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The Town Clerk-Treasurer is elected for a period of three years. He/She will keep an account of moneys, bonds, notes and evidences of debt paid or delivered and of moneys paid out for the Town and is keeper of the Town Records which include land records, vital records, meeting minutes and more. In addition he/she shall:
- Record the amount voted for support of highways, special departments and general town purposes;
- Collect taxes, assessments, charges and levies, including delinquencies in the hands of the tax collector and maintain a record of monies collected and uncollected;
- Receive fees for filing copies of records and other instruments;
- Pay the bills of the Town as authorized;
- Provide detailed financial statements and reports as required by the Selectboard;
- Maintain a record of all action taken at special or annual town meetings;
- Maintain all town records and an index to those records
- Maintain and file all reports required by law
- Perform any other duties required by law, the Town Charter or Town Ordinances.
The Town Clerk-Treasurer shall give a bond conditioned for the faithful performance of duties. The bond shall be of a sum and with such surety as approved by the Selectboard and the premium for such bond shall be paid by the town.


text: Use ordinary shirring dishes for the eggs; butter them, break into each one egg, stand these in a pan of boiling water and in the oven until they are "set." Rub the butter and flour together, add the milk, stir until boiling, add the salt, pepper, chopped chicken and mushrooms, and put one tablespoonful of this on top of each egg and send at once to the table. This is also nice if you put a tablespoonful of the mixture in the bottom of the dish, break the egg into it, and then at serving time put another tablespoonful over the top.

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How many of you can call yourselves a do-it-yourselfer? Better yet, how many of you WISH you could call yourself one? You see a project and think to yourself "I can totally do that!"? Only to find yourself elbow deep in sawdust and covered in primer, ready to throw in the towel and tramp out to the nearest homegoods boutique to replace that botched job with that beautiful, but OH SO EXPENSIVE, piece.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am Revamp Homegoods. I remake, revise, and reconstruct one man's junk into something spectacular.


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Natural stones are wrapped with a precious little brass dragonfly.
All of the metal used in the earrings is a lovely natural brass that is nickel free and will not tarnish.
Size : The earrings dangle approx. 3/4" from bottom of earwire. The lapis stone is a 10mm round coin shape.
Color choices:
Blue - Lapis Lazuli
Ruby Red - Carnelian Stone
Vibrant Blue - Amazonite
Green - Serpentine
Rose Pink - Cherry Quartz
Made in USA.


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Here I am in Miami enjoying the local scenery, whatever that is. This is perhaps one of the only 3 door pickup trucks I have seen. The Latin Grammy's are taking place here this evening and it is quite a scene. Unfortunately I get up before dawn tomorrow so no time to enjoy.
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A "HOWL" photograph, taken at the Virginia Military Institute in 1991 by Gordon Ball: a row of uniformed cadets, their heads shaved, each with an identical blank notebook, each holding a copy of the City Lights Books Pocket Poets Series edition of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems," published in San Francisco in 1956, subject to an obscenity trial soon after, cleared by Judge Clayton Horn in a ringing affirmation of individual liberty and creative expression — and a flag of revolt, a blow against conformity, a hallowed relic, ever since.
The picture is all irony. What are these presumed soldiers of Moloch — the demon of money and power summoned in the second part of "Howl" to devour the soul rebels of the epic first section, unless, somehow, they can escape to fight another day — supposed to make of Ginsberg's celebration of a tiny band of comrades determined to free America from itself? Of his paeans to men who "screamed with joy" as they were penetrated by other men, to heroin and marijuana, to suicide and madness? Who knows what the cadets made of "Howl" — in the picture, they look bored. Another assignment to get through.
Ball, a longtime friend and editor of Ginsberg's, is himself one of 24 contributors to Jason Shinder's collection of new essays on "Howl" (not counting Ginsberg, with his own comment on the poem, written in 1986, 11 years before his death, and John Cage, with his galvanic "Writing Through Howl," also from 1986). Like so many of the writers here, Ball forgivably fetishizes the little City Lights book. Like an 18th-century broadside, it was cheap, it was portable, you could read it standing up on a bus and give it away when you got off. It was a key to the enormous readership "Howl" has gathered over the decades, and you can still pick up a used copy for a dollar or so. But like so many, he gropes for something to say. The literary nakedness of the beats, Ball says of beat heroes like Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady and the few and then the many who took up the cause, "has something to do with the fact that today national debate includes, as legitimate topics for discussion, things such as homosexuality and heroin addiction." This is close to babble — equating homosexuality and heroin addiction, and ignoring the fact that to the degree that homosexuality is today part of our national debate, it is precisely because one side of the debate believes homosexuality is not a legitimate topic of discussion — but not so close as Ball on the "spiritual base" at "the heart of the Beat Generation," which "may offer a redemption of the woeful American legacy projected by Walt Whitman 125 years ago."
Shinder, Ginsberg's friend and assistant, a poet ("Among Women") and a packager (the editor of "Divided Light: Father and Son Poems" and other anthologies), has produced a tribute album — but a tribute album in which half of the contributors are covering the same song. Rather than "critical texts," Shinder wanted "personal narratives" from well-known writers on "how the poem changed their lives": thus the word "I" appears in the first or second line of more than half the pieces here. The famous first lines of "Howl" are quoted from at least 11 times.
This gets tiresome. Sven Birkerts, bidding fair to replace Rick Moody as Dale Peck's "worst writer of his generation," offers an unbearable template: "Can I possibly convey how those words" — the first lines of "Howl" — "moved in me, how that cadence undid in a minute's time whatever prior cadences had been voice-tracking my life?" No, he can't. He wanders on, into "the moment of Shakespearean ripeness." "Ripeness" would do the job, but you get the feeling it's important to Birkerts to remind us he knows Shakespeare — or maybe to equate his reading "Howl" with Edgar's revelation in "King Lear."Continue reading the main story
As it happens, it's with the critical pieces that Ginsberg's poem comes back to life — critical pieces that take the shape of real talk. With David Gates there's an instant change in tone. "I drove to the store the other day" — and you realize he's not going to tell you he discovered "Howl" there. He parks, hears the boom of an obscene rap song from the S.U.V. in the next spot and starts thinking: "Banned literary mandarins such as Joyce and Nabokov may simply have wanted to go about their hermetic work unmolested, but Ginsberg was a public poet and a provocateur. 'Howl,' for all its affirmations, is a profoundly oppositional poem, and it counts on being opposed. . . . It's a radically offensive poem, or used to be — offensive even to received notions of what poetry is, and it needs offended readers whose fear and outrage bring it most fully to life."
Ginsberg wrote "Howl" in San Francisco and Berkeley; he read the long first section in public for the first time in San Francisco in 1955, and the whole of the poem for the first time in Berkeley the next year. (A CD of that performance is included in this book.) All sorts of divisions, exclusions, restrictive manners and deferences that were second nature in the East were missing in the Bay Area. If the primary terrain of the poem is New York City, the freedom one could find in California in the 50's is crucial to the air that blows through the dank rooms of "Howl," blowing all the way back to New York — but you wouldn't know it from the Eastern writers Shinder has brought together, as if such Bay Area poets and critics as Ishmael Reed, Robert Hass, Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Clover or Richard Candida Smith would have less to say about where "Howl" came from and where it went than Jane Kramer and Eileen Myles, who have plenty to say. The America that gets changed in "The Poem That Changed America" is a Steinberg map, with San Francisco as far away as Tangier. "No one," Marjorie Perloff says off-handedly, but too revealingly, "New Yorker or foreigner. . . . "
You can forget that when Luc Sante begins to tell his tale — from 437 East 12th Street, which is, as it happens, the same New York City building where Ginsberg lived. As if rising from the swamp of Eliot Katz on "Political Poetics" (right off, with Katz's invocation of a poet attempting "to envision and create a more humane world," you somehow know this is going to be the longest piece in the book), Sante changes the discussion as if throwing open a door: "Was 'Howl' the last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song?" The language is burning, the ideas are jumping and, finally, you are brought into the adventure of the poem, Ginsberg and his fellows turning New York City into their own frontier, then heading west, through Kansas, into Colorado, to the coast, then back again, discovering, you can feel, more of America in the decade before Ginsberg wrote the poem in 1955 than de Soto, Daniel Boone or even Lewis and Clark did in the centuries before them.
"Reading 'Howl' aloud or reciting it," Sante writes, "you could feel the poem giving you supernatural powers, the ability to punch through brick walls and walk across cities from rooftop to rooftop" — faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, as George Reeves was doing on TV as Ginsberg wrote, just like Scotty Moore's second guitar break in Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog," on Ginsberg's hydrogen jukebox the year that "Howl" first made it into print. Why not? Sante lived for 11 years in Ginsberg's building. He was 36 when he moved out, and when he looks back to that moment, the self-regard of adolescent illumination, so common elsewhere in the pages Sante shares, is replaced by something that doesn't melt at the touch. " 'Howl' probably meant more to me then than ever before," he says, "because finally I could reconcile it with my own experience. 'Poverty' and 'tatters' and 'hollow-eyed' and 'high' were more than poetic figures by then. I could compile my own list of the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. The decade during which I lived two flights down from Allen was particularly notable for its body count in suicides and overdoses, and those cadavers really had contained some of the best minds I knew. . . . If 'Howl' is a catalog of flameouts and collapses, it is ecstatic in its lamentation. And that is the basic measure of its strength: it is a list of . . . leprous epiphanies as redoubtable as Homer's catalog of ships, but rather than stopping at that, it seizes the opportunity to realize all the botched dreams it enumerates. It envisions every broken vision, supplies the skeleton key that reveals the genius of every torrent of babble, reconstitutes every page of scribble that looks like gibberish the next morning."
Fixed in time in Gordon Ball's photograph, the cadets are still reading "Howl"; they're still fixed in irony. But the story the picture doesn't tell — that, in its way, it protects the viewer from imagining — doesn't end in irony. As Bob Rosenthal, for 20 years Ginsberg's secretary, writes in perhaps the plainest lines in "The Poem That Changed America," only a fool pretends to know what might happen when a poem finds a reader. " 'Howl' still helps young people realize their actual ambitions," Rosenthal writes: "not to become a poor poet living in a dump but maybe to become a physical therapist when you are expected to become a lawyer, or maybe to become a lawyer when everybody expects you to fail at everything."Continue reading the main story


