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As professional beauty buffs, we're constantly reaching out to makeup artists to learn best practices for wrangling all sorts of products. Full of life-changing tips and secrets, it's easy to forget these virtuosos didn't come into the world pre-armed with ace eyeliner skills and wearing a brush belt. So, recently we got to thinking, who taught these talented makeup mavericks all they know? (And how do we contact those geniuses?) Of course, the people responsible for unleashing trained makeup artists upon the world are none other than pro teachers. (Think of them as the experts tasked with developing the next breed.) Amber Moxey and Rox Baldan are two such individuals. Both work as trainers at The Makeup Institute, a prestigious Sydney makeup school dedicated to coaching the next generation of Charlotte Tilburys and Michael Ashtons.
Savvy to every beauty hack in the book, and full of advice on how to make it as a successful makeup artist, we reached out to Moxley and Baldan and asked them to divulge all they know. From the most common mistakes they see even the most experienced artists make, to the best career advice they've received, we've got the insider intel on what it takes to make it as a pro.
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BYRDIE AUSTRALIA: What are the most common mistakes you see less experienced makeup artists make?
ROX BALDAN: Firstly, don't always insist you know everything. Assist where required, especially when working in a team, and follow directions from seasoned professionals, even if you are only removing nail polish. Also, not doing enough research or being prepared for the job—this is fundamental. If you don't understand what is required, don't assume. Always ask questions, pay attention to detail, take notes, and never deviate or stray from what is asked.
AMBER MOXEY: I think in the beginning there is a tendency to freeze up a little if something isn't working, but with time and practice there is a shift and we start becoming more solution-based and become able to troubleshoot with confidence. It's also important to make mistakes; it's a crucial part of learning. Some of the best work comes from making a mistake.
"Always ask questions, pay attention to detail, take notes, and never deviate or stray from what is asked."
B: Are there any mistakes you see even quite experienced makeup artists make?
RB: Not breaking old habits to create new fresh ones. Don't get too comfortable—push the boundaries and challenge your skills. Not staying current and forecasting trends is another mistake. Along with miscommunication when it comes to breaking down the brief—it's important to be clear. Not having a product or running out of something mid-job is another error I've seen. Often, things go wrong creatively, or you're just having a bad day. This happens as well. Lastly, I've seen so many artists get lost on their way to a job, and end up late. Always leave yourself enough time.
AM: Assuming your assistant or less experienced artists have nothing to teach you.
"Seek out any opportunity to learn. Even if you are specialised in one area STAY OPEN—everyone has something to offer."
B: If there were one thing you wish you could impart on all of your students, what would it be?
RB: I would say determination. Be fierce in a good way! When I moved to Sydney I knew two people. I didn't have a job and had $800 left after the move. I had to start all over again and had loads of rejections. I did a range of jobs from hairdressing to promotions for various cosmetic brands—even spraying fragrance on blotters in department stores. I eventually began studying makeup again while I was working in a hairdressing salon four days a week to pay my rent. I was flat-out all seven days. Once completing my studies, I was employed as an educator, but after a few years the school shut its doors and I was out of a job again. I remember doing a "Thelma and Louise", packing my little car with a surfboard inside and driving to the Gold Coast with my flatmate. Then an opportunity came along as a "wiggy" in the theatre musical Showboat. I had minimal experience, but I did learn not to melt wigs in the oven! After a few months, the stars aligned when MAC launched in Australia in 1998, and I began working there.
AM: Seek out any opportunity to learn. Even if you are specialised in one area STAY OPEN—everyone has something to offer.
B: In your experience, what traits do all successful working makeup artists have in common?
RB: Drive, being self-motivated, an ability to work very hard either solo or in a team, and adaptability to change. These things need to be in the natural core of your being.
AM: Excellent interpersonal skills, a willingness to share their experience and knowledge, and humility.
"A lot goes into the decision-making process inside the mind of an artist, before the brush ever touches the face."
B: What's something most people would be surprised to learn about makeup artist training?
RB: There are many layers to makeup artist training and it is a continual learning cycle throughout your career. You are forever pushing your creativity. However, you must also understand business structures, how to establish industry networks, and how to build business relationships. Training can be intense. At The Makeup Institute, the Diploma of Screen and Media in Specialist Makeup Services takes 40 weeks to complete, and during this time you must also complete industry experience.
AM: The theory side. We study history, colour theory, and human anatomy, just to scratch the surface. A lot goes into the decision-making process inside the mind of an artist, before the brush ever touches the face.
"Accept the career-defining moments even if [you're] afraid, and don't give up."
B: What's the biggest career mistake you think a budding makeup artist could make?
RB: Not accepting career-defining opportunities out of fear or self-doubt, or being put off by knock-backs.
AM: Speaking negativity about other professionals in the community. It gets you nowhere, fast.
B: And on the flipside, what's the best thing they could do?
RB: Accept the career-defining moments even if they're afraid, and don't give up.
AM: There is so much talent out there and the makeup world is competitive. What sets you apart may not be your skill set, so ask questions. Say YES. Work hard. Pay attention. Be humble. Use manners. So much of what we do involves working with people that we meet for the first time on the day. Great energy and positive vibes go a long way. You want to be remembered for the right reasons.
B: What kind of personality do you think does best in your industry?
RB: You have to be quite flexible and personable. Being able to adapt to different working environments in film, television or other entertainment industries is key. You must always be professional and engaging, on the ball and in the moment.
AM: All types. As long as you can be flexible and solution-based.
"What sets you apart may not be your skill set, so ask questions. Say YES. Work hard, pay attention, be humble and use manners."
B: What's the worst thing a client could say to a budding makeup artist?
RB: "Take it off!" Or just to ask for another makeup artist. How crushing. But, it happens to experienced makeup artists too.
AM: Communication is key. When you are starting out it's important to be honest about your skill level. Because you never want anyone to request something you can't deliver on.
B: What are the most common setbacks for budding makeup artists?
RB: Constantly getting out there and not getting the job. Your motivation drops and you lose confidence. You can go through quiet times, so my advice is to have a backup plan or a second job when starting out. You have to walk through the fear, it's so powerful.
AM: Access to different people. To develop as an artist, you need to be able to work with different skin tones, eye shapes, ages, and skin conditions.
B: What's the best advice you've received in your career?
RB: Move to Sydney, become a professional makeup artist.
AM: What sets you apart may not be your skill set, so ask questions.
B: Any other insider secrets you'd care to share?
RB: Yes! Do you believe in magic? You should. I waited for an opportunity to become a makeup educator for two and a half years, and here I am.
AM: When it comes to your daily foundation, less is still best.


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WEConnect International's Council Pioneers Research Addressing the Link Between $1.5 Trillion Credit Gap and Access to Markets for Women-Owned Businesses
(Washington, DC) - CEO and Co-Founder of WEConnect International, Elizabeth A. Vazquez, today announced that WEConnect International's Council on Scaling Women-Owned Businesses will generate pioneering research on how to connect two critical challenges to growth faced by micro, small, and medium enterprises owned by women—access to capital and access to markets.
Women Business Owners Graduate from IFC Training Program Aiming to Connect Them to Corporate Procurement Opportunities
A graduation ceremony and buyer-supplier meeting took place today as part of a technical advisory project titled "Corporate Connect: Strengthening Market Access for Women-Owned Businesses". The project is implemented by the International Finance Corporation Group (IFC) and The Ministry of Commerce in Bangladesh. WEConnect International is the implementing partner of the program.
Walmart Canada and WEConnect International Host Supplier Forum in Celebration of Canadian Women-Owned Businesses
MISSISSAUGA, ON, April 23, 2019 – Today Walmart Canada and WEConnect International hosted the first WEConnect International Supplier Forum in celebration of Canadian women-owned enterprises.

