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July 7, 2018
Tips for Hiring the Best Water Damage Restoration Services
It is important to note that with water damage you will never have your piece of mind since it is accompanied by a lot of destruction. Thus why you need to get water restoration services that will make sure that you will never experience the similar problem with your water system. But the big question is that majority are not well conversant with how to identify the best water restoration services. In this article, we are going to look at some of the things that will help you in engaging the best water restoration services.
To find the best water restoration company you should consider their response time. In this case, you should hire a water restoration company that can respond to your emergency within one hour. When you hire a water restoration company that cannot respond quickly, you are likely to lose a lot of your property. In this case, you can try and call or email the company to assess how long they will take to reply your email or your calls as this may be a reflection of what they will do when you hire them.
Apart from that, you should make sure that they are experienced. It will be better to hire a company that has been offering water restoration services for some years. This will mean that they have knowledge and expertise that will make your water damage perfect. In this case, you will have to ask them to provide you with their portfolio so that you can see some of the places that they worked in before.
Also, you should ask for references. Therefore, you will have to contract some of the people that experienced similar problems and were helped with water restoration company. Of which you will engage them in a question and answer exercise so that you can know some of the good and bad sides of the water restoration company. As a result, you will be in a better position to know the kind of services that you expect from the water restoration company.
Last but not least, you should also look at the inspection cleaning and restoration certification This is an industry trade organisation certification that establishes standards for water restoration. Working with such companies is beneficial because with this you will be sure that your water restoration project will be handled correctly and it will last for an extended period before you could experience problems. Working with such companies also saves time since they know what they are doing and you will not have to supervise them.


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It's sometimes a good idea to spend more money and invest in various things in life. However, there are also many easy ways to save money, that have nothing at all to do with living a frugal lifestyle. It's easily possible to live a luxe life whilst also being savvy and saving money along the way.
8 methods to try in order to easily save money
1: Cancel expensive TV packages
Watch as many Youtube videos as you do TV shows? Prefer Netflix or always watch channels that come with basic TV packages? If you pay for an expensive TV package to have a large number of channels, ask yourself if you really need it.
2: Get a cheaper phone contract
Every time an upgrade for your phone contract becomes available, do you always take it? You may find that you're spending way more money than you need to by doing this.
It can feel like you always need to keep up with the very latest technology, but the truth is you really don't need to. Try holding onto your handset for a little longer and take out a cheap sim-only deal. Doing this can save you a pretty packet every month.
3: Buy fewer drinks and snacks on the go
When you go out anywhere, take some drinks and snacks with you. Some places can charge pretty high prices just for a couple of packets of crisps and bottled drinks, so it makes sense to take your own when you're out and about for a few hours. Taking your favourite healthy snacks and a bottle of water is a great way to stop purchasing junk food and unhealthy drinks.
Reusable bottles such as Sistema bottles mean you can take a healthy drink with you wherever you go and help the environment at the same time.
4: Read cheaper and even free books
Love to read? If you own a Kindle, you can find so many cheap e-books to read, not to mention an array of free e-books available. This is a great way to discover new authors to follow.
5: Choose supermarket own brand products
There are many supermarket own brand products that are just as good, or even better, than their branded counterparts. It's all about trying things and seeing what you prefer. A great deal of money can be saved over the years by buying cheaper versions of branded goods that are just as good.
6: Switch/don't just pay renewal price
There is so much money to be saved in switching to a cheaper deal or even different supplier when it comes to insurance and utilities. When it's time to renew, use comparison sites to view prices offered by other companies. Try phoning the company you use and ask if they'll reduce the renewal quote – very often, just asking the question means they drop the price.
7: Use a cashback site
Using a cashback site is one of the easiest ways to save money when you're buying things online. There are several cashback sites, but the one I always use is Topcashback. Once you've set up an account with them, if the website you want to order from has cashback available, you just click through to them via Topcashback and you earn money. There are plenty of options for receiving your cashback money, from a BACS transfer to Love2Shop vouchers.
8: Overpay your mortgage
This is a great option to look into, particularly as savings interest rates are currently so low. Although of course make sure you read the terms and conditions for your mortgage, as fixed rate mortgages may well have a limit on how much you can overpay without being charged. Making overpayments can really help to reduce the length of your mortgage and reduce the interest you have to pay.
These are 8 ways you can save some money without having the live frugally – give them a go today.

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New Jersey Senate to Hold Hearings on Teachers' Union Following Project Veritas Videos
Following the release of two damning Project Veritas videos, the New Jersey Senate is planning to hold hearings on the conduct of the state's teachers' union, NJ.com reported on Monday.
State Senate President Stephen Sweeney has officially called for a joint legislative hearing to investigate New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) presidents who were caught on camera explaining how they defend abusive teachers from allegations of potential crimes.
More hearings were announced an hour later, although no dates have yet been set.
A source told New Jersey 101.5 that Sweeney was extremely disturbed by the "outrageous behavior" seen in the videos, which were released by Project Veritas last week.
As PJ Media reported, Dr. David Perry, president of the Hamilton (Mercer) Teachers Education Association, was recorded admitting that his union was willing to "bend the truth" to "defend even the worst people" and hide alleged abuses:
In his second video in the series, an NJEA official was recorded advising a Project Veritas journalist posing as a physically abusive teacher on how to cover up the beating of a "scumbag" student.
Kathleen Valencia, president of the Union City Education Association, can be seen telling a Veritas journalist that she knew of a district teacher who had been accused of having sex with a student but who would not be charged because there was no proof:
Both Perry and Valencia were suspended by their respective districts within hours of the video releases.
"It is absolutely unacceptable," said Sweeney (D-Gloucester) in a phone interview with NJ Advance Media Monday morning. "It's offensive to listen to the way the leadership -- I'm not talking about the state leadership, I'm talking about the local leadership -- handled that."
Sweeney added that if the NJEA leaders have "devised a way to get around reporting properly incidents in schools where kids have been physically assaulted, it's a problem. ... And I think it's enough of issue when you have local leadership bragging about how they get around things, and how they can fix things, that it needs to be reviewed to make sure it stops."
Sweeney shot down the NJEA's criticism of Project Veritas: "They can attack the videos and who did the videos all they want. But those words were real, those actions were real, and they need to be dealt with."
He added: "The NJEA doing their own independent investigation is the fox watching the henhouse."
Project Veritas' next video sting, which is set in Michigan, is apparently so explosive that the teachers' union there is trying to obtain a temporary restraining order to stop O'Keefe from releasing it:
The conservative muckraker headed to a court hearing early Monday afternoon to fight for the release of his video:


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Active learning sits at the heart of the SimCase experience for students. From our own student experiences, we knew that engagement, participation and application (all core to Active Learning) differentiated the good classes from the great ones. To make sure our team and professor partners are designing the right kind of experience, it was important to establish a guidepost definition that would become a core design principle (link to learn more about those).
Beginning our quest for this definition, we did what any intrepid learner would do: research. Along the way we reviewed papers spanning military exercises, flight simulations and humanitarian relief. Yet in the end, we felt that Michael Prince's 2004 definition worked for us since it was both simple and relevant:
"Active learning is generally defined as any instructional method that engages students in the learning process. In short, active learning requires students to do meaningful learning activities and think about what they are doing."
Prince elaborated upon this idea by outlining general characteristics shared by a spectrum of active learning methods. This built upon the 1991 work of Bonwell and Eison who outlined general characteristics shared by active learning strategies and. As we continued reading, it became pretty clear that Prince's research resonated with us so we adopted his framework for our designers:
With that structure in place, we wanted to add a final layer of examples to further guide our design process. To do so, we built upon the spectrum of active learning examples published by the University of Michigan's Center for Teaching and Learning, a thought leader in enhancing teaching and learning and the first dedicated center of its kind in the US.
