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|CCL Industries Inc.
|Toronto, ON
|Phone: 416-756-8500
|Contact: Doug Codner, Controller
|105 Gordon Baker Rd, Suite 500 North York
|Toronto, ON M2H 3P8
|Phone: 416-756-8500 Fax: 416-675-8831 [email] www.cclind.com
|Services: Global supply chain leader of innovative premium packiage and promotional label solutions for the world's largest consumer and healthcare corporations. High impact graphics are key to brand differentiation in the store shelves and drive consumers' decision-making.
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|Winpak Portion Packaging
|Calgary, AB
|Phone: 403-251-6260
|Contact: Ian Parker
|103 Shawnee Manor SW
|Calgary, AB T2W 1W7
|Phone: 403-251-6260 Toll Free: 1-800-465-0998 [email] www.winpak.com
|Services: Canada & USA Packaging systems for 1/4 -4 oz servings of specialty products. Preformed containers, heat seal lidding materials, fill/seal equipment, manufacture and supply of coextruded barrier sheet for modified atmosphere package - preformed trays for fill/seal equipment and droll stock sheet for form/fill/seal equipment. Supplier of single service pakaging systems - cultured products, desserts, juice, dressings, cream cheese, sterile water solutions
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MOEBE is a scandinavian design brand based in Copenhagen, consisting of cabinetmaker Anders Thams and architects Nicholas Oldroyd and Martin D. Christensen. At MOEBE they design, they produce and they keep things simple. They focus on the essentials, try to stay curious and keep our thoughts analogue. They strive to reduce their designs to their most simple forms, thereby creating intuitive and honest products.
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I'd take that over the "so desperate to finally make a sale I am exuding it through my every pore" types that I usually see.
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Lagos's Wooden Tower by Hermann Kamte
Hermann Kamte Demonstrates The Lagos's Wooden Tower Residential Building
Hermann Kamte, the creative mind behind the displayed project Lagos's Wooden Tower by Hermann Kamte demonstrates, Lagos is the most populate city in Africa and represents a big deal for architects. City consists of 16 million inhabitants. Situated in the heart of Ikory, the most popular residential site of Nigeria, Lagos's tower is the unique wooden structure which is designed to be a smart and sustainable building. Lagos's tower rises above the town and follow the sky and search to cross the limit of wooden construction. The new landmark is composed of mixed residential type used. .
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Welcome to the August Break, 2016!
This is a community project that has no real rules — the idea is to simply take a photograph every day for the whole of August. That's it. Pause, look around you and shoot what you see. Live inside each moment. Pay attention to what's there. If it's the summer where you are it's a lovely way to be present to the moments that will be gone before you know it. If it's the winter, what better way to liven up your day than with a creative project to play with? :-)
You can use any camera. You could shoot every day or every other day or just on weekends. You can share your photos or just enjoy taking them without sharing. You can start and not finish. You can join in at the end.
Anything goes, loves!
We have a list of daily photo prompts so if you get stuck for something to photograph just refer to the list and get snapping!
There are also a few ways we can gather as a community:
1. Share your photos on Instagram using the #augustbreak2016 hashtag (see all the photos here!)
2. Add your photos to the August Break Flickr group
3. We also have a Facebook group this year
4. Add your blog to our blog roll (below) so we can all find new blogs to read! To add your blog just scroll down to the last pic and click the blue 'Add your link' button.
Note — Let's use this blogroll to find new blogs to read and enjoy so please just add your blog link once — links to your daily posts/images should be shared in the Flickr group, the Facebook group and/or on Instagram NOT added to the blogroll list (okay, so we have one rule ;-) That way the list will stay manageable!
Happy August Break, everyone!
PS. You can join us at any time during August – this is an informal challenge so jump in whenever you like!


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RightNow Media is a free online video streaming service that we offer to all of our members and attendees. This is a great Bible Study resource for individual study, family discipleship, or small group study. All of the content can be accessed from a phone, tablet, computer or television. With over 10,000+ Bible Study videos, you will have instant access to solid biblical teaching from leaders like Matt Chandler, Francis Chan, John Piper, JD Greear, and David Platt.
There is also content tailored for kids. Whether you are at church, at home, or on a long drive, families with children of all ages now have unlimited access to an enormous library of entertaining and educational Bible-based content just for kids.


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Get an overview of this hotel 3-star Orlando hotel in Downtown Orlando, near Amway Center
Popular highlights
With a stay at Courtyard by Marriott Orlando Downtown, you'll be centrally located in Orlando, within a 5-minute drive of Amway Center and Orlando Science Center.
This hotel is 0.7 mi (1.1 km) from Lake Eola Park and 2.6 mi (4.2 km) from Camping World Stadium.
Make yourself at home in one of the 200 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and Smart televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities including an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, gift shops/newsstands, and wedding services. Getting to nearby attractions is a breeze with the complimentary area shuttle that operates within 3 mi.
Satisfy your appetite with American cuisine at The Bistro, a bistro which features a bar. Dining is also available at the coffee shop/café. Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available daily from 6 AM to 10:30 AM for a fee.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and express check-in. Planning an event in Orlando? This hotel features 2000 square feet (186 square meters) of event facilities. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Courtyard by Marriott Orlando Downtown
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Courtyard by Marriott Orlando Downtown features an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and limo/town car service. Event facilities measure 2000 square feet (186 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers a library, multilingual staff, and gift shops/newsstands. An area shuttle within 3 mi and a shopping center shuttle are complimentary for guests. Onsite parking is available (surcharge). A total renovation of this property was completed in January 2014.
Courtyard by Marriott Orlando Downtown has designated areas for smoking.
- Express check-in
- Library
- Picnic area
- Bar/lounge
- Free shopping center shuttle
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Elevator
- 24-hour front desk
- Grocery/convenience store
- Express check-out
- Meeting rooms
- Restaurant
- Coffee shop or café
- Free WiFi
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Outdoor pool
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Computer station
- Free area shuttle
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 186
- Luggage storage
- ATM/banking
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 2000
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Snack bar/deli
- Designated smoking areas
- Laundry facilities
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Total number of rooms - 200
- Television in common areas
- Number of floors - 6
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Grocery/convenience store
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Microwave (on request)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Premium TV channels
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Access via exterior corridors
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave (on request)
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Smart TV
- Netflix
- Digital TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6 AM and 10:30 AM.
The Bistro - This bistro specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Water skiing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at noon
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
The self-parking surcharge is per night and not per vehicle. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- Cash Breakage deposit: USD 100 per stay
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 5 and USD 13 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 20 per night (in/out privileges)
Hotel Name
- Courtyard Marriott Hotel Orlando Downtown
- Courtyard Marriott Orlando Downtown
- Courtyard Orlando Downtown
- Courtyard Marriott Orlando Downtown Hotel
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Today, we'd like to thank all service members and veterans who serve and have served our country. As you know, Veterans Day is November 11, 2012. What you might not know however, is the system that our military members go through when they have to move.
How often are service men and women moving?
For the most part, service men and women move every two years. Today, we're going to focus on the Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move and what is involved in that process.
How is a service member's move different?
Our service men and women use an online system (known as DPS) that provides a "Self Counseling" process prior to their move. During this online interview the service member provides the logistical information of their move including, number of family members, number of rooms, how much they want to move, and any other important information. This new system is more convenient than the previous one because it's more readily available to anyone with an internet connection.
Once they have entered their information, they are assigned to a qualified moving company and the mover is able to interact directly with the service member. Moving companies are not allowed to solicit service members directly; they can only be assigned moves.
What services are guaranteed?
Regardless of rank, all service men and women receive the following for their move: in-home surveys, professional packing, delivery, storage, and full and complete unpacking. Please note, the packing has to be a "carrier pack," meaning the mover has to pack all the belongings, even if it means re-packing previously packed boxes with professional crews.
How are they protected?
