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Dry / Wet Vacuum Service
High Pressure Pipe Cleaning Service
Hydro Excavation Service - No Damage
Power Plant Services
Sewerage Treatment Plant Services
High Rail Vacuum Service
Wetland Reclamation Services (non destructive)
Construction Company Services
also offering:
Industrial High Pressure Water Washing, 10,000 PSI
Confined Space Entry Services
Specialty Dumpster and Roll-off Services
Whether cleaning is needed for a coal bunker, flyash silo, a waste treatment lagoon or boiler and hopper, the Advanced Pollution Control High Vacuum truck is a unique piece of equipment designed for use in a wide variety of industrial cleaning projects.
APC's fleet of 10 well-maintained, 18 cubic yard High Vacuum trucks feature the ability to handle cleaning dry or wet, using eight inch aluminum pipe and fittings that ensure safe, secure cleaning. All 10 of APC's Vacuum trucks are equipped with a hydraulic boom accompanied with 8" aluminum pipe to assure that all material gets to the vacuum truck securely and that all types of material, rock hard flyash, hot flyash, fire bricks, coal or any other vacuumed material does not get deposited along the route to the truck. We are also able to vacuum material as far as 300' from the vacuum truck and have vertically pulled solids up 110 feet. The use of aluminum vacuum tubing allows APC to remove many more truckloads of vacuumed material compared to our competitors that may use 200-300 feet of plastic hose that wears out 10 minutes after the truck is started.
APC's High Vacuum trucks are designed for auger unloading. Other options for unloading, available up on request, are pressurized pneumatic off loading, a (drum) barrel-loading attachment or a custom made ramp for dumping material removed into dumpsters. APC High Vacuum trucks arrive at every project thoroughly clean and fully equipped with fittings for every project and necessary 8" piping to reach all locations, piping and fuel are included in the hourly price.
APC's trucks superior features provide the ability to vacuum a substance as fine as talc and as large and heavy as pieces of rock hard flyash or fire brick. APC trucks are also available as a separate rental unit that includes an APC operator.
What ever the use of application, our equipment and crew's performance will be the right solution for you.
When hiring Vacuum services, the customer must not look at just the hourly vacuum truck rental price. The customer must look at what is included in the hourly price. "APC includes all fuel and all aluminum piping, steel elbows and hard rubber hoses." This is a key when removal of many truck loads in a short period of time is required and/or the material is hot or rock hard. The hourly or daily price for service contractors must be scrutinized. Recently APC lost a job of vacuuming coal (200 truck loads, 18 yards per truck). We had previously performed the job with a four man crew, vacuum truck, service vehicle and all the piping to get to the 6th floor of a plant. We averaged 10-11 truck loads per 8 hour work day. The less expensive company that was awarded the job never removed more that 2 truck loads and averaged 1.5 truck loads each 8 hour work day. I asked the company hiring Vacuum services if they truly evaluated the "bottom dollar" costs APC finished 4 times faster, was three times cheaper to perform the job. The company also had 7 men working on the job.
When evaluating services, price per hour or price per day is important but does not tell the entire story. What is included in the hourly costs is important. The service truck, is it fully stocked with all necessary tools or just an empty pick-up truck. The service truck, is it a crew cab capable of 6 men or are you paying for two pick-ups. "APC only has crew cab pick-ups that are fully stocked with all necessary tools assuring no interruption in the work being performed." All hand air tools are on board service trucks for tackling rock hard fly ash.
APC crews are trained in Hazardous Waste Work Safety, Confined Space Entry, Rescue and Retrieval in Confined Spaces, Lock Out/Tag Out, Fall Protection, Respiratory Training with full annual employee medical evaluations, Hearing Protection, Personal Protection Equipment, Electrical Hazards, DOT Training, Training in Trenching and Shoring and Excavation Procedures. All employees also went through the 10 hour OSHA Construction Site Safety Awareness Course.
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Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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by PETER
E In my mind I see a picture and my thoughts begin to roam A to the rollin hills and valleys that surround my childhood home F#m B7 E I can almost smell the flowers growing wild along the track down to the stream. I hear grandpa telling stories sitting on the front porch swing A scattered all around are pages of the songs that I would sing F#m B7 and there I am cross legged with a dream Chorus: A I'd sing coat of many colours, I knew every word by heart G#m and I'd fumble through the changes on an old flat top guitar F#m A B7 E make believe the city hills rolled into the smokey mountains tennessee. A I'd swap bubble gum for curtain calls with other kids my age G#m and the shows would last for hours on the Opry tree house stage F#m B7 E and the dreams of little children echoe still, on Blackwood hill. I recall the day I packed my bags and waved Blackwood goodbye rowlden hills were in my rear view mirror, stars were in my eyes and I traded hairbrush microphones and tree house shows for lights and centre stage. sometimes the road I lived on leads me back to my old world on the front porch of my childhood home sits a little girl her innocence helps me turn back the page, when Chorus Bridge: A G#m F#m E Every day was full of music, family and best friends. A G#m F#m B7 troubles of the world erased, by games of lets pretend. Chorus F#m B7 E The little girl inside of me is dreaming still, on blackwood hill.
See also:Traditional - Happy Birthday James Taylor - Carolina in My Mind Paul Simon & Garfunkel - Sound Of Silence Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle Christmas - Jingle Bells Bob Seger - Turn The Page
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It is with a sincere sense of grief that Moriel & Jacob Prasch learned that Antony Simon (from Manchester, a UK-born Jewish/Israeli evangelist) was killed in an automobile accident in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq while there on an evangelistic outreach.
Tony was led to Yeshua by Jacob Prasch in Israel on Christmas Day (around Hanukkah) in 1982 and emerged as a radical evangelist in The Middle East to both Jew and non-Jew alike. His zeal to see lost souls come to salvation in Jesus was without exaggeration nothing short of phenomenal.
We ask for prayers for his Scottish born wife Donna and for their children. Antony is with Yeshua. We will see him again in glory and in the Millennial reign of Christ. In the meanwhile however, The Body of Christ has insurmountably lost an evangelist whose enthusiastic drive to see souls saved is without exaggeration nearly unparalleled. We do not state this hyperbolically. He was indeed unique.


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Powerful multimedia player that supports a variety of different video codecs and formats.
