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Jeffrey Kelly ("The Guru")
In October 2015 Jeff and a business partner purchased a very small online store selling gag gifts. With one or two orders coming in per day and sometimes bursts when we hit a good run on social media we started experimenting with online marketing. We experimented with Twitter ads, Facebook ads, page ads, Bing ads, Google AdWords, newspapers, college leaflets, and everything else we could think of. We also started working on reporters we could find online to gain coverage.
Around this time we also had a lot of competition for our primary product: anonymous personalized messages sent in the mail on a potato... MysteryPotato.com. So we were rapidly working to submit copyright infringement reports and IP take-down requests.
We started getting press coverage from some larger newspapers and gift guides at the end of January 2016. Then something big happened. BuzzFeed picked us up and we made our way to the top of the homepage. For over 48 hours we were the most shared and liked article, staying in that first position.
We went from selling a couple per day to selling 362 orders in 48 hours.
We were in new and uncharted territory, so we ran ahead full steam. We hired people, we contracted with a publicist, we brought on international Potato Artists. We did newspaper interviews, TV interviews, radio interviews, and podcast spots. For about two months the attention was crazy.
We went viral not because of luck or chance but because we created an environment to facilitate it and we had a product that worked great on social media... people just loved sharing it. That's what took it viral.
So, after a 10 year career at Microsoft, Amazon, and Expedia in technology and management Jeff jumped from a "real job" and started an online marketing business.
AssetLab Academy is the culmination of years of technology and marketing experience all brought together so that you can learn what works right now for your business. You want to bring more people in to your location. You want to sell more online. You want to build a social media following that you can market to. That's what we do, and we've poured all our knowledge and secrets into AssetLab Academy.
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Stu says: Five observations following Ipswich Town's 1-1 draw at Bristol City
PUBLISHED: 23:50 12 March 2019 | UPDATED: 00:07 13 March 2019
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Ipswich Town drew 1-1 at play-off chasing Bristol City this evening. STUART WATSON gives his thoughts.
Four days after a heartening 1-1 draw at West Brom, arguably the best performance of the season, Paul Lambert made five changes to his starting line-up.
There will have been an element of standard squad rotation in the middle of a busy week, protecting the likes of Teddy Bishop given his injury history.
There was also an element of wanting to take a look at few players he hasn't seen much of in what is effectively an extended pre-season for League One.
Josh Emmanuel, sent back from a loan spell at Shrewsbury in January, made his first Town appearance since the back end of the 2016/17 season.
Toto Nsiala, Andre Dozzell and Kayden Jackson were also handed rare league starts.
There was just one loan player in the side (Trevoh Chalobah), with three homegrown players, two Mick McCarthy stalwarts, four Paul Hurst signings and two Lambert recruits making up the XI.
There were a further three academy graduates on the bench in Harry Wright, Bishop and Idris El Mizouni, the latter handed his senior debut in the final 15 minutes.
The Blues burst out of the blocks.
Kayden Jackson turned on the after burners to charge down right-back Jack Hunt and then disastrous debutant keeper Stefan Marinovic inside the opening 40 seconds. It caused panic and almost led to a goal.
Alan Judge, again only nominally playing on the left, was absolutely everywhere. Emmanuel bombed on at right-back.
Everything Town did was intense, sharp and with purpose.
Chalobah mis-cued a volley wide. Luke Chambers glanced over at a corner. Judge saw a low shot pushed away.
The concern was that Town might burn themselves out…
Town started to fade. The tide started to turn. A home goal suddenly seemed in the offing as cross after cross came into the box.
Adam Webster had to be the man who scored it. The former Blues defender, who pushed for his £3.5m move to Ashton Gate last summer, beat Toto Nsiala in the air to head home a corner just after the half hour mark.
Tom Lawrence, Bersant Celina, Joe Garner, Nelson Oliveira... It was just the latest in a long line of horrible sub-plots regarding opposition goalscorers this season.
'Same old story'. Now we can start to use that phrase in a positive way.
Just like against Norwich, Derby, Stoke and West Brom, the Blues responded superbly to going behind.
There was little between the sides at the start of the second half. Ipswich grew into it more and more. Just like at The Hawthorns a few days earlier, there was a nervousness about the crowd.
Everyone expects the rock-bottom side to roll over. Teams continue to be surprised by just how well the Blues can play.
Chalobah and Gwion Edwards forced saves out of Marinovic.
Town's equaliser, in the 68th minute, was superbly worked. Lloyd Kelly had come within whiskers of scoring an own goal when diverting Dozzell's corner just past his own post. The subsequent corner from the other side was taken short, Myles Kenlock drove past his man, received the ball back from a smart Jon Nolan back heel and drilled in a low cross which Kelly turned into his own net ahead of the waiting Nsiala.
Bishop came on for the last few minutes and caused problems. Town defended well when required.
In the end a draw was probably about right. Town have now drawn five of their last six games 1-1. It would have been all six were it not for Reading's last-gasp goal at Portman Road.
Andre Dozzell was handed only his seventh start of the season and third under Paul Lambert's management.
The 19-year-old midfielder spots passes no-one else sees and always seems to execute them with the perfect weight. There were several moments like that which left you cooing.
He was probably fortunate not to be dismissed in the first half, somehow escaping a booking for a double-handed grab at the shoulders of Jack Hunt and then seeing yellow for exactly the same foul moments later.
This lad oozes class though. As does Bishop. The twinkle-toed El Mizouni has definitely got something about him too.
Emmanuel and Kenlock still have some raw edges, but there are undoubted attributes with both. Keeper Harry Wright (son of Richard) was among the subs. That's not even mentioning Jack Lankester (injured) and Flynn Downes (still ill).
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Ethiopia's Gelana takes gold in women's Olympic marathon
LONDON (AP) -- Tiki Gelana felt the marathon slipping away when she tumbled on the rain-slickened street.
