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Prior to any event that artist booked through the website: "The Booking Agency," the client (you) must sign a Memorandum of Agreement with the Parties involved, namely:
-The Booking Agency ( to be referred as the "Site")
-The Receiver of the services/You (to be referred as the "Client")
-and, The managers of the talent being booked (to be referred as the "Management")
This Memorandum of Agreement shall be an indication of the acceptance of all parties involved in the Terms and Conditions stated below.
The site will provide the following services to its clients:
-A roster of various artists within the Philippines in its website.
-The roster of various artists shall be readily available to its client(s) for booking purposes.
-An online booking platform that will be readily available to its client(s) for booking various artists.
For all booking done through the Site, the Client shall pay three percent (3%) of the gross total price, where fifty percent (50%) shall be paid upon confirmation of a contract/agreement between the three parties involved.The remaining balance shall be paid not later than thirty (30) days prior to the event/performance.
All payments shall go through the Site and payment by the Client to the Management shall be remitted to them, less the three percent (3%) going to the company, by the Site.
The operator of the Site shall ensure that all information within the website is updated always, ensure the integrity and security of the website, and all payments shall be properly remitted to its respected receivers. The operator of the site shall also provide timely response to any inquiries from both Client and Management.
The Client, shall provide needed information needed for any artist booking, such as contact person, contact numbers, and other contact details. The Client shall also provide payment in regards to the timeline agreed upon by the parties.
The Management shall provide necessary updated information for all its artists booked within the Site and timely response to all inquiries from the Site and the Client.
This Agreement shall have a term starting the use of the Site by the Client to book artists promoted by the Site.
5.Relationship of the Parties
Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as creating an employer-employee, joint venture, or partnership relations between the parties and any of its representatives.
The Client and the Management recognizes that the Site shall only provide a referral platform for both parties. Thus the Site, its directors, and officers shall be free and harmless against any liability arising from both parties' failure to comply with its obligation as stated in the agreement.
Further, the parties shall hold the Site, its directors, and officers, free and harmless against liabilities arising from disputes with its talents.If any suit based upon any such loss, claim, action, damage, or expense is brought against the Site, and it's directors and officers, the two parties, upon notice of the commencement thereof, shall defend the Site at its sole cost and expense; and if final judgment be adverse to the Site, the Client and Management, shall promptly satisfy the same.
The Parties acknowledge that in the pursuit of certain business matters between them, they may disclose to each other certain "Confidential Information" about its business, products, and services. For this Agreement, "Confidential Information" shall include, but not limited to, information concerning:(1) the disclosing party's business methods and practices and its personnel, customers, prospective customers and suppliers;
(2) inventions, processes, methods, products, and any specifications, drawings sketches, models, samples, tools, computer programs, technical information or other related confidential, business information or data, written, oral or otherwise;
(3) financial records and information; Parties agree that such Confidential Information contains valuable trade secrets and are not generally available to the public.
The parties agree to maintain the confidentiality of each other's Confidential Information and to take all steps necessary to protect it from disclosure as if such Confidential Information was his own.
If a party fails to perform any of its obligations under this agreement, or if a dispute arises concerning the interpretation of any provision of this Agreement, then the defaulting party or the party not prevailing in such dispute shall pay the reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the other party in enforcing or establishing its rights hereunder, including court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.
9.Dispute Settlement and Governing Law.
Any controversy, dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or the breach thereof, shall be first brought before the Chief Executive or Operating Officers of the Parties, which shall use their best endeavors to resolve such controversy, dispute or claim by means of direct negotiations in good faith within fifteen calendar (15) days from the date such controversy, dispute or claim was referred to them. Failure thereof, the controversy, dispute or claim shall be construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the Philippines to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, without regard to conflict of law's provisions, and the Parties agree to submit to the exclusive personal authority of the competent court in Quezon City, Philippines, to the exclusion of all other venues.
10. Amendments
No addition to, deletion from, or other modification of any of the provisions hereof shall be valid unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of each of the Parties hereto.
Each Party hereby represents and warrants that it has the full power to enter into and perform according to the terms of this Agreement.
12. Waivers No waiver of full performance by either Party shall be constructed, or operate, as a waiver of any subsequent default of any of the term, covenants, and conditions of this Agreement. The payment or acceptance of fees or charges for any period after default shall not be deemed a waiver of any right or acceptance of defective performance.
13.Entire Agreement.
The Parties to this Agreement acknowledge that it is a negotiated agreement, that they have had the opportunity to have this Agreement reviewed by their respective legal counsel. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties hereto respecting the subject matter hereof, and there are no understandings or agreements between them respecting the subject matter hereof, written or oral, other than as set forth herein.


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Candidate Tips
The Personal Interview
How to Prepare a Personal Interview
Learn about the company with which you will interview (visit their website, ask friends or family, find related news, etc..)
Analyze your resume, think and draw conclusions about your education, your experience, your skills and how you can most effectively impact the position applied for.
Prepare answers for questions like:
- Tell me your experience.
- What do you do in the future?
- What matters most to you from a job?
- Why did you choose this industry?
- Why did you change your job?
- Why are there gaps in your resume between jobs?
- Why are you interested in this job / this company?
Tips on the interview
In the interview, above all "be yourself." Honesty is the most important component. Hiring managers want to know the behavior they will see in the future if you join that company in the end. If you try to give another image of yourself than what you really are, you will likely encounter difficulty in the future.
Nonverbal communication is also very important. Watch your posture, shake hands firmly and strongly, make direct eye-contact and generally pay attention.
It is also very important to be honest about your achievements and level of education. When you are not honest in the interview samples, you could mislead the interviewer and set yourself up for future difficulty on the job. Read about the company and the vacancy and only apply if you are truly a fit.
Also, its important to dress appropriately. This is not to say that you need formality, but dress in a professional manner and according to the position you're going to fill.
Other Tips
Once you have entered your interview, wait for the interviewer to reach out his hand and invite you to take a seat. Try to leave your belongings to one side, the important thing is to not disturb the conversation and invade the visual and physical space of the interviewer.
Download a resume sample here.


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(By John Jenkins)
Catalyst set tongues wagging when he second-rated the opposition in the maiden two-year-old race at New Plymouth today.
The Darci Brahma youngster scored by 5-1/2 lengths in the 1200m event, with winning rider Michael McNab taking several looks behind in the home straight to check on how far behind the rivals were.
Catalyst, who races in the colours of Dick Karreman's The Oaks Stud, is trained at Te Awamutu by former successful jumps jockey Clayton Chipperfield and showed a glimpse of his ability when easily winning two barrier trials in March and April.
On the strength of those two trial victories the gelding was expected to show up on debut over 1200m at Te Rapa on April 27 but only managed seventh out of 10 runners, a run that left Chipperfield mystified.
However McNab went some way to explain Catalyst's form reversal by saying the Te Rapa track probably didn't suit the horse, especially as it was his first start, and he was a vastly different horse today.
"They thought that's what he would do first up," McNab said.
"He ran in a strong race then but as we know that Te Rapa track can throw that sand back at you and it may have got him a bit off his game. But he was sharp today."
McNab positioned Catalyst perfectly in the trail before moving him up three-wide to challenge the leaders on the home turn. Once in the straight the gelding quickly accelerated clear and his winning margin could have been a lot more had the rider really extended him over the final stages.
Chipperfield said he may now look at black type races for Catalyst, with the Listed $50,000 Castletown Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui on June 1 a potential assignment.
McNab is confident the horse will measure up in stronger company saying he "smashed them" today.
"I think it's onwards and upwards for him," he added.


