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Top Christian Christmas Movies On Netflix
Following are ten Christmas movies available on Netflix, accessible for viewing this holiday season. Some prove outwardly Christian, others secular. All find their .
This film is so moving and makes Christ's account real. It's not advisable for children or young teens. Netflix users rated this movie 3.8 out of 5 stars with over .
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Wooden Bar Stools With Backs – My Top 5 Choices
Buying bar stools can seem like a difficult process. Especially when buying online, you have to do your due diligence and make sure that you are getting a stool that will be the right height for your bar.
Amazon has an amazing selection of bar stools. This is great because you can easily see stools that will support any sort of style you are looking for.
You should still be wary about what stool you pick.
A lot of Amazon furniture is manufactured in China and could have defects. Make sure to diligently read reviews before clicking that shiny proceed to checkout button.
In this article, I'll be going over 5 of my favorite wooden bar stools with backs.
I have made sure to pick stools that cover a wide range of different styles that you might be going for.
Let me know which of these stools is your favorite in the comment section below!
Boraam Augusta Swivel Stool (2 pack)
The first stool we'll be talking about is the Boraam Augusta Swivel Stool.
It is a beautiful bar stool that is made out of solid wood and faux leather. The build quality of this bar is wonderful. It offers plenty of strength and stability.
The swivel action of this stool is nice and smooth. It will swing 360 degrees using its ball-bearing swivel plate.
This is actually a stool set and includes 2 stools. Each stool has a 14.5 inch back-support and has a seat diameter of 15 inches.
Keep in mind that these stools are relatively small. A lot of buyers didn't understand that before they made the purchase. Make sure to take note of Amazon's measurements of this stool before you buy it.
Assembly is quick and easy. As you can imagine, stools aren't the hardest type of furniture to put together. A lot of stools fail to include decent directions, but the Boaraam Augusta's direction were okay.
For the most part, reviews of this chair were positive. There were a few reviewers that experienced factory defects.
I'd have to imagine that the defects weren't consistent and are only apparent for a small fraction of buyers. Amazon does have a fairly painless return process if you run into any issues.
All-in-all, these bar stools offer you an excellent build quality for an affordable price.
Coaster Solid Wood Cappuccino Bar Stool
If you are looking for a good quality stool with good back-support, the Coaster Solid Wood Cappuccino bar stool might be your answer!
I liked this stool. I wouldn't classify it as high quality by any means, but it gets the job done and has a nice design.
This stool's quality will remind you a lot of a piece of furniture that you'd find at Ikea. This bar stool does, however, look really nice.
The stool's back-support is 30 inches in height. The leather on the seat can be re-covered if you are willing to change it.
Assembly of this chair isn't that bad. Its directions aren't the easiest to follow due to its small pictures.
Overall, this chair looks great and won't cost you much money.
Flash Furniture Cherry Wood Bar Stool
The Flash Furniture Cherry bar stool is a great quality bar stool with a beautiful cherry finish.
This chair can swivel! It will turn a full 360 degrees smoothly.
The build quality of this stool is exceptional. It has a great looking finish that gives the wood a very nice color.
Just like the Coaster bar stool, it follows the trend of not-so-good instructions. You still shouldn't have too much trouble figuring things out.
The leather looks quite nice on this stool. The type of leather that is used is bonded leather.
The back-support of this stool is 7.5 inches. This stool can easily make a great edition to any home bar or kitchen.
Classic Cream Leather Barstool
This stool has to be my favorite on this list.
It has a simple, sleek design and comes in beautiful colors. The comfort-level of this stool is phenomenal.
This stool will look good in almost any environment you put it in. It comes in 3 colors: brown, hazelnut, and white(my favorite of the three colors).
The build quality of this stool is very high. It has an aluminum footrest and sturdy wood.
The color of this stool's wood looks amazing! It is a rich, dark espresso color.
Keep in mind that this is a relatively tall stool and will work best as a stool for a bar or a stool for a high kitchen countertop. Perhaps it might not be the best option for dining room tables.
Assembly is easy. The directions aren't too bad and there aren't many parts.
Considering that this stool is made in China, its surprising how high the build quality is. The overall build of this stool is super strong.
In conclusion, I liked this bar for its simple, elegant design and its ability to look great in any room.
Montana Woodworks Barstool with Back and Swivel
If you are looking for a unique, all natural, piece of furniture, look no further!
First of all, let me just say that this stool is 100% American-made. The assembly process was all done in Montana and the logs used to craft this item were cut down in the U.S.A.
This bar stool was skip-peeled by hand. Although this stool looks a bit rough, I can assure you that the pieces are smoothed and aren't jagged.
Another feature you might enjoy is that this stool has a tall back support. For long sitting-durations, you'll remain comfortable.
It was a bit surprsignly to me that this chair swivels. Like the other swivel-stools on this list, it will swing around a full 360 degrees.
This stool is very strong. It has a weight capacity all the way up to 350 pounds.
Overall, this stool is an AMAZING hand-crafted piece of furniture that WAS NOT made in China.
So there you have it!
Those were my picks for the top 5 wooden bar stools with backs!
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I have been a life long espresso lover, but admittedly, a utilitarian drinker who valued espresso more for its caffeine than it's taste. I have had a francis francis x1 that was pod only for years that finally crapped out. I bought a new Warring ES1500 espresso maker. The Warring has opened up a whole new world of regular ole' get it all over the counter espresso that tastes wonderful. There is a couple roasters near me. One roasts a phenomenal espresso, and properly grinds it, but they sell it at $20+ per pound. I tried another, but after 2 tries they don't grind it properly. I am on a somewhat fixed budget and really don't want to buy a grinder for $100+, any advice?
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I also vary the beans from time to time - the oily dark roasts clog the grinder if you don't throw in the occasional batch of less oily beans.
Coffee deteriorates really quickly once ground. I buy my beans in small quantity and fresh roasted. Grind as you needs and the coffee is WAY better.
I would save up for a decent grinder. Buying a cheapie would defeat the purpose.
If this really isn't an option, your local roaster should be willing to grind and sell a pound at a time. Specialty coffee shops are generally cheaper than those bandits at "Fivebucks".
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one word: Folgers ;}
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ha ha oh my Folgers is NASTY
hey I bought a real nice quality brand grinder new in a box for $5
The one I had before that was $3 .
I have been called CHEAP ! but I am THRIFTY !
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I'm just throwing this into the ring:
As alt substitutions, until you purchase that "dream grinder," you can always use some Cafe Bustelo (10oz can) espresso grind or Cafe Llave (12oz can) espresso grind. I know some will turn up their noses to these, but, if you're on a budget for now, the Bustelo is available at one of the ***Mart stores for about $3.88 for a 10oz can. I like Cafe Bustelo myself, and its a nice pre-ground coffee to throw into your "espresso" rotation:cf1
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If you have to pre-ground on a budget, Bustelo is one of the best as MarkinCA mentioned. A good grinder is worth saving for.
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Llave is on the lower scale for me.
Bustelo is good.
Pilon is great.
Pilon Gourmet is awesome.
