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**Activities vary depending on group size**
– Letterstyles /tagging exercise with take away canvas 2ft x 3ft canvas
– History of graffiti slideshow
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– Custom stenciling on T-shirts, canvases, or totes
– Spray Can control practice
– Mural production on 1AM's exterior wall, or on take away canvases
**Activities vary depending on group size**
– History of street art slideshow
– Custom stenciling on T-shirts, canvases, or totes
– Outdoor street art walking mural tour
– Hands-on stencil cutting from start to finish
– Street art production on a take away canvases
– Two hours of complimentary design for street art production
"The team had an absolutely amazing time and the mural is so cool! Thanks for sending the photos — it's great to have something to remember such a wonderful experience by. Thank you again for all of your help in making this happen!!"
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"I'd like to thank 1am for a refreshingly creative team workshop. Although some felt artistically hopeless, the team appreciated the genuine energy and enthusiasm from Robby (who was an awesome teacher) along with the support staff, which further contributed to the success of the activity. We look forward to seeing you all again!"
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"My co-workers and I came here for a team bonding event, where we enjoyed a 2 hour workshop. It was so much fun practicing and perfecting our "Tags" (writing our names with cool paint pens) and trying out different styles of graffiti. We then took an educational tour where we viewed different graffiti styles around the area and learned about street art. Then we got to practice some spray painting, and gained a new appreciation for the graffiti murals! The workshop hosts were so great; teaching us how to be artistic with spray paint. This was a great place to come with your team from work, and learn and be creative!"
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'Once Upon A Time' Pics: Cora's Back — And Who's Leaving Storybrooke?
New pics from the Oct. 7 episode of 'Once Upon A Time' remind us the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Now that the curse is broken, it looks like everybody wants to see what life is like outside of Storybrooke! New pictures from the Oct. 7 episode of Once Upon A Time, curiously titled "We Are Both," find the seven dwarves — among others — attempting the great escape. So why is Charming (Josh Dallas) keeping them at bay?
Meanwhile, in the fairy tale world, it looks like we get another look at what life was like for Regina (Lana Parrilla) growing up with her monstrous mother Cora (Barbara Hershey). Let's hope Cora keeps her hands to herself this time around — we all remember how well that worked out for Daniel!
What do you think of the new pics, Once fans? Are you glad Cora is back? And why is Charming stopping people from leaving Storybrooke? Drop me a comment with your finest theories!
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67.3 Disbursal of Registry Funds
No funds may be paid out of the court's registry except by order of the court. If a judgment has been issued or is to be issued, no funds may be disbursed until fourteen (14) days after the entry of judgment, except as provided in Fed. R. Civ. P. 62 or by agreement of the parties. The authorized custodian shall disburse all registry principal and income, if applicable, less the registry fee assessment and/or taxes, pursuant to the court's order. Any such order shall distinctly set forth the funds in question and name the payee. Should the named payee be other than the depositor of the funds, that fact shall be reflected in the order. If the funds have been deposited in an interest-bearing account or an interest-bearing instrument, the party shall provide, on a separate filing attached to the motion seeking withdrawal of the funds, the social security number or employer identification number of the ultimate recipient of the funds. The clerk shall forward this separate filing directly to the institution holding the money.
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To fill the empty wall space in the living room, I finally unpacked the box we brought back at Christmas with all my picture frames. We set aside an afternoon to replace a few old pictures with the new ones I had printed and hang them in the living room. We also have the painting my mom made for me up as well (Seriously, go check out my mom's work. She's very talented!).
I would say our living room looks and feels more like home now.


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Denver-based electronic producer Brian Lindgren's preceding two albums under his Mux Mool alias on Ghostly International, 2010's 'Skulltaste' and its 2012 follow-up 'Planet High School' saw him crafting a groove-infused hybrid of hiphop beats, warm analogue synths and brittle gamecore electronics. Five years on, this third album 'Implied Lines', originally self-released by Lindgren on Bandcamp late last year, and now seeing a 'deluxe' physical reissue with overhauled production and additional tracks, sees that continuing, although it's a slightly more downbeat listen compared to its predecessor.
Opening track 'Sympathy' calls to mind associations with Com Truise's similarly nostalgic retro-synth aesthetic as rippling Tangerine Dream-esque slowly roll out over dry-sounding snare snaps and muted kicks while brooding bass pads bleed into the foreground against woozy pitch wavers. By comparison, 'Monday' sees things getting darker as eerie Middle Eastern instrumentation gives way to vast lurching hiphop beats and drum breaks, the wonky rhythms taking on a drunken feel as growling bass stabs and what almost sound like synthetically treated flute tones wander through the mix, adding a melancholic undertone to the muscular grooves.
Elsewhere, 'Six AM' slowly emerges from glittering ambient electronics as shuffling hi-hats and kicks rise into focus, a burbling bass sequence anchoring the gossamer textures, before things suddenly accelerate forward into punching tech-house rhythms, gnarled synth buzzes locking in alongside acid-esque filtering, the 4/4 beats suddenly falling away at the end as layers of reversed guitar tones and stuttering synth-vox tones take over. 'The IRS' meanwhile evokes comparisons with DJ Shadow's more recent analogue-synth based explorations as blocky 8-bit synth arpeggios wind their way over bone-dry boom-bap rhythms, the brittle coldness of the electronics counter-balanced by the warm analogue tones as a G-funk synth solo worms its way in right at the very end. Clocking in at just a shade under 39 minutes makes 'Implied Lines' feel kind of short and sweet, but Mux Mool fans shouldn't be disappointed.


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This week the American poet Jorie Graham won the Forward Prize for Poetry for her 12th collection, P L A C E. Graham was born in 1950 and has been writing poetry for the last 35 years. Her 1996 book The Dream of the Unified Field won a Pulitzer Prize, but aside from her regular appearances in the pages of the London Review of Books, she has not gained the popular recognition in the country that some critics think she deserves: Helen Vendler, for one, grouped Graham alongside Hopkins and Heaney in a critical study.
Like those two great poets, Graham has a keen eye for the natural world and the metaphors it can yield. The opening poem in P L A C E, "Sundown", is set on Omaha beach a day before the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings. The wet hoof prints of a horse are "filled by thousands of / sandfleas thrilled to the / declivities in succession in the newly / released beach". The image in microcosm of the thousands of soldiers packed into sandy graves.
In a later poem, called "Untitled", an arguing couple crash their car into two dogs, creating a "dark spot near the front / fender". This small tragedy leads Graham to reflect on larger disasters: the last century's "187 million perished in wars, massacre, persecution, famine," all the while we, as it were, continue our bickering in the car. Private and public tragedies commingle, sometimes in ways the poet acknowledges is not wholly comfortable. "Our personal / dead cast always deeper into / the general dead / no matter how hard you try / to keep your / own / known own", she writes in "The Bird on My Railing".
That pun on "railing" in that poem's title hints at the forceful tone of her poems, which are usually made up of short, punchy lines and last about three pages. Some readers might prefer the lyricism with which she describes a dead tree, for example – "swirling in ebblight, a desert of gone-silent/ cells" – than the conclusions she draws from this observation about "infinite yearning and / killing and / sprouting" of life. Some of the poems, like the typeface of the book's title, are too stretched out.
But there are enough precise and starling images in this book to satisfy any poetry-lover. The best poem in the collection, "Lapse", describes the poet pushing her child on a swing, "the grace that I feel at the center of my palms". She tries to push the "accurate amount, a right fraction, of my strength" – which is exactly how parents feel about raising children: give them a start, but don't be too pushy. It could also work just as well as advice for how to write a poem – and if occasionally Graham goes too far in this collection she more than compensates for it with her powerfully committed imagination.
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First of all, I would like to give a huge thanks to the community of Project Run and Play and the support that was shown last week. It helped me decide to find time to sew along this week even though I had been totally stumped. So stripes and polka dots huh? I have to admit this was really hard for me. I know it's high in fashion, but they just seem an extreme in contrast even for me.
I had a navy and white polka dot maxi polyester dress with a collar and 3 buttons up the center of the bodice that I refashioned for the bodice. The plan was to use the buttons in the front and add one more to make the bodice a little longer. I made my own pattern for the bodice and the sleeve. This was a new experience and took a while. I used white bias tape (that I made from white on white polka dot cotton fabric.) to finish the edges.
I was concerned that the top wouldn't fit Ty since I had made up the pattern. Once I had finished the top of it I snuck into the kids room and grabbed Ty (the kids were asleep in bed). It was a perfect fit and I was excited, but all Ty wanted was to go back to sleep. So I took off the top and she sprinted for her room. After that I got started on the skirt. I was planning to use more of the polka dot fabric on it, but it just wasn't working. I was ready to throw in my towel.
Then I remembered I had some dusty pink and white striped fabric that I had got from my mother-in-law the day before. I brought it in from the car and pretty quick Scary and I decided it was actually perfect. For some reason I felt that I should make the skirt part a bubble skirt (inspired by Delia Creates: Baby Bubble Skirt) I used a double needle to sew the bodice to the elastic and the elastic to the skirt so it is all one piece. My goal for this dress was to have something Ty could wear to nice places, but would wash really easily and be moveable for my 2 year old.
This project was inspired by my Grandma Betty and her style. As a kid I remember her wearing a navy and white polka dot dress and classy boat-neck tops were common place in her wardrobe. She is a retired principal and the best dressed person I've ever met. Her motto is, "There's no such thing as too dressed up!"
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Oasis' Noel Gallagher wishes Barack Obama was British
Oasis' Noel Gallagher has been writing a blog documenting his band's current US tour, in which he revealed that he wishes that US Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama was British.
Gallagher explained that he watched Obama making his recent acceptance speech on US TV, which he felt particularly inspired by.
"Managed to catch that Barack Obama's speech to the Democratic rally," he wrote. "Impressive stuff. Spellbinding in fact. Wish he was one of ours. Why do Americans believe they're electing the president of THE WORLD though?"
In Noel Gallagher's blog, which is available to read on Oasisinet.com, the guitarist also revealed that he finds one of the most frustrating things about being on tour is fans constantly asking him for photos.
Writing about being in a hotel at the same time as a wedding, he wrote: "Some old lady approaches us to ask if we'd mind doing a 'quick picture' with the bride and groom! 'Erm… no, I don't think so' (who do they think we are? Robbie Williams?) 'Oh, go on, the bride will be heartbroken'. 'Good', I think to myself, and off we go to the venue."
Gallagher also reveals that he has spent at least one night on the tour bus drinking until well into the next morning, that he managed to find fish and chips in the States and that the band listen to Jimi Hendrix and Hawkwind on the bus.


