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Illuminating Real Estate SEO
Posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by Brooke Temple Print This Post
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Remember those old rectangular headlamps nearly every car had?
For over forty years, US headlamp regulations were so strict that manufacturers had to resort to heavy, costly 'pop-up' headlamps if they wanted to improve a car's aerodynamics. Since those restrictions were lifted in the early 80's, headlamp technology has burst forth with jewel-like designs, adaptive beams, and far greater power and efficiency.
Today, real estate listings remain in a similar rectangular box. The key listing data collected by the various Multiple Listing Services (MLS) comes with severe restrictions on how it may be utilized online. As a result, web sites for real estate agents, brokers, franchisors, aggregators, specialists, etc. all display similar core data; a home listing is a home listing is a home listing.
Search engines do not like data duplication. Search engines strive to present the most relevant results to their users and, therefore, favor unique content that may provide the result a user seeks. When 123 Main Street, Anytown, USA 12345 goes on the market and a few thousand websites all display the exact same home description, the search engines are compelled to find other reasons to rank one web site higher than another although they all possess the same key information.
To break free of these restrictive MLS data feeds and rise to the top of organic real estate listings, web sites have resorted to the equivalent of 'pop-up' headlamps. School listings, crime rates, estimated home values, maps and more have been employed to surround the boxed-in MLS listing data and give the search engines unique and/or additional content that differentiates a web site from all others.
Further exacerbating the data duplication issues when it comes to MLS listing data is that the data is agent-generated. Currently, some real estate agents 'game the system' by listing their properties as single-residence homes AND townhomes AND commercial property, etc. in an effort to gain maximum exposure. So while it may be efficient from a data-entry perspective, agent-generated MLS listings suffer from the pitfalls of erroneous data (purposeful or otherwise) which, in turn, harms the organic traffic of the listing website that finds itself presenting the search engines multiple pages for the same address. Hopefully, the Real Estate Transaction Standards (RETS) compliancy testing tool released last week will help purge the MLS data feeds of this bad data.
Ultimately, the various MLS' have to relax their restrictions on how listing data is utilized online or risk the fate of high beam switches located on the floorboards. Granting websites freedom to manipulate the MLS data will drive innovation and lead to more unique and helpful real estate results benefiting the industry as a whole. Agents and brokers may not like it, but the ability to gather and disseminate data online has inspired countless companies to revolutionize inefficient, restrictive markets and the would-be MLS killers have already begun to form – most notably, Google and Yahoo who both allow agents to list properties directly.
As Google says in its real estate FAQ: Is Google a broker? A national MLS?
"We're neither. Our role is to connect users as quickly as possible with the information they need."
The road ahead is clear; until the MLS data is set free to allow other websites to innovate and compete with Google in connecting users with the real estate information they need, Google will continue to gain market share and threaten the long-term viability of the MLS, brokers and agents.
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Delivery drivers are supposed to carry as little cash as possible, right?
And operators are supposed to set up cash management policies to ensure drivers "drop" their cash after each run, right?
Problem is, said J.W. Callahan, president of the Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers, there always are a few drivers who don't follow the rules, and operators lack the time to track drivers' cash drops during busy shifts. Sometimes the result is disaster, he said.
"I remember one driver who got robbed of more than $200 one night," said Callahan. "Not only was he not supposed to be carrying more than $20, he had a big gold chain on and a $300 Tommy Hilfiger jacket. Everything he did drew attention to himself."
Since the driver broke the company's $20-max rule, he was fired, plus, "to add insult to injury," Callahan continued, "the company's $200 was gone, so they kept his last paycheck."
Though robberies are inevitable, Callahan said, those crimes -- as well as in-store robberies -- shouldn't be profitable for burglars if proper cash management policies are followed.
The good news is the protection and management of cash has become vastly easier over the last few years with the development of high-tech safes. Pioneered, tested and proven in the convenience store industry, modern store safes accept bills mechanically, provide change if requested and produce a detailed audit trail of every employee transaction.
For managers and drivers -- in the currently small number of stores that use these safes -- the machines are a boon. End-of-shift check-out is a breeze for managers, and drivers don't have to worry about money loss or dishonesty issues that can occur with manually operated drop boxes.
"Everybody loves it, because it saves a lot of time and aggravation," said Nelson Hockert-Lotz, a three-store Domino's Pizza franchisee in New Bedford, Mass, who uses a bill-acceptor safe. "It makes it so easy."
Something old, something new
Callahan said he once used a similar bill accepting and dispensing safe 10 years ago in a Pizza Hut. Compared to modern units, the machine was a much lower-tech model.
At scheduled times, drivers sorted, rolled and placed their bills in small plastic tubes of predetermined denominations. They next inserted them into the safe and logged the deposit amount. The machine also could dispense whatever tubes were necessary to make change for the larger bills drivers put in.
The machine did its job, Callahan said, but it was slow and cumbersome -- far behind the newer bill accepting machines, which he has yet to see operate.
"One of those would be perfect, because it really would keep a handle on cash control; it would be something everybody would trust," he said. "But it doesn't sound like too many people are using them yet."
That's both frustrating and encouraging for manufacturers of bill-accepting safes. Getting pizza operators to spend $3,000 to $3,500 on such units has been tough, they say, but the minimal penetration into the pizza market also signals high sales potential.
"I'm actually amazed that the technology hasn't been adopted sooner in pizza," said Steve Aronson, director of marketing for the FKI Security Group in New Albany, Ind. While many c-store companies use his firm's safes, only a handful of Yum! Brands stores currently are testing FKI's products. "But that's just where the industry is right now."
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Domino's currently is testing bill-accepting safes in a handful of its corporate stores, but some of its franchisees have used them for years. Those have won over the early-opters.
"It makes it so much easier for safety issues, for controlling cash, for counting money at the end of the night, everything is better with this," said Freddie Wehbe, a four-store Domino's franchisee in Gainesville, Fla. "It's new technology that can't go wrong."
In a pizza operation, the safes essentially work like this:
A driver returns from a run with $40. Knowing he should carry only $20, he goes to the safe, enters his own personal identification number (PIN), and feeds the bills necessary into the mechanical reader/acceptor to reduce his "bank" to $20. The machine then records that driver's deposit.
Should the driver's bank contain two $20 bills, he could feed in both bills and request change be dispensed in smaller bills.
Once his transactions are complete, he can print out a receipt, or wait until the end of his shift to print out a detailed report.
Counter workers also use the safe to reduce the amount of cash in the register drawers. On busy nights Hockert-Lotz instructs his counter workers to put all large bills into the safe twice an hour, a process that takes less than a minute.
According to John Angove, vice president of Indianapolis-based safe-maker AT Systems, the only potential hang-up in the deposit process is the rejection of torn, wrinkled or counterfeit bills. Those instances happen less all the time, he said, because of improvements in bill validators.
"These safes are using software that has a higher rate of bill acceptance than, say, a vending machine," Angove said. "But in an environment like pizza, where you're depositing higher-denomination notes, by definition those bills are in better condition. So the acceptance rate is somewhere north of 98.5 percent."
At the end of each shift, when drivers check out, is where the safes truly pay for themselves, operators say. Wehbe said being able to print out each employee's report and knowing exactly how much cash each should get saves his store managers
I've said to Domino's (corporate) that it should be mandatory across our system. It makes my life easier and it increases safety 100 percent. I can't see one disadvantage with this machine.
-- Freddie Wehbe,
Chris Stanley, an AT Systems account executive, said the safes all but make the widely used envelope and drop-box system obsolete.
"There's no more counting out the currency three times at the end of each shift to make sure it's right, and then trying to get it straight for all the drivers at the store," Stanley said. "You have to keep those guys on the clock while that's going on, but with the safe, it's done and they're out of there. That's a huge labor savings."
Callahan said such a safe would eliminate confusion and accusations of dishonesty that arise with the envelope and drop-box system.
"Every driver has had at least one night when he put a bunch of bills in the wrong slot," Callahan said. "So Dave over here winds up $60 over, and Joe is $60 short. Now you've got to rely on Dave's honesty, which doesn't always work out.
"It happens with managers, too. Guys say they put a certain amount in, and the manager says something different."
A key side benefit noted by Callahan is in tip reporting, as the receipts printed at the end of each shift are helpful for income tracking.
Room to grow
Both Wehbe and Hockert-Lotz called the $3,000 spent on each of their cash-accepting safes a comparably small investment for the return provided. Simplicity of operation and ease of mind for staff and management far outweighs the cost consideration, they said. Somewhat pragmatically, Callahan added, "What's $3,000 to a business doing $500,000 to a million in sales every year?"
AT Systems' Stanley said some of his company's safe leasing plans cost only $3 a day, and FKI Security Group's Aronson said discounts always are applied to multiple machine purchases.
Aronson also pointed out that the technology already has been tested and refined in the c-store industry. His company's safes -- like pizza operators' POS systems -- can be polled via modem from a remote location to allow cash accounting within a large multi-site system. Such simplicity of operation, plus the similarity to existing pizza industry technology, should encourage other pizza operators to follow suit. But it hasn't yet.
Domino's Wehbe said he's surprised so few have adopted the technology.
"I've said to Domino's (corporate) that it should be mandatory across our system," he said. "It makes my life easier and it increases safety 100 percent. I can't see one disadvantage with this machine."
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Premier League: Stoke City 1 Manchester City 1
The Champions, Manchester City were in complete control of the game for the opening 15 minutes but it was Stoke who opened the scoring through Peter Crouch, the striker scoring a scrappy goal from five yards out after breaking through three challenges.
The visitors were level 20 minutes later from a neat set piece beautifully delivered by Carlos Tevez for Javi Garcia to mark his debut with a goal.
Chances followed for both sides but neither were able to convert and the points were shared for a fourth successive fixture at the Britannia Stadium.
The visitors dominated the opening part of the game with some excellent interplay in midfield between Yaya Toure and Garcia, the Spaniard looking like he had been playing for the club for years.
However it was the hosts who took the lead after quarter of an hour through Crouch, the striker showing great persistence to open the scoring. The tall striker controlled the ball on his chest inside the penalty area, spun past Vincent Kompany, ran through the challenges of Joleon Lescott and Garcia before calmly slotting the ball past Joe Hart .
City were shaken by Crouch's opener but they soon settled back into their passing style and with 10 minutes of the half to go they were level through Garcia.
The Spaniard showed excellent movement inside the penalty area to get in front of Glenn Whelan and head home Carlos Tevez's free kick, giving Asmir Begovic no chance.
The home side managed to get to the break without conceding again and the half-time team talk from Pulis inspired his side as they came out for the second half full of energy.
The control that Manchester City had on the game for the majority of the first half was gone as the Stoke players closed every ball down and applied excellent pressure all over the pitch.
Mancini was clearly concerned about the change in the game's momentum and moved to get a grip on proceedings by introducing Gareth Barry for Tevez. The midfielder definitely gave City more solidity in the middle of the pitch and slowly they began to get back into the game.
The moment a lot of Stoke fans had been waiting for arrived in the final moments of the match as Michael Owen was introduced in place of Crouch to a standing ovation from the crowd, but the striker did not have a chance to give the fans the goal they wanted.
The visitors should have won the game in injury time but were denied twice by last ditch clearances, the first a save from Begovic from a Garcia header and the second a acrobatic clearance by Ryan Shawcross off the line.