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For the February issue of Gulf Times, our founder Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes explores how architecture can engage users in collaborative processes.
As Alfred Whitehead said once, "The misconception is the notion of 'independent existence'. There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe." In line with Alfred Whitehead's Modernist philosophy, Hughes points out fragmentation as the root of many challenges we face in modern societies and suggests 'Architecting Interactions' as a method to reconnect these fragmented pieces to aim for a collaborative design process.
In fact, Hughes suggests that this collaboration should start with the architect. In order to design spaces for interaction, it is important to acknowledge users as experts and actively include them in the design process. By collaborating with the users from the beginning, we can deliver spaces that foster interactions.
To learn more about how to engage users in collaborative processes, take a look at Hughes' article here or below.
The Gulf Times is the most read newspaper in Qatar. Originally founded in 1978 in the capital of Qatar, Doha, it is one of four English language newspapers in the country.


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Announcement and Call for Applications: Iran Graduate Student Workshop
To build bridges across Persian and Iranian Studies programs, scholars from New York University's Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department and the Gallatin School (ISI-NYU), Princeton University's Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, and the University of Pennsylvania's Middle East Center announce the Iran Graduate Student Workshop (IGSW). The workshop will provide a valuable venue for academic exchange and production, giving distinguished young scholars of the field an unrivalled opportunity to present and promote their research.
On May 4-5, 2018, the University of Pennsylvania will host the second gathering of this joint workshop, to be followed by similar meetings at the other campuses every two years. This second workshop in 2018 will consist of PhD students that are near ABD status and preparing their dissertation proposals (i.e., typically in their 2nd or 3rd year of graduate work). In addition, the first cohort will participate again, as discussants, in the 2018 workshop, as they approach the end of their graduate work.
Applicants for the second round, in 2018, must focus on modern Iran (roughly 18th-20th centuries), other countries of the Persianate world, or diasporas, or conduct relational histories and comparative work; and will be drawn from disciplines and programs in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, art history, economics, history, literature, politics, sociology, and related fields.
IGSW Purpose:
- To provide graduate students with intellectual feedback on their research, encompassing both area studies and disciplinary critiques, twice in their graduate student careers.
- To ensure that graduate students of Iran are aware of, and make their work accessible to, scholars from other parts of "their" area (i.e., the Middle East broadly defined) as well as from their own discipline, whether it be history, literature, or the social sciences.
- To use the above points to make sure that graduating scholars who focus on modern Iran will continue to be placed, if not more frequently placed, in both area studies and disciplinary departments.
- To help doctoral students improve skills in scholarship and teaching.
To apply, please send to the following materials firstname.lastname@example.com by August 15, 2017:
- One letter of recommendation from an advisor or committee member supporting the research project and attesting to the student's good standing in their program of study.
- Curriculum vitae
- Research proposal of 1,000 words on argument, methods, and evidence to be used in dissertation Decisions on applications will be sent out by September 30, 2017. If selected by the IGSW committee, participants will be expected to attend workshops in years 2018 and 2020. Travel and accommodation for accepted applicants will be provided by the IGSW.


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Onkaparinga River National Park and Recreation Park
Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Wetlands in the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
Before European settlement, natural wetlands were once widespread across the City of Onkaparinga and provided a rich habitat for local wildlife and many migratory bird species that visit from interstate or even overseas. In order to make this fertile land useful for agriculture and housing, most natural wetlands were drained and cleared.
The destruction of natural wetlands was so extensive within our council region that only the Washpool Lagoon at Aldinga Beach and parts of the Onkaparinga Estuary remain close to their natural state and are still important habitats. The Washpool Lagoon is now listed as a wetland of national significance and provides a refuge for migratory shorebirds in spring and summer.
We recognise the importance of natural wetland systems and the role that built wetlands can play in reducing the impacts of urban development on catchments and the sea.
The City of Onkaparinga has designed and created 18 wetlands across the region which provide:
Wetlands are dynamic systems and require intensive management to maintain their function and health. We ensure this occurs through:
To discover more about some of council's wetlands, please select a wetland below:
There are a number of flood detention basins which also have many features of wetlands. These are located at:
For further information contact the Nature Conservation Team on 8384 0666.


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The International Word Games Association has given preliminary consideration to integrating disabled athletes in The World Games 2021 in Birmingham, Alabama. As IWGA is in the run up to this year's event, The World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, serious discussions will get under way immediately afterwards.
As the profile of para-sports has risen, IWGA has considered how to include the disabled athletes of its Member Federations in the future. "We are well on our way to developing a concept which opens our multi-sports-event for these athletes," explained IWGA CEO Joachim Gossow. An independent investigation in 2016 addressed the topic in regard to existing and possible concepts of sport events. Distinguished experts from the Olympic movement as well as its main stakeholders were consulted. The concept of having disabled and able-bodied athletes competing at the same place and the same time is very common in the World Cup events of IWGA's Member Federations and strongly recommended by the experts.
Joachim Gossow: "We hope that we can integrate para-sport competitions in the 11th edition of The World Games in 2021 in Birmingham/Alabama. We will do it in close cooperation with our partners in the USA. Right now we are laying out the road map for the idea of Para World Games. We can already see that there are lots of decisions to make. We have to establish a decent framework before working on detailed plans."
For instance, there is no international entity, such as the International Paralympic Committee, that unifies disabled athletes of non-Olympic sports with different disabilities. This means that IWGA must serve as an international platform for disabled athletes competing in The World Games. In discussion with the 37 IWGA member federations the IWGA sports department has to identify which disciplines may be eligible for The World Games. Qualification criteria have to be set up. And of course all the proposals have to be approved at one of the upcoming Annual General Meetings of the IWGA. In general, the plans provide for integrating competitions for disabled athletes in the main program.
"It's clear for us that we don't want to create a separate event for disabled athletes. Instead we want to integrate disabled sports into The World Games' program," said Mr Gossow. As all facilities in the United States have to be accessible by law, The World Games 2021 offers an excellent opportunity to implement this step forward.