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If you are looking for an interesting one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry to wear at your wedding, check out Designs by Ilan.
Ilan Yampolsky is a self taught artist who came to America from Israel in 1999. When she arrived, everything she brought with her was stolen, plus the job she lined up for herself didn't work out.
After sleeping on a friend's couch for a while, she ended up finally getting a job where she met her husband-to-be Harris. And with his encouragement, Ilan began making and selling craft items, which eventually escalated to one-of-a-kind jewelry. Now Ilan, Harris and her mother-in-law work together to create a very unique line of jewelry.
Using a mixture of semi-precious stones, glass beads, Swarovski crystals, fused glass and other elements, Ilan creates wonderful earrings, bracelets and necklaces. You can view samples of her wedding jewelry at designsbyilan.com.
Each piece is handcrafted and unique. She can make a piece to order and design something special for you.
A necklace or pair of earrings from Designs by Ilan would make a great "something new" for your wedding day!


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On the Internet a photograph of the latest British destroyer D 36 Defender (type 45) off the coast of Scotland in the background of the Russian aircraft carrier group led by the aircraft carrier heavy "Admiral Kuznetsov", whose sudden appearance on the coast of the United Kingdom has caused indignation at the actions of the British fleet.
In a picture released by the British Royal Navy, "Admiral Kuznetsov" was captured during refueling from a large sea tanker Northern Fleet "Sergey Osipov" 1559V project in the Gulf of the Moray Firth coast of Scotland in December 29 2013 years, confirmed the blog BMPD.
Earlier it was reported that before Christmas, in December, the UK fleet failed to timely respond to the sudden arrival of the Russian warship in the Bay Scottish Moray Firth.
It is known that the ship had not violated the territorial waters of the UK, but has come to such a distance that would be "puzzled" the army and security forces of any country.
However, the emergence of Russian Navy Britain became a real surprise: the first Russian ship noticed they did not, and the local fishermen who reported "uninvited guests."
It turned out that in the area of detection of vessel did not have a single combat unit and no sea patrol. The only ship that the British government was able to make an "interception" was at that time in 1 100 thousand kilometers in Portsmouth. To arrive at the embattled and get to your destination, it took him an hour 24.
The material on the site of the Royal Navy claimed that British destroyer returned to port after convinced that Russian ships safely passed along the coast of the United Kingdom.
Minister for International Security Strategy, Dr. Andrew Murrison said in an interview with the Royal Navy, Britain and Russia have maintained good relations, and sending one of the newest destroyers - Defender, - to the Moray Firth emphasizes the efficiency of the Royal Navy in Britain's interests.
Ship group of the Northern Fleet led by the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov" was published in the long march of Severomorsk 17 December.
The group also includes a large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Levchenko" project 1155, large sea tanker "Sergey Osipov" and salvage tug "Nikolay Chiker» 8 2014 January, the Russian connection is the English Channel.
British destroyer D 36 Defender came from Portsmouth 19 December specifically to accompany the group "Admiral Kuznetsov", and returned to Portsmouth in January 9. Accompanied by his Russian squad in January was replaced with the same type 8 destroyer D 33 Dauntless.


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"FF" is an interesting book; it started out as a continuation of "Fantastic Four," then a year later became a title in its own right starring the group of kids and teenagers associated with "Fantastic Four." We're on our fourth issue of the focus on the new cast, and while it's still fun to read, it's also starting to feel like it's losing a bit of its new identity.
"FF" and "Fantastic Four" are two heavily intertwined books to the point where "FF" #12-14 often felt like we were getting extra pages intended for "Fantastic Four" moved into its own comic. In the case of "FF" #15, there isn't any pretense that this is anything but extra plotlines that couldn't fit into "Fantastic Four." (They're even reprinting the "Fantastic Four" letter column in "FF" now.) Jonathan Hickman's script for "FF" #15 pointedly won't make much sense if you aren't already reading "Fantastic Four" now and I'm becoming less convinced it's a good idea.
Part of the attraction to still read "FF" is to see what all of the kids are up to. These characters were the best addition to "Fantastic Four" in a while and I love the idea of a strong focus on them. Here, the kids whose names don't end in "Richards" are getting quickly shuffled off-panel. (Even cover-appearing guest stars Power Pack have awfully little to do in "FF" #15.) It's frustrating because one of the best scenes in the book involves the Moloid kids and every single scene of Bentley's is comedy gold. Those characters getting quickly sidelined removes a significant amount of entertainment.
For those who are into Valeria and Franklin, there's still some gold. Valeria's interactions with everyone are strong and Franklin shifts more into the spotlight this month as he gets positioned for an important role in the conclusion of this storyline. The moment with Franklin interrupting the narration stream here is wonderful and in general I think Hickman has an especially strong handle on this strange, slightly out-there kid. While the rest of the cast getting temporarily removed is annoying, at least those who remain are fun to read about.
Nick Dragotta takes over the art starting with "FF" #15, and it's a tremendous relief. Dragotta is a talented artist to begin with, but even more importantly he can draw children who look their age. Valeria in particular looks adorable with her goggles perched on top of her head; she feels like a little girl and it makes the dissonance created when her adult-levels of intelligence appear that much more effective. When Franklin's talking to his companion on the ship, it looks great. From the outlined form perched next to him to the look on Franklin's face when he first glances up, it's a firm reinforcement that Dragotta is a much better match for "FF" than Juan Bobillo was.
Hopefully once this current story ends, we'll get the rest of the cast back in a more substantial role. Having all the kids around is the big strength of "FF" and the longer they're gone, the less entertaining "FF" might become. "Fantastic Four" bonus scenes are nice, but "FF" needs to get its own voice again.


