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Implementing change in any organization usually feels a bit like pulling teeth. It needs to be done, but no one enjoys the associated discomfort. The unfortunate reality of today's business world is that unless companies continue to evolve their marketing strategies, they will quickly fall by the wayside – particularly when it comes to prospect data.
You need a third-party data source that can deliver up-to-date, relevant prospect information – the kind that can generate leads and help you drive revenue. In today's on-demand market, data ages fast. Unless constantly maintained, prospect (and customer) data lose accuracy at the alarming rate of 3-6% each month. More than one-third of the information in your database will be flawed after only one year.
If you're convinced that using third-party prospect data would boost your company's marketing activities and lead generation efforts, it's time to make the case for a third-party data service. This can be a challenging task, but these seven quick tips will help you incite upper management interest and kick start the use of third-party data in your company.
Choose your Moment
When you're in the trenches it's easy to get tunnel vision and forget that not everyone realizes the obstacles you're facing. Don't attempt to engage management about the problem when your frustrations with your current data are at their peak. Step back from the situation and come up with a compelling game plan that will persuade upper management to see the benefits of your approach.
Don't be the Messenger — Be the Solution
Everyone loves a problem solver. Effectively communicating creative solutions is key. When making upper management aware of the data problem, be sure to clearly address why action is necessary and come prepared with answers to their potential objections. Is your current data inaccurate? Do you need additional prospect data to meet your objectives? Are you lacking prospect data in a specific target market? Clearly describe your objectives for acquiring prospect data from a third party vendor and demonstrate how their services can and will positively impact your company's bottom line.
Make the Problem (and the Solution) Personal
Customers are out there. You just need the right prospect data to find them. Create a clear link between the results third party prospect data would provide and your organization's mission and objectives. Illustrate how acquiring high-quality data containing rich, relevant and accurate prospect information can help you meet your (and the company's) stated goals.
Forecast the Future
The next step is to paint a clear picture of what might happen if your company fails to incorporate third party prospect data into your business strategy, or continues to follow the same path with the current data strategy. Detail your concerns and fears with the current marketing initiatives by emphasizing the cost of ignoring the data issues that you are experiencing. Let management know that inaccurate or incomplete data is making marketing efforts less efficient. Emphasize your belief that customers are out there and quality third party prospect data will help your organization find them.
Get Upper Management Involved
The best way to catch and hold upper management's attention is to get them involved. Invite their input into the needs assessment phase and learn what they believe is required in terms of data characteristics and a third party provider. A good third party data provider, like Pure Incubation Data Services, is always willing and eager to discuss any questions or concerns including logistics, data sources and hygiene and ROI. Just contact us and we can help to put any of upper management's concerns to rest.
Beware the "Too Good to be True" Trap
Work with upper management to identify root causes and to discover real solutions to your data problems. Beware of companies with too good to be true guarantees and data deals. A number of unscrupulous firms are in the market that claim they can get you any business names you want, but their data often turns out to be stolen, inaccurate, or unusable. Don't be tempted by easy offers. Before you acquire data from a third party data vendor, check for a physical company address ensure that their data is validated, clarify what target markets are available and confirm what rights accompany the data.
Keep Management in the Loop
When working with a company such as Pure Incubation Data Services it's easy to keep upper-management engaged because our data will allow you to report successful results and positive trends. Pure Incubation Data Services is uniquely qualified to help your business succeed because we are a new breed of B2B demand generation service provider. Our data is constantly maintained, tested and refined against the most strenuous of standards. When you choose Pure Incubation Data Services as your data provider, you get targeted access to our exclusive industry specific, prospect universe including installed technology, behavioral attributes and verified email addresses so you are messaging the right prospects – which translates to more customers and more revenue for your business.
What assures excellent customer intelligence, effective marketing, productive and qualified lead generation and eager customers is quality data. Third party data from a reputable source has become a "must-have" tool for businesses across the board. With robust data, you can gain motivated customers who are eager to invest their time and money in your business or product. As it stands, you are your company's best hope for adopting a third party data use strategy. It may be an uphill battle, but forewarned is forearmed and with our seven tips and tactics (and superb data sources) you can be sure you're up to the challenge of convincing upper management that third part data providers are way of the future.


