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First of all, thank you for considering me! 🙂
Yes, I do nude and erotic work, but I've learned how important it is to define exactly what that means. Here's how it all breaks down for me:
Believe it or not, I am capable of shooting with my clothes on. I'd like to do more of that, actually.
I have a growing collection of lingerie, and I want to use it. I'm also up for swimsuit shoots, especially if you want to fly me somewhere warm 😉
Implied Nude
I'd like to do more shoots where the focus isn't just on exposing the private bits. I think it would be fun to come up with some creative ways to keep things censored.
Artistic Nude
I want to be photographed nude without it being sexual. I'm really fascinated by the different angles and different shapes a body can take on.
Erotic Nude
I like sexual energy too. I'm definitely up for shoots that are meant to tantalize the audience.
The key part of that last one is sexual energy. I don't desire to be photographed actually performing sexual acts. I'm ok with pretending to touch myself, maybe some implied masturbation, but I'm not going to have a full-on go at myself in front of your camera. "But you have videos and pictures of that online!" Yes, I know. It's not like I'm afraid to have that type of content out there. I'm just drawing a line between my modeling and my private life, which I sometimes choose to share. Make sense? Besides, there's more to being sexual than just getting off.
This point also applies to fetish-based imagery. For example, I DO want to be photographed naked in some pretty rope, but I DON'T want to have a vibrator shoved between my legs while I'm tied up. I've learned that I enjoy bondage for what it is on its own–I don't need it to be sexual. Sexual bondage is something I can get in my personal life, and something I might share images of, but again I am drawing a line between my personal life and my modeling hobby. If we get along well and I like your rigging skills, I will still have 'an experience' for you to capture.
Some people have told me I should charge. Some people have told me I should wait until I have more experience. I've heard every opinion in between.
I'm not doing this for a profit. Because of that, I will always default to shooting for trade. However, I do appreciate compensation for travel. Airfare or a place to stay at while I'm in your city would be great! If I really want to work with you, I'll find a way to get together, regardless.
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- Rope bondage and suspensions
- Body paint
- Boudoir
- Industrial/big city locations
- Run-down, derelict locations
- Beach
- Underwater
- Pinup
- Closeup body part shots
- Bubble baths
- Latex
- Apocalyptic
- Cyberpunk
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NA328012 - DOYLE, A.C.: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The), Vol. 6 (Unabridged)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Perhaps this case is the most significant of all Holmess cases, for we are told it is his very first one, occurring when he was still a student in the 1870s, and led him, as he said in The Musgrave Ritual, another early case, in the direction of the profession which has become my lifes work.
Doyle tactfully does not specify which college Holmes attended, and Holmes scholars have convincing arguments for both Oxford and Cambridge. Whichever it was, Holmes, never the most sociable of men, appears to have had a lonely and solitary time as a student, for he claims that Victor Trevor was his only
college friend. He had had a slight acquaintance with Reginald Musgrave who was in his college, but Musgraves aristocratic bearing made him generally unpopular among the undergraduates (see The Musgrave Ritual on NA319112). One imagines that Holmes himself was not the easiest of men to get on with, and though not always appreciative, he was most fortunate to find so accommodating, generous and understanding a friend as Watson.
Although in this case we get a glimpse of the embryonic detective at work, it is hardly a detective story at all. There are few deductions beyond the initial one of uncovering old Trevors guilty past, for Holmes to get his teeth into. The whole thrust of the story, in fact, is more in the style of a criminals true confession, or a good old-fashioned seamans yarn packed with thrills. Doyles best writing is often to be found in his vivid descriptions of action. It was a skill he had first honed as a young man in 1880, when he signed on as a surgeon on board a whaling ship. During the long Arctic voyage he listened to the tales of the ships rough crew and, as an exercise, turned them into fiction. It gave him the confidence to be a writer and left him with a taste for writing adventure stories that he was never to lose. Doyle, too, must have felt that he had not entirely done his detectives powers justice in this story, for in The Resident Patient Watson laments the fact that Holmess involvement in the Gloria Scott case has been less pronounced than I,
as his biographer, could wish. Nevertheless the prophetic words of Trevor Senior: it seems to me that all the detectives of fact and of fancy would be children in your hands, persuaded young Holmes of his destiny. Shortly afterwards, his other college friend Musgrave endorsed Holmess instincts by engaging him
to solve the fascinating puzzle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the profession of consulting detective was born.
It is Dr. Percy Trevelyan who brings this curious case to the notice of Holmes. As a brilliant but impoverished medical student he agrees to accept financial help from the enigmatic Blessington in return for his becoming Trevelyans resident patient. As Dr. Trevelyan recounts his early struggles, we are inevitably reminded of the hardships Conan Doyle himself suffered as he endeavoured to establish himself in medicine. How he would have grabbed at the chance to have a wealthy benefactor like Blessington. Dr. Trevelyan, whose ambition was to be a specialist in nervous diseases, states ruefully: a specialist who aims high is compelled to start in one of a dozen streets in the Cavendish Square quarter, all of which entail enormous rents and furnishing expenses. Doyle is no doubt speaking from the heart, as he had in 1891 taken the decision to become an eye specialist after a rudimentary training in the subject in Vienna, and had rashly set up a surgery in fashionable Wimpole Street. It was a moment of psychological struggle for Doyle. He had already had success with the first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet, but he was reluctant to admit to himself that all his medical training had been in vain. To become a fashionable eye-specialist was his last bid to secure for himself a medical reputation. It was an unmitigated failure. He must have known it was a fools errand, for on the very day he moved into his practice, he had begun to write the first of the Holmes short stories,
A Scandal in Bohemia.
When Doyle published this story in book form, he included a set piece of deduction by Holmes of Watsons thoughts, as he sits in a brown study. The section had been lifted from The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, and it would seem that the illicit love affair which is at the centre of that story was too close for comfort for Doyle. He refused to allow the story to be reprinted in book form. His own difficult private life during the 1890s may have prompted his moral conscience. In 1893, his wife Louise showed the first signs of consumption. It was a long and wasting disease, and Doyle loyally nursed his sick wife for the rest of her days, but by 1897 he had formed a platonic liaison with Jean Leckie. Later she would become his second wife. Perhaps
these circumstances explain why The Cardboard Box was not published officially until 1917 in His Last Bow.
But the professional writer in Doyle could not waste so excellent a piece as the mind-reading sequence, so it was imported into The Resident Patient when it appeared in book form. Naxos Audiobooks follows the original Strand Magazine versions for these recordings as expressing Doyles first thoughts and original intentions, so the deduction sequence does not appear in this story. However, if the listener refers to the recording of The Cardboard Box on Naxos Audiobooks NA319112, it can be heard in its original context.
There is more than a whiff of radicalism in this story. Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, consults Holmes about the mysterious disappearance of his wife
on their wedding day, but a more unsympathetic client Holmes seldom had the misfortune to encounter.
Stiff and bristling with aristocratic privilege, Doyle tells us he had a touch of petulance about the mouth a man whose pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed.
To complete the picture of an upper-class neer do well St. Simons dress is described as careful to the verge of foppishness. To emphasise his distaste with the habits of the rich, Doyle brings a contemporary element into his story: aristocratic liaisons with chorus girls and American heiresses. The list of girls who appeared at the Gaiety Theatre, for instance, and charmed the titled young men across the footlights, was endless in this period, so much so that the press called them the actressocracy.
When Doyle wrote this story in 1892, the most recent in the line, Connie Gilchrist, the beautiful daughter of a
civil engineer, had married the seventh Earl of Orkney. Their marriage proved successful, lasting 54 years, but many such ended in the divorce courts, or
in the ruined reputation of the actress. Doyle implies that St. Simons former flirtation, Miss Flora Miller, a danseuse at the Allegro, is likely to suffer such a
fate. Weddings between the daughters of wealthy Americans and English aristocrats, such as St. Simons to Hatty Doran, were also increasing, the most famous being that of Jenny Jerome to Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir Winstons parents. It is certain that such arrangements provided much-needed American dollars for the impoverished coffers of Englands jaded aristocracy; in exchange the heiress got a title. If Doyle in this story displays his radicalism by being less than supportive of the establishment as represented by St. Simon, his solution to the problem is nothing short of revolutionary! Doyle had long had a love-affair with anything American. He loved the frankness of
