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Prime location with beautiful long water views and short walk to clubhouse. Light and bright first floor 2 bedroom plus den Harbor Home. Enjoy beautiful sunset views over the water as you relax in your screened porch overlooking your own dock. Split floor plan, large master walk in closet. Easy condo living! Required golf membership purchase conveys all the first class amenities of Admirals Cove including two spectacular clubhouses, 45 holes of golf, 5 restaurants, 63 slip brand new marina with floating docks, Yacht Club, 13 har tru tennis courts, state of the art fitness, brand new spa, Covesters kids club and Platinum service.
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Small victories
Tom's garden—23 July 2013
Last month, my honey planted a bunch of fruits, vegetables, and herbs. We had grand visions of growing a good chunk of our produce. He isn't being suitably rewarded for his efforts: only a couple grape tomatoes, some cilantro, and this lone (yet lovely) jalapeño pepper have thrived. Any tips for us?
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After whole minutes of thought, The Bemolution decided not to watch last night's seven-way leadership debate, and took in a 1997 episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer about hyenas possessing people while simultaneously watching Twitter watch the debate instead.
To lazily quote an old blog post rather than have to think of a different way of saying the same thing, the debates are an "awful development, further chiselling down what should be a vast, complex, citizenry-engaging discussion about how societies are run into a rubbish squabble over who gets the top job. They're a stunningly shallow American export we never should've touched, and need scrapping immediately".
We did actually watch the first thirty seconds while fiddling with the DVD player. The announcer burbled some codswallop about Salford. There were some sub-Apprentice/Spooks stop-start swooping camerawork over the Mancunian skyline, set to plasticated techno that sounded like it came from about 2001. Presenter Julie Etchingham said something about the 'big iss-oos' facing the country. Clegg looked terrified, Nicola Sturgeon looked stilted, Miliband looked calm, Leanne Wood gave a nice happy smile and looked delighted to be there, and David Cameron did a face that made him look like Michael Howard. All of which are the kind of profound, substantive judgements the debates encourage you to make. No-one ever really offered a satisfactory explanation for why the Irish parties weren't invited. Then the DVD kicked in.
After two hours of watching 140-character opinions dribble out from the #leadersdebate hashtag, we'd gleaned many an insight into the woeful state of twenty-first century public discourse, including 1.) that a lot of people labour under the misapprehension that you can calculate the definitive winner of something as subjective and un-scientific as a debate, 2.) that a lot of people were just going to declare victory for the person they already liked the most going into it and 3.) that according to numerous self-appointed arbiters of truth – more numerous than those calling it for any other leader, anyway – the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon was the most impressive.
Labour's post-debate strategy seemed to be ignore the small anti-austerity parties and just repeatedly praise Ed Miliband as the most Prime Ministerial. Representative sample:
Labour Press Team @labourpress 41 minutes ago
Format favours minor parties but what people have seen tonight is an alternative PM: Ed @Ed_Miliband #leadersdebate
While Labour's official mouthpieces wisely chose to avoid having a go at parties with policies their core supporters would probably much rather have than theirs, the Labour Right were doing their utmost to trash the newcomers, particularly the Greens. Representative sample:
Joe Vinson @JoeVinson 3 hrs3 hours ago
Natalie Bennett lives in fantasy land. She just wants to print money. #leadersdebate
Joe Vinson is apparently an NUS officer, so it's reassuring that high-profile student politics continues to be dominated by sub-Blairite careerists who only joined the Labour Party because if they all just went Tory there wouldn't be enough political establishment jobs for relentlessly self-advancing humanities graduates.
Eoin Clarke, paladin of the Miliband-era Labour Party and leading light behind the not really very left Labour Left group (as opposed to the excellent and genuinely left-wing Labour Representation Committee), continued to demonstrate his enormous social media work ethic.
Dr Éoin Clarke @LabourEoin 7 minutes ago
David Cameron spoke for 16 minutes tonight. During that time he told 37 lies. I fact checked them all if u check my timeline #Leadersdebate
Quite a few non-political types were laying into Green Party policy, spouting endless unsubtle variations on the old 'money doesn't grow on trees' adage. Thankfully, people who weren't economically illiterate were piping up to counter the austerity logic, including economist Ann Pettifor who we like quite a lot, and whose Just Money book taught us what money actually is.
Clegg & Cameron repeat the "there is no money left" mantra. Where did the £375bn to bail out the banks come from?
The Positive Money group manages to turn almost every subject round to money creation, with a nerdy tenacity that needs applauding, because it's vastly, vastly important:
Unmentioned in the #leadersdebate: the power to create money and shape the economy lies not with voters, but banks. http://tinyurl.com/m9yvwad
The Tories just repeatedly claimed David Cameron was the winner without ever really articulating why. Representative sampling:
Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson 18 hours ago
DC won. Miles ahead. In control. Strong leader. #leadersdebate
… which, like a lot of the pro-Tory tweets, came across like 'David Cameron is winning because he looks the most Prime Ministerial, because he is the Prime Minister'. Other Conservatives, perhaps fearing the rise of multiparty politics, scaremongered about what would happen if it became the norm.
James Cleverly @JamesCleverly 1 minute ago
Tonight's #leadersdebate showed what chaos would look like if we don't get a decisive result on the 7th May.
But the clearest thing we took away from the whole day's coverage, not just half-looking at Twitter while the debate was on, was an unpleasant reminder that millions of people judge politicians by how well they 'come across', not what they actually say. To quote Twitter user Nissemus:
ITV viewers claiming people won based on how well they put their points across, rather than what the points were. Ridiculous.
It wasn't just ITV viewers. In the words of one Ben Mitchell – apparently a writer of some kind, not Phil Mitchell's son:
Forget the rest, these debates are for EdM to show a large audience he's ready to be PM. And he hasn't. Answers too wooden
Of course, the weakness of our chosen debate-analysing strategy is that we didn't watch it – we were enjoying an evening in with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Anthony Head, so Ed Miliband could have been a geyser of rhetorical brilliance for all we know, or he could've performed with all the charisma of late '90s text-to-speech software.
But the whole point is that it shouldn't really matter whether he was a bit wooden or not. He, and all other six, need to be judged on what they actually say – and even more than that, what they actually do if and when they get the power they're currently all hustling for.
Earlier in the day, Huw Edwards was interviewing three token young people on News 24. One said he was leaning towards the Conservatives 'because of the leader'. People seem to have it in their heads that there's only kind of person who can run the country – and that person is someone who can speak naturally, come across confidently, look good in a suit and be capable of elegantly eating a bacon sandwich.
But who were the masterful, charismatic British Prime Ministers of the twentieth century? Destructive megalomaniacs like Thatcher and Blair. And who was the least worst Prime Minister of the twentieth century? Clement Attlee, a boring upper middle-class bureaucrat who efficiently delivered on a radical manifesto.
It's the ideas that matter, not how exciting the tabloid press judges the person who will take the lead in trying to put them into action – and note, that's 'take the lead in', not 'do it single-handedly'. The media's leadership obsession seems to suggest that a Prime Minister needs to be some sort of insomniac super-person who runs the country solo.
The attacks on Natalie Bennett and the Greens were also grimly revealing, too – particularly when you see a lot of relatively progressive people, and tons of young people, agreeing with them. Essentially, it just cements what's been clear for years now, which is that millions and millions of people have outlooks that are fundamentally neoliberal, even among some who despise the Tories and lambast the current government at every opportunity.
A fair wedge of the Green-critical Twitter commentary was typical of a certain kind of self-identified centre-leftist. They're not brainwashed Mail readers who blame everything on immigrants and poor people, they claim. They oppose the extreme, ideological cuts, rail against the horrors of Cameron and Clegg, soup kitchens and zero hours contracts. But of course, they say as if the most obvious, irrefutable thing in the world, we still need to balance the budget. Of course we need cuts. Of course we can't just start nationalising things again – because where would the money come from?
In fact, all they've managed to do is shave off the top layer of the neoliberal values system, done away with the most obvious, egregious bits. But they've still mindlessly internalised all the rest of it. Their ideas of what it is to be 'sensible', 'responsible', 'economically competent' are neoliberal ones – including the standard neoliberal list of catastrophic economic myths, like the notion that we can ever 'run out' of money, and that a 'balanced budget' is a desirable thing rather than a recipe for a future where people are starving on the streets. If you believe in any of that, watch this.
And to end – apparently, Natalie Bennett said some stuff about the environment. Kevin Maguire, Mirror Editor:
Natalie Bennett good. For hope and against fear. Except when warning we'll all die in an eco disaster
That was one of the kinder comments. Most of them rubbished her environmental concerns. And so, the final, probably most disastrous insight squeezed from the night's events, is that virtually no-one, in the general public, or in the political or media classes, has any conception of how serious an issue the environment is. In Kevin Maguire's world, it's something you just don't say. For a lot of others, it just invites scorn or ridicule.
Again, there's this terrifying implication that for self-absorbed twenty-first century people, it's just not convenient for there to be a looming ecological crisis requiring us to comprehensively reassess the way we live. Because we don't want to comprehensively reassess the way we live. We want to buy too much, eat too much, go wherever we want to do whenever we want, and generally continue living at such a speed that ensures we'll crash within the lifetime of the people who'll cast their first vote next month.
We have no idea what she said, of course. We'd have said that 'without the most radical overhaul in the way societies operate since the discovery of agriculture, this time next century crows will be eating what remains of your grandchildren's starved and desiccated corpses as they lie in the shit-smeared back alleys of half-flooded city slums, while David Cameron's descendants slowly lose their minds in fortified Survive-o-Towers powered by the last of society's resources'.
Most people know nothing about economics, or the environment, or so much other stuff that's vitally, vitally important. Because they've not been taught about it. But people aren't born stupid. They're made stupid. We've all been raised to be stupid – up until about two years ago The Bemolution didn't know what interest was – by a system that's very happy for us to be stupid, because it makes pushing us around easier. And unless we all make ourselves a bit less stupid sometime soon, we'd suggest you start digging your makeshift doomsday bunker now.