PotPlayer has several features, including, but not limited to:
- Ability to play and stream most video and audio formats
- Ability to play incomplete or damaged AVI files (by skipping the damaged frames)
- Can remember where the user left off in a video and resume
- Keyboard shortcuts for most tasks, including seeking, volume, zoom, brightness, contrast, and even subtitle resyncing
- Subtitle support, including SAA and ASS support as well as embedded subtitles in MKV, OGM, MP4, MOV and 3GP files
- Users can choose different skins for different types of files, make the windows transparent, and hide the window border when playing
- Video filters, like deinterlacing, video post-processing and noise reduction for customized playback
- Audio equalizer and lets users adjust the brightness, contrast and hue of the video
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';
$packageName = 'potplayer'
$packageArgs = @{
packageName = $packageName
fileType = 'exe'
url = 'https://www.videohelp.com/download/PotPlayerSetup-1.7.13622.exe?r=CfpghMJlwZ'
url64bit = 'https://www.videohelp.com/download/PotPlayerSetup64-1.7.13622.exe?r=CfpghMJlwZ'
checksum = '0DA67C7E7918B187DA39D68445BE450EE3CC3309AF604B280D5AF538DB9C8EA9'
checksumType = 'sha256'
checksum64 = 'D786A7D62B1361E961A7C16580876E350209CEDDEB1804C7F2F02B275BE80B60'
checksumType64 = 'sha256'
silentArgs = '/S'
validExitCodes = @(0);
echo "If an older version of PotPlayer is running on this machine, it will be closed prior to the installation of the newer version."
ps potplayer -ea 0| kill
Install-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs
$packageName = 'potplayer';
$installerType = 'exe';
$silentArgs = '/S';
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$hklm = "hklm:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PotPlayer";
if (Get-ProcessorBits 64) {
$hklm = "hklm:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PotPlayer64";
$file = (Get-ItemProperty -Path $hklm).UninstallString;
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|Thursday, September 10, 2020
|PotPlayer 20.09.08
|Tuesday, September 8, 2020
|PotPlayer 20.07.30.1
|Tuesday, August 11, 2020
|PotPlayer 20.07.30
|Saturday, August 1, 2020
|PotPlayer 20.06.16
|Thursday, June 18, 2020
|PotPlayer 20.05.12
|Friday, May 29, 2020
|PotPlayer 1.7.18958.1
|Wednesday, November 27, 2019
|PotPlayer 1.7.18958
|Tuesday, June 11, 2019
|PotPlayer 1.7.18344
|Thursday, April 18, 2019
|PotPlayer 1.7.17508
|Tuesday, February 12, 2019
|PotPlayer 1.7.16291
|Wednesday, December 12, 2018
|PotPlayer 1.7.14804
|Sunday, October 21, 2018
|PotPlayer 1.7.13963
|Thursday, August 30, 2018
|PotPlayer 1.7.13622.1
|Wednesday, August 1, 2018
|PotPlayer 1.7.13622
|Sunday, July 29, 2018
|PotPlayer 1.7.13621.1
|Wednesday, July 25, 2018
|PotPlayer 1.7.12845
|Friday, June 29, 2018
|PotPlayer 1.7.12844
|Friday, June 29, 2018
|PotPlayer 1.7.5545
|Sunday, December 3, 2017
|PotPlayer 1.7.3795
|Wednesday, October 18, 2017
|PotPlayer 1.7.661
|Monday, March 20, 2017
|PotPlayer 1.6.63638
|Sunday, October 23, 2016
|PotPlayer 1.6.62949
|Thursday, August 11, 2016
|PotPlayer 1.6.60136
|Saturday, July 23, 2016
|PotPlayer 1.6
|Thursday, January 15, 2015
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I just wanted to do a brief post about my basic skin care essentials and routine! Its cheap, cheerful and effective. I hope you find this post useful and helpful!
So when I shower in the morning I use the Simple face wash and then the light moisturiser when I get out.
This face wash is lovely because its so silky and light and you can really feel it makes a difference on your face especially after a long weekend or a long shift. I will admit when I get out the shower my face feels like Ghandi's flip flop because I can feel all the natural oil has been removed from my face so I need to get moisturiser on asap otherwise its quite uncomfortable, but I guess all in all thats its job. Ticks the unscented box too!
Buy the light moisturiser here!
I love this light moisturiser because its water based, this is specifically good for me as I have combination skin and get super oily around my nose etc as the day goes on so this gives me a light layer of moisture but its not heavy or too creamy. Its completely unscented too, I really appreciate that when it comes to skin care products. If you have very dry skin they do a rich moisturiser which is much thicker and more nourishing.
So after a long night at work I just wanted to get in to bed and fall asleep, well I do just that after I remove my makeup with these little babies! I can remove my makeup with my eyes shut with these, they are just an essential in my mind. I use them for travelling, removing makeup when I film my videos, I have actually used them for cleaning surfaces too, don't ask why. Boots always has a sweet deal on for them I swear as well, usually 3 packs for £5 which is awesome considering they're like £3.50 usually.
Vaseline is a must have. I have a big pot at home and mini pots always on me, even on a night out, vaseline is an essential in the clutch bag. Whenever I remove my makeup I put vaseline on for the evening. At work I use vas a lot especially as its getting real cold out. I prefer the unscented one especially when my lips are really really dry, the flavoured ones make my lips sting and it doesn't help at all.
THE HOLY GRAIL OF LIFE. I moisturise my hands about 5-10 times a day depending on whats going on. I have a big bottle of cocoa butter at home and mini one in my bag for on the go. I just get really dry hands and dry cuticles and it makes me feel so uncomfortable. I will always have a moisturiser on me no matter what or where. Must have for sure.
Thanks for joining me for this blog post and I hope you liked it!
Phoebe x
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Appearance: Typical macro lager body of pale, straw-colored, bubbly water. Initially forms a large, bright white, frothy head, but it evaporates rather quickly and nearly completely. Minor lacing is left on the glass.
Smell: Generic lager aroma minus any foul scents. A hint of lemon .
Taste: When you buy a beer as generically named, marketed, packaged and cheaply priced as Name Tag Lager you go in with low expectations. I've had plenty of no-name-brand, bottom-of-the-barrel store brand lagers that have been abysmal (Stewart's Mountain Brew Beer Ice comes to mind). That's not the case with this beer sold (as far as I know) only at Trader Joe's stores. It's clean, crisp, refreshing and actually a little sweet. Not that it's delicious, but this is the beer hipsters should be drinking ironically.
Upon my first sip of this beer I pleasantly surprised to discover it was remarkably sweet and very clean tasting. According to Trader Joe's website it's an all-malt brew and it definitely shows in the palate. There's no metallic taste often imparted by toasted corn used by the big boys. There's a hint of true hop citrus which is likely accounting for the lightly sweet, slightly lemony flavor. I even get a bit of a sugar water-like taste on the finish. It's an inoffensive palate to be sure, and I do mean that as a compliment. I can honestly say it's the best cheap pale lager I've ever had (sorry, Schlitz).
Drinkability: Usually, pale lagers of this type tend to be ridiculously effervescent. While Name Tag Lager is indeed bubbly, it's not spastic and out of control like the cheaper brands or even the biggest of the big name brands. The carbonation is finer which lends itself well to the thin, slightly watery mouthfeel. The aftertaste is clean with perhaps just a hint of sweetness (maybe). It's very refreshing on a hot day or night, and at only 5% ABV it's definitely a candidate for a session beer, although I think you might get bored with the palate after two cans. Still, if you have to drink a cheap pale lager you could do a lot worse than this one.


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Textron Aviation Celebrates Citation Delivery Anniversary
WICHITA, Kan. (Jan. 30, 2017) – Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced it is celebrating the 45th anniversary of the first Cessna Citation delivery. The first Citation jet, a Cessna Citation 500, was delivered to American Airlines in January 1972, where it was used for the development of the company's training program. Since then, the Citation series has become the most popular line of business jets ever produced with more than 7,000 delivered to customers around the world. The worldwide fleet has amassed nearly 35 million flight hours.
"This milestone marking 45 years of industry leadership is really a celebration of the thousands of people through the years – customers and employees – who have made the Citation line of business jets the world leader," said Kriya Shortt, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing. "In terms of customer satisfaction, aircraft value and performance, precision design, production quality and lifecycle customer support, nothing comes close to what the Cessna Citation family offers the global marketplace."
