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Directions Soccer Coliseum
For directions via GPS, or internet, use the following address:
1799 Teaneck Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
The Coliseum is conveniently located only 5 minutes from the George Washington Bridge—with easy access to major highways. And there's plenty of free parking—enough for an army.
From the George Washington Bridge: Take Route 4 West to Teaneck Road exit (about 3 miles from G.W. Bridge).
Make right off exit and travel north (towards Bergenfield) for 1.4 miles. The Teaneck Armory sits back on the right side of the road at the intersection of Teaneck Road and Liberty.
Garden State Parkway (from the south): Take Garden State Parkway North to Exit 161. Take Route 4 East to Teaneck Road (Bergenfield) and follow from "Make right" above.
Garden State Parkway (from the north): Take Garden State Parkway South to Exit 163, to Route 17 South. Take Route 17 for 2 miles to Route 4 East. Take Route 4 East to Teaneck Road (Bergenfield) and follow from "Make right" above under G.W. Bridge directions.
From Route 80 West: Travel East on Route 80 to Exit 70. Take 70B and follow signs toward Teaneck; pass the Marriott and turn right at the second light onto Teaneck Road. Travel north on Teaneck Road for approximately 3 to 4 miles (1.4 miles north of Route 4).
From the New Jersey Turnpike: NJ Turnpike to Exit 18E and follow signs to the G.W. Bridge. Exit at Teaneck/Leonia Exit and follow signs to Teaneck and follow from "pass the Marriott" above.
Make a note of our contact Information
Administrative Offices:
954 Kinderkamack Rd
Oradell, NJ 07661
Phone 201.445.1900
Fax 201.445.1910


text: Travis Hellstrom February 14, 2010 Language is Unnecessary Travis Hellstrom February 14, 2010 Language is unnecessary. Sometimes. To express ideas we can often simply act. We can love. We can be kind. We can listen. We can be all of those things during the moments in which we normally just talk about those things. I have learned this especially with Tunga, who I often want to say many things to. I want to tell her that I love her, that she is special, that she is wonderful and that I think about her all the time. But I can show her those things. I can live in expression of these things. I can do that and she will know.

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I recently finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey.
Below are key excerpts from the book that I found insightful:
It is the thesis of this book that neither mastery nor satisfaction can be found in the playing of any game nor without giving some attrition to the relatively new relatively neglected skills of the inner game. This is the game that takes place in the mind of the player, and it is played against such obstacles as lapses in concentration, nervousness, self-doubt and self-condemnation. In short, it is played to overcome all habits of mind which inhibit excellence in performance.
Getting it together mentally in tennis involves the learning of several internal skills: 1) learning to program your computer Self 2 with images rather than instructing yourself with words; 2) learning to trust thyself (Self 2) to do what you (Self 1) ask of it This means letting Self 2 hit the ball and 3) learning to see "nonjudgmentally"—that is, to see what is happening rather than merely noticing how well or how badly it is happening. This overcomes "trying too hard." All these skills are subsidiary to the master skill, without which nothing of value is ever achieved: the art of concentration.
The first inner skill to be developed in the Inner Game is that of nonjudgmental awareness. When we "Unlearn" judgment we discover, usually with some surprise, that we don't need the motivation rf a reformer to change our "bad" habits.There is a more natural process of learning and performing waiting to be discovered. It is waiting to show what it can do when allowed to operate without interference from the conscious strivings of the judgmental ego-mind. The discovery of and reliance upon this process is the subject of the next chapter.
The main job of Self 1, the conscious ego-mind, is to set goals, that is, to communicate to Self 2 what he wants from it and then to let Self 2 do it.
The time for change comes when we realize that the same function could be served in a better way.
Step 1 – Observe, Nonjudgmentally, Existing Behavior…Step 2 Ask Yourself to Change, Programming with Image and Feel…Step3 Let It Happen! Step 4: Nonjudgmental, Calm Observation of the Results Leading to Continuing Observation of Process until Behavior Is in Automatic…Step 4 Observation.
By increasing the effective power of awareness, concentration allows us to throw more light on whatever we value knowing, and to that extent enables us to know and enjoy it more.
Children who have been taught to measure themselves in this way often be come adults driven by a compulsion to succeed which overshadows all else. The tragedy of this belief is not that they will fail to find the success they seek, but that they will not discover the love or even tithe self-respect they were led to believe will come with it. Furthermore, in their single-minded pursuit of measurable success, the development of many other human potentialities is sadly neglected.
On a closing note:
Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached. Reaching the goal itself may not be as valuable as the experience that can come in making a supreme effort to overcome the obstacles involved. The process can be more rewarding than the victory itself.
A highly recommended read in the area of personal development.


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MC's new album Gluten Free is Out Now
'Gluten Free is the sound of a spellbinding new artist, letting you listen to a series of strings in whole new way. If you think harp is a classically-curtailed instrument, you will invited, enticed and intrigued into realising otherwise
'Louder Than War Magazine , UK
MC & The 7 Pedals is an award winning, London based, experimental electric harp player who creates compositions using loop, wah and distortion pedal effects. MC uses bows and guitar sliders to make the instrument emulate bass, percussive and guitar‐like tones.
MC just released her album Gluten free under Valentine Records (UK) and the resulting music is cinematic, dreamlike and highly atmospheric as it seamlessly blends traditional and avant‐garde techniques to create mesmerising new forms.
MC has previously performed on Later with Jools Holland on BBC2, at the BBC Radio 1 studios and at the Montreal Jazz Festival. In London she has also appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, the National Portrait Gallery and at many major venues all over Europe. Additionally, Maria‐Christina has toured or collaborated with many artists including Katie Melua, Soft Cell, Anni Hogan, Alani, Jeremy Reed, Richard Strange and Psarantonis. MC has a Harp&Rap duet with rapper Potent Whisper. Their single Now was featured on BBC Introducing.
POTENT WHISPER + MARIA-CHRISTINA & THE 7 PEDALS – NOW (Official Music Video)
Ψαραντώνης / Maria-Christina & The 7 Pedals – Υπόγα
Maria-Christina & The 7 Pedals – Little Slaughtered Lamb
Maria-Christina & The 7 Pedals – Taximi & Efoymername ena Vradi
Ala.ni – Cherry Blossom at Later… with Jools Holland
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PPMC was founded in May 2007 and MMC was founded in May 2009. We are located on the corner of Lisle Industrial Road and Leestown Road in the Bakhaus Building on the 3rd floor, Suite 338.
We are open 6 days a week, but for special cases, we can open on that 7th day. Give us a call to make an appointment (859) 317-8295, 1500 Leestown Rd., Ste. 338, Lexington, KY 40511. We have five treatment rooms where we offer exceptional therapeutic massage treatments.
The mission of PPMC, LLC & MMC is to become a recognized & profitable massage center, known for being the pioneer of taking care of its clients, at very affordable prices. With the most talented; gifted; and well educated massage therapist in the area, we will establish an infinite, alternative healing center in a relaxing, family oriented environment. By paying close attention to the clients and their needs in detail, the center will become the best choice in Lexington, KY for therapeutic massage therapy.
PPMC, LLC & MMC will increase public awareness about the health benefits of therapeutic massage. It will inspire its clients to listen to their bodies and work toward a solution, instead of settling only for a "quick fix". It will give a new approach to maintaining and improving client's health in a safe, secure, and relaxing environment. It will offer therapeutic massage and self-help education at a reasonable cost. It will give clients other resources to assist with ongoing treatments or alone to help with the reduction of pain and improve well being; provide a balance to recovery. We will enhance life for the entire family by being able to assist the entire family. PPMC, LLC & MMC will remind the population that health from within is beneficial. We were all given the tools to heal ourselves, let's utilize it!
"...health from within is beneficial. We were all given the tools to heal ourselves, let's utilize it!"
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Fan Art- Jamie Lynn Lano/
Check out this amazing fan art by Jamie Lynn Lano! Aren't Karl and Tanuki cute?! She even made Karl look a little awkward. Just like he is! ;) You can read her awesome blog about living and working in Japan called LIVING TALL IN JAPAN. One of my favorite series of posts she writes is about her experience working as an art assistant on the manga Prince of Tennis. Very interesting reading about how things work in a real manga studio in Japan from the eyes of a foreigner. Check out the list of those posts here or just click on her fan art above!