Around the halfway point of the race, the Ethiopian was knocked down by another runner as she reached for her water bottle, a hard fall that bloodied her right elbow. Already aching, Gelana thought about pulling out. Instead, she found new motivation, and headed on down the road.
Gelana recovered from the fall to win the Olympic marathon on Sunday in a race that began in a downpour, was briefly brightened by sunshine and ended in another drenching rain.
She was soaked as she crossed the finish line, but she didn't seem to mind, raising her hands high to celebrate after navigating the rainy course in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 7 seconds to hold off Priscah Jeptoo of Kenya by five seconds. Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova of Russia won the bronze in the typical London weather.
"When I fell, I said, 'Oh, wow, I'm not going to finish,"' Gelana said through an interpreter. "But I just concentrated on running. All of a sudden, I made it."
Gelana said she loved running in the rain. "I have been doing that since I was a small child," she said, a bandage on her elbow. "I enjoyed my run."
There was a small group of runners in a bunched pack over the last three miles. But with the finish around the bend, Gelana made her move, grimacing as she surged to the front. With the rain picking up - going from a light drizzle to a deluge - she kept glancing over her shoulder to see if Jeptoo was gaining ground.
She wasn't. No one could catch Gelana as she easily coasted across the line to win the biggest race of her life and Ethiopia's second Olympic gold medal in the women's event.
While rain kept the temperature comfortable, quite a few runners still dropped out of the race:
- Liliya Shobukhova of Russia - a top contender - stopped halfway through the race with a right leg ailment.
- British runner Mara Yamauchi's day ended about eight kilometers (five miles) into the competition because of a bruised heel.
- Tetyana Filonyuk of Ukraine barely went 100 meters - about as far as Usain Bolt & Co. will sprint on the track - before calling it a day. There was no reason given.
The dreary weather didn't dampen the mood of the crowd, which lined the course holding umbrellas. The country was treated to quite a show Saturday night, with heptathlete Jessica Ennis, distance runner Mo Farah and long jumper Greg Rutherford all taking gold at the track.
The British marathoners couldn't follow up. Their best chance at a medal, Paula Radcliffe - the fastest woman ever in the marathon - didn't compete because of a foot injury.
Although the marathon traditionally ends inside the Olympic stadium, this one took the runners past some of London's biggest landmarks: Big Ben, St. Paul's Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, London Bridge, the Tower of London and finally right by Buckingham Palace, near the finish.
Jeptoo and teammate Mary Keitany were among the runners who stuck by Gelana for most of the race. Keitany was one of the favorites after winning the London Marathon earlier this year. But this course was very different and Keitany faded near the finish.
Still, Jeptoo tried to encourage her teammate, even grabbing Keitany a water bottle late in the race. Keitany finished fourth.
Before this race, Gelana's biggest win was the Rotterdam Marathon in the Netherlands last April, when she finished in 2:18:58 to set a national record.
The only other Ethiopian woman to win at the Olympics was Fatuma Roba at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
"Fatuma is my hero," Gelana said. "I am extremely happy to share history with her. This gold medal is a gift for all Ethiopians."


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Sparkling water refreshment
From simple tables in Corsica (where it's local) to the grandes tables of luxury hotels and gourmet restaurants in Paris, New York and Tokyo, the reference in natural sparkling water is the Corsican Orezza. It's refreshingly delicious--but oh, how amazingly spoiled people have become. Commercialized and sourced from an ancient thermal spring since 1856.
eau gazeuse: sparkling water
gazeux, gazeuse: gaseous
pétillant, -e: sparkling, fizzy, bubbly
un rafraîchissement: a refreshment
un bar à eau: a water bar (a drinking establishment or counter that serves only water, but of a great diversity)
gâté, -e: spoiled
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Deutsche Bank release strong Spanish economy report
The Deutsche Bank have issued a report on the Spanish economy entitled Spain 2020, the success story continues. The report details the four main areas which have contributed to Spains continuing economic growth. The surge in Labour input, the increase in the country's graduate and skilled population, a greater degree of openness due to participation in the EU and International trade and lastly the strenghtening of innovation within the economy from continued government support.
The report, which is freely available at www.dbresearch.com, documents how the Spanish economy has benefitted from higher growth than Germany, Italy , France and Portugal since the beginning of the decade and looks set to continue. The Spanish economy is now the ninth largest in the world and the average consumption or spending power of spanish nationals has risen accordingly, at over 4% annually. Interestingly too, the country has changed from an emmigration country to an immigration one; over 2 million people have come to Spain since 2002.
Other significant information includes the fact the Spanish government has itself invested greatly in the country's infrastructure including high speed rail links etc. unlike other European economies where investment activity has decreased. As regards the property sector, the exceptional growth has been due to the factors mentioned above and other important features such as the low mortgage rate. Although the growth can not be expected to continue, the report suggests that the slow down is no different to the property sectors in the other European economies. The report argues that a major adjustment is neither likely nor necessary due to strong fundamentals.
