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The Pan-Methodist Campaign works in partnership with the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) to prepare people of faith to be inspired and effective child advocates. The following announcement is submitted by CDF:
For many, summer is a time for family reunions, rest and renewal, relaxed worship services or summer revivals, and a time to step back from the year's daily grind to focus on the big picture, dream new dreams, make plans for the year to come, and even learn something new. The Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, is the one place where you can do all that and so much more. Plan now to attend, whether for the full five-day Institute, as a one-day participant, or even just to stop by for one of the evening worship services featuring the Great Preacher Series that is free and open to the public.
In Weaving a Just Future for Children: An Advocacy Guide, Methodist child advocates Diane C. Olson and Laura Dean F. Friedrich describe their experience of the Proctor Institute: "One place both of us have felt the powerful presence of the beloved community is at the Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry, sponsored every summer by the Children's Defense Fund. With equal parts of family reunion, spiritual renewal, and skills building, the gathering is an inspiring week of sermons, workshops, and reflection groups focused on the needs of children and celebrating our calls to advocacy.
Held at the lovely [CDF] Alex Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, the Institute provides a hospitable learning environment in an atmosphere of inclusion and celebration of diversity. The Proctor Institute is a place where we can articulate our dreams for children and be 'fed' intellectually and spiritually so that we continue our advocacy journeys with joy and conviction."
"Standing Our Ground: Justice and Equity for All God's Children," the 2014 Proctor Institute, to be held July 14-18 at CDF Haley Farm, will feature great preaching each night: Dr. Emilie Townes, Dean of the Vanderbilt School of Divinity (Monday), United Methodist Bishop Minerva Carcano (Tuesday), author, activist and theologian Ched Myers of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries (Wednesday), Dr. James A Forbes, Jr. (Thursday) and United Methodist pastor and CDF Director of Haley Farm the Rev. Janet Wolf (Friday morning.)
Mornings will include powerful Morning Devotions preached by Civil Rights leader Dr. Otis Moss Jr. and pastor of Trinity Church, Chicago, Dr. Otis Moss III. Bible Study will be taught by Dr. Eileen W. Lindner, known for her humor, moving stories, and theological insights, and Dr. James Cone—in his first appearance at the Proctor Institute—lifting up important perspectives from his book The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Mini-plenaries on a range of Children's Concerns will round out the morning as participants select from sessions including policy and action briefings on early childhood education, health care, and gun violence; discussions on dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline; and delving into restorative justice, prophetic preaching, and ministry and movement-building from the margins around immigration.
After lunch, the afternoon will offer small group sessions in which participants will gain organizing strategies, advocacy skills, media training, and more in engaging, interactive sessions facilitated by noted leaders such as Civil Rights strategist the Rev. Jim Lawson, leaders from North Carolina's Moral Mondays movement, former gang member and founder Faith For Change Romal Tune, and others. A Freedom School program on-site engages children ages 5 to 15, and older youths are welcomed as valued participants in the Proctor Institute sessions.
Campaign for Children liaisons will find the Proctor Institute an especially valuable opportunity to gain up-to-date information on children's concerns, fresh inspiration, new skills and strategies, and a wealth of connections to others who are organizing and mobilizing on justice for children in poverty. Bring a team, if you can, to increase the impact and "take away" as you return to make an even greater difference in your district and conference.
Visit the Proctor Institute webpage to learn more about the extraordinary offerings and register so you can be a part of the beloved community. We hope to see you there.


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Gabriel Kahane's Los Angeles Tribute
The New York-based singer-songwriter takes another look at a California city on his new album.
Gabriel Kahane, like many New Yorkers, held a certain disdain for the puffy glamour of Los Angeles.
Growing up, he saw the California city as "this den of the superficial," says the musician. As he began spending more time in L.A. as an adult, "I became more and more aware of everything about the city that is not perceived by outsiders."

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The new channel is expected to launch next year, according to Geekwire's anonymous source, and could have the added functionality of allowing viewers order items right off the screen, just as the Fire TV lets you do when you click on its banner ads. But if that's not enough, the online retail giant is apparently also planning to release its own shopping channel, à la QVC, except that purchases can be done right from the screen, according to the report. Three workers doing a studio renovation at The Shopping Channel's offices in Mississauga were taken to hospital — one in critical condition — after a set wall fell on them Thursday afternoon. Useful site, soon to be added to fourwalls shopping from home whne all goods arrive as promised! However, it does allow adding items to the shopping cart on the site and moving the preferences to the store near you.
The Photo Channel that comes incorporated with this gaming device would further enable the users to view and edit the images. Italian Channels – News, soccer, entertainment, and world events on 4 channels including Fox Soccer, GOL TV, and SkyTG24. The channel will feature hosts with diverse gun-handling backgrounds, ranging from mounted cowboy shooters and Olympic level shooters, to certified NRA instructors. AL ZIKR a family oriented radio channel providing 24 hours of cultural programming with focus on history, language, habits and religion. That includes the visitors of this blog as well as every personality at The Shopping Channel. TV shopping with its promising potential holds great investment value for the company.
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If you plan on setting up a home network and having more than one PC on the Internet at the same time, make sure you have at least a 1.5 mbit download speed. Categorize items on your shopping list as necessities, comforts and luxuries with the help of your therapist. Quick Buy: Enhanced browsing features and a mobile-friendly checkout make shopping from your device quick, easy and – as always with THE SHOPPING CHANNEL – secure. It is believed the channel's presenters had already been let go. Mike Puru, who presented on both YesShop and its rival The Shopping Channel, is believed to have finished within the last week. Chalk out a budget and ascertain a fixed amount, which you can spend on your personal shopping. Like most addictions, shopping addiction may be the result of trying to fill a void in your life with materialistic things, and gives only temporary happiness. MBC One of the most watched channels, MBC is a 24 hour Korean broadcast network.
If the only channel you watch on the telly is the home network, you could be at risk for a home network shopping addiction. The sounds played back are determined by the Bank and Patch number inside the MIDI Channel. Becoming certified through the Contact Center Employer of Choice program allows The Shopping Channel to: benefit from achieving the designation, address key employee satisfaction issues and develop an action plan for continuous improvement. Those sorts of numbers tell me we are underpenetrated versus the U.S. shopping network," Mr. Goldsmith says. If you find yourself browsing at The Shopping Channel, be sure to check out the Today's Show Stopper offer of the day. The history of online shopping by itself symbolizes the change in our society and has by now become a service used by business and regular shopper all over the world. Brazilian Channels – Sports, news, comedy and talk shows on 4 channels including PFC, TV Globo, and Band International.


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Description: Granada Television soap opera created by Tony Warren, set in and around a small terraced backstreet in the fictional town of Weatherfield (based on the real-life city of Salford, near Manchester). Initially broadcast twice a week between 1961 and 1989, the soap then broadcast three episodes a week between 1989 and 1996, four between 1996 and 2009, five regularly between 2009 and 2017, and a sixth was added in September 2017.
There have been several spin-offs over the years, including:
There have been several spin-offs over the years, including:
- Pardon the Expression, a sitcom featuring Arthur Lowe as Leonard Swindley, a clothing store manager who left the parent show in 1965, but appeared in two series and 36 episodes of this spin-off between June 1965 and June 1966. Pardon the Expression itself had its own spin-off, Turn Out the Lights, which ran for one series and six episodes between January and February 1967, also featuring Lowe as Swindley.
- Albion Market was intended as a sister soap to Coronation Street, set in Weatherfield's undercover market, but only ran for one year (between August 1985 and August 1986) and 100 episodes.
- The Brothers McGregor, a sitcom set in Liverpool featuring two characters who had appeared in one episode of Coronation Street (Eddie Yeats and Marion Willis's engagement, May 1982). The sitcom ran for four series and 26 episodes between September 1985 and August 1988, but the two leads were not the same actors who's played the wheeler-dealer brothers in the parent show. In Coronation Street, Wesley and Cyril were played by Carl Chase and Tony Osoba, whereas in the spin-off, they were played by Philip Whitchurch and Paul Barber.


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Home owner turns house into haunted pyramid
Now here's a creative Halloween decoration idea! A home owner in Laguna Hills, California built this massive haunted pyramid outside of his neighborhood home! The base extended across the entire length of the house and reached the top of the 2nd story. What's the most impressive Halloween prop you've ever seen?


