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Your Attention To Detail
Your attention to detail will make a massive difference to both your marketing and to your business.
My wife and I were away last week in the West Country.
We stayed mainly in B&Bs which were generally really nice.
To get traffic to their websites, they have to be on the major portals – Booking.com and Hotels.com.
They live and die by the customer ratings they receive and a couple of owners told me how one poor review can have a massive impact on their score.
The equivalent for your business is testimonials.
They provide the social proof that potential customers are looking for.
So remember to chase your customers for a testimonial as you can never have too many positive comments from happy customers.
However my wife and I were discussing what it takes to get those really good reviews – the 10/10 scores.
These days we take the basics for granted:
- A comfortable bed
- A good breakfast
- Spotlessly clean room
- A decent sized TV
Once the basics are in place it's the little touches, the attention to detail, that makes the difference:
- Nice quality toiletries
- Soft fluffy towels
- A carafe of drinking water
- Some nice biscuits
- Being offered a cup of tea when you arrive
- Warm and friendly hosts
None of these things are very expensive but they make a real difference.
It all comes down to the care, attention and love that you bring to your business and as one of our hosts said "providing a service that they would want to experience themselves".
So what should you do to ensure your business is delivering the right level of service at every stage of the customer journey?
Break your business down into chunks representing each stage of the process a customer will go through when dealing with your business.
Then look and see if there is something extra that you can add in that will make the experience more professional, more impressive, more valuable and more memorable.
If you're struggling to identify what you need to do, go back to my B&B owner and ask yourself what would you like to experience at every stage of the transaction.
I'm sure the main elements (the comfy bed) are already in place and you probably just need to add a few little touches.
It's this attention to detail that your customers will remember and will ensure they give you the 10/10 mark.
If you need help with any aspect of the process, give me a shout on firstname.lastname@example.com or call me on 01483 200387.


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This post is inspired by my beautiful daughter in law Natasha (Tash, or Trashy as Kyel calls her), she just loves anything from the 1950's.
After the second World War, there was a movement to have women go back into the home and the kitchen, to do "women's duties" raising their children cooking and looking after the house.
1950s fashion was an enormous part of this movement. Unlike the severe styles of the 1940s clothing, 1950s fashions emphasized femininity, with softened shoulders, stilettos, wrist length gloves and full circle skirts with petty coats and pearls. Even working women's outfits hinted at femininity, with pencil skirts and tiny hats with veils and feathers.
In truth, the New Look for 1950s women originated in the 1940s, with Christian Dior's collection Corolle. This collection was a complete contrast to the severe, "make do, and fix " aesthetic of 1940s fashion with full skirts, softened shoulders, a tight waist, emphasizing the bust and the hourglass shaped figure, thus creating the perfect feminine figure.
Dior went on to invent more haute couture 1950s fashions, including names like the Princess Line, Profile Line, A Line, and the H Line. His influence remained high all through the 1950s and Other fashion houses were forced to follow his originalities.
However, this perfect female figure was not possible in nature. Corsets, and "corselettes" made a comeback at the same time that those horrid conical bras became popular. " Advertisements described them as "comfortable," and even "innovative."
When Tash was thinking about her kitchen tea, she wanted all attendees to dress up in the 1950's, everyone looked fabulous. And for Mother's day last year, Mummy, Tash and I had a high tea at the Duxton. The experience was wonderful with lovely petit fours. For Tash's birthday she wanted to do the high tea idea again, this time with a 1950's theme. The girls (Tash and her friends) all wore dresses with the 1950's in mind.
She showed me a Facebook page of a lady in Bunbury Red Leopard Photography http://redleopardphotography.com.au/ who does 1950's photography and has decided that she would love one of these photo sessions for her birthday and I decided that I would love to join her

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Trash compactor
Trash compactor
The trash compactor is a world object in the Fallout 3 add-on Point Lookout.
This still functioning trash compactor uses pneumatic pressure to crush basically anything that is placed inside. During Thought Control, the player can throw the cogwave jammer into the compactor instead of placing it on the Wonder Wheel.
The trash compactor only appears in the Fallout 3 add-on Point Lookout.


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Hi Stampers,
Today's card is for this weeks Merry Monday July Challenge Anything Goes. Sometimes I like to use stamps that are not traditionally for Christmas like the wine glasses. This stamp set is very versatile though as it does have Christmas images for accessories and a nice sentiment that goes with the set. It was fun to do a CAS card and use some Glimmer card to bling it up a bit. Hope it gives you some inspiration to make some Christmas cards, don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Team. Also entered into Hazel's CHNC Challenge Extra for July.
Stamps: S/U's Happy Hour,
Card and Papers: Whisper White, Champagne, Red and Silver Glimmer Card
Ink: Real Red, Garden Green, Stazon Black
Finishing Touches: 1/8" Real Red Ribbon
Cool Tools: Stamp-a-ma-jig, Scoring Tool, Dble Sided Tape, 2 Way Glue Pen
Thanks for dropping in today.


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Sinners and Saints radio provided a timely topic for this week's show: the Republican primaries. I must say, that I am not excited about the selection this time among the Republican candidates. I liked Michele Bachmann the best, but she dropped out real early on. I liked her because she was the only one consistent on her issues, which I agree with. She is also kind of boring.
Then I thought Herman Cain might be good. I also heard that his foreign policy would have much to be desired. Then his past love affairs hit the fan, and the media shamefully defrocked him while lionizing Newt Gingrich who shows no remorse for his infidelities.
Now, one by one, the candidates drop out, and it seems I'll make the same decision I made four years ago and vote Romney. His Mormonism is not a deal-breaker for me. Mormons are strong, moral people, and although they have no basis for their morality, they still have fine morals even as they have zeal without knowledge. They are lost souls, but they'd be good leading the country.
The peanut gallery on Sinners and Saints also mentioned issue that I'd never thought of before. I'm still happily a one-issue voter, that issue being pro-life. I refuse to vote for someone who is not dedicated to ending legal abortion, even in the rape and incest cases. Murder is murder no matter how the baby was conceived.
With that behind, I would like to find a good Christian. Romney is not that guy. If I vote for anyone else, it will probably be Rick Santorum, although he also does not have the charisma to trump Barack Obla-bla, though he'd be a fine president and I won't have voted for him before.
Back to Sinners and Saints, the guys mentioned finding someone who is not so eager to go to war. It's how Obla-bla got elected, though he brought us into more wars when we should just mind our own business. I do feel like the war on Iraq was just, but could never prove it. It was more preventative, and we prevented what we wanted to prevent. However, just as many lives are lost as there would have been had Saddam survived and had nuclear weapons. It seems we'll never be out of there. As a good Republican, I support capitol punishment, guns, and just war, but I don't want someone who associates the GOP with guns and rednecks. We need sanctity for life that has been born and has grown up. Can we have that sanctity if we are so eager to see who we can whoop next? I do believe it is time to fight the likes of Iran and North Korea, but we should not be happy about it.
They also mentioned the gay marriage issue. We should never allow it as homosexuality is not only gross, perverted, against the Lord, but it also prevents reproduction and causes a nation to weaken as we lose our numbers. It tears down a society. Just ask Sodom and even ancient Greece. And back to right-wing Christian issues, it's a tragedy to give an innocent child to be raised by a gay couple and grow up sexually confused himself. We'll have more Lady Gagas and Baby Monsters on our hand than ever if we promote gay marriage. Mitt Romney, although pro-life, has helped gay people get married in Massachusetts. And he hasn't been consistent with his issues.
Santorum is consistently pro-life, but he also believes in welfare programs and has supported pro-choice candidates in the past at the expense of really excellent pro-lifers. I still think he'd be a good vote, but if I vote for him, will it just keep Obla-bla in the White House.
All I know is I'll take anyone over Ron Paul or Newt Gingrich. I'd even have a hard time choosing them over Obla-bla, who we desperately need to oust.


