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Look out for gaps in the market and do your research
In his book Side Hustle: From idea to income in 27 days, author and host of the Side Hustle School podcast, Chris Guillebeau explains that to come up with a side hustle you should "get in the mindset of finding the profitable ideas that exist all around you".
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"Here's an example of a hustle that went beyond the "starter idea" approach. One day, a web developer named Paul was commuting to work alongside with thousands of other people.
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If you are into working out then you could gain a personal trainer qualification and offer personal training courses. If arts and crafts is your thing then you could look to sell your creations and designs on marketplaces such as Etsy, Amazon, Gumtree and eBay.
If selling products online is more up your passion, you could always search charity shops and vintage stores for any profitable items to resell to consumers on sites like Etsy, Amazon, Gumtree and eBay.
Recent research has highlighted that there are now more than 600 Britons who have made more than £1m by selling items on eBay and Amazon so there's certainly money to be made. If you want more inspiration for what works on eBay and Amazon, then check out report which shows the most popular products purchased on the site include car accessories, wall decals, CDs, DVDs, and furniture's.
A number of successful entrepreneurs started out by turning their hobby into a side hustle. Why can't you?
Take Davies an entrepreneurs. Davies started Crafter's Companion – an online retailer of arts and crafts goods – as a modest part-time business while studying at university. After graduating, Davies decided to focus on the business full-time and her company now generates annual turnover in excess of £15m and has expanded internationally.
Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp, was born in a small village near Kiev in Ukraine. Coming from poverty, Koum's family emigrated to California, and Koum started learning about computers in his spare time. By the time he was 18, he had developed impressive skills, and in 1997, he was hired by Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer.
He spent a decade in that industry before realising the huge potential of the app industry in 2009 and starting WhatsApp Inc. By 2014, WhatsApp had become enormously popular. Facebook bought the app for a staggering $19 billion.
Key lessons to learn
Invest in yourself. You need to invest in yourself before you invest in anything else, by focusing on improving your skills, education and experience. Without self-investment, you won't be able to build a business, let alone sustain one.
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There were zero bids for Graiguecullen Village Centre in Carlow - which had a guide price of €900,000 - during an online auction last Friday.
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William E. Hull
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from Illinois's 16th district
March 4, 1923 - March 3, 1933
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|January 13, 1866
Lewistown, Illinois
|May 30, 1942 (aged 76)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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William Edgar Hull (January 13, 1866 - May 30, 1942) was an American businessman and politician. He served as U.S. Representative from Illinois for five terms.
Born in Lewistown, Illinois, Hull attended the common schools, Lewistown High School, and Illinois College at Jacksonville, Illinois. Before running for office, Hull was president of the Manito Chemical Co. and served as Postmaster of Peoria, Illinois from 1898 to 1906. He served as a member of the board of directors of the Illinois Highway Improvement Association.
Hull was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1920. Hull was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923 - March 3, 1933). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932.
After politics, Hull resumed his former pursuits in Peoria, Illinois. He died in a hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 30, 1942, while on a visit. Hull is interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lewistown, Illinois.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.
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WELLINGTON — A village staff committee responsible for approving development projects has apparently violated state laws by failing to keep consistent records of its public meetings for at least a decade.
An analysis by The Palm Beach Post found significant gaps in record-keeping for Wellington's Development Review Committee since January 2004.
Most notably: More than half of the more than 200 meetings in that time have no written minutes, including almost all of the meetings held in a five-year span between 2006 and 2011.
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Margolis said he plans to talk with Cohen — and potentially also with the Palm Beach County state's attorney and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi about whether an investigation is needed into Wellington's record-keeping.
"I'm not trying to put anybody on trial or place blame," Margolis said, "but it's inexcusable to see what's happening."
He said if the village faces litigation, then "shame on us. We put ourselves in this position."
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The findings of DRC's questionable record-keeping comes as village leaders are deciding whether to dissolve the committee and designate a single village employee to certify project applications based on recommendations from other members of Wellington's staff.
This idea was what former planning board member Marcia Radosevich was objecting to when she made a Nazi salute at a public meeting last month, later prompting her resignation.
Village planners have said repeatedly the proposal isn't intended to circumvent the Sunshine Law: The approval process would remain the same and public meetings would still be held. Formally dissolving the committee would simply allow the village staff to discuss project applications on a daily basis, something they can't do now because of Sunshine restrictions.
Most municipalities have some form of a development review committee. They're the gatekeepers: determining whether development proposals meet the minimum standards of village code and then deciding whether the projects go to the village planning board and village council for official approval.
In Wellington, the DRC's membership is fluid and could involve any number of planners, building officials, engineers or other staff members, depending on their expertise and their involvement in a specific project, said Tim Stillings, the planning and development services director. There's no chairman and there are no recorded votes: Either a project passes muster or it doesn't, Stillings said.
Generally, staff committees in local governments don't have to be open to the public. However, development review committees are viewed differently by the state because of the power they wield.
A 2005 advisory opinion from then-Attorney General Charlie Crist states the boards are subject to the Sunshine Law because the staff members are "delegated the authority to make recommendations to a board or official."
Audio records exist
In responding to a public records request from The Post, Wellington Village Clerk Awilda Rodriguez found audio recordings exist for the 112 meetings since 2004 that had no written minutes. However, the Sunshine Law states audio recordings aren't an acceptable replacement for written minutes.
Rodriguez identified four meetings that had neither minutes nor audio recordings, but she said decisions by the DRC are available in individual project files at the planning office. At the end of last week, she was still researching at least eight meeting dates to see if the proper documentation or audio recordings existed.
For the 94 DRC meetings where The Post did find written minutes, there still appear to be problems.
The discussions leading to the DRC's decisions are rarely detailed. Petersen, of the First Amendment Foundation, said that's questionable under the law because minutes are supposed to be "an accurate reflection of what occurred."
