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Awakened Relationship – Iris Benrubi Sea
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Awakened Relationship hosted byIris Benrubi – Season 3
Are You Ready to Have:
A Loving and Passionate Romantic Relationship with your Soulmate?
A Deeply Connected and Peaceful Relationship with Yourself?
Do you want to Learn how to Love Yourself?
Then you must read on…
We have 16 dynamic speakers and leading experts who are ready to share
with you their top tips for having Loving, Connected Relationships
and how to add More JOY into your life!
The Experts on the Awakened Relationship Teleseminar will teach you their top
techniques and strategies on how to have the love and passion you dream of,
so that you can enjoy love, peace, connection, intimacy and joy!
Are You Ready to Have the Life You Dream of?
Have a look at some of the things you will learn from our expert speakers:
• The 3 keys to Lasting Love
• How to create Mind Blowing Orgasms
• The 1 thing you can do in your relationship to create a Loving Connection
• How to rapidly Release Limiting Beliefs and Flow into Love and Connection
• How to Feel More Love than you thought was possible
• How to Heal Wounds of Blame and Criticism from close relationships
• The Secrets to a Soulful Relationship
• How to let go of judging yourself and Love Yourself right now
• How to Easily Dissolve Resentments and Regrets
• How to Channel Anger and Jealousy
• Why Trust is the foundation for Deep Connected Love
• How to be Vulnerable and feel Safe at the same time
• How your 'issues' in relationships are Gifts wrapped in sandpaper
You will also learn:
• The importance of loving your SELF first
• How to attract the love you want effortlessly
• The beliefs you need in order to have a successful life
• The surprising technique to having a fulfilling life
• The simple way to stay connected and loved with a romantic partner
• How to transform sparks of tension and conflict into passionate love
• How to stop struggling and align with your life's desires
• The difference between loving someone and being responsible for them
• How to get rid of and transform beliefs that are holding you back
• How conflicts are the seed of a dream
• How to have more fulfilling and fun sex
Meet the leading experts who are going to share their best techniques with you
Jeff Carreira
The Power of Commitment
• You will discover why many people in the postmodern cultural climate find commitment in relationships so often difficult.
• You will gain a unique perspective on what a commitment to relationship really means.
• You will learn how to remain on the inside of your commitments through the inevitable challenges that we all face
in our closest relationships.
• You will understand why clarity about the exact nature of our commitments is Key to keeping them.
• You will have new insights to apply to strengthen the commits in your life.
Arjuna Ardagh
Living Awakening
• Discover how to drop into the dimension of yourself which is infinite: beyond thought and reactive belief.
• There is only one thing that gets in the way of living from this more expansive consciousness.
• Find out how intimate relationship can be an expression of your deepest sense of your self.
• You have a unique gift to give which naturally emerges when you are connected to who you really are beyond the mind.
• Hear about how the leaders of some of the worlds biggest companies are bringing awakening consciousness to the work place.
• Discover the shortest and most effective ways to connect back to your self in times of stress.
• Sex can be a completely different kind of meeting when you know yourself to be the source of love.
Stan Tatkin
Wired for Love
By learning to use simple gestures and words, readers can learn to put out emotional fires and help their partners feel more safe and secure. The no-fault view of conflict in this book encourages readers to move past a "warring brain" mentality and toward a more cooperative "loving brain" understanding of the relationship.
• Creating and maintaining a safe couple bubble·
• Using morning and evening rituals to stay connected.
• Learning to fight so that nobody loses
• Becoming the expert on what makes your partner feel loved
Patricia Albere
MUTUAL AWAKENING: Opening into a New Paradigm of Human Relatedness
A new dimension of consciousness awakens and inside that awakening our hidden beauty and power can display its full glory and we can shine together.
• Discover a new possibility for human relating that can transform your life
• Experience directly a practice that will open up this new dimension of consciousness
• Learn why we experience an existential loneliness, even though we are in relationships and have a life that works
• Discover where the leading edge of consciousness is moving
• Find out why intimacy and a deep connection to truth is the portal to higher states of consciousness
Patty Contenta
B.L.E.S.S. Your Way to Natural Confidence
• How to make yourself more approachable
• How to melt into your feminine energy
• The softening power of self-touch and how to use it
• How to play up your most sensual body part for enhanced sex appeal
• Learn the subtle moves that make the biggest impact
Alison Armstrong
Wake Up from Normal: From Instinct to Inspiration
• How our perception of men and women defeats us from the very beginning
• How our instincts put us at odds with the opposite sex
• Small adjustments you can make to create a huge difference in understanding, connection and fun
• What to pay attention to everyday to avoid the upsets that burst the love bubble to have more harmony and satisfaction
• The signs that you've gone back to sleep, are on automatic, and your relationship is probably headed for a cliff.
Deborah Kagan
Live Life Lusciously: How to be the CEO of your Sensual Self
Tap into your #1 Source of Sensual Power – where it lives in your body and how to access it 24/7 with this power-packed experiential call with Deborah Kagan. Deborah offers strategies, skills, and techniques to access the four steps to renewed confidence, increased vitality and full self expression. Learn how to tap into your #1 source of sensual power understand why sensuality is a key ingredient to your success the kinky life (it's not what you think) discover your six sensual profiles and how they raise your frequency and much more mojo info.
Susan Bratton
Full Integrity Seduction
• A conscious relationship welcomes the ability to delight your partner and seduce them into a lifetime of increasing pleasure.
• Discover how it's possible to be completely confident making your mate an offer to which they will always
enthusiastically say, "YES!"
• Get your partner out of "no mode" forever with this simple model that replaces rejection with connection.
• Seduction can be something you do every day, even spontaneously. And no, it does not have to be manipulative.
• Your partner will be begging you to do this seduction routine, even if you've been married for a hundred years.
• This method works especially well if the intimacy is fading and turbo charges an already spicy relationship…
• Packed with easy examples, you will use this seduction strategy tonight to make your sweetheart's eyes light up.
Dan Millman
Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World
Much is made today about the importance of happiness, as if all that we do is directed toward this end. Dan Millman points to a desire and fundamental human need for true fulfillment — a deeper connection with self, others, and world.
• Life`s four purposes
• The key elements to finding your life purpose
• Why there`s no such thing as a future decision
• What steps to take to experience the 'zone'
Allana Pratt
Deliciously Attracting the Intimacy You Seek
• Discover the #1 block to Intimacy and how to change it now!
• Learn why intimacy is the key to not only attracting but sustaining a long term fabulous relationship
• Experience how you don't need to wait for a partner to have a juicy,Ecstatic fulfilled life of intimacy, it can begin right away!
Dr. Darren Weissman
Awakening to the Secret Code of Your Mind
• A clear understanding of why you struggle in relationships with others and yourself
• How to set intention to create the type of relationships you desire
• How to shift fear and insecurity into confidence and clarity
• A simple strategy for processing self-defeating emotions
• How to use Love and Gratitude to raise your attractor field
Devaa Haley Mitchell
Blending Intimacy and Sovereignty in Relationship
• Access the archetype of the Lover to deepen your intimate connection with your beloved·
• Hear more about creating a regular "temple time" and how it can be used to create more depth and connection·
• Understand how to stay in your center maintain your sovereignty within your relationship·
• Explore how setting boundaries and saying "no" when appropriate can actually improve matters·
• Learn how to balance giving and receiving for maximum benefit for all involved.
Gillian Hood
5 Steps to Breaking Out of Diet Prison
• Understand why diets fail you and actually cause weight gain
• Finally free yourself from obsession and guilt
• Learn how to listen to your body,eat normally, and reach your body's natural weight
• Reject the faulty ideas that keep you chasing diet after diet and adopt behaviors of naturally thin people
• Discover the secrets to eating all the foods you love without the fear of gaining weight
• Find the path to freedom from food obsession, restriction, deprivation,emotional overeating and constant misery
Raphael Cushnir
The Hidden Power of Emotion
• Do you have an unrealized dream? Are you still waiting to tap your full potential?
