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The prime Angus sirloin burger at Burger & Beer Joint is really, really good, with a nice ribbon of fatty marbling throughout the beefy patty. I prefer to make my own version (although it is hard to walk away from anything titled "Stairway to Heaven"), topping it with Maytag blue cheese and thick-cut smokehouse bacon and then slathering on an embarrassing amount of truffle aioli on my fluffy brioche bun. Every now and then, I add red onion marmalade for a special touch of patty divinity.
With all of those flavors competing against each other, I've perpetually assumed the up-charge for American Wagyu just isn't worth it. The burger is excellent in its entirety because each component both complements and slightly overwhelms the others. So in one bite, you have juicy meat, a little smoky bacon, pungent cheese, unctuously creamy truffle mayonnaise... but it drowns out the flavor of the beef. Or does it?
Even though I've always been intensely satisfied, human beings are naturally curious creatures. Thus my eyes often wander on the menu -- from the Prime Angus beef for $9 to the American Wagyu for $12. Is that extra $3 really necessary for burger bliss? Could it possibly taste better than it already does? It's probably just a way of adding margin to the restaurant's bottom line, right?
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So the question remained: Is the Wagyu beef patty an overrated eat?
And here come those three little words everyone loves to hear: I was wrong. The Wagyu embodies both a flavor and textural difference you can taste immediately. The grind seems more tightly packed, as if the meat condenses during the cooking process. There's a slight oily silkiness on the tongue that imparts a completely different taste sensation than the sirloin. The meat is more flavorful, with a richness that pops rather than dominates the burger toppings. It's way past yummy, sliding into first place without even a glance back at the finish line.
All right, take my damn money. That's $3 definitely worth spending.
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While your car or truck may be great, there is always something about it that can be upgraded to make your vehicle even greater. TSA Custom Car and Truck has custom accessories for your truck and car!
Trying to find a Reno car or truck accessory in particular? Give us a call at 775.883.0477
Paint Protection – Keep Your Car Looking Good
Of all the car accessories, the easiest and most effective way you can upgrade your car is with paint protection. Paint protection film is an invisible shield that prevents your car's paint job from degrading. Brands like Llumar and XPEL provide incredible paint protection films that protect against:
-small road debris
-bugs and insects
-winter sand and salts
Not only do paint protection films keep your car looking great, but they also enhance your car's resale value!
Cold Air Intakes – Better Air, Better Performance
Many engine modifications are expensive, time-consuming, and not really worth it. Cold air intake may just be the most undervalued car accessory you can put on your engine. Fairly inexpensive and easy to install, cold air intakes make your engine more powerful. Cold air intakes move the air filter outside the engine so that cooler air can enter the engine to combust. Colder air is more dense, which means better combustion, which means more power coming out of your engine. Sounds pretty good, right?
Performance Exhausts -Making Your Car Breath Better
Where cold air intakes improve your vehicle's "inhale", performance exhausts improve your vehicle's "exhale". Factory exhaust systems, typically referred to as "crush-bend" systems, contain a crinkled area of the pipe that slows down the escape of gas. Less gas that can escape means that your car won't be able to perform as well as it should. One solution comes in the form of an aftermarket exhaust product referred to as a "mandrel bend". A mandrel bend keeps the diameter of the pipe consistent throughout the whole pipe. This consistency allows for more air and gas to exit the pipe. Performance exhausts make some of the perfect car accessories.
Performance Suspension
When you think of suspension, you probably automatically think of off-roading. However, your car can benefit from a suspension upgrade even if your car is just used for cruising. Car accessories that upgrade suspension with sway bars and coil springs will make your car more grounded and stable. A more grounded car will have an easier time accelerating and turning.
Of course, if you live in Nevada, then off-roading is probably why you are looking for suspension. According to TSA Custom Car and Truck, replacing your shocks, struts, sleeves, springs, and mounts will make your car ready for the dirt trails. Your shocks and struts will make your car capable of taking on rocky and uneven roads. Upgraded sleeves make your car's struts rebound better when taking a hit while also reducing the nose dive your car does when braking. Lastly, new motor mounts will lessen engine rocking and give it more pull when you accelerate.
Wheels and Tires
Nothing improves the look and feel of your car like a new set of wheels. Whether it be for performance, luxury, or just to raise your truck even higher, TSA's has the perfect aftermarket tire and wheel packages to satisfy your needs. TSA's selection ranges from classic brands such as Firestone and Bridgestone to more advanced products from the likes of American Eagle Wheel and Mickey Thompson.
See our selection of over 20 tire and wheel brands
Got any great ideas for your next upgrade? TSA Custom Car and Truck also provides custom accessories for trucks and cars. Give us a call at 775.883.0477 or check out our products page to see what car and truck accessories we have to offer the Reno, Tahoe, and Carson City area.
Fall is a great time to get on four wheels and explore the Sierras with your custom Jeep. What? You are still driving a stock vehicle? If you live in Carson City or Reno, a custom Jeep is the only way to go. Not only can you rock crawl with precision in the hills, you can customize your Jeep to handle mud, snow, or any type of terrain the Sierras and valleys can dish up.
Here are a few our favorite custom Jeep add-ons:
Lift Your Jeep
If your buddy is trying to convince you to lift your Jeep yourself, don't give in. Do not attempt to lift your Jeep yourself. This is something that only an expert should do. Especially with the terrain in Carson City and Reno, it can ruin your custom Jeep if it's not done right. Jeeps have unique suspension and if they aren't lifted properly they can succumb to Death Wobble (yes, it's as bad as it sounds) and other problems. If you had your Jeep lifted by someone who didn't know what they were doing, we can fix that. You deserve to drive a custom Jeep, with the right lift and suspension, not a hack job. While you are lifting, be sure you have the right tires for your amount of lift. The right tires will make all the difference in your custom Jeep experience.
Give it More Horsepower
Towing and all-terrain driving is easier when you have a few more horses under the hood. Power up your custom Jeep with more horsepower with turbocharger and exhaust upgrades or an upgraded diesel fuel injector. Even some diesel fuel additives will aid the cause of getting more power for your play time. If you are rocking a diesel, you already have a lot of potential in your custom Jeep. Adding on more horsepower is easy and will add more oomph to your experience. Pair that with custom towing accessories and you'll be able to haul anything.
Make it Shine
After the dirt, mud, and snow, you may still want to shine up your custom Jeep for a night out in Carson City or Reno. Make that baby show and shine with paint protection. Paint protection will help your vehicle clean up nice. Add some custom lighting to the exterior and interior to make your custom Jeep stand out in a crowd.
Get Comfortable
Aftermarket accessories inside your custom Jeep make for a sweet and comfortable ride. Don't forget seat warmers, because Winter is on its way! You can outfit your Jeep to be or do just about anything you want. Flip through some catalogs for inspiration or hit our web site. Then, leave all the hard work, and expertise, to us. We'll make your custom Jeep just the way you want it at TSA Custom Car & Truck.
There are clearly present benefits that aftermarket Reno truck accessories and performance parts can have during the lifetime of your vehicle, especially off-road vehicles. For example, undercarriage and collision protection, window tinting, and paint protection, all serve the longevity of your car's appearance.
But what do these add-ons do for resale value?
It's hard to say what each Reno aftermarket truck accessory, among the plethora that exist, will do to the resale value.
Here is what should be kept in mind concerning alterations made to vehicles: does this alteration appeal to a large market? In other words, will a large group of car buyers be interested in the "upgrade" you've just installed?
The Value of the Visual
Custom Paint Jobs: How many times do you see a classic Ford F-150 painted purple? How about a Jeep Wrangler in flashy burnt orange? Painting your vehicle your favorite color will undoubtedly make it special. Unfortunately, the market of buyers looking for special is slim- no matter how beautiful the finish is.
Paint Protection Films: Paint protection is another upgrade that can benefit your vehicle's resale value. Not only will it cover for the life of the vehicle after resale, but it will also protect the vehicle's paint assets.
Revamp and Resale
Suspension: Suspension upgrades can be installed for look and functionality. Wanting to crawl around the desert or the mountains in your Jeep is reason enough to have proper suspension installed. There is also a whole group of consumers who just love the style and look of big lifted trucks. Both of these will probably do little in the way of added value onto the pricing of your vehicle's resale. However, just like with lifted trucks, the off-roading industry is prevalent and has a substantial following. Because there is a market for this industry, aftermarket Reno truck accessories will not put a damper on the chances of resale.
Window Tinting: We spoke at lengths about this option in our last post. Check it out to see all of these benefits. This upgrade won't be lost in the resale value.
Grills and Guards: Similar to suspension kits, grills and guards appeal to a particular market, while also providing functionality. These performance parts, aid in collision incidents. Perhaps hitting a deer or even in the event of a car-on-car accident. Grills also protect the vehicle's body when participating in off-road activities, especially rock crawling.
What is the Golden Rule of Aftermarket Accessories and Performance Parts?
Eric Lyman, ALG's Vice President of Residual Value Solutions, shows a great way to think about the addition of aftermarket accessories,
"Think of buying a home with some expensive custom marble countertops in the kitchen," Lyman explains. "The owners sees a beautiful reminder of their trip to southern Italy. All the buyer sees is a countertop that isn't exactly their style and is difficult to maintain."
This is a two-part rule:
Keep in mind who your potential buyer market is.
If selling your car is inevitable, always ask yourself if the vehicle upgrade you have in mind is something that will appeal to that market.
At TSA, we love car enthusiasts. Our goal is to make sure your vehicle is protected. Whether adding something solely for aesthetic purpose or helping you pursue a lifestyle, we can answer any questions you have about what aftermarket investments will do for your vehicle's resale value.
Check out the areas we specialize in as well as the the products and custom accessories we have to offer for trucks and cars, then give us a call so we can upgrade your vehicle in Reno, Tahoe, or Carson City!