Due to the volume of service members moving every year and the vital jobs they have, it's important that they receive the very best. All movers are graded on the move they've provided. Movers are judged on the perception the service member has of the move, not the pricing or quality of the move. This is a step in guaranteeing the service members are receiving a great move and their families are taken care of.
At JK, we are grateful to both current service members and veterans who have served our country and we say thank you. If you have any additional questions, we're more than happy to answer them in the comments section below or direct you to the right resource.


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INFOGRAPHIC: 50 years of LNG
The first commercial shipment of LNG happened 50 years ago. This infographic shows how the industry has evolved over the last five decades and the opportunities that exist today.
On October 12, 1964, the first commercial shipment of liquified natural gas (LNG) was made between Algeria and Canvey Island in the United Kingdom. From the time of this very first LNG export, there are now 29 countries importing LNG. The amount of vessels carrying LNG at sea has ballooned to 424 LNG carriers with another 127 on order.
Many countries have been more reliant on LNG importing in recent years. Since Fukushima, Japan has now changed its energy mix to rely on LNG for a massive 48% of its power generation. In addition, South Korea uses LNG to meet 25% of its electricity needs. Add in Taiwan, and these three countries import over half of all available supply.
While China was on pace to ramp up LNG imports even higher than its current rate, a recent $400 billion energy deal between Russia and China may help alleviate those needs to some degree.
New global LNG export projects are underway and countries including Canada, Australia, East Africa, and the United States are all looking to get a bigger foothold in the game. These new plays have enough potential to even eventually dethrone Qatar, the world leader since 2006, which recently achieved its production goal of producing 77 million metric tonnes of LNG per year.
Original graphic from: Wood Mackenzie
Photo by: Lightgraphs
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Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009 | 2 a.m.
Sun Blogs
Sun Archives
- UNLV researchers: Recession gets worse in Las Vegas (2-3-2009)
- Obama's olive branch met with skepticism (1-28-2009)
- State's reps vent with bailout votes (1-23-2009)
As the country grows skeptical of the massive economic recovery package being pushed quickly through Congress, the White House's chief economic adviser stepped forward Tuesday to make the case for acting boldly — and acting now.
The Senate is working late nights this week on a $900 billion recovery package. Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted that lawmakers have a "long, hard slog" ahead, with a goal of passage by Presidents Day, Feb. 16.
Some lawmakers, including Nevada Sen. John Ensign, have warned against hasty action. The bill needs to be done right. "There's no hurry," Ensign said Tuesday.
In pushing back Tuesday, Lawrence Summers, President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, said the No. 1 lesson learned from the Great Depression is a simple one:
"You need to act," Summers said during a White House briefing. "The market is not self-stabilizing. Herbert Hoover did not act; the situation got worse. FDR did act and the situation improved."
Much has been made about what did and didn't happen as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt engineered the New Deal in hopes of ending the Depression, which began on President Hoover's watch.
Liberal economists say the federal jobs program helped bring unemployment down from the Depression-era high of 25 percent. They say basic government services, including unemployment insurance, gave a lifeline to families in grave need.
But conservative economists have a very different view of what transpired seven decades ago. Private enterprise was stunted as the federal government poured so much of the nation's resources into federal programs and attacked big business, those economists say.
The current downturn is not the Great Depression — even Nevada's 9.1 percent unemployment rate is still a far cry from 25 percent. The nation's economic growth has not tanked the way it did then.
Yet the debate in Congress today is very similar to that of the 1930s.
Obama believes up to 4 million jobs, including 36,000 in Nevada, would be created by the federal spending on new roads, transit, school modernization and other public works programs. (Private forecasters have said as many as 62,000 jobs could be created in the state.) Many of the jobs would go to the hard-hit construction industry.
Democrats believe putting money directly into the hands of those who need it most will provide the jolt the economy needs, including money to avoid laying off teachers or health care workers and $25 a week extra in unemployment checks for those out of work.
Republicans are pushing for corporate and personal income tax breaks, as well as a massive proposal to fix the mortgage crisis through a new system of government-backed low-interest loans. Republicans believe jobs are created by the private sector.
Ensign says homeowners with lower mortgage payments will have more money to spend.
"All the government spending did not take us out of the Depression," Ensign said last week. "It is the private sector that will grow us out."
Summers is by no means a liberal economist. In fact, some liberal economists question his role in past administrative policy. He was treasury secretary in the final years of the Clinton administration and an adviser to Ronald Reagan.
But Summers, a former president of Harvard University, foreshadowed the downturn more than a year ago. Asked Tuesday about lessons to be learned from the Great Depression, his answer was a brief lecture making four basic points.
Taking action swiftly is foremost, Summers said.
Second, the government must maintain its stimulus efforts as the economy improves. He noted that midway through the 1930s, as conditions improved, the government lifted stimulative policies and the nation went into recession.
"We will have to persevere," Summers said. The government should err on the side of doing too much rather than too little, he added.
"Third, I think the experience of the New Deal speaks to the importance of undergirding basic income protections for families and performing crucial state roles.
"The basic pillars of our program — support for middle-class families, support for necessary infrastructure — were crucial aspects of the strategy that was pursued during the Great Depression."
For example, he said, while some in Congress criticize plans to expand government Pell Grants for college students, Summers said the money will mean middle-class parents won't have to sell their homes to send their kids to college.
To critics of plans to hire smoking-cessation counselors at hospitals, Summers said the jobs will keep adults working in addition to curtailing teen smoking.
"And last, the Great Depression pointed out the dangers of untamed finance. And we've been reminded again of the dangers of untamed finance."
Obama's Treasury Department is fast at work evaluating the Wall Street excesses that underline the recession as the administration prepares to send out the second half of the $700 billion Wall Street rescue approved last fall.
Americans are skeptical. A Gallup Poll out this week showed while 75 percent of those surveyed believe a stimulus package should be passed, they are deeply split over the details.
Thirty-eight percent of those polled said Obama's package should be passed as is, while 37 percent believe it should undergo major changes.
"It has a simple premise," Summers said of the Obama plan. "There are millions of Americans that need work and there is an enormous amount of work that needs to be done in the country."


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Is it news reporting, or is it David Gibson?
David Gibson's latest article on the Vatican's upcoming synod of bishops, while presented as straight news, crosses the line into opinion in a way we at GetReligion have come to expect from the Religion News Service reporter, who consistently writes as a columnist.
Let's start with the biased labeling. It's "conservatives" vs. "reformers," folks (emphasis mine):
Public disagreements over whether the Roman Catholic Church can change its teachings on Communion for remarried Catholics are growing sharper on the eve of a major Vatican summit, with conservatives led by U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke making another push against loosening the rules.
In a conference call with reporters on Tuesday (Sept. 30), Burke, who currently heads the Vatican's high court, singled out the leading proponent of reforms, German Cardinal Walter Kasper, and his claims that critics of his proposals are really attacking Pope Francis.
Kasper has said that the pope supports his efforts to find ways to fully reintegrate divorced and remarried Catholics into church life. The proposals have become a prime focus of the upcoming Vatican meeting, called a synod, which will convene on Sunday for two weeks to consider changes in family life in the modern world.
As my GetReligion editor tmatt has noted, "reformers" is:
... a problematic term for use in doctrinal disputes because it automatically assumes that something needs to be reformed. This term pretty much settles the issue, telling readers precisely who the good people are in this story, which means that folks on the other side are the kinds of blokes who are opposed to "reform."
So it is in Gibson's piece: we have the conservative meanies against the proponent of "reforms" who wants to "fully integrate divorced and remarried Catholics into church life."
It's misleading to suggest that, for divorced and remarried Catholics, being unable to receive the Eucharist or the Sacrament of Penance means not being integrated into church life. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1651, emphasizes rather that the divorced and remarried, even with the sacramental restrictions, "can and must" participate in church life:
"Toward Christians who live in this situation, and who often keep the faith and desire to bring up their children in a Christian manner, priests and the whole community must manifest an attentive solicitude, so that they do not consider themselves separated from the Church, in whose life they can and must participate as baptized persons."
