so mad that she couldn't take them off anymore, that she'd throw the whole barn.
And don't try telling me that she's not strong enough, day before yesterday I found her bed in the middle of the room. If it was upside down I would have said, "definitely a little early to take on a Poltergeist, Ro," but it wasn't, so I know it was her and only her. She's a freak of nature.
Hello, I digress. All this to say, I can't decide if I should give the barn away or not. Maybe just give the barn away and keep all the animals and fences. Because really, my intention is to buy one of those amazing $400 Holztiger wooden dollhouses that looks like it could be a house or barn or fairy bower or anything you want it to be before the new lead testing laws make all toys impossible to purchase.
What am I talking about, where am I going to get the guts to spend $400 on a dollhouse?
...No matter how cute it is.


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Good user experience design ensures that the desires of a user are put at the forefront of design decisions. This is informed by establishing a strong strategic direction at the start of a project, that creative can be measured against as a project progresses.
What is user experience design?
UX design considers how a user digests your content and drives them to a clear area of engagement or "call to action", through empathic design.
Keeping gains an understanding of your audience through research, including eye movement tracking, focus groups, field studies, usability testing and A/B testing.
Create valuable experiences
UX design turns a standard interface into a focussed platform, driving users through their journeys and, ultimately, to your desired outcome – whether it be a purchase, enquiry or another call to action.
The process usually manifests in clear, strategic wireframes and user flow diagrams that intelligently inform subsequent design work
Interested in UX design?
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a moment for forgiving myself
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future"
During 2017, I did a lot of reflecting on how I got to where I am now. I grew up thinking that there is only one way to be "happy and successful": be a good person, and good things will happen to you. Seems simple enough, right?
I did well in school. I didn't cuss. I didn't drink. I certainly didn't rebel too much. I was good, so I figured good things were bound to happen to me.
Life happened, and I soon found out that it doesn't matter how "good" or "bad" you are: life doesn't discriminate. Whether you are on a straight, narrow path or you've been zigzagging through your existence, life will find a way to shake you up.
Sh*t just happens.
That reality check didn't sit well with me. Honestly...I was confused. And pissed. So I decided to throw the rules I followed away, and I buried my morals and values away for a bit. I was just existing. I drank a lot. I looked for love in the wrong places. I cussed like I didn't know any other words. It didn't seem like a huge change, since nobody was really hurt during my 5-year "bad girl" streak. But a point came when I would look into the mirror, and I just didn't know who I actually was.
So I decided to dig myself back up.
After going over all of the zigzagging I did, I cried out for forgiveness. I forgave myself for abandoning the girl I used to be, heavily based on trying to be someone more fit for "society". I had fallen for the trap, and I was disappointed in myself. So, God and I had a moment of forgiveness, and I was able to forgive myself, privately.
The End. I'm all better now!
...not quite.
What I didn't realize is that forgiving yourself privately is way different than forgiving yourself publicly. When I initially forgave myself, I truly kept it to myself. I didn't tell anyone: not my friends, not my family, not even my boyfriend at the time. All I would say was, "I'm better now." I kept it all in, and it would fester. This (without my knowing) would cause random anxiety attacks, immediate "shut downs", and hypocrisy.
Have you ever gone through a time in your life where you had no idea what the hell you were doing? You were constantly trying to figure out how you "fit" into the world? Did you think that there was a blueprint on how to live life, and when things went sideways, you looked for the nearest cliff to jump off?
It's okay. Forgive yourself, immediately.
To forgive yourself, you have to be real with yourself and other people. It's okay to admit, "Yes, I f*cked up. But I'm still a good person, and I'm doing better."
I had to learn to tell my story in my own way, to the people I love. I had to learn to really embrace my journey head on, and that included forgiving myself publicly.
It's never too late to forgive yourself. Privately, and then publicly. No matter what the story is, or how big you think your mess is, it doesn't matter. It's going to be okay...just start with forgiveness.


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Which Temperament Are You?
Talk on the four temperaments: Saturday, April 28 at 7:00 p.m.
Chesterton Academy 155 S. Executive Drive, Brookfield (inside Cardinal Stritch facility)
Learn and laugh while you discover more about yourself at our FREE Culture of Life event! All are welcome.
- Wine and cheese will be served
- Lecture on the four temperaments by pro-life bioethicist Dr. Marisa Beffel
- Based on the book The Temperament God Gave You: The Classic Key to Knowing Yourself, Getting Along with Others, and Growing Closer to the Lord


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Hey fellow gamers, welcome to my personal blog. I'm Kaylee and I am a Fortnite player same like you. This blog will be about online video games, but most will be about our beloved Fortnite since I always play it after school.
I am going to share some tips and tricks on how to play Fortnite for beginners, how to get most Vinderbucks and anything. I am going to share some stream on how I play. There will also be some tutorials on how to get lots of V Bucks in Fortnite.
So, stay tuned and follow me on my new journey.
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The weather in Atlanta has been pretty warm already for the past few months! Now with it officially being summer time people are itching to get poolside and do some grilling. It brings back summer memories as a kid being off from school and having a backyard cook out with friends and family. The Original Hot Dog Factory in Smyrna can give you that summer feeling all year long with their awesome line up of classic and creative hot dogs.
Right down the street from Rev Coffee, The Original Hot Dog Factory stands out with it's clean and classic black and white motif.
The menu has some great traditional hot dogs along with some very flavorful and creative dogs.
You have the All American dog that is the classic beef hot dog topped with ketchup, mustard, relish and onions. Along with a legit Chicago dog complete with tomatoes, a pickle spear, sport peppers, sweet relish, onions, mustard and celery salt on a poppy seed bun.
Then you start getting into the themed dogs; there's my favorite, the Taco Dog thats topped with Factory Chili, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, guacamole, jalapeños and crushed tortilla chips for a great crunch.
The LA Dog is wrapped in bacon and they even have a Jamacian jerked chicken dog topped with pineapple.
If you don't want a hot dog, they have other options including salad, wings, a burger or a grilled chicken sandwich. For dessert you HAVE to get their Funnel Cake sticks. Same great treat that you get from the fair just easier to eat. They have deep fried oreos and twinkies for more deep fried fun.
So after I ate my weight in hot dogs and funnel cake I was able to sit down and chat with co-owner and all around amazing lady, Felicia Atkinson. Felicia was born and raised in Jamacia and came to America when she was 16. She originally went to college to receive her bachelors in biology as well as her masters in cancer biology. After working in cancer research for awhile this savy entrepreneur met business partner, Denis Mckinley and together they opened a hair business in New York.
It was a trip to Atlanta where Dennis threw out the idea to take over The Hot Dog Factory and food lover Felicia jumped on board. She moved down to Atlanta and got the Hot Dog Factory back up in August of 2016.
I found out Felicia and I share a love of Asian cuisine and her favorite restaurant in her area is Kuroshio and for a taste of home she loves Jamaica Mi Krazy.
Their future goal is to franchise the restaurant and also start some food trucks. They will be opening another location in midtown soon so stay on the lookout.
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So, I asked four-year-old Joshua, "Are you a bear?"
"No," in a 'grown-ups are so stupid' voice.
"Oh, then you must be a robot."
"No, no." 'Grown-ups ask dumb questions' voice.
"Oh, I know. You are a chicken!"
Big sigh of exasperation."I am not a chicken! Look at my mask. I'm Batman!"
And he left, shaking his head, but not before he got his candy and not before he said "Thank you" in a polite voice,
because whatever he may think about grown-ups, Joshua has been reared to be be well mannered.