the people, their literature and their championing of liberty and he puts into Holmess mouth his belief that civilisation depended on the union of Britain and America, and its peoples becoming citizens of the same worldwide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes. When Doyle wrote that, with the British Empire at its height, he no doubt envisaged Britain being the dominant partner, today he might not be so sure.
Without doubt this is the most controversial Sherlock Holmes story Doyle ever wrote. For it is in this tale that Doyle ruthlessly kills off the great detective. The shock on the unsuspecting reading public was profound; young men besieged the offices of The Strand magazine wearing black armbands, the Americans thought the story must be a fake, even Doyles mother thought it a beastly thing to do. So why did he do it? It seems that Doyle never took his Holmes stories seriously. They had been a means of keeping body and soul together whilst he struggled to be a doctor but, as he said himself of Holmes, he takes my mind from better things. The better things were what he termed his serious literary efforts, his carefully researched historical novels, such as The White Company, a tale of medieval chivalry, and Rodney Stone, set in the Regency period. He complained that Holmes was killing him as a serious writer and no one, publishers or friends, could persuade him to relent.
A trip to Switzerland in 1893, for his wife Louises health, had given him a suitably impressive scene for Holmess demise, the Reichenbach Falls a worthy tomb for poor Sherlock, even if I buried my banking account along with him. To kill off the detective that feeds you shows how strongly Doyle felt about his serious writing. Angry at the outcry Holmess death produced he said: I feel towards him as I do towards pâté de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to this day. But the final problem turned out to be Doyles. For eight years, the public showed no signs of letting Sherlock Holmes lie down and die, and most reluctantly Doyle was forced to turn away from the literature he considered to be his lifes work and,
as he saw it, trivialise his talents on potboilers. Posterity is grateful for his artistic sacrifice: the Sherlock Holmes canon is read again and again worldwide; the historical novels are read today by only the most loyal of aficionados.
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Evaluation Frameworks
There are multiple types of evaluations that can be done to assess how effectively a program is improving access to care for rural residents with disabilities. Several frameworks for approaching evaluation of programs are listed below.
Process Evaluation:
evaluation is a systematic, focused plan for collecting data to determine whether the program model
is implemented as originally intended and, if not, how operations differ from those initially planned. It
seeks to answer the question, "What services are actually being delivered and to whom?" This
framework also gathers information on perceptions of the program. Process evaluation assesses how a
program is developed and implemented, and may investigate a program's operations, and structure.
Example: Was the program implemented as planned? Why or why not?
Outcome Evaluation: Outcome
evaluation examines how well a project achieved the outcomes it set at the beginning. It is
generally a summative evaluation of the program, which can be used to make recommendations for future
program improvements. Outcome evaluations investigate whether changes occur in a particular program, and, if
they do, the extent to which changes can be attributed to the program.
Example: Reduction in barriers to care reported by participants
- Impact Evaluation: Impact
evaluations review the effect that a program had on participants and stakeholders of the project. It
measures the outcomes, but also the changes that resulted from those outcomes.
Example: Increased use of preventive care measures by rural residents with disabilities
Performance Monitoring: Performance monitoring is on-going evaluation of the program to
have data at the baseline and at key milestones in the work plan. This provides continuous, real-time
feedback on program progress so that changes to the program can be made to better align with the program
objectives and goals.
Example: Ongoing count of rural residents with disabilities accessing care
Cost-benefit Evaluation: Cost-benefit evaluations study the cost-effectiveness of the
program by reviewing the relationship between the project costs and the outcomes (or benefits) from the
program. Data collected is used to determine whether the program outcomes were worth the investment in
program development and operation.
Example: Savings from reduced preventable hospital admissions as a result of increased primary care and preventive care access
Resources to Learn More
ACL Data and Research
Gives information on data and statistics available for information evaluation of disability-related programs. Organizations might use this information to get statistics on the prevalence of disability in their community, and the rate of health insurance among individuals with disabilities.
Organization(s): Administration for Community Living
Evaluating the Effects of Telemedicine on Quality,
Access, and Cost
Offers guidelines for evaluating telemedicine programs and their impact on quality, access, and cost of care. This guide includes a list of evaluation questions to consider, including a section on questions and considerations specific to access to care.
Organization(s): Institute of Medicine
Date: 1996
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health
Programs: A Self-Study Guide
Provides a self-guided training for how to plan and implement public health evaluation geared toward staff and administrators at community health agencies.
Organization(s): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Date: 10/2011
KTDRR Logic Models
Explains how logic models can be used to decide on the most important measures for evaluation purposes.
Participatory and Inclusive
Approaches to Disability Program Evaluation
Examines the inclusivity of disability program evaluations and provides recommendations for how to include the voices of individuals with disabilities.
Author(s): Robinson, S., Fisher, K.R., & Strike, R.
Citation: Australian Social Work, 67(4), 495-508
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Prologue or Tutorial? New MGS Enjoyable Not Essential
by Stephen Klein
With Ground Zeroes said to be a prologue to the upcoming main installment, The Phantom Pain, Metal Gear Solid V starts off mildly rocky.
Of course, that's not to say that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be bad by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I think it will be phenomenal. I think it will be something very special.
I don't even think Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, the prologue and first half of MGSV, is bad at all or deserving of any hate. I enjoyed playing it, at least most of the time. The problem is that there wasn't enough of it.
I have to admit that Ground Zeroes is extremely short and that there isn't much to the story either. Metal Gear Solid is usually known for its intricate yet incredible story, but here it's just straightforward. Straightforward stories aren't bad. Some would argue that Metal Gear has gotten too convoluted, but in Ground Zeroes, there's hardly any real story.
While it is very true that Ground Zeroes is only a prologue, it is in itself a separate game. This is a great tutorial for The Phantom Pain and its new mechanics. I'm just not sure if it's a great prologue.
Speaking of the game's new mechanics, the revamped stealth elements feel great. I could probably go as far as saying that Ground Zeroes has all the makings of an open stealth simulator. However, I have to admit that previous Metal Gear Solid games such as MGS4, and even MGS2 and MGS3, were not as punishing for getting caught.
I understand that Metal Gear Solid is first and foremost a stealth game, but for those less skilled at using stealth, I feel as though previous installments allowed you to be slightly action-oriented in your approach. In Ground Zeroes, if one guy spots you and he's not taken out right away, a whole army comes after you and I found it extremely difficult to escape them afterwards. I'm embarrassed to say how many times I must have failed the game's only main mission or died trying.
Despite my mixed feelings about stripped action and increased difficulty, there is still a lot to love here even if it's all far from perfect. For instance, I love that they added a backstory in the main menu that explains what happened in Peace Walker. While I thoroughly enjoyed Peace Walker, I feel as though it wasn't exactly as huge a hit as other installments. Even with the backstory, I still strongly recommend that you play Peace Walker if you haven't as I feel as though the backstory doesn't explains things that well or does the story justice, but it is better than nothing.
In addition, the voice acting is well done. Kiefer Sutherland is not bad at all as Snake, also known as Big Boss. The music is cool too and really gets you pumped, tense, and craving action.
One thing in particular that I truly can't fault at all would have to be the graphics. Played via my PS4, everything ran very smoothly and looked amazingly realistic. The new Fox Engine from Kojima Productions should do The Phantom Pain over very, very well.
Lastly, and this is extremely important, there is a lot of extra content unlocked once you beat Ground Zeroes and the main mission itself is certainly replayable especially if you want to experiment with the Ground Zeroes app for smartphones and tablets. I personally feel mixed on if the side content is that appealing or if I want to play the main mission over and over again, but the options are always there.
Ground Zeroes really is a good game overall. It really, really is. It's just short, difficult, and mildly unsatisfying. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes receives an 8 out of 10.
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SID: I am so excited for you. What is going to happen is the presence of God is going to literally invade where you are right now, wherever you are. Shane, you got revelations. He went to Heaven for seven hours. He saw what's going on in the invisible world. Now rather than finding it […]


