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Inlet Holes
The first thing I would look for are any small, traditionally drilled holes, like the one you see in the cross section below (left). The second picture below shows the model processed in Catalyst. The small hole of the model (red) fills with support (blue) and can take a while to dissolve, especially when using SR-20 support material.
When looking at an inlet hole like this, I try to avoid using round cuts which require support, and design using "self-supporting angles." Going back to the CAD model (left), I changed the inlet hole to be a 45 degree diamond hole (right), which fully eliminates the need for support. Catalyst proves that no support will be used for this and we pick up a huge time savings (right).

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NEW HAVEN, CT, USA - Qualifier Monica Puig stunned the No.2 seed Caroline Garcia to reach her first semifinal of the season at the Connecticut Open.
"This definitely isn't my first rodeo coming through qualifying and getting deep in a tournament," Puig told the press, after her victory. "Those previous experiences and getting this deep in a tournament after playing qualifying definitely helped me stay tough out there, and to, you know, just continue to push along."
After narrowly avoiding being blanked second-set, Puig completed the comeback in emphatic style to seal the 7-5, 1-6, 6-2 victory - her fifth career win over a Top 10 rival.
"The first set was very tough," said Puig. "The second set, [Garcia] started playing better, but I felt like I made some crucial mistakes. I wasn't there in the second set. That really cost me. But in the third set, I had to really step up my game. If not, it was going to go just like the second set. I had to kind of refocus, reset and say, 'Okay, from here on out, this is my game plan, and no matter what happens, I have to stick to that.'"
Garcia came into the match riding high after wins over former World No.1s Maria Sharapova in Montreal and Victoria Azarenka in Cincinnati. In New Haven, Garcia was seeking her first appearance in a final since last year's Asian-swing heroics, when she became the first player to win back-to-back titles in Wuhan and Beijing.
Down 2-5, @MonicaAce93 comes back to take the first set 7-5! #CTOpenTennis pic.twitter.com/peDuYg5a8C
— WTA (@WTA) August 23, 2018
But the No.2 seed saw her run in New Haven cut short by the reigning Olympic champion, who recently added to her gold medal haul earlier in the summer at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla.
Puig, who had been sidelined for most of the clay and grass seasons due to a hip injury, credited her gold medal run with helping to ease herself back into form as she made her WTA comeback.
Read more: Puig rides Barranquilla boost into New Haven quarterfinal
"Little by little I started feeling better after Wimbledon," Puig told the media. "I really recovered well, focused on the fitness, then played the Central American Games, got the rust out, played some matches, then just feeling really good at this moment."
Puig added that her huge Puerto Rican fanbase "actually helps me and boosts me. I love to see that support. It's great to see them out here. They really care. They get into it. They're very passionate about their athletes. I'm really grateful that they follow me and support me. It's something great to have."
.@MonicaAce93 books her spot in the @connecticutopen semifinals!
Ousts No. 2 seed Caroline Garcia 7-5, 1-6, 6-2! pic.twitter.com/ysqoPnvmTQ
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Puig's return to form showed against Garcia, recovering from a 2-5 deficit in the opening set to edge in front. The Puerto Rican was twice down a break, and had to fight back both times before reeling off four games in a row to close out the set.
The tables turned in the second, with Garcia dialing up the intensity against Puig and rattling off five straight games to opening up a double break lead. Puig found her game again in the third, responding in kind to start the decider with a double break at 5-0.
Things got a bit complicated when she went to serve it out, Garcia recovering one of the breaks and holding serve to extend her stay in the contest - but Puig stayed calm to serve it out, closing out the match in two hours and 11 minutes.
"[Garcia] plays very aggressive, very deep in the court," said Puig. "It was just tough for me. In the third, I just had to turn the page, new chapter, just start over, just try and, you know, find a pretty consistent form."
Up next for Puig will be Carla Suárez Navarro as they each seek a spot in the final. Suárez Navarro moved past No.3 seed Petra Kvitova after three-time Connecticut Open champion Kvitova retired due to a left shoulder injury.


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"Large firms: Take next social media steps" from Sui Generis. If you're not reading this blog from Niki Black, one of the authors of Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier (and the inaugural 22 Tweets interviewee), you're missing out on a valuable perspective. This post is no exception. Ostensibly written for large firms trying to understand the basics of social media, it in fact provides useful guidelines on establishing and managing a social media presence for all lawyers.
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British Columbia's private liquor stores are left wondering whether they should be looking for grocery-store partners now that the province has signalled its willingness to allow liquor sales in grocery stores — or if they will be shut out of the shift altogether.
While the province has yet to release the full report on its liquor policy review, John Yap, parliamentary secretary responsible for the exercise, indicated last week that allowing liquor sales in grocery stores will be one of the first of 70 recommendations government will look to implement.
However, in making the announcement Nov. 28, Yap said the province wants to maintain the existing moratorium on new private licenses, holding the cap at 731 (670 full-selection and 61 wine shops), and would want liquor separated within grocery stores.
Yap was not available Monday but, in a previous interview with Province columnist Michael Smyth, suggested existing stores could move locations to operate inside grocery stores.
Robert Simpson, general manager of the six-outlet Liberty Wine Merchants in Vancouver, said his company would at least look at the option of relocating, but he still has a lot of questions, including what will qualify as a grocery store under the policy, and how restrictions on locating existing liquor outlets would affect this process.
Provincial rules only allow liquor store owners to relocate up to five kilometres from their previous locations and cannot be less than one kilometre away from another private liquor store.
Simpson added that in most jurisdictions that allow grocery-store liquor sales, it is the grocery store that is doing the selling, not a separate operator.
"We'd certainly be trying to respond but, at this point, we're surfing the wave that's been created by decision makers," Simpson said.
Simpson noted that one private retailer, the three-location Everything Wine, does have an apparent grocery connection with the Overwaitea Food Group through common ownership by the Pattison Group; however, neither company would talk about plans.
"We don't know anything except the speculation of the media," said Trent Anderson, Everything Wine's managing director. "There's nothing to talk about at this point."
At Overwaitea Food Group, company president Darrell Jones added that its stores are in the business of customer service, and if customers want beer or wine, "we're certainly going to be there to take care of whatever their needs are."
Overwaitea operates Save-On-Foods, PriceSmart, Cooper's Foods and Urban Fare stores, but for now "it's conjecture" on how they might accommodate such sales, "until we see what the regulations are going to look like. Then we can decide how to best serve our customers."
The organization that represents private liquor stores is officially opposed to the government's suggested policy and is lobbying hard against change with a campaign they're calling "Not Worth the Risk."
Ian Baillie, executive director of the group, the Alliance of Beverage Licensees B.C., said many existing private liquor stores are located in proximity to grocery stores so he doesn't buy the convenience argument.
Relocating into grocery stores also wouldn't make business sense for a lot of his members who have trended toward opening bigger stores with wider selections, he added.
And Daryl Lamb, general manager of the Legacy Liquor Store in the Village on False Creek said the limited information Yap has released doesn't address concerns his members have about increased access to minors, including the underage employees of grocery stores.
In a conference call last week, Yap said the earliest cabinet would be able to review and release the full report would be early in the new year, and their first chance to make legislative changes would be the spring 2014 session.


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I've been asking the question in the title by looking at one man's summary, namely Greg Gilbert's short offering in What Is the Gospel? There are several things I like about Gilbert's book. It is readable without being simplistic; it is informed by an awareness of the church and its history; it offers a neat framework by which a crisp presentation of the gospel can be made and adapted according to an audience and its level of familiarity with Christian teaching; and it does not downplay the severity of the human predicament. By using the formula God, man, Christ, response, we indeed have mental roadmap of where we need to go in speaking the gospel, one which does not seem to be forced onto the biblical accounts.
In the later chapters, however, I became just a bit uneasy about, of all things, the author's insistence on the cross as the goal of our understanding. He seems to make the absolutely necessary means an end in itself. He does this, it appears, out of fear that any other stated goal implicitly, if not explicitly, diminishes that necessity. Hence, he looks at those presentations of Christianity which, for example, emphasize the Bible's storyline by way of the creation-fall-redemption-consummation summary as endangering the centrality of the cross. He is skeptical of messages which present the gospel as a story through which we can join in the work of God in transforming the world.
If the gospel does become reduced to getting our hands dirty in the effort to change the course of our communities and nations, then Gilbert is right; and there are those who tend to present this, sometimes overtly. He doesn't want us to bypass the messiness, the offensiveness, and the downright distasteful idea that the death of Christ is God's means of saving us. Point taken. But one must ask whether there is an overemphasis on means and underemphasis on the goal–the telos. Is one implicitly undermining "the gospel" by saying that the cross and the resurrection and ascension of Christ are the necessary means to the end which is redemption and life in God's eternal Kingdom?
There was a reason Christ came to us and died and rose and ascended for us. It was so that the work begun in Genesis 1 and 2 would be completed, in spite of Genesis 3 and the subsequent way of fallen life ever since. It seems that God has chosen to redeem the world, not give up on it, as though He acknowledges that Satan has won this battle, but tells him to wait until the next one. God is redeeming the world, and through the most unlikely of accomplices–the once rebellious people who, having responded to Christ by repentance and faith, have been reclaimed and are being remade by the intervention of Christ incarnate, crucified, risen, ascended, and coming again. The good news, then, is best summarized in 2 Cor.5, where we are told that God, in Christ, is reconciling the world to Himself and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. If that's a compromised gospel, I'm in trouble.


