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The Overlooked Nutrition in Banana Peels and Recipes to Try
When was the last time you ate a banana peel? If your answer is "never," we're not blaming you. Although it's been a common practice in Asian countries for centuries, eating a banana peel is a nutrition trend that has just made its way into western culture, and for good reason.
For starters, banana peels can contain more fiber than the flesh they house. Fiber can do many wonders for your skin as well as your digestive track, playing a crucial role in the cleansing of toxins from the body. A healthy dose of fiber also keeps you feeling full and can lead to lower cholesterol levels. Like the flesh of a banana, the peel is also a great source of potassium. But, unlike the flesh, the peel is low in calories and sugars.
If you're not sold yet, banana peels can also put you in a good mood. The peels contain tryptophan, an amino acid that can boost serotonin levels in your brain and body to make you feel happy. Consider reaching for a banana peel next time you need a pick-me-up!
September 11 is National Banana Day and we invite you to celebrate all month long with these nutritious recipes containing the less-consumed, nutrition-packed part of the banana – the peel.
1. Banana Peel Thoran
If you're feeling adventurous, this Indian dish is a great choice to explore banana peels with a bit of a kick. Featuring a spoonful of coconut oil, Banana Peel Thoran is also a treat for coconut lovers. But be warned, this one can get spicy.
2. Banana Peel Steamed Pork and Rice
Did you ever think that your leftover banana peels could make the perfect vehicle for another dish? Here's an example of a recipe that uses the banana peel to hold rice and pork. Really, though, the possibilities for banana peel fillings (sweet or savory!) are endless. Like with most banana peel recipes, make sure you steam or boil the banana peels during the process to soften them up and get rid of any bitterness.
3. Raw Banana Peel Upkari
Here's another delicious dish that puts the peel front and center. If you're a curry lover, this recipe is a good one to try as you dive into cooking with banana peels.
4. Other Ways to Incorporate Banana Peels
There are many easy ways to sneak a banana peel into your healthy diet. During your experimentation, keep in mind that green (raw) banana peels work best with savory dishes (think of them as green peppers) and yellow (mature) peels will work best when you're looking to taste a traditional banana flavor. Here's an easy way to start with the latter: try boiling a yellow peel for 10 minutes and blend it with your favorite smoothie. For maximum nutrition, try adding a scoop of Juice Plus+ Complete!
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Following on from our attendance at the London Roadshow in February, we will be attending a number of our NHS Client sites on the 26 March to promote NHS Sustainability Day.
Our teams will be enticing NHS professionals with thought provoking information, providing ideas on how to implement sustainability practices and provide actual information about the Trusts energy consumption.
The key message throughout the day is to remember all change starts with a single action, so why wait, start making those changes now!
Here are few ideas to get you started
- Switching off all non essential equipment in an office for one night saves enough energy to run a small car for 100 miles.
- It is a myth that turning down an air conditioning thermostat as low as it can go will cool a building more quickly, so set thermostats correctly and educate staff to use equipment properly.
- By optimising the air supply in one theatre alone, a Trust can save around £5,000 a year.
- Office lights left on overnight use enough energy in a year to heat a home for almost five months.
- A dripping hot water tap wastes energy and in one week, wastes enough hot water to fill half a bath.
Do feel proud of yourself, small changes can make a big impact on reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

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As co-organisers of a planned workshop entitled 'The "Artificial" and the "Natural" in the Life Sciences, c. 1850-1950', to be held at Byrne House at the University of Exeter, we are pleased to announce that registration for this event is open. The event will take place from Thursday 26th to Friday 27th June 2014. The event is generously supported by Egenis, the University's Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, the British Society for the History of Science and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Details of this are on the workshop website located at: http://exeter2014.wordpress.com
The conference programme (also available on the website) includes three plenary talks by the following invited speakers: Helen Curry (University of Cambridge), Jon Hodge (University of Leeds), and Joeri Witteveen (Universiteit Utrecht). There are multiple contributed papers including:
'Cellular Utopias: Protoplasm and Early Twentieth-Century Synthetic Biology' (Robert Brain)
'Thomas Hunt Morgan and the invisible genes: using the artificial to discover the natural' (Guilia Frezza and Mauro Capocci)
'Why 'Wild Type'? Historical Understandings of Nature, Species and Variation and the Field-Lab Threshold' (Tarquin Holmes)
'Women, science and technical subjectivity in Britain c.1860-1900′ (Tom Quick)
'Drawings, poetry, videos and embryology: from Haeckel to Garstang and beyond' (Simon Rundle, John Spicer, and Oliver Tills)
Additionally, there will be two forums, on the themes of 'Can experimental intervention be natural?' and 'Towards a philosophy of variation'.
Places at the event are limited, so if you wish to attend please register soon. The registration fee is £30 for the whole workshop, and the website to register at is here:
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Best CRO tips for improving website conversion rate
Implementing the best CRO tips which are specially customized to boost the conversion rate for a restaurant's website, build your customer loyalty and profit scale.
As an authentic website helps in converting impressions to leads, it is considered to be the most influencing tool for branding and communication.
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Use appealing visuals
*In a restaurant's website, images of the interiors, clicks of the dining arrangements, and the tempting visuals of best/special dishes from the restaurant are what helps in influentially attracting prospective customers to your establishment.
*Meanwhile, the web development service provider must be reminded to use high-resolution images, reduce the image/video sizes (to optimize loading speed), and use a relevant search title in the 'Alt text' while customizing the website.
Highlight the Major Information
*Featuring a restaurant's address, menu, timings, and contact details is the major purpose of having a website.
*As there is nothing more important than driving a potential customer from your website, don't irk the user on the website with a least optimized layout and misaligned information.
*List your call-to, contact-to, and mail-to info's at the right section of the website, making it easy for the customer to reach out to you.
*If possible, take an advanced step in featuring the major details available for customers in a more innovative/engaging form, be it with Google Map, Outlook, etc..,
Boast your Menu in the correct format
*Just because it's easy to display the menu in PDF format, most of the web designers go with it. But, PDF formats are neither SEO friendly nor of any SEO value to the site and neglecting this fact can cost a good business to the restaurant.
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Accept the Online Orders
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text: It's movie review day here at Glitter, Bliss, and Perfect Chaos. Today we're seeing the movie, The Expendables 2. This week my son, Connor, and his friends saw the premiere, so while I'm busy editing, I'm letting him do the review. Here's the trailer: The Verdict: I thought that this movie was ... READ the POST


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"The Pigeon King soars…a great experience that shouldn't be missed." North Huron Citizen
- Written by Rebecca Auerbach, Jason Chesworth, Gil Garratt, George Meanwell, J.D. Nicholsen, Gemma James Smith, Birgitte Solem and Severn Thompson
- Director Severn Thompson
NAC English Theatre Presentation
A Blyth Festival (Blyth, ON) Production
In one of the wildest frauds in Canadian history, farmer Arlan Galbraith built a bird-breeding empire called Pigeon King International, using investments from hundreds of his nearly insolvent neighbours. For seven years, he offered a lifeline of financial hope to people whose luck had nearly run out. But was he really a scheming con man? Or a hapless victim of his own preposterous dream?
The Pigeon King tells Galbraith's incredible story, and reminds us that even well-meaning lies eventually come home to roost.
