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ID Software's DOOM open Beta (2016) has been receiving a barrage of negative reviews on Steam, with users commenting that the game feels "more like Halo than Doom."
The upcoming title will be the first title in the iconic FPS franchise since DOOM 3 (2004), with fans of the series long clamouring for the next title. Though as the majority of reviews for DOOM open Beta on Steam are negative, it does not look like DOOM has lived up to expectations with the Beta.
Many reviewers called the gameplay "slow" and "generic," with one user, according to VG247, stating that: "You'd think a game where you can play as a demon armed with a jetpack and multiple rocket launchers would manage to feel well… anything. It manages to not do anything badly but somehow also not do anything particularly well either."
Speaking with the BBC, software and game developer, Gary Riches, felt that the gameplay was slower and the removal of features such as enemies no longer being taken out by close range single-shot and the lack of weapon "hot spots" where weapons were generated in previous games. He went on to say: "I still like Doom 4 but it doesn't feel like Doom 4, it feels like a sequel to Quake or Unreal Tournament," adding, "to me that's disappointing."
DOOM is still at BETA stage, although given the proximity of the game's release date – 13th May 2016 – it is unlikely that much will be updated or changed before that date. It is also worth mentioning that the BETA has only shown off the multiplayer mode, although some reviewers have stressed concerns that the single-player mode may not be up-to-par.


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About Sveti Kris Hotel
The Hotel Sveti Križ (Saint Cross) is a family-oriented three star hotel surrounded by the pine forest in the vicinity of the Saint Cross church, overlooking the sea. It is located on the north side of the island of Ciovo, just a few metres from a small beach. The island is connected to the mainland with a bridge so the hotel is only 3 kms away from the centre of Trogir and 6 kms from Split airport. Natural beauty, fascinating history and great hospitality ensure that a holiday at this hotel will be a pleasant experience.
The Sveti Kriz is a peaceful spot to base yourself if you wish to spend a few days exploring Trogir and Ciovo Island; it can also be used for visiting Split on the local ferry (from Slatine) which is a very relaxing way to travel directly into the harbour front of Split, avoiding the potential hassles of driving and parking.
Accommodation: The hotel has 10 apartments and 40 rooms. Each apartment has a living room, bedroom, bathroom and a balcony or terrace. All apartments and rooms are air conditioned and have satellite TV, minibar and Internet access. There is a lift but access to all floors involves at least a few steps.
Facilities: Swimming pool and sun terrace with loungers, restaurant, aperitif bar with terrace and Wi-Fi, cocktail bar on the beach. The restaurant of the hotel Sveti Križ offers hearty Croatian dishes which is based on the typical Mediterranean cuisine, fresh ingredients and olive oil, as well as international cuisine. It is recommended to try the traditional Dalmatian delicacies such as dried ham, Pag cheese, salted anchovies in olive oil, lamb and the famous Dalmatian pasticada. Meals: buffet breakfast, lunch & dinner – choice of menus, vegetarian food, packed lunches.
Other facilities include parking, wheelchair access, exchange office, meeting rooms, salons and terraces for reception and cocktails, safe at reception desk, TV lounge; open swimming-pool, music evenings; water-skiing, tennis court.
Additional activities nearby: beach volleyball, organized excursions by boat, cycle hire, diving, paths for walking and jogging.
Wellness programme: Turkish bath; Sauna; Jaccuzi; Swimming pool with underwater massage; Aroma therapy; Fitness gym.

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post4699089724124031466..comments2020-05-29T17:12:00.779+10:00Comments on Simon Food Favourites: Photography Tips: Simon Food Favourites uses a compact digital (22 Aug 2010)firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-86156937292796655112013-10-17T22:22:48.371+11:002013-10-17T22:22:48.371+11:00hi trent, interesting to hear your new iphone stil...hi trent, interesting to hear your new iphone still isn't as good as your point and shoot from years ago. probably true when it comes to dim lighting situations. upgrading to the DSLR will give you even better shots. just remember the best camera to have is the one you have with you. i always carry around my DSLR but for some an iphone will be the only one they will want to carry.Simon Leonghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-28626813766489575022013-10-17T21:44:50.777+11:002013-10-17T21:44:50.777+11:00Some good tips here Simon, thanks for those. I hav...Some good tips here Simon, thanks for those. I have been using my iPhone for a while now and have noticed that the shots I took a few years ago on my P&S were better.

I think it's time to pull it back out and give it another go.....but then again I'm so keen on upgrading to a DSLR.Trent @ Food Assaulthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-18925367959913556832010-08-27T17:20:30.538+10:002010-08-27T17:20:30.538+10:00hi laura, i hope they come in handy. they're b...hi laura, i hope they come in handy. they're basic tips but quite powerful.

hi kristy, some flashes are super strong these days they'd definitely blow out all the colours. if you're lucky enough to shoot without a flash it's so much better.

hi bel, i still struggle with those low light shots but one day i'll have a much better camera that can help.
<Simon Leonghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-15089177859834562872010-08-26T20:40:42.574+10:002010-08-26T20:40:42.574+10:00What camera did you use to take the shots of the C...What camera did you use to take the shots of the Canon Ixus?