From figures released to today by the INE (Spanish national institute of statistics) Sales were up 13.7% this September year on year and up 14.9% from the previous month.11/11/2014
If you've been following the Spanish property market a little, wondering if the time is right to get into the market, you'll have started to notice articles referring to early signs of recovery particularly on the Costas and Islands.03/11/2014
The number of houses sold is up. The number of mortgages granted is up. The number of foreign buyers is up. The number of new construction projects is up and yes, in some key areas, the prices are starting to go up too. After a seven year slide...06/09/2014
The newly elected Partido Popular (Conservative) party has introduced a raft of measures relating to the under-performing property market. These measures are directed both at stimulating certain sectors of the market and generating extra tax revenue.08/01/2012
In an unexpected move on Friday of last week, the Spanish government decided to slash VAT on the purchase of new property from 8% to 4%. Applicable immediately, this discounted tax measure will last until the end of the year -31st December 2011.23/08/2011
Many commentators have been looking to call the bottom of the market after the turbulence of the last 3 years and it would now appear that we are there or thereabouts.....19/11/2010
Tinsa, a Spanish property valuation company used by several high street banks,has signalled that house prices will drop a further 20% over 2009. 01/03/2009
The Euribor, which is linked to the Central European Bank's base lending rate, is set to close the month of December at 3.47%.28/12/2008
Situated in the prestigeous Marbella location of Cabopino. Standard prices were from 450,000€ - 515,000€. These marvellous luxury homes can now be purchased for 350,000€ - 415,000€. 28/06/2008
Against the trend of bad news in the financial markets, the Euribor fell again to 4.381% (22.01.08). This is well below the rate at the end of 2007 where the rate had spiked to 4.79%.28/01/2008
Despite starting the year well with property prices rising in all Spanish regions,2007 has ended in December with prices 0.28% below where they started in January. According to Facilisimo.com, the region of La Rioja has been the worst affected, dropping 11.08% to 2159€/m2 , Madrid and Barcelona haven't avoided the falls dropping 2.38% to 3479€/m2 and 3.05% to 3777€/m2 respectively. 05/01/2008
The Euribor, the Central European Bank's base lending rate, is set to close the month of November at 4.60%.29/11/2007
Situated in the prestigeous Marbella location of Cabopino, these high quality south facing residences boast fantastic sea views. Golf lovers can also choose south west facing homes overlooking Cabopino Golf (Par 71). Standard prices were from 450,000€ - 515,000€. These marvellous luxury homes can now be purchased for 350,000€ - 415,000€. 06/09/2007
The Euribor, the Central European Bank's base lending rate, is set to close the month of October at 4.65%.12/07/2007
Resale property prices have fallen for the third consecutive month in thirteen Spanish regions including the province of Malaga.12/07/2007
The Deutsche Bank have issued a report on the Spanish economy entitled Spain 2020, the success story continues.12/07/2007
Fantastic new property investment just released in the Dominican Republic. This product, previously only available to the Spanish investment market is now available through Garratt Homes.12/07/2007


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Q & A about the fight over replacing Scalia
WASHINGTON (AP) — The death of Justice Antonin Scalia and the vacancy on the Supreme Court has touched off a partisan fight in Washington over who should pick his replacement, President Barack Obama or his successor. Here are some questions and answers about the battle:
What's at stake?
It's difficult to overstate the significance of Scalia's death. The high court had been split with four generally reliable conservatives on one side and four liberal votes on the other, with Justice Anthony Kennedy often the swing vote. Scalia's death takes away one critical conservative vote. If he's replaced by a liberal or moderate Obama nominee, the balance of the court would change, with potentially enormous consequences for issues like abortion, union rights, immigration, and congressional redistricting.
What happens first?
It's up to Obama to nominate a replacement. He has said he will do so.
And then?
Nothing. Republicans controlling the Senate — which must confirm any Obama appointee before the individual is seated on the court — say they won't schedule a vote or even hold hearings on whomever Obama may name. They argue that the decision is too important to be determined by a lame-duck president and that voters in November's election should determine whether Scalia's successor is replaced by a Republican or a Democrat.
"It's not about the nominee. It's about who chooses," said GOP Whip John Cornyn of Texas.
Democrats counter that the voters did have a say when they re-elected Obama in 2012.
Republicans also argue that the Senate's longstanding tradition is to not confirm justices in an election year, and they point to a June 1992 Senate speech by Vice President Joe Biden, then the Delaware senator, in which he argued that then President George H.W. Bush should not name a successor if a justice were to die or resign. Democrats note that in the most recent corresponding example, in 1988, Ronald Reagan appointee Anthony Kennedy was confirmed by a Democratic-controlled Senate.
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans said Tuesday that the panel won't even hold a hearing on anyone Obama names, much less award them with a floor vote, an unprecedented move for the modern-day Senate. Precedent holds that the committee could reject Obama's nomination outright or follow the tradition of the failed nomination of Robert Bork or the bitterly-fought 1991 battle over Justice Clarence Thomas and send it to the full Senate without actually approving it.
So no vote?
Still, the prospect of simply sitting on a nomination all year seems to be making a few Republicans uncomfortable, such as Sen. Mark Kirk, up for re-election in heavily Democratic Illinois and moderate Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, both of whom say the Senate should consider whomever Obama names. On the other side are most Republicans and conservative activists adamant that Obama shouldn't change the balance of the Court.
What did Obama do as a senator?
Obama opposed both Roberts and Alito. And Obama also voted to filibuster Alito, which he now regrets.
What if this year's Supreme Court deadlocks on a case?
Under the rules, the appellate court's ruling stands. That would mean lower court decisions such as one overturning Obama's executive moves on immigration would stand, while others, such as an appellate ruling backing up public employee unions in their right to assess dues, would be affirmed and go Obama's way. But court observers believe that Chief Justice John Roberts would likely order any deadlocked case to be reargued.


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Old Fashioned Italian Meat Sauce with Pasta
Prep Time 10 MIN
Cook Time 3 HRS 20 MIN
Serves 10
- 2 cans (1080 mL) Aylmer® Accents® Petite Cut Stewed Tomatoes with Garlic & Olive Oil, drained
- 1 can (540 mL) Aylmer® Accents® Chunky Stewed Tomatoes with Italian Seasonings, drained
- 1 can (156 mL) Hunt's® Tomato Paste
- 2 tbsp (30 mL) olive oil
- 2 bone-in pork chops (about ¾ lb (375 g) total)
- 1 lb (500 g) Italian pork sausage, casings removed
- 4 cups (1 L) water
- 1 tbsp (15 mL) dried basil leaves
- 16 oz (500 g) dry pasta, uncooked
Perfect over pasta, even Nonna would love this hearty sauce with pork chops, Italian sausage, tomatoes and basil.
