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How would you like the first thing you see in the morning to be a shark, the absolute void, or the Northern Lights? The fact that there are alternative hotels that offer much more than a rich breakfast and a couple of slippers, fired up the need inside us to write this article. Seeing images of rare beauty from your bed is an unparalleled experience. This is why we present you the 11 most special hotels of the world.
And don't think that staying on a tree or inside an igloo will cost you any less…on the contrary! Prices in these accommodation sites are quite steep…But bear in mind that the images that you will get to take with you are simply PRICELESS!
Meet the 11 most special hotels in the world..
1) Kakslauttanen Hotel And Igloo Village (Finland 🇫🇮)What would you say about nights under the Northern Lights, inside of a futuristic igloo, built from glass? This hotel turns nights into magical moments, as the independent igloo rooms offer sleep under the rare phenomenon of Aurora Borealis. Temperatures inside the room might not be at desirable levels (-3°C), however, they do not come close to the outdoor ones that reach as low as -35°C! Snuggle up..
👍 The advantage: Sleeping under the Northern Lights.
👎 The disadvantage: The low temperatures indoors.
💰 Price per night: 500 – 800€ !
2) Skylodge Adventure Suites (Peru 🇵🇪)How would you find the idea of sleeping in the absolute void, while being safe? The capsules/rooms are pinned on the rocks and offer a literally terrifying view of the valley of the Incas, from an altitude of 400m. The only way to reach your room is to climb, of course, for about 120m. This is the embodiment of a room with a view..!
👍 The advantage: The view
👎 The disadvantage: The ascent
💰 Price per night: 400€
3) Αtlantis the palm (Dubai 🇦🇪)If you love water and want a view different from the usual ones, then we recommend the underwater rooms of the luxurious Atlantis Hotel. The price may be unapproachable, but the experience will be unforgettable.
👍 The advantage: Having sharks swimming outside of your bedroom window!
👎 The disadvantage: Its insanely high price!
💰 Price per night: 5000€ !
4) Icehotel (Sweden 🇸🇪)And from biting prices we move on to biting cold…The Icehotel is the only hotel solely constructed with ice and snow. Its frozen doors are open from December to mid-April and its standard indoor temperature is -5°C! Do not worry, you will not have to sleep on the ice, but in special sleeping bags, placed on top of the ice-beds!
👍 The advantage: You are not going to need a Botox, as with this much cold the skin stays naturally tight!
👎 The disadvantage: The extremely low temperatures (indoors).
💰 Price per night: 250€
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5) The Bird's Nest (Norway 🇧🇻)Did you always dream of living as a bird? This is your chance…! The next hotel can be found in the trees and it is a giant bird nest. The amenities that it offers inside can even cover the needs of a family. You get inside the nest via a collapsible staircase. Do you believe you can fly?
👍 The advantage: What else other than its appearance?
👎 The disadvantage: The climb to get to the room.
💰 Price per night: 500€
6) La Balade des Gnômes (Belgium 🇧🇪)We move a little to the south, in Belgium, to find a hotel that resembles the Trojan horse. It is constructed with natural materials and has 10 different theme rooms that will take you on a journey to other times.
Tip: The smartest move is to book a different room for each day, so as to experience an all-inclusive fairytale.
👍 The advantage: The fairytale-like atmosphere.
👎 The disadvantage: The difficult access.
💰 Price per night: 200€
7) Free Spirit Spheres (Canada 🇨🇦)The next hotel is not in the sphere of your fantasy, but in three spheres in the forest area of Vancouver Island. The unprecedented hotel hosts its guests in three spheres of different sizes, which are hanging by the trees. If you feel like you are swinging a little more than the usual, do not get alarmed, there might be a little breeze!
👍 The advantage: Easy ascent.
👎 The disadvantage: It swings a little bit!!
💰 Price per night: 300€
8) Giramisu Cave Hotel (Turkey 🇹🇷)In the depths of Turkey, the faraway Cappadocia, you have the chance to stay in cave-rooms, inside the rocks. It is the oldest hotel, as it is more than 1,000 years old (it started out as a monastery) but provides all the contemporary commodities.
👍 The advantage: The temperature does not exceed 20°C (without a trace of air-conditioning)!
👎 The disadvantage: The limited natural light.
