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In the episode of the Affiliate Buzz, James Martell talks to Michael Schein, CEO of MicroFame Media, and we are going to be talking to Michael about how to become a thought leader in your marketplace and building a profitable online following without giving yourself a nervous breakdown.
What is Microfame?
This term comes out of in the past, in the broadcasting era, when you really needed to be famous to be seen as a celebrity and get all the perks. Now with the internet, it is endless and you can become "micro-famous" within an online niche. For example, Gary Vaynerchuk is well know and has a huge following for his social media marketing knowledge. It is a great way to market yourself and get others to follow you.
Michael talks about some of the challenges consultants, podcasters and publishers have getting their message out. After you become competent, there is no limit to the amount you can charge and the opportunities you can choose. He talks about the packaging of the ideas and what not to focus on.
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Becoming Famous in Your Niche
Michael shares how he learned what tactics big names used to make their mark. He extracted the underlying principles to learn "the buttons you can push" to connect with people. He shares a few amazing ideas, which talk about ingratiating yourself with people who have followings, who will promote you. Another idea is becoming a Magist (wizard), an elite group of people who position themselves as having a monopoly on really important wisdom. He talks about the things that make people think of you as a magist and how their images are so carefully cultivated.
Building a Profitable Online Following
Savvy promoters use the Tom Sawyer method - He needed to paint his fence white, and how he reframed this as something desirable, getting others to do the work. If you can present working on your behalf as a benefit, this will go a long way. He shares a story that spiked his traffic and became one of his biggest lead sources, and making both parties win.
Listen to learn:
- What it takes to become "micro-famous" in your niche
- Tips on building a profitable online following
- How you can foster the attraction of other people
- How aligning yourself with other leaders can be a win for both
- What unusual promoters can teach us about marketing
- MicroFame Media.com - We Turn Consultants Into Celebrities
- Access to Anyone podcast
- List of books about unusual promoters
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I have spent the past two weeks in the acute care pediatric clinic. Not terribly acute, because if the kids were truly ill and needed immediate care, then they would've presented to the ER. More sick than a well-visit, so instead of a question list with prepared topics of discussion, I have something to check-out and assess.
Two weeks of snotty noses, wet coughs, fevers, and rashes. Lots of flu, viral upper respiratory infections, and occasionally something intriguing like pertussis or slapped cheek. I'm no pediatrician, but I'm comfortable talking to families and discussing plans. Far more so than at any point during this year of clinical clerkships.
I've gotten into a good rhythm with my interview and physical. I know the important questions to ask for the most common presentations of cough and fever. I know what to check in the ears and to hear in the chest. Because their symptoms are so similar, I know when something unusual comes my way and what deserves a further line of questioning.
During my Internal Medicine rotation, I'd try to gather as much information as I can, so that the attending can sift through my pile of data and come to their conclusion. Now, I can manage a good chunk of the cases myself with the attendings confirming my assessment & plan and making the necessary orders. I can tell which kids have a viral upper respiratory infection that is already on the mend and will resolve by the weekend. I can tell which ones needs to be looked at a set of experienced eyes.
The relative monotony also helps me to appreciate the curveballs. A 5yo boy presenting for significant weight loss since starting his amphetamine salt medication. Poking through his chart, I found that he had been admitted to child psych for aggressive behavior three months prior.
I appreciated how anxious the mother felt, seeing the weight drop off her son. I reveled in the chance to soothe her fears that his health was in danger and her frustrations with his psychiatrist. And the attending appreciated the groundwork that I laid down before he walked in the room.
Overall, I am looking forward to another week of this. I know what to expect and I know my limits. I have both a sense of contribution to the clinical team as well as the freedom to utilize my idle time with studying. I think I will look back fondly on this time, in this clinic, with low stakes and good company.
Emotionally, I am well. Reuniting with Mackenzi as her week of nights came to an end felt so wonderful. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and the first days of my Mackenzi-fast were spent productively. Then, I fell ill with a virus from the sick children in clinic, and all I wanted was to cuddle and annoy her. I missed her dearly.
Spiritually, I felt like the Mackenzi-fast allowed me to reflect on how I spend my time. I had the opportunity to see what does Eugene want to do, especially when compared to single Eugene living alone in Tampa. I learned that I watch far less television and movies when alone. Next weekend, I will be camping out with friends in the woods of NY. It will be a chance to both disconnect and reconnect.
Physically, I feel good. Good movement through the week when I felt up to it. The virus never laid me out, just kept me sniffling all week. Feel like I'm mostly over it. Will resume more movement as I fully mend.
Relationally, I feel strong. I have done some good reaching out, sending some messages and bringing people together. I feel like the spring will be good to me.
Emotional – 5/5
Spiritual – 5/5
Physical – 4/5
Relational – 5/5
Total – 19/20
3wk running total – 52/60
Long Form Sundays
- On a little handshake
- On responsibility and engagement (or halfway through Women's Health/Pediatrics)
- On making the rounds
On Death Podcast
- With Anna Shon [REPOST]
- With Stephen Grow [REPOST]
- With Tavia Rahki Smith [REPOST]

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PRAGAII - a Latvian Duo Defying Musical Convention
PRAGAII are the latest intriguing band to come out of the Baltics - Latvia, to be precise - and do something that builds on what has come before, but still comes across as trying something different. Aleksis Luriņš and Kaspars Kubeckis, or 'Kashuks', the two musicians who form the group, united over a shared interest in sound engineering and the technology of music, and their EP is now streaming and for sale.
"We've known each other for, like, five years," said Aleksis. "We almost made two EPs before this one, but we put it away - we wanted to start again with new material. We were working too slowly, and it wasn't interesting for us." When asked if the music could be characterised as electronic, Kashuks replied, "It's something between indie and electronic. For example, we don't sample drums - we do our own."
Though it might be common for members of a band to share a love of similar music, that's not the case here - Aleksis brings to PRAGAII a love of classic and modern rock, while he explained that for Kashuks, things are a little different. "I grew up listening to Pink Floyd," said Aleksis, "because of my dad. Then, the first band that got me to really find out about music, and why I connected with it, was Red Hot Chili Peppers and their album Californication. Nowadays, any indie band - Fleet Foxes, Real Estate, you name it. Kapsars doesn't listen to music at all, and that's quite unique."
This was astonishing. A member of a band who doesn't listen to any other music, even for fun? "When I was going to school, I used to listen, but after that, I don't know why, I just stopped," Kashuks said. In a way, it's a refreshing admission - it would be a more honest, and possibly happier, world, if we all just admitted to ourselves that we didn't enjoy something that much. What makes it particularly novel is that Kashuks is a craftsman of a sound that may be distinct, but comes across as being aware of the past three decades of musical history, taking many cues from the likes of Massive Attack and Portishead.
There is the follow-up question of how two people with such divergent personal tastes could form a group. "We made this remix of a song," Aleksis said, "and I thought, wow, he's really good. I thought, we have to make something, the two of us. After that, the friendship grew, and from time to time I show him some bands, but whether it's Radiohead or anything, he doesn't know [the artist]." "I don't think it's bad," Kashuks offered. "When I record, I never know what the sound is going to be before I start."
With that, it was time to talk about the band's EP, released earlier in 2018. Micro, featuring vocals by Marija Broca, was the track they seemed most eager to open up about, with Kashuks beginning. "With Micro, we went to the countryside for a weekend, and that was a really good time for us. We went to the forest, to the lake, and we were just writing and writing, the weather was great, and that was one of our best times."
It sounds idyllic, and for Aleksis it was. "I fell asleep for an hour, then woke up and there was Kashuks, and he said come listen to this, and then I came up with a guitar part, and it came together in that way." The track sounds like it came together through an organic process of discovery, and it is somehow comforting to hear that its origin story reflects this.
The most interesting track to work on for Aleksis was 004, the final song on the EP. As Kashuks added, "There was a lot of experimentation with microphones and vocals in the mix." Aleksis also held Lidojums in high regard. "It was probably the most professional song, made in the studio - most of the other songs were made in the countryside, or at home. This, on the other hand, started when he sent me an idea of the beat, and I thought, this is something different."
"With Visions, he sent me this beat, and a couple of days before, I'd been working on a song. I just thought they were meant to be married together."
The next frontier for PRAGAII is to take their estimable skills and use them in production and collaborations with high-profile artists. Though the festival circuit is becoming the true goldmine for electronic and dance artists, Aleksis was noncommittal on the idea that songs played with mostly live instruments sound naturally better than processing those sounds through software. "People who know music, who listen to music, it's good for them to know we're doing it live, but most people don't care that much, they just want to have a good time."
When it comes to what PRAGAII want their audience to experience, the answer is very simple. "We'd like the people listening to our EP to hear the same things we are, and to feel the same things we were feeling when we were writing them."