- Heat oil in large saucepan or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add chops; cook 3 to 4 minutes on each side, or until browned on both sides. Remove from pan; cover to keep warm. Brown sausage in same pan, stirring occasionally to crumble sausage; drain. Return to pan.
- Add chops, Hunt's® Plain Diced Tomatœs with their liquid, the Hunt's® Tomato Paste, water and basil; mix well. Reduce heat to low; simmer 2-1/2 to 3 hours, or until sauce is thickened and meat is falling off the bones, stirring occasionally. Remove and discard bones.
- Cook pasta according to package directions; drain. Serve topped with the sauce.


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American Output can be found at Van Dyke Rd 3755. The following is offered: Copy & Fax Machines. The entry is present with us since Sep 8, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 12, 2013. In Almont there are 1 other Copy & Fax Machines. An overview can be found here.


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Space 338 is a versatile, multi-purpose creative space suitable for a wide variety of art events. The approximately 150 square metres, ground-floor area possesses a rustic, industrial look, complemented by its sandblasted brick walls.
Conveniently located near the corner of Peel and Queensberry streets with easy access to on-street parking, this space will attract a large range of audiences and will suit anything from small to large-scale projects and art functions.
Suitable For:
- Exhibitions
- Photography Shoots
- Product Launches
- Pop Up Shops
- Performances
Special Requirements:
Tenants must organise their own liquor license
Lease Conditions:
Security required
Rubbish removal and cleaning must be arranged
Amenities: Kitchenette Facilities and Unisex toilets, Large TV/Plasma, Projector screen, Ipod Input, Wifi
Pricing Terms
Rates for evening hire can be negotiated.
Weekend rates are a flat $1500.00 per day
Parking Notes
Metered parking available
- Floor Dimensions 200.00 meters sq.
- Ceiling Height Very High (4m +)
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Accessible toilet
Bold signage
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Predicting Drug Disposition during Pregnancy through Modeling and Simulation
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Physiological and ADME changes during pregnancy can significantly affect drug pharmacokinetics and may necessitate dose adjustment. Since it is logistically impossible to delineate the changes in PK of all drugs administered to pregnant women, alternative approaches that can generalize across drugs and predict drug disposition in pregnancy are highly-desirable. We developed and validated a novel PBPK model, which integrates gestational time-dependent changes in maternal physiology and hepatic CYP enzyme activities, preclinical and clinical data, to predict maternal pharmacokinetics of drugs cleared primarily by CYP3A (midazolam, nifedipine, indinavir), CYP1A2 (theophylline), CYP2D6 (metoprolol, paroxetine, dextromethorphan, clonidine), CYP2C9 (phenytoin), and multiple CYP enzymes (glyburide, methadone). We showed that our PBPK model can quantitatively predict the disposition during pregnancy of drugs cleared via single and/or multiple CYP pathways , and allow generalization beyond model drugs studied (e.g. midazolam) to other drugs with well-characterized ADME characteristics (e.g. indinavir). Moreover, our PBPK approach allowed us to bridge knowledge gaps that are difficult to test through clinical studies, for example, discerning the site (hepatic, intestinal, or both) of CYP3A induction in pregnancy. The coupled maternal-fetal physiology imposes additional concerns for both efficacy and safety of treatment. Fetal exposure to drugs not only depends on maternal pharmacokinetics, but also depends on placental passage of drugs. In this research, the gestational time-dependent contribution of the placental efflux transporter, P-glycoprotein, to drug distribution into the fetus, was quantified with PET imaging in a physiologically relevant model, the pregnant macaque. Such knowledge can be incorporated into a comprehensive fetal model in the future to predict fetal exposure to drugs. Taken together, the presented modeling approach can identify drugs whose pharmacokinetics may be altered during pregnancy, guide rational PK study design, and support dose adjustment for pregnant women.
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Oliver Boyce Greene (February 14, 1915 – July 26, 1976) was an Independent Fundamental Baptist evangelist and
author. He converted in 1935 at the age of 20. Over 300,000 confessions of faith were recorded as a result of his ministry in Gospel tent meetings.[1] Although uneducated with little training, he conducted revival meetings in tents and in churches across the eastern US for 35 years, and wrote over 100 books and brief booklets about the Bible. One of Oliver B. Greene's most distinguishing characteristics was his deep, raspy voice, which drew radio listeners into his message. He had a deep passion for the Scriptures and knew that men needed salvation in Christ. He preached each message as though it would be his last. He received written salvation decisions from thousands who read one of his little Gospel booklets. He was one of the most effective radio preachers of all times.
In 1956, he founded The Gospel Hour, Inc. as a Christian outreach ministry. It included a radio program of his preaching called The Gospel Hour, which began on one station in Georgia and gradually became syndicated until the point it spanned the nation. The Gospel Hour was heard on 150 stations at the time of his death. The cause of death was a cardiac aneurysm. The broadcast is currently on over 80 stations, including international stations and the Internet. Taped copies of the program are still aired today on the Fundamental Broadcasting Network and other Christian radio stations.
Greene had a wife and two sons.
Click the link below for the audio sermon by Oliver B. Greene preached at Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, VA where Jerry Falwell was the pastor.
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Beautiful dense boar brush with a substatial amount of backbone. Set into a sturdy faux ivory and black resin handle. Will build lather at a price point well above its retail cost.
NOTE: Boar brushes do have a break in period and a mild animalic scent which will fade with use.
Total Brush Weight: 85g
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Long time, no post…
The back injury that kept me out of gardening for so long did nothing to stop me torturing myself by reading about it all the time. Finding myself up and at 'em at a time of year when – in West Cork at least – most gardeners are emerging from the hibernation of the seed catalogue and facing up to clearing the raised beds made the topic choice for a first post in three years easy – gardening books.
