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Financial Adviser Website Design
We build fresh, custom designed Australian Financial Planner websites that attract and convert online financial advice enquiry.
Webbuzz are the people behind Wealthify Lead Generation.
We specialise in generating quality financial planning leads via your website or landing page.
Financial Adviser Web Design and SEO
Drawing on years of experience as web designers and lead generators in financial services, our team will create a fresh, dynamic online presence for your financial advice business. We use 'buyer personas' to build-out user profiles, and then write web copy and curate images to create a 'look and feel' that is extremely appealing to the target market.
By way of example, one of our recent briefs was to come up with a financial website design that generates leads for a financial planning firm specialising in retirement and aged care. We conceptualised the brand, the logo, wrote all the copy and sourced all the photography to deliver a site that is now generating leads every day for the client. The site is responsive across all devices, and has been heavily optimised for conversion and lead capture, with automatic delivery of leads to the client via download of a free eBook pdf.
WebBuzz is a trusted web designing company in Australia. Our financial planning websites use a content management system that is optimised for all digital devices. We usually build the website navigation and design as 'light' and 'clean', with the website itself as very 'dense' and content rich. If the adviser chooses to do Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) we would create many pages of keyword-rich content around (for example) retirement planning, SMSF creation, and financial planning to attract Google searchers.
For larger (or small business) websites we can install a web-based CRM in key website pages to capture enquiry data for conversion into leads for the business. The result is a professional website that can compete with large franchise operations such as MLC and Yellow Brick Road, but has been built at a fraction of the cost.
If you are looking to build a conversion-focused website, you can call us on 1300 41 00 81 or request a custom website proposal by filling in the form at the bottom of this page.
What Our Websites Include
Awesome, professional web design
Easy to use Content Management System (CMS)
Lead generation capabilities (ask below)
24 hour service standard (for fast website updates)
Stunning suite of finance calculators
Desktop, Mobile and Tablet optimised
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Recipes I've Shared:
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A quick, delicious way to get extra protein and healthy fat, without the carbs or calories of real cookie dough.
Creamy and cheesy without the dairy!
Adapted from the Lower Fat Banana Bread recipe in Veganomicon
Modified from my mom's non-veg friendly recipe. Perfect simple side for any garlic lover; creamy and rich without the cholesterol.
Love in a bowl, for breakfast
A new twist on one of my favorite recipes as a vegetarian, now made vegan.
With enough protein to rival some other popular protein bars, but the healthiness of a granola bar with whole grain and fiber, these bars are the perfect after school snack!!!
Taken from recipes here and there, a pretty basic raw, non-dairy cashew cheese recipe.
Adapted from Elie Kreiger's Saucy Salmon recipe : http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ellie-k
Whole food cookies made from little more than almonds and banana.
My family's favorite! Brown rice with sweet toasted corn and red peppers with oil free pan fried tofu. Makes an awesome vegan, gluten free side dish or main event!
From Vegan Lunch Box http://www.veganlunchbox.com/loaf_recipe.c
Vegan? Want Ice Cream? Want to make your own without the hassle of an ice cream maker? Oh, and want it to be healthy?
Have I asked enough questions? Try it, its good!
A high protein, high flavor vegan salad that makes a nice side dish.
A nice healthy vegan appetizer, with an extra protein punch from quinoa.
A fast and easy Vegan and Gluten Free meal for those of us only cooking for ourself!
Something to warm up and re-fuel.
From my blog: www.veganstrong.blogspot.com
Looking for a really simple, really delicious protein smoothie recipe? This is it!!
This recipe was adapted from Nava Atlas' Vegan Express. Super easy!!
Yummy! A great way to add a little bit more protein and healthy fat!
These are slightly adapted from Vegan with a Vengeance. They're really great for breakfast with a some vegan "cream cheese" and a big glass of soymilk.
This is adapted from 'Fat Free Vegan' blog: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2008/03/aspar
I don't like mushrooms, so I wanted to do something different, PLUS I searched for vegan quiche on here yesterday and only got one result, the rest being painfully vegetarian, so I thought this would be a good addition.
To make this I use Hodgson Mill's 'Bulgar Wheat and Soy'. It is a really great low calorie whole grain with extra protein from the soy, and although it is marketed as a breakfast grain (you may find it in your health food section's cereal aisle), you can use it for a lot of things. If you can't find it, you could substitute regular bulgar wheat or even kashi 7 grain cereal.
So simple, easy and tastes delicious. Good for anytime, but is a great post workout snack!
Crunchy and chewy, great option for lunch or a quick dinner.
Recipes I've Rated:
- Vegan Whole Wheat Waffles
- Vegan Brainless Banana Pancakes
- Mexican Rice, Seitan and Veggies over Salad Greens with Guacamole
- Tofu with Thai Curry
- Apple Butter
- homemade protein Bars (Can be vegan as well)
- Vegan Eggplant Parmesan
- Vegan Low Fat Banana Bread
- TVP faux meatloaf
- Indian Tea(kadak) with ginger and cardamom
- Fish and Green Tomato Curry
- Vegan Jambalaya in under an hour?!
- Vegan Lentil Soup
- raw vegan brownies
- Healthy Tempeh Lentil Stew
- Vegan Beef Substitute
- Dark Chocolate Mousse (Vegan)
- Crustless Spinach Quiche
- Rice Pizza-Cake
- Brazilian Baiao de Dois
- Tofu Mini Quiches
- Sliced Baked Apple
- Sesame Noodles with beans and TVP
- TVP Breakfast Meal
- Shay's TVP/Black Bean Chili
- Broccoli Woccoli
- Lentil and Rice Casserole
- Pomelo Salad
- Turkey Bacon Frittata
- Ginger Orange Tofu
- Tofu Fettuccini Alfredo Recipe
- Crockpot Pinto Beans & Salsa
- Tofu Spinach Quiche
- Pasta Fagiole
- Broccoli Chicken Casserole
- Mexican Casserole
- Turkey Meatballs
- Sweet Potato and Black Bean Burrito
- Easy Zucchini Parmesan
- Tofu Broccoli Teriyaki
- Applesauce Oatmeal Muffins
- Refrigerator Muffins

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Event Description
The Half Marathon is a challenging and hilly course covering the expanse on Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and the Civil War era towns connecting them. Expansive views of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers, a loop through Harpers Ferry National Historical Park School House Ridge South, Murphy Farm, Lower Town Harpers Ferry, John Brown's Fort, Bolivar, Storer College, and the homes taking you back to the 1860's . Our 5K event is a mix of trail and includes a loop of the School House Ridge South portion of the Harpers Ferry National Park. And our Kids Event will be on site at River Riders and School House Ridge South.


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It seems like thicker, fuller brows are suddenly EVERYWHERE…eyebrow implant procedures are becoming more popular by the minute, so for those of us who crave thicker, fuller brows but were not born with the brows of Arizona Muse and cannot afford eyebrow implants, I decided to ask Christina Snead of blink in Minneapolis, MN for her recommendations on how to begin the process of growing our brows out. blink is a brow beauty boutique in Minneapolis that specializes in waxing/threading, makeup application and facials. Christina Snead Snead is one of the partners in beauty at Blink (the other is Brook, who is also amazing) and has been in the aesthetics for over 12 years and she is the only person I trust with my brows.
Q: First of all, how does one even begin the process of growing their brows out?
A: When starting the process of growing out the brows… most people need to come back within 3-4 weeks. Once the shape is where we want it, clients can stretch time between appointments to 4-8 weeks. It all depends upon the amount of hair a person has, how much growth they get and if they want to do tweezer maintenance in between. Patience is key. It usually takes months to get the brow hair to fill in… even over a year for some people.
Q: What should most people keep in mind when trying to grow their brows out?
A: When growing out your brows… it's necessary to leave the brow alone and let the hair grow in. This takes time. Self-discipline. But has results! It allows us to assess the situation and decide what's going to be the best for your features and face shape. It's important to know how to maintain the brow while growing it out. There is always one brow that is fuller than the other, and even slightly different in length or width. One brow tends to grow faster than the other and fills in better… it's common!
Q: How do we fake fuller brows until they are grown out?
A: In the meantime, we will teach you how to fill them in naturally during the re-shaping process. A fuller brow is a more youthful brow, whether your 15 or 75! Natural is good… because it's what you were born with… just "blink-enhanced". The natural brow complements your features, doesn't compete.
Q: What are some products you would recommend for creating a fuller brow?
A: I love the ALIMA shadows to fill in the brows! They have many different shades of browns which I think is essential when making the brow look natural. Most of the time… makeup lines only carry a light, middle and dark brown…. but some people have more auburn, chocolate or espresso hues in their hair color so the ALIMA matches really well. They also have an onyx that works well for black hair… it is a softer black which enhances the shape and doesn't make it too dramatic. I use our blink angle brush to fill in… the right brush is essential…. too much fluff in the brush and you don't get definition that is needed.. too much stiffness and it ends up looking like a line. Brushes are important especially around the eyes! It's like painting your house.. you need to have the right brushes for the different areas!
If you have any other questions about growing your brows out…or about brows in general, let us know and we will pass them on to Christina. Christina is also available by appointments at blink in Minneapolis!
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Sealants are becoming a popular tool for the prevention and treatment of cavities in children. A safe, tooth colored coating that is applied to the chewing surfaces of the back teeth, dental sealants are an effective way to prevent cavities. They coat the teeth, providing a barrier that prevents bacteria from reaching the teeth. Dental sealants have also been used to stop tooth decay that has already started.
Sealants are recommended for use on permanent molars and premolars. They are often applied soon after they have erupted, at 6 years and at 12 years.
When compared to the cost of treating cavities, sealants are a cost-effective prevention option. At Chicago kiDDS Pediatric Dentistry, we will work with you to help prevent cavities in your child's teeth.