Gibson, however, does not acknowledge ways in which Burke and others are seeking to show compassion while upholding Church teaching. Instead, he quotes Burke's most inflammatory words and lays on a strategically placed zinger:
"I find it amazing that the cardinal claims to speak for the pope," said Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis, speaking from Rome. "The pope doesn't have laryngitis. The pope is not mute. He can speak for himself. If this is what he wants, he will say so."
"But for me as a cardinal to say that what I am saying are the words of Pope Francis? That to me is outrageous," said Burke, who is reportedly set to be sidelined by Francis to a largely ceremonial post as patron of the Knights of Malta, a global church society based in Rome.
The unsourced datum that Burke is "reportedly set to be sidelined by Francis," coming right upon the heels of the cardinal's criticism of Kasper for claiming to speak for the pope, is a cheap shot, pure and simple. It's editorial writing, pure and simple.
There is an odd bit about "others on the [conference] call":
Burke's comments were echoed by others on the call and represent the latest effort by church conservatives to try to head off any possibility that the bishops and cardinals meeting at the Oct. 5-19 synod would open the door to changing any Catholic teaching, especially on marriage.
Who are these mysterious "others"? Although Catholic World News gives some names, Gibson has told us only that Burke is speaking in a "conference call with reporters." Without any context, the reference to unidentified "others" and "church conservatives" comes off like bizarre conspiracy talk.
But wait -- there are more "conservatives" in the picture:
Earlier this week some 48 mainly conservative Catholic clergy and intellectuals — as well as prominent evangelical leaders such as Rick Warren – published an open letter to Francis and the synod delegates urging them not to dilute church teaching on marriage but to fight secularizing trends that they say have weakened marital standards. ... All told, as many as 10 cardinals aligned with the hierarchy's conservative wing have written in opposition to Kasper.
"[Cardinals] aligned with the hierarchy's conservative wing"? What does that even mean? Does it refer to some aisle down the middle of the Sistine Chapel, like that in the House of Representatives?
What we are witnessing here is classic Kellerism, and I sense a bit of Saul Alinsky's Rule 12 thrown in: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Kellerism -- the doctrine of former New York Times editor Bill Keller -- would hold that the cardinals who are opposed to changing Church doctrine do not deserve to be given a fair hearing. Therefore, per Alinsky, they are the target that must be frozen in readers' minds as "conservatives," the polar opposite of "reformers." If that's the angle Gibson wishes to take in an opinion piece, it's his prerogative. But it's not news reporting, and it does readers a disservice to frame it as such.


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Water Baptism | January 12 and 15
Following the Thursday Night Experience
After you choose to follow Jesus your next step on the journey is water baptism. This is your public profession of the life changing work of the Holy Spirit in you. Sign up on your Comm Card, at Welcome Home in the lobby, or online at north.church/baptism and we will contact you with all the details.


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When oil or sebum that normally drains to the surface of the skin obstructs follicles, then pimples or zits occur. Hormonal changes near menopause, menstrual cycles, puberty or pregnancy can cause sebum secretions to increase creating additional blockage which allows bacteria and yeast to grow, causing inflammation in the skin and acne.
The type of acne is defined by the type of infection and its intensity.
-Secretions that are caught beneath the skin are Whiteheads.
-Oils & sebum that break through the skin are often black from pigment deposits.
-Painful, pus-filled infections under the skin or "underground cysts" are cystic acne.
The lungs control the skin in Chinese medicine with acne being a sign of heat in the intestines and lungs. Our approach is to clear heat in the intestines and lungs and to detoxify while reducing stress -the cause of 95% of all disease. I highly recommend you work with an acupuncturist in your area with weekly sessions for best results.
Do the things recommended in every category below: Herbs, Diet, Exercise, Sleep, Acupuncture!
Do you really want to make a change? Then do it all and be the change you want to see.
Yes "Skin Clear" will help you, but to see quick, lasting results, change your life as suggested.
I like to ask patients to categorize themselves so as to direct them to the best herbal formula for treatment. The main categories have to do with Hormones, Stress, Toxicity & Everyday Acne.
Most people have a buildup of toxins in their bodies and can benefit from a simple bowel detox.
Bowel movements are very important for healthy skin. Most of the toxins in our bodies are flushed and eliminated through healthy bowel movements, urination and sweating. Food should move completely through our system in 24 hours. However due to processed foods and lack of fiber, it can take some people over 60 hours. When the large intestine and colon are not functioning efficiently, wastes remain in the body for days. Toxins may deposit along the colon wall, which is a porous material designed to reabsorb unused water and redistribute in the body. The body will then try to excrete these toxins through the skin and urine.
Acne Location for toxicity -Toxicity acne can be all over and is often related to digestion. Frequently appears around the forehead, between the brows & can even appear on the back.
Herbal Treatment Protocol:
-Start with "Poo" formula to detox bowels for 5 days and then add in "Skin Clear" for 4-6 weeks. Add in Stress formula as needed.
Stress is the number one cause of all ailments in the body. Stress causes the body to go into flight or flight mode which then releases excess cortisol, the stress hormone and to slow down the release of fats and oils thus clogging the pores.
Acne Location -Stress acne tends to appear near the nose and a bit near the forehead and a bit at times on the back.
Herbal Treatment Protocol: Start with "Poo" formula to detox bowels for 5 days and then add in "Skin Clear" for 4-6 weeks. Add in Stress formula as needed increasing dose during periods of extreme stress. Should be taken for 4-6 weeks every day, then decrease or maintain dose according to stress levels and acne persistence.
Women and Men all have cyclical hormonal changes -the most obvious being the 28 cycle that women have each month. For women, acne that comes and goes and appears most frequently during the 6-7 days before menstruation.
Acne Location -Hormonal acne often appears along the jaw-line and near the mouth.
Herbal Treatment Protocol:
-Note on a scale of 1-10 how bad your acne is during it's worst time of the month. Note on a scale of 1-10 how bad your pain is during worse day of menstruation. This will give us a base from which to refer to in the future as things improve.
Start with "Women's Harmony" to balance hormones ongoing for 4-8 weeks. When your cycle is on time, no clots in blood, pain levels have been cut in half, then start decreasing dose of "Women's Harmony over the next 2 weeks.
-You've had this type of menstrual cycle for year, give it one or two cycles to balance and reset for lasting results. The rest of your health and life will also improve with it.
-ADD "Skin Clear" just before you normally would start to get hormonal acne each month and continue through end of acne stage of cycle.
Acne that is ongoing and has been chronic for a period of months or even years needs to be addressed with a complete well balanced approach.
Acne Location: For this group, acne has appeared just about everywhere on the face and maybe other places on the body over time.
Herbal Treatment: Start with "Poo" formula to detox bowels for 5 days and then add in "Skin Clear" for 4-8 weeks. Add in "Stress Plus Heat" formula since much of your life has been dealing with the stress associated with bad skin -it can be more traumatic then you realize.
If stress increases, just increase dose during periods of extreme stress. Should be taken for 4-6 weeks every day, then decrease or maintain dose according to stress levels and acne persistence.
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Give the following attention in your Life to achieve the best results!!!
SLEEP: Sleep is the time when new cells regenerate. The best hours to sleep are 10 pm to 12 am as it is the most active time for cell regeneration. Read the book "Sleep Smarter" by Shawn Stevenson for the best actionable tips to better, deeper sleep. I LOVE this book and have stack of them I loan out to all my patients.
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* This will cool the inflammation. To make a salve blend 2 tablespoons 100% aloe gel with some blended cucumber. Apply externally to acne and leave it on for 15 minutes, then wash it off.
