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Aulbach Entgratungstechnik GmbH's core area of expertise is the construction and manufacturing of high quality trimming tools, trimming machines as well as special purpose machines for aluminium, magnesium, zinc and steel castings.
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Apple's latest release of Apple Pay in Canada and Australia for AmEx users:
As we are aware that Apple has already released its Apple Pay functionality in United States and United Kingdom, we are going to have this release in few other counties too. In US and UK most of the users has already started using it instead of their normal credit and debit cards. Before going to see more details about Apple Pay, let's have a glance of what Apple Pay is.
What is Apple Pay?
Apple Pay is a kind of digital wallet and mobile payment mode of service provided by Apple Inc. which helps users to make payments with the latest devices like iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 4, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus and few others. Once you have Apple Pay registered on your Apple device, you need not carry any kind of credit or debit cards with you. All these details will be registered with Apple Pay and you can use this application for any Kind of payments.
Apple Pay in Canada and Australia for AmEx users:
So, far we have seen Apple Pay in United States and United Kingdom. Now, it's the turn of Apple for the release of Apple Pay in Canada and Australia. Currently this release supports only American Express cards. So, only AmEx users can register with Apple Pay and can enjoy this service.
Even though the Apple Pay in Canada and Australia was limited to American Express card holders we can also expect the Apple Pay association for Visa and Master card holders too. And with respect to others we can expect it in the upcoming future. So, let's start using the Apple Pay service without carrying our credit or debit cards everywhere we move on.
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9 Speed Reading Tips To From A Professional Book Reviewer
As a proud bibliophile and professional book reviewer, I hate to hear someone say they don't read, but whenever I do, the excuse is almost always the same: not enough time. It isn't always easy to find a few minutes, let alone the actual hours it takes, to sit down and crack open a new novel, but with these 10 speed reading tips, anyone can get through their TBR pile, no matter how big it gets. Take it from me: there's always enough time to read, even if it means not reading every word.
As a book reviewer, I get sent a lot of different things to read. A lot. Any given week, my reading list increases by three or four books, and to get through them all would take more than a lifetime. Unfortunately, "forever" isn't exactly a workable deadline, so I had to come up with a different strategy to help me find the way to the bottom of my TBR pile: speed reading.
On average, the reading speed in the U.S. is 200-300 words per minute, or approximately one-half to one page per minute. Those considered to be fast readers can increase that speed to 400 words per minute, but that still means it would take over two and a half hours to read an average length book, about 64,000 words. (Given the amount of time we spend sitting in front of Netflix and binge-watching shows, 160 minutes may not seem like a long time, but for most people, sitting still for that long when it isn't for the Gilmore Girls revival can feel like an impossible eternity.)
Speed readers, however, can cut that time down by more than half, and with can reach speeds of up to 1,000 words per minute. While it's true that reading faster can result in lower levels of comprehensions, with practice, speed reading can be an effective tool for getting through more text in less time.
Reading is a mechanical process, and getting faster isn't a matter of learning complex theories or an expanded vocabulary, but rather improving your fine motor skills. If you want to learn how to get through more books in less time, here are 10 speed reading tips that can help:
1. Try skimming.
My high school English teacher would be cringing to read this, but one of the easiest ways to train yourself to speed read is to simply skim.
Skimming doesn't actually help you read faster, but rather finding out which parts of the book can be skipped and which are essential to comprehension. It's a great first-step to speed reading, and one I do before diving into any book so I go into each new read with a general idea of what's to come. Needless to say, this strategy comes with a major spoilers warning.
2. Use a visual guide.
Remember using your finger as a sentence guide when you first learned how to read as a kid? As it turns out, that method isn't just good for young readers, but great for speed readers, too. This method, known as meta guiding, uses a visual guide to help your eyes focus on the current words you're trying to read and move them along faster down the page overall.
3. Stop rereading.
A habit that is hard to break, rereading words or sentences is one of the biggest speed bumps in reading. Whether your eyes accidentally or subconsciously return to a passage you already gone over or you go back on purpose to better understand something, revisiting what you've already read will slow you down significantly. Instead, plow ahead and look for context clues for anything you may not have understood the first time around.
4. Use a free RSVP app.
When in doubt, ask your smartphone to help you read faster. With the help of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) technology, which shows readers one word at a time, people can increase speeds up to 1,000 words per minute. Most speed reading apps, including Spritz, use this kind of technology, and are available for free in your app store.
5. Keep your mouth busy
One of the habits that slows readers down the most is subvocalization, or the process of saying the words you're reading in your head, subconsciously, or outloud. By avoiding it, people are able to read twice to three times as fast.
But how can you prevent it? Keep your mouth busy doing something else when you read. When your mouth is occupied chewing, sucking, or even humming keeps your vocal cords busy and prevents your brain from saying words as you read them. By preoccupying your mouth, you can free your mind to read faster immediately.
6. Expand your field of vision.
We are trained to read each word individually, one at a time, but by reading sets of words or entire sentences at once, we can increase our reading speed. This strategy, often times called word chunking, is the practice of expanding horizontal peripheral vision, taking in more words at once, and increasing overall words that are being perceived each time the eyes are fixated on a phrase, sentence, or passage.
Not sure how? Try this handy exercise and watch your vision field increase while your TBR pile decreases.
7. Create the right reading environment.
Reading faster isn't all about tricks and shortcuts from beginning to end. It's about improving your overall reading skills and experience, and it all starts with the setting. Whether you are speed reading for work or rereading for fun, creating the right environment — quiet, relaxing, comfortable, distraction-free — is essential to getting through a book quickly and enjoyably.
8. Read more often
You know the old saying: practice makes perfect. The same thing goes for reading. As basic as it sounds, the more you read, the better you read, and the faster you read.
9. Listen, don't read.
Okay, this may be cheating, but listening to audiobooks can sometime help you get through a book faster than physically reading. While you're listening to the book, you can be multi-tasking, meaning whether you're cleaning, showering, driving, or cooking, you can almost always be working on your TBR pile. Plus, there are several different speed settings on audiobooks, so you can listen to the narrator as slowly or as quickly as you want.


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Hot chilli and warm laughter. A hoodie-clad Presbyterian minister and a collar-wearing Catholic priest. "Best friends", they tell me. I've since learned that when they send you a rather cryptic message, you should always be suspicious. One such message had landed me there, having lunch with the dynamic duo that I'd often admired for their courage and generosity in bringing peace to our beautiful city. I was intrigued and 'sure it was just a chat' but after an hour of story-telling and dream-casting, I was in.
'Millenials', as they call us, have a complicated relationship with church. Some of us were raised in it, some of us don't know it, some of us have always avoided it. Some of us love it and some of us were hurt by it…perhaps at the same time. We question, we lead, we fear, we explore, we build, we love, we run, we try. We pick apart teaching that has harmed us. We are wary of the smoke and mirrors that are there to appeal to us. We reconcile theology with its outworking, wishing they had never been divorced. We thirst for space for our questions. We want to learn from older people who have journeyed through faith and come out the other side. We don't think in black and white and enjoy nuances of grey. We need our seat at the table to be kept for us, even if we are away for a while. We are uncomfortable with labels. We want to throw away the sugar-coating and stare darkness right in the eyeballs knowing the light will come. We look for an authentic form of spirituality that brings us closer to the divine without taking us away from the world. We search for the Jesus we "invited into our hearts" when we were kids in the messy blend of conflict, relationships, Sunday afternoon picnics, doctrine, abuse, opinion, hymns and drum cages, power, retreats, service, language, hurt, fundamentalism, liberalism, and everything in between.
And we find him, over a bowl of chilli. In denominations who should, if history has a say, be at war with each other, listening
and understanding
and building together.
4 Corners brings together people from across the denominations and from no denominations at all in Northern Ireland to promote peace in each corner of the city. It hosts an annual festival, and this year, it was a privilege to be a part of it. You can find out about all we got up to by clicking here. We had a City Hall banquet, a BBC debate, film screenings, a gig, an event for 6th formers, and a lot of other things. And it was wonderful. Each event was attended by people who may not usually sit in the same room – sometimes, slightly uncomfortably. We talked about difficult things, important things, interesting things. And as we invited people out of their corner of the city into a shared space of listening and understanding, we found ourselves, again, in the middle of a story. A story that has a beginning, but that hasn't ended yet. A story with many different characters, many different backdrops, many different ups and downs. A story of Belfast.
This morning at 7.10AM the PSNI received a call about a bomb that had exploded under a prison officer's car in the east of the city. The attack was thought to have a political motivation. We were saddened and shared stories about how we used to live on that street, or how our friend was also a prison officer, or how we just couldn't understand it and didn't want to go back to division and 'us and them'.
That is a part of our story. But it isn't the whole of it. The arc in the story is not defined by what happened this morning. It doesn't need to be. The story is changing. It is being written by people like that dynamic duo I told you about earlier. Or by millennials who are asking the big questions. Or by the neighbours gathering together tonight in Hillsborough Drive, mustering up the courage they need to wake up tomorrow and move forward with hope.
Religion has a big part to play in Northern Ireland's painful past, and, in many ways, present. But it also has a part to play in breathing peace, and hope, and value into our future. The story isn't over yet, and there is room in it for everyone.
Come, have some chilli.