Citation jets are renowned for their ability to combine reliability, efficiency and comfort with advanced technology and class-leading performance. This unique combination of features has resulted in a level of unparalleled quality Citation operators around the globe have come to know and value. The Citation series of business jets has evolved to offer an unmatched range of capabilities, systems and options that allows customers to expand their business reach.
Each Citation model is designed to strike an enviable balance between high performance, comfort and cost-efficient operation. No other family of business jets offers such a seamless progression of aircraft with extraordinary capabilities for customers. There are currently eight Citation models in production including the Citation Mustang, Citation M2, Citation CJ3+, Citation CJ4 , Citation XLS+, Citation Latitude, Citation Sovereign+ and Citation X+. The company's latest Citations in development include the super-midsize Citation Longitude and the Citation Hemisphere, Textron Aviation's entry into the large-cabin market.
About Textron Aviation Inc.
Textron Aviation Inc. is the leading general aviation authority and home to the Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker brands, which account for more than half of all general aviation aircraft flying. Textron Aviation has decades of unmatched experience in designing, building and supporting airplanes. It provides the most versatile and comprehensive general aviation product portfolio in the world through five principal lines of business: business jets, general aviation and special mission turboprop aircraft, high performance piston aircraft, military trainer and defense aircraft, and a complete global customer service organization. Its broad range of products include such best-selling aircraft as Citation and Hawker business jets, King Air and Caravan turboprops and T-6 military trainer aircraft, all of which are backed by the industry's most capable global service network. For more information, visit www.txtav.com.
About Textron Inc.
Textron Inc. is a multi-industry company that leverages its global network of aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative solutions and services. Textron is known around the world for its powerful brands such as Bell Helicopter, Cessna, Beechcraft, Hawker, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, Greenlee, Textron Off Road, Textron Systems, and TRU Simulation + Training. For more information visit: www.textron.com.
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements which may project revenues or describe strategies, goals, outlook or other non-historical matters; these statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.


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Throughout the day, you greet people, have conversations, and attend meetings. Every communication impacts you in some way, either adding value to you or depleting you. Communication is an extremely potent personal power and you need to learn to use it wisely.
For instance, do your conversations make you feel good or bad? Are they positive or negative? And when they are negative, do you know how to stop it and turn it around so that it becomes constructive? A client recently admitted: "Twenty minutes she went on and on. I didn't know how to stop her but I could feel the life force draining from me as she spoke. I was frozen. Paralyzed. And all I could do was pray she would stop and that the conversation would end."
A nurse manager reported: "We are working at 110% capacity in the hospital. At a recent meeting, my director basically spent the time complaining about how stressful it has been for her. She allowed others to go on and on complaining. Nothing was accomplished. I can't even tell you the purpose of the meeting. All I know is that I felt as though she was wasting our time as well as company resources. And this is supposed to be my mentor? Nearly all of the 50 managers were in this gripe session. There were so many other things I could have completed and would have preferred to do!"
Can you relate to this client? Have you ever spent hours of your day in meetings where people spent the entire time arguing, complaining, or blaming and nothing got accomplished? How do you feel during and after one of these meetings?
The Full Extent Of The Problem
Destructive conversations, as I call them, include blaming, complaining, gossip, and negativity. They are destructive because they damage and deplete your life force. They tear you down, beat you up and spit you out. Destructive conversations have no purpose other than to express negativity, waste time and make people feel bad. Immerse yourself in an environment of complaining, blaming, and gossip and at the end of the day, you'll feel completely exhausted and emotionally drained. You feel unproductive and have little to no energy to enjoy yourself and your family. Day after day, this is adds up to stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue, resulting in poor morale, high use of sick time, high staff turnover and low productivity at work. This translates to lost profits for an organization. In addition, you suffer personal ramifications including poor relations with your spouse, children, and other important relationships. Your health might suffer physically and mentally as you become anxious, fearful, and/or depressed. You could have difficulty sleeping which has other detrimental effects in your life.
Change starts with you and a desire to be different. Each and every time you meet and greet someone, there is an opportunity for the conversation to be destructive or constructive. Learn to recognize destructive conversations, stop them, and participate in only constructive ones. Doing so will add more time to your day, improve your attitude, uplift your spirit, and help you to be more productive. On a larger scale, work environments that promote positive interactions are more profitable, have fewer use of sick time, fewer turnovers as well as more engaged, more productive and happier employees.
Change Starts With You
People aren't necessarily destructive on purpose. Often, this is all they know. It's become habit. Your fellow employees may have learned it from the culture itself by its tolerating negativity through the lack of action from leadership, or even worse, by managements' lead! If management is negative, then it does make it difficult for you to make an impact towards change and it may mean that you are working in the wrong environment. Finding an environment where you can make a difference through positive efforts will have a huge impact on your level of happiness. However, if you are part of the problem, or if you believe that by learning new behaviors yourself and learning to speak up, then change starts with you.
Here are three steps to eliminating the destructive and having constructive conversations:
1. Do not tolerate destructive conversations.
Sensitize yourself to recognize when you are involved in a destructive conversation. Be aware of how you feel – do you feel excited or defeated? Do you feel this person is honoring and respecting you? If not, stop the conversation. Two things you have to learn: the first is to say "no" to what doesn't work for you. By speaking up about what doesn't feel good for you, you teach the other person how you want to be treated. You are extending your boundaries. Remember that the other person doesn't know any better. They do what they do because it's what they know. If you say nothing, your silence gives them permission to continue. Second, teach them what you do want. Sometimes saying "no" to something isn't enough; you may need to explain what you want instead. For instance, "I don't want to speak about Jane because she is not here. I want to support you in communicating more effectively so tell me the problem itself and we'll see if we can figure out a good approach to handling the issue with Jane." In this way, you focus your conversation off the person, Jane, and the negative gossip, and instead focus on the problem which is how to get along with Jane. When you've instructed people enough times, they will come to understand that if all they want to do is tear someone down through gossip, then they won't be able to go to you! A byproduct of this is that you become trusted because people learn that you will not speak badly about people or allow others to do so in your presence. And in order to build a team, eliminating destructive conversations is extremely important to provide the safe space for trust to occur.
2. Only partake in constructive conversations.
Constructive conversations are positive, meaningful, and beneficial. This means that after you are finished, you feel good, perhaps better than before. Each conversation you have needs a purpose. What's the point? If you don't know and they are not sharing, then why are you participating? What are you gaining by being present? Take your time seriously by making every interaction a positive and productive one.
3. Celebrate each other.
You are wonderful and so is the person standing next to you. Get in the habit of looking for the best in others and for pointing out their greatness to them. People get so used to hearing the negatives that hearing positives is new and different and can feel uncomfortable at first. Give it time. Let people know what you enjoy or appreciate about them. It's amazing how good it feels and the impact it has when people share positive things about each other.
If you create an environment where negativity is not tolerated, where meetings and conversations take place with purpose and meaning, and where people praise and appreciate each other, then you start to bring out the best in people, productivity increases along with employee satisfaction. You also start to create fertile ground for trust to develop. People don't always know how to be great – but they want to be! Start by being great yourself and learn to be more masterful in your communication. Take care in what you feed your mind. You'll feel better and the people around you will be grateful for your lead.