In their spectrum, popular active learning strategies are arranged by complexity along the x-axis. As is, we felt that a measure of Engagement was missing. As a result we added Engagement to the y-axis to reflect the direct relationship between complexity and engagement voiced by instructors we spoke to. The result is a simple landscape that outlines a variety of strategies that can be defined as active learning, as well as the benefits and challenges that that underlie the approach that is at the core of what we do.
Where Games and Simulations land on this spectrum puts SimCase in a unique position. If built thoughtfully we deeply engage students to improve learning. Otherwise we risk overcomplicating the experience, losing students and instructors along the way. But we know this hard path is the right path and are excited for the challenge ahead.
Reflecting on our time as students, we found one thing in common: recounting details of our experience with business cases and simulations was easy, even years after graduation. Curious, we found a vast amount of research on the subject (here's a link to that rabbit hole). Without getting too wonkish with details, here are some highlights from that research:
Having met with hundreds of students in my time as a university administrator, these figures ring true. Students repeatedly remarked about their preference for case-exercises over passive lectures, and how much fun they had in courses that had a digital or analog game component. Plus, when overlayed with the qualitative and quantitative feedback from school-wide student surveys, it became clear that active learning was not only popular, but also increasingly expected by each incoming generation of students.
The deeper we explored active learning strategies, the more reassured we were about the promise and potential of this approach. Yet in spite of this potential, the reality on the ground suggested that something limited the role of active learning exercises in post-secondary education. In spite of its popularity with students and the tremendous amount of research supporting its efficacy, active learning strategies remained outliers on higher education campuses.
So we set out to find out why, and what we learned ended up guiding the design of the product we build today.
It turns out, post-secondary education was the wrong rock to look under to start our search. In many K-12 classrooms, active learning is the baseline experience. What we've read is that the challenges posed by the vastly more heterogeneous student body (in learning styles, learning pace, attention span, etc.) increases the need for students to actively engage in order to learn. For K-12 active learning isn't viewed as a luxury, it's a necessity.
Indeed, as the prevalence of PCs, tablets, and phones increases in the classroom, so too does the ease of delivery active learning. You can see this reflected in the businesses surrounding K-12 education where companies like Nearpod have found success in transforming active learning strategies from analog to digital.
Ultimately, this means that each year a new generation of students arrives at postsecondary institutions with active learning experience, and heightened expectations regarding what teaching and learning should be like.
Interestingly, some segments of post-secondary education have been employing active learning strategies for generations. Labs are by definition opportunities for students to learn by doing, so students studying the sciences or engineering have long benefitted from this approach. Plus, arts courses structured around small sections curating lively discussions tap into some of the active learning benefits outlined above. Beyond college, many Law schools across the country employ the socratic method, an active learning strategy high on the continuum for both its impact and its complexity. Likewise, teaching hospitals provide environments that allow medical students to apply their knowledge, first-hand and learn from those experiences. . It quickly became clear that If we looked beyond our world of business education, the adoption of active learning strategies actually represented a fair degree of buy-in regarding the benefits described above.
Business schools have adapted as well, with more programs marketing their use of a case-based approach to teaching, a variation on the socratic method developed at Harvard over a hundred years ago. Harvard's business school has actually helped build its brand through the commercialization of its business cases, and they remain an excellent active learning strategy for instructors who learn how to deploy them effectively. Unfortunately, the case method isn't as widespread as its hundred year history might suggest, and in the next section we'll dive into what we learned about what's kept active learning strategies from spreading.
We set out to interview business school professors about the teaching strategies they deployed in their courses. Grossly simplified, professors who utilized case studies believed that the learning outcomes merited the additional preparation time required to successfully guide the discussion. Similarly, professors who had incorporated digital or analog games felt the upfront time investment required to adapt their syllabus paid off over subsequent semesters since their day-of preparation time was reduced. While this seemed like a rational trade off, many of the professors we talked to felt that the switching costs associated with making any change to their syllabus was simply too great.
This made us pause to ask: if active learning provided so many agreed upon benefits, what was the hold up? And then we realized, we overlooked a crucial factor: TIME. At any research institution and especially In the ivy-league, there is a zero-sum trade off between time spent on research and time spent teaching. Community college and online instructors communicated a similar time-driven trade off between their career and the classroom. Despite an instructor's desire to use active learning, they didn't have enough time to do it.
Compounding this market need is a growing reliance on part-time professors at universities in fast-growing emerging markets – the exact people who have even less time to devote to active learning. Through our discussions it became clear that f deploying active learning in the context of post-secondary education had to be time-effective and easy. The ideal scenario would incorporate active learning into existing courses and materials to reap its benefits without incurring substantial costs.
Generally we found a willingness to explore games alongside existing lectures. Many lecture-only professors were well-aware of the benefits of incorporating active learning, but they lacked tools that could deliver outcomes without disrupting their schedules. Set-up had to be quick, obviously. Seat-time had to be much less than the options currently on the market. And breaking down what happened had to be automatic and structured around value-added insights. Plus it had to fit into a lecture break, within the commotion common at the beginning of class, or in the windows of time online students can find to engage with course content. If we could build active learning that met these needs, they would pilot it. Enough said, so we got to work.
We go into greater depth about our product in a different post (link), but in a nutshell we went with simple. Each game tackles a single concept. Each context is broken down to bullet points. And each experience takes only minutes to play.
Taking lessons from what helped short-from games (aka casual games) expand the gaming genre to a much wider audience, we built straightforward game dynamics that you didn't need instructions to understand; you can just pick up and play. And throughout the process we remained focused on the teaching takeaways. Together these design principles helped us create games that sit above the active learning continuum, and based on our early traction appear to solve for the issues that limited the spread of active learning before.
We have another post about about our initial experiences adding active learning to existing lectures you can check out here (link). Not surprisingly, as we worked to create a solution for lecture-first classrooms, the rest of the educational landscape has continued to evolve. Two tangential developments caught our attention:.
The first development is the steady march towards hybrid learning utilizing flipped classrooms. We've always believed in the power of a lecture well delivered, which is why we've positioned our solution as a complementary tool. Plus, empowering the students to speed up, rewind, and rewatch lectures makes a one-size-fits-all piece of content a bit more personalized. All of this becomes relevant to our work on the day of class, where professors now have a gap to fill. On more than one occasion we witnessed these instructors fall back on assigning practice problems or homework review as an in-class filler. Instead, they can now use our games to interact around the concept and quickly get personalized feedback regarding what lecture concepts were absorbed and what areas to discuss in greater detail.
The increasing role of online education in the panorama of accredited and non-accredited higher education is another development we are tracking closely. While students who learn online have long had access to video lectures, our research has found that the other components of the online learning dynamic leave a lot to chance. Classroom chat boards solve for the basic Q&A dynamic, but that depends on student willingness to post. Recent efforts to integrate quiz software has made student responses more likely but we don't think assessment is the right path to increased engagement. And while advances in telepresence have made it possible to conduct a case discussion online, it requires synchronous participation which is in direct opposition to the core benefit of studying online: flexibility. Here too, we believe that short-format games can make a positive impact. Playing against a leaderboard or an artificial intelligence bot allows online students to participate on their own time, while the quick seat-time aligns well with the micro-lectures that have become increasingly popular. In that way, we believe that online education can also profit from our efforts to create a new active learning strategy, and bring the benefits of active learning to an even broader spectrum of adults looking to learn about business.


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Harold Huckins, Chemical Engineer, has been recognized by Marquis Who's Who Top Engineers for dedication, achievements, and leadership in chemical engineering.