Performance is approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes including intermission


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Sean Hughes brings Penguins to Hertford
PUBLISHED: 16:40 02 February 2014 | UPDATED: 16:40 02 February 2014
Comedian Sean Hughes is set to bring his Penguins show to Hertford.
Penguins are not normally spotted in Hertfordshire.
But comedian Sean Hughes will be bringing his new show, Penguins, to Hertford Theatre later this month.
The award-winning master of storytelling and stand-up will be appearing at The Wash venue on Saturday, February 15 at 8pm.
Following a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, the former Never Mind The Buzzcocks team captain is back on the road.
Sean, who has also appeared in Coronation Street and Alan Parker film The Commitments, is at his honest and hilarious best in Penguins, a poignant and moving theatrical comedy piece, which was named Best Comedy Show at the Herald Angels Awards 2013.
It is packed full of surprises, hidden twists and recurring themes as Sean takes us back to his Dublin upbringing, exploring the utter awkwardness of teenage life, weaving in his family, his school days, the business of friendship and tying it all in to the present.
Penguins is a multi-layered comedy show that asks what shapes a man's life.
But what does it have to do with penguins? You will have to pop along to find out.
Tickets for Sean Hughes: Penguins at Hertford Theatre cost £15.
Call the box office on 01992 531500 or visit www.hertfordtheatre.com
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It's boring. It's painful.
It's something every sales rep dreads.
Oh – and it doesn't work.
What is IT? Sales training.
And is it any wonder why sales training doesn't work?
Stick a bunch of sales reps in a room, force-feed them a webinar, or worse – have them be on the receiving end of a dull Powerpoint or even an eBook – and when IT's done, send them back out into the field with an urgency to make up for the time lost in the classroom watching/listening/reading sales training materials.
And REPEAT – because studies show within 6 months the reps can't recall ¾ of the information they were trained on. But don't wait too long because after 1-year sales reps only retain 10-15% of sales training knowledge.
So why do sales organizations spend $20 BILLION dollars a year on sales training if reps HATE it – and it DOESN'T WORK?
Here are 3 reasons sales organizations are just doing sales training WRONG:
Reason #1 – The goal of sales training is based on the company's need to inform the salesforce.
New product coming? Schedule sales training.
New customer segmentation study released? Schedule sales training.
Gearing up for Q4? Schedule sales training.
It's essential that sales reps have a good understanding of the products they sell, that's a given. But product training and sales training are often combined with poor results.
Changing and improving sales behavior should be the target!
Having reps sit through powerpoints of new product features, then discuss possible scenarios or processes is not going to move the dial. This is because it will not do anything to change the two things that study after study shows positively impacts sales:
Reason #2 – Sales training is not based on the individual needs of sales reps.
Sales training often offers the same sales learning experience to the entire sales force, despite variations in abilities, and always with the same expected outcome: that each sales rep sell more. Here's what's wrong with that sales training approach:
- How can you "fix" sales behaviors if you don't know what's wrong in the first place?
- How do you know if a sales rep has improved in a specific area if you don't have insight into where in the sales cycle they need more help, and where they started from?
- How can you measure the correlation between what was learned and increased sales?
The answer to all of the above is: "You can't!"
The goal of training is to inform. It is not to understand. And that is a huge problem.
There are many different aspects of a sales rep's personality, intelligence, initiative, and social skills behaviors that affect their approach to sales, the combination of which is what we refer to as a Selling Intelligence Score™.
Assessing the needs of each rep prior to sending them through a sales learning program is key to creating a personalized sales development experience that results in improved sales attainment, as revealed in our new survey of 396 sales leaders across firms of all sizes and industries around the world:
Reason #3 – Sales training isn't just impersonal, it is often overwhelming.
"Research found that while tactics like product training and email are some of the most widely used to educate workers (85% and 91%, respectively), they often fail to drive consistent messaging about the product. This is largely because the majority of businesses (69%) rely on bloated information dumps, like document libraries and shared folders that house outdated information, to prepare frontline teams." – Harvard Business Review
You wouldn't walk a new hire into a library and tell the fledgling rep to read an entire aisle of information. But, sales managers do essentially the same thing by creating a login to the company's CRM and turning new hires loose to drown in a sea of information.
Giving someone a library card doesn't make them a reader, and giving a rep a login to a sales training platform and a stack of materials doesn't make them an effective sales rep.
So if sales training as we know it is over, what's next? Sales Development!
Is there a place for "Sales Training?" Not the way sales organizations have been administering it. Not to be confused with the role of SDR (Sales Development Representative), sales development methodology is rapidly replacing traditional sales training. And for good reason:
- It's prescriptive – based on the needs of the individual sales rep, not the team or company as a whole
- The goal of sales development is changing sales behavior and improving sales skills
- Prescriptive Sales Development is powerful. Reps are only given the materials they need to improve, decreasing the chance of information overload (more about this later!)
- Sales training is finite, sales development is infinite. The ongoing sales skills sharpening that can only happen with reinforcement is part of Sales Development programs
- Lends itself well to cutting-edge sales technology including Virtual Reality
There ARE tactical solutions to ensure that learning material is absorbed, retained and that selling behavior is changed – that DON'T SUCK and AREN'T BORING:
- Using sales simulations (role play) and Virtual Reality
- Creating video-game-like excitement to keep the attention of reps
- Allowing reps to train on-demand, on their mobile device
Leave a comment and let us know if you think the end of sales training as we know it is near.


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What Is Required to Be a Comedian?
You may well have a knack for making your friends and family laugh, but that doesn't automatically mean you'll be able to cut it as a professional comedian. Telling jokes for a living requires a lot of hard work and some basic qualities that not everybody possesses. When it comes down to it, you've either got it or you ain't.
Aspiring comedians should watch footage of established performers at work. The aim isn't to steal other people's jokes, but to get a feel for the timing and delivery required to successfully work a crowd. You can have the best material in the world, but if you don't know how to interact with an audience and deal with hecklers, your performances will be likely to fall short. Check out old sets from the likes Bill Hicks, Jerry Seinfeld and Andy Kaufman, even if their comedy isn't to your personal taste.
A Thick Skin
It takes no small amount of confidence to get up in front of a large group of people and tell jokes. If you're a bit of a shrinking violet, a career as a comedian might not be for you. All comedians have nights when their sets bomb. People's idea of what's funny can vary widely, so you're going to come up against crowds that don't like your act. If you're going to make a success of being a funnyman or woman, you're going to need to be able to dust yourself off after a bad night and get back in front of the mic.
Develop your own style. Work out what sort of material suits you best and polish your act. Whether you choose observational jokes, surrealism or one-liners, your material has to come from within. Nobody's going to tell you what to write and you certainly shouldn't steal from other comedians' acts. Be original. Get out and test your jokes at as many open-mic nights and talent contests as you can to help you establish what does and doesn't work.
You'll need to be a shameless self-promoter if you're going to make it as a comedian. Get yourself in front of as many club owners who might be interested in booking you as possible. Tape a show to send out to comedy agents and get your act on video hosting websites. Be ready to travel to perform and be prepared to not make any money when you first start out.
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Peoples and biotas of the Andes and Amazonia have been interacting for millennia, influencing each other through complex dynamics of biological, social, and cultural adaptations. The 16th-century Spanish invasion introduced radical technological, ideological, and political changes that altered fundamentally the forms of ecological and social coexistence that had been in place for thousands of years. Indigenous peoples of the two areas as well as the new "mestizo" communities have resisted the more than five centuries of colonial and postcolonial occupation of these lands, structuring organized responses to protect their communities and their lands.