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Today, February 5th is the feast day of St. Agatha. She is one of my favorite saints. When I was in nursing school, I was given a poem about her and a pin for National Nurses Day. She has been celebrated as the patron of nurses and is one of the most highly venerated virgin martyrs of the Catholic Church. St. Agatha was very helpful to me throughout my career as a nurse.
She was born in the year 231 and died at the hand of Quintianus after he had her tortured in the year 251. He had her breasts cut off which is why she is the patron of those with breast cancer. She had given her life to Christ and the church and he could not stand that she rebuked his advances.
She is commonly featured in religious art with shears, tongs, or breasts on a plate, and is the patron saint of Sicily, bellfounders, breast cancer, against fire, Palermo, rape victims, and nurses.
As we are preparing for lent, we can take a page out of St. Agatha's playbook. She was resolute in her love for God and the church. We may not be called to give our lives for God as Agatha did, but we are called to do everything in love for each other and for God even the smallest task.
God bless!


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The next-gen Chromebooks may be more powerful than ever. Notebooks from other brands running different OS may also be better with major changes happening across the systems. Google has been working on a new project we only know as 'Campfire' which is said to deliver Windows 10 dual boot to Chromebooks. Nothing has been made official by either Google or Microsoft yet but we've been hearing the Pixebook would have Windows 10 capabilities. In a nutshell, this Campfire may be like Boot Camp from Apple–a feature that allows a device to run and boot another OS.
The Campfire project was sighted on the Chromium Git, showing us some evidence the tech giant is working on something that may improve Chromebooks. Not that Google doesn't believe the Chrome OS is enough but it may be good to give the consumers more options. Some people may need Windows for work so why deprive them. Just give them the option to do more on their current Chromebooks.
Campfire aka Alt OS mode is being developed and tested by Chrome OS developers. This is the Microsoft Windows 10 according to a previous evidence as per XDA devs who saw the project.
We don't think the Pixelbook will be the only device that will use Campfire. Other Chromebooks are expected to feature such in the future once the project is ready for public release. It may be a lot of work but it's not impossible. It may be challenging at first but nothing a few tweaks here and there can't fix.
Looking at the code, there are some mentions of campfire variants. Google could only be testing them but there is a possibility although that means more rounds of testing and configuration.
There may be some downsides. When Developer Mode is enabled in Chrome OS, it becomes less secure and may be more vulnerable to harm. Verified Boot is one feature that protects the device but with dual-booting, it would be disabled. There may be some way around the system since Google will be officially and directly supporting dual-boot.
Alt OS mode and Campfire may be released soon. We're looking at October since the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will be announced then. A new Pixelbook may also be announced so let's wait and see.
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If LiveMix is enabled and you are still not hearing your instrument/voice, or
you are trying to record and nothing is saved you may have accidentally removed Anytune's access to the microphone.
iOS 7 introduced new security and privacy features and restrictions including requiring explicit permission for each app to access the microphone. Permission is usually granted via an alert dialog in the app the first time the app would like to access the microphone. However, if one taps "Don't Allow", the system won't ask again — ever, until you adjust your privacy settings
- Exit Anytune by pressing the Home button
- Open the Settings app
- Tap Privacy
- Find Anytune in the list and enable the toggle by Tapping it
LiveMix and recordings shoul work now. You may need to quit and restart Anytune.


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Small Business Administration (SBA) and Programs for Green/Sustainable Businesses
Robert Blaney, Arizona Regional Director US Small Business Administration, presents
Robert Blaney is the district director of the U.S. Small Business Administration for the State of Arizona. His varied experience includes work as a deputy sheriff with the Erie County Sheriff's Department in New York State. He also was vice-president of a family owned insurance brokerage. In 1985, he was appointed administrative assistant to Congressman Jack Kemp. He managed Kemp's district offices and political operations until January 1989. In March of 1989, Mr. Blaney joined the U.S. Small Business Administration as a regional public affairs officer with responsibility for New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He has held other positions within the U.S. Small Business Administration and was district director of the Albuquerque, N.M., district office immediately prior to his Arizona appointment. He is a native of western New York and a graduate of the State University College of New York at Buffalo.
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Successful migration of the IAM infrastructure at the Otto Group IT
The Otto Group, one of the world's largest online retailers, is in the midst of digital transformation. In the course of this, the IAM infrastructure should also be made future-proof and switched to the new version of the One Identity Manager. The company decided to migrate directly from version 6 to the latest version 8. How this ambitious project went, you will find out in the Success Story (in German).


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The SeaDarQ radar system from Nortek consists of four modules:
The system is composed of a data acquisition and processing unit which collects and processes radar data real time from a VTS navigation radar. Information from the sea surface is extracted and with a use of different algorithms successfully provides data about oil slicks, currents, waves, ships tracks, water depth, bottom topography, ice and small floating objects. With the SeaDarQ software it is possible to conduct real time, continuous surveillance of the water surface from a ship borne or stationary land based system.
World-wide service, maintenance and installation can be guaranteed. The software is capable of managing all the radar data and combining it with information from other sensors and storing this real time on disc or ram. This creates an opportunity to obtain real time data acquisition from navigation radar, and to measure and process the radar images over time.