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Efficient representation of natural images using local cooperation
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- Using structure and functions inspired by the primary visual areas to construct efficient image processing algorithms.
Figure: Exemple of denoising using Matching Pursuit: denoising.avi (upper left) noisy image. red dots correspond to spikes (upper right) absolute coefficient value (down left) Squared error (down right) reconstructed image
See also Publications/Fischer07
For the underlying image reprensation using log-Gabor filters, see Publications/Fischer07cv
Low-level perceptual computations may be understood in terms of efficient codes (Simoncelli and Olshausen, 2001, Annual Review of Neuroscience 24 1193-216). Following this argument, we explore models of representation for natural static images as a way to understand the processing of information in the primary visual cortex. This representation is here based on a generative linear model of the synthesis of images using an over-complete multi-resolution dictionary of edges. This transform is implemented using log-Gabor filters and permits an exact reconstruction of any image. However, this linear representation is redundant and since to any image may correspond different representations, we explore more efficient representations of the image. The problem is stated as an ill-posed inverse problem and we compare first different known strategies by computing the efficiency of the solutions given by Matching Pursuit (Perrinet, 2004, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 15 1164-75) and sparse edge coding (Fischer, 2007, Trans. Image Processing) with classical representation methods such as JPEG. This comparison allows us to provide a synthesized approach using a probabilistic representation which would progressively construct the neural representation by using lateral cooperations. We propose an algorithm which dynamically diffuses information to correlated filters so as to yield a progressively disambiguated representation. This approach takes advantage of the computational properties of spiking neurons such as Integrate-and-Fire neurons and provides an efficient yet simple model for the representation of natural images. This representation is directly linked with the edge content of natural images and we show applications of this method to edge extraction, denoising and compression. We also show that this dynamical approach fits with neuro-physiological observations and may explain the non-linear interactions between neighboring neurons which may be observed in the cortex.
- Sylvain Fischer, Rafael Redondo, Laurent Perrinet, Gabriel Cristobal. Efficient representation of natural images using local cooperation. In Perception, pages 238. 2005, abstract
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- Rafael Redondo, Sylvain Fischer, Laurent Perrinet, Gabriel Cristobal. Simple cells modeling through a sparse overcomplete gabor wavelet representation based on local inhibition and facilitation.. In Perception, pages 238. 2005 abstractWe present a biologically plausible model of simple cortical cells as 1) a linear transform representing edges and 2) a non-linear iterative stage of inhibition and facilitation between neighboring coefficients. The linear transform is a complex log-Gabor wavelet transform which is overcomplete (i.e. there are more coefficients than pixels in the image) and has exact reconstruction. The inhibition consists in diminishing down the coefficients which are not at a local-maxima along the direction normal to the edge filter orientation, whereas the facilitation enhances the collinear and co-aligned local-maximum coefficients. At each iteration and after the inhibition and facilitation stages, the reconstructed error is subtracted in the transform domain for keeping an exact reconstruction. Such process concentrates the signal energy on a few coefficients situated along the edges of the objects, yielding a sparse representation. The rationale for such procedure is: (1) th e overcompleteness offers flexibility for activity reassignment; (2) images can be coded by sparse Gabor coefficients located on object edges; (3) image contours produce aligned and collinear local-maxima in the transform domain; (4) the inhibition/facilitation processes are able to extract the contours.The sparse Gabor coefficients are mostly connected each other and located along object contours. Such layout makes chain coding suitable for compression purposes. Specially adapted to Gabor wavelets features, our chain coding represents every chain by its end-points (head and tail) and the elementary movements necessary to walk along the chain from head to tail. Moreover it predicts the module and phase of each Gabor coefficient according to the previous chain coefficient. As a result, redundancy of the transform domain is further reduced. Used for compression, the scheme limits particularly the high-frequency artifacts. The model performs also efficiently in tasks the Human Visual System is supposed to deal with, as for instance edge extraction and image denoising..
- Sylvain Fischer, Rafael Redondo, Laurent Perrinet, Gabriel Cristobal. Sparse Gabor wavelets by local operations, URL . In Proceedings SPIE, pages 75--86. 2005 abstract
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HeidelbergCement announced the launch of its new three-year financial and operational excellence programme: "FOX 2013".
During the next three years, the company aims to achieve total cumulated cash savings of EUR600m. Therein included are P&L effective financing and operational cost savings of EUR 200m in 2013.
"The continued and consistent focus on cash and cost is a key success factor of our company strategy," explains Dr. Bernd Scheifele, CEO of HeidelbergCement.
"Building on our strong cost and efficiency track record in recent years, we have bundled several cash and cost saving projects in our new three-year financial and operational excellence programme "FOX 2013". Main focus of the programme is on global efficiency improvement for the core activities aggregates and cement.
For cement production, HeidelbergCement wants to achieve a sustainable reduction of energy cost through the OPEX programme (Operational Excellence). In the aggregates business, the company aims to achieve sustainable margin improvements and best practice through comprehensive global benchmarking and portfolio optimisations.
Dr. Scheifele: "We are already the global market leader in aggregates by sales volumes, but now we also want to become the most efficient aggregates producer in the world. In addition, we plan to further reduce our financing cost and have already laid the basis for this in November 2010 with the reduction of the credit margins for our EUR 3bn revolving credit facility. On top of that, we target annual savings from purchasing and an optimization of our working capital, largely derived from DPO improvements in 2011.
"With our "FOX 2013" programme we will further strengthen our competitiveness in order to benefit even more from an improving global market environment for building materials."
The new "FOX 2013" programme targets cash savings of EUR200m in 2011, EUR160m in 2012 and EUR240m in 2013. In 2011, EUR100m are targeted to be achieved from a one time optimisation of working capital, largely derived from DPO improvements.
Savings from purchasing, which are partly price and partly index based, are expected to amount to EUR74m in every single year. P&L effective operational and financing cost savings are planned to increase from EUR 35m in 2011 to EUR110m in 2012 and EUR 200 million in 2013. They include the price based savings from purchasing.
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Financial Consulting for Rockstars
The Bank ends up being a defying feature of all MMO text-based iPhone RPGs that come out of the Storm8 camp. Rockstars Live, just as the rest of them, provides the Bank as a place to safe guard your money against other players. As other Rockstars Live players can challenge you in a rock Battle and take your hard earned dollars the Bank gives you an out to protect it. This is not always the best option, but one that creates an entire dynamic with your virtual Rockstars Live earnings. Here are some tips on using, or not using, the Rockstars Live Bank.
Rockstars Live Bank
When you are at the Rockstars Live Home screen, select Bank from the right hand column. This lies just under My Profile and directly above Therapy. If you have played any of the other Storm8 MMO text-based iPhone RPGs then this interface will be familiar to you. Though it is similar to those in other MMO text-based iPhone RPGs, there is still a certain amount of difference and response to situation that occurs in the Rockstars Live Bank. Once in the Rockstars Live Bank you are going to see your Bank Balance right at the top. Below that will be a single text box if you are new, or two if you already have a balance in the Rockstars Live Bank. The top one in this situation will be the Withdrawal Amount box, while the bottom one will be the Deposit Amount one. When you deposit money into the Rockstars Live Bank a ten percent fee will be taken out of all that money. All withdrawals can be made from the Rockstars Live Bank free of charge.
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The truth is that the ten percent deposit fee scars the Rockstars Live Bank and makes it of much less use. The ten percent fee is less than the normal current in MMO text-based iPhone RPGs, though this is not enough to make it useful. The main reason to use the Rockstars Live Bank is that you have to use your Bank Balance to pay to heal in the Rockstars Live Therapy. This Rockstars Live Therapy system requires that you use only Bank money and not any of your spare cash. This fact should help you decide whether you really want to use the Rockstars Live Therapy option or not .
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Sure to cause waves to lap on the world's shores when she's launched next year, Royal Caribbean's "Project Genesis" cruise liner will be the world's largest. Her stats are appropriately titanic:
• Cost: $1.24 billion dollars.