Keywords: Amazonian and Andean ecosystems, montaña, indigenous ethnicities, trade, reciprocity, spirituality, cosmology, history of indigenous resistance, indigenous political responses
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Firewall & Iceberg Podcast No. 35 via HitFix.com
This weeks blather includes our dismissive dismissal of Sundays "True Blood" finale, our discussion of Sundays "Mad Men" and reviews of HBOs excellent "Boardwalk Empire," NBCs awful "Outlaw" and the returns of FXs "Always Sunny" and "The League" this week.
The "Boardwalk Empire" segment begins at 31:20 and runs about 9 minutes.
Read more at Listen: Firewall & Iceberg Podcast No. 35 – True Blood, Boardwalk Empire and more – HitFix.com.


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The following address was presented to the Longmont City Council at its Tuesday, July 17, 2012 session.
I would like to speak to you about transparency in government and the internet.
A couple months ago the Longmont Airport Facebook site posted a message about Mile-Hi Skydiving sending their critics bumper stickers reading "I Love Airplane Noise". This website is unofficial – meaning that the content is not managed by city staff. I was curious to know who's behind the proverbial curtain. That content would seem inappropriate if it came from a city official. Tim Barth, the airport manager, said that he didn't know who manages the site, but he was certain that it was no one connected with the city.
As it turns out Chris Rodriguez manages that website. On May 10th he wrote that members of "Quiet Skies" had demanded the website be deleted. As the leader of Quiet Skies, I can assure you that is an outright lie. What could be his motivation for making this claim? For the record, the Mile-Hi jump planes are creating a very real public noise nuisance. But with ethical leadership, there can be peace between the airport and the local community.
So, who is Chris Rodriguez? You may recall his recent editorial criticizing the anti-fracking petition that's being circulated. He is a blogger and activist who manages the LongmontPolitics website where he refers to the "lefty loonies". On his LightningRod blog he encouraged harassment of the "pitchfork vigilantes", including myself, who dared to complain about the jump plane noise.
But more importantly, Chris Rodriguez serves as the Chairman of the Longmont Airport Advisory Board. That board meets right here in these chambers, and he sits right there where the mayor sits. As a quasi public official, he holds an influential position over airport policies that affect the community.
He has every right, as an individual, to advocate for special interests and say whatever he believes, no matter how disconnected from reality. But Chris Rodriguez has no business serving on the Airport Advisory Board.


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Electrochemotherapy increases local control after incomplete excision of a recurring penile fibrosarcoma in a stallion
E.P. Spugnini(1,*), C. Bolaffio(2), L. Scacco(2) and A. Baldi(1,3)
1 Biopulse S.r.l., Naples, Italy
2 Equivet Roma Hospital, Rome, Italy
3 Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Second University of Naples, Italy
An eleven-year-old stallion was referred for adjuvant treatment of an incompletely excised, recurring penile fibrosarcoma. The horse was bright, alert and responsive with a 15 x 12 cm ulcerated lesion on the ventral side of the penis. The lesion was the tumor bed of an incompletely excised fibrosarcoma. After complete staging procedures, the owner elected to treat the horse with electrochemotherapy (ECT) using cisplatin as chemotherapy agent. Two sessions of ECT were performed at two-week intervals using local cisplatin followed by trains of biphasic electric pulses applied using different electrodes until complete coverage of the area was achieved. The treatment was well tolerated, and the patient is still disease free after 12 months. ECT resulted in improved local control and should be considered among the available adjuvant treatments in equines carrying soft tissue tumors.
Keywords: Cisplatin, Electrochemotherapy, Equine, Fibrosarcoma.
Spugnini, E.P., Bolaffio, C., Scacco, I. and Baldi, A. 2016. Electrochemotherapy increases local control after incomplete excision of a recurring penile fibrosarcoma in a stallion. Open Vet. J. 6(3), 234-237.


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Episode 302 : GDC, C2E2 and Google Stadia
With the Stadia, Google enters the world of gaming.
Will the Stadia live up to expectations?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).
New this week, we have a ton of news as both C2E2 and GDC happened. Over in the C2E2 world, we talk about what's next for Marvel crossovers, Drew Goddard gets signed by Disney (after Daredevil) and The Runaways are coming back in a big way.
Over in GDC news, Cadence of Hyrule and Cuphead are coming to the Switch. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is getting a sequel, and God of War takes game of the year.
This weeks BOSS ROOM is all about the Google Stadia, and if the technology can really live up to the hype.
As always, we appreciate all our adventurers who listen to the show every week and we look forward to your feedback on what we discuss! (firstname.lastname@example.com!)
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1. Re: Whats the most important spec when running VMs on a NAS box?vembutech1 Apr 26, 2017 10:58 PM (in response to NucleusVM)
What hard disk you plan ?. Let it be SAS Enterprise Disk. Also don't configure RAID 5, and has huge write impact, which of course affect multiple VMs running. Try RAID 10 or possible 60.
Any Enterpirse disks with RAID10 supports iSCSI and NFS storage is a good candidate for VMWare.
2. Re: Whats the most important spec when running VMs on a NAS box?thecloudxpert Apr 27, 2017 5:45 AM (in response to NucleusVM)
You want to consider usage, capacity, protection level and connectivity. When you work out your capacity, double it just for future purposes
I personally use Synology but QNAP are equally as reputable. I like the fact the Synology has hardware acceleration, not sure the QNAP does (but i don't know).
3. Re: Whats the most important spec when running VMs on a NAS box?Stanley_ Apr 27, 2017 6:57 AM (in response to thecloudxpert)1 person found this helpful
agree that Synology and QNAP are equally..
QNAP provide VAAI support
QNAP Plugin for VMWare vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) - QNAP
4. Re: Whats the most important spec when running VMs on a NAS box?Stanley_ Apr 27, 2017 7:07 AM (in response to NucleusVM)1 person found this helpful
few questions:
- how will be the NAS connected -1gig/10gig ?
- how busy are these 10-15VM's?
- what disks do you want to use?
- will be there any SSD/NVMe cache
- which model?
- it will be for production VM's or for LAB?
5. Re: Whats the most important spec when running VMs on a NAS box?IvarHome Dec 28, 2018 4:43 PM (in response to Stanley_)
Qnap is better - it have lots more configuration and monitoring features than Synology. Yes, iSCSI is always slower by latency than internal SSD. You must use ESXi "Virtual Flash Read Cache", to set it for every virtual disk separately (how much it can use read cache). It compensates latency. Also best should be 10 Gbit nic. I have example 4-bay Qnap TS-453B. It allows to separately purchase special 10 GBit PCIe x4 nic, for 1 port or 2 port. RAID 5 is ok, dont fear it. 4nd disc in Qnap must be SSD cache for speed. Put all VM virtual disks into the same LUN and make them dependent. The best in iSCSI SAN is possibility to make backups very fast, online and absolute point in time together with running memory. When you make VM snapshot with memory, memory dump stay in the same LUN (VM configuration must be also in the same LUN). Then you make Qnap LUN snapshot and then backup-replicate it to second Qnap. Its very fast, incremental and changed block tracking. Then you can delete both Qnap LUN snapshot and VM snapshot. For second Qnap I have cheaper one, 2-bay in raid0. But it must be little bigger in space, as LUN snapshots backups, if you want to show its content, must first copied to somewhere. Qnap have also lots of automatic and shedulings and also vSphere Spanshot Agent for vCenter.........And of course, ESXi itself dont allow RAID at all, with Qnap you can have RAID. ESXi dont have software raid, hardware raid cards must be only in compatibility list. This means you must forget all half software-hardware mainstream raid cards for ESX, but real hardware cards cost much more than Qnap and have less features.