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DOUGLAS FANNING and his studio DYAD has been selected as the first winner for Built/NYC's Call for Designers Competition to design 30 new data entry kiosks for NYC Department of Health's Office of Vital Records. Currently in prototype phase, completion is planned for Spring 2015.
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I have been doing molecular biology since 1985 and been in academic administration since 2004. I continue to run a large laboratory and to teach at UNSW Sydney.
We work on DNA-binding proteins that facilitate epigenetic changes to turn genes on and off. We are interested in developing ways to artificially regulate the expression of particular genes.
We recently used CRISPR and other gene editing approaches to introduce beneficial mutations to boost the output of important genes.
Such technologies may be useful in treating particular genetic diseases of the blood, like sickle cell anemia, and of metabolism, such as diabetes and obesity.
I enjoy teaching and give lectures in the area of molecular biology, genomics, epigenetics, stem cells, genetic reprogramming and genome editing.
I have written extensively on modern molecular genetics and on science teaching and education policy.
My lab has a blog with posts every Friday https://wordpress.com/view/crossleylab.wordpress.com
our lab website is http://www.crossleylab.unsw.edu.au/
Rhodes Scholarship 1987 Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Roche Medal 1999 Royal Society of NSW Sir Edgeworth David Medal 2000 Australian Academy of Science Gottschalk Medal 2002 Julian Wells Medal, Lorne Genome Conference 2010, Fellow Queen's College University of Melbourne 2014, Fellow Royal Society of NSW 2014


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Don't Mean a Thing (Got That Swing #1)
What if you finally took the lead, but life refused to follow?
Thirty-year-old introvert, Macie Harman, has finally found a career she is passionate about, and after months of training, she's begun her new job in the Royal Australian Air Force. Leaving behind her family, friends, and the life she knew, Macie has travelled to the other side of the country where the only person she knows is Rachael, the extroverted girl she went through basic training with. Everywhere Macie goes, Rachael is there too.
While looking for a way to widen her circle of friends in her new town, Macie discovers a local swing dancing class. The jazz music captures her heart, and Matt, the sexy swing dancer, sweeps her off her feet. Matt has claimed the tropical Northern Territory as home and has no plans to leave. He loves his teaching career with its predictable routine and has a great bunch of friends. All he wants now is the right girl to make his house a home.
Military life is tougher than Macie expected, and not everyone can deal with the inevitable separations and last minute changes. Is this exciting but unpredictable life something Macie wants to fight for, or could she give it up and put down roots with Matt?
Got That Swing Series
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How to inspire your creativity across different mediums.
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The true meaning of creativity
If there's one abuse of language prevalent in the working world that I resent the most, it's the word "creative". … More
Tips for the modern bohemian
Finding a balance between free-spiritedness and destitution Spend little. The true bohemian knows what they really need can't be bought. … More
15 tips to help you start writing that novel
Read on for 15 writing tips from one aspiring novelist to another. Character – create characters who change, who try and fail, who dream … More
Tips for creative productivity
These are general tips for all those secret artists in the world who need a little bit of help to get started. … More
Writing tips for budding authors
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Brian Wallace is the President of NowSourcing, one of the world's top infographic design agencies based in Louisville, KY and Cincinnati, OH. Brian also runs a local event called #thinkbig to make the Louisville / Cincinnati corridor a more competitive regionand has been named a 2017 Google Small Business Advisor.
Founded in 2005, NowSourcing has strong roots in the human and technical nuances of the web.
He and his team provide research, design, and promotion of infographics as well as what's next in the world of infographics - video infographics, kinetic typography, and interactive infographics. Brian is a frequent speaker, lecturer, and mentor, coming from a technology management background and understands the pressure points of society at large to keep people clicking and coming back for more.
Here are some links to some of the content that was discussed on the podcast.
1. The Psychology of Color
2. This Startup Wants to Replace Your Office With 3D Holograms
3. What's the Difference Between Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality?


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How many of we know that there is an African Tribe living in India over 200 years ? Maybe no one , same as our government who forget about the Sports Programme they planned in 1980s to use the strength and power of Siddi Tribe to put India on the Global Sports Mark , as we all know Africans are pretty good in moreover strength & endurance sports .
According to the tribals, there is a long history to their presence in India. "The Nawab of Junagadh had once visited Africa where he fell in love with an African woman. They got married and she moved to India with him , She came to India with a hundred slaves and since then we have been based in Gujarat only,".
In the 1980s, spearheaded by the then sports minister Margaret Alva, the Sports Authority of India started an athletic program for the Africans, whom they saw as medal-winning hopeful . However , due to some administrative failures & political issues the whole plan get a big set back . The programme was a a big failure and it gets all vanished in a flash and takes away all the hopes for Siddi community to express themselves to the whole world and represent India as an Indian .
Maybe ,if the setup had gone in the right way without any issues , maybe we could have seen ourselves as a sporting nation in 2020s , maybe the condition of Siddi community would have been much better then what they are suffering nowdays , maybe this poor and untold community would have express themselves in this country and to the world too but maybe this was never written to happen .
India is still fighting for atleast one Gold in Olympics and mark themselves as a sporting nation & Siddi community are still fighting from poverty , backwardness & racism they are getting from we Indians .
Hope, the things will get good both for India & Siddi community ( The African-Indian untold tribe).
Comment down & share your views about Siddi community !
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Three Questions with Baird's Investment Strategist
Willie Delwiche, Baird's Investment Strategist, recently sat for an interview to answer three questions that have been on investors' minds:
- Should I be worried about a market correction?
- Will the Fed raise interest rates this year?
- What kinds of stocks are you watching right now?
You can view Willie's responses in the video below.
If you have questions about Willie's comments and what they might mean for you, please contact your Baird Financial Advisor.
You can also follow Willie's comments on the markets and economy in real time by following him via Twitter @WillieDelwiche.