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If you're visiting because of Jon's Stuff Christians Like blog. I welcome you!
If not, um this might get a little awkward. (I'm trying to woo new readers, so talk amongst your selves for a sec., k?)
Anyway, I think Jon is a rock star. And by that, I don't mean that he just has his mind on drugs, violence, sex, and music with a throbbing beat. I mean, I think he's highly funny, clever, poignant, and says all the right stuff, so you can't help but to really like him, for just being him.
If you enjoy him, you probably have a vivacious sense of humor. Perfect. Please look around, comment on posts, and know that I'm pretty much, wishing on a star that you'll come back and read things here again soon. (I had put in here "kissing your buttocks," but I thought that sounded needy and cheap. So, I took it out. I suppose I have to draw the line somewhere.)
I post 4 times per week, or more, so please drop by soon. One fun post I recommend to visit here, is the quiz that can determine if your soul can fit into a mailbox. Check that out. (You can do a search in the sidebar, when you scroll to the bottom of this page.) It's a bad Cosmo Quiz meets a Christianity Today mini-article sort of thing. And golly, it's cleared up a lot for soul-searching types of people so far.
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Best Free Android Apps for Traveling with Kids
Traveling with kids is something that a lot of parents worry about, but if you use the right Android apps to keep little minds entertained, you'll never have to worry again! I know that for me the thought of spending hours at an airport or in a car with the youngsters causes instant anxiety. "Are we there yet?" "Mom, I'm bored." "Mom, MOM! I need a snack." Ah, I can hear their little voices now! However, downloading the right Android kids' apps can put the fun back in family travel! These apps will help you to plan the trip, find the best kid-friendly spots, and enjoy your journey every step of the way.
PlayPlaces Kids Road Trip
You can use this to help make the car trip easier and minimize how often you are hearing the dreaded "are we there yet?" This app helps you to see where you are at and what's nearby so that both kids and parents are up-to-date on when they will be arriving at the final destination. You can plug into what restaurants are nearby and what kid friendly locations you can stop at for a little break from the car. There is always a playground or Chuck E' Cheese around the corner and this app helps you to locate it…quickly! T
Kids Meal Deals
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Your kids are going to get hungry wherever you travel—that's a given! So why not make the meals kid friendly and affordable? It doesn't matter if you are traveling by air or by car, if you are going to a big city or a smaller town because this app can help. Kids meal deals will simply display what restaurants are nearby and which ones offer meal deals for kids. You'll be armed with up-t0-date info on the best kid meal promotions and ready to save some dough. Why not take advantage of an app that makes planning meals on-the-go easy and ensures that neither your child's stomach, nor your wallet, is empty at any point!
My City 24/7
Price: Free
My City 24/7 enables you to tap into what the best resources and attractions in the city that you are traveling to. This app has a built in GPS to pull up the hot spots in your vacation headquarters, like restaurants, gas stations or theaters. Once you arrive you can also use this app to find points of interest and things that will help to keep the kids entertained. A great tool for some last minute planning!
Bingo Road Trip
Price: $0.99
Not only can you use your Android for trip planning, but it makes an ideal portable entertainment device, too! Road Trip Bingo was created specifically for road trips and allows the whole family to get involved with an in-car game. Who doesn't love Bingo? With this app, you'll be on the lookout for bingo items along your travel route, so turn off the in-car DVD player for a bit, and let this app help you take in your surroundings.


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The Patriots' Path Council, Boy Scouts of America, will be honoring local citizens at the 7th Annual Berkeley Heights Good Scout Award Dinner to be held on the evening of Wednesday, October 3, 2012. This year's honorees are Dr. Hal Daumé; Mr. Andrew Moran; Mr. Mark Vicendes; Ms. Midge Vicendes; and Ms. Mary Ann Walsh. The event recognizes these five outstanding citizens for their community service as evidenced by the interest and leadership demonstrated within the community of Berkeley Heights, and for demonstrating the values of the century old Scout Oath and Law in their personal and professional lives..