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I'm going to take back what I said about being able to do 95% of what you need to do in vi. It was pointed out to me that cutting and pasting is well over 40% of what you need text editor for. What kind of text editor can't cut and paste? So today I'm going to look at cutting and pasting in the vi text editor, and saying that now you'll know 80% of vi, where the other 20% will take 80% of the time to learn.
Cutting and pasting in vi is really pretty easy to do, you just need to know the commands.
When you start off in vi, you're in the command mode. Let's mark some text for movement. One way of doing this is to put the cursor at the start of the text and then issue a ma command. This marks the current cursor location. Now move the cursor to the end of what you want copied ( in command mode, hjkl are left down up right if you need them) or pasted and use one of the following commands:
ma sets a mark at the start of the text to be copied
d'a cuts (deletes) the text from the current cursor to the mark location
y'a copies (yanks) from the current cursor to the mark location
Now move the cursor where you want to paste and use the p command. It's as easy as that. You can also use these commands for copying and cutting:
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Love. It is at the core of our mission to create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. A wish pulls on the heartstrings of everyone involved. It has the power to transform the lives of wish kids, their families, volunteers, donors, doctors and anyone else involved. For the second consecutive year, we bring you our #HugsAndWishes series, a collection of love stories that start with, or circle back to, Make-A-Wish. Follow the series on Facebook and Twitter – and remember to #SpreadLove every day.
Being diagnosed with leukemia at any time in your life is never easy. As a teenager it can turn your life upside down and take you away from friends, school and many other fun things. When I was diagnosed at 17 years old, it was a total shock. It led to months of hospital stays, endless clinic visits and years of disruption. While the nurses and doctors became our second family and made every moment as positive as possible, I still wanted nothing more than to get away from anything health care related. I truly could not wait to go college and put everything in the past.
When I was referred to Make-A-Wish, I dreamt of a trip to Paris, shopping or relaxing on a beach. My wish granter told us a story of another teenager who had just wished for money to help with college expenses. That sounded pretty impactful and my parents certainly didn't oppose either. My wish helped pay some first-year expenses when I went to college the next fall, but, in reality, it did so much more than just pay tuition. By the end of my freshman year, I changed my focus to a pre-nursing major and three years later graduated with a bachelor's degree in nursing. Little did I know my wish would help me become a pediatric nurse, to work with patients who had similar stories to mine, and to help fuel a lifelong involvement with Make-A-Wish.
After college I met the volunteer manager for Make-A-Wish Eastern North Carolina at an event and instantly knew I wanted to get involved with the chapter as a volunteer wish granter. My love for Make-A-Wish has grown even more over the years. Being a wish granter is so rewarding and I love everything from meeting the kids to discover their wish to helping send them off in the most special ways possible. With everything I have experienced as a patient and pediatric nurse, it is incredible to provide hope and to see the impact a wish makes on kids with critical illnesses and their families. Being involved with Make-A-Wish has also brought me new challenges and adventures – including hiking 26.5 miles for the Trailblaze Challenge, fundraising for wishes and advocating and leading efforts through our Young Professional Network. I truly can't imagine not being involved with this organization!
When Dustin and I met more than five years ago, I was already a wish granter. He heard about the long nights I had working in the pediatric intensive care unit, but also got to hear about the kids I met through Make-A-Wish. I don't think there was any hesitation when I encouraged him to volunteer at Make-A-Wish with me about a year later. We love meeting each family and helping to create an unforgettable experience.
Having Dustin with me in every wish experience I have makes it all the more special, and helping to grant wishes definitely brings a lot of joy into our lives. When I hiked 26.5 miles for the Make-A-Wish Trailblaze Challenge last spring, Dustin not only helped me fundraise, he was also right there waiting at the finish line. What I love the most is for Dustin to get a glimpse into the lives of kids with critical illnesses and understand why I am so passionate about what we do. He has truly become one of the best advocates for Make-A-Wish, which always makes me smile.
Christina and Dustin with wish kid Wyatt, 3, who wished to go to the beach and see marine life.
When Dustin proposed last fall, of course I said, "Yes!" I am a strong believer that sharing experiences like this must be a key to a strong relationship, and a strong marriage. I hope that by sharing our story, other couples might realize how easy it is to get involved with Make-A-Wish, see what an incredible bond it can create and most importantly understand the impact it can have on every eligible child!
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How to Make Cake Pops: Easy Summer Recipes
Cake pops are a fun delicious dessert to prepare for any number of different occasions and events throughout the summer. Round up a cake mix, frosting recipe, and lollipop sticks, and you'll be well on your way to making a great batch of cake pops. Just as there are numerous flavors for both cakes and frosting as well as a host of options for decorations, there are also more combinations than anyone could ever make for cake pops. This is a dessert option for virtually anyone. Happy summer and happy baking!
Occasions to Make Cake Pops During the Summer
Just a Few Ideas
Father's Day
Graduation Parties
Fourth of July
Birthday Parties
Baby Showers
Wedding Showers and Receptions
What types of cake pops are perfect for summer occasions?
Food and Drink Themed Pops
Beach / Outdoor Themed Pops
More Summer Themed Pops
Fourth of July
Summer drinks
Sand pail / sand castle
Beach ball
BBQ grills
Flip flops
Summer Cake Flavor Ideas
Of course there is no need to feel limited to this list when selecting cake and frosting flavors for your cake pops. However, if you're looking for summer specific ideas, any of the flavors in the following list are great options.
- Angel food
- Blood orange
- Coconut
- Key lime
- Lemon
- Lemon or orange poppyseed
- Passion fruit
- Raspberry
- Strawberry
- Vanilla
Tips for Making Cake Pops
Cake Pops by Bakerella
General Summer Themes
- Multicolored. There is a wealth of inspiration out there for bright, multicolored cake pops that will make anyone happy during the summer. Create a batch of colorful pops with multiple frosting colors or consider adding decoration (i.e. stripes, dots) in a different color. Switch up the colors to suit the event or occasion at hand or as you are inspired. You can't go wrong here. Get some multicolored cake pop inspiration at Cupcake Stand and Ashlee Marie.
- Fourth of July. You can apply a wide variety of different 4th of July décor options to cake pops. There are numerous possibilities for decorating in red, white, and blue with simple embellishments (colored sprinkles can go a long way). Simply make a set in red, white, and blue, decorate your cake pops with stars in patriotic colors, or display the cake pops in a flag formation. My Juice Cup has a great round up of Fourth of July cake pop ideas.
Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Cakepops
Food and Drink Themes
- BBQ grills. BBQ grills are a little bit tricky, as it can be tough to get the three toothpick legs to balance, but they are adorable. Goods By Kreative has a tutorial for covered charcoal grills while Duncan Hines has a tutorial for open grills complete with burgers and other grilled goodies of your choosing (i.e. steaks, vegetable kabobs).
