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Here are the latest and fabulous collection of the anarkali kurti's made from cotton blend which ensures complete comfort and breathability to the wearer whose range is less than Rs 800.
Women's embroidered red color cotton long anarkali kurta
Price Rs:699
Let the red get blend in your skin and help you express the immaculate debonair of your beauty and elegance in exquisite nature. Nothing can match up the simplicity of this anarkali kurta. With tangerine hues in mix of blue and white checkered print, you can totally escalate the style quotient as you pair the graceful kurti with contrasting leggings and head to work confidently. You can go chic with denim or cigarette pants and enjoy a party with friends at your nearby café. Swing in style with breathable cotton kurta and let the eyes be on you!
Women's sky blue 3/4 sleeve cotton anarkali kurta
Price Rs:719
If only fabric were soothing, then we wouldn't have colors to make them look more charming to be put on. This is one of those pieces that gives you aesthetic blue with iridescent green. The sharp colors are visually appealing and serve as the perfect midsummer treat to delight our work wear dilemmas with a staple outfit. Style the quintessential kurta with stylish contrasting colored leggings or go sporty chic with denim and let them stare at your infectious aura. Don't let the dazzle dim your light as you strut in élan wearing this soothing comfortable kurta and swinging danglers to strike a lasting impression.
Women's printed 3/4 sleeve anarkali kurta
Price Rs:575
Gaping in the aura of panache is what we are looking in our busy schedule, but it's not easily available. Therefore, we get you the sublimity in its spellbinding nature. Basics never go wrong and when such checkered patterns come into foray, you can play it safe and easy with earthy muted tones and let the charisma emanate from your serious busy body old soul. Add a pop of color with a splash of colorful tassel and studded earrings for that lavish look and let the hair down to impress your beau on a date night. For work, you can take it old-school with half up half down hairstyle.
Women's cotton printed 3/4 sleeve latest collection western design kurti
Price Rs:659
Kurta is the most prolific wear in the indian culture. It's one of the most tending clothes that you would love to get on for comfort and luxe beauty. The striking ravishing look is sure to set upon you a zillion eyes, just get into the groove and wear the fabulous kurta in all its glory to reflect your desi style. Create a mosaic of colors as you adorn a red or blue colored legging with this tailored-fit trendy Indian designer kurta to unleash the diva in you. Rock this chic look with statement jewelry and style your tousled waves into an elegant bouffant bun for that class apart ladylike appeal.
Women's printed green & red cotton long anarkali kurta
Price Rs:699
Have you ever tried vibrant colors on a pastel wear. Now this is the chance for you to get into the vogue just in the right style and sublimity. Your summertime partner is here to bask in the glory of sun kissed glow. Sip the cool wine with your better half and let the slipping sun compliment you in all its beauty as you don this comfortable chic green and red cotton long anarkali kurta for the daytime event. Be the conversation starter as you pair red or mustard pallazo pants and go bonkers with the effortless metro style. Set those eyes in wonder and awe.
Women's orange & red color cotton anarkali kurta
Price Rs:699
Looks like it's the yellow and orange kurti are the most trending combinations that you want to must in your wardrobe collection. Well, it isn't a bad option, instead it's the most comforting and soothing combinations, that you can choose to wear. When in doubt, kick it out with this ever-enchanting tangerine colored kurta, the red detailing gives us all the reasons to crush our love! The sober and sophisticated design pattern is transporting us to the serene meadows of the holy sights. So, book your tickets to pilgrimage and pack this must-have kurta for an incredible and memorable endeavor.
Women's blue cotton printed long anarkali kurta
Price Rs:699
Simplicity and finesse clothing is what we need in today's busy schedule. It's not always possible to choce glam and glitter. Hence, it's an exquisite pleasure to slip on some green check combined with yellow stale. Steal the show with this simple yet suave kurta and you can further implode the beauty of its ethereal simplicity by completing the look. You can add a splash of color with a striking colored legging or trouser and play with your luscious locks to invite side glances your way. Furthermore, you can add your quirk with sassy jewelry to pair and let them sigh.
Women's printed cotton long anarkali kurta
Price Rs:649
Fluorescent pink with elite grey check jacket designed with black sleeves is like the beguiling slather of rose with a tint of grey line over it. We can't get out eyes off of this vibrant colored pink and monochrome magic kurta. The sheer details that exude workwear vibes coupled with the beauty of handcrafted design speaks volume of its everyday staple use. Just add this to your cart and fall in love with the pretty pastels.
Women's cotton regular fit white kurti
Price rs:550
3/4 Sleeve white Cotton Anarkali Kurti is designed for the regular use. Boat neck with the green lace attached adds colour to the kurta. Its gray sleeves are embellished greatly with the multi coloured Banjara embroidery work. Top is with the speciality by its buttons on left side of it. Gray and black tree like print is made both the sides of it.
Women's yellow color cotton anarkali kurti
Price Rs:599
Light color yellow cotton anarkali kurti for women. This kurta is having red colored self printed design, 3/4 th sleeves and round neck. Anarkali style kurta for women. It is made up of high quality cotton. Hand block print looks pretty on yellow kurti. Pair this kurti with leggin.
Women's 3/4 sleeve pink color cotton anarkali kurta
Price Rs:679
Pink colored anarkali kurta with cotton fabric. It comes with self embroidery design and printed design. Three quarter sleeves and banded collar neck is the style. Borders of the kurta is decorated with blue and black cotton lace. It is having nice anarkali style pattern.


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New CentreVenture Board Members
CentreVenture is an arms-length agency of the City of Winnipeg that acts as an advocate for business investment, development and economic growth in downtown Winnipeg. Employees of the organization are led by a volunteer board of directors who together develop and implement strategies to identify and capitalize on economic, physical, and social development opportunities in Winnipeg's downtown region.
This morning Winnipeg's Executive Policy Committee (EPC) approved the appointment of six new board members, and one re-appointed member to the CentreVenture board of directors. MMP Principal Architect Chris Daly is among the list of new members to the council chaired by Mayor Brian Bowman. Chris brings a wealth of downtown development experience to the board, drawing on his 15+ years of experience in the architectural and business sectors.
Candidates will assume their duties following a council vote to be held in one week's time. We look forward to seeing what this new and diverse CentreVenture board of directors will accomplish for the City of Winnipeg's downtown area.
For more information about CentreVenture please visit their website here: http://www.centreventure.com/

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Keeping up with the current developments around digital and social commerce is absolutely vital for anyone hoping to remain a destination in the retail landscape. I currently spend a lot of time in China and it is truly impressive and intimidating how technologically advanced shopping behaviour already is, particularly in mobile commerce. We will see many of the things you can observe on platforms like Wechat or Alibaba come to Europe not far from today, despite of course many differences in culture and shopping behaviour.
Martin gained industry experience with L'Oréal and Lufthansa and he has consulted major retailers, department stores and multinational chains on a global basis.


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It was dark above the mushrooms. Shifting purple cloud patterns above made muddy brown waves on their curved surfaces. Their hoods suppressing the glow underneath, only allowing sharp spears of light to escape the gaps, spiking upwards towards the sky.
Sammy leant over the railing. Louis's head was obscured by a mushroom but she could hear him noisily chewing on something below. Louis shifted then and the floor dipped. She stumbled and grabbed hold of the railing.
"You'll get used to it," Mehrak said, smiling.
Sammy let go of the railing, doing her best to downplay her moment of clumsiness. "Do you live here by yourself?" she asked, changing the subject.
Mehrak pulled at the hairline of his turban awkwardly and his eyes took on a vacant glassiness. "Currently. Yes," he said.
She'd struck a nerve. She wished she hadn't said anything. "It's a great house," she said, "… I mean cottage."
Mehrak stared away, across the mushroom forest.
"Does everyone here have a gastrosaur cottage?"
"No." Mehrak exhaled. "My wife and I were given it as a wedding present." He turned away. Wife? Mehrak didn't look old enough to be married. He could only have been around five years older than she was.
"I'll go downstairs and make your soup." He headed towards the tower.
"Why are you here?" Sammy asked. "In the forest I mean?"
Mehrak stopped. "I'm on an expedition," he said. He had his back to her and didn't turn round. "An expedition for… for a mythical artefact, a book. It's silly, really. It probably doesn't exist but…" He didn't continue.
"But you must think it exists because you're out here looking for it."
Mehrak turned back towards her. "I never believed in it until my grandfather…" He stopped again. "No. It's stupid."
"Go on. Please?"