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Archive for the 'Economics' Tag
So this call girl I know with a slight speech defect, joined a Golf Club to pick up some business.
And she didn't do badly!
The first time she played a round, she scored a couple of Bars and three Fogeys.
This is not about Putin but how Russians seem to massively support this complex-ridden little guy, and shows how far they've come: not very far, not yet!
I have met and observed a good number of Russian individuals and I still have to find one who's truly free, smiling, generous, leaning back relaxed, self-confident. Everything about him tending to be defensive, neck sunk well into shoulders accompanied by some docile wife, respectful only of confrontation, expecting it, and when it doesn't seem to be forthcoming, dishing it out himself: a big, sulking child.
For it is the only way he knows how to express himself, lacking any level of personal sophistication and growth. And therefore both continually suspicious and deeply unsure with the primitive way forward to block, aggress, and intimidate in the way that the State did to him for a millennium, all the while trying to suppress that irrational, contemporary fear in him.
Slavs still truly slaves to their past and their moral evolution still a century behind the free world despite the latter's one-out-of-twenty dreadful anomaly of German Nazism, and despite their more recent, relative political and material progress.
For nobody has it in for them, they're not under threat; they've been welcomed everywhere except there where they themselves abused for decades on end, with all the savagery available to them: those small, fearful nations begging to be protected by NATO, not the case of the USA 'aggressing' and 'encircling' a Russia typically paranoid.
I mean, we all understand an oppressive ruling entity constantly invoking the outside threat, as it helps keeping it in power. But this is not the 18th century, people ignorant, ensnared and scared. This is the 21st Century, millions of Russians travelling all over, having Internet access, foreign TV, above everything able to compare. Why on earth would they believe this crap? Are they this ignorant, still? And as a consequence Russian 'diplomacy' still gun-boat, tank and bomber oriented, mainly for domestic 'pride'!?
Hence also my dictum that Nations and people continually needing to project supposed strength and superiority, in fact suffer from an adolescent sense of inferiority and dangerous not for what is in their hands, but for what is in their head.
And that before a Nation or a people can be truly free, individual independence must have taken place.
Which is not the case with the average Russian I know, still hanging on to Madre Patria 's embrace and suffering from a type of nostalgia reflecting the constant necessity for heroes far larger than himself.
In addition a Nation's revolution or first break with the past, however significant, generally gets followed by and is subjected to a much shorter period of retrograde action before settling into a more permanent mode of free existence, the one step forward and two backwards syndrome, as seen with the time-scaled disappearance of old style dictatorships in places like Chili, Mexico, Tunisia, and now, still in the middle of it, Putin's Russia.
And there's nothing we can do, except try and contain the damage and hope the Russian people themselves will come around and display their personal independence and self-confidence.
The only question: which generation will step up to the plate believing in itself, rather than in some little guy, the Military and the Kremlin and the brooding yarns they spin? Filling their huge, insatiable pockets in the process!
Of Moustaches
It was always a mystery to me where Hitler got all the money to arm himself to the teeth. At this point he hadn't invaded anybody, or got cheap slave labour from the countries that he would later attack. The Weimar Republic was on its arse, inflation running at 100 000%, the entire outside world sunk into a deep depression, and the reason our boy got elected to Reich's Chancellor in the first place: yes he was democratically elected by a desperate and defeated people.
Germany doesn't have much in the way of natural resources, so where did he get the inital materials and loot to pull Germany out of its rut with public works and feverish arms production? How did he pay? Who gave him credit? You tell me!
But then I read this, as a follow up, written by P.G.Wodehouse, while in Berlin, where he had been kept in detention:
The situation in Germany had come up for discussion, and it was generally agreed that Hitler was standing at the crossroads and would soon be compelled to do something definite. His present policy, said a Whisky and Splash, was mere shilly-shallying. "He'll have to let it grow or shave it off. He can't go on sitting on the fence like this. Either a man has a moustache, or he has not. There can be no middle course."
And then it hit me. I had stumbled upon a magnificent metaphor for his later foreign policy, somehow beefing up his armed forces with absolutely nothing for them do or to look forward to, plus sporting a horrendous debt: He had to do something or the whole damn thing would have collapsed like a Ponzi scheme. Refusing to 'Shave them off', he chose to attack. And attack. And attack.
And the rest is bloody history!
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When people can no longer afford where they live, when people start taking the bus, when adults start moving back in with their parents, or share apartments with others they hardly know, when people start renting out rooms in order to pay their electricity bill, and banks don't know what to do with repossessed homes, when this takes place on a wide scale and for many years to come, when the State can't collect enough to cover its bills and has to cut vital services not replacing retiring workers… it is that a nation is getting poorer, losing its wealth, or at least the one it thought it had, but that probably never quite existed.
So what we're seeing everywhere really, is countries and people getting poorer, getting stuck once more with and in a huge underclass, all that whipped up phantom wealth melting snow under a forbidding sun.
Of course, it's nice to do well for a while, except most forget this is the exception, not the rule, living high off the hog too long. Some taking it philosophically, others not so well, after the bubble bursts. The question is do we want to live like this, on the run, under exciting but explosive bubblenomics or take an honest step back, living more evenly, not stepping around the returning homeless, on our sidewalks, having whatever there really is, distributed equitably?
This is how I expressed from another angle, under Poems in my website:
Eighth Floor Second
No matter what you read
No matter what they say
and sounds like war
World crisis
is never Armageddon
a set of reversals
in the Babylonian building of Finance
Basement becomes Penthouse,
Third floor First,
Eighth floor Second
with the sad stupidity
of rapacious
Death to Riches
Destruction creates wealth. Calling it renewal, sounds better.
Voodoo Economics
The same experts telling other people they don't save enough, constantly entice them to spend more in order to keep the economy going. And how is it they get to keep their job?
Certainly not all, but all the wile and cunning it takes to reach the top, leaves many completely addicted to the chase but soon enough losing all sight of the only objective.
The great irony that what it takes to become a major, even historic decision-maker leaves one voiceless when the time comes to speak out or think beyond the immediate.
At Davos 2009 nobody seems to worry about your children and grandchildren. While trying of course to fix the current, rather too drastic world economic decline, nobody has time for trivial questions like a planet unable to sustain 'Western' industrial life style to begin with. Let alone making it universal, that is 3 billion Chinese and Indians owning 2 residences, 3 cars per family and taking 3 vacations a year in Hawaii, Paris and Samoa and to which they're as entitled as Mr. Mrs. J. Blow from Wichita Falls.
That while consumerism is still the best way to distribute wealth, there is the matter of waste, garbage, raw materials and climate change to consider.
That therefore, demographically speaking, far fewer people are a 'must', still complicated by them living longer than ever. And technology making half this brave new world's workforce redundant in less than a couple of centuries or so, the thought of how to keep these people fed and busy or let Darwinian observation prevail, not such a remote idea at all.
Society sooner than later reaching the threshold of having to pay a lot of people to stay at home and stop 'producing', or at least perform social duties in exchange for guaranteed income, preventing them from gratuitous thrill seeking or the falling into personal depression and crime.
That a conference decade upon decade blindly focusing on 'Now', on 'Growth', on 'Development', concerned with 'Gain', always 'Bigger', 'Better', 'More' and still… 'More' is a conference of the visionless, unable to view the soft-landing, intelligent economic reduction of nations the future demands, while hanging onto our planet for dear life…
Or better still, hanging on to our dear planet for life. But what to expect from decision-makers repeatedly found to be mostly smiling, always smiling but ambitious, blatant buskers performing only on the pavements of history. Their show one day turning out to have been a mere side show. A prelude, to continuation… or life zero.
Ah, yes, details! After the photographs, let's do dinner, Your Excellencies!


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Papa Gino Deal – Free Small Cheese Pizza for Residents in USA (2/18/2019 – 2/24/2019)
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Papa Gino is giving away small cheese pizza to residents in the USA. To get this offer, go to the Papa Gino pizza order page and place order for cheese pizza that is small size. In checkout, use the code 7075. If you order the pizza tomorrow, the code you must enter is XXXX. The promo code is the same XXXX until 2/24/2019. You also must select pickup for the pizza delivery method. When you go to the store, tell the cashier that you are helping a friend to pick up the pizza. You can customize your pizza with more sauce at no additional charge.