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I used to live on Bustelo, and anothet one that I think was a Goya product. Thankfully, my budget isn't back there yet.
I found the serious stark white interior nothing on the menu but 20 varieties of rare exotic beans and teas (if you go that way) shop. Their espresso is marginally better priced, properly ground at request, but its in a simular good damned luck finding parking edge of a city I had going into area. Getting coffee at either place a an 1.5 hr Round trip commitment.
I guess I am coming to grips with the price even though I could be introduced as "the notorious cheapskate, The MacDonald." But the trip, the time, the parking, I guess I am becoming soft in my suburban bunker. Prehaps I'll quit complaining and man up, right after this cigar...or the next one.
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We used to get half decent beans from the coffee of the month club. Mailed to you, so no parking hassles.
You would still need that grinder!
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Set a course for Anaheim, California, because Star Trek: Discovery is about to beam into WonderCon!
On Saturday, Mar. 24 at 3 PM PT, in Room North 200A, fans will have the chance to attend a one-hour Star Trek: Discovery panel discussion titled "The Making of Star Trek: Discovery," where executive producers and visionaries from the series will share details on bringing the famed franchise back to fans and building the Trek universe in a modern age.
Moderated by series star Mary Chieffo (L'Rell), the panel will feature the following speakers:
- Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts (Executive Producers & Showrunners)
- Tamara Deverell (Production Designer)
- Gersha Phillips (Costume Designer)
- Mario Moreira (Props Master)
- Glenn Hetrick & James MacKinnon (Prosthetics & Special FX Makeup)
- Jeff Russo (Composer)
- Jason Zimmerman (VFX Supervisor)
Star Trek: Discovery follows the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
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If your enemy is hungry,
give him food to eat;
if he is thirsty,
give him water to drink.
In doing this,
you will heap burning coals on his head.
and the Lord will reward you.
-Proverbs 25:21-22
30 January 2010
Not sure thats WHY you should do it. But do it anyways.
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(PRWEB) December 10, 2013
Explore Talent reports on new story: Lamar Odom Settles DUI Case. Clips from the full blog are below.
The former Los Angeles Laker was just sentenced for his recent DUI charge. On Monday, December 9th, Odom's lawyer entered a no contest plea for the DUI arrest on August 30th, according to CNN. The 33-year-old agreed to three years probation stemming from this charge.
A California Highway Patrol officer "reported seeing Odom, 34, driving his white Mercedes SUV in a 'serpentine manner at 50 mph'," reports CNN. "Odom 'showed objective signs of intoxication and he was unable to perform his field sobriety tests,'" the CHP news release stated.
Since its debut in 2003, ExploreTalent has become the Internet's largest resource for actors, models, musicians, dancers, and production crew. Explore Talent's proprietary cast match technology is the most advanced entertainment-based technology of its kind. It matches a talent's attributes against tens of thousands of job postings every day. Explore Talent's unique technology sends casting email alerts and posts auditions and jobs directly on talents' profiles, saving members hours of time from tedious searching. Explore Talent has proven to be the best possible destination for talent to find modeling and acting auditions with well over 7.9 million members and over 60,000 auditions, castings, and production jobs listed - 40 times more postings and open casting calls than any other site.
The site's popularity is based on the fact that there are many ways for talents to network, make friends and connect with other industry players, participate in a wide variety of contests and earn prizes for being active on the site. The online community has been responsible for new collaborations and business ventures in entertainment because of opportunities for individuals to network and chat with each other. Furthermore, the Explore Talent site features celebrity videos, exclusive interviews with actors, actresses, and musicians, such as Akon and T-Pain.
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Retire in Vicksburg
Vicksburg: A Certified Retirement City
The state of Mississippi has designated Vicksburg-Warren County as a Certified Retirement City after an intensive three-month screening process conducted by Hometown Mississippi Retirement, the state's official retiree attraction program. This is largely due to affordable cost of living, low taxes, quality medical care, recreation, educational and cultural opportunities, and most importantly - a warm, welcoming community.
Cost of Living / Taxes
- No state income tax on qualified retirement income
- Social Security benefits are not taxed
- Low property taxes
- Median Home Price $135,000
- State Sales Tax 7%
For further information, visit the Mississippi Department of Revenue site or call 601-923-7000.
Featured in 'Where to Retire' Magazine
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Continuing Education Opportunities with Hinds Community College: Hinds is providing programs and services that make it easier than ever for students over 50 to obtain the cutting-edge skills and credentials required to compete for jobs in the health care, education, and social services fields. Learn more about Hinds Plus 50 Program here
Merit Health River Region Senior Circle: Senior Circle is a program for individuals age 50 and better who are interested in pursuing an active lifestyle, learning about health and wellness and meeting others. Learn More here...
Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation: In order to fulfill its mission to preserve the history and architecture of the Southern Cultural Heritage Center, the foundation provides cultural and artistic educational enrichment for the community by offering classes such as Ballroom Dance lessons, Culinary classes, exhibits, performances and lectures. See a list of upcoming events here...
Vicksburg Senior Center: The center is owned and operated by the City of Vicksburg. It is a place where all seniors come together in a safe and friendly environment to participate in activities and enjoy good fellowship. Activities include computer classes, crafts, art classes, sewing, piano, cooking demonstrations, social and line dancing, games, bridge, dominoes, canasta, bingo and much more. And everything is free of charge! Learn more here...
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Merit Health River Region: As Vicksburg's primary health care facility, Merit Health River Region has 372 beds and serves nearly 50,000 residents. 2100 US 61 North, 601-883-5000. Visit Website.
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Anyone have any great old-school hip-hop tracks to share with TheoGB?
TheoGB just posted on Facebook:
"in an old skool hip-hop mood :-) send me sum reccomendations people!"
What would you recommend?
Audio Two - Top Billin
Biz Markie - Nobody Beats The Biz
Divine Force - Holy War
Big Daddy Kane - Raw
Ultramagnetic - Ego Trippin
T La Rock - Lyrical King (I know everyone loves It's Yours but Mantronix owns on this)
Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle
Grandmaster Caz - Get Down Grandmaster
Feel a playlist coming on when I get home...
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Located in Chongqing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the Sofitel Forebase Chongqing is one of the premier hotels in China. Featuring 464 rooms of pure indulgence, 3 divine restaurants and bars and state of the art conference facilities, the hotel offers unabashed luxury. Perfect for business or leisure trips with easy access to the airport and Chengjiaping Exhibition Centre. Nearby attractions include Chaotianmen dock of Three Gorges, Chiqikou Ancient Town and Tianchi Hot Spring. Enjoy yourself with a stay at Sofitel Forebase Chongqing luxury hotel offering rooms or open plan studio apartments equipped with MyBed and high speed broadband Internet. Also benefit from the luxury accommodation on the Executive Floor and Lounge. At Sofitel, comfort has been transformed into a form of art. Three Divine restaurants and bars provide the perfect setting for relax and social gathering and offer refined French cuisine with the latest in fusion dishes from around the world.