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez says offensive lineman Justin Boren has left the team.
Rodriguez told reporters at a Tuesday night news conference about Boren's decision, but declined to discuss specifics. Boren, who came to Michigan from Pickerington, Ohio, was to be one of two returning starters on the line.
A telephone listing for Boren was busy when called Tuesday night. An e-mail seeking comment from Boren was sent by The Associated Press.
The announcement from Rodriguez was reported by The Ann Arbor News, the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.
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High Rollers
High Rollers is a Minigame Mode in Mario Party 9. This mode can be played with up to four players. In this mode players compete in a series of minigames to gain up to five hundred points by rolling their player block over the thirty, twenty, or ten panels. When a player rolls over a number panel, the amount of points it gives a player decreases by ten. When a panel reaches zero, Blue Toad increases the panel's value back to thirty.
How many moves the player haves depends on what place the player gets in the previous minigame. First place is allowed to move four panels, second place moves three, third place moves two, and last place only moves one. The minigames will be picked when the selected player stops the Minigame Wheel on a minigame. The player who picks first will be selected at random, then the succeeding choices are made by the player who finished last place in the last minigame. Any ties are settled by block rolls via Dice Blocks.
When there are four players, if there are ties for both first place and last place, the first place players roll first and the last players roll next.
There is also a POW Space in the center of the board. When a player rolls over the POW Space, every panel's point value is decreased by ten. If a block is at zero, then its value increases back to thirty. The POW Space can only be used by one player per turn, and is first active when everyone has taken their first turn.
Finally, when there is a 100 point gap in between players, the losing players gain a Boost item, which allows them to boost across the board, rolling over number panels and pushing off other players in their way, without using up a space to move. Players who are knocked off the board are unable to take their turn. When they do get a turn again, they land on the POW Space, activating it if it hasn't already.
The game ends when one player gets five hundred points or more.
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"Play minigames to determine the order in which players roll around the board to pick up points. The first player to reach 500 points is the champion!"
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THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 12, 2012
Michael Peltier, The News Service of Florida
Citizens Property Insurance Corp.'s new CEO said Wednesday the state-backed insurer would try to transfer up to 500,000 inland policies to the private sector as its first order of business.
Speaking to reporters a month after taking the reins, CEO Barry Gilway said he would like Citizens to shrink its exposure to under 1 million policies, in large part by reducing the number of policyholders in non-coastal areas who represent the fastest growing sector for Citizens. The corporation now insures about 1.5 million policyholders.
To do that, Gilway said he plans to tap into the network of private insurance agencies and woo potential carriers to pick up the less risky, non-coastal residential policies known as PLAs now being handled by Citizens.
"Step number one is getting the PLA policy counts down to where they were at least two-and-a-half or three years ago," Gilway said. "That's where the huge increase has occurred, and that provides the greatest opportunity to provide financially viable alternatives for our insured."
Going forward, Gilway said Citizens rates need to be higher to more accurately reflect the risk, instead of relying on assessments to make up the difference in the event of a serious storm. Many Citizens policyholders don't realize that they will be on the hook for hefty assessments if a major storm occurs.
But he also said that policyholders should not be required to immediately foot the bill for their entire insurance coverage, saying the spike in premiums would be too severe.
"Step two? You'll probably have to talk to me after 90 days," Gilway said.
Since its inception 10 years ago, Citizens has been transformed from the insurer of last resort to the state's largest property insurer, with potential losses eclipsing $500 billion.
Despite the challenges facing the insurer, Gilway said Florida has led the nation in looking at ways to transfer some of the financial responsibility to private re-insurers, including the recent transfer of more than $750 million in risk to private, non-traditional investors.
While access to private capital is a positive step, Gilway said reducing the number of policyholders under the Citizens umbrella is the only way to provide long term savings.
The Citizens Board of Governors has scheduled a workshop next week to address rates and other changes to make private insurers more willing to return to the market.
"As an insurer of last resort, our basic objective should be to provide coverage and provide a solution for individuals where there simply isn't any other choice in the marketplace," Gilway said.