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Steak with Spicy Balsamic Glaze
Adapted from Better Homes & Gardens
1 pound boneless beef top sirloin steak, about 1-inch thick, trimmed of fat
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup apple cider
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup ♥Olive My Heart♥ flavored Balsamic Vinegar
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
Nonstick cooking spray
Salt and ground black pepper
1/4 cup honey
Place steak in a resealable plastic bag. Add water, apple cider, Worcestershire, ♥Olive My Heart♥ flavored balsamic vinegar, and crushed red pepper. Seal bag, turning to coat meat. Let stand 20 minutes, turning occasionally.
Heat a large skillet coated with cooking spray over medium heat. Remove beef from marinade, reserving marinade. Season beef with salt and black pepper. Cook in skillet about 12 minutes, turning once, or until desired doneness. Remove to a cutting board; cover.
Add marinade and honey to skillet; whisk to combine. Bring to boiling; boil gently, uncovered, about 7 minutes or until reduced to 1/3 cup. Serve glaze with sliced steak. Enjoy!


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General Dentistry
A general dentist is someone who can take care of all your regular and immediate dental health needs. This is the person you go to when you've damaged a tooth or are suffering from a toothache. This is also the individual you see for minor and major cosmetic work, from teeth whitening to dentures and more.
At our clinic, professionally trained dentists, hygienists and dental assistants work hard to give you reliable, high quality service. Here are some of the services we offer, and a few words about what each of them involves.


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Criticize Congress for Refusing to Block Carbon Tax0
ST. PAUL (June 4, 2013) — Americans for Prosperity on Tuesday announced the launch of a major effort that criticizes Congress for failing to support affordable energy and oppose a carbon tax, which would raise energy prices and hurt American families.
The online ad campaign kicks off with a $175,000 budget and will run in 15 states across the country. The effort leverages AFP's broad network of grassroots activists and enables them to send a message directly to their senator or representative.
"Carbon taxes are bad for American families," said AFP President Tim Phillips. "They drive up energy prices, costing American jobs and driving business overseas. Deliberately raising energy prices is a bad approach that slows economic activity."
Over the next several weeks, the online ads will alert activists to urge their lawmakers to block carbon taxes, support domestic production, and get government out of the way of abundant, affordable energy sources.
Americans for Prosperity has consistently shown why even a supposedly "revenue-neutral" carbon tax is not good policy, most recently in this rebuttal to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
The latest carbon tax ad effort is one of the broadest national efforts by AFP so far this year, and represents just the first wave in what will be ongoing efforts to support abundant, affordable energy.
For further information or an interview, please contact Chris Van Guilder at [email protected] or call 612-750-8164.
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen-leaders committed to advancing every individual's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and intrusiveness of government is the best way to promote individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org.


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[Black Star News Editorial]
All open minded Americans --Blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians-- should welcome Senator Barack Obama's historic speech on race relations and his vision to help move this country forward.
The nation owes Senator Hillary Clinton a "thank you" as well.
Had it not been for her campaign's race-baiting and religious bigotry directed against Obama to drive away white voters, the video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Senator Obama's former pastor, would never have gained wide currency on youtube. Hopefully, the value of the tape, and race politics, will diminish as a result of Obama's Philadelphia speech.
The furor that followed Rev. Wright's comments had left Senator Obama on the defensive. Many white people started questioning why he would associate with the minister, let alone attend his church for more than 20 years. Maybe he was not the unifier he claimed to be?
In the calculation of the Clinton machine, Obama's prospects seemed doomed. But the Clintons are accustomed to playing in the minor leagues. This brilliant man, Barack Obama, embodies the best qualities that can only be produced by a country with a tortured and gallant history, as these United States.
Why stop at just discussing the caricatured version of Rev. Wright on youtube, Obama asked. Why not have a frank, serious and honest discussion on race, rage, and the history and legacy of discrimination?
The senator from Illinois delivered.
He conceded that Black people and white people don't have civilized conversations about race, whether in the classrooms, work places, or in recreational or social gatherings.
Obama recalled the ugly history of Slavery and the founding of the Republic, with the provision that the Union would be "perfected" by subsequent generations.
This is our generation.
The legacy of historical discrimination against Black people still impacts the workplace; the schools; the healthcare delivery system; the criminal justice system; and, even social interactions.
Yet Obama also pointed out that it's hard to expect white blue collar workers and those in the middle class, living in communities that are now struggling with massive job losses, to have much sympathy for people that still blame slavery for their current woes.
Places like Michigan and Ohio have a combined job loss approaching 500,000 over the last few years; workers there will not want to hear about slavery's legacy.
Resentment towards perceived Black entitlement helped propel Ronald Reagan to the White House, promoted by conservative social commentators.
Obama pointed out that workers --Black, white, Latinos and Asians-- often direct their anger and resentment at the wrong parties.
The captains of industry, corporate chiefs, reward themselves extraordinarily outrageous compensation, while engaging in shady business practices, costing hundreds of thousands of people their livelihood, and even their pensions.
So, where do we go from here? What is to be done?
There is really no choice, as Obama noted. White people must recognize that the legacy of slavery, discrimination and Jim Crow are real. Black should recognize that not all white people are rich, or hostile to Black advancement.
Yet, if traditional politicians are allowed to continue peddling there divisive politics, then come the next election cycle, we will be exactly where we are today.
Stuck on neutral----stalemate.
"And if we walk away," Obama said, of the consequences of not confronting race matters head-on, "if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like healthcare, or education, or need to find good jobs for every American."
Today Senator Obama started that conversation that Americans should have been having since the end of slavery. That conversation, and working towards beneficial alliances, can be our contribution towards a more perfect union.
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We're half way through our summer break and now is when the doldrums kick in. We've had endless hours in the wading pools, we've done a few vacations and we have some more things coming up BUT not having a dedicated schedule of stimulating activities can turn the brain to mush.
We try to catch little games here and there. Whenever I find myself with a moment and extra supplies I try to put my Pinterest ideas to use.
Two of the biggest hits lately have been alphabet hunts in the local grocery store flyer.
Graham is still very into the alphabet and is reading so this activity was perfect for him. Before tossing the circular in the recycle bin I gave it to Graham and challenged him to start at the letter A and find the entire alphabet in order. And he did it! Miles and I got in on the searching action but he really enjoyed reading words and searching for letters. You could turn this into a shapes, color, numbers or word search depending on your kids' ability.
On a previous night the boys pointed at a bag of mini marshmallows we've had sitting around since the holidays and asked if they could have some. It was before dinner so the answer was no but I did need an activity to keep them occupied while I cooked soooooo
With a box of toothpicks they were off and building. Joel fed Alice dinner and supervised the building while I finished up dinner for the rest of us. Then it was time to talk about our creations and eat a bunch of marshmallows (after dinner of course).


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Found this at Morrie's Ford for a stupid price. Needs lots of work, but it would be easy to double my money if I felt like flipping it.
Plans are to do the head gasket preemptively, replace every bushing under the car, and do the suspension. It's shot. Also needs some minor bodywork and some trim stuff.
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Feadship comes up trumps with a new concept superyacht every year, and this year's Breathe design doesn't fail on the sleek good looks the Dutch company has become known for. Supposedly inspired by zebras, it may be lacking in black and white stripes but it's the cooling system which has made it from beast to machine. The hulls are lighter, with funnels darker, to flow the air through the decks, cooling passengers down.
Glass shells also act as insulation, cooling the insides while generating energy from the sun at the same time.


