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The Chateau De Ramezay
A few yards from the busy municipal centre of the city of Montreal,
behind an antique iron railing, is a quaint, old building known as the
Chateau de Ramezay. Its history is contemporary with that of the city
for the last two centuries, and so identified with past stirring events
that it has been saved from the vandalism of modern improvement, and is
to be preserved as a relic of the old Regime in New France. It is a
long one-storied structure, originally red-tiled, with graceful, sloping
roof, double rows of peaked, dormer windows, huge chimneys and the
unpolished architecture of the period.
Among the many historical buildings of America, none have been the scene
of more thrilling events, a long line of interesting associations being
connected with the now quiet old Chateau, looking in its peaceful old
age as out of keeping with its modern surroundings as would an ancient
vellum missal, mellowed for centuries in a monkish cell, appear among
some of the ephemeral literature of to-day.
A brilliant line of viceroys have here held rule, and within its walls
things momentous in the country's annals have been enacted. During its
checkered experience no less than three distinct Regimes have followed
each other, French, British and American. In an old document still to be
found among the archives of the Seminary of St. Sulpice, it is recorded
that the land on which it stands was ceded to the Governor of Montreal
in the year 1660, just eighteen years after Maisonneuve, its founder,
planted the silken Fleur-de-Lys of France on the shores of the savage
Redman, and one hundred years before the tri-cross of England floated
for the first time from the ramparts.
Somewhere about the year 1700 a portion of this land was acquired by
Claude de Ramezay, Sieur de la Gesse, Bois Fleurent and Monnoir, in
France, and Governor of Three Rivers, and this house built.
De Ramezay was of an old Franco-Scottish family, being descended by
Thimothy, his father, from one Sir John Ramsay, a Scotchman, who, with
others of his compatriots, went over to France in the 16th century. He
may have joined an army raised for the French wars, or may have formed
part of a bridal train similar to the gay retinue of the fair Princess
Mary, who went from the dark fells and misty lochs of the land of the
Royal Stuarts to be the loveliest queen who ever sat on the throne of
la belle France. De Ramezay was the father of thirteen children, by
his wife, Mademoiselle Denys de la Ronde, a sister of Mesdames Thomas
Tarieu de La Naudiere de La Perade, d'Ailleboust d'Argenteuil, Chartier
de Lotbiniere and Aubert de la Chenage, the same family out of whom came
the celebrated de Jumonville, so well known in connection with the
unfortunate circumstances of Fort Necessity. The original of the
marriage contract is still preserved in the records of the Montreal
Court House; with its long list of autographs of Governor, Intendant,
and high officials, civil and military, scions of the nobility of the
country, appended thereto. The annals of the family tell us that some of
them died in infancy, several met violent and untimely deaths, two of
the sisters took conventual vows in the cloisters of Quebec, two
married, having descendants now living in France and Canada, and two
remained unmarried.
De Ramezay came over as a captain in the army with the Viceroy de Tracy,
and was remarkable for his highly refined education, having been a pupil
of the celebrated Fenelon, who was said to have been the pattern of
virtue in the midst of a corrupt court, and who was entrusted by Louis
the Fourteenth with the education of his grandsons, the Dukes of
Burgundy, Anjou and Berri. Had the first named, who was heir-presumptive
to the throne, lived to practice the princely virtues, the seeds of
which his preceptor had sown in his heart, some of the most bloody pages
in French history might never have been written.
De Ramezay, for many years being Governor of Montreal, held official
court in the Council chamber to the right of the entrance hall of the
Chateau, which is now a museum of rare and valuable relics of Canada's
The Salon was the scene of many a gay rout, as Madame de Ramezay,
imitating the brilliant social and political life as it was in France in
the time of Le Grand Monarque, transplanted to the wilds of America
some reflection of court ceremonial and display as they culminated in
that long and brilliant reign. From the dormer windows above, high-bred
French ladies looked at the sun rising over the forest-clothed shores of
the river, on which now stands the architectural grandeur of the modern
city. How strange to the swarthy-faced dwellers in the wigwam must the
old-time gaieties have appeared, as the lights from the silver
candelabres shone far out in the night, when the old Chateau was en
fete and aglow with music, dancing and laughter.
What a contrast to the burden-bearing squaws were the dainty French
women in stiff brocade and jewels, high heels, paint, patches and
tresses a la Pompadour, tripping through the stately measures of the
minuet to the sound of lute or harpsichord!
"O, fair young land of La Nouvelle France,
With thy halo of olden time romance,
Back like a half-forgotten dream
Come the bygone days of the old Regime."
The servants and retainers, imitating their lords, held high revel in
the vaulted kitchens; while dishes and confections, savoury and
delicious, came from the curious fireplace and ovens recently discovered
in the vaults. These ancient kitchen offices, built to resist a siege,
are exceedingly interesting in the light of our culinary arrangements of
to-day. They were so constructed that if the buildings above, with their
massive masonry, were destroyed, they would afford safe and comfortable
refuge. The roof is arched, and, like the walls, is several feet thick,
of solid stone, lighted by heavily barred windows, with strong iron
shutters. In clearing out the walled-up and long-forgotten ovens, there
were found bits of broken crockery, pipe-stems and the ashes of fires,
gone out many, many long years ago. As indicated by an early map of the
city, the position of the original well was located; in which, when it
is cleaned out, it is intended to hang an old oaken bucket and drinking
cups as nearly as possible as they originally were.
Some time after the death of de Ramezay, which occurred in the city of
Quebec in 1724, these noble halls fell into the possession of the
fur-traders of Canada, and many a time these underground cellars were
stored with the rich skins of the mink, silver fox, marten, sable and
ermine for the markets of Europe and for royalty itself. They were
brought in by the hunters and trappers over the boundless domains of the
fur companies, and by the Indian tribes friendly to the peltrie trade.
As these hardy, bronzed men sat around the hearth, while the juicy
haunch of venison roasted on the spit by the blazing logs, relating
blood-curdling tales and hairbreadth escapes, they were a necessary
phase of times long passed away, but which will always have a
picturesqueness especially their own.
Instead of the white man's influencing the savage towards civilized
customs, it was often found, as one writer has said, that hundreds of
white men were barbarized on this continent for each single savage that
was civilized. Many of the former identified themselves by marriage and
mode of life with the Indians, developed their traits of hardihood and
acquired their knowledge of woodcraft and skill in navigating the
streams. In pursuit of the fur-bearing animals in their native haunts,
they shot the raging rapids, ventured out upon the broad expanse of the
treacherous lakes, and endured without complaint the severity of winter
and the exposure of forest life in summer.
Their ranks were continually increased by those who were impatient of
the slow method of obtaining a livelihood from the tillage of the soil,
when the husbandman was frequently driven from the plough by the sudden
attack of Indian foes, or interrupted in his hasty and anxious
harvesting by their war-whoop, or perhaps was compelled to leave his
farm to take up arms, if the occasion arose, so that in many instances
the homesteads were left to the old men, women and children. The
excitement of the chase and the wild freedom of the plains had a
fascination that many could not resist, so much so that the king had to
promulgate an edict, to stop, under heavy penalties, this roving life of
his Canadian subjects, as their nomadic tendencies interfered with the
successful settlement of the colony.
To the lover of the quaint architecture of other centuries, there is an
indescribable charm in these time-worn walls, which are still as
substantial as if the snows and rains of two centuries had not beaten
against them. The interior is equally interesting in this regard, as the
walls dividing the chambers and corridors, though covered with modern
plaster and stucco, are found to consist of several feet of solid stone
masonry, while the ornamental ceiling covers beams of timber, twenty
inches by eighteen, which is strong, well jointed and placed as close as
flooring. Above this is heavy stone work over twelve inches thick, so
that the sloping roof was the only part pregnable in an assault with the
munitions of war then in use. Upon removing a portion of the modern
wainscotting in the main reception room, there was discovered an ancient
fireplace, made of roughly hewn blocks of granite. A crescent-shaped
portion of the hearthstone is capable of removal, for what purpose it is
not known. With old andirons and huge logs, it looks to-day exactly as
it must have done when Montgomery and his suite, in revolutionary
uniform, received delegations in this chamber, and when Brigadier
General Wooster, who succeeded him, wrote and sent despatches by courier
from the French Chateau to the Colonial mansion at Mount Vernon.
The rooms of state in those days were, it is said, all in what is at
present the back of the house, the rear of the building being the front,
facing the river, down to which ran the gardens.
It may be that the moonlight cast on these panes the shadow of the noble
Sir Jeffrey Amherst, in his red coat, as looking out over the river he
may have seen the smoke of the fire lighted by de Levis, where he burnt
his colours rather than let them fall into the hands of the English.
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Gov. Rick Scott will be in westernmost Palm Beach County this morning to sign a bill to create a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee to reduce the need for discharges that have polluted Treasure Coast waterways.
The legislation was a top priority for Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart, who also plans to attend the bill signing.
The signing ceremony is set for 10 a.m. at John Stretch Park along State Road 80 between South Bay and Clewiston.
The legislation authorizes a 60,000-acre reservoir���to maximize the reduction of high-volume Lake Okeechobee regulatory releases to the St. Lucie or Caloosahatchee estuaries, in addition to providing relief to the Lake Worth Lagoon.� It�calls for�$33 million in the year that begins July 1 and $64 million a year afterward to retire $800 million in bonds.
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Three Graves Full will have you hooked for a thrilling ride!
Jason Getty still has nightmares about the crime he committed. He murdered a man and buried him on his property. For this reason, Jason has let his property get overgrown. He knows he has to do something soon or the neighbors will complain. So Jason hires a crew to fix up his yard
Jason is relaxing until the crew calls for Jason. They have dug up a body. Jason knows the end is now for him. That is until Jason learns that it is not his body but another body and it is two bodies not one. Whose bodies are they and what are they doing on Jason's property?
Wow. If this is what a debut novel is like from new author, Jamie Mason, then I can not wait to see what her next novel will be like. This book was way more then just a suspense/mystery novel. It had great depth and a good psychological aspect to it. The first third of the book was the mystery and then the story quickly picked up to and turned into a psychological thriller. This is where I admit that I did get a bit confused trying to keep everything straight. Luckily I got back on track fairly quickly. However as the story played out, I was wondering if Jason was really as bad as I first thought he was. When the end happened and the story was revealed I was not surprised by parts of the ending. I knew what was going on but I was still intrigued. Three Graves Full will have you hooked for a thrilling ride!