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The West Point Association of Graduates is pleased to announce that Leon E. Panetta—23rd U.S.Secretary of Defense, 3rd Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 18th White House Chief of Staff, and Chairman of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy—will receive the 2018 Sylvanus Thayer Award. The award will be presented on October 4, 2018 during ceremonies hosted by the Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
West Point Association of Graduates Board Chairman Lt. Gen. (USA, Ret.) Joseph E. DeFrancisco, Class of 1965, said, "The West Point Association of Graduates is honored to present the Thayer Award to Secretary Leon E. Panetta. His distinguished public service career has spanned five decades, starting in 1964 as a U.S. Army intelligence officer, to time as a Congressman, to leading several national agencies and serving in high-ranking positions for two U.S. Presidents, through today as Chairman of an institute devoted to attracting men and women to lives of public service. Having Secretary Panetta forever associated with West Point through the Thayer Award speaks directly to its purpose of recognizing a citizen of the United States, other than a West Point graduate, whose outstanding character, accomplishments, and stature draw wholesome comparison to the qualities for which West Point strives. His life of service to our nation truly exemplifies the West Point values of 'Duty, Honor, Country.'"
"I thank the West Point Association of Graduates for this distinguished award," said Secretary Panetta. "I am honored to be recognized among those men and women who have dedicated their lives to the values of West Point: Duty, Honor, Country."
Leon E. Panetta was born in Monterey, California and raised in the Monterey area. In 1960, he graduated magna cum laude from Santa Clara University in California, and received a juris doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1963. A year later he joined the U.S. Army, commissioning as a second lieutenant of the Military Intelligence Corps and receiving the Army Commendation Medal for his service. After the Army, he became a legislative assistant to Thomas Kuchel, the U.S. Senate Minority Whip from California. In 1969, he was appointed director of the Office of Civil Rights in the Nixon Administration.
After returning to California to practice law, Panetta was elected in 1976 to represent California's 16th Congressional District, starting a 16-year career in Congress. As a legislator, Panetta became a respected leader on agriculture, federal budget, ocean and healthcare issues, and from 1989 to 1993 he chaired the House Budget Committee. He won passage of the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988, Medicare and Medicaid coverage of hospice care for the terminally ill. Panetta left Congress in 1993, when President-elect Bill Clinton selected him to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget.
President Clinton approached Panetta again in 1994 to become his new chief of staff, a position he held until January 1997. As chief of staff, Panetta was credited with bringing order and focus to White House operations and policy-making. After serving in the White House in 1997, Panetta and his wife Sylvia founded the Panetta Institute for Public Policy on the campus of California State University, Monterey Bay. The Institute is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit study center that seeks to attract men and women to lives of public service and prepare them for the policy challenges of the future.
In 2009, President-elect Barack Obama nominated Panetta to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, where he worked with international leaders to confront threats of Islamic extremism and the Taliban, and supervised the operation to find and bring the international terrorist Osama bin Laden to justice. Two years later, President Obama nominated Panetta as Secretary of Defense, where he led efforts to develop a new defense strategy, conduct critical counter terrorism operations, strengthen U.S. alliances, and open military service opportunities to Americans regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
In 2014, Panetta published his memoir Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace, a chronicle of his life in public service. In his review for the New York Times Book Review, Leslie H. Gelb wrote, "Young people searching for a role model of a public servant will find few as good as Panetta."
Panetta currently serves on the boards of directors for Oracle and Blue Shield of California. He also serves as co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Defense Personnel Task Force and the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Countering Violent Extremism.
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The Major Values of Coworking
We cannot repeat this enough: coworking is unlike any other office rental facilities. coworking has a philosophy. It features strong values. The following are the five major coworking values :
Coworking is Communitarian
Yes we know, you have to manage the place and your own money by renting offices BUT please keep in mind that, after all, you are doing it because you are the architect of a community! And it really matters. Firstly because your community shapes the place you are in charge of. When you set up a coworking center you need to create a community in order to offer it an appropriate working space. You need to build up your offer by taking into consideration your community's desires and needs.
Although you are the architect of this community, you are not its leader. You are the manager. Communities come to life because they have the history. It takes time to create the perfect environment for the community to emerge.
Coworking is Sustainable
Coworking is a sustainable concept. In addition to the majority of co-workers with an ecological awareness coworking sought right from the beginning to propose an alternative way of working. Founders of coworking centers also wished to guarantee the autonomy of their structures by depending exclusively on the revenues they get from the members of their community (and thus not relying on outside financing).
The same thing goes for recruiting: 93% of the existing coworking centers develop their community by word of mouth and no other publicity. Lastly, co-working centers value sustainable relations within their communities. Far from our days' frenetic instantaneous exchanges, coworkers seek to develop their connection to people in the long run. They prefer "authentic" encounters because they believe better professional collaborations come out from these relationships. It also has an impact on feelings: 28% of coworking centers declare couples emerge within their communities.
Coworking is Cooperative
No need to establish your center if you cannot imagine cooperation between the members of your community. It is one of the most important added values of coworking in comparison to tradition working environments. Coworkers are equals and the importance of their tasks does not interfere with their relations. The sustainable aspect of their exchanges, the diversity of their competences and the effects of networking generated by coworking are binding factors which encourage cooperation between members of a community.
Coworking is "open"
The value of aperture in coworking expresses itself under three different forms. Firstly, a capacity of intellectual open-mindedness in regards to the other members of the group, which enables everyone to be a part of the community. It suggests accepting the unexpected. Thus, serendipity is favored! Lastly, coworking nurtures a close link to hacking: it is an environment where open-source techs are central. And co-workers tend to favor these sources.
Coworking is reachable
Reachability is a fundamental value to the coworking world. coworking is flexible, it has no limits, and it is accessible to everyone. It is a determining fact in the co-workers' productivity and their professional fulfillment. A coworker who wishes to work a few days at home does not need an approval to do so. He masters his own workload and schedule. coworking creates spaces were people meet, where competence and creativity are master words and sharing is the rule. In other terms, offices in a standard company enable to rationalize each employee's workplace; a coworking center's mission is not to solely mutualize square meters. It aggregates brilliantly energies, projects, ideas, concentration, and networks.
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The accessibility of a coworking place kind of designs itself. Indeed, self-selection is the key to developing a coherent community. No need to put barriers at the entrance of your center, things will figure themselves out.
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The Onion Pull-Apart Rolls are found at the Yachtsman Steakhouse. This onion bread is simply amazing to have with a steak from this Disney steakhouse!
Savor premium steaks, fresh seafood and more at this family-friendly, New England-style steakhouse. – Source:https://disneyworld.disney.go.com
Yachtsman Steakhouse
Disney's Yacht Club Resort
If you like nautical, then Disney's Yacht Club Resort is where you want to stay. Also, this charming New England Inspired resort is simply divine. This Disney resort is across from Disney's Boardwalk. You can either catch a boat to get to or walk over to the Boardwalk area.
The Yacht Club is also an Epcot area resort. Believe it or not, you can even walk over to Epcot from the Yacht and Beach Club Resorts!
Onion Bread
The onion bread comes with everything on the Yachtsman Steakhouse menu. Disney food is amazing! That fluffy bread with onion taste is a Disney Dining Yummy delight!
Disney Dining
Before your mouth starts drooling over this wonderful onion bread, the Yachtsman Steakhouse is a signature dining. Which means on the Disney Dining Plan it is 2 dining meal credits.
My recommendation would be if you want to try the Yachtsman Steakhouse menu, I would do this Disney Dining establishment as a special celebration. It is worth it! I personally used this Disney steakhouse for my father's 70th birthday on our Disney Dining Plan.
You will love this Disney food. It is worth using 2 credits to try this onion bread! Like I said earlier the Onion rolls are a great compliment to the aged steaks at the Yachtsman Steakhouse!
Check out this Disney Recipe:
Wild Mushroom Beef Filet Mignon {2014 Food &Wine}
Onion Pull-Apart Rolls
The Onion Pull-Apart Rolls are found at the Yachtsman Steakhouse. This onion bread is simply amazing to have with a steak from this Disney steakhouse.
- 2 Tablespoons water
- 1/2 cup dehydrated onion or dried minced onion
- 3 cups bread flour
- 2 1/3 teaspoons salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 teaspoons instant yeast
- 1 cup whole milk plus 1 to 2 Tablespoons if needed
- 3/4 cup softened butter, divided
- Combine water and dehydrated onion; allow onions to soak for 20 minutes or until moistened.
- Combine bread flour, salt, granulated sugar, and the instant yeast in an electric mixer with dough hook attachment. Mix on low speed for 30 seconds.
- Add milk, and 1/4 cup of butter. Mix on low speed for 2 minutes until all ingredients are moistened. Add half of the onions and 1 to 2 tablespoons of milk if needed. Increase speed to medium-low and mix until dough forms.
- Cover bowl with a dry towel dusted with flour and allow the dough to rest for 5 minutes.
- On a floured surface, roll the dough into a 12 by 9 inch rectangle, and spread the softened butter over one half of the dough. Fold dough in half and gently roll the dough back to a 12 by 9 inch rectangle, being careful not to squish the butter out. Fold the dough in thirds toward the center and roll the dough back to a 12 by 9 inch rectangle. Place dough on a paper-lined plastic tray and refrigerate for 90 minutes.
- Place dough back on floured surface and fold in half in the opposite direction as before. Roll back into a 12 by 9 inch rectangle Fold the dough in thirds toward the center and roll back into a 12 by 9 inch rectangle. Place dough back on paper-lined tray, cover, and return to the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 F; grease a metal 12-muffin pan.
- Remove dough from refrigerator and cut into thirds lengthwise. Cut each strip into fourths. Curl each piece of dough into a circle and place in greased pan so that the layered edges are facing up. Sprinkle the remaining onion over the rolls.
- Place the pans in a warm moist area for 20 to 30 minutes; dough will rise slightly. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm with butter.
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Amount Per Serving: Calories: 269 Total Fat: 13g Saturated Fat: 8g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 4g Cholesterol: 33mg Sodium: 513mg Carbohydrates: 33g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 7g Protein: 6g
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Yes, you can add your own 'custom' questions for your business and, if you have more than one outlet/ venue, you can choose different custom questions for each venue.
Custom questions will run along your main rotation of core questions and enable you to dig into more outlet or wider business-specific issues.
If you are a larger business with multiple outlets and usually speak with a TruRating Account Manager, they will be able to help and advise you with your custom question requirements.
If you are a smaller business, here is how you can put forward a request for new custom question/s for your business.
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Once you have done this, the question will be added to your card payment device the next time that it is contact with TruRating. That is usually when ratings are next uploaded to TruRating which, depending upon your card payment device, could be throughout the day or overnight.
You can delete a custom question at any point by clicking on the delete icon that appears to the right of the question subject in your Question menu.
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Our Merchant Services team will then look at the question that you would like to ask and will send you back some suggestions that will fit into the text space available on your card payment device.
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2019- 04-25 - Yes, you are a runner
I just got back to running after 3 weeks off with a pain I had to work through. With every break in running I can't help but get a guilty feeling, like I'm a phony or loser ... Especially when I write the midweek run mail! Yes, this is ridiculous, I know I am a runner and setbacks are part of our sport and our lives. I will be a runner until death, even if I can't ever run another step. Be proud of yourself and your running, no matter what pace or how short or long or however many days you run in a year. You are a runner.
Run forever and ever, amen,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner ... who is very slow and is throwing in lots of walking, so there!
P.S.: The perfect plan for getting back into the swing of things is a FUN run/walk! Join us on Friday night, May 10 in Detroit, MI at Atwater Brewery for the Hightail to Ale 5K! Don't miss a beautiful run along the Detroit riverfront followed by a beer party including food trucks, cornhole and live music... Did we mention BEER?! Great custom shirt and pint glass to all entrants, sweet bottle opener medal and an Atwater Brewery beer to all finishers. The perfect jump back into this running life!
Welcome to RF Events!
RF Events (RFE) goal is to create and execute events that can live on in memory as the most significant moments in life, events where goals and dreams become reality, a tall order that we take seriously.
Yes, there are some cheesy and fun themes but behind the scene a detailed plan executed by our crew to insure a safe serious timed event that your training and hard earned entry fee will not be wasted on.
RFE does not chase the fads and promises not to put on flavor of the month, money grab, been there, done that runs. We believe in successful events that stand the test of time, events that can become memorable traditions for you, your family and friends.
You can expect a great value for your event dollar from RFE, our goal is to pay the bills, support charitable causes and make a modest and fair profit … so we can party like rockstars until the next race!
Your faithful event crew at RFE:
Randy (The Head Goat), IronMandy, Baby Goat, Gare Bear, Swamp Dog, Timing Trevor, Yellow Dog, #UFN, Shady, Your Mom, Mother Fultcher and Speedy!
Unpaid Staff includes Kristy, Fit Janet, Ted & Joanne (The Purple Grays), Red Rider John, Wild Bill, Trail Dog, Mark the Beard, Bernard the Texan, The Admiral, Sue & Phil Wade, Dave & Lorri Walch, John & Margo Heebert, Sam Denominee (& family & friends), Ant and hundreds of the coolest people you will ever meet on planet earth.