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Concern About CFP Board Controversy Hits Colleges That Teach Planning
College administrators, professors and students nationwide say they are concerned about the controversy surrounding the CFP Boards disciplinary policies and the fact that the boards ongoing public awareness campaign, called Lets Make a Plan, has been driving Americans to its website where, until recently, hundreds of advisors were misrepresenting their compensation as fee-only.
As of 2012, the CFP Board registered close to 400 degree and certificate programs in financial planning nationwide. The number has been increasing rapidly as the CFP Boards influence expands among educators. These institutions and thousands of students nationwide cumulatively have invested untold millions of dollars in the rigorous two-year-plus process of studying for and taking the CFP examination.
Now, the boards educational partners are contending with fallout from the revelation that the board had been allowing wirehouse advisors to call themselves fee-only on its own website, against its own rules, while punishing other advisors at smaller firms for similar transgressions. Concerns about a potential selective disciplinary process has led some planners to say that holding a CFP certificate now comes with too much liability.
The College for Financial Planning, which prepares the highest number of students for the CFP examination nationwide every year, posted a YouTube video on its website Friday seeking to quell concerns.
I think it is best if all of us kind of take a deep breath, step back and work with the CFP Board to try to resolve this issue, Jim Pasztor, vice president of academic affairs at the college, says in the video. My concern is that we are throwing the baby out with the bath water. Theres all this talk now about people saying, I dont know, should I keep my CFP certification? There are people who hear this and then they wonder, Should I pursue the CFP certification?
The controversy stems from the way the board defines fee-only, which differs from NAPFA's definition, Pasztor tells viewers. He goes on to urge people not to paint the CFP Board in a corner, but to help the board redefine the term.
Elsewhere, professors at Alfred State College in Alfred, N.Y.; the University of California campuses at both Davis and Los Angeles; the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo.; Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas; and Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, expressed concerns about the CFP Boards actions in interviews.
Ive always loved the [CFP] program and it saddens me to see this because I dont care what anyone says, this is going to hurt enrollment, says Steve Bertino, who has taught CFP courses through the extension program at the University of California at Davis for years. In his view, CFP Board CEO Kevin Keller has tolerated widespread deception and should resign. This person has done so much harm.
Asked to respond to Bertinos call to step down, Keller sent the following statement via board spokesman Dan Drummond: "CFP Board values all of our education partners and those who teach future CFP professionals. Our mission has been and always will be to benefit the public by granting the CFP certification and upholding it as the recognized standard for personal financial planning."
In Bertinos view, Pasztor posted his video to try to stamp out legitimate alarm over the boards recent actions.
I hate to say it, but [Pasztor] is just protecting his rice bowl, so to speak, Bertino says. He is just trying to keep everyone happy. This guy Jim is saying we [the planning community] backed them in the corner. No, [the board] backed themselves in the corner by this behavior.
In response, Pasztor told Financial Planning: "What I'm saying is let's not get too concerned about this. I think this is something that can get worked out."
The board stripped all fee-only declarations from 8,000 advisor profiles on its website on Sept. 19 hours after Financial Planning reported that it had been allowing 486 wirehouse advisors to use the term, along with hundreds of other advisors from banks, insurance companies and other large firms.
At this point we have not had complaints, Keller said last month of the wirehouse profiles before the board altered them. He said the board does not audit CFP holders for compliance. When asked why the board allowed advisors in wirehouses the option of using the term fee-only on its site in contravention of its own rules, he said, Our expectation is that people understand our rules and that they comply with them.
The boards letsmakeaplan.org website assures consumers that all its CFPs adhere to the highest ethical standards. It also assures them that CFPs on the website are fiduciaries who put client interests before their own even when those advisors work for employers, such as wirehouses, that expect them to work to a suitability standard. Wirehouse advisors must sell investment products that are deemed suitable for clients, a lesser standard than a fiduciary one. The boards rules forbid any advisors who work for employers that take commissions to use the term fee-only.
The board expressed its solidarity with Pasztors views in the video in an email from Drummond.
We have a long-standing relationship with the College for Financial Planning the birthplace of the CFP certification and greatly value their insights and input, Drummond says. We agree with them wholeheartedly, too, that when someone is looking for competent and ethical financial planning, they should turn to a CFP professional. The college created the certification before the CFP Board was formed in 1985 to take over stewardship of the marks.
In an interview, Pasztor acknowledges the colleges vested interest in the continued success of the certification. The college has graduated tens of thousands of CFP certificants.
I will admit that we train people for the CFP certification and we are extremely successful at it, he says. If the CFP certification starts to really fail, then what is going to really replace it?
While the board was allowing wirehouse advisors to commit compensation disclosure violations on its website, it also was investigating or punishing a number of advisors at smaller firms including its former chairman, Alan Goldfarb for similar violations.
Goldfarb and another former board official who was sanctioned privately say the board punished them at least in part to avoid a related lawsuit, and not purely on the merits of their cases.
When asked if the board is practicing selective discipline for its CFP holders, Keller has said, There is no double standard for enforcement. We expect all of our CFP professionals to adhere to our rules and our ethical standards. Repeated attempts to reach the chairwoman of the CFP Boards board of directors, Nancy Kistner, were unsuccessful.
Since coming to the board as CEO in 2007, Keller has increased the ranks of CFP holders, often by convincing large firms like wirehouses, as well as insurance companies and banks, to support their advisors in gaining the certificate.
The fact that these people [who were breaking rules] were with big wirehouses that were very supportive of the CFP marks, it raises questions to me as a consumer, says Rob Weagley, chairman of the financial planning department at the University of Missouri. This is wrong. This is troubling. Its an egregious oversight.
Katie Simmons, a recent graduate of the planning program at San Diego State University and a planning support specialist with the fee-only firm Pure Financial in San Diego, says she worries about the controversy.
I work for a company that genuinely abides by the rules, so it does concern me that other people could think that they could do anything they want with this license, said Simmons, who plans to sit for her CFP examination in March. (Shell still need another year at least of professional experience before she can call herself a CFP.)
If someone is trusting you with their life savings based on your being a fiduciary and its a lie, then its a huge problem, Simmons says.
At Texas Tech, Vickie Hampton, the head of the planning department and a former director of the CFP Board, says the planning program at the university won't be impacted by the controversy. The courses are geared to training planners holistically, and not solely to prepare them to sit for the CFP exam, as is the case with many certificate programs.
Yet if another planning credential emerges as a dominant one, she says, the university would prepare its students to meet that new standard. "The whole value of the mark lies in the public's respect for it," she says. "If the public loses that respect, [CFP holders] are not going to continue to pay for it. This is a leadership issue, Hampton says, adding that the board's top officials need to explain "how we got to this point and, then, whats being done about it. ... If there have been mistakes made that are by accident or by design, its a blemish. You always have a responsibility to treat everybody fairly and ethically and honestly particularly if you are a standards setting body," she adds. "We need to use things like this to move forward and do things better."
Ron Rhoades, a former NAPFA board member and head of the financial planning program at Alfred State College, agrees that the board needs to take immediate action.
Consumers are the real victims here, Rhoades says of the erroneous fee-only listings. If the board failed to act when it knew it was going on, that I think is where the big concern arises.
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European Medicines Agency recommends authorisation of first medicine for Castleman's disease
The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the granting of a marketing authorisation for Sylvant (siltuximab), a medicine for the treatment of adult patients with multicentric Castleman's disease who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) negative and human herpesvirus‑8 (HHV‑8) negative.
Castleman's disease is a rare disorder characterised by non-cancerous growth of the lymph nodes and related tissues. In affected patients, cells in lymphatic tissue start proliferating, mainly causing abnormally large lymph nodes. In the majority of cases, the disease is localised and affects only one lymph node, but in some cases the disease is systemic (affects the entire body) and affects several lymph nodes as well as other organs in the body (multicentric). Affected patients have an increased risk of infection, kidney failure and certain cancers. Castleman's disease is chronically debilitating and life threatening, especially for patients with more than one affected lymph node.
There are currently no medicinal products authorised in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of Castleman's disease. In the absence of authorised treatments available to reduce the tumour burden in these patients, prognosis remains poor with fatal outcomes reported. In clinical trials, Sylvant has shown its ability to reduce tumour burden and improve the symptoms of the disease with a safety profile that is considered to be manageable with appropriate risk minimisation measures.
Sylvant has been developed using the incentives put in place by the orphan legislation. It was designated as an orphan medicine in 2007. At that time, it was estimated that Castleman's disease affected less than 1 in 10,000 people in the EU. This is equivalent to a total of fewer than 50,000 people. The Agency gave free scientific advice to the applicant during the development of the medicine. Orphan designation and the associated incentives such as free scientific advice or 'protocol assistance' are among the Agency's most important instruments to encourage the development of medicines for patients suffering from rare diseases.
Sylvant was evaluated by accelerated assessment, a regulatory tool to help speed up patient access to new medicines where there is an unmet medical need. Companies can request accelerated assessment provided they are able to demonstrate that their product responds to unmet medical needs or constitutes a significant improvement over the available methods of prevention, diagnosis or treatment of a condition.
The CHMP opinion on Sylvant will now be sent to the European Commission for adoption of a decision on an EU-wide marketing-authorisation.
- The applicant for Sylvant is Janssen-Cilag International NV.
- The CHMP conducts an accelerated assessment in a maximum of 150 days, while the normal timetable for the centralised procedure allows a maximum assessment period of 210 days.