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I have a family member who works in predominately Muslim areas of the world. I recently asked him how I could learn more about Muslims and the Islamic belief system, and he highly recommended Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Quereshi. I am so glad he did!
This book is told in the narrative style of an autobiography, as Nabeel walks us through his devout Muslim upbringing, and the conversations and confrontations that got him thinking about his religion in contrast to Christianity. The book has a "documentary" feel to it, as Nabeel takes us inside his home, school and mosque to let us see his life portrayed almost in real-time. Many of the conversations include Arabic phrases, which Nabeel footnotes at the beginning of the book, and then continues to use without the footnoted translation later, allowing the reader to become more immersed in his world.
Nabeel states his three main purposes for his book:
- To tear down walls by giving non-Muslim readers an insider's perspective into a Muslim's heart and mind. The mystical beauty of Islam that enchants billions cannot be grasped by merely sharing facts. But it is my prayer that by entering my world, you will come to understand your Muslim neighbor, so you can love him as yourself.
- To equip you with facts and knowledge, showing the strength of the case for the gospel in contrast with the case for Islam.
- To portray the immense inner struggle of Muslims grappling with the gospel, including sacrifices and doubts.
In my mind, he accomplished all three of these purposes beautifully. In addition, I discovered a whole new way to pray for my Muslim friends, as well as feeling like I may now carry on a more intelligent conversation with them about their cherished beliefs.
I too highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about what Muslims believe.


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FLAMINGO - new
Daffy designed and directed a new commercial campaign for Last Minute.com, Publicis and Not to Scale. The flamingo he created can be seen in cinemas, TV spots, instagram and all over London on huge billboards. Its the beginning of a whole new "compare the meerkat" like campaign.Publicis post
DAFFY directed the now iconic 'Battle for Avengers Tower' for Samsung and Marvel. A slow motion slice of action giving viewers a full and rich 360 experience. The detailed three minute film with binaural sound & visuals by Framestore make for an epic piece.www.framestore.com > avengers vr
Adrift is an arts project by artists Cath Le Couteur and Nick Ryan. The project explores the secret world of space junk, making it personal, visible and audible. DAFFY as VFX and Creative Direction, created unique animations depicting lost items traversing space.www.projectadrift.co.uk
When new VFX studio JAMM VISUAL graciously got in touch to enquire about reanimating the iconic Pegasus from the Sony Tristar opening sequence DAFFY couldn't get to LA quick enough. "I've always loved that sequence so to give it new wings has been an honour."VIMEO > tristar making of
November 2016 and Kenzo Digital hosts a Halloween Party unlike anything else. A maze of rooms were erected for the guests to traverse. DAFFY animated the end section in which with the help of peppers ghost mirrors, next level tech and a Kinect, guests get to BE a bat.VIMEO > bacardi making of
DAFFY was set the awesome task of transforming Professor Stephen Hawking into a Transformer for BBC's Comic Relief TV special. Filmed in Cambridge and led by Framestore this comedy sketch will go down in the history books.www.vimeo.com > daffy > hawkingbot


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Woodard Whitetails & KALA Annual Picnic
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The Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDS) office of the State Veterinarian is excited to be hosting a Cervid Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Identification (CCWDSI) training for all program participants! Our goal is to train and/or refresh our producers with regulatory requirements and program procedures. If you know someone who is Read more…
Don't miss the Lexington Ultimate Outdoor Expo on August 25-27 at the Kentucky Horse Parks Alltech Arena. Come hang out with the Moonshiners and Ted Nugent. <CLICK FOR MORE INFO> Don't forget to come by our booth #AF98B on the Southeast floor area.


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The images above are from the roof garden of the Washington Mutual Bank Building in Seattle, Wa. The design firm, PFS, describes this project (below).
The 17th-floor Washington Mutual Bank roof garden is a green roof that functions as the vital social space and civic heart of the Bank's downtown campus. Rather than meet the City of Seattle's minimum open space requirements, the garden's usable area was enlarged threefold to provide decks and pathways that showcase views across Elliott Bay while integrating elements that tell a story about the Bank, its local origins, and the community it serves. The varied and unique landscapes of the State of Washington, from the coastal beaches to the Olympic and Cascade ranges to the interior plateau, are referenced in the design. A glass-beaded abacus screen wall and 'The Change Garden,' a repository for spare change that will be donated to Seattle's charitable organizations, demonstrate the Bank's ongoing role as a corporate citizen.


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UK Industry on Peak Oil: Virgin, Yahoo and Others Raise the Alarm
Update: For a more detailed analysis of the report's contents, check out Matt's post from last week.
Big Business Starts Warning of an Oil Crunch
While some in the business world have recognised and spoken out about the threat of peak oil — from Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer's prediction that energy depletion could hit us in 7 years, through to oil banker Matt Simmon's warning that the energy crisis could dwarf the financial crunch soon - in general the silence from corporations on this issue has been deafening. This is a particularly puzzling state of affairs when you consider how dependent our entire economy is on cheap oil. But there are signs that things are changing — a report, which Matt posted about last week, from the newly formed UK-based Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security, has now been launched at the London Stock Exchange. The video above shows the kind of heavy hitters involved in this initiative - including Richard Branson of Virgin - as they aim to raise awareness of the threat, and what can be done to counter it. This from the group's website:
The availability and price of oil affects almost every aspect of our economy and our day-to-day lives: the way we travel, where we work, what we eat, how we power our homes and buildings; and how we manufacture goods here in the UK. The "easy oil" that makes up most of the existing capacity is declining fast, and the new capacity coming on stream — often from "not-so-easy" oil - will not replace it fast enough from 2011 onwards. Within modern cities, life in the suburbs will become extremely challenging without plentiful supplies of affordable oil.
The task force is currently made up of eight major corporations including Yahoo, Virgin, Solarcentury, ARUP, Scottish and Southern Energy, Stagecoach, Fosters and Partners and the First travel group (of course it should be noted that many of these companies have considerable investments in some of the most important solutions to peak oil). The group's initial report is free to download in PDF format, entitled The Oil Crunch: Securing the UK's Energy Future, and the group's website also features brief summaries of the threat and opportunity posed by peak oil for the economy, transport, energy, industry and food. Great to see such high level discussion finally getting under way — now it's time to start implementing the solutions.
Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security, via Solarcentury