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How to work out UCAS points
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The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service set up the UCAS point system to help universities and colleges set course entry requirements and make conditional offers to students based on predicted grades supplied by schools prior to the exams.
In theory, the grade tariff system is straightforward and students need only compare the points for the grades they have with the course requirements. However, it is not always simple, as some universities make additional stipulations.
Choose a subject first and then research the universities offering courses in the subject. There are numerous online and print guides to university courses that rate them according to teaching quality and student experience. It is important you do this as early on as possible so that you know the points required and the grades needed. AS level grades provide students and teachers with a guide to final A level grades and whether or not the student will meet the admissions criteria.
Select up to five universities, then check the university admissions procedure and the specific entry requirements for the subject. Some universities state the number of UCAS points required but add requirements, such as an A grade in English literature. Talk to your subject teacher or school careers advisor for help with course and university choice, and with the UCAS application form.
Check the UCAS application deadlines. Medicine, veterinary and dentistry courses, plus all Oxford and Cambridge courses have an October deadline in the year before admission. Applications for other subjects have until January, and if you haven't heard anything from the university by February, you can make additional application between then and the end of June to courses with vacancies. Some courses, particularly art and design, have a March deadline. Reply to any offers promptly.
Work out your UCAS points based on actual grades or predicted grades. AS level points start at 20 for an E grade and rise to 60 for an A grade. Ten points separates each grade. A levels start at 40 points for grade E and progress up to 120 for an A grade and 140 for an A_. In this case, 20 points separates each grade. So, if you have an A_, A and B at A level, you have 360 UCAS points. Add in any AS level grades. For example, English Language is only offered at AS level by some exam boards.
Calculate the points for other qualifications, such as BTEC certificates and diplomas. The International Baccalaureate also has a different points system to A levels, as do Scottish Highers. For example, 45 IB diploma points is equivalent to 720 UCAS points. The UCAS tariff tables detail the points awarded for a diverse range of qualifications, including many specialist ones such as those awarded for music and speech and drama exams.
- Use an online UCAS points calculator to speed things up.
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I will use them again in the future
I booked with with Simmons & Crow through Angie's list. They responded promptly and scheduled my service at a convenient time. They showed up on time and performed the service as promised. The technician even treated the eves on the 2nd floor.
I will use them again in the future.


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Happy Birthday Darren! :)
I am so thankful for this man...my man...man of God...the man that God so sweetly blessed me with to travel through this life. I've been so blessed with spending almost 37 years-5 years dating and going on 32 years of marriage-with this sweet guy. Now before you get this idea in your head of near perfection, let me be honest...lots of mistakes, grave mistakes-mostly on my part-have been made, but Darren always gallantly takes blame as well. Being a Daddy's girl, raising boys who have grown into amazing men, having lots of incredible men in our family & getting to work with some of the best men in our industry, I can still say this man...well, he is the bestestest...lol!..I love making up words...I'm thankful for my man😊 It's his birthday today and I didn't want to miss the opportunity to share a little about one of the most incredible men I have ever had the sweet privilege to know, of whom I get to call mine and I am his😊
I could fill a book full of adjectives, loving phrases, sweet side-notes, but if you've read any of my blog posts, you know by now that I would rather share with you a story. The problem is, which story...the story of when he first asked me over to play volleyball with a group from FCA's, but I told him that I couldn't because I was canning beats. I was! I was helping my momma can...everything that summer! LOL! He thought I was just making an excuse not to hang out with him. I desperately wanted to go but couldn't. He waited an eternity - 4 whole months - to ask me out. We were just friends...that's just the way it was going to be...I had resolved. I'm so thankful God had other plans! Perhaps I should share about the the promise ring that he gave me for my 16th Birthday and the reaction my Daddy had...oh my goodness, I didn't know throwing a newspaper down could make such a deafening sound! What about the story of him holding his sobbing, inconsolable bride of less than a week because no words would change that her daddy had just been diagnosed with prostrate cancer - of which, God miraculously intervened. The story of when we decided to start Yarbrough's when we were still newlyweds is a good one! The adventures we had remodeling our first home is a good one too! But not all of the stories are fun to remember...the story where I left him after just two years of marriage because I was full of pride, selfishness, sin -God tried to warn me, but I wouldn't listen- and after 3 months of separation, the faithful phone call from my sweet man telling me to come home. A few years later, we became parents, and I watched in awe...it is a beautiful thing to watch someone become a parent and the transformation that occurs. There's also the story of walking through loosing his parents and brother, and watching him exhibit the Fruit of the Spirit-love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control-with every step. We have had so many sweet adventures, so many sweet stories to tell- thrilling, terrifying, happy, sad...but today this is the story that keeps coming to mind.
This was early in our marriage, sometime before we had kiddos, and I remember because of which house we lived in. Lol, we have lived in so many...perhaps another story, another time,LOL! We were living in our first home on the north side of Blanchard. First home, first remodel/construction, first paint job, first business, first baby...lots of firsts in this house. Well, going back to first business, Yarbrough's Heat and Air was run out of our home. Darren, back in those days, would take many forms of payment for his HVAC services. I remember an old milk can showing up on our front porch, there was also tools, eggs, and the like. My favorite thing that he brought home was a bright yellow bicycle...I'm talking neon, canary yellow. But this was no ordinary bicycle...this was a tandem bicycle...a bicycle built for two. Anyone who knows Darren, knows he was all about this barter. He came home and walked into the house with the biggest smile on his face. "Come here, I've got somethin to show ya." He grabbed my hand, told me to close my eyes, turned me away from him and marched me forward, out of the house, down the front porch steps, guiding me out to the back of his truck. "Open your eyes," he said. I opened my eyes and there it was...a bright yellow bicycle built for two. I turned to him with a slight grin, because I knew...I knew we were going for a ride...I knew he would take me faster than I wanted to go and to places that I didn't care to be seen...LOL! I knew that he loved to make me laugh and squeal...I knew he would take me right through the center of town, right down Main Street laughing and singing while I would be laughing & squealing. I knew deep down that it would be thrilling.
"Let's take her for a spin."
"Now? I'm a mess!" I insisted.
He did not pay any attention to my protest, but crawled on the bike and extended his his hand. "Let's go. It'll be fun. I won't go too fast," he promised. So on the back I crawled, and off we peddled. We did go faster than I wanted, and yes, he headed straight for Main Street, and yes, it was thrilling and a treasured memory.
We were laughing about this last night just reminiscing a bit. "I don't think I ever got you back on that bike." I stopped laughing and suddenly felt a sting of regret. Knowing my thoughts he said, "It's ok. We all have things that we wish we'd done a little differently." Fruit of the Spirit.
I had someone stop me at church once, teasing me a bit and giving Darren a hard time, "I don't know what you see in this guy." We were all laughing, then I said with all seriousness, "then you do t know him very well." A million-plus beautiful, big and little things that make me so thankful for this man, God's man, the man that God saw fit to give me as my husband...a million-plus...I am thankful!!!
Happy Birthday Darren! You are a beautiful man of God, and I am thankful. Here's to many more adventures and fun stories to tell...I know, let's go find a bike!😃
I am a simple and ordinary girl who loves to share meaningful stories about the extraordinary people and blessings, the sweet everyday happenings that make me smile. I hope you all have a beautiful day!