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So many things are happening that make me want to use exclamation points! I want to remember them all!
1. Arizona now recognizes marriage equality. Finally. My heart is so happy.
2. We got an Honest Company gift certificate from Anna and Josh after her wonderful visit. I've always loved this stuff but never wanted to splurge on it. As Anna noted, "Products that are good enough for Jessica Alba are good enough for us."
3. We survived taking the baby to a brewery event and a tailgate party. Minimal crying. Great teamwork.
4. Ally is about to have a baby! I am WILDLY excited about this!
5. Michelle is coming to visit.
6. Dan is coming to visit.
7. Our new AC was installed and new roof is almost complete after July's crazy storm damage.
8. Jennelle and I took the kiddos to the zoo. The weather was beautiful and it was an unexpected workout. And we both mastered stroller assembly, so we're basically certified engineers now.
9. Baby is mostly sleeping through the night. I want to skip through a meadow shouting with glee. Actually sleeping for more than two hours at a time makes me feel like a super hero.
10. I successfully cleaned out the laundry room, which previously looked liked a natural disaster took place within it. It's much less embarrassing now.


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- Keep to the Path, away from cliff edges and overhangs
- Always supervise children, especially near cliff edges
- Walking surfaces can vary considerably with the weather. Always wear strong footwear with a good grip and ankle support
- Wear or carry warm and waterproof clothing
- Cliff-top walking can be dangerous in high winds
- Beware of taking shortcuts across beaches – you may be cut off by the tide. Swimming can also be dangerous
- Do not sit under cliffs or climb them
- Keep dogs under close control
- The Coast Path is managed for walkers; it is not safe or lawful to cycle or ride horses along most of the Coast Path.


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If you happen to be by The Vatican and you wonder where to grab some proper meal for lunch Ristorante Porto is that place! Their 9 Euro all-you-can-eat deal for lunch is simply unbeatable: the buffet includes not only pasta and salads but fish, meat, awesome desserts… Morover, being located in Prati, within the premises of The Vatican (generally known as a bit of a pricy area) makes it extra precious!
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The objective of this Mid-Term Review (MTR) was to assess progress and advise if there is any need for adjustment in the ongoing cooperation between Sweden and Tanzania in the area of rural electrification. The MTR summarised obtained and expected results in relation to the Rural Energy Agency's (REA) Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. The study also looked into the efficiency of funding rural energy projects through the Rural Energy Fund (REF) effectiveness of the support, including results (output) achieved so far of the REF financing; feasibility of procedures and work plans in relation to REA guiding documents; sustainability of REF as a funding mechanism; and the likely long term impact of the REF.
LTS provided an expert in rural energy and programme evaluations in Tanzania. The LTS expert contributed to the team with his valuable knowledge of rural energy in Tanzania, specifically: the funding of the Rural Energy Fund including Government budget allocations and actual transfers, other inflows, total inflow and outflow of funds, and cash management procedures and rapid site visits to projects supported by REA/REF in Morogoro, Dodoma and coastal regions. The LTS expert's contacts with organisations and individuals in the field of rural energy were of great value to the MTR. He was also responsible for planning and organising of the field visits.


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It is November, has anyone noticed? I do not have any gardening happening at the moment…at least not outside. But I am really excited to note that I have just recently acquired a Camellia Sinensis (Tea Plant). It is currently indoors in a pot until I figure out how to get it outside without freezing it, or until I find it thrives just fine indoors.
This past summer I saved so many seeds I will have to choose what I want to plant next year and what I can actually plant. But it will be quite fun. I am excited about that.
So, not much of an update since it is november, but I will keep you posted in the spring as to which plants come back and which ones were lost to the cold.
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I pblogged this on the plane, so here I am transcribing:
I really like this airline. This was pretty much the least-bad transatlantic flying experience I can recall. Flying is never yayfun, but this was not nearly as unpleasant as I've come to expect. I'd say we should ditch Lufthansa and fly SAS from now on, if that didn't mean we'd have to fly up to Copenhagen to get down to Spain.
I made a few swaps Stateside. E.g., I found a green denim jacket hanging on the coatrack, and after much deliberation, I adopted it and left my blue denim jacket behind. Ditto daypacks. The one I brought was given to Robert by Georg – not as a gift from the heart, but as an alternative to chucking it – and it was, you know, an okay daypack. Gray. One hole. But Mom's daypack is black (I still can't imagine why she had it – she hated black) and has water-bottle pockets and packs smaller, so is better for traveling, so I ditched the gray one. Hope Robert doesn't mind (note from later, 1 November: he hasn't even noticed yet).
ANYWAY. The point of this unnecessarily long exposition is that I found a little notebook in the backpack, and it's her "Medical Journal". She started it in June of 2004, and it tracks the whole thing, the discovery of the tumors, her symptoms, changes in medications. Not very in-depth, it's just notes, but it's weird to see the whole thing documented, and to see her handwriting deteriorate over time. I didn't follow the process, here in the blog or anywhere else, because I held onto the hope that it was no big deal and she'd get better. Right up until Tuesday, 11 October, when Dr. C called to say the tumor in her back was spreading, and we knew then that she was much too weak for anymore therapy, and she wasn't going to recover. Not even temporarily. It really seems like I should have known sooner, in hindsight, though I can't say when I should have realized. I just spent so much time reading about cancer survivors that it didn't occur to me that she wouldn't beat it.


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Neil Flambé and the Duel in the Desert comes out in in ONE MONTH!
This is the 6th book in the series.
Neil finds himself in Arizona, searching the desert for a lost gold mine.
Neil is being chased by an evil crazed sheriff named Joe Aprende. (I was doing school visits in Phoenix and Chandler a couple of years back and visited the Kyrene Aprende school - and they made me promise to name a character after them!)
I always open and close the Neil books with maps or postcards from the place they visit. Larry doodles all over them. Here's the endpaper version.
You can find out what all those doodles mean on February 23rd.
So, maybe a giveaway to celebrate.
I've got an original version of from the cover (see below) to give away. All you have to do is tag me on twitter (@kevinarts) or instagram (@sylvesterartwork) with the hashtag #NeilCactus
Bonus points if you add a pic of you reading an earlier book from the series.
I'll pick a winner on the book birthday for #6.