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The induction of antigen-specific immune responses after in vivo transfection with expression plasmids has triggered a revolution of vaccine research. After a first hype, evoked by the fascinating options of this method, clinical studies did not reach the ambitious aims and a phase of disillusion ensued. It became obvious that Gene vaccines displayed a weaker immunogenicity in humans than had been observed in the mouse models. Meanwhile these hurdles have been overcome and gene vaccines undergo a renaissance. The present book gives an update of the "world of naked gene vaccines", namely DNA and RNA vaccines. Its content ranges from general mechanisms, inherent immunostimulatory properties and the vast potential to modulate immune responses, to recent successful clinical studies and approved veterinary gene vaccines. Beyond the state-of-the-art of genetic immunization, the reader will be stimulated with a chapter addressing "burning questions".
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The Bourne Supremacy Reviews
May 7, 2020
Quite a forceful spy drama until author Robert Ludlum's usual formula kicks-in.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
January 7, 2019
Needless to say, the viewers also get to drink in some awesome landscape, particularly the snowy, wintry Moscow. Where Supremacy differs from Identity is that questions do get answered here eventually.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
February 6, 2018
Despite its grave themes (or perhaps because or them), The Bourne Supremacy is still supremely thrilling.
December 6, 2016
The strengths are amazing, and it's pretty impressive how thoroughly and successfully the movie rewrote the vocabulary of action cinema.
Full Review | Original Score: 9/10
August 12, 2012
A minor step above the entertaining (yet underwhelming) The Bourne Identity...
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
December 28, 2010
Second in trilogy is a smooth but violent thriller.
December 11, 2010
More than adequately serves as a no-nonsense escapist action thriller.
Full Review | Original Score: B
September 25, 2010
As Bourne seeks to uncover his past and bury those who would cross him, director Paul Greengrass masterfully blends sight, sound and silence to do much more than entertain: This film leaves a deep psychological imprint.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4
July 11, 2010
While not as engaging as "The Bourne Identity," the sequel fills a void in the undernourished spy movie genre.
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April 29, 2009
What more could you ask for in a sequel?
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4
March 25, 2009
Um filme de espi�es para adultos.
October 18, 2008
A huge leap of faith is required to connect, and many plot details appear to have not been properly thought through.
August 3, 2007
It is a spy film for adults and it avoids over the top pyrotechnics and jokey one-liners, and instead delivers a mature, intelligent thriller.
July 14, 2007
By the end of the film, we've more or less given up trying to figure out how the characters are making their deductions; we just have to take it on faith that somehow everyone knows to go to a specific address in Moscow.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
October 30, 2006
A thriller with a brain, a grown up film for grown ups
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September 29, 2006
Flashes of color and streaks of movement can make for a striking picture, but only if you can see what's taking place, not to mention if you care about who is in jeopardy.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
September 8, 2006
Where it could have descended into a revenge drama, it settles for justice instead -- and not the kind that puts down one's enemies, but the kind that calls for confession, even reconciliation.
Read More | Original Score: 3.5/4
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February 9, 2006
[Director] Greengrass proves himself equally adept at action, building on the edginess of Doug Liman's original with a feverish handheld camera and frenetic editing.
December 6, 2005
Supremacy is, minor quibbles aside, a worthy successor to The Bourne Identity.
December 6, 2005
Stylish, full throttle, nobody's-pretending-this-is-art summer movie fun.
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Poor one-month-old pony Breeze was found abandoned by his mother shortly after birth. Luckily for him, the rescuers at Mare and Foal Sanctuary found him and nursed him back to health. There was still something missing for the lonely pony though – the love of a mother.
What they did next was so adorable. They placed a giant 4 foot tall teddy bear into the stall, and Breeze immediately cuddled up to it and found comfort in the bear.
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Let's say that you're a food-loving gal who enjoys cooking and serving up tasty food.
Let's also say that you live in an apartment without the space or ability to have a proper grill of any sort.
Does this mean that you are not able to enjoy the delightful and delicious flavors of veggies cooked to a slightly blackened perfection?
No. No, it does not.
It absolutely does not, Mr. Cashier at a local store who, while attempting to make casual conversation during the scanning of my items falsely assumed I would be throwing my ears of corn on a grill and then failed to contain his disgust and disappointment when I explained that the only thing I would be firing up was my broiler.
Moving on.
Look, I know some people get really excited about summer grilling, but the reality is you, too, can enjoy similar flavors and goodness from the confines of your own indoor kitchen if outdoor grilling isn't possible. Don't let grilling purists get you down.
There are, of course, stove top grill pans (cast iron is heavenly for this), but, my go-to device in these situations is my broiler. The broiler can be a wonderful tool for charring, blackening, and crisping all manner of food. I put my broiler to good use to whip up a simple, but very flavorful yellow vegetable relish. This relish can be served as a side dish as is, on top of a taco salad (this was my modus operandi on this particular occasion), scooped up with tortilla chips, or I imagine it would even be good as a quesadilla filling or veggie dog topper.
So many darn possibilities.
However you eat it, you should know the flavors are fresh, bright, and scream of summer. If you eat it as a side, you could also add in some chopped fresh tomatoes for an extra burst of flavor.
Roasted Corn & Yellow Pepper Relish
My Own Recipe
Serves 4
- 1 tblspn Earth Balance (or preferred butter or margarine), at room temperature
- 1 tblspn fresh cilantro, minced
- 4 ears of corn
- 1 large yellow bell pepper
- 1 jalapeno, diced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 3 stalks green onion, chopped
- Juice from ½ a lime
- Salt & pepper to taste
- To make the cilantro butter, combine the minced cilantro with the room temperature Earth Balance in a small bowl. Use the back of a spoon to mix and press the cilantro into the Earth Balance, until combined well. Set aside.
- Prepare your ears of corn by schucking and rinsing them. Pat dry. Then coat each ear with the cilantro butter. Use a butter knife to spread the cilantro butter over all the ears, covering as thoroughly as you can.
- Slice the yellow pepper in two, lengthwise and remove the stem and membranes.
- Place cilantro-buttered corn and both halves of yellow pepper, skin side up, on a baking sheet. With your broiler on high, place vegetables in the oven, about 2-3 inches from the heating element. Broil for approximately 15 minutes, turning the ears of corn every 4-5 minutes so that each side gets time directly under the broiler. Do not turn the pepper halves.
- Remove corn from oven and set aside to cool. Remove pepper from oven and place it in a bowl. Cover snugly with a tea towel and let it sit to steam for 10 minutes.
- Once cook enough to handle, cut the corn kernels from the cobs and place in a large bowl. Then, remove your peppers from their bowl and peel off the skins. (They should have steamed up loosely and peel off. Sometimes running them under cool water can help remove the skins, as well.)
- When the skins are removed, chop the peppers and add to the bowl with the corn.
- Add your remaining ingredients: the diced jalapeno, garlic, green onions, lime juice, and salt and pepper. Toss well to combine. The relish tastes great at room temperature or can be warmed or cooled, depending on your final use of it. I ate it all three ways!