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The old adage, 'everything happens for a reason' never seems to let itself down. Of course, when you're tearing your hair out in frustration at a situation, this offers a measly glimmer of hope. But it's true. In my experience (most) things do happen for a reason, even if that reason doesn't reveal itself when you really want it to. It's asking you to trust in something bigger than yourself, especially when things get tough.
The cabin reminded us of this today. Doc and Steve have been building as often as they can. Spring seems to be flexing its muscles in earnest. Everything is a constant flurry of activity, things happening all at once, the minutiae of life demanding our undivided attention. Exciting developments are also afoot and these too inevitably keep us occupied and apply pressure. There is a lot going on, to say the least. So building work on the cabin has been taking place as often as possible in this atmosphere of head-spinning activity.
The wooden OSB boards we're using for the inner casing for the walls and roof are up. The plan has been to then use a type of oxidised corrugated metal for the outside, to go over the OSB boards, and give the cabin the lovely rusted look we're so fond of. But these sheets of iron-ox corrugated metal have to be specially ordered and they're not cheap so we've been waiting to save some money. Not easy when the minutiae of life I mentioned earlier involves things breaking on us all at once, requiring the spending of money on new material to fix them. Big things, like gates. So we figured we'd wait till life had calmed down a bit before ordering the iron-ox corrugated metal.
And then rain was forecast. Rain in the desert is a glorious gift from the gods. But not when the wooden OSB boards on our cabin would be completely ruined if left unprotected or uncovered. With no iron-ox sheets to fix onto the walls, our beloved vision required adapting to the immediate demands of the weather and making do with what was available. Sometimes life demands a compromise, a letting go. And you have to listen to it, trust in it and act. We decided on the less expensive – but just as hardy – and immediately available, corrugated metal. The shiny sort, without any oxidation. Unsure that we'd even get it done before the rains came, an exhausted Doc was on the verge of calling time on the whole thing. Understandably, when you've been physically pushing yourself to your limit every day only to face the possibility of your creation being destroyed in one fell swoop. For a cruel moment, it all seemed like a pointless waste of time, energy and money. But it's these very moments that spur you on, that let the light in.
Doc and Steve got to work, and they worked. The bloated storm clouds relieved themselves but not for long. The men cut sheets of metal to size and meticulously attached them to the wooden boards. And the result is this magnificently badass-looking desert dwelling. We think so anyway.
Everything happens for a reason. If it hadn't been for the imminent rain that threatened to ruin the fruits of our labour, we would have waited and bought the perfectly oxidised metal. But as it is, we had to ride the wave of things beyond our control, and act. The cabin's shining exterior now reflects this desert's other-wordly light and shifting colours, the shadows on the mountains. We might even do some oxidation of our own in patches. Or we might not.
More rain might come and the roof is yet to be protected. Everyone is tired. But for now, the pleasure of simply looking at the cabin and the gratitude from this lesson of acting through letting go and trusting, will suffice.