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Introduction to Pranayama
About Prānāyāma
Prānāyāma removes the veil covering the light of knowledge and heralds the dawn of wisdom.
-- Patanjali, Sūtra II.52
Prāna means life force and ayama means to expand. Prānāyāma is the expansion of life force through control of the breath. According to the Upanishads, the ancient Hindu philosophical texts, prāna is the essence of life and consciousness, "an exalted knowledge…a road to prosperity, freedom and bliss."
According to BKS Iyengar, "Prāna is the energy permeating the universe at all levels. It is physical, mental, sexual, spiritual and cosmic energy. All vibrating energies are prāna. All physical energies such as heat, light, gravity, magnetism, and electricity are also prāna. It is the hidden and potential energy in all beings…it is the energy which creates, protects and destroys. Vigor, power, vitality, life and spirit are all forms of prāna."
Through breath control one can guide the subtle forces that move throughout the body. Prānāyāma is conscious breathing, not deep breathing. Cultivating breath control helps oxygenate the body and rid it of toxins to maintain health and increase longevity. It helps calm the mind and opens it to rejuvenation, concentration and upliftment.
BKS Iyengar writes that: "We all breathe, but how many of us do so correctly, with attention? Bad posture, an ill-shaped or caved-in chest, obesity, emotional disorders, various lung troubles, smoking and uneven use of the respiratory muscles, lead to improper breathing, below one's capacity. We are aware of the discomfort and disability which then arises. Many subtle changes take place in our body as a result of poor breathing and bad posture, leading to heavy breathing, inadequate pulmonary function and aggravation of heart disease. Prānāyāma can help to prevent these disorders and help to check or cure them, so that one can live fully and well."
Prānāyāma practice is the gateway between the outer world and the inner world, between an active āsana practice and more advanced internal practices which lead us into deeper states of meditation. In āsana practice, our will helps us perform. Through this act of will, we tone the body and learn focus, discernment and subtlety. In prānāyāma, however, acts of will squeeze the life out of the breath. Prānāyāma requires a more subtle approach; it requires more observation than action. The practice of prānāyāma starts where Śavāsana (corpse pose) ends.
For this reason, Patanjali cautions students to become proficient in āsanas and especially Śavāsana before beginning prānāyāma. The qualities present in Śavāsana – a lower base metabolic rate of heart, breath and mind – are essential in order to practice prānāyāma.
Vivekānanda observes that prānāyāma practiced improperly or casually may even lead to insanity, as prānāyāma rouses the unconscious mind. Practiced prematurely or mechanically, prānāyāma is not considered a spiritual practice.
BKS Iyengar classifies respiration into four types:
- "High or clavicular breathing, where the relevant muscles in the neck mainly activate the top parts of the lungs
- Intercostal or mid-breathing, where only the central parts of the lungs are activated
- Low or diaphragmatic breathing, where the lower portions of the lungs are activated chiefly, while the top and central portions remain less active
- Total, or prānāyāmic breathing, where the entire lungs are used to their fullest capacity"
Though there are many variations, all prānāyāma begins with an exhalation (rechaka) and ends with an inhalation (pūraka.) Ending prānāyāma with an exhalation strains the heart. Take a normal inhalation at the end of each phase. Śavāsana is suggested at the end of the each practice. Important prānāyāmas are:
- Ujjāyī, where the throat narrows to slow the flow of air. The sound that this narrowing of the airways makes is important. Ujjāyī is the foundation for many prānāyāmas. Ud means upward, or expanding. Jaya means victory or conquest. In Ujjāyī the lungs are fully expanded, with the chest thrust out like that of a mighty conqueror. All inhalations are made with a sibilant "ssss" and all exhalations with an "hhhh." Ujjāyī breaths are even, slow, deep and steady. In the course of training for Ujjāyī, one first learns to lengthen the time of each out-breath and then learns to lengthen the in-breath. For reclining Ujjāyī, BKS Iyengar says, "First exhale quietly until the lungs feel empty, without pressing down on the abdominal organs. Relax the diaphragm and stretch it sideways, while you breathe in, without inflating the abdomen. Take a slow, deep, steady, sibilant in-breath carefully through the nose, seeing that both lungs fill evenly. Listen to the sound attentively." Keep the eyes gazing downward; deep inhalations tend to draw the eyes up. At the start of the exhalation, the diaphragm is held immobile, then released gradually, exhaling slowly deeply and steadily until the lungs feel empty.
- Viloma, or interrupted breaths. Loma means hair and "vi" is a negation: viloma means against the natural order of things. In Viloma, inhalation and exhalations are not continuous processes, they are interrupted by pauses. Viloma always begins with Ujjāyī breathing, then proceeds with interrupted breaths. One variation begins after an Ujjāyī exhalation, where one inhales for two or three seconds, pauses and holds the breath for two or three seconds, and so on until the lungs are completely full. This may involve anywhere from four to six breaths. The abdominals are drawn into the spine and upward. Exhalation in the same manner follows, gradually releasing the grip of the abdomen, as in Ujjāyī, until the lungs feel completely emptied. This is repeated for about ten minutes or for as long as there is no strain.
- Bhrāmarī, where deep inhalations are done as in Ujjāyī and deep exhalations are made with a humming sound. Bhrāmara means a large black bumble bee. This prānāyāma is done lying or sitting, and it is not advisable to hold the breath.
- Digital Prānāyāma (alternate nostril breathing, or Nādī Śodhana) uses the fingers to close off the nostrils. It is often likened to learning to become a master musician. One or the other of the nostrils is blocked at a time. BKS Iyengar likens it to learning to become a master musician. He writes, "Nādī Śodhana prānāyāma is one of delicate adjustments. The brain and fingers must learn to act together in channeling the in-and-out breaths while constantly in communication with each other." It is suggested not to practice this breathing technique until the fingers are well versed in relation to the breath movements and nasal membranes.
- Bhastrikā, vigorous, forceful in-and-out breaths as if using bellows, where exhalation sets the pace. Bhastrikā means bellows. The nostrils are always kept open. One technique is to take a short, strong breath and exhale it with a quick blast. One quick in-and-out breath taken together is one blast of Blastrikā. Four to eight of these blasts completes one cycle, after which several Ujjāyī breaths rests the lungs. Then comes a deep breath and rest in Śavāsana.
- Kapālabhāti, a milder form of Bhastrikā, where the inhalation is slow and the exhalation is vigorous, with a split second of retention after each out-breath. It is suggested to do Kapālbhāti if Bhastrika is too strenuous.
Approaches to prānāyāma vary widely, depending on the style of yoga. For example:
- In the Ashtānga approach, Ujjāyī breathing is integrated into the first vigorous practice series. Later, Viloma, Digital Prānāyāma, Bhastrikā and Kapālbhāti are incorporated.
- In the Iyengar tradition, prānāyāma is only introduced after the student is securely grounded in āsana and is taught in a slow and methodical way. Students are first taught to observe the breath in a reclining position, then Ujjāyī and Viloma are shown, also reclining. Only later are seated prānāyāma introduced and more advanced techniques are then presented.
- In the Viniyoga style, pioneered by T. Krishnamāchārya and his son T.K.V. Desikachār, the flow of the breath and the movement of the spine are integral, so awareness of breath is discussed early on. Here, progressively lengthening the inhalation and exhalation are important aspects right away.
- In the Kundalini style, brought to the West in 1969 by Sikh master Yogi Bhajan, prānāyāma is incorporated directly into the practice of āsana, chanting, meditation and cleansing practices. In Kundalini, the breath is emphasized more than alignment or technique. The Breath of Fire, similar to Kapalābhāti, is introduced early on, as well as elongating inhales and exhales, and alternate nostril breathing.
BKS Iyengar says, "The ancient yogis discovered prānāyāma to make full use of [their] energy…Full use of this absorption and re-absorption of energy will allow one to live a hundred years with perfect health of body, clarity of mind, and equipose of spirit. That is why the practice of prānāyāma is considered to be a great science and art."
- Georg Feuerstein, The Deeper Dimension of Yoga, (Boston, MA: Shambala Publications, 2003)
- B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Prānāyāma (New York, NY: Crossroad Publishing, 1998)
- BKS Iyengar, The Tree of Yoga, (New Delhi, India: Harper Collins India, 1995)
- B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali (San Francisco, CA: Thorsons, 1993)
- Geeta Iyengar, Yoga, A Gem For Women (Spokane,WA: Timeless Books, 1990)
- Swami Vivēkānanda, Rāja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature (Kolkata, India: Advaita Āshrama, 2002)
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Carlile Dowling is the result of an amalgamation of two long established Napier law firms; Carlile McLean & Co and Dowling & Co in the late 1980s. Carlile McLean & Co was founded in 1874 by James Carlile and was joined by Patrick McLean in 1881, making it one of the earliest known legal firms in the region. Today, Carlile Dowling is a modern legal firm based in Napier providing a full range of legal services.
We take a team approach to our work and our clients have access to a wealth of knowledge and experience from professionals who are highly respected in their fields.
Paul Morgan
LL.B (Hons), B.Ag.Sci
"Paul joined Carlile Dowling from a role in a corporate and commercial team of a national law firm based in Wellington."
Michael Morgan
LL.B (Hons), Dip Bus Administration (Distinction)
"Michael is Hawke's Bay born and bred, with a wealth of local knowledge and contacts. A partner of Carlile Dowling since 2001."
David Chan
"David has over 24 years of legal experience including 12 years in Melbourne where he was a sole barrister. David joined Carlile Dowling in 2007."
Maurice Casey
"Maurice graduated from Otago University in 1998 and joined Carlile Dowling in 2006 after working in general practice."