;) Sorry - being a smarty bumTina@foodboozeshoeshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-38279945503573723202010-08-24T16:29:50.069+10:002010-08-24T16:29:50.069+10:00I've been following your posts for a while. I ...I've been following your posts for a while. I note that it's your clean compositional design that makes your images stand out. The camera never enters my head and I think you do a superb job with a KISS firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-5208273074574162152010-08-23T13:10:47.077+10:002010-08-23T13:10:47.077+10:00Great post! Although I have a DSLR, I often use my...Great post! Although I have a DSLR, I often use my point & shoot when dining out as it is less chunky. I think Canon's IXUS range is the best. LOVE my Canon IXUS 110 IS!Jen (jenius.com.au)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-50429429028658056612010-08-23T11:47:41.587+10:002010-08-23T11:47:41.587+10:00I did notice that about your other post - everyone...I did notice that about your other post - everyone seemed to have a DSLR. This is a great post, as I think it does prove that you don't need a fancy camera to take good pictures. Thanks for the tips :DLouberhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-28075840236915093062010-08-23T11:09:24.653+10:002010-08-23T11:09:24.653+10:00Good tips Simon! Not having a bulky DSLR certainly...Good tips Simon! Not having a bulky DSLR certainly is preferable, but obviously the quality suffers. Perhaps one of the new super-compact Sony NEX DSLR cameras will do the trick.joey@forkingaroundsydneyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-44596966491268512832010-08-22T20:50:41.999+10:002010-08-22T20:50:41.999+10:00Your photos always make me envious - especially th...Your photos always make me envious - especially the low-light ones! Thanks for the tips and links.OohLookBelhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-56372157143509608992010-08-22T18:27:49.357+10:002010-08-22T18:27:49.357+10:00I definitely agree with not using flash unless its...I definitely agree with not using flash unless its absolutely necessary.
The flash on my camera is evil.. just plain evil..
We have a hate-hate relationship :P and it never gets to fireKristy Sayer-Jones @ Southern In Lawhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556178499188429083.post-91130904344792390512010-08-22T18:08:45.759+10:002010-08-22T18:08:45.759+10:00Thanks for the tips.Thanks for the tips.Laurahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Disha Sharma is a digital marketer-turned-freelance writer. She writes about SEO, email and content marketing, and lead generation.
But I'm sure you've heard this advice before: If you're serious about your online presence, DON'T use a FREE website builder!
After all, a standard entry-level shared hosting cost no more than $5/mo. If you want people to take you or your business seriously, you can't have a URL that tells you're using a free platform to host your site.
Also, you certainly don't look professional with a website with a URL like:
Yet, in this post, I'm asking you to build a website using a free website builder.
And there's a good reason why I'm asking you to do this. But to understand the reason, you need to see how much building a typical website costs.
Building a typical website involves the following expenses:
Other than the domain name, the rest of the expenses are related to your choice of the platform.
Let me explain.
Let's say that you decided to start a WordPress website. And so, in addition to a domain name, you'll also buy:
In all, you should expect to spend about $200 on your website.
But what if you realized after two weeks that WordPress — no matter how great it looked in the beginning — WASN'T for you, and that you had just lost 200 bucks?
How would you feel?
Now WordPress is a great CMS and I use it for most of my websites.
It has always worked for me. But I know instances where WordPress really isn't the best fit considering the person who's building the website or the purpose the website is trying to solve.
It's generally difficult to be sure of a website platform before actually building a website with it.
But then it's too late anyway, right? No.
Luckily, you can figure this out before investing a single dollar because most good website builders offer free versions. Most of these don't even require you to enter your credit card details.
The point is:
If you take advantage of the free versions, you'll make better, more confident choices – choices that you won't regret.
All you need to do is give yourself some time with the different platforms to find out the one that's perfect for you.
To help you choose the perfect builder for your website, I'm rounding up 25 of the best free site builders.
Read up on their descriptions and shortlist the 3 you think would be the most suitable for you.
Next, sign up for their free versions and see how you like the platform. You can then decide if you'd like to upgrade or try something else.
So here goes.
Here, I'm talking about WordPress.com and not WordPress.org.
The difference between the two is that WordPress.com is a hosted solution where Automattic (the parent company of WordPress) takes care of the hosting, upgrades, security, and maintenance of your site, whereas in WordPress.org, you need to arrange the hosting and do all the maintenance work yourself.
So you can think of WordPress.com as just another online website maker tool. There's nothing to install or configure. Just sign up and you're good.
You can use WordPress.com's free version to start a blog or website. What I like the most about WordPress.com is the simplicity that it brings back to blogging and publishing. The publishing experience you'll get on WordPress is hands down the best one when you compare it with any other option on this list.
Even with the free version, you get access to 100s of beautiful free themes. Some of these themes are designed so well that they can compete with the slick websites made on premium site builders like Squarespace.
Plus, it comes with the famous WordPress blog editor, so if writing is your focus and you don't want to do the technical stuff with WordPress.org, then WordPress.com is the way for you.
With WordPress.com, you can build any kind of a website. Whether it's a savvy business website or a simple blog.
So … yes, WordPress is a great option for you if you find a theme that meets 'all' your needs. And I'm stressing on 'all' because unlike WordPress.org (or a self-hosted WordPress website), you can't extend WordPress.com websites with plugins. So tomorrow if you feel like you want to deliver classes on your WordPress.com site, you can't just install a plugin and get it done.
Nor does WordPress come with drag and drop page builders with different design modules. Basically, you just get what your theme offers, hence choose carefully.
That said, for a simple business website or blog, you might not want to look further than this.
Wix is one of our favorite online website maker tools. It powers millions of websites around the world.
When you create a website on Wix, there's no chance that the template you use will make you feel boxed. And that's because Wix comes with a drag and drop editor. So no matter what template you choose, it's always just a starting point.
If you want a completely customized design, you can start with a blank page and add any elements as you like.
Another thing worth noting is Wix's Artificial Design Intelligence (ADI) site builder (more about building a site with Wix ADI here).
Basically, this Artificial Design Intelligence site builder virtually builds your site for you once you tell it what your site is about. This is a highly recommended feature.
Most free website builder tools that you'll see on this list don't let you add more than 3 pages to your site. The free website builder Wix, on the other hand, lets you add unlimited pages. And a 500MB storage can also support you for a long time if you don't have a content heavy site.
Whether you want to build a business website or a portfolio website, Wix can help you create a classy web presence in no time.
Also, if you contrast Wix to some other premium website maker online tools, you'll realize that it offers more templates, so if you feel bored, you don't have to pull out your hair in frustration. Simply switch a template, and there are enough templates!
Comparable to the likes of WordPress and Wix, Weebly is huge in the free (and premium) website builder space.
At time of writing, it powers more than 30 million websites.
Like I said above, going with Weebly gives you the security of a solid company that won't just shut down its store one day! With the security, you also get several beautiful website themes and an easy-to-use drag and drop editor.
Weebly's free version gives you 500MB of storage and access to all the templates as well as the drag and drop editor. You also get access to Weebly's SEO and lead capture features.
In most cases, yes. But if you care about SEO, then the least you should expect to pay with Weebly is $25/mo because to get the SEO-friendly SSL certificate, this is the plan you'll need.
Ucraft is an awesome website maker tool that lets you build elegant personal websites. It comes with a cool logo maker app where you can use it for free to create and download a high-resolution file.
Ucraft's beautiful templates coupled with its drag and drop editor make Ucraft a very compelling site builder.
The most interesting feature of Ucraft's free version is that it lets you add a custom domain name. I think Ucraft is one of the only two free website builders that allow you to connect a custom domain name on a free plan.
If a one-page website is all you need, then don't look further than Ucraft because it's free in the real sense!
The website maker tool, Carrd, can be used to build stunning one-page websites. Carrd is currently in beta but looks very promising.
I like the idea of a one-page website … and more than websites, Carrd creates cover pages that you can use to tell your story beautifully. Right now, Carrd has about 18 templates, of which about 6 are part of the premium plan. The free templates too are gorgeous and editing is easy. Some useful elements, though, like the form element (the element you'll need to create a contact form) are only available in the pro-version.
I feel that Carrd's free plan is a bit limiting, given that something as basic as a contact form too needs upgrading. Though there's a workaround to give a contact email directly, but I'd certainly like it more there were some more features in the free plan.
Carrd could be one of the most (if not the most) affordable choice to take your business online.
For roughly $1.50 a month, Carrd gives you a beautiful, mobile-friendly one-page website, so keep an eye for this one!
SiteBuilder comes with more than 10,000 templates. With this unusually high number of templates, it can be used to build a site across any domain.
One of the first things I look for in a site builder is its templates. And it becomes very tough to judge such a tool when you can't see its templates without signing up! Although it has 10,000+ templates, SiteBuilder doesn't display even one of it.
But I signed up and checked out the templates. I didn't find 10,000 templates (maybe I just didn't search so much!) as such, but I liked the ones I saw.
SiteBuilder's free version lets you create a 5-page website. You can also access all of SiteBuilder's templates.
Also – Read Tim's review on Site Builder.
SiteBuilder not only gives great looking templates but its pro plan (see details below) is also thoughtful of someone with a limited budget. So if you want a custom domain name and email and hosting within budget, it's tough to beat this one at this price point.
With more than 12 million users worldwide, Yola is a solid free website maker builder tool to take your business online.
While Yola has limited templates, they're good for basic business/professional websites.
The free websites you make with Yola are ad-free. So even when you're running your website on a Yola sub-domain, your readers won't be annoyed with ads popping up from every corner of your website.
With a rock-solid track record of helping so many businesses go online, Yola can surely help you build a good, basic website. If you think you DON'T need to add a blog or make a visually jazzy website, Yola could bring you the simplicity you need.
Webs comes with some very diverse and good themes. I just wish more of them were unlocked even in the free plan.
With Webs, you can create a fully functional website in its free plan. Your website will be hosted on a Webs' sub-domain.
If you're only looking to build a budget-friendly website, then Webs is a good option.
WebsiteBuilder is another free website maker tool with 1000s of themes.
WebsiteBuilder has 1000s of good-looking templates. I think the overall interface of WebsiteBuilder is quite like SiteBuilder.
Which is quite strange! Their onboarding emails are similar too!
Although WebsiteBuilder's templates are good and diverse, yet you might find it a little difficult to justify the pricing especially when you compare it to some of the different, more economic options available. For example, the SiteBuilder tool.
Also – Read Tim's review on Website Builder.
This state-of-the-art website builder has powered 11,240,766 websites till now.
IM Creator has an outstanding collection of templates. It also has a huge number of website building modules. CV, team, slideshows, text, people – you name it. All you need to do is drag and drop these elements into your website.