💰 Price per night: 100€
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9) Montana Magica Lodge (Chile 🇨🇱)If someone asked us to describe the next hotel on the list, our description would be "The Montana Magica Lodge is a lush green "volcano", with water gushing out from its top, washing its sides"! It is located in the heart of Patagonia and in its green yards you will find the tiny, rare Pudu deer, which is just 33 centimeters tall!
👍 The advantage: The lush green locale.
👎 The disadvantage: Access is achieved through a hanging staircase.
💰 Price per night: 230€
10) Palacio de Sal (Bolivia 🇧🇴)About 2,000km north of the Montana Magica Lodge, we find a hotel that drives the blood pressure of its guests through the roof! Do not be afraid, it is not hanging from anywhere, nor do you have to pay a bunch of money. The reason is that it is entirely made of salt*!! It is remarkable that even a lot of its furniture is made of salt! Caution: It is strictly prohibited to taste the hotel…After all, salt blocks the arteries.
* For its construction, more than one million bags of salt were used, but without this creating any actual problem, as 70% of the world's salt production comes from the area!
👍 The advantage: The salted baths
👎 The disadvantage: The salty foods.
💰 Price per night: 130€
11) Tree tent camping (California 🇺🇲)Who wouldn't want to sleep hanging in a tent under the stars? Tree camping might not be popular, but it is very alluring and steadily gaining ground. Elk in California is recommended as the most suitable location, or wherever else you think is right!
👍 The advantage: Sleeping in the air (literally).
👎 The disadvantage: You are unprotected against weather conditions.
💰 Price per night: Free but you should have the special equipment for tree camping.)


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ワイン & スピリッツ:偽造防止、ブランド保護および製品認証
Wines & Spirits - Anti-Counterfeit, Brand Protection & Product Authentication
|Vandagraf International Limited
|英文 250 Pages
納期: 即日から翌営業日
|ワイン & スピリッツ:偽造防止、ブランド保護および製品認証 Wines & Spirits - Anti-Counterfeit, Brand Protection & Product Authentication
|出版日: 2015年12月08日
|ページ情報: 英文 250 Pages
International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP) によると、世界で消費されるアルコールの約30%が偽造品だと計算されています。世界保健機関 (WHO) によると、東南アジアでは自家製またはその他の違法に製造された飲料がアルコール消費全体の70%を占めると推計されています。世界のワインおよびスピリッツ市場における偽造とそれに関連した活動による経済損失の増加率は、2013年頃から驚くべき速度で加速しており、過去5年間の6.8%から増加し、2019年まで年率約15.6%で成長を続ける予測されています。
当レポートでは、世界のワイン & スピリッツ市場について調査し、主な市場動向、地域における動向、製品偽造の動向と対応ソリューション、ブランド保護戦略、およびワイン & スピリッツ市場規模の分析と予測などをまとめ、お届けいたします。
Counterfeiting operations in particular can be scaled up and can be highly lucrative and are known to be often linked to organised crime networks and in some cases terrorist groups.
The problem of copy or look-alike products is widespread for spirits and also wines. Such copy and Look-alike products aim to perform the same function as a genuine product but are produced by an independent manufacturer under a similar name, and nearly always are of inferior quality.
The products are sold in markets where consumers are vaguely familiar with Trade Marks and international brands but often have little comprehension of English - All major spirits brands are vulnerable to such attacks. Nonetheless it is clear that such challenges have by no means deterred counterfeiters in China.
Such copy and look-alike products aim to perform the same function as a genuine product but are produced by an independent manufacturer under a similar name, and nearly always are of inferior quality. The products are sold in markets where consumers are vaguely familiar with trademarks and international brands.
All major spirits brands are vulnerable to such attacks, for example:
Increasingly, counterfeiters have been finding that it can be easier to obtain and refill genuine empty bottles of high end wines & spirits than to try to replicate original glass bottles. With this approach the original genuine label is usually still attached to the bottle.
China's booming wine market has created an extraordinary demand for empty bottles of famous wines (primarily from prestigious French vineyards) with fraudsters willing to pay up to $475 USD (or even more for something really special) for a good bottle that can be re-filled with something less expensive.