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The truck looks and rides awesome. Your company makes a good product. Everyone I have talked to seems to have nothing but good things to say about BDS. I have about 600 miles on my truck now since it was lifted and probably 100+ miles of that is on rough back country dirt roads and some miles on 4×4 trails only. With the 35×12.50R18 Toyo Open Country M/T tires I had minimal rubbing on the stock front mud flaps but I took those off and now there is no rubbing. The rims have a -14 backspace which equals about a 5 1/2″ backspace. I have driven through ditches as I was turning and have had no rubbing since I removed the front mud flaps. Good job on an awesome product! I am very impressed.
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EEK! Surfer Challenge
Here's your challenge--see if you can answer the questions below. Print out this sheet so you can write down the answers. You'll find all the answers someplace on the EEK! site.
Good luck.
1. What types of trees does the gypsy moth prefer?
2. What prairie bird says "See you, see yeeer"?
3. What is the official Wisconsin state fish?
4. What does a herpetologist do?
5. Why do wildlife biologists burn prairies?
6. Can you find the alien invader page? What is an alien invader?
7. Name one place you could go to watch lake sturgeon.
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In homage to Pass it to Bulis' awesome bandwagoner's guide to Team Canada's forwards, we here at Rated Zed decided to attempt to replicate the style in a cheat sheet for Team Russia, the other team that sort of has our allegiance (don't worry, Canada, you're still #1 in our hearts).
About: Ilya Kovalchuk is a left-winger who is the captain of KHL team SKA St. Petersburg. Known for his incredible stamina and versatility, he often plays bigger minutes than a top defensive pairing. Also known for his controversial decision to "retire" from the NHL only to play in the KHL, there by screwing over the Devils. Oh, and terrible facial hair.
Nickname(s): Kovy, Kovy2012, He Who Shall Not Be Named (New Jersey Only), Thrillya
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: Bill Hicks
Expect to hear: "Has Kovalchuk been out there for the entire penalty kill?"
Don't expect to hear: "I know I'm American and all, but being a Devils fan really makes me want to cheer for Russia if Kovalchuk's playing"
About: Alex Radulov is a high-scoring right winger for CSKA. He is the KHL's all-time leader in a bunch of statistical categories, which would be way more impressive if Jagr had spent more than three seasons there. Also, one time, the Nashville Predators lost a playoff game and then he went to a bar afterwards, which apparently makes him the poster boy for how Russians don't have character. Also, there is this video, which is weirdly way less creepy than the original childhood favourite.
Nickname(s): Sasha, A-Rad, Radu, Animal, The Enigmiest Enigma, the Nashville Predators' greatest offensive threat
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: Halfway between Robb Stark and Hodor
Expect to hear: "Radulov scores, and celebrates by sheathing his hockey stick!"
Don't expect to hear: "I, Don Cherry, am a huge Rattlehoff fan"
About: Ovechkin is a winger (I won't tell you which one, or else you'd be way more informed than the PHWA and so wouldn't need this guide) and captain of the Washington Capitals. He is the best pure sniper in hockey today, and sometimes he does stuff like this, and also he hits hard, although his backchecking is occasionally questionable. His primary weapon is his blistering powerplay one-timer.
Nicknames: Alexander the Great, The Great 8, Great great great great great ok i fucking get it already he's good, Alexander the Grate (when he's playing goalie)
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: Cillian Murphy, only about 100% less good-looking
Expect to hear: "And Ovechkin is at the top of the circle, the pass to Ovechkin, and he roofs it!"
Don't expect to hear: "And Ovechkin is on top of the roof, Ovechkin has some tar, and he roofs with it!"
About: Alex Syomin plays right wing for the Carolina Hurricanes. He was unexpectedly – and inexcusably – left off the original roster, but is in Sochi replacing the injured Sergei Soin (who, rumour has it, ojnly made it originally because the selection team couldn't resist an English-language pun. "What about Sergei?" asked Bilyaletdinov. "So in!" replied Fyodorov.) He shows frequent flashes of brilliance and is a good possession player, but his production level is often inconsistent.
Nickname(s): Alexander the Pretty Good
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: Val Kilmer
Expect to hear: "Sometimes he scores, and sometimes he doesn't. He's such an enigma!"
Don't expect to hear: "He's an encryption machine used by the Nazis in World War II. He's such an Enigma!"
About: Presumably brought in to provide a veteran presence by a Russian-based player, Popov plays left-wing for Avangard Omsk. Popov has some offensive skill, but he is definitely most known for his commitment to Avangard, his team for his entire career. In one sense this is a great choice, as Avangard is the coolest-named team in hockey, and also it makes him a fan favourite. In another sense, it's terrible, because it presumably involves living in Omsk.
Nickname(s): Alexander the Adequate
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: Julia Roberts, if she were a dude
Expect to hear: "Alex Popov skates with the puck!"
Don't expect to hear: "Alex Popov wins gold in swimming! And invents radio! And wins the Battle of the Dnieper! And studies ketone chemistry! And designs a bunch of buildings! And races cars!"
About: Primarily known for his size, Svitov is a Centre for Salavat Yulaev Ufa. He was an enforcer for several seasons in the AHL and NHL. For a tough guy (fun fact: the Russian word for a hockey enforcer is "teffguy"), Svitov has pretty great offensive ability. But then, so does Chris Stewart, and he ain't on Team Canada.
Nickname(s): Alexander the Great in size but not so much in hockey ability, Svittles
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: Chad Kroeger
Expect to hear: "Not a huge surprise, Svitov is in the pressbox again"
Don't expect to hear: "Not a huge surprise, Svitov is the offensive star of the tournament"
About: I'll be honest, I know nothing about this guy whatsoever
About: Viktor Tikhonov is a right winger that plays for SKA St. Petersburg. Pretty much the only notable thing about him is that he is the grandson of the great Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov, with whom he shares his name.
Nickname(s): Viktor Tikhonov the Younger
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: Erik Karlsson's less good-looking brother
Expect to hear: "Did you know Viktor Tikhonov is the grandson of the greatest coach in Soviet hockey history?"
Don't expect to hear: Anything else about Viktor Tikhonov
About: Evgeni Malkin is a centre for the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one of the NHL's premier playmakers. However, he also has the size to occasionally be a net-front presence and is a scoring threat, as accentuated by his world famous quote. Although frequently plagued by injury problems, when healthy he is a formidable player. He also makes a formidable mayo-on-egg.
Nickname(s): Geno, Uncle Geno, The Malkin-tent
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: a young Lurch
Expect to hear: "Malkin's passing ability really sets him apart"
Don't expect to hear: "Malkin's passability really sets him apart from the other transgendered players at these games"
About: Known for being incredibly difficult to strip off the puck, by reporters and NHLers alike, Datsyuk is a centre who plays for the Detroit Red Wings. He has developed a legendary reputation for wizardry that is earned, and has won the NHL's Selke (best defensive forward) and Lady Bing (clean play) trophies, being one of only two players in history to win both.
Nickname(s): Dats, the Wizard, the Magician, the Warlock, King of Keepaway
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: a guitar pick
Expect to hear: "Datsyuk sure is strong on the puck"
Don't expect to hear: "Datsyuk sure is strong with the right hook"
About: Kulyomin is a winger for the Toronto Maple Leafs. After a 30 goal season a few years back, he has more recently been used in a more defensive role. Of course, being outshot as they always are, every Toronto Maple Leaf is being used in a defensive role in the sense that they're in the defensive zone. Don Cherry is not a fan of Kulyomin because "he doesn't fight, doesn't hit and doesn't score". While normally Cherry's ire would indicate a player is actually really excellent, in Kulyomin's case that's not true.
Nickname(s): Kulie, Nikolai Klue-me-in, Don Cherry's #1 Pal
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: John Elway
Expect to hear: KOOL-eh-min
Don't expect to hear: koo-LYO-min, unless you're listening to the Russian feed.
About: Anisimov is a centre for the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets. Known for his versatility, decent size and his usually dependable backchecking, he is probably going to get some penalty killing time, but not be Russia's biggest offensive threat on the ice.
Nickname(s): Arty-Party, Arty-Farty, Arty-Lange, that guy who's not named Alex but you think he is
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: Dzokhar Tsarnaev
Expect to hear: "Artem Anisimov along the boards…"
Don't expect to hear: "I bet Team Canada wishes they could trade Rick Nash for Artem Anisimov"
About: Valeri Nichushkin is a rookie right winger who plays on the Dallas Stars' first line. Just 18, Nichushkin is the youngest member of Team Russia by over four years. Although this means he might fall prey to the dreaded traditions of dedovschina, Russia will look to him as harbinger of a bright hockey future. Since his name rhymes with Pushkin, he is also sure to be a sentimental favourite of the Russian intelligentsia.
Nickname(s): Nuke, Duke Nukem, Val, -eri Ni-, Chushkin,
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: this guy Travis that I used to work with. I have no idea why my non-existent wife knows who that is, since that was a while ago.
Expect to hear: "Valeri Nichushkin is going to be Russia's star of the future"
Don't expect to hear: "Valeri Nichushkin is going to be Russia's star of the future, but at present he is just a dilute stellar nebula"
About: Vladimir Tarasenko is a right wing for the St. Louis Blues. Skilled, speedy, and an excellent possession player, he entered the league last year, and started off impressing with pretty goals, before falling off somewhat toward the latter part of the season.
Nickname(s): The Tank
My non-existent wife thinks he looks like: Brian Jones
Expect to hear: "That was a nifty move by Tarasenko"
Don't expect to hear: "That was a nifty move by Tarasenko, owner of my favourite moving company"