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In sports, winning one championship makes a team historic. Having consecutive titles is what turns mere teams into dynasties.
With its second NCAA Championship in a row — and its third in four years — the Cal women's swimming team is on the verge of becoming the next swimming dynasty.
This past weekend, the No. 1 Bears overmatched other top teams such as Georgia, USC and Stanford. They scored 412.5 points, far surpassing the second-place Bulldogs, who tallied 366.
"I wasn't in the last race, so I was sitting up in the stands, and we just could not help but smile," said senior Shelley Harper. "We have never had to fight so hard, so this feels really good."
The dominating performance at the NCAA Championship was the result of a full season of struggle and preparation.
Cal took care of its first four dual meets and won the Arena Invitational, but the squad did not face a ranked team for the first half of the season.
Although the Bears were winning, the coaching staff felt that the team was still in need of more improvement to repeat as champions. Cal spent winter vacation in Hawaii working to fix any issues the swimmers were having and get on the same page. After the break, the team had a new mindset as it began to face much more competitive teams.
"We tried to emphasize that this was its own year and that we should focus more on swimming the best that we can and not winning," said associate head coach Kristen Cunnane. "I think that gave the girls the freedom to race, and we knew that if we performed at our best, the wins would come."
As the season progressed and the swimmers began to find their roles on the team, the wins, as Cunnane predicted, rolled in. The team worked its way to a 7-0 record going into its final dual meet, looking for its first perfect regular season since 2006.
Instead of riding their momentum to a historic finish, the swimmers came out flat and lost, 174-126, at Stanford.
"They really creamed us," Harper said. "In the end, I think it was good for us because it showed us that we were not invincible."
The blowout loss against the Cardinal came at the worst possible time. Instead of building up steam for a national title run, Cal faltered.
"We talked about it," Harper said. "We recognized that we were not at our best and that at each practice we needed to do something that would help us win the next meets."
Following the Bears' disappointing loss came a brilliant performance at the Pac-12 Championships, where Cal rebounded from the Stanford loss to win the tournament and regain its rhythm in time for the NCAAs.
The squad plowed through the championship meet and earned itself the right to be considered a dynasty.
"This is important for us in a sense because we know that what we are doing as coaches works," Cunnane said. "Our techniques are working, and we know we can win."


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Oakland, Berkeley, And East Bay News, Events, Restaurants, Music, & Arts
The Oakland teachers' union abruptly ended contract talks with district officials yesterday and said it would not continue bargaining, according to district spokesman Troy Flint. Oakland schools Superintendent Tony Smith said in a statement that he was "disappointed" in the teachers' union decision. He noted that under the latest budget proposal from Governor Schwarzenegger, Oakland schools will have to cut $100 million from its unrestricted budget next year — following $40 million in cuts in the past two years.
Stories you shouldn't miss:
1. Oakland's violent crime rate plummeted by 14.1 percent in 2009 — nearly triple the national average, the Trib reports. In addition, violent crime is plunging at an even greater rate this year. However, plans to lay off at least 180 police officers to bridge a $30 million budget gap could reverse the downward trend.
2. State Democratic leaders are proposing to raise taxes by $4.9 billion, including increasing corporate taxes by $2.05 billion, to balance California's budget, the Chron reports. Governor Schwarzenegger, however, likely would veto such a plan if it gets through the Legislature.
Stories you shouldn't miss:
1. Oakland police have been banned from amateur boxing matches after a melee broke out Friday night during a "Badge V. Badge" event in Sacramento, the CoCo Times reports. OPD officers apparently became upset after losing three straight boxing matches to law enforcement officers from other agencies. The incident appears to have inflicted a black-eye on the department, although some say it has been overblown.
2. Fremont's chances of landing the Oakland A's apparently were snuffed out when Tesla Motors, the electric car manufacturer, announced that it was moving into the old NUMMI plant, the Fremont Argus reports. Although Fremont officials were ecstatic about the Tesla announcement, they also had hoped the A's would be interested in building a new ballpark at the NUMMI site. But with Tesla moving in, it now appears that the battle for the A's is down to Oakland versus San Jose.
After the Oakland Athletics swept the San Francisco Giants out of the East Bay following a 3-0 victory today, rather than listen to the post-game celebration on the A's radio station, a.k.a. Two-tin-cans-tied-together-with-a-string, we instead tuned in to hear the post-mortems on the Giants station. It sounded like the tastiest sour grapes you can imagine.
Stories you shouldn't miss:
1. An Alameda high school student and several school districts have sued the state, alleging that California's system for funding public education is unconstitutional, the Island reports. Alameda Unified joined in the lawsuit, which alleges that California does not provide enough money to public schools to pay for statewide educational mandates.
2. Tesla Motors, the electric car manufacturer, has purchased the old NUMMI auto plant in Fremont and will build vehicles there thanks to Toyota's decision to invest $50 million in the company, the Merc and Chron report.
Stories you shouldn't miss:
1. The City of Oakland is seriously considering laying off 180 police officers to bridge a $42 million budget gap, the Chron and Trib report. The city also is hamstrung by Measure Y, because it requires that Oakland lay off 67 cops funded by the voter-approved initiative before laying off any regular officers. It should be interesting to see if the police officers' union will agree to more compensation concessions rather than watch fellow cops lose their jobs.
2. The City of Richmond, meanwhile, should avoid layoffs this year because of the settlement agreement with Chevron, the CoCo Times reports. Under the agreement, the oil giant will pay the city $10 million more this year in taxes than previously scheduled.
Oakland Mayoral candidate Don Perata has donated at least $75,000 this year from his cancer-research committee to East Bay nonprofits that have nothing to do with the cause for curing cancer — but are run by his former campaign treasurer and close confidante, Jill Cabeceiras. Sources also say that Cabeceiras is Perata's former girlfriend.
Stories you shouldn't miss:
1. Jerry Brown called Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner "the apostles of darkness and ignorance" during a rare campaign event yesterday, the Chron reports. Brown, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for governor, also said that all the mudslinging by the GOP gubernatorial rivals has been "intellectually embarrassing." Yesterday, Poizner unveiled an ad accusing Whitman of peddling porn as CEO of eBay. For her part, Whitman may have received the kiss of death when ex-Vice President Dick Cheney endorsed her. Plus, her claim that there's $7.5 billion in annual fraud in state services for the poor seems bogus.


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The College receives complaints from members of the public. This can include patients, colleagues, family members, third party payors and others. Complaints can be made by contacting the Associate, Professional Conduct at firstname.lastname@example.com or 416-591-3828 ext. 227 or 1-800-583-5885 ext. 227. After you have made a complaint online, you will receive an email to confirm that your complaint has been received and a copy of the information you have submitted.
Complaints can also be sent to the College by mail:
College of Physiotherapists of Ontario
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Confidential fax: 416-591-7758
Once they have all of the information that they need, they will make a decision which is sent to both the complainant and physiotherapist in writing. In most cases, if the complainant and/or physiotherapist has concerns with the investigation or decision they can ask the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board to review the matter.
Access additional information about the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board.
Sexual abuse of a patient is defined in law as sexual intercourse or other forms of physical sexual relations between the physiotherapist and the patient; touching of a sexual nature, of the patient by the physiotherapist, or behaviour or remarks of a sexual nature by the physiotherapist towards the patient. Sexual abuse of a patient by a regulated health care provider is not permitted.
The College may receive this type of information from the patient directly, a friend or family member, another health care provider or the employer of the physiotherapist. Each one of these concerns is thoroughly investigated. This can be very difficult for the patient in question and the College will do whatever it can to support the patient throughout the process.
In Ontario, each health regulatory College is required to have a program which provides funding for therapy and counselling for patients who were sexually abused by members of that College. The Patient Relations Committee Of the College oversees the funding.
Contact the Associate, Professional Conduct at email@example.com
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The legislation which governs the practice of physiotherapists in Ontario. The second part of the legislation is called the Health Professions Procedural Code (Schedule 2).
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The complainant and the registrant who are involved in the complaints process.
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Professional Misconduct Regulation:
The College's Professional Misconduct Regulation provides an overview of acts that are considered professional misconduct.
Sexual Abuse of a Patient:
Sexual abuse of a patient by a physiotherapist means,
(a) sexual intercourse or other forms of physical sexual relations between the member and the patient,
(b) touching, of a sexual nature, of the patient by the member, or
(c) behaviour or remarks of a sexual nature by the member towards the patient.
Sexual nature does not include touching, behaviour or remarks of a clinical nature appropriate to the service provided.
Where a physiotherapist's professional care of a patient displayed a lack of knowledge, skill or judgment or disregard for the welfare of the patient of a nature or to an extent that demonstrates that the physiotherapist is unfit to continue to practice or that the physiotherapist's practice should be restricted.
Where a physiotherapist is suffering from a physical or mental condition or disorder that makes it desirable in the interest of the public that the physiotherapist's practice be subject to terms, conditions or limitations, or that the physiotherapist no longer be permitted to practice.
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Professional Misconduct Regulation
Health Professions Procedural Code (Schedule 2 of the RHPA) Section 25-35, Complaints process
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When preparing your submission for the College, you should:
Your status as a physiotherapist is not affected as a result of a report being submitted to the College regarding your practice unless the matter proceeds to the Discipline or Fitness to Practise Committee for a hearing and a finding of professional misconduct, incompetence or incapacity is made. Effective July 1, 2015, the following Committees' decisions will be made available to the public:


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Who wouldn't want a den? There is something primeval about dens and hideaways, perhaps due to the basic human need for a private space that you share with only a select few.
Children create dens from an early age, for themselves, siblings and gangs of friends. The project can go on for weeks or months: especially finding things to make it with, be it old sacks as a rug, a wooden box for a stool, stones and pebbles for a path. Encourage them! Apart from anything else, you will know where they are during the long school holidays. In a wet summer, having a dry place to go outside helps keep all of us sane.
When we grown-ups design dens for our children, it isn't quite the same. Richard Craven, designer-maker of fantastic tree houses and follies, has made a fabulous cabin with a brick fireplace and two-storey tower for his children. He says they never bothered with it until years later, "When they discovered beer, fags and sex".
A den 'play area' (Pic: Marianna Majerus)
Even a dense bramble bush can be hollowed out, Richard suggests, and made into a superb den. If you carve out the middle to create a tunnel to gain access, you may get the odd scratch along the way, but these are just "badges of honour". Roughly shape the top and throw a piece of plastic over it, which you can then hide with branches, dried long grass or camouflage net. We made a great den just by hollowing out the inside of a massive clump of bamboo, adding a skull and crossbones flag, and formed a firepit close by. Raffia and willow wands are wonderful materials to give it a bit of shape and substance, to define the edge or entrance. A structure like this can keep several of you dry and happy. As the gardener, you might not be thrilled at having your finest clump of phyllostachys trampled in the middle, but it is worth allocating this as a "play area".
When my children were young I gave them their own bit of garden. Even in a small garden, if they have their designated space it does take the pressure off the more horticulturally rich parts.
In most families, children probably spend more time in the garden than anyone else, and the outdoors has infinitely more potential for play. You may as well let them exploit it to the full.
A woven willow den in the woods (Pic: Marianna Majerus)
Take your cue for den design from the area – the "genius of the place". Maybe there is a hollow that could be the beginnings of a partially sunken structure, a tree to put a basic tree house around, or a low horizontal branch that could form the apex of a roof to stretch an old tarpaulin over.
Try to use local materials. Maybe some trees need their canopies raised; you could remove the lower limbs now (with a mini handsaw) and they may well be of manageable and usable size. Old pallets, old hazel, willow or trellis panels are all highly salvageable – I even saw a converted dog kennel once that had been transformed into an amazing tree house.
Older children especially want to be away from the house, wilder and more private. If you have no informal, shrubby spaces, they do not take long to grow, and different-coloured stemmed, shrubby willows such as Salix alba var. vitellina, with its yellow stems, hazels and native viburnums, will grow in pretty much anything from bog to hard core and spring back after intense trampling. I often simply shove willow stems in the ground, and even at this time of year they will root with a bit of watering. Leaving a strip of grass to grow long provides cover.
A modern urban den (Pic: Marianna Majerus)
Shepherd's huts are all the rage, being used for anything from spa treatment rooms to luxury camping. We made one from someone's discarded garden shed, raised it off the ground with pretend wheels and gave it the iconic curved roof by putting three plywood half rounds on the top and covering them with canvas. We went slightly mad with the colours – it must have been a hot summer! It was fitted with bunks and made a great place for sleepovers.
In really confined spaces, it may be easier to go up a level, as it can be less noticeable. For a tiny London garden, we made a den on top of a garden shed. We sunk the ground level in the shed so it was about a foot below ground. That way we managed to get a flat-roofed den on the top without having to apply to the planning authorities. We disguised the flat roof by putting castellation around the top and set the structure within a pergola.
Den of twigs and branches (Pic: Marianna Majerus)
Even making a mini hedge house, so the den is elevated (a pallet on four posts for the base, perhaps), allowing you to carry planting under and around, can make the den more exciting and easier to disguise. You could buy instant trees if necessary: Barcham has instant, bushy multi-stem 2m-high coppiced hazels and willows for £110. Plywood offcuts are often a great buy. You could form the roof and sides from this and disguise them by nailing on, with panel pins, thin slices of log rounds cut only a centimetre thick or so with a jigsaw or similar. Or pin on vertical pieces of hazel or willow butted together tightly. A pitched roof usually looks best, maybe ply again but clad with thin bundles of willow laid side by side, or square timber offcuts that look like shingle tiles. Otherwise, a camouflage net hides a multitude of sins.
Try not to get too carried away and take over; try to remember who this den is really for. Maybe get one of den maker Richard Foxcroft's fine oak hammocks (Hertfordshire Hammocks) to snooze in nearby.
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even though i know that sam doesn't really need any more trucks, i'm totally tempted by this one on etsy.this one is more than we'd spend, but i could totally see him having a blast loading and unloading and spending hours driving it around.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
for anyone who doesn't do facebook
i shared these videos of sam on facebook earlier today.
this boy cracks. me. up.
just in case this needs a little clarification, he was listening to "five little monkeys" and singing along.
here he was watching the tractor tipping scene in the movie cars. notice how he tips over his tractor as the tractors in the movie get scared and fall over. also, you can hear him repeating some of the dialogue.
he knows this movie by heart, and often he'll tell us what part is coming up next and he'll recite the dialogue as it happens.
Friday, November 5, 2010
your life better
here are a few pages and spreads from a new project we've got going on at work. it's a series of small books entitled "your life, better" that will take a fun, quirky approach to finding spirituality in the everyday. these spreads are for the first of our four introductory titles, "20 ways to add more prayer to your life."
this is one of the more exciting things they've got me working on recently—exciting because it's extremely rare that i get to work on anything full-color beyond a front cover, and twice as rare to have a budget for this many images. not to mention that they're pretty much leaving all the image choices up to me! i feel like i've struck a bit of a goldmine.
we've already had the sample pages approved, and the titles are scheduled to hit the warehouse in early may of next year, so…there's a lot of work to be done between then and now, but it should be fun. yay!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
fairytales & meetings
a few photos from my sketchbook of the things i've been doodling (mostly during meetings). i can't remember why i was drawing the three bears, but alice was inspired by my niece-to-be (i've been thinking about what artwork to make for her), and the three little pigs were inspired by oscar (sam loves to hear oscar tell about the little pig). i think i'll have to keep working on these fairytale drawings, as i seem to have a theme going here.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
what to do with your junkmail
for the past few years i've been pulling the stamps off most of the mail i get (both at home and at work).
over the weekend i finally had the chance to sit down and sort out some of the better looking ones. i organized them by theme, and mounted them on some illustration board, and after it was dry, i slipped it into this frame we got out of the discount pile at the local craft store.
easy peasy, and i think it makes a fun display for the table where we normally put the mail for sorting.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
my mother doesn't blog
we interrupt project week to bring you this special update:
my mother (despite much poking and prodding by her daughters), does not have a blog. so on her behalf i'm posting a couple of photos of sam's wonderful, gorgeous, fantastic "grandma quilt".
i thought other people ought to be ooo-ing and ahh-ing along with me. feel free to join in any time now.
we went by the house today to pick up dad/grandpa for a playdate at the park, and mom/grandma said we could take possession of the quilt with the stipulation that i take some good photographs. i took many.
now i just need to remember to burn them to a cd for her.
thanks grandma! it will be well-loved and well-used.
photoshop is my friend
here's another example of something i did for work using photoshop.
the headers for our advent series of igniting readers & leaders newsletters were constructed and illustrated completely in photoshop. with this year's illustration, i didn't even bother to scan a sketch, it was all photoshop all the way.
(had to add a few more for good measure there)
if you can't tell, photoshop is my friend.
Monday, November 1, 2010
photoshop isn't just for photos
until i started blogging, i rarely used photoshop for altering or correcting photos. most of the time it was my go-to choice for making illustrations that i needed for projects at work.
this is an illustration i did recently for a new book on our spring list. it may or may not make the cut, but i like the way it turned out (in its comp stage, anyway). we'll see how the review goes in a few days.
project week
in an attempt to prove that my world doesn't completely (just almost completely) revolve around sammy, i'm instituting project week. all this week i'll be posting about things i'm doing that have no (direct) connection to sam. i'll be showing some work things, some stuff i've been doing around the house, some doodles from my sketchbook, that kind of thing.
however, it probably won't be a complete "sammy-free" week. afterall, how could anyone survive that long without sam?
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
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Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value-added (VA) measures provide unbiased estimates of teachers' causal impacts on student achievement. We test for bias in VA using previously unobserved parent characteristics and a quasi-experimental design based on changes in teaching staff. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that VA models which control for a student's prior test scores exhibit little bias in forecasting teachers' impacts on student achievement.
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Published: Raj Chetty & John N. Friedman & Jonah E. Rockoff, 2014. "Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, American Economic Association, vol. 104(9), pages 2593-2632, September. citation courtesy of
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Why not use your screensaver for something useful liking displaying the time?
The above screensaver was created by a fellow OMG! reader called 'gericom' in response to a comment made on an earlier post by reader Honza Pokorny which sought suggestions on any existing any screensavers that displayed the time.
Taking on the challenge Gericom whipped up several variants of just such a screensaver which, if you're interested, he has made available to install using the .deb file at the link below.
More screenshots and info can be found on gericom's website here.


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Felt like cracking open Clip Studio today and getting my hands dirty with some ink again. It's been a long, long time. A year actually - now that I think on it.
Here's the end result. Not great. Could use a bit more work and care but it was a quickie to refresh my hands.
A page from an uncompleted project. This was done originally in Manga Studio 4. It 's been a long time since I've seen it but I thought I'd crack it open and share. I guess you could say those three guys were in a bad spot.
Morning rough. Will ink this in a moment.