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Houston: Record-Breaking Housing Market 2016
Houston: Record-Breaking Housing Market 2016
The Houston housing market remained steady in 2016 and gained momentum in the last few months to set record highs for home sales. According to the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) Chair, Cindy Hamann, the Houston housing market began on a cautionary note due to energy-related layoffs, which affected the higher-priced homes. But by the end of the year, the increase was a great reflection of Houston's diversified economy which continues to benefit from hiring in other industries and the constant influx of consumers from around the world.
• 76,449 single-family home sales according to the latest HAR housing market report, which was 3% year over year and 1.3% above the previous record of homes sold in 2014
• 4.2% rise in total dollar volume for properties sold in 2016
There were across-the-board gains in December 2016 for single-family homes sales, total property sales, total dollar volume and pricing from December 2015.
• 6,628 single-family home sales in December 2016, a 5.3% increase year-over-year
• Median home price rose 2.7% to a high of $225,903
• 4.3% increase in average sales price to $294,512-a record high for December
• 5.2% rise in single-family home leases with an average monthly rent down slightly to $1,690
• 9.5% rise of leases of townhomes and condominiums with an average rent up slightly to $1,497


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Normally, this scholarship would not be considered Unusual, except for the manner in which is it judged. Most scholarship applications ask for an essay, but rarely is the essay the focus of the application. However, the Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest is no ordinary scholarship.
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BOYZONE star Mikey Graham could face criminal charges following a row outside his mansion last April.
Student Paul O'Hara (22) sustained serious head injuries after an alleged fight broke out at the singer's front gate.
The Director of Public Prosecutions received a file from Gardai investigating the incident and is now considering whether charges should be brought forward against Mr. Graham (39).
Mr. O'Hara was brought to Beaumont Hospital following the alleged scuffle, where he spent a week recovering. He has since been undergoing speech therapy since being discharged.
The Gardai have outlined in the file what they believe happened that night.
Mr. O'Hara claims that he was struck over the head with a cricket bat following a row over the incessant buzzing of Mr. Graham's intercom in the late hours of Friday on April 29th.
Mr. Graham denies striking the engineering student in the head but admits a physical confrontation occurred.
Gardai have tried to determine if the injuries sustained by the young man were caused by an implement or by hitting his head on the ground following a fall.
Shortly after the scuffle, Mr. Graham left Ireland for Spain and Britain on business but was interviewed by Gardai when he arrived home and gave a full statement to them in May. He claimed that he was "in fear of his life" when the intercom was repeatedly buzzed.
CCTV cameras were outside the singer's house in Lusk Co. Dublin but it is understood that they didn't record the incident.
Mr. Graham was inside his home watching television with his wife Karen Corradi, and two daughters when the intercom started buzzing.
Mr. O'Hara and a group of friends had earlier been in a pub celebrating a friend's 18th birthday. They then moved onto a take-away which is located close to Mr. Graham's home.
At 1.30am, the alleged buzzing started with people shouting into the speaker.
After a security light came on, some of the group dispersed but Mr. O'Hara remained.
When his friend's returned, Mr. O'Hara was discovered lying on the path unconscious. He was then taken to Beaumont Hospital for treatment.
Two weeks previously, Mr. Graham was punched in the face outside a pub near his home but was not injured in the assault. Gardai believe the two incidents may be connected as Mr. Graham was receiving verbal abuse from a group of young men.
Although Mr. O'Hara was not present at that incident, the man believed to have thrown the punch was outside the singer's gate when the buzzing occurred.
Mr. O'Hara's mother made a complaint to Gardai following the incident but it is understood that Mr. Graham put in a formal complaint about the behaviour of the men over the intercom buzzing.