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Now, see, I say it's because the Manor is such a great product that I need multiple copies of this awesome 'zine: you know, one to use and one to keep pristine. Tim, however, believes it's due to a mental deficiency on my part and feels it necessary to mock me over this. Actually, I think it's a mental deficiency too, and I openly mock it as well.
This all stems back to, I believe, the release of the Manor #2. I'm sure Tim can correct me if I'm remembering incorrectly. After reading Manor #1, I promptly sent the cash for a subscription to the Manor. And, apparently, promptly forgot about the subscription. Upon the release of Manor #2, I sent more cash to Tim for that issue as well.
Hilarity ensued.
Well, the same thing just happened this weekend. Tim released Manor #6. I posted a couple comments on Gothridge Manor's publication announcements suggesting I was getting ready to send cash to Tim for the purchase of Manor #6. Shortly I received the following in my e-mail:
Boric...YOU HAVE A SUBSCRIPTION...lol...even my wife is laughing.
Sigh. So, as any good lawyer knows, you have to start damage control, right? So I prepped the following d12 table. Tim and I thought I needed to share this with the world at large just in case anyone else ever suffers from the same mental lapse.
Gothridge Manor Random Purchase Excuses
|Hey...in all fairness, it's been 6 months, right? So, it must be YOUR fault.
|Ill do just about ANYTHING for multiple copies.
|I have an Int of 6 and a WIS of 9.
|I failed my SAN check.
|I was under the effect of a charm dwarf spell.
|Hey, I'm senile. Cut me a break.
|I'm single-handedly trying to pay for the Lemon
|It's all a ploy to help drum up interest and business for the Manor! (I'm the "crippled" plant in the snake-oil audience.)
|I'm looking for the Golden Ticket.
|Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?
|Dude...where's my car?
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5 Leading Brands That Use Twitter To Drive Sales
Today, eCommerce continues to explode as a preferred way for consumers to shop and buy everything from grommets to grooming aids. Reaching as many potential customers as possible, while providing easy access to products is the key to more sales. It is also the most efficient way to grow a pool of loyal and repeat clients.
Interestingly, if we look at five leading brands that are thriving right now, it is clear that each of them know how to use social networks to their advantage. One of the favorite and most visited social networks worldwide is Twitter. Moreover, Twitter is user-friendly and attracts viewers of all ages and from every occupation.
1. Etsy
Etsy is one of the five exceedingly successful companies using Twitter as a surefire means to steer customers to its website. By encouraging their independent sellers of handmade crafts to include a call-to-action button, aka a tweet and follow button, to their online shops, Etsy puts marketing tools in the hands of its sales force. The upshot is that Etsy received in excess of one million additional mentions, which resulted in 15 percent of them becoming new followers.
2. Marketo
Another booming brand in the marketing sector is Marketo, who provide tools to business-to-business (B2B) companies. Marketo's goal with using Twitter is to strengthen existing relationships and spawn new ones. Furthermore, Marketo sought to generate leads within a specific and highly competitive audience. This was accomplished by using Promoted Tweets aimed at people in the convention and business event circuit. Offering related free content was helpful at reaching the desired customers.
3. Lenovo
Third on this list is Lenovo, a top personal computer and Internet device company. Lenovo is proud to have sales in 160 countries and considers innovation a key to its sales of the Think-brand and the Idea-brand of Internet-related equipment. With the United Kingdom's biggest consumer electronics show at hand, Lenovo wanted to reach out to potential new customers quickly and prominently. By utilizing Twitter's Promoted Accounts and Promoted Tweets marketing tools, Lenovo spurred consumer interest in their exclusive Twitter offers. Happily, Lenovo realized a large increase of sales during the UK show as well as increased their public profile.
4. Bonobos
Next is Bonobos, a large and successful online men's apparel marketplace. The need was simple – to move seasonal inventory quicker to make room for the next season's new clothes. Here, with the help of Twitter, the Flock to Unlock marketing tool worked like a charm. Tweeters were rewarded with added discounts for retweeting links to Bonobos special sale. The results were a 1.2 thousand percent return-on-investment (ROI.)
5. Paramount Pictures
Finally, there is Paramount Pictures, the illustrious producer of legendary films and marketer of many forms of media worldwide. Paramount's goal was to create talk and generate sales for a soon-to-be-released film, especially for the opening weekend. By using Twitter's Promoted Trend option, Twitter users became aware of a special sneak-peek preview of the new film, culminating in an added one million dollars of ticket sales revenue. Once again, social networking succeeded in bringing the seller together with the consumer in a win-win format.
Last month, more than 2 million people visited Brandon's blog. He shares exactly how he took his blog from zero to 1 million monthly visitors here. His path to success was not easy. Brandon had to comeback from being disabled, by a rare health disorder, for most of his thirties. God delivered him from hardship and has blessed his family in so many wonderful ways. You can send Brandon a message here.


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Liposuction Financing Los Angeles
Most people have a false perception of what cosmetic plastic surgery costs. In fact, most think that they could never afford plastic surgery. Once they realize that getting the body that they always wanted is no more expensive that buying a used car, they are eager to change their life for the better.
American HealthCare Lending is the premier financing company in the cosmetic surgery industry. With over $5 Billion funded and over 300,000 loan inquiries serviced through their lenders, this is a name and a program you can trust.
Here are some of the benefits you'll receive with a loan from American HealthCare Lending:
- Immediate decisions for loans under $35,000
- Term options out to 84 months (affordable monthly payments)
- No collateral required
- No prepayment penalties
- Fast & easy loan inquiry process
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Why Choose CareCredit
Founded in 1987, CareCredit is a simple way to consolidate and manage your cosmetic surgery expenses. CareCredit offers special financing with convenient payment options.
These days' people of every walk of life can afford cosmetic surgery. The reason for this upsurge in plastic surgery is its affordability. There are several reasons for this including:
- Cost of Cosmetic Surgery. Whether the relative cost of cosmetic surgery procedures has come down, or the price of most things has gone up, the prices of plastic surgery procedures is now within people's spending budget.
- Availability of Financing for Cosmetic Surgery. In the old days no financial company would loan money without collateral, especially if it was for cosmetic surgery. Now, some of the major financial institutions are marketing primarily to the plastic surgery crowd. Realizing that those with a steady income can make payments for cosmetic surgery, just as if they were making it for a new car. In fact, some loan companies are becoming even more creative. They are willing to give patients a cosmetic surgery home equity loan, with the payments added to patient's monthly mortgage payment.
- Plastic Surgeons offer financing. While it used to be that one had to pay cash for plastic surgery, now plastic surgeons accept credit card payments, financing, or even offer cosmetic surgery savings plans.
The American Society of Plastic Surgery publishes the annual statistics on the cost of different plastic surgery procedures, stratified to the region of the country.
Although this is an approximate cost of the fees that plastic surgeons charge to perform such procedures, the total cost could vary widely depending on the cost of the operating room facility, anesthesia, follow-up care, and necessary equipment or garments. Don't be fooled by the seemingly amazing prices that you might see published in the throw-away magazines, or that you hear on radio or TV ads. They might not have included the overall price. For example, some competitive national chains that are owned and operated by non-plastic surgeons offer ridiculously low prices, with a small footnote that the cost of anesthesia or operating room fees are extra. Others might advertise attractive prices that fail to mention that your anesthesia is going to be provided by a nurse and not a board certified anesthesiologist. Others even advertise Board Certified Cosmetic Surgeons, when later you find that your surgeon is a dentist, gynecologist, or even a general practitioner with no Board Certification in Plastic Surgery. Please know that there is only one accredited and nationally accepted Board of Plastic Surgery. The so called "Academy of Cosmetic Surgery" is a non-accredidated corporation that offers certificates to any doctor that takes their weekend courses. Don't bargain with your life! Any surgery is a serious endeavor that has costs associated with it, due to the basic expenses of an accredited surgical facility and board certified staff. While it doesn't hurt to get a good price it is not worth possibly compromising your well being and health for the sake of the cheapest price.
The average total price for some of the common plastic surgery procedures including fees for the plastic surgeon, anesthesiologist, surgery center, implants (if indicated) and follow-up care is noted below. These do not included the cost of pre-operative testing (blood test & EKG), special equipment, implants, garments, or specialty after-care, and if necessary, the cost of revision surger
Whichever cosmetic surgery procedure you are considering, our web site has a detailed description of it in the procedures section. Take a virtual tour of our Cosmetic Surgery Practice, including the pristine and fully equipped Laser Medi-Spa, as well as our fully accredited and state-of-the-art Regency Surgery Center, in the heart of Los Angeles, in the city of Encino. We serve Southern and Northern California including cities such as Sherman Oaks, Encino, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake, Beverly Hills, Westwood, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Burbank, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.