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Francine and Paul - Essex...
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Gaynes Park Wedding Photography...
Its New Year's Eve and I'm down in Essex at the lovely Gaynes Park, it's pissing it down and I'm loving it!
I had never met Paul or Francine before, never been to Gaynes Park and apart from passing through, never been to Essex either... In many ways, that's what I love so much about this job, the excitement of the new, the challenge of no matter what the circumstance having eight or so hours to get the photographs people expect from me.
I really loved Paul and Francine, go-getters and super good at what they do - hats off!
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—Jason Fry | CEO
"Travis has been an outstanding asset to our companies projects. We typically work on some quick-turn time frames, and he has always met our deadlines with a great attitude and a high caliber design. We can always count on Travis to be there and to help collaborate professionally on what the final project should look like."
—Justin Kemp | Director of Operations & Special Project
"I worked with Travis in the Smith Optics Ketchum offices, and can absolutely recommend him as a solid graphics pro, but more importantly, as a goal oriented bulldog with mad creative skills. Not many people I've worked with showed the kind of initiative & willingness to put the work in that Travis showed, often working late hours to get deliverables in on time, at the highest level (in a culture where that wasn't always popular!). Fortunately, Travis is also open, kind and honest, so you actually enjoy working with him!"
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"We were thrilled to find Travis and BARTLETT creative and have been nothing but extremely pleased with the creativity they have brought to our business and company. Travis went beyond our expectations in terms of cost and the timeliness with which he delivered our projects. What we appreciated most about working with Travis was his honest opinion and creative input."
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"Travis has an eye for design, functionality, and product branding. His revitalization of my website has driven sales and traffic. He had a very organized and precise way of communication and collaborating with me to make sure the final product fit my vision and specifications. The founder of Active Junkie, Kevin McInerney, commented about my site that he wished he had such an aesthetically pleasing and functional website in the early stages of his business. The two fold of Travis being able to capture the desires I had for this project and his own creativity (which always superseded my own), will always make for a finished product that I can be proud to show others."
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"There are good people, and then there are people who are good at what they do. Travis Bartlett is that rare combination of both. All media and art professionals should take a lesson from his notebook. His communication demeanor is always pleasant and supportive. His knowledge of design and visual production principles is unmatched. His creative drive chases next-level uniqueness, and his final product is always polished and extremely eye-catching. From photography to design, Travis keeps his sights keenly on his clients' needs, and he delivers beyond expectation without fail. I have to say that I was very satisfied with every project Travis and I worked on at East Carolina, and I am glad to say that I had a chance to work with such a dedicated design authority."
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Taking a Proctored Exam
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All fifteen community colleges in the Mississippi Virtual Community College require, at minimum, one proctored exam. Many require two. This means that you will need to schedule and sit in a campus lab to take one formal assessment during your course of study.
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The MSVCC has an extensive list of centers and campuses that offer your course's proctored exam. To find a site, log into your course and look for the SmarterProctoring button in the left menu. Click here to view a PDF map of MSVCC eLearning Proctor Sites.
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Date of Birth: March 10, 1987
Years Racing: 8
Years With the Team: 2
Hometown: Milton, Florida
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I feel like a very well rounded cyclist and racer. I'm comfortable on- and off-road and anywhere in between. My passion for cycling goes beyond the race course and into the woods, back roads and skateparks; any bike, anywhere. I was the current 2017 US National Champ, the 2017 Pan-American Champ, the overall USA Cycling Pro CX series winner and top american among the UCI rankings for the 2016-17 season.
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You can always expect a warm welcome and a great atmosphere at the Clockhouse Bar and upstairs Tasting Room.
We love good music so you can be sure there will be something happening several times in a month - keep an eye out for the Open Mic Night, always very popular!
Each month you can find a list of forthcoming events below with details of who is performing, on what day and the time of the performance. Due to the popularity of these events, it is best to arrive in plenty of time!
Locally sourced products are important to us and that's why we stock a fine selection of locally produced, independently brewed beers. We also often invite in guest beers from other regions to add even more variety.
Our upstairs (former Bistro) is now open for your Private Dining Experience, available to pre-book for minimum groups of 10, maximum 20 and maybe booked any day of the week, lunchtime or evening.
Tailor made menus available to suit all at a set price per head to include a welcome drink on arrival.
Furthermore, our private room is available to book for your exclusive party or even better private tasting event, again minimum of 10, maximum of 20. Why not hold a gin, wine or beer tasting for family or a group of friends.
We will be developing a diary of tasting events to suit all at a set ticket price per head, including a number of themed dinner and wine evenings.
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When it comes to dinner on a weeknight, I often have about 10 different ideas in my head at a given time. Should I roast a chicken or make a quick pasta? A tried-and-true recipe like fried rice or go for something I just bookmarked on Pinterest? Vegetarian or an all-out pork fest? Usually my choices are so wildly different, and all over the place, that even I baffle myself.
Cursed with the paradox of choice, I'd sometimes take so long to make a decision about what to cook that I'm too hungry to start cooking. Or the supermarkets are close by the time I finally settle on something to make. So I just end up ordering takeout. (Yes, cookbook authors do resort to takeout semi-regularly. At least this one does.)
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Will September Kill The Rally?Published August 31st, 2009 in Technical Analysis
We're getting a distinct message from the sentiment data that this rally, whether a bear market or cyclical bull market (or the first leg of a secular bull market) has overstayed its welcome.
If you have bearish leanings, then you wouldn't mind comparing this recent 6 month old rally to ones that we saw in the aftermath of the great bear market that followed the 1929 top:
Source: Chart of the Day
This rally is now longer than almost all counter-trend rallies during the 1929-1932 bear market. It is only comparable to the biggest one (November 1929) which lasted 155 days and lifted the Dow by ~50%.
If, on the other hand, you have bullish leanings, then you would appreciate that we are following fairly closely the script provided by the aftermath of previous bear markets. Next up would be a shallow retracement and then a rather protracted trading range (click to see graph in previous link).
As well, looking back at previous cyclical bull markets since the 1940's, we again seem to be following a familiar script. The data to the left is courtesy of InvesTech Research dividing each cyclical bull market into two phases. It is normal for the first 5 months of a rally to be robust while the following months are more lethargic. In fact, on average the returns in the first 5 months have been double those of the next 5 months. Which would again imply that going forward, we can not expect similar returns.
Don't forget, we are also about to step into September - a most notorious month for stock market returns. Mark Twain famously wrote:
October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
He was close, as he should have singled out September as the most dangerous time to be long. From 1896 to 2008, the average return for September has been -1.2%, the very worst of months. As well, in the more recent market history (20 and 50 years) the negative performance drag of September has been even more pronounced. Moving on, after September, the next worst month is February (probably because of profit taking after the January effect). And the best month? December, of course.
To illustrate just how damaging September is, imagine for a moment that you had a rich ancestor way back in 1900 who, for some masochistic reason, decided to invest the princely sum of $1000 in the Dow Jones but only during the month of September (and go to cash the rest of the time). Here's the value of your inheritance over time:
Source: Have a happy September. Or not.
Believe it or not, after more than 100 years of investment in the Dow, the original $1000 would be worth just $251 today. That's a heart-stopping loss of -75% for over 100 years of one month investment. So obviously, doing the opposite would give you a leg up. But you may not believe just how much of an improvement you would squeeze out of just skipping one single month! Compared to a simple buy and hold strategy through thick and thin over the 100+ years, skipping September would give you 4 times the return!
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Sep 1st, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Since 1900 September has posted a positive return 49%, as you point out, with an average return of -1.2%. When July and August are up, as they have been this year, September has posted positive gains 59% of the time in 39 instances. The average return for all 39 instances (including the down-months) was a relatively flat .09%. Thus, the probability and magnitude of a down September after a good July & August is slightly less pronounced.
This was pointed out by Citi strategist, Tobias Levkovich.
Sep 1st, 2009 at 12:56 pm
As we have noted, since 1950, September has been the weakest calendar month of the year, but normally there is a modest bullish bias the week (5 trading days) before Labor Day.
The pre labor day rally is getting off on the wrong foot this week, as we are already down 2.5% as I type. If the week before Labor day is down, the prospect for the remainder of September gets worse. In the 20 years since 1950 when the SP 500 was down the week before Labor Day, the odds for the rest of September go to 7-13 with an average "additional" loss of 1.39%.
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David Leonhardt has a very good column in the New York Times on the contribution of the establishment to the rise of fascism/authoritarianism in the United States v. France. That is a big and important difference. Generally speaking, the old elite plays a decisive role in fascism, for example in the rule of the KKK in the Jim Crow South, or in the triumph of Mussolini (marches by four generals proceeded his arrival in Rome in a sleeping car to become Il Duce) or Hitler who was appointed by President von Hindenburg. R. Palme Dutt, Fascism and Social Revolution makes the point that there has to be a surge in class conflict or, one might say, broad social change in terms of benefiting most people, but in which the left does not triumph for elites to get frightened enough to push fascism as a form of rule. The Obama election, in part, was such a great change – the election of a black President in a country in which racism is the decisive form of divide and rule and many ordinary people are losing out. So far, however, Trump is mercifully not backed by a mass fascist movement, though the power of the Presidency, particularly in harming immigrants, is large.
Leonhardt rightly underlines Trump's, Rohrbacher's and King's odious celebration of Le Pen.
But David and others are way too celebratory this morning – the disintegration of the two major French parties means that even if he had a program which will work – and it is not clear he does – he could not enact it. Many of those oppressed by the establishment will not get help or get help quickly. Breaking with austerity in the European Union, along with public education (funded) and retraining for jobs is at least a part of the alternative but that, so far, is Melanchon (or Sanders) and not Macron. And Macron wants better trading arrangements for France and Europe, but Brussels is, in this regard, very dogmatic, authoritarian and dangerous.
In America, the Democratic Party needs to be changed from the ground up, and its powerful, establishment (corporate) forces will fight this. Fortunately, there is a deep movement from below of fear and protest but it needs to go much further.
And the Republican party has already been transformed into abettors of the rise of authoritarianism – a climate change denying (enemies of the survival of humanity as a whole), racist, and despicable organization. But as Leonhardt says, what happened in France is, comparatively, heartening.
Leonhardt does not slur Melanchon and the non-establishment left – but that is unusual in the Times. He does speak mistakenly of "white nationalism" – the nationalism of lynchers or those who conduct gas chambers is not the same as of those who are themselves oppressed and the victims of these things (though of course, nationalism turns oppressive – though sometimes not quite as oppressive – as new leaders come to power). There are also in between cases, as in the American Revolution where those oppressed by the British nonetheless enslaved and massacred blacks and native americans, or even the Union in the Civil War, emancipationist for blacks, genocidal in Colorado and the West…
Leonhardt does rightly note, however, Le Pen's sickening comments on the Holocaust. The National Front remains pretty much the pure Nazi stuff, though the focus, as in the Trump/Bannon/Sessions crowd, is on Muslims…
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White nationalism lost in France yesterday, and it lost big.
Marine Le Pen, the far-right presidential candidate, won only 34 percent of votes in her two-way race against Emmanuel Macron, who will soon be France's president. Roger Cohen calls Macron's victory "an important demonstration that reason and coherence still matter in politics." Nate Silver notes that Macron outperformed the pre-election polls by more than either Brexit or Donald Trump did.
Yet Macron's victory is also a depressing reminder of the state of conservative politics in the United States. In France, the center-right and center-left united to oppose Le Pen's extremism. (Le Pen went so far as to lie about the Holocaust during her campaign, Julia Ioffe reminds us.)
The United States also had an extremist presidential candidate — one who mocked the disabled, retweeted neo-Nazis, called Mexicans rapists, promised to ban Muslims from the country and bragged about molesting women. He won the presidency, thanks to overwhelming support from the Republican Party.
Not only that, but several prominent Republicans, including Trump, then publicly rooted for a Le Pen win in France. Steve King and Dana Rohrabacher, two members of Congress, visited Le Pen during the campaign to discuss, in King's words, their "shared values."
Matthew Yglesias had perhaps the pithiest summary yesterday: "You see in Trump vs Le Pen once again that authoritarian nationalist movements only win with the support of the establishment right."