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Tomato, Eggplant, and Feta Turnovers
Zeny S.
2 medium sized eggplants
3 plum tomatoes
2 ½ T. olive oil
1 tsp. sugar
1 T. balsamic vinegar
½ tsp. sage
2 sheets phyllo dough, thawed
Pre-heat oven
to 735 degrees. Thinly slice eggplants and tomatoes -- no more
than 1/4" thick. Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan. Add eggplant.
Cook until golden brown. Stir in tomatoes and sugar and allow to cook for a
minute or until warmed through. Stir in the vinegar and sage. Cook for 2
minutes more.
Unroll the pastry sheets and cut in half. Spread 1/4 of the eggplant mixture onto half of one of the pieces. Sprinkle 1/4 of the feta, keeping the mixture away from the edges of the pastry. Fold the top half over and crimp the edges to keep from unfolding. [Julia's note: I spray olive oil on the unfolded pastry and filling to help the dough stick to itself.]
Repeat the filling process with the remaining 3 pieces of pastry. Bake on a greased baking sheet for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Fabulous with tossed salad. Servings: 4


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Seaage Annual Conference 2018
Workforce of the Future: Digital, Data, Diversity, Design
- Date— 19th April, 2018
- Location— Google Singapore 70 Pasir Panjang Road, #03-71, Mapletree Business City
- Time— 8.30am to 5.00pm – Conference
SEAAGE is proud to announce our third Asia annual conference, "The Future Workforce: Digital, Data, Diversity, Design", hosted in Singapore on Thursday 19th April with a networking session prior to the conference on Wednesday 18th April, 2017.
The Future Workforce: Digital, Data, Diversity, Design
Networking Evening: Wednesday 18th April 2017
- When: 6.00pm to 9.00pm – Welcome Reception and Networking
- Location: TBA
Conference: Thursday 19th April 2017
- When: 8.30am to 5.00pm – Conference
- Location: Google Singapore 70 Pasir Panjang Road, #03-71, Mapletree Business City
Conference Rates & Membership
Become an official SEAAGE member to enjoy a special rate for this conference, as detailed below. What's more, you and your organisation can enjoy our future events throughout the year for free. Don't miss out and join today!
Members can enjoy a discounted rate of SGD$650.
Non-members pay SGD$850 per delegate.
Conference Content
Come and join us as we focus on the latest trends and developments in graduate recruitment across the Asia region. The Conference will offer you a mix of professional and personal development, great keynote presentations, open sharing of knowledge and experiences as well as networking opportunities.
The 2018 SEAAGE Conference will host industry experts and market leaders to provide you with insights into current and future trends and challenges being faced in the Asian and Global early talent markets, particularly on the ever-evolving topics of Digital, Data, Diversity and Design.
The conference format encourages open sharing of knowledge and experience, which serves to elevate the early talent industry as an increasingly important, strategic part of a business.
Conference Speakers
What / Who
Presentation Theme/Overview
|Amy Schultz, Head of Talent Acquisition, LinkedIn
|Global Recruiting Trends in 2018
|Kelly Hartman, Chief People Officer, Flywire
|Robert Newry, Managing Director, Arctic Shores
|Gamification in recruitment
|Gen Z Panel – Disruptions to recruitment
|How do Gen Z's, our target market, experience the shift towards digital tools in student and graduate recruitment/development
|Samir Khelil, APAC Director, WCN
|Digital evolution and the Data revolution
|Ed Barzilaij, CEO Maximum
|Design thinking in graduate recruitment for the end user
|Tricia Duran, HR Director, Unilever
|How we rebuilt our employer brand
|Tony Ye, Director, GradConnection
|Topic TBC
|Higher Education Panel – (Don Carlson, Microsoft & Esther De Perlakhy, Warwick University UK)
|Innovation in Higher Education
|Huijin Kong, Program Leader, LinHart Group
|Future Workforce Preparedness
|Dan Wasik, Head of Early in Career Hiring, Google
|Using design to build a talent community
|Toby Ouvry, Meditation Asia
|Mindfulness practice
About Us
The 2018 Asia Graduate Recruitment and Development Conference is organised by the South East Asian Association of Graduate Employers (SEAAGE).
SEAAGE is a not-for-profit, professional association that promotes the graduate recruitment and development industry across the Asia region. We provide networking, information and best practice which allow our members to better understand the workings of the Asian graduate recruitment market.
Showcase your business at the Conference Expo with our sponsorship opportunities. You will have the chance to sponsor social events at the conference and speak to get your name in front of the attendees. For more information, please contact Sally Palfreeman via: email@example.com.
Platinum Sponsor:
Arctic Shores (http://www.arcticshores.com)
Gold Sponsors:
GradConnection (http://www.gradconnection.com)
Development Beyond Learning (http://www.developmentbeyondlearning.com)
WCN (http://www.wcnsolutions.com)
Event Sponsors:
Testgrid (http://testgrid.com)
Vieple (http://vieple.com)
Revelian (http://revelian.com)