Editing is pretty easy, and you can try IM Creator's editor even without signing up. You can try it here.
The complete IM Creator solution is free for nonprofits and students. So, if you're still studying or are super-passionate about a cause, give IM Creator a try today.
Thanks to its diverse templates and modules, IM Creator's is quite a catch even for its premium plan.
With 100+ templates across domains like real estate, fashion, photography, blog, and wedding among others, Sitey certainly offers a lot more than most of the website maker tools on this list.
Clearly, it's the collection of templates that gives Sitey the upper hand. The templates along with with the tool's drag and drop page maker tool covers all your needs.
Sitey's free version lets you build a 5-page site.
Sitey is suitable for building all kinds of sites, so if you're looking for a wholesome solution, do consider Sitey.
Note: what's disappointing is that even at this pricey, Sitey doesn't give you a mobile-friendly site. For that, you're expected to shell out $7.99/mo (when paid annually). If you compare Sitey with some of its more popular alternatives, you'll surely find better deals at this cost.
Jimdo lets you create "colorful, original, and unique" websites. About 15 million people trust Jimdo for their websites.
Jimdo has limited but beautiful templates. It also has a website showcase section, and if you check it out, you'll see that Jimdo customers have built some really sleek and creative websites.
You get about 500MB storage to make a free website or blog with Jimdo. You also get access to all the templates.
Except for a drag and drop editor, Jimdo has all the bells and whistles of a modern website maker tool. And while its templates are limited, they have 100s of variations, so finding something suitable shouldn't be too hard.
If you check out Jimdo's reviews, you'll notice a lot of people raving about Jimdo's eCommerce functionality. So if you want to open an online store, then maybe Jimdo is even more suitable for you.
Site 123 makes building websites as easy as 1,2,3.
Site 123 has a no-nonsense pricing scheme. This is great because as you can see in this list, many website builders force cheaper plans that are plain useless.
Also, Site 123 lets you access free image and icon libraries. This is a thoughtful feature because choosing the right images is a big part of building a beautiful website.
Site 123 can even be used to build sleek one-page websites, which can be an awesome feature if you want to build a portfolio website.
With the free plan, you get 500 MB of storage, which is actually more than enough for a basic website.
SITE123 looks like a great option, and I guess its templates too have to be good-looking. I would have loved to cross-check this but unfortunately SITE123 doesn't showcase its templates!
Till date, WebStarts powers about 3.8 million websites, so you can say it's a company you can trust.
To begin with, the WebStarts website looks a little dated if you see it after seeing some of the fancy sites from this list. That said, you can't ignore the number of people who're already using it to power their websites.
Despite how the homepage looks, WebStart's templates are actually nice!
The free version gives you 1 GB of storage. And there's no restriction on the number of pages you can add to your site. Also, from what it appears, the free version gives full access to all the templates.
The free plan here feels pretty restrictive despite the generous storage because it doesn't let you add a contact form to your site. So I don't know how such a website could benefit you.
A good use case for this website maker tool are business websites that need zero tweaking and can pay up to $30.98/mo because this plan includes advanced features like an email marketing suite, a lead management solution, a CRM, and CDN. Otherwise, you've better alternatives within the same budget.
With 27 million users, Webnode lets you build beautiful business and professional websites. And even online stores.
Webnode has some great looking themes. Its higher premium plans offer membership registrations, so if you ever need to let people create accounts on your website, you can unlock the membership registration feature with Webnode's $19.95/mo plan. This plan also allows you to create a website in your local language.
The free version unlocks all of Webnode's templates, so you can put together a visually appealing website pretty fast.
At $11.95/mo, I'm afraid you've better options to go with than Webnode. But if you don't mind showing Webnode ads, then Webnode's limited plan might interest you.
Note: Even though Webnode's $5.95/mo deal is a premium plan, your website will still show Webnode's ads. I think this is a big turnoff. The first ad-free plan costs $11.95, which is of course quite pricey for someone who doesn't need all the additional features it offers.
This website maker turned 11 years in 2017, and hopefully, it will give its templates a much-needed refresh.
Doodlekit's free version lets you build a full website with no restriction as such on the number of pages. Storage wise, you get 100MB, which is ok.
I think you really need to check out the templates to decide if Doodlekit is for you, because at Doodlekit's premium price point, you have alternatives that offer slick templates and even drag and drop editors.
With more than 300 templates, Cabanova lets you build a stunning website "just as unique as your DNA."
I like Cabanova's website, so I believe its templates might be good as well, but it's difficult to tell without looking at them.
The website showcase section, too, doesn't look updated with any recent sites, so it's really difficult to get a feel of the kind of sites you can build with Cabanova.
The free version lets you build a 3-page website and gives 50MB of data. And from what it seems, the free version unlocks all the templates.
Cabanova looks like a good and cost-effective option but I think I'd say this more confidently if I got the chance to look at all the templates because unlike a few of the online website maker tools on this list, Cabanova doesn't have a drag and drop editor, which means finding the perfect theme will make all the difference in this case.
With a recommendation from none other than Seth Godin, this website maker tool lets you build a website in under 30 minutes, with zero design and coding skills.
I like Strikingly's personal site templates, although I wish there were more templates. Right now, it has about 19 templates on offer. Also, there's this really cool feature that allows you to create a beautiful personal website by importing LinkedIn data.
This 4-year old website maker tool aims to help small businesses create and maintain their online presence in a hasslefree manner.c
I think Simbla has an interesting and diverse collection of templates. Plus, its pricing makes it accessible to a lot of people who'd like to go for a completely managed site creation and hosting solution.
If you're looking for the goodness of a full blown website maker tool, and if you are a little price sensitive, then Simbla is a decent option to consider.
Bookmark is built with the purpose of empowering even non-technical people to make beautiful and fully functional websites from scratch.
Overall, I like bookmark. But when I compare it some of the other solutions like Squarespace and others at the same price point, I get a bit unsure as to what sets it apart from them. Of course, Bookmark is new and there's a long way to go, but right now, what I'd love to see are more templates.
Signing up for Bookmark unlocks Bookmark's e-Learning courses as well where Bookmark teaches you how to take your business online and give few tips on how to grow it further.
There are also modules covering SEO, social media, and business in general among other things.
Bookmark is a good option if you've the bandwidth.
Siteleo looks like a solid website and its templates too are stunning.
But I do feel a little unsure about including it because apparently Sitelio's social media channels look gravely ignored. I mean there's not a single tweet or post since 2015, but from what I can get from the website, the tool is in top shape.
Honestly, I'm absolutely floored by the 10,000 themes you get with Sitelio. All Sitelio's themes spanning across categories like business, blog, photography, wedding and more are beautiful. Some of them could easily compete with the ones from site maker tools like Squarespace.
You can make a great 5-page website with Sitelio's free plan.
Sitelio combines the best of both elegant designs and ease of use. And its templates cover practically all niches. Even if you upgrade, at $5.99/mo, you can give your readers a classy website experience.
While Sitem.co is still in Beta, it hosts the websites of 247 proud owners! It helps build portfolio, product launch, agency, and personal websites.
The thing that I like best about Sitem is that it has simple yet blazing fast themes. And because most of Sitem users are expected to use it for showcasing their work, these elegant templates solve the purpose perfectly.
Also, I think the makers of the tool have really tried to offer an accessible option to all the people who can't shell out the price of most of the other premium site maker tools. (For your information, most such tools cost about $10/mo or so when paid annually.)
The free version supports SSL, so search engines will perceive your site to be more trustworthy. Also, it's ad-free, so Sitem won't stuff ads into your website and you'll be able to offer a clutter-free experience to your visitors.
If the main purpose of your website is (and will be) just to showcase your work, then you shouldn't look beyond Sitem.
That said, if you have plans to add a blog to your website and you expected to get a lot of hits (like more than 200000), then you might want to look at some of the other options as well.
Plus, at this price point, this is a great option to showcase your work for a lifetime.
uCoz is a complete website maker solution that lets you build a number of site types for free. It has separate workflows for creating the main types of websites like a personal website, a business website, or an online shop.
Unfortunately, when I tried to sign up this uCoz, I got all caught up in the clumsy signup process. There are just too many forms and too many fields. My onboarding experience was quite the opposite of what I was expecting, given that it had a pretty streamlined site creation process based on the site type and all.
Another thing is that it doesn't have a showcase of its free templates, so you don't get a preview into what the free plan you in terms of templates and design tools. Unlike most of the tools in this list that allow you to publish a website in under 5 minutes, uCoz makes you run through a lot of logistics upfront.
Also, when you sign up for a uCoz account, you are automatically signed up for its sister service called uID, which again is not quite a great thing. (In case you're wondering, uID is a service like 'About me')
The free version supports a custom domain name. This is quite unusual because most free website builders force you to use a subdomain. uCoz's free version is also ad-free.
If you want to build a fully branded website without worrying about any costs other than the domain name, then this website maker tool is for you. And despite my experience, I do like what I saw in its demo video.
Tilda is a handy drag and drop website maker tool that lets you build beautiful websites. Tilda offers a great mix of templates for freelancers, businesses, agencies, online tutors, and many more.
When I first checked out Tilda, I thought it was a lot like Squarespace, especially when I saw some of the cover page designs. But as I dug deeper, I realized that Tilda has many more templates on offer. Plus, it has 350+ design elements, which is far more than what Squarespace offers. Another thing worth noting is that Tilda comes with beautiful landing pages too.
The free version supports up to 50 pages and offers a storage of 50MB, and is ad-free.
If you're a freelancer, no matter what services you offer, Tilda has beautiful templates to cover all your needs. You can also use it to create special services pages to promote specific services.
As you can understand from the name itself, Portfoliobox is a website builder that's exclusively built for creatives who want to showcase their work.
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The Montessori method promotes hands on, self paced, collaborative, joyful learning. Children in Montessori follow their interest, where ever that passion leads; giving them strong academics, leadership, self-discipline, responsibility, independence, initiative and a lifelong love of learning.
Cave Creek Montessori is a family owned and operated school, which was founded in 1996 by Roy and Kathy Catalo. Our mission at CCM is to provide a safe and loving environment where children can receive an authentic Montessori education from experienced, highly skilled teachers. We are located on 1 1/2 acres and our classrooms serve children 18 months to 6 years old.
The presentation will be hosted by Nicole Rye, a fellow Cave Creek Montessori parent and a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security. This is a 45 minute presentation with interactive videos created for parents and guardians of children ages 5-17 years old. The presentation will cover facts and statistics of online risks and tips for keeping children safe online.