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The journey never ends
A few months ago I realized I really wasn't feeling the best. I was extremely tired out, not the normal tired. The type of tired that I really had to push myself hard every day, to put in the efforts to shower and do my hair and makeup for the day . I felt nauseous, and there were days I would look at myself and my color just wasn't right. I was also bleeding, a lot and it came to a point that it seemed so constant that I knew there was something wrong. But my parents were coming all the way from Canada and I just did my best to push everything aside. It was more important for me to do my best to create some amazing memories with my folks and my husband.
We got through the wonderful month with my folks, and right back to "normal" life. But something just wasn't right for me. And I just couldn't ignore it anymore. So to the doctors I went. My blood pressure was extremely high and my doc was worried about the amount of blood loss I was experiencing, so we did a few more tests. I was sent for what's called the LLETZ procedure, which is a large loop excision to remove cervical tissue for examination. A thin wire loop heated by an electrical current is used like a scalpel to remove the abnormal tissue from the transformation zone of the cervix. And the results that came back from that....well it was cervical cancer.
So what came next was the very harsh reality that I was totally unprepared for. It meant meeting my team of specialists and my surgeon. Asking what questions I could remember on the spot and staying clear minded enough that I could keep my self in check with what was to come. So that I could prepare myself, my husband, family and friends for a long road, one way or the other. And on top of all that, thinking and staying positive. Firstly and most importantly, for myself, but also for everyone around me that cares and loves me. It wouldn't help myself or anyone else if I was a sad sacks all the time. Plus that goes against every grain in my body.
It all happened very quick. One day I'm making a video about my phone call of the shitty news I have received, and the next I'm in a hotel room trying to prepare myself for my extensive surgery that was going to happen the next day. My husband was doing "his best", which meant that he was extremely quiet and didn't really know what to say or do. So instead he just watched me float around, making sure my bags were properly packed for him to bring me once I was settled in my recovery room. And I was answering loving phone calls and text messages from near and far, showing love, support and well wishes. I knew I had to go to bed and try to get some sort of sleep or even a rest, but my mind was racing with thoughts that seemed too many to compartmentalize. All I knew was that it was going to be a very long day the next day and the recovery process, whatever that may be, will take even longer. So I was trying to prepare my stubborn self for the FACT that I had to slow down and make sure that I was the top priority on the getting well train.
The next morning came, the day of surgery. I felt anxious and couldn't really tell if I was scared on top of that. I was told there were only three of these procedures done in one day, so I wanted to get there early to hopefully be the first one of the day, to hurry up and start recovery. And for once, being early paid off. I was the first surgery of the day, which meant I could get this show on the road. After my paperwork prep I was wheeled off to get physically prepped for surgery. It was then, that with tears in our eyes, my husband and I gave our sweet kisses and said "I'll see you in a bit babe", to one another. I was worried about him, more than myself. I had a sinking suspicion that his inner monster called depression, would bring it's ugly self to the surface. But I had to push that aside for the time being, so I could focus on the millions of repetitive questions that were being asked, and to keep positive.
When I woke from surgery I just remember waking up in my recovery room. And the beginning part of it all was a blur. As time went on, the pain I was experiencing was out of this world. And I felt so sick to my stomach. I was throwing up, A LOT. And I say A LOT, because my nurses told me in comparison to most, it was A LOT. During recovery they want to get you up and mobile as soon as they can... and I wanted to do the same. I kept telling myself, "the sooner you get your ass up and moving, the sooner you can go home to your own space and comfort". So I tried. Hard. But the pain on my right side felt like I was being cut open with a burning hot serrated knife on the inside. I couldn't even stand up straight. And this seemed to continue, so my pain meds were looked at and all in all were changed three times. The second dose of new meds, were given to me through my epidural which I had in my back for three days. And they completely numbed my entire right side from waist down. So when the lovely nurses tried to get me into the shower chair, dropping me buck naked was not the best time of my life! But we had a good chuckle over it through my severe pain! LOL
So the week went on in hospital. The surgical team and nurses that were wonderfully taking care of me were so amazing, as were my physiotherapists. They were all so friendly and I could always make them laugh and put a smile on their faces. I truly could not have asked for better care. And then came discharge day. HALLELUJAH !!! As sore as I was, and as weak as I felt, I put on my brave face and smiles and couldn't wait to go home. It was a little daunting as well. Because I had such amazing care in the hospital and could rely on the fact I knew someone would be right there for me, I knew it wouldn't quite be the same at home. But nonetheless I was ready to go. The head of anesthesiology came in to see me and go over my medications for home recovery, he was very unsure as to whether or not he should let me go home. He proceeded to apologize to me for the amount of unnecessary pain I was in. Stating that, " I had had a really rough go of it and it shouldn't have been that way. That my pain meds weren't handled the way they should have been for my relief". As much as I agreed with him, at that point I was just used to the pain I was in I didn't know any different. And I had it set in my mind that I was ready to go home, so that's exactly what I did.
And the journey continues...
Written by Shannon Parsons July 2018


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Location: 2821 Murray Street, Port Moody, BC
Meal: Beer Flight and Dat Juice and Juice Plus IPA
Service: Counter service, no table service.
Atmosphere: Smaller than some of the other breweries in the area but the ambiance is still fantastic. Intimate but also warm and comforting.
Bottom line: I don't recall all the ones that I had because at this point of the evening I was getting a bit tipsy. But what I do remember was the ones that I really enjoyed which was Dat Juice IPA and Juice Plus. Both were SO refreshing and the names of their beers are so entertaining.
Out the door price: $7 for a flight Prices ranging from $5-$12 for a glass/pint (could be $10), again I'm sort of fuzzy at the moment.
Repeat: Yes
Final Rating: 5/5 Hands down best brewery on the strip.


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Year of the Umpire: The 'No-Look' Botched Foul CallBy admin on August 10, 2010 | Comments Off
Jim Joyce may have made one of the worst calls in MLB history earlier this year, but at least he had the decency to pay attention during the play in question.
8 Games with Disastrously Botched Rescue MissionsBy admin on July 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Generally, the first rule when it comes to rescuing hostages is 'don't let everybody get horribly done in.' But sadly, this proves too much of a stumbling block for many game heroes. Be it accidentally killing geriatrics with a killer virus or letting the damsel in distress get crushed by a cow, these rescue missions get botched. Spectacularly.


