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Parallax Perks: Flexitime, Headspace & Other Benefits
Right from the very beginning, Parallax has continually recognised the hard work of its employees, rewarding them for their contribution to the agency's sustained growth and our consistently high quality output. These perks and benefits come in many forms, including afternoon video game breaks, team lunches, summer parties and staff nights out.
But it doesn't end there. Our monthly Costco trips ensure our snack table is always full, our coffee machine is topped up and our fridge is fully stocked with beer and soft drinks. Work anniversaries and birthdays are marked with not only cake and doughnuts, but also a round of 'spin the wheel' – your chance to win anything from restaurant vouchers to extra holiday days!
We're also signed up to Perkbox, which has some really great offers, such as free mobile insurance and discounted food boxes. Furthermore, we have access to the company Skillshare and Audible accounts to use towards personal growth. And then there's our regular Hack Days – a great opportunity to turn your mind to something other than regular client work, leaving you feeling fully refreshed and ready to dive back in with new ideas the following day.
For me personally, our flexible working hours policy has had a hugely positive impact on my own work-life balance. We have core hours when everyone is expected to be in the office, but the flexibility of coming in a little later or leaving a little earlier each day is a fantastic way of allowing people to fit their job around their lives, not the other way around. This translates to valuable family time in the morning for me (including, on occasion, doing the school run), all without the anxieties of not quite making it in before 9am.
Another fantastic perk is our subscription to the renowned mindfulness app, Headspace. I originally looked into the app when I was diagnosed with coeliac disease – I found it really helped me manage both the mental and physical side of the illness, so I discussed it with our directors to see if we could roll it out company-wide. We got in touch with Headspace directly to discuss how it would work within the workplace, with a number of people initially volunteering to take part in a trial.
Headspace has really helped our staff deal with a number of issues such as anxiety and insomnia, and helped to improve general well-being. We're using it to augment the existing support we provide, and we've had some really positive feedback. Keeping minds healthy is key to maintaining a happy, productive workplace.
As Head of Design, it's part of my job to look after a team of digital designers that specialise in everything from UX design to illustration to motion graphics. With everyone spinning so many plates, an app like Headspace is a fantastic way to clear your thoughts and calm your mind. Mental health is no longer a taboo subject, especially as we begin to understand the ramifications of our ever-connected, "always on" culture. We're increasingly expected by society to be available in some capacity 24/7, so it's vital for employers to consider this aspect of their team's everyday lives.
I'm genuinely grateful for the way Parallax is always looking at new ways to develop and support us. And our list of perks is always growing – visit our About page if you want to learn more about our creative culture, or head over to our Careers section to see our full list of benefits and check out our current vacancies.


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FutureLab have been working hard with Moe Elmoussawi and Xtreme Nutrition this year – and we're not talking about bodybuilding. No, we've been hard at work in the geeky sense, developing the updated and redesigned eCommerce Magento store for Xtreme Nutrition. For Xtreme Nutrition's extensive customer base, that means a brand new look on the frontend, a juicier rewards program, and some new products and discounts – look out for the personalised diet plans that Xtreme Nutrition have just launched, plus check out the blog for the latest from Moe and his team. These two new features were added to the website to help Xtreme Nutrition communicate with their valued customers and showcase the voice behind the company brand.
On the backend of the website, we used Magento's Sweet Tooth reward program to set up a points and cashback system for customers who purchase online. We custom developed some modules and features for Xtreme Nutrition, and imported all products and customer information with a custom setup.
Xtreme Nutrition is a large eCommerce website, with thousands of products, customers, prices etc. Developing and migrating the new website to the live server took time and a few late nights from FutureLab and from Moe and his team! However, we're delighted to have launched this premium website in time for Christmas and Christmas shopping. Xtreme Nutrition have put on some special deals for the occasion too, so make sure you head over and have a look at their nutrition supplement specials.
This website was developed using Magento, the Sweet Tooth plugin, and custom PHP.

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Volunteer of the Year
Lance Ludwick
Congratulations to our 2019 Volunteer of the Year, Lance Ludwick! Lance has been a dedicated volunteer with the League for more than 10 years. He started as a Front Desk/Adoptions Counselor and Special Events volunteer but after a year and half, he moved his focus to data entry and other office assistance.
Our volunteers are invaluable and our behind-the-scenes volunteers are no exception.
For years now, not only has Lance been a diligent AWLA Rabies Clinic volunteer but he is the person who enters all of the clinic client and animal information into Petpoint, the League's shelter software/database. Lance will tell you, "I enjoy the office work and computer input. It keeps my mind sharp and challenged."
Lance's favorite part of volunteering at AWLA is the fact that it led him to meet his kitty, Patience. In the fall of 2008, Patience was found abandoned and badly injured. She received the name, Patience, because of how well she tolerated the daily care she needed by the League's medical staff. Although there were many complications that went along with her injuries, she finally healed enough to go up for adoption in January 2009. Despite Lance being a "dog guy," he met her, immediately fell in love and signed the adoption paperwork to take her home right away. Lance says that "Patience is how AWLA has changed my life in a large way, and now she is the queen of the castle."
Congratulations again Lance; we can't thank you enough and we appreciate all that you do for the League!