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Dr Dirk Notz, group leader in the department "The Ocean in the Earth System" at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), has accepted a professorship at the Institute of Oceanography at the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg, as of 1st September 2019. Dirk Notz will not leave MPI-M entirely, he will continue to supervise his group "The Sea Ice in the Earth System" and lead the ice laboratory at MPI-M.
Dirk Notz studied Meteorology at Universität Hamburg and the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, as well as Arctic Geophysics at the University Centre in Svalbard, Norway. He received his doctorate in 2005 with a thesis on "Thermodynamic and Fluid-Dynamical Processes in Sea Ice" at the University of Cambridge, England. Afterwards, he joined MPI-M as a Gary-Comer-Fellow for Abrupt Climate Change. Since 2008, he was then leading the independent Max Planck Research Group "The Sea Ice in the Earth System" that worked towards a better understanding of sea-ice evolution within the changing climate. In 2017 this group became part of the department "The Ocean in the Earth System". Dirk Notz also was guest professor for Physical Oceanography at the University Centre in Svalbard from 2014 to 2017. As a lead author, he will make a major contribution to the IPCC's 2021 Assessment Report.
His field of research is the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. At MPI-M, he investigated ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions and linked findings from coupled climate models, conceptual modelling and satellite measurements. This work has led to a much better understanding of the large-scale evolution of Arctic sea ice in recent years. In addition to modelling, Dirk Notz and his research group carried out measurements on the salinity development of sea ice and its optical properties in MPI-M´s ice laboratory and in the field both in the Arctic and in the Antarctic. They investigated not only properties of the ice-ocean boundary layer but also meltwater flows in sea ice. For this purpose he also developed his own measuring techniques.
Dirk Notz will work as a professor at the University of Hamburg from September 2019. There, he will continue to exploit the combined insight from models and observations to gain deep insights into the polar regions of our planet. Within the cluster of excellence CliCCS, Dirk Notz will in the future also focus on biogeochemical cycles in the Arctic. He will lead a corresponding subproject together with colleagues from MPI-M and Universität Hamburg. Dirk Notz: "I am really looking forward to the new challenges at Universität Hamburg, but staying in Hamburg has the added advantage that I will be able to keep close contact with colleagues at MPI-M which of course I look forward to."
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Why I Stopped Selling Beats To Independent Rappers
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Angry Bunny
Good article.
I am not selling my beats. I give them for free with exclusive contract must pay royalty.
Although they need to have verified fanbase
An interesting and positive story.It is about doing what you enjoy. A lot of people are trying to imitate someone but little looking to create something new.Originality. This is appreciated. It's about people. When it comes to money. It becomes something else. Reputation It is knowing that you can count on it. For real people who want to say something.My English is not good. But one thing I know for sure. Never stop doing what you enjoy. I know we're all replaceable. But without losing there is no winner.
Joey Handsome
I wouldn't just put all independent artists under the same umbrella and just not sell to any of them. But def wouldn't just sell to any old study either without checking them out and having a discussion with them regarding what ideas they had for the song.
Joey Handsome
I respect the love for the craft. It's not about having the "I'm to good attitude". It's about not having someone make your music sound like shit. It's about not giving your material you take serious and spend a lot of time and money on, to just anybody, especially if they aren't going to respect it and not do anything with it. You can say a customer is a customer but a particular customer could have the power too make you look bad, not professional and associated with someone that comes across as a clown.
Michael A. Jordan
I have personally produced beats for 18 yrs. The last 10 years, my music has evolved tremendously and I have reached a very high level. From the beginning I was a natural from a long line of musicians. At 3 yrs old I was playing Beethoven.
My music is up for grabs to anyone who desires it. I've found that mediocre producers tend to fill the void by making themselves feel as if they are too good for Unsigned artists when in reality, it they were that good they would be more inclined to spread the love just to see the young and hungry artists get excited and pumped! All it takes is one hit! The best producers are hungry to inspire and love a challenge! The mediocre producers have been in my way for years… They charge… I didn't. They hustle and grind… I waited to be discovered and if I never do then I never do. My music speaks for itself and it's only a matter of time before I am sitting on top and known. Even then I will never forget where I came from and no fellow artist will ever be denied my work. This is the problem with the industry today. These young bucks think they too good when in reality… My worst work is still better than these "I'm too good" clowns best!
It's artists like the author of this forum who are adding to the problem.
Step aside. For every producer in the game that is nothing but "ok" … There is a much better naturally talented producer with serious next level type shit, who is sitting at home waiting for the posers and wannabe' to move aside so those who truly deserve a spot can get to work!!!
- A producer who grinded for years, earned local respect as one the best, has a different sound and can really get the most out of a track… Suddenly had enough and stopped writing music for 10 yrs! The breaking point? Terrible artists flooding the market with some of the worst music I've ever heard… Many are from the same area of Florida that I am from. They were no where to be found at all the events, artist events… They were complete trash and most never even laced a track… Yet they getting signed when they suck, never paid their dues, was too garbage to even get a spot on stage at local events etc.
Meanwhile, we have many many MANY talented artists who are no joke! They have that natural stage presence, booth/mic presence, takes maybe a couple takes and each verse and the work comes out polished and professional! Yet! No deal for them!!?? Yet!!! Deal for the awful no respect for the game having ass frauds who have no business even thinking they deserve to be where they at when they didnt pay their dues at all!!! I personally can guarantee that I am better than Tekashi 69 in every single way possible! I would embarrass him and all these modern "MCs***" Straight trash! Garbage! A joke! No respect for those who put their blood sweat and tears into making it!
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2018 New Year Resolution
What is your new year resolution for 2018?
When new year begins, EXEMers always get together and talk about person new year resolutions and cheer up for each other, it has become one part of EXEM cultures. Mr. Cho talked about his goal in the year of 2018. Always keep in mind that we need to do some changes to our daily work and our daily life. We eat, we do exercise, we watch movie, and we read books. We ourselves have been changing all the times. That's why we need to make new challenges to our work as well. Even we keep doing the some work, we need to think how can we do that better?
EXEMers from each different departments shared their ideas as well. To conclude what everyone said, here are 6 tips that are most commonly mentioned during the whole presentations.
1. Have clear goals about your work and your life.
We have dreams, but dreams are not goals. We need to make a practical goal for each every day that we can clearly know what we need to do.
2. Do physical exercise.
Health is the most important element during our whole life no matter what kind of job we do. If we get sick, we probably cannot finish our tasks very well. To keep fit, we definitely need physical exercises. Do not make any excuse telling yourself you have no time, no money, no mood to move. Just do it!
3. Keep the balance or your work and life.
For each single day, everyone has 24 hours. 8 for work, 8 for rest and another 8 for personal interests. How do you spend your 24 hours a day? Do not break your balance of work and life.
4. Learn new things.
Maybe a language, maybe a new program, or even a new sport. Once you start to learn a new thing, you have opened a totally new door for you life, which means you need to find new information that you never googled before, contact with people whom you never tried before and start to pay attention to a brand new field... During the whole process, you will gain new knowledge, and a new way to see the world around you.
5. Eat healthily.
People always come up with doing certain sports when they want to diet, but they forgot the most influential element: food we eat. There is no need to check the exact calories about everything we eat, but it is necessary to know what kind of food are healthier that others. Then we just try to eat the healthier groups than others.
6. Have your own time with yourself.
To social with other people take a lot of time of our lives. We do need to spend some time just with ourselves. Ask myself: Did you have a good day? Did you do something wrong?


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It is hard to decide which island is the best in Croatia! Croatia has 1246 islands, islets and rocks! Island is land surrounded by Sea with area bigger than 1 km². By that definition Croatia has 79 islands which is still amazing number! How to decide which island is the best?
Hello, I am Diana, my interest is public relations and marketing, and my hobbies are kayaking, hunting and volleyball. In 2016, I fell in love with his beautiful blue eyes at first glance, but why I love him more and more every day, you will understand when I explain why outdoor guides are the best guys and partners.
If you like hiking you should defenately visit Croatian youngest National park. It was established in 1999 on biggest and longest Croatian mountain! National park Sjeverni Velebit (Northern Velebit) is destiantion where you search for peacfull but stunning hikes.