- Pineapple. Pineapple cake pops require a fair amount of time and patience to get the frosting pattern and green pineapple top just right. The effort will all be worth it when your family or party guests see the final result. Get the tutorial from Pint Sized Baker.
- Strawberry. Strawberries are another fun food to create as cake pops and are a little less time intensive than pineapples. Some people create plain strawberries while other people create chocolate covered strawberries. The choice is up to you. Strawberry is a natural choice for the cake and/or frosting, but of course you shouldn't feel limited to this.
- Summer drinks. 365 Days of Cake Pops created coconut cup cake pops with pina coladas that are complete with drink umbrellas. Seasonal margaritas and martinis in various flavors are other popular options. Check out some margarita inspiration from The Cake Poppery and lime martini glasses from The Cake Bomb.
- Watermelon. One of the best parts about watermelon cake pops is the seed surprise on the inside. Many people use mini chocolate chips for the seeds. Some bakers create separate white and green frosting layers to mimic real watermelon while other bakers stick with a sole green layer. Check out the tutorial from Pint Sized Baker.
How to Make Caterpillar Cupcake Pops
Beach / Outdoor Themes
- Baseball. Baseball cake pops are a great option for birthday parties and graduation parties for baseball players as well as end of the season baseball parties, baseball watching parties, and tailgating events. The dashes on the balls are a bit of work but really add the final touch that you need for realistic baseballs. Our Suburban Farm has a tutorial.
- Beach ball. Sanding sugar is a popular choice for giving the colors on the beach ball a little something extra. Many people opt for the classic red, yellow, green, and blue stripes that alternate with white, but of course you can mix this up as you like. Totally Love It uses Bakerella's recipe for her beach ball cake pops. Check out another fun version from Beki Cook's Cake Blog, too.
- Crabs. Apparently you can buy sugar eyes and make every part of the crab pops edible. Who knew? Swedish fish candy are a simple (and delicious) choice for the claws. There is a nice tutorial for crab cake pops over at Tasty Kitchen.
- Fish. Most bakers go for a fish design that resembles a blow fish, as this is a natural choice for a round cake ball. Of course you can experiment with other shapes, too. Leafy Tree Tops included fish cake pops as part of an ocean themed birthday party. There is a tutorial available at Betty Crocker.
- Flip flops. Flip flops are not a natural shape for cake pops, which lends many people to create separate flip flops that they attach to round cake pops. Complete Deelite goes way out with blue cake pops for the water, a coating of "sand," and specially constructed flip flops that she attaches at the end. She uses food writer pens for the flip flop thong detail.
- Insects. The most popular insects for cake pops are bees and ladybugs. Bees are a little bit involved with candy melts for the stripes and fondant for the wings. Midtown Sweets has a beautiful bees example. Chasing Some Blue Sky has great tips for creating ladybug half shells and adding all of the other details (i.e. dots, eyes).
- Sun. Any party will be a little more cheery with sun cake pops. Regular eyes and sunglasses are both popular choices. Grab inspiration from Living Locurto and P is for Party. There are a number of types of candy including Mike & Ike and candy corn that make easy, delicious sun rays.
In need of more cake pop ideas? Check this out!
- How to Make Cake Pops: Easy Spring Recipes
Are you looking for cake pop recipes to make this spring? There are many easy recipes to make with cake mix and frosting from birds to Easter eggs.
Additional summer recipes from the author.
- Alcoholic Popsicle Recipes: How to Make Popsicle Margaritas, Cocktails, and More
This article contains a wide variety of alcoholic Popsicle recipes. It includes recipes for Popsicle margaritas, mojitos, and other cocktails as well as recipes with beer and with tequila.
- Fourth of July Desserts: Easy Patriotic Recipes
This article is about Fourth of July desserts. It includes a wide variety of easy patriotic recipes including cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and more. There are lots of photos and resources
- Fresh Homemade Lemonade Recipes
Nothing says summer like a glass of lemonade. Make a fresh squeezed pitcher yourself. There are lots of pairings out there with fruit, herbs, and alcohol.
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I made cake pops with grandkids, but when you took a bite it fell apart! I would like to try again!
Love these Random.. Some of these ideas are super cute..will bookmark for future for my grandkids birthdays..def share & pin..cheers
How cute these are!! My grandson loves cupcakes so I make the tiny ones for him. He would be enchanted with these clever ones you have shown. Awesome. Pinned and shared and voted up Angels are on the way to you this afternoon ps
I love the watermelon cake pops - those are adorable! The strawberry ones are pretty cute, too - I definitely need to make some for our next playdate/party!
What cute, cute ideas! I love the pics too.
Yum! I've never heard of cake pops. How perfect! Great for any type of party, I would think. Love it!
What a great, unique idea! This would be great for a girl's tea party, and even for my son's upcoming birthday party. I'm definitely going to pin this.
Hi randomcreative! With this hub you have again proved that you are good in science as well as arts and with sheer imagination we can do wonders. I would really like to try one.
Hi Rose,
I had no idea how popular these were and such variety! I want them all, so cute and as ever you are a mind of info! The video for the chocolate dipped strawberries is awesome and love the sound of the flip-flop ones! Definitely pinning this for reference! Thanks again Rose for another great idea, voted up, useful, interesting, awesome, shared!
Now I'm hungry! Love the hub. I'd like to try making cake pops but my artistic skills are so poor they'd probably look pretty scary. It's fun to check ideas though. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, they looks so pretty and delicious! I want to start baking cake pops right now... maybe I will convince my friend to do this with me this weekend. She is a far better baker than me. :-) Voted up!
Cake pops are surely one of the cutest desserts ever, so perfect for parties. Thanks for these ideas and tips. The strawberry cake pops are adorable!
I have always wanted to make cake pops, but until now still one of my "to bake" list. Thanks for the good ideas.
I made CakePops (wrote a Hub about them). I invite you to read mine. I took many photos as I went along. They are fun to made.
Voted this UP.
Excellent summer recipe! I think every kids will be happy by your summer recipes :). thanks for sharing...
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What a great concept and how fun to have these for a kids party. I love the strawberries! Great hub and wonderful info! Thanks you for sharing this with us! Voted up and shared.--Lisa♥
My friend makes these and sells them. I think they are cute but they are a bit too rich for me. Cute ideas, though! Blessings to you.
Cake pops seem to be very popular right now! There are some really cool ones out there now. This is a really fun article, with so many ideas. Thanks for sharing this with us, Rose. You really are a very creative person, and I always look forward to seeing what else you come up with!
Have a great weekend!
Ooh, I've never heard of these. I can't wait to make some! :D
This does look fun to make, not to mention delicious. Your many images are making me want to have some cake pops now. Very detailed hub with various themes for cake pops and they are all good ideas.
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The first thing to look for in a rehearsal dinner venue is a place that will comfortably accommodate the number of guests you're expecting. Many rehearsal dinners are held at restaurants, but you can also host them at a private residence or location that's sentimental to the couple of the hour.
The venue should also fit with the style of the dinner -- it wouldn't make sense to have a casual buffet at an upscale country club. Keep in mind that if you host the dinner at a location that doesn't provide tables, chairs or other furnishings, you'll need to rent them. Also, if you host the dinner somewhere other than a restaurant, consider the fact that you'll likely need to have the food catered in. It's nice to have the freedom to do what you wish in this regard, but it does make things a bit pricier, particularly if you have to rent dishes, silverware, glasses, linens and serving pieces, too.