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Sunflower seeds are rich in essential fats (omega 6), minerals, vitamin E, protein and fibre.
1 cup sunflower seeds
1/4 cup soy sauce
Toast the sunflower seeds over medium-low heat for 5 minutes, stirring.
Add the soy sauce and stir until sauce is absorbed and seeds are crispy.
This takes 3-5 minutes. Cool, and keep in an airtight container.
All beans are packed with protein, vitamins, minerals, fibre, and are low in fat.
1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 teaspoon oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon paprika or cayenne pepper
salt and black pepper to taste
Toss the chickpeas in the oil and bake at 150°C (300 °F) for an hour until crisp,
shaking them around in the tin from time to time.
Drizzle with lemon juice and sprinkle the seasonings on top.
Shake the chickpeas in the tin to coat thoroughly and then leave to cool.
Store in an airtight container.
Apart from soya beans, red kidney beans contain more protein than any other bean.
1 can red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
5 spring onions, sliced
1 clove garlic, sliced
1 tablespoon dried basil
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon water (if necessary)
salt and black pepper to taste
Place all ingredients into a food processor and blend until smooth.
Adjust seasoning.
Can be stored in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Try them served on savoury biscuits, topped with sprouts. (see below)
Famous throughout the Middle East, hummus served with crispy bread and salad makes a delicious light meal. As a snack it can simply be eaten as a dip or spread on savoury biscuits and topped with sprouts. (see below)
1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 tablespoons Tahini (crushed sesame seeds with sesame oil)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon water
salt and cayenne pepper to taste
Place all ingredients into a food processor.
Blend until smooth and adjust seasoning.
Decorate with a sprinkling of cayenne pepper.
Can be stored in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Alfalfa seeds are so small, they sprout very quickly. All you need to sprout seeds, beans or lentils, is a large glass jar, a piece of muslin (cheesecloth) and an elastic band. They are rich in protein, vitamins B, C and E, calcium and iron.
Wash 3 tablespoons of the Alfalfa seeds and place in the jar. Fill the jar with luke-warm water, place the muslin over it and fasten with the elastic band. Leave to stand overnight in a draught-free place. The next morning, pour off the water through the muslin and fill the jar again. Shake gently and drain thoroughly. Leave the jar on its side in a warm place but not in direct sunlight. The ideal temperature is 17-24°C. Rinse and drain the seeds 3x a day for 2-4 days. Remove the sprouts from the jar, rinse thoroughly and remove any ungerminated seeds. Place in a covered container and store in the fridge for 2-6 days.
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Hello Dim Sum
I love your appetizer recipes. My children help out with this very easy recipe - a simple low fat appetizer. We call this dish "salmon and cream cheese pastry cups". They're so easy as they're made from little vol-au-vents.
1. Use purchased vol-au-vents. Get the littlest ones from the supermarket. They're morsel sized.
2. Use soft cream cheese like Philadelphia cheese. If it is too hard, warm it up a little and mush it with a fork. Fill each pastry shell with the cream cheese.
3. Cut smoked salmon slices into 1 inch squares and roll them into a little cone.
4. pop the base of the salmon cone into the filled pastry cup/vol-au-vent. The top will look like a little rose.
5. Sprinkle some cut chives over the top.
6. Arrange attractively on a platter.
7. I allow 3 - 4 per guest as an appetizer.
This is such an easy recipe that looks divine. The children get such confidence making this quite sophisticated looking appetizer and they're always complimented by our guests.
I hope you and your readers will enjoy this simple recipe.
All the best
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I'm having a party, and you're all invited!
Get ready for Plants-a-palooza 2014!
One of my personal goals is to increase the DIVERSITY of the plant material that I eat. Now, I am not necessarily talking about increasing the actual amount of plant material, although that may be a byproduct, but instead, working towards consuming more different kinds of plants on a regular basis.
Why does diversity matter? Well, on a basic level, the more different kinds of plants that you eat, the greater variety of micronutrients you will provide your body. Beyond that, if you vary up your plant material, you help minimize any ill-effects that anti-nutrients in plants may be causing you. (For more great reasons to diversify your plant intake, read what Terry Wahls, M.D. has to say here at 32:36.)
Beyond that, there is evidence that eating plants can alter your gut microbiome and amp up your levels of firmicutes which were evidently much higher in hunter-gatherer populations than they are in modern-day. (For more on why that matters, see Sarah Ballantyne's (The Paleo Mom) terrific explanation starting at minute 57:09 here.)
On a more foodie level, trying different plants can also help introduce your palate to things you might not have tried. It can help ease you out of a food rut. And, with the advent of spring, it can encourage you to seek out seasonal, fresh produce after a long (and this year, very hard) winter.
So here's how it's going to work:
- We'll start next Monday, April 21st. That gives you ample time to plan menus, shop, or hit the farmers' market over the weekend.
- I'll post a Plants-a-palooza post reminding you of the "party" on Monday, and then Tuesday, I'll post our first "shout out" post, where everyone can share the plants they've eaten.
- We'll keep a running total, so a shout out would look like this: "Today I ate lacinato kale, butter leaf lettuce, plantains, sweet potato, cilantro, turmeric, cinnamon, apple, orange, chamomile and zucchini. Today's plant count is 11 and my running total is 11."
- If, on the next day, I ate kale again, then I would exclude that from my running total. Remember, we're going for as many different plants as we can get in a weeklong period. So, don't count them twice. But, if you eat different varieties of the same plant, then absolutely count them separately. So iceberg lettuce, Romaine and butter leaf would count as three different plants.
- What counts? Well, there are no rules per se … this is a party! But, I am not encouraging you to eat processed forms of plants. So, corn chips? I'm not interested. Those veggie chips with eight different veggies in them? Also not something I am interested in hearing about. I want to hear about your whole, unprocessed, plant delights.
- I don't think anyone needs encouragement to eat more grains these days, so why don't we exclude them? I know they're plants and all, but they fall outside of my goals so let's focus on other plants this week.
- Just keep a small pad or a note on your smartphone to keep up with everything. Sometimes it's easy to forget what you've eaten in a day.
- Don't forget about nuts, seeds, teas, herbs and other spices that you might enjoy!
- We'll go for a full week, which will make our last "shout out" and final tally Tuesday, April 29th.
If this sounds like fun to you but you are fearful at the idea of cooking new veggies, don't forget about the valuable resource our friends at Chowstalker provide. You can find a tremendous number of veggie recipes there. Also, if you want a reason to justify buying a new cookbook, Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything Vegetarian was my salvation when I started subbing to a CSA. It's arranged by veggie, so say you fetch some kohlrabi at the market and haven't a clue what to do with it. You just open up to kohlrabi in the book and you've got all the info you need. (I don't love Bittman's advice on cooking fats, but that's easy enough to amend when I cook. I just sub in my solid fats for his seed-based ones.)
One last word: This is supposed to be a FUN exploration of the plant world! Don't stress. Don't feel like you don't "measure up." Don't judge yourself. Just observe, take advantage of the springtime bounty, and explore the plant kingdom!
OK, who's in?
(Many thanks to my friend Karen Chason for the delightful logo she made for Plants-a-palooza!)
If you've found us through Nourishing Joy's Thank Goodness It's Monday #67, welcome! If you haven't checked out that fab list of posts, go visit it here.


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If you are someone who is worried about the ceilings of your house and dread the leakage of water, then you must seriously undertake roof restoration. However, there are many things which need to be considered before you actually take up the restoration work. The restoration work will not come cheap and will need a good amount of money, therefore it is better to have a solid plan ahead of implementation. You should not hurry things and start up without a proper plan.
Restoration or replacement
This is something which needs to be looked into seriously. You need to deliberate upon whether the restoration plan is possible to implement or you need to simply go with the replacement. Have you tried restoring before and have gone through it many a times? Or, will this be the first time? Check the roof gutter installation date. You need to make sure that your roof really needs restoration as you might end up spending money on restoration to find after a few months that it needs to be replaced which will be quite a loss for you as restoration work is expensive. You can ask the professionals who are coming for restoration for a thorough analysis of the entire rooftop if restoration is possible or replacement needs to be done.
- Take help from professionals and experts
For such a task, it is important to contact professionals who have proper credentials and are experts in the job. Since a lot of money needs to be invested for such restoration work, it is important to get it done by professionals to avoid any lax or future hassles. Quality of work is also very important as the roof is an important part of the house and it is there for the protection of the house and its people. Therefore, it should be taken care of by experts who have the requisite skills. There are service companies dedicated for this work who also give warranty coverage and therefore it is better to contact them for such restorations. Whether you want to repair the ridge capping or the pipeline or the sealant or sewer, you can contact them for their assistance.
- Expense and timeThe amount of money which is needed for restoration is something which the professionals who came for inspection will be able to tell you. Usually, a quotation is given by the professional service company after the assessment of the area which needs service or repairing. They will also be able to give you a timeline in which the entire project will get completed. They will give you an average time in which the work will be done.