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As much as I love make up, things that smell delicious, and taking care of myself, I'm not the kind of girl that goes to a Beauty Therapist.
My kind of luxuries are chocolate so dark the bitterness grates on your tongue for hours, a pair of qualities leggings that can withstand km after km of one foot in front of the other without falling to pieces, alone time spent with my tiny sweetheart just talking, and roadtrips that begin on our doorstop and end thousands of kms later back where we started. A really delicate fountain pen that writes like an extension of my hand, a featherdown duvet wrapped around us as we star gaze on the little pink trampoline, or a cup of tea made for me by someone special. That is my kind of luxury.
I finally saw a very beautiful Beauty Therapist today.
Actually this is the second time in a week I have been lucky enough to be tended to by her. A few days ago Jade from Jade's Beauty Room kindly tinted my eyelashes for free. My little babe happily chatted and played with a pile of toys the size of a small mountain, while Jade worked her magic on my eyelashes. It gave me time to feel comfortable enough to finally ask someone to help me. Believe me when I say it was close to one of the hardest things I have ever done.
I have written many times about my struggles with fertility and health due to having Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and Endometriosis. I have spoken about the pain, discomfort, and health complications that I endure daily due to this. I have no issues with talking about it. The crazy bitch hormones, the pain so intense that I bury myself in a hot shower and cry for a while, the periods relatively similar to scenes from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There are no limits for me on this topic.
Except one. This one. Facial hair.
Today, after a massive internal struggle, I finally booked a full face threading. This may sound like I'm making it such a bigger deal than it is, but it is the one thing about my condition that has honestly and truly humiliated me over the years. The crazy concoction of hormones makes me sprout facial hair in places that no woman should ever have to deal with. I own 4 pairs of tweezers; one for the lounge, one for the bathroom, one in my purse, and one in the car just in case. I spend at least 30mins every day removing unwanted and unsightly hairs from my face. Dark, coarse, horrible little hairs that refuse to piss off and leave me alone. And it has been a struggle my entire life. I have dealt with it every day and hated it, but been too ashamed to ask anyone to help me.
Then we met Jade. And she reassured me that I wasn't gross, and that it is so common, and there was absolutely no need for me to be so embarrassed. She went about her threading and her plucking and what not, all while chatting casually about life, and dogs, and children. Just the usual conversations. The nerves completely faded, and when I stepped out of her studio half an hour later, I barely managed to make it to the car before I burst into the happiest tears I have on record.
Such a simple procedure has had the most amazing effect on my soul! I have always been a confident woman. I'm smart, I'm clean, I can cook, I'm a brilliant mother, when I brush my hair it's quite shiny, I look adorable in pencil skirts, and I can hold down conversations with grown ups. I know who I am and what I have to offer, and I will look you in the eye and give you a firm handshake when we meet. But this has plagued me! It is always the thing that I think everyone is staring at, always the thing I assume most people will remember most about me, and however much I smile, it is always on my mind.
Not any more. The days spent in front of a mirror plucking brazen hair after hair are over for me. The time wasted on my silent suffering are over. The fear of speaking about it has gone.
I was just too afraid to ask for help because of how I felt about it, and how it made me feel.
I wish I had have been braver all of those years ago.


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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
My Daily Deer...
4 comments:
- ctscribbler said...
The fourth shot looks as if he had something to say to you. We see deer in the woodlands around town, but I've never had the pleasure of hearing one say hi to me.
Animals really are a wonderful gift to have in your daily life.
- Wed Dec 28, 09:03:00 AM CST
- Dave said...
The funniest thing is to see the entire file of pictures and scroll through them rapidly as if it were old movie footage. You can see the mouths open and close as they chew on food or perhaps let out a sigh. If I were smart or simply had the time, I would figure out how to combine a bunch of these photos into a short movie complete with voice over in a deer sounding voice. You know, something like Rudolph or Blitzen. I suspect they would be saying, More sliced apples, please.
- Wed Dec 28, 09:47:00 AM CST
- rescuepurplekisses said...
I haven't seen a buck yet except in your pics. There's a small one at the entrance to the neighborhood...hate to see it that close the the interstate.
I threw whole apples out there yesterday. Should I slice them? I hate to make lazy deers. ; )
- Wed Dec 28, 05:16:00 PM CST
- Dave said...
Should I slice them? I hate to make lazy deers.
I suspect they could probably handle an entire apple, but I was just offering up a little Christmas bonus.
- Wed Dec 28, 05:46:00 PM CST


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Parking-space event open to downtown Stamford businesses
STAMFORD — Parking spaces here will be among thousands across the globe that are turned into public parks as part of an event that aims to draw awareness to urban spaces.
Applications are available for city businesses that want to take part in PARK(ing) Day 2016 on Friday, Sept. 16. Only 10 spaces will be chosen for the temporary installation at metered parking spots downtown.
Last year, interactive PARK(ing) Day spaces were created in front of Lorca, Downtown Golf, Ferguson Library, The Palace Theatre, FASTSIGNS, Harmony Yoga, Tacos Guadalajara, UFC Gym, Rippowam Labs and Franklin Street Works.
An experiment to redesign public space, PARK(ing) Day began in 2005 when a San Francisco art and design studio, Rebar, turned a metered parking space into a "parklet" with seating, plants, a grand piano and traffic barriers.
"The City of Stamford will evaluate this program's impact on the potential to provide additional public space and amenities to the streetscape and improve the safety, accessibility and livability of the downtown," according to an event listing from the city.
To be considered for the free program, businesses should submit an application available at stamfordct.gov by Aug. 19.
Contact Transportation Planner Emily Provonsha at email@example.com for more information.


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Paul Scholes says it is unlikely he will return to management.
The Manchester United legend took charge of Oldham for less than a month last season before quitting.
Asked by Sky Sports News about a possible return to the dugout, he said: "It's probably unlikely. But I enjoyed it; the experience was good even if it didn't last too long.
"I loved working with the players; they were a great set of lads. It just didn't work out.
"Nothing put me off. I got on well with the players, I enjoyed the training every day. The results weren't great; we only won one game out of seven, which was disappointing.
"But if I had my time again would I do anything different? I don't think I would. There were a lot of issues to deal with at the club. I've learned from my experiences."


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How Raheem Sterling is Providing 'Fergie Time' For Pep Guardiola's Manchester City This Season
As one, they all began tearing toward the corner of the Etihad Stadium pitch. Pep Guardiola leapt, punching the air. Even the injured Benjamin Mendy limped his way down the touchline. They all wanted to celebrate with Raheem Sterling.
For this was the third time in a week that Sterling had struck late for Manchester City to win a game. But, this time, it reverberated even more powerfully, the significance even greater.
With City set to drop points against Southampton on Wednesday night after the visitor came from behind to draw level at 1-1, Sterling scored with a matter of seconds to go in the 96th minute. Guardiola's team looked likely to see its eight-point cushion at the top of the Premier League table snipped down to six, with second-place Manchester United on the horizon as the Manchester derby is a week on Sunday. But, then, up stepped Sterling. Again.
Manchester City's summer spending spree had raised concerns about how the 22-year-old would fit into the team. Would his squandering of chances last season go against him when Guardiola contemplated his line up, with Leroy Sane, David Silva, Kevin de Bruyne, Gabriel Jesus, Sergio Aguero, Bernardo Silva and Yaya Toure all at his disposal?
The English winger managed just 10 goals in 47 appearances for City last season. But Guardiola showed faith in him, and he has repaid that by taking his tally to 13 for the season already—and the Christmas lights have yet to be put up.
"As I have said many times, he is making steps. Before he was a little bit more shy and he did not believe, but now he can do that," Guardiola said, as quoted by the BBC. "Raheem is a match-winner, it was a fantastic goal."
And, indeed, he has certainly been just that for City this season, as five of Sterling's 13 goals have earned his team points. Back in August, he got the equalizer that prevented City losing to Everton, and five days later grabbed an injury time winner against Bournemouth.
In October, Sterling scored the third in a tough 3-2 win over West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns, and then came his run in November. Over the last nine days, he has secured City's place in the knockout stages of the Champions League by scoring against Feyenoord, won three points against Huddersfield and, then, did the same again against Southampton.
Opposition managers will also be warning their players to be wary of Sterling in the closing minutes of the game, as eight of his goals have come in the final 10 minutes of the game.
It isn't so long ago that the roar of celebration was being heard down the road, at Old Trafford, due to the fabled "Fergie time." Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired as manager at Manchester United, was known for seeing his teams strike late in games to win.
Now, it's City and Guardiola benefitting. Keeping faith in the Englishman has proved to be a sterling decision from the Spaniard.