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Animals have been hurt, lost, burned and even killed in the California wildfires and other recent natural disasters. Its awful to watch this happen and not be able to help. But the good news is that you CAN help by donating to the ASPCA.
Want to join me in supporting a good cause this Giving Tuesday? Facebook and Paypal will MATCH your donations on 11/27!! Click here to help animals now!
Im raising money for the ASPCA and your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $500. Every little bit helps. My goal is $500 but Im hoping we can surpass that! Even if you cant donate right now, please share this post on your social media channels so others who can donate will know about it. Thank you for your support. Ive included information about the ASPCA below.
From rescue to recovery to adoption, the ASPCA is there for animals every step of the way. They pride themselves in not just saving lives, but in changing them for the betterand none of it would be possible without the support of animal lovers like you. When you donate to the ASPCA today, you can help them continue to fight for animals on all fronts. Please make a gift right now.
The ASPCA was the first humane society to be established in North America and is, today, one of the largest in the world. The mission, as started by our founder Henry Bergh, is to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States. The ASPCA provides local and national leadership the areas of animal rescue, animals placement, and animal protection. This includes programs like the Field Investigations and Response team that deploys nationwide to address large scale cruelty cases, a Canine Rehabilitation Center for behavioral healing, public policy work to strengthen laws that protest animals, and many other initiatives. Most recently, the ASPCA has been involved in disaster response efforts to help animals affected the Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Michael, and the deadly California wildfires.


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Counter-Terrorism Brainstorming Session and Strategic Plan Between Agencies
Kuala Lumpur
21-23 November 2017
The Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, hosted the above workshop. In her opening remarks, its Deputy Director General II Ms Mazita Marzuki stressed the need for a soft complement to the hard (enforcement) approach in detecting, disrupting, and deterring terrorism. The workshop aimed to develop a way forward by examining current agency approaches on all aspects of counter-terrorism.
Attended by all levels of security services including the military, police, border and infrastructure security, civil defence, medical readiness and psychological preparedness, the participants were divided into five groups;
i. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Materials (CBRNE) and Crisis Management
ii. Aviation, Maritime and Transport Security
iii. Cyber Terrorism and Youth Terrorism
iv. Terrorism Financing
v. Investigation and Legal Aspect / Prevention and Rehabilitation
The participants at the Brainstorming Workshop
Terrorism is one the top security concerns in the region and attacks in the Sulu Sea area have brought this issue to the forefront. According to Brigadier General Dato' Badrul Hisham, Deputy Commander Eastern Command, the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) faces external threats such as kidnap ransom groups, smuggling, Royal Sulu Force (RSF), and sea robberies. The local supporters, sympathizers and informal messengers are the internal threats that have grown more serious over the past few years. Ms Norsyihan MIMA's Centre for Maritime Security and Diplomacy (MSD) noted that maritime crimes require interagency cooperation to counter the region's diverse terrorist groups and extremist tendencies without further alienating populations vulnerable to radicalization. Besides that, it is crucial to strengthen operational activities through planning and implementation in monitoring, control and surveillance.
Maritime Security Group
From Left: Mr Johari Mohamed (Marine Officer of Maritime Industrial Control Division), Representative from Westports Port Police, Brigadier General Dato' Badrul Hisham (Deputy Commander Eastern Command), Norsyihan Jamal (MSD, MIMA) and Representative from Marine Department
The way forward requires more conducive approaches on building anti-terrorism cooperation, including intelligence and law enforcement collaboration, and military-to-military exchanges to improve the effectiveness of countering terrorism. Multi-stakeholder collaboration is essential in combating extremism and requires open engagement with civil society to create awareness. MIMA would like to express its gratitude for the opportunity to be involved in this maritime security discussion.


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LG G4/G5/G6/V20/V30: How To Fix Mobile Data Problems
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More than 700 senior executives and decision-makers from around the world will attend the Maritime Standard Awards (TMS Awards) 2018 taking place at the Atlantis, The Palm, in Dubai, UAE on October 15.
The glamorous black-tie event recognises and rewards achievement within the maritime sector, at an individual and corporate level.
Around 27 Awards will be presented on the night. Most will be selected by an elite panel of judges, handpicked for their knowledge and experience, while others will be chosen by The Maritime Standard team to mark exceptional achievements.
Trevor Pereira, managing director, Maritime Standards, said: "The Awards are now recognised as being the leading maritime awards event in the region, and one of the top worldwide. The partnership we have built with The Atlantis is a significant part of the success story, ensuring that the setting is suitably prestigious and high quality, and we are delighted to be able to confirm that we will be returning here again this year. But while we have a tried and tested operation, we are not complacent, and we will be going all out to make sure that the TMS Awards 2018 are bigger and better than ever before."
Winning an award gives companies and individuals a chance to promote their achievements on an international stage.
Ali Shehab, deputy chief executive, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company, which was named Tanker Operator of the Year, said: "To win an Award at such a prestigious event was truly an honour, and it validated the progress we have made, and continue to make as a company in a very competitive business. It was an extremely professional and well-run event, and congratulations are due to The Maritime Standard for everything they have achieved."
Emirates has been selected as the partner airline for The Maritime Standards Awards 2018. Guests flying in to Dubai from abroad to attend the Awards get special fares on Emirates.
Careem has been selected as the transportation partner for The Maritime Standard Awards. Guests attending the event will be able to avail discounts on fares to and from the event. – TradeArabia News Service


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Would you like to be introduced to my little eggplant family? I think so!
Family portrait.
This is Grandma and Grandpa eggplant. Unfortunately Grandma eggplant developed bad posture when she was younger, and thus has a rather curved spine.
Father and mother eggplant. They're very proud of their little babies!
Baby girl and boy eggplant.
Well there you have it ;) ...don't tell them but I plan on cooking them soon!
Hannah x
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Youth Football Drills – Defensive Line
Youth Football Drills
(Defensive Line)
In our previous Youth Football Drills blog post we shared a Defensive End Box Drill we developed several years back to help teach our Defensive Ends how to properly box. In this post we are going to share a Defensive Line Swim Move Progression Drill that we have used in past seasons to help our Defensive Lineman. Below is an example of a Swim Move:
Drill Setup
- 2 half round dummies.
- 1 Ball
- 1 Cone
- 2 lines facing the coaches with 1 player standing upright 3 yards behind the ball.
Drill Execution
- Demonstrate Swim Technique:
- 3 Point Stance
- First step with inside foot.
- Outside arm to midsection of the dummy.
- Inside arm comes over the top and propel past the dummy.
- The Defense gets into a 3 point stance and on ball movement, executes their first step, then brings their outside arm to the midsection of the dummy, then bring their inside arm over the top and propel themselves to the offensive player where they execute a form tackle. Note: All movements are half speed until the coach is satisfied with the players form.
- Once satisfied with Step #2, repeat going full speed. Note: Switch out the player in the backfield every 5 to 6 reps.
For additional drill ideas for your team, we encourage you to download the CLYFL Youth Football Drill Book, as well as visit our YouTube library of football drills. Our library includes drills for Offense, Defense, and Special Teams. We have even included some Flag Football drills.


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On Friday, February 27, 2015, ARC-Space (*1) invited Dr. Paul Abell (*2) from NASA's Johnson Space Center (*3) to give an Open Seminar at the UBIC 3D Theater.
Dr. Abell is currently involved in NASA's planned 2025 manned asteroid exploration mission, which aims to send astronauts to a near-earth asteroid. At the seminar, he spoke about the significance of the mission, and the strategies being used.
This seminar reminded us of the massive scale of the US space program, which is the world's largest. While Japan is proud of its achievements in asteroid exploration with Hayabusa, the participants seemed to make new discoveries through comparison of the space programs of Japan and the United States. One student who attended the seminar said, "the talk was very stimulating."
Dr. Abell participated in the Hayabusa 2 mission launched last December, as part of the NASA team involved in the project. ARC-Space will continue to work closely with Dr. Abell on Hayabusa 2 and other projects.
Scene from the seminar. The seminar included some striking images (left). Students listening intently to the seminar (right).
Commemorative photo with a model of Hayabusa 2. Dr. Abell is in the middle.