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Literary Critic: To a young child Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89). Poems 1918
MARGARET, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older 5
It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name: 10
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins was an innovator whose poetry was not published until decades after his death. Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex, which is near London. He attended Balliol College, University of Oxford. While attending the university, Hopkins was sporadically occupied with verse writing. His passion for religion becomes clearly evident during this time through his poems. His poems revealed a very Catholic character, most of them being abortive, the beginnings of things, ruins and wrecks, as he called them. (Gardner 6) In 1866, he converted to Roman Catholicism, during the Oxford movement. John Henry Newman received him into the Roman Catholic Church. He left Oxford to become a priest, and entered the Jesuit Order in 1868. This is the time when Gerard Manley Hopkins presented a conflict of a man torn between two vocations, religion and the aesthetic world. He also presented a heroic struggle of a man who was so dedicated to one profession that he deliberately sacrificed another profession based on the belief that God willed it to be so.
Hopkins is well known for his creation of the term inscape. Inscape can be considered as an individual distinctive beauty. The sensation of inscape, any vivid mental image, is known as instress. (Gardner 11) For Hopkins, inscape was more than sensory impression. It was an insight; by Divine grace into an ultimate reality by seeing the pattern, air, and melody as it were God's side. (Gardner 27) In "Spring and Fall", Hopkins demonstrates a separation between humanity and nature and a separation between humanity and God. His use of imagery and his sympathetic tone allows the readers to make both distinctions and similarities between adult and child, nature and man, and conscious and intuitive knowledge.
The poem is addressed to a child. It has a direct clarity of rhyme, which it almost sounds like a nursery rhyme. The speaker addresses the child, trying to understand how she thinks and feels. "Ma'gare't, are you gri'eving / Over Goldengrove unleaving?" (Lines 1-2 Norton) It seems as though the speaker is attempting to meet the child on her terms by using this diction. He is implicitly making the connection between the turning of the seasons and death. While the turning of the season will bring a new spring, human seasons will bring a final departure and final "fall" (Ellis 151). The next two couplets imply that his knowledge of man is more important and melancholy than the falling of the leaves. "Lea'ves, like the things of man, you / with your fresh thoughts care for, can you?" (Lines 3-4 Norton). This reflective tone allows us to experience the sympathy the speaker feels toward the child. The sorrow she feels at the present time will not go away as she grows older. Its presence will remain, but for different reasons.
Adulthood may bring an end to the grief of nature's autumns, but it will not bring an end to tears and sorrow. "A'h! a's the heart grows o'lder / It will come to such insights colder / By and By, nor spare a sign / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; / And yet you will weep and know why" (lines 5-9). The use of alliteration helps to emphasize the ultimate reality of this child's pain. The tone becomes stronger and less sympathetic. "yet you will weep and know why"(line 9), is both the child's and Hopkins's recognition of mortality.
The final couplets offer an accurate depiction of the poem's true meaning. "It is' the bli'ght ma'n was bo'rn for, / It is Margaret you mourn for" (lines 14-15 Norton). Nature's silent eloquence of death has caused Margaret to intuitively realize that there are other sources of death and grief, not life. (153 Ellis) It is almost as though she comes to terms with her spirit of adulthood and fate. This could also be a way of Hopkins coming to terms with his mortality.
The distinction and similarity between child and adult is quite clear in this poem. Both make the point that there is no spiritual spring of innocence. "Fall" has been the only season from birth, and will remain so until the final fall of death. (154 Ellis) Also, both are subject to fall, but in nature's seasons spring will come again. His sympathetic tone portrays his priesthood, and his imagery portrays his poetic abilities. This man unconsciously performed both remarkable tasks simultaneously.
Works Cited
Ellis, Virginia Ridley. Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Language of Mystery. Columbia,
Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 1991 151,153,154
Gardner, W.H. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). London: Oxford University
Press. 1958. 6, 11, 27
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Spring and Fall". The Norton Anthology of English
Literature. 7th ed. Volume 2. New York, London: W.W. Norton ;Company.
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This post is a bit different to usual – it's not about the languages I am currently learning. It's almost a sidetrack to travel blogging, but not quite. I'm going to write about my impressions of the Icelandic language, without having actively learned any of it, but after having experienced it as a part of my trip there.
Sidenote: I was pondering during my trip, whether I should evolve my blog into a language AND travel blog – many bloggers I like do that in their blogs. However, I decided I don't travel enough to make it balanced in that sense, and also I'm more interested in writing about languages. But this point of view still gives me a great excuse to flood you with my travel photos, ha 😉
Before my trip, I made the decision not to make any efforts to learn Icelandic beforehand. The decision about the trip was quick and quite last minute so I wouldn't have had time to learn much anyway, and I don't feel like dabbling into languages right now. I did, however, kind of check the language out as a part of pre-travel hype by watching a few videos of basic phrases and by listening to a couple of Disney songs (that was bizarre! :-D), but my aim wasn't really to memorise anything. Just to get the feeling of it.
And when in Iceland, of course I didn't want to close my ears and eyes and mind from the language. I didn't ignore it. I was very much observing it, every time I had the chance.
The thing is, even if you don't actively want to learn the language before your trip, travelling is still always an interesting opportunity to explore a new language. It's a chance learn understand some things about the language even if you don't learn to understand it.
You'll learn, that it is possible to appreciate and enjoy a language completely strange to you, one the you don't speak a word of and perhaps even have no intention of learning (at least at the moment).
All you need to do is keep your ears open and mind tuned to a language learners' mindset.
That's what I did in Iceland, and I wanted to share some thoughts about it: four ways I was exposed to Icelandic while traveling, and five things I learned about Icelandic just like that.
4 ways I was exposed to Icelandic while in Iceland
1. Listen to the radio
We rented a car for three days and one of the first things I noticed when we hit the road wasn't any breathtaking view through the window, but the language that was flooding our ears from the radio.
It was a wonderful combination – listening to the language, the radio host chatting, the advertisements, occasional Icelandic song even, and simultaneously watching the views change as we drove on. Experiencing Iceland with our eyes and our ears.
2. Reading the street signs
One thing I slightly tried to learn beforehand, or at least on the flight to Reykjavik, was how to pronounce Icelandic. They have some letters of their own, and some vowel combinations are pronounced differently. There was a small introduction to these in my guidebook. It felt rather difficult.
However, once we got to Iceland, we kept trying to read the road signs and place names out loud, and kept re-checking from our guidebook for the right pronunciation, and soon I started to remember that "au" is actually "öi" and à is au.
3. Learning about Icelandic nomenclature from a riding tour guide
We had two awesome days riding the Icelandic horses, and the riding guides told us a lot about the area and also explained the meanings of the place names (and the names of the horses, too!). This was a way more interesting guided tour experience than any Hop on-Hop off -bus tour ever!
4. Eavesdropping in a hot tub 🙂
This sounds worse than it is. Of course I could not understand what the people were saying, so I have no reason to feel guilty!
One fun way to explore a language is to listen to the locals, of course. In Iceland, there is one especially great place for this: the public swimming pools and hot tubs. We bathed somewhere almost every day, and while some places were more tourist-filled, we also visited a couple of places where the locals gathered to relax for their day off or after work.
Even though you'd think peace and quiet is what you appreciate in a place like that, the calm and steady chatter of Icelandic was actually a very pleasant background sound. Just relaxing in the hot water while wondering this amazing, special element of the Icelandic culture – again, hearing the language made me feel more connected to the culture; the experience feel more real.
5 things I learned about Icelandic
1. It sounds strangely familiar
While listening to the radio, I soon noticed that if I didn't pay attention, I could imagine it was Finnish on the background! Amazing. It felt also a bit the same as listening to Estonian, which really is related to Finnish: I don't understand a word but the melody is similar. Icelandic and Finnish are not related at all, but still, there is something very familiar to the sound of Icelandic.
This is due to the way the words are stressed in both languages: the stress is on the first syllable. Like Finnish, Icelandic rolls on in a steady way, without a sing-song variation to it. Also, I guess there are some similar weird combinations of vowels (which can make a native Romance language speaker quite uncomfortable? :D).
2. The similarity to Swedish is sometimes hard to see, but it is there
Sometimes, I could clearly connect an Icelandic expression I read somewhere, to its Swedish counterpart. Often however, it took a few times of reading or hearing before I could make the connection. Sometimes I couldn't figure it out at all. Icelandic is too different from Swedish that knowing the other would really help understand the first.
Often for instance the place names seemed incomprehensible when you first saw them, but after getting the pronunciation part right, they suddenly made more sense for a Swedish speaker: for instance, once I realised 'Rauðá' is pronounced 'Röid au', and it means Red river – which would be Röd å in Swedish.
For me, Swedish has always had "a language of campfires and storytelling days" feeling to it, but in comparison, Icelandic is like the language of heroes and ancient legends version of it. When I tried to look for the connections to the related language I know, I could kind imagine to feel the "Vikingness" of Icelandic.
3. The Icelandic people have a very straightforward approach to naming things
Reykjavik = steamy bay, Reykjadalur = steamy valley. Both are areas with hot springs. Hveragerði = Gardens of the hot springs. There are a lot of hot springs and a lot of greenhouses. You get the idea.
Even the horses where named things like Hvita = white (a white horse), Stjarna = star (a horse with a white star on the head), Eldur = fire (a chestnut red horse).
So things are basically called exactly what they are, and just buy learning Icelandic place names (or horse names!) you can learn a whole lot of vocabulary. Awesome!
Somehow also I think this reflects in a beautiful way the straightforward, uncomplicated relationship the Icelanders have with the nature.
4. Jà!
It simply means 'yes' (it's pronounced /jauː/), but by the end of the trip, hearing this word really made me smile. I heard it a lot, and I can't really explain why, but it sounded really heartwarming. Somehow happy and positive. Once I started paying attention to it, I heard it all the time.
These were my scattered, very un-linguistic impressions of the Icelandic language. Even though I didn't really learn any of it, I gave it a lot of thought during the trip, and together with the interactions with the locals, the beautiful landscapes, the food we tasted and the freshness of the air we breathed – it was an important part of making memories of Iceland for all senses. I really think that even just observing, if not learning, the languages of the countries we travel in, really give an extra dimension to the travel experience.
Have you ever done similar 'language observing' while traveling? How do you observe and explore a language while traveling? Or do you always try to learn some basics of the language before you go? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
(Ps. I don't really know how to make a short post. This was supposed to be one. Oops.)