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A late surge in banking stocks, spurred by Cabinet decision on consolidation of public banks, pulled markets higher today as the Sensex closed up 276 points, in line with a firming global trend. The broader Nifty ended on top of 9,800 again. The government today decided to set up an alternative mechanism to oversee proposals for consolidation of public sector banks (PSBs) with a view to creating fewer but stronger lenders.
State-run Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda, Allahabad Bank, Union Bank of India and Bank of India were at the centre of investors' attention, which recorded moderate to sizeable gains.
The 30-share Sensex stayed in the positive zone all throughout and hit a high of 31,593.39 before settling up 276.16 points, or 0.88 per cent, at 31,568.01. The gauge had gained 33 points yesterday. The 50-share Nifty too rose 86.95 points, or 0.89 per cent, to close at 9,852.50 after scaling a high of 9,857.90. It hit a low of 9,786.75.
Infosys stock made a significant rally by climbing 1.98 per cent to Rs 894.50 on value-buying amid speculation that Nandan Nilekani might make a comeback as the company's head. "The market suddenly spiked towards the last hour of trade, supported by renewed buying in beaten-down stocks. Banking stocks grabbed investors' attention on account of the Cabinet nod to oversee PSU banks' consolidation," said Vinod Nair, Head of Research, Geojit Financial Services Ltd. "Global market remains supportive ahead of Jackson Hole meeting tomorrow which may hold the market direction in the absence of major domestic cues."
Adani Ports made it to the lead, surging 2.79 per cent at Rs 384.95, followed by Bharti Airtel. Dr Reddy's went up for the second day, this time 2.25 per cent. In the realty space, DLF Ltd climbed 6.10 per cent to Rs 186 on the news that it will hold a board meet on August 25 to decide on promoters' proposal to sell their 40 per cent stake in its rental arm to investment firm GIC in a deal estimated at around Rs 13,000 crore.
There is a bit of short covering ahead of the expiry week, especially in infrastructure stocks, which suffered badly recently over the government action against shell companies. Other big gainers were Tata Seel, Tata Motors, SBI, ICICI Bank, NTPC and Reliance Industries, rising up to 2.28 per cent.
The overall buying wave was so strong that most sectoral indices ended positive. The BSE realty index jumped the most by rising 3.48 per cent, along with metal, banking and financials. Strengthening global shares and uninterrupted buying by domestic investors kept the line clear for the upmove, traders said. Revival of buying interest in the recently battered Infosys, banking and financial stocks too helped, they added.
Overnight gains at Wall Street amid growing optimism over a market-friendly US tax reform plan sparked the upmove in Asia and Europe. Domestic institutional investors (DIIs) turned saviours lapping up shares net worth Rs 435.05 crore. However, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) sold shares worth a net Rs 828.69 crore yesterday, according to provisional data.
It was a good day for BSE mid-cap and small-cap indices, outpacing the benchmarks with a gain of 1.38 per cent and 1.21 per cent, respectively.


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Happy Teas & Happy Tums
by Helen Burgess, Little Cooks Co
(The lovely Helen has offered all Small & Wild followers 50% off your first Little Cooks Co box using code SW18)
We love tea in our house! Not surprising really - I grew up in a home where we were given tea in our baby bottles and even the dog was given a bowl of tea in the evenings. Having studied nutrition, I wouldn't recommend giving caffeine to babies (or dogs for that matter!), but I would 100% recommend Small and Wild tea.
I was so excited when I discovered Small and Wild as I had long been suggesting parents offer fruity teas to their kids as a variation to water. I immediately bought some and was even more delighted when it arrived - the branding and packaging is perfect for engaging little ones and when our snoozy fox tea turned blue I think my son's mind exploded a little bit! When we arrive home from a walk or outdoor activity my son now says 'shall we have a cuppa tea mummy'? It warms my heart. As does the tea.
Now, being in the healthy kids snack market, we rarely have a cuppa without a little something, so here are a couple of our favourite recipes to try out with your little ones and enjoy with your next cuppa!
Raspberry and banana cookies
• ¼ cup (40g) of raisins
• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 cup (95g) of oats
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1 cup (100g) of raspberries (frozen is fine)
1. Pre heat oven to 180C / 350F / Gas Mark 4
2. Add raisins into a bowl and soak in boiling water
3. In a large mixing bowl, mash the bananas to a puree consistency
4. Add the oats & cinnamon and stir through
5. Add the raspberries and stir until the raspberries have broken down and incorporated into the mixture
6. Drain the raisins and add to the mixture
7. Form tablespoon sized balls (add more oats if you need to make the mixture firmer) and place on a greased baking tray
8. Flatten the balls to form cookie shapes and cook for 15 minutes
• 100g of unsalted butter or coconut oil
• 50g honey
• 40g raw cacao powder
• You can also add your favourite flavours - hazelnuts, orange, freeze dried berries
1. Melt the butter/coconut oil and honey together on a low heat in a saucepan
2. Take off the heat and whisk in the raw cacao powder
3. At this point you can add in flavours you want to try out - I usually add nuts
4. Pour the mix into small container covered with parchment paper - this will become your block of chocolate so think about how thick you want it and transfer to a bigger or smaller container if needed
5. Pop it in the freezer for 30 minutes and voila - you have made your very own chocolate! Crack it into bite sized pieces and store it in the freezer
You can also use the chocolate to make your very own chocolate coated raisins or brazil nuts?! Pop them in the freezer and then you can store them in the fridge for up to a week
Little Cooks Co make cooking with kids easy, healthy and fun! Each month they send your little cook a new snack recipe and all the dry organic ingredients to make it. No refined sugar, no gluten, just delicious healthy fun with your little ones - a perfect way to spend quality time together!


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It was cold! I have my long down coat on, gloves, longjohns. It was raining during load in too, to make it even more fun…..
What a lovely show it turned out to be. It was still cold on Saturday, but the shoppers came out, and I picked up a few new WHOLESALE accounts! A cool area of Northern KC if you have never been there, it is a great place to shop normal retail shops and a few more boutique-y kinds of places. I would totally do it again! Here are some of the things I had there….


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A Nova Scotia mom tearfully called out Premier Stephen McNeil in a video that has gone viral, saying her cancer went undiagnosed for years because of the province's broken health care system.
"I am a 33-year-old mother. I went undiagnosed with anal cancer for two years because I did not have access to a family doctor," Inez Rudderham said in a Facebook video.
"I fought. I fought for my life, but there's no health care crisis," she said sarcastically. "Three ERs I went to before someone would listen to me."
Since it was posted on Tuesday, her video has garnered over 1.4 million views and 46,000 shares. Many in the comments section were sympathetic to her plight.
"To the premier of Nova Scotia, I dare you to take a meeting with me and look into my eyes and tell me there is no health-care crisis in my province of Nova Scotia," she said, as she wiped away tears.
Rudderham said doctors eventually noticed her advanced cancer and she began radiation.
"It's OK right? Because they caught it. They caught it when it was Stage 3," she said, adding that 30 rounds of radiation she received to her pelvis had left her "barren and infertile."
Critics have lambasted the issues plaguing Nova Scotia's health care system, which includes a shortage of family doctors, overcrowded emergency rooms and entire medical facilities being closed.
Rudderham also said she's been waiting since January to receive counselling from the province's mental health services, and was recently told she'd have to keep waiting for an appointment until the summer.
"I cannot receive help for trauma I experienced because of this failed system until July," she said. "What about my daughter? My four year-old-daughter that doesn't have me there, fully, because I need help and I'm not receiving it?"
A GoFundMe page for Rudderham, which was started nine months ago by her aunt, had raised more than $10,000 as of Thursday afternoon. The page shows the family hopes to raise $15,000.
Before ending her video, she challenges the premier again saying: "this is the face of the health-care crisis in Nova Scotia and I dare you to tell me otherwise."
On Thursday, McNeil told CTV Atlantic that he had watched part of the video and that he has asked representatives from the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness to reach out to her.
Although the premier admitted there are challenges with the health care system, he stopped short of calling it a crisis.
More on this story from CTVNews.ca


