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Bitcoin can make you filthy rich, but it still won't buy you a buttered roll at your bodega.
How do we know? We tried.
For 36 hours last week I lived on Bitcoin alone. Surviving on the cryptocurrency, even in one of the world's financial capitals, wasn't easy. It required long subway rides to far-flung vendors where I was often the first Bitcoin-paying customer.
To get started, I bought 0.00737523 Bitcoin ($50) on Coinbase, a popular cryptocurrency exchange. It took an hour, $1.99 in fees, uploading a photo ID, and calling my bank after the charge was flagged as possibly fraudulent.
Coinbase also canceled my first attempt to buy the volatile currency because the price had fluctuated in the 10 seconds or so it took me to check out.
I went to bed and woke up with Bitcoin worth $50.14 in my digital wallet and a list of things to accomplish: grocery shop, do laundry, buy socks, work out and get a haircut.
But first, I needed coffee.
The closest place I found was Kavasutra in the East Village, a 30-minute subway ride away. (The subway does not accept Bitcoin, so to ride I had to cheat.)
After pulling a shot of cold brew for 0.00014486 BTC, or $1, the barista called up a QR code on an iPad. I scanned it with an app on my phone, but it didn't work. He began coaching me like a child patiently setting up Grandpa's Facebook account, and then gave up.
But eventually I figured it out, the payment went through and I became his third Bitcoin-paying customer of the day.
Paying with cryptocurrency was like that: exciting, fraught and never the same twice.
I was invoiced by email for a load of laundry at the Eco Laundry Company in Chelsea. I texted with a hair stylist in Israel who accepted a tip on behalf of his colleague at Armando Piña Hair Salon on the Upper East Side. I waited — fingers crossed — for five minutes before a payment finally posted and I could dig into an ice cream sandwich at Melt Bakery on the Lower East Side.
And like an obsessive day trader, I would check my digital wallet and watch as the value went up and down by a few cents every few minutes.
It was fun, until I got hungry.
I had searched for restaurants and grocery stores using Coinmap, the Blockchain Wallet and filters on Yelp, but almost none took Bitcoin, and most said they never had.
"No one is really using it the way it's supposed to be used, as a currency," said Dan Sim, who accepts Bitcoin at his Lean Crust pizza shop in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Circa 2013, he said, he'd process dozens of Bitcoin purchases a week, but as the currency became more valuable and volatile, that's dropped to zero. "People don't want to part with their Bitcoin," he said.
I couldn't find anyone to sell me less than $200 worth of socks or a gym that accepted Bitcoin. By the time lunch rolled around on Day 2, I was ready to throw in the towel.
I headed to Sweetgreen. Its restaurants don't accept cash, but they still take good old-fashioned plastic.
Here's what else is happening:
We'd pay a pretty penny for better weather.
We could see two inches of rain, and thunder may rumble through the morning.
Today's high is around 60. Highs will be in the 50s all week — a little cool for mid-April.
In the News
• Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating President Trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen. [New York Times]
• Though subway officials have attributed delays to antiquated signals, faulty equipment near the Bergen Street station on the F and G lines is proving that even newer hardware can break down. [New York Times]
• A look at the life of David Buckel, the civil rights lawyer and environmentalist who killed himself on Saturday, through the eyes of the people closest to him. [New York Times]
• Citing concerns like climate change, officials have prepared a long-term plan for the care of the city's forests. [New York Times]
• A new graphic novel by the comic book writer Peter J. Tomasi retells the origin of the Brooklyn Bridge and the family who made it possible. [New York Times]
• Ninety years after her death, Nora Bayes, one of the most famous entertainers of the early 20th century, will finally get a headstone. [New York Times]
• Cynthia Nixon won the endorsement of the Working Families Party, a small but influential progressive group. [New York Times]
• More than 200 million eggs that may have been contaminated with salmonella were distributed to nine states, including New York and New Jersey. [New York Times]
• The William Street Tattoo Center on the Lower East Side is a first-in-the-nation clinic dedicated to tattoo-related medical issues. [Patch]
• With more black women rejecting relaxers, hair care professionals on Long Island are adapting to a growing natural hair movement. [Newsday]
• Today's Metropolitan Diary: "Other End of the Leash"
• For a global look at what's happening, see Your Morning Briefing.
Coming Up Today
• Taxes are due tomorrow. Get last-minute help filing at public libraries across the city.
• Take a tour of Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side. 11 a.m. [Free]
• A three-part lecture series on Einstein's theories begins at the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village at 6 p.m. [Free]
• The author of "Abraham and Straus: It's Worth a Trip From Anywhere" discusses the history of the department store that once anchored Fulton Street, at the Brooklyn Historical Society in Brooklyn Heights. 6:30 p.m. [$5]
• Learn how to hack your mind to be more reasonable at the Empiricists League at Union Hall in Park Slope. 7:30 p.m. [$10]
• Yankees host Marlins, 6:35 p.m. (YES). Mets host Nationals, 7:10 p.m. (SNY).
• Alternate-side parking remains in effect until May 10.
• For more events, see The New York Times's Arts & Entertainment guide.
And Finally...
This week in 1912, around 700 people stepped off the Carpathia steamship at Pier 54 in the meatpacking district.
They were the only survivors of the Titanic, which had sunk on April 15, claiming over 1,500 lives.
On the central beam of the pier, you can still read the lettering of the shipping companies "Cunard," which operated the Carpathia, and "White Star," which owned the Titanic.
The Titanic left its mark on other places in the city as well.
• Many of the surviving crew members were first received at the Lower Manhattan Seamen's Friend Society, which was dedicated to improving the "social, moral and religious condition of seamen" and is now the Jane Hotel.
• Memorials to those who perished include Straus Park, a small park at Broadway and 106th Street dedicated to Isidor and Ida Straus; the William T. Stead Memorial in Central Park at 91st Street, honoring a British journalist who died helping others escape; and a plaque for Edith Corse Evans, a New York socialite and one of the few women from first class who died, at Grace Church in Greenwich Village.
• And the white Titanic Memorial Lighthouse, built a year after the tragedy, stood atop the Seamen's Church Institute until 1967, when it was moved to Titanic Memorial Park near South Street Seaport.
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Knocked-out Tooth
If a permanent tooth is knocked completely out, immediate care is required. If possible, place the tooth back in the socket. It will go easily back into place. If you can't get it back in, keep it under your tongue or in a glass of milk or water to keep it moist. You can rinse the tooth with water or milk, but do not touch or scrub the root, otherwise this may damage the cells on the root surface which are needed to help the tooth reattach. If a tooth is only knocked out of alignment, similar rules apply. Try to push the tooth back into its proper position as soon as possible and see us right away. Remember, the sooner the tooth is put back in place, the better the chances of it healing successfully.