Fine wine counterfeits in China range from the glaringly obvious to the very subtle (for example by refilling a Chateau Lafite '82 labelled bottle with Chateau Lafite '85 wine (which is quite a lot less expensive). In a country where, for example a highly desirable Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1982 can command as much as US$5,900, the empty bottle can fetch as much as $1,500 USD on the black market (the condition of the empty bottle is of course critical and affects the price).
An empty bottle of Lafite with a damaged label so unauthorised refilling will serve no purpose.
A wine bar in Thailand called Shala One has been offering for a number of years a house wine with a label design that is uncannily similar to the label used by leading Napa Valley Opus One high end fine wine.
Raids on a series of illegal counterfeit spirits distilleries over the last several years have also highlighted the terrible conditions in which counterfeit alcohol is manufactured, typically in filthy, back-street factories. Such counterfeit spirits usually contain a variety of lethal chemicals.
Could you tell genuine from fake - Even when they are side by side, which usually they are not?
Growth rates of financial losses due to counterfeiting and related activities globally have been accelerating at an alarming rate since around 2013 and forecast to continue to grow at an annual rate of around 15.6% through to 2019, up from 6.8% over the previous 5 year period, according to the International Chamber of Commerce / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
This is a big change for the worse and the ramifications are sure to be far reaching - But still the brand protection industry has yet to really take off - With the global market for brand protection solutions has been estimated to be running at less than 0.5% of related global financial losses which are at an estimated $1,020 billion USD in 2014. Best estimates put forecast growth of brand protection solutions at 12.6% in 2014 and projected to continue at around this level for the next few years.
Estimates for illicit alcohol vary somewhat, although a clear pattern emerges:
Note: A distinction must be drawn between mass market branded wines and high-end collectible wines, as the dynamics of these markets are entirely different.
The majority of the World's counterfeit goods originate in China (70 to 80%), making it the counterfeit capital of the world - Indeed, the counterfeiting industry accounts for an estimated 8% of China's GDP.
Not only is a significant proportion of the World's counterfeit wines & spirits physically produced in China but a significant proportion of this output is then consumed within China, the rest being exported all over the World.
Smuggling is an age old occupation and has evolved over the centuries. Smuggling takes many forms in the modern World from the white van or family car on a cross channel ferry from mainland Europe to the UK to the crossing of deserts with camels and asses from Iraq to Iran. The dangers and penalties range from fines and possible imprisonment to death (as in China).
Certain types of product tend to be more attractive to counterfeiters than others - Wines & Spirts meet both key criteria:
In order to gain an insight in to world of genuine branded wines & spirits it can be helpful to take a look at the murky and multi-faced world of unrecorded alcohol consumption, which can be defined as:
In many countries, excise tax stamps are employed to facilitate implementation of excise tax policy and regulations for wines & spirits. The presence of a stamp signals that the required tax has actually been paid on the specific item. Brand owners must purchase the required tax stamps from the government at their excise value.
Properly produced and certified wines & spirits are made with a type of alcohol called ethanol. This is an alcohol that is safe to drink in moderation. Manufacturers of counterfeit alcoholic drinks, on the other hand, are not controlled and this can lead to the use of other lower cost types of alcohol which can have serious adverse effects and lead to life-changing health problems.
The following 3 major traditional on-pack security technology groups & materials are prominent in the brand protection space:
Table Major Technology Groups - Attributes compared
Source: Vandagraf International Limited.
Refilling of wine & spirts bottles, both partially (topping up) and entirely are big problem for the industry today - For brand owner, consumer & governments.
In 2014 the installed base of smart phones in the hands of consumers was some 1.8 billion units, forecast to rise to 3.4 billion units in 2019. The appeal to brand owners of smart phone enabled systems for mobile marketing proposes has become abundantly clear particularly in the light of the huge popularity of social media today.
It is perhaps less obvious how consumers can be persuaded to adopt smart phone enabled product authentication. The trick may be to find a way to automate the authentication process by linking it to mobile marketing related activities that attract and engage consumers, such as promotions, money back coupons and the like. In this way authentication then becomes a by-product of marketing promotions activity and is carried out automatically.
Smart phones can read codes which can be presented in a variety of formats. These codes can be scanned with a smart phone camera. This creates access to the brand owner's website that provides information to the consumer about the product (eg: wines or spirits) and by the way also verifies its authenticity.