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Hungry Mutineer Archive: Gin Soaked Lamb Sandwiches
Last summer my column Hungry Mutineer featured a menu on cooking with gin. My favorite recipe from that was this Gin Soaked Lamb Sandwich with Fennel Salad and Blackberry Gin Sauce. From the moment you slather the leg of lamb with the herbaceous paste to your last bite, this sandwich is sexy, unctuous and utterly delicious. See the full post »


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Celtics Riding Defense Heavy Nine Game Winning Streak
Last time I came to you in regards to the Boston Celtics, they were coming off their first win of the season in Philadelphia. The first three games of this new season were definitely emotional, and surprising to many, but since then this Celtics team has emerged as the best team in the Eastern Conference. If you include that game in Philly, the Celtics have won nine games in a row, with six of those wins coming on the road. With Gordon Hayward going down in the opener, I think it is safe to say no one expected them to be here. But thanks to Kyrie Irving, Al Horford, and so many more, here they are, 4.5 games ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers. There is still room for improvement, especially on the offensive side of the ball, but this start is impressive.
It all starts at the top really, with Danny Ainge and Brad Stevens. I do not know what Ainge saw in Jayson Tatum, because I was sold on Markelle Fultz, but wow, what a difference the rookie from Duke has made on this team. Meanwhile, Fultz, a natural righty, is beginning to shoot with his left hand at practice with no concise reason as to why.
It is early, that much is true, and Tatum will certainly hit a wall at some point in the next few months, but he's looking like a legit Rookie of the Year contender right now, so I have to tip my hat to Ainge for seeing that in him.
Then you have the acquisition of Kyrie Irving. Sure, he isn't shooting the lights out or anything, but his impact on and off the floor is easy to see. He's even become more involved on defense than he was in Cleveland.
I could single out pretty much every player on this team for their contributions, but that would turn this into an even longer read. Al Horford, Jaylen Brown, Aron Baynes, Terry Rozier, and Marcus Smart have all had some great moments already, and they deserve some recognition for it.
With Brad Stevens, the Celtics have one of the brightest head coaches in the league, and that's been said for awhile now, but he has not faltered due to all the attention the Celtics are getting. You could make the case that this season would be Stevens toughest challenge. Only four players returning from last year's team and eight guys who weren't even in the NBA last season. With this team, minus their second best scoring option, Stevens has out-coached the likes of Gregg Popovich and Erik Spoelstra among others on the way to this 9-2 start. Without a doubt, he is Coach of the Year if he keeps this up. Not only that, but working with a coach like Brad Stevens is definitely appealing to potential free agents or trade targets. It's been said before but Brad Stevens is the Celtics #1 asset.
Yeah, I've given the Celtics a lot of praise so far, but let's transition to some criticism. The offense is not there yet. With a brand new point guard in Kyrie Irving, this is expected. As of this moment, the Celtics offense ranks 22nd in the NBA in terms of just points per game. They rank 20th in Field Goal Percentage, 11th in 3-Point Field Goal Percentage, and 20th in Free Throw Percentage. Not great, but I expect this to improve. Kyrie is getting more comfortable obviously, and they should manage to make a higher percentage of their free throws overtime too. Defensively, I have nothing to complain about. Their rebounding has been off the charts to compared to last season and I'm sure more Marcus Morris will help with that as well.
Well, that should just about do it. The Lakers come into the Garden tonight. Led by Lonzo Ball, I can't wait to see him and Kyrie matchup. It looks like Lonzo isn't too aggressive with the ball in his hands, so I'm hoping Jayson Tatum can put on a show against the guy drafted a pick before him. If I don't do it sooner, expect another Celtics write up from me in another three weeks or so.
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We have a great reputation for hosting sociable and friendly Scottish Country Dancing events bringing together like minded people, with an emphasis on learning and performing exciting and interesting Scottish Country Dances.
You can see an example of the dances performed on a recent holiday by following this link Dance Program.
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Part of the unique appeal of our holidays is the choice you have, either to take part in our organised Dancing Workshops which run each morning,
Alternatively you can use your free time to enjoy getting out and about in the locality, by either joining one of our Guided Walks, led by our experienced Walking Leaders, or by using their knowledge to help you make the most of your time exploring the locality at your leisure.