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Soon, vanity vans will come to your doorstep with fully-trained women offering beauty services at affordable prices.
Telangana government has decided to give vanity vans to women after training them in hair care, spa and beautician courses by trainers from renowned academies.
The government is going to spend 20 lakh on each van.
"The plan is to equip these vans with the latest equipment and high-end beauty products. They will be just a call away. The Nayee Brahmin community is too happy about the proposal," said G Asok Kumar, the backward classes welfare department principal secretary.
While the women would be given vanity vans, the men would also be trained in hair and beauty care.
The government will extend financial assistance to the Nayi Brahmin community to set up salons and spa centres.
Initially 20 women from each district will be given a training.
Telangana government has invited corporate companies with a turnover of over Rs 1crore per annum to display their equipment and also bring trainers at an exhibition at a venue near US Consulate on August 8.
Telangana government will also provide two wheeler to operate mobile beauty parlour.
The government will also come out with certificate courses in beauty and hair care.
"We are tying up with academies and trainers who have been trained in institutes such as Jaweb Habib. Women from Nayee Brahmin community will be categorised into A, B and C categories. While A category will be trained to offer vanity van beauty services in Greater Hyderabad, B will operate in towns and C in villages. We are finalising the modalities," Asok Kumar said.


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Medical Transcription Degrees
Salaries For Degrees in Medical Transcription
People with online associate medical transcription degrees can be employed in a variety of occupations. The median salary for people with a degree in Medical Transcription is $26,558.19. The lifetime value of this degree is approximately $671,216.00.
Salaries are highly dependent on how skilled one is at negotiation, years of related experience, your employer, location, and more besides. The estimates we show on these pages are just that: estimates. Your individual experience will likely vary.
Where does this come from?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a unit of the US government, classifies all workers into some 800-odd occupational categories. We paid a team of freelancers to solicit their opinion on what type of degree a holder of each type of job would likely have majored in. For pairs which had a high degree of consensus, we created a link between the degree and the job.
From this, we calculated the average salary for Medical Transcription degrees and converted it into a lifetime value. We then compared it against other degrees at the same level of schooling (such as online masters medical transcription degrees), so that you can make informed educational and employment decisions.
Medical Transcription (MT) is a growing field. It is one of the allied health professions that deal with the process of converting voice recordings of patient information from doctors and other health professionals into a transcribed text format using electronic transcription equipment; the transcribed document becomes the official medical record.
What Can a Medical Transcription Expect to Learn?
Medical transcriptionists may work in a hospital, a small doctor's office, or from home as either an employee or an independent contractor. They must have a working knowledge of medical terminology, document formatting procedures, dictation principles, medical and legal spelling rules, and patient confidentiality policies. Medical transcriptionists receive 18 months to two years of training through certificate and associate degree programs and on-the-job experience. They may also pursue a bachelor's degree in a related field.
Medical Transcription degrees are offered typically as an online, distance learning, and/or train-at-home curriculum. Students learn about the day-to-day duties of medical transcriptionists and the responsibilities they have to medical personnel. They learn how to maintain medical records, how to operate transcription equipment, and how to follow written and verbal directions. Throughout their course of study, they learn the following:
- Anatomy/Physiology
- Diseases and the disease process
- Medical grammar and style
- Numbers and accuracy
- Types of medical reports
- Transcribing fundamentals
- Standard policies and procedures
These are the standard skills that medical transcriptionists learn and adopt throughout their degree program.
Online Schools Offering Accredited Medical Transcription Programs
There are six online accredited programs that offer an associate's of applied science degree in medical transcription. They are as follows:
- Penn Foster Career School
- Stratford Career Institute
- The Rasmussen College
The Rasmussen College associate's degree program offers both general education and major coursework. The online college requires students to enroll in foundational courses such as English (composition), speech, math, social sciences, natural sciences, and history as part of a holistic degree program. For the associate's degree, students enroll and complete multiple levels of the following major classes:
- Introduction to Medical Transcription
- Medical Terminology
- Pathology
- Law and Medical Ethics
- Keyboarding
- Success
- Information and Computer Systems
- Topics in Anatomy and Physiology
For the diploma program, students enroll in a condensed course program. Students take less general education courses with the exception of English and math and take more courses in medical transcription to include a program capstone and all of the other major courses.
Online Bachelor's Degree Programs
Students graduating from an online accredited program in medical transcription also go on to pursue careers in healthcare administration by completing an online bachelor's degree. The following institutions provide a bachelor's degree in the fields of health care studies and medical records administration:
- Penn Foster: B.A., Healthcare Studies
- Herzing University: B.S., Health Information Management
Each degree program offers additional certificate and diploma options in medical coding and insurance billing.
Career Outlook
The need for medical transcriptionists is expected to continue due to an aging and retiring population. In 2008, there were approximately 100,000 experienced transcriptionists in the field, working in laboratories, acute care centers, doctor's offices, and for audiologists. This is expected to increase to 11 percent by 2018 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In addition, the website, Salary, determines the annual salary for a medical transcriptionist by four main factors: degree level, location, certification, and experience. Entry-level medical transcriptionists entering the field can earn an annual salary of approximately $32,000. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, hourly wages for medical transcriptionists range from $14 per hour to as high as $21 per hour. Transcriptionists working in diagnostic and medical laboratories earn significantly more at $17 per hour than their counterparts. Transcriptionists working in outpatient care or for medical hospitals (surgical) earn about the same per hour. Lastly, transcriptionists who work in support and administrative services earn an entry-level hourly wage of approximately $14 per hour.
Although medical transcriptionists are not required to be certified in their field, they may pursue certification for professional development. The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) offers an examination for medical transcriptionists to become certified through the Approval Committee for Certificate Programs (ACCP).
Founded in 1978, the AHDI is a membership organization and advocacy group that creates educational standards for allied health medical practices. It advocates for public health safety and it improves the quality of the healthcare professional by producing educational resources such as the third edition of The Book of Style for Medical Transcription. Medical transcriptionists can join the organization as a professional, postgraduate, educational institution, or as a corporate member; students in training programs may also purchase a student membership.
Graduates of medical transcription programs have two options for receiving a credential:
- Certified Medical Transcriptionist (CMT)
- Registered Medical Transcriptionist (RMT)
The Registered Medical Transcription credential is an entry-level program that prepares students for the Certified Medical Transcription credential. In addition, the U.S. Department of Labor considers the medical transcription profession as an apprenticeship program in which students train for two years in advanced hospital work such as acute care. Therefore, graduates who complete a RMT credential can enroll in the Registered Apprenticeship Program; the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) sponsors the program through the federal government agency.
Medical transcriptionists have the option of joining another advocacy group such as the American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT). Established as a non-profit organization, the AAMT provides career resources for professional development, networking opportunities through event seminars, and partnership and product discounts. Members can register as a trainer or a professional. Medical transcriptionists with less than two years of experience pay a reduced annual fee.
- Wikipedia: "Medical Transcription" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_transcription
- Rasmussen http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/allied-health/medical-transcriptionist/ http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/allied-health/medical-transcriptionist/degree-requirements/ http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/allied-health/medical-transcriptionist/accreditation/
- Allied Health Schools http://www.allalliedhealthschools.com/faqs/medical_transcription
- The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) http://www.ahdionline.org/ http://www.ahdionline.org/Advocacy/AboutAHDI/tabid/164/Default.aspx http://www.ahdionline.org/OnlineStore/Membership/tabid/113/Default.aspx
- Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) http://www.mtia.com/ http://www.mtia.com/about.cfm
- The American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT) http://www.themtassist.com/blog/american-association-for-medical-transcription/
- Higher Learning Commission/North Central Association of Colleges and Schools http://www.ncahlc.org/
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos271.htm
- Thomas Eugene Foulks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eugene_Foulks http://www.pikespeakcenter.org/