"If I missed the meeting, I should be able to go back and look at the minutes and know who said what, which member voted for this to go forward or what concerns were raised," she said.
Margolis questions whether the missing minutes correspond to particular projects, potentially signaling favorable treatment by village staff.
However, the inconsistencies found by The Post don't appear to be tied to any particular project. The scope of the problem is so vast and long-running that it spans the careers of multiple village officials and leadership administrations and involves a variety of major developments.
By the numbers: Missing records
The Palm Beach Post analyzed village records dating back to January 2004 to determine whether proper agendas and meeting minutes have been kept for Wellington's Development Review Committee. For meetings in which records weren't readily available on the village website, The Post filed a public records request to determine if the documents existed.
The combination of those efforts found that at least 218 meetings of the Development Review Committee were held in that 10-year span. Of those:
— 43 percent — or 94 meetings — have the required agendas and minutes on file with the village.
— 51 percent — or 112 meetings — have no written minutes but audio tapes of the meetings are available, according to the village clerk. Those include all but a few meetings held in the five-year span between early 2006 and early 2011.
— 2 percent — or at least four meetings — have no minutes or audio recordings, but the results of the meetings are available in individual project files, according to the village clerk.
— 4 percent — or at least 8 meetings — are still being researched by the village clerk to determine whether minutes or audio recordings exist.
Source: Palm Beach Post analysis
Most municipalities have some form of a development review committee. They're generally comprised of planning and engineer staff. They determine whether development proposals meet the minimum standards under code and then decide whether the projects move on for official approval.
In Wellington, major projects discussed and/or certified by the DRC in recent years include:
— Equestrian Village and other upgrades to the Palm Beach International Equestrian Cente, off Pierson Road.
— Dunkin' Donuts off Forest Hill Boulevard.
— Wellington Regional Medical Center off Forest Hill Boulevard and State Road 7.
— The Shoppes at Isla Verde off SR 7.
— Life Covenant Church campus off SR 7.
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A VERY RARE, oak cased example of the Wildey Firearms Company SURVIVOR, semi-automatic pistol in .45 Winchester Magnum with 7 inch barrel. Wildey made this pistol as a PRESENTATION GRADE LASER ETCHED COMMEMORATIVE pistol to commemorate the "1ST GAS PISTOL", PATENTED NOV 2 1976. THIS IS THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF THE PRESENTATION GRADE WILDEY THAT WE HAVE EVER OFFERED.
This is a "massive design" that fires an extremely powerful cartridge and is intended for serious big game hunters. This pistol was manufactured in Cheshire, Connecticut, using a gas operated rotary bolt, double action, semi automatic design chambered in the 45 Winchester Magnum cartridge. The barrel is equipped with a matte vent rib with blade front sight and the rear sight is adjustable. The right side of the slide is marked "WILDEY FIREARMS CO/CHESHIRE, CT. U.S.A./PATENTED NOV. 2, 1976". The left side of the slide is engraved with an eagle clutching a banner against an American flag. The banner is marked "COMMEMORATING 1ST GAS PISTOL". The Liberty Bell is engraved on both sides of the slide behind the serrations. The caliber is marked on the bottom of the barrel, and the serial number is on the left rear of the frame. This wonderful Wildey is fitted with checkered walnut grips. Complete with oak presentation case with blue velvet lining, two keys, cleaning rod, Wildey Owner's Manual dated 1982, two factory letters and research materials.
NEW and unfired in oak presentation case. Slight handling/storage marks. The case is good with a few minor scuff marks and scratches on the lid. Mechanically excellent. EXTREMELY RARE! SN:45-565 This is the only example of the presentation variation of the Wildey Survivor that we have ever offered.
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In the beginning the earth was 'formless and without order'. Recently, my wife and I had a conversation about how this world is full of disorder, and how God uses people who are in submission to Him to bring order. From that conversation, and an article I recently read from a friend, I began to think about God and His desire to bring order out of disorder.
Our verse for today tells us that what we now know as earth was once in unordered disarray. There was no separation of the heavens from the waters or land, and all was dark.
There are times in our lives that may seem like this; nothing to show you your next step; empty of available building blocks, empty of options, lack of assets and a whole lot of nothing. You see nothing to build with, just a lot of little bits of pain, like the grains of sand on the beach, and vast chasms of disappointment, hardship, and broken dreams. You can't find anything to take hold of, no GPS for direction, just a deep, dark empty pit.
Then comes the next part of the verse, 'And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters'. God wants to move upon the disorder of your life! He's committed to bringing total wholeness to your being, not just to the surface (1 Thessalonians 5:23). He's faithful to complete the process needed to accomplish every little detail (verse 24). Starting in Genesis 1:3, He called forth the light from the darkness, and heavens from the waters, and then separated the land from the water. He didn't leave it a muddy mess either, but made it 'dry land'. He spoke life into the 'dry land'; giving it everything needed to continually sustain life. God created all of this out of the disorder that was. Don't you think He can do it with your situation?
Will you ask the Spirit of God to move upon the disorder of your life? Will you choose to allow Him to bring forth order, and the life that He wants for you? God wants you to be complete in Him, by separating you from the muddy messes of your life. When God does this, you'll be able to stand on the rock of His foundation, and turn your chaos into a purposeful life.
Prayer: My Father, I surrender my situation into Your capable hands. Take the disorder of my life and bring forth life and order again. Separate out the muddy mess that I've made it to be, and make me whole in my body, soul, and spirit. Help me to make You Lord of all, and bring the nothing in my life into substance. Let it not be chaotic any more, as I walk into the plan You have for me. Thank You, Jesus. Amen.
"The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters."