Hal Daumé, corporate marketing communications consultant, has been the Boy Scout Commissioner for Berkeley Heights for the past 14 years, is a past president of the Rotary Club of Berkeley Heights, and spearheaded a multi-county recognition initiative for Eagle Scouts and Gold Award Girl Scouts. He is a recipient of the BSA's Silver Beaver Award and the Rotarian Scouter Award, and serves on the BSA's National Advancement Advisory Panel and the Patriot's Path Advisory Council. He was also recently inducted into the Patriot' Patch Council Eagle Scout Hall of Fame.
Andrew Moran is Union County's Director of Public Safety and Vice President of the Berkeley Heights Police Athletic League. Andrew retired as a Captain from the Berkeley Heights Police Department. In addition, he graduated from the F.B.I National Academy in Quantico Virginia and served as a mobile intensive care Paramedic with Rahway Hospital.
Mark Vicendese is the owner of Berkeley Hardware, Past PAL Softball and Basketball Coach, Past Berkeley Heights Education Foundation member, and Berkeley Heights Football Camp Instructor.
Midge Vicendese, of Berkeley Hardware, is a past Girl Scout Leader, former BHCP Board Member, current member of CAST, past Project Graduation Committee member and a current member of Voices in Praise.
Mary Ann Walsh, a Realtor with Re/Max Premier, is a Berkeley Heights Board of Education member, Municipal Alliance member, past BHEF Trustee, member of Eva's Village 30th Anniversary fundraising committee, past Chair of the Berkeley Heights Recreation Commission, past PTO Vice President of Mountain Park and Columbia Schools, and Past Co-Chair of the NJCRS Chapter with a Heart Charity Fundraising committee.
The Township of Berkeley Heights has a very active Scouting program for some 300 youth in three Cub Scout packs (for boys ages 7 up to 11) and two Boy Scout troops (for boys ages 11 to
18), all sponsored by the Rotary Club of Berkeley Heights; one Venturing crew (for young men and women ages 14 to 21), sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6259, and one Exploring post (for young men and women ages 14 to 21) sponsored by the Berkeley Heights Volunteer Rescue Squad. Overall, Scouting throughout the Patriots' Path Council, BSA now reaches approximately 21,000 youth across five New Jersey counties.
In addition to the Good Scout Awards, each honoree will receive a State of New Jersey Joint Legislative Resolution from Senator Thomas Kean, Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, and Assemblywoman Nancy Munoz; and an American Flag flown over the U.S. Capitol Building, with a citation by the Architect of the Capitol, from Congressman Leonard Lance
For more information on Scouting in Berkeley Heights, attending the event, and sponsorship in the program journal, contact Grant Van Eck, District Executive, at 973-765-9322 ext. 250 and/or email@example.com.


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Next week, Idaho is expected to have an answer on whether the state will implement a health insurance exchange, a key component of the Affordable Care Act.
In November, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and the governors of 15 other states—all Republicans—were given more time to make a decision. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius extended the deadline to Friday, Dec. 14.
Otter is expected to publicly announce his decision before that deadline, while a Health Care Task Force comprised of state legislators will reconvene on Tuesday, Dec. 11, five months after the 12-member panel first met to discuss options.
During that meeting, lawmakers considered the ramifications of implementing a health insurance exchange or letting the federal government step in to create its own.
During that July meeting, Brian Kane, assistant chief deputy from the Office of the Attorney General, said either branch of the Idaho government—the Idaho Legislature or Governor's Office—could move forward on implementing the ACA. So far, neither body has made a decision on how to handle the health care overhaul.
Meanwhile, a governor-appointed working group recommended the state adopt a state-run, nonprofit exchange during an Oct. 26 meeting, while business and industry leaders have done the same.
The legislative task force will convene at the Idaho State Capitol from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday.


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Database elements in a dependecy hierarchy
Original Publication Date: 2004-Mar-12
Included in the Prior Art Database: 2004-Mar-12
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The article describes a way to score database elements in order to organize them in a hierarchy indicating which ones depends on the other. This hierarchy would be a guideline to database structure update making the user understand which elements are interested/implied by every other element update/drop.