• What stops you from manifesting your greatest life vision
• What sabotages prayer, affirmations, or any other personal-growth technique
• The Key to making us truly unstoppable
• The succinct technique to overcome lifelong struggles with career, family, relationships,weight,self-esteem, and addiction.
• How to fall in love with every moment of your life
Rob McNamara
The Intimacy of Elegance
• How to Stop The 2 Major Forms of Infidelity
• The Real Reason You and Your Partner are Together
• End the "Sameness Game" and Welcoming Diversity
• How to Navigate Relational Gridlock
• Stopping the Myth of Conflict Resolution
• Secrets to Go Beyond Yourself
• Discovering the Intimacy Your Heart Yearns For
Iris Benrubi
The Intimate Journey : The Keys to Loving and Being Loved Fully
• The Keys to Loving and being Loved Fully
• How passion and intimacy affect the quality of every aspect of your life
• What your roadblocks are to passion and intimacy
• A new way to look at intimacy
• Why we hit the 'glass ceiling' for passion and intimacy
• How to breakthrough that 'glass ceiling' to achieve the love we crave
About Your Host Iris Benrubi
Iris Benrubi is the founder and president of Simply Success. Iris coaches High Achievers who have all the outward markings of success but whose happiness gauge is on empty. Having lived in North America, Europe and the Middle East, and speaking several languages, Iris brings a global perspective to her coaching. Iris brings to her coaching a varied and diverse background that enhances her ability to gauge her clients' needs and assist them to create what they are committed to in their lives.
Iris has owned and operated 4 businesses over her 24 years as an entrepreneur including direct sales, real estate and director of a club, counseling and life coaching. In 1983, she graduated with a BA in Physical Education and in 1998, graduated with a Masters in Counseling Psychology. Her education and training, enhanced by her natural ability, Iris is able to get to the crux of her clients' limiting beliefs and enable them to create healthy empowering beliefs that support them in creating the life and career they dream of. Her passion is seeing her coaching clients create freedom, happiness and success in their own lives.
Iris is involved in numerous professional organizations including the International Coach Federation, the Markham Board of Trade and the Ontario Association of Coaches, Consultants, Psychotherapists and Psychometrists.
Iris has travelled in 24 countries and backpacks yearly with her children through South America. She is a member of Servas, a Global Community of Peace Seekers. In 2005, she organized a walk for peace called "Peace in the Holyland for the Children of Tomorrow". When she isn't travelling, Iris she enjoys riding her motorcycle, dancing salsa and reading. Her passions include drawing and painting, learning about people, their cultures and values and improving her Spanish.
"Iris presented her viewpoint about the purpose of coaching to the Canadian Association of Women Executives and Entrepreneurs. Her words of wisdom were attentively listened to by everyone at the meeting. She was congratulated for inspiring attendees to explore the possibilities within so that they might joyfully attain their passions and purpose." Joan Hamilton, CAWEE Director
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Nowadays the Christmas season is being celebrated throughout the month, not just one day. Some days are even becoming dedicated to specific aspects of the holiday, such as Ugly Christmas Sweater Day.
If you're looking for a new tradition to get you in the holiday spirit -- or just trying to figure out how you'll fit it all in, look no further. Here are 25 great ways to get in the holiday spirit.
Dec. 1: Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Tis the season to be jolly, and decorating your home early serves as a great visual reminder throughout the season. Besides, if you haven't gotten your tree yet, experts are advising everyone to get them early this year.
Dec. 2: Get spiritual
This year it just so happens that the first day of Advent in the Christian faith is on Dec. 2, and Hanukkah begins at sundown. This is a great day to explore your own religious heritage -- or to ask someone else about theirs -- to get to the heart of the holidays.
Dec. 3: Crank the holiday tunes
I don't want a lot for Christmas ... except an epic playlist. Make the holidays more special by having one ready for whenever the occasion arises.
RELATED: Mariah Carey tops YouTube's most played Christmas songs of the holiday season
Dec. 4: Join a cookie exchange for Cookie Day
The ultimate way to fully enjoy Cookie Day is, of course, with a whole bunch of cookies. Attend (or host!) a holiday cookie swap to maximize the gooey goodness.
RELATED: Six awesome recipes for your holiday cookie party
Dec. 5: Participate in International Volunteer Day
Another way to get in the spirit of the holidays is to remind yourself that there's more to it than the consumerism of the day. On Dec. 5, the United Nations is hosting International Volunteer Day. It's the perfect day to find a project you're passionate about and give your time.
RELATED: Ways to give back during the holiday season
Dec. 6: Watch a Christmas special on TV
Good grief, there are a lot of specials on TV this time of year. One of the most popular is A Charlie Brown Christmas, which ABC will be airing multiple times throughout the month, beginning on Dec. 6.
RELATED: ABC's holiday lineup
RELATED: 25 Days of Christmas schedule on Freeform
Dec. 7: Make your list and check it twice
One way to decrease stress and enjoy the holidays more is to avoid procrastinating. Set aside time early in the month to make sure everyone on your list is covered. Get some inspiration from our ultimate 2018 gift giving guide.
Dec. 8: Elf on the Shelf
There are millions of Elf on the Shelf dolls out there, and it doesn't stop with the elf -- there's also Mensch on a Bench and even Hide-and-Hug Olaf. This list of 17 Elf on the Shelf ideas for lazy parents will last you from this day until Christmas Eve.
Dec. 9: Send seasons greetings on Christmas Card Day
Christmas Card Day might feel like it comes a little early in the month, but don't forget that cards take time to travel. You don't want to be that person whose card arrives just in time, do you? (But if you do, the U.S. Postal Service suggests sending it by Dec. 14).
Dec. 10: Have a cozy night in
Anyone who doesn't take time to be cozy around Christmas isn't getting the full experience. In 2017, the Danish concept of hygge went viral, providing many Americans with new tips for embodying coziness, joy and wellbeing.
Dec. 11: Write a letter to Santa
Channel your inner child and let Old Saint Nick know what you really want this year. If you send it to Macy's, they'll donate $1 to Make-A-Wish.
Dec. 12: Celebrate Gingerbread House Day
Break out the gingerbread and let your imagination run wild. A simple house will do the trick, but if you want to get fancy, draw some inspiration from the entries in the National Gingerbread House Competition at Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C.
Dec. 13: Have a Christmas movie marathon
Gather your family (or a group of friends) and vote on your favorite Christmas movies, then watch them all!
RELATED: Favorite Christmas movies by state
Dec. 14: Take advantage of Free Shipping Day
Dec. 14 is a great day to finish up shopping for long-distance friends and family. It's the last day to get free shipping and guaranteed delivery by Christmas Eve, otherwise known as Free Shipping Day. Hundreds of retailers participate.
Dec. 15: Pick your favorite festive outdoor activity
December might be one of the coldest months, but that's no excuse to spend the whole month inside! From festivals and markets to winter sports, there are plenty of outdoor activities that will refresh you and get you in a festive mood.
Dec. 16: Play a game as a family
Games might feel like an unconventional way to get in the Christmas spirit, but they're an easy way to unplug and live in the moment. Things start to get pretty hectic in the middle of the month, so set aside a few hours to unwind.
Dec. 17: Tour your neighborhood's Christmas lights
Hop in your car (or stroll around the block) and see if you can find the wildest, wackiest Christmas lights near you. For even more Christmas lights craziness, check out The Great Christmas Light Fight at 8 p.m. on ABC.
RELATED: Holiday decorating do's and don'ts from The Great Christmas Light Fight
Dec. 18: Perform a random act of kindness
What's a better way to embody the holiday than to spread a little Christmas magic for someone else? Here are some ideas to get you started.
Dec. 19: See a movie as a family
December is one of the most exciting times of the year for the box office, especially for families. One of this season's biggest family flicks, Mary Poppins Returns, is out Dec. 19.