Broken Filling
In most cases, treatment can be delayed until a convenient time is available. Rough edges can be smoothed off with an emery board and the hole can be filled with warm wax or sugarless gum. A product called Dentemp available in some drugstores is a good do-it-yourself temporary filling material.
Loose Cap
When a cap (crown) becomes loose or falls off, it should be replaced on the tooth until we can re-cement it. For a little more security, first place a small piece of sugarless gum or a dab of Vaseline in the crown to help hold it on. The cap should not be left off the tooth for more than a few hours or it may not be possible to glue it back in place. When a cap is loose it is very easy to get decay underneath and you run the risk of swallowing the loose cap while you eat. Be careful! You should see us as soon as possible to get it put back in place permanently.
Broken Tooth
This can be very painful and any sharp edge could cut your cheek or tongue. If you were hit in the mouth and your lips, cheek or tongue are cut, check if any fragments are stuck in the wound. See us as soon as possible because the fractured tooth may become sensitive and if the nerve is exposed it can become very painful and infected.

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Castleford Academy Biology students from year 9 and 10 have taken part in the Biology Challenge 2018, a set of tests that are run by the Royal Society of Biology. It is a national competition and this year more than 43,000 students took part.
The competition consisted of two 25-minute online test papers. The questions tested the students and their knowledge on several key areas of Biology including the school curriculum, the student's own knowledge of the subject gained by reading books, magazines and watching natural history programmes and on information gathered whilst watching key items of biological interest within the news.
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The Mayfield Partnership comprising LCR, Manchester City Council and Transport for Greater Manchester, has appointed leading regeneration specialist, U+I as its development partner for the Mayfield Quarter in Manchester.
The 24-acre site adjacent to Manchester Piccadilly Station is home to the vacant Mayfield railway station and has been overlooked for over half a century. Our plans for the regeneration of Mayfield will deliver a memorable, £850m mixed-use community in the heart of Manchester.
Our framework plan proposes a new 6-acre park in the heart of the city, 1,300 homes, 75,000 sq m of office space, a 350-bedroom hotel, retail and leisure facilities generating over 7,500 office, retail, leisure and construction jobs. It will reshape and extend the city towards Ardwick, building on the benefits of the Northern Hub rail expansion plans and acting as a catalyst for the regeneration of the wider Piccadilly area in anticipation of HS2.
Mayfield has a rich industrial heritage, from the Hoyles Calico printing and dying factory, one of the most famous textile factories in the 1800s, to the Mayfield relief station of the early 1900s.
Our framework retains these features and explores the historical narrative through the landscape of a proposed park. Opening the retained Mayfield Platform to the public, we envisage creating an elevated public space, inspired by the High-Line in New York, culminating in a truly layered post-industrial landscape that is unique to Manchester.


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Theodore Wafer Verdict Reached: Guilty Of 2nd Degree Murder
DETROIT (AP) — A jury convicted a suburban Detroit homeowner of second-degree murder and manslaughter on Thursday in the killing of a drunk, unarmed woman on his porch last year, rejecting his claim that he was afraid for his life and had acted in self-defense.
Jurors Begin Deliberating In Porch Shooting Case [VIDEO]
DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit homeowner who opened his front door and blasted an unarmed woman on his porch should have called 911 instead of becoming "judge, jury and executioner," a prosecutor said Wednesday in urging jurors to convict him of second-degree murder.
Porch Killing Defendant: 'I Wasn't Going To Cower' [VIDEO]
Theodore Wafer began testifying in his own defense Monday and is scheduled to resume testifying on Tuesday. While on the stand, Wafer said that he feared for his safety and that he refused to cower in his house.
Testimony continues in porch shooting trial of 19 y.o. Renisha McBride
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Testimony continues in porch shooting trial of 19 y.o. Renisha McBride
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DETROIT — A former medical examiner sparred with a prosecutor Thursday over a wound on the hand of a woman who was fatally shot on a Detroit-area porch, telling jurors it seems to fit the defense's claim that Renisha McBride was pounding on the homeowner's doors before she was killed.
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Prosecutors have rested their case against Theodore Wafer in the Renisha McBride murder case.
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Third day of testimony in porch shooting death
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New details are emerging about the night Theodore Wafer shot and killed Renisha McBride.
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DETROIT -A Dearborn Heights man who killed an unarmed woman on his porch was rocked out of sleep by a series of "boom, boom, boom" pounding sounds outside his home, causing him to grab a shotgun, open the front door and fire, a defense lawyer told jurors during opening statements Wednesday.
Renisha McBride: Man Who Shot Unarmed Detroit Woman Will Stand Trial
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — A Detroit-area man who fatally shot a drunk, unarmed woman on his porch will stand trial for second-degree murder, a judge said Thursday, rejecting a self-defense argument for the killer's "bad choice."
There is no dispute that Theodore Wafer shot Renisha McBride, 19, through the screen of his front door in the early hours of Nov. 2. His attorneys said the 54-year-o sld man feared for his life, but Dearborn Heights Judge David Turfe said there were other ways to protect himself, including a phone call for help.
Jury selection has begun in the trial in the Renisha McBride murder case.
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The curious details surrounding the death of 19-year-old Detroit woman Renisha McBride continue to emerge in the days since her unfortunate passing. Now with an official autopsy report made available to the public, the family attorney is seeking charges against the White man who fired the shot that killed McBride.
Officials say the man charged in the death of Renisha McBride gave two statements to police.
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Renisha McBride's family speaks
The parents of 19-year-old Renisha McBride, who was slain on Nov. 2 on a porch in Dearborn Heights, Michigan while seeking help following a car accident, held a press conference on Friday to discuss the case and to thank Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy for her thorough work.
Defense May Question Renisha McBride's Lifestyle In Murder Trial
DETROIT — Lawyers for a Detroit-area man who fatally shot a young, unarmed woman on his porch are asking a rookie judge to step aside and are signaling that the victim's lifestyle should be fair game at a June trial.
Several court filings reviewed by The Associated Press show Theodore Wafer plans an aggressive defense to a charge of second-degree murder. Suggestions that Renisha McBride was on his Dearborn Heights porch simply to seek help after a car crash are "fiction" and "utterly erroneous," says attorney Cheryl Carpenter.
Theodore Wafer Arraigned On Murder, Manslaughter Charges, Bail Set At $250K [VIDEO]
DETROIT — Prosecutors on Friday charged a suburban Detroit homeowner with second-degree murder in the death of a 19-year-old woman who was shot in the face on his porch.