* Lubricated the intestines -drink 12-14 ounces of warm water mixed with 1 teaspoon of honey every morning on an empty stomach. Toxins can end up accumulating in the liver and skin if the bowels are not moved regularly.
*Vitamin A can help to reduce production of oil and does size should be about 1,000 to 2,000 mg a day.
* Taking up to 30 milligrams of zinc a day can help symptoms of acne.
* A Vitamin B complex can be helpful for acne that gets worse during a woman's period. Vitamin B6 is most helpful but a complex is good.
* I like the use of the several formulas mentioned already based on the individual's needs. There is also a classic formula called Fang Feng Tong Sheng San often used for acne and can be found in health stores that is descent.
* Topically tea tree oil is a common essential oil that can be applied to acne to help eliminate bacteria. A compound called terpinen 4-ol is responsible for its antimicrobial activity. A good level to use is a 5 percent tea tree oil solution made by mixing 1 part tea tree oil to 19 parts water and using it as a skin cleanser.
Increasing the circulation helps immunity and sweating opens the pores and dislodges oils. Washing immediately after exercise is important for this reason.
* One of the best heat clearing points in the body used by acupuncturist can also be done at home using acupressure. This point is called Winding Gulch (LI-11). This point is at the crook of the elbow, it is easiest to find by seeing a picture -google it and look at images. Then press and hold it for 1 minute, alternating arms. Do this 5-10 minutes each day to clear heat and toxins.
* A second point is called Inner Court (ST-44), This point is located between the second and third toes of your foot between the web. Pinch the web between the two toes. Hold for 3 to 5 minutes, then repeat on the other foot.
* Some medications can make acne worse such as steroids, birth control pills, psychotropic drugs.
* Being overweight can make acne worse as well as stress or the use of chemical cosmetic, skin, and hair care products.
Be patient with yourself and your treatment. In my clinical experience, some cases can take 4-8 weeks to clear up and some can take 4-6 months. Each person responds differently. I recommend working closely with an acupuncturist & herbalist in your area.
There is a great book on women's hormones which can help you find additional information about hormonal imbalances called "The Hormone Cure" by Sara Gottfried, a Harvard trained MD who supports Acupuncture and herbal remedies.
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(ARTs) first began in India with efforts to created test tubes babies with the help of IVF in the early 1980's. Assisted Reproductive Technology has come a long way, and we have slipped through the cracks in the oversight system that covers nearly every other area of clinical research and medical care without a doubt., there is no reason why ART in India be treated differently than any other area of medicine In India Each society has approached the ethical and legislative aspects of IVF in its own particular way. This situation has now emerged in India, where it is increasing rapidly, a number of couples in India utilize this process for their benefit. At current count, there are 396 "IVF clinics" in India and mushrooming weekly. We at Abijay Hospital Permabur India feel that ART alleviates infertility by allowing the birth of another person, and we are one among the best of the IVF clinics. According to the ICMR guidelines, we make sure that the treatment given is reasonable and not expensive.
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Barthstraße tram stop is just 250 metres from Hotel Hahn. It is just 2.5 km from Marienplatz in central Munich.
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There are many attractions near this hotel, the closest of which being the M-Park which is little more than an approximate 9 minute walk away.
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There are a choice of restaurants to visit within walking distance of the Hotel Hahn. If you're feeling like some Cafe food, then the Bei Hanni is just 2 minutes walk away from the hotel. If you would prefer a different style of food, there are restaurants serving Bistro (Cafe Bistro Bezimkiler), Mexican (Red Pepper), Greek (Taverne Entaxi) and Mexican (Pappasitos) food just a few minutes from your doorstep.
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The stations Barthstrasse and Trappentreustrasse are within 250 meters of this hotel. The Bus 133, Bus 53, Tram 18 and Tram 19 can be accessed from these stations.
The quickest way to get to the city center (taken as Marienplatz) from the Hotel Hahn is as follows. Walk approximately 6 minutes towards Donnersberger Brücke. You should travel 4 stops from Donnersberger Brücke on the S2, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8 or S1 towards Ostbahnhof to reach Marienplatz (6 minutes).
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Today's weekly favourites from our fabulous Flickr pool, 'making everyday beautiful', are inspired by le train fantôme's handmade 'Lumi' doll. Isn't she fabulous!? I love her outfit, so sweet with her over sized yellow bow! (Find out more about Fanja Ralison's beautiful work here and be sure to check out her shop while you are there too!) So yes, while browsing through 'making everyday beautiful' this morning I spotted this whole collection of lovely images that perfectly complimented 'Lumi' doll. Then when I brought them together I saw a picture of her world appear, at least the world I imagine she would live in...
Of course she has an inherent love of handmade things and fills her wardrobe with carefully stitched dresses and elegant handmade jewellery; while the rest of her world is filled with an eclectic mix of ornate patterns all in a nostalgic but sophisticated palette of moody colours. When she's not visiting fabric shops or museums, reading or taking tea with friends you will find her with a needle and thread in hand. Quilting, stitching and making lots of pretty things. Oh, and I just know she is a lover of delicious dark chocolates, possibly violet creams are her absolute favourite!?
It's wonderful and inspiring isn't it!? The way we can read a whole character and personality in another person's handmade art. They suggest a story to us and our imaginations run wild with possibility and creativity. Do you do this too? How do you imagine Lumi's world to be?
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Gelish Gel Polish Swatch in Sugar Daddy.
Gelish Nail Polish In Sugar Daddy
Today is a simple post. I have swatches of Gelish Sugar Daddy. This is part of the Nail Harmony Gelish line at Sally Beauty Supply. This polish requires the gelish system and UV light which can be purchased at the same store. I love these at home gel manicures and I get a full two weeks of wear (without chipping!) from them! This color in particular is limited edition and part of the Candyland collection. Read on for more pictures….
Gel Manicure at Home with Gelish! Featuring the color Night Reflection.
Gelish Nail Polish Swatch in Night Reflection
Gel nails. They are huge right now. Among the claims sported by gel manicure companies are such statements as: no chipping, no peeling, 3 weeks wear, no fading. This is everyone's dream right? Up until recently, you had to get yourself to a salon to get one of these manicures as well as pay around 25-35 a pop. Being one of those who doesn't go to the salon, ever, I bought the Gelish kit when it was released at Sally Beauty Supply. I'd been sitting on the kit until today as I thought the manicure would take forever. However, I discovered that this manicure isn't as complicated as I once thought. Read on for more!
My Favorite Nail Tool: ELF Nourishing Cuticle Pen
ELF Nourishing Cuticle Pen Packaging
This is going to be a short and sweet review, not a lot of pictures or swatches here but I want to rave about a product I've fallen in love with! I manicure may nails quite often since I never get them done in a salon. I paint them a few times a week and I like my cuticles to be both conditioned and pushed back. Previous to finding this little nifty pen here, I was using a cuticle remover and pusher. This worked well but it took two minutes to let the cuticle remover work and then I had to clean up the cuticles and wash my hands. This little baby took care of all that for me. I keep this on my nightstand and just pick it up before I start painting. I push my cuticles back with it and it works for that purpose as well as nourishes my cuticles so they don't look scragly.
I love this so much for a few reasons. 1. It's super cheap at 1 dollar from my target. 2. It's handy and the packaging is great – tight fitting cap on a small, easy to hold pen. 3. It gets the job done quickly and well.
I think that's just about all I can say about it – it works, I love it, and would reccomend it to anyone who does their nails DIY style like me.
Tip of the pen for pushing cuticles.
China Glaze Ruby Pumps Swatch + Sally Hansen Midnight in NY Swatch
Another Nail Polish Swatch. This is China Glaze's 'Ruby Pumps' and Sally Hansen's Complete Salon Manicure in 'Midnight in NY'. Ruby pumps is the red, glittery color; the color is non-so-subtley named after Dorothy's shoes in The Wizard of Oz. I love this color! I love glitter and this color is packed with it!