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Now I know I haven't done anything with my eyebrows or with my cheeks but tbh on a day to day basis I don't. In fact there are many days where I don't wear any make up or just a sweep of eye liner.
L-R Real Techniques "Buffing Brush", Rimmel "Stay Matte Foundation" (Ivory 100), Estee Lauder "Pure Color Eyeshadow" (the two browns - 63 Tempting Mocha and 07 Smoky Ember), Estee Lauder eyeshadow brush, NYC "Big Bold Mascara", Avon "Kajal Stick" in Black, MUA "Pressed Powder" in shades 01 for t-zone and 04 for contouring
I really like each one of these products. One of my resolutions this year is to use ALL my make up and toiletries and stop keeping things "for good" so I am using a mixture of all sorts of brands and products at the minute in a bid to de-clutter and just make better use of things so I expect to be making more of an effort each day with how I look. I expect this to last until next
January week.
Do you wear make up every day? What's your routine?
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Month: February 2014
Break The Grip of Shame-"Stand your Ground" Must GO!!
Why We Believe the George Stinney Jr. trial was tainted from the start!
George Stinney's Family Speaks Out! (Why We Believe the George Stinney Jr. trial was tainted from the start!)
Today- February 20, 2014, the Family and Advocates of George Stinney Jr. have decided to release an official statement with regards to their loved one. Their desire to release this statement is not an emotional appeal for empathy but rather our desire to make more public little known facts about this case and our feelings with having to endure this incident that will always be in the background of our lives. In addition this effort is to highlight our belief that we must not hide the past, but apologize for the past, and work toward a progressive future. While we are now fighting to correct this wrong, we want to hope for an America in which all American Citizens can welcome freedom and justice. (Family and Friends)
Clarendon County, South Carolina, -At fourteen years of age George Stinney Jr., a young boy with no criminal record in his entire life, who's name now lives in infamy as the youngest person executed in U.S. History for the "alleged" murder of young two white girls. The case of George Stinney Jr. stinks of circumstantial, unproven and unsubstantiated prosecutorial testimony combined with a host of other injustices. The list of questionable factors is heavy, they include; a Governor who was an alleged White Supremacist , a Defense Tax lawyer who was not trained for Defense of Capital Cases-while preparing for an election that dropped the ball and totally misrepresented Stinney. Also don't exclude the fact that the confession of George Stinney Jr. was never recorded in police files, and Detectives offered the boy ice cream once they were done-also that the statement appears to have been fabricated from start to finish. While these factors may be minimal to some we, believe-they are enough to show and prove that George Stinney Jr. had no chance of a fair trial, and that this case-was tainted from start to finish.
- We believe that the Confession of George Stinney Jr. was a historic miscarriage of justice and according to witnesses and court records the confession of George Stinney Jr. does not exists in any public records. Three Sheriff's offered the boy ice cream once they were done. While at the recent court hearing testimony from a child psychiatrist who said the confession, no matter what it said, is "not reliable."Dr. Amanda Salas, a defense witness, said she reviewed what few documents remained from the case and interviewed Stinney family members to make her evaluation. Salas testified that Stinney was likely suggestible to the white prosecutors and law enforcement who were there for his confession. She also said George Stinney grew up in a culture and in a family that encouraged strict compliance to whites, which may have caused George Stinney to "cave" when questioned by the adults.
- The confession…is best characterized as a coerced, compliant, false confession," Salas said. the confession, no matter what it said, is "not reliable."
- Our research has shown that Governor Olin D. Johnston (an alleged White Supremacist), was mainly responsible for the "railroading," of this case- Johnson was in an election year and directly assigned the Police investigator Mr. S.J. Pratt from Columbia, South Carolina. Still despite many ongoing questions regarding the validity of the officers' testimony and Stinney's alleged confession from local (area) churches, the N.A.A.C.P., and unions who pleaded with Johnston to stop the execution and commute the sentence to life imprisonment, citing George Stinney's age as a mitigating factor but he did not act, instead Johnston allowed the execution to take place. That spring, police details of Stinney's alleged confession were swiftly routed to the governor's office in Columbia. As clemency pleas came in to then-Gov. Olin Johnston, responded with the graphic false, fabricated details were never true claiming they were relayed to him by Mr. SJ Pratt: "George Stinney killed the smaller girl to rape the larger one. Then he killed the larger girl and raped her dead body. Twenty minutes later he returned and attempted to rape her again but her body was too cold." That account, however, is in direct conflict with a recently found autopsy report that did not find evidence of a sexual attack. This account never happened.
- Johnston's letter "had no basis in fact. It was a complete lie," said Manning attorney Ray Chandler, in a recent interview whose law firm is defending George Stinney. A review of the original autopsy report previously buried in state archives and a re-examining of events — potentially puts the case on new footing
- Charles Plowden The court appointed 31-year-old Charles Plowden, a tax commissioner, to defend Stinney. "Plowden had political aspirations. Plowden who had never tried a capital case. Making matters worse, his court-appointed attorney was planning a run for office, putting him in a dangerous conflict of interest that ensured the inadequacy of George Stinney's defense "Plowden was provide enough defense so that he could not be accused of incompetence, but not be so passionate that he would anger the local whites who may one day vote for him."
- The employment and Family relationships are (attached) they further the fact that George had no chance at a fair trial, because all of the inquest jurors were related or worked at the mill for Mr George Burke Sr. who was the mill foreman.
- To this day, no physical evidence that George Stinney Jr. committed the crime exists. His trial — if you call it that —George was convicted and sentenced in one day of court which lasted less than two hours. Prosecution. No outside witnesses were called. No defense evidence was presented. The boy faced his sentence without (us) his family who were forced to move away from the city for fear of lynching from the angry mobs. Stinney Jr. was left to face trial alone 1,000 people-whites only crammed the South Carolina courthouse. Blacks weren't allowed inside. The all-White jury deliberated for all of 10 minutes in between lunch before sentencing him to death by electrocution –All this constitutes cruel punishment.
Family and Advocate Statements:
I along with many believe America is truly a "Great," County, but we (Americans) must be interested in telling truth and not distorting history to suit our own ends. Let us rewrite this wrong, let us, correct history for the purpose of doing what is right. Stinney's name must be cleared
Says, Gregg L Greer (Advocate member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference).
I pray George Stinney, Jr will be exonerated, even as they took his life. It is never too late to clear one's name and correct history. My dedicated support for George Stinney, Jr comes by the endless hours of research of the crime and the background of those involved. Please remember to include Judge Mullen in your prayers that she will pray over this case and know George was entitled to fairness. As a human being we all have rights no matter our age, race or social status. As a human we are all created the same and should be treated the same.
Said, Sonya Williamson (Advocate/Researcher for the case)
This is something that I know. I know my brother is innocent.""Someone has to be the scapegoat," Aime Stinney said. "My brother was the scapegoat." Aime Stinney said she found peace a long time ago. "There is a God who sits high and looks low," she said. "I know that anyone who had anything to do with this will have to come before a just God." Aime Ruffner (Stinney Family, Sister of George)
The Stinney Family only seeks "Justice", "exoneration," and nothing else. My Grandparents did not live to see the day when this case would be recalled to court. We pray the courts accept the evidence that we know has been known to the public all along, and if only people had looked, but given the time in South Carolina (Jim Crow Era) no one cared to seek the truth. The family strongly believes that documents, public records, and just plain common sense all clearly show that George Stinney Jr did not get a fair trial. Seventy years is a long enough time for any family to suffer such a loss. We pray that we won't have to endure another seventy years for "Justice." We need everyone's support in making sure that the Siblings of George Stinney Jr-Charles, Katherine and Amie het the closure that their parents did not live to see. We will not forget the two innocent girls who I'm sure are in Heaven with George waiting for the truth to come out. We believe that they as well, would want the "real" guilty parties revealed and justice finally served.
Norma Robinson (Stinney Family, Niece)
During the time I was doing the time of the research for the book, "Carolina Skeletons," I read various statements from various local people in support of a clemency for George Stinney Jr sent to then South Carolina Governor Olin. The people who all seemed to me as good and decent because I noticed that they had shown an enormous amount of human compassion for George Stinney Jr. which was so unusual to me because it was the time of the Jim Crow Era in America but the statements represented how people of different ethnic and social backgrounds can understand one another and come together. David Stout, (Writer Carolina Skeletons)
It is our Prayer that South Carolina does right by means of Justice, and in the eyes of God, and clear the good name of George Stinney Jr. because George Stinney Jr. is innocent. (Family/Friends)
George Stinney Jr. Rest In Peace!
(All supporting documents can be found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/theloveofgeorge/)
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Review – Willow the Pillow
Sleep is a big topic of discussion in our household, especially when Mr Very Busy is away working, he always likes to know how the girls have slept. We always feel a sense of achievement when they have had a 'good' night. When I heard about Willow the Pillow I was intrigued and wanted know… Continue reading Review – Willow the Pillow


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I have a Z370 Extreme 4 Motherboard and I'm in the process of trying to add an Intel Dual Band AC 8265 Wireless adapter to the M.2 Key E slot located at the top of the board under the plastic shield for the I/O. Problem is there were no screws sent with the adapter and when I looked in my screws box from when I did the build there are no screws small enough to fit into the gold standoff at the M.2 slot. The motherboard box says 3x M.2 screws (optional) so I guess I didn't receive any.
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I always look forward to Monday windows . Windows are so beautiful, even the broken, rusty ones. I've got a bright and colourful window for you today. Why not take a look?
This blue painted window was taken in Greece, on the island of Trikeri. I think very few people will have heard of this wonderful place. Not many Greeks even go there!
Trikeri is a very small island in the Gulf of Volos. It is within easy sailing distance of Skiathos, and close to the large island of Evia – the land mass on the SE of the map. The Gulf of Volos is a wonderful area of Greece, but does not have mass tourism, despite there being an airport at Volos. We spent many fabulous weeks sailing around the gulf, exploring the beautiful harbour villages.
Trikeri is so tiny, there's no cars there. Most visitors will come over from the mainland on a tiny ferry, or taxi boat. There are some holiday homes here, and it is very remote if you want a very quiet place to be! The small harbour has only two or three small tavernas. Here's a photo of the waterfront …..
You can go for some lovely walks through olive groves. There is a large monastery st the top of the hill, with just a couple of priests there now. You can rent a room in the monastery if you feel like a bit of calm and tranquility. You are welcome to enter the monastery and look at the lovely courtyard gardens.
Back by the sea and the taverna, here's a photo of the octopus drying in the cage, to prevent the cats stealing them!
I hope you liked my Monday Window from Trikeri Island.