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Tonight my wife and I had dinner at Boccaccio's in Little Italy in Baltimore. This is the fourth restaurant we've eaten at in Little Italy over the past two years and the best.
It pales sadly in comparison to Obelisk in D. C.
I first ate at Maria's 300 in Little Italy in 1970. Then Baltimore was well ahead of D. C. in Italian. For me veal pizziaola was a revelation and salads that had more than one kind of lettuce were a delicious curiosity. Shaving parmesan at the table? I had never seen it done before.
But over the years Washington has grown up with several restaurants that can compete with the best in America and, in the case of the 40 seat Obelisk, as good as some of the better in Italy perhaps as good as several Michelin one and two stars I have eaten in.
My wife and I were suppose to go to New York today and had booked a table at Il Mullino two months ago. With the trip cancelled we wanted a serious meal. Obelisk was booked. Laboratorio unavailable. Goldoni and Teatro Goldono and Etrusco very good but not over the top. Then we thought, why not Baltimore's best? I was also curious at just how far Baltimore had evolved in its Italian sophistication considering that at one time it really had been light years ahead of D. C. I eliminated Tratorria Alberto in Glen Burnie for various reasons (as I had also eliminated Tyson's Corner new Maestro since last Saturday night when I stopped in to see their menu at 9:30PM and it was almost empty!)
The 250 seat Boccaccio had time open all evening for a reservation. We chose 6:15 and headed north.
The wine list was fairly good: among others it had '97 Solaia ($250 bottle) and a '98 Fontodi Chianti at a reasonable $48. The eight ounce wine glass was too small for the wine to allow it to breathe, I was also afraid to swirl it for fear of spilling it on the table cloth.
Beef carpaccio at $12 was all right. (The shavings of reggiano on this proved to me though that not all Reggiano is created equal-some is shaved hours in advance of when it is needed and dries out.) Similar to what I had two weeks ago at Bonaroti in Vienna. Only three dollars more. My wife's shrimp with garlic, oil and parsley was fairly good: only $12.95 for the three frozen 21-30 count shrimp. Penne with vodka/cream/tomato sauce was every bit as good as Rao's $10.99 a bottle. Here it actually seemed reasonable at $17.95. It could have come from a bottle also.
For entrees we both had specials: osso buco for $22.95 that was terrible, absolutely no flavor and instead of risotto milanese there was boxed saffron rice that was mushy. My veal "breast" was actually quite good but for $32.95 it should have been. But it was not outstanding.
The desserts were actually another matter. Both were better than we expected especially the panne cotta which was excellent by any standard.
I should note that the service was superb. The waiter was friendly, experienced and very attentive. My only criticism is that each course was served IMMEDIATELY after removing the previous. There was not more than 60 seconds between one plate leaving and another appearing until dessert. This is the first time that I've ever actually felt rushed to get through a meal! Usually I complain because I have to wait too long not that I'm being hustled so the next group can sit down.
After the meal and the $200.00 check I remembered that Obelisk at $55.00 prix fixe with a similar $48.00 wine and D. C. 10% tax and a 15% tip was actually EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY. The three hour multi course meal at Obelisk is infinitely more enjoyable than the 75 minute sprint at Boccaccio. For shear pleasure at experiencing absolutely delicious, creative dishes there is no comparison.
For anyone reading this I now understand why Obelisk reserves one month in advance for weeknights and Boccaccio had numerous open times on a Saturday night.
Boccaccio like the other Baltimore Italians has stood aside with time while others such as Obelisk in D. C. have made great strides.
It's a shame really because when I was much younger going to Little Italy was a big deal.
But no more.
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How To Generate Interesting Conversations Out Of Thin Air (And Never Run Out Of Things To Say Again)
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You walk up to a beautiful girl and say, "Hey, I like your style."
She smiles and says, "Thanks!"
She's waiting for you to sweep her off her feet with your charming personality. But you can't think of anything to say. So, you just walk away, embarrassed that you missed your opportunity to get a date.
Sometimes the hardest part of attracting women is thinking of the right thing to say. But it doesn't have to be.
In this article, you will learn how to keep your conversations with women flowing – even if you're feeling nervous. You'll also discover how you can turn surface level logical conversations into emotionally impactful conversations that a woman will never forget.
Part 1 of this article will help you if you don't know what to say immediately after you start a conversation with a girl. Skip it if you're already comfortable with thinking of things to say in the first couple minutes of your interactions
Part 2 of this article will help you if you want to learn how to make your conversations more creative and emotionally stimulating.
How To Keep A Conversation Going With A Girl Part 1: Breaking The Ice
Once you've approached a girl, you have to build an interesting conversation out of thin air.
Overall, this is a skill that you'll develop with practice. The more you put yourself on the spot by approaching women, the better you'll get at thinking on your feet.
In the short term, you can make starting a conversation with a girl easier by memorizing a few basic questions.
Whenever you can't think of something to say in the moment, you can fall back to one of the questions you've memorized.
Here's a few examples:
These questions aren't magical, but they can get a conversation started: think of them as a crutch to fall back on when you can't think of something interesting to say in the moment.
When asking these basic questions you're looking for commonalities that you can expand on:
For example, if you ask a girl what she does for fun, she might say she likes to watch Netflix. You could follow up by asking what she's been watching lately. If she says she's been watching Game Of Throne,s you might respond by asking, "Who do you think is going to survive in the final season?
If a girl says she's passionate about helping people, you can talk about how Tim Ferris' book, The 4 Hour Workweek inspired you to start your own online business and it completely changed you life. You could go on to explain how that experience made you realize that helping others is one of the most important things you can do – you really can improve someone's life for the better.
If you can't think of anything to say about a particular topic, just move on to something else by asking another question.
Now, we all instinctively know how to hold a decent conversation, but when we're under a lot of social pressure, we start overthinking instead of letting the conversation flow naturally.
That's why it's useful to memorize a few basic questions you can ask any girl you meet. Doing this will give you something to say so that you can keep the conversation going until you can break the ice.
How To Keep A Conversation Going With A Girl Part 2:The Power Of Free Association
Whenever a girl says something, you can associate off what she said to deepen the conversation. If you get good at doing this, you will never run out of things to say again.
If you think about it, anyone you've met who was particularly interesting or funny was good at free associating. They stood out because of their ability to relate what you said to something unexpected and creative.
At this point, I can pretty much make a girl burst out in laughter whenever I want to simply because I've practiced free associating so much.
Let's take an example. When a girl tells me her name is Ashley, my mind automatically creates a list of associations. It looks something like this:
Ashley = Attractive / Wealthy / Generic / White / Ashley Benson.
I can then say something based off any of those associations, for example:
Ashley Benson:
Wealthy :
Even from just hearing a girl's name, you can use free association start building an engaging, emotionally charged conversation.
Of course, just knowing why this concept is so powerful isn't really going to allow you to make a change in your life. Fortunately, your ability to free associate is a mental muscle that you can develop with practice.
I do two exercises every single day that have allowed me to effortlessly generate interesting things to say when I'm interacting with women. If you spend two minutes a day practicing each of these, your conversation skills will skyrocket.
Exercise 1: Free-Associate Sentences For this exercise, complete a sentence out-loud, then create a new sentence using a word from the previous sentence (You can also do this silently in your head ).
The universe has existed for billions of years.
I am 25 years old today, that's halfway to 50.
Half of
Practicing this exercise will help you to make creative connections naturally in all of your conversations.
Exercise 2: Chain of Associations
In this exercise, you're associating singular words instead of sentences. But there's a twist, you are specifically thinking of words that have an emotional charge.
Doing this exercise might look something like this:
Love – Sex – Virgin – Mormon – Cult – Manipulation – Salesmen – Annoying – Amy Schumer – Gross – Taco Bell – Obesity – America – Freedom.
Men often struggle with women because their conversations are too agreeable and logical. These men might have a nice conversation with a girl, but they don't challenge or excite her. A safe conversation will never offend a girl, but it will also never turn her on.
Guidelines For The Chain of Associations
Your goal when doing this exercise is to associate words that provoke a strong emotional reaction. (That emotion can be either negative or positive.)
While you're doing the exercise, don't overthink it. Not every word you associate has to be controversial or shocking; it's okay if some of the words you think of are relatively bland.
This exercise will teach your mind to make connections that are outside the boring, logical, safe topics that most guys rely on when talking to women. As you practice this, your conversations with women will become increasingly impactful.
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Good stuff.
There is a point where you need to stop worrying about it and stop trying. Let the conversation fizzle out, let the awkward silence build, and demonstrate your comfort with tension & awkwardness.
Having the right masculine frame is much more important than saying the right things or keeping the conversation going. Don't forget to speak slowly and stay relaxed.
QFT. Learning to work silences helped me immeasurably. Looking around, taking in the scene, knowing they're worrying about the silence, then locking eyes with them for an unusual length of time before allowing smiles and laughter to break the tension and then carrying on the convo. That eye contact will always tell me everything I need to know. Great tension.
I'm learning what you just described. A lot of women have blown me off at the start. It's easy to get discouraged when you fail so much, but you start to learn and tweak small aspects of your approach. You learn if she's worth continuing the approach through her reciprocity of investment. Is she being short and trying to walk away? Fine, forget her. Is she just amazed at your courage and wit? She is interested, now take charge. The former happens 10x more than the latter, but it's so satisfying when you succeed.
There is only one way to improve your oral skills; practice. You have to practice how to talk freely without fear. Just like those entitled girls do. They never fear saying something weird, do they? Sometime their words don't even make any fucking sense.
When I accidentally say something that doesn't make much sense, or weird, I don't try to correct it immediately like I used to do. I just wait like I know what I said, and let her get my words together. Confidence is the key. If you fuck up so badly, then proceed to the next girl.
If you do this enough count of times, eventually you'll become a master like Enrique Iglesias in this video: https://youtu.be/rxk92Y9LavQ
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Tbh I thought the whole purpose of the quarantine was to keep outsiders out, was it intended to be a punishment or reprimand to the community?
r/TheRedPill was quarantined BEFORE I Found it...
MAYBE I'm the exception, but good content finds it's way out...
Reddit admins don't like us and quarantined this subreddit to show they don't support us
You must be good at improv. I watch stand up comedy, Bill Burr, Tom Cotter, Dave Chapelle, on a daily basis. They utilize the vast majority of the concepts you outline here. Internalizing these concepts will quickly lead to engaging, entertaining conversations. Kudos.
Does watching comedy improve one's sense of comedic timiming and social repituare?
I recently took an improv class. Actually I took three of them and taking one more in February.
It really does teach you techniques on how to think and come up with something to say on the fly. It's pretty cool.
One of my favorite concepts is the "yes and...".
Basically whatever something say you agree and amplify.
Her: "I'm going to the mall"
You : "yea and you should go to store xyz. They are cheap compared to ABC."
That's just one of the few things you can use to translate to real world conversations. There's other stuff like how to avoid keep asking questions. Because the more questions you ask the drier the conversation.
So I believe watching stand up comedians or improv people can definitely help.
With all that said, some people suck at talking or simply not interested. So there are things that are out of your control.
I've been thinking of taking an Improv class at a community college if there any night classes. I feel like it'll benefit my conversation skills greatly.
What are some other concepts? Never heard of the "yes and" tactic but I do it all the time
Other concepts is to be strong about something.
Instead of saying I like going hiking at xyz you say I really love going hiking a at xyz and I don't see how anyone can agree or disagree.
This kind of forces someone to take what you said and expand upon it either negative or positive. Either case it will get a conversation going.
Another concept is to put someone in a hypothetical situation. For instance when talking to a girl just say "we should go to Alaska."
Yes it's random as hell, but then you say "what are we going to pack?"
She can hypothetically suggest what to pack, what airport to leave out what things to sight see. Not only does this creates a scene but it puts the woman in a situation where she is visualizing you with her. That's an example, but you can make it anything like robbing a bank, getting hired into the CIA.... Anything.
So those are stuff you can do. And again this all comes down to woman being a good talker too. In Improv you need a team. You can help the team and be the main person, but your partner needs to bring her attention in as well
Absolutely. At least in my case.
Sure. I like to mirror louis ck's humor and delivery. However, you can watch that stuff all day and still be socially inept. Realize that you must also practice on your own.
Agree with the point that you need to try and provoke an emotional reaction, even a negative reaction can be better than boring if you maintain frame. Learn how to tell interesting stories. Don't have anything interesting to say? Focus on that. Travel, say yes to crazy things, switch jobs, etc.
When asking these basic questions you're looking for commonalities that you can expand on
I understand you need to get the conversation started somehow, but asking questions should be your last resort. This is rapport seeking behavior, you can look up why it's bad, but basically it shows that you are chasing her and giving her the power. A better alternative is to just assume. Instead of asking "What do you do for fun?" You can say "You look like you are into hip-hop/hiking/basket weaving/whatever the fuck who cares" You either get it right or get her hamster spinning.
Lastly don't be afraid of silence and letting the conversation die. She will either try to keep it going or just move on - abundance mentality.
Related: /r/TheRedPill/comments/2n7j2t/how_to_approach_and_get_contact_details_or_an/
tl;dr - The first thing you should do when meeting someone new is identify and cultivate commonalities. The thread includes a ton of examples how to do so.
Really like the one word technique. You can only memorize a pickup line but after that, having word targets can help generate an emotional charge. To have fun, sometimes a friend and I will challenge each other to use a short phrase, word or topic in every approach, usually something shocking or funny like it's impractical jokers. Helps a lot with self amusement, focuses you on process over outcome and builds a sense that this is all for fun. It'll put a little grin on your face up until you come to the topic/word/phrase trying to weasel your way to making a smooth transition. What are some charged words you guys can think of?
This is really useful, thanks! I've been getting into conversations with women pretty regularly recently but they usually break down into standard watercooler chat instead of something that makes tingles, so this will definitely help. I really appreciate the exercises you provided!
Is there anything wrong with just walking up to a girl and saying 'You're cute do you want to go out this weekend?'
absolutely not and you should
I've found this is sometimes the best method. Walk up, state your intentions and either score the number or don't. In less than 30 seconds you could either have a date or if she turned you down you've wasted no time.
I like this post if your goal is to keep an interesting conversation going (which you will need to do eventually), but if on the street or in a coffee shop or something the in and out method can be successful.
Right. It doesn't waste time and it creates a bit of mystery. And displays your confidence right from the get go.
Nothing wrong with that approach, although if you work on holding a 5ish minute conversation with her you could greatly create more attraction. Work on eye contact, bust her balls a little bit. But if you have to start small, there's no shame in that. Remember, which is worse: getting rejected, or never approaching her because you didn't have the balls to do it?
nah, nothing wrong with that, i can only speak for myself but there are incidents were ive decided that im interested in a guy, long befor the guy even talked to me...also, to me, it shows that you are streight forward, know what you want and you do not feel like convincing me that you are a catch...i guess this technique works with SOME women and SOME men but is not for everybody
I think being (the best version) of ones self is the safer way to go...
It might work in some cases.
In my experience in big cities where everything is sped up, by doing so you look like an opportunity to 'do something different'.
But in smaller cities where everything is more 'slow' and social circles are closer, you need to get validation through conversation.
I still ask for a date right here and there occasionnaly though.
Really good post, but I stumbled over this bit:
Now, we all instinctively know how to hold a good conversation,
Do we? Seems to me this is something a lot of people struggle with. I would have guessed good conversation is a learned behavior; not instinctual.
Fair point. What I really meant to get across is that we hold better conversations with people we are comfortable with, but we get stifled when interacting with attractive women.
I'll replace the word good with decent as that would be more accurate.
good post, but if you really want to get out of your comfort zone just tell a girl she has a nice ass. two things will happen, she'll either smile and say thanks or decline you completely, maybe tell you to fuck off or whatever. either way, who cares. i do it all the time and mostly get positive results, not necessarily end up fucking them, but that's never my intention in the first place. i just like getting a reaction out of people. i was at macy's yesterday looking at luggage and this older woman (maybe 50) walked by, and i said "oh man, now that's a butt if i ever seen one" she started laughing and told me to "get outta here" and walked off. i don't know if this would work if you're a spaghetti armed dweeb, but works for me and i ain't no arnold either.
I've seen a stud do this. Hilarious reactions. If a girl isn't attracted to you in the first place, there's nothing you could have said to her to change that regardless.
Tangent: anyone else here submitting posts that apparently "go through," but do not get posted on the sub?
Good post, however I've noticed that when asking questions the conversation turns into an interview. Usually to start things off I'd give a generic statement. I was talking to this chick and used this line which then got her interested in the convo "Nice Hilfiger bag, I'm guessing you're into fashion?" it was a simple line but I feel that doing that works better than asking lots of questions cause then it feels as if you're all over her.
Watch Craig Ferguson (former late night talk show host) compilations on Youtube. That guy is a master of association and never running out of things to talk about. And of being charming etc.
In the short term, you can make starting a conversation with a girl easier by memorizing a few basic questions.
Try to ask as few questions as possible, ideally zero. For the basics like her name you can say "tell me your name". Avoid interview questions like the plague: "what do you do". Keep statements like "so .. tell me about yourself" in reserve but always phrase them as commands.
Attraction is first. Questions are for later with mutual interest in place. Asking standard interview type questions is for girls and losers.
The point is that most people don't ask each other questions like this, and certainly not on first meeting with no mutual interest established.
You mentioned free association and I instantly thought of my friend who, I believe, has a superpower comparing people to their fictional doppelganger. He whips them out of thin air and they always make the room bust out laughing; and of course, he's incredibly successful with women- I'd consider him a natural.
This content is really good, i'll be a approach gawd!!!
Annoying - Amy Schumer - gross bwahahahaha
Great post, thanks.
I'll add: get a job that requires you to talk to a lot of strangers.
Also, practice on men just as much as with women. Conversation skill is a muscle you have to work out and everybody is an opportunity to do so. Not only that, if you can have great conversations with other men then women will notice and see you as high value.
A good conversationalist is much rarer than people think and it opens so many doors, not just in terms of dating.
Ask questions that start with Wh- words or How, these are open questions. Don't ask questions that start with Do/Does, these are closed questions.
If the girl finds you attractive and isn't dull as dishwater she will help you with the conversation.
At a more macro level there's a process of conversation which can be practiced, and it's applicable to so many interactions. With various tweaks and improv it's useful for sales, seduction, journalism, intelligence gathering, interviewing, speeches, etc.
It's essentially 6 steps.
Break the ice.
Establish credibility.
Ask questions and gather as much information as possible.
Make your presentation.
Close. Close. Close. until you get what you want.
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May work if you are over 7/10. Not sure about 6/10. Well, I don't think that you will need this when you are over 7/10 already.
Quit thinking about yourself on a ?/10 scale. You're not a woman, you're a man. Women don't rate men on a 10 point scale. Its either yes or no to them and there will always be someone that will say yes.
Does anyone here want to get laid because of their improvisational skills?
Or do you want to go out and kill a mastodon and have her cream because you're the man that brought home the meat and pelt?
Improvising seems less tiring. Also, why would I want to provide for her? She's not my daughter.
Just be friendly with her and nice and do things any newspaper periodically would tell you to do and you'll succeed. Thanks.
Being "nice" is a sure-fire way to end up in the "friend zone" -- bad move.
"Do nice things..." Oh, you mean a classic "White Knight?" -- bad move.
spent 15 years doing that BS... waste of time
I know tone doesn't come across in text, but come on man... clearly that guy was joking lol
I was mocking the op. I was saying that's what his post was saying. There's no redpilled principles in there. Hence, the thanks i ended my post with.
Thanks op you faggot
I got that. I wrote you were joking because the guy above me shat his pants at your post. It was obviously not a serious post.
I mean, you still didn't catch I was insulting op
maybe so.. I was wondering it was a SJW just "tilting windmills".. Drudgingly.. lol