Genesis 1:2, NKJV
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JUST IN: North Korea claims it will complete plan to attack Guam by mid-August https://t.co/YFjQZiy2gK pic.twitter.com/ASsFD1rJcA
— The Hill (@thehill) August 9, 2017
The declaration might surprise some mainland Americans but North Korea has long had a hostile eye trained on Guam. https://t.co/f6KN19utGE
— NPR (@NPR) August 9, 2017
BREAKING: North Korea says President Trump cannot be negotiated with and that he is 'bereft of reason'
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) August 9, 2017
Tillerson scrambles to defuse North Korea tension as Trump brags about U.S. nuclear power https://t.co/L6sKGcR37q pic.twitter.com/BXj3ai2ibD
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) August 9, 2017
Mattis: North Korea Must 'Stand Down' Or Face The 'End Of Its Regime' https://t.co/dbQ6prcLnb pic.twitter.com/ypFpGgZcJx
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 9, 2017
Trump will continue to throw tantrums, but if Mattis resigns, that's a North Korea warning sign https://t.co/rZaWq5mBQh via @RobertLBateman
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 9, 2017
Thursday's Guardian: "Kim risks destruction of his people, US tells North Korea" (via @hendopolis) #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/3TQAkIus46
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) August 9, 2017
"The words were his own." https://t.co/vF2DVaMffu
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 9, 2017
This is more terrifying than anything coming out of North Korea right now. https://t.co/GzypoXFAMQ
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) August 9, 2017
Millions of people across the country are getting this slipped into their evening news between weather and sports https://t.co/v5ozaKDFJI
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 9, 2017
On the eve of war, tributes are paid to the Dear Leader's silver tongue and godlike wisdom.
Wonder what's happening in North Korea. https://t.co/5qrFXr3qL1
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 9, 2017
"The Fire and the Furry" pic.twitter.com/AJP6h05l4i
— Alt-Rupert (@TheMurdochTimes) August 9, 2017
FBI agents took reams of material from Paul Manafort's home during a raid https://t.co/qPtmGDVI4a pic.twitter.com/pW4t04a3yE
— POLITICO (@politico) August 9, 2017
FBI raided Paul Manafort's home July 26. Suddenly, Trumps "Transgender Ban Via Twitter" distraction makes sense. (He also whined about FBI.) pic.twitter.com/b3Pi1YOOg0
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 9, 2017
#Trump urged the firing of acting FBI director just hours after the pre-dawn raid on Manafort's home https://t.co/jdXg52hBf8 #TrumpRussia pic.twitter.com/yEfJgF14hs
— David Beard (@dabeard) August 9, 2017
Trump-like inflatable chicken pops up near White House https://t.co/wkQSnKp8tN pic.twitter.com/u6x2iEmXqK
— Mashable (@mashable) August 9, 2017
"Shep, it appears to be a very large chicken" pic.twitter.com/lHv1Y3bhh7
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 9, 2017
Putin's visit to breakaway Georgian region 'inappropriate': U.S https://t.co/9B4Yjdk9At pic.twitter.com/XUJEXqgXMd
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 9, 2017
Boris Johnson should be jailed over Brexit claims, says ex-David Davis aide https://t.co/5xNWXpzC1Q
— BritainStays (@BritainStays) August 9, 2017
Stop EU exit 'catastrophe', says UK Brexit minister's ex-chief of staff https://t.co/1E3KErSxkU pic.twitter.com/jKdplBEdPP
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 9, 2017
The U.K. and Scotland fail to reach an agreement on post-Brexit powers https://t.co/LHxR2zaLHt pic.twitter.com/TyfqTVWqDY
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Jarlath Kearney: Dublin government's Brexit stance no 'back of the envelope' jobhttps://t.co/yoBLIw9KSJ pic.twitter.com/aHXZTnIGfk
— The Irish News (@irish_news) August 9, 2017
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Review - Social Hideout Waterloo
I am entirely the wrong person to be writing a review of Sydney's latest Instagram darling: Social Hideout Waterloo. To make matters worse, my dining companion for the review – a young person clad only in black – turns to me with a look of abject horror as we enter the flower-draped dining room.
The seventeen thousand flowers, which are suspended from the ceiling and stuck into feature walls, took wedding planner Anna Wang six full days to install, as owner Nader Issa explains.
Issa seats us in the coveted flowery nook topped with luminous Hello Gorgeous neon. I know it's coveted because there's a steady stream of young women arriving at our table to awkwardly ask if they can pose for a photo with it.
Photo opportunities do abound is this carefully curated space, starting with an outside wall where you can mount a flower-laded aquamarine bicycle and ask your followers to Guess where I am?
There's also an Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany's mural, reprinted onto white icing on individual butter cookies placed on each table.
With some reassurance that it's edible, my dining companion nibbles on it with a coffee that she reckons is slightly burnt. Her verdict on the biscuit is positive.
As for me, I'm knee-deep in a golden bathtub of Iced Red Velvet ($9.50), which, if you ignore the whipped cream and tangles of pink dolly hair (Persian pashmak fairy floss), is actually a pretty yummy strawberry milkshake.
Issa also insists I try Audrey's Butterfly Flower Wisteria ($8.50) which actually turns out to be much tarter than I was expecting for a drink that matches the décor - I quite enjoy it too. Laughingly comparing his job to the guy sitting awkwardly in the lingerie store change room, Issa is warm and generous with his time. He's still getting to know his Waterloo people, who he sees as more interested in "prim and proper" plating than regulars at his original Parramatta café (who won't stand for a lack of generosity). Issa is even good humoured when I suggest the Parramatta menu, with Arabic influences, is probably more my speed.
And so it comes to pass that I'm pouring purple taro milk over my Panna Cotta Granola Bowl ($18.90). Buried in edible blooms, micro herbs and high-quality fruit – strawberries, shaved pears and apples, and clusters of red currents on delicate stalks - is a very stiff matcha green tea panna cotta.