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March Model Crush
Kicking off our monthly Model Crush is Haven Turner! From Birmingham fashion week, Belk's Prom 2012 campaign, appearances in local Florida magazines to even landing a part in Disney Channels up coming new film "Until we meet again" this Megan Fox look alike inspired us to make her our March Crush.
"The reason why I'm doing this is because its been a passion and goal of mine since I was younger and I want to continue to grow as a model and better myself for the future. I want to soon make a career out of modeling and venture out into acting and start my own clothing line"
Haven currently left Wihelmina but now is in the hands of a local Miami agency CGM (Caroline Gleason Management) and Click Management where she got offered a network contract all over the US. Keep up with her fabulous life and adventures on twitter and tumblr!
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Brisbane, Queensland Australia
My first memory of travel
Being taken out of the kids club in Fiji with my siblings to a local village. We got to taste some of the traditional food and I remember being very worried at the time but now thinking back to it, it was a very cool experience.
My first trip abroad
Recent trips
Hawaii, San Francisco, Tasmania
My favorite place to travel
Everywhere! but if I have to be more specific Queensland & Northern New South Whales beaches or Skiing in Canada.
My dream vacation
Eating and drinking my way through Italy one Aperol spritz and bowl of pasta at a time.
My ultimate survival bag for international flights
Hydralyte, lots of water, a toothbrush and a box of Arnott's shapes to snack on.
My travel tips to make a long flight seem not quite as
A good book, snacks and lots of movies.
My favorite destination we sell
Queensland, nothing beats our beaches and the Great Barrier Reef.
My best travel advice
Do your research! and take your time to do each destination properly rather than cramming in too many different places at once.
If I weren't in the travel industry, I would be busy
making a living doing
Owning my own coffee shop and florist somewhere exciting.
I fell in love with travel
From my love of being on holidays and experiencing new places
My happy place
A farm inland from Northern NSW beaches.
My favorite travel companion
My partner Ben & my family
I'd love to take a trip with
David Attenborough.
What I do when I'm not at work
Explore NYC, stay active and eat good food


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About Robbie
This is the best way to summarize me: I'm an IT Consulting, Digital Marketing, Ghostwriting, Copywriting, Career Advancement Author and Super Connector.
Actually, Let me make it easier.
I help companies create and execute digital transformation strategies
I Take 250 Coffee Meetings a Year
I don't love coffee. I love people. And most importantly I love helping people. I built my network in Chicago by taking 250 coffee meetings a year. Entrepreneurs, Investors, Founders, CIO's, CEO's, New Grads, Marketers, Programmers, Consultants. You name it, I've had coffee with them.
This allows me to connect interesting people with interesting things.
Enterprise is in My Blood. But I'm an Entrepreneur at Heart.
I'm lucky. I've been able to implement large scale IT projects for Accenture and Deloitte for some of the biggest companies in the world (as shown on the right). I've seen how great projects run and I've seen projects fail faster than I could ever imagine. I've seen more cubicle layouts than I would like to admit.
(P.S. If you name your project, "Project Vegas" because it's one big gamble, you deserve for it to fail).
I'm lucky because I've seen how the enterprise works from the inside. I'm blessed because I've worked for several startups in Chicago.
I Wrote a Book! (And Also write for Inc Magazine)
The good news about this picture is that it's real, and I didn't have to pay for it.
Do you know what happens after you publish your first book?
You try to get as many people as possible to read it.
Do you know what happens when you realize that your friends probably won't read your book?
You learn marketing.
And that's exactly what I did.


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- 3/4 c. butter room temperature
- 1 1/4 c. granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 10 to 12 drops green food coloring
- 2 3/4 c. all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 c. Andes Creme de Menthe baking chips
Servings: dozen
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Add butter and sugar to stand mixer. Cream together, until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl, if needed. Add vanilla and food coloring, mix until light, fluffy and green.
- In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add the flour mixture to mixer on low speed, until combined. Stir in mint chips. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
- Drop cookie dough by the tablespoon onto a prepared baking sheet spaced 2-inches apart. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Let cool.
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Rakuten *
An online marketplace with a huge range of products at great prices, including music, games, books, computing equipment, groceries, DVD, Blu-ray and much, much more
The official Disney Store offers a whole host of personalised items including clothing, towels, soft toys, bags, bedding and collectibles, along with entire back catalogue of Disney DVDs and an extensive range of games and CDs.
The online arm of the UK's second largest supermarket offers a range of products and services including electricals, CDs, DVDs, games, contact lenses, flowers, gifts, photo processing and mobile phones on both contract and pay as you go.... all at ASDA price chink chink!
Swap Shop allows you to recycle your unwanted items into items that you do want. It works by allowing you to swap you unwanted items for Swap Points. You can then use these point to buy items listed on the site such as DVDs, books, games and CDs. The good thing is there are are no fees and no Noel Edmonds!
A wide range of competitively priced music CDs and DVDs with free worldwide delivery. Site stocks current releases and an extensive back-catalogue. PLease note that some items may be sourced from outside the UK so it's a good idea to check the track listing and format before you order.
LOVEFiLM *
One of Europe's leading and largest online DVD and game rental service. Rentals are unlimited and delivered to your door. There is also a film download service for broadbandists.
The online store of the Discovery Channel featuring books, DVDs, health and fitness products, videos and educational toys and unique gifts.
We are an online shopping store of Islamic products. Our product range includes Islamic clothing, Islamic DVDs, Islamic books, Quran, digital Quran, Halal food and much more.
The latest, top-brand electrical appliances for the person, home, kitchen office and car. Also featured a section dediated to Apple. Part of the Otto Group, one the world's largest home shopping companies.
An online DVD retailer that offers some of the most competitive prices on DVD, CDs, music downloads games and stuff.
Amazon has been one of the daddies of web-based retailing since it started since it opened its online book store in 1995. Nowadays they stock a much wider range of products including CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray, video games, toys, electrical products and a shed load more.
Music, movies and books from Tesco direct. Shop from thousands titles, pre-order the latest releases and have them delivered to your door. Clubcard points on every order.
A leading online retailer providing CDs, DVDs, books and video games. Their extensive range includes both new releases and an extensive back catalogue.
CD101 offers a secure and guaranteed online shopping service that only bills you once your order has been fulfilled. They stock every UK & major import music title, along with a range of DVDs, videos, games and other merchandise.
Base *
A leading online retailer selling a wide range of products including DVDs, CDs, books, clothing, home electronics and computing, toys and games. Base boasts fast and free delivery in the UK, and industry-leading customer service.
Zavvi *
Send It features a comprehensive range of Blu Ray, DVDs, CDs, games books and more... and perfume, lingerie, flowers and gifts. Low prices and free delivery to the UK and Ireland. Was Blackstar in a past life.
One-stop entertainment shop stocking DVDs, CDs and console games with free delivery. Worth a look!
A DVD and music shop offering a huge range of Region 1 & Region 2 DVD titles and an extensive music catalogue.
Bensons World is a branch of the longest established video online and mail order company in the UK. Stocking over 30,000 videos and DVDs. Bensons World provides a wide variety of home entertainment at discounts of up to 40%.
The online verion of the London-based Doctor Who and SciFi store offers merchandise, signed exclusives and detail of the latest events.
eBay UK *
eBay was the first and is still one of the best regarded auction sites on the net. Their extremely usable site includes one of the biggest range of goods for sale on the web.
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text: Mary J Blige & Flex Talk Divorce, Kanye, The Lox, & Issues w/ Faith Evans Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex pulls no punches in this very honest sit down with Queen of hiphop Soul MJB. A must watch for all Mary fans. Record BoxMarch 30, 2017 Facebook0 Twitter LinkedIn0 StumbleUpon Reddit Tumblr Pinterest0 0 Likes