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Redding Hearing Institute | Hearing Center Interview
After Patty Weil, M.S., CCC-A moved her family to Northern California and founded Redding Hearing Institute in 1995, she knew exactly who to reach out to for help when the business started growing.
"When I realized I needed help, I called Leslie and she moved up here," Weil said. "We have similar philosophies in audiology and hearing aids. We became partners so we would each have an equal interest in the outcome."
"When one of us is off on vacation, we are confident the other person can handle whatever hearing aid issues come up," Leslie Shoji, M.A., CCC-A, said. "We don't have to worry about our patients because they are well taken care of. We back each other up well because we do things similarly.
Leslie and Patty met when they both worked at an ENT practice affiliated with Loma Linda University Medical Center.
"Working at a large regional hospital gave us the opportunity to see a variety of ear pathologies," Shoji said. "When we started our careers as audiologists in the 1980s, there were only analog hearing aids. With the advent of digital hearing aids and other exciting hearing technologies, our interests evolved from diagnostic audiology to both the diagnostic and rehabilitative aspects of audiology. The audiologists' ability to choose the right hearing instrument for each patient comes from our strong diagnostic background."
Both audiologists like to involve their patients in the selection of hearing aids. Redding Hearing Institute's motto is Try Them Before You Buy Them and patients are allowed to try hearing aids in their unique listening environments during a free one-week "test drive." If the selected hearing device doesn't work, the patient can try another device until the right hearing solution is determined.
"Hearing aid fitting is a matter of matching the right hearing aid with the right person and their lifestyle," Weil said. "We are fitting the patient's lifestyle as much as we are fitting their hearing loss."
The hearing center promotes hearing health awareness by sponsoring local athletic teams and talking to elementary students about turning down the volume on their personal electronic devices. They also participate in community health fairs and host educational seminars – such as how the brain processes sound -- for their patients.
Both audiologists say they enjoy helping their patients stay connected to or reconnect with family and friends. "Patients with untreated hearing loss have a more rapid rate of mental decline," Weil said. "We feel we're helping them on a lot of different levels. We help keep them vibrant."
Weil cited the addition of Bluetooth technology as the most significant change in hearing technology since the two audiologists joined the field more than 30 years ago; Shoji said receiver-in-the-ear technology was a major advancement, too. They both agree that helping people hear their best involves putting all of the puzzle pieces together correctly.
"Better hearing takes more than just a hearing aid," Weil said. "It's conducting follow up to make sure the hearing aid components are working and performing up to their potential. Our patients come back to us and tell us all the things they couldn't do before they had their hearing aids."
To contact this clinic, read reviews or for more information regarding locations, hours of operations or methods of payment, please visit the Healthy Hearing professional section: Redding Hearing Institute.
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Your Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery Experience
Share Your Reinvigorated Confidence with Future Patients!
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Andre Aboolian strives for the best in patient care, safety, and satisfaction. Your experience with his team matters to him, and he would love for you to share your opinion on one of the various outlets available. You can post a review about your experience with him and share it with others, even anonymously. By telling your story, it helps get the word out to Southern California and beyond about the quality services offered at his practice.
A few things to remember:
- You never should feel like you have to share your name or photos. Feel free to post anonymously or use initials, except for reviews on Google+ Local.
- Tell your cosmetic surgery story – be authentic and feel free to share positives or negatives about your experience.
- Explain to others why you chose Dr. Andre Aboolian
Please feel free to leave a review on any one of the following review websites:
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- Visit our Google+ Local page.
- You will see a "Write a Review" button.
- If you do not already have a Google account, you may have to create one – it's free.
When posting on Google+ Local, Google requires reviewers to adhere to some
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- You must publish your full name with the review.
- Do not include any web addresses in the review.
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Armchair Access
By Gina Piccalo For Los Angeles magazine.
January 1, 2010
Most Hollywood salons are hosted by A-list players who seek to do good. And they don't mind a bit if you know it
Deep inside film mogul Peter Guber's cavernous Bel-Air "home office," Deepak Chopra was holding court. Celebrity litigator Gloria Allred sat rapt at the New Age guru's feet, her fuchsia blazer a beacon. Not far away, Rosanna Arquette shared a leather ottoman with a clutch of friends. Guber's yogi wife, Tara, sat on the floor next to them, stroking her dog, as Vidal Sassoon and Marla Maples looked on.
"When you try to understand consciousness, it's your consciousness trying to understand consciousness," the 62-year-old Chopra said, the black and white gems on his glasses glinting in the light. "Now here's something I'd like you all to try: As you're listening to me, I want you to listen to the one who is listening." The room went silent. He waited a beat. "That," he said, a wry smile on his lips, "is your soul."
As Chopra spoke, Guber listened, too, though whether he heard his own soul was not entirely clear. Perched on the arm of his sofa, just inches away from a life-size Batman statue, a giant poster for his 1978 movie, Midnight Express, and a trophy case the length of two Escalades, the studio chief turned producer seemed pleased with the turnout. But he blanched at the suggestion that his party was a salon.
"I don't have salons," he said, gesturing above the heads of his white-shirted waitstaff. "I just have friends over."
Salons—variously described as "gatherings," "cafés," "a speaker series," or "lively dinner parties"—are all the rage with Hollywood's glittering class. It's a wonder it's taken so long. Even before Gertrude Stein famously hosted great writers and artists at her Paris apartment, a successful salon always combined two of the entertainment industry's favorite things: performance and self-promotion.
To their credit, some of Hollywood's richest and most powerful use these soirees to try to spark social change. Melting glaciers, the suffering in Darfur, and the illegal diamond trade in Sierra Leone are just a few of the causes célèbres that have incubated in salons hosted by filmmakers and actors. Salons have helped launch best-sellers and have raised phenomenal sums of money (a single evening in Beverly Hills in 2008 funneled $11 million to the Obama campaign)—all by putting what one frequent attendee has called "the pulpit of fame" to good use.
But when it comes to what motivates the hosts, altruism often competes with a baser urge: an unquenchable thirst for validation. Self-consciously overpaid and intellectually insecure, many in Hollywood's most lavish office suites yearn to be taken seriously. Like beautiful women who want it known they have brains, too, these purveyors of pop culture seek to rid themselves of the taint of frivolity that clings to their work. Particularly in this economic climate, when self-sacrifice is de rigueur, everyone wants to be seen as socially conscious.
Which is what makes salons here so much more than high-minded cocktail hours. For many, they seem the most direct route to obtaining something that cannot be measured in box office metrics or Nielsen ratings: gravitas.
It's not just about ego. In ways both big and small, hosting a well-attended salon can improve one's position in Hollywood's cruel pecking order. A movie producer with a salon isn't merely a movie producer; he's a safe haven for Iranian dissidents seeking sanctuary. A trophy wife isn't simply a "former actress"; she's a catalyst for social change. Perhaps as important, a salon endows its host with the power to invite others into this rarefied air. Or, as the case may be, to disinvite them.
For example, Guber's publicist, Howard Bragman, promoted the Chopra event. Bragman invited me (along with a couple of women's magazine editors and a crowd of swells). I accepted, saying I would write about it. Guber declined to be interviewed beforehand, so I contacted those I knew would attend, beginning with Chopra himself. That's when the trouble started.
"Mr. Guber appreciates you reaching out," Bragman wrote me in an e-mail, ignoring that it was he who'd first reached out to me. "But, as I made clear, he does not wish to be included in the story as an interview subject, as a topic of discussion or in any other manner. His events at his home are private events we have not publicized. You were invited as a guest. However, based on this morning's e-mail to Mr. Chopra and your aggressively reaching out to find out about other salons he has held, I can't in good conscience offer you attendance to the Salon."
Ah, conscience. How Hollywood loves to invoke it. But when I responded that invitation or no invitation, I would still be writing about Guber's salons, things changed. On the eve of the event, Guber called me to say I was welcome after all. There had been a "miscommunication," he said, adding, "I have no interest in a dialogue between the media and me. I stay completely out of the light."
Herein lies the tension that runs like a current beneath a Hollywood salon. In this town nothing matters unless it garners attention. Everything is illuminated by the klieg lights of conspicuous consumption and reflected glory. But salon hosting demands a more nuanced approach. Since the goal is to do good while appearing selfless, it can be difficult to find a way to have your light and bask in not having it, too.
That, apparently, is what publicists are for. "There's a sort of a pride in not publicizing these," Bragman, the publicist, explained. He wanted me to understand "that they're purely intellectual exercises and not promotional exercises."
To be sure, there is an element of damned if they do, damned if they don't about this. Most Hollywood people aren't dummies. It takes a lot of brains to run a trillion-dollar industry. But the term Hollywood intellectual is often seen as an oxymoron. That leaves well-intentioned moguls and machers feeling frustrated that their efforts to participate in—and fund—public debate can result in ridicule.
Johanna Blakley, the deputy director of the Norman Lear Center, which studies the intersection of Hollywood and politics, says actors who become spokespeople for issues that far exceed their areas of expertise are partly to blame. "This is one thing that troubles the entertainment industry," she says. "As a whole, they get stereotyped as if they were all actors. And those are just the most visible in the industry."
Mike and Irena Medavoy have managed to navigate these shark-filled waters better than most. He is a former studio chief who has long been involved in politics (he was the cofinance chair of Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign). She is an ex-model and onetime QVC fixture who came to serve as a national finance chair of then Senator Obama's presidential campaign. Then, as now, she was a consummate hostess. For years they threw regular salons at their vast Beverly Park home, where Irena likes to say they'd "dictate and start policy." Guests of honor included former Mexican president Vicente Fox and President Obama, who'd been there before. Cheryl Tiegs, the model, still swoons when she remembers meeting Obama before he became commander in chief. "Are you kidding? I sat six feet away!" she recalls. With enough crudités comes access, it seems.
"It's an advantage we have over other people who are not in our category," says Mike Medavoy, who first earned cachet at United Artists in the 1970s, when the studio released a series of now-classic films (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Annie Hall). In May his book about the media's effect on foreign policy during the Iraq war was published. "We can play in a lot of different fields. Show business is a kind of magnet to people."
Heather Thomas, an actress (she appeared in the '80s TV series The Fall Guy), a sometime novelist (her 2008 book, Trophies, is out in paperback), and the wife of heavy hitter entertainment attorney Skip Brittenham, is another salon impresario. She says without qualification that thanks to her monthly meetings—she's held 40 so far, with progressive activists and the wealthy do-gooders who support them—"we won the 2006 election" and "were instrumental in helping take down Bush."
Architect and environmental designer Cynthia Hirschhorn and her husband, Charles Hirschhorn (who coproduced films such as Bull Durham and Herbie Fully Loaded), aren't yet courting world leaders in their living room. But give them time. Three years ago Hirschhorn had her family's ranch-style home torn down so she could build something bigger, more Mediterranean, more suitable for entertaining. The new salon room was a focal point of the design. When the house was nearly done, she started pursuing UCLA's chair of Environmental Health Sciences, Dr. Richard Jackson, who once ranked as the highest environmental health official in the United States.
On a recent Wednesday evening, Jackson was the speaker at the Hirschhorns' first salon. It was a low-key, celebrity-free affair: A handful of architects and several other friends sipped red wine and nibbled homemade cookies laid out on the kitchen island.
At the appointed hour everyone moved into the spacious living room. Jackson took his place in the center, under vaulted ceilings, and began to talk. Americans are dying as a result of epidemics that come from disastrous urban planning, he said. There are too few trees, scarce public transit, failed political leadership. Jackson didn't say it, but he might as well have: We need to scrap everything and start over from scratch. (It was hard not to think that the Hirschhorns had done just that with their house.) "What really matters to people is where they live," he was saying, as a crowd of Ingrid Bergman pop art portraits peered over his shoulder in varying shades of neon. "It's the built environment that really controls people's lives."
The next morning Hirschhorn was still excited by what had taken place. "It was intense, wasn't it?" she said. Jackson's talk had inspired her to think big, about how one connected person could effect change. But before she got carried away with the idea of launching a cultural transformation, Hirschhorn stopped herself. "I really don't want it to sound like it's about me," she said. "The best part of it is when it's not about ego but about sharing."
A prime example of that spirit is the Everychild Foundation, which can draw a direct line from its salons to bona fide results. Jacqueline Jacobs Caster, a former real estate lawyer who spent years in urban redevelopment at Disney, founded the group a decade ago. Charity balls weren't her thing, she said, but she wanted to give back and do good. So she gathered some of her wealthy friends to identify one worthy project to which each woman would donate $5,000 annually. Today her foundation gives away $1 million a year, and members include Hirschhorn (whose salon was an Everychild event), former Paramount Pictures chief Sherry Lansing, and model-actress Amber Valletta.
Together they've paid for mobile dental clinics, funded community centers in gang-plagued neighborhoods, and helped build housing for "aged out" foster kids. They've raised the money with member dues, but it is at the salons that they nurture their inner wonk. California legislator Henry Waxman and former Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent Roy Romer have been speakers. "Sometimes when you hear these people in person, it ends up being very disheartening, because you realize the true magnitude of the problem and you can sense their frustration in trying to combat the issue," says Caster. "But we don't just assemble to say 'Let's get educated.' We assemble to get educated and see what we can do with it."
Guber's congregations have a slightly different aim. To hear him tell it, they are his "acts of generosity"—gifts to interesting thinkers (who, like Chopra, usually have books to sell). Last summer he hosted Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson discussing his new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. In 2004, during the Bush 43 era, a talk about terrorism led by conservative author David Frum somehow prompted Suzanne Somers's husband, Alan Hamel, to compare Bill Maher's opposition to the Iraq war to the American isolationism that Hamel said caused the death of 6 million Jews. (Maher, who told everyone he was "half Jewish," walked out. But not before inviting Frum to appear on his HBO talk show.)
By comparison, Guber's salon was tame. Chopra spoke for 30 minutes about mind-over-body living, the importance of sponta---neity, and doing less to accomplish more. When he set down the microphone, a dozen guests lined up to speak with him as servers passed trays of hot fudge pudding cakes and pink lolli-pops filled with strawberry cheesecake.
One excited woman at the front of the line told Chopra of her decision to "do nothing" that afternoon, despite her overbooked schedule. She made idleness sound like a revolutionary act. "It felt," she exclaimed, "so good!"