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THE name Alfred Sisley has not become commonly known like Monet, Renoir, or even Pissarro. Yet Sisley was not some camp follower of the French Impressionists. He was one of the initiators, exhibiting in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and several thereafter.
Sisley (1839-1899) was an original and inspired exponent of the outdoor, on-the-spot painting that made the transient effects of light and weather - and a vigorously captured feeling of the momentary - as important as the landscape or cityscape on which the sun shone and the rain rained.
An exhibition at the Royal Academy in London is intended to give this splendid 19th century painter - too often considered, as a critic once said, "a pretty colorist of only relative importance" - a serious, full-scale exposure and assessment. Because Sisley has been the least written about, least exhibited, and least subjected to critical or historical analysis of all the major Impressionists, such an exhibition and its accompanying catalog is undoubtedly overdue; and in some measure justice has been do ne.
The show travels later to Paris and Baltimore, so it is an ambitious international effort. The question remains, however, as to whether Sisley's work repays this effort or is strong enough to withstand such detailed attention. Underlying such questions is a deeper one: To what extent can we judge an artist's worth by the amount of intellectual and art-historical discussion he may prompt? Reassessing the painter
Sisley was an unpretentious artist, sticking almost exclusively to landscape. He changed and developed over the years, after that period in the 1870s when Impressionism might be said to have reached its peak. His divergence from the work he had created during this peak period, however, was not as radical as that of fellow Impressionists Renoir and Pissarro. Even Monet (whose reputation has been greatly enhanced in recent years by critical reassessments, while he arguably developed in a line from Impressi onism, pulled the movement's preoccupations into new spheres, and into a kind of painting that was both more decorative and more personal. If Sisley altered his style, he never deviated from the basics of Impressionism.
Christopher Lloyd's fair-minded catalog essay tries to endow Sisley with some sort of philosophical background. He quotes passages from the writings of Elisee Reclus that sound like ecological plaints of the 1990s, rather than the 1860s.
Mr. Lloyd means to suggest that Sisley, with an eye to subjects where landscape was being invaded by industry and urbanization, intended his paintings to carry some such conservationist message. Unfortunately there is no way for Lloyd to prove Sisley was influenced by or even for certain knew the writings of Reclus. Maybe he did. But his paintings are much more obviously occupied with the truthful re-creation of subtle tones of shadow and sunlight, of lively and luminous skies, of silhouetted roofs or tr ees, of water flowing under bridges than with the promotion of environmental concern.
Lloyd does suspect that one reason for Sisley's comparative neglect by art historians is the almost complete absence of documents about his life: few letters, and those uninformative; only one extant sketchbook, and that merely a record of paintings already painted; and not even the kind of accumulation of critical judgments that successive historians like to shoot down. He also wonders whether Sisley's double nationality - Anglo-French - confused people.
Actually Sisley's art appears to have benefited from awareness of the landscape traditions of both countries - Constable and Turner in Britain, Corot and the Barbizon School in France. But whatever his early allegiances, when he is painting full-swing as a mature Impressionist he is completely his own man. He may in the end not have seemed as daring as Monet, but his contemporaries still found his work bafflingly modern and unacademic.
Sisley cannot, with any justice, be called a timid painter, however shy he may have been as a person. But nothing is apparently known about his character, either, except that his friends found him charming and affable.
Finally, the only fair way to get to know Sisley is through his paintings, and that is certainly made possible by this exhibition. Variable in quality, at his best he had a fresh confidence and highly inventive use of color and brushmark, which is the equal of any of his peers. Intuitive grasp of color
The show also lays to rest various claims strangely made by different writers (who could have checked their facts - there has been a catalogue raisonne of Sisley's work available for reference since 1959) - such as one statement that he never painted still life, or another that he couldn't match Monet as a painter of bold rocks and surging ocean. Sisley did both with striking accomplishment. And none of the other great Impressionists painted snow better or more authentically; or the inner reflected hues trapped in shadows; or the shine and darkness of rain. Or evening. Or autumn.
Sisley contributed with extraordinary imaginativeness to the potential of painting: he was a distinct part of Impressionism - and who really knows which of these remarkable artists was first to arrive at the kind of practical inventiveness that placed two touches of unprecedented resonating color next to each other and made the canvas come alive?
It is this chemistry of intuition that makes any painting (or poem or piece of music) "work," and this is particularly the case with Impressionism.
Sisley was a master of the intuitive use of paint and color. He seems to have been uninterested in theory, concentrating on practice. He is simply one of the world's most astonishing painters, and his most vital canvases retain startling veracity and immediacy.
The only failing of this tribute to him is that it isn't big enough to make the visitor feel he has seen the whole artist. Recent international shows of Renoir and Manet contained 127 and 221 works apiece. Though similar to those exhibitions, the Sisley has only a total of 75 works.
I wonder why. Has Sisley yet again been slighted, in spite of best intentions? Pissarro said Sisley was "a great and beautiful artist, in my opinion he is a master equal to the greatest." He also told Matisse that Sisley was the only "typical Impressionist."
Perhaps this show should be seen as the beginning of a re-assessment. Perhaps there is still room for the art historians to come to grips with this man's easy-looking exploration of the possibilities of paint.
* The exhibition closes in London on Oct. 18. It will be at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris from Oct. 28 to Jan. 31 1993; and then at The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, March 14 to June 13.


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Once again I wasn't paying attention when I was entering the movie titles into my spreadsheet and put another movie out of order. Oh well, I am actually glad I got to watch this movie today as it feels a little appropriate to end the weekend like this. Today's movie is the last movie in the Legends of Horror box set and, much like how I started off with this set, I find myself watching a Hitchcock movie to finish off the set. This is yet another movie that I have never heard of before buying this collection and I really haven't been disappointed with these rare gems so let's see if the trend finishes up the same as I watch today's movie, Young And Innocent.
The plot: On a stormy night, Christine Clay finds herself in an argument with her jealous ex-husband Guy, who doesn't accept her Reno divorce as valid. Accusing her of having an affair, they continue arguing until Christine slaps Guy and demands he leave. As he walks out into the rain, Guy turns to look back at the door as his eyes begin twitching uncontrollably. The next day, Christine's body washes ashore onto the beach, where she is spotted by Robert Tisdall as he is out for a walk. Going to check on the body, he recognizes her as Christine and then runs to get help, but two women heading to the beach spot him and the body and they believe he is running from the crime. When the authorities arrive and determine she was strangled with the belt from a rain coat, the women accuse Robert of killing her but he proclaims his innocence, only to find that nobody seems ready to believe him. Robert is taken to Scotland Yard for questioning all night and when the police ask him if he has a raincoat, he says it was stolen out of his car. Robert admits that he did know Christine, as he sold her a story 3 years ago, but the police believe he was having an affair with her and when they inform him that she left him £1200, he ends up fainting. Erica Burgoyne, the daughter of the local police's Chief Constable, happens to be outside and is able to help revive him, then they take Robert to see his barrister before going to court. Robert tries to tell his barrister that the police are making a mistake and that if the police go to check the pub he was at the night his coat was stolen, they will verify what he told them but he realizes pretty quickly that his barrister is somewhat incompetent. Unsure on if he will get a fair trial against the circumstantial evidence against him, Robert takes advantage of the crowded courthouse to slip away from his guards and as they clear the courthouse to search for him, he is able to get outside by wearing his barrister's glasses as a disguise. As the police start leaving the courthouse to look for him, Erica ends up having two officers ride with her, commandeering her car to help search. When the car runs out of gas, they start pushing it to the nearest station but Erica tells them to keep going and so the two officers hitch a ride with a passing farmer. As Erica works on continuing to push the car, she is surprised to find Robert helping her, as he had stowed away on the side running board, and she begrudgingly thanks him for the help. Reaching a fuel station, Robert ends up paying for Erica's gas and they continue on the way for a little while before Erica pulls over and drops Robert off at an abandoned farm house, not wanting him to stay in her car any longer and as he watches her drive off, he sees her stop and speak with some policemen but when they drive by without stopping, she realizes that she didn't tell them where he was. Erica returns home and is having lunch with her father and brothers and during the course of the meal, she learns that Robert had used all the money he had on him to pay for her gas. Feeling a little guilty, but also believing his claims of innocence, she heads back to the farm house with some food for him As the two talk, Robert starts eating the food Erica brought him but when he tosses the wrapper out the window, the policemen who were with Erica earlier spot it and go to investigate. As they approach, Erica's dog starts barking at them, alerting Erica and Robert to their approach and they are able to slip out the window and get away. Erica is upset about the fact that she was forced to run from the cops like that and considers heading back to town but when she sees the road blocked, she resigns herself to going to the pub, saying she might as well see this through. When they reach the pub, Erica goes in and asks the bartender if someone had lost a coat and the bartender mentions a tramp named Old Will had come in with a new coat but quickly shuts up when some other tramps motion him to be quiet. Another customer says that he did recall Old Will coming in with a new coat that someone had given him and the tramps start a fight to keep him quiet. Hearing the commotion, Robert goes to check on Erica but when she says she is safely outside, he heads out as well but ends up getting hurt. Erica tends to his wound and the customer tells them where they can find Old Will and Robert chooses to walk there, not wanting to put Erica in any more trouble than she might already be in. However, Erica finds herself starting to fall for Robert and she decides to take him there but stops at her aunt's house for a little bit to ask for some money. Having Robert wait in the car, Erica goes inside only to get trapped in her aunt's party. Outside, Robert is writing her a note to explain his leaving and thanking her for her help when her uncle shows up and invites him in. The two try to make their excuses and leave but Erica's aunt grows suspicious and keeps them around so she can question Robert. When Erica's uncle helps them leave, her aunt chastises him and grows even more suspicious when they head in the opposite direction of Erica's home and she calls the Chief Constable. After hearing about Erica and Robert, the Chief Constable calls the local station house in the direction they are heading and asks them to stop her and have her call him but when the officer stops her to relay the message, he recognizes Robert and Erica drives off. Panicking over what she did and what it will do to her father if she is arrested for aiding a fugitive, Erica says they have to find that coat and they head off to find Old Will. Arriving at the train station next to the shelter he is supposed to be staying at. Robert tells Erica this will all be over soon and she will never see him again and she grows sad and asks if that is true. Robert comforts her until she falls asleep, then heads to the shelter to look for Will but ends up falling asleep inside. He eventually finds Will and questions him about the raincoat but Will feigns ignorance. When Robert exclaims that it is a matter of life or death for him, one of the tramps realizes Robert is the escaped criminal and goes to tell the manager to call the police. Robert drags Will out of there and into Erica's car and they rush off, managing to avoid the police by racing in front of a passing train. Robert discovers that Will is wearing his raincoat underneath his overcoat and when he examines it, realizes that the belt is missing and that it was his belt that killed Christine. When he asks about the belt, Will tells them that it didn't have a belt when the man gave it to him and describes the man as having twitchy eyes. Robert thinks this will clear him but Erica says it won't be enough unless they find the actual killer. Realizing the police will be after them soon, Will says there is an old mine they can hide in and they head there only to have Erica's car fall into a hole when the ground collapses. Robert and Will manage to rescue her before her car falls deeper into the hole as the police arrive, and Erica moves to stall them so that Robert can get free. Later, Erica's father speaks with her about the situation she is in and shows her his letter of resignation, as he refuses to arrest her. That night, Robert sneaks into Erica's room to see her and she rushes to hug him. Robert tells her that he is going to turn himself in, and just wanted to see her first. She tells him that the police found his coat and the only thing in it was a box of matches from the Grand Hotel. Robert goes to leave but then goes back to her and says he has never been to the Grand Hotel and they realize the killer must have been there or still is. The next day, Erica meets with Will, who is there to see if he spots the man that gave him the coat, but Will is being watched by the police. As they look around the hotel, they head inside the ballroom as the police enter, having spotted Will with Erica and believing they could lead them to Robert. As they sit in the ballroom and look around, the drummer of the house band notices Will and his eyes start twitching. The drummer is actually Guy in black-face and when he sees the police are there as well, he starts acting suspiciously, causing the band leader to chastise him. Guy considers leaving but when he sees more police showing up, he heads back inside and goes to take some medicine to try and get his twitching under control. Erica's father shows up with Scotland Yard and they catch Robert and go to get Erica as Guy's increasingly erratic behavior causes him to pass out. The police are about to lead Erica, Robert, and Will away when they hear the commotion and Erica goes to offer her help. When she notices Guy's eyes twitching, she calls for Will to come over, then asks someone to wipe off the black-face. When his face is clear, Will confirms that it is the man that gave him the coat and as Guy comes around, Erica asks him what he did with the belt. Guy starts laughing and says he twisted it around her neck, admitting that he killed Christine. As the authorities move to arrest Guy, Robert is released and he goes to embrace Erica, who then goes to her father and asks about inviting Robert over for dinner.
For an early Hitchcock movie, this is not as good as his later works but it is a good movie on it's own and does show some flashes of his brilliance. The acting was good, with Derrick De Marney and Nova Pilbeam doing good jobs as Robert and Erica, as they had some great chemistry on screen and the banter between them was fantastic. I also liked Edward Rigby (Old Will) as he provided a good bit of comedic humor towards the end of the movie. The story was pretty basic, with the framed man trying to prove his innocence while avoiding being caught by the authorities. Still, Hitchcock was able to add some romance and humor to a serious plot, either intentionally or unintentionally. The scene with the policemen getting a ride from the farmer had me cracking up. I don't know if the "pig" nickname for police had come about at this point or not but when they were talking to the farmer and he told them he was paid to move pigs around, plus when they asked if he had more room for them and he said he only had the room for 10 pigs, had me almost laughing at loud. While the chase sequences were pretty good for the time, the film quality was honestly kind of bad, particularly towards the end of the film, but it could have just been the source used for this DVD and not the original film itself. A fun movie to watch and definitely worth watching if you are a fan of Hitchcock.
Rating: 3 out of 5