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Open to Interpretation is now calling on writers to submit images for consideration in a juried book competition.
Project Details: Open to Interpretation is a collaborative book project bringing together photographers, poets and writers. Each book begins with a themed call for photos. The chosen photos become the literary inspiration for the writers' submissions. A book is created that matches each winning photo with two stories or poems that offer different interpretations of the image. The unique collaboration adds new dimensions to both the photos and the written word.
Book Title: Open to interpretation
Theme: Intimate Landscape
Judge: Patrick Thomas, Editor + Program Manager at Milkweed Editions
Submission Fee: $10 per entry
Deadline for Submission: March 29, 2012
Results Announced: April 19, 2012
Awards: $300 Judge's Selection Award
Judge: Patrick Thomas is the editor and program manager at Milkweed Editions. As an editor, his work focuses on acquisitions that consider our relationship to the more-than-human world. As program manger, he works to find the best way to bring literary art to the widest possible audience. He lives in Minneapolis, MN.
For further details go to http://www.open2interpretation.com/submit_intimate_landscape.html
Contact Information:
For inquiries: email@example.com
For submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: http://www.open2interpretation.com
This blog is no longer updated. Please instead visit Writers For Diversity for new opportunities for women/ LGBT writers and writers of color. Thank you.


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The last Neanderthals may have died longer ago than previously thought
Until this week, it was widely accepted that the Neanderthal branch of our genetic tree came to an end around 28,000 years ago on the Rock of Gibraltar. Bones found in caves in the area were thought to be the last of our distant ancestors, but recent developments in dating them has cast doubt on the theory.
Using a new form of testing, a team of Oxford scientists revisited bones that were previously thought to be 35,000 years old and in the process came up with a new estimate adding another 15,000 years to their age. If these new dates are correct it casts much doubt on the belief that there were thousands of years in which both Neanderthals and Homo-sapiens existed together in Europe; maybe even interacting and interbreeding. If the bones tested are indeed 50,000 years old, that mean they are around 2,000 years older than the first known evidence of the existence of Homo-sapiens on the continent.
It was thought that the arrival of modern humans in Europe at this time contributed to the demise of the Neanderthal people - another theory that is now going need to be revisited. DNA evidence does show some level of mixing between the two branches of our tree, but how and when is now a question that is further from being answered than ever.
Source: BBC News


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Thank you for your interest in sponsorship of MESC 2019.
The industry community plays an important role in providing opportunities for conference attendees to sample and explore the latest technical developments and initiatives related to Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference. Below you will find all available sponsorships for MESC 2019.
Please feel free to contact NESCSO at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions regarding the conference. We look forward to working with you in Chicago at the 2019 Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference!
Workplace Retreat – Updated for 2019:
- For MESC 2019, the Cyber Cafe is being refreshed, and rebranded as our Workplace Retreat. The vision is to include a place within the Exhibit Hall for attendees to network, meet, and to relax away from the open seating areas. An area for printing of documents will also be included.
- There is no charge for the sponsorship of the Workplace Retreat area located within the Exhibit Hall. The sponsoring organization will work with NESCSO and the MESC drayage service to develop the design of the Workplace Retreat, and the Workplace Retreat must be ordered through the MESC Drayage service.
- In addition, the sponsor must coordinate and pay for all Internet access (bandwidth necessary determined by the conference) and electricity charges for the Workplace Retreat.
- Contact David Huffman at email@example.com or 508-365-7833 with any questions about this sponsorship
Summary Description of Your Organization:
Included in the section in the conference program that highlight the types of services that your organization offers and/or the sponsorships that you have purchased. This enhancement is available to all sponsors as part of your purchase of a booth, industry session, demo room, poster session food/beverage station, Cyber Café and meals (one per sponsor). The description will include placement of your logo and up to a 100 words. For example:
Wi-Fi Sponsorship (Four Available – Prices Vary):
Promote your organization by providing internet access to the attendees throughout the conference venue during MESC 2019. Working with our internet services provider, we will coordinate the access to first land on a website of your design (e.g., company website, custom site directing people to your booth/demo room/industry session/networking event). There will be sufficient bandwidth for attendees to check emails and general web surfing. The sponsorship is be available for purchase by the day, with reduced rates for Monday and Thursday.
Booth Rental (124 Available – $3,500 per booth):1
- A 10' x 10' booth (maximum of four (4) booths per company)
With every Booth Rental Sponsorship:
- A skirted table
- Two chairs and a wastebasket
- One (1) complimentary registration
- A CVENT Lead Retrieval device, used to capture attendee contact information (one device per company)
- An 1/8 page ad (2.5"H x 3.5"W approximate size) 2,3
- Your logo in the conference program 2,3
- Electricity (5 amps per reserved booth) 4
- Summary description of your organization in the conference program
Demo Rooms (14 Available – $3,250 each):
- A demonstration room (maximum of one (1) per company) which vary in size but can be generally be arranged to accommodate at least 100 attendees. Other room set-up arrangements may result in additional costs to the sponsor.
With every Demo Room Sponsorship:
- Summary description of your organization in the conference program
Industry Sponsored Session (20 Available – $3,600 each):
- A room which will be arranged to accommodate up to approximately one hundred, fifty (150) attendees.
- Each slot is sixty (60) minutes in length, running concurrent with other sessions
- Rooms will have a projector and screen, but the sponsor of the session is required to supply their own laptop computer
With every Industry Session Sponsorship:
- A standard description of your session within the program (200 word maximum). The session is identified with your logo and company name.
- An 1/8 page ad (2.5"H x 3.5"W approximate size) and your logo in the conference program
- Summary description of your organization in the conference program
Meals and Breaks (Food and Beverage Included):
- Continental Breakfast served in the Exhibit Hall on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday – $7,500 each
- Buffet Lunch served in the SkyLine Ballroom (adjacent to the Exhibit Hall): Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday – $9,000 each
- Full Day Session Breaks (Tuesday and Wednesday – $7,500 per day
- Half Day Session Breaks (Monday and Thursday) – $2,500 per day
With every Meal and Break Sponsorship:
- Signage on the Food and Beverage Stations
- Summary description of your organization in the conference program
- An 1/8 page ad (2.5"H x 3.5"W approximate size) and your logo in the conference program 2,3
- Acknowledgement of your organization's sponsorship during the meal
Tuesday Poster Session Reception (6 Food and 4 Beverage Stations Available – $3,000 each):
- Acknowledgement of your organization's sponsorship during the Poster Session with your logo printed in the conference program
- Signage on the food and beverage stations
- Full Page: $4,000
- Full Page: (Inside Front Cover): $6,000
- Full Page: (Inside Back Cover): $6,000
- Half Page: $2,000
- Quarter Page: $1,000
- Eighth Page: $750
- We are currently working on the Exhibitor Kit and Information Sheet that will give you a listing of deadlines as well other important information. These documents should be finalized shortly and sent to you via email.
- If you have more than one (1) booth and/or sponsorship that includes an ad, the ads can be combined into a larger ad size. NESCSO must be notified by email at email@example.com if you plan to combine ads to allow sufficient time for ad placement in the conference program.
- We need to have your ad and logo in both .eps and .jpg formats submitted no later than June 21, 2019. Instructions for uploading your logo and ad will be emailed to the technical contact person listed on your Sponsorship Request Form.
- Each Exhibitor will be provided with 5 amps of electricity for each booth reserved.
- We will need your final Industry Session abstract submitted no later than June 21, 2019.
- We will need the submittal of the 100 word summary description of your organization no later than June 21, 2019.
Payment and Refunds:
Requests will be held for fourteen (14) calendar days upon receipt of the completed request form. An invoice will be sent to the main contact listed on the form. Payment must be received by the invoiced date due and will serve as confirmation of your booth(s), demo room, and/or sponsorship request.
All sponsorship and booth rental fees are NON-REFUNDABLE/NON-TRANSFERABLE.
Customer Service:
Please contact NESCSO at firstname.lastname@example.com or 508-365-7833 with any questions or issues.
Privacy Notice:
NESCSO and the MESC will not share information about your identity, payment amount or method of payment with external organizations.