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Do you like the flowers? They were given to me by Wheelie on my birthday. Oddly enough, Pastor Larry mentioned yellow roses as a thank you to me for doing his layouts. He used to send me lots of JS candy hearts, etc.... that was fun, and another thing I miss about JS being gone.
Another (former) JS'er is so sweet to me! There was this game going around about six people. The first 6 people who commented in your journal were to receive a gift from you, which could be something you bought, made, or written.... whatever. Anyway, I was one of Xanadu's six... and today I recieved a package from her! THANK YOU!! It's something she made herself and VERY hard to explain or photgraph! lol
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From here, you will be able to download samples of Dr. Faust's writing, be able to link to other sites where his work as editor or author can be viewed, or link to sites where he has been quoted or interviewed.
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Dr. Faust was recognized by the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery in 2002 with the Prestigious Honor Award.
He was recently recognized by HealthTap.com, where he is a Founding Expert and contributing blogger, as a "Top Pediatric Specialist, 2011" for his contributions, and multiple other awards for his contributions.
Similarly, Vitals.com, one of the physician-rating sites, just announced that Dr. Faust was awarded the "Patient's Choice Award, 2011", as well as the "Compassionate Doctor Recognition, 2011".
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- http://www.healthtap.com/2011/01/international-integrative-medicine-day/
- http://family.go.com/parenting/pkg-school-age/article-797269-strep-throat-t/
- http://www.preschoolerstoday.com/articles/health-issues/surviving-strep-3040/
- http://www.preemieprimer.com/preemies-pda-ligation-and-vocal-cord-paralysis/
- http://www.littlestomaks.com/2010/11/where-food-and-sinusitis-meetreflux/
- http://www.littlestomaks.com/2010/09/do-milk-allegies-cause-ear-infections/