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Bundaberg Dentist Practicing Preventive Dentistry
Preventive dentistry is an important aspect of maintaining healthy teeth and gums.
Early intervention can go a long way in maintaining your natural teeth for life. Preventing tooth decay is the most effective method for avoiding further complications and the need for expensive and complex procedures.
Maintaining a good oral health routine
Maintaining a clean and healthy mouth is the most effective method to prevent tooth decay and periodontal disease. Practicing an effective daily dental routine which adequately cleans the teeth and gums is a simple and effective way of maintaining good hygiene.
- Brush – Thoroughly brush your teeth after every meal. Use a soft-bristled toothbrush and fluoride toothpaste to get the job done properly.
- Rinse – Rinse your mouth carefully after every meal with water and, if possible, mouth wash. Particularly, rinse well after drinking sugary drinks, tea or coffee.
- Floss – Floss between the teeth every single day. If you have wider gaps between your teeth, interdental brushes are a more effective way of adequately cleaning between the teeth.
Practice this good brushing technique to ensure adequate cleaning of each and every tooth
- Place your brush at a 45-degree angle to the point at which the tooth meets the gum line
- Ensure you brush every tooth individually for about 10 seconds
- Apply gentle pressure as you move the brush back and forth in a circular motion
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- Don't forget to brush your tongue to remove bacteria build-ups and to freshen your breath
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Maintain regular check-ups with your dentist so that any problems with the teeth and gums can be caught early and treated. This will mean fewer problems going forward and will avoid the need for expensive and complicated procedures.
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Posted: July 01, 2019
Santa Barbara, CA. (March 2019) – The Santa Barbara Symphony is excited to
announce the election of Janet Garufis as President of the Board of Directors. Garufis
will succeed outgoing President Don Gilman, and step into this leadership role on July
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"The Symphony is part of the fabric that makes our community great," shared Garufis.
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Machines, software model helping to create better spinal implants
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Mechanical and biomedical engineers at Purdue University have developed specialized hydraulic machines and software to help industry create better and longer lasting implants for people suffering from spinal injuries, disease and age-related wear.
Orthopedic device companies are trying to design implants that behave more like natural disks and tendons in the spine, said Ben Hillberry, a professor of mechanical engineering who is leading the research and working with Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
The engineers are using machines to test implants for both the lower back, or lumbar region of the spine, and the cervical spine, or the neck region. Implants are attached to spines from cadavers, and then the spines are tested in the Purdue Spine Simulator, a hydraulic machine that recreates the spine's natural movements and shows how the implants stand up to everyday activities.
Data from the experiments also are being used to validate a complex computer model, which companies will use to test implants. The software is a "finite element model," an application widely used in industry that contains a series of geometric shapes, such as rectangles and triangles, each providing specific data describing a part's strength and other characteristics.
"Creating implants for the spine presents interesting challenges, different from those encountered in implants for other parts of the body, such as the hips and knees," said Eric Nauman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
Some implants made of titanium and other materials are used to treat conditions such as arthritis, in cases when a portion of the spine has been removed. Bracket-like implants called "pedicle bridges" help to keep the spine stable after the diseased portion has been removed. Other implants include artificial disks to replace disks that are damaged from wear or disease in the lower back and cervical region.
One of the machines designed by the Purdue engineers is used specifically to test implants for the cervical spine.
"There is much more movement in the cervical spine than in the lumbar portion, so what we are primarily testing with this machine is how well implants will stand up to wear over a period of about 10 years," said Shreekant Gayakar, a graduate student in mechanical engineering. "We are replicating the range of motions seen in the human neck."
The machine tests ball-and-socket-like implants such as the ones inserted during surgeries to replace damaged parts in the cervical spine.
"In order for implants to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, it has to be shown that they can last 10 million cycles, or 10 million movements, which translates into about 10 years of living," Hillberry said. "Our goal is to complete 10 million cycles over a four-month period."
The Purdue researchers are putting the machines through their paces to meet standards set by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
The cervical spine machines are designed so that many machines could be linked together in a series, enabling companies to test different implants under the same conditions and duration.
Whereas wear is the primary concern in the cervical spine, damage from injury and disease are the biggest problems in the lower back.
The spine simulator machine recreates the stresses and range of motions encountered by the human spine, including twisting and bending in various directions, said Jeremie Wade, a graduate student in mechanical engineering who is involved in research using the machine. The simulator was inspired by orthopedic surgeon John Gorup, who practices in Lafayette, Ind., and was designed by Beth Galle, who graduated from Purdue with a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 2004.
"Not many machines can duplicate the motions of the human spine I know of only one on the market," Wade said.
Researchers also are using the spine simulator to test implants that replace diseased "facet joints." The facet joints are often damaged by arthritis and usually are treated by injecting them with compounds to relieve the pain. Unlike other arthritic joints, such as hips, knees and shoulders, facet joints have not, until recently, been removed and replaced with artificial implants.
"Arthritis in your spine is awful," Nauman said. "It is one of the worst kinds of skeletal degeneration you can get."
Current treatments for some spinal conditions involve fusing several vertebrae together.
"The problem with fused vertebrae is that because you fuse parts together and things don't move the way they used to, the surrounding vertebrae eventually become damaged, and you sort of set yourself up for more medical complications and procedures in the future," Nauman said. "What doesn't exist right now is a really nice way to restore the natural motion of the spine, relieve the pain and prevent damage to surrounding portions of the spine.
"Basically, the medical community is trying to create new devices that duplicate the spine's natural motion instead of immobilizing the damaged area."
Hillberry and Kimberly Campana, a biomedical engineering doctoral student, are working with Archus Orthopedics Inc., a company in Redmond, Wash., to develop mathematical simulation tools that will allow the accelerated development of next-generation implants.
"Future designs may ultimately be used in conjunction with total disk replacements, allowing the restoration of function at any vertebral level in the spine, much like total hip and total knee replacement currently achieve, "said Jorge Ochoa, vice president of research and development and chief technology officer at Archus Orthopedics.
To that end, the company recently has obtained approval to begin implanting its Total Facet Arthroplasty System in Europe and will begin an FDA-approved clinical trial of the device in the United States this summer.
The system is designed to allow doctors to manipulate the lumbar spine surgically to reduce pressure on the nerves by removing any tissue that may compress them and by eliminating other sources of pain, including arthritic facets, without having to fuse the spine to regain stability, Ochoa said.
"The application of three-dimensional computational models, such as the one being developed at Purdue, will enable companies like Archus to reduce the cost of developing implants and increase the speed of new product realization," Ochoa said.
Doctors currently are using prosthetic disks, but it is difficult to insert them into the spine.
"These implants are tricky to insert because major arteries are located along the spine," Hillberry said. "If an implant is not designed to fit precisely into a particular person's spine, the spine can actually eject it during surgery, causing the artificial part to sever a major blood vessel that runs along the spine.
"If that happens, the patient could die on the operating table. One benefit the model provides is that it can tell you if the implant is going to be ejected before it is put in patients."
The 3-D model also promises to help reduce costs for companies.
"A company designing an implant can test it in this model," Campana said. "It's fairly fast and inexpensive to use, so companies can get an idea of how their implant will perform, and they can make small modifications without having to order 10 cadavers, which are costly.
"Companies can use this model as a virtual test machine."
Relying on tests with cadaver spines has a major limitation: the spines lack the stability of muscles that exist in real-life spines, which contain a complex network of vertebrae, ligaments and muscles. The Purdue researchers are now adding muscles to their spine simulation model to make it more realistic.
"This is extremely difficult because you are trying to model the interactions of all the ligaments, muscles, cartilage and bones in the spine," Nauman said.
The model also will provide a new tool for researchers studying osteoporosis.
"The one limitation that the spine simulator has is that it can't be used to test spines afflicted with osteoporosis because they are too fragile," Nauman said. "So Kim is going to be able to model what happens in a spine with osteoporosis.
"With the model, we can study the performance of implants used to treat people with osteoporosis, and we can also test the effects of certain drug therapies that are supposed to add bone to the spine."
The model also can be used to help develop better ways to straighten the spine for people who have scoliosis, or a curvature of the spine.
Hillberry began research to develop artificial knees during the 1970s and started developing the computational spine model in 1992. The model delves into "kinematics," or the precise motions of the spine.
Earlier work to develop the computational model was funded through the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund, established by the state of Indiana to promote high-tech research and to help commercialize innovations.
The engineers are working in ongoing research with the Center for Paralysis Research in Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine.
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text: Skip Knowles - November 02, 2011 20 Questions with NFL Star Adam Vinatieri Adam Vinatieri may be known more for his clutch field goal kicks in the National Football League, but not everyone knows that "Automatic Adam" enjoys a good hunt about as much as he does drilling a 50-plus yard, game-winning field goal. Vinatieri, a 15-year veteran in the NFL, has won four Super Bowls — three with the New England Patriots and one with the Indianapolis Colts — with two Pro Bowl selections and two All-Pro selections. He's nailed 373 field goals throughout his career with an 82.5 percent success rate, hitting game-winning field goals in the 2001 AFC Championship game, as well as Super Bowls XXXVI and XXVIII. An avid hunter, Vinatieri has been after big game all over the world, traveling to South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the arctic, hunting everything from whitetails to grizzly bears, and mountain sheep to musk ox. In a Petersen's Hunting exclusive, one of the NFL's greatest kickers talks with Skip Knowles about three of his biggest loves: family, hunting and football.Skip Knowles: How'd your season go last year?Adam Vinatieri: I was very pleased. I struggled with injuries the year before€¦ this last year I was healthy and strong and kicked really well€¦SK: No, we don't care about that season, we meant hunting season. AV: (laughs) Right, right. I killed a nice buck with a muzzleloader in Indiana that I'd seen during archery, and a 158-inch buck in Ohio. Got him with the bow, super cool, and I had about five states lined up for turkeys — if my wife doesn't kick my butt for going too much. Family, football and hunting, that's my thing. SK: When did you start hunting, and what are your earliest memories of hunting?AV: Grew up in South Dakota as a kid, so I was carrying a shotgun from as early as I remember. We shot ducks and geese in the morning, and hit pheasants in the cover at 10 a.m. Thank god my dad and father were avid outdoorsmen, so I had lots of opportunities from 5 years old on to tag along.SK: You're one of the greatest kickers in NFL history, have won four Super Bowls and been in six. That's really nice and all, but tell us how you rate yourself as a hunter. With your nicknames "The Iceman" and "Automatic Adam" for your coolness under pressure, I've got to know, do you get buck fever?AV: I've missed shots. I can't say I haven't. I've made less than perfect, and everybody does. I practice as much as I can. My son and I shoot in the backyard bow target, and without guns, nobody is perfect. I'm fairly good; I give myself a B as a hunter. SK: Have you ever needed or used your precision kicking ability or freakish leg power while hunting?AV: I have kicked a wounded pheasant or duck as they've tried to run away. Down in Texas quail hunting, we had a wounded one bouncing around and the guys were laughing, and it was easier to stop him with the boot; I've gotten one or two of them that way. They're kind of half-flying and you don't want to go shooting around the dogsSK: Tell me about your most memorable hunts in terms of difficulty, danger and excitement. AV: Most memorable? Alaska four years ago, spring bear, my dad, brother, brother-in-law and friend chartered a boat for self-guided at Ketchikan. Alaska is contagious, like Africa; so awesome there, camaraderie and family bonding, so much fun. We stayed on a boat and we'd spot bears. We all got animals, six bears. Such a memorable trip. And Africa with my brother, dad and family. The fun of hunting is two-fold — less about trophy on the wall and the kill, though that's a memory that brings you back. What is so valuable is that time you can never make up, a snapshot of life in an exciting time and place. Both times in the arctic were memorable — that's not a hunt for the faint of heart. Took three days to get to the Eskimo village and then 100 miles to the hunt site. We took six days to get to the village the second trip because 70 mph winds grounded planes. We expected 30 below and it was melted, and we could not get to the location. You never know what to expect and a million dangers exist with weather and sea ice. Just so wild, I think, not typical easy stress-free. Not a shotgun in your hand in Africa and everyone taking care of you. You go through a lot to make it happen. I knew I was in trouble when all my gear was rated at 60 below.SK: What is the best wild game you ever ate, and what is the nastiest?AV: Oryx is good, like gemsbok. Axis deer is fabulous; if you like regular deer, you'll love axis. One thing I've had that I thought guys were screwing with me: Mountain lion is amazing! Obviously, gator and rattlesnake are good. Antelope and elk are great. I've enjoyed some bear, and others that I didn't. It can be greasy and nasty, and if prepared right€¦SK: You make a lousy $1-$3 million a year, barely enough to hunt on. If money were no object, and you were retired, what are your wildest dream hunts and what kind of hunting bender would you go on?AV: If I was not married, I'd hunt 250 days a year, honestly, and do everything and anything you can imagine. Nothing makes me happier than doing that kind of stuff. Now with three kids, I can't do that much, but in a perfect world I would. Back in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, back with old ivory hunters spending months and months shooting any and everything, that would be the best, spending months and shooting all big five and all plains game, that would be pretty doggone cool. I don't want to downplay U.S. stuff, though, I have huge passion for moose, elk and deer too, but there's so much on my bucket list.SK: What's your one favorite rifle? Is it true NFL guys can't play with guns?AV: Policy is we can't have any guns on property facilities or road trips or NFL affiliated events. We still have our Second Amendment rights to carry, but we make sure we're licensed correctly. For elk hunting, my fave is a 338x.378 Weatherby; it puts a thump on them, and I prefer the bigger bullet. When I pull the trigger, it's $5 a pop, so I reload. Shot placement is critical, but a big bullet allows you a little room for error with that extra energy going through there. Way I look at it is I would hate to go on a destination hunt and lose an animal. People say a .270 can kill an elk, but mine's going to kill them a little quicker. I'm having a 7 mag tricked for sheep. I'm a black rifle guy too. I know the Bushmaster guys and I like an AR for varminting and coyote. I love it all. I like the .300 RUM, too; let a good taxidermist throw a stitch in there, but I'll sacrifice a few pounds of meat to know he's dead.SK: What feels better, a clutch game winner from 55 yards into the wind, or a heart shot on a mag daddy whitetail with your bow at 40?AV: I get exactly the same adrenaline rush from both, but I'd better say the 50-yarder so it will allow me to do the football now to do more hunting later on. Not sure I mean it, though.SK: What do you think of the new 35-yard kickoff? (The greatest kicker in football did not punt on answering this one during this pre-NFL season interview)AV: I don't know what the logic in that is, to be honest with you. Unless they are trying to weed out the importance of kickers, cause kickers are getting better and stronger. I think 60 to 70 percent will be touchbacks now. If anything, I thought they'd have moved us back to the 25-yard line. The only thing I can think of, maybe there have been a lot of injuries, guys running down and hitting. They changed the rule so no wall or back line. I honestly don't know where the logic came from. I know there will be a big impact. It's almost going to take that aspect of the game away. If they can prove why it's a good idea, that's fine, but looking at it as a fan and a player, I don't know why that made sense. I mean no disrespect to those who voted on it. They are trying to do the right things.SK: All right, fun pop quiz time, Adam! Real quick, give us some opinions. I say something really fast you pick one answer. Ready€¦ Go! Whitetails or mule deer?AV: Yes! Hahaha, I've hunted more whitetail, but a big 200 class mule deer is so pretty in that wide open country.SK: .30-'06 or .270?AV: Never shot either. How about a .300!SK: Gore Tex or wool?AV: Gore Tex.SK: Compound or recurve?AV: Compound.SK: Squirrels or prairie dogs?AV: Prairie dogs. Like to see 'em splat.SK: Hog hunting road trip: Spear, gun or knife?AV: Knife. I want the hunt with the dogs and the knife. It's on my list.SK: Spring turkeys or spring bear?AV: You're killing me! Yes!SK: Pee from your tree stand: Yes or no?AV: Absolutely.SK: Bourbon, scotch or beer?AV: Bourbon.SK: Scent blocker or au natural?AV: Scent blocker for sure, man. Closer I can get, the better. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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Nothing could be more appropriate than to call attention once more to the supreme importance of religion in the life of the ancient Maya. Religion was indeed the very fountain-head of their civilization, and on its rites and observances they lavished a devotion rarely equaled in the annals of man. To its great uplifting force was due the conception and evolution of the hieroglyphic writing and calendar, alike the invention and the exclusive property of the priesthood. To its need for sanctuary may be attributed the origin of Maya architecture; to its desire for expression, the rise of Maya sculpture. All activities reflected its powerful influence and all were more or less dominated by its needs and teachings. In short, religion was the foundation upon which the structure of the Maya civilization was reared.
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The final primal need is that of Love and Sexuality or, to be more precise, Love with Sexuality. (The first part of this series is here: Preventing Our Children From Developing Demons (And Healing Our Own).)
Those people who have experienced lack during the development of their other primal needs do not fully move into this stage.
1. Those people who have Connection issues struggle to be authentic and emotionally connected in their sexuality.
2. Those people who have Attunement issues struggle to move beyond their need for nurturing – as if they are still a small child.
3. Those people who have Trust issues tend to be dominant and controlling, and are incapable of mutual healthy relationships.
4. Those people who have Autonomy issues struggle to be authentic and set appropriate boundaries, they see relationships as traps.
Problems with Love with Sexuality develop during times of sexual awakening and the development of self-awareness: between the ages of four and six; and during puberty at, say, 12 to 15.
Those people, who have had their other primal needs largely met but issues have arisen at these core ages, show the characteristics of lack in Love with Sexuality. They tend to be highly energetic, attractive and successful. They appear self-confident but their sense of self is conditional upon their appearance and (latest) performance/achievement, yet inside they feel deeply flawed.
When there have been issues Love with Sexuality one of two sub-types tends to emerge.
1. The Romantic Subtype: Open-hearted but disconnected from their sexuality they struggle to integrate sexuality with developing and deepening love. Their sexual feelings diminish over time. They may even become the moral guardians of society as they have disconnected from their sexual impulses.
2. The Sexual Subtype: People with these issues seek out attractive partners for the purposes of bolstering their own sense of self. They don't use sex for power as those with Trust issues do but use it to avoid any real emotional connection with another. They focus on conquest and performance rather than love. They often break contact with anyone with whom they might develop a true heart connection, instead they prefer sex with strangers – constantly seeking sexual satisfaction that their rigid bodies cannot allow them to fully experience.
Core Fear:
There is something fundamentally wrong with me.
Shame-Based Identity: (What they feel inside but would hate anyone else to know.)
Feeling unloved and unlovable.
Pride-Based Identity: (What they show to the world.)
"I will never let anyone hurt me again."
Reject first rather than risk being rejected.
Sense of self based on appearance and image.
Perfect, seamless, flawless.
Love that is based on looks and performance is not love at all.
Behavioural Characteristics:
Perfectionist – Impossibly high standards for self and others.
Hard on selves when fail to live up to their high-standards.
Continually orientated toward self-improvement
Drawn to activities that make their already hardened bodies -harder. (Plastic surgery/Intense and long work-outs)
Mistake admiration for love.
Difficulty experiencing love and sexuality together – once deeper love develops in relationships sexuality shuts down.
Difficulty maintaining relationships
Sexually acting out or prime and prudish.
Self-righteous, judgmental, stiff with pride.
Driven, compulsive, black and white thinking.
Doing focussed rather than feeling and being.
Sex is main way of being in touch with their bodies.
Seductive and then rejecting, will always reject first.
Sexual conquests determine their sense of sexual desirability.
Afraid to open their hearts.
Fear of surrender and own vulnerability.
Although these people look great on the outside, they have experienced intense rejection and hurt. They tend to question if they can ever love or be properly loved.