Dec. 20: Make plans for after the holidays
Whether it's something as epic as a bucket-list vacation or something as simple as dinner plans with a friend you haven't seen in a while, schedule something for 2019. Having something to look forward to will lessen the post-holidays blues.
Dec. 21: Be there with bells on for Ugly Christmas Sweater Day
Once just for your quirky aunt, ugly Christmas Sweaters are now a trendy art form with their own special day. This year, that day is Dec. 21.
RELATED: What you should know to pick out the perfect ugly Christmas sweater
Dec. 22: Learn to make one of your family's traditional recipes
Learning to make mom's casserole is a rite of passage, and she'll be honored you want to learn the ropes. Or if you want to see if you can find a new favorite family dish, check out our recipe page for inspiration.
Dec. 23: Document your favorite family traditions
Part of what makes the holidays so special are the traditions that are unique to your family, whether it's a funny game to open presents, an annual light-hearted prank or a ritual that makes sense to no one else. Take the time to interview each member of your family to ask what their favorite unique family tradition is. Write down their answers or record them speaking so you can look back at it someday.
RELATED: What you need to know about Festivus, the holiday for the rest of us
Dec. 24: Track Santa's journey with the NORAD Santa tracker
Tracking Santa's movements is not just for kids! With the NORAD Santa tracker, you can watch as Christmas arrives arounds the world.
Dec. 25: Savor the day -- you've earned it!

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Baking for Brunches
June 29, 2019 | 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
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Rather than standing in line at a crowded restaurant, invite your friends over for brunch! This class will teach you a selection of great sweet and savory brunch dishes that will impress your guests and make your kitchen the next new brunch meet up spot! As you enjoy the dishes, we will serve brunch's favorite accompaniment – mimosas!
- Quiche Lorraine
- Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Biscuits and sausage with gravy
- Apple strudel
- Cranberry scones
- Coffee cake
- Clafouti
* Patrons must be 21 years of age to consume alcohol.Ticket Price: $65.00


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We invite you to Family Resource Day 11am-4pm on Saturday, March 28, 2015. We will start with an open house and tour of Asian Health Services Youth Program (AHSYP), AYPAL: Building API Community Power, Banteay Srei, and The Spot Youth Center at 299 13th Street, Oakland 94606 from 11am – 12:30pm. Following the tour, parents will be able to learn about community services, including housing, employment, mental and behavior health care, and more at the resource fair located at Family Bridge's Club House two blocks away from 1-4pm. This event is open to the public! Snacks and refreshments will be provided and all ages are welcome!
Family Resource Day aims to:
+ Create a positive and safe inter-generational space for our youth and families;
+ Connect Oakland parents and families to resources in their community;
+ Engage parents to learn about Asian Health Services Youth Program, AYPAL, Banteay Srei and The Spot Youth Center.


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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
So yesterday I whipped up a new logo... and just completely redid my blog... again. Check it out and let me know what you think!!
CLICK HERE :) It's so much more me than the drab gray, black, and yellow flowers, right?!
As always, a huge thank you to Kim Franklin for the HTML magic!
And if you haven't entered my Birthday Banner/Button Bash yet, get on it! It ends this weekend!
AND I see that I'm getting dangerously close to 300 followers! And this makes me smile even more! What would you like to see me do to celebrate?? (I'm meeting Rachel Hawkins this Friday--any interest in a signed copy of Hex Hall or Demonglass??)
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Very pretty blogs! I like what you've done here and I love the pink and white on the other. The photographs are also gorgeous.ReplyDelete
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Why yes, yes I would love an autographed copy of Hex Hall AND Demonglass!ReplyDelete
And you know I love the pink!
I really like the layout, though I also really loved the gray/yellow combo.ReplyDelete
And of COURSE we would like a copy of Hex Hall or Demonglass!!! Did you even have to ask? ;)
I love the new layout! It looks great!ReplyDelete
SO close to three hundred!!
Yes please :) to a signed copy! They're on my list of MUST reads this year. LOVE the new layout.ReplyDelete
I LOVE LOVE your photography site! The banner is too cute -- I'm a sucker for polka dots. They add playfulness to your banner, just beautiful! Off to check out your birthday bash :)ReplyDelete


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Charlestown Wharf – Nassau, Bahamas
Dave Jenkins of Energy Smart Home Plans was asked by friend and colleague, architect Andrew Stirling of Plan It Bahamas – Architects & Designers, to create the conceptual design for Charlestown Wharf, an exciting mixed-use development in Nassau, Bahamas.
This hi-profile project is adjacent to the cruise ship harbourage, meant to be a world-class tourist destination. Its also not far from Atlantis Resort which is already a sweet spot for tourism.
Charlestown Wharf will ultimately include a boutique hotel, restaurants, retail, office space and deep-water mooring/dockage that surrounds its own 200+ car parking garage. The unique waterfront setting has been designed to be reminiscent of Pier 39 in San Francisco with a playful but upscale "Rosemary Beach" Style twist on Bahamian architecture.
Charlestown Wharf a world-class destination.
The ambitious (and fun) project begins a twenty-year revitalization program that will ultimately connect 5 miles of a waterfront board-walk. Currently efforts are ongoing to obtain more land surrounding the existing project. More space means more ideas to develop! More tourism is good for everybody.
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John Calvin Quotes
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.John Calvin
If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.John Calvin
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.John Calvin
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.John Calvin
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.John Calvin
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.John Calvin
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.John Calvin
We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.John Calvin
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.John Calvin
We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.John Calvin
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.John Calvin
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.John Calvin
Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.John Calvin
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- Profession: Theologian
- Birthdate: July 10, 1509
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Order Out of Chaos
Find out about some of the public institutions established by the British authorities to transform "Sin-galore" (a 1920s nickname for Singapore when murder and mayhem ruled the country) into a clean and orderly Singapore and to protect the people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Monuments covered: Central Fire Station, Former Hill Street Police Station and Former Ministry of Labour Building (now Family Justice Courts)
Starting point: Opposite Central Fire Station (Sidewalk Coffee Shop at Excelsior building level 1)
Ending point: Family Justice Courts
- Participants should arrive at the starting point 15 minutes prior to the tour starting time.
- Please present your electronic or printed ticket(s) in order to join this tour. Walk-in registrations will not be entertained.
- In the unlikely event where you cannot locate the tour group or guide by the starting time, please have your phone on standby for the tour guide to contact you for further instructions.
- By agreeing to join the tour, each participant shall be responsible for any injury, loss of damage due to carelessness of other actions on his/her part or that of children under his/her charge.
- The tour will start on time and participants who are late may not be able to get on the tour.
- "Student" refers to any student currently enrolled in locally-based institutions.
- "Senior citizen" refers to any person whose age is 60 years and above.
- Random checks on concession tickets will be conducted at the point of entry. Please bring along a proof of eligibility for the discounted tickets.
- It is compulsory for a parent/guardian to accompany any child of or under the age of 12.
- We do not accept cash payment.
- No refund/exchange of tickets is allowed under any circumstance except for tour cancellation.
Tour Cancellation:
- The tour will proceed in the event of wet weather and participants are advised to each prepare an umbrella or a raincoat in case.
- The tour may be partly or totally cancelled due to inclement weather (e.g. - unhealthy haze conditions, thunderstorms) or due to other unforeseen circumstances affecting the tour.
- In the event of tour cancellation, participants will be informed via email (a few days before the tour) and SMS (2 hours before the tour)
- Participants will receive full refund in case of tour cancellation via Peatix.
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- Civic District
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- 5 Coleman Street, 179805 Singapore
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
What Sucks…Quick Hits: Amy Winehouse, Denise Richards, Fred Thompson, People Who Say "Excuse My French" When They Curse
…Amy Winehouse
Smoking crack on film? Come on Winehouse, leave a little mystery! Seriously, is there a drug this girl does that I haven't seen her do on film? Her next video take place in a meth lab? And by the way, forget all that stuff you heard about crack-heads looking like zombies, this chick proves you can smoke crack and still look good!*
*denotes: no she doesn't.