Mehrak smiled wistfully. "My grandfather was a historian. He spent most of his life travelling and we hardly ever saw him. He'd be gone for a year at a time, sometimes longer. Each time he came home he'd tell me of all the amazing adventures he'd had, all the places he'd seen." Mehrak cast his eyes down. "But when he returned from his last trip, he had a wound across his chest. He'd tried to patch it up himself, but in the days it had taken him to get back to Dungalore it'd gone gangrenous. There was nothing anyone could do. I remember the day he died; I was only eight at the time. The doctor came to find me to pass on his final words, along with his diary. I was the only person he had a message for. There was nothing for my grandmother or my mother. He passed away with nothing to say to anyone, but me. Only four words, 'The book is real.'"
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18-20 week antenatal scan (low risk results)
All women will be offered a dating scan, and an 18- 20 week fetal anomaly ultrasound scan, in line with NICE and UK National Screening Committee recommendations.
The purpose is to check the baby is developing as expected and to look for any serious abnormalities, such as heart problems, spina bifida or chromosomal conditions such as Edwards' syndrome and Patau's syndrome. This can help parents decide whether to continue the pregnancy. It can also identify problems that may benefit from early intervention following delivery and in some cases interventions that can be carried out during pregnancy.
Most people we talked to were broadly aware of this purpose. Some of them felt very well prepared, while others would have liked more detailed information about what the scan looks for.
All pregnant women should now be given by their midwife or GP the booklet 'Screening tests for you and your baby' by Public Health England, which gives detailed information about the types of scan offered and what they are looking for (see NHS Choices or 'Resources' section).
- Age at interview:
- 43
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' First baby, 7.5 months old, Occupation' Mother - charity worker, Father (age 45 at interview) - researcher for a charity, Marital status' Partnered.
Did you feel going into the scan that you knew that they were looking for other abnormalities?
Mother' Yes. The information that we got about the twenty week scan from the hospital really explained in a lot of detail what the scan was for and what sorts of things they would be looking at. And so we were nervous, obviously, going into it because it had really set out what things could and couldn't be found as part of the scan.
But in a way that was also really good that you had a much better idea of how long it was going to take and how carefully they would need to look. And as they were doing the scan they explained a lot about the measurements that they were taking and why they were taking those measurements.
Father' And even things like unfolding its hands, wasn't it? She said they really like to see that.
Mother' Yeah, she was waiting a long time. She said, "Oh I'm trying, I'm just staying here because I just want to see if the baby unclenches their hand, because that's good. We like to see them opening and closing their hands." And then as she was doing it the baby went like that and waved.
One woman who had a scan in California felt her doctor in the UK explained it better. Another suggested the person doing the scan should check that the woman was properly informed. She noted that some scan technicians do a quick check for themselves before turning the screen round to face the woman, which may be a sensible precaution in case something is wrong. (See also below).
- Age at interview:
- 23
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' First pregnancy, Occupation' Mother - student, Father - student, Marital status' Married.
And how was it in California? Was it very different to here having the anomaly scan?
To be quite honest, I'm much more impressed with the things that have happened here than I was with my doctor in California. I went to my Mum's doctor in California and he was a perfectly nice man, I'm sure everything was fine, but it was just little things like I couldn't, like I didn't think that the ultrasound machine was as good.
I couldn't see, like it was frustrating to have this anomaly scan but not be able to make out any of the baby's body parts, and not to have things pointed out to me as much. So I was actually very happy to be coming back here and having the baby.
So you felt they didn't really explain enough about what they were doing or...?
Yeah, it was, I, I felt like I would have liked to know what an anomaly scan was and what they were checking for. I mean, I knew they were checking for problems with the organs and things like that. But I found it hard to follow the whole thing.
I mean, I felt a little bit out of touch with what was going on. I would have liked more information about what they were doing. I got copies of my, of the medical records or whatever from my doctor in California to give to the doctor here and the doctor here pointed out a bunch of things that the doctor in California had never told me about.
I mean, they were in my file and they were there but he had never explained it to me. And I thought that that was strange that it took my doctor here, reading the notes from that time in California, in order to explain to me what this other doctor had done.
You clearly knew knew, the fact that you used the term anomaly scan, it was looking for defects, but was it just that you weren't quite clear which defects they might be looking for or...?
I think that, and just the actual process of when they have the machine on your tummy and they're clearly looking at specific organs, I would like to have been told, 'So here's the brain, here's what we're looking for as we scan the brain'. Or, 'Here's the kidney'. I mean, I don't even know if I'm choosing correct body parts.
This is how clueless I am. But I would have just liked to have been told what they were looking at. I mean, I couldn't, I felt a little hopeless because I couldn't see anything on the screen that looked like, 'Oh, that's a kidney' or anything like that. So just a little bit more information would have been nice.
I think that all doctors, they do this every day, I mean, they see pregnant ladies all the time, so I think they know exactly what's going on. I think that there can just be a little lack of communication between the doctor and, particularly, the first-time mother who is clueless and scared.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Healthy baby born 2002, pregnant with second baby.
They're a professional in their own right so they must, you know, the first thing they just must be courteous and professional. And I think that probably a good scanner is somebody who will just, you know, just introduce themselves, say what, how long it may take, what the purpose is.
I think it doesn't hurt to just reiterate what you're there for, you know. Again you know, some people just turn up and they're not really certain of why they're there. They've just been told to go to that scan room and, you know, 'Twenty weeks - you're going to have this done.' So I think it doesn't hurt just to reiterate what's the purpose of the scan, that sometimes they may not say anything and that doesn't necessarily mean that there's any problem, and it might mean that they just need to take a little bit more time in looking for something.
So it's just taking that little time at the beginning to sort of set the scene of the next twenty minutes, or the next half an hour, I think. And I think for the scanner to say, 'If you have any questions,' you know, either, - whatever, you know, depending on what the scanner likes, you know - to take questions as they come up or at the end, or whatever way it's agreed.
But I think that's just such a simple thing to do, and to me such an obvious thing to do that it's the sort of thing that always - well, you know, it's one of those things that can get missed out.
But I think, what I've noticed with all scanners is that they just take a few seconds at the start where the screen is directed at them only - and you know, obviously that's just to make sure that there is a heart beat there and that they know that before they swing the screen round so that you can see it too. So I've noticed that with, you know, the two scans that - three - four scans that I've had, that they always do that to check first.
Have they ever said to you that's what they're doing first?
No, I think it's a very subtle thing I think that they do, that they sit down and they tap in whatever information they have to do, and then it's a very quick, you know, the scanner's placed on your abdomen and it's a very brief few seconds look, and then they'll swing the - as if you're not to know any different. And perhaps that's OK. Perhaps that's OK.
Because at the end of the day the scan is, it is a stressful thing if you're not used to that environment, if you're not used to having tests done. So maybe, you know, you don't want to over-do the information.
Some people saw the 18-20 week scan as somehow different to screening, and some felt it would be too late by that stage to consider ending the pregnancy if anything were wrong with the baby, although in fact terminations for severe abnormality can legally be carried out at any stage of pregnancy.
- Age at interview:
- 33
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' One baby, 8 months, Occupation' Mother - lecturer, Father - lecturer, Marital status' Married.
And I guess my feeling is also once you get to the point of the 20-week scan, there really isn't much room to do much after that point. And I also kind of felt at peace with that, because I remember sort of feeling - and my husband - we discussed this and saying, 'Well, if there's something wrong with the baby that's fine, you know.'
That you'd just, that's it, you'd go ahead?
Yep, and we accept it, and so that was a kind of interesting feeling to have.
Of course for the great majority of people, the 18-20 week scan reassures them that their baby looks fine. Women described many positive aspects, including the joy of seeing the baby and having a photograph; feeling closer to the baby and making the pregnancy seem real (especially for partners); and sometimes finding out the baby's sex, although this is not always possible or permitted.
- Age at interview:
- 26
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' 1 (age 17 months), Occupation' Housewife/student, Marital status' Single.
And what were the experiences of the scans like for you?
Great, I loved them, I loved them. Just the fact that I could see my baby on the screen was just like wow, it was just amazing.
Did you go on your own?
No, with my partner, his dad. But no I didn't find them uncomfortable or anything like that. They were brilliant. And as I said, the fact that I could see my baby it was just like I didn't really want to leave. They used to give me extra long scans.
And what sort of, did they talk to you during it or were they...?
Yeah, yeah.
Right, so you felt you were getting enough?
Yeah. But the only thing that I had a problem with was when they took the pictures at five months. I wanted, because I wanted a specific picture, like his face and then like - but the doctor literally just scanned me and then said, "Oh here's your photo," sort of thing. And it was like, "Oh I don't like this photo," I had that kind of... But yeah, at my first scan at three months they asked me, "Oh do you like that one?" and we were like clicking away sort of thing.