Database elements in a dependecy hierarchy
Disclosed is a technique to organize database elements in a structure guiding the user to easy understand inter-dependencies between database elements.
A typical embodiment for the technique is database based application development: here there's the typical problem to provide procedures modifying database structure in order to bring it to the new release format without data loss . These procedures are typically composed by an ordered sequence of structures creation, altering and dropping. Developers must continuously keep track of the consequences of every step on the others database elements and work to repair unwished consequences. They could look at the elements hierarchy as from this article to quickly individuate every action consequences and decide actions order according.
The hierarchy can be built by exhaustively applying a positioning/scoring criterion on all of the possible database elements:
A database element is at a lower level and has an higher score than another
can be referred to it; is contained in it and depending on its existence; is referred/contained in another element at a lower level than the other.
Here is an example: indexes can be referred to columns. Since columns are contained in tables and strictly depending on their existence, indexes are at lower level than tables. So tables could have score X while indexes could have score X+Y.
Hierarchy is built step by step. Every step considers the next element and tries to compare it with all the ones in the hierarchy as from the output of the previous step. Fig.1 shows the algorithm:
The article develops an example of building scored hierarchy on some of the IBM DB2 elements but the technique can be applied on whatever DBMS (Data Base Management System) creating the specific DBMS hierarchy. Moreover new DB2 elements can be inserted in the final hierarchy by applying the criterion on them and the hierarchy itself.
IBM DB2 considered database elements are: tables - constraints - triggers - indexes - views - aliases - packages - types - table spaces - buffer pools.
A brief definition on every element is needed to determine criterion comparisons results:
Tables are logical structures maintained by the database manager made up of columns and rows.
A constraint is a rule that the database manager enforces. It generally applies to one or more table column.
A trigger defines a set of actions that are executed at, or triggered by, a delete, insert, or update operation on a specified table.
An index is an ordered set of pointers to rows of a base table. Each index is based on the values of data in one or more table col...


text: Hello friends, In my job PC has like that trouble: When i start it and desktop appears normally but after a few minutes it get into green screen with something like that title: collecting a data.... Dumping a physical memory and counting a numbers.... after it restarts when it turns on again same trouble occurs. pops up unaccepted shut down has occurred. what is that? please help me. there is installed windows 7. it has 4 GB RAM, it is 2 dual core. thanks in advanced.


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Key matters for the team at Dvořák Hager & Partners include advising Algotech on its purchase of a share in Hugport, and advising Pebal on the sale of a 50% stake to a new investor. Stanislav Dvořák, Stanislav Servus and Lukáš Zahrádka head the team. Veronika Odrobinová is also recommended.
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1TB XBOX ONE X Console with Super Luckys Tale
Games play better on Xbox One X. With 40% more power than any other console, experience immersive true 4K gaming. Blockbuster titles look great, run smoothly, and load quickly even on a 1080p screen. Xbox One X also works with all your Xbox One games and accessories as well as Xbox Live, the most advanced multiplayer network, giving you more ways to play.
What's in the box: Xbox One X console, wireless controller, AC power cable, 14-day Xbox Live Gold trial, 1 month Xbox Game Pass subscription trial.
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Xbox One X Console
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February 9, 2016: This document does not provide disclosure of all information required for an investor to make an informed investment decision. Investors should read the offering memorandum, especially the risk factors relating to the securities offered, before making an investment decision.
Current Projects: No active products
Product website: www.rockspringcap.com
Opportunity: Right Place. Right Strategy. Right Company.
The current illiquidity in the marketplace is providing generational land investment opportunities for the well prepared. Texas has one of the largest and most diverse economies in the world. It is also the fastest growing state in population and job creation in the nation and currently has a shortage of developed land parcels to meet its growing demands.
Background: Rockspring Capital is a second-generation company formed in 1973 with a successful track record that includes raising more than $265 million to-date from investors such as pension plans, foundations & endowments, wealth managers, family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The company's proven risk-adjusted model of direct and special situation investing in Texas land with all-cash has rewarded its current investors with capital preservation and appreciation even during the most challenging times.