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Hotel Address:
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Located in Chongqing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the Sofitel Forebase Chongqing is only 23 minutes away by car from the Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport and 10 minutes away by car from the Chongqing Railway Station.
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A renowned information technology consultant has proposed an intriguing approach to helping wayward nations play catch-up on their year 2000 projects: create a "Peace Corps" of experts who can share their knowledge with national year 2000 coordinators for free.
Though it is seen as a noble idea, Howard Rubin's recent proposal to the United Nations and President Clinton's Y2K czar, John Koskinen, faces obstacles. Year 2000 experts lauded the approach, but they acknowledged privately that they are bound to solving their companies' millennium crises.
"It's a wonderful concept, but I'm not sure how much time it would take to get this off the ground," said Ann Coffou, managing director for the year 2000 practice at Giga Information Group in Norwell, Mass. Still, she said that if the program was organized properly, Giga's analysts "would want to look into it."
In an E-mail, Koskinen said the U.S. is considering how it might be supportive.
One way to make it work, said Rubin (firstname.lastname@example.com), president of Rubin Systems in Pound Ridge, New York, is to share best practices through written communications, videos and teleconferencing sessions. That could help because the year 2000 problem "is the one and only project that has pulled a lot of companies and countries together," said Irene Dec, year 2000 program director at Prudential Insurance Company of America in Newark, New Jersey.
One way to offer assistance to underdeveloped nations, Dec said, is to provide them with the same kinds of year 2000 tool kits that Prudential and other companies have been providing to small businesses. "Technology is new to many of the countries that need help, so they don't have a lot of legacy systems to deal with," said Dec, who added that Prudential "will look to see what we can do" to help them.
Some industry groups have already made some progress. The Securities Industry Association (SIA) in New York, for example, has reached an agreement with Russia to send year 2000 programmers and practitioners to help Russian investment banks and other financial services firms work on their year 2000 projects, according to Mike Tiernan, vice president of IT at Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. in New York and chairman of the SIA year 2000 committee.
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On November 5th, under a mid-day clear-blue sky, a five-story apartment house in a popular neighborhood in the center of Marseilles suddenly collapsed in a heap, pulling its next-door neighbor with it in a roar and a cloud of dust. As fire trucks and rescue services got to the scene it was quickly apparent that a fragilized third Anne-Marie Simonshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503306516840838958.post-71202088485950231782018-10-20T08:54:00.003-07:002018-10-20T12:42:51.290-07:00FLASH FLOODS IN FRANCE; GOVERNMENT SHAKEUP; AZNAVOUR DIES FLASH FLOODS IN FRANCE Fall arrived with a bang in the south of France where serious floods in the Aude region, in and around the city of Carcassonne, caused 14 deaths last week and the greatest devastation ever registered there since 1891. Bridges and roadways were washed away, cars, trees, and heavy debris tossed around like so many toys, and houses flooded, sometimes to their rooftops. 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(I hear he is getting one). Bastille Day concert Then the Anne-Marie Simonshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503306516840838958.post-9639647494791404012018-06-30T22:24:00.000-07:002018-07-04T05:53:19.742-07:00MARSEILLES; DOGGY BAGS; SUMMERTIME ACTIVITIES Flag of Provence-Alpes-Côtes d'Azur Somehow Donald Trump has bloated my blog lately and I feel the need the throw the windows wide open to let Provence back in. I tip my head back to the spotless blue sky, close my eyes, inhale the local scents and sounds and, after all the craziness and hatefulness spilling from Washington, let myself drift back to the simple joys of summer in Provence. 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FROM PEDESTAL TO PAVEMENT As Emmanuel Macron returned from his three-day state visit to the United States he found the French press notably less effusive about this trip than its American counterpart. Nobody really expected Macron to succeed in changing Trump's mind on the Paris climate agreement and on the Iran nuclear deal, but state visits are prestigious and hold the promise of Anne-Marie Simonshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503306516840838958.post-78324587864130707022018-04-11T10:24:00.000-07:002018-04-12T01:57:14.494-07:00STRIKES AND CONSEQUENCES RAIL REFORM - PERHAPS Gare de Lyon (Paris) on strike day This month saw the beginning of the ultimate test between two powers, the government and labor unions, which currently are at opposite ends of the issue of reform of the French national railroad system SNCF. 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After three unsuccessful bids in the past 25 years, the City of Paris finally won the Olympics for 2024, exactly one hundred years after it last hosted theAnne-Marie Simonshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503306516840838958.post-36920654600776787782017-08-16T12:23:00.000-07:002017-09-24T03:05:51.926-07:00A SIZZLING SUMMER; JEANNE MOREAU; EMMANUEL MACRON A SIZZLING SUMMER The month of August is usually a quiet one in France, with a good part of the country as well as the government on holiday. In addition, a heat wave that brought us unheard-of temperatures of 39°C in Aix-en-Provence and up to 41°C elsewhere kept people indoors and produced the unusual sight of an empty Cours Mirabeau at mid-day, where limp-looking overheated tourists Anne-Marie Simonshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503306516840838958.post-24121409389823476132017-07-19T05:52:00.001-07:002017-07-20T07:45:42.945-07:00SIMONE VEIL, FESTIVAL AVIGNON, QUATORZE JUILLET IN PARIS AND NICE SIMONE VEIL Veil defends her abortion law in 1974 Simone Veil, French humanist, politician and feminist icon, died in Paris on June 30th at age 89. She was a Holocaust survivor who lost half her family in Nazi concentration camps, yet worked hard on the rapprochement with post-war Germany as part of her strong belief in a unified Europe. She is best known for the abortion law she wrote Anne-Marie Simonshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503306516840838958.post-35775181072825682082017-06-18T15:12:00.000-07:002017-06-20T01:44:18.069-07:00EMMANUEL MACRON, DONALD TRUMP and OPERA IN AIX PRESIDENTS MACRON AND TRUMP G7 leaders in Taormina Newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron had barely had time to appoint the members of his government late last month before he left for a marathon of international meetings with his G7 counterparts in Taormina, Sicily, and with his NATO partners at their summit in Brussels. 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Georgina came to us in the Spring of last year not happy with her smile but more importantly with a fear of the dentist and dental treatment.
After a thorough examination we decided that 6 month smiles braces would be the best way to give Georgina the smile she wanted. However Georgina did need a little bit of dental treatment first to improve her dental health.
Due to her fear of the dentist Georgina elected to get this work done under sedation which we call 'Twilight Sedation'. This is not a general anaesthetic but an intravenous sedation, patients are alert and can respond to the dentist but it does make them sleepy and a lot of patients do in fact fall asleep. This is also very good as patients don't remember the visit.
This worked very well for Georgina and she was able to get all the necessary dental treatment completed in one appointment, making the experience much easier and more comfortable for her.In the summer, once Georgina had become more comfortable in the dental chair, we started work on improving Georgina's smile with 6 month smiles….