I put 'Midnight in NY' on my index finger only just to change things up; so, that's why you only see 'Midnight' on one finger only. I of course love China Glaze and will say that the formula, brush, whole kit-n-kaboodle is awesome. I didn't expect that much from Sally Hansen, in all honesty, because as good of a drugstore brand as it is, I didn't really expect it to live up to the higher end polishes. I was pleasently suprised. The Sally Hansen Complete Salon formula is VERY good. It kept up with the China Glaze as far as wear. I would also reccomend this formula for those of you who want to use a good drugstore formula.
Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Raisin the Bar
Another Nail Polish Swatch! I went to rite aid recently and they had a great sale on Sally Hansen. I do like sally hansen a lot but I'm picky about which polishes in the line I purchase. I am picky about buying only colors that are unique and also am picky about the formula. I need something that won't chip or else I'll end up doing my nails every day as I always have polish on. The slideshow below show's my manicure with Sally Hansen's complete salon manicure formula in 'raisin the bar'. It's a pretty dusty rose. If you're wondering what's on my index finger, it's Sally Hansen's Crackle polish in 'distressed denim'. This isn't a review of the crackle, but I will say that I'm impressed with the sally hansen crackle line. It's especially good if you're looking for a budget friendly crackle polish.
So, for the formula…. Sally hansen claims that the complete salon manicure is an all in one – base coat, top coat, color, strengthener, etc…. I wouldn't advise using it without at top coat, but I will say that all this combined makes it a good drugstore formula. I would compare this formula to that of OPI as far as the way it feels. The brush included is very flat and wide, so though some may find that awkward, I like it. I feel it makes it easier to apply the polish in very few strokes. The dry time isn't 'insta-dri' fast but it doesn't take forever like OPI can. I would say that I really am impressed with the formula and have repurchased them since my first experience with them. Also, the color selection is very good; there are many trendy colors and they often release a line of limited edition colors every so often (this color is permanent). Overall, I would definately reccomend it.


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Tuesday is International Women's Day. At a time set aside for honouring women, their rights, and the tremendous contributions they have made, we here today will be quick to call to mind the name Mary Wollstonecraft who worshipped at our Newington Green church. Wollstonecraft was a pioneering champion for women's rights.
In her writing and in the way she conducted her own life, Mary Wollstonecraft raised up the truth - now widely recognized in many parts of the world - that women deserve as much right as men to choose the paths their own lives will take.
In the years since Wollstonecraft's time, women have made enormous strides in education, in politics, in business, in achieving greater wage equality, and in the equalisation of domestic relations.
The struggle is not over by any means. Full equality has not been reached even here. Women are still denied access to the political and financial power that men enjoy in larger part.
And worse, in many parts of the world, the struggle has scarcely begun, as we know all too well.
Today, I would like to go from the story of the advancement of women to the broader question of inclusion and equality - and bring that question right down to the very specific focus of the people in this room.
Unitarianism here and in the US once had an all-male ministry. That began to change several decades ago and the inclusion of women in ministry – first slow – rapidly accelerated. Now, the British Unitarian ministry is 40% female. In the US, the great majority of our ministers are female.
Look around. Consider the people who are here. Consider their ages, their genders, their colors, their national origins... What have you noticed?
There are many groups who are not nearly as well represented here as they are in the population around us.
Now, this is not meant to be an occasion for feelings of guilt. We have not chosen to exclude them. We have not written bylaws that make it hard for men to attend. We have not enshrined in our constitution a provision to keep Asians away. We do not write in bold print on the cover of our order of service "teens, keep out."
But there are ways of keeping people away that are more subtle and perhaps even more effective than overt rules.
Looking around our British Unitarian movement, we can see that most of our congregations effectively exclude young adults
We find that many of our congregations exclude working class people
In a previous congregation, a newcomer arrived one day. And though a bit anxious like newcomers usually are, he seemed fairly keen. I noticed someone who had just finished speaking with him as the newcomer went off to speak to another member of the congregation and I asked about this seemingly enthusiastic new visitor. "Oh, don't bother talking to him" I was told. "He won't stay. He's a plumber."
That congregation had an unstated but well understood assumption that we were a congregation of and for highly educated middle class people. No one ever said this aloud... it was written nowhere, but anyone who didn't fit got that message pretty quickly. It was in the language we used, the way we dressed, the cars we drove, the literary references we used, and the items that were entered in our annual auction, such as weeks in someone's vacation home or use of their sailboat...
And this was what is fairly called the culture of that congregation. It need not be overt, it need not even be discussed. Culture is simply defined as "the way we do things around here." To the people immersed in and comfortable with that culture, it can be quite invisible – a whale is probably completely unaware of the water in which it swims. But add a mouse into that environment - the mouse certainly notices the water and he can't get out fast enough.
Every group has a culture. Every congregation has a culture. Examining that culture can be hard work because it is invisible to the people who are comfortable with it. But it is there, and whether or not one chooses to change it, it is important to understand just what that culture is.
As Amos and Boris communicated during their weeks together after Amos' rescue, they began to do that very hard work of recognizing first their own cultural perspectives and then the culture of the other. That interaction would never have happened had fate not thrown them together. It could easily have ended with Amos' exclamation: "are you sure you're a mammal? You smell like a fish."
Having more women than men involved in a congregation is a common phenomenon in religion, although not – for the most part – in Judaism or Islam. Congregations like ours can expect at least two thirds of the attendees on a given Sunday to be women.
The relative infrequency of men in this congregation says something about our culture. We may not typically use the word culture to describe differences between the ways in which men and women interact, but whatever word we choose, the average man and average women have different interests, ways of communicating, likes, and dislikes.
Perhaps you've read "Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus" - the popular 1992 book that claims misunderstandings between men and women come from our very different expectations of each other. And again, whether or not we term this culture, there are differences that are real and have real implications for the way men and women respond to their experience of life - and for our purposes here, how they respond to the experience of this congregation.
I suspect that most of you would be eager to understand more about how men and women respond to this congregation. You would probably want to a step further - to do something about it - to make this a place that is more inclusive in that way.
You might be willing to see modest changes to our services. You'd probably be happy with the initiation of programmes and events that appeal more to men. Even if it meant some slight loss to you, most of you would probably think it worthwhile.
But following this line of thinking takes us eventually to more challenging places.
Examining our existing culture and considering who it might exclude or repel forces us to be deliberate about the thorny double question: "who are we?" It is a double question because it asks first who are these people that make up the congregation today? What are their assumptions, their tastes, their ways of communicating, their values? What is the subtle, unspoken, and usually unnoticed "way we do things around here?" In short, what is the culture of these people?
And the second part is "who are we?" in the sense of what and who is this community for? Congregations without a clear sense of purpose in the world - congregations without a strongly felt mission - tend to default to the purpose of making themselves comfortable.
All too many of our congregations think about what they do only in terms of whether they themselves like it. I know that this congregation, more than most, takes into consideration the others... the people who have not yet arrived, the people who could and perhaps should be here by our sides. The people who - like us - have a commitment to a more balanced life and a more just world.
And so we must ask ourselves, who are we now and who is it that our culture includes and who is excluded.
To bring this into our very real current situation, I want to bring up generational differences. There can be no question that there are cultural differences associated with our age groups. These correlations are not perfect - some young people only like classical music and some older people love hip hop, but we can easily make some pretty reliable conclusions.
When this congregation began to grow from a tiny remnant 10 years ago, there were no young adults. Today, at least half of the congregation falls into that younger category. What has happened to our culture? It has changed, of course. And now, we have to ask ourselves - just as we might for any other cultural differences, who are we?
It is probably fair to say that at this moment we are struggling a bit with an uneasy cultural mix. Do we like the older hymn tunes or the newer ones? Do we like things more sedate or more lively? Do we want programmes and sermons that focus on the challenges of early, middle, or later adulthood?