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This is a manufacturer I've not hear of, but it looks like they have a few good products. Comanche Firearms, Comanche revolvers, Comanche revolver, Comanche handguns, Comanche guns, Firestorm,
Looking at picking up a basic .38SP revolver, and possibly a .22LR as well, and they seem to have a couple of good basic models. I'd like to hear from anyone that's actually owned one, see if it's as good a value as it looks.


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Setup of motherboards has become a routine operation, for the most part for me as a reviewer. EVGA's board was easy to setup, with no glitches except for one. With 3 PCI Express full-length slots, I had to read the manual to find that I needed to insert a single video card into the middle slot. Further, when it came time to test SLI, the upper PCI Express x8 slot would not display video. Attaching the monitor cable to the bottom PCI Express x8 slot allowed for normal operation.
Stability and compatibility went without issues. To test SLI performance I inserted two 7800GT COs from EVGA and tested it for four days. I also inserted a ATI A-I-W X1800L in the board and it operated without a hitch. Stability was excellent without an error using BurnInMark. Overclocking was limited by the 4000+ CPU we use for testing.
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The BIOS on the motherboard is the fairly standard Phoenix AwardBIOS found on many motherboards today. There are few changes from the normal Phoenix BIOS. To get to the overclocking, EVGA includes something called Power User Overclock tab in the BIOS. Memory settings are found in the Advanced Chipset Menu.
The available options in the Power User Overclock Menu for the PCIE frequency include a range of 100-145MHz in 1MHz increments. The CPU Ratio can be change from x4-x12 (on my 4000+ CPU). CPU Vcore can be changed from Default to 1.400 in 0.025 increments. You can adjust the CPU Vcore 7-Shift from +50mV-+350mV in 50mV increments. VRAM Output can be changed from 2.55V-3.25V in 0.20V increments. North Bridge Voltage can be changed from 1.5V-1.7V in 0.1 increments.


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My wife and I will be getting a divorce when we sell our house in April. We have already seperated our bank accounts but live in the same house and share the bills.
She trained to become a maths teacher and will be getting a £5000 'golden hello' for completing her NQT (newly qualified teacher) year. I supported her during her 4 years of training, as she was not working, can I legally ask for half of that money?
My wife also has a legal argument against our hospital for not picking up an infection in her arm that has left her with a permenant problem. She will have to have a sholder replacement and is looking at a settlement worth around £10,000. She will probably not receive this money until after we divorce. However, I looked after her during this time, washing her and cleaning the house, cooking her food etc. She was training at this time and not working so I worked to provide for the both of us. Can I ask for half of this too?
Thank you for your help
Splitting money...
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These boards are for U.S. legal issues. I suggest you consult with a lawyer in your country.
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"Did we polygraph the Egyptian?"
"He came up clean."
"Polygraph doesn't mean diddly."
'We always say that when they pass."
"Put him on the plane. ..."
That exchange comes early in Gavin Hood's new film Rendition, between senior intelligence officer Corrine Whitman (Meryl Streep) and her underling (J.K. Simmons). 'The Egyptian' is Anwar El-Abrahimi (Omar Metwally), a chemical engineer of Egyptian descent who's been living in Chicago for years, with a wife (Reese Witherspoon) and son and another baby on the way. But Whitman doesn't care about that; Anwar's phone has been receiving calls from a number linked to a known terrorist, so after a conference which sees him flying back to Chicago he's plucked from his flight, hooded and bound and taken to an unnamed North African country, where the head of the local intelligence branch, Abasi (Igal Naor), will try to crack him. CIA field paper-pusher Doug Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) is there to observe, not to apply the electric shocks or pour the water until Anwar can't breathe or hurl him naked and shivering into a too-small cell -- because, hey, America doesn't do that stuff. But, through the Clinton-created, Bush-approved invention of 'Extraordinary Rendition," we can ask other people to do it, and pay them to do it, and make all the arrangements to have it happen. ... Anwar's suffering will stop when he tells what he knows. But what if he doesn't know anything?
And so Rendition flows, skipping between stories and continents and shades of the truth. We see Witherspoon's search to find out what happened to her husband, a hunt so desperate she's forced into hounding an ex-lover (Peter Sarsgaard) who works in a Senate office. We watch Abasi and Freeman working Anwar, trying to make him relinquish facts he may not even have. And we also watch Abasi's daughter Fatima (Zineb Oukach) reach out to change her life through the love of a radical-leaning student, Khalid (Moa Khouas). Everyone has secrets, and no one is without sin.
Hood' s direction globe-trots with a spring in its step, and he's got a handle on action, too. The cast is uniformly fine -- Witherspoon loving and worried, Gyllenhaal passionate yet conflicted, Naor civilized but cruel. There's some excellent supporting work as well; Alan Arkin plays Sarsgaard's Senator boss with gruff doses of realpolitik, and Metwally suffers and squirms and still keeps us guessing. The Khalid-Fatima relationship works, too, and Oukach and Khouas actually do some of the finer acting in the film below the glare of the star-studded cast. Rendition feels like a weird hybrid of styles -- it has all of the trappings and airs of the modern techno-thriller (right down to the titles in the lower right-hand corner of the screen explaining where the film is) but it's got all the emotional scenes and longing-driven moments of a relationship drama. This sounds like a very bad pitch -- "It's Black Hawk Down meets Not Without My Daughter!" -- but Hood, and screenwriter Kelley Sane, keep the film from being too glib or glossy.
Some critics are finding Rendition to be too little, too late, a condescending, lofty 'liberal' attitude about many well-made and well-intentioned films that always infuriates me; just because you read a New Yorker article about a subject three months ago doesn't mean that everyone's as informed as you are, or that it's not a problem anymore, not being done in your name and with your money. Rendition doesn't suggest we live in a safe world, but Rendition also makes it abundantly clear that in a struggle against terrorist criminals, bad police work is almost worse than no police work at all. Rendition also has a too-happy ending -- and the familiar big movie moment where the only thing that can save us from the excesses of American Intelligence is American Intelligence -- but you feel the struggle to get to that point, and no one comes out unscathed. Rendition's not perfect, but it does convey one important lesson very well: Anytime someone tells you that you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, immediately demand to see the omelet.