It's perched on a granola that would likely be interesting alone, as it's dotted with almonds, pecans and macadamia nuts. To my taste buds at least, the granola isn't improved by the panna cotta, which should wobble like a breast rather than behave like an implant.
With waving plumes of red amaranth and vivid pink pitaya dragonfruit, the Taro Pancakes ($19.90) know how to make a dramatic entrance. After one tenuous bite of a luminously purple pancake, I can't convince my dining companion to eat any more, even when I drown them in purple syrup (purportedly taro but tastes like doctored maple to me). Admittedly the pancakes do taste, and smell, somewhat like Playdough. Black sesame ice cream and more high-quality fruit - blackberries and cubes of fresh mango - complete this dish, which certainly makes for a pretty picture.
While Social Hideout do make savoury breakfast dishes, this is not your 'eggs any way' breakfast menu. Despite the number of tables, dishes are made in a very small kitchen, from a very crafted tight menu, so you won't be able to make any deviations to your Red Velvet Benedict ($18.90). Garnished with an edible, though not actually delicious, fuchsia, this Benedict is presented on a red velvet croissant. The croissant's texture is a little stale. It's filled with slightly set poached eggs, pulled pork, kale and asparagus spears, smothered in Hollandaise and dusted with beetroot powder. It's a likeable enough combination, though slightly dominated by asparagus.
At Social Hideout Waterloo, food is the ultimate accessory. While I didn't particularly enjoy eating any of these dishes, I suspect that may be beside the point.
Social Hideout
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about tabacal
It was during Tropical Storm Stan in October 2005, that our friend Pastor Jose Luis Ordonez found 40 Mayan Quiche families, a little more 200 people, in the mountains of Escuintla, Guatemala, who were hiding and taking refuge in the woods homeless, cold and hungry. Many adults and children became sick due to being exposed to the rainstorms and difficult weather conditions. This was the beginning of the Mayan community of Tabacal men and women, who because of their poverty, lack of resources and work opportunities in their communities to support their families; moved from their land of origin in the mountains of Quiche to the South Coast in Escuintla to look for work opportunities in the sugar cane fields and harvesting coffee, many times earning less than the minimum wage and only having four months of work a year.
Work of compassion and Generosity from the Body of Christ
Since that time, 11 years have passed, and El Tabacal is an established community where all families have their own homes thanks to the generosity of many people, churches, Christian and Missionary organizations that have supported this noble work. In the village there is a church, an elementary school, and a community meeting room. Most importantly, these families own their land which each family has paid for by their hard work.
Throughout the years our family and the My Father's House Ministry has been able to show the love of God in practical ways by supporting, helping and contributing to the development of this community.
In the last 6 years we have built the Center for Christian Family Development, which is a multi-use purpose building that will have 7 classrooms, a full kitchen and a dining room with a capacity for 200 people at a cost of more than $150,000.00. In January 3, 2017 we plan use this building to start a Middle Christian School program where we know and have faith that many young people and Christian leaders will be trained to make a difference in their communities and help build the kingdom of the Lord on this earth.
We need your help to continue making this dream come true
In the last 5 years many Tabacal children have been able to finish elementary school, but not middle or high school due to lack of resources and funding. Our goal for the next 5 years is to develop a Christian education plan for secondary education.
We currently have 15 students that are ready to start using our 7 classroom elementary school, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us such as completing the finishing work and equipping the classrooms with what they need. We ask for your prayers and support for this project that God had put on our hearts.
Christian Elementary School
In order to start using the Christian Elementary School in Tabacal by January 2017, we need to raise $50,000.00 which will be used for the following purposes:
Two-Teacher Salary Payment for the 2017 School Cycle.
Desks, blackboards, supplies and books for the classroom.
A library.
10 laptops or desktop computers.
Installation of doors, windows, floors, toilets, electricity, kitchen finishings and equipment, stove, refrigerator and accessories.
Food Program for students.
Ways to get involved
There is still a lot of work to make this dream that God put in our hearts become a reality and we want to invite you to be a part of helping us achieve it. Below are the different ways you can get involved:
Pray and share this vision with others, your family, friends, colleagues at work and your Church.
Put us in contact with charitable organizations and companies that may want to support this project.
Help us organize fundraising events.
Send a donation to support this project. Your donations to My Father's House Ministry are tax deductible.
Finally, if you have already come to Guatemala and have had the blessing of supporting and working on this project, we ask you to come back. If you have never come we invite you to get involved and be a part of this work. We will be waiting for you with open arms.
Thank you for being a part of this awesome project.


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Milly and Alf are all dressed up in their floral nightie and striped pyjamas ready to join baby for a good night's sleep. Subtly coloured pink and blue, these bunnies are quite adorable!
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Please suppose someone has died very suspiciously an police have fallen into doubt if it was a murder. Does the bold part of the following self-made sentence sound natural to you:
- The police are investigating that individual's death reason.
For me, it works. I would be thankful if someone could let me know whether there is a more natural way of expressing the structure "an individual's death reason".


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This wedding was a blast! I've know Kristy for quite some time now. Her best friend Stacy was one of my college roommates, so Kristy would come and hang with us way back in the day and we'd always get into trouble 😉 haha….I'm so grateful she trusted me to take photos of her special day!
I had way too much fun, and it was great seeing her and Stacy again, and hanging out with the people that mean the most to them! I love weddings 😉
Thanks Rob and Kristy!!!


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Like L.L.Bean, Darn Tough is family owned and headquartered right here in New England. They design and build their premium socks in Vermont, a place where warm, comfortable socks are a must. Darn Tough socks feature unprecedented durability along with what they call a "put it on, forget it's on" feel. That way, you can concentrate on having fun and ripping some more runs on the slopes.


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Lisa's three year anniversary was actually March 16th. We posted our thank you on Facebook, but forgot the website! So, we would like to send our belated thank you to the lovely Lisa Curley for her tireless work and commitment to our clients. Lisa handles all of the commercial lines at SJ Markham and manages it all with a smile on her face. Here's to another great year at SJ Markham!