…The Judge Who Let Denise Richards Use Her Kids In A Reality Show
What a no-win situation. What else was on his docket, The People V. A Tree Falling Down In A Forest With No One Around To Hear It? King Solomon would excuse himself from this case. Let's see, let these kids be put on a reality show with their mom Denise Richards, or have them go live with Charlie Sheen. Shit at least with the reality show there'll be a filmed record of who is fucking those kids up. Any way you look at it this is a major set back for Charlie Sheen and hookers who like to be around little kids.
…Fred Thompson
That's it? You're out? I honestly thought I'd have more time to mock you. Come on, like after a debate I wanted to say- "People compared you to Reagan? Really? Was it late 1990's Reagan?" That would have been a good zinger.
…People Who Use Foul Language And Then Say "Excuse my French"
Dude, if your French is so bad it sounds like "mother fucker", I'd prefer it if you would stick to English!
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Lead or assist in leading a LIFE Group (grade and gender specific) of students every week; August - May. These weekly small groups consist of 6-12 students, who are challenged to build relationships, wrestle with biblical truth, and pray for one another. A required four-week training led by a student minister is offered once a semester on Sunday evenings. Background check required.
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And Then There's This News Item.../
From the Arkansas Democrat, 9 Feb 1892:
"A herd of 365 cattle passed through the streets of Bentonville Wednesday. They were being driven from the eastern part of the county to the Indian Territory."
Can you imagine 365 head of cattle passing through Bentonville today? They would almost cause as much problem with traffic as shutting down every street across town has in 2017.


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Students from UE
PPL(A) – Training lasts from 2 to 6 months depending on the availability of the candidate
If you want to join the training, nothing could be easier. All you need is:
- ID card / EU passport
- Minimum Class 2 medical certificate, issued in accordance with the requirements of PART-MED before the practical training starts
CPL(A): - Training lasts from one month to three months, depending on the selected additional ratings.
In this case, you must also have:
- PPL(A) license
- 150 hours of total flight time
- finished theoretical training and all of the theoretical ATPL(A) exams passed
- 18 years of age
- at least secondary education diploma
- first class medical certificate
Before the practical exam:
- 200 total flight hours
- 100 hours as pilot in command (PIC)


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28 January 2012
But Ham protested unto Noah
Three African-American young people came and sat down in the pew in front of mine, next to an aged woman and two bored children. The woman looked uneasily, disdainfully at the late-comers.
My colleague next to me asked me a question and I was whispering something to him. It was during the offertory and people do briefly converse during this time. The old lady in front of us turned around, looked irately at me and cantankerously huffed in my ear as I leaned in, "I've trained these children for years to be quiet in church and YOU'RE NOT SUPPORTING."
And I said, "Sister, if you've been teaching these children for years to be quiet in church, you should've been teaching them to love Jesus. And I'm not sure if you're even capable of that." (Ok that's what I was thinking. I kept my mouth shut.)
14 January 2012
On doctrine and covenants
"When I started to preach at twenty-five years of age, I held to one hundred doctrines; at thirty-five, I had fifty; at fifty, only twenty-five; later on, there were but ten; and now as I am facing eternity I hold only this one: I am a great sinner, but Jesus is a great Savior."
Thomas D. Talmage
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< Whitecliffe Photo Media Student Yann-Ru Yang is the Overall Winner at 2016 Eden Arts Art Schools Award | Whitecliffe MFA Graduate wins Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Award >
In Memoriam: Lily Simpson
Beloved Year 3 Fashion Design student Lily Simpson passed away peacefully after a short illness on 19 June 2016. She was 30 years old.
Students, staff and faculty at Whitecliffe are grateful to have had Lily as part of their lives. On Friday, July 22 we celebrated Lily's life with a luncheon and the sharing of special memories of her time with us.
The Fashion Design Faculty had this to say about their talented and spirited student, "Lily will always be remembered for her vivaciousness, beautiful smile, strong spirit and distinctive head wear. She was kind and helpful to her fellow students, inspirational to many, and always happy to share her knowledge. Lily was a deep thinker, with a passionate interest in sustainable practices and very sensitive to her own heritage. She was a courageous to the end."
Year 3 Fashion Design student Sheena Taivairanga sent this beautiful message describing her friendship with Lily to her celebratory service in Christchurch. An excerpt, "Lily was an amazing person, feisty, cool, loyal and very creative. She had an infectious smile and her presence was always known when entering a room. If you didn't know her, well trust me, when I say you would have by the end of the semester, lecture, class and workshop week. To some of us at Whitecliffe, she was our friend. The girl with the beanie or contrasting coloured outfits who walked around campus, proud, loud and always stopping to say hi to people she knew. Without a doubt, our fashion studio will never be the same again. Our lectures and theory classes will never be the same again. You will be tremendously missed but never, never forgotten. Thank you for sharing all of your real self with us. Rest in love, Aroa Atupaka."
Certificate Coordinator, Lynnemaree Patterson, had the privilege, on behalf of Whitecliffe, to attend the celebration of Lily's life in her home town of Christchurch. Lynnemaree says "Lily has a very large and wonderful family and she was surrounded by their love". The day was a tribute to the full and colourful life Lily led. There was much singing, some breaking (dance), tears and laughter.
Lily will always be fondly remembered for her strong sense of environmental awareness and social justice, her respect for family and culture, her humour, her enquiring mind and generous spirit, and of course the woman with the beautiful smile.


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"a, a, a, a, a, a, a, b, b, b, b,…"
This is not fair! All of my 3rd grade classmates are spending free time talking, playing games, and in general, having fun. I am stuck at the bulletin board writing the alphabet over and over and over. Why is my handwriting such a big deal? Why doesn't my teacher like me?
Weeks later, the same teacher informs me that I will be co-hosting the 3rd grade talent show. I am not happy about this. It means more work and speaking in front of a gymnasium full of students and families. She pulls me aside and says, "You can do this. You will have to work hard and put your mind to it. But I know you can do it." Easy for her to say, she isn't the one who has to stand on stage. I don't understand why she keeps picking on me!
It took me several grade levels to mature enough and realize that this teacher was not picking on me at all. On the contrary, she saw something in me that I had not yet. She saw my potential to not just get by, but rather to excel. She taught me that I had to push myself to be better. Things may not come easy in life, but if I worked hard, practiced and put my mind to it, I could surpass my expectations.
My 3rd grade teacher did not care to be my favorite teacher, instead she wanted me to be the best student I could be. That made her a GREAT teacher.


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GTX Series - Standard (Open transition) IEC certified
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• Time Delay Engine Cool Down - 5 minutes (U)
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• Diagnostic LED indications in logical one-line configuration All time delays are fixed.
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Leader of the Pack – Noa's Temple Beth Shalom Needham Bat Mitzvah
I was able to photograph Noa for her bat mitzvah on April 8th at Temple Beth Shalom followed by a raging party at Venu Night Club Boston.
I knew from the start that Noa is the mayor of her posse. Wanna know how I figured that out? Before her practice session, Noa's mom called me up to say, "Noa wants to know how many friends she should invite for her practice session."
"How many did she have in mind?" I asked.
"She wanted me to ask you how many is good," her mom replied.
Then, thinking that Noa would invite maybe three or four people, I assured her, "As many as she wants is fine."
Fast forward to a snowy winter afternoon when I was supposed to meet up with Noa and her friends. I opened the door to find 17 girls ready to go! They were all dressed in pastel sweaters and faded jeans—without even planning their wardrobe ahead of time—and every single one of them ADORED Noa. Of course, I told all of her friends that they were only the "backup dancers" and that Noa was the star. They all got it, and I simply couldn't believe what an amazing group of friends she had.
On the day of the actual bat mitzvah, my second shooter, Vanessa Walsh, and I headed to Temple Beth Shalom in the morning before the service. We weren't allowed to shoot the actual service, so I asked Noa to practice with the rabbi and the cantor. Then I spent the rest of the time being a photo ninja while she got ready with her family. Noa's parents were amazing for all of this; they had the best senses of humor and made the photos fun and carefree.