The generational and gender cultural differences are not ones to be politely ignored. We have committed to being an intergenerational congregation and I think it's fair to say that we want to be a congregation that is also equally inclusive of men as it is women.
The path forward in these areas begins with deep dialogue to create understanding. It is only when we truly understand the differences between us that can hope to do something about them.
And then we can do something about it.
Size here is an advantage. Larger congregations can be more inclusive. While a tiny congregation can not hope to do more than put on a Sunday service and try to keep their building from falling down, with increasing numbers, there need not be a one-size-fits-all worship, one-size-fits-all programmes or one-size-fits-all events.
We are large enough now to create programmes geared to meet the needs of more different kinds of people. We can create services that better meet the needs of men without failing to meet the needs of women. We can create events that are more elder-friendly, we can create events that include music that appeals more to younger people.
The reality though is that there is no environment that can satisfy the needs of mouse and whale. We can not create one event that meets everyone's needs and tastes. There isn't a service possible that is all classical music and all contemporary music. We can't create a single culture that everyone is happy with. There is no monoculture solution that can do that. We are who we are and our only possible solution is to combine cultures - allowing them to remain distinct - that is, to become multicultural.
In a multicultural congregation that strives to speak equally to different generational cultures and and different gender cultures, we create a place with greater diversity to stimulate and challenge us all, and a place that can include and help and heal a greater part of our world's diversity.
I have deliberately left some far more challenging questions for last. Talking about gender-based and age-based cultural differences stretches us, but only so far. What about cultures that are very different from who we are today?
For the most part, this congregation's culture has tended to be western and middle class. To the extent that skin color correlates with cultural, we tend to be white.
The people who feel different from these norms recognize them and notice them far more than the rest of us. For them, coming here may include a certain fear of being found out, of not fitting it. It involves an exercise of squeezing to fit the dominant, though unstated culture.
I have had conversations with several people in this congregation and elsewhere on this topic. One thing that many people say is "well, we can't be the right place for everyone." They are absolutely right. Unitarianism is a faith for people who are prepared to approach religion with an open mind, to approach one another with an open heart, and to approach the interconnected web of our world with a helping, healing hand.
Unitarianism is not for everyone. This congregation, similarly, is not for everyone. I am very comfortable excluding people who are convinced that their way of thinking is the only right way and that everyone else is wrong – or worse, that everyone else is damned. I am comfortable excluding people who believe it is OK to hate people because of the color of their skin, their national origin, or because of who they love.
But, in a world where inclusive religious communities are few and far between, I am saddened to think that we must exclude people with open hearts and minds who long to join together in spiritual growth and in the pursuit of a just, ecologically healthy earth.
I think the truth is that - at the current size and stage of our congregation - we will and must exclude some - not deliberately, not in a mean-spirited way, but just as certainly as if we had big burly door men keeping them from entering.
The larger we become as a congregation, the more broadly multicultural we can become, with more groups, more events, more programmes, more services. As we grow in number, we can also grow in the diversity of the people who can find a home here.
In the meantime, what I would ask of you is to be increasingly aware and increasingly conscious of this thing called culture. We are different and the many ways in which we are different mean that we will invariably have different tastes, different needs, and different wishes.
We have a dominant culture in this congregation that is comfortable to some and less so to others. We can not be everything to everyone - nor should we try. What we can and should do is to be deliberate - taking clear steps toward the multicultural community that is possible for us at each stage of or growth and being fully aware of the people who we must - for now - exclude.
My friends, we have come far. We have become a place of spirit, a place of great diversity, a place of principle and depth and deep care.
In the future, let us find ways to open our doors, our arms, and our hearts to still more people of still more variety. This is the people we are. This is the way we can help and heal a world of people in need.


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The fold is very compact and really easy. There are three main steps to folding. One thing I don't like is that the pushchair can't be folded when the seat is parent facing, which is a little annoying but it only takes seconds to adjust the seat. There is an automatic folding lock which engages when the pushchair is folded which means you can just fold the pushchair and go.
There is also a shopping basket which is one of my least favourite things. Its small and to be honest I don't use it a whole lot. I mainly keep the rain cover in there as in Yorkshire you can guarantee that it will rain on most days. The break is really easy and simple to use too.
We love the Quinny Zapp Flex Plus, it has fastly become one of my favourite pushchairs.
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A classic West Sussex seaside resort, Worthing is home to a selection of seaside heritage jewels including the stunning old Edwardian Kursaal, today the famous Dome Cinema, and the enchanting 1930s Worthing Pier with mini amusements and Art Deco pier clock. Take in a variety show at the Edwardian Worthing Pavilion theatre situated at the pier entrance and find family fun at the breathtaking 1950s promenade Lido, today a family entertainment centre.
If you're a lover of vintage seaside holidays, Worthing is the perfect choice offering a charming shopping town centre, an acclaimed theatre and a long, beautiful promenade and seafront gardens, plus some of Brighton's Regency Georgian overflow pushed down as far as Worthing, with Regency architectural gems in the town including Liverpool Terrace and Park Crescent built. Discover an outstanding choice of fine restaurants and chic alfresco bars in Worthing town centre and lining the seafront and take in a top show in the Art Deco fronted Connaught Theatre or a musical performance in the acoustically outstanding Worthing Assembly Hall.
This Sussex seaside resort is famed for its world class outdoor bowls facilities located in the town's pretty parks including Marine Gardens and Beach House Park, with other beautiful Worthing seafront parks like the 1920s Denton Gardens featuring a beautiful sunken garden, cafe and a raised terrace. Choose from a selection of stylish Worthing B&B guest houses within easy walking distance of the town centre and beach or opt for one of the resort's beautiful heritage hotels lining central green squares like Steyne Gardens and the long seafront promenade.
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You're in a great seafront location here for touring the South East, with fast rail links from Worthing available to both Brighton and London. Oscar Wilde thought Worthing a 'charming town', so much so he stayed and wrote much of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' here in 1894. Book Worthing accommodation online or direct with Iknow.


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I saw this dress, and absolutely could not resist creating an eco style post around it! Everyday, or nearly, I take my dog Rusty for a walk after work (at the shop) in the woods. We have a great trail to walk, and as I do so, I'm always struck by how wonderful I feel, and how beautiful it is. It is so refreshing and energizing, especially after spending most of my day on the computer. So this post kind of honours my love of the woods too. Hope you like!
Also, more news! I was absent yesterday because, while I'm working madly on the next issue of PGL Magazine, I'm also launching a new online store and website for my business, Sustain! It's all so exciting. I will keep you posted, and I sincerely hope you'll pay me a visit when it's done!
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2. Aspen Dress at Mika Organic
3. Watercolour by GollyBard
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Norwegian Cruise Line orders new cruise ship
Norwegian Cruise Line has reached an agreement with German MEYER WERFT GMBH to build a new cruise vessel, for delivery in October 2015, with the option for a second ship for delivery in spring 2017.
The new ship, at 163,000 gross tons and approximately 4,200 passenger berths, will be larger than the Company's Breakaway class ships currently under construction at MEYER WERFT and incorporate many of those vessels' unique design elements and innovations. With the project name "Breakaway Plus," this new vessel will be the largest in Norwegian's fleet.
The ship's contract price is approximately euro 700 million and the Company has export credit financing in place which was arranged and underwritten by KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH of Germany.
"Norwegian Breakaway and Norwegian Getaway have garnered significant attention in the marketplace with their innovative design, rich stateroom mix and world-class amenities," explains Kevin Sheehan, Norwegian Cruise Line's chief executive officer.
"Building on that momentum, along with MEYER WERFT's expertise and efficiency in the design and construction process, we are extending the excitement and anticipation with a new, larger edition Breakaway Plus class ship to further distinguish the Norwegian brand.
"This new order further solidifies our commitment to continued innovation in terms of the guest experience and will incorporate technical and environmental advances as well," added Sheehan.