Theodore P. Wafer, 54, of Dearborn Heights, also faces a manslaughter charge in the death of Renisha McBride (pictured) in the early-morning hours of Nov. 2, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. McBride was shot in the face after police say they believe she was involved in a car accident nearby in Detroit and family members say she likely approached Wafer's home for help.


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How to find energy efficient replacement windows in Calgary, AB
Coming to the realization that it's time to start looking for replacement windows is something that nearly all homeowners have to deal with at one point or another. Luckily, the windows made today can offer a lot more bonuses that the one's currently installed. Sure, they may not be 40 year old windows, but there have been a lot of developments even in the last 10-15 years that can help you improve your home's energy efficiency. So what should you be on the lookout for when you're searching for energy efficient replacement windows? Here's a little list that the team at Pella Windows and Doors in Calgary put together for you to think through:
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Maresi is a story of a female community dedicated to knowledge & learning. When a new girl arrives, danger and violence follow in her wake.
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I have grown up reading and loving fairy tales, both international and Nordic ones. None of them have inspired Maresi per se, but I carry them all with me and they are fuel for my writing. A lot of how I use language comes from fairy tales, I think.
Is the Red Abbey based on anywhere, real or fictional?
Yes, the Red Abbey is inspired by the monastic community on the island of Athos in the Greek archipelago. No women have been allowed to set foot on the island for a thousand years. I just reversed that :-)
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The Kick Project board has now reached agreement with the Rohingya Football Club, Kuala Lumpur, to proceed with the following program.
We are now formally raising funds for the following program, which we aim to begin in January 2016.
Phase One:
We are now formally raising funds for the following program, which we aim to begin in January 2016.
Phase One:
Part 1
Aim 1: Provide full playing kit for the current Rohingya Football Club (RFC) squad. This includes: shirts, shorts, socks, shin-pads, boots, goalkeeper equipment
Aim 2: Fund a single playing space for football games. This includes paying fees on a designated municipal football field.
Aim 3: Fund Transport. This includes purchasing or leasing a minivan.
Part 2
Aim 1: To establish a "Ball Library". This will be set up as a focal point for the RFC and also for the Rohingya community, with special focus on encouraging access for Rohingya children. Appropriate education initiatives (approved by both RFC representatives and The Kick Project via the Program Management Committee) may be conducted and/or promoted in the Ball Library premises;
Aim 2: To assess and consider the outcomes of Part 1 and to decide on whether these sub-programs will continue to be supported by The Kick Project as part of the Part 2 program.
Time Frame: 6-12 months
Intended Outcomes:
To increase number of games and regularity of games played by the RFC against Rohingya and non-Rohingya;
To increase the number and proportion of games played between the RFC and non-Rohingya teams;
To increase the numbers of spectators (Rohingya and non-Rohingya) at RFC games. Particular emphasis is to be paid to the attendance of Rohingya children;
To provide physical and social education initiatives in tandem with the RFC activities;
To increase the participation of Rohingya children in the activities of the RFC;
To increase, over the period of the program, visits to the Ball Library by Rohingya children;
To establish football-related means whereby Rohingya and non-Rohingya children can interact in safety and security.
To increase harmony and good relations with non-Rohingya communities in KL, particularly between children;
To increase participation for children in wider, non-Rohingya society through "football diplomacy";
To increase favourable media coverage of the Rohingya in KL;
To increase social and community well-being among the Rohingya community in KL, with special emphasis on children;
To contribute to increased levels of safety and acceptance for Rohingya children to attend RFC games and to participate in sporting programs generally.
Phase Two:
After completion of Phase One and a determination of its outcomes, The Kick Project and the beneficiary parties will consider the following, as Phase II of the program:
Aim 1: A football league for Rohingya children (12-17) in KL
Aim 2: Culturally appropriate sporting activities for Rohingya girls in KL
Aim 3: Secure and safe means of transport for children to/from sports-related activities within KL
Aim 4: Appropriate education programs that might be attached to sporting activities
Outcomes and specifics will be devised when the program is designed


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I ordered a 2TB WD "Passport" backup drive for a computer running WinXP.
I must have still been under anesthesia thinking,
1) XP would recognize such a large hard drive,
2) that this 2TB passport would NOT come GPT formatted which XP also does not recognize.
At this point upgrading the PC to Win7 or Win 10 is not an option.
I need to backup all current data on the XP's 500GB drive as well as an already full WD500GB "MY Book" external hard drive.
I'm thinking I have to remove the GPT type format (if XP is going to recognize it) and most likely that will mean 4 separate logical 500GB NTFS partitions or no?
Can I leave this passport intact at 2TB and reformat it to NTFS or at least separate logical 1TB partitioned NTFS drives?
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The two ways to go bankrupt, as Ernest Hemmingway famously wrote, are gradually and then suddenly. The "gradually" phase of the process can take a good long while, sometimes years, but once a business starts to exhibit the two biggest symptoms of impending disaster–falling revenues and mounting debt–the "suddenly" part is all but inevitable. It came for the troubled biotech company Dendreon (ticker: DNDN) on Monday when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The move should have surprised exactly no one, and not just because I predicted it well over a year ago now on Seeking Alpha. Back in September, the company's own management warned that it was probably going to wipe out its shareholders. But that didn't stop credulous investors from buying Dendreon's stock–incredibly, it didn't dip below a dollar until earlier this month–or dubious stock boosters from feeding their hopes for a miraculous turnaround. Take a look at the headline on a Zack's.com posting: "Why Earnings Season Could be Great for Dendreon." The article, which gives DNDN a buy rating, is dated November 10, 2014–the exact same day the company announced that it had filed for bankruptcy.


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This room was originally used as guest bedroom throughout Merton and Annie's residence, most probably by their grandchildren when they came to stay as a treat. When Annie became ill in 1919, her nurse, Miss Newboult, moved into the guest bedroom permanently. Annie moved into Merton's bedroom, the Red Room, just opposite, to be close to her nurse.
Around this time the room was redecorated: the joinery painted and the walls papered. The evidence of this redecoration can be seen on the West Wall behind the door.
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AVON, Conn. – On June 9, 2017 the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLCA) announced its NCAA Division III all-region teams. Three Capital University men's lacrosse players earned a spot on the West Regional honorable mention squad including Brennan O'Callaghan, Tate Stover and Cole Palmby.
For rising senior Brennan O'Callaghan (West Chester, Ohio/Lakota West) and recent graduate Tate Stover (Delaware, Ohio/Olentangy), this marks the second all-region awards of their respective careers. Rising senior Cole Palmby (Delaware, Ohio/Olentangy) has infiltrated the all-region squad for the first time in his career. All three were named All-West Region honorable mention following having earned First Team All-OAC honors.