Later on, we met up again at the Revere Hotel in Boston to grab a few more photos before moving the party to Venu, where things really heated up. There was a red carpet setup for all the guests to take selfies and have their pictures taken by us as well. The cupcakes were off the charts, there was sushi for days, and the DJ had the kids dancing until I felt like I was in a mosh pit—just the way I like it.
Noa, you are just the greatest. I loved that you trusted me 100% to capture your day. It was a blast, for sure.
Temple Beth Shalom Needhamhttps://www.tbsneedham.org
Cupcakes - Georgetown cupcake
DJ - Party Excitement
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Markos Kounalakis
The feminist was a spook
Gloria Steinem's new book, "My Life on the Road," recounts her life's journeys and travels. Early reviews and profiles reveal incredible detail of Steinem's barrier-breaking feminist role, liberalism, romances and style.
What is often missed, or mischaracterized, is the work she did as a CIA agent: Steinem was a spook.
CIA agents are tight-lipped, but Steinem spoke openly about her relationship to The Agency in the 1950s and '60s after a magazine revealed her employment by a CIA front organization, the Independent Research Service.
While popularly pilloried because of her paymaster, Steinem defended the CIA relationship, saying: "In my experience, The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable."
Less cloak and dagger and more a young, energetic, global representative for American values and freedom, Steinem leveraged her underwriting to attend international youth festivals organized and otherwise ideologically dominated by America's adversaries.
Long before the formalized concept of soft power, Steinem personified and promoted abroad the vigor and progressive nature of the U.S. youth movement.
Strange as it may seem, Steinem's personal views and CIA goals aligned. Her brand of social revolution, promoted by American tax dollars, was meant to counter Soviet-sponsored revolutionary messaging. Public funds were intended to slow the Soviet scourge while showing America's alternative democratic face.
Drone-launched bombs carry a less subtle American message to today's targets. Given global challenges and threats, the CIA is put into a more difficult and militarized role than in the past. The Agency's overreach and mistakes have created vulnerability, exacerbated by publication of Edward Snowden's stolen files.
Perhaps Steinem's 1960s characterization of a "liberal, nonviolent and honorable" CIA was idealistic and self-serving, but there is no question that today's agency is still necessary and wildly different. The 6,700-page U.S. Senate torture report is a good place to start when seeking to understand how different.
Agency problems do not end with enhanced interrogation techniques and spying on Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Intelligence Committee's computers, or former CIA Director David Petraeus' personal mistakes.
Heaped on to all the evidence of misdeeds are popular entertainment programs like "Homeland," which reveal the moral complexity and actionable ambiguity of intelligence operations and analysis.
It is no wonder that the CIA has detractors at home and abroad. The public is keenly aware of CIA missteps. The CIA itself is also aware. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell recently apologized publicly for the WMD debacle, and last year CIA Director John Brennan told senators he was sorry.
It is easy to focus on failures and forget the dangers and drudgery of intelligence gathering, or to take time to celebrate the varied, but mostly secret victories of a service working hard to defend America.
It is rare for the public to see a dramatic success like "Operation Neptune Spear," the code name for the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
The world is in a dire period of instability and conflict. In this environment, America needs more credible, analytic, insightful, accessible, high-level and grass-roots deep intelligence.
The American public may prefer to criticize or ignore the CIA's work, but it is better served by understanding the labor and limits of intelligence.
Political leaders need to support intelligence activities but ensure they are checked. Mistakes will be made, and made worse by cover-ups or reactionary calls for excessive restraint.
Steinem chose honorable duty. She used her brilliance, access, clarity of thought and charm to work for the CIA.
She is celebrated for her achievements and deserves recognition for her service. Steinem doesn't regret her time as a spook, saying, "If I had a choice, I would do it again." Would today's CIA have a place for someone like Gloria Steinem?
Markos Kounalakis is a research fellow at Central European University and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Contact him at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter @KounalakisM. His most recent piece for The Bee, "U.N., underwater gas reserves help solve Cyprus split," appeared on Oct. 3.


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Non-Recourse Loans/
Non-Recourse Loans On Multifamily Properties and Commercial Real Estate
A non-recourse loan on a commercial or multifamily property is a loan that does not require the personal guarantee of the borrower(s). To put it simply this increases investors/lender risk and reduces risk/liability to borrower(s). In the event of loan default, whatever money the bank does not recuperate from the property may be sought out directly via the borrower and his personal assets to make the lender whole. CMBS loans for example are generally non-recourse financial instruments. Agencies such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and HUD all provide non-recourse multifamily financing as well.
In the case of non-recourse commercial loans, the lender's only means for recuperation of lost investment and yield in the event of a default is the property itself and the income the property generates. This is obviously advantageous to borrowers because, who wouldn't want less risk and exposure? Conversely non-recourse loans carry higher risks to lenders and investors. Because of this, the commercial lenders often require certain property types, and classes, in specific markets. More specifically than that, lenders are really looking to reduce leverage and increase DSCR (debt service coverage ratios).
Furthermore, non-recourse commercial mortgage loans are generally only available to borrowers that are very strong financially, because in those cases, a default is of course less likely as the borrower has the financial means to ensure the property's income is used for the property. Lenders will also require a very experienced borrower for making a non-recourse loan.
To sum things up, non-recourse loans are harder to get, but are very much the norm in the market of commercial loans over $2 - $10 million. There is one caveat, or carve-out may be a better word. Most non-recourse loans come with bad-boy carve-outs, which provide the lender full recourse in the event a borrower is negligent or does anything fraudulent. These carve-outs can convert a non-recourse mortgage loan to a full-recourse loan in a moment's time.
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A mix that dips and weaves, rises and falls is the name of the game of this week's Steyoyoke Radioshow. Berlin based Stefan Biniak steps up with an accomplished mix that features tracks from the likes of Oliver Huntemann, Sable Sheep and the latest release from Steyoyoke homegrown talent Dahu. Enjoy!
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Hello Somewhat Simple readers! Happy Tuesday! Today I'm going to share with you a really simple, and inexpensive, way to make your very own all natural air freshener.
I recently had a reader email me and ask me if there were alternative ways to use baking soda as an odor remover. We all know you can purchase a box of baking soda and leave it in the refrigerator but when it comes to freshening up other rooms in the house she thought there should be a better solution then just sitting a box of baking soda in the room. Guess what, she was right, there is a better way!
This is honestly something I'd never really thought of before {which is why I love getting questions from my readers}. I was really excited about the solution I came up with for her! Baking soda air freshener! Because we are using baking soda it is also a great odor eliminator, so it's basically like a natural version of Febreeze.
Homemade Baking Soda Air Freshener
Empty spray bottle
1 TBS Baking soda
2-3 drops of your favorite essential oil {optional}
Step 1
Pour the baking soda into a small dish and add the drops of essential oils. Mix well with a spoon. This is an important step because the oil and water will not mix. You must mix the oil with the baking soda first.
Step 2
Pour baking soda into the empty spray bottle and fill it to the top with water. Shake well to mix the baking soda and water.
Now you have a delicious smelling odor eliminator that you can use to freshen up every room in your house! I like to use mine to freshen up the bathrooms but you can also use it to eliminate odors from carpets, couches, shoes, closets, dog beds, the options are endless!!!
The best part about this air freshener is that it's very inexpensive to make and you switch out the oils you use for each season! I am currently using cinnamon, vanilla and cloves for the Christmas season {it smells amazing!}.
What scents will you start with?


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1A Truck 'N Auto Repair LLC
We are a heavy equipment, commercial truck and pass. car Maine State Inspection Station and Repair shop. With 6 bays we do most gen. repair.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Other
- Location Frankfort, ME, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded July 2012
- Employees 4
Company Summary
We have 6 Commercial sized repair bays to fit Commercial Trucks & Heavy Construction Equipment for repair, service & state inspections as needed. We also preform the same for passenger automobiles. We are located 15 miles outside of Bangor and offer much better repair rates so our customers come from the mid coastal Maine area. We are located on a very busy highway in a well populated, under serviced area.