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Jasmin Mujanović, a political scientist specializing in the politics of southeastern Europe, is the author of "Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans."
This past weekend, the New York Times published a profile of an American Nazi that rightly stirred up a major backlash. The article, which dwells at length on the apparent normality of Tony Hovater, its subject, casts a revealing light on U.S. intellectual elites, who persist in underplaying the existential crisis facing the American republic. Amid increasing neo-fascist mobilization, and during the tenure of a president who routinely peddles far-right talking points and policies and equivocates on condemning white supremacists, the Times has produced a soft-focus profile of one of the founding members of the country's leading neo-Nazi groups.
In other words, one of America's papers of record, whose writers and editors routinely interact with the most powerful people in the world, has published an article that treats the specter of far-right violence, an increasingly present reality for millions of immigrants and people of color in the United States, as just another voice in the marketplace of ideas. It is as though fascism, the 20th century's most murderous ideology, has become an obscure, little-understood footnote in history.
The only way such a piece could have been produced — despite the Times' rigorous editorial standards — is if, at a fundamental level, its staff did not understand the threat represented by Hovater. Or, more to the point, Times staffers are not afraid of Hovater, the way so many of us are — we who are Jewish, Muslim, black, brown or queer, and who have always known that behind Hovater's dog whistle references to "tradition" and "normies" (i.e., normal people) lies a genocidal vision for America's future.
Or perhaps Times staffers are simply insulated and figure (correctly) that, when the violence begins, it will not be directed at people like them: wealthy, white and mobile. Hovater and his extremist associates are far more likely to prioritize the murder and expulsion of static, poor, black and brown communities — those who are close at hand. The "coastal elites" in New York, Washington and San Francisco, although reviled by the likes of Hovater and Steve Bannon, the president's former chief of staff, as "cosmopolitan elites," are protected from the real consequences of their politics by geography and privilege.
That, in any case, is how it has always been. The primary targets of white terrorism in the United States have always been local. Klansmen lynched their black and brown neighbors; however much they may have claimed to despise them, they did not travel to Manhattan to purge New York of its literati. The Nazis, likewise, organized ordinary Germans and ordinary Europeans to exterminate their neighbors, to loot their homes, to erase the memories of their ever having existed at all. There is, therefore, nothing novel or unique about Hovater's humdrum suburban life. He is an ordinary monster — but such monsters have always been ordinary.
If the Times felt that the memories of the Jim Crow period or the Holocaust were somehow too distant to instill in their readers coherent lessons about the dangers of fascism, then they need only have glanced at world headlines last week and reflected on the conviction of General Ratko Mladić. Now serving a life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity, Mladić was the wartime commander of the Belgrade-backed Bosnian Serb forces. In that capacity he presided over the rape, torture and murder of thousands, and the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands more, across Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.
Mladić, at the direction of his political superiors Radovan Karadžić and Slobodan Milošević, actually enacted the ideas that Hovater and his cohort have now presented in the pages of the New York Times as the reasonable cry of middle America's downtrodden white man. For that reason Mladić is, along with much of the 1990s roster of Serbian war criminals, a staple reference point on far-right forums and listservs across the Internet. To them, he is the man who was butchering Muslims before 9/11, a genocidaire ahead of his time, and who sought to create a "Greater Serbia," much as those who seek to "Make America Great Again."
Despite the handwringing in the immediate aftermath of November 2016, it is clear that much of the American media establishment has learned little from the unthinkable election of Donald Trump. Barefaced lies, disinformation and hate speech are all now routine and accepted parts of the U.S. media diet. The president is the chief architect and beneficiary of this new regime, but his march to the White House has clearly emboldened all manner of extremists.
If American democracy and constitutional government are to persevere — something that cannot be taken for granted — a full-throated defense of their norms and values will be required by citizens and the press alike. Unfortunately, with its glib profile of Hovater, the New York Times has failed its readers and emboldened the enemies of the republic.


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The Star Wars watching was going nicely. I expected to be able to follow up the Prequel Portion of these reviews in short order. That was not the case, though; as the Rebellion was almost crushed by a foe it had never seen the likes of before:
Harry Potter.
He came from yet another franchise that I had tried to peak my daughter's interest in for years, which she completely ignored until it came up as part of an after school craft activity. I originally wanted to read her the books before she saw the movies. However, since they planned to watch some of the later films in class, she needed to get caught up right away. We did start reading the books at the same time, and there were enough, "That wasn't in the movie," moments in just the first book to guarantee she'll know which medium Mr. Potter works best in.
Near the end of our magical cinematic journey, her interest in a Galaxy Far Far Away renewed and we were able to finish the saga.
A New Hope
Yes, A New Hope.
Starting at Episode I, it made the most sense to watch the Special Editions instead of the originals. They were not the Special Editions with the most recent changes and updates, which I believe can only be kept up with at the daily screenings in George Lucas's living room. We went with the editions released with the untouched original versions as bonus DVDs. (Coincidentally, the only ones I would purchase.)
My daughter was interested in the story and the people (and things, which were also people), and seemed to find Artoo and Threepio much funnier and more engaging than she had in the prequels.
As it was the "Special Edition" close to mid-way through the biggest change hit during Han and Greedo's confrontation. I was good, and my daughter didn't hear any comments from me.
(At least, she didn't hear them during this particular viewing, I'm sure everyone in the hemisphere has heard some comments from me about this scene by now.)
Greedo fired first.
Before the scene could further unfold, my daughter yelled, incredulously:
(That's my girl!)
She was into everything going on for most of the film, zoning out only in the middle for a bit. Honestly I think that had more to do with blocking out Obi-Wan's death than anything else that was happening. She had no recollection of it at the end of the movie, and we had to go back and watch it again afterward, as it's kind of important to later events.
The Empire Strikes Back
Sometimes, quality triumphs.
Empire has the least changes in the special edition and has always been my favorite. As an adult, because it has the most character and plot development, and as a child because the side I was rooting for won.
Sometime I may have to do a post detailing the theory I had when this film first came out explaining the only reason the Empire looked as harsh as it did was because they had to impose martial law to deal with those communist rebels.
Actually, since I was only ten at the time – the above sentence pretty much sums up my entire theory.
More important than my own multi decade long insanity is my daughter's reaction to this movie. Not counting Episode I (seen in 3D, in a theater) this was the only episode that held her attention completely all the way through. She also danced in her seat almost every time the "Imperial March" played. (That's my girl!)
Yes, she was excited about seeing the Wampa after loving his singing-skating version in Robot Chicken.
Yes, she was anticipating Luke's "big NO."
But I could see it was what was happening on screen that really held her attention. The real evidence of this came near the end of the film.
She had full knowledge that there was a final episode coming, and that Luke played a major role in it. In fact, she'd seen the part of Jedi with Luke fighting the Rancor as we flipped by on cable one time. However, after Luke fell - following losing his hand to Vader - and was hanging under Bespin while the Falcon was about to fly away, she completely panicked.
"Where are they going? They can't leave him there! How will he get down? They can't leave!!!"
That is proof of good storytelling. It also shows that, as much as I've enjoyed being involved with message board conversations about the best viewing order of the series, it doesn't really matter. The stories are so ingrained in our culture now; almost all of the good reveals are common knowledge. Pick any starting point and enjoy the ride.
A final personal note on this episode (which my daughter agrees with):
With full apologies to the ILM effects guys who are pioneers in their craft, puppet Yoda has infinitely more screen presence and realism to him than CGI Yoda does. It will be a real shame if the next "Really Super Duper Special Edition" of the originals replaces Frank Oz's artistry.
Oz's manipulations may be the reason, as well, that after seeing him in three films previously and making no connection, my daughter immediately said, upon hearing Yoda speak in Empire, "He sounds like Grover." She also reacted to him far more in puppet form. She went from laughing at his antics to being genuinely afraid when he assured her (and Luke), "You will be…YOU will be."
Puppet Yoda is a fully realized character who occupies space and story with the same substance as the people he shares scenes with. CGI Yoda, while more mobile and unrestricted lacks the heart, soul and expressiveness of Puppet Yoda.
The digital version also does not convey the proper amount of emotion and gravitas in the "Yoda frowny face."
And CGI Yoda…
That...is why you fail.
Return of the Jedi
My daughter liked this one as well. Though she, again, zoned out a bit in the middle between Tatooine (which she was fully into) and the Endor battle. Although she did comment that the speeder bike scenes made her a little dizzy and expressed concern about seeing them in 3D. Given the rate Lucasfilm tends to release things, she may be bringing her grandchildren to that premier.
The end light saber battle between Luke and Vader really caught her attention and interest. This was far more than the saber duels in Episodes II and III which she mostly ignored. (Substance over style, my friends, substance over style.)
She also found the Ewoks to be cute, funny and very entertaining, proving:
1) These movies are primarily for kids, not complaining fanboys.
2) George Lucas does know what he's doing for the most part.
Once again, she commented on how funny the droids were and how much she liked them. The prequels tried to copy their behavior from the originals, (Threepio worrying, Artoo saving everyone's heiney several times an episode) but somehow didn't recapture the magic. I could blame CGI again, but I have no real basis to do that. (I probably will anyway, though, being an old grouchy Star Wars fan.)
My wife is a much better litmus test for how regular people view things than I am. For the most part, she didn't react to, or even register, any of the special edition changes to the movies…
Until the end of Return of the Jedi.
It started innocently enough during the extended celebration scenes on the other planets with the new song. She said, "I don't remember this, is it new?" (My daughter was very excited to hear Jar Jar when they showed Naboo…See number's 1) and 2) above.)
Then the Jedi ghosts appeared and it was someone else in my family's turn to be outraged as my wife yelled:
(That's my sweetie!)
I told her I planned to show our daughter the proper "Lug Nuts" ending song anyway. Once the confused looks finished forming on their faces and the credits rolled I put the disc of the original version in. We all agreed we do like the new Jabba's Palace song with the love child of James Brown and Cookie Monster better than plain old Lapti Nek. However, we also agreed there's no way they should have put young Anakin at the end, and given that my daughter danced through the whole thing (as did I) the Ewok "Lug Nuts" celebration song is far better.
As a final proof of my daughter's taste I offer the following.
At the end of Return of the Jedi, every single time I watch it (now a freakishly large number, and counting) after Luke sets his father's bier on fire, much to the complaints and annoyance of all my relatives I say EXACTLY the same thing:
"I would have kept the hat."
This time, a small voice next to me said:
"Well, yeah - DUH!"
That's my girl!