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Enjoy the diversity of cacti and succulents on display by this affiliate garden club and purchase plants and supplies to take home.Bill Hendricks, president of Klyn Nurseries, will be giving a lecture entitled "Succulents are Sexy" at 2:30pm on Saturday and Sunday upstairs in Lecture Classroom. Guests can attend by proceeding up the stairs and entering through Guren Gallery. Due to the popularity of this show, more space will be devoted to the show within the Botanical Garden.
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Magnificent views of Lake Dillon, Keystone, Ten Mile and Gore Ranges. This home is uniquely sited on two lots with panoramic views of all of Summit County. The exterior finishes were completely updated in 2015! Contemporary design will be appreciated by a discriminating buyer who appreciates the finest quality and is looking for a spectacular property for either entertaining or privacy.
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Cable Available, Deck, Fireplace - Gas, Fireplace - Wood, Hot Tub - Private, Jetted Bathtub, Multi-Level, Pool - Private, Solarium, Spa, Steam, Vaulted Ceilings
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Contemporary, Poured In Place Foundation, Stucco
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Music Teacher - Part-Time, North Finchley, London
Closing date:
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Contract type: Part Time
Contract term: Permanent
Suitable for NQTs: Yes
Tel: 0208 445 5478
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Headteacher: Mr Colin Dowland
CLASS MUSIC TEACHER – PRIMARY (Required October/ November 2018)
Salary: Main Scale (Outer London)
Two days a week (Wednesdays and Thursdays) Permanent
Woodridge Primary is an over-subscribed, successful and friendly one form entry school in Finchley graded as 'Good' in all areas by Ofsted in March 2016. Our Staff, Governors and Parents are committed to achieving the highest standards and a real sense of community. The Leadership of the school is also committed to promoting Music and The Arts and the wider curriculum.
'The school is a happy, caring and inclusive community. Pupils enjoy school, behave well and feel safe.' 'Teaching is consistently good.' 'Teachers' enthusiasm is reflected in pupils' excitement about learning.' 'The governing body is knowledgeable.' 'Parents actively support the school.' Ofsted March 2016
We offer:
· A school where children's learning and pastoral support is at the heart of what we do.
· A school community that is active, creative and committed to continuous improvement.
· A dynamic and committed staff, open to innovation.
· Well behaved, musically literate children who love performing
· A bespoke, well-resourced Music Room
· A commitment to The Arts and the Artsmark Award
You could be the right person if you:
· Are an outstanding, highly motivated class music practitioner?
· Can demonstrate an infectious passion for music and The Arts?
. Can continue to develop our tradition of singing and impressive orchestra?
· Have a dynamic and creative approach to overcoming barriers to learning?
· Have a strong commitment to high standards and best outcomes for all pupils?
· Are passionate about inclusion?
For an informal discussion please call Colin Dowland MA BMus LTCL (Headteacher).
Visits to the school are warmly encouraged. Please contact the school office to arrange one.
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NITRD 20th Anniversary Symposium
NITRD 20th Anniversary Symposium
The Knight Conference Center, Newseum, Washington D.C.
February 16, 2012
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Software has scaled dramatically not only in functional capability, but also in its role in interlinking organizations and conferring agility in the enterprise. Technical advances in software have enabled diverse software supply chains and the development of rich socio-technical ecosystems such as for mobile devices (iOS, Android), web services (ASP.Net, Java EE, LAMP), cloud-based services (Google, Amazon, Facebook), and enterprise services (ERP, SCM, CRM), as well as infrastructural ecosystems such as for utilities, logistics, and transportation.
Although Moore's Law and the growth of the Internet have enabled this scaling, it is not a consequence of these things. The scaling derives from a rich and diverse set of deep technical advances in languages for writing software, in modeling and analysis techniques to support software creation, in the practices used by teams of developers, and in the tools used by individuals and teams to support these practices. Federal investments have been critical enablers of these advancements.