Julie Fuimano, MBA, RN is an Executive Coach with Nurturing Your Success Inc. She is passionate about partnering with people as they take the challenging journey to a new level of success. Clients report making better decisions, having more time for themselves, being able to say no to requests outside of their responsibilities and desires, being better able to manage emotions as well as conflicts, and an overall feeling of power and confidence. If you are discontent or frustrated with something in your life and are ready to give up the struggle for something better, or if you have a vision for success and want the courage and focus to make it happen, then contact Julie at (610) 277-2726 or write to firstname.lastname@example.com to explore how coaching would work for you. If not now, when? Fuimano is a popular motivational speaker, world-renowned writer, and author of the life manual and confidence builder, The Journey Called YOU: A Roadmap to Self-Discovery and Acceptance–available wherever books are sold. Sign up for her inspiring e-newsletter at www.NurturingYourSuccess.com.


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So as Gill stated, I was SUPER late to Cars and Coffee due to a wicked hangover. Word of advice; $3 tequila shots are NEVER a good idea. BUT we had a busy day ahead of us and I wasn't worried about that one meet, apart from the 190E that was there. Anyway, I met up with the boys in Aurora where we started our impromptu shoot with the air cooled guys "West side dubs". I'm pretty sure Matt is still editing those photos, so I will leave those details to him. Next, was the Seven Automotive BBQ… Free food. Honestly, I love going to Japanese meets/shows; there is always free food. Euro scene get your shit together, seriously.
A very tastefull STI
LegitGraphics' WRX. I love the decals on this Subaru and the overall style its going for. Probly the only bug eye I like at all.
After the Seven BBQ we headed to Meeting of Mazdas (MOM). To be honest, I don't think we even would have had any interest in the Mazda world, if it wasn't for Dave from StanceIsEverything. I was pretty happy we showed up, it had a wicked location and then we saw this MINT Miata. Nothing about it was out of place and the interior was on point. As you can see, I was bent over looking VERY interested in that interior.
Recently I decided to go with the fad and plastidip my car, after much trouble and 6 gallons later. It turned out to be this POS. Overall it does look better then what my car looked like before BUT I do wish I did another color. Overall I'm done with the car and ready to move on to a different chassis, 190E hopefully.
Here we are on to the last meet, the grand finale, the one I was waiting for alllllll day. The GotAss? Car wash. I really had to push the boys to go because everyone has a SO and I'm literally the only single one so I personally think they had to put the blame on me that they attended. Oh well, I was happy. (asses were to ratchet to post- Gill)
This low rider had UNREAL detail from the paint, trunk set up and even the frame of the car. I was blown away at the detail and had no idea that the low rider scene was like this.


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Lakers finally get first win
After losing their first three games of the season, the Los Angeles Lakers finally managed to get a win.
Hoopsvibe's quick call: The season has only just begun, but the Lakers definitely started off worse than expected.
Coming into this season, the Lakers were arguably the most hyped team in the NBA. With the recent acquisitions of veteran All-Stars Dwight Howard and Steve Nash, the purple and gold started to look like the front runner for best team in the Western Conference. Howard, Nash, World Peace, Gasol and Kobe Bryant to round out a starting lineup? Seemed like one of, if not, the best on paper.
But often times, things aren't always as they seem; and greatness is rarely achieved overnight.
The Lakers lossed their first three games of the season; they lost to Dallas, Portland and their hometown rival Clippers. Had they lost to the Pistons last night, it would've been the first time they started 0-4 since 1957. But the Lakeshow started off strong and never looked back, cruising to a 108-79 win over Detroit. A win doesn't say much, (especially when you're playing Detroit, who's now 0-3 to start the season for the third consecutive year) but it was certainly crucial for LA.
"We're barely scratching the surface," Lakers coach Mike Brown said. "I'm really excited about the direction this [offense] can go. Obviously we needed a win. It gives us a little belief," he continued.
Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol came out strong, scoring 21 of the Lakers first 25 points. Howard finished the game with 28 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks while Gasol ended the game with 14 points and 5 rebounds. Kobe Bryant had a fairly quiet game, dropping 15 points.
The baller formerly known as Ron Artest, Metta World Peace, who had 21 points combined in the Lakers first three games, contributed serious in game four and finished with 18 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.
None of Detroit's five starters scored in double digits. Swedish native, Jonas Jerebko, led the Pistons with 18 points.
The Lakers definitely "got the monkey off their back" with their win against Detroit last night.
But they certainly showed that it's going to take a lot more than a few practices and eight preseason games to put together a championship team.
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■ An incentive to invest in slipshod, money-losing ventures would be created by the combination of a new proposal to immediately expense investments with the Senate's suggested delay in the corporate tax cut.
■ Rules designed to prevent highly paid doctors, lawyers and other service providers from cashing in on new benefits aimed at small businesses can be easily circumvented.
Even those who applaud the aim of reducing the corporate tax rate and transforming the way global profits are taxed worry that specific provisions will miss the mark.
Republican leaders, responding to political pressure to move quickly, defend the process, saying Congress has held dozens of hearings on tax reform in recent years.
Tax bills, by nature complex, are shaped by a galaxy of competing pressures. And withholding details until the final vote as a way of shielding the legislation from special interests is not a new strategy.
Yet several veterans of previous tax battles argue what is different this time is the mix of breakneck speed and enormous scope.
The Congressional Budget Office said on Monday that Congress's nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation has not yet had enough time to analyze the full economic impact of the proposals.
One of the plans' most radical changes is a shift from a worldwide system, where profits are taxed no matter where they are earned, to a territorial system, which exempts profits earned outside the United States. That would bring the American tax system in line with those in most other nations.
Because the switch could end up encouraging American companies to move even more profits offshore to avoid paying any domestic income tax, both the House and Senate versions of the bill impose rules to deter most multinationals with annual revenues of more than $100 million from exploiting such tactics.
But the effort to catch the giants under the new territorial system sets a financial bar that small and medium-size businesses can limbo under. Mr. Shay said accounting firms were likely to start marketing off-the-shelf tax shelters allowing companies to set up foreign offices in low-tax countries like Bermuda or Luxembourg to shrink their tax bills.
"They're just opening us up to the next round of tax shelters on the international side," he said. "And the I.R.S., underfunded as it is, isn't going to be able to check anything."
At the same time, he said, some safeguards aimed at multinationals could still be bypassed. To reduce their home tax bill, companies like Google and Pfizer, for instance, often relocate patents and copyrights in tax havens and then sell use of that intellectual property back to their American subsidiaries at eye-popping prices. These are the higher-than-normal profits — which Senate bill drafters have cunningly called "Gilti" (for global intangible low-tax income) — that Republican bills are trying to stop from leaking out of the tax system.
Multinationals, though, could avoid some of the Gilti tax by shifting more tangible property like production and research facilities abroad.
Other problems arise from the push to reduce the rate on pass-through businesses (sole proprietorships, partnerships and S corporations that currently pay taxes at the individual rate). Lawmakers have advertised the cut as relief for smaller businesses, but high-income investors in hedge and private-equity funds could use the provision to reduce the tax paid on rent and interest income by as much as a third.
Hedge-fund investors have an additional opportunity for a windfall with a simple reporting technique, said Steven M. Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and former legislation counsel with the Joint Committee on Taxation. The funds' decision to mark their trading positions at their market price (instead of their initial purchase price) would enable any gains to qualify for pass-through treatment at the newly reduced rate of 25 percent instead of being treated as short-term capital gains, at a top rate that nears 40 percent.