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We are excited to spotlight a community partner that is helping make fresh, healthy food available to all community members in North Central Massachusetts: Growing Places. The Community Foundation manages an endowed fund for this Leominster-based non-profit and has also supported their work with several grants.
Growing Places' mission is to inspire and connect North Central Massachusetts residents to create equitable access to healthy food through education, collaboration, and sustainable practices. The organization was created in 2001, when its two founders built five gardens for local low-income residents. Since then, it has built more than 450 gardens and provided technical support to more than 1,500 people in need.
Growing Places fulfills their mission by running a variety of programs, including overseeing community teaching gardens that provide space and education for local gardeners; running educational programs for children focused on healthy eating, gardening, and environmental sustainability; offering garden and cooking workshops; and managing farmers' markets in Fitchburg and Leominster.
In addition, Growing Places organizes outreach efforts and educational programming for the Leominster implementation of the Greening the Gateways City Program, a state-wide effort to reduce home heating and cooling costs by increasing tree canopy cover.
The Community Foundation first partnered with Growing Places in 2010, when we gave them a grant to build ten households in Clinton with vegetable gardens. We have since provided additional grants to support the creation of teaching gardens and development of youth outreach programs. In 2017, Growing Places established an endowment fund with the Community Foundation that will help ensure its continued growth and long-term sustainability.
"The Community Foundation has been thrilled to partner with Growing Places through managing their endowment fund and supporting them through grants for their many amazing programs," says Linda Mack, Vice President of Development and Donor Services at the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts. "To teach people the skill of how to grow their own food is so empowering to the North Central Massachusetts community."
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Two Birds One Stone
12 Claremont Street, South Yarra
03 9827 1228
Owners of Two Birds One Stone in South Yarra have transformed what was once a cavernous concrete square shell into a distinctive neighbourhood hub. This is the fourth café that partners Nathan Toleman, Diamond Rozakeas and Ben Clark have been associated with, each providing a unique community focus for neighbours and nearby workers to meet, greet and assemble.
The partners have been revitalising dormant and emerging neighbourhoods by discovering unloved, out-of-the-way 'spaces' and transforming them into benchmark cafés with a 'wonderland' of quirky, colourful, edgy designs, each with their own distinctive thumbprint. Nathan says, "We're all quirky characters with complementary skills who love what we do and who laugh a lot. But we are all deadly serious about creating Melbourne's best cafés with our unique formula."
He said, "Our passion is to create cafes with a 'pulse'. It's about the 'mix' of captivating people once they enter the front door and thrilling them with eye-popping design in a space which is a pleasure to be in."
The décor is hand forged lighting, polished grained timber on benches, tables, columns, granite floor blocks, white painted square patterned timber sheeted walls and ceramic tiles. The partners sectioned the area to break up the boxy space and created nooks, partitioned singles benches, tables for two, a communal table that can seat 16, an elevated hero-coffee area and booths with upholstered seating to allow for private audible conversation.
Executive chef David Finlayson, who has worked in Michelin Starred restaurants in Europe and who oversaw the birth of George Calombaris' new venture Mama Baba, along with Head Chef, Eddie Atkin, cook all menu options including cakes, in-house. They use as much local produce as they can, from fruit and vegetables to meat, free range chicken and dairy. Their haloumi is hand made by a local Cypriot.
These talented chefs present dishes which are works of art for the eye and palate. Even the specialty coffees, supplied by Five Senses coffee and prepared by head barista, Jack Monte, are mini works of art for all the senses.
Two Birds serves breakfast showcasing their signature dish Nut Clusters with berries and lavender cream as well as several options of cooked breakfasts including the aptly named Two Birds (eggs, bacon, tomato, pork chilli and fennel sausage, mushrooms, spinach and tomato relish) and One Stone (eggs, mushrooms, avocado, spinach, haloumi, house smoked corn & tomato relish). Lunch options include gourmet steak, lamb and chicken sandwiches, salads and other treats that include corn and zucchini fritters with haloumi, guacamole and house smoked salmon.
You will find Two Birds does not take itself too seriously, ready to have a laugh with the customers and amongst themselves. What they do take seriously is their sense of excellence – in food, coffee and service. Their success is a testament to this.


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2 year after , considering explant * Saline Round 275 cc Moderate Profile under muscle. - I am 38 years old, have breastfed one kid for full 2 years. My kid is now 7 years old. My height is 5'3" and my weight is 100 lbs.My bra size is 32A. I have always been wearing padded, under-wired and push-up bra since 20 years ago. I am thinking bigger boobs for a change would be nice, just to see how it feels to be different. I don't know if that is enough of a reason to get the surgery. My husband actually brought it up. I had rhinoplasty earlier this year and he asked me if my doctor could also add some mass to my boobs, just a little bit bigger, he said. So I went. I visited my doctor the following week and told him of my intention. My doctor showed me his basket of water balloons and I asked questions. I settled at Saline Implants, 250 CC on my left and maybe 275 on my right. The doctor said he would make the incision at my nipples. This part made me nervous. What if it goes wrong and I lose sensitivity on my nipples? What's the point of having big boobs for my husband if I can't feel them? Today afternoon I am going to get a mammogram screening. My left boob is bigger than the right one and it always feel uncomfortable in the bra because the edge does not fit well. This has been the case since I had my baby and the boob size difference has become more drastic.This site has been a good support to be and I learned a lot from other stories. I would like to hear opinion and feedback from you ladies here.


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Informational/Enrollment Meeting for California 2020
Lisa Siegfried
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Mark your calendars for Monday, January 28 at 5pm in Room 17! Come and find out about the Crest Ridge World Travel Program. Past group leaders will share previous travel experiences, and plans for future educational travel. It's not too late to sign up for the once-in-a-lifetime 10 day tour of Japan! We are also actively filling a limited amount of seats on the bus for California 2020!


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Design: Olga Prokhorova
Project Type: Concept
Location: Russia, Moscow
Packaging Contents: Wine
Packaging Substrate / Materials: Glass bottle, paper label
Printing Process: Flexography
The briefing: to create the package for new line of high quality wine from Tamansky peninsula. The line includes Cabernet, Chardonnet, Rose, a blend of red wines and blend of white wines (exact composition is not known yet).
The target consumer: the line is produced for Russian market. It must help to attract young audience to wine culture, because they usually choose beer or cider for evening.
What's Unique?
I wanted to create impressive and unusual label and in same time it must be delicate and smart to save the intelligent spirit of wine traditions. The places where this grape was grown were Greece territory a long time ago. Archaeologists sometimes finds pieces of Greek sculpture, amphoras and remains of temples.
All of this inspired me to name this line "Aeternum", it means "infinity" in Latin. I based design on contrast of bright background and white pieces of Greek sculpture.The shape of label is similar to the sculpture fragment too.