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Bears hold on late, move to second round
Brennan senior guard Jacari Sanders expects a lot of himself. He knows his teammates have large expectations for him as well.
When a game that the Bears appeared comfortably in control of turned into a one-possession contest late in the fourth quarter, Sanders knew he had to come through in the clutch.
Sanders delivered in a big way, scoring eight of his team's final 10 points in the final two minutes as Brennan withstood Madison 70-61 on Monday in a Class 6A bidistrict game at the Northside ISD Gym.
The Bears (26-6) advanced to the second round and will face Austin Lake Travis, which defeated Clemens 55-45.
"The main thing going through our minds is not to keep our heads down," said Sanders, who had a game-high 23 points. "They went on a nice little run. We had to keep composure. We had to find our rhythm."
Madison (21-14) trailed 52-40 entering the fourth quarter but pulled within 60-57 on forward Keilon Johnson's driving layup with 2:30 left and 64-61 on guard Antoine Perkins' 3-pointer with 1:17 left. Forward Azrion Harding sparked the Mavericks' final-period surge with 10 of his team-high 19 points, including back-to-back 3-pointers. Christian Vasquez added 15, and Dante Heaggans, Johnson and Perkins each had nine.
Sanders, though, made consecutive jumpers to first stretch Brennan's advantage to 64-58, then after Perkins' 3-pointer he sandwiched two free throws and a steal and layup around two foul shots by teammate Jordan Smith to secure the win.
"As a main guy, I have to that for my team," Sanders said. "I have to play a big role. They expect me to do big things, and I have to come out and do it."
Brennan, which has won back-to-back District 28-6A championships, appeared poised for an easy victory midway through the final quarter thanks to the perimeter shooting of guard Jaden Moore. The junior finished with 18 points of the bench, draining six 3-pointers.
"Going into the game, during warmups, I felt good (with my shot)," Moore said. "The playoffs are a different mindset. I wanted to push through and offer everything I've got and make every shot count."
Behind the inside-outside punch of 6-foot-7 junior forward Norman Beckford and Sanders, Brennan led 36-23 at halftime. Beckford contributed 12 points, all in the first 16 minutes.
Brennan pulled away with a 10-0 run early in the second quarter, extending a 26-21 lead to 36-21 on a jumper by Sanders with 1:30 left before the intermission.
Madison trailed 26-20 after one quarter on a layup by Heaggans off an inbound play with 1.2 seconds left. The basket stopped a 12-2 run by Brennan.
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The announcement by Bitstamp of the grant of a Payments licence in Luxembourg is certainly a step forward for the industry. Most importantly, such a licence should facilitate their future banking relationships. As an unlicensed Virtual Currency (VC) exchange, it is almost impossible to get banking.
With regards to the exact scope of their licence, it is not clear the type of permissions applied for. That won't be available until it is live, apparently after 1 July.[Office1]
We should note that the first licensed VC Payment Institution, to my knowledge, was SnapSwap. SnapSwap is a Ripple Gateway who moved their operations to Luxembourg. They were granted permissions for money remittance, execution of payment instructions and operation of a payment account. I expect Bitstamp will have similar permissions.
The financial services single market in the EU is certainly not harmonised. There is, for example, one law, the Payment Services Directive, but it is interpreted in many different ways by national regulators.
To elaborate further, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK considers VC exchanges to sit outside of the Payment Services Directive (PSD,) mainly because the primary purpose of the VC exchange is not the provision of payment services. In Germany, The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFIN) considers VC exchanges to be offering trading in 'financial instruments', almost switching the business model from a movement of value to the trading of securities. In contrast, looking at the same law, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) in Luxembourg, considers that it can license VC exchanges under PSD.
This fragmentation is just as bad as state-level interpretation in the US: some states don't regulate, where other, do but only custodians such as New Jersey). Some will only regulate VC to fiat exchanges, some will try and regulate everything.
The advantage of the EU approach is that if you are licensed under an EU directive you can put the Single Market behind you to get your services into every member state.
To illustrate this: once authorised by the CSSF, there a default single market right to 'passport' the licence to the rest of the EU. But, for example, BaFIN may argue that a payments licence can't cover trading 'financial instruments', which it has defined cryptocurrency as. In which case, you must rely on the Single Market freedoms to prove that BaFIN's interpretation amounts effectively to a trade barrier. This doesn't work every time especially when public policy is involved, for example: member states can 'gold plate' anti-money laundering (AML) requirements, so if Estonia feels that the know your customer (KYC) threshold should be EUR1,000 then the regulated entity must meet that particular domestic requirement.
The question is, when will these fragmented regulatory interpretations be harmonised? Most likely, the EU Commission will harmonise the interpretation of the payment service directive (PSD) through legislation or the Court of Justice of the European Union will do the job, which they did with the ruling on the EU wide VAT exemption. However, after the Paris attacks, maybe the Commission may jump ahead of The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
So, to summarise, the Single Market in financial services is not complete, nor is it in continual sync with the pace of innovation. A separate example outside VC would be binary options. These are regulated in some EU states as gambling products, and in others as financial instruments. The first EU country to regulate them as a financial instrument was Cyprus. The consequence of which saw a large number of operators from around the world queuing up with CySec, to pick up a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) passport to provide their binary options products to the rest of the EU. It is the same with Equity Crowdfunding. This is essentially arranging deals in investments – covered under MiFID). When the FCA in the UK started issuing MiFID passports to UK crowdfunding operators, holders could use that to enter other EU markets where the regulator might not have been as keen on equity crowdfunding, or were delaying on having an official position. These are the natural regulatory arbitrage opportunities that exist in the EU.
Certainly, I would never advise a client to get a 'passport' and go for it without concern or recourse to domestic regulators, but innovation waits for no-one and it would well within your legal rights to use the imperfections of EU Single Market to power your fintech business.


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Monroe voters opted to clean up the city's charter, approving the removal of four positions from the city governing rules.
Residents okayed the removal of a city physician and board of health, dog warden, building inspectors and the inspector of weights and measures.
The Michigan Construction Code provides the statutory and regulatory framework for all building codes in the state. The Michigan Bureau of Construction Codes provides the eligibility requirements for all building inspectors in various trades.
One of the amendment proposals removed three building inspector positions as appointed officers along with the repeal of the chapter dealing with the board of inspectors. The city still has its building inspectors.
The amendment change was approved 1,163-747.
"We are not getting rid of our building inspectors," Vincent Pastue told The Monroe News previously. "We still have them, but they are governed by the Michigan Bureau of Construction Codes. The charter is not specific enough so we are asking to remove it."
Residents approved removing the dog warden position 1,368-548. In the case of the dog warden, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office operates animal control.
The city physician post was removed 1,400-516.
The inspector of weights and measures position was removed 1,400-499.


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2014 / A year in review
As each year passes by we are left standing on the 31st of December telling each other how quickly this year has gone. And each year just goes quicker than the one that came before it.
As I sat down to choose a single photo from each month and I simply couldn't. Twenty fourteen has been massive, and so so so much happened, as you'll see when you scroll down. One photo just wouldn't be enough, choosing two photos wasn't nearly enough to show what happened. But painstakingly I managed to select 24 photos that were highlight moments for me (there's still a lot I missed!).
I was lucky enough to capture a very intimate wedding at the Hamilton gardens for a friend. A beautiful wedding need not be extravagant and lavish. I got to show off a great part of our country to a couple of Canadians and an America. I love New Zealand.
One of the smartest most humble souls I know and have the honour of calling my friend graduated. The summer weather hung around a little longer and trips to the beach were frequent.
Trips so frequent I convinced some good friends to head out to Raglan for a portrait shoot. May was also the start of a six week adventure through North America that started with a wedding on the west coast of Canada.
After the wedding Monita and I made our way from the west coast to the east coast of Canada, and than back from the east to the west of America. It was beyond amazing.
Before heading back home I spent a few days in Sydney. July was a slow cold month but it was a good time to get on top of work and catch up with old friends.
I braved the cold and spent a very educational day with some very talented and well respected photographers. Oh, and another trip to the beach even in winter.
I relived some memories and captured a reunion show of one of the greatest hardcore bands of all time. Also got to show my family around Queenstown and the surrounding areas for an entire week.
I found the coolest mini forest in the middle of suburbia, and had one amazing engagement shoot in it. As if I didn't have enough time away, Monita and I squeezed in a long weekend get away to Russell in the Bay of Islands.
Summer was meant to be around the corner but we were given cold winds and gloomy clouds. From a portrait shoot turned afternoon out in Auckland to my second time to the Red Barn for another amazing wedding. Sometimes the weather just worked in our favour.
The start of summer, the fourth year of Life As I Shoot It, an new take on an engagement shoot in a old location and making adventures with new friends.
So there you have it, twenty fourteen in twenty four photos. I am so blessed to have been given so many opportunities and lucky to have crossed paths with so many amazing people in so many different places.