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Before he was nineteen, music legend Davie Bowie had already recorded and released an impressive cross-section of now classic pop tracks on the Pye label in addition to recording an album of quintessential, original English pop that was released on June 1st, 1967 on the prestigious U.K. based Deram Records label. A history lesson in and of itself, that 14 track self titled David Bowie Lpoverflowing with amazing theatrical / musical arrangements from Bowie and the late, great Dek Fearnley and Arthur Greensladeis spotlighted with a newly remastered stereo mix of the official Lp release and a rarely heard, yet way superior monaural mix, both comprising disc one of the double CD David Bowie - Deluxe Edition released in early 2010 over in the U.K. and E.U. on Deram Records. One of the key events in the aftermath of the self-titled debut David Bowie solo album is that it would soon lead to David working with then up and coming American producer turned U.K. pop impresario Tony Visconti, who had arrived in the U.K. in early 67 to work as an arranger with genius producer Denny Cordell. Picking up from where the David Bowie album leaves off, the 25 tracks on disc two clearly depicts Bowies fruitful beginnings of working with Visconti with a similar sound to Bowie's first album while nudging it up a notch with Viscontis amazing (cutting edge for 1967!) string sounds and hip beat group style arrangements. Similar in historic significance as say the great Jimmy Miller working with Stones and Traffic around the same era, Viscontis work with Bowie and T. Rex during this crucial period in music history is really the stuff of legends and Tonys recent autobiography, Bowie, Bolan And The Brooklyn Boy offers further insights into his amazing history as a producer over the past 45 years. Recorded at the historic Advision studio, Viscontis groundbreaking September 1st, 1967 production and string arrangements of Let Me Sleep Beside You and Karma Manespecially evident on the amazing mono mixes of those tracks hereare two of Bowies finest late / middle 60s recordings for the Deram label. And who knew jazz guitarist, then session guitarist John McLaughlin was among the many great U.K. musicians who played on a number of these early Bowie gems? The liner notes and prominent packaging of this 53 track double David Bowie CD remaster are quite exemplary, while the multitude of names, dates and history surrounding these recordings is truly revealing. www.DavidBowie.com
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This Article Appeared In The Times
But Was Not Actually In Cal's Column
August 17, 1950 - Reprinted March 17, 1977
Although there are few, if any, Masons now in this county, yet there are numerous descendants of the family of this and Smith Counties. Below is a copy of a letter just written to a member of the family, who is trying to trace his ancestry.
Lafayette, Tenn.
August 7, 1950
Mr. Isaac P. Mason
Stockton, Ala.
Dear Sir:
Your letter relative to your family connection has been forwarded to me from Pleasant Shade. I am sorry to report that I have but little information relative to the Mason family. However, I have a few items of interest relative to those that I believe are your relatives. We have here near Lafayette, which is in Macon County, just north of Smith County, a Mr. B. Y. Gross, whose mother was Miss Mary Sanders Mason prior to her marriage many years ago to Yateman Gross. This Miss Mason was known as Mollie Mason. She was the daughter of David Groom Mason, whose first marriage resulted in no offspring. His second wife was Miss Matilda Ferguson, by whom he became the father of ; Mary Sanders Mason, married Yateman Gross; Sarah, known as Sallie Mason, married James Fuqua; Hanah Mason, married first to Lige Eden; second marriage , to Jack Curlee; Bob Mason, married Elizabeth Smith; Charlie Mason, married Millie Norman, and Kate Mason, married Thomas Drury and much later, Ed Gross.
Evidently David Groom Mason, to whom you refer as your great grandfather, was the father of the David Groom Mason, mentioned above. Mr. Gross does not recall the name of his great-grandfather, but your letter indicates that you both have the same great-grandfather in the person of David Groom Mason, Sr. Further light is shed on this by the fact that Mr. Gross recalls the fact that his mother had an uncle, Wylie, and an aunt, Polly.
This same Mr. Gross knows that his mother's aunt, Polly, married a Cothron. The writer has long been interested in family history and is publishing some items of this kind from time to time. In March of this year we gave an account of the marriage of Polly Mason to James Carroll Cothron. But there is a slight discrepancy in the account I have and what you have written. Polly's middle name, according to my records, was Fitzallen, but we feel sure that the party is one and the same. On the other hand the members of the family do not recall having ever heard of the many other brothers and sisters, but they are not denying them at all.
Mary Sanders Mason, daughter of David Groom Mason, married Yateman Gross and became the mother of : Lucy Flora, married Lem Gammon; Bettie, married John Drury; Leah, married Eddie Sanders; Edwin Groom, married Callie Leath; Byron Yateman Gross, the man above referred to as B. Y. Gross, married Leona Smith; Elisha, married Josie Fuqua; Hannah, died at the age of two years; Fannie, married Jim Carman; Minnie, married Oscar Brockett; and Ada David Gross, married Lloyd Gregory, a second cousin of the writer's. We should have perhaps also stated that the Candace Cothron, daughter of James Carroll and Polly Mason Cothron married our own uncle, William Joseph Gregory.
Sallie, daughter of David Brown Mason and his wife Matilda Ferguson, married James Fuqua and became the mother of: Caleb, married Sallie Parker; Susie, married Alonzo Griffin; John, married Nan Shrum; Walter, married Laura Eden and later Julia Cross; Charlie, married Minnis Morgan ; Dora, married Tom Jones and later Jim Frye; Kate, married Johnnie Ford; and Laura, married P. W. Cross.
Hannah Mason, daughter of David Groom Mason and the Ferguson woman, was married to Lige Eden, by whom she had five children, Willie, Phenie, Jim Henry, Chrisley and Arthur Eden; and by her second husband, Jack Curlee, she had one daughter, Maude Curlee.
Bob Mason, son of David Groom Mason and the Ferguson woman, married Elizabeth Smith and became the father of: Modena, married Thomas Dozier, and later John Crowder; Alice, married a Lauderdale first and later Alonzo Griffin; Miranda, a cripple who never married; Ollie, who died at about 16; Nealie, who married Hershell Claiborne.
Charlie Mason, a brother of Hannah, married Millie Norman and moved to Texas. Their children were: Amanda, Dave, Albert, Vera, Myrtle, Ed and Earl.
Kate, a sister of Charlie, married Thomas Drury, and was the mother of : Rosa, married Bill Cross; Lottie, married a Crabtree and a Weatherford; Mattie, died from appendicitis at the age of about 12 years.
I am sending you a copy of my paper of March 16, this year, containing an account of the descendants of Polly Fitzallen Mason and her husband, Cothern.
If there is anything else I can do for you, please let me know.
With every good wish, I am
Sincerely yours,
Calvin Gregory
If any reader of the paper has anything on the line of descent of this family and will be good enough to send it to us, we will try to find a place for it at an early date.


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Chiarelli, Lorraine Esther (2000) A literature review on facilitating on-line collaboration of learning teams : can education learn from business and other disciplines? Masters thesis, Concordia University.
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The information age has brought about profound social change in the ways we work, learn, and communicate. Within today's business environment the hierarchical work structures of the past are being decentralized creating the need for team-based organizations. This decentralization is slowly finding its way into higher education, as well, and challenging the traditional model of learning and instruction. In both business and education this team-oriented process is being pushed forward by the ever increasing use of technology; specifically computer-mediated communication and the internet. However, though changes have occurred and are occurring there is research to suggest that many learners are not being prepared to enter the world of teams and technology. Business has been dealing with teamwork issues for sometime, but for instructional organizations this new phenomena poses a challenge since the re are few examples of how to design and organize on-line collaborative learning environments. As an analysis of the literature this thesis is designed to introduce aspects of business literature, as well as other closely related topic areas such as group dynamics and computer-mediated communication technology, into the educational environment. The focus is on the strategies, suggestions and organizational aids that can be implemented as part of instruction to assist learners in becoming more effective on-line team members. Also included are suggestions regarding how the institutional environment and the technology can be structured and organized to help facilitate team collaboration.
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Nephithyrion is a place, a musty wooden chest that opens to starry skies...
Actually, it's a random word I thought of after watching a film involving angels. Nephithyrion, other than that it sounds like it came straight from a fantasy book, doesn't mean anything to anyone else but me. But out of curiosity, I looked for meaning in similar words:
- First would be one that concerns angels. The Nephilim, believed to be "fallen angels" or "giants", were the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men". This term is mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible.
- In Egyptian mythology, Nephthys was the sister of Isis. Sometimes known as the "Useful Goddess," she is a protective goddess who symbolizes the death experience, just as Isis represented the (re-)birth experience. The literal translation of her name is usually given as "Lady of the House."
- Nepho- is a combining form meaning "cloud," used in the formation of compound words, for example: nephogram, a photo of a cloud.
- The Greek thyris means "window" and thyra means "door." (From what I've read, these words were used in the Greek New Testament.)
I love taking pictures of clouds and windows! :)
...except that he did not seek glory in danger without a purpose. ~ Tolkien on Faramir
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. ~ Romans 12:2
Hello! I'm Julienne from Davao City, a web developer who takes pictures, draws, and crafts on the side. I like fine art and natural light photography, portraits, photos of nature and those vast, open, empty spaces.
Music was my first love. I listen mostly to 70s to early 2000s music. Then movies & art, and mathematics just about the time I started school. I eyed books since I was young, but the only ones available on my parents' bookshelves were engineering books.
This blog is a tribute to everything I love and support!
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It is usually characterised by involuntary movement and intellectual, emotional and behavioural problems.
In most cases HD is a "late" onset disease and symptoms generally appear when a person reaches their mid thirties or forties. In rare cases HD may develop in childhood or as late as seventy years of age.
Treatment of HD and research into its causes has greatly improved in recent years. The HD gene was isolated in 1993 but there is still no cure for the disease.