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Peripheral Vision: A Chicago Perimeter ride project (2015-ongoing)
A selection of photographs by Curtis Locke
"Here's the three Rs -- Repetition. Repetition. Repetition." -- Mark e. Smith (the Fall)
Is the presence of a bicycle in an art gallery an inevitable Duchampian gesture, or is it sometimes just Freud's cigar? A bicycle without a cyclist is simply a potential ride, while a cyclist without a bicycle is a bi-ped.
"All is in flux, nothing stays still." -- Heraclitus
The Chicago perimeter ride is a fleeting, ephemeral yet concrete street traffic performance staged site-specific on the outskirts and along the city limits of Chicago. The streets serve as a fringe theater where the methodical, methodized actor-cyclist performs his routine. This ritual ride is repeated like a meditation, a prayer, poem, a song.
"Repetition is a form of change." -- Brian Eno
The route is routinized but varies from time to time. This routine act, spinning bicycle and body, tracing boundaries and memories, traverses 90+ miles through Chicago's built environment. There have been 97 performances to date, both clock-wise and counter, encountering 39 of Chicago's 77 community areas and 30 adjacent municipalities, covering over 8,900 miles. During this same span another 10,000+ miles were pedaled outside the parameters of this project. These cyclical edge performances, fluid and mechanical, topographical but not isochronous, are typically six to seven hours in duration. Completing a circuit, I physically echo previous rides while simultaneously feel the invisible pull of (and anxiously anticipate) the next cycle round, looping endless endless.


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After almost a year of blogging (what?!) I realize that I have numerous DIY wreath tutorials. They have also been some of my most popular posts this past year. I decided to do a roundup post for you all so that all of your favorite wreath tutorials are in one place. This way you can refer to this post whenever you need some new wreath inspiration!
Spring Wreath
My first wreath and one of my most popular is a simple hoop wreath with three flowers and to sprigs of lambs ears. Simple, beautiful, and perfect for spring! There are many ways to make this wreath your own by picking out the flowers and greenery of your choice. For the full tutorial click here
Fall Wreath
The fall wreath is my personal favorite. The combination of colors and adorable bow make come back to this wreath again and again. For the full tutorial click here
Magnolia Leaf Wreath
This is a wreath that I wish I had made sooner. It's simple since there is only one leaf and it's also timeless and perfect for every season! Check out the full tutorial here
Simple Greenery Wreath
This simple greenery wreath is in competition with my fall wreath for my favorite. It's simplisitc beauty is classic and timeless and can be used for every season!
Christmas Wreath
Last but not least is my Christmas hoop wreath. What I love most about this wreath is the added detail of the hand-lettered word on fabric. This is a detail that you can easily add to any of your wreaths! You may also have noticed that I used the same bow for this wreath as the one from my fall wreath.
Changing out wreaths for different seasons doesn't have to be hard or intimidating. Use and re-use what you have, think simple, and get creative!
I would love to see the wreaths that you make! Tag me on Instagram @scenesfromcedarstreet when you make your next wreath!


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Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrives in the Pahandut area of Palangkaraya, the capital of Central Kalimantan province, on Saturday (Oct 31) to see how its residents are doing amid the haze problem.
He also visits a state-run primary school.
In Pahandut, everyone puts on a broad smile as this reporter passes through a neighbourhood alley.
The sun has been visible for the past two days after rain poured in many parts of Kalimantan, dousing fires that had shrouded Palangkaraya for more than two months.


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Reuniting families is its own reward, even when the lost family member is a pet.
Though dog at large and impound calls are not increasing, citizens are reaching out on social media more frequently, seeking help in locating their missing pets. Amid that increase of lost pet posts on a local garage sale Facebook page, Kimball man Tom O'Brien set in motion a new page, Kimball Area Pet Search and Doggy Database.
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text: The Big Drop Update: Due to circumstances out of our control, The Big Drop has been rescheduled to Saturday 12th October 2019. We've also added two more afternoon slots between 4PM and 6PM. We look forward to seeing you there. Dare to go over the edge of Birmingham's iconic Custard Factory? Brave new heights and join us at the Custard Factory for our 40th Anniversary Abseil. Take in the amazing Birmingham skyline as you rappel alongside the Green Man sculpture. Whether you're an adrenaline junkie or want to overcome your fears, our abseil will give you that WOW factor whilst raising vital funds. Located in the heart of Digbeth and Birmingham, the Custard Factory is known for its alternative culture and great days out. Bring your friends and family down to support you as you abseil the equivalent of 7 double-decker buses! Make a day of it and enjoy everything the Custard Factory has to offer. Date: Saturday 12th October 2019 Start Your Abseil! Join the party in our 40th year by dressing up in 70's gear or your favourite fancy dress outfit! Make your abseil unique with you dazzling costumes and get your picture taken whilst hanging over the edge. We have time slots throughout the day between 10am and 6pm. You will briefed and taken up to the roof in groups so you won't be waiting around for long. Select whether you would like to abseil in the morning or afternoon when booking and we will allocate you an hour time slot. Give us an idea of your preferred time and we will try our best to match this (allow 30 minutes before to be briefed). Sponsorship Sign-up and secure your place at this exciting event and we are asking that you raise a minimum of £100 sponsorship. You'll receive a fundraising pack which will help you easily achieve this target in no time. This could help pay for a Nebuliser, an essential piece of kit to care for individuals with respiratory disorders. Why not set yourself a higher target of £200 which could help fund emotional and practical support, giving people back their confidence and zest for life? Raise over £200 and you'll be entered into a draw for a mystery grand prize. It's an unforgettable experience, and back on the ground, the money you raise will be used to fund our vital end of life care services and provide support for individuals living with life limiting illnesses. Secure Your Place! If you can't do the 12th October or looking for a team building day, not to worry! We have another abseil at the Wesleyan Building on the 21st September: Click here! Restrictions There is no weight limit, but there is a maximum size for the harness: chest - 115cm, waist - 150cm, leg - 90cm. The minimum age is 16 years old and all under 18s will need an additional parental consent so a parent/legal guardian must attend on the day. Kindly supported by: Book your abseil today! Book a place Ticket Quantity Price Standard Ticket No more tickets to add Decrease Enter quantity Increase £30.00 Book