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Two companies are working together to help businesses protect themselves from a danger that has been linked to many large data breaches.
Imran Jaswal
Kelly White
DUFF & PHELPS and KELLY WHITE
When companies consider their cybersecurity risks, they often spend hours looking in the mirror, and sometimes they forget to look out the window. Third-party risk doesn't receive as much attention as it deserves. Some of the largest data breaches on record began when hackers penetrated the systems of vendors that led to the systems of their larger—and richer—customers.
Now there are vendors that want to help companies shore up this vulnerability.
Imran Jaswal
, a managing director at consultancy Duff & Phelps, runs a business that aims to help companies assess and reduce their third-party cybersecurity risks. It's called CyberClarity360, and it grew out of work he began at a company that he co-founded (and was acquired by Duff & Phelps in 2016). He was working with a Southern California tech company that was worried some of its vendors might transfer its intellectual property to China. "They wanted us to help see how we could improve the process of understanding what controls those particular vendors had in place to protect that sensitive information," he explains. So they developed a process that helped measure and "optimize" the cyber risk management lifecycle.
Jaswal started his career as a commercial litigator in the United Kingdom, where he grew up. When he moved to the United States 13 years ago, he got involved in legal operations and working with law departments on the business side of law. As he worked to improve his vendor assessments, he wasn't satisfied merely to ask vendors questions and give them security questionnaires to fill out. He wanted external validation of his findings. And that's where
Kelly White
came in.
White is the founder and CEO of RiskRecon Inc. Previously he'd been chief information security officer (CISO) at financial services companies. But he had an entrepreneurial itch, and a home basement in which to scratch. In his spare time, he spent four years working on the technology that would eventually become the foundation of his company. Now Jaswal uses RiskRecon to assess some of the same vendors that his own team evaluates, only RiskRecon works "from the outside in"—accessing publicly available information. Jaswal and White are convinced that when combined, the complementary approaches the two companies take strengthen the work of each.
CyberInsecurity News:
In the cybersecurity landscape, how large is this area of vendor risk?
Kelly White:
it's immense. You look at a company, and on the surface, they're very distinct. But when you dig down under the surface, there's a vast interconnection of service providers that are the foundation on which they operate. In creating that ecosystem to fulfill the business services, there's a shared root system of risk. Because the heart of making that ecosystem work is shared data: customer data, manufacturing data, IP data, legal information—so that those services can be fulfilled. And a vast amount are now fulfilled outside of organizations. It's under the banner of outsourcing and digital transformation, which I'd say is the most powerful force in the economy over the past 20 years. Companies have focused so much of their risk management resources on what's going on inside the walls of their own organizations, and very little on what's going out on that digital supply chain. We're just seeing the beginnings of that digital supply chain risk management that we so desperately need.
Imran Jaswal:
If we talk about the numbers, to put some context around the risks, for the largest breaches that have occurred, we're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars that organizations have been fined. The Marriott breach, which came through the Starwood guest database, led to a fine of around $125 million. If you look at some of the recent statistics from the Ponemon Institute, the average cost to remediate a third-party breach is $7.5 million. These are significant numbers for organizations to have to deal with. And every month there is a large household brand that gets reported as suffering a breach. In some surveys, around 60 percent are related to third parties. Some of the smaller vendors that these organizations are leveraging don't have the same amount of resources as the Fortune 500 companies when it comes to implementing security controls. Hackers are in tune to the fact that it's easier to attack a small vendor than it is to get into a larger corporation.
How long have you two been working together?
We've been working together for a few months now. What led us to RiskRecon was their risk-based approach to solving challenges similar to the ones we do. We had built a best-of-breed risk assessment platform that helps organizations collect information directly from the third parties. RiskRecon allows us to integrate their best-of-breed data collected from public sources. Together they give a more holistic picture of the cyber risk and posture of those third-party vendors.
Kelly, you've worked with lawyers before as the CISO at financial services companies. What were relations like in those days between your department and the in-house lawyers? It's no secret that technologists and lawyers don't always speak the same language.
The short answer is that they've been good, and I've consistently seen constructive collaboration between information security technologists and legal practitioners. There are two reasons. We're both in the business of managing risk. And in a lot of ways, though the language may be different, the objectives and the mindset are very similar. Our common points of integration that brought together information security and the legal profession over time are twofold. One is incident response and data privacy. Those can have legal implications. And also, for managing third-party cybersecurity risk, your ability to manage risk with your third party starts with the contractual language that you're able to put in place that governs the relationship with your vendors. It gives you the ability to establish critical rules like minimum performance requirements, the right to audit, notification of data loss events and so forth. Across those two fronts—incident response and third-party risk management—legal and information security practitioners have a long-standing, constructive relationship.
Imran, when you're working with companies, how involved are their in-house lawyers in the process?
If we look at organizations' increasing concerns about third-party risk, given the number of breaches that tie back to third parties, what we are finding is that our client's general counsel is really where the buck stops. The office of the general counsel is playing a quarterback role when an incident occurs. Given that background, in-house counsel not only need to be able to have a full understanding of where the data lies that's potentially at risk, and the relationships with those third parties and the type of data that's being shared with them, they also need to understand and evaluate the preparedness of those organizations, and how they will work together when a breach occurs. And the in-house counsel need to understand the business resiliency of those vendors—how quickly they will be able to detect the breach and be able to get their systems back up and running. Particularly if we think about ransomware attacks, which will necessitate their having in place a crisis management strategy and a public relations strategy—to be able to mitigate the reputational fallout.
Historically, in-house counsel have sometimes shied away from this particular area because of its technical nature. But increasingly they are becoming more accustomed to relying on cyber experts to assist them, similarly to how they have historically dealt with personal injury cases, where they rely on medical experts. And this includes working much more closely with their companies' CISOs—to Kelly's earlier point. But considering the new data privacy regulations that are coming into place, their ability to understand the legal obligations of the California Consumer Privacy Act [CCPA], which is coming into effect next year, makes them crucial. One of their core skills is asking the right questions. In the situation where a breach occurs, they do a great job when they ask the right questions, while leveraging the other experts to help them through that process.
Let's take as an example a third party that CyberClarity360 has already looked at in great detail in a
you published on outside counsel. Outside law firms are vendors that certainly have "risk" written in all caps, highlighted in yellow, with lots of exclamation points. Is this a particularly challenging area for your clients?
Most certainly. Many of our clients struggle with that. Questions about whether their outside counsel have adequate security are seen as overly intrusive, and perhaps questioning the trust between them. So what we've tried to help them do is shift that discussion to focus on how extra transparency will help improve that relationship and increase the trust, given the risks that are out there, and the targets that outside counsel have become to cyber hackers. And ultimately that will likely lead to more work.
Kelly, what are key sources of information that RiskRecon accesses when you're assessing the cybersecurity of an outside law firm?
For us, the best sources are the systems themselves that the organization operates on the internet. Each of these systems is really a micro instantiation of their security risk management system. It's in that system where all of the work of the CISO, translated into security standards, or into policies that drive configuration requirements and vulnerability management and penetration testing, all come to bear. They're manifest in the systems of the company. And we are taking a look at the ones they operate on the internet—and examining the security risk configuration of those systems. I'll give you a couple of simple examples. A common security control is that sensitive data is encrypted in transit across untrusted networks. RiskRecon, by discovering and analyzing the internet-facing systems of companies, can tell which systems are collecting sensitive data, or transmitting it. And is that system encrypting the data, and doing so in a secure manner? Another common security requirement is that software vulnerabilities are properly managed to ensure that all software is up-to-date and free of known security issues. Well, through our passive analytics of the internet safety systems of companies, we can observe. What's their software? What's the version? Is it patched? Our best source of information for automatically verifying security control performance are the systems themselves. And we can correlate those measurements that we're taking directly to things that CyberClarity360 is assessing.
How much of the job that your company does is automated?
There's a massive amount of automation that's occurring, to find the systems that companies operate on the internet and then to continuously monitor the public information on those systems. I'd say 99 percent automation.
Imran, do you expect vendors to " ' fess up" and tell you about breaches and even intrusions that were never reported and didn't seem to do any damage or cause any loss of data? How much information do you expect them to provide?
We certainly do ask whether an organization knows of a breach they have suffered. In the context of the legal industry, and particularly law firms, there is sometimes an open question at this point whether some firms believe that they only need to report a breach if their clients' data has been breached. I think that's something that will likely be litigated at some point. In addition to some of the data that we receive from RiskRecon, we also monitor some of those breach notifications externally, and through some other outside data feeds, so that we can understand what breach credentials may be floating around in the dark web and are being traded by hackers.
Do you sometimes feel that you're operating kind of like a regulator in dealing with some of these law firms, or is it more like an educator?
I would say that it's more the latter. Many of our corporate clients who are looking to assess their third-party vendors don't have the capacity and resources to help remediate or educate them. Many of the law firms that our corporate clients leverage are small, niche boutique firms that may not even have information security professionals on staff. And so they look to us to help fill some of that gap by providing guidance to those organizations to help them understand why certain things are important, what they should be doing, and specific steps they can take to self-help and self-remediate.
How do you measure cybersecurity and resilience? In a sense, you're trying to help these clients figure out whether their vendors are secure and resilient. But how do you measure that?
These things start with a security control framework. And the framework is intended to achieve specific outcomes: in this case, cybersecurity risk outcomes. It could be any number of frameworks, but they all are aimed at: What is the strength and resilience of that program? You could take a very common one, the
Cybersecurity Framework
, and that has five domains: identify, protect, detect, respond, recover. And each of those has a set of activities and controls that they're built on. The assessment, then, is intended to measure whether the organization being evaluated meets those requirements, and what's the evidence? There's a balance. Identify and protect are proactive controls to defend the organization from getting compromised in the first place. But then you have detect, respond and recover, which are really about, given that breaches will happen, how quickly can I discover that incident and recover?—meaning, minimize the impact of it through effective response and recovery techniques. I'll defer to Imran on that.
The way we go about testing against NIST is asking questions about what organizations have done to implement controls. In terms of the recovery, we also attempt to validate the things that organizations tell us. Some of that may be based on information we receive from RiskRecon. Validation may include checking for inconsistent responses. It may also include us getting on a Webex or a remote conference call with them to understand more about the way that they've implemented some of the controls.
How do you know when you've done a good job for your clients? And if there's a huge data breach at the vendor of a company that hired you, does that make you feel regret, or do you second-guess your own performance?
That is a difficult question. I think one of the areas that is challenging in this domain is insider threats. A lot of what we've been talking about is technical internal controls that are implemented by an organization—firewalls or other types of technology that defends systems. But a large part of the risk is insider threats. We could have all of the locks, alarms and cameras on our house, but the people inside of the house that live there can be part of the problem—they are the ones that potentially are leaking the information and walking out the door with it. That's a really challenging problem to have to solve. So as much as we do try to assess the level of controls that organizations have, how effective they are is a challenging topic. We're always regretful if one of our clients suffers a breach through a third-party incident, but nonetheless, what we try to do is take a more macro view of the portfolio as a whole, and we can show clients how their vendors as a whole have improved or remediated risk by implementing more and more controls to reduce the risk. Elimination of the risk is always going to be very difficult, particularly in this area.
KW: Companies are going to get compromised, and they're going to have breaches—even ones that are assessed as having good cybersecurity risk programs. It's going to happen. But what we're talking about is risk management, and a core to that is gathering evidence. And we're looking for evidence of good practices and programs being in place. The reality is that there is a very strong correlation between companies that have poor security practices, based on our analytics, and higher rates of data losses and security compromises. And companies that have higher ratings have lower rates of those events. That's not saying that companies that operate stellar programs aren't going to have a loss. It happens. But the frequency and the scope of those events is smaller.
A company can be held liable for a breach that occurs in one of its vendors, but where does it stop? Suppose that a company hires Vendor A. And Vendor A uses Vendor B. If Vendor B is the source of the initial breach, is the original company potentially also on the hook? Where does it stop?
The originating company is responsible for that, and it's an increasing focus area, particularly of federal regulators, where they're talking about fourth-party risk, on Nth-party risk. And we're seeing incidents of that at an increasing rate. One of the interesting recent events was
American Medical Collection Agency
, a provider of medical debt collection, that was breached in early June and had the data of its customers compromised. In response to that breach, Senator [Mark] Warner [D-Virginia] actually sent out letters to several customers of the vendor, reminding them of their responsibility to secure their digital supply chain, and asking them specifically what they were doing to ensure that this wouldn't happen again. That's a specific example of being held accountable, not only for your own cybersecurity risk management, but for the cybersecurity of wherever your data is present. Those are themes that are embedded in the very heart of the General Data Protection Regulation and the CCPA, related to privacy. Regardless of where your data is, whether it's security or privacy, it's your data. You're responsible for it. It was your choice to send it to Vendor A, which sent it on to Vendor B. You're still responsible for it.
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Terry Goodkind Apologizes to Artist After Trashing Cover to Own Book – When Terry Goodkind called his new book cover "laughably bad," he was in no way insulting the cover artist. Of course he wasn't! Who would ever think that?! If you believe his lame "apology," he was really criticizing ... more >
Dear Mr. Cline, Your 2003 2011 novel, Ready Player One, was aptly described by USA Today as "Willy Wonka meets The Matrix." Much like Roald Dahl's classic children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ready Player One begins with an impoverished boy obsessed with a worldwide contest. Wade Watts loves ... more >
Book Purists, It's Finally Time to Give Up and Start Watching Game of Thrones – It's interesting to see that as GoT the television show chugs on, while the book series crawls toward a new book, we are seeing more arguments for the usurpation of the books by the show. Not ... more >
Book Debate Raises Questions of Self-Censorship by Foreign Groups in China – While there has been ample discussion about censorship by the Chinese government, the behavior of foreign entities – in this case the American Bar Association – has not been widely scrutinized. However, when the ABA rescinded an offer to ... more >
Legendary Artist David Bowie Dies at 69 – Even as I type this I cannot believe it. After an 18-month battle with cancer, and only two days after he released his 25th album, David Bowie has died. I still remember having floor seats to one of his shows at the LA Forum, ... more >
Marvel's Contest of Champions leaps from video game to comic book – In yet another sign that entertainment genres are simultaneously and paradoxically diversifying and merging, Marvel has announced that they will be creating a comic based on the video game Contest of Champions, which features kidnapped superheroes forced by ... more >