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McGraw is out with "Sundown Heaven Town," which comes with 18 songs in its deluxe edition. Among the songs are "Meanwhile Back At Mama's" with wife Faith Hill and "Lookin' for That Girl." This is McGraw's 13th album, which he produced along with long-time producer Byron Gallimore.
Strait ended his concert career with a June gig in Dallas. "The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium, Dallas" celebrates the concert with friends ranging from Vince Gill to Miranda Lambert to Martina McBride to Kenny Chesney.
Dobro player extraordinaire is represented by two releases today, the self-titled disc by The Earls of Leicester and "Three Bells' with fellow resophonic players, the late Mike Auldridge and Rob Ickes. The former disc is a tribute to Flatt & Scruggs. Charlie Cushman on banjo, Tim O'Brien on mandolin, Barry Bales on bass, Johnny Warren, son of longtime F&S fiddler Paul Warren, on fiddle and singer Shawn Camp round out the group. "Three Bell's includes only the three players.


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Veterans Day Rededication of the Memorial at the Municipal Building at the new Flag Plaza Memorial
|This was a special Veterans Day event at 3 p.m. for the rededication of the historical monument and city flag pole that had been located at the North West corner of the Municipal Building since early World War II. The yearly 11 a.m. memorial ceremony for our veterans will continue to be held at the Veterans Memorial in Heise Park as it was this year.
|The National Anthem was sung by The 3 R's (three retirees - from the left: Dave Smith, Fred Barr and Richard Ramsdell). Though not in the picture, Herb Krichbaum provided the musical accompaniment on his Keyboard.
|Their musical talents were very much appreciated by the chilled crowd assembled to witness the rededication. Brian Treisch and our Community Band were providing patriotic music before the dedication and at intervals in the ceremony.
|The Dedication of the Flag Plaza Memorial and handing it over to the City was made by Jerry Lantz, Chairman of the the Galion Veterans Memorial Commission. It was noted that the Memorial was totally funded by private money from the veteran's organizations and patriotic private citizens.
|Jerry Lantz,
Veterans Memorial Commission
|Sharon Barnes,
City Council, Parks Committee
|Denny Little,
President of the City Council
|Don Diosi,
Veterans Memorial Commission, Master of Ceremony at right.
|A recent part of Veterans Day events has been the recognition of our veterans, where the band plays the song of each branch of our armed services and as that branch's flag comes forward, those veterans are requested to make themselves known.
|The medley has just about finished and the five branches, the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard flags are all waving with the help of the Sons of AMVETS members.
|Walter Williams, WWII Army Air Corps member and former prisoner of war, places the wreath honoring our missing POW's.
|Francis Germann, also a WWII veteran was chosen to place the Veteran's wreath. Francis is very active in the Memorial Commission.