Before we started we asked Georgina some questions and these are her words on how she was feeling:
I found out about Portobello Dental whilst researching dentists who provide sedation. I have always been terrified of dentists, and so as a result I've visited over 10 different clinics in the last few years to try and find one I felt comfortable with, but have had no luck. Once I found that they provided twilight sedation I just had to give them a call. As I hadn't properly been to a dentist in years, I had lots of work to be done, fillings, extractions, orthodontic work. The girls at reception are so helpful and so understanding of nervous patients, even over the phone they put me totally at ease. The main factor that attracted me to the twilight sedation was the fact that I would still be aware of what was going on around me.
The day of my first appointment I was so nervous even about going into the clinic. But once I met Dr. Madeley I started to relax. All he did was check my teeth and what work needed doing, even this was a big step for me. So I made an appointment to come back and have most of the work done under sedation. At the next appointment I was a lot calmer as I knew exactly what was going to be done and felt comfortable that Dr. Madeley was doing it all. Dr. Beirne put the I.V in my hand and within minutes Dr. Madeley got to work. It was a strange feeling as I knew exactly what was going on but couldn't care less! My Dad brought me home. I went to bed and when I woke up I couldn't remember anything after sitting in the chair, it was amazing! I'd definitely rate the whole experience 10/10, the staff, the procedure, everything! They even ring you the next day to make sure everything is ok. Over the past year I have become more and more relaxed about going to the dentist.
Georgina's smile before:
After 2 months of treatment :
Finished! Great result!
Georgina was obviously delighted with the transformation, which occurred without the need to extract any teeth for orthodontic purposes.
It was a great case for us too, not only to give this patient more confidence in coming to the dentist, but more importantly more confidence in her smile!
6 Month Smiles
For years I've always wanted straight teeth, but being afraid of the dentist has always been a factor that has put me off getting any orthodontic work done. After having all my dental work done by Dr. Madeley, I decided the next step was to get my teeth straight! He informed about "6 Month Smiles "and how they work. The major factors that were important to me were how much it would cost, how long would I have them on, the appearance of the braces and how comfortable they would be. 6 Month Smiles ticked all the boxes. I was told that because I had so much overcrowding, it may take longer than the 6 months to fix them, but that didn't bother me. So I had all the impressions taken of my teeth (this can be quite worrying as at times it feels like you're choking but you're not!) A word of warning, don't wear make-up to this appointment as half of it will be missing by the end of it!
Three weeks later I went in to get my braces on. I was so excited as I had waited so long to fix my teeth. Getting the braces on was no problem, just very long and a bit boring. I remember the smell of the bonding material was quite horrible, it kind of smelt like nail varnish remover. When it was all over I couldn't believe I had them on. It did take a while to get used to them.
The first few days were very uncomfortable, but taking neurofen really helped. It was also quite difficult getting used to the brackets as they rub on your lips and cheeks and can be sore, but the wax is great! It takes a while to get used to eating with them on, especially in the first month. I found that eating things like soup, yoghurts and soft bread was the best thing to do. I got them tightened then every 4 weeks and for the first few months this was quite painful during the procedure and for a few days after, but it became easier as my teeth started to settle. I found that the greatest amount of movement took place in the first few months, everyone notice a huge difference. Even with the braces on I was becoming more and more confident and smiling more often. I did have to clean them pretty much after every meal as the tiny elastics became discoloured after about 2 weeks, but these were changed at each appointment. I had my braces on for a total of 7 months and finally got them off in January and my teeth look AMAZING! Words can't describe how pleased I am with the end result, I just can't stop smiling. Everyone comments on how much I smile now without covering my mouth with my hand or my sleeve. I just wish I'd done this sooner. I've always worked with the public and it's so nice now to smile without subconsciously knowing that people are staring at my teeth.
And Georgina took her make over one step further changing her hair completely to show off her new smile, we think she looks great.
Treatment with Dr Ed Madeley
- 6 month smiles orthodontics
- Dental treatment carried out under Twilight sedation
Cost: € 2800
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Title: Mineral Collection
- Date: 17 March 1900
- Medium: manuscript; typescript
- Size: 8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in. Transcription 8 1/2 x 6 in.
- Creator: Hiestand, J. G.
- Collection: Donations to OPL
Letter to John A. Wakefield from J. G. Hiestand acknowledging receipt of payment for mineral collection. Includes list of specimens purchased by the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition committee from J. G. Hiestand and donated to the City of Omaha to be displayed at the Omaha Public Library. Mineral collection includes Blue Quartz Malachite, Malachite Azurite, Malachite Bisbee, Amazon Stone, Topaz, and Phenacite. Contains 2 sheets. 1 sheet previously folded in twelfths; typed transcription. 1 sheet previously folded in 25ths with notes on reverse; typed transcription.


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The West Boynton Prep Chargers slipped past the West Boynton Jaguars 13-12 to win the team's first West Boynton Football League game of the season.
The Chargers took a 13-0 lead and held on with two late defensive stands to preserve the victory.
Fullback Victor Hollis ran for more than 100 yards on the day, including a 65-yard TD run.
Quarterback Louis Miscione hooked up with wide receiver Hogan Townsend to open up the offense.
In other games in the Western Communities Football League and the Boynton Football League:
BOYNTON BEACH FALCONS 19, CARDINALS 0: Marcus Bentley ran for two TDs, and Nick Atkins added another.
STEELERS 6, LIONS 0: Kasey Montrois scored the game's lone TD.
WEST BOYNTON JAGUARS 24, WEST BOYNTON TITANS 22: Micah Leon scored twice, and Garrett Lennox added another TD for the Jaguars (3-2). Maury Washington scored three times for the Titans.
CHARGERS 22, BILLS 0: Jack and Deandre Smith led the Chargers' defense in the shutout.
DOLPHINS 34, CHARGERS 0: The Dolphins, led by defenders Sam Birmaher and Austin Tolley, avenged their lone loss of the season by holding the Chargers to minus- 46 total offensive yards.
STEELERS 32, WEST BOYNTON LIONS 8: P.J. Moreland threw for 113 yards and a TD as the Steelers went to 5-0.
WEST BOYNTON RAVENS 20, DOLPHINS 0: The Ravens earned their fourth straight shutout as Myles Cornejo caught two TD passes from Gunnar Guis.
RAVENS 14, WEST BOYNTON RAIDERS 6: Gabriel Aird scored two TDs, and Gabriel Terry ran for a PAT for the Steelers.
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On Physicalism (I)
I have been reading some interesting papers on the proper characterization of physicalism. A good one is 'Physicalism' by Andrew Melnyk, from the Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind. Another one was 'Varieties of Supervenience', by Robert Stalnaker, in Philosophical Perspectives 1996.
Melnyk introduces physicalism as the thesis that all entities (objects, properties, events, etc) are either physical in a narrow sense (physical_N), that is, entities posited by physics, or physical in a broad sense (physical_B), which are appropiately related to the physical_N. Of course, the central question is how to characterize that relation between physical_N and physical_B. One important candidate is the notion of supervenience: A supervenes on B iff, any possible world that is B-identical to the actual world is A-identical.