Everyone's got their favourites. The ones you consult over and again, even though you know them back to front. Here are a few of mine – not all fall into the 'how to' category; some are simply musings on our relationship with nature, food, the environment. Feel free to share your own in the comments 🙂
Grow Your Own Vegetables by Joy Larkcom
As any allotmenteer will tell you, this is the GYO bible, by the Elizabeth David of the vegetable garden. Decades of experience, plenty of it gained touring around Europe long before it was popular – and bringing back unusual seeds and know-how that laid the path for where we are today. Everything you need to know from soil preparation to pest management and cultivation techniques for both mainstream and more exotic produce is in here. All delivered in Larkcom's approachable, read-it-for-pleasure style. If you buy only one how-to book, this should be it.
The Complete Garden Expert by D G Hessayon
David Hessayon has been giving straightforward advice to gardeners for more than 50 years. This all-in-one guide takes beginners through every aspect of gardening – from flowers, shrubs and fences to vegetable growing and garden design. Not always the most exciting read, all his guides are easy to follow and give essential advice anyone can understand.
Maybe not one for the bedside table but for gaining essential know-how, you won't do better than the legendary Dr. Hessayon
RHS Gardening Week by Week by the RHS & Sarah Draycott
Not a lot to say other than I love this book. It's my ultimate, quickie go-to guide for advice on what's what and when. Covering vegetable, flowers, shrubs, landscaping and everything in between in easy steps, there is so much accessible information packed into a small space, my copy is well battered.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." and "Cook and, if you can, grow some of your own food." were two of the lessons from this book that got me back out into the garden over ten years ago. Nobody writes about people, places, food and they way we connect with them like Pollan. Nobody makes you think about the food you grow and eat the way Pollan does. Always easy to pick up and return to, as are all of Pollan's books.
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
The Daddy of slow food, thinking about where your food comes from and how you grow it, Berry is the original farmer with a poet's soul. "Eating is an agriculture act" is just one memorable quote from a man who was talking the talk long before the organic wholefood shop on your main street set up. Berry's thinking was the inspiration behind many a farmer's market revival and was one of the original voices reminding people to think differently about what we eat and what goes into producing it – environmentally as much as anything else.
Not on the Label: What really goes into the Food on your Plate
The appearance of Lawrence's book in 2004 caused massive levels of shock and outrage, not least in her home country of the UK. As far as many were concerned, Eric Schlosser's expose of the nastier aspects of the American food chain in Fast Food Nation was a problem for "the yanks."
Lawrence's undercover investigations of the British food chain showed how beef waste ended up in chicken, why one head of lettuce could be sprayed with chemicals six times before ending up in your trolley and how bread somehow ended up with 20-odd ingredients beyond salt, water, flour and raising agent. Her additional expose of the treatment of the migrant workers who pick our fruit and vegetables – and how this is all connected to the supermarkets we shop in will change the way you think about food forever. My copy's the original but this was updated in 2013 following the horse meat in food scandal in Ireland and the UK.


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Having problems with your IBM ThinkPad X40 Notebook ?
IBM X40 Wireless Radio Keeps Shutting Off
\015 For almost two years I've been dealing with an intermittent wireless connection (cable) on my IBM X40 (XP). My roommates and guests connections work fine so I know the Internet and wireless router is ok. I recently noticed that whenever I lose my connection the wireless radio (FN+F5) is "off". If I click "power on" I get reconnected after a few seconds. Anyone know why this is shutting off? Is there a software update or something I'm missing? I've heard some issues with Access Connections, but frankly I don't know if that applies to me or how to fix it if it does... Any help is much appreciated.\015
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This link will take you to the driver page for your unit. Scroll down to wireless networking and download the latest driver for your machine(there's a couple of different possibilities it could be but you may find that the drivers listed are more recent than the drivers you have loaded on the machine.
Beyond that if you are unable to work out the issues with your wireless you can always purchase a cardbus or USB wireless adapter and disable the onboard wifi.
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Beyond that if you are unable to work out the issues with your wireless you can always purchase a cardbus or USB wireless adapter and disable the onboard wifi.
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How old are you? When do you hope to retire? How much have you managed to set aside to ensure that you don't outlive your savings? All of these questions have a bearing on whether you can afford to take a long-term approach to asset allocation decisions – indeed, they dictate whether you must adopt such a view – or whether you need to pay an increased amount of attention to shorter-term trends.
If your allocation to non-U.S. stocks leaves you with a loss over the next two or three years, how much damage will that do to your overall financial objectives? The shorter your time horizon, the more difficult it will be to recoup those losses, and the more risk you may be tempted to take – unwisely – to fill any gaps that emerge.
Most of us, however, still have decades ahead of us. If we're still working and earning and setting aside new money to invest, it makes sense for anyone whose portfolio is significantly underweight non-U.S. stocks to take advantage of the chance to add to those positions, slowly and in a prudent manner. That doesn't mean running out and buying a Portuguese stock ETF, betting that the market will snap back in the next 90 days as sentiment improves, but rather, seeking out global funds with solid long-term track records and reasonable fees.
That advice may provide little solace to anyone who believes that there is no way that Chinese authorities will be able to contain a real estate bubble or manage its fallout; that European policymakers will still be in limbo a decade from now as the Eurozone slips into long-term stagnation; that countries like Brazil are doomed to follow in the footsteps of, say, Egypt or Syria as riots turn into rebellions and lead toward civil war. In that kind of extreme situation, it makes sense for even those investors with a long-term time horizon to be alarmed enough to stick close to home.
Then again, if this kind of doom-and-gloom is your real view of what lies ahead, it may prove hard to find shelter in U.S. stocks. Like it or not, we are part of the global economy and can't insulate ourselves from what happens outside our borders. But ignoring non-U.S. stocks altogether isn't a cure and could, as Christopher implies, end up contributing to quite another form of malaise: an underperforming and volatile long-term portfolio.


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Puerto Rico is currently on a Level 2 Alert for Zika virus, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) encouraging travelers visiting the island destination to practice enhanced precautions this summer.
Nonetheless, the U.S. territory has taken important steps to provide peace of mind for visitors.
The Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC) and Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association (PRHTA) announced Thursday that they have joined forces to roll out a plethora of precautionary measures at hotels throughout the island.
PRHTA member hotels have introduced education and awareness programs for staff and guests as well.
"Responsible dissemination of health information is one thing, but Zika messaging with its editorial embellishment has moved into fear mongering, and we believe that has blown things out of proportion," said PRHTA president and CEO Clarisa Jimenez in a statement.
READ MORE: Puerto Rico Tourism Officials Target 10 Million Visitors In 2016
As Jimenez points out, hotels aren't hiding the threat but looking to reduce it by making information easily accessible to visitors. For example, hotels are supplying welcome kits for guests at check-in that contain the latest CDC guidelines and how to stay safe. Information includes how to correctly apply bug spray and what the guest's hotel is doing to protect them from the virus.
Hotels are also offering free insect repellent at check-in and making it available at other public spaces.
Behind the scenes, hotels in Puerto Rico have been routinely spraying, fogging and misting public areas and chlorinating swimming pools.
READ MORE: 5 Places to Vacation Zika-Free This Summer
"We have worked diligently with the PRTC to implement this prevention program, and we have thoroughly trained all hotel staff," added Jimenez. "Through this training, all hotel staff are well-versed on how to knowledgably advise guests concerned about Zika."
"Our guest's safety is our top priority."
For travelers eyeing a trip to Puerto Rico this summer, the PRTC has created an online microsite, PuertoRicoNow.SeePuertoRico.com, that features the most up-to-date information pertaining to Zika in Puerto Rico.
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The new adaptation to Stephen King's IT wasn't quite what I was expecting. I knew things were going to be changed and updated for today's standards, but I can honestly say that I was hoping for a little more and walked away not as impressed as everyone else seems to be with the film.
Understand that this is just my opinion on the film. If you have a different opinion and loved every moment of IT, that's great! I, on the other hand, did not.
Though the film looks good, is shot well, and competently directed by Andres Muschietti (Mama) I think where the film falls apart is the script and lack of character development.
What I love about King's IT novel is that each character is built so well that they don't even seem like characters on the page. The amount of detail that King puts into all his characters is nothing but astounding (he may be considered the master of horror, but he excels with character development; something he's overlooked for).
In the IT movie a lot of that rich character development has been dropped to keep the movie moving. What we are left with was nothing more than a surface level characterization of better characters. Even the bullies in the IT novel were giving life and backstory, here they are nothing more than movie bullies that we've seen hundreds of times before.
What's pushed on us instead of character development is the kids FEARS and how Pennywise can manipulate them and use it against the kids to fear him: taking the form of a leper, or a scary painting, or Bill's dead brother George.
That brings me to why Pennywise scares children. In the book he has a reason for scaring them before he kills them, in the movie it's never explained; he just does it.
I felt a lot of times the movie fell back onto too many modern day horror movie cliché like spitting up, stopping when your name is called (which happened more than once and it annoyed me), and stupid jump scares that really were not all that effective with exception to one.
I will give credit where credit is due though. The young cast of actors were great in their roles and they all played well off each other, giving their lack of substance in character development to work with. I was delighted to see them shine none-the-less.
Bill Skarsgård was decent as Pennywise (much different from Tim Curry portrayal of the character). He was subdued and scary (at times) and was kept more in the background rather than the focal point of the movie; there were other monsters that Pennywise took the form of so you didn't see him in the clown form all that much.
Really I could nit-pick this movie apart on things that I did not like, from use of characters, to changes in places, settings, character arches, but it would just become a bore for you to read and not fun for anyone.
So instead of saying anything else on the film, I'm going to stop right here and leave it at that.
4 out of 10 Stars.


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Early every Saturday morning, university student Scott Biersack faithfully made his way to a public chalkboard on the Arizona State University campus and spent the next several hours decorating it with an intricate original typographic work. While the works themselves often lasted only a few hours, Scott's perseverance earned him a growing reputation among those fascinated with hand-drawn letterforms. Today, Scott shares some of his experiences, inspirations and hopes for the future:
I love lettering and everything it entails. Just about a year and a half ago I had no clue what 'lettering' really was. Then one day I jumped onto the Instagram bandwagon with some friends and decided to use it for good instead of shooting photos of my food or random other things. I stumbled across a few pieces from Zachary Smith and instantly fell in love with the style and execution. From that point forward, I knew I wanted to practice it myself. So I forced myself to draw a new lettering piece every single day for an entire year to continually practice and get better at it.
Every week I used to hand-letter a motivational message onto a public chalkboard at Arizona State University, every week. I wish I still had time to create more of these, but sadly schoolwork is consuming all my time! That project was to inspire and motivate others as well as myself. So I woke up at 5am every Satirday morning to practice my lettering by writing some inspirational or motivational quotes and phrases for the students to see the following Monday when they returned to class. Each piece took five to seven hours to complete and were occasionally destroyed a just few hours after completion (since it is in fact a public chalkboard for all to use). A lot of people asked me, 'Don't you get upset when people erase your work that you spend hours on?' My response is, not really because it just gives me a reason to create another piece.
What was project 365?
Project365 was the name I gave to the self-initiated goal to draw lettering every single day for an entire year, never missed a day, and constantly shared every piece via Instagram to show my process and progress.
There are sooooo many people that inspire the heck out of me. I can't name them all because there are so many. I learned and grew the most by viewing works from very well known letterers and sign-writers such as David Smith, Ged Palmer, Neil Secretario, Drew Melton, Jessica Hische, Dana Tanamachi and many more. Viewing their works allowed me to understand how they are constructing their letterforms and the methodology behind their compositions.
I absolutely love working on branding/logotype projects. I developed a logo/logotype for a cider business called Craftycider. Sadly, it seems the owner has gone MIA and I haven't talked to him in months… I'm not sure where the project stands, but the logo is complete and ready to be shared with the world if the owner wants to progress further! (Either way, I plan on sharing the project in my portfolio someday soon).