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M24 Family // featuring Enny Audu
After knowing I would be attending the University of Houston I began searching online for some campus ministries I may be interested in, and it all kind of fell in place from there. From seeing the Mission24 table at the Cat's Back event to connecting with people there from as early as the first Sunday, it all worked itself out really. Looking back on my childhood it's obvious how God drew me in at such a young age and just put a desire and curiosity for Him in my heart. Now as I reflect I see all the little seeds planted in me, even in an environment where the gospel wasn't preached. Though I had responded to altar calls at about the age of 9, when I was 12 years old I heard the good news, understood it and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Mission24 to me is a passionate church family that cares about people because of their love for God. The genuine atmosphere of the people really showed me that "perfection" doesn't mean salvation or even growth. I really believe that I was meant to go to the University of Houston and be a part of such a great family. I am currently starting my sophomore year as a nutrition major on the Pharmacy track and I'm super excited for my second year at UH! Go COOGS!
What is your ethnic orgin? Nigerian
What is the #1 country on your list to visit? Egypt
If you could be any animal, what would you choose and why? Cheetah, because their fierce and fast.
What is your favorite cereal? Hmmm frosted flakes?.. but Oreo O's before they got discontinued
Early riser or night owl? Night owl for sureeee…(infact it is currently 3am as I fill this out)
Coffee or Tea? I just recently fell in love with tea!
Neat freak or slob? Neatish
Crazy obsession, compulsions, petpeeves? Crazy obsession: Ranch dressing// Compulsion: Unconsciously scrunching up my face// Pet peeve: Sluggish customer service. Like going to the DPS or Optometrist. Everything becomes 20 minutes longer than it should be and everyone else seems weirdly ok with it..so I just end up feeling crazy
Frequently played song on MP3 player? Lecrae "I Know"
Embarrassing moment? I slipped on a paper plate in my high school cafeteria and fell backwards and my pizza flew up in the air then fell on me. Right after I told my friends they couldn't have any, so of course they had a great time laughing, and the rest of the cafeteria as well. Luckily my backpack caught my fall
Name one unusual or unbelievable fact about you? I don't let people sit on my bed nor do I sit on it throughout the day.
Most memorable experience with the Lord? Getting the gift of tongues in the 8th grade


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Pakistan captures senior al-Qaeda leader who planned attacks on US, Europe and Australia; as 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, experts discuss its impact on civil liberties, homeland security, immigration and more; inflation is China's most urgent economic concern, says World Bank; Turkey has suspended diplomatic ties with Israel; Indian PM visits Bangladesh; 750,000 people at risk of death in Somalia; and more
Top of the Agenda: Pakistan Captures Senior al-Qaeda Leader
The Pakistani military arrested Younis al-Mauritani, a senior al-Qaeda leader, and two of his accomplices in the southwestern city of Quetta, officials said. The operation was the result of intelligence cooperation (BBC) between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
According to the ISI, al-Mauritani, who used to answer directly to Osama bin Laden, was responsible for planning terror attacks (al-Jazeera) on the United States, Europe, and Australia.
Pakistani and U.S. officials lauded the collaboration between the two nations that led to al-Mauritani's arrest. The mission comes after months of tension (NYT) between Pakistanis and Americans over the United States' unilateral raid on Pakistani territory that killed bin Laden in May.
Last week, U.S. officials claimed to have killed Atiyah Abd al Rahman, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, in a drone strike (ExpressTribune)--a tactic that continues to strain the U.S.-Pakistani relationship.
This CFR Backgrounder offers a profile of al-Qaeda, the international terrorist network that the United States has singled out as the most serious threat to U.S. security.
This CFR Contingency Planning Memo assesses the repercussions of a Pakistan-based terrorist attack on the United States and recommends responses for U.S. decision-makers.
Targeted killings have become a central component of U.S. counterterrorism operations around the globe. Despite pointed criticism over transparency and accountability issues, analysts say the controversial practice seems likely to expand in the future.
Pakistan's stability is of great consequence to regional and international security. Examine the roots of its challenges, what it means for the region and the world, and explore some plausible futures for the country in this CFR Crisis Guide.
Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks
This CFR Issue Guide provides expert analysis and essential background on the central questions facing U.S. policymakers ten years after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
World Bank Warns on China Inflation
World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned Monday that inflation is China's most urgent economic concern. During a four-day trip to Beijing, Zoellick pushed China to develop its economy to be fueled by domestic consumption (WSJ), rather than exports.
SOUTH KOREA: The country's chief nuclear envoy will travel to the United States to discuss the possibility of reopening the Six Party Talks (Yonhap) over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Negotiations between the United States, China, Russia, Japan, and the two Koreas have been stalled since 2008.
Turkey has suspended diplomatic ties with Israel
Indian PM visits Bangladesh
750,000 people at risk of death in Somalia
This is an excerpt of the CFR.org Daily News Brief. The full version is available on CFR.org.


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I miss penning down my thoughts in this safe haven...It is utterly strange because I am never a good writer, I write in simple sentences, nothing fanciful, and I can express myself in Chinese actually. My negligence of this space for the past two months led me to realise that no matter how anxious I felt before writing the past posts, I miss the tranquility in the study room, trying to make sense in writing my encounters, all by myself, and swaying along with hiphop & jazzhop playlists on Youtube.
So what have I been doing?
1. I took some time off to watch widely on Youtube/Netflix be it food, cartoon (Bojack Horseman) or fashion vlogs for inspiration
2. Practicing active listening from videos, and people around me
3. Getting geeky with veggieboy almost every weekend when we play Trine on PS4
With all these stuff going on, the kitchen was still in a mess with Thai spices. *Sneeze sneeze* Lately, I'm hooked in Green Curry. I mean this green giant tastes as fierce as hulk when my friend Pear delivered one portion for me at work. Indulging this curry hand made by a Thai was a sheer bliss! Hence, I started reading up different versions of green curry and stocked up the fridge with tons of shallots, lemon grass, limes, ginger etc. Almost every weekend, the kitchen transformed into a laboratory. There were failures where, I dropped a few tears, and ended up with a blocked nose when the green curry paste written in some recipes were awfully spicy.
So after four attempts over four weekends, poor veggieboy frowned at me when I cradled a bowl of green curry with glowing excitement in my eyes.
"Try please...." I said.
Being his ever supportive self, he took a mouthful of Green Curry Quinoa and nodded and pouted.
So...I am going to share this recipe with a video this time! To minimise food waste, I managed to purchase Tom Yam mix pack at the local supermarket instead of buying the ingredients separately. It includes the essential ingredients (bird's eye chillis, shallots, limes, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, lemongrass and coriander) which are sufficient to whip up a Thai dish for two to three servings. Additionally, I bought coriander and sweet basil leaves to complete the ingredient check list for the curry. This has saved me from scratching my head for a gazillion ideas to use up the spices.
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the least spicy to 10 being the most spicy, this green curry is rated at a comfortable 5. One tip to lessen the spice is to remove the chilli seeds from the bird eye's green chilli, add more coconut cream/milk and let it simmer longer.
Well, if you are also starting to remove white rice or wheat from your diet, try quinoa (keen wah) as a substitute! Definitely a great source of protein, and high in fibre. In this recipe, I did not rinse the organic quinoa before boiling because I like the earthy, nutty flavour it integrates with the curry. Also, the unwashed quinoa will have a firmer texture which resembles grains.
Time: 35 minutes (including preparation)
Ingredients (Serves 2-3)
Green Curry Paste
- 5 shallots, diced
- Juice of ½ lime
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tsp peppercorns
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- ¼ cup coconut cream
- ½ bulb garlic, chopped
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- 1 bird's eye green chilli, sliced
- 1 thumb size blue ginger, sliced
- 1 thumb size young ginger, sliced
- 2 stalks lemongrass, remove base, grate only the white part
- ½ cup coriander (approximately 5 sprigs), remove the roots and chop them up
*Alternatively you can buy a Tom Yam Mix packet as I mentioned above, and look for the balance ingredients separately.
Green Curry
- ½ cup quinoa
- 1 tbsp virgin coconut oil
- ¾ cup coconut cream
- 6 glass prawns
- 3 baby brinjal, sliced
- 4 white button mushrooms, sliced
- ½ cup broccolini, chopped, separate stems and florets
- 6 lime leaves, remove stalk and tear the leaves in pieces
- A handful of sweet basil leaves
To serve
- Lime wedge, coriander and sweet basil leaves
- Pour quinoa and 2 cups of water into the sauce pot over medium heat. Stir for 1 minute to let water evaporate. Let it boil for 15 minutes, and remove foam-like coat on quinoa surface (saponins). This will remove the bitter flavour. Strain quinoa and set aside to cool.
- In a food chopper/processor, add all green curry paste ingredients. Blend to a paste and set aside.
- In the same sauce pot, add coconut oil over medium high heat, then add reserved green curry paste. Stir it swiftly for 30 seconds to release the spice fragrance. Slowly pour coconut cream and stir the paste constantly until it forms a fresh green mixture.
- Add mushrooms, eggplants, stems of broccolini into mixture. Stir to incorporate. Lower heat to medium heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add lime leaves, broccolini florets and prawns, scoop cooked ingredients over so that florets and prawns are cooking at the base. Let it simmer for 6 minutes.
- Sprinkle sweet basil leaves on green curry, and stir briefly for 10 seconds. Turn off heat immediately.
- Portion quinoa into two to three plates, and top each portion with green curry, a lime wedge, coriander and sweet basil leaves.
- Ally