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This congregation was organized at the house of Jacob Groginsky, June 1, 1882, and the following officers chosen: James B. Harrison, president; Nathan Levi, vice-president; Philip Kaufman, secretary; Moses Jacobs, treasurer. The society met in the Wolf block, corner of Mulberry and Adams street a short time, when their present brick synagogue was erected in the latter part of 1882. Daily meetings are held.
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On page 30 there is a box for key terms. Under the pituitary-adrenal system it should say 'adrenal cortex not adrenal medulla. And under the sympathomedullary pathway it should be adrenal medulla.
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New classes, new environmental hazards and an in-depth look at Wormius Fisticuffius, in this trailer.
Worms, the Team 17 blast-em-up group warfare franchise that has been going since 1995, is about to get another addition: Worms: Revolution, in which the little pink death machines seem to have evolved. Worm scientists, soldiers, scouts and heavies will blow hell out of the environment - and each other - trying to eliminate their foes.
Worms has had about twenty editions all told, including the 3D interface games, and they've all been broadly the same game. Take your tiny malevolent killing machine, point its sheep / old lady / mortar bomb / holy hand grenade / other weapon more or less in the direction of the enemy, and pull the trigger. Physics does the rest, which usually means you have as much chance of hitting yourself as you do the enemy.
The franchise has been criticised for not doing enough to innovate, and Worms: Revolution has some interesting ideas - classes, new water hazards - some of which may seem a little familiar to players of other team-based games. A damage-soaking heavy? A support class which drops independent gun turrets? Hundreds of hats? Hmmm. However it's the humor that sells the franchise, and that seems to have survived intact.
Worms: Revolution is due out sometime in October 2012. In addition to the latest trailer there are also a series of developer diaries, and those can be found here.
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Now that Java ME 8 is released a lot of people trying it out and are asking for sample code and demos. We've got you covered:
1) The first place you should go is the "Java ME SDK 8 Developer Guide". This is your one-stop-shop for getting started with Java ME 8 development on your PC (no external hardware required). Chapter 2 is "Creating a Java ME SDK 8 Sample Project", and part IV is all about "Sample Applications".
2) Next, you will want to browse the "Java ME Embedded Developer Guide", which covers important topics for developing Java ME 8 embedded applications. Chapter 5 talks about "General Purpose I/O", chapter 6 about "Working with the I2C Bus", and chapter 7 about "The Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Bus".
3) The Java ME SDK 8 comes with a whole set of ready-to-go demo applications. After installing the Java ME SDK 8 and NetBeans 8, start up NetBeans and make sure the "Java ME SDK Demos" plug-in is installed and active (this should be the default case). Then, create a new project and in the New Project dialog look under the "Samples > Java ME SDK 8.0" folder for a number of complete Java ME Embedded 8 demo projects.
4) Finally, check out the "Getting Started Guide (Raspberry Pi)" and the "Getting Started Guide (Qualcomm IoE)" for information on how to run apps on these platforms, including access to real-world peripherals via GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART, and others.
We are also working on additional demos and sample code – stay tuned for more information on this.
And remember to head over to the OTN Java ME Embedded forum to browse and ask questions – we are monitoring this forum on a regular basis.
— Terrence


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Tarnished bronze finish and natural abaca rope look like they were made for each other in this handsome eight-light transitional chandelier.
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A steel ring in tarnished bronze finish surrounds a classic bottle shape frame in this warm and inviting eight-light chandelier. Natural abaca rope is braided around the open framework, creating a natural combination of tones and textures that fit perfectly together. From the Pembroke collection by Quoizel.


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A straight friend of mine said she'd be cool with her daughter, who's currently aged two, "if she grew up to be gay or anything else," as it makes no difference to her whatsoever. "And it shouldn't."
But, isn't there always, well let's say often, a period of adjustment?
My mother expressed surprise, disbelief; she even thought I was joking in her confusion to understand. This was followed by shock, in fact a mighty blow! Whatever future she saw when she first held that baby close to her breast shattered in a moment… Leaving an apocalyptic vacuous residue…
There was a period of grief, for the future that will never be. And then the difficult feelings stirred, when she tried to comprehend what it all meant: being gay, having a gay son, what others would think?
Often time is a healer; often, but not always. Time allows for grieving. It allows for adjustment. Time, allows for love to heal.
I think my mother has tried to understand what having a gay son means, the way she knows best.