- Age at interview:
- 39
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' One (age 14 months), Occupation' Psychotherapist, Marital status' Single.
The nurse that did the scan, that was what she did. She was the scanning nurse. I remember it being a pleasant experience, because of all the staff that I had at that point met being really just very matter of fact and rather cold.
She was the first person that we had contact with who did speak directly to us, who, you know, asked, 'How is your day going?' And 'This is what I'm doing, and I'm going to put the jelly on your tummy, and you look over here and you can see the', you know. And she explained what we were looking at, and she explained what she was looking at, and she said, 'OK, here's the kidney, they're good. And here's the heart, and then you can see the heart on the monitor'.
And she was really interactive, and it was very helpful. And it was a very moving experience. I remember it brought tears to my eyes to see the baby for the first time and to, you know, see his little heart beating and see him moving, moving around and his head and so on.
So I do remember that experience as being very warm and pleasant and just a very happy - it was hearing the heart beat for the first time was the first sense of reality. This was an even bigger sense of the reality that there is a real living baby inside.
One woman who had to have an internal scan (using a vaginal probe) because of the baby's position found this did not spoil her enjoyment of the scan. For some people, having to have a full bladder, especially if the person doing the scan then pressed hard on their abdomen, was a minor drawback. Two people mentioned they had heard that the sound waves in a scan may distress the baby, but there is no conclusive evidence for this.
- Age at interview:
- 24
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' First pregnancy, interviewed when 7 months pregnant, Occupation' Mother - nursery nurse, Father - telesales worker, Marital status' Single, partnered.
And that 20 week scan, where you can actually see legs and arms and a face. How did it feel like seeing the baby on the screen?
That was nice actually, that was really nice. Me and... - my partner didn't come with me to that one, because he was at work and he couldn't get the time off - but his sister came with me. And we were still, we were looking to try and figure out the sex still, and just to see the baby - because she was trying to get one of the face, and the baby kept on hiding, hiding his or her face.
So every time she went there he would just cover his hand, cover his face with his hand. And you could see it kicking its legs. I found that, I can't think of a word. I think it just may mean, some time, even though when I was three months I know I'm pregnant, but I think I actually felt more pregnant after seeing that second scan. I actually thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be a mum' and it started actually really sinking in after seeing that.
And she even had to, because the baby was hiding his or her face, I had to get a, - oh, I don't know the name for it. She had to put something up me instead, because the head was down here, so that was the only way that she could. Because she turned me on my side, I went on the other side and he still, he or she still wasn't moving, so she had to put that up me just to find out if the head was all right but she said that everything was fine.
I didn't mind. I thought, when she first said that I thought, 'Oh my God, it's going to be like a, a smear test.' And then I didn't even really feel that it was really up there. And she was moving it about and taking the head and she said, 'Oh yeah, well, the head's fine, it's the right size and your baby's at the right size' and everything else, and then took it out.
But I didn't, it didn't really bother me. I think I was so excited anyway seeing the baby on the computer that I think, it didn't really bother me at all, I didn't really think about it.
Although most people said scans had made the pregnancy seem more real for their partners, for one father it was buying baby clothes that suddenly made it feel real. One mother felt the 18-20 week scan was an anti-climax after having seen the baby before. A few commented that the quality of the pictures was poor, but other people were impressed by the quality. This may depend on the type and age of equipment being used.
- Age at interview:
- 29
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' Two (ages 2 and 1), Occupation' Mother - full-time mother, Father (age 37 at interview)- Pastor (former doctor), Marital status' Married.
The whole set up was very friendly and, you know, I felt that we didn't have to wait too long, which was nice. And it was interesting seeing the child. I mean, I suppose because I've seen a lot of scans for others, in that sense it, there wasn't the interest factor. I think it meant more for my wife than it did for me, because obviously she hadn't seen scans. She wanted to take a picture home and so on and so forth.
So, for you it didn't sort of say, 'Ooh, suddenly, this is my baby. This is real'?
No, to be honest the first time it really came home to me that we were having a baby - obviously intellectually - but emotionally, I suppose, the first time it really came home to me was when we actually bought some baby clothes and you started to visualise a real baby inside these body suits.
So that was before the birth?
Yeah, just 2 weeks before.I mean, it wasn't that I was unprepared but, emotionally, I think that was the first time it really came home.
That's interesting, because often people say, you know, the scan is the point at which it suddenly becomes real for them.
That this is actually happening and there is a real baby there.
Yeah, but I mean I've heard it said, and read that, you know, for some people it isn't until they've had the screening that they start to bond with the baby inside them, because they still have this kind of opt-out clause, which I think is very sad.
- Age at interview:
- 32
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' 1 (age 17 months), Marital status' Married.
It, for me personally it wasn't as momentous as perhaps I would have expected, given the fact that it was the first time I'd had it and the fact that you can see so much more. I think hearing from the person doing the scan that everything was fine was of course reassuring, but the actual experience of seeing the baby at a more developed stage wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be because I couldn't get a full idea of what was going on on the screen.
To me it seemed really indistinct, lots of bubbles all over the place and the odd body part floating in and out of view, but how they were all connected together was very, it was totally obscure. And that, and we were relying on the ultrasonographer to interpret to a large extent the images and saying, 'That's a foot' or, 'Can you see the spine?'
And if I was being totally honest, I couldn't really. I mean there were some parts that I did see but it wasn't like seeing your whole baby on the screen or, I mean we saw its mouth open at one point which was, you know, quite entertaining but . . .
Did you get a picture? Did you come away with that?
No, we didn't because there was you know, it wouldn't have meant anything. There was no one image that we could have said, 'Take a picture of that, it'll show us our baby'. I'd heard from friends that it was just an amazing experience to see, you know, a really fully formed baby on screen and so I suppose I was expecting a certain sort of completeness to the image and that didn't happen for me.
And also the ultrasonographer had trouble getting the baby into the right position to actually get, to actually do the sort of diagnostic tests that he needed to do on the spine. He just, the baby was in the wrong position and it got to the point where they were saying, 'Oh, you know, we can't actually see what we need to see for this final category of check and you'll, perhaps the best thing is for you to come back again another day when the baby's in a different position.'
And I must say I had, I wasn't particularly keen to take that option up. And fortunately the baby ended up co-operating and moving at the last minute so they could do it, but they seemed to have trouble generally getting the right presentation on the screen. Which was the same actually with the first scan with this pregnancy. So I don't know if it's something about the way the baby's positioned at the moment.
A very important concern for people was the way the person doing the scan communicated with them. Some people could compare different experiences; one woman had a senior consultant the first time, who was expert but brief, whereas the second time the scan was performed by a specialist midwife who recognised what an important emotional experience this is for parents.
- Age at interview:
- 29
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' One aged 20 months, pregnant with second baby, Occupation' Mother - GP, Father (aged 45 at interview) - company director, Marital status' Married.
Did you feel you were being adequately informed during it?
Yes I think so. The anomaly scan was done by the senior consultant in the scanning department, and as a result was extremely quick. And I know him, and know he's the, you know, the most qualified person to do that, you know, that scan, so in that sense I was very happy.
But in the actual experience of the scan was not particularly good because it was just a, you know, he could do it so fast, technically he's so good that he'd been down the check list inside two minutes and after that was just doing things that interested him.
And there was, you know, yeah, he said, you know, "This is your baby's face." And we wanted to know the sex, and he was a bit flippant about that, and I said, "No I really do want to know, go back and have a proper look." And of course he did, but it was all just all over very quickly and we didn't really see much.
Whereas this time I've just had my anomaly scan, and it was a completely different experience because I was in the normal run-of-the-mill clinic and the scan, I think I was, we were very lucky, we had the scan done by a specialist midwife. And I didn't even know there were any midwives who did scanning, but apparently there are two.
And she's obviously made a conscious decision that it is a psychological experience for the parents, and given that it is, why not make it a nice one? She has the patter and, you know, it was lovely, we saw everything. We had it all explained in detail, and it was great.
Some sonographers talk throughout the scan, explaining what they are looking at and whether it is normal. This approach was preferred by virtually everyone we spoke to, including a French woman and her British partner who had their scan in France. She came away reassured, but also well informed that the scan could not guarantee there were no problems that would be discovered later.
- Age at interview:
- 28
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' First baby, 9 months old, Occupation' Mother - housewife, Father - racing car technician, Marital status' Married.
Well, the doctor started with the head of the baby and was going through every single muscle, members, organs, everything. He started with the cranium, with the brain, and he showed us the flux of blood in the brain, on and off. He measured everything' the ears, the nose, everything, and he told us he had, well, our baby had big ears.