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We are throwing open our doors to the Kaipatiki community!
A chance for you and the family to explore our environment centre, have some summer fun and hot food, and discover ways to live more sustainably for no or low cost at our impressive range of active demonstrations, advice shops and mini-tours.
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- Harakeke-weaving and paper-making workshops
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- Your summer edible garden – Dee Pigneguy
- Weedbusting tips at home – Melissa Marler
- Animal pest control – Steve Phillips
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- Composting, worm-farming & Bokashi Create Your Own Eden
- Native plant potting-table
- Food Swap Table
- Guided mini-bush walks with Discovery Walks
- Harakeke weaving & paper-making workshops with Judy Te Hiwi
- Build your own garden & composting structures Tony Poppleton
- Kids activities with Eskdale Treehouse Early Learning Centre
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Leadership Training Franchise Crestcom International Launches Operations Portal
Second Milestone In Major Transformation
August 31, 2015 // Franchising.com // Greenwood Village, CO - Crestcom International, a Colorado-based franchisor has announced the launch of their new franchise operations and communication hub (COACH). The COACH portal is the second in a series of major updates to the 27 year-old brand led by new President and CEO, Tammy Berberick.
"We are proud to deliver this powerful business management, planning, and communications tool to our franchisees," says Berberick. "The COACH Portal, which stands for Crestcom Operations and Communication Hub, allows Crestcom franchisees to quickly and easily develop detailed business plans, track sales, communicate about opportunities with colleagues, access all of their training and sales tools, connect with the home office, or review the latest marketing initiatives."
The COACH portal is the culmination of a project Berberick began shortly after taking over at Crestcom with the objective of providing a world-class operating environment that makes it faster and easier to operate a Crestcom business. COACH drives efficiency by organizing business, sales and marketing tools in a single location while facilitating real-time sharing of "best practices" among franchisees worldwide. It is optimized to enhance communication with a strong social component intended to spark conversations and continuous improvement.
One of the unique aspects of the COACH Portal is a sales planning module that provides Crestcom franchisees with a detailed business development roadmap. Once a franchise owner inputs his or her annual sales goal, the business planning module will automatically calculate what sales and marketing activities need to be implemented to ensure success. The tool automatically updates sales data and results of marketing campaigns several times per day. It calculates these figures using the remaining days of the year to give franchisees a detailed, daily snapshot of what they need to do to reach their goals.
"This is a tool that will allow me to run my business in a much smarter manner," says Jennifer Goodrich, a franchisee and area representative from Chattanooga, TN. "Small business people don't always have the resources to develop and use powerful business planning and analytics tools like the COACH Portal. This is going to help me develop and execute a detailed business plan where I know exactly what I need to be doing every day to reach my goals."
"Crestcom has been delivering real results to business leaders for almost 30 years. Our franchisees do an incredible job providing training that transforms business and government organizations. We want to make sure our brand and our services match the quality they deliver every day," concludes Berberick.
About Crestcom
Crestcom has trained more than 1 million leaders for 20,000 businesses in 60 countries across the globe. Crestcom does this through a unique blend of video-based, live-facilitated instruction in vital skill areas. The Crestcom franchise model gives franchise owners the support, training, and tools needed to operate their own businesses. Crestcom is seeking franchisees in select markets across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. For more information, please visit: www.crestcomfranchise.com
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Debbie has attended Grace Church for 30+ years. She oversees the Greeter Ministry and she also helps coordinate membership class materials for our In-Touch class.
Debbie joined Pastor Harper's ministry team in 2013 after leaving a corporation where she worked for over 35 years. Prior to joining the staff, she volunteered for nine years for Pastor Harper's ministries, which made it an easy transition.
Debbie married Mark, her childhood sweetheart and best friend, in 1975. They have three children: Mallory Shaw (married to Pastor Austin Shaw), Brittany and Cory.
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A while ago I came across this photo collage and fell in love (ps if anyone has an original link for it I'd love to know where it's from)! I love animals, so naturally I decided that eventually when we have our own house this idea is absolutely is taking over an entire wall. But I got to thinking about it and thought it would be so cute to do some of the silhouettes from our actual animals! Of course, the pupster is our baby so he got to have his done first.
What you need : Photoshop (I use PS Elements 6.. I know I'm way behind on the times..), heavy cardstock to print on, and a frame, and a photo of your pet.
I started with this photo:
It was actually snapped with a camera phone by a friend. So they photo you choose doesn't need to be high quality, but you do want it to be a good side shot of your pet.
Start by just using your eraser to trace along the outline of your pet and then erasing the rest of the photo. If your guy has a bushy tail like mine, you can go wide around it and we'll deal with that next (if yours doesn't, you can just skip down a little!).
Fluffy tails are definitely the tricky part, I used the magic wand tool to grab non-tail pieces and delete them until I had just the basic fluff left. At this point it doesn't need to be perfect.
Using the magic wand, grab all of the white surrounding your little guy, go select > inverse (this will grab any parts of your pet) and then "delete" (just make sure you change your defualt delete color to something other than white, other wise you'll just end up with a white piece of paper!).
Once you have just the silhouette you can go back in and touch up the tail. I rounded my edges off a bit with the eraser so it didn't look so jagged.
Once you have that all done you can go back in and change the colors to whatever you'd like! I originally played around with doing the same colors they had used in the photo that inspired me, but all of my frames are a dark wood and decided it'd be more fun to do the backround a nice crisp white.
Then it's time to frame!
Hope that wasn't too confusing! It's quite simple, really, and took less then ten minutes to do.
I am totally in love with it! Maybe that's because it's my baby but either way - I adore it! I can't wait to do more and one day have a whole wall filled:)


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Elementary Soccer Online Sign-Up
Indiana Christian Academy will again be having a spring intramural soccer program for boys and girls in grades one through six. Thank you to all who participated last year to make it such a success. The purpose of the league is to introduce basic soccer skills to the elementary children and begin to show them what is needed to play in school athletics. While fun and fitness will be a big part of the program, it will also include important lessons about teamwork, sportsmanship, and following directions. Depending on the level of interest, we hope to have four teams. The practices will begin April 10. There will 4 games. Please keep the attached schedule for practice and game dates and times. The cost for each child will be $20.00, which will include a team shirt. Athletic shorts that touch the knee, or sweat pants are permitted for practices and games. Shin guards for the athlete's protection are required and cleats are recommended. If your child is interested, please fill out the form below and send back to school or fill out the form online by Thursday, April 6.


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A member of the FBCMB team is flying high following a daring sky dive in support of a local charity.
Alex Mace, Office Service Assistant at the Firm's Telford office made an in incredible 13,000ft tandem sky dive yesterday at the Langar Airfield in Nottingham.
Taking the jump with the Red Devils Parachute Regiment Freefall Team, Alex enjoyed the thrill of accelerating from 0-180mph during a 50 second freefall before a five minute canopy ride back to the landing area.
Fundraising for the Midlands Air Ambulance on behalf of FBC Manby Bowdler, Alex raised a grand total of £903.75 through sponsorship from friends, family and colleagues.
Alex said: "The sky dive was absolutely fantastic and all of the guys in the Red Devils are beyond impressive.
"It was an honour to jump with them and they made the whole thing great fun. I'd recommend anyone to do a sky dive at least once in their life as it's an incredible experience.
"Throwing yourself out of a plane is honestly not as scary as it looks!"
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Kayla is a 2012 senior from Fairborn High School, and was just elected Senior Class President!! Hail to the Chief! :) During her session, I kept calling her "President Princess", for obvious reasons-- she's such a doll in that dress with the tiara!
Any Fairborn students who want to come to Muskopf Photography for their senior photos, ask Kayla for a referral card. It will get you 24 free wallets with your 1 hour or longer session!
For more information, reviews, prices, etc. about Muskopf Photography, please visit www.muskopf.org Muskopf Photography is located in Beavercreek and serves the whole Dayton area. I am also an approved photographer by both the Beavercreek and Xenia high school yearbooks.