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There are many different dog breeds out there, but here is a list of the most popular breeds in the United States. Learn more about these breeds, and whether or not they'd be a good fit for your family.
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Causes & Remedies for Bad Breath in Dogs
I love my lemon beagle, but sometimes her breath smells like something died inside of her. Learn more about the most common causes and remedies of bad breath in dogs.
10 Home Remedies for Treating Fleas on Dogs
If your dog has fleas, there are many things you can do to help treat the infestation. Here is a list of ten home remedies for treating fleas on your lemon beagle.
Tips for Potty Training Your Beagle Puppy
Potty training your puppy is actually easier than you thought. Here are a few tips that can help you with potty training a puppy.
6 Famous Cartoon Beagles
Little did you know, that some of your favorite cartoon dogs have been beagles. Here is a list of the most famous cartoon beagles from your favorite shows. Plus, one honorable mention, that we're not too sure about.
Did your favorite cartoon dog make the list?
The History of Beagles
From Ancient Greece to Snoopy, beagles have been around since the 11th century. Now, they are one of America's favorite dog breeds.
Click here to learn more about the history of beagles.
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Starting now, I'll be rounding up some of the North Texas-centric moments on the tube from week to week. Since it's still alive, by the grace of Jesus, I'll start with GCB.
Premise: Several rich, big-haired women with dripping fake Southern accents navigate Dallas' drama-filled religious society sect (if such a thing really exists). Their days are defined by domestic quibbles, bitch-on-bitch bitchery, gossip-fueled scandal and scripture lessons, all set to a quirky Network Television score (don't those bouncy string numbers make you laugh so much harder?).
Plot primer: First of all, can you believe this thing has made it to three episodes? The death march that began with the underwhelming pilot continues longer than anyone expected! Here's what we've ascertained about GCB's plot by half-watching out of the corner of one eye: Amanda is a tall, beautimous blonde who's just lost her cheating husband to a deadly case of mistress road head, so she moves back to Dallas with her two kids and sets up in the manse of her mama, played with aplomb by the great Annie Potts. Thing is, Amanda used to be queen bitch in high school, and she terrorized y'all's neighborhood. There remains a gaggle of Bible-beating bitches who hated her, like, really hard back then. So they're all out to get revenge, even though she's seemingly nice now, having been taken down a few pegs by her embarrassing dead-cheating-hubby sitch. The gaggle of revenge-seekers is led by Kristin Chenoweth, who delivers lines as if she's doing voiceover work on Steel Magnolias: The Saturday Morning Cartoon.
The latest action: Amanda's mother encourages her to get out and start dating, so naturally she ends up (kind of against her will) at a church singles meetin'. Everything happens at the church on this show. Well, everything except Amanda's new day job ... at a wings restaurant called Boobylicious. Subtlety isn't one of GCB's pillars. The singles group event eventually serves as the climactic setting for all the show couples' drama. Kristin Chenoweth and her DILF-y hubby have hit bottom after trying to rekindle their sexual flames with Adam-and-Eve roleplay. The tall brunette lady whose name I don't remember begins to question her fake marriage to a secretly gay (and hot, of course) husband. Another nameless-to-me main character eats her pain after learning that her failed-football-player hubby (yep, hot) ... Wait ... hold on a second ... yeah, I can't go on with this. GCB is like the television equivalent of the Easter candy Peeps. Fun for a few seconds, and then your entire being starts to hurt from a combination of toothache and shame. What have I gotten myself into here? Please get canceled, please get canceled ...
Big Rich Texas: The premise seems to be very similar to that of GCB, only this show is "unscripted," which makes it a lot more watchable. For one thing, the villains in this version of D-FW society -- including barking cheerleading moms and a scheming pageant maven -- are ACTUAL monsters who make their younger subjects' lives miserable without a second thought. Quite delicious television, if you can stomach this kind of thing. Favorite cast members are a blonde mom and daughter who look, talk and think just alike. They've lost all connection with reality-based reality, but they're at least kind of nice to other people on the show. Bonnie and Whitney are their names, and they battle the mean girls on the show with their mouths hanging wide open. Probably trying to remember their next line from the unscript.
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The Voice: This is the newer, buzzier singing reality competition show responsible for giving the world more Adam Levine. Naturally, it's come to rely mostly on its judges and guest mentors for buzz. Nobody remembers the actual contestants. Cee-Lo's white cat is more memorable than the contestants. The Voice is currently in battle rounds, which means each judge narrows his or her own team by making singers face off live on the same song. The always affable Blake Shelton has brought in as mentors for his singers two bad-ass Texas chicks -- his Lindale-raised wife, Miranda Lambert, and the Burleson popster Kelly Clarkson. Both seem sweet, giving and generally delightful in their mentoring scenes. I'm planning on making them my new best friends. What are their Twitter handles, again?
American Idol: Far as I can tell, we have to rest all of our North Texas homer hopes on McKinney's Hollie Cavanagh, a petite blonde with an inexplicable large diva voice and a more inexplicable half-British accent. She's pretty damn good -- better, at least, than this Hee Jun character who sounds like Michael Bolton's dead cat and skates by on his comedy. Or how about that Colton dude, who jumps on pianos and stares longingly at the camera as if he's auditioning for the touring production of Rock of Ages? Go Hollie ...
See you next week for more TV talk. We're thinking of including a recap of Texas Country Reporter. Edgy is as edgy does.


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One of the joys & challenges of portraiture is that every face is different and each person has a unique and personal story to tell, each subject comes with new challenges. I seek to capture not simply the fundamental likeness of my subject but realize subtle nuances that reveal insight and depth in the personality of each individual sitter.
My approach is predominantly traditional. Portrait sittings usually take place either at my studio or more commonly at the sitter's home or place of business, preferably in a setting conducive to a relaxed atmosphere. I prefer to work from life whenever possible although this may not always be feasible in which case reference photos are taken in order to reduce the time and inconvenience to the sitter. The time scale for completing a work will vary according to size and composition and will be discussed individually with each client.


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I knew from the beginning that my second novel would be centered around the theme of joy. My first novel was all about our connection to others; I wanted this one to celebrate the authenticity of being oneself.
Because I'm the kind of person who gets carried away with an idea, I decided to center the action around the place on the globe that was exactly opposite of Nigeria, where my my first novel took place. Turns out that location is just south of the equator, smack in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This fact might have discouraged someone else, I but I was determined to introduce this symbolism of opposites into my already half-developed plot. So I delved deeper and discovered the island nation of Kiribati, and began to write a novel that encompassed a swath of the sea.
Just as "peace" seemed an inadequate word to describe x0, "joy" barely touched the surface of my overarching theme for y1. What I wanted was a word that meant
the sheer exhilaration that can only be found when a person is true to who they are.
We do need a word for that.
The book was orange in my head. Orange for sunsets over the Pacific and orange for crazy-strong exuberance and for all that glows. This had to be a book about the fire within.
I already knew that later in the series I would write a book that was blue, and it would be about the virtues that tug us in the other direction. I'm still struggling to find a single word that encapsulates the theme of my blue book, but I know that it is about something important, too.
(For more thoughts on words we need, see A better word than loyalty?, A better word than peace?, A better word than hope? and A better word than courage?)