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REVIEW: A Road Trip Through America's Utopias (Which Were Not All that Perfect)/
Utopia Drive: A Road Trip through America's Most Radical Idea by Erik Reece.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 368 pp.
By Ann Fabian
Back in October of 2015—months before the country took its terrifying dive into the political abyss—Erik Reece went looking for traces of America's utopian dreams. He's read a lot about the early years of the 19th century and about the Americans who tried to imagine alternatives to the market-based capitalism surging around them. He finally decided to get into his truck and drive a loop up from Kentucky to Virginia, out to Ohio and Indiana and up into New England to see what he could find of the old utopian communities.
Those of you who've read Reece's 2009 memoir, An American Gospel: On Family, History and the Kingdom of God, know that he is the son and grandson of Baptist preachers and that his father, struggling with depression, committed suicide when Reece was a little boy. In Reece's mind an unforgiving strain in American Puritanism helped push his father to his early grave, and Reece grew up hungry for an alternative tradition—"an American Gospel that equates nature with virtue, that finds in the land ethic a model for our human communities."
In all his books, Reece turns to a roster of heroes who have helped him see an alternative America: Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, and Jesus, a man he coyly describes as a "Mediterranean street preacher." At times, he calls on a few more personal heroes: biologist Lynn Margulis, his mentor; the writer and artist Guy Davenport; and his boyhood idol, Pete Rose.Reece, who teaches writing at the University of Kentucky, still has a trace of the preacher in him. Utopia Drive: A Road Trip through America's Most Radical Idea is Reece's latest meditation on the ideas that might help us out of the environmental and spiritual wasteland we've created around us.
He addresses Utopia Drive to an America on the verge
of both environmental calamity and an intractable federal plutocracy—a government given over to the rich by a bewildered, defeatist populace. Americans live in a world we are too ready to accept. We acquiesce too easily to the inevitability of the way things are. Indeed, many of us think of our consumer culture as its own version of utopia, where we are absolved of the responsibility to question where our food, our clothes, our cellular devices, our energy come from. Of course an astonishing amount of cruelty and violence makes this utopia possible—a violence done to the land, a violence to human and non human life.
That's a tall order for a summer book, but now with political calamity to add to Reece's list, I'll give him a pass. Today, we can use hordes and swarms of utopian visionaries—naked and clothed, meat eating and vegan, chaste and randy—just so long as they equipped with optimism about human nature and ready to help us all imagine better futures.
It's true that utopias usually fail and sometimes take a frightening absolutist turn, but as Reece points out most begin with a kind of courageous eccentricity and a stirring sense of optimism about building a better world. And sometimes people were happy, singing, dancing, weeding, building, and swapping work for a good meal.
Reece started his two-week road trip with a visit to a recreated Shaker Village not far from his home in the hamlet of Nonesuch, Kentucky. Accounts of the Shakers, with too little sex, and the Oneidans, with too much, bookend Utopia Drive. Ticking 3,000 miles onto his truck's odometer, Reece visits contemporary alternative communities in Virginia and New York; rides a bike around New Harmony, Indiana; makes a pilgrimage to artist Joseph Cornell's house on Utopia Parkway in Queens (since Cornell's box worlds are utopias, maybe?); spends a night in Oneida; visits the inspiring Evergreen Cooperative in Cleveland; and interviews impossibly articulate communards, archivists, and inn-keepers in Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana, and Massachusetts.
But the bulk of Utopia Drive is taken up with Reece's free-associating ramble through the philosophy and history of American utopian thinking. Recently published good books by Christopher Jennings (Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism) and Ellen Wayland-Smith (Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table—An American Story) suggest we have a hunger to know something of our utopian past.
There's overlap in the stories these three authors tell. Like Reece, Jennings looked into utopias "born in the fever dream of religious revelation and the waking nightmare of early industrialization," but Jennings wrote to figure out what prompted intelligent hard-working people to set up new communities. He sympathizes with their efforts to answer big questions about work, marriage, money, and property. Wayland-Smith went back to Oneida to pick up her family story in the "complex marriage" of the New York perfectionist community.
Of the three, Reece's book is the most personal, and he took a risk as a writer setting a personal story as the compass for this road trip. While I share his interest in alternative traditions, we'd part company over the contours he gives his alternative America and over his unrestrained enthusiasm for Jefferson, Thoreau, and Pete Rose.
I'm sure my tastes would have made me an obnoxious companion on his road trip, but reading Utopia Drive I kept imagining myself as his annoying passenger. Day one, I would remind him that Jefferson's agrarian utopia was built on the labor of people he owned as slaves. He built his lovely ideas on their work. Where do they fit in Reece's alternative America?
Then I would have needled him to read Danielle Allen's brilliant account of the democratic authorship of the Declaration of Independence (Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence) and badgered him with Allen's idea that equality is as important to the nation's founding as freedom.
Then we would have fought over his assertion that Thoreau is "the greatest prose stylist this country has ever had." I would have made him read Kathryn Schulz's elegant takedown of his man at Walden as a humorless narcissist. I'm sure Reece missed Schulz's essay, since he was packing up to leave on his trip just about the time her "Pond Scum" appeared in the October 19th issue of The New Yorker.
With Jefferson and Thoreau out of the way, we would have taken to arguing about Pete Rose, not Rose's disgraced present incarnation as a pitchman for "Sketchers" but our childhood memories of his glory days. To Reece, watching Rose was like watching "an artist." In my Dodger-inflected girlhood, Rose was a stubby villain, a determined hustler, but short on a baseball artist's grace.
And then, if he hadn't dumped me off at a highway exit, I would slip the cast recording of Hamilton into his CD player while he was complaining about potholed roads in Vermont and try to persuade him to give a nod to the financier and to the Federalist notion that a strong state is sometimes necessary to promote the common good.
And finally, if we were still talking back in Nonesuch, Kentucky, I would read him a few chapters from Huckleberry Finn. If I played my cards right, Reece and I would be friends again, utopian allies, laughing at Twain's description of the "Royal Nonesuch."
I just need to convince him that there are many alternative Americas. They include the utopias he visited but also people working toward equality, communities collecting taxes to repair roads and writers tuned into the strain of the country's irreverent humor.
Ann Fabian is an American historian. She is working on a book about herpetologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson.


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A Story from Susie
Yes I knew him! On my first visit to Calvary Chapel ( in the smaller, original building, which later became Maranatha Village) ....it was a Concert, Bible Study, Debbie Kerner was singing " Come to the Waters". Lonnie announced, " If anyone wants MORE of Jesus, please stay afterwards for the Afterglow Service ". So, I stayed and Lonnie was going up and down every aisle laying hands on our heads, praying and I suddenly began singing in another language! I did not know what was happening! He told me I had just been filled with the Holy Spirit and that I had just received "the Anointing for my ministry"...He had me stand up and keep on singing praises in "my new language" while he explained to everyone what was happening to me. Some journalist was there and later interviewed me about the experience.I did not know it at the time, but he was writing a book about the "Jesus Movement". He wrote about what happened that night in his book, which a friend showed me many years later
Can't recall the title of the book. Years later I went to his mom's house with a friend for lunch. Lonnie was there and we talked about that experience I had years before. He was always at the Maranatha Musicians Retreats I attended and we'd talk now and then. I do believe he had a powerful Anointing, gifts of the Holy Spirit that were used to heal and help thousands of people. No matter what may have happened towards the end of his life. God had used him Mightily for many years. Yes, Lonnie was "the REAL DEAL " !


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For You Flower And Fabulous Phrases
Once again, this video is later than I anticipated due to problems with uploading. If I had any other options for internet providers where I live, I would be switching immediately. I've been so frustrated with it lately.
This card is a quick little notecard. I set out to use some of the new Poppy Parade card stock and twill ribbon. I love the twill ribbon. I wish it was available in a ton of colors. My only problem with it is that the rolls are too large to fit on my ribbon rack. I have had to improvise a solution.
I used both the For You Flower stamp set and the Fabulous Phrases stamp set. These are both so versatile. If you are looking for a sentiment set with lots of options, this may be the one for you. You can combine words to make your own phrases. It's lots of fun.
School is going well. I had my first quiz yesterday and it went well. I am also officially IV certified now. I even let a couple of other nursing students stick me...and I managed NOT to pass out. I was a little light headed, but stayed in the game.
I hope your day is going well! And that you have a wonderful weekend!
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In the gallery, photos are showing kitchen countertops and bar top area in polished Imperial White Granite.
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== Copyright question thread == Bear in mind there are other threads relevant to the discussion, however!
Thomas Hofer wondered how Wikipedia can properly include content from a third-party FDL document [1], but the discussion veered to who holds copyright on the work on the pages [2], inspired by a confusing entry on Wikipedia FAQ (Who owns Wikipedia?) [3]. It has since been amended, following Jimbo Wales's clarification of his view [4]. Larry and Jimbo then discussed some of the motivation for using the FDL in relation to their vision for Wikipedia [5] [6] [7]. Jimbo mentions that Wikipedia is using invariant sections [8]; Axel Boldt contradicted that and raised the issue of principal authors [9].
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- Wikipedia has no records about copyright-holders in its diffs and changelogs. When I create or edit a page, the corporation that runs Wikipedia is the copyright-holder of all my changes - which minimizes copyright-troubles. (And gives the corporation the right to release modified or unmodified content under any other license if they want).
- But what happens when I insert a FDL document from a third party?-- Thomas Hofer, [10]
- As far as I know, I have not signed away my copyright on the material I submit to Wikipedia. In my opinion, this means that I still hold the copyright of the pieces I have written, although the corporation is the copyright-holder of the site as a whole. I have not given up copyright, I just restricted my rights as the copyright holder by:
- 1. Putting the material under a Free Documentation License
- 2. Allowing any type of publishing and changing that one could reasonably expect be done to a Wikipedia entry--Andre Engels, [11]
- I think that this view is essentially correct. --Jimbo Wales [12]
- I think that the main thing we want to preserve is the simple operation of the community, and the ethos against authorship. --Jimbo Wales [13]
- What you do if you hit the submit button on wikipedia is to release your material under GFDL, without invariant sections....
- There is however one issue: if I release my article to wikipedia under GFDL, Bomis, *per the GFDL, section 4B*, has to maintain information about at least five of the principal authors. I think the easiest way to do this would be to maintain unlimited page histories, maybe downloadable by FTP somewhere if the material gets to voluminous for the web server. --Axel Boldt [14]
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AI War 2 is out now in Early Access! Get it on Humble Store today!
That said, that only really works with those who are willing to "coordinate".If the company/developer is unwilling to address the issue at all then I have no problem with vulnerabilities being published right away as at that point I think it becomes more important to dispel the illusion of security.