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This was in my Martingale "Stitch This" e-newsletter and I thought I would share the info for those that are new to paper piecing or veterans to the method. The 7 tips below are by Debby Kratovil. You can sign up for STITCH THIS on the website by clicking the Martingale image below.
1. Always paper piece a sample block before you cut out an entire quilt. You may find the patches don't work, you don't like the block, or that your colors aren't pleasing to you. It's not a waste to "test drive" a block before committing to an entire quilt.
2. Choose your foundation paper carefully. The type of paper you use DOES make a difference. I like thin paper (newsprint or tracing paper). Martingale makes awesome papers for foundation piecing and it's all I use. I introduce my students to it in every class—I give them one or two printed patterns so they can see the difference. Computer paper is a bit too heavy; if you use it, you can tear out your stitches when you remove the paper.
3. Shorten your stitches, but not so small that you can't unsew them. When I need to unsew, my method is to save the seam and sacrifice what I call the "Patch of Shame." What? That's the fabric patch that doesn't quite cover the space it's supposed to cover. You have to sacrifice it for the good of the project. To unsew it, trim the Patch of Shame away with a pair of sharp scissors, as close as you can to the seam. Then grab the remaining seam allowance and peel it away. Everything's removed except for the seam stitches.
4. Begin stitching lines by sewing off the paper. Begin and end your seams outside your seam allowances whenever possible. You need stitching in the seam allowances, just as you do in traditional sewing.
5. Remove paper from a finished block or unit before joining it to other parts of the quilt. I don't enjoy removing tiny pieces of paper in seam allowances, but even more than that, fabric sewn to paper has absolutely no give. You must remove the paper in order to join a paper-pieced unit to a curved background unit. These have to work together on the bias.
6. Use thin pins. My favorites are small silk pins with no heads. You won't be able to fold the pattern and trim with a ball-head pin getting in the way.
7. Follow the lines and numbers! The most confusing part for a beginning paper piecer is that there's this opaque piece of paper sitting between her and her fabrics. She can't see where she's going. Just remember, you are always sewing from the wrong side, just like you do in traditional sewing.


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As an organisation, we currently represent a significant number of artists and communities in the five continents. We are open to visual arts, performance, music, writing, video, sound and other forms of art….as long as they are site specific.
Prior to the establishment of Artists in Nature International Network, our encounters had been based on personal affinities, friendships and individual networks, which had only allowed a limited number of artists to encounter a limited number of organisers of events, and vice versa. We believed that there was a need to open and broaden these networks into a large platform of encounter. We expected this platform to not only help all those who are already active in this field to know each other, but also to encourage and reassure those communities who were interested in creating new events.
To achieve this, we needed both an organisation and an efficient communication tool. We had been meeting since December 1998 to refine our ideas, creating a non-profit association of artists in April 1999. Consequently, we confirmed our structure and goals by the end of June 2000. The tool we chose in May 2001 as our principal form of communication was a web site representing the work of artists in nature, linking to the web pages of members, artists and organising communities. A dense flow of international opportunities and information is regularly passed to members only via email.
The constitution of AiNIN is lodged in France. The Members of the Bureau (who are responsible for the administration and direction of AiNIN) have, at different times, been based in Europe, Australia and Canada.
Being non-profit orientated, all our activity is based on benevolent active members. It allows a very low membership fee: 30 Euro for individual artists and 60 Euro for event organisers and groups of artists.
Here, you will find our Statutes.


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The Pogo Spot
Stomp tricks are tricks where you jump up to something and land on it with one foot (sometimes two) while still holding onto the handles. It's essentially a foot
plant, but you don't push off anything. Confusing I know, but it'll all make sense soon. Considering the fact that you
can exit any Stomp by HooHaing, the two tricks
go hand-in-hand.
Choose a new difficulty level for this trick category
Learn These Hard Stomps
Hard Tricks
Cross Stomp
Stomp Hop
Empty Peg Stomp
The Pogo Spot. Officially online since 2/22/04. email@example.com


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The Pasta Emilia retail shop is Downstairs of the Osteria, on the corner of Little Riley and Reservoir sts. The 'Cantina' is a place where you can buy our house-made products – a wide selection of pastas and sauces and all the essential ingredients of Anna's kitchen.
As in our kitchen, here the words 'organic' and 'biodynamic' are not trendy calling cards.
We work on the basis that our choices around food hold a key role in making the world a better place.
We love having a relationship with farmers and that's also why we enjoy selling our products at the local farmers' markets:
it's a moment of sharing and allows us to meet our customers, while establishing vital partnerships with other certified organic enterprises. A very important and sustainable organic food cycle.
Opening Hours
Tuesday to Friday 4pm to 7pm • Saturday to 11am to 4pm
(you can also come in during restaurant hours)
Eveleigh Carriageworks Farmers Market
Saturdays 8am - 1pm


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Subaru Legacy Apple CarPlay Install
One of our return customers came in wanting an upgrade on his 2010 Subaru Legacy so he could have Apple CarPlay. The factory radio just didn't do it for him so we installed a Kenwood car stereo (Excelon model DDX9903S). This car stereo is loaded with all the great technology including Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. It gives you full control over many apps and in particular the navigation app shows up on the car stereo screen and is controllable just like on the phone. For a little safety and convenience we also installed a Viper Alarm and remote start model 5305V. This is a great unit from Viper with two way communication. This Subaru Legacy Apple CarPlay install was done by the crew at Quality Auto Sound 6699 Leetsdale Dr. Denver, CO 80224 303-394-3500. We can help you with a car stereo to fit your vehicle and budget.


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Injection Sclerotherapy remains the most common method for treating spider veins and small varicose veins has been the typical patient's "treatment of choice" for greater than fifty years.
During this procedure, the smallest of needles is inserted directly into the vein whereby affording patients minimal pain upon injection. Next a foaming solution technique (Foam Sclerotherapy), with FDA approved sodium tetradecyl is used to treat the vein. This chemical solution irritates the lining of the vessel causing it to swell and stick together. Impressively, the colored (red, blue) appearance of the veins will fade or disappear. The treated veins are then wrapped with an ace (cotton, sponge, and/or coban) or a compression hose is applied.
No anesthesia is required for this treatment, however it is less effective on larger veins and has a higher recurrence rate compared to other minimally invasive techniques. Hence, Sclerotherapy may require several treatments for complete resolution.