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Chromatic Club Scholarships
Chromatic Club of Buffalo is proud to offer a number of scholarships to promising student musicians and vocalists.
Scholarship live auditions are held once a year for all Chromatic Club members. You can also submit via YouTube video throughout the year.
If you are interested in auditioning for a scholarship, please start by downloading the application here.
2019- 2020 Scholarship Winners
- R. Leon Trick Instrumental College Scholarship: Jackson Lasher, Clarinet
- Robert Vehar Memorial Collegiate Music Education/Vocal Scholarship: Katherine Riederer, Soprano
- Deborah Remson Memorial String Scholarship: TBA
- Laura Kelsey Summer Music Camp/Instrumental Scholarship: TBA
- Eugene and Patricia Malinowski Summer Vocal Scholarship: TBA


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Enrol or register your interest.
The goal of the Learn to Row program is to introduce rowing and offer the opportunity for a wide range of community members to participate in the sport.
Numbers are limited for our Learn to Row program – especially for junior rowers – and for this reason we ask people to register ahead by completing the enrolment form and pay their fees in full to ensure their place in the course. Please note that Juniors must comply with the age and weight restrictions set out below to be considered for the program. Contact us first before enrolling a junior rower.
Dates of the next Learn to Row courses in 2019
Course 1 – February: 9-10, 16-17, 23-24, March 2-3
Course 2 – May: 11-12, 18-19, 25-26, June 1-2
Course 3 – August 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25
Course 4 – October 26-27, November 2-3, 9-10, 16-17
Adults $400 (including GST)
Juniors $250 (including GST) – PLEASE CONTACT US FIRST FOR JUNIOR ROWERS
What can I expect?
The program consists of an orientation session which includes information dissemination and a land-based rowing lesson, followed by 6 on-water sessions.
The land-based session includes coaching on rowing simulators (ergometers), an introduction to boat handling and rowing terminology. The land-based session is compulsory – if you miss this session, you will not be able to continue with the program.
The next sessions are on water and are designed to give all participants a basic understanding of crew rowing.
All participants will be learning sweep oar so they can compete in an Eight. Juniors will learn in sculling boats (two oars per rower) while senior/adult rowers learn in sweep oar (one oar per rower) boats.
The final session will be a regatta and graduation.
What happens after I've completed the Learn to Row program?
Squad rowing for juniors is by invitation from the Club Captain. Rowing in a squad involves training on Saturday and Sunday mornings, one midweek afternoon fitness session and competing in regattas later in the season.
The Club Captain may invite adult participants who are considered to have a suitable racing profile and the ability to progress into the racing program. Going into this program requires serious commitment to the early morning weekday training and the program for selection for competition. Adult participants are able to join the recreational rowing program (Saturday & Sunday morning rowing only).
Who can participate?
As rowing is a demanding sport – both physically and mentally – it is necessary to place entry restrictions on participants. All applicants must be healthy and fit as well as being capable swimmers.
We also place the following minimums on juniors who apply for the program:
* Minimum age is 14 years
* Minimum weight for girls is 45kg
* Minimum weight for boys is 50kg
While we endeavour to accept all applicants into the Learn to Row program, the Club reserves the right to refuse entry if, for example, participation in the program may have adverse health repercussions for the applicant.


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I Installed integrated messaging on my ipad last night. I tried to install it on yay sgs3 today, it shows it's installing, sends text to my phone, and appears, but all except ONE message thread appears in my texts on my phone (both in my vzw message app and the stock messaging app).
i Did not delete this thread, it is kind of an important thread, as it is from a friend who, well my reasons aren't important, as much as
1. Did it not fully install?
2. Why did this one thread not download but all the others did?
3. I tried to restore conversations, and it tells me I need to subscribe to integrated messaging. When I do, I get the text, but the screen freezes with a half red bar of "please wait starting service"
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Hello Hawkeye98
I'm sorry your having problems with the integrated messaging app. I would recommend you delete the app then power the S3 off and back on attempt to redownload and see if that thread comes thru.
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OSCAR as Featured in the Daily Mail
We are proud to see the OSCAR business franchise opportunity featuring in the Daily Mail this week.
Rachel Knight, OSCAR Pet Foods Northamptonshire gives tips and advice on how to keep your pet fit. The article also highlights the growing problem of pet obesity in the UK and how our Nutritional Advisors can help customers' pets.
Having the opportunity to showcase the skill and expertise of our network of Nutritional Advisors and head office helpline team is one that we always relish.
To read the full article, please click here.
If you would like advice on your dog's current feeding regime or you are worried about their weight, then please contact your local Nutritional Advisor or contact us on 0800 195 8000.
Would you like to run your own pet food business? Why not take a look here
For further details contact : Janet, Colleen or Mandy via email or phone on 0800 068 1106 or Contact Us Here


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We have five types of buckets:ORIGINAL GEM STONE BUCKETS
These buckets have our original mix of Ruby, Sapphires, Emeralds, Garnets, Topaz, Tourmaline, Amethyst, Smoky Mt. Topaz, Rose Quartz, Citrine, Aquamarine and more – over 20 different types of stones.
BABY BEAR - This is our smallest Original Gem Stone Bucket. It has a nice mix for the beginner or one or two younger miners.
SMOKY BEAR – the start of our family size buckets. This is great for the miner who wants more, a couple of friends, or a small family.
BIG BEAR - this is our best value family bucket. You will find over twice what you do in our Smoky Bear Bucket. Comes with a free one ct. cut stone.
MINER SPECIAL - this is the start of our SHOWCASE buckets. These buckets contain stones big enough to display on your mantel or shadow box – in other words these are stones you can showcase. It's a great bucket for the Rock Collector, or for family memories. Comes with a free two ct. cut stone.
OLD TIMER - Also part of our SHOWCASE buckets. This has even bigger stones than the Miner special. A great Bucket for the serious Rock Collector – also great for a family – enough stones for everyone to go home with a BIG FIND. Comes with a free three ct. cut stone.
The Treasure is our former Fossil and Gem buckets. Since we have so many different things in it we felt a name change was needed. The Treasure Hunter besides having a gem mix like our Original Gem Stone Buckets, it also contains fossils, arrowheads, shells, geodes, shark teeth and stones unlike you find in our Original Gem Stone Buckets.
1 – This is our smallest Treasure Hunter bucket. Great for the person who wants to try out a bucket that's different.
2 – The start of our family size Treasure Hunter buckets. It's great for the miner who wants more, a couple of friends or a small family. With the Treasure Hunters as the buckets get bigger – the fossil mix gets better as larger fossils start showing up.
3 - This is our best buy Treasure Hunter bucket. A really great family bucket. Also great for the miner who want that larger mining experience. This was our best seller during the 2015 Summer season. Comes with a free one ct cut stone.
4 – This is the start of our SHOWCASE buckets. You will find some really nice size fossils, shell, and gemstones in these buckets. Big enough to put on display in your home. This is a great bucket for Rock and Fossil collectors. It also good for making family memories. Comes with a free two ct. cut stone.
5 – This is also part of our SHOWCASE buckets. It has even bigger stones and fossils as our $100 bucket. This is a great bucket for the serious Rock and Fossil collectors and is also a great family bucket. Comes with a free three ct. cut stone.
Our Specialty Buckets were made with the person who wants to have their stones made into jewelry. They specialize in certain types of stones. They will contain other types of stones – so you will have a nice mix stones.
RUBY SAPPHIRE – This is our most popular specialty bucket. Great for the Ruby or Sapphire lover.
EMERALD AQUAMARINE- Great for the Emerald Or Aquamarine lover.
TRIGEM - Showcase three of our prettiest stones – Amethyst, Citrine, and Blue Topaz.
Garnet Amethyst - Our newest with Garnets and Amethyst.SUPER BUCKETS
These may seem to be a bucket that should have been listed under the Treasure Hunters – the shear size of these buckets make them a class of their own. We have in them everything we could think of: Gemstone, Fossils, Shells, Shark Teeth, Geodes, Arrowheads and much more.
SUPERBUCKET- This a great family bucket – everyone will find a lot of large stones. It comes with a free four ct. cut stone. This comes in a 16 gallon container. Great fun for everyone.
ULTRA SUPERBUCKET - This is it the ultimate bucket – you will find things not in any of the other buckets. It's big enough for a family reunion!! For the ultimate collector this is a dream bucket. Comes with a free five ct. cut stone and other surprises. Comes in a 33 gallon container.
This is our smallest bucket. If you just want to see what the mining is all about this is a great bucket to sample it with. It contains a small collection of our gemstones.
* Any amount of people in your group can mine form the same bucket. Just remember the more people mining the less each person finds - and too many can result in someone not finding anything. Our miner will help you with picking the right size for the amount of people you have in your group. And a large bucket the same price as two smaller buckets always has more in it than the two smaller ones.
Your mining isn't over until you have taken your stones into our General Store and had our Assayers give you a free assay, which means they will tell you what your stones are. If you want anything made from your stones, the Assayers are the ones to talk to. The free cuts are a $15 value and include the following stones: White Topaz and Smoky Topaz. This can be deducted from a more expensive cut or from a cut and jewelry setting. It can not be used for anything else in the store, and it has no monetary value.