Mr. Huckins was the founder, president and international consultant of Princeton Advanced Technology, where he led the firm in providing chemical processing, economic analysis, materials, and environmental and multi-client reports. He started the firm in 1985 and remained in these roles until his retirement in 2017. His prior experience in the field includes being the initiative chair for the world's first advanced materials conference with 29 technology societies and the chair of the world's first electrical car conference with Princeton University. Furthermore, Mr. Huckins garnered experience as the technology director of Oxirane Chemical Company, the manager of the Science Design Co., Inc., a senior process engineer at Koppers Co. Chemical Division. His work, especially with the Science Design Company, focused on developing, designing and bringing into operation some of the world's most significant chemicals, including terephthalic acid (plastics), ethylene oxide (fibers and anti-freeze agents), propylene oxide (foams, plastics and adhesives) and tertiary alcohol (gasoline additives). Earlier in his career, he was a chemical process engineer and assistant project manager at Monsanto Chemical Co.
Mr. Huckins showed an early interest in the field of engineering, first earning a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in 1945. In 1957, he received an associate degree in mechanical engineering from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from the Lowell Institute. He followed this with coursework in business administration from Boston University, and then a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1952. Throughout his career, Mr. Huckins served in various leadership roles, including with the Association of Consultant Chemists and Chemical Engineers and the Joint Engineering Council of the John Fritz Engineering Entrepreneur Medal Award Commission. He has also been a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He became a member of the American Chemical Society in 1947 and is a former member of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (now NACE International).
A leader in the field, Mr. Huckins has obtained 14 US patents for chemical process technology, four of which are for a proprietary hydrogen peroxide process. He has also been an energy consultant based on his depth of expertise. In 1994, he received the NASTAR SKI Racking Award and the Chemical Engineering Practice Award. Furthermore, he is the recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Highest Industrial Award, an honor bestowed to him in 1979. While retired, Mr. Huckins has remained active in the community by speaking to local groups, members of Congress, and media about global energy trends and environmental issues. In 1966, he co-authored "The Chemical Plant," is also credited with numerous contributions to technical and business articles and reports, particularly on saving the environment, energy and pollution control. Outside of his work, he enjoys spending time with his family, skiing, golfing, gardening, traveling and photography.
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Source: 4D Infrastructure.
A cornerstone of our investment process is company management meetings and site visits. These meetings serve several purposes, including providing an insight into management – how they think and run their business – and whether management priorities align with ours as investors. Our Company Quality Grading process involves explicitly ranking company management, so first-hand contact is vital.
The 4D investable stock universe is dispersed broadly around the globe. This necessitates our team travelling widely to call on companies, meet management and conduct site visits. This invariably provides a great insight into not only the specifics of the company being visited, but also a real perspective on what is happening more broadly in the relevant sector, economy and society. We prepare detailed notes after those meetings which capture and relay the key issues and themes of the day.
This is the fifth in our series of Trip Insights, where we share those experiences. It follows three trips during 2018 when Sarah Shaw, 4D Global Portfolio Manager, completed an extensive company engagement and calling program in Latin America and Europe, meeting with management teams from Oil & Gas Infrastructure, Regulated Utilities, Renewables, Transport (road, rail, air sea) and Communications Infrastructure.
Populous movements have gained further traction this year, ready to pounce on any electoral opportunities that present themselves – a clear sign that globally the masses want change and are dissatisfied with the incumbent ruling class.
While the economic mood remains reasonably buoyant for European companies, it has deteriorated over 2018 as a result of politics.
The year has been dominated by the elections, with the initial January concerns around the traction gained by populous, left leaning candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly referred to by his initials AMLO) giving way to his resounding majority win in July. All eyes are now on how he will execute on campaign promises, including the cancellation of the Mexico City Airport project.
The other big overhang for Mexico in 2018 was the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with the consensus view in January of a renegotiation over a cancellation, given the latter would have negative ramifications for both Mexico and the USA. This proved to be the case, with Trump posturing aggressively and then negotiating a new Agreement which was not significantly different from the original.
Reform is critical for the new government in 2019, having promised to clean up corruption, improve rural living standards and improve wealth equality across the country. While some of AMLO's rhetoric has been concerning, we hope that given his supporters include some big names in the Mexican corporate world (e.g. Carlos Slim) his bark is worse than his bite.
From an infrastructure standpoint:
The economy continues to show signs of recovery, but this has largely been overshadowed in 2018 by the October elections. Exiting President Temer has been unable to execute on much-needed reforms, and in some cases has had to backtrack. The mid-year truckers strike saw the government cede some concessions, not to mention de-rail the economic recovery for a number of weeks.
The election in October of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro gives hope of some meaningful reforms, including:
We are definitely seeing positive signs for the infrastructure players in Brazil, with:
What a roller coaster 2018 has been for Argentina. In January, the country was the poster child for the LatAm conference, with panels on Argentina as 'The New Opportunity' and regarded as the most politically stable of the LatAm nations. President Mauricio Macri continues to work hard to reform the country, but his efforts have been derailed by economics and now with the return of hyper-inflation. It appears the economic base was not stable enough to withstand a rising rate environment in the USA, and this must now be resolved as a priority.
Trump's ongoing nationalism continues to pressure markets, and is now flowing through to global economics. 2018 started with NAFTA and progressed to both Europe and China, with trade wars an ongoing battle.
With NAFTA, Trump took a hard line until negotiations were underway, when he accepted a re-negotiation on very similar terms to the original Agreement. There were some small wins for the USA so Trump can cry success, but in reality his bark proved a lot worse than his bite. This was largely expected as while Mexico would have been hit harder than the USA with a cancellation, key swing states in the USA would have been hit very hard and could have derailed Trump's political career.
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A perfect maternity leave spent travelling the world (as imagined by Hattie Garlick)
Maternity leave gap years are on the rise – and it's little wonder. As that helpful man at the office watercooler observed to me when I was eight months pregnant with my first child: "It's basically a one-year holiday, right?"
So why not spending it travelling the world?
After all, this rare opportunity of a year off work is the perfect time for a real family adventure, before Baby stops flying for free (or nearly free) - at two - and learns to toddle towards the barriers at Niagara Falls.
Reading about this Irish nurse's adventures with her partner and 10-week-old daughter brought back fond memories of my own maternity leave spent on the road*. Here's a taster from the letters I sent home to Mum:
Month 1: Baby does Buddhism
Hello from Siem Reap, Cambodia! We loved the idea of introducing our 11-week-old to the basic principles of Buddhism. Unfortunately, large swathes of the country are malarial.
So here we are in a low-risk zone which, I must say, is perfect for babies. Except for the road surfaces, which make pushing a buggy feel like driving a tank.
On the plus side, everyone says you absolutely must catch the sunrise over Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world. Gap year travellers find getting up this early an ungodly challenge. But ever since we started travelling through different time zones, Baby has been waking us up at times that would impress a rooster. Sunrise is great for us. Go Baby!
As the sun rose over the 12th century temples, I meditated on emptying my mind of thoughts. Baby concentrated on emptying her bowels. Nothing makes travel a spiritually enriching experience like being gifted with a dawn nappy change.
Month 2: Baby does the beach
Om Swastiastu! Which, as Baby could now tell you, means "hello" in Balinese. It's amazing how many languages she is picking up. I mean, she can't yet talk, obviously, but when she asks for milk, I'm picking up all sorts of new inflections in her piercing screams.
We've come here for a serious chill out – white sand, crystal clear water, enough baby-beach paraphernalia to sink a jukung (that's the kind of Balinese fishing vessel we had to wrestle the buggy aboard – so many opportunities for learning *smiley face emoticon*).
Still, we staggered off the boat and into a peaceful paradise. Kind of.
Kuta, it turns out, is famed for big wave surfing by day and wild beach parties by night. We might have known this, if Baby hadn't dribbled her way through an entire chapter of the Lonely Planet.
Anyway, having fun!!! Nothing makes travel a truly relaxing experience like erecting Baby's inflatable fortress (sorry: I mean sun shade and swim floats) while suffering from Bali Belly. It really puts it all in perspective.