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Sweethearts Rooftop
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Safety precautions
- Surfaces sanitised between seatings
- Common areas deep cleaned daily
- Digital, disposable or sanitised menu provided
- Sanitiser or wipes provided for customers
- Contactless payment available
- Limited number of seated diners
- Distancing maintained in common areas
- Extra space between tables
- Sick staff prohibited in the workplace
- Waiting staff wear masks
Great place to catch up with friends. A little disappointed the original menu has been modified (No Pizzas) I guess to suit Covid but overall quick, friendly service and great atmosphere.
Great venue, particularly on a sunny day! Yummy food and fantastic cocktails.
Absolutely amazing, great venue, super chilled, great food & overall an awesome experience
Great venue and great food! Loved the staff always happy to chat as well
Had a great night celebrating my birthday with dinner and drinks on the rooftop with friends. It was nice and warm with heaters on up there for a cooler winter night. Great background tunes.
Fantastic atmosphere and a great venue, open rooftop to make the most of a great day.
Highly recommend and will be back soon!
It was my bday and we practically had the rooftop to ourselves! The bar crew were very nice and attentive. DJ was nice too. It was an amazing night!
It's a really nice venue, the food is good and a decent price for what you get. Only the staff seemed very sullen and weren't very helpful. When asked for sauces to go with our meal it was made out to be a great inconvenience for the girl who delivered the food to go back down to bring sauce back up, she also found it a very hard ask for some Parmesan to go with a pasta that one of my friends ordered. After a really awkward exchange she did return with the sauce we asked for and the cheese but we did feel as if we'd inconvenienced her. Also the bar staff were very transactional and seemed more interested in having a conversation with each other than engaging with the guests.
A great location but needs a bit of a Reno. It's old and tired looking and the food was a bit the same.
We booked online but there was not table available for us...
I made a booking for movie night 1.5 months in advance. I then received a phone call 1 week before the night to confirm my booking along with my credit card details just to show up on the date and they couldn't locate my booking. I was put at the crammed able far at the back where I couldn't see the screen properly. I wouldn't recommend my friends making bookings here given my experience.
Great place, food and drinks we're delicious, but everything is a bit pricy.
Had the best day celebrating a shared birthday at the venue, staff were extremely accommodating when adjusting our reservation and were super helpful. Would highly recommend to anyone thinking of going - 100% would return to this bar.
Hey Kadisha! Thanks so much for putting up such a great review. We are glad you liked us. Looking forward to having you guys again soon!
Booked a reservation for 2, upon arrival were told to share a table with another couple. Other couples arriving were then seated at their own table. The place had a backpacker like environment. Staff were nice but a bit slow. Very average
Hi thanks fir taking the time to put up a review. Whilst we would love to have a table for each person the problem that we face is that we have tables capable of seating 10 pax and the majority of bookings are for two people. When it comes to a free cinema on a rooftop bar, we have found that the majority of people are more than happy to share a table to be able to come and view the movie. I'm sorry that this fact wasn't communicated effectively to you. Have a nice reminder of the week.
I tried to ring twice prior to the booking as I wanted the table moved to a smoking area. Both times I called I was left on hold for 40 minutes. No one ever picked up. Also, the drinks are extremely pricey.
Great place but they took over 45min to bring out my pizza as they had forgotten it and they didnt offer any reimbursement, free drinks or extra service to say sorry
Hey Jessica, Thanks for your review. I'm so sorry you had a bad experience at the venue. I'll be looking into this matter with the team and will be in touch! I hope you'll give us another chance.
This is not what I was expected. We didn't know that all good and drinks had to be ordered at the bar. We were sitting for 15-20 minutes before we went to the bar and asked. Food was good tho. Drinks were great.
Very young crowd.
Hi there. I'm sorry that our venue wasn't what you were expecting it. Sweethearts is a casual cocktail bar with no table service, I'm sorry if we didn't make that clear. I'm glad you enjoyed the food and drinks. We hope to see you again soon!
Went for the first time on Sunday, and the music goes off! I would say the music and the vibe is the best thing about this place.
Food is pretty average, pizza and burgers only.
Cocktails are very expensive and very small. Would come back again after having pre drinks else where.
Hi Sam. Thanks for taking the time to write us a review. I'm sorry that your experience in our venue wasn't what you were expecting. Sweethearts is a cocktail bar with a share style menu & we also offer entrees and salads. We try to keep our prices fairly standard. Hopefully you'll give us another chance and come to visit us on a Thursday as we have on offer $5 dollar beers and $10 Espresso Martinis!
Great atmosphere and layout, really nice food and great drink selection!
We had a lovely time at Sweethearts from start to finish - food was great as was service. Thanks!
Great vibe, staff were very attentive, music was great-got a bit loud in the end though but choices were good. Plenty of heater to warm guests outside
Hey Dee. Thanks for your feedback. We're glad you liked us! Hope to have you back soon!
Packed rooftop with yummy cocktails and cosy blankets for a chilly night.
Hi Vivian! Thank you for your feedback. Hope to have you back soon!
Great place to have birthday drinks and celebrate with lots of friends. It's. Great venue and lovely rooftop. Will definitely come back again.
Hey Sarah. Thank you for your positive feedback! We're so glad you liked us. :)
Such an amazing place! Highly recommend to anyone seeking a place for a drink or two with friends. Staff were extremely helpful all night and very friendly.
Hi Jaclyn. Thank you for your great review! Make sure to pop in again soon!
Place could use a lift
Pictures online are a bit deceiving
Reasonably priced and a nice vibe
Overall nice venue
Hey there. Thanks for taking the time to write us a review. We do indeed have a lift, however it's a service lift that we use upon request. In regards to the photos, I apologize for that, we recently updated the website so hopefully is more to your liking. We're glad you enjoyed the venue and appreciate the feedback. :)
Good place to hangout with friends, we went on a weekday and there were only few people. They have weekend menu separately and on google maps menu nowhere it's mentioned that the menu we are looking is for weekends only.
Hey Akanksha. Thanks for taking the time to write us a review. In regards to the menu, we have a menu for the Pub and a different menu for the Rooftop Bar, which is open from Thursdays only during winter time. I'm sorry we didn't make that clear enough. Hope to have you back soon!
I was disappointed in the espresso martini cocktail I paid 19$ for. It was very small and didn't contain any espresso and the rose wine ran out. Everything else was good :)
I booked a table online for a hens night for 12 people. When we arrived we had two tables seperate to each other and there were only 8 seats. Lucky enough some lovely people moved for us but there were 12 of us huddled around 2 tiny tables. Where there were other long tables that other groups had gotten together when they had booked as well and other tables that would of suited us perfectly that were reserved for hours with no one there. Was a little disappointing that we assumed we would all be able to sit together but we ended up squished and uncomfortable. The bar staff where great and so was the food it was just disappointing booking a table and turning up to that.
Your staff were amazing! So switched on, funny, kind, made my birthday that much better. Can't wait to come back.
Nice rooftop bar with good ambiance and attractive wood finishes and plants. Delicious and affordable pizza. Great for a catch up with friends or a date. Can get quite busy so book a table. Choose seating wisely as some seating is near loud speakers which make conversation impossible, we were lucky in that there was another free table and moved there where there was much less noise.
Great customer service, music, venue. Only minor issue was some judgie people who, after a few drinks, seemed to have an issue with my son being there.. they must not have realised kids are welcome in Sunday's..I didn't know them.
The film started an hour later than advertised and we had to ask them to put it on meaning we could stay to watch the full film pizzas were really nice though
Came to watch Bridesmaids for their Rooftop Cinema promotion. A few glitches during the movie but otherwise good vibes and a fun atmosphere. Free popcorn was a nice touch. Pimm's was good but Nutella Pizza has a really dry crust and not enough Nutella/strawberry (not tasty).
Awesome venue good service only downfall was the music was way too loud but other than that great vibe and venue
My colleagues were suspicious of the place based on the name, but once we got there, they were all extremely happy. The male staff member from Italy dealt with my group's needs expediently and effectively.
It was great except half the audience couldn't see the movie because of poor seating. If you go here to watch the cinema you can't count on seeing too much.
had a nice time at the outdoor cinema, definitely more of a summer place, nice cocktails and friendly staff. look forward to going back!
Great place for functions and special events! Friendly and helpful staff can help with large bookings.
Perfect if you're inviting friends and want to bring your own cake to celebrate.
I had booked a table for my birthday and when I got there, there was no reservation on my name. The staff promptly moved some groups of people and provided me with a table, not for the number of people I had booked but. In the end everything was sorted out and I had a great night.
I booked through the hotel website for eight people. It didn't give me any options to select occasion or to choose where I wanted to be seated. On the day, eight of us were directed to the bar/bench seats, facing the kitchen. It was a birthday occasion and it was absurd to be given those seats, we wouldn't be able to share food or even look at one another! If they told me beforehand I would've cancelled the booking and found another place. I requested for a table and was told that they were fully booked, but when I insisted, they actually had a free table and offered it to me. So why reject it in the first place when it was free the whole time? and why would anyone think it's a good idea to have eight people sitting side by side for dinner?
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In total, it cost us around $4,400, and we've recently hit, just under the halfway point, on both tanks. If we hadn't installed our tank, last year, we'd be out of water right now. And like the neighbours, ordering water deliveries.
I thought we must have been really frugal, until I heard the neighbours running their air conditioning, yesterday. The early heatwave season, is settling in for about a week. Or so the weather forecast predicts. Six days of high 30's (high 80's Fahrenheit) and Spring has just arrived.
We're hoping our remaining water supply, will get our family through, but also allow us to continue offering water to the native animals. If we don't get rain in the next fortnight, however, we'll be ordering a delievery of water, too.
It just goes to show, even when you plan to increase your stores, nature can turn it up a notch, and render you in the same position - only a little further down the track. We've had a few vegetation fires, very close to home, which reminds us how important the rain is needed, right now.
In other parts of the world, however, rain is causing enormous destruction.
I've had my fair share of natural disasters, and will probably see more in my lifetime. But that doesn't mean the prospect of another, should steer us away from continuing to build necessary infrastructure. The kind of infrastructure, that will help hold onto natural resources, such as water tanks, earthworks, soil improvements, plant propagation, waste disposal and food storage.
Our family is woefully under prepared, on many of these counts. But I can't waste time feeling bad about that, nor do I intend to splurge on hoarding supplies either - simply because we cannot afford to. We're still on a budget. What we can do though, is take necessary steps which are both practical, and economical. Like learning how to stretch out the natural resources, which come into our homes.
Which is why we're embarking on water budget strategies, such as:
- Doubling the time between flushing toilets - so long as it's not solids.
- Catching water from the shower, before it heats up, to help water plants, or put out for the native animals.
- Reducing showers, until they're necessary.
- Not laundering sheets, towels and other Manchester, until dirty
- Using a small tub in the sink for washing hands and rinsing dishes - that would otherwise see the tap go on, numerous times a day.
- Vegetable garden has not been watered, even though it's one of the reasons we wanted to install a second tank.
And we have plans to change things even further, where financial resources allow. I don't want to make any announcements, until those projects are under way. If I can take any good out of this long stretch between drinks though, it's how to be more responsible for our use of natural resources. I'm not driven from a sense of survival, rather, a sense of responsibility.
If it only comes from a sense of survival, people tend to make changes when it's only bad enough to. But if you make changes from responsibility (or a sense of ownership) they're likely to be adopted, indefinitely.
Are you making changes in how you deal with natural resources, in your life?


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I've been running for office for 9 days now. What have I learned….?
I've learned that everyone knows what you need to do to win.
I've learned that county central committees don't call each other to determine if they overlap.
I've learned that being a candidate means that, sadly, you can no longer write a column for the local paper, that you no longer can be the emcee of the annual parade, but that everyone you run into will call you "Congressman" with a smile.
I've learned that most people will be gracious, even if they don't agree with you on a topic.
I've learned that everyone is concerned about you and will warn: "You know that there will be negative ads, don't you? Are you prepared for that?"
I've learned that people root for people they know and that they really like to know people who are willing to run.
And I've learned that running for office, holding down a full time job, having 2 young sons, and continuing to serve the community in the various ways you always have….make it nearly impossible to keep up with your blog, Gary Has Issues.
I will get back in here from time to time, if just to re-post or freshen up an older post (it never ceases to amaze me how issues circle back year after year). In the meanwhile, here is my candidacy webpage: www.kroegerforcongress.com
I hope you take a look now and again.