Melnyk argues that this notion of (global) supervenience might be a necessary condition for physicalism, but not a sufficient one, because there are accounts of, say, the mental, such that mental (globally) supervenes on the physical_N but is not, intuitively, physical_B, since on that account, the mental and the physical_N are distinct entities, causally related. These accounts satisfy global supervenience, but they do not seem to be physicalist accounts.
Melnyk suggests to complement supervenience with a realization claim. A kind X is realized by the physical_N iff X is a functional kind and some physical_N entity satisfies the functional role associated with X.
Melnys argues that realization seems to be a possible explanation of supervenience.
I think this sounds plausible. However, conceivability arguments are just committed to supervenience being a necessary condition for physicalism. In other words, CA assume that physicalism entails a supervenience claim, which is compatible with a realization-based notion of physicalism (since, plausibly, realization of X by the physical_N entails supervenience of X on the physical_N).


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hello kiddies and WELCOME to this wonderful site about me,mmmmm I haven't decided yet what to put on this site but i think about that later,FIRST i'm going to tell something about me,yaay this site sux already but i don't care,i made a site about marilyn manson too,that site is soooo kool(errr...?)great pics,tabs lyrics blablabla.sooooooo if you're a fan or just like the music go check it out and DONT forget to sign my guestbook.o damn i said i was going to tell something about ME ,didn't I?ehh yep i can't help changing subjects every 10 seconds,nevermind,i'll talk about myself later.what do people usually put on a personal site??eh o yeah pictures...well too bad ,we don't have a scanner,but you didn't want to see my pictures anyway,*LOL*,mmm not funny.oh yeah before i forget,please if you know me personally,hit your back button NOW and DON'T read any further,pleaaaaase because it's too embarissing,wow how do you write THAT?eehh nevermind.ok,so what can you do on my site?nothing at this moment(LOL)BUT when i'm finished there's a whole lot of kool stuff about my favourite bands,some stuff that i'm interested in and about me(duh).well if that isn't nice!errrr but now i'm going to stop with this shitty crap before you don't want to visit my site again,which i can imagine.sooooo enjoy my site and take a look around,last thing:please sign my guestbook while you're here.thanx lotte
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Commenting PHP Code
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When programming in any language the process of adding comments involves writing notes alongside the code to describe what the code does and how it works. The comments are ignored by the PHP pre-processor when executing a script and are purely for human consumption.
Commenting of code is often neglected by software developers. Sometimes this is because the code is being developed to meet a looming deadline and there is no time to adequately comment it. Often there is a tendency on the part of the developers to believe that they will remember how the code works six months or a year from now. Another common excuse for not commenting is that the code is so well written as to be completely self-explanatory.
Excuses aside, there is much to be gained from included helpful and concise comments with the PHP code that powers your web site. Firstly, you will be amazed at how puzzling a section of code can be even a few months after you have written it. It is not unusual for a developer to revisit some old code they once wrote and express amazement that they actually wrote it. It is important to remember that there is a good chance you will have to continue to maintain your PHP scripts long after they are written.
Another important reason for commenting your code is to ensure that others who may follow in your footsteps to maintain or add functionality to your creation will also benefit from reading your comments. There are few things worse in the software development business than having to traverse the steep learning curve caused by the complexity of somebody else's uncommented code.
Now that we have established that commenting code is worthwhile, we can take a look at the mechanisms provided by PHP to achieve this goal. PHP provides two commenting mechanisms - one for single line comments, and another for multi-line comments. PHP borrows its commenting conventions from other languages such as C, C++ and Java, so if you are familiar with these languages there will be no surprises here.
PHP Single Line Comments
Comments that reside on a single line are prefixed with the two forward slash characters in PHP (i.e. //).
The following example contains a single line comment:
<?php // This is a single line comment ?>
The single line comment can be on a line of its own, or it can be appended to the end of a line of code:
<?php echo "This is a test line"; // Output a line of text ?>
In the above example the PHP pre-processor will execute the echo statement and then ignore everything after the // single line comment marker.
Single line comment markers are also useful for temporarily removing lines of code from the execution flow (particularly useful during debugging sessions). For example, the following change to our previous example will cause the PHP pre-processor to ignore the entire echo command during execution:
<?php // echo "This is a test line"; ?>
PHP Multi-line Comments
Multi-line comments are wrapped in /* and */ delimiters. The /* marks the start of the comment block and the */ marks the end. The following example demonstrates the use of multi-line commenting in PHP:
<?pre /* This a multi-line block of comments */ ?>
Another useful application of multi-line comments is to comment out blocks of PHP code temporarily. It is quite common to have written some PHP script and then wonder if you can re-write it so that it is perhaps more efficient or reliable. In this situation you can comment out the old script fragment so that it is no longer executed and write some new code. If it turns out your new code is worse than the original (which happens from time to time) you can simply remove the new code and uncomment the old to bring it back into the execution flow.
The objectives of this chapter were to hopefully raise your awareness of the importance of commenting your PHP code and also to provide an overview of how to use the commenting mechanism provided by PHP. Both single and multi-line comments can easily be added to PHP code using the appropriate markers. Try to get into the habit of commenting your code as you write. Both you and those who have to maintain your code in the future will be glad you did.
Now that we have covered some of the basics of PHP in general it is time to start learning about the basics of the PHP language itself, starting with an introduction to PHP variables.
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Plan each session and don't just make it up as you go. This will lead to repeating the same old lacrosse drills each session. It will get monotonous and some players will switch off mentally.
Block each session into slots of 20 minutes so if you have a 2 hour session you have 6 slots. Decide the focus area of each of the slots and then select drills for those focus areas. Cary a watch during the session and stick to the times that you allocate each slot as this will keep the intensity high which is one of our main goals. Here is an example of a training session plan:
Start Time 12pm
Duration 1 hour 40 minutes
Slot 1 - 20 minutes - Warm up / Stick Skills
- Players warm up
- End to end line drill
- 4 corner break out line drill
- 4 corner v-cut line drill
- Fast break drill
- Slow break drill
- 4 attack vs 3 defense
- 1 on 1 dodging
- 2 on 2
- 3 on 3
- 6 on 6 attack up by 1 goal with 3 minutes remaining (ball retention)
- 6 on 6 attack down by 1 goal with 2 minutes remaining (need to score)
- Man down in defense (6 on 5)
- Man down in offense (5 on 6)
- Full field clearing (defensive unit focus)
- Full field riding (offensive unit focus)
- Face off with midfielders coming in.
Plan your sessions in advance and stick to the plans. Stick to a structure but vary the drills with the structure and each session will be enjoyable and beneficial for you and the players.
The drills above are just a few examples of lacrosse drills and more detail can be found in the many lacrosse coaching books and DVDs available at amazon. Here is my favorite with particularly good lacrosse drills: The Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Lacrosse.


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The following is our view of the top ten roman forts in Provincia Britannia. Provincia Britannia, today known as Roman Britain, was a province of the Roman Empire from 43AD to 409AD, spanning at its height in 160, the southern three-quarters of the island of Great Britain. Roman officials departed from Britain around the year 410AD, which began the sub-Roman period (5th–6th centuries), but the legacy of the Roman Empire was felt for centuries in Britain.