Then he went to the neck, the throat, and there was, how do you call it? slices, that's how he called it, slices of the body. He went through the heart and again the flux of blood going through the heart. It was funny, well, quite a nice shape, actually, the heart, the slice of heart.
Then he went through the lungs and the oxygen going through the lungs, and then the belly and all the organs, the liver and all that. The he skipped the middle part, because we didn't want to know. And he went through measuring the hips and the legs and the knees and the toes and everything possible, because my husband was born with, club feet?
Club feet.
Yes. My husband straight away asked, 'Oh, is his feet all right?' and the doctor said, 'As far as we can see they are all right. We can't confirm that they will be all right later, but as far as now is concerned yes, everything is fine.' So that was quite nice to again hear the heartbeat, and hear all the fluids going from me to my baby's body. That was rather nice, and we kept, a very long spreadsheet with all of the, you know, these heart beats and fluid beats and slices of bodies.
So he was talking all the way through, pretty much?
Yes. And the nice surprise was that he was fluent in English, so he was talking it through it with me in French and then translating it into English to my husband, who was delighted to actually understand all these strange words.
And it sounded from what you said as though he did try to say, 'This is only, we are hoping that everything is alright, we can't confirm.'
Yes, yes.
So you felt you came away with an understanding?
Reassured, yes, reassured especially for my husband who was making a big point of it. Reassured, but we knew that, I mean, if something wrong was happening there was nothing we could really do about it and there's nothing the doctor could do about it either. That was one of these things of conception - you never know what's the surprise going to be at the end.
Staff who are talkative during a scan may suddenly go quiet if they notice something unusual, and this can create anxiety. Some staff chose instead to remain silent while they concentrated on the scan, but explained beforehand this was what they would do. Most people we talked to still felt they would rather know immediately if staff had seen something unusual.
- Age at interview:
- 33
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' One baby, 8 months, Occupation' Mother - lecturer, Father - lecturer, Marital status' Married.
Then the next stage really after that was the 20 week scan. The person who did the scan I think already knew the kind of background and the slight anxiety, and was very good and was very thorough. And there was a moment or so when he kind of paused over the heart.
You kind of, you know, both of us were breathing in. And he was kind of saying, 'Normal', and at the end of it he said to us 'You know, it looks fine, and if it wasn't I would immediately tell you.' Which was kind of very reassuring.
One of the things that we've been talking about is the extent to which the ultrasonographer actually tells you at the time what they're looking at and like you say, when they pause over the heart, do they actually say, 'I'm unsure whether there's something wrong here,' or did he tell you that he was going to wait until the end to tell you or? How did he communicate during and after?
What he did is, the form that you have when they're doing the scan is kind of a tick box list of the head, the brain, you know - is there a brain there? Are there toes there? And what he did is really went down there and said 'Normal, normal, normal, normal' to the person who was kind of taking the notes.
And when it got to the heart he kind of paused, so you kind of noticed it, and then he said, 'Normal.' And that kind of made you slightly, it was just the pause that made you slightly nervous, but then at the end of it he said, you know, this statement of saying 'It's fine, you know. As far as I can see it's, it's fine.'
Would you rather he'd done anything differently? Would it have helped if he had said anything at that point or - ?
No, I mean I thought he was very good, in the sense that he was - I mean, talking to other people he is apparently one of the leading kind of experts on doing this, and he was just very straightforward. So you felt that he was saying what he thought and he wasn't trying to hide anything from you.
An anxious moment was described by a woman with previous experience of a scan which found the baby had died. She would have preferred a more immediate explanation.
- Age at interview:
- 43
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' First baby, 7.5 months old, Occupation' Mother - charity worker, Father (age 45 at interview) - researcher for a charity, Marital status' Partnered.
The twenty week scan, how was that?
Father' Great.
Mother' That was great, wasn't it? That was, it was fantastic. It was, and that was incredibly reassuring for us, because the there was one bit where - oh, it was awful wasn't it? There was one part where she was doing, it had all been going swimmingly and it was fantastic, and it was so reassuring to see every part of the baby, apart from being able to tell what gender it was which I'd really wanted to know and they couldn't tell me.
But it was all going fantastically and then she sort of said, "Ooh, ooh. Ooh, I'm not sure, I think I, I just need to go and check with, I would like someone else to come and look at this." And of course then we were just in complete horrors, and I had, and another, another - I can't remember what the name of the people is who does the scans
Mother' Yes, the ultra?
Sonographer. Or it may have been a doctor.
Mother' No, it was another ultrasonographer came in, and I had a placental strand. So it meant that part of the placenta, there was a separate part of the placenta and it looked almost like a thick hair. It was not that, she showed me it on the screen and it was at the top of the womb, so it wasn't - she said if it had been across the cervix it would've been, they would've been more concerned about it, but because it was out of the way and it wasn't impeding the baby's movement at all they weren't concerned about it.
But that was a horrible two minutes while she said, "Ooh". And I wish she'd said something like, "Oh, I think I can see this. I need somebody else to come and have a look. It's not a ser-, it doesn't matter." And maybe she did try to do that a little bit, but it didn't allay, we were sitting in complete terror for a minute while she went and got somebody else to come and check with her.
Father' Well, I'm not sure I would say quite that, I felt from her tone that it was fairly, she didn't seem overly concerned, to be honest, I felt.
Mother' It obviously didn't make any difference to me then, I was absolutely terrified.
Father' Yes.
Mother' For me it was still terrifying, even though [partner] felt, you felt that she was being upbeat about it and that there was something that she needed to check but it was OK. For me it needed to be super upbeat for me not to be absolutely terrified, it would've really needed to be, "This really is OK. This really is OK. There's just one thing I need to check, I'm sure I know what it is and it's absolutely fine," and it would've really had to have been.
Because otherwise, I guess it's that whole thing about how much you take in when somebody's explaining things to you that you know nothing about, and it's like anything with any condition or to do with doctors or whatever. You realise, it's only afterwards you realise how little of the conversation you actually took in and what feeling you got from that.
One person thought it must be difficult for staff to check if there is something they are not sure about if the woman is watching throughout, which has become more common since she had her first scans some years ago.
- Age at interview:
- 44
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Children' 4 (ages 20, 19, 6 and 4), Occupation' Mother - Vicar, Father - househusband/computer consultant, Marital status' Married.
I seem to remember thinking some time in my last two pregnancies how different it was, and how much more difficult it must be if the person, the mother is seeing the scan the whole time, for them to go back and check if there is anything they think, 'Hmm, I'm not sure about that'.
Whereas if I - yeah, I'm sure with my first two they did do a scan, but I just, they said, it was a case of, 'We're checking this, this and this,' and, you know, they got on with it. And then, 'We'll see if we can find a picture so that you can see it,' and then they'd turn it round.
So that was sort of a, it's a bit like when they actually let you hear the heartbeat, but you know that that's not really why they're doing it. They're not doing it so that you can hear the heartbeat, they are doing it because they're checking that everything's OK. So I think yes, it probably does make it different, but I think it must be harder for them to actually check something out if there's something they're not sure about.
Were there ever any -
Because it's more obvious.
- any moments in either of your two latest pregnancies when they were doing the scan when you thought, 'Ooh, have they found something?' Anxious moments?
Well, I think this business when she couldn't, she couldn't trace down all the vertebrae. Because it was quite clear that she was trying to do so, or that she was trying to do something. I mean, at least, she was at least good enough to tell me what it was she couldn't do.
Well, I was going to say how much did they talk to you in each case about...?
They talked quite a lot. Certainly with my third one, I can remember them talking through 'Now we're looking at this, now we're looking at that. We're just checking this, and you can see that the heart valves are working' and things like that. I can remember that. It was great.
A few staff did not explain they would be silent, and this made some people quite anxious. This is discussed further in the '18-20 week scan (being told something may be wrong)'.
Lack of communication was sometimes more to do with pressure of work. One woman felt staff did not have much time to communicate properly and came away anxious that something might have been missed.
- Age at interview:
- 36
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Healthy baby born 2002, pregnant with second baby.
Well, the twenty week scan was done at this local hospital, and I can remember being very excited about it, because I thought we were going to see a really good picture of the baby' So I was quite excited about this anomaly scan. And it was a very cold day. I think it might have even been New Year's Eve or something. It was very close to the holiday, I remember that.
And it took us a little while to find. And it was very unfortunate that there was little communication, we felt, between the scanner and ourselves. It was almost as if they just wanted to get through their quota of women for that day. And I'm sure it's because it was the holiday period, that's the only thing I can think of that, you know, that they really didn't want to be there.