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No automatic right for DWI defendant to inspect inside of police station State v Carrero
State v Baluski
The court reviewed discovery orders separately issued in these two DWI cases authorizing defense counsel and/or defense experts to inspect and photograph rooms within the police stations where their respective clients provided breath samples on the Alcotest device in order to verify that the tests were properly administered.
In Carrero, such access was granted to help ascertain whether devices emitting radio frequency interference (RFI) had been located in the station within 100 feet of the testing area. In Baluski, such access was granted to help ascertain whether the interior layout of the station physically prevented defendant from being observed for the required twenty minutes before testing.
The court reversed the discovery orders because neither defendant has shown a reasonable justification to conduct the requested inspection.
The court concluded that Carrero's request is insufficient in light of the Supreme Court's binding legal and evidentiary determination in State v. Chun, 194 N.J. 54, 89, cert. denied, 555 U.S. 825, 129 S. Ct. 158, 172 L. Ed. 2d 41 (2008), that the Alcotest is designed in a manner that is " "well shielded from the impact of any potential RFI," and also in light of the State's countervailing security interests disfavoring routine civilian access to the interior of a police station.
The court concluded that Baluski's request is likewise insufficient because he has presented no affirmative basis to believe that an officer failed to observe him for the twenty pre-testing minutes required by Chun, supra, 194 N.J. at 79, and also in light of the State's countervailing security interests.


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In a sport where we've now taken our rear cassettes to eleven, racing on a bike with one gear can seem an anachronism. Yet given any crisp autumn Sunday, you'll find more and more racers grinding up the hills, and spinning manically on the flats without a derailleur in site. You may even find a few racers intentionally disabling otherwise well tuned bikes, locking them in one gear. It's not sabotage; it's just a Phase One Conversion, and the first step into the circle.
This neo-traditionalism doesn't make any sense. Racing with just one gear is totally illogical, and admitting otherwise after lusting after the latest, lightest, most robotic drivetrain creates all sorts of cognitive dissonance. I'm sure that's one reason why the single-speeder enjoys a bit of a fringe status within cyclocross, which is on the fringe of cycling, which is on the fringe of reality.
So why single speed cyclocross?
Race Better
Riding a single speed will teach you to love that momentum that you're dropping like an anchor in the corners. That downhill u-turn that you brake all the way though, and can still spin out of? Try that on a single speed and you'll be running out. A new found respect for free speed and a proper racing line will help you in any racing, geared or non.
Race Harder
Yes, this is a pro. It's somewhat counterintuitive, but its not uncommon to see SSers passing the Multis on climbs. The reason is simple: they're in a higher gear. The choice is to mash and keep moving, or fall over. With the safety net of a lower gear it's easy to zone out, rather than focus on putting out all the wattage you're truly capable of. While it may not be your most efficient cadence, pushing an uncomfortable gear will make you a better rider.
Race More
Driving 100 miles each way to race for 40 minutes doesn't make a whole lot of sense, so why not double up and take on a second race? Many races will let you add on another race for a discount, making opting into the single speed race an economical way to double you racing time. This assumes that you're at a point in the season, or your career, where you value racing experience and gains in fitness more than the result at a local race. Which should be most of you, most of the time.
Race Later
I upgraded from a 4 to a 3, because waking up at 4am to race on dewey grass before an audience composed entirely of JD and Diane sucks. It turns out there's now an easier way – just race single speed. This is usually an open category, (always double check though) so men and women of any category can enter.
So how? Trying out single speed racing can cost as little or as much as you want.
Phase 1 Conversion: Zip Ties
Most every single speed race in New England welcomes a multi-speed bike temporarily disabled via zip tie or some mechanical trickery. The approach is a bit different based on your drivetrain.
The easiest of all:
- Pick a gear. If you're running a double chainring, I'd usually recommend putting the chain in the larger to increase chain tension.
- Zip tie the shift levers tight to your brake levers. Ensure that they're tight enough to not allow shifting.
- Cut off the ends.
- Throw the ends into a trash can, or pack them out. I cannot emphasize this step enough.
After the race, just cut the ties. Then THROW THEM AWAY OR TAKE THEM HOME.
Still simple, but you need a screwdriver and a vague idea of how your rear derailleur actually works:
- Put your chain on the big ring.
- Zip tie the left shifter, as with a Double Tap lever.
- Pick your gear in the back, then screw in the low limit screw so you can't shift to an easier gear. If you're racing in a reasonable gear, it's usually plenty long.
- Zip tie the right shifter.
If this doesn't make sense to you, just show up to the race and find someone with waxed mustache or maybe a single speed tattoo. They'd love to help.
After the race, cut the ties and back out the low limit screw until you can shift into you big cog.
If your geared bike is DI2, you can afford to drop a few hundred more for a dedicated single speed.
Phase 2 Conversion: Bike
Once you're ready to invest a bit, any old bike can be converted to a true single speed – one cog and one chainring. You'll then begin to see the benefits of mechanical simplicity, as dropped chains, missed shifts, and skipping gears become a thing of the past. Yes this will mean either giving up gears forever, or getting a second bike. A second bike is never a bad idea in cross, your single speed can always double as your pit bike in a geared race. This single speed can be an affordable option if you have an older frame and a few components to get started. The recipe is simple. Your shopping list will be:
- A non-ramped chainring. This can be sold as a "single speed" or a 1x Chainring. You don't need Narrow Wide for single speed, but non-NW chainrings are becoming harder to find.
- Single speed conversion kit that includes cog and spacers.
- Method of tensioning the chain. If your frame has a BB30 bottom bracket, an eccentric bottom bracket from Beer Components or Wheels Manufacturing can give you a great setup. A slightly less elegant option is to run a chain tensioner, or even repurpose a rear derailleur. If you're a DIYer, here's a great primer from Cyclocross Magazine. Otherwise, your local shop will be glad to source the parts and get their hands dirty on your behalf.
Phase 3: The 'real' single speed
These will be machines purpose built, with adjustable dropouts and no derailleur hanger. Do you need this? No. But there are some really cool bikes out there, with most of the major manufacturers bringing at least one model to the table. You can actually roll out on a brand new, disc brake single speed for under $1,000, which is unheard of with gears.
Your choice of gearing will vary based on your ideal cadence, and even the course you're racing on. General guidance for a conversion is to start with a 2:1 ratio, and then subtract one or two cogs. So this would give you something like a 44/20 or a 42/19. The joy of zip tying is that you can pre-ride and make a decision at the last minute.
If you're a spin to win type, you'll go to a larger cog in the back. If you can mash comfortably at 30 rpm, another click down will give you an advantage when it comes down to the sprint.
The Series
In New England we're blessed with the Zanconato Single Speed Series, which will let you dip a toe in the single speed life style, and greet you with a warm, zip tied embrace. Yes, this is New England; there are points, a series standing, and you'll be sorted accordingly on Cross Results, but the spirit animal of the series is very much the mullet. More from Chip.
You can find races that are a part of the series marked with a Z on our 2015 race schedule.
Team Monster Truck will have zip ties on hand!