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A D.C. federal court partly sided with a group of foreign nationals challenging a decision that rejected their petitions under the EB-5 visa program, finding Friday that some aspects of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' adjudication were "arbitrary and capricious."
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly partly granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs, who are mostly Chinese citizens who submitted petitions with the agency for permanent residence under the EB-5 program. The program allows foreign nationals who invest at least $500,000 in a U.S. business to obtain green cards.
The investors had initially sued USCIS in 2015, claiming the agency arbitrarily decided their $500,000 investments in mines in Idaho and Montana were not at risk because of a redemption option in their agreement with Quartzburg Gold Co. LP.
On Friday the judge agreed with the investors that the agency's adjudication of their applications was both arbitrary and capricious. Specifically, the court found the reasoning undergirding USCIS' rejection of an initial group of petitions was arbitrary, as well as "counter to the evidence before USCIS."
Source: https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/900735/foreign-investors-nab-partial-victory-in-eb-5-dispute
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I found this palette at Winner's and at first glance, I thought it was the Too Faced Natural Eyeshadow Collection but as I looked closer, I discovered that it was a product from another brand, but was obviously trying to mimic the product from Too Faced.
|It was only $6.99 for this dupe.
|It is from a company called Almar Sales.
|Even the inside is similar to the Too Faced palette!
|Rather than give the colours individual names, Almar Sales has broken them up into trios.
|Colours (left to right): Innocent Trio, Instinctive Trio, Excited Trio
There is also a small drawer that comes out of the palette and it holds two brushes, but the brushes were terrible and I threw them away before I could photograph them.
I think this is a great dupe! I have some Too Faced eyeshadows and the ones from this palette are almost as good as the Too Faced ones.
After purchasing this, I don't think I'll be buying the Too Faced one.
I also think this is a great alternative to the Naked Palette from Urban Decay.
Product: Natural Look Shadow Collection from Almar Sales Company
Price: $6.99 at Winner's
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Director, Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget
During his four-year tenure as Utah's budget director, Nixon oversaw the state's $11 billion budget, teaming with CIO Steve Fletcher to successfully consolidate IT services. As a result, Utah is now one of a small handful of states with fully centralized IT operations.
Nixon then headed to Michigan where he now serves as director of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget. Since his arrival, he has led major efforts to strengthen the state's IT operations.
"I saw a state that had been down for over a decade," Nixon said. "I saw a state that was poised to make a strong comeback."
And that it has. Earlier this year, the Michigan Legislature approved a $2.5 million innovation fund, which will in part be overseen by Nixon. The fund will be used to execute IT projects that cost in the $100,000 to $200,000 range. Nixon said the projects will help state agencies work together to consolidate and share IT services.
Since Nixon took office, the state also has combined its physical and cybersecurity offices — making both sets of operations technology driven, and he intends to continue pushing the IT realm on all fronts.
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i feel like something is off again, but i can't tell if it's the same thing that i've felt a few times these past few months or if it's something somewhat different. i feel like i don't want to do anything, and i'm hard-pressed to make myself enjoy the things that i normally enjoy. internal conflict of some sort. and i have this other inclination towards being in quiet solitude to figure this out, even though another part of me wants nothing more than to be in the company of those who i feel comfortable around.
i wonder if this feeling has been something that in earlier years i'd never really noticed, instead misinterpreting its signals as some kind of boredom and distracting myself with games, fiction, badminton, etc. but the feeling stands out more than ever now and at this point i prefer to figure out whatever's bothering me internally so that i can continue to move forward confidently and energetically.
i wonder if what i feel is the weight of some imagined or urgent necessity. perhaps the push to establish more of a firm direction in my life?


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I often hear my piano students and AWSOM families talk about the new piano they are looking at buying. It's an exciting process of bringing into your home a musical instrument that not only looks amazing but sounds amazing! What I don't hear so much is talk of the piano bench. Nobody ever says, "Andrew! We went and saw the most amazing piano bench this weekend!!" One of the biggest keys to learning the piano is in the bench, and I'm going to reveal to you why…
As we sit and learn the piano sometimes for hours on end, we need the blood to be pumping around our body, especially to our hands. If we've got a piano bench that is too low we're expecting our heart to push our blood up the incline in our arms to our fast moving hands! Similarly if we have a piano bench that's too high, and we don't have a footstool or some books to rest the little feet on, we can cut off blood to our legs. All of this is quite a painful experience when you've still got another 20 minutes of practice to do and can make kids quite lethargic during their practice time.
So what to do about it?
Find yourself an adjustable bench AND USE THE ADJUSTABLE PART! Kids grow fast, and I'm often adjusting benches as they go through their growth spurts. A properly adjusted piano bench will keep you or your child's arms at a good right angle. If you can't reach the floor, I highly recommend this bench from Amazon. It works wonders and allows kids to still use the pedals - something they look forward to from day one! If you already have a bench that you want to keep but isn't adjustable, have your kids sit on a cushion, or get creative with an ingenious method!
So jump to it! Find that piano bench, measure it up so your arms are at a right angle playing, if you have small and tall both playing in your house, find a happy medium. But don't hang around! It allows you to practice for longer without feeling like your arms are worn out.
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Agistri Island is perfect for walkers, photographers and nature lovers but also a great escape for anyone who simply wants to get away from it all.
You can easily walk from one end of the island to the other. It takes about two hours and combined with its beautiful nature and landscapes makes Agistri ideal for walking holidays and trekking tours. It's an especially good choice during spring and autumn, when temperatures are mild and suitable for short trekking trips around the island. Summer of course is equally beautiful on the island, but requires very early starts before the sun gets too hot.
On your trek, why not take the time to visit old churches, discover hidden caves and old ruins, walk through the pine forests and olive groves and finish with lunch in some of the picturesque villages? Climb to the highest points and enjoy spectacular views of the sea while getting a unique insight into the wild life and nature (plants, insects, birds and animals) of the island. A refreshing and adventurous holiday awaits!
The picturesque areas of Skala, the village of Metohi and the area around, the village of Limenaria and trekking path to the church of Agioi Anargyroi and Virgin Mary are ideal destinations for anyone who loves walking and trekking. The last path to the chapel is especially popular thanks to its location – the sunset views are second to none and the walk is well worth the effort.
Another delightful part of walking in Agistri; when you stop for a quick snack, you can take the time to pick some wild flowers and herbs that grow in abundance in the grasslands or beneath shady trees.
There are several travel agencies offering walking holidays and guided walking tours in Agistri, as well as groups of island lovers who believe it's the perfect way to really discover this beautiful and unspoiled island.
Walking and trekking holidays are for the more adventurous travelers. If you are seeking for a unique experience, then come to Agistri for your next holiday. You will be amazed!
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Park City! Yeah! I have so many fond memories of this beautiful place. Strolling Main street, Art Fairs with Mom, Skiing, Good Food, Hot Cocoa and Snuggling by the fire as it snows. Mom and Dad Lisonbee were so great to let us use their condo for a few days. We did main and ate a lovely breakfast at the Eating Establishment. Found a few Christmas gifts on Main and some other interesting things:)Swam and Swam and snuggled in the room.
Friday, December 9, 2011
A Much needed Family Time
Posted by Ashley & Matthew Lisonbee at 6:21 PM
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- Kandis Mortensen said...
So... did you buy them? ha! Glad you got a break!
- December 10, 2011 at 12:07 PM
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My Favorite Places in North Cornwall, Sandymouth Beach and Coast Path
My favourite place in all the world is the beautiful coastline of North Cornwall. Ruggedly beautiful with the most amazing rock formations on the cliffs, fantastic sandy beaches where you can still have the whole place to yourself and amazing wildlife, seals, sea birds and rock pools to explore.
I have written this hub to share with you some of my favourite places and the joy of being alive that just being there brings to me. I hope you will enjoy my pictures and my little guided tour of my favourites.
Sandymouth is an amazing place. Descending the steep little lane to the beach, you get no idea of what will open out in front of you once you have parked in the National Trust car park at the foot of it. From there, another footpath takes you down onto the beach. You need to check the tides carefully at high tide, there is no beach at all, just some very large pebbles at the bottom of the footpath!
At low tide, you can walk all the way back to the Crooklets beach at Bude in one direction and almost to Duckpool in the other.
Sandymouth Beach
There are Lifeguard patrols all the summer with a patrolled area between the flags for swimming and surfing. In practice, the sea is too rough for little ones but there are amazing rock pools for them to play and paddle in. Because Sandymouth is a National Trust beach, you can take your dogs on the beach all the year round and there is a beach cafe near the car park and toilets too, very civilised! If you get chance to have a cuppa at the cafe, go up into the garden overlooking the beach, such a beautiful place to sit and just take in the ambiance of the place.
The video below, starts in the car park and takes the walk down to the beach, I hope you enjoy looking around!
Sandymouth is a place we first discovered in 2008. At that time, a lot of the rocks in stripes from cliffs down towards the sea were exposed. In 2010, they are mostly covered with sand. That is the nature of the place, always changing. The same applies to both Duckpool and Northcott Mouth the beaches on either side - sometimes there is a lot more sand than at other times, you just never know what you are going to find.
If you feel like a walk when you visit Sandymouth, go up over the cliff path to the south west and you will come to Northcott Mouth, another National Trust beach, but wilder. It is quite a short and easy walk up over the coastal path with amazing views and plenty of places to stop for a picnic. Northcott can also be reached by car but the car park is small so it is more difficult to park there in the summer season.
If you want a walk in the other direction, you can walk the mile or so to Duckpool, also National Trust and a really magical place. As you go through the gate from the path by the cafe at Sandymouth, you find yourself in what looks like a meadow on top of the cliff, walk along to the stream that feeds the waterfall. You will find a secluded hollow where my husband and I have had many peaceful picnics and watched hundreds of toads mating and spawning in the deep pool there at the end of April, beginning of may! Duckpool is another place that is easy to drive to but the car park is quite small. If your mobility is not good and you can get into the car park, you can park with the most beautiful view of the sea and just watch the waves. There are toilets and also an enterprising ice cream man who comes throughout the summer and also sells teas and coffees.
The next video shows a circular walk from Duckpool and starts off looking down towards the Duckpool car park and then walking up the cliff path, away from Duckpool, in the opposite direction from Sandymouth. The Satellite dish station is GCHQ and this is near to Morwenstow which is a place that I have written another hub on - Undiscovered Cornwall, Reverend Hawker, Morwenstow
My Favorite Photos of Sandymouth and Duckpool
Sandymouth, my favourite beach in North Cornwall
Morwenstow is further up the coast from Duckpool and is the subject of another Hub. Duckpool is not found in the search on this map.
If you draw a straight line to the sea from Kilkhampton you will be at about the right spot for Duckpool!
Northcott Mouth, another National Trust beach, wild and wonderful.
Tamar Lake, another of my favourite places and will be the subject of a future hub
Visiting North Cornwall
Useful information about Hotels in North Cornwall, Guest Houses in North Cornwall and Restaurants in North Cornwall can all be found at the Bude Tourist Information Office.
This is also a good place to start if you are looking for caravan sites or camping sites in North Cornwall.
If you would like to stay at the same little caravan and camping site that we do, you could check out the little web site that I am building for Tamar Lake Farm near Kilkhampton which is a great choice if you are looking for campsites in Cornwall near beach as it is within easy reach of Sandymouth, Duckpool and Northcott as well as the town of Bude which has lovely beaches.
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If you have enjoyed this article, please help me to publicise it by clicking the Tweet and Like buttons at the top of the page to share it on Twitter and Facebook and by using the vote button below.
What I would like most of all, is for you to leave me your comments at the foot of the page, I would love to hear from you what you think of my hub about my favorite beaches in North Cornwall, Sandymouth, Duckpool and the surrounding area.
Wow, I want to go to Cornwall right now! Great hub, thanks for sharing :-)
Wow--You did a beautiful job...I can't wait to visit. Glad my husband is a travel agent. Cornwall is definitely going on our list...
Thanks for the hub about a beautiful part of the world. We visited Cornwall last year but not your beautiful beach. Would have loved to see this hub before out visit.
excellet hub well done Alison- Bude is our favorite place in north devon/cornwall area-lovethe pics of your dog, my wife wants one just like him.