So whilst it was lovely seeing, again it was lovely seeing our baby on the scan, there was a definite lack of attention to us. And I must admit I came away feeling really worried, because I felt that I hadn't seen anything, that it was sort of vaguely indicated to me that that was the heart and vaguely indicated that that was, you know, that was the spine. And I do remember coming away feeling really disappointed, you know, deflated that I hadn't come away reassured that everything was OK.
Deep down I think I knew, you know, in my heart of hearts that if there was a problem I think instinctively I would know. But there was just something about it that made me think, 'Oh, what a let-down, what a complete let-down.' And just felt very upset about it really. It did take me quite a while afterwards to sort of get past that.
And I remember when I eventually went to the hospital where I had my daughter, I actually requested another scan, because I just thought, 'Oh, I think they've missed something.' because I was churning it over in my mind so much I had to be talked to, really. And they said, 'Don't, you know - they've written down here everything that they've seen. Don't worry about it, you know. They obviously have done what they were supposed to do.'
But it was just that, it was the feeling that, because they didn't communicate - it was just, there was no sort of pleasantries I suppose, and it doesn't take much to give a brief smile to somebody, you know. You're not asking for too much.
Although some people had gone to the 18-20 week scan alone, most felt it was important to have someone with you for support, in case something unusual was detected. Two women said their partner had missed the scan because they were still trying to find a hospital car parking space.
Many experiences discussed here are common to other types of scan - see also 'Early dating scans' and 'Combined screening for Down's syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities'.
Last reviewed July 2017.
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Solid Tips On Personal Finance That Anyone Can Easily Understand
Well, you've decided to finally get to grips your financial situation. Good for you! However, there is so much information, that you may not have a clue where to begin. Don't worry, personal finance tips are here! Listed below are some tips that will help you get started and organized so that you can and will improve your financial situation.
Triple check your credit card statements the moment you arrive home. Make sure to pay special attention in looking for duplicates of any charges, extra charges you don't recognize, or simple overcharges. If you spot any unusual charges, contact both your credit card company and the business that charged you immediately.
The stock market is in a dangerous state right now, so don't take any big investment risks unless you're willing to lose a lot of money. Any investment might seem like a good idea at first, but there are a lot of factors that affect stock prices and unless you're an expert, you won't see them coming.
Set up your bank account to transfer a predetermined sum of money from your checking to your savings once a month. You will forget you even have this money or see it as a bill, just like any other expense. Your savings can add up quickly by doing this.
Pay off your high interest credit cards first. Come up with a plan for how much money you can put towards your credit card debt each month. In addition to making the minimum payments on all your cards, throw the rest of your budgeted amount at the card with the highest balance. Then move on to the next highest balance and so on.
If you are having trouble managing all of your bills because they are coming due at the same time, you may be able to rearrange your due-dates to make things easier for you. Contact your credit card company or utility company and ask them if you can change your due-date so you have more time between each bill.
Find out what your credit score is. It will cost you money to get your credit score from the big three agencies but the knowledge is invaluable. Knowing your credit score will save you money in buying a car, refinancing your home, even buying life insurance. Make sure to get a new one on a yearly basis to stay up to date.
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Hopefully you have at least some idea now where you should begin with improving your financial situation. It can be daunting, but multitudes of people before you have actually applied these steps and got themselves back on track. You can join them.


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I can't lie...I still love when people who have been traveling bring me gifts from their journeys. Hubby went shopping on his way back from a weekend trip and picked me up some new makeup to play with from Bare Essentials.
|Two samples of the Bare Essentials Mineral Foundation::Mini Powder Brush::Buxom Lip Gloss
|Buxom Lip Polish in Lana and Kitty
|bareMinerals Smoky Eye Tutorial
I will play in the mirror with makeup all day but don't wear it on a daily basis. I always feel like it looks fake and cakey. I was in the mirror last night reading and re-reading the directions to the Smoky Eye Tutorial while I made a sad attempt at the subtle smoky eye (there are also directions for a sultry smoky eye). I definitely need more practice on that front but I absolutely adore the lip gloss! Kitty, the lighter color is a perfect gloss for daytime and actually does plump up the lips like the box claims. Lana (darker) is a clear gloss with a deep red tint and very sexy.
Have you tried any of the Bare Essentials products? If so which ones are your favorites? I love testing out new beauty products, even if nobody but Hubby sees it.


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This year Arthur Copeman will speak from Ecclesiates with the theme "Living in the Real World". There will be various talks from other guest speakers to encourage believers of all ages, as well as men still considering the claims of Jesus.
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Government officials will greet historic charter flights from China on Jan. 29, the day when the special service begins to carry Taiwan businesspeople home for the Lunar New Year holiday, a Mainland Affairs Council official said yesterday.
According to the official, council Vice Chairman Chiu Tai-san (邱太三), Civil Aeronautics Administration Director-General Billy Chang (張國政) and officials from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Straits Exchange Foundation will get together that day at CKS International Airport to welcome the planes coming from China.
Celebrations will also be held at Kaohsiung International Airport.
Nine flights will be offered on the first day of the direct service, to be provided by six aviation companies from either side of the Taiwan Strait.
At present, about 4,000 Taiwan businesspeople and their dependents in China -- 2,400 in Shanghai, 1,050 in Guangzhou and 480 in Beijing -- have applied to take the direct charter flights to Taiwan.
Airlines do not expect the routes to make money.
Officials from Taiwan and China agreed on the flight model earlier this month in Macau, under which Chinese carriers are also included in the service.
It marks a departure from 2003, when the first such charter flights took off -- operated solely by Taiwanese airlines which had to fly via Hong Kong or Macau.
The flights were not offered last year because of China's refusal to talk with Taiwan over its demand that Chinese carriers be also allowed to operate the flights.


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Scrap consumer privacy law to get Netflix on Facebook? No thanks.
September 28, 2011
Netflix recently unveiled a new feature: integration with Facebook.
This integration allows Netflix users to share what they watch with their Facebook Friends and to find out what their friends are watching both on Facebook and Netflix.
Unfortunately, a dusty, outdated consumer privacy law is standing in the way of Netflix's grand designs to improve its customers' lives.
Actually, no, it doesn't.
That "outdated" law – the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) – doesn't interfere with Netflix's plans at all…at least with the part they've announced publicly.
The lack of understanding of how this law functions is astounding.
What's even more astounding, though, is how many individuals are willing to write and publish opinion pieces in support of Netflix without a seeming understanding of the VPPA.
Quite simply, here's what it does:
It prevents a video rental merchant (or similar service providers) from disclosing an individual's video rental records without user consent (or a police warrant, but that's a separate issue).
The opinion articles I've that read on this issue supporting Netflix speak as though the VPPA interferes with consumer choice.
It doesn't. It epitomizes consumer choice.
What's Netflix's problem with it?
The VPPA, as it currently stands, requires a rental-by-rental consent for disclosure from the consumer because it only allows disclosure to a third-party at the time of the user's consent.
And, more importantly, it requires the consumer to be informed of who they consent their information to be released to.
This means that the VPPA bars Netflix from allowing advertising and marketing firms to constantly monitor your video-viewing activities (what you watch, the time of day, the duration, etc), and that's bad for their business.
Netflix is trying to change the VPPA, though, and has spent almost $200,000 this year in lobbying expenditures to do it.
In fact, there's already a bill in the House created specifically for that purpose, introduced by, as Netflix puts it, "forward-thinking members of Congress" (i.e. people who like money).
How does the bill affect the VPPA?
It allows consumers to give an online blanket consent, so that, once you consent to share anything (which is very likely a requirement of even using Netflix's Facebook app), you consent to share everything. With everyone.
With the amount of misinformation out there (helped in no small part by Netflix), the bill is likely to pass.
People frothing at the mouth over the next technological spectacle that is watching Netflix movies on Facebook may be perfectly willing to sacrifice all personal privacy to obtain it.
They may not understand how much even the most miniscule bit of personal information could be used against them, though.
Consider the circumstances leading up to the creating of the VPPA:
Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan's first Supreme Court nomination to replace the retiring Lewis Powell, was heavily scrutinized in the Senate.
During the debate over his nomination, Bork's video rental history was acquired and leaked to the press.
The list didn't contain anything significant, and the stunt was mainly intended to denounce Bork's opposition to privacy rights.
Nevertheless, it disturbed Congress so much that it passed the VPPA a year later.
Most of us can't relate to being politically dissected like Bork was, but we can relate to the job application process.