Stephen J. RocheMr
Owner with experience running Roche Enterprises a gravel pit operation.
Gerald F. DoironMr
Office Manager and Accountant with 25 yrs experience
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Lovelies, just wanted to drop by quickly to wish you all an amazing International Women's Day. I am lucky to have so many strong, independent women, amazing women from all walks of life, in my life. It is a day of celebration for the future and what there is still to achieve for the generations… Continue reading From me to you, Happy International Women's Day!
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VayCay in the Hometown
I am recently back from a visit to the beloved island and hometown of Liverpool-actually the family home is a short train ride outside of Liverpool in the greener West Lancs suburbs but we are a Liverpool family born and bred even if we have moved farther afield, a whole different country in my case.… Continue reading VayCay in the Hometown
Fashion & Design Pop-Up: Quartier Moderne
Why hello there little neglected space. It's been a long time coming I know but the busyness of the business has kept me on my toes and away from the keyboard! Over the next week I hope to get up to date and let you know all about the behind the scenes shenanigans… Continue reading Fashion & Design Pop-Up: Quartier Moderne
Hello Hello!
Well it's about time I got round to starting this blog! For some time now I have wanted a home for all things 'The House of chickaDee'. A roof for our various shops, pages and social media shenanigans updates, so that you can find everything easily without having to hop from one site to another… Continue reading Hello Hello!


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Total Tone Shark Tank Pills: Does Total Tone Diet Pills Work?
Get rid of obese body fat by tuning Total Tone diet
Total Tone Diet Review
There is a vital cause why obese people fail on weight loss grounds to achieve slim physique. Overweight and obese lifestyle often related to several health concerns resulting in weight loss process. Total Tone is a safe and controlled fat lowering supplement enriched with energizing vitals to support the health needs of our body. There is no doubt that obese people will face health problems much sooner than healthy people. That's the primary reason obesity and overweight problems are considered bad for a healthy lifestyle. There are two types of people engaging in a weight loss process.
One who seeks an only temporary solution of obese lifestyle by taking fat burners, dietary pills to lower their appetite to maintain their energy imbalance.
Two people who want permanent solutions and ready to take weight loss as their primary goal to achieve the fittest physique.
It's true people with high dietary cravings and low energy out eventually disturbs their metabolism in a negative manner. So diet and metabolism are interconnected with each other. Most of the weight loss supplements only target around the visible stubborn body fat which makes you look bad and instantly try to trim down as fat as possible. But total tone introduces dietary fixation with the fat inhibiting process to lower the obesity levels in the body. It's true losing fat is not a big deal if you just seek to look slim but being healthy to live longer is intentionally a drastic change in lifestyle, diet and living choices. Most of the obese people simply fail to understand a simple fact about weight management which is " Obesity is not just limited to excessive body weight gaining" After going through much of fit and active lifestyle I will start my review about this weight loss supplement.
How excess body weight affects your health?
This is the most common question asked of every obese person during the weight loss process. But the bigger concern is here is not just identifying the health problems related to obese physique but also providing the right solution to deal with such problems. Most of the obese people simply neglect the fact which results in several health problems. To achieve real fitness in life you really need to understand the primary health concerns related to obesity and overweight issues. Excess pounds do more than just increasing your body weight as it simply invites several death causing health problems unintentionally. You will face 50 different types of serious health illness if you don't take your physical condition seriously. This is an alarming state for all those mid-aged people who still got time to be slim and healthy for the best of themselves. Some of the serious illness are mentioned below:
- Gastrointestinal diseases
- Increase in blood sugar level
- Poor vasodilation process
- Heat problems
- Increase in body fat problems
- Arthritis & lower back pain
- Type 2 Diabetes
- High blood pressure
These are the possible outcomes of not taking your obese physique seriously. So what's the right way of treating such chronic illness in the best natural way possible? I think I do have a positive solution here.
Define Total Tone Shark Tank Diet Pills?
Total Tone shark tank diet pills is a dietary solution that puts your workout effort under right management to show positive hands towards active weight loss results. Getting rid of obese lifestyle is what the most struggling part of any weight loss programs but there's hardly any dietary essentials introduced to lower fat production. Apart from the ketogenic diet people could hardly find any suitable options available in the market. On the best terms this weight loss solution targets three basic things related to obesity which are mentioned below:
- Dietary habits
- Metabolic syndrome
- Fat production
These are most engaging weight management system in any physique. If your body is getting fat or facing obese issues then one of these would be disturbed due to bad dietary habits. One of our biggest concern is to make the immune system stronger and relying on our supplement because when our body under yes to any weight loss process then it becomes really hard to keep track of dietary changes and transformation effects on the body. But all thanks to its vital ingredients which are perfectly blended with composite herbal compounds to deliver best results without any outbreaks.
Highlights of Total Tone Shark Tank Diet
In the weight loss process, most of the obese people are concerned about their health benefits which they would receive after losing a sufficient amount of body fat. But the road to weight loss is long and full of sacrifices which they have to make to achieve a fit lifestyle. I will tell you no lie weight loss is a struggle to achieve the fittest lifestyle by compromising on a daily diet, pushing your daily workout limits and meeting the ultimate goal of appetite suppressant. But the safety and surety to achieve proper results from any weight loss supplement is a promising bond to any user. So the makers of this supplement essentially take a good hand in picking up herbal nutrients and compounds to facilitate weight loss process.
- Induces fat lowering enzymes
- Introduces serotonin boost
- Reduces vasoconstriction
- Facilitates with proper blood circulation
- Controls cholesterol & vital nutrients
The most important feature of this product is that it should be controlled and should be left behind when you have achieved your weight loss goals in a natural manner because continuing to such path of weight management will simply destroy body's ECS(EndoCannabinoid System) which maintains the balance between our physical and mental levels.
Potential Ingredients of Total Tone Diet Pills
To bring natural changes and fixing dietary disturbance body needs a natural solution rather than running on synthetic methods. So by understanding the primary requirements of weight loss, the designers of this product decided to facilitate the users with the most acceptable herbal compounds ready to make the daily workout more promising and equivalent on natural grounds. This is a simple weight management supplement that expanded it's arty of benefits from weight loss to dietary changes for good. The best ingredients are mentioned below with their respective jobs:
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Relive Hurricane Katrina through the eyes of 10 people on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Editor's note: This story originally published in August 2015.
A mother. A daughter. A son. A police officer. An activist. A firefighter. A restaurateur. A coroner. A schooner captain. A bed and breakfast owner.
10 people. 10 stories. 10 perspectives.
Journalists the from Sun Herald and McClatchy present 10 stories 10 years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
These people were here on August 29, 2005. These are there stories.
Waveland: 'It still hurts. It will always hurt.'
As Katrina bore down on Waveland, Susie Meeks DeStefano spoke to her mother by phone one last time, trying to convince her to evacuate from the five-bedroom home where DeStefano grew up in with her family -- just four houses away from the Bay of St. Louis. Patricia Meeks told her daughter she was going to a friend's house, but she instead stayed at home with her beloved pets in the 100 block of Whispering Pines.
"She was going to try to leave and the phone cut off, and that was the last time that we spoke to her," DeStefano said.
The night before Katrina hit, when the rest of her family decided to go to Stennis, they went to retrieve Meeks but she said she would stay with her friend if the storm got bad. After sandbags were placed around the house and everybody left, DeStefano said she had a feeling it would be the last time she saw her mother.
Once the storm had passed and left miles of destruction in its wake, DeStefano left the shelter as soon as she could to look for her mother. It took her three days to get within walking distance of her childhood homestead.
There were no roads, no stoplights and no street signs. The path to her driveway was covered with trash and debris, and it took DeStefano and her family six hours to walk two blocks.
"It was like walking through a garbage dump," she said. "We were really trying not to think. When we did think, it was just hoping to God my mother got out."