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A corporate loan is a loan that is available to homeowners. In the most basic sense, a loan is a sum of money borrowed by a person or company and then repaid, with interest (a percentage of the loan amount, usually calculated on a yearly basis) over a certain period of time. Two main parties are involved in loan transactions: a borrower (the party borrow the money) and a lender (the party lends the money).
The two basic types of loans are secured and insured. When borrowing a loan, the borrower presents the lender a certain amount of property (for example a car), of which the lender can claim ownership in the event that the borrower does not repay the loan (also known as borrowing). This property is known as security. Insecure loans, on the other hand, do not require the borrower to have collateral. A mortgage bond is a form of collateral, because the borrower uses his house as collateral to secure the loan. People take out their own loans for various purposes, for example, by making home improvements or paying off debts (for example, money, a property or a service that a person owes to another person or entity).
In almost all cases, a corporate loan will represent the second loan that a borrower secures with his house as collateral. Because the houses are very expensive, most homeowners must first take out a loan to buy a house. These mortgage loans (commonly known as mortgages) are too large amounts of money and are repayable in monthly installments over a long period of time, usually 30 years. As time passes, the value of the home usually increases (a process called estimation) while the total mortgage still remaining to pay decreases gradually. The difference between the value of the house and the remaining amount on the mortgage is known as equity. Put in another way equity represents how much money a homeowner can retain after he or she sells the home and pays the rest of the mortgage. For example, say a few purchases a home for $ 200,000. They pay $ 20,000 forward (known as a prepayment) and then take out a loan for the remaining $ 180,000. On the day they complete the purchase of the house (also known as closing), the couple has $ 20,000 in equity (in other words, the original payment). Two years later, their homes are valued at $ 220,000, and the remaining amount of their mortgage is $ 176,000. In this scenario, the couple would have 44,000 dollars in equity on their home. With home loans, the amount of money that a homeowner can borrow depends on how much equity he or she has in the house. Traditionally, this type of home loan is called a second mortgage.
The two basic types of home loans are closed and open. A closed capital capital loan means a fixed amount of money; The borrower receives the entire loan amount (known as a lump sum) upon completion of the loan agreement process (or closing). Closed corporate loans usually have fixed interest rates (in other words, the interest rate is the same for the life of the loan). The loan size will usually depend on the amount of capital the borrower has in his house. The loan amount may also depend to a certain extent on the borrower's credit rating (in other words, if he or she has a proven record of the debt being paid in due time). In most cases, a borrower can borrow up to 100 percent of the capital he or she has in a house. When economists talk about other mortgage loans, they usually refer to closed home loan loans.
With open-end home equity loans, on the other hand, the borrower does not take the sum of the loan amount at once. Instead, the borrower receives the loan as credit (that is, the maximum amount he or she can borrow) that the borrower may use as desired. This type of mortgage bond is usually referred to as a credit institution for homeowners (HELOC). The borrower can at any time withdraw money from an HELOC and only need to repay the amount actually spent. An HELOC is the subject of what is called an interest period under which the borrower is entitled to borrow money, up to the total amount of the loan whenever he or she wishes. In this way, borrowers provide a greater amount of flexibility with open stock loans. Most open-end mortgage loans have variable or adjustable interest rates. These rates tend to change over the life of the loan.