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In the Fall of 2010, we showed you a video of The Buttery doing what it does best, cooking excellent food. What was unusual about it was what we showed you them cooking: a burger. Now, a burger isn't such an unusual thing to cook or to eat, in fact, burgers are among the most popular, most consumed foods in the U.S. Even so, for people who know The Buttery, a burger might have seemed out of character for them, after all, they're famous for classically inspired and prepared cuisine. As it turns out though, the more people that get "in the know" about The Buttery, know that, true to form, the burger The Buttery makes isn't just a burger, but instead, The Buttery on a Bun, becasue it's no regular burger at all but a Kobe Beef Burger. Without going into detail, Kobe Beef is among the best in the world; the most flavorful, the most tender and the most delicious.
Anyway, as if offering this burger isn't enough, they've gone and made it half price (about $6.50) every Tuesday night in The Buttery's Pub and this past week, we had the chance to have one. It turns out, a lot of other people did too. Just about everybody in Downtown Lewes it seemed. In a word, it was wonderful (actually, they all were- we got three of them). Cooked from medium-rare to medium, they were juicy and as tasty as we were told they were. As good as the burger (ok, almost as good) was the roll it's served on- an onion-foccacia roll) and while you can get it served with just about any side they have, it looked like their potato salad was the most popular.
So, is this the best burger in Lewes? Well, that's for you to decide. But one thing is sure, it's the only kind of burger The Buttery will serve.
Ok, enough talk, have a look at some of the pics we took while we were there, then go get yourself one. need more info? Visit butteryrestaurant.com or give them a call @ 302.645.7755.
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Panasonic is again focusing on low budget smartphone segment with the launch of P9 smartphone. Panasonic P9 launched in India with Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box. The new budget offering from Panasonic is already made available across India through the company's retail outlets and other offline stores. The Panasonic P9 is rolled out in Champagne Gold and Black colours.
Panasonic P9 touts 'Quick Switching' feature which allows users to switch between the apps. Besides that, there is a 'Quick Reply' feature which allows users to reply directly from the message notification without opening the app.
Panasonic P9 features a 5-inch HD IPS display with 720×1280 pixels resolution. The device is powered by 1.1GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6737M SoC coupled with 1GB of RAM. Moving to the storage, Panasonic P9 gets 16GB of built-in storage which can be further expanded up to 32GB with SD card.
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Connectivity options in the device include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, and FM. Discussing optics, Panasonic P9 comes with an 8-megapixel primary rear camera with a f/2.0 aperture. In addition, 5-megapixel front facing camera with a f/2.4 aperture is provided for selfies. The smartphone packs a 2210mAh battery and weighs 144 grams.
Besides the specs and features, Panasonic P9 price could be another factor which adds to boost the mobile sales. Panasonic P9 price is listed for Rs. 6290 which is quite a decent pricing for the entry level smartphone buyers.
"We at Panasonic believe in a great combination of style and design so that it matches the user's elegance. P9 is equipped with all that you need to capture the world around you flawlessly and keeps everything you love. Targeted towards consumers who are always on the go, look for durability in the display screen and want a smooth multitasking experience with the latest Android Nougat 7.0," says, Pankaj Rana, Business Head – Mobility Division at Panasonic India.
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a reminder about the next London Socialist Historians seminar. Please note the room and start time.
On Monday 26th October at 5.30pm in Room 304 Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, WC1. Room 304 (third floor)
British Counter Insurgency. A history
John Newsinger
John, a noted authority in this area, will speak on new research he has done.
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All the top managers of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) have stepped down, the R-Sport news agency reported on Thursday, in the latest steps to clean up Russian athletics to avoid missing next year's Olympics.
Russia was suspended from international athletics last month after a special commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency exposed widespread state-sponsored cheating and corruption. It is working to lift the ban in time for its athletes to compete at the Rio Games next August.
"It was decided at a meeting attended by the heads of Rusada that the general director, Ramil Khabriev, should be relieved of his position," R-Sport quoted Natalia Zhelanova, an adviser to the sports minister, as saying.
She said "all the high-level management" of the agency was stepping down.
Anna Antseliovich, head of Rusada's Result Management and Investigation Department, has been named as the acting general director of the organisation.
Since Soviet times, Russia has invested heavily to ensure success at the Olympic Games and earn itself the status of sporting superpower, so banishment from Rio would be a severe blow to its prestige.
The sport's world governing body, the IAAF, said last week that Russia could only be reinstated to international competition if it complied with a detailed 'roadmap'.
Among the requirements were that Russia demonstrate that none of its sporting officials have any prior links to doping, and that Rusada should be able to operate "effectively and without interference".
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia was against doping in sport, and people who used it must be punished.


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The Civic Hall is a versatile venue which is available for both private and commercial hire.
The Civic Hall offers the very best in conference, exhibition, wedding receptions and concert amenities, with an excellent stage and technical facilities, air conditioning, large kitchen, retractable tiered seating and one of the largest large sprung wooden dance floor in Essex!
The Civic Hall is a licensed wedding venue and can host ceremonies, receptions and wedding parties large or small!
The spacious air-conditioned foyer hosts a licensed bar, catering amenities, toilet facilities plus disabled access to the hall.
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The Capability Brown is available for private hire, corporate hire, parties, wedding receptions, training events and much more.
Located in the grounds of the former Belhus Mansion, The Capability Brown caters for all with a number of catering options available and a fully licensed bar.
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Lancing Manor's recently refurbished Centre provides a purpose built ground floor function room, including a fully licensed bar and various function packages overlooking the Manor Grounds, or a suite that can be transformed with a number of different set up options including canvas style, classroom style, theatre style, conference style and audience style.
The Centre offers ample free parking with easy access from the A27 making it a perfect pick!
We offer a full service including catering for a wide variety of events such as wedding receptions, birthday parties, conferences, exhibitions and much more.
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Retail Pet SuppliesGet all your pet supplies in one spot! Visit the Flagler Humane Society's adoption and retail center!
Some of the products available are:
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We always have a large variety of gently used and very low cost supplies for your furry friends.
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Dr Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
Started at UWA: 2002
Acclaimed Australian author and historian using literature to study social and environmental change
I love connecting with people through literature. Literature brings out dimensions to life that are sometimes missed in the transactions of everyday discussions. But it also opens a door to our deepest beliefs, fears and hopes.Dr Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
Dr Tony Hughes-d'Aeth is a respected historian and author of significant Australian literature. Dr Hughes-d'Aeth has lived around the world, from Australia, to Europe and the United States, giving him a sense of how important the land on which we stand is in relation to our sense of identity.
It is this experience that sparked his lifelong interest in the societies created in the global movement of people known as settler-colonialism that helped produce the modern settler nations of Africa, Australasia and the Americas. He believes it is literature, more than any other document, that tells us what the past felt like because it offers a record of interior life experiences.
Dr Hughes-d'Aeth's published works on Australian literature and cultural history have attracted national acclaim, receiving the Ernest Scott and the WK Hancock prizes for Australian history for his book Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 1886–1888 (Melbourne University Press, 2001). He has completed research on comparative media studies, including new media theory, film and television studies, on Australian literature and film, and on psychoanalytic criticism.
Dr Hughes-d'Aeth is a part of the UWA EcoPeoPle (Ecology, People, Place) research cluster, and is currently working on the creation of an Environmental Humanities Laboratory.
- BA, PhD W.Aust
Positions held:
- Member of The Association for the Study of Australian Literature
- Member of The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society
- Co-editor of Westerly magazine from 2010 to 2015
Student Choice Award, UWA Student Guild, 2017
Consistently Excellent Award, Students' Unit Reflective Feedback, 2017
Nominated for Excellence in Research Supervision, 2016
Two units nominated for Excellence in Teaching, 2016
Author of Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt, UWA Publishing, 2017
Author of Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Melbourne UP, 2001
Winner of the Ernest Scott and W.K. Hancock prizes for Australian history for Paper Nation, 2001
Tony Hughes-d'Aeth talks about his book, Like Nothing on this Earth
Podcast: a literary history of the Wheatbelt
Tony Hughes d'Aeth studies the work of 11 writers to explore the experiences and feelings of living and working in Western Australia's Wheatbelt area, a region that is almost as large as Britain.Read more
Podcast: Like Nothing on this Earth
In his book, Like Nothing on this Earth, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth explores the work of 11 writers who lived in the Wheatbelt of south-western Australia. Delving into the creative writing of authors like Albert Facey, Peter Cowan, Dorothy Hewett, and Jack Davis, he helps us understand the human effects of this massive-scale agriculture.Read more
Wheatbelt Development Commission
- Interdisciplinary Wheatbelt Service Learning Unit
2012 – 2015
ARC Discovery Project
- The Wheatbelt: A Literary History
2013 – 2014
LIEF Grant
- The Austlit Database
Dr Hughes-d'Aeth's teaching style aims to connect students to real-life problems and promote interactive discussion and real-time analysis of literary, cinematic and televisual examples. He's taken groups of students to Beijing Foreign Studies University to learn and experience Chinese literature while immersing themselves in the Chinese culture and way of life – an essential element to really understanding a country or region's literature.
WAtoday's Perth Festival Top 10 picks, 2018
Perth Festival will launch on Friday with yet another spectacular opening event, Siren Song, filling city streets at dawn and dusk.Read more
Spectacular illustration depicts rails
The recently rediscovered rail lines running out to Nobbys are at the centre of one of the most dramatic images ever made of colonial Newcastle.Read more
Like Nothing on this Earth
During the 20th century, the southwestern corner of Australia was cleared for intensive agriculture. In the space of several decades, an arc from Esperance to Geraldton (an area of land larger than England) was cleared of native flora for the farming of grain and livestock. Today, satellite maps show a sharp line ringing Perth. Inside that line, tan-coloured land is the most visible sign from space of human impact on the planet. Where once there was a vast mosaic of scrub and forest, there is now the Western Australian Wheatbelt.
Tony Hughes-d'Aeth examines the creation of the Wheatbelt through creative writing. Some of Australia's most significant writers wrote about their experience of the Wheatbelt. Each gives insight into the human and environmental effects of this massive-scale agriculture. Through examining their writing, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth demonstrates the deep value of literature in understanding the human experience of geographical change.Find out more
This group brings together scholars in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences at UWA who share an interest in the relationships between societies and environments, past, present and future.Read more
Supervisor opportunities
Dr Tony Hughes-d'Aeth has been supervising PhD students since 2002 and is keen to supervise students interested in exploring literary history and our relationship with place, people and environment. Previous PhD topics supervised have included:
- Representing psychiatric illness in mid-twentieth century Australian poetry
- Humanitarian discourses in Dominique Lapierre's writing on India
- The history of curricular control: literary education in Western Australia, 1912–2012
- The discourse of war: Australian political speech and armed conflict
- Houses in modern Australian fiction
If you are interested in studying a PhD with Dr Hughes-d'Aeth, get in touch using the details below.
Contact Dr Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
Get in touch+61 8 6488 2091
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When you're 5yrs old, kissing is normal. Girls kissing boys. Girls kissing girls. Boys kissing boys. Boys kissing dads. Mums kissing sons. Everyone snuggling up on the sofa together in their PJs means everything is normal. The world is normal.
When you're 10yrs old, kissing is yeuch!!! Girls don't want to go near boys coz they smell, and boys are happy to be left alone to smell. Unless they're chasing girls and trying to make them inhale. As for your parents kissing and cuddling … double yeuch!!!! That's sooooo gross! Just as well you're asleep long before your dad has tied your mum to the bed and she's eagerly whimpers Harder daddy, harder, Baby's been a baaad girl and he thrusts his swollen willie up her swollen … oh yeah … willies and … well, girls don't have willies, do they … that's all just hilarious.
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She showed me some pictures from Instagram from other reviewer and I must say, just looking at the pictures makes me salivatingggg...
So I went picked up my friends from Sheraton On the Park Hotel and we went to Devon Cafe. It was drizzling that day and the cafe was pretty full, we have to wait for quiet a bit.
Finally after 15 minutes waiting, we were seated at the back of the cafe which looked kinda like a garage, with the cemented floor and the graffiti-ed wall *Pardon my english* hehe..
Looking at the menu even from waiting time, it was kinda hard cause there are alot of things that I would really like to try. . .
|Breakfast with the Sakuma ($24.5)
|Citrus Cured Salmon ($17.50) - Split Dill cream, apple, celery, cucumber, fennel, soft boiled eggs and brioche
|My Dish - Green Envy ($23)
Green with envy - Nettle semolina gnoccchi, pumpin puree, zucchini, yellow squash and peas. Interesting plate for me as I've never tasted either semolina or yellow squash or zucchini flower :) Which surprised me that crispy zucchini flower is so delish! I liked this dish overall, its just that all of the component is too mushy that I need something a bit more crunchy to complement it :)
|Surry Hill's Sourdough Ploughman ($21)
This was my bf's dish which consisted of cured meats, house pickles, cheese, crudités, tomato chutney and sourdough.. This portion is not enough to fill him up apparently hehe..
Here is a pic of me & my Melb friends :)
Will definitely come back to Devon to try the Ultimate toastie and the Crab pasta ^^