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2019 Lexus IS Redesign, Engine, Price, Release Date – The 2019 Lexus is connected with incredible study and wonderful viability that will employ it on the top of other individuals in competitors. The complete outdoors this car is overseen astounding changes and great feelings that will put in place your vehicle by different agencies in the business highlight. They have amazing pieces from inside along with the setup is unquestionably the absolute best between various autos from your exceptionally exact same aggregating.
2019 Lexus IS Redesign
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The conceivable shortage of sizeable alterations arrive not notably being clarified using the extreme level of the car only, in everything merely being equal, the apparent lack of changes distinctively on come shows up additionally progressing to be gotten by the inside of or manor a portion of the new 2019 Lexus IS. The pleasant mixture of premium and dynamic expert of inside selections have all of the stocks to get set up with this most up and coming version. In be that as it can, the improvement could additionally receive by Lexus regarding the choices within this reasonable automobile.
2019 Lexus IS Engine Specs
To ensure, this vehicle is depended on to find some great engine alternate options out of your forefathers. The real electric motor supplanting that may operate along with this car is a 2.5-liter V6 engine with energy production of 204 energy and 185 lb-ft of twisting. This engine is also mated with 6-rate produced a trading layout. The 2nd engine model supplanting linked to 2019 Lexus is looking to be3.5 V6 electric powered engine fit for supplying 306 shift and 277 lb-ft of twisting. It will be coordinated with 8-amount defined mailing, and additionally, the drivetrain will manage to benefit once again wheel makes. These engines are same works with the ones that run combined with 2016 fashion. There is probably somewhat lately as of late created engine predicted that may go despite this fantastic and unfathomably structured vehicle even so ideas about this may not be whatever the case recognized not accessible.
The setup recognized using this type of 2019 Lexus is planning to vary depending ample throughout the engine system decision who go despite the range you picked. Given the 2.5-liter V6 motor unit, it really is ordinary that customers will enjoy 20 mpg for the village and 23 mpg for method generate. To the 3.5-lite V6 engine decision the client will esteem 19 a long way for every gallon for the town and 22 kilometers for each and every gallon for streets. They are presumably the variables why this motor vehicle will conquer other testing businesses within the company market when it is probably discharged.
2019 Lexus IS Release Date and Price
In connection to quantities of rivalry involving 2019 Lexus IS with grouped companies it will likely be incredible and significant amounts of well-known auto manufacturers will work their absolute best to offer a vehicle which will be the ideal as well as others from the very similar class. An element of the competitors to the car include Bmw Benz, Lexus ATS, Lexus A4 and Infiniti Q50. Also, there are some health and protection attributes related with this programmed which better it rather than other folks. A part of the confidence and wealth elements are: fantastic airbag, safety belts, preventing help, floor managing, robustness firm, sent an amount limitation organization, pre-affect forewarning, blind perspective suggested but others.


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``...because training a dancer means so much more than dance classes.``
BIA provides the same year around personal attention and performance opportunities to its students that have made Summer Dance Company a unique experience for dancers.
Founder Jaime Robtison created Ballet Institute of Atlanta to provide the highest quality dance training possible for serious students, physically and mentally.
In addition to a strong emphasis on technical development, BIA offers a diverse curriculum that includes dancer strength training and stretch classes.
To obtain a career in dance, the demands on a dancer's body go far beyond what can be gained from dance classes alone. Taking dance class after dance class is not training. Training has to be detailed and rigorous work for the individual to develop, prepare and sculpt the body. In addition to detailed training, Ballet Institute of Atlanta (BIA) offers a diverse curriculum that includes dancer strength and flexibility training to give dancers the extra push they need.
Founder and Director Jaime Robtison also believes it is imperative to teach students to be confident in themselves throughout their training. When dancers have the confidence to express who they are through dancing, they become far more valuable as artists. Teaching students how to develop the necessary mental strength is often the most difficult part of training, but can be the most helpful tool a dancer can have.
BIA's unique and well-rounded approach to training gives aspiring dancers all of the necessary tools needed to achieve their goals.


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Yard O Led Launches Two New Sets: Shropshire and Northumberland
Celebrating 85 Years of Excellence with the "County Series"
Yard O Led will be adding two new silver finishes to their beautiful ballpoint and pencil silver collection: The Northumberland and the Shropshire.
The Yard-O-Led Pencil company, who have been making beautiful, precision-engineered writing implements in England for nearly 85 years, will launch the 'County Series' of mechanical pens and pencils to celebrate its upcoming anniversary. Each model will be named after a county that has played an important role in the company's history.
Inspired by classic designs from the company's archives, the Shropshire and Northumberland will be the first two models in the series. The 'Shropshire' commemorates the many Shropshire born silversmiths who have worked for the company in the seventy years since its move from London's Hatton Garden to Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter following the Second World War.
Whilst the county of Shropshire is now the company's home, that of its largest British retail chain, The Pen Shop, is in Northumberland and Yard-O-Led is therefore proud to adopt this as the name for the second design in this historic series.
Since its foundation in 1934 with the first patent for a mechanical pencil capable of holding twelve three inch leads, Yard-O-Led has had a history of innovation. Nevertheless, all the company's writing instruments continue to be hand-made and hallmarked in Birmingham by highly skilled silversmiths out of sterling silver.


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Join us as we knock on doors with Oakland Rising to talk to neighbors and turn out the vote. Oakland Rising educates and mobilizes voters in the flatlands to speak up about and take charge of critical issues with real impact. Don't miss this opportunity to help curb the tide of displacement, lift up racial and economic equity, and get out the vote!
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Earlier Event: October 16Voter's Playbook: Downtown Oakland / Chinatown
Later Event: October 29Voter's Playbook: Grand Lake


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Stay Tuned for the Wildlife Insights Launch in 2019
Currently, camera trap users must manually identify species photographed in images. The fastest users can tag several hundred images per hour.
Wildlife Insights uses artificial intelligence to automatically identify species in images, which will save tens of thousands of hours humans spend doing a repetitive task. This will shift significant resources and human power from identifying images to using the data to make more informed decisions to protect wildlife.
Whether you are starting a small project or launching a national initiative, Wildlife Insights is being built to help you use wildlife data.
Use Wildlife Insights with your existing data
Upload your entire catalog of photos in bulk so you can access and analyze all of your existing and future data in one place. The new Wildlife Insights platform makes uploading data and images easier than ever.
Share insights from your own tools
Even if you're not ready to change data management systems, you can still share your data via our API. You'll be able to access our tools to automatically identify and analyze your entire collection of photos.
Start Contributing Data Now
Use eMammal or Wild.ID to get started
Try one of our partner tools to get started. Once Wildlife Insights launches, you'll be able to easily move your photos and data from either of these platforms.


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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Arms flailing, the exuberant and perhaps hyperactive Italian actor and comedian Roberto Benigni described Pope Francis as a masterful minister of God's mercy, which is always active and always on the move.
Benigni brought the house down Jan. 12 during the presentation of the new book-length interview with Pope Francis, "The Name of God Is Mercy." The actor read excerpts of the book, but also offered his own reflections on mercy and bubbled over with praise for Pope Francis.
When he received the call asking him to participate in the book launch, Benigni said, he was told, "'His Holiness would like' and I said, 'Yes!' without letting them finish. I'd do anything — be a Swiss Guard, drive the popemobile — absolutely anything for this pope."
"Mercy," Benigni said, "is not a virtue that's seated in an easy chair. It's an active virtue, one that moves. Just look at the pope, he's never still. It moves not just the heart, but the arms, legs, heels, knees. It moves heart and soul. It's never still."
"I would have loved to be a priest," he said. When he was small and people would ask what he wanted to be when he grew up, Benigni said, "I'd respond, 'the pope.' Because this response made everyone laugh, I understood I had to be a comedian. If they'd all knelt, I would (have tried to) be pope."
Hundreds of people packed the auditorium of the Augustinian Patristic Institute across the street from the Vatican for the presentation.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said there is little doubt that mercy is a central theme of Pope Francis' pontificate, but the book is not so much an explanation of mercy as it is an account of how Pope Francis has experienced mercy in his personal life, his priestly ministry and his own spirituality.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said that in the published conversation with journalist Andrea Tornielli, it is as if Pope Francis wants "to take us by the hand and lead us into the great and comforting mystery of God's mercy, a mystery far from our human logic and yet so desired by us pilgrims lost in this age of challenges and trials."
Benigni told the people at the book presentation that Pope Francis clearly demonstrates how mercy is not a soft, saccharine virtue, but one that challenges people and has both social and political implications for the way it offers people a second chance and a helping hand.
Zhang Jianqing, an immigrant from China incarcerated in Padua, Italy, who took the name Agostino when he was baptized in 2015, was given leave to meet Pope Francis and share his conversion story at the book presentation.
Meeting and becoming friends with Christians who visited the prison, Zhang came to learn about Jesus and grew to love him. He hesitated converting, though, he said, because he already had decided that he should do nothing more in his life to hurt his family and especially his mother, a practicing Buddhist.
But his mother told him he must follow his heart, Zhang said. "God's mercy changed my life."
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Hamilton Police Department investigates child's allegations
By DAVID ERICKSON – Ravalli Republic
The Hamilton Police Department investigated allegations by a very young Hamilton School District student of inappropriate contact by a district employee two weeks ago, police chief Ryan Oster confirmed Wednesday.
However, Oster said that the investigation turned up no wrongdoing by the employee and no charges are expected to be filed.
"I would caution everybody to err on the side of caution here," Oster said. "Not only were we not able to substantiate any of the stories, but there wasn't a lot of substance to the story. I would just ask everyone to be real careful about spreading rumors. An allegation like this can ruin somebody's career.
Rumors about the investigation have spread throughout the community, and resulted in numerous calls to the school district and the Ravalli Republic newspaper in recent days. However, the police chief urged restraint.
"The nature of the allegations came from a very small child, and it was very difficult to pinpoint a story," he said. "Nothing has been substantiated, and we have not made an arrest."
The young child was taken to Emma's House in Hamilton, a nonprofit children's advocacy center, to be interviewed about the allegations.
"We use Emma's House and that model to do any forensic interviews and any forensic exams," Oster said. "We have not been able to substantiate the story that came out. People make allegations of all kinds of things, and when it's something of this nature it can get way out of control as far as the stories that are out there. I suppose it is fair to say that the investigation is ongoing, but we have not charged anyone with a crime and it doesn't appear that we are going to."