Month 3: Baby does culture
Forgive me if the handwriting on this postcard is a little wonky – I'm trying to write it while simultaneously breastfeeding and haggling over a carpet in Marrakech's Grand Bazaar – motherhood really teaches you to multitask!
Last week, after I groggily spread jam on my passport instead of my toast, Daddy suggested that maybe what I needed was a little retail therapy. And what better place to do it that Jemaa el-Fna, where we can shop while also warding off - sorry, I mean showing - Baby storytellers, snake charmers and magicians.
Slightly unfortunately, Baby is going through something that my very patchy Wi-Fi diagnoses as a Wonder Week. Basically: breastfeeding 24 hours a day. While we've spent the week exposing Baby to Moroccan street culture, she's spent the time exposing my breasts to the world. Mildly awkward. Still, you can't say you've travelled till you've tried breastfeeding discreetly on the back of a flea-bitten camel.
Month 4: Baby does nature
Safari! Cuddly Tiger is baby's favourite toy, so we thought… what better to introduce her to the real thing?!
A short series of flights – no more than 11 hours and 40 minutes – and here we are in South Africa.
The open-top jeep ride was nothing short of amazing – a truly priceless experience: the rhythmic bumping bounced baby off into the longest sleep she has had since we left the UK.
Now we're back in the tent listening to the sounds of Baby sleeping on one side of the fabric and (really quite large and hungry sounding) nature on the other. We are trying, by torchlight, to make up a bottle of milk for Baby's "dream feed". Nothing makes travel a bonding experience like the furiously whispered exchanges with your partner about the exact extent to which boiling kills off bacteria. It' so... real.
Month 5: Baby does homesickness
I'm a new mum: get me out of here!
*Just kidding. Like most sane women, I actually spent both of my maternity leaves on the sofa, introducing my baby to the mind-expanding worlds of daytime TV and multipacks of biscuits, while still getting maximum use out of the elasticated waist in my pregnancy jeans.


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Water and Health: What Wesleyan Students are Doing
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Wednesday, December 1, 4:30 – 6:00pm
Wesleyan World Wednesdays, Brighter Dawns, and the Water Awareness Project Nigeria presents two juniors will speak about their projects in their developing homeland and how you can participate:
- Yinka Taiwo-Peters: Water Awareness Project Nigeria
Providing low-cost clean water sources for Nigerian schools in rural communities without safe water sources.
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On 2 July 2012, Alan Straton from MyPE wrote:
Nelson Mandela Bay's long-standing vision of a waterfront in the Port of Port Elizabeth is moving ever closer, albeit quietly, to becoming reality.
Provincial government has allocated R3.6-million for the Mandela Bay Development Agency to develop the business case, while Transnet are doing their own study on the best future use of the land. The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber this week commended all role players working in unison to bring this project to fruition.
A waterfront development has the potential to boost the city's tourism industry significantly. The progress made over the past three years on the relocation of the tank farm and manganese ore terminal from the Port Elizabeth Harbour, with a view to the eventual development of a waterfront, has been the result of a strong collaborative partnership between the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber, the Coega Development Corporation, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality and the Mandela Bay Development Agency, working together and engaging with Transnet with a long-term vision of reaping the economic and tourism benefits of this key node for the city as a whole.
"This approach led to firm progress in achieving the commitment needed from Transnet for the move of the tank farm and manganese ore berth from the city's beachfront," says Chamber CEO Kevin Hustler, "and we continue to advocate for a sustained collaborative approach moving forward."
The Business Chamber played a key role in initiating and driving the studies that helped to build the case for relocation on environmental, health, and safety grounds. The resulting reports enabled the partners to tackle the issue from different angles, and to raise concerns at various levels and with bodies such as the Green Scorpions, the Human Rights Commission and the Parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Enterprises. Studies funded by the provincial Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs will help the city to develop the business case for the waterfront, as well as focusing on the viability of the Apple Express as a possible catalyst for the first phase of development in the area.
"We have commitment that the tank farm lease will not be renewed when it expires in 2014, and that the manganese will be moved from 2017," says Hustler. "This is only through the strength of the partnership and by maintaining pressure on the issue." Joint lobbying efforts have resulted in Coega being favoured as the site for the country's new manganese export channel, rather than Saldanha as initially envisaged by Transnet. This has important positive implications for the regional economy, including the upgrading of rail linkages to the Coega IDZ which are critical for ensuring that our region is connected to the interior and the rest of the country.
"Work has been immense, incremental and, to the casual observer, invisible," Hustler continues. "But united we continue to engage and drive the issue proactively, and hope to realize the fruits of our labours between 2015 and 2018. In the mean time, there is a massive amount of work to be done in infrastructure investment and rehabilitation of the land once the facilities are dismantled."
The major challenge the stakeholders now face is to agree on the future use of the land, a key node linking the historic heart of the city and the tourist and leisure areas of the beachfront. The Business Chamber and its city partners advocate a mixed-use development combining the traditional port activities with commercial, leisure, residential and tourism facilities. "The community needs to be able to access the port area again, so that the port becomes an integral part of the city and we can unlock its full economic potential," says Hustler.
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In a bid to gather funds for flood-ravaged Kashmir, several cinema personalities including the likes of Aamir Khan, Anupam Kher and Farhan Akhtar came together for a special musical and dance concert on October 18. The entertainment industry led by the Event and Entertainment Management Association , the Film and Television Producers Guild and the global media conglomerate Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. initiated the fund-raiser campaign to raise funds and awareness for flood-stricken Kashmir.
It may have received only a screenplay award at Cannes, but Andrei Zvyagintsev's stinging satirical drama "Leviathan" came out on top at the 58th BFI London Film Festival. At a lavish awards dinner in Westminster's Banqueting Hall, the Russian critical favorite was presented with the festival's sixth annual Best Film prize by this year's jury president, Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas, who described the vote as a unanimous one: "It's grandeur and themes moved us all in the same way."
Summary In Picture Abhi Baaki Hai, film writer and scholar Rachel Dwyer makes an ambitious attempt at portraying Bollywood as a guide to modern India The critics were harsh about the thin storyline, inane action and nonsensical plot, but the latest over-the-top offering from Bollywood, Bang Bang, starring Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif, has set the cash registers ringing.


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"Follow your gut." "Listen to your heart." "Do you." All of these sayings you hear all day or read the quotes on instagram and get all bucked up and excited for what's next.
You celebrate what you perceive as a small percentage of people who are living their lives on their terms. What you get to realize is that these people you love and admire 1) listen to their hearts, 2) follow their guts and 3) just say yes and not caring what other people say. Their success & financial abundance is a byproduct of them living their lives on their terms and doing what they have passion for.
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Unfortunately You continue to follow the societal norms of second guessing your soul. The practical thing continues to call you because you don't believe that you will be supported. The safe thing that you don't love draws you in because you perceive it as "safer" or because it is what is expected of you.
Times Have Changed
With the shift in consciousness things have altered. 2012 ushered in the Era of Awakening. Millions around the world are remembering who they truly are. You are a SOUL who is living a HUMAN experience. There is a BIGGER part of you which is connected to All That Is. This larger part of you is your Soul. It is the part of you that is ALREADY experiencing life as you desire. It is the part of you that knows exactly what to do and where to go. Why? Because that larger part of you is ONE WITH Source.
The way things were always done aren't working anymore. The success you would manifest from doing a little bit of what you wanted every once and a while isn't available anymore. Now is the time for you to step up and step into what you truly want.
Deep inside, you want to live your life on your terms. You desire to do what excites you. Your passion drives you. All of this is bubbling up from inside of you. This passion is flowing from your Soul. What you get to realize is that your soul's desires are divine and they come from your higher self.
You are one with Infinite Intelligence and when you go with your heart and follow your passion you will find that not only are you 1) aligned with receiving the byproduct which is money, you are 2) in a position to live your total and complete BEST LIFE by listening to and taking action on your Soul.