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Sunday, April 01, 2012
rowan james
He's here!
He was born in this giant bathtub at 10:46pm on March 30. He was 9 pounds and 20.5 inches long.
We got to come home right away and sleep.
But of course the second night is a bit less sleep-ful, so we all feel like this now:
Lucy met him yesterday and was fascinated.
We're so happy (and sleepy) and grateful to everyone who's been praying for us, thinking of us, dropping by, and calling/tweeting/facebooking/emailing. We are the luckiest little family in the world.
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Does your team or organisation need a shot of happiness?
Does your conference or event need some positivity?
Are you ready to choose to be happy & fulfilled, productive and successful now?
Read what Belinda Winter (Director - People and Corporate Relations) of Novo Nordisk had to say:
In 2008, we worked with Dr. Tim Sharp from the Happiness Institute on a variety of levels. As keynote speaker for our organisation conference in March, conducting a Happiness Index survey with our organisation, linking through to our leadership forum and ensuring that the positive psychology principles were applied consistenty from leaders throughout our organisation and finally Dr. Tim worked with our team in conjunction with his latest book "100 ways to happiness – a guide for busy people" at our Boost conference in November. Our employee's feedback was extremely positive of Dr. Tim who was engaging, dynamic and provided a platform to think creatively around just one small change in the workplace by employees can have huge benefits to overall engagement, wellbeing and positivity to make for an even more productive workplace.
At the forefront of the exciting new science of positive psychology, Dr. Happy (a.k.a. Dr. Timothy Sharp) is one of Australia's leaders in the fields of psychological well-being and happiness. He's qualified, informative and entertaining. In fact, read what Mike Doyle (CEO - Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority) said about one of Dr. Sharp...
Dr. Sharp's presentation to the Leadership Team was absolutely fabulous, it was just the presentation we needed. During our discussions the next day, we regularly referred back to Tim's comments and ideas. Post the workshop, the same is true and I've witnessed a personal change in attitude among a number of the participants. The Leadership Team were unanimous in their view that 2007 was the best Business Planning Workshop yet and I'm delighted to say Tim's presentation played a significant part.
And from Andrew Kein, one of Australia's leading conference MC's...
"Tim's presentation was fresh, funny, informative and perfect for the audience in need of something entertaining and thought-provoking at the end of a long day". As someone who sees lots of conference speakers each week, it was refreshing to hear someone deliver some simple truths in such an engaging and relaxed fashion. The delegates were passionately talking about his presentation all the next day."
Dr. Sharp has 3 degrees in psychology (including a PhD and a Masters Degree) and he's an Adjunct Professor at UTS School of Business as well as RMIT School of Health Sciences. He's also a bestselling author and as you can see from the comments above, a highly sought after corporate speaker. When he's not writing or speaking he advises organisations on how to care for, and get the most out of their people.
After all, is there any more valuable asset to a company than its people?
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Hi! I've had my HTC 8X on Verizon for about a month now and it's been great so far besides this one issue; when attempting to end a call, I have to tap "End" repeatedly to end the call and even then it takes 7-10 seconds for the call to end. Is anyone else having this issue because when I first bought the phone, making and ending calls were very snappy; no waiting for the call to end, just tap "End" and go back to the homescreen. I really hope this isn't a bug because it doesn't seem like Verizon will be issuing an update anytime soon (as I'm also having issues with my SIM card not responding until I reboot the phone and my Speaker crackling when anything is playing through it as well as having had two reboots already) but I don't want it to be an OS issue that I just have to deal with. When you get a phone, you expect the PHONE to work if nothing else works. Haven't had this issue with my iPhone 4S or my Galaxy Nexus. Even iPhone 5's can make and end a call snappy. WP8 is amazing but if it can't even end a call well, then it's no use to me.
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I have the same problem on the same phone 8X on Verizon. But I also had this problem on a Dell Venue Pro running WP7 on T-Mobile... so I don;t know.
It happens ever so often... not every time... Still have not figured it out... I think it has something to do with Skype... or Navigation... It's like when you try to switch from a call to an app... then back to a call.. it just does not seem to want to cooperate and then the only way to get the stupid thing to not say "ENDING CALL" is to hold the power button down for 10 seconds... and reboot... a 30 second plus process! Too bad if you need to make an urgent call!
Makes my wife and daughter's iphone 5's seem reliable!
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Mine is unlocked and it has never happened to me... it may be an issue with Verizon phones only.
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Happens to me also. 8x on Tmobile.
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Site: Moms Bang Teens
Date: Monday, July 13, 2015
Alexa Grace and her boyfriend were having fun while her parents were out of town. They took the car for a joyride and once they returned, she began sucking his cock on the couch. Alexas step mom, Julia Ann, came home early and caught them in the act. She was appalled by how badly she was sucking his dick. She decided to show her step daughter a thing or two. She began by sucking his cock and then she had Alexa help her suck his cock. Then they took turns getting their pussies pounded and got that cream all over their faces.
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Date: Monday, March 9, 2015
Julia had been feeling neglected and taken an interest in a guy her stepdaughter, Carter, went on a date with. Once she made sure that Carter was no longer involved, she took the liberty of having a go at him. Carter was about to run some errands, so Julia saw her chance to invite Carter's guy friend, Van, over. Julia was horny as hell, quickly whipped out Van's cock, and started sucking. Carter forgot her phone and returned back home only to find her stepmom blowing Van. Julia explained her insatiable desires, and Van's big dick would give her just what she needed. Carter could use a good fuck herself, so she cut a deal and would keep the secret if she could get in on the action. Van was more than willing to be used by these two beautiful blondes. Both of which had nice plump tits, firm round asses, and perfect pussies. Julia and Carter got their groove on and took everything they could from Van before he exploded all over Carter's pretty face.
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Date: Monday, September 8, 2014
Natalia went to her step mom Julia Ann with a concern about her boyfriend. Julia Ann told her that she would teach her how to really stroke the cock. The boyfriend was called over to the house, and Juliann took charge. She got him hard with a quickness. Julia Ann showed off her techniques and let Natalia try some out for before they both went wild on his dick. The ladies were super turned on by then, so they moved things into the bedroom. Joey was one lucky guy to bang this super hot duo. Step mommy was a freak in the sheets which made this sexcapade that much better.
Site: Milf Hunter
Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
Sean has some lame ass shrubs in his back yard. He decided to get something better. He found a nursery way out in the middle of nowhere. We finally got there after driving forever and back tracking a couple of times. It was all worth it once we saw who was running the place. Man what a rack on Juliann. Her coconuts were the only thing I was looking at. I almost forgot what we were even doing at the nursery. Juliann took us around and helped us figure some things out. Once Sean found out that there was no one else around he started with the wood jokes. She tested him about how friendly he was. He dropped his shorts to expose his branch. She was a playful thing. She ran around the nursery pealing off clothes here and there while Sean chased her down to fuck her right in the middle of the nursery. We would come back, but we did our own running after Sean put his fertilizer all over her tits.
Date: Monday, June 30, 2008
Julia and I had been playing phonetag for a few days trying to iron out these reports. Standard numbers crunching. When we finally spoke, we set up a meeting at her house, which I found weird but no biggie. I get there and we discuss work for about 2 minutes before getting down to REAL business. She starts to show off her huge round boobs and bubble butt ass that she is hiding in that business suit of hers. Her long blonde hair begging to get pulled. She unleashes her boobs and it was all she wrote after that. She gave me a masterful blowjob before letting me eat her juicy pussy. I could not take it anymore and started to fuck her something serious. Amazing. We had a great time. We should have more business meetings like this in the future.


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hate my life.
i'm so fed up. i'm so lonely no one loves me, not even my parents and my sister.............. i hate life.... i havent had a girl friend in long time..... every1 hates me............. i suck......
It's a real shame that you feel so down atm. Life does suck ass at times and evryone feels shitty but you have to find someone you can talk to and trust...if you think your family dont care then maybe you could talk to someone from school or your doctor. Your family dont hate you and you dont suck!!!! Girlfriends come and go but your family are forever. Perhaps you should consider changing the places you go and you might meet a girl who likes the same things you do. Keep trying to be yourself and dont let life get you down...it seriously does get better...I should know!!! take care and dont do anything silly x
come on cheer up dont hate you life and no you dont suck dont say that. I dont think you suck just come on cheer up try not to get them kind of things in your head or something bad will happen like a had that problem about life and i wanted to kill myself but i didnt but i thought about this a least you have a life like me try to a least figure out to enjoy it while it lasts and even if you didnt have a girl friend for a while, just be patint you will get on sooner or later it takes time...sorry if you dont understand i said but this is the best way thats i give advice to people...but if this feels like this is not very good advice for you the sorry trying to help