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Building a commercial drone application is complex. You are dealing with a number of issues, both in hardware and software. Some of the important decisions include, overall architecture of onboard, web/mobile and cloud components of your drone application, integration between these components, authentication/security, hardware selection based on processing, connectivity and storage requirements, etc.
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We know that not every project is the same and that you may be in need of additional sensors to get the right kind of data. We've got you covered. Our UAV platforms can be outfitted with additional sensors or we carry a specific sensor for a specific job.
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Our engineers are always pushing the boundaries of new technology to stay ahead of the curve and provide more solutions to the markets we serve. We have strategic partnerships with UAV manufacturers to enhance our capability. Our team has years of experience in aviation technology. Every project has specific requirements and we strive to be flexible when it comes to meeting project requirements in any way.
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5 Sites That Pay for Literary Writing
Do you need a little side hustle to make some extra income while you're working on your book? Submit your writing to literary sites!
Not all are currently accepting submissions, so read through their guidelines. We'll be adding resources with future blog posts, so be sure to check back here. Or signup for our newsletter to stay up to date: http://contentmo.com/newsletter-signup/
Here's a list of five websites that pay for literary writing:
The Atlantic - Read through the "Submissions to The Atlantic" section of the FAQ
Tin House - Tin House accepts submissions in the months of September and March. Their website states: We are currently reading for all open issues as well as one upcoming theme:
Spring 2018: CANDY—What's that sweet thing you crave that also may be ruining your life?
Summer 2018: No theme, just some quality fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to cool off with in the shade.
The Threepenny Review - At present The Threepenny Review is paying $400 per story or article, $200 per poem or Table Talk piece. They will begin accepting submissions in January 2018.
A Public Space - A Public Space accepts submissions of fiction, essay, poetry, as well as multigenre work. Novellas and novel excerpts are always welcome.
jubilat - Writers are welcome to submit poetry, poetics or subjects that have nothing to do with poetry. They don't publish short stories.
Good luck on your submissions! Please share any resources you have by reading below. Until next time!
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Parfum Berger Fragrance Diffusers
The Parfum Berger glass cube diffusers are topped by a silver ring and come with a bouquet of black diffuser sticks, which emphasize its elegant design. The Parfum Berger Rose Diffuser is finely crafted of ceramic and rests upon an elegant grey lacquered glass. Home fragrance and a stunning design in one package. What more could you want?


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In 600 AD, West Asia had been divided for centuries between two big empires, the Romans and the Sassanians. People probably thought that would continue more or less forever. But they were wrong. Both the Romans and the Sassanians had gotten in the habit of using mercenary soldiers from the Arabian Peninsula to fight their battles. In the 500s AD, Yemen's great Ma'rib dam collapsed, ruining the irrigation system there. In the 600s, the Arab soldiers formed an army under their leader Mohammed and the new religion of Islam and unified the Arabian Peninsula. Under Mohammed's successors, the Umayyad Caliphs, this army left the Arabian Peninsula. They attacked first the Romans and then the Sassanians.
By 640 the Arabs controlled most of West Asia. Soon after that, under the rule of the Umayyad caliphs, they conquered Egypt. By 711 AD, the Umayyads controlled all of West Asia except Turkey (which was still part of the Roman Empire), and all of the southern Mediterranean: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and most of Spain. Soon they added Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 732, an Arab army invaded southern France, but the French ruler Charles Martel turned them back at the Battle of Poitiers, and killed their general. Nearly twenty years later, in 751, the Arab army (with their ally Tibet) attacked China, at the opposite end of Asia, but the T'ang Dynasty Chinese army turned the Arab army back at the Battle of Talas.
Still, by the middle of the 700s AD, the Islamic Empire covered most of the Mediterranean coast and West Asia, and part of Central Asia. Thanks to the Silk Road trade that went through their empire, connecting China, Central Asia, and India with East Africa and Europe, the Islamic Empire was powerful and wealthy. New crops – cotton, sugar, lemons – were also helping the Islamic Empire's economy. People must have thought that the Islamic Empire, too, would last a long time. But the Turks and Mongols of Central Asia had different ideas.
Learn by doing: a day in the Islamic Empire
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Want an early start og the XC-season? Lofsdalen offer a 1,5 km long illuminated XC-ski track that will open on the 1st of November at the latest. Groups, clubs, proffessionals and amateurs are all welcome to enjoy the tracks invested in by Lofsdalen Masterplan 2.0.
Lofsdalen offers XC-skiing from the 1st November
- Finally, says Torsten Byström, projekt manager for Lofsdalen Masterplan 2.0. We love XC-skiing in this village and the opportunity to offer skiing early in the season gives us great joy.
The illuminated track that will open is situated between the village and the ski slopes. The track will open for classic skiing as well as freestyle. XC-clubs as well as you who train for Vasaloppet are welcome to build the foundation for the rest of the season.
Destination Lofsdalen offers great packages including lodging, skiing and food for groups as well as private persons during the period November-December.
Later on during the winter Lofsdalen offers a total of 122 km XC-track for freestyle as well as classic style. If you want to go backcountry skiing as well there is a total of 150 km of tracks to explore in the mountain area around Lofsdalen.
You pay a fee to use the tracks, wich are groomed daily by Lofsdalsspår.
You find the latest information about Lofsdalens tracks in the app LOFSDALEN or on www.guide.lofsdalen.com.
Lofsdalen Masterplan 2.0
The investments in snow making around the XC skiing tracks are a part of the projekt Lofsdalen Masterplan 2.0. The project has as it's purpose to create a sustainable destination for an international market as well as increase the economic use for the business in Lofsdalen. The project is financed by the business in Lofsdalen and through Tillväxtverket (EU regional development found), Region Jämtland Härjedalen, Länsstyrelsen and the municipality Härjedalen.


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My parents also sent their DNA in to one of the companies and amazingly the results came back knowing they were my parents without me having to tell them! I know it's science and all, but to me that was really really cool. Also it was nice to know my parents were really my parents because hey, you never know, I could have just been blending in after being switched at birth.
|Guess which one is me
So anyway, lately I've been paging through all my cousin DNA matches in Ancestry taking a look at the common ancestors for those who list family trees, and taking wild guesses for those who did it for the DNA results only and didn't list a tree. Sometimes it's easy to figure out when you look at shared matches.
I was looking through them all because I wanted to see if DNA matches would help me with any "unproven" ancestor connections.
For instance, I have an ancestor was in the Revolutionary War and I wanted to submit the lineage to the Daughters of the American Revolution. However, there is one Father-Son connection where apparently everyone (including professional genealogists) have assumed paternity because there is no actual written proof anywhere. I was pretty bummed and then thought well what if they really aren't father and son and I've been researching the wrong ancestry all these DECADES!
DECADES! I'm OLD!
I finally decided that the father "Collins Mix" really was likely the father of son "Jonathan Collins Mix", because come on, "Collins!"
Then I just submitted for another ancestor who was better documented.
Thanks Kinsey Harrison and all his kids!!!
Anyway, back to DNA - so I thought, can I prove to my own satisfaction looking at cousins in Ancestry that the Collins and his son were really connected?
So here is how far back I was able to find cousin-connections for some of my lines - this is really cool in my opinion!
Thomas MIX, b.1678 and Deborah ROYCE, b.1683:
These two are my 7th great grandparents from Wallingford, Connecticut, and I had multiple cousins in my matches that had these 2 as our common ancestors. So that answers the question of whether Collins was the Dad of Jonathan. Though I don't think the DAR is ready to accept this kind of proof in their applications quite yet.
Richard BOWEN, b.1662 and Patience PECK, b.1669:
Same generation as Thomas and Deborah above (7th great grandparents), but they lived in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Again, I had multiple cousins with these 2 as our common ancestors in our trees on Ancestry.
Paul TOMULE, b.abt.1721 and Maria Anna KLEIN, b.abt.1738:
These 2 are my 6th great grandparents, as far from New England as can be, they were born in the Alsace-Lorraine region, then migrated south to Austria-Hungary to an area which later became Romania, though they are ethnic Germans. Did you get all that?
Joseph MARCHAL, b.1755 and Margaretha PIERRE, b.abt.1760:
These are my 5th great grandparents who were born in what is now the Lorraine region of France. Like Paul and Maria Anna above, they migrated south to Austria-Hungary to an area which later became Romania.
Johan REISER, b.1795 and Katharina SCHREIBER, b.1795:
These are my 4th great grandparents, their ancestors also migrated south to the Austria-Hungary region which later became Romania. All these people in Hungary and Romania but no actual Hungarians and Romanians in my ancestry, their ethnicity was mostly German, Luxembourgian and Lorrainian. I made the last one up. But it sounds cool. Lotharingen? Alsatian-Lorrainian?
William JONES, b.1793 and Sylvia BAIRD, b.abt.1797:
These are my 4th great grandparents who were born in Connecticut, but migrated down to New York state, first to Orange County, then westward to Tioga County and nearabouts. I made that last word up too, but I think it really works, I'm keeping it.
Thomas WEAVER and Almira FINNEY:
These are my 3rd great grandparents, both born in New York state, Thomas was born in Dutchess County and Almira was born in Otsego County. I wish I knew more about them, right now they are a brick wall!
Alonzo CHESLEY, b.1839 and Laura KIRBY, b.1849:
These are my 3rd great grandparents and this is a special case and is certainly something that DNA could help with. We have a family story that my 3rd Great Grandmother, Laura, had an affair with her brother-in-law, Alonzo and produced a daughter, my 2nd great grandmother. For the first time just a few days ago, I noticed a cousin in my Ancestry DNA who is a descendant of Alonzo and his wife Sarah Kirby (Laura's older sister). So this could be it - this could be the first chance at prove that the affair did happen. This will definitely bear watching to see how this turns out - am I related enough to end up being related to both Alonzo and Sarah, or is it just Sarah showing up, we'll have to see!!