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The PSTL Gallery at Pace in St. Louis (Midtown) was the first location for this multi-venue exhibition. Our second location will be the Thomas Jefferson Visual Arts Gallery, 4100 S. Lindbergh Blvd. STL, MO 63127. Please join us for the OPENING Friday April 13, 2012. Here are some photos of the opening at PSTL:
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Leaving Africa
In this heartwarming tale of friendship and strength, two 60-something women, Finnish Riitta and Ugandan Catherine, share a home in Uganda and a very close relationship. They spend evenings on their porch smoking, doing crossword puzzles and talking about their lives and challenges. But by day, they lead a revolutionary education project that provides sexual heath and equality education to both men and women in the surrounding community. Always operating under the threat of expulsion, their luck finally runs out when the officials threaten to cut off permits and funding, thus ending 25 years of their work and sending Riitta back to Finland.
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This pink pindot flute blouse from Ann Taylor has been on major repeat lately. I wore this look last week to lunch with my hubby in the city and received alot of compliments on it! The thing I love about this blouse is that it is so lightweight and the blush color goes with just about everything! This top comes in two colors pink and black - but the pink is just beautiful and so feminine!


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Sample Itinerary for Stays of 1-7 Days
Day 1
- Breakfast at the Tucker House
- Scenic tour of San Juan Island
- Visit American Camp
- Picnic Lime Kiln State Park
- Visit English Camp – Hike to Mt. Young
- Relax in your jacuzzi tub
Day 2
- Breakfast at the Tucker House
- Visit Roche Harbor
- Wine Tasting at the Vineyard
- Visit the Whale Museum
- Picnic on Whale Watching Tour
- Dinner at Coho Restaurant in Friday Harbor
Day 3
- Hike Mt. Finlaysen
- Picnic and visit at Pelindaba Lavender
- Visit the Sculpture Park
- Afternoon Kayaking Adventure
- Colors Ceremony at Roche Harbor
- Dinner at Roche Harbor
Day 4
- Hike to the Lime Kilns
- Visit Alpaca Farm
- Enjoy an in-room massage
- Shopping & Gallery Tour in Friday Harbor
- Dinner in Friday Harbor
Day 5
- Tucker House Breakfast-to-go
- Day trip to Orcas Island
- Lunch in East Sound
- Hike or visit Moran State Park & Mt. Constitution
- Dinner in Friday Harbor
Day 6
- Bike day trip to Lopez Island
- Visit Shark's Reef and Agate Beach State Park
- Fuel up for your ride at Holly B's Bakery
- Enjoy the Pastoral Scenery
- Dinner in Friday Harbor
Day 7
- Day trip to Shaw Island
- Visit the Little Red Schoolhouse
- Visit the Shaw General Store
- Enjoy the quiet serenity at South Beach County Park
- Dungeness Crab Feast on the Deck of the Tucker House
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Our father, who art in Kentucky, let basketball be thy game. 8 banners won, the 9th to come, in Rupp as it is in Big Blue Nation.
Give us this day our defensive effort, and forgive us our turnovers as we forgive those who seeded against us. Lead us not into a shooting slump
and deliver us from bad officiating. In the name of Rupp and Hall, and the spirit of Bill Keightley, Amen.
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This croc is ready to rock with 4 pieces to stack & nest!
Stacking and nesting the 4 easy-stack arches help baby develop fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination. Baby can bat the silly croc to make it rock, discovering that his actions make fun thing happen! It's ferociously fun, and can also help teach baby colors.
• Four brightly colored arches for stack-and-nest play
• Bat at the croc for fun rocking action!
• Figuring out how to stack arches from biggest to smallest, or nest them the opposite way, helps baby develop thinking and problem solving skills
• Stacking and nesting also help sharpen baby's fine motor skills
• Introduces baby to colors, too