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This New Orleans Victorian Mansion Is a Must-Visit for Haunted House Fans
Hair-raising scary is an understatement.
This isn't your average Victorian mansion tour, gals and ghouls. Welcome to The Mortuary, an incredibly spooky haunted house on Canal Street in New Orleans. Built in 1872, the home served as a real-life mortuary for around 80 years. Now, lovers of eerie attractions flock to the property year-round for a variety of offerings.
First, it serves as a special events venue, known as Mystère Mansion. Then, it lives another life as a setting for participatory escape games, the Mystère Escape Rooms. Finally, and perhaps most famously, it's the Mortuary Haunted Mansion during the Halloween season. If you think you can make it through the house without shivers cascading down your spine— think again. This former funeral home features live snakes, bats, rats, roaches, spiders, and other creatures, and you may even see a real ghost or two.
Yes, that's right. The Mortuary is an apparent hot-spot for paranormal activity, and it's known all over the world for being haunted. As Only In Your State reports, "The Mortuary has been verified as being haunted by dozens of paranormal investigators around the globe. Surrounded by the famous 'Cities of the Dead,' and given its history as a mortuary, it should come as no surprise that there may still be a few lingering spirits. A woman in white has often been seen at the top floor, crying out for her husband. Two prankster child ghosts have been reported to play tricks on unsuspecting visitors. Countless footsteps and disembodied whispers have been hears when the building as empty." Yikes!
WATCH: The South's Most Haunted Places
If you think you can handle touring the sinister digs on an upcoming visit to New Orleans, you can buy tickets or a "Frequent Fear Season Pass" here.


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According to BERNAMA in the raid at about 3.30am somewhere in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 26 people were detained and scores of hallucination pills besides ketamine, cocaine, syabu, liquour and condoms were found at a hotel room in Jalan P.Ramlee here. The party was believed to have been organised by a couple, in their 20's, who were married three weeks earlier.
Meanwhile in another raid in Kuala Lumpur, a newscaster with a private TV station and a local drama actress together with six of their friends, who were earlier detained by police after being tested positive for ketamine and syabu drugs at a new year eve party, were released yesterday evening.
Kuala Lumpur Narcotics Crime Investigation Department head, ACP Kang Chez Khiang said the eight, who were detained during a police raid on Jan 1, were released on police bail at about 7pm.
He said another man, who was also tested positive for drugs, was still being detained on suspicion of being the drug supplier for the party.
However, he said, police would recall all the eight when the outcome of the urine tests carried out by the Kuala Lumpur Hospital was expected to be released in two weeks' time.
'Meanwhile, 17 other people at the party who had been detained earlier had been released without condition,' he said when contacted here at the BERNAMA office today.