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Hey! You've made it this far so lets chat more about your photography packages. I understand that planning a wedding is unbelievably stressful, so hopefully I can be the easiest part of your big day. I've been lucky enough to document weddings in some pretty amazing locations. I capture all styles of weddings from small intimate weddings to destination weddings around the world. Send me an email if your wanting something a little different to the normal traditional wedding. I'm always up for a good adventure!
If you don't want to miss anything from your Bride + Groom preps through till you dance floor is pumping then this package is for you!
- Full days wedding coverage.
- Pre - wedding Consultation.
- Bride + Grooms preparations.
- Ceremony + Location Photos
- Reception until dance floor is pumping!
- 700+ High Res Images.
- All images supplied on USB.
- Bonus online client gallery
- A story to hold on forever.
This package will cover you from the Bride & Groom getting ready through to the Bridal party entry at Reception!
- Half days wedding coverage.
- Pre - wedding Consultation.
- Bride + Grooms preparations.
- Ceremony + Location Photos
- Coverage up until bridal party enter!
- 500+ High Res Images.
- All images supplied on USB.
- Bonus online client gallery
- A story to hold on forever.
This package is suitable for your intimate mid - week ceremonies and elopements. Includes your ceremony, family and location photos.
- 2hrs Coverage
- Pre - wedding Consultation.
- Ceremony + Location Photos.
- As many High Res Images as we take!
- All images supplied on USB.
- Bonus online client gallery
- A story to hold on forever.
Can I add extra Hours to a package?
Sure you can! If you want to add extra hrs to an existing package then its $250Hr
Why there are so many advantages to adding a second shooter to my package?
I shoot a lot of weddings a year without second shooters so don't freakout if you don't want to add one to your package! My Second shooters aren't second quality there just as equal to myself and normally shoot there own weddings.
I have listed a load of benefits below why its good to add a second shooter to your package.
- Bride + Groom Preparations – Sometimes you are getting ready at the same time in houses that aren't close to each other, so unless you have a second shooter your times might get cut short to ensure we can include travel time.
- Ceremony – There is so much laughter and emotion going on at your ceremony that it is sometimes hard to capture every authentic moment with one lens! With two photographers you can always capturing both the bride & Grooms reactions through the ceremony. Also with one photographer we don't often get time to capture the guests arriving before the ceremony as I am with the bride until that last minute before walking down the isle.
- Reception details – I know that you creative bides love to put so much time in creating a stunning reception for all your guests to see! But often we don't always get the time to showcase it back to you because we are out capturing location photos. With having a second shooter they can come back earlier and capture all your hard work before the guests are seated.
- Large Weddings – If your planning on having a large wedding over 80 guests it takes a lot longer to get around and document all your guests authentic moments without a second shooter.
How long will it take to get my images back?
I like to allow 5 – 7 weeks as it gets very busy in wedding seasons. Since all High Resolution images are edited in house and not outsourced I might have 4 weddings on the go at one stage.
Will any of my images have watermarks on them?
Unlike some photographers, we don't put our logo onto any of your images.
Are you available to shoot destination weddings overseas?
Sure! If your planning a romantic getaway to celebrate your love story. Please invite me!
Send me an email with all your information and I'd be happy to create a custom Quote. I also offer discounts to help cover all your costs.
Engagement Shoots
So what is an engagement photo-shoot? In a few short words it's an opportunity to have some fun and interact with each other in front of a camera before your big day. If your shy around the camera this helps you both overcome those fears. The engagement shoot may also be an opportunity for a hair and makeup trial. This way you get to see how your hair and makeup look in photos and you can let your stylist know if there is anything you would like to change. – $450
Album Information
Please enquirer about getting a custom made album and I can give you all the information on sizes and order time.


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The Warmies Project will be joining us for the fifth year! The Warmies Project is organized by BE Orlando. They collect handmade items to distribute when it gets cold. BE Orlando distributes the handmade items to homeless shelters, hospices, hospitals, domestic violence shelters and more.
In addition to the handmade items, BE Orlando is also happy to accept any donations of non-perishable foods, which will go to the Coalition for the Homeless. Any leftovers from the Orlando Distaff Day Potluck will also go directly to the Coalition, so if you "happen" to make twice as many cookies as we need for the event, they will still find a great home!
In 2018, Orlando Distaff Day attendees donated 136 handmade items and more than 70 items of donated food. Perhaps we can beat that total in 2019!
Craft up something from the heart to share with those less fortunate. Bring some non-perishable food. Visit The Warmies Project website for pictures of all the items donated by Orlando Distaff Day attendees over the last four years!