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Addicted to Swahili/
I know no one knows this, but I have addictive tendencies (😉). And when I get excited about something, I get excited...maybe even emotionally charged!! Well, I think I'm addicted to Swahili. I know we will have a love hate relationship later. But as for now I'm diving in and swimming. Talking with everyone I can find, practicing the same things until I get it, and teaching my family (as if I know what I'm talking about).
Our gaurd William is quickly becoming a dear friend, but also my Swahili teacher. Each day he sends me an SMS with 5 new words in Swahili and English and then I practice them all day as I come and go.
Our primary objective for the first year here in Tanzania is to learn Swahili. Period. Keeping this commitment will be our greatest challenge. Faltering on it will be our greatest temptation. Sadly, in our years on the field we've seen more missionaries fail at language learning than succeed. It's just hard! And wonderful opportunities (to find value when you feel low) come along and BOOM! Language learning is on the back burner.
Our friend and colleague Joe (who is an American that speaks Swahili) wrote to me yesterday and I found his remarks so true: "Swahili speakers must be some of the best people in the world to learn language from. They are so patient and helpful... I predict that in 6 months or less you will feel reasonably comfortable - so by Christmas! After that it is gradually uphill. Don't feel bad if you don't keep up with the kids, especially if they are around other kids. With them, it will probably just click one day and off they go." Tucking this wisdom away and feeding on the encouragement.
Let me inspire you with two of my language learning heroes right now. Our friends Jonathan and Sofia set out to learn one of the hardest languages on earth and did it! Watch this short clip!! I want to follow in their footsteps.


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Sola Salons West Wichita was recently renovated and expanded!
Come see the brand new studios we've added to the existing salon, with completely new floor plans and cabinet package!
This West Wichita site is located in the Sterling Farms II retail center at 21st and Tyler Road on the north-west corner. This location is ideal as it has a very large parking area and backs up to the Warren Theatre as well as being surrounded by many other wonderful food and retail businesses. Literally a one-stop shopping center with movies, food, banking and much more!
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Game Goal
Score as many points as you can by making matches and completing each level's Goal as quickly as possible.
Each level will appear as a grid of colored pieces. Click and drag over a group of matching pieces to select them. Release the drag to remove the selected pieces, earning points and potentially creating a Bomb.
After removing matched pieces, the remaining pieces on the board will fall down to fill in the gaps. New pieces will drop in at the top of the board to keep the grid full. Each level has a Goal you must achieve before moving on to a new level.
Goal Types
Each level has 1 of 4 Goals, and you can always see your current progress at the bottom of the game window. The 4 different Goals are:
Score Points - match pieces to score the required number of points.
Collect Colors - make a certain number of matches using a specific color or colors.
Drop Cereal - Cereal Os will appear at the top of the board. Match the pieces below the Cereal to drop the Os to the bottom of the board.
Remove Milk - Certain grid squares contain Milk. Make matches within these squares to remove the Milk. It takes 2 matches to remove Chocolate Milk.
Leveling Up
Complete a Goal to earn bonus points and move on to a new level. Complete 4 levels to launch the rocket ship and move to a new World. Higher levels award a higher point bonus for completion, but are more difficult as new colors are added to the grid.
Match 4 - 7 pieces to create a Horizontal Bomb, Vertical Bomb, or Square Bomb. The type of Bomb created is based the position of the last two pieces in a match.
If the last 2 pieces are side-by-side, you'll get a Horizontal Bomb.
If the last 2 pieces are on top of one another, you'll get a Vertical Bomb.
If the last 2 pieces are diagonal from one another, you'll get a Square Bomb.
Bombs always take the place of the last piece in the match, and retain the color of the pieces that were matched. Detonate a bomb by including it in a match!
A Horizontal Bomb destroys all pieces in the same row as the Bomb.
A Vertical Bomb destroys all pieces in the same column.
A Square Bomb destroys all adjacent pieces,including diagonal pieces.
Match 8 or more pieces to create a powerful Color Bomb. Color Bombs act as WILDS and detonate when matched with a piece of any color! When detonated, all pieces identical to the ones matched are cleared from the board.
Bomb Combos
Another, more powerful way to detonate Bombs is to combine them. Simply match any 2 adjacent bombs,regardless of color, to detonate.
Combine 2 Horizontal Bombs, 2 Vertical Bombs, or 1 of each to destroy all pieces in the same row AND column.
Combine a Horizontal Bomb or Vertical Bomb with a Square Bomb to get a horizontal or vertical explosion AND a square explosion.
Combine 2 Square Bombs to destroy all pieces in a 5 x 5 radius from the swipe.
Combine a Color Bomb with any other Bomb to change all the pieces of the Bomb's color to a Bomb of that type. All the new Bombs will immediately detonate!
Combine 2 Color Bombs to clear all the pieces on the board!
Each piece in a match awards 50 points.
Creating a Bomb awards 100 points.
Creating a Color Bomb awards 200 points.
Detonating a Bomb awards 300 points.
Detonating a Color Bomb awards 600 points.
Combining 2 Bombs awards 600 points.
Combining a Bomb and a Color Bomb awards 900 points.
Combining 2 Color Bombs awards 4,000 points.
Completing a Goal awards 1,000 points plus 1,000 points for each level previously completed, so completing the 4th level in each World awards 4,000 points.
Make lots of Bombs and combine them! Combining Bombs, especially Color Bombs, not only awards more points but usually helps you complete the current Goal.
Extra Bombs explode! At the end of each level, any leftover Bombs will detonate and score you points, so try making lots of Bombs before you complete the Goal.
Don't forget the Goal. You'll score more bonus points as you progress to higher levels, so try to complete the Goal as quickly as possible.


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Policies and FAQs
Do you accept returns or exchanges?
Please note that due to the custom nature of every item we create and sell, Z MALAN does not accept any returns or exchanges. Each piece is handmade; therefore, slight differences vary with each piece.
If your item arrives damaged due to shipping, please notify the shipping company immediately.
What forms of payment do you accept?
All Z MALAN hats and headpieces are made-to-order and must be paid in full prior to production.
Z MALAN accepts all major credit and debit cards through PayPal. (American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover)
How long before my hat or headpiece ships?
All of our pieces are made to order and usually ships 3-4 weeks after purchase. This production time is our best estimate unless alternative arrangements are made prior to purchase. The turnaround time does not include shipping times.
Please note, each piece is handmade, therefore, slight differences vary with each piece.
Do you accept rush orders?
Yes! We accept rush orders. If you require your order in less than 3-4 weeks, please email us prior to purchase to ensure we are able to accommodate your rush order deadline. firstname.lastname@example.com
A formal rush order invoice including the applicable rush order fee and shipping cost will be emailed to you.
What are your U.S. shipping rates and methods?
Z MALAN is offering FREE SHIPPING for a limited time only (Restrictions do apply).
How can I track my package?
When your order is complete, you will receive an email notifying you that we have completed and shipped your order. A second email will also be sent at this time with your tracking number.
Do you ship internationally?
We do not ship internationally. However, we intend to ship internationally in the near future.
What is the best way to contact Z MALAN regarding my current order?
The best way to contact us with questions or inquiries regarding your order is via email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Questions regarding our handmade products
Our custom-made pieces are all designed and created by hand; therefore, slight differences vary with each piece.
Most of the materials we use in production at Z MALAN are seasonably available and in limited supply. Many of the feathers, trims and adornments used on our hats and headpieces are custom-made, vintage, or one-of-a-kind and cannot be reordered or reproduced. As a result, substitutions may be necessary.
Please note: Colors may be represented differently due to photography lighting or your computer screen.
Email us with any questions prior to purchase: firstname.lastname@example.com
Can you recreate Z MALAN hats or headpieces seen in the media?
Yes. Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com with a picture of the item or the website it was featured on and we would be happy to recreate the item if possible.