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Something awesome happened today.
Chip MacGregor, literary agent extraordinaire, called my book a "cult hit" on his blog. But that wasn't the only awesomeness in his post. He also reproduced a letter he'd received from someone who'd sent him an unsolicited proposal. He wrote her a brief note saying that he didn't think there was a market for her book, and she sent him back a letter saying, "Destruction? Is that not your very identity? Your cruelty oozes…You should be immensely worried about who you are… Believe it or not, Chippy, you're a pebble, like all of us."
There was a lot in there I left out, but I think the best part of the whole letter is the pebble line. Who gets all worked up – using the words gross, ugly, hatcheting, and demolishing – and then caps it off by calling someone "Chippy" and "a pebble"?
A pebble.
So I've been thinking about pebbles and smiling today. And that's made me think about Alaska and a moment when I wasn't smiling quite as much.
That story starts with souvenir collecting – a topic I wrote about a couple of years ago in an essay called "Thanksgiving". Here's an excerpt from that essay (and I swear that the word pebbles was, indeed, in there when I originally published it):
"What is it about being somewhere different that breeds the need to capture something we can carry with us when we leave?
The root of "souvenir" is the verb "to remember", and the word has come to refer to keepsakes of sentimental value that remind one of past events. Despite the fact that stores selling mostly snow globes and magnets have managed to cheapen this French contribution to the global vocabulary almost beyond use, I still can't quite let it go. I must admit that I love souvenirs. At their best, they are so much more than things. They are pebbles picked up along the path of life. They are reminders that this path stretches far beyond my living room.
This admission should not be taken to indicate a wholehearted abandonment of all pretension or my endorsement of plastic shot glasses and cheesy tee shirts. To the contrary, I consider my tastes to be highly refined. I may not be able to consistently assemble a trendy outfit, but I am an expert on what constitutes a good souvenir.
This expertise was gained the old-fashioned way – practice, practice, practice. As a wee child I started by collecting "things" – marble boxes inlaid with lapis from India, carved rhinos from Zimbabwe, bronze windmills from Amsterdam… By the time I was ready to leave home and head for University my bedroom looked like a miniature inanimate petting zoo had wandered into a Ten Thousand Villages display. As I packed box after box I decided that two new qualities needed to guide my souvenir collecting – a consistent theme, and portability.
So, in what I now see as my delayed "girl scout" phase, I started collecting patches. As a little girl I would have loved to belong to a club like Girl Scouts that awarded patches for doing things like setting fires, memorizing Bible verses, and reading 5,000 books (especially if that club had awarded patches by mail so that I didn't actually have to interact with any other children to participate). Instead of a club, however, I got the occasional family-cockroach-massacre in Bangladesh where we competed to see who could amass the biggest pile of carcasses, and spent many hours on my belly in the dirt with my siblings trying to sneak around the entire perimeter of our five acre garden in Zimbabwe without the family dogs discovering what we were up to.
Perhaps if some caring soul had awarded a younger me patches to recognize outstanding achievements in cockroach hunting and canine evasion, I would not have had to spend time working through this phase as an adult. But no one did. So in a spectacular demonstration of resilience, I decided to start awarding patches to myself as souvenirs of my travels.."
After my delayed girl-scout phase I moved on to collecting Christmas ornaments. And, recently I've taken to picking up a pebble here or there.
The first pebble I picked up was in Turkey in 2007, at Gallipoli – that site of Australia's most celebrated military defeat. Before we went, I hadn't particularly wanted to visit Gallipoli, but my day there impacted me deeply. Just before we left I picked a pebble in Anzac cove. The stone I selected was red. Round on one side and rough on the other, it has been split in half. White veins of quartz run through it in a mirror image of the human body. I carry that pebble in my camera case now, and whenever I look at it I don't think first of blood and loss and needless sacrifice, or even bravery and "mateship". I think of graciousness.
But that is another story – the story of the Gallipoli pebble – and perhaps I will tell it someday.
Today's story is about a pebble I found in my makeup drawer a couple of months ago while I was packing up to move to Laos. This pebble was a smooth, flat, oval. It was grey. It had three white lines of quartz encircling it. And I could not, for the life of me, remember where I had picked it up. Or why.
I kept this pebble on the bench for days, puzzling over it.
After a week, I threw it out.
Not even I could justify shipping a rock all the way from LA to Asia when I could remember exactly nothing about why it may be significant.
About a month after this, Mike and I were in Alaska. We drove from Anchorage to Talkeetna one day to gaze upon the majesty that is Mt McKinley, and when we were done gazing upon majesty we wandered down to the river. Like every river in Alaska, it seems, it was flowing cold and clear over thousands and thousands of smooth, grey, stones.
The pebble I had puzzled over and then discarded had probably come from a river, I realized. And, with that, I remembered…
I had picked up the grey pebble in New Zealand, on our honeymoon, the day we went white water rafting. I remembered reaching down for it – all wet and silvery and cold, so cold – just as the river had been that day. I remembered thinking (unusually sentimentally, for me) that the three parallel lines of quartz that marked the stone could represent Mike, me, and God.
"You threw away our honeymoon rock?" Mike asked, trying unsuccessfully to keep a straight face as I relayed all of this to him. "You threw me, you, and God, in the trash?"
"I couldn't remember," I said, sulking. "It gets really hard to keep track of where you, me, and God have been, where we're going, and what it might mean. I was throwing away all my memories, trying to be an efficient packer, because someone wants me to move to Laos."
"The memories you couldn't actually remember?" Mike asked, not even trying not to laugh anymore. "Those ones? And that was really talented, by the way, you managed to blame both me and Laos."
"Thank you," I said.
So that is my pebble story for the day. What about you? What souvenirs do you favor?