• Bigger Than: 43 percent larger than the Queen Elizabeth II, the world's previous largest ship. She's 1,180 feet long with a gross tonnage of 220,000, uh, tons.
• Its Own Park: In the middle of the ship is "Central Park," a public garden that's as big as a football field.
• Its Own Amphitheater: The "AquaTheater" at the stern is the "first amphitheater at sea." Note the rock-climbing walls around the edges.
• Its Own Tattoo Parlour/Psychic: It goes without saying: intestinal scarring shouldn't be the only permanent souvenir your bring home from your cruise.
• Plague Opportunities: Standard berthing supports 5,400 passengers, or 6,400 under Sardine Conditions.
• Sister Forthcoming: A second "Oasis Class" ship will be delivered by the Aker Yards in August, 2010.
I'd rather sequester myself on a dinghy with a case of rum and a rotting seal carcass than go on a cruise, but I understand lots of people like to travel to the world's most beautiful locations and view them from the confines of a floating strip mall.
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"So, faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ."
–Romans 10:17
Not too long ago a friend of mine posted on social media airing his disappointment with how "biblically illiterate" our nation has become. He could not understand how people could not know about the basic stories of the Bible. Stories about Noah and the Ark or Jonah and the Whale were some of his examples. He was even more amazed that some of this unfamiliarity with God's Word came from church-going individuals.
It got me thinking about what we can do to help those who lack the basic understanding of who God is and what He has done for us.
Unfamiliarity with God's Word
"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work."
–II Timothy 3:16-7
The technology age has drawn people away from communication through the written word. People do not write anymore, they type. People no longer turn a page, they swipe left. Unless you are an avid reader who must have the physical book in your hand, then it must have been years since you picked up a book, much less a Bible.
With the popularity of the smartphone and tablet, there is an expression that goes around, "There's an App for that." And certainly, there are multiple applications for the Bible. The best part of having in an application form is, you are not stuck with a version, as with a printed form of the Bible. I think one of the biggest turnoffs to those who have a desire to read the Bible; it's the language in which it is written; it's hard to understand. However, there are versions that take out the traditional King James Version language you may have grown up with.
Versions like the New Living Translation (NLT), New International Version (NIV), and English Standard Version (ESV) have simplified the terminology but hold onto the original meaning behind the words. The version I use on this blog is the ESV unless otherwise noted. In a Bible app, you can easily switch between versions and find the one that you are most comfortable reading.
After selecting a version, most applications also have Bible studies, from the simple to the complex, that you can begin to read. The stories my friend was alluding to; Noah can be found in Genesis, as well as stories of creation, Abraham, and Moses; Jonah has his own book, and his story is amazing and a child's favorite. That does not mean that an adult would not enjoy reading it as well.
The basic idea is to read. You can read cover to cover, but a couple of books in, you could get lost with some of the detailed content of genealogies, building the temple, and the laws. Read Genesis and Exodus for sure; then you can move over to Joshua and continue from there. There are stories that for everyone; Biblical truths that withstand the test of time. Nothing is old or outdated. The same God who was with the men and women of the Bible is with you today. Only we have the added benefit of the Holy Spirit, the part of God that indwells in us that gives us understanding.
Unfamiliarity with God's Work
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father."
–John 14:12
When people have an unfamiliarity with God's Word, then they will most likely have an unfamiliarity with God's Work. If you don't know what the Bible says, then how can you expect to use the power that is given to you. Think of it this way; If you don't read the owner's manual, then how will you ever know the full capability of the device. Reading God's Word teaches us about God and the immeasurable love he has for us. As we read the true stories of Joseph, David, Peter, and Paul we can see how God worked in each of them and how His power was on display in their lives.
God is with us, and He loves each of us. The same love He gave Abraham, Ruth, and Solomon, He extends to us today. The more we learn about it, the more we will see it working around us. The more we see His love in action, the more we will witness the wonders His love brings. Then we will begin to appreciate things a more; a sunrise or sunset, the birds flying and chirping about, the voice of a child, and the colors of each season, they all become more vibrant.
How We Become Familiar
"That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us." –Acts 17:27
It all begins with having a personal relationship with Christ. This means that, just like a friend, you get to know them. David knew the Lord, Moses, and Abraham really knew the Lord. The disciples really, really knew the Lord, they walked with him; face to face. The closer these men became to the Lord, the stronger they became in Him. The more they witnessed His work, the more they wanted to know about Him.
The best example of this concept would be the relationship you have with your spouse. There was a time you did not know them, then you were introduced, or perhaps you met by chance. You became intrigued by them. So, you began to see them more, talk with them more, learn more about them. (The key word here is 'more') Each experience and each fact you learned to draw you closer to them. Then you fell in love, got married, and now you live your life together.
It is the same with God. Someone introduces you to Him, you get to know about Him, you share experiences with Him, you fall in love with Him, and you share your life together with Him.
You would think that it would get old; That there is going to eventually be a moment when you know everything about a person, but I am proof that this is not the case. I am knocking on the door of 20 years of marriage, and there is not a week that goes by that I do not learn something new (or a change of sorts) about my spouse.
There is also always something new to learn about God. One of the beauties of reading God's Word is that you can read the same passage one day, then come back to that same passage a month, or a year, down the line, and you will get something completely different out of it. It's like a peanut butter cup, one day you will taste the chocolate, then the next time you eat it, you find yourself enjoying the peanut butter more. The point is that it never gets old.
The Opportunity We Have
"How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent?" -Romans 10:14-15a
I have worked many jobs in my life. I have been a manager or trainer at most of them. The one thing that I have found is that the best employees to train were the ones who had no experience at all. When someone has experience, they will tend to want to do things their way. While a new perspective can be a positive sometimes, most of the time I found it gets in the way of training them the way the company wants things done. They feel that the way they did things at their old job is the way it should be done.
An uneducated Christian does not have years of preconceived ideas about who God is, what he can do, or worse, what he cannot do. If someone has diplomas and degrees in Theology or Religion, then they have been taught what the Word says. There is a difference between what you learn in a classroom and what you learn in the school of hard knocks. I am not trying to discount those who have degrees and doctorates. Without them, we would not have pastors and other teachers. My point is that you learn more from experiencing God's power that learning about God's power. Life experience is more beneficial than a formal education when it comes to learning about God.
I applied for a writing job not too long ago. It was to write a blog about Fatherhood. As most of you know, I am the father of four children. Three boys and a girl. So, I have a tremendous amount of experience when it comes to fatherhood. The client kept on asking me how I would go about writing articles. I continued to narrow down the field to a specific premise. But he wanted more, he then asked me about my education. When I reminded him that I had four kids, he said that he was looking for someone with a Children's Psychology degree and declined me the job. How is a person with a degree and no kids going to succeed over someone who had raised four kids through life experiences?
To educate a new Christian, or even a long-timer, you must draw on their personal experiences to help them relate to different people in the Bible. If they have a loss, you can introduce them to Job. If they feel persecuted, show them stories of Paul and Peter. If they feel unloved, shine the spotlight on Jesus himself. There is someone for everyone.
The stories most of us grew up with sit on the shelf collecting dust because we treat them as stories. Well, these events are not stories; they are history. These events happened. To real people. Real people with real lives; men, women, teenagers, husbands, wives, employers, and employees. Each with their own life event that you and I can relate to. All we need to do is read about it.
We can't look at scriptural unfamiliarity as a negative. We must turn it into a ministry opportunity. It was amazing to me to see the old bible histories come to life as I grew up. The histories I read as a kid are now applicable. To be able to use them now to give illustrations to those who have never heard, or have forgotten, is pretty awesome. Read about them, learn about them, and live with them; then teach what you learn to others.