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Ten promoter group companies of JSW Ispat Steel have sold their 6.38 per cent stake in the company for Rs 174.47 crore.
According to the filings made by the 10 companies to the BSE, over 16 crore shares amounting to 6.38 per cent JSW Ispat Steel were sold through both off and on market transactions for Rs 174.47 crore.
The promoter group companies which have reduced their stake are Ispat Steel Holdings Ltd, Kartik Credit Pvt Ltd, Navoday Consultants Ltd, Navoday Highrise Pvt Ltd, Navoday Niketan Pvt Ltd, Ushaditya Trading Pvt Ltd, Goldline Tracom Pvt Lt, Mita Holdings Pvt Ltd, Navadisha Real Estate Pvt Ltd and Denro Holdings Pvt Ltd.
All these firms belong to Pramod and Vinod Mittal or their families, which held less than 20 per cent stake in JSW Ispat before these transactions.
The share sale took place ahead of a meeting of company shareholders, which is scheduled for January 30,, to approve JSW Ispat's merger with JSW Steel.
JSW Ispat has two major promoters -- JSW Steel with 46.75 per cent stake and firms belonging to Pramod and Vinod Mittal or their families.
Pramod and Vinod Mittal --brothers of the steel czar L N Mittal-- used to be the original promoters of JSW Ispat Steel (then known as Ispat Industries). However, due to mounting losses, they had sold 41 per cent stake in the company to JSW Steel in December, 2010.
Subsequently, JSW Steel increased its stake to 46.75 per cent and renamed the company to JSW Ispat.
In September last year, JSW Ispat announced merger of itself with JSW Steel. The merger would make JSW Steel the second largest domestic steel producer with an annual production capacity of 14.3 million tonnes.
Shares of JSW Ispat closed today at Rs 11.11 apiece on the BSE, down 0.36 per cent from its last close.


text: Australia Vs. Indonesia This is an all out war between the two nations. Indonesia, for whatever reason, has decided to invade Australia. Their goal is the total destruction of the Australian Military and occupation of the Australian continent. The Aussies goal of course is to defend their country. If it is a curb stomp in ether sides favour, then the losing nation gets New Zealand and the southern pacific island nations as allies. Who will also go into 'all out war' mode. No other nations may get involved in any way. So, what happens?


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by Leslie Morgan Steiner
On a leafy green street in suburban Bethesda, Maryland, there's a friendly redbrick building. My son's AAU basketball team held practice there two nights a week for a year, so I knew Thomas W. Pyle Middle School before I read about it in the Washington Post recently. Plus two girls from my son's private school left to attend Pyle three years ago. It's in their neighborhood and they wanted to be able to walk to school and be with their local friends. Pyle's education is arguably just as nurturing and stimulating as our kids' expensive private school, and it feeds into Walt Whitman High School, an Honorable Mention on US News and World Report's "America's Best High Schools [1]".
So I was stunned to read in the Post [2] that kids at Pyle have been sending and receiving nude or nearly nude photos of female classmates via text message – or "sexting." Other Pyle students allegedly PAID to view the photos. In some states, this counts as child pornography, even though, in this case at least, the girls apparently posed willingly.
How could such young kids – 6th, 7th, and 8th graders – be so technologically sophisticated and simultaneously stupid? How can middle school have changed so radically in 30 years that girls WANT boys to see them naked? As a middle school girl myself, my greatest terror was being dragged into the boys' bathroom – fully clothed. I had nightmares about not wearing underwear to school. I would have thrown myself into a sewer before I willingly shared a nude photo of my private self with classmates.
This disconnect is just more evidence of the technology divide between our childhood and our children's daily reality.
"I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for parents to monitor children's use of cell phones and the Internet," the Pyle principal wrote in the school newsletter. "Our students are at an age when they begin to test boundaries and make complex life decisions. There is a comfort for students when parents set limits and remain active in their lives."
I decided to try the principal's advice. Could my 7th grade son – who Verizon claims sent 5,000 text messages during the month of January – be sexting with his classmates?
So I asked him. Turns out, he had heard about the Pyle case too, and had a few opinions himself.
"I guess I think it's wrong to sell naked pictures of yourself or someone else," he told me. "But the girls weren't forced to do it. Maybe it's stupidity that got them into it. And the boys were perverted and morally wrong to pay to look at them. But I don't see how you can call it illegal. All the kids did it willingly. I hear older kids – mostly high school -- talking about nude pictures getting around all the time – via text, Facebook and the Internet."
I told my son that curiosity about sex and other people's bodies is totally normal. But that sexting is not a terribly good way to assuage one's curiosity – given that it's potentially illegal and immoral. Seemed we had a good, helpful discussion along the lines of the Pyle principal's advice. In our own fashion, we chipped away at the technology chasm separating my childhood and my son's.
"Yeah, Mom," was his answer. "Now can you help me with my math homework?"
Suddenly, parabolas and quadratic equations seemed blessedly simple.


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LeBron James has been bigger than the game, a cultural artifact for discussion, dissection and discernment for six years through triumph, misery, and wait, did he have a cartoon show? In advance of LeBron's second big decision, we wanted to weigh in with our writers' thoughts on the different worlds this moment in time touches and how honestly weird this entire process is — because the four most powerful words in the NBA are "LeBron James free agency" Enjoy. – Ed.
At any given time in the NBA, the best player in the league rarely makes you think about the future. The road to an NBA title is such an inexorable and tiring endeavor that one dares not approach it with less than maximal focus. To dwell on the pastures beyond a playoff run is to give up the run itself. In a world where superstars are judged primarily on bling and hardware, such split attention is ill-advised.
And yet here comes LeBron James, for the second time in four years, with the future sitting alongside the present tucked within his gargantuan headband. A free agency overhaul but a TV special away, James is an alpha dog rarity in his approach to the NBA landscape.
Sheer gravity ensures that the fabric of basketball bends towards the city LeBron calls home. This is a situation past pole bearers were mostly content with. NBA lore is stacked to the brim with images of Birds, Johnsons, Jordans, Duncans and Bryants smirking atop Their throne, dutifully honing Their craft in the empty royal hall, waiting for the next foolish commoner to enter with aspirations fitting only of Their holiness.
These thrones, as thrones are wont to do, came in many colors and were made of many substances. But the one constant among all pre-James thrones was their immobility. A throne is, by design, a heavy object, forever supporting both intangible regal responsibilities as well as a ruler's backside. Moving one takes a physical toll on the movers and a mental toll on the constituents. The Kings of the past understood this, and ruled from pre-determined castles. They approached time and space with dogmatic confidence – there are planets and there are stars, and all must revolve around my brilliance. Since I am here, the central point is here. Since I am to be in the central point, and the central point is here, here I will remain.
James takes a different approach, as confident but more proactive. The NBA revolves around him, yes, but even in that flattering reality there are more terms to dictate. In a Newtonian rarity, James exerts both the action and the reaction on a closed, unsuspecting 30 team system. Basketball's extraterrestrials were previously bound by terrestrial rules, sure. But why should James succumb?
It's easy to misconstrue this as hubris. James is surrounded by Hall of Fame players and a Hall of Fame organization. By merely hinting that he may leave them, he is arrogantly declaring the best of the rest unworthy of his trust. Magic trusted Jerry Buss. Jordan and Kobe trusted Phil. Duncan all but immersed himself in the culture his franchise cultivated around him. How dare LeBron declare that he, and only he, is worthy of his own support?
But while hubris is undoubtedly a factor – James is but a human athlete, a profession for which belief in self is a hard coded requirement – the driving force behind James' infamous free agency forays is control. The modern athlete wants his brand, uniform, teammates, coaches, team personnel and dinner condiments a certain way, and if his value in a free and/or collectively bargained market enables him to demand such provisions, then by all means, he should. LeBron, like his "Best Player Alive" predecessors, can obviously demand a platter of perks that other NBA players can only dream of. But fully extending those gravitas where past players only went most of the way isn't morally reprehensible; it's good business.