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bar bistro is tucked away in Causewayside. Eleonora (aka Mrs Slow Food
Edinburgh) thought it was 'cool' and that the wood, plants, booths and candles create
a cosy, contemporary setting.
Snuggling into a booth for a night of gossip, we liked the look of the considered food, wine and cocktail menus. However, our heads were immediately turned when the waitress interjected to tell us about the Tuesday night offer; lobster, fries and a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc - £50 for two. We discarded our menus and put ourselves in the capable hands of the kitchen.
The wine was poured, and with the first sip, we realised its quality. Damm 27 could easily go down the route of serving cheap plonk here, but instead, we enjoyed a great bottle of French Grand Crevette with characteristic gooseberry fruit flavours and hailing from Languedoc-Roussillon. Perrier Jouet is an extra £25.
Knowing lobster was on its way, we ordered smoked toasted almonds to nibble on and revisited the food menu noting its Mediterranean credentials. Croquettes come with either cheese and kale or ham hock and gruyere. There's an Italian caramelised peach Caprese salad and charcroute from Alsace. The waiter would tell us later in the evening that the autumn menu will lean further towards French dishes. It's a pretty sophisticated food choice with good vegetarian options.
The two half lobsters when they arrived delighted us. Crustaceans come from Scrabster on a Tuesday and tend to sell out. They had been cooked so that their flesh was so moist it still quivered. I soaked mine in garlic butter and then dunked my fries in the butter too pleased that I had such a fresh, light white wine to clean my palate.
Talking of which, Eleonora ordered the Champagne Sorbet with rhubarb sherbet and gin gel for dessert. It had a very creamy texture for a sorbet which recalled the mousse of Champagne. I had a cheese-board which contained four excellent kinds of cheese and a couple of absolute favourites– Roquefort, Tomme de Savoie, The Westray Wife and Taleggio (the last two being the faves). The Westray Wife is from Orkney and you can taste the salty sea air in this cheese.
I look forward to the new autumn menu. I think the vibe of Damm 27 with its relaxed attitude will be an attractive setting for Gallic bistro dishes. (S. Wilson)
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Architecture these days has never been more advanced: Buildings are making their own energy and using ice as air conditioning. Creative buildings don't always involve special technology, however. One could build a home shaped like a giant toilet or shoe or some kind of fruit, for example. We've found more buildings designed like different everyday things. These buildings sure to disorient their residents, either by making them feel like mice in giant land, or by making them extremely dizzy. But maybe, on the contrary, they feel like unique owners. Check them out and form your opinion!
Buildings designed like animals
buildings designed like fruits and sweets
buildings designed like peoples
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Mark Mclaughlin
3507 Barnes Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45240
Job Objective To obtain Digital Painter position with a company that has opportunities for advancement.
Highlights of Qualifications:
- Admirable experience in digital production and photoshop
- Sound knowledge of traditional art processes
- Profound knowledge of Mac OS and UNIX
- Exceptional ability to complete projects within budget
- Remarkable ability to coordinate with technical team
- Ability to develop designs in color
- Ability to work without supervision
- Ability to administer CG production processes
- Familiarity with Maya and Illustrator
- Strong design and color skills
Professional Experience:
Digital Painter
DynCorp International LLC., Cincinnati, OH
August 2007 – Present
- Monitored digital processes to resolve all equipment issues.
- Maintained knowledge of painting styles and adapt to new trends.
- Gathered resource information through various different mediums.
- Coordinated with production design and director.
- Analyzed digital processes to manage complex issues.
- Developed specialty maps for shading various objects.
- Designed various texture maps in 3D models.
- Ensured utilization of various shades and patterns.
Bachelor's Degree in Animation
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
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A plan by Lord Superior's family to host his funeral at the National Academy for the Performing Arts has been dashed after the request for the facility was declined by the Community Development, Culture and the Arts.
Dr Andrew Marcano, better known of Lord Superior, died in New York on November 25. The Rio Claro-born calypso legend was 79.
Since then his family had been in talks with the ministry in the hope of having his memorial ceremony at NAPA.
On Wednesday, a notice was sent from the family that the event would indeed take place at NAPA but later in the day the T&T Guardian was informed that the late calypsonian's funeral will take place at his Diego Martin home after the ministry rescinded permission to use NAPA.
Contacted on the issue, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Nyan Gadsby-Dolly confirmed the family's request to use NAPA was declined but denied permission was ever granted for the facility to be used for the funeral.
In a Whatsapp message on Wednesday evening, Gadsby-Dolly told the T&T Guardian, "Permission to use NAPA for the funeral was not granted, therefore the issue of rescission does not arise. Use of the Savannah was offered but the family declined."
Other activities planned for Lord Superior's remembrance are set to continue as planned.
A public viewing of his body is set to take place at Belgroves Funeral Home & Skiffle Pan Yard in San Fernando from 6 to 9 pm today.
He is to be buried in his hometown of Rio Claro at 4 pm tomorrow.


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The map displays all the restaurants in your immediate vicinity:
- Orange pins mean that the wine list is already loaded to the app.
- Grey pins mean the wine list is not loaded.
If a restaurant's wine list is not yet loaded to the app, you can easily do a manual upload (main map > options > post a wine list), or take pictures of the wine menu.
You can also search for both restaurants and places (city, street, postcodes) using the search field. Wine Picker allows two types of searches:
- Go to a specific place by selecting it from the auto complete propositions.
- Find a list of matching places, ordered by distance by using the validate button of your keypad.
An alternative to the map is to use the list, which in combination with filters, is a powerful tool to help find the perfect dinner for you.
To return to your current location, just tap on the map pin in the search field. You can also switch to both friend and wine searches by tapping on the food icon in the search field.