Parents too, of gay and bisexual children, are on a journey. They learn to experience their difficult feelings. They may talk to others, or not. They may try to become informed. They try to reason in their heads. They learn to live with it. And over time, it's kind of OK. It's not that bad. Bobby, is still Bobby.
Here are two dramatised parents' perspectives as monologues interspersed together. Ravinder is a father being interviewed for a project. He talks about his daughter. Pooja is in a café with her son. Use headphones for the best quality experience.
Audio monologues: written by Carl Miller; performed by Dharmesh Patel and Rochi Rampal; Directed by Steve Johnstone and Kate Chapman; recorded and engineered by Adam McCready and produced by Bobby Tiwana. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Co-commissioned by GEM Arts.


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"Don't Dream Your Life, Live Your Dream."
Master Taihu (Founder/G. Master) visit Song San, Henan, Shaolin Temple China in 1988
Arrival infront of Shaolin Temple
Shaolin Temple Main Entrance
With Shaolin Monk
Morning with Shaolin Monk
Shaolin Monkey Style
Shaolin Tri-Section
G. Master Taihu Fighting Stance
Miss Worlds from 115 Countries Learn Shaolin Kung Fu
Infront of Shaolin Temple
Miss World from 115 Countries
Shaolin Monks given training
Miss worlds learning Kung Fu
Learning Shaolin Kung Fu
Taking pictures of the monks
Shoalin and Miss World
Infront of the Shaolin Temple
2nd Aniversary of Shaolin Chinese Kung Fu Association
Hyderabad [12-11-2008]
Sifu Syed Salman Jafri with his students
Cake cutting
Group photo
Zahir who is a student of Master Chen is now doing
Kung Fu in Kazakhstan [20-11-2008]
Zahir doing Broadsword
Zahir a student of Master Chen
Zahir practising sword
Zahir with his colleages
Students of Master Chen Received Level Certificate
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Barring the two losses on this road trip, the Mets are looking like a team difficult to keep down. And those two losses (blowing a 7-0 lead to Philly and Aaron Heilman walking in the winning run in Florida) were games in which they beat themselves more than anything. What a difference it's been from last year and earlier this season; they no longer seem like a team that's ready to roll over and die. And that in itself is some kind of victory.
Tangible actual victories are even better. And what has been so encouraging over the last few months have been the Mets' propensity to bounce back after a difficult loss. They've done so again on this road trip, coming from behind to beat the Phillies and now winning three in a row since Heilman's blunder in Florida, two of which against the probable Wild Card winner Milwaukee Brewers (who, I'm sorry, I'm not altogether convinced by, and I thought the same thing last year when they were the hottest team for two months) in a possible NLDS preview. Monday's game saw them come back from a 2-0 deficit to take in late innings–when did this team learn how to score in the late innings (LOLGagne)? Yesterday they spotted a 5-1 lead to Defiance, OH's Jon Niese, making his major league debut. Niese, at least this night, turned out to be no prizewinner, as he worked in and out of trouble for three innings before being pulled in the fourth with the score 5-4 and runners on base. He'd be charged with all five Brewer runs when Nelson Figueroa gave up a bloop single that could have been worse without Beltran's tremendous throw to cut down JJ Hardy at the plate. The defense was sharp all night; in the eighth, Endy Chavez replaced Nick Evans in left field and promptly threw out Rickie Weeks trying to stretch a single into a double, and David Wright atoned for his miserable hitting by recording the final out in the ninth as Corey Hart hit a hard shot off Joe Smith that proved all for naught with Wright smothering the ball and throwing a beaut to Delgado.
How is it possible that this nausea-inducing (I seriously almost threw up last night when Ayala was facing Weeks) bullpen has thrown thirteen scoreless innings? Were they just waiting for the September call-ups, for fortification, for increased backup? Figueroa is the only call-up whose pitched; otherwise we've seen the normal parade of Smith, Feliciano, Sanchez, the increasingly reliable Stokes, Schoeneweis, and Ayala. There's something to be said for strength in numbers, and thirteen arms is a nice-looking luxury.