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Brendan Rodgers has launched a passionate defence of British coaches and hinted they are sometimes overlooked because they are not 'showmen' on the touchline.
The Leicester boss hopes his team will climb to second in the Premier League – for a day at least – by beating Arsenal at the King Power Stadium on Saturday.
With Rodgers at the helm, the Foxes have taken more Premier League points than every other team bar Liverpool and Manchester City.
Brendan Rodgers' stock has started to rise once again after taking over as Leicester manager
Rodgers took Liverpool to within a whisker of the title in 2014 and won seven major trophies at Celtic yet still, opportunities for UK managers at the top six clubs remain scarce.
The Gunners appointed Unai Emery, now under severe pressure, to lead the post-Arsene Wenger era, while David Moyes and Frank Lampard are the only British managers to be appointed permanently by clubs in the so-called 'top six' since Sir Alex Ferguson left Manchester United in 2013.
'We have many outstanding coaches, managers, innovators,' said Rodgers. 'We are not showmen on the side, that's definitely what we are not. It's not how we are, it's not how we work.
'We try to do honest jobs, work hard, develop our players, and we are not all-singing, all-dancing on the side. But British coaches and managers are as good as any in the world.
Rodgers has seen the Foxes achieve a start to the season better than that of their 2016 title win
Rodgers defied all odds when formerly with Liverpool, and almost brought the title to Anfield
'What you find is that when a club are struggling, they normally go for a British manager or coach. Then they come in and create an environment and a spirit and a quality that allows players to flourish. Then when, they are flourishing sometimes it feels there is something else (another manager or coach) needed.
'If I look at my own development, the Championship is one of the toughest leagues in Europe. If you get promoted out of that (as Rodgers did with Swansea in 2011) then you know you have worked for it. We are then judged when we come into the Premier League which is the most competitive league in the world.
'Unai Emery has proven his value both in Spain and working at Paris St Germain, and he is a very good manager.
If you get the opportunity to work with top players and great players you have a greater chance to win trophies but there are also lots of outstanding British managers.
'Whether we get the same opportunity or not I tend to not go down that route. You do your best and you see what happens.'
Leicester are flying in the Premier League and breathing down the neck of Manchester City
Leicester look the likeliest side to break the top six – or even the top four – but Rodgers knows they do not have the financial clout of the top two or Manchester United, while Chelsea will surely spend again once their transfer ban is lifted while last summer Arsenal committed to spend nearly £140million on transfers.
Yet the Northern Irishman remains confident Leicester are capable of upsetting the established order this term.
He added: 'You can't accept that is the top six in terms of money and finance and you are always going to sit below it. We have to hopefully find a way and drop hand grenade in there and see where it takes us.
'That was the project I was really excited about when coming to here – to see if we can break that mould and sustain it.' ends


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Voce, New England's Chamber Choir, is thrilled to welcome Eric Whitacre as Conductor and Composer-in-Residence to kick off the 2019-2020 season "Symphony of Harmony."
Voce is committed to serving harmony - and has caught the attention of some of the world's greatest living choral composers. After working with Voce in its Composer-In-Residence program, these composers described Voce as "one of the finest choirs on the planet" with "a warmth of tone and beauty that is unique" by Paul Mealor, as having a " "exemplifying choral performance at its finest" by National Medal of Arts Recipient Morten Lauridsen, and Artistic Director Mark Singleton is noted to be "a very sensitive and smart conductor - he finds hidden beauties in the scores that most conductors would never know existed"by Eriks Esenvalds.
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Remarkable achievement for Raise The Flag
Raise The Flag, who stands at White Robe Lodge was the leading New Zealand-based sire on the Australia general sires by stakes winners list for 2017 -18 at May 21, 2018.
Raise The Flag was 18th on the overall list with a mere 12 runners in Australia this season. He has sired nine winners of 19 races and $1,281,060 in stakes.
Yogi became the fifth individual stakes winner sired by Raise The Flag this season with success in the $A150,000 Port Adelaide Cup (2500m) at Morphettville on Saturday. The others are Broadside (group three Newcastle Cup and listed ATC Cup), Etah James (gr 3 Lord Reims Stakes), Civil Disobedience (Tasmanian Derby) and Parthesia (Bagot Handicap).
Parthesia won the listed Tasmanian Oaks last season when Raise The Flag also sired Raise You Ten, winner of the listed Gore Guineas.
Yogi (ex unraced Malozza, by Grand Lodge ) was bred by D G and H A Voice, of Christchurch and sold for $1000 to Washdyke trainer Warwick Coles at the 2014 South Island sale. Yogi was on-sold to Australia after five starts for Coles. Yogi was first past the post over 1600m at Riccarton for Coles but he was later disqualified. Yogi has now won six races from 21 starts and $307,138. He is trained by Darren Weir, who also has Parthesia and Civil Disobedience.
Chequered Flag (Raise The Flag - Star Of Mulwala), another member of the stable, finished third in the listed $200,000 Ramsden Stakes (3200m) at Flemington on Saturday.
The WRL -bred Max (Gallant Guru -Vitique) won the $50,000 Waikato Steeplechase, a prestige jumping race at Te Rapa on Saturday.


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The Vegetarian Resource Group received a request from a reader who was experiencing difficulty obtaining ingredient information from a large beverage company. He asked us to provide advice about getting accurate answers from corporations. Here are some of their suggestions:
Scour the Web first. Look for an ingredients statement or list for the product. Start at the company's main website. Don't overlook blogs and forums.
Reserve judgment about what you read on the Web until you get confirmation. Even a company website may need updating. Approach contacting companies like it was a confirmation hearing for ingredients. Don't be confrontational, but be serious in your quest for company transparency about its ingredients.
If asked why you want I to know, state "I'm a vegan and don't consume x, y, and z. I want to know if the product contains x, y, or z or any ingredients derived from x, y, and z." Be very specific about your personal dietary choices.
If you receive information that contradicts a company's website or what you received from an email or previous call, ask about the discrepancy in a tactful, neutral manner. Be specific. Provide: URL, name of person asked, date, and time. If you find the explanation questionable, ask to speak to someone else or be called back once the issue is investigated to receive the correct information.
Ask a friend to crosscheck. See if someone else gets the same exact answer you did to the same question.
Email once. Email twice. Try contacting the company on different days of different weeks at different times, but keep wording your question exactly the same way.
Keep it simple. State one question per call or email in as few words as possible (e.g.,"Are the natural flavors in the product derived from meat, eggs, or dairy?"). If it's a packaged good, have a complete product name and, if possible, a SKU number handy.
Don't make assumptions. The terms "vegetarian" and "vegan" mean varying things to people, so never just ask, "Is the product vegan?" Rather, refer to your specific concern: "Do any of the product's ingredients come from meat, dairy, or eggs?"
Call once. Call twice. Call on varying days of the week at a variety of times; speak to different people - but keep your question the same.
Be persistent and follow through! Be empathetic and supportive to the company employee, but keep asking until you are satisfied with the response you get.
When in doubt, rephrase the question and ask it again in a follow-up call or e-mail to the first response you received (e.g.,"Is there anything from animals, including meat or enzymes, or from eggs, or from milk, such as casein or whey, in the natural flavors in the product?"). Make sure you've understood correctly. Listen for inconsistencies or vagueness. Write the responses down. Note the number called, the person asked, the date, and time.
Go higher. Ask to speak to a supervisor or someone in the quality assurance department. They will know more.
Have you had success getting the real deal from food companies? Share your strategies in the comment section below!


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With the all medical research available to us, it comes to no surprise that we are finding alternatives paths for our healthcare needs. We see it in our doctor's offices, in our pharmacies and in the media; alternative medicine is everywhere. Pro athletes are looking toward platelet rich plasma injection therapy (PRP) to help heal their injuries. Others, are turning toward holistic doctors and herbal remedies to find cures to their common health problems. Typically, these alternatives venues have little or no side-effects and produce remarkable results. No matter what the case may be, we are finding safer, more effective alternative paths to improve our well-being.
Using our Blood to Heal Ourselves
So what is PRP anyway? PRP is an innovative tool which allows our body to heal itself- with a little help from a professional clinical staff. PRP is virtually a painless procedure which takes about 15 minutes to complete. A trained professional takes a sample of your blood in order to extract the blood's platelets. The platelets will then be change into a concentrated form and injected back into the desired part of your body. These concentrated platelets, ignite natural chemicals which begin the healing or regenerative process. PRP is used for a variety of medical needs:
• Joint pain
• Problems with ligaments and/or tendons
• Damage to muscle tissue
• Regeneration of skin
• Restoration of hair
PRP is most commonly used for chronic injuries and orthopedic conditions, but can also be used for regeneration purposes such as to boost collagen, shrink pores and reduce wrinkles.
Helpful vs. Harmful
It is astounding how mother nature has provided us with such remarkable healing tools, one example of this is the benefits of Milk Thistle. Milk Thistle, known for its main ingredient selymarin, is recognized for a variety of healing properties. This herb is well known for its benefit to the liver. Milk Thistle has been used to cure jaundice, hepatitis, and alcoholic cirrhosis. The herb is also well known for his ability to help with type two diabetes by lowering cholesterol and improving insulin resistance.
Chelation is the process of using a synthetic substance to bind metal/mineral molecules for elimination. This process is typically used for lead poisoning, or circulatory disorders. Although chelation can be beneficial, it can also be harmful to the patient. Some chelation side effects are low blood sugar, headaches, nausea, skin irritation and chronic fatigue.