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Member Directory
Project Management Institute/PMI
2443 S University Blvd, Ste 252
Denver CO 80210
Membership Types(s):
Company Team Plus
About Us
PMI Mile Hi is the 10th largest chapter worldwide of the industry leading Project Management Institute, with more than 3,500 members. It offers leading edge, cost effective professional development opportunities, including PMP Exam Prep, ACP Prep Course & Lean Six Sigma, workshops, seminars, and Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium. Monthly chapter dinner meetings with industry professional speakers, job announcements, time for networking & connections available.


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ION B2 Seat Harness 2018
Sold Out41703
The ION B2 harness is where fashion and function meet to create a unique product.
Many riders embrace the feeling of a seat harness but are not always comfortable with 'that look.' The B2 is the perfect solution!
Get one at Urban Surf and share your kiteboarding adventures on Social Media at #urbansurfNW!
CONSTRUCTION: Quick_Fit 2.0 | Pro_pad Foam
ENTRY/EXIT: Push Button Spreader Bar
SPREADER BAR: Hook metal Spreaderbar
FEATURES: Belt Garage | Downforce straps
BEST FOR: Freeride


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Encounters with the Bridegroom
Regular price $ 18.00
The Song of Songs is an unfathomable well of revelation into the depths of God's infinite love, providing nourishment and refreshment for the soul, and breakthroughs into freedom. We only have to observe our culture today and realize that the world is crying out for genuine intimacy in relationships-the very purpose for which God created us. The book opens with a desire and ends in fulfillment.


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Two wrong signs
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These two signs are just wrong.
Seen at a building site in Hills Place near Oxford Circus in London yesterday, these two signs are wrong in two different ways:
- The first one, men working overhead, hang on – no women working here?
- The second one, falling objects, is not a good health and safety notice – doesn't exactly inspire confidence!
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WordCamp UK 2008 tickets now available
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Tickets for WordCamp UK 2008 are now on sale.
Two types of ticket are available:
- Standard tickets at £35.
- Microsponsor tickets at £70 for those who want to contribute more to the event.
Many thanks to Casper Aremi for setting up and running the ticketing system.
Yahoo SearchMonkey evening
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Went to the Yahoo SearchMonkey Developer Event last night.
Presentations by the developers of SearchMonkey was followed by a lively debate.
To quote from the SearchMonkey developer home page:
Using SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.
SearchMonkey seems to be one of few innovative developments in search over the past few years.
Looking forward to meeting again those from the London web development community I shared a beer with last night at this great event.
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The day I met my girlfriend, she came to see someone who disappointed her in a fast food. I had ordered my food because the tables were all occupied so I just sat on the empty seat I saw. I asked her before I sat if she was waiting for anybody and she said I can sit down. I noticed she was just looking at me as I swallowed my rice and chicken while she was taking nothing, so I decided to ask her to take a drink on me which she agreed.
After the drink, I bought her food and we chatted and chatted but I noticed that nobody was even calling her not to talk about coming. So after our meal, I decided to drop her since she said the person she was expecting did not show up. I dropped her off and kissed her, I noticed she responded so I just fingered her to check if she was neat. We kissed goodbye and that was how we started talking after few weeks dating. Continue reading "My Girlfriend Loves to Sit with Different Men."


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Today's session at the gym was not without incident. I overheated in the pool and had to literally drag myself on my walking-aid to the changing rooms to cool off, which wasn't fun. You see, I walk in fine, gaily swinging my walker about in the air, then after the exertion of the swimming, I have to lug myself out the exit, barely able to lift my feet. I think I'm a bit of a side-show there. Although no more than the poor guy who carouses the circuit in his wheelchair, for whom I have immense respect. Maybe people respect my effort of lugging myself up and down the pool, I don't know. I do find it mildly amusing, though, when people (management) talk about me to my dad (in the third person) when I'm standing right there.It always surprises me, as in my head I have not been cast in the role of the disabled person, but that is of course what I am. 4.5 on the EDSS scale. On a good day.
The whole episode has given me a bit of insight into how people feel, who have a disability. Previously, when confronted with a disabled person in, say, a shopping centre, I largely used to ignore him/her, as I would ignore any other strange person going about the business of shopping. Mind you, I still do that, because now I know how irritating it is to be stared at with that mixed expression of curiosity and sympathy. (I don't like to draw attention to myself, so I appreciate it if other people just let me get on with it) I do, however, have a feeling of comraderie with fellow Ama Kroks (the affectionate term given to members of the SA paralympic team, which has now grown to include any member of the disabled community). I know how they battle, because I have battled and still do, though to a lesser extent. People equipped with a fully functioning body will never understand this, and why should they? But from my own personal experiences, I would say that people with disabilities just want to be treated like everyone else, but also that people respect that they need special parking spots and toilets to make life a little easier, and please not to make use of these facilities thereby blocking them from using them. Well, that is how I feel about it, anyway. I feel like a bit of a fraud, because as I said, I'm not really disabled in my mind's eye, and for large parts of the day, I masquerade as normal. But today's episode at the pool brought home to me that this is far from true. I hate feeling so helpless. I battled hugely to put my shoes on and haul off to the bogs. I try and block it out and just carry on with it (not hard, as it requires immense physical effort) but on reflection, I look at that person, almost objectively, and think, "Hell. That can't be easy."
The crux of the matter is that I need cortisone. I'm in relapse territory, once again, and it sucks. It's a familiar sucky feeling though, so I'm not wasting too much emotional energy on it. Next Tuesday is my neuro appointment, and then I'm free to take the stuff. Well, after I've used my persuasive powers to convince him that I am indeed having a relapse. He wasn't that pleased with me last time, after I elected to change the dosage of the course. Bad Maggie. And I have to say, he was right. The 1 gram just wasn't enough, which is why I'm sitting with this now.