Lastly, Daniel Murphy is becoming our own nice-looking luxury. When he was brought in to pinch-hit in the top of the tenth, I sat back and thanked Jerry for not using him earlier, and knew there'd be something a-brewin' (ahem). A lead-off single, a Reyes bunt that was misplayed, and an Endy Chavez sac fly conspired to manufacture the game-winning run. It seems that Murphy has been in the middle of every late-inning game-winning rally the Mets have had over the past week. His past few starts have seen him struggle early on in the game only to come up big, be on base, and score important runs at the end. Murphy late in the game and we will not lose. And he said, "It shall be so."
Quote of the day comes from an interview given by Brian Schneider yesterday on WFAN, regarding the near-brawl in Florida over the weekend:
"Jacobs and some guys on their team–Scott Olsen, guys like that–are known to be idiots and do stupid things sometimes."
Schneider, sometimes I wonder what the hell your value on this team is, but I've decided I love you.


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The Reasons Why You Need to Use Custom Iron Hardware
During the construction process, there are some things that are usually very fundamental for you to have for example, different kinds of iron products. Some of these are important to include nails, bolts, beam straps and every other kind of iron hardware that is usually very important for you to be able to use during the construction and is an important part of the whole construction process. However, there are many different kinds of companies that usually provide these kinds of iron hardware and therefore the availability should not be a very big problem for you especially, if you're buying the regular kind. The availability of the custom kind of iron hardware should not be a big problem for you but fast, you need to be able to understand the difference between the regular and the custom. You'll be able to benefit in a big way if you have custom iron hardware used during the construction of your project.Custom iron hardware is the kind of hardware that is made specifically with different kinds of designs to make it very unique for the construction project. The information discussed in this article is going to be very critical and important for you in terms of ensuring that you can be able to grow your business and apart from that, their number of things that you get to gain also from the use of custom iron hardware.
One of the great benefits that you get to enjoy from using custom and hardware is that it usually specifically designed for your construction project and it is much more durable than the regular iron hardware. It is important to understand that you're going to benefit in a big way the moment you decide to use custom and hardware and that is simply because, it is usually much stronger and much durable and therefore better option for you. Some of the custom iron hardware include the beam straps that are usually made in a specific way that they become very attractive meaning that you construction project is going to be attractive if you decide to use them. There are a number of options that are usually there the moment you decide to use the custom and hardware and one of those options is that you get to enjoy a number of benefits in terms of more customers.
Another thing that you supposed to understand when it comes to custom iron hardware is that it is going to give you the option of choosing the between the different varieties that are usually created for the custom and hardware and this simply means that you can be able to choose what you want. The explanations given should be enough to help you understand more about custom and hardware.
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My son Benjamin turns 4 this month, and we wanted to throw him an early birthday party to help celebrate with some extended family. What's great, is that Walmart and Hallmark have teamed up and created a great selection of everything you will possibly need for a theme party. I think I'll be headed back in December to throw my daughter a Disney Princess party. You can see my whole shopping story here. Plus, there is a great selection of birthday cakes at Walmart, like this incredible Disney Pixar Cars Cake. My son was giddy jumping up and down when he saw the cake!
I taped Instagram pictures to the blue and silver balloon strings. The effect is really amazing, especially in person. We all loved looking at all the little pictures of Benjamin as we celebrated his birthday. I taped pictures to both sides, to give a little more weight to the balloons.
I especially love this pop up Mater snack holder, and the kids love it too! It is a fun and perfect way to serve popcorn, or cookies, or chips, and it only takes about two or three minutes to assemble.
We went ahead and got some Cars party favors at Walmart too, for when Benjamin has a party with his friends. These tire yo-yos are so cute.
Benjamin loved his little Cars party, down to every detail. He came over to me after we'd eaten the cake and said "Mommy, I'm older now. I'm 4." I had to explain to him that this was an early birthday party, and that he wouldn't turn 4 until his actual birthday. He said, "Oh, my Cars birthday didn't work." He didn't seem at all upset, but he was thinking, we'll have to try again and maybe the next time the party will make me turn 4. He cracks me up!


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As with so many Marvel-related movies, the post-credits scene of X-Men: Days of Future Past gave us a tantalizing glimpse of the franchise's plans. This time around, we caught our first glimpse of the titular villain of X-Men: Apocalypse, as well as his horsemen. But like most big bads, Apocalypse comes with an entourage of lesser villains, rivals, and the occasional clone. Given what we know about him [Ed.—and believe me, that's just about everything], here are six of those other characters, along with their odds of making it onto the big screen.