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Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut -- a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you.
Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to;
but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.


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Like some other successful people, John Platter saw his name become a brand – and a saleable one. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was a leading wine critic and journalist in the Cape, already best known for his enduring achievement: what was first called, in the maiden 1980 edition, John Platter's Book of South African Wines. It's been known by other names since then, but always with "Platter" in the title. He sold the guide, retired from a serious involvement with wine and left for strange and foreign parts – Kwa Zulu Natal! (Though I do know they make some decent wine there these days.)
And now the accomplished journalist is back, with a genial, thoroughly pleasing, somewhat idiosyncratic (and even occasionally rather odd) book, called My Kind of Wine, picking up, more or less, where he left off 16 years back, happily combining freshness of vision with depth of understanding. It's mostly the record of his findings on a "fascinating, palate-stretching" tour around the Cape (and, minimally, KwaZulu-Natal) winelands – a Cape, as he says, "in flamboyant ferment". It should also be pointed out that Erica Platter is also back – a crucial force in the Platter Guide for a long time, she is a force behind the scenes here too.
Although John claims to doubt that there can be "best" in wine, most of the producers (some 60-odd, I'd guess) he writes about so enthusiastically, and the 200-plus wines whose pleasures he records, would generally be recognised as leaders in the field: from well-established ones who were familiar to him from his time in the Cape (Meerlust, Thelema, Hamilton Russell, etc), all the way to the "new wave". Of course there's room to dispute his preferences, and it's perhaps rather a pity that he doesn't seem to recognise the great leaps by the big merchant labels, like Nederberg, KWV Mentors, Bellingham.
As to the range, one of the aspects of this book that I found most interesting is John's alertness to some winelands envy and hostility that I scarcely notice myself – directed primarily from some established owners and winemakers at the avant-garde. He quotes, without divulging his sources, some arrogant, irrelevant and ill-informed comments in his section on the Swartland Revolution: "Scavengers without commitment nor [sic] capital"; "Men at arms without farms"! It's grimly entertaining to guess at who might have come up with those vulgar stupidities.
John himself is generously open to the best of both the traditional and new wave producers; certainly he is highly approving of what has happened in Cape wine in recent decades. His analyses and descriptions are mostly light-hearted though meticulously checked and well-informed, organised by grape variety or wine style, and accompanied by numerous (adequate rather than brilliant) photographs of the people, places and wines he's talking about. The tone, the thrust, of his book is best described by John himself in his foreword: "This is not a systematic – much less a comprehensive – tour of the wine lands. It's a ramble. Written not for the cognoscenti…, but for the less hooked." As such, it is both easy-going and fresh, while those cognoscenti need never fear that they will find nothing of interest.
Some of the interest will be found in a section at the end under the rubric "My take on…". This is a somewhat capricious selection which glosses a few winemaking terms and practices (malolactic fermentation), makes comments – some alarmingly brief – on large subjects (corks and screwcaps, terroir), and has a much lengthier and more valuable discussion of "Wine words, tasting notes". Interestingly, and to me surprisingly, there's no "take" here, or anywhere in My Kind of Wine, on the wider socio-political aspects of the South African wine industry. OK, that subject might be a touch heavy for a light book like this – but should it be so resolutely avoided? I wonder if John found much socially different in the winelands compared to a few decades back, when he got a lot of disheartening flak from the more backward parts of the industry when taking a moderately critical political stance.
John's writing style plays its part in a resolute determination to present wine as an unintimidating source of delight. The many subheadings are in the same breathless genre as a number of recently trendy wine names – and in fact such examples as "Life isn't bad", "Wow oh wow!" and "Ripe tannins murmuring", "Three halves and a renegade" could still end up on some dreadful labels somewhere…. Beneath the subheads, interspersing the eloquent, fluent prose I remember of old, there's a new and rather self-conscious element. Lots of short, punchy sentences. Some are very short. No grammatical subjects. Or verbs. Irritating.
If the above account covers "idiosyncratic", I must yet justify my earlier remark about occasional oddness. Well, right at the very beginning of My Kind of Wine, where habitual book-readers expect a title page, nothing! Perhaps it's my own idiosyncracy to find this disturbing – but it seems to me to be pushing casualness too far. Then, towards the end of the book, there's a brief section called "The advocates" with a portrait of viticulturist Rosa Kruger and her important work, and one of the now hopefully fading American critic Robert Parker. Huh? An important influence, undeniably, but then so are many others, and the styles with which Parker is associated are dealt with passim.
This anomalous inclusion does sort of prepare the reader, with its sudden arbitrariness, to turn the leaf and discover a much longer section, a fifth of the book, of recipes for "Wine country food". Why? Personally, I'd rather have had another 40 pages about John's kind of wine and with further perceptive observations on the Cape wine industry today. But this is mere cavilling. My Kind of Wine is a welcome addition to the short list of good books on Cape wine.
• My Kind of Wine, by John Platter, published by PawPaw; 224 pages; retailing at around R370