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So, you've finally decided to go it alone and start up your own business. This will most likely be one of the biggest decisions you will ever make. Don't jump before you look, there are some important things to consider before you leap off that business ledge.
How about some helpful hints to help you focus on a road map for your new business? Try these recommendations on your start-up!
What Kind of Business Do You Want to Start?
1. Part-time or a full-time business?
2. What is the industry? Is this a new product or service?
3. Buying a running an established business model (franchise)?
4. Should I start it alone or find a partner?
Research Your Business Idea
1. Do you have the financial resources necessary?
2. Is there a market for your business? How scalable is the idea?
3. Research your competitors. Check if there is chance for you to make an impact on consumers and capture some market share.
4. What is your unique value proposition (UVP) and selling points (USPs)?
5. What Is your cost structure? Check price points and revenue streams. Can you increase value?
Create that Business Plan
1. What are your main business goals? Make a list.
2. Decide on the location of your business and the associated costs.
3. How are you going to finance your business? Think about your cash flow, profit/loss and projected sales.
4. Define and describe your marketing strategy. What is your target market? Who is your perfect customer?
5. Get help! Lots of help is available to create a business plan – from online resources to consultants.
Define and describe Who, What, When, Where, and How your business and the products and/or services you plan to provide. Business plans clearly outline the goals of the business, explain the operating procedures, detail the competition, include a marketing plan, and explain the company's current and desired funding. If your company plans to seek funding either in the form of a traditional loan or from venture capitalists, a thorough business plan will be required for the application process.
Train Hard
1. Prepare yourself. The more business skills you have, the better!
2. Read business news and books.
3. Attend a variety of business meetings and courses – there are lots of free ones out there!
4. Join business support networks and keep up to date with training workshops available.
5. Contact your local chamber of commerce and business development offices. Ask for helpful start-up resources.
The Name Says It All
1. Choose a name for your business. It's fun, but definitely tough. The name should be unique, clear & memorable. Test out names with your family and friends!
2. Check to make sure that no one else uses the name. Then double-check.
3. Make sure the domain name is free. You do not want a web address that doesn't match.
Registering Your Business
1. Decide what capacity your business will operate in (Corporation, Partnership, Sole Proprietorship).
2. Register your business with the appropriate registering body.
3. Seek professional advice when setting up partnerships or limited companies
4. Run a check for trademark names and availability.
5. Check out online help here: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/bn-ne/bro-ide/menu-eng.html
Choose the Right Staff
1. How many employees do you need (if any)?
2. Don't start hiring staff until you need them. Employees are expensive and require a budget.
3. Hire the best associates. Do not compromise on the skills and capability of your workers for lower wages.
4. Use and check references when hiring.
5. Clearly define the roles within your company before you hire.
1. Develop an affordable marketing strategy and budget.
2. Get your business cards ready, complete with all your business details (addresses, phone numbers and website).
3. Network in your industry and community to gain exposure.
4. Set up your business website.
5. Create a presence across social networks and start building your consumer fan base.
Legal and Professional
1. Seek advice. There are a lot of resources out there – use them! Get legal and professional advice for anything you are unsure of. This will save you a lot of hard work and money in the long run.
2. Insure your business.
3. Find out what taxes you will have to pay and start planning ahead.
4. Research all rules and regulations that you must legally follow.
5. Seek advice about tax breaks, funding and grants for start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Suppliers and Distributors
1. Choose your suppliers and distributors carefully.
2. Reach as many suppliers as you can to reduce your costs.
3. Always keep a backup list of suppliers (it's always good to be over-prepared)
4. Talk to distributors and be sure to clarify all terms and conditions.
Keep Good Records
1. Keep good records of everything that comes in and goes out of your business
2. Consider setting up a separate business banking account.
3. Make sure you understand the book-keeping process.
4. Discuss keeping accurate records with your accountant
5. Submit everything on time and in good order to save money at year end
Investigate Other Requirements
Businesses face a number of government and insurance requirements, particularly if the business has employees. You should investigate your business's obligations for the following:
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- Workers' compensation
- Federal, provincial and sales tax
- Vacation pay
- Health benefits
- Self-employment tax
- Payroll tax requirements
- Sales and use tax
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- Planning your business
- Organizing your finances
- Registering your business
- Hiring and managing your staff
- Workplace health and safety
- Additional resources
- All of which can be easily found at: http://www.canadabusiness.ca/eng/page/2749/
Final checks:
- Select an accountant and attorney
- Open a business bank account
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- Location, Location, Location: Find the best location for your business!


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Conspiracy theory:
The US government knew about ISIS activity since Jan. 2014 according to reports. Yet troops were pulled out of Mosul, Iraq's 2nd largest city leaving it without proper defense.
There were no Kurdish Pesh-Marga forces or Iraqi special forces present. Only ill trained barefoot bedouin Arab conscripts were employed to protect this city that contained large supplies of modern American military weaponry. And the national bank that had approximately 430 million dollars in the vault…
Why was this city left so vulnerable? ISIS knew the city was ripe for taking.
As we all know Obama sent weapons and funds to the Islamic (ISIS) terrorist in Syria before.
The question is… did Obama create the situation so ISIS could get their hands on yet more hardwares and much needed cash? Is this another way of weaponizing & funding of these extremists even at the cost of genocide?
It makes you wonder even more when Obama takes off to go on a two week vacation when nearly 1/2 million Christians and Yazidis are about to be wiped off the face of the earth!
Why is he protecting these Islamo Fascists?
JUST a thought…
Just a thought…
Conspiracy theory:


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Two 8-year-old children from Okobo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, lived on the streets for the past month, after their relatives tortured them and sent them out of their homes for alleged witchcraft.
The children have been identified as Mary Odiong and Ekong Asua.
Odiong told Punch that she was blamed for the death of her uncle who died in Okopedi village of an ailment many suspected was AIDS.
Her relatives then blamed her for the death, saying that she was the reason why he had contracted AIDS and died.
"The people in my family called me and started asking me questions whether I was a witch and why I killed my uncle. I told them that I did not know anything about what they were talking about.
They started beating me. They hit me with cutlasses. They cut my buttocks with knives.
After the beating became too much, I lost consciousness. Later, I woke up to find myself in a bush. I have been living on the streets since last month without food and shelter," she said.
In Esua's case, his parents died from what has been described as a "strange ailment," and afterwards, his uncles accused him of being a wizard, and blamed him for his parents' death.
"My uncles told me that they went somewhere to find out why my parents died. They said they were told that I killed both of them through witchcraft. They tied my hands and started beating me up with native sugarcane and asked me to confess.
When I insisted that I knew nothing about the death of my parents, they took me to a bush, where I met Odiong. Both of us have been living on the streets since then," he said.
Both children were reportedly rescued from the streets by volunteers from African Children Aid Education and Development Foundation.
They are currently at University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, where they are receiving treatment.


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EMF describes that standards and requirements are driving the new embedded marketplace because companies can realize benefits from reduced development costs as well as improved processes and product quality. This is of paramount importance in the expanding embedded marketplace of safety and security related application development. According to EMF, characteristics for success in these markets include interoperability, guaranteed software quality, and enhanced safety and security.
The EMF report details the benefits of formal methodologies and tools compared to informal and semi-formal methods and tools. There are benefits to flexible yet informal and semi-formal approaches such as those presented in UML/SysML model-driven development environments like Rhapsody®, Artisan Studio®, and the Simulink® proprietary tool and modeling language. However, for safety-critical application development and verification, a formal notation like the Scade® language and the SCADE Suite™ model-based development environment are required for the demands of today's application complexity. Based on a formal language, SCADE Suite offers certified code generation for these safety-critical domains. According to Dr. Krasner, "When it comes to developing critical software, our point of view is that formal methods and tools can provide the necessary rigor for developing and certifying the software product in an efficient way for the various application domains that we have described."
For the complete report including a detailed analysis of model-based algorithm exploration, model-based system architecture and design, and model-based software development with certification visit: http://www.embeddedforecast.com.
About Esterel SCADE
Esterel SCADE, a design environment for safety-critical embedded software applications, provides graphical specification capture and simulation, along with the capability to check safety properties at the model level. It includes SCADE Suite® and SCADE Display®.
SCADE Suite is the market leading, model-based development environment dedicated to safety-critical embedded software:
· DO-178B qualified up to level A for Military and Aerospace Industries
· IEC 61508 certified at SIL 3 by TÜV for Heavy Equipment, Automotive, and Energy
· EN 50128 certified at SIL 3/4 by TÜV for Rail Transportation
SCADE Display is the leading edge embedded graphics design environment dedicated to safety-critical display systems, DO-178B qualified up to level A for Military and Aerospace Industries.
About Esterel Technologies - An ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company
Esterel Technologies is the worldwide leader of model-based design, verification and code generation tools for critical embedded systems.
Esterel Technologies is a privately held company with headquarters in Elancourt, France and Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and with direct sales offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, and China.
For additional information, visit the Esterel Technologies websites at www.esterel-technologies.com and www.esterel-eda.com
About EMF: The premier market intelligence and advisory firm in the embedded technology industry. Embedded technology refers to the ubiquitous class of products which use some type of processor as a controller. These products include guided missiles, radars, and avionics as well as robots and medical electronics.
Embedded Market Forecasters (EMF) is the embedded market research division of American Technology International, Inc. EMF has extensive experience providing both multi-client and custom research on topics including systems with embedded boards, buses, software, hardware and development tools markets as well as embedded technology applications including embedded systems, digital signal processors (DSPs), FPGAs, single board computers, communications/IT, and multimedia. EMF clients range from startups to Global 100 companies worldwide.
Founded by Dr. Jerry Krasner, a recognized authority on embedded markets, product development and channel distribution, EMF is headquartered in Framingham, Mass.
|Embedded Market Forecasters
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Learn to draw now! Practice with multiple drawing mediums as you progress through this course. Enjoy drawing success in the very first class. Refine your technique while focusing on still life and found objects in a supportive environment for beginners.
All supplies provided! Please wear appropriate clothes for an art studio (dress for mess!). Closed-toe shoes are recommended for all classes and required for wood, metal, stone, or other sculpture classes.