Mister Sinister
Every good despot needs a treacherous lieutenant. Born Nathaniel Essex, Sinister is the Galvatron to Apocalypse's Unicron. He was a contemporary of Charles Darwin, ostracized by his fellow scientists for his dubious ethics and obsession with human mutation. Granted relative immortality by Apocalypse, he continued his experiments from the shadows, working toward their common goal of pushing evolution to its limits—although Sinister's endgame is generally more complex than world domination, and he's betrayed and even posed as Apocalypse more than once.In the comics. Mr. Sinister is the ultimate long-game villain. He's spent a century and a half shaping mutant history, and he's been a significant force in the lives of at least two characters confirmed for X-Men: Apocalypse. Plus, he's glam as hell.
Odds of making it into X-Men: Apocalypse: low. In addition to his relationship to Apocalypse, Sinister is a major player in both Cyclops and Gambit's backstories; on the other hand, he's an incredibly complex character with a super weird history, and he doesn't really fit the aesthetic of the current generation of cinematic X-Men. If we see him at all, it'll probably be in a significantly modified form—or folded into another character, like Ozymandias.
Mr. Sinister wasn't Apocalypse's first right-hand man: that privilege goes to Ozymandias (no, not the one from Watchmen), who's been the big bad's oracle and scribe since his early days stealing alien technology in Ancient Egypt. Unlike Sinister, who enthusiastically teamed up with Apocalypse to further his own ends, Ozymandias's alliance with En Sabah Nur has always been a little reluctant; like Sinister, he's both betrayed and impersonated Apocalypse on multiple occasions.
Odds of making it into X-Men: Apocalypse: High, although they'll probably change his name. The post-credits scene in Days of Future Past makes it clear that they're sticking with Apocalypse's Egyptian roots, which means Ozymandias will fit right in.
In the far future, the AI from X-Factor's mobile base of operations is part of the technology that lets Cable jump around in time. It's also been a moon base for bad-guy Stryfe, briefly acquired a robot body in an alternate timeline, and controlled the satellite base Greymalkin.
Odds of making it into X-Men: Apocalypse: Middling. The structures Apocalypse is manipulating in the clip we've seen look like they could reasonably be components of Ship, and a flying fortress is pretty much never not cool. Odds of a sentient Ship are probably lower.
Born Nathan Christopher Summers, Cable is the future kid of Cyclops and a clone of Jean Grey—the result of generations of genetic manipulation by Mr. Sinister in his quest to find a way out from under Apocalypse's thumb (just run with it, okay?). Pulled into the distant future as an infant to save him from a techno-organic virus, Cable grew up to become a messianic figure of sorts: the man destined to bring down Apocalypse.
Odds of making it into X-Men: Apocalypse: Low. Cable has a lot working against him: he's the embodiment of the big-muscles-big-guns-cool-scar era of superhero comics, his backstory is hopelessly convoluted (he's technically the future kid of two characters we'll see as teenagers or young adults in the film), and X-Men just did a time travel story. That said, Cable has been used effectively more than once as a mysterious man-with-no-name deus ex machina, which neatly bypasses the need to delve into the crazy.
If Cable is the embodiment of the '90s, Stryfe is a bad clone of the embodiment of the '90s, which somehow manages to make him even more '90s. Freakin' X-Men, man.
Remember how baby Cable got pulled into the far future to save him from a techno-organic virus? Well, it was touch-and-go for a while, and during that time, the cult that was raising him decided to clone the kid, just in case. When Apocalypse raided the facility, he found the clone baby, thought it was the original, and decided to raise it as his son / spare emergency body, only to later reject it when he found out that it was a clone. That's Stryfe. Stryfe—reasonably, considering everything—has some issues. He grows up bent on vengeance on both Apocalypse and the X-Men, which makes him a wild card in this fight. He also looks just like Cable, which opens the door for some hilarious comedy-of-errors genocide frame-ups.
Odds of making it into X-Men: Apocalypse: As a clone of Cable, low to nil. As faceless lieutenant or horseman of Apocalypse, fair to middling.