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Back to London for Paria Farzaneh
Tell us a bit about yourself - how did you end up doing menswear?
I was born in Devon, but grew up in Hull, in the North. I spent most of my time growing up there and going back and forth to Iran, where my parents are from, for really long periods of time in summer. Even way before I started university at Ravensbourne, going to Iran was just a really good source of inspiration, to get to know a different culture and be really educated on a completely different part of the world. I got into menswear because as a person myself I'm more interested in men's clothing and I wasn't really fazed by womenswear. I was interested in the idea of a woman dressing a man because there's not a lot of women designers who do menswear. The menswear industry has really grown in the past couple of years, but back then when I started, it wasn't as popular, so I decided to go into menswear as I thought it was time for something more disruptive and that had a story.
How do you bridge your London surroundings with your Iranian roots?
It's about trying to mix both cultures together. It's about having silhouettes and the use of prints that are common in London, or technical fabrics, and bringing all of this together and trying to create something new. I think it's really important that people see something different, rather than just digitally-made prints as usual: all my prints are made by hand in an Iranian city called Isfahan, and I get them shipped over from there. They're really special because each one of them has slight imperfections.
Where do you think the concept of masculinity stands today?
In 2018 you can't really say there's a fixed concept for masculinity. I feel you can't really say 'a suit is something a man would wear'. There are many designers breaking the boundaries of menswear and there are no definite silhouettes, shapes, colour ways or prints that you would say are masculine.
What about in Iran, how do you think masculinity is perceived in comparison to here?
Definitely in Iran it's a lot more conservative in terms of what they wear, so a lot of the fashion that we think as 'loud' here, would be even more so over there. Fashion is not even a practice that's so supported in Iran, and same thing goes for a lot of Middle Eastern countries actually. They don't really delve into fashion as much as the West does.
How is your reaction to the depiction of Iran in the media translated in your collections, if it is?
I think it's just the fact that a lot of people don't have information and knowledge about a certain place or country, or the Middle East in general. The media perception of the Middle East is always skewed - media always has to say how something should or shouldn't be. But you know, only the people that are from these countries or have experienced them are the ones that tell you the truth, so I feel that the message behind my current collection is not necessarily political, but more about sharing the culture and something that people just don't know about.
What about your previous collections?
Iran has always been such a big inspiration for me. Being in London and having two different cultures as part of my DNA is great because it's like having a pot to mix all these ideas up.
Let's go back to your SS19 collection - '7' - why did you choose to represent the Iranian New Year?
The New Year is something that I kind of didn't understand when I was younger. I was just confused on why I would have to miss a day from school and be asked to go and participate to this event. As I grew older I started to further appreciate what the whole celebration was about - it's more about family and community coming together. It's about celebrating the first day of spring, and it's about renewal and doing things differently from how you did them in the past year. The Iranian New Year occurs when the sun hits the equator, and that can happen at any point on the 20th or 21st of March. That is the time when you have to wear all your new clothes, so you wear new socks, new underwear, new everything. Then you have to leave the house like you're taking the last year with you, you have to stand outside for a couple of minutes and go back in and welcome the new year. The same way, in my presentation I had the two lorries and the whole presentation covered by the curtains, and when we revealed it you saw the renewal, you saw the collection, and that was me presenting the new year with my very own interpretation basically.
What about the seven S's, the haft sin, what do they stand for?
They're the same as having a Christmas three for two weeks. In Iran, you'll have scenes set up in your house to symbolise different meanings of our culture. So there's the mirror for reflection, candles for light, fish for life, vinegar for patience, the grass was there too, it's kind of wheat that you grown and stands for renewal. All these words in Iranian begin with S so that's why they're called the seven S's, and why all the sets of my presentations were split in seven parts, to symbolise all these characteristics.


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Lace Lessons
When we mention brands like Carine Gilson and ID Sarrieri, usually it follows with a description of a product that has handmade lace or lace that is hand-stitched. It wasn't until recently, with the prompting of one of our very good customers, that we began to wonder exactly what goes into creating a 'handmade lace' as opposed to the lace we see on less expensive products that are mass produced (say, for instance, the lace we see at one of those chain lingerie stores in the mall). Is lace actually handmade?
We know that Chantilly lace (or any handmade lace) makes a product considerably more costly to produce and sell, and we figure it must be a labor-intensive process to create it, but we wanted to learn the nitty gritty details of the process.
After doing a bit of research (and coming across too many listings about the Big Bopper hit of the same name), we found some interesting details. For instance, 80% of the lace used for fine lingerie is likely made in the French town of Calais or Caudry. In Calais, there are about 700 looms employing 3,000 workers. The two town's lace factories export about 3/4 of their output to 140 countries (Source: www.theotherside.co.uk).courtesy of www.thelacemuseum.org
Rather than just re-post what's already been written, we suggest that you check out the following sites for some incredible information about the history of lace, and the art of making lace by hand:
Because handmade lace is produced with infinite care and a great amount of time, it will always be expensive. Brands such as Carine Gilson create exclusive lace patterns for their products, which makes the lingerie that much more valuable. There are many different grades of these laces that vary in value according to the fineness of their structure. This variance provides a variety of price ranges to chose from when buying a product with lace detailing, and therefore explains why one lace-trim bra can cost $300 and another can be $90. example of Carine Gilson's lace; all of which is handmade and hand-stitched


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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Daily Headlines: August 10, 2016
* Brazil: Amid the fervor of the Rio Games, Brazil's Senate voted in favor of holding an impeachment trial against suspended President Dilma Rousseff.
* Puerto Rico: Tourism in Puerto Rico has weakened over the past few months reportedly as a result of the Zika virus outbreak that has affected most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
* Chile: President Michelle Bachelet in a televised address proposed reforming the private pension system created under the rule of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
* Venezuela: Opposition politicos are none too pleased with the Venezuelan electoral commission's decision to likely hold a possible recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro in 2017 instead of later this year.
YouTube Source – AFP
Online Sources – euronews, Travel Weekly, Deutsche Welle, Yahoo News
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Touchscreens offer a simple and intuitive way to let users control smartphones and tablets, but transmit little in terms of the information we normally receive by feeling things.
Surface roughness and raised buttons are just two tactile examples that offer people huge amounts of information about a thing being touched in the real world.
Now, researchers are finding new ways to enhance touch-based devices with the missing feeling of touch. They're working on electric fields to mimic the 3-D feeling of bumps, ridges and edges on flat surfaces, and using sound waves to generate the illusion of touch in midair.
As most people by now know, touchscreens are by nature smooth. The fact that they lack texture makes them stand in stark contrast to buttons, which people can operate by feel alone. To overcome this shortcoming, researchers worldwide are investigating the field of haptics, which looks to imbue devices with the advantages of feel and touch.
Electric touch
Scientists at Disney Research have now shown that they can recreate the feel of different surface features on a smooth object. The secret, detailed on Oct. 11 at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in St. Andrews, Scotland, involves stretching the skin on fingers as they slide on touchscreens.
"This could be on a wall, on flat monitor screens, screens of tablets and phones," says Disney Research's Ali Israr.
Their work alters the friction that skin feels on surfaces by using electrostatic forces, the same that attracts plastic wrap to a person's fingers. This involves building up electric charge on the surfaces in question.
When people slide their fingers over real bumps, they perceive the surface feature largely because friction stretches and compresses skin on the finger. By electrically altering the friction a fingertip encounters as it glides across a surface, their technique can fool the brain by creating the illusion of a physical bump.
Then the researchers developed a system that changes the friction a sliding finger experiences to match the tactile properties one might want for images on a touchscreen. It dynamically adjusts these perceptions of touch with changes in the size and placement of images on the display.
"The technology could create content for touchscreens of mobile phones, tablets, surfaces and projections, and the algorithm creates features such as bumps, protrusions, edges, texture and many more on the fly," Israr says.
Mid-air magic
Instead of changing how touchscreen surfaces feel, scientists at the University of Bristol in England are changing the feel above the displays. Using sound waves, they found they could help people experience sensations above a touchscreen without having to hold or touch it, an approach they call UltraHaptics.
"The most exciting thing about UltraHaptics is the power and the fidelity of the tactile sensations it generates in mid-air," says Sriram Subramanian, a human-computer interaction researcher at the University of Bristol. "You don't have to wear anything like gloves to experience tactile sensations with UltraHaptics, or hold a controller."
The system involves an array of ultrasound emitters located beneath a video display. When sound waves converge at the same points at the same time, they can exert pressure on bare hands to create sensations on the skin.
"If you blow air through a straw onto your hand, that's how it feels," Subramanian says.
UltraHaptics can target individual fingers, so people can, say, zoom into an image by pinching two fingers together, or increase the volume of music by moving a hand from left to right. It can also project a layer of data over a display — for instance, the way a population varies in density over an area can be transmitted by different feelings of pressure over a map.
UltraHaptics could find applications "anywhere mid-air gestures are popular now," Subramanian says. "People talk about Kinect and Leap for mid-air gestures, and this can give an extra dimension of input — touch — for gesture control, laptops, tablet devices, automotive dashboards, gaming."
When compared with the touchscreen research from Disney, "UltraHaptics can allow you to feel tactile feedback before you touch a screen, but UltraHaptics would find it hard to give tactile feedback when you are touching a screen, which is what Disney can do," Subramanian says. "I think we complement each other quite well."