As our personal lives become more public, as Netflix wants, the likelihood of losing an employment prospect over movie tastes becomes very high.
I, for one, don't believe this is a fair price for watching movies on Facebook.


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The bulletin board is currently closed to new posts. Instead, why not check out Chris' Twitter and Facebook pages?
Due to uncertain circumstances, ROM has asked me to join this place... And my goal? To make myself know to everything yet nothing! Yes, I have come to wreak havoc on those who wreak havoc on those who wreak havoc on those....
*Cough* The name's Viva.
I am a 16 year old turning 17 in January 21 that has lived the life that has defied the laws of physics and mentality itself. Not only have I survived the trials of life by myself taking care of my two little siblings nearly on my own, I have also survived car accidents, robs, mobs, riots, and house explosions themselves. All that I say of myself is nothing far from the truth and ROM can vouch for most of it...
I've been typing/writing for about 7 years now and no actual book has come to me. Every time I get into a book, writers block in the beginning. So... nothing yet in the making but soon!!! A book that has the characters of a God with the intentions of the Devil will bring forth the very hordes of demons from the underworld to unleash a literal ending to all of humanity! The very words that spill from my works will melt your eyes, blow your kidneys to shreds, and literally make your brain melt into a melting pot of melting...stuff.
I have moved every year, or ever other year, of my life. I have lived in Scotland, California, Michigan, Florida, Arizona, and Virginia. I have COMPLETELY toured California, up and down, from Eureka to Death Valley itself. So, I guess you can say that I am used to a transition in life.
My political stance is of its own nature in itself. So... if you really want to know my stand in something political... get ready for a roller coaster ride.
My philosophy on life is long, but a major part of it is this: Laughter is the best medicine. And Chris, you nail it on me!
Let my poor antics, that are like Martha Stewart making a joke about soiling your plants to soiling your pants, get to you. Overall, I am a nice, loving, cuddly little boy that is looking for attention.
*Hides the knives behind his back and snickers*
And you are not Viva!
the orcas of my pod Kianu, kitnee, katara, Keiko, small keiko, Erwan and Corentin, chimo and the others, all say your name is almost the same as mine.
take a deep breath, joe will be along shortly. and the others._________________current pics: drawings and some photos. http://www.dizzyhellfire.deviantart.com
(from a peak in the Alps) Niiiiiiicooooolaaaaaa!
Welcome._________________White and feathery, yet crude and noisy, the chicken is the backbone of our farming community.
God damn you all!!! The name isn't NICOLA!!!!
oooh can we keep him as a pet? I wanna call him Kev.
his name isnt Viva. I'm serious its..... brandon _________________current pics: drawings and some photos. http://www.dizzyhellfire.deviantart.com
Welcome. Did you bring pie?
I should warn you that dougp will complain about your tiny type- there are other ways to wind him up, but that's the simplest. Sometimes it's just fun to watch folks go helter skelter.
I wouldn't worry too much about Joe- yet. However, after your birthday next year- better bring a key lime pie, that's all I'm saying...
*coughs* Nicoru *cough*_________________current pics: drawings and some photos. http://www.dizzyhellfire.deviantart.com
Hey! My small type is good for me since large type, or 'normal type', is too large... <.< So if anyone has a problem...
*Holds up an angered snapping turtle*
*throws pazuzu at him* HA!!! THE POWER OF MY MASCOT ORCA COMPELS YOU!!_________________current pics: drawings and some photos. http://www.dizzyhellfire.deviantart.com
*Nods and holds hands out with a wide grin*
Cocoa is good for the soul! It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.... ^___^
hey archkronus dude...
watashi wo obasan pinku duressu
did I get it right this time?_________________current pics: drawings and some photos. http://www.dizzyhellfire.deviantart.com
i still reject your reality and substitute my own!_________________current pics: drawings and some photos. http://www.dizzyhellfire.deviantart.com
You may be a lover but you aint no dancer!
I got blisters on my fingers!!_________________Avoid being normal -- John Lennon


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Missouri state legislators are considering passing a resolution making Christianity the official majority religion of the state in order to "protect the majority's right to express their religious beliefs."
Now let me translate that for you:
Missouri state legislators are considering passing a resolution making Christianity the official majority religion of the state in order to "allow the Christian Right to impose their morality on everyone else."
From the Americans United for Separation of Church and State blog
Missouri's Res. 13, however, reflects exactly what this nation's Religious Right wants – a country where its extreme agenda is advanced by government. That's why so many Religious Right activists loathe the First Amendment and perpetually claim that it contains no clause separating government and religion. These folks want laws that ban reproductive rights, stifle advancement of civil rights for gays and allow public school teachers to lead their students in Christian prayer, Bible readings and other religious activities.
The resolution is also reflective of the Religious Right's warped understanding of democracy and the U.S. Constitution. The Missouri resolution states that America's Founding Fathers envisioned our nation's governing document as setting up a Christian nation. TV preachers Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and a host of other Religious Right pundits have asserted similar claims for years.
The truth is that the nation's Constitution was not based on sectarian principles. It is a secular document created by men who were witness to the destruction wrought by the union of religion and government in Europe and America's early colonies. Nowhere does the word "God" appear in the Constitution. Founding Father and author of the First Amendment James Madison did not, regardless of the Missouri lawmakers' puffery, envision an American theocracy.
In 1823, Madison wrote, "The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both…."
Reality, however, seems of no concern to some Missouri lawmakers or opportunistic Religious Right operatives who are bent on enforcing their religious strictures on the entire nation.


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Mojang was supposed to release Update 1.4 for Minecraft on Wednesday. However, they've decided to delay 1.4, also known as the "Pretty Scary Update," due to a number of glitches.
"There was a big issue causing mobs to suffocate and fall through wooden floors that we really needed to fix," read a new post on the development blog. Other bugs including Redstone Repeaters staying "on" permanently and bats spawning too often. Less pressing bugs, like "wet wolves looking too scary" are also being addressed.
The Pretty Scary Update, in honor of Halloween, adds several new monsters. Players will have to face off against witches, Wither skeletons, and a three-headed Wither boss. Zombies and skeletons will occasionally spawn with equipment and use it in battle as well.
The patch's changes extend far beyond new monsters, though. Anvils for combining or repairing items, revamped portals and new decorative items are among the other additions. Furthermore, the game will now feature better villager A.I. and easier mod downloading.
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ConvertKit Benefits
– Slick, intuitive interface.
– Works great with incorporating content upgrades to your website.
– Tag-based (versus list based like MailChimp)
– Really fine visual automation editor.
– They don't charge you for duplicate subscribers.
– Can add conditional content using tags in mails.
– Easily auto darkening broadcasts into un-opens.
– Automatic double opt-in for direct magnets.
– 365 days a year, 24 hours per day service through live chat and email.
– A solid number of integrations.
– Very nice reporting.
– Constantly being updated with new capabilities.
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Description of ConvertKit
ConvertKit is an email Service provider that's specifically marketed towards bloggers, podcasters, and other companies that are building crowds.
It had been started by Nathan Barry who had been already a fan ofbeing a regular reader of the blog.
For a short moment, it was Rebranded to Seva, until they reverted back to ConvertKit.
What is interesting about ConvertKit is how transparent Nathan is about the whole procedure of accepting ConvertKit from scratch to earning $30k a month in 2015. Now in 2018, they've 19,500 active clients and carrying over $1 million a month.
We're basically getting a front Row seat on his journey to creating a successful SaaS merchandise. It is pretty cool because we get to see about both the highs and the lows.
Even in the Event That You don't Wind up using ConvertKit, his blog articles are always interesting and I recommend giving Nathan a follow.Electronic Direct Marketing Software
What isn't So good about ConvertKit
Poor Part #1: Restricted set of triggers/actions for innovative automations
Here are the triggers available on ConvertKit.
Compare that with ActiveCampaign.
This means you can't really construct The exact same type of complex automations that you can in ActiveCampaign or Drip.
You also won't receive advanced Features in ConvertKit like page tracking and direct scoring.
And I miss having list Administration Actions like unsubscribing people so that you may do regular list hygiene.
Poor Part #2: Limited A/B Testing
A/B testing is a really important Feature to have for almost any email service. Doing this regularly will help you improve your conversion and open rates.
ConvertKit allows you to split Test your subject lines such as this:
Which is helpful, for certain.
But there's no way to split test For things such as delivery period, email body content, or automations.
Bad Part #3: maybe not a ton of customization options for forms and templates
I really do like the forms which ConvertKit provides. They're clean and nice.
However, the kind editor is quite Limited. Besides color, there's not much you can change. By way of instance, there's no method to change the font for some one of the text.