Evan Sabahnur
Evan Sabahnur is Apocalypse, resurrected as a child, with no memory of his former life (he's technically a clone of a resurrected Apocalypse, but at this point, the distinction is mostly academic). Raised as an earnest do-gooder in a virtual version of Omaha by loving virtual parents and a fun uncle who's actually mutant superspy Fantomex (again: just run with it), he's now a student at the Jean Grey school.
Odds of making it into X-Men: Apocalypse: Slim to none, which is a shame, because he's pretty damn adorable.


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UrbaCon's Al Khayyat: Mall of Qatar received 100,000 visitors on opening dayNovember 21, 2017
13 December 2016
The Mall of Qatar, one of the largest shopping malls in the world, received approximately 100,000 visitors on its opening day on 10 December 2016, a senior official of UrbaCon Trading & Contracting (UCC) announced today.
"I'm pleased to see the Mall of Qatar running successfully after lots of great efforts and work from varied parties to make it happen," said Qatar-based UrbaCon's CEO Mr. Moutaz Al Khayyat.
"As a developer of the the 500,000 square meter mall I'm proud to see the visitors enjoying the shopping experience as the mall received approximately 100,000 visitors on its first day," added Moutaz Al Khayyat.
"The shopping mall will attract visitors from Qatar and the Gulf states and it will be the shopping destination for World Cup fans in Doha in 2022," said Mr. Moutaz Al Khayyat.
UrbaCon Trading & Contracting has been involved in several huge projects over the last few years and has become one of the most respected building contractors in Qatar. In addition to the Mall of Qatar, included among its projects are the Banana Island Resort, the Sheraton Doha Hotel and Convention Center, and the Lekhwiya Stadium at Al Duhail. UrbaCon is one of several companies owned by Mr. Moutaz Al Khayyat. These companies include general contracting, commercial and residential developments, building materials, various trading companies, hospitals and restaurants with operations in the Middle East.
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The nursing home business has been a profitable one for many. As baby boomers enter their later years and require care, the customer base is undoubtedly growing. Add in the numerous insurance policies that cover nursing home and long-term care facility stays, including government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and the sources of revenue for nursing homes are tremendous. Add to this the untenable yet unfortunately realistic incentive to cut overhead and staff levels in order to save even more money and generate greater profit margins.
Such lower staff levels reduce the time and attention paid toward patients who need constant care, and can result in injuries, untreated illnesses, and eventually death. In spite of allegations of abuse, neglect, or fraud in accepting federal dollars for fake services or overstated services, all of which can result in criminal and/or civil charges costing millions in fines and penalties, the business of nursing homes is a profitable one, and many companies are looking to get into this business.
There has been a trend of nursing home ownership becoming bigger and bigger. There are no longer smaller outfits or so-called "mom and pop" single homes. Rather, larger holding companies and management companies have acquired chains of nursing homes to run en masse for greater and greater profit. This has also been a similar trend for once-publicly-run nursing homes, which states are selling off to go under completely private management. Regarding acquisitions from the state, the government is generally motivated to sell because they consistently operate at substantial losses, and the deficits become too much.
The state may have no choice but to sell off to private interests with the cash to make the deal worth it for all involved. Such has been the trend in the state of New York, for example, where private interests can operate the facilities for profit, while the facilities stay open rather than face closure because the state can no longer effectively run it. Private owners work to cut costs, and may not owe the types of benefits and pensions that the state must use
Recent Example
In Orleans County, New York, for example, the government agreed to sell the Villages of Orleans Health and Rehabilitation Center to the management company Comprehensive Healthcare Management Services, for $7.8 million. As reported, this particular company, based out of Long Island, New York, owns a home in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area and has targeted the takeover of other facilities around Buffalo, New York. The home, as unfortunately with many county-run facilities, in 2012 lost about $2.8 million. This deal follows another recent sale of a nursing home in Ontario County, New York for about $1 million, which had operated with relatively barely any revenue above costs.
Both of these homes will be cutting out staff benefits, or letting go of certain staff altogether in order to cut costs. It remains to be seen whether the new owners of these nursing homes, as well as facilities sold to private interests in general, will be able to cut costs while still maintaining adequate levels of care. It will be important for state and federal regulators, where applicable, to keep tabs on these facilities and their performances as well as investigate complaints. And it is important for prospective residents and their loved ones to be aware of the facilities' records, staffing levels, and quality of care offered to residents to avoid elder abuse.
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