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Welcome to the Screen Rant Box Office Prediction. Every week we put together an informal list of box office picks for the upcoming weekend - in collaboration with the Screen Rant Underground podcast Box Office Battle - to offer readers a rough estimate of how new releases (and returning holdovers) will perform in theaters.
For a recap of last week's box office totals, read our box office wrap-up from Lucy's opening weekend - and scroll to the bottom of this post to see how our previous picks measured up.
Full disclosure: Box office predictions are not an exact science. We acknowledge that our picks may not always be correct. For the sake of offering a jumping off point for discussion, here are our picks for the weekend of August 1 - 3, 2014.
This weekend, comic book adaptation Guardians of the Galaxy opens in 3,000 theaters and music biopic Get on Up debuts in over 2,000 locations. In limited release, we have Calvary being released on 4 screens.
#1 - Guardians of the Galaxy
Coming in first this week should be the latest from Marvel Studios, Guardians of the Galaxy. While the movie is probably their riskiest since 2008's Iron Man (the comic book is extremely obscure), a great marketing campaign has helped raise awareness for Star-Lord and friends. The trailers, which combined pulpy genre thrills with a rocking soundtrack generated a lot of attention. Selling audiences on a strange, new world populated by some outrageous characters seems to have worked, as tracking indicates a stellar $73 million opening. Not only that, critics are in love with the new film, with a majority of early reviews praising the work done by director James Gunn.
Positive buzz isn't the only factor helping Guardians this week. The cast sports a couple of big names that could help draw in the uninitiated. We're not talking about the ultra-likable Chris Pratt, who has been a standout in character work over the last few years. We're referring to the men behind the movie's two main CGI creations. Bradley Cooper (voice of Rocket Raccoon) and Vin Diesel (voice of Groot) are two bona fide A-listers with a number of box office hits under their belts recently (and in Diesel's case, more than 82 million Facebook fans). Having these two doing publicity for the film will help it reach a wide audience, leading to more potential ticket sales. When it's all said and done, moviegoers should be hooked on a feeling that the Guardians are the next big thing, making Marvel's decision to date the sequel a smart one.
#2 - Lucy
Look for last week's champ, Lucy (read our review), to finish in second this weekend. Using Scarlett Johansson's increased star power to its advantage, Luc Besson's latest surpassed expectations with a $43.8 million debut. It obviously won't be able to compete with the Marvel machine, but it should still hold well given the relative lack of competition as we approach the stretch run of the summer season. Even though reception was generally mixed, it managed to outperform similar titles, giving us reason to believe it will do solid business again.
#3 - Get on Up
Our pick for third is the James Brown biopic, Get on Up. Star Chadwick Boseman rose to fame last year when he portrayed Jackie Robinson in 42 (over $95 million) and director Tate Taylor's last film was the commercially successful Best Picture nominee The Help ($169.7 million). This gives the film some key selling points that will make it appealing to viewers. Also, Get on Up could emerge as a counter-programming option for audiences looking for an alternative to superheroes, sci-fi, and action extravaganzas. Projected for a $20 million opening, it's unlikely it becomes a crossover hit, but it'll be a viable choice for this week at least.
#4 - Hercules
Number four this week should be Hercules (read our review). As the world awaits the answer to whether or not the Rock is playing Shazam, moviegoers aren't all that interested in seeing the action star in something else. Opening at $29.8 million, its debut was serviceable, but not that remarkable for a summer blockbuster. With Guardians of the Galaxy arriving, the demand for Hercules will continue to drop (not that it was that high to begin with), leading to a fall down the charts.
#5 - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Rounding out the top five should Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (read our review). Fox's sequel made an additional $16.7 million last week to raise its domestic total to $172.4 million. Critics and audiences agree that Matt Reeves directed one of the best sequels of the year, but a majority of its box office damage has already been done. Dawn has been a big hit, but Guardians will take away viewers, causing Caesar to see a further decrease in profits. That said, it's holding well enough thanks to great word-of-mouth that another finish in the top five is plausible.
#10 - Transformers: Age of Extinction
Our tiebreaker this week is Transformers: Age of Extinction (read our review), which finished in seventh place last week.
That's it for this week's breakdown.
Now, if you want to participate in the weekly Box Office Battle, it's time for you to make your picks! In the comments section below, post what you think will be the top five movies this weekend at the box office as well as your own number ten tiebreaker. Then, tune into the Screen Rant Underground podcast for the results and find out who won.
Opening in theaters this week (Wide):
- Guardians of the Galaxy - 3,800 theaters
- Get on Up - 2,000+ theaters
Opening in theaters this week (Limited):
- Calvary - 4 theaters
Box Office Battle Scoring Rules: You get three (3) points for each direct match with the weekend actuals and one (1) point for each movie placed within one spot of the exact position. A perfect score is 15 points. Tie-breakers are not worth any points but, in the event of a tie, the person with a tie-breaker selection closest to the number 10 spot will be awarded the win.
Last Week's Official Box Office Battle Reader Winner (Lucy opening): Sal reports that there was an unprecedented six-way tie. Chris B., The Prince That Was Promised, Jones, Peter Gecko, Roderick, and Troy all finished with 11 points and equal tiebreakers.
For the record, here are our picks from last week - along with the corresponding amount of points we received for each pick (listed in parenthesis).
- #1 - Lucy (3)
- #2 - Hercules (3)
- #3 - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (3)
- #4 - The Purge: Anarchy (3)
- #5 - Planes: Fire and Rescue (3)
- #10 - 22 Jump Street
- Final Score: 15 points
Make sure to check back later this week for the official box office results and tune into the Screen Rant Underground podcast for the weekly winners!
Follow Chris on Twitter @ChrisAgar90
Source: Box Office Mojo (Release Schedule)


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A Colossal Mistake
My goal is to post one comment per day. However, today's trade sanctions against China cannot go without a response.
Let me join those condemning today's reckless act of political expediency.
Whatever the US government thinks will be the benefits of its actions are far outweighed by the downside consequences of this regrettable step toward protectionism. Clearly, this is precisely one of the key risk factors that has been noted in prior comments made here and elsewhere.
Investment Strategy Implications
The initial knee jerk reaction by the equity markets was the correct one - down in a heartbeat. With next week being a shortened trading week and the start of an uncertain earnings season, the odds of the equity markets making a new low have increased significantly.
Today's political decision and others to follow in the form of protectionistic legislation have added to the already high degree of uncertainty that far too many investors so sanguinely dismiss. However, if, for liquidity reasons and the noted "Misalignment Triangle", investors choose to ignore this real economy disaster in the making, then I believe they will join the politicians in making a truly colossal mistake.
Try to have a good weekend. Going forward, it may not be pretty.


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Important Bill Payment InformationOnline Bill Payment Users: After conversion on August 27, Bill Payment processing changes will affect the timing of debits from your accounts:
• PREVIOUS ONLINE BILL PAYMENT (prior to 8/27/18):
Payments were debited from your account on, or after, the due date you set for your payment. This leaves you sometimes wondering when the funds may come out of your account because you are waiting for the biller to cash your payment.
• NEW ONLINE BILL PAYMENT (after 8/27/18):
Under the new model, payments will be debited on the day you select. This will be 2-4 days prior to the delivery date. This gives you more control on when the funds are debited from your account. You will know when the money is set to come out of your account.
NOTE: If you have pending payments to be paid after August 27, 2018, see below. This is only for future payments which carried over from the old system to the new TBO. After August 27, the day you choose to pay will be the debit date, giving you greater control of when your money is debited from your account.
At the time of the upgrade to the new Bill Payment system, any recurring or pending payment will shift from the current funding model to the new model which will result in payments debiting your account sooner than you are accustomed to. Typically, national merchants (electronic payees) will shift forward two days and local payees (check payees) will shift forward four days. We want to make sure you are aware of the date changes.
Here is a sample of how pending payments, which are currently scheduled past August 27, would pay under our current payment model versus the new payment model.
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eBills did NOT carry over to the new TBO. You will need to re-establish this service.
Not sure if you had an eBill? An eBill arrives from a biller into your online Bill Payment service the same way a paper bill arrives from a biller into your mailbox. This service is usually available from national retailers. If you use eBills in True Blue Online®, you would receive copies of your statements from various billers within online banking.
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I hope I am not confusing you because I am posting backward a bit here; last week I posted Beach 9 and this week Beach 6.
One of the fun aspects of these abstracts is that they are non-directional. I.E., there is no right-side-up, no up-side-down, no sideways. Vertically they can work nicely at one end of a hall or corridor or in those often empty walls of a stairway or entry. Or horizontally over a sofa or as shown here, over a fireplace.
This week I created a Twitter account!, just barely. I still need time to become familiar with it. Right now it is so foreign that when I am on it I feel lost and I don't quite know what to do with it. Sometime soon I will add a Twitter button to my blog and you can try Twitter if you haven't already.