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August is considered "meteor month" by astronomers, boasting one of the best displays of the year, which can be seen easily by the naked eye. The Perseid meteor shower, the most famous of all such events, will reach its peak on Monday night through dawn on Tuesday, and will be visible in the skies over almost all areas of the northern hemisphere, including Greece.
This particular meteor shower never fails to provide an impressive display, and those who can stay awake will have the opportunity to observe this phenomenon, if the weather conditions allow it.
However, the sky will not be very dark during the shower this year, since a full moon will be seen on August 15, interfering with the viewing of this year's Perseid display. The bright moonlight will flood the sky for almost the entire night, disrupting any serious attempts to see the full array of expected meteors.
The moonlight will no doubt wash out all but the brightest of these swift streaks – but these should still be visible to careful stargazers, since many of the meteors are exceptionally bright and are known to have long "tails."
If there was no interference, an observer in a location free of any bright lights would be able to witness anywhere from 50 to 100 meteors per hour streaking across the skies.
The Perseids are one of the most spectacular meteor shower phenomena every year because of their brightness and speed, and due to the fact that they have such long tails, which seem to sparkle.
Despite the fact that they originate mostly from north-northeast of the constellation of Perseus, they appear everywhere in the sky, not in a specific portion of it, which also makes them very unusual.


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Biography Mike Coffman
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Michael "Mike" Coffman (born March 19, 1955) is the U.S. Representative for Colorado's 6th congressional district, serving since 2009, and a former Secretary of State of Colorado. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Early life, education and career
Michael Coffman was born on March 19, 1955 in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, to Harold and Dorothy Coffman, and is one of five children. His father served in the United States Army at Fort Leonard Wood, and after 1964, at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado. In 1972, Coffman enlisted in the U.S. Army, and was assigned to a mechanized infantry battalion. Have you voted for or against Mike Coffman ? The following year, he earned a high school diploma through an Army program. Leaving active duty for the U.S. Army Reserve in 1974, he entered the University of Colorado, graduating in 1979. He also studied at Vaishnav College in Chennai, India, and the University of Veracruz in Mexico for a year. Upon graduation from the University of Colorado, Coffman transferred from the Army Reserve to the United States Marine Corps in 1979, becoming an infantry officer. Has changed the detail your opinion on Mike Coffman ? In 1983, he transferred from active duty to the Marine Reserves, serving until 1994. In 1983, he created an Aurora, Colorado-based property management firm, serving as senior shareholder until 2000.
Political career
Coffman began his political career serving as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Shortly after winning reelection in 1990, he took an unpaid leave-of-absence from the State House during his active duty service in the Persian Gulf War, during which he saw combat as a light armored infantry officer. In 1994, he retired from the U.S. Marine Corps, after 20 years of combined service to the Army, Army Reserve, Marines, and Marine Reserve. Have you read details about Sarah Palin ? That same year, he was also elected to the Colorado State Senate, where he served as Chairman of the Finance Committee.
In 1998, Coffman was elected as State Treasurer of Colorado. He resigned from that post in 2005 in order to resume his career in the U.S. Marines, and serve in the War in Iraq, where he helped support the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, which oversaw two national elections, and helped establish interim local governments in the Western Euphrates Valley. Following completion of his tour-of-duty in Iraq in 2006, he was reappointed as State Treasurer and subsequently elected to his next post, as Colorado Secretary of State.
Political campaigns
Coffman announced that he would run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Republican Tom Tancredo in 2008 in Colorado's 6th congressional district. Can Mike Coffman have an influence on Sarah Palin ? He won the Republican primary election, and went on to defeat Democrat Hank Eng in the general election. The seat is considered to be the most Republican-dominated district of the Denver-area seats and is also one of the wealthiest in the nation. The Denver Post endorsed Coffman on October 10, 2008. Governor Bill Ritter designated State Representative Bernie Buescher, a Democrat to succeed Coffman as Secretary of State.
Groups including American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, Common Cause of Colorado, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund accused the Secretary of State's office of improperly marking 6,400 voter registration forms as incomplete, because they failed to check a box on the form. Incomplete registrations require voters to either re-register or provide extra identification when they go to vote. Did you know that Mike Coffman is popular at 38% of voters?? Soon after the accusations were made, Common Cause filed suit against Coffman, in his official capacity as Secretary of State. The Secretary of State's office denied wrongdoing, and Coffman said he believes his office was correctly applying the law. On October 30, 2008, the court approved a preliminary injunction allowing purged voters to participate in the 2008 election. Bernie Buescher, Coffman's successor as Secretary of State, replaced Coffman as defendant in the case in January 2009. The bulk of the litigation was settled in January 2010 after changes to Colorado's election regulations, and the remaining portions were decided in January 2011.
Coffman was challenged by Democratic Party nominee John Flerlage, Libertarian nominee Rob McNeally, and Independent Michael S. Kearns. He won convincingly with 66% of the votes. Flerlage got 31%, McNeally got 2%; results for Kearns were not recorded. Coffman's 66% of the vote represents a gain of 6 percentage points over his first House election in 2008.
Personal life
Coffman's wife, Cynthia Coffman, is currently Chief Deputy Attorney General in the office of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, and was previously Chief Counsel in the office of then-Governor Bill Owens.
Coffman is a Methodist.
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Integrated payments seem to be the feature every business wants to add and every software company wants to advertise, and it's true that they're becoming a more critical component of payment providers' jobs. Yet the concept has become such a buzzword that it's not clear whether these businesses even know what they're asking for or how it will help them.
Rich Aberman, WePay co-founder and chief strategy officer, recently spoke with Karen Webster to help shed some light on what integrated payments actually do and where they add value for payment providers, all along the chain from the business implementing them to the end consumer.
"It's hard to be a payment provider today without the capability to integrate payment services into software," Aberman said. "Saying 'integrated payments' is no different at this point than just saying 'payments.' All payments eventually will be integrated into some software in some way or another."
All Aboard the Bandwagon
Aberman said there are a few industries that have already "arrived" in the integrated payments arena. Retail is the classic example, he said: eCommerce completely depends on integrated payments. Brands with a digital presence can't do business without embedding payments in their online stores.
Online accounting and invoicing are another area where integrated payments have already gained traction, especially among small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and service providers who are now managing their books in the cloud rather than buying desktop software. These SMBs and service providers use integrated payments to slash paper invoicing and enable credit card payments online.
Aberman said marketplaces are yet another category where integrated payments form the backbone. The original marketplace was eBay, but there are many, many more now, including service marketplaces like Uber and Airbnb.
With these categories leading the charge, Aberman said that other, more traditional industries that have not historically accepted credit card payments are now seeing greater penetration.
For instance, taxi drivers didn't accept credit cards before Uber. Now, that capability is embedded in the micro-business software. And in areas that once relied heavily on pen and paper management, such as government, education, healthcare, construction and property management, WePay and others who power integrated payments have been able to ride the coattails of a general migration toward software.
The Software Acquisition Strategy
IKEA acquired TaskRabbit. Home Depot snapped up Redbeacon. Hotelier Wyndham made room for Love Home Swap. What's the deal with all these big enterprises acquiring or investing in small software startups? Aberman said there are two reasons for the trend.
First, he said, larger enterprises and retailers are looking for ways to more deeply engage their customer base. They know that customers are participating in certain activities outside their purchase activities and want to tap into that.
For example, IKEA's move in regards to TaskRabbit makes total sense when one considers that a lot of TaskRabbit gigs probably involved putting together IKEA furniture anyway.
By bringing that startup into its corporate fold, said Aberman, IKEA added value for its customers, increased business for TaskRabbit and took ownership of a greater slice of the purchase experience by extending its influence into the hours and days after the transaction.
The second reason for the trend is the evolution of consumer behavior. Commerce is no longer just about purchasing something from IKEA.com or any other eCommerce site. It's about purchasing via the Amazon Echo in the kitchen, through Facebook Marketplace and a myriad of other avenues.
In this changing landscape, Aberman said that many businesses fear irrelevance, so they make a concentrated effort to evolve. Bringing in a software platform is one way to do that.
The Bottom Line on Contextual Commerce
Aberman says context and convenience are the core value propositions for almost any software platform.
Context has to do with where the customer is at the point of engagement. Has the brand reached her only after she's arrived at the eCommerce site, when she's considering which dresser to buy? Or was the brand there from the beginning, when she was deciding whether she wanted to buy a dresser at all? Maybe the customer looked at Pinterest for ideas or was thinking about the purchase while driving.
Context informs the rest of the purchase decision journey, Aberman said. Consider how banks use this approach. While a customer is online paying off a credit card bill, she may notice she's been spending a lot at Starbucks. Now is the time for the bank to hit her with an offer — say, to save by earning rewards on purchases at restaurants.
Meanwhile, convenience is purely about removing as much friction as possible between the moment the customer makes the decision to purchase and the end of the transaction.
Aberman compared contextual commerce to QuickBooks online software. Through the platform, an SMB can set up an invoice that is attached to a specific customer. Once it's paid, receivables and accounting are updated automatically. The credit card transaction is tied to more than just a dollar amount; it's tied to a person, a project, an item in the inventory and other data elements.
In the same way, contextual commerce connects data points beyond a simple purchase transaction. And also in the same way, the easier a platform is to use, the more valuable it will be to both the business and the customers using it.
Trend Forecast
There is a feedback loop between demand for software and integrated payments and macro forces at play in the industry.
Automation is one such macro force, said Aberman. The value proposition to SMB owners is simple: spend less time managing the mundane and more time doing what you love and perfecting your craft.
For a property manager, that might mean less time spent chasing down tenants for payments and more time growing the business. At a restaurant, it may mean more time talking to customers and less time hunching over pen and paper management.
Automation can also reduce time and money spent on fighting chargebacks. It can even generate new value by producing data that businesses can use to reward their best customers. In short, it can completely reconfigure how a company does business, and shrewd software developers are looking for ways to build platforms that can offer such a thing.
What's Next?
That's the billion-dollar question. Aberman said that WePay and most of its competitors are on board with the concept that software is the best way to deliver payments. It enables instant onboarding and low and transparent pricing. It won't be long before that's just the new normal.
Therefore, it will be necessary for companies like WePay to go further to differentiate themselves. Aberman said the questions to ask will be twofold.
First, what other services do payments unlock that have synergy when delivered in conjunction with payments? There are opportunities in providing credit and working capital for SMBs, by way of example.
Second, how can a cycle be created in which small businesses and large software platforms meet to serve both of their needs?
Players that participate in an ecosystem with others can build such a network, Aberman said. Enabling software platforms to embed payments adds more value to partnerships by introducing the potential to add even more payments-related services built around that core payments relationship.
Aberman said that WePay is a forerunner in integrated payments for now, but as integrated payments get increasingly commoditized, it could be anyone's game. WePay and its peers will need to find new ways to provide value or risk losing ground. What's certain is that integrated payments are now table stakes — the winners and losers will be decided by who's best positioned to create that virtuous circle of software platforms, SMBs and value-added solutions.
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With the adventures of Sherlock Holmes currently experiencing a lively renaissance in the media, and interest in this timeless super sleuth higher than ever, listeners may enjoy this opportunity to re-experience Arthur Conan Doyle's original enchanting stories of mystery, mayhem, and expert deduction. In "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", excerpted from The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (His Last Bow), narrator John Watson assumes a rare starring role in the investigation of a rich spinster's alarming disappearance.
David Timson's precise and dramatic performance of this thrilling story hits every mark: Not only does he bring Doyle's beloved characters to life, he also skillfully highlights the salient points of this compelling mystery, allowing listeners to solve-along with the pros!
This story is from The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (His Last Bow) collection.
Further adventures by the master of observation and deduction, as faithfully recounted by his companion and greatest admirer, Dr. Watson. "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", and "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" are among the stories. David Timson's award-winning performances continue with this series.