In the economy, software has a unique role, conferring competitive advantage in sectors ranging from financial services and health care to logistics, manufacturing, utilities, and transportation. The role of software capability as a competitive attribute will continue to increase. Indeed, ICT drives between 20 and 25 percent of economic growth in the U.S. and Europe, despite its smaller share of overall economic activity. In national security, the pivotal role of software capability is strongly asserted in studies from the Defense Science Board and the National Research Council.
In the cybersecurity landscape, software advances continually change the character of the engagement - as the technologies evolve, old vulnerabilities can be eliminated but, unfortunately, new ones often emerge. Regardless, software engineering capability strongly influences the nature and extent of vulnerability of systems, and the goal of designing systems with security "built in" is largely a challenge to our ability to improve technologies for software design and development.
Software, uniquely among building materials, has a symbolic nature that confers a characteristic "unboundedness." There are, in other words, few limits going forward to continued rapid advancement of software capability, and the pace of this advancement is, if anything, increasing. As a consequence, staying ahead in software technology grows in significance as a national economic and security priority. Federal investment has been an historical driver of our technical leadership, which derives from a unique partnership of industry, government, and academia. Looking ahead, the roles of Federal agencies and the coordination afforded through the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program become even more important in the increasingly competitive international environment.
William Scherlis is a professor in the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University, director of the SCS Institute for Software Research, and founding director of CMU's Ph.D. Program in Software Engineering. His research relates to software assurance, software analysis, and assured safe concurrency. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University and an A.B. at Harvard University. Dr. Scherlis chaired the NRC study committee on defense software producibility, which released the report Critical Code: Software Producibility for Defense. He testified before Congress on IT innovation and, previously, regarding the Federal CIO. He has led or participated in national studies related to cybersecurity, e-government, crisis response, analyst information management, the Ada language, and health care informatics. He served at DARPA for six years, departing in 1993, with responsibilities related to research and strategy in software technology, cybersecurity, the initiation of the high performance computing and communications (HPCC) program (now NITRD), and other topics. Dr. Scherlis served as program chair for technical conferences including the ACM Foundations of Software Engineering Symposium. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.


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With your enterance ticket you get a wine glass to keep, which I did not know till after we left and I left mine behind, and ten tickets. You can buy more tickets for $1 a piece and I highly recommend making sure you have enough so that you do not feel worried about running out of tickets.
This is really a speed dating event for foodies and restaurants.
Some of the best and most interesting restaurants in town were not there - Ulla, Stage, Brassierie L'ecole, Cafe Brio and Camille's to just name a few. I also did not see Chinese, sushi, Indian, middle eastern or other ethnic cuisines on offer.
Most of the offerings were acceptable but utterly forgettable. The majority of them were something related to pulled pork or a slider, not a single one of them was great. The sooner this dumb fascination with pulled pork ends, the better. I rarely have seen anyone do something half as good as I can do my home oven.
It was interesting to see the different scale of the portions you got, some it was a very small amuse bouche, others it could have been a restaurant starter and they gave you a drink. Swan's did the best value for money. Three pieces of corstini with a chicken rolade and a different sauce or relish on top of each along with a very generous pour of their beer.
The stand outs of the night tended to be from hotel restaurants. The restaurants I thought were weak all managed to live down to my expectations. The one thing that comes out of this is that I will be looking much more seriously at the restaurants in hotels
The Copper Rock Grill at Bear Mountain offered this interesting deep fried ball of pulled pork served on a small polenta cake with this very nice demi glace.
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Oak Bay Marina Restaurant - They this amazing deep fried crab cake, cake being the wrong word as it was light and fluffy. This was paired with this amazing Seville Orange Tequila cocktail that contained chocolate bitters.
Next to the Oak Bay Marina Restaurant was Vic's Steakhouse that did this amazing braised lamb on lentils, I wish I could remember the name of the place. Much better than all the dry and bland pulled pork.
The Local Kitchen offered decent curried prawns, but not out of this world.
The BC Hospitality Foundation was there and offering some nice little vol au vents filled with smoked trout and smoked some other fish
Next to them was a restaurant offering some sort of pulled lamb on lettuce leaves. After a lot of pulled meat and this presentation looking very unappetizing, I walked away without trying it.