The pass-through changes present other tax dodges. Benefits for pass-throughs that provide services — like doctors, lawyers and accountants — are supposed to be phased out for individuals with incomes above $75,000 and for married couples with income above $150,000. But a firm could skirt that limit by creating multiple partnerships with different functions, with one providing services, and the other handling, say, licensing or leasing, said Dan Shaviro, a professor of taxation at New York University Law School who helped write the 1986 tax overhaul.
"There is not a single advantage this has, except for students of people like me, who will get paid more to figure out how to game the system," he said.
Individual proposals that might make sense on their own can also set off unintended consequences when paired together. Although the Senate's plan to wait until 2019 to cut the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent has infuriated some shareholders, it saves money so that Congress can reach its budget goals. Some tax experts go further and argue that any cut should be phased in over a 10-year period to smooth out investment and reduce windfall gains.
Yet enacting a 20 percent corporate tax rate to take effect one year in advance while allowing investors to immediately deduct their expenses at 35 percent operates like a subsidy, and could encourage investing in money-losing projects simply for a tax gain.
"That could lead to silly stuff where you have a loss before the tax, but a gain after the tax," Mr. Shaviro said.
(He offered an example for the mathematically inclined. Normally no one would invest $100 to earn only $90 back. But under the Senate plan, where some business expenses could be immediately deducted at a 35 percent rate, you would get $35 back in 2018. So your actual cost is $65. By the time your $90 earnings are paid in 2019, though, the tax rate would be 20 percent. That would cost you $18 in taxes, and leave $72 in your wallet. So even though your investment lost $10, you are still coming out ahead: with $72 on a net investment of $65.)
Other experts pointed to constantly shifting cost estimates of proposals that suddenly gained or lost tens of billions of dollars overnight.
At the end of 10 years, the very safeguards that are supposed to prevent international tax avoidance actually lose money, according to the Joint Committee's revenue estimates of the House bill, said Kimberly Clausing, an economist at Reed College. "This is a big giveaway in future years," she said. "On net, the whole system is ineffective."
The shortcomings are fixable to some degree, critics say, but the Republican strategy of pushing through a bill without Democratic votes before the end of the year — on tax rules that take effect a few weeks later — will not leave sufficient time.
To some supporters, though, that's the price of success.
"Will they find things that need to be fixed afterward because the process was moving so fast? Yes," said Rachelle Bernstein, vice president and tax counsel at the National Retail Federation, which represents big chains like Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue.
But there are always technical corrections to tax bills after they pass, Ms. Bernstein said, and retailers have been waiting so long for a corporate rate cut that they don't mind if it finally happens with an imperfect bill.
"It's part of how the sausage is made, but it's better to make this sausage than cut it off," Ms. Bernstein said.
An earlier version of this article described incorrectly a statement from the Congressional Budget Office. The office said that the Joint Committee on Taxation had not yet had enough time to analyze the full impact of the proposals, not that the office expected that it would be unable to analyze the bill before a vote.


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Thursday, November 9, 2017
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
★★★★★ - A Review by Cameron Kanachki
Since his 2009 breakout film Dogtooth, the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has slowly worked his way to the top of absurdist cinema with his truly unique blend of dark comedy & psychological horror. His most recent film, 2016's The Lobster, was one of my favorite films of 2016, & was so deeply idiosyncratic you can't help but laugh at the absurdity of it.
But now, he has taken away most of the biting dark comedy & added more of the disturbing psychological horror with The Killing of a Sacred Deer, an equally hilarious & terrifying film. The film follows Steven Murphy (played by Colin Farrell), a renowned surgeon. He & his wife, Anna (played by Nicole Kidman), have 2 children: 14-year old Kim (played by Raffey Cassidy) & 12-year-old Bob (played by Sunny Suljic).
Recently, Steven has become a mentor to Martin (played by Barry Keoghan), the son of a former patient of Steven's. As Martin becomes closer to Steven, he also becomes closer to Kim. Also, Martin becomes more unhinged, basically coercing Steven into meeting his mother (played by Alicia Silverstone), who is obviously sexually attracted to Steven.
One day, before school, Bob has a bad experience & is sent to the hospital. Martin meets Steven at the hospital, & tells him that for something Steven did in the past, he must pay back & make an ultimate sacrifice. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, as Steven has more secrets, including one that his anesthesiologist, Matthew (played by Bill Camp) has in his hands.
The cast is excellent. Farrell & Kidman are dynamite. Silverstone gives her greatest performance ever. But Barry Keoghan is the true star. He makes you feel equally frightened & creeped out.
Yorgos Lanthimos's direction is amazing. He creates such a tense & disturbing atmopshere that you can't tear yourself away from the screen.
The screenplay by Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou is brilliant. The dark comedy Lanthimos is known for, although there is less of it here, always manages to stand out. And the characters are so idiosyncratic that they're almost impossible to describe.
The cinematography by Thimios Bakatakis is astounding. Every shot feels so cold & distant, reminding us of the cinematography from the films of Stanley Kubrick, especially The Shining.
And the sound design is absolutely stunning. It's so jarring that it will shake you to your very core.
This is one of the best films of the year. It holds you tight & doesn't let go for its entire runtime as it terrifies you, disturbs you, & possibly makes you laugh.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer was seen by me at the Landmark Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak, MI on Friday, October 27, 2017. It is currently in 3 theaters in the Detroit area: the Landmark Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak, MI; the AMC Forum 30 in Sterling Heights, MI; & the AMC Livonia 20 in Livonia, MI. Its runtime is 121 minutes, & it is rated R for disturbing violent & sexual content, some graphic nudity & language.
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Mobile advertising is a double-edged sword. Developers need to make money. Many end users outright refuse to purchase apps. This is why mobile advertising exists. When it comes to me, I buy as many apps that I feel are worthwhile or innovative as I can. Devs need to eat so they don't starve to death. If they starve to death we get no new things. While there are others with my mindset many are against buying apps, or simply cannot afford them. No matter which camp you belong to I'm sure we can all agree anything is better than the awful freemium model.
All of that aside, if you are a developer and you decide to offer a free app with mobile advertising, there are two ways to do it. The right way and the wrong way. I mostly only download free apps when there is no paid version available. When done correctly the ads don't bother me. I understand the need to monetize content. It's when they're done poorly that the experience suffers or someone might get outright offended.
Would ya look at that? I mean just look at it. The image depicts an elderly woman who possibly just got a bingo. She seems pretty happy about something. I'm willing to bet she's not that elated about her life insurance policy. I've had conversations about life insurance plenty of times. Never once has anyone been that excited about the conversation that they raise their hand and thank God for their insurance policy. This is where mobile advertising gets it all wrong.
What's more, this ad was found in a solitaire game. Not to stereotype, but plenty of older folks love to play solitaire. What bothers me so about it (aside from the overall lack of design in the ad itself, sans content) is the content is outright offensive to me. The idea that someone's grandma grabs their Samsung Galaxy Tab to play a game of solitaire for relaxation and is confronted with what amounts to "I'm going to die soon" is quite poor in my opinion. Surely whoever generates these ads could be more creative and not remind people about how there is a terminus to our lives. Furthermore, the app developer should do some quality assurance to make sure the content of their advertisements isn't completely rubbish. Just like this.