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TWCP connects artists and humanitarian projects to empower communities and individuals. Check out what we have been up to and join our upcoming tour to Hawaii, Cambodia, Thailand and Nepal!
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This soup is guest- or even restaurant-worthy to those who are open to "country style" food. With hunks of hearty brown bread (and maybe beer) you'd be satisfied and have no room for dessert!
I have made minor tweaks/additions to this soup from Saveur: October 2013, - part of their focus on Hungary article called Rhapsody in Red.
it absolutely captures my memory of a smoked ham bean soup.
Getting Ready:
Ingredients you may not have on hand: dry pinto beans, a smoked ham hock, and sour cream.
Soak the beans the night before
Apart from having to remember to soak the dry beans the night before, and having about 3 hours of cook time, it's fairly easy to make. it also features a commonly used Hungarian thickener called a "rántás" (rawntawsh) which is added at the end, changing and improving the soup's texture and appearance. To fit with my food memories I added little dumplings. Once I saw the size of the ham hock and read that I was to add 12 cups of water I wondered which soup pot to use. Turned out my Le Creuset Dutch oven was just fine.
1 lb. dried pinto beans
Soak these overnight and drain them before using. I was planning to make the soup the next afternoon and so I put these into a large container late on the evening before. The beans do soak up some water so be sure they are covered by several inches of water. I left them in the water until using them midday, next day.
1/4 cup lard or canola oil x2
You will need 1/2 cup lard in total - 1/4 for step 1 and the rest for the thickener. See Tips (below) re lard.
soup dumplings
If you have tried some of my other recipes you may have made these before. You can prep these at some point during the two hour cook time and keep the batter in the fridge until needed.
1/4 cup lard or canola oil
5 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium carrot
1 medium yellow onion
1 small parsnip
1 stalk celery
Melt 1/4 cup of the lard (or heat half the oil) in a 6-qt. pot over medium-high heat.
Chop all the vegetables - aiming for similarly sized chunks, sized about 1/4" to 1/3". Add garlic and chopped onions to the pan, and cook, stirring occasionally, until they begin to soften. Add the rest of the chopped vegetables and continue cooking until they turn light golden, 7–9 minutes. Near the end of this step you may notice a bit of a "fond" (brown bits) forming on the bottom of the pan. That will add to the flavour, but take care to not let it burn. Since the next step is adding water - add a bit now and deglaze the bottom of the pan.
1 lb. dried pinto beans
2 bay leaves
1 large smoked ham hock
12 cups water
As per above, the pinto beans have been soaked overnight and drained. Add beans, bay leaves, ham hock, and 12 cups water to the pot and bring to a boil. Keep an eye on this and reduce the heat right away to medium. Partially cover with a lid and cook until beans are very tender, about 2 hours. That cooking time will also make the meat on the ham hock tender. The kitchen will smell great! (Skim off the foamy scum once or twice - see Tips / photo below.)
Now for a little interlude... after two hours:
1) transfer the ham hock to a cutting board and let it cool while doing the next two steps. It will be very hot, but will be easier to handle later if you cut or pull it apart a bit to speed up the cooling;
2) take the dumpling batter from the fridge and drop it by bits into the lightly simmering soup to make little dumplings;
3) make the rántás / thickener below - and "borrow" about 2- 2.5 cups of the soup broth to be used for the rántás step.
1/4 cup lard
1/4 cup flour
1.5 tsp. Hungarian sweet paprika
1/2 cup sour cream
1.5 cups of broth from the soup
Salt and pepper, to taste
Now for the classic rántás / thickener. (See photo sequence below.) For this i use a 10" frying pan - though you could use a saucepan. Heat the lard over medium heat. Whisk in the flour until smooth - see Tips below. Cook 2 (maybe more) minutes. That mixture should be smooth and spread over the bottom of the pan. You want it to go from white to a very light golden colour. Do not walk away from this. it can go from perfect to a dark brown very quickly and then you have to start all over.
Take the pan off the heat. Why? Because paprika can burn easily and should never be added to a pan over heat. Whisk in the paprika and stir off heat for about 1 minute. Whisk in the sour cream. All that flour is going to thicken the sour cream (see photo #4 in sequence below), and when adding a thickener to a soup it is ideal if they have a more similar consistency.
With the pan back on medium-low heat, begin to add some of the soup broth you set aside. Each addition will go through stages of seeming to not mix in, then to mix in, and then thicken again. (Tip: adding the broth gradually will avoid lumps, but if you make a mistake, switch from using a wooden spoon to a whisk - and bye-bye lumps!] Keep repeating this until you have used the 1.5 cups of soup broth. (Below, photo #5 is after 1 cup of broth and #6 is after 1.5-2 cups.) At that point the rántás / thickener can be added to the soup. Cook 4–6 minutes more.
If you haven't already done so. Drop the dumplings into the simmering soup to cook. Discard the skin and bone from the ham hock. Shred or cube the meat and stir into the soup. Add pepper and add salt to taste. Serve with an additional dollop of sour cream - great with hearty bread!
Notes and Tips...
Lard - lard has been used to begin most Hungarian recipes for centuries. It's use suffered a bit in the last century when "fat" had a "bad wrap". For more details re the use of lard and fat see my Flummoxed about Fat blog post. I find it is easy to find lard these days at delis. If you opt for canola oil instead, you will have a lovely soup, but it will not be quite as authentic.
Skimming soup scum - soups made with meat yields a foamy scum around the edges of the soup pot. Especially for clear broths you need to skim this off, and never let the soup boil while it's there. A hard boil breaks up the scum and the broth becomes gray and cloudy. While this soup is going to be creamy, my "old country" habits compelled me to skim off the scum once near the beginning and once near the end.
Flour - for things like this thickener it is ideal to have a special flour that minimizes lumps. I always have Easy Blend flour on hand.
Paprika - you want to use to the best Hungarian sweet paprika you can get your hands on. See these tips.
Prep ahead - the veggies and dumpling batter can be prepped the day before. As with so many soups, this will taste even better on day two.
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At Apple World Today, we get to test a lot of Bluetooth speakers, so it's pretty easy to tell the minute music starts streaming through one whether it has decent sound or if it's destined for the recycle bin. Today's review is of a good looking and LOUD unit from Chinese manufacturer Archeer, the A320 Bluetooth Speaker (US$69.99, Amazon affiliate link). Check out the review, then enter to win this Bluetooth speaker from Archeer.
With rare exceptions, there's not much you can do to disguise the fact that a Bluetooth speaker is...well, a Bluetooth speaker. But at least some of the manufacturers realize that good-looking cases can make a speaker worth putting on a bookshelf or kitchen counter, and that's the case with the A320.
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The front of the unit is bamboo wood, nicely finished for a natural look and feel. The rest of the case is wrapped in what appears to be dark gray denim. Dominating the front of the unit are a 3-inch subwoofer and two 1-inch tweeters. Some simple touch controls are located on the top of the unit, using raised rubber symbols (+, -, power, play/pause) so that it's possible to control the unit by touch.
On the back of the A320 is a micro-USB port for charging the built-in 5200 mAh battery pack, which will power the speaker outside for up to 11 hours at 50% volume. A single LED indicates when the speaker is charging, while another LED atop the unit shows when the power has been turned on. It takes about four to five hours to fully charge the A320.
Pairing the A320 to a Mac or iPhone is drop-dead simple; you just turn the unit on and hold down the power button for five seconds, at which point it goes into pairing mode. Look for the A320 in Bluetooth settings, then tap or click to pair. The A320 uses Bluetooth 4.0, and I found the connection less likely to drop out than what I've seen with many other speakers.
As you'd expect with a big subwoofer speaker, bass dominates the sound profile of the A320. If you love big pounding bass, you're going to love this speaker. The A320 can definitely fill a room with sound.
That being said, the speaker also does a good job of sustaining the higher end tones. I found that for my personal preference, I needed to go into Settings > Music > EQ on my iPhone and choose "Treble Booster" to give the music a very rounded sound profile ("Bass Reducer" had a similar effect).
I did not get a chance to verify the 11 hour battery claim, but I see no reason why the A320 shouldn't be able to meet that duration.
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The rates to be paid to the insured's personal counsel is often-times an issue where there is not a lot of common ground between insurers and insureds. The issue arises in a few of different contexts: an insurer is obligated to defend an insured using independent counsel; an insurer is found to have breached the duty to defend and must now reimburse its insured's defense costs; and an insured is a prevailing party in coverage litigation and is entitled to recover its attorneys fees.