Unless you're willing to add in Your CSS.
This is not a big deal for me personally, as I utilize Thrive Leads for my forms. However, for people who don't utilize a third party tool, the lack of customization could be an issue.
Bad Part #4: No email templates
I don't personally send out email Newsletter type emails, so this is not that big a deal to me personally.
However, I know some companies do want This, that is why MailChimp is still popular.
ConvertKit includes a couple of email Templates, however, the process of using them is very dull. You will need to muck about with HTML and CSS which not everybody wants to do.
So you'll want to Appear elsewhere If that is what you want.
Some of The Best Features
Cool Feature #1: Seamless Visual Automation Editor
I Love the ConvertKit's Visual automation editor. It is a joy to use, especially once you compare it to a number of the other automation editors on the market.
That is because ConvertKit makes Editing each step on your automation workflow easy.
Let us say one of those measures in Your automation is sending an email. With other services, editing the email will take you from this automation editor and into a separate email editor webpage. This can cause you to eliminate context of what you were doing.
With ConvertKit, everything is Done inside the automation editor . So clicking on an email step will make it possible for you to edit it inline. And it is also possible to edit your forms in precisely the same way.
It's a Fantastic experience and it Sets additional automation editors to shame.
Cool Characteristic #2: Simple Segmentation within emails
Another useful feature is ConvertKit's ability to segment individual emails using conditional tags.
So let's say you wanted to create A single email to your list, but include a bonus coupon to your VIP customers. You can do that in ConvertKit like this:
Pretty cool, right?
The syntax may look somewhat Odd to non-techies and you might have difficulty remembering what to type if you go to use it.
To help with this, you can click On the Personalize menu in the editor toolbar and click on the Subscriber's tags menu item. ConvertKit will then insert the right code snippet template directly into your email.
All You Have to do is change to Your tag, and upgrade the content for the two branches.
Cool Feature #3: Auto resend broadcasts to un-opens
Each time you send out a Broadcast email, a certain proportion of people will not open it. Hubspot says advertising and marketing emails only receive 25% email open rates.
Perhaps you didn't write a great Headline, or else they were too busy at the opportunity to have a look.
ConvertKit has a neat feature Where you can resend your broadcast to the men and women who did not open it the first time.
This is available in stats page, Where you will see a button named Resend to Unopens.
Pressing It's Going to allow you to Re-send your email again, where you're able to make modifications to your Subject Line if you wish.
I like this because you can Boost the eyeballs you receive for every single broadcast you ship out.
Cool Feature #4: Lead Magnet Double Opt-in
There are debates everywhere About if you should use double breasted vs individual opt-in.
The main reason why you want Double opt-in is that it is going to improve your email listing quality. Nevertheless, the principal argument against is the excess step will damage your conversions.
All this is accurate.
But if you are using lead Magnets, subsequently ConvertKit can handle double opt-in for you like this.
After the user clicks the download Button to get their lead magnetthey are automatically opted in. So you have the best of both worlds! Electronic Direct Marketing Software
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Details of ConvertKit
ConvertKit consists of 5 major building blocks. Let's take a glance at each.
Forms are the way you get readers Into your account. ConvertKit permits you to create both forms and landing pages.
Forms may be embedded on any page Of your website, or through a typical modal popup. Landing pages are its very own dedicated page hosted on ConvertKit's servers or your site with a WordPress plugin.
There are 3 Chief styles to select From for regular forms. Full, Minimal, and Clean.
As Stated above, the form Editor doesn't give you many customization options, although the built-in fashions do have a great clean look to them.
Landing pages also just have 3 Styles to select from and the exact same limited customization options.
To tie everything together, let's Discuss ConvertKit's automations.
In ConvertKit, subscribers can Input an automation in 4 different ways.
Throughout a form, getting tagged, Having a customized field updated, or by a buy.
From there, you can add an Event, Action or Condition.
Actions would be the simplest to understand. The most common activities are incorporating a contributor to one of your email strings, either remove or add a label, setting a custom field, or introducing a delay.
Conditions Allow You to branch your Automation according to a tag or custom area.
So you could use branching to Have your VIP clients return one route and your non-VIPs go down a separate path similar to this:
Finally, you have Occasions, which pull your contributor Forward to another step in the automation when an event occurs.
Let's say one of the readers Is on day two of your 5 part email arrangement, which will be trying to make them purchase your product.
You can add an event to your Automation utilizing the Add tag event. If on day 2, the subscriber buys your product (and you label them as a client ), it will pull them from their present email order they were in.
Which is useful because you won't Invite them together with the previous 3 mails on your sequence (by asking them to buy) because they are now a client of yours.
ConvertKit's automation editor is Extremely fast and easy to use. As stated above, I really like the capability to edit forms and emails right within the editor itself.
It makes for a much better Expertise when creating new automations.
Sending one-way mails in ConvertKit is straightforward.
Since there are no lists in ConvertKit, whenever you send a broadcast email you'll want to use their filter mechanism to target that which you will be sending your air to.
You'll most often use the Subscribed to filter where you Can segment your broadcast to specific forms, sequences, tags or products.
The email editor is just your Standard HTML email editor, using a few extra choices. Click the A/B button next to the subject line and you can start a split test between a few different headlines.
The personalization button can be Used to enter in merge tags to your email or to utilize the in-email label segmentation I talked about above.{ Electronic Direct Marketing Software
Sequences are at which you can Create autoresponders, a series of emails that get delivered to your readers at a predefined calendar of your choice.
On the left, you'll see all of the Mails on your series and when they will be routed out. You may drag mails around on the left to rapidly change the order they are sent.
To the right, you'll see exactly the same Email editor since you possibly get for Broadcasts. So all the very same characteristics apply, except you can't split test subject lines here.
Contrary to MailChimp or Aweber, ConvertKit is label and not record based. This means that you have one database of readers on your ConvertKit account.
To group subscribers together, You can use tags or make sections. With segments, you can do things like creating a set of contacts which subscribed before a particular date.
Or group readers by place Or any custom field you create.
ConvertKit also enables you to drill Down into any specific subscriber you have. You're able to see things like what sequences they are on, what emails you've sent them, and if you're doing e-commerce, what goods they've purchased from you.
What Else Is there to know?
How is Their service?
ConvertKit's support is great from My expertise. While there is no phone support like Aweber has, they offer email and live chat 365 days per year, 24 hours every day.
Email response time ranges from 2-3 hours in my experience. But live chat is usually pretty responsive.
Can they Have an active community?
They've a Facebook group Known as The ConvertKit Family. It now has 6k members and averages around 6 articles each day.
It is a Fantastic place to Receive your Questions answered by additional ConvertKit users.
What Integrations do they offer?
ConvertKit includes a ton of third-party integrations. I now rely 86 at the time of the review, such as with tools such as LeadPages, ClickFunnels, SamCart, and Shopify.
You can find the full listing Of all ConvertKit integrations here.
How Good is ConvertKit for lead magnets?
ConvertKit is awesome for direct magnets. Not only will it host your lead magnets to you, the automatic dual opt-in is a fantastic feature.
How Good is ConvertKit for eCommerce?
ConvertKit is getting quite a little better when it comes to eCommerce. They just launched a new feature that's going to permit you to monitor every purchase made by a subscriber.
What makes this cool is that you just Can then begin automations based on a purchase.
It's only working together with Shopify and Teachable in The moment, but that has a lot of potential when they get things working with all e-commerce integrations.
Can it Handle live events or webinars?
To handle live events and Webinars, you have to be able to send mails out at a specific time and date. It is typical for webinars to send multiple emails at specific times before it begins, like 24 hours before, 8 hours before, 10 minutes before, etc..
ConvertKit can handle live events And webinars through broadcasts just. Which is not too convenient because then you have to schedule all your emails manually.
It'd be preferable if ConvertKit gave you a way to send emails at a particular date and time. But that is currently impossible through sequences or automations.
Do they Have an affiliate program?
Yes, ConvertKit Provides the Standard 30% recurring commissions as part of its affiliate program. The affiliate program can be hosted on Ambassador.
Alexis is the affiliate Manager, and she really does a wonderful job of keeping you updated on the various promotions they're running.
Who is Switching around to ConvertKit?
ConvertKit has been rising by Leaps and bounds, and I'm studying about people switching to ConvertKit daily.
Listed below are a Couple of examples of Bloggers who have switched to ConvertKit from their old email service:
– Why I Switched To ConvertKit: The Unofficial Definitive Review
– Why I Switched From Aweber Into ConvertKit
– 10 Reasons Why I Switched From Aweber into ConvertKit
ConvertKit Vs MailChimp
MailChimp has a few Things going for it ConvertKit. It is cheaper, and it has better email templates.