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SAN ANTONIO (Texas News Radio) — Major League Baseball may be looking to do a major overhaul of its relationship with Minor League Baseball that could lead to dozens of minor league teams being eliminated and a greater involvement of independent and amateur leagues.
Baseball America reported Friday the two organizations are beginning to negotiate the Professional Baseball Agreement that expires at the end of 2020 season.
That agreement mandates how Major League Baseball teams operate with minor leagues and Minor League Baseball teams.
Currently, Major League Baseball teams pay the salaries of all of the players in their minor league system while the teams handle the day-to-day operational costs of running a franchise. That contrasts with independent leagues like the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League and the Texas AirHogs of the American Association, where the teams are paying for the entire operation.
Teams also negotiate their Player Development Contracts with minor league teams every two years. These are the affiliation agreements.
There are many issues Major League Baseball want to address.
One is the quality of minor league facilities. Major League Baseball views that roughly a quarter of current Minor League Baseball stadiums are below the standards they need to meet for minor league players. San Antonio's Nelson Wolff Stadium — home of the San Antonio Missions, who finished their first year in AAA — is among them.
The poor facilities, tied with the fact teams and swap affiliates every two years, have had Major League Baseball teams work to avoid ending up with a minor league team that either had poor facilities or were in a poor location, logistically speaking. San Antonio experienced this when the Texas Rangers went with the Nashville Sounds instead of the Missions because of facilities when San Antonio would have otherwise been a more logical fit.
This has led to major league teams buying minor league teams to ensure and assert more control over the facilities of their farm system.
Minor league players have been seeking better pay and Major League Baseball agrees.
How does Major League Baseball plan to correct these issues?
In a proposal that would be the biggest overhauling of the baseball farm system since the 1960s.
The proposal would cut the number of Minor League Baseball teams from 160 down to 120. That would reduce the number of players Major League Baseball teams are paying, allowing them to pay the remaining players more.
The MLB also wants to restructure the leagues to have their teams closer to each other to cut down on travel costs. This is an issue also seen in independent leagues, which has usually led to the failures of those teams. This restructuring would have some minor league teams seeing significant reclassification — some teams would swap between AAA and high A.
They would compensate for the change in levels, the affected teams would have to either pay or be paid depending on which direction they are being ordered to go.
The minor leagues themselves will be reworked to be more regionally compact.
On the AAA level, the Pacific Coast League — where the San Antonio Missions, Round Rock Express and El Paso Chihuahuas play — will go from 16 teams to 10 teams. The International League would have 20 teams. Current International League teams are along the East Coast and in the Midwest. It is assumed PCL teams like the Nashville Sounds, Memphis Redbirds, Iowa Cubs, Omaha Storm Chasers and the new Wichita team (formerly the New Orleans Baby Cakes) would be favorites to move to the other league.
That's assuming all of the AAA teams stay as AAA teams, which the MLB proposal does not guarantee.
The 40 or so teams axed from the Minor League Baseball system could go into what MLB proposes would be "Dream Leagues" — an independent-style league operated like the Atlantic League and American Association, but would operate as a joint venture between the MLB and MiLB. These leagues are intended for undrafted players to showcase their talent and be picked up by affiliated teams — again, much like the existing independent leagues.
Canned teams could also end up in existing independent leagues.
It's not immediately clear what this plan means for the Texas teams, including its independent league teams.
There are a total of eight or nine teams that would be affected by the Major League Baseball proposal: San Antonio Missions, Round Rock Express, El Paso Chihuahuas, Amarillo Sod Poodles, Corpus Christi Hooks, Midland RockHounds, Frisco RoughRiders and the independent Sugar Land Skeeters. The Texas AirHogs and Cleburne Railroaders did not appear to be considered in MLB's plans, especially since Major League Baseball already has spent the past year working with Sugar Land's Atlantic League on a variety of experiments like robotic umpiring.
The proposal suggested that a pair of independent teams, one being the Sugar Land Skeeters, be brought in to affiliated baseball.
From an Atlantic League perspective, such a move would make sense. The closest team Sugar Land plays is in High Point, NC. As a market, it would compare favorably with Frisco, which leads AA baseball in attendance.
It is not clear if Major League Baseball would propose maintaining Texas' big city minor league teams — San Antonio and Round Rock — stay in the Pacific Coast League, or would prefer to put all of the Texas teams in the same league, creating a Texas League 2.0. The Texas League is currently AA play and has four of its eight teams in Texas — Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Frisco, Midland. San Antonio was in the Texas League before getting bumped up to the Pacific Coast League. That would be a league of eight teams, the same as the Texas League has now.
It is also not clear what factors the baseball overlords will use to decide how it reshuffles its teams.
Will it be based primarily on geography? That would make a single Texas League of Texas teams more likely.
Would it be based on facilities? San Antonio would certainly be hurt in that metric and noted weak operational capabilities at the Wolff. Even recent upgrades made to accommodate the AAA level players are not sufficient for that level of play.
The Atlantic League facilities what is currently found at the Wolff, which may be part of the reason Major League Baseball is pushing for these changes. The Atlantic League mandates its stadiums must exceed AAA baseball standards.
Whether any of these proposals come to fruition is not clear and the whole slate of ideas will be largely refuted by minor league teams.
Both sides will need to have a new agreement in place before the 2021 baseball season.


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The conclusion of a race season can be a time of excitement, relief, and suffering for parents. The excitement comes when your young ski racers have just concluded a season that exceeded their expectations. The sense of pride and satisfaction can be palatable and reinforces why you have your children in our oh-so-demanding sport.