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These are travel tips, layout principles provided by IATA and ICAO. International Air Transport Association (IATA) and ICAO. IATA Director and CEO said "We have a small window to avoid these mistakes with COVID-19 by agreeing on global standards for a re-start. In doing so, we must build-in measures for continuous review so that we can streamline the system as science and technology evolve".
De Juniac says that the Roadmap aims to provide the confidence that governments will need to enable the re-opening of borders to passenger travel; and the confidence that travelers will need to return to flying. If social distancing might increase flight prices, governments told to subsidize flight booking to make travel affordable.
IATA and ICAO provided RoadMap to restart travel flights worldwide. The Roadmap is the industry's high-level thinking on safely re-starting aviation. Timing is critical. Governments understand the importance of aviation to the social and economic recovery of their countries and many are planning a phased re-opening of borders in the coming months. We have a short time to reach an agreement on the initial standards to support safely reconnecting the world and to firmly establish that global standards are essential to success. This will change as technology and medical science advances. The vital element is coordination
Also, De Juniac said there was "reason to be optimistic" and identified an initiative of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) called the COVID-19 Aviation Recovery Task Force (CART). Check direct flight links to cheap flight bookings.


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Ponderings by Joy McCloud ([email protected])
For those of us who have placed our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we are now alive & spiritually at peace in Him. All of our sins are now under the Blood of Christ. We are a forgiven people... There is quite a contrast between what we were & who we are now. But remember, this change has nothing to do with How good or 'not so good' we've been... or are... (now you don't have a license to go get foolish or anything... but...) Even our faith and how we respond to the Savior, comes from God. We can never be good enough & make ourselves righteous; it's all a gift from Him. Remember in your quiet moments... He declares us justified, & we will never be pronounced guilty again... Ponder that one!!!!! Oh what a God!
Joy ...AZ
In Matthew 18:3&4 we are reminded to become like little children! Have you ever noticed, how when a child gets near a beautifully wrapped present, they just want to claim & open it!! God have given you a gift. You...personal...you. Put your name in here & repeat it as often as you need!! He loves you so much. The enemy wants to steal your happiness, your personal & abundant joy every Christmas by making the season about everything except Jesus' birth & His reason for coming to earth. Heb 2:14-18. He does this every year!
God is love...
From Becky...PA
Be diligent...
As you add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness, etc. It is important that at no time... you lose anything from your growth in the Lord. The point is to add onto your faith/growth. And as you add on... your faith becomes stronger. But do not lose what you have developed in your walk with Christ. Because you have found something "new"... Your Christian walk will become more & more like Christ.
Nowhere in the scriptures do you find anything but strength & growing in Godliness....Christian Godliness! You will find humility. But upon consideration, it is strength in its way!
Another passage to ponder is 1 Tim.4:8, 12 & 16
I was reading in Luke the other day & came upon one of those things you just need to ponder...
I was reading in chapter 1 where the angel Gabriel told Zacarias, Elizabeth, Zacarias' wife was going to have a child. In verse 18 Zacarias said.. 'Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man, & my wife well stricken in years...'
I read on how he was struck "dumb" ...would not talk until the baby (John) was born.. This was because of his question!
I thought...boy that's kind of hard Lord... Mary was amazed when Gabriel came to her... her question in Luke 34 was...'How can this be seeing I know not a man?' And you didn't chastise her? <smile>
Well, if you have an idea...please feel free to share it with me... here is mine
Zacarias was a seasoned Christian & as such we are to believe God... no matter how strange it may seem... Mary was a very young lady & had much learning to still do.
In my mind, I feel as in Luke 12:48 For unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required. There was my thought...how about yours??
Blessings as you grow in Christ!
--- Joy
Hi Joy,
I don't know when you wrote your pondering question, but things like this are very interesting to me so I thought I would comment.
I totally agree that Zacarias was more seasoned than Mary, but I also think there's more to it than meets the eye. Two people can ask a question, or even the same question, and come from two entirely different places inside. And since God looks on the heart, not the words that someone says per se, I think the problem was that Zacarias, being older and thinking he knew more about the things of God, was truly questioning out of more doubt and unbelief than Mary. We can have what I call 'honest questions' that come more out of not understanding how something is going to work, rather than doubt and unbelief, and that is where I believe Mary was at.
Whether we're washed in His blood and forgiven or not, sin is sin, and for a believer to walk in doubt or unbelief is a symptom of an area of their heart where Jesus is not reigning, and God will deal with it when it stands in the way of His progress. I think many Christians are going to be surprised in this day when they see how disciplined God really is, and how serious He is about sin. Anyway, thank you for the question. It's neat to talk about it.
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Android 4.3 Jelly Bean announced, OTA update coming to Nexus devices today
Along with the new Nexus 7 tablet, Google has also unveiled Android 4.3 at today's Breakfast with Sundar Pichai press event. The latest Android version, which is still called Jelly Bean, will be available for original Nexus 7, Nexus 4, Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus devices beginning today as an over-the-air (OTA) update. The Google Play Edition devices will be next to get the update.
Android 4.3 comes with a bunch of improvements but most of them are under-the-hood and a normal Android user is very less likely to notice them.
First of the improvements in Android 4.3 is the introduction of restricted profiles in multi-user support. So, on Android 4.3, parents can restrict part of the app or the actions you can perform in app to some users – like, no access to in-app purchases to children or limited access to options in a kiosk.
Among under-the-hood changes, Android 4.3 adds support for Bluetooth Smart Technology, OpenGL ES 3.0 for better graphics, new set of DRM APIs, dial-pad autocomplete and faster user-switching.
The new version also includes more languages support – Africaaans, Amharic, Hindi, Swahili and Zulu.
As you can see, Android 4.3 is mainly a maintenance release for Android and it is the Android 5.0 aka Key Lime Pie, which is going to bring major new features.
New Nexus 7 is going to be the first device to come with Android 4.3 pre-loaded. Other manufacturers already have or will soon get access to the Android 4.3 code, so news about Android 4.3 updates to existing devices will be coming in the upcoming weeks.


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A more detailed Sony NEX-7 replacement specs list has been leaked on the web, revealing that the camera will feature new image sensor and electronic viewfinder.
Sony is one of the leaders in mirrorless camera industry, as both Nikon and Canon are struggling to make a breakthrough in this segment. The company is preparing a new shooter this fall and it will serve as the NEX-7 successor.
Almost everything will be new in the Sony NEX-7's replacement
As sources are continuously leaking information about the device, it appears that a detailed Sony NEX-7 replacement specs list has just showed up online.
The mirrorless camera will support the E-mount interchangeable lens system. However, the mount has been moved a little to the left and it is now deeper, in order to make room for a larger grip.
Sony's upcoming apparatus will feature a new tilting LCD screen, measuring 3.2 inches and having a resolution of 1.08-million dots.
The image sensor will also be new. It will be an APS-C unit capable of capturing photos at 24.3-megapixel or 6000 x 4000 resolution. Although it outputs the same resolution, sources are claiming that it has been revamped and the quality of the shots should be higher.
Sony NEX-7 replacement specs include RAW shooting and up to 25,600 ISO
The Sony NEX-7 replacement will feature a dust-sealed magnesium alloy design. The hot shoe mount will be standard, but the pop-up flash has been modified. It can be tilted, so that photographers can bounce the light.
The PlayStation maker has altered the built-in electronic viewfinder, too. It provides a 100% coverage, 1.25x magnification, and a 2560 x 1920 resolution.
Its ISO sensitivity ranges between 100 and 25,600. Additionally, it is worth noting that the camera will do RAW shooting.
New 5-axis SteadyShot IS technology and WiFi making their way into the NEX-7 successor
Since it is a new camera, a lot of technologies will be brand new. It appears that Sony will introduce a new 5-axis SteadyShot image stabilization system, that will provide a 4-stop shake reduction.
Unfortunately, the device does not have a name yet. However, it will support WiFi, so that users can share the photos and videos to a mobile device with ease.
Zeis 16-80mm f/2.8-4 lens to be offered as a lens kit
Zeiss will join Sony's fall party. The new Zeiss 16-80mm f/2.8-4 lens come bundled with NEX successor, in order to provide high image quality.
The company is currently testing the camera, which can do up to 12 frames per second in continuous mode, and an official announcement will most likely occur this fall.
Sony NEX-7 can be purchased at Amazon for a price of $1,098.


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Month: September 2013
Update on Cogent Road's Roohmz Enterprise Development
by William DiPaolo
We had hoped to roll out Roohmz Enterprise last April – its now the end of September and we are still working on it. Because we receive a lot of inquiries about when Roohmz will be ready, I thought I'd post an update for all to see. First, I believe Roohmz will roll out before […]Read more.
Software is an Idea's Reality
by William DiPaolo
I had a deep conversation this morning with a Cogent Road employee I respect greatly. We talked about real issues – and the challenges of taking on an entrenched industry from our currently smallish Cogent Road enterprise. Some days our expectations are so high, its easy to suddenly feel suffocated by their enormity. I write these blogs to give […]Read more.