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Only John Carroll University had more all-region picks from the Ohio Athletic Conference with four.
For the third straight season, O'Callaghan led the Purple and White in goals scored (61) and points (76). His 61 goals was also tops in the OAC and he finished second in the conference in points tallied. O'Callaghan was also an honorable mention all-region selection in 2016.
Stover and Palmby were instrumental leaders of a defense that surrendered just 7.49 goals per game, which ranked 14th-best in the country among Division III teams.
Palmby's 7.88 goals-against average ranks him for a share of 19th in the country, while his conference-leading save percentage (.590) places him 14th. Overall, Palmby recorded 151 saves in nearly 800 minutes along the way to account for his 8-6 record in 2017.
Stover ended his career as Capital's first four-time First Team All-OAC selection. His senior campaign featured 28 ground balls and 30 caused turnovers on an individual level, while also feeding into a stout defense that ranked 21st nationally in caused turnovers per game (11.12). Last year, Stover was named Second Team All-West Region.
Under first-year head coach and OAC Co-Coach of the Year Dom Marzano, Capital advanced to the conference tournament title game as the number three seed. The Crusaders finished 10-6 overall, which the program's third straight postseason appearance and 10-plus win season.


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~ Celebrate Life ~
This blog was originally created in 2011 to chronicle our son's journey with leukemia. It was the most convenient way to keep family and friends informed of his frequent medical updates. *(Archived Posts are in the column to the right). As Jesse battled this relentless disease, so many came along our family's side. The continuous love, support and prayers made our journey more bearable. It was amazing to receive that kind of support from all over the world.
March 6th of 2015, marked Jesse's two year anniversary in Heaven and now I feel moved to share his brave story with the public. My hope is that you will be blessed by his story and possibly find resources or ideas that will help you.
Overview of Jesse's Journey
It was December 7, 2011, that changed the course of my family's life. Our 17-year-old son, Jesse, was diagnosed with Leukemia ALL positive Philadelphia chromosome. During his course of treatments, he had endured 6 different chemotherapy regimens due to the inability to achieve remission. The third regimen was toxic, overpowered his system and caused renal failure. Consequently, the chemotherapy pooled in his body causing an emergency flight from Hurley Medical Center to U of M – Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor. Jesse was placed on a ventilator because his oxygen levels were not stable. It was soon discovered the chemo had not only effected his kidneys, lungs, and heart but also caused brain damage. Miraculously, after 86 days in the hospital, all of Jesse's organs had healed with the exception of his brain. We were thankful but yet in shock. Our charismatic teenage son had regressed to the mental capacity of a young child. In addition, the neurological damage included significant loss of his motor skills. Thereafter, we were not only battling the leukemia but also assisting him with speech, physical and occupational therapies. Jesse's tasks began with relearning basic skills such as speaking, brushing his teeth, and eating. In time he regained the coordination and strength to sit up alone and ride a 3-wheel recumbent bike. Although he never walked again, we found ways to give him a sense of mobile independence and freedom.
Unfortunately, the leukemia eventually spread to his spinal fluid. This devastated us after such a courageous battle. In September 2012, Jesse turned 18 years old. After his 6th ineffective, brutal regimen, he chose to decline further chemotherapy. Jesse came home to Hospice care to enjoy the rest of his life…Celebrate Life. He continued physical therapy (achieved more pull-ups), went on a hunting trip and traveled to several states connecting with as many family and friends as possible. Much love was spread and memories were made during that time. On March 6, 2013, Jesse went home…Heaven.
In honor of our precious son, we will continue to encourage others to Celebrate Life and make wonderful memories along the way.
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It was a joy and a blessing to come alongside of Jesse, Ingrid, Scott and Savannah during this heart wrenching journey and to pray for them individually and collectively as a family. It was a joy to participate in "The Great Escape" and now honoring Jesse and his life and legacy tomorrow, March 6th as we continue to keep Jesse's light shining as Jesse continues to shine in our lives from Heaven. What great gifts God has bestowed upon us through Jesse's life. The gifts of love, encouragement, support, friendship, "The Great Escape" and an awesome example of the love of God demonstrated not only through Jesse's life, but the lives of Scott, Ingrid, Savannah, family friends both new and old bound together in and through the awesome power of God's love, mercy and compassion! Keep throwing your light toward us Jesse!!!! You are loved and appreciated always!!!!


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The Selling of You
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With the continuing move toward online selling and Internet marketing, lately I've been receiving many newsletters referencing "building trust." What is trust? Why is it important? Moreover, if it's that important, how do I get it?
Tons of business books suggest that building relationships with your customer both offline and online is important. But what constitutes a business relationship? Do I have to like people and be their friend before they'll buy from me?
These questions are crucial to all sizes of business and all types of sales, whether you're selling a product or service, selling directly or via the Web. But entrepreneurs who don't yet have brand name recognition within their market face a few unique challenges.
Challenge #1: Before you sell your product or service, you have to sell you. Long ago, salespeople subscribed to a concept of multiple tiny purchases called the "series of decisions" sales model. They were taught to get minor commitments throughout the sales process that edged the prospect closer and closer to a purchase decision. Today, if the prospect doesn't know who you are and what you represent, a salesperson may never get the chance to ask for any kind of commitment. The first job is to earn the right to communicate with a potential customer.
Challenge #2: Your prospect's time is limited. Starting out any new relationship is hard. Starting out without a proven name or brand behind you is close to impossible. Look at your e-mail inbox this morning. There's a constant and never-ending flow of requests for your time . from sources you've never heard of.
Things don't get any better away from the office. We all have hectic schedules that place huge demands on our attention and limit the amount of energy and interest we give each other.
Challenge #3: Everyone wants guaranteed results. Relationships are successful because both parties are comfortable with the expected outcome. When someone buys from companies like Dell, IBM, Nike, Taco Bell, Hertz, Budget and so on, they already know what they're getting before they agree to purchase. They've been conditioned over time. We know that "if it absolutely has to be there," we're going to call Fed Ex.
If you and I expect a guarantee of service from the people with whom we do business, it stands to reason that the people you sell to would expect the same. How do they know what you'll actually provide in the way of service? Is your product going to do what you say it will? For a small business or service provider, it's sometimes tough to make these claims.
The Real Issue
The Real Issue: Without a Brand You
Have to Make the First Sale First!
Clients pay me to teach them how to sell, but I still can't make the sale for them. And while techniques, strategies and processes can help, if the person using them just doesn't care about the customer, there won't be any sales conversation. Before anyone can hear you and your offer, you have to spend time and effort establishing your credibility and developing a rapport with your visitor. This is the first sale. This is your personal "brand."
Even though you ultimately want to GTM (get the money), you still need to make the sale. If you don't, you won't even get a chance to ask for the money, much less get it.