Say Yes to Your Soul
The more you say yes to your soul the more you will see doors open up to you. The reason being is because your Soul is connected to Universal Intelligence. Your soul is the larger part of you that is connected to all of the parallel realities, all of the possibilities and all of the options.
Because your Soul is privy to all of this inside information, the things your Soul tells you to do are completely unexpected and feel "scary" or "crazy." But it is up to you to trust.
What is fear anyway? Fear is a conditioned response that was used to keep our ancestors alive. When there were threats of death everywhere such as woolly mammoths and tigers and all kinds of ills all around, fear was used to keep you alive and kicking.
In present day, fear keeps us in our comfort zone. Fear keeps us driving the same routes to work and going to the same places. Fear keeps us in our comfortable routines.
In order to rise up and do what you haven't done before, you have to step up and do things you have never done. This means doing the uncomfortable. Getting comfortable with discomfort is the first step to doing what your soul desires.
How do you Say Yes to Your Soul
Start Small
Start doing what you feel inspired to do right when you feel the inspiration. Whether it is just taking a drink of water exactly at the time you feel thirsty or going to take a walk right when you think about it, start there. Starting small will allow you to open the door to trusting your instincts more and more and truly following your soul. The more you take inspired action from trust, it will become easier and easier for you to not only HEAR but TRUST your intuition and finally begin to SAY YES with EASE.
Ask Guidance
Throughout the day, Ask "What would I most love to do right now" and then whatever you feel inspired to do, Do It. No hesitations or second guesses. The more you do it and trust that you are listening to your soul, the easier it will be to take the larger steps and actions that you feel led to do. It all comes with practice. With practice and trust you will find that the more you Say Yes to Your Soul the more opportunities you receive to actually live your best life NOW.
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The Decision Series
In the final video of the Decision Series, Video 5, you will learn the two ways to listen to your soul. One way helps you to take a trip to your Parallel Reality where the you who has or is about to have what you desire makes the choice. In this process, you cut through the doubt and go straight to your soul!
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Something wonderful has happened, you have discovered that you are pregnant.
Exciting thoughts begin to fill your mind about the baby, names, boy, girl, BIRTH PLAN?
All expectant mothers dream of a beautiful birth, but, this is rarely the case and the reality is often a mother left with thoughts of pain, trauma and disappointment.
You and your baby are special and you both deserve special care.
Using hypnobirthing, childbirth can be an empowering and positive event, a beautiful experience and memory that will stay with you*.
The reason that you are reading this maybe because you want what is best for you and that little one growing inside you, and, if this is the case, then please read on.
HYPNOBIRTHS tend to be:
The Benefits to your baby are*:
The Hypnobirthing course is a beautiful programme packed full of information that will cover every aspect up to, the birth itself and after your little miracle has arrived.
YOU and YOUR BABY deserve to have the birth you both want.
Please watch my client video testimonials if you are considering Hypnotherapy for yourself.
*Disclaimer: Results may vary from person to person.
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MS Dynamics Senior DeveloperApply now »
Date: Mar 27, 2020
Location: Washington, DC, US
Company: NTT DATA Services
Req ID: 24206
At NTT DATA Services, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees are key factors in our company's growth, market presence and our ability to help our clients stay a step ahead of the competition. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA Services and for the people who work here.
NTT DATA Services currently seeks a MS Dynamics Senior Developer to join our team in Washington, District of Columbia (US-DC), United States (US).
- Bachelor's Degree with an advanced degree preferred
Responsibilities include the following:
- Perform CRM configuration, custom development, integration, code and data migration scripts for Microsoft Dynamics CRM-based projects
- Participate in full-lifecycle development efforts which are based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, xRM framework and. C#.NET
- Lead the development of user stories and design artifacts to effectively convey requirements to client stakeholders
- Contribute to the customer's architectural best practices and CRM customization standards to be utilized on Dynamics CRM-based projects
- Conduct code reviews to ensure that customization code quality is at the highest level possible and appropriate design patterns are being followed
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- In-depth hands-on knowledge of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform, the entity model, security model, Web services and xRM framework
- Extensive .NET Framework and C# development experience including experience with the CRM API, REST/ODATA and SOAP endpoints.
- Hands-on experience architecting solutions that involve CRM customization to include server side code, custom business logic, integration modules, workflow assemblies and plug-ins
- Experience with ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Windows Communication and Workflow Foundations, JS, HTML
- Experience developing solutions in DB such as SQL Server or Oracle with experience programming stored procedures using T-SQL or PL/SQL
- Experience with object-oriented design and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
- Recent Federal government work experience desired, but not required.
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- 10 Yrs. Minimum Development Experience
This position is only available to those interested in direct staff employment opportunities with NTT DATA, Inc. or its subsidiaries. Please note, 1099 or corp-2-corp contractors or the equivalent will NOT be considered. We offer a full comprehensive benefits package that starts from your first day of employment.
About NTT DATA Services
NTT DATA Services partners with clients to navigate and simplify the modern complexities of business and technology, delivering the insights, solutions and outcomes that matter most. We deliver tangible business results by combining deep industry expertise with applied innovations in digital, cloud and automation across a comprehensive portfolio of consulting, applications, infrastructure and business process services.
NTT DATA Services, headquartered in Plano, Texas, is a division of NTT DATA Corporation, a top 10 global business and IT services provider with 100,000+ professionals in more than 50 countries, and NTT Group, a partner to 85 percent of the Fortune 100. Visit nttdataservices.com to learn more.
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Ideal for hosting a dinner party with a difference, our Barbecue Huts are not just a twice-a-year novelty, but rather a true all-year-round investment. The Victorian BBQ House gives extra head room and offers a traditional look. Imagine turning your steaks on the grill as the wind howls outside and you relax in the heat and aroma of your luxury Victorian barbecue hut. You feel miles away as the craic builds and your friends begin to unwind from the stresses of the day. In fact, in one of our barbecue huts manufactured from the highest quality Northern Pine with double glazed windows, you are entering your own magical world. This attractive feature will become the centrepiece of your outdoor living space, and a favourite dining venue for all the family. And you can always use the pull out beds if you can't make it back home!
If you would like any more information about our stylish Victorian BBQ hut, or would like to obtain a free quote on this or any other of our fantastic BBQ houses, then please be sure to contact Aquasun's friendly and professional advisors. You can call us from Northern Ireland on 028 2763 7988, mainland Ireland in 01 69 500 29, or leave your details on the contact form below and we'll reply as soon as we can.
Aquasun provide a wide range of styles and sizes of bbq huts, continue your search for the perfect grillikota bbq hut.
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Your BBQ Hut can be sited anywhere in your garden. It can make a great focal attraction in your garden so usually a position where it can be viewed from your house is best. We would suggest a corner of the garden where you can plant some shrubs around it and make it blend in with its surroundings. A pathway or perhaps steping stones in your lawn leading up to the front door can look great. If a power supply is nearby then adding lights can make it look great in the evenings.
Your BBQ Hut will require a solid level base to sit on. This can be made out of wood decking, concrete or patio slabs. If the area you wish to build your BBQ Hut on is grass, soil or an uneven surface we can provide a pressure treated base. This is usually the most economical option and also provides good ventilation under the hut for the air intakes positioned below the BBQ grill which improves the draw of smoke up the chimney. It also means you have no site preparation to do as we will take care of even the ground work. If you wish to prepare your own base please speak to us for advice.
The Aquasun team will arrange the installation and construction of your BBQ Hut. Construction typically takes two days to complete so you won't be waiting long. The only thing we ask is that there is a suitable base prepared for the BBQ hut to sit on. It must be on a level ground with plenty of space to construct and access the hut. We recommend a space that isn't overlooked so you can get the most out of your BBQ hut, especially in the warmer seasons!