I would very much prefer to see an ad that has some style to it and content that targets people correctly without being quite so offensive. If you're creative enough to come up with an app and code it, you should be creative enough to find an advertising method that syncs with your creativity. It should not be too difficult.
Please, developers, please use better ads. Use companies that have solid ads to target your demographic that look nice and don't remind people about dying. I think the user base as a whole would appreciate that.
And don't even get me started on tapjoy……


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Pambling Roads ~~ Washington, DC
Pambling Roads ~~ Washington, DC
Rockville, Maryland was more of a pit stop so we could visit my aunt who lives in Sykesville. We were pleasantly surprised and plan to stay there longer when we return to the area. We stayed at the Best Western on West Montgomery. It was a great stay, tremendous breathtaking view, and an on site restaurant. My husband thoroughly enjoyed their breakfast selection. The employees were happy, smiling, joking with each other, customers and at the same time were able to conduct their jobs thoroughly and professionally.
We even got to see our very first groundhog!
Callaway's Restaurant is located in the Best Western serves your pizza, wings, salads, beer, and wine with a smile and excellent service.
Westminster, Maryland was a driving tour for us. It was a nice relaxing ride through the mountains, farming area, and hills with breath-taking scenery. We did stop by the visitor's center and drove around the historic district, which has a smorgasbord of different architectural buildings. In the Courthouse Square, you will find several noteworthy homes and churches along East Main Street and North Court Street. The Kimmey House is the oldest house in the Square. It is now the office for the Historical Society of Carroll County. The employees at the visitor center were pleasant, informative, and welcoming. There was a battle here, Corbit's Charge that has some fascinating history attached to it. Unfortunately, the photos we took came out blurred but their website offers great pictures for you to see.
Cool Stuff we saw on the way:
Washington, DC
We met people from: Australia, Canada, Serbia, Romania, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Washington, Wisconsin, DC, Virginia, and Tennessee.
We missed our turn. So we ended up flubbing our way through DC and managed to circle around to find Arlington. We saw a side of DC most tourists don't and that was okay. then we managed to get around to another part and found some awesome sites that weren't on the agenda. Isn't that the point of traveling to new places?
We stayed at the Best Western/Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. We stayed at this particular Best Western the last time we were in the DC area. It worked out quite well before and we decided to stay there again.
DC is one of the most memorable places we have ever been. There is no charge for most of the sites in Washington, DC. We were there for almost a week and still did not see and do everything we planned. It was exciting to see the three helicopters heading toward the White House and watching President Obama landing and heading into the house. (Three helicopters means the President and two helicopters means the Vice President.) The last time we were there, we saw President Bush's motorcade heading into the Whitehouse driveway.
We purchased tickets to the Old Town Trolley; it is the best way, in our opinion, to travel around DC. Their employees and drivers are awesome. It is definitely a must-do for anyone who wants to know all the little things and extra special history that surrounds DC. Since we only bought the trolley tickets for two days, we took a taxi to DC the rest of the time. The people we encountered at all the sites, tourists and employees were great. The employees were helpful, pleasant, and informative. From the monuments to the Smithsonian museums everyone was smiling and willing to answer our many questions.
This trip we went to:
The Capitol Building, U.S. Botanic Gardens,
Grant Memorial
Lincoln Memorial
The Washington Monument
National Air and Space Museum, (Yes, I know we are from the Space Coast but we just had to!) When I saw the Space Toilet, all I could think of was The Big Bang Theory and Howard. We touched a piece of the moon!
There was a section for the different military services. The WW II section stood out for me, as well as the section with the Tuskegee Airmen.
Natural History Museum
American History Museum
FDR Memorial
Martin Luther King Memorial
The Washington Monument
Vietnam Vet's Memorial, the Korean War Memorial,
The house where President Lincoln died
The picture of the column above on the right is created from all books written about Abraham Lincoln.
We walked by the Supreme Court but it was full of scaffolding and we did not go into the building. As much as we did see, it is just a small drop of everything that visitors can do in the nation's capitol.
A few highlights:
All the Smithsonian Museums
The National Cathedral
The original Star Spangled Banner that Francis Scott Key saw looking out his window when he was incarcerated.
The hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was murdered.
First Ladies inaugural gowns
The original Kermit the Frog
Harry Potter's cape
Awesome collection of guitars and musical instruments
The Ruby Slippers from the Wizard of Oz
A lot of Dinosaurs and animals
The Hope Diamond
A moon rock
An Apollo Command Module
The Spirit of St. Louis
The original Star Trek Enterprise
The Bob Hope Gallery of American Entertainment
My Uncle Eugene O'Neill's book The Iceman Cometh (on display in the Library of Congress)
Thomas Jefferson's Library (Library of Congress)
The Jefferson Memorial
We decided we wanted to end our trip with a visit the Arlington National Cemetery, the memorials, and monuments. We ended our time in DC by observing the Changing of the Guard. It was breathtaking, awe inspiring, and humbling.
We stayed a week in the nation's capital and had dined at many different restaurants. The best one was a comfortable and relaxing dine where we also enjoyed drinks at the Monuments Restaurant and Lounge at the Comfort Inn next door to the Best Western/Pentagon in Arlington. The food was cooked to perfection and our server, Lipi, was pleasant, friendly, and did not leave us wanting or waiting for anything. He left an excellent and lasting impression on the both of us. Lipi was just one of those awesome people and considering that I tend to warm up slowly to people, I felt a connection toward him that is rare for me. We had the privilege of meeting a friend of his, Elena, (not sure if I'm spelling her name correctly) and struck up a conversation with her as well. They were looking forward to becoming US citizens within a few months. My husband and I wish them well.
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Social media tools are used to distribute messages through the use of words in technology and social interaction. They are usually mobile or Internet based. Marketers find social media very useful in conveying messages with peers, consumers and potential customers. Most of the time, social media allows for customization of the 'brand' so that the messages are distributed and relayed in a conversational way. Social media has been widely used in disseminating information about organizations and what they want to relay to their consumers. For instance, health organizations and government agencies spread information on the recall of certain products that have been found harmful to the health of the consumers. They have created widgets so that concerned parties can access the information directly from their own Web sites. Other social media tools that broadcast the same information include videos, blogs, Twitter, and podcasts. ...
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The benefits of membership in a Club the caliber of Catamount are many: from your family's enjoyment of a multitude of amenities to the sense of community and camaraderie that will be the foundation of cherished memories for years to come. Catamount provides its Members with a distinctive lifestyle that celebrates the best of the Colorado high country. Imagine spending mornings fly-fishing on the Yampa River, afternoons on the fairways overlooking the Yampa Valley and Mount Werner, and your evenings sailing on the totally private 530-acre Lake Catamount. The Lake House offers a fitness center, tennis courts, swimming, wading, and spa pools, and a full service restaurant for Members and their guests. In the winter, walking paths and equestrian trails turn into a Nordic skiing and snowshoeing paradise. Of course, the famous slopes of Steamboat Springs Resort are just minutes away.
Belonging to a club with Catamount's long-range vision for the land has intangible benefits as well. Catamount has placed over 3,000 acres into perpetual agricultural, riparian and forest conservation easements to maintain the open natural landscape.