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If you don't have a feeling of irony. It's hard to express whatever comes in your thoughts, especially whenever you get started writing without a goal. Don't WitherBloom Before you start, there are a couple things to remember.
There is going to be something you may have done better. Before it's possible to run, you must learn how to walk, and before you may write you must learn how to outline. Especially whenever you're stuck. Even when you're depressed. Be mindful of what you're writing. While a lot of us think it is a terrible notion to tweet the exact same content multiple times, it's actually an intelligent move if you would like your tweet to receive noticed. In summary, all of us should have the chance to seek out our voice and to understand how to utilize it.
Sometimes you will be energized about an idea and prepared to immediately begin writing. The thought of writing has stuck with me for a couple years now. For instance, if you want to get respected it would most likely be a good notion to include appropriate punctuation. In any event, here are a number of suggestions to get you started. Simply scouring through Wikipedia and the numerous cross links that it provides, can be sufficient to help you produce new suggestions for your articles.


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After the official announcement of ChromeBook on Google IO, I decided it was time to give the chromium OS another try.
This post comes from Chromium OS 0.14.607.2011_06_06_1630.
I have to be honest - it is very buggy, first of all the network is not working as it should be, it connects okay to my router but then the browser says it is not connected, I have to disable the wifi and re-enable it and if it by chance connects to my neighbor's router it works...
The audio is still not working, I cannot watch a thing on youtube, however html video is now supported, which is good. Not that it is of much use without the sound. The sound controlling buttons on my HP mini however display the audio adjustment controls. Lol.
Apart from that they seem to have a very big problem with the system in general! Believe it or not it is working SLOWER than chrome browser on fedora 14 on this very same netbook! This is really very discouraging! I don't know why is that, maybe the OS is tweaked for the Samsung chromebook, but still it is linux bellow the browser... I guess.
Other than that the brightness control works fine, sleep
(and at this point I have tried the sleep/resume trick and it failed me... so I am finishing this post from my Fedora running Chrome)
is NOT working at least on the HP Mini.
I still think somehow believe that the idea to NOT have an OS to worry about and constantly upgrade is great, however they do not seem to be there yet.
Chrome OS: -1