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You Say Potato...
I Say - What A Slow Start For A Cash Crop.
We all know that potatoes are indigenous to the Andes Region of South America - more specifically Peru and date back to 7000-8000 BC. But did you know that it was not until the late 1500's that the rest of the world would be introduced to this starchy tuber? Want to know some WHY's?
To tell you some why's, I have to give you some back story. Grab another cup of coffee before turning the page.
Hear Ye Hear Ye - Bring out your Grains! Ancient civilizations - going all the way back to Mesopotamia (5000 BC), relied on the cultivation of cereal grains - which were widely successful due to the development of irrigation. The benefit of grain in ancient history times (in a nutshell) is multi-faceted.
1) Grain can be dried and stored, provide lasting nutrition over a longer period of time.
2) More food = more people have happy tummies - happy tummies provide stronger people to work.
3) Civilizations that had more food, in turn, had more people, which develops a more complex society.
4) (People have been a slave to the gov't forever) With people being able to dry and store their grain, this allowed the tax man to come by and tell you that you either had to pay the heirarchy taxes or give some of your bounty away.
So, things just kind-of go along this way for a while and some more while - until all of sudden in the late 1400's, this crazy Italian comes along with this hair-brained idea that the world wasn't flat. He takes his idea to the Monarchy of Spain and we all know what happens next. ... An armada of 3. I'll leave out the whole conquistador part of the story - but the take away is that a conspiracy theory is born... how did the potato show up in Europe? Sir Walter Raleigh? Sir Francis Drake? or was it the conquistadors who brought them back after all of the pillaging in Central America in the mid 1500's? I'll let you decide. But anyway - am I going to wrap this up anytime soon???
Do you remember how I was talking about the grain taxation above? The potato - due to its high water content (around 80%), breaks down quickly, therefore not making it a good crop for storing. Potatoes way way back were usually pulled from the ground and eaten right away. This isn't good for the tax man.
Well - the Inca's figured out a way to freeze-dry the potato at high altitudes - this technology allowed them to use the potato as a grain - non perishable, portable, taxable. Tax Man likes this. Also - the nutritional value (depending on climate and conditions) has the same if not more nutritional benefits than grain, and the potato grows in harsher climates and conditions - allowing it to feed more people in areas where grain production lacks. All of these benefits from the potato led to the rise and spread of the tuber throughout Europe.. and really took hold in poor Ireland, which struggled with its food production. The humble potato really stimulated a population boom because it vastly improved the general health of the public. It also helped the economy of Ireland, because it freed up a lot of grain for export. Until the potato famine - and I think I just talked myself into a corner.
But don't get out the masher just yet!! The positive news is that the potato is the 4th largest produced crop worldwide after: Wheat, Corn, and Rice. Today, potatoes are grown in all 50 states, and in 125 countries worldwide. Oh, and by the way, yes, potatoes are vegetables. Starchy, Delicious, Vegetables.
Boardwalk Fries with Tarragon Malt Vinegar Mignonette
A Mignonette is a classic sauce served with oysters. Traditionally it is made with vinegar, shallot, and cracked peppercorn. In this version, we use malt vinegar and add tarragon.
Boardwalk Fries with Tarragon Malt Vinegar Mignonette
A Mignonette is a classic sauce served with oysters. Traditionally it is made with vinegar, shallot, and cracked peppercorn. In this version, we use malt vinegar and add tarragon.
For the Fries -
• 4 large potatoes, cut into frites (French fry size)
• Oil to fry
For the Mignonette -
• 1 C. malt vinegar
• 1.5 T. peppercorns, cracked but not ground
• 1 shallot, finely sliced
• 3 T. tarragon, chopped
1. In a large dutch oven or fryer, preheat the oil to 300 degrees. Blanch the potatoes in the oil for 3-4 minutes. Remove and let sit on a baking rack for 2 hours to develop a crust.
2. Meanwhile, while the fries are resting, mix all of the ingredients for the mignonette together in a bowl and set aside.
3. After the potatoes have rested for 2 hours, heat the oil in the same dutch oven or fryer to 360 degrees. Fry the parcooked potatoes in the oil until golden brown and crispy. Remove from oil and salt immediately. Dip the fries in the mignonette.
Potatoes Al Forno
Potatoes Al Forno
• 1 T. olive oil
• 1.5 T. anchovy paste
• 6 garlic cloves, smashed
• 2 C. heavy cream
• 2 T. parsley, chopped
• 2.5 oz. pecorino romano, grated
• 1 lb. Yukon gold potatoes, sliced
• 1 onion, julienne
• 1 fennel bulb, shaved
• 2 oz. panko
• Salt and Pepper
• Mace, to taste
1. In a saucepan, add the oil and heat over medium heat. Add the anchovy paste, and garlic cloves, season with pepper, and saute for 2-3 minutes until fragrant. Then add the cream and bring to a scald. Turn down the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Next add the pecorino, in 2 batches, making sure all is incorporated before the second addition. Season with salt and pepper and mace, to your taste – a little goes a long way.
2. Combine the potato, onion, and fennel in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Place the seasoned vegetables in a baking pan and then pour over the cream mixture. Then sprinkle the breadcrumbs evenly over the top, and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven covered in foil for 30 minutes, then remove the foil and bake 30 more minutes until the breadcrumbs are toasted and the vegetables are cooked.
Sauteed Fingerling Potatoes with Oyster Mushrooms, Pancetta, Arugula Pesto
Sauteed Fingerling Potatoes with Oyster Mushrooms, Pancetta, Arugula Pesto
For the Potatoes -
• 8 oz fingerling potatoes, cut in half
• 2 oz pancetta, finely diced
• 6 oz mushrooms, quartered
• 3 garlic cloves, smashed
• 3 T. chicken stock
• 2 oz butter, separated 1 oz/1oz
For the Arugula Pesto -
• 1 C. packed arugula
• 2 T. miso – mixed with 1 T. water
• 1 garlic clove
• ¼ C. toasted walnut
• ¼ C. hemp seed
• 1 tsp. tarragon, chopped
• 1/3 C. olive oil
• ¼ tsp. sugar
• ½ lemon, zested
For the Potatoes -
1. Place the fingerling potatoes in a pot of cold water and a pinch of salt, and bring to a boil. Cook until the potatoes are 2/3 the way cooked through. (20 minutes or so). Remove from water and set aside.
2. In a large saute pan, add 1 T. oil and 1 oz butter, when the butter has melted, add the garlic and pancetta and crisp up over medium heat. When crispy, add the mushrooms and saute until golden.
3. Then add the potatoes, turn the heat to high and add the chicken stock and other 1 oz butter. Cook for 2 minutes, season with pepper, and serve topped with the arugula pesto.
For the Arugula Pesto -
1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor and puree. Because of the miso - check for seasonings before adding any more salt.


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The power of nature
Eating fruit and veggies in their natural, uncooked form is more than just a new-age fad, writes Meeta Mishra.health-and-fitness Updated: Jun 11, 2007 18:26 IST
Twenty years ago, if anyone had told you that you could drop milk from your diet and remain absolutely healthy, you would have thought that person was crazy.
Ten years ago, it would never have occurred to you to separate the yolk and the white of your breakfast egg.
What a silly thing to do, you would have thought: it's the egg that's healthy, not just part of it. You only separated the yolk and white when you needed to, say, bake a cake.
Today however, life is somewhat different. To drink no milk, to eat only the whites of eggs... these are normal things, given the emphasis we put on our health. Which is why when brand manager Madhulika Dhall came across something called 'the raw-vegan diet', she didn't dismiss it as yet another new age fad. She gave it a try.
Beat the heat
Today, Dhall swears by the raw-vegan diet. Though she hasn't taken to it 24/7, she does, from time to time, follow it for a week as part of a detoxification programme.
Because, as the name signifies, the raw-vegan diet takes the strict vegan diet (absolutely no meat or dairy products) one step further. Whatever you eat, it must be raw.
If this sounds too faddish for words, consider this: Internationally, raw food is not just a health trend, but a gourmet trend as well, and its supporters include celebrities like Alicia Silverstone, Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore, Robin Williams, and Bryan Adams.
But more than a celebrity diet, raw food, especially the vegetarian, non-dairy variety, is increasingly being seen as the most correct way to eat because of its living enzymes that help you to digest what you eat.
When you cook food, the enzymes are destroyed.
So to digest your food, your body must use its own metabolic enzymes, a process that uses up a lot of energy and leaves you feeling slow and sluggish.
Aside from that, say experts, when you cook food, the heat tends to kill vital vitamins and minerals. This not only means that you don't get the best of the food you eat, but also that your body, in an attempt to get proper nutrition, drives you to overeat.
Squeaky clean
You also feel good about yourself, says Dhall. "After the detoxification programme, I felt much healthier and became more active... I enjoyed working out and didn't feel fatigued at the end," she says.
That is because raw fruit and vegetables are high in water and fibre, both of which help food pass through the digestive system smoothly, says Dr Soorya Kaur, an advocate of the raw-vegan diet. "This tends to make people feel better" , adds Dr Kaur.
Some raw food advocates believe that cooking food does not only destroy vitamins and minerals, but actually makes it toxic, because the heat converts some particles into harmful chemicals. This combined with less active lifestyles, they say, has contributed to an increase in obesity-related illnesses in developed countries.
This is an argument that nutritionist Anju Venkat of the Health Awareness Centre, Mumbai, supports. The problem, she says, is that in India, we place too much emphasis on the pleasurable aspect of food and not enough on its nutritional aspect.
"Food is just one of the things that makes a human body feel energised and healthy," she says. "To be healthy, you need fresh air, good food, sleep and sunshine. Food is not the only reason of our existence. We seem to have forgotten why we eat. It is simply to give fuel to the body, so it can function. And in this respect, raw food is very good."
"It takes the body very little time to digest, and leaves the body to use its energy for other activities."
This surplus energy, points out nutritionist Kavita Mukhi, can be used to build up immunity to minor ailments like the common cold.
Fasting, feasting
Vitamins, minerals and all the useful nutritional properties apart, can people really live only on raw food for days on end? Yes, says Dr Soorya Kaur, who has drawn up a seven-day raw-vegan diet plan.
But rather than a diet to be followed full time, the raw-vegan diet is most often used in detoxification programmes that range in intensity from two-day juice fasts and short spans of eating only vegetables and water, to radical regimes that include colonic irrigations.
These 'detox diets' aim to cleanse the body of toxins picked up from pollution and junk food; toxins that accumulate in the body's fat stores and result in headaches, fatigue and increased risk for chronic diseases, such as cancer
Says Dr Kaur "Taking a temporary break from caffeine, alcohol and refined sugars - as is prescribed by most of these plans - may not only eliminate the energy crashes sometimes associated with these ingredients, but could also help people realise just how much 'junk' they normally consume.
And that awareness can help them eat better for a healthier life." Kavita Mukhi does not believe that raw food alone can sort out health problems. Besides, she points out, the realities of urban life are such that the quality of raw food is always questionable.
While fasting or following a restricted diet for a week generally does not hurt you, there is a chance, says Mukhi, that the restrictions may also cause fatigue or dizziness if the diet doesn't supply adequate calories.
Whatever its advocates may say, there has so far been little or no scientific evidence that raw food does actually have any measurable benefits, says Delhi-based nutritionist Ishi Khosla.
"A detox diet is a nice way to begin a change in your diet and lifestyle, but it is not meant to be followed on a daily basis," says nutritionist and
columnist Dr Shikha Sharma. "Instead, follow it for a couple of days a month."
Days 1 & 2:
Eat fruit, vegetables, sprouted nuts, seeds, and grains. This gets the digestive system moving and flushes toxins from the bloodstream.
Day 3: Eat only green vegetables (coriander soup, avocado, basil, spinach, cucumber) and green fruit (green apple, kiwi, pear). This will loosen toxins from cell tissue. Drink lemongrass and mint tea. Chlorophyll in greens cleanses the blood.
Day 4: Juice only - 10 different types. This rests the digestive system while providing maximum nutrition. The last drink of the day is Rejuvelac, a friendly natural bacteria.
Day 5: Fruit only. Be innovative - make a fruit salsa. Fruit has the most antioxidant and astringent properties of all foods. Its sugars are slowburning but powerful. They enhance the vitality of cells faster than any other food and with much less digestive effort.
Days 6 & 7: The same diet as days 1& 2.