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Recently for projects I've been running with an Indian friend of mine I've been thinking on automating some of the link building using directory submission sites.
Alternatively there are also search engine submission sites available.
What are search engine submission sites?
Basically as far as I've understood it these are sites that add your own site to their directory. In this sense they send a spider to your website, index it and add it to their directory.
As a result your website is now listed in some directory somewhere that is crawlable. In the age before Google there probably were some hundred of different search engines available.
The good thing is.. These are still up and running! Even though Google has taken the lion-share of search traffic over the years, these directory and search engine websites are still being maintained.
How do these differ from directory submission sites?
Directories are basically a collection of websites grouped around topics. In the early days of the internet there wasn't really a clever way of making information searchable.
So people just did the best they could and started gathering websites around a certain topic and group them in a directory of that particular topic.
It is a very clunky way of storing information but for all intents and purposes it does the job. If you click on a nature directory, you'll be bombarded with sites ranging from tree diseases to a site talking about a particular type of goat living in the high-Andes… Just kidding but you get my point.
And there probably is a goat somewhere that lives in the high-Andes and most likely someone will have made a blog about it. If not I'll be the first and figure out a way to monetize that too!
In short..
Search Engine and directory submission sites can greatly speed up the work of someone looking to up their SERP scores. In some cases, with the click of a single button your website will be added to multiple directories, creating multiple, decent quality back links in return.
What does that mean for someone looking to do a bit of SEO?
A lot actually. Assuming you are looking at doing white-hat SEO and not trying some dodgy stuff. The thing with white-hat SEO is that it is extremely time-taking. Sending out eamils, reaching out to people, researching who to contact next just to get a few links.
It's time taking. So there is a way to speed things up a little.
Serach engine submission sites add your website, coupled with your email address for verification purposes to a vast network of pre-Google search engines. These will gladly index your site and add them in their directory in an effort to make their directory bigger.
Don't expect any influx of traffic to be coming this way though. As the search engines in itself are virtually useless. The reason we are doing this to get your link listed somewhere online, that is also readable by Google.
In doing so you will have, essentially, earned a link. And as in the early days of Google there is one metric that still counts: Links are votes.
The more links point to your website, the better you will do in Google's eyes.
Are all links created equal?
They are not. As most of you reading this are probably aware; link quality plays an important part into the way the Google algorithms rank your website in relation to others in your neighborhood.
But that is the beauty of these directory sites and pre-Google search engines though. Especially the search engines have a relatively good rep with the folks in Palo Alto as these are relatively tricky to game.
For directories you have to be careful nowadays as a lot of them have become breeding grounds for Cialis and Viagra related businesses looking to advertise (and gain links).
List of the best directory submission sites
Here are 30 online directory submission sites you should visit and put up your website. What they require from you is just some basic info about your website and your email address for verification purposes. It can be a bit of a drag to fill all these out manually (maybe I should script this somehow).. However it's worth it in the end as you get extra links for relatively no effort.
1. All Free Things (Page Rank 4)
2. Free PR Web Directory (Page Rank 6)
3. Travel Tourism Directory Info (Page Rank 6)
4. So Much (Page Rank 6)
5. High Rank Directory (Page Rank 6)
6. Britain Business Directory (Page Rank 6)
7. Marketing Internet Directory (Page Rank 6)
8. Hot Vs Not (Page Rank 6)
9. Submission Web Directory (Page Rank 6)
10. Diolead (Page Rank 6)
11. Uk Internet Directory (Page Rank 6)
12. Jet Jaws (Page Rank 6)
13. Esjoub (Page Rank 6)
14. Lilink (Page Rank 7)
15. Feed Up Info (Page Rank 8)
16. Finance Buster (Page Rank 6)
17. Synergy-Directory (Page Rank 4)
18. Nexus Directory (Page Rank 4)
19. Directory Fire (Page Rank 4)
20. Master Moz (Page Rank 4)
21. Direct My Link (Page Rank 4)
22. Pro Link Directory (Page Rank 4)
23. Info-Listings (Page Rank 4)
24. Submissions 4U (Page Rank 4)
25. Piseries (Page Rank 4)
26. Gain Web Org (Page Rank 4)
27 Best Free Websites Net (Page Rank 3)
28. PR 3 Plus (Page Rank 3)
29. Web Directory Co (Page Rank 3)
30. 10 Directory (Page Rank 3)
List of the best search engine submission websites
I've personally used http://www.cleversubmitter.com/ for my previous projects as well as http://www.freewebsubmission.com/.
Both have proven to be pretty useful and have not given me any bad rep (at least not according to the google search console) nor have I experienced any negative influence on my SERP. In fact quite the opposite.
Contrary to the directory submission sites the 2 mentioned above allow you to add your website to hundreds of prehistoric search engines. And as a result get multiple, white-hat backlinks at the click of a button.
After adding my sites to the above links I noticed a small, but noticeable jump across the board.
Happy adding and let me know if some of these links don't work anymore!


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Iceland 2017 | Video Compilation
You'll find this on my Youtube Channel, but just in case you end up here, I thought I'd post it. This is a compilation of the videos we took in Iceland in September 2017. It's nothing fancy, but it's a fun way to see all our shorter videos in one. We think of Iceland often, and honestly, we're dying to go back. Anyways, enjoy this fun montage!


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Whether it's a wedding or reception, we have your back. Let us make your day special by giving you a comfortable romantic ride wherever it is you need to go. Here at Divine Limousine we want to make your day special so we've come up with a list of the best places to hold a wedding and reception.
Best Places to Hold Your Wedding or Reception
Alpine Art Center
The Alpine Art Center is a very beautiful venue in Salt Lake City, UT. This elegant venue is surrounded by beautiful mountains and gardens making it a perfect destination for a wedding. Whether is outdoors or indoors this venue will accommodate for both. Perfect for the capacity of 50 to 500 guests. Want to know more? Visit the Alpine Art Center site for photos, prices, and more.
Homestead Resort
The Homestead Resort is a perfect place for those of you who are looking for a venue that does both the wedding and reception. It's located by the gorgeous Wasatch Mountains in Midway, UT.
This is a great place for people in love with nature and the Beauty of the world. Want to know more? Visit the Homestead Resort's site to see photos, prices, and more.
Pierpont Place
From modern to unique this place is perfect for an eye opening event. Whether you choose them to do your decorations and coordination they can make the Pierpont Place perfect for your special day. Great for up to 200 guests! Visit the Pierpont Place's site to see photos, prices, and more.
The Bell Room
The Bell Room is an elegant banquet hall in the Provo, UT area surrounded by vintage decor and an elegant topical style. This Venue is filled with colorful walls and shiny brick flooring. Perfect for a wedding with guests up to 150. Visit The Bell Room's site to see photos, prices and more.
Barbwire and Lace
The Barbwire and Lace is a beautiful and unique vintage venue located in Pleasant Grove, UT. The venue is on a countryside with 3.5 acres of land. This place is perfect for fitting your needs and the people there help make it perfect for making new and amazing memories. Great for guests up to 300. Visit Barbwire and Lace's site to see photos, prices and more


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Client Holiday card still on the revision point. Worked on finalizing the tweaks to get completed by the end of the week. In that spirit, I created the Luckystone card and got it out to the insty-printer last night. Picked out some nice riblaid khaki colored envelopes that I need to order. Could be tan or a dirty green? Prices seem good. Maybe will get them imprinted with our address to make it seem a bit more pro. Next step, get the cranes cards to Interlaken to get the valentines day card done so we can stuff and finalize at the same time as Christmas. Speaking of Christmas, ordered three presents today for my nieces. Yay! I love working against the November 11th date to have all the holiday stuff done, wrapped and finalized (to be put in the mail) so that the month of December I have to make ancillary fun stuff, and to have the time to dig into whatever whimsey takes my fancy.
Working on revisions of the special project for a friend. Am working away on the logotypes and feel like there is a bit of breeze in this work.
Lots of local stuff. Need to layout the Tburg Farmers Market Thank you teeshirt and a totebag. Also, need to get my wits together for yearbook in advance. I have the Rick Smolen "Day in the Life" books from Alibris in hand as well as a few cameras I bought from Bargain Cell for the team. I will need to get a battery charger and some cards to let these little cameras go…I should try one out to know what sort of gift (?) I am extending to the group. This weekend definitely.
I hopefully will be working on the companion animal graphic work (two annual reports). Not huge projects nor huge budgets, but work is work— and we welcome it. Also have some work with Amy Brill>> a local fashion designer and creative person all round. I was doing a little branding for her…and now she needs a hangtag and something to wrap her fibers in for sale. Kitty did a little modelling for her…and the pictures are great.
Just finished the trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked Hornet's Nests. I throughly enjoyed them…it was a mad trip, a wonderful ride from the first page of Dragon to the last page of Nest….an engrossing story in the spirit of the Hannibal Lechter stories…that is very scandinavian in style and spirit. So clean and bright with a really deep, dark slice. Summer reading extrordinaire. Recommended.