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As explained elsewhere, I have reason to believe that the laptop I do some of my writing on is dying. The writing concerned is primarily Nai.
Consequently, I have decided to run a prompt call with the aim of getting the funds together for a new laptop faster than I would be able to otherwise. Preliminary investigations in the middle of our current sale season (we're in the run up to the end of financial year over here) suggest that at the moment I could get a current model equivalent of my existing machine for $500 to $800, Australian. I intend to carry out more specific queries tomorrow and will update this post then.
I do not expect to raise that sort of money through writing to prompts by the end of this month. I am going to run a laptop funding prompt request and see how I go.
On this occasion, the prompts are themeless, so ask for anything you like – except fanfic or porn. The first is out because I don't follow Enough Things to have any idea who you are talking about, the second because I have to be in the mood and can't guarantee that. You may, of course, ask for continuations or other further pieces on characters and stories I have already written.
For each prompt, I will write at least 250 words.
Anyone may prompt and get a single prompt written to for free.
Anyone may signal boost and get one additional prompt written to for free. Signal boosting on additional platforms will get you another 100 words added to your minimum word count per platform.
Anyone may pay for a prompt to be written to. There is a button!
Anyone may pay for extensions to a written to prompt. There is another button!
Also, there is a money raised tracker:
Participation bonuses:
If we reach $10 – I will write to a randomly selected, unfunded prompt.
If we reach $20 – I call upon the combined prompters to craft a new, fiendishly clever prompt for me to write to.
If we reach $30 – I will call upon those who have paid for prompts and extensions to craft a devious and confusing prompt for me to write to. I will also have to come up with more participation bonuses.
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runs from now, which is late on Saturday, 13 June 15 my time, until late on Wednesday, 17 June 15 my time is now closed. Prompts and extensions may continue to be paid for after this time.
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Representative Zeldin's speech condemning the Democrats' resolution on hate speech was posted at Hot Air today. I wonder if anyone is listening. Here is the speech:
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who is a Jewish member of Congress, explains why he did not vote for the Democrats' resolution condemning hate
This is a must watchpic.twitter.com/Kocwj1WPZm
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After being relegated in 2008 from the U20 top division, the Swiss managed to win the Division 1A last year to win the promotion to the top stage of junior hockey. This year's edition of the U20 National Team again will have a hard time staying in the top division. Switzerland plays in Group A with Canada, USA, Slovakia and Latvia and while Canada and the U.S. are totally out of reach for the Swiss, Latvia is a "must-win" game for them and beating Slovakia is their only chance to sneak into the quarterfinals. The games vs. Canada and the USA are a chance for some players to showcase themselves for the upcoming 2010 NHL Entry Draft.
The Swiss held a training camp in the beautiful mountain village of Arosa, where they made the last cuts and shortened the roster to six defenders, 11 forwards and three goaltenders. Among the last cuts was 92-born and 2010-eligible Gaëtan Haas. Haas is a playmaking forward with nice hands, not the fastest skater, but a good two-way forward. The 17 players who made the team in Arosa will be joined by the five players who are on teams in North America.
The starting goaltender for the team will be Benjamin Conz, who is property of the HC Genève Servette but currently loaned to the SC Langnau Tigers where he took over the No. 1 spot. Conz is a smallish goaltender who relies on his reflexes and his athleticism. His draft year was 2009, but went unselected. Team Switzerland will need a strong tournament from Conz, who was the U18 starter last year, if they want to have a slim chance to advance to the quarterfinals. Conz knows how to play under pressure, since last season he already was in the playoffs in the Swiss national league where he stole the starting job. The backup position will be held either by Matthias Mischler or Sandro Zurkirchen, but neither will see much playing time.
The defense will be the strongest part of this year's junior national team. It will be led by NHL-draftees Luca Sbisa (Philadelphia 1st round pick, then traded to Anaheim) and Roman Josi (Nashville 2nd round pick), who both will log in major minutes. Patrick Geering from the ZSC Lions Zurich and Lukas Stoop from the HC Davos will round out the top four. Both are regulars on their respective National League A pro team and are undrafted free agents.
Geering is a small, hard-working defender who is in his second season with the ZSC Lions Zurich and was a member of the team when they beat Metallurg Magnitogorsk in 2009 to win the 1st edition of the IIHF Champions Hockey League. He also played regular minutes when his team beat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 to win the second Victoria Cup.
Stoop is a decent skater and should take a role as a power-play quarterback. He was once thought to be the best prospect out of Switzerland for the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. He then left his former club the ZSC Lions Zurich and went to the HC Davos. Davos and Zurich fought hard about his playing rights and this situation seemed to have had a bad impact on his development and his play in the National League A.
Dominik Schlumpf of the QMJHL Shawinigan Cataractes is another undrafted free agent who is in his second season in the Q. He missed most of the last season with a lower-body injury and will also play his first U20 WJC. He's not know for his offensive play, but should be a stable defender for Team Switzerland. Ramon Untersander of HC Davos, Jannik Fischer of EV Zug and Luca Camperchioli will round out the defensive corp, but probably will only have limited roles on the team.
The offense will be lead by 92-born and 2010-eligible Nino Niederreiter. Niederreiter is the youngest player on the team but the most talented. He is a good skater with good hockey sense and nice hands and could be easily a Top 50 prospect for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft. Niederreiter made the jump this season to the CHL and plays for the Portland Winterhawks where he currently is a point-per-game player and is among the top scorers of the team. The 6'2, 203-pounder is lining up in the WHL as a left wing, but is also able to play center and should carry all the offensive hopes for Team Switzerland.
Tristan Scherwey is another forward who is expected to contribute offensively. Scherwey, an undrafted free agent, currently plays for SC Bern of the National League A and will be one of the faster skaters on the team. The 91-born is at 5'9 smallish, but has a nose for the net and a nice shot. On of the bigger forwards on the rather small Swiss team will be Alain Berger. He could take over the part of the power forward. He is in his first season with the Oshawa Generals from the OHL and among the team leaders in scoring. Nils Berger is the fifth player who is currently playing in North America. Berger is in his first season with the Innisfil Lakers from the GMHL. As one of the younger players on that roster, he's among the scoring leaders, but from a talent standpoint, he shouldn't be much of a factor for Team Switzerland.
Two of the bigger forwards on the Team are GCK Lions players Sven Ryser and Reto Schappi, who will probably play on the same line. Ryser possesses an accurate wrist shot, but does not really use his size to his advantage. The same for Schappi who is big and has a nose for the net, but hasn't found out so far how to use his size to help him score more goals. Both Ryser and Schappi are undrafted. Also an interesting player is Tim Weber, who is playing in Sweden for MODO Ornskoldsvik and this year was close to making the pro team. It's not sure what role head coach Jakob "Kobi" Kolliker will give Weber, but probably more third-line duty than scoring line.
Team Switzerland will play two exhibition games before the tournament. They play Austria on the 21st in Prince Albert and Sweden on the 23rd in Weyburn. The preliminary round will start on the 27th with the game against the USA.


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Home Blog RTV™ Announces New Full Service Providers in Athens, Georgia and Southern Maryland areas.
Athens, Georgia – July 17, 2008— Blue Sky Virtual Tours has recently partnered with RTV™, the world's largest and fastest growing virtual tour software provider. As a Real Tour Vision full service provider Blue Sky Virtual Tours will be able to offer state-of-the-art virtual tours and innovative online marketing solutions to local real estate agents and businesses. Blue Sky Virtual Tours has completed proprietary training as a certified RTV full service provider and will also be offering their clients and customers expert advice on internet marketing.