Currently I'm working on a deck for Girl Skateboards. It's nearly complete, just needs to be tweaked a bit more before it heads into production. So I'm excited for the world to see it sometime – this spring I believe!
Have you noticed a growing interest in handcrafted letterforms, in recent times?
Definitely! Hand lettering has risen from the grave, it appears. The computers and other forms of technology these days have made "lettering" into an art form and something almost every company wants because of its uniqueness and how custom it can be. I feel like it's something every designer wants to do (at some level) nowadays since nearly everyone likes it.
As for my future? I love lettering/typography so much that I think I'm going to move to New York City to further my education in the Cooper Type design program. First, I've got to get accepted, then somehow manage to pay for housing in that super-expensive city! I'm not worried about it though; if there's a will, there's a way. It'll happen and work out somehow!


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We have been working hard to integrate Dropbox file sharing directly into your Overture workflow. Once set up you will be able to keep a dropbox backup of all of your Invoices, Contracts, Statements and Itineraries, which can then be shared with other users in your company using the dropbox user interface.
To use this feature you will need to have a company Dropbox account that you can associate with Overture. It's important to remember that each Overture domain can only be synced with a single dropbox account and not on a per user basis.
Firstly you will find the Dropbox option in your settings, in the sidebar at the top you can find the dropbox link.
Once there you need to click on 'Allow Overture To Access Your Dropbox Folder' button. That will take you to the Dropbox authentication screen. If you are not logged in to Dropbox you will need to do so before you see this screen. Click 'Allow', and that's it. It's simple as that.
Now on your computer look in your dropbox folder. Here you can see a folder named Apps and inside there is a folder called Overture. Once you publish a new document Dropbox will create a corresponding folder here.
Ideally your templates setup should mean that you don't need to make manual edits to documents. But if you occasionally need to edit a document on your computer… the dropbox sync allows you to keep this document in sync with Overture so that all members of your team have the same edited copy.
For example I can make an amendment to a document and hit save, then when I go to view the document in Overture I will see that the amendment is present. I can then send this from my inbox knowing that it is the most up to date version.
If I want to add all my historical documents to Dropbox then I can click on the button 'Upload existing documents to Dropbox'. That job could be quite large so will be processed in a queue.
That's it, we think you are going to love this new feature as it's a great way to keep your whole team on the same page and a great way of keeping your important documents available directly on your computer.


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text: Hi all, As some readers may be aware, I've been looking at adding JDWP support to gcj, and a long time ago, I posted a message on the gcj list soliciting advice about how to handle thread suspension, especially in light of the gc. [And now that I'm back from my hiatus, I get to solicit people for more advice! :-)] Mr. Boehm replied quite authoritatively that the best solution would be for the JDWP code to "share" a common thread-suspension facility with the gc. I don't know exactly what Mr. Boehm had in mind, but I've done something which meets my goals (which may not coincide with the goals for the gc): * Least invasive (i.e., not a rewrite) * Low risk (i.e., code path should be as close as possible to today's code for anything not using the new functionality) * Add methods to suspend a thread from any other thread, suspend the calling thread, and resume any of those threads * Allow the GC to safely run when a thread has been suspended by some external entity * An externally suspended thread cannot be resumed while the GC is running (by that I mean, it is impossible for a thread to request a restart of a thread while the gc is running). Perhaps a tad restrictive? * KISS. This means that routines can only be used for suspension/resuming. Any required higher-level abstraction is left to those who attempt to use these new functions. [For example, JDWP uses suspend counts -- which should be implemented in gcj, not in the gc IMO.] * pthread only right now Having said that, I think that I have something which I believe satisfies all of these assumptions/goals, and would like to gather comments from developers about problems with the code, erroneous assumptions/goals, etc. I've attached two files, one is a massage of pthread_stop_world.c (complete with ten thousand random comments concerning threading and other issues) in its entirety for readers to use with their favorite diffing program. The other is a diff of pthread_stop_world.c and pthread_support.h for those who prefer that. These are based on the version of the gc in the gcc repository. It doesn't look like it would be much of a problem to integrate this with the 6.6 release. Needless to say, I'm sure there are problems with the code (not to mention the goals). Please be gentle with me. ;-) Keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pthread_stop_world.c Type: text/x-csrc Size: 18203 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://napali.hpl.hp.com/pipermail/gc/attachments/20051205/e51b2917/pthread_stop_world-0001.c -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pthread_stop_world.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 10385 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://napali.hpl.hp.com/pipermail/gc/attachments/20051205/e51b2917/pthread_stop_world-0001.bin


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Our heritage is based in building winch truck vehicles, and if you know anything about this sport, it's one with the reputation of brutally destroying 4 wheels drives. Brett has had a long successful history of building winning 4x4 trucks that win events in this hard core 4x4 odyssey.
Brett explains the essence to building a great competition vehicle is;
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The poems below are from my latest publication Sharing Love, which can be purchased from Amazon
You may also like to visit my Facebook authors page
Message of Love
To a Soulmate, my connection with another being who
is enlightened and aware of the meaning to all life
Unintentional, without expectation, natural, truthful
in its creation, without prejudice, from our Souls.
Together, walking in alliance with each other, Loving
unconditionally, on a shared pathway to understanding
Where in the peacefulness of silence we can abide
gifting to each other illumination and knowledge.
Letting the Universal Consciousness experience it's self
through all we create with hope, wisdom, and faithfulness.
Perfect Love, unfolds before us which ripples on
the oceans of awareness, washing the shores of 'Now'
We experience feelings and emotions being intrinsically
human, and sharing loves beautiful physical intimacy
Free in our will for each other, to be ourselves and aware
of our differences, yet completely as One with the Creation
Sam, to my Soulmate
16th Feb 2014
Oceans of awareness
On the vast Ocean of conscious tranquillity, one stands at
the shore, lost in wonder, at that which reflects the light of
illumination, like the sun's brilliance shared with the moon
upon the little ripples that wash ashore gifting each loving
creation we make from within our soul.