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You are in Nestlé USA
NESTLÉ USA is bringing to market NESTLÉ® Damak™, a treasured Turkish premium chocolate brand with more than 80 years of rich, delicious pistachio chocolate history.
Damak is a sumptuous combination of buttery, crunchy pistachios and silky smooth chocolate. Available in a creamy, fine chocolate bar and a rich, dark chocolate bar, Damak offers an adventurous taste experience not found in any other chocolate. Pronounced "dih-mok," the name is Turkish for "great taste," alluding to the country's centuries-old history in pistachios.
Damak tablets are made with quality chocolate, brimming with Turkish pistachios. The fine chocolate bar contains no artificial flavors or colors.
The pistachios used in Damak chocolate bars are sourced from the Gaziantep region of Turkey, which boasts an ideal climate for growing these prized nuts. In fact, that location is considered by many to be the best place in the world to find the highest quality pistachios, full of flavor and ripe with that striking green color. These are all key characteristics of the perfect pistachio that give Damak its unique and cherished taste. Some pistachio facts you might not know:
"Damak chocolate bars are a bold and exotic combination of smooth chocolate and flavorful pistachios, which creates a delightful experience," said Shelly Lofino, Brand Development Manager for Damak at Nestlé USA. "The brand is rich in heritage and offers a one-of-a-kind taste that must be sampled to truly appreciate. As a global leader in the confectionary category, Nestlé is proud to share this hallmark brand from our international portfolio with chocolate lovers in the U.S."
The premium chocolate market in the U.S. continues to expand. With double-digit growth for several years in a row, the premium chocolate segment has experienced an 11 percent increase over the past 12 months. For many, dark and nut-infused chocolate in particular is a welcome indulgence, one to be sampled and savored as consumers continue to embrace their love affair with this "Food of the Gods."
Damak is committed to making a positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of the farmers who grow our premium pistachios. Nestlé Damak has committed over $1 million to fund training in the most efficient agricultural techniques to not only improve and increase harvests, but also to improve the welfare of the renowned Gaziantep growing region of Turkey.
Nestlé Damak chocolate bars are available at select retailers nationwide for a suggested retail price of $2.49(2.82 oz). For more information, please visit the Nestlé Damak website or facebook page. Discover and share the Damak experience with #DiscoverDamak.
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RaeDell (Dell) Ann Robbins
RaeDell (Dell) Ann Robbins, age 48, of Cokato, died Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007 at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, after a long battle with breast cancer.
A memorial service will take place at Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cokato Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 5 p.m., with visitation to follow until 9 p.m.
Dell was born to Marvin and Elve Koch Sept. 27, 1959 in Mankato.
She was preceded in death by her father, Marvin.
Dell is survived by her husband, Tim; son, William (Mellisa); daughter, Becky; mother, Elve; and brothers, Paul (Sandy) and Mark (Kim).
A longtime member of ELC, Dell will be remembered by the many children she touched through her work with Sunday school, Hennepin County 4-H, and Girl Scouts. She will be deeply missed by her family, friends, and community.
Dell Robbins Memorial c/o Affinity Plus FCU 2520 University Av SE Mpls MN 55414
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"Champions for Business" Phone: (209) 537-2601 / Email: email@example.com
13th Annual Holiday Service Club Mixer
Jingle! Jingle! Mingle!
The Ceres Chamber of Commerce is hosting its 13th Annual Holiday Service Club Mixer on Friday, December 6, 2013 at the Ceres Community Center from 6 to 8 pm. This mixer is an opportunityto thank and recognize service organizations of Ceres for all that they do in our community.
This is a great opportunity for those service clubs to promote their services and invite new members to their organizations. Participating organizations are able to set up a booth display table, exhibits, giveaways, promotional items and more. Each organization is asked to bring a gift basket or prize to raffle to visitors. There is no fee for Non-Profit Organizations to participate in this mixer. Participants must have their tables fully decorated by 5:30 PM the day of the event. A copy of your non-profit status must be submitted to the Chamber no later than November 15, 2013. You may email it to email@example.com, fax it to (209) 537-2699 or drop it off at the Chamber office, 2491 Lawrence Street, Ceres. For additional information contact the Chamber office at (209) 537-2601.
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Internship / JobBridge
The Department of Education and Skills Circular 46/2011 on theJobBridge National Internship Scheme was issued in October 2011.
The ASTI is concerned that this scheme could be abused either in the treatment of interns or in the assignments that might be given to them. We have made our concerns clear to the Department, pointing out that any use of JobBridge to deal with the effects of reduced school services arising from the education cuts will be strongly opposed by the ASTI. JobBridge must not be used to conceal the lack of resourcing of schools.
ASTI members should note the following:
- The scheme states that an internship must not cause an existing member of staff to be displaced.
- Interns may not be used to fill a current teaching vacancy.
- Interns must not be used to fill a post of responsibility vacancy that arises in a school.
- Interns must be appropriately qualified.
There is a review mechanism in the scheme and we ask school stewards and all ASTI members to be vigilant in ensuring that there are no abuses of the scheme and to advise this office if such abuses arise.
In this light we are requesting ASTI school stewards to bring any concerns re the operation of JobBridge to the attention of the ASTI head office.
Click here to view ASTI letter to schools regarding JobBridge National Internship Scheme.
Click here to view ASTI letter to school stewards regarding JobBridge National Internship Scheme.
Click here to view Department of Education and Skills Circular 46/2011 on JobBridge National Internship Scheme.


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Paris: Gunfire in Bastille area, at least one wounded
Published time: 10 Mar, 2016 17:49 Edited time: 10 Mar, 2016 18:06
A shootout broke out on a major boulevard in the east of the French capital, Paris, on Thursday. One person was reportedly wounded in the incident.
Several shots were exchanged on the Boulevard de la Bastille, with one person receiving a gunshot wound, emergencies services said.
The police managed to detain one of the attackers, but two others reportedly managed to escape in the Bastille district.
It's yet to be established what caused the shootout, but one possible reason may be a quarrel amongst a group of armed men, BFMV-TB reported.
According to the broadcaster, the gunfight took place outside a Chez Papa restaurant.


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"The rider's cloak streamed behind him, and his hood was thrown back; his golden hair flowed shimmering in the wind of his speed. To Frodo it appeared that a white light was shining through the form and raiment of the rider, as if through a thin veil."
Blue Cloth:
1) Start with a Regal Blue base-coat
2) Layer on a mix of 4:1 Regal Blue:Enchanted Blue
3) Repeat Step 2, decreasing the amount of Regal Blue in the mix each time, 3:1, 2:1, until a 1:1 mix of Regal Blue:Enchanted Blue is reached.
Grey Cloth:
1) Start with a base-coat of Chaos Black
2) Paint Codex Grey over the cloth, leaving the black in the recesses.
3) Highlight the cloth with Fortress Grey.
Silver Armour:
1) Base-coat the armour with Chainmail Silver, leaving the Chaos Black in the recesses.
2) Highlight the armour with Mithril Silver.


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Like many people, the kitchen has always been the heart of my family's home. It has always been a warm and bustling room where everyone ends up congregating, but one that was impossible to move around easily; too many people and too many things in what was essentially a corridor of parallel worktops. My parents love to host, but we never had enough space to easily lay everything out for dinner parties. With five family members in the house it was a struggle to move around the cramped space, as everyone tried to stand around in the kitchen and chat. It didn't matter that there clearly wasn't room for us, there was never a way to keep people out of the kitchen. I have fond memories of the ritual of the Sunday roast, which always became a balancing act of plates on toasters and tureens of vegetables teetering precariously on the edge of the cooker, as we tried to find the space to dish up. It was our patented brand of organised chaos, and one that I looked back on affectionately when I moved out.
Things have changed a bit since they decided to redo the kitchen. The new floors and skylights look brilliant, but the most tangible difference is the change in layout. The worktops are rearranged now, so instead of bumping into each other and balancing plates we have space to walk around in and surfaces to lay things out. A host of new drawers and cupboards means we finally have the ability to organise things: sauces, pastas, cookbooks, spices, the list goes on. There's a section for everything now, and honestly that takes some getting used to! It's surprisingly difficult to shake the habit of randomly opening drawers trying to remember where you put the tin opener. Guests can sit at the end of the room and have a glass of wine rather than perching on the edges of counters, and there's even an area for the dog (not that anything will stop her getting under everybody's feet).
Whenever I come back to visit my parents I enjoy the new room. It's still the same friendly place, but now there's room to relax in it. It's a lot easier to tidy things away when you actually have the space to put them, the huge cupboards keep everything out of the way and keep the surfaces clear. The inevitable groups of family and friends have a place to sit too, even if they'll probably still stand in the way whilst you're trying to get through with a heavy roasting dish. No matter how much you try, it's impossible to keep people away from the kitchen.


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To commute or not to commute
Let's face it, most of us don't like to go to work. Why would you want work when you could be out riding your bike instead?
If you're like me and love riding your bike. The great thing is you can do both. Get up that little extra to get out on your bike and ride to work.
There's a million excuses not to commute. The trips boring, its wet, its cold, blah, blah, blah. Sure when the alarm wakes you from a deep slumber there's the temptation to pick your alarm up and throw it at across the room.
You've just going to have to say f#*k it! I'm doing this!
Instead of looking for excuses, we should all be looking for motivation to get out there to ride more. The benefits to commuting are numerous. You help out the environment. Take care of your health and can avoid the tedium of driving bumper to bumper.
Try to find ways to get the maximum out of your commutes. Vary your routes, chuck in some hills or maybe join in an early morning group ride (there are lot's that finish with Coffee and still allow enough time to get to work at a reasonable hour). Strava segments are also a good way to bring some entertainment to your commutes. Segments can offer a good incentive to go and explore. Also to to put in some harder intervals to make your commute harder which contributes to building your fitness.
Getting up extra early may not seem easy, but how many times have you ever regretted riding your bike?
We all love to ride, and if there's one thing you can take from all of this is to find it within yourself to try & do at least one extra commute every week. For those of us who are time poor this is a fantastic opportunity to get more riding in, and as a bonus when you get out & ride, you can help to inspire your friends and family to do so too.