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Canon's new Pixma MP510 all-in-one is the 2006 refresh of the Pixma MP500, which performed quite well in CNET Labs. Generally, we see quality and technology improvements with each iteration of a product, but that's not exactly what happened with the MP510. For one thing, at $150 the Pixma MP510 is about $30 cheaper than the Pixma MP500. Good, right? Well, that depends. Canon pulled back on some elements of the MP500. For one, it reduced the LCD from 2.5 inches to 1.9 inches. It also left out the MP500's built-in duplexer, and the ink system shrunk from five tanks to four (the dye-based black ink was left out on this round). Comparisons to the MP500 aside, the MP510 lacks some elements that are quite common on photo printers, such as the ability to use the PictBridge port as a USB port for external storage devices and the ability to push photo content back and forth between the printer's memory card slots and the attached PC with a touch of a button.
On the upside, the MP510 offers many features that amateur photo hobbyists will find useful, shows decent print quality, and does a fast job with prints. And best of all, it's inexpensive. But the Pixma MP500 is still available in retail channels, so we recommend that you spend the extra $30 and go for that model.
The Canon Pixma MP510 is a photo-centric all-in-one printer that combines print, scan, and copy functionality. It lacks fax capability, a feature that's more commonly found on office-oriented all-in-ones. It's slightly smaller and lighter than its predecessor, the MP500. It sits 17.6 inches wide, 14.5 inches deep, and 6.8 inches tall and weighs slightly less than 16 pounds. Its boxy body is swathed in white and light silver plastic. The most notable design change is the location of the control panel. On the Pixma MP500, the control panel sat front and center on a shelf. The control panel on the Pixma MP510 is more discreet: it sits to the side of the scanner under a flip-up lid that measures about 3.25 inches wide and 4.5 inches deep. The small 1.9-inch LCD is embedded in the underside of the lid, and you can pivot the lid forward and back to optimize the viewing angle (the MP500's LCD measured a much more generous 2.5 inches). Despite the smaller real estate, the MP510's control panel offers the same array of buttons as the MP500: three buttons to toggle between Copy, Scan, and Memory Card tasks; a four-way rocker switch and Menu, Back, and OK buttons to navigate the various menus; a Settings button; a Photo Index Sheet button; a Feed Switch button to toggle between the input sources; and, of course, start buttons (one each for color and black) and a cancel button.
The scanner lid conceals a flatbed scanner that can hold up to 8.5x11.7-inch originals (approximately A4 size). The lid hinges back slightly to accommodate thick originals but doesn't detach entirely. Two memory card slots are concealed behind a door and can read most major types of memory cards, though you'll need adapters for a few types. Recessed under the memory card slots is a PictBridge port for printing from PictBridge cameras or connecting an optional Bluetooth adapter.
The Canon Pixma MP510 offers two sources of paper input: a front feeder and an auto sheet feeder in the rear. The front feeder resides under the output tray, and Canon recommends that this tray be used only to feed plain paper in A4, letter, or B5 size. All other sizes and types of paper, including photo paper, should be fed from the auto sheet feeder, which folds out from the back of the printer. A small lever hidden under the left edge of the printer adjusts the distance between the paper and the printhead. According to the user guide, switch the lever to the right only for envelopes and T-shirt transfers; all other types of paper should be used with the lever to the left. The output tray sits above the front feeder, and a plastic arm swivels out to corral long sheets of paper.
The Pixma MP510 employs a four-ink system, with separate ink cartridges. The three color inks are dye based, while the black is pigment based for better text prints. The MP500 uses a better five-ink system that includes both pigment- and dye-based black inks. The MP510's black tank costs $16.25 to replace, while the color tanks cost $14.25 each. Canon estimates that color documents should cost around 3 cents per page and 4x6 photos should cost about 28 cents per print. Both numbers are reasonable for an inkjet printer in this price range.
The Pixma MP510 is a breeze to set up thanks to the included CD and a quick-start guide. The CD contains all the necessary drivers and software, including ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.5 for editing photos, OmniPage SE 4 for scanning, and Canon's Easy-PhotoPrint and MP Navigator utilities. You'll have to provide the USB cable yourself. The MP510 doesn't have wireless capability, but you can purchase an optional Bluetooth adapter for printing wirelessly from Bluetooth-enabled phones and PDAs. The MP510 does come with IrDA standard, though, which lets you print wirelessly from certain cell phones.
The MP510's features are much the same as those on the MP500. When copying, you can scale from 25 to 400 percent, make up to 99 copies at once, make borderless copies, make fit-to-page copies (the original is reduced or enlarged to fit the output page), repeat images, make sticker prints, and restore faded originals. The nice thing about the MP510's image repeat feature is that you can manually determine the layout, that is, how many times you want your image repeated. Keep in mind, though, that the printer won't shrink the image if it's too large to be repeated as many times as you like; instead, the image will be cut off.
When scanning, you have the option to initiate the scan from the printer itself or from your PC, using the included ScanSoft software or any TWAIN-compliant software, such as Photoshop. If you initiate from the printer, you have several options: scan to PDF; attach the scan to an e-mail; save the scan to your PC; or open the scanned document in an application. If you use the ScanSoft program, you can take advantage of the optical character recognition feature, which allows you to edit scanned text documents.
You get a lot of useful options when printing photos from a memory card. You can print all the pictures in one fell swoop, pick individual photos to be printed in one batch, or step through the contents of your card to print photos individually. You can also print one of three types of photo indexes: all the photos on a card, all the photos taken in a date range, or just the last 36, 72, 108, or 144 photos. The last option is convenient if you tend to just add to your memory cards without deleting. Once you've printed the index, you can bubble in the images you want to print; indicate how many copies of each image; make a few minor tweaks, such as turning on the photo optimizer or face brightener; and select the size and type of paper to print on. Then just scan the sheet on the flatbed scanner and, voila, pictures printed. The MP510 also offers some special photo layout options, including a 2X, 4X, half borderless with lines for a memo, and so on.


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Creating a Character Turnaround Sheet
- pencil
- paper
- ruler
- tracing paper (optional)
- scanner/printer (optional)
- Photoshop (optional)
Step 1
Once you've chosen a character you want to use, draw them in a front, three-quarter and side/profile view. You should choose a pose that conveys your character's personality. For example, if your character is shy, you could draw them slightly hunched over, with their knees bent and pigeon-toed, as if they're trying to hide themselves from the outside world.
I prefer to use relatively simple poses that will allow me to see the character's body from all angles. You're free to draw them in as dynamic a pose as you want. Just remember that you'll be drawing this pose from various angles!
I started by loosely drawing the front, three-quarter and side/profile view free hand.
Tom Bancroft, author of Creating Characters With Personality, suggests you draw these three poses free hand, without restricting them to fit within a certain height. You can make adjustments later, to make your lineup cohesive. Avoiding restrictions at this point will allow you to experiment freely to find the strongest poses to use.
However, for the sake of cohesion, I suggest you try to keep the proportions relatively close to each other. For example, try to keep the eyes, nose, and mouth at around the same height within the face in each pose, the hands and clothes at about the same length, the hair within the same size, etc.
Step 2
Tighten your sketches a little bit more, taking into consideration the structure of your character and their geometric build up. This will help you maintain the shapes cohesive as they turn in space. (i.e. oval head, cylindrical legs and arms, cone torso, etc.)
I focused on strengthening the structure of the character and tried to keep it cohesive throughout by basing my second round of sketches on geometric structures (you can omit the character's arm in profile view to allow a better view of the torso).
I used tracing paper over my original sketches to define the geometric buildup. I then tightened my sketches basing the form on the geometric structures I defined. Note that at this point I added more detail to the outline and structure of the face in particular.
It's important to keep human anatomy in mind when you begin to define your character's silhouette in three-quarter and profile view. You might want to look up references as you work, use a mirror or ask a friend to pose for you.
Keep in mind that foreheads, noses and chins often protrude noticeably, as well as the back of the head. These are key in creating an appealing and believable head shape. Eyes rest within eye sockets, which will make them much less visible in profile view. Try to visualize your character's form in three dimensional space as you draw. Think of the volume of the shapes and how they would look from a particular angle.
Flat shapes are boring and do little to create the illusion of volume in a drawing. Take care to create variation within your character's silhouette. Even if your character is skinny, their body will have mass and volume. Use this opportunity to really try to understand the way your design would work in three dimensional space.
Step 3
To create the back and back three-quarter views, take your front and three-quarter views and flip them horizontally to use as a reference. I scanned mine and flipped them in Photoshop. If you don't have access to these, you could use tracing paper or a light box or draw them free hand.
- Tracing paper: trace your sketches, then turn the sheet upside down for the flipped version.
- Light box: place your sketch upside down on the light box to get the flipped version.
Place tracing paper over your flipped sketches and draw the back view of each pose.
I flipped the sketches on the left and referenced them, using tracing paper, to create the back and three-quarter back views to the right.
The purpose of the flipped sketch is to provide a silhouette you can base yourself on, but don't get stuck on trying to keep the silhouette perfect. Make adjustments as you see fit to accurately portray the pose from the angle you're looking at it. Use geometric structures to help you visualize the shapes as you would see them from behind.
When you see the face in your flipped sketch, imagine what the back of the head would look like. Is the character wearing a hat? What kind of hairstyle do they have?
When you see the torso, picture what the back of it would look like. Is the character standing up straight or hunched over? Would the torso be pointing toward the viewer or away from him? (in my case it's pointing away).
When you see the feet and hands, picture how much of the toes and fingers you would see from behind. Would you see them at all?
Step 4
Tighten your lineup and make necessary adjustments to make the figures align properly. Photoshop can be very useful in this instance, since it allows you to select specific areas and realign, stretch and rotate them however you want.
If you don't have access to Photoshop, you can use a ruler to create guides for yourself.
I put all my sketches together in Photoshop, added guides, and made all necessary adjustments to the sketch before finalizing the turnaround sheet.
More Examples
Turnaround model sheets for my characters Luther and Sloan.