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Personal Loan | 01 August 2019-31 December 2019
A financing solution with 0% interest/profit rate*
Financing amount from as low as RM1,000
0% Interest/Profit Rate*
Only your MyKad is required for application
*Applicable when the facility is settled within 20 days from disbursement. Convenience fee of RM75 is applicable.
Service the loan/financing-i monthly for tenures from 2 to 5 years
If loan/financing-i is not fully settled within 20 days
Maximum loan/financing-i amount of RM25,000
Interest/Profit rate of 0% p.a.
when you settle the loan/financing-i within 20 days from disbursement
- Salaried employees with minimum annual income of RM24,000
- Primary credit cardholder(s) of any banks' credit card(s)
- No existing Hong Leong Personal Loan/Financing-i
- Malaysian citizen only, aged 21 – 60 years old
Apply for a Personal Loan/Financing-i with us during the campaign period to enjoy 0% p.a. interest/profit!
If you do not settle the loan/financing-i within the 20 days, the below interest/profit rates and facility tenure is applicable:
Personal Loan/Financing-i Interest/Profit Rate: 10.00% p.a.
Available tenure: 2 - 5 years
Illustration of Monthly Instalment
- Flat interest/profit rate applicable is 10.00% p.a. which translates to effective interest/profit rates varying from 17.27% p.a. to 18.16% p.a. for loan/financing-i tenure from 2 to 5 years.
- The pictures above serve as illustration purposes only.
- Monthly instalment will be rounded up to the nearest RM5.
- Monthly instalment as shows above is calculated based on loan/financing-i amount RM1,000 taken over a 5 year loan/financing-i tenure with interest/profit rate at 10.00% p.a.
- The first instalment will be due one month from the date the loan/financing-i amount was disbursed.
1. Who is eligible to apply for this offer?
All Malaysian citizens, earning at least RM2,000 per month, aged between 21 to 60 years old, who is a primary credit cardholder(s) of any banks' credit card(s) and do not hold any existing Hong Leong Personal Loan/Financing-i products.
2. What are the documents required for me to apply for HLB Mini Loan/HLISB Mini Financing-i?
We will require your MyKad for application.
3. Where can I apply for this?
You may apply for this facility at selected Hong Leong branches. Kindly refer to the "Branch Listing" attachment below for a complete list of available branches. Alternatively, click on "Visit Nearest Branch" above to find an available branch closest to your preferred location.
4. How do I settle my loan/financing within 20 days and how do I pay for my monthly instalments?
We have made it easy for you to settle your loan/financing-i within twenty (20) days.
Log in to your internet banking on Hong Leong Connect and click on "Settle Now" to arrange a transfer from your Hong Leong current or savings account/-i to settle your loan/financing.
As for monthly instalment, you can pay via internet banking/IBG GIRO or Instant Transfer or transfers via any Hong Leong ATM.
5. If I have taken a personal loan/financing under this campaign once, can I do it again?
Yes, you may apply for it again during the campaign period as long as you have fully settled the earlier personal loan/financing-i under this same campaign. Your new application will however be subject to fresh credit checks to determine your eligibility for the loan/financing-i.
6. Are there any interest(s)/profit or fee(s) associated with the personal loan/financing-i taken under this campaign?
There is no interest/profit charged should you settle the loan/financing-i within twenty (20) days from the disbursement date. However, if you do not settle within twenty (20) days, a 7.00% p.a interest /profit rate shall be applicable to the Personal Loan/Financing-i for the full loan/financing-i tenure which you have selected at the time of application. Stamp duties of 0.50% of the approved loan/financing-i amount and Convenient Fee of RM75.00 will be deducted from the loan/financing-i amount upfront prior to disbursement. Late fees/Compensation charges of 1% p.a. on the overdue amount applies. Please refer to the Personal Loan Product Disclosure Sheet here or Personal Financing-i Product Disclosure Sheet here for further details.
7. What happens if I do not settle the Personal Loan/Financing-i within the 20 days 0% p.a. interest/profit period?
You are required to pay the monthly instalment amount throughout the loan/financing-i tenure which you have selected.
8. I have exceeded the 20 days 0% p.a. interest/profit period but would like to settle my loan/financing-i before the end of my loan/financing-i tenure. How may I do this?
You may still choose to settle the loan/financing-i early (before loan/financing-i maturity) by visiting any of our Hong Leong/Hong Leong Islamic Branches. You would be required to give 3 months' prior written notice to the Bank, or payment of 3 months' interest/profit on the amount redeemed, in lieu of notice. (Kindly note that for Personal Financing-i, payment of 3 months' profit on the amount redeemed in lieu of notice is not applicable). A rebate for early settlement on the remaining interest/profit to be charged will be granted to the Borrower/Customer over the unexpired period commencing after the 3 months' notice period.
9. Will there be credit checks when I participate in this campaign?
Yes, we perform credit checks to determine your eligibility for personal loan/financing-i.
10. Why was my application not approved?
While we strive to offer all creditworthy applicants personal loan/financing-i, we are simply not able to approve every loan/financing-i application. If we are not able to approve your personal loan/financing-i application, we will immediately notify you of our decision.
How to Apply
Find the nearest branch to you with our branch locator (only for branches with InBranch Sales & Service Tablets or am:pm kiosks) to apply.