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Ignition of hydraulic fluid sprays by open flames and hot surfaces
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Description:A study of the ignition of non-fire-resistant hydraulic fluid sprays was conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Both an open flame and a hot steel surface were used as the external heat sources. With the open flame as the heat source, the minimum oil temperature and minimum spray nozzle pressure that resulted in an ignition were measured. The effects of the distance between the open flame and the nozzle and the nozzle orifice diameter on the ignitability of the hydraulic fluid sprays were examined. With the hot surface as the heat source, the minimum surface ignition temperature was determined. The degree of oil atomization and the relative direction of oil injection with respect to the hot surface are discussed. The ignition of oil sprays from the impingement of oil jets onto a vertical surface was also investigated. Finally, the results are compared with those obtained for fire-resistant hydraulic fluids. Keywords: Ignition; hot surface; open flame; hydraulic fluid
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Many cat health problems can start in your cat's mouth. Mouth infections can migrate to vital organs such as the heart and liver, possibly causing life-threatnening complications. Regular toothbrushing can prevent many such potentially serious problems of your cat's health. If you've just adopted a kitten, or if your cat is still a youngster, get him accustomed to regular, at-home dental care. But even middle-aged and elderly cats can learn to sit through regular cleaning with time, practice, patience, and a positive attitude. If your cat turns out to be one of those "absolutely not!" types, consult your veterinarian on the best approach to take with your cat, perhaps feeding him one of the many dental diets available. But no matter what your cat's opinion of the matter, never ignore this vital, health-preserving care for your cat.
Start by frequently touching your cat's face, mouth, and gums, to get him used to the idea of your hands near those sensitive locations. Once he's comfortable with this, graduate to a cotton-tipped swab, dipped into any oral antiseptic, especially prepared for animals, or a liquid tooth-cleaning formular or toothpaste made especially for cats. To start with, you can even use plain water or the juice from a can of tuna. Never use toothpaste or mouthwash made for humans; these products can irritate and burn your cat's mouth and stomach, or make him very sick.
Another option is rubbing your cat's teeth and gums with a gauze pad moistened with dental paste or liquid for cats. Use a specially made medicated pad (available from cat-supply stores and catalogs), or wrap a piece of sterile gauze around your finger and dip it in a cat-safe, nonfoaming toothpaste or cleaner. Ask your veterinarian to demonstrate the proper way to brush your cat's teeth.
If your cat or kitten tolerates his teeth or gums inspected, you should actually be able to brush its teeth, using a specially formulated nonfoaming cat toothpaste flavored to the feline taste. Sold with a small toothbrush (often a soft rubber one that fits over your fingertip), the cooperative kitten can have its teeth brushed several times each month, to help keep plaque to a minimum. Many veterianarians now recommend that cat owners bring their cats in once a year for an ultrasonic dental cleaning. Doing so will help guarantee that your cat has healthy teeth and gums for many years. That will enable your cat to eat well and feel great. The only drawback to having this cleaning done is that the great majority of veterinarians put the cat under general anesthesia. For a healthy adult cat, this should not pose a problem. For the very old or very young feline, however, using general anesthesia poses some risks. If your pet's teeth or gums are very dirty or diseased, the risk might be worth it; if not, consider passing on the procedure.
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Texas DPS sharing lists of traffic citations with federal immigration authorities
For the past two years, the Texas Department of Public Safety has shared with immigration officers the names of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of motorists its officers ticketed around the state to make it easier for federal authorities to deport those they suspect of being in the country illegally.
The little-known "DPS citation lists" recently came to light in San Antonio in a federal immigration case that highlighted a stop by a state trooper, who, according to a judge, was "unprofessional" toward a motorist he suspected of being here illegally by chastising him when he spoke Spanish and shoving him roughly against a pickup after the man didn't appear to understand a command.
The lists are important to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency carries out President Donald Trump's orders to deport more undocumented immigrants. Critics argue that the arrangement may allow police to racially profile motorists or to make pretextual stops.
But some advocates defend such a practice, arguing that it's just another tool for helping ICE concentrate on undocumented immigrants who have crimes in their backgrounds and may be a threat to public safety.
"What they (DPS officers) do is they generate a list and they forward it to us to investigate all the names that are there," ICE agent Omar Esquivel testified at a court hearing in San Antonio recently. "What we do, we want records checks on every name that's (on) there."
The number of people on the list depends "on how many citations they issue," Esquivel said, but each of the 12 agents with his ICE unit in San Antonio gets a piece of the list. Each portion can contain 20 to 100 names, Esquivel said.
According to DPS spokesman Tom Vinger, the arrangement is not just in the San Antonio area, but statewide. The citation lists contain the names of people ticketed only for certain violations, without regard to a person's origin, he said.
"There is a standing request from ICE to provide them a statewide listing of DPS enforcement of DWI and no-driver-license offenses," Vinger said in an email to the San Antonio Express-News. "These lists have been provided by Highway Patrol since August 2016 on a monthly basis. The information does not include, nor do we have, immigration status on the violators. The names of individuals involved in these enforcement actions are included in the list, regardless of race/ethnicity/sex, etc."
ICE gave no details beyond what Esquivel divulged in court, so it's undisclosed how many people have been deported as a result of the arrangement.
ICE " works in close partnership with other federal agencies, as well as state and local law enforcement," the agency said in a statement. "By sharing resources and working jointly in a collaborative effort, we enforce immigration law and enhance public safety in our communities by removing criminal aliens from the streets."
Critics say the arrangement appears to have bolstered an argument that DPS is part of the Trump administration's "deportation machine." The agency's officers already have been identified by their own dashcam videos posted on the website of the American Civil Liberties Union turning over to the Border Patrol motorists suspected of being in the country illegally.
Several months after the ticket list arrangement began, Texas officials passed Senate Bill 4, which, among other things, allows local and state police officers to ask about immigration status, if they choose to, but only during a lawful stop or arrest. Texas' largest cities, including San Antonio, challenged the law. After an initial victory in federal court in San Antonio that blocked implementation of most of SB 4's provisions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned the order and allowed it to take effect. It is under appeal.
"This is consistent with the deportation machine that Donald Trump has set up to deport people like young Dreamers who may get a traffic ticket or who may have a tattoo on their body and therefore be suspected of gang membership," said U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, who led a mass protest recently over the Trump administration's recent policy of separating undocumented immigrant parents from children. "I think this is just going to create a dragnet effect in the same way that SB 4 has led to more traffic stops and profiling of people, particularly in the border areas."
Adriana Piñon, policy counsel and senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Texas, said it's concerning to have local law officers enforce immigration law because they are trained to enforce a different aspect: state criminal law.
"This lack of training then raises the question of when they are on the street, how do they know when and whether to stop a person?" Piñon said. "The big concern for us is racial profiling."
She added that having local law officers enforce immigration erodes trust within the community, making people reticent to step forward and report crimes for fear that they or their relatives may be targeted for deportation.
Piñon also said speaking Spanish is not a basis for determining someone is here illegally, whether it's done during the stop or afterward, when DPS sends the names of certain people to ticket lists provided to ICE.
"The fact that Spanish alone is a basis for (referral to ICE) flies in the face of basic constitutional protections that each individual has," Piñon said. "Spanish is very much a fabric of Texas. ... Racial profiling would be one of the concerns we have of how a person gets referred to a list like this."
But Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative think tank, said the DPS arrangement with ICE "doesn't strike me as inappropriate in any way."
"We want law enforcement agencies working together on behalf of public safety," Vaughan said. "There are about 2 million criminal aliens in the country. That's a very big workload for ICE. They don't have time to look for everyone."
She said ICE focuses its efforts on undocumented immigrants who are priorities, such as those who have been previously convicted of a crime and those who unlawfully re-entered the country.
"The idea that ICE is just using this to pick up every illegal alien who gets a traffic ticket is preposterous," Vaughan said. "They're simply using legitimate encounters with state troopers to find people on their priority target list."
She added: "I don't think state troopers have time to write tickets to people just because they might be of interest to ICE."
The DPS lists came to light in the case of Gaspar Rodriguez Garcia, who lives in San Antonio and is in jail, fighting charges of illegal re-entry. According to his court file, he was convicted in 2009 of illegal re-entry, sentenced to about a year of jail time served and deported in July 2010. But because he returned, that led to the latest illegal re-entry charge.
Court records show that federal charge didn't come until after Rodriguez was pulled over Aug. 23, 2017, by state trooper Randy Vick, reportedly because Rodriguez didn't come to a complete stop at an intersection along Texas 46 in New Braunfels.
Video from Vick's dashcam shows Rodriguez pulled his truck over right away, spoke mostly Spanish but appeared to be compliant, though Vick seemed bothered that Rodriguez spoke to him in his native tongue. After seeing that Rodriguez did not have a driver's license but a Mexican consular ID, Vick decided to issue two tickets — for failure to fully stop at a stop sign and driving without a license. The video also shows Vick telling the motorist to pay his tickets or "la migra" or "immigra" will come and get him.
At one point, Rodriguez asks if Vick speaks Spanish because Rodriguez has trouble understanding him.
"No, I don't speak Spanish," Vick replies firmly. "We're in Texas. This is the United States of America. We speak English here in America. I don't have to speak Spanish to you. No, I don't. And I know you speak English."
The video shows that Vick instructs Rodriguez to put his hands on the back of his pickup and taps on the tailgate. The video shows Rodriguez turn to lean his back on the tailgate, and Vick suddenly grabs Rodriguez by the left arm and shoves him against the pickup.
Rodriguez tells him in Spanish that he doesn't completely understand the officer, but Vick replies that Rodriguez is "playing games."
In examining the video of the stop recently, U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez, who was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush, said it wasn't completely clear from the video to support Gaspar Rodriguez's claim that he followed Texas traffic laws.
"From the video, it appears that the black truck Gaspar Rodriguez was driving may have completely stopped a few feet behind the stop sign before making the left turn, but it is difficult to determine because of a left-turning truck in between the officer's vehicle and the black truck," the judge wrote in a ruling in April.
Despite that observation, the judge found that the stop of Gaspar Rodriguez's truck "was not unreasonable, and no Fourth Amendment violation occurred, although ... Trooper Vick's conduct was unprofessional."
"His tone of voice, body language and use of unnecessary force deserves rebuke," Judge Rodriguez, no relation to the motorist, wrote in the ruling, which narrowly rejected Gaspar Rodriguez's claim that any evidence gathered from the stop should be suppressed.
During a suppression hearing in April, the judge was troubled with Vick's behavior: "I mean, based upon the trooper's verbal statements, the physical treatment he extended to, who at that point was just a citizen for all he knew, or an individual, you know, who is supposed to be afforded some respect when a police officer stops him, I mean, why shouldn't I just find that he was all acting pretextual to begin with? He started all of this off with the understanding that he was going to be getting this guy because he suspected him to be illegal from the get-go."
Gaspar Rodriguez, meanwhile, pleaded no contest to the violations and paid the tickets.
But his name wound up on one of the DPS citation lists. Rodriguez's lawyer, Assistant Federal Public Defender Molly Roth, argued that her client's name shouldn't have been on it.
"They (ICE) had no information at all of his presence in the United States or of any illegal activity," Roth told the judge at the hearing. "The only reason ICE is involved is because Trooper Vick stopped him, and he shouldn't have stopped him because Mr. Rodriguez stopped at the stop sign."
Even the prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Lathrop, cringed when he saw the DPS dashcam video of the stop.
"It's worse than I thought," Lathrop told the judge.
"It's offensive," the judge said.
"I agree. I agree," Lathrop replied.
Lathrop argued that, while he didn't condone the officer's conduct, Rodriguez should have fought the tickets in state court and sought to suppress them there. But Lathrop argued that a motorist can't withhold their identifying information, even if they believe their stop was unjustified.
"My argument is that he doesn't have a right to privacy in his state records," Lathrop told the judge. "The fact that (Rodriguez) received unfair treatment from the state a few months before shouldn't shield him from prosecution down the line."
Two and a half months after the traffic stop, ICE agents used the information in one of the citation lists to track down and arrest Rodriguez on Nov. 2 at his San Antonio apartment.
Vick was never summoned to testify.
Rodriguez, meanwhile, awaits trial this summer. His lawyer, Roth, told the judge last week that she plans to file a motion to reconsider his ruling denying the motion to suppress evidence.
Guillermo Contreras is a San Antonio Express-News staff writer. Read more of his stories here. | firstname.lastname@example.com | @gmaninfedland