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Rooms & rates
4-star Bergheimat Hotel in Salzburgerland
Here you will find our room offers including the prices for your winter or summer holiday. Every room is unique, decorated with love and furnished for your wellbeing. Enjoy the quiet location at the foot of the Hochkönig and the breathtaking views to the valley.
Cosy rooms and exclusive suites
At the Bergheimat Hotel you can choose between exclusive comfort, traditional cosiness or functional homeliness. Whatever style your prefer – the stylish furniture will make you feel cosy and good. Feel at home at our hotel!
Every room and every suite has been decorated and furnished by your hosts with an eye for detail. No room looks like the other.
An overview over the Bergheimat room categories:
Suite "Sweet Zirbe"
"Sweet Zirbe" Suite (56m²) in the Bergheimat Residenz building (2-5 people)
Our "Sweet Zirbe" is a residence for kings. The suite's highlight is a huge bay-window loggia which provides wonderful panoramic views over the valley and over the Hochkönig mountain – even from your bed.
Suite "Sweet Nathalie"
"Sweet Nathalie" Suite (55m²) in the Bergheimat Residenz building (2-6 people)
State-of-the-art comfort with precious spruce wood and premium loden material is waiting for you in the "Sweet Nathalie" Suite. Enjoy wonderful views over the valley and the mountain from the sunny south-facing balcony.
Suite "Sweet Stefanie"
"Sweet Stefanie" Suite (49m²) in the Bergheimat Residenz building (2-4 people)
From the sunny south-facing balcony you will be able to enjoy lovely views over the valley. The "Sweet Stefanie" Suite provides a homely atmosphere with its stylish spruce wood, precious loden material, a king-size double bed and a tiled stove.
Comfort Rooms
"Schneeberg" Comfort Room
"Schneeberg" Comfort Room (28-30m²) in the Bergheimat main building
This room comes with light furniture, double bed with open footboard and Sat-TV. From the living/sleeping area you will have access to the sunny south-facing balcony with breathtaking views over the valley.
Double Rooms
Package deals
Choose the all-around offer for your holiday – in summer or winter. Your advantage: with the offers and package deals you can spend a very favourable holiday and don't have to worry about extras like ski passes or food.
The Hochkönig-Card, your ticket for various activities in the Hochkönig region and for excursion destinations all over Salzburgerland you should not miss out on. Our team at the Bergheimat Hotel will provide you with the card on your arrival. Enjoy various holiday offers and discounts with this card; it will also give you free access to the summer cable cars and free use of the hiking bus. Design your mountain holiday the way you like it.
The Kögl-Plenk family, your hosts at the Bergheimat Hotel in Mühlbach, is already looking forward to welcoming you! Your hosts will be pleased to help you choose the perfect room for you and also with your holiday planning by telephone. Make a reservation for your favourite room quickly and conveniently with a no obligation holiday enquiry.


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Hiring is always a tough decision. As a fashion technology startup, Stylekick's success is greatly determined by the team's ability to learn, innovate and implement in a very short amount of time. In an environment such as JOLT, one day is as valuable as an entire week.
We are always on the lookout for motivated people who will thrive in this type of environment. Even with a resumé in-hand and an interview, it can still be tricky to find the best people who will work well within the team. A bad hire can mean a lot of wasted time and resources.
So far we have been lucky finding talented people who are able to learn quickly and independently. Our last intern taught herself Photoshop within three days and began learning front-end code to assist us where it mattered. Those are the kind of people that can make or break any startup. They are also the kind of people we look for when expanding our team because they make the tough decisions a little more manageable.
Our JOLT mentors come from a variety of backgrounds and have a wealth of knowledge across industry, technical, and strategic fields. Which means we are able to get very different perspectives from each mentor when tackling a problem. It not only helps us make a better-rounded decision but it also exposes us to perspectives we may never have thought of. In the rare case our mentors cannot help us, they are always more than willing to put us in contact with someone in their network that can.


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Police found the body of Army Sgt. Erin Edwards, 24, on the front porch of her home in a military community near Fort Hood on July 22, 2004. Erin was shot in the head. A short time later in an apartment complex parking lot across the street, the body of Erin's estranged husband, Sgt. William Edwards, 24, was found. He suffered what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound and a gun was recovered at the scene. The couple left behind a 4 year old son and 20 month old daughter who were not home at the time of the shootings. Media reports indicate that the couple had a violent domestic history and neighbors shared that the police were constantly at the residence because of domestic problems. Both Erin and William Edwards served with the 4th Infantry Division in Iraq before returning to Fort Hood in early 2004. The Killeen Police Department investigated the shooting deaths of these two Fort Hood, Texas soldiers as a murder-suicide.
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Social Media: Facebook
Social media has become a widely popular form of lifelogging with today's generation. One of the more common forms of social media is Facebook
Facebook is an online social media platform that can be accessed via computer or various mobile devices (including iOS devices and android). Users create a profile with information about themselves. This information can include where they live, work, go to school, as well as things they enjoy, like movies or sports teams. Once users have a profile, they can "friend" other people they know. By doing this, information about these people will show up in a news feed when the user signs into Facebook. Users can post statuses and pictures, and tag friends in them. Users can be parts of groups on facebook as well. These groups are made up of groups of "friends", and the information that is posted is restricted to the people in the group. Facebook also has a private and group messaging service. Recently, Facebook has added a video chat function to their messages. Facebook users can also "like" pages from businesses, musicians, or events to receive updates about these things in their news feed.
Launched in 2004, Facebook was developed by Mark Zuckerberg while he was studying at Harvard University. The project was initially intended for the use of college students but now allows anyone over the age of 13 to join.
Facebook was preceded by Coursematch and Facemash (both also developed by Zuckerberg). Coursematch was a site used to let people see others who were in the same degree program. Facemash was used to rate the attractiveness of other students. When Facebook finally launched, it gained 1,200 users within the first 24 hours of operation. in 2007, Facebook hit 30 million users, make it the most used social networking site that was focused on education. ( At this point, facebook was still aimed at college students). As of the third quarter of 2014, facebook now has over 1.35 billion users.
- Allows people to keep in touch with friends and family
- Gives users the ability to document important moments
- Lets people stay updated about the important moments of others
- Easy way to get information to a group of people
- Easy way to share photos with friends
- Accounts can be hacked
- Account hacks can lead to spam messages or phishing
- If users are not careful with their privacy settings, information can be stolen
To return to the Life-Logging site, click this Life-Logging
Other Lifelogging Case Studies
- Nike+ FuelBand by Taro Sawada
- Dashboard Cameras by Marston Li
- Jawbone Fitness Trackers by Samay Shah
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MCKS Superbrain Yoga
Objectives of this Course:
√ Let the children recognize that they are children of God and help them manifest the true essence of Divine Oneness, "oneness with God and oneness with all."
√ To enhance the children's sense of self-discipline and value consciousness to bring forth greater success in life.
√ To transform their potential energy(CAPACITY) into creative energy (ABILITY) and direct them for loving service (AVAILABILITY).
√ To build up balanced children that as they grow, they:
a.) Translate their head knowledge to wisdom & dynamic intelligence;
b.) Transmute their sex energy to love and compassion, higher creativity, intelligence & spirituality.
√ To strengthen their leadership skills in the light of love: goodwill to do good and goodwill to serve.
Energize and activate brain cells to:
-Be more focused.
-Improve memory and intelligence.
-Balance emotions.
-Help people with:
a.) ADHD f.) Down's syndrome
b.) ADD g.) Learning Difficulties c.) Autism h.) Mild Depression d.) Dyslexia
May 17, 2011 at 11:55 am
my son is 18 yrs and only 5 '3.Is it possible to increase his height through pranic healing
May 22, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Thank you very much.Sir i am interested in learning pranic healing.Please suggest a genuine pranic healer in chennai,tamilnadu,India.
July 30, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Why not try Pranic Healing Home which was recommended to me by my homeopathy doctor who is one of the leading homeopathy doctors in the city. They have 3-4 branches across Chennai so you can choose a convenient location (they also have a web presence so you can check their website for more information). I have been to the centre at Kilpauk for treatment and found it to be a calming and serene place with good healers. The healer assigned to me was one Neeru Gupta but all of the healers there are good.
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Some people will do anything for beauty!
There are some really weird beauty treatments out there, but these Top 10 Strangest Beauty Treatments take the cake.
Continue Reading to check them out!
Some people will do anything for beauty!
There are some really weird beauty treatments out there, but these Top 10 Strangest Beauty Treatments take the cake.
Continue Reading to check them out!
Michaelangelo, DaVinci, and Pauly D? Mama mia! Our favorite guidettes, guidos, and juice-head gorillas are taking over the Motherland!
This week, our Pretty Practioners send a fist pump out to the crew on Jersey Shore. From high-maintenance grooming to low-class orange skin, we've got the in's and out's of how to keep your skin glowing in all the right ways!
Tired of looking tired?
Hard-to-treat dark under-eye circles can be a burden, and leave you looking like you haven't slept in days. What many people don't know though is that there is more to dark circles than just sleep deprivation!
There are 4 components that need to be addressed when it comes to the under eye area. The skin, the discoloration, the bags, and the hollow. The darkness that forms under your eyes is caused by tiny blood vessels that become visible beneath very thin eyelid skin, and the circles become more noticeable if you have fine lines, wrinkles, puffy bags or hollows under your eyes. For the best result, you need to treat all of these problems.
So how do you get rid of under eye circles and bags? Continue Reading to find out…
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We have to give it to Sarah Jessica Parker… she is one of those celebrities who seems to look better and better with age!
So what is her secret for aging to perfection? Well, according to SJP, radiant skin is all a good routine, although we're sure a fabulous family, endless wardrobe, and killer career all help too!
Keep Reading for The Pretty Practitioners dish on the eternally stylish and glamourous SJP on this weeks Celebrity Skin Care from MAS!
Summer is in full-swing! All those BBQ's, picnics, and beach days mean lots of overexposure to the sun's harmful rays, which can lead to a major summer-bummer: sun damage.
After years of soaking up the sun, it is not uncommon develop dark "sun spots" on your face, chest, shoulders, etc. Those pesky spots are caused by hyperpigmentation, and can be quite difficult to get rid of.
What is hyperpigmentation and how can you treat it? Keep reading to find out more!
Filed under Facials, Melasma, Sun Protection
Between singing, acting, and being a coach on The Voice, Christina Aguilera is constantly in the spotlight! This isn't always a good thing, like when the paparazzi has a camera on you and your skin doesn't want to cooperate!
This week, The Pretty Practitioners at MAS are showing their love for Christina by focusing their attention on her famous face!
Keep Reading to find out what Christina Aguilera can do to keep her skin looking younger, longer…
Being the most talked about star in the first two Transformers movies can have its ups and downs. But what is truly impressive is the transformation Megan Fox has gone through herself! When the first Transformers movie came out, all anyone was talking about was how gorgeous she was, but many people also noticed that she didn't have great skin. Granted, no one has perfectly flawless skin all the time, and even well known stars have their bad days. But whatever Megan Fox has been doing, it has clearly been working because there has been a dramatic improvement in the appearance of her skin. So I did some digging to get the facts about this transformation!
Megan Fox is a perfect example of how these three steps can completely "transform" your skin! If you have any questions about the MAS Magnifique Facial, or about clinical skincare in general, please feel free to contact me anytime!
Shea Slaymaker, PA-C
Physician Assistant, Beauty Expert
Manhattan Aesthetic Surgery
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Hi, friends! It's hard to believe that we have a little over a month left of school! As we near the end of the year, I always like to complete a unit on butterflies. Of course, part of this unit explains the life cycle of a butterfly. Plus, I have a butterfly life cycle … [Read more...]
All About Rain and The Water Cycle
Hi, friends! You'll never believe that we are still getting snow over here.... in April! I know! Crazy, right?! I'm dying for some springtime weather, but that isn't keeping my kiddos from learning all about rain and the water cycle! We just love this water cycle experiment … [Read more...]
Penguin Activities in Kindergarten
Hi, friends! Let's be honest...penguin week (well, it's actually two weeks) are my most favorite weeks of the whole year! There is just so much to do regarding math, science, social studies and literacy! It's one of those topics that easily extends itself across the … [Read more...]
Building Number Sense with Decomposing Turkey
Hi, friends! I'm here today to quickly share an interactive, easy, and thematic way to help build number sense! Right now, we are working on decomposing numbers, specifically the numbers five and ten. Here's how we learned all about decomposing numbers... turkey style! My … [Read more...]
Building Vocabulay
Hi, friends! My good friend Elyse over at Proud to be Primary and myself have decided to host a new linky called "Teacher Talk!" Each month, we will be sharing our teacher tips and tricks on different subjects related to the classroom. Today, we are sharing effective ways to … [Read more...]