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It's not hard to stare across the turbid ripples of Lake Ray Hubbard and imagine romance. Lake Ray Hubbard spans 22,745 acres, so it looks like an ocean through a slightly sozzled night squint. And though Lake Ray reaches a maximum depth of only 40 feet, there is still plenty of room to wheeze amorous submarine metaphors into your martini.
Glistening lights on the other side of the lake add to the idyllic imagery, twinkling like faraway ships, or maybe nearby bass boats. The Lighthouse's bar and lounge is called Club She. Perhaps this name just reinforces the hovering aquatic mystery. In one of the Lighthouse rooms, in the corner of the ceiling, hangs a mermaid who appears to be lunging into the dining room from a potted fern.
The Lighthouse
9900 Lakeview Parkway, Rowlett
972-463-1210. Open for dinner 5-11 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; open for brunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. $$-$$$
Escargot: $9.95
Crab cakes: $8.95
Lauren�s petite filet mignon: $22.95
Brittany�s bone-in rib eye: $27.95
Herb-crusted Chilean sea bass: $26.95
Mixed seafood grill: $26.95
Our Club She cocktail waitress is a woman of stature, just slightly under 6-foot-3, she says. I wonder how she feels about wearing the tiny black velvet hot pants of the Club She cocktail uniform. Maybe a little like GI Joe in one of Barbie's camisoles.
The band at Club She is tight, even if it is only a two-piece. They call themselves Southpaw and Saxman. Saxman is a burly bearded fellow in a coat and tie who wanders around the cocktail tables sweating and blowing into a soprano saxophone. Southpaw looks more like an aging Allman brother. He's dressed in a white shirt with a few buttons unfastened. He has the kind of mustache that looks like it needs to be raked after a hearty meal. He stands in front of a Korg keyboard and strums a white guitar. In between strums, he hits a note or two on the keyboard to sketch out a bass line. Southpaw sings, too. He has a very good voice.
Southpaw and Saxman play a whole range of favorites: from Kenny G, to Derek and the Dominoes, to Tony Bennett's I Left My Heart in San Francisco.
It turns out the latter number is apropos. The Lighthouse bills itself as an Old San Francisco-style restaurant. The Lighthouse has lots of gleaming wood paneling, and the servers wear tuxedo shirts and black pants. Around their necks hang untied black bow ties. I wonder why this is. I don't recall seeing this type of paneling or attire in San Francisco. The Lighthouse has a couple of big fish tanks in the dining room with cichlids and other assorted tropical fish. Yet I don't remember many restaurant fish tanks in San Francisco either. But San Francisco does have a lighthouse or two perched above dangerous shoals in the bay, so maybe this is the connection.
The music in the dining room isn't as memorable as the Southpaw-Saxman variety. It's the kind of music they used to put in elevators before they discovered that mirrors were better for passenger morale than string arrangements of Cheap Trick tunes. The piped-in music is mostly from movies and plays: the theme from Evita and "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" from The Sound of Music. The latter is especially fitting, as most of the servers seem plucked from that age bracket.
Which isn't to say they aren't attentive or enthusiastic or polite. They are all of these things and then some. It's just that...well, take wine service for instance.
We order a bottle of Echelon Pinot Noir. Our very enthusiastic and attentive server returns to our table with a sweating bottle of Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio. This is an understandable mistake. Both wines begin with "Ec"--though phonetically they have as much in common as Lake Ray Hubbard and San Francisco Bay do--and contain the word "pinot." We restate our request. The server takes the wine away and returns with Ecco Domani Merlot. It's the "Ec" that's hanging him up. We suggest he look for a label that begins with "Ec," contains the word pinot and is pasted over a bottle holding liquid that looks like berry Kool-Aid. This works.
But the meal doesn't, at least not as well as Southpaw and Saxman work Club She. It starts with the salads. A blond server positions herself behind us with a tray of three iceberg-lettuce salads. The iceberg and the beefsteak tomato and onion salad are the complimentary choices that go along with The Lighthouse's USDA prime Midwest, grain-fed, aged beef. But only two of us ordered beef, and none of us ordered iceberg salads. The server insists that we must have these iceberg salads, and she begins to place them at the table settings. We insist there must be some mistake. She walks away with her salads and a demeanor that could not be described as enthusiastic or polite. Maybe she's 17 going on 18.
Our first appetizer is escargot, and just as it arrives, our server adds tiny little forks to our place settings. The escargot is served on a platter: a heap of portabella mushrooms, caramelized onions, asparagus tips and snails in a dark brown demi glace. The snails are not in the shell, so we wonder why we were given the tiny forks. Then one of my companions crushes a large piece of shell in his molars. We wonder why he wasn't using his tiny fork. The sauce resembles a thick gravy you might ladle on mashed potatoes in a Luby's line. We wonder about that, too, as this flavoring doesn't seem to work with snails.
Just then we notice a chef walk by. Our server introduces him to us as Javier Pérez, the new Lighthouse executive chef. Our server explains that Pérez was executive chef at Nicholini's. Indeed, on his chef's coat is embroidered "Nicholini's" next to his name. We wonder why The Lighthouse doesn't give him a Lighthouse chef's coat instead of making him borrow the one from his old job, but we ask him about the snail sauce instead. Pérez explains the sauce is a typical wine/veal stock reduction. Then he mumbles something about gristle and pork fat. We wonder about this, too.
But our perplexity is diverted when the crab cakes arrive. After sampling the cakes, we wonder if there are little knives to go with the little snail forks because these cakes seemed more like something to spread on crackers than something to eat with a fork. The Crab cakes came with shoestring potatoes that looked like potato chips with a waffle pattern. These were stale. After they take our plate away, we wonder why no one tried to spread the crab cakes onto the potato chips to see if that made anything taste better.
The Lighthouse fancies itself a seafood and steakhouse supper club. But it's mostly a steakhouse. Virgil Block, the Rowlett businessman who opened The Lighthouse, named the seven USDA prime Midwest, grain-fed steaks on the menu after his seven grandchildren. We order a medium Lauren's petite filet mignon and a medium-rare Brittany's bone-in rib eye. Lauren arrives well-done, so we send it back. Brittany is a little overcooked, too, but we decide to work with her. Brittany has an off, sour taste, which grew to resemble blue cheese the closer you got to the bone. Very spooky.
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The seafood wasn't named after anyone. This didn't help much. Mixed seafood grill had sea bass, salmon and jumbo shrimp. We doubted any of these items kissed a grill, although they very well could have necked with microwaves. There were no singe marks, and the fish textures were spongy and mushy. The shrimp was dry and rubbery. A tail was catapulted across the table and disappeared into the supper club darkness when we tried to cut it with a fork. We never found it. We wonder if anyone else did.
Herb-crusted sea bass arrived with Alaskan crab claws on a bed of garlic-whipped potatoes, spinach and mango chutney. It was hard to tell what was what. The fish resembled the potatoes, and the chutney resembled the fish in its garlic-whipped potato mimicry. The fish was spongy and soggy. The crab claws were mealy and overcooked. Someone at our table wondered why they didn't just serve fish out of Lake Ray Hubbard. Then someone else at our table mentioned offal and storm drains.
We didn't need to order dessert, because Lauren arrived just as our plates were cleared. We all took pieces of Lauren, savoring her perfect medium hue and the bitter grill singe covering her surface. After devouring Lauren, we were too bewildered to try The Lighthouse apple crunch.
So we go back to Club She. We order Echelon Pinot Noir by the glass just to see what we get. We wonder if Southpaw and Saxman can cook, too.


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For many people, knee pain can be a way of life, limiting their ability to climb stairs, squat down to get something off the floor, enjoy long walks, shopping and a host of other daily activities. The knee joint is one of the most complicated joints in the body and has to bear up to 6 times your body weight with running or jumping.
This incredible joint has to move over a million times each year and over 80 million times over a lifetime. This is also the reason why things can go wrong, causing injury and pain.
How to take care of your knees
Just like taking care of your heart, your joints need attention to maintain a healthy state. Here are 3 easy ways for you to take care of your knees, avoiding arthritis and other joint problems:
Having a regular physical therapy checkup ensures that your joints are working at their peak performance. In addition, any problems will be discovered early, preventing the onset of arthritis and joint injury.
If you have arthritis or have had surgery, then a regular physical therapy check up is especially important. If your attention is on that sore knee, then it is time you called us for a free knee joint analysis. Talk to one of our expert physical therapists today and see how life can be with freely moving knees.