You know the arguments. The insurer asserts that the rates to be paid to the insured's counsel should approximate those paid by the insurer to its panel counsel. The insured replies that the panel counsel rates are low, and not the market rate, because they are set with an understanding that, by accepting the rates, the panel lawyers will be in line for repeat assignments.
Of all the scenarios where this issue arises, the insurer surely has the hardest road when it has been found to have breached the duty to defend and must now reimburse its insured's defense costs. This was the very clear message recently sent by a Wisconsin federal court in Fleet and Farm of Green Bay, Inc. v. United Fire and Casualty Co., 13-1013 (E.D. Wis. Oct. 7, 2015), [subscribers can access an enhanced version of this opinion: lexis.com | Lexis Advance].
The court found that United Fire, having breached its duty to defend, was responsible for paying the attorney's fees that its insured had incurred in providing its own defense.
United Fire sought to obtain unredacted copies of the insured's counsel's bills. Its argument was that it needed unredacted copies to determine whether the fees sought were reasonably and necessarily incurred.
The court denied the insurer's request – and it wasn't quiet about it.
First, the court observed that, according to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, damages for breach of the duty to defend include "costs and attorneys fees incurred by the insured in defending the suit." The Fleet and Farm court observed: "Notably, the [Supreme] court did not modify attorney's fees with the adjective 'reasonable,' which suggests that a reasonableness inquiry is inappropriate."
The court then added some further clarification of this point. While it offers insurers some protection, concerning the reasonableness of fees, it's not much:
"Having refused to provide a duty to defend, the insurer also gave up its right to control the defense, as well as the 'reasonableness' of its attendant costs. The Plaintiff [insured] is therefore correct that United Fire is not entitled to take a fine-toothed comb over its legal bills, which, after all, it paid in the normal course of business. That said, it is not as though courts must rubber-stamp all such fee requests. Inherent in the nature of damages—any damages—is a limited reasonableness component that derives in part from the injured party's duty to mitigate. For example, an insured cannot expend millions of dollars in fees in a hundred-thousand-dollar case and expect its bills to be paid without a peep from the insurer. The governing principle mandates that the damages awarded must 'naturally flow from the breach.'
What this means is that an insurer in a situation like this has a very limited ability to challenge attorney's fees that were actually incurred. This, no doubt, is not only a nod to the fact that the insurer forfeited its right to control the defense, but also a recognition that fees incurred at arm's length in a free market are entitled to a certain level of deference that does not tolerate second-guessing. Here, at the time the fees were incurred—i.e., the underlying litigation and in this coverage action—the question of coverage was hardly so clear that the Plaintiff had any incentive to run up the bill or to proceed on the assumption that United Fire would later be on the hook for those fees. The fees were coming out of the Plaintiff's pocket, and like any similarly-situated party, it made judgments about value and quality. Allowing a secondary 'reasonableness' inquiry (often years later) would add expense and squander judicial resources."
I'll refrain from offering any commentary here. None is needed.
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Creating the perfect sleep environment
here is no doubt that the room in which your baby sleeps is important. The environment in which you choose to put your baby or child to bed needs to be inducive to sleep and there are easy ways to achieve that. Here is a quick guide to creating the ideal sleep environment:
In your room
During at least the first six months, your baby is likely to be sleeping in your room but that doesn't mean you don't need to need adapt the environment a little:
Lights. If you don't have a lamp or you only have one that is intended for reading, you might want to swap it for a dimmer light. You want to keep the room as dark as possible. If you can, situate the lamp as close to the door as possible so that you can leave the room in darkness but can turn it on easily when you come up to bed. The last thing you want is to stumble around when you go to bed and wake the baby!
Temperature. It needs to be warm, but not too warm. Remember that babies can't regulate their own body temperatures so it's a good idea to invest in a nursery thermometer. This can be as simple as one that you stick on the wall (that only cost a small amount) to the latest in technology advancements. Either way, you need to know that the ideal temperature for a baby's room is between 68 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
No screens! Don't take your laptop or tablet to bed with you and keep your cell phone use to a minimum. Why? Research has shown that the lights coming from them prevents baby from producing essential melatonin, which is needed for sleep. This is another reason why dim lights are vital. Research has also shown that adults who go to bed immediately after looking at a screen tend to sleep restlessly so its a good idea all round to leave all devices downstairs when you want to sleep.
In baby's own room
Before baby is settled in her own room, there are a few things you will want to do to make sure it is as comfortable as possible for her to sleep in. Again, use the checklist from above for essential sleeping tips. You need dim lighting (perhaps a night light that can be switched on only when you need to go in at night) and you need to make sure it is the correct temperature and that there are no obvious drafts- so don't place the crib near the window for example. In addition you might want to think about:
Decorations. It's very tempting to paint lots of bright colours in the nursery, or to hang wonderful pictures etc. But try not to overcrowd the room. Remember that young babies can find bright colours and lots of pictures quite stimulating and research has actually shown that colours such as red and orange can make a person feel agitated or cramped. Bright colours can be overwhelming and hanging mobiles can also be too much of a distraction. If you can, stick to muted colours that will help baby to relax.
No clutter. It's tempting to store things in the room that is least likely to have people coming and going as much as others (hopefully!) but try not to use your baby's room this way. Take care to keep the floor free from clutter so that the room is as calm as possible. It goes without saying that no toys or other items should be placed into the crib either.
Ditch the distractions. There is no need for mobiles (as previously mentioned) or sound and light machines as they could cause too much of a distraction for sleep. Start simple and your baby will not need props like this at all.
Noise. Keep it to a minimum, but don't tiptoe past baby's room each time you need to use the bathroom! Babies are able to sleep through general noise fairly well so you don't want the entire house to shut down at 7pm when baby goes to bed. During the day it can help baby to determine nap time from night time sleep if you carry on as you usually would- so don't unplug the phone or ban visitors. Life must go on when baby sleeps!
Keep it familiar. The last thing to remember is that routine is key for most babies. So don't be tempted to move the room around when you feel like a change. This can be upsetting for baby and the last thing you want is to disturb the fantastic sleeping environment you've worked so hard on!


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Independent auditor's report to the members of Prudential plc
We have audited the financial statements of Prudential plc for the year ended 31 December 2012. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in the preparation of the Group financial statements is applicable law and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the EU. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in the preparation of the parent company financial statements is applicable law and UK Accounting Standards (UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
This report is made solely to the Company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company's members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
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As explained more fully in the Directors' Responsibilities Statement, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view. Our responsibility is to audit, and express an opinion on, the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board's (APB's) Ethical Standards for Auditors.
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Opinion on financial statements
In our opinion:
- The financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the Group's and of the parent company's affairs as at 31 December 2012 and of the Group's profit for the year then ended;
- The Group financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU;
- The parent company financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
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In our opinion:
- The part of the Directors' Remuneration Report to be audited has been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006; and
- The information given in the Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements.
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Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in our opinion:
- Adequate accounting records have not been kept by the parent company, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
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