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I've recently added some client sentiment formulas (from IG Index) to a financial prices Excel Add-in I am working on. What I find interesting is the much higher proportion of long positions across all asset classes.
Surprisingly the UKs FTSE100 is the least shorted of all the major stock indices.
In the FX world, IG clients are more long on all major pairs, regardless of whether they are effectively long or short the USD:
I will post this again with updated data, it will be interesting to see how it changes over time (I suspect it won't actually change that much!).
Perhaps you could use changes in sentiment to trigger trade decisions and track performance over time. My gut feel is that it could be a good contrary indicator…..


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The annual buzz about the NHL Trade Deadline is here. It's an exciting time to be a hockey fan, and here's everything you need to know.
When is the NHL Trade Deadline?
On Monday, Feb. 25, all teams must have their trades submitted by 3:00 p.m. ET. However, news about blockbuster trades could break later on in the day.
Top NHL Trade Rumors
Perhaps the biggest name in question this year is Columbus Blue Jackets star forward Artemi Panarin. The Jackets star has been linked to both the Kings and Blackhawks.
While the Kings need to sell some of their aging core, Panarin could be the young spark that they need to get the ball rolling again. Panarin is a free agent this summer, meaning he could just be a rental for a contender.
Could Artemi Panarin help the #LAKings get back on track? @FriedgeHNIC explains why it's a fit. #NHLTonight pic.twitter.com/AmVXfQthG4— NHL Network (@NHLNetwork) February 14, 2019
Ottawa Senators leading scorers Matt Duchene and Mark Stone are also on the block. Both already have over 50 points on the season, and Duchene has done it in only 47 games.
"It's not an easy thing, that's for sure."— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) February 14, 2019
Mark Stone and Matt Duchene prefer to keep the business side of the game internal. pic.twitter.com/PjhPCzwWqj
Be on the lookout for the Boston Bruins to potentially replace David Pastrnak with one of these Sens stars.
NHL Trade Deadline History
Of course, some massive deals have been made at the deadline that have changed the course of an entire season for certain teams.
A notable deadline move came in 2008 when the Atlanta Thrashers traded forwards Marian Hossa and Pascal Dupuis to the Pittsburgh Penguins in return for
First person Toews hands the Cup to is Kimmo Timonen. Nothing but class pic.twitter.com/HqYMA7XmZ5— Goalie Ways (@GoalieWays) June 16, 2015


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Serdar Mehmet
Senior Solicitor
Serdar is a member of IBB's Residential Development and Strategic Land Team.
He is experienced in the acquisition and disposal of residential development sites, option agreements, infrastructure agreements and planning agreements (including affordable housing provisions) having acted for many of the UK's top house builders on various sites across the country. He also has some experience of dealing with commercial development sites as well as commercial leases and related documentation (having acted for both landlords and tenants in the retail and office sectors) and managing landlord portfolios.
Serdar spent an appreciable period of time as an in-house lawyer at a large housing association and understands many of the commercial and regulatory issues affecting the social housing sector especially in property matters as well as the importance of delivering advice that is prompt and pragmatic.


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By Greg Archuleta
Enchantment Sports Associate Editor
Copyright Enchantment Sports
University of New Mexico football coach Bob Davie may want to channel his inner Dennis Franchione in 2018 as fall camp now is in full swing.
It's been 25 years since Franchione became the first Lobo coach since Roy Johnson in the 1920s to post a winning record the year after he coached UNM to a three-win season.
He guided the Lobos to a 3-8 season during his rookie campaign in 1992 and followed that up with a 6-5 mark in 1993.
Since 1920, UNM has had 13 three-win campaigns. The program has posted winning records three times the following season.
Johnson's 1923 Lobos went 3-5 but rebounded to go 5-1 in 1924. The Lobos had another three-win season in 1933 — going 3-4-1 under coach Charles Riley. Riley exited, and Gwinn Henry took over in 1934, leading UNM to an 8-1 mark.
If it brings any comfort to Lobo fans, which it probably won't, the team did improve its win total in seven of the previous 12 follow-up seasons. Four or five wins likely won't appease UNM football fans who were staying away when Davie had built a nine-win squad in 2016.
Two years ago, the program and coach Bob Davie should've been on top of the world, having completely erased the failed Locksley era with a 9-4 record and a 23-20 victory over UTSA in the New Mexico Bowl — the team's first bowl win since the 2007 New Mexico Bowl against a Colin Kaepernick-led Nevada team.
The team led the nation in rushing and set a school record for rushing, total offense and scoring. It seemed Lobo Football might actually have some momentum.
But something was amiss. The 2016 regular season had the lowest attendance of any Lobo football team in the previous 25 years with an average of just 18,708 per game.
Franchione left after his 9-4 Lobo season in 1997, in part because only approximately 30,000 people showed up for the UNM's 51-10 win over Tulsa that sewed up the Western Athletic Conference Mountain Division title.
Of course, coach Rocky Long's Lobos went 9-4 in 2007, and the attendance of 29,751 was nearly 8,600 fewer than the program record of 38,341 in 2005.
UNM would love to have either of those averages today — especially the men's soccer team.
For Davie to regain fan support, he has to hope that new offensive coordinator Calvin Magee can do something that hasn't been done before in the annals of college football:
Make a triple-option offense adept at throwing the football by marrying that scheme with elements of the spread option — an offense that failed spectacularly under the aforementioned Locksley.
As the team began full contact on Tuesday, the biggest question facing the team is whom Magee will entrust to guide this hybrid offense. Sophomore quarterback Tevaka Tuioti was good enough to wrest the starting job away from fifth-year senior Lamar Jordan last season.
Can he hold off senior (and former Arizona State transfer) Coltin Gerhart and junior and (and former Tennessee transfer) Shariron Jones?
Can Tyrone Owens get his 2016 groove back when he rushed for 1,097 yards and was fourth in the nation in yards per carry at 8.0.?
Can Magee spark the passing attack with wide receivers Delane Hart-Johnson and Jay Griffin IV while keeping the trademark punch for which the UNM run game is known?
"I think he (Magee) brings a freshness and a newness, and you can feel that in the energy of it," Davie said earlier during fall camp. "And there's a lot of open positions. The combination of those two things – it almost feels like a game, that type of urgency."
Defensively, the Lobos' priority is trying to figure out how to force more turnovers. It has caused 13 in each of the last two seasons after forcing nearly double that amount (25) in 2015.
But the team has steadily improved in yards per game allowed, and it'll be up to veteran linebacker Alex Hart and defensive end Cody Baker to keep the defense on that upward arc.
The learning curve shoots up as the hitting starts.
But the one other thing that August brings is enthusiasm. UNM will be anxious to stop talking about 2017 and start looking forward to the season opener against Incarnate Word on Sept. 1.
The task for Davie is to not only keep that enthusiasm alive into the season but also find a way to sustain that enthusiasm when October rolls around and thoughts of Lobo basketball start to thaw.
Or else it won't matter what – or whose energy Davie channels as he enters his seventh season.
Franchione lasted only six at UNM. And a last scary prospect facing Davie is the fact that only five head coaches (including Davie) have had a nine-win season at UNM.
Two (Franchione and Joe Morrison, who went 10-1 in 1982), left their high-mark season. The other two (Long and Bill Weeks) never recorded another winning season after their nine-win campaigns.