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Owned and managed by William Nicholls, Ecogen's experience within the commercial waste sector dates back to 2001.
The Story Behind Ecogen...
Owner and current managing director William Nicholls established Ecogen Recycling (previously known as Berkshire Associates UK Ltd) in February 2010, initially as a consultancy service to help customers achieve environmental accreditations with The Environment Agency. His previous experience as Operations Manager for one of the largest plastic recycling companies in Hampshire stood him in good stead, and by 2012 William was able to leave his employment to work on Ecogen full-time.
With £1,500 working capital, William approached the T J Group, an ex-customer and one of the largest independent recycling companies on the South Coast, with a proposition to share one of their small loss-making sites in Winchester. Such was the success of this partnership that by early 2014, both companies had outgrown the site, leading Ecogen to move to new, independent premises on New Farm Road, Alresford. To this day, we still handle all the paper and plastic recycling for the T J Group, and owe them greatly for their support during our initial years.
As a company, we achieved a 99.76% recycling rate in 2016/17, with 100% of all materials recovered and 0.24% going on to become RDF (Refused Derived Fuel) rather than being sent to landfill. We believe we have one of the highest recycling rates of any company in the UK.
From humble beginnings, we now handle over 3,000 metric tons of cardboard, paper and plastic material every month. We employ 18 full time staff and have a turnover exceeding £3m. Investment in the latest, most eco-friendly and energy efficient recycling equipment now exceeds £1m (paid for with money earned, not borrowed), and our investment in site improvements totals £300,000.
William still runs the day-to-day operation, with support from commercial director James Lewis, operations manager Toby Mottram, and accounts director (and William's wife) Megan. We are always looking to grow the business and add value to our customers, be that through better equipment, new premises or greater operational efficiencies.
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"The service level over the last few years have been fantastic. On many occasions I have had to postpone our booked collections and its never an issue. Ecogen's team are always very helpful and will go that extra mile to accommodate my requirements I look forward to working with them all for many more years to come."
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"We aim to do our bit for the environment by reducing our carbon footprint, part of this is the recycling of waste commodities. Paper, card and plastic are our biggest commodity to be recycled and so for this, we use the professional services of Ecogen Recycling.
Ecogen has been reliable, dependable, trustworthy and very well priced. I have visited the Ecogen site to witness the destruction of delicate confidential material which I took in person and whilst there, found everyone to be friendly, polite and happy in their work.
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The Begum's Fortune – Jules Verne
Jules Verne's conceptions are as brilliant as ever. Dr. Sarrasin, a French savant, simple in taste and absorbed in science, delivers an address at the Brighton Scientific Association. The publication of it with his name in ' The Daily Telegraph' discovers him to a London lawyer as the lost heir of the Begum, whom his uncle had married in India. He inherits a moderate property of twenty-one millions sterling, all ready for him in the Bank of England. Dr. Schultz, a German professor, also a connection by marriage, threatens to dispute it. They settle the dispute by dividing it. Dr. Sarrasin founds in the Rocky Mountains a city of health, modelled on Dr. Richardson's lines. Dr. Schultz founds at thirty miles distance a stupendous cannon manufactory. One piece fires a shot with a velocity and force that give it perpetual motion. He resolves to destroy Dr. Sarrasin's city. How he fails and perishes by his own science the story must tell ; but it is prodigious. The magnificence and the verisimilitude are perfect.
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Plot summary of The Begum's Fortune (from Wikipedia):
Two men receive the news that they are part-inheritors to a vast fortune. They are the last surviving descendants of a French soldier-of-fortune who many years before settled in India and married the immensely rich widow of a native prince – the begum of the title.
One of the inheritors is a gentle French physician, Dr. Sarrasin, who has long been concerned with the unsanitary conditions of European cities. He decides to use his share of the inheritance to establish a utopian model city which would be constructed and maintained with public health as the primary concern of its government.
The other inheritor is a far from gentle German scientist Prof. Schultze – very stereotypically presented as an arrogant militarist and racist, who becomes increasingly power-mad in the course of the book. Though having had himself a French grandmother, (otherwise he would not have gotten the inheritance), he is completely convinced of the innate superiority of the "Saxon" (i.e., German) over the "Latin" (primarily, the French) which would lead to the eventual total destruction of the latter by the former. When first introduced to the reader, he is in the process of composing a supposedly scholarly paper entitled "Why do all French people suffer, to one degree or another, from hereditary degeneration?", to be published in the German journal Physiological Annals (though his official academic specialty is chemistry). Later it is disclosed that Schultze had done considerable "research" and published many articles conclusively "proving" the superiority of the German race over the rest of humanity.
The Utopian plans of his distant French cousin not only seem to Schultze stupid and meaningless, but are positively wrong. They issue from a Frenchman and are designed to block "progress" which decreed that the degenerate French are due to be subdued by the Germans. Schultze proposes to use his half of the inheritance for constructing his own kind of utopia – a city devoted to the production of ever more powerful and destructive weapons – and even before the first stone was laid in either city, vows to destroy Sarrasin's creation.
The two (each one separately) quite improbably manage to get the United States to cede its sovereignty over large parts of the Pacific Northwest, in order to enable the creation of two competing city-states, located in southern Oregon at a distance of forty kilometres of each other on either side of the Cascades. One is a tranquil French city of 100,000 on the western side; the other is a bustling German city of 50,000 to the east, with its industrial and mining operations extending far eastward, causing extensive pollution and environmental destruction as far as the Red Desert in Wyoming).
Verne gives the precise location of Sarrasin's "Ville-France" (France-Ville or Frankville in English translations) – on the southern Oregon coast, eighty kilometres north of Cape Blanco, at 43°11'3″ North, 124°41'17" West. This would place it at the southern end of Coos County, Oregon – a county which already existed at the time, though very thinly populated (and has remained so, having 62,779 inhabitants as of 2000).
The nearest real-life town seems to be Bandon (population 2,833 in the same 2000 census), located slightly north-east of the site of Ville-France, and which was founded by the Irish peer George Bennet in 1873 – one year after Verne's date for the creation of Ville-France. The Coquille River, on whose southern bank Bandon is located, is presumably the unnamed "small river of sweet mountain waters" which Verne describes as providing Ville-France's water.
As depicted by Verne, brief negotiations with the Oregon Legislature in December 1871 suffice to secure the grant of a 16 kilometre-wide area extending from the Pacific shore to the peaks of the Cascades, "with a sovereignty similar to that of Monaco" and the stipulation that after an unspecified number of years it would revert to full US sovereignty (Verne does not mention any United States Department of State or Congressional involvement in the deal). Actual construction begins in January 1872, and by April of the same year the first train from New York pulls into the Ville-France Railway Station, a trunk line from Sacramento having been completed.
The houses and public facilities of Ville-France are constructed by a large number of Chinese migrant workers – who are sent away once the city is complete, with the payment of their salaries specifically dependent on their signing an obligation never to return. Reviewer Paul Kincaid noted that "The Chinese coolies employed to build the French utopia are then hurriedly dispatched back to San Francisco, since they are not fit to reside in this best of all cities."
The book justifies the exclusion of the Chinese as being a precaution needed in order to avoid in advance the "difficulties created in other places" by the presence of Chinese communities. This might be an oblique reference to the Chinese Massacre of 1871, when a mob entered Los Angeles' Chinatown, indiscriminately burning Chinese-occupied buildings and killing at least 20 Chinese American residents out of a total of some 200 then living in the city.
Most of the action takes place in Schultze's Stahlstadt ("Steel City"). Steel City a vast industrial and mining complex, where ores are taken out of the earth and made into steel, and the steel is made into ever more deadly weapons. Steel city becomes in a few years the world's biggest producer of arms. The now immensely rich Schultze is Steel City's dictator, whose very word is law and who makes all significant decisions personally. There is no mention of Steel City's precise legal status vis-à-vis the Oregon or US Federal authorities, but clearly Schultze behaves as a completely independent head of state (except that he uses Dollars rather than mint his own currency).
The strongly fortified city is built in concentric circles, each separated from the next by a high wall, with the mysterious "Tower of the Bull" – Schultze's own abode – at its center. The workers are under a semi-military discipline, with complex metallurgical operations carried out with a Teutonic split-second precision. A worker straying into where and what he is not authorized to see and know is punished with immediate expulsion in the outer sectors and with death in the sensitive inner ones. However, the workers' conditions seem rather decent by Nineteenth Century standards: there are none of the hovels which characterized many working-class districts of the time, and competence is rewarded with rapid promotion by the paternalistic Schultze and his underlings.
Dr. Sarrasin, in contrast, is a rather passive figure – a kind of non-hereditary constitutional monarch who, after the original initiative to found Ville-France, does not take any significant decision in the rest of the book. The book's real protagonist, who offers active resistance to Schultze's dark reign and his increasingly satanic designs, is a younger Frenchman – the Alsatian Marcel Bruckmann, native of the part of France forcibly annexed by Germany in the recent war.
The dashing Bruckmann – an Alsatian with a German family name and fiercely patriotic French heart – manages to penetrate Steel City. As an Alsatian, he is a fluent speaker of German, an indispensable condition for entering the thoroughly Germanised Steel City, and is able to pass himself off as being Swiss – "Elsässisch", the German dialect spoken in Alsace, being very close to Swiss German. He quickly rises high in its hierarchy, gains Schultze's personal confidence, spies out some of the tyrant's well-kept secrets, and sends a warning to his French friends. It turns out that Schultze is not content to produce arms, but fully intends to use them himself – first against the hated Ville-France, as a first step towards his explicit ambition of establishing Germany's worldwide rule. (He casually mentions a plan to seize "some islands off Japan" in order to further the same.)
Two fearsome weapons are being made ready – a super-cannon capable of firing massive incendiary charges over a distance of 40 km (just the distance from Steel City to Ville-France), and shells filled with gas. The latter seems to give Verne credit for the very first prediction of chemical warfare, nearly twenty years before H. G. Wells's "black smoke" in The War of the Worlds. Schultze's gas is designed not only to suffocate its victims but at the same time also freeze them. A special projectile is filled with compressed liquid carbon dioxide that, when released, instantly lowers the surrounding temperature to a hundred degrees Celsius below zero, quick-freezing every living thing in the vicinity.
Ville-France prepares as well as it can, but there is not very much to do against such weapons. Schultze, however, meets with poetic justice. Firstly, the incendiary charge fired by the super-cannon at Ville-France not only renders the cannon unusable, but also misses its mark. The charge flies harmlessly over the city and into space, apparently owing to Schultze's failure to account for the roundness of the globe when firing a projectile over such distances. Secondly, as Schultze sits in his secret office, preparing for the final assault and writing out the order to his men to bring him the frozen bodies of Sarrasin and Bruckmann to be displayed in public, a gas projectile which he kept in the office accidentally explodes and feeds him his own deadly medicine.
The entire edifice of "Steel City" collapses, since Schultze had kept everything in his own hands and never appointed any deputy. It goes bankrupt and becomes a ghost town. Bruckmann and his friend, Dr. Sarrasin's son, take it over with the only resistance offered being from two rather dimwitted Schultze bodyguards who stayed behind when everybody else left. Schultze would remain forevermore in his self-made tomb, on display as he had planned to do to his foes, while the good Frenchmen take over direction of Steel City in order to let it "serve a good cause from now on." (Arms production would go on, however, so as "to make Ville-France so strong that nobody would dare attack it ever again".)
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Surprise Me
Surprise Me.
This year I am planning a Mystery Destination Choir Tour. The kids are not thrilled. Actually, they are being really good sports about it, but I have discovered that they are not used to the idea of Surprise.
I love surprises and come from a long line of family members who like to surprise each other, and always in a good way. My dad loved to trick us into thinking there was no way the family could afford (insert toy, bicycle, stereo, dishwasher) only to surprise us later with exactly what we wanted. And we fell for it every time!
In this modern time, we are never surprised by anything. We wake up and a device tells us the time, the weather outside, and how we slept last night. Another device tells us how many steps we need, how many calories we are allowed, and how much water to drink. We get in our cars and they tell us how many minutes it will take to get to work and what the traffic ahead is like. We get to work and our computers tell us what appointments we have, what we should eat for lunch, and who is having a birthday. There is no room for surprise and little space for spontaneity.
So, I am inviting our youth choir to enter into a year of mystery. I am hoping for one thing: that they will embrace the idea that God knows the plans He has for us and it is not necessary for us to worry about it. We will spend this year preparing music and being faithful to attend choir practice. We don't know what we are preparing for and that's ok! I want it to be a great lesson in patience. I want the waiting to feel exciting! I want them to apply it to the season of Advent and try to imagine what it was like to anticipate the Christ when no one knew the enormous "surprise" God had in mind with the birth of a baby in a manger. Mostly, I am praying that it all turns out well and they will be able to look back on the "surprise" year as one that turned out really terrific.
Allow yourself a surprise today. Walk outside and be surprised at the beauty of the earth. Call a friend you have not caught up with for a while. Take a different route to work. Go to the nursery/preschool and watch babies for a few minutes. The whole world is a surprise to them and their faces show it.
And, when you get interrupted today (and you know you will) take it as a sign that even after all these years, God is still trying to surprise you!
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The subject here is not FAKE NEWS...but BAD BUSINESS PLANNING.
A successful business' plan should be based upon REALITY...not WISHFUL THINKING.
Radio has always been a personal medium. As you gather a huge audience...each person is still listening singularly. You have to win them one-on-one.
No successful business has ever been created, that some upstart did not try to deliver MORE CHEAPLY.
However, what sets each radio station apart is CONTENT.
When manufacturers change content, they impact success.
Think "NEW COKE."
The consumers did not demand, nor desire this change. It proved a BAD MOVE. Coke responded in a timely fashion, by returning CHOICE TO THE MARKETPLACE. Classic Coke re-emerged within 90 days.
Since consolidation, Radio has been depriving the audience of COMPANIONSHIP...the human touch. This starvation of the audience has continued for over a decade.
For years, if you wanted to become a broadcast owner:
- You could own 7AM, 7FM, & 7 TV stations across the entire U.S.
- Some AM/FM combos were located in the same market.
- There were few AM/FM/TV combos. Only those grandfathered. If an operation was sold, the FCC required the sale of TV to a separate owner.
- In order to get FCC approval, a prospective owner had to present a 3 year business plan, showing:
- Format, News, Public Service, Public Affairs, Educational, providing access to the community served, etc.
- Moreover, the broadcaster had to prove they had the financial means to run the station FOR 3 YEARS...EVEN IF THEIR BUSINESS PLAN WAS A FAILURE.
When Television arrived as a new competitor in 1948, networks decided to transition their content FROM RADIO TO TV. This is comparable to the arrival of THE INTERNET.
Radio responded to TV's threat, by addressing CONTENT and stressing what they could do best:
- COMMUNICATE. Radio is a one-on-one medium. The listener hears singularly...so COMMUNICATE with the individual.
- BECOME THE SOURCE OF NEWS. Immediacy is the advantage. Magnify this context via delivery.
- UTILIZE THEATER OF THE MIND. "Picture this..."
- DAILY CONTINUITY OF UNIQUE PERSONALITIES that could create talk.
PROGRAMMING directs the operation. AIR TALENT personalize the format basics...breathing fresh life into them. Mission: CREATE TALK. Exude likability that provides the glue that keeps listeners coming back. SALES sells access to an ever-increasing and loyal audience.