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For the last couple of weeks my head has been in a whirl and my stomach doing backflips.
We have been deciding what to do with Schooling for our children, We love the Steiner way, this is the philosophy we live by.
We love our little school, it's the childrens second home, Jim has been there since playgroup, which has made making this decision so much harder.
Sometimes the hardest decision, is the right one..........who said that!
But our little school only goes up class six. We've looked around at mainstream schooling, children working in a classroom on their own computer, the teacher on her computer, there's nothing human about it.
I'll admit I'm an idealist.
I'm not at all interested in the mark after year 12, for me it's about giving them the tools to find their own way, it about creating enthusiasm in everything they do, to love life and know they can achieve anything they set their mind to.
It's about the whole child, bringing the head, heart and hands together, all of equal importance.
I know I succeded in life in spite of my education, and I sure that's the case for many.
But once the Steiner way gets into your soul, there's no turning back. In fact I doubt that my body could drive my children to a mainstream school.
Which is why
we have decided to send the children to Castlemaine Steiner School.
So today we farwelled our school, and we wished them all the very best, and they for us.
But it was hard, really hard.
Am I strong enough to do this journey ahead? I have a million thoughts going through my head at this moment.
Sigh, it would have been so much easier to stay.
Well the sun will come up in the morning and our new journey will begin.......
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Rose necklace
The roses have been in full bloom this season, these petals are the last of them.
I was inspired by Garden mama's post on rose garlands.
Flynn sorted his rose petals into colour, and was busy for a couple of hours, patiently threading the rose petals onto thread.
A proud boy, and he smelt nice too.
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This is such a simple card to make. And when you are finished, it is really quite elegant. What a wonderful card to give that special person on Valentine's Day or even to use for an anniversary.
All the supplies I used making this card are CTMH:
- Vanilla Cream CS
- Cocoa CS
- That's Amore B & T
- Baroque Alphabet
- Soulmates Word Puzzle
- Timber Brown Staz-On Ink
- Sparkles
- Colonial White Designer Ribbon


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[Update 6:32PM: Its not without reason I am bearish at the moment. For instance take India's Nifty index where it lost some 18%, almost a bear market, while our DOW just chugged to multi-year highs.
It has good waves and Fib ratios going for it and we need to keep an eye on it for price overlap. It printed a nasty bearish engulfing outside day candle.
The opposite occurred at the 2008 India Nifty top. The day it topped on January 8, the US market Wilshire had already plunged 14% and within another week was plunging lower toward its own 18% loss mark.
India eventually "caught up" to the US market downside by printing 2 monster down days on Jan 21st and 22nd 2008.
So its interesting relationships to say the least and it is something worth considering.
And then we have the banks at the bottom. The banks seem to be saying its all a cruel lie.
It "feels" like one last great buying panic frenzy is about to take place. The upside is accelerating and some bullish counts has this as the "third of a third" primary wave [3] up. Will it turn out to be? Is it already happening? Market internals seem to be waning since the kickoff of last July at 1010 SPX. Low volume and super-leveraged market. I propose it is a false hope.
A third of a third should never retrace. In other words, if we are in a third of a third up, then you can kiss any retrace to 1300 goodbye. A third of a third is where I place my virgin wave space blue box.
Its almost as if the market knows all this and even though we have a (A) (B) (C) structures all over the place, it insists on fooling the greatest and inflicting the greatest pain regardless. In the end the bears may be right that this is not a true third wave up, but they will have been too broke to do anything about it anyways.
So it feels like we are starting the "endgame" phase of this monster bear rally known as P[2]. It may go with a bang. I wonder if a high volume shoot is coming. A parabola sort of. A great "fake" third of a third.
The underlying credit markets have been rumbling. Europe's debt problems are festering like a sore http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/02/portuguese-government-pleads-for-help.html
Irish banks are constructing their own Ponzi scheme http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/0217/1224290024749.html
And of course, Big Ben is printing quicker than ever http://www.zerohedge.com/article/friday-episode-criminal-reserves-flip-bond-accompanies-dollar-plunge
Don't forget we have uprisings beginning to flame across the world including here in the US (Wisconsin). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705494.html
Uprisings are indicative of the greater trend in bearish social mood despite the world rally.
None of this is bullish in even the remotest way. A "Ponzi moment" constantly lurks around the corner always gnawing at the mind. The madness of men to run in herds is amazing and who woulda thought we are looking at 1350 handles on the SPX 23 months ago? Was anyone? Now its all about catching the bubble.
The US credit markets are rumbling too. MUB may be prepping itself for a wave 3 down. The retrace down since the 2 high has overlapped so the we may be looking at a counter-move as I have labeled.


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Today's Scripture Focus: Ezra 10:1-17
We are now in the section of scripture known as history. There are two types of history books in the Old Testament—covenant history, which tells the story of God's people before the Babylonian Exile, and post exilic history. The post exile writings are I and II Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. Although I and II Chronicles detail events from before the Exile, they are written from the perspective of those who had already experienced God's judgement. Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther deal with three groups of God's people—those who rebuilt the Temple, those who rebuilt Jerusalem, and those who remained in foreign countries.
Ezra and Nehemiah were originally one book, and many believe they were written by the same person or community. The book of Ezra tells the story of the first two waves of Judean exiles that went back to Jerusalem. In 538 BC, the Persian king Cyrus decreed that God's Temple should be rebuilt in Jerusalem. The first group of Jews made the long and dangerous journey back home, and began to settle on the land of their ancestors. They faced opposition from those who had been resettled there during their absence. They managed to rebuild the altar and celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles before the work was interrupted.
God continued to intervene on behalf of the people, and there were eventually able to continue work on the Temple. Those who remembered Solomon's Temple wept, for the new one couldn't compare to its glory. After about fifty years, the Persian king Xerxes decreed that Ezra—a priest and expert in the Law—should gather another wave of Exiles and set up a government in Jerusalem. Before, the Jews had been ruled by a king. Now they would be ruled by a book. Ezra knew the Torah—the first five books of the Bible—and would make sure the people followed it's teachings. Ezra gathered other priests and leaders and traveled home.
What Ezra found in Jerusalem broke his heart, for many of the people, including the priests and leaders, had intermarried with the pagan peoples who lived around and among them. Why was this a problem? Remember it was King Solomon's marriage covenant with foreign peoples that led Israel into the worship of idols. This weakened and divided the people, and eventually led to Israel's destruction by their enemies. Had they learned nothing from their exile? Ezra cried out to God on behalf of the people. The consequence of their sin seemed harsh—they had to purify their households. Though it is sometimes painful, obeying God's word always strengthens God's people.
- Go around the table and share prayer requests. Have someone lead in prayer.
- Let everyone who would like to share anything exciting from their week.
- Ask these three questions. Let as many answer each one as they would like.
Why was Ezra so broken hearted in 10:1? How did the people respond when they saw him weeping?
How has obeying the Bible cost you personally?
God is calling the church today to be faithful to the Word. Pray that God will give us strength in this day to say "no" to the world when it contradicts scripture.