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Curly Bob Cuts Can Be As Different As You Please!
Believe it or not, curly bob isn't just a short haircut with a lovely bouncy texture. The unbelievable variety of angles and structure is hiding behind these two simple words. Bob cuts came to our world to show the beauty of short hair length, but who says that you can't customize it based on your preferences?
Today we want to open your eyes and introduce the popular curly cut in many new lights. One texture and many variations of pulling it off: see how many types of curly bobs there are, discover how they differ and find the suitable idea for you!
Main photo by Nathaliebarros
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It's Friday at 5! You've worked hard all week and are feeling exhausted. You can't wait for the weekend; finally a chance to relax and unwind. In addition to getting together with friends and family, you have a hike planned and the weather is supposed to be perfect.
But you also have a big project due Monday morning and you figure it will take about 4 hours of work to complete it over the weekend. Before you leave the office, you need to decide if you will come into the office to finish the project or work on it from home.
What makes most sense? How can you get the most work done and have it encroach as little as possible on your weekend plans?
These 3 D's will help determine where you work best:
- Do you have trouble settling and focusing on your work?
- When working from home, do you start tackling overdue home maintenance projects?
- Are you constantly preparing yourself something to eat and drink?
- Do you find yourself searching for adorable dog and cat videos?
Everyone procrastinates a little and some people find it particularly hard to get motivated at home on the weekend. Taking regular breaks is an important and valuable strategy, but if you are unable to sit down and focus in your home, commit to getting your work done in the office.
- Do you have a spouse? significant other? kids?
- How likely are you to work without being interrupted by someone?
- Does your needy dog view you sitting at a table as an opportunity to get attention, constantly nosing your hand off the keyboard?
While we are all capable of distracting ourselves, it's even harder to get work done from home if you live with other people. Set realistic expectations of yourself and those living in your home.
If you are constantly distracted, it will take much longer to get your work done than if you simply went into the office for a few hours.
When working from home, where do you work? Is there a designated space that is quiet and has some privacy?
If you live alone, this may not be an issue for you. When living with others, it is difficult to focus and get work done in an open area.
I recommend avoiding the couch and keeping the TV off. When a TV is on, even with the sound off, it is distracting and will increase the amount of time it takes to get your project done.
If you want to work from home, can you ask your family to go to a movie to give you a few uninterrupted hours?
Without a quiet space, it may be difficult to accomplish your work. Your workspace should be clear - cluttered areas can make it difficult to focus.
This is the most important consideration in determining if you can be successful working from home.
To be your most productive, create some structure to your day. Don't sleep too late, eat a good breakfast, take a shower and get dressed. These morning rituals help to signal your brain that you are preparing to use it!
Otherwise, you begin the day thinking you have loads of time, only to find that it's four o'clock in the afternoon and you haven't done a stitch of work. And you're still in your pajamas!
Taking the time to map out a plan enables you to concentrate for set periods of time without distraction or interruption. I suggest using time blocking (scheduling appointments with yourself throughout the day for everything you want to get done).
Matching your work to the time of day when you work best will improve your efficiency, enabling you to complete your work faster.
Deciding whether you should go into the office or work from home is a personal decision. Being honest with yourself about the ability to concentrate effectively from home will ultimately save you time.
Want more productivity tips?
Check out Super-Productive: 120 Strategies to Do More and Stress Less.
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Aunt Janice's Cashew Butter Truffles
Hey guys!
If you're a Michigander, you know the pain of having hot summers and cold winters. If you ever meet a Michigander, most of us will say that the weather is bi-polar. But with that there's the universal saying of "Christmas in July". As being raised in a family who cherishes the entire Christmas season (we seriously go out and get a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving), it's my favorite time of year. As a Christmas bumpkin, I'm usually blaring Christmas music during July. With thinking of the recipes of the past that my Grandma Boyd made during the Christmas season, I instantly thought "Peanut Butter Balls". They're essential a buckeye but my Grandma also made coconut balls that were also like a Mound Candy Bar but a lot healthier. With it being a hot summer, I turned my air conditioning, played Frank Sinatra, and started thinking of how I could make a these. My friend Dee, who is a fellow vegetarian, designer, and friend, she made me a jar of cashew butter. It looked at me in my cupboard and I instantly called her up. With the jar not being enough for our recipe, Dee brought the ingredients over to make more. So today, I have a recipe for the cashew butter and the cashew butter truffles:
Cashew Butter Recipe
Ingredients and Utensils
8oz roasted unsalted cashews
4 oz toasted coconut
1 tsp sea salt
Baking sheet
Parchment Paper
Food Processor
Step1: Preheat oven to 350
Step 2: Place a piece of parchment onto a baking sheet. Add your coconut and place into the oven. Keep an eye on it so it doesn't burn. (save some coconut for later)
Step 3. In a food processor blend cashews, toasted coconut, and sea salt until it's smooth and creamy.
Now for the Truffles
Ingredients and Utensils
Approximately 1 cup of powdered sugar
12 oz bag of semi sweet chocolate chips
Toasted coconut from before
Baking sheet
Parchment paper
2 forks
Double boiler or a small saucepan and a heat safe bowl.
Step 1: Add your powdered sugar to your cashew butter and blend until it becomes a dough. If it's still liquid add a tsp of powdered sugar until it comes together.
Step 2: Roll into balls and place onto your baking sheet covered in parchment. Then place in the freezer to set
Step 3. In a double boiler (or a small saucepan of heat safe bowl) add your chocolate chips and stir until melted. If using a small saucepan don't let the water at the bottom hit the bottom of the bowl.
Step 4: When smooth, grab your cashew butter balls from the fridge.
Step 5: Grab two forks and roll in chocolate. This is somewhat time sensitive because if you leave the cashew butter balls in to long, they'll melt into the chocolate.
Step 6: Place on baking sheet with parchment
Step 7: Sprinkle with toasted coconut and set in freezer to set.
And you're done!
I hope you guys enjoyed this recipe. Dee and I honestly...ate all of the truffles that we made after they were set... Oh well!
I hope you guys have a lovely Saturday! Stay tuned for another recipe!


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HEP Seminar: "Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with EXO-200 and nEXO"
Main Content
Searches for neutrinoless double beta decay (0vbb) provide the most sensitive test of the Majorana nature of neutrinos. Observation of this lepton number violating process may be in reach of detectors in the coming years, as ton-scale experiments reach half life sensitivities for the decay approaching 10^28 yr. In this talk, I will describe recent results from the EXO-200 experiment, a liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC) searching for 0vbb in Xe-136. I will also describe plans and initial R&D for the next-generation nEXO experiment, which aims to scale the LXe TPC technology to the multi-ton scale.


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Leslie + Andrew | Married | Marina Village | San Diego
Every now and then a couple comes along that I just really click with. Since meeting them at our first wedding consultation they have become more than just clients to me. We've bonded over all things lavender, "pie/pi" puns, and our love of Harry Potter. Leslie and Andrew shared their wedding with friends and family on 3-14-15 which just happened to be Pi Day!
Thank you Leslie and Andrew for letting me sharing such an amazing day in your lives. I'm so happy for you both and I wish you all the best in your life together as husband and wife!


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Katlin and Joe shared their vows at The beautiful Sautee Mountain Retreat in North Georgia in an intimate gorgeous wedding surrounded by their best friends and family. It was relaxed, beautiful and so much fun!! Such a gorgeous couple! Wishing you guys a lifetime of happiness!
Wedding Venue: Sautee Mountain Retreat http://www.sauteemountainretreat.com/ https://www.facebook.com/kathryn.vazquez.92/
Wedding Officiant: Chad Mann http://www.mannforalloccasions.com/about-us @mannforalloccasions
Event Planner : Bride
Wedding Day Coordinator : Bride
Florist: Colleen's Flowers http://www.clevelandgaflorist.com/
Music - Band/DJ: Chad Mann - DJ http://www.mannforalloccasions.com/about-us @mannforalloccasions
Wedding Dress: Essense of Australia
Hairstylist: Danielle Darby from The Hair Designers https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Hair-Designers/107364115988037
Makeup Artist: Bride
Wedding Suit or Other Outfit: Men's Warehouse
Caterer: Kreative Katering
Cake: Sugartopia http://www.sugartopiasweets.com/
Bridal Party Outfits: David's Bridal