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For 2020, our membership offers focus on Trial Memberships which allows you to try the club for a year before deciding to become members. We have 2 trial membership options available:
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• No initiation fee during trial period. 2020 Annual dues: $12,000. Annual spending minimums for those 45 and older: $1,600.
• May play in all golf tournaments.
• Commitment to convert to regular membership required by November 1, 2020. Trial membership ends on December 31, 2020.
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• No initiation fee during trial period. 2020 Annual Dues are $5,700; 2020 annual spending minimum is $800.
• Commitment to convert to regular membership required by November 1, 2020. Trial membership ends on December 31, 2020.
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Why personalized learning is hard to study
The Christensen Institute
This week saw the release of the third in a series of personalized learning studies conducted by the RAND Foundation. NB: For those familiar with last 2015 RAND report on personalized learning by the same authors, it's worth noting a crucial distinction: this new study analyzed a group of 32 schools only 16 of which were included in the set of over 60 schools in the 2015 sample, which helps to explain some divergent conclusions drawn between the two.).


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BURBANK, Calif., December 1, 2010 – The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) board today declared an annual cash dividend of $0.40 per share, up five cents from the previous year. The dividend is payable on January 18, 2011 to shareholders of record at the close of business December 13, 2010. The January dividend payment represents the 55th consecutive year of dividend payments to shareholders.
"The Walt Disney Company had a strong year both creatively and financially in 2010," said Robert A. Iger, president and CEO, The Walt Disney Company. "We are pleased to be able to raise our shareholder dividend while continuing to invest for future growth."
The Company also announced that it has scheduled its annual shareholders' meeting for Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Brandy Melville sweater, Topshop t-shirt, One Teaspoon shorts, Forever 21 oxfords, Urban Outfitters sunnies, Nars Heat Wave lipstick
As much as I'm not a fan of hot, humid summers in NYC, I am getting pretty tired of chilly weather. I think that's why I took a summer outfit and layered it with tights and a cardigan. I am obsessed with these denim shorts and I can't wait to wear them sans hosiery.


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You might be wondering why I have pitted these two characteristics against each other. It's true, most of the time we would say we are nice people and often consider ourselves effective in our work.
This post is aimed at those times we are more likely to block out of our memory: The times when we are under the cosh; extremely busy; head down with lots of work on and can inevitably find it hard to be a nice person, especially in the moment – those split seconds when we are forced to interact with people during this over stretched period. Is this starting to sound more familiar?
Take a very mundane example: You are running late for a meeting, you are at the barriers leaving a train station waiting to present your ticket and the person in front of you is on the phone, coffee in hand attempting to fish their ticket out of their back pocket and taking some time to do this, do you feel like being a nice person in this moment? Most rational adults can stop themselves from exhibiting any signs of annoyance at this but let's just think about what's going on inside: You don't know or have anything against this person specifically… the reason you don't feel like being nice in this moment is because the person is stopping you from being the most effective you i.e. getting to your meeting as fast as possible. Now imagine translating this feeling into your workplace, your client meet-ups, your out-of-hours work at home with the family and you may start to understand why I see these characteristics as opposing one another now and again.
As a short aside, I've known and met some pretty chilled out people in my time, so if that's you, amazing, this issue is not likely to be scratching where you are itching, so perhaps you'd like to move on to some of our other topics more suited to laid back people, for example managing your email inbox…
So let's break this topic down into a couple of questions which I will address in turn:
- What are the wrong ways to interpret being nice?
- Why does it matter about being a nice person if you are effective?
- How can I stop effectiveness switching into being unapproachable?
- How do I learn the long sought-after art of patience?
- What are the wrong ways to interpret being nice? So let's get our terms straight, when I say being a nice person I don't mean being a doormat. I don't suggest that a nice person is someone who stops everything immediately for everyone and never thinks about their own work. Other words to perhaps better describe being a nice person in the context of effective work may be approachable, understanding, thoughtful, caring, interested in others, having a sense of humour, engaging, patient.
- Why does it matter about being a nice person if you are effective? These characteristics, when shown to your co-workers, family, clients or anyone that needs to interact with you during your working hours, will in some way demand the same back. More importantly true effectiveness comes about when we harness the potential in others and see that we cannot function as an island; we are people orientated by our very nature. Every patient and approachable gesture made by you is a step closer to creating a good working culture and a long term effective strategy for success.
- How can I stop effectiveness switching into being unapproachable? There are two main reasons why effectiveness can feel like it has to be the same as walls-up, unapproachable unfriendliness: a) Not wanting to hinder focused flow; b) Pressure coming from lack of time
- It can be very hard to get into a good state of flow so when you are there you naturally do not want to be disturbed and someone doing the disturbing may not get a very nice version of you, well actually it's probably more likely to be the 2nd or 3rd person who disturbs you who doesn't see your nice side! Try and limit distractions as much as possible when you know you need to be in this state: Check your diary and block out a chunk of at least 90 minutes; turn off all notifications and go to a space where you are likely to be the least interrupted (your tortoise enclosure). You might want to send some kind of agreed signal to your colleagues or family that now is a bad time to talk e.g. a sign on the door or headphones in. If you tell them in advance then in this circumstance not being approachable does not equate to not being nice.
- More likely, snappy and unfriendly behaviour comes about when you are in a time pressured situation. Firstly you may want to ask yourself – how have I got here? Assessing time pressured situations is a very broad topic; I decided to write a part 2 to this post to spend a bit more time on this topic, you can read it here. Assuming you are making efforts to limit times when you are under extreme time pressures the main principle to take home is: Do not fear interruptions during these times. Being interrupted does not mean you have to stop what you are doing. I always used to have a little notepad by my desk so if a call came in or someone spoke to me I could remain calm and approachable with them, write their question, task or issue down and tell them politely a rough timescale of when I'd likely get back to them. In most cases this will be enough but in times when that does not satisfy you'll probably need to delegate or assess priorities between the thing you are doing and the thing they need you to do. In every case there will be a clear difference between the two and a call will be made as to which thing gets put down the list.
- How do I learn the long sought-after art of patience? Our culture is not really all about patience anymore. Everyone is more about immediacy and people are starting to think NOW is the only option. It is a tough thing to break away from this and convince yourself and those around you that waiting for things is ok. I'm buying a sofa bed at the moment; do I mind that it says it will be dispatched in 6-10 weeks? No, because I've asked for a specific fabric and know it is being custom made just for me. When we understand the value that time offers we are prepared to be patient: Patient with people, patient with ourselves, and patient with inanimate objects. This is the case with every day short term things too, and if we let that moto penetrate our psyche enough it starts to affect how we react when things take a long time and can become a habit even when the thing or person we are waiting for isn't adding value during the long wait!


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I have been rather busy lately, not only getting my daughter ready for college but also getting myself ready emotionally for the time when she is away from home.
Every time when I think of the moment when I have to say goodbye to my daughter, like I did to my son 6 years ago, I feel a strong sadness coming over me. I know this time is different. When my son left, I still have my daughter around.
I will try to keep myself busy by enrolling in some free online courses via coursera. If that's not enough, I also set some new goals for myself, like getting some certifications, leaving me no time to feel anything. Hopefully, I can go through the initial period and stay healthy, positive and even better productive.