A first sale isn't limited to offline selling. A slick Web site and the latest technology don't really tell who you are. Establishing your credibility--essentially, your personal value, what you stand for--is vital to getting the visitor to read the copy on the site.
The first sale is all about like. It's a feeling of comfort. It's about trust, caring, having a deep interest in what your customer's problems are and sincerely wanting to help them. In past articles, we talked about techniques--things to do and say during the sales conversation that moved the sale forward. Notice, I haven't even talked about benefits, wants, needs, qualifying questions and the traditional "sales stuff." Instead, I'd like to just emphasize that, while what you sell is important and has to provide value to your prospect, there's a higher value that must be purchased first.
Your personal brand is the value you bring to the sales conversation. Here are some questions to help fine-tune your personal brand:
- What do you value during the sales conversation: your customers' best interests or your commissions?
- What part of your sales job are you passionate about? Is it the money you earn or the service you provide?
- Would you buy from you? Get on the other side of the sales call. What is the customer's perception of you? How effective are you in communicating your personal interest in solving your customer's problem? How do you know that?
Every opportunity to interact with another person brings risks and opportunity. This is especially true during a sales conversation. Your customers don't really care about your past accomplishments. They aren't even interested in what you might do sometime in the future. What is important to the person across the desk or phone from you is knowing that you care about them as a customer.
Watch any successful sales professional in action, and it's easy to see the passion for what they do and how they can help. Then look at your efforts--in person or online. Do you have a personal brand? Have you made your "first" sale?
James Maduk is one of North America's leading sales speakers. He is the creator and publisher of more than 80 online sales training courses, and he broadcasts daily on VirtualSelling Radio. You can reach James at (613) 825-0651 or visit his Web site at www.jamesmaduk.com.


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WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND – In sports, most careers are on the downward slide by the age of 35. Don't tell former VCU tennis star Frank Moser that.
Moser will be competing in his fifth straight Grand Slam event when he takes the grass courts at Wimbledon this week to play in the Gentlemen's Doubles action.
The 126th Wimbledon Championships get underway today with Moser slated to team up with Croatia's Ivo Karlovic. The duo will face off against Matthew Ebden (Australia) and Ryan Harrison (USA) in the first round.
This will be Moser's third appearance at Wimbledon with his highlight coming last year when he helped take down former Wimbledon Singles Champion Lleyton Hewitt in the first round of the doubles tournament.
In the past two seasons, Moser has been a part of 23 doubles victories, which is nearly 70 percent of his career victories. He enters this week ranked 58th by the ATP in doubles and reached a career-high 47th in the world last month.
At VCU, Moser helped the Rams earn a spot in the only National Championship Appearance in school history when the Black & Gold battled perennial power Stanford in the 2000 NCAA National Championship.
During his senior year in 2001, Moser teamed with Florian Marquardt to make a run into the quarterfinals of the NCAA Doubles Championship.
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Grilled Chicken Pasta Primavera is a light and savory dish loaded with fresh vegetables like tomatoes and squash. The fresh garlic and basil give it the most amazing flavor.
This Grilled Chicken Pasta Primavera is a twist on the version that my husband loves from his mom. The main twist being that we grilled the chicken instead of cooking it over the stove. My mother-in-law was so kind to share this recipe that she recited to me over the phone completely from memory! You know it's an awesome family recipe when it has been made so many times that you no longer need the instructions!
This is the PERFECT pasta dish for summer, it has all the ingredients that are so fresh and good this time of year. I used fresh tomatoes and squash from my parent's garden and fresh basil from my little italian herb garden. It was so incredibly yummy! It actually ended up making so much that we took some over to our friends to try and they gave this dish two big thumbs up!
Another thing that I love about this pasta is how healthy the sauce is, no heavy creams and you only use a tiny bit of oil to sauté the garlic. Other than that it is just the veggies and broth that make up the sauce but it is seriously packed with flavor! Make it with whole wheat noodles and go light on the cheese and you have a really healthy, low calorie meal!
- 3 chicken breasts
- our balsamic marinade HERE
- 2 tsp. fresh minced garlic
- 1 tsp. oil
- 3 medium tomatoes diced
- 1 crookneck yellow squash diced
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 to 2 tsp chicken bullion
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup fresh chopped basil
- 1 c mozzarella and parmesan cheese I got the tillamook shredded cheese blend
- 1 pkg angel hair or thin spaghetti noodles
- About 2 to 3 hours before serving, filet chicken so you have two thin halves, and place in marinade in the fridge.
- 30 minutes before serving: In a large fry pan, over medium heat, sauté the minced garlic in oil. Add the diced tomatoes, squash, chicken bullion, and salt and pepper.
- While that is cooking begin to boil the noodles in large pot.
- Begin grilling chicken over medium heat. When fully cooked, slice into long strips.
- When the squash is fully cooked, remove the fry pan from heat and toss in the fresh basil.
- Layer each bowl with noodles, a scoop of the primavera sauce, sliced grilled chicken, and top with the mozzarella and parmesan cheese blend.
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Drone photogrammetry
Options for terrain data for RF planning are increasing rapidly with the advent of drones. Gone are the days of waiting for the next release of space based Government data like the 2000 space shuttle mission whose coarse yet global SRTM data powers many RF planning tools - including CloudRF. Recently LIDAR is a growing source of data which we're pleased to support but If you don't have access to public LIDAR for your region your other option is to pay a small fortune for a simple file which is just a list of numbers from a commercial company.


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|zenza bronica 80mm f2.8 Kodak Tri-x 400
Lately I have been seeing the work of some really talented photographers who have been shooting 6x6cm square film frames, particularly Cara Rose, whose art I've been following on Flickr. Sadly, most of those photos were taken with Hasselblad equipment. Now, if you're not into photography or cameras I have to explain that the Hasselblad cameras are made in Sweden and are very, very nice and subsequently very, very expensive. Somewhat like the Bentley or Rolls Royce of cameras. Even these days with film's decline the Hasselblad equipment is quite pricey. Since I run this shoestring operation on a budget designed to keep domestic harmony, that's just out of the question.
However, something about that square frame is very appealing. Until recently I had only taken one roll of 6x6 film, that with Joel's Yashicamat. As it happens, I still have ahold of that Yashicamat, and I actually put another roll of film through it just last week, but that isn't my camera and I don't feel quite right continuing to use it. How to satisfy that square frame medium format longing then?
I already own a Pentax 6x7 (well, to be honest, three of them... it isn't my fault, they were broken and really cheap...) but as the name implies, that shoots a not quite square negative of 6x7 centimeters. Close, but not quite right. Also, the 6x7 is a hefty camera with even heftier lenses which, while they can take a super nice photo are a bit bulky to sling over the shoulder and walk down the street with (though I've done it).