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A year ago, in every formal or informal meeting with customers, partners, family or friends, I had to explain "what is IoT". I guess I will continue doing it, but henceforth I will not go to use definitions from analysts and experts, from now on I will use economic concepts ("IoT is the business of trillion of dollars") or philosophical concepts like when we try to define the infinite or the nothingness ("IoT is a super Internet where just about any physical thing can be connected in an intelligent fashion"). Not sure if this will be enough to avoid a debate or to start it.
Do we need more IoT hype?
During 2014, the reason for the IoT hype was pretty simple: analysts are forecasting massive growth. Take a look at these ten Internet of Things facts and predictions courtesy of SAS Insights.
As, Kurt Shuler, VP Marketing, Arteris, wrote in this post: "There is a lot of stupidity that comes with the IoT hype, stemming from the lack of critical thinking and "me too" herd mentality. Much of the IoT today is all about pontificating, dreaming, surmising, and pie-in-sky thinking."
IoT is still in the nascent stage. In my view, more Hype is not going to help ensure that the IoT's full potential is unleashed.
Be with me, IoT doesn't need any more hype.
The buyer appetite has reached the IoT
It's clear that IoT had turned the attention of many mega-vendors. Internet of Things (IoT) deal-making activity rose sharply in 2014. Acquirers spent approximately $14.1bn to acquire 60 companies during the year. That spending sets a high watermark for the IoT industry and is nearly eight times the total spent by acquirers in all of the years prior to 2014. Many of these developments surprised industry executives with size and valuation multiples dwarfing previous M&A metrics in several cases. For more details I recommend read these 2 articles posted by Brian Partridge "Exclusive: Internet of Things-related deal-making passes $14bn mark in 2014, says 451 Research", and by Ken Figueredo "2014 Corporate Initiatives; market rules are changing".
Who is building the Internet of Things?
In the famous slide "IoT Landscape (version 3.0)", Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital, show just a pinch of this fragmented market. Additionally, if we all assume that in the rapidly growing Internet of Things no single standards can adequately prevail and no single company will dominate, is it possible to build a "Unique IoT"?
I do not doubt about how to achieve the full potential of IoT. It is not enough that traditional hardware vendors actively promote their own IoT hardware ecosystems; or that device and modules vendors evolve from M2M to IoT or that Wireless Sensors Network vendors deliver powerful, modular, easy to program open source sensor platform for the Internet of Things. Nor is sufficient that IoT Platforms Vendors, Communication Service Providers and Communication Equipment vendors, mega Independent Software Vendors, IoT StartUps; and System Integrators work independently building IoT silos.
It is the time of Multi Mega Alliances and Consortiums. But only with a sense of collaboration among these Alliances, we will be able to build "The unique Internet of Things".
The current Babel tower of Alliance & consortiums
Despite how big are companies that are looking in IoT a new source of revenue and more profits for the next ten years, none of them alone can embrace the complexity and the dimensions involved in creating a network of heterogeneous networks capable of connecting 50 billion objects worldwide.
None of these companies will be able to create a valid standard for all. Therefore, they have not been slow when creating groups of industry players forced to collaborate for creating consistent standards and broad interoperability to unite the Internet of Things. Only with strong alliances will be able to compete with the guarantee in this vast universe.
Here is a non-complete list of them.
Industrial Internet Consortium – The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) was founded in March 2014 to bring together the organizations and technologies necessary to accelerate the growth of the Industrial Internet of Things by identifying, assembling and promoting best practices. Membership includes small and large technology innovators, vertical market leaders, researchers, universities and governments.
Open Interconnect Consortium – "The Open Interconnect Consortium is focused on delivering a specification, an open source implementation, and a certification program for wirelessly connecting devices. Membership is currently over 50 members."
AllSeen Alliance – "The AllSeen Alliance is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to enabling and driving the widespread adoption of products, systems, and services that support the Internet of Everything with an open, universal development framework supported by a vibrant ecosystem and thriving technical community. The AllSeen Alliance framework is initially based on the AllJoyn™ open source project, and will be expanded with contributions from member companies and the open source community."
Thread Group – "Thread was designed with one goal in mind: To create the very best way to connect and control products in the home. It's hard to get devices to talk to one another. And once they do, the connection is often spotty and power hungry. Thread changes all that. It's a mesh network designed to securely and reliably connect hundreds of products around the home – without blowing through battery life."
IPSO Alliance – "The Internet Protocol for Smart Objects Alliance is a global forum including many Fortune 500 high tech companies and noted industry leaders. IPSO serves as a thought leader across the board for communities seeking to establish the Internet Protocol (IP) as the network for the connection of Smart Objects."
IoT Eclipse – "OASIS is a non-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information society. OASIS promotes industry consensus and produces worldwide standards for security, Internet of Things, cloud computing, energy, content technologies, emergency management, and other areas."
OneM2M – "The purpose and goal of oneM2M are to develop technical specifications which address the need for a common M2M Service Layer that can be readily embedded within various hardware and software, and relied upon to connect the myriad of devices in the field with M2M application servers worldwide."
Bluetooth SIG – "The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers."
Internet of Things Consortium – "Driving adoption of IoT products & services through consumer research and market education."
LoRa Alliance – "Our mission to standardize Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) being deployed around the world to enable the Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M), and smart city, and industrial applications. The Alliance members will collaborate to drive the global success of the LoRa protocol (LoRaWAN), by sharing knowledge and experience to guarantee interoperability between operators in one open global standard."
For additional info about the importance of the partner ecosystem for Network Operators and M2M Service Providers I suggest take a look at my post.
The IoT industry does not need more "hype". It is time to take the plunge to collaborate in creating a "Unique IoT". It is the time for investing in the Internet of Things companies.
"Unique IoT" is today what internet was in the 1980s, it may take at least another 5-10 years before we see the commercial blooming of this and have real "Unique IoT" applications. But any firm with the strategic intention of being an IOT leader over the next 10 years does not have the option to ignore this market.
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Jack, oh Jack, you know you're the apple of my eye - but really, you'd be better off learning to fly. It's unfortunate for you that there's not a boat, so I suppose it's lucky that men can float. Don't you worry, oh lover of mine, if hypothermia gets you before the coastline I'll keep the drawing safe,… Continue reading Jack
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You know I love talking in circles, talking In circles, love Talking in circles with you. With a slip of summer sun In your hair, against your tongue You glow like a god, made anew. And it keeps the nouns spinning And sends the verbs rolling Far away, into the frayed Old Blue. So, for… Continue reading Circles
It's dead, she says, clasping your hand in hers, the whole damn place is dead. Who cares if there are parakeets, or ferns, or laurel if there's not even a damn shower head? Who cares about the bark and who gives a damn about a lark when there's not a croissant in sight? There could be… Continue reading Heartwood


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Hi all, I am working on a Hadoop InputFormat implementation that uses only the native protocol Java driver and not the Thrift API. I am currently trying to replicate some of the behavior of *Cassandra.client.describe_ring(myKeyspace)* from the Thrift API. I would like to do the following: - Get a list of all of the token ranges for a cluster - For every token range, determine the replica nodes on which the data in the token range resides - Estimate the number of rows for every range of tokens - Groups ranges of tokens on common replica nodes such that we can create a set of input splits for Hadoop with total estimated line counts that are reasonably close to the requested split size Last week I received some much-appreciated help on this list that pointed me to using the system.peers table to get the list of token ranges for the cluster and the corresponding hosts. Today I created a three-node C* cluster in Vagrant (https://github.com/dholbrook/vagrant-cassandra) and tried inspecting some of the system tables. I have a couple of questions now: 1. *How many total unique tokens should I expect to see in my cluster?* If I have three nodes, and each node has a cassandra.yaml with num_tokens = 256, then should I expect a total of 256*3 = 768 distinct vnodes? 2. *How does the creation of vnodes and their assignment to nodes relate to the replication factor for a given keyspace?* I never thought about this until today, and I tried to reread the documentation on virtual nodes, replication in Cassandra, etc., and now I am sadly still confused. Here is what I think I understand. :) - Given a row with a partition key, any client request for an operation on that row will go to a coordinator node in the cluster. - The coordinator node will compute the token value for the row and from that determine a set of replica nodes for that token. - One of the replica nodes I assume is the node that "owns" the vnode with the token range that encompasses the token - The identity of the "owner" of this virtual node is a cross-keyspace property - And the other replicas were originally chosen based on the replica-placement strategy - And therefore the other replicas will be different for each keyspace (because replication factors and replica-placement strategy are properties of a keyspace) 3. What do the values in the "token" column in system.peers and system.local refer to then? - Since these tables appear to be global, and not per-keyspace properties, I assume that they don't have any information about replication in them, is that correct? - If I have three nodes in my cluster, 256 vnodes per node, and I'm using the Murmur3 partitioner, should I then expect to see the values of "tokens" in system.peers and system.local be 768 evenly-distributed values between -2^63 and 2^63? 4. Is there any other way, without using Thift, to get as much information as possible about what nodes contain replicas of data for all of the token ranges in a given cluster? I really appreciate any help, thanks! Best regards, Clint
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About Me
Degrees and Certifications:
Ms. Jennifer Mobley
Hello and welcome to the amazing world of art! I teach all art classes at EMS including 6th grade Intro to Art, 7th grade 2D and 3D, and 8th grade Studio and Photography.
I was born and raised in Colorado Springs but went to college at UNC Greeley. I graduated with my Bachelor's in Art Education K-12 with an emphasis in Drawing. I completed my student teaching inside a middle school in Fountain Colorado. My personal passion for art was first developed through fashion design when I was in high school. Then I ventured out to UNC and excelled in Drawing and Oil Painting classes. This will be my second year teaching so I am very excited to be part of Elizabeth Middle School and the whole town of Elizabeth. More about me personally, I like video games, hiking, and small rodents especially hamsters.
If you ever have any concerns please contact me. I have an open door policy so you are welcome whenever.
If you are a student/parent the left side of the website holds the classes. Projects are not listed ahead of time, they are added throughout the semester.
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The past two months, we have been scrambling to get all our apps ready-to-go for the new 4-inch screen of the iPhone 5. This included complete rethinking of our apps such as how to use the extra space in Multi Lang Dictionary, or whether to add more engines in Flex Search.
In the end, we filled the extra space with use generated content. For example, you may not need to scroll to see definitions or translations in Multi Lang Dictionary, and the extra viewing space in Flex Search is always nice. For School Countdown, to make it fair for legacy users of 3.5 inch screens, we decided not to add extra "content", but we simply stretched the info.
Flex Search 2.8
Flex Search was our first app to tackle because it was the easiest to scale. We had already considered if the app goes into a call and the status bar size would increase, that the app needed to be scaled. Scaling an extra half inch diagonally wasn't much of a challenge after that.
We felt however that simply scaling the app wasn't enough for an update and we decided to try adding voice recognition. This way, if you want to search in a different language than that of your locale (you can change dictation language in Flex Search settings), you can speak into your mic and get your voice dictated. This is also available in iPad.
As for the smaller changes, we added a new row of job search engines to the engines list, allowing you to search Indeed, LinkUp and US.jobs. We also added history to the action button in the results page so you can quickly view search history and visited pages without needing to go through the search screen.
Multi Lang Dictionary 4.8.2
We are planning a much bigger release of MLD in the near future and we liked to have all our apps updated to iPhone 5 as soon as possible. In the end, we simply scaled the app while waiting for the redesign.
School Countdown 3.6.2
This is basically the same deal as for Multi Lang Dictionary. We did however change the end of school limit for you to experiment with your new device's processor.