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Unit 6
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Street Cleaver are coming back hitting us hard with their No Rules take on kick ass food. This time they bring their classic Ramen dishes with three side dishes and a sweet for £20. Limited walk in sales will be taken but to guarantee a place please book via the link below.
Tonkotsu – Tonkotsu
The Classic – Ramped up to Street Cleaver style. Chashu style pork, chilli scraps, nori salt, rich & strong 48hr Tonkotsu broth with black garlic and sesame oil, soy pickled egg, buckwheat noodles and charred miso corn.
New School – Tantanmen
Spicy & Creamy miso pork, chicken broth with extra chicken fat, Szechuan pepper, peanut dust, chilli oil, spring onion, smoked butter bomb, pak choi, chives, spiced pork mince and buckwheat noodles
Coconut Ramen
Thai inspired coconut and lemongrass broth served with pak choi, basil chive oil,ginger, crispy lime leaf, chilli oil, chilli and ginger tofu cakes, charred corn and buckwheat noodles.
All served with No Rules sides;
Mooli pickle rolls, Japanese cucumber, crispy leeks & sesame
Something Sweet
Spiced Caramel Tart – Sweet Japanese style spiced caramel, peanut and sesame crisp
Miso, butterscotch & banana fried sweet noodles with pecan gold and coconut cream.


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Introduction: Rock Lobster Pondo-Style
Being on the Wild Coast in South Africa has its advantages. between the 1st of March and 31st October very fresh, very cheap East Coast rock lobster is one of them.
Here's a basic guide on how to aquire, clean & cook them like a Pondoman.
Step 1: Aquisition
A couple days before they needed, let your staff know that you looking for rock lobster.
(They'll spread the word to the collectors in the community).
One of the more successful, and my favourites is a guy named Between.
Once they come to the back of the kitchen, check for size, 65mm from between the horns
to the end of head, (using a measure, mine is two nails in a piece of wood, spaced the right distance apart.)
Pay the man.
In this can is was 2x R10, 1xR8 & 6xR6.
(The R is for rands, our currency, currently trading at R7.60ish to the dollar.)
Step 2: What's Needed
After aquiring your rock lobster (8 per person per day & you'll need a licence for them),
it's time to prepare & cook them.
So what we need is:
A pair of Crayfish Gloves (not absolutely essential, but useful)
Rock Lobsters (duh)
Heat Source
No sympathy & a strong stomach (you'll see why in a moment
Step 3: Cleaning It (or How to Remove the Guts Like a Local)
Now's when the strong stomach is needed, cause this is
happening to a very much alive rock lobster
Snap off a feeler so its a bit longer than the body.
Gerabbing the cray in your left hand (like in the pic),
insert the feeler into its 'anus?' and carry on until its almost
all the way in.
Now pull it out again slowly, removing the tube as you go
Step 4: Cook It
This is now the easy part.
Pour about half inch salted water into a pan.
Add the rock lobster.
Cover & steam for about ten to fifteen minutes.
Eat while still hot accompanied by lemon wedges.
(sorry no photos, my hands were full of lobster.


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By Emma Wilkinson on November 1, 2016
If you've ever watched the show Royal Pains on the USA Network, chances are you've been exposed to a new wave of medicine labeled "concierge medicine". Dr. Hank travels around the Hamptons treating ailments, broken bones, and making prognoses. While he doesn't have a main office to report to, he comes armed with his prescription pad and stethoscope and works jointly with the local hospital should any of his patients require hospitalization.
Concierge medicine includes services administered by licensed physicians that allow more personalized and usually in-home care. The American Academy of Private Physicians allows patrons to search databases of physicians that label themselves as concierge doctors. In order to see if the doctor is the right fit for you, this database labels these doctors' specialties, accreditations, and general areas of expertise.
No, not everyone who seeks a concierge doctor is as fabulously rich as the patrons in the show, but let's face it: if you want a doctor to see you as soon as possible instead of the normative 45 minute-1 hour wait time in a doctor's office, it will get expensive.
As part of the personalized care offered by concierge doctors, the doctor will be able to quickly cater to your health needs. However, in addition to your health bills, they will charge you upwards to $5000 a month to compensate for their services. Because this type of medicine is relatively new, many health insurance policies may be a little blurred on the topic. While these doctors can offer anything from outpatient surgery to routine checkups in your home, health insurance policies regarding this type of medicine varies state-to-state. Additionally, the main service fee of $5000 a month will most likely not be covered by your health insurance provider since it is considered a membership fee and doesn't actually cover any services.
So how do you know if concierge medicine is the right fit for you? If you dread going to the doctor's office and waiting over an hour to see the doctor for a fifteen-minute consultation, a concierge doctor could be right for you. If you dread sitting on the white sheet on the examination table in an uncomfortable white paper gown, a concierge doctor could be right for you. Additionally, if you want same-day test results and a more interpersonal relationship with your doctor, a concierge doctor may be right for you.
SOURCE: http://www.premedlife.com/feature-articles/so-what-exactly-is-concierge-medicine-4796/


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Planning a trip to a Disney Park? The reality is that no matter how hard you try, you simply cannot do it all. There are so many attractions and then you need to factor in all that time queuing, eating and drinking, shopping and of course, using the facilities. All that time eats into your fun. So the goal shouldn't be to do everything but rather to have a day well spent.
This post was actually inspired by a video I saw on YouTube which you can check out below.
This post was actually inspired by a video I saw on YouTube which you can check out below.
I absolutely loved the spirit of this video and watched it on repeat for the good part of an hour. It's really made me re-examine my own priorities when it comes to planning out my Disney itineraries.
All of us are different. We all have different interests and our favourite attractions will always vary from person to person. This is one of the things I feel is often missing from guidebooks: the understanding that not everyone wants the same experience from their Disney holiday.
Priorities also change over time and are dependent on many factors including the type of trip, the duration of your stay and the number and ages of guests within your party.
Take our upcoming trip to Disneyland Paris for example:
My focus is on making it as fun as possible for my (soon-to-be) husband and son for their first ever experiences of a Disney theme park. I want them to truly feel the magic but even more so, I want them to want to return.
Is it bad that I want to make Dreamfinders of the men in my life? I don't think so. There's definitely a lot of truth to that "Disney life, happy wife" saying.
(Speaking of the Disney life - don't forget to check out my Disney Tag and my recent Disney haul!)
Since my last few Disney trips were "adults-only", I now need to consider how to make it fun for a toddler while also giving Matt a chance to experience some of the thrill rides.
It's not impossible - it just requires some careful consideration, attention to detail and a sprinkling of pixie dust!
For me personally, if I get to spend my days having fun with my boys and there are Mickey-shaped sugar cookies involved then it's already a day well spent in my eyes.
What does "a day well spent" mean to you? Are you a thrill seeker? A meet and greeter? A Mickey-shaped snack eater? Let me know in the comments!