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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Some good stuff: Southeastern Son - Turnpike Troubadours
Lt. Col. Lakin, I salute you!
Freedom Outpost
Lakin refused to obey deployment orders, arguing that Obama had not documented his eligibility for the presidency under Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
"What I do not understand and still don't," he writes, "is why Obama did not just come forward with his key documents and be done with it. Instead, he ordered all of his important records to be kept under seal."
He also pointed out that the documents released by the White House were digital scans and not official documents that would be acceptable as evidence in a court proceeding.
"So tell me: Who has something to hide?" Lakin asks. "It would seem to be President Obama, and sooner or later the voters of this country are going to make it clear that his stonewalling cannot continue."
Lakin has explained that he was compelled by his officer's oath to uphold and defend the Constitution when he was ordered to deploy to Afghanistan. Along with questions about the authenticity of the Obama birth documents, some constitutional scholars argue Obama is not a natural born citizen because his father was not an American citizen.
Ironically, Lakin's deployment orders required him to bring five copies of his birth certificate.
"I had read the orders several times and had glossed over a detail that had previously seemed routine, but this time I felt like Wile E. Coyote getting smacked by an anvil," he writes. "I needed a birth certificate to deploy, but the president did not need one to order my deployment. This was nuts."
Lakin's day of decision was April 12, 2010.
Though he was ready to be deployed, even taking a photo of himself at the Pentagon with his bags, should Obama validate his eligibility, Lakin could not bring himself to follow the orders without validation.
Thus he was court-martialed. He writes of the event of being there in the court-martial as he stared at the portraits of men who have gone before him:
As fate would have it, these were portraits of various Founding Fathers, and I wondered what they would be thinking. I strongly suspected they would be seeking the truth, about Obama's citizenship status, about his Connecticut Social Security number (there is no reason why Obama would have a Connecticut number), about the multitude of unanswered questions surrounding this man. Here, however, to emphasize the real issues would likely have resulted in a reprimand from the judge and a harsher sentence from the jury. How, I wondered, had our country descended to this level of apathy?
Some will laugh and mock him for trying to take a stand and say he should have just followed orders. Yet many of those same people would berate soldiers of Nazi Germany for obeying orders. One must do what is right without and not violate their conscience. Martin Luther is one that comes to mind in this regard as he stood at the Diet of Worms upon his belief that faith alone in Jesus Christ alone is what justified sinners before God and declared:
"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
Jack Cashill writes of his arrival at Ft. Leavenworth's Joint Regional Correctional Facility:
Now, Lakin was on his way to Fort Leavenworth's Joint Regional Correctional Facility. Of all his hardship deployments, Bosnia included, this would be the hardest. After he bid a tearful farewell to his wife and three young children, his military minders chained his hands together and attached those chains to a band around his waist. They chained his legs and attached those, too. They then loaded him into a van and drove him to Reagan National.
There, Lakin endured his ultimate humiliation: a seemingly endless perp walk — a shuffle really — through a concourse filled with flags and patriotic bunting and the happy sight of returning soldiers. None of the display had lost its appeal, but Lakin could not overlook the irony of his being chained and bound amidst it all.
The civilian psychologist who did intake assessments at Fort Leavenworth claimed to know why the soft-spoken doctor refused deployment, or at least he thought he did. As he put it, Lakin did not believe Obama to have been born in the United States or to be constitutionally eligible to be president.
Lakin corrected him. As he explained, he did not know where the president was born or whether the president was eligible. The problem was that no one did. As Lakin saw it, the oath that he took as an officer in the U.S. Army — "I, Terrence Lee Lakin, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" — all but dictated that he seek the truth.
Lakin, ironically was bound and incarcerated all for seeking the truth remembering his oath, "I, Terrence Lee Lakin, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
May there be others in position of leadership that will count the cost and stand up as Lt. Col. Terry Lakin did.
Lt. Col. Lakin, I salute you!
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Tarboro anglers fare well in King Mackerel tournament
The team and boat name is "Service Call," which is very appropriate because Patrick works for the family owned business, Overstreet Heating and Air Conditioning. Service Call is a sleek 32-foot Yellowfin, with twin 350 Yamaha 4-stroke engines.
Sixty-eight boats competed for over $100,000 in cash and prizes. Service Call caught 3 fish, and the largest qualifying fish measured 49-inches, and weighed-in at 42.54-pounds for Second Place Open Division prize money of $5,389. First Place fish was 43-pounds even, so Service Call was less than a half-pound off from the tournament winner. Beth Skipper added to Service Call's winnings with her $300 First Place Lady Angler Prize.
The wind was blowing 15-20 knots out of the southwest with 4-6 foot seas.
In light of several recent high-profile mass shootings, should America's gun laws be changed?
Vote half way down on right side.
The Daily Southerner
"Enemies Foreign and Domestic" are no longer prophesies.
The Law By Frederic Bastiat
"See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."
What Is Law?
"What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
Each of us has a natural right — from God — to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Comment on Bracken's Deleted Comment From The Washington Times/SWJ Editorial @ WRSA.
Mt Top Patriot | August 11, 2012 at 04:41 | Reply
It is no surprise, Mr, Bracken's comments have been deleted. After all his novels "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" are no longer prophesies.
That in itself say's everything.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."-Sarah Palin
Remember, Hitler said it best:
"It is convenient to have a system of laws where everyone is a criminal."
And as the greatest, so far, mass murderer in all of history, a megalomaniac who's face adorned a Christmas ornament on the obama's white house Christmas tree in 2008, put is so succinctly:
"Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." "Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."
– Mao Tse-tung
November 6, 1938
Is there any doubt what this comment implies? In Obama's speech in Colorado back in 2008 he said this:
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
Lets not beat around the fucking bush here. For the "elites",(who are anything but), this All comes down ultimately to guns. Everything these ruling class scumbags do revolves ultimately about guns. Why? Because simply, it is guns that give these pieces of human garbage their power. It is guns, in the hands of those that they fear will rise up against them, that they fear is a threat like nothing else. And they are correct. It is guns that if they are to take over our country, must control in order to rule with an iron fist. It is guns that they must take from the populous in order obtain that absolute power. It is guns they understand like none other are the real power behind anything. Especially Liberty! Guns are, in the greatest profound concept imaginable, the teeth of Liberty, the great equalizer.
See, their plans have not gone too well American's have resisted their soothing lies at every turn, these psychopaths are getting worried, they are almost out of time, they have had to resort to revealing their true evil intent. You see it every day, in the desperate finger pointing, the false flag events, the desperate ploys of the state media complex to taint everything with a slant to fooling just enough people. So for all the bullshit rhetoric about old fashioned outdated concepts of the founding of this here Republic of rule of law by long dead white guys who clung to their traditions, their bibles, their guns, the elites know the existential threat to their power, their very lives is embodied in the right to keep and bear those exact same guns.
In no uncertain terms, it is, guns, force of arms our system of government now lives by. In a civil society, in a society based on the virtue and principles of reason, the government has no use for arms against us of the citizenry. A citizenry that for almost 2 centuries regulates itself through natural order of natural law, liberty, and the creation of prosperity. Funny double standard here, tyranny, the imposition of it, requires guns, lots of guns, mmmmn? Tyranny, as you and I and those imposing know full well, grates on ones life prosperity and liberty like an abscessed tooth.
Ultimately, it is these very same guns they desire to take from the rest of us, that are behind that tyrannical power. Where the threat of escalation in establishment and continuation of that power gained through violation of the rule of law, are guns that they use to enforce everything if you refuse to submit.
So it is guns in the hands of We The People that they fear most. Something that which our founders understood from 1st hand experience. It was, it is, guns that are the ultimate bulwark against tyranny, and the only teeth contained in our natural order of the rule of law of our civil society of our Constitution. The legal, lawful power to abolish government, government not of our choosing or making, the one created by these same "elites", who strive never ending through decades and decades to take those guns from us all, a government that has now become destructive of the very ends it was designed to support.
Any thing else is a cheap side show.
I am free
Flying Over America
"It can't be killed"
Comment on WRSA's post below.
Bracken's Deleted Comment From The Washington Times/SWJ Editorial
Matt Bracken | August 10, 2012 at 21:25 | Reply
Thanks everybody who commented here. I actually thought about posting it on the original SWJ comment thread, but decided not to do so. It can't be killed. Like my essay "Gangster Government and Sakharov's Immunity," and my novels: they can't be called back or erased. They exist. No matter what happens to us as individuals, the history will show that some did resist, and would not be cowed into silence and submission to the PC totalitarians currently gaining power in what is coming to look like the USSA. They can only take total power if nobody will stand and point the accusing finger. When we can't do so, we'll know that the contract has been broken, and it's time to insist on a new contract, if they will not obey the current two century old version. Until then, it's all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC. Those founding fathers sure had some long range vision, didn't they?