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6. Economic Affairs
The nation's large economy is built, in particular, on the back of rich natural resources like the fishing grounds around the country, hydro-electric power and geothermal energy. The nation is a welfare state, with a mixed economy, and private enterprise blooms.
The Icelandic economy is very dependent on the fishing industry, with fish products being the most significant national export, making up about 40% of all its exports. Only about 3% of Icelanders make their living from agriculture, the largest part of which involves livestock farming. New farm enterprises have developed in recent years, such as fur farming, fishing farming, and forest cultivation. The proportion of the work-force in industry has grown steadily throughout the twentieth-century, especially in the food industry, construction industry and large scale industry which provides almost 40% of Iceland´s export income. Pharmaceutical industry and Software enterprises have also developed substantially as well as tourism, and attempts have been made to create a greater variety of occupations and increase large scale industry.
Economic growth was at an average around 4,3% from 1997 to 2005 and increased fast until 2008. That economic growth is more than the rate which has been experienced by the world's industrial nations over the same period. Purchasing power increased by around 27% from 1995-2003, which is an increase of about four times that of nations comparable to Iceland, the purchasing power kept increasing until January 2008.
In September 2008 three of the country's major commercial banks collapsed and the Icelandic economy went through a serious financial crisis.
The inflation rate has been a problem in Iceland for a long time. In the last decade particular emphasis was laid on creating stability in economic affairs. The result of these steps were positive and the inflation rate stayed between 1.5 to 2.5%. However in the last years the inflation rate have been rising again up to 4,6% on average 2006 and up to 19% in January 2009, since then the inflation rate has decreased and the inflation been as low as 1% on average in the year 2014 and 1,6% in the year 2015.
The employment situation has been good and employment opportunities are varied. The unemployment rate was often about 3,0-3,5% and in the year 2007 is was as low as 1,0%, while the average unemployment rate in Europe was around 7%. After the financial crisis in September 2008 the unemployment rate increased rapidly up to 9%, but has since then gone down and was around 4% on average in the year 2015.
Despite the stable growth in the people's prosperity, many are of the view that all are not benefiting equally from it. The national cake is not evenly divided, with disadvantaged groups such as the old and handicapped getting a small share. There are many things in the society which indicate that the gap between rich and poor is increasing.
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Ecosystem Destruction | News
Red tide is devastating Florida's sea life. Are humans to blame?
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Thousands of sea creatures now litter many of southern Florida's typically picturesque beaches.
"Anything that can leave has, and anything that couldn't leave has died."…
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And there you have it! Easy peasy! Now go and take some adorable photos! I'll be back soon with another tutorial. In the meantime - are you planning a birthday party or baby shower?
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It's perfectly cute! Happy upcoming birthday to your little one, I'm visiting today from Raising Imperfection. :)ReplyDelete
that's adorable! love how it can be custom to any party theme. We just celebrated my nephews 2yr birthday which means it's time to start planning my little man's 2nd party! I'll keep this party hat tutorial in mind :)ReplyDelete
So cute! I was debating between a hat and headband for Violet's party but went with a headband instead. I love this one!
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HOw cute is this!!! I love it, I'm sure she's going to love it too :)ReplyDelete
Hey Kerry. I'm Laney. first time follower. and I see you're celebrating a one yr old bday for a cutie. I just went to one this weekend and last weekend for my little boy cousins. so cute. love your blog. and cant wait to for more. and i'm adding youReplyDelete
Amelia is going to have such a fabulous birthday party!! Can't wait to see pictures!
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Hello there,
I'm your newest follower!...I love your blog and i'm actually planning my daugther's fisrt birthday and I want to make this hat but I have a question for you...How do you make the ball on top? TIA ;)
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Green Hill Zone (8-bit)
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|Number of Acts: 3
|Level theme: tropical island
|Boss: Robotnik (GHZ 8-bit)
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Green Hill Zone is the first zone in Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System. It is loosely based on Green Hill Zone from the Sega Mega Drive version of the game.
The zone, again like its Mega Drive counterpart, is filled with rolling plains of green and jauntily colored flowers. It's not all natural goodness, though, as Robotnik has installed spike pits and set his ubiquitous robotic minions loose on the verdant landscape. Geographically speaking, the Zone is located on South Island.
Sonic made a brief return to Green Hill Zone, destroying Dr. Robotnik's eggpod (and Robotnik as well) saving South Island in the process.
|Tumble down rolling hills and splash through the chilling waters in an underground cavern. Bounce on springboards but not on spikes. Ouch!
The differences between the Mega Drive version and the Game Gear/Master System version are fairly obvious. Less dynamic colors, with limitations caused by the hardware of the SMS/GG.
The blue background of the MD game is now somewhat paler, and the plants in the background do not animate quite the same.
With regard to non-technical differences, underground tunnels containing water appear in Act 2, which are unlike anything in the Mega Drive version of this zone. These pools would return in Sonic Mania's version of the zone.
- Moto Bug - Insect robots that scoot along the ground.
- Crabmeat - Crab bot that shoots fireballs from its pincers
- Buzz Bomber - Insect bot that shoots stinging fireballs
The zone's background music is based on the 16-bit counterpart. The composition is not identical; Some notes have been altered to better suit the hardware capabilities. Less audio channels are used (again due to hardware restrictions) resulting in a tune with much less depth than the original, but still easily recognisable.
Act 1
This is the introductory level to the Sonic game. The first enemy is a Motobug on the ground, which you can either jump on or over, followed by a Crabmeat. To reach the end of the level, you must simply run from the left of the level to the right, avoiding obstacles, enemies, and spike-filled pits (which can be passed by jumping on small floating blocks in the air).
Act 2
You begin on the top left of the level, and as you walk to the right, Sonic trips and falls through the ground. You end up in a cave near a Crabmeat. Navigate to the cave floor, move through to the water pools at the bottom of the level, and climb up ledges to get to the top of the "mountain". As you climb back up the cave (after having bounced back out of the cave using a spring), you will need to enter a cave on the left (so as to reach the top of the level). Instead of using the spring to reach the top, jump over the spring, fall down the water fall, and fall down the next one. On a ledge is the Chaos Emerald.
Act 3
Run and avoid the pits. When you get to the top, Robotnik will fly around higher than can you reach for a bit and descend. This is when you hit him. Get out of the way — he will zoom off screen, then repeat the process. Hit him eight times to get rid of him.
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FieldTurf is"artificial grass". It is not an indoor/outdoor carpet and it is not solely a product intended for an athletic field or general public use. In addition to sports applications, FieldTurf is a product and installation system specifically designed and intended for residential lawns where organic turf cannot survive or is not desired.
Fieldturf is manufactured and installed under patent protected licenses and patents and is intended to mirror and replicate natural grass. The general product specifications were invented more than 20 years ago for use in very specialized circumstances.
FieldTurf landscaping products can be demonstrated, over time, to pay for itself in comparison to the installation and maintenance costs of a natural grass lawn.
The same qualities that make FieldTurf an outstanding surface for sports fields and golf courses makes it ideal for home or commercial landscaping. It is especially well suited for areas where natural grass is difficult to grow or where upkeep is impractical due to water restrictions or other environmental factors. And its durability makes it the sensible choice for high-traffic areas.
Many homes and business owners do not realize that once a lawn has been established, regular management practices must be followed to ensure its quality and longevity. Most are expensive and time consuming.
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