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OK, I thought I'd take this time to share some thoughts on Senate reform…ha ha, just kidding. No, the dam has finally broken and the bulk of the "explosive" testimony is now public.
I don't think we'll know what this means for a few days yet. Harper and Martin are in Rome right now so Paul is probably more concerned with the Pope's funeral than his own. Darrel Bricker was on CTV yesterday and made it clear that Ipsos-Reid will be doing some intense polling on this. In my mind, the magic number is 35. When the AG's report broke last February, the Liberals bottomed out at 35%. If they fall much bellow this number, they're in trouble and the opposition may be motivated to go to the polls.
A few of my initial reactions to this:
1. This is bad. There's no way to sugar-coat it. Jean Brault is not the most credible witness but he seems to have a lot of documentation to back him up. And it looks like several people in the Liberal Party did hand out these contracts in return for kick-backs. It's ugly and there's no way around this. My gut reactions is that a lot of Canadians are going to say "enough is enough". And, to be honest, I'm not sure how volunteers, myself included, will be able to respond to comments about that during the next election.
2. TDH is reporting that several high profile ministerial staff have recently been let go in Ottawa. I've been hearing the same thing over the past few weeks and the opposition hinted at this in Question Period today. As the media starts digging, this story is only going to grow and there are going to be new revelations every day about key people in Ministers X, Y, Z offices. Liza Frulla's chief of staff has been implicated but she won't be the last Minister to have staff implicated.
3. The PQ angle is interesting. The Conservatives used a lot of Question Period time asking about the Parti Quebecois' involvement in this. Apparently the Conservatives are polling at 16% in Quebec. Maybe they smell a breakthrough. On the provincial scene, Mario Dumont must be grinning from ear to ear this morning. Hopefully it will also make it a lot harder for the separatists to use this as the launching pad for another referendum campaign.
4. Before people make too much out of this, it's the word of one man - a man on trial for a lot of messy crimes. There's little that can be pinned directly on Jean Chretien or Paul Martin. If this is spun right (and I have my doubts it will be), this isn't fatal. Mike Pearson still won, despite scandal-plagued years in office. The problem is, the onus is now on Martin to give Canadians a reason to vote for him whereas before it was up to Harper to do this.


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To Kill the President by Sam Bourne
The unthinkable has happened…
The United States has elected a volatile demagogue as president, backed by his ruthless chief strategist, Crawford 'Mac' McNamara.
When a war of words with the North Korean regime spirals out of control and the President comes perilously close to launching a nuclear attack, it's clear someone has to act, or the world will be reduced to ashes.
Soon Maggie Costello, a seasoned Washington operator and stubbornly principled, discovers an inside plot to kill the President – and faces the ultimate moral dilemma. Should she save the President and leave the free world at the mercy of an increasingly crazed would-be tyrant – or commit treason against her Commander in Chief and risk plunging the country into a civil war?
Not remotely unthinkable, unfortunately. There are so many parallels with current events it's frightening but this is a genuinely gripping and fast-moving thriller. Intelligently written and with plenty of twists and turns it is just all too believable. Well worth a read.


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Sex Tape in streaming. When Jay (Jason Segel) and Annie (Cameron Diaz) first got together, their romantic connection was intense - but ten years and two kids later, the flame of their love needs a spark. To kick things up a notch, they decide - why not? - to make a video of themselves trying out every position in The Joy of Sex in one marathon three-hour session. It seems like a great idea - until they discover that their most private video is no longer private. With their reputations on the line, they know they're just one click away from being laid bare to the world... but as their race to reclaim their video leads to a night they'll never forget, they'll find that their video will expose even more than they bargained for.
James Wilcox, Osmani Rodriguez, Krisztina Koltai, Kate Jurdi, Brendan Egan, Timothy Brennen, Randall Park, Ellie Kemper, Giselle Eisenberg, Rob Lowe, Jack Black, Jolene Blalock, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corddry, Jason Segel
Directors: Jake Kasdan
Year of release: 2014
Genres: Comedy
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Finding a boat dock electrician might seem like something that is not thought about often, but when you own a dock by the body of water of choice, then you want to make sure you can use it in the darker hours of the night. Without these lights, you're not going to be able to see the dock, you will not be able to park your boat where you need it to be and you will not be able to find the dock when you want to come out and sit on it to do some night time fishing.
Make sure this doesn't happen to you, and that you have an electrician that is able to light up your dock, light up your boat lifts, and make sure you're prepared for the darkness ahead.
What The Electrician Can Do
Electricians are licensed professionals that are able to come out to your home and safely set up lighting and other electrical components through your home, your dock or your business. With their help, this can safely be done without a problem. You no longer have to worry about not being able to see when walking down to the water, you will have dock lights that get the job done, when you need it.
The electrician makes sure that the job is done right the first time around. If you choose to do something like this, there are serious problems that can occur not only to the dock and lighting, but to your boat and to your overall safety.
Why it is a Good Idea to Hire a Professional Electrician
It is always a good idea to have an electrician come out and do the dock and boat lift lighting because it is located in water. You want to ensure that you're not worrying about your safety, or those around you when doing so. The electrical components and water can cause electrical currents if they are not installed correctly, meaning that someone, when they touch the water, may get electrocuted.
This is not something that you want to have happen. So this is why you should call a professional electrician out to make sure the job is done the right way.
Lighting up the Dock
You may think about sticking those cheaply made solar lights down your dock and think that these will be enough to allow you to see when you're on it at night, but what about the lift? This is not going to be enough light to guide your boat to the lift and allow you to safely use it when the sun is down. This can cause major damage to your boat if you're not using the lift correctly because you're unable to see what you're doing.
This has happened to too many people, make sure it is something that doesn't ever happen to you.
When it comes to lighting up your dock, you should never trust in something that does not provide enough illumination for you to get the proper footing. It can be dangerous being on the dock at night because you cannot see immediately in front of you. It can cause you to slip, trip and fall into the water. If you, or someone else, hits their head when they go down, this can cause them to drown in the water and no one would know that they are out there until the next day, causing this to be a very dangerous situation that you would never want to happen on your own property.
Make sure the chances of this happening are minimized with the right lighting kit installed by a professional electrician. We offer numerous lighting kits needed for the dock and boat lift that you have, so there is enough to choose from that can provide you with all that you need for the right type of lighting depending on the dock and lift that you have.
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FINA World Championship Podium Predictions: Men's Edition -- July 11, 2011
Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer
FINA World Championship Podium Predictions: Women's Edition -- July 4, 2011
Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer
BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, July 4. WITH less than three weeks separating us from the start of the World Championships in Shanghai, we begin our predictions for the competition with a look at the women's events. In two weeks, we'll provide picks for the men's events. We look forward to hearing your thoughts as well.
50 Freestyle
Gold: Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Silver: Britta Steffen
Bronze: Therese Alshammar
**The way the Dutchwoman has been performing this year prevented my selection of the reigning Olympic titlist.
100 Freestyle
Gold: Femke Heemskerk
Silver: Britta Steffen
Bronze: Fran Halsall
**Yep, another Dutch pick in a sprint-freestyle event, with Britta Steffen earning her second silver medal.
200 Freestyle
Gold: Federica Pellegrini
Silver: Kylie Palmer
Bronze: Allison Schmitt
**The way Palmer looks heading into Shanghai, she made me pause for a second before going with the incumbent.
400 Freestyle
Gold: Rebecca Adlington
Silver: Federica Pellegrini
Bronze: Camille Muffat
**This event should provide one of the finest duels of the women's competition. Expect Chloe Sutton to make a push for a podium position.
800 Freestyle
Gold: Rebecca Adlington
Silver: Chloe Sutton
Bronze: Kate Ziegler
**The pick of Ziegler sneaking in for the bronze medal is a hunch that she'll ratchet it up for her first World Champs since 2007.
1500 Freestyle
Gold: Chloe Sutton
Silver: Lotte Friis
Bronze: Kate Ziegler
**The longer the race, the better for Sutton. Not only is she an extreme talent, she's one of the more likable people in the sport. Everything about Sutton oozes a feel-good sense.
50 Backstroke
Gold: Aya Terakawa
Silver: Anastasia Zueva
Bronze: Gao Chang
**Not going to lie. I'm not a fan at all of the 50-meter stroke events. My preference sits with the Olympic program.
100 Backstroke
Gold: Aya Terakawa
Silver: Natalie Coughlin
Bronze: Anastasia Zueva
**Terakawa put down the world's top time of the year in April, but Coughlin has the experience and it wouldn't be a surprise if the two-time Olympic champ ruled.
200 Backstroke
Gold: Kirsty Coventry
Silver: Elizabeth Beisel
Bronze: Belinda Hocking
**Coventry hasn't done much this year, but history suggests she'll rise up.
50 Breaststroke
Gold: Rebecca Soni
Silver: Yulia Efimova
Bronze: Leisel Jones
**This event will be the toughest for Soni in her pursuit of a breaststroke sweep.
100 Breaststroke
Gold: Rebecca Soni
Silver: Leisel Jones
Bronze: Yulia Efimova
**Looking for Soni to go 1:04 and reaffirm her standing over Jones.
200 Breaststroke
Gold: Rebecca Soni
Silver: Yulia Efimova
Bronze: Amanda Beard
**There was a real urge to pick Amanda Beard for the bronze-medal slot, so I went with it.
50 Butterfly
Gold: Therese Alshammar
Silver: Sarah Sjostrom
Bronze: Marieke Guehrer
**The veteran Alshammar has long been the class of this event.
100 Butterfly
Gold: Sarah Sjostrom
Silver: Dana Vollmer
Bronze: Alicia Coutts
**With her home country behind her, Liu Zige is a strong pick for medal in her weaker butterfly event.
200 Butterfly
Gold: Liu Zige
Silver: Jiao Liuyang
Bronze: Kathleen Hersey
**Another hunch pick with Hersey in the bronze position.
200 Individual Medley
Gold: Ariana Kukors
Silver: Stephanie Rice
Bronze: Ye Shiwen
**Alicia Coutts would have been a medal pick, but her 100 fly final earlier in the night will take some out of the Australian.
400 Individual Medley
Gold: Stephanie Rice
Silver: Elizabeth Beisel
Bronze: Li Xuanxu
**Had a real tough time picking what is a jammed-up event.
400 Freestyle Relay
Gold: Netherlands
Silver: United States
Bronze: Australia
**This was a fairly easy selection given the way the Dutch have looked this year.
800 Freestyle Relay
Gold: Australia
Silver: United States
Bronze: China
**The Aussies made themselves the favorites with that impressive demonstration of power and depth at their World Champs Trials.
400 Medley Relay
Gold: United States
Silver: China
Bronze: Australia
**Not a good feeling for this event. It could go a lot of different ways.
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Peyton Manning Headlines CSU's Jim Blanchard Leadership Forum
COLUMBUS, Ga. --- The Jim Blanchard Leadership Forum, hosted by the Leadership Institute at Columbus State University, began Monday afternoon, Sept. 12, with MasterCard President and Chief Executive Officer Ajaypal Singh Banga. The evening featured Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning.
Banga talked about the success his company has had with building a team, especially in terms of involving women and younger workers.
Manning drew lots of laughs and told stories of his NFL career, equating some of his life lessons to the business environment. His remarks embodied the forum's theme -- "Leadership: It Takes a Team" -- when he said "true leadership is about the people around you."
Tuesday's scheduled speakers included Bill Curry, coach and Super Bowl champion; Bonnie St. John, Olympic medalist and best-selling author; and many others. The two-day event was held at the Columbus Iron Works and Trade Center.
For the third year, students currently enrolled with a valid CSU ID could watch the forum, including Monday night's keynote address with Peyton Manning, live via simulcast from the University Hall Auditorium.
The 11th anniversary speaker lineup included:
-- Ajaypal Singh Banga – President and CEO, Mastercard
-- James H. Blanchard – Former chief executive officer, Synovus; chairman, Jordan-Blanchard Capital, LLC Board of Advisors and founder, Jim Blanchard Leadership Forum
-- Dr. Henry Cloud – Psychologist, communicator, life coach and author
-- Bill Curry – Former Super Bowl champion, coach, inspirational speaker and author
-- Warrick Dunn – Former NFL player and founder, Warrick Dunn Charities
-- Patricia Florissi – Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation
-- Marcus Luttrell – Former Navy SEAL and author of "Lone Survivor"
-- Peyton Manning – Five-time NFL MVP and NFL's all-time leading passer
-- Jim Nantz – Sportscaster, three-time Emmy Award winner and five-time National Sportscaster of the Year
-- Tommy Spaulding – Former President and CEO, Up with People; New York Times best-selling author and leadership expert
-- Bonnie St. John – Leadership consultant, Olympic medalist and best-selling author
-- Shana Young – Director, Leadership Institute at Columbus State University
For more information about the Jim Blanchard Leadership Forum, visit http://jblf.org.