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- The Winsor & Newton range of Galeria Acrylic Paper has been specifically designed for use with all acrylic colours and mediums. Galeria Acrylic Pads are made from 100% acid free, mould-made paper for stability and resistance to ageing. It is both internally and externally sized to provide maximum colour brilliance. The paper is 300gsm/140lb and has been embossed to produce a 'canvas-like' texture. Each gummed pad contains 15 sheets.
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Phnom Penh, 01 April 2015 - Climate Change has been taking into discussion in a parallel workshop on Environmental Context in Sustainable Development during the annual congress for environment achievement for 2014 and set up directions and priorities for 2015 organized by Ministry of Environment.
Under the parallel workshop, responding to climate change is focusing on the climate change general context and Cambodia's participation, updated status on implementation of the Cambodia Climate Change Strategic Plan (CCCSP), update stutus of Climate Change Financing Framework and way forwards, community livelihood improvement in Cambodia's coastal zone and participation of private sector and civil society in responding to climate change.
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In San Francisco, you don't have to look far to find the surplus class. Just go down to the old dry dock area, the one that used to hustle with all the sounds and sights of thousands of blue-collar workers repairing conveyor lines of ships, and you will suddenly find yourself exiting the glitzy world of SF gussying up for the millennium, and quick-time entering a surreal world of nomadic bodies and live-in campers squatting on the dock of the Bay. Every night when the sun goes down and the San Francisco cops come up, the squat comes alive with the survival tales of the surplus class living on the physical edge of technotopia, right in sight of the high finance, high-intensity money-spangled skyline with its Trans-America Masonic architecture.
It's a strange and surreal world of disappearances: disappeared ships, disappeared labor, disappeared communities. But in the squat, there's one thing that hasn't vanished, and that's memory. It's a real inter-zone of embedded memory, squatted by people with a story to tell of survivors living on the edge who have beat the odds, and who might be dumped into surplus flesh by the new technological elite - the virtual class - but who have learned new labor skills for the end-of-the-century: laboring, that is, to survive as the vanguard of the disappeared of America. This is what happens to Marx's "dead labor" when it starts to speak.
Take Jesus. He's a tough-ass, mean-thinking Puerto Rican organic intellectual married to a French Maoist. With a staccato way of thinking and a blue-collar way of talking, he puts into words the long-repressed story of the squat. And he's unflinching. "Don't give me that crap about the so-called War on Drugs. The White House is the biggest rock house in America." Or, "If you're poor and black in America, you ain't got no rights. When you're in the projects, the cops will bust down your door every night. In the projects, you're always living with your pants down." Or, "What are you going to say to a kid. Stay in school for chump change, when you could be a high roller starting up your own drug emporium on the street corner in front of your own home. In America, the kids that deal aren't getting drugs by themselves. We're talking here about a big distribution network: banks and cops and government."
And then there's the guy who calls himself the Desert Rat. A black leather cowboy hat pulled down over his eyes, with the strings pulled taut under his lip just above a full salt and pepper beard. He's been living in the squat for a few months, working out of the back of his truck as a car mechanic. He's reputed to be the best auto mechanic in a 50-mile radius of the city. The day we were there, a long line of Saabs and Corollas and Cherokees, straight from the Valley, were waiting in a long, snaking line to be diagnosed by the Desert Rat: delivering up their cars for final judgment - bad timing, burnt-out valves, shocks and struts, clutch and transmission problems, blown electrical fuses, shot computer circuitry, ignition failures, spitting, misfiring pistons. Now, most of the year, the Desert Rat spends his time walking barefoot in the Sonara Desert. He tells us his story sitting behind the wheel of his truck, drinking skim milk straight out of the carton, all the while listening to Jesus and nodding his head in assent. Then he adds: "I first came to SF in 68. Couldn't afford an apartment then, and sure can't afford one now."
This is a squat California style: vehicle-oriented, perfectly nomadic, an interzone, where you can turn on the ignition, and leave at a moment's notice. In America, property's king, and nothing much has changed here. It could be a waterfront, picture window on the bay, suburb for the surplus class. Except it's not. It's got all the pain and the memory of people who have been pushed out of the system, and who have done the next best thing, becoming the lonely coyotes of the surplus class. Refusing service work, they are the last and best of the independent workers: living off the land, reskilling their labor, prophets of the future of blue-collar work in the American digital dustbowl.


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Organic Lamb Burger with Fresh Mint Yoghurt and Quinoa
- 1 cup dry organic quinoa
- 1 pound ground organic lamb meat
- 2 teaspoons organic ground cumin
- Pinch organic chilli flakes
- 1 clove organic garlic, minced
- 1 organic, free range egg
- 1 small organic red onion, diced finely
- Organic salt, to season
- 2 tablespoons organic vegetable oil
- 1 cup organic Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons organic fresh mint, chopped
q. Rinse the quinoa in a large fine mesh strainer with cold water, then transfer to a small saucepan. Cover with 2 cups cold water, bring to a boil, and then reduce to a low simmer and cook for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the heat, fluff with a fork and let cool before mixing into the lamb.
2. Mix together the quinoa, lamb, cumin, chilli flakes, garlic, egg, onions and some salt in a large bowl until the mixture comes together and is smooth. Form the mixture into 4 balls, flatten down into patties and place on baking sheets.
3. Heat a large nonstick saute pan over high heat for 1 minute, and then add the oil. Cook the patties until browned, 3 minutes per side, and then cover and cook over low heat for 10 to 12 minutes. Mix together the yogurt and mint in a separate bowl and season with salt.
4. To plate the dish, place the lamb burger over your favorite salad or I recommend a fresh tomato puree. Top each with a dollop of the mint yogurt and serve.
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Pet Paw Prints Framed
Looking to capture a very precious moment in time of your precious pet?
Our pet paw print frames are a great reminder over the years to come of your beloved pet dog or cat.
How are the pet paw print frames created?
The process is very simple, quick and mess-free. You can either pop along to the studio with your pet or have a go yourself. The print does not have to be perfect – they can be tidied up before being presented in a frame of your choice along with a photograph.
Pet Paw Print Jewellery
Once you have created a paw print you could use it to also have a piece of jewellery created. This was exactly what my client wanted to do with her paw print of Willow who had sadly passed away unexpectedly. As you can see the pawprint was placed in a wood frame along with a beautiful photograph. The same print was then used to create a silver heart paw print charm.
How do I order a framed pet print?
There are two options available.
- If you are able to travel to the studio in Poole with your pet then contact Glenda to make an appointment.
- You can place an order for one of the inkless wipe kits. It comes with very detailed instructions.
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Un-contextualized abuse is a piece that aims to create a forced empathy between the viewer and the abusive situations displayed, recognizing this situations regardless of gender, race, class or age. The viewer is also taken away from those characteristics and left only with his human-like shape, which she/he shares with the characters in the abusive situations.
This project hopes to challenge stereotypes that affect many every day; anyone can be in a situation of abuse, regardless of age, gender or social class.
An iMac computer and a Kinect camera welcome the viewer, giving an automatic reading of that person, a reading of only its silhouette. But after several seconds, as the viewer gets used to his interaction with the piece, this mirrored experience is interrupted by different clips of abusive situations. However, those people in the videos are not different from the viewer: they are un-differentiable from each other. A forceful call for empathy.
Because of the immediate outcome of the captures taken with the depth camera, it makes it an extraordinary tool to link the viewer with the subject of the main piece. In this piece, the result will not only be the figure of the viewer transforming itself into one of the shapes that appear in the videos, but also the people who move behind will be visible replications of those performing.
This project wants to reach awareness about how the word abuse is now part of a social stereotype in which only certain demographics are believed to be victims, while others are always the abusers. These labels and presumptions are a barrier that do not allow people to get the help needed when in an abusive situation. Some victims not only have to deal with the stigma associated with being in an abusive relationship/family, but also with the disbelieve of their situation in a society clearly shortsighted.