This site is for students in my class A Brief History of Roman Britain. Links to articles, interesting websites and other blogs will be posted here. This site will also provide a forum for class members to interact outside of the classroom and share information they have found with the rest of the class.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Top 10 Roman Forts in Britain
Heritage Daily also compiled a list of what they consider to be the "Top 10 Roman Forts in Britain." The Google Map satellite view makes this list an interactive experience.
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Our last blog post introduced one of our valued customers, Lea Laase. Lea purchased her FloBed over a year ago. In this second episode, she explains the research she went through to find the right type of mattress for her and her husband. In addition, Lea elaborates on the features of the FloBed Mattresses that really sold her. We hope that this customer story can help you in your search for a new mattress. Next week will be the final episode of Lea's Customer Review Mini Series.
Customer Review Episode 1
Finding a new mattress can be an arduous task. We all know the drill- you enter a mattress store, work with a pushy salesman and leave with a mattress you don't want.
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Over the next few weeks, we will release videos about one customer's experience with FloBeds. Many customers call into our shop or stop by and have similar stories to the one Lea Laase's is sharing in the video below:


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Tuesday 29th September 2009
Today the Guardian is calling on their readers to show their support for soldiers in Afghanistan by wearing one of their new wristbands.
The navy blue wristbands carry the name of their 'We Salute You' campaign on them and they are calling on the people of Chorley and Leyland to wear one with pride.
The wristbands and customised keyrings are available directly from the Guardian's office or by sending a SAE to them at their Market Street office.
There is no cost but people are being invited to make a donation, which will go towards the charity Help for Heroes (H4H), which helps care for wounded soldiers.
Marsden Rawsthorn were asked by the Guardian to help support the cause by sponsoring the wristbands.
Commercial law specialist Gawen Ryan said: "Marsden Rawsthorn Solicitors are pleased to be involved in the Chorley and Leyland Guardian's 'We Salute You' campaign to show our support for those from the Chorley and Leyland area who are suffering as a result of their service.
"Paul Ridehalgh, a partner in the firm, knows what it is like to lose a family member in service. His nephew Stephen Wright, (who was from Leyland), recently lost his life whilst serving in action."
Mr Ridehalgh added: "Our family are pleased that Marsden Rawsthorn has chosen to support the Guardian's 'We Salute You' campaign and the efforts of 'Help for Heroes' the charity to which the campaign donates."
Guardian editor Chris Maguire said: "These wristbands look fantastic and we're indebted to Marsden Rawsthorn for agreeing to pay for them. "Our 'We Salute You' campaign has really captured the public mood in Chorley and Leyland.
"I would ask everybody to get get a wristband and wear it with the same pride our men and women are showing in Afghanistan on a daily basis."
Help for Heroes (H4H) was founded by Bryn and Emma Parry after a profoundly moving visit to Selly Oak Hospital in the summer of 2007.
Bryn and Emma met some extraordinarily brave young people who had been badly wounded and felt just wanted to do something to help.
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The heat will be back only on 14th and 15th June.
Through Ukraine is now undergoing a cold atmospheric front, which causes gusty winds and reduced temperature. This was reported by the forecaster Natalia Didenko, reports espresso. TV.
According to her, 14-15 June, Ukraine will remain cool weather is a little warmer. But on Saturday, June 17, will be back in the rain and cold.
"In the Northern regions and in the center on June 14-15, the temperature will be +18…22°C will be warmer in the South to +22…26°C. Rain is likely in Northern Ukraine, on the territory – no precipitation, partly cloudy," – said Didenko.
According to her, on June 14-15 will be a gusty wind, sometimes very strong. "If the temperature is 20 degrees, when the wind is strong to give the impression that the street is not more than 15 degrees Celsius," – said Didenko.
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Corporate universities were once the new kids on the block. But they have grown up and now command respect from the companies they were set up to serve, and have begun to give business schools food for thought.
"Corporate universities are [today] attaching more importance to working within the company to identify problems and work towards learning solutions," says Gordon Shenton, associate director of quality services at the European Foundation for Management Development.
"The corporate universities are not just providing programmes, but are working with the line managers in order to provide a better service in terms of needs analysis, and then working towards programme design."
Swiss Re, Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen Coaching, to name just a few, now boast their own corporate universities, which are able to tailor appropriate training for employees. And such is the established nature of corporate universities that the Brussels-based EFMD has created the corporate Learning Improvement Process (Clip) to provide an assessment tool allowing for benchmarking, collaborative learning and sharing of best practice.
Once, corporate universities frequently encountered hostility from business schools; today, collaboration is the name of the game.
National Semiconductor University, for example, has worked with Stanford University for more than 10 years on the annual AeA/Stanford Executive Institute. Others have followed suit.
"From my perspective, business schools and corporate universities are complementary," says Jan Ginneberg, vice-president of learning and head of Alcatel Lucent corporate university. "At the beginning, when corporate universities were starting, there was a bit of antagonism, but no longer."
Alcatel Lucent, the telecommunications equipment supplier, has 21 corporate universities across the globe and, when necessary, these work with local business schools.
"We can tap into the local, regional, and sometimes global, programmes [of business schools]," adds Mr Ginneberg. As much as 50 per cent of the university's spending on learning on employees is supplied from outside, he adds.
He says the corporate university does not exist merely to replace all learning, but sub-contracts to business schools as well. "We do the learning consulting, but we don't want to have trainers for nonproduct-related matters and so we go to business schools [for professors]."
Alcatel Lucent takes its role seriously: about 60 per cent of staff have been through the university.
Another university with ties to business schools is the EDF corporate university in France. Established five years ago, from its inception it worked closely with business schools: Insead and ESCP-EAP in France and Cranfield School of Management in the UK. It is currently also working with Eada in Spain, and has started to work with IMD in Lausanne and Columbia in the US.
"Right from the beginning, that was one of the founding principles of the university, to work with business schools in so-called partnership," says David Jestaz, director of the French power group's corporate university. While the business schools deliver the programmes – such as strategy execution, leadership and cultural change – EDF co-designs them.
Relationships with the business schools are very cordial, says Mr Jestaz. However, the university takes a hands-on approach, analysing the company's needs, assessing demand and relevance and working within the company to refine the concept ahead of any collaboration with business schools.
"When we work with the business school we are very focused on customer [employee] satisfaction, so the business school knows we want a very high satisfaction rate and if there is a drop in satisfaction – we are monitoring on a regular basis – we get back to the business school," he says.
EDF focuses on those business schools that are willing to have open-minded discussions with it, adds Mr Jestaz. However, occasionally it encounters schools unwilling to work closely with it, offering off-the-shelf programmes.
Mr Shenton at EFMD says this is not isolated. As a result, "there is a widespread scepticism in the corporate university community about business schools' willingness to invest in corporate education".
Times are changing and corporate universities increasingly exhibit a strategic ability to work within the company, identifying needs and problems and then coming up with learning solutions.