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information system
At the centre of our international provider success strategy, you will imagine, establish, and update information systems (IS).
This area concerns every profession involved in maintaining and updating the Information System. It covers professions that contribute to the upstream phases of projects, those that test or create, and those that ensure operation and production alike.
technological challenges
You will contribute to offering a simple, quick, and complete service to our collaborators and our customers. You will participate in innovative technological challenges (cloud, big data, IoT, data security, mobile financial services, etc.) in an agile IS interfaced with telecom infrastructures.
According to your background, you will participate in appraisal work, develop the architecture, create and develop projects, or run projects.
We are recruiting
- agile developers
- cloud, big data, and IS security specialists
- release managers
- architects
- system engineers
- protection, storage, and security engineers
- system administrators
- IS project managers


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Monday, August 20, 2012
Credit Card Cash Back
I am always astounded when I see how much cash back I earn on my credit card. We use our card for all our groceries, petrol and other shopping in the month and then pay it off on pay day. For this convenience, we get cash back and this month we earned over £7. It is amazing and I would recommend that if anyone else uses tehir credit card in this way, they hunt around for one that pays great cash back. Of course, if you do not pay it back in full you will be charged interest and if you tend to do this frequently, then it could be better to use a card that has low interest rather than cash back.
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Hairdressing Courses In Abroad
Hairdressing Courses In Abroad – It has turned into a pattern nowadays to travel to another country to concentrate distinctive courses regardless of the possibility that a similar course is accessible in our nation for an insignificant total. The hair styling field likewise is not a special case. Individuals have a tendency to go to different nations to seek after hairdressing courses. There is justifiable reason purpose behind it. By doing the course in another nation, he/she will have the capacity to take in the most recent patterns of different nations in the field. When they (he/she) return, they can utilize the new information to enthrall their clients.
A little nation like New Zealand itself has more than 10 top of the line hair styling schools. London, UK takes into account the necessities of the adolescents with more than 100 hair styling universities and institutes. Despite the fact that France is considered as the seat of form, the quantity of foundations that give courses in beautifying agents and style are lesser than anticipated. Be that as it may, there are sufficient all around outfitted hair styling schools in France as well.
There are many universally authorize magnificence salons and foundations in India that offer proficient preparing in hairdressing courses. It will be an awesome open door for you to come and visit India and at the same to do the course. Going by India will be a transform from the routine due to its heap culture, expressions, religion, dialect, race, ethnic gatherings and so on. You can never discover more assortments of hairdos in some other nation.
There are many top of the line and well known universities that show hairdressing courses in Australia, Canada, Singapore and Dubai. An understudy seeking after this course can discover some low maintenance work in a few nations. You can pursuit and discover the school and nation that suits you. It will, obviously, be beneficial on the off chance that you can visit a nation that you have not gone to yet and furthermore that which will furnish you with low maintenance profession.
Read More : Know How To Style Them Right
Some travel to another country with two objectives. Seek after the course of his/her preferring and furthermore to discover a vocation and settle in that nation subsequent to finishing the course.
For more informatiuon Hairstyle, you can click Hairjos.com


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(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton gave remarks at the Alabama Democrats Convention Saturday afternoon where she called out GOP candidates on voting right laws that she say are "a blast from the Jim Crow past."
Her visit to Alabama comes the same month Alabama Governor Robert Bentley decided to close 31 DMVs across the state, including in every county where African Americans make up at least 75 percent of the population.
Clinton, who has made voting rights a cornerstone issue in her campaign, called the governor to re-open the offices and said these laws are "constructed today to discourage even intimidate people from voting."
"It's time for your governor and legislators to not only listen to their constituents but listen to their conscience about what it means to be a leader," she said. "Those offices should stay open and not just for one day a month."
Clinton tied Donald Trump and the Koch brothers together, noting that at the end of the day they also only get one vote.
"We may be up against super pacs and billionaires, but when the election comes around, Donald Trump and the Koch brothers, and all their money, only get one vote each just like everybody else," she said. "One person, one vote. That's what we believe. No one should be able to take that vote away. That's why we cannot turn away, close our eyes from all the voting rights.. that are happening right now."
Clinton also hit Jeb Bush for saying he wouldn't reinstate the Voting Rights Act, noting that George W. Bush did.
"Now Jeb Bush says he wouldn't reauthorize the voting rights act," Clinton said. "I voted to reauthorize the voting rights act when I was in the US senate and President George W Bush signed it so he clearly thought it was still needed and this idea we don't need it anymore … if the law is working, we should let it keep working."
Marco Rubio and John Kasich were also targeted by Clinton for not caring about new voting right laws.
"When asked recently about voter ID laws, Rubio replied 'what's the big deal?' Kasich restricted early voting in Ohio when 77 percent of early voters in the most popular county were African American," Clinton said. "What part of democracy are these Republicans afraid of? I've won elections, and I've lost elections, but I sure feel better when as many people as possible show up and raise their voice."
Resource: http://wbt.com/hillary-clinton-hits-republican-candidates-over-voting-rights


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UN/INTOSAI Symposia
|UN/INTOSAI Symposia
The UN/INTOSAI symposia provide capacity building for SAIs (Goal 2 of the INTOSAI Strategic Plan). Through the exchange of subject-specific experiences and information in all relevant fields of public sector auditing the UN/INTOSAI symposia contribute to research and methodology development in these areas.
They have been held in Vienna since 1971 – normally in biennial intervals – jointly sponsored with the United Nations, and provide training for participants from SAIs in developing and transition countries.
The UN/INTOSAI symposia are organised by the General Secretariat. The technical programme is designed by the General Secretariat in cooperation with the United Nations.
At the interregional level 23 seminars|symposia on government auditing were organized under the auspices of the United Nations.


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To .NET or not .NET
I come from a coding background where we always tried to keep application sizes down and memory utilization low. So, if I can create an application which results in a 1-2MB download, I'm really happy. Even my biggest application is probably under 5MB. Sure, I realize that in today's world of multi-gigabyte game and application downloads, that is an anachronism but I still like keeping my application sizes small 🙂
Because of this obsessive-compulsive desire (or rather, need) to keep application sizes small, I have not looked at .NET as a possible development platform for my personal projects. Sure, I've done .NET development when I worked for different companies. Since internal deployment was via the network, the 20MB or so download for the core framework wasn't that big a deal. However, when you distribute software (and freeware at that) over the Internet, I really feel bad when I have to ask somebody to download a hefty runtime before they can run my app.
So what has changed? In a sense, nothing? .NET 3.0 is out and the framework now stand at around 50MB and the basic situation is the same. If you don't have the .NET 3.0 framework installed, you still have to go through a 50MB download. But what's new is what the framework offers. The possibilities are (while not endless) quite interesting 🙂 I love what the framework promises with the 3.0 iteration and the ease with which much of it can be done. Being a software junkie, I'm allured by the new UI elements and what they can do for my own application. In fact, I'm definitely considering shifting to .NET 3.0 at least for some of my applications.
Of course, there are issues. The aforementioned hefty download being but one issue. The other is deployment of web apps. Sure, .NET 3.0 offers beguiling promises for web applications – the possibility to have a really nice web interface for your applications. But as far as I understand, in order to develop and run web applications using .NET 3.0, you still need a Windows server running IIS. And how stable are Windows servers? Personally, I haven't had much luck with Windows as a web server and I really wouldn't want all of my critical sites on a Windows server. So that makes .NET 3.0 web apps, (at least for me) something nice to play with but not something I'd want to use on a production basis. But that is just based on my own personal requirements and situation. Your mileage will certainly vary 🙂
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A Star Teachers – Teach in London – UK Teacher Recruitment Agency
Teach in London – UK Teacher Recruitment Agency
|Job Title:
|Year 6 Teacher - North London
|Contract Type:
|£140 - £180 per day
|Start Date:
|Contact Name:
|Emily McGill
|Contact Email:
|Job Published:
|Oct 17, 2018
-Year 6 teacher
-Immediate start
-Full time
-North London
-Competitive daily rate
Are you a KS2 Teacher seeking a long term role?
Well no look further!
A full time role for a Year 6 teacher is currently available in a North London primary school!
The school are seeking an excellent KS2 practitioner to join their team ASAP covering until the end of the academic year 2018/19.
Some of the benefits of the school include:
-Mixed, mainstream Primary school
-Centrally located close transport links
-On site car parking available
-Web based lessons
-Inclusive SLT and professional staff members
-Very well resourced with fantastic amenities
-High emphasis on family involvement
-Ambitious students with a desire to succeed
-Motivating Leadership team
" Our school is an inclusive and happy school where we all work hard to do our very best. We have a strong focus on the well-being and achievement of every child so that their time in our school is rewarding, enjoyable and successful." (Head Teacher)
Applicants must have previous SATs experience.
If this sounds like you please send across an up to date CV as soon as possible to Emily or Maddy on our primary team : email@example.com
* You must have the legal right to work in the UK
* You must hold QTS or a UK recognised equivalent teaching qualification
* This position is subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure, Overseas Police Clearances (if applicable) and professional reference checks
It is A* Star Teachers' policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, due to the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to each applicant individually. If we have not contacted you within three working days, your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may feel suitable for in the future. A* Star Teachers is a Quality Marked Agency (continuously since 2002) and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.