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Stars are for the unimaginative, languid production of mundane superhero movies and their wanton proliferation. Even if super hero stories had any interesting narrative or commentary in them, it can be quickly excised because they have super powers and fight super villains. They are the ultimate non-threatening cultural rabbit-hat for Hollywood to thrust its fraudulent fingers into and pull forth franchises than can be constantly imagined and re-imagined with little effort or thought.
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Ripping apart the superhero film genre
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It had to be said.
Shut up and get me my coffee, kid.
Man of Steel is one of the few movies I've fallen asleep to. Basically I wanted to get out of the rain, smoked a joint with the manager and fell asleep . The beginning part was pretty tits. Snyder knows what he's doing, and he's probably watched this critique. He's basically a fanboy making movies, which led to the best comic book movie ever made, Watchmen. Glad this guy mentioned Miller tho; the contrast between Batman and Superman is super-apparent, and I kinda wish the next Superman was All Star Superman rather than this because even when I was a kid it was too political. I never got that: Batman lives in Gotham, Superman in Metropolis, but sometimes presidents are generic whitehaired dudes and other times it's Nixon or Reagan, and Washington DC's a real place, as is Moscow, etc etc.. And if Watchmen's any indication, Batman never existed because of a thwarted robbery in NYC in the first place, which never existed. Maybe if I was older I would've gotten the zeitgeistyness of all of 80s DC but who's Superman fighting for now? Jeb? Rand? Guess we'll see. Whatever this movie looks great.
I know, superhero movies with interesting narratives are rendered void of substance and value by having people with powers fight villains.
Just like how even a well written and socially relevant love story is neutered and generic by having the leads fall in love. And sports movies cannot offer anything original as long as the team competes in a competition in the end.
Superhero movies really are a plague. Before they existed Hollywood didn't make their big budget tentpole movies familiar, unimaginative and repeated to heck. We'd instead have original content this year like Furious 7, Mission Impossible 5, Terminator 5, James Bond 24, Jurassic Park 4, Hunger Games 3.5, Star Wars 7, and so on. Or maybe a ton of horror movies reliant on jump scares, washed up SNL stars getting hit in the crotch and making racist jokes with a cheap budget, and romances where two young popular tabloid celebrities flirt, have a misunderstanding, make a romantic gesture, and implicitly bang with no actual discussion of sex or relationships. But instead it's superhero movies that are the albatross keeping Hollywood from being creative.
"Man of Steel is one of the few movies I've fallen asleep to. Basically I wanted to get out of the rain, smoked a joint with the manager and fell asleep . The beginning part was pretty tits."
So first you were watching a porn movie, then you fell asleep and woke up in the Superman movie. I'd like to hear your synopsis of the film. "The movie opens with a pizza delivery man and two buxom women without enough money to pay him. Eventually General Zod arrives on earth and begins his reign of terror."
"Watchmen" was a decent comic book movie, IZ, but I'd say both "V for Vendetta" and the first "Hellboy" have it beat.
But you must have liked The Crow.
@pegleg holy vocab cards, Batman!
Yeah Hellboy and Crow are awesome, I was thinking more "mainstream" DC/Marvel and less fringy Vertigo/Dark Horse stuff. V for Vendetta was good, but it wasn't really that faithful to the source material like Watchmen was. Kinda like From Hell. I really liked that movie too but watching and reading it are two different experiences. Not that you could really pack all of those things into a 2 (or 3) hour movie, but Watchmen attempted to and succeeded, at least in the Directors' cuts. Diehard fans can complain 'til the cows come home about the glossing over of minor characters' backstories and the big change at the end, but I dunno. Even in the "short" theatrical release I was nearly in tears the whole time over how good it was, the perfect soundtrack, basically everything.
So in other words I'm glad to know that Snyder's doing this. I'm not a big Avengers fan but I get the feeling that John Faverau and Joss Whedon know their shit, just like Abrahams and Star Wars. I'd bet good money that Abrahams would win in a Star Wars quiz over Lucas. That's because they're all kids who grew up with this stuff, like I did. Nolan, Singer, etc. are great directors but I like the enthusiasm, if nothing else. And sure, 300 sucked, but honestly so did the book. I mean, it's pretty and so's the movie, but I think "Goodnight Moon" had more substance.
Super hero movies are easy to strip of anything except visual effects and boring characters because a central theme of the genre is superpowers. Superpowers don't have to represent anything in particular except "wow, that was cool looking". This makes them amazingly able to be produced in short order and have the added benefit of not being a risky medium of entertainment. Hollywood loves that.
I hold no illusions that Hollywood wasn't making crap before super hero movies. Neither do I think that super hero movies are holding it back.
Meh, I doubt people really notice after chromatic adaptation. The side-by-side thing is really a cheap trick.
Dumb, the movie looked great and was far more interesting than it needed to be.
Better hypothetical: What if a superhero movie was written by someone who didn't explicitly hate superheroes?
You'd have Joss Whedon cramming in all his favorite characters to an already bloated series and making a movie that's two and a half hours of quips and action setpieces.
That SweetFX profile looks pretty good. Gets rid of the desaturation.
It doesn't have to be, but in practice digital grading has been an absolute disaster for cinematography.
It's turned every movie in the past 10 years into a sharp orange/blue contrast nightmare.
I think this would actually improve the movie frankly. I really like it when comic book movies embrace the visual aspect of their source. Sometimes it works to play with it (like making the Nolan Batman movies a little on the grey gritty side), but it would be great to see this in more movies. Avengers could have done with this kind of color.
I never read the Man of Steel series, but wasn't it pretty "dark?" At least compared to bright ones like All Star Superman. Like not "dark" as in "colorless" but like Dark Knight Returns, sort of a grittyish reboot to make people sort of forget about the horrible Superman Sequels and campy colorful Batman respectively. This is just going off a google image search, but I'm curious.
If Superman has a problem, it's just the fact that he doesn't have a mask, and I really can't see anyone besides Christopher Reeve ever playing him. It was just too perfect a match. It's written into the freakin' comic that Batman's not always the same Batman, but Clark Kent's always Superman, as far as I know, and Reeve just captured that perfectly, and so did Dean Cain as a possible substitute. I dunno, the new ones just seem to be handsome faces with nothing much else there.
Even with properly restored color, this movie is worse than Highlander II
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