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This just in: I'm a huge Amazon fan. I buy all kinds of stuff online and love the fact that I can get everything delivered to my doorstep in 2 days. Shipping is always free…or is it?
The other day, my wife asked me to buy a certain type of mouthwash. It was seawater or something like that. I found it on Amazon and bought it in about 3 microseconds. Two days later, it shows up and I give the package to my wife. She opens the package and says, "Did you know you just paid $23.63 for something I can buy anywhere for about $6?" Stunned, I did a little research online and she was right. It actually cost me $10 to send it back but in the end, that $10 plus $6 for the product still saved me a lot of money.
Since then I have been paying attention. The other day, I was at a sporting goods store for camping gear. I saw a pop-up trash can for $10. I had no idea if this was a good idea so I checked Amazon where the exact same thing was on sale for $15 and claimed to be marked down from $20. A few days later, during Amazon's "Prime Day" sale, the same product had been marked "down/up" to $23 because…you know…there was a sale.
Next, I was driving around somewhere and it occurred to me that if I invented a hand-held carpet shampoo device, I would be rich. First…check the internet to see if this has already been done. Turns out it has. There are two versions that seem to be popular. One is $70 from the manufacturer and is also $70 on Amazon. The other is $80 from the manufacturer and $100 on Amazon.
Now, to be clear. I love Amazon. I love the convenience. I love the idea of being able to find something that I would otherwise have no idea where to buy it. I once needed a 9-inch bolt with two 45 degree bends in it to mount an air filter in my 31 year old Jeep. Amazon had it.
I have only just started comparison shopping and thus far…Amazon is either equal in price or more expensive than the competition.
So, buyer beware..
Having said all of that, I remain a Jeff Bezos fan if for no other reason than he is saving the series The Expanse. Plus…his Washington Post is a voice of reason in a world where "reason" is losing its luster.
Time to save the world.
Up, up and away…


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Academy Glee
How to Book
Payment/Contact Us
We run the Dance Academy in two separate locations in the Richmond borough. Lessons run every Saturday to include a 30 minute ballet tuition, 30 minutes of streetdance and 30 minutes of Academy Glee. The total price for the 90 minutes of classes is £15 a week. For the older children, or those who do not wish to take ballet, we can offer acting tuition as an alternative. We also have a few places for those who just want to attend individual ballet, acting, Glee or streetdance lessons. Individual lessons are £8 for 30minutes. Please call me with any questions or for some advice if your child will be new to the Academy.
Term 1
- 7th September-14th December 2013
Half term holiday 28th October-2nd November
15 weeks - Total £225 for the term
Term 2
- 11th January-29th March 2014
Half term holiday 17th February-23rd February
11 weeks - Total £165 for the term
Term 3
- 26th April-19th July 2014
Half term holiday 26th May-31st May
12 weeks - Total £180 for the term
Kew Dance Academy
Every Saturday 10.00am-2.30pm
Kew Riverside Primary
Courtlands Avenue
Richmond Dance Academy
Every Saturday 10.00am-2.30pm
Marshgate Primary
Queens Road
Richmond & Kew
07854 884476
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Youth Leadership Council
EarthEcho's Youth Leadership Council (YLC) is a platform for today's emerging trailblazers and visionaries in the environmental space. Comprised of diverse leaders, ages 15-22, each YLC member has demonstrated an ability to engage and mobilize their peers and their communities to change the world. Through EarthEcho's platforms, YLC members are empowered to develop programs and conduct outreach to youth across the globe. Members also support our work to empower young people to change our planet by providing valuable insight and expertise from a youth perspective to the development of our programs and work.
As part of our work to cultivate young environmental leaders, YLC members have the unique opportunity to serve in an advisory capacity and gain an understanding of the operations of an international non-profit organization. YLC members help expand the impact of our programs, interact with leaders in the fields of conservation and education, gain access to resources to explore personal conservation interests, and have the opportunity to serve as a youth member on EarthEcho's Board of Directors.
Meet our YLC Members
We're proud to work with this outstanding group of young leaders who help drive our work to empower their peers around the globe to take an active role in protecting our planet.
Ugo Angletti
Aisha Al-Dulaimi
John Bandek
Evan Barnard
Kehkashan Basu
Olivia Blondheim
Hayley Charlton-Howard
Katelyn Higgins
Rayan Krishnan
Jackson Madden
Nicolás Miranda Chesta
Delaney Reynolds
Carolina Rios
Ruby Rorty
Lucy Skelton
EarthEcho YLC members play an active role in their communities, taking action around the issues they care about, and work collaboratively to mobilize their peers to protect our planet. Read highlights of their recent campaigns and efforts.
Get Involved
Are you a young person who is passionate about protecting the planet? Our YLC invites you to connect with their efforts and campaigns throughout the year. To learn more, sign-up for our newsletter or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter to be the first to hear about YLC initiatives and how you can activate your peers to join in these efforts.
If you are between the ages of 15-22 and interested in joining the YLC, learn more about the application process.


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This fellow has been sitting on our couch for over a week now (he moves around when we have company!).
I picked it up from Central Park weekend before last for a project I have had in mind.
I really enjoyed the movie '500 Days of Summer' and am at times in awe of the styling and sets in the movies (An Education = serious style envy). Anyhow, back to the point, I really liked Summer's room in the movie and this lovely origami crane plant.
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I had a Jade plant, because my sister recommended them as easy to take care of and that actually lasted a few months, I was thrilled until one evening, I opened the windows to let some air in, and it was one of those evenings where the clouds are dark and heavy and there's this smell of impending rain in the air (which I love) and this strong gust of wind blew the pot out of the window. This is a true story. It then fell over 25 floors and I ran downstairs (I took the elevator but I ran to the elevator and from there) consumed with the guilt of having possibly injured someone and potentially killed the Jade plant. Fortunately, the tiny pot didn't appear to have hurt anyone, and the plant looked okay but I decided to give it away because I didn't trust myself to be as lucky a second time!
So that's how this crane plant came into the picture. I bought the origami paper from Origami Corner and while there are a ton of tutorials online, I used this one to make the cranes (it's in 3D and you can pause the video while you try and figure out that complicated fold!).
I really like with the way it turned out.
The vase is from Crate and Barrel, it is the large Akiko vase.
Also, after making some of the cranes, I really enjoyed the origami (it threw me back to when I was a kid and my mom would teach us to make all these lovely little things with colorful, patterned paper) so I made some more animals and birds for my adorable nephew in DC, he's not yet two, but I thought he might be intrigued.