Jason LaVanture, Vice President of RTV said: 'The RTV business model certainly sparks the entrepreneurial spirit. Most people who choose to use our virtual tour software and property marketing system do so because they are the kind of people that wake up every day and love the fact that they are in business for themselves but not by themselves. Blue Sky Virtual Tours is just such an operation and now with three locations in the US they are gearing up to be one of our larger virtual tour providers in the country.'
Steve Bartlett Jr., RTV Provider and Vice President of Blue Sky Virtual Tours stated, 'We are very excited to start our marketing business that will focus on meeting and exceeding clients' needs in the evolving business world.'
Since 1999, RTV has continually led the way in the virtual tour industry with marketing implementations such as their proprietary interactive software, RTV™ PanoRider™, single property websites, on-demand Virtual Tour Traffic Reporting 2.0, 2D/3D interactive floor plans, animated walk-throughs, custom websites, proprietary order-dispatch system, tour audio solutions, tour discs and sketch-and-fax services. For more information email email@example.com or visit their website at www.blueskyvirtualtours.com. Those interested in business opportunities with RTV are encouraged to visit our virtual tour company blog for more information and current provider testimonials before contacting Real Tour Vision™.
Blue Sky Virtual Tours, LLC operates in three metro areas, Atlanta/Athens, Georgia; Southern Maryland and Washington DC/Fairfax, We provide high quality, interactive 360° panoramic virtual tours at an affordable price. In addition to this, we deliver customer-oriented service to ensure the best value in the marketing business.
Contact:Steve BartlettBlue Sky Virtual Tours, LLC706-818-3211Email: email@example.com Georgia and Southern Maryland Virtual Tours
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Hello! Welcome to a glorious last-week-of-November (the only one we'll have all year), and to blog #93… Counting them down now, aren't we? I have 15 days left in my year without clothes shopping challenge. Canya believe it? It has a slightly unreal feeling to it. A year is a long time to challenge yourself.
AND some exciting things have happened… I'm going to be published on one of the world's largest personal finance blogs (over half a million readers per month), that'll be in mid December. And I'm talking with a media production company about a TV show and/or full length documentary based around the "year without clothes shopping" and "shop your wardrobe" concepts. I can barely contain myself — partly because other people (whose opinions I trust and who know what they're doing in their own areas of expertise) are excited about the project. That's always encouraging.
Ok doke, what are we talking about today? On the weekend, I watched Mother & Child, a relationship drama. I love the special features on DVDs – you learn so much about the film, the actors, the process, the back stories, the bloopers. In "the making of Mother & Child", the writer and director, Rodrigo Garcia, talks about how:
"I learn so much about the characters by watching how my actors embody them. How they walk, how they talk, how they dress".
Now what's so amazing about this comment is that Rodrigo spent 10 years working on the script. TEN YEARS. One would imagine that his relationship to the characters was… what?… Intimate? Indepth? Extensive? You wouldn't imagine that there wasn't much about his characters that he didn't know. Right?
Anette Benning says that, like all great directors, Rodrigo has a co-creationist philosophy. He collaborates. He explores. He allows. He doesn't prescribe, or dictate, or bludgeon compliance from his actors (claims that have been made about other directors, one notable example being the verbal harrassment apparently heaped upon Winona Ryder by Francis Ford Copola to secure her miasmic performance in Dracula).
I was quite moved by Rodrigo Garcia's openess to discovering new things about his characters. He talked about the physical mainly – how they walked, talked, sat, ate. And how they dressed. How fascinating is that?
I've talked before about the meaningful nature of clothing. Whether we wish it were true or adamant that it's not, clothing sends a message. The way Anette Bening's character presents herself in the beginning of the film is quite different to how she looks at the end, when her emotional transformation has taken hold. The visual holds a clue to the emotional, the psychological, the "what lies beneath" (and we're not referring to the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford there).
In movies, of course, they have 90+ minutes to tell us the story, and much of it must be told visually. That's why the way a character develops visually is so powerful, and so much attention is placed on it by the director, the lighting and cinematography people, the wardrobe and makeup people.
And us, the viewers. Even if we don't consciously pick up on the subtleties, something within us recognises that a change is taking place on screen.
Our subconscious picks up that the character is growing, developing, becoming stronger. Or withering, withdrawing, becoming wicked. How do we know? We can see it, and we make meaning out of what we see.
In life, it's not so different. Much of the 'story' we are conveying is visual. We believe what we see, often more so than what we hear. Clothing contributes to our identities, of sense of who we are and our place in the world. Clothing can signal our emotional state, and it can help us change how we feel about ourselves.
Like Rodrigo Garcia, we can learn a lot about our characters by the way we choose to dress them. Right?
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What Does Innovation Mean to You?
July 28, 2017
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, innovation means "the introduction of something new."
To find out what this means to our inventors, we asked some of them, "What does innovation mean to you?"
Each of them have been recognized for their contributions to the field of fluorine chemistry, which has advanced the development of breakthrough fluorinated molecules for refrigerants, blowing agents for insulation, aerosol and solvent applications.
These solutions are making everyday life more comfortable and energy-efficient while helping make a positive impact on the environment.
Here's how they define innovation:
"Innovation is taking risks so that a creative idea can be turned into a business."
- Rajiv Singh, senior director of research and development at Honeywell Fluorine Products
"Innovation is not only the future of our company's growth and sustainability, but the contribution of our company to the future of the world."
- Terris Yang, senior research and development engineer at Honeywell Fluorine Products
"Innovation is thinking beyond where we are today."
- Mary Bogdan, principal scientist at Honeywell Fluorine Products
"Innovation is the search for better."
- Richard Horwath, lead process engineer at Honeywell Fluorine Products
"Innovation is looking at challenges from a new viewpoint, raising new questions, providing novel solutions. Innovation is limitless!"
- Dave Nalewajek, research fellow at Honeywell Fluorine Products


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db Skin is a water-based, air-curing, sprayable vibration damping compound that bonds well to sheet metal, wood, plastic and fiberglass surfaces. Its proprietary blend of silica-mica and ceramic suspended in advanced chemical binder greatly reduces structural resonance and vibration. db Skin effectively dampens vibration in a variety of substrates (panels) over a wide frequency range (10 to 40 KHz), and allows you to cover large surface areas very quickly when using a spray gun, brush or roller. When this spray-on sound insulation product is wet, it is purple, and as it cures it will change to black. db Skin can also be used on smaller areas, such as outer door skins and above the headliner.
This spray-on sound insulation material can also be used to improve the performance of speaker enclosures of all types, and on the inside of outer body panels. In wood enclosures, db Skin will soak into the wood and seal up pores, seams and gaps between the panels, giving an additional 3 decibels of sound damping. It will acoustically dampen fiberglass and plastic enclosures extremely well.
When db Skin cures, it creates an impedance mismatch that results in an increase in overall output by 1 to 3 decibels, almost doubling amp power and output. No special tools are required to install db Skin; however, a shutz spray gun will save a significant amount of installation time. db Skin may also be applied with a paint brush or roller, and it cleans up easily with warm water before drying. db Skin is best suited for vehicles where the interior is gutted.Features:
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