The relief is in simply having the long season finally over with. For many parents, this means no more schlepping up to the ski area every weekend (if you're not fortunate enough to live the mountain life), sitting in interminable traffic, or separating from your spouse (and maybe your other children) on Fridays. It now means having some time to just hang around the house on weekends and pursue your other interests.
The suffering comes if your ski racing children didn't have as successful a season as they had hoped. They may be frustrated, discouraged, and sad. Here are four things you can do that will help your children through this transition period and actually enable them to emerge more inspired and motivated than ever to pursue their ski racing dreams.
Offer Perspective
One of the challenges of being young is that children lack the wherewithal to see their lives beyond their immediate experiences. This is where you can lighten their emotional load in a healthy way. Where they see only the bad of their just-concluded race season, you can help them see their season in a more nuanced and, as a result, less awful way. In other words, you can provide your young racers with perspective in which you offer a more balanced view of their season.
Definitely acknowledge the bad parts of the season; the DNFs, the lost chances, the frustrations and disappointments. At the same time, help them recognize the good that came from the season. If their season was really bad, you may need to stretch quite a bit to find the silver lining, but I'm sure it is there. Help them to see the improvements they made, the small though infrequent successes, the fun they had, the friends they made, the places they went.
Finally, help them view the season from a long-term perspective. An analogy will help here. If you look at a bad year in the stock market, such as during the Great Recession, you would see a steady downward trend line in stock valuations. It would be pretty darned discouraging and you'd probably never want to invest in stocks again. That is what your young ski racer may be seeing and feeling now. But, if you look at the stock market over the last 60 years, you will see a jagged line that climbs steadily higher. This is the perspective you want your children to have about their ski racing: if they continue to invest in themselves and are patient, they can expect a very good return on investment in the future.
Identify Lessons
After a few weeks with their skis waxed and stored away, as the disappointing season fades into memory and your ski racing children focus their attention on other pursuits (e.g., school or spring sports), you can expect that their anguish will slowly recede as well. With the benefit of some emotional distance from the unsatisfying season, they may now be receptive to a gradual shift from the past to the future.
A key part of this transition is to help them analyze last season and gain valuable lessons that they can use to plan for next season. Questions to ask include:
- What did I do well?
- What areas held me back?
- What do I need to work on next season?
These lessons are important because they ensure that your children understand what caused their poor season and give them guidance in how to learn from them and not repeat them next season.
Guide Them in Setting New Goals
With a clear understanding of what prevented your young racers from having a successful season, you can now help them redirect their focus from the past to the future. They can use the information gained from their examination of the lessons learned to set some new goals for next season.
These goals can begin with realistic outcome goals to strive for, in terms of results, rankings, or new levels of race series. They should then make an immediate change to process goals that will alleviate the obstacles that resulted in the disappointing season your children just completed. These process goals should include any areas of their ski racing that they need to improve on to ensure that they don't have a repeat of this last season, for example, physical conditioning, technique and tactics, and, of course, mental preparation.
This goal setting will, hopefully, close the door completely on the disappointment of last season and provide them with the inspiration and incentive to begin working hard toward next season.
Help Them Make a Plan
The next step in supporting your young ski racers after the race season is to help them develop a plan that will put their goals into action. This detailed plan, in collaboration with their coaches, should include a comprehensive physical conditioning program, on-snow opportunities for free skiing and gate training, and a thorough mental training program.
With clear goals to work toward and a plan for achieving them, your young ski racers are now in a position to put last season in its entirely behind them and to direct their gaze toward a successful next season.
A Final Thought
Over all, the most important thing you can continue to do to help your children to stay passionate about their ski racing is to downplay results and keep them focused on just their love of ski racing and their progress toward their goals. In this results-obsessed world in which we live, nothing drives kids from our sport more than not getting the results they want as quickly as they want. When you constantly emphasize love of our sport, hard work, and the many much more important life-long benefits that your children get from ski racing beyond the results, you protect them from those toxic messages and fuel their desire to stay and strive to be their best in our sport. And that, I dare say, is a far bigger victory than any that could be gained in a ski race.
Want to learn more about how to be the best ski racing parent you can be? Read my latest parenting book, Raising Young Athletes: Parenting Your Children to Victory in Sports and Life or enroll in my Prime Sport Parenting 505: Raise Successful and Happy Athletes online course.


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What would my future self have me do in this moment? Make sure you're happy with the job you choose. Don't choose a job where you'll never see the light of day.Choose joy. Whatever job you get, they are lucky to have you. Choose one you want.You can take all the time you need to […]Read More


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John B. Rice
John Birchard Rice ( born June 23, 1832 in Fremont, Ohio; † January 14, 1893 ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives.
John Rice attended the public schools of his home and then Oberlin College. Subsequently, he studied until 1857 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor medicine. In the following two years he intensified his acquired knowledge of medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and in 1859 at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Then he stopped at various medical schools in Ohio lectures on military medicine. During the Civil War he was a military doctor in various units in the army of the Union. Later he served as curator of the state hospital in Toledo and belonged to the Health Committee his hometown of Fremont.
Politically, Rice was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1880 he was in the tenth electoral district of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Ewing on March 4, 1881. Since he resigned in 1882 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1883.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Rice practiced in Fremont as a doctor. He is also passed on 14 January 1893.


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Premise: Obama administration is a troop of gangsters, needs to be investigated to the hilt, and held accountable just like every other administration that has come before. The Obama administration is not entitled to its own dictatorship in the United States of America, no matter who he thinks he is.
Charmer #1: If you can't see that both sides of this political circus act are corrupt and no matter which side gets into the Oval Office at any given time we will get the same result because we allowed the elite bankers to hijack the country via the federal reserve bank of which they are major shareholders.