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It all seemed to happen so fast.
Incident's gTar, a darling of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, raised a bunch of loot on Kickstarter, and then stopped by Evolver.fm's Manhattan office to let us play around with the thing and shoot a video demonstration with its creator — part of a cross-country tour that saw an unnamed Google executive apparently throw down cash on the spot after seeing it in action.
Now, Incident founder and gTar inventor Idan Beck has sent us video proof that gTar can not only teach n00bs to play the guitar, but is also a consumate MIDI controller for loops in Ableton Live (or any other MIDI thing). Observe, as Incident director of marketing Josh Stansfield plays colored frets to trigger the corresponding samples in Ableton's desktop software:
Note: If the video doesn't show up below, you can watch it here.
Remember, all of this happened within perhaps a three week period — not bad for a hardware startup that had previously been scorned by software-happy Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
However, gTar was years in the making. We won't rehash the whole thing here… check out gTar's origin story and nine other reasons we think it justifies the hype.


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This family estate, with an area of 38 hectares, has been run by several successive generations.
A balance is established between traditional methods of wine-making and use of modern techniques in order to keep the wine's character and guarantee quality. Vincent and Nicolas wines have received much praise for their wines.


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Celbridge U16 had a great result on Friday 2-September against Sallins in the semi-final Celbridge won by 7-8 Sallins 3-5.
Under the management of Billy Wall, Ciaran Murphy, Liam Holland and Dermot Gilday.
New members welcome.
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Imagine . . . workers for the Kingdom are next door to everywhere! That is an incredible destination, but how do we get there? The Navigators' Vision Statement shows us the way.
We also call such Kingdom workers laborers. Where do we get this term? Matthew writes that when Jesus saw the multitudes, He felt compassion for them because they were distressed and downcast. He saw that they were like sheep without a shepherd (see Matthew 9:36). A. T. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament describes the state of the multitudes in this way:
Al Engler is the director of Nav Neighbors. To contact him or learn more about his ministry, click here.
Editor's Note: This is one in a series of articles unpacking the Navigator vision. The series begins with Unpacking Our Vision: An Introduction and continues with "A Heart for the Whole Person."
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A Message from the Associate Vice President
2015-2016 was an exciting year in Human Resources.
We continued our partnership with the campus in establishing CSUN as a destination workplace by assisting in the recruitment and hiring of a record 700+ positions, for which we received more than 30,000 applications. To enhance the end users' experience and facilitate the on-boarding of these new employees, improvements were made to our new employee sign-in process. In addition, we rolled out a new system-wide policy on the background check process to help prevent risk and provide protection to campus employees, students, volunteers, and guests.
The 2015-2016 Professional/Personal Development program continued collaborations across campus to provide programming geared toward the campus' planning priorities. In addition, we offered many new program opportunities that focused on personal wellness and work-life balance. In June, we celebrated the campus' 50th Annual Staff Service Awards event and honored over 310 employees, who combined represent more than 4,200 years of committed service to the University.
A team of over 40 strong, we remain committed to supportive people practices and work thoughtfully and respectfully in every situation to provide information and support, and to find sustainable solutions for our colleagues.
As leader of this great team, I look forward to working with all academic and administrative units to lead the enhancement of Human Resources services in ways that support your goals. Together, we will continue to create an outstanding work environment for all employees - one which surpasses the environment of the day before. We will continue to work proactively to ensure our people practices are congruent with the University's mission, vision, and culture. We will continue challenging our practices and policies to reflect an evolving community of supportive, successful individuals, all of whom are valuable members of the Matador community.
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A little bit About Me and why I started Bohemian Inspire
Why did I start selling Boho inspired clothing in such an already saturated market?
I must be mad right?
Well let me tell you a little bit about myself first and then why I started Bohemian Inspire.
Lets go back to the start when I was a little girl, my life was not always a happy one I don't have many fond memories of growing up. My sister passed away when I was 5 and a 1/2, she was only 3 and a 1/2 from a rare disease and that is when my life changed, my father became abusive towards my mum and me.
Then my step Father was abusive towards me and stopped me from being a kid, I had to grow up at the age of 13 and stay home and mind my stepbrother whilst my parents both stayed in their van overnight to attend markets to try and make a buck, (markets were very different back in the day and you had to line up early just to get a spot). I was relied on to do the housework and shopping each week and not do anything a kid would normally do as "it could've encouraged my brother to try and copy me and then he might hurt himself."
My Stepbrother committed suicide at the age of 22 from Schizophrenia.
Most days I only wore long baggy black clothing, you would never see me in colors, even when I worked in an office I pretty much just wore black or other dark colors and they always hung loose and were always a couple of sizes too big. It was very rare for me to wear any other color or style of clothing. I now put that down to how I felt which was miserable, I believe this was how I hid from the world. I would never have even imagined that I would ever show a bit of cleavage like a lot of these Boho dresses do. I was thin but always saw myself as fat when I looked into the mirror and never loved myself, with all the verbal abuse I just saw the ugliest fat girl staring back at me all the time.
This image was not long after I left my ex and went to a place I always wanted to visit...NZ
I was in an emotionally abusive relationship for 19 years when suddenly one day I feel like I just WOKE up and left. (now some of you might say why did you stay? that is just stupid, why didn't you just leave...well unless you have been in a situation like this it is hard to try to explain, but the threats are terrifying to say the least, not every day is the same and you live in hope thinking maybe one day things will change but they never do).
My love for animals and spiritualism is what kept me going, my horses always kept me busy and going out for a ride on them was always very relaxing.
I have studied Reiki and believe this is what helped me get through the abusive relationship and finally gave me the courage to leave.
I met the man of my dreams and he has really changed my life. He has taught me how to love someone again and learn to love myself, he is constantly reminding me of how I am a beautiful person inside and out and I even put on weight which I think living a good life can do to you sometimes. 😁
It took me more than 40 years to actually come to terms with how I look and not let what others think worry me, It has been a very long road.
I don't have any children, some things in life are just not meant to be.
OK so how I started Bohemian Inspire.
I purchased my first Boho maxi dress a couple of years ago because I fell in love with the pattern, it was a navy blue dress with a floral pattern on it (trust me floral was a huge step for me) When the dress arrived I put it on and took one look in the mirror and instantly fell in love, the dress made me feel Beautiful in every way, I loved how the dress flowed and made me feel like a real woman, now that may sound crazy but believe me a dress CAN do this.
From that day on I threw out my black wardrobe and restocked it with beautiful colored flowing maxi dresses, now my wardrobe is so colorful and I love wearing my dresses and feeling Beautiful every day, I have always loved nature and anything spiritual which is why I think the whole Boho Gypsy look is what I love the most, I would rather be barefoot in summer than wear shoes.
Those images you see all over the internet of happy girls in their flowing dresses dancing in a field of flowers or long grass looking gorgeous has always resonated with me and that is now how I feel when I wear my Boho Maxi Dresses.
The only issue I came across when buying online was the standard sizing charts which were not correct and most of the time I onsold the dresses I bought because they were either too big or too small.
I became so passionate about that style and wanted to be able to make every girl and woman feel as Beautiful as they made me feel but also by knowing that the size they were choosing was correct, which is why I measure every dress that I get and write up my own sizing charts.
I also create my own Bohemian Denim Jackets as this keeps my creativity going and I enjoy doing them. Each one is unique and no 2 are the same.
So now you know a little about me and why I started Bohemian Inspire.
This was very hard for me to share and I am still not comfortable with photos of myself but I am getting there very slowly.
I hope you love shopping here and remember I am only an email away if you have any questions and I am more than willing to help anyone where I can.
Thank you for reading my blog and searching my page, I try to stock more Australian brands than any other and am always on the lookout for new and exciting lines for my shop. I am learning as I go but if anyone would also like to offer any feedback I am always willing to take this on board to help make everyone's shopping experience a much better and pleasant one. xxx