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ngNOG 2009Submitted by Lapshak Goshwe on Mon, 2009-11-16 16:17.
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All content can then be edited independent of the original app. If your original Yapp had a News Feed, Social Feed, or Crowd Pics page full of user posts, those posts won't transfer, so you'll have a fresh page.
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Researchers are setting up a company to look at making the burger tastier and cheaper.
Peter Verstrate, head of the new firm, said the product, which was first created by Professor Mark Post at Maastricht University in The Netherlands, would help serve the growing demand for meat.
The team had a prototype cooked and eaten in London two years ago that cost 215,000 pounds to make.
"I feel extremely excited about the prospect of this product being on sale. And I am confident that when it is offered as an alternative to meat that increasing numbers of people will find it hard not to buy our product for ethical reasons," Verstrate told 'BBC News'.
"I am confident that we will have it on the market in five years," he said.
Verstrate said the product would be on the supermarket shelves once a demand had been established and the price comes down.
The burger is made from stem-cells: the templates from which specialised tissue such as nerve or skin cells develop.
Researchers are finding ways to keep up with the growing demand for meat. Traditional farming methods will need to use more energy, water and land - and the consequent increase in greenhouse gas emission will be substantial.
Stem cells are extracted from cow muscle tissue. These are cultured with nutrients and growth-promoting chemicals in the laboratory to help them develop and multiply.
Three weeks later, there are more than a million stem cells, which are put into smaller dishes where they coalesce into small strips of muscle about a centimetre long and a few millimetres thick.
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Life nowadays is busy and fast-paced that even finding a reliable HVAC service is no longer an easy task. Having a professional contractor who can help you with repairing or installing your heating or air conditioning needs is extremely important in preparation for the hot summer or cold winter. You have to prepare in advance in order to find the best equipment to use, as well as finding the best HVAC contractor. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you are not ready for the weather.
There are complicated repairs that need to be done by experienced technician only such as repairing a gas furnace system. Any issues you will have with this type of system is a serious one and should not be done all by yourself. This is to ensure your safety and to avoid further repair costs.
Here are five tips on finding helpful heating and cooling HVAC service in your area.
- Check if the HVAC service company has a license.
One of the best ways on finding the best contractor in your area is verifying if they have a license. This is to ensure that the company you are hiring is legit. This will also reassure you that they have knowledge and skills to perform this kind of work. By doing this step; it will ensure you that you will have an easy way of finding a reliable HVAC contractor.
- Learn from other's experiences.
Prior to hiring a HVAC service, check out the reviews they are getting from people who have worked with them. Hear what other people have to say as you will most likely experience the same thing. Know the quality of work that was performed in their homes as well as how customer service is delivered. It would be best to have an idea of the technician's work ethic and works they have completed in the past. For instance, hear what others have to say on Furnace Service Seattle contractors before hiring them.
- Get an opinion from the experts.
If you want to directly get a suggestion, you can definitely approach professional contractors from certifying groups. Find a group in your area that is committed to delivering reliable and quality HVAC services. These professionals are the ones conducting training and skills certification for contractors. Ask for their suggestion on which you should hire for your HVAC service needs.
- Learn beforehand if the contract knows your system.
Before booking for a contractor, you need to inform them beforehand about your system and if they have any experience with the kind of system that you have. It would cost you more money in the future if you hire a HVAC service company that is unable to do exactly what needs to be done or install.
- Look for a HVAC contractor that does size assessment.
Reliable HVAC service companies do size assessment on homes in order to determine the type of unit and service your home requires. Prior to your exact appointment, they may discuss some technology that will ensure your home gets what it needs.
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I have been shaving sleep the last week or so and went to be early/on time last night to try and feel more rested today. Yay me!
I woke up at what my brain told me was 6:30 a.m. in a panic because I had somehow slept through my alarms and missed my gym practice window. Mind was racing about whether I could somehow reschedule my workday for a later start and still fit it (practice) in this morning. Springing up and out of bed, grabbed my phone and headed for the bathroom, thinking about the club's parking lot being repaved and how dark it is …
Then I looked at my phone clock – it WAS 11:57. It was still REALLY dark outside. M, whose alarm goes off at 2:45, was still soundly sleeping. Brain was messing with me.
I am such a doofus for believing it. But I was so relieved. Another 3.75 hours until my alarm went off. Thankfully I am someone who has zero issues falling right back to sleep.


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I always always always wanted to try KIMCHI and RAMEN. Why?
Someday, my hubby brought me a movie named "Le Grand Chef 2 : Kimchi Battle"
In that movie, I saw that Kimchi is so adorable food for Korean people.
Here is the trailer
From wiki,
Kimchi, also spelled gimchi, kimchee, or kim chee, is a traditional fermented Korean dish made of vegetables with varied seasonings. Kimchi may also refer to unfermented vegetable dishes.[1][2][3] There are hundreds of varieties of kimchi made with a main vegetable ingredient such as napa cabbage, radish, green onions or cucumber.[4] It is the most common banchan, or side dish, in Korean cuisine. Kimchi is also a main ingredient for many popular Korean dishes such as kimchi stew (kimchi jjigae), kimchi soup (kimchiguk), and kimchi fried rice (kimchi bokkeumbap)
I forget when I began to curious about Ramen, maybe when Naruto manga or a Japan TV show named 26 hour/day was showing in TV.
From wiki,
Ramen is a Japanese noodle dish. It consists of Chinese-style wheat noodles served in a meat- or fish-based broth, often flavored with soy sauce or miso, and uses toppings such as sliced pork, dried seaweed, kamaboko, green onions, and occasionally corn. Almost every locality in Japan has its own variation of ramen, from the tonkotsu (pork bone broth) ramen of Kyushu to the miso ramen of Hokkaido.
I like noodles, especially boiled noddles. Some of you may know instant noodles: Indomie? My favourite flavour are chicken curry and onion chicken.
"Yeah. maybe someday, when I can travelling around the world and having opportunity to visit Korea and Japan, I will trying both Kimchi and Ramen noodles."
Oh, i almost forgot. Have you ever tried traditional food from my birthplace, West Sumatra?
When, you have the opportunity to come to Indonesia, and you visited West Sumatra, don't forget to eat Nasi Kapau at Bukittinggi ^_^
That's my favorite place to eat! Recommended!