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St. Vitale - Abraham and the Three Angels (detail), from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, Tenn. Original source: Images donated by Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University.
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I recently bought a wicker set of furniture, a sofa and a glider; it is in our den and looks fabulous; the problem is … it is just not comfortable to me. Yes, it's comfortable to sit in … but not to slouch and relax and free to be me in my pj's and look my worst and nobody care. I need a room like that; I don't need pretty furniture that is too nice to sit in my underwear. Did she just say that? Yes, and you ALL know what I am talking about. Why did I buy it? It was PRETTY! I thought I wanted PRETTY. Now I know pretty is not what I need or want.
I want this.
Well, a little prettier than that … but … you get the idea. We love sitting in our den sharing a series on our Amazon Fire channel. We talk about the characters as if we know them personally. They make us so mad at some of the things they do; they make us laugh and giggle with other things they do or say. It is fun to watch and laugh with my husband, my best friend.
But the room now is super pretty and I even bought covers to make sure nothing gets spilled or dirties up anything on the upholstery. What a bummer to not be able to enjoy our room anymore. It is depressing. Surely someone out there would love to have this set.
Yep, what am I thinking? There is not a single solitary thing wrong with this furniture. It is perfect for this room. Perfect for everyone but me! Why can't you return furniture with the receipt like you do clothes? I don't see the difference. With clothes, you actually put the item next to your skin … up close and personal. Furniture is something you have clothes on to use. I am in a dilemma, as you can plainly see.
Adding to that melee, a much confusing struggle, I found the perfect leather sofa, rocker/recliner set. It is not pretty; but it is not NOT pretty. It is handsome and comfy like leaning against your sweetie with your head leaning against his chest and hearing his heartbeat and being wrapped in his warm loving arms … that kinda comfy.
But alas, that warmth, that comfort, that blissful feeling that comes from knowing you can totally be yourself with someone … or that you can totally be yourself in a certain place created just for you … is not to be … not now … until I sell the first set of furniture.
Why? This set was pretty and pretty expensive. I have too much invested to just give it away or call GoodWill. What a sadness, what a shame; I didn't get what I wanted and I've only myself to blame !!
Addendum: Joy, rapture, I found what I really wanted. In a Pre-Labor Day Sale, I found the perfect comfy yet pretty den combo. I am relieved and now if I can just sell the wicker set all will be right with my world again.
Dear Lord, this is a silly thing to be thankful for … but I am. You want good gifts for Your children. This is a good gift to myself. With the provisions You have so graciously given me, I was able to purchase another set of furniture that better suits our needs and desires. I know as a Heavenly Father You desire creature comforts for Your children. I thank you humbly for the life I have been granted and the funds to provide my needs and so many of my wants. I am truly blessed and I know it !! Please forgive the triviality of my thankfulness, but, I do know how truly blessed I am. Thank You for the life I have and am living. I have done nothing to earn or deserve such riches. Ok, yes, I have worked hard for others all my life and now am retired to work at projects of my own. But You gave me the abilities to earn a living teaching and sharing life skills with students for thirty-seven years. In that time, I learned so much more than my students. So, again, I was doubly blessed. You are a GOOD GOOD Father, and I'm LOVED by YOU. Amen
You're a Good Good Father, written by Pat Barrett and performed by Chris Tomlin.


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Vodafone New Zealand
Say It Tika
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|FCB New Zealand
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|Chief Creative Officer
|James Mok
|Executive Creative Director
|Tony Clewett
|Digital Creative Director
|Matt Barnes
|Lennie Galloway
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|Ra Kahukiwa
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This 2018 Clio Awards Silver winning entry titled 'Say It Tika' was entered for Vodafone New Zealand by FCB New Zealand, Auckland, part of agency network: FCB and holding company: Interpublic Group. The piece was submitted to the medium: Partnerships & Collaborations within the entry type: Product/Service. It consists of 1 video and 1 image.