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Just found this page and thought I might join. I really enjoy riding my bicycle, not in competitions but in town or along som nice country road. I recentely picked up an old Raleigh Competition bike and I love it. I have never been in to new bicycles. My father owns an old italian Champion bike and I think my intrest for old race bikes came from him.
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Coastal Brazilian flair and chic style near Porto Seguro
the multi-level wooden terraces/pool decks with panoramic views of the sea. Plus, the clever architecture set on the edge of a steep descent to the beach - it makes the most of its location by clinging on and extending out.
Where to relax? In a hammock on your private deck? A
daybed by the pool? Sun-lounger on the beach? These are the tough
decisions you face each day at Maitei Hotel close to Porto Seguro
on Brazil's Bahian coast. And when you've exhausted these options
you can take your pick of activities such as humpback whale
watching, canoeing down the Trancoso River, diving, fishing and
beach hopping along the stunning coastline. (The chance to see
Jacumã beach alone is worth boarding a boat for.) That's the
fabulous thing about Maitei: you can be as active or lazy as you
like because everything is just so relaxed, from the serene setting
beside the green covered hillside above the beach to the laid-back
vibe and chilled yet totally-on-it staff. Brazilian architect
Luciano Soares is behind the hotel's multi-level, natural-luxe
design of stone, wood, muted tones, floor-to-ceiling windows and
terraces (well, you don't want to miss those views). And rooms are
big and breezy with sponge-painted walls, local art and hot tubs
that were made for Champagne at sunset. The ocean-facing rooftop
terrace is a fabulous, not to mention romantic, spot for pre-dinner
cocktails, and an idyllic setting for making the big decisions of
the day during breakfast. Specialites of the restaurant include
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The Ultimate PS3 Showdown is back, and Round 2 has officially begun! We've narrowed our field of the best PS3 games ever from 32 to 16, and the competition is heating up fast. How do you choose between "amazing" and "amazing"? We don't know, and that's why we're turning to you. Cast your vote in this match-up to decide the Best PS3 Game Ever!
The Contenders:
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Naughty Dog surpassed itself with the third game in the Uncharted series, delivering an action adventure with a great narrative, likeable characters, and stunning setpieces across an incredible gameworld that burst out of the screen. Physics, visuals, and environmental effects played their part in creating perhaps the most attractive game to have ever graced the PlayStation 3, while its clever level design ensured that Nathan Drake's signature moves, combat skills, and puzzle-solving chops were put to the test with a variety of enjoyable challenges. Script-writing was sharp, the soundtrack was rousing, and the pacing was spot-on. It's no wonder Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception scooped an unprecedented amount of awards in 2011, from "Best Character" to "Best Graphics".
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was probably the most-anticipated RPG sequel of all time, and it didn't disappoint. Traversing the open world of Skyrim on foot or horseback, never knowing what or who you might stumble upon, was incredibly exciting and showcased the vast and highly detailed gameworld. With engaging character development and hundreds of quests that take you from dark dungeons and quaint towns to snowy mountains and battles with giants, Skyrim has depth, variety and personality. Character design was exemplary and the large roster of enemies ensured that players had to adapt their fighting styles, with intense dragon battles providing many highlights. Skyrim is an absolute juggernaut and, despite its PS3-specific technical issues, a clear contender in this tournament.
Which of these two games deserves to move ever closer to the crown? Cast your votes in the official polling thread, and be sure to vote in all our match-ups to decide the Best PS3 Game Ever!


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Being a Tech Drifter
Digital nomads, laptop bohemians, tech drifters, call them what you will, but Scott Annan wants them to form a stronger community.
Thus the Mercury Grove CEO launched Tech Drifters to bring together workers who haul their laptops to coffee shops rather than sit in a cubicle.
"People who work in different locations lack the water cooler," said Annan, presenting the site and idea last night.
The Tech Drifters web site provides a location-based social network to help independent technology-based workers find and interact with each other, as well as find and rate the quality of remote working sites like coffee shops and co-working locations.
Oh, and there are maps.
Maps to see where fellow drifters are working around the world and maps to find those locations that have been rated.
There is also a chat feature to bring in "digital watercooler" functionality and well, another map, that shows folks posting to Twitter with the #techdrifter hash-tag.
"We're not trying to take over the world," said Annan of the site's niche network. "We're keeping it focused on location-based community."
However, beyond the site, there's also the idea of being a "Tech Drifter."
After the presentation, Annan handed out laptop stickers for Tech Drifters to identify each other.
The idea is that having the sticker on your laptop means "I'm working on something cool, come talk to me about it."
This was inspired by a road trip Annan and SWIX CEO Scott Lake took last year, visiting a variety of co-working locations and saw a similar program.
The web site is still very much in an alpha release state but Annan said he hopes to improve it as the community grows. And hopefully find a cost-effective way of distributing the Tech Drifters stickers.
Membership is free at TechDrifters.com


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Not the best timing, but ISU doesn't make it into SI often (for good things anyway). Disregard title of link...
Sports College Athletics Men's Professional Basketball Germany College Basketball - SI Vault
Just wanted to point out that Edwin Moses' streak in the 400m hurdles (#13) was ended by Iowa Stater Danny Harris. So there's two ISU connections in the piece.
#22 with wilt chamberlin....he looks like a wax figure that's melting.... doesn't even look real
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The best chance to elect a strong conservative this year
From the diaries… My name is Matt Mackowiak and I am the Treasurer of Fight For Kentucky, a Super PAC that is set up to help elect Matt Bevin for Governor. Since 1972, Kentucky has been led by Democratic Governors for all but four years. The Commonwealth has suffered from left wing policies in Frankfort, whether they be failing to stand up for our values, | Read More »