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A stunning, custom-designed home in highly sought after Plantation Lakes. This elegant lakefront home sits on 3/4 acres. Having 4 bedrooms, 3 ½ baths, formal living room and dining room, family room, office, kitchen with breakfast nook and a bonus room. The first-floor feature a formal dining room, an office with a current storm built-in wall of bookcases and storage for printers, two file drawers, and a spacious desktop. The formal living room has an elegant floor-to-ceiling engraved stone fireplace, tinted overhead bay windows, and double glass sliding doors. The first-floor master suite wing has a double-sided fireplace, for the bedroom and a cozy sitting room with a bay of windows overlooking the lake. The master bath has his and her spacious walk-in closets, his and her vanities, and an over-sized soaking jetted Jacuzzi bathtub, with a fountain at its head. The entire back of the bathroom is the shower. Beyond the three-car garage is a walled-in courtyard and a private side entrance off the paver driveway. This service area contains a large laundry room and a drop zone across from the elevator. The state-of-the-art gourmet kitchen with gorgeous cherry wood custom cabinets, a Wolf range, custom shelving in the pantry, granite counter-tops and stainless appliances including a wine cooler in the butlers area of the kitchen. Completing the first floor is an open concept area flanking the kitchen-with a spacious breakfast nook and the family room. A bay of windows and French doors enable a full view of the lake. The family room large fireplace with a granite mantle is flanked by custom bookcases with extra storage below. The second level is accessed by the el giant wood staircase or the elevator if you or your guests are carrying luggage or other items. A second master suite with a balcony overlooking the lake has a Brazilian Cherry wood floor with a walk-in closet. This room leads to the bath and an adjacent sitting room or extra bedroom. Across the wood-floored hall is the carpeted fourth bedroom with an en-suite and large closet. Next to the elevator is a walk-in bonus room. It is currently used as a massive storage area but could be completed for a fifth bedroom, man cave or theater room. Carpeting, ductwork and electrical components are already installed to set up your future space. The design details such as the use of 2x6 planking, three HVAC two Rimbaud tankless water heaters, diagonal porcelain tile, Brazilian cherry flooring, extensively upgraded lighting fixtures, granite in the laundry, kitchen and all the baths and custom cabinetry are just a few examples. A Tuscany fountain and a courtyard area at the front of the house, along with mature well-designed landscaping and the paver driveway and walkway add to the curb appeal. The lawn and lush landscaping function with a separate meter for the irrigation system resulting in major water bill savings. Your three-car garage has sturdy wood shelving for storage, epoxy easy to clean flooring and a sink. Temperature adjustments are economically achieved via a three- zoned climate control system. Additional economic savings include two tankless Rinnai water heaters and an underground 500-gallon privately-owned propane tank saving the new owner the cost of renting one. Outside you can relax on your covered back patio while enjoying the view of the lake and the passing boats. Your personal dock spans the 100-foot lakefront of this navigable 15 miles of shoreline.
Listing courtesy of Redfin Corporation , Jacqueline "Jacie" Paulson.
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Another Berliner Weekend Video!
I wanted to share this wonderful video with you all that Martin sent me from my recent trip to Berlin. It certainly captures the emotion and spirit of everyone on the tour.
Enjoy and thank you Martin for this…
'Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is' Filming
On Sunday evening, Mr Mew and I headed to London for the filming of Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is! This fantastic BBC programme follows antique experts in trying to find bargains at flea markets, carboots and antique shops, then selling them on for a profit.
I first met Katherine Higgins (one of the antique experts of the show) at a publicity shoot for Vintage at Goodwood and we hit it off straight away with a love of vintage clothing, hats and Art Deco!
Katherine and I kept in touch at odd intervals and vowed to do something else together. The opportunity finally came with the Antiques Roadshow last year, where I showcased my Art Deco 3 piece suite! Katherine wasn't going to do the show (filmed at Charlecote Park), but suddenly there she was on the day! We had a great time chatting between takes and it felt like we were old friends.
I won't give the episode away too much, but we filmed in the Volupte Club in London, which is a gorgeous Burlesque supper club. I dressed in my Songbird outfit of canary yellow and pink and brought out my ostrich feather fans, which were then placed on a nearby table. After fanning them out and discussing the shot, we realised that smoke was slowly filling the room like an early 90's rock video and the ruddy things were on fire! Luckily (although a dreadful smell), the cindered area was picked and fluffed out and barely noticeable after a while. With all the hairspray that must have landed on them in the past 7 years, I thought they would have gone up like a roman candle, so I was very lucky.
We all had a great laugh whilst filming and I had given Katherine one of my pincushion corsages as a gift when she arrived. The complete darling wore it for the entire filming and it really suited her!
The programme will be aired this autumn at 5.15pm on the BBC!
More Vintage Fair Videos!
These videos were taken by Mr. Mew at The Vic in Swindon on Sunday!
Vintage Fair in Swindon
Yesterday Mr. Mew and I went to our 1st ever vintage fair to SELL rather than buy. The fair was at a pub called The Vic in Swindon and we packed up my clothes, shoes, bric-a-brac, pincushions and Mr. Mew's light boxes and headed for the open road. Itw as a nice venue actually, and we were well situated by a plug point so that we could plug in the light boxes.
They certainly got a lot of attention! Unfortunately people seemed to be drawn to stalls with large 80's jumpers and 70's handbags as opposed to 1940's and 50's wear. We ended up only selling a few things, but had such a good time that we didn't care!
At 1.30pm I went onto the stage for my singing set. The stage was also covered by one of the clothing stalls, but amidst the faux fur coats and a basket of hats, I belted out a selection of festive crooners and 40's hits in my blue Heyday dress!
At the back of the room, the landlord/ one of the pub workers was filming the scene and posted a video on You Tube. 20minutes after my set they had laready put on some more festive tunes and on came a female voice. I said "oooh! I know that song, that's the one I do!"…not realising I was actually listening to myself!
We wish you a Merry Christmas in a Mess Hut near here…
On Saturday I performed at the Ashdown Camp in Evesham for a reenactors group Christmas party. Cosy and warm from the log burning stove in the corrugated iron mess hut, it was an intimate affair but a wonderful one. The ladies of the group had all turned out in their best, some even in beautiful long gowns, and the men in the German uniforms. There was a small bar and buffet and I sang a 40 minute set at 9pm which included 40's songs, Christmas tunes and a sneaky 50's number!
I wore my long black and white gown with a train, red gloves and a 1930's red santa cape, which was originally worn by a girl in the circus (bought in LA).
Everyone was so kind and Mr Mew and I chatted with them all evening until we had to go home.
Above is just a short little video taken that night. it was so dark, our little camera struggled, but it just serves as a nice reminder of a lovely evening!
Next weekend I am singing at the vintage fair at The Vic in Swindon as well as manning my own stall!


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SCCM Primary Site Installation
Install the Pre-requisites on the Primary site server in a similar way we did on CAS server.
For Roles - Check Part 2 of this series
For SQL - Check Part 3 of this Series.
For WADK - Check Part 4 of this series.
After this Delegate the permision of SCCM promary site server in AD Container by following Part 6 of this series.
SCCM Primary Site Installation
Run the splash.hta file from the SCCM setup:-
Click on install:-
Click Next to continue:-
Select "Install a Configuration Manager Primary site" & click next:-
Select the option as per you requirements if you are installing this in production environment provide a key for lab evaluation edition is good to go, it provides 180 days as the trial period:-
Accept the EULA & click on Next to continue:-
Check the License agreement boxes for these products:-
Here the Setup will download updates for the installation to continue, I had these updates downloaded.