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Fishdom is one of the most popular videos games, which have been playing by a number of people. This is basically a match-three puzzle video game, which is free to play. The publisher and developer is Playrix Entertainment, and the game can be played on Android and IOS devices. So, if you like to play the puzzle games, then it will be the best ever option to choose.
How is the fishdom gameplay?
Fishdom game is too easy to play, so it can be played by anyone without facing any kind of issue. The players are only required to make some combinations of three or more pieces of one single color. By doing this, they can upgrade the level and also earn the coins, which is the main currency. You can also use fishdom cheats to get unlimited game currency.
With the help of coins, players can perform several activities. They can use the coins in order to purchase some new fishes. Now if we talk about the diamonds, then these can be collected by in-app purchase. These can basically be converted into some extra lives.
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What are The Fishdom Game Features?
Fishdom comes with a plethora of unique features, which are also the chief reason behind the huge popularity. If you are going to play, then it is advised to have the proper information about these features, which are described below.
- There is no need to have any internet connection or Wi-Fi in order to play.
- The players can share their Fishdom mania with friends of Facebook.
- The graphics are amazing, which can seek the attention of every game lover.
- With the help of breathtaking underwater décor, the players can live up fish tanks.
- We can compete with many other players, and it can help in developing aquarium faster.
- There are thousands of challenges, which have to be completed by the players.
- They can collect a number of coins as rewards after performing some certain activities.
In addition to this, the players can get the opportunity to swap and match pieces as well as decorate and design aquariums in one single game. So, this is the ideal option for all those people, who are willing to play and enjoy a lot.
Few ideas to play
While Fishdom is easy to play, but the players should have some ideas in order to play before start playing. So, if you are going to play then keep in mind some important things, which are described in the further article.
- The players are advised to start with the level, which is mentioned at the bottom of the board. Well, this can increase the chances in order to get many cascade matches at the top.
- In case, you stuck while playing then make sure that you have made every possible match of three or more pieces.
Moving further, the fishes also give hints about the things, which are missed in the aquarium. So, you should keep in mind such wishes and try to complete soon.
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Why Gayle King isn't Expecting a Christmas Present From Oprah Winfrey?
The longtime best friends Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King don't exchange Christmas presents.
Best friends for over 40 years, Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King have a rule when it comes to holiday gifting. The longtime best friends avoid exchanging gifts on Christmas.
They have been best friends for years and given how successful their career has been, their no gift rule makes a lot of sense.
On Wednesday, during an appearance on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen" The CBS This Morning co-anchor King revealed that she and her best friend Oprah Winfrey do not exchange Christmas presents.
"We don't exchange gifts because both of us feel that we really don't need anything, we just like hanging out together."
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The longtime besties value each other's company rather than presents and gifts. So, they will be spending a lot of time together this January.
As announced in June, the pair along with more than 2,600 of their closest pals are planning on setting sails for a three-day "girls getaway" cruise aboard Holland America's Nieuw Statendam ship on January 30, 2019.
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Their "the power of friendship" themed journey is meant to honor and pay tribute to the special bond between women. Their journey runs roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and makes a stop in the Bahamas' Half Moon Cay.
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While announcing the vacation, Winfrey asked everyone to bring their best friend with them.
"Bring your best friend with you, whoever that is — your mom, your aunt…your bestie from elementary school. Bring your Gayle!"
As for items featured on Winfrey's annual "Favorite Things" list, King revealed:
"My favorite is the Apple watch 'cause I got one for the first time. And the least favorite would be pajamas because I don't wear pajamas."
Meanwhile, this year's list does feature pajama sets which include Kassatex robes, Cozychic caftans, and Softies hooded snuggle loungers.
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Loseth ThyselfCityGuru By William Shakespeare
If thou hadst a chance, a singular favorable moment
To seize all doth hath desire towards
By chance, wouldst thou take it?
Or lettest it skid!
His palms doth perspire, knees feeble, arms doth weigh in excess
Vomit hath emerged on his garments thus
Matron's Italian cuisine!
Forsooth, He doth be trepid, but appeareth to be halcyon and vigilant
To droppeth caskets of fire, but he cannot recall
What he hath recorded on his paper, the mob is so deafening!
He doth be gagging, all are making fun now!
The timepiece hath run down! Timeth is over! Blaow!
Waketh up from slumber, go to reality, O, where hath gravity gone!
O, thereth be Hare, he hath choked
He 'tis full of wrath, alas, he will not give up without hardship, Nay
He wilst not, he wot his entire slum's paths!
Nay, it doth not matter, he is a fool! He wot that, but he has no monies!
He doth be stacketh, thus he wot, when he goeth thither to the mobile home, then anon, it will be
Another sojourn to the lab, once more, the entirity of the rhapsody
He shouldst seize the moment, pray it shan't pass!
Thou shouldst loseth thyself in the music, the moment!
Thee doth own it, do not let it go!
Chances there are but one, shouldst not miss thy chance to exhale!
Forsooth, opportunity comes but once in a lifetime! O!
The demon is escaping! Through the hole that gapeth!
Forsooth! The World becometh Mine for the taking!
Crowne me King! As we moveth towards it, new order doth spring up!
Simpleton life tis a bore, yet renown doth be closeth to Death!
Harder tis it gets, more of a Sojourn, it shall only get Fierier!
He bloweth us all over, the prostitutes doth on him!
Sea to sea, he is renowned as World Traveler!
Road less traveled, God but wot, he doth be farther from the Hearth, he is no sirer!
He goeth to his stead and doth not wot his sired daughter!
Shouldst you holdeth your nostrils, here will come frigid water!
The prostitutes shun him now! he is now cold!
They moveth on to the next fool, he dives into the depths of Hell! and traded nary!
Thence the opera is sung, methinks it is aged partner,
But the wilde gyrations continue hence!
Da dumb de dumb da!
Thou shouldst loseth thyself in the music, the moment!
Thee doth own it, do not let it go!
Chances there are but one, do not miss your chance to exhale!
Forsooth, opportunity comes but once in a lifetime! O!
Begone with amusements! I will morphose into what thee calls Wrath!
Collapse this gar-faced place as did Samson in Olden days!
Once I gamed, but that hath morphosed!
I hath been masticated and vomited out, and cursed offeth the Stage!
Alas! I anon more rhyming and Steppe Writing the next cipher!
Thou shouldst believe that someone doth be paying a Piede Piper!
The agony inside! It is intensified! By the
Wanton that I cannot Labor
But for Eight hours a day! Alas! I cannot provide the right type!
Of sustainment for my household! Man! Verily, these accursed Provender stamps are not worth a Diaper!
Quoth I, no Movie is this, Mekhi Phifer there is none!
It doth be my vitals, the times are famine-like!
Tis getting harder to nourish mineself mine seed!
The woes are not yet finished! I hath been caught betwix being a father
And.a Prima Donna! Alas!
The child and parent hath drama! They screameth as banshees! Tis too much!
For mineself to remaineth in mine spot! Another jam? Pray tell, or not?
It hath gotten me as Gehenna! I now resemble a Snaile! I shouldst!
To contrive a plot! Lest I end up in the Dungeon! Or, I pray not, A Corpse!
Success remaineth my last choice! Failure doth nought!
Mother, I doth loveth thou! but this trail must goeth! I cannot age in the lot of Witches!
So, the die tis cast, this is mine chance!
Pray, feet, do not fail me, Tis the only chance I have!
Thou shouldst lose thyself in the music, the moment!
Thee doth own it, do not let it go!
Chances there are one, do not miss your chance to exhale!
Forsooth, opportunity comes but once in a lifetime! O!
Thou canst do all thou sets thine mind to, brother.
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Thanks! - CityGuru
This is a great and original parody - Martinglez
I daresay, good gentleman, this doth be the personification of perfection! - WonkeyDude98
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'With their fresh slant on indie guitar driven rock, combined with the haunting vocals and stunning good looks of Zoe, word is already out about these guys. So go and catch them live in a small venue soon, while you still have the chance.' - Music News
The band has played live across the country, taking in festivals like Bestival, Boardmasters, Y Not, Lodestar, Leopallooza and the Olympic Park during London 2012. The band has been gaining support from BBC Introducing and 6Music, NME Radio, XFM, Absolute and Amazing Radio. They have been featured on magazine websites such as Rolling Stone, Classic Rock and Loaded, as well, MTV Hive. Their debut EP, The One was recorded at London's Abbey Road Studio and Cube Recordings and the band has new releases coming up through-out the year.
'There are still bands emerging from an apparent oblivion of guitars and industry mess that have some appetite for real music.' - 4.5/5' - The Playground
'The band is a powerhouse of a three piece and really did leave the audience's eyes wide open and jaws dropped after just a few minutes of being on stage, 4/5' - Southsonic
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Snap's Artis Story
June Stevenson (Snap) joined as CEO of the Artis Foundation towards the end of 2017. After a busy start to this year settling into her new role, she takes some time to reflect on the theme of New Beginnings and Reinventions.
I joined Artis last autumn, and now, just over six months on, feels like a good moment to pause and reflect on what's happened since, particularly as it strikes me that both Artis and I have been on journeys of some reinvention.
For me personally it's been a change of working identity and context – from thirteen years working in education and business to a welcome and refreshing swerve into the world of the arts and non-profit.
For Artis, the change has been one that happened both gradually and suddenly: after an autumn of preparation, at midnight on 31st December 2017 the thirteen-year-old Artis Education Ltd donated all its valuable relationships and contracts to the Artis Foundation, the newly established charity.
The move has been about seeking to increase Artis' reach and partnerships, focusing on children from disadvantaged backgrounds in schools that we haven't been able to reach commercially and expanding our work in promoting wellbeing and tackling social issues.
Prior to Artis, I had spent eight years at The Key and four in teaching (plus a further one freelancing between babies), where much of my thinking was about school management, improvement and policies, alongside the day to day busyness of organisational leadership and management in those workplaces.
At The Key, neutrality ruled, and our passion was for quality of service, not for any one vision of how to run a school or what pedagogy to promote. At Artis, it is all about our passion. We are unashamedly outraged that the 'arts gap' between private and state schooled pupils is so large; we are determined to tell any headteacher that will listen that they should engage us to help rectify this.
Yet for both of us there has also been a lot of continuity.
Many charity leaders I've spoken to talk about the challenge of developing a commercial approach having started out with grants and individual backers. Artis already has a commercial approach and it's something we are determined to hold onto, despite our change of status. We are using applications to trusts and foundations to fund the development of new programmes and approaches (we hope) and encouraging individual givers to help subsidise the work we do so we can maintain our extremely high quality, but the great majority of our income still comes from schools, and we plan will continue to come from statutory sources.
I like to think that what I learnt in the highly commercial environment of The Key has much relevance when it comes to Artis operating as efficiently as it can and bringing the best possible products to its customers.
You, Me ,Together : mental health and wellbeing through the arts (Jan, 2018)
Artis the company had always considered itself a 'social business', so in some ways the changes aren't huge. The excellent people involved, much of the very strong and popular programmes and the expertly honed ways of doing things continue as before. But becoming a charity was important for opening up partnership opportunities, removing suspicion that many in our sectors have (often rightly, sometimes unfairly) of the profit motive, and providing full transparency for the whole range of potential contributors to the Artis mission.
I'm sure in another six month's time I'll have much more areas to reflect on again. I can already see how much we are learning about the subtle impact on our culture, the positioning of our evaluation and impact work, the right balance of income streams, to mention just a few.
It's certainly been busy!
Artis are currently recruiting for up to two new Trustees to add to our Board. For full details of the role, the trustees we are looking for and how to apply please click here.
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The first Lusitano Horses arrived in Brazil in 1540 by the hands of the Portuguese colonizers. They were half-breed from Garranos and Galician Ponies, coming from North Portugal, and Sorraias, from the South, starting, even though in a shy way, the history of the breed in national soil.
With the Royal Family's arrival, centuries later, in 1808, selected animals were brought from Real Stud of Alter, among them, the Sublime breeder, that had been used in crossbreed with Creole mares, giving rise to other breeds, such as Mangalarga, Marchador and Campolina Horse.
After the Independence of Brazil, and the consequent separation of Portugal, the PSL has disappeared in Brazil, reappearing in mid XX century, thanks to the attempt to implant the bullfights in Brazil. In this period, two stallions descending from "Zapata" arrived in Brazil: Galito and Bijou. Other records happened during the 60's, with Portuguese animals, such as Dragão, Zoonito and Completo, besides the mares Zazá and Zaragata, responsible for initiating the first Brazilian breeding of pure Lusitanos, in Teresópolis (Rio de Janeiro).
The initiative has mobilized some breeders, triggering an expansion process of the breed that culminated with the arrival, in 1972, of the unforgettable Broquel; the Grey Horse coming from Portugal National Stud, that one year after would conquer its first Grand Champion's title, in an exhibition in Goiânia city.
Living a propitious moment, fans of the breed, leaded by Toni Pereira, founded, in 1st of December 1975, the "Associação Brasileira de Criadores de Cavalo Andaluz" (Brazilian Association of Andaluz Horse's Breeders), recognized entity by the Ministry of Agriculture, responsible for establishing the first Brazilian Stud Book of Lusitanian and Spanish breeds. Were part of the board, the Chairman Antonio de Toledo Mendes Pereira, the secretary Enio Monte, the treasurer Asdrúbal do Nascimento Queiroz, and the Stud Book's director, Eduardo Benedito Marchi.
In the same year, another fact would mark the path of the Lusitano Horse defenitly. At the heydays of the Cravos Revolution, when many farms were taken in Portugal, emerged the risk of losing the excellent genetic heritage of the breed, with the best lineage of the Iberian Peninsula. In this moment, Jose Monteiro from the National Stud offered to the Brazilian breeders the best of the herd, in order to save the millennial selection of the troop.
In 1991, a Reciprocity Protocol with the Portuguese Association of the Lusitan Pure Blood Breeders (APSL) was signed, making possible an exchange between the two countries, which allowed, among other things, the registration of all Brazilian born animals in the Portuguese Stud Book, besides changing the entity's name to Associação Brasileira de Criadores do Cavalo Puro Sangue Lusitano (ABPSL).
With about 10 thousand animals, the Lusitano has recorded the expansion to other regions of the country, making itself notorious in equestrian competitions, especially in Dressage and Working Equitation where, by the way, it is the current World Champion of the modality.
The Pure Blood Lusitano has evolved increasingly in the equestrian world. Knowing that, The Stud Rogas do Vouga participates actively in the breed progress in the biggest sports competitions of the planet, proving the quality of their horses.