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that overall you're seeing this shift of
people done performing. I'm not going to
keep going because my parents did. It's
not expected culturally anymore. Then
what is it that is tethering us to these intentional communities of people who
love Jesus?
FT: So how can the Church send a genuine
"please come back" message?
SB: A big part of my message is that it's
okay. The church is bigger and wider and
includes more stories than we think. It's
okay to lean into those questions. And it's
okay to take a break.
When we give ourselves permission to
go on those journeys, we are often brought
back to where we started, but with new
eyes. I left church for a sustained amount
of time. I felt in my church context there
wasn't room for my grief and my questions. There wasn't a huge faith crisis, as
much as it was questions
and doubts and wonderings, and the grief made it
unbearable. I couldn't
pretend I was fine.
My tradition had to do
with certainty and answered prayer and victory. When your life isn't
adding up to the formula
you've been given, you
feel you don't belong
anymore. I found other
traditions within the
Christian faith that I
didn't know were connected to me. Whether it was finding life
within the Anabaptists or Anglicanism,
I touched all those places over all those
years, but then ended up back in a similar church to how I had grown up. I
brought all of that with me and was able
to have more tenderness in my heart toward my story.
F T: What did dipping into those other traditions
give you?
SB: The things I used to be able to do toconnect with God disappeared. I didn'tknow what I thought about Scripture,about church, about signs and wonders,all those things. And so in some ways itfelt like I couldn't part the weeds of myown tradition to really encounter Godany longer.Rather than that being a time of crisis,I discovered God could meet us anywhere– that I didn't need to be afraid, that Godwas with me on that path. Being able tounderstand that and be able to rest – I feelthat is one of the things the AnglicanChurch gave me was a bit of rest. It tookme out of me being a central player, butmade God the Father and Holy Spirit thecentral piece of why we were gathering.
Even during all those years, when I felt
I couldn't pray in the way I had been
taught, in that "overcomer, faith-filled
way" anymore, praying the Hours meant
I still could pray. It gave me language. It
introduced me to parts of Scripture that
had skipped my notice because we tend
to park in favourite parts. As a charismatic, who comes from that third wave
of Pentecostalism, I feel
the liturgy gave me back
my shout.
FT: And your shout is?
SB: Being reconnected to
the ancient practices of
the Church reconnected
me to the Holy Spirit
again. That helped me
almost be rebaptized into
the places of wonder and
goodness in the Holy
Spirit. It helped restore
me to the traditions of
my charismatic background.
If you had told me 15 years ago I wouldbe more charismatic now–Now I find that not only do I keep allthose ancient practices other traditionsgive me, but they helped me love again thetraditions that I had begun with.
FT: So there's a sense of drawing from multiple
threads of Christian tradition.
SB: I think in some ways we can feel as we
live into the life of Christ, it makes you
feel you belong everywhere, but not anywhere. You need the full expression of the
Body of Christ. That is a beautiful thing,
but also a lonely thing. I'm in a church
similar to the one I grew up in, and I love
it, but this church will never be liturgical.
If I had tried to write Out of Sorts six
years ago, it would have been such a different book. At that point I thought I had
been set free. I thought I didn't need to go
to church anymore. I felt set free and so
enlightened, as we think in the arrogance
of our realizations.
You have to live in it a bit longer and
often your own story surprises you. I wonder in ten years what will have changed?
If you're not changing in response to the
unchanging Christ, we are kind of missing
the point.
FT: You speak and write about doing theology
and use the term "we all get to play." Tell us
more about that. Some of us are accustomed to
reading theology written by people who have
been to seminary and have doctorates.
SB: I think that oftentimes we embody toomuch of the either/or. In those conversa-tions of doing theology, which is a bit of amisnomer, we are really just wrestling withwhat we believe and hope about God.Here's the thing. I think that a lot oftimes you need both. You need the fullstory of all of it. I'm not anti-education orlearning, I lean heavily on it. It's one ofmy main areas of geeking out. I'm appre-ciative and thankful for the work scholarsand leaders and ministry people do.However, for too long we've dismissedthe ways regular and ordinary and maybenot as formally trained people encounterand experience God. It's important forthem to be at that conversation and atthat table.I have a quote in my office – "Who isthis that dares to question my wisdom?"from Job 38. Well, we all dare to do it.Scripture is replete with people daring toquestion God, daring to question whatthey believe. Jesus surrounded Himselfwith the marginalized, the uneducated.One of the aspects of why I'm so pas-sionate about it is that those hallowedhalls of learning are a place of privilege,often overwhelmingly white, male and ofa certain socioeconomic class. That is oneof the reasons why it's important to ex-pand our listening circle. I learn to knowand love Jesus more when I learn frompeople different from me.
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Most people in ancient Egypt were farmers. But there were also priests, priestesses, scribes, artisans, embalmers, and of course the Pharaoh.
These pictures show harvesting of wheat, corn or barley. Bread was the main part of the Ancient Egyptian's diet. The bread was cooked in clay ovens on open fires. The wealthy ate the bread on dishes made from bronze, silver and gold. Ingredients to flavour the bread were herbs, sesame seeds, honey, fruits and butter.
The priests (like the Chief Priest at the right) had a very important role in Ancient Egypt. They were sometimes so important that they became pharaohs. The priests were in charge of ceremonies to ensure the goodwill of the gods. Once a priest had the job he/she wanted to keep it.
Scribes (like the one on the right) were also very important in Ancient Egypt. They were the people skilled in writing and mathematics. They mainly wrote on Papyrus, or a form of paper, which the Ancient Egyptians invented. They kept detailed records of all sorts of things, which helped with planning. Scribes sometimes had a connection with artists, who were also very important.
In Ancient Egypt kids had a very different life from the life we have today. They usually did not go to school, unless they were studying to be a priest or scribe, in which case their dad usually taught them. Sons of farmers would help their dads in the fields. But they would play games like leapfrog, or a form of hockey, just like we do today. They also had toys like the mechanical toy cat in the picture, and board games like "senet" and ball games shown in the pictures were enjoyed by everyone. (Tutankahamun had four sets of "senet" in his tomb!)
The Egyptians wanted to dress all the same. Both men and women wore jewellery. The men wore a skirt or kilt and the women wore a full dress held together by two straps. Both were made out of white linen and it was thought that cotton and wool were unclean.
Cosmetics were also a matter of hygiene. The two main items were Kohl which was black paint and this was made from some sort of lead. The second item is a green pigment, malachite which is made from Copper. Cosmetics were used on Tomb paintings as well.
Adornments were also popular and were used by both men and women
Tutenkhamun loved this game - "Senet"; now you can play it on the computer with this link!!
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Which airlines are the most fuel-efficient?
Flying is one of those things... If you look at it strictly from an environmental point of view, it's burns a lot of fossil fuels and should be avoided. But if you look at it from other angles, it can be quite good, allowing people to see distant corners of our planet, discover other cultures, reunite with family and friends, etc. Ideally, someday we'll be able to keep the positives and get rid of the negatives, probably with radically more efficient planes (like these) powered by next-gen aviation biofuels.
In the meantime, not all airlines are created equal when it comes to fuel efficiency, mostly because of the composition and age of their fleets and their routes. To be clear, this could only mean that certain airlines are lucky because they have 'easier' routes to serve or have just updated their fleet while another airline has an upgrade cycle coming soon (with even better planes than those who have already upgraded!). I don't look at this as a 100% apples to apples comparison, just an interesting look at the variability in the industry.
The fuel efficiency gap between the best and worst airlines flying US domestic routes was 26%, according to the study. That's pretty significant!
Atop the ranking of 15 airlines for 2010 is Alaska Air Group (ALK), which flies mostly newer Boeing (BA) 737 jets and Bombardier (BBD/B:CN)Q400 turboprops at Horizon Air, its regional operation. The airline's network also is largely composed of flights to and from its hubs in Seattle and Portland, Ore. That limits the "circuity" of its flying, one of the metrics in the ranking released Tuesday by the International Council on Clean Transportation, a nonprofit environmental consulting firm funded by Climate Works and the Hewlett Foundation. (source)
At the bottom of the industry ranking is Allegiant Travel (ALGT), the ultra-low-cost airline that flies primarily 1980s-era McDonnell-Douglas MD-80s, one of the least fuel-efficient planes in airline fleets and a model that is rapidly being retired. A heavy mix of MD-80s also weighed on the rankings for American (AAMRQ), next-to-last at 14th, and Delta Air Lines (DAL), 11th. The former Continental Airlines, which merged with United (UAL) in 2011, was the top network airline for fuel efficiency in 2010, in fourth place.(source)
Via ICCT, BusinessWeek
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New Delhi, May 14 (PTI) The Central Advisory Council (CAC), set up by the government for effective implementation of the real estate law in the country, in its first meeting today expressed concern over some states diluting key provisions of the legislation, a senior official said.
It also expressed concerns over some of the states not yet notifying their real estate rules and not setting up permanent real estate regulatory authority, the official of the Union Housing and Urban Affairs ministry said.
The official said only 27 states have notified their rules under the Real Estate Regulation (and Development) Act, 2016 amid reports of some of the states diluting provisions of the law in favour of builders.
However, all Union Territories (UTs) have notified the rules.
As many as 10 states have established their permanent regulatory authority, while 19 states have set up interim authority, the official said.
At the meeting, it was also decided that the ministry will write to the states, asking them to upload the comprehensive list of projects under RERA on their website, the official said.
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted, "There will be 3 regional consultations & follow ups. Let me make it clear, RERA has been enacted to clean the mess accumulated in the unregulated construction sector for decades. This is also an important requirement for builders who play by the rules."
A member of the council explained that India will be divided into three zones where the CAC will hold meetings with various stakeholders in the states that comes under the zone to pursuade them to implement the real estate rules in letter and spirit.
It was also decided to establish a national portal where links to websites of all states and Union Territories on RERA will be provided.
"I can say with certainty that when the history of real estate is written, it will clearly be demarcated in terms of a Pre RERA & Post RERA phase. Interests of homebuyers is central to this Act which will rein in the unscrupulous builders & bring decorum to this key sector," Puri said in another tweet. PTI MP MP NSD NSD