But DeStefano said she knew in her gut that her mother wouldn't leave the home that was custom designed for their family's needs decades earlier. Meeks was a collector who had one room full of Tupperware and a space she kept locked that was full of computers. Once everyone left home, she also made one wing a farm area for a pet pig, who along with the German shepherd that lived with her.
When they finally got to the lot where their home once sat, DeStefano and her sister, Diane Capo, found the red kitchen sink among the rubble. They smelled decay three separate times, but held out hope their mother was alive because they couldn't find her vehicle.
Nine weeks later, Patricia Meeks' remains were found and identified her through DNA. The family wasn't allowed to view the body.
DeStefano said she often thinks that she should have handcuffed Meeks to her side.
"There's not a day that goes by that we don't think about what happened," she said. "It still hurts. It will always hurt."
DeStefano said her mother always wanted her to take art classes. Since Meeks' passing, she began taking painting lessons and said she paints at least once a week.
"I always think of my mother when I paint," she said.
Waveland: For a police chief, 'stuff is stuff'
Katrina's winds started flexing the Police Department's roof at 2 a.m., Aug. 29, 2005, but the officers and dispatchers inside voted to stay rather than risk leaving.
The building on U.S. 90 was miles from the Mississippi Sound. Still, water rose around the building until those inside realized they needed to get out. When they broke a window and pushed away the boards protecting it, 4 feet of water rushed in. They held hands as they waded, single file, outside.
David Allen, a patrolmen then and police chief today, recalls 27 officers and dispatchers were there when the storm hit. Some wound up on the roof, some atop a tool box in the back of a truck and others, including Allen, in a tree with branches that spread from the base.
Allen watched his vehicle float away. Debris cut them. Gasoline from vehicles filled the water and stung their cuts. Roofs, trees, animals -- everything imaginable -- floated by.
Allen thought about his house south of the highway. He thought about his girlfriend and her two children. They had moved in together three months earlier.
"I remember making a pact with God and saying, 'If I get out of this, I'm going to ask Brooke to marry me," Allen said.
When the water subsided, the officers and dispatchers clambered to the ground and started walking.
They had no equipment, no vehicles, but they were problem solvers. They found a way. At first, Allen said, he caught a ride to Walmart to stop looting. Soon enough, they patrolled the streets in Dodge Rams commandeered from a dealership on the highway.
Allen's girlfriend thought he was dead. She broke down in tears when he reached the family in Oklahoma about six days later. Relief had poured in, so Allen made his way to Oklahoma the next day. Dirty, unshaven and scraped up, Allen proposed when he arrived:
"I said to her, 'I don't have a ring, As a matter of fact, I don't have anything anymore, but will you marry me?'"
David and Brooke Allen married Dec. 31, 2005, in the trailer that was serving as the Police Department. The Police Department still operates out of a trailer today because there are problems with the new building. But Allen doesn't sweat the small stuff like he did before Katrina.
"If right now my house was to burn down and I lost everything," Allen said, "you know what? My kids are OK. My wife's OK. Stuff is stuff. We've lost all of our stuff once already.
"So, for me personally, it put a different perspective on things."
Biloxi: 'I love you, Mama'
Mother and son had fought before Hurricane Katrina crashed ashore.
It was one of those silly fights that would have passed as inconsequential except, later, Elizabeth Duvall called her 19-year-old son, Dustin, to make sure he was evacuating. She got no answer.
The day after Katrina, Elizabeth Duvall and her husband, Leon, made their way to East Biloxi, where both grew up. Coming over the bridge, she smelled raw sewage and death.
She pictured Dustin's body in the water. She feared they would never find his remains.
The Duvalls surveyed what was left of their beloved Point, as the community is called. Rubble, piles and piles of rubble. She searched, calling her son's nickname.
And then she saw his bedraggled blond head. Dustin had spent the night in Gulfport. He, too, feared his family was gone.
A body was the first thing he saw when he went to search for his family on the Point, where Back Bay and the Mississippi Sound converged during Katrina.
Dustin heard his mother's voice. He ran to her. They locked in a hug captured by a Sun Herald photographer.
Their house and all their possessions were gone. But that was OK.
Since the storm, they talk every day. The married father of two never forgets to say, "I love you, Mama."
Harrison County: 'It is my responsibility to make sure everyone is identified'
Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove was determined to identify each person in his jurisdiction that Hurricane Katrina killed.
The count was 97 dead, three missing, in Harrison County and 56 dead in Hancock County, where he assisted the coroner's office.
"I owe an obligation to the public, as an elected official, to do everything I can not only to protect the public, but to protect the rights of the deceased and the family of that person," Hargrove said. "It is my responsibility to make sure that everyone is identified, that there is a cause of death and a manner of death.
"Now, I take it personal because I know if it was my family, I would want whoever was doing this job to do everything they could to get them identified and returned back to me so they could be put to rest in their final resting place."
Hargrove, Hancock County Coroner Norma Stiglet and a FEMA mortuary team managed to identify all but two bodies, both men who died in Harrison County. Hargrove arranged to have the men buried on Katrina's first anniversary beneath markers that identified them as Will and Strength.
His assistant, Joy Yates, said after the service: "It's always going to bother him that he had to bury them unidentified. Not a day will go by that Gary doesn't think of those two men."
Hargrove identified Will in May 2007 as James L. Blair, 78, of Pass Christian. The coroner still remembers Blair's address: One Hurricane Circle.
Hargrove had hoped Strength's tattoo would crack the mystery of his identify. It appeared to say, "Love Jones," but Hargrove was not sure because the 's' was incomplete. He searched many databases, hoping to find a missing man with the all-to-common name Jones and a tattoo.
The coroner talked on more than one occasion to a woman whose son was still missing. Once, she said the young man had no tattoos; another time, she said he had a bunch of them. Then the young man's half-sister called, saying their mother had passed away.
Her brother, she recalled, was trying to give himself a tattoo that said, "Love Jones," but their mother caught him and took away his tools before he finished the "s." Hargrove took DNA samples from the woman and her half brother's grandmother, sending them to a lab in Texas.
On March 19, 2009, Katrina's last victim in Harrison County was identified as 20-year-old Frank Jones of Gulfport. His body had been found in a canal.
"That," Hargrove said, "was probably the best day of my life."
Gulfport: 'Where am I going to have this baby?'
In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, Lisa Robertson hoped to retrieve clothes and supplies for her unborn baby, toddler and teen-age stepdaughter.
The family returned to the Coast Aug. 31, 2005, from a hellish evacuation. Robertson wanted to regroup and leave again with the children, not realizing until they saw for themselves just how bad Katrina had been. Her then-husband, an emergency room physician in Biloxi, had to get to work.
"My very worst moment was when I crawled over 5 feet of debris, nine months pregnant, to get to my house," Robertson said. " . . . We walked through the door that was already open and saw the destruction. I mean, it was all around us, but when I walked through my personal living space, I just kind of fell apart."
And then the unthinkable happened.
"Honestly," Robertson said, "there was so much going on that I wasn't really thinking about the fact that I may go into labor while I was there."
" . . . When I realized I was going into labor, it happened so fast and I was so far along that there wasn't really time to think about anything except, 'Where am I going to have this baby?' "
She had meticulously planned the birth of Sofia Marble, from the baby's room to the epidural she would receive before delivery.
Instead, she and her husband drove from the home near the waterfront in Gulfport through debris and military checkpoints to get to a hospital. Garden Park north of Interstate 10 in Gulfport had flooded. They wound up at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport.
A midwife delivered her daughter. There was no pain medicine. The next morning, she had to check out.
She left newborn Sofia with her mother in her parents' relatively undamaged Long Beach house, then spent four hours gathering cash and supplies.
"The adrenaline and everything else that was going on, I didn't feel like I had just given birth," Robertson said. "I was fine." In hindsight, she realizes that she was "in survival mode."
As it turned out, Robertson never left. Her sister's power was restored, so the family spent more than a week in one bedroom, then found a duplex the owner was willing to rent because of their circumstances.