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I don't know if moms actually have superpowers, but it sure seems like it sometimes. Especially when you can't find something. You can be absolutely convinced you opened every cupboard, looked under every piece of furniture, and scoured every square inch of the house for that item. No luck.
And then mom walks in the room and pulls a Marry Poppins. "Honey, it's right here." Probably in the spot you already checked 15 times. (I'm pretty sure they actually have a secret magical carpet bag where all the lost things live.)
But in reality, they're probably just really good at seeing. Noticing. Paying attention. Because they've had years of practice. Some days, I feel like I'm not very good at seeing. And I'm not just talking about lost keys or important papers, although there's plenty of that going on.
I'm talking about opening every cupboard of my life, looking under every piece of furniture, and scouring every square inch of my soul... for glory. For God. But all I can see are dust bunnies and clutter.
I'm like a child, who "looks" without actually observing. If the thing they're searching for isn't obvious, they give up. But what if they looked behind that expired box of cereal? Or underneath the pile of dirty socks? What treasures might be hiding there?
Some days God's glory is easy to find. Like a picture frame that hangs on the wall and says, "Here I am! Look at me!" Other days, we have to look for it.
We have to slow down long enough to unearth His grace. Glimmering right there underneath the dust bunnies and dirty socks. And you know what? Sometimes even then, we might not be able to see it.
We might need to ask for help. From someone who's had a few more years of practice, learning how to "see." Don't be ashamed to admit to a friend, and to God, "I'm having trouble seeing clearly right now." It's okay. Even our moms with their magical finding powers were once kids who needed help from a grown up.
The good news is, the One we're looking for? He wants to be found. And He always helps His kids when they ask.
"... if you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me." ~Jeremiah 29:13.


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I've been an Imp for far too long. No promotion to my choice of demon, ghoul, or poltergeist until I can get at least one good, messed up murder spree completed. I've sat on many potentially great, terrible shoulders. I've worked the thoughts of many who "coulda-been," but none pulled through. They all went crazy and died before they could do anything.
My first–Bartholomew the Court Jester: he was going to turn all the royalty's heads into hand puppets and put on a performance I called, "The Royal Family at Dinner," complete with 3 acts. He wound up helping some kid pull a dagger out of a rock, changed his hat, his name, and called himself a "wizard." They played "King" and "Wizard" for months until the kid's mom caught on and didn't let them hang out anymore. Bartholomew lost it and ran off to some bog, ate a bunch of toads, and sank in a mudpit.
My 132nd–Morty the Undertaker: age 24, wound up buried alive in a magician's coffin. The magician had actually died; Morty dove in before the funeral to be with 80 year old "Magnificent Vincent" for all eternity. He was supposed to carve out children's spleens and serve them as hors d'oeuvres at their own wakes. He loved the idea. Once I got the cogs in his brain greased up, they started producing even more gruesome recipes than I could come up with. He was the ticket to my promotion. Instead, he fell in love with Vincent who was performing at a little girl's birthday party. That little girl was the first, and only, victim I selected for Morty–he failed to kill her.
I was distraught. Morty was my 132nd failure at making a disturbing serial killer. 133 failures means that I would get demoted and sent back to purgatory. Oh, the paperwork of purgatory. Endless. No shredders. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. Bah.
My last chance was at that party. She was there when Vincent died. Vincent rejected Morty's advances and Morty knew in his heart that he had to be with Vincent forever. He spiked the magician's drink with formaldehyde. Vincent heaved violently before the small girl who had just turned 10. Little girl with hair pulled back in a French braid and eyes the color of damp mulch. She just gazed at him as the glass in his eyes replaced his soul. Then she did the most beautiful thing; she grinned.
It was my invitation into that wonderful, freshly corrupted mind of hers. And she was open to suggestion. I started her off on her brother's G.I. Joes. First task: carving out their eyes and removing their limbs. Second: practice on stray animals. On her 15th birthday, she was ready and I couldn't be more proud! We wandered through her birthday sleepover; she and I were the only ones still awake. All 12 girls were sound asleep. All it took were two simple words: "Jessica, Kill."


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SIB Development & Consulting, a company that helps businesses save money on their recurring expenses, today announced it has been named an endorsed partner by the National Franchisee Association (NFA), an organization that represents nearly 5,000 franchised Burger King restaurants in North America. This partnership could mean millions of dollars in savings for Burger King franchisees.
SIB helps restaurants save money by negotiating better contracts for recurring monthly service expenses (phone, Internet, garbage, utilities, hardware and software maintenance contracts, linens/laundry, credit card processing, grease traps, property taxes, and others), and by finding and correcting errors and overcharges on past monthly bills. SIB's clients only pay after they have realized actual monthly savings.
"We are always on the lookout for programs that provide real value for our franchisees," says Andrew Myers, CEO of the National Franchisee Association. "By employing experts with extensive experience in each of the fields in which they specialize, SIB is uniquely equipped to find savings in virtually any fixed-cost category.
"I am thrilled and proud to be able to present a service to our franchisees that I believe has the potential of putting millions of dollars back into their pockets at a time when every dollar counts."
"We know that the NFA does not offer its endorsements lightly," says Dan Schneider, founder of SIB Development & Consulting. "We are honored to have been selected and look forward to helping Burger King franchisees across North America save money."
Schneider says restaurant owners, especially in multi-unit operations, do not have the time or in-house expertise to find billing errors and to understand the best prices and plans available for their monthly services.
"Not only can we help find and correct complex billing errors, we can benchmark what businesses are paying with what we know are the best available rates and plans on the market," he says. "We have a 98 percent success rate."


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Can a Security Company Provide Public Video Footage?
We recently received a call from an individual who inquired video footage from an outdoor camera from one of our client's business. Apparently, the person's company truck had been robbed in front of our clients' establishment and there was a possibility the crime had been captured by the business' camera. Although we understood this person's frustration, we indicated that we could not provide video footage because this would violate our client's privacy and place their security at risk. On the other hand, we also encouraged the caller to reach out to the building owner that owns the camera and explain the situation. If there was a police report, the building owner can give access to police to view the camera footage. A few days later, the caller wrote a one star review on our company's Google page. This incident led our attention to the need to inform our clients and the public about security cameras' privacy; and to find alternatives to what each party can do if they encounter a similar issue.
From our Company
In order to maintain the highest standards of privacy, we follow a procedure to clearly identify our clients before providing any data request. This information includes account number,emergency contacts, and video footage. This procedure is part of our core values on serving with confidence: "For over 10 years VinTech has worked hard to earn our clients' trust. We've established relationships and built confidence for our clients."
To Our Clients
Most of our clients require video footage when a crime occurs because they want to provide it as evidence to police. Our clients can refer to the instructor's manual or we can assist them by phone walking them through the process (how to review, download, and store footage). It is only when the time frame when the crime was committed is not known or it is too long that we reserve the right to charge a fee. This fee covers the time that our team has to spend reviewing the footage. For example, if a crime is committed overnight, and our client requests that we review footage from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., we charge for the time we spend reviewing the video. If you live in the Chicago area, you can connect your privately own cameras to the city's network. You can find more information by visiting the City of Chicago website and searching for the Private Sector Camera Initiative. In this case, the police would be able to access footage right away if needed. A person who privately owns a camera system, reserves the right not to provide footage from their camera unless presented with an official request by the authorities.
To the Public
If you are a victim of a property crime and believe that a public camera system could have captured it, contact the police to make a report. Once the report has been made, police can access the city's camera system or can request footage from a privately own camera. Have in mind that video footage is usually stored from 14 to 30 days depending on the type of camera storage. Write down the day and approximate time when you believe the crime occurred. Narrow the time as much as possible as this will make the process faster and easier for those who are trying to help you. When an incident like this happens, victims are often frustrated and desire for matters to be solved quickly. In this case, it is important not to forget that these people are doing you a favor and you should demonstrate that you acknowledge this throughout the process.
To better understand the Illinois laws about public privacy go here. http://www.ilga.gov/
legislation/100/HB/ 10000HB0185enr.htm