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!!! Important !!! The 2020 edition of XIAMEN STONE FAIR has been officially cancelled by the organisers due to coronavirus.
Stone industry professionals and manufacturers have no reason not to attend the XIAMEN STONE FAIR in Xiamen, China. The international trade fair occupies a top spot for the Asian markets and grants you access to enthusiastic buyers with a lot of power. Programming runs for four days, where over 2000 exhibitors are showcasing everything from raw materials to services. Attendance has been placed at somewhere around 150,000 trade visitors. It's going to be a race to book hotels close to XICEC, but you can be the first thanks to Travel 2 Fairs ltd and our expansive connections.
Gain full control over your online hotel reservation for trade fairs without having to spend hours upon hours doing the manual work with Travel 2 Fairs ltd. Our team changes how you experience business travel altogether with accommodation that's cheaper, comfortable and serviced by public transport. You complete the reservation process in a single day. That's how you should attend the XIAMEN STONE FAIR. As befitting of an event of such magnitude, the exhibit range is impressive – granite, marble, limestone, sandstone, volcanic rock, artificial stone, stone furniture, gravestone, stone carving, landscape stone, rain-flower stone,stone mining, processing, fork loading, diamond tools, and more.


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World Ag Expo To Focus on Hemp
December 3, 2019
Hemp Innovation Challenge to Premier at 2020 World Ag Expo
The Hemp Innovation Challenge is designed to accelerate the future of the hemp industry by supporting entrepreneurs, researchers and students who are launching the most disruptive hemp innovations in the world. Submissions will come from hemp innovators in universities, companies, research institutes, barns, and government agencies. Finalists will be invited to the World Ag Expo® in Tulare, California in February 2020 to participate in the fast pitch competition.
The winners will receive strategic feedback about their innovation, business model, and go-to-market strategy. Event highlights include networking with C-level executives, investors, and mentorship to support launching their innovations.
The Hemp Innovation Challenge™ will be run in partnership with the esteemed Larta Institute. Larta is a leading non-profit innovation hub with a mission to improve the transition of science and technology breakthroughs from the lab to the marketplace. Larta's Global Agriculture Innovation Network (GAIN) programming, including the Ag Innovation Showcase, has helped over 700 ag entrepreneurs, who have gone on to collectively raise $1.7B over the past 10 years. "The Hemp Innovation Challenge is a perfect fit for what we do and our broader mission", said Bandhana Katoch JD, MBA, MS, head of Larta's Sustainability practice.
Entering its 53rd year, World Ag Expo® is the largest annual outdoor ag trade show in the world. In 2019, the show saw 102,800 attendees from 48 states and 65 countries. With more than 1,400 exhibitors and 2.6 million square feet of exhibit space, World Ag Expo® provides a platform for networking, education and business in one of the most productive ag counties in the United States.
General Admission tickets are for sale online now, and attendees can plan their visit at www.worldagexpo.org/attendees. With a diverse lineup of agriculture companies and seminars covering international trade, irrigation, ag policy, hemp, and more, there is something for every ag professional at the 2020 World Ag Expo®. The 53rd edition will run from Tuesday, February 11 through Thursday, February 13, 2020 at the International Agri-Center® in Tulare, CA.
To enter the Hemp Innovation Challenge™, visit https://hempinnovationchallenge.org/hemp-innovation-submission/.


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Rezervacija - Restaurant Tabor
Over three decades have passed since Tabor Restaurant was established. During this time countless guests, prominent people from the entire country and from all around the world, from the state president, an artist to an ordinary "little" man, passed through it. The guestbook and the fading newspaper inscriptions, as well as the numerous awards, testify to the existence of this gastronomic sanctuary and special shelter for a good time where there is always music, gifted people, and beautiful women.
Tabor is continuing its tradition even today. At this age when people have less and less spare time, and when it appears that the romantics and Bohemians are in a short supply, Tabor's guests are those people who have preserved their soul and nobility, who respect and preserve the cult of taverns, good food, and real tavern music. Generations passed, both the owners and the guests changed but the spirit of the old Tabor is still alive.
The famous Minimax used to entertain with his spirit and sense of humor, which Ivan Ivanović is doing today. In the past, the magic voice of Maja Odžaklijevska could be heard and now it is the angelic voice of Jelena Tomašević and Aleksandra Radović. Danka Novović's and Ceca Bojković's beauty and talent shone 20 years ago, today they are succeeded by Marijana Mićić and Marija Kilibarda, while the great actor Bata Stojković was replaced by the charming Andrija Milošević.
Restaurant Tabor has remained an asylum for a good time which still connects seemingly incompatible people, where everyone is the same and where every guest is treated as a friend.
For ongoing events take a look below or visit the home page
Phone reservations: +381 66 222153; +381 66 222152
Ongoing events - Restaurant Tabor
wednesday 30. sep
Live band
thursday 01. oct
Live band
friday 02. oct
Live band
saturday 03. oct
Live band
monday 05. oct
Tambour orchestra
tuesday 06. oct
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Death and Resurrection
We all have an appointment with death; however, the promise of the resurrection of the dead gives us hope beyond this temporary world.
The Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews, that there is a day for us to die.
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
But the Bible also tells us there is a promise of the of the resurrection of the dead to those that are in Christ.
Psa 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Hos 13:14a I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death:
Joh 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
As noted earlier, that we all have an appointed time that we will die, but also that if we have received the gift of Salvation, if we have repented of our sins, been baptized in Jesus Name as stated in Acts chapter 2
Act 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
If we do as instructed in Acts 2:37-38 we have that promise of that resurrection of eternal life.


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Product Feature:
1.The low frequency is a special electricity with regular rhythm or stop. According to suitable power and speed on body by low frequency, which make a rhyrhm and sort impetus on body. The softness of low frequency are as same as massage effect like pressure, pinch and percuss by human hand.
2.Choice 6 modes with simple operation.
3.It will set off power automatically after 12 minutes from stop, when you forget power off.
How to use an effective:
1.The low frequency is suitable to 12 minutes one time and 2-3 times a day, if used it a long time or feel harder with impetus, then you will feel tired at moment.
2.It's able to avoid 30 minutes after dinner, and favour to do after shower or warm washing.
Taking care after using:
1.Please turn off power after using.
2.Please separate adhesive gel pads from machine.
3.Please attach adhesive gel pad to pad holder.(To prevent adhesive pad for drying, which mush paste it pad holder)
4.The dirty point and etc on case should be cleaned by wet cloth by neutral cleaning material and wiped it by drying cloth again.
5.Don't keep in sunshine, hot temperature and humidity, wet and dust place, closer fire, or shocking place etc.
6.To keep it by children who can not touch.
7.Don't touch drying battery terminal with wet hand.
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ANN ARBOR – Rev up your appetites because this is the last rally of the season.
This beloved summer series, which starts at 5 p.m. and features your old favorites and some new flavors, is coming to an end Wednesday.
With everything from vegan burgers and shakes to paella and hand rolled-ice cream, this is an event not to be missed.
The featured trucks for October are:
The Salt & Sugar Co.
Cosa Sabrosa
Crepe Day-Twah
Hero Or Villain Van
The Nosh Pit Detroit
Shimmy Shack
Matt & Mo's
Jamerican Grill
Wood Fired Up
TruckShuka Detroit
Simply Spanish
Naughty Boy's Rolled Ice Cream
Petey's Donuts
Island Noodles
Live music and kids entertainment will be provided so bring the whole family for one of the last outdoor events of the season.
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