Charmer #2: I can see one side refused to participate in a program forcing everyone in the nation to eventually change insurance plans, enumerating everyone under the same system, thus ruining healthcare and one-sixth of the US economy; I can see that one side sent guns into Mexico illegally and 300 people were killed including an American border patrol agent; I can see that one side used the IRS illegally to stymie conservative political organizations; I can see that one side lied about a tape being the cause of the Benghazi tragedy, and has refused to allow survivors to testify before Congress; I can see that one side spent $800,000,000,000 that was earmarked for shovel ready projects (infrastructure) and is now calling for $400,000,000,000 for infrastructure because they used to the $800 billion to bankroll Obama-friendly green energy companies that failed rather than spend it on traditional infrastructure; and I can see one side gave organizations billions of that money to support Obamacare so it would pass the Congress with one side's votes. The more I look at both sides the more I see corruption in this administration that the other side had nothing to do with. Since you claim to be sitting at the head of the class, can you see a problem with the people in office now? If so let's deal with it first rather than give them a pass since they are the problem at the moment.
Teacher's question: Where is the snake?
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A parody medley to remember your favorite dead 'Game of Thrones' characters
Spoiler Warning: Don't watch this if you haven't seen the first four seasons of Game of Thrones.
If you like associating your favorite songs with brutal, horrific violence and death, we have the parody song for you.
This mash-up, created by the Warp Zone, features several popular characters who've died on Game of Thones, lamenting their fate to the tune of hit songs.
Aside from not sounding all that bad as a song, the clever lyrics to a good job of summarizing how each of the characters kicked the bucket.


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Guild Giving Program | Batesburg Leesville Fire Department | Darrel Long, Columbia Lexington branch
The Southeast Region's Darrel Long with our Columbia Lexington branch has a very close participation with the Batesburg Leesville Fire Department working as a volunteer firefighter. "The Batesburg-Leesville Fire Department is dedicated to providing top-notch emergency services to the people of the town of Batesburg-Leesville and the surrounding area. These services include fire suppression, vehicle extrication, medical first responder, basic hazardous materials (operations level) and other services. The B-L Fire Department also has a series of fire prevention programs designed to educate and inform residents of all ages on the dangers, causes and prevention of fires. These programs include a puppet show/ fire safety house for children and smoke alarms for families with small children and the elderly."
"Although the B-L Fire Department is a department of the town of Batesburg-Leesville, it also provides automatic aid to both Saluda and Lexington Counties and is part of the South Carolina Firefighter Mobilization program which allows departments to send and receive resources statewide based on need. The department is also a member of the South Carolina Firefighter's Association, International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), National Volunteer Fire Council (NFVC) and the Society for the Preservation and Appreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus (SPAAMFAA)."
Most recently, the Batesburg Leesville Fire Department held their Annual Golf Tournament to raise funds for the department's necessities, such as supplies, tools and gear. The department's main objective is to update all of their truck lighting to LED lighting as it is more effective for on-scene events.
Darrel Long with our Columbia Lexington branch contributed $325 to the fundraiser as a sponsor. Collectively, the event raised over $5,000 and had more than 75 people in attendance. Long has also volunteered a minimum of 30 hours per month to the Batesburg Leesville Fire Department as a firefighter/assistant training officer.
Guild Mortgage Company is proud to foster a culture of giving. We are grateful for folks like Darrel Long who donate their time to helping keep their communities safe. Great work, Darrel!


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The Creek – One of the thousands of inlets from the sounds and bays on the eastern seaboard. this one is in eastern North Carolina.
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Weekly Giving The primary source of income for the parish's ministries comes from the weekly envelope mailed to all registered parishioners in a monthly packet.
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Addressing mental health challenges on college campuses continues to be a topic of national conversation. In recent years, college and university counseling centers have reported rapidly increasing demand for their services, to the tune of 30-40%, according to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health's 2018 Annual Report. Outlets from The Atlantic to Inside Higher Education, and academic journals such as Academic Psychiatry, have reported on this trend over the past decade.
At Pitt, where Jay Darr is in his first year as director of the University Counseling Center, a chief concern among students has been transparency about changes and staffing. Beginning with his arrival in February 2019, Darr has been taking time to listen to students and meet frequently with a growing team of counseling center staff to come up with solutions and implement them.
And though creating positive change takes time, these efforts are getting noticed.
"We've had a lot more communication with the counseling center around policies, services, access. In previous years that wasn't quite the case," said Julia Lam, a senior studying rehab science and psychology and president of Pitt's chapter of Active Minds, a national student group devoted to mental health advocacy and awareness.
In September, the group had counseling support onsite the entire day for an event around suicide prevention called Send Silence Packing, which Lam called "amazing."
"Dr. Darr brings a very welcoming presence and that shows through in the changes that we're seeing," she said.
In part due to student demand, the list of counseling center services has expanded since Darr joined the team last winter.
Serving many needs
As a first order of business, Darr and his staff streamlined the center's intake process.
Before, a student going to the center during drop-in hours completed a screening and had a preliminary meeting before being able to schedule an appointment a few weeks later. Now, those processes are combined into one. Students are seen by a counselor and discuss a care plan the same day they drop in.
The flow of people coming to the center changes depending on the time of year. Like many other centers across the country, October is the counseling center's busiest month. But Darr said that as a result of the initial streamlining changes to the intake process, within his first few months, they were "able to eliminate the waitlist towards the end of the spring semester." Continuing that improvement is something Darr and the center's staff will keep striving for.
On a campus of 28,000 students, people arrive with varying degrees of experience and expectation about what a University Counseling Center can and should do for them. That includes ideas about how often someone can be seen by a counselor or therapist.
In the U.S., college students' two top concerns are anxiety and depression, according to Inside Higher Education. Since 2009, anxiety has been steadily on the rise. These are mental health concerns that tend to be treated most effectively with a combination of long-term, individually tailored therapy to help manage symptoms, and medication.
In an ideal world, Darr said, college counseling centers across the country would be staffed and supported to provide long-term care for every student who wanted it, right on campus at no additional cost. Unfortunately, that's not the way most centers are designed.