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As part of an ongoing brain injury awareness campaign during the month of March here in the U.S., we'd like to share a video that may help people identify their own symptoms of possibly undiagnosed brain injuries.
The problem with brain injuries is that they are so easily undiagnosed if no medical attention is sought following an event. Another issue is that many brain injuries that may otherwise severely impact your lifestyle, are dismissed as minor events. In reality, even a simple event may cause life-long disability that may seem as a normal part of human behavior when it really isn't.
By learning about brain injury symptoms, effects and causes, you have a better chance of early identification and prevention of life-long suffering:


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The cookbook Veganomicon suggests to serve this tempeh with a tangy coleslaw. I find shredding cabbage a royal pain and you can't get it pre shredded here so I tend to opt for something else. She also rolls them up in tortillas but I can't be bothered with that either. It is hard to find tortillas that don't contain L-Cysteine--this is a dough conditioner made from either hunan/animal hair or feathers or synthetically from coal tar which is a known carcinogen. Either way--no thanks. Plus we just don't eat that much wheat these days as it bothers my tummy and you can't find spelt torillas. And besides we had bread yesterday and are having it tomorrow. So this is what I did:
I thinly sliced 2 onions into rings and cooked them slowly until they were golden and caramelised . While the onions were cooking I sliced some carrot, red pepper and cucumber into matchsticks and marinated them with apple cider vinegar. When the onions were done I put them in another container and used the same skillet to cook the tempeh I marinated yesterday with the leftover beer. When the tempeh was cooking I made some barley couscous to go with it. You can't really see the couscous or the onion in the photo--but they're there, I promise you.
Earlier in the day I had made coriander (cilantro) lime sour cream to go over it. First you need to thicken your yogurt. Pour 500g of soy yogurt into a clean tea towel and tie it up. Let it hang from the kitchen tap for a few hours until some of the liquid has drained away and the yogurt is noticeably thicker. Puree this with some fresh coriander and 3 TB of lime juice in your food processor and then put it in the fridge to thicken back up. This doesn't keep very well due to the fresh coriander so plan to gobble it all up.
This is tangtastic (there's that word again) and super yum and very easy since I started the marinade yesterday. Enjoy!


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January 12, 2017 @ 4:05 am
#29 - Nagus Fest 2! Part 1?
Come on down! This week, it's our second annual Nagus Fest! The first part of this episode sees Ben and Vince battling out to decide who will take home the title of Grand Nagus! The league office is going to hear about this one.


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Sunday, March 3, 2013
Below Freezing
I just walked in from a short Bent Creek ride on the All-Road bike. The highlights of the day include the temp never breaking 30* and Green Slick on the.... All-Road bike. Thanks Johnny for taking care of Zoe so I could go freeze my ass off and have some fun on this Sunday that Erinna is working.
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Strategies for engagement and bridal present
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Author: Jenny Hubbard
Rating: ★★ / ★
Synopsis: Sent to an Amherst, Massachusetts, boarding school after her ex-boyfriend shoots himself, seventeen-year-old Emily expresses herself through poetry as she relives their relationship, copes with her guilt, and begins to heal.
Huge thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for this advanced reader copy. Saying thank you with an honest review
River's Review (2 Stars)
Well… this book was not what I was expecting it to be. I can't really say much without going into spoilers, but there was a topic that I LOVE to read about and a topic that I HATE reading about. So there was that. I was REALLY into the story until the reason for Paul's suicide was reveled then I was just… ugh. Why did it have to go there? And the way of it all… not cool and I'm not even totally sure I understand the mechanics of it all… like, just… how?
I did enjoy the writing a lot. I loved the imagery and some of the lines were brilliant. The poems were really well done, but I got a bit sick of them towards the end and started skipping them. I felt a little bad about that, but I really just wanted to get on with the story.
For a book dealing with the aftermath of a school-gun-assault-suicide-something else I was really surprised that there wasn't a bit more… emotion in Emily's voice. She just seemed to detached and emotionless. Maybe it was the way she dealt with everything, but I really would have liked a lot more emotion.
Wow, this review is really hard to write. I just… wanted more and less at the same time.
Sam's Review (1 Star)
The topic of suicide is never an easy one to approach. It's definitely a topic that has to have a lot of care and thought put into it — to give people a reason to react. While I feel like And We Stay does the former correctly in terms of creating a thoughtful story, it's one that couldn't be more devoid emotional impact.
Considering the topic, I expected an emotional read out of And We Stay. What I ended up with was a dull read with awkward transitioning between instances of Emily's brother being alive and dead. A lot of the writing just failed to get me to care about a lot of what happened to the characters in this story because they were written without personality. I found myself often forgetting names, though oddly never forgetting what each character was a victim of. Every character, particularly Emily, comes across so detached and yet I found myself unable to care about her detachments, which made me pretty damn sad considering the way the story is built, you feel like you SHOULD care and DON'T.
I'm also all for poetry, but this book got too excessive with it and to the point where I found myself skipping them. I thought they were great until they started to get gimmicky. These were the only instances of Emily's real emotions (or emotion even in the story as a whole), but to me that's not a way to pull at my heart-strings, but in fact, do the opposite — make me feel like I wasted my time.
There's just nothing that makes And We Stay a book to invest in. There's no emotion, the writing is bland and uninspired, the poetry is all right but gets to be too much as the story goes on… I just can't recommend this book. If you want to read a better book that deals with the topic of suicide, check out Me Since You by Laura Weiss. That's a book that does so much right on the topic and makes you feel like what you're reading actually matters.