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In May of 2014, I saw a neat kickstarter on Indigogo on a 3D Printer and thought that I always wanted a 3D Printer so why not!
Click the image below to see the Original Indigogo Campaign.
For $149 I was an Early Bird adopter of this device! I couldn't believe it but with lots of Kickstarters, it had a lot of challenges to take on to make this a reality! There were delays and some setbacks but all along they kept working at it. They introduced us to everyone that they hired, and gave us tech updates on the printer as well.
So after 1.5 years and 59 Updates they delivered to me today, the MOD-t 3D printer and I will take you through the un-boxing and setup of this fantastic device!
If you want to know more about New Matter, click the image below!
First of all, my wife didn't think this was going to happen, I have backed a bunch of kickstarters and they failed to deliver or it took so long that we cancelled. I was so happy that this finally arrived! It really came down to all the updates and details they were sending me that made me know that this was going to happen!
So when I got home this is what I saw on my doorstep, and I did a HAPPY DANCE!!
I brought it inside and the printer was inside another cardboard box, so I pulled out the printer in its own, nicely made box.
When you opened the front, the box opened like a drawbridge on a castle and a welcome card was taped with the instructions on unpacking it.You just slid the unit right out of the box! So easy!
I went to work on unpacking the box and I was very impressed by the shipping protection they engineered to make sure the printer came safely and with no damage. Well done!!
The 3 boxes that protected the printer were also accessory holders, the filament, power and other items. Very smart design! I was so impressed!!
The other half of the power supply, a USB printer cable and wire brush, scraper and wire cutters.
This picture was of the filament spool holder and the power supply.
You headed to their webpage and downloaded the install files and it installed the printer software pretty quickly.
The software asked you to plug in the power and USB cables and then it installed the firmware!
After the software installation there was a onscreen wizard that took you through the steps to put the final pieces together. First the tray...
Then the filament, (a 0.5 Kilogram amount) which had a nice little holder to allow it to spin on the back freely. We chose Pink as our color to start with!
After loading the filament it did a quick test and this is what it made!
Then it gave me the option to do a test print job.
It took about 35 minutes to print the New Matter Logo out but its quality was very nice.
With the glass case on the printer it is very quiet and it looks amazing just sitting there!
We printed another quick print of a Jack-O-Lantern Pin and that turned out awesome.
From Start to finish it took about 2 hours to unbox and finish these two print jobs! Not bad for a $149!!
Right now the printer is working on a puzzle cube that looks like this,,,
I will have more on this printer and the projects that I will be doing in future blogs! So stay tuned!!!


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Asset finance
Asset finance: definition
Asset finance is a type of lending that gives you access to business assets such as equipment, machinery and vehicles, or enables you to release cash from the value in assets you already own.
Asset finance includes:
Asset finance is a broad category that relates to valuable items in your business. Generally speaking there are two types of asset finance — lending secured against existing assets, and equipment finance to get additional assets.
An 'asset' can be almost anything, whether it's ovens and refrigeration for a catering company or a haulage firm's fleet of vehicles — and with a wide choice of alternative lenders across the market, you can find asset finance for almost anything.


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Inter swept Genoa aside 2-1 with Douglas Maicon and Andrea Poli, so they'll face Napoli in the Coppa Italia quarter-finals.
Sneijder made his comeback for a few minutes in Sunday's 1-0 derby victory, but got his first start since early November as support for lone striker Luc Castaignos, who is expected to leave this month. Meanwhile, Genoa missed most of their star names for this Round of 16 trip and had new signing Giuseppe Sculli on the bench, but did play Juraj Kucka, who is co-owned by the Nerazzurri.
It took just eight minutes for Inter to break the deadlock and Douglas Maicon very nearly broke the net with a blockbuster of a right-footed strike from 20 yards that flew into the far top corner.
More bad news for the visitors, who lost Marco Rossi to a muscular problem, making way for Kevin Constant.
Cristiano Lupatelli got down to palm a Sneijder snapshot off the line, while substitute Constant blasted over the bar. Genoa tried to fight back, but Luca Castellazzi's gloves remained squeaky clean, as the absence of players like Alberto Gilardino and Rodrigo Palacio really showed.
Inter doubled their advantage after the break with Andrea Poli's first goal since his summer move from Sampdoria. The Under-21 international midfielder's quick one-two with Joel Obi sent him clear on goal.
A Castaignos error allowed Lucas Pratto to go on the dangerous counter-attack, but he narrowed the angle too much and allowed Castellazzi to block. To make matters worse for Genoa, substitute Constant in turn had to be replaced due to an injury.
Mauro Zarate was introduced and tested Lupatelli with an angled drive, while Lucas Pratto's glancing header was off target and Cristobal Jorquera dispossessed Esteban Cambiasso to launch an immediate strike that Castellazzi beat away.
Genoa did finally get their goal in stoppages. Pratto was unlucky to see his attempt come off the bar, then Valter Birsa was quickest to react and tapped in the follow-up from six yards.
Inter 2-1 Genoa
Scorers: Maicon 8 (I), Poli 50 (I), Birsa 91 (G)
Inter: Castellazzi; Maicon, Cordoba, Ranocchia, Zanetti; Faraoni, Cambiasso, Poli (Nagatomo 76), Obi; Sneijder (Alvarez 80); Castaignos (Zarate 63)
Genoa: Lupatelli; Sampirisi, Granqvist, Moretti, Rossi (Constant 27) (Marchiori 54); Kucka, Seymour, Birsa; Jorquera; Pratto, Ze Eduardo (Sculli 69)
Ref: Russo
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Musicians' websites–what's the deal?
I've noticed noticed an um…interesting trend lately in musicians' websites - is it just me or are they starting to look more and more like myspace pages? To investigate, I went to the Billboard Hot 100 Chart to see what kind of websites the top artists had. And sure enough, 4 out of the top 10 definitely exhibited at least some of the traits I've noticed: a long scrolling page with an image in the background, and lots of type, images, videos, sounds, animation, links, and anything else you can imagine - all right there on the homepage for our viewing pleasure!
These sites all belong to artists in the Billboard's top 10:
(I did also discover one top 10 artist site that I really enjoy and doesn't follow the trend—props to Jason Mraz for being original and having a really cool site that looks absolutely nothing like a myspace page!)
I decided to research the phenomenon further, and noticed that the trend is mainly followed by pop, rap, and r&b artists—not so much by alternative or other generes. Take, for example, Lil Wayne, Pussycat Dolls, T-Pain, and Jay Z, and even my girl, Alicia Keys! Are you starting to see the similarities here?
One possible reason behind this trend is that many of them are incorporating the social networking aspect into their site. They're allowing users to create profiles so that they can personalize their experiences on the sites—not a bad idea in itself. So I can understand where they're getting the idea to mirror the popular social networking site, but they could definitely execute the concept differently. Come on - what happened to visual hierarchy and well-organized user interface? Not to mention a little originality! Some of these artists have great music - now they just need beautiful, user-friendly websites to match. Get in touch, people - fluidesign can help!