It just so happens that I had some color film to get processed (I don't do color film here in the kitchen) so I went to the local Hooper camera. Nothing real exciting there, but it happens that on the same block are the fine folks at Pro Camera Repair. Wayne, the proprietor, is a really nice fellow who is very tolerant of my occasional visit to peruse his used equipment cabinets and will sometimes let me fondle cameras. In return, I sometimes buy stuff from him. He happened to have a Bronica ETR body in his cabinet and I happily fondled it, but it shoots a 6x4.5cm negative which is also not quite square. However, that Bronica fondling prompted a tiny bit of research at home which revealed the Bronica SQ, a square frame camera!
Where to go, then, to find a Bronica SQ? I checked the EBay, but dang, them Bronicas were pricey. Smacking my forehead I thought, KEH, of course. The fine folks at KEH usually have all kinds of nifty stuff for attractively low prices and they again did not disappoint. I ordered an SQ-A body, 80mm 2.8 lens and a couple of backs, one 6x6 and one 6x4.5. The Bronica people actually set it up so you can take multiple formats with this one camera which is pretty cool. Sadly, KEH's finders were strangely expensive, so I checked the 'Bay and found a waistlevel finder in Japan for a reasonable price. The Bronica has no meter in the body, the meter is in the finder, but the waistlevel is not metered. Fortunately I had the foresight to own a couple of light meters already, so that wasn't going to be a problem.
Pictured here, my 1984 or so Bronica SQ-A and '60s vintage Gossen Sixtino light meter:
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I might also show off a shot or two from that Yashicamat. Sorry Joel...


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This post discusses why writing elasticsearch queries can be hard, and why we
wrote bodybuilder to abstract away this concern.
Elasticsearch is a versatile tool that enables very powerful searches and
aggregations over large datasets. It lets us ask questions like:
- How many users complained about ads on SpanishDict in the past 30 days?
- Which complaints were categorized as inappropriate, with the user's message
including the phrase "victoria's secret"?
- How many resources does a particular ad load, and how does this compare to historical data?
But with great power can come great complexity, and we have found that writing
queries like these in code can quickly become unwieldy. Take this filtered query
as an example:
// Return documents from the last 24 hours, from projects '12' or '24', where the advertiser was 'adx'.
filter: {
bool: {
must: [
range: {
timestamp: {
gt: 'now-24h'
nested: {
path: 'ad_impression_ids',
filter: {
term: {
'ad_impression_ids.advertiser_name': 'adx'
should: [
term: {
project_id: '12'
term: {
project_id: '24'
If this were a one-off query I think we could handle writing queries like these
manually. But because we are writing an API on top of our elasticsearch dataset,
we construct these queries in code. This becomes very complex because:
- We can't always construct an entire query in one function, different pieces of our application have information needed for different parts of the query.
- It is not always obvious how to combine multiple queries, filters, and aggregations together to get the expected result.
- Writing large blocks of JSON causes clutter in code.
- We almost always have to crack open the elasticsearch docs to relearn the syntax for different queries and filters.
- We have to write unit tests for these queries, because we need to be confident that the JSON is constructed properly.
- Building queries is not a core concern of our application, and it distracts us from getting things done.
This is a good candidate for abstraction. We should delegate the task of writing
complex queries to someone else so we can focus on answering important questions
about our data.
Building upon Patterns
The key to building out this abstraction is to identify and exploit patterns:
- The elasticsearch query DSL consists of clauses that are combined in a predictable way, following a well-defined pattern.
- Our abstraction should provide a simple, predictable interface on top of this pattern.
The concept of abstracting away the business of building complex queries is not new,
so we can find and follow an established pattern for this task. The
Builder pattern is an
established design pattern for "constructing complex objects by separating
construction and representation," and fits our use case well.
Moreover, query builders are common, especially for SQL -- sequelize, knex.js,
for example. There are also a few libraries out there for building elasticsearch
queries: elastic.js and
esq, unfortunately these have received
little maintenance recently. However, we can look to these libraries for
examples of how to write our own query builder.
Following the Builder pattern, the problem of building a complex elasticsearch
query body boils down to:
- Defining functions that return an object representing a single query clause.
- Combining multiple query clauses together.
- Defining a builder class that provides methods for calling these functions, and stores the changing state of our elasticsearch query body.
For example, a query clause such as a
match query can be represented as a
"match" : {
"message" : "this is a test"
This object is a template that we can create a function for, e.g.
matchQuery("message", "this is a test")
Next, we should be able to call these template functions on our builder class. We can specify the query type we want by passing its name
as the first argument, e.g.
var body = new Builder()
body.query("match", "message", "this is a test")
This class should also hold on to the current state of our query body in a private variable:
body.query("match", "message", "this is a test")
// -> { "match" : { "message" : "this is a test" } }
It should also know how to combine multiple queries together without exposing
the details of how this is done:
// Combines two query clauses using a Boolean query clause.
body.query("term", "user", "herald") // -> 'must' clause
.orQuery("term", "user", "johnny") // -> 'should' clause
And finally, the builder must provide a method for spitting out the constructed
body.build() // -> returns constructed query body
Putting all of this together, the
adx query from the beginning of this post
can be rewritten much more simply as:
var body = new Builder()
.filter('range', 'timestamp', {gt: 'now-24h'})
.filter('nested', 'ad_impression_ids', 'term', 'advertiser_name', 'adx')
.orFilter('term', 'project_id', '12')
.orFilter('term', 'project_id', '24')
is a new project and any feedback or contributions in the way of
pull requests or issues are welcome.
Abstracting out the business of building complex elasticsearch query bodies was a clear win for us. It helped isolate the challenge of writing clean, testable code around elasticsearch queries, and cleared the path for building out an awesome product. As a team we continually look for opportunities to separate concerns by pulling out modules from our code base and iterating on them separately. And by releasing this as an open-source project we hope to bring together other contributors who can help make the code even better.
Do you have a solution for building complex queries programmatically in code? Has this been a sticking point in any of your projects? Share your thoughts in the comments below!


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A mountaineer at heart and by origin, Jack was raised in Almost Heaven, West by God Virginia (que banjo jokes). After moving to TX for a host of great reasons (not least of which was the love of his life), He found himself out of his natural environment, sweaty, and unsure of what to do with his free time. After visiting a brewery in Colorado (ahh Colorado) he found the solution to his sweaty, bored delimna. BREW BEER! It was cheap and seemed fairly easy to get started with! Also, it was beer! With one terrible batch under his belt he knew that it was a passion more than a hobby. Jack loves pushing the boundaries with OHBC beers and like John can and will talk about beer all day if left unchecked. You can often find Jack behind the bar and behind the scenes at the brewery!