"Business schools have got to understand these changes within corporate universities. They do not understand how sophisticated coroporate universities have become," he warns. As corporate universities become more confident, they will also be more able to recognise areas where their needs would be better served by business schools. Co-operation will become more established. "For me, the corporate university is the docking station where the business school enters," says Mr Ginneberg. "They are connecting, not competing."
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Forty-nine-year-old Judy Carl is a cancer survivor.
She has been an active member of the Taneytown community for more than 20 years, and now her neighbors are rallying to her aid.
Saturday a combination yard sale and bake sale will be held at the parking lot across from the Plumbery in the 400 block of E. Baltimore St. in Taneytown. The event will begin at 7:30 a.m. and will continue all day.


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Orioles Rule 5 picks through the years
The Orioles have a history of taking players in the December Rule 5 draft and keeping them on the 25-man roster. Some stayed a while, like Jay Gibbons, others barely registered a blip on the radar. In fact, we couldn't find photos of two of them: Pitchers Ben Snyder (2009, Giants) and Luke Hagerty (2004, Cubs). Here's a look back at some of the team's picks -- for better or worse -- through the years.
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Capco: Financial Crime- More Pervasive and Sophisticated Than Ever
Posted: 3 July 2017 | Author: Renato Ndokaj | Source: Capco
Financial crime is more pervasive and sophisticated than ever. Fighting it effectively demands leading-edge approaches.
Financial crime is one of the biggest and potentially most intractable challenges financial institutions face today. How successful they are at dealing with it will shape tomorrow: for society, for the integrity of the financial system and for the future of banks themselves.
The scale of the problem and its sophistication are enormous. By their very nature, banks are more vulnerable than any other business: the institutions that handle the world's money are the natural prime targets for financial criminals.
Now, add to this unwelcome attractiveness two further complicating factors – regulation and legacy systems.
First, institutions face constant and unavoidable pressure from regulators to become more effective at detecting, mitigating and eliminating money laundering and terrorism financing. AMLD4 (anti-money laundering directive) is expected to be implemented by all financial institutions by mid-2017. Meanwhile another directive is already being negotiated, AMLD5, which deals with new alternative financial channels. Detailed and extensive compliance checks on bank customers' detectable financial behavior are the order of the day.
The onus is firmly on the bank to know your customer (KYC), i.e., know when anomalous and potentially suspicious behavior occurs and initiate appropriate action. Given the proliferation of electronic banking, KYC has long since ceased to be a physical challenge and now is almost totally a digital issue. Even measures such as withdrawal of high denomination banknotes – the one-time preferred currency of criminals – and reduced upper limits for cash-only transactions are likely to have a marginal effect, at best.
Second, in terms of the cybersecurity demands of effective financial crimefighting, many institutions' technology infrastructure is in very poor shape. Their IT is legacy rather than leading-edge, often inflexible, heavily siloed and lacking the essential cross-organization connectivity that functionally compliant KYC demands. Financial and competitive environmental pressures compound the situation and make radical systemic upgrading or complete replacement of infrastructure a difficult challenge.
In short, banks lack the funds to build systems that effectively follow the money misappropriated and misapplied by criminals and terrorism financing. And the issue is wider than technology alone; in addition to systemic technology improvements, banks need human expertise to interpret regulations and ensure that they correctly apply technology investment to secure an effective and compliant result. This expertise is neither abundant nor cheap.
In this double bind of inescapable regulatory demand and potentially crippling costs, banks need a viable and cost-effective route to effectively fighting financial crime. Principle options include innovating internally – a high-cost and high-risk option and one where project overruns are very common – and hiring external expertise.
External expert partners can support infrastructure upgrades or replacement in ways that mitigate risk and help to minimize costs. They can embrace applications of highly advanced and innovative technologies, or they can provide full outsourcing of the range of complex anti-money laundering (AML), counter terrorism financing (CTF) and KYC processes, on the basis of a managed service model.


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Photodisc/Thinkstock(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — About 220 passengers aboard a five-night Caribbean cruise, slated to return to Ft. Lauderdale Saturday morning, suffered from a gastrointestinal illness over the past week, Royal Caribbean announced.
"Independence of the Seas is currently on a five-night Caribbean cruise, which departed Port Everglades, Florida, on Dec. 11," Royal Caribbean said in a statement Friday to ABC News. "Over the week, 220 cases of gastrointestinal illness were reported — representing 4.86 percent of the 5,547 guests and crew onboard."
The Miami-based cruise line continued in its statement, "Those affected by the short-lived illness were treated by our ship's doctors with over-the-counter medication, and we hope all our guests feel better quickly. Meanwhile, we're taking steps like intensive sanitary procedures to minimize the risk of any further issues. The ship will also undergo special additional cleaning procedures before it departs on its next cruise."
According to ABC Miami affiliate WPLG-TV, Royal Caribbean encourages passengers and crew to wash their hands often, which health experts have said is the best defense against stomach viruses.
This incident echoes a similar one that occurred earlier this month aboard Royal Caribbean's Ovation of the Sea.
More than 200 people became sick, and five were hospitalized in Australia after an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.
A Royal Caribbean spokeswoman said of that outbreak, "Those affected by the short-lived illness were treated by our ship's doctors with over-the-counter medication."
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Matthew Amster-Burton has been writing about food since 1999, but let's talk about some of his other accomplishments. He was the first person ever to use the phrase "erotic pirate haiku" on the web (really!) and took home the gold in ski jump at Innsbruck, 1964 (not really). He's the author of five books, including Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo and the young adult novel Our Secret Better Lives. He is big in Japan (really!).


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Não then, não then: Michael Pattison's IndieLisboa 2013 roundup
One of the two festival trailers that took turns to precede each film at this year's IndieLisboa featured an actress, done up as some peroxide blonde in distress, screaming Não! ("No!") in various green-screened scenarios evocative of Hollywood clichés. The first time I saw it was on my first night in Lisbon, in Culturgest's Grande Auditório, and it deafened me to such a degree that in every subsequent showing I had to cover my ears.
Não is a rebellious word, the simplest of rejections. And Lisbon's tenth International Independent Film Festival opened with No, the Chilean film directed by Pablo Larraín and starring Gael Garcia Bernal that, as the festival's programme notes put it, "recreates the historic campaign that said 'no' to Pinochet in the 1988 plebiscite". Its title doubled this year as a one-word mission statement for the festival itself, which was marketed in conscious opposition to mainstream values (its tagline, alongside cartoon images of, for example, five Rocky Balboas of increasing sagginess, translated to "Hollywood has run out of ideas").
Explicitly asserting yourself against the big boys (and with Hollywood, it is indeed usually boys) is a bold move, since the question becomes what you're offering as an alternative. Under the direction of Miguel Valverde and Nuno Sena, IndieLisboa'13 offered eight programme strands and special screenings and events that covered forty-three different production countries and films whose independent sensibilities by no means indicated technical deficiency or artistic weakness. Of course, just about every other high-profile international film festival claims to offer as wide a compass as possible, and more is not necessarily better. Now in its tenth year, though, IndieLisboa's continuing expansion might indeed be a simple "no" in the face of rapidly diminishing arts funding – and to my eye, attendances seemed defiantly and encouragingly high.