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The life of food trucks has led to some amazing innovations and unique ideas within the world of cuisine; new owners live out their long-held business fantasies, young entrepreneurs use the chance to try out new techniques and interesting food combinations. Whether it's been to explore new areas or simply make their food more mobile, us lovers of the edible have never complained about these developments. Despite the many different options and trucks that have sprung up, however, there still remains a veritable army of owners that stick with certain familiar menus. For much like with restaurants, even if we may drool over the fanciest of fares and most contemporary, unique twisting of flavor, there will always be those times where we just want a burger, or a taco, or whatever.
Put simply, there are classic styles and strategies that live to survive in every food business. These are the ones that started the trend, hit our comfort food spots, or are simply the options we instinctively go to when feeling lazy. Food Trucks are of course no exception, gathering up a particular set of businesses that we can see in almost every city. Here we offer a list of these most common and delectable mobile cravings which we've all come to love.
Taco Trailer
The originator of all things food truck in the United States (not counting New York's famous hot dog carts), and in more ways than one. Having garnered much love and attention through the years, taco trucks still provide the basis for a plethora of new owners, whether they're looking for an easily recognizeable mobile package to fill with their unique creations, or simply stepping back to display the love of the food they grew up on. You could easily say there are two main groups in this category, each just as important in their own ways.
Truly the very first class of food trailers and trucks to hit the streets here. There's no gimmicks, no flashy name or expressed need to wow the customer with something new and unique (usually). These are the simply adorned, often plain-looking vehicles, maybe with an odd looking mascot on the side, shelving out classic masa tortillas filled with a variety of grilled and cooked meat that one expects to see from a cart in Mexico. They're cheap, delicious, and often are one of the few businesses that give us the option for stewed skin, tripe, animal cheek/maw, and other 'specialty cuts' which tend to gross most folks out. But those people are just weak, WEAK! The rest of us revel in the savory, soul-filling latin street fair.
Example: Tacos La Fonda in Los Angelas
Fusion/Contemporary Taco Trucks
Though the traditional style may have been the first trucks to hit the street, it's likely the fusion trucks that started boosting interest and awareness in this new trend. Who now hasn't heard of some Korean/Asian-Latin fusion truck, filling copious tacos and burritos with oriental chile-spiced pork and short ribs. And it doesn't stop there, one can easily look and find trucks that fill their tacos with Indian, Italian, French, classic US ingredients, not to mention the many Fish Tacos, and a whole buttload of trucks that just fill their menus with who knows how many different fillings, familiar and not. These are the jazzed up forerunners of our food truck world, having begun the trail of innovation whilst offering delicious, palate-teasing options in tortilla packages (masa, flour, corn, you name it). They aren't usually as cheap as the traditional, but one can find more versatility and trendy excitement to hit their current cravings.
Example: Seoul Taco in St. Louis
Hamburger and Slider Truck
Whether they're thick, flat, stuffed, or stacked; piled with the oddest of ingredients, more meat, or a simple slice of tomato and cheese; put between sesame seed, pretzel, or English muffin bun; the fact of the matter remains, we just can't seem to get enough of the gloriously grilled ground meat patty that is the burger can we? They're featured in restaurants across the country, from the simplest dives to the fanciest Vegas hotels, so it only makes sense that they've graced the truck scene to such a similar degree. Sliders are popular in almost every sort as a more portable version, but despite the mess the bigger burger trucks still garner excess popularity with their juicy, savory sandwiches. There are of course different styles (my own city has one purely evocative of the old 50's diner burger, but with cooky toppings, superimposed next to one that's completely thick meat-focused, pretzel bun monsters), but the focal point is always the same.
Example: Baby's Badass Burgers in Los Angelas (and other locations)
Hot Dog Cart
Well, hot dog and Sausage cart. These vendors often display the heights of portability, both in their own tiny carts able to move to any street corner (within permit regulations of course), as well as they highly ease-of-consumption food that is the classically encased sausage stuffed between a hot dog bun. Highly classic wiener carts are still seen to much acclaim, and have bolstered many franchise opportunities for people to start their own small business and make their own happy living career. However, there's also been quite the emergence since the truck-craze started of contemporary, hand-made wieners and sausages by individual entrepreneurs and restaurants alike. Often offered with their own homemade pickles, mustards, ketchup and other condiments, perhaps with a side of their own hand-fried potato chips (this is making me hungry, wish the sausage cart that's in my city was closer), these have offered a new height to the experience. Of course, not all dog-based businesses keep small; some still vend from a bigger truck or, in a particular case, a giant purple bus that slung out organic hot dogs piled with the most delicious toppings of beet slaw, mango relish, and other homemade delights. And that's just the start, for if there's anything we can learn from trends in the food truck world, it's the simplest and most basic of foods that can be (and often have been) adapted and offered in a variety of fashions.
Example: Dante's Inferno Dogs in Seattle
Pizza Slinger
Despite the often-cumbersome vehicle requirements, and relative mobility lack, required in a pizza truck, one can often find at least a couple of these vehicles in every major truck city. Though many could easily cook a pizza out of a regular or long, baking-style oven, most pizza truck owners insist on the use of a large, portable wood-fired oven for quality. These are usually attached at the end of a trailer or stuffed inside the already small space in one way or another. However it happens, either way it results in crispy charred crust, melty cheese, and the goodness of whatever other toppings they inspire.
Example: TRU Pizza in Minneapolis
Banh Mi Belter
Easily the most interesting discovery popularized by the food truck craze, the Banh Mi sandwich is now a much loved items throughout the states. Vietnamese in origin, this pickled-veggie-slaw, cilantro, cucumber, jalapeno, and meat(often pork and pate)-stuffed baguette sandwich, when done right and with the proper crispy bread, turns into many a person's favorite lunch time item. Often featured with Vietnamese and other asian-inspired trucks (and some pork/bacon focused ones), this trend has quickly moved to launch operations based solely on different versions of this munchy sandwich, sometimes served alongside Boba Tea. And its fan bases always have their favorites; I still have yet to find a bahn mi more satisfying than the first truck I've ever been to.
Example: Lone Wolf Banh Mi in Tulsa
BBQ Delights
As neighborhood festivals and events had drawn center for various bbq catering tables, a-la the sorts of groups one would find in competitions, so did some of the new food-focused business owners start serving their fare out of a truck. In fact, next to the Taco trucks, BBQ Catering Trucks were likely the second major category to notably enter the streets. I can't count how many Jamaican BBQ, Pulled Pork, and other such vehicles I've seen at the random jazz festival held in random city suburbs. These have of course made a fast transfer to the city streets, especially in the southern states, offering vehicles both plain-colored and flashy with loads of smoked pork, beef, and turkey offered with traditional sides. The good ones are usually quite big to allow space for the required smokers, along with the retail prices compared to other trucks (bbq food almost always more expensive, whether it's restaurant or mobile).
Example: RedEye Barbeque in Durham
The Fried Foldover
They may be known by many names and many styles (though interestingly enough most of those names are almost identical), but their forefronts have decorated the sides of many vendors, the deep-fried pockets of goodness drawing our delights. Empanada trucks offer a relatively quick-production lunch, being filled with everything from classic Ecuadorian stews to hamburger and mac+cheese. We can also see this style of food in various other fried dumplings, larger pastries (or 'pastie' as the british term dictates, god they're good), breaded pieroshkis, and its many other reincarnations. All of which only needs the simplest of equipment in the truck to produce, whether it's a friar or oven, before service.
Example: The Empanada Truck in Miami
Grilled Cheese-Catessans
Crispy, melty, rich, the heart and soul of our childhood has achieved a lot of attention in the past decade, having many a restaurant and food truck focused on updated Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soups for the grown-up life pop up. Stuffed in different breads, with a variety of cheeses and accompanied by whatever one desires in meat, spices, veggies, or who knows (I've even had dessert grilled cheese made out of donut buns and marscarpone-based centers). The success and practicality of these have skyrocketed; not only in simplicity of production (all they need to do is butter and griddle the bread of the pre-made sandwiches), but in customer love and nostalgia. I remember waiting very patiently for my own city to finally garner its first truck or restaurant of this style; I didn't care which it was, so long as we got one! And now am I happy it's finally here.
Example: Dadz Grilled Cheez in Philadelphia
Sandwiches Galore
Though we've mentioned Bahn Mis and Grilled Cheese, the fact remains that sandwich trucks as a whole are close to eclipsing most any other style in choice of business. Whether it may be seen as laziness, a way to offer up an approachable way for the lunch crowd to try their cuisine-of-choice, or something in between, sandwich truck owners offer up a variety of wares within the simple confines of two piece of bread. They may be simply sliced cold, grilled, panini'd, or however, the fact remains that these extremely diverse food styles nonetheless all share the same stylistic brotherhood. It's simply one of those options that we always keep a certain favorite in for the boring Wednesdays; I myself found an Italian sandwich truck lately that I simply can't wait to get back to.
Example: Home Street Home in St. Paul
Not quite as extensive as the other businesses in this list, but it'd be difficult not to find some truck that focuses on the classic cold wraps, burritos, or some other item involved with a filling being completely enfolded in some tortilla substitute. Tight, easy to hold, quick to assemble (not counting any filling cooking time that may be needed), these have provided one of the ideal street foods… so long as they don't cut them in half before serving (isn't that just annoying when you're trying to eat and walk at the same time!? I mean come on!).
Dessert Vehicles
They might not be as numerous as savory trucks, but the world of sweet-based vehicles has garnered a huge customer base. These trucks come in many styles, but there are a certain few that seem to keep standing out.
Ice Cream
I'm not talking about the old-school popsicle sellers with music ringing (though there are still certainly plenty of those), but the bevy of vans rolling out with hand crafted, smooth, creamy frozen custard made to be piled on top of a fresh waffle cone. Whether the flavors are rich and classic or vibrant and new, one simply can't argue with the wonders, mobility, speed, and affordability of an occasional ice cream treat. Oh, and don't forget all the shaved ice trucks out there.
Example: Van Leeuwen Ice Cream in New York
The trend for cupcakes in news started with Sprinkles, moved to a Food Network competition show, and now onto food trucks to join other vendors selling cookies and who knows what else. It's not a surprise this trendy item in the foodie world found itself on the mobile scene, spreading to most cities to display the creativeness of aspiring bakers. Now it's only seeing how long this trend will last.
Example: Cupcakery in Boston
Their stands plague the France's streets (not that I'm complaining), and the folded pancake has come to find yet another new home in stands on wheels where the hot cooking stones can travel to different locations. They may also offer savory delights, but really our true cravings, especially for the highly mobile folded ones, come in the sweetened varieties filled with fruit and/or chocolate. So fast and easy to consume too (least it should be).
Example: Holy Crepes in… Gaithersburg?
There are of course many, many other culinary and truck trends that have seen plenty of revitalizations throughout the country in one form or another. Going through every single one of these that could potentially qualify in this list could end up an immense undertaking for anyone. At the end of the day though, all that matters is what suits your own taste buds; as a customer, which trucks drive you crazy with hunger? As a potential owner, what is it that you really want to cook, and how will you make it happen on the streets? The classics are here for a reason, but they had to be new and different at one point before they became traditional. Maybe this list will have a few more unexpected additions in a few years.


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