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Lovie Smith was surprisingly terminated by the Tampa Bay Bucs Wednesday night via phone call. It caught everyone by such surprise – just like the Chip Kelly firing – that the team announced it on its website. No reporter even had a whiff this was coming.
Smith went 2-14 in 2014, but it netted the team Jameis Winston with the #1 pick. Tampa was thumped in its opener at home, 42-14, but the Bucs rebounded to get to 6-6 and in the playoff mix. Then star rookie linebacker Kwon Alexander got popped for PEDs. They went 0-4 down the stretch. He still finished 2nd on the team in tackles.
So Smith only went 8-24 in his two seasons in Tampa, which is worse than what Greg Schiano did in his two seasons. Still, Smith had lots of defenders in the locker room – including Alexander and the team's best defensive player, LaVonte David, who sounded off on twitter (then deleted his remarks).
Which leads us to the replacement question: Chip Kelly makes a ton of sense. Tampa tried hard to get him in 2012, and he initially said yes to their offer, then recanted and went back to Oregon. A year later, he left for the Philadelphia Eagles.
And you know else who makes sense? Jimbo Fisher. Is he ready for his NFL shot? He knows Winston well, he knows offense, he's got a powerful agent in Jimmy Sexton and he just got a divorce, so bolting Tallahassee wouldn't be a problem.
But forget those names. Overwhelmingly, those who have worked in the Bucs front office are saying that Dirk Koetter, the team's offensive coordinator, is getting the job. And shockingly, the reasoning is that their soon-to-be 57-year old offensive coordinator was instrumental in Winston's impressive rookie year, and Tampa could have lost him to another team looking for a head coach.
That last part is puzzling. Koetter has been mentioned as a head coach possibility in previous Januarys, mostly based on his work as the offensive coordinator with the Jaguars and Falcons. This month, I haven't heard his name come up for any potential opening except in Miami. Who was Tampa afraid of losing him to?
And as folks have asked on twitter, since when did Dirk Koetter – fired at Arizona State after six seasons in which he went 40-34, but was 2-19 against ranked teams – turn into Bill Walsh?
It's understandable for Tampa to be all-in on Winston. But he's 21. He's got a long career ahead of him. Would the loss of Koetter really been that much to overcome, especially if they had replaced him with offensive-minded guys like Kelly or Fisher?
Puzzling, indeed.


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Published at Sunday, August 19th, 2018 - 11:51:32 AM. Bedroom. By Conradine Berger.
Given the fact that the bedroom is a private space usually perceived as a relaxing and serene environment, the colors associated with its interior are usually pastels, neutrals and soft shades. However, you can create a beautiful bedroom décor even with intimidating colors such as black. It's uncommon to see a black bedroom but we have selected a few examples that show this type of décor can also be inviting and quite pleasant.
This bedroom has a décor based on strong contrasts. The ceiling is white and so are the floors. The bed has a black frame with black curtains that feature a white trim. The same combination can be seen throughout the room, in the case of the windows, wall decorations, furniture and even the bedding. It's an interesting concept, very simple and yet very bold and striking.
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By Bob West
Most everyone in marketing has heard the term "native advertising" in the past 12 to 18 months, and now marketers in specialty horticulture and agriculture need to familiarize themselves with the concept as native advertising becomes the latest marketing concept to flow from large-scale consumer media into more targeted, business-to-business marketing.
This blog post will take a look at three key questions around the topic of native advertising:
- What exactly is native advertising?
- Is native advertising just the latest buzzword, or does it offer long-term potential (particularly in these markets)?
- How do marketers effectively incorporate native advertising into their marketing tactics?
What exactly is native advertising?
Native advertising platform developer ShareThrough offers as good a definition of native advertising as anyone: 'Native advertising is a form of paid media where the ad experience follows the natural form and function of the user experience in which it is placed.' Most often, this means that native ads are content-oriented ads placed on media websites but, rather than looking like standard online display ads, the native ads are stories or video content.
The word content is a critical element to defining a native ad and differentiating it from traditional advertising. All advertising ultimately aims to sell a product or service, but native ads' immediate goal is to engage the prospective customer more so than to sell him or her something. Advertisers using native ads do so looking to boost prospective customers' awareness and perception of their company through the native ads with the hope that the people who read their native ads or watch their native videos will think of that company when they are ready to make a purchase in the future.
Remember the above definition – the native ad experience "follows the natural form and function" where it lives. So, marketers who buy native ads on an industry website focused on cotton farming want to create an ad that looks and acts like the rest of that website. That typically means producing a story that is hosted on a story page on that website, just like any other story featured on the website.
And native advertising doesn't have to be limited to stories. In fact, we're already seeing companies use videos and even photo slideshows as native ads on some of our websites, and those videos and slideshows fit very well with the rest of the content on our websites.
Is native advertising just the latest buzzword, or does it offer long-term potential (particularly in these markets)?
Native advertising is undoubtedly a buzzword, but we believe this concept offers real value to marketers and will become increasingly popular in the future for a couple of simple reasons:
- It works. The native ads that we ran for clients in 2016 consistently produced some of the highest click-through rates of any enewsletter or website ads we ran and the audience spent nearly as much time on the native ad pages as they do on pages featuring our own content. Our audiences are always looking for new information to help them run their business better, and well-executed native ads offer valuable information consistently produce strong metrics. (By comparison, poorly constructed native ads that are little more than not-so-subtle product pushes don't fool many people and yield little engagement.)
- Native ads deliver continued exposure in this age of display advertising disruption. The shift to mobile (very real in our markets – roughly 40% of the sessions across all Meister Media websites) combined with the recent rise of ad blockers (not nearly as significant in our markets at this point) demands ad formats that help marketers deliver their message to prospective customers. Native ads do that.
How do marketers effectively incorporate native advertising into their marketing tactics?
First off, just get started. Part of digital media's beauty is the ability to experiment with something, measure the results, adapt and try again. This is true for native advertising, too.
Getting started means learning about the native ad offerings from your key media partners. (Any forward-thinking media outlet has a native offering at this point, even if they're tweaking it as they learn what works best for their clients.)
From there, pick a partner and think about the native ad material you have that would fit well on their website. What videos or story-form content do you have that would truly interest that website's audience? Keep in mind that prospects aren't likely getting online hunting for information about your product. They're looking for solutions to problems! What do you have to offer?
Next, get a small native ad buy in place and see how well it performs for you, remembering that native ads are often evaluated with different metrics than traditional digital ads. The native ads aren't likely to drive traffic to your website, so you'll be more interested in the number of pageviews produced by each native ad page on the media partner's website and the average time spent on those pages by the audience.