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Pig - I am trying to remember what they did, all I know is that I want to go the restaurant now because of it.
Fireside Grill had a nicely done scallop with more, but with some much food I can not remember it all. They did have this odd little bit of clear jelly that made no sense with the rest of the food.
Prime Steakhouse has this wonderful little amuse bouche with beef, when I talk with Sheila, I will try and post the details. I have to say they convinced me to try them.
Nautical Nellies - I had a little deep fried tuna cake. The oil was clearly not hot enough when they fried them. They were heavy and dripping in grease. The tuna inside was overcooked. I simply could not eat it and had to spit it out. Cullinaire is the speed dating event of the restaurant scene in this city, if you make something badly, do not serve it, not matter what. This was their one chance to convince me to try their restaurant as I have been loath to try it because of a lot very mixed reviews at Urbanspoon and low rating.
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They also served with a BC red that was pointless to drink as it was thin and bland. I wish the obsession with local wines did not mean that people felt it was a good idea to serve BC red wines. It is a rare BC red that is drinkable and I have only had one glass of red that I would match up with standard wines of Australia, but that was during a business meeting with Harry Mcwatters.
Bon Rouge offered veal topped with thick prosciutto. The veal was not well done and an awkward size while the prosciutto was too thick
Next to Bon Rouge there was Aura and they were offering prawns wrapped in thin ribbons of phyllo pastry (or some other sort of thin dough) and then deep fried. They looked impressive and they were tasty, I should have taken a picture.
The worst food I had all night was from Smoken Bones Cook Shack. They were offering turkey sausage with some sort of sauce. I have no idea how they cooked that sausage, but it was dry and mealy. The sauce did nothing for it as the texture was awful. This is the only other thing I ate that I had to spit out.
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Rogers Chocolates were there with small lemon filled chocolates. Others that like sweets said they were good, I am not big on sweet so I defer to others judgement.
I am going to stop for now because I can not remember everything there was, I will leave it to Sheila to post as well.
All in all it was a great event and we will come back next year. I highly recommend that you go as well.


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Let's be honest, Hollywood reminds us of something disgusting when it comes to their opinions on Donald Trump.
Ever since his inauguration, they started protesting against Trump's administration.
There are some that just went too far with offending him, his entire family and every Republican supporter that voted in favour of Donald Trump.
However it's not that black as it seems. Lately, a few old Hollywood legends came up with a huge statements about Trump's perfect leadership.
Few days ago, Dean Stockwell, a Hollywood legend from the golden age, during an interview when asked about the leadership of America, offered some common sense:
"I think the people are being to cruel when it comes to Donald Trump," he started.
"I was following his campaign, and his initial year as president of the United States. All I see is a man that is trying to work for the good of his country."
"We have to show some respect to a man that loves his country more than anything," he added.
Wise words sir. It seems like the older generation knows the true values of this nation… What is your opinion about this statement? Do you agree with this man? Please comment below and share this article with your friends!


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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - First grader Khamory Gipson wanted the typical stuff any seven-year-old boy would ask Santa for: toys, video games and even a car. But there's something the Baton Rouge student wanted more than anything else.
"My dad to come home," he said.
Khamory, his three-year-old brother and his mother all moved from Hawaii to Baton Rouge in the summer of 2012. His father who is in the U.S. Army stayed behind for training. He will be deployed in the summer of 2013 to Afghanistan.
So when Santa showed up at his school, Wedgewood Elementary, on Thursday, he told Santa exactly that. And moments later his dad, 1st Lt. Shamory Gipson, popped out.
Khamory was not quite sure what to do when he first spotted his father. There was a look of shock on his face. Khamory's mother, Kimberly, was in the audience watching with tears streaming down her face.
"This is a long time coming. I've been anxious about doing it. It's been hard for the past six months," she said. She says Khamory and his dad are extremely close. Even dad says its been difficult.
"We Skype every once and a while and he always gets sad because he knows the computer goes and he won't see me. Just to see him and touch him was a blessing," Shamory said.
The Gipson's say this Christmas will be extra special, since Shamory won't be with them next year.
"We're going to play whatever he wants," said Shamory.
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