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Le Roman de Tristan et Iseult
Paris: l'Edition d'Art, 1922. Illustrations de Robert Engels. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Numerous color-printed illustrations by Robert Engels. One of 500 unnumbered copies from a total edition of 650. Spectacularly bound in full calf. Spine in six compartments, intricately gilt, and with red and green lettering labels, gilt. The boards..... More


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9 Bollywood Actresses Who can Rock a Saree
An India woman looks the best in a saree, very true. Some of our Bollywood divas have showed us that they can look hot without wearing short clothes. A traditional Indian saree adds grace to our beautiful bollywood beauties and make us love them even more. Here are some bollywood actresses who can rock a saree. Look how mesmerizing they look when they wear sarees.
- Priyanka Chopra
Our own desi girl looks the best in Indian clothes. She looks amazing in western dresses, but there is something special about a saree.
2. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
The most beautiful woman alive will obviously look good in the most elegant outfit. Aishwarya can rock shimmery sarees but can also look equally gorgeous in a plain, simple saree.
3. Kareena Kapoor Khan
Our bebo looks always looks great in a saree. If you are a girl go and watch tere meri prem kahaani from bodyguard and get inspired.
4. Deepika Padhukone
When she wears a saree, guys fall in love. With her grace she can rock any outfit and she wonderfully rocks a saree.
5. Rekha
Our golden lady looks the most elegant in a saree. She is evergreen and so is her style.
6. Vidya Balan
When we think of an Indian actress in a saree, we think of Vidya. She has done many movies wearing sarees and surely looks the best in it.
7. Madhuri Dixit Nene
She has unarguably the best smile in bollywood and that smile looks even better when she wears a saree.
8. Sonakshi Sinha
Our Sonakshi always does justice to sarees and almost everything she wears but a saree compliments her curvaceous figure the most.
9. Katrina Kaif
Katrina the girl next door looks gorgeous when she wears a dress or other western clothes but like she looks heavenly in a saree.


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Has your car or truck been damaged due to an accident in Lake Stevens, Washington? Maybe it needs an auto paint update? If you require auto body repair services of any kind, it's important to prepare for your appointment ahead of time. While you just might be tempted to drop by the nearest auto body shop, there are a few preparation steps you should take first. Complete the following tasks before agreeing to auto body repair in Lake Stevens.
Identify Issue Areas
In preparation for scheduling auto body repair services, take some time to examine your vehicle. While you might not be a certified auto body expert, you can still identify problem areas. Write these down so you don't forget to mention them.
Clean Out the Interior
It's also important that you clean out the interior of your car or truck before taking it in for auto body repair. While most of the work will be done outside your vehicle, technicians do sometimes need access to the inside.
Request a Quote
When bringing your vehicle in for collision repair, always ask the technician for a quote. Many will provide this for free. Knowing how much the auto body repair services will cost upfront can help you make appropriate financial preparations.
Ready to Schedule Auto Body Repair in Lake Stevens?
Are you ready to schedule auto body repair services for your car or truck in Lake Stevens, Washington? Contact the experts at WBL Automotive Collision Repair in Arlington today! We're also insurance-approved, which means all you need to get started is your claim number. We'll take care of the rest. With years of experience in the field, you can rest assured that our highly-trained mechanics have the knowledge and skills required to get your vehicle back on the road. We frequently work on cars and trucks, RVs and trailers, and heavy equipment.
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After a lifetime in the church, I still struggle with answering, "What is ordination for?". As a child, it was clear the role of a pastor and its precedence in the community. He wasContinue reading
So there's a on-fire guy who has been a regular church attendee for years. He preaches amazing sermons, and some of the most amazing shows of the Holy Spirit are seen when he preaches. AfterContinue reading
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Did you ever go there?
Express your EcoOpinion about this place and become a GreenWatcher, the trend setter of Sustainability.
The EcoOpinion is based on the algorithm of The GreenWatcher which is used to express the value of ecosustainability that you see with a score from 0 to 5.
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This salad recipe won rave reviews from our users, who serve it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other festive events, such as baby showers and birthdays.
How to Make It
Step 1
Whisk together first 4 ingredients. Set dressing aside.
Step 2
Peel pears, if desired; quarter pears. Brush with lemon juice.
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Arrange lettuce on 4 plates. Arrange pear quarters over lettuce. Drizzle with dressing; sprinkle with cheese, bacon, and raspberries.


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2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People
Journalist Masha Gessen dubbed 2017 "the year Russian LGBT persecution defied belief." Pink News called…Read More
Journalist Masha Gessen dubbed 2017 "the year Russian LGBT persecution defied belief." Pink News called…Read More
International At the Washington Post, Max Bearak takes note of the "rising global tide of…Read More
The European Lesbian* Conference, which brought together 500 activists, artists, academics, politicians, journalistas and civil…Read More
Reports from several international LGBT gatherings: The Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa (IDNOWA), founded…Read More
Brian Brown, president of the International Organization for the Family, the parent organization to the…Read More
A dozen UN agencies issued a joint statement calling for an end to discrimination in health…Read More
International Family Equality Day was celebrated on May 7 with events in 30 countries. The…Read More
Russia: Anti-Gay persecution in Chechnya generates international protest International attention and protest continued to be…Read More
The Global Alliance for LGBT Education has protested the selection of Saudi Arabia as the…Read More
Last week, in the wake of Russian-led investigation, it was reported that when Tamerlan Tsarnaev was in Russia he was, in fact, more eager to wage war than the Islamist contacts he had traveled to find. Accounts reveal that he arrived in Russia with "an avid interest in waging jihad."Read More