However, for everything else, ConvertKit definitely wins out. Particularly once you compare MailChimp's crappy automation editor contrary to the beautiful ConvertKit one.
Plus ConvertKit has tags which Gives you better flexibility for segmenting your subscribers. MailChimp is very much lacking there.
ConvertKit Vs Aweber
The only reason I'd Recommend Aweber versus ConvertKit is in case you're purely performing affiliate marketing/CPA offers. Then, it may be more difficult to get approval on ConvertKit, and Aweber will be your very best bet.
Aweber can be marginally cheaper Than ConvertKit.
Otherwise, ConvertKit is much better Than Aweber at pretty much everything else, such as automations.
ConvertKit Vs ActiveCampaign
This is a much harder comparison. ActiveCampaign is a superb email marketing software, with a lot of features for power users. You are able to do more with its own automations, and it has better divide testing capabilities.
Price wise, it is cheaper than ConvertKit at reduced subscriber amounts, but it's more expensive as you add an increasing number of contacts.
But ConvertKit is simpler to use, Using a nicer and tabbed interface.
That one you should pick depends On your organization requirements. Would you like something which just works for regular email marketing activities, without a whole lot of work? Then ConvertKit would make a fantastic choice.
But if you want more sophisticated or Complex automations, subsequently ActiveCampaign is the top way to go.
ConvertKit's uses exactly the same tiered Pricing model as many other email services do. Hence the price goes up the more subscribers you have.
When compared to its competitors, ConvertKit's pricing comes out at the middle of the pack at lesser subscriber levels.
But as you get past 10,000 Subscribers and beyond, ConvertKit actually doesn't jump up as much in price as a number of the rest.
Prices below are if you pay Monthly, but if you pre-pay yearly, you get two months of service free.
ConvertKit does not normally Provide a free trial. But sometimes for different promotions, you will see them promoting a 30-day trial.
I have never seen any ConvertKit Discounts. They do provide a wonderful 30-day money back guarantee, however. Electronic Direct Marketing Software
When I initially wrote this ConvertKit review, it had been an up and coming email advertising support.
But three years later, ConvertKit Has firmly established itself as one of the major players in the email marketing space.
Marketing automation is the Potential for email. It can allow you to target your clients better, resulting in higher conversion and earnings.
What ConvertKit does is create Marketing automations really accessible to non-techie people. Additionally, it provides you with a headache-free user experience.
While it may not be the Most powerful email marketing software on the market, it doesn't aim to be. You need to know it's an email service that's geared towards bloggers and other content creators.
Just make sure you understand its Limitations, and decide whether you are okay with it.
If You're, then I highly Recommend you give ConvertKit an attempt.
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Mel Sole Golf School operates year round at Pawleys Plantation, a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course 30 minutes south of Myrtle Beach. The golf school was designed to accommodate golfers of all skill levels. Parent/Child Programs are available and students are able to ive on site or commute. The Mel Sole Golf School has been included in GOLF Magazine's list of the top 25 U.S. golf schools since 1991. As of June 2015, it has received 164 Excellent ratings on Tripadvisor.com.
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Warwick is being neglected when it comes to keeping it in good repair, its town council clerk claims.
Derek Maudlin is calling for a clean-up operation to spruce up the county town as part of its Britain in Bloom efforts.
He, and members of Friends of Warwick in Bloom, are particularly keen to see dirty road signs cleaned up, damaged seats and paving in Market Place repaired, and the traffic island at Saltisford sorted out.
Mr Maudlin said: ?A great many people are putting an effort into making the town look bright for the summer but there are some parts of it which really let the town down.
?Some of these complaints have been on the books for months or even years.?
He has made a start by getting out his scrubbing brush and cleaning up one of the town?s welcome signs, on Coventry Road.
He said: ?We have various road signs covered in green algae, particularly on the Banbury Road and Stratford Road.
?The councils also spent #1.5 million on Market Place recently but they do not seem to have made provision for its future maintenance. Some cobbles are broken and there is a seat which is damaged and has been so for some months.
?Some people seem to think that Warwick is not treated with the same level of concern as Leamington town centre.? Town centre manager Joe Baconnet suggested businesses could look after their own areas and take a pride in their street scene.
He said: ?I understand some money has been allocated from the county council to take care of the road signage for pedestrians in Warwick, although I am not sure it will cover traffic signs.
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Bill Gates' "Porsche 959": One of the Top Sports Cars of 1980's
The American business tycoon, Bill Gates, is the chairman of the world's largest software company, Microsoft Corporation. This second wealthiest person of the world is fond of collecting luxurious cars. He was fascinated by the German manufactured car, "Porsche". But, the problem was that these groovy cars had no authorization from the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Transportation. Hence, these Porsches were stored in the customs office at the Port of Seattle. In 1999, with the signature of Bill Clinton on the rule of "Show and Display", the expensive cars were exempted from the government crash and safety regulations. This made Bill, the owner of a super car, Porsche 959.
Bill Gates, the self-made billionaire, owned this car for $225,000. Porsche 959 is one of the most technologically advanced sports cars, ever introduced. This car was introduced as a Group B rally car. Later, it was legally designed and produced. In 2004, Sports Car International magazine placed Porsche 959 on the top of the list of "The Top Sports Cars Of 1980's". It was titled "The World's Fastest Street-Legal Production Car". It is featured with a top speed of 195 miles per hour, which can reach 60 miles per hour in less than 3.7 seconds. This made it "World's Fastest Car". It is a two-door coupe with full safety roll cage and racing seat belts. It is one of the high-performance vehicles with all-wheel drive. The current value of this car has risen to $500,000 as its successor, Porsche GT1, has been running fast on roads.
Apart from this super car, Bill Gates also owns other Porsches, including "Porsche 911" and "Porsche 930".


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From The Seattle Weekly...
Sun., Feb. 6, 8 p.m., 2011 Get your tickets HERE! Bring a Friend of a Different Race & Get in 2for1.
Back in 2005, a little-known San Francisco comic made a crack about a little-known Illinois senator, also black. Said W. Kamau Bell, "There will never be a black president named Barack Obama. Because that is too black." Then the unthinkable happened: Obama actually became president, and Bell focused his comedy into a stand-alone show, The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour. He's been performing and refining the act for years, adapting topics of his ire from George Bush to Michele Bachmann. And while he comes as the subject of race from a Bay Area liberal's perspective, his jokes also range from Star Trek to kung fu movies to Macbeth. ("As a society," says this Chicago-raised utopian, "let's be the The Matrix part one, not The Matrix II and III.") And, like the president, Bell has stripped the anger from his smart, genial demeanor—he's like the funniest dude in your Ph.D. program. Though he's a young guy, fluent in blogging, twitter, and Facebook, he's also a bit of a throwback—skipping over the incendiary taunts of Pryor and Murphy back to the early humor of Cosby (before sweaters and sitcoms). Also note the ticket price: two-for-one if "you bring a friend from a different race." It's a great chance to save some money and meet someone not in your usual online dating profile. BRIAN MILLER
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Results last weekend mean Manchester United are almost guaranteed to be returning to the Champions League and it must be seen as a success for Louis van Gaal.
When Marouane Fellaini's late header gave Manchester United a 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace, you sensed that it was a defining moment. The away support were so excited that they invaded the Selhurst Park pitch.
They knew that rivals Liverpool had to travel to champions Chelsea and get a win to keep the race alive. Although it was a valiant effort from the Reds, they fell short as they could only manage a draw.
It leaves United with a six-point advantage with two games to go and their significantly better goal difference means that they are all but guaranteed to be dining at Europe's top table next season.
Louis van Gaal's aim for his first season in charge from the beginning was to finish in the top four. Although they have not been convincing at times, United have achieved their main goal and deserve credit for that.
Unlike Liverpool, who failed at the same task, United can reflect on a season where they have successfully recovered after a shocking season under David Moyes.
Yes, United are a club who should be challenging for the title and yes, fourth place would be a major disappointment under Sir Alex Ferguson but the fact is they have massively rebuilt this season.
Settling in a new manager and six new signings in completely new systems is not an easy task but United have done an admirable job, even if it hasn't been pretty football at times.
There have been signs in recent games that the tide is turning and they could challenge the likes of Chelsea next season for the title. Wins over Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham showed what United are capable of under van Gaal.
Once the rebuild gets fully completed this summer with five or six new faces, United will be a strong force to be reckoned with both domestically and in Europe.
They achieved their aim for this season and their next task is winning back the title.
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