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Best when manufactured with all the freshest components, primarily home-grown, this quick and quick-to-prepare tomato salad that has a healthy mint-lemon dressing is guaranteed to be a strike with relatives and buddies.
With no oil, only clean vegetables, herbs, lemon juice plus some spices, it truly is an ideal dish for those attempting to check out their waistline, or needing a vitamin-rich healthful pick-me-up.
High in vitamin A, C, K, it really is an incredible healthier salad to just take to barbecues and picnics, also to hold absent summertime colds and flu.
Detailed instructions
Preparing the tomato salad (five minutes)
- Wash all components thoroughly.
- Dice the massive tomatoes into pieces about 1cm (0.5"), or slice mini tomatoes in 0.5cm (0.25") slices using a sharp knife. Area into a bowl.
Tip: Home-grown tomatoes, ripened about the vine, would be the most mouth watering in this particular recipe!
- Remove and discard the roots and any limp or weakened leaves in the spring onions (or peel the more substantial onions / shallots).
Chop the two the white and eco-friendly elements of the spring onions finely, or dice the large onions finely. Blend with all the diced tomatoes.
Preparing the dressing (five minutes)
- Juice the lemons and pressure the juice to eliminate any stray pips.
If your lemon is tiny, use two lemons, or add a tablespoon of h2o.
- Grind salt and pepper to style in to the lemon juice. Include almost every other spices, this kind of as chilli or cayenne – my favorites! Then mix with each other rapidly using a fork.
- Strip the mint leaves from their stems – you only want the leaves. Discard any leaves which have been brown, limp or overly ruined.
Tip: The most beneficial mint is the fact that risen in your yard – flawlessly refreshing and easy to improve in pots.
- Mince the leaves having a sharp knife or herb knife.
- Add the minced mint into the lemon dressing, combine very well, then pour more than the tomatoes.
- Garnish having a few mint sprigs, and provide.
Tip: Leftovers retain only for 1-2 days inside the fridge. This salad is without a doubt very best eaten when freshly well prepared.
A functional tomato salad
Changing the substances with this tasty salad means you'll by no means be bored!
Main ingredient variations
- Use a different tomato: roma, cherry, grape, beefsteak, yellow – any variety is effective well!
- add 50 % a diced cucumber or perhaps a diced red pepper (capsicum).
- Add 6-8 stalks of green asparagus or brocollini, damaged into parts and lightly steamed then cooled.
- replace the spring onions with finely diced red onions or shallots.
- add wild greens or salad leaves for an additional hit of antioxidants.
- add diced feta cheese or clean mozzarella for a far more sizeable salad with protein.
- add cooked and cooled cous cous or fine bulgar wheat for a a considerable salad with additional carbohydrates and fiber.
Herb variations
- Replace the mint with an equivalent amount of basil, minced.
- Use a mixture of minced clean oregano, majoram, thyme as well as a little rosemary to get a diverse herbal style.
- Replace the mint by using a double amount of parsley, minced.
- Replace the mint by using a handful of coriander, minced.
- Add or substitute the spring onions with a huge handful of chives or garlic chives, finely chopped.
- Use different kinds of mint – Thai mint will add warmth, peppermint or spearmint will have a sweeter and lighter in weight taste.
Spice variations
- add 1/8 teaspoon of chili powder or cayenne pepper for any kick of heat.
- finely julienned or grated ginger is excellent for managing colds!
- a minced clean garlic clove is also perfect for colds and flu.
- 1/8 tsp of ground cumin adds a hot spicy take note.
Dressing variations
- use the juice of one lime as well as a tablespoon of drinking water alternatively of lemon juice, for the further health increase.
- add 2 teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil for the juice combination for any little additional depth.
- use one teaspoon of balsamic vinegar and one tablespoon of drinking water alternatively of your lemon juice.
- use 2 teaspoons of white wine vinegar and one tablespoon of water instead on the lemon juice.
Health benefits
Tomatoes are packed with lycopene, a robust antioxidant. Despite the fact that it's not at all needed by mankind, lycopene has become revealed to assist liver operate. It's been claimed to serene the inflammatory reaction, minimizing the inflammation and ache in sciatica, arthritis, fibromyalgia and long-term prostatitis.
As component of a diet program of fruit and veggies, tomatoes are claimed to scale back numerous types of most cancers.
Tomatoes might prevent neurological diseases, these types of as Parkinson's condition, and have a helpful effect on diabetes.
Similar to most green herbs, mint is filled with antioxidants, also has anti-inflammatory properties, and sometimes contains a calming effect on digestion and nausea, especially when drunk for a natural tea.
Lemon juice
Lemons provide the highest number of vitamin C of all the typical citrus fruits. A solid immune-system booster, vitamin C will help prevent colds and flu, shields against dangerous microorganisms and stops inflammation. It may well even support stabilize blood sugar concentrations in diabetes people.
What are your favorite flavors to pair with tomatoes inside a salad?
Let us know while in the remarks under!