MEYER WERFT, based in Papenburg, Germany, is currently building Norwegian's two new 146,600 gross ton, 4,000-passenger Breakaway class vessels: Norwegian Breakaway, scheduled for delivery in late April 2013, and Norwegian Getaway, scheduled for delivery in mid-January 2014.


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Rafael Benitez declared Chelsea are still capable of winning this season's Barclays Premier League despite seeing them sleepwalk to another bore draw and slip seven points adrift of top spot.
Benitez's first two matches in charge of the European champions have now ended without a goal as they made it six league games without a victory against Fulham. A team that looked champions elect under Roberto Di Matteo little over a month ago now appear incapable of scoring, never mind winning, and their title challenge is floundering by the game.
But Benitez insisted Chelsea had the quality to overhaul Manchester United and Manchester City, and said: "Why can't we? It's still a long way to go. We have to keep going. We'll have chances.
"Remember, last season when City were ahead and it was 'easy'. Then they needed to win their last game. It's a long, long competition."
Interim manager Benitez acknowledged Chelsea were lacking confidence after a run of two wins in 10 that threatens to wreck their season.
He added: "The main thing is to win games. If we do, we'll be there and we can win competitions. We need to start doing that and the confidence will come back."
Benitez admitted striker Fernando Torres was lacking "confidence", something that could not be said for opposite number Dimitar Berbatov.
Fulham boss Martin Jol said: "Berbatov was almost unplayable and linked our play, and we had a few chances. After the game, everyone said Berbatov was fantastic, and he was, but the other players worked every so hard."
Hard enough to carve out the game's clearest opportunities.
"At 80 minutes we had two possibilities," Jol said. "I'm not disappointed to only get a draw away from home, but disappointed we didn't make more of those chances."


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At Mid-Illini, we appreciate our members. We've added an extra layer of fraud protection for your MICU Classic or MICU Platinum VISA credit cards and for your MICU VISA Rewards Debit Card.
This fraud detection system monitors your card activity to help identify and prevent fraudulent transactions on your account.
If a questionable transaction is detected on your MICU VISA Credit Card account, an analyst from VISA Card Services will contact you on behalf of Mid-Illini Credit Union to verify the transaction. You will be asked to verify information. To do this the analyst will give partial information regarding your identity and address and ask you to provide the rest to verify who you are.
For example, the analyst may ask if your current address is on Main Street in Bloomington, Illinois, and then, with a positive response, ask you to verify your house number and zip code.
If you suspect fraudulent activity on your credit card, you can proactively contact Card Services for real-time service at 866.543.6313.
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Abbey is my lead mare and is a proven producer of athletic competition ponies. She loves her job as a mother and teaches her foals respect and confidence. She is our first Imported mare and we are very glad she came to us!
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Marmalet is a more recent addition to our herd and we are happy to have her. We have seen what her offspring can do and are excited to watch Flynn Rider (Eugene) grow.
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HI guys, I am relatively new to the Watson space and would like to become much more proficient in my ability to create Watson powered applications. I am keen on understanding how to use the R&R service in more detail - do we run any guided demo's or tutorials to assist with enablement?
@MattTaloni, Matt do these answers help or are you still looking for more detail?
Answer by TajyMany (61) | Dec 03, 2015 at 01:04 PM
Hi @MattTaloni!
I know the current documentation is a bit confusing for beginners. So, I've created a YouTube tutorial on how to use the Retrieve and Rank service. It takes you, step by step, from making the training data, to getting the answers from Watson.
Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeMYyog6icQ
Hope it helps!
You can email me at email@example.com if you have any more questions.
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That is great @TajyMany... Thank you... And please continue to share feedback with us, we are hard at work to make our services easier to consume.
PS: Your work is very impressive. When do you start looking for internships/jobs ? ;-)
Hi @aameek!
Thanks for your answer and appreciation. I have around 6-7 years of experience in computing, and writing algorithms, creating iOS apps, and teaching and helping others. Earlier this year, I got interested in Machine Learning, and IBM Watson (as well as a ton of other text mining APIs). I am 12 years old, and the answer to your question, of whether I am looking for internships/jobs, I would love to, but I don't think I'm legally allowed to apply for one yet. If you have a suggestion, I would love to take it!
@TajyMany ... that is incredible! Computer Science has a great future ahead ...
I do have a couple of ideas to collaborate.. e.g. we could feature an interesting app from you in our App Gallery (http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/gallery.html ). If you are interested, would you mind connecting via LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aameek) and we can take it from there?
Answer by aameek (251) | Nov 15, 2015 at 06:34 PM
Please see this: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/doc/retrieve-rank/get_start.shtml
More documentation is also available at: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/doc/retrieve-rank/
Answer by paulread (711) | Nov 16, 2015 at 10:01 AM
You might also like to check out Github. There are a series of the examples and samples under the Watson Developer Cloud (https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud) pages.
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After Earth GFX Reel
Here's a GFX reel of some of the UI work done on After Earth.
It's an interesting experience seeing montage reels like this as it displays the visuals without the original sound or voice over. In doing so you can concentrate on the movement of the elements and rely on them solely to demonstrate their functions. This is a really good example where the animation and movement of the elements have a lot of character and purpose, and the viewer can put together an idea of what they do.
There's a distinct style in the treatment of the After Earth UI. It prefers gradients and LED glows, which takes the hard edge off the line work and creates a sort of clean and soft look. This is helped along by the use of transparent and curved surfaces. Unlike a lot of technical styles that often use grids as a holding device, they've completely steered away from using carriages and backgrounds and in doing so continues the clean, soft approach.
A good comparison would be to look at the interface design in Avatar. Both feature medical diagnostic screens that appear on transparent panels. But you can really see the difference in the soft-edged glow approach verses the hard edges of the Avatar UI.
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Heel height: 8mm
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Size 39= 8 Australia/Canada, 6 UK
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A FILEY drug addict slammed by a judge as a "somewhat pathetic" figure has been jailed.
Craig Andrew Pratt, 43, of West Avenue, was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in prison after pleading guilty to supplying heroin and cocaine and breaking into a Filey cafe to feed his habit.
York Crown Court heard Pratt had fallen into debt with "evil local dealers" and had been assaulted and threatened by the group, which Matthew Harding, mitigating, said led Pratt to dealing in Class A drugs to raise money and pay off his debts.
He had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to one charge each of supplying heroin and cocaine, and one each of possessing the drug with intent to supply.
Pratt also appeared for sentencing for burglary of Lavingtons Cafe in Filey on September 20 last year and three offences of shop theft in Scarborough, all committed to raise money for his own drug habit.
Prosecuting, Howard Shaw, told how undercover police officers watched Pratt as he was approached by a number of men in a Scarborough cemetery.
As he left the graveyard, a well-known haunt of local drug addicts, Pratt was stopped and searched, £360 worth of heroin and £40 worth of cocaine being found hidden in a plastic egg inside his underpants.
Pratt and another man entered the cafe by smashing their way through a ventilation fan with a hammer. Mr Shaw said that this act dislodged a large amount of grease in which police later found foot and hand prints.
The men were later arrested in a taxi, leaving the scene covered in grease, the hammer later being found at Pratt's home.
The court heard the damage, estimated at £150, was caused, £70 in cash and a silver tray taken.
Mr Shaw said that the shop thefts involved Pratt stealing razor blades and bedding from three premises.
After jailing Pratt, Recorder Eric Elliott QC told him he had fallen like many into the grasp of drug dealers - "evil people who use any way they can to make themselves rich".
He added that Pratt was somewhat pathetic for dealing with drug dealers to keep his own cravings going.


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Meeting of Many Minds (and Bodies)
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
On Friday night at Summerstage in Central Park, under a cloudless sky in which stars became gradually visible, the singer Martha Wainwright and the dance troupe Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company shared a program (repeated on Saturday). As my companion remarked, the first half felt like a Martha Wainwright concert with some dances tacked on. The second half, however, became more substantial in terms of both dance and Ms. Wainwright's music.