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I don't do a lot of dress making despite my love of sewing. I often find it hard to fit garments to myself and I seriously lack confidence in making clothes. Despite this I made myself a Merchant and Mills Camber Top back in the summer of 2019 and was really pleased with the final garment (once I shortened it as the original was proving too long for the garments I wanted to pair it with).
Shortly after making the top I came across some beautiful Seasalt fabric in their outlet shop at Clarks Village in Somerset. I picked up three meters of a wide fabric for only £20. I immediately decided to make myself a Camber dress but then the fabric and pattern sat in my stash for a long time.
Just before Christmas our eldest son had tonsillitis and we had to cancel some plans. So with a little period of enforced home time I decided to pull out the pattern and fabric and whip myself up a dress for Christmas Eve.
As with the top, this was a very simple pattern to make and the style of the garment is very flexible and forgiving. I needed to take some length off of the original pattern but having learnt from the top I did this at the beginning. I was delighted that the width of the fabric meant that I actually got the whole dress out of 1.5 meters of fabric so I have some left for another project.
If I am honest the fabric turned out to be a little lighter weight than I had thought and this dress will be better suited to warmer weather. However, I did wear it on Christmas Eve with a slip and under a coatigan. The addition of warm wooly tights and boots also helped.
I would highly recommend this pattern and I hope to use it again soon. I have some black jeans that are calling out for a top so would love to find some fabric to use for that project and I also fancy a dress in denim so watch this space!


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This week on The Morning After, hosts Sari Kamin and Jessie Kiefer kick off the show with some entertaining Food News including McDonald's interpretation of vegetables, the Cake Boss being arrested, and the grand opening of NYC's first cat cafe. Officially welcoming guest Talia Baiocchi, Editor in Chief of PUNCH Magazine and host of Heritage Radio Network's PUNCH Radio, the group discusses her journey into the world of beverage journalism, the idea behind PUNCH, and the new city guide section coming to PUNCH. Sari asks Talia how PUNCH deals with drink trends and what she has observed from city to city across the country, for instance, with the craft cocktail movement. Talia also recently released the book, "Sherry: A Modern Guide to the Wine World's Best-Kept Secret, with Cocktails and Recipes," and shares some facts and highlights with listeners before taking on The Morning After Quiz! This program was brought to you by Edwards VA Ham.
"We wanted to create something that felt like it answered the why does this matter but not getting so wrapped up in all the details that we forgot about the big picture." [18:23]
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How Marketers Can Tie Video Assets to ROI
Although 70 percent of B-to-B marketers are using video, only 58 percent believe they're using it effectively. This can largely be attributed to not optimizing content before releasing it, and to the fact that the primary focus for most videos tends to be top-funnel goals such as awareness versus mid-to-late funnel goals like lead generation. It's possible to tie your video efforts to return on investment, but it requires taking a step back and revisiting how you approach video initiatives.
Set an end goal
Before you decide to make a video, think about the purpose of the video and what action it will inspire your viewers to take. Are you trying to drive more demos? Encourage people to register for an event? Whatever the case may be, think about what you want your audience to do when they finish watching. Always give your viewers a clear action item that ties to a meaningful, measurable activity.
Calls to action (CTA) are a simple and effective way to do just this. For example, if you create a video product tour using a series of videos, use the first video to lead viewers to the second, the second video to lead to the third, and so on. At the end of the last video, prompt a demo request or trial download. Using this method, each of your videos guide viewers one step further along the buying cycle. Designing your videos with the end in mind and using CTA to prompt specific actions will help ensure you're tying your content to concrete marketing goals.
Look at the data
It goes without saying that tying video content to ROI will involve evaluating what video content seems to be working and what isn't. When it comes to determining the performance of your video, these are the key metrics you need to keep an eye on:


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To: Faculty and staff in Vancouver and the Okanagan
Recent cyber security incidents at universities are reminders of the importance of privacy and information security both online and off. By making an effort to stay secure, you are not only protecting the integrity of your own information, but also the security of the university at large.
Privacy Matters @ UBC is a new initiative created by UBC Information Technology, the Office of the University Counsel, and Risk Management Services to reinforce privacy and information security best practices. Privacy and information security training is now available for all UBC faculty and staff to cover the basics of staying secure online. I ask that everyone make an effort to complete this training.
Keeping information safe is a shared responsibility, and taking even the smallest step can make a big impact. To learn how you can help, and to enroll in the training, please visit https://privacymatters.ubc.ca*
*Remember: "Think before you click the link." Take time to hover your mouse over any links. If the URL looks strange, don't click it. Together, we can help keep our information secure.
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Until you reach professor level, if you work in a university-based lab, you're going to be forced to deal with the process of ordering. That may seem simple enough. After all, we all buy things every day of our lives. It's a straightforward process, right? Merely figure out what you need, find someone who sells it for a price you (i.e., your lab) can afford, and complete the transaction of money for goods. Alas, that would be an incorrect assumption.
This brings me to reason that I detest ordering at a university.
Surprisingly, it has little to do with my personal aversion to talking to people on the phone. It's the paperwork, expectation of the product's performance, and the stress of knowing you are invariably spending taxpayer money that is supplied by a government grant. I feel enormous anxiety when I purchase anything above a few hundred dollars. The reason? That's money I can't waste as the same pot pays my wages. Drain the pot and my position evaporates as quickly as the money does.
The Ordering Steps in Academia
The process can be infuriating. Here is an example of how a typical purchasing process may go:
The task: Buy a new hot plate for the lab, with a budget of $800-1000.
The steps you need to take are:
- Review all the models available from approved vendors in that range.
- Analyze the specifications.
- Consider the size (footprint) of the hot plate and figure out where it will go in the crowded bench space.
- Haggle with the vendors to get the best price.
- Get a quote(s).
- Endure a three-day battle to get the vendor to include shipping costs or state on the quote that shipping is free.
- Send the corrected quote(s) to the boss (normally your PI), who will now lower the budget to $600.
- Redo steps 1- 7
- Send the corrected quote(s) to the boss (normally your PI), who will finally approve.
- The PI will often forget (despite frequent email requests) to tell you which account to place the order on. Now, you wait for that information.
- Send the quote and the account info to the purchasing department.
- Receive the PO number, put it into an official form, and send that to the company. Luckily, these days, you can do this via email, so phone calls can be avoided.
- Sit back and wait for the hot plate to arrive.
- Set up the hot plate.
- Listen to complaints from fellow lab members that it wasn't the model they wanted.
- Potentially, then read an email from your PI stating you wasted funds on an instrument that is unsuitable.
- Return the item.
- Buy the more expensive model with the functionality you originally suggested.
As you can see, ordering for a lab is a painful, inefficient, and laborious task. These 18 steps only outline the process for something small and relatively cheap.
Surely, you can only imagine the suffering experienced when you're asked to purchase something expensive, like a brand new $50,000 instrument.
The More Expensive, the Greater the Justification
Naturally, with greater expense comes greater paperwork. You, surprisingly, still have control over which vendor and model you buy. However, you must justify what you are purchasing and why. For federal funds, this process applies to anything over $3,000. Justification cannot be as simple as, "it's cheaper to buy from them." That would make far too much sense. Instead, you must write some elaborate explanation including technical details as to why instrument A is better than instrument B. The advantage of this though is that whoever is reading this comparison in purchasing is unlikely to fully understand the technical details you have put forward. I swear, based on some arguments I have made, no one reads them. Not once have these justification forms been sent back to me for clarification.
The paperwork seems to then go into a deep dark vortex within the university. Somehow everyone from the Dean of the department to the head of purchasing, and, finally, a lawyer needs to sign off on this purchase. You'd think obtaining a few signatures would take a week, maybe two to acquire. Don't be ridiculous; adjust your expectations to months. During this time, your PI with get impatient and bombard you with order update requests. As a result, you will send weekly follow up emails to purchasing near the end. Which, naturally, makes your relationship with purchasing stronger.
Delivery and Thereafter
You would be forgiven for believing that once the vendor for your shiny new instrument received their PO, things would start to go smoothly. Unfortunately, the three-month (or longer) wait for the money to be released was the calm before the storm. Now, you must deal with delivery.
Large deliveries to a university department can be an exhausting process. Make sure that your quote includes white glove delivery and installation. This ensures the vendor is responsible for getting the instrument to you in working order. Otherwise, you may find yourself using a palate jack to get the instrument into your lab and facing a long stressful setting up process. No matter how the instrument arrives, you can be assured that during your employment, you are responsible for it. Maintenance, securing new service contracts, any troubleshooting whatsoever – it will all land on your shoulders. This is generally irrespective of whether you use the instrument yourself. You are now the resident expert whether that is an appropriate designation or not. It is envisaged that you know what every knob, setting, tube, fluid, laser, etc., does. Be prepared for being berated if you don't. You are expected to train users in its operation. Their failures are yours too.
This is the final downside to buying something expensive: the expectation. Generally, the more expensive something is, the more data your PI is going to expect from it. After all, this purchase has been a huge investment of funds and time, so it had better produce data that elevates the research. Regardless of how realistic the PI's expectations are, you will be responsible for the instrument not magically producing a Nature or Science paper.
Final Thoughts
Ordering for a lab is a thankless task that your PI does not consider work. Even when you save a few thousand by haggling, or negotiate some perks like free kits, or a cheaper maintenance package, there is little outward gratitude.
My recommendation: Delegate if you can.


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Author Spotlight: Vanessa Skye, Koven
As part of the release of Koven, the first in a brand new paranormal series, author Vanessa Skye has graciously taken the time to answer a few questions to give us insight on her new book, which I happily read and gave a five-starred review to recently. ^.^
A Q&A with Vanessa Skye
1. What was your inspiration behind Koven?
I wanted to write a book about a kick-ass female assassin and while my main character, Berg, in the Edge of Darkness series is admittedly pretty kick-ass, she doesn't wield twin swords, a 'la River from FireFly! I've also absolutely loved vampires since I read Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice back in the nineties, so writing Koven was just pure fun for me.
2. How is this book different from your Edge of Darkness series?
Edge of Darkness is crime fiction in all its gritty reality, with all the associated research, emotion and basis in reality that goes along with it. Koven is a paranormal romance and is mostly just fun and imagination. There are also some similarities, both series contain a strong female lead working through their demons to find redemption, and I have included a vampire mythology that required research on both Druid and Vikings, so research-wise there was a similarity, even if the subjects are nothing alike!
3. Will this new series feature standalone novels or interconnected stories and characters?
I intend for Koven to the be the first in a series, but they won't always be from Striker or Celeste's perspectives. I have a whole coven of hunky vampires to play with! I am working on the storyline for the second book now and I hope to have written it by the end of the year.
4. If you could cast Celeste and Striker, who would you choose and why?
My fantasy cast would be Jason Momoa for Striker and Christina Hendricks for Celeste. Oh, the sexy.
5. What advice would you give aspiring writers?
To never give up. To keep believing in yourself. To laugh in the face of rejection, and to keep going. And to get a good editor, because nobody anywhere wants to read your first draft of anything.
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Thank you again to Vanessa Skye for answering my questions and to Cindy Bidwell of The Writers Coffee Shop for facilitating the interview! ♥
Koven will be released in eBook and paperback on June 11, so check out Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and TWCS, or ask your local book store to order it for you.
Check out Koven on Goodreads, or find out more about Vanessa Skye's crime fiction Edge of Darkness series on her website.
To celebrate the release of Koven, Vanessa's debut crime fiction novel, The Enemy Inside, is only US$0.99 for the month of June 2015! Get it here!


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Wholewheat Fusilli
A versatile shape that can be served hot with a sauce or cold in salads. The spiral shape provides the perfect surface area for holding your favourite sauce.
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Roasted veg & feta
Serves 4
Cooking Time: 45-50 minutes
- 300g of Tesco Wholewheat Fusilli
- 3 tbsps olive oil
- 1 red pepper, deseeded and sliced
- 2 courgettes, sliced
- 1 aubergine, cut into pieces
- 1 red onion, finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1tsp dried oregano
- 1tbsp tomato puree
- 1x400g can of chopped tomatoes
- 100g feta cheese
1. Pre-heat the oven to 220˚C/Fan 200˚C/Gas Mark 7
2. Pour 2tbsp of olive oil into a roasting tin and add the peppers, courgettes and aubergines ensuring they are evenly coated with the oil.
3. Roasted in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
4. In a large saucepan, place the remaining olive oil over a medium heat. Saute the onions for about 5 minutes, or until soft.
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