text: Session 2 Good Eats A cooking class was added to the daily routine of the LEARN participants as part of their health classes this summer. The following are recipes that were shared with the session 2 kids. Please let us know if you try any of them. Dandelion's Banana Bread Yields: 1 loaf Banana bread is a great snack for dessert and can actually be really healthy. We made sure that it was really healthy by cutting the amount of butter, and therefore fat, that was being used by substituting it with apple sauce. Apple sauce is really good to use in baking because it also leaves your baked goods nice and moist. 1 cup flour 1/4 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp cinnamon 2 large eggs 3 medium ripe bananas (the browner the better) 2/3 cup sugar 1/8 cup softened butter 1/2 cup apple sauce Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and lightly flour a loaf pan. In a small bowl mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. In another bowl, beat the butter until light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat until combined. Stir in the eggs, apple sauce and bananas. Stir in the dry ingredients. DON'T OVERMIX. Pour mixture into the loaf pan. Bake for about 1 hour or until the toothpick comes out clean. Pipkin's Old Fashioned Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Yields: 30-34 cookies Although this is a cookie, it is a really healthy cookie. Oatmeal is really healthy food because it contains lots of fiber. This recipe also uses brown sugar instead of white which is much healthier and much less processed. 2 cups of old fashioned oats 1 1/4 cup flour 3/4 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground ginger 3/4 cup butter 1 cup packed dark brown sugar 2 tsp vanilla extract 1 cup raisins Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In a large mixing bowl whisk together the oatmeal, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger. In an electric mixer beat your butter and brown sugar until fluffy, scraping the sides of the bowl when needed. Add in your eggs one at a time until fully incorporated and then add the vanilla extract. On low speed, slowly add in the dry ingredients, scraping down the sides. When combined increase to mediums speed until all the ingredients are combined. Add in the raisins and combine for 30 seconds. Using a spoon, roll about a 1in ball of dough and slightly flatten with the palm of your hand, place on the cookie sheet about 2in apart from one another. Bake for 13-14 minutes, remove from oven and let sit on the cookie sheet for 4 minutes and then transfer to wire rack to cool completely. Speedwell's Stuffing As part of our Thanksgiving dinner the girls of Speedwell made themselves some delicious homemade stuffing. We did not follow an exact recipe but I will fill you in on what we did. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Rip or cut up bread into bite size pieces. Stale bread works fantastic for this. Place these directly into a baking pan. Cut up carrots, celery and onions into small chunks. Probably 1 onion and 2 carrot and celery sticks should be enough. Combine the vegetables and bread and season with pepper and oregano. Add your favorite broth. This is where it gets tricky without a measurement. You want enough broth so that the stuffing is saturated, but you don't want so much broth that your stuffing becomes soggy. I would suggest that it is best if you start with a smaller amount and as it bakes if it looks like it is drying out, add more. Put in the oven for 30 minutes but check periodically if you are unsure about the broth. Hrairoo & Boxwood's Cabbage Slaw and Corn Salsa Both of these items are super healthy. Cabbage has lots of vitamin A which is great for eye sight. They also have a great mexican flare so don't be afraid to kick up the spices. Cabbage Slaw 1 red cabbage, shredded or finely chopped 3 carrots, shredded or finely chopped 3 apples, chopped into thin strips Dressing: Lime juice Olive Oil Garlic powder salt and pepper Chop up all ingredients and put in a bowl. Add an equal amount of lime juice and olive oil and taste as you go, you don't want it to be too powerful without over powering. Season with garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste. The longer that you allow it to sit, the more the flavors will soak in. Corn Salsa 1lb of frozen or fresh corn 3 tomatoes 1 bunch of cilantro Thaw corn in water and set aside. Cut up tomato and cilantro. Strain corn and combine all ingredients. Sprinkle with lemon juice and season to taste. Hazelnut's Franks in a Blanket We do that to admit that this recipe is quite down low on the health scale but it allowed us to bring up information on processed and fast foods and how they should be eaten in moderation, if at all. This is another recipe that doesn't have a recipe but it is very self explanatory. The Girls had a really fun time getting to make and knead their own biscuit dough. This is something that a lot of them had not done before. We used a simple bisquick recipe but if you are feeling more adventurous you can make the dough from scratch. Then roll out the dough until it is at the desired thickness, keeping in mind that the dough may rise a little when making. Cut the dough into either triangles or rectangles that are two inches long, getting as many strips as you can. Then wrap the dough around beef hot dogs and bake until the dough is crispy and golden brown. Strawberry's Pancakes The Strawberry Boys got a chance to make pancakes from scratch. Although there was no whole wheat flour used to make them either healthier, we truly believe that something that you just don't have to add water is much better for you. To add a healthy twist to these pancakes we loaded the batter with blueberries. 1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour 2 tbs sugar 2 tsp baking powder 1 egg beaten 1 cup milk 2 tbs cooking oil Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and ½ tsp salt. Combine egg, milk and oil; add all at once to the flour mixture stirring till blended but still slightly lumpy. Pour about ¼ cup batter onto a hot lightly greased griddle or frying pan. Cook Cook until golden brown on the pan side and bubbly surface and slightly dry ages. Makes about 8 4-inch pancakes. Bluebell's Apple Sauce Apple sauce is very very easy to make. It can contain as little as one ingredient or can have a bunch of additional toppings. Apples also have a lot of really good health benefits so they are a great thing to keep in your diet. Apple sauce is made by peeling and cutting apples and sweating them out in a pot. Cut more apples than you would think because they will shrink down in size. Water needs to be added to the pot or the apples will burn, although that is also delicious because it caramelizes. To spice it up add cinnamon and brown sugar or maple syrup.To make this an amazing snack on a hot day, freeze into popsicles and drizzle with caramel (optional). Silver's Bean Salad Silver got the chance to make a very healthy salad. They had a lot of fun pouring and rinsing the 10 lb cans of beans. 1 can chickpeas 1 can kidney beans 3 cups of green beans Strain and rinse the chickpeas and black beans. Add lightly steam or fresh green beans. Dress with oil, apple cider vinegar, parsley, dill, garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Attachment Posted on Tue, July 23, 2013 by Fiver Staff


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Vintage Kuchi necklace.
Regular price $320.00
Tax included.
these amazing One of a kind statement neck pieces are sourced from the Kuchi tribes in Pakistan.
Each one differs with coins and trinkets made from old silver metal.
Sizes approx 25x35cm
Can be polished up if your prefer a newer look, but we love the old patina.


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I am thrilled to announce that my first novel, a YA urban fantasy titled HEIR TO THE LAMP, has found a home with World Weaver Press! I can hardly believe those words. My genie story, born of a desire to put some of the anecdotal stories of my favorite young people (those I birthed and assorted others) on paper lest they ever forget accidentally starving a hamster to death or aspiring to be garbage truck drivers, is going to be published and available all over the world!
I can't stop smiling...or writing the book's Acknowledgements page in my head. There are so many people to thank, but for now I'll start with Eileen Wiedbrauk and Elizabeth Wagner of World Weaver Press. Thanks for giving Virginia and her wacky family a home.
I'll be passing along details about the publication and availability of HEIR TO THE LAMP as they become available. Here's WWP's official announcement:


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At Walt Disney World Resort, we live in a world where dreams come true and magic lies around every corner, something that Walt Disney had hoped for long ago when he dreamed of this place. On Dec. 5 (coincidentally, Walt's birthday!), we celebrated the 45th anniversary of the "Most Magical Place on Earth" and the cast members that have helped keep the magic alive for guests all these years. At an event made just for participants, we wanted to return the favor and give them some magical moments by providing an unforgettable night filled with music, laughter and of course Disney! Here's a look at what some of our participants were able to enjoy at Winter Formal: 45 Years of Magic:
Rare character meet and greets
Participants meet classic characters from various lands in Magic Kingdom Park including Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, Br'er Bear and Br'er Fox, Genie and Mickey and Minnie!
Themed photo booths
Positioned along the walls of the exhibit halls were themed photo booths. Participants were given various props to use and could pick up these photo strips instantly or have them sent digitally.
DJ entertainment
Our dance floor was lively the entire night as the DJ's kept people on their toes – literally – switching between popular songs of today and cherished throwbacks. They even surprised the audience with a special shout out to Magic Kingdom Park by playing the soundtrack of Wishes Nighttime Spectacular.
Full catered meal
Participants had access to an endless buffet throughout the night that included pesto chicken, pasta, roasted vegetables, salad and a decadent chocolate bread pudding. Those looking for a snack could stop by one of our nacho bars.
See what a little wishing can do?


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John Montgomery dreamt of working in film and television from a very early age. For the past 3 decades John has lived that dream, honing his craft as a visual effects artist on high-end systems such as Flame and Smoke. In this candid interview John reveals how he got started in the industry, and came to be co-founder of FXGuide and FXPhd. We discuss the relevance of high-end systems compared with desktop software such as Adobe After Effects, and talk in detail about FXPhd and what makes it different from other web-based visual effects training.
John Montgomery
Hi guys,
I'm joining fxphd.com tonight. This stuff really gets my blood pumping.
Thanks for everything guys.
You won't regret it Denis! I've learned so much in just 2 terms there it's astounding.
John(s) you just keep bringin' the goods! Love it.
great interview. insightful and nice to hear about the philosophy of why they started fxphd.
Awesome interview…and timely! I signed up in January at FxPHD and I think it is fantastic!
I loved the one term that I took at FXPhd. In the future I plan on taking more.
On a different note I live 2 hrs away from where John lived and marched in the Drum Corps International shows he spoke about. Small world.
That was a cool show, Ive been doing FXphd for a bit now and it really is a good place.
When are you going to hold a class John?
I'm surprised you didn't mention you're extensive skeleton training and gold medal;)
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text: Have you been wondering what Carrie Brownstein is up to now that Sleater Kinney has disbanded? We had forgotten to! Anyway, it turns out that she randomly but wonderfully has a sketch comedy website with Fred Armisen now. The one about a feminist bookstore deciding what can and cannot go on the bulletin board is particularly amazing. "My problem with this one is, when I see this drumhead, I see a woman's face. A woman's face on Super Bowl Sunday."