Select the "Download required files" option to download the updates, click next to continue:-
Check if English is selected & then click on next to continue:-
Again check if English is selected & Click on next to continue:-
Here you need to provide the details about the site, Provide site code & name:-
Now, as this is the second site in the hierarchy we need to connect it to a CAS, Write the name of the CAS server here:-
Check the SQL Instance details & click on next to continue:-
Leave everything default & click on next to continue:-
Check the Server name as this will be the server where SMS Provider will be installed:-
Select "Configure the communication method on each site system role" & click next:-
Check the site settings, Click on next to continue:-
Select the appropriate option & click on next to continue:-
Review the summary & click on next to proceed with the installation:-
There will be a pre-requisite check before the setup begins installation just like the CAS installation, here only WSUS warning is received as this site do not have the WSUS pre-requisites installed we can ignore this warning now & can proceed with the installation it can be installed later.
Click on Begin install to proceed with the installation:-
Once the installation is complete, Don't close this wizard now we will be coming to this again later:-
Once the Configuration Manager is installed, Go to C:\Program File\Microsoft Configuration Manager\tools & Run cmtrace.exe :-
Set CMTrace as the default log file viewing Application by clicking on "Yes":-
Go back to the setup again & Click on View log :-
You can check the complete installation details from this log file:-
This is the new Primary site:-
Go to Monitoring/Site Hierarchy and you should get the hierarchy diagram here:-
These are the entry created by the site in AD Container:-
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Issue # 29 of 43
By: David LeClaire
Pigs and Princesses
How many times a day do you think the average guy thinks "I'd love to have sex with her,"regarding a woman he's never been intimate with and probably doesn't even know?
During a recent informal survey with a variety of men of different ages and from different walks of life, I found the common answer to hover around five. Frankly, I think most tended to underestimate in order to not sound too much like sex starved perverts.
When sharing these results with women, most reacted somewhat violently, with some initially enraged at this illustration of how men really are pigs. "How could men be so shallow, so superficial?" they would demand. "You're talking about women they see on the streets, at work, in school, or wherever, right?" Yes, that's right. "Look," I would reason, "you know men are VERY visual by nature. More so than most women. Why does this seem so weird?"
Regardless of any explanation or rationalization offered, most women seemed irked by this whole concept. Many denied that "their man" would answer that way. No way were their boyfriends or husbands that sick. And they were partially right, the guys wouldn't tend to answer with such a number in their presence. But without their lady's presence, they answered significantly higher.
Here's a hypothetical situation. Joe is walking through a mall and passes a good looking woman. He says to himself, "Nice. She'd be a lot of fun!" He keeps walking, looking for a Christmas present for his fiancee. Behind the make-up counter at Nordstroms he notices a particularly stunning woman, and says to himself, "Now she's delicious. Wow!" Of course he says nothing, just walks on, and doesn't think anything of it.
Many women would be horrified. It wouldn't be unusual for them to say, "How can he think that? He's engaged!! Men are unbelievable!" Yet I ask, is this really so strange? Joe sounds like a pretty typical guy to me. Men constantly evaluate women they see throughout their days on the basis of if they'd like to have sex with them or not.
Men walk into the gym, a party, a concert, some even at church, and unconsciously scan the crowd for the most intriguing women. And it has nothing to do with loving their partner or not. It's habitual, a routine they don't even notice. To men, the thought of what they'd like is entirely different than what they will pursue. And since they usually have no intention of taking any action on their desires, these thoughts seem meaningless and incidental.
However, to a lot of women, when they are in love, their interest in other men often dwindles dramatically. Many women have told me they rarely find themselves attracted to other men once they find someone they're deeply interested in. Because of this, they assume it should be the same for men too. And since it isn't, these very women usually misinterpret the man's wandering eye as a flaw in his character (and it is if he blatantly watches or flirts with other women while in her company).
I find it humorous that quite a few women were shocked and appalled to hear men tell them they thought about being interested in sex with other women at least 5 times a day on average. Those same women, when initially asked the same question, tended to reply with something like, "Maybe one man or two a week, if that. We don't trust men so even when we see a good looking one, our first thought is, I wonder if he's for real, or just another slime-bag." But when pressed, giving them examples of where they may run across men that they didn't know, most of the women admitted to a slightly higher figure, roughly once or twice a day, (this is actually thinking about it, but for heaven's sake not planning on doing it!)
This is once or twice a day they see an unfamiliar man and think to themselves, if everything was different, and I was single and available, and so was he, I'd be interested! Frankly, I believe the number would be much higher for women too if they were more comfortable being honest with such a loaded question. But there's this social taboo for some women to admit they think about sex as much as men do. And the fact that for tons of women, sex is just way more complicated than it is for guys, it's closely interwtined with intimacy and feelings. Not to mention that women aren't always so moved visually and it often takes more than that. For men, it takes one or two good features and ........
Now mind you, most women have a higher set of morals than most men, and usually the idea of random sex doesn't intrigue them as much as men. (And when they do have fantasies, they are often much more detail-oriented, not just the last 2 minutes.) Women tend to be more inclined to add a few more levels of complexity to this, thinking in broader terms such as pursuing a relationship instead of just having their way with them. Anyway, this makes for good conversation the next time you are in a large social gathering. See if men and women that you know are really that far apart on this issue.
Ask around the office, or ask your friends (but not your parents) at the dinner table. How many times a day do they think they'd like to have sex with someone just from looking at them?
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Text © 1998, David LeClaire. Part of the original Sideroad.
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Lenton Green was completed by Nottingham City Council and Nottingham City Homes (NCH) earlier this year. The area was completely transformed over four years, with five tower blocks being demolished to make way for 142 homes, including bungalows, flats, family homes and an award-winning independent living scheme which enables older residents to stay in their community as they age.
The final stage of the redevelopment was completed with 17 new homes, built on the former Church Square shopping precinct at the heart of the Lenton development. The site was falling into disrepair, was outdated and no longer fit for purpose.
The 17 new homes on the site form part of Nottingham's Building a Better Nottingham programme. This includes the biggest council house building programme in a generation, where more than 500 new social housing properties have been built on sites around the city since 2014, with more in progress or planned.
Audra Wytner, chair of Nottingham City Homes, said: "I am born and bred in Nottingham and it's been fantastic to see such a transformation in Lenton. These new homes are in keeping with the area and I have spoken to many locals who want to move here. This is truly a great development to have as our first in the registered provider scheme."
Nottingham City councillor Linda Woodings said: "Church Square marks the final phase of the works we have been doing in Lenton and is a prime example of how we are not just building new homes, but completely transforming areas of the city."
The works were managed and overseen by Nottingham City Homes (NCH), which also manages the city's council housing and recently won three accolades at the prestigious UK Housing Awards, including Landlord of the Year.
Nick Murphy, Chief Executive of Nottingham City Homes, said: "We believe in the value of social housing and we know what having a decent home means to our residents. We want to realise our vision of creating homes and places where people want to live."
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WINE GLASS HOLDER (2 Glass)
Dawns Welsh Gifts
Crafted from warm Cherry wood veneer, this useful wine glass holder makes a wonderful Wedding, Anniversary or birthday gift.
Also available as a 4 glass version.
All of our products are made from scratch, by hand, from the finest raw materials at our workshop in beautiful rural West Wales.
We take great care and pride in the design and crafting of our gifts and offer a 100% Satisfaction, replacement or money back Guarantee.
We know how important fast and safe delivery is to you, so we ensure that all our gifts are delivered in the shortest time possible!
Express Delivery
For those sticky moments when you realise you haven?t time to wait we can also offer Express and Saturday delivery service. Your gift will be ready for dispatch on the day of order (before 1pm) and be sent Guaranteed Next Day delivery the following day. This service costs £10. Urgent Greeting Cards will be dispatched via 1st class Royal mail which is a 1 Day service (not guaranteed)
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As a valued customer we want you to be 100% happy with what you?ve ordered. If you?re not completely satisfied with your purchase, then simply contact us any time within 14 working days of receipt and will arrange collection of the goods and issue a full refund or dispatch a replacement item