As noted above, we think native advertising holds great promise for the marketers who appreciate the importance of digital marketing and are willing to learn something new.
Bob West is Meister Media's Commercial Digital Director. Contact him at 440-602-9129 or email@example.com if you'd like to learn more about native advertising or other digital marketing tactics.


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"Dit appartement ligt zo centraal dat we alles wat we wilden bekijken op loopafstand was. Ideaal. Ook een supermarkt om de hoek, het treinstation op heel korte afstand. Mooi vonden we ook het uitzicht vanaf het terras op de Dom. Vanuit de andere kamers is er in feite niets te zien van de stad. Een ander voordeel is dat dit appartement veel ruimte biedt als je met een wat grotere groep bent (8)."
"Excellent location. Quiet neighborhood. Convenient to restaurants, grocery, and sight seeing. Nice views. Due to cleaner not finishing until 6:00, we could not use apt till then, even though we had contacted mgr the day before of our early afternoon arrival. Washer is very small and did not work properly. Had to wring water out of clothes and hang dry. Internet only worked in living room. This apt would be tough for people who can't handle stairs, both in the apt and from the elevator to the apt."
"Substantial discomfort due to pump hot water: you can turn it off temporarily, but the switch is in one of the bedrooms. the noise of the pump is ubiquitous and unbearable to sleep The water is also very hot, except the 1st evening where the water heater was not turned on but it can be an occasional oversight."
"Gêne importante due à la pompe à eau chaude : on peut l'éteindre temporairement mais l'interrupteur est dans l'une des chambres à coucher; ce bruit de la pompe est omniprésent et insupportable pour dormir L'eau est par ailleurs bien chaude, sauf le 1er soir où le chauffe-eau n'était pas allumé mais cela peut être un oubli occasionnel."
"I would not recommend this apartment. Bed linen was stained, 2 of the 3 showers were not working properly. One air conditioning unit was not working and the sofa in the lounge was dirty. Lock on bathroom door and shower doors were broken. "
"Perfect location for all major sight seeing landmarks. The small outside terrace was the perfect place to absorb the sights and sounds of Florence. "
"I really wanted to leave a review of this apartment because many items have been improved upon from previous reviews. Overall this place is amazing! The views from the terrace and one of the bedrooms are truly magnificent. For future renters please note that two more couches and a couple of chairs have been added to the main rooms making them much more comfortable for large groups. The twin beds seem to have been replaced and were very comfortable. This bedroom really needs heavy curtains or blinds since there is no protection from early morning sun. The other two bedrooms have heavy shutters and are completely dark for sleeping. The broken chair in the kitchen should be replaced so the table can seat the maximum number of people. As noted by other reviewers the kitchen could use a small investment of knives, wine openers, wine glasses and generally an update that IKEA could easily solve. In addition, instructions for the washer are desperately needed. It is a very old machine and is not easily figured out even after I was shown by the host. This place is incredibly spacious, the floors are beautiful, we absolutely loved spending Christmas here and would recommend to anyone large group of travelers. I believe if these few items were improved this property would be a perfect 10 and therefore rented all the time."
"It was a great location. If it hadn't had the balcony I may have been a little disappointed. We spent 90 percent of our time on the balcony which was fantastic. The views were incredible. My children enjoyed it as much or more than we did. "
"Wonderful, very modern apartment in the old building. The family of 7: 2 couples and 3 teenagers were very comfortable there. The kitchen is big and equipped with everything you need. Every room has an air conditioner and apartment has 3 bathrooms.The small terrace (can fit all 7 of us) presents a gorgeous view to the Duomo and Florence old city. The location can not be any better: 3 min from Duomo, 5 - from Market. The parking is right in the building but not cheap - 37 euro per day. But it was worth it considering convenience (closeness was great on our parents). Wi-Fi worked in the living room only but it was even better since the whole family was gathering altogether after the full day of sightseeing. "
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"We were delighted with Florence and the apartment in the District of San Lorenzo. Lovely small terrace overlooking the city. Restau rants, markets, shops, almost all sights are reachable within a few minutes. Wonderful excursions in the environment. "
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"A perfect place for our stay in Florence. We were a group of 8 people (4 couples) and the configuration of this 4 bedroom apartment along with its location made it perfect for our holiday. We would highly recommend it and if ever back in Florence will use it again. Just two minutes walk from the station and 3 minutes walk from the Duomo with all the shopping in the world in between! Perfect!"
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WinCenter comes with pre-populated phase-based activities and with narratives to guide the user. It also includes 100 standard forms and templates. They are available when and where the user needs them throughout the lifecycle. They can be leveraged to get started out of the box. Or, you can leverage the guided framework to put your special way of working at the fingertips of users.
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Q. Are there coaches/instructors?
A. for 3v3 leagues: There will be 2 games going simultaneously. Each game will have an assigned adult coach that will assist in line changes and general organization. We will rotate teams 2-4 times during each session.
A. for 5v5 leagues: Each team will have an assigned permanent coach. Some levels will also have a team captain position available.
Q. Can my player move up with the older kids?
A. We provide all players with the option to move up. This is particularly common for players coming from higher levels of association hockey and those who are interested in playing with a friend or family member at a higher level. The League reserves the right to move players up and down according to their skill level.
Q. Is checking allowed?
A. Absolutely NOT! This is a fun, friendly, social hockey league. We have ZERO tolerance for aggressive play and inappropriate behavior. Problem players will be removed from the league with no refunds.
Q. What equipment is required?
A. All normal regulation gear as required by USA Hockey.
Q. How are teams made?
A.for 3v3 leagues: Teams are made randomly each week based on attendance.
A.for 5v5 leagues: Teams are made after week 1 and set for the season. Trades may occur in order to balance teams as needed.
Q. Can 2 players be on the same team?
A. Teams change week to week. There are no guarantees.
Q. Can girls pay too?
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A. The cancellation deadline for all divisions is one month prior to the start of the season for youth leagues. A $20 admin fee will be charged for cancellations. No cancellations will be processed after the deadline. You may request to move your registration to a future season or have it transferred to someone else. Note: we often have a wait list for players to join the league. If this is the case we can transfer the registration to someone on the wait list.
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Velocipede is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which provides access to hands-on education, a community workspace, and secondhand bicycles.
Their weekly Open Shop is available to anyone who needs some help with their bike, use of special bike tools, or just a place to work on a bike. For a $10 shop fee, volunteers will help you assess your bike and guide you in repair as needed. Used parts may also be purchased during this time. Open Shop is first come, first served.
More info: www.velocipedebikeproject.org / email@example.com