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Sed in UNIX: File Modification at the Tips of Your Fingers
In UNIX, regular expressions are strings that can be utilized for describing characters in several sequences. Several different UNIX commands use regular expressions including grep, awk, sed, ed and also vi. Here we are going to talk about Sed in UNIX.
Basically, sed in UNIX is a special editor for automatically modifying files. When you want to create a program that can alter a file, the tool to use is sed.
In the UNIX toolbox, sed is a real workhorse. Even with its rich set of commands that perform various actions, sed is a simple-to-use program for different applications, which you can learn more about by taking this UNIX course.
The S Command
There are many commands in sed but many people only learn the 'S' substitute command. This command causes a change in every occurrence of a new value's regular expression. For example, you can change an old file word 'day' into the word 'night' for the new file.
For UNIX beginners, you can use:
You can also change 'day' to 'night' with:
If you want to test the output, which should be 'night,' type:
Keep in mind that sed is line-oriented, so if you have a file input:
Four five six, four five six
Seven six five four
Four thousand
and you type the command:
You would get this output:
FOUR five six, FOUR five six
Seven six five FOUR
FOUR thousand
Look how this changed 'four' to 'FOUR' on ever line. The first line had 'one' 2x, but only the 1st occurrence was altered. This is actually the default behavior. You will need to use other available options if you want something different.
The substitute command has four parts. On the left hand side you have a search pattern, and on the right hand side that is the replacement string.
ONE Replacement string
One Regular Expression Pattern Search Pattern
/../../ Delimiter
S substitute command
Using & as the Matched String
You may want to add some characters like parenthesis and search for a pattern near or around the pattern you found. When you are looking for a particular string, it easy to do this:
In the replacement string, you can have any number of '&.' You can also double the 1st number of a line or any pattern:
Using Slashes as Delimiters
The delimiter is the character after the 'S.' Conventionally, it is a slash. When you want to alter slash names containing slashes, such as in say /usr /local /bin, to quote the slash, you can use the backslash:
Some people use colons:
Other people use the character "|"
When you use underlines instead of slashes, this could be easier to read:
Ranges of Text and Addresses
In sed, the substitute command is treating each line without really altering any of the other lines. The ability to restrict operations to just specific lines is quite useful, and you can use the following restrictions:
All lines between 2 regular expressions
All lines from the regular expression to the file end
All lines from the start of the file to a regular expression
All lines that contain patterns
Using numbers to specify a range of lines
Using its number to specify a line.
Write to File with /w Filename
With /w, you can specify files that get the modified data. This example writes all the lines beginning with even numbers and followed by 1 space to the 'even' file:
Since the input was not modified, the output file is not needed in this example. You need to have exactly 1 space between the filename and the 'w.' You can also have 10 files open, which allows you to split up data streams into separate files. Depending on the first number's last digit, you can split the file into 10 pieces. This method can also be used for debugging information or logging errors to special files.
/p Print
Sed prints every line by default. The new text is printed instead of the old one if it makes a substitution. If you use optional arguments like "sed-n," this won't result in printing a new line. When the option "-n" is used, the flag "p" causes the modified line to get printed out. You can duplicate the grep function in sed with:
/g Global Replacement
Many utilities of UNIX work on files, reading line per line, which you can read more about in this UNIX article. By default, sed is the same way. If you tell sed to change words, it will only alter the first time a word occurs on a line. Instead of just the first word, you may want to change every word in the line.
One example is placing parentheses around the line words. Rather than using a "[A-Za-z]* which will not match words such as don't, you can use a "[^]* pattern, which matches all words and now spaces. Remember that the asterisk means '0' or 'more.'
Sed UNIX Multi Line Patterns
Many UNIX utilities are line oriented, including regular expressions. It is not an easy task to search for patterns the cover more than 1 line.
In a line of text, sed reads from the file input and puts it in the pattern spaces. If the file end is found and if there are extra files you can read, the next file is opened as the current file is closed. The new file's first line is placed into the pattern spaces.
The line count gets increments of one and opening new files do not reset this numeral.
There is then an examination of each sed command. If restrictions are placed on any of the commands and the current pattern space's line meets the restrictions, there is an execution of the command. Some commands like'd' or 'n' result in sed going to the top of the loop. The command 'q' causes sed to stop. Otherwise, there is an examination of the next command. Once every command is examined, the pattern spaces become the output unless sed has the 'n' argument, which is optional. For more on computer languages, you might want to take this Linux course or even this one, entitled Comptia Linux.
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Top 10 Best Muscle Cars
You have car but never heard about muscle car can become a joke of the century. Muscle cars are exciting and all car lovers always want to have at least one in their lifetime. Buying a muscle car can be easy if you know the source and have the money to buy but maintaining a muscle car isn't as easy as it seems and manufacturers strongly recommend that, so beware of that. We have created a list of top 10 muscle cars from all the best muscle cars available on the market and we are sure to satisfy your expectation.
Top 10 Muscle Cars List
In all our top 10 list, we always talk about different maters and this time we will tell our audience about the Top 10 muscle cars. We hope that the car lovers will love this List very much. By reading this best 10 List you can know some basic information about the muscle car.
1. 1969 ZL1 Camaro
In our Top 10 muscle cars list we keep 1969 ZL1 Camaro in the first place. Perhaps one of the rarest of muscle cars, the 1969 ZL1 Camaro featured a jaw-dropping 500 horses under the hood in an aluminum V-8 engine. This bad boy American beast could go from 0-60 in about 5.3 seconds, which was why some of the 69 models made found their way into drag-racing and it comes with amazing vintage sound system and horns.
2. 1969 427 COPO Chevelle
The second muscle car of our top 10 muscle cars list is the 1969 427 COPO Chevelle . A special order by dealers designated Central Office Production Order, the 1969 427 COPO Chevelle had a limited run of about 320 cars and the users can customize the stickers and base design of the car. This 450 bhp muscle car was fitted with a L72 427-cid V-8 due to demand from muscle loving Chevy dealers. It is also one of the most famous drag racing cars in America.
3. 1970 454 Chevelle SS
As the third muscle car of our list of top 10 muscle cars 1970 454 Chevelle SS has its own superiority and appeal . The Super Sport package Chevelle featuring the LS6 package came in at a whopping 454 horse power or HP. The option was standard for the average car buyer of the day making it one of the most powerful stock cars anyone could purchase.
4. 1968 L88 Corvette
1968 L88 Corvette makes our list of best 10 top muscle cars fairly easily because of its unique design and extra ordinary features. Boasting a top speed of about 170 mph with a special order package, the 1968 L88 Corvette is thought to be the end-all, be-all in the Corvette world. The 550 bhp motor was designed specifically for racing and GM didn't want the L88 on the open road due to its power. This 1968 L88 Corvette is one of the smallest muscle cars in the world.
5. 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C
We keep 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C in the 5th place of our 10 top muscle cars list. Thought to have too much power for its chassis, the 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C featured an impressive 480 bhp. This sporty little number looked like a European sports car, yet had the muscle to prove it was American. It is also a super car.
6. 1969 Z28 Camaro
1969 Z28 Camaro get 6th place of the best muscle cars top 10 list. Style and handling capabilities of this car is also smooth like latest models of cars. Perhaps one of the most stylish muscle cars, this Camaro could do a quarter-mile in 14.8 seconds though only at a speed of a little more than 100 mph.
7. 1970 Plymouth Hemi-Cuda
1970 Plymouth Hemi-Cuda is another awesome muscle car to make into our best 10 muscle cars list. The baddest of the 1970 Plymouth Barracudas or Hemi Cudas featured a 425 bhp 426 hemi engine. This muscle car boasted a 0-60 mph in 5.6 seconds and was known for burning rubber without much prompting. A brute on the road, the Hemi Cuda was made for muscle lovers and it has a customized bullet proof version too.
8. 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429
You may not like the looks of 1969 Ford Mustang 'Boss 429 but is a great muscle car to have and many muscle car lovers will agree with us. The 'Boss 429' 1969 Ford Mustang was the costliest non-Shelby Mustang Ford offered at the time and marketed in the European car market along with Asian car market. The reason came down to the semi-hemi 429 engine that Ford wanted to get into NASCAR.
9. 1970 Buick 'GSX' Stage 1
1970 Buick 'GSX' Stage 1 is another muscle car, that can't be ignored while making the top 10 muscle cars list. A beefy Buick, the Stage 1 'GSX' performance package boasted 360 bhp though testers said it came in at closer to 400 for the bigger valved, better headed and hotter camshafted car and marketed into the most competitive Japanese car market.
10. 1965 Pontiac GTO
The tenth and last muscle car of our list of top 10 muscle cars is the 1965 Pontiac GTO. Possibly the one to start the American muscle car craze, the Goat or 1965 Pontiac Tempest GTO option featured racing car options that remained inspirational long after it was out driven in speed and power.