At Pitt, there is still a short-term, time-limited model for therapy that the center can offer students right on campus, "but we are better prepared now than ever to help find longer term solutions when needed," Darr said.
What's new
"Some students come in and say, 'I know what therapy is all about and I just want some referrals because I need to get connected to someone in the community,'" said Darr.
This year, a new resource is helping them do that.
ThrivingCampus is an online directory for outpatient services akin to Psychology Today's popular portal that lets people search for therapists in their community—except that ThrivingCampus is tailored explicitly for college students.
It's something the center's staff and a lot of students, including Lam, are very excited about.
"Many other college campuses just don't have the abundance of resources that we have here in Pittsburgh," said Darr, who knows this first hand.
A multi-pronged approach
The University Counseling Center's services are open to all students—graduate or undergraduate, full- or part-time—in any school on the Oakland campus, but sometimes, a struggling student will seek support within their academic unit or department.
Cheryl Paul, director of student services in the Swanson School of Engineering, recently got a grant from the Provost's office to train staff and faculty on recognizing and responding to students struggling with mental health. The focus of the grant is to map out a multi-tiered plan that ultimately empowers members of the University community to begin inviting conversation around mental wellness as students plan and discuss their academic experiences.
"Students in the STEM fields experience mental fatigue just like any other student," Paul said. "In creating new systems of personalized support, our underserved students who have invisible disabilities will experience success in their studies and prepare for life beyond the University."
All Pitt staff and faculty can also learn more about how to support student wellbeing through the Care and Resource Support Team, a multi-departmental collaborative approach to helping students struggling with academic, medical, personal and all other types of needs and challenges.
In the late 1990s, Darr worked in community health, helping Black communities in the Pittsburgh area access better care. Now, part of his mission at Pitt is to deepen community connections for students, make the ties stronger and the handoffs warmer, which ThrivingCampus is helping counseling centers do across the country.
A new platform called Therapy Assistance Online lets students take a more self-directed approach to stress management, mindfulness, relationship skills, problem solving and more with online educational modules and practice tools.
Also new this year is "Let's Talk" popup counseling sessions: free, 15-minute drop-in consultations with a counselor that happen weekly, all over campus. Schedules are generally posted by the first week of each month.
It's all a way to bring the counseling center to students, Darr explained. Embedded counselors in residence halls began in October and are helping expand the reach of the counseling center beyond its offices in Nordenberg Hall.
"You can't isolate something so important," said junior Eric Macadangdang. "For a student who may not recognize when they need to reach out and talk to someone, or for someone who has reservations about stepping into the counseling center for whatever reason, it becomes easier when they have a counselor right where they live, where problems are more likely to come up in the first place."
Macadangdang is studying urban studies and the history and philosophy of science. He also serves as a board member for the Student Government Board and as a student representative on the board's Mental Health Task Force. Like Lam, he has been pleased so far with the level of engagement student groups have been offered in the planning and coordination of some of these new counseling center initiatives.
"If you're providing a service without input from the people you're serving, in this case, the students, it's going to be incomplete," said Macadangdang.
That's something Darr has intuited and begun addressing—and a problem that students across the U.S. have called out in regards to creating additional positions in counseling centers and focusing more on diversity in hiring. Just 3.2% of university and college counseling center directors identify as African American, for example, according to a 2018 survey.
"We have very different, multiple identities on our staff currently, and that's a positive" in terms of being able to offer culturally and socially sensitive care, Darr added—himself included.
Darr has a military background, having served as an officer in the Army National Guard. He was a student-athlete at West Virginia University. He worked in community mental health, then with a large insurance company on both the care management and the training sides, and did a stint in the energy sector so he has familiarity with the corporate world. He returns to his native Pittsburgh from the University of Texas counseling center, where the field of college counseling piqued his interest in recent years.
What's next
Darr plans to see clients this fall, in addition to workshops with veterans and other identity-based campus groups starting later in the semester.
And new clinicians have recently brought the total counseling center staff up to 24, "which is actually one of the better ratios of clinicians to students among colleges of this size," said Macadangdang. "Of course there's always room for more."
Darr is in discussions with colleagues in the health sciences to look at embedding counselors in some academic programs, in addition to the residence halls. The embedded model is supported in part by student fee adjustments announced in May.
Macadangdang is hopeful. Especially because of the feeling that, as Darr put it, "Everybody is responsible for student wellbeing, not just a counseling center."
Lam is excited about changes to the University Counseling Center's website that have made it more accessible, navigable and easier to find immediate resources, she said.
"They've made videos on what to expect when you go to the counseling center, which makes it seem less scary. I've seen new Active Minds members during first meeting of the year who seemed to really appreciate that.
"Being able to have more communication with the center, directly with Dr. Darr, makes me as a student leader feel more confident," said Lam. "It makes me feel that the information I'm giving students is correct and that their voices are being heard. It's empowering.
"I hope that two-way line of contact continues."
Any student interested in services at the University Counseling Center or requiring support for an urgent or crisis situation may come to the center at any time during drop-in hours to speak with a clinician.
If you are in an emergency situation where danger is imminent and immediate help is required, call 911 or the Pitt Police at 412-624-2121.


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lol o wowAs publishers of CABAL, it is our mandate to make the game fair and free from cheats, hacks, and third-party programs. This is the reason why we are regularly conducting "raids" inside the game in order to detect and penalize users who are guilty of violating our policies.
However, we also believe that most have now learned their lesson, thus we're bringing back the CABAL "Bailout System" for a limited time. Players whose game accounts have been frozen because they violated game policies may reclaim their accounts only by paying the fine/penalty through the Bailout system.
We hope that with the Bailout System, CABAL Online will remain a vibrant and dynamic virtual world with REAL people playing the game.
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