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If definitions were given in photos, Maryam's photo in her gorgeous wedding gown would be right next to STUNNING in the dictionary. ForReal!
She found me through google about 9 months ago and after a few exchange of emails, I had the honor of meeting this wonderful girl for coffee. With her vibrant personality and sweetest smile, I knew we would have a strong bond. I had the pleasure and honor of meeting her family on her wedding day and photographing the details she spent months of planning. Her wedding was just S&S (Simple & Sweet) just like M&M (Maryam & Mohammad) are.
I wish both Maryam & Mohammad a life full of smiles and laughter together. May they spend the rest of their lives holding each other's hand and love every moment of it.
You are doing a great job. Keep it up.


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- Not to be confused with Ansei Radan or Ansei Halelah.
The Ansei were a renowned group of warriors of the Redguards. They were the most masterful of the Sword-Singers, who were known for creating a spirit sword known as the Shehai.[1] Makela Leki, the author of From the Memory Stone of Makela Leki, was a second-level Ansei.[2]
Order of DiagnaEdit
The most recognized group of the Ansei was the Order of Diagna.[3] This order, with the help of Joile of Daggerfall, helped to defeat the Orsimer during the First Era Siege of Orsinium.[4] The leader of the Order of Diagna, Gaiden Shinji, is known to have fallen in battle during this siege.
The Hiradirge was another, less well-known branch of the Ansei. They were said to be the "Masters of Stone Magic."[5]
Even the condescending footnotes added by "YR" in the first edition of the Pocket Guide to the Empire honor the Ansei, stating that By far the most popular gods in Hammerfell are Tall Papa, and his children: Hunding, Leki and Ansei.[6]
It is believed that the Ansei died out sometime during the First Era.[7]
- There is an amulet in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion named "Amulet of the Ansei," which shares a name with this group.
- The Elder Scrolls Online (undead)
- ↑ Redguards, Their History and Their Heroes
- ↑ From the Memory Stone of Makela Leki
- ↑ Pocket Guide to the Empire, Third Edition: Orsinium
- ↑ Wayrest, Jewel of the Bay
- ↑ Pocket Guide to the Empire, Third Edition: Yokuda
- ↑ Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: Hammerfell
- ↑ February 9, 2013. The Elder Scrolls Online. Ask Us Anything: Variety Pack


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These pretty little hearts can be worn as a necklace, or hung up in the home as a decoration.
Each ceramic heart is hand painted and clear glazed.
With some of the hearts there is a variation of ribbon colours and lengths. Please leave a note with ribbon preference at checkout, or one will be picked at random.
These are the last hearts I have. Once they are gone, that's all folks!
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Sultan (20th & 21st) Day Collection Box Office Kamai 3rd Tuesday :- Today about three weeks have been passed from the day Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma Sultan release worldwide and till date the Ali Abbas Zafar directorial movie is showing absolute dominance at box office India as people are still showing too much of madness for this sports drama movie which is obvious from the steady pace at which it is earning right now.
After all, the film had already broken records like making the fastest Rs 200 crore in box office collections worldwide; it had a pretty good opening (between Rs 34-36 crore on its first day alone) and raced to join the '100-crore club' within three days of being released.
Even as its star — Salman Khan — was acquitted in the black buck poaching case on Monday, 25 July, Sultan was busy rushing to reach the Rs 550 cr mark in box office collections worldwide.
In fact, Salman's fans too to Twitter to make the hashtag "Sultan 500cr worldwide" trend.
Sultan 21st Day Business Details
Just how close is Salman's film to touching the 550-crore mark?
A report states that Sultan's current worldwide box office earnings stand at Rs 547 crore. With this feat, it has also surpassed the previous best set by Aamir Khan's Dhoom 3, which had collected Rs 542 crore in worldwide ticket sales.
However, Sultan is still far from beating the lifetime collections (worldwide) of SS Rajamouli's epic Baahubali, which minted nothing short of Rs 582+ crores.
Sultan's box office run has been propelled not only by the star power of Salman Khan, but also the fact that it has had nearly no competition in over three consecutive weeks at the box office. After its five day holiday opening (due to Eid) the subsequent weeks have only seen the releases of considerably lower profile films like Great Grand Masti and Irrfan Khan's Madaari.
Rajinikanth's Kabali, while doing better than Sultan in its opening week, is not targeted at Hindi film watchers, which is Salman's core audience.
Below are the box office collection figures that Sultan has generated through its 3rd Tuesday Business at Indian box office :
Sultan 20th Day Collection – Rs 0.90 crore (approx)
Sultan 21st Day Collection – Rs 0.75 crore (approx)
Stay connected for more box office collection updates of Sultan 2016 Film