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Personification In The Most Dangerous Game
What are some examples of personification in "The Most Dangerous Game"?
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When we personify something, we give it human characteristics. For example, if I said, "The flower stretched toward the sun's rays," we are giving the flower the characteristic of "stretching," a word normally used for human beings. Personification is a figurative language technique used to make writing more descriptive and interesting.
In "The Most Dangerous Game," author Richard Connell uses personification throughout. On the very first page he uses it to describe the evening heat.
"'Can't see it,' remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht" (Connell 1).
The night can't really "press" its blackness. Connell is personifying the night here.
A little later Whitney asks Rainsford if he has noticed that "the crew's nerves seemed a bit jumpy today" (Connell 1). Again, nerves don't really jump. Jumpy is a word we sometimes use to express the state of being nervous.
After Whitney retires to bed, Rainsford is left alone on the deck of the ship. Connell describes the night once again using personification. "The sensuous drowsiness of the night was on him" (Connell 2) Drowsiness is a human trait he is using for the darkness.
When Rainsford falls overboard and after swimming vigorously for some time reaches the shore, he is happy to hear a particular sound.
"Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears--the most welcome he had ever heard--the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore" (Connell 3)
Here Connell describes the sea as "muttering." People mutter, and Connell chooses this particular word to personify the sea.
These are just a few examples of personification in "The Most Dangerous Game." If you read carefully, you will find many more!
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Personification is the giving of human characteristics to non-human/non-living things. An example of personification is: the wind screams at me. Here, the wind is given the capability to scream at the speaker. Wind cannot scream and, therefore, it is personified.
In Richard Connell's short story, The Most Dangerous Game, there are many examples of personification.
1. "Trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht" is an example of personification based upon the fact that the night is pressing itself (its warm thick blackness") on the yacht. Darkness cannot press itself upon something. Therefore, it is personified in the text.
2. "Who cares how a jaguar feels?" "Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney. Here, the jaguar is given the ability to care. This, therefore, is an example of personification based upon the fact that the jaguar is given (or assumed to possess) the ability to care.
3. "A sharp hunger was picking at him." This is another example of personification given that hunger is able to "pick" at Rainsford. Hunger cannot "pick" at someone. Therefore, it is personified by being given the ability to do so.
Personification is a type of figurative language in which human qualities are given to non-human entities, such as animals, objects, or concepts. Authors use this literary tool to enliven their writing and represent moods and ideas in easily understood ways. Personification abounds in The Most Dangerous Game. Here are some examples:
1. The first use of personification occurs when Rainsford and Whitney discuss Ship-Trap Island at the beginning of the story. Rainsford tries to peer through the night "as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht." In this example, the intangible concept of night is given the human ability to press in upon the yacht. To the reader, this use of personification imbues the darkness with an imposing, spooky quality.
2. When Rainsford tumbles from the yacht into the sea, personification is used in the following way: "Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears—the most welcome he had ever heard—the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore." Here, a non-living entity, the sea, is given the human ability to mutter. Personification is used in this instance to position the sea as an angry, frustrated opponent of Rainsford.
3. In Death Swamp, Rainsford encounters a patch of quicksand, which the writer states "sucked at his foot viciously." This, too, is an example of personification, as the inanimate quicksand is described not only as sucking at Rainsford's foot, but as performing this action viciously. Personification is used here to heighten the mood as Rainsford fights his way to safety, encountering increasingly formidable "enemies," such as this personified quicksand.
Authors use the literary device of personification to give human characteristics to inhuman things, such as objects, natural elements, and animals. In Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," Connell uses personification, and its opposite, zoomorphism, to blur the line between humans and animals, giving weight to General Zaroff's perspective that men are simply the most elusive prey, and forcing Rainsford to sympathize with the animals he once pursued as a big-game hunter.
Connell's use of personification begins early on, as Rainsford and Whitney debate how human-like an animal can be. Rainsford asks, "Who cares how a jaguar feels?" Whitney retorts, "Perhaps the jaguar does." This exchange not only shows Whitney attributing emotional "feelings" to the jaguar, but it also demonstrates Connell's use of irony, in that Rainsford will soon feel like prey himself.
Connell again heightens the connection between humans and animals, when he uses personification to describe the hounds as "raising their voices as they hit the fresh scent." The hounds have taken on the human quality of voice in their pursuit of Rainsford, and that quality serves to allow Rainsford to know "how an animal at bay feels."
Connell also uses zoomorphism to strengthen the link between Rainsford and the animals he once preyed upon. In fact, Connell describes Rainsford as "like a panther" in his attempts to avoid Zaroff's bullet, when Rainsford himself debated the feelings of the jaguar at the beginning of the story. Rainsford realizes that he is the "mouse" and Zaroff is the "cat" in this game, lending weight to Zaroff's view of humans as animals.
Connell utilizes several similes to further compare Zaroff and Rainsford to animals. He writes that Zaroff "leaped back with the agility of an ape" and that Rainsford began to dig "like some huge prehistoric beaver." By comparing his human characters to animals, Connell pushes the reader toward understanding Zaroff's perspective that humans are another form of game.
Thus, by using personification and zoomorphism, Connell establishes the connection between humans and animals, and allows the reader greater insight into Zaroff's argument. However, Connell's greatest feat may be the sly implication, through attributing animal characteristics to Zaroff, that not only are humans the most dangerous game, but that humans are also the most dangerous predator.
Personification is a literary device whereby the author uses human-like qualities such as emotion, gesture, and speech to illuminate the portrayal of an animal, concept, or object. Numerous examples of personification are interspersed throughout The Most Dangerous Game. The following are merely a few such examples:
1. As Rainsford attempts to catch a glimpse of the approaching island, the night was "palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht." Here the night is given a description of purposefully drawing in upon Rainsford's boat, as if the night was a sentient being.
2. After Rainsford loses his balance and falls into the ocean, his cries for help are to no avail. "The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea dosed over his head." Notice the Caribbean Sea is described as having warm blood, as if it is alive and trying to overcome Rainsford.
3. While swimming towards the island, in desperation, Rainsford makes out the silhouette of a grand mansion; "On three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows." Again, the sea is made to appear as greedy with human lips, grasping for more and more dominion in the form of humans and land. Also, the cliffs are said to be diving down--a human action.
Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to inanimate objects, ideas, or nature (including animals). In "The Most Dangerous Game," descriptions of the sea provide good examples of personification.
"Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears . . . the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore." The author personifies the sea by giving it the ability to speak (as opposed to just making noise when its waves hit shore). This, in turn, suggests that the sea has thoughts or moods. What kind of mood would lead someone to mutter and growl? How does the sea's "mood" fit with the overall mood or tone of the scene?
"His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau . . . and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows." In this sentence, personification is used twice: (1) the cliffs are described as taking action (diving, which cliffs, as inanimate objects, cannot do), and (2) the sea is described as having "greedy lips" that it is licking. When the sea is described this way, how does it make the reader feel about the situation that the main character is facing? Does it add intensity or deeper meaning to the main conflict in the story between the protagonist (Rainsford) and the antagonist (General Zaroff)? When you see personification used in a story, asking questions like these can help you understand what the author is trying to get across to the reader, and will also help you see whether the author does a good job of accomplishing that goal.
Here are some examples of personification, the definition of which is listed in the above answer, from A Most Dangerous Game.
1. "The wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face"
Obviously a wave cannot truly slap a man across the face but in this case the wave is being given the human attribute of the power to slap with a physical body part.
2. "The muttering and growling of the sea breaking upon the shore"
Not only can the sea not mutter and growl, those are purely human/animal traits, the sea itself cannot actually break as a piece of china or such could.
3. "Night was beginning to settle down on the island."
Night, an intangible object, cannot settle down as could a physical being who can choose a specific place to rest or stay put.
4. "Sleep did not visit Rainsford"
Sleep, an inhuman state of consciousness is being compared to one with the capacity to physically be in the vicinity of another.