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Traveler's Chequ
Take traveler's cheque maybe
is the most secure way of carrying money, but remember
better not to put the record of cheque numbers with
the cheque together. The exchange rate for traveler's
cheque is a bit higher than for cash, and you have no
problem cashing them in China. You can cash it at airport,
big hotel and the Bank of China; the rates are the same
everywhere. Don't forget to keep your exchange
receipts in case you need to change the money back when
you leave. Traveler's cheque from international
commercial banks and travel cheque companies in the
United States, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan,
Britain, France, Switzerland, Germany and other main
regions are acceptable in China.


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Agricultural sprayers, crop sprayers, farm sprayers, and other equipment offered.
- Forestry - Equipment And Supplies - Tractors, Machinery, And Implements - Spraying Equipment
Manufacturer of spraying machines and equipment, power sprayers, and engine fertilizer blower.
Spray nozzles, boom components and accessories for broadcast spraying, banding and directed spraying. Detailed product specifications and technical support center.
Agricultural Spray boom, tanks, farm spraying equipment. Turn your Row Crop Tractor Into a Custom Sprayer.
Manufacturer of agricultural sprayer, tool, motor lawn mower and garden tools.
Offering Turbo-mist agricultural airblast and other sprayers, as well as stainless steel wine tanks. Specifications and picture galleries. Located in ...
Provides ground based and aerial electrostatic spraying systems.
Manufacturer of air-blast mist sprayers and debris blowers for orchards, livestock, pest control.
Spray equipment and spray packages for pest control.
High pressure hose reel manufacturing with a lifetime warranty.
A leading provider of agricultural machinery and accessories. Silvan Spraying, Agripower Farm Machinery and Selecta Merchandise are represented by a ...
Produces and markets a product line that includes advanced GPS "precision-farming" equipment plus customer-designed electronics for European and overseas manufacturers ...
All geo-positioned data has been structured in one database during year 2000. This makes the huge amount of collected data ...
Fertilizer application equipment including: agricultural sprayers, fittings, storage tanks for ammonia and other liquids, spray nozzles, metering pumps, and monitors.
Our agricultural spray equipment includes sprayers, pto pumps, tips and nozzles, and sprayer controls and manufactures custom sprayers.