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'Twilight' Almost Ruined Robert Pattinson's Career, Says Friend
Rob's 'Cosmopolis' director, David Cronenberg, says that the 'Twilight' films led people to think that Rob isn't a good actor! Can you believe it?
The Twilight saga has made Robert Pattinson into one of the biggest celebrities in the world, but is it possible that they've also made people consider Rob as an actor who isn't very good? David Cronenberg, his Cosmopolis director, sure thinks so!
In an interview promoting their film, David tells French FnacTV that he thinks the success of the Twilight films push people to think negatively about Rob, when explaining why he chose him for the film. "I had seen a few movies he had done," David says. "Of course, I'd seen Twilight, but I saw other movies as well and I was convinced, finally, that he had the right presence and he had the right dramatic range to play this role even though I know that because Twilight was so successful, many people would like to say, 'Oh, he's not really a very good actor, it's the vampire make-up.'"
David says that even though he felt people had that perception of Rob, the massive success of the Twilight films also are what made it possible for the two of them to work together. "I'm very happy for the Twilight movies because they gave me the possibility to work with Rob," he said.
Watch the full interview below and let us know, do you agree with David, HollywoodLifers?
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By Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service
A small group of evangelical leaders met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Friday (Oct. 26) to support a two-state solution to achieve peace in the Middle East.
The meeting follows a July 27 letter that a larger coalition of evangelical leaders sent to President Bush to "correct a serious misperception" that all evangelicals oppose creating a Palestinian state.
"We assured her that large numbers of people in the evangelical community … support a two-state solution and that we were committed to trying to raise the visibility of those people in support of such a solution," said Ron Sider, president of Evangelicals for Social Action
and one of the meeting attendees.
David Neff, editor in chief of Christianity Today magazine and another attendee, said three out of the six evangelicals who met with Rice were megachurch leaders, indicating that the types of ministries concerned about the Middle East is expanding.
"In a sense, this echoes the way (megachurch pastor and author) Rick Warren stepped forward on the AIDS issue," he said.
Other participants were Pastor Bob Roberts of NorthWood Church in Keller, Texas; Pastor John Jenkins of First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Landover, Md.; the Rev. Joel Hunter of Northland Church in Longwood, Fla.; and Chris Seiple, president of the Institute for Global
Copyright 2007 Religion News Service. All rights reserved. No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission.


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Eric Cantona to Head Dinard British Film Festival Jury
The festival of British movies in France's northern resort time runs Oct. 2-6.
LONDON – Former professional soccer player turned actor Eric Cantona will head this year's Dinard British Film Festival jury.
The festival in France's northern resort town runs Oct. 2-6.
France's Cantona who played for Manchester United retired from soccer in 1997 and has subsequently landed roles in Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, L'Outremangeur directed by Thierry Binisti and Ken Loach's Looking for Eric.
Cantona will preside over a jury at a festival of new British feature titles selected by the festival's president Sylvie Mallet and festival director Hussam Hindi
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As my many readers know, I have a taste for difficult and controversial topics. Indeed, I am completely ruthless in my pseudo-scientific analysis of decisively trivial phenomena. In pursuit of this goal of boldly going where no one has bothered to go before (heedlessly splitting infinitives along the way), I would like to broach the subject of parking lot behaviors. I know this is a sensitive area of research but I can't back away just because I am going to raise a few eyebrows. I would have preferred to analyze the social and sexual implications of #GamerGate which is also is a highly controversial topic (given the risk of incurring the wrath of #NotAllGamersAreSexistAssHatsButSomeUndeniablyAre, ancillary death threats and the necessity for going into hiding) but lots of other people have discussed it already so it would be redundant. Otherwise I would. Totally.
So, as my loyal readers know, I have been observing Subject A (Brancis), for some years now and I have come to realize that when we drive into a parking lot, his subsequent behavior is not merely an attempt to annoy me. He has A Cunning Plan. Naturally, my inner scientist was aroused mildly interested and I started to analyze the empirical data and to compare it to the parking lot behaviors of other people that I drive around with.
After weeks of computer simulations and number crunching, the results are finally in. I don't want to go into technical details here but, in simple terms, the computer generalizes across experimental subject's behaviors and learns the implicit patterns that govern the domain. Standard stuff.
All players start the day with 10 (ten) parking points. The goal is to accumulate the maximum number of points over the course of the day and, hopefully, attain the elusive and mythical Princess Parking, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a parking space seeker.
Princess Parking is the phenomenon whereby you drive into a crowded parking lot and, slowing down only enough to avoid hitting other cars or pedestrians, zoom straight into the parking slot that is closest to the store's main doors. Princess parking, in the conditions described above, is worth a whopping +10 points every day for the next week. That's how good Princess Parking is.
Special conditions:
If the parking lot has it's own fb page, like the notorious La Jolla Ralph's (see also here) then you can make the case for +5 bonus points for just making it out of the parking lot without a significant loss of mental and physical health.
Parking in the space is for people with disabilities gets -1,000,000,000,000 points and a lifetime ban on ever feeling that you are a good person. Unless you are disabled in which case, you permitted (but not encouraged) to key the car of any non-disabled person parked in disability spot.
Parking next to the little-known side door of the store does not qualify as Princess Parking. Sorry about that. We have standards.
Of course, Princess Parking is really just a dream for most of us. Every other scenario takes points away from your daily total.
-2 points for parking on the first aisle that you turn drive into as you enter the parking lot as long as there are no empty spots closer to the main door.
-4 points for passing up an empty spot and failing to find one closer.
-2 points for every time you turn into an aisle (and an extra -2 if you have previously turned into that same aisle)
-2 points for boring your spouse/sister by explaining why you are wasting her life driving around a parking lot.
-4 points for spending more than 10mn looking for a spot close to the store front if there are open spots anywhere in the lot. Know when to give up, dude.
-5 points for either 1) following some poor guy holding his keys in his hand around the lot to get his spot when he leaves or 2) waiting in the aisle for someone to leave when no car shows any sign of being occupied by a driver (neither of these apply if you are in a Carrefour parking lot in the Paris region during the Christmas shopping season. If you have experienced this, PLEASE, get help now. There are recovery programs out there. Believe me, eventually the nightmares become less frequent and may, in some cases, even go away altogether*).
-20 points for behaving like a jerk (zooming into a spot when someone else was clearly there first, parking in a spot reserved for carts or other such uncouthness).
-10 points for parking on the street or at the edge of the parking lot when there are likely spots closer to the store. You have clearly decided not to play and don't deserve any kind of points. We wonder why you have a car in the first place.
There are, of course, some subtleties to scoring your game. For example, during the end of year holidays, you may decide to park on the street and stroll into the store, smiling genially at the people in the cars blocking every aisle of the lot. In this case, you may keep your initial ten points because the intrinsic goal of the game is to bloat your ego and there is nothing quite like strolling by hot, tired people with a pitying smile.
One or two of my experimental subjects contributed material that is not part of the main study and that I include here for completeness:
1) Is it okay to pray for a parking spot?
I have asked around and the general feeling is that it is fine to pray to a deceased family member to intervene on your behalf ("Come on Gran, do this for me.") and to make promises you know you are unlikely to keep ("Just let me find a spot this one time and I won't whine about work ever again.") but it is not okay to pray to a deity. This is about finding a parking space. Get a grip.
2) Do I lose points if I lose my temper?
Yes. Even losing your sense of humor will get you -5. We have to be tough about this. Don't blame me, I didn't make the rules, you did.
I think that about rounds it up for Princess Parking, a game of such mind-numbing futility that I can hardly believe how seriously people seem to take it but that, dear Reader, should not stop you telling me about your own experiences. I have a high tolerance for boredom.
A number of people have been asking me for the next installment of my thrilling series "Why are the French?". I have heard you and I am on it like white on chalk.