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The US Federal Reserve needs to step into the market for short term borrowing in order to give banks the confidence to resume trading with each other, traders say.
"The US Treasury has already implemented a guarantee program to prevent a run on money market funds. Several commentators (including our New York team) have proposed that the Fed play a similar role in the repo market, acting as a clearinghouse for trades and removing counterparty risk," Merrill Lynch wrote in a note to clients Sept 26.
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Banks have become reluctant to lend to one another for fear they do not know whether the other bank (the counterparty) will have enough money to make good on the trades. Installing the Federal Reserve as a clearing firm in between the banks would reduce that fear.
The reduction of that fear would allow the aggressive selling in banks like Wachovia and others to subside, traders say.
"This will allow us to see what everybody has without fear of collapse, " said Jon Najarian, co-founder of Optionmonster.com. "And fear is our biggest problem right now."
Reporting by CNBC's Dylan Ratigan.


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This is an email I received today.
"the pimp needed to dance, so conformists should never self-destruct and could do party tricks.
Furthermore, a mortician hesitates, and a grain of sand is a big fan of the bartender toward the senator. A crank case toward a hockey player feverishly throws a mating ritual at some cheese wheel."
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Our History
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, people were certainly intrigued and the use of his new invention spread quickly between government offices, businesses and the homes of the rich and their offices in larger cities, then into the rural communities.
In the early days, thick heavy telephone wires were strung individually, side by side, on poles. The lines were expensive and the quality of the phone call was often poor. But soon creative entrepreneurs developed methods of producing finer strands of wire which were stronger, less-expensive and, with the addition of an outside coating to insulate the wires from the weather, produced high-quality sound transmission.
By the early 1900s, telephone service had reached far into the rural areas of the country, including Michigan's Thumb area.
While Pigeon Telephone Company was still a few years away, there was an organized system for telephone service in the area. Then, in 1908, local druggist and county road commissioner, John J. Campbell, officially established Pigeon Telephone Company. Thirteen years later, in 1921, a salesman named James Spence acquired the utility.
The early years of the telephone company saw quick expansion to outlying areas as farmers strung their own individual telephone lines on poles, fence posts and trees in order to communicate with each other and the village.
A vicious sleet storm in 1922 damaged many of the poles and lines and James Spence devoted many long hours in repairing the system. Maintenance of the lines was difficult, never-ending work and as the years passed, many farmers sold or gave their lines to Pigeon Telephone Company in return for proper upkeep of service.
Spence's sons Crawford "Ham" (a watchmaker & jeweler) and Robert (an optometrist), took over the business when James died in 1933. Their individual businesses were housed in a building on the east side of South Main Street (just south of the railroad tracks). The rear of the building housed the telephone company switchboards and business offices as well.
In 1960, the operator directed phone system was replaced by a totally automated "cross-bar relay system" which replaced up to six operators and their relief crew.
Ham died in 1969, but his wife and children, along with Robert and his wife, continued ownership until 1972 when the company was purchased by local businessmen John E. Eichler and Willis "Bill" Hengy.
During the early 70s, a rising demand for "private" single party lines and the need for expanded long distance service prompted the new owners to overhaul the system. In June 1975, construction on an all-buried weather-safe cable plant began. In October of that year, ground was broken for a new central switching office complete with the latest state of the art switching equipment.
Cutover to the new facility and equipment took place just after midnight on March 26, 1977.
During the 70s, Pigeon Telephone continued to grow with the purchase of the Twining Telephone and Alba Telephone Companies. They were later merging them with Pigeon Telephone Company.
In 1981, Eichler and local farmer James J. Christner purchased all of Hengy's company shares and he left the company.
Changes in communication technology made rapid advances in the late 70s and early 80s. And Pigeon Telephone stayed at the forefront of those advances, continually modernizing its facilities and service offerings.
In 1986, John's eldest son, Edwin H. Eichler, took over as President and CEO while his youngest son, Neal B. Eichler, joined the company as vice president.
John Eichler died in August of 1988, but the legacy he set in motion continues today.
Pigeon Telephone Company has always been the cornerstone of the communications operations in Pigeon. Over the years it has created various additional communication companies – Thumb Cellular and Agri-Valley Services – that continue to advance the economic development of communities it serves.
Over the years, the company has continued to reflect the changing telecommunications scene with the goal of providing city-like service to the rural communities.


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The first of the new season Autumn collections are beginning to appear on the High Street. Whilst I was out and about today in Nottingham I found these slightly preppy and Victorian inspired pieces:
- Zara always have great jacket and coats.
- Wear with some slim legged trouser and a blouse for work.
- Team with some skinny jeans an a basic tea for smart casual.
- Inspired by a traditional man dinner jacket this navy, white and pink top will be sure to make an impact in the office or out in the evening.
- The thick lined material means it will be better worn out than tucked in.
- Wear with dark wash denim for evening chic.
- Not the purple/pink version I spotted in store, think I may just be 'ahead' of the game!!!
- When choosing a hat, make sre the brim isn't wider than your shoulders so you're wearing it rather than it wearing you.
- If you only purchase intend on having one hat, choose one in a neutral so that it co-ordinates easily will other items in your wardrobe.
Until next time, happy shopping!
Hayley x


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NEW YORK, December 1, 2008 – Comedian/writer Aaron Karo comes to COMEDY CENTRAL Records with his debut album, "Just Go Talk To Her." The hour-long digital album will be available for download to own from iTunes, eMusic and other major download sites on December 9.
Recorded at the Comedy Connection in Faneuil Hall, MA, "Just Go Talk To Her" begins in a peculiar fashion – New York native Aaron Karo professes his love for the Yankees and Giants until the rabid Boston crowd showers him with boos. Those boos quickly turn to raucous cheers as Karo's trademark brand of storytelling – fast-paced personal anecdotes about drinking, dating, and debauchery – win over even the most hardened Red Sox fans.
Karo is best known for his "Ruminations" email column, which began as a forward sent from his college dorm room and spawned a worldwide following over the next decade. But while his prowess on the page, both in his column and the subsequent series of bestselling books he authored is well-documented, "Just Go Talk to Her" is the first album to capture the phenomenon of Karo's live show as well. Whether he's divulging the secrets that all guys keep from their girlfriends or picking apart the foibles of married couples, Karo excels at taking universal experiences and turning them on their head.
After a brief detour on Wall Street, Karo began performing stand-up in 2002. Thanks to his amazing fans, he now headlines sold out shows at theaters across the country. Simon & Schuster has also published compilations of his email column in two bestselling books, "Ruminations on College Life" and "Ruminations on Twentysomething Life."
2008 was a banner year for Karo. In May, he completed his North American tour with a sold out performance at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square. In August, he launched Ruminations.com, a user-generated humor site that enables his fans to write and share their own observations for the first time. Later that month, Karo performed on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS. Karo continues to write his Ruminations column and it has now read by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. In 2009, his third book will be published by HarperCollins.
Previously released recordings by COMEDY CENTRAL Records include: Mitch Hedberg's "Do You Believe in Gosh," Dane Cook's platinum-selling "Harmful If Swallowed" and double-platinum "Retaliation," Grammy Award-winning, "Lewis Black: The Carnegie Hall Performance," Grammy Award nominees' Steven Wright's "I Still Have A Pony" and George Lopez's "American's Mexican," Joe Rogan's "Shiny Happy Jihad", Christopher Titus's "5th Annual End Of The World Tour," Norm Macdonald's "Ridiculous," Demetri Martin's "These Are Jokes," "Jim Gaffigan: Beyond The Pale," Mike Birbiglia's "My Secret Public Journal Live," D.L. Hughley's "Notes From The GED Section," and "Strategic Grill Locations" and Dave Attell's "Skanks For The Memories."
COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of Viacom Inc.'s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY CENTRAL's press web site at www.comedycentral.com/press.
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Building in Talit el Khyata (St. Elias) - 19 May 2010 (Offer For Sale)
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