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The U.S. Supreme Court's flurry of major end-of-session decisions included one that gives companies some relief should they face a class action.
On June 11, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled to disallow a practice defendants sometimes call "class action stacking." In China Agritech v. Resh, the court held that its precedent doesn't allow tolling of statutes of limitation in successive class actions. The decision resolves a circuit split that enabled plaintiffs to file new class actions in certain situations where the statute of limitations had expired.
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Melanie + Brett were wed at The Plaza Club in Downtown Honolulu on a lovely spring evening. Melanie looked stunning in an off-the-shoulder gown with a bright cascade bouquet in her hands. Adorned in silver jewelry she married the love of her life. The reception was filled with balloons, flowers, and a cake topped with the most adorable little ducks. We loved getting to capture these two on their special day!
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With April nearly over, it's high time Acer came clean on when exactly its promised Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for the A100 and A500 would land. Today the company did just that, revealing that US owners of either tablet can opt-in for their frozen makeovers starting on the 27th. Bad news if you're rocking AT&T's variant of the latter though, as the listing on the company's support page for the A501 says "no update planned." Those not tied Ma Bell can expect Acer's skin — including that ring launcher — grafted onto Google's latest, much like the A200's ICS upgrade back in February. Already pumped? Go ahead and bookmark that source link. Do it, we won't judge.
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"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
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Life is inevitably full of change. What actually happened to me was the Fear of Change.
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Founding Partners
CDH Investments has a stable team. The six founding partners have been working together since 2002. CDH Investments founders stand on each investment committee to guarantee the consistency of the investment decision.
Wu ShangzhiChairmanPrior to founding CDH, Wu was the Head of CICC's private equity group from its inception in 1995, a Managing Director since 1998 and a member of CICC's Management Committee from 2000-2002. From 1991 to 1993, he was a Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation. From 1984 to 1991, he was an Operation Officer at the World Bank. After leaving the IFC/World Bank, Wu returned to China to become a founding partner and Managing Director at Beijing Copia Consulting Company Ltd. Wu received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Management of Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
JIAO ShugeCEOFrom 1995 until founding CDH, Jiao was a Vice President in CICC's private equity group. From 1989 to 1994, Jiao was a research fellow at the Beijing Institute of Information & Control. Jiao received his M.E. from The Ministry of Aeronautics & Astronautics University and his B.S. from Shandong University.
Stuart SchonbergerManaging DirectorFrom 1998 until co-founding CDH, Schonberger was a Vice President in CICC's private equity group. From 1987 to 1994, Schonberger worked at The First National Bank of Chicago in New York providing corporate finance services. After leaving First Chicago, he returned to China to pursue entrepreneurial ventures, becoming the founding partner in two joint ventures and providing advisory services to a number of foreign companies regarding their operations in China. Schonberger received his MBA degree from New York University's Stern School of Business and his B.A. from Wesleyan University.
Hu XiaolingManaging DirectorFrom 1999 until co-founding CDH, Hu was a Senior Associate in CICC's private equity group. From 1995 to 1999, she was a Senior Auditor with Arthur Andersen where she provided auditing and business advisory services to foreign and domestic publicly listed companies and foreign investment companies.Hu received her M.S. degree in Economics and her B.S. degree from Northern Jiaotong University. Hu is a member of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants of United Kingdom and a qualified Securities Certified CPA.
Wang LinManaging DirectorFrom 1999 until co-founding CDH, Wang was a Senior Associate in CICC's private equity group. From 1994 to 1999, Wang was a Senior Manager in China National Investment and Guaranty Corporation's Loan Guarantee Department. From 1993 to 1994, Mr. Wang was a project manager at De Bao Real Estate Developing Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ministry of Finance. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degree from the Research Institute for Fiscal Sciences of the Ministry of Finance and his B.S. degree from East China Jiao Tong University.
Wang ZhenyuManaging DirectorFrom 2000 until co-founding CDH, Wang was an Associate in CICC's private equity group. Prior to joining CICC, Wang worked as a financial consultant to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and other international and domestic institutions. From 1994 to 1996, he was a project manager at Beijing Copia Consulting Company. Wang received his M.S. in Industrial and Commercial Management and his B.S. in Machinery Engineering from Hefei Polytechnic University.
Huang Yan
Managing General Partner, Venture and Growth Capital
Prior to joining CDH Venture, Huang was an Associate Director with Intel Capital, a division of Intel Corporation, starting in 2003, where he completed several investments in IC design, Internet, and wireless sectors. From 2000 to 2002, Huang was a Vice President at Alibaba.com, responsible for marketing, corporate alliances and engineering activities. The divisions he managed developed and marketed products that were key revenue generators for the company. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Technical Manager at AT&T Bell Labs10 in New Jersey and was a founding member of Elemedia, a startup pioneering VOIP technologies in the USA. Huang received his M.B.A. from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri, and a B.S. from Zhejiang University.
Li Gang
CEO, Cephei Capital
Prior to founding Cephei in 2006, Li was the Managing Director and Head of China International Capital Corporation's Sales & Trading department. He was responsible for creating and building CICC's distribution capabilities into the country's most highly regarded sales & trading desk. From 1992 to 1997, Li worked at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation's Corporate Finance department and became the head of Freddie Mac's portfolio analytical team in 1993. He was a top performer and managed the analytical support team for Freddie Mac's US$1.5 trillion MBS portfolio. Li received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University.
Ying Wei
Managing Director, Wealth Management
Prior to joining CDH in 2009, Ying spent 18 years of his career with China Resources (Holding) Ltd., a China state-owned "Blue Chip" company listed in Hong Kong, where he successively took the positions of Director, Vice President and Operations Director of Hong Kong China Resources Textile Group. After leaving China Resources in 2007, Ying spent 2 years at China Water Group (0855.HK) as Vice President in charge of investment, M&A and financial control of the Group. Prior to joining CDH, Ying was the CEO and Executive Director of China Botanic Development (Holding) Ltd. (2349.HK). Ying received his Bachelor of Management in Accounting from Huangzhou Institute of Commerce and his M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco. Ying is a qualified Chinese CPA and also a non-practitioner member of Shenzhen CPA Association.
Song Xiaoming
Managing Director, Real Estate
Song has over 18 years of experience in property development, direct investment and asset management. Prior to joining CDH, he served as the Director of Asset Management (North Asia) for Pramerica Real Estate Investors. From 1992 to 2007 Mr. Song worked for China Resources Property Limited (CRPL) and its subsidiaries, and he served as the General Manager of China Resources Property Limited, Hong Kong, from 2001 to 2007. Mr. Song received his MBA in Finance from the University of San Francisco and his B.E. from Tsinghua University.
Hu Ning
Managing Director, Mezzanine and Credit
Mr. Hu joined CDH Mezzanine and Credit in 2011. From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Hu was the Senior Investment Executive Director of Property Investment Division in Pingan Trust. Prior to that, Mr. Hu was the Investment Director in Shenzhen Taskin Investment Advisory Company. Mr. Hu received his master's degree in finance from the University of New South Wales and bachelor's degree in economics from Zhongshan University.
Guo Li
Ms. Guo joined CDH Investments in 2002. From August 1997 to June 2001, Ms. Guo was senior staff at Arthur Andersen. Ms. Guo is a Certified Public Accountant and received her bachelor's degree from Central University of Finance and Economics.
William HSU
Managing Director, Head of LCR
HSU has around 20 years of experience in the private equity industry. He joined CDHVenture in 2007 and has been leading CDH's legal and compliance functions since 2013. Priorto CDH, HSU was a Senior Vice President at GIC Special Investments Pte. Ltd ("GICSI"),the private equity arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. He started in 1996 and worked in GICSI's Singapore, Hong Kong, and Beijing offices, covering mainly the Greater China market. HSU received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineeringfrom the University of California, Berkeley. HSU is currently a director of Ether, Value Focus,XiaoGuiDangJia, APT, and EpiTop.