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NY town's fire contract removes chief from union
The tentative agreement would remove Troy Fire Department Chief Thomas Garrett from the union, and require him to reach his own agreement with the city
By Kenneth C. Crowe II
Times Union
TROY, N.Y. — The city's second-highest paid employee in 2017 will soon be without union protection if the City Council approves a new contract Thursday with the Uniform Fire Chiefs Association.
The tentative agreement signed by Mayor Patrick Madden and Deputy Fire Chief Dave Paul, president of the UFCA, would remove Fire Chief Thomas Garrett from the union. Garrett would have to reach his own contract agreement with Madden's administration after he leaves the UFCA on Feb. 8, 2019.
Garrett, who has been chief since 1996, would become a management employee and no longer covered by the contract's overtime provisions. This would put the fire chief in the same category as the police chief – relying on an individual contract.
The city's budget showed Garrett's budgeted base salary at $103,245 compared to $135,600 for Police Chief Brian Owens. In the past, overtime and other payments resulted in Garrett making the same or more than the police chief. Garrett earned $146,617 in 2017.
Garrett referred all questions about the contract to Paul.
The fire chief title was to come out of the contract when Garrett retired, Paul said. The provision as part of a new contract sped up the process, said Paul, who declined to offer any further explanation.
This will be the first contract between the UFCA and the city since the last one expired on Dec. 31, 2010. The new contract would run through Dec. 31, 2022.
Garrett celebrated the start of his 46th years as a Troy firefighter Monday. His first day on the job was Dec. 3, 1973.
"Effective February 8, 2019 the title "Fire Chief" shall be removed from the UFCA and shall not be represented by the UFCA. The Fire Chief shall have a separate employment contract with the City Of Troy. Said contract shall be personal to the individual named in the contract and will not pass forward to the benefit of their successor," the contract provision reads.
A spokesman for Madden did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the new contract provisions regarding the fire chief.
"It's a good deal," Paul said regarding the overall contract which will cover the assistant fire chief, deputy fire chief and four battalion chiefs.
The contract continues provisions for the chiefs to receive the same pay raises as the Uniformed Firefighters Association, which represents the city's rank and file department members; pay the chiefs the same paramedic rate as the firefighters; increase health insurance co-pays; and shall pay the health insurance costs for a spouse if a UFCA member is killed in the line of duty or dies after retiring.
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Hi, you may be seeing all these pictures of me and wondering, "Who is she?"
I'm Laura Johanson. My traits are Family Oriented, Vegetarian, Artistic, Virtuoso, and Natural Cook.
I live in a small house in the town of Riverview. In this small house, I'm going to start the one hundred baby challenge.
I know it must sound crazy, living in such a small house and raising a hundred kids, but it can't be that hard, right?
I'm hoping that if I can sell enough paintings I'll be able to get a new house, but as of now this place is just fine.
Some of my new neighbors decided to come over to my house while I was painting.
I explained my challenge to a woman named Heather. (I think O.O)
She said that she knew a guy who could help me out.
"Really?" I asked. "That's great, where can I meet him?"
She wrote down his address and phone number and gave it to me.
After they left I decided to make myself some autumn salad.
Since it was so late already, I decided to just register as a self-employed painter and then head home and go to bed. I had a feeling that the man wouldn't be too happy if I showed up on his doorstep late at night.
Nobody was home until about 6:00, so that's when I decided to visit.
His name was Justin Sickly because he had weird pale green skin. I hope me first baby has that skin tone.
All that I really had time to do was get to know him. I found out his favorite color was purple, which is the color of my hair. What made it funny was that my favorite color is green, so we both apparently love each other's hair.
The next day I invited Justin over.
We watched the stars for awhile.
But then he left so I went to sleep.
He came over bright and early the next day.
I made sure to get things done soon in case he had to leave again.
And thus baby 1 was created.
I could tell this would be rough-- I had vomited 3 times already today.
Hopefully the morning sickness wouldn't be so bad for all of the babies.
I decided to paint so I could relax a little.
One day I went to the spa because my back was aching.
My belly was getting so huge! The baby is going to be here very soon.
Apparently the baby was coming sooner than I thought.
Introducing Baby 1, Kellan Johanson. He was born with the light sleeper and loves the outdoors traits.
Thanks for reading!
I'm sorry this post was pretty bad because I don't really have a story-line built up yet and plus I have my first day of school tomorrow, so I'm short on time since it's getting late and I need to sleep. The next post will be better, I promise!


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Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) is what power's the phone today! People are just keen and curious to get the Gingerbread update on their phone to make the most of it. Geeks using unofficial ROM's such as Cyanogen Mod 7 can get a feel of Gingerbread on their device. But here is the list of phones which will be running on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) ROM at the end of the year.
Is your phone in the list? Let's check.
HTC Incredible S
Starting this month, HTC officially announced the Gingerbread update to HTC Incredible S via OTA updates, lots of users are already enjoying the Gingerbread flavor on their phone.
HTC Thunderbolt
One of the promising device by HTC, got official announcement which says Gingerbread will be received on Thunderbolt by second quarter of this year.
LG Optimus 2X
World's first dual core phone (also Genius World Record holder!) still runs of Froyo (Android 2.2) being the GWR holder, the phone is in the must have list of Gingerbread. Well, there's no official announcement yet but its is highly expected that the phone will be getting the update somewhere in June – July of this year. T-Mobile USA users of Optimus 2X may be receiving the update even more soon.
LG Optimus One
LG has officially announced, all LG Optimus One smartphones will be getting Gingerbread update soon which includes Optimus S on Sprint, the LG Vortex on Verizon, the Optimus U on U.S. Cellular, and the Optimus V on Virgin Mobile, the Optimus T on T-Mobile etc. However no official release date is announced yet LG just says Details of the upgrade schedule will be announced locally in due course.
HTC Desire Z
Yesterday, HTC officially announced the Gingerbread firmware for HTC Desire Z. People deeply hated HTC for not giving the Gingerbread update to Desire Z while the Desire and Desire HD lineup. HTC Says, the update will be coming before the end of June.
Samsung Galaxy Ace
Covered recently, Samsung Galaxy Ace has got the unofficial Gingerbread update as of now. After the Galaxy S line up it is expected that the Galaxy Ace will be receiving the update soon as the current leaked software seems to be directly from Samsung.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
Launched with Donut (Android 1.6) the phone was upgradeable to Eclair (Android 2.1) but Sony recently on its blog post said Xperia X10 will be getting Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3) till late end of second quarter or start of third quarter of this year. Being weak in hardware as compared to other phones right now, Xperia X10's dead end will be the Gingerbread.
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I was going to post yet another non-recipe post… and you may have to get used to that for a little while, because lately I've been cooking "reruns" or semi-meals that don't count for much as far as blogging goes. BUT I had this one saved up (well, the photos anyway) so I figured I'd throw you a bone.
This is my step-mother's recipe, and it's actually the first recipe in my binder. It's DELICIOUS and very easy to throw together on a moment's notice. You can have most of the stuff in stock in your pantry or freezer (there is always lots of cheese in my freezer), so it's good husband-invited-someone-over-and-there's-no-food-in-the-house food.
Start preheating the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Then, in a bowl, mix together:
4 cans of artichoke hearts (not marinated), drained and roughly chopped.
16 oz sour cream (fat free is actually find here, though low-fat is probably a little better).
4 Tablespoons of flour + salt and pepper to taste
Stir it really well to coat everything.
Then add your cheese. The "correct" cheeses are:
12 oz Montery Jack cheese, shredded
4 oz Parmesan cheese, shredded
(Those are the best, but I usually use whatever I have lying around)
Mix mix mix.
Top with Jane's Crazy Mixed-Up Pepper and bake 45 minutes or until bubbly!
Enjoy with pita chips, wheat thins, crostini, or something else sturdy.


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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It's a chance to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
So I've decided to ditch Showcase Sunday for Sunday Post. This will give me the chance to fill you guys in on everything I'm doing in one post. Because starting next week and practically till the end of the summer, my life is gonna be CRAZY!
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About a Dragon (Dragon Kin, #2) by G.A. Aiken–B&N
The Collector (Dante Walker #1) by Victoria Scott–B&N
Damaged by H.M. Ward–99¢ for Nook
The Nightlife: New York by Travis Luedke– Free for Kindle
♕ Memes ♕
SAT: Show N' Read Saturday #17–SONS OF ANARCHY
SAT: Bad Ass Bindings #2–Unhinged (Splintered #2) by A.G. Howard
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♕ On DJ's Book Corner ♕
WEDS: Reviewed Losing Me, Finding You by C.M. Stunich
SAT: Posted a blurb reveal for Silenced: The Overtaking by RaeBeth McGee-Buda
Coming This Week
MON: M.E. Monday #32–How to piss off Book Bloggers
TUES: Book Reviewer Yellow Pages Book Blast (DJ's Book Corner)
WEDS: Review of Escape (Vampire King #1) by Kenya Wright (DJ's Book Corner)
THURS: Author Interview with A.R. Talley, author of David's Song. (DJ's Book Corner)
FRI: Review of Real (Real, Ripped & Raw #1) by Katy Evans (DJ's Book Corner)
SAT: Show N' Read Saturday #18–THE BORGIAS
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I love leather skirt, it's very cute, and you can do different style with. I did this cute outfit,with the leather skirt and the coat. I did it, because the other, a girl said that you can't do it. It's false, you can do it, like I did on this outfit. The best thing you can do, it's trying. You look how it's work on you, how it's work in general, if you like it, go for it, buy, wear and enjoy your outfit.
Do you like this outfit?
Leather skirt & coat outfit by whatwearwith featuring opi nail polish