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Chub Cooking Gear
Fishing tackle designers are continually pushing the boundaries with new products like these new Chub Cooking Gear appearing all the time. At Summerlands Tackle we combine our knowledge and experience working and using Tackle from the top fishing tackle companies including Drennan, Greys, Preston Innovations, Shimano and all at terrific prices plus express shipping. We have stock a large range of game, carp, coarse, match fishing tackle. For more information on any fishing tackle product like the latest Chub Cooking Gear just phone or email Summerlands. Remember for quality sea fishing tackle at the cutting edge of angling it has to be Summerlands Tackle.
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The beautiful apartment of Crystal Gentillelo (editor of Rue) was recently posted on Apartment Therapy, and while so much of it was amazing (the drop-dead light fixture in the kitchen and deliciously moody living room for starters), I was once again most drawn to the bathroom (or more precisely, the powder room).
It's undeniably so very pretty, but I think the main reason it spoke to me more than the rest of the apartment is that it's most striking feature - the black and white striped walls - are easily achievable regardless of budget. No fancy upholstered pieces or designer furniture needed, just a couple of gallons of paint and some very, very good quality painters tape.
Truth be told, I have yet to meet a black and white striped bathroom I don't want to buy a BFF bracelet for. Here are just a few of my faves:
Know where else this look really works? In the entry. It makes for such a bold yet timeless first impression. And bold and timeline is a pretty rare combination.
Them's the tickets folks. To make this work you have to break it up, giving the eye other places to rest and infusing the stark quality of the black on white with a little warmth and a "lived in" feel.
I would also usually reserve this treatment for small spaces you only spend a limited amount of time in. In a larger space it could get to be a bit much (and maybe even borderline dizzying). Really, when it comes to black and white stripes, I think the smaller the room the better. I have come across a couple of exceptions, however, that pull it off really well and remind me that no rules are universal:
My favourite of these? You got it, it's the last two. The warm tones of the wood and gold frames are the keys to their success, making them feel cozy rather than jarring or cold.
Well those and the red velvet sofa. That room had me at red velvet sofa.
In most cases though, I stick to my guns. Rooms like this one in Lonny, this one in Elle, and this one by Robert Pascal are beautiful, but I feel like they would become overwhelming pretty fast. That's just me, however, and I know there are those who would strongly disagree!
A whole other debate? Whether or not you prefer your stripes vertical or horizontal. I know where I stand. Do you?


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More Reasons for My Smith College Diploma to be Revoked for My Failure to Toe the Feminist Party Line
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I took my kids to Staples yesterday to load up on home-school supplies. They are so cute right now and so independent! Hannah (age 8), Alex (age 6) and Maria (age 4) each grabbed their own individual carts and had a blast browsing the sale racks for great finds. Afterwards, I was reviewing their selections to make sure that each item was truly in the $1 to $3 price range.
Each kid had gone with a color theme. Maria had chosen all pink: pink scissors, pink pens, a pink pencil case and a pink notebook. Alex had chosen all blue--except for one glaring exception. His notebook was a deep purple.
I struggled inside. "Do I say something, or let it go?"
I was raised with the firm social truth that "Gender is a construction in the mind, and a child's freedom of expression should trump 'outdated' social norms." Yet deep in my gut, I didn't like it. I decided "Well, I might be just a socially phobic jerk, but the truth is that I'm going to be totally embarrassed if my son's main notebook for school has a deep purple cover."
So I said something. "Er.....Alex, this notebook is purple. That's usually considered a girly color. Wouldn't you rather have a notebook in blue or red?"
My son looked deep into my eyes and said something that rocked my whole world.
"Mom, I thought it was deep blue. I wanted it to be blue. Sometimes I can't tell the difference between blue and purple."
This was light a lightening moment for me and the Holy Spirit, right there in the middle of the Staples aisle!
A ton of thoughts hit me at once.
First, my kid is color blind! Which I sort of suspected was happening between the colors red and green, but I never expected it to also be a confusion between purple and deep blue.
Second, there were all of these moments in the past where my son had chosen the purple candy, or the purple pencil--all these times when I assumed he was just a boy heavily influenced by having three sisters clustered in close proximity around him. But that wasn't the truth at all. My son couldn't see! Each time, he thought he was choosing the blue lollipop!
Third, it is clearly OKAY for me to be more bossy as a parent when it comes to color selection choices. Pink and purple are for girls. My son wants (and medically needs!) those type of leadership decisions from me.
I treasure that precious interaction with my son inside of Staples. Unless I tell the microscopic truth about myself, even embarrassing things like "I'm NOT cool with my son choosing a purple notebook", I miss out on so many things going on around me.


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Traveling can be disorienting- new environment, different language, changing hotels frequently, along with fatigue and jet lag. If you are traveling with a group, you may not be paying as close attention to where you are or where you are staying. You need to know how to reconnect if you get separated from your group.
Got a cell phone? Take a picture of your hotel. You can show this to someone to help you find your way back, even if you don't speak the language. If they have a business card or match book, take one and keep it with you.
Make a plan. Decide where you will meet, if you get separated each day. Know where your group is headed next. Wear a watch to keep track of the time. Ask your tour guide the best way to contact them if you get separated from the gang. Your bus may not pick you up where you got dropped off.


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Friday Nov 27 thru Sunday Nov 29 - Our Annual Post Thanksgiving Sale is happening again! 50% off Back Issues! 25% off everything else! Toys, shirts, posters, collecting supplies and more, all 25% off!!
Saturday, November 28 is the First Annual Local Comic Shop Day! All items are first come first served. We are not allowed to hold items for anyone. Most items are limited variant covers of already released material, but there are unique Space Riders HC and We Can Never Go Home HC from Black Mask. Also, from local favorites Oni Press we will have delightful oversize Treasury Edition collections of Invader Zim and Rick & Morty!
What is Local Comic Shop Day?
• Local Comic Shop Day™ is a new event conceived and implemented by ComicsPRO comic book specialty retailers to call attention to locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, celebrating their unique and vital role in being the primary fire-starters of pop culture. Pop Culture begins in your Local Comic Shop!
Here's a link for all 20 titles being offered this year.
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Shoes can be expensive and, as they go on and off the shoe store shelves so quickly, they can be difficult to replace. Taking a little extra time to pack them properly will likely save you all the hassle of having to replace shoes that were perfectly good in the first place.
If you just throw all of your shoes into a box, there's a good chance they'll get damaged. If they stay in storage for a while, they can even get moldy (especially leather shoes, as they absorb moisture).The best way to keep your shoes safe is to pack them in shoeboxes, preferably the ones they came in. If they're in shoeboxes, they'll be less likely to get crushed, and they'll be less exposed to moisture. Just pack the shoeboxes together inside of a medium-sized moving box (or boxes) and they'll be ready to go.Chances are, though, you don't have every single box for every single pair of shoes you and your family own. In this case, you'll have to do a little extra work. Use the packing paper to wrap your shoes together. Take one shoe, lay it down on the corner of the paper, and roll it about halfway. Then, place the second shoe opposite of the first and continue rolling. Take the bundle of shoes and lay it on its side in the bottom of the box. Repeat the process with all your shoes, starting with the heaviest shoes and working your way to the lightest (lighter shoes could get crushed if placed under the heavier ones).
TIP: To give your shoes some extra support, you can stuff tissue paper (or socks) into them.
Once all your shoes are packed, tape the box closed, label it with its contents and destination in your new home (e.g., shoes: bedroom), and it's ready to go.
Posted by Sean McClain on October 5, 2018
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Frequently Asked Questions
What types of books do you distribute?
We distribute books across a range of genres and age groups, but are specialists in fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults.
Who do you distribute to?
Book stores, general retail stores, library suppliers, schools, online booksellers (including Booktopia) and direct to the reader.
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Our service standard is to ship orders next business day.