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Natural health with Robyn Griggs Lawrence.
Lately I've been mining the Mother Earth News archive disks for bits of relevant wisdom—which are abundant there. James E. Churchill's advice on foraging and preparing wild foods from one of the earliest issues, September/October 1970, couldn't be more timely right now. Free food is abundant—and could be growing between the cracks in your sidewalk!
"Anyone who lives in the settled regions of the United States should be close enough to chicory to be able to gather all they want," Churchill wrote. Chicory is found in vacant city lots and along most country roads. The plant looks like a dandelion, with slightly wider and deeper green leaves. "In short," he writes, "if you find a plant with leaves like a dandelion and a tall stalk with blue flowers growing out the center, you can be pretty sure you've found chicory."
In spring, trim tender chicory leaves before they are as tall as a tea cup. Sort out dead leaves and grass and wash the remaining greens twice. Drop them in boiling water and boil for about two minutes. Remove, drain and discard the water. (If you don't mind a little bitterness, you may stop washing now.)
Boil the leaves a second time for five minutes. Drain and discard the second water and add a third. Boil for an additional five minutes, drain the water and serve the greens with butter, salt and pepper.
Blanched chicory leaves can be used for a salad and served with your favorite dressing, or they can be boiled like cabbage.
To make braised chicory, thoroughly wash a pint of blanched leaves and put in a sauce pan with a half-inch of water in a saucepan. Salt and add four tablespoons of margarine (so, it was the '70s—we'd use real butter today!) and the juice of a small lemon. Simmer gently for 45 minutes and serve hot in the juice.
Chicory leaves are edible all during the growing season. It is merely a matter of boiling them and changing the water a sufficient number of times to reduce the bitterness to a temperament that you find palatable.
You can also use chicory to make a coffee substitute. Dig the plants and cut off the leaves. Peel the roots, slice them in thin strips and roast in a 250-degree oven for about four hours. Grind the roasted roots and use one teaspoon of ground root for each cup of water. Boil for about three minutes.
Mint grows in open, sunny marshes and fields and is generally easy to find. Mint family plants have square stalks and an obvious minty smell. Churchill says the best bet is to "keep looking and tasting until you find a patch of mint that pleases your palate."
To dry leaves for tea, spread the plants out on a newspaper in a warm place out of the sun. When they are very dry, strip the leaves from the stalks and store them. Brew tea by pouring one cup of boiling water into a tea pot for each teaspoon of dried leaves. Let it steep for several minutes. Mint tea can be made from the green leaves also. Just use twice as many of them.
To make mint jelly, chop or grind 1 1/2 cups fresh mint leaves and stems. Add 3 1/4 cups water. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat, cover and let steep for 10 minutes. Pour through a strainer or sieve to remove the plant parts from the liquid. Measure three cups of the liquid into a saucepan. Add one box of commercial pectin. Bring to a boil. Add four cups sugar. Bring to a high rolling boil, stirring constantly, and hold for one minute. Remove, skim off foam with a metal spoon and pour into jelly glasses. Seal with melted paraffin.
Churchill's father told him that in the 1920s every family had a catnip patch and every housewife knew how to brew a swift cup of catnip tea. "I suppose it was from those gardens that catnip got scattered around like it is because, now in Wisconsin, it's hard to go for a walk without encountering this mint," he wrote. "It was used in the old days to cure colds and stomach aches of all kinds."
Catnip is a member of the mint family, as evidenced by its square stem. Catnip leaves are best picked for tea just before the plant blossoms. The leaves should be dried out of the sun, ground and used in the proportion of one heaping teaspoon of tea to a cup of water.
Catnip tea is never boiled. The leaves and cold water can be mixed together and the water heated to just short of boiling in a covered container. Let it steep then for several minutes and serve with milk and sugar, if you have any.
"Blackberry picking is a delight to the wild food forager," Churchill wrote. "There are not too many plants that will yield as much for as little effort. Some rules to remember are: Protect yourself from biting insects and wear a picking can around your neck."
Blackberries grow on canes 2 to 6 feet in height, often in hardwood forests because they prefer almost the same soil as oak and hickory trees. They also seem to like hilly terrain.
Churchill made a picking can by drilling opposite holes near the top of a discarded coffee can and tying the ends of a cord through the holes so the can will dangle on the lower chest, leaving both hands free to pick, swat bugs or move the thorny canes around.
He includes this simple blackberry shortcake recipe: "Cut" 1/2 cup lard or shortening into 2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar and 2 teaspoons sugar. When pea-sized lumps form, add 2/3 cup milk and stir until dough "follows" fork around bowl. Roll out a half-inch thick dough sheet on floured kneading board and cut with the top of a water glass that has been dipped in flour before each cut. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 10 minutes in a 450-degrees oven. Grind or mash berries and sugar to taste. Split and butter the warm biscuits and ladle sweetened berries over biscuit halves. Serve with whipped cream, if available.
"I don't recommend this recipe for weight watchers," Churchill added.


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Sunday, November 22, 2009
something simple
T'estimo Layered Impact Eyes (discontinued)
Dusty pinks and purples with a subtle elegant sheen
One thing I always marvel at with Japanese cosmetics is how they manage to dress up your eyelids subtly but beautifully. Yesterday at IMATS, MAC Senior Makeup Artist Melissa Gibson said of the MAC MSF: "Its like pantyhose for your face." Thats what I think of when I look at Japanese palettes - their eyeshadows are like pantyhose for the eyes.
Also used Lise Watier pencil liner on the outer 1/2 lashline, a dupe of Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Ransom. Finished off with whatever mascara I had in rotation (This look was from summer!)
9 comments:
- jewels said...
ya love these color, great for the office =)
- November 22, 2009 at 5:30 PM
- J-ezzy said...
WOW, you're so right. It's like pantyhose for your eyes!! You look fabulous :)
- November 22, 2009 at 6:38 PM
- Paris B said...
This is one of my favourite palettes and I did notice that Japanese girls did go for more subtle looks hence the way Japanese palettes look - lovely look btw :)
- November 22, 2009 at 8:01 PM
- Catherine said...
Very pretty look! And I love that description - pantyhose for your eyes! I think it's so true!
- November 22, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- AskMeWhats said...
this look super wonderful on you! very simple yet the impact is WOW
- November 22, 2009 at 9:27 PM
- alien man?! said...
I totally see the "pantyhose" effect and I'm loving it.
i still have yet to try a japanese or korean quad
i remember when korean cosmetics were such poor quality, none of them would sit properly on my face!
looks like i'll have to stock up when i'm in korea next year
- November 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM
- Daituf said...
"pantyhose for the eyes", I love that expression! Describes japanese eyeshadows perfectly!
What a gorgeous palette
- November 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM
- Babybubblz said...
Haha, that's such a cute statement. I really like your subtle looks. You always have me lemming for purples too =)
- November 23, 2009 at 6:57 PM
- Jules said...
interesting swatch !!!
- November 28, 2009 at 5:07 AM


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Johnny Damon has found a new home.
The one-time slugger will play with the Cleveland Indians, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports. He has a full no-trade clause as well as an out clause in the contract that will let him leave if Grady Sizemore returns from the 60-day disabled list, according to Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com. Sizemore is expected to come off the DL on June 3.
Cleveland will be the seventh team in the long career of Damon, who is just 287 hits shy of 3,000. He said throughout the offseason that he wanted to keep playing but did not find a suitor until the Indians.
Damon has played in the majors since 1995, starting with the Kansas City Royals. He spent a year in Oakland before coming to Boston, where he helped the team end its 86-year title drought and win the 2004 World Series. Damon then went to play in New York in 2006, where he remained until the end of the Yankees' 2009 championship season. He played a season in Detroit then joined the Tampa Bay Rays last year.
Damon is a lifetime .286 hitter.


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|Maru's unpretentious dining hall. I love the drop tubes that suck smoke from grilling.
|Parking is free so find your spot quick.
|Clean and bright. Everyone obviously came for the marvelous food.
|An elevated floor sitting area. Colorful striped flat pillows for you comfort.
|Tubes looking like an end of TV cable :) But it works! Everyone's grilling to their heart's content and nobody's suffocating from smoking heat.
|Plates and utensils
|I love this! It's called Banchan (side dish). These are all complimentary! Few minutes after ordering, servers pop one at a time with mini plates. Each of these is can be refilled too.
|Haemul Doinjang: Php350
|Galbisal: Php350
|Greens and dip came with Galbisal
- Their banchan alone is worth coming. Add a soup and juicy meat, it's a perfect meal!
- Price is fair.
- Maru is probably THE Korean resto in the city serving this many side dishes for free.
- Servers work fast, but they see you. Not too chatty. More on action than words. I like it.
HK Sun Plaza, D Macapagal Blvd
Reclamation Area, Pasay
Tel: (02) 836-0404


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