Sofia Marble celebrates her 10th birthday Sept. 1. Sofia has told friends about the circumstances surrounding her birth.
The little girl said, "They were so amazed that my mom was one of those survivors and that I lived."
Gulfport: 'We go stronger to overcome everything'
Mercedes Carranza, a native of Mexico, found his welcome in Gulfport, where he moved in 1995 with his wife, a Mississippi girl he met in Los Angeles. He is glad he left the long commutes and high cost of living in a big city for a community where he has time with his family and more friends than he can count.
The affable restaurateur managed El Maguey across from the beach, destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
After the storm, Hispanics poured into the community for construction work. Their nail guns pounded from sun up to sun down, seven days a week, as they re-roofed damaged houses.
"A lot of times, you would find them sleeping in trucks in parking lots because there were no rooms to rent and no places to stay," he said, "but they were able to help tremendously in rebuilding the community."
Workers came from Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua and Mexico. A friend, who owned a general store specializing in Hispanic food, brought on Carranza to help because of all the new business.
Carranza's volunteer work as an interpreter was more in demand than ever. He organized dinners where the newcomers sampled one another's cuisine, arranged dental and doctor's appointments and put workers in touch with the Department of Labor when unscrupulous contractors stiffed them on pay.
Two years ago, Carranza opened a new restaurant, El Agave, in downtown Gulfport.
"Katrina was an event that really changed my life," he said. "I started looking at things in a different way. We started focusing on what really mattered because we can have a Katrina moment at any time in our life.
"You know, when you think you have it all, when you think you're the healthiest person, it can hit you, something like that. You're never prepared for it. But if you focus on the right thing, which is the family and the people we love ... We grow stronger and we overcome everything."
Biloxi: 'A much greater need' in East Biloxi
As a child, Jackie Washington waded with her family through Hurricane Camille's storm surge in East Biloxi.
Washington found herself on the second floor of a two-story house in the same community during Hurricane Katrina, having waited too long to evacuate. She thought of the Bible story in which Jesus calms a raging sea. "Peace, be still," kept running through her mind.
The water lapped at the top step before it started to recede.
Biloxi looked like a war zone when the storm passed, but Washington reveled in the community spirit that gripped her city, where she is a fourth-generation resident.
"After the storm," she said, "it was destruction and death, and the smell of death in the air. When people came out, it was, to me, like turtles coming out of a shell. They were disillusioned, and everyone was happy to see someone alive, whether we knew you or not: the hugs, the kisses.
"The language barriers, the cultural barriers, the old feelings of racism died . . . "
Soon enough, though, federal dollars arrived and the old walls started going back up, Washington said.
Her neighbors, especially the elderly, had a hard time navigating the myriad avenues to assistance. She started a newsletter to keep the community informed about relief opportunities. She worked at a church-based food bank, delivering meals to the elderly.
"That's how I got through the aftermath of Katrina," said Washington, whose house was rebuilt over 18 months by non profits and volunteers. "I came out of self and saw that there was a much greater need."
Bay St. Louis: 'It's a tree of life, really'
Watching weather forecasts, Nikki Moon thought New Orleans would bear the brunt of Hurricane Katrina.
Her bed and breakfast, Bay Town Inn, was built 1890s strong. The former Demontluzin home overlooked the water on a bluff 24 feet above sea level.
But the Bay of St. Louis lapped at her front door that Monday morning. Her car was floating. Tidal surge shattered the Dock of the Bay restaurant and bar across the street. Debris pounded the house.
Moon and six friends retreated to the second floor. The surge soon mounted the staircase. The old inn collapsed under its force.
They launched one couple, two friends in their 80s, into the water on roofing material. Moon feared she would never see them again.
Moon, her Scottish terrier Maddy and two friends, Kevan Guillory and Doug Niolet, clambered from the water onto the branch of an ancient Live oak beside the house. The water carried away a second couple.
The three friends clung to the oak branch for hours, pounded by one wave after another.
"I really did think I was going to die," Moon said.
Once the water receded, they jumped from the tree. The two couples separated from them had also survived, they later learned. The oak tree fell victim to the cleanup, its roots smothered by debris.
Moon had the bald oak, angels carved into two branches, anchored into the ground on the waterfront. She can see it out her kitchen window at the rebuilt Bay Town Inn.
"It's a tree of life, really," Moon said, "And it's a tree of a town, I think, that is so strong. It survived so much and 10 years later is just amazing."
New York: 'These people were going through what we were going through — losing loved ones'
New York Fire Department Battalion Chief Joe Downey can still recall the destruction in South Mississippi. The casino in the middle of U.S. 90. A story of a man swept out to sea while clinging to his roof. The damage and destruction from the storm surge -- something he had never seen before.
New York Task Force One (NY-TF1), one of the 28 urban search and rescue teams nationwide, was deployed just one day after Katrina devastated much of the Gulf Coast. Its mission was to assist in the rescue and recovery efforts in Gulfport.
The activation was special, Downey recalls. It marked the team's first deployment since the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center when the team lost 37 of its elite members, including Downey's father, Deputy Chief Ray Downey.
"My dad had built the urban search and rescue system in the country, he was one of the godfathers of the FEMA system," Downey said. "Now I was task force leader for New York Task Force One and we had members of the FDNY going down there representing those guys that were killed during 9-11."
The newly rebuilt team traveled 36 hours to Gulfport from New York City, hoping to make an impact.
"It almost looked like a small bomb hit that area, where houses were knocked down, houses were swept away, houses were filled with mud up to second level," Downey said.
The team went to work soon after they arrived, surveying the sections they were assigned, hoping to make an impact on the community just like the country rallied around the FDNY following Sept. 11, according to Downey.
"We were overwhelmed with the support we got during 9/11," he said. "We had teams coming from all over the world to help us with our rescue, and we always felt we wanted to give back in some way."
Seeing the destruction became a difficult reminder of what they endured only four years prior to Katrina.
"These people (were) going through what we went through -- losing loved ones," Downey said. "To hear their stories was kind of difficult."
But the NY-TF1 carried out its mission to help Gulfport residents in whatever way possible.
"Whether it was putting tarps on the roof or crawling through a collapsed house looking for people or recovering someone's loved one ... it was done with dignity," Downey said. "Although the team made no excuses, they did whatever they could to make an impact."
"They were giving us support, which was heartwarming to us, offering us their water, and basically they had nothing left of their homes. They were giving us what they had."
Biloxi: 'We didn't have a Coast to dock them to'
At 85 years old, Capt. Ronald Riecter hasn't lost a step.
Riecter, found one morning sanding down the mast of the great schooner boat "Captain Mike," is a native of Michigan who found his true calling as a sailor in Biloxi, where he moved in 1985 with his wife. Not that the sailing in Lake Michigan isn't enjoyable, it's just that he loves that they sail year round on the Mississippi Coast.
Plus, the warm weather doesn't bother him as much as the cold up north did.
"Before the storm, we took the schooner boats up the river as far as we could and tied them up. They had minor scratches on them and were ready to go immediately after the storm," he said. "But the real problem we had was the fact that we didn't have a Coast to dock them to."
The seasoned sailor rode out the storm in his house in Biloxi. Though the water damage to his property was minimal, he ended up evacuating to his friend's place down his street, which was built on higher ground.
Despite that, he vows to stay behind if a similar threat came to be.
"It's easy to leave because it is tempting to get away from the chaos and the aftermath of the storm," he said. "But once you leave, they won't let you back in until the authorities deem it fit and under control. Meanwhile your property lies there, and there is nothing you can do about it."
His views on the storm are unorthodox.
"I like to think that the storm did a lot of good for the city of Biloxi," he said. "I mean for one thing, the rebuilding effort cleaned up all the shanty construction on the Coast. I will admit, though, that before the storm this stretch of the Coast was one of the few places in the U.S. where lower income people could live near the beach but with the insurance rates now, that is all gone."


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