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|Review: Endstille - Operation Wintersturm
|Operation Wintersturm
Label: Independent
Year released: 2002
Duration: 36:32
Tracks: 9
Genre: Black Metal
Rating: 3/5
Review online: February 22, 2011
Reviewed by: Bruce Dragonchaser
for:Operation Wintersturm
Rated 3.13/5 (62.5%) (8 Votes)
Endstille are one of Germany's premier purveyors of grim second wave Black Metal, and they pretty much sound like you'd imagine when thinking of the Germans trying this style; harsh, lifeless, and uber-tyrannical. Their debut from back in 2002, Operation Wintersturm is a blasting attack of unremitting carnage, all snarled riffs, ruthless percussion, and vocals that sound like Satan defecating. The vocal work in particular is what makes this such a vicious assault; they gargle incoherently through workouts such as "Mute Their Ways" and "Discovering Rapture As An Art", pouring over the demented guitars with an inexorable presence. It's one of the sickest displays I've heard, though the rest of the band aren't up to the challenge. The riffs are imitative and repetitive, never breaking the pattern set out by blitzing opener "Der Hetzer", and there are no memorable moments; the whole album is a blackened wash of malice that never desists.
This is a band you will come across often in your search for quality in the Black Metal world, but there are better examples, obviously, in the place where it was first spawned. Decent, but nothing more.
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Royal Panda (Sports) Bookmaker Review
There are, in my opinion, three types of bookmakers that are worthy of the name. The first is the type that has been around for decades, establishing themselves in the industry from the word go. These bookies are typically the ones that were born on the horse racing course or in a greyhound stadium, moving with the times and developing an online presence when it became clear that that was the way things were going. I'm talking about the likes of Ladbrokes, William Hill and Coral here. The second type are the bookmakers who rose up after the establishment of the world of online betting, never bothering to have on-street stores and simply jumping on the bandwagon of a new industry.
The final type are the bookmakers who established themselves online doing something else first before opening a sportsbook, once they felt like they had learned enough to do so. These are the ones I like the most, mainly because they know the world of betting online inside out and have to work much harder than the classical bookies to establish their reputation. Royal Panda fits into this category perfectly, only opening a sports section on their website in 2017, but run by people that have been working in the online gaming world for more than a decade. On this page I'll tell you all about their welcome offer and why it is that I like their set-up in general.
Desktop Site
I'm actually quite a big fan of the Royal Panda site when it comes to looking at their sportsbook. I didn't think I would be when I first started using it, mainly because it's just so very different to the usual sports sites set up by bookmakers who are traditionalists in that world. Royal Panda have, as I mentioned earlier, come from the world of the online casino, so the way that they have set up their sportsbook is reflective of that fact. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you have you'll find yourself navigating it with consummate ease.
The key to getting your head around it is the fact that the lefthand side of the page features all of the sports you can bet on. It's split into two tabs, namely 'Live' and 'Pre-Match'. Click on the Live tab and it will list every sport that has a live event taking place at that moment and the main part of the page will switch to an 'Event View', letting you know the individual bets you can place. You can then use the tabs across the top to select other things like Live Overview and Live MultiView, should you wish to. It's a similar thing with the Pre-Match tab, except for the fact that you'll see your ante-post options separated by sport. It's weird, but it's good.
Mobile App
Surprisingly for a company borne out of the world of online casinos, Royal Panda don't offer a mobile app yet. Instead their website has been optimised for use on mobile devices, which is much the same thing nowadays, to be fair. If you use a tablet then you'll likely find that the site looks much the same on a computer, whereas on a phone it's been shrunken down and moved around to appear more like the sort of sportsbooks you'll be used to using with other, better-known bookmakers.
You access the mobile betting site by clicking on the 'Sports' tab on the bottom of the home screen. Once in there you'll find links to the various sports covered along the top, complete with fun little symbols such as a football, a basketball or a table-tennis bat and ball. Much as with the main site, the first thing you'll be taken to is the live betting section. A tab along the top will let you move to pre-match betting instead, should you wish to go there. Rather than being split into sports, Royal Panda have broken down their pre-match bets into time periods of up to 72 hours ahead.
Live Betting
As mentioned, the company have gone big on their live betting, taking you straight to that section when you open the sportsbook for the first time.
Things you can bet on are separated into sports, so you'l find them all located down the lefthand side of the screen if you're on a desktop. There's a dropdown menu by each individual sport that will then reveal the events you can bet on.
If appropriate you'll also find a graphic along the top letting you know what's happening in the sport that you're betting on. It's a handy visual guide to help you decide what bet you'd like to play.
Live Streaming
As I write this there is no live streaming available via Royal Panda. Hardly a surprise given the relative youth of the company, but a little disappointing nevertheless. If you've read any of my other guides to bookmakers then you'll know that I don't consider this to be a deal breaker.
You can normally live stream an event with one of the big bookies as long as you've got credit in your account or have placed a small bet. With this in mind, if you like what Royal Panda have to offer then bet with them and stream with someone else - simple!
Markets and Odds
Royal Panda's market depth is actually surprisingly good when you consider they haven't exactly been around forever. Not many bookies have odds on a match from the Bangladesh Football Premier League, for example, yet here I am able to have a flutter on Arambagh KS v Rahmatganj MFS on a random Monday lunchtime.
If you don't think that's impressive enough then how about this: I can currently bet on a match between the reserve sides of Club Cerro Porteno Asuncion and Sportivo Trinidense; two sides whose first-team equivalents play in the Paraguayan Primera División. It's not just football that gets that kind of depth in coverage, either. There's an ice hockey friendly game taking place between HK Riga and SKA-Serebryanye Lvy that I can bet on right now, too.
When it comes to the odds offered by Royal Panda you might be slightly disappointed. Don't get me wrong, they're not terrible by any stretch of the imagination. It's just that they're not all that brilliant either. This may well be something that they get sorted the longer they're established in the industry. That said, it's unfair to expect every company to offer market leading odds week-in, week-out. Their odds are solid and, unless you're incredibly demanding, that's decent enough.
Royal Panda accept pretty much all forms of deposit that you'll want to use. Visa, Mastercard, bank transfer, Neteller, PaySafeCard and many more besides can all be used to get money into your account. Minimum deposit is £10.
Other Products
If you've been paying attention then it won't surprise you to know that Royal Panda have a casino that is open for their customers to use. There's also a live casino, should you prefer a more personal approach to your betting. Either way you're in for a treat, with an interface that has been honed over many years to make it pretty close to flawless.
About Royal Panda
Royal Panda was started by a group of colleagues from the world of the iGaming industry. The parent company is Royal Panda Limited, which tells me that this is their main focus and that they've got a degree of independence that other bookmakers can't claim to have. Independence is something that cannot be understated in the world of online betting, allowing a company to ensure that it aims its wares squarely at the customer rather than doing it for no other reason than profit.
As far as exposure is concerned, Royal Panda took on sponsorship of Queens Park Rangers at the start of the 2017-2018 season. That is the sort of thing that companies do when they want to target a particular market, so if you're a fan of football in the UK then it really should fill you with confidence. The announcement came on the back of confirmation that they would be given their sportsbook package by the industry leading tech company BetConstruct.
The site certainly takes a lot of getting used to when compared to more traditional bookmakers, but I like it a lot. I'm a fan of the set-up and the way the Live Betting section works, so I'd recommend that you check it out to get a feel for what I'm talking about.
It's certainly true that it's disappointing that Royal Panda doesn't offer Live Streaming, but it's not a deal breaker as far as I'm concerned. Some of you might feel that it is and that's fair enough, though I'd suggest that you check back to the site regularly in case that's changed.
Licence & Contact Details
There is a decent Help section on the Royal Panda website with a good FAQ. If that doesn't answer your question then don't panic, you can call them from nine in the morning until half past twelve at night. Alternatively you can speak to them via an online chat facility or else email them if your question isn't one that needs an urgent response.
The company has a Facebook page, but it covers both their casino and sportsbook offering and doesn't really do much interacting with people. The same thing can be said about their Twitter account, though that does tend to run competitions fairly regularly if nothing else. If you're a social media power user then don't be expecting too much by way of interaction on that front.
Royal Panda is vetted and approved by the Malta Gaming Authority, so you know your money is safe if you're going to bet with them. They also have a UK Gambling Commission licence with the reference number 39221.
Not everyone likes using social media or email to contact a company, especially not when it concerns money. Their snail mail address, therefore, is: Level 2, Tagliaferro Business Centre, High Street c/w Gaiety Lane, Sliema, SLM 1551.


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