How, then, does a festival attendee make the experience unique? One obvious answer might be to absorb as many of the home products as possible alongside people for whom such works hold especial significance. There were over fifty Portuguese productions in the IndieLisboa'13 programme; regrettably, however, I saw none of them (catch-ups via other channels are pending). Other rued misses were International Competition winners Leviathan, which I haven't seen on a big screen, and Da Vinci, a short that I haven't seen at all; the festival's Patrick Jolley retrospective; and some of its shorts selections. Some national premieres were skipped, meanwhile, on the grounds that I had already seen them: while others rushed to Spring Breakers and Sightseers, I was happy to go elsewhere.
You can never see everything, of course, but in Lisbon this seems especially the case, since the daily screenings don't begin until around five in the afternoon (and commonly extend beyond midnight), thus limiting one's daily itinerary to two or three films. One could spend mornings at the video library to watch some of the 4,000 titles available there (including most programmed films as well as all those submitted works to which the answer was não), but the city and its weather are too lovely for a first-time visitor to invest any more time than necessary into small-screen catch-ups.
On the whole, though, I caught what I had planned to catch. To begin with, I saw (for the first time) all six films in the festival's Ulrich Seidl retrospective, including his Paradise Trilogy. If this theme-driven triptych boasts wonderful cinematography from Wolfgang Thaler and Ed Lachman as well as the director's trademark dynamic between symmetrical compositions and naturalistic performances, I found at least two of its entries to be oddly unmoving in comparison to the earlier films selected: Animal Love (Tierische Liebe, 1996), Models (1999) and Jesus, You Know (Jesus, Du weisst, 2003).
One of the festival's two Mexican productions was the best I saw: Workers, an impressive deadpan comedy about two labourers in Tijuana whose pending retirements are respectively delayed by a beloved dog called Princess and an illegal immigrant status. Writer-director José Luis Valle composes his shots beautifully and his timing is impeccable, not least in the film's best if most incongruous scene, a fixed-camera take depicting the kerbside interactions between a barbershop owner, sex shop employees and a fast food chef. The other Mexican work was Greatest Hits (Los mejores temas), Nicolás Pereda's unusual and absorbing drama that establishes its universe before collapsing it, with two different actors playing versions of the same character: the father of Gabino (Gabino Rodríguez), a young lad who has resigned himself to a life selling compilation CDs of famous ballads to passers-by in metro stations.
I caught two of the eleven Brazilian films programmed by the festival. Avanti Popolo boasted the best opening of all those I saw: an immobile establishing shot that turns out to be the point-of-view of a parked car, which thereafter roams the streets at night. The film deals with loss – personal, familial, political – by juxtaposing a father/son relationship against the political turmoil of the 1970s. Housemaids (Doméstica), meanwhile, is a rough and ready examination of seven housekeepers in five different Brazilian cities, and the unique relationship they have with their employers. Heading further south into Argentina (with funding also from France and the Netherlands), Leones repays its formal debt to early 2000s Gus Van Sant with a lifeless march through an unnavigable, purgatorial forest inhabited by five obnoxious teens.
If Leones, one of the ten features that lost out to Leviathan in the International Competition, features aimless wandering in abundance, then Joe Rezwin's Gazzara is a more focused stroll in the park, through the Manhattan locales that held significant meaning for John Cassavetes regular Ben Gazzara. Niall McCann's Art Will Save the World, meanwhile, is a different kind of biographical documentary, employing a (B. S.) Johnsonian framework to look at the Britpop scene of the Nineties, as experienced by singer-songwriter Luke Haines, one of the trend's most aggrieved naysayers. McGann's film was the last I saw in Lisbon, and having previously met the director, I was pleased to hear its many jokes and prevalent wit were as well received by my fellow attendees as were the comical moments in The Unknown, Tod Browning's 1927 masterpiece, which I'd seen on 35mm earlier that day in the city's beautiful Cinemateca Portuguesa Museo do Cinema.
Though The Unknown wasn't officially part of the festival, it screened in conjunction with Messenger From the Shadows (Notes From Film 06 A/Monologue 01), Norbert Pfaffenbichler's archive montage that reconceptualises moments from 46 films of The Unknown star Lon Chaney's career. I missed that film, but saw Browning's (again) in order to fulfil a promise to Jigsaw Lounge prior to travel. Having been forewarned of the Cinemateca's preference to subtitle only in Portuguese, however, I opted against also revisiting Godard's Les carabiniers (1963), though having to walk out two minutes into Jacques Doillon's French-language film You, Me and Us (Un enfant de toi) after realising only Portuguese subtitles were provided offered some karmic realignment.
Had I stuck with Doillon's film, it wouldn't have been the first time that week that I had sat through large snippets of français sans sous titres, for there are intermittent chunks in Amsterdam Stories USA in which Dutch-born co-directors Rob Rombout and Rogier van Eck converse with one another in French with only Portuguese subtitles provided. Over the course of this six-hour travelogue through the USA's cities, towns, streets, cemeteries and people all called Amsterdam, though, language didn't seem to matter all that much (and most of it was English-language anyway).
Opting to see Amsterdam Stories on the third of my six days in Lisbon was the outcome of a scheduling dilemma, between guaranteed quantity (it clashed with two other appealing screenings, of Ma belle gosse and The Act of Killing) and what I had hoped to be quality (for what it's worth, I thought its duration flew by). Though the hours passed and the numbers dwindled, the final count of people emerging from the film looked healthy indeed. More strangely, the film had the highest average audience rating of the entire festival – tallied by the out-of-five scorecards handed out before and collected after each screening. Before I saw it, Stories was already up there at 4.36; after I saw it, it shot up to 4.57, and was subsequently awarded the festival's Prémio do Público prize. (I'd given it a three.)
Amsterdam Stories USA sets its even pace and unhurried tone as soon as its first interviewee speaks: Edgar Oliver, a poet based in Manhattan with a vague resemblance to Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter, over-enunciates and elongates his vowels. In fact, he does so to such an extent that I was reminded instantly of the first word I had heard at the festival, as piercingly shrieked by that Hollywood dame: Nãooooooooooooooo!
Michael Pattison
29th April 2013
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Your sentiment...
...is one I share.
I go mental whenever I first hear jingle bells every, because it's usually october.
I haven't heard any yet though.
The engine has ground into gear. They couldn't wait. The fat bastard capitalists with their beady rheumy eyes on all our wallets designate the 1st week of November the official start of Christmas. But it's fucking NOT! I don't start thinking about Christmas presents until the 23rd of December - IF THAT!
But no, that shit doesn't matter to the Establishment! So they plough money into the ad agencies to produce rancid horseshit like children singing Christmas jingles, dressed in furry clothing even though the scene doesn't depict them standing in any adverse weather conditions and the "snow" is blatantly salt.
Fuck all of them in every possible oriface.
i <3 stealthy
YOU go to sleep! You're not the boss of me!
P.S. Did you get 24 yet?