Charmingly assured and no-nonsense, the blond Ms. Wainwright delivered song upon song. When she was not leading her musicians (who on Friday included her husband, Brad Albetta; her mother, Kate McGarrigle; and her cousin Lily Lanken) in her own songs, she led them in numbers ranging from Vaughan Williams to Annie Lennox.
In both voice and music, her span includes country and blues; and her singing has sometimes a chesty blues intensity, sometimes youthful country innocence, with ascents into falsetto half-voice and a deliberate use of breathiness and vocal cracks as part of the expressive mix. This is singing that relies on a marked use of mannerism. But it's also real singing, in which the voice itself, musically, is often very directly affecting.
Her diction varies: in some of her own songs you could lose track of the words, but never for an instant in "Stormy Weather." This classic song came in the middle of Part 2, and found Ms. Wainwright at her most intense and also, in phrasing, at her most personal. Having reached that peak, she stayed there for the world premiere of her own "Tears of St. Lawrence," walking through Edwaard Liang's and Christopher Wheeldon's choreography at the beginning and the end.
Traditionally the tears of St. Lawrence are the meteor showers that may occur around St. Lawrence's Day (Aug. 10). The new ballet ended with the dancers and Ms. Wainwright each extending an arm diagonally to the sky, holding what looked like a star.
The program says, "All choreography, music, and lighting are by Edwaard Liang, Christopher Wheeldon, Martha Wainwright, and Mary Louise Geiger, respectively, unless otherwise noted." The "respectively" caused confusion. So, to Wheeldon followers, does the fact that only one item, "Tears," is called a world premiere. (Summerstage had commissioned both the score and the dance.) On checking, I find that everything except Mr. Wheeldon's "Fool's Paradise" (2007) was having its premiere on Friday, and that all choreography was by Mr. Wheeldon except the dance quintet "Bleeding All Over You," credited just to Mr. Liang, and "Tears," which was by both men. Can't Summerstage take more trouble over these matters?
An added minor confusion was the spelling of the duet printed as "Whither Must I Wander," which is how Robert Louis Stevenson spelled the words and how Ralph Vaughan Williams spelled the title when he composed one of his "Songs of Travel." Ms. Wainwright, however, spells it "Wither Must I Wander" on a CD, and that's how Morphoses presented a preview performance of it this month in Vail, Colo. I don't mind calling them Mr. Weeldon and Ms. Whainwright until they can decide wat's wat. (The pas de deux features Wendy Whelan and Edward Watson, or possibly Whendy Welan and Edwhard Whatson.)
The first dances — the solo "Far Away" for Rory Hohenstein, the "Whither" duet, Mr. Liang's quintet "Bleeding All Over You" (for Teresa Reichlen and four men), and the duet "Love Is a Stranger" (for Tiler Peck and Gonzalo Garcia) — are all somewhat slick. Mr. Liang plays such organizational games with the men of "Bleeding" that for a while on Friday I lost all concentration on Ms. Reichlen. She had the best moment, though, as she advanced upstage away from the audience, addressing Ms. Wainwright eye to eye, sister to sister. And her authority and stretch were real pleasures, the grandest solo dancing of the evening.
In the "Far Away" solo and the two duets you can see Mr. Wheeldon's clear way of structuring a dance into separate phrases, the sheer polish that lets you know that every movement has been choreographed, and the sensitivity to dancers. Almost invariably, each performer looks focused, attractive, sincere. But there's often too much end-stopping to the phrasing; you seem to see where dancers and choreographer took their coffee breaks and then came up with a new idea.
Does the sharp contrast between one phrase and the next demonstrate stylistic skill or expressive incoherence? I like the control with which Mr. Wheeldon keeps making you pay attention, but I can't get interested in these dances as thought or drama. And the way that some of the phrases rely on repeated upper-body gesture — what ballet people call a demi-character emphasis — has a cuteness (in some places) or obviousness (in others) that diminishes their effect as dance, as if trying to tell us What's on These People's Minds.
The two duets, "Fool's Paradise" and "Tears of St. Lawrence," also show how seldom Mr. Wheeldon can ever let dancers register as soloists. Even when they're not partnering each other (as they do most of the time), these dancers tend to keep addressing or moving in unison with one another.
"Fool's Paradise" has some striking quotations and derivations from Frederick Ashton's "white" pas de trois, "Monotones," which is (as Mr. Wheeldon acknowledges — Morphoses has danced it) an all-time summit of pure classical adagio dancing. Mr. Wheeldon has learned much about how Ashton connects one dancer's line with another's, the compositional wit with which, in a trio, one woman's supported pirouette is echoed by a man's unsupported pirouette, and other beauties. But he can almost never expand a pas de trois (as Ashton often does) across the whole stage to show these people as individuals and the drama of space. In duets his couples are never at opposite purposes. They're always working in intricate combination, and the men get to do mighty little dancing beneath the waist.
"Fools' Paradise" (set to taped music by Joby Talbot, the only work not played by Ms. Wainwright) and "Tears of St. Lawrence" both illustrate Mr. Wheeldon's compositional skills. The big vertically ascending tableau with which "Fools" ends is a wow effect that might make any choreographer proud.
Against a setting of five male-female couples, "Tears" emphasizes the two men, Mr. Hohenstein and Mr. Watson. At first you think they may be a gay couple: the ballet starts with them doing the same lifts as the others, but in the foreground. Later, though, they're separated and undergo separate adventures, some involving individual women.
Mr. Hohenstein does have a solo, which tries hard (gesturally) to communicate some brief drama, but it's vague and soon forgotten. Overall, the choreography — which includes another "Monotones" reference — attends principally to partnering and pattern. On first acquaintance its expressive and stylistic limitations stop me from doing credit to its obvious compositional accomplishment.


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|City of Baltimore, Maryland
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Executive Summary of Preliminary Revenue Projections
|Gross Receipts Franchise Revenue Estimates Based on Survey of Selected U.S. Cities
The franchise fee revenue estimates provided in schedule "A" demonstrate potential revenues which can be earned by the City of Baltimore through the implementation of gross receipts based franchise fees. Potential earnings from electric, gas and telephone franchise fees are provided. Revenue estimates were calculated by multiplying the total population of the City of Baltimore (736,014) by the average franchise revenue/population ratio of those cities surveyed. City of Baltimore revenue estimates range from a high of $24.4 million to a low of $4.4 million.
Schedule A – Percent of Gross Receipts – Franchise Fee Survey of Selected U.S. Cities
Franchise/Conduit Rental Fees Based On Increased Linear Foot Fees
Currently, the average linear foot franchise fee assessed by U.S. cities is approximately $2 per linear foot with a high of $5 in Atlanta, GA and the low of $0.60 in Albuquerque, NM. Several cities, such as Houston and Dallas, TX, have established franchise fees for long distance carriers based on adjacent property values, then using escalators, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to provide a sliding scale for calculation of franchise fees over the term of the franchise period.
The first estimate prepared by DMG ("Linear Foot Fee-National Average ($2)" seeschedule "B"), illustrates the amount of revenue which could be received by the City if the City's conduit rental and conduit franchise fees were increased to coincide with the national average. If the City's rates were increased to the national average of $2 per linear foot, the City would receive approximately $30 million from franchise and conduit rental fees. This represents an increase of over $25.4 million when compared to the City's current revenue amounts.
DMG's second estimate ("Fee Equals Property Value Increase (250%)" see schedule "B"), illustrates the amount of revenue which could be received by the City if conduit rental and franchise fees were increased on a sliding scale which coincided with increase in City property values. Upon review of City property values over the past 70 years, an increase of 250% can be found. If the City's rates were increased by the same percentage, the City would receive over $8.1 million from franchise and conduit fees or an increased of approximately $3.3 million.