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Get your groove on with this fun throwback costume to the disco era of the 1970s! The Disco Dolly Adult Costume features a long sleeve Go Go style disco dress with a far out psychedelic pattern. Along with the dress you also receive a matching head scarf. You will be a hit and have a lot of fun to boot in this disco dress. This outfit is offered in small medium and large and does not include Knee High White boots, though they are available elsewhere on this site, so grab them or choose dancing pumps instead! Don't let this groovy costume get away from you at this great price! Great for a Halloween costume or any kind of costume party, this costume can also become a hippie look with a few accessory additions, so you can wear it multiple times!
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Here is a weekly goodie that will help you set up a well-crafted site dedicated to medical sphere of business. Welcome Free WordPress Health Theme – a perfect fit for the blog that deals with health, maternity, women's care, etc.
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Tracey Strader is Executive Director for TSET. She holds a master's degree in social work and is licensed by the State of Oklahoma. Strader has broad experience in providing direct services, management and administrative oversight for community-based and statewide programs. For nearly 30 years, she has been extensively involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs related to public health, tobacco control, maternal and child health, services for senior adults, and mental health and substance abuse services. Contact at email@example.com or (405) 521-3888.
Jonás Osio Mata is the Director of Programs. Mata received his bachelor's and master's degrees in social work from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois. His master's degree is in social work administration and planning. Mata was TSET's first Director of Grants and Programs. Mata has also served as the Director of Operations for the Latino Community Development Agency in Oklahoma City and as a top-level manager for the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs. For more than 25 years he has designed, implemented, and evaluated policy efforts dealing with children and youth, as well as programs related to delinquency prevention and justice system reform. Contact Jonás at email@example.com or (405) 521-3878.
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In Jeremiah 17:5 we read" Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, ... NKJV
A person who trusts own strength will not prosper. The same if you trust in some other man or woman to be your strength. It may go well for a season but if you are not trusting the Lord, this warning in Jeremiah falls on you. The self made man or woman has departed from the Lord."Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit. (Jeremiah 17:7, 8 NKJV)
So, trusting in the flesh is like a shrub trying to grow in a salt wilderness desert. If you trust in The Lord you will live secure: at peace, well watered and fruitful. It doesn't seem like a hard choice to me. God helps those who trust in Him.
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CORNELIUS – Sushi restaurants never fail to impress with intricate rolls laid out like artwork on plates.
However, it's been awhile since sushi has surprised. Sure we've seen pink soy wrappers, the introduction of bacon and rolls wrapped in cucumber, but these have now become run-of-the-mill.
Sushi at the Lake, however, is on the forefront of avant-garde roll creations that are sure to tempt taste buds and entice your sense of culinary adventure.
Sokhun Moon, co-partner and head chef at Sushi at the Lake, goes simply by Moon. He came to the United States from Korea in 1989 and worked as a bus boy, dish washer, hibachi chef and sushi chef.
Moon eventually went to UNC Charlotte to study marketing and management. However, in 1998, when the opportunity to open up Sushi at the Lake came up, he left school to help start the venture.
"We had to educate the customers about sushi. Many had never tried it before," Moon said. "I'd start them with something simple, and they would usually come back for more."
Moon also began experimenting with different types of sushi rolls that could tempt those who did not want a piece of sashimi (fresh raw fish sliced very thin).
The Tornado Roll is one such roll. The filling is standard fare of cream cheese, avocado, tempura shrimp and snow crab. It is the wrap that makes it special. They take thin strands of potato 'noodles' and wrap it around the roll, flash fry it and serve it up. It's like a fresh potato chip is encasing the ingredients.
The tuna tower is also both a work of art and a study in innovation. The fresh tuna and avocado sit upon a cylinder of deep fried sushi rice, giving it a crunchy texture and nutty flavor.
And the menu doesn't stop at sushi. You can find lunchtime bento boxes, tempura items, hibachi, dumplings and skewers.
The restaurant has separate lunch and dinner menus.
Lunch includes bento boxes allowing the customers to try many different items at the same time and smaller portions of entrée dishes. Plus business people can get in and out very quickly.
Dinner has more entrées and a more relaxed vibe.
Just know that everything is made after the customer orders.
The restaurant often has live music, including local and national musician Sunny Ledfurd. Customers can check the Facebook page for events and specials.
The majority of items are made in-house, including teriyaki sauce, spicy mayonnaise, ginger dressing, white fish pico de gallo, tempura ice cream and eel sauce.
He also gets fresh whole fish in several times per week, using local and national vendors to ensure the best quality and flavor. The bar has 11 types of cold saki and hot saki machine that perfectly heats the rice wine ensuring optimal piquancy.
Moon and his partners might open up another restaurant at Exit 36 in the near future. This place would have more of a Korean flavor profile in regards to the food.
"It's hard to have just a Korean restaurant," Moon said. "But at the new place, we might be able to introduce some Korean specialties."
Innovative and fresh, Sushi at the Lake will continue to treat patrons with cutting-edge fare. But one ingredient is put into every dish, said Moon. You see, customers are greeted by Bob Marley as they walk through the door.
"Bob is love, man," Moon said. "And that's our secret ingredient. We put love into everything we cook and create."
Want to go? Sushi at the Lake 19732 One Norman Blvd., #300, Cornelius 704-987-8080.