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Delta Synchronization – syncing only the parts of the document that have been changed – is an established practice elsewhere in IT, but is a first for No SQL.
Couchbase has announced Couchbase Mobile 2.5, the latest version of their embedded NoSQL database. The new version adds advanced sync capabilities that will cut bandwidth costs. It also introduces Machine Learning queries into an embedded DB. At this stage, the ML capability is a developer preview which will be fully built out in the next release.
Couchbase – the name comes from a merger between two open source companies, CouchDB and Membase – is a NoSQL data platform, with Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile components.
"NoSQL databases are a commodity concept at this point in time, but we are solidifying the platform as a leader in the space," said Tyler Mitchell, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Couchbase. "Our main approach is differentiation in performance and scalability. We have done a bunch of commissioned benchmarks against competitors to demonstrate this. Customers use us for massively interactive applications that need to scale. Many of our success stories are customers who start with a few nodes and scale up to 10-20 or 100 nodes because we are so scalable."
While Couchbase's customers are somewhat underrepresented in retail, they have travel customers like Amadeus and hospitality ones like Marriott.
"Some are big enterprises who have used a mainframe for 40 years but who need higher levels of interactivity with customers today or a caching layer to seed up applications," Mitchell said. "That's one journey. Some come in for the performance layer."
Partner are an important component of Couchbase's business and includes both Technology Integration partners like Tableau, and Solution partners, which include both resellers and integrators like Infosys and Accenture.
The major full feature enhancement in Couchbase Mobile 2.5 is Delta Synchronization. It syncs only parts of the document that have changed, resulting in significant savings in bandwidth consumption when synchronizing data between the mobile device and enterprise servers.
"In NoSQL, synchronization of whole documents has always been a challenge," Mitchell said. "The issue has always been – has the document been changed – yes or no. If Yes, you give a new document. It has been hard to track at the atomic level. You might know a component had changed but not which component. Now, with Delta Synchronization, you only send the bits back and forth that actually need to be updated."
Delta Synchronization also applies to peer-to-peer sync between Couchbase mobile clients and servers.
"Peer to peer synchronization is a really cool capability," Mitchell said. "With it, users can now use their own Bluetooth to keep synched if they go offline – like on a plane."
Another major enhancement in Couchbase Mobile 2.5 is the introduction of machine learning in Predictive Queries for applications. The new Predictive Query API lets mobile apps use pre-trained ML models to run predictive queries locally on mobile devices against stored data.
"There have been rudimentary SQL-like queries in Couchbase Mobile before," Mitchell said. "However, the ability to actually do machine learning on the embedded DB is a new concept, which allows you to create a model and apply it to applications. This runs right on the device." The predictions in the database can then be correlated with predictions made in real-time from mobile cameras and other local context sources.
"At one level, this makes the developer experience easier," Mitchell said. "Being able to do Couchbase queries with those models running in the background – as opposed to pulling data out and sending it to a cloud service – allows for more of an integrated approach. Something like facial recognition can be done through Couchbase Mobile, rather than use a third party system that requires custom applications. "
At this stage, it is a developer preview.
"We will have more buzz on that in our next release after its developer preview run," Mitchell said. "We went back and forth about whether to highlight it in this news."
New supportability features have also been added to Couchbase Mobile 2.5.
"Eventing – event side scripting – is new on the mobile device," Mitchell said. "When specific documents are replicated, it can trigger events. We continue to make improvements to replication capabilities in general."
Continuous custom and file based logging support has also been added. Troubleshooting issues in mobile apps deployed in production is very challenging, and continuous log support now lets logs be captured at the time the problem occurs.
"We also now have document expiry on mobile, which we didn't have before," Mitchell added.
Synchronization stats reporting has also been revamped, to make it easier to monitor and control management costs.


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First Impression Denture Clinic is with you every step of the way! We will schedule follow-up appointments with you to ensure that your dentures are fitting well and your gums and tissues are getting used to them.
Practicing good dental hygiene is of utmost importance with complete dentures. Using a soft bristle toothbrush and toothpaste, brush your gums, tongue and roof of your mouth every morning prior to inserting your complete dentures. By brushing every day, you are helping to remove any bacteria and plaque buildup.


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The Ghent Workgroup is providing a unique opportunity of an exclusive workshop on PDF2.0 PDF/X Plus and PDF for Packaging. Taking place in Washington DC on Tuesday October 9th, 2018, the day will be filled with a comprehensive set of training sessions covering all aspects of file creation and discussing the importance of PDF standards, particularly in the evolution and transition to digital printing.
Since 2002, GWG has been creating best practice specifications to make the global design and publishing processes more reliable and efficient. Using GWG specifications means companies can have the confidence that their PDF files are validated.
Speakers already confirmed for the workshop are the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist for Print Economics and Management, Printing Industries of America, Ronnie H. Davis PhD; Chair of the Ghent Workgroup, David Zwang; Executive Director of the Ghent Workgroup and CTO of Four Pees, David van Driessche. More speakers are to be announced and the final agenda for the day will be published in due course.
David L. Zwang, GWG Chairman says, "We recognize an increased interest in the latest developments regarding PDF. We are staging this exclusive workshop to bring printers, designers and all stakeholders up to speed with what is happening right now in the Graphic Arts industry. Our ambition continues to help build understanding of what is possible today using the latest compliant specifications. Designers in particular can truly benefit from utilizing the capabilities of Ghent PDF Output Suite, which helps to check output and ensures a perfect reproduction of the design they have created. By attending these exclusive workshops, attendees will find answers to the challenges and opportunities that their businesses face on a day to day basis".
For more information about the session, and/or to register, please visit http://www.gwg.org/gwg-workshop-washington-2018/.


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A greenhouse means you can garden all year round no matter what the weather conditions might be outside. One can have beautiful flowering plants, tomatoes, fresh greens and herbs and seedlings growing in every season. You will have a lovely, oxygen rich environment in which to enjoy your indoor gardening. You will increase your health and vitality with a continuous supply of fresh greens and food.
There are many types of greenhouse designs, and you want to choose one that matches your home design or garden layout. A greenhouse can either be built separately away from the house, or designed to attach to one side of your home. Either way, a pitched roof is necessary to allow for proper ventilation, and in northern climates, for allowing heavy snowfalls to slide off easily. A home attached, or lean to, greenhouse design is ideal if yard space is limited, and provides convenient accessibility to water and electric supply.
Let's take a look at some greenhouse designs:
A Traditional Span greenhouse provides the best use of growing space at the least cost. It is built with vertical sides and an even span roof allowing maximum head room in the center. It is designed with kneewalls which prevents access to growing plants below knee level, but this design prevents heat loss in winter.
The Mansard greenhouse is best for maximum light with slanting sides, roof panels, a full width door frame, sliding door for ventilation and ample headroom.
A Dome greenhouse also allows for maximum light with multi-angled glass panels, as well as offering less wind resistance due to its design. The disadvantage is less headroom around the edge.
An Octagonal, or polygonal, greenhouse is often used as a focal point in the garden, and constructed of glass and wood. They have an appealing design, but can be more expensive than other greenhouses of similar size.
The Lean To greenhouse is constructed of glass and wood against a house or building wall. The advantages of this design is the accessibility to a water and electric supply along with extra warmth and insulation of the building wall. These are ideal for colder, snowy climates for easy access.
A Hoop greenhouse is small, mobile and easy to build. It is typically made from metal framing and plastic sheeting, but ventilation, heating and headroom are limited. It is primarily designed to extend growing seasons rather than wintering plants.
The Conservatory greenhouse is designed to save energy and requires special features. It is built against a dark wall that acts as a thermal mass and radiates heat. It is twice as long as it is wide with angle roof panels, uses mirrored surfaces to reflect light, double glazing and efficient insulation.
A Passive Solar greenhouse is becoming very popular. This greenhouse is designed with a south facing glass wall, uses the sun for heat while active solar venting and fans keep it cool. These are moderate cost to build, and inexpensive to maintain.
You can buy a greenhouse kit, or design and build your own. Consider first the size, the location and suitable type for your needs. If building your own, examine your material options. If using inexpensive glass, you need a good ventilation to control the internal temperature. Clear fiberglass is more durable than glass, but more costly. Plexiglas is more costly than fiberglass, but will last longer.
Visit some greenhouses in your local area for ideas and tips. Try to get the largest size greenhouse your money can buy so you do not end up disappointed with limited growing space.


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SHOWS judaah
bfdm, dj p, dj sentiments, fhloston paradise, frank n' funker, groovedge, hip-hop, judaah, jungle, nyco, perrine, rock, the pilotwings, thomas b
african, clft, curgenven, disco, experimental, jean toussaint, judaah, lericolais, meirino, noetinger, nyco, perrine, sebastien robert, techno, the pilotwings, thms, world
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To celebrate BFDM's first year anniversary we've invited label founder Judaah to sit down with us and discuss his roots.
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BFDM's rendez-vous with label founder Judaah and henchman James Tarba. Constant dedication to zahef, through the crew's productions and other labels' activities.
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Gravats' Low Jack and BFDM's Judaah meet.
Groovedge Posse, John Jastszebski, Leome, and BFDM to wrap this one up.


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Even just five or 10 seconds (yes, seconds!) outside in the morning sun makes me instantly just take a deep breath. I feel my body relax and I feel so free because I am not restricted by the ceiling or walls of a home, workplace, or vehicle.
Getting outside in the morning sun makes me feel reconnected to the universe because I feel it fill my heart and soul with positive energy. I feel my heart overflow with love and happiness, which expand out into the world.
The morning sun gives me strength and confidence to accomplish good things and send positivity out into the world. It makes me feel alive and well. It reminds me to be grateful that I have been gifted another day on earth. We start anew with a clean slate--another chance to make it our best day and live life to the fullest.
Taking a moment to savor the morning sun teaches and/or reminds us how to be present in the moment. It's a chance to practice the exercise of living in the present instead of looking back at the past or into the future. It provides peace as well as calm. It helps us remember that all is well and that we can handle anything that comes our way.
If you are not able to go outside in the morning sun, I strongly suggest you at least point your face toward the sun each morning--even if you can only spare five seconds. Besides feeling an amazing tranquility, you may even absorb the best Vitamin D available to us. Nothing compares to the vitality that the morning sun provides to us.
Enjoy your day! :)