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Pictures of the Day
Building work continues apace on the SL10B Community Celebration (SL10BCC) regions. To mark progress, we've kicked-off the SL10BCC Pictures of the Day. Each day, selected pictures will be posted on the website of the celebration regions and exhibits and people.
All you need to do is join the SL Community Celebration Flickr Group and post your pictures there. Note that by doing so, you give consent for the organisers of the event to use them in publicity and for pictures of the day.
Those who have access to the regions can start posting now – but worry not if you don't – the group will remain open through the celebrations for everyone to share their pictures!
Photo Contest
There are now just two days remaining in the first of our official SL10BCC Photo Contests. So if you haven't entered, now's the time! Honour and glory are the prizes, in addition to having your photo posted on the Community Celebration official blog, and social media (e.g. Facebook, Flickr, Twitter).
We want you to submit a photo which encapsulates all or part of this year's celebratory theme: Looking Forward, Looking Back. The subject matter is entirely your choice – as long as it's not of any part of the celebration regions themselves; we hope to have a further competition for that later! Instead, we want you to explore the grid (or your inventories!) and find the perfect picture which fits our theme.
Up to two entries can be submitted per avatar name, and there are two categories for entries:
- Category A is for photos taken using only the tools available within the viewer (the snapshot floater, windlight settings, the debug and preferences options for images, etc.)
- Category B is for photos which have been processed outside of the viewer using tools such as PhotoShop, GIMP, PaintShop Pro and so on.
The Rules
- No more than two photographs per avatar name
- Competition entries must be made via the SL10B Celebration Photo Contest Flickr group
- Entries must not show the SL10B Community Celebration regions
- Photos must be PG – make it family friendly keep it clean and FUN or risk disqualification!
- Competitors must indicate whether the photograph is Category A (using only the tools available within the viewer) or Category B (using tools outside the viewer, such as photo editing software)
- Descriptive text may accompany entries
- The Community Celebration Team reserve the right to use photograph submissions for event advertising
- All entires must be uploaded by midnight SLT on Thursday, June 6th, 2013.
A distinguished panel will select the top twenty photos, which will be displayed at the entry point at the celebrations, where visitors will get the opportunity to vote for the one they like best.
Can You Help?
Two Second Life residents, Dizzy Banjo and Arciamay Resident are looking for people to help with their SL10BCC exhibits.
Dizzy Banjo's Message in a Bottle Take 2
"5 Years ago, along with Lillie Yifu," Dizzy Banjo says, "I made the Message in a Bottle exhibit at Second Life's 5th Birthday event. It featured voice contributions from hundreds of Second Life users. Check out this video of it:"
"It was a treasured project – featured on the Linden Lab home page for some time after the event. Some residents and Lindens even told me it made them cry!"
Now Dizzy is looking for volunteers willing to record up to 10 seconds of them answering the question "What does Second Life mean to you in 2013?" The recordings won't be going into a bottle this year, however. Instead, Dizzy says, "it's going to use an exciting new trick which I'm sure you will like!"
If you're willing to do so, send your recording via e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com, together with your avatar name or send Dizzy a link to a downloadable version of the file if you've uploaded it to Soundcloud or similar. See Dizzy's blog for more information and suggestions on suitable recording software.
Be A Part of Gallery Celebrating Second Life's History
Arciamay Resident says of her exhibit: "I am looking for old photos or art work depicting the history of Second Life. I've also have read some of the poetry that people have written describing their feelings and inturrpretations of SL.
"I'm creating a gallery so people can share their art, poetry and photos. There will also be an area where people can relax and hopefully share their experiences in Second Life."
To find out more and participate, please contact Arciamay in-world.


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Not many people have a clear vision or clear path as to where to find efficient Web Design Training.
Design-Training.org is a great site to get a feel for what your path/vision may be and how to reach your goals. Whether your goal is a career in design or is one of self-improvement for your own pleasure, you can fulfill your dreams at any one of many design training centers across the United States and Canada. This site provides an extensive resource for such information.
Find good sources from training in Graphic Design all the way to Fashion Design. A unique site with a ton of great content and useful resources. A great place to start.


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The Eagle Huntress
This family-friendly documentary, voiced by Star Wars' Daisy Ridley, tells the story of 13-year-old Aisholpan, the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter. Rosy-cheeked and iron-willed, our trailblazing heroine joyfully proves that girls can do anything that boys can.
With astounding swooping camera shots of the Mongolian plains, this is one nature documentary you will be glad you saw on the big screen. BAFTA nominated and Academy Award shortlisted for Best Documentary.
"In form and content, this is a movie that expands your sense of what is possible. A girl can hunt with an eagle. A camera can fly." – Washington Post


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- "A single swing. of this giant, sturdy leaf can create a gust of wind strong enough to blow away light objects. These will sometimes fall off trees as they're chopped down."
- — Hyrule Compendium
The Korok Leaf is an item from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Like Tree Branches, Korok Leafs are relatively common weapons in Hyrule and can be found randomly by cutting down trees though Link may find them lying around in the environment. Link can equip and use it as a two-handed weapon to repel enemies. It can also damage enemies if it hits them. Korok Leaf are one of the few weapons that cannot be thrown, as Link will simply produce a gust of wind from the Korok Leaf, though this causes no damage and just blows air. Link can use it also to blow out flames, though Korok Leaves are flammable and will burn if exposed to fire or volcanic temperatures, though Link can use them as makeshift Torches, though it will eventually burn up as fire reduces their durability. As they are non-metallic they do not attract lightning during thunderstorms.
While a Korok Leaf can be used on horseback, it will not produce any wind gusts, thus its combat abilities are reduced when used on horseback.
Sailing Rafts
While Korok Leafs can be used as a weapon, their main usage is to propel Rafts across bodies of water by blowing a raft's sail. This allows Link to move a raft instead of letting it be propelled by the wind alone. Sometimes Link may find a Korok Leaf near a Raft or in the same area, while in other cases Link must acquire one by cutting down trees or bringing one from somewhere else. A Korok Leaf's durability is only effected if it hits something during a swing or burns, thus Link can blow air without worry of it breaking while sailing.


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Implementing a revocable trust is the foundation of any good estate plan and most if not all persons undertaking estate planning should not be without one. The trustee of the revocable trust is the person who manages the trust property akin to a chief executive of an organization. In most cases the person creating the revocable trust is named as the initial trustee and will perform that role for many years without much difficulty. The problem arises when the person who created the trust and is serving as the initial trustee dies or suffers and accident or disability that renders them incapacitated and unable to serve.
When the revocable trust is prepared, detailed provisions should be incorporated in the trust document providing for a successor trustee to assume the office and perform the functions when the initial trustee is no longer able. The person creating the trust should nominate others to serve as successor trustees when that time comes. However, many times suitable candidates may not come to mind due to factors such as family members that are not capable of performing the role for one reason or another and a lack of acquaintances that are not good candidates for nomination. Furthermore, sound estate planning warrants that more than one person should be named as successor trustee if the first person nominated is not able to serve.
In that event a professional trustee or professional fiduciary may be a beneficial option for a successor trustee of the revocable trust. A professional fiduciary is a person who performs trustee duties and other fiduciary roles as an occupation. In California, professional fiduciaries are licensed and regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs Professional Fiduciaries Bureau. Additionally, many are members of professional associations and some carry either errors and omission insurance or professional liability insurance. Due to the personal nature of fiduciary services any person considering a professional trustee for their revocable trust should interview several candidates and satisfy themselves as the financial strength, talents, skill, veracity and professionalism of those under consideration.


text: You are welcome and invited to a celebration of Gay, Bi, Lesbian and Transgender Pride offered by folks from the Metropolitan Community Church, New Covenant MCC, St. Patrick's Episcopal Church (Dublin, Ohio), First Congregational Church (UCC) and Pearls of Wisdom, an independent bookstore that offers a gentle meditation on Wednesday nights reflecting the New Age and Pagan traditions. Not all of these organizations are officially hosting or endorsing this event. The celebration will be at 10:00 AM on Saturday, June 19, 2010 at the North Plaza Reflecting Pool between the Ohio Supreme Court Building at 65 South Front Street and the Ohio Department of Education at Front and Broad. For questions please contact coordinators Marj Creech (740-739-1390) or Eric Peters (429-7423). It would be great to see you there!


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The Mount Carmel Fire Department's driveway, which is sinking in some areas and actually has a hump rising in the middle, will be repaired in house by city employees later this year when mowing slows down.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen agreed to accept $771 less in insurance to keep the wrecked fire truck that rolled down an embankment in June.
The firefighter, who was the lone occupant of the tanker, stated that he moved over as far as he could on the narrow roadway to let the oncoming vehicle past when the asphalt at the edge of the roadway broke.
Some members of the Mount Carmel Board of Mayor and Aldermen expressed strong opposition to the proposal, including Alderman Carl Wolfe, who called it a "ripoff."
A Mount Carmel residential fire Wednesday afternoon which was initially dispatched as an entrapment. Later it was determined the Nikki Barnett had attempted to enter her home to save her father's dog before the heat and smoke forced her to retreat.
"We were able to save some of the dogs that were in pens under the back porch, but there was fire coming out the doors," said MCPD Chief Grady White. "There was no way to get to them at all." He added there will be an investigation into potential code violations related to the "excessive" number of dogs owned by the man.
City manager Mike Housewright has stated he is a proponent for doing job searches to fill key positions in city government, but he said in the case of fire chief he would prefer to forego a job search in favor of keeping Simpson.
Around 2:20 p.m. Monday Mount Carmel firefighters responded to 1121 Loyds Chapel Road where several acres were burning after a man's small brush fire got out of control.