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And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth ..Revelations 21
I have had The Federation's book The Bridge since 2008,I have read it often and last night I randomly opened it up at this page and came across this,Blossom has previously said I may share White Cloud and The Federation of Light's books so every now and then something stirs my soul to do so,last night it was so 'stirred'
Blessings Kerrie/Zoolithe
Blossom..Ok, I have been thinking of some questions that I would like
to ask. One subject that many of us talk about is the Mayan
Calendar, and that it stops in 2012. Many feel that is when
the new world shall be upon us. Some say that those who are
enlightened to a certain degree shall go through the portal,
and it shall then close, leaving others who have not woken
up, behind. I'm not sure what I feel about that. Because you
have said that the new world shall come when we are ready,
depending on how much Light we are able to bring into this
earth of ours. You also say, that we shall be able to come and
go across the bridge, and that there shall be an intermingling
of worlds. May I ask your views on this matter?
You may. What you need to understand is that there are no
set rules. We simply have a plan, and this can only manifest
according to how you upon the earth plane conduct yourselves.
This Mayan Calender, I am not saying that a lot of what is
said is of Truth, but I am saying that if one is determined to
keep focussed on that date, and believe that it all shall come
to an end, they may be a little surprised and confused. It was
written thus far, and beyond that, there was no knowing.
Yes, by this date, there shall be vast changes. Look at them
already. But I would like to say to all who read these words,
that you are not going to wake up on 1st January 2012 and
find that you are in a different place, leaving some behind,
or even that you are left behind and others have gone. This
would not be plausible. It is an ever-changing world that
you live in, and therefore these changes that are in our plan,
shall emerge gradually, so as not to set your world over the
edge, shall we say. I shall be blunt with you. There will be
a transformation for those who are willing to move into it.
Many shall not. This is not segregation between worlds, but
for those who are in a position to transform, they shall do
so, and find that through the intermingling, by being able to
walk across the bridge and back again, that more and more
shall decide not to return. For the earth that is on this side
will seem very cold compared to the one on the other. That
is a bit of a revelation at last is it not? You see, for those
who have chosen to remain in denial, to stay in the place
of their soul that is unaware of their spirit, they will not be
able to cross the bridge. Not because I am discriminating,
but because their vibration, simply will not be able to settle
in the Higher vibration that is on the other side. You cannot
be where you are not! So, can you understand? It is not that
there is a judging on who moves into this new world. It is
not of judgement. It is of an individual's soul decision. Each
one of you is given the opportunity. Each one of you knows
of these greater Truths. Some may say they do not. But I tell
you that you are all equal. Your choice as to whether you
remember and act upon this knowledge is up to you.
As you walked along your beautiful beach yesterday, you were
filled with awe and Love. You found it difficult to believe, that
there you were, feeling so blessed in this paradise you live in,
and there, not too far away from you in another land, 5,000
souls had been removed from the planet by Mother nature.
For all those around that area, much suffering is taking place.
It seemed like two different worlds did it not? Think about
that. If souls choose to remain in a vibration that is of war
and hatred, then that is where they shall be. If souls choose to
be in a vibration of Love and peace, then that is where they
shall be. I don't think I can be fairer than that. For freedom
of choice is a gift. How you choose to use that freedom is
entirely up to you.
So many times have we asked for assistance from those
on your earth plane, and yet you would be surprised how
many times we are ignored. Through lack of self-awareness,
through lack of self worth, through disbelief in the reality
of who we are and what we have to offer. Your world has
been residing within a level of self-lack for too long now.
This is not what was intended. Our intention was to allow
you to have the freedom to have everything. Yet, throughout
your ages one has even felt that I want you to have less.
How contorted have my intentions become? Why would I
have a world that is created in order to experience lack? What
benefit would that have to anyone? It is your power seekers
that have led you to believe that I will be happy seeing you
with less. I am not talking of greed here, for that is a differ
ent matter. However, if one is to always feel that it is wrong
to have too much of a good thing, then how will they ever
have anything that they want? I want you to have everything.
Everything that is good and lots of it! The more you have,
the more you can share. It is not about keeping these good
things for yourselves, but to become a world where there is
the desire to share all that one has with another. I mean in
every way. Spiritually and materially. Through giving one can
understand the value of Love for another. Never give because
you feel you should. Give because your heart desires it. Share
because your being feels the glory of giving. One is so afraid
to 'give away' in case it brings about lack for themselves. This
is where you have misunderstood the universe and how it
works. By giving with your heart, the universe in turn shall
do the same for you. It cannot do otherwise.
Imagine to yourself all the things that you would like your
world to be. Picture these in your mind and focus on them
daily. Bring this world that you desire into your world that
you live in now. Encompass all your thoughts on that world
only. If you were to do this, to live in your world of your
mind, and not let any distractions intervene, gradually this
world of your mind will become the world of your reality.
Do you see? It is through the power of thought that we shall
bring about this new world. By eliminating all thoughts of
negativity, entirely, so that they no longer exist. We are then
able to live in a place of Light. A place that once was. A place
that we are all dreaming of, and yet at this time, not one
of you can fully comprehend how that would be. For your
world is wrapped in this smog of negativity. It pulls you into
its lair when you are least expecting it. If it is eliminated how
different your every day living would be.
We understand the struggle that you are in. It is not easy for
you to rise above all that is not of Love. But when you begin
to understand this concept that there is nothing but Love,
then you are able to turn the tide, and change all that has
become negative, back into its True form of Love.
Ahead lies a pathway that has not yet been walked. It is a
new path that has been created in order to lead you home.
All we ask is that you put your feet on the path and begin to
take your first steps. You shall be guided throughout. There
are many in place waiting for you to be with them. They are
eager to assist and have patiently been in position. They are
ready to take on board their duties, and bring you into the
Light that is of a different vibration from the one that you
know. But they cannot guide you until you step onto that
path. For they cannot, however much they may desire, come
and meet you to get you there. That must be done by the
soul's desire to return home.
We have talked about the bridge that we are building here.
This is what I speak of. This pathway is the bridge. Take the
chance to walk its path and see how your world as you know
it shall no longer be. You can come back, but after a while
you shall not desire to do so. Some of you shall return over
and over to try and retrieve others, to bring them across the
bridge. To give them the opportunity to discover a Light of
intense Love for themselves. Some shall come willingly; they
will have been waiting for you. Others will not believe that
over the rainbow dreams really do come True. Always remember
that there is the freedom of choice. Do not be alarmed by
another's choice. It is your soul that can show the way, but it
does not necessarily mean that another shall follow.
Many will choose to walk across. Their souls have been on
standby, if you like. They are waiting for their call. How our
realms are eager in anticipation to start the ball rolling.
Your task Blossom, and for those like you, is to help others
understand that this is not a myth. This is a reality that is to
take place. We are aware of the risk involved, in that what
we have to say may cause others to ridicule your intent. Be
not deterred. The proof of the pudding is in the eating is it
not? The days shall come when all that we speak of shall be
of reasoning. For there shall and will not be space for denial
of what is in front of your very eyes. For those who are prepared,
the walk shall be of ease and delight. For those who
have been denying their soul its Truth, they shall find it a
little difficult.
The saying 'You reap what you sow' is one of earth's Truths.
Be aware of this my friends. Sow your seeds of Love with
utmost care. For how easily may the winds
blow them away
if they are not carefully planted?
All this preparation that is taking place shall be of utmost
value as the days draw closer to the changing of your vibrations.
It is taking place as we speak, but at a rate that shall
not disturb. We do our best to make this transformation as
smooth as we can. Many times we are shaken by unexpected
entities and energies that are determined for your world to
remain as it is.
The battle is on, as you know. We are warriors of Truth that
have sworn to bring this earth of yours into the place that
was originally planned it should be – a place of pure Love. Be
of strength all who read these pages. Your orders shall come
when the time is in alignment with all that must be done.
Page 90 out of The Federation of Light's book 'The Bridge' through Blossom Goodchild www.blossomgoodchild.com
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Thanks so much Kerry and Blossom Child. Even though I seem to recall what was discussed here, is it such
a good reminder to start the day 'fresh, in Joy, in Love and Free!
Thank you all for taking the time to comment,I had a vivid dream last night and this song was in it
I haven't heard that song for years,for some reason it made me copy and paste this that I randomly opened the book to.
"What you need to understand is that there are no set rules. We simply have a plan, and this can only manifest
according to how you upon the earth plane conduct yourselves". Thank you Kerrie - it is so simple if we let it be! xxx
The Good Force be with you!
Thanks for sharing, Kerrie & Blossom Goodchild! Keep it up!
Live forever & prosper! Alleluia! Amen! <3 O:) * (Y)
I love this! I am Awake and looking forward to my "orders" to come and when the time is in alignment with all that must be done. Namaste
I feel myself already moving into a more positive universe
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Abaza is a North West Caucasian language spoken by about 45,000 people in the Russian autonomous republics of Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygea, and also in Germany, Turkey and the USA. It is fairly closely related to Abkhaz and is intelligible with it to some extent.
Like other Caucasian languages, Abaza has a large number of consonants (63) and few vowels. As a result, it is considered by linguists to be one of the most difficult Caucasian languages to learn
Between 1932 and 1938 Abaza was written with the Latin alphabet. Since 1938 however, it has been written with the version of the Cyrillic alphabet shown below. In Turkey it is still written with the Latin alphabet.
Source: Определитель языков мира по письменностям. Академия наук СССР. Москва – 1965.
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Tommy Brunett
Tommy Brunett
Are those drums you hear? Or is it the sound of Keith Richards joyously banging his fists on the lid of his coffin? Ted Nugent as well has seen the future of rock and roll, and it is Tommy Brunett's guitar: 18 wheels of white-line madness. More potent than a pitcher of adrenochrome squeezed from Courtney Love's glands.
The album is Hell or High Water, and it has style. Soon, all of the kids will be walking the school halls while sporting a version of Brunett's curious coiffure, an acid-washed Nureyev style he's worn for years and calls "The High Pony." And the kids will be speaking in Brunett's rusty-gate voice, dressing like 19th-century carnival barkers and greeting each other with the non-sequitur of a catch phrase that punctuates "Pushin' Time," one of Brunett's hard honky tonk tunes: "Let's go bowling!"
But Hell or High Water is really for smart rock fans who appreciate music with a history, and songs that tell a story. This music has been years in the making, but comes off like spontaneous combustion. Social Distortion-like country-punk irreverence haunted by the lyrical soul of Johnny Cash. Brunett owes an obvious debt to Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" on "The Drinking Song," a cautionary tale passed down from his father of how "some of the best times of my life I can't remember." Rhett Miller of the Old 97's sings on that track, as well as the rollicking "Born to Walk Alone."


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ATLANTA -- A poor second half offensive output led to Clark Atlanta's 59-41 loss to Benedict College at Epps Gymnasium Monday.
While hitting only 4-of-27 shots (14.8 percent) from the field in the second period, the Lady Panthers's seven-point half-time lead quickly diminished. CAU also struggled from behind the arc with a 0-for-10 effort. Senior Shavon Caldwell scored a game-high 12 points on 6-of-10 from the floor to along with three assists and one steal. La'Quisha Lewis grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds though Benedict gained a slight advantage on the boards as a team 44 to 41. The Lady Tigers turned up their defense with 21 steals led by Monique Weathers who recorded five. Alexus Jones topped Benedict with a game-hgih 14 points.
With the loss, the Lady Panthers dropped to 9-9 overall and 4-4 in the SIAC. Next, they will travel to Albany State for a 5:30 p.m., match-up with the Lady Rams, before hosting Fort Valley State at home Monday, Feb. 4, at 6 p.m.
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Shadow Lash (4e Power)
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|Shadow Lash
|Liege Attack 1
|Three tendrils of shadow flow from your mouth to attack your foes
|Encounter Arcane, Necrotic
|Standard Action
|Ranged 10
|Target: Up to 3 creatures within range
|Attack: Intelligence Vs. Reflex
|Hit: 2d6+Intelligence modifier necrotic damage, target is restrained until the beginning of your next turn.
|Cunning Aura: Extra necrotic damage equal to your Intelligence modifier.
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