I was slowly wandering along my path of life, Being that
which I am, Now, learning at every step how beautiful this
experience which I am creating, delivers to the universe of
consciousness that which is Love unfolding back to me.
There is an awaking which causes me to turn and see
From yonder, another is barefoot, drifting slowly to me.
I am filled with her soft radiance, a knowing enters us,
together we were in search for both teacher and student.
Now she stands beside me and without speaking we take
each other's hand, knowing we were nowhere, Now here.
Our desire is for Enlightenment, and so we are gifted
Universal awareness of and experience unconditional love.
Love that is free will and a power that is always to heal
We will to walk towards an unknown future, one for us
to create in every moment, Hope filled with Joy as One.
Sam … 23rd Oct 2013


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It's very strange that a few readers made comments about James Bond after my last blog. Strange for many reasons. Firstly, I hadn't mentioned anything to do with James Bond in my posting. Secondly, did anyone know it is the 50th anniversary of Bond films in 2012? And lastly, just after my blog went up, I had a wonderful lunch with British designer, David Mason. So, where's the connection? Deep breath...
Well, David Mason is the creative control of Anthony Sinclair. Anthony Sinclair is a bespoke tailor who, from his premises in Conduit Street, Mayfair, in the 1950s, created a classic pared down shape suit called the "Conduit Cut" (I'm getting to the Bond bit, bear with me). In 1962, Sean Connery stepped onto screen as 007 in none other than an Anthony Sinclair suit and their relationship continued until 1971. It's quite strange to think that Sean Connery was not used to wearing suits at the time and didn't feel at all comfortable. However, it was actually Terence Young (the director of Dr. No) that turned to his tailor, Anthony Sinclair, to transform Sean Connery into the suave, iconic figure we think of today. Apparently, he even made Sean wear the "Conduit Cut" 24 hours a day so that he felt totally natural in the suit.
David Mason joined Anthony Sinclair in 1982 to learn and understand the skills by working alongside Richard W. Paine, Sinclair's former apprentice, and it was David Mason who I joined for a wonderful lunch at The Bucks Club (more on this a little later) after a tour of the tailor's premises. He explained that he wants to continue preserving the founder's philosophy, maintaining the meticulous standards and continuing to create classic, timeless clothing for the modern man - and let's face it, what modern man wouldn't want to have a suit cut by the same tailor for Sean Connery as James Bond?
Sinclair's, and now David's, philosophy is to always produce a well dressed man, rather than someone who stood out from the crowd. I could argue that 50 years ago this may have been the case, but now the men who stand out from the crowd are the "well dressed" ones.
The wonderful visit continued with lunch at The Bucks Club - a gentlemen's club (No, not that kind of gentlemen's club), which was established in 1919 at 18 Clifford Street, Mayfair. It's probably best know for creating the Bucks Fizz cocktail in 1921. A very famous former member was Winston Churchill and it just happened to be the anniversary of the great man's death on the very day we were there, 24th January, which made everything just that little bit more poignant. On the way home, I couldn't help but think where else in the world could I have had such an experience? Anthony Sinclair, "Conduit Cut", Sean Connery, The Buck Club and Winston Churchill. This, I thought to myself, is the reason I live in London and this is why with this history of men's clothing, I am such an adamant supporter of Men's Fashion Week here in London. At least this year the men's brands and tailors get a whole day dedicated to them and I will be there to support in any way I can.
Now, back to Bond.
I'm honoured that many people suggest I would make a great 007, it would certainly be any man's dream to step into those shoes. However, I think Daniel Craig is doing a fantastic job. He's a great actor and with one of my favourite directors (Sam Mendes) in charge of the up-and-coming Bond, I believe it will follow a much needed darker and in-depth story line and character, which I think Ian Fleming always meant for him. As for the future of Bond, there is so much British talent - Clive Owen, Henry Caville, Michael Fassbender even English-born Sam Worthington. I once read that James Bond should be so handsome you wouldn't want to leave your girlfriend with him, but so dangerous you definitely wouldn't want to fight him, and I believe that's a brilliant conclusion. There is one British guy who, for me, could take the Bond throne and that is Tom Hardy. Still, the most miraculous thing is that we are all still talking about and watching James Bond develop, 50 years after the first movie launched and I for one, cannot wait to get my "Conduit Cut" Anthony Sinclair suit to be just that little bit more like him.
Talking of recreating fictional characters, here's my interpretation of Don Draper for the spring/summer 2012 Mad Men campaign for Banana Republic. Hope you like it!


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We have many years of extensive hands-on experience of building, and tuning, applications that use Oracle Database. We have seen two mutually incompatible architecture paradigms. The thick database paradigm, preferred in the 1990s, starts with the design of the relational model. This leads naturally to the encapsulation of all insert, update, delete, and select statements within PL/SQL subprograms that expose the database interface. The NoPlsql paradigm, which seems now to be the preferred choice, starts with an object oriented domain model in the middle tier, and leads naturally to treating the database as a bag of tables, letting the primitive SQL statements that manipulate these express the API.
The widespread adoption of the NoPlsql paradigm has made the world a worse place, and so in Part 2, we explain the thick database paradigm, rehearse the reasons for its superiority, and describe how to adopt it. The paradigm implies more than just allowing database calls to invoke only PL/SQL subprograms. We formalize a layered code classification scheme which leads to optimal understandability and maintainability of both your PL/SQL and your SQL code which properties bring the maximum probability of correct behavior. This approach establishes the database tier as a reliable central service provider in your application landscape. We will convince you that following the thick database paradigm, and implementing your business functions within the database, guarantee the avoidance of the awful problems brought by the NoPlsql paradigm.


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